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__label__wiki	0.933375	0.933375	You are here: Home › palm beach county Tag Archives \| palm beach county Could Palm Beach land new Braves spring training facility? Probably not By Kevin Reichard on April 27, 2015 in Major-League Baseball, News Unless there are some unexpectedly large pots of money sitting around, it doesn’t look like there’s any public money available in Palm Beach County for a new Braves spring training facility. (more…) Braves launch search for new spring site We hinted at this a few weeks ago, and now the details are emerging: the Atlanta Braves are indeed ready to say goodbye to Disney World and Champion Stadium for spring training, as the team has made preliminary contact with several Florida counties about a move. (more…) Landfill next obstacle to Nats/Astros spring complex By Kevin Reichard on March 22, 2015 in Major-League Baseball, News The proposed site of a new Washington Nationals/Houston Astros spring training complex isn’t exactly pristine — sitting atop a former landfill — and cleaning things up will be a prime challenge before any new facility can open. (more…) Planning for Astros/Nats training complex to begin We’re in Florida for spring training, so this story is entirely appropriate: the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros have received preliminary approval from West Palm Beach to begin planning for a new spring-training complex. (more…) Scott: Spring training belongs in Florida By Kevin Reichard on February 14, 2015 in Major-League Baseball, News Vowing to bring prodigal sons to the Sunshine State, Gov. Rick Scott says he wants to lure MLB teams training in Arizona back to Florida for spring training. (more…) Astros/Nats spring complex clears second hurdle By Ballpark Digest Editors on February 3, 2015 in Major-League Baseball, News Palm Beach County commissioners have approved a land swap that could lead to a new West Palm Beach Houston Astros/Washington Nationals spring-training complex, with negotiations to come on the term sheet. (more…) New Astros/Nats spring complex gets first approval By Kevin Reichard on February 3, 2015 in Major-League Baseball, News A new spring-training complex for the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals received initial approval from the West Palm Beach City Commission — a crucial first step toward a potential 2017 opening. (more…) Votes due next week on new Astros/Nats spring complex By Kevin Reichard on January 29, 2015 in At the Ballpark, Future Ballparks A land swap that could lead to a new Houston Astros/Washington Nationals spring-training complex will be due for review by West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County bodies next week. (more…) Astros, Nats spring complex back in play By Ballpark Digest Editors on January 5, 2015 in Major-League Baseball, News A previously rejected land swap is back in play, as West Palm Beach officials say they’ll consider taking steps toward a new Houston Astros/Washington Nationals spring-training camp. (more…) Land swap back on table for ‘Stros/Nats spring facility By Kevin Reichard on December 17, 2014 in At the Ballpark, Future Ballparks A land swap once rejected by Palm Beach County is back on the agenda and could lead to a new Houston Astros/Washington Nationals spring-training complex in West Palm Beach. (more…) Palm Beach County: All in on spring training By Kevin Reichard on October 21, 2014 in At the Ballpark, Future Ballparks Considering there’s no site and no game plan, Palm Beach County showed a surprising amount of enthusiasm for a new Washington Nationals / Houston Astros spring-training complex, with commissioners approving $135 million in public spending. (more…) Spring training funding on agenda in Palm Beach County By Ballpark Digest Editors on October 21, 2014 in Major-League Baseball, News A request to devote $108 million in hotel taxes toward a new Houston Astros / Washington Nationals spring training complex will be heard today by Palm Beach County commissioners — but it may be too little, too late. (more…) West Palm Beach: Another no to spring training West Palm Beach officials dealt another blow to a new Houston Astros/Washington Nationals spring training complex, deciding to enter into an exclusive negotiating period with a rival developer. (more…)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343551
__label__wiki	0.732539	0.732539	Baztab News www.reuters.com Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com and via Reuters TV. 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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a working luncheon with permanent representatives of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., December 5, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Trump’s lawyers asked the high court to put a hold a Dec. 3 ruling by the Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals directing the two banks to comply with April subpoenas by the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee and Intelligence Committee for the financial records. If the justices grant that request, it would give Trump’s lawyers time to file a formal appeal of the lower court ruling. “The subpoenas targeting the president, his family and his business dealings do not fall within the committees’ constitutional or statutory authority,” Trump’s lawyers wrote. They added that the president should not be prevented from contesting an “unprecedented demand for his personal papers” simply because the request was made to a third party. The material sought by the committees include records of accounts, transactions and investments linked to Trump, his three oldest children, their immediate family members and several Trump Organization entities. Trump filed an appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday in a separate case seeking to prevent the House Oversight Committee from obtaining financial records from Mazars LLP, Trump’s longtime accounting firm. An appeals court in Washington ruled against Trump in October. The Supreme Court on Nov. 25 granted Trump’s request to put the subpoena enforcement in that case on hold while the president appeals the matter. Both cases represent an important showdown over the powers of the presidency versus those of Congress. The lower court rulings, if left intact, would bring House Democrats closer to getting some of the details about Trump’s business interests even as they pursue an impeachment inquiry focusing on his dealings with Ukraine. Trump, running for re-election in 2020, has fought to keep his financial and tax records private. He broke with tradition by not releasing his tax returns as a candidate in 2016 and as president. Trump sued Deutsche Bank and Capital One in an effort to prevent the disclosure of his financial records. U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos ruled in May that the subpoenas could be enforced, prompting Trump’s to appeal to the 2nd Circuit. Trump in November also asked the Supreme Court to reverse a separate appeals court ruling that directed Mazars to hand over his personal and corporate tax returns from 2011 to 2018 to local prosecutors in New York City. The justices are due to discuss on Dec. 13 whether to hear Trump’s appeal in that case. In that case, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, a Democrat, is seeking the returns as part of a criminal investigation into Trump and the Trump Organization, the president’s family real estate business. The court has a 5-4 conservative majority that includes two Trump appointees: Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. All three cases could be put on a fast track, meaning that if the court decides to hear them, a ruling would be possible before the end of June, when its current term ends. Reporting by Lawrence Hurley Original Link: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-trump-records/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-stop-banks-from-disclosing-his-financial-data-idUSKBN1YA2BA Open Original News More from Reuters In impeachment document, Democrats say Trump endangers security, Trump denies 15 Hour Democratic U.S. lawmakers leading the impeachment case against Republican President Donald Trump said on Saturday the president must be removed from office to protect national security and preserve the 'Simply a lie,' Biden accuses Sanders campaign of releasing 'doctored' video 16 Hour Trump, Democrats offer dueling arguments on impeachment 16 Hour The Democratic U.S. lawmakers leading the impeachment case against Republican President Donald Trump said on Saturday the president must be removed from office to protect national security and preserve Biden accuses Sanders campaign of releasing 'doctored' video, calls it a lie 17 Hour Ahead of Senate trial, Trump legal team rejects impeachment as flawed 17 Hour U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team on Saturday issued a resounding rejection of the House of Representatives' impeachment of him, proclaiming his innocence and calling the charges against Trump a Angered by weapons ban, organizers urge thousands to attend Virginia gun rally 21 Hour 2020 Democratic White House hopefuls court teachers in pivotal Iowa 22 Hour Democrats vying for the party's 2020 presidential nomination courted Iowa's teachers on Saturday by promising to oust U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and appoint someone who has taught in public schools. Ahead of tinder box Virginia gun rally, Trump says Constitution under attack 1 Day President Donald Trump took aim at Virginia Democrats and their push to stiffen the state's gun laws, saying that the U.S. Constitution was under attack just as thousands of armed militia members began	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343553
__label__cc	0.677227	0.322773	on May 19, 2014 by staff in campaign for congress, Comments Off on Immigration issue dogs Coffman Immigration issue dogs Coffman from ‘Progress’ Now: Learning today that Rep. Mike Coffman is staging a press event in Washington, D.C. to protest House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s decision to kill legislation to help undocumented students who join the military, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest online progressive advocacy organization, demanded that Coffman explain his fundraiser with Cantor in Denver on the same day it was announced the ENLIST Act would not receive a vote. “Mike Coffman’s hypocrisy apparently knows no bounds,” said ProgressNow Colorado executive director Amy Runyon-Harms. “Ordinary voters, who don’t get to share limousines and cocktails with the Speaker of the House, are depending on their representatives to speak for them. Instead of asking Majority Leader Eric Cantor for a check, how about a bill to help immigrant children who want to serve?” On Friday, Coffman held a high-dollar fundraiser with House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Denver. [1] That same day, Cantor’s staff in Washington announced that the ENLIST Act, which Coffman has touted as evidence of his support for some small version of immigration reform, would not receive a vote–effectively killing it. [2] Coffman has already refused to support the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill that passed with a bipartisan 68-32 vote last June. “It’s been ten months since Mike Coffman told the Denver Post that the time for immigration reform is now,” said Runyon-Harms. “Apparently by ‘now,’ he meant ‘only when the cameras are rolling.’ It’s time to say it: Mike Coffman doesn’t care about immigration reform–comprehensive or otherwise. He only cares about keeping his job.” Pot present in Colorado drivers in fatal crashes, inflation higher in West Red-light camera bill, Superfund for Silverton Visiting Colorado and Marijuana – what toking tourists need to know ‘Progressive’ groups hits Coffman on Boehner, Cantor fundraising visit Romanoff challenges Coffman on immigration	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343554
__label__wiki	0.795747	0.795747	Harry Dunn death: Boris Johnson to raise issue of US driving with American officials \| UK News Trump’s Border Wall Would Be The World’s Most Costly : NPR Microsoft Edge is here for Windows 10 and MacOS. Here’s how to download it now Tame Ipala rocker Kevin Parker discusses his ‘autobiographical’ new album Dentist who pulled out patient’s tooth while riding HOVERBOARD found guilty of unlawful dental acts NHS crisis: Waiting list for routine ops hits record high at 4.41million The NHS is on a collision course as it heads into winter with waiting lists for routine operations at an all-time high, experts have warned. A damning report showed more than 4.41million patients were stuck on waiting lists in England in August – up by 250,000 from last year. And 662,053 people have waited more than 18 weeks for routine treatments, such as joint replacements – the highest since records began. Health leaders have condemned the figures and said they show the NHS could face its worst winter ever with Brexit, harsh weather conditions and flu on the horizon. NHS bosses said trusts up and down the country are working ‘incredibly hard’ to prepare for the winter and make sure patients are kept safe. But the Royal College of Nursing fears more and more patients are going to be treated in corridors as pressure gets piled on the health service. A damning NHS report has shown more than 4.41million patients were stuck on waiting lists in England in August – up by 250,000 from last year and 1.1m in 2015 It also revealed 662,053 people have waited more than 18 weeks for routine but important treatments, such as joint replacements – more than double the number in 2015 And the Royal College of Surgeons warned the upcoming winter pressure, Brexit and the NHS pension crisis will create a ‘perfect storm’ for hospitals this winter. Experts called for ‘swift and far-reaching’ Government action to get the NHS braced for winter. The waiting times refer to patients who are waiting for routine but important operations such as joint replacements. Those included in the 4.41million are the ones who have been referred for surgery by a specialist but have not yet had the procedure. That figure is up by 250,000 from the same time last year and 1.1million from August 2017. Cancer charity Macmillan slammed the ‘unacceptable’ figures, which also showed a record number of cancer patients were forced to wait more than two weeks for a referral. The latest data showed 21,191 people suspected of having the killer disease were not seen by a specialist for over a fortnight – the lowest on record. In August, just 89.4 per cent of people who were thought to be battling cancer were referred within 14 days. That’s 3.6 per cent short of the NHS’ 93 per cent target for two-week cancer referrals and the lowest since it was introduced in 2008. February was the only month in 2019 in which the target was met. A&E departments are also feeling the strain as backed-up hospital beds make it harder for them to find places to put new patients, so leave them waiting on temporary beds known as ‘trolleys’. Cancer charity Macmillan slammed the ‘unacceptable’ figures, which also showed a record number of cancer patients were forced to wait more than two weeks for a referral Official figures show there were a total of 121,420 trolley waits of more than four hours in August and September this year. The figure is nearly treble that from four years ago. British Medical Association (BMA) council chair Dr Chaand Nagpaul said: ‘The NHS has just experienced its worst-ever summer – this is incredibly alarming and should be taken as a serious warning sign of the chaos that is likely to unfold in the NHS this coming winter. ‘With summer performance now as bad as recent winters, we have reached a point of year-round crisis and the Government cannot continue to let this happen. ‘Patient care is suffering, NHS staff working tirelessly around the clock are suffering, and with Brexit on the horizon and early indicators of an extremely cold winter, we are on a collision course for what is likely to be the worst winter ever. BRITAIN FACES DIFFICULT FLU SEASON DUE TO UNPRECEDENTED OUTBREAK THAT HAS ROCKED AUSTRALIA The worrying waiting times figures come as the country braces for a severe flu outbreak over winter. Almost 293,000 flu cases have been recorded in Australia so far in 2019, with the outbreak beginning to take hold in March. Australia’s flu season usually lasts begins in May and lasts until October, with their outbreaks normally peaking in August. In comparison, there were less than 230,000 confirmed reports of influenza by the same time point – until the end of September – in 2017. That year’s outbreak was the same that saw the rise of ‘Aussie flu’, after the country was rocked by a strain that eventually made it to the UK. Most of the Australian cases confirmed by laboratory tests earlier this summer – 57 per cent – were shown to be an unknown type of influenza A. Leading experts warned earlier in June that it is likely the UK will have an equally bad winter, saying the outbreak is ‘very scary’. The flu season in the UK and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere tends to mirror what has happened in the Southern Hemisphere. The same strains of the virus will circulate north in time for the British flu season, which typically begins in November and lasts until March. Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive at NHS Providers, said at the time: ‘The spike in flu we are seeing in Australia could be a worrying signal of what is to come for health and care services this winter. ‘Planning for vaccinations is based on what happens in the southern hemisphere.’ Australia’s flu season peaks in July and August. ‘This is a serious plea – we need to see investment across the board including community and social care, and resources such as more beds, reaching the frontline now.’ Patricia Marquis, England’s director at the Royal College of Nursing, said: ‘Nurses treating patients in corridors belongs in the past. ‘But signs so far suggest that such scenes will become more, not less, commonplace as we head towards Christmas.’ And she warned the shortage of 43,000 nurses across England could harm patients and threaten the mental wellbeing of nurses themselves. Ms Marquis said: ‘Before winter and the annual onset of flu has truly begun these latest figures paint a picture of a health service already running to catch up with demand.’ Miriam Deakin, director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers – a body that represents all trusts – said the figures show just how much pressure they are under. She added that trusts are working ‘incredibly hard’ to prepare for the winter but there is a strong chance the demand will only grow and leave patients waiting longer for treatment. Sarah Scobie, deputy director of research at the Nuffield Trust thinktank, called for an ‘urgent plan’ to fix the staffing shortage across the NHS. She said: ‘Today’s NHS performance statistics reveal very starkly the pressure facing the NHS and the impact this has on more and more patients. ‘Without a sufficient and urgent plan for solving the workforce crisis, these targets will continue to go in a worse direction and patients will suffer as a result.’ Professor Derek Alderson, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said: ‘The NHS has had a difficult enough time dealing with winter pressures over the last few years. ‘Throw into the mix the pensions crisis, which is leading many senior clinicians to cut back on extra work, and the uncertainty of how Brexit might affect the flow of medicines and medical devices coming into the UK, and the NHS could face a “perfect storm” this winter. ‘Gone are the years where NHS hospitals had the staff and time to recover over the summer months in preparation for the busy winter period. ‘Today’s performance figures show waiting times continued to deteriorate over the summer. We need swift and far-reaching government action to get the NHS shipshape for winter.’ Professor Alderson added: ‘Behind every statistic is a patient in pain and distress. The facts speak for themselves.’ Moira Fraser-Pearce, of Macmillan Cancer Support, said: ‘It is unacceptable that record numbers of patients are now missing out on the two-week referral target. ‘This demonstrates how critical it is that the Government addresses the NHS workforce crisis as an urgent priority. ‘Targets will only continue to be breached if the government doesn’t take action to grow and sustain the numbers of NHS staff.’ Previous article Teenager is knifed to death outside east London McDonald’s Next article Corals destroyed by climate change can regrow from the skeletons left behind in Microsoft, Tech Cannabis CAN keep you calm by short-circuiting anxiety in the brain Florida man with rare defect feels like he’s ‘walking on glass’ due to masses on soles of his feet Expansion of ‘GP by Skype’ service risks worsening GP crisis Robotic ‘trousers’ could help thousands of multiple sclerosis sufferers stand and walk again ‘Astonishing’ drug restores sight of blind rugby player by Angle News January 19, 2020, 7:55 am Teenager is knifed to death outside east London McDonald’s Corals destroyed by climate change can regrow from the skeletons left behind	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343556
__label__wiki	0.533971	0.533971	"I have been having conversations about Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual harassment for more than 17 years." Admits Rebecca Traister in "Why the Harvey Weinstein Sexual-Harassment Allegations Didn’t Come Out Until Now." Back in 2000, in NYC, Weinstein called Traister "a cunt and declared that he was glad he was the 'fucking sheriff of this fucking lawless piece-of-shit town'" and knocked her boyfriend/colleague down "a set of stairs." So why didn't she out him? And why didn't any of the other journalists who were there report anything? Photos were taken, but never published. Why did all you people shield him, and why should I listen to you now? Back then, Harvey could spin — or suppress — anything; there were so many journalists on his payroll, working as consultants on movie projects, or as screenwriters, or for his magazine. He could only do it because you were complicit. Were you all paid off? I never really thought of trying to write the story myself. Back then, I didn’t write about feminism; there wasn’t a lot of journalism about feminism. There's been plenty of journalism about feminism for the last 50 years, but why did you need a foundation of plenteous journalism about feminism to write about such beastly behavior? His behavior toward women was obviously understood to be a bad thing—this was a decade after Anita Hill’s accusations against Clarence Thomas had helped the country to understand that sexual harassment was not just a quirk of the modern workplace, but a professional and economic crime committed against women as a class. But... The "but" should be, but we the liberal journalists helped everyone forget what we'd learned because it was so important to help Bill Clinton. But Traister's "but" is: ... the story felt fuzzier, harder to tell about Harvey: the notion of the “casting couch” still had an almost romantic reverberation... Oh, bullshit. Harvey was another liberal, like Bill Clinton, so you pushed the obvious principles to the side and protected him. The only fuzziness is the blur imposed by politics, and once you let that in, you have no principle. But another reason that I never considered trying to report the story myself... I remembered what it was like to have the full force of Harvey Weinstein — back then a mountainous man — screaming vulgarities at me, his spit hitting my face. I had watched him haul my friend into the street and try to hurt him. That kind of force, that kind of power? I could not have won against that. Ridiculous. You were afraid of him because of his physical size and strength in an in-person encounter? What the hell is writing for?! You got your distance. He wasn't around. From a distance, in writing, his "mountainous" physicality is one more thing that makes it easier to portray him as a brute — an ugly brute. The photographs of this man that accompany any article about him stir up only revulsion, not sympathy. Why would you not have won with words? But Weinstein didn’t just exert physical power. He also employed legal and professional and economic power. He supposedly had every employee sign elaborate, binding nondisclosure agreements. He gave jobs to people who might otherwise work to bring him down, and gave gobs of money to other powerful people, who knows how much, but perhaps just enough to keep them from listening to ugly rumors that might circulate among young people, among less powerful people. For decades, the reporters who tried to tell the story of Harvey Weinstein butted up against the same wall of sheer force and immovable power that was leveraged against those ambitious actors, the vulnerable assistants, the executives whose careers, salaries, and reputations were in his hands. That was even more material to use against him, and it's material that goes against all you reporters now. If you don't know how to get a story where a corrupt miscreant is using legal maneuverings and payoffs to suppress it, how are you a journalist?! Something has changed. Sources have gone on the record. It’s worth it to wonder why. Perhaps because of shifts in how we understand these kinds of abuses. Recent years have seen scores of women, finding strength and some kind of power in numbers, come forward and tell their stories about Bill Cosby, Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump. So! Now, we get to the meat of it. When the targets were right wing (or perceived as right wing), like Clarence Thomas all those years ago in the pre-Clinton era, the journalists knew how to get at the story. But they did it so aggressively and brought down such big targets that the protection of Harvey Weinstein was too obvious. The wall of silence broke. But now our consciousness has been raised. Oh, please. You had consciousness before. Take responsibility for the politically skewed reporting that has infected sexual harassment stories since the Clarence Thomas/Bill Clinton combination that shamed political liberals in the 1990s. There's one more thing, according to Traister: I saw Harvey Weinstein earlier this year, at a Planned Parenthood celebration. I was struck... by his physical diminishment; he seemed small and frail, and, when I caught sight of him in May, he appeared to be walking with a cane. So what are you saying? You feel better about kicking a weak little guy? You really were holding back because of his erstwhile mountainousness? He has also lost power in the movie industry.... This is a confession of the absence of courage in journalism. You should be going after the most powerful people and go after them when they are doing their damage, not tell us about it after age and bad fortune have done half the work of laying him low. ADDED: "I saw Harvey Weinstein earlier this year, at a Planned Parenthood celebration. I was struck... by his physical diminishment; he seemed small and frail...." How awful to see the words "Planned Parenthood" come up when the subject is the author's comfort in going after someone who is weak and small! This is one more effect of the liberal cocoon. Traister must not have noticed the grisly irony. Tags: abortion, big and small, Bill Clinton, Clarence Thomas, disability, Harvey Weinstein, journalism, Planned Parenthood, Rebecca Traister, saliva, sexual harassment AllenS said... This story will be forgotten about in a very short period of time. Ouch. That's gonna sting a bit. Dennis Prager often talks about how many good people don't have the courage to stand up for what is right. Courage is difficult. Lately he has talked about conservatives and Trump supporters acting like Maranos (the Jews who pretended to be Christians while privately practicing their real religion [so as not to be killed]). It takes courage to be "not leftist" when your job or career is at stake. You should include a warning about the awful photo. So why didn't she out him? Why didn't she call the police? BarrySanders20 said... Speaking troof to power. Courage! Remember when WJC's victims claimed they didn't come forward out of fear of a powerful man? That's cuz they wuz all liars! Specially that bitch Broaddrick. Hope the Clintons were worth it! I will shut up about them when you guys stop fetting them. I saw a photo of Harvey taken yesterday and he is definitely not small or frail. Word is his brother outed Harvey in an internecine battle for control of the Weinstein Company. Journalists were fed the damaging information—force fed one might say. There's a long list of liberal politicians the press covered for, going back to JFK and LBJ at least, and Hollywood reporters were traditionally in thrall to the studios. All this during the single era the press touted their objectivity. The more he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted the spoons. T I V - never. Stop. Fing. The Clintons. SDaly said... Would love to see the gov't investigative files on Weinstein, and they exist given how close he has been in proximity to Democratic presidents and presidential candidates. Laslo Spatula said... "Traister must not have noticed the grisly irony." I first read that as 'girly irony.' Planned Parenthood and the Irony of Grisly Girly-Girls. I am Laslo. So, what is the time period "The Godfather" was written about? Calling her a cunt was good. Maybe Weinstein is modelling himself after As Good as It Gets (1997). Great rants. Jour-o-listers do squirm when they are forced to report on a fellow D. Althouse's comments are exactly right, and this is high on my list of reasons why I'm so glad that Hillary Clinton was not elected President. It's coming out now because it's the feminist thing now. Feminism isn't some sort of suppressed truth. It's a way of nagging. Women live it instead of something it replaces. Combined with the shower stories, it appears that HW is an exhibitionist. It doesn't speak well for modern feminism that educated non-media women also let him get away with this. David Begley said... A liberal journalist is corrupt and a hypocrite? Not news. speaking of male nags.... Humperdink said... Pictures of the fat pig with Obama, Hillary and the Clinton make my day. I remember a boss in a group meeting bloviating ignorance and berating us for our naivete, which he pronounced "knave-ette." Who could pass up that opportunity for correction. Not me. It's a shame Obama is no longer president, he could have given the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Weinstein for having the courage to go into rehab. the recording has alas been lost to time dozens of camera flashes...I have never once seen a photo. Somebody Up There loves Weinstein. If one assumes that journalists seek power through self-marketing, and that journalists are wary of publishing stories that could hurt their self-marketing, and that journalists pounce on a widely known inside story when the timing seems just right and the fruit is over-ripe, then one would get the performance we are seeing now. I'm just saying that the evil isn't where everybody is looking. Weinstein is a scapegoat. The evil elsewhere is loaded on his back and he's banished. The result is a repurified feminism. How wrong you ladies are who are not feminists. You imagined there was something a little wrong about feminism and now you see where the evil actually was. Waiting for the Weinstein connection with Bill Clinton/Jeffrey Epstein and the Lolita Express to surface. But with the Clinton(s) remaining in the journo protected class, that may never come to light. Quayle said... "For decades, the reporters who tried to tell the story of Harvey Weinstein butted up against the same wall of sheer force and immovable power that was leveraged against those ambitious actors, the vulnerable assistants, the executives whose careers, salaries, and reputations were in his hands." If you think about it, Mitt Romney butted up against the other side of that same wall. our naivete, which he pronounced "knave-ette." I know an Indian named Yvette (about half the Navajos are named after actors or their characters) and they all pronounce it "Why-vette". Feminism isn't into hypocristy but delusion. It's a way of getting through life. I mean what are you going to do. There are men all over the place. Weinstein at a Planned Parenthood "celebration". From the Internet: New York Magazine reports (Ashley) Judd told the NARAL “Men for Choice” crowd about how she became pregnant after she was raped. She said she made the “excruciating decision” to have an abortion, and now she is glad she did. Rose McGowan on Twitter: This is important, please share. 'I had an abortion': Shunning politics, finding a voice @CNN Abortion makes strange bedfellows. Matt Sablan said... If Clinton were president, would this have happened? Another way of getting through life is shut up and take the nondisclosure agreement money. It works out too. It doesn't really take priority over feminism but is just another way. So many ways of getting through life. Tommy Duncan said... I remember being lectured that "silence is consent". Ann has nailed it. What is "principal" and "morality" which is perpetually subservient to money? Nothing. Zip. Pretense. Every now and then in life you may accomplish something. It's usually seen retrospectively. Not something you can plan. That's not the feminist line. AA: Ridiculous. You were afraid of him because of his physical size and strength in an in-person encounter? Do you believe her stories but not her excuses? Weinstein is a scapegoat. There's definitely a witch-hunt/Eye-of-Sauron vibe in these posts and articles, and although all the evidence supporting that idea has magically disappeared, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Bill Cosby, Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump. Her list speaks volumes. No lefties. No Clinton. No Letterman. Let the filthy become more filthy. Today's revelations of the abuse of power seem like a Blue glow in a dark room after a luminal spray. There is so much blood everywhere. And life goes on picking out scapegoats to bear our guilt. The mystery is why Weinstein was sacrificed now. Best guess is the Media he used has a new master and is sacrificing Weinstein as the substitute for their guilt. I blame Trump for restoration of realty to the zeitgeist. Stephen Paddock seems like a worse guy, at least in some ways. He was thoughtful towards his girlfriend. Feminism lacks a good hook for him. His male initiative probably could be swung as a negative. STEM subjects need to be made more feminine. I don't understand returning tainted money. If I ever run for politics, I'd say flat out: "No, I'm not giving it back to some asshole so that they can do more asshole things with their money. I'm going to use it to further the causes I've told people we were going to further. Frankly, I'd like it if every asshole gave me their money, because I'm not going to change for them, so I'd rather have their money than them." Of course, I'd be a terrible politician because even though I know I'd do those things, no one else would trust me. Peggy Noonan seems to be getting it at last this weekend. The establishments and elites that create our political and entertainment culture have no idea how fragile it all is—how fragile it seems to people living normal, less privileged lives. That is because nothing is fragile for them. They’re barricaded behind the things the influential have, from good neighborhoods to security alarms, doormen and gates. They’re not dark in their imagining of the future because history has never been dark for them; it’s been sunshine, which they expect to continue. They sail on, oblivious to the legitimate anxieties of their countrymen who live near the edge. Ugly creatures like Weinstein and Michael Moore think they will always be able to lord it over fellow Americans. Why do you think we have guns ? John Nowak said... I'm pretty much convinced at this point that when deciding to run a story, pretty much the only consideration for the MSM is whether or not it helps the Democrats. Right now, I'm wondering how the Weinstein story helps the Democrats, even though I agree it's newsworthy. "Bill Cosby, Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump." Other than pure hatred, why Trump included in this group? It must be reflex on the keyboard to add Trump to anything negative. I'd say the trouble with Weinstein is that nobody domesticated him, not that nobody turned him in to whatever the social authorities would be. See As Good as It Gets, for domestication of the hero. Curious George, yeah, no lefties in the list. But that's not because journalists are in some kind of club that permits no criticism of lefties. Witness the current tidal wave against Weinstein. Righties often proclaim that lefties are only interested in power and money. That's correct, for the lefties on top. The peasant lefties they command think it's a moral thing, a way to bring good to the world. This is a main problem in politics: differentiating between the people on top and the people they command. It's an old topic, but Americans today seem unaware of it. Fighting Clinton, Letterman, and the rest presents no money or power opportunities for the people on top. Why do it? Righties would say, "because it's the correct thing to do!" Lefties say, "meh". "Take responsibility for the politically skewed reporting that has infected sexual harassment stories since the Clarence Thomas/Bill Clinton combination that [should have] shamed political liberals in the 1990s." Meryl Streep does not have to consent to the Casting Couch unless she wants to. Anita Hill was lying, not that the story wasn't great. Her friend Judge Susan Hoerchner testified that she talked to Anita about the incident on the phone and no amount of sympathy seemed to make her feel better, so bad was the incident. Hoerchner had it backwards. Sympathy always works except in one case : when the sympathized-with is lying. "Right now, I'm wondering how the Weinstein story helps the Democrats, ..." I'm thinking it doesn't help per se, but this is the most innocuous time to get it out. You can be damn sure it has nothing to do with ethics. Temujin said... "he seemed small and frail...." The irony in this statement describing Harvey at Planned Parenthood- where their motto is 'no parts too small to sell'. The lack of self-awareness on the left is gargantuan. Where's the National Enquirer been on this story? Broken record says: this was never about ethics or politics. It's about power and money. Learn it, breathe it, say it out loud. Nobody cares about HW. Probably even his Yorkie hates him. The bubble broke. This is why the press isn't trusted. They gave Trump another dagger to use against them. I don't want to hear any bull about him and his attitude. All the Weinstein stuff seems very one-sided. Goodness has fallen by the wayside. Surely there must be quips. Speaking power to truth or something. A very small excerpt from one chapter of the Book of Mormon, in which the narrator is decrying the decadence of the once free society at that time: "4 And seeing the people in a state of such awful wickedness, and [mafia-like people] filling the judgment-seats—having usurped the power and authority of the land; laying aside the commandments of God, and not in the least aright before him; doing no justice unto the children of men; 5 Condemning the righteous because of their righteousness; letting the guilty and the wicked go unpunished because of their money; and moreover to be held in office at the head of government, to rule and do according to their wills, that they might get gain and glory of the world, and, moreover, that they might the more easily commit adultery, and steal, and kill, and do according to their own wills—" Mormons have been reading this since the mid 1800s, so this all comes as no surprise. It could be that boorishness is a small price to pay for something else that's good, or good besides, as the case may be. The narrative motive at the moment is to get feminism to occupy all the terrain. But why, and it can't hold it for long. Ray - SoCal said... Another consideration is competition with being scooped. The person that leaked this was very smart to do it to two places, causing competition. Drudge has also changed or breached the wall of silence. -AA worth a repeat. buwaya said... Follow the money. Weinstein may have been high profile, but it wasnt really his money he was handling, and there are much bigger players. iqvoice said... Takedowns like this are why I read Althouse. Also, why I don't trust the liberal media. They could make a pretty good movie de-glamorizing these non-intrepid anti-journalists who non-bravely spoke silence to power. Call it 'All the Pervert's Men'. cronus titan said... Althouse throws a great bullshit flag. THe media circling the wagons around a predator who supports the correct politics through generous donations and awesome parties is unsurprising. For every woman now coming forward with tales of lewdness, there are multiple who went along with it to advance their careers. Once established, they had an interest in concealing how they got their start and/or career-making break. It may not have been their talent. A perfect recipe for keeping it concealed. The bullshit Althouse is noticing is about claims to be good feminists. Feminism itself isn't in doubt. Yet that's a moving part in the dynamics. Things to watch for in man/woman stories : grudges, suspicions, fears, needs, desires and nacrissistic postures. (Kerrigan) themightypuck said... Nicely said Ann. the nagging male know-it-all. please - make it stop. James Graham said... Kudos to the New York Times for exposing this creep. Shame on the New York Times for continuing to suppress the highly credible Juanita Broaddrick's claim that she was forcibly raped by a young Bill Clinton, and for their efforts to again place him in the White House for four years. From Harvey Weinstein's Diary.... Met with Brie Larson to discuss an upcoming role about a filthy whore. I was in the shower, so I asked her to hand me a towel. I then dropped the towel. Oops... Met with Jessica Alba today to talk about a part in a movie about a filthy whore. My pants fell off... Met with Amy Adams. Told her about a movie I wanted to make, asked her if she was okay playing a filthy whore. Told her I needed to see her butthole... Met with Jennifer Lawrence. Told her I saw her nude pictures on the Internet, nice stuff. Asked her is she wanted to play a filthy whore... Met with Charlize Theron. Told her about the role as a filthy whore. I was in the shower; not sure if she saw me washing my butthole... Met with Natalie Portman. I was on the toilet. Had too much rich food. Who the fuck forgot to put air freshener in the bathroom? Never got the chance to bring up the role of filthy whore... Met with Jessica Biel. She said she was interested in the role as filthy whore but would not show her butthole to me. I guess she doesn't want the role bad enough... Met with Gwyneth Paltrow. Told her I read her essay on anal sex, and that I liked it very much. Thought about offering her the role as a filthy whore, but she's to old now: kind of sad, really.. Polymath is hard. This includes jocular depictions of profane, belligerent yet liberal-friendly Hollywood types like Ari Emanuel and Harvey Weinstein, leaving out the sexual harassment of course. From Wiki.... Depictions in media Harvey Weingard, a character portrayed by Maury Chaykin on the HBO TV series Entourage, is based on Weinstein. Although the character is portrayed as an intimidating and aggressive producer, Weinstein has reportedly responded positively to the character. The foul-mouthed character Malcolm Tucker in the BBC series The Thick of It is based on Hollywood agents and producers, notably Harvey Weinstein and the team at Miramax that has been "long celebrated for Malcolm-like behavior," according to actor Peter Capaldi. Harvey Weingard/Weinstein scenes from Entourage. Weinstein should have just masterbated in the safety of his own room. That is what all wise men should do, once relationships are fully regulated and publicised. "how the female feels" is paramount at all times. The workplace was just the beachhead, the bedroom is the destination. Look at the groupthink of employers on "HR issues" these days. Or look at how "due process" for college sex incidents is portrayed as favoring the accuser. What irony the sexual revolution ended up "here". Harvey might try "affirmative consent contracts". There's an article in today's NY Post about a television journalist who claims that Weinstein exposed himself and started masturbating in front of her during the course of an interview. Clearly, Weinstein meant this as off the record, background information, and the reporter has violated his confidence. If reporters can't adhere to professional standards, we all suffer. They are all so.....deplorable. "This is a confession of the absence of courage in journalism." She chose clubbable over courageous. Hillarywood is filled with jerks who ignore the pedophilia and actual misogynist underbelly of Hillaryood. All for the glory of the progressive faux-go-gooder Meryl Streep progressive church. Oh come ye George Clooney and Jimmy Kimmel, and preach to us the good news of the church of progressive lies. The walled ivory tower socialist knows best. I wonder if the floodgates will open. He certainly harassed more than eight women over the course of his life. . He has lawyered up in an impressive way, so maybe he can minimize the damage. In any event, the people in Hollywood and the media are going to look bad. They're not revealing Weinstein's sins but their own hypocrisy and/or cowardice. What a great week coming to this blog. HW makes me think about JFK and Camelot (or per George Carlin "well, it really should’ve been called “Come-a-lot” cause that’s what he did, he came a lot!"). HW is/was probably worse, but JFK telling 19 year old intern Mimi Alford to give Dave Powers a blow job in the WH pool in JFK's presence, etc. has to rank pretty high on the list of disgusting abuses of power against young woman. All these people knew about JFK, press members (hell be was banging the sister of Ben Bradlee - she was later shot to death on the towpath), but game him a pass. I think Bob Ellison is right - its mainly about power. Would anyone have advanced their career going after JFK, or trying to publish stories about his abuse of young women? A few people considered it. Maybe some of them even died because they considered it. Angle-Dyne, Samurai Buzzard said... James Graham: Kudos to the New York Times for exposing this creep. Shame on the New York Times for continuing to suppress the highly credible Juanita Broaddrick's claim. The second sentence here gives the lie to the first - whatever the reason for "bigger players" wanting to shiv this dirtbag, it has nothing to do with decency, or feminism (hahahahaha), so no kudos for some little demons roasting another little demon. Let 'em enjoy their intra-hell gang wars. misogynist underbelly Men's Achilles' heel. Dickin'Bims: speaking of male nags.... Lol. He has been being quite the peevish old woman lately, hasn't he? Has any journalist demanded any Democrat to denounce Weinstein? Media routinely demands Republicans denounce dumb comments from obscure figures, yet curiously never demands Democrats denounce sexually predatory behavior by one of their own. Telling. Ashley Judd being the prime example, you have to wonder how much suppressed rage against liberal Hollywood Weinstein types has been projected onto Trump. Angel-Dyne yes. Must skip reading.* Why endure the torture? lol. The good side of Harvey Weinstein is being left out. He's the starting position in a romantic comedy. There's no percentage in coming forward and denouncing a liberal icon. On the other hand, a woman who reports a transgression by Ailes or Donald Trump can reliably expect to be celebrated for her courage and feminist principles. No reporter will dig deeper to see if she ever cheats on her husband or whatever.....,,There was that disturbing story about how JFK told his intern to give one of his other underlings a blow job. Munchausen rape. A new frontier in sexual perversion. When the story broke, I remember Chris Matthews explaining how great men often had great flaws. The story is no longer repeated and is not considered a relevant part of JFK's biography.......I would recommend to all men with eccentric libidinal urges to become prominent in liberal politics. It's your one chance of survival in this harsh world. If Weinstein just put his wealth in Treasuries and took up blogging none of this would be happening. If you have needy women traipsing through your office all day you can expect trouble. EDH: Ashley Judd being the prime example, you have to wonder how much suppressed rage against liberal Hollywood Weinstein types has been projected onto Trump. Interesting point. A lot of feminist rage (Hollywood and non-Hollywood) does seem to be displaced from personal experience to some "out there" abstraction ("the patriarchy", "Trump"), so that the real problem doesn't have to be dealt with. That would entail risk, and might also lead to a lot of uncomfortable questioning of the rest of liberal fantasy web. Dickin'Bims: yes. Must skip reading. Why endure the torture? lol. Only when he gets stuck in a loop. He's a good poster, otherwise. Chris N said... Well said, Ann. Politics often gets in the way of principle, and making politics a righteous cause and feminism your highest moral light can more easily facilitate the kind of moral bankruptcy on display here (Clinton inc, Weinstein etc) After all the talk about 'ethics,' groups, identities, oppression etc. (which flow from her principles), Traister, like all of us, is left with her own choices and circumstances. Caving in to career and fear is VERY common in human affairs. So, too, is the powerful man exercising his power for personal pleasure. I'm sure it's tempting, though the man is by all accounts a cretin. Doubling down on whatever principles you have after a personal failure (Weinstein did what little of that he could too) is VERY common in human affairs. Thus the 'expert' Traister lecturing us and hanging herself with her own rope comes as little surprise. Thanks for the lesson. My problem with these principles is that they don't promote enough wisdom and understanding of human nature, nor ultimately the possibility of objective and real knowledge (a thornier problem) to sustain liberty. They confuse moral, social and political goods and are a tornado of post-Enlightenment ideas which tear-down everything in their path. A lot of people truly don't want the responsibility that comes with freedom, and in their crusade, erode the freedom of others. Also, would anyone mind if I took a shower right here in the comments? We're all pals, right? Brilliant Althouse, as per amazingly enough usual. Splendid. I am glad I do not know how to trigger this exceptional-for-normals writing because I think I would over do it. It has taken me over a decade, but I finally understand what Limbaugh was talking about when he said if he could think exactly as another person for a day, he would like to be able to think like Dr. Charley Krauthammer thinks, only with me it's Althouse after Buckley. Steve M. Galbraith said... For all of the faults of modern feminism I think even the most severe critic has to recognize that feminism was - still is - needed. Not THIS feminism, the one we have; but the one that emerged from abuses like this that women - many women or at least too many women - had to put up with. Think of your sister or daughter having to go through this? You'd be outraged, you'd want to punch the creeps out. Great analysis. But we've seen this movie before. The Liberals were "outraged" over Thomas but strangely reluctant to criticize Bill. Its the Conservatives who were upset at Kennedy killing a women, the liberals seemed strangely silent. Look at the liberals/Leftists on this site. Fully of OUTRAGE at Bill O' Reilly and "Grab them by the Pussy" but strangely silent on Harvey Weinstein. How many other Weinstein's are out there preying on women while being protected by the liberal MSM. And why did the NYT go after him NOW, after being silent for 15 years? "It has taken me over a decade, but I finally understand what Limbaugh was talking about when he said if he could think exactly as another person for a day, he would like to be able to think like Dr. Charley Krauthammer thinks, only with me it's Althouse after Buckley." Put my name on the list of people who never did believe Anita Hill. But I see no reason not to believe Rose McGowen or Ashley Judd when talking about being harassed by Weinstein. Its hard to care about the "Freedom of the Press" when the Reporters don't. Not sure why but I'm suddenly curious how many ladies cast in 'strong/powerful female roles' got them by being the opposite. Economic liberalism reduces personal liability. Social liberalism reduces personal accountability. Planned Parenthood celebration... where a once human clump of cells, organs, and matter, features prominently as lord of the maggots. Throw a baby on the barbie, social liberalism is done... never, but momentarily moderated. tcrosse said... Mortgage payments doth make cowards of us all. Traister: I saw Harvey Weinstein earlier this year, at a Planned Parenthood celebration. I was struck... by his physical diminishment So, Weinstein is no longer viable, and in the spirit of Planned Parenthood, the social liberals are holding a baby trial. It's a kind of comic justice. @Althouse, what a lovely takedown. I like the way you call bullshit on the bullshit. Only one accused of physical contact is Cosby. It's being cast as a psychological thriller instead of a romantic comedy. There's the trouble. Earnest Prole said... Delightful as it is to prick the bubbles of liberal hypocrisy, I don’t believe liberal politics was the primary reason people covered for Harvey Weinstein, as you imply here. His story is remarkably similar to Roger Ailes’, and people covered for Ailes for years as well. Ann, it seems like you're leveling very confident judgment from afar. Have you ever had to struggle with a decision about speaking truth to power where your job or reputation or money would be on the line? Is there any chance you don't know the whole story? Seems a bit glib to reduce it to "bullshit." "Blogger PWS said...Ann, it seems like you're leveling very confident judgment from afar. Have you ever had to struggle with a decision about speaking truth to power where your job or reputation or money would be on the line? Is there any chance you don't know the whole story? Seems a bit glib to reduce it to "bullshit."" Traister's job/reputation were on the line? That says a lot right there. This is a big reason why Trump won the election. When the Access Hollywood stuff came out, normally that would have torpedoed anyone's campaign. But when the left -- and some here -- went on and on and on about how horrified and horrifying it was for someone to use "the p word" and grabbing crotches, the whole country knew that their feigned shock was complete and total BS. And so people not only gave Trump a pass, they recognized who the real enemy is and Trump even gained support from it all. That was certainly the time when I felt that we could NEVER allow these people to have power ever again, after months of planning to not vote at all. I wonder what basket Hillary put Weinstein in? We haven't heard from Hillary yet, have we? "Think of your sister or daughter having to go through this? You'd be outraged, you'd want to punch the creeps out." Think of your own sister or daughter cozying up to some creep for a chance to pose naked. We don't act like that in my family. Bay Area Guy said... "Oh, bullshit. Harvey was another liberal, like Bill Clinton, so you pushed the obvious principles to the side and protected him. The only fuzziness is the blur imposed by politics, and once you let that in, you have no principle." Bravo, AA. It also explains why Harvey started yapping up the NRA in his ridiculous statement. In Hollywood, powerful men who sexually harass women, get a pass as long as they fervently sing from the Democrat playbook. That's the danger of turning a social movement into a political movement. A social movement can prosper by doing the right thing, but a political movement has to be on the winning team. It wasn't really harder to tell. Re-read the New York Times article. They reference some legal settlements, and quote a couple of people telling their stories. No harder to write than a story about a shoddy sewer main. It's only harder to tell when you've internalized that you're on one team, and that you need to be a team player. I.E., when you've become a political movement rather than a social movement. I now understand why these Hollywood "feminists" and newspeople think that all accusations of sexual assault are to be believed. They live in a culture where powerful people do get away with anything, and yet, they project their distorted view of men onto the rest of America, which is nothing like it. Fix your own house first. The rest of us do not live in such an awful world. "Word is his brother outed Harvey in an internecine battle for control of the Weinstein Company." And the Lord said to Bob Weinstein, "Where is Harvey your brother? And Bob said, "I do not know: am I my brother's keeper of secrets?" This goes to how the leftists treat poeple in general. If Weinstein was on the right he would be sued and pilloried. But he is on the left so the leftists feed him virgins. There are animals and degenerates on the right. We don't defend and cover for them. We respect the people who become victims and at least try. The left just looks at poor people as serfs who serve in whatever capacity the masters require. mandrewa said... If Anita Hill was telling the truth about Clarence Thomas, why did she follow him from one job to another? I don't understand why people believe Anita Hill. There is quite the contrast between the alleged sexual misdeeds of a Clarence Thomas and a Bill Clinton. I'll skip describing the very long list of the alleged sexual misdeeds of Bill Clinton, but unless I missed something wasn't the heart of Anita Hill's complaint about Clarence Thomas that he expressed a sexual interest in her. And not even directly! I mean it is not hard to believe that such a thing could happen. It's only one of the more common interactions between men and women. Anita Hill claims she was disturbed by this alleged behavior. But then she goes out of her way to keep the presence of Clarence Thomas in her environment. Is this believable? Only if we allow for the complexity of human behavior, where what she says may have been true except that she wasn't really all that disturbed and has edited from her memory that she was attracted to Clarence Thomas. The other possibility is the whole story was invented out of thin air. So what are we to make of the fact that so many women believe Anita Hill? The collection basket, by all accounts. More importantly, how does this effect H>er book tour ? If a woman's writing includes not only known falsehoods like the idea that Anita Hill was sexually harassed but the ludicrous whopper that nobody in journalism was interested in feminism in the 1990s (!), why should I believe her evidence-free vignette about the time the villain of the moment committed felony assault in front of a crowd of people with cameras, none of whom have mentioned the episode in public in the subsequent fifteen years? The lack of pursuit of liberals proves just about every damn thing republicans have been saying about the democrat media. Trump never actually admitted to being a social liberal, but that he was aware of their lifestyle. This line of reasoning a la Kiev-manufactured "Russian dossier", would have been enough to destroy someone's credibility, but the long train of the left's abuses, and the fact that he stood his ground, partially inoculated him to the real and invented machinations of social and economic liberals, progressives, and leviathan, too. Lots of conservatives are social liberals, but they also see comedy. Nicholas said... Ann, that's a really great takedown. The cognitive dissonance on the Left will persist for some time yet however. vanderleun said... Bravo. That's one of the best fiskings I have seen in years. Bravo. This is why you can't vote for people the press likes. exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said... "I don't understand why people believe Anita Hill." Nor do I. I remember women who believed Hill predicting that of course Thomas would continue to harass women after his appointment to SCOTUS and he would be able to do so without fear of losing his job. Except he hasn't. Sexual harassers in positions of power don't just harass one woman; they're like Bill Clinton and Weinstein and Ted Kennedy. It's ridiculous to think that Thomas was somehow so smitten with the charms of Anita Hill that she alone induced him to act inappropriately. Was it the thrill of exhibition or of intimidating a young female that got him up and off so quickly? I'm sort of impressed with his 55 yo plumbing (it was allegedly 10 years ago), but I've never tried boner pills or testosterone supplements. She could so easily have ridiculed him and escaped--or kicked him in the nuts. I am not Laslo. What Althouse assumes, and slightly puts the take-down off-center, is that feminism is itself part of the war of men and women. Suppressing the story fits easily into the gap where feminism becomes comedy in its own context. So suppressing the story is slightly on the side of truth rather than hypocrisy or failure. If you're of the female HR employee mindset you can't see this. the notion of the “casting couch” still had an almost romantic reverberation... Traister has a way with a shovel. The notion of the 'casting couch' has NEVER had an 'almost' romantic reverberation. How awful to see the words "Planned Parenthood" come up when the subject is the author's comfort in going after someone who is weak and small! THANK YOU for pointing this out. Krumhorn said... I wish I were Laslo. - Krumhorn CStanley said... Seconded, And as we speak, the Democrats are trying to figure out the least "crunchy technique" for extracting Harvey Weinstein and his millions. robother said... Can we finally stop pretending that "Feminism" is anything more than another Democrat identity group, people primed to take offense at the slightest alleged harassment if and only if the offender is not a member of the Democrat power structure or another Leftist identity group. Its just a leftist GOTV and fundraising listserve. We're I not Assrat, I would be Laslo. I'm afraid it's even worse than that. I've been in the business for a long time working at two networks and two studios. The librul thing, for the most part, is a charade. They talk privately about the Schvartzes, the schvoo-boogies, and the chukkers and beaners. Even more appalling is the frank admission that lib politics and paying higher taxes are the buy-off to keep the peace so that their gated communities and Rollers are safe from harm. And I'm not just talking about the older, fat, rich guys. They think that this social compact gives them immunity since there are plenty of deplorables out there to draw fire. So far, they've been absolutely correct. Our hostess has a remarkable mind, and this post is Class A exemplar of the point. But if I could have one day to think in the mind of another person, it wouldn't be Althouse; it would be Oscar Peterson Jr. Who he? As my old college newspaper editor would say. Putting aside whether Anita Hill lied, weren't her "worst" allegations that he made some off-color remarks about porn films, and something about a pubic hair on a Coke can? Pretty mild stuff (at least by comparison to HW), even if true. Bill Crawford said... I'm sure I should have realized this a long time ago.... If they knew about this and hid it for 17+ years, what are they still hiding? Democracy does indeed die in darkness maryhopes said... Thank you Ann, for this so insightful response. The added catch of the irony of the Planned Parenthood comment, "...he seemed small and frail...." is heart wrenching and spot on. wildswan said... Weinstein is so gross. I would have thought that every woman's nightmare is somehow falling into the power of someone who acts like Weinstein AND is gross like him. But apparently in Hollywood it's just the price of admission and there are plenty willing to pay the price. And there are, or were, plenty of reporters willing to make lame excuses for him, as Althouse points out. But why is the news-media so lame? Surely, it's different from Hollywood and, oh, for sure, women reporters aren't being subjected this kind of outrageous exploitation. Exiledonmainstreet, I'm worried that we are denying human nature. I'm not defending Weinstein, whose misdeeds are extraordinary. I'm talking about defending the normal male who is almost compulsively attracted to at least some women. Sexual harassment laws put men at a great disadvantage because you've passed a law against what is basically male nature. Sure there are some men who have successfully mastered the art of suppressing the expression of their sexual attraction to women at work. Note that I didn't say they suppressed their sexual desires. But there's plenty of men that can't do this, not always anyway. The thing about Anita Hill isn't that I think that it's all that improbable that Clarence Thomas expressed a sexual attraction to Anita Hill. The problem is that Anita Hill is almost certainly lying and that this is an abuse of power on Anita Hill's part. I imagine that there are two narratives that stand a good chance of being true. First, something like what she recounted happened except it wasn't that a big deal to her and her use of it was purely motivated as a tool to block Thomas from getting on to the Supreme Court. Or two, something like what she recounted happened and it was a big deal to her because she was sexually frustrated and really wanted something to happen and it didn't. I find that plausible because it's consistent with what she did and the fact that women are sexual beings and that's a pretty strong thing for women too although expressed differently from men. Then she takes that experience which she has no trouble remembering except for her own motivations which she has trouble acknowledging, which I believe is true for most people. And then from there it is driven by her politics. Now a feminist might look at this and say either way you're believing that Thomas 'sexually harassed' Anita Hill. But that's a problem with feminism because you've a made a law against males. You've found a standard that men are going to fail at, not always, but way too often. If we are going to allow this ideology where we stack the odds so much against men, then we better allow companies to legally discriminate against women and not hire women if they don't want this dynamic. If it's otherwise you're doing the reverse and discriminating against men, which is where I think the actual law has put us. "If they knew about this and hid it for 17+ years, what are they still hiding?" Perhaps what Harvey knows about them is worse that what they know about Harvey. Feminism requires absolute support of partial birth abortion on demand. If you are for that, you can get away with sexual harassment, rape, misogyny, and even murder. "Right now, I'm wondering how the Weinstein story helps the Democrats..." It didn't come out in October, 2016. It won't come out in October, 2018. ... even though it's been widely known for years, if not decades. I guess these dipshit reporters are taking a moment or two off from giving each other awards for bravery and talking about how courageous they are, how without their noble daring our very democracy would die (in the dark!) to now whine "oooh, we couldn't break this story, it was just too scarrrrry--feel sorry for us!" Hell, it'd be more dignified to just come out and admit you're all Leftists and you have a strong bias about publishing anything that you know might hurt the Left. Smart Life Long Republicans tell me there's "no such thing as the Media" but things like this happening certainly argue that there is, and that as expected it's Leftist to its rotten core. Night Owl said... "... Bill Cosby, Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump." It's interesting how every article I've seen, so far, about Weinstein includes a select list of "hideous men" that always ends with "Donald Trump". I guess if the odious Weinstein is no longer useful to the left as a Dem donor or career builder, they may as well make his downfall useful as a tool for smearing Trump. As they say, "Never let a good crisis go to waste!" It's so much easier to go left. I think that's why you see so many high profile people being leftists. If you go right, the press will love negative stories about you. If you go left, that press doesn't care about your sins unless forced. How does this Harvey Weinstein story help the Democrats? Here's Douthat's meandering column, hot of the presses. See, in particular, most of the comments. I'd say it's not worth denting your monthly NYT article ration, but what is worth reading at the NYT anymore? Can't remember the last time I hit their paywall. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/opinion/sunday/harvey-weinstein-harassment-liberals.html "That kind of force, that kind of power? I could not have won against that." BS. The power belongs with the people who buy ink by the barrel. Aggie said... The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese. Most people are herd animals, and will only dare to make themselves conspicuous if it's to be seen by others in the herd. That's not being brave, it's just being ambitious. Narayanan said... What is the difference between conspiracy and NDA? As far as enforcement or prosecution is concerned? Is it legal blackmail ? I am not brave enough to be a coward I see the consequences clearly https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/432 When I read what this British actress had to say about Harvey Weinstein and how he raped her, then I made up my mind it's time for some serious, major, jailtime. https://www.waynedupree.com/british-actress-alleges-harvey-weinstein-rape-kept-eyes-shut-held-breath/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343562
__label__cc	0.630984	0.369016	Question of the Day: What is your craziest food combination? Next month, brave Americans will get the opportunity to indulge in the latest bizarre meal, the 'Big Kahuna Donut Burger,' at the New York State Fair. The 'Big Kahuna' consists of a quarter-pound burger topped with cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato and onion in between slices of grilled, glazed doughnut. The meal costs between $5 and $6 dollars and boasts 1,500 calories, more than a Big Mac and a Whopper put together. American Morning wants to know: What is your craziest food combination? Post your response here. Your answer could be included in this morning's broadcast. Filed under: AM Asks AM EXCLUSIVE – Bachmann on being a foster mom: "A big family is a blessing" In an exclusive interview with American Morning's Kiran Chetry, Republican Presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann explains how she chose to become a foster parent, the importance of balancing challenges in a marriage and her struggle to emerge out of poverty as a teenager. "After my parents divorced, my family went into below poverty," Bachmann says. "We'd been kind of a middle-class, lower middle-class family, but after the divorce, we went below poverty and my mother made about $4800 a year. I had to get a job, my brothers got jobs; they delivered papers, I got a babysitting job. I made 50 cents and hour – that was big money back then. But you know, we wanted to help out, that's what we needed to do." She adds: "My mother also said, 'You know, it won't always be this way, it'll get better.' And she told us to buckle down, do well in school and we all did and we all made it." Kiran sat down with Bachmann yesterday to talk about the challenges of raising such a large family. See the interview above. Filed under: 2012 • American Family What you can do protect your personal finances if the U.S. defaults on its debt? Politicians in Washington seemed no closer to reaching a deal on raising the debt ceiling and trimming the budget deficit yesterday, sparking a recent sell-off in the market and causing stocks to drop as worries continue to increase that a solution will not be reached by August 2nd. For average Americans worried about their investments and their 401k, this situation is bringing back frightening reminders of 2008. Today on American Morning, Leigh Gallagher, assistant managing editor for Fortune Magazine, joins Ali Velshi to break down what you can do protect your personal finances if the U.S. defaults on its debt. Filed under: Budget • Debt • Debt ceiling • Deficit • Money & Main Street • Wall Street AM EXCLUSIVE: New video shows aftermath of Oslo massacre From CNN's THIS JUST IN BLOG – Police are preparing to interview Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect in last week's terror attacks, for a second time Friday, Oslo police chief Johan Fredriksen said Thursday. Breivik, who is being kept in solitary confinement at Ila Prison, near Oslo, was last interviewed Saturday, a day after a bomb blast outside government buildings in the Norwegian capital and a mass shooting on the island of Utoya claimed at least 77 lives. Police attorney Pal-Frederick Hjort Kraby said police had since gained a considerable amount of new information and were ready to question Breivik again at police headquarters. He is likely to face more interrogations in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the search for more victims of Friday's shooting rampage on Utoya island has ended, Police Chief Johan Fredriksen said Thursday. In addition, this morning we're getting a fresh angle on the massacre, with a video from a local man who was near the government buildings just moments after the bomb detonated on Saturday. CNN's Ali Velshi and Kiran Chetry talk with Johan Christian Tandberg about his video and about what he saw. Filed under: Oslo massacre Rep. Phil Gingrey: 'I'm not on board' Washington (CNN) - The GOP-controlled House of Representatives is set to vote Thursday on Speaker John Boehner's plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling while enacting sweeping cuts in government spending - the latest attempt to avoid an unprecedented national default and stave off potential economic catastrophe. Some Republicans have said this will be their last, best proposal. Senate Democrats warn the plan is dead on arrival on their side of Capitol Hill even if it passes the House. This morning on American Morning, CNN's Kiran Chetry speaks with Rep. Phil Gingrey about his opposition to Speaker Boehner's plan and why he still supports a balanced-budget amendment. Filed under: Budget • Debt • Debt ceiling • Deficit • GOP Renowned spiritual medium Maureen Hancock talks psychic ability A new Style Network documentary special, "Psychic in Suburbia," follows the out-of-this-world life of nationally renowned spirit medium Maureen Hancock, a wife and mother from Boston who also speaks to the dead. Hancock's mission is to help as many lives as she can by spiritually communicating with the departed, helping to bring closure and clarity to grieving individuals. The special is part of the "Style Exposed" initiative, which introduces inspiring, compelling and thought-provoking documentaries that explore some of the most talked about topics and trends. Hancock is on set today with Kiran Chetry to talk about when she realized she had psychic ability, how she "reads" someone, and how she deals with people who are skeptical of her capabilities. 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__label__cc	0.631749	0.368251	HomeStyle on the Go archive Posts in category: Style on the Go archive Idioms: Idioms II Style on the Go archiveUncategorized September 19, 2002: Issue 36 SIM STYLE: Is a bathroom without a tub a full bath? Yes, if it has a shower. We no longer use the term 3/4 bath in SIM. A powder room, or half bath, consists only of a toilet and a sink. A full bath also includes a shower or a tub or both, and may include many other amenities. GRAMMAR: More Idiom Soup Do you know these idioms? Explanations are by Paul Brians, a Washington State University English professor. • Deep-seated (not “seeded”) The expression has nothing to do with a feeling being planted deep within one, but instead refers to its being seated firmly within one’s breast: “My aversion to anchovies is deep-seated.” Compounding their error, most people who misuse this phrase leave the hyphen out. Tennis players may be seeded, but not feelings. • Beyond the pale (not “pail”) In medieval Ireland, the area around Dublin was within the limit of English law, everything outside being considered as wild, dangerous territory. The boundary was marked by a fence called “the Pale” (compare with “palisade”). The expression “beyond the pale” came to mean “bizarre, beyond proper limits.” • Sleight of hand (not “slight”) “Sleight” is an old word meaning “cleverness.” • Row to hoe (not “road”) Out in the cotton patch, you have a tough row to hoe. This saying has nothing to do with road construction. • One and the same (not “in”) The old expression “they are one and the same” is now often mangled into the roughly phonetic equivalent “one in the same.” The use of “one” here to mean “identical with each other” is familiar from phrases like “Jane and John act as one.” They are one, they are the same. Back to Style on the Go Archive Back to BHG Stylebook Table of Contents Numbers: 9/11/ground zero SIM STYLE: How should references to the September 11 terrorist attacks be treated in SIM copy? Granted, we don’t deal with this often. But with Americans’ emphasis on home and family in the last year, references to the attacks will continue to creep into our magazines. These situations are best dealt with on a case-by-case basis, but here are some guidelines to keep in mind: • Evaluate whether any reference is necessary to begin with. If so, make sure it’s clearly pertinent and could not be seen as trivial, given the subject matter of our magazines. • Keep references general. Readers need no reminder of the details. A simple “9/11” or “the attacks,” or even “recent events,” will usually suffice. • If you must be specific, avoid references to only the World Trade Center if you’re really talking about all the attacks. Also note: No mainstream stylebook accepts “9/11” when referring to a date, yet the term is now standard usage in most American newspapers and magazines. That’s because it has come to refer to the events of the day, rather than the date itself. It probably always will. “D day” is technically a generic term, but to most it now refers specifically to June 6, 1944. In the same way, the date will come and go in future years, but “9/11” will likely hereafter refer specifically to the events of September 11, 2001. GRAMMAR: Ground zero: Leave it to history In the past, the term “ground zero” might have been perfectly acceptable as a casual reference to a chaotic decorating, building, or landscaping project, or even to describe an especially messy teen’s bedroom. But no more. The term was redefined by 9/11 and has now become synonymous with the World Trade Center grounds in New York City. It’s hard to imagine “ground zero” ever again being used in any other context than referring to the WTC or an equally catastrophic human tragedy. Inclusion: Inclusive writing II August 29, 2002: Issue 33 SIM STYLE: More on inclusive writing “Your kids will thank you.” What’s wrong with this sentence? Technically, nothing. But SIM style strives for language that doesn’t exclude any reader. One word here does that: “your.” Not all readers have kids at home, but that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be interested in the information—they may have grandchildren, nieces and nephews, godchildren, or friends to whom it applies. The fix is usually easy. Here, simply delete the word “your,” or change it to something more general, such as, “Any kid will thank you.” The change may seem insignificant. But consciously or otherwise, readers notice patterns. Sprinkle a few “your kids” sentences throughout one magazine, and childless readers—for some reason they can’t quite pinpoint—may begin to feel that magazine doesn’t speak to them personally. Some other demographics that should send up red flags include race, sex, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, and marital status. Do the words you choose unnecessarily assume all readers are white? Married? Female? Remember, even if 80 percent of readers fall into one category, the remaining 20 percent represent tens of thousands of readers—customers—who don’t. Inclusive writing doesn’t mean catering to a relatively small portion of your readership at the expense of your target readers. Nor is it a matter of political correctness. It simply means that, where possible, no reader should be excluded from the get-go. For more information, see Nonsexist Writing section in the SIM Stylebook or Issue 11 and Issue 62. GRAMMAR: What’s the difference between anxious and eager? Both refer to anticipation, but anxious implies nervousness or anxiety. correct: The homeowners, who said any change is a good change, were eager to see their new living room. correct: The designer, who covered the walls with straw, was anxious about their reaction. Spelling: Wrack/rack August 1, 2002: Issue 31 SIM STYLE: The more things change … Please write in these recent SIM style changes in your stylebook. • Feng shui is no longer italicized. • Northern California is capitalized, as is Southern California. • One-of-a-kind is hyphenated in all uses. • Icemaker is one word. • Change pom-pom to pompon on your word list in all uses. This solves a discrepancy with botanical usage. • Sashes, not sash, is the preferred plural form of sash. GRAMMAR: Is it rack or wrack? If something is causing you stress or strain, it’s racking your nerves. You may also be racked with guilt. Wrack implies devastation (think “wreckage”). If you’re absolutely at the end of your rope and there’s no hope in sight, you’re facing wrack and ruin. Incidentally, racket (not racquet) is the preferred spelling for the piece of sports equipment—even if you’re playing racquetball. Lists: State names November 29, 2001: Issue 1 SIM STYLE: When do I abbreviate state names? Unless the state designation is part of a full postal address, always spell out state names and set them off with commas in text. incorrect: The Lawrence, KS home correct: The Lawrence, Kansas, home In full postal addresses, use standard two-letter postal abbreviations. For more information, including a list of abbreviations, see addresses. GRAMMAR: “Try and” or “try to”? We may say “try and” all the time, but writing is more precise than speech, and “try and” is poor grammar. When someone is attempting something, the person is not trying AND doing; the person is trying TO do. Therefore, introduce the infinitive with the preposition “to.” incorrect: She said she will try and meet the deadline. correct: She said she will try to meet the deadline.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343582
__label__wiki	0.774099	0.774099	SSB Dates Home » Gen. Vipin Rawat to be the First Chief of Defense Staff Gen. Vipin Rawat to be the First Chief of Defense Staff The chief of the Indian Army has been retired form the post of the Indian Amry Chief. Now on 31st December 2019, the new general of Army has taken charge of the post. here in this article, we will discuss this recent news and will also tell you the newly appointed Army Chief. and also the ex-Army chief Mr. Vipin Rawat has been appointed as the first Chief of Defence Staff, First Chief of Defense Staff, First CDS in India, Vipin Rawat First CDS, etc Gen. Vipin Rawat to be the First Chief of Defense Staff: The Vipin Rawat has been appointed as Chief of Defense Staff. He is the first person who is appointed as the Chief of defense staff. The post of Chief of Defense Staff was vacant till yet. Now Mr. Vipin Rawat has become the First Chief of defense staff. let’s see who is called Chief of Defense Staff and whats their responsibility and works. Who is Called Chief Of Defense Staff: In India, the post for the CDS was vacant. Now India has got his First Chief Of Defense Staff. The Chief of Defense Staff are head of the Indian Armed forces and they suggest the government in any kind of war activity or for the welfare of the Indian airforce, Indian Army and Indian Navy, etc. They are professional Defense advisor of the government. The Chief of Defence Staff also focuses on the better synergy between the Indian Army, the Indian Air Force, and the Indian Navy. The CDS will also head the newly Established Department of Military affairs within the Ministry of defense. Among the areas of the Chief of the Defense, staff will be promoting the Jointness in procurement, training, and staffing and facilitating and restructuring of the military commands for optimal utilizing the resources. Buy Now Buy Now Buy Now Buy Now Who becomes the Chief Of Defense Staff: The Chief of Defence Staff is appointed from the Indian Armed forces like Indian Army, Indian Air force and Indian Navy, etc. This is the first time the Indian government has appointed the Chief of Defence Staff and the Government selected the Army Chief for the CDS. Chief of Defence Staff is appointed as per the experience and duty performance in the Service. As a Chief of Defence Staff a person can work up to the 65 years after this he will be permanently retired from the service. Now the Vipin Rawat will be handling the post of Chief of Defence Staff till December 2022 and for the post of the Army chief, the Manoj Mukund Naravane has been appointed as the new Chief of the Army Staff. The Idea of creation of such post goes back to the General V.K Singh. The planning for the Chief of Defence Staff was going on after the Kargil war and It is very important in today’s era. Lt. Gen Manoj Mukunda Naravane Army Chief The Chief of Defence Staff is described by the official as the “First Among equals” among service. apart from being the Government military advisor, the CDS will be also head in department fo Military affairs. The Chief of Defence Staff has the authority to direct the service chief of Army, Air force and Navy, etc. The Chief of Defence Staff will be also a member of the Defence Acquisition Council chaired by the Ministry of defense and defense planning Committee chaired by the National Security Advisor. The CDS’ salary and perquisites will be the same as the Service Chiefs. The CDS will come under the act Right to Information. A post shared by Major Kalshi Classes Pvt. Ltd. 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__label__wiki	0.712276	0.712276	Why Millennials are fighting against new EU copyright law Posted by Julia Bourke on Thursday, Jun 29, 2017 Millennials are resolute in their fight against proposed changes to EU copyright law, but is a movement toward free-for-all content realistic? In September 2016 the European Commission published proposed changes to its Copyright Directive. Europe, which sees the highest piracy rates globally, is responding to the problem of copyright in the digital era, and specifically on IP use and capitalisation. Controversial changes included a proposal that user-generated content sites apply automated content filtering for copyright infringement, and a link tax, already established in France and Spain, that asks sites linking to news articles to pay a fee to IP owners. Concerns about the new Copyright Directive There are fears that the proposed copyright filters will, unable to distinguish infringing content from content protected by the ‘fair use’ doctrine, automatically remove online content central to Millennial ‘remix culture’ on social media. This includes fan fiction, reaction GIFs, and internet memes. Generally regarded as the best thing to come out of the internet since puppy cams, an internet meme is a social media-shared image accompanied by text that is altered for humorous purposes, often in line with topical events or relatable issues. Since internet memes exist based on their viral replication, automatic deletion would lead to their rapid demise and so change Millennials’ use of social media. But, as the European Commission have found, one does not simply remove the meme from the internet. A multiplicity of groups have formed that oppose the proposed changes to the Copyright Directive, urging supporters to get involved by contacting MEP representatives. The groups include a ‘save the meme’ campaign against the controversial copyright filters of Article 13, a ‘save the link’ campaign against the ‘link tax’ of Article 11 and Copyfighters, a group of 25 Europeans all under 30 years of age. Copyfighters claim to fight for a digital single market, fair use and remix culture and are an example of how Millennials are beginning to engage with legislative measures to work toward redefining IP ownership in the modern age. Of course, the internet as a sharing platform has raised major issues with IP protection, and creators and IP rightsholders should be protected and supported in the future. However, there have also been concerns that the proposed changes could infringe on users’ privacy, by monitoring personal content. This comes into conflict with the ‘safe harbour’ agreement, which clears ISSP liability for copyright-infringing content that they host but do not upload. What's the status on this moment So far, one out of five committees has voted on the proposed changes. The Internal Market and Consumer Protection (ICPO), who hold the second-most important vote after JURI, voted against content filtering and data mining, and for link tax and a ‘remix’ copyright exception. A lead committee vote by JURI is scheduled in the final week of September, and finally the EU Parliament may opt to make an executive decision which would take place in late October. The strong reaction to the proposed changes in European youth is evident of the changing way in which younger generations are perceiving IP ownership and copyright law. The European Commission recognises a need to adapt law to a borderless, virtual environment, but also a need for IP owners and creators to monetise on use of their content in order to encourage and support a new generation of creative innovators. Similar to this, the relationship that Millennials have with media copyright continues to drive piracy rates and this shows no sign of slowing down with a younger generation, despite the prevalence of legal streaming sites like Netflix. Of course a borderless, free-for-all culture is alluring, but the reality is that this cannot be self-sufficient. In order to ensure of a future that supports creators, IP owners must understand the singular relationship that influential Millennials have with content and adapt content protection strategies accordingly. Post Written by Julia Bourke Focusing on emerging trends and industry news, Julia works as a content writer and data journalist. Julia graduated from the University of Southampton with a BA Hons in English Literature. An Overview of The Madrid Protocol First-to-use versus first-to-file trademark regimes Where are the IP offices around the world? The Secret to Success: How to Keep Trade Secrets Safe	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343588
__label__wiki	0.531946	0.531946	Golden – Short Film Review Benn Veasey / October 11, 2013 Sometimes short films take on too much: There are too many twists and turns in the narrative; characters undergo radical changes before we even understand where they’re come from; or else, there’s a huge build up with no conclusion, leaving the whole thing feeling a little bit like an extended trailer. Simon Ball’s coming of age tale, Golden, is not one of these films. What’s nice about this film is it does big things with very little. We follow a group of four children as they play and wander through a series of desolate, semi-urbanised rural landscapes. Relationships are established firmly and fairly quickly, but nothing feels rushed or forced: The whole story revolves around an adventure through the country side and a series of political exchanges between the kids, but remarkably, all of this is achieved without the aid of dialogue. Francesco Corazzi‘s quirky score does much to aid this ‘show-rather-than-tell’ strategy of story telling. Complimenting the film’s more elusive moments with a series of percussive sounds, these jumpy clatterings eventually figure as the drum track to a climactic instrumental, with the film’s soundtrack coming together at the same time that its story does. There’s also something to be said for the Edward Vijayavargiya’s cinematography, which is quietly confident in its smooth and slow tracking shots, and which pays careful attention to shape, composition and form in its framing, reflecting the minimalism found elsewhere in the short. Ultimately, all of Golden‘s elements work together to create a carefully crafted whole. ‘Less is more’, as the saying goes, and here, that seems to be quite true. This post is part of a series on Greenhorn Short Film Festival. You can read my review of other short films screened at Greenhorn, as well as a review of the festival itself, here: Greenhorn Short Film Festival Tired of Swimming Pussy People October 11, 2013 in Film and Television, Review. Tags: Arts, Cinema, festical, film, film festival, Filmmaking, films, Francesco Corazzi, Golden, Greenhorn, Greenhorn Short Film Festival, movie, review, short, Short film, shorts, Simon Ball Tired of Swimming – Short Film Review Brand Spanking New: Greenhorn Short Film Festival Pussy People – Short Film Review ← Pussy People – Short Film Review Thoughts on the Thought Police: The Real Problem with Banning Slang in School →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343589
__label__wiki	0.885115	0.885115	Actor Jussie Smollett classified as suspect in criminal investigation by Gwen Vasquez in Life&Culture Now Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi has tweeted that the actor is himself officially a suspect in the case. The charges emerged on the same day that detectives and two brothers who were earlier deemed suspects testified before a grand jury. Smollett told police he was attacked by two masked men while walking home from a Subway shop at around 2am on January 29. The old case came to light as authorities investigate whether the "Empire" actor concocted a story about being attacked by racists with a noose and bleach near his apartment in Chicago on January 29. Jussie Smollett is now officially classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation by #ChicagoPolice for filing a false police report (Class 4 felony). Also earlier Wednesday, Fox Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Television released a statement stating that Smollett "continues to be a consummate professional on set" and that his character isn't being written off the show, after reports surfaced this week that he might be fired from the series. The men, who had been held for almost 48 hours on suspicion of assaulting Smollett, were released Friday. Several reports, citing unnamed sources, suggested police are investigating whether he helped set-up his own attack. Chris Hemsworth's Avengers Co-Star Chris Evans Reacts To Hulk Hogan Biopic News That guy that did that action movie Thor .' he told Toronto's Cape Breton Post . Michael Sugar ( Spotlight ) will produce via his Netflix-based company Sugar 23. Meanwhile, the Chicago Police Department is still waiting to speak with Jussie Smollett following the "new evidence" acquired in their investigation. Smollett's lawyers have denied that the reported attack was a hoax, saying "anyone claiming otherwise is lying". She also said her clients received money from Smollett, but she did not elaborate. Investigators did find and release images of two people they said they wanted to question. Lawyers for Smollett, who has stuck by his story for three weeks as police failed to find surveillance video of an assault and suspicions of a hoax grew on social media, did not respond to requests for comment on Wednesday. Smollett now is facing further questioning by the Chicago Police Department after two persons of interest (brothers from Nigeria, one of whom worked as a personal trainer on a music video of Smollett's) were released on Friday after additional interviews, and without being charged. Chicago's top prosecutor, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, recused herself from the investigation Tuesday, according to a one-sentence statement issued by a spokesperson. "Based on those prior conversations and out of an abundance of caution, last week State's Attorney Foxx chose to remove herself from the decision making in this matter and delegated it to her First Assistant Joseph Magats, a 28-year veteran prosecutor". If Smollett's account is determined to be a fabrication, legal experts say he could be charged with any number of felonies. 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__label__cc	0.637995	0.362005	By Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming I grieve to have to record that in leading the procession round the foundations of the new church, he made the turn widdershiiu.1 I believe that this is contrary to ecclesiastical custom — and of course to my Scottish mind it suggested grievous misfortunes in store. An immense crowd of people had assembled, and the influence of European bad taste was too apparent in several cases; as for instance, in the uniform selected by a large college of young men, and provided by themselves — namely, white trousers, magenta blouse, and sky-blue waist-band! The girls wore white calico gnlus 2 and pale-green pinafores, which, with their hair dyed yellow, were becoming. But they looked a thousand times better when, at a school-festival held later, they exchanged the white skirts for very fine cream-coloured mats embroidered round the edge with scarlet wool, necklaces of largo scarlet berries and green leaves, and scarlet hybiscus and green leaves in their hair. They went through some very pretty school exercises, illustrated by much graceful action. Then some very fine women came up, wearing handsome new mats of hybiscus fibre, which, when newly prepared, is pure white, and after a while becomes creamy in hue. They presented us all with very pretty fans of woven grass. Then came a presentation of much food, including about thirty pigs, which were, ere long, devoured by the assembled multitude. The bishop was terribly exhausted by all this prolonged exertion and much talking; but as an instance of his never-failing kindness to everybody, I may tell you, that when the school-feast was over, I came to this, my special nest, remarking to some one that I was 1 Or more correctly, in old Celtic parlance, tuaphol— that is to say, a turn contrary to the course of the sun, keeping the left hand towards the centre. It was only used when invoking a curse, as opposed to the turn deisul, which invoked a Messing on the object round which the turn was made. The superstition is common to all lands in whose early mythology sun-worship held a place. See ' From the Hebrides to the Himalayas,' vol. i. p. 203. 1 The sulu of the Friendly and Fijian Isles, the pareo of Tahiti, the sarong of the Malays, or the comboy of the Singalese, is simply a fathom of cloth wrapped round the lower limbs, and reaching to the knee or the ankle, according to the width of the material. A NATURAL FORTRESS. 73 fatvjuie, forgetting that the word may be interpreted as "not well." So when the kind bishop came home to his much needed rest, he heard this, and, tired as he was, at once came to this house, which is at some distance, bringing a great roll of native cloth to soften my mat couch, and chocolate and other little delicacies, which he thought I might fancy. I was so sorry,—but it illustrates the beautiful unselfishness of that genial nature. To-morrow we are to leave this lovely isle Tutuila and cross to the great isle of Upolu, on which is situated Apia, the capital. This group, which in our schoolroom days we were taught to call the Navigators Isles, but which its inhabitants know as Samoa, fonsists of eight principal isles and several small islets. By far the largest are Savaii and Upolu—the former being 250 miles in circumference, the latter 200. Both are very beautiful, having high mountain-ranges, visible at a distance of 70 miles, and richly wooded. They are separated by a strait about 12 miles wide, the mouth of which is, as it were, guarded by two small islands, Manono and Aborima. The former lies close to Upolu, and one reef encircles both. It is the home of some of the high chiefs, and is an exceedingly fertile little island, clothed with the richest verdure. It is about five miles in circumference. Aborima, as seen from the sea, appears to be only a huge precipitous mass of rock, rising to a height of 200 or 300 feet. It is about two miles in circumference, and is probably the crater of an extinct volcano, for it is shaped like the hollow of a hand, whence it derives its name. It is inaccessible, except at one small opening between the steep cliffs; but passing between these you enter an amphitheatre, which, from the base to the summit, presents an unbroken mass of tropical vegetation—a most marvellous transformation scene from the desolate crags of the seaboard. A charming little village nestles beneath the fruit-bearing trees in the basin. This natural stronghold belongs to the chiefs of Manono, who use it in time of war as a safe refuge for their families and storehouse for their property. All they need do, is to guard the narrow entrance, which they can either defend by dropping rocks on the invaders, or by so placing ropes across it that they can overturn their canoes. So, although the warlike men of Manono have occasionally been driven from their own isle, they have always found a secure retreat in this lovely rock-girt fortress, where they take good care always to have abundant stores of food ready for emergencies. That they need such a place of refuge, you may infer from the fact that when they were first visited by white men, about fifty years ago, a basket was suspended from the ridge-pole of a sort of war-temple, and in it were preserved 197 stones, which were tho record of the number of battles which the men of Manono had fought up to that date! I do not know how many of these isles we are to visit. Tho more the better, since all are beautiful. But whenever I admire anything, tho invariable reply is, "You like this? Ah, wait till you see Tahiti!" Evidently it is the ideal isle. No one will believe that I am not going on. Indeed I am beginning scarcely to believe it myself. Well, we'll see when we reach Apia. VANQUISHED CHIEFS OF THE PUI.ETOA FACTION UNDER PROTECTION OF THE UNION-JACK—CONVENT-SCHOgL—"BULLY" HAYES—POSTAL DIFFICUL- tIES—BOUSE OF GODEFFROY— VILLAGE OF MALINUNU— VEGETABLES AND FISH—ADVANTAGES OP ANGLO-AMERICAN COMPANIES. British Consulate, Apia, Isle Upolu, Monday, 24IA. We arrived here yesterday morning, and I confess that, having heard so much of the beauty of this place, I am rather disappointed. It is not to be compared with Levuka1 from a picturesque point of view. A very long village, scattered round a horse-shoe bay, with cocoa palms ad libitum, and background of rather shapeless rich green wooded hills, part of which are under cultivation. i Capital of Fiji. CIVIL WAR. 75 Certainly the hills do gradually ascend to a height of fully 4000 feet, so they are not to be despised; but our eyes are satiated with the beauty of volcanic peaks and crags, rising from an ocean of foliage wellnigh as rich as this. Doubtless if we have time to explore the interior, we shall find no lack of loveliness; indeed even from the harbour we could distinguish one grand waterfall, like a line of flashing quicksilver on the dark-green mountain. But to reach it, would involve a long day of hard walking, such as I could not attempt, even were the sun less powerful than it is to-day. This town, which is the capital of Samoa, consists of about two hundred houses and stores—German, English, and American consulates, a Roman Catholic college and cathedral, a Congregational chapel, and two newspaper offices, representing the stormy politics of the isles—namely the ' Samoan Times' and the 'South Sea Gazette.' The strong point of Apia is the excellence of its harbour—a point which the German traders have made good use of, in securing their own right to a large part of it. As soon as we anchored, M. Pinart escorted me, first to call on Dr and Mrs G. A. Turner of the London Medical Mission, and then to H.B.M. Consulate, which was my destination—the wife of the consul, Mrs Liardet, and her mother, Mrs Bell, having been our friends in Fiji, before they were sent to this place. We found that Mr L. had just sailed for Fiji to consult Sir Arthur Gordon on the best course to follow in the present critical state of affairs, when every man's hand is seemingly against his neighbour, and each trying to induce the natives to espouse his individual quarrels as well as their own. So the whole community are at loggerheads. The whites are mostly riff-raff of a very low order; and in short, the Samoa of to-day is simply a reproduction of what Fiji was before annexation. Many of the scamps who are now working its strings are the identical men who, finding Fiji no longer a happy land of misrule, have just moved on to the next group, there to repeat the intrigues of their previous life. As I have explained to you, the Samoans are divided into two great factions, betwixt whom there is war to the death; and, unfortunately, this ill feeling is kept up by the utterly unprincipled whites—German, English, and American—who have their own interests to serve, and are quite unscrupulous as to the means they employ. So, thanks to their machinations, there was a sharp skirmish about three months ago actually in the town, close to this house, and to the convent, where the. French Sisters have a large and excellent school for girls. There appears no doubt that it began by a treacherous onset unawares, instigated by a scoundrelly American. The fight lasted all night, just behind this house. Sixty men of the Puletoa faction were slain, and their heads were cut off and sent to friendly chiefs as delicate offerings. You can imagine the horror of that night to the ladies here, hearing the noise of battle, the firing of muskets, and the shouts of the warriors, but unable to distinguish through the darkness what was going on. In the first glimmer of dawn they looked out, and saw a great crowd of poor terrified refugees of the Puletoa party crouching round the flag-staff here (at the consulate), claiming British protection. The Union-jack that was run up that morning has never since been lowered day or night, as the conquerors have as yet given no definite promise to spare the lives of the vanquished. Others, who had hidden in the scrub, have since crept in, under cover of night; and from that day to the present, the fifty men (great chiefs and their followers), besides wives and children, are living within the very confined grounds of the consulate. The men never dare to venture outside these bounds, knowing that for long the place was surrounded by guards of the enemy, watching to shoot any of the refugees who might venture to step over the enclosure, which at the time of the fight was only partially fenced in. The women and children are, however, allowed to go out and forage. The principal chiefs sleep in the dining-room and passages, and wherever they can find room to lie down; and when I come to my room at night, I have to pick my way in and out among the sleepers. But the majority of the followers have built a large native house in the garden, where they sleep; and as they dare not go out even to bathe, they have dug a deep well for	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343600
__label__wiki	0.657729	0.657729	Stonehenge Autumn Equinox Open Access Arrangements: 23rd September 2019 THE Autumn Equinox is rapidly approaching as the last days of summer slowly come to an end. English Heritage are expected to offer a short period of access, from first light or safe enough to enter the monument field (approximately 06.30am) until 08:30am on the 23rd September this year. The Autumn Equinox (Mabon) The 2019 Autumn Equinox is at 08.50 GMT on the September 23rd Sunrise will be 6.55am Mabon is a harvest festival, the second of three, that encourages pagans to “reap what they sow,” both literally and figuratively. It is the time when night and day stand equal in duration; thus is it a time to express gratitude, complete projects and honor a moment of balance. What is the Equinox? The equinox is when day and night are actually the same length. It happens several days before the spring equinox, and a few days after the autumn one. The reason day and night are only almost equal on the equinox is because the sun looks like a disk in the sky, so the top half rises above the horizon before the centre, according to the Met Office. The Earth’s atmosphere also refracts the sunlight, so it seems to rise before its centre reaches the horizon. This causes the sun to provide more daylight than many people might expect, offering 12 hours and 10 minutes on the equinox. The word ‘equinox’ itself actually mean ‘equal’ (equi) and ‘night’ (nox). Respecting the Stones The conditions of entry for the Managed Open Access. Click here If you are considering visiting Stonehenge for the Autumn Equinox and do not have transport you can join a specialist organised small group tour. Use a reputable tour operator who respect the conditions of entry. Stonehenge Guided Tours are the longest established company offering award winning discreet tours from London and Bath – click here for their exclusive Autumn Equinox tour. Solstice Events offer small group sunrise tours using only local expert guides. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for Equinox updates and Stonehenge news Tags: druid, english heritage, Mabon, open access, pagan, pendragon, Stonehenge Autumn Equinox Categories : Stonehenge Autumn Equinox Summer Solstice at Stonehenge. From Past to Present. Although there was historically a Summer Fayre at Stonehenge held on traditional midsummer’s day of the 24th of June, it was only comparatively recently that the association between Stonehenge and the Summer Solstice Sunrise was realised. Before Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, the summer solstice had slipped out of sync with the old Julian calendar by 11 days. This meant that the Sun didn’t appear to rise from the Heelstone on 24th June. People somehow knew that they should be at Stonehenge on “midsummer’s day”, but the reason had long been forgotten. Indeed, it was only in 1771 that the first link between the Heelstone and the Summer Solstice Sunrise was mentioned by Dr. John Smith, even though William Stukeley had identified that the Avenue lead off towards the solstice sunrise point some 30 years earlier. Smith churlishly didn’t even acknowledge Stukeley’s work in his book. These days, of course, everyone knows about it. From about 3pm on the 20th June, Stonehenge closes to regular visitors in order for preparations to begin for the largest mass pilgrimage to a solar temple in modern times. Up to 40,000 people begin arriving across the landscape on foot, or by car and coach to the fields by the Visitor Centre (parking charges are £5 per motorbike, £15 per car, live-in vehicle or minibus up to 19 seats, £100 per coach with coach-space pre-booking essential, and there is no discount for disabled badge holders) in advance of the monument being reopened at 7pm. This is the one time in the year when anyone can spend the night inside the stone circle, and it gets crowded very quickly with travellers, drummers, pagans, druids, cosplay wizards and faeries, as well as more “ordinary” folk. Alcohol has been banned in recent years but evidence is obvious of prior indulgence in that and other recreational substances amongst the revellers. This “managed open access” has the feeling of a massive outdoor party rather than a respectful observance but most people seem to have a good time. The locals tend to come for the evening on the 20th before escaping ahead of full nightfall, and the atmosphere is more family-friendly between 7pm and sunset around 9.30pm. Ahead of sunset a number of groups tend to perform “all welcome” ceremonies in the centre of the circle, including the modern Druids usually led by Archdruid Rollo Maughling, King Arthur Pendragon or Merlin of England. As night falls the entire field around the monument fills up and people gather in groups on and under blankets (no sleeping bags permitted) and while away the hours until the much-anticipated solstice dawn on the 21st. A number of concession stands near the field entrance serve up tea, coffee and a variety of food to keep everyone warm, and there are first aiders, security marshalls, volunteer peace stewards and a low-key police presence to ensure everyone’s safety. Portaloos are installed all around the site as well as lighting gantries which are gradually dimmed as dawn approaches. Bags are security checked at the entrances to the field to intercept glass bottles or other dangerous items, and no animals are allowed apart from the drugs sniffer dogs on the gate. The “managed open access” at summer solstice has been in place since 2000 and I have attended all bar two of them. In 15 years, I’ve seen a clear solstice sunrise only twice – so if you plan to come, be prepared for a cloudy morning with no sight of the Sun. Bring waterproofs and wear many layers – it can be unexpectedly cold at 2am in the middle of a field in Wiltshire, and it frequently rains (on occasion very, very heavily) overnight. Umbrellas are forbidden but a black plastic binbag makes an acceptable, if unfashionable, substitute. Dawn occurs at 4.52 BST, but the Sun is always a few minutes late because the trees on the horizon to the northeast delay its appearance. As the centre of the circle is by now absolutely rammed solid, the Druid ceremony usually takes place by the Heelstone after sunrise. The monument field has to be cleared by 8am so that the site can be tidied up and put back to normal in time for it to re-open to regular visitors by about 3pm on the 21st. The attendees drift away back towards the car park and peace, of a sort, descends. Now the real work begins for the on-site Historic Property Stewards who care for the monument all year round, and the army of temporary contractors. The grass in the centre of the circle is “groomed” with rakes having been trampled flat by thousands of feet for 13 hours and the whole area of the monument within the henge bank and ditch perimeter is litter-picked on hands and knees. Lost property is gathered together in case the owners come back for it – though how anyone can forget a baby buggy is hard to imagine. The visitor barrier ropes are re-installed around the circle, the interpretation panels are re-erected, the bench seats on the path are returned and the overnight infrastructure is taken away, along with several tons of rubbish. Sprinklers are deployed to revivify the turf. The Stonehenge Summer Solstice experience is unlike any other – for some people it’s a lifetime’s ambition, for others it’s an excuse for a party. For Stonehenge, this year will be something like the 4,517th time it’s seen people gather at this turning point in the seasonal round – it must have some stories to tell, and Stone 28 is probably the one to tell them – you just have to listen closely. If you are considering visiting Stonehenge for the Solstice or Equinox celebrations you can join an organised tour and save all the hassle. Use a reputable tour operator who respect the conditions. Stonehenge Guided Tours are the longest established company and Solstice Events offer small group Solstice tours using only local expert guides. Stonehenge Summer Solstice Open Access Arrangements. English Heritage Conditions of Entry The Salisbury Reds special solstice shuttle service Stonehenge Summer Solstice Tours and transport from London Stonehenge Summer Solstice Tours from Bath Follow @St0nehenge @EH_Stonehenge @VisitStonehenge @HighwaysEngland and @Wiltshirepolice for #summersolstice updates on the night. If you are unable to visit Stonehenge on the Solstice you can watch our LIVE PERISCOPE STONEHENGE BROADCAST Tags: druid, english heritage, guided tours, HeelStone, June 21st, managed open access, pagan, pendragon, Pilgramage, Solar Temple, Solstice Celebrations, Sunrise Categories : Stonehenge Summer Solstice Druid Leader King Arthur Uther Pendragon, Head of the Loyal Arthurian Warband. King Arthur Uther Pendragon is the Chosen Chief and titular Head of the Loyal Arthurian Warband, a highly political modern Druid order that campaigns on a variety of issues primarily to do with Stonehenge. These issues include protesting against the inclusion of human remains in English Heritage’s visitor centre exhibition, championing the right of celebrants to freely attend Solstices and Equinoxes at Stonehenge without having to “pay to pray” and calling for the return of the cremated remains that have been excavated from the Aubrey Holes and removed from the site by archaeologists. He’s also got a long history as an eco-warrior and civil rights activist, protesting against road developments (notably the Newbury Bypass and Twyford Down) and of standing as an independent Parliamentary candidate for the Salisbury constituency. When the media are looking for a soundbite from the rapidly growing pagan community in the UK, they invariably call Arthur and as a result the perception of many of the public is that he is the King of all the Druids. This tends to annoy some other people in the pagan and Druid community who resent the implication that Arthur speaks for all of them. Arthur, however, doesn’t claim this for himself. What Arthur does believe is that he’s the modern reincarnation of the archetypal King Arthur of legend – returned to do battle for Truth, Honour and Justice in Britain’s hour of need. In 1986 he changed his name from John Rothwell (ex biker and ex Army serviceman) by deed poll and he is unique in that his passport – in the name of Arthur Uther Pendragon – shows him wearing his crown. The sword that he carries – Excalibur, naturally – is one of the originals made for the film of the same name. Its previous owner initially refused to part with it, on the basis that he’d only sell if the real King Arthur showed up to claim it. Arthur promptly presented his passport, much to the surprise of the owner! His life story is too involved and full of startling magical coincidence to go into here but his biography “The Trials of Arthur” (C. J. Stone and A. U. Pendragon, Element Books, 2003) is worth reading if you want to better understand the man and his motivation. After the government shut down the Stonehenge Free Festival with the infamous and appalling police violence of the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985, an exclusion zone was established around Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice complete with roadblocks, razor wire, helicopters, horses and dogs. Years of conflict between the festival community and the authorities followed. Arthur was a key figure in the campaign to re-open Stonehenge to celebrants and eventually took the government to the European Court in 1998, claiming that the exclusion zone breached his freedom of thought, conscience, religion and freedom of expression, in contravention of Articles 9, 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The exclusion zone was lifted in 1999 and in 2000 the first of the Summer Solstice Managed Open Access events took place, with around 5000 people attending a celebration through the night in pouring rain. These open accesses have continued ever since at Solstices and Equinoxes and it is doubtful that they would have ever begun if not for the campaigning of Arthur and others. In the great British tradition of eccentrics, Arthur stands out proudly – he is the grit in the oyster, a thorn in the side of bureaucracy and passionate about the causes he champions. You may or may not agree with him, you may like or dislike him, but you can’t deny that he gets out there and tries to change things in the face of almost overwhelming odds. Without him the world would be a much less colourful place – as a nation, we could do with more of his kind. Loyal Arthurian Warband website: http://www.warband.org.uk “The Trials of Arthur” Book review Follow King Arthur on Twitter King Arthur live periscope broadcast at the Autumn Equinox King Arthur and Stonehenge images on Flickr Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for all the latest Stonehenge news and stories Tags: Druid King, Eco-Warrior, Excalibur, King Arthur, managed open access, Neo Druid, pagan, Pay to Pray, pendragon, Round Table, stonehenge free festival, Stonehenge news, summer solstice Categories : Arthur Uther Pendragon King Arthur takes council to court in Stonhenge parking row Even kings have problems with councils, it seems. King Arthur in all his glory (Picture: SWNS) Arthur Pendragon, the self-titled druid king of Britain and who says he’s the reincarnation of King Arthur, is suing over a parking charge at Stonehenge. He’s also taking action against a police force and English Heritage over the £15 fee. King Arthur believes the charge is ‘illegal’ for worshippers to the stones for the summer solstice, dubbing ‘pay to pray’. The charge was introduced for this year’s event on June 21, which saw 12,000 people flock to Stonehenge, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, to mark the longest day of the year. When Mr Pendragon refused to fork out – saying the £15 fee is ‘grossly unfair’ as it is three times what tourists pay on any other day of the year – he was barred from the UNESCO World Heritage site. The 62-year-old, who rides a motorbike, decided to take action against the ‘money-grabbing’ authorities because it breaches his human rights. Mr Pendragon – an ex-soldier and biker gang leader who was born John Timothy Rothwell to parents May and Wilfred – said he will do ‘whatever it takes’ to win. Who is the modern-day King Arthur? Mr Pendragon is an English eco-campaigner and Neo-Druid leader of the Loyal Arthurian Warband, who believes he is the reincarnation of King Arthur. He rose to fame in the 90s when he won a case at the European Court of Human Rights to allow open access to Stonehenge for religious festivals. He said: ‘If you go to Stonehenge as a tourist today you will pay £5, but if you go there on the solstice as a pilgrim they make you pay ££15. ‘As soon as they bring in a parking charge, it means it is virtually impossible to attend unless you pay. They are stopping me from praying.’ English Heritage has previously stated that it needs to charge the fee as £60,000 is spent on parking facilities during summer solstice. He said: ‘It is all about money. Stonehenge is getting 1.3 million tourists a year – it is English Heritage’s biggest cash cow. Read the full story on the Metro website Richard Hartley-Parkinson for Metro.co.uk Arthur Pendragon Facebook Page: (Arthur is a Warrior, Druid, Witch and Pagan High Priest defending environmental and libertarian causes) https://www.facebook.com/arthur.rex.984 Arthur Pendragon at Stonehenge: Live Periscope video footage from the Autumn Equinox 2016 celebrations: https://www.periscope.tv/w/1vOxwRaaZMdJB King Arthur launches Stonehenge parking legal action \| Plymouth Herald http://po.st/wKeNY5 NEWS: Senior druid @DruidKingArthur launches legal challenge over £15 parking charge at #Stonehenge for solstice: http://www.spirefm.co.uk/news/local-news/2106390/king-arthurs-stonehenge-parking-wars-to-be-shown-on-tv/ King Arthur sues council, police and English Heritage over ‘pay to pray’ scheme: http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/14766968.King_Arthur_sues_council__police_and_English_Heritage_over__pay_to_pray__scheme/?ref=twtrec Follow us us on Twitter for all the latest Stonehenge News Tags: Autumn Equinox, druid, english heritage, pagan, Parking, pendragon, Politics, Stonehenge, summer solstice, Wiltshire, Worship Categories : Stonehenge News 2016 First Day of spring: Stonehenge crowd gathers for Equinox sunrise The first day of spring has been marked by more than 800 revellers who gathered at Stonehenge to watch the sunrise. Despite a cloudy forecast, @St0nehenge tweeted the gathering had been “blessed with a perfect sunrise” Druids and pagans were joined by a mass of revellers at the ancient monument to celebrate the spring or vernal equinox. Open access to the stones was given from first light, 05:45 GMT, by English Heritage which manages the site. Senior druid King Arthur Pendragon, who performed the sunrise ceremony, said: “We’re lucky, we used to get 200 people but now it’s up to nearly 1,000.” Despite a cloudy forecast, @St0nehenge tweeted that the gathering had been “blessed with a perfect sunrise”. “A lot of people are coming out to sacred places to celebrate the turning of the wheel, which is what paganism is about,” said Mr Pendragon. “We don’t worship nature, we worship the divine through nature and so we worship at the times of the year when it’s auspicious – spring, summer, autumn and winter.” English Heritage opens the ancient stone circle for the spring equinox as well as the winter and summer solstice Full article (source) and more images at the BBC website: (Nice to see the BBC’s reference to our twitter account) Follow us here for all the latest / ongoing Stonehenge news: https://twitter.com/ST0NEHENGE There are many some fantastic images on the Stonehenge Stone Circle Flickr page Merlin at Stonehenge Tags: Druid Gathering, english heritage, open access, Pagan celebration, Pagan gathering, pendragon, Stonehenge Spring Equinox, Sunrise, Vernal Categories : Stonehenge Vernal Equinox 1000’s flock to Stonehenge for Solstice Sunrise THOUSANDS of druids, revellers, tourists and families stood side by side to welcome the sunrise at Stonehenge this morning. The longest day falling on a weekend and the clear sky drew a crowd of about 36,000, 15,000 more than last year, to the Summer Solstice at the ancient monument. While party-goers banged drums and cheered in the stone circle, the Loyal Arthurian War Band druids performed their spiritual ceremony by the Heel Stone. People come from all over the world to be a part of the celebrations at Stonehenge and the bumper crowd were treated to one of the best sunrises at the monument in years. This year’s mood seemed more subdued than previous and Wiltshire Police said 25 arrests were made at Stonehenge and two at Avebury, which were mainly for drug related offences. Superintendent Gavin Williams said: “We are please the Solstice celebrations have been enjoyable events for the majority of people attending. The road system worked well and many people used the public transport as we advised. “Every year there are new challenges for us at Solstice but it is always a pleasure to see so many people enjoying the event.” By Corey Ross (Salisbury Journal) Tags: Celebration, druids, pendragon, Stonehenge Sunrise, Summer Solstice 2014 Categories : Summer Solstice 2014 Stonehenge News Flash: Stonehenge byways to remain open A PLANNING inspector has ruled that byways surrounding Stonehenge will remain open. The decision follows inquiries into proposals to close the byways as well as parts of the A344 and the inspector has decided that although the road will close, the byways should remain open. English Heritage plans to return the area to grass as part of plans for a new visitors’ centre at Airman’s Corner. Planning inspector Alan Boyland said: “I accept that Wiltshire has a considerably greater length of byways than any other county. This is not however, in itself, a reason for allowing a further loss for recreational motor vehicle users. “In this case, the loss of a further 7km, particularly given the strategic importance of those routes, and without similar alternative routes being available, would in my view be significantly detrimental to the current users.” At the inquiry, Druid leader King Arthur Pendragon objected to the proposals to close the byways as he said it is a violation of his human rights not to be able to access the area, particularly during Pagan ceremonies such as celebrations of the solstices and equinox. Mr Pendragon said: “It appears that the inspector has erred on the side of common sense and found himself in agreement with the points made.” The new visitor centre has got planning permission and despite funding problems English Heritage hopes the it can be completed by 2013. Article: http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/9378111.Stonehenge_byways_to_remain_open/#commentsList Sponsored by The Stonehenge Tour Company – www.StonehengeTours.com Tags: pendragon, stonehenge byway Categories : a303 stonehenge, Stonehenge, stonehenge funding, stonehenge guide, Stonehenge news, stonehenge open access, Stonehenge tours, world heritage site	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343602
__label__cc	0.703611	0.296389	GeoLog \| Imaggeo on Mondays: Landslide on the Cantabrian coastline - GeoLog EGU Blogs » GeoLog » Imaggeo on Mondays: Landslide on the Cantabrian coastline Imaggeo on Mondays: Landslide on the Cantabrian coastline Laura Roberts-Artal January 26, 2015 Geodynamics, Hydrological Sciences, Imaggeo, Imaggeo on Mondays, Natural Hazards, Regular Features, Tectonics and Structural Geology No Comments Shimmering blue seas, rocky outcrops and lush green hills sides; this idyllic landscape is punctuated by a stark reminder that geohazards are all around us. Irene Pérez Cáceres, a PhD student at the University of Granada (Spain) explains the geomorphology behind this small scale landslide on the Asturian coastline. Landslide on the Cantabrian Sea. Credit: Irene Pérez Cáceres (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu) This picture was taken in May 2011 in the coast of Llanes (Asturias, Spain). I was living in Oviedo (Asturias, Spain) doing my Master in the structural geology of the Axial Zone of the Pyrenees. Thus, geomorphology and geohazards are not my specialty or area of expertise. However, the landslides are well known and studied in this region, and people from Asturias call them Argayos. This argayo is situated in Niembru Mountain, over the San Antolín beach, constantly affected by waves and swell of tides of the Cantabrian Sea, and continuous rain typical in the region. It was defined as a rotational landslide with two fracture surfaces, possibly conjugated in wedge shape. It is approximately 50 meters high and 60 meters width at its base. The slide volume is calculated at 45000 m3. It is carved in quartzite altered by the water rain infiltration through crevices in the surface. The initial displacement was between 10 and 15 meters in the scar. Experts say this landslide is still active, moving and evolving continuously. It is an imminent risk for the swimmers, but it is very difficult to control it, due to the size and the slope, and the technical requirements to stabilize the rock. On the other side of this mountain, further landslides are evident, as a result of the building of a road. These natural geomorphological processes are very common in the north of Spain, mainly in riverbeds, as well in other nearby beaches. The main causes are the abundant (and sometimes heavy) rainfall, the typically clay rich soils, steep slopes, building works that destabilize the slopes, and the absence of vegetation in some areas. They vary in in size and volume, and can sometimes have important material consequences and can pose a significant risk for the local inhabitants. The annual economic cost for repairing the damage caused by these processes is estimated to be 66 million of euros in this region. Studies carried out in the Department of Geology of the University of Oviedo (Mª José Domínguez and her group), indicate that 70% of the landslides in Asturias happen when it rains over 200 mm during over a period of a minimum of three days. Research has also been carried out to try and predict when landslides might happen, examining numerous landslides over the last 20 years approximately. It seems that one conditioning factor is the exact location of new buildings, being that ancient constructions used to be in secure zones, probably because people observed more minutely to the nature, but the new ones are more vulnerable. To conclude, detailed geological and geomorphological studies are always recommended to carry out before constructions. Thereby it is possible to minimise this common geohazard in Asturias. By Irene Pérez Cáceres, PhD Student, Granada University. If you pre-register for the 2015 General Assembly (Vienna, 12 – 17 April), you can take part in our annual photo competition! From 1 February up until 1 March, every participant pre-registered for the General Assembly can submit up three original photos and one moving image related to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences in competition for free registration to next year’s General Assembly! These can include fantastic field photos, a stunning shot of your favourite thin section, what you’ve captured out on holiday or under the electron microscope – if it’s geoscientific, it fits the bill. Find out more about how to take part at http://imaggeo.egu.eu/photo-contest/information/. Argayos Cantabria Coastline Hazard landslides Rainfall Spain By Laura Roberts-Artal Laura Roberts Artal is the Marketing Manager at PDS Ava (part of PDS Group) and Associate Director of Communications for Geology for Global Development. Laura was the Communications Officer at the European Geosciences Union from the summer of 2014 to the end of 2017. Laura is a geologist by training and holds a PhD in palaeomagnetism from the University of Liverpool. She tweets at @LauRob85. Imaggeo on Mondays: Isolated storm When mountains collapse… Geosciences Column: Landslide risk in a changing climate, and what that means for Europe’s roads GeoPolicy: Preventing mercury leakage from a WWII submarine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343606
__label__wiki	0.978295	0.978295	Tag Archives: Stewart Purvis Royal Television Society journalism award winners in full As Tony Burman predicted, the ‘news channel of the year’ award at last night’s Royal Television Society awards didn’t go to Al Jazeera. Instead, it went to the BBC – who did rather well on the night in several categories. Here’s the full list, with the judges’ comments: Young Journalist of the year: Hannah Thomas-Peter – Sky News “A combination of fantastic access and great insight has enabled our winner to help transform health coverage on Sky News.” Nominees: Joe Crowley – Inside Out BBC South / Kate Taunton – Channel 4 News ITN for Channel 4 News Nations and Regions Current Affairs: The Story of Michael Barnett – Inside Out BBC Yorkshire “A powerful programme with a sure touch…with the confidence to let the story tell itself.” Nominees: A Friend in Need – Focus ITV Meridian / Meat Hygiene – Week In Week Out Special BBC Wales Nations and Regions News Coverage: Weston Pier Fire – The West Tonight ITV West for ITV1 “… comprehensive, engaging and professionally presented. It had outstanding pictures and a real sense of an event which affected the whole community.” Nominees: Boris’s Deputy – Ray Lewis Investigation BBC London News / The Darwin Trial North East Tonight for ITV1 Scoop of the Year: HBOS/Lloyds TSB Merger BBC News Channel “… indeed ‘an extraordinary exclusive’ which heralded the extraordinary changes in the British banking system.” Nominees: China – The Moment the Earth Shook ITV News / Canoe Man – Gerard Tubb Sky News Presenter of the Year: Jon Snow – Channel 4 News ITN for Channel 4 News “…yet another superb year, whether it was in the studio – interrogating politicians and bankers – or out in the field – from the Middle East to the United States. One jury member said ‘he’s just brilliant. There’s nothing more to say.'” Nominees: Kay Burley – Sky News Sky News / Andrew Neil – BBC News News Coverage – Home: The British Banking Crisis BBC News “The winning entry started with a scoop of the first order and followed it with reportage and explanation of the highest quality. It was without doubt the story of the year and showed BBC News at its very best.” Nominees: Ipswich – Guilty ITV News / Heathrow Crash BBC News News Coverage – International: Congo Crisis ITN for Channel 4 News “Top class coverage of a consistently high standard… It was totally comprehensive, enterprising and managed brilliantly to use small individual stories to explain the bigger picture.” Nominees: China – The Earthquake ITV News / Conflict in the Caucasus – Newsnight BBC Newsnight for BBC Two News Channel of the Year: BBC News Channel “The winning news channeldelivered a fantastic series of scoops on the story of the year. It was a channel you had to watch to keep abreast of the breaking economic news.” Nominees: Al Jazeera English News Al Jazeera English News / Sky News Sky News Current Affairs – Home: Primark: On the Rack – Panorama BBC for BBC One “… not only an engaging watch but… thorough and also went the extra mile to lay bare the whole chain from refugee camp to the High Street rail.” Nominees: Omagh: What The Police Were Never Told – Panorama BBC for BBC One / The Secret Peacemaker BBC for BBC Two Current Affairs – International: Undercover in Tibet – Dispatches True Vision for Channel 4 Television “…a truly great current affairs film that sheds light on the future. Filmed just months before Tibet erupted into rioting, this extraordinarily brave programme, made at great personal risk and with much hardship, illuminated the tensions and troubles of the country, with powerful testimony and pictures.” Nominees: Britain’s Most Wanted – This World Mentorn Media for BBC for BBC Two / Iraq’s Lost Generation – Dispatches Hardcash for Channel 4 Television Innovative News: 10 Days to War – Newsnight BBC Newsnight for BBC Two “The winning series harnessed everything from drama documentary to a special website to re-examine events leading to the Iraq war in 2003. The jury saw this as a brave and successful venture to capture a new and younger audience.” Nominees: Unplugged Sky News / On The Frontline – Afghan Headcams ITV News Specialist Journalist of the Year: Robert Peston – BBC News “One journalist dominated this year’s specialist category. [He] owned the story of the Credit Crunch and its impact on the whole economy.” Nominees: Faisal Islam – Channel 4 News/ Channel 4 News at Noon ITN for Channel 4 News / Jason Farrell – Five News Sky News for Five News News Programme of the Year: BBC News at Ten BBC News for BBC One “In a vintage year for news output, this programme shone through. The jury felt it had led the way on a wide range of major stories and the experience and quality of its leading correspondents had simply been unmatched anywhere else. It had triumphed on the big story of the year but had supported that with first-class reporting throughout.” Nominees: Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky Sky News for Five News / News at Ten ITV News Camera Operator of the Year: Garwen McLuckie – Sky News Sky News “The winner’s work in Africa was fearless and showed a remarkable empathy for the problems faced by people across the continent. His story-telling was impressive and his work demonstrated immense personal bravery and the highest technical skills.” Nominees: Raul Gallego Abellan – Associated Press Television News Associated Press Television News / Stuart Webb – Channel 4 News ITN for Channel 4 News Television Journalist of the Year: Robert Peston – BBC News “The winning correspondent produced probably the most sustained run of scoops and exclusives in the history of broadcast news in the UK… It would not be an exaggeration to say that a large part of the nation hung on the winner’s words every night – he personally revived appointment-to-view.” Nominees: Martin Geissler – Africa Correspondent ITV News / Emma Hurd – Sky News Sky News Lifetime Achievement Award: Peter Wilkinson “This year’s winner is, for the first time, a cameraman. He is not a household name – but you will all recognise his work. Many of the defining moments of our era have been captured through his lens, and he is one of the true pioneers of his trade.” Judges Awards: Zimbabwe News Teams “[This year’s Judges’ Award] recognises and salutes the work of a disparate collection of journalists, cameramen, producers and others who work under the radar, who have helped the outside world to report and understand a major international story that would otherwise have remained largely hidden from view.” Gold Medal: Stewart Purvis “[The Gold Medal goes] to someone whose name may not be widely known by the public but who has influenced, directly or indirectly, virtually everything we’ve seen on screen tonight. He is, without doubt, one of the makers of modern television news. 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__label__wiki	0.766277	0.766277	Debate: Why Blue Labour is a dead end Adrian Pabst recently argued on this blog that Labour has become disconnected from blue-collar voters, with it’s rhetoric and policy appealing to an increasingly narrow segment of the population. He suggested that the ‘Blue Labour‘ movement offers a way forward to address this issue. Here, Ben Margulies responds with a counter to this argument, suggesting the way forward is not to be found in the Blue Labour idea, which he argues is a conservative and backward-looking agenda. Please note: A response by Adrian Pabst to this piece is available here. With the end of the recent Labour reshuffle, the party shows signs that it is returning to the wider debate about its electoral and demographic futures. On one side, there are the groups, once represented by Labour leadership contender Liz Kendall, who find Labour’s defeat in its failure to reach out to centrist voters, lost to the Conservatives. On the other hand, there are those who argue that Labour cannot win without offering a clear, left-wing alternative to the Conservatives, represented by the new leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Running slightly perpendicular to this broader debate is a project called “Blue Labour,” the subject of a recent post on this blog by Adrian Pabst, co-editor of the book Blue Labour: Forging a new politics. According to the associated website, Blue Labour “blends a ‘progressive’ commitment to greater economic equality with a more ‘conservative’ disposition emphasising personal loyalty, family, community and locality.” Put in terms of “cleavages” (as we academics do), it is left-wing on the socioeconomic divide, but socially conservative and collectivist. For me, this immediately brings to mind supporters of UKIP. As a Compass report in 2014 succinctly put it: “Whilst many UKIPers are socially conservative on issues like gay marriage, many stand well to the Left on socioeconomic issues.” Pabst goes into more detail about Blue Labour’s values and target audience. He criticises New Labour for their full-throated embrace of a neoliberalism that has impoverished and frayed working-class and lower-income communities across the United Kingdom. He charges Labour’s centralism and free-market leanings with eroding community organisations and unions. He attacks “Labour’s metro-liberal identity,” claiming it has alienated the old working class, “emergent service workers (bar staff, carers, call centre workers)” who want to start their own businesses and own their own homes. These voters detest the party’s “disdain for patriotism and its endorsement of a social allocation system which, as [Birkenhead MP Frank Field puts it, ‘favours the newcomer and the social misfit’ over the vast majority who contribute and play by the rules.” There’s no left-wing majority, Pabst says: votes for the Conservatives, UKIP and the DUP outnumbered those for Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru (which is technically true – 50.1 per cent to 47.4 percent on a 66.1 per cent turnout). Labour has no future according to Pabst, if these voters continue to see in Labour “the party of the liberal elites plus public sector workers and minorities.” Is ‘Blue Labour’ a dead end? (Featured image credit: Andrew Mason CC BY 2.0) I can see where Pabst is coming from. In the days of mass union membership, Labour was the party of the unions, and its cohesion around a social democratic platform meant it could encompass the socially conservative in its coalition. But the idea of Blue Labour doesn’t correctly outline what happened to these working-class communities, describe their traditional values correctly, nor acknowledge that Labour has tried to reach out to them several times, and failed Let’s start with the idea that Labour abandoned its working-class voters. Yes, it’s true that Labour embraced Thatcherism to a wide degree under Blair, and did nothing to resurrect the labouring communities of their historic past. But Labour did not author the decline of the British working classes; long-term economic change, the global rise of neoliberal economic thinking (especially around free trade and movement of capital), social fragmentation and Margaret Thatcher all played their role. These communities and their organisational capacities declined over decades. Pabst conflates these working-class voters with Kendall’s aspirational voters. In short, they are waged workers who want to accumulate capital and move into the middle class. This is a rather shaky claim. Working-class voters had strong communities precisely because they expected to hold a secure waged job in a waged industry throughout their working life, before passing them on to their children (or, at least, their sons). Former mining communities are depressed and angry precisely because they lack both the means and the inclination to be “aspirational” in the way Kendall wants – those values were Thatcher’s, not Old Labour’s. Arguing that New Labour, and the Miliband-era party, were somehow insensitive to social conservatism is also inaccurate. Tony Blair was “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime,” and had created more than 3,000 new criminal offences by 2006. His government cracked down on asylum-seekers. Miliband repeatedly offered controls on immigration (remember the mug? The Edstone?). It got Labour nowhere. Even the Conservatives have had little luck regaining socially conservative voters; it was Cameron who offered the holy grail of a referendum, only to see UKIP go from strength to strength. David Goodhart, a leading light of Blue Labour, talks about Labour “find[ing] a new set of leaders who connect culturally with the country it aspires to rule,” but without some sort of organic, organisational link to these communities, any “Blue Labour” initiative will fail completely. Most worrying is Pabst’s statement about Labour being the party of “the liberal elites plus public sector workers and minorities.” The first two categories would naturally encompass Labour’s existing middle-class support, which, as Jon Trickett noted, remained stable in 2015. Presumably, Labour wants to keep these voters. The comment about minorities is alarming for two reasons. Firstly, said minorities are a growing part of the population; no serious electoral strategist could dismiss them so lightly, whatever his or her thoughts about communitarianism. Secondly, praising working-class “communities” as separately from “minorities” creates an implicit assumption that one is somehow more genuinely Labour, or even genuinely British, than the other (It also ignores the fact that there are plenty of ethnic minority working-class people – the iconic Grunwick strike in 1976-1978 involved a mainly South Asian workforce). The similarities to UKIP, and right-wing populism, are obvious and very unattractive. Is that a path Labour really wants to embrace? Finally, Pabst makes two more errors, this time of omission. The first is his analysis of the electorate. He is correct that right-wing parties won a majority of votes. However, he did not mention that turnout was only 66.1 per cent. It was younger voters who did not turn out, and Labour’s score would have been much improved if they had, because Labour won those age groups. Blue Labour’s analysis shares the same blind spot as Kendall’s: it assumes the electorate that voted in 2015 is the only electorate, ignoring both the third of registered voters who abstained and the fact that the 2020 electorate will have new waves of young voters and fewer members of older working-class communities. Pabst forgets a cardinal fact of left-wing politics: high turnout is a good thing. Ask Justin Trudeau. The other error is among the most common in British politics. Pabst largely ignored Scotland, where a socially liberal, civic-nationalist movement dominates politics, and won that dominance by bulldozing the rotten structures of Scottish Labour. The Yes campaign were recording increasing support in working-class sections of Glasgow two years ago, and the SNP was gaining votes among trade unionists. So long as the SNP continues to dominate Scotland, any Labour resurgence will lead to Conservative scaremongering about a Labour-SNP coalition, and this, some studies suggest, will finally motivate those English working-class voters to vote – and they’ll vote Tory. Margaret Beckett’s recent post-mortem of Labour’s defeat also cites fear of the SNP as a cause. Should Labour try to reconnect with the white working class? Yes, ideally: they are as much in need of a social-democratic political project as they were when Clement Attlee led the Labour Party. But muddled social analyses won’t win English working-class voters back, much less Scottish. And pedalling soft-serve xenophobia won’t help Labour either; it will simply lose the “public-sector workers and minorities” it has now, and at the cost of its soul. The SNP, Trudeau and Obama show that the future of the left lies not in combining social democracy with the communities and values of the past, but those of the future, where we can achieve redistribution and social justice in the more challenging environment of the modern civic, multi-ethnic national community. Blue Labour can no more seize the future by hearkening back to the past than UKIP can, and it shouldn’t try. Follow the debate: This is the second piece in a series of articles on ‘Blue Labour’. The initial piece, ‘Blue Collar voters and the Left: Labour must reconnect with those it left behind’, can be found here. The critique of the article, which you have just read, has its own response which will be available tomorrow. Ben Margulies is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warwick. A frequent commentator on European politics, he obtained his PhD at the University of Essex in 2014. January 26th, 2016\|Ben Margulies, Featured, Party politics and elections, Uncategorized\|4 Comments Chrs Hall July 12, 2016 at 3:36 pm - Reply The problem with this is that it buys into the idea that any appeal to notions of solidarity, community or identity are necessarily backward looking. If you present it in those terms then it’s very easy to say ‘this is wrong, we need to look to the future rather than the past’. There is nothing intrinsic to those concepts that necessarily involve nostalgia for times gone by. Also, what’s the basis for suggesting that this type of politics involves ‘pedalling soft-serve xenophobia’? Is it because you think that the working class they want to connect with are xenophobic? Or is it that you think the types of policies entailed are potentially xenophobic? I’m not a supporter of Blue Labour or Pabst but I do think that some of the ideas are interesting. And it at least acknowledges a critical tension running through the Left. Playing the xenophobia card and saying ‘the young will save us’ is not really addressing the tension in the same way. Sydney Democracy NetworkARTICLE \| UK and EU both need major democratic reform to survive Brexit fallout - Sydney Democracy Network July 8, 2016 at 1:57 am - Reply […] some “blue labour” advocates have highlighted for a while the dangers of ignoring local community and identity, the […] UK and EU both need major democratic reform to survive Brexit fallout \| Em News July 7, 2016 at 9:21 pm - Reply David Rudland January 26, 2016 at 3:34 pm - Reply “It was younger voters who did not turn out, ” And the reasons for the abstentions is the same reason for the rise in the SNP support. Labour failed to motivate, invigorate, inspire. Rhetoric is cheap but the SNP offered and promised that New Jerusalem. So did Mr Corbyn and that is why tens of thousands joined the Labour Party. Disappointment in failure to deliver on those promises will finish the ambitions of both. The promises of both are a million miles away from the hopes & aspirations of North-west twee. It should not be a case of tory-lite thus I must dispute your analysis	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343608
__label__cc	0.649844	0.350156	Tag: US Now in Video: “Modeling the Flood Story: Midrash and Movie” Most Recent News April 24, 2015April 27, 2015 Revel News In Fall 2014, the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies partnered with Yeshiva College and the YU Museum in hosting “Modeling the Flood Story: Midrash and Movie,” an interdisciplinary symposium examining the biblical flood account and how the story has been read, interpreted, reconstructed – and modeled – through Midrash, medieval and modern texts, art, and film, with a particular focus on the 2014 Hollywood film Noah, directed by Darren Aronofsky. The Fifth Annual Revel Shabbaton Most Recent News March 24, 2015 Revel News The fifth annual Revel Shabbaton, which took place on March 13-14, 2015, parashat Vayaqhel-Pequdei/Parah in Washington Heights, surpassed all previous Revel shabbatonim. Thanks to the assiduous work of Revel alumni Mayer Juni (BRG 2014), Aliza Storchan (BRG 2014), and Yaelle Frohlich (BRG 2012), who planned, publicized, and organized the event, over 50 people signed up […] Revel MA Student Wins Teaching Award, Thanks Revel When Revel MA student Mrs. Beanah Greenberg learned that she would receive the Shevach ve-Hodaah Teacher’s Award at Shevach High School’s annual dinner, she knew who she had to thank. “I really feel that the award in great part belongs to you and wanted you to share in my achievements,”she wrote in a letter to her Revel professors. “As a result of the scholarship gained and the methodology that I learned at BRGS, my skills as a teacher of Tanakh on a High School level were immeasurably enhanced.” The Holocaust Averted: Conversation and Book Launch with Prof. Gurock The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and Yeshiva University Museum, in partnership with Rutgers University Press and the American Jewish Historical Society invite you to a nationally-televised conversation with Rabbi Mark Golub and Professor Jeffrey S. Gurock: SCHUSTERMAN FOUNDATION SUPPORTS YESHIVA UNIVERSITY STUDENT SERVICE CORPS ACTIVITIES IN US AND ISRAEL Press Release January 4, 2008 yunews 0 Comments First-Time Grant Empowers Larger Number of Students to Perform Hands-on Volunteer Work in Needy Communities AMODS Links US High School Students with Israel Via Live Video Hookup Most Recent News May 18, 2007 yunews 0 Comments When students from nine day schools and yeshivas in the United States joined thousands of others in Jerusalem on May 16 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its reunification, they may not have been there in person, but they were certainly “seen and heard,” says Nathan Kruman, associate director of the Association of Modern Orthodox Day Schools and Yeshiva High Schools (AMODS). High School Students From Across US Make a Difference in Their Communities Press Release March 28, 2006 yunews 0 Comments Seventy-five high school students from across the country recently attended a groundbreaking conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL on, Community: Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? The three-day leadership conference was a combination of discussion groups and activism training program that addressed the challenges of boundaries and gave the students tools to develop their own framework for a better understanding of their own communities. Human Rights Activist Samantha Power Discusses US Policy on Genocide in Age of Terror “Humanity has a propensity for evil and for bystanding,” Samantha Power said in the opening remarks of her lecture on “Can the United States Respond to Genocide in an Age of Terror?” Ms. Power argued that the US has done little in major cases of genocide in the 20th century and leadership has not been exerted to prevent genocide. Fifteenth Annual Yeshiva University National Model United Nations attracts High School Students from US and Canada Press Release January 15, 2005 yunews 0 Comments Hundreds of high school students from across North America will debate topics ranging from improving women’s healthcare to illicit weapons trade in the Balkan states at the 15th Annual Yeshiva University National Model United Nations (YUNMUN) conference, Feb. 6-8. 14th Annual YUNMUN Attracts High School Students From US and Canada – President Joel Will Address Students Press Release February 1, 2004 yunews 0 Comments Hundreds of high school students from across North America will debate the world’s fate at the 14th Annual Yeshiva University National Model United Nations (YUNMUN) conference, Feb. 8-10, at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello, NY.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343609
__label__wiki	0.70489	0.70489	(Redirected from Bloodlines) "Bloodlines TC for Blood" - YouTube Not to be confused with the fan website Blood Line "BloodLines was to be the most ambitious total conversion ever created for Blood. It still is, but it's far from what was intended. We have admitted that BloodLines will never be fully completed and have decided to release the TC "as is" with some retouching to make incomplete maps actually playable. I hope you'll enjoy playing it as much as we have enjoyed making it. Be aware though, that not all maps are what you would expect from a Blood level, it's not all bloody mayhem. Don't be disappointed if the TC doesn't fit your ideas about how a 3d-shooter should be, much of it is about atmosphere rather than action, you will benefit from approaching BloodLines with an open mind. This is the beta version of the first three episodes, including 13 maps, two new enemies and loads of new art and sound." --Necrosoft BloodLines (also spelt Blood Lines or Bloodlines) is a classic add-on project that was hosted by PlanetBlood. The add-on features Caleb interacting with a failed writer named Maximilian "Max" Dunkel, who attempts to commit suicide after never actually writing his much anticipated upcoming book. Before he can do it however, he is approached by a man in the black suit representing "Prospero Publishing", who hands him an eerie typewriter to finish the book. Grateful, Max asks him what he can do to repay him, and the man in the black suite asks him to do "one small thing" for him. It was one of the first major Blood add-ons to feature new multimedia assets, requiring the, at least temporary, overwriting of existing ones. This technique was later used in add-ons such as Bloody Pulp Fiction. The beta release featured thirteen levels spread over three episodes. 1 Necrosoft 2 Beta Release 2.1 Episode 1: Reality Bites 2.2 Episode 2: Perchance to Dream 2.3 Episode 3: Ashes to Ashes 3 Sin Campaign 4 Relaunch Necrosoft[edit] See Also: List of Bloodites The development team behind the project operated under the name Necrosoft, and contained many otherwise well known mappers. Matt Mann (aka DaMann) Felix Drott Alexandre Vancomerbeck (aka Hades) Craig Duckett BenMonkey StalkerX Joel "Reactor" and Kurt "Headhunter" Blackwell Link: The Asylum Beta Release[edit] "However, I've made a promise to release the first three episodes, and enough promises about release dates have been broken through the years, so here it is, the beta-version of BloodLines. It's up to you wether you want to play it now, or wether you want to wait for the final release three weeks from now including the fourth episode, the cutscenes explaining the story, and possibly a map or two more in the 1st to 3rd episodes as well. Maybe some of you feel that playing an unfinished version will ruin the enjoyment of the final version, or maybe the additions in the final release will make you want to play the TC all over again. The choice is yours." --News release Prior to this final release, a demo version was sent out on September 18, 1998 featuring "The Madhouse" by Alexandre Vancomerbeck (aka Hades). The beta release was announced on February 11, 2002. Episode 1: Reality Bites[edit] ble1l1: The Madhouse - Alexandre Vancomerbeck (aka Hades) ble1l2: Dark Cathedral - Craig L. Ducket ble1l3: Epidemic - Matt Mann (aka DaMann) ble1l4: Highway to Hell - Felix Drott ble1l5: The City on the Edge of Dreams - Michael Shire (aka Micho) Episode 2: Perchance to Dream[edit] ble2l1: Wide Awake in Dreamland - Alexandre Vancomerbeck (aka Hades) ble2l2: The Twilight Zone - Felix Drott ble2l3: Nightmare at 15fps - Felix Drott ble2l4: Gallery of Dreams - Felix Drott Episode 3: Ashes to Ashes[edit] ble3l1: The Morgue - Alexandre Vancomerbeck (aka Hades) ble3l2: Crime Scene - Matt Mann (aka DaMann) ble3l3: The River Styx - Alexandre Vancomerbeck (aka Hades) ble3l4: Cemetery of Souls Sin Campaign[edit] "BLOOD - SIN Campaign - SINC01 (The Plot Sickens)" (BlooditeKrypto) - YouTube A four level add-on that partially builds on from BloodLines by Matthew "Daedalus" Kallis, founder of The Postmortem and the Altar of Stone, as well as the later creator of Rage Against the Machine. Often stylized as "SIN Campaign", or "The SIN Campaign". SinC01: The Plot Sickens - for Plasma Pak SinC02: Hall of the Dreaming God - for Plasma Pak SinC03: Sky Rage - for BloodLines SinC04: Chateau Darkfrost - for BloodLines Link: http://www.blood.freeminded.de/index.php?section=maps&id=185 Threads: Transfusion Forums, Postmortem Forums Relaunch[edit] "In other news, the Bloodlines project I was a part of back then, we are now coming back to it and will be finishing up some of the unfinished maps, cutscenes, etc. and releasing it sooner than later :) All this BloodGDX stuff, finding all these cool TCs (what we called MODS back in the day), etc. coming out and being played... and finding youtube videos of kids and people who weren't even born yet or were youngin's when we made it, playing it... its pretty amazing stuff! I was just out searching for Reactor & Headhunter, letting them know we were coming back to this project and letting them know their amazing level was going to get posted out... finally... 17 years later!!" --Matt Mann (aka DaMann) First mentioned on January 20, 2018 and aiming to finish up the original version's unfinished assets, inspired by the release of BloodGDX and the playing of Blood fan add-ons on YouTube by people such as pagb666. Links: Thread - The Postmortem (Background), Thread - Blood Line, Thread - Duke4 "...From all the Blood addons I have played so far I would definitely rank "Bloodlines" really high. There are some levels in this episode, especially in ep.2, that you have definitely never seen in any Blood game, maybe not even in any with the Build engine. Atmospherically it's top notch. "The Twilight Zone" was so weird and disturbing it gave me goosebumps at times, and "Nightmare at 15fps" puts you right into an old black/white movie from the 20s without any sound, just the noise of the movie projector all the time. Absolutely insane. And then there's a level (don't remember the name right now) where you see the reflection of the houses in a pool, you dive into the water - and you can actually enter those reflections you saw at the surface. Brilliant." --NightFright http://www.planetblood.com/bloodlines/ https://www.quaddicted.com/files/idgames2/planetquake/planetblood/bloodlines/ http://www.bloodgame.ru/deepcoldgrave/add-ons/KillerBOB%20Interview.html http://bloodlines.questgate.net/ http://www.moddb.com/games/blood/addons/bloodlines-beta http://www.the-postmortem.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=993 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoxV-no_tlqyKX9lZanf1qrffGL4cYZT_ << Legends of the Iconoclast \| The Sect War >> Retrieved from "https://blood-wiki.org/index.php?title=BloodLines&oldid=46152"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343610
__label__cc	0.502516	0.497484	About The Blue & White Falcon Life The Blue and White “Senioritis” is real and thriving Sophia Kalakailo, Editor It’s the time of the year when seniors all around high schools are claiming to have a condition called “Senioritis.” Senioritis is a commonly used term around Farmington High School, but what exactly does it mean? “Sen... Varsity Volleyball team hosts Smackdown competition F7: Water Wars champs Anna Ledermann, Staff Writer Farmington High School’s Water Wars competition was in full speed from start to finish. Each team pays $60 to play, which was put in a pot totalling $1,350 that would go to the winning team. This year, the winning team was the ... Game, Set, Match: A look into the coaching styles of Tom Kay Gabi Mitchell chooses her future Which MCU superhero are you most like? Jayla Darden, Staff Writer Take this short and sweet quiz to determine which of the original 6 Avengers you are most like. How emotional are you in upsetting situations? (0-10 scale, 0 being not at all, 10 being a lot) a) 0-2 b) 2-4 c) 5... Exchange students experience life in the United States Anxiety runs rampant as FHS students prepare for AP exams Gender and Sexuality Alliance spreads awareness, acceptance Start of a new year and a new you Micayla Martin, Staff Writer On Dec. 31 of each year, I wait for the clock to strike twelve, to ring in the new year. When the ball drops and the countdown reaches zero, a wave of excitement comes over me, as I have survived another twelve months. Every ye... How to prepare for finals Joshua Segler, Staff Writer Everyone knows that a good night's sleep and a hearty breakfast are essential before taking finals, but as exams approach in these upcoming weeks, some may be surprised that there is much more to to preparing for them than just... The Student News Site of Farmington High School	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343611
__label__cc	0.663116	0.336884	Community & Conservation BLAS COMMUNITY & CONSERVATION PROJECTS Our aim is to conserve some of the most beautiful places in the world. We realise how deeply connected we are to each other and the earth – it belongs to all of us. Locally lead conservation efforts are needed all around the world to empower communities. It is our duty as a tour company to make sure communities benefit from nature and wilderness they help protect. It’s about helping communities become owners of their own tourism activities. Hwange Elephant Movement Study The overall aim of the project is to gain a better understanding of elephant movements and habitat use in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, where elephant density is particularly high. This will be achieved by studying the relative contribution of resources (water and food), social interactions (dominance hierarchies) and predation risk (by lions) to this key aspect of elephant ecology. Researcher: Arnold Tshipa It is essential that we learn more about elephant movements and habitat use in order to gain a better understanding of their impact on ecosystems. Previous studies have emphasised the role of water in constraining elephant ecology and habitat preferences are reasonably well understood. However, little is known about the ways in which elephant competition influences use of waterholes and habitat. This is critical in order to better understand and predict elephant dynamics, particularly in areas with high-density populations, such as Hwange National Park.Results from new studies in Hwange are revealing the constraints imposed by the scarce distribution of waterpans and the likely intense competition that elephants face when choosing where to drink or forage. These choices are likely to be affected by strong inter-group dominance which has previously been reported in elephants. The social influence on elephant movements and habitat use remains relatively unknown, with only Wittemyer et al recently showing that dominant herds in Samburu, Kenya, were able to monopolise the best foraging areas and walked less than subdominant ones. This issue needs to be clarified in order to understand how elephant movements and habitat use change when elephant density increases, and therefore competition increases too. Although it is likely to have a low impact on elephant demography, regular predation by lion may lead elephant to respond behaviourally (e.g. avoidance) to lion presence. It has been shown in other herbivores that anti-predator spatial responses may override any other drivers of movements or habitat use and this needs to be studied in elephant. The main objective is to determine how higher elephant densities and individual dominance status may influence how far from water elephants will go to forage, how this influences the quality of the patch in which they forage, and how easily they can access water. The following actions will be taken: Collar 10 elephant cows with GPS collars. Determine the dominance status of the study’s herds using field observation. Determine resource availability and quality by regularly monitoring water presence in pans and quality of foraging patches. Also, determine local elephant densities using censuses. Determine movement parameters and habitat use through elephant GPS-tracking data. Determine predation risk by using field observation of lion presence and possibly lion GPS-tracking data. Build comprehensive models of elephant movement and habitat use which integrate all the above-mentioned aspects (resources, dominance status, and predation risk) to disentangle their relative contributions. Namibia Desert Lion Conservation Project Namibia supports a unique population of desert-adapted lions that survive in the harsh Namib Desert. The “desert” lion is a prominent feature in Namibia and is highly valued, both aesthetically and financially, by the growing tourism industry. Namibia has received international recognition (e.g. CITES) for successful conservation efforts, such as the Communal Conservancy Programme, which has lead to significant increases in wildlife numbers, especially in the arid areas. With the growing wildlife populations, however, the conflict between lions and the local people has intensified as lions are killing livestock more regularly. In protection of their livestock, farmers often shoot, trap, or poison lions. These local communities bear the costs of living with lions, but do not share equally in the benefits from tourism, and they receive little assistance in managing conflicts. The value of the unique “desert” lions to tourism in the Kunene Region in particular, and to the Namibian tourism industry in general, is of great significance. However, for the long-term conservation of desert lions to succeed, there is a need to monitor their population ecology and to address human-lion conflicts. This long-term study therefore aims to learn more about this unique lion population and assist local communities with conflicts whenever and wherever they occur. This knowledge will help in the successful conservation of the species will benefit both the tourism industry and the local communities which generally bear the costs of living with these predators. Both lions and people will thus benefit from the project. Researcher: Dr Philip Stander Region: Namibia Organization: TOSCO Trust The Desert Lion Conservation Project was started by Dr Philip Stander in 1998. He worked for the Ministry of Environment and Tourism for 23 years, studying the ecology of large carnivores. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1994, and his thesis on the evolution of sociality in felids, was awarded the “T H Huxley Prize” by the London Zoological Society. He is considered the Namibian “lion expert,” especially when it comes to desert-adapted lions, which he has studied full time for the last 14 years. Collect baseline ecological data on the population dynamics, behaviour, and movements of lions. Monitor the key ecological and biological parameters of the desert lion population. Monitor the frequency and impact of conflicts between people and lions. Develop and implement human-lion conflict management plans at local community level. Develop and promote specialised “lion eco-safaris” and other forms of sustainable utilisation. Collaborate with Government, local communities, and NGOs to further lion conservation. Make important information available to the world, through publication and the Internet. Gondwana Eco Camp Gondwana Game Reserve (GGR) has developed a one of a kind conservation tourism experience for individuals, families or groups who want to get more involved in Africa on their safari. BLAS in partnership with GGR actively supports this noble initiative. Participants will be involved in wildlife and veld management, learn important bush skills and interpretation, and simply enjoy a behind the scenes view of a Big Five private game reserve. The research and findings from the program are fed back to Gondwana’s conservation department to assist in decision making enhancing the reserve management plan. The itinerary will include plenty of game drives, bush walks, and down time in an utterly inspiring landscape. This is your chance to get involved with the important conservation work of a Big Five game reserve and not only enjoy but contribute. 4 Kentford Close, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN4 0DB, United Kingdom 9900-E Grenbelt Road reservations@bushlifeafricasafaris.co.uk info@bushlifeafricasafaris.co.uk Online Booking Terms We are a fully inclusive and diverse sustainable safari tour operating company that prides itself in giving travellers clear-cut information on sustainable safari travel to the Southern African region. Find out more -> © 2020 Bushlife Africa Safaris. All Rights Reserved. Site by Jason Kruger	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343617
__label__cc	0.631726	0.368274	Christie Harkin Christie Harkin is the managing editor at Bitcoin Magazine. @cryptowords Bitcoin Hardware Wallet KeepKey Launches and Begins Shipping Privacy & Security › In a rare move in the Bitcoin space, KeepKey has simultaneously begun to take orders for and to ship their flagship bitcoin hardware wallet. As of Wednesday, customers are able to purchase the USB device for USD$239 on Amazon, or directly from the KeepKey website using bitcoin. Worldwide shipping is included in the cost. The KeepKey hardware wallet is designed to store and secure bitcoin while protecting them from virtual attacks such as malware and viruses. The device generates and stores bitcoin private keys, never sharing them with the connected computer. Another key feature is a large OLED screen that displays every transaction before it can be approved, thus allowing users to verify that they are sending funds to the correct address and reducing the chance of error. “Our guiding principle is to empower individuals and organizations with bank-grade bitcoin security,” says Darin Stanchfield, the founder of the company. “This is what our device does, and it is simple to use. Other products that are available require a high level of sophistication to operate. With KeepKey, it is very difficult to do the wrong thing,” KeepKey currently works with Google Chrome using the KeepKey Wallet Extension . It is also supported by popular bitcoin wallets, including Electrum and MultiBit . “Our security model was designed to ensure that the user always has complete control over their private keys,” said Ken Heutmaker, a software engineer at KeepKey. “We feel that relying on trusted third parties degrades the security and privacy that the bitcoin ecosystem offers.” As for KeepKey’s decision not to take pre-orders in order to fund the hardware wallet’s development, Stanchfield cites his own personal experience with being “burned” by other companies who have pre-sold items and then not been able to deliver. “A customer takes enough risk when they buy any product,” Stanchfield said to Bitcoin Magazine . “We don’t think they should assume the risk of funding manufacturing, too. We made this promise to ourselves early on in development of KeepKey. Fortunately, we have had the finances to pursue this route to get KeepKey to market.” #bitcoinKeys	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343620
__label__cc	0.597633	0.402367	Mihai Alisie Bitcoin Magazine is the realized vision of Mihai. From Issue #1, which was shipped from his living room in Romania, to today Bitcoin Magazine bears Mihai’s imprint. Bitcoin Magazine has grown as he has grown with the magazine. What started out as a team of people that didn’t have any experience in the publishing industry, is now distributing a physical magazine internationally and in Barnes & Noble bookstores across the US. Online we reach more than 100,000 readers. You should be at least as proud as us, if not prouder, of this achievement. New Film on the Digital Currency Bitcoin to Celebrate its Premiere in Berlin Press Releases › Press Release: New Film on the Digital Currency Bitcoin to Celebrate its Premiere in Berlin An animated short film that informs about the digital currency Bitcoin with typical German humour will be publicly presented in Berlin (Germany) on Thursday, September 6, at 7 PM Central European Time. The premiere’s venue is the Kreuzberg-based bar Room 77 at Graefestraße 77 – the only place in Germany (so far) where you can pay for your snacks and drinks in Bitcoin. Being part of the monthly meeting of the Berlin Bitcoin Community, the film’s producers will present their work and answer questions. “As a German company working for a global market, we have decided to play with our ‘German-ness’ and the stereotypes that come with it”, says Oliver Flaskämper from Bitcoin.de, the Bitcoin market place, which has commissioned the film. “The main characters — a rather moony scientist and his robot — speak English with a heavy German accent and treat things with German accuracy.” “We have produced the film with animators from India whom we met through our international film festival”, explains Aaron Koenig, MD of Bitfilm.com and the film’s director. “Through this connection we can offer high quality for a relatively modest budget. Of course we paid our Indian animators in Bitcoin: the wire transfer only took a few seconds and there were no fees involved.” Bitcoin is a digital, decentralised, peer-to-peer-based currency that works without a central bank and knows no inflation. Security is guaranteed by advanced cryptographic methods. Bitcoin is also a new global payment system, which enables its users to pay globally, for free and anonymously over the Internet, rendering banks, credit card companies and other middlemen obsolete. The market place Bitcoin Germany: http://www.bitcoin.de Press contact: Aaron Koenig (aaron@bitfilm.com) Filmpress release	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343621
__label__wiki	0.59913	0.59913	How many of you UK folk actually care about Manhunt 2 possibly getting a release? Having enjoyed to a moderate extent Rockstar’s original Daily Mail baiting stealth game, I am a tad curious about the current lack of fervor surrounding the possible release of Manhunt 2 after RockStar Games successfully appealed against the most recent refusal by the BBFC, to classify the game for release. When the original Manhunt was released, many gamers (including myself) believed it to be a succinct marriage of controversial subject matter with traditional gameplay (a Rockstar hallmark it has to be said). When the credits rolled up, I had enjoyed my time with the game but was not blown away by it, the ludicrous level of violence being little more than a novelty. Still, the snuff video premise of the game, combined with the gory execution style kills earned it not only a ticking off and subsequent vilification of the games industry by self-righteous liberals in the broadsheets, but also short term sales bans from specialist retailers such as GAME. This kind of negativity is not a foreign concept to gamers who enjoy games with a mature context and that case certainly will not change in the foreseeable future. Indeed RockStar, though outwardly grumbling at having their game being pulled off the shelves and slurred by the averagely idiotic broadsheet press, must have been delighted at all the free press that their new game was receiving. By publicly making something so taboo, it just fans the fire of human curiosity as more, and more people wanted to buy the game and see what is was all about – again violence being the primary hook for said curiosity. All that aside, and nearly three years on, we have the sequel – Manhunt 2. U.S Reviews have been unimpressive so far, finding an uncomfortable middle ground between poor and mediocre. This is largely the same game that we have played previously it would seem as it appears to be nearly as violent (the 17+ version that was granted an American release being cut down in the gore stakes) and still contains the same stealth-kill gameplay that we have grown accompanied to, both prior to and since the original’s release. So the question is, should any of us UK folk actually give a toss about this game? I couldn’t care less, regardless of which version we’re talking about (sorry, Wii motion control on this kind of game doesn’t do anything for me, but your mileage on that may vary) the game is still no better than it’s predecessor in gameplay terms but whereas the last game was techically unimpressive, the whole snuff-video idea was a novel hook at the time. Always bet on Duke? Duke Nukem Forever, a title infamous due to it’s seemingly indefinite stint in development hell, has now finally got itself a teaser trailer. Yep, you read that right. It’s been over six years since Duke Nukem Forever has had any video footage shown in any form. The oft-delayed and maligned title has gone through many different engine and conceptual changes since it’s announcement nearly ten years ago. The question is, with a possibly likely 2008 release looming, has this newest generation of gamers outgrown the Duke’s macho repitoire of insults, silly weaponary, sillier enemies and gaming paraodies? Well either way the trailer is here and looks… well see for yourself. I think it looks okay, but i’m not totally sold on the enemy designs (they look like the glossed plastic beasties from Doom 3 and Prey) and the engine itself doesn’t look terribly impressive either. But make up your own minds people 🙂 http://www.gametrailers.com/game/360.html E3 back in LA! After a disappointingly flat and somewhat soulless E3 this year, most people (myself included) had kinda hoped that the bright chaps who organised it last time (the ESA) would come to their senses and restore E3 to the fanboy pant-wetting spectale that it was in years gone by. Well for next years shindig, E3 finds itself back at home once more in the Los Angeles Convention Centre. However, before people get their hopes too high up, the ESA has still said that the event will be a smaller spectacle than before and the focus will once again be smaller organised presentations, as opposed to the huge blowouts that we all knew and loved prior to 2007. The bastards. I want my booth babes. =o) So about that new GTA IV trailer… Now that the trailer is up and the interweb has recovered from the bandwidth ass kicking it recieved, what do you all people actually think of it? My two cents: 1) Slowdown. Yes, it’s pretty much gone. Sure, we’re essentially treated to specifc sections of the game and it wouldnt be realistic to assume that the spectre of frame rate issues is completely gone, but at least what was shown, was shown to run smoothly and that cant be anything but a good thing. 2) Hand-to-Hand Combat: Apparently, Rockstar have gone to great lengths to really flesh out the melee combat system in GTA IV. While the trailer doesn’t really illustrate how far they have gotten with this, what is shown is a definte sort of weight and impact behind the encounters. Again, due to the shortness of these scenes its difficult to discern much else, but at least what was shown was a start to hopefully what will be a remake of a clunky fighting system. 3) The small details. Just the small stuff like the facial expressions on the characters when talking, the spinning of the wheels on the motorcycles, the improved particle effects on the explosions – all of them just make the world seem a lot more solid and intricate this time round. Seems like the delay until 2008 is going to be a good thing and certainly worth the wait if the improvements and changes continue apace. GTA IV – A trailer… for some box art? While we wait until early 2008 for Rockstar’s latest entry in their Jack Thompson provoking series, we get a third trailer for the game due on December 6th called ‘Move up, ladies’. Any more footage we get is a win at this point (purely just to see if they are sorting out the horrid framerate), however, the box art was recently announced and looks… just the same as every other box art for every other GTA game ever. They also made a trailer to ‘show off’ the box art. Pointless, or what? Linkage below for those who fancy wasting a minute or two: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28354.html Time to start the video game reviews…. Nice ‘n’ small like :) Review – Streets Of Rage 2 (XBLA) When Sega announced their ‘Vintage’ range of games for XBLA, many Xbox Live players were counting down the days until the best of Sega’s 90’s side scrolling series would make its way to them, especially having already been available for download on Nintendo’s own service months previously. Yes, Streets Of Rage 2 is here and in that fine rose tinted tradition is everything you thought it was, without surprising you in anyway shape or form. What we have here is a completely faithful Genesis/Megadrive port that replicates the Streets Of Rage 2 experience perfectly and as such, rekindles those fond memories of strolling along a street and nailing bad guys with different weapons and attacks. Just like you remember it, Streets Of Rage 2 is a whole dollop more fun when played with a friend in co-op and conversely, is also still just as pointless and bad in player versus player mode as it ever was. Being a side scrolling fighting game, Streets Of Rage 2 was never going to win any awards for longevity, but the co-op mode, multiple characters that play differently and difficulty modes certainly stretch the experience out a tad, and 400MS points for what you get is a good deal. Achievement wise, the game ranges from the banal (hit 10 guys with a pipe without dropping it) to the downright mind numbingly insane (get 800,000 points on the hardest difficulty starting with a single life), so don’t look for its uninspired achievements to have you coming back. Ultimately though, as with a great many retro releases, your mileage will vary depending on your love for the game as very little has been changed for this release. The only updates that this title has received are the mandatory online modes, which are hideously laggy in versus mode (a blessing) and pretty stable in co-op, leaderboards and of course the ‘enhanced graphics’ that each Sega Vintage release provides, by enhanced read blurry. So there you have it, fans of this old skool genre will find a good time here as the game is every bit exactly as it was. The usual XBLA features don’t really add much, and the achievements are pointless except to achievement farmers, but at 400MS points, you could do far worse and it is still a lot of fun. A change of heart…. Hmmm, its been nearly eleven months and here I am, making a post just before I go to bed. The reason? Simple. I dont want this blog to die. In fact, I want it to thrive and flourish, as I will be shortly adding not just anime reviews but also video game reviews too. (No seriously, watch it) ~JP	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343622
__label__cc	0.675994	0.324006	Hadley Rosengrant, Writer Mr. Congo and the Latin students attended the first annual AJCL (Alabama Junior Classical League) Fall Forum. It was hosted at University of Alabama by the Classics Department and the Senior Classical League. Bob Jones alumna Shandi Burrows is the founder and president of the Alabama chapter of SCL and spearheaded the Fall Forum. At the Forum, students attended lectures from university professors, played Certamen (Latin Quizbowl), participated in breakout boxes, impromptu art, and a service project. Burrows explained, “The main reason students should appreciate Latin is that it gives you a completely different perspective. Once you begin studying a language like Latin, your brain starts to solve many day-to-day problems as if you are translating another language: you have to pick apart each aspect of the sentence or situation, understand the reasoning behind each part, and also find a way to communicate it to the masses. This language and my studies have truly changed how I approach things and the mindset that I have going into certain situations.” Jocelyn Dieselberg won the MVP award in Certamen. Hunter Kay, Adam Mercier, Luke Pugh, & Joe Williams, and Ellie Cornet and Finn Walker successfully opened their breakout boxes. Dieselberg joked, “I like Certamen because it’s a lot of fun to compete in a more low-key and relaxed environment. Obviously it’s more fun if you win, but even if you don’t, it’s fun to laugh at yourself.” Ludum incipite Bob Jones! ajcl Hello! I'm a senior at Bob Jones who loves science, The Office, and writing (mostly satire). I'm planning on attending the University of Alabama at Birmingham... Spread Kindness on World Kindness Day	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343623
__label__wiki	0.803767	0.803767	Bi-Fold Door Blinds Blinds for Static Caravans Child Safety Blinds Motorised Blinds for Roof Lanterns Visage Blinds Vision Blinds Blind Designer Bloc Blinds custom designs make for good times August 3, 2014 /in Uncategorized /by Paul Pollard-Fraser By Scott Campbell 9:00PM BST 02 Aug 2014 While Bing Crosby may be dreaming of a white Christmas, Cormac Diamond’s list for Santa contains a somewhat different desire – to print mince pies on blinds. “You never know what a customer might want,” he says, laughing. Despite having no background in the lucrative window industry, Diamond, 36, a former mechanical engineer, set up Bloc Blinds five years ago, and business appears to be booming. After spotting a gap in the market during the credit crisis, he developed an interchangeable roller blind system – installable with just four screws – that lets customer easily change the fabric without having to remove the whole frame. It has proved so popular that when the Northern Irish company, based in Draperstown, County Londonderry, launched a Christmas-themed blind in December last year, customers were keen to buy. “It gave us the courage to invest in a printing machine so we can really go to town with new designs this year,” says Diamond. The company, which has 42 employees, is now planning to launch a service that lets customers design their own fabric. “If, for instance, you had green cushions, and wanted to match a blind to them, we can now easily replicate the exact colour rather than travelling the country to find a suitable fabric,” Diamond explains. “It’s a quirky thing, but in the past people would have ruled it out as being complete nonsense, purely from the cost of the fixture. “But now, with the advent of an interchangeable blind, you can cheaply print whatever you like, even ‘happy birthday’ blinds, and hang it up for a few hours then take it down again.” After being spotted at a trade show in Germany four years ago, Bloc Blinds has been selected by John Lewis as a category brand, meaning it will have dedicated areas in stores. But prospects have not always been so rosy. Bloc Blinds launched at the height of the credit crunch, when consumers were watching their spending. Amid the frequent redundancies of the financial crisis there was no shortage of workers available, but none of them had the right skills. “One major challenge we had was finding staff – there were lots of workers, but none of them were blind makers,” says Diamond. “A lot of people thought I was mad for starting a business at that point.” With training, the workers soon started production, but finding clients was an entirely different matter – Diamond hadn’t hired a sales team. Despite his relatively limited business experience, he visited prospective buyers alone with a suitcase full of samples. He says he regularly used gut instinct to make business decisions, and it paid off; once retailers saw the product and its potential and its uniqueness, they started to buy into it. “It was a steep learning curve,” he admits. Indeed, squeezed by the credit crunch, the company’s customers had been trying to improve their margins by buying cheaper products, but quickly realised that quality was more important to avoid complaints and returns. Fortunately, Bloc Blinds wasn’t overly affected by the financial doom and gloom hurting many British industries. Rather than getting capital from banks, most of the company’s funding instead came from family members. “It stood us in good stead. Every pound and every penny is still looked after,” explains Diamond. “When it’s from people you know and not a loan from a bank, you really have got a greater feel for the value of the money.” The constraint on funding meant that the company’s expansion was cautious, and largely funded from profits, which is still the case. “The ethos of the business is that it must be sustainable. We must take our growth seriously, and the expenditure involved in that must be well thought out,” he explains. “Those early years really taught us to know the value of money and investing our own money.” Within a year, Bloc Blinds moved from producing five blinds per week to 100. Now the company is planning to expand into the American market, where Diamond thinks that seasonal blinds – such as for Halloween, as well as Christmas – will be particularly popular. “It’s going to fit their market well. Our ethos will chime with the Americans, as we have a strong success story behind our products,” he says. Although the firm has meetings set up with two large US retailers, the stateside launch will primarily be on the internet so that it can target consumers directly – a strategy that is already working wonders in Europe. “The medium of the internet is perfect for us to get the product out to new markets.” In the UK, Bloc Blinds currently works with 500 independent retailers, a number that it plans to increase. However, Diamond plans to expand the number of trade partners during the next year, so that Bloc Blinds becomes a household name “available in every town and city across the UK”. He adds: “We would like to become the new Dyson. “They’ve got something unique – people associate the bagless vacuum cleaner with Dyson and that is what we want to do with interchangeable blinds.” Far from the days when finding skilled workers was the biggest challenge, now Diamond says that it’s managing the growth of the company. Bloc Blinds is in the process of amalgamating multiple production facilities into a single site, which he hopes will further spur growth as it moves into new markets. But Diamond has not lost touch with the company’s roots. “If you start off with a hands-on approach, it’s very difficult to get away from it,” he explains. Indeed, while the entrepreneur has had to reduce the time he spends on the factory – or house – floor, he says that sometimes “you just have to get your hands dirty”. “There’s nothing like going out and fitting blinds yourself to get a true feeling of what customers think,” he concludes. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/festival-of-business/11008484/Bloc-Blinds-custom-designs-make-for-good-times.html Tags: Bloc Blinds, buy, Cormac Diamond, Northern Irish https://blindswarrington.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/devablindslogo-2-2.png 0 0 Paul Pollard-Fraser https://blindswarrington.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/devablindslogo-2-2.png Paul Pollard-Fraser2014-08-03 11:36:102014-08-03 11:36:10Bloc Blinds custom designs make for good times Bloc blinds have done the maths. 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__label__cc	0.711946	0.288054	Clinical Nurse, Urgent Care (9139C) Clinical Nurse, Urgent Care (9139C)About Berkeley At the University of California, Berkeley, we are committed to creating a community that fosters equity of experience and opportunity, and ensures that students, faculty, and staff of all backgrounds feel safe, welcome and included. Our culture of openness, freedom and belonging make it a special place for students, faculty and staff. The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world's leading institutions of higher education, distinguished by its combination of internationally recognized academic and research excellence; the transformative opportunity it provides to a large and diverse student body; its public mission and commitment to equity and social justice; and its roots in the California experience, animated by such values as innovation, questioning the status quo, and respect for the environment and nature. Since its founding in 1868, Berkeley has fueled a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic and social value in California, the United States and the world. We are looking for equity-minded applicants who represent the full diversity of California and who demonstrate a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds present in our community. When you join the team at Berkeley, you can expect to be part of an inclusive, innovative and equity-focused community that approaches higher education as a matter of social justice that requires broad collaboration among faculty, staff, students and community partners. In deciding whether to apply for a position at Berkeley, you are strongly encouraged to consider whether your values align with our Guiding Values and Principles, our Principles of Community, and our Strategic Plan. Application Review Date The First Review Date for this job is: January 24, 2020 Departmental Overview UC Berkeley's University Health Services (UHS) is a fully accredited comprehensive university health service providing primary medical care, counseling and psychological services, and innovative health promotion programs for students, faculty and staff. UHS provides on-campus medical care and coordinates supplemental needs for off-campus care through a network of community specialists and hospitals. The Clinical Services Program within the UHS includes urgent care, primary care and specialty clinics, laboratory, pharmacy, physical therapy, radiology, and a major medical insurance plan. UHS provides service to students Monday through Friday from 8:00AM to 7:00PM and on weekends Approximately 65,000 visits occur annually including Primary Care, Urgent Care, Occupational Health and Specialty Clinics. Services are designed to enable students to get the most from their educational experience, minimizing the impact of illness, injury and emotional distress on their academic careers. Medical care and wellness programs for faculty and staff are designed to meet their occupational health needs and minimize lost work time. These visits generate ancillary encounters with the Radiology, Clinical Laboratory, Physical Therapy and Pharmacy departments. The Counseling and Psychological Services department sees an additional 15,000 visits per year. I. PATIENT CARE AND TRIAGE Using the nursing process develops, interprets, implements, evaluates and documents a plan of care for patients consistent with UHS policies, procedures and guidelines. Patient care may be provided in person, by telephone, and by electronic means. A. Employ triage techniques to identify existing or potential health problems (physiological and psychological) and formulate a plan of care. Establish a priority of care for patients and route patients appropriately. Demonstrates confidentiality, sensitivity and concern during all patient interactions. Recognize symptoms and diagnostic test results that deviate from normal. Follows through on abnormal findings in a timely manner, using appropriate resources. Consults appropriately with MD/NP or supervisor. Documents nursing assessments and interventions clearly, legibly, accurately, concisely, and consistently in accordance with UHS policy. Provides appropriate patient teaching, health education and related counseling. B. Provides direct patient care utilizing nursing skills and protocols. Initiates diagnostic tests as appropriate and according to applicable protocol. Administers medications and treatments. Assists in the preparation and treatment of patients. Takes medical histories, examines, assesses and counsels patients on basic health problems according to protocol, e.g. URI, allergy testing, pregnancy testing, etc. Provides case management, maintains tickler file(s) systems to assure continuity of care. C. Urgent Care, Allergy/Travel, Specialty Nurses must meet the specific focus Knowledge, Skills and Abilities of their units as outlined in attachments. The Clinical Nurse II job description includes the Clinic Advice Nurse Focus. II. ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES Demonstrates a positive, constructive attitude that facilitates achieving UHS goals and objectives. A. Adheres to principles of quality, customer oriented standards. Demonstrates professionalism, courtesy, and sensitivity in all interactions with patients and staff. Documents and refers administrative inquiries, patient complaints/concerns to appropriate supervisors. Knowledgeable of patient rights and responsibilities, rules of confidentiality and patient privacy. Maintains patient records appropriately including confidentiality, legibility and completeness of notes. This includes written and electronic records. B. Implements University and UHS policies and procedures. Knowledgeable of UHS departments, services, locations. Knowledgeable of operational, administrative, business, and personnel policies. a. Detailed knowledge of Clinical Services policies and procedures. C. Works collaboratively with Health Services staff following a team approach. Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability as health care practices and related technology change. III. LEADERSHIP/PROFESSIONAL GROWTH A. As a nursing professional demonstrates an ability to communicate knowledge both formally and informally. Anticipates educational needs of patients. a. Provides written resource materials. b. Documents instruction and patients' response to same. Collaborates with other disciplines in planning, developing, implementing and evaluating patient education materials. Participates in the orientation of new employees; may act as a preceptor providing instruction and guidance in a positive manner. B. Contributes to the improvement of nursing practice. Demonstrates and supports professionalism in nursing practice. Takes responsibility for own educational needs. Participates constructively in staff meetings. Participates in nursing committees and the development of nursing protocols. Assists in identifying nursing staff learning needs and issues in nursing practice, and may be asked to prepare materials to share with other nurses. Actively contributes to Quality Improvement activities. Facilitates team problem solving. Facilitates problem solving by the contribution of constructive concerns and/or ideas for improving efficiency and working relations. IV. WORK HABITS A. Organized and able to prioritize workload. Assures timely patient care. Contributes to productivity of unit. Maintains timely and effective communications and coordinates clinic and patient care functions with staff. Able to work under pressure calmly and efficiently. Maintains a clean and well organized work area. B. Knowledgeable in Health, Safety, and Emergency Preparedness policies and procedures. Knows emergency/disaster plan. Knows use and location of emergency equipment at a level appropriate to the assigned unit. a. Initiates basic CPR as needed. b. Initiates ACLS as appropriate to training and resources. C. Demonstrates understanding of and consistently follows Standard Precautions. Implements UHS Universal Precautions, Body Substance Isolation and Infection Control polices. D. Adheres to hours of work and payroll responsibilities. Demonstrates flexibility in work schedules and daily assignments. 3-5 years of experience in clinical nursing. Recent Emergency Room (ER)/Urgent Care experience. Ability to work independently. Knowledge of outpatient care and principles of telephone triage. Excellent communication skills and the ability to establish patient trust over the telephone and in person. Ability to obtain an adequate history. Knowledge of outpatient care and principles. Excellent assessment skills and the ability to recognize deviations from normal findings over the telephone and in person. Knowledge, skills, and ability to work with psychiatric related calls and drop-in visits. Ability to use auditory and body-language' cues to make an appropriate assessment and triage decision over the telephone and in-person. Working knowledge of Insurance plans especially the Student Health Insurance plan (SHIP). Working knowledge of existing resources, including use of designated consultants, to give appropriate advice, make an appropriate referral or Triage decision (such as In-House department referrals and outside referrals to local Emergency Rooms, Urgent Care Centers, shelters). Ability to work under pressure calmly, effectively, and efficiently, coping with variable workloads, intermittent delays and emotionally charged situations. Ability to document calls and drop-in visits appropriately, concisely, and clearly including patient identifying information, relevant history, assessment, and advice given including the disposition. Ability to assess normal versus abnormal laboratory, radiology, and outside test reports and make appropriate decisions based on those results and with appropriate consultation. Ability to assist patients and their clinicians with appropriate case-management situations that may involve assisting with referrals and follow-up consultations. Knowledge, skill, and ability to provide emergency intervention. Ability to anticipate patient flow and/or scheduling problems/conflicts and intervene affectively. Must have availabilityto work two weekend shifts per month during the academic year (Urgent Care is closed on weekends during academic breaks for winter and summer). Must have availability work some evening shifts which end at 7 P.M. Education/Training: Current and valid California State RN license. Current BLS Certification. Current ACLS Certification For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit: http://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/index.html Please submit your cover letter and resume as a single attachment when applying. Employment is contingent on successful completion of: Background Check, Acceptable Medical Evaluation that includes infectious disease surveillance and proof of current required vaccinations or immunity levels, and successful credentials verification (if applicable). This is a part time career appointment at 80% FTE (32 hours/ week) Employment is contingent upon passing a physical exam. Conviction History Background This is a designated position requiring fingerprinting and a background check due to the nature of the job responsibilities. Berkeley does hire people with conviction histories and reviews information received in the context of the job responsibilities. The University reserves the right to make employment contingent upon successful completion of the background check. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For more information about your rights as an applicant see: http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct To apply, visit https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=21&JobOpeningId=4754&PostingSeq=1 Copyright 2017 Jobelephant.com Inc. All rights reserved. Posted by the FREE value-added recruitment advertising agency jeid-0d8b9c4f9a9efc46ba100c7c465285d2 About University of California Berkeley The University of California was chartered in 1868 and its flagship campus - envisioned as a "City of Learning" - was established at Berkeley, on San Francisco Bay. Today the world's premier public university and a wellspring of innovation, UC Berkeley occupies a 1,232 acre campus with a sylvan 178-acre central core. From this home its academic community makes key contributions to the economic and social well-being of the Bay Area, California, and the nation.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343629
__label__wiki	0.618182	0.618182	Future Talent Campaign Employer supporting quotes Employer action on careers About CSSA Careers Alliance members CSSA tweets Collective leadership for high-quality careers support Tag Archives: work experience by Careers Alliance Leave a comment Recruiters take action to support #futuretalent The foreword to the Sutton Trust report ‘Advancing Ambitions’ highlights the positive impacts of high-quality career guidance in schools and colleges: improved attendance, better GCSE results and wiser university choices. But it also offers another more straightforward reason why we should have a high standard of career guidance in every school and college: not doing so places non-privileged young people at an even greater disadvantage in their ability to access the best opportunities. Access to education and career opportunities for all young people and improving social mobility are well known objectives in business and public policy. The challenges too are well known, with stakeholders across the education, skills and business communities actively involved in a wide range of initiatives to address the issues we have with helping all young people make better, more informed choices about their futures. Ahead of Professions Week (10-16 November 2014) this article reflects on employer involvement in careers support for young people and how essential a partnership approach is to securing #futuretalent for the UK’s competitiveness. Already in 2010 the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) convened a Youth Employment Taskforce led by Baroness Prosser OBE in light of employer concerns about youth unemployment. With a brief to consider what policy makers, employers and educators could do to help to get more young people into work at the height of the recession, the Taskforce recognised the important role that recruiters have to play given their understanding of the jobs market. The REC’s Youth Employment Charter provides a focal point to support its members who want to do more to help the next generation of talent. Four years on since its launch, REC members have helped over 20,000 young people. The four case examples below show what some recruiters are doing to develop the #futuretalent our economy needs. Pertemps Developed a dedicated programme called ‘Rising Stars’ to provide young people with experience in many different aspects of the business, with the desired outcome of creating tomorrow’s outstanding recruitment consultants. Visited schools, colleges and universities to offer one-to-one advice or host recruitment events to help young people with the knowledge for trying to find work. Firebird Training Ltd Worked actively with young people to offer personal coaching. Recruited interns and work experience students into the business on a regular basis. A division of the company (www.inspiredyouths.co.uk) runs programmes in schools to help young people find employment or set up their own business. SEL Resourcing Worked with the National Apprenticeship Service and the RICS to identify apprenticeships available in Surveying. Worked with the Chartered Surveyor Training Trust (CSTT) to identify whether the current apprenticeship framework is suitable for the surveying industry. Partnered with CSTT to establish relationships with local schools to develop apprenticeships in the process engineering sectors. The Plus Team Provided seminars to over 600 young people, primarily aimed at the NEET group to share insider tips and techniques to help them secure work quickly. Supported Welfare to Work providers at events. Topics cover on-line CV applications, how the recruitment parsing software works or how to prepare people to deliver successful interviews, including understanding the CBI score system. Recruiters clearly have a role to play in helping young people understand the job search process. The challenge for recruiters and the careers sector, schools and colleges is ensuring that these many positive actions are embedded as part of a well-planned careers programme in schools and colleges. The reality is that addressing youth unemployment and smoothing the education to employment transition for young people at a level of scale that is needed can only be achieved where all the actors involved understand the need for partnership working, recognise their distinctive and complementary contributions and ensure greater co-ordination of effort at a local level within a ‘national organising framework’. Hence the Careers Alliance has established a #futuretalent campaign to affirm that working together within a well-planned careers programme, employers and career professionals can provide far more effective help to young people than either could do on their own. We must act now as the bald truth is beyond comprehension – if the levels of youth unemployment remain unchanged over the next decade, it is estimated that the net cost to the Treasury will be approximately £28 billion (Source: Acevo). We invite employers and industry bodies to join the Careers Alliance #futuretalent campaign to ensure we achieve a significant step-change in how we prepare young people for the world of work. The #futuretalent campaign by the Careers Alliance is supported by over 50 large employers, professional bodies, Sector Skills Councils, and education organisations, including: Atkins, Capgemini, Deloitte, National Grid, Siemens, Wates; the Sutton Trust, the ACCA, the Bar Council, the Chartered Management Institute, the ICAEW; the EEF (the manufacturers organisation), the BVCA, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Federation for Industry Sector Skills & Standards, Creative & Cultural Skills; ManPowerGroup and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation amongst many others. The full list of #futuretalent supporters can be found here. The REC is the professional body for the UK’s £26 billion recruitment industry. With over 3,500 recruitment businesses in membership, it represents 80% of the industry by turnover. The REC aims to promote the positive contribution that high quality recruitment can make to UK plc. More information on the REC’s Youth Employment Taskforce and more case examples of how recruiters are helping young people can be found here. Professions Week is organised by Access to the Professions, a network of 19 professional bodies – the REC is one of the member organisations. Professions Week aims to increase awareness of the range and variety of potential employment options the professions have to offer young people, and encourages likeminded organisations to recruit people from a diverse range of disciplines and backgrounds. The list of professional bodies that are members of Access to the Professions includes: AAT, ACCA, ATT, CII, CIOT, Cilex, CIMA, CIPA, CIPD, CIPP, CIPS, CISI, CMI, IAB, ICAEW, IfL, ILM, PARN, REC. Categories: Careers Policy, Employers \| Tags: employers, recruiters, schools, social mobility, transition, work experience \| Permalink. What about jobs for the next generation? Never mind youth unemployment now, what about the next generation? A new report on youth unemployment titled ‘Precarious Futures’ by the UKCES confirms our concerns about labour market opportunities for future generations. TUC Secretary General, Frances O’Grady said recently that job prospects for many young people have deteriorated alarmingly. Although improving, we know that only one in four employers offer work experience placements to young people in education and just 15% of employers have or offer apprenticeships to young people. Structural changes in the labour market mean that young people are competing with older and more experienced workers, who have been forced to trade down for the lower and mid level jobs that young people would normally take. The Careers Alliance has launched a #futuretalent campaign backed by over 50 employers, professional bodies and education organisations, including Atkins, Capgemini, Deloitte, National Grid, Siemens, Wates, the ACCA, the Bar Council, the Chartered Management Institute, the ICAEW, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Federation for Industry Sector Skills & Standards, Creative & Cultural Skills, and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation amongst many others. It is not enough for employers to just offer more work opportunities for young people now. The Royal Academy of Engineering’s report on “Jobs and Growth” forecasts that the UK economy will require 830,000 professional scientists, engineers and technologists over the next decade alone. There is a long term skills issue that must be addressed by bringing education and training and the labour market closer together. This is why employers and the Careers Alliance are calling for collaborative action between professional careers advisers, employers and schools and colleges in providing careers advice and guidance to young people by: Highlighting the importance of careers education and guidance in schools and colleges. Framing employer contributions as part of professionally managed careers programmes and not as ad hoc initiatives. Affirming that, working together within a planned careers programme, employers and career professionals can provide far more effective help to young people than either could do on their own. The #futuretalent campaign challenges current Government policies by highlighting the importance of collaborative action in career guidance. This contrasts with the Government’s latest Statutory Guidance to schools which has emphasised contributions from employers and people in jobs to inspire and motivate young people in schools and colleges about the world of work, but makes little reference to the role of careers advisers, nor explains how such links between employers and schools and colleges can best be brokered. The Careers Alliance, which is made up of more than twenty of the country’s largest skills and education organisations, reports that the inputs from employers and careers advisers need to be integrated into well-planned careers programmes in schools. Commenting on the campaign, Dame Ruth Silver, Chair of the Careers Alliance, said: ‘There remains a disconnect between education and the world of work. Our joint call with employers shows that collaborative action is the best solution; employers say they can’t do it all on their own. Employers endorse this call by the Careers Alliance for partnership working to get careers guidance in schools and colleges right.’ Toby Peyton-Jones, Director of Human Resources at Siemens plc said: ‘Siemens would like to fully endorse the call for collaborative action by the Careers Sector Stakeholders Alliance by adding our support for driving structured and sustained collaboration between schools and employers in preparing young people for the world of work.’ Steve Holliday, CEO at National Grid said: ‘We know employers can play a more active role educating school children about the world of work. We would like to add our support to the Careers Alliance statement about improving the links between employers, schools and career advisory services to lead to better informed young people considering their career options.’ CSSA BN13A Employer Support for CSSA Statement What of jobs for the next generation? CSSA #futuretalent campaign Press Release 23-06-14 Categories: Briefing Notes, Careers Policy, Colleges, Employers, Schools \| Tags: career management skills, career professionals, careers education, colleges, employers, informed choices, schools, statutory duty, transition, UKCES, work experience \| Permalink. by Keith Herrmann 2 Comments CSSA Briefing Note 13A Employers say partnership working the only way to get careers guidance in schools and colleges right A joint statement by the Careers Alliance is published today with the support of a wide range of employers and sector bodies, including Atkins, Capgemini, Deloitte, National Grid, Siemens, Wates, the ACCA, the Bar Council, the Chartered Management Institute, the ICAEW, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Federation for Industry Sector Skills & Standards, Creative & Cultural Skills, and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation amongst many others. It calls for collaborative action between professional careers advisers, employers and schools and colleges in providing careers advice and guidance to young people by: Employers, professional bodies and Sector Skills Councils have challenged Government policies by supporting the Careers Alliance statement. This contrasts with the Government’s latest Statutory Guidance to schools which has emphasised contributions from employers and people in jobs to inspire and motivate young people in schools and colleges about the world of work, but makes little reference to the role of careers advisers, nor explains how such links between employers and schools and colleges can best be brokered. Getting the balance right beyond inspiration Professor Tony Watts, a leading international expert on career guidance said: ‘If employer contributions are to be effective, they require logistical support, curriculum space, and receptive schools and young people. They also need to be an integral part of well-planned careers programmes.’ Commenting on the Careers Alliance statement, Dr Tessa Stone, CEO of Brightside and Chair of the Bridge Group, said: ‘The employers we work with are actively engaged in working with schools and colleges. They value the role of professional careers advisers in managing careers education and guidance programmes within schools which incorporate and support the contributions of employers and people at work, so enhancing their value and ensuring their effectiveness.’ The Careers Alliance report concludes that employers (and people at work) and careers advisers both have distinctive and complementary contributions to make to the career development and career planning of young people. Working together, within a planned programme of careers education and guidance, they can provide far more effective help to young people than either could do on their own. Categories: Briefing Notes, Careers Policy, Colleges, Employers, Schools \| Tags: career management skills, career professionals, careers education, colleges, employers, informed choices, schools, transition, work experience \| Permalink. by Keith Herrmann Leave a comment CSSA Thinkpiece 2 High-quality Career Guidance for Enhancing Social Mobility: a submission to the Milburn Review of Social Mobility and Child Poverty The Coalition Government’s strategy on social mobility recognises the value and contribution of careers education and guidance. Aside from a role for government, it states that “we can all make a difference to raising aspirations and helping people to make informed choices about jobs and careers”. This submission sets out our concerns about the role of careers education, information, advice and guidance in improving social mobility. It summarises the key issues facing the careers sector in England, the role of careers professionals in helping people make informed choices, and the impact this has on the pathways and routes that are open to them. Social mobility needs to translate into opportunities for young people and adults, and resonates with the need to invest in technical and higher-level skills and to ensure pathways for lifelong learning and enhanced career adaptability8. For the purposes of brevity, however, the note focuses mainly on interventions for young people. Thinkpiece 2 Social Mobility and CEIAG Categories: Briefing Notes, Careers Policy, Colleges, Employers, Schools, Universities \| Tags: bridge to work, HE access, informed choices, Milburn Review, pupil premium, social mobility, transition, work experience \| Permalink. Key issues for career IAG provision in the Education Bill During the debate on the Education Bill in 2011 there was much discussion about the provisions on careers education, IAG and work-related learning. This short Thinkpiece captures some of the issues: assuring the quality of CEAIG provision; securing face-to-face guidance; transitions to employment; accountability for schools; appropriate resourcing for CEIAG Thinkpiece 1 Education Bill Objectives Categories: Briefing Notes, Careers Policy, Schools \| Tags: careers education, quality standards, schools, social mobility, statutory duty, transition, work experience \| Permalink. CSSA Briefing Note 8 The Government’s proposed new arrangements for careers education and guidance: what will they mean for employers? Employers have a strong interest in the quality of careers education and guidance in schools. The better-prepared young people are in terms of their career decision-making, the more work-ready they are likely to be. Employers have much to contribute to the quality of careers education and guidance programmes in schools, through providing work experience, talks, mentoring etc. Many employers work with schools and with career guidance professionals to help young people understand the world of work. Much is being done to harness such contributions. But employers recognise that the scope and effectiveness of such contributions is significantly dependent on the existence, accessibility, quality and extent of careers education and guidance programmes in schools. A recent report produced by Deloitte for the Education and Employers Taskforce has emphasised the role that employers play in schools, but that more must be done. We need to better harness the partnership working between employers, schools and careers advisers to shape government policy on careers education, information, advice and guidance. Briefing Note 8 Employer Engagement Categories: Briefing Notes, Careers Policy, Employers \| Tags: career professionals, careers education, employers, informed choices, National Careers Service, quality standards, work experience \| Permalink. Still time to book to attend the Careers 50/50 conference Free copies: Evaluating the impact of career management skills module and internship programme within a university business school Careers Policy Archives Select Month November 2014 June 2014 February 2014 December 2012 September 2012 October 2011 September 2011 June 2011 January 2011 November 2010	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343630
__label__cc	0.737157	0.262843	← CWW Pre-Thanksgiving Yoga and Writing Cleanse Christina Ruotolo, CWW Château de Verderonne Retreat Participant, featured in The Writer Magazine → Happy New Year 2015 from the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop!! Posted on January 2, 2015 by carriganak Happy New Year 2015 from the directors and staff of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop! We hope you’re all as excited for 2015 as we are! We’re planning a delightful, productive year for our writers and artists with plenty of opportunities to travel, write, practice yoga, and network, and we’re looking forward to seeing you at our retreats, workshops, readings, and literary fest events in 2015! The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop had a wonderful year in 2014. Over the last twelve months, we’ve had a chance to hold retreats and readings across America and the world, meet exciting writers, yoga practicioneers, and artists, and have found new ways to inspire our own writing. Our year began with the 2014 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Seattle, WA in February. At AWP 2014, we got a chance to announce our CREDO Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative Writing, promote our new literary internships, and discuss our Summer 2014 Château de Verderonne Yoga & Writing Retreat, and our AWP 2014 A Night at the Victrola Reading. At AWP 2014, CWW Directors, Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai signed copies of their books, Cracklers at Night and Parallel Sparrows, respectively. And our A Night at the Victrola, featuring readings from authors such as Rita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szokollyai, Peter Mountford, Anca Szilágyi, Nancy Jooyoun Kim, Pattabi Seshadri, Susan Parr, Johnny Horton, Talia Shalev, Leah Umansky, Dena Rash Guzman, Kevin Skiena, Jessica Day, and Carrie Kahler. Our AWP 2014 literary reading was even featured in Vanguard Seattle as a top AWP reading event. After AWP 2014, we were off to our annual writing and yoga retreat to the Château de Verderonne in Picardy, France. The event, which was featured in Poets and Writers and Quail Bell Magazine, was a chance for writers to spend two weeks in the French countryside, participating in writing workshops and craft of writing seminars, yoga classes, and culturally tours of Paris and Chantilly. We liveblogged the entire event as well, sharing dozens of photos from our trip while also allowing our writers to share their thoughts on the experience. Our New Yorker members also hosted an event as part of LitCrawl Manhattan in September 2014. Our Literary Masquerade featured readings of poetry, noir, science fiction, and original songs from Diana Norma Szokolyai, Rita Banerjee, Gregory Crosby, Elizabeth Devlin, Jonah Kruvant, and Nicole Colbert. We also hosted an annual Pre-Thanksgiving Yoga and Writing Cleanse in November 2014. The two day event kicked off with yoga lessons from Elissa Lewis, followed by fresh juice cleanses, and creative writing workshops and craft seminars from Diana Norma Szkolyai, Jessica Reidy, and Jonah Kruvant. Some of the creative writing classes included on the retreat included “The Art of Withholding,” “The Art of Revision” and “Sense of Smell, Memory, and Narrative.” Our Pre-Thanksgiving Yoga & Writing Cleanse was an opportunity for the participants to cleanse themselves mentally, spiritually, and creatively before the bustling holiday season, and was even featured in a piece in Quail Bell Magazine. In 2014, we also began work on CREDO Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative Writing. The collection will feature personal writer manifestos, essays on writing advice, and writing exercises to help spur creativity. Our staff has greatly enjoyed critiquing and conversing with writers on this publication, and more information about our featured writers will be announced shortly. In 2014, we also welcomed our first interns to the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, and these interns include the wonderful Alex Carrigan, Katy Miller, and Megan Tilley, all of whom have helped the CWW greatly this year. They’ve helped manage our social media and written up post about our events, critiqued and edited submissions for CREDO, shown their talent for graphic design and corresponding with writers and hosts in French, Spanish, and English, and have provided much valuable assistance on our retreats and literary events this year. We’re excited to have Alex, Katy, and Megan on our team, and we can’t wait to show you what they’ve helped us plan for 2015! This was also a good year for our individual staff members getting published. Quail Bell Magazine featured plenty of creative writing from our staffers, including Jessica Reidy’s essay on novel research in Paris, Norma and Rita’s Mis/Translation poems, Megan Tilley’s poem “Puddle,” and Alex Carrigan’s poem “When I First Saw Her.” Reidy also had a series of trauma poems featured in Luna Luna Magazine and Tilley was featured in Fictionvale. Szokolyai was also named one of twenty Romani authors you should be reading by VIDA and published in the anthology Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History. While 2014 proved to be a very exciting year for all of us, our staff is quite ready to move on to our next round of exciting events. The CWW will once again table at AWP in Minneapolis from April 8-11, 2015 You can find us at the AWP 2015 Bookfair at Table 954. We will also be planning an offsite reading, and more information about that will come as we get closer to the event. Join us April 2-5, 2015 for our first annual springtime Writing & Yoga Retreat in beautiful and gilded Newport, Rhode Island. Our Newport retreat offers the opportunity for writers of all genres and levels to work alongside award-winning authors & editors to hone their craft and expand their writing skills, while working on new or existing projects. Faculty includes internationally renowned author and writing coach Kathleen Spivack (fiction, poetry, nonfiction), Stephen Aubrey (playwriting, screenwriting), Diana Norma Szokolyai (poetry, nonfiction), Rita Banerjee (poetry, fiction), and Elissa Lewis (yoga, meditation). Registration closes on February 20, 2015 and spots are limited, so sign up on cww.submittable.com as soon as you can. The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Summer in Paris Writing Retreat will take place July 22-30, 2015 in France. The retreat offers participating writers of all genres and levels to work alongside award-winning authors and editors. Participating writers will hone their craft and expand their writing skills, while working on new or existing projects. There will also be time to explore the city of Paris in all of its historical, literary, and romantic charm. Situated in heart of Paris’ Montparnasse neighborhood, amongst the fresh and popular open air markets and charming boutiques, the hotel where we will stay is full of charm and our Moroccan themed classroom will offer a wonderful oasis to practice the writing life. Faculty includes internationally renowned author and writing coach Kathleen Spivack (poetry, fiction, nonfiction), David Shields (fiction, book-length essay), Diana Norma Szokolyai (poetry, nonfiction), Rita Banerjee (poetry, fiction), and Elissa Lewis (yoga, meditation). If you’d like to join us in Paris, please apply online at cww.submittable.com by May 5, 2015. And from August 3-10. 2015, join the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop on our summer writing retreat to the cultural oasis of Granada, Spain. Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Andalucía, Granada is one of the gems of Spain and has inspired writers from Washington Irving to Salman Rushdie to Ali Smith. Let the old city stimulate your writing with its winding streets, Moorish history, and evocative landscapes. Or, indulge in delicious Andalucían cuisine and traditional Arab baths. Work with world-renowned authors on your manuscript, or look to the beauty and warmth of Granada to inspire all-new projects. Faculty includes Rita Banerjee (poetry, fiction), Diana Norma Szokolyai (poetry, nonfiction), Jessica Reidy (fiction, poetry) and Elissa Lewis (yoga, meditation). If you’d like to join us in Granada, please apply online at cww.submittable.com by April 20, 2015. We hope you are all as excited for our 2015 events as we are. If you have any questions about our upcoming retreats, please view the pages linked above. If you have any questions we may not have answered, you can email us at info@cambridgewritersworkshop.org, and for inquiries, please email the CWW Directors, Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai, at directors@cambridgewritersworkshop.org. You can also follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter for more information and updates on any of these events. We look forward to making 2015 a year full of creativity, writing, and renewal, so join us as we make 2015 rock! – Alex Carrigan & Rita Banerjee This entry was tagged Alex Carrigan, Anca Szilagyi, Andalusia, Cambridge Writers' Workshop, Creative Writing Workshop, David Shields, Dena Rash Guzman, Diana Norma Szokolyai, Elissa Lewis, Elizabeth Devlin, France, Granada, Gregory Crosby, Jessica Day, Johnny Horton, Jonah Kruvant, Kathleen Spivack, Katy Miller, Kevin Skiena, Leah Umansky, Megan Tilley, Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New Year, Newport, Nicole Colbert, Paris, Pattabi Seshadri, Peter Mountford, retreat, Rhode Island, Rita Banerjee, Spain, Stephen Aubrey, Summer, Susan Parr, Talia Shalev, writing, yoga. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343638
__label__wiki	0.890275	0.890275	The (possible) future of baseball in Australia Carly Regehr \| Jul 13, 2015 3:11 pm \| Jun 27, 2018 8:32 pm Boasting both country and continent recognition, Australia is, essentially, a developing country in the category of sports. The national sports, Australian Rules Football and cricket, receive the most attention; while American football and basketball are gaining momentum with the natives, one sport with roots in American history is as non-existent as an oasis in the Uluru Mountains — baseball (of which 75 percent of the Australian Baseball League is owned by the MLB). Despite a recent call-off in college football’s match-up of Baylor and California, baseball lent a hand to Australia in 2014 by hosting the Dodgers and Diamondbacks. This marked the first Major League Baseball game since 1914, when the White Stockings faced the New York Giants in front of 10,000 fans at the historic Sydney Cricket Ground. In 2004, Australia’s national baseball team put itself on the radar by acquiring a silver medal in baseball play at the Olympics in Athens, Greece. The Aussies would post an overall Olympics win-loss record of 4-3 (scored 22 runs against the Netherlands) after losing in the finals to its second biggest rival, Cuba. Australia 1 Japan 0 Gold Medal Game Australia 2 Cuba 6 Australia was also represented in three World Baseball Classics, of which each performance, they failed to reach the second round. They would, however, briefly smell redemption in 2009 when offensive run support clocked in 17 runs versus Mexico. Pool D (Cracker Jack Stadium at Walt Disney Resorts) (L) vs. Italy 0-10 (L) vs. Venezuela 0-2 (L) vs. the Dominican Republic 4-6 Pool B (Mexico City) (W) vs. Mexico 17-7 (L) vs. Cuba 4-5 (L) vs. Mexico 1-16 Pool B (Taiwan) (L) vs. Chinese Taipei 1-4 (L) vs. Korea 0-6 (L) vs. the Netherlands 1-4 While baseball hasn’t even cracked the top 10 in “sports in Australia,” it’s been in a slight uphill revolution in producing 28 Australian-born major leaguers, most notably Grant Balfour. P Grant Balfour (New South Wales, 2001-present) 30-23 (W-L), 3.49 ERA, 539.2 IP, 571 K C Dave Nilsson (Queensland, 1992-98) 789 H, 105 HR, 470 RBI, .284 BA, .461 SLG P Peter Moylan (Western Australia, 2006-13) 21-9 (W-L), 2.80 ERA, 276 IP, 213 K Australian Baseball Lingo for Dummies (via ESPN) “Umpies” are the umpires “Wooshta” is for a player who strikes out swinging “Inshoot” refers to a curve ball that’s coming inside on a batter “Two dead” or “two missing” can refer to two outs “Bird dogs” are MLB scouts “Leave the rubbish” reminds a teammate not to swing at bad pitches “Down his throat” is a long, lazy fly ball to an outfielder who easily makes the catch “Hard on you!” refers to a close ball or strike call from the umpire At the conclusion of the Australian Baseball League’s 2014 season, the Adelaide Bite collected 32 wins and completed its season in first place out of six teams. 2014-15 ABL Final Standings 1. Adelaide Bite (32-16) 2. Perth Heat (28-20) 3. Sydney Blue Sox (22-24)) 4. Canberra Cavalry (22-24) 5. Brisbane Bandits (21-25) 6. Melbourne Aces (15-31) And being as its currently the winter solstice in Australia, baseball won’t resume until December. Can’t get enough of Campus Sports? Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to stay updated with the latest news and exclusive giveaways! *Featured Photo (above) credit to USA TODAY Sports Lifestyle,Sportsbaseball Carly RegehrCAMPUSSPORTS Writer – Big Ten – Big 12 – PAC 12 – SEC – ACC – Big-12 – Style – MMA	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343639
__label__cc	0.645133	0.354867	City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier Corcitura Deadmarsh Fey Reviews & Critical Praise: City of Lights Books In My Belfry ~ A Writer's Life For Me Tag Archives: press Posted by Melika Dannese Hick in Author Spotlight, Deadmarsh Fey, Missives, Updates aderyn wood, admiration, adult, aesop, afresh, Agatha Christie, age, aidan r walsh, Air Jaws, aldrea alien, alexa grave, alexander grant, alice in wonderland, alice sabo, Aliens, all my heart, all of my heart, all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us, alliance, allies, almost as if the weight of her years were pressing against me like a great mountain of corpses that would collapse onto me if I so much as looked at her the wrong way.” Gryffyn looked as though he w, alveric, always treated as a servant, amaze, amazed, amazing, Amazon, Amazon UK, amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, amreading, amy mcnulty, ancient evils, and destruction—a voice crafted of darkness and the death of worlds.” Flesh and bone and hearts unknown, and everyone, and has returned bearing tales of creatures called Jagged Ones that claim to be of the Fey and can somehow conceal themselves while standing in the full light of the moon. What they want with Lockie, and I enjoyed answering these questions so much. Many, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, and the Curse That Walks The Earth. And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, andrea domanski, anduril, andy peloquin, angel, angels, anglo-saxon, anguish, anne rice, annihilate, annihilation, Anniversary, anorffen, answer the call, antestheria, applause, aragorn, architect, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, ariadne's thread, arianrhod, arthur, arthur machen, arwen, as Laura phrased it, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.” “But that happened in a wilder age, ashley capes, assumption, asunder, august, Augustin Boroi, aunt betsy, australia, australian, australian shark chorus, authentic, author, Authors, autonomy, autumn, avatar, awestruck, ” Bellows shot in. “You’re not allowed in church!” The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?” “Says God!” Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.” “We make exc, ” Carver muttered. “I don’t know how else to explain this, ” Incendiu snarled. “They were all children, ” Roger argued. “Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, back from the dead, baggins, bagheera, bait, barber of seville, base motives, battlecry, beach, bear, beautiful, beginning, belkin, bellows, belong, beloved, below, bent, beowulf, best friend, best wishes, betrayal, better angels, beyond, beyond the forest, biased, bide, big, big boys, bill shakes, biologist, bird and baby, birth certificate, birthday, bite, black, black cats, black winged beast, blade and rose, blank wall, blazing, blind, blog, Blog Tour, blogger, bloggers, bloglovin, blogs, blood, blood and ashes, blood suckers, blood will drown the earth. 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I know what lives here, forest, forever, forever grateful, forever love, forever my love, forfeit, forged in flames, forgotten relics, forsaken kingdom, foundation, four novel, fox news, fragile nights, France, Franz Schubert, freaky, free, free reign, free will, freebie, freedom, freeing air, French, french flag, French wine, friday, friends, Friendship, frodo, frodo baggins, frustrating, fudge, full circle, fun, fundamental, Fuseli, fylgja, fyodor, gabriel michaelson, gaja j. kos, game of thrones, gamut, Gandalf, gandalf the grey, gardener, gargantuan, geist, genius, genres, george r. r. martin, german, german lieder, germanic, Germany, ghast, ghost electricity, ghosts, gift, giganitc, giveaway, gk chesterton, glamour of evil, glimpse, gloomy, glories, glorious, glory, gnomic, goal, God, godforsaken, goethe, gollum, good and evil, good gad, good vs evil, gooderads, goodread, Goodreads, Google, goose, goose is cooked, gothic, gothic novel, governess, grabs, Grand Tour, gravitas, great book, great god pan, great white, great white shark, Greece, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, green with envy, greenery, Gretchen am Spinnrade, grey beard, grey wolves, Greydanus, grim reaper, groaza, gryffyn, guardian spirit, guardians, guides, guillermo del toro, Guinness, gustav mahler, guv, guy fieri, gwendolyn pendraig, h p lovecraft, h. g. wells, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, hallmark, hallmark channel, halloween, hamilton, hamlet, hammer, hand-write, handily at hand, hannah sullivan, hansel and gretel, hard work, harmony, harsh, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, hasty, hate, haunted, haunting of hill house, havelock, having wild adventures with his cousin, hazard, he finds everything, he was The Bottomless, he who fights, heart, heartache, heartbeat, heartland, heaven, heaven and earth, hell comes to hogtown, help, henry corbin, henry fuseli, henry james, here be dragons, here there be dragons, hermit, hermitlife, hero, hero forged, heroes, heroism, high barrens, high fantasy, high school, higher self, higher selves, highland, hindsight, hinterland, historical fiction, historical romance, History, hobbit, hobbit size, hobbiton, hollow, home, home is behind, hope, hopes, hopes and dreams, horrifying, horror, horror herald, horrorfest, hosted, hosting, hot, Hotmail, house, hues, huge, hugh jackman, hugo vickers, hugo weaving, hugs, human beings, Humor, Hunger Games, hungers of life and all that matters, hunter, hybrid, hybrid vampires, i am death, i am fire, i am fire i am death, I shout, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. 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The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, leave, lee conley, legend, legendarium, legends, legends of elera voices, Leonora, Leonora Bianchetti, lepers, leroy nichols, les miserables, lesser, let off the lead, lethal, letter, liath luacra, library, lie, lieder eines fahrenden gesellen, lies, life, lifeline, light, light dawning, like the greater evil we faced later on, likeminded, lin manuel miranda, lineup, link, Links, lion the witch and the wardrobe, lips, lirazel, list, little dream, lives, Lockie, loggerheads, logistical, London, longing, longing for home, longings, lord byron, lord dunsany, lord of the rings, lords of asylum, lorri moulton, LOTR, lots of tears, Louisa May Alcott, Louvre, Love, love in one act, love of reading, Luc, luck, luminous, lunch, lux, Lux Aeterna, lynn's books, lyrics, m. s. olney, mabinogion, mabus, machen, mad skillz, maddie, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. There was chaos in it, Madelaine Bradburry, madness, magic, magic's betrayal, magician's nephew, magnificent, mahler, main character, majestic, malazan, malevolence, manipulation, Manon Larue, manor, many thanks to the fabulous (and sharktastic!) Laura M. Hughes for giving me this opportunity. I hope you will all enjoy reading about, marble, marianne ratcliffe, marilyn peake, marilyn vix, marine biologist, mark lawrence, marked, mashup, masquerading, master, master coffyn, masterclass, masterpiece, matt heppe, matt larkin, matthew thompson, maul, Maurice Charpentier, maxim, me, meagan hurst, meager, meaningful, meanings, meant to be, media, meg cowley, megan mackie, melancholy, melika, Melika Dannese Lux, Melika Lux, melokai, membrane, mental angels, merlin, message in a bottle, method, michael baker, michael r baker, michael sliter, middle-earth, mike morris, miles and flora, mimicked, mind, mind behind the mind, mind palace, miraculously, miranda, miranda honfleur, mirror writing, mirroring, moartea, moarteans, modern times, monikers, monocle, monty python, moon, moonlight roses and murder, moonstone, more things in heaven and earth, moria, morlocks, moroda, moss, most wonderful time of the year, mother, motherhood, motivation, mountain, Movies, mr. micawber, mr. murdstone, mug, Music, musical, my beloved, my calling, my dream, my life, my love, mystical, myth, mythology, myths, names, napkins, narnia, nature, nature of evil, nazri noor, nebulous, ned marcus, neither Deadmarsh the house, nerd, net galley, netflix, netgalley, never looked back, new, new interview, new picture, new release, New York, new zealand, news, nia rae, nicholas kotar, nicholas malebranche, night, nightmare, nightmarish, ninny, no looking back, no sparkling, nor Deadmarsh the family, norse, norse mythology, north york moors, northleach, norway, Nosferatu, not one foot! Why are you not afraid?” “Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows, notebook, notes, novel, novelist, novels, now, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, now face-to-fey, nudged, oblivion, obsessed, ocean, odds, of darkness, off his nut, offshore, oil slick, old salt, older, ominous, on borrowed luck, on location, one i love, opaque, opera, or the world.” “There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered. “Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, orange, orconomics, original, orion, orlok, oswald, other worlds, otherness, otherworld, out of nowhere, outlet, overwhelming, Oxford, pages, pale, palming the ace, pan, panic, panther, paper, Paperback, paranoia, paranoid, Paranormal, parc monceau, parents, Paris, Parisian, passionately, path, patrick leclerc, Paul Celan, pdf, peace, Penny Dreadful, penny dreadfuls, pepe the prawn, peppy, perfect day, performance, perilous, perilous realms, personal, perspective, perspicacious, peter jackson, peter quint, petrik leo, pews, phil parker, phil williams, philosopher, phoenix, phoenix descending, phrased, pianist, pict, picture, piece, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, pirates of the caribbean, pistachio, pit, place of slaughter, plausible deniability, play, plethora, plots, plowed, plumbing, poet, poetic edda, poetry, pointy hat, Polidori, politics, pool, pop culture, portraits, possessed, post, powers of music, prayer, pre-raphaelites, precious, preferably, premiered, press, prime time, primetime, professor fertig, project, projects, promo, promotion, prophecy, protagonist, pseudonym, psychological, publication, publicity, publishing, puckie, puddleglum, pumpkin, pun, pure magic, questions, quick-fire, quickfire, Quint, quites, quote, quotes, r. m. mulder, rafflecopter, ragna, random, ranger, rapture, rapturous, raskolnikov, rath, raucous, ravan thrall, raymond st. elmo, readers, reading, real, real name, realm of mindweavers, realms, reaper, recent reads, red sister, reddit, reflection, reflection of yourself, regret, reign, religion, renaissance, research, respect, reveal, revenge, Review, reviews, reward, rex, richard iii, richard lucas, richard writhen, riddled with fear, ring, rivalry, riveting novels of psychological suspense, roaring fire, roasted, robert shaw, robocopter ski patrol, rocks, roger, Roger cannot fathom, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, Roger Knightley, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the , rohirrim, roiling emotions, role playing, romance, romance novels set in historic France, Romania, Romanian, romantic fantasy, ronald tibu, room, rosalyn kelly, rosina, rossini, rotsby, round pegs, rove, rudyard kipling, ruination, ruled, rural, rural england, russell cullison, Russia, russian, ryan gosling, s. a. corey, s. c. flynn, s. k. randloph, sacrifice, sacrirfice, sadness, saga, sagas, sagas germanic, sale, salt, samara, samir, samwise gamgee, sanderson, sangue de vita, Sangue di Vita, sarah k. l. wilson, saucer, sauron, sausage, sausage sandwich, savagery, savoir faire, scarper, scary, scary vampires, scene, scene stealer, scenes, schadenfreude, schubert, science-fantasy, scotland, scream, scribd, scrubland, scythe, sea, Sea World, seal, seal island, sean astin, sean cunningham, seared, searing beauty, seasonal, seasonal reads, secret doorways, secrets, seized, selection, self publishing fantasy blog off, self-published fantasy blog off, semicolon, serenaded, Sergei, Sergei Rakmanovich, series, serious, servant of rage, seven hundred years, seventeen, sez, sez who, shadow magic, shadows, sham, shaq, shaquille o'neal, shark, shark attack, shark bite, shark chorus, shark elevator pitch, Shark Week, sharkbait oo-ha-HA!, sharking, sharkland, sharkland forever, Sharks, sharktastic, sheltering, shere khan, shield of kings, shifts, shire, shirley jackson, shiver, shores of the heart, shrieking, siblings, silence, silly, silver-tongued devil, singer, singing, sinisterly, sir frank dicksee, sister, sisters, site, sixteen, skill, skillz, skye, sneaky, snippet, snuffbox, snug, social media, solace lost, soldier, solidified, son, song, songs of insurrection, songs of the wayfarer, sonya m black, soprano, sorcerer's isle, sorcerous rivalry, Sorina Boroi, sorrow, soul, soul render, soul-restoring, soul-searching, soulmate, soulmates, souls, South Africa, space time continuum, special, special meaning, specials, spfbo, spfbo2018, spill, spinning silk, spiritual, spoiler, Spooky, spring, spring-heeled jack, square holes, squirrel, st. elmo's fire, standchen, startle, states, status quo, steal of a deal, steampunk, steer the ship, Stefan, Stefan Belododia, Stefan Ratliff, stephen spielberg, stephenie meyer, steve thomas, steven erikson, steven mckinnon, steven spielberg, stole his will, stone, storm wielder, story, story arcs, story reading, storytelling, storyweaving, stratosphere, struggle, stumbling block, stunning, sub-genres, success, suffered, summer, sunday, supernatural, supernatural thriller, superstition, support, suppressing, surf, surfer, surfer dude, susan hill, Suspense, suzanne rogerson, sviddheim, swathing, sweeney todd, sweet, swimmers, swimming, sydney, Sylvi, symphony of the wind, t j muir, T-Rex, t. cook, t. l. branson, Tags#AmWriting, Tags100, taiwan, Taken, taking care of, talk, talking animals, talking cat, talking cats, tall tales, TAPS, tears, techniques, teeth, temporary derangement, ten, terrifying, terror, that's what I'm tolkien about, the apples of idunn, the bastard from fairyland, the crown of stones, the crushed peak, the darkness within, the dead sagas, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, the end begins, the exercise of vital powers, the expanse, the family cat, the fantasy hive, The Fellowship of the Ring, the finder of the lucky devil, the first fear, the forbidden city, the game bird, the great hearts, the great restoration, the greatest showman, the hidden face, the hidden ones, the innocents, the ivy cottage, the king of elfland's daughter, the knight's order, the last whisperer, The Lord of the Rings, the lost sentinel, the manhunters song, The Marriage of Figaro, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, the most wonderful time of the year, the power of music, the red hourglass, the ring, the rose crown, the sangrook saga, the seeds of dissolution, the servants long gone. Kip, the silver chair, the song of the siren, the stars were right, the tainted crown, the tempest guild, the thousand scars, The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier, the turn of the screw, the very beginning, the white people and other weird stories, the Wolf, theatre, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, theophany, these vampires don't sparkle, This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, thorny, thousand scar, threatening, threats of sky and sea, three decades, three tons, three tons of him, thrilled, Thriller, throat, through a glass darkly, thunder the shadows are stirring, tibu, tidings, tiger lilly, tiller, time machine, timothy c doyle, tiny tim, Tolkien, tollers, Tollers and Jack, tom-tom, tome tender, too. 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When he invaded Everl’aria, Werewolf, werewolf transformation, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, what’s been slumbering for so long.” A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?” “I woke it up.” He blinked in surprise and was even more st, when the kingdom falls, whiskey and dragon fire, white death, white shark, Whitechapel, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow. And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, who might be the deadliest of them all. Racing against time, widget, wilder, Wilkie Collins, william c tracy, william ray, william shakespeare, wine, winners, winter, wip, wisdom, wish, witch, witch spelling, wizard, wolf, woman in white, womb, wonderful, wondrous, Wood, woods, work, worldview, worst enemy, worth fighting for, wraxhall, wreaker, wrenching, write what you dream, writer, writer's block, Writers, writing, writing life, writing method, writing process, YA, year, years, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, yes, yet the boy knows he needs all the help he can get if there is to be any hope of defeating not only the Dark Wreaker and his servants, yo ho yo ho a writer's life for me, york, Yorkshire, Young Adult, young author, young female author, young love, Young Protagonists, young writer, your home, YouTube Melika Dannese Hick has been an author since the age of fourteen and writes dream-sagas that incorporate a variety of different genres, including historical fiction, suspense, thrillers with a supernatural twist, and epic/dark fantasy. She is also a classically trained soprano/violinist/pianist, who holds a BA in Management from Saint Leo University and an MBA in Marketing from Regis University. If she had not decided to become a writer, Melika would have become a marine biologist, but after countless years spent watching Shark Week, she realized she is very attached to her arms and legs and would rather write sharks into her stories than get up close and personal with those toothy wonders. Melika and her husband, Julian, make their home in London, with occasional journeys into the Shire. To learn more about Melika, her books, and latest writing projects, please visit booksinmybelfry.com A Very Personal Interview + Book Giveaway Posted by Melika Dannese Hick in Author Spotlight, Deadmarsh Fey, Fun Stuff, Giveaway Announcement, Missives, News, Updates 13, 15, 18, 1888, 1890s, 1894, 1975, 19th century, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 24601, 30th anniversary, 40, 700, 8, a book addict's bookshelves, a fragment of life, a host of ills, a keeper's tale, a less enlightened time, a lot, a warden's purpose, a wizard should know better, a wizard's forge, a woodley, a. m. justice, a. m. rycroft, a. z. anthony, aaron c. cross, aaron hodge, aaron-michael hall, ache, adam watson, adaptations, added bonus, aderyn, aderyn wood, admiration, adult, aesop, afresh, Agatha Christie, age, aidan r walsh, Air Jaws, aldrea alien, alexa grave, alexander grant, alice in wonderland, alice sabo, Aliens, all my heart, all of my heart, all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us, alliance, allies, almost as if the weight of her years were pressing against me like a great mountain of corpses that would collapse onto me if I so much as looked at her the wrong way.” Gryffyn looked as though he w, alveric, always treated as a servant, amaze, amazed, amazing, Amazon, Amazon UK, amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, amreading, amy mcnulty, ancient evils, and destruction—a voice crafted of darkness and the death of worlds.” Flesh and bone and hearts unknown, and everyone, and has returned bearing tales of creatures called Jagged Ones that claim to be of the Fey and can somehow conceal themselves while standing in the full light of the moon. What they want with Lockie, and I enjoyed answering these questions so much. Many, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, and the Curse That Walks The Earth. And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, andrea domanski, anduril, andy peloquin, angel, angels, anglo-saxon, anguish, anne rice, annihilate, annihilation, Anniversary, anorffen, answer the call, antestheria, applause, aragorn, architect, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, ariadne's thread, arianrhod, arthur, arthur machen, arwen, as Laura phrased it, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.” “But that happened in a wilder age, ashley capes, assumption, asunder, august, Augustin Boroi, aunt betsy, australia, australian, australian shark chorus, authentic, author, Authors, autonomy, autumn, awestruck, ” Bellows shot in. “You’re not allowed in church!” The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?” “Says God!” Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.” “We make exc, ” Carver muttered. “I don’t know how else to explain this, ” Incendiu snarled. “They were all children, ” Roger argued. “Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, back from the dead, baggins, bagheera, bait, barber of seville, base motives, battlecry, beach, bear, beautiful, beginning, belkin, bellows, belong, beloved, below, bent, beowulf, best friend, best wishes, betrayal, better angels, beyond, beyond the forest, biased, bide, big, big boys, bill shakes, biologist, bird and baby, birth certificate, birthday, bite, black, black cats, black winged beast, blade and rose, blank wall, blazing, blind, blog, Blog Tour, blogger, bloggers, bloglovin, blogs, blood, blood and ashes, blood suckers, blood will drown the earth. And Roger and his entire family will fulfill the prophecy of fey’s older, blood wood, blood-soaked, bloodshed, bloom, blue prometheus, blue water, blue water white death, blues brothers, boarding school, boat, bombastic, bond, book, book addict, book feature, book giveaway, book nerd, book of mormon, booknerd, books, Books In My Belfry, booksinmybelfry.com, boom, boris kos, born vampire, boromir, Bottomless, boxer, brainstorming, bram stoker, brandon, bravo, brian o'sullivan, bride, brilliant, British, broke, brother, Brother?” the beast mocked. The dragon’s voice paralyzed Roger where he stood. Hearing it sapped his strength, brothers, brothers and sisters, brothers grimm, bruce, bubbly, business, bust, but a winged nightmare attempting to break free of its underground prison? Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal , but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, but as that interview is quite extensive, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, but I could feel her age, but Roger, but when Roger arrives, c. d. gallant-king, c. l. schneider, C. S. Lewis, cable tv, cage, caged, calling, canon, carnifex, caroling, carpet diem, carte blanche, Carver, cat, catharine glen, cathartic, catholic, cats, caverns, cctv, cede, celebration, celts, center stage, chance, changed. The grounds are unkempt, chaos, character classes, characters, Charles Dickens, charpentier, chesterton, chevrefoil, childhood, children, children of light, children of vampires, chilled, chime, china, chivalry, chocolate, chocolate chip, choppy, chris fallowes, chris fallows, chris weston, christened, christians, christina ochs, Christmas, christmas carols, christmas in august, christmas in july, christopher percy, chucked, chumming, church, cianien bloodstone, City of Lights, City of Lights by melika lux, city of lights: the trials and triumphs of ilyse charpentier, clarity, classic, classical, clicking, clues, cnn, coalition, Coffyn, collapse, comedic fantasy, Comedy, comic, comic book, community, composed, conceal, concentration, confessional, confusion, conquest, conservation, constant source of inspiration, Constantinos, constructive criticism, contemporary fantasy, contest, conventional wisdom, conversation, cooked, copies, copyright, coquette, corcitura, Corcitura feature, corpses, corruption, corruption of honor, cottage, count, count orlok, Count Rakmanovich, Count Sergei Rakmanovich, courtly love, coven queen, Cover, cozy, crackbrained, craig a price jr., craig aird, create, creative fiction, creepy, cries blood, crime and punishment, cross fire, cruelty, CS Lewis, curiosity, curse, cut, cutting his teeth, cutwater, cutwater island, d. h. dunn, d. p. prior, d. p. wolliscroft, daft, damned souls, dance hall, dance of romance, dancing in the dust, danger, dangerous, dannese, dark, dark ages, dark fantasy, dark lord, dark night of the soul, dark oak, dark of winter, dark one's mistress, dark side, dark tide, dark water, dark wreaker, darkblade assassin, darkling, darkness, dashing, daughter of atlas, David Copperfield, david gowey, david mullin, david oliver, david p macpherson, dawn of darkness, days of endless night, dead bride, dead shrimps, deadliest, Deadmarsh, Deadmarsh Fey, deadmarshes, deal, dean rencraft, death, death merchants, death of worlds, debbie taylor, deborah kerr, december, decision, dedication, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, deep, deeper, defeat, demand, demon, demon-haunted, demonic, demons, demons of the deep, denial, depth, depths, derangement, desire to weave stories, desolate, destiny, destruction, details, devastatingly brilliant, devil, devilry, devils, devin madson, devour, devourer of the world, dialogue, dianne bylo, die, dignity, dimensioner's revenge, diminish, Discovery Channel, disover, disposable, distraction, ditty, diva of the paris stage, diver's suit, divine, dk girl, dnf, dogs, doldrums, don't look back, donald trump, doom, dorothy dreyer, Dostoevsky, dostoyevsky, double blinds, Dracula, draculaesque, Dragon, dragon eye, dragon fate, dragon school, dragon shade, dragona rise of the wyverns, dragons, dramatically, dramatis personae, drandeur, dread, dread grandeur, dream, dream-sagas, dreamlike, dreams, dresses, driving force, drowning, druids, dude, dunedain, dungeoneers, dungeons and dragons, dunsany, duology, dwellers, dwellers of darkness, dwellers of darkness children of light, dyrk ashton, e. j. taylor, E. T., eagle and child, earth, Eastern Europe, ebb, ecstatically, eddas, ego, Eiffel Tower, elessar, elevator, elevator pitch, elmo, elvish, email, embellishments, emblematic, emerald dodge, emma stone, emotional, emotions, encourage, end song, enemies, enemy, engand, England, englishman, enlightened, enraptured, enrich, enveloped, envoys, epic, epic fantasy, epistolary, Eric Bradburry, erlkonig, erudite, ET, eternal night, Europe, European, evangeline, everl'aria, everyone, evidence, evie, evil, Excerpt, exhausted, exhilarated, exile, experience, exploitation, exploring, extraordinary, eye of arianrhod, eyes, Facebook, faces in the mist, facilitator, fade, faeries, fair and foul, fairy cakes, fairy tales, faith, fall, fallen, fallen age, fallen empire, fallen kingdom, false bay, family, fangs and fins, fantastic, fantastical, fantasy, fantasy hive, fantasy is escapist, fantasy novels, farewell and adieu, fascinated, fast typist, fate, Fated, fated to die, father, fathomless, Faust, favorite, fearies, fearless, feast, feast in the forest, feature, featured, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, feedback, feel, feelings, female author, female vampires, female werewolves, female writers, fey, fiction, Film, filming locations, films, Fin de siècle, Find Me, finding dory, finding home, finding nemo, fire's song, fire-breather, firecracker, fireplace, firing, first love, first novel, five, flesh, flesh and blood, flickering, flickering within that gigantic orb… “Why should I not know what he’s really called?” “Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever, flow, flowers, flying saucer, flying sharks, foe, Folies Bergère, food network, foodtv, foot, for his savagery had no end.” “I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, forest, forever, forever grateful, forever love, forever my love, forfeit, forged in flames, forgotten relics, forsaken kingdom, foundation, four novel, fox news, fragile nights, France, Franz Schubert, freaky, free, free reign, free will, freebie, freedom, freeing air, French, french flag, French wine, friday, friends, Friendship, frodo, frodo baggins, frustrating, fudge, full circle, fun, fundamental, Fuseli, fylgja, fyodor, gabriel michaelson, gaja j. kos, game of thrones, gamut, Gandalf, gandalf the grey, gardener, gargantuan, geist, genius, genres, george r. r. martin, german, german lieder, germanic, Germany, ghast, ghost electricity, ghosts, gift, giganitc, giveaway, gk chesterton, glamour of evil, glimpse, gloomy, glories, glorious, glory, gnomic, goal, God, godforsaken, goethe, gollum, good and evil, good gad, good vs evil, gooderads, goodread, Goodreads, Google, goose, goose is cooked, gothic, gothic novel, governess, grabs, Grand Tour, gravitas, great book, great god pan, great white, great white shark, Greece, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, green with envy, greenery, Gretchen am Spinnrade, grey beard, grey wolves, Greydanus, grim reaper, groaza, gryffyn, guardian spirit, guardians, guides, guillermo del toro, Guinness, gustav mahler, guv, guy fieri, gwendolyn pendraig, h p lovecraft, h. g. wells, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, hallmark, hallmark channel, halloween, hamilton, hamlet, hammer, hand-write, handily at hand, hannah sullivan, hansel and gretel, hard work, harmony, harsh, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. 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I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey. Best wishes, ian gregoire, Ian McCarthy, ian mckellan, ian mckellen, iceland, iconic, idea, ignite, ill tiding, illegal, illegible, ilyse, Ilyse Charpentier, imaginal, imaginal realm, imagination, imbued, impact, impacted, imprisoned, in tune, in which a dashing Englishman woos mademoiselle Charpentier, in-depth, incendiu, incorporate, incredible hulk, indecisive, Indie, infected, infinity, infused, inkling, inklings, inner lives, inorganic, insatiable, insights, inspiration, inspirations, inspired, instill, insurmountable, integrity, intense, interjections, internet, Interview, invite, iron fey, iron reveals, irrevocably, irv, isobel, isobel vickers, Italian, Italy, itinerant writing, ivan turgenev, j. a. alexsoo, j. d. hallowell, j. e. mueller, j. elizabeth vincent, J. R. R. 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The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, leave, lee conley, legend, legendarium, legends, legends of elera voices, Leonora, Leonora Bianchetti, lepers, leroy nichols, les miserables, lesser, let off the lead, lethal, letter, liath luacra, library, lie, lieder eines fahrenden gesellen, lies, life, lifeline, light, light dawning, like the greater evil we faced later on, likeminded, lin manuel miranda, lineup, link, Links, lion the witch and the wardrobe, lips, lirazel, list, little dream, lives, Lockie, loggerheads, logistical, London, longing, longing for home, longings, lord byron, lord dunsany, lord of the rings, lords of asylum, lorri moulton, LOTR, lots of tears, Louisa May Alcott, Louvre, Love, love in one act, love of reading, Luc, luck, luminous, lunch, lux, Lux Aeterna, lynn's books, lyrics, m. s. olney, mabinogion, mabus, machen, mad skillz, maddie, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. 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Why are you not afraid?” “Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows, notebook, notes, novel, novelist, novels, now, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, now face-to-fey, nudged, oblivion, obsessed, ocean, odds, of darkness, off his nut, offshore, oil slick, old salt, older, ominous, on borrowed luck, on location, one i love, opaque, opera, or the world.” “There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered. “Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, orange, orconomics, original, orion, orlok, oswald, other worlds, otherness, otherworld, out of nowhere, outlet, overwhelming, Oxford, pages, pale, palming the ace, pan, panic, panther, paper, Paperback, paranoia, paranoid, Paranormal, parc monceau, parents, Paris, Parisian, passionately, path, patrick leclerc, Paul Celan, pdf, peace, Penny Dreadful, penny dreadfuls, pepe the prawn, peppy, perfect day, performance, perilous, perilous realms, personal, perspective, perspicacious, peter jackson, peter quint, petrik leo, pews, phil parker, phil williams, philosopher, phoenix, phoenix descending, phrased, pianist, pict, piece, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, pirates of the caribbean, pistachio, pit, place of slaughter, plausible deniability, play, plethora, plots, plowed, plumbing, poet, poetic edda, poetry, pointy hat, Polidori, politics, pool, pop culture, portraits, possessed, post, powers of music, prayer, pre-raphaelites, precious, preferably, premiered, press, prime time, primetime, professor fertig, project, projects, promo, promotion, prophecy, protagonist, pseudonym, psychological, publication, publicity, publishing, puckie, puddleglum, pumpkin, pun, pure magic, questions, quick-fire, quickfire, Quint, quites, quote, quotes, r. m. mulder, rafflecopter, ragna, random, ranger, rapture, rapturous, raskolnikov, rath, raucous, ravan thrall, raymond st. elmo, readers, reading, real, real name, realm of mindweavers, realms, reaper, recent reads, red sister, reddit, reflection, reflection of yourself, regret, reign, religion, renaissance, research, respect, reveal, revenge, Review, reviews, reward, rex, richard iii, richard lucas, richard writhen, riddled with fear, ring, rivalry, riveting novels of psychological suspense, roaring fire, roasted, robert shaw, robocopter ski patrol, rocks, roger, Roger cannot fathom, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, Roger Knightley, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. 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This year should have been no different, the end begins, the exercise of vital powers, the expanse, the family cat, the fantasy hive, The Fellowship of the Ring, the finder of the lucky devil, the first fear, the forbidden city, the game bird, the great hearts, the great restoration, the greatest showman, the hidden face, the hidden ones, the innocents, the ivy cottage, the king of elfland's daughter, the knight's order, the last whisperer, The Lord of the Rings, the lost sentinel, the manhunters song, The Marriage of Figaro, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, the most wonderful time of the year, the power of music, the red hourglass, the ring, the rose crown, the sangrook saga, the seeds of dissolution, the servants long gone. 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When he invaded Everl’aria, Werewolf, werewolf transformation, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, what’s been slumbering for so long.” A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?” “I woke it up.” He blinked in surprise and was even more st, when the kingdom falls, whiskey and dragon fire, white death, white shark, Whitechapel, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow. And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, who might be the deadliest of them all. Racing against time, widget, wilder, Wilkie Collins, william c tracy, william ray, william shakespeare, wine, winners, winter, wip, wisdom, wish, witch, witch spelling, wizard, wolf, woman in white, womb, wonderful, wondrous, Wood, woods, work, worldview, worst enemy, worth fighting for, wraxhall, wreaker, wrenching, write what you dream, writer, writer's block, Writers, writing, writing life, writing method, writing process, YA, year, years, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, yes, yet the boy knows he needs all the help he can get if there is to be any hope of defeating not only the Dark Wreaker and his servants, yo ho yo ho a writer's life for me, york, Yorkshire, Young Adult, young author, young female author, young love, Young Protagonists, young writer, your home, YouTube, ziroonderel Hi Everyone, ~Melika “This beast Today, I’m sharing with you the most intensely personal interview I have ever done. When I was first sent these questions, I never thought answering them would help me make peace with feelings I’d been unconsciously suppressing for many years, but I am so thankful that this was the case. I’ve learned a lot about myself over the last few days because of this, days that have been painful yet necessary for me to heal in many areas of my life and find joy again where before there was nothing but sadness and confusion. And speaking of joy…this interview has given me, truly, for the very first time, a venue to share my feelings with you all about the amazing man, my beloved soulmate, who has changed my life in so many glorious and magnificent ways since we’ve been together. I hope you enjoy not only reading about him, but also about a few important books that have touched my heart, some of my inspirations, including one legendary panther, and many other things, both serious and silly! I’d like to take a moment to say a special thank you to Jean, of Jean The Book Nerd. You couldn’t have known how these questions would affect me when you sent them along, Jean, but I will be forever grateful that you did, and also for how kind, caring, understanding, and wonderfully generous you’ve been to me throughout this entire process. Thank you so much!!! hugs Additionally, Jean is hosting a giveaway of not only Deadmarsh Fey, but also my supernatural thriller, Corcitura. You can enter for a chance to win a Kindle copy of each novel by clicking here. And now, without any further delay, onto the interview… What was the single worst distraction that kept you from writing this book? It wasn’t a distraction, but taking a wrong storytelling direction kept me from writing Deadmarsh Fey for an entire year. 2013 was spent working on what would become the fourth book in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light (the series Deadmarsh Fey launched), only I didn’t know this at the time, which was why writing this book out of sequence felt very wrong, not to mention terribly frustrating. There were things happening in this novel that I had no explanation for, and an untold history of how this world my characters found themselves imprisoned in had come to be. When my mind cleared enough for me to be able to envision the trajectory Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light, needed to take, I realized that these stories—begun as prequels to a fantasy series I’d started writing in 2003, a series in which some characters from Deadmarsh Fey were my main adult protagonists—had taken on lives of their own, and were now demanding to be told, and unless I gave in, I’d never be able to understand what had affected the characters in those original books so strongly when they were children, and molded them into the adults they became. And then the Dark Wreaker burst onto the scene, with a horde of devils in his wake, and changed everything. Even though the experience I underwent in 2013 was incredibly frustrating, I do not regret the time I spent working on that fourth book. What was written in it (and the novel is fully written, though it will alter dramatically when all is said and done) laid the foundation for nearly every myth and legend—even inspiring a number of significant events in Deadmarsh Fey—that I would have never known how to interweave throughout the series if I hadn’t written that fourth book first. Has reading a book ever changed your life? Which one and why, if yes? Yes, Crime and Punishment, when I was seventeen. I had always enjoyed reading, but it wasn’t till I lost myself in this masterpiece that it truly became a passion—and opened up avenues I never would have considered traveling down, nor had the courage to do so, till I made the acquaintance of this book. The masterful way Dostoyevsky painted with words astounded me. I was absorbed by the rich psychological portraits he was able to delineate with a few strokes of the pen, and all the force of his imagination. Since then, only this year, in fact, thanks to my beloved, I have been exposed to other writers who remind me of him, most notably Knut Hamsun and, very recently, Ivan Turgenev, both of whom have that same lyrical touch, an equal genius for capturing the essence of a human soul and sketching it into life upon the page. Though the canvasses they painted their visions upon are much smaller, their portraits are no less penetrating and brilliant. And yet, while Crime and Punishment was over 700 pages, I remember wishing it had been longer, and I missed the characters, even Raskolnikov—whom I had intense sympathy for, which just shows how adept at evoking pathos and emotion Dostoyevsky was, getting me to feel compassion for a man who had done such terrible things—when my time with them in 19th century Russia was over. Much like my experience reading David Copperfield five years before, it was as though I’d lived alongside these characters, suffered with them, endured their trials, even felt the panic of the net closing in around one character in particular… My emotions ran the gamut; I was inspired, exhausted yet exhilarated, and found myself with an insatiable longing to create that only writing could fulfill. I don’t believe in coincidences, and know it was no accident I read this book on the heels of a paradigm-shifting moment in my life—and that it proved to be the final push in the right direction I needed. From a very young age, I’d wanted to be a marine biologist, even though I always seemed to be scribbling down stories on whatever scraps of paper—sometimes napkins and tissues, honestly—were near at hand, and began working on my first novel when I was fourteen. To me, writing has forever been and will forever be a key that unlocks hidden doorways into other worlds, and I felt I was being called to dedicate my life to exploring these universes of the imaginal realm—and making them my own. Yet it wasn’t until the winter of 2001 (a few months before reading Crime and Punishment), as I sat in a darkened theatre, enthralled and enraptured by my first glimpse of Middle-Earth, that light shone onto the path I was meant to take. I owe this illumination to Gandalf and the words of wisdom he spoke to Frodo in the caverns of Moria, when hope was at its lowest ebb: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” In my heart, in that moment, I knew what I was being asked to decide. And so I made my choice—never looked back. Writing a book is an intense, often quite solitary, endeavor. While you are lost in the creation of it, and especially when the work is done, you can’t help wondering, with a mix of hope and dread, if anyone will love the book as much as you do. Yet once the story has been released into the world, it ceases to be yours alone, and you must, however wrenching it might be, let the characters—and this tale you’ve poured your being into—fend for themselves. As the poet Paul Celan once said, “a poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense, too, are under way: they are making toward something.” Should this not be what every writer, whether of poetry or novels, strives for? This concept of the “heartland” affected me deeply when my beloved shared it with me a few months ago, because Celan’s words crystalized what I’d always felt. With each book I have written, but most passionately regarding Deadmarsh Fey, my goal, my wish, has been that my characters, and these realms they populate, would resonate with readers and move them in meaningful ways, hopefully changing them for the better, and making them think differently about their inner lives and the world around them. And that is why my most rewarding experience since being published has been how people have reacted to Deadmarsh Fey. From these reviews, it is obvious that many readers have understood the book, “gotten” it, as it were, and let themselves be seized by my story. And, what’s more, are incredibly excited to discover what happens next in this saga known as Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. All this fills me with joy, because it shows that my message in a bottle, for these readers, at least, has washed up on the shores of their hearts and struck a chord within their souls that I hope will reverberate for many long years to come. In your new book, DEADMARSH FEY, can you tell my Book Nerd community a little about it and why they should read your novel? Every novel in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light is told in a different voice, written from the perspective of a new protagonist through whose eyes we see the story. In Deadmarsh Fey, the eyes belong to Roger Knightley, ten years old and cousin to Havelock (Lockie), the Deadmarsh heir. Roger is a firecracker, and though but a child, is a well-read one (reared on the mystical and often blood-soaked legends from both sides of his lineage, Welsh and English), which has resulted in his having an extremely vivid imagination. Sometimes, this can be problematic, but it means that Roger hasn’t yet been poisoned against the fantastical, or robbed of his sense of wonder. Since he has no trouble accepting the inexplicable at face value, he is quicker to understand and recognize the dangers the creatures tearing out of the Otherworld and into our own pose to himself and his family than the adults—and those who supposedly have all the answers—surrounding him. He also has a wry bent to his personality, and a stubborn streak, that help and hinder him in various ways as the book progresses. And he’s obsessed with dragons. You’ll have to read the novel to discover if this proves fatal to him, and others, or not. Regarding the heart of the story, the events in Deadmarsh Fey, though cloaked in the garb of fantasy, are truly about fighting for those you love, and all you hold dear. This is the supreme driving force behind Roger’s actions and those of his friends and allies. It’s not just about survival, or stopping the Dark Wreaker—a nebulous entity who has bedeviled the Deadmarshes for seven hundred years—and his army of Jagged Ones and blood-tied horrors, both fair and foul, from being unleashed upon this earth, but about saving the very souls of those who are most important to you, those you’d sacrifice everything for. And that is something that has appealed to me far longer than I can remember, not only in storyweaving, but in life. Also, whether we are aware of it or not, each of us has a fundamental longing for “home.” By that, I don’t mean a dwelling, but a deep ache in the heart to find the place we truly belong. When it comes to my writing, my “home” has always been in these Otherworlds I have created—perilous realms infected by a darkness hell-bent on destruction…yet these realms are not hopelessly desolate, but seared with beauty and light, peopled by characters who heed the call to lay everything on the line for a chance(sometimes infinitesimal) to defeat the evil that threatens to annihilate everything they love, for they have realized that their world, though fallen—and not so dissimilar to our own—is worth fighting for. When reading my books, especially Deadmarsh Fey, I hope you lose yourself in these worlds, that you let go and journey along with the characters, grow attached to them, possibly even become them if only for a brief while—seeing in them a reflection of yourself. And if by doing so you discover what your “home” is, then that is reward enough, for it will mean I have made the best use of the time that was given to me. What was the most surprising thing you learned in creating your characters? That I had to trust them enough to let them have free reign. They knew better than I did where to take the story…because it was theirs, and they were living it. All my characters were extremely vivid in my imagination when I began writing the book (save for one or two who materialized out of nowhere mid-novel and drastically changed the course of events), but Kip, and especially Carver, presented themselves to me almost fully formed. I didn’t have to do much of anything with those two, besides let them take center stage and steal whatever scene they were in, which Kip did with dignity and gravitas that would have made the ancestral fylgja, guardian spirit of his family, proud—and Carver did with enough demonic savoir faire to make the devil himself turn green with envy. I know many people might find it hard to believe, or even slightly crazy, that characters an author creates can became separate flesh and blood entities from his/her imagination, but at a certain point, my characters did, demanded to be let off the lead, and I had no choice but to comply. Trying to maneuver events in an inorganic way, forcing things to go in the direction I thought was best, rather than what the story and characters were calling for, would have stalled the book and turned it into something completely different, and much less cohesive—not to mention deadly dull. To a much, much lesser degree, the characters in my last novel, Corcitura, asserted themselves, too, but never had this happened with such immediacy as it did in Deadmarsh Fey, to the point where I feel that I was just the facilitator for this book. Roger and Company were the real storyweavers, and once I realized this, I passed the tiller into their hands, and let them steer the ship where they willed. Why do you feel you had to tell this story? There was no way I couldn’t tell this story. Once I made the decision to write Deadmarsh Fey, once my year of confusion had come to an end and I determined the course this saga would take, I was seized. There’s no other way to describe the intensity of emotion that came over me. Not long afterward, once the characters had nudged me out of the way, the book began, essentially, writing itself. I love my first two novels, I always will, but there is something different about Deadmarsh Fey, something unique, that I didn’t experience when writing these earlier books. With this novel, I discovered what I was meant to write—fantasy, or rather, dream-sagas, as my beloved has christened them. There is a quote by J. R. R. Tolkien, who has been a defining force and inspiration not only on my writing, but also in my life, that struck me when I first heard it more than a decade ago, because I agree with him completely: “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory.” I’ve always understood him to mean that fantasy writers craft what we do not to escape our world, but to understand it. By losing myself in my invented universes, worlds that mirror our own in strange and startling and often unsettlingly familiar ways, I feel I have found where I truly belong, finally fulfilling the gnomic wisdom Gandalf spoke to Frodo, and, unknowingly, to me, those several years ago. What was the most magical thing that happened while creating Roger? This was an especially hard question for me to answer, and intensely personal. I started out with one response, which I still think is partially valid, but a few days ago, it came to me—quite suddenly, shockingly, and with no small degree of heartache—that Roger and I had a much deeper bond than I’d realized until something of a personal nature happened to me this week that brought painfully intense emotions I’d been unknowingly suppressing rushing to the surface. It wasn’t a pretty picture when this happened, but it was necessary, and cathartic, and gave me tremendous clarity about this character and what he really means to me—and revealed why I had always felt so much love, tenderness, and compassion toward Roger when I was creating him, and do till this day. To begin with, I originally believed the most magical thing that had happened when I wrote Roger into being was that I became him in so many ways. It was a natural thing to have occurred—and I’m sure many authors feel the same way about their creations—since Roger was my main protagonist. But he always, strangely, felt more like my own flesh and blood than any other character I’d ever created before, and it wasn’t only because Deadmarsh Fey is told in third person, restricted, which means I, perforce, had to see everything through Roger’s eyes—all that was glorious and nightmarish, good and evil, one more often than not masquerading as the other and making it nearly impossible to distinguish friend from foe. Yes, I had to put myself into the shoes of this ten year old English child who was obsessed with dragons. Yes, I had to imagine what his reactions to things literally out of this world would be. And yes, most imperative of all, I had to know him better than I knew myself, and needed to do so in order to make him live and breathe on the page and be real not only to me, but to anyone who ever chose to read his story and journey by his side into the perilous realm he called home. But it wasn’t until very recently that I realized, with the force of a punch to my heart, just why Roger had always been so dear to me. Without delving into too much detail, for over a decade, I endured a very desolate period of misdiagnoses and wrong information regarding a health issue that has a chance to be fully resolved in the coming weeks, and was told throughout these preceding years that many things I had always dreamed of, many joyous events most women, I imagine, would want to happen in their lives, would not be possible for me to experience. During this extended dark night of the soul, my books became a lifeline, an outlet into which I could pour my heart and being, and never more did I do this than with Deadmarsh Fey…because of Roger, even if the full realization of why wasn’t brought home to me till seventy two hours ago when I finally understood the reason it felt so right for me to have always thought of him as my flesh and blood, although I never phrased it like that to myself till then, nor had I been aware that any name needed to be given to the feelings unconsciously caged within my heart. After an intense few days of soul-searching, anguish, and tears—lots of tears—I finally understand why Roger is so precious to me, and why I feel so close to him, even still. In him, I saw the son I hoped to have one day, and believed I never would be able to. Revealing this to my beloved (who was with me when the dam holding back my suppressed emotions broke), reflecting upon it, and discussing how it had affected me without my knowledge, until the events of this week triggered clarity of mind, touched him deeply and opened up a way of thinking that made immediate and incredible sense to me, and allowed me to realize that I can now let Roger go. Watching this literary child of mine mature and grow in successive books will be vital for me—and part of the healing process, I suspect—but I understand, now, that while I will always love Roger, and he will forever be in my heart, my love doesn’t have to be confined to just my literary son. One day, it can be given to the real child whose very existence need no longer be a nebulous and unattainable dream. If you could introduce one of your characters to any character from another book, who would it be and why? I considered having Roger meet Smaug, but quickly came to my senses. Tolkien’s beast isn’t exactly the nicest of souls (Need I bring up the whole “I am Fire! I am Death!” thing?), and having a dragon-mad child obsessed with conscripting a fire-breather, any fire-breather he could get his hands on, into one insane scheme after another—a child determined not to take no for an answer—would have resulted in Roger being torched into a little pile of ash in two seconds flat. Then I contemplated initiating a meeting between Roger and Puddleglum from C. S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair (my third favorite Narnia book after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Magician’s Nephew), but Roger would have gotten fed up with the marsh-wiggles’s doldrummy woe-is-me-ness after about 6.9 minutes. In the end, I settled on Bagheera of Jungle Book fame, who just so happens to have earned a passing, and incredibly sarcastic, mention from Master Coffyn in Chapter 19 of Deadmarsh Fey. I’ve been fond of Bagheera for most of my life, ever since I first saw the animated Jungle Book when I was a very young child. He’s just so lordly and majestic, wise and, let’s be honest, awesome. Another reason for my admiration is that I love cats, especially black ones, but because I’m slightly allergic to them, I have had to express my affection for these beautiful creatures from a distance by putting them into my novels, hence the reason Kip plays such a huge and pivotal role in Deadmarsh Fey. And that brings me to why I’d want Roger and Bagheera to meet. Kip definitely has his own distinct personality—he presented himself to me almost fully formed, as I mentioned above, after all—but while I had many inspirations for my cat, this panther was a defining influence on him. Roger and Kip share a tremendous bond—a bond initiated before the events in Deadmarsh Fey take place and solidified as the story progresses—and Roger having a chance to get acquainted with a character I consider to be Kip’s literary older brother would be a visceral reinforcement of what the boy already knows, that even though Kip is, as Roger thinks at one point, a “compact little animal,” the cat, like Bagheera, has a panther’s heart, strong and fierce and fearless, and would never back down from defending those he loves when they are threatened, be it by a Jagged One or Shere Khan, it matters not. And here’s something that didn’t occur to me until this very moment…Mowgli and Roger are the same age, and, though endearing, are each quite a handful—not to mention that there are forces at work that would love nothing more than to see both boys dead—so if Kip went along to this meeting, ye gods would he and Bagheera have loads to commiserate about! What are some of your current and future projects that you can share with us? My current project is the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey—set seven years later—and the second novel in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. Several times in Deadmarsh Fey, I mentioned the Vickers family, particularly Isobel, the youngest daughter, who is Roger’s contemporary and good friend. Near the end of the novel, Isobel’s and her family’s link to the Deadmarshes, and the beings hunting them, is hinted at, and, to a certain extent, revealed to Roger in a shocking way. What he discovers leads directly into book two, Isobel’s story, which takes place on a desolate rock called Cutwater Island. Here there be sharks, and demons of the deep. And a creature whose memory is as fathomless as its desire for revenge. Once the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey has been completed, I will be working on the next two novels in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. All the books already have titles, but these are rather sensitive, so I’m holding them in reserve till I announce the publication of each novel. Have you ever been really freaked out by something on the internet? If so, what? Oh, good heavens, YES! And fairly recently, too! I blame my beloved. It was entirely his fault! Imagine me pointing an accusatory finger at him right now. To be fair, though, I went along enthusiastically when he suggested we watch scary videos on YouTube. It’s nice to shiver with the one you love, which was the motivation behind this temporary derangement of ours. We started out quite innocently enough with UFO videos, which were more strange and interesting than scary, and ridiculously tame compared to what came next… After we’d reached marginal utility in the flying saucer department, this video suddenly—and very sinisterly, in hindsight—materialized on the suggested videos sidebar. It was called, “Top 10 Most Shocking and Unexplainable Happenings Ever to Be Caught on Camera!” or some other such bombastic, and impossible-to-resist, title. By that point, feeling a little disappointed that the UFO videos had failed to scar us for life, we were game for anything, and also kind of high on ourselves, I have to admit, for apparently having such nerves of steel. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that our attitude toward the supernatural in that moment could be boiled down to, “Us? Us? Get scared by that? HA!” and so we (stupidly) clicked on this new devilry, to use a turn of phrase coined by Boromir (And we all remember what happened to him…). To say we made a mistake is the understatement of the millennium. This video, this Ring-esque horrorfest masquerading as CCTV footage, reduced us to quaking little puddling messes, what with its ghosts shrieking out of hotel rooms, its phantom orderlies flashing by in the ER, the spectral girl wearing a blood red dress appearing in the middle of an alley somewhere in Taiwan, a “possessed” woman—who let out primal shrieks every five seconds as if she were being internally roasted alive by a legion of devils—contorting and flailing about in a supermarket aisle; a brace of freaky, seven foot tall men without eyebrows, dressed all in black and bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Blues Brothers, wandering around lobbies…and the pièce de résistance of Fright Night 2018—a skin-shivering, blood-curdling, knee-knocking, absolutely TERRIFYING clip of a girl in an elevator in China, I believe—I have no intention of opening myself up to a second near hysterical fit for accuracy’s sake by rewatching this abominable video—that was so unsettling because she seemed to be gibbering at someone, frightened of someone, arguing with, hunted by, and having a very disturbing conversation with someone…only nobody was there! Gooseflesh is breaking out all over me as I type this! And then the narrator butts in and says, in a calm and totally detached voice, that this girl was discovered dead in a vat a few days later, her clothes neatly folded on the ground, and that this story was the inspiration for the film Dark Water, which, needless to say, my beloved and I have no intention of ever watching. Sleep being elusive for one interminable evening was quite enough, thanks very much. Give us June Carter and Johnny Cash songs, Monty Python sketches, and political videos for our YouTube dates any night of the week. We’ve learned our lesson, and how! shudders If I came to your house and looked in your attic/closet/basement, what’s the one thing that would surprise me the most? If you looked in my attic, you’d be stunned by the overwhelming plethora of pumpkins and scarecrows and Christmas decorations that are stuffed in there. If you looked in my closet, you’d see a lot of clothes and dresses that I keep forgetting I own. I mean this; over the last few months, I’ve discovered not one, but two rather fetching dresses that I had no memory of ever buying. The tags were even still on them! If you looked in my basement, I’d be really surprised, because I don’t have one…that I know of! What’s it like? Are there Morlocks living down there? Tell me, Jean! I’m sensing the beginnings of a new novel, here… Most horrifying dream you have ever had? A seven foot tall E.T. dressed as the Grim Reaper, emerging from my bathroom in the dead of night with murderous intent, scythe in hand. I was about five years old when I had this dream, and E.T. and I didn’t make peace until fairly recently. Now I’m quite fond of the freakish yet adorable little tree stump, but our relationship was a bit strained for several years, to say the least. Which incident in your life has totally changed the way you think today? Meeting my beloved has not only changed the way I think about everything—my past, my present, my future, my joys and sorrows, setbacks and triumphs—but has irrevocably changed my life, as well. Loving him, and receiving his love in return, has made me a fuller person—complete—and has led to me knowing myself better than I ever did before. I find it astonishing how in tune we are. Here’s just one of many examples I can share…we have the same crazy and unbelievably random (And I mean RANDOM! I’m thinking of one in particular right now that knocked us both flat by proving just what a couple of complete born-to-be-together weirdoes we truly are) thoughts, and blurt them out at the exact same moment! I have lost count of how often this has happened, but it’s pretty much a daily occurrence, and has been for quite some time. Being in tune in so many ways has been a hallmark of our relationship since our earliest days. Our very first conversation had sparks shooting off between us when we both revealed a mutual love for the Eddas, everything Germanic and Saga-inspired…and I confessed to him my obsession with JAWS and sharks in general—and he didn’t flinch! He’s exposed me to so many wonderful things, some of my favorites being music—he has fantastic taste—and philosophers, the one impacting me the most to date being Henry Corbin, whose ideas matched up so perfectly with concepts I had been mulling over for thirteen years but never had a name for till my beloved shared this luminous thinker with me. Our oneness of spirit has grown deeper with each passing hour as we’ve shared our lives with each other—all the important things and the silliest ones, too, and been there for each other in the best and worst of times—and we’ve continuously discovered, more and more every day, how beautifully and miraculously our souls, and thoughts, chime in harmony. And it’s uncanny how he knows exactly what articles to send me, because no matter what they’re about (from the sagas to politics, and everything in between), I devour them and find myself forever exclaiming, “Yes! Yes, that’s what I was thinking! This is what I have always believed!” and tapping into a wellspring of inspiration that has long lain dormant, till he shares with me something he knew I’d love, knew would be the spark needed to kindle my thoughts and ignite them into being. This happened just last week, and because of what I read in the essay my beloved sent me, because the thoughts of the writer echoed in my soul and literally roused the Bear hibernating there, a story arc which I’d been struggling with for over a year found resolution, came full circle, and changed the course of one of the books in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light entirely. Another thing I find absolutely wondrous is how he’s opened my mind to so many things I was very closed off to before, very biased against, in fact, and made me view the world, especially history, differently. Yet he’s also reinforced beliefs I already held, making them stronger and richer and more defined in my heart and soul. He encourages me and I him to become the people he and I were put on this earth to be, which I think is a rare and beautiful aspect of our relationship, and something we are blessed to share. And even in areas where our beliefs diverge—religion, for example, which has never been an issue for us—we still have commonality, because we both have an appreciation and respect for the Divine, and see it at work in our lives. We enrich each other—never tearing down, always building up, for we realize how precious a gift love is, and are very grateful to have found one another at long last. We’re passionate advocates of each other’s writing, too. His background is philosophy, and I am not being biased when I say he’s brilliant, and not just in this field, but in many other areas, as well. Just don’t get him going on Richard III or he’ll recite the entire Shakespearean tragedy from the beginning! My little playful ribbing aside, every time we speak, each moment we’re together, I am continually inspired in every way, and I cannot even begin to tell you how having his unconditional support and love across all areas of my life has changed it, and me, so profoundly. I’m amazed anew every day by all of this—amazed anew each day by him—and am incredibly, eternally, grateful to have him in my life, to have been blessed with such a glorious soulmate, whom I love with all my heart. 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author, young love, Young Protagonists, young writer, your home, ziroonderel This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, but as that interview is quite extensive, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey. ~Melika “This beast, like the greater evil we faced later on, went by many names. When he invaded Everl’aria, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, he was The Bottomless, for his savagery had no end.” “I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, what’s been slumbering for so long.” A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?” “I woke it up.” He blinked in surprise and was even more startled when the dragon mimicked the action, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, flickering within that gigantic orb… “Why should I not know what he’s really called?” “Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever,” Carver muttered. “I don’t know how else to explain this, but I could feel her age, almost as if the weight of her years were pressing against me like a great mountain of corpses that would collapse onto me if I so much as looked at her the wrong way.” Gryffyn looked as though he were about to have some sort of fit. “It’s far too dark in here for you to be taking this so calmly. Anything could be creeping up on us at this very moment, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, not one foot! Why are you not afraid?” “Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows,” Incendiu snarled. “They were all children, yes, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.” “But that happened in a wilder age, a less enlightened time,” Roger argued. “Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, or the world.” “There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered. “Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, guv,” Bellows shot in. “You’re not allowed in church!” The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?” “Says God!” Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.” “We make exceptions for demons like you.” “Will you not bid me welcome, Brother?” the beast mocked. The dragon’s voice paralyzed Roger where he stood. Hearing it sapped his strength, stole his will, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. There was chaos in it, and destruction—a voice crafted of darkness and the death of worlds.” Flesh and bone and hearts unknown, lead to the rath and your fate will be shown… Deadmarsh. The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, neither Deadmarsh the house, nor Deadmarsh the family, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, having wild adventures with his cousin, Lockie, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, but when Roger arrives, he finds everything, and everyone, changed. The grounds are unkempt, the servants long gone. Kip, the family cat, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, Travers, always treated as a servant, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow. And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, riddled with fear, and has returned bearing tales of creatures called Jagged Ones that claim to be of the Fey and can somehow conceal themselves while standing in the full light of the moon. What they want with Lockie, Roger cannot fathom, until the horror within his cousin lashes out, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, but Roger, too. Joining forces with an ally whose true nature remains hidden, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the past, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, but a winged nightmare attempting to break free of its underground prison? Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal as Roger’s friends insist, yet the boy knows he needs all the help he can get if there is to be any hope of defeating not only the Dark Wreaker and his servants, but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, the Wolf, and the Curse That Walks The Earth. And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, who might be the deadliest of them all. Racing against time, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, blood will drown the earth. And Roger and his entire family will fulfill the prophecy of fey’s older, more lethal meaning… Fated to die. US Customers: Buy Deadmarsh Fey (Kindle) (Paperback) on Amazon Buy Deadmarsh Fey (Kindle) (Paperback) on Amazon UK Latest Author Interview! 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interview. Many thanks to author Sonya M. Black for providing me with such insightful questions. I hope you enjoy reading not only my thoughts on writing and other subjects, but also learning more about a few special books that have impacted my life in very different ways. Maybe you’ll be inspired to invite them into your lives and let them work their magic on you, as well. A dragon lands in front of your Main Character, what would they do? It just so happens that my main character in Deadmarsh Fey, Roger Knightley, is obsessed with dragons, and has been since he was practically out of the womb, cutting his teeth on his mother’s fanciful stories about them, blazing through the Mabinogion by the time he was six, and venturing onward to further fill his head with even more fantastic legends, his favorite being the one about Merlin and Vortigern and the fortress that had been toppled again and again by the red and white dragons battling in a pool beneath its foundations. Given all of that, if a flesh and blood dragon landed in front of him, Roger wouldn’t scream or scarper away in fright, but would rather shriek in delight and run forward to hug one of the dragon’s foreclaws, then try to convince the beast to fly him back to Wraxhall, Roger’s boarding school, to equalize the playing field, as it were, by teaching his headmaster a lesson—turning Master Crisp into Master Ash…literally. But once Roger came to his senses, he would do all in his power to enlist the dragon as an ally against the Dark Wreaker of Everl’aria, and the curse this fell being has laid upon Roger’s family. You’ll have to read Deadmarsh Fey to find out if any of this really does happen in the book, or if I’m just letting my imagination rocket upward like a dragon soaring through the night sky, its black wings blotting out the light of the moon. What literary pilgrimages have you gone on? It’s not the main focus of my upcoming trip to England, but when I’m there, we’ll be spending a day in Oxford, walking in the footsteps of two authors who have had a significant impact not only on my writing, but upon my life, as well—J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. I expect to be awed the entire time I’m there, and quite emotional, too. Oh, and a visit to the Eagle and Child is also on the agenda! 6,900 pictures of the snug where the Inklings used to meet will be taken, so as not to miss a single angle, of course. I can’t wait! I’m sure other books got to me before this one did, but the first book I can remember which made me cry was The Turn of the Screw—and that was because it horrified me, my tears bursting forth at the very end when Miles screams, “Peter Quint, you devil!” I didn’t appreciate the ambiguity and brilliance of that line till many years later, so as a child of eight, my reaction was sheer terror. And yet I loved that little novel! I even owned a Classic comic book type edition of it that I read so often the spine broke. It’s my favorite “ghost” story of all time, and a masterful psychological study that I do not think any film adaptation has done justice to yet, although The Innocents comes close to capturing the unsettling “otherness” of Miles and Flora, and the paranoia (or does she have just cause to fear?) of the Governess. But the first book that truly touched something deep within my heart and made me not only cry, but bawl, was David Copperfield, which I read at the age of twelve. It didn’t matter that one hundred and forty years separated me from David’s world. I identified with him, was outraged by every injustice he suffered—especially the betrayal of those he’d considered close friends—rejoiced with him when he succeeded, and felt like I was living his life alongside him as I devoured the pages of that book. Till this day, I find myself smiling when I remember Aunt Betsy screeching, “Donkeeees!” or how Mr. Micawber was always sure something would turn up. But don’t get me started on Uriah Heep. I have no fond memories of him! Looking back, I see how the cruelty David endured at the hands of Mr. Murdstone stayed with me and inspired some of Master Coffyn’s qualities in Deadmarsh Fey, especially his penchant for harsh and often violent discipline against children. And now that I think of it, that fey quality of Miles and Flora so hauntingly delineated in The Turn of the Screw found its way into Deadmarsh, too, coloring certain aspects of Lockie’s character, so even though both books made me cry for very different reasons, they both impacted my writing in their own unique ways. Did you ever consider writing under a pseudonym? No, never. I’ve always wanted to be known as the author of my novels, not because I have a thirst for fame—I prefer the focus to be on my stories, not me—but because I worked hard on them. The funny thing is, though, that many readers have thought Melika Dannese Lux is a pseudonym, but I can assure you that’s exactly the name printed on my birth certificate. I think what readers want is originality. We can all be inspired by the fantasy greats, of course, and I freely admit that Tolkien and Lewis are my literary “fathers,” but to be derivative to the point of copying them is not something I’ve ever wanted to do. I’m a little fanatical when it comes to being original, so much so that when I created the name of my main villain and Otherworld in Deadmarsh Fey, I typed both into Google and Amazon to make certain they hadn’t been used before! I understand that, according to conventional wisdom, you should compare your works to those of other fantasy authors to hook readers, or even get an agent. But that’s the problem with conventional wisdom—it’s conventional, stultifying, and only interested in preserving the status quo, leaving no room for the unexpected, and very dismissive of that which it does not understand or cannot fit into a neatly designed mold. Why can’t a fantasy book stand on its own without having to be compared to anything that’s come before? Isn’t that what people really want, to read something unlike anything they’ve ever read? To get lost in a world they can discover and explore for themselves, make their home in, without being encumbered by any preconceived notions? That would be a wondrous thing, I think, and much more gratifying than reading yet another Game of Thrones clone. How do you balance making demands on the reader with taking care of the reader? The philosopher Nicholas Malebranche once said, “Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul.” Laziness of mind is bad enough, but having an unengaged soul makes attentiveness, and really anything else, impossible. This is why I don’t believe asking my readers to fully invest themselves—mind, heart, and soul—into Deadmarsh Fey is being unduly demanding, since I invested my entire being into writing this book. As the author, I see myself as the facilitator, and it is my job, through my storyweaving, to remind my readers that it is incumbent upon them to take care of themselves. I won’t spoon feed you, neither will I string you along, but you should know at the outset that I will not be your Virgil, guiding you through the darkling night. I want my readers to discover things for themselves in this world I have offered to them, a world in which they can lose themselves entirely—a world it is my greatest hope they will make their own. And to achieve this, attentiveness—concentration—is a must, not because Deadmarsh Fey is some labyrinth you need Ariadne’s Thread to find your way out of, but because giving not only my book, but any book, a cursory reading shows not only a lack of respect for the author, but for the reader’s own self, as well. How can you be moved, touched, inspired, if your only objective is to race through a book to finish it as fast as you can? What chance is there for you to experience wonder if you don’t let the story absorb you, if you cut yourself off from allowing the tale to strike a chord in your soul and make your spirit take flight? The opportunity to connect with something beyond you has been neglected, the moment for discovery, expanding your imagination, and knowing yourself deeper, lost when your overriding ambition is how many pages you can read in a day to reach a quota for the year, or some other such arbitrary marker that robs you of the chance to be seized by wonder. It makes the act of reading no act at all, but a passive disengagement that seems completely pointless—and dreadfully hollow. With every book I have written, but never more so than with Deadmarsh Fey, my goal has been that my readers become active participants in the experience. If this happens, I believe they will feel as if they are sharing in the recreation of the novel and will be able to capture the essence, the atmosphere, in which the work was first written. By becoming a part of the story, they are truly making it into something new and theirs, which is what I want most of all. I want them to lose themselves in a tale that seems fantastical at first, but the deeper they read, the more engaged they become, they realize that the truths in this book mirror the truths in their own lives, that these characters are not so unlike them, and that they, the readers, will miss these kindred souls after the final page is turned. When total immersion occurs, my readers will see Roger and the other characters not as I do, no longer as I’ve described them, but through their own eyes, the images I’ve created meeting the images my words have birthed in their minds, catching fire, and taking flight, burning like a phoenix across their imaginations and hopefully inspiring them to create unexplored worlds of their own, or at least to never be the same after reading this book because it has touched them in some deep and meaningful way and possibly revealed to them their true “home.” That is my wish for everyone who reads Deadmarsh Fey—that they will be open to receiving what the book has in mind for them, and be changed for the better once their journey with my characters comes to an end. Do you view writing as a kind of spiritual practice? When you invent something out of nothing, you are, in a sense, sharing in the act of creation. I’m not trying to be blasphemous or presumptuous by saying that, but I truly feel, and have done so for many years, that writing is as close as I come to touching the divine, to brushing up against the world that shimmers just beyond our own. My beloved says that all true art is a spiritual practice, and I agree with him wholeheartedly, as I do with his christening my work dream-sagas, for that is where my original inspiration for Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light came from—in the chaos of a dream that quite frankly was almost a nightmare, a vision of two young girls, sisters, cowering at the end of a corridor in a small cottage on an fog-encircled island, flattening themselves against the wall and scarcely breathing for fear any sound would alert the gargantuan demonic bear snuffling down the hallway, growing ever nearer, to their presence—the bear that was hungering for their blood. In many ways, I also view writing as a prayer, a reaching up toward my higher self, my angel, if you will, the self I am meant to be but have been separated from here in my exile upon this earth. It’s a constant striving to make sense out of the thoughts in my head, the inspirations, the “why” of life, and to weave them into a tapestry of light and shadow, of good and evil and the grey areas in between where heroes may doubt their valor but choose to fight on nonetheless, often against seemingly insurmountable odds, because they are dedicated to saving that which they hold dear, their world, the people they love and are willing to lay down their lives to defend. That call to fight for something greater than yourself is also very spiritual at its core, and was a vital thread I wove into the fabric of Deadmarsh Fey in ways I had never done with any other book I had written before. In this novel, in this Otherworld, I feel as though I truly am writing what I dream, both literally and in a deeper sense. I have now found my “home,” at least where writing is concerned, the place where I have finally been able to fulfill the maxim that changed my life many years ago: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Sixteen years old, was I, when Gandalf’s wisdom pierced my heart and set me on this trajectory. The journey has been hard, frustrating, and often incredibly lonely, but it has brought me joy, too, never more so than now, and I would not trade the experience for anything in the world, nor, if given the chance to go back and choose differently, would I diverge from this path that was presented to me. I believe in my soul that despite all the obstacles, it was the path I was destined to take…and how things were always meant to be. I also think that there is something intensely, almost ecstatically, spiritual about being seized by a story, which happened to me when writing Deadmarsh Fey. From a certain point onward, I was no longer in control of this book. My characters quickly and not too subtly disabused me of the notion that I knew what was best, and since I really had no choice in the matter, I let them take over, and Deadmarsh Fey became a much better tale because I got out of my own way. And that is something I would encourage every writer to do, whether you believe our craft is a spiritual practice or not…let your ego go. It is your worst enemy, will shut you down, choke your creativity. You must diminish for inspiration to increase, and only when you do this will your story have the potential to take wing, blaze across the heavens, and transform into something unique and rapturous. Something you and you alone were born to write. Yes, I do read them. No author likes to receive bad reviews, and at one time, they had a powerfully negative effect on me, but as I’ve gotten older, and grown as a writer, they don’t influence me anymore. I know the value of my work, and nobody’s negative opinion is going to make me doubt it or love it any less, especially people who abandon my book after only reading a fraction of it. Additionally, if somebody is just spewing vitriol, I don’t take it to heart. And if they completely miss the point of the book, I don’t internalize that, either. I do appreciate good reviews, of course, especially when the reader invests him- or herself into the world I have created—living through my characters, even becoming them for the short while they are in their company—and therefore is able to truly comprehend what I am trying to say instead of simply glossing over details that were not included as filler, words that weren’t written to pad the pages, just to get things over with for whatever reason, as I mentioned above. It’s a very rewarding feeling when a reader “gets” my work, as happened recently with the wonderful Dianne Bylo at Tome Tender. Her review has become my favorite, and the best, of any of my books thus far, not only because it was erudite and well-written, but also because it revealed that Dianne had let herself be seized by Deadmarsh Fey and thereby connected with it in a profound way, which is what I hope the experience will be for everyone who reads this book. I do, but when it came to Deadmarsh Fey, everything that I hid within its pages was built up and eventually revealed in a rather shocking manner a few chapters from the end of the novel. Even at the eleventh hour—and by that I mean some of the very last scenes of the book—I was still unraveling secrets I had woven throughout the story from the beginning. Nearly all of them found resolution in Deadmarsh Fey, though I did leave a few open ended enough to be explored further in the three successive novels in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. Each one of these secrets, every arc that was created in Deadmarsh Fey to be spooled out into the other books, however, did have a suitable ending when its furtherance of the plot in this tale had served its purpose. This was a conscious choice, because I despise loose ends, and even though I think that in some cases it is fine to be ambiguous—as with The Turn of the Screw—I believe that ambiguity for its own sake, or as an attempt to be “edgy,” ruins the integrity of a story. In the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey, which I’m working on now, there is a sort of inside joke for most of the novel, but it is revealed at precisely the moment when it counts most and is quite earthshattering. And yet…when readers get to that point, I have a sense they will most likely feel that if they’d just thought about it a bit more, they would have been able to solve this riddle fairly early on. I’m hoping the reaction will include a fist to the forehead and a dramatic exclamation of, “Good gad! How could I have been so blind?!” I’m incredibly eager to interweave this plot point throughout the novel—palming the ace where I can, scattering false clues, then finally lowering the boom and blowing the lid off this secret when the time is right. I confess to taking a little enjoyment in being tricksy like this when crafting my books. All right, it’s more than a little. It’s a LOT! But it makes things tremendously exciting for me, and I hope this excitement will transfer to everyone who reads my novels, this one especially. The Ivy Cottage by E. J. Taylor. Even though it was very short, and I first read it at the age of four, I still remember the feeling of warmth with which this book enveloped me—as cozy as a sheltering blanket, as soothing as a mug of hot chocolate enjoyed by a roaring fire. The illustrations were entrancing, and I was completely captivated by the idea of living in a cottage in the woods, or one just on the borders of it. 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I am beyond thrilled to share with you today my featured interview for the Fantasy Hive! It’s a fun and wonderful site I’m so happy to be back at The Fantasy Hive this week, but instead of an interview, one of my most favorite excerpts from Deadmarsh Fey is being featured! Thanks once again go to Laura and the great people at this fantastic site for allowing me to showcase my work. I hope this excerpt will intrigue and unsettle you, and make you insatiably curious to find out what happens to Roger next! When wandering through a forest, one expects to see many things. Trees, squirrels, maybe even a bear… A feast laid out solely for you in the middle of a clearing… That last one shouldn’t have made the list, you say? Try telling that to Roger Knightley, then, for it is exactly what he stumbled upon while sojourning in the woods behind Deadmarsh. Here, on this whimsical table, were found treats stuffed to bursting with enough luscious flavors to satisfy the cravings of a boy possessed of a sweet tooth the size of the North York Moors. How could he resist such a temptation? I feel safe in saying most anyone would find it difficult to do so…assuming you could actually seewhat had been set out to entice you. Forgot to mention that small detail. The feast is invisible, unless you look at it through a glass darkly, which, for Roger, means peering through the two halves of a cracked, milky blue moonstone known as The Eye of Arianrhod. Without this, there’d be no hope of piercing the glamour that hangs over such a fey place. But is it a glamour of enchantment? Or of evil? 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__label__cc	0.659758	0.340242	Bootables Free Case Collections Free Case Studies Human is a vast variety of controllers Human computer interaction is an essential part of gaming and general computer usage, because it is the only way that a person can ‘Communicate’ with a computer. This is because the Person understands the inputs, for example a keyboard has letters on it, when pressed the computer will receive a binary code telling the computer that a key has been pressed and which one it was, and then the computer follows the rest of the instructions. For console this is represented by a Game controller, which have many different. Starting off they were designs like the joystick. Interface Devices: So what is the difference between HIC devices? And why are there more than one? There is a vast variety of controllers and devices that have been purposely designed for certain consoles and devices. The De facto standard would be something that fits the average hand with two joysticks for the thumbs and various other buttons placed for other fingers. This is the general idea of a controller for a games console. Consoles such as the PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo share these common tropes in ergonomic and anthropometric designs. Other HIC devices such as Keyboard and mouse for PC’s are very differently designed. Where console devices are made to fit the users hand and the buttons are perfectly fitted and placed for the fingers on the average hand the keyboard is a large flat device. The keyboard has advantages and disadvantages, the most obvious disadvantage being that it does not fit around a user’s hand like a console controller and that is it usually very large is comparison. However a Keyboard has much more functionality with the keyboard being larger there is much more space for keys and buttons, some of which are programmable. Because PC’s are multi-functional rather than made just for gaming, like a console, their input devices allow for fast text entry. It would take much longer to type on a console as there is no keyboard on the stock controller. And in addition to the Keyboard there is the Mouse, which is used in conjunction. In terms video games the Mouse performs the same job as the joystick. The Mouse is much more ergonomically designed. Mice are curved to fit the curvature of the palm of a hand, and the left mouse button and right mouse button are placed so that the index finger and middle finger are placed right on top of the buttons. Some other buttons can be placed on mice for extra New ideas have generated new controllers some of which have caught on and some which failed to become a widely used device. An example of this is motion controllers. Devices like the PlayStation Move and the Xbox Kinect. Both of which are made for their own consoles, and player input is done via body movements and gestures. This technology peaked around 2015 because it was new and was a lot more involved compared to a standard controller. However the first console to use motion control was the Nintendo Wii. In addition to motion control, there are many other forms of HCI, examples such as dance mats, the Wii Fit Board, Musical Instrument controllers. Dance mats have existed for a long time, mostly being dedicated for certain dance games or arcade machines. The mat uses pressure sensors in the mat where the user would stand to input a command. This is not very functional however, because it has very limited uses, It cannot be used as a controller for anything else and even other games using similar HCI devices would most likely not support this device due to it being designed for a certain game. The Wii Fit board was a huge success at launch, this is because of its advertising campaign and its target market. The Wii Fit board was advertised as a device which you can use for their new Wii Fit game which would use the Boards functionality for exercise games, which appealed to people who wanted to stay fit and exercise without leaving the house etc. The Board was also advertised for family fun games. Using the pressure sensors in the board Nintendo were able to make fun and interactive games for the Wii fit board. Ergonomic design: So as stated before, the mainstream HCI devices are video game controllers, as well as the keyboard and mouse. But aside from the accessibility of them, why are they so popular? It has a lot to do with how they are designed and built. This is because although it is important for a device to be able to interact with the computer well, it must also interact with the human well too, hence Human-Computer Interface. What is meant by this is that it doesn’t matter how technologically advanced a HCI device is, it still needs to be usable in a human’s hands. This is where Ergonomic design comes in. Ergonomic design refers to how a device is made to be held or used, and whether or not it is easy to use. This can be decided simply by using it, and seeing how easy it is to either hold it, or interact with it to achieve what you need to do on the device with ease. This is why controllers are so If you look at the design of most controllers through the years, you will see a strong correlation of how they are held and used, most notably in the range of Xbox or PlayStation controllers. The image to the right is the appearance of the Xbox One’s controller, and is designed to be held by the player using both hands, and for the persons fingers to be able to use both analogue sticks, the direction pad, and the buttons. As well as the triggers and buttons on top. With all of these different buttons and controls required to play most games, as well as function the menus of the Xbox itself, it needs to have a strong and well thought out Ergonomic design. So what about is it designed well? For starters, if you look at the two protruding parts at the bottom of the controller. These have been designed so the controller will fit in the hands of the player. Specifically shaped so that it will fit within the average persons palms and be comfortable. Comfort is an important part to the ergonomic design as a HCI device such as this is often used for an extended period of time by many people, so having something which is uncomfortable to hold will eventually grate on the players nerves, as well as irritate or create a rash or blisters on the hands. So in order to avoid this and to let people play on the device for as long as possible, comfort is of a main concern. Furthermore, this can be seen within other aspects to the design as well. such as the location of the analogue sticks within the controller. This is where the Xbox controller sets itself apart from the PlayStation. While both can be considered comfortable, the two different shapes of the controlled allow for a different set up of sticks. As you can see, the PlayStation controller takes on a very similar appearance, following the similar conventions of protruding bottom parts to reinforce the hands, however you can probably tell that the PlayStation controller is a lot more slimline, it isn’t as heavy, and is less clunky. The analog sticks are both located at the bottom of the controller unlike the Xbox controller, which makes for a slightly different player experience, but remains almost the same in other aspects such as the location of buttons and triggers. The ergonomic design of these two controllers are designs around the resting position of the hands, this is why they are so similar, and is also why they are so comfortable. This is also why the mouse and keyboard is so different, as computers don’t use a HCI designed to be held, they require a table or mat to work well. This is because the HCI to a device is determined by what its primary use is. As computers are designed to be used to type up documents and navigate through documents, using a game controller is less practical, as it would heavily depend on the analog sticks to move through each option in order to reach the correct button or lay out. Whereas although the mouse and keyboard is much more clunky and bigger, and requires addition support, it is also fit for purpose, as the individual keys and the ability to move the mouse in any direction makes it much more simple and quicker to use. As such, gaming is more of an afterthought, and has been adapted ti fit the HCI, as opposed to the gaming consoles whose HCI has been adapted to fit the games. Button Configurations: As i may have briefly mentioned above, the location of the buttons play a key part in what makes a HCI comfortable and easy to use. This can be seen when looking at the conventional game control once again. There are four buttons in a plus placement located on the right, and a directional pad which is also shaped like a plus on the other side. While the Xbox position differs to the conventional controller, the principle still remains the same. This is that by making the controllers button configuration symmetrical, as can be seen from the PS4 controller, it makes the position of both the buttons and d-pad a much better configuration, as it provides a much easier way to control what’s going on in the games. This is because not only are they placed in the most optimal position for the finger placement, but also because the 4 buttons and the directional pad are some of the most used controls, and so by putting these in the most comfortable place, it means the player will be in this position more than anything else. In addition to this, the general configuration of what the buttons control are also optimized within the games themselves. For example, in most First person shooters, the controls tend to stick to similar guidelines. Things such as (going by Xbox controls) A being jump, B melee, Y to switch weapons, and X for things such as switching grenades etc. While there are often different configurations that can be customized within the game, it usually just swaps the buttons uses around, while still maintaining the same controls within the 4 button line up. This form of button configuration is purposefully set out to make it the easiest way to play, and this also includes the placements of the top bumpers and triggers too. Because of how the controls within a game are set, the triggers are often an important aspect to a games control. As such, they are also placed in a comfortable and reachable position. In addition to this, the bumpers are located nest to the triggers, this is because in order to enhance the HCI for the user, the bumpers are located next to the triggers, as it is rare for someone to need to press the left trigger and the left bumper at the same time, as such by placing them next to each other, it works like the accelerator and break within a car, placing them next to each other as you only need one foot to press them. This button configuration can also be seen on how the computer keyboard is designed. Although the key placement is determined by how typewriters were designed, they are both set to serve the same purpose, and as such it is just as relevant. So just like the button placement on a controller, the letter keys of a keyboard are designed to optimize typing speed by having each letter strategically placed to make it comfortable for the user to type words with two hands, as it was designed. It is debatable however on how efficient this QWERTY keyboard layout is, as the original idea behind this layout was thought to be to place the most common letters in the hardest places to reach, so that it could slow people down so that the typewriter’s mechanisms wouldn’t jam. Despite this though, the QWERTY keyboard format has become mainstream, and by using this less efficient layout for computer devices, it still helps in the HCI as it is what people have come to expect. There is another less popular layout which has been created, named the Dvorak layout. The configuration can be seen below. This configuration has been created so that the most used letters are on the middle row of letters, making the distance between typing letters from the default hand position less, and therefore quicker typing experience. This is in principle however, as the QWERTY keyboard has been around for so long, it would probably be less efficient to use the more efficient design, as we are all used to the configuration of QWERTY. The button configuration for keyboards are less efficient when looking at gaming however. When you look at most video games played on the computer, you will find the most common keys used are W, A, S, and D. These letters act as the directional pad equivalent to a controller, and the movement of turning and looking is done using the mouse movement. This means that like the controllers, two hands are also needed for the computer, but are used using a different hand position. The reason that this HCI is less than optimal for the keyboard is because if you look at the position of WASD, while the ASD are all aligned, the W is not aligned with the S key, which would make for a more comfortable position. This is due to the way the keys are placed for typing, further reiterating how the gaming HCI for computers is an afterthought. There are perks to gaming on a PC in relation to HCI however, as the vast amount of keys allows for shortcuts and commands which a controller couldn’t replicate. There are even special gamer specific keyboards which include additional buttons usually located at the top of the keyboard, so that people may equip specific functions to them within games, while also not effecting the usual HCI for normal computer uses. User-Cantered design: Also known as UCD, this is the process in which designers use to optimize thier products for the market, as this process is where they test our thow well a device (in this case controllersand HCI) is fit for purpose. This ois done over many steps of the development process, and is how the final product beciomes so well designed. This can be seen from the examples above. How thje UCDis dertermined is through how fit for purpose the HCI is, and as such, how the fibnal product is created rest soley on what its most common uses will be, and wheather it can achibe this or not. In relation to gaming, when developing a controller, they will use the UCD concepts learnt from previous designs and how well people interact witht the new one in order to make it as comfortable and useful as possible. There are examples i whch this might not have been fully achieved even in the final product. And example of tis could be the Wii remote. The Wii remote actually gives two examples on the importance of UCD. The first is how well it shows the importance of this research, and how drastically it can effect the final product. This is because if you look at the design for the Wii remote, it differs greatly when looking at anny oher consoile controller. This is all thanks to the UCD, as through this research, it has become apparent that the best shape for a console which relies on motion control would be this, as seen above. This is because it fits in the players hand well, ad because an additional controller, also known as a Nunchuck, is only needed for specific games, and so the Wii remote only needs to fit within one hand. Another attribute that falls under a user-centered design is that of which buttons will be placed where because of its unconventional design. The second example of the uses of UCD within the Wii controller’s design is the strap. When the Wii was first released, players experienced issue with holding onto the Wii remote, and at this point the controller didn’t feature any strap with it. It is because of this that Nintendo added the strap to the controller, so that when the player drops it, or lets it go, the remote does not fly across the room and get damaged or cause damage, but instead remains with the player, hanging from their wrist. This oversight within the user-generated design meant that the control had to be re designed, and as a huge hassle. While it could be argued that this was due to a lack of UCD research, the fact that the Wii was released in different regions at different times, it means that the UCD process is on going until it made available in all regions. Portability: Portability is important to some designs, and less important to others, as such, how well a HCI is designed is up to how practical it is in terms of movement. For controllers, it is important to have some portability, which is why over the years as technology has evolved, it has become mainstream for them to be wireless. But why is this so important/ useful. Well when a controller has to be plugged in, it restricts the movement of the player. The movement of the player isn’t necessarily important to most games, especially these with no motion control, but when sitting in a room, having wires can greatly restrict where the player can sit, the wire could get tangles, or be in an unsafe place, or be obstructed by something in between the player and the console. This is why it is a good HCI to have this wireless portability available, as it means there is more choice to the player on where or how they may sit. A different aspect to portability can be seen within mobile devices. Firstly, handheld gaming consoles. Obviously if a console is designed to be carried around and played on the go, it means it should be as small and compact as possible. This is not only determined by the amount of tech within it, but also by the design and shape of it s well. A good example of ho HCI has been modified to be beneficial in portability is the Nintendo DS lineup. The DS features two screens, and this would ordinarily take up a lot of room. However t a slight sacrifice to durability, they added hinges to the device so that the two screens could fold together. Not only does this half the size of it, allowing it to fit within the average pocket, but it also means the screens are less prone to scratches. To cover their bases and to ensure everyone is satisfies, Nintendo also released a Nintendo 2DS, which is a more child friendly durable DS, which has its hinges removed and to built with thicker plastic, in order to adapt the HCI to fit the needs of younger children. The downside is that it has worse portability because of its size. Another case in which portability is enhanced using HCI is via an interface of a design. This is mainly centered around mobile phones, as they are after all, supposed to be mobile. The ergonomic design is adapted much in the same way the portable gaming devices are, ensuring they fit within a pocket well, and that they are easily accessible. However another main focus to the HCI in terms of portability is how easy the actual computer interface is to use. If a mobile device used an interface equivalent of a computer desktop, and was the size of an average screen, it would become a lot harder to function in general, as the interface would be so small it would be hard to see and use. And because of this, the portable uses of it would be severely decreased, as it means users will have to use extra focus and attention on it, and this could slow them down when on the go. This is why newer phones have begun using more simplistic interfaces, which are easy to use and quick to get a hang of, which ultimately effects its portability, as they can function well even when in a rush or while walking around. Interfaces such as Window phone’s panel look, or Apple iPhone’s apps make it easy to select what you need and to distinguish one thing from another. This is also aided by the fact that phones are becoming more reliant on touch screen technology, which further helps in both portability and UCD. 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__label__cc	0.719523	0.280477	Home / Insights / How Close Are We to Updated Cosmetics Regulations? How Close Are We to Updated Cosmetics Regulations? Quality & Regulatory Leader Email LinkedIn Health and wellness continues to gather momentum as a prominent focus of the mainstream consumer, and the movement shows no signs of slowing down. Many consumers – particularly younger ones – believe that organic produce is better for you than conventionally grown produce. Over a third of U.S. consumers follows a specific diet or eating plan. And an increasing number of Americans now practice yoga. A natural extension of the U.S. consumer’s shift toward the “wholesome,” is cosmetics, with brands like Goop and Beautycounter capitalizing on – and perhaps, in part, driving – many of today’s wellness trends, including the “clean beauty” movement. But unlike the food industry, the cosmetic industry has largely enjoyed relative non-regulation, a fact which has garnered much publicity in recent years. This perceived wild west of cosmetics safety and accountability has fueled consumer behavior and some signs of greater regulation to come that cosmetics companies would be remiss to ignore. Internet Drives Desire for Transparency An observable trend in the food and fitness industries has also gained full steam in the cosmetics industry: consumers are doing their own research, for better and for worse. Whether or not the conclusions born of consumers’ internet homework are backed by solid science, one inevitability is that — even if the regulatory landscape remains unchanged, which is unlikely –the cosmetics industry must adjust to consumer trends and provide ingredient transparency. According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), nearly 100,000 people use Skin Deep®, EWG’s free online guide to 70,000 cosmetics and other personal care products, on a weekly basis, with 26 million people visiting EWG’s site annually. This cross-referencing of cosmetics’ ingredients informs an ever-increasing proportion of consumer purchasing decisions. Celebrities and the Push for Greater Cosmetics Regulations High profile celebrities play a large part in fueling consumer desires (see Jessica Alba’s Honest branch and aforementioned Goop by Gwyneth Paltrow) as well as lawmaker response. Both Michelle Pfeiffer, an EWG board member, and Kourtney Kardashian have recently lobbied Congress on behalf of EWG for a bipartisan bill to increase oversight of the cosmetics industry. The bill, the Personal Care Products Safety Act (S.726), seeks to strengthen the FDA’s efforts to regulate ingredients in personal care products, in part by requiring the FDA to evaluate a minimum of five ingredients found in personal care products per year to determine their safety and appropriate use. Among other measures, the Act would also provide the FDA with the authority to recall personal care products and require child-specific labeling, as well as require the FDA to issue regulations on Good Manufacturing Practices for personal care products. Supporting organizations include Beautycounter, Cote, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oreal, Unilever, and many others. In 2018, we began to see the ramp-up of interest in cosmetic regulation legislation from both chambers of Congress. In March of this year, a widely publicized incident involving the discovery of asbestos in cosmetics sold by Claire’s thrust the issue of cosmetics regulation back into the spotlight, leading to the introduction of more proposed legislation. The momentum is there for regulatory change – it is now just a matter of when. It isn’t yet clear how the new FDA commissioner will prioritize cosmetics regulatory reform over other issues. With the impending election year, cosmetics regulations may take a backseat to even hotter issues; however, companies in the cosmetics industry should stay tuned in to the push by consumers and legislators to advance the issue. Be prepared to have a formulated position in place ahead of time; be proactive, not reactive, as the writing is on the wall. Subscribe to Clarkston's Insights Tags: Regulatory Strategy & Compliance 1 Month Until CCPA Goes Into Effect, Is Your Business Prepared? CBD in Retail: What Do Retailers Need to Know? [Update] Blog Post Sales & Marketing Consumer Products California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will go into effect in 1 month. Why is it important and why should direct-to-consumer, ... Blog Post Consumer Products Quality & Regulatory Since the original publication of this piece, the FDA has issued more information on its position relative to CBD. The ... Subscribe to All Posts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343653
__label__wiki	0.568933	0.568933	Climate Scientists Explore Hidden Ocean Beneath Antarctica's Largest Ice Shelf Written by Craig Stevens and Christina Hulbe The team used hot-water drilling gear to melt a hole through Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf to explore the ocean below. Christina Hulbe, CC BY-ND Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is the world’s largest floating slab of ice: it’s about the size of Spain, and nearly a kilometre thick. The ocean beneath, roughly the volume of the North Sea, is one of the most important but least understood parts of the climate system. We are part of the multi-disciplinary Aotearoa New Zealand Ross Ice Shelf programme team, and have melted a hole through hundreds of metres of ice to explore this ocean and the ice shelf’s vulnerability to climate change. Our measurements show that this hidden ocean is warming and freshening - but in ways we weren’t expecting. Instruments travelling 360m down a bore hole, from the snow-covered surface of the Ross Ice Shelf through to the ocean below the ice. After splash-down at about 60m, they move through the bubble-rich upper ice and down into the dark bubble-free lower reaches of the ice – passing embedded sediment that left the coast line centuries ago. How To Predict Brown Carbon’s Effect On Climate A hidden conveyor belt All major ice shelves are found around the coast of Antarctica. These massive pieces of ice hold back the land-locked ice sheets that, if freed to melt into the ocean, would raise sea levels and change the face of our world. An ice shelf is a massive lid of ice that forms when glaciers flow off the land and merge as they float out over the coastal ocean. Shelves lose ice by either breaking off icebergs or by melting from below. We can see big icebergs from satellites - it is the melting that is hidden. Because the water flowing underneath the Ross Ice Shelf is cold (minus 1.9C), it is called a “cold cavity”. If it warms, the future of the shelf and the ice upstream could change dramatically. Yet this hidden ocean is excluded from all present models of future climate. This satellite map shows the camp site on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Ross Ice Shelf Programme, CC BY-ND We Need More Carbon In Our Soil To Help Australian Farmers Through The Drought There has only been one set of measurements of this ocean, made by an international team in the late 1970s. The team made repeated attempts, using several types of drills, over the course of five years. With this experience and newer, cleaner, technology, we were able to complete our work in a single season. Our basic understanding is that seawater circulates through the cavity by flowing in at the sea bed as relatively warm, salty water. It eventually finds its way to the shore - except of course this is a shoreline under as much as 800 metres of ice. There it starts melting the shelf from beneath and flows across the shelf underside back towards the open ocean. Peering through a hole in the ice The New Zealand team – including hot water drillers, glaciologists, biologists, seismologists, oceanographers – worked from November through to January, supported by tracked vehicles and, when ever the notorious local weather permitted, Twin Otter aircraft. As with all polar oceanography, getting to the ocean is often the most difficult part. In this case, we faced the complex task of melting a bore hole, only 25 centimetres in diameter, through hundreds of metres of ice. A team of ice drillers from Victoria University of Wellington used hot water and a drilling system developed at Victoria to melt a hole through hundreds of metres of ice. Craig Stevens, CC BY-ND A New Blob Is Brewing, And It’s Set To Seriously Impact Marine Life Off B.C.’s Coast But once the instruments are lowered more than 300m down the bore hole, it becomes the easiest oceanography in the world. You don’t get seasick and there is little bio-fouling to corrupt measurements. There is, however, plenty of ice that can freeze up your instruments or freeze the hole shut. A moving world Our camp in the middle of the ice shelf served as a base for this science, but everything was moving. The ocean is slowly circulating, perhaps renewing every few years. The ice is moving too, at around 1.6 metres each day where we were camped. The whole plate of ice is shifting under its own weight, stretching inexorably toward the ocean fringe of the shelf where it breaks off as sometimes massive icebergs. The floating plate is also bobbing up and down with the daily tides. The team at work, preparing a mooring. Christina Hulbe, CC BY-ND Things also move vertically through the shelf. As the layer stretches toward the front, it thins. But the shelf can also thicken as new snow piles up on top, or as ocean water freezes onto the bottom. Or it might thin where wind scours away surface snow or relatively warm ocean water melts it from below. When you add it all up, every particle in the shelf is moving. Indeed, our camp was not so far (about 160km) from where Robert Falcon Scott and his two team members were entombed more than a century ago during their return from the South Pole. Their bodies are now making their way down through the ice and out to the coast. What the future might hold If the ocean beneath the ice warms, what does this mean for the Ross Ice Shelf, the massive ice sheet that it holds back, and future sea level? We took detailed temperature and salinity data to understand how the ocean circulates within the cavity. We can use this data to test and improve computer simulations and to assess if the underside of the ice is melting or actually refreezing and growing. Our new data indicate an ocean warming compared to the measurements taken during the 1970s, especially deeper down. As well as this, the ocean has become less salty. Both are in keeping with what we know about the open oceans around Antarctica. We also discovered that the underside of the ice was rather more complex than we thought. It was covered in ice crystals – something we see in sea ice near ice shelves. But there was not a massive layer of crystals as seen in the smaller, but very thick, Amery Ice Shelf. Instead the underside of the ice held clear signatures of sediment, likely incorporated into the ice as the glaciers forming the shelf separated from the coast centuries earlier. The ice crystals must be temporary. None of this is included in present models of the climate system. 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__label__wiki	0.598683	0.598683	MICCS Foundation for construction families in need Eligibility & Use of Gifts Schedule/Timeline PDF Application Project Specific Donations Hold Your Own Fundraiser Strike for Hope Bowling Tournament Choose a Page About Us Board & Officers Guiding Principles History Mission Recent News Staff Apply Electronic Application Eligibility & Use of Gifts PDF Application Questions? Schedule/Timeline Contact Map & Directions Donate Corporate Giving Donors Personal Giving Project Specific Donations Events Annual Golf Outing CFA Foundation Kick-Off Breakfast Hold Your Own Fundraiser Strike for Hope Bowling Tournament Home Privacy Policy Terms of Use About Us » Recent News Meyer Najem Makes Three-Year Pledge to CFA Posted on September 1st, 2016 \| No Comments » Building Excellence, September 2016 Meyer Najem, an Indiana-based construction management firm and a leader in supporting many efforts that serve to improve the industry, has made a three-year pledge to the Construction Family Assistance (CFA) Foundation totally $10,000. CFA is the new name of the formerly named MICCS Foundation. Its purpose is to provide financial assistance to people or families that are affected by a construction or facilities maintenance related incident that causes injury or loss of life. CFA’s assistance goes beyond that provided by workers’ compensation, other insurance or settlements. Frequently the assistance provided helps to meet immediate needs that occur and for which there are no other avenues for such immediate assistance. Examples of this type of early assistance can range from groceries to car payments, home mortgage payments, counseling services and even funeral expenses By providing early assistance for these types of needs, CFA seeks to lighten the burden of families during what is perhaps their most vulnerable time. Traci Hardin is the Vice President of Safety and Compliance for Meyer Najem and as such is responsible for the management of the company safety program for all projects, human resources, diversity, leadership, training and mentoring. She noted that the decision to back the Foundation was easy. “It is part of our culture at Meyer Najem to give back to the community and the industry,” she said. Hardin believes such ͞giving back͟ means more than just providing financial assistance, as much as that assistance is needed. That is why she recently agreed to serve on the Foundation’s Board of Directors. Hardin’s time is particularly precious given that she also volunteers as the chairwoman of the Educational Outreach Committee for the Coalition for Construction Safety (CCS) and is a member of the Safety Committee of the local chapter of the Associated Building and Contractors (ABC) while also being active in the Indy Chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) which she once served as the chapter’s President. Hardin is a firm believer that the Foundation serves a critically important role in the aftermath of a serious accident. “It is just wrong,” she said, “that a family that is already suffering such grief and emotional strain should also be essentially penalized because the help that is due them takes a few months to actually arrive. So I am very happy to support such an organization that contributes to these families and which helps to alleviate some of their initial financial strain.” But Hardin also knows that many more companies are needed to step up and financially support CFA because the need is so great. “On the same day that Meyer Najem gave our financial contribution, the family of a young many who had died leaving behind a wife and two small children, was given assistance roughly equaling our annual gift. It was a coincidence but it still highlights the need for more contributions and gifts,” she said. In addition to their financial contribution and their volunteer support, Meyer Najem will also place a full-page advertisement supporting the Foundation in an upcoming issue of their quarterly magazine, “Insights in Construction.” 2020 CFA Foundation Golf Outing SAVE THE DATE! The 11th Annual CFA Foundation Golf Outing will be Thursday, August 20th at Eagle Creek Golf Club. 8909 Purdue Rd, Suite 130, Indianapolis, IN 46268 Phone: 317.536.8340 Fax: 317.686.2672 © CFA Foundation \| Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343662
__label__cc	0.616236	0.383764	843.872.5352 iaam@iaamuseum.org United States Colored Troops (USCT) Pension Files Bible Records Obituaries and Funeral Programs Gallery: Ancestor Archive Records for Free People of Color Alana’s Archive Found on FamilySearch Gallery: Santee-Cooper Relocation Project Contribute Photos or Documents IAAM Home Some African American Cemeteries Were Once Used by the Enslaver by Toni \| Feb 7, 2019 \| Blog, Family History Research by Robin Foster Have you ever thought about how an old African American cemetery got started? It is usually hard to tell, but newspapers, libraries, and funeral homes are places you can start to find the history of a cemetery. I came across one such cemetery in Greenwood County, SC. It was called Save All Cemetery. I am always curious about when these cemeteries were used. Jim Ravencraft, photographed all the headstones, and I took a look at the birth and death dates that I could make out. Gracie Coleman, died Jan. 22, 1917. Aged 83 yrs. A Faithful Servant. Photo by Jim Ravencraft, on Apr. 2012. I noticed Gracie Coleman was born around 1834, therefore I knew she and several other people buried in Save All Cemetery were formerly enslaved. It would be great to know how old the cemetery was. The Lawrence Genealogy and Local History Room in the Greenwood County Library System was were I was volunteering at the time, so “Greenwood County Sketches,” by Margaret Watson was were I looked up Save All Cemetery. I was looking up an African American cemetery in a book that did not give ancestry or history about African Americans. I had come to realize that clues are included in these books even though librarians may say, “You will not find anything in there.” “Greenwood County Sketches” told me how Save All Cemetery got started. “A small Universalist Church was built in four weeks’ time in 1844, according to tradition, by sons of John Partlow to provide a place for the preaching of their father’s funeral sermon at the time the Universalist minister had promised to come. A funeral sermon often was preached weeks or months after the actual burial, depending when a favorite minister would come. It was further said that Mount Moriah Baptist Church had refused use of its building for the Universalist service and that was why the Partlow sons rushed the reconstruction. The church we at the intersection of the Barksdale Ferry road and the road from New Market. In the summer of 1845, the South Carolina convention of Universalists was held at the little church. Because Universalists believed that all souls are saved, the name ‘Save-All’ was given to the church by a nearby resident, Thomas Coleman Lipscomb. That name was applied to the Negro cemetery later on the site. Lipscomb bought the land after there was no longer a Universalist congregation, and he sold it for the cemetery,” “Greenwood County Sketches,” pg. 90. This area would have been Abbeville County, SC before 1897, and afterwards it was called Greenwood County, SC. I could not believe I had stumbled upon the owners and the name, Save-All, and sometime after African Americans purchased the cemetery. Next, I considered the year 1844. Could there also be a will for John Partlow, and would there be names of enslaved people? I searched the South Carolina Department of Archives and History: Image 1-3: Partlow, John of Abbeville District, Will Typescript (3 Frames) (Estate Packet: Box 77, Pkg. 1890) Could any of the formerly enslaved or their children have been buried in Save All Cemetery? How about the owner, Thomas Coleman Lipscomb. Did he own enslaved people? Were they buried in Save All Cemetery? Have you ever searched a possible enslaved cemetery? How did you go about finding the original owner? Let us know out on the Facebook Group. Documenting William H. Heard (1850-1937) 1905 Until His Death in 1937 Documenting William H. Heard Between 1881 and 1904 Resources for Documenting United States Colored Troops Veterans Finding Documentation for Your Ancestor’s Timeline African American Genealogy: Look up Obituaries at Beaufort County, South Carolina Library Online Vincent Smalls on Grandchildren of Robert Smalls, Charlotte, NC, ca. Early 1930s, Contributed by M.B. 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__label__wiki	0.505468	0.505468	Charlton have virtually reached Marrakesh The staff team at Charlton Triangle Homes have completed the 2,239 miles to Marrakesh, with help along the way from colleagues, contractors, visitors and friends! The project was about encouraging a healthier and fitter lifestyle for 2016 together with raising money for Great Ormond Street Hospital. What started out to be a daunting challenge ended up a lot of fun. The staff team really got stuck in: Exercising throughout the day, convincing others to take part and supporting colleagues to embark on a journey to either get fit or stay fit. Many people donated their walking miles, or had a go on our static bike and even donated their actual miles to help us achieve our goal. We would like to say a big thank you to everybody that donated miles and donated to our just giving page. The idea was presented, as part of an agreed action plan, to the adjudicating panel when Charlton was awarded Healthy Workplace status by Mayor of London at the end of 2015 and now looks set to be a permanent feature with aspirations to go further afield and carry on into the rest of 2016.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343664
__label__wiki	0.849702	0.849702	Sakamoto Q: Why does Dyne have a Gun Arm aswell? in Final Fantasy VII when Cloud and his friends are in the desert prison after a string of murders in Gold Saucer they initially suspect Barret have a witness says the murderer had a gun arm. after finding Barrett in the prison he tells them about what happened at Corel about about Dyne, Marlene... final-fantasy Tonepoet Wrong game; right name: Final Fantasy VIII – The Man with the Machine Gun – 8-Bit / NES Remix [Famitracker] Memor-X @Tonepoet how is it wrong game right name? @Memor-X Your questions are about machine gun men, but from Final Fantasy VII rather than VIII. Sadly I don't remember much about Final Fantasy VII. The lessons that game taught me are that healers can't resurrect themselves, and never to turn your back on a thief if you don't want to lose all of your marbles. @Tonepoet Gun Arms. Dyne's is more of a single shot weapon and a couple of Barret's is are called the Canon Ball and Atomic Scissors which aren't projectiles there's a few more there but those are the 2 i remember @Memor-X The default arm for Barret is the Gatling Gun, and for all intents and purposes I think we can assume that the default weapons are the ones actually depicted on the characters for the duration of the game. The other weapons are mostly just there for game-play purposes. @Tonepoet actually no, despite it's age the in battle weapons are shown to be difference when you change them this is more noticeable with Cloud's, Barret's and Cid's weapons @Memor-X As interesting as that may be, it doesn't change the actual cut-scenes which are more representative of the story and plot. Yuffie as well but she's optional like Vincent (at least until the remake) @Tonepoet true but they don't really show their weapons in pre-rendered scenes even with Barret in them the real only time we see weapons is in through extra work and in Advent Children we see Cloud with all his weapons including a non energy version of the Ultimate Weapon because this shows why the Buster Sword is an Initial Equip like the Gatling Gun. all weapons after those are additions to the base weapon @Memor-X I'm pretty sure that Barret's machine gun is a part of his character model in the original game. It's just hard to tell because the overworld graphics are, well, early Playstation 1 level graphics. i like the same with Vincent. i seem to remember his first weapon being Initial Equip and Dirge of Cerberus shows that his pistol is upgradable (though Death Penalty seems to be on him after his Chaos Transformation so not sure if that's Cerberus transformed or if he just gets a new gun) @Tonepoet oh yeh over-world graphics they don't change and Barret is the one who has a weapon shown all the time for obvious reasons just thinking about the graphic back then, i don't think it ever showed him with sunglasses and he doesn't have them in Advent Children so i wonder why they have him wear them in the remake @Memor-X Yeah, sorry 'bout the confusion. I didn't mean the F.M.V. sequences. @Tonepoet yeh well my point still stands for most of the characters, they don't really show their weapons. Cloud a couple of times but the Buster Sword doesn't change all that much when you consider a low poly count to the detailed needed to show it's difference @Memor-X Probably 'cause sunglasses are supposed to be cool and if you're going to remake the first game anyway you can retcon things like that. It also has the convenient side-effect of making old merchandising obsolete. @Tonepoet oh fuck that's something i don't want. major retconning to make old merch obsolete i wouldn't mind if they like chnaged out the JENOVA Incarnations to be more unique each time (Imaging fighting JENOVA:DEATH at North Cave, just a towering version of her blue form coming out from the edge of a cliff) BIRTH could be more what she looked like when she was first born and LIFE would be more what she looked like before she came to VII's world (with the blue woman one we see in the tank being her DEATH form because she's now lesser to what she once was) SYNTHESIS can remain as it is since you could see that as a new form of her due to Shinra Experiments and Sephiroth @Memor-X Sunglasses aren't a major change. It's not like they blinded him with laser beams in the original, or gave him mystic eyes of yuri perception and needed him to wear mystic eye killers to make sure he doesn't tragically try to pair Tifa with Aeris. =P @Tonepoet hey! we all know Aerith is watching over Tifa as Madoka did with Homura. it's hardly tragic @Memor-X I'm a per-merger F.F. enthusiast. For me Final Fantasy VII begins and ends with Final Fantasy VII, or maybe Tactics. XP she says as she continues to fantasize romantic night between Tifa and Aerith who both blew off Cloud during that Gold Saucer date and just ended up locking the hotel room doors @Tonepoet wasn't IX the last one? like i remember when i booted IX there was this sorta arcadey scene at the start saying thanks and that IX was going to be the last game @Memor-X IX is the last pre-merger Final Fantasy, but each game was treated as its own isolated story pre-merger. Final Fantasy did not have sequels, prequels, sidequels or any of that sort of stuff during the Squaresoft/Enix rivalry era. @Tonepoet oh i see but ofcause even in VII itself it was considered that Aerith sorta ascended because she was able to still pray to Holy to stop Meteor Then almost as soon as Square-Enix came around you had Final Fantasy X-2, which was the first ever thing of that sort in the series history. Then later on you got Crisis Core, Advent Children et cetera. @Tonepoet i think Dirge of Cerberus came before X-2 didn't it? @Memor-X I thought it was implied that she activated the Holy Materia just before she died. I didn't actually manage to beat Safer Sephiroth though @Memor-X No. Dirge of Cerberus was released in 2005: X-2 was 2002. @Tonepoet it was after the failed attempt to blowing up Meteor, they found out that she activated Holy but Holy had yet to decided to save the planet or not as it is the enactment of the planet's will and that she was trying to convince the plant to save itself it's why only an Ancient could use Holy, because only the Ancients could commune with the planet @Memor-X I need to play that game again. @Tonepoet like wise because i've been going though all the FF Games on PC and it's looking more and more liekly that the remake for VII will not be a one-to-one rebuild like there's is a suspicion that Square will cut out some parts like when Hojo tried to get Red XIII to mate with Aerith or the while Cosmo Canyon and Gold Saucer bits @Memor-X I think it was announced to come in four separate installments, so Square is going to try and get as much of it as possible if they are sticking with that plan, minus the brothel... @Tonepoet yeh, don't like the idea of it being episodic like that. will be waiting for when all the episodes are out Kiki's Express Delivery Q: Fantasy - anime id really appreciate the help, i used to watch this as a kid and want to watch it again unfortunately i cant remember the name of the anime stuff i do remember - aliens that look like humans aboard a ship that contains a few robots which can be controlled by humans - queen with white hair - ha... square abandoned the remaining DLC Stories for XV despite announcing them so they don't get my good faith there @Kiki'sExpressDelivery Hmm, that doesn't sound like Final Fantasy Unlimited from what I can remember, so maybe it's Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? That has extraterrestrials in it, but I haven't watched it to be sure, and it is 3D C.G.I. F.F.U. was not really a show I enjoyed watching, and I was missing the final volume because I did not understand what penultimate meant while reading the second-to-last D.V.D. cover, but just so long as I am thinking about it I may as well show something of it here. @Tonepoet but no queens in it Spirits Within seems more to be like VIII in a sense down to the whole Monsters are from space and are dropped on earth. though where is different between them and there's no magic :Hmm... List of Final Fantasy media Final Fantasy is a series of role-playing video games developed and published by Square Enix (formerly Square). Its first game premiered in Japan in 1987, and Final Fantasy games have subsequently been localized for markets in North America, Europe and Australia, on nearly every video game console since its debut on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Final Fantasy is Square Enix's most successful franchise, having sold over 97 million units worldwide to date. In addition to traditional role-playing games, the series includes tactical role-playing games, portable games, massively multiplayer online... I didn't know that Final Fantasy V had a sequel anime in 1994. Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (ファイナルファンタジー, Fainaru Fantajī) is an anime OVA based on the Final Fantasy series of role-playing video games. It was released in Japan in 1994 and distributed by Urban Vision in 1997 in North America on VHS. Urban Vision have since lost the distribution license and to date the series hasn't been released in any other format, such as DVD, following its initial video release. Legend of the Crystals takes place 200 years after the events of Final Fantasy V. It is divided into four thirty-minute OVA episodes spanning two VHS tapes. == Plot == The story takes place... @Tonepoet did not know myself either also did not know that people in V could live that long > The story takes place on the same world as Final Fantasy V, named Planet R, set two hundred years in the future both Lenna and Mid are still alive 200 years later i wonder who ended up as Bartz's wife. i know it can't be Ferris because she ended up with her sister Lenna maybe Krile? @Memor-X I am surprised that you are considering the possibility that men can have wives. =P @Tonepoet well Bartz ain't a girl and wikipedia says that Linally is a decedent of Bartz so there has to be a woman involved in there somewhere obviously not Lenna or Ferris Maybe it was Gogo. =P @Tonepoet so that's VI you're thinking of also don't think Gogo can mimic anatomy only powers like he isn't a shapeshifter @Memor-X Gogo was an optional boss in Final Fantasy V too. It's how you get the Mimic job class. @Tonepoet oh yeh but given the opening of the Rift it might as very well be the one from VI too You are right that I am thinking about VI though. Gogo's sex was expressly ambiguous in VI, so Gogo could be a man or a woman, and even if not, given all of the other feats of mimicry it does not seem too implausible that Gogo could mimic the ability to become pregnant. In all seriousness though, I just looked at safebooru and saw this: @Tonepoet i see your Lenna in a wedding dress but not in a yuri situatation and raise you 2 yuri ones Of course, with Faris being a Pirate Theif Ninja Princess I wouldn't put it past her to steal somebody's wife: safebooru.donmai.us/posts/2241705 \| safebooru.donmai.us/posts/1653240 @Tonepoet it's not stealing when their heart belonged to you in the first place @Memor-X Hmm, nobody's heart belongs to another in the first place though. That's why Marisa was able to steal Alice's precious thing. XP Also, speaking of Alice and Marisa: Piggyback ride! That makes me wonder just what really happens to the other character when you change focus in Imperishable Night, since only one character of any given team is active on-screen at a time. @Tonepoet in the first place no but it can be given Dimitri mx JNat G'mornin' Q: What is the song inside the attached video? I have recently come to across this video in youtube (sorry that the video is non-anime related), but I would like to know the Background song (which I believe its a song from some anime) used in the video. I tried to search part of the lyrics I heard, and also using song detector apps but has n... music theme-song Q: Tokyo ghoul s01 e01 piano soundtrack @2:25 What is the piano soundtrack which plays in background of the tokyo ghoul s01 e01 at after 2:25 when kaneki and hide are talking first tym in the anime? Please tell me I m searching it really very hard but not getting! tokyo-ghoul 11 hours later… Today is Atsuko Kagari's birthday, so better present is there than this i read that as "shit" at first and went "ewwww, Pharah, don't ruin the yuri with that filth" Maid Café (メイド喫茶) Welcome back, my Master! (お帰りなさいませ、ご主人様!) Sit wherever you'd l... anime handholding identification-questions maids manga recommendations spoilers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343665
__label__cc	0.672519	0.327481	Strange and untold stories. By D. Golden D. Golden Allegedly, There Is a Secret Underground Alien Base in Dulce, New Mexico curiosity.com - Joanie Faletto On the surface, Dulce, New Mexico is just a small southwestern town. It doesn't even have a traffic light. But according to the most bizarre rumors, … A neuroscientist explains why reality may just be a hallucination - Business Insider Business Insider - Jen Atalla Anil Seth, professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, explains the link between perception and reality. Seth believes reality as we know it comes from activity our Quote Symbol Incredible http://flip.it/.FuCu6 The Denver International Airport Is the Unassuming Home to Countless Conspiracies It's difficult to narrow down all the strange features of the Denver International Airport to the single most bizarre. It's as if the builders (who … http://flip.it/Bq2FE http://flip.it/7mXYa Modern Humans May Have Caused The Extinction Of Real 'Hobbits' huffingtonpost.com - Lee Speigel Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a mysterious human "hobbit" species once thrived. They sustained themselves off fauna, and even slew … http://flip.it/v2hK0 20+ Strange Animals You Didn’t Know Existed My Modern Met - Pinar The world we live in is filled with exotic wildlife, and that means more than just lions and giraffes. There are a multitude of species that are lesser known to the general public and fascinating to learn Did the Kepler telescope just find the first signs of alien life? PRI - Alexa Lim \| Elizabeth Shockman A recent paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society describes a star more than 1,400 light years away that dims and glows in a strange flickering pattern. A number of theories Alien Species in Contact With Earth Right Now ufothetruthisoutthere.blogspot.pt Do you believe in Extraterrestrial Intelligence? What about the idea that not only do they exist, but that they are in contact with the Earth … http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/science/south-africa-fossils-new-species-human-ancestor-homo-naledi.html Mars breakthrough: Amazing picture that shows Red Planet could have once teemed with life express.co.uk - Jon Austin SCIENTISTS are becoming more convinced that Mars was once an earth-like planet with continents divided by great oceans of water. Data and images sent … Janet is the US Goverment’s Secret Airline That Transports Workers to Area 51, Here are 5 Interesting Facts – TechEBlog techeblog.com For those who aren’t conspiracy theorists, “Janet” – said to stand for ‘Just Another Non Existent Terminal’ – refers to a small fleet of passenger … Quantum Spacecraft & Other Hidden Truths: What Lies Hidden In Snowden’s “Black Budget” World? themindunleashed.org Not long ago Edward Snowden, a former intelligence contractor leaked the very first documentation that proves the existence of clandestine black … http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/08/15/apollo-14-astronaut-claims-peace-loving-aliens-prevented-nuclear-war-on-earth/ http://facts-mania.blogspot.com/2014/08/who-is-this-on-moon-figure-spotted.html Everyone wants NASA to send its Mars rover back for another look at this 'giant space crab alien' businessinsider.com.au - Peter Farquhar Spotting aliens and bits of spacecraft on Mars has been a full-time occupation for believers in the nearly 40 years since humans first started … Proof Of End Times? ‘Sinister’ Cube-Shaped UFO Appears Over Texas While Star Of Bethlehem Shines In Israel The Inquisitr - Tara West Are the “End Times” near? Many are speculating that a rash of strange happenings in the recent months are proof that the apocalypse is coming and … http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07/08/texas-man-claims-he-discovered-carcass-of-a-mythical-chupacabra-but-experts-say-not-so-fast/ UFO hunters see \'pyramid\' on Nasa image of Mars speculating it was built by an ancient civilisation International Business Times (GB) - Fiona Keating Extraterrestrial hunters claim to have found a structure very similar to an Egyptian pyramid in Nasa images of Mars. ParanormalCrucible, a YouTube … THE STORY OF SILENT TWINS http://t.co/wTjY7cCLPm	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343669
__label__cc	0.749251	0.250749	The Cheshire Library Blog Library News, Books to Choose, Info to Peruse Self-Help Books to Boost Positivity August 30, 2019 August 28, 2019 / Emily / Leave a comment Why wait for January’s New Year’s resolutions to be your best self? You can start any time during the calendar year. Small incremental changes work best, and this is where self-help books shine. Go at your own pace, ease in slowly, and you might find you don’t need a New Year’s resolution at all. This month’s Reader’s Depot focuses on self-help books to bring notes of gratitude and love into your daily life. Almost Everything by Anne Lamott – Presents an inspirational guide to the role of hope in everyday life and explores essential truths about how to overcome burnout and suffering by deliberately choosing joy. Outer Order, Inner Calm by Gretchen Rubin – Offers manageable steps for creating a more serene, orderly environment, which contributes to maintaining inner calm. Let Love Have the Last Word by Common – Explores how love and mindfulness can guide people in living their lives and interacting with their communities, and calls upon readers to give and receive love in their lives. Everything is F*cked by Mark Manson – A counterintuitive guide to hope looks at contemporary society’s relationships with religion, politics, money, entertainment, and the internet, and challenges people to be honest with themselves and connect with the world in ways they had not considered before. Where the Light Enters by Jill Biden- The former second lady describes her marriage to Joe Biden and the role of politics in her life and teaching career, sharing intimate insights into the traditions, resilience, and love that have helped her family establish balance and endure tragedy. Nanaville by Anna Quindlen – The author discusses her role as a grandmother and how she learned to support her grandson’s parents by stepping back and following their lead. Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani – The founder of the Girls Who Code nonprofit shares insights into the toxic cultural standards affecting girls today, explaining how girls can transition from perfectionism to more courageous practices that understand the value of imperfection. The Path Made Clear by Oprah Winfrey – Offers a guide for identifying one’s purpose and creating a framework for a life that is both successful and meaningful, sharing inspirational quotes by some of today’s most influential cultural figures. Gmorning, Gnight! by Lin-Manual Miranda and Jonny Sun – The creator and star of “Hamilton” presents an illustrated book of affirmations to provide inspiration at the beginning and end of each day. On Being Human by Jennifer Pastiloff – An inspirational memoir based on the popular workshop of the same name reveals how the author’s years of waitressing and hearing impairment taught her to recognize unexpected beauty, relinquish shame, and find love in the face of imperfection. Most Wanted Books of Summer 2019 July 26, 2019 July 29, 2019 / Emily / Leave a comment Looking for something to read this summer? Let us help! Our Reader’s Depot has new book lists every month, so you’ll never run out of books to read. For even more recommendations, visit the Reader’s Depot display on the library’s main level. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert – Eighty-nine-year-old Vivian recounts her life after being kicked out of Vassar College, living in Manhattan with her Aunt Peg and the personal mistake that resulted in a professional scandal. The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory – After mistakenly spending a night together, Maddie and Theo uncomfortably share bridal party responsibilities for their best friend’s wedding, but despite the sharp barbs they toss at each other, a simmering attraction lingers that just won’t fade. The Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin – The director of the luxurious Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris and his courageous American wife, Blanche Auzello, risk their marriage and lives to support the French Resistance during World War II. Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini – Resisting the power grabs of an increasingly formidable Nazi Party in 1930s Berlin, the courageous American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends engage in a clandestine battle to sabotage Hitler’s regime. The Farm by Joanne Ramos – Ensconced within a Hudson Valley retreat where expectant birth mothers are given luxurious accommodations and lucrative rewards to produce perfect babies, a Filipino immigrant is forced to choose between a life-changing payment and the outside world. The Last Time I Saw You by Liv Constantine – In the aftermath of her mother’s murder, Dr. Kate English reaches out to her estranged best friend Blaire Barrington, a mystery author, who decides to investigate when Kate starts getting anonymous texts from the killer. The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver – Colter Shaw is an itinerate “reward-seeker,” traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons. When he learns of a reward for a missing college student in Silicon Valley, he takes the job. Queen Bee by Dorothea Benton Frank – A woman wounded by her past comes to Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina to find new meaning in life and to find herself. Meet Me In Monaco by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb – Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and unforgettable wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco. The Night Before by Wendy Walker – A tale told through parallel accounts of the days before and after a fateful blind date follows a woman’s revelatory investigation into her sister’s disappearance and complicated nature. The Paris Diversion by Chris Pavone – After a leisurely start to a normal day, American expat Kate Moore finds herself partnered with a French agent to investigate a bombing threat in Paris. The Night Window by Dean Koontz – When people under Arcadian control begin showing signs of instability, Jane Hawk and her supporters confront the center of power in a showdown that will determine America’s future. The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung – From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But in becoming a mathematician, she must face the most human of problems—who is she? The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware – When a high-paying nanny job at a luxurious Scottish Highlands home ends with her imprisonment for a child’s murder, a young woman struggles to explain to her lawyer the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson – A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky’s Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors. Under Currents by Nora Roberts – Returning to his hometown of Lakeview where his father’s abuse made his childhood a nightmare, Zane Bigelow begins a relationship with Darby McCray, a landscape designer, but his dark past comes back to haunt Zane and threatens their happiness. The Big Kahuna by Janet and Peter Evanovich – When unlikely partners FBI agent Kate O’Hare and con man Nicholas Fox investigate a missing Silicon Valley billionaire known as the Big Kahuna, they go undercover as a married couple in Paia, Maui, to find the man’s son. Anna of Kleve by Alison Weir – Chosen as his fourth wife by England’s infamous Henry VIII, Anna of Kleve, a princess from a small German duchy, hides a desperate secret in a hostile foreign court. The Daughter’s Tale by Armando Lucas Correa – A tale of love and redemption based on the 1944 Oradour-Sur-Glane massacre follows an octogenarian’s receipt of a cache of letters, written by her mother during World War II, that uncover decades of secrets. iPhone X, the Power in Your Pocket December 11, 2017 December 7, 2017 / Emily / 2 Comments I recently attended a conference in Atlantic City on the future of technology. Topics included self-driving cars, virtual and augmented reality, designer babies, nanobots, the implications of artificial intelligence, and more. One session in particular really stayed with me: The Smart Phone. Assuming you own one, have you thought much about your smart phone and how ridiculously powerful it is? It’s an equalizer for access to information. It’s an instant connection to the whole wide world. Exactly 10 years ago, the first iPhone was released. Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone as a combination of three devices: a music player with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough Internet communicator. The days of duck-hunting on a flip-phone keypad were over. Do you remember typing “222” for the letter C? Not very convenient! The first iPhone boasted a big responsive touch screen, a proper keyboard, and nimble navigation. Fast-forward 10 years later: The new iPhone X has facial recognition and you can shop online using your FACE to make payment. It has photography and film capabilities that rival a professional studio. It can instantly connect you to millions around the globe and shoot stunning HDR video in 4k resolution. It’s trained to know your voice and only respond to you. Just think about it. Imagine everything you can actually do with your smart phone right now and it will boggle the mind. At first the microphone was dumb, and then we taught it to understand us. The camera just took photos and then we taught it to recognize us. Imagine what’s in store for the iPhone 2027! It’s both exciting and scary. The iPhone X starts at $1,000, and many are complaining that this is much too expensive. Consider for a moment this revelation from esteemed economist, Brad De Long. He ran some numbers on the iPhone X’s 256 GB of memory and 4.3 billion transistors in its A-11 processor and discovered that building an iPhone X in 1957 would have literally taken all of the money in the world. Specifically, it would have cost 150 trillion of today’s dollars, which is one and a half times today’s global annual product. The CPU would have taken up a hundred-story square building 100 feet high and 2 miles long and wide. And to power the CPU, it would have drawn 150 terawatts of power—that is 30 times the world’s current generating capacity! Meanwhile, in 2017, we’re carrying this device in our pockets. Pretty wild, isn’t it? $1,000 doesn’t seem so astronomical when you think about it in those terms. If you’re interested in learning more about the history of the iPhone, check out these awesome books below. And as always, if you have any questions on your devices whatsoever, come to CPL’s Drop-in Tech Help! We hold it every week. The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Protect Your Facebook Privacy October 16, 2017 September 14, 2017 / Emily / Leave a comment Facebook has 2 billion monthly active users (source), and you’re probably one of them. A Google search for your full name and location is likely to pull up your Facebook profile as the first result. What will snoopers find out about you? Probably not much, right? If you don’t take steps to lock down your Facebook account, searchers will easily see: What you look like What your significant other or family looks like Your relationship status Your likes ….even your political views! Luckily, keeping Facebook information restricted to your Facebook “Friends” isn’t too difficult. Here are some tips to get you started: First, never post anything with a public audience unless you’re okay with the entire world seeing it. Always check your audience before posting and ensure it’s set to “Friends” and never “Public.” Second, if you’ve posted publicly in the past, you can set those old posts to “Friends” with one click. Simply click on the triangle in the upper-right of the screen and select “Settings.” From there, go to Privacy and click “Limit Past Posts.” Everything you ever posted with a “Public” audience will be set to “Friends.” I also recommend changing who can look you up by phone number and email to “Friends” and opting NOT to be indexed by search engines. To check how your profile looks to the public, head over to your profile page and click on the three dots “…” and “View as.” You will then see your profile as it appears to non-“Friends.” Keep in mind that every time you change your Profile and Cover photos, these are set to “Public” by default with all descriptions, likes, and comments made public, too. If you’re feeling fancy, you can manually change the privacy settings of your Profile photo when you view the photo. Simply click on the “globe” icon and select “Friends” to ensure only your friends can see the likes and comments. Your current Cover photo must always be set to public (Facebook won’t let you change this), however you can change it back to “Friends” when you swap it out for a new cover photo. Facebook will also post a public update to your Timeline each time you update your Profile and Cover photos. I recommend clicking on the little arrow and selecting “Hide from timeline” so the entire world won’t know you were updating your cover photo to the latest snapshot of your cat at 3am last night. Be mindful of what else is public on your profile, too. Is your workplace “Public”? Your relationship status? You can change these to “Friends” by clicking the edit pencil to the right of each entry. I hope these tips were helpful! Social media is an amazing tool, but remember to be mindful of your own privacy. Technology Help – Need device advice? Come to Drop-in Tech Help. No appointment necessary. We provide help with smartphones, laptops, tablets, ereaders, email, Facebook, social media, and more! Check out the calendar for our next session. Unplug for Happiness September 11, 2017 October 10, 2017 / Emily / 2 Comments How many times a day do you look at your phone? Start counting and the number may depress you. According to Time magazine, the average person looks at his or her phone 46 times a day. (Full article here.) As a Technology Coordinator, it might surprise you that I strongly support limiting screen time. Study after study shows that time spent in front of devices like smartphones and tablets directly impacts your happiness. In summary, more time spent on Facebook, SnapChat, Instagram, text messaging, and other online forms of communication makes you feel sadder, less satisfied with your life, and interestingly, more lonely. Even more alarming, The Atlantic just published an article, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” which underscores the detrimental impact screens have taken on post-millennials. This generation doesn’t date, doesn’t hang out in person, doesn’t care about getting a driver’s license or a part-time job or going to the mall alone with their friends. What do they care about? “It sometimes bugs me when I don’t get a certain amount of likes on a picture” says 13-year-old Athena. “I’ve been on my phone more than I’ve been with actual people,” she said. “My bed has, like, an imprint of my body.” The article strongly concludes that “There’s not a single exception. All screen activities are linked to less happiness, and all nonscreen activities are linked to more happiness” and here we have a generation more plugged in than ever. (Full article here.) So, how do you unplug for happiness? How do you ignore the siren’s song of likes, loves, and comments, the photos of your friend’s latest micro brewery trip, the constant churn of political news? It’s easier than you think. Get an alarm clock. First of all, if you rely on your smartphone to wake you up each morning, STOP! Get yourself a traditional alarm clock. A study from the Braun Research Center and Bank of America shows more people think about their phones than their significant others when they first wake up. If you’re guilty of browsing Facebook right before bed and checking your messages the moment you wake up, keep your phone out of reach. Better yet? Keep it out of the bedroom. Give your phone a home. Quit carrying your phone in your pocket and keeping your tablet within arm’s reach. Designate a basket or drawer for your devices when you’re at home, and leave them there. Without the temptation of your phone buzzing in your pocket or your tablet lighting up on the coffee table, you’ll find it much easier to unplug. Start small. Set achievable goals for yourself. No one can go from phone junky to unplugged zen master overnight. Start off with a small amount of time for unplugging, perhaps an hour a day. The next week, increase to two hours. Leave your phone in the car when you’re out shopping. Go for a long walk each day and leave your phone at home. Be as kind to yourself as possible, and reward good behavior. You won’t enjoy long-term success if you make unplugging a punishment. Did you get through dinner without looking at your phone? Treat yourself! Buy a book. Go out for an ice cream. Have a plan. So your phone is in the other room… Now what? If you sit there counting the cracks in the ceiling, you’ll never stop thinking about what’s going on in the online world. Fear of Missing Out is a real thing (Hey, it has a Wikipedia entry!). If you don’t keep yourself busy, the temptation to check your phone will be unbearable. Make a list of things to do while unplugged and use it. You can also take a look at The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World by Nancy Colier or The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer. Happy unplugging! 🙂 Cheshire, CT 06410 www.cheshirelibrary.org Monday - Thursday: 9 - 8:30 Saturday: 9 - 5 (Jul-Aug 9-1) Sundays, Nov - March 1 - 5 Click below to receive an email whenever there's a new post. 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__label__wiki	0.569777	0.569777	← Existential Eden or Eerie Everafter? Wise Men (and Women) (Re)Inventing Beer → A Melodious Memoir of Grit and Healing The Most Beautiful Girl: A True Story of a Dad, a Daughter, and the Healing Power of Music by Tamara Saviano; foreword by Kris Kristofferson In her middle age, Tamara Saviano found new strength in setting to paper an unflinching reflection on her troubled childhood. The Most Beautiful Girl, the Grammy-winning music producer’s resulting memoir, is both achingly grim and courageously inspirational. It is also a music time capsule. When Saviano and her physically and verbally abusive alcoholic father aren’t spinning LPs or loading eight-tracks, they’re singing. As she wrote the book, Saviano jogged her memory by playing her father’s favorite records. Mention of legendary artists—Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Charley Pride, Wilson Pickett, John Denver, the Eagles, Elvis Presley, KISS, Billy Joel, Kris Kristofferson, and her father’s favorite, Johnny Cash—the records they produced, and their lyrics pepper the narrative. Music lends pop cultural context to a story that begins in the early 1960s and spans the next five decades. Her father sings Cash’s 1968 hit “Long Black Veil” as he cracks ice cubes into a drink and kisses her goodnight. “Oh, Sweet Pea, c’mon and dance with me …,” he croons as they walk home from kindergarten. In its lighter moments especially, the story is a wistful throwback to 1970s blue-collar Wisconsin, weaving in Saviano’s suburban Milwaukee neighborhood, Green Bay Packer football Sundays, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, and the wooded, northern Wisconsin resort where the family spent most of their weekends and holidays. As often occurs in alcoholic families, Saviano’s father’s tirades alternate with moments in which he shows deep love. In these moments, family dynamics seem almost normal. Saviano writes that, “It’s Dad’s contradictions that confuse me as a child … it seems there is a relentless battle between good and evil raging deep inside him. There are times in my life when my dad is my staunchest ally and strongest supporter. There are other times when he crushes me like an empty can of Pabst.” In her father’s darker moments, music becomes a grinding player in their dysfunction; late at night he drunkenly turns up his stereo, often playing Cash tunes, rousing his four young children from sleep. Music itself becomes a victim: One Christmas morning, her father’s gifts of now-classic Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison and Carryin’ On albums are smashed during a family confrontation. Tamara Saviano That Saviano’s music business career in Nashville ultimately brings her to personally know Johnny Cash, after being raised by a father who revered the singer, takes her story in a deeply poignant full circle. The book’s first pages, in fact, juxtapose Saviano’s attendance at Cash’s 2003 funeral and the shocking story of her, at age fifteen, being dragged by her father from a friend’s house and savagely beaten with a belt for getting a “D” in algebra. The family situation doesn’t improve; such scenes are common throughout the memoir. Saviano goes on to become a teenage wife and, very quickly, a divorced single mother. She spins Kris Kristofferson’s Little Girl Lost on her turntable while tending a colicky infant. Her life—and life outlook—improve only after the passage of many years and “excruciating” therapy. In her twenties, Saviano comes to know her biological father, whom she didn’t know existed until her teenage years. This relationship, and her career, take her in new directions. Saviano is unable, before he dies, to resurrect the relationship with the father who raised her; they are estranged from each other during the final ten years of his life. She is, however, able to come to terms with the past, and to ultimately look with compassion at his life situation. She comes to see the events that precipitated the drinking and violence. She writes that, “I have no score to settle with my father. This is simply our story … I suppose this book is a way of making peace with my dad.” Her message is quite simple: Healing is possible only if you first let go of the past. Musicians often write lyrics as the outlet for weighty emotions and situations. Saviano’s release comes in the form of a written memoir, steeped in the music that is the record of her life. To her great credit, she writes not only about family grit, but also about the ability to move on. It’s that second piece that is transcendent. It elevates The Most Beautiful Girl from a tell-all family memoir to a deeply reflective guidebook for readers who desire—who need—to get beyond the past. February 2014, American Roots Press Read more about the author and the book. Learn more about the author. Tagged as book review, Chicago, memoir, music, Nashville, Tamara Saviano, Wisconsin One response to “A Melodious Memoir of Grit and Healing” Pingback: CBR’s Best Books of 2014 \| Chicago Book Review	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343672
__label__cc	0.638327	0.361673	CHRIS STOVER anchor \| reporter \| multimedia journalist On the SEPTA strike beat. Again. A rundown from CBS This Morning on Nov. 1, 2016. (Red is a bad thing.) When I saw the news early Tuesday morning of the SEPTA strike in Philadelphia, I had a flashback to 11 years ago. I was a cub reporter for The Temple News. I’d written two articles (poorly) for the paper so far, and then one of SEPTA’s unions decided to strike. It was a Monday. And my news editor asked me to go get reaction to the strike from Temple students stranded with no transportation. So that’s just what I did. I spoke to several students waiting for emergency Temple shuttles that never seemed to arrive. And frustration was rampant. I picked up my copy of TTN the following day to see my byline along with colleagues including Christopher Wink and Chris Vito (the Chrises nailed the SEPTA strike coverage). The articles won a Keystone Press Award that year, my first recognition for journalism. Flash forward four years. I had graduated from Temple, but I was freelancing in the university’s creative services department as a proofreader and editor. And what happened? SEPTA’s union decided to strike again, also in early November. I was a technically unemployed Temple alumnus by this point, so I had no duty to write for a news organization. But I had this blog, even back then. So I wrote about how my commute to work to Hunting Park was basically a disaster (in a mildly humorous way, if I might add). Flash forward to this week. I’m scrolling through my Facebook feed at work and notice around 12:05 a.m. Tuesday that SEPTA’s union decided to strike again. On the 1st of November. I sent a note to the senior producers, notifying them of this inconvenience in case it rose to national importance. Sure enough, it did. The last part of my shift at CBS This Morning early Tuesday morning was to write a 30-second story on the SEPTA strike. Once again, I was writing news about the SEPTA strike, but for a much larger audience. A colleague eventually took over the story to make minor edits and additions after I left. (Note: That link is not my work, but that of the fantastic journalists at CBS News. My work never survived…) I leave work around 2 a.m., well before the show airs. The first thing I do when I come into work the following day is look at the rundown of the previous show to see what survived and what did not. Sadly, SEPTA did not survive. Interviews and stories went long, and there was no time to include the plight of the Philadelphia commuter in a national network news morning show. But now you know that it almost did, and that I wrote about SEPTA once again. SEPTA strikes follow my career. And, for the first time, it doesn’t personally affect me. Maybe the fourth time, it will. Posted by Chris Stover in Behind the Scenes, Journalism, Personal Accounts Tagged: CBS News, CBS This Morning, Journalism, SEPTA, The Temple News ← I felt the earth move: Covering a historic natural disaster The unlikely uniting force in a bitter time: Wegmans → Social media should still be social January 5, 2017 The unlikely uniting force in a bitter time: Wegmans November 7, 2016 On the SEPTA strike beat. Again. November 2, 2016 I felt the earth move: Covering a historic natural disaster August 23, 2016 Tweeting on Target: a company’s engagement with a lowly customer July 18, 2016 Clips & Videos Random Rubbish Does a bodega need to be on a corner for it to be called a bodega? Because my New York speak might’ve been wrong this whole time. \| I tweeted this 1 day ago I’m 32 years old and I still want to be the first one to pull the cord telling the bus driver when to stop. \| I tweeted this 5 days ago @EthanHarpNews It includes a 10th Avenue subway and increased buses on off-peak hours. \| I tweeted this 1 week ago “I love infrastructure.” Something kosher to say among friends or a questionable reflection of your self? Because… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… \| I tweeted this 1 week ago At least she took it as a compliment. twitter.com/dailymissbaile… \| I tweeted this 1 week ago Follow @ChrisStover Charlottesville Newsplex The Temple News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343675
__label__cc	0.585322	0.414678	This short story is based on several experiences I had while teaching overseas. All of them happened, though not on the same day. And I did spend a whole weekend sick with worry about my little girl who had been picked up by a stranger. The pick up procedure was changed very shortly after. And I am pretty sure the nurse meant I looked healthy, not overweight. The names have been changed etc, etc… (though Cling On was known as Cling On.) “Miss Miriam?” Lindsey turned from her tray where she had been inventorying the day’s supplies against her lesson plans. Surely the woman didn’t really expect the Arabic teacher to be in the room. She wouldn’t show up until the first strains of the Good Morning song that kicked off assembly. Cling On had his arms wrapped around his tiny Indonesian housekeeper’s waist. Damn, she’d thought he was past that by now. Lindsey brushed her hands on her white flowered abaya. She hated this abaya. No matter how often she washed it, it stayed starched, but it had been the only one clean this morning. “I’m sorry. Miss Miriam isn’t here yet. Can I help?” The housekeeper’s face screwed up. “No Arabic?” Lindsey shook her head. “No. I don’t speak Arabic. We can ask Miss Klaithem to translate.” She crossed the carpet toward the door. Klaithem would be in her room by now. She’d be happy to translate. The housekeeper’s eyes went wide and she shook her head. “No, no. Only Miss Miriam and you.” She chewed her lip and put her hand on the boy’s shoulder. “Mansour.” Cling On, otherwise known as Mansour, stuck his thumb in his mouth. Poor kid was regressing before her eyes. “Yes.” Lindsey nodded encouragement. “Mansour go home only me.” The housekeeper patted herself on the chest. “Only me!” Lindsey could translate that into any language without help. Something happened at home and the child was at risk of being kidnapped by a parent. That explained Mansour’s regression, too. “Mansour only goes home with you.” “Yes, yes.” The housekeeper bobbled her head up and down so hard Lindsey thought her headscarf would fly off. “No problem. I will see you after school. Mansour, come on, babe.” Lindsey held out her hand. Mansour transferred from his housekeeper to Lindsey without breaking suction on his thumb. “Say bye bye.” Mansour waved to the housekeeper who gave him one last terrified look and left. After divesting him of his backpack and a failed attempt to set him up with the iPad, Lindsey let Mansour wrap one arm around her leg while she finished checking her supplies for the day. She needed to be sure she had enough to both classrooms. More kids arrived so Lindsey went out to the play area. She sat down on the giant foam bricks with her iPad and Mansour suctioned to her hip. “What’s the matter with Cling On?” Harriet scanned the play area for trouble. “His nanny said he wasn’t to go home with anybody but her.” “Uh oh.” Harriet spoke the same universal child in danger dialect. Abdulla ran in and threw his arms around Lindsey’s neck. “Hi sweetie. Go put your bag away.” Lindsey nudged him on the direction of the classroom and Abdulla never needed much more than a nudge. He sprinted away, swinging his backpack over his head. “Something wrong with Mansour?” Klaithem knelt behind Lindsey’s shoulder. Hessa draped herself over Klaithem’s shoulders, pouting. “His nanny told me he’s not allowed to go home with anyone but her.” Klaithem nodded. “I was afraid.” Lindsey made a note to check on this later. The bell rang for assembly. Still no Miriam. Surprise. Lindsey allowed Mansour to remain attached to her as she put away her iPad and got the other kids lined up. Miriam sailed across the play area from the main doors to their classroom, still in her black abaya. She handed her purse to Laith and stood at the head of the class. Lindsey took her place between the two classes as the Good Morning song started. Hessa slouched like she wanted to melt into the floor and Ahmed kept twisting around to check on her. Lindsey side stepped closer and put her hand on Hessa’s shoulder. Hessa turned and threw up on Lindsey’s shoes. Lindsey had been bending down and the relentless starch of her abaya had pulled it against her legs so nothing got on the fabric. “Sweetie.” Lindsey took Hessa’s hand and led her back to the classroom. Hessa had also neatly missed getting any vomit on her purple school uniform. Lindsey handed the girl a paper towel and wiped off her shoes. “The other teachers laugh at me for wearing Crocs, but who’s laughing now, right Hessa?” “Not nice to laugh.” “No, it’s not. Do you want to go to the nurse?” Lindsey touched the girl’s forehead. Not especially warm. “Okay.” Lindsey took her hand. Outside the classroom she gestured to Klaithem and Miriam where she was going and took Hessa the back way around to the nurse’s office. By the time she got back to the classroom, without Hessa, assembly was over. Miriam, halfway through her Arabic lesson, scowled at Lindsey. Lindsey was elbow deep in the parachute man craft when Miriam burst into Klaithem’s room with Abdulla in tow. Miriam barked something at Klaithem and Klaithem responded with something that sounded a lot like an Arabic “whatever.” Lindsey frowned at Abdulla and pointed at the carpet. He was a handful. Miriam said his family were slavers, but that could have been decades ago or centuries ago. Long memories in this part of the world. Abdulla sat curled over his folded legs in a position that made Lindsey’s back spasm in sympathy. “What’s up with the visitor?” Lindsey asked Klaithem. One nice thing about Klaithem being a fluent English speaker, when they talked the conversation could go right over the kids’ heads. Klaithem shrugged. “Miriam is not fond.” No, Miriam was not fond of Abdulla. He had a rock star’s personality jammed into a four-year-old’s body and less of an inclination to control himself. Which made it all the stranger that he was huddled on the carpet in that half lotus, half fetal position. Finishing the parachute men took entirely too long. After the kids decorated their men, Lindsey had to help then glue the plastic gem that served as ballast on one side and the yarn straps on the other side, and lastly, write each kid’s name on the leg. Then they were placed on the drying trays, cookies sheets because Lindsey didn’t plan to bake cookies this weekend, which were placed high on a shelf so nothing would happen to them before they dried. She handed the kids in her group P coloring pages and went to check on Abdulla. “Abdulla? What happened?” She sat in front of him and patted his shoulder. For the half of each day she spent in Miriam’s room, she could contain Abdulla’s outrageous personality with pointed looks and make sure Mansour went to the bathroom before he wet himself and keep track of Osha so she didn’t disappear into the bathroom to play in the water and whatever else it took to keep chaos at bay. She took no responsibility for what happened the other half of the day. Abdulla lifted his little head. Snot and tears streaked down his cheeks and the front of his uniform. “Shamsa, get me the tissues,” Lindsey said over her shoulder. She slid around beside Abdulla and put her arm around him. Poor kid. Forced out of his class by one teacher. Ignored by the other. Left to wallow in his misery for what must have been an eternity to his young mind. This was exactly why she tried not to think about what happened in her other class when she wasn’t there. Shamsa arrived with the box of tissues. Lindsey handed one to Abdulla and used a second to clean off his shirt. “You can just stay with us and do math again. Would you like that?” Abdulla nodded and wiped his nose. “Right before time to go home we’ll go to Miss Miriam and you can tell her sorry. Okay?” Abdulla nodded again. Lindsey held him until it was time to clean up from literacy and do math. “Go on and wash your face.” She lifted Abdulla to his feet and shooed him in the direction of the bathroom. Before she could stand, Surour plopped into her lap, staring up at her with big pleading eyes. “P,” he said. “Parachute. Puppy dog. Pomegranate. Purse.” “Good boy, now up, up.” Lindsey tried to lift him, but he turned into granite. She didn’t have to be telepathic to know what was going on between his ears. He’d seen her cuddling Abdulla and now he wanted his share. “Surour, honey, you have to get up.” Stinker. “You can sit in my lap during math play, okay? We can read the counting book.” Surour pouted, but stood up. Lindsey climbed to her feet and shook out her abaya. “I was going to do the patterning game with small groups, but let’s skip that today,” she told Klaithem. “I will do it. Abdulla can sit in Hessa’s chair.” “Thanks.” Lindsey reached into her tray for the math mats and the clay. Amna tugged Klaithem’s abaya and asked her something in Arabic. Klaithem answered before pointing Amna to the carpet. “The children want to know if you will do it.” Lindsey rolled her eyes. They had spotted the shaving cream. Why this little demonstration enthralled them so much, she had no idea, but they sat with bated breath every time. “Abdulla. He has a genie.” Lindsey paused with the laminated number mats clutched in her hands. “What?” “He has a genie. It bothers him and makes him bad.” She spoke as if this was scientifically proven. Abdulla had a genie that made him misbehave. Lindsey set the mats on the table. Blinking to rid herself of the image of the genie from Aladdin following Abdulla around pestering him and whispering in his ear. Maybe it was just Robin Williams. Maybe the ghost of Robin Williams. “So, I’ll do the lesson and you can do the patterning activity? Simple ABC pattern.” Lindsey held out the box she kept the strips of stickers and the papers the kids were to stick them on. Lindsey carried her tray to the front of the room. The kids had been sitting patiently waiting because Klaithem kept them under a tight reign. After Miriam’s class, it was almost a vacation coming here. Lindsey put a finger to her lips and the kids giggled. Then she made a big show of shaking out her hands and peering down her sleeves before quirting mounds of shaving cream into two bowls she’d brought. “White! White! White!” the kids shouted. She tapped her finger on her lips again and they quieted down. She dripped red food coloring into one bowl and stirred it, and then held it up. “Red! Red! Red!” She tapped her lips again and repeated the process with blue. Standing, she went around the circle spooning red onto each child’s left hand. Then she went around spooning blue onto each child’s right hand. This part of the lesson always made her think of a dog her family had had when she was growing up. That dog would leave a biscuit balancing on his nose for fifteen minutes, waiting for the command to take it. The kids were the same way. They would sit there with the shaving cream on their hands until it melted away if she never let them mix it together. Both classes. They were all good kids. She clapped her hands together and the kids did too screaming, “Purple! Purple! Purple!” Surour tired of the purple soap first and ran to the bathroom to wash, coming right back with the counting book in his wet hands. Klaithem called the first group to the table and put them to work patterning red, blue and purple dots. The others chose an activity they wanted to do. Genies. Good grief. Lindsey pulled the elastic out of her hair and ran her fingers through it. Her skull ached. Hopefully, she wasn’t catching whatever Hessa had. She looked at her feet. Damn, she hadn’t rinsed off her feet. Laughter and ruckus came from the teacher’s lounge down the hall. “Lindsey!” Valerie trotted up the hall behind her. “Hey, how’s it going?” “It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood.” Valerie laughed. “I wanted to talk to you about next week’s lesson plans.” Lindsey stopped. The nurse’s office was right behind her. She should stop and check on Hessa, but this was her only break all day. “Mine?” “No, Angela’s. And Patti’s.” Lindsey rubbed her face with both hands. Volunteering for lead teacher was turning out to be more fun that anticipated. “No plans yet?” “I have plans, but for the love of –“ Valerie looked up and down the hall. “For the love of Pete, it looks like they are doing the same activities again next week as they did this week and last week.” “Every time I ask them if they need help, they tell me they don’t. We sat down as a grade level Wednesday and discussed ideas. Harriett and I sent a list of teaching ideas to all the teachers.” “I know. I saw it. That was a great list. I was just hoping to avoid doing anything…official.” “Unofficial is too subtle.” Valerie shrugged. “Official it is. What’s going on in the lounge?” “No idea. But I have twenty-five minutes before I have to go to Miriam’s class and I am already toast.” Saba stepped out of the nurse’s office. “Ah, Miss Lindsey, you are looking very fat today.” Lindsey opened her mouth, but nothing came out. There just was no response to that. “Hessa go home.” Saba smiled. “Come eat.” She waved them toward the lounge. “Did she just say you were looking very fat?” Valerie asked. “I am never wearing this abaya again,” Lindsey whispered back. “I’m sure she just meant you looked healthy.” Saba opened the lounge door and ushered them in. The center of the room was dominated by a huge coffee table ringed on three sides by a low red and black striped Arabic couch. The table was currently crammed with a buffet and most of the couch crowded with Arabic teachers, which begged the question, where were their students? Even Miriam was there. God, she’d probably left the kids alone in the room again. The women all had plates of food and were chattering at high speed. “What’s all this?” Valerie asked. Her smile was pained and Lindsey assumed it was because the faculty head was also wondering where the students were. The principal, Dr. Fatima, turned the office chair she’d pulled away from one of the desks to be closer to the party. “Ah, there you are. I was going to send Aysha for you. Miss Azza brought lunch.” Azza beamed, rearranging the crowded map of wrinkles on her face into a sunburst pattern. Brought lunch? Lindsey had seen more meager spreads at fancy receptions. Aluminum trays of pasta, salad, cabbage rolls, umm ali, that sweet yellow spaghetti, the pancake things, a couple of things Lindsey couldn’t identify. In the middle of the table, on a silver tray large enough to be its own table, a mountain of biryani with a goat skull balanced on top, which put an identity to the tray of meat on the outside. Azza grabbed Lindsey’s arm before she could plead vegetarianism or upset stomach or the urgent need to wash off her shoes after being thrown up on this morning. Azza started loading a plate with a little bit of everything, but she paused at the tray of goat with a pleading look on her face. Lindsey tried to drown her grimace under a smile and indicated a little bit with her fingers. How bad could it be? The goat was probably frolicking in the desert yesterday. Azza loaded at least eight ounces of goat onto the plate and handed it to Lindsey. “What’s the occasion?” Valerie asked. She was smart enough to grab and plate for herself before Azza fixed one for her. “Miss Azza husband divorce his new wife,” Afra said. “Only married three months.” A yalla rose from the group and pretty soon they were all doing it. Lindsey looked at Valerie for confirmation and found Valerie looking at her. “I thought you had to give permission for your husbands to take a second wife,” Valerie asked. “We do, but it is better to just let him have his way or he will be annoying.” Dr. Fatima flicked her fingers like she was splashing water. “Better to let him learn on his own.” A couple of the teachers laughed. “I’m going to take this and go check on the kids.” Lindsey cradled her plate in both arms. Maybe she could get the kids to eat the goat. “Congratulations Miss Azza!” Lindsey sat against the wall with one arm around Mansour watching Amna play with the three remaining pick up kids. “You do not have to stay.” Lindsey smiled at the music teacher with a look she hoped didn’t reveal the depth of her mistrust. “No, I need to talk to Mansour’s nanny.” “Mansour, a bad boy?” the music teacher leaned down, holding her headscarf back with one manicured hand. How did she play keyboard with those talons? Mansour pressed closer to Lindsey. “No, I just need to talk to his nanny.” By now the music teacher should know Lindsey wasn’t leaving her students with her. Every day she brought the kids from both her classes who were picked up by their parents and every day she waited until they were all gone. Other teachers, Western and Arabic, might be okay with trusting the irresponsible music teacher to make sure their students went to the right homes, but Lindsey had seen her in action, or rather seen her not in action. This woman shouldn’t be given responsibility for a houseplant. “Miss Lindsey?” Lindsey turned to the voice. Mansour’s mother stood in the doorway, willowy and confident in her Air Force uniform. Mansour ran to her. “Hi, we’ve been waiting for you. Mansour, backpack.” Mansour ran back and grabbed his backpack off the floor beside her. “Can I speak with you?” Mansour’s mother asked. “Of course.” Lindsey climbed to her feet, shaking the wrinkles out of her abaya. “What can I help you with?” “Mansour’s father is not in the house anymore,” Mansour’s mother said when Lindsey joined her in the hall. “He cannot pick up Mansour at school.” Lindsey nodded, dying to know why Mansour’s father wasn’t in the house anymore for purely nosey reasons. Mansour’s father was a scrawny manchild with a weedy adolescent mustache who picked up Mansour two or three days a week. Had to be an arranged marriage that had just unarranged itself. “Who is Mansour allowed to go home with?” “Myself, my housekeeper and the nanny. Only us.” Lindsey nodded. Mansour’s grandfather wasn’t on the list. He showed up fairly often to pick the kid up too. Maybe she should keep the kids in the room for pick up. Have the security guard come for them. Was that a bruise on Mansour’s mother’s throat or a shadow cast by the collar of her uniform? “No problem. I always wait with the kids anyway.” “How was he today?” Lindsey stroked Mansour’s head. “He was fine. Stuck very close to me and didn’t say much, but he was fine. No bathroom problems. No tummy trouble. He’s always a good boy.” Lindsey saw Miriam sail across the lobby to the doors. Technically, they weren’t supposed to leave until all the kids were gone and Amna was one of her kids. Mansour’s mother clasped Lindsey’s wrist, drawing her attention back. “Thank you for taking such good care of him.” “Happy to do it.” Mansour’s mother said something to him in Arabic and took his backpack. Lindsey watched them walk out the door before turning back to the theater. One kid to go. Amna was running in circles with the last remaining pick up kid and the music teacher was on the stage playing Hot Butter’s “Popcorn” with her talons. A driver came to the door and beckoned the other kid. Amna continued running in circles. “If you will stay, I am going,” the music teacher said. She gathered her purse and walked out. “Here you are.” Harriett had her bookbag draped over her arm and was followed by Jennifer. “Amna again?” “Unbroken record. Last kid picked up three months running.” Amna grinned at Harriett and Jennifer. “If you want to go get my bag, we can leave as soon as her ride gets here.” “I’ll get it.” Harriett left her bag on the stage. Jennifer sat down beside Lindsey. “We should go out to lunch after this.” “We could.” A man came to the door of the theater. “Amna.” Amna stopped running, but made no effort to go toward him. “Have you ever seen this guy before?” Jennifer asked. “No.” Lindsey crossed the theater to the doors. Amna didn’t move from the middle of the room. “Hi, I don’t know you.” “I am come for Amna. Her father sent. Amna, come!” Amna trotted to the wall to grab her backpack. “Did her father call and let the school know you would be picking her up?” Typical if they hadn’t relayed the message. “I am come for Amna,” the man repeated. Amna came to the door, but Lindsey put her hand down to keep her inside the theater. “I’m sorry, I can’t let her go until I know she’s supposed to go with you.” “I am come for Amna.” “Jennifer, get Val for me and see if there’s an Arabic speaker left in the building.” Lindsey looked over her shoulder. Jennifer was already gone. She took Amna’s hand. “We’ll get someone to straighten this out.” The man frowned. He didn’t look local to Lindsey. More like a Pakistani driver. Amna didn’t act like she knew him. No way was she letting some random person off the street walk in and take one of her kids away. Klaithem came out of the hallway on the other side of the lobby still wrapping her headscarf. She began speaking in rapid Arabic to the man. Amna sidled closer to Lindsey, hiding in the folds of her abaya. “He says Amna’s father told him to come pick her up from school,” Klaithem finally translated. “He says there was a family emergency. He is very firm.” “So am I. I don’t know him. Amna doesn’t know him.” Val stepped in the doorway in front of Amna. “We should call her parents to check.” Klaithem translated and the man pulled out a phone. After he dialed and spoke to someone he handed the phone to Klaithem who spoke to the person on the other end. Dr. Fatima strode out from the admin offices in her black abaya and the permanent scowl that made her look so much more imposing than her five foot nothing height would imply. Klaithem hung up the phone and handed it back to the man. “I spoke to Amna’s father. He said there is a family emergency and Mohammed is to take her home.” “What is going on?” Dr. Fatima asked. “This man is here to pick up Amna, but I’ve never seen him before and Amna doesn’t know him,” Lindsey said. Dr. Fatima spoke to the man in Arabic. While they talked, Lindsey noticed the school security guard step inside the front doors and stand blocking them. Harriett and Jennifer stood in the lobby watching the confrontation. Val would support Lindsey to the end of the Earth, but Dr. Fatima’s word was law. The vice principal came out with a student file in her hand as the quarrel continued. Lindsey whished she’d picked up more Arabic in her time here just so she would know what was going on. Dr. Fatima pulled out her phone and consulted the file before dialing. She held a short conversation with someone on the other end. When she hung up, she slid the phone into her pocket. “Amna’s mother says she is to go with this man. He is the driver of her sister-in-law.” Lindsey studied the man’s face. If Amna didn’t show up for school on Sunday, she was going to have to describe him to the police. Pakistani guy, about five six, moustache, said he name was Mohammed. That had to describe ten percent of the population. She released Anma’s hand. “Okay scooter. See you on Sunday.” She glared at the driver as she said that last, but by the blank expression on his face, he had no idea there had been a threat implied. All of them watched the driver walk across the lobby with Amna trailing behind him. The security guard opened the door for them and then followed them out. “We must do something about our pick up routine,” Dr. Fatima said as the door closed. “This should not happen. Have a good weekend, Miss Lindsey.” That was as close as Dr. Fatima was going to get to an attaboy. “You too.” Val clapped her on the shoulder. “Better to err on the side of caution. Good catch.” Then she followed Dr. Fatima and the vice principal to the offices. Lindsey went to where Harriett and Jennifer waited. “That was a little nuts.” “I knew you needed help as soon as that guy showed up at the door. I keep saying that we need to do something about pick ups.” Jennifer launched into her tired rant about how she knew all along and one day a kid was going to get snatched and blah blah blah. Lindsey grabbed her bookbag. “Did I understand the thing in the lounge right? We had a party because Azza’s husband divorced his second wife after three months and she was twenty-nine?” “That’s what I heard,” Harriett said. “Azza has to be seventy. How old is her husband?” “Too old to keep up with a twenty-nine year old.” Harriett pulled the door open and the February wind blew a dust devil across the lobby. “You had a big day.” “Oh my God, Hessa puked on my shoes this morning and I never washed them off.” Lindsey dropped her bag and ran for the bathroom.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343676
__label__wiki	0.869642	0.869642	Song Without a Name, an interview with Melina León Advocate wins GoE Bridging The Borders Award at Palm Springs IFF Adam Shepherd talks about GoE Bridging The Borders Award CWB & Palm Springs IFF announce Jury & nominees for the 2020 GoE Bridging The Borders Award The 13 Best Movies of 2019 according to Vogue Actor Mark Ruffalo Blends Film and Faith-Fueled Activism in ‘Dark Waters’ Ladj Ly talks about LES MISÉRABLES, France’s Oscar Entry Other Arts You are at:Home»Feature Story»ZANA, Kosovo’s Oscar Entry ZANA, Kosovo’s Oscar Entry By World Cinema Reports' Editors on 12/11/2019 Feature Story, Videos Zana is Kosovo’s Selection for the Best International Film Award for 2020 Academy Awards written and directed by Antoneta Kastrati. at Cinema Without Borders and CineEqual we had the opportunity to have a podcast interview with Antoneta Kastrati about making of Zana. In Zana, an Albanian woman, Lume, lives with her husband, Ilir, and mother-in-law, Remzije, in their small Kosovo village. Haunted by night terrors, childless and unable to get pregnant, Lume is relentlessly pressured by Remzije to fulfill her wifely duties? if Lume cannot produce a child, her mother-in-law threatens, it will be Remzije’s responsibility to bring in a younger and more eager prospective wife for her son to consider. Bowing under the pressure of being replaced, Lume concedes to abandon modern medicine and seek the help of witch doctors and mystic healers to treat her infertility. Lume’s appointments, first to a local witch doctor and then to a famed (and costly) televangelist healer, do seem to yield results as Lume finds herself pregnant at last. But while the family celebrates, Lume’s long-suppressed traumas from the war slowly rise to torment her again, convincing Remzije and Ilir that Lume is possessed by evil spirits, and extreme caution must be taken to protect the unborn child. Antoneta Kastrati Antoneta Kastrati writer and director of Zana is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker from Kosovo. After surviving the war in the late 1990s, she began making documentary films of the issues of postwar society with her sister, Sevdije. She has a Masters in Journalism and completed the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. She has since directed a number of award winning documentaries and narrative shorts. Her most recent short She Comes In Spring premiered at Busan Film Festival. Zana is Antoneta’s debut feature film. Antoneta Kastrati Best International Feature Film Academy awards Zana World Cinema Reports' Editors Cinema Without Borders' reporters from around the globe search and find international cinema content for our audience. when an outside source is used, we provide you with a link to the original source at the end of the article CinéEqual represents filmmakers, institutions, and community members with a focus on social justice cinema. Copyright CineEqual@2018 An Interview with Jonathan Wolf, Managing Director of AFM Film & TV production in Afghanistan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343681
__label__wiki	0.670033	0.670033	HomeWeb ExclusivesWhat Our Members Do: Jeffrey Osmer What Our Members Do: Jeffrey Osmer Jeffrey Osmer, Librarian July 2, 2018 Web Exclusives, What Our Members Do Where are you currently employed? Paramount Pictures Film Archive. Current Project? Archive librarians tend to juggle multiple projects at any given time, but currently I am spending the better part of my day re-organizing and cataloging the complete picture and negative cutting room inventories on William Friedkin’s film Sorcerer from 1977. Describe Your Job. My primary job is to identify and “tag” an asset into our tracking system to be able to quickly retrieve that item in the future. Our group works with all departments that create new or newly remastered content, including Preservation, Feature Post, Special Features, Marketing, Editorial and others. We consistently field department requests to retrieve their previously created content. How did you first become interested in this line of work? I came to archiving by way of the cutting room. After several years of freelance work, I was ready for the industry luxury of steady employment! The real-world cutting room experience lends itself nicely to many aspects of working in the Paramount Archive. Who gave you your first break? During my freelance days, every job was like a first break, but my true first break came from producer Alan Barnette and director Christopher Crowe, who took me under their wings when I started as a PA on Off Limits in 1988. But also, folks like sound supervisor John Larsen, assistant sound editor (and best friend) Gayle Wesley, post supervisor Kiki Morris, negative cutter Gary Burritt and Fox Film Preservation’s Schawn Belston and Barbara Crandall…just a few of the many, many people who really looked out for me on multiple projects. What was your first union job? The Public Eye in 1992 was my first union gig. It was a negative pick up, and we finally “went union” when our cutting rooms were set up on the Universal backlot. There was plenty to like working on location for the show — like projecting dailies for the crew in our hotel’s conference room/makeshift theatre/cutting room. RELATED POSTS: Monica Salazar and Dominic LaPerriere Unpack the 'Unusual' Editing Process Behind Shia LaBeouf's 'Honey Boy' But when we got back to LA, we were hidden away in the old wardrobe building at Universal. Word got out that a non-signatory show was on the lot and we were required to go union. Originally, we were working 80-plus hours a week to meet schedule; but once we were covered under the union contract, [the producers] did not want to pay for those crazy overtime hours. The schedule was extended and we simply worked our weekly guarantee! Which of your credits or projects have made you the most proud and why? The Public Eye was my first official screen credit. That is always memorable, but I listed myself as Jeff. My mom’s reaction was immediate. She said, “I named you Jeffrey.” Ever since then, any credit, any check, any legal document is signed “Jeffrey!” What was your biggest challenge in your job (or on a particular project) and how did you overcome/solve it? In 1995, we were temp dubbing Dunston Checks In when the power station on the Fox lot literally exploded. The next morning, the studio refused to change the schedule even though we had no power! On a moment’s notice, we had to load up our personal vehicles — including my 1965 Ford F100 — and haul our entire cutting rooms across West LA to Acme cutting. We were up and running by lunch that day. Adapting to crisis is expected in the film industry; it’s about getting the job done. What was the most fun you’ve had at work? Paramount Archive’s celebrations of two classic John Travolta films with on-lot screenings and parties. Last year was the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Fever and this year the 40th anniversary of Grease. It is always a ton of fun seeing these restored films, and boogieing afterward. RELATED POSTS: What Our Members Do: Ethan Stoller Jobwise, what do you hope to be doing five years from now? Now in the latter half of my career, I hope to fully eye some form of retirement in five years. In a perfect world, I’d have the opportunity to keep working on special projects, with the ability to spend more time traveling and with family. What are your outside activities, hobbies, passions? I love to travel with my husband, Christian. I am a sweepstakes junky, which has fueled many of our trips. We’ve had the good fortune to win travel packages to Coronado Island, Palm Springs, Sonoma, London, Ireland, Italy and France. Favorite movie(s)? Why? I am naming a movie moment as my favorite: In Scorsese’s GoodFellas, when some kids were playing stickball under the New York City “El” train walk up into the frame, the piano chord from Derek and the Dominos’ “Layla” starts, and we cut to the grill of a pink Cadillac. The camera slowly rises up over the hood to reveal the corpses of Johnny Roast Beef and his wife. For me, the whole tone of Henry Hill’s story pivots 180 degrees on that sequence from coming-of-age to frenetic self-destruction. Favorite TV program(s)? Why? MAS*H, for its ability to capture the frivolity of war and the humanity of man. Originally, we were working 80-plus hours a week to meet schedule; but once we were covered under the union contract, the schedule was extended and we simply worked our weekly guarantee! Do you have an industry mentor? A dear friend and mentor who has passed, David Diaz. Not a Guild member, but our senior systems analyst when I was at the Fox Film Archive. He taught me how to navigate the business end of our business. Whether reminding me how not to write a professional e-mail, or how to hold my own in a room full of department managers and vice presidents, he always had my best in mind. RELATED POSTS: Empathy for Showrunners? Yes, and Much More at MPEG's Workshop for Newly Promoted Assistant Editors What advice would you offer to someone interested in pursuing your line of work? I am old enough to have seen the continued corporatization of the film and TV industry, and to have seen many of the jobs once filled by the “who you know” method now being sourced through the studios’ human resources teams. For that, a library sciences degree certainly adds to your pedigree in areas related to the archiving field. But more than anything, do not be afraid to take any work to get your foot in the studio door. Interning, tour guiding and production assistant jobs have all led to bigger and better gigs. Just come ready to work. Was there ever a circumstance when you had to rely on the Guild for help or assistance? There was a period when I had to take a leave of absence to deal with personal family issues. Working with the Guild, I was able to freeze my dues during the break in service and re-up when I was able to return. It was great knowing my Guild was there for me through good and bad. Is there anything you’d like to say to your fellow Guild members, some words of encouragement? It is a privilege to be part of such an outstanding group of craftspeople. I was once fired by the late picture editor Sid Katz. I still hold that memory close to heart. I may have been too young to maintain the gig then, but I was wise enough to know how lucky I was to have been in his cutting room. I hope my continued career has made up for some of my naivety. Compiled by Edward Landler Editor’s Note: To recommend a member (including yourself) to be featured on CineMontage.org, and the home page of the Editors Guild website, please contact edlandler@roadrunner.com. About Edward Landler 113 Articles Edward Landler is a filmmaker, media educator and film historian. He made I Build the Tower, the definitive feature documentary on the Watts Towers, and is currently completing a cultural history of film. He can be reached at edlandler@roadrunner.com. Switch Hitters: Technical Directors Edit Live! IATSE Strike Ends at Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema, for Now Employees of Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema Vote Union Yes! 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__label__wiki	0.933177	0.933177	FESTIVALS France Belfort shines the spotlight on the fringes of the world by Fabien Lemercier 16/11/2018 - The 33rd Entrevues Festival, an event dedicated to young, independent and innovative film, will unspool from 17-25 November To War by Francisco Marise From 17-25 November, before officially taking over from Carlo Chatrian as artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival at the start of December, Lili Hinstin will lift the curtain on the programme that she has cooked up for the 33rd edition of the Entrevues Belfort Film Festival, an event dedicated to young, independent and innovative cinema, which she has served as the artistic director of since 2013. (The article continues below - Commercial information) Taking pride of place on the menu is an international competition comprising eight feature films (first, second or third movies), which will be weighed up by a jury that includes French director Thierry de Peretti. Only one European co-production is among the titles set to lock horns: To War [+see also: film profile] by Francisco Marise. Teetering on the boundary between fiction and documentary, this film, which was first revealed at San Sebastián (in the New Directors section) and is a co-production between Spain, Argentina, Portugal and Panama, was co-written and co-produced by Javier Rebollo. Seven feature-length fiction films will be going head to head with it for the 2018 Janine Bazin Grand Prize, including two US titles (Classical Period by Ted Fendt and The World Is Full of Secrets by Graham Swon), two Japanese pictures (Forgotten Planets by Takayuki Fukata and The Kamagasaki Cauldron War by Leo Sato), one South Korean movie (Winter's Night by Jang Woo-jin), one Iranian flick (Reza by Alireza Motamedi) and one Brazilian effort (Long Way Home by André Novais Oliveira). This impressive crop of works explore the fringes of the modern world: demoted Japanese people, the outskirts of Paris and its slums, the forgotten soldiers of ideological wars (elderly Cubans and young Ukrainians), the farmers of the old world, youth and its lost illusions, the ghosts of history and fiction, and bashful, weary and betrayed lovers… As for the French features set to be showcased, there’s the Venice star attraction Blonde Animals [+see also: interview: Maxime Matray, Alexia Walther film profile] by Alexia Walther and Maxime Matray, L’Amour Debout [+see also: film profile] by Michaël Dacheux, Daniel [+see also: film profile] by Marine Atlan, Goldilocks Planets [+see also: film profile] by Gaël Lepingle, De Cendres et de Braises [+see also: film profile] by Manon Ott, A Lua Platz by Jérémy Gravayat and Ma Belle Jeunesse by Aliona Zagurovska. Standing out among the premiere and special screenings are "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" [+see also: film profile] by Romania’s Radu Jude (which emerged victorious at Karlovy Vary and is the national candidate for the 2019 Oscar for Best Foreign-language Film), Diamantino [+see also: interview: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Sc… film profile] by Portuguese-US duo Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt (Grand Prize in the Cannes Critics’ Week), Real Love [+see also: interview: Claire Burger film profile] by France’s Claire Burger (victorious in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori), Un violent désir de bonheur [+see also: film profile] by her fellow countryman Clément Schneider (unveiled on the Croisette, in the ACID selection), the Venice competitor Our Time [+see also: interview: Carlos Reygadas film profile] by Mexico’s Carlos Reygadas and the documentary Almost Nothing [+see also: interview: Anna de Manincor film profile] by Anna de Manincor. The La Fabbrica section will allow audiences to discover or rewatch the debut films by French directors Alain Guiraudie, Patricia Mazuy, brothers Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, Marie-Claude Treilhou, Laurent Achard, Jacques Nolot and Yolande Zauberman, all in the company of their respective auteurs. Also of note are a programme entitled "Oppressions: The Representation of Black People in Genre Film", a "Short, Subjective History of Animation" (for which Michael Dudok de Wit, Bill Plympton, Michel Ocelot, Jan Svankmajer, Sébastien Laudenbach, Florence Miailhe and Anca Damian have each chosen a film that for them represents a milestone in the history of this particular genre), a focus on supporting roles in cinema, and a tribute to late actor-producer-director André S Labarthe. Lastly, five features at the end of the editing stage will be presented to industry professionals as part of the Films in Progress post-production support programme, which has now reached its tenth edition. They include About Love & Crash by Lucille Chauffour, Il n’y aura plus de nuit by Éléonore Weber, Sankara Is Not Dead [+see also: film profile] by Lucie Viver, Les conductos by Colombia’s Camilo Restrepo and The Murders of Oiso by Japan’s Takuya Misawa. (Translated from French) Did you enjoy reading this article? Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox. Festivals / Awards – France Festivals / Awards – Spain Berlinale 2020 – EFM UniFrance’s new managing director, Daniela Elstner, examines the new challenges involved in promoting French cinema abroad in a rapidly changing distribution context Spaniard Juan Rodrigáñez is finally releasing his second feature, Rights-of-Man, in his home country after presenting it at festivals such as Gijón, Málaga, Cinespaña in Toulouse and FIDMarseille We spoke to German director Harald Bergmann on the occasion of the world premiere of his documentary Vorzeit – In Praise of Greece at the Hellas Filmbox Berlin festival We chatted with the director of the Solothurn Film Festival, Anita Hugi, about the strengths of a gathering which is so crucial to Swiss film	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343683
__label__cc	0.741715	0.258285	comorbility between Mild Cognitive Disorder and by Julio Zarra, Luisa Schmidt "... Mild cognitive disorder and depression: treatment with combination of galantamine and escitalopram ..." Mild cognitive disorder and depression: treatment with combination of galantamine and escitalopram Integration of the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious by Seymour Epstein - American Psychologist , 1994 "... Cognitive-experiential self-theory integrates the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious by assuming the ex-istence of two parallel, interacting modes of information processing: a rational system and an emotionally driven experiential system. Support for the theory is provided by the convergenc ..." Cognitive-experiential self-theory integrates the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious by assuming the ex-istence of two parallel, interacting modes of information processing: a rational system and an emotionally driven experiential system. Support for the theory is provided An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties by Aaron T. Beck, Gary Brown, Rober T A. Steer - Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , 1988 "... The development ofa 2 l-item self-report inventory for measuring the severity of anxiety in psychiat-ric populations i described. The initial item pool f86 items was drawn from three preexisting scales: the Anxiety Checklist, the Physician's Desk Reference Checklist, and the Situational Anxiety ..." Anxiety Checklist. A series of analyses was used to reduce the item pool. The resulting Beck Anxiety Inven-tory (BAI) is a 21-item scale that showed high internal consistency (a =.92) and test-retest reliability over 1 week, r(81) =.75. TheBAI discriminated anxious diagnostic groups (panic disorder Does the autistic child have a theory of mind by Simon Baron-cohen, Alan M. Leslie, Uta Frith - Cognition , 1985 "... We use a new model of metarepresentational development to predict a cognitive deficit which could explain a crucial component of the social impairment in childhood autism. One of the manifestations of a basic metarepresentational ca-pacity is a ‘theory of mind’. We have reason to believe that autist ..." We use a new model of metarepresentational development to predict a cognitive deficit which could explain a crucial component of the social impairment in childhood autism. One of the manifestations of a basic metarepresentational ca-pacity is a ‘theory of mind’. We have reason to believe Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for substance abuse prevention by J. David Hawkins, Richard E Catalano, Janet Y Miller - Psychological Bulletin , 1992 "... The authors suggest that the most promising route to effective strategies for the prevention of adolescent alcohol and other drug problems is through a risk-focused approach. This approach requires the identification of risk factors for drug abuse, identification of methods by which risk factors hav ..." , Ferguson, & Kopstein, 1990). The consequences of drug abuse are acute on both a personal and a societal level. For the developing young adult, drug and alcohol abuse under-mines motivation, interferes with cognitive processes, contrib- Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health by Shelley E. Taylor, Jonathon D. Brown - Psychological Bulletin , 1988 "... Many prominent theorists have argued that accurate perceptions of the self, the world, and the future are essential for mental health. Yet considerable research evidence suggests that overly positive selfevaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism are charact ..." both the social world and cognitive-processing mechanisms impose filters on incoming information that distort it in a positive direction; negative information may be isolated and represented in as unthreatening a manner as possible. These positive illusions may be especially useful when an individual Vascular Behavioral and Cognitive Disorders by Vladimir Hachinski "... Information about reprints can be found online at: Reprints: document. Permissions and Rights Question and Answer process is available in the Request Permissions in the middle column of the Web page under Services. Further information about this Once the online version of the published article for w ..." Information about reprints can be found online at: Reprints: document. Permissions and Rights Question and Answer process is available in the Request Permissions in the middle column of the Web page under Services. Further information about this Once the online version of the published article for which permission is being requested is located, click can be obtained via RightsLink, a service of the Copyright Clearance Center, not the Editorial Office.Strokein Requests for permissions to reproduce figures, tables, or portions of articles originally publishedPermissions: by guest on April 18, Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: Adevelopmental taxonomy by Terrie E. Moffitt - Psychological Review , 1993 "... A dual taxonomy is presented to reconcile 2 incongruous facts about antisocial behavior: (a) It shows impressive continuity over age, but (b) its prevalence changes dramatically over age, increasing almost 10-fold temporarily during adolescence. This article suggests that delinquency conceals 2 dist ..." A dual taxonomy is presented to reconcile 2 incongruous facts about antisocial behavior: (a) It shows impressive continuity over age, but (b) its prevalence changes dramatically over age, increasing almost 10-fold temporarily during adolescence. This article suggests that delinquency conceals 2 distinct categories of individuals, each with a unique natural history and etiology: A small group engages in antisocial behavior of 1 sort or another at every life stage, whereas a larger group is antisocial only during adolescence. According to the theory of life-course-persistent antisocial behavior, children's neuropsychological problems interact cumulatively with their criminogenic environments across development, culminating in a pathological personality. According to the theory of adolescence-limited antisocial behavior, a contemporary maturity gap encourages teens to mimic antisocial behavior in ways that are normative and adjustive. There are marked individual differences in the stability of antisocial behavior. Many people behave antisocially, but their antisocial behavior is temporary and situational. In contrast, the antisocial behavior of some people is very stable and persistent. Temporary, situational ' antisocial behavior is quite common in the population, especially among adolescents. Persistent, stable antisocial behavior is found among a relatively small number of males whose behavior problems are also quite extreme. The central tenet of this article is that temporary versus persistent antisocial persons constitute two qualitatively distinct types of persons. In particular, I suggest that juvenile delinquency conceals two qualitatively distinct categories of individuals, each in need of its own distinct theoretical explanation. Of course, systems for classifying types of antisocial persons have been introduced before (e. g., The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist approach to moral judgment by Jonathan Haidt - Psychological Review , 2001 "... This is the manuscript that was published, with only minor copy-editing alterations, as: Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review. 108, 814-834 Copyright 2001, American Psychological Association To obtain a repr ..." This is the manuscript that was published, with only minor copy-editing alterations, as: Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review. 108, 814-834 Copyright 2001, American Psychological Association To obtain a reprint of the final type-set article, please go through your library’s journal services, or contact the author directly Research on moral judgment has been dominated by rationalist models, in which moral judgment is thought to be caused by moral reasoning. Four reasons are given for considering the hypothesis that moral reasoning does not cause moral judgment; rather, moral reasoning is usually a post-hoc construction, generated after a judgment has been reached. The social intuitionist model is presented as an alternative to rationalist models. The model is a social model in that it de-emphasizes the private reasoning done by individuals, emphasizing instead the importance of social and cultural influences. The model is an intuitionist model in that it states that moral judgment is generally the result of quick, automatic evaluations (intuitions). The model is more consistent than rationalist models with recent findings in social, cultural, evolutionary, and biological psychology, as well as anthropology and primatology. Author notes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343686
__label__cc	0.605334	0.394666	Columnists 31.5.2015 10:58 am Comrades far more than just a challenge Wesley Botton A road closure poster outisde the Harry Gwala Stadium in Pietermaritzburg, 29 May 2015. Picture: Refilwe Modise While most of us will have our own individual targets, tackling the race for personal reasons, spare a thought for the brave souls who have upped the stakes this weekend in aid of others. Some very daring people have run the Comrades Marathon, and this year is no diﬀerent. In 1997, in one of the most remarkable achievements ever linked to the gruelling event, Percy Dunn took less than six hours to cover the 87km distance dressed in a Liquorice All Sorts Man costume, and 16 years later Vincent O’Neill completed the race in an 8kg rhino suit. In 2007, British runner Richard Whitehead became the ﬁrst double amputee to ﬁnish the event, well inside the 12-hour time limit. This year, a group of gritty amateur athletes have again tackled the Unogwaja Challenge, emulating former race winner Phil Masterton-Smith who could not aﬀord the train fare between Cape Town and Durban in 1933, so he cycled to the start and ﬁnished the race in 10th place overall. For the ﬁrst time, some of the Unogwaja participants have tackled the arduous task on foot, covering 56km a day for an entire month, before running the race in aid of Community Chest. Meanwhile, Hazel Moller and Michelle Maree set out last week to complete the Comrades distance every day for 10 days, raising money for Pets. Not only do these people support worthy causes, they embody the tremendous spirit of the annual race by motivating the rest of us wary individuals for whom the race itself is diﬃcult enough. This week’s news of Riana van Niekerk’s cancer diagnosis provided a stark reminder that running an ultra-marathon might consume thousands for six months a year, but at the end of the day our challenge is short-term. On Monday, the race will be over, but the six Comrades charities will be looking for more funding, Pets will be searching for further support, rhinos will still be endangered, Whitehead will be missing both his legs and Riana van Niekerk will wake up with cancer. Comrades is special to each of us who complete the distance, but the true spirit of the event lies in the people who do it not for themselves, but for others who cannot. When my legs start to hurt at Drummond, I’ll think of the Ten10 ladies, when my lungs burn up Inchanga I’ll remember Whitehead, when my body tires through Cato Ridge I’ll recall the Unogwaja entrants, when I feel nauseous at Polly Shortts I’ll consider Dunn and O’Neill, and when I feel like giving up, I’ll replay my interview with Van Niekerk. Her tears will remind me that this is more than a race. It’s proof of what the human body can achieve when pushed to its limits, and how far it can go when driven for the sake of others. The pink ribbon on my vest, a small gesture in support of Van Niekerk, will be used to drive myself forward. I will remember that she is at home, contemplating the future and dreading the worst. By sharing my journey with her through the spirit of the race, my medal will belong to Van Niekerk as much as it does to me, and therein lies the essence and beauty of this great event. Comrades entries close in record time 30.10.2019 Magoeba Plunge marathon aims to raise R1.8m for education and animals 17.10.2019 Comrades Marathon targets record numbers in 2020 2.10.2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343688
__label__cc	0.633491	0.366509	Smart Sports Analysis Corner Three NBA WAR 2018-2019 NBA TSP 2018-2019 Tag: Pau Gasol #NBATwitter: A Study January 19, 2019 January 19, 2019 by Derek Reifer, posted in Basketball, NBA Basketball Twitter is the lifeblood of the NBA. As described by the Washington Post, it’s “a sports bar that doesn’t close, where the stars pull up a seat next to you”. According to Twitter itself, the NBA was the most tweeted-about sports league in 2018, and it’s no surprise, as the online home of the players houses more organic drama than any episode of The Bachelor. From burner accounts of superstars and GMs, to asking for trades and reacting to them, to basketball players doing what they do best – shooting their shot, fans of the NBA know there’s no way to track their favorite league quite like Twitter. 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__label__wiki	0.988158	0.988158	Fox Corp Comcast Corp General news Arts and entertainment Business Sports Football Television programs Entertainment College football College sports Sports media Broadcast television Television Media TV news News media Television industry Media industry Media and entertainment industry Professional football Television ratings Sports TV NFL football NFL, NCAA football fuel Fox TV's win of the prime-time week By ANDREW DALTON - Dec. 10, 2019 06:37 PM EST Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky (10) runs in for a touchdown against Dallas Cowboys' Chidobe Awuzie (24) during the second half of an NFL football game, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fueled by both college and pro football, Fox won a rare title as champ of the broadcast week among networks. Fox's Thursday night NFL airing of the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears was the week's top show of any kind with 18.23 million viewers, and its broadcast of the Big 10 title game between Ohio State and Wisconsin on Saturday finished fourth for the week with 13.55 million viewers, the Nielsen company said Tuesday. They were joined by the network's drama “911” in 15th and its surreal singing competition “The Masked Singer” in 17th to help give Fox a prime-time average of 7.85 million viewers compared 6.59 million for second-place CBS, the dominant network that has been knocked from its top spot recently because of NBC and Fox's nighttime football offerings. Seven of the week's top 10 shows were either football games or their pregame shows. CBS's perennial ratings generator “60 Minutes” was the week's top non-football show, in fifth place with more than 13 million viewers, and the network's “Young Sheldon” was the top scripted show in ninth with 8.39 million. After Fox's 7.85 million average viewers and CBS's 6.59, NBC averaged 5.82 million viewers in prime time and ABC had 4.4. Univision was next up among broadcast networks with 1.26 million viewers, followed by ION television with 1.2 million, Next comes Telemundo had 1.14 million and the CW with 840,000. Fox News Channel was the week's most popular cable network, averaging 2.86 million viewers in prime time. ESPN was second with 2.71 million. Hallmark had 1.83 million, MSNBC had 1.81 million and A&E had 1 million. ABC's "World News Tonight" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 9 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" was second with 8.24 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.85 million viewers. For the week of Dec. 2-8, the top 20 shows, their networks and viewerships: 1. NFL Football: Dallas at Chicago, Fox, 18.23 million. 2. NFL Football: Seattle at L.A. Rams, NBC, 17.88 million. 3. NFL Football: Minnesota at Seattle: ESPN, 14.56 million. 4. Big 10 Football Championship Game, Ohio State at Wisconsin, Fox, 13.55 million. 5. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 13.03 million. 6. NFL Pregame Show, NBC: 12.87 million. 7. NFL Pregame Show, Fox: 10.83 million. 8. “Football Night in America, Pt. 3,” NBC, 9.83 million. 9. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 8.39 million. 10. “The Voice,” NBC, 8.03 million. 11. Big 10 Football Championship Pregame, Fox, 13.55 million. 12. “Blue Bloods" CBS, 7.33 million. 13. “NCIS,” CBS, 7.18 million. 14. “Christmas at Rockefeller Center," NBC, 6.88 million. 15. “Survivor,” CBS, 6.87 million. 16. “911," Fox, 6.82 million. 17. “God Friended Me” CBS, 6.8 million. 18. “The Masked Singer," Fox, .6.6 million 19. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 6.55 million. 20. “The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.44 million. ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox is owned by Fox Corp. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343708
__label__cc	0.508554	0.491446	You searched for 'operatic' Batley Gilbert and Sullivan Society Various locations... We perform one of the Savoy Operas every April. We may also perform concerts, which include both Gilbert and Sullivan and non Gilbert and Sullivan items. Rehearsals take place on Wednesdays at 7.30pm.... Batley Gilbert and Sullivan Society website stephanie.roe@ntlworld.com 01924 505648 Cleckheaton and Spen Amateur Operatic Society We perform two shows a year in May and November plus a Christmas concert. Please see our website for more details, and to contact us. Cleckheaton and Spen Amateur Operatic Society website Dewsbury Collegians Amateur Operatic Society We produce one main musical show per year in June, one pantomime per year in January and in addition we present various concerts and hold social events throughout the year. Our membership is open to all. Dewsbury Collegians Amateur Operatic Society website Huddersfield Gilbert and Sullivan Society The society rehearses throughout the year and is always keen to welcome new members whether singers or not, who have an interest in Gilbert and Sullivan. Rehearsals are held every Wednesday evening... Huddersfield Gilbert and Sullivan Society website Lindley Church Amateur Operatic Society Lindley Amateur Dramatic Society is one of the longest established amateur dramatics societies in West Yorkshire having just celebrated our 80th anniversary. We stage two shows a year, one of which is... Lindley Church Amateur Operatic Society website Longwood Amateur Operatic Society, Huddersfield Local amateur operatic society producing an annual musical in the Lawrence Batley Theatre each October. Longwood Amateur Operatic Society, Huddersfield website Marsden Parish Church Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society Marsden Parish Church Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society (mpcaods) has been performing plays, musical and revues in Marsden for over 70 years and is well known for the quality of their productions.... Meltham Parish Church Gilbert and Sullivan Society Spring Show for two nights in April. Main Show for one week, in late November. Meetings usually on Friday at 7.45pm. Meltham Parish Church Gilbert and Sullivan Society website jackson1th@btinternet.com 01484 686050 Amateur dramatic groups (6) Gilbert and Sullivan (3) Cleckheaton (1) Lindley (1) Marsden (1) Meltham (1) Dewsbury East (2) Newsome (2) Colne Valley (1) Holme Valley North (1)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343713
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__label__cc	0.631268	0.368732	Video: Massive Solar Eruption 7th June 2011 Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured a massive eruption on the Sun. The event took place early Tuesday morning (7th June 2011) and sparked all sorts of fears from the end of the world to concerns the solar flare may… Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured a massive eruption on the Sun. The event took place early Tuesday morning (7th June 2011) and sparked all sorts of fears from the end of the world to concerns the solar flare may cause disruption to communication systems around the globe, although the angle of the eruption probably means effects on Earth will probably be small. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpQmS3adLgI[/youtube] Video caption: M-FLARE AND RADIATION STORM: This morning around 0641 UT, magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1226-1227 became unstable and erupted. The blast produced an M2-class solar flare, an S1-class radiation storm, and a massive CME. A recording of the blast from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory ranks as one of the most beautiful and dramatic movies of the SDO era. Northern Lights over Gimsøy, Norway A powerful solar flare, hurled into space when super hot gases erupted on the sun Tuesday, is expected to cause a display of the aurora borealis (Northern Lights) on Thursday. That’s according to the NASA space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory which said the earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is moving at 1400 kilometres per second. Due to its angle, however, effects on Earth should be fairly small. Nevertheless, the M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare may generate space weather effects here on Earth in a few days the Observatory said. The sun unleashed the solar flare yesterday at about 6.41a.m. GMT from sunspot 1226, blanketing almost one third of the solar disk. The eruption resulted in a massive plasma cloud being ejected from the Sun. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Centre has downgraded its forecast from Tuesday stating that the flare would result in some disruption to communication systems around the globe Source: Display Of Northern Lights Expected From Solar Flare Video: UFOs over Tasmania, Australia Video: Silent Triangle Shaped Craft over New York UFOs Videos Cool Critters Videos Zoology Amazing New highest-resolution photos of Pluto Mount Etna in Sicily spectacular erupts for first time in two years! Amazing video – Moon Crossing Face of Earth Angel-Like UFOs seen near the Sun by NASA SOHO 3rd Aug 2015 Robert Anton Wilson – The Map Is Not The Territory: The Future Is Not The Past 2nd Aug 2015	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343728
__label__wiki	0.957111	0.957111	Latest in Dog Days ‘Meg’ Makes More Moola: Updated $45M+ Opening Reps Record Debut For Director Jon Turteltaub – Box Office MONDAY 7:38 AM: Warner Bros./China Gravity’s The Meg isn’t finished eating, dollars that is. The studio reports this morning that the shark’s opening is looking more like $45.3M, higher than expected at 4,118 after a Sunday that was down 23% from Saturday’s $16.3M for $12.5M. Better than expected. The Meg easily… By Anthony D'Alessandro ‘Dog Days’ Review: Pooches Fare Better Than Humans In Harmless Family Comedy The dog days of August are upon us, and so is the appropriately titled new family confection Dog Days, which teams humans and their pets. The result is uneven in the laughs department, though there are enough warm moments to qualify as a decent time-waster as the summer movie season winds down with typical August… By Pete Hammond More Join Eva Longoria In ‘Dog Days’ For LD Entertainment, Director Ken Marino EXCLUSIVE: The ensemble cast has been pulled together for Ken Marino’s next comedy Dog Days for LD Entertainment, the company that brought Megan Leavey and the three-time Oscar-nominated Jackie to the big screen. Eva Longoria, who was in talks on the pic is officially in. This marks Marino’s second feature film, his… By Anita Busch ‘Baywatch’ Actor Jon Bass Cast In ‘Dog Days’ EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bass is joining the pack. The actor, who was last seen alongside Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron in Paramount’s Baywatch remake, has been cast in LD Entertainment’s upcoming film, Dog Days. The Ken Marino-directed comedy follows a group of humans brought together by their canine pets as they work through… Sep 29, 2017 3:58 pm Eva Longoria In Talks To Join Comedy Film ‘Dog Days’ EXCLUSIVE: Eva Longoria is in negotiations to join Nina Dobrev, Finn Wolford and Tone Bell in director Ken Marino’s sophomore feature Dog Days, from LD Entertainment (Megan Leavey, Jackie). Written by Elissa Matsueda and Erica Oyama, the film is slated to go before cameras next month. Dog Days follows a group of… ‘Disjointed’ Actor Tone Bell To Star In ‘Dog Days’ Actor-comedian Tone Bell is set to star in LD Entertainment’s Dog Days. Ken Marino directs the ensemble feature about people looking for more in life and relying on their furry friends for support. Bell steps into the role of Jimmy, a former NFL player-turned-TV host. Bell is a regular on Netflix’s new… By Dino-Ray Ramos Vanessa Hudgens Added To Cast Of Ken Marino’s ‘Dog Days’ EXCLUSIVE: We're out of the dog days of summer, but the cast of Ken Marino's Dog Days seems to be growing day by day. Having already seen Flatliners’ Nina Dobrev and It's Finn Wolfhard get on board with the indie romantic comedy in the past week, the pic now is packing some new power, I’ve learned. Spring Breakers and… By Dominic Patten ‘It’ & ‘Stranger Things’ Star Finn Wolfhard Cast In ‘Dog Days’ EXCLUSIVE: Finn Wolfhard, who is riding with the recent blockbuster horror pic It, has set his next film project. The young actor has come aboard the Ken Marino-directed film Dog Days, from LD Entertainment. Written by Elissa Matsueda and Erica Oyama, the pic follows a group of interconnected humans brought together… ‘How To Be A Latin Lover’s Ken Marino To Next Helm ‘Dog Days’ For LD Entertainment EXCLUSIVE: Ken Marino, whose directorial debut was on the Eugenio Derbez hit How To Be A Latin Lover, will next direct the comedy Dog Days for LD Entertainment, the company that brought Megan Leavey and the three-time Oscar nominated Jackie to the big screen. Dog Days, which is readying to go before the cameras in Los…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343729
__label__wiki	0.653104	0.653104	General Knowledge Quiz for CDS & INET : 9th OCTOBER Dear Students, Defence Adda is providing you all with this quiz on General Knowledge questions for CDS, AFCAT, CAPF, INET, and other Defence Examinations. Q1. Which of the following places is not a Middle Stone Age? (a) Langhnaz (b) Ganeshwar (c) Bagor (d) Adamgarh Q2. Syadvada was the fundamental basis of which religion? (a) Buddhism (b) Jainism (c) Vaishnavism (d) Shaivism Q3.The biggest island of the Indian Ocean is (a)Maldives (b) Madagascar (c) Lakshadweep (d) Sumatra Q4.The Ruhr basin is the famous industrial region of (a) China (b) Japan (c) Germany (d) United Kingdom Q5. With the help of Panchayat Samitis, who regulates the money distribution among all the Gram Panchayats? (a) Zila Parishad (b) Sarpanch (c) Gram Sabha (d) Secretary Q6.Which type of forest is most widespread in India? (a) Tropical Evergreen Forests (b) Tropical Deciduous Forests (c) Montane Forests (d) Mangrove Forests Q7.The value of acceleration due to gravity (g) _______. (a) is greater at the poles than at the equator (b) is lesser at the poles than at the equator (c) is greater at the North pole than at the South pole (d) is greater at the South pole than at the North pole Q8. Which substance is produced when alcohol is added with petrol and used as a fuel? (a) Only oxygen (b) Only carbon-dioxide (c) Only water (d) Carbon-dioxide and water both Q9. Where does glucose breaks down into pyruvate? (a) Golgi bodies (b) Cytoplasm (c) Chloroplast (d) Protoplasm Q10. Which are the special proteins in muscles that contract and relax to cause movement? (a) Contractile protein (b) Receptor protein (c) Structural protein (d) Enzymatic protein Sol. Ganeshwar is not a Middle Stone Age site. It is a site of Indus Valley Civilisation. Sol. Syadvada is the most significant contribution of Jainism to the human society. The term ‘Syat’ means relatively probable and ‘Vada’ means Ism or method of presentation. Thus Syadavda literally means the method of examining different probabilities. S3.Ans.(b) Sol. The biggest Island of the Indian ocean is Madagascar. Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Southeast Africa. S4.Ans.(c) Sol.The Ruhr basin is the famous Industrial region of Germany. Formerly Germany’s coal-mining region, the Ruhrgebiet forms one of the largest conurbations in Europe with 5 million residents and is now known for its diverse and vibrant cultural scene. Sol. The Zila Parishad actually makes developmental plans at the district level. With the help of Panchayat Samitis, it also regulates the money distribution among all the Gram Panchayats. Within the guidelines given in the Constitution each state in the country has its own laws with regard to Panchayats. Sol.Tropical Deciduous Forest is most widespread in India (about 65% of total forest area). S7.Ans.(a) Sol. The value of g on earth is maximum at poles and decreases as we go from poles to the equator and is minimum at the equator. Sol. Only carbon-dioxide is produced when alcohol is added with petrol and used as a fuel. Sol. Glucose breaks down into pyruvate in Cytoplasm. Sol. Three types of proteins form myofibrils: contractile, regulatory, and structural. Contractile proteins generate force for muscle contraction. The two contractile proteins in myofibrils are actin (part of the thin filament) and myosin (part of the thick filament). General Knowledge Quiz for CDS & INET : 9th OCTOBER Reviewed by Aishwary Mishra on October 09, 2019 Rating: 5	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343732
__label__wiki	0.942327	0.942327	Harvard Berkman Klein Center Logo Search o-icon__search Featured links navigation Opportunity: Director of Communications Berkman Klein Center Announces 2019-2020 Community Ethics and Governance of AI at Berkman Klein: Report on Impact, 2017-2019 Clinic Files Amicus Brief for Former Magistrate Judges re: Surveillance Orders Technology & the Law Privacy & Security Share To icon--facebook icon--twitter The Cyberlaw Clinic filed an amicus brief (pdf) in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on behalf of a group of former United States Magistrate Judges, supporting the unsealing of government surveillance orders and applications. The brief supports Jason Leopold, a BuzzFeed News journalist, and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (“RCFP”). The appeal arises out of a petition that Leopold filed in the D.C. District Court to unseal applications and orders for pen registers, trap and trace devices, tracking devices, stored email, and other types of surveillance, many of which remain sealed indefinitely in practice. He argued that, once the seal is no longer necessary, public access to these judicial records is required under the First Amendment and common law right of access to court records. Leopold was later joined by RCFP. Read more at the Cyberlaw Clinic blog... City attorney sues blogger for libel. Is it ‘a threat designed to silence?’ Cyberlaw Clinic Supports Engine Advocacy in Challenge to Net Neutrality Rollback The Cyberlaw Guide to Protest Art Subscribe to our email list for the latest news, information, and commentary from the Berkman Klein Center and our community. The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Unless otherwise noted this site and its contents are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. icon-mail icon--twitter icon--facebook icon--youtube icon-medium icon-soundcloud	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343746
__label__wiki	0.684699	0.684699	Positive solutions for a class of superlinear semipositone systems on exterior domains Academic research paper on "Mathematics" Bound Value Probl Similar topics of scientific paper in Mathematics , author of scholarly article — Abraham Abebe, Maya Chhetri, Lakshmi Sankar, R Shivaji Existence results for classes of infinite semipositone problems 2013 / Jerome Goddard, Eun Lee, Lakshmi Sankar, R Shivaji Positive solutions for a class of semipositone Neumann problems 2016 / Tianlan Chen, Ruyun Ma Positive solution for a class of coupled (p,q)-Laplacian nonlinear systems 2014 / Eder M Martins, Wenderson M Ferreira A result on three solutions theorem and its application to p-Laplacian systems with singular weights 2012 / Eun Lee, Yong-Hoon Lee Positive solutions of discrete Neumann boundary value problems with sign-changing nonlinearities 2015 / Dingyong Bai, Johnny Henderson, Yunxia Zeng Academic research paper on topic "Positive solutions for a class of superlinear semipositone systems on exterior domains" 0 Boundary Value Problems Positive solutions for a class of superlinear semipositone systems on exterior domains Abraham Abebe1, Maya Chhetri1, Lakshmi Sankar2 and R Shivaji1 Correspondence: maya@uncg.edu 1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article We study the existence of a positive radial solution to the nonlinear eigenvalue problem-Au = XK1 (\|x\|)f(v) in i2e,-Av = XK2(\|x\|)g(u) in i2e, u(x) = v(x) = 0if \|x\| = r0 (> 0), u(x) — 0, v(x) — 0 as \|x\| — to, where X > 0 is a parameter, Au = div(Vu) is the Laplace operator, = {x e R" \| \|x\| > r0,n > 2}, and Ki e C1 ([r0, to),(0, to)); i =1,2are such that K(\|x\|) — 0 as \|x\| — to. Here f,g : [0,to) — R are C1 functions such that they are negative at the origin (semipositone) and superlinear at infinity. We establish the existence of a positive solution for X small via degree theory and rescaling arguments. We also discuss a non-existence result for X > 1 for the single equations case. MSC: 34B16; 34B18 Keywords: superlinear; semipositone; positive solutions; existence; non-existence; exterior domains We consider the nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem -Au = XK1(\x\)f (v) in Qe, -Av = XK2(\x\)g(u) in u(x) = v(x) = 0 if \x\ = r0 (> 0), u(x) — 0, v(x) — 0 as \x\ —^ to, where X > 0 is a parameter, Au = div(Vu) is the Laplace operator, and = {x e rn \| \|x\| > r0, n >2} is an exterior domain. Here the nonlinearities f,g: [0, to) — r are C1 functions which satisfy: (Hi) f (0) < 0 and g(0) < 0 (semipositone). (H2) For i = 1,2 there exist bi >0 and qi >1 such that lims—TO = b1, and lims—TO gj2 = b2. Further, for i = 1,2, the weight functions Ki e C1([r0, to), (0, to)) are such that Ki(\|x\|) — 0 as \|x\| —^ to. In particular, we are interested in the challenging case, where Ki do not decay too fast. Namely, we assume (H3) There exist cL1 > 0, d2 > 0, p e (0, n - 2) such that for i = 1,2 d1 / \ d2 < Kt{ \x\)<—n- for \x\»1. \|x\|n+^ — v - \|x\|n+p © 2014 Abebe et al.; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. We then establish the following. Theorem 1.1 Let (Hi)-(H3) hold. Then (1.1) has a positive radial solution (u, v) (u > 0, v > 0 in Qe) when k is small, and \|\| u II to —^ (TO, 11 v 11 to —^ (TO as k —^ 0. We prove this result via the Leray-Schauder degree theory, by arguments similar to those used in [1] and [2]. The study of such eigenvalue problems with semipositone structure has been documented to be mathematically challenging (see [3,4]), yet a rich history is developing starting from the 1980s (see [5-7]) until recently (see [8-12]). In [1, 2] the authors studied such superlinear semipositone problems on bounded domains. In particular, in [12] the authors studied the system -Au = kf (v) in -Av = kg(u) in u = v =0 on 3^, where ^ is a bounded domain in Rn, n > 1, and establish an existence result when k is small. The main motivation of this paper is to extend this study in the case of exterior domains (see Theorem 1.1). We also discuss a non-existence result for the single equation model: -Au = kK1(\|x\|)f (u) in u(x) = 0 if \|x\| = r0 (> 0), u(x) — 0 as \|x\| — to, for large values of k, whenf, K1 satisfy the following hypotheses: (H4) f e C1([0, to), r),f'(z) > 0 for all z > 0,f(0) < 0, and there exists m0 > 0 such that limz—TO > m0. (H5) The weight function K1 e C1([r0, to), (0, to)) is such that s K1(r0s2-n) is decreasing for s e (0,1]. We establish the following. Theorem 1.2 Let (H3)-(H5) hold. Then (1.2) has no nonnegative radial solution for k » 1. We establish Theorem 1.2 by recalling various useful properties of solutions established in [13], where the authors prove a uniqueness result for k »1 for such an equation in the case whenf is sublinear at to. However, the properties we recall from [13] are independent of the growth behavior off at to. Non-existence results for such superlinear semipositone problems on bounded domain also have a considerable history starting from the work in the 1980s in [14] leading to the recent work in [15]. Here we discuss such a result for the first time on exterior domains. Finally, we note that the study of radial solutions (u(r), v(r)) (with r = \|x\|) of (1.1) corresponds to studying -(rn-1u'(r))' = krn-1Ki(r)f (v(r)) for r > r0, -(rn-1v'(r))' = Xrn-1K2(r)g(u(r)) for r > ro, u(r) = v(r) = 0 if r = r0 (> 0), u(r) — 0, v(r) — 0 as r — to, which can be reduced to the study of solutions (u(s), v(s)); s e [0,1] to the singular system: -u"(s) = Xh1(s)f (v(s)), 0< s < 1, -v"(s)=Xh2(s)g(u(s)), 0< s <1, u(0) = u(1) = 0, v(0) = v(1) = 0, r2 -2(n-1) 1 via the Kelvin transformation s = (r)2-n, where hi(s) = (n-°)2s (n-2) Ki(r0s2-n), i = 1,2 (see [16]). r0 n Remark 1.3 The assumption (H3) implies that lims—0+ hi(s) = to, for i = 1,2, h = infte(0,1){h1(t), h2(t)} > 0, and there exist d > 0, n e (0,1) such that hi(s) < sdn for s e (0,1], and for i = 1,2. When in addition (H5) is satisfied, h1 is decreasing in (0,1]. We will prove Theorem 1.1 in Section 2 by studying the singular system (1.3), and Theorem 1.2 in Section 3 by studying the corresponding single equation -u"(s) = Xh\(s)f (u(s)), 0 < s < 1,1 u(0) = u(1) = 0. 2 Existence result We first establish some useful results for solutions to the system -u"(s) = ¿1h:(s)\|v(s) + /\|?1, 0 < s < 1, -v"(s) = b2h2(s)u(s) + W2, 0 < s < 1, u(0) = u(1) = 0, v(0) = v(1) = 0, where l > 0 is a parameter. (Clearly, any solution (ui, vi) of (2.1) for l >0 must satisfy ui(s) > 0, vl(s) > 0 for s e (0,1). This is also true for any nontrivial solution when l = 0.) We prove the following. Lemma 2.1 (i) There exists l0 > 0 such that 2.1 has no solution if l > l0. (ii) For each l e [0, l0), there exists M >0 (independent of l) such that if (ul, vl) is a solution of (2.1), then max{\|ul\|\|TO, \|\|vl\|TO} < M. Proof of (i) Let k1 := n2, := sin(n s). Here k1 is the principal eigenvalue and a corresponding eigenfunction of (s) = k$(s) in (0,1) with ^(0) = 0 = ^(1). Let a > ,,k1, c >0 V0102 h be such that (s + l)qi > as - c for all s > 0 and for i = 1,2. Now let (ul, vl) be a solution of (2.1). Multiplying (2.1) by < and integrating, we obtain A J ul<1 ds = b1 I h1(s)(vl + l)qi <1 ds > b1 I h1(s)(avl - c)<1 ds Jo Jo Jo A1 I vl<1 ds = b2 I h2(s)(ul + l)q2< ds > b2 / h2(s)(aul - c)< ds. By Remark 1.3, h = infte(0,1)\|h1(i),h2(i)} > 0, and Hh;^ := /0h;(s)ds < to for j = 1,2. Then from the above inequalities we obtain i vl<1 ds < 1 ^ \A1 i ui< ds + b1c\|h11\|: Jo abih\ Jo i ui<1 ds < (k1 i vi<1 ds + b2c\|h2\|H. Jo ab2h\ Jo / Hence we deduce that Z1 . . I ul<1 as < — := w2, where w := (ab2h - -tt), and w1 := A1c\|\|h1111 + b2c\|\|h21\|1. This implies ab1h ah f1 A1W2 (vl + l)q1 < ds < —— := w3. In particular, this implies A4 lq1ds < inf W3 < . Since w3 is independent of l, clearly this is 1 inf 13 i<1 4 [ 4,4 ] a contradiction for l » 1, and hence there must exists an lo > o such that for l > lo, (2.1) has no solution. Proof of (ii) Assume the contrary. Then without loss of generality we can assume there exists {ln} c (o,lo) such that \|\|uln \|\|to ^to as n ^ to. Clearly u![n(s) < o, and V((s) < o for all s e (o, 1). Let s1(ln) e (o, 1), s2(ln) e (o, 1) be the points at which uln and vln attain their maximums. Now since u'[ (s) < o for all s e (o, 1), we have uln (s) > sUiiSnfi2 for s e ^ sK^ for s e (s1(ln),1). Hence uin(s) > min{s\|\|\|TO, ^S-gp}, and in particular, for s e [4, f ], Uln(s) > minj 4 \|\|Uln \|\|to,4 \|\|Uln htoJ = 4 \|\|Uln \|\|to. Let sjn,K e [4, \|1 be such that min[i,\|] ui„(s) = utn(si), and min^^ vtn(s) = vtn(sin). Now for s e [±,f], "4 vin(s) > b2hm \uin(t) +1\02 dt, where m := min[i,3]x[i,3] G(s, t) (> 0), and Gis the Green's function of-Z" withZ(0) = 0 = Z(1). In particular, vjsi) > b2h^(uin(si))q2. Similarly uin(si) > bihff(vin(sin))qi. Hence, there exists a constant A >0 such that uin (sin) > A(un (sin))qiq2 This is a contradiction since qlq2 > l and uln (sin) > 4 lluin \|\|to — to as n — to. Thus (ii) holds. □ Proof of Theorem l.l We first extend f and g as even functions on r by setting f (-s) =f (s) and g(-s) = g(s). Then we use the rescaling, X = ys, wl = yu, and w2 = y6v with y > 0, 6 = q+l,and 5 = s^2-1. With this rescaling, (l.3) reduces to -wi'(s)=F(s, y , w2), 0< s < 1, -w2'(s) = G(s, y , wi), 0< s < 1, Wi(0) = Wi(1) = 0, W2(0) = W2(1) = 0, F(s, y, W2):=y 1+5hi(s) f -2 - bi + bi\|w2 \|qi hi(s), and G(s, y, Wi):=y6+5h2(s)(g(W^J- b2 y ^ + b2\|wi\|q2h2(s). Note that by our hypothesis (H2), F(s, y, w2) — bi\|w2 \|qihi(s) and G(s, y, wi) — b2\|wi\|q2 x h2(s) as y — 0.HencewecancontinuouslyextendF(s, y, w2) and G(s, y, wi) toF(s, 0, w2) = bi\|w2\|qihi(s) and G(s, 0, wi) = b2\|wi\|q2h2(s), respectively. Note that proving (1.3) hasapos-itive solution for X small is equivalent to proving (2.2) has a solution (wi, w2) with wi > 0, w2 > 0 in (0,1) for small y >0. We will achieve this by establishing that the limiting equation (when y =0) -wi'(s) = F(s,0,w2) = b^^s) \| w2\|qi, 0 < s <1, -w2'(s) = G(s, 0, wi) = ^^(s^wi02, 0 < s <1, Wl(0) = Wi(1) = 0, W2(0) = W2(1) = 0 (which is the same as (2.1) with i = 0) has a positive solution wi > 0, w2 > 0 in (0,1) that persists for small y >0. Let X = Co [0,1] x Co [0,1] be the Banach space equipped with \|\|w\|\|X = \|\|(wi, w2)\|\|X = max{\|\|wi\|\| 11 w2 N^o}, where \|\| • ^oo denotes the usual supremum norm in C0([0,1]). Then for fixed y > 0, we define the map S(y , •): X — X by S(y, w) :=w - {K{F(s, y, w2)),K{G(s, y, w^)), whereK(H(s, y,Z(s))) = G(t,s)H(t, y,Z(t)) dt. NotethatF(s, y, •), G(s, y, •): Co([o,1]) ^ L1 (o, 1) are continuous and K: L1 (o, 1) ^ Cj ([o, 1]) is compact. Hence S(y, Oisa compact perturbation of the identity. Clearly for y > o, if S(y, w) = o, then w = (w1, w2) is a solution of (2.2), and if S(o, w) = o, then w = (w1, w2) is a solution of (2.3). We first establish the following. Lemma 2.2 There exists R > o such thatS(o, w) = oforallw = (w1, w2) e X with \|\| w\|\|X = R and deg(S(o, •),Br(o), o) = o. Proof Define Sl (o, w):X ^ X by Sl(o, w) := w - (K(bih1(s)iw2 + l\|q1),K(b2h2(s)\|w1 + l\|q2)) for l > o. (Note So(o, w) = S(o, w).) By Lemma 2.1, if l > lo then Sl(o, w) = o and if Sl(o, w) = o for l e [o,lo), then \|\|w\|\|X < M. This implies that there exists R » 1 such that Sl(o, w) = o for w e dBR(o) for any l > o. Also, since (2.1) has no solution for l > lo, deg(Slo(o, •), Br(o),o) = o. Hence, using the homotopy invariance of degree with the parameter l e [o, lo] we get deg(S(o, •), Br(o),o) = deg(Slo(o, •), Br(o),o) = o. □ Next we establish the following. Lemma 2.3 There exists r e (o, R) small enough such thatS(o, w) ¥Qfor allw = (w1, w2) e X with \|\|w\|x = r and deg(S(o, •),Br(o),o) = 1. Proof Define TT (o, w): X ^ X by TT(o,w):=w - (K(tb1h1(s)\|w2\|q1),K(tb2h2(s)\|w1\|q2)) for t e [o, 1]. Clearly T 1(o, w) = S(o, w), and To(o, w) = / is the identity operator. Note that Tt(o, w) = o if w = (w1, w2) is a solution of -w1'(s) = tb1h1(s)iw2iql, o < s < 1, -w2'(s) = tb2h2(s)iWliq2, o < s <1, w1(o) = w1(1) = o, w2(o) = w2(1) = o, and for t = 1, (2.4) coincides with (2.3). Assume to the contrary that (2.4) has a solution w = (w1, w2) with \|\|w\|\|X = r > o. Without loss of generality assume \|\| w1 \|\|to = r. Now, w1(s) = t i G(s,t)b1h1(s)iw2iq1 ds. Then \|\|w11to < CC\|w2\|toto for some constant C > o independent of t e [o,1]. Similarly \|\|w2\|\|to < CHw1 \|\|TOTO for some constant C > o. This implies that r = \|\|w1\|\|to< CHw1Hq!1q2 = Crq1q2 for some constant C > 0. But q1q2 > 1, and hence this is a contradiction if r > 0 is small. Thus there exists small r >0 such that (2.4) has no solution w with \\w\\X = r for all t e [0,1]. Now using the homotopy invariance of degree with the parameter t e [0,1], in particular using the values t = 1 and t = 0, we obtain deg(S(0, •), Br (0), 0) = deg(T 1(0, •), Br (0),0) = deg(T0(0, •), Br (0), 0) =1. □ By Lemma 2.2 and Lemma 2.3, with 0 < r < R,we conclude that deg(S(0, •),Br(0) \ B(0),0) = -1, and hence (2.3) has a solution w = (wi, w2) with w1 > 0, w2 > 0 in (0,1), and r < \\w\\X < R. Now we show that the solution obtained above (when y =0) persists for small y >0 and remains positive componentwise. Lemma 2.4 Let R, r be as in Lemmas 2.2, 2.3, respectively. Then there exists yo>0 such that: (i) deg(S(y, •),Br(0) \ B(0), 0) = -1 for all y e [0, y„]. (ii) If S(y, w) = 0for y e [0, y0] with r < \\w\\X < R, then w1 > 0, w2 > 0 in (0,1). Proof of (i) We first show that there exists y0 > 0 such that S(y, w) = 0 for all w = (w1, w2) e X with \\w\\X e {R,r}, for all y e [0, y0]. Suppose to the contrary that there exists {yn} with yn — 0, S(Yn, wn) = 0 and \\wj\x e {r,R}. Since K = (K,K) : L1(0,1) x L1(0,1) — CJ([0,1]) x C1([0,1])is compact, and {F(s, yn, w2n), G(s, yn, w1n)} are bounded in L1(0,1) x L1(0,1), wn — Z = (Z1,Z2) e C1([0,1]) x C1([0,1]) (up to a subsequence) with \\Z\\x = R or r and S(0, Z) = 0. This is a contradiction to Lemma 2.2 or 2.3 and hence there exists a small y0 > 0 satisfying the assertions. Now, by the homotopy invariance of degree with respect to y e [0, y0], deg(S(Y, •), Br(0)\B;(0),0) = deg(S(0, •), Br(0)\B;(0),0) = -1 for all y e [0, y0]. Proof of (ii) Assume to the contrary that there exists yn — 0 and a corresponding solution wn = (w1n, w2n) such that r < \\wn \\X < R and Q.n := {x e (0,1) \| w1n(x) < 0 or w2n(x) < ^ = 0. Arguing as before, — Z e C1([0,1]) x ^,([0,1]) with S(0,Z) = 0 (up to a subsequence). Note that Z ^ 0 since \\Z\X > r > 0. By the strong maximum principle Z1 > 0, Z2 > 0, Z1 (0) > 0, Z2(0) > 0, Z1 (1) < 0 and Z2(1) < 0. Now suppose there exists {xn} e (0,1) with {xn} e Qn and w1n(xn) < 0. Then {xn} must have a subsequence (renamed as {xn} itself) such that xn — x e [0,1]. But Z1 > 0 in (0,1) implies that x e {0,1}. Suppose x = 0. Since w1n(xn) < 0 and w1n(0) = 0, there existsyn e (0,xn) suchthat w'1n(yn) < 0, and hence taking the limit as n — to we will have Z1 (0) < 0, which is a contradiction since Z1 (0) > 0. A similar contradiction follows if x = 1, using the fact that Z1 (1) < 0. Further, contradictions can be achieved if there exists [x„]e Q with {xn} e Qn and w2n(xn) < 0 using the facts that Z2 (0) > 0 and Z2 (1) < 0. This completes the proof of the lemma. □ We now easily conclude the proof of Theorem 1.1. From Lemma 2.4, since w = (w1, w2) is a positive solution of (2.2) for y small, (u, v) = (y-1w1, y-0 w2) with 0 = is a positive solution of (1.3) for X = yS where S = Further, since w1 > 0 and w2 > 0 in (0,1) for y e [0, y0], \|\|u\|\|TO ^ to and \|\|v\|\|TO ^to as X(= yS) ^ 0. This completes the proof of Theorem 1.1. □ 3 Non-existence result We first recall from [13] that, when (H5) is satisfied, one can prove via an energy analysis that a nonnegative solution u of (1.4) must be positive in (0,1) and have a unique interior maximum with maximum value greater than 0, where 0 is the unique positive zero of F(s) = JSf(y) dy. Further, for X » 1 and s1, s1 e (0,1) such that si > s1, u(s1) = u(sl) = ¡3 (see Figure 1), where ¡3 > 0 is the unique zero off, there exists a constant C such that s1 < CX-2 and (1 - si) < CX-2. Hence we can assume (si - s1)> 2 for X » 1. Now we provide the proof of Theorem 1.2. Proof of Theorem 1.2 Let v := u - 3. Then v > 0 in (s1, si) and satisfies vfo) = v(sl) = 0. -v" = Xh^s)^ v, s1< s < si, I Note that $(s) = -(sin(#-4)) > 0 in fo, si), $(si) = $(s1) = 0, and it satisfies -<j>" = $ - (Sl-S1) )) > 0 in (l1, l1), = YCD = alld iL satisfies - = (L s1)2 1 in (s1,si). Hence using the fact that fLL1 (-$v" + v$") ds = 0, we obtain £( x ur-l ^(STLF1 * = 0 In particular, f(u(sx *u(sx)-P'X (si- S1)2 f(u(s\)) n2 X———-h1(sx) = -p-rr, for some sx e (s1,s^. (3.1) Figure 1 Graph of u. But h = inf(0,i) hi(s) > 0, and (si - si) > \| for X ^ 1. Thus clearly (3.1) can hold when X ^ro, only if Z = u(sX) ^ro with U((^j-ß ^ 0. But by (H4), this is not possible since limZ^ro — m0 > 0. Hence the nonnegative solution cannot exist for X ^ 1. □ All authors contributed equally to the writing of this paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Author details 1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, USA. 2Department of Mathematics & NTIS, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 22, Plzen, 30614, Czech Republic. The third author is funded by the project EXLIZ - CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0013, which is co-financed by the European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic. Received: 8 May 2014 Accepted: 5 August 2014 Published online: 25 September 2014 References 1. Ambrosetti, A, Arcoya, D, Buffoni, B: Positive solutions for some semi-positone problems via bifurcation theory. Differ. Integral Equ. 7(3-4), 655-663 (1994) 2. Maya, C, Girg, P: Existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for a class of superlinear semipositone systems. Nonlinear Anal. 71 (10), 4984-4996 (2009) 3. Berestycki, H, Caffarelli, LA, Nirenberg, L: Inequalities for second-order elliptic equations with applications to unbounded domains. I. Duke Math. J. 81 (2), 467-494 (1996). 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__label__wiki	0.671872	0.671872	The Rock Shares How He Spent His Easter By Insa Sohail On Apr 26, 2019 The popular actor Dwayne Johnson more commonly recognized as The Rock just had a blast this Easter. But looks like he was dedicating time to his family who are very important to him. Now that he has shared what Easter at his residence was like, it surely seems touching. But well, it is a tip to everyone out here who can’t handle pumped up kids high on sugar in the holiday season. Dwayne Johnson Spends Easter With Family The Hobbs & Shaw actor took to Instagram to share a picture of himself out in the gardens with his daughter. Alongside the photograph, he shared with his fans how he spent his Easter holidays. In fact, he even added the conversation he was trying to have with his little girl. Apparently, The Rock was trying to help her find what the Easter Bunny had left her. But instead of a Bunny, it was an Easter Daddy this year again. Johnson had gifted her 100 eggs for herself and her cousins. Well, they are not the traditional Easter eggs since he added tiny toys in place of chocolate there. Looks like Easter holidays aren’t traditional in his family since Easter eggs come with gifts rather than chocolate. But does Dwayne Johnson really want a bunch of overly excited kids high on sugar taking the entire house down? Certainly not. Despite everything, Easter was a great and fun filled affair with his family. The actor hoped that all his followers had a happy holiday too. But now, it was time to return back to work. If you look right there, you’ll find what the Easter Daddy, I mean Bunny left you. 100 eggs for Jazzy & her cousins for their hunt – all filled with tiny toys. No candy when you come to the Rock’s house – last thing I need is wrangling a bunch whacked out kiddos who’ve become candy crack heads on the sugar come down ????? We had such a fun Easter with our ohana and hope you guys did too. Lets get back to work. A post shared by therock (@therock) on Apr 22, 2019 at 7:08am PDT Dwayne Johnson, also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor, producer, and semi-retired professional wrestler. Johnson was a college football player for the University of Miami, with whom he won a national championship in 1991. He is most prominent for his work in Baywatch, Skyscraper, Rampage, and upcoming Hobbs & Shaw. Plus, his friendship with Kevin Hart is also remarkable. Dwayne JohnsonEasterHolidaysThe Rock Quick Recap of all Marvel Movies Ahead of Avengers: Endgame Premiere Riverdale’s Madelaine Petsch Dyed Her Hair Purple For Sambazon #PurpleForThePlanet Campaign Ian Somerhalder proud of the Rock for Creating Tequila Jumanji Star The Rock Calls Rory McCann a ‘Towering Beast’ The Rock Makes Fun of Kevin Hart Using Baby Yoda Gwyneth Paltrow’s Healthy Recipes for the Holidays	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343755
__label__wiki	0.663125	0.663125	← Wouldn’t it be great if kids could watch their grandparents’ life stories on TV? The Original Butt Sketch: Every tush is beautiful in its own way → July 1, 2009 · 2:09 am.07. Original Butt Sketch charcoal artists are shaking up the world of trade show entertainment ” BOOTY CALL: ‘Butt Sketch’ artists shake up corporate trade shows” Originally Published: February 22, 2006 (Boston Herald) It’s called the “Butt Sketch.” And it’s probably the only time co-workers can blatantly ogle their office crush without being accused of sexual harassment. It’s also the great equalizer between bosses and employees. Fashion doesn’t care what your business card says. “If there was any tension before in the office, it’s gone when I get through with them,” grins Butt Sketch artist Pjae Adams, who captures “posteriors for posterity” in up to 10 cities per month. “Hopefully, they’ll go back to work with a new sense of comraderie.” Adams was sketching butt this past weekend at the Hynes Convention Center, where thousands of college students gathered to scout entertainment acts at the National Association for Campus Activities Conference. Her act seems gimmicky at first – Project Runway meets amusement park caricature – but those who walk away with the charcoal picture may momentarily fantasize about posing for the next Macy’s newspaper ad. Revere’s Jeff Smith, a student affairs administrator at Salem State College, plans to hang his likeness in his office. “It’s a different perspective of you,” he says. “You never see what you look like from the back. There’s no mirror to do that.” “Some people are shy at first, but there’s a little bit of exhibitionist in everyone,” adds the 29-year-old Adams, who used to design boutique shop windows in Atlanta and Dallas. The artist’s outgoing personality must have been wasted on the mannequins. Adams begins her two-and-a-half minute sessions with friendly banter urging her models to relax. Usually, the Butt Sketch becomes a group experience with co-workers smirking and laughing in the background. Original Butt Sketch artist Pjae Adams “I think this is great for guys and girls,” says Butt Sketch devotee Krystal Johnson, a student at the University of North Carolina. “But you can’t take it too seriously.” Sage advice. My turn on the Butt Sketch runway was enlightening. At the risk of sounding trite, I have gained new respect for fashion models. I had trouble standing frozen yet “relaxed” for more than two minutes. And I still can’t pull off a pouty expression. Nonetheless, my butt does look fantastic. In fact, everyone’s butts look fantastic off the charcoal pencil of Adams, who admits using a flattering touch. “Whether people believe me or not, that’s what I see. Every butt is different. Every butt has its own personality,” she says. Just as fascinating as the psychology of the Butt Sketch experience is the backstory. Dallas sidewalk artist Krandel Lee Newton first set up his easel in 1987 at the West End Marketplace, a tourist spot similar to Faneuil Hall. The popularity of his “Original Butt Sketch” appearances at trade shows, conventions and private parties eventually encouraged him to build a Butt Sketch empire. Today, a dozen artists travel the country to immortalize the tushes of people who’ll likely never have the opportunity to model again. Newton’s company, which charges between $1,700 and $3,000 for a four-hour session, boasts more than 250,000 Butt Sketches in its portfolio — including the famous rear ends of Alex Trebek, Donnie & Marie Osmond, Ted Danson and Queen Latifah. Butt Sketch artist Pjae Adams “I never imagined I’d be sketching people’s butts for a living,” says Adams, who hopes the gig will advance her art career. “But I always hoped to use my gifts to support myself.” Specializing in acrylic paintings of the human form, Adams sometimes finds that her rapid fashion drawings of accountants and dental hygienists subconsciously influence her future work. “The more butts I sketch,” she says, “the more inspired I become.” Darren Garnick’s “Working Stiff” column runs every Wednesday in the Boston Herald. Story tips from the workplace are welcomed via email at heraldstiff @ gmail.com. ALSO SEE: Every tush is beautiful – in its own way! Filed under Darren's Archive Vault, Fashion, Marie Osmond's Tush, Uncategorized, Working Stiff Tagged as Butt Sketch, fashion design, fashion models, Freelance Writers Boston, human mannequins, Krandel Lee Newton, Pjae Adams, sidewalk artists, trade show entertainment One response to “Booty Call: Butt Sketch artists shake up corporate trade shows” August 31, 2011 at 2:09 am.08. Darren, Being in the trade show industry, I thought I’d heard of everything… but I’ve never heard of ‘butt sketches’. Crazy idea… but completely unique. Do you know how the artist is doing these days? Is her business still going strong? Very interesting post… no butts about it! 😉	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343756
__label__wiki	0.861064	0.861064	Huey replacement award could slip to FY-20 if Congress denies reprogramming request The Air Force will delay the contract award in the UH-1N Huey replacement program for at least a year if Congress doesn't authorize an $83.4 million infusion to keep the effort on track, according to a copy of the Defense Department's June omnibus reprogramming request obtained by Inside Defense this week. Army addresses aviation training based on large-scale conflict The Army is trying to take a more proactive approach to aviation safety through training, rather than simply reacting to mishaps, according to a service official. Senate authorizers want Navy to explore a CH-53K derivative Senate authorizers want the Navy to explore creating a derivative of the Marine Corps' new heavy-lift helicopter to provide capabilities lost when the Navy's MH-53E Sea Dragons retire, according to the report accompanying the committee's version of the fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill. MH-60R might be used on FFG(X) The Navy is not ruling out placing MH-60R Seahawk helicopters on the future frigate, according to a Navy spokeswoman. CAPE projects CRH will cost 3 percent more than USAF estimate The Pentagon's independent cost estimate office projects the Air Force's Combat Rescue Helicopter will cost up to $9.2 billion, 3 percent more than the service's cost position of $8.9 billion, according to a recent Defense Department report on the military's 30-year aviation outlook. Air Force delays Huey replacement contract award until end of FY-18 The Air Force is delaying its contract award for the UH-1N Huey replacement program until the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018, after previously planning to select a new helicopter by early summer. GAO dismisses, denies Sikorsky's protest over UH-1N replacement data rights The Government Accountability Office this week denied parts of Sikorsky's challenge to how the Air Force handles data rights in the UH-1N Huey replacement program, and dismissed other points because they were raised too early or late in the competition. Navy seeks information on mounted gun system for MH-60S The Navy is seeking information from industry to support an externally mounted gun system demonstration on an MH-60S aircraft, according to a Federal Business Opportunities notice. Marines revise qualification standards for maintenance as new aircraft come online As new aircraft come online like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, CH-53K King Stallion and a slew of unmanned aerial systems, the Marine Corps is revising its maintenance qualification standards to make the transition easier for mechanics and other personnel. Army weighs new aviation force structure for 101st, Europe NASHVILLE, TN -- The Army is weighing the possibility of boosting CH-47 Chinook force structure to support the requirements of the 101st Airborne Division. DAMO-AV: FY-18 budget boost pushed modernization 'to the left' NASHVILLE, TN -- The Defense Department's funding boost in fiscal year 2018 has provided "tremendous help" to Army aviation, enabling the service to accelerate its modernization plans, according to an official. GAO finds Air Force helicopter acquisitions face staffing problems, cybersecurity concerns The Air Force's two ongoing helicopter acquisitions are having trouble finding skilled workers to staff those programs as they ramp up, according to the Government Accountability Office's annual analysis of major weapon systems. Pentagon: Aviation mishaps 'not a crisis' The Pentagon says the recent spate of aviation crashes being investigated by the military service branches is "not a crisis" that requires a department-wide review, despite rumblings from Capitol Hill that a more holistic investigation is necessary. House subcommittee in favor of accelerating FVL, adding UAS to Guard The Army's Future Vertical Lift program has drawn lawmakers' attention as an immediate aid to providing aviation overmatch and a solution to combating "more dangerous" mid-term threats. ITEP competitors complete preliminary design review, prepare for Phase 2 submission NASHVILLE, TN -- The two companies vying to replace the engine in the Army's AH-64 and H-60 aircraft are awaiting direction from the service to proceed to the next phase of the competition. PM FVL: Army will require 'aggressive' time lines, employ 'incremental strategy' NASHVILLE, TN -- The Army's new project manager for Future Vertical Lift anticipates greater engagement with industry as the program progresses "as an industry-government partnership." McConville: Cost, not just capability, will be a driver for Future Vertical Lift NASHVILLE, TN -- The Army’s existing aircraft are "the best in the world," but technological advances and a more complex future operational environment necessitate drastic changes, according to the service’s vice chief of staff. Key players for Navy helicopter trainer replacement step forward Industry has begun staking out places in the Navy's helicopter trainer replacement program with two companies publicly announcing their offerings last week at the Sea-Air-Space symposium in National Harbor, MD. TCM FVL: CS 3 AOA is behind schedule; should still hit milestone A target HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Funding instability has led to a slight schedule slip in requirements development for the first Future Vertical Lift aircraft, but the Army aims to regain ground where possible, according to the TRADOC capability manager for FVL. Estimated cost of DOD's big-ticket acquisition portfolio grows to $1.9 trillion, a $177 billion increase The estimated cost for the Pentagon's major weapon system acquisition portfolio grew by $177 billion, or more than 10 percent, over the last year, swelling from $1.7 trillion to $1.9 trillion.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343758
__label__wiki	0.901361	0.901361	The Dictionary of Sydney Browse Entities Cox, William New South Wales Corps officer who settled in the Windsor district and oversaw the building of the first road over the Blue Mountains. Wimborne, Dorset, England {"name":"Born","target":"","target_text":"Wimborne, Dorset, England","date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>19 Dec 1764<\/span>"},"date_start":"1764-12-19","date_end":"1764-12-19"} Windsor, Sydney {"name":"Died","target":"","target_text":"Windsor, Sydney","date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>15 Mar 1837<\/span>"},"date_start":"1837-03-15","date_end":"1837-03-15"} St Matthew's Anglican church Windsor {"name":"Buried","target":"St Matthew's Anglican church Windsor","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>17 Mar 1837<\/span>"},"date_start":"1837-03-17","date_end":"1837-03-17"} Commemorated by Coxs Creek {"name":"Commemorated by","target":"Coxs Creek","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'><\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null} Hobartville {"name":"Commemorated by","target":"Hobartville","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'><\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null} {"name":"Soldier","target":"","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'><\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null} {"name":"Farmer","target":"","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'><\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null} Road builder {"name":"Road builder","target":"","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'><\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null} NSW Savings Bank {"name":"Founder","target":"NSW Savings Bank","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1819<\/span>"},"date_start":"1819-01-01","date_end":"1819-01-01"} Windsor Court House Oct 1821 - 1822 {"name":"Builder","target":"Windsor Court House","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>Oct 1821<\/span><span class='separator'> - <\/span><span class='date'>1822<\/span>"},"date_start":"1821-10","date_end":"1822"} Owner of Canterbury Farm {"name":"Owner of","target":"Canterbury Farm","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1800<\/span><span class='separator'> - <\/span><span class='date'>1803<\/span>"},"date_start":"1800","date_end":"1803"} Parent of Cox, Edward {"name":"Child of","target":"Cox, Edward","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'><\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null} Agnes Banks Appin Massacre Bark huts and country estates Blackheath Colebee Colebee and Nurragingy's land grant Darwin's Walk, Wentworth Falls De Vernicourt, Pierre Lalouette Eastwood Germans Lawson Lawson, William Leura Sun Valley Woodford Academy Road engineering Roads Australian Dictionary of Biography Wikipedia William Cox 1830 full record » Charles Rodius From the collections of the State Library of New South Wales [a928934 / ML 1379] (Mitchell Library) First Anglican church in Australia, designed by Francis Greenway. Governor Macquarie laid the foundation stone in 1817. Watercourse about 3 kilometres long which rises about 1 kilometre north east of Punchbowl railway station and flows into the Cooks River. North-western residential suburb on southern border of Richmond, adjacent to the University of Western Sydney. Subdivided in 1966, it is named after the estate of William Cox, with streets named for members of the Cox family, principals of Hawkesbury Agricultural College, racehorses bred on the estate, and other names drawn from the history of the district. Public bank set up by government regulation in 1819 to encourage saving by 'the industrious poor' and convicts who often bought small sums with them when transported. Overseen by the Governor, one of the founders was the merchant Robert Campbell, senior, who operated the Sydney branch from his offices on lower George Street in Circular Quay, and it was often referred to as 'Campbell's Bank'. Three other branches were established at the same time, one at Parramatta, run by Hannibal Macarthur, another at Windsor, run by William Cox, junior, and one at Liverpool, run by Thomas Moore, but these had closed by the early 1820s. Following the Bigge's report in 1822, convicts were compelled to deposit any funds they had in the bank until 'their condition was improved by their good behaviour, testified by their masters’. In 1832 these deposits were transferred to the Savings Bank of New South Wales that was formed to take over 'Campbell's bank'. One of the earliest surviving court house buildings in Australia and a rare early 19th century Georgian style public building. Governor Macquarie requested the original timber court house be replaced and a new one was designed by Francis Greenway. It was built using convict labour, overseen by William Cox. The building consists of a courtroom, ancillary rooms at each corner of the building as well as an extension designed by James Barnet and carried out in the 1870s and 1882. It was restored and renovated and the it remains in use today. First land grant in Canterbury area, made to Richard Johnson who received 100 acres in 1793. The grant was in present day Trevenar Street near Allibone Street, Peace Park, Ashbury. It was vastly expanded by subsequent owners and continued to be a rich and productive property. Son of the New South Wales Corps officer and settler William Cox, he built the property 'Fernhill' in Mulgoa and was a member of the Legislative Council. William Cox c1797-1798 [a1087003 / MIN 382] Traditional land of the Dharug people, Agnes Banks was where Europeans first saw a platypus, and was the home of Yellomundi. Land was granted to Europeans from the 1800s, who farmed the rich river flats, but were frequently flooded out. Orchards were planted, and dairy farms established. By the end of the nineteenth century a community had developed with a school, post office and church but no hotel. Still a rural outpost, Agnes Banks is still home to descendants of early settlers. Gundungurra people knew and travelled through the area of Blackheath before the Europeans came. The town grew from the 1830s as a resting place for travellers over the Blue Mountains, first by road and then by rail after 1868. Land sales in the 1880s led to population growth, and growing interest in walking tracks spurred development in the early twentieth century, when Blackheath became a holiday town. A Cadigal man who became one of the first to interact with the Europeans, Colebee was a leading Aboriginal figure in Sydney Town in the early years of the colony. He was associated with the white-bellied sea eagle. De Vernicourt, Pierre Lalouette Son of a French nobleman and anatomist, Pierre Lalouette de Vernicourt was a captain in the French Army in India at the time of the French Revolution, before seeking asylum in England. He came to Sydney and farmed 100 acres at Castle Hill, keeping largely to himself, until his death in 1804. German migration has played a part in every decade of Sydney's growth and contributed widely to the rural, industrial and cultural development of the city. Dharug country for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived in the area in 1813, Leura's early development was based on the railway that passed over the mountains in 1867. By the 1880s large houses were being built there, and tourism boomed in the 1900s. Leura's gardens, trees, views and heritage buildings make it a popular tourist destination. Dharug and Gundungurra people left many markers of their use of Sun Valley, from art to toolmaking grooves. Europeans first came in 1813, and the valley was used as a resting place while crossing the mountains for decades afterwards. Farming and market gardening also took place, along with timber-getting. Since the 1960s inhabitants of small farmlets have formed a rural community. Long home to the Darug and Gundungurra people, the place that became Lawson was renamed for one of the first Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains. It subsequently became important as a stopping place on the road west, and a holiday destination for Sydneysiders. A region of farming estates, before the railway joined it to the city, Eastwood is now a multicultural suburb which retains some of its historic precincts. Explorer, pastoralist and settler, William Lawson came to Sydney as a soldier, but stayed to become one of the most successful farmers and animal breeders in the colony. Bark huts and country estates In their drive to establish country estates and thriving industries in the Cooks River valley during the nineteenth century, European settlers exploited the water, timber and fertile soils of the Cooks River with little appreciation of the impact of their 'improvements' Appin Massacre As white settlement spread across the Cumberland Plain, dispossession lead to violence and assaults culminating in the events near Appin in 1816. Colebee and Nurragingy's land grant The land granted to Colebee and Nurragingy in 1819 was one of the rare instances where the colonial government recognised Aboriginal interests in land. The site is of enduring importance for Aboriginal people who trace their traditional ancestry and social history back to this place and is part of the ongoing history of Aboriginal peoples' struggle for land rights. Woodford Academy The Woodford Academy, a National Trust property at Woodford, is the oldest surviving group of buildings in the Blue Mountains and one of the largest nineteenth century inn complexes in Australia. Starting as an inn in 1834, the buildings have been adapted and repurposed as a gentleman's country retreat, tourist guesthouse, school, and home, ensuring their survival and the preservation of a multilayered history. Darwin's Walk, Wentworth Falls Darwin's Walk starts from Wilson Park Wentworth Falls and runs across a boardwalk and bush track through open forest, shrub, and hanging swamps to the national park boundary. It was in the valley at the end of Jamison Creek that Charles Darwin stood in 1836, struggling for words to describe the 'quite novel' scene before him, the 'immense gulf' and the 'absolutely vertical' sandstone cliffs where 'a person standing on the edge and throwing down a stone, can see it strike the trees in the abyss below'.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343760
__label__wiki	0.971637	0.971637	Ben Jenkins Ben Jenkins is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Digital Bridge. In addition to overseeing Digital Bridge’s growth and shaping its strategy, Mr. Jenkins is a Managing Partner and an Investment Committee Member at Digital Colony. Previously, he was a Senior Managing Director and head of the Hong Kong office for The Blackstone Group. During his twelve years at Blackstone, Mr. Jenkins led over a dozen private equity investments across a range of industries and geographies, including telecommunications deals in developed and emerging markets. He was also named one of Private Equity International's "Top Dealmakers under 40". In 2005, Mr. Jenkins led the Global Tower Partners (GTP) transaction for The Blackstone Group and as the Chairman of GTP spearheaded a more than quintupling of the business in just three years. In this role, he also pioneered the REIT structure and securitization financing for private tower companies. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Jenkins was an associate at Saunders, Karp and Megrue (now Apax) and a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Jenkins earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Stanford University and graduated with distinction from Harvard Business School. Mr. Jenkins is a Board Member of Mexico Tower Partners, Vertical Bridge, and Digita Oy. Marc Ganzi Jeff Ginsberg Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer Jon Mauck Steven Sonnenstein Kevin Smithen Thomas Yanagi Warren Roll Geoffrey Goldschein Managing Director and General Counsel Mark Serwinowski Leslie Golden Eric Etter Principal, EVP of Finance Sadiq Malik Geneviève Maltais-Boisvert Scott McBride Hayden Boucher Manjari Govada Lisa Aliperta © 2018 Digital Bridge Holdings, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy \| Sitemap \| Contact Us \| Careers Web Development: THAT Agency	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343762
__label__wiki	0.850608	0.850608	Tag Archives: Madeleine Albright Oh, boy, email of the day! [REDACTED] is “one of the biggest jerks in the foreign service” January 4, 2016 By domani spero in Ambassadors, Foreign Service, FSOs, Functional Bureaus, Govt Documents, Hillary, Org Culture, Realities of the FS, Secretary of State, Staffing the FS, State Department, U.S. Missions, Where Are They Now? Tags: "P", Bill Burns, clinton emails, corridor reputation, John Kornblum, Madeleine Albright, Sidney Blumenthal, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman Thank you for your emails alerting us to this! We did not want to start our 2016 blogging about the jerk in the foreign service but today is the 4th day, and there’s a lesson here somewhere, so that’s our excuse. Somebody’s corridor reputation showed up as toner and ice, stirred, from the latest Clinton email dump of December 31. Sidney Blumenthal calls this John Kornblum’s “unvarnished tone” in his email to then Secretary Clinton. Ambassador Kornblum, a career diplomat joined the Foreign Service in 1964. He was President Clinton’s Ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001. Prior to that assignment, he was the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs from July 3, 1996 – July 1, 1997. Previously, President George Herbert Walker also nominated him to be U.S. Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1991. In that capacity he served as chief of the American delegation to the 1992 Helsinki Review Conference and played a major role in drafting the Declaration approved at the July 1992 Helsinki Summit. According to the state.gov archive, Ambassador Kornblum established the new American delegation to the OSCE in Vienna in August 1992 where he served until April 1994. According to the WSJ, he is now senior counselor for Noerr LLP law firm in Berlin. Bill Burns was appointed Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (P) on May 13, 2008 and served until July 28, 2011. This Sid email is dated March 11, 2011, about four months before Burns departed post to become Deputy Secretary. We don’t know what happened to the top Foreign Service contenders for the “P” job but we all know Bill Burns was succeeded by non-career appointee Wendy Sherman who was appointed “P” on September 21, 2011. Prior to Ms. Sherman’s appointment, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright also wrote an email to HRC saying, “Don’t want to interfere but in case you are thinking about P, you will not be surprised that I am suggesting [name redacted].” Sherman had been Vice Chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group, Albright’s international strategic consulting firm, since the group’s formation in 2009. In September 2015, President Obama nominated career diplomat Thomas Shannon to succeed Ms. Sherman who left office on October 2, 2015. The Shannon nomination has been subjected to Senator Grassley’s hold in the 114th Congress. In any case, according to AFP, America apparently was left guessing after a tantalizing near-revelation about the “biggest jerk in American diplomacy” email. If you are playing the guessing game on your first day at work in 2016, just remember that the candidate for this title is a he, who purportedly “went over to the dark side” during the Bush administration, and quite possibly, an EUR/NSC/WH hand, high enough in rank/connection to shout down a career ambassador. And no, we’re not soliciting nominations for this one, so please keep the comments clean. Like folks often say, your EER gets you promoted, but your corridor reputation gets you your next job. Madam ★ Secretary Debuts With a Crisis But Without Her Ops Center and Gray-Haired Advisors September 22, 2014 By domani spero in Secretary of State, Staffing the FS, State Department Tags: Elizabeth McCord, Fake State Department, fictional diplomacy, Madam Secretary, Madeleine Albright, PJ Crowley, Téa Leoni, TV shows 3 Comments Last week, CBS’ new kid in the block, Madam Secretary had its premiere screening event at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington D.C. The cast and crew were joined by special guest Madeleine Albright. Looking forward to the #MadamSecretary premiere tonight. Welcome to the ranks @MadamSecretary! — Madeleine Albright (@madeleine) September 18, 2014 Last night, the show finally aired, sandwiched between 60 Minutes and The Good Wife. Twitter reacted with excitement, ugh and in between; take your pick. Here are our favorite reactions: What happened to @MadamSecretary ‘s confirmation hearings? Missed questioning by @SenJohnMcCain & @SenRandPaul. — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) September 22, 2014 So far #MadameSecretary has thrown Presidential Personnel and Diplomatic Security under the bus. And @SecState doesn’t control covert ops. — Philip J. Crowley (@PJCrowley) September 22, 2014 And now we switched from American hostage crisis to middle-aged married people sex discussions #MadameSecretary — Bradley P. Moss, Esq (@BradMossEsq) September 22, 2014 Writers of #MadameSecretary got it SO right.. Tea Leoni’s makeover dominates headlines while real news get buried.. well played! — TheShoppingTrend (@trendsites) September 22, 2014 In the long history of the Secretaries of State of the United States, from Thomas Jefferson in 1790 to-date, the appointees have been predominantly male, white and old. It doesn’t look like like we’ve ever had one appointed in their 40’s nor have one with kids running around Foggy Bottom’s corridors. And we’ve never had one who did a minor make-over and with a short skirt, stopped the presses. So this secretary of state is a tad unrecognizable. But, okay, we’ll go along with the premise for now. We’d have liked to see her at the UNGA this week, but the UN’s TV magnets from Iran and Venezuela will not be around this time, so never mind. The pilot episode involves a couple of young American hostages held in Syria. They were released in exchange for $1.5 million in kind (medical stuff and such), which may still be considered ransom payment. According to TVGuide, the second episode deals with a fiery attack on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen, and the third deals with an Edward Snowden-inspired whistle-blower/hacker causing havoc throughout the State Department. TVGuide promised that each situation will be resolved rather neatly. By a secretary of state who is perfect in every way. Now, where’s the fun in that? Here is a photo tweeted last week with the lead star Téa Leoni who played Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord, and her staff during an official dinner for the King of Swaziland and his merry wives. What’s wrong with this picture? 1 week til the #MadamSecretary premiere! You’re about to find out just how hard this job is: http://t.co/2tqagzk51U pic.twitter.com/Sffzv03lfY — Madam Secretary (@MadamSecretary) September 14, 2014 The most glaring one, of course! Where are the rest of the Swazi guests, or more to the point, why are the secretary’s staffers sitting in on the principal’s table drinking champagne instead of more important D.C. invitees? Pardon me, they’re all note-takers?! The staffers except for a couple look like they just got out of A-100 or the campaign trail. Where did the SecState’s gray-haired advisors go? Nooooo, not the broomroom! Will Secretary McCord go to PTA meetings and curriculum nights? Will she cook her own dinners or have take outs? And who’s doing the laundry? The pilot episode also showed us the secretary of state in her pajamas, are we going to see her with scrunchies next? Next week’s episode is reportedly about an attack on U.S. Embassy Sana’a. Let’s see if the show will bring in the Secretary’s Ops Center and if anyone will be dragged before Congress for talking points. We’re watching. We want to know how long she can have it all. The reviews are in, here are some of them: The Hollywood Reporter: Leoni and Daly are a great couple, and if Madam Secretary does one important thing and nails it in the pilot, it’s making their marriage and family believable. Knowing that Elizabeth is grounded and sensible and funny at home — meaning she’s handling the mother and wife thing just fine, unlike so many women on TV who are great at their jobs and a disaster in their personal lives — gives hope that the series can be multidimensional.[…] And while it’s fun to see Leoni put out some international terrorist fires behind the scenes — while figuring out a way to get her point across delicately at State Department dinners that she’d rather not have — other parts of Madame Secretary need work. Vox: Madam Secretary seems terrified the audience will miss something, to the degree that all of the characters might as well be walking around wearing index cards emblazoned with any given scene’s subtext glued to their foreheads. It is not a subtle show, and it mistakes copying the surface moves of Good Wife — to say nothing of other quality TV dramas — for being able to match that show’s depth. There’s promise here, but it’s already rapidly deteriorating. TVline: The show’s biggest challenge will be making Elizabeth’s home life as compelling as her work life (something the pilot struggled to do despite some nice chemistry between Leoni and Daly). Also, the government cover-up subplot will likely elicit a collective eye roll from conspiracy-fatigued TV viewers. Variety: “Madam Secretary” has enough interesting pieces, as well as a great big world of trouble to mine, to have significant potential. The premiere, however, doesn’t bode particularly well for being able to maximize those assets, and as they say in diplomatic circles, the devil is in the details. USAToday: [U]nlike Good Wife, Secretary seems to fear that anything but the most straightforward plotting will lose us. Twists are too few, solutions too simple, and knowing moments too often canceled out by silly ones. Some good news though for aspiring actors — according to Politico, in addition to real-life news events, we should expect some cameos from real-life Washingtonians. The Madam Secretary people threw in an invitation, “We would love to have people from Washington come through, and real people in the media, to make the world — to ground it in reality, because we want this to feel like a recognizable version of Washington.” What are you waiting for? Go. Call. Now. ‘Madam Secretary’ Star Tea Leoni Star-Struck by Madeleine Albright (usnews.com) ‘Madam Secretary’ screening turns out Madeleine Albright, Morgan Freeman (washingtonpost.com) Madam Secretary star Tim Daly talks Wings, Madeleine Albright (o.canada.com) Madeleine Albright gives Tea Leoni’s ‘Madam Secretary’ two thumbs up (entertainthis.usatoday.com) ‘Madam Secretary’ Brings Political Drama To The Sunday Night CBS Lineup (baltimore.cbslocal.com) ‘Madam Secretary’ Review: CBS Drama Struggles to Find Itself (thewrap.com) 9 Diplomatic Facts to Know About ‘Madam Secretary’ (dailysignal.com) While You Were Sleeping, the State Dept’s Specials in This “Bureau” Proliferated Like Mushroom May 1, 2014 By domani spero in Appointments, Hillary, John F. Kerry, Political Appointees, Realities of the FS, Secretary of State, Special Envoys and Reps, Staffing the FS, State Department Tags: Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary R. Clinton, John F. Kerry, Madeleine Albright, senior advisers, special envoy, special representative Update on 5/7/14: Names of a few more special envoys during the Albright era added. We were looking into mushrooms one day (problematic backyard lawn) and stumbled upon “The cleverness of mushrooms.” The article says that “exactly how mushrooms proliferate is still poorly understood.” Hey, we thought — isn’t that kind of the same thing when it comes to special advisors, special envoys and special representatives proliferating inside the State Department? Exactly how it’s done is still poorly understood. For instance, Secretary Madeleine Albright (1997-2001) had, can you believe it, two. There was Theresa A. Loar, the Coordinator for International Women’s Issues. Then there was Norman Neureiter, the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State. If there were more, they were not listed in the secretary’s archive. Update on 5/7/14: A few more special envoys during the Albright era, not reflected on the state.gov archive (Thanks Michael T.): Rev Jesse Jackson, Special Envoy for the President and the Secretary of State for the Promotion of Democracy in Africa. Amb Richard Bogosian, Special Coordinator for Rwanda and Burundi, 1996-1997 Dr. Howard Wolpe, Special Envoy of the President and the Secretary of State to the Burundi peace negotiations, then Special Envoy of the President and Secretary of State to Africa’s Great Lakes region. Amb Howard F. Jeter, Special Envoy for Liberia Amb Paul Hare, Special Representative to the Angolan Peace Process, 1993-2001 Also, according to state.gov’s archive, there were fourteen senior folks including “Special Envoys” and “Special Representatives” at the State Department from 2001-2009 encompassing the tenure of Secretary Colin Powell (2001-2005) and Secretary Condoleezza Rice (2005-2009). Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary, Dr. Nina V. Fedoroff Senior Adviser on Women’s Empowerment: Dr. Shirin Tahir-Kheli Senior Adviser, Coordinator for Iraq: David M. Satterfield Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refuee Issues: James B. Foley Senior Official for APEC: Patricia M. Haslach Senior Represenative to Sudan, Sudan Programs Group: Lauren R. Landis Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues: J. Christian Kennedy Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea: Jay Lefkowitz Special Envoy for Organization of the Islamic Conference: Sada Cumber Special Envoy for Somalia: John M. Yates Special Envoy for Sudan: Richard S. Williamson Special Envoy for the Six-Party Talks: Sung Kim Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism: Gregg Rickman Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs: J. Frank Mermoud During Secretary Hillary Clinton’s tenure (2009-2013) and presently under Secretary Kerry, the number of these special folks has grown by quite a bit. In six years, the State Department went from 14 special folks to something like four dozens. It is quite possible that there are more special and senior folks whose appointments/new desks have not yet made it to the official website. The number of senior advisors as opposed to the special advisors is even more difficult to find. One example is Tom Perriello, the Special Representative for the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development (QDDR) Review appointed by Secretary Kerry in February 2014. His biography is live but he is not listed here. Another one not listed is Senior Advisor to the Secretary David H. Thorne, former U.S. ambassador to Italy and twin brother of Secretary Kerry’s first wife. And by the way, we noticed that Special Advisor for Secretary’s Initiative Elizabeth Bagley was appointed on April 20, 2011. According to state.gov, her term of appointment is 04/20/2011 to present. Currently her bio page says “The biography for Special Adviser for Secretary Initiatives Elizabeth Bagley will be posted when available.” screen shot state.gov You wait, and wait, and wait …. and nothing happens in three years like what, a turtle carrying the bio page is still circumnavigating the globe to get to Foggy Bottom? We should note that while it was widely reported last year that the Gitmo Closure office had also been shuttered, Ambassador Daniel Fried was actually succeeded as Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure by Clifford M. Sloan, an attorney who previously served as Publisher of Slate Magazine and as a General Counsel at The Washington Post Company. Ambassador Fried is now the State Department’s Coordinator for Sanctions Policy. In any case, here they are, the State Department’s Special Advisors, Special Envoys, and Special Representatives: Afghanistan and Pakistan, Special Representative –Afghanistan and Pakistan (Special Representative): James F. Dobbins APEC (U.S. Senior Official): Robert S. Wang Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) Issues, Special Representative –Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) Issues (Special Representative): Vacant Burma, Special Representative and Policy Coordinator –Burma (Senior Advisor): Judith Beth Cefkin Special Representative for the Central African Republic: W. Stuart Symington Civil Society and Emerging Democracies, Senior Advisor –Civil Society and Emerging Democracies (Coordinator): Tomicah Tillemann Climate Change, Special Envoy –Climate Change (Special Envoy): Todd D. Stern Special Advisor for Children’s Issues Ambassador Susan Jacobs Closure of the Guantanamo Detention Facility (Special Envoy): Clifford M. Sloan Commercial and Business Affairs, Special Representative –Commercial and Business Affairs (Special Representative): Lorraine Hariton Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, Special Envoy Cyber Issues, Coordinator –Cyber Issues (Coordinator): Christopher Painter Eurasian Energy, Special Envoy –Faith Based and Community Initiatives (Special Advisor): Shaun Casey Global Food Security, Special Representative –Global Food Security (Special Representative): Jonathan Shrier (Acting) Global Health Diplomacy (Special Representative): Leslie V. Rowe (Acting) Global Intergovernmental Affairs, Special Representative –Global Intergovernmental Affairs (Special Representative): Mary Pensabene (Acting) Global Partnerships, Special Representative –Global Partnerships (Special Representative): Andrew O’Brien Global Youth Issues, Special Advisor –Global Youth Issues (Special Adviser): Zeenat Rahman Great Lakes Region and the D.R.C., Special Envoy –Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Special Envoy): Russell D. Feingold Haiti, Special Coordinator –Haiti (Special Coordinator): Thomas C. Adams Holocaust Issues, Special Envoy –Holocaust Issues (Special Adviser): Stuart E. Eizenstat –Holocaust Issues (Special Envoy): Douglas Davidson International Disability Rights, Special Advisor –International Disability Rights (Special Advisor): Judith E. Heumann International Energy Affairs, Coordinator –International Energy Affairs (Special Envoy and Coordinator): Carlos Pascual International Labor Affairs, Special Representative –International Labor Affairs (Special Representative): Vacant International Religious Freedom, Ambassador-at-Large Israel and the Palestinian Authority, U.S. Security Coordinator –Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations (Special Envoy): Martin S. Indyk Kimberly Process, Chair Middle East Transitions (Special Coordinator): Vacant Middle East Peace, Special Envoy Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Special Envoy –Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism (Special Envoy): Ira N. Forman Muslim Communities, Special Representative –Muslim Communities (Special Representative): Adnan Kifayat (Acting) Nonproliferation and Arms Control, Special Advisor –Nonproliferation and Arms Control (Special Advisor): Robert J. Einhorn North Korean Human Rights Issues, Special Envoy –North Korean Human Rights Issues (Special Envoy): Robert R. King North Korea Policy, Special Representative –North Korea Policy (Special Representative): Glyn Davies Nuclear Nonproliferation, Special Representative of the President –Nuclear Nonproliferation (Special Representative of the President): Susan Burk Organization of the Islamic Conference, Special Envoy –Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Special Envoy): Rashad Hussain QDDR (Special Representative): Thomas Perriello Sanctions Policy (Coordinator): Daniel Fried Science and Technology (Adviser): E. William Colglazier Secretary Initiatives, Special Advisor –Secretary Initiatives (Special Adviser): Elizabeth Bagley Senior Advisor to the Secretary: David H. Thorne Six-Party Talks, Special Envoy –Six-Party Talks (Special Envoy): Vacant Strategic Stability and Missile Defense, Special Envoy Sudan, Special Envoy –Sudan and South Sudan (Special Envoy): Donald E. Booth Threat Reduction Programs, Coordinator –Threat Reduction Programs (Coordinator): Bonnie D. Jenkins In 2016, if you don’t want to compete for the ambassadorial sweeps, don’t forget these gigs. These positions are not advertised through usajobs.gov and more importantly, these jobs do not/do not require senate confirmations. US Sends Envoy to South Sudan (voanews.com) SPLM has no objection to individual sanctions on South Sudan, says Itto (sudantribune.com) Sec. Kerry Heads to Ethiopia, DR Congo, Angola; Nine Ambassadorial Nominees for Africa Still Stuck in Confirmation Chamber (diplopundit.net) Report: US Special Envoy To Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Resigning (jpupdates.com) UN envoy: tough choice for Israel, Palestinians (dailystar.com.lb) State/OIG Releases Special Review of the Accountability Review Board Process September 25, 2013 By domani spero in Diplomatic Attacks, Govt Documents, Leadership and Management, Secretary of State, Security, State Department, U.S. Missions Tags: Accountability Review Boards, ARB, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, D/MR, D/S Tom Nides, Heather Higginbottom, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jack Lew, Jacob Lew, Madeleine Albright, OIG, OIG Report, State/M, State/OIG, State/P, Thomas R. Nides, Under Secretary of State for Management, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs The State Department’s Office of the Inspector General released its Special Review of the Accountability Review Board Process. [See Special Review of the Accountability Review Board Process (ISP-I-13-44A) [491 Kb] Posted on September 25, 2013]. The inspection took place in Washington, DC, between April 15 and August 13, 2013. The names of the inspectors have been redacted per [FOIA Exemption (b) (6)] which “exempts from disclosure records or information which if disclosed would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” (Argh!!!) The OIG report in short form says “The Accountability Review Board process operates as intended—independently and without bias—to identify vulnerabilities in the Department of State’s security programs.” Among its key judgments are 1) the implementation of Accountability Review Board recommendations works best when the Secretary of State and other Department of State principals take full ownership and oversight of the implementation process; 2) per Benghazi ARB recommendation to enable future Boards to recommend that the Department of State take disciplinary action in cases of unsatisfactory leadership performance related to a security incident, State “plans to revise the Foreign Affairs Manual and request that Congress amend the applicable statute to incorporate this change.” According to the report, the OIG team interviewed the four secretaries who held office between 1998 and 2012. “All stated that the ARB process was an effective tool that could provide the Department with important lessons for enhancing the security and safety of U.S. diplomatic facilities and employees. The interviews revealed that the secretaries had engaged actively in the ARB process and had taken the ARB and the resulting recommendations with utmost seriousness.” The report does not include the names of the interviewees but the four SecState would have been Madeleine Albright (1997-2001), Colin Powell (2001-2005), Condoleezza Rice (2005-2009), and Hillary Rodham Clinton (2009-2013) The very same report notes that the “OIG team was not able to identify an institutionalized process by which the Secretary or Deputy Secretary engaged beyond the drafting and submission of the Secretary’s legislated report to Congress.” Two former secretaries “raised questions as to whether the process is sufficiently robust for handling investigations of major, complex incidents, especially those in which the interests and actions of several agencies were involved.” The report further noted that all four former secretaries described the inherent tug of war between risks and rewards as the Department conducts its business in dangerous places around the world: Typically, the strong preference among those responsible for advancing U.S. policy objectives is to keep posts open whenever possible, even in dangerous places, while those officials responsible for security give priority to the risks and the possibilities for harm. Within the Department, these sometimes contradictory positions tend to be represented respectively by the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and the Under Secretary of State for Management. For that reason, two former secretaries were strongly of the view that responsibility for reconciling these perspectives should be vested at the deputy secretary level. Indeed, one former Secretary told the OIG team that this concern was at the heart of the original proposal to create a second deputy secretary position, one that would have as a principal responsibility overseeing and reconciling these competing interests of policy and security on a daily basis. The second deputy secretary position was first filled in 2009 during Secretary Clinton’s tenure. The State Department describes the position as the Chief Operating Officer of the Department, but the official title is Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources (D/MR). The position “serves as principal adviser to the Secretary on overall supervision and direction of resource allocation and management activities of the Department.” The job summary posted online makes no special mention of this position as the arbiter when the competing interests between policy and security comes to the fore. From 2009-2010, Jacob J. Lew was D/MR and oversaw the civilian surge in Afghanistan. From 2011-2013, Thomas R. Nides was D/MR and delivered State’s first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR). Most recently, President Obama announced the nomination of Heather Higginbottom, the new Counselor in the Office of the Secretary of State to be the third Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources. We hope to do a follow-up post on the ARB Permanent Coordinating Committee and how come no ARB was convened following the attack at the US Embassy in Tunis in September 2012 despite “significant destruction of property.” (O_O) Rice Conspiracy: “Cover-Up” Now Extends to the 1998 East Africa Bombings? Why Not Just Add the Fake Moon Landing, too? December 6, 2012 By domani spero in Ambassadors, Huh? News, Lessons, Political Appointees, Politics, Security Tags: 1998 East Africa Embassy Bombings, Accountability Review Board, AF, Anthony Zinni, ARB, ASTD, Bill Clinton, Bureau of African Affairs, George Moose, Madeleine Albright, Oral History Project, Patrick Kennedy, Prudence Bushnell, Richard Clark, Susan Rice, Tony Lake Gosh, this is getting exhausting. Aren’t you getting tired of Rice clogging up your feed? And she has not even been nominated yet. Frontpage.com has this screaming headline: How Susan Rice Covered Up the Kenya Embassy Bombings 14 Years Before Benghazigate Investors.com has this one: For Susan Rice, Benghazi Was Kenya 1998 Deja Vu Over at HuffPo, a tamer one: Susan Rice Role In Lead-Up To Africa Embassy Bombings Recalled As Minimal The 1998 East Africa bombings in Kenya and Tanzania were pulled out of a hat by GOP Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) who recently said: Those bombings in 1998 resulted in the loss of life of 12 Americans as well as many other foreign nationals, and 4,000 people were injured. And what troubles me so much is the Benghazi attack in many ways echoes the attacks on those embassies in 1998 when Susan Rice was head of the African region for our State Department. In both cases, the ambassador begged for additional security. The ambassador to Kenya sent repeated messages to the State Department requesting a stronger facility because of the increased threat, and those requests, as in the case of Benghazi, were turned down by the State Department. I asked Ambassador Rice what her role was. She said that she would have to refresh her memory, but that she was not involved directly in turning down the requests, but surely given her position as the assistant secretary for African affairs she had to be aware of the general threat assessment and of the ambassador’s repeated requests for more security. Susan Rice was the 12th Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (AF) at the State Department. She held that post from October 9, 1997 – January 20, 2001. The East Africa embassy bombings which killed 223 people and injured over 4,000 people occurred on August 7, 1998. The Accountability Review Board (ARB) chaired by Admiral Crowe faulted what it called “systemic and institutional failures in Washington” and concluded that “no employee of the U.S. government” had “breached his or her responsibility.” You may read it here. Some members of the Crowe Commission were interviewed recently by the Huffington Post here. The report says that Ambassador Bushnell did not respond to multiple requests for comment. She was reported as having sent “an emotional plea” to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about the security situation prior to the bombing. While Ambassador Bushnell did not return request for comments, her 2005 interview with Charles Stuart Kennedy for the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training‘s Oral History Project has an extensive account about her life in the Foreign Service including the embassy bombing. Susan Rice appeared twice by name in the transcript of her interview. First, when Ambassador Bushnell talked about President Clinton, who had just taken office and nominated George Moose as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: “George had made the decision to bring in experienced ambassadors as Office Directors. He delegated to them the bulk of the responsibilities and decision-making authorities. The Front Office would exercise a light hand. It was a great idea that did not work because the structure and culture of the Department emphasizes centralized control. George’s successor, Susan Rice, who came from the NSC changed the structure back. I am sorry no one gave this experiment greater time to work because we are wasting an enormous amount of effectiveness and talent by continuing a 19th century, hierarchical model of organization.” Second, when Ambassador Bushnell was asked: What about the role of the NSC during this whole thing? BUSHNELL: Richard Clark was the head of Global Affairs and Peace Keeping of the NSC. Susan Rice, his deputy was to take over in the second term of Clinton Administration as assistant secretary for African Affairs. Dick Clark is the one person to this day who will look you in the eye and say, “We did exactly the right thing in Rwanda.” On the other hand, Tony Lake the National Security Advisor at the time talks at length about his regrets. She also discussed her bureaucratic battles which should be acutely familiar to some folks reading this: BUSHNELL: I remember that in early 1998 a delegation of counter-terrorist types visited. I met with them in the secure conference room, and when they ended with the pro-forma , “Is there anything we can do for you”? I angrily declared they could answer the god-damn mail. The cursing was intentional because I wanted them to see how frustrated and annoyed I was.I also continued to send cables about our vulnerability, which only became more apparent as we dealt with these threats. When I reviewed them before meeting with the Accountability Review Board after the bombing, I was astounded by their frequency. General Tony Zinni, Head of Central Command, the military theater under which Kenya fell, understood force protection and agreed with me about the vulnerability of the embassy. With my enthusiastic concurrence he cabled Washington offering one of his own vulnerability assessment teams. That got a reply — not just “no,” but mind your own business. Q: This team that eventually came out was, I take it, a basically a routine thing from Diplomatic Security? BUSHNELL: No, it was not a routine thing. I think Tony’s cable, along with continuing concerns we were voicing, finally provoked a response in the form of an assessment team. Meanwhile, when I returned to Washington on consultations in December of ’97, I was told point blank by the AF Executive Office to stop sending cables because people were getting very irritated with me. That really pushed up my blood pressure. Later, in the spring of ’98, for the first time in my career I was not asked for input into the “Needs Improvement” section of my performance evaluation. That’s always a sign! When I read the criticism that “she tends to overload the bureaucratic circuits,” I knew exactly what it referred to. Yes, the cables had been read, they just weren’t appreciated. Q: Was anything happening at this time from Tanzania from Dar es Salaam? Was there concern there or any of the other? BUSHNELL: […] In May ’98, the Director General visited Nairobi, and was exposed to the concerns of the community. While he thought we were on the verge of becoming obsessed over security, offered to take a letter back to Secretary Albright. So, I penned a letter suggesting that, when next defending the State Department budget before Congress, she use our vulnerability as an example of why we needed more security funding. I also wrote to the Undersecretary for Management. I received a highly bureaucratic response from the undersecretary’s office – sorry, greater needs elsewhere and no money – but none from the Secretary. That, frankly, didn’t surprise me. To my knowledge, no one in the media has seen the letter to the Secretary so why it has been described as “highly emotional” or a “plea” is beyond me. Actually, it’s not. Stereotyping is alive and well even if wrong. A side note here – the current Undersecretary for Management or “M” is Patrick Kennedy who had been before several committee hearings up in Congress. This same position was encumbered by Bonnie R. Cohen from 1997 to 2001. Below is part of Ambassador Bushnell’s account of the immediate aftermath of the US Embassy Kenya bombing and her telephone calls with Susan Rice, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and then President Clinton: I had lost total track of time, but at some point early on the Assistant Secretary for African Affairs called. I had barely said hello, when the Secretary of State called on the other line. Both voiced shock about the bombing and about the vulnerability of the building. When I told the Secretary, “Madame Secretary, I wrote you a letter,” there was silence. She had not seen it, she said. I wasn’t about to quibble. Not much later President Clinton called. When he called me “Pru” I knew someone was passing him cue cards because there’s no reason he would know that’s what I call myself.” Anyway, he instructed me to secure the perimeter of the chancery. He may have said “I’m sorry,” I don’t remember because I was so astounded by the importance of security now that we’d been blown up. This is supposed to be the guy who feels our pain. Once I confirmed that the building next door had collapsed, he ordered me to secure the perimeter there, as well. “But people are still trying to get others out from under the rubble,” I explained. “Oh,” he replied. “Well, then secure the perimeter.” To this day that’s the only interaction I ever had with the President about the bombing! Ambassador Bushnell also talked about what worked and what did not in honoring the victims of the attack. She did not mention Susan Rice by name in the transcript but the later was the A/S at the AF Bureau at that time: BUSHNELL: …Washington had given us a general Mission Award for Heroism but that was it. It was up to us to take care of whatever individual or other group awards we wanted to give. I asked one of the political officers, poor guy, to do nothing but talk to people and write up awards. Another lesson learned. It was absolutely the wrong thing to do and turned into a mess. The process opened all sorts of wounds, anger and finger-pointing; it pulled people apart rather than bringing them together. So, we focused on commemorating the memorial fountain that day rather than the awards. The Assistant Secretary for African Affairs came and, to our surprise, so did many of the family members of the Americans who had been killed. Unlike the family members of our deceased Kenyan colleagues, the Americans were very open in their anger — at the way they had been treated by the Department, at the fact that their loved ones had died, at the tragedy imposed so suddenly. It was so painful to witness and even more so, to absorb during a tense meeting after the ceremony. And then there’s this question about the inner circle of the SoS: Q: Well, we’re going to have to continue this, but I’ve heard people who dealt with the Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright at that time, she was surrounded by a group of people for the most part who were very protective of her and you know, almost vengeful on anybody who might hurt her reputation. Did you feel that at all or at least did you feel that there was a cocoon around her? BUSHNELL: Very much so. I know they were very mad at me for not allowing the Secretary to visit in the immediate aftermath of the bombing — they made that very clear to me. But, I really didn’t see them as that vengeful. I had traveled with Madeleine Albright and her team when she was at USUN. So, I knew a couple of the people and we had gotten along all right. That said, there was no doubt in my mind as to where their loyalties lay. The interview is 147-pages long but it is quite a read (PDF). Now about that moon landing … Pardon me? This is a training mockup? … and Susan Rice did what … that footprint on the moon mockup? But … but … she was only five years old then … that was her on Meet the Press, too? You heard it where? Holy screaming goats! What’s next? Op-Ed Columnist: The Rice Question (nytimes.com) A New (Bogus) Front in the GOP War on Susan Rice (motherjones.com) US Embassy bombing in Kenya haunts Rice (nation.co.ke) Please Not Susan Rice for Secretary of State (wemeantwell.com) Former Secretaries of State in the News: Book Signing, Benghazi, Endorsement November 1, 2012 By domani spero in Obama, Politics, Secretary of State, State Department, Video of the Week Tags: Benghazi Consulate Attack, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Madeleine Albright, YouTube Madeleine Albright who was Secretary of State from January 23, 1997 – January 20, 2001 under Bill Clinton was in a verbal altercation with a group of pro-Serbian activists at a book signing in Prague. And of course, they had their camera rolling and it made the news and YouTube: Condi Rice who was SoS from January 26, 2005 – January 20, 2009 under George W. Bush was on Fox News about the Benghazi attack. She told Greta Van Susteren that “The Accountability Review Board… will indeed take a look at whether or not the preparations were adequate, given what was known about the intelligence picture. I myself have received reports from Accountability Review Boards.” And folks turned off their teevee. Colin Powell who was SecState from January 20, 2001 – January 26, 2005 under George W. Bush endorsed President Obama for the second term made a smaller splash than his 2008 endorsement. But Mr. Sununu (of the Air Sununu fame) suggested that Secretary Powell endorsed President O because both men are African American, and the endorsement became bigger news. But … but Mr. Sununu and Mr. Romney are both … does that mean …. ? Mr. Sununu went soft and all and said in statement from the campaign that — “Colin Powell is a friend, and I respect the endorsement decision he made, and I do not doubt that it was based on anything but his support of the President’s policies.” I don’t think these guy are getting together for Thanksgiving this year. Lawrence Wilkerson, Former Colin Powell Aide, Blasts Sununu, GOP As ‘Full Of Racists’ (democraticunderground.com) Top Romney aide Sununu suggests Powell endorsed Obama because he’s black (washingtonpost.com) Sununu cites race as factor for Powell’s Obama endorsement (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343765
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__label__wiki	0.912003	0.912003	Annual cyber security summit focuses on protecting critical infrastructure Written by Staff Sgt. Katie Theusch, Wisconsin National Guard Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, Wisconsin's adjutant general and Gov. Scott Walker's Homeland security advisor, opened a daylong Cybersecurity Summit Oct. 16 at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. The fifth annual summit theme this year was 'Protecting Infrastructure through Public-Private Partnerships.' Featured speakers included Dr. Jen Golbeck, Mark Weatherford, Alan Paller, Frank Grimmelmann, Thomas MacLellan and Col. Kelly Hughes. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers MADISON, Wis. — More than 350 government, business, and academic leaders gathered recently at the fifth Annual Governor’s Cybersecurity Summit, to exchange knowledge and experiences in the ongoing effort to secure our states digital infrastructure. Nationally recognized cyber security experts participated at the October 16 Cyber Security Summit held at the University of Wisconsin. They discussed issues facing the industry, which included a shortage of cyber security experts, to the National Guard's role in developing cyber response teams. Wisconsin National Guard Soldiers present the colors, kicking off a daylong Cybersecurity Summit Oct. 16 at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. The fifth annual summit theme this year was 'Protecting Infrastructure through Public-Private Partnerships.' In addition to Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, Wisconsin's adjutant general and Gov. Scott Walker's Homeland Security advisor, featured speakers included Dr. Jen Golbeck, Mark Weatherford, Alan Paller, Frank Grimmelmann, Thomas MacLellan and Col. Kelly Hughes. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers The annual summit is held in conjunction with Wisconsin's Cyber Security Awareness Month campaign. Gov. Scott Walker issues the annual proclamation to recognize and acknowledge the vital role Wisconsin has in identifying, protecting, detecting, responding to and recovering from cyber threats to the state’s critical infrastructure and to encourage citizens to take appropriate steps to protect their information. Protecting critical infrastructure is very easy to talk about, but hard to do, Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, Wisconsin's adjutant general and homeland security advisor told attendees at the fifth annual summit that took place at the University of Wisconsin and shared some of the state's efforts. David Cagigal, chief information officer with the state of Wisconsin, and Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, Wisconsin's adjutant general and Gov. Scott Walker's Homeland security advisor, hold up a signed proclamation from Gov. Walker declaring October Cyber Security Awareness Month at a daylong Cybersecurity Summit Oct. 16 at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. The fifth annual summit theme this year was 'Protecting Infrastructure through Public-Private Partnerships.' In addition to Dunbar, featured speakers included Dr. Jen Golbeck, Mark Weatherford, Alan Paller, Frank Grimmelmann, Thomas MacLellan and Col. Kelly Hughes. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers “We have developed five cyber response teams here in the state of Wisconsin,” Dunbar said. “Three of them are state and local government allowing their IT professionals to train together, and then if something happens we can respond as a team. The National Guard is filling a fourth team, and we’re working with our industry partners to form a fifth team.” Dunbar added that a current challenge facing cyber response is the reluctance for organizations to share information that could be important when protecting and securing critical infrastructure. Frank Grimmelmann, the president and CEO of the Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (ACTRA), agreed and spoke about ACTRA's 1,800 private sector and government partners they have working together sharing vital information. He told participants that ACTRA is assisting Wisconsin in building a similar network, the Wisconsin Cyber Threat Response Alliance, or WICTRA. Dr. Jen Golbeck, a reknowned thought leader on social media, online communication, and cybersecurity, spoke during a daylong Cybersecurity Summit Oct. 16 at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. The fifth annual summit theme this year was 'Protecting Infrastructure through Public-Private Partnerships.' In addition to Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, Wisconsin's adjutant general and Gov. Scott Walker's Homeland Security advisor, featured speakers included Mark Weatherford, Alan Paller, Frank Grimmelmann, Thomas MacLellan and Col. Kelly Hughes. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers “What we are doing is replicating the essential components that will be essential to the state of Wisconsin that will allow you to, from the grassroots level, put in place something that works for you, and something that, working together, will raise the bar for both of us,” Grimmelman said. Presenters also discussed a different challenge facing cyber security – the lack of cybersecurity professionals. Small businesses to major corporations are competing for well-trained cyber professionals. Mark Weatherford, senior vice president and chief cybersecurity strategist a vArmour, a data center and cloud security company, spoke during a daylong Cybersecurity Summit Oct. 16 at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. The fifth annual summit theme this year was 'Protecting Infrastructure through Public-Private Partnerships.' In addition to Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, Wisconsin's adjutant general and Gov. Scott Walker's Homeland Security advisor, featured speakers included Dr. Jen Golbeck, Alan Paller, Frank Grimmelmann, Thomas MacLellan and Col. Kelly Hughes. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers “This problem of cyber manpower is so bad right now, that the country is actually starting to look abroad [to see what other countries are doing],” said Allan Paller, founder of the SANS Insitute, and organization that specializes in information security training and cyber security. Paller told participants how other states and nations are developing tests and training courses to identify and recruit cyber talent to begin building a pipeline of cyber security professionals. Alan Paller, founder of The SANS Institute, spoke during a daylong Cybersecurity Summit Oct. 16 at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. The fifth annual summit theme this year was 'Protecting Infrastructure through Public-Private Partnerships.' In addition to Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, Wisconsin's adjutant general and Gov. Scott Walker's Homeland Security advisor, featured speakers included Dr. Jen Golbeck, Mark Weatherford, Frank Grimmelmann, Thomas MacLellan and Col. Kelly Hughes. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers When it comes to the National Guard, IT professionals don’t necessarily have to choose between serving their country and working for a high-paying IT company. That’s according to Col. Kelly Hughes, the senior cyber advisor to the Joint Force Command of the Washington National Guard. “They’re not here for the money,” Hughes said. “It was the types of missions that they were doing, that they could serve their country and then take their skills and help us out.” Frank Grimmelmann, president and CEO for the Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance, spoke during a daylong Cybersecurity Summit Oct. 16 at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. The fifth annual summit theme this year was 'Protecting Infrastructure through Public-Private Partnerships.' In addition to Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, Wisconsin's adjutant general and Gov. Scott Walker's Homeland Security advisor, featured speakers included Dr. Jen Golbeck, Mark Weatherford, Alan Paller, Thomas MacLellan and Col. Kelly Hughes. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers Another challenge facing the industry is getting the public to embrace cyber awareness. Despite all the security systems developed and implemented, if the consumer doesn't use them, they are worthless, said Dr. Jen Golbeck, a leader on social media and online communication. “From the beginning, security has been designed without making people part of the system,” Golbeck said. Thomas MacLellan, director of policy and government affairs for Symantec, spoke during a daylong Cybersecurity Summit Oct. 16 at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. The fifth annual summit theme this year was 'Protecting Infrastructure through Public-Private Partnerships.' In addition to Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, Wisconsin's adjutant general and Gov. Scott Walker's Homeland Security advisor, featured speakers included Dr. Jen Golbeck, Mark Weatherford, Alan Paller, Frank Grimmelmann and Col. Kelly Hughes. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers Many rules set to define a secure password make the password impossible for humans to remember. There is a stigma that if security systems are easier for users, such as using biometrics to log onto a phone, the system is less secure. “Human beings cannot be upgraded,” Golbeck said. “We come with a set of social, cognitive, psychological capabilities and limitations, and you can’t change those.” In addition, people generally try to be nice – letting others borrow a computer, granting them access to their network, she said. She challenged security professionals in the audience to figure out how to make “the nice thing the most secure thing to do.” Col. Kelly Hughes, senior cyber advisor to the Joint Force Command of the Washington National Guard, spoke during a daylong Cybersecurity Summit Oct. 16 at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. The fifth annual summit theme this year was 'Protecting Infrastructure through Public-Private Partnerships.' In addition to Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, Wisconsin's adjutant general and Gov. Scott Walker's Homeland Security advisor, featured speakers included Dr. Jen Golbeck, Mark Weatherford, Alan Paller, Frank Grimmelmann and Thomas MacLellan. Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs photo by Sgt. Katie Eggers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343784
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__label__wiki	0.806685	0.806685	Down Rabbit Holes and Up Family Trees Occasional explorations in history and genealogy The Marshalls of Glengallan The Marshall Orphans William Marshall; Table Bay, Cape Town c1811; St. James Cathedral, Mauritius; 37 Craven Street, London; Leith Postal Directory listings for William Marshall for 1823 to 1827; Certificates for annuity bonds; Signatures of the children electing John Bentall as Curator and Guardian; Buckfast Abbey manor house; Louisa Marshall (née Bentall). Charles Henry Marshall and his siblings had an eventful early life. Their parents, William Marshall and Louisa Bentall, married in 1810, just prior to moving to Cape Town where they had four children. They then moved to Mauritius where they had five more children. Only six of the children lived to adulthood, and the family story was that three of those born in Cape Town, Mary, John and Charles, died as infants. Louisa died in 1823 in Mauritius, after which the family relocated to Leith, Scotland, where William also died in 1828 without leaving a will. The family stories were that this left the children destitute and that they had to be supported by their wider family – especially the Benthalls. (The Bentalls changed their name to Benthall in 1843 so the spellings are interchangeable.) Although he died intestate, William’s estate required administration and probate, and the probate documents reveal a very different story from that which passed down through the family. The information prompted and focused further research which revealed more information about their time in Cape Town and Mauritius, their return to England, and the support they received from their wider family following their father’s death. We also came into contact with Tim Benthall who was researching his family including the Benthall’s interaction with the Marshalls so we had a lot of common points of interest. He also had a number of valuable family records that provided a lot of insight. We would not have been able to present this picture of the family without Tim’s help. The probate documents Whilst much of the story occurred prior to William’s untimely death, the probate documents 1 provide a good starting point because they introduce a number of the key players in the children’s lives. They also elucidate the children’s circumstances following their father’s death, and the arrangements that were put in place for their care, which set the scene for their adult lives. The documents are presented below. The first three pages are the Probate Declaration by John Bentall, Louisa’s brother, who took on the administration of the estate on behalf of the children. He was a stockbroker living at 37 Craven Street, The Strand, London: a man with clear financial credentials to oversee the children’s inheritance. Uncle John was not just appointed to the administration of the estate. He was in fact elected by the six eldest children to be the Curator and Guardian of their financial interests in the estate. This is laid out in the second set of three pages, which is the Proxy by which the children, who were all under age, effected this nomination with the assistance of an officer of the court. The signing of this deed and its witnessing give further insights into the involvement of the wider family in their welfare. These images are provided by and published with the permission of The National Archives whose copyright position can be found HERE Willm Marshall Proxy & Decln Brot in 12 April 1828 Cover – The National Archives In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury In the Goods of William Marshall Esqre deced A Declaration instead of a full true plain perfect and particular Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of William Marshall formerly of the Isle of France but late of Leith in North Britain Esquire a Widower deceased which have at any time whatever come to the Hands possession or knowledge of John Bentall the Guardian lawfully assigned to William Marshall, John Marshall, Edward Marshall Louisa Maria Marshall, Spinster, Charles Henry Marshall, Henry Marshall and Thornton Marshall respectively Minors the natural lawful and only Children of the said Deceased and the only Persons entitled in Distribution to his Personal Estate and Effects and as such the Administrator of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said Deceased for the use and Benefit of the said Minors and until they or one of them shall attain the age of Twenty one years Made and given in by virtue of the corporal Oath of the said John Bentall ~ follow to wit — First this Exhibitant declares that the said deceased was at the time of his death possessed of various articles of Household Furniture and ~ 72..12..2 Carrd. over ——— 72..12..2 Declaration Page 1 – The National Archives Brot. forwd. ——— 72..12..2 Effects which together with his Wearing Apparel have since been sold and disposed of and produced the sum of £72..12..2 with which Sum he hereby charges himself accordingly Also this Exhibitant declares that the said deceased was possessed of several Articles of Plate ^Linen and Jewellery the whole of which are of the estimated value of £110 or thereabouts 110..0..0 that the said deceased died possessed of or entitled to the Sum of £413..13..8 3½ per Cent Reduced Annuities which is now standing in his Name in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England and which according to the present price of that Stock being £92 per Cent is of the value of £380..11..9 or thereabouts with which said Stock or the Produce thereof he charges himself accordingly 380..11..9 that there is half a years Dividend due upon the said Sum of £413..13..8 with which he therefore also charges himself that the said deceased was likewise possessed of or entitled to the Sum of £1700..0..0 ~ 3 per Cent Consols which Carrd. over ——— 563..3..11 Brot. forwd. ——— 563..3..11 is now standing in the said Books £83- per Cent is worth the Sum of £1410 or thereabouts with which said Stock or the Produce thereof he charges himself accordingly 1410..0..0 £1973..3..11 Lastly this Exhibitant declares that no further or other Goods Chattels or Credits of or belonging to the Estate of the said Deceased have at any time whatever come to his Hands Possession or Knowledge but should any such Goods Chattels at any time hereafter come to his Hands Possession or Knowledge he will readily and willingly set forth the same and charge himself therewith or with the Produce thereof accordingly March 1828 the said John Bentall was duly sworn to the truth of this Declaration J Bentall Before me, John Daubuy Proct R. W. Jennings Not Pub [Notary Public] The lack of a will suggests that William died suddenly and that, because of his relatively young age, had not yet deemed it necessary to make a will. The amount of the legacy, however, indicates that he was a prudent and financially aware man. John Bentall’s declaration shows that the estate comprised £72 of cash, £1,790 of Government securities, 2 and £110 of personal items including jewellery, linen and silver plate. £1,862 of financial assets was a substantial sum at the time. It is very difficult to determine what a comparable value would be today, but if we compare £1,862 to average incomes at the time and calculate what sum would similarly compare to average incomes today, the value is £1.5 million. Using a cost of living index (which, for technical reasons, tends to understate the comparative value), the value today would be £151,000. A healthy legacy whatever the conversion method. Whereas William Marshall formerly of the Isle of France Esquire Late of Leith in North Britain, a Widower, Departed this Life in the Month of January last Intestate leaving behind him William Marshall — John Marshall — Edward Marshall — Louisa Maria Marshall, Spinster — Charles Henry Marshall — Henry Marshall — Six of his natural & lawful Children all Minors respectively / to wit / under the age of Twenty one years and Thornton Marshall another of his natural & lawful Children an Infant of the age of Six years but under the age of Seven years the only next of kin & the only Persons entitled to the Letters of Administration, & in Distribution of the Goods of the said Deceased And whereas the said Minors who are above the age of Seven years are desirous of electing John Bentall Esquire their natural & lawful Uncle to be their Curator or Guardian for the Purpose of taking upon himself the Letters of Admon of the Goods of the said Decd. for their use & Benefit & until one of them Proxy Page 1 – The National Archives know all then by these Present that We the said William Marshall of the age of Fifteen years John Marshall of the age of Thirteen years — Edward Marshall of the age of Eleven years — Louisa Maria Marshall, Spinster, of the age of Ten years Charles Henry Marshall of the age of Nine years and Henry Marshall of the age of Seven years but all respectively under the age of Twenty one years the natural & lawful Children and six of the next of kin of the aforesaid William Marshall Esquire Deceased for divers good Causes & Considerations We thereunto especially moving have elected & made choice of John Bentall Esquire our natural & lawful Uncle and one of our next of kin to be our Curator or Guardian for the Purpose of taking upon himself Letters of Administration of all & singular the Goods Chattels & Credits of our said late Father Decd. but nevertheless for our Use & Benefit And so by these Present elect him so to be And to the end that this our Election & Choice may be effectual in Law we do hereby nominate constitute and appoint William David Jennings one of the Procurators General and Richard William Jennings one of the Procurators exercent of the Prerogative Arches Court of Canterbury to be our Proctors 3 jointly & severally for Us & in our Names to appear before the Right Honorable Sir John Nicholl Knight Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Courts of Canterbury his Surrogate or any other Judge competent in this Behalf & exhibit this our Proxy of Election of a Guardian & to pray & procure the same to be admitted & enabled and we do hereby promise to ratify & allow all & whatsoever our said Proctor or either of them or in their absence any other Proctor of the said Court shall do or consent to be lawfully done in their Presences In Witness whereof We have herewith set our Hands & Seals this tenth day of March 1828 Sealed & Delivered by the said Louisa Maria Marshall, Spt in the presence of Us – } William Marshall Louisa Maria Marshall Charles Henry Marshall Henry Marshall 1 R Collins of Exeter Merchant John Collins Son of the above R Collins William Marshall – John Marshall Edward Marshalland – Charles Henry Marshall – Henry Marshall in the Presence of Us – } Wm Adams – Office of Woods of Whitehall Place London – Gentleman H. B. Adams – Do. – Gentleman Sealed & delivered by the said John Marshall Edward Marshall and Henry Marshall in the presence of us Samuel Adams of Hounslow Gentleman. E Varder Spin^ster Servant to Do Proxy Page 3 Insert – The National Archives The first thing we noted on the Proxy, was the signature of John Marshall. He clearly had not died at the Cape, but, as he did not reach adulthood, what happened to him? This will be discussed later. The Proxy is a poignant document with the signatures of William (aged 15), John (13), Edward (11), Louisa Maria (10), Charles (9), and Henry (7) neatly made beneath each other, the writing style moving from William’s mature script to Henry’s shaky childish writing. This would undoubtedly have been a daunting experience for them so soon after their father’s death, despite the process being overseen by their uncles. The execution of the document by the children and the witnessing of their signatures indicate that they were living in three different places. The signatures of John, Edward and Henry were witnessed by Samuel Adams of Hounslow, London, and one of his servants, Elizabeth Varder. Louisa Maria’s signature was witnessed by Richard Collins and his son, John, in Exeter, Devon. William’s and Charles’s signatures were witnessed by William Dacres Adams and Henry Bentall Adams in London. It seems likely that William and Charles were living with their uncle, John Bentall, who was not able to witness the deed as it was in his favour. It is unclear where Thornton was living when the deed was executed, but it seems most likely that he was with his sister, Louisa Maria, with the Collins family in Exeter. The signature block for William and Charles is also interesting in that the names of John, Edward and Henry are crossed out and a separate insert is made on the document to accommodate their witnesses. It would seem that it was intended that they too were to stay with John Bentall, but they instead went a little further out of London to stay with Samuel Adams at the Hounslow Cavalry Barracks. Who were these people and why were they the ones taking care of the children? The answer to these questions can best be explained by looking back on how the children came to be in this situation. In 1810 the shoreline was where the train tracks are now 1788 Cape Town Panorama William Marshall and Louisa Bentall were married on 16 February 1810 at St Mary’s in Totnes, Devon. William was 30 years old and Louisa 27. The witnesses to their marriage were Wm Bentall (Louisa’s father), Elizth Adams (Louisa’s sister and wife of Samuel Adams), Wm Adams (M.P., Elizabeth Adams’s brother-in-law), W. S. Bentall (William Searle Bentall, Louisa’s brother), and Wm Bentall Jr (William Searle’s son). The couple then moved to Cape Town where William took up the position of Assistant Deputy Paymaster General to the Cape Garrison, arriving in October 1810. They bought a house at 5 Buitenkant Street, which is just up from the Castle, and lived there until mid 1816. They had four children during this period. Two, Mary and Charles, died as infants, but William (born 1812) and John (born 1814) survived. William was then transferred by the army to Mauritius where he served as Assistant Deputy Paymaster General until April 1817. He then became Commissaire Général de Police (Commissary-General of Police), a rank equivalent to that of Superintendent. This followed the creation of a Corps of Gendarmerie in 1816 which, for linguistic reasons, shared command between a British and a French officer. William was in joint command with M. Journel [search for Journel]. He remained in this position until June 1818. It is not clear how he supported his family after leaving the police, especially because he had suffered a significant financial loss due to a failed investment. Whatever the financial arrangements, the Marshalls remained in Mauritius and five more children were born there – Edward (born 1816), Louisa Maria (born 1817), Charles Henry (born 1818), Henry (born 1821) and Thornton (born 1822). William then returned to Britain and established himself in Leith, Scotland, where, in the Post Office Directory for Edinburgh and Leith, dated 18 May 1823, he is listed as a merchant. With travel times from Mauritius (generally 4 to 5 months – the quickest being 3 months), setting up business and registering with the directory this means that he would have had to have left Mauritius by no later than sometime in January 1823 and probably even earlier – i.e. prior to his wife’s death. His two eldest sons, William and John, preceded him. They went to England to attend school, most probably during 1821. On 26 September 1821, Mary Ann, wife of William Searle Benthall and the boys’ aunt, commented in a letter that the two boys had returned to Totnes. Both were described as “very pleasant children,” with William attending Totnes Grammar School as a boarder, and John living with the family. 4 William and John also attended a function in Totnes for the 80th birthday of their great aunt, Dorothy Marshall (neé Chadder), on 29 August 1822. Their attendance is recorded on a fascinating document containing the names of the attendees, signed at the function. Photography wasn’t available at the time so we refer to this as the ‘analogue photograph’. Whilst it is a slight diversion from the narrative regarding the orphans, I am showing it in full with a transcript, because it demonstrates the extensive, interlinked family that featured prominently in supporting the orphans: ©Benthall family archive On Thursday the 29th August 1822 We the undersigned Children and Grandchildren of Mrs Marshall, being in all forty persons, were assembled in her presence and in that of Mrs Baker her sister, in the house of William Searle Bentall, Mary Bentall, Thornton Bentall and Margaret Bentall who have there resided as one family since the month of April 1810. Elizth Cornish W F Cornish Willm Marshall I.C.C.O. Marshall The Mark of Clementina The Mark of Caroline The Mark of Emily Marshall Richd Marshall Jane Marshall Louisa Marshall Mary-Ann Marshall Margaret Marshall their marks J Marshall J. Marshall F. O. Marshall Emma Marshall Mark of Wm. Ord Marshall Anna Marshall E Marshall M A Bentall W S Bentall William Bentall Elizth Bentall John Bentall Edward Bentall Anna Bentall Henry Bentall Alfred Bentall T. Bentall Francis Bentall Octavius Bentall X Louisa Bentall X Ellen B Bentall X S Marshall A G Marshall M E A Bentall Thornton Bentall D Marshall Aged 80 E Baker Aged 87 E Cornish Peggy Ford B Earles S. C. Ogilvie M W Coombe Sarah Drewe Wm Marshall L Borrow J Marshall Signature of Mrs Marshall’s Great Great Nephew William Fulford Notable signatures on the bottom left are Dorothy Marshall aged 80, Elizabeth Baker aged 87 and, at the bottom below them, John Marshall with William Marshall two above him. Elizabeth Baker was actually Dorothy Marshall’s sister-in-law. The top row of signatures is of Dorothy Marshall’s children with each of their spouses beneath them and then their children. [Dorothy’s and William’s family chart.] 1: Elizabeth Cornish (née Marshall) (1772-1862), Rev. William Floyer Cornish (1769-1858). 2: Rev. William Marshall (1774-1864); Isabella Carolina Clark Ogilvie Marshall (née Perry Ogilvie) (1792-1833); Clementina Marshall (later Benthall) (~1818-1905); Caroline Mary Marshall (1819-1894); Emily Marshall (later Johnson) (~1820-1895) 3: Dr. Richard Marshall (1776-1859); Sally Marshall (née Ford) (~1776-1858); William Marshall (1807-1885); Jane Farwell Marshall (~1809-1865); Ellen Marshall (~1811-1828); Louisa Marshall (later Edgcumbe) (~1812-1880); Mary Ann Marshall (later Thompson) (~1815-1855); Margaret Marshall (born ~1817) [Family chart.] 4: John Marshall (1777-1850); Jane Marshall (née Campbell) (~1790-1868); Francis Ord Marshall (1810-1870); Emma Jane Marshall (later Venning) (~1813-1878); William Ord Marshall (~1816-1892); Anna Jane Marshall (later Dumergue) (~1815-1884) 5: Edward Marshall (~1779-1868) 6: Mary Ann Bentall (née Marshall) (1780-1866); William Searle Bentall (1778-1854); William Bentall (1803-1877); Elizabeth Bentall (later Waterfield) (1804-1886); Rev. John Bentall (1806-1887); Edward Bentall (1807-1889); Anna Bentall (later Gay) (1809-1874); Henry Bentall (1811-1879); Alfred Bentall (~1813-1839); Thornton Bentall (later Thomas Bennett) (1814-1898); Francis Bentall (1816-1903); Lieut. Octavius Bentall (1818-1846); Louisa Bentall (1820-1859); Ellen Blayds Bentall (later Younghusband) (1822-1865) [Family chart.] 7: Sarah Marshall (later Hamilton) (1783-1849) 8: Ann Gowan Marshall (~1784-1835) 9: Margaret Eleonora Admonition Bentall (née Marshall) (1787-1860); Thornton Bentall (1781-1844) Witness: Dorothy Marshall (née Chadder) (1742-1828); Elizabeth Baker (née Marshall) (1735-1825); Elizabeth Charlotte Cornish (later Bentall) (~1804-1871); Peggy Ford (~1778-1854); B Earles; Sarah Christiana Keightley Perry Ogilvie (1798-1880); M W Coombe – Governess; William Marshall (1812-1901); L Borrow – Governess to Richard and Sally Marshall’s children; John Marshall (1814-1831); Major William Fulford (1812-1886) Father William was not recorded as being present at the function so had either not yet arrived from Mauritius or had already moved to Leith, leaving his sons in Totnes for the school holidays. Louisa died on 24 March 1823 – probably due to the cholera epidemic then sweeping Mauritius. There is no information on who cared for the remaining children, but they stayed in Mauritius for another year before returning to England. Shipping records show that “Miss Marshall” and “four Masters Marshall” arrived from Mauritius on board the Hero of Malown, docking at Falmouth on 5 June 1824. 5 A letter written from John Benthall’s residence in Craven Street, Westminster, by Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, the Member of Parliament for Totnes, to Thornton Benthall (John’s brother), on 8 June 1824 confirms this and the family’s concerns about the care of the children: 6 On my arrival here after a most tiresome Dusty journey I was greeted with the intelligence that all William Marshalls children would probably be in London in a few days as Mrs. Jennings has received a letter from their father to that effect John[a] is most disconcerted as Mrs. Garfield [?] cannot possibly accommodate them I shall write to Hounslow on the subject today and if I find that your sister[b] does not wish to have them there I have made up my mind to take the whole of a Coach which carries six inside and set off myself with all the family as soon as they arrive but I cannot help having some hope that the Captain of the Ship will have sense enough to send them immediately to Totnes, the poor dear children have only a Negro woman with them and what we are to do I cannot imagine I am afraid that Mary[c] will be completely overcome with all this additional anxiety – Old Mr. Waterfield and his son[d] came to call on me last night and found me as you may suppose rather nervous for I had received eight letters in addition to [illegible] They were uncommonly kind and offered to take some of the children but I cannot impose any more on their good nature. [a] John Benthall. [b] Samuel Adams and his wife, Elizabeth, lived at Hounslow. Elizabeth was the sister of John, Thornton, and Louisa Benthall. [c] Thomas Peregrine Courtenay’s daughter, Mary (born 1811). [d] Thomas Nelson Waterfield (1799-1862), who later married Thornton Benthall’s niece, Elizabeth Benthall (1804-1886), on May 17, 1826. Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (1782-1841) is an interesting character in the context of the Marshall story. He was a contemporary of William’s and it seems likely that he attended Exeter Grammar School with William for part of his schooling. William’s father, Rev. John Marshall, was the headmaster, while Courtenay’s father, Right Rev. Henry Reginald Courtenay (1741-1803) was the Bishop of Exeter. In 1810, when William and Louisa Marshall went to Cape Town, it is probable that William obtained the posting from Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, because, at the time, Courtenay was Deputy Paymaster for the Forces within Treasury and controlled appointments throughout the Empire. Courtenay succeeded William Adams (1752-1811) as M.P. for Totnes in 1811 with the support of the intermarried Adams, Benthall and Marshall families who controlled the Corporation of Totnes – the so-called “Adams-Bentall-Marshall interest.” His brother, Sir William Courtenay (1777-1859), was the M.P for Exeter and in 1835 succeeded his second cousin as 10th Earl of Devon and thereby inherited the Powderham estate – which the Drakes and Marshalls visited 22 years later when touring Devon. We see a group of mutually supportive, interlinked families from Totnes. They were already involved and interested in the welfare of the children prior to William’s death, but when he died, they went into action to support them. Caring for the orphans Let us now consider the names on the Proxy in more detail. Samuel Adams was an uncle as he was married to Elizabeth, Louisa Bentall’s sister. He was a brother of William Adams who had preceded Thomas Peregrine Courtenay as M.P. for Totnes. At that time, Samuel was barrack-master in Hounslow, London. Elizabeth Varder was a trusted servant who served the Adams family until her death in 1862, aged 86. 7 She would undoubtedly have cared for the boys. Henry Bentall Adams, in London, was Samuel’s son, and a cousin of the children. His fellow witness, William Dacres Adams, was the son of William Adams M.P., a cousin of Henry Bentall Adams and second cousin once removed of the children. When he witnessed the signatures, he was Commissioner for Woods and Forests and had been Private Secretary to William Pitt (the younger) when Pitt was Prime Minister. We see a number of Adams’s involved and a number of Benthalls, but no Marshalls. This might look strange, but it wasn’t. The reason was simple, but sad. William’s parents, all his brothers and all but two of his sisters had predeceased him as shown on William’s birth family chart. The Marshalls, however, were not absent. One surviving sister, Anna, was the widow of Rev. Richard Buller, Vicar of Colyton in Devon. The other, Elizabeth (Eliza), was the third wife of Philip Furse and had no children of her own. Richard Collins, a successful merchant in Exeter, was the widower of William’s late sister, Mary. He was the children’s uncle, and his son, John, their cousin. Mary was not alive to help, but her family was, so they did. Once affairs were settled, the children went to live with their “Uncle Benthall”, William Searle Benthall, who was married to Mary Anne Marshall, William’s cousin – the family with whom William and John Marshall had lived when they returned from Mauritius to go to school. William Searle’s brother, Thornton, was married to Mary’s sister, Margaret Eleanora Admonition Marshall (just how she got the name Admonition, we do not know). At the time of William’s death, William Searle and Thornton Benthall co-owned Buckfast Abbey and the spacious manor house there. 1828 showing ruined Abbey 8 Postcard Megan Stevens Today incorporated into rebuilt Abbey. Front and back. Buckfast Abbey They also had extensive property holdings at The Plains in Totnes and jointly occupied their house there – as indicated on the ‘analogue photograph’. The Plains, Totnes, with the William Wills memorial. The Benthall house is behind the trees on the left in the second photo, overlooking the River Dart. ©Alun Stevens 2016 This is the environment into which the children moved. William John Wills, of Burke and Wills fame, was born in the house to the right of the memorial on 5 January 1834 – only a few years after the Marshall children moved to Totnes. He died in 1861 in the interior of Australia and his father, William Wills, published a book in 1863 based on his son’s letters and journals. The opening paragraph contains the following regarding the young William John Wills: About the time of his completing his third year, Mr. Benthall, a friend and near neighbour, asked permission to take him for a walk in his garden. The boy was then in the habit of attending a school for little children, close by, kept by an old lady. In less than an hour, Mr. Benthall returned to ask if he had come home. No one had seen him, and we began to be alarmed lest he might have fallen into a well in the garden; but this apprehension was speedily ascertained to be groundless. Still he returned not, and our alarm increased, until his mother thought of the school, and there he was found, book in hand, intent on his lesson. He knew it was the school hour, and while Mr. Benthall was speaking to the gardener, had managed to give him the slip, passing our own door and proceeding alone to the school, on the opposite side of the square. Mr. Benthall, who can have seen or heard very little of him since, was one of the first, on hearing of his recent fate, to send a subscription to his monument, about to be erected at Totnes. Perhaps he remembered the incident. “Mr. Benthall” was William Bentall (1803-1877), the eldest son of William Searle and Mary Anne Benthall. He was mayor of Totnes at the time subscriptions were being sought for the memorial. The children’s Marshall aunt, Eliza Furse, clearly also helped over many years. The 1851 Census shows Louisa Maria Marshall, Charles’s sister, living with Eliza at her home, High House, Kenton also called Kenton Cottage, which is a short walk from the Courtenays’ Powderham Castle. In 1857, when Charles and the Drakes went to Devon prior to his marrying Charlotte Augusta Dring Drake, they visited Eliza and Louisa Maria was still living with her. We see from this that the families who worked together to control business and politics in Totnes also worked together to look after the children – with the Marshalls represented by their women. We also found the true story regarding John Marshall. The records show, sadly, that he only enjoyed the family’s support for a few years. He died in Totnes and was buried there on 13 June 1831 – aged 17. By the time he was ten, Charles Henry had travelled the world and suffered a great deal of family upheaval. His father, however, had provided him with a good legacy and he was taken in by the financially, politically, and commercially connected Benthall and Adams families. This was quite probably the background to another family story that each of the boys was given £50 and sent off to seek his fortune. The size of Charles’s legacy suggests that he went into the world with more than just £50 and the “Return of Tenants, Circular Head” for the Van Diemen’s Land Company for 31 December 1843 would seem to confirm this because Charles, and his brother, Henry, are both listed with the note “has capital” against their names. 9 Charles’s early years were disrupted, but he was still given a solid foundation for life. Louisa Bethall’s birth family is shown here; and William and Louisa’s own family is shown here. 1. Exhibit: 1828/513. William Marshall, esq, widower of Leith, Scotland, and formerly of Isle de France [Mauritius]. Probate inventory, or declaration, of the estate of the same, deceased. April 1828. PROB 31/1254/513. The National Archives, Kew. ▲ 2. Reduced Annuities and Consols, more correctly called Consolidated Annuities, were government debt instruments that paid a fixed amount of interest each year (3% or 3½%), but which had no set date for the repayment of the initial investment. Investors redeemed their investment by selling their holdings to another investor. [Click the headings in the link to see examples of annuity certificates of the period.] ▲ 3. Proctors represented clients in Ecclesiastical and Civil Law courts in the same way as solicitors represent clients today. In English Law and Equity Reports 1853, their duties are defined as: “proctors are officers established to represent in judgement the parties who empower them (by warrant under their hand, called a proxy) to appear for them, to explain their rights and instruct their cause, and to demand judgement.” ▲ 4. Letter from Mary Benthall to Helen Davidson (lately governess to the Benthall children) dated 26 September 1821; Hoey private family archive. ▲ 5. Asiatic Journal (London, England). Volume 18 July to December 1824. “INDIA SHIPPING.” Pages 94, 96. 19th Century UK Periodicals. ▲ 6. Thomas Peregrine Courtenay letter to Thornton Benthall, dated 8 June 1824. Benthall family archive. ▲ 7. In the 1861 Census, Elizabeth Milman Varder (aged 86), servant, is shown as living at the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, with the late Samuel Adams’s children, Edward (1804-1892) and Mary (1811-1897), neither of whom ever married. ▲ 8. Published in History of Devonshire from the Earliest Period to the Present by Rev. Thomas Moore. 1831. Facing Page 73. Original print drawn by T.M. Baynes, engraved by A. McClatchie (Alexander McClatchie), published by Robert Jennings 62 Cheapside, London. 1829. ▲ 9. Occasional returns especially of vital statistics, tenants lands to be let and sold, etc., especially from the circular head station, VDL68, Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office, Hobart. ▲ ©Megan Stevens 2018	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343788
__label__cc	0.655911	0.344089	From chemistry to biochemistry By David Read2015-11-06T00:00:00+00:00 Applying knowledge in new contexts Success in biochemistry requires the application of chemistry to explain the behaviour of biological systems, something students often find troublesome. Key topics include acid-base chemistry, thermodynamics, intermolecular forces and organic chemistry. Warfa and Odowa report the findings of a study1 in which creative exercises (CEs)2 were used to probe students’ abilities to link previously learned chemical concepts to material they were currently studying in biochemistry. CEs involve students creating a list of concepts that have a relationship to a given prompt. In this case, the prompts were biochemical in nature, with students being expected to provide a list of relevant related chemical concepts. Part of the intention was that students would then have a better appreciation of the value of chemistry in allowing them to predict and explain biochemical behaviour. The study involved 48 students who were taking their first biochemistry course, having studied chemistry previously, with three CEs used to collect the data. The first CE (structure of amino acids) contained a single prompt, which was the zwitterionic structure of glutamic acid, while the prompt for the second CE (thermodynamics) showed the phosphorylation of glucose and the hydrolysis of ATP with ΔG data. The final CE showed a reaction coordinate diagram with profiles for enzyme catalysed and uncatalysed reactions. The CEs were presented to students as part of an exam and were assessed using a scoring rubric. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data and provide insight regarding the links made by students to chemical concepts. Several themes were identified for each CE, and the number of students who provided responses relevant to each were recorded. For example, in the case of the first CE, acid-base concepts (eg ‘it can lose two more protons’) and compound classifications (eg ‘polar, acidic amino acid’) were common themes. The overall data indicated students were generally successful in linking foundational chemistry concepts to biochemical problems in contrast to the widely held view that they struggle to transfer prior learning into new contexts. The authors suggest the application of prior learning to new contexts can be used as a means of facilitating the (re)learning of material, and there needs to be more of a focus on tackling misconceptions that emerge during biochemistry instruction. A-R M Warfa and N Odowa, Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., 2015, 16, 747 (DOI: 10.1039/c5rp00110b) Education in Chemistry, Creative chemistry, September 2015 Action and context-based research Getting a strong foundation in chemistry Do post-16 qualifications adequately prepare students for the challenges of university chemistry? Choose chemical representations carefully How the combination of representations you use impacts your students’ learning Be forceful with chemical bonding Help your students understand chemical bonding with force-based models More Education research Enhance explanations of intermolecular forces 2019-10-16T09:27:00ZThree out of five How small prompts can result in big leaps in student understanding Which is best: practical or simulation? 2019-09-25T13:44:00ZFive out of five Students interact with practicals and simulations differently, but does one approach come with better learning outcomes? Animations boost learning And reduce cognitive load	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343792
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This week meet alumnus Jarvis McCowin (MA ’15, Educational Policy and Leadership Studies with concentration in HESA). Leaders Across the Nation, Our Global Partnerships See where our alumni are leading universities and colleges across the U.S. Bowman research points to importance of close campus relationships in academic success Iowa Now \| August 23, 2017 Close campus friendships, including those between roommates, are important to academic success and graduation, says UI College of Education professor Nicholas A. Bowman. Chung given a 'shout out' Chicago Tribune \| August 11, 2017 Jake Chung is assistant superintendent for personnel and planning at Arlington Heights School District 25 in Arlington Heights, Ill., and an alumnus of the University of Iowa College of Education. Chung, also a member of the UI College of Education Advisory Board, was recently given a "shout out" in the Chicago Tribune. Alumna demonstrates leadership skills as Grinnell dean of students Grinnell College Dean of Students Sarah Reshetar Moschenross attributes much of her success as a leader to her experiences at the University of Iowa College of Education. UI Foundation, scholar thank ACT for program Representatives from the University of Iowa Foundation, along with ACT Scholar DaVida Anderson, present an engraved wooden box to ACT representatives. The box was made from a tree that was damaged during a large-scale flood in recent years. Ogren talks about student preparation with IPR Iowa Public Radio \| June 09, 2017 Chris Ogren, associate professor of the history of education in the Schools, Culture and Society program, spoke with Iowa Public Radio Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe about the history of education in the U.S. and how schools prepare children for college, careers, and engaged citizenship. Bowman tackles barriers to higher education, discusses findings at upcoming symposium Iowa Now \| May 18, 2017 A University of Iowa study involving Nicholas Bowman, Director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education, shows that college admission officers are more likely to accept low-income students if they have a better understanding of the high schools those students attend. Read the UI College of Education Alumni Magazine 2017 Learn about all of our amazing endeavors. Gaining a foundation for impactful leadership The College of Education produces leaders across a wide spectrum of professions. Among those success stories is that of Brian Hemphill (PhD ’98) of Spring Hope, North Carolina. We remember beloved faculty and alumni. Thanks to all of our faculty who are retiring. I-SERVE’S Williams awarded Pascarella Military Veteran Promise Award Jeremy Williams, graduate assistant for I-SERVE, won the 2017 Ernest T. Pascarella Military Veteran Promise Award. ACT scholar thrives in supportive environment Thanks to ACT and the support of fellow researchers, DaVida Anderson knows she’s right where she wants to be. Connecting with Kosovo The potential to help transform education in Kosovo is closer to becoming a reality, thanks to a new partnership between the University of Iowa and the University of Pristina. Bowman offers insights on what makes admissions officers more likely to admit low-income students Education Week \| March 30, 2017 Research by Nicholas A. Bowman, director of the University of Iowa Center for Research on Undergraduate Education, shows that admission officers at selective colleges are more likely to offer spots to low-income students if they have a better understanding of the high schools those students attend. UI College of Education students named Obermann Graduate Fellows DaVida Anderson, a graduate student in higher education and student affairs, and Dellyssa Edinboro, a graduate student in educational policy and leadership, have been named 2017 Obermann Graduate Fellows. 2017 MLK Jr. symposium highlights impactful diversity research Leading-edge diversity research is alive and well at the University of Iowa College of Education. ACT scholar thrives in supportive research environment DaVida Anderson, of York, Pennsylvania, is working toward a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs at the University of Iowa College of Education. More than 6K alumni and friends gave $55 million to support the UI College of Education University of Iowa Foundation \| February 06, 2017 The University of Iowa and the University of Iowa Foundation have announced the successful conclusion of For Iowa. Forever More: The Campaign for the University of Iowa. Composing a new narrative The University of Iowa Graduate College \| January 06, 2017 DaVida Anderson, a PhD student in higher education and student affairs at the University of Iowa College of Education, is motivated to create more diversity around the leadership table in academia. Watt discusses inclusion on NASPA Leadership Podcast NASPA Student Leadership Programs \| January 04, 2017 Professor Sherry Watt appears on the NASPA Leadership Podcast hosted by NASPA Student Leadership Programs. Read the UI College of Education Annual Report 2015-2016 Take a look at our Annual Report 2015-2016. Bowman offers insight on diversity-themed courses The Chronicle of Higher Education \| November 29, 2016 Associate Professor Nicholas Bowman offers his analyses-based insight on the impact of diversity-themed courses in this article appearing in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Student Spotlight: Jeremy Williams Jeremy Williams, a doctoral student in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program, helps other veterans succeed. Why College Matters Alumni Magazine 2016 \| March 18, 2016 Nicholas Bowman, director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education (CRUE), is examining the reasons that students do not complete college and the importance of college success. Teaching Race Nathan Fulcher is a self-identified “white guy from Iowa.” He grew up in a small town and went to a Catholic high school with only 100 students in the whole building. Watt recognized for contributions to higher education Sherry Watt has been recognized by a prominent national organization for her "outstanding and sustained contributions to higher education and to student affairs." Ben Gillig: UI student leaders travel state to meet with legislators Ben Gillig (HESA PhD) and other University of Iowa student leaders met last week with 11 Iowa state legislators in their home districts and at the State Capitol to discuss affordability and job opportunities for Iowa students. If you can be a rock star in education, he is: Ernie Pascarella A Princeton, Penn, and Syracuse graduate, Pascarella has been breaking new ground in education for decades. He’s authored more than 130 journal articles and coauthored the 1991 book, How College Affects Students, which received the Research Achievement Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343798
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__label__cc	0.608569	0.391431	Nonconventional and new methods in the diagnosis of tuberculosis: feasibility and applicability in the field J. C. Palomino European Respiratory Journal 2005 26: 339-350; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.05.00050305 Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the major causes of death from a single infectious agent worldwide. Of great concern for TB control is the emergence of drug resistance. Since there is no cure for some multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, there is concern that they may spread around the world, stressing the need for additional control measures, such as new diagnostics, better drugs for treatment, and a more effective vaccine. Pulmonary TB can be diagnosed by its symptoms, chest radiography, sputum smear microscopy and by cultivation of M. tuberculosis, which is considered as the gold standard. Recent advances in molecular biology and molecular epidemiology, and a better understanding of the molecular basis of drug resistance in TB, have provided new tools for rapid diagnosis; however, the high cost of most of these techniques, and their requirement for sophisticated equipment and skilled personnel have precluded their implementation on a routine basis, especially in low-income countries. Other nonconventional diagnostic approaches proposed include the search for biochemical markers, detection of immunological response and early detection of M. tuberculosis by methods other than colony counting. In the present article, some of these approaches will be reviewed and the feasibility for their implementation in diagnostic laboratories will be discussed. SERIES “CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN TUBERCULOSIS” Edited by A. Torres and J. Caminero Number 9 in this Series Previous articles in this series: No. 1: Cardona P-J, Ruiz-Manzano J. On the nature of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-latent bacilli. Eur Respir J 2004; 24: 1044–1051. No. 2: Rieder H. Annual risk of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Eur Respir J 2005; 25: 181–185. No. 3: Mitchison DA. Drug resistance in tuberculosis. Eur Respir J 2005; 25: 376–379. No. 4: Kim SJ. Drug-susceptibility testing in tuberculosis: methods and reliability of results. Eur Respir J 2005; 25: 564–569. No. 5: Dlodlo RA, Fujiwara PI, Enarson DA. Should tuberculosis treatment and control be addressed differently in HIV-infected and -uninfected individuals? Eur Respir J 2005; 25: 751–757. No. 6: Caminero JA. Management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and patients in retreatment. Eur Respir J 2005; 25: 928–936. No. 7: Dasgupta K, Menzies D. Cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis control strategies among immigrants and refugees. Eur Respir J 2005; 25: 1107–1116. No. 8: Martín C. The dream of a vaccine against tuberculosis; new vaccines improving or replacing BCG? Eur Respir J 2005; 26: 162–167. © ERS Journals Ltd Vol 26 Issue 2 Table of Contents Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on European Respiratory Society . You are going to email the following Nonconventional and new methods in the diagnosis of tuberculosis: feasibility and applicability in the field Message Subject (Your Name) has sent you a message from European Respiratory Society Message Body (Your Name) thought you would like to see the European Respiratory Society web site. European Respiratory Journal Aug 2005, 26 (2) 339-350; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.05.00050305 NEW METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF TB INFECTION NONCONVENTIONAL AND NEW METHODS OF BACILLOSCOPY NONCONVENTIONAL AND NEW METHODS OF CULTURE NONCONVENTIONAL METHODS AND NEW METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION NONCONVENTIONAL AND NEW METHODS FOR DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION METHODS MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY TECHNIQUES SEROLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF TB OTHER NON-MICROBIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES IMPLEMENTATION AND PERSPECTIVES FOR NEW DIAGNOSTIC METHODS Airway inflammation in COPD and precision medicine Introduction to precision medicine in COPD Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension Show more Series	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343811
__label__cc	0.684224	0.315776	A School in the marshes 08/08/2015 Ellis Taylor, StoriesC.S. Lewis, colin dexter, Geoffrey of Monmouth, marsh harrier, merlin, oxford, school, seer, sidhe, warrior, wolfEllis I can’t believe that it was 7 years ago today that I wrote this…but it was. I’m re-posting this from my former website, Otherworld Journeys thanks to Ellis Nelson. She jogged my memory with her post, ‘Alice was a real girl‘. ZZZZZZssssssssss! CRACK! Like a god’s new arrow the lightning bolt slew through the rolling black sky to strike at a sultry willow tree half submerged in the turbulent morass. A huddled figure, drenched, leapt from the hide-bound willow vessel wrapped the sinew cord around a withy branch and scrambled up the bank. Soon the boy was out of the rain…but not out of danger. When lightning came, and it came a lot to this inundated, marshy valley, it wrought a dramatic spectacle for the watchers in the oak and elm forests on the hills overlooking…and it tended to stay a while. These fiery arrows surely loved the willow, for they aimed, every time, for their tender hearts…and the trees did smoulder for a while but a flame ne’er did abide. The marsh dwellers used the quick-growing supple withy for most things: fences, poles, houses and coracles, baskets, fish traps, fodder, and of course bows for hunting. Their abundance, strength and natural resistance to fire meant they were ideal for fortifications and if they touched the ground they grew…living fortresses getting stronger by the day. But what they couldn’t hold out, or back, was the tide. Only four islands of any size permanently breached the surface of this immense mere but when a hero died the goddess cried and then even they were vulnerable. At such times offerings and great ceremony were imperative to assuage her tears. But this time there had been no one to raise the winds, to sing the ceremony. Merlin had passed over, after the great warrior K-yan, leaving just this boy. Only a novice, he’d been under Merlin’s tutelage (and K-yan’s protection) for three years, hardly any time for someone whose future was to be a Merlin himself. Another 30 years that would take. K-yan had studied the secret ways of the nature priest for 11 years but the Merlin had recognised a warrior’s streak – and build – about the growing boy and K-yan’s education had taken a different course. He excelled at this and rose to become the Stag-shaman. There was no one to match him. At journeying times, or during ceremony, he wore the stag scalp, the antlered head dress. As a warrior shaman he journeyed afar inside and outside doing fierce battle with demons. Around ‘the Gathering Place’ the Seer, Merlin, recounted the events, blow by blow, as they happened, and the audience – tutors and students – gasped and cheered as their hero triumphed yet again. When the warrior returned, to this ancient place of learning, there was always a great celebration. This time though K-yan did not return. Both the marsh harrier, Kria and Sidhe-wolf were dispatched to search the waters, forests and high places, but there was no sign. The skies darkened and Merlin himself left this world to seek him out. That was 13 nights ago…and now the rains came. These pupils and masters of the marshes vanished too. They disappeared into the mists of time – as the romantic historians who came aeons afterwards would say. The waters receded as well but that ancient willow-bound island college, where the youngsters cheered, with one voice, for their hero K-yan remains…Osenfort! And it was a university college even then. Today it is called ‘Oxford’. At times of impending crisis, the Gods have interjected these original masters and students into the cauldron, always to match up again with their island origin. Geoffrey of Monmouth, he was one, he was a teacher – talk about strict! Clive Staples Lewis, he was a student, loved his food, a cheery lad and a whiz with a bow and arrow. Colin Dexter, I remember him…absent-minded, but probably the best storyteller we had. There are others from the island around now too. Some are my friends. Where was this school?: Where I was Christened this time round. Where St. Giles Church now stands and recently a huge henge was discovered. My memory is that it was a henge, or henges, of circles. Hopefully one day this will be borne out and made public. ← Dogged Days Review by Steve Johnson The Esoteric Alphabet – Introduction →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343815
__label__cc	0.622498	0.377502	Esenthel Forum / Esenthel Engine / Support / Beginner Questions / Input and language Input and language zeph2 Hi, I been spending the last two days mucking around in the engine code, and attempting some editing... Im kinda having some difficulties understanding the Language barriers if someone can explain what options or limits I have with the EE.. Meaning What Language to use, or does EE use its own language.. It seems like C++ is allowed while some may not like Functions.. Ive noticed Void is used where functions in C++ would be.. Also, Im having difficulties in locating code for the Input for keyboard, mouse, and android touch.. For Example below: I understand the Ms.b But I was unable to find a way to use say the middle mouse button click for camera rotation. I dont have access to the source yet, but I looked in the the examples, and through the documentation, but for some reason did not see it.. Is there any clear cut listing provided anywhere that I can view as a reference or index as to the language structure in EE? if(Ms.b(1)) Cam.yaw -=Ms.d().x; Cam.pitch+=Ms.d().y; My last question is.. Ive used A7 Engine in the past C#, and Torque along with C++... I have some code Ive worked on through out the years, And I was wondering how easy or hard it would be to port that over to EE... Would copy and past be viable, or do I have to start everything from scratch? It seems like EE reminds me a bit of Torque where Torque had its own language in part... RE: Input and language Esenthel uses C++ but has its own optimised version of the language in the form of Esenthel script. This is converted into pure C++ at compile time and available for inspection within the MS Visual C++ IDE by hitting the F8 key within the editor. Its essentially C++ still but with some nice optimisations to produce code faster as well as handling the differences required by the various platform builds seamlessly. You of course have the choice of simply coding straight C++ in your IDE of choice. In terms of porting existing C++ code this is quite possible so long as you re-reference the appropriate Esenthel API calls from whatever you were previously using. If the code doesn't reference any game engine API calls then the code should port without changes. Good to Know Thank You..	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343819
__label__cc	0.628577	0.371423	Title: Artificial limb cosmesis design : a study of materials and production methods for improved performance Author: Connolly, Kim Awarding Body: University of Surrey Current Institution: University of Surrey http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/843828/ A strain analysis of the foams used as cosmeses for artificial limbs was conducted. It was found that on flexion of an artificial limb strain occurred in the knee region. The mechanical properties of cosmeses materials suggested that the foams would not fail at the strain levels measured when undamaged. However, when the foam became cracked the properties of the foams were reduced to a level that would make failure likely to occur when the cracks reached critical lengths. The failure mechanism of the foam coverings was established via the use of a test rig, designed and built to simulate the interaction between the artificial limb patella piece and the foam. Foam samples were tested both with and without protective elastic netting. The primary cause of failure was found to be wear induced cracking. It was recommended that the design of the patella piece should be changed so as to be less damaging, and that netting should be used for all foams. Silicone foam materials were formulated and investigated for their suitability as a cosmesis foam. Silicone foam samples were tested on the fatigue test rig. Skinned silicone foams with netting had lifetimes three times that of any cosmesis foam tested in a condition currently used in production procedure, and 35% longer than any foam tested in any condition. It was found from leg measurement studies that there was a general leg shape for males and females. Details of leg shapes were transferred to a C.A.D. system. A match from the C.A.D. system for a single amputee's limb can be found. The accuracy of matching is at worst 5%. The current accuracy of matching is generally 15%. The information from the C.A.D. system can be used either to produce moulds for a cosmesis moulding system, or be used in conjunction with a C.N.C. lathe for the direct cutting of cosmeses. Keywords: Medicine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343821
__label__wiki	0.928601	0.928601	Norway defends new Arctic oil drilling Norwegian gas accounts for more than 20 percent of European consumption (Photo: south-stream.info) By Martin Breum Tromso, Norway, 23. Jan 2018, 09:16 Several ministers from Norway's new government on Monday (22 January) defended the country's push for more oil in the high north. "We are able to, as we have been for decades, strike a balance between sustainable growth and protecting the Arctic," foreign minister Ine Soereide said, addressing an audience in Tromso, the main city in Norway's Arctic region. Norway’s foreign minister Ine Eriksen Soereide explains to reporters in Tromso in Norway’s Arctic north how to drill for more oil and still meet Norway’s climate commitments (Photo: Terje Mortensen/Arctic Frontiers 2018) Norway's minister of petroleum and energy, Terje Soeviknes, acknowledged that some now speak of "the Norwegian paradox", but he stressed the strategic importance of Norway's energy exports: "Our oil and gas is extremely important as a reliable source of energy for Europe. This has been under-communicated in public debate," he said. Urmas Paet, from the committee for foreign affairs of the European Parliament, spoke of similar concerns: "This is a security dimension for all of Europe. Norwegian gas covers more than 20 percent of European consumption". Norway's government is under increased pressure from environmental groups and scientists who argue that untapped oil and gas should be left where it is and that Norway must curb its push for oil in order to live up to its climate commitments and the Paris Accords of 2015 in particular. And Norway's central bank has warned the government might be investing in a soon-to-be redundant industry. Answering a question from EUobserver at the "Arctic Frontiers" conference in Tromso, foreign minister Ine Soereide explained why she remained convinced Norway could extract new oil and still contribute to reducing global carbon emissions. "It is possible. Due to our very generous tax reductions 4.2 per cent of all new cars in Norway are now electric, so we bring down emissions from cars substantially. We also produce a lot of renewable energy for exports and for use in Norway. Because of this duality and because we extract these renewable resources in a sustainable way it is possible to reach our targets," she said. Norway spends parts of its revenue from the petroleum sector on new technology for renewable energy. It relies almost 100 percent on renewable hydropower for domestic electricity and Statoil, the partly state-owned oil company, along with the government, also invests increasingly in renewable energy. This helps Norway meet its commitments to the Paris Accords which measure primarily cuts in national emissions and not those from, for instance, Norwegian oil burned in other countries. Antje Boetius, director of Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, one of Europe's leading centres of Arctic research, remained sceptical of Norway's mixed approach. "As a scientist I would say that time is up for any dealing with carbon-based resources. We really need transformation, and I wish that a country as innovative and transformative as Norway would take a lead on where we can go beyond carbon", she told EUobserver. She recognised Norway's strong commitment to renewables, but also said Norway's reliance that low global demands for oil would eventually curb its oil production "is not necessarily the healthiest way to regulate for the environment". A peculiar situation Norway's conservative prime minister Erna Solberg last week formed a new government with the Progress Party and the Liberal Party, which replaced the Christian Democratic Party in Solberg's coalition. Ola Elvestuen, Norway's new liberal minister for climate and environment said Norway was "in a peculiar situation" as decline in demands for oil and gas force it to replace jobs in the oil and gas industry and to find new incomes. Some 200,000 Norwegians work in the oil and gas sector and related jobs. Elvestuen also rejected domestic and foreign calls to stop new exploration. "We must do what we think is right and not react to global finger-pointing. I could ask other countries why they still use fossil fuels, but that would only be a chicken-and-egg discussion. We want to be a leader in renewable solutions and we will decrease our own emissions by 50 percent by 2030. We will make the transition with the help of companies in the oil- and gas industry already involved in developing low emission solutions", she said. Others argued that a stop to Norway's oil and gas would harm the climate, since only little carbon is released during production in Norway. Less conscientious producers would fill the gap, causing higher emissions. But Tore Furevik, a professor of geophysics at the University of Bergen, disagreed. "It is less important if the oil is Norwegian or not. 90 percent of emissions occur as the oil is burned, not during production. The world already has sufficient oil to raise global temperatures with the two degrees we are trying to avoid", he said. He warned the government that oil producers might in future face demands for billions of dollars for damages to the climate, just as producers of tobacco paid large sums in reparations to cancer-ridden smokers. Taken to court Two Norwegian private groups, 'Youth and Nature' and the Norwegian chapter of Greenpeace, recently took Norway's government to court, arguing that extraction of more oil violated the rights of future generations to a healthy environment. But on 4 January, an Oslo district court ruled in the government's favour. A week ago, Norway's Petroleum Directorate then awarded a record 75 new exploration licences, eight of which are in Norway's Arctic Barents Sea, to Statoil, Aker BP Total, Shell, ConocoPhillips and other companies. "The number of licences is the highest ever awarded in a licencing round on the Norwegian continental shelf. Access to new, prospective exploration acreage is a central pillar in the government's petroleum policy," Norway's minister of petroleum and energy, Terje Soeviknes, said in a statement. Meanwhile, Norway's central bank, Norges Bank, which manages the country's oil fund, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund with assets of more than $1 trillion, recently suggested the government should consider disinvesting from oil and gas. "The return on oil and gas stocks has been significantly lower than in the broad equity market in periods of falling oil prices," the bank explained in a statement. "Therefore, it is the bank's assessment that the government's wealth can be made less vulnerable to a permanent drop in oil prices if the GPFG [the sovereign fund] is not invested in oil and gas stocks", it added. In Tromso, Terje Soeviknes, the minister for petroleum and energy, said the government was still to discuss and react to this warning. He asked his audience to accept projections from the International Energy Agency and others that oil and gas will remain part of the world's energy supply "for several decades". Soeviknes suggested that Norway and others must continue to look without prejudice at how to best meet this demand, including with il and gas, while pursuing a less carbon-dependent economy. MEPs reject ban on Arctic oil drilling In Iceland: Europe woos Arctic allies After the oil: Norway seeks new fortunes at sea Oettinger backtracks on oil drilling ban Norway oil minister: we'll keep drilling because we do it greener First containership goes north of Russia from Asia to Europe Following pressure from Norway, MEPs voted down controversial proposals calling for a ban on the oil business in the Barents sea. The EU is requesting a status of observer at the Arctic Council, a regional forum in which Asian countries are already active. Climate change will facilitate access to new wealth in the north. The oceans can provide food for a hungry world, says Norwegian government. The European Commission appears to have backtracked on earlier plans for a compulsory moratorium on deepwater oil drilling inside the EU, with new proposals set to call for a voluntary ban at member state discretion. Petroleum and energy minister Terje Soviknes – a member of an anti-tax, anti-EU party – praised Norway's CO2 tax and hoped for European cooperation on carbon capture and storage. Venta Maersk's voyage in the North East Passage is a message to Asian competitors, experts say, as climate change melts ice and eases sea traffic north of Russia. Planned German coal exit boosts case for Nord Stream 2 German commission recommends phasing out coal power over the next 19 years - which will provide additional arguments to build the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia, which both the European Commission and the US have reservations about. Poland will burn coal beyond 2050, says local politician Closing coal mines in the Silesia region will be particularly difficult, says Witold Stepien, a senior local politician from the neighbouring region Lodz.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343822
__label__cc	0.54784	0.45216	Victaulic Celebrates 100 Years In 1919, this provider of pipe joining and flow control solutions was granted its first patent for mechanical pipe joining, The Victory Joint. Anne Cosgrove https://facilityexecutive.com/2019/04/victaulic-celebrates-100-years/ Home » Archive » Topics » Construction & Retrofits » Victaulic Celebrates 100 Years This week, Victaulic celebrates a century of innovation — 100 years since the company was granted its first industry patent for mechanical pipe joining solutions. On its Centennial “Innoversary,” the company continues to develop and patent groundbreaking technologies, with a current portfolio of more than 2,000 patented solutions that transform the building and industrial construction industries. On April 4, 1919, Lieutenant Ernest Tribe filed the first patent for The Victory Joint, the first mechanical bolted coupling to join grooved pipe ends. Now known as the Victaulic coupling, the invention enabled critical piping infrastructure to be installed more quickly, safely, and cost effectively than traditional methods. While first devised for military applications, the coupling went on to revolutionize the construction industry. Image: Victaulic “For 100 years, Victaulic’s reputation has been built on customer collaboration, delivering new technologies that enable productivity, and reducing risk across the construction lifecycle,” said Victaulic’s Chairman, President & CEO John F. Malloy. “Our Centennial ‘Innoversary’ is not only an opportunity to look back on our achievements, it’s also great motivation to make our next century even more valuable for our customers and rewarding for our employees.” Today in 2019, one billion Victaulic solutions have been installed worldwide in iconic and ground-breaking construction projects, including the Hoover Dam, Eiffel Tower, Beijing Olympic Stadium, Petronas Towers, and Hudson Yards in New York City. The company’s 4,000 employees are spread among 37 branches, 13 manufacturing facilities, and five foundries around the world. These employees serve customers in 120 countries with a variety of application solutions across diverse industries, such as commercial buildings, oil, gas and chemical facilities, power generation facilities, mining operations, and municipal and clean water operations. Based in Easton, PA, Victaulic has been part of Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley business community for almost 40 years, having first been headquartered in New York City. Victaulic’s “Innoversary” coincides with current global expansions and investments that will add close to one million square feet to Victaulic’s manufacturing operations, expanding manufacturing capacity to serve customers around the globe. Set to open in 2020, the new, state-of-the-art manufacturing center in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, a 400,000 square-foot facility, is the result of increased domestic demand for the company’s products and the company’s desire to manufacture its products in close proximity to its customers. Additional global expansions include the company’s facilities in Dalian, China; Drezdenko, Poland; and Ontario, Canada. “Our next 100 years will include more customer-centric innovation as technology grows more rapidly than ever before and we continue to make strategic R&D investments,” said Malloy. “Our company is an exceptional place to work because of the dedication of our employees and a shared passion for customer excellence across the entire global Victaulic family.” Victaulic will celebrate its centennial throughout 2019. RIDGID Press-In Branch Connector Introduced at AHR Expo last week, the RIDGID Press-In Branch Connector Tool Kit quickly makes ¾" branch connections on black steel pipe. ePIPE Restoration Project Swiftly Reduces Lead Levels Testing showed lead leaching in the tap water was significantly reduced after this epoxy coating was applied to lead pipes in a recent residential project. Follett, Victaulic Support Intercollegiate Competition The two Easton, PA based companies participated in an event that provided Lehigh Valley students the opportunity to show entrepreneurial skills. Previous articleFriday Funny: Dragons Fly In Las Vegas Next articleFree Calculator Tools for ISSA Members Workplace Culture January 14, 2020 New Facility Management Trends & Insights survey from CORT reveals that employee health and wellness is top-of-mind as facilities continue to explore flexible workspace.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343824
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__label__wiki	0.672165	0.672165	B2B Connections Connections Events Local Food Guide Manage or Claim Listing Harvest Tasting On-site Local Food Talks Farm to School Programs You Are Here: Home » Blog » Local Food Resources, Media » TribLive – 412 Food Rescue group pushes into 724 area code TribLive – 412 Food Rescue group pushes into 724 area code With a $20,000 donation from Uber and thousands of pounds of food from Farm Aid 2017, Pittsburgh-based 412 Food Rescue has been able to push to the 724 area code on multiple fronts. And through a partnership with the Westmoreland County Housing Authority, the group has been able to significantly expand its service area, which now includes Beaver, Butler, Fayette and Washington counties. “We launched 724 Food Rescue in September 2017,” 412 Food Rescue CEO Leah Lizarondo said. “We did it in line with Farm Aid in Washington County. They donated all their surplus food, and we kind of used that as our launch.” Started in 2015, the organization stops perfectly good, safe and edible food from going to landfills. To date, they’ve redistributed more than 3 million pounds of food. That includes more than 27,000 pounds of food delivered to 22 housing communities in Westmoreland. “Last year, we reached 2 million pounds, and Giant Eagle was able to work with us to help expand to additional counties,” Lizarondo said. “So we kind of used Farm Aid and Giant Eagle as our main donors, and that’s what pushed things forward.” In addition to Giant Eagle, corporations such as Gordon Food Service and Trader Joe’s, as well as local farmers and other vendors, contribute to 724 Food Rescue’s distribution network, which includes 475 nonprofit partners, Lizarondo said. Westmoreland housing officials first heard about the program through American Healthcare Group , a Pittsburgh organization that brings preventative services and on-site health programming into schools, employer groups and affordable housing locations across the U.S. “We’re in the housing business, but we reach out to as many agencies as we can to provide nutritional meals not only to our elderly residents but also to families,” said Westmoreland County Housing Authority Executive Director Mike Washowich. “The 724 program has been great. It’s a critical component for us when it comes to helping seniors stay in their homes and age gracefully.” And food distribution from 724 Food Rescue doesn’t only help to provide individual meals. “In a lot of cases, they’re donating food we can use to set up something like a community meal, so we can utilize the program as a way to get residents together to socialize,” Washowich said. Lizarondo said that with nearly 500 distribution partners, her organization is within reach of 400,000 people, including 90,000 residents living under the poverty line. And most importantly, she said, that food is within walking distance. “When we activate distribution sites, we try to measure how many people are in walking distance of an access point,” Lizarondo said. “Because for people who are food-insecure, many of them do not necessarily have a car. So we try to bring food closer to where people already are, which is why we work with housing authorities.” Washowich said he couldn’t be happier with the results. “We thought this was a great opportunity not only to learn from what they’ve done with 412, but to grow and adopt some of those same practices here,” he said. For more, see 412foodrescue.org . Patrick Varine is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach him at 724-850-2862, pvarine@tribweb.com or via Twitter @MurrysvilleStar. Filed Under: Local Food Resources, Media ← FREE Registration for the Farm to Table Conference for Select Groups Survey: The Pittsburgh Food Policy Council → Search the Local Food Guide Pennsylvania Veteran Farming Conference First Friday Pasta Date Night Stuff Your Stockings Locally! Keep It Real, Keep it Local! We are a division of: Farm to Table Holiday Date Night at Blose Brothers Clarion River Organics: home delivered local pastured meat 733 Washington Road, Suite 102 Copyright © 2020 Farm to Table Western PA	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343827
__label__wiki	0.616088	0.616088	MythBusters (2006 season) 28 (includes 2 specials) Original channel January 11, 2006 (2006-01-11) – December 13, 2006 (2006-12-13) Season chronology 2005 season Next → List of MythBusters episodes The cast of the television series MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show as well as the results of the experiments (the myth is Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed). 1 Episode overview 2 Episode 44 – "Paper Crossbow" 2.1 Paper Crossbow 2.2 Vodka Myths II 3 Episode 45 – "Shredded Plane" 3.1 Shredded Plane 3.2 Fire Without Matches 4 Episode 46 – "Archimedes' Death Ray" 5 Episode 47 – "Helium Football" 5.1 Helium Football 5.2 Catching a Bullet in Your Teeth 6 Episode 48 – "Franklin's Kite" 6.1 Franklin's Kite 6.2 Facts About Flatulence 7 Episode 49 – "Cell Phones on a Plane" 7.1 Helium Raft 7.2 Cell Phones on a Plane 8 Episode 50 – "Bullets Fired Up" 8.1 Bullets Fired Up 8.2 Vodka Myths III 9 Episode 51 – "Myths Reopened" 9.1 Salami Rocket 9.2 Splitting an Arrow 9.3 Guns Fired Underwater 10 Episode 52 – "Mind Control" 10.1 Painting With Explosives 10.2 Mind Control 11 Episode 53 – "Exploding Pants" 11.1 Exploding Pants 11.2 The Great Gas Conspiracy 12 Episode 54 – "Crimes and Myth-Demeanors 1: Great Hollywood Heists" 12.1 Air Duct Climb 12.2 Laser Beam Dodge 12.3 Glass Door Forced Entry 12.4 Fooling the Pressure Sensor 12.5 Safecracking 12.6 Scaling a Building 13 Episode 55 – "Steam Cannon" 13.1 Cereal Nutrition 13.2 Steam Cannon 13.3 Which has the whitest teeth? 14 Episode 56 – "Killer Whirlpool" 14.1 Whirlpool of Death 14.2 Snowplow Flips Car 15 Episode 57 – "Diet Coke and Mentos" 15.1 Diet Coke and Mentos 15.2 Stamp on a Helicopter 16 Episode 58 – "Shattering Subwoofer" 16.1 Shattering Subwoofer 16.2 Rough Road Driving 17 Episode 59 – "Crimes and Myth-Demeanors 2" 17.1 Fingerprint Lock 17.2 Thermal Motion Sensor 17.3 Ultrasonic Motion Sensor 17.4 Water Safe 18 Episode 60 – "Earthquake Machine" 18.1 Miniature Earthquake Machine 18.2 Stove Myths 19 Episode 61 – "Deadly Straw" 19.1 Straw Through a Palm Tree 19.2 Primary Perception 20 Episode SP9 – "Mega Movie Myths 2 Hour Special" 21 Episode 62 – "Killer Cable Snaps" 21.1 Killer Cable Slice 21.2 Pottery Record (Archaeoacoustics) 22 Episode 63 – "Air Cylinder Rocket" 22.1 Air Cylinder of Death 22.2 Gunpowder Engine 23 Episode 64 – "More Myths Revisited" 23.1 Sword vs. Gun 23.3 Salami Rocket 23.4 Tailgate Up vs. Tailgate Down 24 Episode 65 – "Exploding Lighter" 24.1 Exploding Lighter 24.2 Gunslinger Myths 25 Episode 66 – "Concrete Glider" 25.1 Concrete Glider 25.2 Train Suction 26 Episode 67 – "Firearms Folklore" 26.1 Firearms Folklore 26.2 Hammer vs. Hammer 27 Episode 68 – "Anti-Gravity Device" 27.1 Antigravity 27.2 Christmas Lights 27.3 Vodka Myths IV 28 Episode SP10 – "MythBusters Holiday Special" 28.1 Diet Coke & Mentos 2: Rube Goldberg Machine 29 Episode 69 – "22,000 Foot Fall" 29.1 22,000 Foot Fall 29.2 Lights On/Off No. in series No. in season Overall episode No. 44 1 "Paper Crossbow"[1] January 11, 2006 (2006-01-11) 55 Myths tested: Can a deadly crossbow be made from materials available to prison inmates? Can vodka remove cigarette smoker smell from clothes, kill bees like an insecticide, or be used as a bathroom cleaner? 45 2 "Shredded Plane"[1] January 18, 2006 (2006-01-18) 56 What caused a plane to be shredded? Was it an angry ex-girlfriend, or a runaway plane on the tarmac? Can a fire be started by rubbing sticks together, with a bullet, or with ice? 46 3 "Archimedes Death Ray"[1] January 25, 2006 (2006-01-25) 57 The Mythbusters join forces with MIT and the viewers to test Archimedes' Death Ray. 47 4 "Helium Football"[1] February 1, 2006 (2006-02-01) 58 Can a football fly further if it is filled with helium? Is it possible for a human to catch a bullet in his teeth? 48 5 "Franklin's Kite"[1] March 8, 2006 (2006-03-08) 59 Did Benjamin Franklin fly a kite in a storm, and would he have been killed by the electrical current? The Mythbusters test various myths about flatulence. 49 6 "Cell Phones on Planes"[1] March 15, 2006 (2006-03-15) 60 Can a cell phone cause a plane to crash? Can a person fly away on a raft filled with helium? 50 7 "Bullets Fired Up"[1] April 19, 2006 (2006-04-19) 61 Can a bullet fired straight up in the air kill someone on the way back down? Can vodka cure poison oak and remove band-aids painlessly? If low-end vodka is charcoal-filtered, will it become a top-shelf vodka? 51 8 "Myths Re-opened"[1] April 26, 2006 (2006-04-26) 62 Splitting an Arrow, Bullets Fired Under Water, Salami Rocket 52 9 "Mind Control"[1] May 3, 2006 (2006-05-03) 63 The Mythbusters test various mind control techniques. Can a room be painted with dynamite? 53 10 "Exploding Pants"[1] May 10, 2006 (2006-05-10) 64 Is it possible for pants to spontaneously explode? The Mythbusters test various methods to increase car efficiency. 54 11 "Crimes and Myth-Demeanors 1"[1] July 12, 2006 (2006-07-12) 65 Can a laser alarm be defeated? Can a metal duct be stealthily climbed using magnets? Can a pressure switch be defeated? How easy is it to crack a safe? Can a hole be easily cut into a pane of glass without setting off a sound alarm? 55 12 "Steam Cannon"[1] July 19, 2006 (2006-07-19) 66 Did Archimedes make a cannon using steam power? Is a cardboard cereal box more nutritious than the sugary cereal inside? 56 13 "Whirlpool/Snowplow"[1] July 26, 2006 (2006-07-26) 67 Can a whirlpool really kill somebody? Can a snow plow driving down the road push enough air to flip a passing car over? 57 14 "Mentos and Soda"[1] August 9, 2006 (2006-08-09) 68 The MythBusters investigate the reaction between Diet Coke and Mentos, and explore other fun reactions. Can a stamp affixed to a helicopter's rotor blade make it crash? 58 15 "Shattering Subwoofer"[1] August 16, 2006 (2006-08-16) 69 Can speaker power alone destroy a car? Will driving faster on a bumpy road smooth out the ride? 59 16 "Crimes and Myth-Demeanors 2"[1] August 23, 2006 (2006-08-23) 70 More theft movie tricks. Can fingerprint scanners, sonar or thermal alarms be foiled, and can a glass re-locking safe be blown up by filling it with water? 60 17 "Earthquake Machine"[1] August 30, 2006 (2006-08-30) 71 Can a machine designed by Nikola Tesla actually create a miniature earthquake or collapse a structure? Can a lava lamp explode if heated on the stove? 61 18 "Deadly Straw"[1] September 6, 2006 (2006-09-06) 72 Can a hurricane blow a piece of straw through a tree? According to Primary Perception, do all living things share an interconnected consciousness? SP9 Special 1 "Mega Movie Myths" September 13, 2006 (2006-09-13) 73 The Mythbusters test action movie myths. Can shooting locks really open a door? Can a car be fitted with an ejection seat? Can a car drive up a ramp, fly through the air, land and drive away? Can a person shoot a hole through a floor and fall through? Will awnings help break a fall from a building? Can a sword cut another sword in half? Note: This was a special episode. 62 19 "Killer Cable Snaps"[1] October 11, 2006 (2006-10-11) 74 If a steel cable under high tension snaps, could it cut a human in half? Can sounds and vibrations be recorded into the grooves of ancient pottery? 63 20 "Air Cylinder Rocket"[1] October 18, 2006 (2006-10-18) 75 Can an air cylinder go straight through a cinder block wall, or propel a boat? Can an engine run on gunpowder alone? 64 21 "More Myths Revisited"[1] October 25, 2006 (2006-10-25) 76 Salami Rocket Revisit, Shattering Windshields, Fuel Efficiency myths. Can a sword slice a machine gun barrel? 65 22 "Exploding Lighter"[1] November 1, 2006 (2006-11-01) 77 Can a disposable lighter explode with lethal force? The Mythbusters test various gunslinger myths. 66 23 "Concrete Glider"[1] November 8, 2006 (2006-11-08) 78 Can a working glider be made out of concrete? Can a passing train suck a person onto the tracks? 67 24 "Firearms Folklore"[1] November 29, 2006 (2006-11-29) 79 Can a bullet travel through a sniper's scope and kill him? Can a fired bullet lodge in the chamber of a revolver? Can two colliding bullets fuse in mid air? If two metal hammers are struck together will they explode? 68 25 "Anti-Gravity Device"[1] December 6, 2006 (2006-12-06) 80 The Mythbusters test various anti-gravity plans from the internet. Can too many lights on a Christmas tree cause it to light on fire? Can Vodka help to ease the pain of a jellyfish sting? SP10 Special 2 "Holiday Special"[1] December 6, 2006 (2006-12-06) 81 Can a falling frozen turkey break a person's foot or kill a pet? Can a turkey be cooked by exposing it to a radar/microwave transmitter antenna? The Mythbusters make a holiday-themed Rube Goldberg machine with more than thirty parts. The Build Team tests a range of methods for keeping needles on a Christmas tree as long as possible. 69 26 "22,000-Foot Fall"[1] December 13, 2006 (2006-12-13) 82 Is it possible to survive a 22,000 foot fall using the blast from a 1000 pound bomb to break the fall? Is electricity saved by switching off the lights when leaving a room? Episode 44 – "Paper Crossbow" Original airdate: January 11, 2006 Paper Crossbow This myth was the first entry among those listed as one of the twelve myths that would not be tested in MythBusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time. In an interview for Skeptic magazine, it had appeared that the myth itself was considered too controversial by Discovery Channel, who thought that testing the myth could provoke prisoners to try similar things. Myth statement A prison inmate can kill another inmate from across the hall, using newspaper for a paper crossbow. Plausible Jamie and Adam built separate crossbows for the myth and fired a few shots each. Testing proved that it is possible to kill someone using a paper crossbow, but it would require a precise shot to a vital spot (such as a jugular vein or eye), which is difficult with improvised weapons such as a paper crossbow. Adam's crossbow achieved a maximum arrow velocity of 91 feet per second (28 m/s), a maximum arrow energy of 7.45 foot-pounds force (10.10 N·m), and pierced a dummy's throat one inch deep from a distance of 15 feet (4.6 m) on the first shot. The crossbows each gradually became useless after a few shots, showing that the shooter would only have a few shots to hit a vital spot. There is also the obvious problem of getting off one shot or more without being caught in the act. A visit to a local prison revealed inmates have improvised far more effective weapons in the past, up to and including a hand-made gun with a flash suppressor, firing bullets smuggled into the prison. Vodka Myths II Kari, Tory, and Grant tested to see if vodka... ...can remove cigarette smoke smell from clothes. Plausible There was a noticeable difference between the control jacket and the one sprayed with vodka before washing. Grant described the control jacket as having an "oaky smell" to it, while on the vodka jacket he could not detect such a smell. ...can kill bees like an insecticide. Busted The control water killed more bees (2) than vodka, which failed to kill any. The bees sprayed with water went into a comatose-like state and awoke later the next day when they dried off. The bees sprayed with Vodka showed no ill-effects at all (though they seemed to fly in a weird manner as if they were drunk). ...can be used as a bathroom cleaner. Plausible Vodka proved to be less effective than a commercial bathroom cleaner, but still serviceable. Episode 45 – "Shredded Plane" Shredded Plane A plane's tail section in a widely circulated photo was shredded by... ...an angry wife with a chainsaw. Busted The slices made by the chainsaw were jagged while the ones seen in the photo were clean slices. ...a runaway taxiing plane's propeller. Confirmed The full-scale test done with a run-away engine and stand-in tail section produced a result that was almost identical to the shredded plane seen in the photo. The incident was later confirmed having taken place, the photo sourcing from a newspaper article in Australia. Fire Without Matches Fire can be started... ...using the friction caused by rubbing two sticks together. Confirmed While the Build Team—in their own words—cheated and used a drill and some gun powder, with a stick in place of a drillbit, the friction from the drill did light the tinder on fire. ...using a bullet. Confirmed Earlier tests using modern weaponry (and smokeless powder) were unproductive. Tory then modified an old musket and replaced the bullet with a piece of cloth. When the gun was fired, the black powder (which burns more energetically than smokeless) ignited the cloth, which then ignited the tinder into which it was shot. ...using a soda can bottom polished with chocolate. Confirmed Chocolate was used to buff out the wear marks and ink marking and give the can bottom a reflective shine that could focus light and produce heat. While the can was not able to light tinder that was held by hand, the rig easily lit when the tinder was secured on a makeshift rig that kept it from moving. ...using steel wool and the ends of a battery. Confirmed It took several tries but the ends of the battery eventually heated the steel wool (through electric resistance) enough to light it on fire. A clip from a survivalist TV show with Ron Hood also showed that this myth was confirmed. This is also a requirement for the American Boy Scout Wilderness Survival Merit badge. ...using ice. Confirmed Kari used a globe of specially produced clear ice about half the size of a bowling ball to produce smoke and later fire when she used it as a refractive lens. Episode 46 – "Archimedes' Death Ray" This was the third episode where Myths from previous episodes were revisited, as well as the third episode to focus on just one experiment. This episode, referred to as the MythBusters Mailbag Special: The Great Archimedes Burn-Off from within the episode itself, saw a retest of the Ancient Death Ray myth after fans of the series contested their original decision. To this end, the MythBusters commissioned a contest, challenging viewers to prove the myth plausible. Candidates could enter in either of two categories: a smaller-scale version where the object was to ignite an object from 5 feet (1.5 m) away, or the full-scale version, where the object was to ignite a replica trireme from 100 feet (30 m) away (as per the original myth). For the smaller-scale version, two finalists, the team of Kari Lukes and Jess Nelson, both from UCSB, and the team of Brenden Millstein (Harvard) and Stephen Marsh (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) were chosen to compete against the MythBusters' own entry in the retest (which was disqualified when it was found that the MythBusters had not followed the contest rules they had set out themselves). Only one entrant (Mike Bushroe, a NASA space scientist) entered a full-scale contest; however, the winning entry was destroyed en route for the retest. The MythBusters also invited a team from MIT, led by Professor David Wallace, who had independently verified that a ship could be lit from afar using an array of mirrors, to retest the myth with Archimedean-era technology instead of the modern technology that was used in their own experiment. An array of bronze mirrors can set a wooden ship on fire. (From Ancient Death Ray) Re-Busted The large scale array simply took too long to light the ship on fire. On top of that the ship only ignited when it was stationary and positioned at less than half the distance described in the myth. The myth was plausible at a smaller scale, however. Flaming arrows were fired from a ballista at the ship, but to little effect. The most effective (and plausible with Archimedes-era technology) method of lighting the ship ablaze was through the use of Molotov cocktails. While it was shown extensively that it is, in fact, plausible that an array of mirrors (or a parabolic mirror) could set objects on fire, the MythBusters stood by their original Busted verdict because of many factors: Syracuse, where the myth was supposed to take place, faced east, and thus could not take advantage of the more intense midday rays, instead relying on less powerful morning rays. The death ray would not work during cloudy weather. Enemy ships were likely to be moving targets, and thus the mirrors would need to be constantly refocused. The historical records: there was no mention of the use of fire during the Battle of Syracuse until 300 years after the event, and no mention of mirrors until 800 years after the event. The impossibly large numbers of mirrors and personnel needed in order to light a boat with any reasonable speed. The availability of other weapons that were much more effective: flaming arrows and molotov cocktails were more reliable at setting an enemy ship ablaze, and were more effective over longer distances. The MythBusters also addressed fans' criticisms that suggested they try to light the ships' sails instead of the body of the ship, and showed that the sails diffused the light due to their composition and the wind blowing against them, and thus could not be as easily set on fire compared to the body of the ship. All in all, the MythBusters concluded that the Archimedes Death Ray was too complicated and impractical to be a viable weapon for its time. Jess Nelson would return as the MythTern in later episodes, while Mike Bushroe would also contribute in later episodes as a researcher[citation needed]. Episode 47 – "Helium Football" Original airdate: February 1, 2006 Helium Football Adam and Jamie took on a myth prevalent around American football circles, made more prevalent during the time of prolific punter Ray Guy, whose kicks carried so much distance and had so much hangtime that some had suspected that the footballs he used were filled with helium. A regulation NFL football will fly farther when filled with helium as opposed to compressed air at regulation pressure (13 psi/90 kPa). Busted Under the same amount of impulse force under the same atmospheric conditions, balls filled with helium showed no significant difference from balls filled with compressed air. It was also shown that, under the same impulse, both types of balls had the same initial velocity; since the helium-filled balls have a lower mass than the air-filled ones, the helium-filled balls have less inertia in flight: in fact, they may perform worse than air-filled balls over larger distances. Catching a Bullet in Your Teeth The Build Team took on the bullet catch magic trick, and see whether it is possible to do the trick for real. It is possible to catch a fired bullet in one piece with one's teeth. Busted A pig's teeth are significantly stronger than a human's, and yet were shattered by an impulse test when a bullet, held by a pig head's teeth under the same pressure as an average human's maximum bite strength, was suddenly forced forward by a force equivalent to a speeding bullet. Furthermore, the reaction time needed to perfectly capture a bullet in one's teeth is too short and has too tight a tolerance for any human to succeed. Finally, when the bullet was captured perfectly, the velocity that it traveled at, completely destroyed even a full metal jacket bullet: it is impossible to catch a bullet in the same state as it exited a gun, via solid mechanical means. Episode 48 – "Franklin's Kite" Original airdate: March 8, 2006 Franklin's Kite The Build Team took on a piece of American folklore regarding Benjamin Franklin's discovery of electricity. It was to be noted that the folklore description is not historically accurate (as mentioned by the Build Team), although it is a popular misconception. When Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity by flying a kite during a thunderstorm could he have survived the shock? Busted and Confirmed The experiment itself worked perfectly as described, but the current produced by artificial lightning (which is a fraction of what a real lightning bolt would contain) was fatal. Based on this observation, the Build Team concluded that Franklin could not possibly have survived a direct hit as the popular story of the experiment states. They also found that the kite need not be directly struck by lightning in order for the experiment to work. Experiment: confirmed; Story: busted. Facts About Flatulence In this myth, Adam and Jamie tested some of the more prevalent myths based on flatulence. Throughout the myth, the MythBusters were careful to only use the scientific term flatus as opposed to the more common fart, to prevent coming off as insensitive to the viewers (although fart had been used and aired uncensored by the MythBusters before and since). Flatulence can be induced by consuming... ...beans. Confirmed While consuming a diet of beans for one day, Adam's rate of flatulence doubled. ...carbonated soft drinks. Confirmed While consuming only carbonated drinks for one day, Kari's rate of flatulence doubled. ...beef. Busted Jamie's rate of flatulence did not change after consuming a diet of beef for one day. It is possible to flatuate so much that one can suffocate from the gas expelled. Busted The amount of potentially deadly gases found in an average flatus, such as carbon dioxide, is too low to cause its concentration to rise to fatal levels in a few hours, even in a small airtight room. In fact, breathing causes the CO2 levels to rise much faster. Lighting a match will burn the odorous gases in a flatus. Busted Lighting a match does not reduce the concentration of hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan, the odorous gases commonly found in flatulence. The smell of a safety match being ignited instead masks the smell of methyl mercaptan when tested individually. Two additional myths were filmed but not aired as part of the broadcast episode. These have been shown in an outtakes reel at live appearances by the MythBusters. Pretty girls do not pass gas. Busted Wearing special undergarments fitted with a microphone and patched through a sound system and given a hydrogen sulfide meter, Kari was given the lead in this myth. Despite the meter malfunctioning and many hours without any sound broadcast over the speakers, Kari finally produced a flatus and busted the myth. It is possible to ignite a flatus. Confirmed Adam began by welding attachments to an ordinary chair to allow him an optimal position. Adam waited patiently for a flatus to surface. Using a standard lighter, the high speed camera showed that the flatus did indeed combust, confirming the myth. This myth was later shown as part of the MythBusters Top 25 Moments special, aired on June 16, 2010. Episode 49 – "Cell Phones on a Plane" Original airdate: March 15, 2006 Helium Raft A person can fly using a life raft filled with helium. Busted The amount of helium required to lift a person off the ground (let alone the raft itself) is prohibitively immense, and such a raft of adequate size would be quite flimsy. In fact, the final test of the raft had to be aborted because of an unbalanced release of the ties, causing Adam to become entangled and destroying the raft in the process. Cell Phones on a Plane The ban on cell phones on aircraft is designed to force passengers to use the expensive in-flight phones. Busted It was found that cell-phone signals, specifically those in the 800-900 MHz range, did interfere with unshielded cockpit instrumentation. Because older aircraft with unshielded wiring can be affected, because of the possible problems that may arise by having many airborne cell phones "seeing" multiple cell phone towers, and because of all the electronic systems in a modern airplane that would have to undergo lengthy and expensive certification, the MythBusters speculated that the FCC (via enforcement through the FAA) prohibits the use of cell phones while airborne in order to remain on the safe side, rather than the air companies asking for the ban in order to increase their revenue from in-flight phones. Such a prohibition is being lifted in Europe. Episode 50 – "Bullets Fired Up" Original airdate: April 19, 2006 Bullets Fired Up Bullets fired into the air maintain their lethal capability when they eventually fall back down. Busted , Plausible, and Confirmed In the case of a bullet fired at sufficiently close to a vertical angle to result in a non-ballistic trajectory, the bullet would tumble, lose its spin, and fall at a much slower speed due to terminal velocity and is therefore rendered less than lethal on impact (the Busted rating). However, if a bullet is fired at a lower angle allowing for a ballistic trajectory (a far more likely case), it will maintain its spin and will retain enough energy to be lethal on impact (the Plausible rating). Because of this potentiality, firing a gun into the air is illegal in most U.S. states, and even in the states where it is legal, it is not recommended by the police. Also the MythBusters were able to identify two people who had been injured by falling bullets (fired from approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) away, and hence at a lower angle), one of them fatally (the Confirmed rating). To date, this is the only myth to receive all three ratings at the same time. Vodka Myths III Vodka can... ...remove poison oak. Busted For some reason, although most of the MythBusters were allergic to poison oak when they were young (especially Kari, who was exempted from the test because she had once had a dangerous reaction), it did not affect anyone but John the Researcher. The vodka still gave no results. ...painlessly remove plastic bandages. Plausible Both a control and vodka-soaked bandage were quickly removed from hair-covered legs and, while not painless, the vodka-soaked bandage came off less painfully and removed less hair than the control. ...be used as an improvised ice pack when mixed with water in a sealed plastic bag. (This myth was not seen in the version aired in the US.) Confirmed After the mixture was put inside the refrigerator overnight, the vodka (which has a lower freezing point than water) prevented the water from freezing, making the mixture cold and malleable. When tested against a commercial ice pack for twenty minutes, the mixture worked just as well, although the commercial ice pack was slightly better by about a degree Fahrenheit (about 18.3 °F/−7.6 °C for the commercial ice pack against 19.4 °F/−7.0 °C in the vodka/water mixture). Tory even joked after the test that the mixture could make a good slushie to drink after use. ...be turned into high-quality vodka through charcoal filtration. Busted Through a double-blind taste test, the cheap vodka seemed to taste better with every subsequent filtration, although the top-shelf vodka beat them all. However, a chemical analysis showed no actual difference between the filtered and unfiltered cheap vodka. Episode 51 – "Myths Reopened" This was the fourth episode in which myths were retested (counting the Archimedes Death Ray revisit). Salami Rocket The MythBusters revisited the Confederate Rocket myth with some new information from viewers. This was revisited in More Myths Revisited. A hybrid rocket can be propelled with salami. (From Confederate Rocket) Confirmed Salami, like the paraffin used in the first test, was able to propel the rocket, although it tended to explode instead of providing even thrust. Splitting an Arrow At the insistence of viewers, the team retested the popular arrow-splitting myth seen in the film The Adventures of Robin Hood. An arrow can be split in half through a direct hit in the tail by another arrow. (From Splitting an Arrow) Re-Busted Even after multiple direct hits on a solid wood arrow with the bone nock removed with a professional archer, a tail-to-tip split could not be achieved. It took an arrow made of hollow bamboo to create the splitting effect seen in the movie, because the second arrow will follow the grain of the first, normal arrow, which will lead to the side before it makes it to the end. Also their tests revealed that an arrow fired from a traditional bow wobbles in the air enough that it will not hit the end of the arrow straight. Guns Fired Underwater It has already been shown that, in some cases, bullets become non-lethal when fired into water. But what happens when the whole gun is fired underwater? A modern firearm can be fired if completely submerged in water. (From Bulletproof Water) Confirmed All of the firearms (a 9mm, a .357, a 12-gauge shotgun, and a .30-06) could be discharged underwater, however the bullets lose velocity rapidly and are rendered less than lethal beyond a meter. (The entire gun had to be completely submerged in water—all pockets of air must be removed—in order to prevent a possible explosion when fired.) Furthermore, the break-barrel shotgun (a relatively old design) destroyed itself when fired underwater. Finally, the water pressure might cause the spent cartridge casing to fail to leave the chamber and effectively reduce the gun to a one-shot deal. Obviously, revolvers would not have this problem, as they do not eject their spent casings after each shot. Episode 52 – "Mind Control" Original airdate: May 3, 2006 Painting With Explosives This myth originated from the episode "Do-It-Yourself, Mr. Bean" of the British comedy series Mr. Bean starring Rowan Atkinson. A small room can be quickly painted by detonating a stick of dynamite in a bucket of paint. Busted A stick of dynamite in a bucket of paint cannot distribute the paint evenly enough to fully paint the room; only 40% of the room (around the bottom and part of the ceiling) received paint, and the room took some shrapnel damage (even from a plastic bucket). Furthermore, Adam's and Jamie's customized contraptions, designed to help distribute the paint more evenly, failed to produce any successful results or an intact room. Remote, non-consensual mind control can be achieved by... ...a psionic helmet kit, ordered off the internet. Busted The test failed to produce any effects. Tori wore the helmet for two tests. The first was an attempt at a local coffee shop to give his order to the clerk without telling her, which failed (though the women behind him did receive the message he was trying to broadcast). In the second attempt, he attempted to make Jamie remove his trademark beret, with no effect, while Jamie was filming the wrap-up for Facts About Flatulence. (Tori, in fact, is visible in the rear of the shot during that episode wearing the helmet.) ...pulsed air. Busted The test failed to produce any effects. ...a spinning magnet. Plausible While it is plausible that some sort of "mind influence" (determined by looking at EEG recordings) was achieved, there was no actual predictable control of the mind's state. Also, the magnet may have affected the EEG machine's readings. ...subliminal sound. Busted The test failed to produce any effects. ...remote hypnosis. Partially Plausible Enough pre-existing scientific evidence exists regarding hypnosis for the Build Team to call the myth plausible, and their EEG readings backed up that evidence. However, a later myth busts the possibility that one could coerce another person into doing something against their will through hypnosis, so while someone's brainwaves can be influenced through hypnosis, true "mind control" cannot be achieved with it. Episode 53 – "Exploding Pants" Original airdate: May 10, 2006 Exploding Pants This myth came from New Zealand in the early 1930s, where an epidemic of exploding pants had rampaged, injuring and even killing farmers.[2] The culprit was a then-unfamiliar chemical substance that farmers began using in large quantities at the time. Under the right conditions, farm chemicals can cause a pair of trousers to combust if they are spilt on and subjected to normal wear and abuse. Confirmed The Build Team tried to ignite cotton denim pant swatches soaked in fertilizer, gun cotton solution, black powder, and the herbicide sodium chlorate using an open flame, radiant heat source, friction, and impact, but only the herbicide could ignite with sufficient energy under the above conditions (except for friction), and it was particularly reactive to impact. In a full-scale experiment using Buster, paramedics on-hand stated that Buster would most likely survive the blast with only some burns. Research confirms the herbicide as the culprit, as an accidental infestation of ragwort in the country caused a dramatic increase in herbicide use. Despite the fact that it was technically not a true explosion (as there was no rapid air compression typical of an explosion), it was agreed that the rapid flash ignition of the pants was quick and energetic enough to be deemed an "explosion" by a layman, rendering the myth confirmed. After determining this, Frank Doyle and the MythBusters painted Buster's pants with classified "Silver" explosive and the resulting blast completely destroyed him, throwing pieces of his body in all directions. The Great Gas Conspiracy The "Great Gas Conspiracy" mentioned in the myth is the conspiracy theory that gasoline companies are secretly in league with the car manufacturers to produce fuel-inefficient vehicles, to fatten their profits and split the difference. The myths tested were ways found on the Internet that one can supposedly beat this conglomerate and get cheap, easy, and spectacularly improved fuel efficiency for cars. The cars were a Toyota Camry and an Oldsmobile Toronado. Theories tested to see if cheap fuel efficiency can be achieved were... ...carburetor magnets. Busted No change to fuel efficiency. ...acetone mixed with the gasoline. Busted The acetone was less fuel efficient. ..."miracle carburetor" supposed to get 300 miles per gallon. Busted Far less fuel efficient. ..."water fuel cell". Busted The cell did not work with the car, and while the car did start unmodified when pure hydrogen was introduced, the hydrogen was also violently ignited soon afterwards, making it an unlikely, dangerous, and expensive alternative. ...used cooking oil, rather than regular fuel. Confirmed Although there's no word on damage to the engine from using used cooking oil, a diesel-fueled car did run on it. However, the MythBusters speculate that once this alternative fuel achieves a significant interest level among the public, used cooking oil will be hoarded as a marketable commodity. The used cooking oil also did not quite fit the requirement of improved fuel efficiency, as it yielded approximately 10% less distance for an equivalent amount of diesel. (see biodiesel and straight vegetable oil) Episode 54 – "Crimes and Myth-Demeanors 1: Great Hollywood Heists" Original airdate: July 12, 2006 The MythBusters tested the validity of some Hollywood heist scenes, using a purpose-built "assault course" with Grant operating the security system, while two "crack teams" (Adam and Jamie, and Tory and Kari) attempted alternate myths. Air Duct Climb This myth came from the movie Firetrap. A person can surreptitiously scale an air duct by using a system of... ...magnets. Busted Jamie's "supermagnets" (ten 500-pound (230 kg) strength ones) could hold his weight and allowed him to make it to the top of the duct, but they caused far too much noise on the way up to allow for a stealthy entrance. ...suction cups. Busted Adam's suction cups were able to hold his weight as well and were relatively much quieter than Jamie's magnets, but the climb was still clearly audible. Further, the mechanisms Adam used to control the vacuums often failed, which caused him to slip and fall down the vent, blowing his cover. He did however make it to the top of the vent once he perfected the method of operating the device in sequence to his steps up the vent. Finally, breaking through the grate of the air duct at the end was much too noisy, also blowing his cover. Laser Beam Dodge This myth came from the movie Entrapment. A person can successfully dodge a system of laser beam detectors by... ...blowing cosmetic powder across the beams to identify their position. Busted While visible beams can be seen, they are only detectable when the powder is airborne, which is not very long. Also, blowing too much powder can cause enough of the beam to break and set off the alarm. Furthermore, most laser systems use invisible infrared laser trip beams. ...using night vision goggles. Busted None of the beams are visible through the goggles, though a combination of the goggles and the powder was able to allow Tory a brief glimpse of the infrared beams, but not enough to make a difference. Also, wearing night vision goggles severely decreases the wearer's field of view and may hinder one's ability to move around the beams. ...pointing another laser at the photodetector. Busted While the technique is workable enough with visible-beam systems, the fact that infrared beams cannot be readily detected or traced makes locating the relevant photocells too difficult in a real-world situation. Glass Door Forced Entry A glass door can be cut open silently by... ...gently cutting the glass and removing it with a suction cup. Busted The suction cup could not remove the glass. ...drilling a hole. Busted The drilling caused some noise, but not enough to trip a sonic alarm. It did, however, cause the entire glass panel to break, but because it was tempered and laminated, the glass held together. The broken pieces were then pried out until an arm-sized hole could open up, allowing access to the doorknob on the other side. It was however a near impossible thing to do consistently. Fooling the Pressure Sensor This myth also came from the movie Entrapment. A person can successfully fool a pressure sensor under a glass case by... ...squeezing in a knife between the glass and sensor and using a piece of gum to hold the sensor in its original position. Busted The sensor is extremely sensitive. Even the slight lifting of the case needed to insert the knife can set it off, and it took three attempts just to get the knife in. Also, the freshly chewed gum is too pliable to keep the sensor held down once the knife is removed. ...squeezing in a knife between the glass and sensor and using duct tape to hold it in place. Plausible This was Plan B in case the movie myth was Busted. If one can get the knife in without setting it off, the knife can then be held in place with tape to keep the sensor depressed. Safecracking A safe can be quickly cracked by... ...using a stethoscope. Busted Modern safes are designed with this old technique in mind, and the tumblers proved too quiet to be heard even with amplification. ...drilling a hole and visually causing the tumblers to fall into place. Plausible With help from a borescope and a length of piano wire, Adam managed to crack the safe, but it would take time that may not be available to a surreptitious safecracker, especially given the fact that the safe for the test was rated to be crackable by a professional safecracker in only 5 minutes—though most safecrackers are not required to be quiet in doing so. Scaling a Building A suction cup system can be used to scale a (23-story) skyscraper. Plausible The concept worked (see the Air Duct Climb section) but Adam did not have the stamina to scale the entire building. Making the climb would be highly visible and requires significant physical training. Episode 55 – "Steam Cannon" A popular saying states that sugary cereal is less nutritious than the box it comes in. A cereal box can have more nutritional value than the cereal. Busted All tests showed that cereal have superior values of calories, fats, sugars, and proteins compared to cardboard. Furthermore, chemicals within the cardboard may be toxic. Steam Cannon A diagram by Leonardo da Vinci blueprints a steam-powered cannon that Archimedes supposedly built. Archimedes was able to build a powerful steam cannon, using technology available at the time. Busted A flash-boil-powered cannon, built even with modern materials and techniques, was barely able to push a projectile out of the barrel. A more modern pre-boiled, valve-triggered system, like those used in aircraft catapults, was able to project a cannonball a considerable distance, and required far less pressure than the MythBusters had originally projected. Also see Holman Projector which worked on a similar principle. Which has the whitest teeth? This is a fan requested mini-myth which makes fun out of the color of Adam's teeth. This segment is not shown in the version of this episode shown in U.S. reruns. Adam has the worst teeth. Initially Busted, then Confirmed As determined by Kari through a tooth color comparison apparatus, Jamie's teeth were even worse than Adam's, having a browner tint, while those of Tory and Grant (in this order) were whiter. Not to be outdone, however, Jamie had his teeth bleached, resulting in teeth whiter than even Tory and Grant and leaving Adam's as the worst ever. Episode 56 – "Killer Whirlpool" Whirlpool of Death Whirlpools are an ancient maritime fear. According to the myth, a tidal whirlpool can sink... ...a container ship Busted In order for this to happen, the whirlpool would have to be significantly stronger than any maelstrom ever recorded. ...a fishing trawler Busted In order for this to happen, the whirlpool would have to be significantly stronger than any maelstrom ever recorded. ...a person Plausible A whirlpool can generate a vortex large enough to pull down a swimmer and, especially if combined with the effects of dizziness and disorientation (which caused Adam to vomit after mere seconds), induce drowning. The MythBusters only tested according to the most powerful maelstrom ever recorded, and did not determine the minimum size needed to submerge a swimmer. Snowplow Flips Car A fan claims that he saw a car capsize when a snowplow passed by in the opposite direction at high speed. A snowplow passing by at high speed can displace enough air on one side to flip over a passing car. Busted Even a worst-case scenario—an unusually large plow passing by a light, top-heavy sports utility vehicle at highway speed - could not generate the air pressure needed to cause the SUV to even visibly tip. A semi driving at highway speeds only generates about 1/6 of the air pressure needed to make this myth plausible. Episode 57 – "Diet Coke and Mentos" Original airdate: August 9, 2006 Diet Coke and Mentos This is the first segment not to be assigned a "Busted", "Plausible" or "Confirmed" rating, as there was no myth to be proved or disproved. Adam and Jamie did the tests simply to dissect the process and determine what actually makes a so-called Diet Coke and Mentos eruption, such as the ones seen on Kari's FHM shoot and on EepyBird.com. However, they did compare their results to the many differing theories given by experts as to how the geyser works, "busting" all of them. (None of the theories had the full list of contributing factors for the geyser, only partial explanations.) Why does dropping Mentos into a bottle of Diet Coke create a geyser effect? Mostly because the (uncolored/unglazed version of) Mentos provides nucleation sites for the dissolved carbon dioxide in the Diet Coke to escape as a gas. Other active ingredients in the cascade-effect reaction include aspartame (artificial sweetener), potassium benzoate (preservative), and caffeine in the Diet Coke; and gum arabic and gelatin in the Mentos. The ingredients seem to have a perfect compatibility with each other and, when mixed together and added to the nucleation, creates a chemical reaction that forces the soda to release all of its dissolved carbon dioxide at once, thus causing a more violent eruption than carbonated water alone. The MythBusters also set a new record for the cola geyser at just over 30 feet (9.1 m) by using a nozzle, beating the previous record of 18 feet (5.5 m), set by the person who popularized the phenomenon, Steve Spangler. [1] They extended the geyser to 34 feet (10 m) by using rock salt, which is more porous and hence provides even more nucleation sites per area than Mentos. In this episode Adam and Jamie also created homemade pyrotechnics using water, liquid soap and methane; smoke bombs from saltpeter and sugar; demonstrated a way to blow the canister off a stack of Pringles chips by using hydrogen gas, leaving the chips intact; and assembled a dry ice bomb. Adam also implies that more improvised explosives may be tested for a future episode. Despite the "do not try this at home" disclaimers, the MythBusters concluded that Diet Coke and Mentos geysers are safe enough for people to try, even for children (with the exception of getting in trouble by their parents). Stamp on a Helicopter A stamp placed on the rotor of a helicopter can unbalance the spinning rotors enough to cause it to crash. Busted A stamp in a controlled scale test did not cause any changes to the helicopter rotor's rotation. The MythBusters immediately ramped up the test to the scale of 8,000 stamps, which destroyed the scale model helicopter. The full-sized test also produced the same results as the stamp did not cause a real helicopter to crash and, according to the pilot, did not cause any significant change in the way the helicopter flew. A stamp placed on the tail rotor also did not cause any noticeable change. Episode 58 – "Shattering Subwoofer" Original airdate: August 16, 2006 Shattering Subwoofer One can design an automobile sound system such that the bass can quickly shatter all the windows of the automobile. Busted While the large, diesel engine-powered subwoofer that Jamie and Adam built into a Mercedes-Benz 240D produced sound at 161 dBSPL at 16 Hz (a level comparable to those found in cars specially designed for loudness competitions), it caused the sunroof of the car to jar loose, allowing for the pressure of the sound waves to escape. Because of this leakage, not to mention the fact that the forces behind the oscillation caused the woofer to break apart, the speaker system could not possibly create the amount of intensity needed to cause all the windows to explode as the myth stated. A best-case scenario would involve only one window failing, thus creating a path for the pressure to escape. Rough Road Driving A spinoff myth was tested in More Myths Revisited A car will achieve a smoother ride on a rough outback road by being driven faster. Confirmed As far as driving on non-washboard roads, there was no solid conclusion due to a conflict of data. However, when they tested a "washboard" road, the Build Team were able to confirm the theory that driving at a higher speed will indeed cause the body of the car to float over the ridges: the wheels of a car oscillated wildly, but the car suspension allowed for a relatively smoother ride at high speed. Episode 59 – "Crimes and Myth-Demeanors 2" As opposed to the earlier Crimes and Myth-Demeanors, which focused on security systems as seen in movies, the MythBusters attempted to break real-world security systems, which were all installed in the original assault course. Fingerprint readers take a sample of a fingerprint and match it with an approved-person database. The particular door-mounted scanner tested optically samples the fingerprint, and also had some extra "liveness-sensing" features that supposedly looks for pulse, body heat, and sweat. The optical fingerprint reader the MythBusters installed can be fooled by... ...a copy of an approved fingerprint etched in latex. Confirmed Licking the latex sample (to simulate sweat) was enough to fool the scanner. ...a ballistics gel copy of an approved fingerprint. Confirmed Licking the gel sample (to simulate sweat) was enough to fool the scanner. ...a paper copy of an approved fingerprint. Confirmed Licking the paper sample (to simulate sweat) was enough to fool the scanner. Thermal Motion Sensor Thermographic cameras note any changes in the temperature gradient within its field of view (as seen in the 1992 film Sneakers). A thermal motion sensor can be fooled by... ...cooling the body down using a CO2 fire extinguisher Busted Not only was the sensor not fooled, using a fire extinguisher on a person is dangerous. ...a neoprene diving suit. Busted The neoprene suit did insulate body heat from its surroundings, until the suit itself warmed up. ...being covered in mud. Busted Like the neoprene suit, it only worked until the mud warmed up from body heat. Also, Tory left behind mud tracks while attempting this. ...heating the room to body temperature. Busted Heating the room from the ceiling immediately set off the sensor, while heating the room from the ground did not. However, the sensor was still sensitive enough to detect the difference between human body temperature and the ambient temperature. ...wearing a highly insulated fire proximity suit. Confirmed The suit blocked the body heat, preventing the sensor from seeing the wearer. However a small breach in the suit triggered the sensor when pointed towards it. ...placing glass between the intruder and the sensor. Confirmed Glass blocks out infrared light. Ultrasonic Motion Sensor Ultrasonic motion detectors note any Doppler shifts caused by a moving intruder. An ultrasonic motion detector can be fooled by... ...wearing thick-padded clothing Busted The sensor was still able to pick up Kari's movement. ...holding a bedsheet in front of oneself. Confirmed The bedsheet absorbed enough of the ultrasonic waves to mitigate any return signals. ...moving extremely slowly. Confirmed Although it took Kari 20 minutes to cross a relatively short hallway, she moved slowly enough to stay below the detector's sampling threshold. Water Safe This myth was based on a scene from the movie The Score. A thief can drill into a safe with a thermal lance, fill the safe with water, and detonate an explosive inside without damaging the items inside or prematurely activating the glass relocker. Plausible Drilling into a safe using thermal rods takes far longer than the myth states. Also, the heat from the thermal rods completely destroyed the items inside. Secondly, the safe was not watertight and had to be sealed from the inside in order to completely fill it with water. Finally, even though the explosion successfully dislodged the safe door, none of the items inside remained intact. It was deemed plausible from historical precedent and police reports, even though the MythBusters themselves could not replicate any of the conditions. Episode 60 – "Earthquake Machine" Miniature Earthquake Machine The MythBusters tested one of Nikola Tesla's publications[3]. Nikola Tesla invented a small steam-powered machine that, when attached to an object or building and tuned to vibrate at a certain frequency, can cause an earthquake-like effect on the object it is attached to (Tesla's oscillator). Busted The MythBusters built several variations of Tesla's machine using modified jackhammers, as well as a specially designed computer-controlled electromechanical linear actuator provided by Grant. Small-scale tests on metal bars produced mixed results, with the modified tools performing poorly, while the more finely tunable actuator produced significant vibrations in the bar. A scale-model test with a model of Tesla's lab and miniature motor failed to produce any noticeable result. Finally, a full-scale test was attempted: the MythBusters attached the resonator to the side of a large 1927 truss bridge, of a type today designed to withstand such vibrations, to see whether the entire bridge would be shaken. The resonator could be tuned to the bridge's resonant frequency; it did produce a vibration, noticeable "hundreds of feet away", like "a big semitrailer truck cruising by" but not remotely of earthquake strength. The MythBusters declared the myth busted. Stove Myths The MythBusters tested whether putting the following items on a stove will cause an explosion that could kill a person... ...a lava lamp Confirmed All lava lamp tests produced violent reactions. The reactions differed depending on the lamp's design. When lava lamps with safety caps exploded, they vented their contents out through the top of the lamp because of the safety cap popping off (as designed). A bottlecapped lava lamp being tested leaked due to a poor seal, and was helped to explode with a spray of cold water (through the thermal stress caused by the cooling effect of the water on the glass). The explosion lodged a piece of glass deep into a ballistics gel dummy planted near the lamp. A jumbo lava lamp exploded with enough force to pierce the dummy with numerous shards of glass. With the combination of the violent explosion, glass shrapnel in the dummy, explicit warning labels, and a recorded incident, the myth was deemed confirmed. ...a can of beans Confirmed The cans of beans tested exploded with force proportional to the size of the can. Larger cans explode more violently than smaller cans, especially since large cans do not have a weakened pop-open top, but the Build Team concluded that any can of beans on a stove is potentially lethal. ...a can of potted meat Busted Though the can of potted meat exploded rather violently, the explosion did not have enough force to be deemed lethal. ...a large glass jug of milk Plausible The jar of milk exploded violently, though not with a large amount of force. The Build Team concluded that an exploding jar of milk could be lethal if a person happened to be standing over it. Episode 61 – "Deadly Straw" Original airdate: September 6, 2006 Straw Through a Palm Tree A piece of straw can penetrate all the way through a palm tree if propelled by hurricane-force winds. Busted Propelling a piece of straw at a palm tree at a distance of 50 centimetres (20 in) at 320 miles per hour (510 km/h) (the world record for recorded wind speed at ground level), the straw only managed to penetrate the tree a quarter of an inch. Even firing at the tree while it was bent (to increase the size of the pores in the surface of the tree) at point blank range added no additional distance into the tree. A piece of reed was tested as the sturdiest organic object that might be mistaken for a piece of straw. At both ranges, the reed only managed to go about two inches into the tree. Additionally, Jamie tried a piece of piano wire, and at 50 centimeters, it flew not only through the tree but through a sheet of plywood on the wall behind it, partially embedding itself into the cement wall. Wind alone can blow the feathers off of a chicken. Busted Even wind speeds faster than those ever recorded could not remove any of the feathers of a tethered chicken. The whole bird would more likely be blown away completely. Primary Perception The Build Team tested world-renowned polygrapher Cleve Backster's theory of primary perception. Polygraph tests indicate that all living things share some form of interconnected consciousness. Busted Tests were done by connecting plants to a polygraph's galvanometer, and then employing actual and imagined harm upon the plants or upon others in the plant's vicinity. The galvanometer showed some spurious readings (showing some kind of reaction about one third of the time), so a much more accurate EEG machine was used. When Grant and Tory used a machine that dropped eggs randomly into boiling water, the plant had no reaction. Additionally, Tory's leukocytes had no reaction when Kari shocked him with a stungun. Episode SP9 – "Mega Movie Myths 2 Hour Special" Original airdate: September 13, 2006 Adam, Jamie, Buster, and the Build Team are watching movie Myths they have done in the past, and decide to dedicate a whole episode to them. The Dukes of Hazzard: A car can jump a significant distance using a pile of dirt as a ramp and land with minimal damage or loss of momentum. Busted The car managed to jump 172 feet (52 m), 3 feet (0.91 m) short of the estimated distance of the gorge jumped in the movie. However, the car crashed nose-down and the front and engine were crumpled, busting the myth (and the car). It is somewhat widely known that stunt cars rarely survive the bigger jumps (and must subsequently be scrapped), see The General Lee article for details. Big Trouble in Little China: A lock can be broken by shooting it with handguns. Busted The 9mm pistol and the .357 Magnum failed to open either the padlocks or the deadbolts. Various movies: A lock can be broken by shooting it with shotgun slugs or high-powered rifle ammunition. Plausible Both types of ammunition were able to disable the locks by completely obliterating them. However, the MythBusters note that this lock-busting method would be very dangerous in real life due to ricochet or spalling. Because of this hazard, military and SWAT units use a special shotgun cartridge called a breaching round to break through doors. Goldfinger or Austin Powers in Goldmember: A car can be equipped with a discreet ejector seat. Plausible A pneumatic ejector seat fitted into a boxy Toyota car seemed to fool most of the people who inspected it, and the seat successfully launched a test dummy out of the car. However, the design of the car plays a huge role in concealability, which is why Jamie and Adam opted for a roomier, boxier car rather than one of the flashy and sleek sports cars often seen in spy movies. Sports cars have windshields that extend partially over the front seats, making it difficult for an ejector seat to properly launch without hitting the frame. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: A person can fall through layers of awnings and survive. Plausible Buster was broken into pieces during the fall, but "survived" his fall (according to the shock sensors) with less-than-lethal (but still serious) "injuries". Tory then demonstrated the movie method of using pre-cut awnings and safety wires. (Adam was originally slated to perform the stunt, but was stopped at the last minute due to insurance reasons.) Underworld: One can escape through a floor by shooting a ring through it. Busted A fully automatic MP5 failed to break through the support beams in any reasonable amount of time, even with the assistance of a 12-gauge shotgun. This method also wastes a lot of ammunition; Tory had to fire all of his 360 rounds of ammunition. Finally, due to the close proximity of the shots to the shooter, flying debris and the possibility of ricochets makes this method extremely dangerous. The Count of Monte Cristo: A sword can cut off the blade of another sword. Busted A genuine Japanese-constructed katana did slice through the replica stainless-steel sword. It also broke another genuine sword, but this break was caused by stress fracturing rather than being cut through. Katana vs. Rapier: Rapier was bent into snapping, but not cut. Claymore vs. Katana: Katana flexed but didn't break. Claymore vs. Viking sword: Viking sword severely nicked the Claymore. In the end, though some swords managed to break the other, none were able to actually cut through another sword. A spinoff myth was tested in More Myths Revisited. Unofficial Myth: The MythBusters really know how to ruin a movie. Confirmed Tory storms out at the end of the special and says, "You guys really know how to ruin a movie," to which Adam replies, "That's confirmed." (Ironically, this was the only confirmed myth of the special.) Episode 62 – "Killer Cable Snaps" Original airdate: October 11, 2006 Killer Cable Slice If a cable snaps, it can cut a person in two (as seen in the movie Ghost Ship). Busted A 5⁄8-inch (1.59 cm) cable at 30,000 pounds-force (130,000 N) of tension was unable to cut a pig in two (or even cut into it), but did cause potentially lethal injuries. The MythBusters took the test even further by adding a smaller cable at the end of larger one to create a "whip" effect, and even pre-looped a cable around the pig itself. None of these methods could cut the pig by the pre-tensed cable's inertia alone. The pig was cut in half only when Adam tied a cable around it before tightening the cable. Also, after making inquiries with almost every safety organization imaginable, the MythBusters were unable to find any concrete evidence of a person being cut in half by a snapped cable. Pottery Record (Archaeoacoustics) Sounds can be recovered from old pottery. (Based on The X-Files) Busted The MythBusters were unable to recover any recognizable sound from the pot using a record player with a glass needle (to prevent scratching the clay). Even with professional audio enhancement and the most advanced sound systems available, they were unable to recover any discernible sounds from the straw-made grooves on the pots. Episode 63 – "Air Cylinder Rocket" Air Cylinder of Death A compressed air cylinder can... ...blast itself through a concrete wall. Confirmed Once the MythBusters constructed a launch tube and perfected shearing off the cylinder's valve, the cylinder shot entirely through their constructed cinder block wall and damaged the solid concrete wall behind it. The MythBusters were also aware of recorded instances of such a thing happening. ...power a speedboat. Busted The two cylinders could only propel the modified speedboat 120 feet (37 m) at a maximum of 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph). A second attempt resulted in the boat barely making half the distance, and barely registering any speed at all. Gunpowder Engine An engine can run on gunpowder alone. Busted The team (incorrectly) concluded that gunpowder has a greater energy density than gasoline and proceed to test three historical designs (by Huygens, Cayley and Paine) for gunpowder engines, none of which worked for more than one cycle; the team could not find a practical or reliable way to feed the gunpowder into the engines without having them backfire and ignite all the powder, most likely because black powder is not a liquid and therefore is not transported as easily; also, gunpowder cannot be ignited while mixed in with liquid (even flammable lubricating oil), so it must be dry for the engine to work. They were also unable to convert a modern lawnmower engine to run on gunpowder, even with gunpowder inserted directly into the ignition chamber. Episode 64 – "More Myths Revisited" This was the fifth episode where Myths from previous episodes were revisited. Sword vs. Gun A sword can cut a machine gun in two (Spinoff of Sword vs. Sword). Busted A machine gun barrel cannot be sliced in two using a sword. Using the barrel from a .30 caliber Browning machine gun, the team heated the barrel until it was red hot and struck it with the sword machine. Even with the barrel red hot, the sword could only make a small gouge in the barrel. What further disproved the myth was the fact that the barrel's outer heat-dissipating shroud was removed and the machine was swinging the sword with power that significantly exceeded a normal human's capabilities. The team then rapidly heated and cooled the barrel to make it more brittle, but when hit by the sword, it shattered instead of being cut. Finally, the team tried to cut a thinner Thompson submachine gun barrel, but only managed to bend it, proving that a sword cannot cut a gun barrel in two. Bracing a windshield can keep it from shattering (Spinoff of Rough Road Driving). Busted Bracing a window with a hand was unsuccessful in preventing a window from being shattered by a rock or a fired BB. This marked the first time a Confirmed myth was disputed. In this case, the claim was that the rocket launched not due to the two-part hybrid reaction but simply due to the release of the pressurized nitrous oxide. A Hybrid Rocket can use Salami as fuel. (from Salami Rocket). Re-Confirmed Using Salami as a rocket fuel can create high amounts of thrust with the right nozzle. Readings from the force gauge proved that salami did in fact generate much more thrust than just the released nitrous oxide alone, though they do admit that the nitrous oxide output alone could have launched the rocket, as may have been the case with the original launch. Tailgate Up vs. Tailgate Down It is more fuel efficient to drive a pickup truck with its tailgate down, rather than up (from Tailgate Up vs. Tailgate Down). Re-Busted Using a calibrated fuel flow gauge, Adam and Jamie first Re-Busted the tailgate up vs. down myth, then went on to test various other truck configurations (hard top, mesh tailgate, no tailgate). A plastic mesh tailgate provides superior fuel efficiency compared to the standard metal tailgate Confirmed Again using a calibrated fuel flow gauge, Adam and Jamie proved that the mesh was the most efficient way to configure a pickup truck. The fans stated that the truck mesh was the worst tailgate to use, which the MythBusters proved wrong. Episode 65 – "Exploding Lighter" Original airdate: November 1, 2006 Exploding Lighter The MythBusters tested the following myths concerning standard disposable butane lighters. A lighter can explode when placed under a welding tool. Confirmed The heat generated from the welding tool was hot enough to cause the plastic lighter to melt and release its fuel which ignited, causing a small explosion. A lighter can explode when put in a laundry dryer Busted A lighter was left in a running laundry dryer but suffered no significant damage and therefore did not explode. A lighter can explode when hit with a golf club. Partly Confirmed Hitting a lighter with a golf club did not make the lighter explode, but when the MythBusters decided to hit the lighter while it was lit, it exploded rather violently. A lighter can explode on a car dashboard. Busted The lighter was put in a toaster oven to simulate the maximum temperature that the interior of a car can reach, around 180 °F (82 °C). There was no reaction for several hours, and the lighter finally exploded when the MythBusters ramped the temperature up to over 350 °F (177 °C), well above any temperature that can be expected in the interior of a car. A single lighter can be lethal if it explodes. Busted The MythBusters placed a lighter in a pair of jeans on a pig carcass used as a human stand-in, and put it under a welding tool. The sparks and heat from the tool managed to set the pants on fire and burn the flesh, but failed to ignite the lighter. Five hundred lighters packed inside a car can explode with lethal force. Plausible The MythBusters placed five hundred lighters in a car and slowly heated it up. One by one, lighters began to rupture and release gas fumes. When the MythBusters finally triggered an igniter, the gas fumes exploded, blowing out all of the windows and setting the car on fire. The myth was deemed possible as long as there is a suitable ignition source. Gunslinger Myths Using a Colt Peacemaker and a Navy revolver, the MythBusters tested whether an Old West gunslinger could... ...drop a coin and fire his pistol five times before it hits the ground. Partly Busted Using replicas of actual Wild West pistols, Grant, Kari, and Tory attempted the stunt themselves. However, Grant and Kari were unable to clear the pistols from their holsters in time and Tory was only able to get off one shot. Grant then built a device which showed that the pistols consistently jammed when the MythBusters tried to fire them so quickly. The MythBusters finally turned to a professional gunslinger, Larry Hamby, but he could only fire three shots and he stated that firing five in that space of time would be "extremely difficult". With no results, the myth was busted. ...shoot a hole through a silver dollar. Busted The MythBusters used actual period silver dollars for the test. A professional gunslinger proved that hitting the coin was possible (if thrown correctly, on the first try) by piercing a lead coin. Both the Peacemaker and Navy revolver were only able to dent the silver dollar. While a .357 Magnum could easily pierce the coin, the myth was busted because the .357 was not introduced until the 1930s—gunslingers did not have access to it. However, re-trying the myth with lead coins instead of silver did yield large holes from both period weapons. ...save a man from being hanged by shooting the rope. Busted Firing at a rope with the pistols, even at point blank range, failed to break the rope. The bullets were merely deflected off the rope. A professional gunslinger armed with a more powerful Winchester repeating rifle managed to shoot and break the rope, but it required multiple tries in order to pull off. With the difficulty involved in shooting and breaking the rope, the myth was considered busted. The gunslinger also commented that it would have been easier to just shoot the executioners. Episode 66 – "Concrete Glider" Concrete Glider This myth was part of a well-known engineering cliché: "Like a lead balloon, you cannot make a concrete glider fly." A glider can be made out of concrete. Plausible Adam's glider made a flight of over 34 feet (10 m) from a height of 9 feet (2.7 m). Jamie's took a nose dive. Also, an expert noted that making a glider out of concrete is possible and that the Germans experimented with the idea during World War II. After the test, the MythBusters decided that making a concrete glider is possible, but highly dangerous and impractical since the brittle concrete would shatter once it hits the ground. See also Lead Balloon. Train Suction The vortex from a passing train can suck a person onto the tracks. Busted Although small scale testing with model trains in a wind tunnel showed a vortex, the more dominant force when running the full size train was the air turbulence running alongside and away from the train. The force caused Ted, a dummy made of ballistics gel, to simply fall down where he stood rather than be drawn into the train's wake, and also violently pushed around an empty stroller tethered onto the platform alongside. Despite the lack of suction, the MythBusters agreed that the turbulence was powerful enough in its own right to make standing that close to the train as it passes very dangerous. Episode 67 – "Firearms Folklore" Original Airdate: November 29, 2006 Firearms Folklore A portion of this myth was revisited in Myths Redux. A bullet can be shot into the empty chamber of another revolver. Confirmed The MythBusters were actually able to fire a bullet straight down the chamber of the test revolver. The bullet went in and lodged itself inside the chamber, matching the picture that the MythBusters had. A sniper can kill another sniper by shooting straight through the scope. (see Carlos Hathcock) Busted* Using a police industry standard SWAT sniper rifle and standard police match ammunition, the MythBusters fired several shots at a scoped rifle mounted on a ballistics gel dummy. The bullet was unable to hit the dummy: it was either stopped or deflected by the multiple layers of lenses in the scope, leaving the dummy relatively unharmed. Without any clear evidence that a bullet can penetrate a sniper scope, the MythBusters decided to label the myth as busted. *This myth was originally labeled "busted", but due to much debate by viewers it was revisited in episode 75. Using a period-accurate scope (this myth originates from reports of Carlos Hathcock in the Vietnam War), it was found to be plausible. During the Civil War, two soldiers' bullets collided in midair and fused together. Plausible The MythBusters first tried to mount two Civil War rifles in front of each other so that when fired, the bullets (lead Minié balls) would collide in midair. However, this proved impossible because they were unable to get the guns to fire at the same time. Instead, they aimed a single rifle at a bullet suspended in the air. The fired bullet hit dead center, and the MythBusters found that both bullets had fused together into a single mass. Though very unlikely, it is possible for two bullets to collide and fuse together in midair. Hammer vs. Hammer This myth was brought up by concerned viewers, who feared that Jamie was in risk of suffering from the myth each time he banged two hammers together as part of a build. This myth was revisited in Myths Redux. If two hammers strike each other, or a hammer strikes an anvil, at least one hammer will completely shatter with lethal force. Busted Using a custom rig, the MythBusters repeatedly struck pairs of hammers together, but none shattered. Hammers with wooden handles merely snapped in two and hammers with metal handles bent. The MythBusters then decided to make the steel hammers harder and more brittle by adding more carbon and through heat treatment. In particular, they attempted to case harden the hammers. They heated the hammers to high temperatures and then coated the hammer heads in used engine oil. They also decided to have the hammers strike a more sturdy anvil instead of each other. However, during testing, the carbonized hammers merely bent at the handles without shattering. Though the myth was busted, some hammers come with warnings not to use them to strike another tool or hardened nail with excessive force; although no hammerhead shattered or chipped, high-speed footage showed particle dust flying in all directions, which presents an eye hazard. Episode 68 – "Anti-Gravity Device" Original Airdate: December 6, 2006 Anti-gravity is a hypothetical force that eliminates the effects of gravity on an object (as opposed to counteracting it). The MythBusters tested various devices that claimed to produce anti-gravity. Anti-gravity is possible. Busted (for now) After testing various contraptions that were allegedly able to defy gravity, the MythBusters found that none of them could actually achieve "anti-gravity"; the contraptions (that did levitate) generated an upward force that balanced their downward gravitation. The myth was declared Busted (for now), because although they could bust the contraptions as anti-gravity machines, the idea of anti-gravity itself could not be busted through their tests. Christmas tree fires are common during the winter holidays, and cause millions of dollars in damage annually in America alone. The MythBusters tested one hypothesis on the cause of a Christmas tree fire. The heat generated by Christmas lights can ignite a Christmas tree. Busted After rigging a tinder-dry Christmas tree with 2500 C9 Christmas lights (for a total of 17.5 kW) and waiting for at least 40 minutes, the MythBusters were unable to get the tree to ignite by itself. Instead, they used an artificially created spark (simulating a short circuit) to set the tree on fire. Though the myth was busted, Adam and Jamie noted how quickly the tree caught on fire once it was ignited, warning viewers to be careful around their Christmas trees. Also, Adam and Jamie proved that a single extension cord can be overloaded with too many lights, causing the cord to produce significant heat due to its electrical resistance, which can burn the cord's insulation, which they theorize is the primary reason for Christmas tree fires. Vodka Myths IV ...cure the pain of a jellyfish sting. Confirmed After receiving a sting from a jellyfish and then treating the wound with vodka, Kari noticed that most of the pain from the sting had disappeared. Vodka-based treatment seem to have worked about as well as the traditional warm water-based solution. Episode SP10 – "MythBusters Holiday Special" The MythBusters turn to holiday myths once again. If a frozen turkey falls, it can... ...crush a foot. Confirmed The frozen turkey completely crushed a ballistics gel foot, breaking many of the simulated bones embedded in it. ...crush a dog or cat. Plausible Two ballistics gel replicas of dogs were used and were completely crushed. When taken to a vet for analysis, the vet stated that if the dogs managed to survive their injuries, their prognosis would not be good. The myth was deemed plausible because the MythBusters were unable (and unwilling) to test the myth on real animals. The following myths state that a turkey can be cooked with... ...a microwave radio. Busted The MythBusters were unable to attach the turkey to a full size radio antenna, though the manager stated that the antenna only used several watts of power compared to the several hundred used by microwaves. The MythBusters then tried to test the myth on a smaller vehicle-mounted microwave dish, but the only heating recorded was from sitting in the sun. ...a radar. Busted The MythBusters attached the turkey to the spinning radar antenna on the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, but when measured, they found that the turkey actually lost heat. Frustrated with the lack of results, Tory inserted an explosive stuffing into the turkey and put it in a microwave, resulting in a large explosion. The MythBusters tried several household methods in an attempt to prevent a freshly cut Christmas tree from shedding its needles over six weeks. One can keep needles from falling off the Christmas tree by adding... ...fertilizer. Busted Fertilized Christmas trees lost the most amount of needles and they became very discolored. ...bleach. Plausible The bleach was tied with nitric oxide at least amount of needles lost, but the tree looked sickly. ...lemon lime soda. Plausible Lemon-lime soda was somewhat effective in retaining needles. ...pain reliever. Plausible Pain reliever was somewhat effective in retaining needles. ...nitric oxide from Viagra, referred to as "Santa's Little Helper" on-show as a form of self censorship, and that brand name was never mentioned on the show. Plausible The nitric oxide was tied with bleach at least amount of needles lost, but the tree looked sickly. ...hairspray. Plausible Declared the winner for being both the best-looking and among the best in terms of controlling needle loss, though the added flammability of the hairspray to the drying Christmas tree could increase the tree's natural fire hazard risk. ...urethane. Plausible Urethane was somewhat effective in retaining needles. ...nothing (control). Busted The tree that received normal water lost more needles than any other tree except the one that received fertilizer. Diet Coke & Mentos 2: Rube Goldberg Machine The MythBusters can build a successful holiday-themed Rube Goldberg machine within a week's time. Confirmed Though not an actual myth, the MythBusters decided it would be fun to build a holiday-themed Rube Goldberg machine. Using various household objects such as Mentos, Diet Coke, a bowling ball, various toys, and a roast turkey, the MythBusters appeared to create a successful Rube Goldberg machine that knocked Buster out of a chair after several tries. In the unedited version of one take (on the MythBusters Discovery website, probably the 2nd trial from the episode), it is shown that problems with the objects prevented the machine from running smoothly on its own, prompting the MythBusters to force it to work all the way through. Finally on the 10th trial, they successfully made the machine work all by itself. Although they do have much experience with creating Rube Goldberg machines in the past, the time constraint given for this particular one almost proved too much for them to handle (usually, it takes them 2–3 weeks to build a machine and a few days to shoot it; with this particular one, they only had a week to build and shoot it). Episode 69 – "22,000 Foot Fall" Original Airdate: December 13, 2006 22,000 Foot Fall During World War II, an Allied airman, Alan Magee, fell out of the underside ball turret of his B-17 at 22,000 feet (6,700 m) and survived. The MythBusters test one version of this story. According to the explosives expert used for the episode, this was the largest explosion executed for MythBusters up to that time. A 22,000-feet fall is survivable if one falls through a glass ceiling, and a 1,000-pound (450 kg) bomb explodes below oneself. Busted In both the small scale and full scale tests, the MythBusters observed that the shockwave from the blast had little effect on the speed of falling bodies. Also, the shrapnel and shockwave from the explosion would most likely kill the falling person if the fall itself did not. Lights On/Off Throughout the series, Jamie had always pressured his M5 Industries employees and MythBusters production staff to turn the lights off whenever they leave a room in order to save on electricity. The Build Team tested whether Jamie was correct in his assertion. During this myth, Grant and Kari visited the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department in California to see the Centennial Light. Leaving a light on will save electricity. Busted Through numerous tests, the MythBusters calculated that the power surge from turning on a light would only consume as much power as leaving it on for a fraction of a second (except for fluorescent tube lights; the startup consumed about 23 seconds' worth of power). Furthermore, the wear and tear of turning the light on and off repeatedly did not reduce the bulb's total life expectancy enough to offset the increased electricity usage. Therefore, it is far more economical to turn a light off rather than leaving it on. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa "Mythbusters: Episode Guide (2006)". Discovery Channel. http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/episode/episode-tab-06.html. Retrieved March 25, 2010. ^ "Trousers Explode, Evening Post, April 21, 1933 ^ Annotated Mythbusters article on Tesla's oscillator MythBusters Official site MythBusters at the Internet Movie Database v · d · eMythBusters Pilot episodes · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · Special episodes Main cast · Other cast members · M5 Industries 2006 television seasons Lists of MythBusters episodes MythBusters (2007 season) — Country of origin Australia United States No. of episodes 25 (includes 4 specials) Broadcast Original channel Discovery Channel … Wikipedia MythBusters (2009 season) — Country of origin Australia United States No. of episodes 23 (includes 3 specials) Broadcast Original channel … Wikipedia MythBusters (2011 season) — Country of origin Australia United States Broadcast Original channel Discovery Channel Original run … Wikipedia MythBusters (2003 season) — Country of origin Australia United States No. of episodes 8 Broadcast Original channel Discovery Channel … Wikipedia MythBusters — Genre Documentary Science Created by Peter Rees Starrin … Wikipedia MythBusters (season 4) — The cast of the television series MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives tales, and the like. 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__label__cc	0.645919	0.354081	Jeh Johnson Under pressure, Homeland Security announces changes to family detention policies Blog / Front page / Law vs Justice In a press released dated Wednesday, June 24, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson announced a few changes to ICE’s policy on family detention. While stating that long-term detention practices will be ceased, family detention will continue along with the human rights abuses that remain a hallmark of corporate for-profit prison systems. For families affected by long-term detention, ransom (bond) will still be required in exchange for certain liberties. Below is the text of the press release as posted on the DHS site: DHS Press Office ICE Director Saldaña and I understand the sensitive and unique nature of detaining families, and we are committed to continually evaluating it. We have concluded that we must make substantial changes to our detention practices when it comes to families. Last summer we faced an unprecedented spike in illegal migration from Central America. A substantial part of that migration was adults who brought their children with them. In order to avoid a situation, after apprehension, in which we simply processed these individuals, escorted them to bus stations and released them, we increased our detention capacity. We took a number of other steps in response to last summer’s spike, working with our government counterparts in Mexico and Central America. This year the number of those apprehended at our southern border – an indicator of total attempts to cross the border illegally – while still high, is down considerably from before. Indeed, if the current trend this fiscal year continues, the annual number of total apprehensions at our southern border will be the lowest since the 1970s. We continue to be vigilant in watching for any upswings in this migration pattern, and we know we must be prepared to respond in that event. We have also increased our capacity to focus our enforcement resources effectively on those who have recently crossed the border illegally, and on those who represent threats to public safety. I and other DHS officials have conducted numerous visits to family residential centers. I personally visited the Karnes, Texas facility on Monday of last week. While there, I inspected the facility, the lodging, the dining area and the classrooms for children, and spoke directly and privately with the health providers. Most significant, I spoke with dozens of Central American mothers at the facility who came to this country illegally seeking a better life for their children and themselves. I have reached the conclusion that we must make substantial changes in our detention practices with respect to families with children. In short, once a family has established eligibility for asylum or other relief under our laws, long-term detention is an inefficient use of our resources and should be discontinued. In May, ICE announced a first round of reforms which we have already begun to implement; they include: First, we have begun reviewing the cases of any families detained beyond 90 days to evaluate whether detention during the pendency of their immigration case is still appropriate. Priority is being given to the review of the cases of families who have been in these residential centers the longest. Second, we have discontinued invoking general deterrence as a factor in custody determinations in all cases involving families. Third, we are appointing a Federal Advisory Committee of outside experts to advise Director Saldaña and me concerning family residential centers. Fourth, we are undertaking additional measures to ensure access to counsel, attorney-client meeting rooms, social workers, educational services, comprehensive medical care, and continuous monitoring of the overall conditions at these centers. Today we are announcing additional important reforms. In the last few days, Director Saldaña and her senior immigration enforcement team have presented me with a plan to offer release with an appropriate monetary bond or other condition of release to families at residential centers who are successful in stating a case of credible or reasonable fear of persecution in their home countries. Further, Director Saldaña has also presented me with criteria for establishing a family’s bond amount at a level that is reasonable and realistic, taking into account ability to pay, while also encompassing risk of flight and public safety. I have accepted and approved this plan. Additionally, I am directing that USCIS conduct credible fear and reasonable fear interviews within a reasonable timeframe. In substance – the detention of families will be short-term in most cases. During that time, we will have the opportunity to confirm accurate address and sponsor information so that ICE can more effectively monitor and ensure compliance with immigration obligations. During that time, families will also receive education about their rights and responsibilities, including attendance at immigration court hearings and other reporting requirements. Finally, continued use of family residential centers will allow for prompt removal of individuals who have not stated a claim for relief under our laws. Our larger hope is that Central American families will heed our repeated calls to find a safe and lawful path for the migration of children to the United States. Late last year, we established in-country refugee processing in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, for the children of those lawfully present in the United States. We continue to encourage families to take advantage of that program. I have personally seen enough to know that the path of illegal migration from Central America to our southern border is a dangerous path and it is not for children. We also urge Congress to grant President Obama’s $1 billion request for aid to Central America, to finally and firmly address the underlying causes of illegal migration in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador – the so-called “push factors.” Border security continues to be one of my top priorities as Secretary of Homeland Security. As I have said before, our borders are not open to illegal migration. I know also that we must enforce our immigration laws in a fair and humane manner, consistent with our values as Americans. Growing #Hutto27 Hunger Strike by Women at Texas Detention Center Why licensing of family detention as child care should be opposed National Security Threat	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343836
__label__cc	0.552566	0.447434	We all have dreams and aspirations. Often these dreams are to do with career goals, economic goals or maybe even something bigger (we’ve all seen American Idol!). Some nations are built around a dream. People from ‘The States’ often refer to the American Dream. Some people argue that Australia was built upon the dream of wealth and a new life. But can we all achieve our dreams? Are their outside factors that determine whether we can achieve our dreams? Does this apply to everyone? Watch Food Inc. What is life like for the Mexican immigrants shown working in the USA? What does the director want us to think about the immigrants? What does he want us to think about the Meat corporations? Make a comment on the dreams of the immigrants. Another Immigrant Story	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343837
__label__wiki	0.901159	0.901159	November 27, 2019 12:30 PM by Charlie Clark Growing up white in north Arlington, schoolmates and I were aware of the African-American enclave of Hall’s Hill — sadly, we were scared to venture there for fear of getting beaten up. So I felt my share of the emotions that poured from denizens of that historic neighborhood who spoke Nov. 13 at the event titled “Learn From This Place: Bringing Arlington to Halls Hill.” The auditorium at Virginia Hospital Center rung with multi-generational music, nostalgia and tears of pain expressed by four who lived through Arlington’s (ongoing) transition out of segregation. As part of a multi-day event funded by a Virginia humanities grant, they shared bittersweet recollections of the 1950s, when blacks weren’t allowed in Arlington Hospital, or in movie theaters or pony rides. Wilma Jones Killgo, author of a history of Hall’s Hill, presented African-American heritage songs performed on cigar box banjos by middle school students in Career and Technical Education. Traditionals such as “You Are My Sunshine” and “Going Down the Road Feelin’ Bad” were adapted to Hall’s Hill memories of being forced to walk ten blocks to school after the Langston school closed, and being late for faraway Little League games. To guitar and harmonica strains of a blues duo, Junious Brickhouse performed a muscular dance. The gray eminence among panelists was retired teacher William Vollin (who taught at Langston and Glebe, where he was principal). Born in the defunct Arlington neighborhood of Queen City, he recalled the Hoffman-Boston all-black K-12 school with its “hand-me-down books” and no science lab. At Langston, the “food staff and custodians were like counselors,” he said. Decisions on school boundaries were made by “racist” school boards so as not to “upset folks on the other side of Lee Highway.” Once asked by officials for the racial breakdown of Glebe Elementary, Vollin replied, “We’re 100 percent human beings.” Michael Jones, one of four blacks tapped to integrate Stratford Junior High in 1959, said at Langston Elementary “there was no remediation — we just fit in.” Growing up with seven people sharing a bathroom “made us closer.” The adjustment to being “socially marginalized” at white schools was jarring after early years in a Hall’s Hill “that taught us we had a lot to offer, to love, give and trust,” said Kitty Clark Stevenson, now a human resources consultant. At Swanson, the drama teacher told her she couldn’t appear on stage, and a counselor said she would “make a very good maid.” Stevenson described “ragged” textbooks from which they had to “erase crude, profane language. Thank you, Arlington,” she said, “for the best cuss words I learned.” Saundra Green, retired from Arlington Parks and Recreation, recalled “wonderful role models” in Hall’s Hill, where “your school teacher may also be your Sunday school teacher,” and a shopkeeper “your scout leader.” When switching schools, she had to give up plans to be a cheerleader or sing in select chorus. When she came to work professionally as director at the Lee Community Center, Green overheard a staffer calling her a monkey and being asked, “Are you the new custodian?” That staffer and she later became friends. A spiritual vibe enveloped the Nov. 14 gathering of Arlington’s affordable housing advocates when leaders and beneficiaries cut the ribbon for Gilliam Place. That new $71 million, 173-unit apartment building is the fruit of the 2012 decision by the declining Arlington Presbyterian Church to sell its land off Columbia Pike at S. Glebe Rd. to fill a housing gap. The result: living space for the low-income or disabled combined with community rooms and retail that make it the first mixed-use project of the nonprofit Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing. County Board Chair Christian Dorsey welcomed Gilliam as part of the board’s “equity resolution.” Clergy quoted the Prophet Jeremiah, and secular activists thanked the architect, builder, construction workers, permitting office, planners and funders federal, state, local and private. Church elder Susan Etherton hailed the “new front porch of our church,” the gleaming building alongside a contemplative park with a sign (“Sit, Pause, Rest,”) bearing the name of Arlington Presbyterian. Author: Charlie Clark	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343838
__label__wiki	0.989245	0.989245	Twisters test FEMA system By Orlando De Bruce A computer system developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist disaster victims in a timely manner appears to have endured its first test in the wake of tornadoes that ripped through Tennessee and Arkansas last month. FEMA officials used the National Emergency Management Information System (NEMIS) to electronically process hundred of claims and approve emergency funding in less than two days after the storms. Traditionally, the process would have been bogged down by days of paperwork, said Jeff Flading, project manager for NEMIS at Anteon Corp. But FEMA has gone paperless by upgrading its information technology infrastructure with a fully integrated system, Flading said. For example, when Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, FEMA could process only a limited number of claims at a time because its legacy IT system consisted of programs that did not work well together and required too much manual labor, said Dennis DeWalt, FEMA's deputy associate director for IT services. FEMA used to collect data manually to determine the severity of a disaster. The agency's disaster workers had to decide what programs were appropriate for disaster victims and determine who would receive hand-delivered paperwork at the Treasury Department to compensate victims. NEMIS, however, electronically gathers information from state and local officials to help the president determine whether a situation is a major disaster, DeWalt said. NEMIS also matches disaster victims with appropriate programs, sends their claims to Treasury for payment and stores claims in a library—all electronically. "We can do that in a matter of four to five days or maybe even less,'' DeWalt said. "Before, it took 10 days. "NEMIS will reduce the amount of labor that was involved,'' DeWalt said. "We will need fewer people to do the work, so NEMIS will save money. [NEMIS also] tends to be more consistent than people. It makes the process faster.'' NEMIS, which is in the first phase of its development, integrates two previously incompatible programs that made up FEMA's legacy IT system: teleregistration and Automated Construction Estimate (ACE). Teleregistration allows disaster victims to call a toll-free number to register their needs. The ACE program sends the claims to inspectors, who make home visits to assess damage. NEMIS was developed by Anteon, a technology and engineering company in Fairfax, Va., to whom FEMA awarded a $26 million contract to do the job, said Dave Weiser, Anteon's program manager for NEMIS development. Weiser said Anteon developed NEMIS using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT, a fully distributed Oracle8 database and ViewStar Corp.'s workflow mapping. DeWalt said FEMA has up to five years and a $70 million budget to finish the first and second phases of NEMIS. Phase Two, which should be completed in two years, will be designed so that NEMIS can allow integration of new technologies and capabilities without disruption of FEMA's critical emergency management mission.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343839
__label__cc	0.525153	0.474847	Going outside the usual coverage zone for this post about the Pearl Diner, a place that I always liked. Yesterday, New York Yimby reported that building permits have been filed for a new 21-story hotel at 212 Pearl St. in the Financial District — a plot of land that currently houses the Pearl Diner. Per NYY: The concrete structure will yield 26,413 square feet with 21,120 square feet dedicated to hotel rooms. Permits detail the 244-foot tall building will have 48 hotel units, averaging 440 square feet each. Gene Kaufman Architect PC is responsible for the design. No demolition permits have been filed as of yet and the Pearl Street Diner located at the site is currently still open for business. The estimated completion date has not been announced. The Pearl Diner hasn't announced a closing date just yet. Diners in NYC are an endangered species as it is... especially a single-level building in the heart of the booming Financial District. So it's rather amazing the Pearl Diner has lasted this long. And now another hotel via Gene Kauffman will rise here. (According to The Real Deal, who first reported on this, Kaufman was already the architect for three of the six ongoing hotel projects in the Financial District.) The hotel will have company — a 40-story Marriott consisting of two brands — a Courtyard and a Residence Inn is rising directly across the street from the diner... The Pearl opened in 1962, and is one of the last standalone diners in Manhattan. [EVG file photo] As Nick at Scouting NY said about the Pearl's neon sign: "at night, [it] makes New York City look like New York City." [Photo from 2010 by James & Karla Murray] Posted by Grieve at 4:00 AM Labels: Pearl Diner On a similar note, the Sunflower Diner on Third Ave. near 26th Street closed some months back. No notice. Send help — our diners are indicator species! Michael Penn said... https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVFv2ejEwC/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=isitf4oqmwj8 Reminds me a bit of the Nighthawks diner. When Pearl Street Diner closes there will be only three standalone single-story real diners left in Manhattan: Square Diner @ Leonard & Varick Streets in TriBeCa owned and run by a turd Hector's Cafe & Diner @ Little West 12th & Washington Streets right under the High Line Star On 18 @ the corner of 18th Street & Tenth Avenue (it looks like it's connected to a building on the avenue side but it's not.) Empire Diner @ 22nd Street & Tenth Avenue is a standalone diner only physically. It is not a diner anymore, it's an upscale restaurant in a diner building which serves zero diner fare and wants zero usual people who patronize Pearl, Square, Hector's, or Star. I had scranbled eggs and a corn muffin w/ coffee at a nice plain old-school diner (which shall remain nameless) here in the city the other day. $15 and change. When I worked nearby the Pearl Diner, I went one day because I loved the sign. The food didn't live up to the sign, unfortunately. That was that, for me.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343845
__label__wiki	0.838243	0.838243	Julia Roberts on 'Jesus Henry Christ' and Oprah's Finale A-list star Julia Roberts spent Easter weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC where she chatted with "Extra's" AJ Calloway. Julia attended the festival with big sister, Lisa. The two produced a comedy called "Jesus Henry Christ," about a boy genius conceived in a petri dish, who follows a string of Post-It notes in his mission to find his biological father. Calloway asked the actress if she was anxious about her film's debut. "I'm so nervous I'm getting the teary left eye -- that's the signal of my nerves." 15 Facts About Julia! Roberts claims her sister is the "brains" of the operation. "She really does the heavy lifting and I just put on the eyeliner and show up at the end!" The busy star is also wrapping up the film "Larry Crowne" in NYC, with good pal Tom Hanks. She's then set to play the evil witch in the upcoming dark fairytale "Snow White." Roberts revealed she will "have to search deep" for her villainous role. Julia also talked about her close friend Oprah Winfrey, saying, "I've made a lifelong friend in that woman. I think she's one of the highlights of humankind. I'm lucky that she's my pal." As for Winfrey's much-anticipated guest for the "Oprah" show finale, Roberts said she thinks it should be "Stedman! That's good... that's really good! They should do John and Yoko -- like from bed!" Do you agree with Julia? Vote now! #HotTopics#Movies#JuliaRoberts#OprahWinfrey	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343851
__label__cc	0.717806	0.282194	Hedge Funds Aren’t Done Buying Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (OHI) Insider Monkey December 13, 2019 Before putting in our own effort and resources into finding a good investment, we can quickly utilize hedge fund expertise to give us a quick glimpse of whether that stock could make for a good addition to our portfolios. The odds are not exactly stacked in investors' favor when it comes to beating the market, as evidenced by the fact that less than 49% of the stocks in the S&P 500 did so during the third quarter. The stats were even worse in recent years when most of the advances in the market were due to large gains by FAANG stocks. However, one bright side for individual investors was the strong performance of hedge funds' top consensus picks. This year hedge funds' top 20 stock picks outperformed the S&P 500 Index by 9.9 percentage points through the end of November. Thus, we can see that the tireless research and efforts of hedge funds to identify winning stocks can work to our advantage when we know how to use the data. While not all of their picks will be winners, our odds are much better following their best stock picks than trying to go it alone. Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (NYSE:OHI) shareholders have witnessed an increase in enthusiasm from smart money of late. Our calculations also showed that OHI isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video below for Q2 rankings). Video: Click the image to watch our video about the top 5 most popular hedge fund stocks. 5 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds Hedge funds' reputation as shrewd investors has been tarnished in the last decade as their hedged returns couldn't keep up with the unhedged returns of the market indices. Our research has shown that hedge funds' large-cap stock picks indeed failed to beat the market between 1999 and 2016. However, we were able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the Russell 2000 ETFs by 40 percentage points since May 2014 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that'll significantly underperform the market. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 and they lost 27.8% through November 21, 2019. That's why we believe hedge fund sentiment is an extremely useful indicator that investors should pay attention to. [caption id="attachment_673253" align="aligncenter" width="473"] Jeffrey Talpins of Element Capital[/caption] We leave no stone unturned when looking for the next great investment idea. For example Europe is set to become the world's largest cannabis market, so we check out this European marijuana stock pitch. One of the most bullish analysts in America just put his money where his mouth is. He says, "I'm investing more today than I did back in early 2009." So we check out his pitch. We read hedge fund investor letters and listen to stock pitches at hedge fund conferences. We also rely on the best performing hedge funds' buy/sell signals. Let's analyze the recent hedge fund action surrounding Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (NYSE:OHI). What does smart money think about Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (NYSE:OHI)? At Q3's end, a total of 18 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 6% from one quarter earlier. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in OHI over the last 17 quarters. So, let's check out which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves. According to Insider Monkey's hedge fund database, Renaissance Technologies, holds the most valuable position in Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (NYSE:OHI). Renaissance Technologies has a $96.7 million position in the stock, comprising 0.1% of its 13F portfolio. Sitting at the No. 2 spot is Two Sigma Advisors, managed by John Overdeck and David Siegel, which holds a $36.9 million position; the fund has 0.1% of its 13F portfolio invested in the stock. Some other hedge funds and institutional investors with similar optimism comprise John Khoury's Long Pond Capital, Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group and Jeffrey Talpins's Element Capital Management. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Eversept Partners allocated the biggest weight to Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (NYSE:OHI), around 1.39% of its 13F portfolio. P.A.W. Capital Partners is also relatively very bullish on the stock, setting aside 0.62 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to OHI. Consequently, some big names were leading the bulls' herd. Element Capital Management, managed by Jeffrey Talpins, created the most valuable position in Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (NYSE:OHI). Element Capital Management had $5.6 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Israel Englander's Millennium Management also made a $4.1 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The other funds with brand new OHI positions are Ben Levine, Andrew Manuel and Stefan Renold's LMR Partners, Donald Sussman's Paloma Partners, and Paul Marshall and Ian Wace's Marshall Wace. Let's now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (NYSE:OHI). These stocks are CPFL Energia S.A. (NYSE:CPL), OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE:OGE), US Foods Holding Corp. (NYSE:USFD), and Amdocs Limited (NASDAQ:DOX). This group of stocks' market values are similar to OHI's market value. [table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position CPL,3,17897,-1 OGE,16,201507,3 USFD,42,1269520,3 DOX,23,621074,-2 Average,21,527500,0.75 [/table] As you can see these stocks had an average of 21 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $527 million. That figure was $176 million in OHI's case. US Foods Holding Corp. (NYSE:USFD) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand CPFL Energia S.A. (NYSE:CPL) is the least popular one with only 3 bullish hedge fund positions. Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (NYSE:OHI) is not the least popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still below average. This is a slightly negative signal and we'd rather spend our time researching stocks that hedge funds are piling on. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. Unfortunately OHI wasn't nearly as popular as these 20 stocks (hedge fund sentiment was quite bearish); OHI investors were disappointed as the stock returned 2.1% during the first two months of the fourth quarter and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds as 70 percent of these stocks already outperformed the market in Q4. 15 Most Medically Advanced Countries in the World 5 Hardest to Easiest Military Boot Camps U.S. government files twin lawsuits against operators of Blockchain Terminal’s $30 million ICO Here's How P/E Ratios Can Help Us Understand Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343855
__label__cc	0.532017	0.467983	Chat with Traders Podcast Clay Trader Podcast Daytrader.dk Forexop Macro Voices Podcast Nell Sloane/ Capital Trading Group NoNonsense Forex video podcast The Northman Trader Top Traders Unplugged podcast Finanz TV What Everyone Is Missing About The Afghanistan Papers By finanz.dk \| 17. december 2019 Authored by Darius Shahtahmasebi via TheMindUnleashed.com, If you need more proof that lawmakers in the U.S. couldn’t care less about America’s woeful commitment to human rights abroad – or even care about the public who vote them into office – look no further than the recent Afghanistan papers and the reaction to the publications from Congress. According to the Washington Post, the outlet had obtained 2,000 pages of notes from interviews with more than 400 generals, diplomats, and other officials directly involved in the war. The documents showed that U.S. officials were lying about the progress being made in Afghanistan, lacked a basic understanding of Afghanistan, were hiding unmistakable evidence that the war had become unwinnable, and wasted close to $1 trillion in the process. Barely a few hours following the Post’s publication, Congress rewarded the Pentagon for its stellar efforts with a $22 billion budget increase. How can we as a society justify this? One stand-out statistic—among the many concerning ones—is the fact that before the U.S. invasion the Taliban had almost completely put to bed Afghanistan’s illicit opium trade. Since the U.S. invasion, combined with $9 billion in U.S. funding for anti-opium programs, the Taliban is not only stronger than it ever was but sits cemented in a country that now supplies 80 percent of the world’s opium. I can’t help but think this was done on purpose. Still, it would be worth re-thinking our outrage over the Afghanistan papers and determining what exactly it is we are outraged about. Are we simply angry because top U.S. officials lied to us about the fact they weren’t winning the war, making it a less worthwhile venture? If the U.S. were winning the war, spending $1 trillion in the process, killing record numbers of civilians, ramping up night raids to terrorize local populations, committing war crimes left right and center, would that suddenly make it all okay? As long as the war is being won, right? READ ALSO Air Force Conducts Ground Test Of Hypersonic X-60A Missile The truth is, like most wars the U.S. finds itself prosecuting; this was yet another war based entirely on lies and misconceptions—right from the outset. As Marjorie Cohn, professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and president of the National Lawyers Guild famously said: “The UN Charter is a treaty ratified by the United States and thus part of U.S. law. Under the charter, a country can use armed force against another country only in self-defense or when the Security Council approves. Neither of those conditions was met before the United States invaded Afghanistan. The Taliban did not attack us on 9/11. Nineteen men—15 from Saudi Arabia—did, and there was no imminent threat that Afghanistan would attack the U.S. or another UN member country. The council did not authorize the United States or any other country to use military force against Afghanistan. The U.S. war in Afghanistan is illegal.” If that was the case in 2001, how this war has continued for close to another two decades begins to beggar belief. In that time, the consequences for the Afghan civilian population has been catastrophic. In February of 2010, a NATO night raid conducted in a village in the Paktia province of Afghanistan left seven civilians dead, including two pregnant women. NATO tried to spin the raid as an attack on a compound festering with “militant activity,” but this quickly fell apart thanks to a British reporter, Jerome Starkey, who had already reported that this was a false narrative. The compound actually belonged to an anti-Taliban policeman trained by the United States. At the time, the family had gathered to celebrate the naming of a newborn son. In order to cover the tracks of their reckless decision to execute unarmed civilians, the American troops used knives to dig out the bullets from the bodies of the pregnant women killed. READ ALSO Investors Face "Grave Danger" - Wait 30 Years For Nothing Or Lose 67% Now This is the kind of activity that trillions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money has been paying for on a regular basis. More than 775,000 troops have served in Afghanistan, with 2,300 U.S. personnel deaths. Not to mention that the U.S. has not been fighting there alone, and has had assistance not just from NATO, but from so-called peaceful states like New Zealand as well (who have been accused of committing war crimes, too). Yes, we should be outraged that officials lied about the prospects of success. But we should primarily be disturbed that they first and foremost lie in order to push our countries into these wars in the first place, killing countless innocent civilians over and over again. We can’t let this recent publication obscure itself into nothingness. The recent reaction from Congress is a giant middle finger designed to tell you that (a) there will never be anything you can do about it and (b) they simply don’t care how you feel. Democracy at its finest from the world’s leading propagator of democratic values. 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__label__wiki	0.697711	0.697711	Nottingham's independent bookshop \| 14A Long Row, Nottingham NG1 2DH \| 0115 8373097 Tag Archives: David Rosenberg Rebel Footprints (2nd edition) by David Rosenberg (Pluto, £12.99) July 9, 2019 Politics, ReviewDavid Rosenberg, Rebel Footprints David Rosenberg has demolished an assumption and disrupted a habit. I always assumed my knowledge of London’s dissenting tradition was adequate but incomplete, but this revised edition of Rebel Footprints exposed my ignorance of key aspects of even the better-known episodes in the city’s radical history. For years, quarterly meetings in Chancery Lane have been preceded by aimless, time-killing strolls around EC4, but my next visit will include a carefully planned trudge from the Savoy Hotel, on The Strand, to Dorset Rise, just off Fleet Street. As Rosenberg reveals, the Savoy marks the site of a palace destroyed during the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, while Dorset Rise is the location of an obelisk commemorating Robert Waithman, linen draper and rebellious MP. The Fleet Street writers and rioters walk, new to this edition, also introduces us to the London Corresponding Society, which integrated the struggle for democracy with the battle against slavery. Local figures of note are ‘Freeborn’ John Lilburne, a Leveller flogged, pilloried and gaoled for attacks on the authority of the clergy, and the pamphleteer Richard Carlisle, who was repeatedly imprisoned on charges of seditious libel and blasphemy. Another new segment, on Bethnal Green and Shoreditch, introduces us to the area’s housing campaigners, including Charles Mowbray, tailor, printer, anarchist-communist, ‘no rent’ activist, co-founder of the Socialist League and sole non-Jewish member of the Yiddish-speaking sweatshop workers strike of 1889. Mowbray’s story, deftly outlined over a few pages, illustrates one of the strengths of the book. Rather than compartmentalising people, places and issues, Rosenberg meanders across thematic and geographical boundaries to highlight the connectedness of class struggles and celebrate the resilience and diversity of Londoners. The book’s eleven historical excursions are crammed with fascinating detail, such as the geographical and class-based schisms in the suffragette movement, and Sylvia Pankhurst’s lifelong commitment to socialism and anti-fascism. Sylvia’s contribution to the foundation of the Women’s Social and Political Union did not, we are told, secure a namecheck on the suffragettes’ commemorative statue in Westminster. Rosenberg’s style is clear and accessible and his scholarship impressive, but the vital element of Rebel Footprints is its passion for the capital’s history of radical change. And it’s tremendous fun. Each chapter ends with an elegantly lettered and illustrated map, and an itinerary listing significant landmarks in geographical order. This is a welcome antidote to the focus on ‘great men’, royalty and military adventure celebrated by the heritage industry and official guidebooks. It’s also a goldmine of narratives showing conditions can be improved, racists can be resisted, better cities can be built. The publication of this new edition is a fitting celebration of the first 50 years of Pluto Press. Andy Hedgecock This review first appeared in the Morning Star David Rosenberg’s first book – Battle for the East End: Jewish responses to fascism in the 1930s – was published by Five Leaves Rebel Footprints, a guide to uncovering London’s radical history by David Rosenberg (Pluto, £9.99) November 15, 2015 Labour History, ReviewDavid Rosenberg, Rebel Footprints Dave is one of a number of Five Leaves’s writers who graduated from our finishing school and – with our blessing – joined a bigger publisher. His Five Leaves’ Battle for the East End was about Jewish responses to fascism in the 1930s. Here he operates on a wider canvas, but with the same view of how people make history. His chapters – all followed by walking guides – cover Clerkenwell Green, Bow, Spitalfields, Bloomsbury, Battersea, Poplar, Bermondsey and, no surprise, Cable Street. There’s also a chapter on suffragettes. Dave is a walk guide and runs regular trips round most of these places, including bespoke walks (with lots of pub stops if you are the RMT!). Of course this is history – there are not too many members of the Amalgamated Stevedores Union around these days and the Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club’s Facebook page seems to be down but it was these workers, often Irish or Jewish immigrants, often women workers, who broke the sweatshops and the fascists, who won the right to vote, who took on the landlords and cruel factory bosses. We owe them. Dave’s book brings forgotten names and battles back to life. It’s worth reading in an armchair in Nottingham, and worth a couple of trips to London to follow some of the guided walks. Ross Bradshaw We are in an alleyway opposite the Tourist Information Centre, one minute from the Market square, just before "The Works" and "Primark" click here to subscribe to the Five Leaves Newsletter Good Morning All and Happy Sunday. 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__label__wiki	0.970019	0.970019	Finance reports show Eric Lynn never transferred all of the money out of his congressional account Tampa General sets record for transplants in 2019 Tampa Bay Times files motion to dismiss $10M defamation lawsuit Former Fort DeSoto Park Supervisor sues Pinellas County for unpaid overtime April Griffin to host campaign kickoff in Ybor City Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster Eric Lynn promised to transfer $500,000 from his congressional campaign into a political committee backing his state House run, but state and federal records show Lynn moved much less than that. Federal campaign finance records show Lynn had $273,481 in his federal campaign account as of June 30. The most recent reporting period ran from April 1 to June 30. Lynn announced in May he was ending his bid in Florida’s 13th Congressional District, opting instead to run for the state House. At the time, he told FloridaPolitics.com he would immediately move $250,000 to the state political committee and move another $250,000 once he paid all of his outstanding federal campaign debts. “We are prepared to spend every dollar we have raised and continue to raise,” he said at the time. “We will have more (than) enough money to communicate our message.” State records show Lynn’s congressional campaign did give $250,000 to “Pinellas Community Voters Fund,” the political committee backing his state House 68 bid, on May 31. The committee received another $50,000 from the congressional campaign account on Aug. 22. Lynn has a few options for what he can do with any surplus funds. He can return it to donors, give it to a party committee, or donate to another candidate. He can also roll it over to a future congressional bid. Lynn faced Democrat Ben Diamond in the Aug. 30 Democratic primary. Diamond won the primary with 54 percent of the vote. Lynn received 46 percent. Diamond will now face Joseph “JB” Bensmihen in the November general election. In this article:Ben Diamond, Charlie Crist, Eric Lynn, Florida’s 13th Congressional District, House District 68 Written By Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343864
__label__cc	0.693269	0.306731	Sea Ice Extent around Antarctica Author Topic: Sea Ice Extent around Antarctica (Read 332983 times) diablobanquisa Re: Sea Ice Extent around Antarctica 2017, 01, 18 3340000 sq km Banquisa en el ártico: el blog del hielo marino ARCTIC WEBCAMS Tigertown For Jan. 21st JAXA has posted 3,062,611 km2 for SIE around Antarctica. Down by 99,974 km2. For Jan. 22nd JAXA has posted 2,981,476 km2 for SIE around Antarctica. frankendoodle Of the 10 choices on the poll for SIE 2017 minimum, 5 of them have already passed and it's only January 22nd! georged Of the 64 forum votes, 62 were for 2.75m or less, so most people are still in with a chance. Also worth noting that there's still a fair amount of extent to lose in/near the Ross sea, which was previously flagged as vulnerable. I think the chances of a record low are looking very strong now; it's really more a question of how much of a record. EDIT: Does anyone have a link to comparative sea surface temperature / other melting condition data for the southern ocean to better inform our guesswork here? « Last Edit: January 23, 2017, 01:44:01 PM by Paddy » There is a hot spot just off Weddell Sea that may have an influence. 2nd image is a forecast for sea ice thickness for Feb. 1st, but gives an idea of extent also. 1-23.png (395.59 kB, 1224x911 - viewed 109 times.) 2-1 forecast.png (533.32 kB, 1224x911 - viewed 114 times.) Go DUCKS!! Warm SST anomaly CONTINUES to intensify in southern Pacific.... SeaSurfaceTemperatureAnomaly01-22-2017.gif (162.68 kB, 1000x772 - viewed 122 times.) SeaSurfaceTemperature01-12-2017.gif (161.39 kB, 1000x772 - viewed 127 times.) FOX (RT) News....."The Trump Channel.....where truth and journalism are dead." dingojoe My lazy layman's best guess (I don't try to crunch data, I just click on alot of EOSDIS) is that the difference between low and a record low depends on what happens with the stretch of ice running from the Bellinghausen Sea to the Thwaites glacier. Generally speaking the ice is mobile and has been pushed out off of the coast. The remaining areas of fast ice are relatively exposed (don't have loose ice against them). These are conducive to melting. Conversely, some of the ice is thicker than other areas and thus not conducive to melting out. For Jan. 23rd JAXA has posted 2,924,396 km2 for SIE around Antarctica. « Last Edit: January 24, 2017, 05:51:34 PM by Tigertown » Lord M Vader According to NSIDC, the SIE aound Antarctica was 2,899 Mn km2 for Jan 23. Down by 128K. For Jan. 24th JAXA has posted 2,840,868 km2 for SIE around Antarctica. Relentless.... budmantis At an average daily melt of 50K, the remaining ice will be approaching 1.5M by February 20. 2017 has been melting at a faster rate than 1997 even this late into the melt season. If we were to use 1997 numbers to finish out this melt season, 2017 minimum would be 1.65M km2. As of 1/24 we are 600K km2 ahead of 1997. Can anyone post images or an animation of: * The current map of the ice. * The ice map at the same date in 1997. * The ice map during min in 1997. Alternatively, extent numbers for the various Antarctic regions on those dates. This will enable an informed prediction of this year's outcome. Note: Apologies for not posting the same myself, I am quite illiterate when analyzing Antarctic sea ice. Wipneus Citizen scientist Quote from: oren on January 25, 2017, 07:34:21 AM I assume that you are aware of : (NSIDC NT 25km sea ice concentration) https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/grf/nsidc-ant-nt-area-overview.png https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/grf/nsidc-ant-nt-extent-overview.png (Uni Hamburg ASI 3.125km sea ice concentration) https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/grf/uh-amsr2-ant-area-overview.png https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/grf/uh-amsr2-ant-extent-overview.png Data to be found: NSIDC: https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/data/nsidc_ant_nt_final_detail.txt.gz https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/data/nsidc_ant_nt_nrt_detail.txt UH: https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/data/uh_am2_ant.txt Today's summary: Regional Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Area calculated from Uni Hamburg ASI AMSR2 concentration data Date: 2017-01-24 12:00 Values in 1000 km^2 Extent (value, one day change): Bellingshausen&Amundsen Seas Weddel Sea 454.7 +0.3 1171.7 -22.1 Indian Ocean West Pacific Ocean 240.8 +3.9 553.4 +3.3 Ross Sea Total 226.2 -38.9 2646.8 -53.6 Area (value, one day change): 332.9 -0.5 1062.9 -24.1 203.7 +0.5 498.0 -0.8 to be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/data/uh_am2_ant_summary.txt Attaching today's UH graphs. uh-amsr2-ant-extent-overview.png (263.03 kB, 1280x960 - viewed 173 times.) uh-amsr2-ant-area-overview.png (275.4 kB, 1280x960 - viewed 137 times.) Imho, we're nearing bottom for the year now. Not much left to lose in the Ross sea, and the other regions (a) are only falling slowly and (b) only have relatively secure fast ice remaining. I certainly don't expect that extent will fall below 2 million. Quote from: Paddy on January 25, 2017, 10:28:19 AM It seems to be the case.... Quote from: budmantis on January 25, 2017, 06:09:53 AM "To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence." not only true, many would wonder how much of all our current dilemmas are based on that fact sorry for OT but could not resist, such wisdom can get me drawn away and flying high at times LOL Comparing the previous minimum with the current SIE (NSIDC numbers) reveals that to reach the 1997 minimum at 2,29 Mn km2 (5-day average) we need to lose another 721K. Not impossible but not an easy task either given that most of the "easy" ice is gone now and most of the remaining one is fairly thick. However, there is one region that I believe will determine the final outcome. The sea ice in the Somov Sea east of Ross Sea seems to be fairly thin according to Copernicus and should take a decent damage until the beginning of February. The tricky thing is that the model have foreseen this scenario for a while now but the sea ice there have so far been very stubbornish and resistant and also seems to lack melting momentum. If significant melting is to occurr then I think we might reach a new record low minimum. If not, we should clearly be among the five lowest minimums by the middle of February. ...and yet the Polar star experienced more / thicker ice than usual: http://gcaptain.com/ship-photos-u-s-icebreaker-polar-star-reaches-mcmurdo-station-antarctica/ The Coast Guard says that in previous years Polar Star typically worked through approximately 12 to 13 miles of ice to reach McMurdo Station. This year, however, there was more than 60 miles of ice to break with thickness ranging from two feet to more than 10 feet. “We experienced a significantly larger ice field this year compared to the last several years,” said Capt. Michael Davanzo, commanding officer of the Polar Star. “In several areas, the ice was under considerable pressure and covered with several inches of snow, slowing our progress. Despite these challenges, the crew worked around the clock to prepare the resupply channel before the arrival of the first ship.” end quote Looking in NSIDC Chartic this seems odd as it shows next to no ice in the area Photo caption: The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB-10) and crew create a navigable channel through the frozen Ross Sea off of Antarctica, Jan. 16, 2017. U.S. Coast Guard Photo gCaptain Polaer Star Jan 2017.jpg (59.24 kB, 1000x668 - viewed 148 times.) vishop_IC0_20170115_20170125.gif (396.36 kB, 700x700 - viewed 1390 times.) CalamityCountdown Seems to be an interesting debate developing re the 2017 low for SIE. Those that are using trend lines from past years as a basis for their estimates (frankendoodle and budmantis) tend to be predicting a new low. Those that are taking a granular view based on a sea by sea review (Lord M Vader and Paddy) seem much more skeptical about a new record low being set. Quote from: charles_oil on January 25, 2017, 06:00:05 PM This is a little odd, but I may be able to square the circle to a degree. The article never said the ice was thicker than normal, only that it was between 2 and 10ft in thickness (0.6 to 3 metres). As maps from the time show (http://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,1759.msg99392.html#msg99392), there was a wide area of ice a considerable distance offshore in the Ross sea (looking a bit like a rocking horse in the images in the linked post). It's this very area which has since been vanishing from the map, being low thickness and not fast to shore. It's possible most of the ice met by this icebreaker may have been towards the 2 foot end of the range - it doesn't look particularly thick in the linked images. Still though... Odd. @CalamityCountdown, I actually think a new record low could happen, just not one below 2 million. But I am expecting the daily drops to reduce quite a lot now the Ross and Amundsen seas have basically melted out. Herfried As a long time lurker... first post. Think I may help here: I googled the position of the ststion. It lays at the very southeast tip of the ice shelf, and that's the very position of the only remaining considerable coastal fast ice blob of the Ross region (now also shrinking) There is some weak ice in the Weddel sea and the melting momentum could continue until the late Februrary. Also Casey-Dumont and Neumayer still melt. As of higher SSTs more warm air could be advected to those areas. I still think the new record low SIE will occur, it'll be about 2000 mln sq km Quote from: magnamentis on January 25, 2017, 01:50:20 PM Thanks Magnamentis! I was thinking of changing my signature line, but after your feedback, I think I'll keep it. Apologies to thread for off-topic discussion. Quote from: CalamityCountdown on January 26, 2017, 04:53:35 AM Hello C.C.: I don't know much about the Antarctic and have little observational knowledge. As a result, I have little choice but to use trend lines. As previously stated, it looks like a minimum of 1.5m is certainly possible, but as to the final number, I'll leave that to those who know more about the subject. I'm no expert either, but I'm sticking to my prediction of a slowdown in the melt. If I was to predict hard figures, I'd guess that JAXA extent will bottom out at about 2.3 million square km (+/- 0.2 million). But it really all depends on what happens in the Weddell [edit] and Belingshausen now. If you check out the MODIS image of Ross Island for the 18th you can see the scar in the fast ice that the ice breaker made. I too found it a bit odd that they had such a torrid time this year so checked the images and , Yes!, Ross sea was near ice free but the base is on the landward side of Ross Island and the 'bay' to access it is frozen solid. From the images from the 19th the fast ice began to collapse. The report talks about ice under pressure so I wonder if there activities destabilised the ice ( broke it and so reduced the stresses?) on their trip? I bet they wish they's waited a couple of days though! i hold the bet while anything between 1.95 and 2.05 is arbitrary, still we fall continuously an are only 8 days away a the current rate which i, like you don't expect to continue for that period but then another 3 or 4 days above -60k per day and we get so close that we gonna make it for almost sure. game on LOL Thanks Paddy for comments. It was my surprise at the 60 km vs 12/13 km normally that struck me. I think its actually a case of scale. See map below - a thin sliver along the coast, or a blob (as NSIDC shows) around Erebus may actually be quite large, I suspect they would have avoided the "rocking horse" which anyway shows as typically < 50%, so not very solid. Antarctica wiki.png (475.07 kB, 906x905 - viewed 208 times.) By the way, Mc Murdo now: https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmWebCam.cfm « Last Edit: January 26, 2017, 04:29:34 PM by diablobanquisa » Quote from: diablobanquisa on January 26, 2017, 04:23:54 PM Where is the damn change in curvature It's coming soon. As you'll see from the regional breakdown, the most rapid drop in ice has been in the Ross sea, and there's almost nothing left to melt there now. As I have pointed out, the Somov Sea will determine the final outcome of this melting season. Another area that will determine the outcome is East Antarctica where the the extent numbers have been fairly normal. For today, NSIDC reports a SIE of 2,726 Mn km2. This means that we "only" need to lose less than 500K to reach the single lowest daily minimum value from 1997 at 2,264 Mn km2. CC_Reanalyzer shows that the next 5 days will be warmer than normal in the area of Somov Sea and Weddell Sea. This should do at least some damage to the ice in Somov Sea. Quote from: Lord M Vader on January 26, 2017, 06:41:46 PM Another area that will determine the outcome is East Antarctica where the the extent numbers have been fairly normal. This area tracks as usual,but normally it lose about one third of the remaining extent by the annual minimum. As you can see in the image, much of heat have been accumulated around Antarctica and the melting momentum in February could be longer and stronger. Three NASA Worldviews of an East Antarctic area off of Enderby Land, which we really haven't discussed: Jan 4th--Sea Ice melt is lagging previous year. Large area of loose ice on top of a substantial and long bank of fast ice. However, note the polynya in the two bays at the right of the shot and in the large bay at the center (Lutzow-Holm Bay). These don't seem to usual occurrences. http://go.nasa.gov/2k6J4tm Jan 22nd--A multi-day storm has pushed off much of the loose ice counterclockwise (west) and away from the bank of fast ice. However, some loose ice has been pushed against the fast ice and has actually increased the area of fast ice. Extent is lower than on the 4th, but not necessarily conducive to further melting. Note that the twin bays at the right have experienced considerable fracturing and in fact are now more advanced than the previous year, probably thanks to the polynyas. Also, note that the polynya in Lutzow-Holm has continued to grow. Despite the break down of the twin bays, overall melt continues to lag the previous year as the fast ice remains much more substantial. http://go.nasa.gov/2k6DJ5c Jan 26th--Winds have totally reversed and are now pushing ice off of the coast. Not only has the newly fastened ice broken off, but large chunks of previously fast ice have broken or eroded. While the extent may actually have grown in the region slightly, the potential for melt is now greater. While the polynya in Lutzow-Holm is obscured by clouds, the breakdown of the twin bays continues and if you zoom in you can note a substantial calving of whatever glacier occupies the west bay. http://go.nasa.gov/2k6MBbb Melt and breakup of the fast ice still lags last year but the polynya in Lutzow-Holm seems to be a potential x-factor. If it continues to erode the fast ice from the back, while the front side continues to erode, it could be repeat of what happened with the twin bays and breakup/melt of the region could actually exceed last year. As always weather and winds will matter. Besides the fast ice off of Enderby, areas of fast ice that are currently breaking down include the stretch between the Ross and Amudsen Sea, McMurdo Bay the Ronne entrance in the Bellinghausen, probably Marguerite Bay in the Bellinghausen (cloud cover) and several small areas along the Coronation. The stretch of fast ice from the Somov to Davis has been stable with minor erosion. Of course, just because fast ice breaks up, doesn't mean it will melt out. The stretch between tho Ross and Amudsen is the most surprising to me as it was pretty low to begin with. Quote from: Pavel on January 26, 2017, 08:22:46 AM I was wondering how susceptible the ice is in the Weddell Sea. Most members think the daily melt numbers will drop as we near the end of the melt season and that certainly could be the case. I thought what Pavel and Dingojoe said in their most recent posts was informative. How much more melt can be expected from that area, which by the way has the largest percentage of remaining ice. Most of the weddell Sea ice is not very thick. I don't think warm air will melt much. Insolation, is probably about to be on the way out. There is a decent size area of warm water nearby, and maybe if the right storm came along and stirred the water up, anything's possible. bairgon Quote from: dingojoe on January 26, 2017, 11:54:06 PM note the polynya in the two bays at the right of the shot and in the large bay at the center (Lutzow-Holm Bay). These don't seem to usual occurrences. Red posted about that in the Meltwater thread a little while back: Quote from: Red on January 17, 2017, 05:52:59 PM There has been what looks like upwelling to the right against the land mass growing bigger since November with what appears to be under cutting by current all the way to open ocean. Only a very small drop today, down 24K. The 5-day average OTOH dropped more sigificantly (84K) and is now down to 2,839 Mn km2. "Only" 549K more until record low minimum... But OTOH there is not much ice left to melt out. So I've done some number crunching using the NSIDC links Wipneus was kind to provide (I should have had them already), in order to arrive at some better extrapolation of Antarctic SIE at the minimum, based on regional historical data. I am using NSIDC data for Jan 26 as current date. Regions: bham: Bellingshausen&Amundsen Seas, wedd: Weddel Sea, indo: Indian Ocean, wpac: West Pacific Ocean, ross: Ross Sea On current date 1997 had a total extent of 3279k, declining to 2264k at minimum on Feb 27. Regional minima occurred within several days of each other, notably wedd started growing about a week before the general minimum. Had all minima improbably occurred on the same day, the total minimum would have been 2125k. Currently, for Jan 26, 2017 has a total extent of 2702k, or about 576k less than 1997. Extrapolating the total naively using the 1997 decline to minimum would give 1688k for this year. Looking at each region separately: bham: now 504k, was 462k on 1997 same date. Fell to 182k at 1997 minimum, declining 280k wedd: now 1149k, was 1299k on 1997 same date. Fell to 1184k at 1997 minimum, declining 115k indo: now 277k, was 287k on 1997 same date. Fell to 124k at 1997 minimum, declining 163k wpac: now 641k, was 569k on 1997 same date. Fell to 426k at 1997 minimum, declining 144k ross: now 132k, was 661k on 1997 same date. Fell to 348k at 1997 minimum, declining 313k The real shocker is ross, which by itself explains the whole difference between the years and is totally unprecedented. Previous lowest for the date was 424k. Using the following guesswork: bham declines 280k to minimum, same as 1997 though it currently has more ice wedd declines 120k to minimum, or 220k * indo declines 163k to minimum, same as 1997 wpac declines 144k to minimum, same as 1997 though it currently has more ice ross declines 30k to minimum, or 100k ** * wedd – looking at the five lowest years for the current date with 919k to 1,130k, three declined 223k-246k to Feb 27, one declined 126k, and one actually grew by 101k (but declined 120k to that year's minimum which came about much earlier). 1997 also declined 115k. Note: timing of wedd minimum vs. total minimum can make a major difference in the outcome. ross – any-date minimum was 124k and we are already at 132k. 1997's 313k decline is impossible. Looking at the ten lowest ross years for this date (424k-712k), averaging their decline to Feb 27 gives us about 200k, still impossible. So it's either almost nothing 30k or almost everything 100k, anyone who can analyze actual ross ice situation is warmly welcome to comment. Can it go to zero? * The above can be improved for wedd and ross by checking each year's decline to its own minimum date, instead of using Feb 27 for all. The above can be improved for all regions by looking at other similar years and averaging their declines to minimum instead of just using 1997. The bottom line gives us the following NSIDC SIE minimum based on regional extrapolation: Low decline scenario - 737k, down to 1,965k High decline scenario – 907k, down to 1,795k Midpoint decline – 822k, down to 1,880k Following this statistical guesswork, I think <2m has a much higher probability than >2m. Regional breakdown shows how little is left in the Ross now: @Oren, Interesting and thorough analysis, but summing the different declines to minimum by sea assumes they'll all be at minimum on the same date. And although we'd expect them all to hit minimum around the end of Feb based on previous years, there's also likely to be a fair bit of individual variation, especially with ice in Bellingshausen and Weddell extending further north than the others this year, so likely switching from melt to freeze a few days later. Oren can you repeat that analysis excluding Ross ? That ice is gone and will not play a role for the approach to the minimum from now on. Got to learn to read the whole message..... Ugh	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343872
__label__cc	0.577962	0.422038	David Icke's Official Forums (https://forum.davidicke.com/index.php) - The Global Awakening (https://forum.davidicke.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22) - - The race war (https://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=313049) iamawaveofthesea 08-11-2016 07:42 PM The race war The idealism of the 1960's ended in the cynicism of vietnam and the manson family murders Manson and his cult appear to be another MKUltra mind control programme as was jonestown which was famously shut down through a mass suicide event The manson cult spoke about a race war they called 'helter skelter' and it might just be possible that they had some awareness of a wider agenda Today as we watch europe being flooded with outsiders by george soros and fake-left minions like angela merkl the words of the coudenhove-kalergi plan suddenly come into sharper focus which involved a plan to create a mix race slave class who would be ruled over by a jewish el-ite (ie the central banking families) and the european aristocracy (ie the black nobility families who are close to the vatican) Modern day spokespeople for this background plan such as UN migration chief Peter Sutherland have called for the undermining of the homogenity of nation states There are a number of reasons why the capitalist el-ite would want this scenario. They have already dispossessed the public of most of their wealth through their neoliberal policies and through orchestrated boom and bust cycles and fake 'austerity' but now they wish to break the spirit of the people and this is done through destroying any sense of cohesive identity people have which enables them to stand united with the people around them To achieve that the central banking cabal have to breakdown national sovereignty and religious identity and any sense of individual freedom in order to create a subserviant slave class the apprentice 08-11-2016 07:50 PM Its time to begin making your own reality, because at this stage in the game which ever side you chose the result will be the same, all groups are already infiltrated with masonic stooges and are always taken over. The time is for millions of individuals to re train the ones who want to help themselves before this generation with the skills is gone. The NWO is a neo-fuedal movement that wishes to enslave the entire human race under a small ruling class. To achieve that they must destroy the middle class and that is what they are busy doing through various trade agreements such as NAFTA, CETA, TTIP and the TPP etc The savings of the middle class are being destroyed by low interest rates set by the central banks, jobs are being lost oversees and wages being driven down by mass immigration whislt further jobs are under threat from automation In countries like the US the middle class is largely white and as a result the cabal use their corporate media to demonise white people in order to turn dissaffected sections of the public against the middle class As a result of the oligarchs various economic policies there are now many poor and disgruntled people not just in the west but also abroad where the oligarchs have bombed their countries or indebted them to the IMF. This has created many angry people who are looking for someone to blame and the NWO el-ite then point them in the direction of white people who are now being scapegoated for the various crimes of the freemasonic el-ite. The middle class has responded by voting for donald trump who they have hoped would push back against the various NWO policies which are destroying the US as a nation so that it can be absorbed into a world government (controlled by the cabal) For the NWO cabal to rule over the mass of humanity it has to get them all to fight amongst themselves. This is acheived by taking the frustrations that different sections of society feel and then directing that anger at the target population which at the moment is the middle class who the el-ite feel theatened by because they perceive them to be politicially sophisticated and capable of running the system themselves without the oligarchs; the middle class is used toa degree of political involvement and this makes them a threat to the oligarchs plan for central control and domination of the system For example the NWO hijaked female emancipation from household chores (which was actually driven by technological advancements in labour saving devices) and turned it into militant marxist third wave feminism which conditioned women to see not the oligarchs who ran the system as the enemy but men in general; this way men and women fought each other instead of the oligarchs; they called this the 'battle of the sexes' in their media The oligarchs also stirred up religious tensions between christians and muslims by provoking conflict in muslims lands and by propping up corrupt monarchies in muslim countries thereby preventing the spread of democracy. They then flooded christian lands with muslims to further push people towards a divisive conflict which they called the 'clash of civilisations' in the media The other tensions they have sought to fan the flames of is between white and black people through for example funding 'black lives matter' and by paying agent provocateurs to create riots and fires and trouble at otherwise peaceful protests in order to fuel tensions. The oligarchs also militarised the police and created a more aggressive and militarised culture within the police whilst changing laws (the NDAA) which made US soil part of the global battlefield (because the oligarchs see the people as the enemy); they also sent police off to israel to be trained in how to control populations that perceive them as occupiers. Meanwhile the oligarchs have pushed narratives in the media and universities that speak of 'white privilege' and the need to 'end whiteness' and of 'european colonialism' and the 'anglo-american empire' to try and paint a target on the backs of middle class white people All these terms conceal the truth that it is in fact the oligarchs themselves that are behind all the various crimes of history. But in order to turn black people against white people they have to frame the language in such a way as to make black people perceive white people in general as the enemy rather than the ruling el-ites who white people have struggled against for millenia in order to win any of the working conditions and rights they enjoy today The oligarchs look for disgruntled sections of society for example minorities and they then use them to attack society itself rather then the oligarchs These disgruntled vandals have been called 'social justice warriors' in recent times and to the middle class they appear to be full of hate for the people around them By playing the game of the oligarchs and attacking society itself rather then the el-ites who are actually responsible for colonialism, third world debt, unemployment, austerity, wars abroad etc they end up supporting the 'revolution from above' of the top 0.01% of society who wish to centralise their wealth and their control over society The hatred of social justice warriors blinds them to the wider threat to society itself. if this threat is brought to their attention and explained to them they respond bitterly with comments about white people deserving it because of vague things like 'colonialism' This strikes me as a kind of solomonic scene where two mothers are arguing over a baby with society being the baby. The people who have been frozen out of society by the oligarchs are so fed up they don't care if the baby is cut in half if it prevents anyone else from having it The problem with this approach is that it only empowers the oligarchs and helps destroy the middle which has been the only section of the workers that has managed to rise to a point where it can actually challenge the supremacy of the oligarchs Social justice warriors are so full of hate that they do not care if they tear society apart; they just want to rage and have allowed the oligarchs to choose how they do it Their anger blinds them and makes them the perfect tool of the oligarchs who then turn that anger against society itself rather then on the oligarchs who are actually responsible for the plight of all workers around the world eg the richest 60 people now have more wealth then the bottom 50% of humanity and yet the social justice warriors wage war on society and not on those 60 people who have stolen all the wealth It is interesting to see which celebrities are endorsing hilary clinton Jewish singer bruce springstein who has cultivated a blue collar image has thrown his lot in with hilary to try and convince the public that they should support the very same network that has destroyed the wealth of working people Freemason and illuminati puppet Jay Z and fellow illuminati puppet beyonze have also supported clinton in an attempt to court the votes of black people and yet clinton represents the very same banking network who took the homes of sub prime mortage holders, many of which were black in their orchestrated housing crisis of 2008 (money isn't destroyed in a crisis it just changes hands) knightofalbion 08-11-2016 09:36 PM "Court the votes of black people". I doubt many African Americans will be voting for Donald J. Trump with or without Jay Z's intervention! "Jewish singer Bruce Springsteen" Huh? He was raised a Roman Catholic, but turned agnostic in adult life. vancity eagle 08-11-2016 10:34 PM Donald Trump is there for the very reason of exacerbating racial tensions. His divisive rhetoric energizes white nationalists and other such racists. He is there for that specific reason. This will only move minorities to back whoever the other option is. Which is what we see happening. Trump is a divider. Again that's why the elites put him out there. Whether he wins or not is kind of irrelevant because the goal of division has already been achieved. Minorities will only become more defensive and radicalized with Trump spewing his hatred. The racists are comming out of the woodwork after Trump gave them a voice. Originally Posted by knightofalbion (Post 1062828935) no jay z is endorsing clinton he and other illuminati puppets....i mean if you asked joe bloggs off the street to name illuminati puppets from the music industry they would say: -jay z -beyonze -lady ga ga -katy perry all of which are endorsing that illuminati-carlin clinton he's ashkenazi Originally Posted by vancity eagle (Post 1062828966) no trump is talking about protecting national boundaries, preventing globalist international trade agreements that give the oligarchs corporations power over nation states and democratically elected parliaments, pulling back from war with russia and so on. Those are policies that middle america supports and they are not 'racist' policies you are just upset becasue you want to see the US destroyed because you are a 'communist' but the rothschilds who are behind all this NWO crap are not wanting to create a utopia for the workers...they don't give two hoots about you or your human rights they see you as their slave and they intend to enshrine that in law The following article in RT today sounds like it is suprised that the jewish neo-cons and the jewish 'liberals' have united behind clinton; obviously the author of the piece has not yet realised that the jewish left and the jewish right are just two arms of the same NWO cabal The Neocon-Liberal alliance: Clinton coalition that could trigger WWIII The 2016 US Presidential election has seen a coming together of hard-core Bush-era neocons and the anti-Bush liberal-left in support of the candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Neil Clark The unofficial coalition, which looks likely to help propel the Democratic nominee to the White House (if the polls are to believed), will have surprised many, but it’s not the first time self-identified progressives have - wittingly or unwittingly - aided the cause of the most reactionary people in western politics. The neocons: a group of ultra-hawkish hard-right imperialists, who are quite happy for the US to illegally invade other sovereign states and drop bombs all over the world. The liberal-left: who profess their support for human rights, internationalism and progressive causes. At first sight, these two groups don’t appear to have much in common. But the truth is the liberal-left have for a long time been the accomplices of the endless war lobby. Think back to 1999 and the US-led bombing of Yugoslavia. Never mind that the Balkan state was a multi-party democracy that operated an economy with very high levels of public/social ownership: the liberal-left cheered as bombs rained down on Belgrade, Nis and Kragujevac . Many ‘progressives’ swallowed hook, line and sinker the lurid claims of a ‘genocide’ being committed in the province of Kosovo, which were later dismissed by a UN court. Although it was promoted as a ‘humanitarian’ venture, the bombing of Yugoslavia was in fact a hard-right project pushed by fiercely anti-socialist/anti-communist Cold War warriors. It’s worth noting the names on the Executive Committee of the ‘Balkan Action Committee’ which lobbied hard for war against Yugoslavia in 1999. They included Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld - three men we would all hear a lot more from in the build-up to war with Iraq. The liberal-left were also broadly on board for the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, an assault we were told would greatly help women's rights. However, in 2003, there was a break between most of the liberal-left and the neocons over the invasion of Iraq. This military aggression, unlike the one against Yugoslavia, was led by a Republican president. George W. Bush, the man at the helm, was too much of a Texan ‘redneck’ for educated liberal-leftists to support. Progressives who had no problem with backing an illegal war against Yugoslavia, found they did have a problem backing an illegal war against Iraq. In the end, the only ‘liberals’ who supported the Iraq invasion were neo-cons masquerading as liberals, and we all saw through their disguise. read on here https://www.rt.com/op-edge/365792-hi...on-neocons-us/ The media has been trying to tell us all this time that the US is split down the middle between donald and hilary while the fake-left who are acting as the attack dogs of the NWO oligarchs by waging race war against middle america are calling anyone who does not support the CFR/NWO oligarchs candidate clinton a 'racist' well if there are over 300 million americans and half are 'racists' then according to the fake-left footsoldiers of the capitalist oligarchs (who are crushing the working people through neoliberalism and austerity) there are about 160 million racists in the US that kind of rhetoric reminds me of the tactics of the frankfurt school which was to call anyone who disagreed with their view of society 'crazy' Bush apparently didn't vote for trump! all these fake lefties seem to have no problem in their mind that they are standing on the same side of the fence as war criminals like tony blair and george bush how can they claim they are 'leftwing' when they support the capitalist oligarchs? I'll tell you why...because they are fakes in the same way that ISIS are fakes who are really steered by the CIA and mossad. The 'progressives' are also fakes controlled by the CIA and mossad Hilary clinton is the oligarchs choice for president...its as simple as that In 2011, though it was ‘business as usual’ for the neocon/liberal-left alliance as a ‘nice’ Democrat administration helped destroy Libya - the country which had the highest living standards in Africa - and whose ‘tyrannical’ government provided free health care, education, and electricity to all of its citizens. Again, this was a military assault which was pushed by neocons, the same crowd who’d lobbied for war against Yugoslavia and Iraq. Once again the liberal-left didn’t seem to notice, or indeed to care, who was behind it. The toppling of Muammar Gaddafi (the latest neocon-designated ‘New Hitler’ who was hell-bent on ‘genocide’), would lead to a more democratic Libya with major advances in human rights, liberal-leftists assured us. In fact, the NATO attack on Libya turned the country into a failed state and a haven for jihadists. Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State in 2011, played a prominent role in the destruction of Libya - so much so that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in a recent interview with John Pilger, has labelled it 'Hillary’s war.' But Libya has been quietly forgotten during the Presidential election campaign, as indeed has the Iraq war. Liberal-leftists who couldn’t bear the sight of George W. Bush are lining up with pro-Iraq war hawks to try and get HRC elected. Film-maker Michael Moore, who made the fiercely anti-Bush documentary, Fahrenheit 9-11, finds himself on the same side as Bush's speechwriter David Frum and Robert Kagan, co-founder of the Project for the New American Century. That would have seemed unthinkable a few years back, but it’s happening today, folks. Why are America’s liberal-left doing this? It’s not as if Trump or Clinton are the only options: Dr Jill Stein's policies on social justice, war and peace, and climate change are far more progressive than Clinton’s. Why, instead of backing Stein, are they enabling Washington’s war lobby again, just as they did in 1999 and in 2011 during the bombing of Libya? Don't they ever learn their lesson? How naive are liberals to be fooled by the sudden neo-con concern for 'women's rights' and the rights of immigrants and gay people? Make no mistake, the PNAC crowd are backing Clinton, not because they are appalled at sexist/racist or politically incorrect statements made by Donald Trump, but because they believe HRC will be the candidate who is more likely to continue the policy of endless war. More specifically, in regards to Syria, they want a US President who will prioritize on toppling the secular government of President Assad - not defeating ISIS. Trump’s great 'crime' in their eyes is that he does want to prioritize on ISIS - and horror of horrors - to work with Russia to defeat terrorism. As America goes to the polls today, the stakes could not be higher. Clinton’s support for the imposition of a No-Fly Zone against Russian and Syrian aircraft risks starting World War Three, and the deaths of potentially hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. Is that what the ‘progressives’ who are lining up with the destroyers of Iraq really want? https://www.rt.com/op-edge/365792-hi...on-neocons-us/ iamawaveofthesea 09-11-2016 12:09 AM Jewish-American Journalist Carl Bernstein reveals the role 'Jewish Neocons' in Launching Iraq War <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZRlatDWqh0o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> vancity eagle 09-11-2016 01:29 AM Originally Posted by iamawaveofthesea (Post 1062829021) Bush always claimed he wouldn't vote for Trump. His Vice President Cheney is supporting Trump though, so we have war criminals on either side. Fake lefties are just uneducated and they find Trump automatically more repulsive than Clinton, and they are right. If Trump was a Uniter instead of a divider, and if he didn't act like a psychopath saying how he loved torture, bombing the crap out of people, banning people, he would have MUCH MORE SUPPORT. There are definately PNAC guys backing Trump. Michael Ledeen James Woolsey (trumps foreign policy team former CIA director) Ed Feulner. (Trump transition team) Edwin Meese (Trump transition team) It would appear more are backing Hillary but to me it's all part of the show. Now the bankers who have been keeping the zombie banks alove with quantitative easing will let them crash and the system is going to blame trump and brexit for the collapsing economy He hasn't even taken office yet and you are already making excuses for him. facepalm no i said before the vote that if clinton won she'd get the blame for it but now trump has he is the one they will blame They did the same with brexit where they blamed brexit for the falling pound and we haven't even had brexit yet do you watch the keiser report? they have been predicting another financial meltdown since 2008 except next time there will not be the funds available to bail out the banks and none of the problems that lead upto the 2008 crisis have been resolved so the same problems are arising they talk about the system 'kicking the can down the road' by printing quantitative easing to keep the zombie banks alive by providing them with liquidity the banks are already broken vancity...just look at deuscthbank which is in the process of collapsing and becasue the banks are all so exposed to each other it has a knock on effect like lehmans did we saw the likes of soros threatening us with economic collapse BEFORE the brexit vote and we have seen some turbulence since it; we have also seen many fake lefties on social media and on the corporate media trying to blame brexit for all the economic problems that were already well sown before the brexit vote i do share your concerns vancity i always thought that trump would be more disruptive to the NWO then hilary but i also have little faith that the system can produce positive results (hilary would have been a seemless transition of NWO control from obama to clinton...she was totally integrated into their command structure) its like lenin said....the state is like a car that doesn't change course when you turn the steering wheel; that's because things are really controlled by the deep state; on that i think you and me are both agreed so the question now is to what extent trump would or could challenge the direction of the deep state and the last president who directly challenged the deep state was murdered in dallas and his brother was killed after him so....do i think trump is the messiah? no so i'm relieved that clinton is not in but i am cautious rather then celebratory about trump becasue i don't think the answer lies in the system i think the answer lies in decentralising power down to the people and that is the hard path to follow and most people still prefer to pin their hopes in an individual or political party and i can't think of any example in my lifetime where that has proven a success for the people if trump actually managed to create positive change it would be an anomoly in my experience of politics usually the party challenging for power makes lots of promises to the public to get into power but once they are in they just do what the NWO bankers want them to do; the concern is whether or not trump will do the same	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343873
__label__wiki	0.533408	0.533408	Originally posted by Nitth Now to deal with the combat issue.. Many love and want "twitch" action combat.. while many (such as myself) enjoy auto targeting.. Here is an OLD working idea.. GIVE PLAYERS THE CHOICE what they want.. There is no real choice. Players will gravitate to the system that poses the least resistance or has advantages in their favor. An epic "boss" that can just be tag locked instead of having to aim is going to be the only choice in town. So what do you tell the people that are not good at twitch action combat? There is the door, good bye? I have played with many friends over the years, and it would sadden me to say good bye to friends because of NO CHOICE in combat.. There are some friends that aren't optimal button pushers even with "auto" targeting.. Personally I think the penalty for restricting combat to twitch action isn't a good trade off.. but oh well.. You could say the exact same thing about non-action based tab target MMOs. Ever since my wife and I got to play action based MMORPGs and RPGs in general (Tera, Neverwinter, ESO, Oblivion, Skyrim, etc ), going back to playing tab target based games like FFXIV have been so boring for us that we quit within the first month. So if you don't do action combat, you alienate people who want it. Every game isn't going to be for every person. There's absolutely nothing wrong with liking tab-target or turn based combat systems. Nothing at all. People all over the world love them. But there are people all over the world who want action combat as well. You can't appease both crowds at the same time. You either accept the combat system for what it is or you pick something else. It's not like you don't have other choices when it comes to tab-target based games. Originally posted by Gallus85 You and others missed the WHOLE point of my post.. How is "choice" effecting YOUR PLAY? You think tab targeting is boring.. so... MAKE sure that tab targeting is not "checked" in the preference box under "options"... And for those players that do NOT want twitch and prefer auto targeting, give them the freedom to click that box.. It doesn't effect YOUR play.. Does it? Allowing players the choice between auto target and twitch is just as easy as clicking "hide helm" in graphic options.. LOL Edli Member Posts: 941 Are you seriously asking for a change to have two different playstyles? That's a development nightmare. People should give up on the idea that game must be made for everyone. That is not possible. If you don't like action don't play it. If you don't like cartoony don't play it. This game like wildstar is targeting kids and that's fine. "change" game How come you can't edit your post on the mobile version of this website. Or even quote. Originally posted by Edli No it isn't.. World of Tanks allows for both twitch and auto targeting.. and GW2 allows for combat preference when it comes to using AE's .. with a simple "click".. It's rather easy actually.. I didn't miss the point. I'm just telling you that different play styles will alienate different people. I wouldn't mind it at all if they had an "option" that could appeal to both, however this isn't always possible and even if they thought it was possible it might have undesired consequences (like everyone checking the tab target box because it's easier to hit targets with it on, even if they prefer action combat). The bottom line is that they've already picked one type of combat system and that's what they're building. Going a different route would alien different players and appealing to both might not even be possible within the scope of their development. monarc333 Member UncommonPosts: 622 I'm not ready to write this game off yet, its just still so early in the process, BUT they really need to show the community something a little more "real". There is a huge EQ base out there that is totally turned off by the look and feel of the game. While I understand a new art direction is a fresh way of presenting the game, I just don't get a EQ feel from the videos I've seen. Action style combat works imo, just look at Tera or GW2. I enjoy the combat in those games and if EQN can reproduce that it will go a long way, even to the purists who love managing 30 skills. But we are def NOT there yet from the looks of the videos. Originally posted by monarc333 I agree with your sentiment but I wish you and other people would refrain from using this "They're alienating EQ player-base!" falsehood. Almost all my gaming friends, and myself, were day 1 EQ players and we're all very excited for EQN. No game can appeal to all players and there is nothing about EQN that you can say "This appeals to EQ vets and this does not". Each gamer is different, regardless of games they played in the past. Nothing says I can't have liked EQ back in 1999 and not enjoy action combat or stylized graphics. Some people like it, some people don't. That's just a fact of life. But this "EQ vets are being alienated" nonsense needs to stop. holdenhamlet Member EpicPosts: 3,758 Looks like you better not play a melee class lol... I don't know, looks pretty bad. Very wow-like. I"m curious to see your list of "similarities" and "differences" between EQ1 and EQN , since you seem to think they are more alike then not.. Combat is completely different right? Defining roles like kiting or charming not available? What about languages? What about character maintenance such as weight encumbrance, food and drink? Will there be tracking? And can we levitate and walk/run from one hill top to another? My list can go on and on.. What about yours? Aelious Member RarePosts: 3,521 There can be players who enjoyed EQ excited for EQN without demanding EQ 2.0, I believe that was his point. If SoE is able to pull off what they are framing I imagine at least most "EQ vets" will play it. Why? Because if they played EQ in its heyday they have most likely been around MMOs a long time and what SoE is proposing is a step ahead. The main step ahead is in the way the world looks and feels. This was one of EQ's best traits IMO along with cooperative advancement. I respect that you have a list of specific wants for an EverQuest MMO but does it have to be exactly the same? If it can illicit a similar feeling or arrive at the same end result is that adequate? For example, community interaction. It was proposed in the SB video that if the Dryads, nature aligned, were pushed out of an area the only way they could return is if enough players who had nature influence were to band together and complete some goal. They keep repeating "community based MMO" and that may just be a term but they may have other vehicles to accomplish it. Trust me, I have my own list of wants that are similar to what EQ had. An abundance of group content, a focus on CC (which is shown in the video to be the case) /general roles and a very large world to explore. Other than the group/difficult content EQN seems to have that feeling. DMKano Member LegendaryPosts: 21,925 Originally posted by Maelwydd Originally posted by DMKano These forums make me so sad. So many clueless 'intellectuals' making wild assumptions when it is clear they are making those assumptions based on lack of information or simply the inability to understand the process of making an MMO and how MMO's work. Having attended SOELive, watched all the presentations, talked to the Devs, spoken to those with knowledge of all the stuff not yet released.....I am going to enjoy release day. Forums make me sad too - but mostly for performance reasons. The vast majority of gamers have no clue how MMOs are developed nor how they work. Hell most game devs don't know how they work from an operations standpoint. This has to do with complexity and so many moving parts that make an MMO and devs usually only know the part of the game they are responsible for. Example a platform Dev usually has no clue about any of the game systems or mechanics, animators don't need to worry about server code nor message queue systems etc.... Then you put operations and data center teams in the mix - most game game devs have never even seen an inside of the data center - most won't be able to tell you a difference between a load balancer, router and a firewall. Most game devs wont be able tell you whatr UCS is or HP c7000, F5 iRules they've never even heard of, Vmotion is some sort of magic to them. They don't need to know - just like a business intelligence person doesn't need to know C# The number of people and specialized skills involved into running a MMO is VAST - very few people have a grasp on it period. Bottom line - MMOs are products and gamers are the consumers - and consumers will decide if something looks like crap or is fun or sucks in a about 30seconds flat - that reality of consumerist society. Having a good understanding of the product is completely irrelevant to a consumer today. You missed my point but I will try and use a line from your reply. Bottom Line - Most people who post here are too stupid to understand what they want or what is being made and are too impatient to either learn or wait for release. Wild assumptions are thrown about made on faulty information, guesswork or a bias from previous games (sometimes not even related games). I agree with this - I disgaree with why* it is like this - but it's irrelevant to discuss it here. I value the opinion of most forum posters here as much as a stranger on the street, probably less because that stranger will not have any bias. Everyone has bias - even strangers - but again I get your point. So these forums make me sad because so many people post comments about what the game WILL be when they can't even work out what the game currently IS. Agree with this 100% - especially when it comes to EQN - what the game currently is - a concoction of concepts and ideas - there's no game yet. What it WILL be - nobody knows - it's not at the point yet where we can know - Alpha is where core features survive or die - and we're not there yet. All the discussion about EQN at this point are hopes - which is fine, just as long as they're not presented as FACTS. That's what' I've been saying this entire time. Aelious gets it. But I could draw similarities. Combat is action based on the controls but they're going to have classic roles and hybrid builds, just like EQ had. It's just the same idea done in a more modern way. No one said yet that there isn't going to be charming or kiting and the devs have made it very clear that players will be able to pick from 40 different classes and customize their character's builds. I'm not sure why you wouldn't be excited for EQN's combat. A modern take on RPG combat with original EQ roles like CC and support? What more do you want? Languages I'm not sure about. I heard they're not going to have it and I don't blame them. With integrated VOIP I think it would be kind of a waste between player-to-player and "practicing languages" in EQ was kinda goofy imho. I wouldn't be against it, but I wouldn't get excited if they announced it was going to have it. No one said that encumbrance, food or drink wasn't going to be a part of the game. I could totally see food/drink making it in and they'll probably have a really deep crafting class dedicated to it. I'm not really thrilled about encumbrance. Limited Bag slots are good enough imho. Encumbrance in original EQ was just a pain in the ass thing monks had to deal with that had nearly zero negative effect on other classes outside of being forced to walk from carrying too many coppers. It's just a tiny detail that I wouldn't care either way about, but I don't think it added anything to EQ other than headaches to deal with while playing a monk. I dunno, will there be tracking? Did they tell you there wouldn't be? There's a whole skill category dedicated to utility skills. Things like tracking, levitate, invis, see invis, invis to undead, SoW, Clarity and other things are probably going to make it into the game in some way or another if that's any indication. There's probably going to be about 20-25% of all the skills in the entire game dedicated to Utility. That sounds very EQ-esk to me. But the main point is that EQN is offering up a perfect storm of features that have been lacking in almost all major MMORPG releases. EQ to me was about the adventure and socializing with people. Exploring a rich world. EQN is offering that in spades better than anything else out there or coming out. Horizontal progression alone will make the game a free-roaming experience that we haven't even seen from another major MMORPG before. Top it off with things like a the Emergent AI system, a gear system based around horizontal progression and character customization, not being locked into a single class for my entire life, very impressive facial animations, a modern combat system that relies heavily on skill and good character building, and a ton of other features that look great, I see no reason why an EQ vet wouldn't be excited for EQN. EQ stood for innovation. It was new and nothing like it had ever been done before. If EQN was just EQ1.5 with updated graphics, it might have been neat, but it would have just been another "me too" mmorpg. I'm glad to see they're willing to try something fresh and new. Goodness knows this industry is in desperate need of something new. No one can deny that. Alpha is where core features survive or die - and we're not there yet. Actually, Alpha marks the start of the testing / bug correction phase. The features that have survived up until alpha are most likely going to be in the game/software at launch. Alpha is where those features are heavily tested by professional testers or to outside parties so that bugs can be annotated and then cleaned up. You can technically cut features before alpha, during alpha, during beta, or even after release if you need to. But generally production, pre-alpha is where features survive or die. Alpha/beta are for testing and polishing the features the game has retained during production. There are some things that can be said for fact right now about EQN even without the game in our hands. Some things can not. Also please remember, Landmark is effectively the Alpha of EQN too. As Dave Georgeson said, "We are naking EQN right before your eyes, in Landmark". Aelious gets it. But I could draw similarities. Then do it.. Both are MMORPGs, based in EQverse with some lore similarities, while not identical also share races - classes - items - NPC & names - world itself. Open world design, although EQ wasn't as open as EQN appears to sound. Less focus on the individual player being the "hero" of the world and more of an adventurer in it. Combat is action based on the controls but they're going to have classic roles and hybrid builds, just like EQ had. It's just the same idea done in a more modern way. There is NOTHING similar to EQ's role defining tab targeting and EQN's action twitch.. PLEASE.. Lets stay on Earth.. TY.. Tab targeting = roles? Offense/Defense/Support seem more like roles and both have some variation of these. One simply requires more from players. We don't know the specifics about how any of these will work or if we'll see a come back of CC and what not, but with 40+ classes, I'm assuming they can get creative. Or not. Time will tell. Languages I'm not sure about. What does VOIP have anything to do with in-game languages like Elvish and Human, or Ogre.. I'm guessing there will be plenty of time-sink walls we'll have to deal with. I think encumbrance rocked.. It opened up a WHOLE new class to play.. BANKER.. I made tons of easy plat playing banker in many zones.. I take it you want easy mode then? Are you in favor of instant travel too? I'm in favor of having a fun experience. "Easy mode" and other buzzwords/phrases don't mean much. I could go "What you don't want permadeath? OMG you are such a carebear easymoder" We all have different amounts of energy/money/time to invest in games. If they can provide a fun and challenging experience for as many types of players as possible, I'll be happy. If you personally can't find a way to make a profit off of a game mechanic, sorry I guess. I'm not a huge fan of limitless bags or a teleport every 5 feet, but all things have merit depending on the overall game's design. I dunno, will there be tracking? Did they tell you there wouldn't be? There's a whole skill category dedicated to utility skills. Things like tracking, levitate, invis, see invis, invis to undead, SoW, Clarity and other things are probably going to make it into the game in some way or another if that's any indication. There's probably going to be about 20-25% of all the skills in the entire game dedicated to Utility. That sounds very EQ-esk to me. That is ALL guess work on your part.. Devs never said a thing about what you just talked about.. At this point we are all guessing on a good deal of it. I'm assuming that many of EQ/EQ2's iconic things will make it in though. Hard to think of SOW not being in an EQ game. But the main point is that EQN is offering up a perfect storm of features that have been lacking in almost all major MMORPG releases. EQ to me was about the adventure and socializing with people. Exploring a rich world. EQN is offering that in spades better than anything else out there or coming out....EQ stood for innovation. It was new and nothing like it had ever been done before. For me as well. I don't believe any other game (besides MUDs) have giving me that feeling of being on an adventure. I guess for me I'm a gamer first and a mechanic/system fan second. I'm a fan of EQ and what it was to me, not corpse runs, mindless grinding/camping, vertical progression, having to pick 1 class forever, etc. It was the feeling of being in a virtual world. All those mechanics added to that, but weren't what made it for me. EQN has the potential to do this again. Could also be a train wreck. It's a chance I'm willing to take. I see no reason why an EQ vet wouldn't be excited for EQN. They are grumpy old people that simply can't think or play outside their box. If a game isn't designed a certain way (usually specifically for them), then it is just bad news. I pity them. We all have our preferences, but if it is clear that a game doesn't cater to those, why stick around being negative. Move on, find something else that fits. I loved EQ in 99 and I'm sure I'll enjoy EQN just the same if not more (lots I didn't like about EQ). If people put themselves in a box and slap "EQ Vet" or "Oldschool" on themselves, too bad for them. I've been online gaming for almost 2 decades and while my priorities aren't the same, I still love gaming as a whole. Be it PC, console, phone/tablet, whatever. Seems some are mad that the world caught on to this mmorpg thing and now companies cater to everyone, not just a select few. Adapt or die or in this case, have no games to enjoy. Is that all you can say about EQN.. Horizontal and Emergent.. If I made a nickel each time you said that, I would be rich.. LOL.. There is ALOT more to a good MMO then just those two things.. Lets wait and see instead of speculating on HOPE and DREAMS.. Can we also wait to stomp on hopes and dreams without any evidence that what they've said won't happen? Have devs hyped things up before and not delivered? Oh so many times. Does that mean it will happen now or always? Nope. If devs says X and I go yay for X and you go X isn't going to happen, one of us is kind of missing the point. It is very simple to dismiss anything, but I personally don't navigate to this forum to go "nope not going to happen, not possible, will suck, lies, hype, yadda yadda." If we can't discuss constructively, what's the point? I think the general feel of combat will be very different but some "nuts and bolts" will be similar. The targeting and speed of combat are complete polar opposites as EQ is tab, EQN reticle. EQ had a very slow pace of attack in combat while EQN looks to be faster paced with a lot of twitch. What they do seem to share is the limited skills available at one time and focus on control. I played a Paladin in EQ so I didn't change my skills around very often but I believe other classes did. This will be done to an extreme with EQN, as they state, with a mixing of secondary abilities to fit a situation or play style. Doubly so for what gear someone chooses. In regards to control most of the classes in the video had some form of control whether that be buffing or hindering movement. What has been partially shown in the class video but also said by the developers is they want each class to "feel" distinct. That can mean a lot of things but I hope it also means the roles that each class can play. The Warrior in the unveiling last year had abilities that would allow them to be a "tank" in keeping enemies away in real time without the use of taunts. The same could be said for the Elementalist having a CC role from what was shown as well as the Cleric in healing health/shields. In EQ your role was vitally important and I hope that EQN has content challenging enough to need people to be good at what their "role" is, even if one player can switch to another class. The combat in EQN will feel very different but hopefully it will have the "spirit" that made EQ's combat both challenging and rewarding. Originally posted by Aelious Have you played GW2? I asked that because EQN's combat will be more like GW2, then EQ1.. I wouldn't go as far to say that GW2 combat is similar to EQ1's, so why say EQN is? As for the distinct feel, I doubt that.. Everything I have seen so far indicates they are going to GW2 active combat setting, even for support roles.. Since the combat will be fast paced, that eliminates many of your skill options.. DOTing for example only works when fights take longer then seconds.. I hated playing my warlock in WoW in a group setting at times.. I couldn't even cast my 2nd spell before the mob was dead.. LOL And since GW2's combat closely resembles EQN's concept, I don't see illusions, charming and kiting being an option.. Especially if EQN wants to promote PvP.. It's why Blizzard had to nerf much of the "control" abilities of classes in PvP.. You can't priest mind controlling one player after another and making them jump off cliffs.. Just as you can't have warlocks fear kiting another player with no risk.. BUT.. Blizzard loved rogues and stun-locking .. LOL.. There is a lot not yet talked about, especially twitch action combat and skills.. If I have to wait on a 10 second cooldown because my first attempt missed the target, it won't take long before players say, "screw this" and quit.. IMO twitch action combat is VERY NICHE, and it's not appealing to the masses.. The only time I see twitch action really show any signs of success are Esport (pvp) type games.. Generally speaking.. I further doubt EQN is going to allow or expect "vital" roles.. In fact they made it very clear they wanted to avoid any "need class" roles in the game.. Welcome to zergville.. EQN's combat doesn't look to be like GW2 as EQN is reticle based and GW2 is not. There is a big difference there. Plus, the length of battle does not have to be less just because it is twitch/action. The PvP match between the devs at SoE Live lasted quite a while actually and they were all in one area pelting each other the entire time. This has an effect on how viable effects like kiting or charming is as well. From what we have seen in class abilities CC will be very prominent, you can't deny that if you've seen the videos. I think they've shown four classes in action so far which leaves 36 still to be presented. I'll go out on a limb and say charming or kiting will be part of some classes skillset. Will it be just like EQ? No but that wasn't my point. It's that some elements will be familiar and how player skill will be weighed as much as the class they are playing. Note about twitch combat being niche: I think you mean twitch action combat in MMOs, which is itself a niche market in video games. In this case only a handful of titles have reticle combat and of those most, if not all, have animation locks. Whether it will be appealing to the masses has yet to be seen. You want to doubt while I hope which is fine as long as we are playing by the same rules in honestly looking at what we've been shown. WOW.. talk about spin.. (snip) EQN's combat doesn't look to be like GW2 as EQN is reticle based and GW2 is not. Did you really just say that? Because of a reticle you claim the two are not similar, then in that case World of Tanks is exactly like EQN because they both have reticles.. lol There is a big difference there. Plus, the length of battle does not have to be less just because it is twitch/action. I NEVER SAID THAT.. I said that short battles effect various combat roles.. BIG DIFFERENCE.. The PvP match between the devs at SoE Live lasted quite a while actually and they were all in one area pelting each other the entire time. We don't know that.. did you see a UI? They could of spent half their time MISSING each other.. See how that works? This has an effect on how viable effects like kiting or charming is as well. NO it doesn't From what we have seen in class abilities CC will be very prominent, you can't deny that if you've seen the videos. Seriously dude? Because you can chill the ground to slow down movement is NOT CROWD CONTROL.. I suggest you go play an EQ Enchanter, Druid or Bard and learn what real CC is.. Even WoW's CC is better then what I"ve seen so far from EQN.. I think they've shown four classes in action so far which leaves 36 still to be presented. I'll go out on a limb and say charming or kiting will be part of some classes skillset. And I say I doubt that.. As we used to say in EQ (as a druid).. "If I can snare it, I own it".. Trust me a class like a druid, bard, or enchanter in EQN would be too OP.. I seriously doubt that SOE devs are going to allow one player to mez another for MINUTES on end.. Will it be just like EQ? No but that wasn't my point. It's that some elements will be familiar and how player skill will be weighed as much as the class they are playing. Which elements tho? pros vs cons.. Just because they both use swords and shields doesn't mean they are similar.. Right? Note about twitch combat being niche: I think you mean twitch action combat in MMOs, please don't add words into what I said to JUSTIFY a strawman argument on your end.. TY.. which is itself a niche market in video games. In this case only a handful of titles have reticle combat and of those most, if not all, have animation locks. Whether it will be appealing to the masses has yet to be seen. You want to doubt while I hope which is fine as long as we are playing by the same rules in honestly looking at what we've been shown. I added the "MMO" because that was the only way to justify what you said about twitch combat being niche. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt but I was aparently wrong. Even though I am excited and have high hopes for EQN in my arguments I try to keep as close to what is shown as I can. You seem to want to go on tangents about GW2, WoW, ESports and backlink them to assumptions about EQN as a basis of argument. I can't have a reaonable discussion like that. In fairness I will address the reticle comment. GW2 is a hybrid tab target directional combat system while EQN, as it stands now, is fully reticle targetting. The method of targetting plays a big role in how combat feels on top of the specific skills you use. Compare it to whatever game you want my comment stands. I think those that make GW2 comparisons will be wrong about it being like EQN. I think this will have to do more with how the aimed combat paired with the abilities plays overall. The first glimpse, though a very small one, will be when Landmark combat comes. Ironically I think each of the three weapons' two abilities has a control effect associated with it . I wish you luck in your future EQN forum endeavors Fangrim Member UncommonPosts: 616 The game is exactly how I said it would be 2 years ago,for which I received a warning /sigh and there is no UI shown for the simple reason it is minimalistic 1 hot bar 5 attack. Originally posted by Fangrim Oooh nice. Can you link a photo or video of the fully released game then so we can confirm you were correct.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343881
__label__wiki	0.578848	0.578848	5th graders banned from dating at Indiana school Posted 9:35 AM, September 26, 2019, by FOX59 Web, Updated at 09:39AM, September 26, 2019 JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. – A school in southern Indiana is banning fifth grade students from dating, WAVE reports. Greater Clark County Schools established the policy this week for fifth graders at Riverside Elementary School in Jeffersonville. The reason? They say young love and broken hearts are becoming a distraction at the school. Briana Bower told WAVE her 10-year-old son is a student at the school, and he has a girlfriend. Bower says she’s his best friend, and they like to hang out after school. “No, they’re not romantic together, they’re too young. However, they talk every day,” Bower said. Bower posted a letter from the school onto her Facebook page. The students were given a deadline of Wednesday to end their relationships. “The school has no right to pressure my child & put a DEADLINE on when he ‘has to’ end his relationship. That’s MY child & I will not enforce this new rule of theirs. As long as he’s not holding her hand or whatever at school it’s none of their business who he calls his girlfriend,” Bower wrote. A spokeswoman for the district confirmed to WAVE the zero-dating policy is in effect, but it’s unclear how they plan to enforce it. They’re directing parents with questions to contact the school’s principal. Students call teen suicide hotline listed on ID card, reach sex hotline instead Public school students in Seattle must get vaccinated by next week or they can’t return to class Hancock County schools issuing tickets for underage vaping Mother claims her son was assaulted and bullied at Roncalli High School School board names facility after Papa John’s founder News Stretching Your Dollar How to find college funding, avoid big time debt Chicago school forced coatless boy out into the cold and lied about it, lawsuit says Man accused of withholding Southport basketball player’s visa charged with conversion IPS announces plans for charter schools Howe, Manual, Donnan Tennessee school district superintendent heads to Middle East for third deployment IU commit Anthony Leal is driven by sister’s success Franklin College fires president following sex crime-related arrest in Wisconsin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343886
__label__cc	0.637769	0.362231	Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law About François Crépeau About the Oppenheimer Chair Events of the Chair Series: Slavery Old and New Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants 2011-2017 Statements / Press Releases Radio National Breakfast: Morrison refuses to sign UN migration pact citing risk to border security CBC: 8 ans sans école, aujourd’hui les frères Gamboa réécrivent leur histoire Podcast: The Truth About Migrants with Professor François Crépeau Podcast: Migrants at the Border: A thoughtful discussion of migration, law and the human experience with Prof. Francois Crépeau La Libre: Comment est né le Pacte sur les migrations qui déchaîne les passions de bien des Etats Diversity Statement: Changing our Mindset and Understanding the Complexity of Migration ‘Distasteful alliances’: The secret story of Canada’s fight against migrants Synthèse de la conférence: Impact de l’immigration, conséquences pour les immigrants : de nouvelles données, de nouveaux résultats Is the World ready for Global Justice? Conference of William A. Schabas, Frédéric Mégret, Nidal Jurdi and moderated by François Crépeau The McGill Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism hereby invites you to its big conference of William A. Schabas moderated by François Crépeau and followed by a discussion with Frédéric Mégret and Nidal N. Jurdi. As you know, 2017 is a very pivotal year for international criminal justice. It marks the 72nd anniversary of the establishment of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, the 71st anniversary of the establishment of military tribunals in the Far East, a special year for the United Nations ad hoc tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda both of which are in a gradual completion of their respective mandates and without forgetting the anniversary of the entry into force of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. 15 years after the establishment of this judicial institution as a permanent body with a universal vocation operating under the new premise of complementarity to national jurisdictions, this tribunal is now at a crossroads: high-level state officials accused for having committed grave crimes continue to travel around the world, key witnesses are assassinated, charges have been dropped by the office of the prosecutor itself, preliminary examinations stagnate whenever the most powerful are concerned. In Syria, as well as in every situation where nationals of the permanent members of the Security Council or their allies are concerned, it is a total inactivity. Even where the judicial system seems to be moving forward, the immunities of heads of state on the one hand and, most seriously, immunities for heads of non-state parties on the other hand, have come to poison the procedure. On the African side, some states start slamming the door of the Court while building a relatively parallel system at a regional level. In light of all these challenges in the institutionalization of the universality of international justice, seven decades after the Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals, more than two decades after the creation of ad hoc tribunals and in view of all the challenges faced by the ICC in only 15 years of operation, the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism organizes this timely conference that brings together different perspectives on this unique and topical theme: “Is the world ready for global justice?” Date: September 14th 2017 from 10am-11:30 am Place: McGill Law Faculty, Moot Court Room. Postal Address: 3644, Peel Street (New-Chancellor-Day Hall), Montreal, Canada. Price: the event is free of charge but registration is mandatory (RSVP: chrlp.law@mcgill.ca) You can find the event description also on Facebook. To access the Live Stream Video Recording, please click here	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343889
__label__cc	0.629077	0.370923	Mobo List Desktop CPU Laptop CPU Best CPU New CPU Compare CPU AMD APU A10-6700T Quad-Core Check Prices $142 Select any two CPUs for comparison Buy APU A10-6700T Quad-Core Buy Core i5-4690 3.5GHz APU A10-6700T Quad-Core Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Halo: Reach 10% 53% Cyberpunk 2077 126% 3% Red Dead Redemption 2 166% 14% Dragon Ball Z Kakarot 101% 14% Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 97% 15% Microsoft Flight Simulator 189% 24% Doom Eternal 119% 6% Grand Theft Auto VI 262% 55% FIFA 20 90% 18% Need For Speed Heat 125% 3% In terms of overall gaming performance, the Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz is massively better than the AMD APU A10-6700T Quad-Core when it comes to running the latest games. This also means it will be less likely to bottleneck more powerful GPUs, allowing them to achieve more of their gaming performance potential. The Core i5-4690 3.5GHz was released less than a year after the APU A10-6700T Quad-Core, and so they are likely to have similar levels of support, and similarly optimized performance when running the latest games. The APU A10-6700T Quad-Core and the Core i5-4690 3.5GHz both have 4 cores, which is not likely to be a limiting factor for gaming. Both the AMD APU A10-6700T Quad-Core and the Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz have the same number of threads. Both CPUs have one thread per physical core. Multiple threads are useful for improving the performance of multi-threaded applications. Additional cores and their accompanying thread will always be beneficial for multi-threaded applications. Hyperthreading will be beneficial for applications optimized for it, but it may slow others down. For games, the number of threads is largely irrelevant, as long as you have at least 2 cores (preferably 4), and hyperthreading can sometimes even hit performance. More important for gaming than the number of cores and threads is the clock rate. Problematically, unless the two CPUs are from the same family, this can only serve as a general guide and nothing like an exact comparison, because the clock cycles per instruction (CPI) will vary so much. The APU A10-6700T Quad-Core and Core i5-4690 3.5GHz are not from the same family of CPUs, so their clock speeds are by no means directly comparable. Bear in mind, then, that while the Core i5-4690 3.5GHz has a 1 GHz faster frequency, this is not always an indicator that it will be superior in performance, despite frequency being crucial when trying to avoid GPU bottlenecking. In this case, however, the difference is probably a good indicator that the is superior. Aside from the clock rate, the next-most important CPU features for PC game performance are L2 and L3 cache size. Faster than RAM, the more cache available, the more data that can be stored for lightning-fast retrieval. L1 Cache is not usually an issue anymore for gaming, with most high-end CPUs eking out about the same L1 performance, and L2 is more important than L3 - but L3 is still important if you want to reach the highest levels of performance. Bear in mind that although it is better to have a larger cache, the larger it is, the higher the latency, so a balance has to be struck. The APU A10-6700T Quad-Core has a 3072 KB bigger L2 cache than the Core i5-4690 3.5GHz, and although the APU A10-6700T Quad-Core does not appear to have an L3 cache, its larger L2 cache means that it wins out in this area. The maximum Thermal Design Power is the power in Watts that the CPU will consume in the worst case scenario. The lithography is the semiconductor manufacturing technology being used to create the CPU - the smaller this is, the more transistors that can be fit into the CPU, and the closer the connections. For both the lithography and the TDP, it is the lower the better, because a lower number means a lower amount of power is necessary to run the CPU, and consequently a lower amount of heat is produced. The APU A10-6700T Quad-Core has a 39 Watt lower Maximum TDP than the Core i5-4690 3.5GHz. However, the Core i5-4690 3.5GHz was created with a 10 nm smaller manufacturing technology. Overall, by taking both into account, the APU A10-6700T Quad-Core is likely the CPU with the lower heat production and power requirements, by a small amount. The APU A10-6700T Quad-Core and the Core i5-4690 3.5GHz both have an on-board GPU, which means that they will be capable of running basic graphics applications (i.e., games) without the need for a dedicated graphics card. For an in-depth GPU comparison, click on the GPU comparison icon that you can find throughout Game-Debate: On-board GPUs tend to be fairly awful in comparison to dedicated cards from the likes of AMD or Nvidia, but as they are built into the CPU, they also tend to be cheaper and require far less power to run (this makes them a good choice for laptops). We would recommend a dedicated card for running the latest games, but integrated GPUs are improving all the time and casual gamers may find less recent games perform perfectly acceptably. CPU Core Details CPU Codename Richland Haswell MoBo Socket Socket FM2 LGA 1150 Notebook CPU 18 Sep 2013 14 May 2014 CPU Link CPU Technical Specifications CPU Threads 2.5 GHz vs 3.5 GHz Turbo Frequency Max TDP 45 W vs 84 W 32 nm vs 22 nm Bit Width 64 Bit vs 64 Bit 71°C vs 100°C Virtualization Technology CPU Cache and Memory L1 Cache Size 192 KB vs 256 KB 4096 KB vs 1024 KB - vs 6 MB Max Memory Size - vs 32 GB - vs 2 ECC Memory Support CPU Graphics Radeon HD 8650D Intel HD Graphics 4600 Desktop Base GPU Frequency 720 MHz vs 400 MHz Max GPU Frequency 11 vs 11.1 Displays Supported CPU Package and Version Specifications PCIe Revision PCIe Configurations CPU Mini Review APU A10-6700T Quad-Core is an energy efficient CPU based on the 32nm, Piledriver architecture. It offers 4 Physical Cores (4 Logical), initially clocked at 2.5GHz, which may go up to 3.5GHz and 4MB of L2 Cache. Among its many features, Turbo Core and Virtualization are activated. The processor integrates powerful Graphics called Radeon HD 8650D, with 384 Shader Processing Units, clocked at 720MHz, which share the L2 Cache and system RAM with the processor. Both the processor and integrated graphics have a rated board TDP of 45W. It offers average performance. This means it will become a bottleneck in some demanding applications. Core i5-4690 3.5GHz is a high-end CPU based on the 22nm, Haswell architecture. Among its many features, Turbo Boost and Virtualization are activated. The processor integrates powerful Graphics called Intel HD Graphics 4600, with 20 Execution Units, initially clocked at 350MHz and that go up to 1200MHz, in Turbo Mode which share the L2 Cache and system RAM with the processor. Compared to Core i5-4670K there's an overall 3% performance boost. Its performance is exceptionally good and enough for even the most demanding applications.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343900
__label__wiki	0.516178	0.516178	New CoD: Black Ops 2 DLC was announced 2013-06-19by Tanya Knysh 8022 views Yesterday Activision officially announced new CoD: Black Ops 2 DLC - Vengeance. This add-on will consist of four maps for multiplayer mode and one brand-new map with zombies. Also the game's fans will get a new weapon for killing living deads. CoD: Black Ops 2 DLC will give players the chance to fight on five interesting maps that propose different strategies and battles. Let's check them all. Cove map is presented by the rocky island somewhere in the Indian ocean. This location is full of rocks and trees, and you can use them to hide and flank. The best strategy here is to push the team of enemies to the center and then attack. Detour map is a long multi-tier bridge, and the opponents will be struggling for it. The battles here will be set on different levels, and each level has its features. Rush map shows how the paintball may look like in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 universe. Using various environments, you can plan your battle. This map is for players who like fast and active fighting. Uplink map is a rebirth of Summit map from Black Ops. Here you will be fighting for the control facility in the center of Myanmar. Buried map is set in the underground of an Old West town. Here you will meet four characters, and each of them will have its exciting story and will be killing armies of zombies. To succeed, you can use the upgraded Mark II - very cool and powerful ray gun. New CoD: Black Ops 2 DLC is coming on the 2nd of July for Xbox 360, and the owners of other platforms will get it a little bit later. While you are waiting, we would like to present you the developer preview about new add-on and also advise our CoD: Black Ops 2 tips that will help you in a multiplayer game. Tags: Call of Duty, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, DLC, shooter, Upcoming, video Related game Activision announced a bonus for CoD: Black Ops 3 pre-order Treyarch revealed the details of CoD: Black Ops 3 beta The information about CoD: Black Ops 3 beta on PS4 and Zombies mode has appeared online Subscribe to: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 show all related news Fortnite 3.3 Update Details 2018-03-13 31970 views What’s new in Fortnite Battle Royale Season 3 Everything about Sea of Thieves beta All you need to know about Destiny 2 beta Assassin’s Creed: Origins — Preview (Rumors) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Review	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343901
__label__wiki	0.664127	0.664127	Figure 6.2.1 Figure 6.2.3a Figure 6.2.3b Figure 6.3.10 ChordGeometries Higher Education Comment Card Figure 6.2.1. The Allelujia Justus et Palma from Ad Organum Faciendum. Open and closed noteheads represent the two different musical voices. Figure 6.2.3a. (a) The seventh phrase of the Allelujia Justus et Palma, traced out on the Möbius strip. (b) The phase contains four “nearly stepwise” voice leadings connecting a perfect fifth to an octave (or perfect fourth to a unison). Figure 6.2.3b. (a) The seventh phrase of the Allelujia Justus et Palma, traced out on the Möbius strip. (b) The phase contains four “nearly stepwise” voice leadings connecting a perfect fifth to an octave (or perfect fourth to a unison). Figure 6.3.1. The opening of Josquin’s “Tu pauperum refugium.” Beneath the staff, I have shown how the music contains a series of efficient three-voice voice leadings between three-note chords. Figure 6.3.2. In Josquin’s music, fourths typically resolve to thirds (a), diminished triads sometimes appear in first inversion (b), and cadences sometimes anticipate the functional harmony of later centuries (c). Figure 6.3.3. There are only a few three-note chords containing only perfect consonances, and they are spread throughout three-note chord space (a). (Note that we are viewing chord space from above, looking down through the triangular faces; compare the side view in Figure 3.8.2, where the triangular faces are on the top and bottom.) As a result, there are only a few ways to connect them with efficient voice leadings (b), particularly if one wants to avoid parallel octaves. Figure 6.3.4. Doubled consonances (a) and triads (b). Figure 6.3.8. Two strongly crossing-free voice leadings between C and F, represented on the circle. Figure 6.3.9. Four voice leadings from the opening of Josquin’s “Tu pauperum refugium” plotted in three-note chord space (a) and on the diatonic circle of thirds (b). Figure 6.3.10. (a–b) Two common chord progressions, as they are often played on a guitar. (c–d) The notes produced by these fingering patterns. The top three voices articulate strongly crossing-free voice leadings that can be represented on the triadic circle. Figure 6.3.12. Fourth progressions allow a composer to harmonize a wide range of stepwise melodies in a “3+1” fashion, with the upper voices moving by strongly crossing-free voice leadings and the bass moving from root to root. Root motions by second and third are comparatively less flexible, either because they do not harmonize many stepwise melodies or because they can create forbidden parallels. Figure 6.3.13. (a) A basic medieval two-voice cadential pattern, in which two voices converge onto an octave by stepwise motion. (b–c) Three-voice harmonizations producing a common medieval cadence (with the Fs), a vii°6-I cadence (with the Fn), or a phrygian cadence (with Fn and Df). (d) A three-voice harmonization resembling a V-I cadence. (e) A failed harmonization producing parallel fifths. (f–h) Four-voice extensions of the preceding schemas. Only the V-I form (g) cadences on a sonority containing only perfect consonances. Figure 6.3.14. Parallel motion within the diatonic scale (a-c) and in Messiaen’s “Mode 2” (d–e). Underneath each interval I have written its chromatic size in semitones. The brackets identify chromatic motion that is not parallel. Figure 6.4.1. (a) The first phrase of Bach’s chorale “Herr Christ, der ein’ge Gott’s sohn” (No. 303 in the Riemenschneider edition) and a reduction of the upper voice counterpart. (b) A simple model of the chord progressions it contains. Chords can move freely rightward, but can move leftward only by following the arrows. Figure 6.4.3. The first two phrases of one of Bach’s harmonizations of “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” (Riemenschneider No. 20). Figure 6.5.1. A harmonic summary of Schumann’s “Chopin.” Each whole note in the summary corresponds to a measure in the actual work. Figure 6.5.2. The last measure of “Chopin” can be interpreted as a four-voice passage in which each voice moves by semitone. Figure 6.6.1. (a) Relative to the diatonic scale each voice moves by the smallest possible distance. (b) Relative to the chromatic scale, there are gaps that can be filled in. The resulting progression appears in the nineteenth-century song “You tell me your dream, I’ll tell you mine.” Figure 6.6.2. The second phrase of Chopin’s E major prelude. Beneath the excerpt I provide simplified voice leadings that illustrate the major- and minor-third systems. Figure 6.6.3. An outline of the modulations in the scherzo to Schubert’s C major String Quintet. Local tonics are shown with open noteheads. Of the eleven modulations, nine involve the major- and minor-third systems; only two employ traditional pivot chords. Figure 6.7.1. Accompanying chromatic chords with scales. In (a), the scale does not contain the chromatic chords; in (b–c) it does. The music in (b) augments the diatonic scale with the altered notes, while in (c), the altered notes replace their diatonic forms. Figure 6.7.2. (a) In Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel (R7), the harmony Bf-Df-E-Gs serves as an altered dominant chord resolving semitonally to the tonic F. The scale in the bass, however, is a simple Af major that does not contain the En of the harmony, resulting in a fleeting dissonance as the scalar F-Ef clashes with the harmonic En. (b) In Wagner’s Parsifal (mm. 668-9, Schirmer vocal score p. 40), a diminished seventh chord is harmonized with a melody touching on all the chromatic notes except Fs and G. The effect is of a wash that creates a sense of motion, but does not clearly suggest any familiar scale. (c) In m. 86 of the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Sonata K. 533, a familiar augmented sixth chord gives rise to an unusual ("gypsy") scale. This scale is derived by combining the notes of the C diatonic scale with the alterations belonging to the German augmented sixth. Figure 6.7.3. Twentieth-century scalar composers might use acoustic scales to harmonize altered chords. The result is subtly different from the three strategies described in Figure 6.7.1, and it produces a melodic texture without augmented seconds or consecutive semitones. Figure 6.7.4. (a) Whole-tone and octatonic scales in Ravel’s String Quartet. (b) The underlying progression, and its diatonic logic (c). Figure 6.7.5. Bill Evans using the octatonic scale in his Town Hall recording of "Turn Out the Stars." Legal Notice \| Privacy Policy \| Cookie Policy Please send comments or suggestions about this Website to custserv.us@oup.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1343908

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