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__label__cc	0.749687	0.250313	US Soccer Unravelled in Under 140 Characters You know, it’s been with me for a long time, but I finally aired it out via twitter. So in less than 140 characters … another fortune cookie: When it's 50/50 jungle ball soccer, results are mostly random with an edge to whoever has better players at 50/50 jungle ball soccer. — Gary Kleiban (@3four3) September 27, 2012 Applicable to every single level of the soccer pyramid, everywhere. And particularly in the US, this is precisely the state of the game. Think about it … It’s not the ‘best players‘. It’s the best players for jungle ball (ie tactics free) soccer. What players ‘make it’ in MLS? Those who are among the best at 50/50 jungle ball soccer. When it’s crunch time – when it really matters – what players are selected across the US Soccer pyramid? What coaches are considered good, or even great, across the US Soccer pyramid? Well … those who win of course. And who generally wins most? Yep … you guessed it … those who’ve consistently gotten the best players for 50/50 random, roulette spinning, dice-rolling, jungle ball soccer. This is not global gold standard football. Global gold standard football is a science, it’s tactical, it’s choreographed. Filed Under: Philosophy, Problems, Soccer Education BillR says Yep. It is the mindset that provides the basis for selecting physical characteristics over developing skill and intelligence. It creates robots over creating artists, and keeps the USA an also-ran. Arsenal Coach says Question is: As a coach how do you know if you are a 50/50 jungle ball soccer coach or you are a Futball (soccer) coach ? Travis Clark says Ever since seeing you Tweet this, I couldn’t agree more. Having a domestic league is important, and I’ll support MLS in spite of its massive shortcomings because it’s better than no top flight. But it’s concerning to me that while officials will trump out stats about soccer’s growth, great crowds, TV deals, etc, the level/style of play is as you put it — jungle ball. I’d really like to see the league/teams focus on playing the game, and not the rough and tumble game you see out there. Actually develop your players, don’t just throw them into the meat grinder. However, I’m aware that requires having coaches who know how to develop players, something you rarely see. That’s without mentioning the absence of playing opportunities for 18-22 year olds, as teams snap up old Mexican/European/(enter whatever nationality here) players from abroad who were actually taught how to play soccer. Hope my ramblings make some sense. AS says I look at the 2011 Philadelphia Union and see a team that tried to play the right way and got taken apart in the playoffs by a bigger, more “jungle ball”-ing Houston Dynamo. They since tried to fix that problem and we all know how that went in 2012. At the end of the day, pro sports is about winning. Are there any examples of MLS teams who have won playing the “right” (non-jungle) way? If not, why not? Jacques Pelham says I’ll disagree with you slightly here AS (or maybe just take it in a slightly different direction). Winning is an obvious metric to judge progress or relative quality, no doubt. But pro sports is primarily about $ and finding ways to take the on-field product and monetize it. Nowadays, the golden geese of professional sports are television rights contracts. MLS owners dream of an NFL or even NBA size national TV and sponsorship deal. The NBA’s national TV and sponsorship revenue sharing agreement sends, at a minimum, about $30 million to each team. In comparison, MLS’s TV revenue and sponsorship probably comes out to about $30 million for the entire league (this is a rough estimate, MLS/SUM doesn’t publish the numbers). The NFL and NBA can command significantly more TV money because more people watch those leagues than the MLS. Why don’t more people watch MLS? For a number of reasons, but the most obvious is that the on-field product isn’t worth sitting down and watching when the games are on, especially when higher quality soccer is a click away. Even a novice fan can turn on MLS and see that it looks like total chaos compared to most La Liga, Serie A and even Barclay’s Premier League games (I’d argue that some fans watch Premier League games for the atmosphere alone regardless of the quality of football, heck I include myself in that group). Why would I pay for the infrastructure necessary to watch Toronto F.C. and Philadelphia when I can go down the street and watch a San Francisco men’s league game played at about the same level (with several ex-MLS guys in fact) for free? Many of your points are well taken (though I would differ as to the quality of MLS play or the benefit of supporting a local team (together with its infrastructure)). However, the point of this article, and the blog in general, is to argue for a particular style of play. It sounds like what you are saying is that the style of play is irrelevant if the caliber of the players isn’t higher. Good point AS! I think if you check out my blog or look at the stuff I’ve written for 3four3 you’ll see that Gary and I are pretty aligned when it’s comes to ideology and assessment of the state of footballing competence within MLS and USSF leadership. The point I’m trying to make here has to do with identifying a pretty big disconnect between MLS owners and the coaches/technical staff (who are all pretty much purveyors of the jungle ball Gary describes) they have hired. I’m sure it’s sort of satisfying for MLS owners to dominate MLS or win an MLS trophy. But it seems to me that it would a lot more satisfying if they actually made a profit. Fans want to see a show in exchange for tuning in or paying for admission and for most soccer fans that means professional displays of technical and tactical competence on par with or at least in the model of gold standard clubs like Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. MLS is delivering an inferior product (coaches, players, playing styles etc…) and the primary result is that fans have chosen not to engage with the league at a level that would make it profitable. The players necessary to develop a better product already exist in the U.S. Unfortunately, the current coaching infrastructure at the professional/pre-professional level has largely overlooked them on account of their own incompetence. MLS’s incentive structure is still pretty screwed up, but the profit motive still exists. I’m just hoping at least one MLS owner will figure this out and take the steps necessary to lead the MLS towards progress. I have my fingers crossed for Merrit Paulson/Caleb Porter in Portland. There is a common theme we here from Gary, that you are repeating here regarding MLS. That the problem is not a lack of quality players, but rather that bad management and bad coaching is leading to the selection of the wrong players. I personally have a problem with this. I believe that the problem with MLS is actually a lack of skilled players. Speed and athletics easily beat skill, if the skill level is not high enough. At the higher end leagues, players don’t pressure the ball, because they know that if they do, they will get beat by a skilled move or a skilled pass. In MLS, players pressure the ball because it works. An un-skilled player knows this, so they get rid of the ball quickly and safely. A short, un-skilled pass is trouble. A long 50/50 ball is safe. MLS teams pressure? I am yet to see it happen. Certainly not in any concerted way. Gary, when does the barca usa curriculum come out? oscar vega says Jacques Pelham: hey wassup man I live in San Francisco as well. Do you play in the SFSFL. SDW says Totally agree. While ball winning is important…you cannot have an entire team of them…but too many coaches and teams do. Being “scrappy” , “fighter” to many coaches is paramount for all players at al positions. I remember at a high school soccer all state selection meeting, a coach came in with all types of player stats….and one was 50/50 balls won for his players….you can guess how his team played. I remember the Real Madrid squad from a decade ago full of galacticos….but in my opinion one key player was Claude Makele…he allowed Figo and Zidane and Raul and others to do what they do. It kills me every time the US National Team has three ball winners in center of midfield….ridiculous. We can win the hell out of the ball…and have many, many opportunities to because we never have it! ThiKu says MLS player selections are ridiculous. It’s going to take 1 coach, 1 GM, and 1 owner to drastically change the approach and have success for any of the others to follow. Until then the HG signings will continue to flounder, and the college draft will continue to be trumpeted and guys like Mattocks will still get the top spot in 24 under 24. Yes, I am a huge Whitecaps fan and still say there is NO WAY Mattock is #1 under 24. Not by a county mile. VIllanueva – outstanding technical player. There are others as well who are way ahead. Youth soccer jungle ball? YEP! I’ve got 2 tiny little technical players. They are 11. They have NO CHANCE in our “elite” league. (elite simply equals the top tier in their region – it’s not “elite” compared to the gold standard – my own team included.) They’ll be just fine come 14 or so, but until then…..I worry about them physically and mentally. This isn’t to say the rest of my team is some fantastic gold standard team. I do go watch the league two tiers down where my other team plays that also had a lot of smaller guys, and the opponents in that league tend NOT to have small players either. So I am uncertain where they all are! Not playing sports??? I may be biased, but to me, the Red Bulls are playing possession soccer, could be why there’s so few Americans in their starting 11. Henry demands it… he can win balls but he wants the build up so he can do his magic with passes and through balls. I think Seattle plays on the ground mostly too. But most of the MLS is jungle ball. ThiKu, I hear you regarding the jungle ball in youth soccer. My son’s U10 team has a number of smaller, quick, techincal players and we rotinely battle much bigger teams. It’s not hard to see when a coach selects his players based on size and aggressiveness – a perfect fit for the jungle ball style. Their primary “tactic” is to hoof a long ball over the top and try to outrun and outshove the opponent for a 50-50 balls. By the way, from a parent’s prospective, hats off to you because you care about your players, particularly those who struggle – many coaches don’t. In terms of physical play, I think the size is less important than the attitude. Some of our smallest players are feisty and relentless in fighting for the ball and do really well in 50-50 balls against much bigger opponents. When we line up next to our opponents pregame, the parents usually chuckle because our players are so much smaller. My son’s coaches understand that the team will not win many games playing the jungle ball so they try to beat the opponent with passing, quickness and skill. When they move the ball well, it is a lot of fun to watch. They have their ups and downs, but I feel they are developing better as players than the kids who play kick and run style. I do feel that the US youth soccer is behind the top soccer countries in terms of tactical understanding of the game. I recently read an interview with Messi, where he said “Just yesterday I was watching the seven-year-old boys training beside us. They were being taught to play with the ball, to look after it, tactical things, how to understand the game. They were playing just like us. It still surprises me.” I wonder why the prevailing view in this country is that tactical things should not be taught in soccer until later age groups? One explanation I heard that the kids are less savy than their European or South American counterparts because they don’t watch soccer regularly. I generally agree that the kids here do not watch enough soccer, but this would seem to make the need to develop their soccer brains even more accute. Pushing this development off to later ages would seem to exacerbate the problem. If Spanish coaches teach tactics and understanding of the game to seven year olds and on, and we largely delay this to U12s or later, our U12 youth players are at least five years behind Spanish kids of similar age. Of course, if the prevalent style is the jungle ball, why bother with developing the soccer brains? A couch can simply select the athletes, who are best in this style, and have a winning season with very happy parents and very little risk taking. You ask why we don’t teach tactics to younger players. The same reason we don’t teach any real tactics to older players, too many US “couches” (your typo is actually quite profound) lack the skill and know how to teach these things to our kids. I watched the “best” U14 boys team in the state of Oregon over the weekend. (Best based on standings in the tables of the OPL) They were average and consistent at best. They won because they were the more athletic team and because sadly the other team displayed poor ball skills and decision making for a team in the top flight. R2Dad says Just finished reffing a class 3 tournament, and am appalled as these kids throw themselves at every tackle to win the ball, only to turn it over with the next touch. I’m surprised there aren’t more injuries with all these punts and 50/50 balls. The GU14 final had 4 girls down in the first 30 minutes, and none of them came out despite the tears and pain. Our local league only offers Rec up to U14, but kick and run Rec coaches have migrated to class 3 travel teams and unwitting parents who don’t know better buy in to this. The bad news is that not only will your kid not play in college, they may not even play on their high school team and no one knows better until it’s too late. The real shame is the class 1 wanna-be teams, which can never hold possession but retain players with real potential but never develop their decision-making skills and passing ability. Where are all the ex-pro youth coaches? Even the hispanic teams, which play a more skillful version of kick and run–can’t retain possession. There are 2 possession-oriented boys coaches in my area: one doesn’t have a team at my kid’s age group and the other (Zack Ibsen) just left. Is Class 3 the top level where you live? Man, I wish every province in Canada used the same names and every state in USA used the same names for their leagues! Ex-pro’s? Prob running their own academies, coachin in pro youth clubs, retired, or simply living elsewhere. There are plenty of ex-pro’s where I live, for example. Every club here has a few that generally are all trying their best to promote a skillfull game. Not say we achieve it necessarily! (I am not an ex-pro). No, class 1 is the top, class 3 is a less competitive/skilled travel team, class 4 is Rec. Everyone wants to referee class 1, but the class 3 matches actually need better referees to protect these kids from themselves… You are assuming ex-pros will teach quality soccer. If what they played jungle ball in the pros you can pretty much expect them to carry that torch forward and teach jungle ball to their students. You mention rec coaching coaching lower flight competitive. Tons of clubs do this all over the USA. Why charge a kid $75 for a soccer season when you can charge that same kid $500 for the same coach, the same team and the same quality of games. That is how clubs increase their revenue. They are not really worried about player development. They are worried about revenue. Dr Loco says Our team recently played a tournament. We went all the way to the finals and lost. After the 1st game the refs came over and were amazed at the level of our soccer. 2nd game was more of the same. Our possession game was impressive against weaker teams. 3rd game was brutal against quick, physical players winning most 50/50 balls. So far only 1 goal scored against. 4th game 4 goals scored against. Players were fighting to death for the ball and pressuring us constantly. Kids coming off the field every 5min hurt or bloodied. We could not control the game since it was too fast and physical. The entire tournament we only played with 1 extra player with no injuries. Other teams need 3-4 extra players due to injuries and fatigue like hockey or football. The same refs from the 1st game congratulated me and said keep playing the way you do out the back. What sucks the most is our players and parents do not understand the beauty of our team. We are doing it the correct way but it seems they don’t really care. They just want wins no matter what. Congrats on making to finals! However, I think many believe technical soccer/possession soccer is a weaker and more fragile style of soccer that is in some way also less aggressive on the ball. Most teams can pass around weaker competition. You should not be awarded a medal or prize for stringing together 10 passes against “rec” teams. I’m not saying you did but you did indicate they were a much weaker side. You struggled against better athletes because your kids possibly didn’t move well without the ball, move into space correctly, didn’t support when necessary. They can’t foul what they can’t catch. I get jungle ball is often hard to beat at young ages because the kids aren’t as comfortable on the ball as a more mature player should be. A bad first touch will cause problems even at the highest level. Sounds like you’re doing a great job so keep it up. But the wrong message is being sent if a small technical player believes that shouldn’t be in each and every 50/50 ball with the same fight as the “athletic” kid. Our team tries not to foul because I don’t want players getting hurt (only 1 sub). One time we play an entire tournament with no subs or 1 man down and made it to the finals. 50/50 balls are mainly won by “athletic” kids good at jungle ball so we let them and wait for them to hock it up the field to regain possession. We want to use our intelligence. “It’s science, it’s tactical, it’s choreographed.” I’ve read many of your intelligent posts on this blog and agree with much. I must disagree with you completely on this issue. “50/50 balls are mainly won by “athletic” kids good at jungle ball”, this is complete nonsense. I have many smaller players winning balls with intelligence, spped, and most of all anticipation. I could never coach a player to let another win a ball so we could “tactically” win it later down the field. I would rather play down a player than tell a player something like that. So is messi “athletic”? Have you ever seen him fight for a ball like it’s last time he might ever play again? Can someone please define “athletic” for me! I have players that are small but technically gifted or some would say through hard work and dedication very comfortable with the ball. They also fight like starving dogs to win and possession of the ball. Are they not intelligent? Arsenal Fan says Tim, well said. Soccer is more than just what is being talked about here, think we are forgetting about the passion of the game, and nothing to me highlights that more than a competition for a 50/50 ball in a crucial passage of the the game. You have to understand that many of our players have slow pure speed and slow mental speed. They have not learned how to anticipate the ball well. Unless we have a good chance of winning a 50/50 ball there is not a big risk in letting the other team take it. We try to play a controlled, relaxed game. It totally depends on the players you have on your team. A big problem I see in youth and college sports is ‘unlimited’ substitutions. I have to protect the players and manage them for an entire game. If I lose a player due to injury because I want them to die for every 50/50 ball then the team suffers. Yes, we fight to keep and regain possession but intelligently not recklessly like jungle ball — “ can be dangerous as several players may go for the same ball” I agree with your sentiments about 50/50 balls 🙂 What about winning 1st balls & 2nd balls; where a lot of 2nd balls can be attributed to the team shape? Have you shared this blog with the parents on your team? Educating parents who may have many different levels of soccer savvy can be challenging. Not only does Gary do a great job of distilling down the important issues, but the comments provide lots of addition angles at looking at the problem. There are nuggets of knowledge for everyone here. Dr. Loco, My son and I often talk about desire to play better teams since they try to play properly. We find some established clubs and many upstarts (smaller clubs) playing to hurt someone rather than football. And almost always refs let it happen. They allow games to get out of hand. Then like to red card coach or player who says anything. It’s not just bad coaching, it’s referees as well that enable jungle ball. On my son’s team, the better players are smaller and not physical. It jungle ball, the coach puts in the linebackers and jungle ball ratchets up. He doesn’t like to do that, but he’s protecting players. And he’s given up on refs. Unfortunately, Kana, there are plenty of marginal referees out there who forget the primary role of the job is to protect the players. It’s difficult to change leagues, but the least you can do is steer away from tournaments that have a reputation for poor refereeing. Don’t forget to ask your coach, team manager and club director the next time they sign you up for a tournament–that’s information they should know and should be able to tell you. re: inadequate center referees, there are a few warning signs: 1) The 3 Step Ref – will only take 3 steps outside of the center circle when officiating a match–misses calls because he/she didn’t bring the telescope 2) Homer Simpson – grossly out of shape ref, maybe in the distant past used to be a grade 7 or 6 but now cannot run so cannot get close to the action. Still insists on refereeing U16+ boys matches because he’s buddies with the assignor. You’re always afraid he’ll keel over during your match. 3) Mr. Old School – despite USSF’s drive to keep everyone fit and up to speed on developments in the Laws Of The Game, this guy thinks fondly back to the Premier League of the 70s when a tackle that required a splint and an IV was just getting stuck-in. 4) Mr. Solo – so used to doing solo matches that he (it’s always a he) never looks at his ARs, who might as well be knitting on the sidelines. 5) Mr. Whistle – usually very young referees will exhibit this trait but occasionally adults who like attention will look for any reason to use the whistle. 200 times per match is not uncommon. Fine for U8 Rec matches but little else. 6) It’s All About Me Referee – related to Mr. Whistle, this referee wants a close personal relationship with the coaches and players but not ARs. Narcissistic and tyrannical, will bend the laws of the game to suit his mood. Absolutely ruins matches for everyone. 7) Mr. Foreign Language – Referee who forgets or gets sucked into discussions in his native language, thereby inadvertently aligning himself with one team over another. Brawl(s) ensue. Police are called to protect players and fans from each other. 8) Mr. Oblivion – coasts through matches without a care, blatant fouls begetting blatant fouls. Likes to “let them play”. Kids often require stitches. Police are called to escort referee to safety. 9) Mr. Card – Nary a word is spoken before the first of many cards come out. Often threatens to call/abandon matches if you don’t do as he says. “it’s referees as well that enable jungle ball.” This is the best experience so far. We play many top quality games as friendlies. No refs. The players follow the rules in honesty. You should see how much fun the players have and how clean/fluid the game is. There is no fighting or complaining over who kicked the ball out or fouls, handballs, etc. The players involved know exactly so no refs needed. Refs fees are huge! No need to pay them. On issues with refs: We had a brutal game in our tournament this last weekend – lost two kids to injures and just about everyone was bleeding from stupid tackles after the game. I think it is the responsibility of the coach and parents to keep their kids under control as much as the ref. Most of the refs are young kids just learning how to ref. The adults should take some responsibility and keep their kids under control. When kids are getting hit 3 seconds after the ball is gone and elbows to the face it’s more then a 13 or 15 year old referee can be expected to handle. I kept my boys calm through the game and yelled at my parents across the field to shut it! We ended up winning 4-0, by playing great possession soccer. The other coach came up to me and said he wanted his team to play like mine. I was thinking – you could start with stop trying to kill people. All joking aside that coach will probably re-think his tactics after that game, because he lost. We need people to win the “right way” if we want to change youth soccer. Wow, never thought of it in this way. “jungle ball”, brilliant name for the style we so often watch on weekends and then unfortunately again watching MLS on television. I was just discussing with a friend how violent soccer appears to be in America compared to most international play. Yes the EPL and other leagues play aggressive and hard with many “professional fouls”, but it doesn’t appear with the same intent to injure and take a player out of a tournament as we see here begining as early as u12. I could be wrong but that’s what i see. The only way this will change is when parents are educated and when “jungle ball” is no longer an effective way to win a soccer game. However, we live in a country of “winning” and as long as “jungle ball” is successful on weekends and the trophy shelf is full, it might just be here to stay. “jungle ball” ….bunch of monkeys kicking the ball http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jungle%20ball Chad says I often blog on other soccer sites on articles on the USMNT. My stance is always that we can do better, be better, that we should be developing creative players rather than juggernauts, that we choose the wrong players to develop, etc. 9 times out of 10 people call me a ‘troll’ and tell me I do not know shit about soccer. And the main argument they have against me is, “if we are so terrible at soccer, then why did we beat Spain 2-0?” Beating Spain that one, and only one, time has been the worst thing we could have done as a soccer nation because it has given the ‘soccer retarded’ a basis for arguing for the shit soccer we see every time the USMNT takes the field. These are the same people that are proud that we crushed Scotland this year, that we lucked out and beat Mexico in a friendly, and “dominated” Jamaica in last month’s WC quals. These people are the trolls and US soccer is geared toward making these guys happy rather than making people who comment on sites like this happy, who probably are not proud or excited about beating Scotland 5-0. The marathon continues… Jim Froehlich says Know exactly what you mean. This site is one of a kind. SBI and MLS Talk are absolutely pathetic. There’s a lot of focus here on what style or brand of soccer of soccer ought to be the goal. As Gary says “Global gold standard football is a science, it’s tactical, it’s choreographed.” Let’s assume that this is way to coach a team. My question is what do you tell your 11, 12 or 13-year old boys when they lose a game trying to play the “gold standard” way. When bigger, stronger, faster, more aggressive boys succeed by pushing them off the ball, dominating balls in the air and knocking them to the ground every time they try to possess the ball in midfield? Do you tell them, don’t worry about losing 5-0, we are pursuing the “gold standard”? You/re making an assumption that the gold standard can’t beat jungle ball if the other team is quicker and bigger. I don’t see evidence of that. Plus 50/50 ball is ugly. Of course they should stick to the gold standard. You always play YOUR style… the complexity comes when you have to adjust it to the opponents weaknesses. That takes good coaching at youth and probably all levels. Arsenal year in and year out are in the top 4 in the EPL, they always play their style. They usually have the smaller more technical team on the field. They signed Cazorla he’s 5’7 max, he’s already making a huge mark on the team. How else are you supposed to play against a more physically imposing team? Perhaps I’m showing my weakness as a coach, but I have seen time and time again that our team, which is mostly average size and average athleticism, can dribble and pass rings around comparable boys, but do get pushed around and beaten by stronger, faster, bigger kids. I’m not saying they are fouling or cheating, I’m just saying our possession game wilts in the face of pressure by superior athletes. They can’t push you off the ball if you don’t have the ball when they get to you. Their team play has to improve. It’s that simple. If you’re passing around them you shouldn’t be losing. If they’re dribbling and getting pushed off the ball… they’re dribbling to long. My son’s team just got beat by a team because they didn’t pass well enough, not good enough by a mile, the coach’s response was conditioning training because they were running out of steam. Bad sign, they ran out of steam because they couldn’t hold onto possession and were constantly trying to win the ball back. Pisses me off that the coach thinks it’s the players… and not the lack of team cohesion, the blame is really on the coach. ” I’m just saying our possession game wilts in the face of pressure by superior athletes.” I see the same thing. I also have noticed that the few possession teams out there have average players competing at silver/bronze level. Fast, athletic kids play premier/gold level. I recommend you keep the team at a lower level until they master technical/tactical skills required to win against superior athletes. Parents might not like it. I tell my players it’s better to lose playing well than win an ugly game. I’m sure parents just hate and blame the coach. “The hardest thing for any coach is to realize that players and parents aren’t the coach’s “friends”, that the coach does not own the team, and that the coach is responsible for the technical, tactical, physical, and mental development of the team.” AS, it’s a tough one. It is very hard for the kids, parents and coaches to swallow a lopsided loss, when the team was physically overwhelmed. If your kids gave good effort, you can tell them that they lost to a very strong and physical team and that they lost because the opposing team was able to disrupt their possession game. Tell them that they need to continue to work on their their ball skills and teamwork to be able to move the ball faster and break the pressure even against fast, athletic teams like this. Perhaps playing possession games on smaller fields would help because smaller spaces will force your players to be more comfortable under pressure (which will arrive much faster on small fields – sort of like what the fast team did to your boys) and move the ball faster. You have to stay true to your philosophy, if you are convinced it is the right one. I agree with Steve that your question contained a questionable assumption about jungle ball leading to better results and perhaps you did not mean it this way. Your boys with average speed, size and athleticism will not beat a physically dominant athletic team by playing the jungle ball style. It would be suicidal to try to play it. Your team could have been blown out 15-0 if it tried to do it. Trying to play out of the back under pressure may have cost your team a couple of goals, but I don’t think that hoofing the boy downfield against bigger, stronger, faster opposition would have been a smarter tactic. Thanks, MG. You and Steve have it exactly. I’m really not suggesting we try to play any way other than the right, skillful, possession-oriented way. Trust me, I’ve seen what happens when the boys abandon that base and try to boot and bash against a high pressure group of stronger athletes. As you say, it gets worse not better. I tell the boys, “there is no plan B”, and I really believe it. But we sure do take some lumps from time to time and I really feel for the boys when that happens. Good point with making the possession space smaller. I’m working through similar stuff with speed of play. making the space smaller will help the technical side, but the smaller space won’t force players to move off the ball to support, like they must do on the big field(tactical side). This is a huge issue – timing and anticipation of support angles for possession. What would you do to work on that aspect? Alec, I think you are asking the right kinds of questions, but an answer that fits one team/kid’s situation might be a wrong answer for another team/kid. This is where the art of coaching comes in. The basic principles of supporting a player who has the ball should work on both small and big fields (althought the field size may present different challenges to the players). Also, as you noted, the size of the field alone will not them more tactically savvy with their positioning and angles. You should study your team carefully (maybe even tape them) and identify what specific issues cause the problems for your team’s supporting play (e.g. tendency to run forward instead of support, not moving without the ball, etc.). Once you’ve identified these issues, you can start addressing them. You can try to use possession games as a teaching tool, but keep things simple so the kids are not flooded with two much information. Just pick one thing that you want to teach them at a particular practice session, feed them small amounts of information without talking for too long, and have them work on this issue until they do it well. You probably already explained them the general principles of support and positioning, but you would have to work on the details and that is the hard part. Give the the kids some guidance, but also let them make their own decisions on the field. When you teach them to play out of the back on the goal kicks, for example, you can show your left defender what options he might have for passing the ball (left mid, central mid, keeper, etc), but let him decide what option is the best once the ball is in play. As a disclaimer, there are coaches on this board that are more qualified to help you with advice. Yup, exactly what you tell them! I coach a U12 Gold level team and we have played 3 games and lost everyone by one goal, (competitive games). We have lost to the “jungle ball” teams, physical, direct, maybe two passes and then vertically down to the big man up front. It’s terrible and drives me insane. In all three games, we had possession about 75%, outchanced opponent, switching balls from side to side, etc…. the referree and parents from other team came up to me after the game saying how impressed they were with the style of play of our team. in one game, the other coach asked, “how do you get them to pass like that?” The players know this is not about results, right from the first training session, yes they are upset that they lost, but they know that they ar part of a project. the project is for me to give me them as much as I can to teach them the game so when they try out for the highest level in the Spring (we have a top tier starting U13 in our province), they have a much better chance of making…..that to me is development! The coach at the tryout will not ask each player, “did you come in first last season?” “What was your record?” how many goals did you score?” it does not matter, what matters is how that player shows his technical ability, soccer IQ, how he/she processes decisions, etc…. when they are trying to make it. If you have a team of 11 players and more than half of them make the highest level the following, you have succeeded as a coach. as a nation, we seem to be swinging back and forth .. like a pendulum. do we focus on development (player & team) vs winning (team)? do we develop the “player” or the “team”? do the coaches select 1 position for the player (team-oriented) vs more than 1 (player)? do we put the big strong players in the attack (player) or on defense (team & other smaller skillful players)? do we teach zonal marking (team shape) or allow for interchange & fluidity in the movement (player)? do we focus on technique (player) vs tactics (player & team)? do we focus on individual dribbling (individual attacking) vs passing (team-oriented)? Since this blog has a lot Barca followers, I will say Barca philosophy is focused on the team oriented passing skills first & foremost; then the individual brilliance .. in that order! Yes, we are lost as a nation. Too many cooks in the kitchen making crap. No common culture, language, traditions, religion. It’s like presidents – democrats and republicans always swinging back and forth. Meh. All over rated. Especially religion. Diversity can be a strength. Have you coached a team with players from different religions? Please explain how religion does not affect a team. I have. It wasn’t an issue. I take that back… the more religious missed games going to sunday school and church. It was an issue for them. Not for the team or me. I agree, but what’s interesting is that all of us coaches are here at this blog. Why are we here? WE are here because Brian and Gary have found a way to WIN, with a totally dominate style of possession soccer. If they didn’t win, but they talked about playing like Barcelona, we would all laugh at them. Winning changes everything and they have found a way to win. They have broken the glass ceiling and now there are no more excuses for coaches. Yeah it’s really hard and it takes more effort to learn a totally new system. It is a far more complex system then juggle ball, so it’s going to take more effort to learn. But it leads to total domination if you learn it well. “They have broken the glass ceiling and now there are no more excuses for coaches.” Well said Alec! Pre- Brian and Gary it would have been easy to quit. Damn! I love you and hate you for it. 🙂 I wish Alec. The excuses keep on coming. When threatened, the creativity of the rational mind knows no bounds. Totally, Gary. Too many of the games I watch — youth games, not of my team and Serie A 😉 are “jungle ball”. I see it as a bunch of chaos until some kid, near the opponent’s goal, makes sense of the ball (controls it). I HATE seeing actions on the field that have no idea behind it and too often this is the case in the US. goddy says how many kids in your program have been called up to youth national teams…any? What’s the point of your question? Have you coached or trained anyone who has been called up at any level of the national program? are you joking here because I thought the purpose of this blog was to change the status quo. IMO, that includes any US coach that is satisfied with US college &/or MLS quality player development. Exactly… making it to the national program isn’t exactly the climax of a career… that’s why players go over seas. To get better coaching and better competition. That’s telling. Making it to the national team at your age level is a climax at that age level. So, have you trained or coached someone who has made to any level of the youth national team?…simple question! Goddy, if you ask people if they coached anyone who made it to the national level at their age, you may have missed the entire point of Gary’s post. Let me repeat one of his statements: “When it’s crunch time – when it really matters – what players are selected across the US Soccer pyramid? Those who are among the best at 50/50 jungle ball soccer!” Was the USSF after Ben Ledermann before FC Barcelona invited him to join their academy (the very same academy that produced Messi, Xavi, Iniesta)? Gary’s and Brian’s kids are making a small dent in the current system (and their success starts getting more attention), but the jungle ball continues to rule at all levels of US Soccer pyramid. People, who post on this blog, are mostly regular folks with diverse backgrounds (coaches, parents, players) who want to change the status quo in the US soccer at the grass roots level. I get your point, but Lederman was about 10 years old or so when he went to Barca. Why would USSF “be after” him at that age?? Canada has made the same mistake. A player from Ontario completely ignored. He played on high level teams and won a few provincial cups, to give you an idea. But never considered for Ontario provincial team or the TFC academy. He was starting in the Russian Premier League at age 18-19, and now is allotted one of the very limited foreign spots in the Lithuanian league. Not a huge level, Lithuania, but a technical one, and he’s still only 19 or so. It happens up north too, and no doubt happens in every country around the world. But the problem comes in Canada and USA in this regard because we don’t have the critical masse of players and coaches to cover-up those missed selections. For the same reason, they invited four players from Barcelona FC USA U11 team to participate in the national team training camp this summer. Ben was invited too, although he is obviously older now. Things are starting to change a bit, but it’s only a drop in the bucket. ThiKu, I agree with you that the US and Canada lack the “critical mass” of properly developed players (you need a good number of clubs teaching and developing the kids properly to achieve it), but I also think that people, who make selections for the Academies, State, Regional, and National youth teams, might not be using the right set of criteria so the missed selections might be more of a systemic issue. Yes! What’s your point? No I am not joking but rather asking a simple question. Have you done it or not ? Yes – she leaves for her fourth camp in 3 weeks. Now what? 90% or more of kids I know of are in ODP or called to National tryout out due to size. Average players who are man-child types. Skill, smarts, tactical should be size agnostic . . . but in USA it’s the primary test of a player’s potential. Lets try not to swing the pendulum too far in the other direction when making statements such as ^This. e.g., Pique & Busquets are tall. So is Ibra & Torres; They all all World Class players of Gold Standard quality. Hall97 says None of this should surprise any of us. First thing you have to understand is that youth clubs are not in the business of developing players. It is a ‘factory’ that churns out the “youth soccer experience”. It’s always easier to take shortcuts. Second, I came to the realization a while ago that I alone am responsible for my son’s development as an individual player. So I have spent thousands of hours studying, reading and watching the game. I try to learn something new every day. I think too many people confuse possession and ‘creative’ play. Possession is largely unselfishness on the individual player’s part. (Lots of movement without the ball and simple 1 and 2 touch passing.) Encouraging ‘creative play’ all too often promotes selfish play. The kid with all the skill in the world but loses the ball due to piss poor decisionmaking. Skill without the appropriate decisionmaking is worthless. And when it comes to player selection, the 2 players ‘identified’ the most are what I call the ‘dribblitos’ and the ‘manchildren’. Big, strong, but technically and tactically dumb defenders. And the kid who can do every Ronaldo move but yet can’t make it happen when it matters. The tactically smart, “simple” players are the ones overlooked. But isn’t there a place on every team for the dribbilitos AND manchildren AND tacticians IF they are ALL tactically trained?? Barca has its athletic beasts (imagine going against Puyols in the box on a corner) and Messi is a primo dribbilito at times BUT they all have the tactical knowledge to play together and exploit their strengths for the team. Again the issue goes back to quality coaches who can teach tactics. “But isn’t there a place on every team for the dribbilitos AND manchildren AND tacticians” From my experiences at the youth level no, not on the same team. Generally speaking man-children go to premier teams, tacticians gold teams, and dribbiliots to silver teams. Something like that. There is no intelligent thought in selecting players for youth teams. You’re right, Dr. Loco. But all too often these kids are encouraged to rely only on their “strengths” in order to achieve a result. The coaches enable them by encouraging them to play selfishly and even recklessly. I’m not against teaching players to get ‘stuck in’ and otherwise fight for the ball. (They have to learn sooner or later.) But they first need to learn to control the ball properly and pass. In other words, to keep possession should come first. I see this happening with the coaches in our area. many competitive teams are stocked with hispanic players, coached by an hispanic guy (I’ve seen just 2 female hispanic coaches). these coaches are not teaching the 4-3-3, are not teaching possession–they seem to revert to the style of their homeland rather than embrace claudio’s strictures. they never play out of the back, and there are no negative consequences as long as they can find some big lugs to hoof it out of the back. i’d like to see all class 1 tournaments limit to 3 the substitutions allowed–at least after the group stages– in order NOT to reward the high-pressure, kick-it-to-the-big-tall-fast kid type teams. can claudio & sunil insist on that? i can’t believe we still allow unlimited subs at the highest levels of youth soccer. are we the only country that does? “i can’t believe we still allow unlimited subs at the highest levels of youth soccer.” Yeah, right. That’s what I mentioned above. Unlimited subs hinders the development of players by not allowing them to learn how to conserve their energy, play intelligently, play under physical/mental exhaustion, the brain is not trained to deal with the stress of a full match. US players appear to always be looking for a “time-out” or “lifeline” when in trouble. Alberto says First of all, Hall: man-child, driblito? Muy bien! You nailed it. ASO, I see what you are getting at, but I think that is a false choice. Tacticians, man-children, and dribilitos are not mutually exclusive. You can have a big kid who is an excellent dribbler and a great tactician. (His name could be Busquets, or Torres.) You can also have kids that are short, slow, and stupid. Nature can be cruel. One of our main coaching problems is precisely that we do not INSIST that everyone play the right way, regardless of his alleged individual gift. If you try to develop a team that is tactically sophisticated, you shouldn’t need to pay attention to distracting questions such as, “do I have enough mindless dribblers? Do I have enough man-children headless chickens?” You simple work to get all your players to play the right way, and if you have the opportunity to switch out the ones who don’t get it for ones that do, you do it, regardless of their physical attributes. By the way, on a related matter, this false choice also comes up in discussions about our national team with their clueless fans. You often hear how US players are such “great athletes”, and if we could just play a bit better we would rule. Excuse me: what makes you think that other countries aren’t already doing that? Do you think that to get to the top of the pyramid in Holland, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, etc. you can be non-athletic? Let me tell you, the vast majority of those guys have it all. Do the athlete-worshiping US fans really think our soccer “athletes” are more athletic than those other soccer players? Or is it just that the others don’t have to rely exclusively on their athleticism to resolve soccer problems on the field? BINGO! a voice of reason 🙂 The last time I checked, the USMNT was lacking PACE on the outsides. I thought the USA was a country of superior athletes e.g., PACE. In pursuit of the players with good technique we seem to have wrongfully spend the pendulum too far in the other direction. p.s., sorry Gary for using the word “PACE” in bold even 🙂 I would not come to that same conclusion. My logic would be: Our fastest athletes in the US are black/of African extraction. There are very few black Americans playing soccer. If we increased the number of black players, perhaps we would have enough candidates with the pace you say we so desperately need a that position. Just another way of thinking about this issue. R2Dad, I see plenty of black players on the youth national teams. Some of them are good. Some aren’t. I don’t necessarily think that having more blacks playing soccer will automatically make the US better. Further, I would say the racial makeup of foreign leagues is fairly balanced. You tend to see a higher percentage of black players in France’s Ligue 1. Not sure why except that perhaps this has something to do with the number of immigrants from former French African colonies/protectorates. I’ve always held the belief that, to make it to the highest level, a player has to have the right ‘mix’ of technical, tactical AND physical gifts. Most players are going to be stronger in certain areas and weaker in others.It really comes down to position. You aren’t going to play fullback for Arsenal unless you have exceptional speed. And you aren’t going to play central midfield for Barca if you don’t have exceptional vision/passing ability. (No matter how fast you are.) Because the majority of youth soccer in the states is built around results at all costs, you end up with one dimensional players. The other issue is that, by and large, the bulk of American players just don’t train enough on their own and/or play enough unstructured football. Coaching is certainly a factor, but the core issues are the ones I mentioned above. Most kids don’t want to spend 30-45 minutes or more working on their control or banging a ball off of a wall. Zidane, Platini, Best, et. al, did not receive “elite, high level tactical coaching” in their formative years. They didn’t join ‘pro’ clubs until they were 16 or older. What they did do was learn to play the game in a more ‘organic’ fashion. Out of necessity, I have taken that same approach (as much as it can be where I live) with my own son. We are 200+ miles from the nearest DA club. And, with the exceptiion of FC Dallas, I don’t think any of these DA teams can make him better anyway. The only thing they can offer is “exposure”. “Most kids don’t want to spend 30-45 minutes or more working on their control or banging a ball off of a wall” I have been pushing my U9 Son to do a set of drills – 30 minutes a day – mostly footwork for about a month. Even he can tell it’s working. There is a lot of talk about the 10,000 hr rule. As with most things 20% of the work get’s you to the 80% level. It takes the remaining 80% of the work to get you to 100%. Maybe we can’t convince our youth to go to 100%, but I’ll take 90% right now. We need to push for more time on the ball. This is the number one problem, and yes there is probably a parent, culture, coaching reason we are not doing it. Lack of pace is not the problem that plagues the US soccer. There are plenty of althletes with pace at all levels of US soccer, but they lack skill and intelligence to play at the highest levels. When at high school, Marvel Wynne ran 10.39 in a 100 meter dash, but putting him on the wing for the national team would be a disaster. I tried for a few years to watch MLS, but it’s crap! In mornings I would watch La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga — then catch an MLS game in evening and it was like a cold splash in the face. Many MLS players have basic dribbling skills and poor passing. But they are strong and fast and physical. This trickles down to college and youth soccer. Jungle ball that has metastasiized to infect coaching ranks across youth soccer. So what’s the cure? No. Have you? If yes, then how many? .. And please tell what is troubling you about this blog &/or user comments since it seems that you don’t agree with some of the user comments. Please be more specific. Sorry. My last post was directed to goddy in the above thread. Lothar says Larry, I’ve been reading this blog for a long while now, and all of the comments. I have coached a kid who was selected for the US women’s youth side, but helped to make her quit fighting over her playing for my team vs. another. You’re missing the point completely! i will die before I make a kid quit playing the game like that again, national team or anything else below it. I’m now coaching U8s and the parents are all so focused on winning every game that I struggle to even stay with it, and I even have one dad who actually did play a few MLS games and is quite the legend locally for the former A-League team. I played with and against him, but can not get him to stop “coaching” his son during games. Same goes for all of the other parents. They just won’t let their kids play and leave it at that. It’s a peculiar American thing and until and unless it changes, we will never be able to produce world-class players because the stupid parents think telling their kids what to do during games (whether they know what they’re talking about or not) is happening and it makes the kids “respond” to the parents, not what is happening around them on the field. The kids will literally look over at mom/dad while the ball is in play and even when they get it at their feet. I read all of this here for inspiration that things will change because I have been subjected to the whole “the best coaches get the best teams” mentality. That is, when my former U11s won a state title (not saying much in this state, but whatever) they were immediately taken from me the next season by the DOC/A-Licensed coach, who promptly won his first, only, and probably last state title with what I had produced before wrecking it all and making the kids play jungle ball where I had them playing the right way. The politics of it are, again, maddening, and luckily for me I’m at a small club now where I’m free to do what I want and the DOC lets me, yet I still have to argue with the parents that we should be “winning” at U8. Really? They don’t even have the mental focus to keep shape right now, but don’t you tell someone’s dad that his son who is “playing” center mid in a 2-1-2 shouldn’t be out on the wing collecting and distributing a ball or you’ll never hear the end of it. Or, “you need to put Player XYZ in goal because he knows what he’s doing and we won’t win otherwise!” Really? I played GK, and there isn’t a U8 I have ever seen who knows how to do it aside from being a great athlete, good with hands, and aggressive – those 3 things alone will define a “successful” keeper at a young age. Anyhow, just wanted to finally contribute something here. I’m on board with the site’s philosophy but am struggling and in the trenches with the ridiculous and frustrating demands of what youth coaching are here in the USA right now. I hear you Larry. Parents put me over the edge sometime too. Hold to your guns. Preach in season and out of season – the barcelona gospel. 🙂 Once you get the right parents and right kids – the sky will be the limit. I feel for you, Lothar. I’d like to see a side-by-side comparison of various parents from around the world (Brazil, France, Italy, US, etc) attending their kids U8 matches and how they behave. This could be a useful tool in shaming US parents into learning how to support their child’s game in an appropriate manner. Seriously, almost every parent here with U8 kids knows nothing of the game and it shows. If parents demanded possession, they would eventually get it. Too bad they don’t even know what Possession is….. DO: cheer, clap, and yell encouragement for skillful play not just goals DON’T: encourage them to Boot It, Kick It, Clear It or any other command to randomly react I tell my parents in our first parent meeting, “Cheer the result, not the action!”… And then I remind them on the sideline :). CoachJ says Lothar, You need to have a meeting or send out an email to the parents telling them, “There is absolutely NO coaching allowed from parents during matches. If you would like to coach, please feel free to take the necessary classes to become a qualified coach, find a team of your own, and coach away! But as for THIS team, you will not be permitted to “coach” ANY players on this team during matches. If you cannot control yourself, you will be asked to leave the field and you can watch the rest of the matches from the parking lot. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.” If they still continue to “coach”, have your assistant coach escort them to the parking lot. They will shut up then…….a little public humiliation usually does the trick! Please hang in there against the pushy parents. They drive other parents crazy too!! As a parent I am VERY grateful that my son’s coach has firmly mandated no instructions from the sidelines. In fact we all know that one parent is in risk of being banned from the games and chip in to remind him to can it when his emotions get the best of him. It completely changes the tone of the game and allows us to focus as a group on the good passes and runs that occur even in the face of the jungle ball teams. Also, we (the silent majority) are all rolling our eyes and truly feeling for you when “soccer expert dad” starts jawing about his precious snowflake after the game. We are all hoping you tell him to take a hike even if he takes his “star” player with him…. My recent favorite horrid parent remark was at a U7 rec game my son was refereeing. One kid was calling (appropriately) to another to pass the ball to him. The parent of the kid with the ball yelled “Don’t listen to him-you don’t have to do what he says!” CoachJ and ASO, Thanks for your support. However, I have in fact sent out (multiple) emails and had a parent meeting where I said no coaching from the sidelines. They ignore it, for whatever reason(s) they have, from the MLS dad down to the ghetto mom who hasn’t paid even the minimal fees for club dues (and I literally worked a club camp to pay for her son to be able to play this season). I just try and ignore it now and tell the boys to ignore their parents and just play, and if they get in trouble for ignoring their parents to let me or my assistant coach know, and we will then address the parent in question directly on the kid’s behalf. That said, last weekend a boy played a goal kick across the front of our goal that the he simply didn’t hit hard enough to get there in time to a teammate before an opponent took it in to score, putting us on the wrong side of the scoreline. The berating he got, loudly and in front of the entire park, from both of his parents was embarrassing for him and should have been for them also, but almost everyone “agreed” you should NEVER play the ball across the middle. Well, really? Where the fuck do you think the goal is, and how are you going to score if every damn pass should go to the wings? Idiots, all. I’m not a newbie to coaching, and it is, as I said, a peculiar American thing and a sign that we do not, as is often discussed here, have a/the “culture” to develop players properly. There is no quick fix for mom/dad yelling at their kid during games and even practices, no matter the number of emails I send or meetings we have. They simply continue doing it, and I truly feel sorry for their kids that they are so over-invested in the individual performance that they can’t see, let alone appreciate, the larger team performance and their son’s role in how it all comes together. I am trying to do it the right way, but between the clueless parents and the “superclubs” swooping and taking every player of ability for the money, I’m hard-pressed to keep doing this much longer. I must have a really good group of parents this year. We are on the wrong sides of the scoreline every week- but every kid is coming to practice eager and with a big smile. We have a long weekend coming up and it’s been a busy season so far so I gave them 2 of our 3 practices off and all the boys were upset. A lot of the parents speak a different language than I do so they may be coaching from the sideline, but it hasn’t been hampering the players’ enjoyment, nor their ability to learn from their mistakes. I did tell the parents pre-season that I am paid to be the coach so let me be the coach. I went on and on about coaching from the sidelines confusing the 11 year olds, and that they just want to please everyone so it makes life for difficult for them. I also told them they are free to apply to the club to coach the team if that is their desire. And I gave them the contact info of how to go about that application. Why are we losing? Not because we are trying something totally different than our opponents, not because we’re all much smaller. It’s a fairly enlightened league where most players and coaches are looking to try and play a good style of play, most of the time. We’re just not as good at this point in time as others at it. We’re also the smallest club in the league from a registration standpoint. Ie, we regularly play clubs with 5x the population to us. But we’re competing and improving and the gap will close! 🙂 But yes, it’s a cultural issue. Here’s where the problem is. In North America the dads and moms are watching football, basketball, and baseball all weekend – hockey too. So they think they know sports. Go watch an American football practice. See how many dads are out there coaching. Stopping and micromanaging every single moment. Then go watch a soccer practice and see how many are meekly off to the side loathe to help. ps-American footbal should be considered abusive for anyone under the age of 13-14!! 🙂 Pushups in full gear for 8 year olds? are you kidding me! “I’m hard-pressed to keep doing this much longer.” FUCK you sound just like me. Where do you coach? I had very similar experiences and had to leave the team because there was no discipline and every parent was out of control. Right now I have a team that I built from scratch with “good” parents but after 1 year they have started changing. The demands on winning are more. Parents want the so called best for their bratty kids so are starting to look for “bigger” clubs. Parents want, want, and want but they don’t realize they have the best already. Personally I am exhausted emotionally, psychologically, and economically. Gary, how long should a coach be involved with a particular team? I hear some coaches have been with the same team 8+ years but now I really do not believe it. It’s hard to imagine that I could coach the same team for more than 2 years. I do love developing players the right way but there is little patience among parents. Ideally I would like move on to high school and college players and leave the youth behind. My worries is without the youth developed properly what would I experience at the older ages? My suggestion is switch youth coach ever 2-3 years at the top level. At lower/rec levels it’s not much of an issue. But at the elite levels its good to expose the players to different methodologies – it’s up to the club to make sure the methodology does not contradict the philosophy of play, which we here of course all hope is a smarter, technical style. Well….you are assuming there are competent coaches what will take over. So should I leave and let another coach expose the players to “jungle ball”? ” they were immediately taken from me the next season by the DOC/A-Licensed coach, who promptly won his first, only, and probably last state title with what I had produced before wrecking it all and making the kids play jungle ball where I had them playing the right way.” Same shit happened although my DOC had no license and it was not a state title just some stupid league title. All the good work I did just wasted with jungle ball. Parents love it though so clubs still continue and good coaches flounder. http://therealyouthsoccer.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-older-youth-coaches-refuse-to.html “Why the older youth coaches refuse to mentor the younger youth coaches” “Oh, no we only hire coaches worse than the Director”. I feel like shit tonight! Besides the fact that I pulled my hammy, I feel terrible for causing aghast among the coaching ranks on this blog! Full disclosure on my part .. Is it that obvious that I’m just a virtual wannabe youth Development parent/coach for my only child ie son who is playing Both U10 norcal silver & bronze 2 this fall with 14 other players? Well it is true. I’m not in the trenches like a lot of you; though, I’m a Barca team oriented advocate at my son’s soccer academy. Sounds familiar?? “The ‘moneyball’ secrets of a successful lower-div team, as explained to me today (brace yourselves, Barca fans).. 1. Never pass back to keeper, hit the ball back up field 2. Never let keeper throw it out 3. Work constantly on set pieces…. 4. Create culture where shooting is the end, not possession 5. As many diagonal balls into box as poss 6. Work on shooting power.. 7. Press high to regain possession in attacking half 8. Don’t lose ball in your half, if in doubt, smash it down the middle That theory based on 75%+ goals in D2 scored from <3 passes, 50%+ scored from <1, 9 shots=1 Follow the rules, or so theory goes, & you'll get 150 'possessions' in shooting range, take 20+ shots, score 2+ goals & win 92pts! I didn't say it was my theory! But I'm enjoying your guesses at which team tried it…let's be honest, it's about half of them The Moneyballer ended by quoting Bob Paisley: "I don't care if it's a long ball or a short ball, as long as it's the right ball" As vexed as I was by this, it's Trevor Brooking I worry about. A decade's work totally ignored by the 'practitioners' he appeals to By Matt Slater ‏@mattslaterbbc “ An now for something completely different… “There are two types of football. There’s physical football and football talent. Luis Aragonés, the [former] coach of the Spanish national team, when he had three or four talented players, he lined them all up. In contrast, there are managers who having four talented players will only start two, but they’ll line up all four workers. The ones who are going to make a difference in the game are the talented ones.” Xavi Hernandez Inside Barcelona: Xavi’s passion, ambition evident on field, in person: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/grant_wahl/10/03/barcelona-xavi-spain/index.html “I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.” “I’d like to be remembered, as a team that evolved the sport and that people enjoyed watching.” Pep Guardiola teaching his soccer principles on the field: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB0PZKdmQro&feature=related Rough translation from catalan via castilian The 5 basic principles of how Guardiola wants his team to play are: 1. – Offensive football . The style that Guardiola has in mind and try to convey to his players is attacking, dominating football . Want to take the initiative always, keep the ball and look for the goals. This is a risk because the exposure to dangerous counter attacks 2. – The third man. To avoid counterattacks Guardiola recommends to players that, whenever possible, seek out the companion closest to the opposition goal and pass him the ball. If there is no option to make the pass, then played it short. This concept was taught to him by Cruyff. 3. – The free man. According to the coach, that’s the key to keep the ball and the essence of the positional game. During possession, players move to find free space and get open to receive a pass. 4. – Collective zonal pressure. For Guardiola the defensive player should never be static, and he should stand between opposing players to go to different pressuring places depending on how the rival attacks 5. – Ball circulation. For Guardiola the purpose of possession “is not moving the ball, but move your opponent.” The objective should be to move the rival to a given area, and surprise it, attacking in a different, neglected space. What he is actually saying..from catalan via castillian..google translator 1. always leave the risk of attack in football, 99% of rivals say I give you the ball and hope. You do a 3-4-3 I hope. I know that sooner or later you will lose the ball, and when I steal, I’ll hit you. This is the great drama because the attack and defense is something attached, which can not be separated then, everyone expects attacks to, when you lose the ball, attack • 2. free men, the key to keep the ball. where are the free men? from the last through ball circulation, reach positions of attack with the possibility of getting ball to people that can imbalance as Ronaldinho or Messi • 3. the third man and deep What is to prevent the possibility of a turnover, we make a counterattack? the concept that to me have taught me so much, the third man. is to look away, to touch and open face. With this avoiding risks million • To me, Cruyff told me: “When you have the ball, look at (player) deep. Romario, Laudrup if he plays.’s Deep” no space? play here, play next. but the first thing to look at is if you can play along because that, in addition to being an action in which you are attacking, avoiding million counterattacks. • 4. move the opponent to find gaps the intention is not to move the ball, but move your opponents. I mean, I took the ball here because my opponent come because at the right time has come, step, step and go this is one of the keys: take the computer where you want football and any team sport is played on the right and the left end play on the left, go back and play on the right • 5. be among the contenders for the pressure Defensive far, from my point of view, is to be among the players no never declare that I am with him, never • should always be between two positions. The good thing is the feeling that the player reaches the center and reaches the lateral this other player is knowing that you can get here and, if you choose, you can also get there and that he has at his press here and press go beyond the player who is attacking the opposing team does not know where its defense who thinks he has no defense and suddenly, it does have because this or that arrive From current Soccer Nation article on Manchester City Academy: In order to help develop the great player/person, Manchester City is working on multiple levels and with multiple areas of focus. As Lowe explained, it comes down to “hard skills” and “soft skills,” and developing top players requires focus in both areas through a Talent Profile. The Talent Profile, which on a chart looks rather like a colorful donut, breaks down the skills into three “Hardskills” (Physical, Technical and Tactical) and four “Softskills” (Constructive Self-Evaluation, Mental Toughness, Motivational and Working Traits, and Mindset). All of these skills are centered around Learning Styles, which can vary with the player. As Lowe pointed out, while the hard skills are what are generally most apparent when scouting a player, “That’s not a great means of actually depicting how good a footballer might be.” At Manchester City Academy, it comes down to providing the right environment to help players develop these critical soft skills because those are ultimately what make the difference between good and great. Decision making is crucial in any sport, but particularly in soccer, Jungle ball soccer doesn’t care about above. Only size and power. ODP and National Team is same. Even on my son’s team the coach complains about players not showing skill or smarts, yet he sticks with them as starters because they are big and strong. Funny because he claims to be fan of Barcelona, yet doesn’t 100% practice what he preaches. Not saying he’s a jerk (cause he’s not and is a good coach). More I’m saying he is human and hard for many coaches to be strict followers of tiki-taka possession and ignore bigger players who may not be as talented. Why? For short-term gain! Clubs like Barca and Manchester are looking to the future and vested interest, so they can be true to philosophy. A problem unique to pay-to-play. Good points Kana System incentives are certainly a major issue..as are convictions, know-how, environment, culture…it’s a daily battle out there Also it is one thing to declare and post principles of intent, a different one to have a track record of producing a quality product…even for very rich pro academies as Man City…how many quality “possession” own academy players does Man City tend to start in their first team? Following up on my above post: youth soccer clubs in USA have to do best with what they got. No line of hundreds or thousands of kids to choose from in privileged world of pro club Academy. Some kids don’t have right mentality, some aren’t quick learners, some just don’t have physical / agility / coordination to make it to higher levels, some still play multiple sports and aren’t committed to soccer, and the reasons go on and on . . . . In pay to play, cards are stacked against a coach implementing true tiki-taka possession soccer due to luck of draw of players. There are outlier teams who get lucky every now and then, but by and large most teams have more than half who are average players, but for whatever reason lack some combination of hard and soft skills to succeed at tiki-taka possession. And the fallback for coaches is jungle ball to varying degrees. Implementing tiki-taka is many times harder and time consuming than variations of jungle ball. Players / teams need to stay together and coach must be disciplined to philosophy. This is difficult to achieve in current USA club soccer as player movement is frequent, clubs lack philosophy, pressure to win, and coaches come and go and bring different philosophies. From the outside, it seems to me this consistent, stable environment at FC Barcelona USA is what contributes to their successful teams. Interested to hear your thoughts Gary. So true. There are many reasons for this, first our players are not used to create and play freely, In other countries with much less resources and parks available, kids at a very young age play futbol freely in parks and corners without coaches, instructions, or referees. Just like Basket ball here in the U.S. This allows young players First, to enjoy the game,Second to play creatively. When we have player who lack creativity and are not allowed to play freely, then we rely on size and power. http://www.mlssoccer.com/blog/post/2012/10/02/armchair-analyst-love-long-build-part-2 PG19 says Just a bit coming from someone who has been a fan of the recent push from US Soccer promoting the development of the technical skills of our players. I felt the move was in a direction that would lead into Barcelona style play. My belief has been/is that Barcelona’s ability to play Tiki Taka possession is because their individual technical skills are better than any other clubs. Their first touch is often great. They are comfortable with the ball at their feet, regardless of pressure. They are unselfish because they know their teammate they are passing to has the ability to keep the ball, not turn it over, and that it very likely will come back to them (often important to the team’s play maker(s)). Their passing is accurate in weight and where it is played. Considering for the most part it is on the ground, that is a very basic fundamental skill demonstrated with consistent precision, something I work quite a bit on with the teams I coach. It’s a wonderful thing when it starts to occur regularly. For the coaches experiencing frustration; are you selling what you do and promoting the hell out of it? Any change will be met with resistance. I believe the previous topic was why you got into Barcelona possession soccer? My question; was it immediate or did you have to be sold, did you have to research it, did you have to see it before you believed it? Your passion will be your best friend and worse enemy. If you’re passionate, it’s hard for someone to counter the argument as your belief overwhelms them. Their recourse is by ganging up on you, don’t allow that to happen. If you’re passionate, you will become frustrated by those that don’t see what you now see. Sell them on what you believe. Show them the end product that will be yours given some time to develop. I guarantee any coach that promotes direct soccer isn’t selling their concept as “hey, we’re going to run twenty 50 yard dashes with very little rest and in our games, maybe each player will be lucky to get 10 touches on the ball.” They sell winning. Once that is displaced by teams playing possession soccer, what substance can they sell their product on? Their kicks go farther? They can turn the ball over more than their opponent? They cause more injuries? I think the move is occurring with US Soccer toward Barcelona style possession. With this site and its growing army of passionate coaches as a catalyst, the change is going to occur much more quickly than what we’re currently giving it credit for. Go viral on the positives, latch on and push forward. Each coach converted >> is a team converted >> a group of parents converted >> a club converted >> etc. Master Coach –Candidates who successfully complete the curriculum should become what Andy Roxburgh (Technical Director – UEFA) terms a “Da Vinci Coach” and be positioned to be an influential figure in the evolution of an American soccer culture. I’m not familiar with the differences, but maybe American coaches would benefit more by earning UEFA coaching badges. Maybe this would go a long way in how the game is taught in the states. The traditional NSCAA method obviously isn’t the answer. I’m not a coach, but I believe the benefits and tactics of possession are taught at E & D levels, are they not? The coaches know what they should be doing, but seem to ignore this. There seems to be a big hurdle over passing the ball from keeper to the back line, which typically has the lowest level of foot skills. No one wants to turn the ball over there, but they’re happy for their keeper to punt it straight at the opposition’s most skilled attacker…. Thank you for bringing this to light. The u9,10,11, and u12 keeper will most likely have the footskills of a good u7 field player. Why else would they fall in love with the only position on the field they can play. They couldn’t compete on the field so mommy bought some gloves and magic, he is now a first team starter playing every min of every game. We should ban allowing a young player from playing “keeper” for more than 25% of any game until u13. If the back line is such an important component to “possession” soccer or working the ball from the back then explain why most coaches place their “weakest” players in defense and goal. I know this is not all but the majority. From u8-u12 the back line including the keeper tend to have below average ball handling skills. This is the reason parents on the sideline yell, “just boot it”. They can longer watch little timmy hand the ball away for another easy goal. Will this ever change????? We should mandate no child can play with gloves more than 1/4 of each game and never 2 games in a row. This would greatly improve moving the ball out of the back as well as greatly improve the chance of a “true” keeper developing the must needed ball control at an early age. I’m not sure whether to agree with this or to disagree. Our U9 team has a Great Keeper, and the back line has some of our best athletes and skilled players (Although skill on our team is pretty even all around). We also try to play out of the back, up until we hit a team with superior speed, size,and agressiveness. Then the boys switch on there own to kick and run (agains’t the coaches wishes). R2Dad, I can tell you that “Possession” is NOT taught at the E License course. All they teach is how to do a training session that has a “theme” and each part of the training session builds upon the previous one. It is VERY basic and does not talk about tactics at all. The word “Possession” isn’t even mentioned let alone taught. The D License course goes more into tactics but “Possession” is not a central theme and it certainly is not taught to those taking the course. NOBODY teaches coaches HOW to coach possession oriented soccer. I can promise you that how I coach my team to play possession soccer was not learned at a course……beacuse nobody teaches it! The courses just teach you how to run a training session that builds up during the session…..which is fine. BUT, if you want to learn how to coach possession soccer you will NOT learn it by taking the E or D License courses. Thanks for confirming something that I suspected all along. follow-up .. Are there any coaching courses and/or clinics which teaches team oriented possession soccer? I’ve spent thousands of dollars on coaching courses. They all are basically useless in practice, mainly describe organization and structure. Courses never discuss the real important “art of coaching”. I think only 20% of coaching is really about the sport. 80% is child psychology, parent education, effective communication, leadership, public speaking, and many non-tangible qualities that are difficult to learn without a true mentor. I’m still waiting for a REAL course from Gary. I’ve went back & reviewed some earlier blogs .. It was mentioned soemwhere .. that BUSA U10 play like the U11; where the U9 are still a work in progress. IMO, this is the key phase & what curriculum BUSA is using for the U9s is very very important 🙂 Can you comment? Curriculum? There is no formal curriculum (as in down in print). That’s what I am slowly developing. At the moment, Brian is mentoring the coaches at the younger age groups. p.s. I disagree with the U9’s being some critical age group. you are kidding, right!? Your web site lists a bunch of club partners. what are you feeding them? With the USSF courses, you start to get into possession themes with the C license (addressing technical issues within tactical training) and B license where the training is more functional. These licenses cover a ton of concepts, which possession oriented soccer is a culmination of many elements geared toward a certain style of play. It’s up to the coach to take from the courses what they feel is useful for their teams or philosophy. It’s simply adding tools to your toolbelt. Some of it will be useful to you, some will not, depending what your goals are. What licenses are not, is curriculum to go back to your respective clubs/teams to start programming players with. Meaning there is not an agenda being taught to get everyone playing the style of soccer that we believe US Soccer currently is playing or gearing towards. Personally the licensing has been quite helpful in developing my coaching style and introducing coaching theory that is specific to soccer with special attention given on how to approach (teach) each age group taking into account childhood developmental differences. I think what many coaches get wrong is they try to teach young kids as if they were little adults, thus getting frustrated and worst, turning a bunch of players off to the sport. Can’t speak of any of the NSCAA course, haven’t taken any. I think you get from any course what you want. If you’re pursuing a license, then you end with a license. If you are pursuing learning, you will learn a ton. More importantly, you get to hang out with a bunch of people that share your passion as a soccer coach from all over the world and those connections can go pretty far. “These licenses cover a ton of concepts” Herein lies the problem! “It’s simply adding tools to your toolbelt.” Trust me you don’t need that many tools. The simpler the better. “you get to hang out with a bunch of people that share your passion as a soccer coach from all over the world and those connections can go pretty far.” Yes, hang out with a bunch of people doing it the “wrong” way. Connections go far if you want to get a job. I don’t mean to insult all you coaches out there but honestly for U14 players and under all you need to teach is how not to play “jungle ball”. Everything else is just for your ego. “Most kids don’t want to spend 30-45 minutes or more working on their control or banging a ball off of a wall” There are no coaches involved here. Youth coaching is way overrated. Unless your players/teams are in the top 1% just apply the basics. That is roughly only 10 teams per age group per state. All the unfortunate coaches, myself included, need to just eliminate “jungle ball”. The younger the player I agree 100%; the simpler the sessions have to be. The simpler the tactics have to be. For 4, 5, and 6 year olds, I don’t allow passing as much as their parents may tell them to. Instead of yelling at a player to hang out by their goal and play “defense” or who needs to be on the left side, right side (those of you doing that, how’s that going for you?); I simply ask the players without the ball, to get behind their teammate that has it (simple tactic). It helps prevent them from getting in their teammates’ way (soccer concept 1) or them “helping” their teammate by taking the ball away from them (concept 2). It also creates safety for the dribble by getting numbers behind the ball (concept 3) so if it is lost (concept 4), we’re already in a “defensive” position (concept 5), close to the ball to re-win it (concept 6). The player that was dispossessed knows where to run to get in support of the ball (concept 7) by getting between it and their goal. All accomplished with very little instruction coming from me (concept 8, let the kids figure it out) as a coach and in a manner than even a four year old will get it. This tactic isn’t something taught in a course, but the understanding of the concepts is what led me to developing the method. That’s what “tools” do. You become a craftsman, not an assembly line worker with one tool waiting for the next great drill to replicate. You start to create your own works of art. If possession soccer at the Gold Standard was easy, everyone would be doing it. Jungle Soccer is much easier to teach as is the kick and chase direct soccer game. If you want quick results with unskilled players, there you go. If your job is on the line, there you go. Coming from a guy that coaches rec soccer that is not paid for what he does, who has also invested thousands of dollars and time into the craft of coaching soccer, if it was a waste of either I wouldn’t be advocating it like I am. I also understand there is no one way of developing your craft nor a singular ideology. Brian and Gary’s understanding of the game goes much deeper than any course I’ve taken and this blog with everyone’s contribution reveals many levels of understanding exposing areas of thought I once was at and areas of thought I have yet to achieve, hence why I’m here. If Brian/Gary finally put something out that is “concrete”, I believe it’s going to require every bit of conceptual understanding I can muster to come close to replicating the results they’ve achieved. If they do not, maybe I too can figure out the solution on my own by remaining a student of the game. Heck, I’ve already convinced myself I need to start learning Spanish. My choices are: • Take courses in college (possible) • Buy a computer program (highly probable) • Find some Spanish speaking friends (very probable) • Move to a Spanish speaking country (most effective, but not likely) I have a question about your tactic of having your players stay behind the player with the ball. How exactly does this work? It seems that one player will be attacking while everyone else is behind him. I like the idea because of your explanations attached to each reason, I just need it clarified a bit more to see if I want to apply it in a practice or two. Thanks. In our area, we play small sided soccer for U6 (3v3) and U8 (4v4); neither has a goal keeper. Often a U6 game will not be 3v3, but more like 1v5 as teammates without the ball will sometimes try to “help” by taking the ball from their teammate. I know some believe to just let the kids play at this age and by doing so, a player that learns how to take on 5 defenders may become something special when they get older. For me, it was just too much “jungle ball”. Most coaches try to sort through the mess by assigning a pseudo keeper planted on their goal and by assigning a left and a right position which without constant instruction, never works (doesn’t work with instruction either). Instead, I’ve simply asked my players to trail their teammate with the ball. That way all players are involved in an attack. There still is herding around the ball, but it is behind it. If the player with the ball loses it, the next closest player (players determine this, not the coach) immediately presses to try and win it, and the players cycle through. The more dominate players will still take up most of the possession but it will be dominated by skill, not speed as speed without skill on a small pitch equals the ball going out of bounds. The lesser skilled players are forced to learn how to dribble the ball under pressure, so they develop as well versus being taught early to boot the ball up field and being permanently labeled a “defender.” Granted this isn’t passing possession, it is still possession dominate on the most basic of levels, hence why 4 year olds can learn it. In terms of how close the trailing players ought to be, don’t worry about it too much. Just remind the players to trail their teammate with the ball and they will eventually figure out spacing relative to ball/teammate which again will be useful down the road when covering shape and support relative to the pass. Most of it is self teaching with a little guidance. One of the earlier comments was about managing parents. If you run this tactic you have to manage the parents in what they say on the sideline. If you lay out what you want and why, such as I’m trying to teach the players how to be good dribblers, ball handlers and that is the objective for the season, you may get parents to yell encouragement for their kid in support of what you are trying to accomplish in a constructive way that capitalizes on their eager support to cheer for their kids. A win/win/win for you, parents and the players. I understand your approach and can say that over the past 15 years of coaching U6 thru U8 soccer I have seen and tried to deal with all the issues you describe above. Back when the youth modules were being first rolled out I attending the sessions for each of the age groups at the USYS national convention. Based on what the modules teach I stopped trying to teach U6-U7 to pass and instead focused on dribbling. But I started to notice that every year there were at least a few kids across the teams who could pass quite well. One year I had a set of twins that were able to pass to each other and the other members of the team quite easily. I also played against teams that had two or three Hispanic players that not only dribbled around us but also passed around the rest of the players. The module teaches that kids that age are not developmentally ready to learn passing. As I coached the older ages groups as well I started to notice that they did not do any better at passing. I never found the magical age where the light bulb went on and they started passing. I started wondering why some of the U6s have no problem understanding the concept of passing. I watched other sports at that same age. I watched what I did with my own kids. I started really paying attention and considering what was the capacity of a 5 or 6 year old. Heck my 18 month old daughter will sit down and roll a toy school bus back and forth with me on the kitchen floor. Isn’t that passing? My 5 year old loves to go out with our track ball set and throw the ball back and forth. Sounds like passing to me. I decided the modules and the child development concepts are wrong. Kids are far more capable than a lot of people give them credit for. If my 4 year old can go out and throw the Frisbee back and forth with me then he can learn how to pass the ball. I realized that the kids at 5 and 6 that were steps ahead where NOT extra ordinary. The kids that were ahead got that way because someone started showing them and teaching them how to do it. Someone set the expectation and demonstrated the how. We are simply setting the bar too low and not asking enough of these very capable kids. I will tell you right up front that I came to this revelation within the last 30 days. I started making changes to my practice plans for my U7 team immediately. The first week after the change I was thrilled that the boys attempted at least 10 passes during the game. We had one break thru moment when the player taking the goal kick passed the ball wide to an open player who passed it ahead to another open player who scored the goal. Two passed that left the 4 players on the other team standing in the dust. Boy did I pump that play full of positive feedback making sure to highlight how it was accomplished. The next week we scored 4 goals directly off of passes to open players. I am now convinced that I have been doing it wrong for the past 15 years. I can speak only to the “D” and “C’ courses, but they don’t advocate a possession-oriented style of play as the WAY to go. There are certainly topics on how to keep possession, possession vs. penetration, etc.; however, by instructors by no means say, “go back to your clubs and advocate possession-oriented” soccer. Like the “D”, it is more about making your coaching points and appropriate tactical freeze. I learned zero at either of the coaching courses I took aside from that I was supposed to wear a shirt with a collar and stay out of the grid or I’d get points deducted on my final exam. Listen, folks: coaching courses and licenses are nothing but a union to keep OUT competitors. Do you think any NFL, NBA, or MLB coaches have to get licensed to coach? No, they don’t. They get hired and fired based on what they succeed or do not succeed in doing. There isn’t an AAU basketball coach in the country with an “A” license but somehow we have the best basketball league and players in the world? Same with football and baseball. The courses are NOTHING but anti-competitive and don’t give me the crap about UEFA licenses, either. Can you learn from them? Sure, but try telling me that making a Zidane go through a course is going to make him know any more, or less, about the game? Some people are just naturally good coaches and others get licenses to get paid more by idiot parents who just assume, “Well, he’s got an A license so…” or “That club has the most coaches with higher licenses, so…” They are part and parcel of the reason that the big clubs can, and do, get all the “best” players and we are still stuck with a shoddy level of play all across the board. Sorry for the rant before I go put my useless D-National and Youth National licenses to work with my U8s… who I couldn’t coach without said useless licenses due to the union that the USSF promulgates. Thank you for reminding everyone what a load off crap the license process is. I’m pretty sure Cryuff and Maradona didn’t take some silly course to coach in the World cup. I don’t know for sure but would bet they didn’t. Top license coaches get the “best” players and ruin them. Oo2b says If you can swing the trip to FL, look for this coaches clinic in summer of 2013. Taught by some of the FCB Escola coaches flown in from Catalunya: http://www.fcbarcelonasoccercamps.com/2012-fcbarcelona-coaches-clinic-florida/fcbarcelona-clinic-orlando/. Much too short (just a weekend) but they cram a lot of information and they are very generous with their knowledge. If you speak Spanish, even better, as you can really pick their brains. The Escola follows the same program as the academy and as has been mentioned here previously they are parent paid but high quality as some of their graduates go on to the professional Academy. Thanks. I just became aware of the Florida Barca camps. This past Summer, I enrolled my son in the Barca Summer camp that was held in San Jose. It was a life changing experience for both my son & me! They focus on the group chemistry from minute 1. From minute 2, they focus on “piggy in the middle” keep away games & passing into space. I am going to play devil’s advocate and explain what a coaching license has done for me (not that anyone cares 🙂 ), since there is a lot of negativity toward the licensing program. Now, getting a coaching license didn’t teach me anything I didn’t already know, nor has it made me into Pep Guardiola anything. What is has done for me as a coach is, it has allowed me to promote within my club from a lower skilled league into a higher skilled league. Gaining this access to a higher skilled player pool is what has improved my coaching abilities and not the license itself, as having skilled players at my exposal facilitates in a better execution of my coaching concepts, leading to the fine tuning of my coaching craft. I am blessed to coach for a club with great facilities, a large talent base, and where the coaches are allowed to forge our own paths within the club and build our reputations. If you are a good coach, it is recognized, and you can, and most likely will, be asked to coach at a higher level. Unfortunately, the higher the level you want to coach in, the higher the license you will need. This can be seen as a negative, but I think it shows your sense of commitment and desire rather than showing an ability to coach. “Gaining this access to a higher skilled player pool is what has improved my coaching abilities” … “leading to the fine tuning of my coaching craft.” I think you have it backwards. The more skilled players mask coaching inabilities. This is what clubs with great facilities do. They attract the talent pool and ruin it. My Prof used to say if you can’t teach it to your grandma you don’t know anything. “If you are a good coach, it is recognized, and you can, and most likely will, be asked to coach at a higher level.” “11. The highest levels (from youth to pro) are full of mediocre, to thoroughly incompetent, coaches.” You just need some dirt field and passionate kids. Soccer in Salone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0AU3reVtU @Dr Loco – I understand what you meant when you said “I have it backwards” but I think you missed my point a bit. Either that or I didn’t explain it well enough. For me, I just started coaching 2 years ago. I have coached both types of players, skilled and unskilled, and I have coached them with the same weighted passion and desire to make them better players. Yes, skilled players can mask poor coaching, but they can also heighten a coach’s abilities as well. What I was trying to convey was, the skilled players allow for more precise and advanced coaching methods to be taught, e.g. working on tactics, triangle passing, offensive movement, defensive positioning, etc. On a different level, the unskilled player will not allow you work on those types of things; instead you will focus more on proper passing and shooting techniques, dribbling with head up, etc. That was my point. Does that make sense? You seem to suggest that you can only be an amazing coach if you take the most unskilled players and sculpt them into Lio Messi. Even Barcelona can’t and doesn’t do that, they have a skill standard they go by, so they can fine tune that player into what they want for their club. So are they incapable coaches because they do not choose players from an unskilled player pool? Let’s be realistic here, all clubs are full of mediocre coaches, but which club isn’t? All clubs have their great coaches as well, the one I coach for included. Not every club can be Barca where every coach can manage a World Cup team. Like I said, I am no Pep, but I do try developing kids in a manner that you and other commentators here describe, meaning I do not coach “jungle ball”. Now, how well I accomplish that is left to someone else to judge and not me. I do agree with you 100% that all you need is a dirt field and some passionate kids, but that really doesn’t exist here in the US on a large scale, like say, playground basketball exists. So what do we have to work with? We have soccer clubs with good to great facilities and it is the luck of the draw whether or not a player gets a good coach or not, just like in any sport. I guess the major issue here is identifying great coaches and rewarding them based on their end product, and not rewarding coaches just because they have a coaching license. I want to be recognized because of the end product and not because I paid money for a coaching license. ” I am blessed to coach for a club with great facilities, a large talent base, and where the coaches are allowed to forge our own paths within the club and build our reputations” This statement confounds me … not about the license issues … but I see it everywhere … successful clubs and many coaches “forging their own path “. I have a U9 son, frustrated as our trainer is “delaying passing until later” and I have seen a U8 group of boys communicating and saying “4 passes” then shoot. It was very nice. Our club has over 200 teams and then has the strongest upper level with the best boys teams in the city. BUT the reality is this – Because they have so many teams sure a few fill make it to the top tier teams later – not because of good coaching but simply because they have the numbers. They have the largest pool of players, claim to “develop more players ” than any other club … but it’s no different than any other club. Now if I saw 80% of the club teams playing games of a higher caliber then their opponents … then I would be impressed. The real truth is that when you have so many bodies, you can have pathetic coaching, a few will still weather the storm and you can have a strong team at the older levels … and the best players still leave other clubs to join because of the “myth” . I am sure this has to be true in other cities. So sadly, 95 % of the kids get shit for training and are average later. Yes, Mark, as your club goes, so goes the country. “Development” has turned into a marketing term that has no meaning, like “New & Improved” or “Natural”. We’re in the process of finding a new team for our U10, and I don’t think I can trust anything the coaches or DOCs say about the D word, style of play–or anything. We’ll have to watch each team play games and practice to see if they can play on the ground. They are mostly all flavors of kick-and-run. @Mark, I think what you were trying to convey was that clubs should have one set curriculum for coaching. Is that correct? What skill level is your son? Travel, rec, etc. Interested to know if the club he plays for has a set coaching curriculum. We are all waiting for Gary/Brian to put something together that gives other coaches CONCRETE information on how to properly teach possession soccer. In the meantime, we do the best we can. I know I tape hundreds of Barcelona matches and watch them over and over again to learn every detail possible of how they play the way they do. I do slo-mo over and over again to see EXACTLY what they are doing. Who is making runs, who is giving support, who is finding space to be an option, how is the ball circulating out of the back…etc. Until someone comes out with something concrete on how to teach possession soccer, we do what we can and make it work. Gary/Brian….we are waiting 🙂 Global gold standard football is “scientific”. 3four3 needs to provide a curriculum to standardize development for players U14 and under. We are all developing players in a non-scientific manner with no clear progress and accountability. By the time players are 14 they must be competent in many scientifically proven skill sets in order to progress to the top-levels. Thanks everyone for good feedback. I’m home from my U8 training and with all 7 of them (2 couldn’t make it), I just let them play for the most part, in a small grid, 4v3. Two of them will absolutely not look to pass, let alone give the ball up, but you know what? Those two kids are the ones who are going to dominate/control a midfield some day. That is what so many American coaches miss/misunderstand. Yes, you can teach possession and passing but without the kids (future adults/professionals) being able to hold onto the ball to actually find the next/best pass, you’ve got nothing. It’s why I don’t get on them for dribbling all over the place while 3 defenders chase them and still can’t win the ball off of them. I was actually playing with them and passing the ball back to the goalkeeper so he had to think and play with his feet – build from the back – while his dad looked on in horror telling him to just clear it while I was telling him to control it and find the outlet. I may have lost the dad on that one, but the young man figured it out and started switching the ball away from pressure so, well, I won that one. We also played a shooting game where I had to keep begging/reminding them to hit it on the first touch and I didn’t care if they missed the ball completely with their “off” leg (mostly left; pure biology). You know what? They were all smiling and having a great time out there for 90 minutes. They will come back and want to be at practice working on things, and given they’re so young, that’s the point. In another year, they will mature so much mentally that I can actually get them to start playing possession ball, but for now, they’re just learning “how” to possess the ball individually and when a pass is on and they make it, great. If they don’t, I could care less and even when they intend to do the right thing they get praised for the idea/effort, not whether it was successful or not. Slowly we go and I still have parents yelling at them (even in a 4v3 small-sided game at training) but I refuse to give it up just yet in spite of all the drama, politics, etc. Lothar – can’t you just tell the parents to let you coach and not to scream instructions from the sidelines? I have to my parents and they parents respect it. Maybe I am just blessed to have a crop of great parents who believe in my coaching and respect my lead, but laying down ground rules before the season started has worked wonders for me and it would for you as well. I actually have a drafted Parent/Coach agreement that states that parents must avoid yelling instructions during games and practices. The only thing they are to do is to encourage and defnitely not to coach. As I mentioned previously, the parents don’t listen. I’ve sent emails, had private conversations, and they all have signed a club agreement to that effect. It is, as I said, a peculiar American problem. They aren’t even paying all that much ($35 state fee for player card, $50 for a 10-game league fee) but I can’t get them to stop so I just tell the kids to ignore their parents. However, that’s not enough as the kids will still listen to dad (usually) and mom (occasionally) but the fact of the matter is that until and unless the parents are not paying ANYTHING for their kids to play, the clubs/coaches are at their mercy to some extent. There is something wonderful in being able to tell an unruly/uncooperative parent who insists on trying to do your job (that I am doing for free, in fact, as a volunteer): “Guess what? You can’t shut up so your kid will never play for Manchester United. Go home and enjoy your life. Your mouth may have just cost you and your son 50 thousand pounds/dollars a week in wages down the road.” THAT would make a difference. As it stands, most parents are paying a lot of money to be at the “big, best” clubs and even those fools don’t shut their mouths. Trust me, I used to be at the biggest club in this state and when Doctor Daddy and Lawyer Mommy are paying for Super Johnny to play, they WILL run their mouths no matter what license you have and take their money for having, whether they truly believe you’re a better coach or not for having it – it’s a freaking social stratification/identification thing here. Hell, there are parents shelling out hundreds of dollars a month so their U8 can play in the eighth team of 80 players in the academy just so they can buy their “Club FC” sweatshirts for Super Johnny to wear to school and they can tell all their friends at cocktail parties the boy does, in fact, play for that club – whether he’s any good or not. Lothar, this problem is everywhere, and you are right about the solution. Last year, I was discussing this topic with an LA Galaxy Academy parent, who told me a story about one of their teams. It seems there was such a parent on one of their academy teams, and he was particularly obnoxious. In addition, his son was the best player on the team. Allegedly, the Galaxy kicked the kid off the team because his obnoxious, know-it-all father wouldn’t shut up. Now THAT sets an example. I would argue that you can do this in a “pay to play” system, as well. You just need gonads. In our current club, as parents we all sign agreements at the beginning of each year promising not to do this stuff, yet still about half of the parents on our team run up and down the sideline, marshalling the troops on the field. The other half of the team rolls their eyes, just as someone described here earlier. The coach obviously doesn’t like it, but he doesn’t want to step on any important patron’s toes– he wants to keep his job. Some of these people have no clue about the sport, but, as you describe, they are economic alpha dogs, so they feel an entitlement shove it up there on everyone else. Several years ago, one of my boys was thrown off a team at another club because I confronted just such a parent, who was coaching my kid during a game (his kid was the “backbone” of the team). They thought I was the disruptive one. As I said, the clubs need a set of gonads to solve the parent problem. As always, it starts at the top. Got this email. http://www.sfvikings.com/about/silent_sat.htm Personally I do not believe kids can play very well on their own with limited instruction. They just resort to “jungle ball” unless they have a higher understanding of the game passed on from their family, culture and environment. Chad Ponie says Coaching possession style soccer is not enough, it’s the beginning, but still not enough. You can coach possession all you want but that won’t get you goals. The most lacking skills in the US game which I see are in the build up and finishing aspects of the game. Look at the USMNT. There have been games where they have had good possession of the ball, not Barca-esque, but possession nonetheless, However, they are completely impotent in the final third of the pitch. Possession, yes, but it has to end with a finish on goal or at least an attempt on goal. Possession leading to the build up, leading to a finish of explosive, creative, and deadly precision is what is needed. Through balls behind the defense, short creative wall passes in our opponent’s goal box, perfectly weighted floating passes over the defensive line, crosses leading to headed goals, dink passes, chip shots, etc, all absent from our game. It is rare to see our Nat’l team score a goal not from a set piece or from a defensive mistake of which we capitalize on in the form of a random tap in. Until finishing skills are better coached, I am afraid we will be developing players who can hold onto the ball but can’t take it to the next level and create quality chances and finishes on goal. Reading a manual will not teach you how to coach possession soccer or any other type of soccer frankly. Putting cones and looking all organized is great, but it is about coaching the drill that is key. Knowing how and when to make coaching points, demonstrating what you want, allowing players to play and figure things out, not stopping the session too many times but enough times to get your message across. Anybody can put a bunch of cones out , but getting what you want out of the session simply takes time, patience, and lots of trial and error. You can be working on possession in a 4v4 grid, but you make the grid too big and the teams are holding possession wonderfully…..you may think everything is going well but when your team plays on the weekend, you realize they cant keep the ball because they cant deal with the pressure and the opposition shutting down space. i see too many sessions where the organization is good but the players are not being corrected and basic things are let go. This is a topic that has surfaced, been either dispelled or agreed upon; that the US doesn’t have enough street/open soccer opportunities and the reason we excel so much at basketball and not soccer. So let’s look at this from a different perspective; how is Spain/Barcelona doing in basketball? In a short period of time Spain has progressed in basketball to now only be second to the US. In a few years, it’s conceivable they may possibly surpass the US considering the last Olympics. Their structure to youth basketball is similar to how their training is from their clubs for soccer, which is infinitely more organized than youth basketball is in the US with an emphasis in teaching basketball versus just playing games. If soccer is more organized than most any other sports in the US, we have more kids playing soccer in leagues than any other country, and Spain has demonstrated that a club organized model can be used to progress a sport in their country that is native to ours and produce results; then what is holding US Soccer back? It’s going to come down to what we teach and our understanding of how to teach it. We have to know the fundamentals of our craft and how you achieve that knowledge base (playing experience, coaching experience, courses, etc); will be unique to you, no better no worse. The more you learn, most likely the better you are going to be. This requires you, as a coach to remain a student of the game and not limit yourself to any one idea because that is one of the reasons why “jungle ball” is so prevalent in the US in spite of everything going our way to achieve something much greater. http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/09/06/how-basketball-players-are-groomed-in-spain-vs-usa/ There are a lot of theories floating around this site, in this post, and others that try to explain why the US is lagging in soccer. Gary even begins this post by implying that our problem is not a lack of quality players, but rather that we are selecting the wrong players. We float ideas about bad coaching, bad culture, a lack of unified playing style. We talk about our kids not playing enough (My personal favorite). The basketball analogy is good, because it asks the right question. However, when I hear about Kobe Bryant, or Lebron James, I don’t think, “boy they must of had really good youth basketball coaches” (Kobe grew up in Italy, not sure how many years). I don’t think “US Youth Basketball is really good”. Mostly I think Kobe worked his but off and was totally driven. I don’t think about the system, I think about the person. I got no answer, but I am going to motivate my son to work hard, really hard, and to be passionate about the game. Ultimately, though, it will be up to him. An interesting piece, and again, one of the reasons I read this site and comments – to expand my mind. However, as a native of Indiana and who grew up in Kentucky where basketball is religion in the same way soccer is in the rest of the world, I can assure you that basketball development and soccer development end at about, oh, 6v6 (5+GK) in soccer. Can you call a timeout in soccer? Do you get TV timeouts every 2 minutes to script plays? Are you playing in literally 1/3 the distance, all the time, and the equivalent of being inside the penalty box on every possession? Can you set a pick-and-roll to get a striker open for a shot on goal? No, no, no, and no. I understand the learning aspect of it – how to teach, etc., but there is simply no comparison between the two games at the professional level. and even trying to do so is not going to help soccer development here. And I say that quite respectfully, in case I haven’t been clear. They are two completely different games even if they may look similar to some extent at the small-sided soccer games kids play, but not on a full field of 11v11. By the way, Indiana basketball is going to kill it this year and Kentucky, while cheaters throughout (personal experience growing up; long stories) will be up there again. 🙂 Thank you for the basketball article. “Their structure to youth basketball is similar to how their training is from their clubs for soccer, which is infinitely more organized than youth basketball is in the US with an emphasis in teaching basketball versus just playing games.” I have been involved with AAU basketball for a year now and have witnessed the lack of player development and high costs. I know I’m “loco” but my goal is to marry soccer and basketball player development. I train a basketball team and cross-train a soccer team. The results have been impressive. At U8 I took unskilled players that nobody wanted. We started at low bronze level. My challenge is to make them a premier team by U12. It is a bitch but I seem to be on the right path. 3four3 give me more!!! TDSoccer says You’re on the right track. i believe the two sports are very interlinked (as is hockey). Its about reading space, timing of “runs”, passes, understanding passing lanes, support positions. See this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/sports/basketball/18lakers.html?_r=0 TDSoccer, good stuff thanks. “Foot skills, naturally, apply well to basketball. Nash once said that when he began to play basketball after years of playing soccer, it almost felt unfair to be able to use his hands.” It does seem like many young basketball players are like fish out of water. great points. Agree. The Spaniards take an ‘academic’ approach to teaching the game. Basketball is largely a pickup sport in the states. Nothing wrong with unstructured play. But you have to teach the game. Granted, soccer is way more complicated and fluid than basketball. That said, the terms “academy” and “club” have been largely bastardized in the states. We need more ‘soccer schools’ (that are heavily subsidized so that cost isn’t a factor for the students) that teach fundamental technique and the basics regarding tactics. learning to play correctly takes precedence over everything else. “The Spaniards take an ‘academic’ approach to teaching the game.” Soccer is played with the brain and your #1 weapon on the pitch is your brain. These are famous sayings. Any wonder why Spain is so good? American soccer is played with size, power, speed. Any wonder we aren’t as good? I would add Hall97 Spain sticks to their philosophy on the pitch and in player selection. But remember we are comparing Spanish professional clubs to youth clubs in USA. Again, WE ARE COMPARING SPANISH PROFESSIONAL CLUBS TO YOUTH CLUBS IN USA. The money, conveyor belt of youthful prospects, experience level of coaching staff, and vested interest in developing professional level players is vastly different. As big as the Atlantic ocean that separates us! Academy = a higher level of learning in a special school of instruction. The Academy model in USA is to do that as part of a youth club. EU and SA model attaches soccer higher learning to professional club, which is the special school of instruction. We think because we use “Academy” for USDA, it’s equivalent to EU and SA . . . It’s not! The gap between youth soccer and professional soccer “Academy” is as big as the ocean’s that separate us. MLS needs to step in. They are inferior to EU and SA, but better incubator than club soccer. And when MLS ups the ante on playing quality, it will in turn up the ante on youth development. At least in theory. Great points Kana. However, it is important to keep in mind that many of the MLS coaches/decisionmakers come from the ‘typical’ American youth club/college environment. In other words, they have brought their bad habits and lack of knowledge with them. Mico says My son plays SCDSL in SoCal. U15 Flight 1. We have a center mid and forward problem. Center mid plays jungle ball or lack passing. Forwards are all energy and no skill or tactics. The coach wants to make change, but stuck with team he has. Dumb ass parents of big players want to play jungle ball and complain to coach. They don’t understand tiki-taka, just jungle ball. I would say there are maybe about 5 or so players at U15 I consider seriously good players. And on most teams there are maybe 1-3 advanced level players. This is the normal curve of statistics. Most are average and outliers on either side (very good, very bad). This applies to coaching as well. Spain and La Masia are talked about a lot on this blog. We are worlds apart. I agree with Gary that our competition is the world (he mentioned in different thread), but we aren’t in that league. We need perspective. Understand where USA soccer is and isn’t. For us to compare to La Masia, we need to get out of elementary school and not think about a PhD soccer develoopment. We can dream it , compare to it, but can’t live it as we are still young and inexperienced as a soccer nation. Youth clubs in America need to be more selective about adding players to team. But we fill rosters for profit. Once we are selective, teach them how to play proper soccer and just play tournament after tournament. Teach them how to be A+ soccer knowledge and not jungle ball. If La Masia didn’t select players with right mentality, tiki-taka would be nothing. You need to be smart, patient, composed, able to read game to play tiki-taka. American soccer clubs seem to have attention deficit and myopic vision with long term development goals. Coaching (or lack of) is biggest problem if you ask me. Spain and rest of Europe have a right-skew on coach, not normal curve. That is, they have more top class coaches at their academies teaching hand selected players. We have coaches with low level soccer education and knowledge and not very high playing level when they were younger. Compare to Europe where many coaches came up on professional academy. Mico, What you say is true, but so what. Are we supposed to just throw up our hands and give up? The purpose of knowing how Barca and other first rate academies work is to take what is applicable or adaptable to the environment that we operate it. If you don’t know the “gold standard” than you can’t strive to achieve it. I believe that many of the best practices of Barca, the Dutch and Spanish youth development systems can be applied here if people are creative in their thinking. The areas you have to address: 1) Coaches’ education. How do you get high quality, knowledgable coaches who know the gold standard, know how to select players and develop players to the gold standard? 2) Funding for playing so “pay to play” is not an issue. 3) Developing a network of other coaches/teams that coordinate rules, etc that favor long term development over winning. 4) Refereeing. Developing refs that call the game in such a way that nurtures development (think about how Spanish and Dutch refs call youth games vs. American refs-it makes a difference). These all seem to be major problems that are insurmountable, but in fact, they are not with a little creativity. I have personally seen places that have already moved to overcome these problems. Convince the Kleibens to host a conference where these issues (and others) are discussed. I am going to offer a new concept/direction for all after several seasons with my U9 son … I know many of the theories … all I do is read about youth development AND also use my own imagination. So this will be long and lets realize – there are the standard arguments against some of my ideas … but unless you have had two similar groups of young kids, trained them two different ways and compared the teams 5 years later … unless you have done this, than any criticism are just theories. I am letting my thoughts go forward having read this – —- Dr Loco says: ******* So I am offering help. I will state fro the record that I have no license and can only advise for the lower levels … it’s probably too late for older kids to try this stuff … like the car dealer looking for “salespeople” that have never sold cars before … you already have been programed” I also have been waiting for the magic bullet from 3four3 … but I don’t see it anytime soon… so I am starting the conversation. I love reading all this stuff … but let me start the new Soccer Bible. Thoughts will be scattered … and more in depth if asked … but I am giving it a shot. Simply put, I have seen many groups of boys at camps, games and practices … and elemental simplistic notions about what soccer is are nowhere to be seen. Two truths – kids do not free play enough and there isn’t enough time during practices. Because of this, and until it changes – practice time is very precious. Every time I have watched a session, I ALWAYS tweak the drill I see and can figure out how to achieve the same goal with more touches and movement in what I call a more “organic” method – like soccer – not static or standing in lines … but with movement. LEARN FROM WHAT WE DO WELL … Back to free play – in basketball, a kid will start shooting, eventually a friend will show up, they both shoot ( and dribble) and move around. Then they do a little 1v1 eventually. So from the beginning they start learning the whole activity – dribble, move, shoot and an attempt to defend. As more kids show up, the same but passing is added and they learn to spread out – you can’t do shit if it’s too crowded. After several hours,days, months – they might get on a team – but they already figured it out on their own. With soccer, it’s the opposite – lines, drills, positions yelling coaches and idiot parents. I HAVE SIMPLY SEEN, EVERY TIME A GROUP OF YOUNG KIDS GET TOGETHER – THEY HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT TO DO – NO CLUE HOW TO PLAY THE MOST BASIC FORM OF SIMPLE SOCCER. SO …. practice has to be as similar as possible in the early stages to what free play should be. Yes, exactly what I said. let two kids pass, let them learn a move ( start with a simple cut or fake and then cut ) and try it , let them be a team and shoot a goal and let them go 1v1. VERY MINIMAL INSTRUCTIONS. And let them all do this at the same time, spread out – get rid of the lines! Teach them how to go the length of the field with a ball, each kid takes several steps then they pass on the 5th or 6th …each has a ball – they switch. Now they learn to pass while moving. Then simple keep away, 2v1, them 3v1, 3v2 and so on as they get better. Eventually have 2 with the ball vs. 3 then 4 trying to take it away. Hell, when you can do this – a game situation will be cake. So ever so slowly, make practice situations harder than game situations. OF COURSE THIS WILL TAKE TIME – Yes, teach them simple moves, let them repeat slowly, go the length of the field and then the last 10 yards let them go at the goal and kick it in. CONNECT THE DOTS. Later, have a parent be a defender in the last 10, they have to go around that person then shoot. Then teach them another move next week ,,, show them the first step about properly defending a player coming at you, let them work on this as the defender backs up slowly, attacker practices his move – then goes to shoot. Funny thing about passing, gets the head up, “weighting” of the pass starts to develop as wall as accuracy …. AND “touch” is being developed. And like the kid playing basketball alone, he DRIBBLES while he moves and changes positions to shoot – NATURALLY. Allowing kids to move and pass to each other will cause those small touches to happen because they are constantly adjusting the ball to pass it back. I AM SO TIRED OF SEEING YOUNG KIDS WITH OK FOOT SKILLS TRY TO DO SIMPLE PASSES – AND IT SEEMS LIKE THAT’S A WHOLE DIFFERENT GAME … AND WHEN THEY DO PASS … NO ACCURACY AND NO DISTANCE CONTROL … AND THE RECEIVER HAS TERRIBLE TOUCH. PASS, DRIBBLE ( try some moves ), SHOOT GOALS, LEARN TO GO WITH THE BALL and learn to create a shape ( triangle or square ) and move as a group …. learn to move as a unit then once in a while someone shoots at the goal …WOW, SOUNDS LIKE SOCCER … AND LOOKS LIKE SOCCER Sure, I’m sarcastic, but in our second year of club soccer, I see all the short comings of traditional soccer training. I also see how the simple things I do with my son have created well balanced left and right feet, he drops the ball at his foot during drills at practice, is by the far at passing accuracy and distance … and I realized this the past summer when at 8 he was with 10 and 12 year old players … and his touch was better than 90% – and these were all club players. Then, to watch MLS slop – it’s what we deserve. LETS FACE IT, WE DO NOT PLAY SOCCER IN THIS COUNTRY … WE PLAY SOCCER DRILLS AND WONDER WHY THE GAMES ARE HORRIBLE. It’s not everything, it’s a plea to keep it simple, offer all the pieces and a bit of knowledge along the way – from day one. And soccer is a fluid game – practices usually are not. Later I would love to tell you about the “Hyper” passing drills I have in my head – again, game situations would be cake – and they would get 5 times as many touches as in a normal soccer practice. “Youth clubs in America need to be more selective about adding players to team. But we fill rosters for profit.” We definitely fill rosters for profit. I see many youth teams where you have good players playing with bad players, young players with older players, girls with boys. There is no real thought into selecting players for a team. Just pay, buy a uniform and put them on the same team. I don’t want to win a state, regional, or national title. Therefore, I just select players with the same qualities as the other players on the team. I don’t want players that are too good or too weak. Players need to be on the appropriate team based on their level of development. The rest can all be taught at the youth level. You don’t need to worry about a ‘proper’ mindset or selection of players who are best in a particular style. Coaches are not selecting the wrong players. All players that are passionate for the sport are the correct players. It is up to qualified coaches to not interfere with the development process but only enhance it. At the professional and national level select all you want. Let the youth learn until they are ready to be selected. Im tired of reading the same thing over & over About how incredibly great the barca and the EU’s youth system is. If this is so guys, then someone please explain to me why they spend millions & millions each year buying young players from south america ? These TOP players worth Millions are produced mainly in Argentina, Brazil etc. then exported. My guess is that the best youth soccer formation is not comming from the EU. They just pay the big bucks for them. There is no doubt that South American countries produce many great players. And there are some great centers of player development, such as Rosario in Argentina, However, I believe that South America (and especially Brazil) produces soccer talent less because of its structured youth development programs, which lag overall, than the sheer numbers of talented players that are developed in less structured environments. I would equate it to basketball in the U.S. where youth development in basketball in the U.S. is atrocious (AAU) but the U.S. still produces great players because they develop largely outside any structured developmental program. In a perfect world, it would be a combination of both.. lots of street soccer melded with great development programs. However, in the U.S., player development relies less streetball and more on structured programs, so its more instructive to look to European development models that are similar. However, as I said above, there are some unbelievable hotbeds of soccer development in Argentina that would be well worth studying. And the same in Spain and the Netherlands. Barca and Ajax get all the attention, but there are other clubs and youth programs, far well less known, that are doing fantastic jobs at the local level in those countries (and other countries)creating superb players. Identify them, study them, apply or adapt what would work for the environment in which you operate. Soccer is a world sport. European clubs have the big bucks, hence they buy best talent. And many come from SA. That doesn’t mean EU doesn’t develop to players. If you go lower than 2nd or 3rd tier league clubs in EU, vast majority are local lads. Why? Because a 4th tier team can’t buy talent from overseas. Bottom line is EU and SA are great at developing talent capable of playing in top leagues . . . which happen to be in EU. Simple supply and demand at work. @Paul. I respect your opinions but you don’t think Barca’s youth system is incredible? What about Benfica’s, Ajax’s, and Bayern Munich’s? Monetary worth does not mean a player is amazing. Andy Carrol sold for 35million and look at him. Torres for 50million! Yes, Oscar and Moura, just sold for huge amounts but who knows if they will be worth it? Moura isn’t even playing for PSG and probably won’t for a long time! The one young PSG player who is is playing is Marco Verratti and he is Italian. These rich clubs are just hoarding the youth so no one else will have them. No development at all, just hoarding. So which top players are you referring to? Neymar, Damiao, Ganso? not top players and not yet sold to the EU market. Moura, Oscar, ? Not even close. Hulk? If Hulk was amazing, he wouldn’t be playing for Zenit. The top young players are currently from the EU. Maybe a decade ago South America produced the cream of the crop, but now EU is where it is at. Look at Belgium. They have amazing talent. Hazard, Fellaini, Vertonghen, Vermaelen, Lukaku, Witsel, Kompany, Dembele, Courtois. Spain has developed….well everyone knows who. France and Portugal? Do I have to list them? Argentina and Brazil are lagging behind right now…in my opinion. @ Chad. I do believe Barca’s system is incredible as a Professional Futbol Club, BEST team I’ve seen, but we are talking about youth development, and so we should be talking about a minimum of the past 10 years, since we can not predict the future 10. Which top player am I talking about ? really ? I don’t believe the players you mentioned can be considered as international TOP players but that’s just my opinion. Since you mentioned PSG well how about Pastore, Lavezzi, Maxwell Thiago Silva. Other REAL top players : Messi, Dani Alves, Mascherano, Alexsis Sanchez, Higuain, Di Maria, Marcelo, Zanetti, Tevez, Aguero, Forlan, Lugano, Thiago, just to name a few, I could win the World Cup over and over again with just these players developed in South America. Neymar already has been pre sold to Barcelona for 50 mil. and that not the final number. There are many other future promises, like Lamela, Ocampos, Mauro Caballero, Douglas Costa, Danilo, Lucas. All I’m saying is that I can admire Barcelona’s system, style of play, players etc. but come on ! Take out Messi from the team and lets see just how great they are. @ TDSOCCER. You’re absolutely correct on the basketball soccer comparison. Also remember that U.S soccer is very very young, it has not been culturally inserted in our veins yet. ChrisP365 says Aren’t they called the Spanish Men’s National Team when you take out Messi? They can usually be counted on to get out of the group stage of whatever tourney they are in 🙂 “U.S soccer is very very young”. It’s not that young. In fact it’s rather old. Soccer is much younger in other developing countries. “it has not been culturally inserted in our veins yet” You really mean our various cultures does not bleed “red”, “white”, and “blue”. Dr loco. Do you know of any US soccer teams before the New York Cosmos 1968 ? Basketball, Baseball, Football bleed red, white & blue. Unfortunately soccer or futbol not yet. History of US Soccer from USSF up to 1967: The American Football Association was organized in Newark, N.J., uniting the numerous metropolitan area enclaves of the East to maintain uniformity in the interpretation of rules and provide an orderly and stable growth of soccer in America. The U..S. and Canada played a game a year against each other, representing the first “international” soccer games to take place outside the British Isles. The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was formed in Paris on May 21. Charter members included: France, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The International Board, the authority over the rules and their interpretation continued under the jurisdiction of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, even though they were not affiliated with FIFA. The Olympic Games of 1904 in St. Louis included soccer as an official Olympic sport where club teams competed under the national team banner. FIFA did not become active in Olympic soccer until 1908. FIFA became a member of the International Board, increasing their influence on the interpretation of rules. The U.S. Football Association (USFA) was granted provisional membership by FIFA on Aug. 15. The USFA was incorporated under the laws of the state of New York, May 30, and was granted full membership in FIFA at the annual congress at Oslo, Norway, June 24. The first USFA Men’s National Team traveled to Norway and Sweden. The Americans played six matches on this tour, finishing 3-1-2. Bethlehem (Pa.) Steel became the first American professional team to play in Europe when they toured Sweden. The original American Professional Soccer League (APSL) began. Franchises were granted to Fall River, Mass.; Philadelphia; Jersey City Celtics, N.J.; Todd Shipyard of Brooklyn, N.Y.; New York FC; Falco FC of Holyoke, Mass.; and JP Coats of Pawtucket, R.I. The world’s first indoor soccer league with 11-a-side teams on a full-sized field opened the winter season at the Commonwealth Calvary Armory in Boston. The USA was one of 13 nations to compete in the first FIFA World Cup competition in Montevideo, Uruguay. Bert Patenaude (Fall River, Mass.) was the third-leading scorer in the tournament and was the first player to tally three goals in World Cup play. At the 10th Olympiad in Los Angeles, soccer was eliminated due to a controversy between FIFA and the IOC over the definition of an amateur and the reluctance of most of the strong soccer countries to travel to California because of the expense involved. West Chester State College and Salisbury College played in the first intercollegiate soccer game under floodlights. The National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) was organized by 10 coaches attending the annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association of America in New York. The USFA changed its name to the U.S. Soccer Football Association (USSFA). Joe Gaetjens’ goal lifts the USA over England 1-0 at the World Cup in Brazil. It was called the biggest upset ever in international soccer. The first college bowl game was played in St. Louis Jan. 1. Penn State University tied the University of San Francisco 2-2. The National Soccer Hall of Fame was organized by the Philadelphia Old-timers Association. There were 15 inaugural inductees. In an agreement with the Old-timers Soccer Association, the USSFA assumed administration of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. The American Soccer League (ASL) was granted permission from the USSFA to create an International Soccer League (ISL), made up of top-class European, South American and U.S. professional league teams that would operate in the cities throughout the United States. The first NCAA championship tournament was held in Storrs, Conn. St. Louis defeated Bridgeport University 5-2. The first National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics college championship was held in Slippery Rock, Pa.. Pratt Institute was victorious over Elizabethtown College 4-3. The International Soccer League began play under the sponsorship of William Cox and the ASL. For more than a decade foreign teams visited the USA to play American teams. The new league, composed of first class European, British and South American teams, was an attempt to test the support of American soccer fans for a top-flight league. The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), the governing body of soccer in this part of the world, was recognized by FIFA. Two new major professional leagues made their debut in the USA, the USSFA-sanctioned United Soccer Association (USA) and the independent National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). By the end of the year, the leagues merged at the request of FIFA and the North American Soccer League (NASL) was established. The modern game and explosion of the sport in USA really starts in 1990. Japan, Ghana, Croatia, Korea seem to be developing some talent. How old are their soccer leagues? Are there national teams that have no playing league in their country? If so, how do they compare to the US? Curious what happened to US soccer between 1967-1990? I’ve been to Japan and Korea on business travel. Drive around and you see soccer fields all over. The J-Leage and K-Leage are big and well supported. If you read “Soccer Nomics”, it predicts these countries to be soccer powerhourses in near future. I liken Japan and Korea to Germany — great work ethic, committment, build in mentality to do things right. Japan and Korea are also big on group think. Do what’s best for the group as opposed to individual in USA. I have no proof, but think this helps them focus on proper development versus short-term win now in USA. @Paul. yes of course those players. I was only referencing the younger South Americans that everyone is talking about and the ones that have recently sold. A thought (or two) on developing defenders. If you look at past history, you will notice that the most elite central defenders have been Italian. That’s the consensus anyway. Along with Argentines and Brazilians. (With a few brits mixed in…but I digress for a moment..) Germany also has some currently ranked up there. Puyol and Pique are the only current or even past Spaniards receiving accolades. With the italians (Maldini is my favorite) is that because of their style of play? Brazil, Spain and Argentina are generally considered proponents and traditionally been attacking sides. Anyone have any thoughts/opinions on this? I have my own theories. But they are just that. Theories. Tim S. says Gotta be honest and disagree with much this stuff about teaching, coaching, developing players that are 2nd or 3rd team players. I have been around soccer my entiire life and never have I never seen a player after 12 years older ever outperform his peers he struggled against since 8 years of age. The reality of player development is most often a coach takes/gets more credit then they deserve. A coach spends 4 hours a week with a 9-12 year old and he deserves credit for making a kid better. This is nonsense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A child 12 and under spends 80% of his time playing away from his coach and often teammates, the better players anyway. So why give so much credit to the coach??? Coach “A” coached 5000 kids at 10 years old but only developed 1 professional player. Did he not explain the same soccer ideas to the other 4,999? Of course he did but they just didn’t have it! Perhaps they didn’t have the mental, physical, or emotional or perhaps they didn’t have the technical or tactical or perhaps lacked the determination or desire. Something was missing and shouldn’t be blamed on the coach and for the 1 that had “it”, Well they shouldn’t take or deserve credit for that child either. Can’t have it both ways. Lets give credit to the kid and his devoted parents. Much more important before 12 then the local coach or club. Let me add a correction. The average child 12 and under spends 0% of his time playing away from his coach and teammates. “A coach spends 4 hours a week with a 9-12 year old and he deserves credit for making a kid better.” That is why I keep saying most youth coaching is overrated. There are a few exceptional coaches that actually accelerate player development but most just interfere with it. These exceptional coaches are following a scientific method whether they realize it or not. ” I have been around soccer my entiire life and never have I never seen a player after 12 years older ever outperform his peers he struggled against since 8 years of age. ” http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/index.html Maybe that’s because we as a country do a terrible job of finding those late-bloomers that CAN make the grade. We know they’re out there. Given the very poor returns for all that has been invested over the past 20 years, and the very low soccer IQ of our current crop of players, I don’t think past performance should be indicative of future results. Tim S….. i agree with what you are saying if I understand it correctly, to summarize it, there is not enough “unstructured play” with our kids. Too many cones, private academies popping up everywhere and claiming they are developing the player. I played with so many talented players but most of them went nowhere because of one simple fact, “DESIRE and COMMITTMENT”, that is something no coach can teach nor develop. Our job as coaches is to culture and enhance what the kid has in them. Here is an example, there was a local boy here that signed with Barcelona about 2 years ago. The parents moved to Spain etc… When the news came out, every team and academy this kid was ever associated with put his picture on their website claiming the player to be their product. So i know what you are trying to say, the right answer is that everyone contributed to this kids development, staring from U6, more impotently, the kid wanted and his parents provided the right environment….. the story ends with the player coming back after one year, sources say Barca felt they made a mistake in their selection. @Mario, Lederman is no longer a Barca player? wrong player, i cant remember the last name for the life of me, and this kid is Canadian Gianni Patino? http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/story.html?id=78812c6c-48b9-4442-a9c0-9e5021543e3f&k=52199 According to some people here it turned out to be kind of a scam. Solicited donations and sponsors, buot into FCBEscuela – the pay-to-play school — not the Academy. . http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?41045-update-on-giancarlo-patino-at-barcelona/page3 Yes, that is him, thanks! the real deal came out when he returned. Anyways, the point of my post was regarding coaches taking credit for “developing players”. I guess the merits of this boy’s case is a discussion for another thread. Hall97….defenders are not what they used to be, nowadays defenders need to be good technically and have the ability to play like midfielders. The game is so much more technical, fast, and cognitive that the look of a defender has changed dramatically in the past 6 years alone. if you look at the 2006 world cup with Cannavaro who was player of the tournament, and then compare him with Spain in 2010 with their defenders..completely different types of players, not sure if Cannavaro would have made the starting line up! Defenders these days are more converted midfielders than real defenders. The days of Franco Baresi, Metzelder, Stilike (Germany 1982) are over. The general traits of a good defender are one who shuts down space quickly, patience with 1v1 and understanding of other outnumbered situations. Of course, aggressiveness and tackling are key attributes and ability to win balls in the air, reading the game but a huge component these days is can he play with his feet? some of the best players on a team are fullbacks these days. i do not believe size is a big of an issue as some people, i just gave an example of Cannavaro, Puyol, not big guys at all. If look at other big defenders, Rio, Lescott, John Terry, big boys but not exactly great defenders because they are not good with their feet. They do reasonably well in the EPL, but internationally they struggle. if you have a player on your team that is tenascious on the ball, shuts down space well, and can play when in possession contributing to the offence, you might have a good future defender on your hands. Thanks Mario. My U15 son has recently ‘converted’ to a centerback/fullback. He’s always been a central midfielder until now. Including his state select team. I was a little concerned at first. But the reality is he has adjusted exceptionally well. For many of the same reasons you listed above. He has the skill set of a midfielder but reads the game, has the athleticism and positional sense of a centerback. He’s fairly tall (just under 6 feet and still growing) but I think height is a secondary consideration. Definitely not a one dimensional, ‘pure destroyer’ type of player. I think he will actually stand out there more than he would as a midfielder. Why? Because most American centerbacks are too one dimensional. Win and strictly clear the ball types. He brings the ball out and initiates the buildup play. Even (intelligently) gets forward. Like Pique and Vermaelen for example. His brain though is his greatest asset. Fullbacks have been getting forward for awhile now. But the modern, effective centerback has to be able to control and distribute the ball. Hall97…you raise a good point where your son was a centre midelfielder and now a CB of FB. I am going to assume that he played CMF because he was the best player on the team?, but his attibutes were more of a defensive midfielder. You have described my 13 year old, same type of player. I find coaches play their best players in positions to “solidify” the team rather than play the player in posiitions according to his attributes where he can excel (i am talking about U12 and older mostly). I have this battle all the time, even with my own asst. coaches, where they think a player should play in a given position because it helps the team, but it is not that player’s real position. I think a real disservice is given to the player to not allow him/her to perfect their positon once they reach an age that they need to become experts at their postion. This is one of the reasons perhaps we do not develop true “artigians” of any position, like a Pirlo, Iniesta, Pique… We develop a bunch of athletes without any real expertise. Yes, mario, he was always a central midfielder. because he could impact the game most there. He could win the ball, distribute the ball and attack. (Deadly inside the 18..) Of course, the higher you move up, the more you specialize. I hate to use baseball for an analogy, but in little league, usually the ‘best’ players are shortstops, centerfielders and also pitch. but as the game becomes more complicated, the need to specialize arises. He’s playing up a year on a high level team. So, the fact that he has the intelligence and all the other technical attributes to play in the center of defense (I hope) speaks highly of his potential. I think playing in the midfield for as long as you can probably provides the best ‘development’ for a youth player. From there it’s easier to adjust to another role. jamalwallace says New as a poster but have been enjoying the discussions immensely for a while now. In case you haven’t seen this video from the girls’ side- it is definitely worth a watch and I think most of you would appreciate it. Their coach is a native of Barcelona and has been able to build a highly successful team espousing possession and attractive soccer. http://youtu.be/tQFlrRW2ZlI http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club-soccer-articles/the-key-to-de-anza-force-is-in-the-details_aid26616 I know Andres Deza follows a scientific approach to player development. Good stuff. Similar to the Santa Clara Sporting GU17 team. Santa Clara Sporting GU17 team is what year? Send a link. It’s this group of kids: http://www.santaclarasporting.com/girlsteams/338842.html can’t find a good video. The short girl in the back row is their field general. I’ve centered a couple of their matches and they play the best possession at that age in norcal. What happened to 95G Green? I thought they were the better team. Why don’t they play in the ECNL? Sporting 95G white is not as impressive as DEANZA FORCE 98G. Overall I am not a fan of Sporting, there trainers and recruiting methods. Not sure, I don’t follow the club just occasionally referee their teams. There is a huge drop-off in the number of girls teams and the quality of of those teams at U16, as key players go to greener grass with an eye towards college and consequently their teams fall apart. Every club is trying to get to ECNL from NorCal, NorCal has pulled the better teams from CCSL and CCSL has inflated team numbers to back-fill the space. I remember the quality players I see and the possession sides I referee. That Sporting team was good, and their maestro is the smartest kid on the pitch. I centered a De Anza match vs Castro Valley a while back (95G?) and the Castro Valley midfielder was an absolute beast–don’t remember the name since I don’t keep game cards but she was the quickest player on the pitch–dispossessed De Anza left right and center. That british De Anza coach would know who she is–I wouldn’t be surprised if De Anza, MVLA and Mustang didn’t recruit her–she’s a special player, too. Dr. Loca, What is the scientific approach? I’d also like to hear opinion on “what is a smart player”.? I think the two are related. Maybe “total footballer” sums it up. Reason I’m asking is I think coaches fall short on developing tactically superior, intelligent players who can think ahead, read and understant the game and react. I can count on one hand the players I think “have it” (U12-U18). Most people notice goals, crunching tackles, dribbling past seveal opponents, and things like that. But I see it differently. I try to watch the players who do the little things right and often go unnoticed. Timing a run, looking for a que to react and think ahead, understanding how to support, first touch away from danger, playing with calmness / poise / balance / control, playing simple passes on the ground, moving every few seconds to create chances or shut down opponent options, calling for backup when he moves out of his area, ability to play intrechangeable positions, keeping head up when game not going good, double footed. I haven’t seen a definition of scientific approach, but hopefully it when a coach teaches types of things I point out above. I don’t see coaches doing that. They teach “X” and “O”. Understanding above needs a mentor, time and attention, reviewing videos and expalining movement. This is what USA players lack. I do all of above with my son because he doesn’t get it at club. Looking forward to your thoughts Dr. Loco. Loca …Loco…same thing! I want Gary to discuss the scientific approach. I’ll write something briefly. Sorry for typo Dr. Loco. “Soccer Development Through Education” is the mantra of this forum. My recent posts (rants) is where I was going. Coaches / clubs aren’t “educating” players to fullest extent. I think we need to talk more about that here. Are we educting them or just funneling them through the system (like graduaitng dunces from high school who truly don’t have basic eduation)? I recognized long ago my son’s coach / coaches aren’t educating him on tactical awareness, how to play and understand the game. Do’n’t just say “you move here”, explain why. What are the consequences / impact of not moving “there”. How does it help the team to move “there”. This is no different than the fact that learning ball skills rests almost exclusively on the playre and his devotion to doing it on his own time. Does US club soccer (especially USDA) need to do more “educating”? Looking for ward to Gary’s perspective. I have no concept of what professional EU or SA clubs teach, but I would be surprised if they didn’t spend a good amount of time on tactical awareness. Explaining the why and how. Knowledge of what you are doing and why and how it impacts the team. Understanding how the game is played . . . from every position . . . and why a team’s formation, tactics, player capabilities affect what we do and how we do it. Do players just play, react to the ball . . . . or do they read the game, understand the dynamics of the situation? They need to be able to do this without thinking . . . just knowing what to (in DNA). They know how to play proprerly. This takes repitiion and reinforcement via things like review of videos, watching games on TV or in person, and a coach who can teach / mentor / englighten them. I watched last installment of El Classico with my son. Focus only on Barca. Notice how players are always balanced, controlled, pass well. They don’t rush and this allows them to be calm and think. They don’t force anything. As a result, they don’t lose the ball that much. Shots on goal are 95% of time within the 18-yard box. Shots aren’t wild. They are accurate with technique. They don’t take low probability, hopeful shots from outside 18-yard box. This helps maintain possession and minimize fast breaks (they keep possession so long that forwards / wingers can’t cherry pick from mid-field). When they attack in final third, they send bodies forward and pressure defenders from all sides. They are small but know how to cut off dribbles by using bodies to disrupt point of attack / dribble. They can make one-touch passes like they were playing a game of keep away on practice pitch. The build up in midfield is slow and defense keeps proper distance. They save their energy for attack in final third (this is something Cruyff and Dutch style taught them). This is what I call smart soccer. Are we teaching that? Jungle ball is total opposite, just kick and chase. Nothing “scientific” or “smart” about it. Exchange of possession every few seconds and kids running around like headless chickens! Is this what we are teaching? Why! The easy answer is “no”. Most of the clubs really aren’t in the business of developing players. Because teaching the game properly takes a back seat to taking the path of least resistance. meaning, taking ‘shortcuts’ in order to get results. Even parents of the perceived ‘elite’ players have the mindset that, if the results are there…their child is progressing. That team success equates to individual player success. The reality is that no club, team or coach is going to create/develop an elite player. Yes, coaching is important. But 80% or more of the equation is up to the individual player. That said, teaching the game properly, with an emphasis on fundamental technique and tactical awareness (built around keeping the ball) can and does go a long way. The big clubs, including and especially the DA clubs, only recruit the best players. or try to anyway. I’m not negating the importance of coaching or competition. But, if it was all about “competition” (depending on age) then we’d see a lot more quality players coming through the youth ranks. “It’s not defined by a single variable,” said Carles Folguera, the academic director of La Masia. “There are many influencing factors that explain our success that is being recognized worldwide. It’s a long process. It’s not good to be in a hurry, so there’s patience here. In that process you have good coaches, and you look not only for talent for the game, but you also look at personality — how the kid tries to overcome obstacles and difficult moments, an injury or a coach who doesn’t believe in him. So it’s also about character, values.” http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/grant_wahl/10/04/barcelona-youth-academy-la-masia/index.html “We’re turning into the Premier Liga! ” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2214767/Jamie-Redknapp-Martin-Keown-analyse-Premier-League-season-far.html Ya, but the problem for England is that it is not the english players that are playing the La liga style! Without the foreign influence and money that has brought them, EPL would be jungle ball again. obviously has not helped the national team. Indeed Mario “We play football in a unique manner with players who are made with our unique idea of football,” says the club’s senior football director, Andoni Zubizarreta, also a legendary goalkeeper for Barça and Spain. “We feed ourselves through that same process and it allows us to compete at the highest levels. But you can only achieve that through conviction, sometimes not even a conscious conviction. It’s not written down, it’s lived. It’s something you have in you. The youth in our system play that way not because somebody tells them to, but because they’ve internalized it. “Barça is an evolution of football, a new operating system,” “Asumir riesgos supone provocar al miedo, pero asumirlos supone también estar + vivo q nunca… Una de las causas + comunes del fracaso es el hábito de abandonar cuando uno se ve presa de una frustración temporal…” (To assume risks means to provoke fear, but to assume them also means to be alive more than ever…One of the more common causes of failure is is the habit of abandoning when one is prey of a frustration of the moment…) Carles Puyol ‏@Carles5puyol Culture, convictions, soccer…can you separate them?? Gary, how would an athletic director allow the Stanford men’s team to play jungle ball while the women’s team excels at possession? Same question for the Akron women’s team playing jungle ball while the men’s do not. It does not make any sense that a university athletic program would have a top men’s/women’s team and a bad team of the opposite gender in any sport. Don’t these coaches share the same offices? Is there any communication and learning going on? Waiting on Gary, but some quick thoughts on scientific approach: 1. I’d suggest we call it the “Holistic Approach”. Look at soccer from the whole, sum of parts (total football) rather than scientific which is more hypothesis, test, observe. Maybe it’s a combination of the two? 2. Players should be taught to: keep possession, attack, and keep pressure (defensive / offensive) 3. Technical skill and tactical awareness is more important than size and physical strength, especially at younger ages. 4. Ball should always be at feet during practice. Even when running laps. The more you have the ball at your feet, the more it improves technique. 5. Develop / Identify players who show aptitude for technique, tactics, quickness of thought, composure. 6. Have a coaching / playing philosophy and stick with it 7. Spend a lot of time on very small sided games, with limited space or play piggy in the middle often. This helps build first touch, quick passing, thinking ahead, movement, composure. 8. During games, coach only say things like a. Watch spacing, look for your que, keep composure, think, look around, communicate, keep it simple. Say things that forces players to think on their own and learn, not make them robots following orders. Don’t tell them what to do, just give advice things to think about. 9. Use creating leaning (i.e., holistic) learning methods a. Have players who sit on bench analyze a teammate on the pitch and provide coach / player with feedback on what they saw. Do same with games on TV. Ask you son to watch a game, you leave and then have him tell you what he learned. What worked, what didn’t, and then ask for the why. b. Review videos of past performance as learning tool. This is huge eye opener! I did this few times with my son and it opened his eyes. Not only to what he was / wasn’t doing, but his teammates. A picture is worth a thousand words and a video is a novel. c. Assign the smartest or most complete player to be captain as opposed to the biggest, tallest, strongest as seems to be the norm (a vestige of gridiron football soccer hasn’t shed off) I could go on, but wanted to see if any of above makes sense . . . . Your holistic approach sounds nice in theory. The problem I see is that you are assuming players are good enough and willing to execute this approach. 1. Total football can’t be played until players have a fundamental skill set 2. Right, but how? 3. True but how do you teach it? 4. Running laps? Ball at your feet does not directly translate to technique. 5. All players should be developed 6. Well what if your philosophy is wrong? Perhaps it should evolve. 7. Yes SSG are good in practices but does not guarantee anything. 8. Some players can’t think on their own at least not while playing. Many kids are not thinkers. 9. Yes, but which? The players I see don’t communicate let alone analyze games. Reviewing games sound nice but most kids will fall asleep or spend their time talking. Let’s examine the scientific approach. I got most of above from: http://www.soccerclassroom.com/coaching-blog/the-magic-of-barcelona-soccer-unveiled/ Did it to prove a point. As I can tell by an initial response, we are reluctant to accept change and better way . . .even if La Masia. So we have inertia and never change. Good stuff. I don’t disagree with anything you said. It’s just not the complete solution. “The Spaniards take an ‘academic’ approach to teaching the game.” You have to understand that La Masia is like MIT. They only accept the best of the best. Those same methods do not apply to everyone. Of course we can learn from them. “Research shows that focusing on technical skills is more important than fitness related work – especially at younger ages.” Research is scientific. Developing technical skills is too. You Can’t Copy a Style of Play and What Mr. Sigi Schmid Said. says: […] suppose one would like to. Let’s say a high level youth coach with 20+ years experience in jungle ball with an enormous trophy case has a coming to Jesus moment and wants to produce a product like […] World Class 1st Touch \| Coachalec says: […] compare the two stories of a possession-based player and a jungle ball player (referenced from Gary’s definition of jungle ball or the NOT Development example in the last post). Just think about this for a second, imagine that […] Leave a Reply to ASO Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355367
__label__cc	0.731787	0.268213	Please NBC Sports, Let Us GIve You Money! Charles Pic. CaterhamF1, Andrew Ferraro/LAT Photo How much would it add to your experience of watching F1 racing to have the same access to the multiple feeds available to fans in Europe? For us quite a lot, we would much rather watch nat-sound onboard or hear communications between drivers and their engines on the pit wall rather than listening to three guys yammering on from a remote location. For this we would gladly pay a sizable extra, even if those extras were just streamed on the internet. Check out for example this composite clip from today's qualifying, So much information, so many little interesting tidbits, can you pick some out? Qualifying was interesting and again determined in part by tire choice, specifically in Q3, the timing of when to put on a fresh set of intermediates for a final push. Interesting also how Vettel's Red Bull was pretty much a dog in the dry early sessions but blew everyone away in the final Q3, 9/10ths over P2 Massa. Tomorrow, there's a 50% chance of rain around race time so we'll see who fortune favors and who's setup gamble pays off. Pos Driver Team Time Gap 1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m49.674s 2. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m50.587s + 0.913s 3. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m50.727s + 1.053s 4. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m51.699s + 2.025s 5. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m52.244s + 2.570s 6. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m52.519s + 2.845s 7. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m52.970s + 3.296s 8. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m53.175s + 3.501s 9. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1m53.439s + 3.765s 10. Sergio Perez McLaren-Mercedes 1m54.136s + 4.462s Q2 cut-off time: 1m37.342s Gap ** 11. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m37.636s + 1.446s 12. Nico Hulkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 1m38.125s + 1.935s 13. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m38.822s + 2.632s 14. Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari 1m39.221s + 3.031s 15. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m44.509s + 8.319s 16. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault no time Q1 cut-off time: 1m37.931s Gap * 17. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m38.157s + 1.348s 18. Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 1m38.207s + 1.398s 19. Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 1m38.434s + 1.625s 20. Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 1m39.314s + 2.505s 21. Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 1m39.672s + 2.863s 22. Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 1m39.932s + 3.123s 107% time: 1m43.585s * Gap to quickest in Q1 ** Gap to quickest in Q2 Labels: Formula 1, Formula 1 2013, Malaysian GP at 12:22 PM Anonymous Saturday, March 23, 2013 1:56:00 PM ^^Scratching head My F1 knowledge is only from American tv and I had no idea this stuff even existed. Having this feed would make qaulifing for me so much more interesting. Can I find this on the web somewhere? I am almost speechless as to how cool that information is. WOW! WHOA! Man what we've been missing here in the states. That's like hearing NASA launch the space shuttle. Screw the common-tators. They should only speak at the intro and the outtro. Just spend the whole race seeing the cars, listening to the cars, and listening in on the radios. They're discussing set-ups, strategy, everything. I think with technology its only a matter of time before we can, for a fee, watch a proper British F1 telecast over the internet. I would have loved to have heard Murray Walker call a race back in the day. Jeff Saturday, March 23, 2013 5:47:00 PM I was going to say something about this after the Australia race but I got busy... I gave the NBC coverage a chance and was SERIOUSLY disappointed. Not only did they just cut/paste the crew from SPEED, they literally decided to use the same format and as far as I can tell the same graphics, production, and talking points. With all due respect to the three amigos...they're stale. None of them has set foot in an F1 pitlane in years (they didn't even travel to Austin last year unless I missed something) and Matchett blathers on like every single person watching is a newb with no knowledge of the deeper points and strategy of F1. Hobbs is about due for a nice room with south facing windows somewhere in Florida, and that leaves 'the other guy' who has, lets be honest, only a fraction of the actual F1 experience of the other two. BUT, and this is what really gets me about the whole American F1 broadcast...they play an average of 3-4 commercials PER FREAKIN LAP. I started counting laps between commercial breaks during the race and gave up in frustration after realizing how much of the midfield action and strategy I was missing. They act like putting the live feed in a half-window with commercials in the other half of the screen is a blessing, but you can't really tell wtf is going when you can't even see the F1 feed graphics. It's not bad enough that they only bankroll one reporter and a cameraman to go to the actual race (as compared to BBC/SKY who send their entire team to every race...which may reflect the popularity of the sport in english-speaking europe, or add to it) but to pile on commercial after commercial is insulting. Then they act like ad-free last ten lap coverage is really cool - nope, all the action happened before that, the last laps are really just wrapping up the rest of the story. So, I settled for sub-par coverage, delivered as if to a room full of F1 newcomers (I swear if I hear about how the DRS system works one more time from Matchett I'm gonna scream) and stuffed the remote in the couch so I wouldn't chuck it at the TV out of frustration when they cut to the 55th ad about when the first round of pitstops started happening. It really was distracting, to say the least - by the time they get back to the race my brain has lost interest and struggled to catch up on the action on track. In summary, it's no wonder F1 has a problem getting fans here in the US - they're treated like it's a NASCAR race, with the associated ADD/short term attention thing going on. The network must be raking in the cash from all the commercials they air, and spend almost nothing on the actual broadcast itself (there were very few moments of real production, and the pre-race buildup was so bad...'ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?' could be heard around my house). Look around a little bit and find yourself a decent feed of SKY or BBC, even if it isn't in HD you'll quickly realize the difference in quality of the overall show. And, if you're not down with that, find a torrent. They're usually up within an hour of the end of the race, in HD, and you can watch at your convenience, without a g-d commercial stuffed in every 4 minutes or so. You'll thank yourself for making that tiny extra effort. Anonymous Saturday, March 23, 2013 10:20:00 PM Why cant I see the composite clip?? Is it because i live in Australia??? Andy from Beaverton Saturday, March 23, 2013 11:36:00 PM I never missed a live event from before when Senna died to 2007. Then I found an F1 private torrent group that shares all of the British F1 race feeds. It was light night and day in the content of the commentary and interviews. I would have to take stupid pills to watch the American feed. Some of the personal stats are a waste of space in the video. Clyde Saturday, March 23, 2013 11:39:00 PM Amen, I would gladly pay for those features. As it stands, the coverage available in America sucks so hard that I sometimes question whether or not I should skip watching a race live and instead download the vastly superior BBC/Sky coverage. I hate how NBC fills their broadcast with information suited to first time viewers. I mean seriously, how many F1 newbies are watching a qualifying session at 2 in the morning? I suppose they replay it the next day, but it still feels ridiculous when your "reward" for staying up until the crack of dawn is a bunch groan inducingly obvious information. Unknown Sunday, March 24, 2013 8:31:00 PM I would watch Kimi all the time. Anonymous Sunday, March 24, 2013 10:15:00 PM my feelings exactly, i was shocked by the difference or lack of expertise by the commentary team, it was more like old people gibber-gabbering with tv on. All they know is past champions and who won the same race last year, that's all they know, quality is appalling. who the fuck breaks into commercials in middle of a quali session, at least i've not seen that before. am terribly disappointed. Bigasshammm Monday, March 25, 2013 11:39:00 AM Its unfortunately never going to change in the US. The execs have scripts that they follow for almost every show. They see what works for NASCAR so therefore everything else has to be the same way. Even the NASCAR coverage is utterly terrible anymore. Who needs 4 hours of pre-race jibberjabber? There is absolutely nothing to talk about for that long in a sport where nothing happens until the last 10 laps. I'm thankful I can watch practice, qualifying, and the race. I don't watch them live because I have a real life and kids and work and cannot be bothered to be up at 3am each weekend to watch live. I also would hate watching live because of all the commercials. It's much nicer to DVR the show and fast forward through all the BS. In that regard I would never pay for any extra coverage if you had to watch the race live to get it. It would be throwing money away for me. I also don't do any of the torrents or online broadcasts because I just don't understand how they work and also don't have a new enough computer to handle anything. I really wish everything would go away from online content and start making the TV we pay 150$ a month for better. Varsha is a blowhard and never shuts up. I don't mind Matchet or Hobbs because I truly believe they are told what they have to talk about by the producers and it's the same thing every time. Anyone can announce a race from an office 1000s of miles away. They need to get some unknown talent that's willing to travel to each and every race and do actual broadcasts. Trevor Monday, March 25, 2013 9:21:00 PM @F1onNBCSports tweeted that they are going to be adding online coverage in April. I dont know if it will be the in car feeds like sky does or just mirror the cable channel, but the speed guys said before the switch that NBC ponied up for the whole FOM package, so they should have the in car and everything else available.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355370
__label__cc	0.726249	0.273751	Baseline blog Wolfgang Weingart: Typography Posted11 May 2014 CategoryEvents, Publication, Typography CommentsNo Comments Wolfgang Weingart the Swiss typographer. Wolfgang Weingart is regarded as the “enfant terrible” of modern Swiss typography. At an early stage he broke with the established rules: He freed letters from the shackles of the design grid, spaced, underlined or reshaped them and reorganized type-setting. Later he mounted halftone films to form collages, anticipating the digital sampling of the post-modern “New Wave”. As a typography teacher at the Basel School of Design Weingart shaped several generations of designers from 1968 onwards. They came from throughout the world and helped him achieve international recognition. Weingart’s experimental design approach and the connection between analog and digital techniques that he called for are topical again today. His life’s work is shown for the first time in Switzerland and juxtaposed with works produced through his teaching activity. (Museum Fur Gestaltung Zurich) Wolfgang Weingart M. thematic changes, Typographische Monatsblätter 1970/11, double page, letterpress printing, 31 x 46 cm, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Graphics Collection, Foto: Umberto Romito, © ZHdK Weingart Typography 07 May 2014 – 28 September 2014 Halle, Galerie, Vestibül, Bibliotheksgang, Vortragssaa, Ausstellungsstrasse, 60 CH-8005 Zürich Michael Wong: peasouper – journey through London This publication uses the idea of transportation to illustrate our journey back in time to repeat our own history. Miriam Brüggen: The real world of ideology Interview with Miriam Brüggen for the Baseline blog, discussing the ISTD project ‘The real world of ideology’. An… Chai-Lin Lin: ‘A life’s work’ – a tribute to Frutiger The concept of this project aims to combine the best of both and bring to the reader’s attention the uniqueness and characteristics of his typefaces in hopefully an approachable fashion that appeals beyond the academics. Ben Hunt: Multicultural London English Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century. It is spoken authentically by working-class, mainly young, people in London. © Baseline Magazine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355371
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__label__wiki	0.998476	0.998476	The Churches of Britain and Ireland County Cork on Wikipedia. Bandon, Methodist Church. From the postcard collection of Graeme Harvey. Ballycotton, Star of the Sea (R.C.). Interior view. Link. Nearby is a former Church of Ireland church. All © Graeme Harvey. Cloyne, St. Colman (R.C.). Another view. St. Colman's Cathedral (CoI). All © Graeme Harvey. Cobh, St. Colman's Cathedral (R.C.). Seen here in an old postcard (Steve Bulman's Collection). Although undated, it must pre-date the completion of the tower. The entire building was completed in 1915. And this postcard, from Reg Dosell's Collection, shows the completed tower. Interior view. © Graeme Harvey. Another view, © John Watson. Link. Dunmanway, St. Patrick (R.C.). St. Mary (CoI). Both © Graeme Harvey. Enniskeane, Church of the Immaculate Conception (R.C.). © Alan Craxford. The link includes an early (architectural design?) drawing of this church, and there are some differences - see e.g. the spire. Link. Fermoy, Christ Church (Church of Ireland). From an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. Gougane Barra, St. Finbarr's Oratory. © Carole Sage (2000). Kilcredan, the ruins of the former Parish Church. © Graeme Harvey. Killeagh, St. John the Baptist (R.C.). Interior view. Both © Graeme Harvey. Kinsale. Ladysbridge, St. Mary (R.C.). Interior view. Both © Graeme Harvey. Mallow, the ruins of St. Anne. St. James (CoI). Link. Both © John Balaam (2009). St. Mary (R.C.). Interior view. Both © John Balaam (2010). Midleton, Holy Rosary (R.C.). Interior view. St. John the Baptist (CoI). All © Graeme Harvey. Queenstown - see Cobh above. Shanagarry, Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception. © Graeme Harvey. Link (scroll to bottom). Youghal, Methodist Church. © Graeme Harvey. © Steve Bulman	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355380
__label__wiki	0.550324	0.550324	Ipswich’s Chantry Park goes Greatest Showman with Netherlands National Circus \| Latest Ipswich News ipswichstar.co.uk Jake Foxford The Netherlands National Circus in Chantry Park, Ipswich Sept 2018 The finest magicians, gymnasts and contortionists perform their most impressive tricks in Chantry Park this week before moving across the country and continent to dazzle audiences across the channel. The international cast come from all across Europe and the all-human spectacular features a fantastic laser show and aerial acrobatics. Read More: Where do I get tickets, when are the shows and how much will it cost? Ringmaster Daniel Lighthart, 40, has worked in circuses since 1997 – even playing a clown with the Netherlands National Circus in 2015 – and describes it as a job for life. “They have a saying in our business: When you wear out your first pair of shoes at the circus, you don’t buy another one,” he said. “I have done a lot of different jobs on my way to becoming a ringmaster, as you get older your body and your talents change. I used to be an acrobat and I have been a clown but now I’m better at performing like this. “I like the interaction with the public – we practice and perform the same show for up to nine months a year, but when the audience get involved anything can happen, so it makes the show a little different every time.” Nationally, circus entertainment has been given a massive boost this year by the box office smash success of the film The Greatest Showman, starring Hugh Jackman, which tells the story of circus king PT Barnum. Mr Lighthart added: “I’ve found a lot more people are asking to take a picture with me now rather than the other performers thanks to the film. As long as I have my jacket on, everyone loves me.” Dynamic clown duo Kim and Sarita had some advice for anyone who was thinking about running away to join the circus as well. Kim said: “Being a clown is one of the biggest jobs in the circus. You need to be an actor, a mime and it helps if you can dance too. It’s all about building up a character and trying to be unique: every clown is different and has a personality, just like human beings. He added: “This is the best job in the world, where else would I get to do what I love every day?” The Netherlands National Circus is performing every day until Sunday September 30. Tickets can be booked here. Tags: Circus, circus news, Circus Project's Next Circus performer taken to hospital after fall during show in Downham Market	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355382
__label__cc	0.673343	0.326657	Beeps and Beers Chalgyr’s Game Room Staff Guild Wars 2 – PC Review May 3rd, 2013 Pierre-Yves Uncategorized comments by Pierre-Yves on May 3rd, 2013 Current manager and site administrator for Chalgyr's Game Room, I also review titles on the PS4, XB1, PC, Nintendo Switch and the handhelds. TagsArenanet, Guild Wars 2, mmo, NCSoft, PC Review, world of warcraft When I played the first Guild Wars, I really did not know what to think. I won it in a contest and gave it a shot – but it never really resonated with me the way World of Warcraft did. Movement felt stiff – you could not jump and combat seldom seemed terribly interesting. The visuals were bland – almost washed-out looking in places. I loved that I was not paying for it on a monthly basis, but it just felt inferior to World of Warcraft in almost every way. I have been playing with MMO’s forever. I started playing AnotherMUD back in 1994 and then a few years later got involved with one called Realm of the Crystal Dragon. I played Ultima: Online and Dark Ages of Camelot and even gave Everquest a brief whirl. Graphic MMOs just did not stick with me, not the way MUDs did – at least until World of Warcraft came out. After that, most games were neglected for a few years. I hated the online subscription – I really did. I felt almost guilty for taking time off and not ‘making the most of my paid subscription’. I finally broke away twice, only to be lured back by some Scrolls of Resurrection from time to time. It seems like every MMO that comes out now gets measured against World of Warcraft in some way or another. Fantasy ones like Everquest 2 make the comparisons a bit easier than something of a different theme like DC Universe Online or Star Wars – but the comparison still happen on some level. WoW has become the standard bearer of MMO success. It took me a while to pick up Guild Wars 2. A couple of friends recommended it, and I read good things, but recalled how little I had cared for the first. Still, I finally went ahead and gave it a shot, and was very glad I did so. It reminds me a lot of World of Warcraft – but more for the good than the bad points. Character movement feels better, there are lots of quests to partake in and in general there is a lot to do. All of this, without the subscriptions. Graphics – 10: If your computer has the power to jack up the settings, do so for this game. There is some excellent detail and animation. That being said, even if your computer processing is of the more modest variety, the art direction is excellent. Some of the scenes feel like they were hand painted in, and simply look lovely. I also enjoy the brightly colored visuals. They remind me of World of Warcraft (but with more detail) and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (but with less texture pop-in). Sound & Music – 8: The voice acting is generally good, but not great. Still, it is used often enough that it helps to compliment the story being told. The sound effects offer a good deal of variety, which is pleasant in and of itself, but like World of Warcraft it often brings functionality to the table as well. The distinctive sound of a murloc in WoW is a sign that trouble is coming, and you have some similar events in Guild Wars 2 as well (though perhaps not as distinctive and memorable as the aforementioned murlocs). The music is excellent. Jeremy Soule delivered yet another fantasy sound track, though it does not quite reach the levels of his songs for The Elder Scrolls. Gameplay – 8: In the first Guild Wars, you were ground-bound, so to speak. You could not jump, and sometimes the smallest bits of terrain would frustrate me into having to walk around. You can jump and move much more effectively in Guild Wars 2. There are tons of menus and maps, but they are all pretty easy to navigate as well. Combat is good – if standard MMO fare. You have automatic attacks and specialized skills that have cooldown/resource management to keep you from spamming them senselessly. Still, the controls are not perfect. Jumping in particular is not always very precise. In general that is okay, as Guild Wars 2 is not a platformer, but there are side objectives built into the zones where if you can scale to a certain vantage point, you can view your surroundings for a bit of experience and accomplishment. Here the jumping inaccuracies can become tricky at best and downright aggravating at worst. Also tutorial information could be better. There is a ton to do or see, so I did not expect every last detail put out there in front of me. That being said, there were a lot of details I did not discover to the interface until a day or two in, that would have been useful information earlier in the playing experience. Intangibles – 9: I am largely a solo MOO player. Sort of a funny contradiction I suppose, but I do not generally group, and here I never felt like I had to. I did it a couple of times so I could try the mechanics, and it all seems to work well enough, though finding groups seemed a lot easier in WoW than here in Guild Wars 2.Still, there is a ton to do. The world is expansive, dungeons generally well-designed, lots of quests, crafting and a flexible leveling system. The quests in particular were fun, because while you have standard quests where you walk up to someone and get assigned something to do, there are larger scale events that can occur. Examples might be protecting a farm from a rash of nasty hornets or helping to escort a caravan through bandit infested paths. This helps to encourage people to work together. There are also Player versus Player elements such as an arena and also something they call World vs World. The WvW appealed to me more than the areas, offering larger scale conflicts between people on a few different servers. There is no open PK while wandering the general environments – and that suits me just fine. Some ultra competitive players out there might bemoan this, but I feel like it makes the game’s atmosphere more enjoyable overall. Overall – 8.75: Easily the most fun I have had with an MMO in a long time. It is not perfect, but it is clear the developers did their homework and learned a lot of lessons not only from their prior games, but other franchises as well. That there is no monthly subscription helps the value immensely in my opinion. You still have to buy the game, with usually runs around $60, but I have seen it occasionally discounted on some sights for as low as $35. Guild Wars 2 is a large, entertaining, story-driven multiplayer RPG that is a lot of fun to play. 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Wish I could find another link to our Joseph Shaw family... Joseph Shaw B: 10/02/1819 D: 05/09/1853 M: 12/13/1842 Emily Walker Langston B: 07/14/1811 D: 05/27/1869 and she is buried in the Newnansville Cemetery. Emily was the daughter of John Walker, 1768-1841 & Keturah Walker 1769-1845. Emily had three children with Thomas Langston, 1805-1839. Their names were Emeline Keturah Langston, Marcus DeLaFayette Langston & Lavenia Lucinda Langston. Laurens became a separate county in 1785 from the Ninety-Six District, being named for the Revolutionary War patriot Henry Laurens of Charleston. The town of Laurens became the county seat, and the first courthouse was erected in 1786. The current courthouse was built in 1840 and enlarged in 1857. Andrew Johnson, president of the United States, and his brother came to Laurens in 1824 and established a tailor shop. The family moved from SC to Lickskillet, GA (near Atlanta, was later changed to Adamsville). Founded as a farming village, Adamasville was possibly named for early resident G. W. Adams, who farmed there in 1882 when it was called Lick Skillet. The name was changed to Adamsville in 1906. Joseph died during the Typhoid fever breakout, 1853. After Josephs death, the family moved a little north of Dalton, GA. There is a huge section called Red Clay, near Cohutta, GA, and a rail system ran through there. This is when the war between the states broke out and Gardiner left for the 28th Georgia Regiment in 1861, Company K, and died in service after the Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia. During the War Between the States, on May 2, 1864, the 2nd Brigade, First Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Cumberland, U. S. Army, after a hard fight drove the Confederates from this town. It then became an important depot of supplies for Federal forces. A heavy force of Federals guarded this town to prevent Confederate raids from capturing valuable stores here. The Federal Army of Ohio, moving South toward Dalton passed through this town. 1~Private John Gardiner Shaw B: 10/05/1843 D: 07/10/1864 CSA Shaw, G. - Private - September 10, 1861. Died at Richmond, Virginia, June 3, 1862. Buried there in Hollywood Cemetery. 2~Jesse Mansfield Shaw (see below) 3~Hogan Washington Shaw B: 07/17/1847 D: 10/03/1909 Grand Cane, De Soto Parish, LA M: 04/02/1876 Amelia Christian McMillan B: 02/06/1844 D: 04/29/1922 1~Florence Shaw B: 02/14/1877 D: 08/04/1949 M: L Y Tidwell 1870-1929 4~Azariah J. Shaw B: 07/22/1851 5~Adelia Joanna Shaw B: 12/05/1853 D: 01/16/1935 Grand Cane, De Soto Parish, LA M: 04/10/1877 to James Robert Connell B: 01/22/1851 D: 06/23/1933 1~Floy V. Connell B: 10/02/1882 D: M: 08/23/1903 David E. Fortson B: 10/03/1875 Caddo Parish, LA D: 06/30/1904 Caddo Parish, LA., son of Elijah Richardson Fortson. (Elijah Richardson Fortson B: 08/08/1831 Greene Cty., AL. Elijah D: 01/30/1905 in Grand Cane, DeSoto Parish, LA. Elijah moved to LA in 1846 with his parents and then moved to Texas by 1860. He was a minister. M1: 11/29/1855 Arilla Hill in Caddo Parish, LA. She was B: 08/22/1831 Greene Cty., AL, the daughter of Berry Hill and Elizabeth Reach. Arilla D: 08/06/1873 in TX, and was buried in Caddo Parish, LA. They had 5 children: David E. Fortson). Floy remarried 07/29/1906 John H. Boss. 2~Edith Connell B: 11/05/1886 D: 07/08/1887 3~Robert Connell B: 08/15/1889 4~Annie May Connell B: 11/11/1892 D: 03/26/1953 M: Robert Mackan Cowdin B: 09/03/1887 D: 06/22/1969 1~Robert Louis Cowdin B: 1913 D: 1988 LA US Army Air WWII M: Virginia Scott 1914-2008?? 5~Jessie Lee Connell B: 11/10/1896 2~Jesse (Jessey per Thomas family Bible) Mansfield Shaw B: 07/12/1845 in Laurens District, SC D: 10/17/1929, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua, Florida. M: 12/10/1868 Mary Frances Thomas, daughter of Isham B. Thomas and Mary E.Ulmer, B: 04/03/1850 in Georgia D: 09/15/1906. Was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. He enlisted in the 4th Ga. Cavalry, Co. H., from Coweta Co. on Oct 2nd 1862 (Company H Fourth Georgia Cavalry enlisted December 29, 1862). Evidently, this regiment became attached to the Army of Tennessee under the command of Gen. Braxton Bragg in the defense of central Tennessee in 1862 and 1863. Jesse served with Col Avery. Company "H" was not organized until Nov. 16, 1862, the regiment being camped at Dalton GA on Dec. 16, 1862. Jesse and his regiment patrolled Shelbyville, Fayetteville and Murfreesboro, TN, in Col Averys Regt. Isaac W. Avery's regiment reorganized on Jan. 30, 1863. Duncan L. Clinch's regiment having organized on Jan. 15, 1863, Avery recognized the right of Clinch's regiment to the designation 4th Georgia Cavalry. Avery wrote to the War Department on Jan. 9, 1863 from Fayetteville, TN to request arms for his men. Enough saddles were available to equip his command, but like many other Confederate cavalry units, most of his soldiers were unarmed or only partly armed. This stuation seems to have remedied shortly after Feb. 19, 1863, when Col. Avery requisitioned 15,000 rounds of Colt Navy cartridges from the arsenal at Macon GA. By May 13, 1863, when Avery reported from Chapel Hill, TN, his command had been assigned to Crews Georgia Brigade of Wharton's Cavalry Division, Army of Tennessee (Brig. Gen. John A. Wharton). Jesse recalls "oh, we had one of the coldest winters I ever experienced in all my life so I came back home in spring of 63, as I was under age." The combat record of Avery's 4th Georgia Cavalry Regiment began after the death of Thomas J. Stevenson on April 12, 1863. Emily moved her family to Gainesville Florida and Jesse volunteered in the Reserves in Capt. J B Nickolas' Company, and served the last year of the war here in the state of Florida. "I was never in a battle, but in 3 or 4 skirmishes. Got to hear the balls whistle & the cannon shells pass over & burst in front of our line, right among the Yankees & you bet they scatered. That was at Darbys Station, near Jacksonville, where they (the Yankees) were tearing up the R.R. We were at Old Baldwin (near Jacksonville), when news of surrender came in, and where we were to be paroled and then head back home, to Old Newnansville where my mother and younger brother & sister lived and three years later, in winter of 1868 was married to Miss Fannie Thomas, daughter of Mr. I. B. Thomas & worked our farm & raised 9 large healthy children." CSA pension #A07814. They actually had eleven children, the set of twins died at two years old. On 11/02/1899, Jesse recieves 500 acres. On 08/25/1910, Jesse sells 85 acres to son Joseph for $400. Mary Francis Thomas Shaw & Jesse Mansfield Shaw 1910s 1~Minnie E. Shaw B: 09/01/1869 in Florida D: 11/27/1953 in Gilchrist County, Florida and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. M: Albert Eugene Waddell B: 09/28/1873 in GA D: 10/15/1913, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, FL, son of Florence, on 08/03/1899 in Alachua County, Florida. AlbertThey had three children: 1~Albert Eugene Waddell Jr B: 08/04/1900 in Florida D: 06/08/1963 in Alachua County, Florida, and was buried in High Springs Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. M: 06/17/1922 Murla Maude Fralick B: 02/29/1905, daughter of John M. Fralickand Annie, in Alachua County, Florida. Albert was an Apprentice Seaman in the Navy. World War I Service Number: 1623943 1~Doris Waddell B: D: M: B: D 1~Cynthia Cusack B: D: M: 2~Bessie Waddell B:08/20/1902 D: 01/20/1978 Branford, Fl M: Jesse Cecil Rowell 1898-1986. Son of Paul Kistler Rowell 1877-1931 and Ira Loretta Edwards 1881-1957. M1: Agnes Kemp M2: Bess Waddell. 1~Francis Edwards Rowell 1918–2002 3~Estell M. Waddell B: 1905 Fl 4~Eugene Waddell B: D: 1978 2~Joseph Lee Shaw B: 04/27/1871 in Florida D: 06/27/1947 in Alachua County, Florida, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery in Alachua County, Florida. M: 08/21/1910 by Judge T. J. Dekle, to Angie Dell Rimes, Dell B: 08/16/1890 in Florida D: 08/07/1924 in Orange County, Florida, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. They had four children: Joseph remarried: Lillie/Lucile Alligood in 1925, and took in her one year old son, Marvin J. Alligood-Shaw. 1~Jesse Mansfield Shaw B: 11/13/1912 FL D:12/03/1977 in Columbia County, Florida, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. 2~Mary E. Shaw B: 11/06/1913 D: 10/25/1915, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. 3~Josie Lee Shaw B: 07/16/1918 in Florida D: 07/09/2000 and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. M: 1935 in Bradford Cty, FL to Nathaniel Enoch Roberts of Lake Butler, FL. 1912-1980. He was the grandson of Nathaniel Enoch Roberts 1857-1899. Buried Swift Creek Cemetery. 1934 Fannie & Josie Lee Chicago Fair/The Canadian Band 1~Myrtice Dell Roberts B: 10/20/1936 D: M: Melvin F. Long B: 01/28/1937 D: Farmer/corn: lived in High Springs, Ft White, Florida. 1~Jane Long B: 09/08/1956 D: M: 2~Sue Ann Long B: 08/03/1962 D: M: 3~Shanna Lee Long B: 07/30/1975 D: M: 2~Jessie Lee Roberts B: 10/29/1939 M: Tommy Gene Lindsey B: 08/17/1936 D: 3 children: 1~Laurie Lindsey B: 01/13/1962 D: M: Smith 2~James Scot B: 08/10/1965 D: M: 3~Staci Lynn B: 10/06/1968 D: M: Smallwood 3~Nathaniel Enoch Roberts III B: 05/11/1942 D: M: Sandra Alday B: 11/18/1947 D: 2 children: 1~Lesley Tara B: 09/12/1970 D: M: 2~John Mark B: 07/20/1974 D: M: 4~Jim (James) Willie Shaw B: 12/24/1920 in Florida D: 11/25/2002, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. M: Betty Lee Rives, daughter of Roe Koger & Lula Joiner Rives. Betty B: 01/09/1924 D: 04/01/2009. They had three children: 1~Jim Willie Shaw B: 03/12/1947 D: M: Annette Toy Shaw B: 02/22/1962 D: 1 child < Jim Willie & Annette 2009 2015 Jim & Annette Shaw 1~Dr. Christina Marie Shaw B: 02/21/1977 D: Lives in Philadelphia, PA M: 2~Ana Shaw B: 02/21/ D: M: Nathaniel Cross 1~William Shaw Cross B: 2012 2~Joseph Robert 'Bob' Shaw B: 10/18/1949 D: M: Marilyn Bishop B: 10/19/1950 D: School Teacher Has a BS and MS in English Education from The Florida State University, and an EdS in Curriculum and Instruction from The University of Florida. Author of 'Solomon' (Bishop is English and our family just migrated to Linlithgowshire just NW of Edinburgh, Scotland, then to the Colonies in the 1600's) Joseph Robert Shaw 1999 At Shaws Farm House Marilyn Bishop Shaw 3~Merrie Ann Shaw B: 03/07/1956 D: M: Kevin Korner B: D: 1 child 1~Kevin Ryan Korner B: 06/30/1988 3~Oliver 'Ollie' Thomas Shaw B: 1873 in FL D: 06/10/1930, is buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. M: 1908 to Inez Brignoni Y Mercado (Ynés (or Inis) Brignoni Y Mercado De Shaw). Inez was born 1882 in Puerto Rico. In 1920, Oliver was living in Puerto Real, Vieques, Puerto Rico. They had one son: Eduardo. Oliver was a Spanish American War Vet. The conflict lasted from April to August 1898. July 25th, 1898, American troops landed at Guanica Harbor, Puerto Rico. Three days later the island surrendered. As a result, the United States acquired Puerto Rico and Guam and bought the Philippines. Cuba became independent. 1~Eduardo Brignoni De Shaw (Eduardo Shaw Y Brignoni) was born 1910 in Puerto Real, Vieques, Puerto Rico. (Per Eduardo: As its last name is Brignoni, it may have descend from the family of Praxedes - Praxedes died in Vieques on August 6, 1919, according to the headstone of his grave in Vieques. Petra is a widow according to the Census of 1910, being listed with 8 children's last name Marin). Of the census of 1910 we know that they lived in the Key, La Llave and married to Demetria Market, born in 1850. Their children were Petra (1874), Ines (1882), Luisa (1884), Jesus (1885) and Juan (1886). There is a breach of 8 years between Petra and Ines reason why it is probable that there were other children who already had gone away of Vieques for the date of the census. Ines is married to Oliver Shaw, natural Florida. Luisa is married to Ramón Dalmau for the 1920 census. Jesus and John found nothing more. As Interestingly, Praxedes also appears in 1880 as one of the Commissioners in the Junta Municipal Meeting of Vieques. Severina Perez Brignoni, born in 1886 is Eduardo's maternal grandmother) Re-Married Emma Eugenea 'Gina' Scott in 1930 in Lake County, Florida. Emma B: 08/16/1890 on her family's plantation in Octavia, Early County, Ga, and died 08/21/1938 in Paisley, FL. Gina was a school teacher for many years. She was devoted to her family and cared for her husband before his death and father before her death. Her oldest brother, CSA Lt. Burrell T. Etheridge died in battle in Virginia 1864. Her family suffered greatly during the war and after her mother's death the family was divided. Emma was "adopted" by Hardy Royals in Cuthbert, Randolph Co. Ga when she was 13. Hardy raised her until her marriage and must have been a great influence on her because she named her first child and only son Walter Hardy Scott. By all family accounts, she did not know much about her family. Only through much research do we have this information. Walter and Emma married in Octavia, Early Co, Ga. 1878. They lived in Damascus, Ga before moving to Higley, Lake Co, Fl and later to Altoona. She died tragically in a car accident with her sister "Bessie" Scott Brantley and husband Sidney Brantley. A sod truck rolled over on their car as it rounded a curve in the road while they were traveling to Miami, Fl to visit a daughter of Bessie and Sidney. Nephew Maurice Brantley was the driver of their car and survived the crash. The accident happened very close to their homes in Altoona, Fl. Gina is buried next to her sister Irma Scott Brooke and near her nieces and parents, at the Glendale Cemetery Umatilla, Lake County FL. 4~Ruth Shaw B: 02/27/1875 in Florida D: 02/22/1954 M: 01/27/1895 to Charles Latimer McLeod, B: 07/10/1863 in North Carolina D: 12/17/1920 in Florida, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Fl. Son of Archibald McLeod 1815-1972 and Mary McArthur 1823-1881, in Alachua County, Florida. They had eight children: Charles was married first to Ida Ford Rogers 1867-1889 and had three children. 01~Flora McLeod 1887 SC 1963 02~Fitz Russell McLeod B: Mar 1898 Florida D: 1935 03~Clifford Roger McLeod B: 1889 SC D: 1964 1~Jessie McLeod B: 1901 in Florida. M: - Lombardi Colusa, CA 2~James Bishop McLeod B: 12/24/1902 Florida D: 02/17/1970 Woodlawn Memorial Park Gotha, FL. US Navy - W W II 3~Charley Lightsey McLeod B: 02/21/1905 Lafayette County, Florida. D: 10/18/1985 Woodlawn Funeral Home, Orlando. M: Ernestine Pearl Hough B: 03/04/1914 D: 08/21/1988. Lived at 569 Paradi Lane, Orlando. He moved to Orlando from Tampa in 1930. He was a retired sheet metal contractor and was a Methodist. He was a member of Central Florida Wildlife Association and District 7 Wildflower Garden Club. 1~Charles L. McLeod of Ocala, 2~Norman D. McLeod of Orlando 4~Mary McLeod B: 1908 in Florida. 5~Donald McLeod 1910-1980 6~David R. McLeod B: 1911 in Florida. 7~Joseph Raymond McLeod 1914-1972 8~Jerry McLeod B: 1915 in Florida. Loca Elizabeth Waters-Mcleod B: 01/06/1916 Daughter of Thomas Waters and Martha Gill Waters. D: 03/20/2010 in Worthington Springs, FL (Mrs. Loca Elizabeth Waters McLeod 94, of, Worthington Springs, passed away peacefully at the Suwannee Haven Hospice in Lake City after a brief illness. She was the daughter of Thomas Waters and Martha Gill Waters. She loved being their for her children, grandchildren family and friends. She was a member of the Worthington Springs Civic club. Providence Pieces Quilting Club and Sassie Sisters Club. And a member of the New Hope Primative Baptist Church in Alachua County. She was preceded in death by her loving husband of years Heywood McLeod and her son Michael McLeod. 7 Brothers and Sisters). Chapel of Archer Funeral Home with Elder Thad Marshall and Elder David Crawford officiating. Burial will follow in Elzey Chapel Cemetery under the care of Archer Funeral Home of Lake Butler. 5~Mary Shaw B: 1874 D: 1876 at age 2, Thomas Cemetery, Alachua Cty, Florida. 6~Shaw B: 1874 D: 1876 at age 2, Thomas Cemetery, Alachua Cty, Florida. 7~Zillah 'Zella' Shaw was born in December of 1879 in Florida and died in 1956, in Columbia Cty, Florida. Zillah married John D. Williams on 07/24/1901 in Alachua Cty, Florida. John was born about 1881 in Florida. They had four children: 1~Gordon Williams B: 1904 in Florida. 2~Clyde Williams B: 1906 in Florida. 3~Eaina (Elmer) Williams B: 1915 in Florida. 4~Natalie Williams B: 1918 in Florida. 8~Francis 'Fannie' Shaw B: 10/08/1881 in Florida D: 04/01/1951, and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia, DeSoto Cty, Florida. M: Richard F. Lewis 09/01/1901 in Alachua County, Florida. Richard B: 08/18/1874 in Florida D: 12/15/1945, and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia, DeSoto County, Florida. They had three children: 1~Nellie S. Lewis B: 1904 in Florida. Nellie had a nickname of Willie. 2~Roy F. Lewis B: 12/25/1905 in Florida D: 04/15/1955 in Lee County, Florida, and was buried in 1955 in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Arcadia, DeSoto County, Florida. M: Charlene Smith. The marriage ended in divorce. 3~Jack M. Lewis was born about 1916 in Florida. 9~Jesse Shaw, Jr. B: 10/29/1883 in Florida D: 03/17/1911, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. 10~Eva Shaw B: Oct 1888 in Florida. Eva married Luther Kinnard and they had no children. Eva was lost at sea, as she disappeared from a cruise ship... Eva Shaw-Kinnard 11~Benjamin Thomas Shaw B:02/07/1894 in Florida D: 12/11/1958 in Alachua County, Florida, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. Benjamin M: 12/17/1916 Maggie Conye Rimes, daughter of Thomas Harlow Rimes and Louella Dekle. They were married at the Met Church in Worthington Springs, FL. Maggie B: 07/17/1895 in Florida D: 11/07/1994 in Duval County, Florida, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. They had seven children: 1917 Bennie & Conye Bennie & Conye 1942 1968 Conye Shaw 1~Junior Shaw B: 1917 D: 1917 2~Fannie Louise Shaw was B: 11/06/1918 in Alachua, Florida. D: 09/23/2015 Jacksonville, Florida. Buried at the Thomas Cemetery, Alachua, Florida. Old Farm House 1919 Fannie 1919 1920 - Bennie, Fannie, Trumie, & Conye Shaw 3~Trumie Abitha Shaw B: 05/17/1920 in Florida. D: Bennie, Trumie, Fannie, & Conye Shaw 1920 4~Benjamin Thomas Shaw, Jr. B: 09/25/1922 in Alachua, Florida D: 05/13/1975 in Duval County, Florida at age 52, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. M: 1944 Tommie Lucile Ross 12/16/1926 D: 04/01/2018. Tommie remarried to Buford Bell and Charles Banks. 1~Connie L. Shaw M: Krawiec 2~Pennie J. Shaw M: Patania 5~Tom 'Buck' Angus Shaw B: 03/08/1926 in Alachua Florida D: 06/26/1989 at age 63, and was buried in Thomas Cemetery, Alachua County, Florida. Tom married Charlotte Cothran 04/11/1947. Charlotte B: 05/23/1928. 6~Matilda Eva Shaw B: 03/08/1928 in Alachua, Florida. 7~Rubye Shaw B:05/31/1930 in Alachua, Florida. Trumie, Ben, Fan, Buck, Eva, Papa Shaw & Mother Shaw:Family Shaw Farm 1928 1934 Buck & Eva Shaw Ben, Conye, Fan, Trumie, Ben, Tom, Eva & Rubye Shaw Family Farm 1935 1919 - Fannie Louise & Bennie Shaw Ben & Buck 1930's Fannie, Trumie & Bennie Trumie 1935 1938 Ida Maggie Phillips at theAlachua Farm House 1941 Ben's First Sermon Church In Ocala, Florida 1948 Tom Angus 'Buck' Knit For Brit: World War II Eva Shaw & Conye Shaw made sweaters for the war effort. Americans had already been knitting and preparing care packages of food and clothes called “Bundles for Britain” to help besieged Londoners. Life Magazine 1941 Eva & Conye worked in the commissary on the base. Aerial view of NAS Jacksonville, 1940's 1944 Buck & Ben Shaw Trumie 1940's Emily Walker Langston Shaw Marilyn Shaw Trumie's Recital 1935 1938 - Trumie at Jacksonville Beach 1940s - Fannie & Trumie 1945 - Trumie at Nursing School © 1974-2020 ChazzCreations.com© © All rights reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355384
__label__wiki	0.987701	0.987701	Home » WB, Lizard take 'Wife' WB, Lizard take 'Wife' McClintock, Pamela Daily Variety;5/30/2006, Vol. 291 Issue 41, p2 The article report son Warner Bros. Pictures' acquisition of the script "Take My Wife." Warner Bros. has set the film up with Jay Chandrasekhar's Broken Lizard to produce. Chandrasekhar will direct the film. Broken Lizard is preparing for the August 2006 release of "Beerfest" by Warners in the United States. WARNERS IN EARLY B.O. LEAD. Groves, Don // Variety;7/22/2002, Vol. 387 Issue 9, p12 Talks about the overseas box office performance of film studio Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. as of July 2002. Major competitors in 1999 and 2000; Factors enhancing the financial figures of major film distributors; Films released by Warner Brothers during the first half of the year, which... 'BABYMAKER' FINDS HELMER. Gardner, Chris // Daily Variety;7/27/2006, Vol. 292 Issue 17, p17 The article reports that a film named "The Babymaker," will be directed by Jay Chandrasekhar for Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. The film is going to star actor Kevin Hefferman who belongs to Chandrasekhar's comedy group called Broken Lizard. The story of the movie revolves around a man who is unable... Warners ups Reina to sr. VP. Harris, Dana // Daily Variety;07/27/2000, Vol. 268 Issue 37, p17 Reports on Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. executive Mark Reina's promotion to the post of senior vice president of publicity for the film company. 'Planet' pitch aligned in WB's orbit. Harris, Dana // Daily Variety;6/13/2002, Vol. 276 Issue 9, p5 Reports the selling of Planet Claire to Warner Bros. Pictures with Kimberly de Bonaventura and Deb Newmyer's Double Down Productions. Role of Marty Navis and Robert Ellsworth; Emphasis of the campaign trail. THE FEARLESS FACTOR. Brodesser, Claude; Dunkley, Cathy // Daily Variety;8/9/2004, Vol. 284 Issue 25, p3 Reports on the acquisition of an untitled comedy film by Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. from writers Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick in Los Angeles, California. Overview of the plot of the motion picture; Producer of the motion picture. WB bans previews in Canada. Vlessing, Etan // Hollywood Reporter -- International Edition;5/8/2007, Vol. 399 Issue 24, p1 The article reports on Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. which has said that the studio will cancel preview screenings of its movies in Canada. Warners said it is reacting to the failure of the Canadian government to introduce legislation to make camcording of films for trafficking around the world... WB: FEWER PIX, MORE PUNCH. Harris, Dana // Variety;7/1/2002, Vol. 387 Issue 7, p9 Presents an update on film studio Warner Brothers Pictures in the U.S. as of July 2002. Scheduled films to be released in 2003; Scheduled films to be released in 2004; Partnerships with studios like Village Roadshow Pictures to release twenty-six or twenty-seven films per year; Plan of Warner... Benzakein takes new WB Euro gig. Hollinger, Hy // Hollywood Reporter -- International Edition;02/27/2001, Vol. 367 Issue 8, p6 Reports on the appointment of producer Simona Benzakein as vice president European production at Warner Brothers Pictures. Career background; Major responsibility; Film studio's aim to boost its expanded overseas local-language production, acquisition and distribution program. Carson tapped sr. vp int'l output at Warners unit. Hollinger, Hy // Hollywood Reporter -- International Edition;4/10/2001, Vol. 367 Issue 40, p8 Reports on Nancy Carson's promotion to senior vice president of international distribution at Warner Brothers Pictures. Other women executives at the company; Carson's career background.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355386
__label__cc	0.698985	0.301015	NICK SOSIGIAN – SENIOR – MONITEAU Son of: Mike and Sheila Sosigian Sports Played: Baseball 2016-17 Highlights: NIck had a strong season for the Warriors baseball squad hitting .348 with a double, six RBIs and six stolen bases. He also pitched in four games going 2-1 with a 3.41 ERA. In 12 ⅓ innings of work, he struck out 12. Post-High School Goals: Nick plans on attending college after graduation. Q&A With Nick Sosigian NS: Baseball NS: Winning the D9 title against Karns City my sophomore year. NS: I like to play in high school because a lot of my friends play and we are like brothers when we are in season. I also play for the excitement of making the playoffs and participating in them. D9: Is there a high school player on your team or another team that you enjoy watching play? If so, why? NS: I enjoy watching Brice Williams. He is very smooth in everything does and sometimes makes the game look easy. NS: I enjoy spending time with my friends and girlfriend, playing golf, video games and fishing. NS: I would like to go to New York City. I think it would be a cool experience and it would be really fun. NS: My parents have been a great influence. They push me to try harder and have shaped me into the man I am today. NS: What I like most about my hometown is the community. Everybody is so supportive of our high school sports. I also enjoy the fact my friends live somewhat close to me and we spend a lot of time together. NS: If I could change one thing it would be the fact that everybody knows everybody and a lot of rumors are spread easily. NS: A question I would like to have been asked is how close our baseball team is. The answer to that is very close. We have grown up together playing baseball and we are like brothers off the field. NS: My twin brother Nate plays on the same team as I do. Player Profile: Livia Andreassi, Karns City	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355387
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__label__wiki	0.736068	0.736068	www.crdj.in capital khabar google-font Policy needed to protect mediapersons affected by demonetization CRDJ president Sidharth Mishra on March 3, 2017 addressed a national seminar at the Central Universi... Gorkha: Society & Politics launched in Dehradun Unfortunately in India, as in other democracies in the world, the numerical strength of a community,... International Workshop in partnership with Ritsumeikan, Asia Pacific University, Japan Centre for Reforms, Development and Justice (CRDJ) in collaboration with Forum for International Man... Seminar on Dr Ambedkar’s Timeless Legacy Click for Photo Gallery The need to look at the l... National Conference on Food Security Act Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh speaking at a national symposium on National Food Security A... Interacting with would be managers, CRDJ president Sidharth Mishra has said that little efforts lead to small wins and they together lead you to great... 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International Meet on “Managing MNE Dynamics and Sustainable Development 3rd International Conference on “Managing MNE Dynamics and Sustainable Development We wrote history: Sidharth Mishra Meet expresses concern on challenges before civil society Civil society warn against hijacking house Living in times of national disorder: Sidharth Mishra With Indications of AAP Retaining Purvanchali Votes, BJP On Difficult Turf in Delhi By Sidharth Mishra Facing the wrath of anti-incumbency against the Congress government at the Centre, which was embroiled in several cases of corruption, in 2013 then Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was looking for a panacea to overcome adversities and come to power for the fourth time in the row. The development agenda of Dikshit had brought her back to power in 2003 and 2008. A visionary leader that she was, she planned an overhaul of the city during the Commonwealth Games 2010 and had believed that the fresh wave of development would see her getting another term from the people. However, her development drive was drowned in the cacophony let loose by the Anna Hazare movement, whose product is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). In Belittling Savarkar, Rahul Doing Little Justice to Freedom Fighter For those planning a holiday during the winters in the scenic Andamans, the gateway for them would be through the Veer Savarkar airport. One of the must destinations in the island is Cellular Jail, where the freedom fighters were incarcerated after being transported for life by the colonial government. A very well-researched light and sound show at the gaol complex, where Savarkar was jailed twice, tells the Savarkar story in detail. A nation which recognized him as a freedom fighter, issued a stamp in his memory and named an airport after him is suddenly debating his antecedents. Campus Unrest: Thanks to inept vice-chancellors, DU joins JNU as discontent brews Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has his hands full. As if the ongoing unrest in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was not enough, discontent has now boiled over on the Delhi University campus with the teachers laying a siege of the Vice Chancellor’s office. In the present turmoil on the two campuses, there is one commonality, the utter failures of the two vice chancellors, Mamidala Jagdeesh Kumar of the JNU and Yogesh Tyagi of the Delhi University to encourage dialogue. In both the cases the charge against the establishment is of unilateral decision making without taking into account the views of the students and the teaching communities. JNU Turmoil: In Dealing with Politics, Govt May Have Failed Scholarship With Delhi Police registering FIRS against the agitating students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the JNU administration moving the High Court for a contempt of the court case against the students and the cops, it’s difficult to comprehend if its beginning of the end of the crisis, or the end of the beginning which was made a day earlier with the government constituting a three-member committee to look into the matter. JNU, its students and faculty have been discussed variously for the past week in public domain with the dominant narrative being that they are anti-national and a burden on society; and JNU is an ‘adda’ (hub) of politics which should be shut down. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank have, however, shown signs of some benevolence towards the agitating students but the same cannot be said about the more stringent elements wedded to their common ideology. More Than Farm Fires, Failed Public Transport System Responsible for Choking Delhi The ‘parali’ farm fires in the fields of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh has been effectively put out under the directions of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court passed the order when for once the BJP-led Central government and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government decided to put their heads together and lay blame for pollution in country’s capital at the doors of the voiceless farmers. They did so to save their skin, lest the court come down heavily on them for allowing Delhi to turn into a gas chamber by a well-designed system of governance deficit, which over a period of time has turned into fine art of electoral politics. But the nature this time around has decided to teach a lesson. The pollution has refused to go and the Supreme Court has now ordered closure of schools in Delhi and surrounding areas till November 15. Legalising Colonies: Politically Expedient, Environmentally Mournful In times not very far back in Delhi’s political history, if a politician was introduced as “zameen se jude hue neta”, it did not mean the person was essentially a grassroots leader. It often meant that he was associated with dealing in plotting of land in the unauthorised colonies. The central government this week decided to regularise all the 1797 such colonies ahead of the assembly polls scheduled towards January-end next year. That it’s a politically expedient decision, goes without saying with more than one-third of the city’s population living in these colonies spread over 35 of the 70 constituencies. This move could prove to be a game changer in a race where so far Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party for now looked to be ahead of its rivals. An analysis of the Lok sabha polls results would show that the voters in the unauthorised colonies polled in large numbers in favour of the BJP candidates, with the hope that the Centre would oblige them by ending the illegal status of their colonies. Thus, this move could be seen both as a payback by the BJP leadership and also an investment for a favourable result in the upcoming assembly elections. With A Dispirited Congress to Its Aid, Kejriwal Holds Advantage for Now The battle for Delhi is all set for January-end next year. If you needed a confirmation, it was given in Home Minister Amit Shah’s interview to News18, where he gave sufficient indications for the same. The interview also showed somewhat lack of preparedness on the part of the BJP for the crucial electoral battle for legislative assembly, which the party has to fight in the nation’s Capital. Shah, who is ruling-BJP president too, talked at aplomb of his party’s chances in Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand, the states going to the polls before Delhi and about West Bengal, the citadel which he envisages to breach in two years’ time. However, when he was asked about party’s chances in Delhi, he did not unveil a very convincing roadmap. He first avoided a direct answer to the question if the party would go to polls in Delhi with a Chief Ministerial face, saying it could be but in the same breath added that it should not be forgotten that the party, after its debacle in 2015 assembly polls, had won the municipal polls in 2017 and also the Lok Sabha polls in 2019. Kejriwal Unveils Roadmap As BJP, Cong Remain Clueless About Delhi Poll Plan This year during the Dusshera celebrations in the national Capital, something very unusual happened. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, unlike his predecessors, chose the outskirts of the national Capital over the Ramlila (ballad on life of Ram, the king of Ayodhya) celebrations in the walled city for Ravan Dahan (annihilating the demon). Not that the traditional Ramlilas did not take place in the walled city. There were three in the Lal Qila grounds and the oldest in the neigbouring Ramlila grounds near Delhi Gate. With time these Ramlilas have come to be affiliate of one political party or the other, thus we had Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at one stage and the Congress leadership on the other. The Prime Minister chose not to be part of the ‘political divide’ and decided to be part of a celebration in the outskirts, albeit accompanied by his party colleagues Parvesh Verma, the local MP and the Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari. The message which the Prime Minister tried giving by bringing the two leaders, rivals in the faction-ridden Delhi BJP, together was to fight the upcoming assembly polls in the city unitedly. CRDJ JOURNALS April-June 19 Jan-March 19 Oct-Dec 18 \| Jul-Sept 18 April-June18 \| Jan-March 18 Oct-Dec2016 \| July-sept 2016 june 2016 \| March 2016 Dec 2015 \| Sept 2015 Oct-Dec 2014 \| Sept-Nov 2014 April 2014 \| Jan 2014 Oct 2013 \| July 2013 April 2013 \| Dec 2012 July 2012 \| Nov 2011 Company to Crown Tales of C&C Rajwada Camphor Avenue Street Sathi Soaring Pines Book your copy http://sriav.crdj.in Gateway to CRDJ Centre for Reforms, Development and Justice (CRD&J) is a body of academics, journalists, intellectuals and social workers registered under the Societies Act. It is based in Delhi. The avowed aim of the CRD&J is to create public awareness and opinion on the matters confronting the Indian society. In an era when policy making has entered public domain, it is important that articulation of opinion should be based on inputs from the cross-section of society. CRD&J through its initiatives makes an attempt to consolidate the intellectual capital of the nation and put it in proper perspective without an ideological bias. It believes in liberal debate, assimilation of ideas, analysis of input and free dissemination of information. The Centre encapsulates the vision of its president Sidharth Mishra, a senior journalist, author and academician. He brings with him a rich experience of exposure to the media and the academic world. He is ably assisted by the honorary secretary of the Centre, Dr Sanjeev Kumar Tiwari, who teaches political science at Delhi University. Profile of Sidharth Mishra MESD Video MESD Photo Capital Phenomenon Photo Rise of Civil Society Photo Rise of Civil Society Video Working up engine for economic revival Reporters as ‘tamasha’ performers Target secession, not campus Uttar Pradesh: Poll time, party time High ratings for govt misleading Free campuses of political patronage Need political will, not FBI report To take on Pak, dump drug peddlers Kashmir loses its man of the hour Pak military as non-state player Paying price for patronage Kotla of Feroze Shah Odds getting even on pollution Migration and social inclusion Reconciliation or tactical retreat New politics, same old whine Getting the right ideas Need to rise beyond divide Bihari trumps Bahari Walking into a bovine trap Process of political Sanskritisation Modi’s charisma versus Bihar BJP JP as arbitrator in Bihar polls As Bihar votes, Lalu regains campaign centrestage Voter divided between head & heart phocoa Evolution of Indian Media Post 1947 PM can do without crass trumpeters Will somebody own up, please Add: 1304 Satpura Appt. 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__label__cc	0.713722	0.286278	I got to Know Prague One of the weirdest feelings I have ever had was when I took a peek out of the Prague airport shortly after I arrived on the afternoon of March 11, 2014. It was my first trip to Europe and my first big escape from Cuba. After over nine-hour-long flight across ocean and land I finally reached my destination and was standing there, trembling like a leaf, alone, trying to pretend I was calm. I thought I had better stay where I was and wait for the people that were to come and pick me up but I couldn’t help myself – I had ants in my pants. So, at last, I dared to go out and take a look around. Francis Sánchez (left) with a Czech Friend I came to Prague overcome with fears, doubts and anxiety… A brief glance outside the airport revealed that the place now carried the name of Vaclav Havel. Also, I could sense an atmosphere that seemed very rare to me. I will say it fast and strong – just the way I felt it: there was a strange, dark “air” of freedom. I felt really weird. If I was to introduce myself to somebody at that moment, I would say that I have risen from a grave instead of saying “I come from an island which was supposed to become paradise”, using the famous phrase of a Cuban novelist that appeared in one of the films of Argentine director Eliseo Subiela. Coming from a country saturated with deep-rooted ostracism and pessimism, I suddenly felt as if I was thrust into life – falling in love with life. What happened next was so beautiful and different that I had never been able to imagine anything like that before. I saw Prague. “Believe me, I’m in a place we used to see in our fantasies,” I once wrote to my wife. Captivated by the magic of Prague and its people, I always tried to get everywhere on my own, eager to discover, to conquer each one of the mysteries of this city boasting such rich history. In the legends we used to tell ourselves in our family, the city was roughly outlined as a silent, clean and tidy place. This, however, is not achieved by repressive mechanisms, it is a result of a functional system. Like a fully developed living organism, Prague has efficient public transport, subways, trams, buses, etc., allowing people stay in constant contact, yet, completely independent. I admired the grandeur of the architecture that doesn’t discriminate or threaten heaven; weather changes due to the four seasons; careful symbiosis of animals and plants – and of religions… The atmosphere I could sense resembled domestic bliss typical for the Hobbit Shire – only that hobbits are much better at swordplay than at drinking beer. I am well aware of the fact that travellers don’t have enough time to gain deep understanding of the different reality they find themselves in, they cannot quench their thirst directly from the bottom of the well. On the other hand, I believe that travelling (and the related eclectic way of viewing things) may be the best way to accumulate and compare all typical features of a particular region – features that the locals have gradually got used to and therefore lost interest in them and stopped appreciating them. It’s true that people tend to seek extraordinary, unique places, but they also enjoy the freedom and the possibilities of the modern era allowing them to ignore political boundaries and feel like world citizens – universal heirs with a free will to choose a place to visit or live in. To cut the long story short, my choice was Prague. It seems that my spirit relates to the quality and density of its forms. I strolled through the city with all my senses open. Clearly, I saw some beggars and mentally ill. I also saw a guitarist playing like a god for a few coins. I saw graffiti where there probably shouldn’t be any. Taking advantage of my rudimentary grasp of English I spoke with different people, like some graffiti artists who were doing their art in an approved area. I danced. I laughed. I answered all kinds of questions and I also made some. I also cried a lot. I was amazed at many things in Prague such as street safety or the high level of culture of relations. Apart from this, my experiences had one striking common denominator – a sense of freedom. I believe that’s something that the young people born after 1989 are unable to fully appreciate. For people who have grown in democracy, freedom is something normal, something that they hardly perceive. My experience of freedom was totally different – to me, it was the most precious thing in the world, something more tangible and solid than a meal. It felt as if I was coming from the past and they were returning from the future. Many overlapping historical periods are reflected in the city of Prague – I saw the Jewish Town with the Golem, the Prague Castle, Kafka sitting on his father’s suit… But there are also traces of the totalitarian communist regime. Of the whole legacy of these times, two things caught my attention: ugly buildings in the suburban area resembling “shoe boxes”, as we say in Cuba, and a bent cross of the Memorial to Jan Palach and Jan Zajic in Wenceslas Square marking the spot where the two students set themselves on fire in protest against the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops, Jan Palach first and Jan Zajic a month later. It’s much easier for me to put myself in their place, to feel the intense need of the two young lads, so desperate to express themselves that they decided to turn themselves into fire letters. When browsing through the city, I followed my passion for visual poetry. Prague is a place full of graphic messages and objects that communicate. On the last night of my visit I saw the performance of Vaclav Havel’s visual poems – Anticodes. Vaclav Havel was an experimental writer and an extraordinary founder of the young nation. The performance took place in the National Theatre and I must say I had never seen such a wealth of talent combined with modern technologies to create such a very modern poetic discourse: letters came alive and showered down, jumped, suffered imprisonment like their author, marched with determination, rebelled, etc. After the climax, I was expecting the only ending I could ever imagine for a performance like this – the signature of Havel, which is a visual poem in itself, and the typical heart next to it. Also, I thought I would learn the day, month and year of the poet’s death (which would be a natural ending to a chronological and biographical spectacle like this). How great was my surprise and thrill when I saw the shadow hand of Havel sign and put to the signature the very date of the performance of his poetry on stage. It was a call to live in the present, in the continuity of ideas, to live the historical memory. March 25, 2014 was also the date of my last day in Prague – a city full of life, full of memories. In the end, I could draw the little heart next to the signature myself. Francis Sánchez reply Angela Li , 5 years ago Women's Summer Hat 006 printing scarf flower scarf scarves supplier woven shawl fashion hat animal scarves check scarf scarf print flower scarves square scarf heart scarf jacqurd scarf leopard scarves colorful scarves plane scarves neck scarf scarves print print shawl solid scarf plane scarf stripe scarf zebra scarves mens scarf scarves for mens mens stripe scarf kids print scarves kids leopard scarves fashion scaves	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355396
__label__cc	0.547541	0.452459	FacebookRssTwitterYoutubeLinkedin Cushman & Wakefield Global Site Cushman & Wakefield Atlanta Our Take on the Economy, Real Estate Market, and More Services & Contacts Ackerman & Co. and MDH Partners Acquire 433,204 SF Lee + White Project in Atlanta With plans to continue the development of one of metro Atlanta’s most successful adaptive reuse projects, Ackerman & Co. and its partner MDH Partners have acquired the 4-building, 433,204-square-foot Lee + White project in Atlanta’s West End. The partners purchased the properties from Stream Realty Partners for $40.3 million. Initially constructed as industrial buildings in the 1950s and 1960s and recently redeveloped by Stream Realty Partners, the Lee + White buildings are currently home to popular breweries, restaurants, retailers and food manufacturers. The property features more than a half mile of frontage along the Atlanta BeltLine with direct access to the trail. Miles Theodore, Mack Freudenstein, Mark Zebouni and Drew Nations of Eastdil Secured represented seller Stream Realty Partners. The purchaser represented itself. The partnership plans to diversify the development by adding a 20,000-square-foot food hall, 30,000 square feet of additional retail and 170,000 square feet of creative loft offices. A masterplan for the redevelopment is under way and construction is expected to begin in six to 12 months. “Lee + White is an exciting investment for us,” said Kris Miller, president of Ackerman & Co. “Stream showed vision in transforming these properties into a hip entertainment and food and beverage destination. There’s an excellent value-add opportunity for us to diversify with additional development, including loft offices and a variety of food and retail options that will further expand the appeal of this development.” Evan Ziegler, senior vice president of Investments for Ackerman & Co., added, “The scale of this project gives us a great opportunity to create value. Adaptive re-use projects like this in urban locations are a product type we hope to continue to be active in.” Ackerman Retail President Leo Wiener and Retail Senior Vice President Kelly Wilson will lead the restaurant and retail leasing efforts at the property. Porter Henritze and Sonia Winfield, directors at Cushman & Wakefield, will represent ownership in office leasing. “With its 3,000 feet of frontage along the Atlanta BeltLine, walkable MARTA access and proximity to many vibrant intown Atlanta neighborhoods, this property’s strategic location has helped establish Lee + White as a go-to entertainment destination in the West End,” Leo Wiener said. “Kelly and I look forward to implementing our leasing initiatives to diversify the tenant base and bring more unique retailers and food options to this exciting development.” Added Jeff Small, CEO of MDH Partners, “This is a great opportunity for us to partner with Ackerman & Co. on an innovative project that is contributing to the transformation of the West End of Atlanta. Our investment in the redevelopment of this property will build on its proven success while helping to make Lee + White an even more integral part of the community.” Ackerman & Co. plans to schedule public meetings to obtain input from the community about the redevelopment plans. Offering outstanding multimodal accessibility, Lee + White is located steps from the Atlanta Westside BeltLine, 0.4 miles from the West End MARTA station and is convenient to all of metro Atlanta’s major interstates, I-20, I-75, I-85 and I-285. Tenants at Lee + White include Monday Night Brewing, Wild Heaven Beer, Best End Brewing Co., ASW Distillery, Hop City Craft Beer & Wine, Plywood People, Honeysuckle Gelato, Cultured South Fermentation Co., Doux South Pickles, Boxcar restaurant, Overlook Boulder + Fitness, MacStadium, and United Way of Greater Atlanta. 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__label__wiki	0.760812	0.760812	Deal Dimensions The measure of global M&A Home Technology, media and entertainment Life Sciences Capital Markets Fintech About Reed Smith Contact Bringing in the talent article 2 min read The speed of change in TME sectors means that companies don’t have the right skills in-house. That’s where acqui-hiring comes in The acquisition of talent and ideas plays a major role in driving cross-sector M&A. In Reed Smith’s recent report, Wired Up: The convergence of technology, media and entertainment, acquiring innovation, R&D and intellectual property (IP) was one of the key drivers for M&A in the next two years for 70% of respondents. Making acquisitions to secure talent – or acqui-hiring, as it has become known — is a vital driver for deals. For some of the larger US buyers in particular, small to mid-sized deals are seen as recruitment exercises to acquire staff and intellectual property. “Start-up and high-growth companies have a really interesting entrepreneurial culture, which I think those larger US behemoths struggle to keep and retain. Part of what they’re trying to do via their acquisitions, is trying to keep that youthful entrepreneurial culture and to keep fresh blood in the organisation,” says Michael Young, Partner at Reed Smith. “I think both the technology and content owners are understanding that they need to be more creative and entrepreneurial in the way they go about things,” says Young. Acqui-hiring is particularly relevant for tech companies, says US-based Reed Smith Partner William Doran. “The high level of activity is being driven by buyers needing acquire to the skills that they can’t produce or grow internally,” he says. With the pace of change in the TME sector and the relative scarcity for not only key technologies but key skill sets, buyers need to ensure that they are retaining the right staff or identifying key players who can build their business. Or as Young puts it very succinctly: “Buyers are looking for clever products with clever people.” Life sciences M&A – now and the future Personalised vs broad indication medicine The six steps to successful life sciences deals Receive the latest content/updates from Reed Smith's Deal Dimensions series © 2015 The Mergermarket Group & Reed Smith. All rights reserved. Terms of Use Privacy Policy Group disclaimer	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355399
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__label__cc	0.689705	0.310295	0 0,00 PLN crossover;CD solo music and recitals symphonic and orchestral forms muzyka instrumentalna opera, operetta, musical publications for children sacral music vocal-instrumental music Lately viewed JARZĄBEK • INFINITY composers Andersen, Joachim ∎ , Arnauts, Dimitri ∎ , Chopin, Fryderyk ∎ , Chyrzyński, Marcel ∎ , Clarke, Ian ∎ , Mulleman, Tim ∎ , Paganini, Niccolo ∎ , Pärt, Arvo ∎ , Vitali, Tomaso Antonio ∎ , Yun, Isang ∎ performers Jarząbek, Natalia ∎ , Wils, Emmy ∎ Releases Year 2019 CDX DUX 1457 • Moto perpetuo, Op. 11 for flute and piano • Chaconne in G minor for flute and piano • Weird Bird for flute and piano • Etude in F minor, Op. 25 No. 2 for flute and piano • Etude in A minor, Op. 10 No. 2 for flute and piano • Etude No. 3: Allegro con brio for flute solo • Take My Breath Away for flute and piano • Haiku No. 3 for flute solo • Etude No. 5: Allegretto for flute solo • Spiegel im Spiegel for alto flute and piano • The Great Train Race for flute solo Tell a friend Ask about a product Download as PDF Let me know when the price changes Add to clipboard The inspiration for the Infinity project was the permanent breathing technique. The flautist – Natalia Jarząbek – can apply it almost inaudibly and imperceptibly, doing it in a fluid and natural manner. The album was recorded in cooperation with outstanding pianist Emmy Wils, a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. The repertoire included on the album is very diverse: It contains pieces for flute, as well as transcriptions of original works for piano, violin, or both, by Natalia Jarząbek. The presence of newly created compositions written specifically for the Infinity project constitutes a significant value of the album. As part of the project, a special textbook for learning permanent breathing was created. DUX 1457Total time: [58:30] Moto perpetuo, Op. 11 for flute and piano 616934 1.Moto perpetuo, Op. 11 for flute and piano Tomaso Antonio Vitali Chaconne in G minor for flute and piano 616935 2.Chaconne in G minor for flute and piano Dimitri Arnauts Weird Bird for flute and piano 616936 3.Weird Bird for flute and piano Etude in F minor, Op. 25 No. 2 for flute and piano 616937 4.Etude in F minor, Op. 25 No. 2 for flute and piano Etude in A minor, Op. 10 No. 2 for flute and piano 616938 5.Etude in A minor, Op. 10 No. 2 for flute and piano Joachim Andersen Etude No. 3: Allegro con brio for flute solo 616939 6.Etude No. 3: Allegro con brio for flute solo Tim Mulleman Take My Breath Away for flute and piano 616940 7.Take My Breath Away for flute and piano Marcel Chyrzyński Haiku No. 3 for flute solo 616941 8.Haiku No. 3 for flute solo Isang Yun Etude No. 5: Allegretto for flute solo 616942 9.Etude No. 5: Allegretto for flute solo Spiegel im Spiegel for alto flute and piano 616943 10.Spiegel im Spiegel for alto flute and piano The Great Train Race for flute solo 616944 11.The Great Train Race for flute solo Natalia Jarząbek /flute/ Emmy Wils /piano/ No opinion has been added yet Add you opinion MĄDRAWSKI • LABYRINTH • GŁOWACKI, FRĄCKIEWICZ, KOŁSUT DUX 1518 • Online Labyrinth Music for accordion • Ballade for accordion • Dialogues for two accordions, string orchestra and piano • Diptych for two accordions • Concerto for accordion, string orchestra and timpani ŁUKASZEWSKI • THE VERY BEST OF DUX 1515/1516 • Prayer to the Guardian Angel – for female choir, piano and Chinese balls (2013) • Aria for soprano saxophone and piano (2016) • The Last Letter of St. Maximilian to his Mother (1994) • I Kwartet smyczkowy (1994) • Veni Creator for two a cappella mixed choirs (2004) • Trinity Concertino for soprano saxophone and piano (2016) • Psalmus 102 for a cappella mixed choir (2003) • Piano Trio (2008) WAJNBERG • SONATAS • FUDALA, ROT • Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1, Op. 21 (1945) • Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2, Op. 63 (1959) • Sonata for Solo Cello No. 1, Op. 72 (1960) • Berceuse op. 1 (1935) DUX RECORDING PRODUCERS 02-511 Warszawa ul.Morskie Oko 2 tel/fax +48 22 849 11 31, e-mail: dux@dux.pl, sklep@dux.pl 0,00 PLN ( 0piece )	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355413
__label__cc	0.747055	0.252945	Pixar's Brave to Change the Fate of Princess Culture? While it's a given that Brave will be a beautiful film it is interesting to see the smattering of mixed reviews surfacing in its debut week. There are the expected rave reviews and gushing over the lush animation and the feisty red-headed princess but there's been more than a little criticism too. Why? Three theories: 1) Merida got upstaged Pixar was a little late to the theater with their feisty heroine this year. Since we've had Hunger Games and Snow White and the Huntsman provide audiences with larger-than-life kick ass girl-women, seeing Merida do much of the same is, sadly, a little like deja vu, despite that this is the first family film in that vein where the others were mainstream (or perhaps teen-stream). The "Brave" wigs 2) Too much hair There's waaaay too much emphasis on all this hair! Maria Tatar recently linked to an article and it seems Ms. Tatar has the right of it when she noticed the topic continually returning to Merida's hair. It's what everybody - creators and marketers - seem focused on. Hair! A quick story to illustrate: my husband is currently working in downtown Hollywood and, in his words, this is what he saw: This morning when I came out of the Hollywood/Highland station I saw, walking down the street in front of me, two women with a little girl and a young boy. Both women had curly, curly long red-orange hair and the girl was carrying a chunk of red-orange hair. This seemed a bit odd to me until I realized that they were walking away from the El Capitan theatre and were wearing "Brave" wigs. The boy was having nothing to do with the females and was walking apart from them. He had no wig. I think this scene is a good example of the response we're seeing all over. Despite how strong, feisty and brave Merida is, with marketing campaigns like Target's stating: "Look pretty and be brave, too" we've diluted anything important the film may have had to say. But that's not the whole story either. 3) Change your fate. Or not. Even more importantly, it would appear the entire story has already been told in the promotional fare and there's really nothing more to Princess Merida than we've seen. Although she's feisty and defies convention she doesn't really have a direction or drive once she's able to do all the things she wants. In other words, we have a princess who is behaving like, well, a princess. There's no saving her people, the world or anything else going on. She makes a mistake and has to repair the damage she's done but, in reality, though she grows closer to her mother, nothing much else appears to change. There's an interesting article in Time published today, titled: Why Pixar's Brave is a Failure of Female Empowerment. Unlike the writer, I don't have a problem with Merida being a princess. Nor do I have a problem that she has to deal with the marriage issue. For the era, that was primarily what princesses were useful for: forming alliances by joining in marriage and producing heirs. How she deals with that is where she has to show her individuality. What is a problem, though, is the lack of both growth and of personal purpose by Merida, beyond the crisis (of her own making). The best parts of Brave are the scenes involving the changed Queen Elinor, now a gigantic bear. But despite a lot of superficial talk of fate — “Our fate lies within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it” — her physical metamorphosis represents the main transformation. Other than deciding her mother isn’t so bad, Merida doesn’t really grow. She’s simply extended her time as a tomboy, another archetype, less a girl than a stereotype of a kind of girl. “It wasn’t clear to me what her arc was,” Orenstein (FTNH ed: author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter) says. “What is it that we are imagining girls moving toward here? ‘I get to ride around on a horse all day’ isn’t really enough. That isn’t going to take her anywhere. There wasn’t a desire to do something.” This wouldn’t feel so vaguely unsatisfying if Brave were just one of many Pixar movies that featured a strong female lead. It’s the absence of others that turns the spotlight on Brave. And having a princess protagonist isn’t inherently bad. It’s just that she is so chapter one of what girls can be — and so many other Pixar movies skipped most known chapters and moved on to whole new volumes. (FTNH: bold emphasis mine) There's one other issue that appeared in the comments regarding the grilling Brave gets in the article. I feel for the parents who are tired of every movie needing to "be a good example" for their children when all they want is good, clean entertainment. I would wholeheartedly agree except for one major thing: the marketing push and resulting peer pressure from the toy angle (even four year olds will influence their peers with regard to what is "cool"!) really does speak as loudly, often louder, than the most conscientious parents. and that's when a kid hasn't even seen the movie! When the best way for a child to recapture their personal movie experience is through a toy or book with the same images, that's the "message" that will sink in and stay. What if the marketing for Brave was more gender-neutral, or perhaps aimed more toward tomboy-girls and boys at most, rather than at the princess culture girls? Instead of exiting El Capitan with giant red-orange wigs what if each kid got a sword or bow and arrow? (No floaty blue dresses in sight either, thank you.) Do you think the boy my husband saw would have been keeping himself so carefully separate from his "wimminfolk" then? I don't think so. I think he'd be (happily) trading blows and bruises with his sister, complete with sound effects of turning into a bear of which his sister would no doubt (happily) match him roar for roar. There is one other interesting observation by a few of the commenters on the article that I want to highlight too. I'll quote the shortest one: I'd appreciate if films with female leads had adequate male character. I don't understand why "female empowerment" films have the need to portray men as incompetent goofs. They have a good point and there's more in the comments expanding on it too. The presence of a "strong" female character does not exclude the presence of strong men. The now go-to standard in family films (making the men less competent to make the women appear more so) isn't good for boys, for assertive/kick-ass girls OR for the princess set. I'll let you read the debate (and rants) for yourself. One thing I do agree with the writer on, though, is that I hope Brave does well - really, really well actually. Why? 1) I would like to see more lead heroines from Pixar. With the marketing force of Disney behind them, Pixar does have a great influence on kids. I'd like to see what other female leads they come up with and hope that the results are as "groundbreaking" as everyone's been hoping Merida would be. 2) I'd like to see more fairy tale fare handled by Pixar (and Disney) story people, especially now that the public view on fairy tales has changed somewhat. Posted by Gypsy Thornton at 22.6.12 Labels: childhood, feminist issues, Pixar's Brave, princess culture Pixar's "Brave": Release Day Today's the day. It's the "other" big fairy tale movie of the year, by which I mean the other movie which will have an effect on how people view fairy tales this year and how movie studio and TV series executives will consider spending their money with regard to other fairy tale fare. Personally (and despite all you will read in the next post) I'm very much looking forward to seeing it. Here's a clip to whet your appetite: Pretty, yes? And moody in the best way. It's going to look amazing on the big screen. The clip reminds me of Secret of Kells but then it probably should - and the association is a good one. Brave will be very different in many ways, of course, but there's no doubt it will be beautiful too. Posted by Gypsy Thornton at 22.6.12 CW's Beauty & the Beast Extended Preview Playing catch-up... In case you missed it, here's the 5 minute extended preview of CW's Beauty and the Beast scheduled to premiere in the US in the Fall: The 5 minutes looks very much like an entire episode edited down to its main scenes, which is disappointing. What's left to tune in for if you've seen it all? Let's hope there's more to it other than "Why was my mother murdered?". In the premise details, the post-9/11 Iraq War reference (military experiments make a beast out of a man) isn't as completely hokey as expected but I still have major reservations - especially since we end up with a very clean-faced broody guy with a not-at-all-authentic-looking scar placed just "so". Perhaps it's just that the writing is too obvious for me. ("You're like a superhero!") I'm hoping they're not going to state the obvious for the audience every time. Scratch that. I hope they don't do it again. If they want any of the cop procedural demographic they're going to have to write smarter, harder and use far more subtlety. Hopefully the actors are good enough they will get the message across without needing to utter the subtext but it's an important risk to take if you want to be a memorable series. On the flip side, one of the promos says "All men have a dark side... but not like this" and in this case I truly hope they mean what they're saying. In order to make this show interesting we're going to really need to see the monster inside the man- and hopefully the monster isn't typical either. The Beast we're seeing just looks conflicted about his transformations, ashamed of his appearance and rather hormonal - ie broody. Not exactly an attractive quality in a leading man (or woman).* Regarding the actors, it's nice to see a more mature Kristen Kreuk. Except for the flashback, she works better than I thought she would with that little edge to her. I think I even caught glimpses of some character layering in there (fingers crossed). The Beast, on the other hand, is unfortunately rather forgettable. I don't even have the sense that he's had first hand experience of a real war, let alone anything else he's working through. Let's hope that was just due to editing for this clip. The thing I'm really missing in this preview from the original series? All the underground stuff and that vague sense of fantasy just out of reach. That was what captured my imagination then and makes me remember it now - a whole other world right under our feet. I must admit I had little patience with the series in the 80's - it was too slow and angsty for me - but I kept trying to tune in from time to time to get another glimpse of the hidden world. One more peeve - the promo image/poster. Ugh. The actors look like they were shot separately and 'shopped together - no chemistry at all. I know they were directed like that but the result is you can almost overlook the fact that there's a guy standing next to "Detective Catherine Chandler". He looks completely replaceable. And it doesn't say Beauty and the Beast to me at all. Maybe I'm being harsh but I expect more from people using fairy tales (I wonder if the writers and creators actually went back to the tale or completely took their cues from the original series?) and also from any type of police procedural or reference to any war we've had friends and family fight in. These are the days post-CSI and 24, which raised the standard for details and suspense. Since almost everyone reading this blog will remember the Twin Towers falling on 9/11, no matter what country you were in, any reference to that has to have substance. It's not a vague historical point in time to hang a plot point on but a very real wound for too many people today. Ironically, this is what fairy tales are very good at helping with but you have to be very smart about it as well as honest while still being respectful. That's not an easy job. While I would sincerely love for that rabbit to be pulled out of CWs hat my expectations will likely remain low on that point. Right now the only reason I'd be tuning in is because of the fairy tale connection but it's early days yet. There's much more promo-ing to come so hopefully we'll get a real carrot sometime before the Fall season starts. You never know: a rabbit might just appear. * Eg In Buffy, we saw all this angst and unrequited love happening but it was really when Angel and Buffy finally got together and Angel turned Bad with a capital "B" that things got very interesting - and mythic. For the first time we saw this "person" be truly evil. Although he had the reputation of being the baddest of the bad, we didn't really believe it till he turned into an actual killing machine and became a very real threat to his one true love. Because bad should be BAD and not be sitting on the fence. There's no point to a story if there's no real threat, no conflict. Fairy tales are very clear about that! *Even the Angel paradox got tiring after a while, despite seeing him get his evil on, first hand. Posted by Gypsy Thornton at 22.6.12 Labels: Beauty and the Beast, trailer, TV series Little Dead Riding Hood Another take on LRRH I haven't seen before but which makes a lot of sense: Dia de los Muertos (Mexican Day of the Dead) meets Red Riding Hood. (Not sure why it's cosplay, rather than just a Halloween costume idea.) And, without too much hunting, I found a Snow White as well. (Gotta love the nod to going organic in this illustration!) But where's Sleeping Beauty? FYI a fascination with Dia de los Meurtos make-up is another of those surprising trends I've seen among fairy tale enthusiasts on Pinterest. It's not unusual to find more than a few examples of costume-like Dia de los Muertos make-up on our friend's boards, if they don't happen to have a whole board already dedicated that is. Also in this vein (oops, punny!) we find corpse brides (other than, but including, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) as well as death and the maiden posters and illustrations, variations on Ophelia and other "beautiful dead". Even more interesting is that this is all quite separate from any zombie, vampire or gothic trends, though they sometimes overlap. Fascinating, no? Marigold by Syvia Ji When you think about it, it's not that far fetched. Much of the Dia de los Muertos make-up and costumery walks the line between creepy and beautiful just as many fairy tales do. We often talk about the need for fairy tales with teeth but perhaps we should say "teeth and bones". I do feel we miss out on a lot when we're not surrounded by culture steeped in old tales and traditions. So many cultures have fairy tales that include the dead (and I mean regarding the heroes and heroines) and I don't think it's a coincidence that many of our better known/most loved tales deal with death in a fashion too. Unfortunately we're way too good at cleaning it up so we forget what we're looking at anymore. One of my favorite lesser-known fairy tales is The Singing Bone or The Twa Sisters. I've never read a retelling, though I did briefly sketch out the "bones" of a script a few years ago (sorry - apparently it's a punny day), which perhaps I should unearth again sometime. Now I can envision the whole story with a Dia de los Muertos style to it. I found one but it was just lines over a Disney drawing, not really a tale revisiting. Interestingly, the just released photo of Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, complete with horns kept surfacing in variations of this search. Posted by Gypsy Thornton at 22.6.12 Labels: Corpse Bride, death, red riding hood Maleficent: Behind-the-Scenes First Look Behind-the-scene shot, filming Maleficent in the UK You've probably all seen the image of Angelina Jolie in her Maleficent horns that's sweeping around the internet, right? Just in case you haven't, here she is: Well there's more, including a couple of tidbits I find interesting: 1) looking at the behind-the-scenes photos it's not actually clear that the horns are part of the outfit Maleficent has styled to intimidate and amp her evil presence. instead they actually look as if they're part of her. If it turns out they are "hers" I must admit I have LOTS of sympathy kicking in for the character already. (And for Jolie as she fields the bazillion "horny" headlines about to explode in the media.) Since Ms. Jolie told EW a few months back to liken the plot treatment of Maleficent to that of Wicked (in having sympathy for the traditional villain as you learn her story and see how she got to the place we know her best), now knowing there's a possibility the horns are supposed to be as real on her as they are on the cattle, my mind immediately goes to Greek myth. She may just be the most gorgeous minotaur the world has ever seen. You must admit, when we saw Maleficent in the Disney movie we immediately thought "demon" (despite that the horned headdress was perfectly in fashion back in the day that particular film was [vaguely] set). Even for this film you'd think "demon" (or the intention to appear rather more demonic and therefore ultra scary) would be more obvious but with the cattle at her back she gives far more of the "tragic figure" air than of the initial "must-be-put-down evil spawn" vibe. 2) These behind-the-scene shots from Dread Central show her in the British countryside in full dress, surrounded by a herd of cattle. They look like Highland Cattle specifically (a very beautiful breed with serious looking horns). Anyone up on their ancient tales should be sitting up a little straighter with the appearance of a whole herd of cows backing Maleficent as she gets her magic on. I have to wonder at the role of the herd and what part they play in her magic. (She looks like she's busy doing something magically intimidating in the shot at the head of the post, don't you think?) I admit I am partial to fairy tales like The Black Bull of Norroway and I never quite forgave Jack for selling Milky White for some magic beans. When you see how cattle were revered in ancient times it's no surprise they can be magical in the correct context. It's all wishful thinking that this aspect is even hinted at in the film I'm sure, but script writer Linda Woolverton can surprise with her layering and she won't have chosen the cattle by accident or whim. I'm curious to see what the significance is. Note the Maleficent stunt double in the background Maleficent is set for release in theaters on March 14, 2014. (2014! I'm guessing they have a lot of special effects work to do.) Note: If you've never hugged a cow, you're missing out on an amazing life experience. Put it on your bucket list. I highly recommend it. Posted by Gypsy Thornton at 21.6.12 Labels: behind-the-scenes, film, mythology, Sleeping Beauty, symbolism in FT "Adventure Time" Meets the 3 Bears By Graham Annable While Adventure Time episodes (on Cartoon Network) do not, as a rule, base their story lines on fairy tales, though they do have this mythic sense which pervades the series and make it fairy-tale-enthusiast-friendly, it's not unusual to see fan art of the series pop up that takes on plot elements of other popular and myth-based works (eg Star Wars, Game of Thrones etc). This is an official cover illustration by Graham Annable for an Adventure Time comic (release date unknown) so I'm very curious about the issue itself. It's fun to see the characters get a fairy tale makeover and while this illustration isn't very different from the Goldilocks tale (Finn is blonde underneath the ear-cap by the way) it meshes very well with his character from the series (he starts out with good intentions then tends to get sucked into Trouble - with a capital "T', usually by his mischievous magical dog). We don't have any sense of the end of this story here (ie. we're meant to buy the comic) but Finn's sense of chivalry means he goes to ridiculous lengths to make thing right again. Of course, things usually get worse (far worse!) before they get better and Finn and Jake have some rather crazy adventuring doing it all. Very fun! What I'd dearly love to see is these characters, and their world, tackle a few fairy tale plots and see where they end up. The sensibility of the series is such that there's a good chance they'll keep a lot of the fairy tales' "essence" despite the whimsical and wacky framework it's presented in. (Hint, hint Frederator Studios!) The picture above is of Fionna the Human (who is Finn the Human's alternate reality persona) with Marshall the Vampire (Marceline the Vampire's alternate reality persona) as envisioned by an unidentified fan (although I do see "baby churros" signed). Interestingly, although I couldn't find any reference to an episode in which Fionna acts as LRRH and is pursued/tempted by Marshall, there are many fan art pics on this subject. I guess vampire to wolf isn't such a stretch but why does it make me think of Twilight..? (I mean the book/series phenomenon even before the movie-crazy.) Is THIS why Twilight struck such a chord with teenage (and older) girls? Because Stephenie Meyer was influenced/inspired by LRRH*?? Interesting if it is, because Catherine Hardwicke flipping the Twilight elements back into an recognizable Red Riding Hood tale got kind of lost in the woods... Hmm. I feel as if I have thought-gristle in my teeth. Having not made it through the Twilight series, despite trying to for the sake of keeping up with pop culture, I can't do a proper comparison beyond using synopsis and Wikipedia - grinds teeth - but the idea is sticking, even after a quick research-binge. As for comparison of Twilight to the LRRH fairy tale (leaving the movie well out of the equation) the internetz are rife with the obsessive idea that Harwicke "Twilight-ed" the LRRH story, rather than any hint that Ms. Meyer may have unconsciously been using LRRH elements in her books. ** Ms. Meyer does not cite fairy tales as being any part of her inspiration for the Twilight series, as far as I can find but rather Jane Austen and Shakespeare. I find this odd since there's definitely a hint of Beauty and the Beast at least, as well as Red Riding Hood. Perhaps it's one of those "taken as a given" things but I don't see it having been discussed anywhere. Posted by Gypsy Thornton at 21.6.12 Labels: Adventure Time, comic, Goldilocks, red riding hood Working on Some Changes... A post to ask for your continued patience as I work on restructuring the way I handle a few things regarding the blog. I am busy trying to get a new work station happening so I can be more mobile (and therefore more in touch and post more often) but it may mean compromising some of the features and formatting - we shall see. So far things look promising but there are a few important things that I can't get to work smoothly just yet. Since I have also suddenly had a large amount of review requests, (!) rather than repeat myself inconsistently as I answer and have to assess every request from scratch, I will shortly be adding a policy for review requests for Once Upon A Blog to direct people to so that authors and artists will be better prepared when they contact me. Snow White Reinterpreted via Rene Magritte by Brian Cook (T-shirt design concept. Why have we not seen this before?) Please note! The intent is not to discourage you if you'd like promotion via the blog. I'm actually adding some suggestions for those who would like promotion via OUAB (especially for those who may not fall within the review guidelines), and trying to make it clear with regard to what is acceptable for promotion and content. I'll also be putting up some guidelines for anyone interested in writing guest posts, so watch for that too. The upshot of this announcement is that I'm working hard on making a lot of changes happen right now but - hopefully! - the only thing you'll really notice when I'm done, is that you'll get more regular posts again, unlike the image at the head of the post in which all the major aspects have well and truly been swapped around and nothing is at all like what it was before. The flipped Snow White scene at the top is an ad for digital art studio Farbraum, showing how completely they can make you over. It's a version of Snow White we haven't seen yet, at least not in the sense of a straight gender swap (though I'm certain I've seen a gay version once upon a time). That would certainly put a different spin on things. Posted by Gypsy Thornton at 20.6.12 Labels: advertising, blog changes, snow white, t-shirt Brave Father's Day Tribute/Promo I couldn't resist posting this, even though it wasn't officially in my way-too-long "must post" list until a minute ago... One of the things I'm loving about this new fairy tale is the portrayal of the family: it's intact! Although it's about a mother and daughter and their push-pull relationship, here there's a father too and neither parent appears to be distant/absent. In fact the family dynamic and their individual relationships with Princess Merida are central to what the story is all about. I'm really liking this aspect. Is it weird to remark, though, that this portrayal of Merida's dad is exactly the kind of mother I would like to be to my son? (Except maybe a couple of hundred sizes smaller?) ;) A Futuristic Snow White by Meghan Boehman "The 3rd in my Snow White series. This shows the Huntsman, under orders from the evil queen, leading Snow White into the woods to cut out her heart." I'm always very happy to discover talented new artists and Ms. Boehman has me doubly so since she's focused so much of her portfolio's attention on the fairy tale of the year, Snow White (though she first posted them in mid 2011). Her interpretation, however, is a very different from what we usually see and provides a somewhat unusual lens for the story. From her profile HERE: I am a college student studying Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology. I love to paint on Photoshop and I especially enjoy fantastical or futuristic designs. While I hope to pursue a career in animation, painting and design work will always be my passion. As a student, Ms. Boehman is already proving someone we should keep an eye on. (I particularly like her The Huntsman piece.) I do hope that, as she continues along the path to professional artist that she considers painting different versions of other fairy tales too. "The second in a series of 3 futuristic Snow White paintings. This depicts the evil queen in front of the enchanted mirror." It's no secret Snow White is a favorite tale of mine and has been since I was little. It's also no secret that for all its faults I also still very much love Disney's version as well, though that also has to do with it's milestones in art in film. But yes, even so I've quite had it with all the Disneyfied versions of the tale (which are diluted in the extreme even from Disney's version if you stop and compare) and the sweet, sweet Snow Whites churned out since that are completely passive, guileless and guiltless (something which I never saw, not even in the Disney version - but that's a whole other post..). If for no other reason, this is the reason I've been so interested in the film Snow White and the Huntsman, because it's (finally!) breaking this social mindset people seem to have of SW and of the fairy tale. It's during these times, when people are for once taking a real look at this character and seeing her potential and how much she relates to them as a real person, that works of art that have been doing just that for so long, finally get noticed. As such, this is a perfect time for Ms. Boehman to have her art seen - because it will "be seen" in the real sense. I wish her every success. "This is the first of a series of 3 that I did of the fairy tale "Snow White". It depicts Snow White in her glass case as the prince first discovers her. I used this opportunity to reinvent the fairy tale by challenging myself with a futuristic design, something I had never attempted before." You can see more of Meghan Boehman's work at the CG Society HERE and she also has work for sale in her Etsy store, "The Seven Dwarves", HERE. Posted by Gypsy Thornton at 16.6.12 Labels: art-, artist, futuristic, snow white Brave: 1 week to go + New TV Spot & Behind the Scenes Featurette That's right - just one week till Pixar's first ever fairy tale (and first ever female lead) hits theaters. Excited? Yes I am. ;) In case you haven't seen these yet, please enjoy. June TV Spot: Behind-the-scenes featurette focusing on the setup and the family, featuring Mark Andrews (Director), Katherine Sarafian (Producer), Kelly MacDonald (Princess Merida), Billy Connolly (King Fergus), Emma Thompson (Queen Elinor) and Craig Ferguson (Lord Macintosh): The images (other than the gorgeous concept poster by Steve Pilcher at the head) are from the soon-to-be-released video game which looks quite lush and full of fantasy adventure. As nice as that looks and promises to be for those who like a little "more" in their video games, I'd really be surprised if the game held some kind of fairy tale sense along with all the fantastic adventuring, although I live in hope. My just-graduated-from-preschool little boy has finally discovered computer games and is fascinated by whatever stories they contain (he's bored if they don't have one) so if this game has a fairy tale core beyond nods to the movie I'll do my best to make room for it in our budget. Anything that keeps the fairy tale conversation going with my young son, along with an excellence in tech and artistry, is definitely worth it. Posted by Gypsy Thornton at 15.6.12 Labels: concept art, feminist issues, game, Pixar's Brave Snow White Through the (Hollywood) Years Skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony … sound familiar? Few have resisted the legendary story of Snow White and her seven dwarfs, and many have told their own versions of the tale. Here’s a look at the origin of the fairest of them all, who’s repeatedly captured Hollywood’s heart in recent years. I have such a huge backlog of Snow White posts! This is one of them: a dynamic timeline published by the LA Times which takes you through incarnations and retellings of Snow White, mainly in entertainment, since published by the Grimm's in their Household Tales. Unfortunately it's nowhere near comprehensive, though people who haven't followed the tale over the years may learn a few things. It jumps from 1812 to 1912 and the only "book" referenced is Bill Willingham's Fables. Still it's fun to click through and take a look, though it's clearly missing a ton of published works and less popularly known films and series nods I would have like to have seen included. You can see the timeline and take a hop, skip and jump through the popular history of Snow White HERE. Posted by Gypsy Thornton at 13.6.12 Labels: film, history, multimedia, snow white, TV series From Wicked Witch to Snow Queen + Disney's First Official "Frozen" Blurb Disney have just (re)announced that their doing their take (the quote is "loosely based") on Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, to be titled Frozen. We already knew Kristen Bell was to be the Gerda equivalent (now revealed as "Anna") and now it's just been announced that the Tony Award Winning Actress Idina Menzel, who first played Elphaba in the Broadway musical Wicked, will step into the shoes of the Snow Queen herself. How will it play out? Disney have also just released their first official blurb for the film to give us some insight: In Frozen, a prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, so Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) must team up with Kristoff, a daring mountain man, on the grandest of journeys to find the Snow Queen (voice of Idina Menzel) and put an end to the icy spell. Encountering Everest-like extremes, mystical creatures and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom from destruction. I don't know about you, but to me it seems that this premise is so "loose" in comparison to the classic (and dearly loved across the globe) fairy tale that it's just about lost. I have no problem with Disney making an fantasy animated feature film with lots of snow and an icy queen - they should. It'd be beautiful and they certainly have both the artistry and the tech to support a big vision BUT to say it's based on a fairy tale and essentially claim this is the new Snow Queen when it has almost nothing in common with the original (based on the official tidbits released this year)? That seems wrong. It's one of those few times I wish there were some form of copyright on the literary tales that say "you cannot liken your work to the original without using x% of the plot, characters and acknowledging the source material in the opening credits..." But then, that's part of why Disney use fairy tales in the first place, isn't it? They can do whatever they like. From Entertainment Weekly: The movie, of course, will have a musical element, with original songs by Broadway’s Robert Lopez (a two-time Tony winner for Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon) and wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez (who worked with him on Disney’s 2011 Winnie the Pooh.) The digitally animated feature will open in November 2013 and is being directed by Chris Buck (Tarzan, Surf’s Up) and produced by Peter Del Vecho (Winnie the Pooh, The Princess and the Frog). So there you have it. A CG musical using the very marketable phrase (as far as Disney goes)"fairy tale". We know Disney's been having a huge internal reshuffle with one of their most loved and recognizable (read "bankable") veteran animators, Glen Keane, departing in March this year but it seems as if they've been hard at work in an effort to show they remain undaunted and are barreling along into production on (another) new version of this old project. Considering they still attract much of the world's best in all the various talents I have no doubt it will be a beautiful, magical and wonderful film. But will it feel like The Snow Queen we know and love? Although fairy tales can have their elements and plot points changed more than you'd think and still remain "recognizable" it requires more than just having a character with one key characteristic for that recognition to happen. (Eg. just because a girl in a film puts on a red hat, or even a red cape and hood, does not automatically make it a Little Red Cap tale.) I will be watching to see what, if any, fairy tale elements are in the film at all, as well as what it will do to the public perception of HCA's Snow Queen.* I couldn't help but stifle a snigger, though, when I read the summary of the announcement by Bleeding Cool, since it's what everyone's been thinking but I hadn't seen put so boldly in print until now: So, Disney are going from Tangled to Frozen. Surely there needs to be a third in this series. I suggest Bloated, maybe. Or how about Punctured? Muted? Sodden? Burnt? Frozen is currently set for a Winter holiday release in the US during November 2013. Note: All images shown are concept art by Paul Felix for an earlier version of Frozen (still then called The Snow Queen). One of these are from current development art. Interestingly, I've noticed the fairy tale of Rapunzel, as published by the Grimm's in Household Tales 200 years ago this year, is remaining largely intact in the public minds. Tangled, and all it's various marketing, didn't have the usual effect of very near eclipsing the classic tale in the public mind at all. It would seem that Disney's title change, in addition to other things, did indeed distance it more than intended from the classics tie-in they were hoping for. The Mythic, Magical and Endearing Art of Andy Kehoe All Turns to Brilliance - Andy Kehoe Artwork made before the world ends. Paintings also double as radiation protection for the nuclear winter and some can be eaten like beef jerky. Onward Again My Friend by Andy Kehoe Roamer of Reverie by Andy Kehoe This is the introduction to Andy Kehoe's work for 2012 on his website. For 2011 it was this: Paintings best enjoyed with smile on face and bourbon in non-mouse hand. When possible, fill room with the smell of burnt gun powder and bacon. At least four gas lanterns recommended for lighting. Legs can either be crossed or uncrossed. Remove Shoes.Thank you.Management Affinity to Unfamiliar Worlds by Andy Kehoe With such introductions to his art, along with a blog titled: Tall Tales of Depravity - The place to be for Kehoe matters and whisky fist fights, it's clear this Pittsburgh artist doesn't take himself too seriously (we approve!), despite that his work is beautiful, mythic, simply stunning and yes endearing (or should that be en-deer-ing?). I think the title of the work at the head of the post says it well: "All Turns To Brilliance". Together at the Threshold by Andy Kehoe (created 2012 for his fiancé) It does seem that there is something very special about Mr. Kehoe's work. Even in his earlier pieces you can see a particular style and sensibility that suggests we live with fantasy, if only we had the eyes to see it (as he apparently does). In 2011 that sensibility blossomed even further with a richness in colors and what seemed to be additional dimensional depth in his paintings. A Fading Farewell by Andy Kehoe I've noticed certain trends on Pinterest among fans of fairy tales and one of those are men, women, children, creatures and other beings with antlers. Fairy tale images of woodland beings with horns and antlers of various sizes populate fairy tale themed boards consistently, as do forest with sentient looking deer. I don't think this is coincidence. On the Banks of Broken Worlds by Andy Kehoe There is something royal yet wild, gentle yet dangerous, commanding yet connected, natural yet "other" about deer. Fawns, doe, stags, hinds with antlers, golden-antlers, white harts, brother deer and horned gods as well as those of the Wild Hunt and all their half-breed fae brethren easily capture our attention in fairy tales and often appear in fairy tale illustrations, even when there is no specific reference to one in the corresponding text. A stag doesn't need to transform into a man to have a sense of magic, he carries it with him. In Marie-Luise von Franz's book, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales she discusses the primal reaction we have to the image of deer in tales and the importance of the majestic stags being able to shed their antler crowns, so as to grow new horns. She says: "The shedding of the antlers is probably the natural basis for all the mythological transformation attributes of the deer. In medieval medicine, the bone in the heart of the deer was thought to be beneficial for heart trouble." A Moment of Respite by Andy Kehoe Here's a larger quote from the same chapter, Shadow, Anima and Animus: Whether or not it was his intention, these aspects - both the fascination and the dread - are definitely communicated in Mr. Kehoe's work. When I see so many people across the web and in Pinterest - especially those who have an interest in myth and fairy tale - gathering images of deer and antlered beings it's clear this sense of wonder with such is just as strong today as it ever was. In fact there are so many comments, from very different people and many different backgrounds, that say the same thing: "I wish I had a pair of antlers!" Grief and Glory by Andy Kehoe The antlered and horned creatures in Mr. Kehoe's work bring a sense of connecting us personally to something of Wonder. I don't know how he captures it but the blend of wild and familiar, of both the playful and the melancholy, of a personal magic and at the same time a vast world of wonder; all these qualities pervade his paintings. Under the Gaze of the Glorious by Andy Kehoe I'm glad he's sharing the pictures in his mind. Some of them look familiar, but only because I'm sure I've seen some of these beings in my dreams. Lord of Ghouls - Arise Feral Night, Roq La Rue by Andy Kehoe Go, enjoy, support and tell him "More, more! The end of the world gets closer every day!" ;) Andy Kehoe's website and portfolio are HERE, his blog is HERE, he's on Twitter HERE and he also has an Etsy store HERE, where you can purchase a little magic to keep for yourself (and perhaps help fund one of his numerous wedding ideas such as having "a small rowboat full of explosives and fireworks floating in the middle of the pond to be ignited with a fiery arrow the moment we both say, "I do." I have zero clues as to why that idea was shot down... ;) *One very interesting image collection doing the rounds on Pinterest shows a wedding party taking fun photos as they're holding antlers to their heads. Despite the fun, there is something that elicits an "Ooh!" or "Awesome!" response from so many people, including, I must admit, myself. Perhaps it's just that, for all it's simplicity it's still rather Wonder-ful. Posted by Gypsy Thornton at 10.6.12 Labels: art-, artist, mythology, symbolism in FT Pixar's Brave to Change the Fate of Princess Cultu... Brave: 1 week to go + New TV Spot & Behind the Sce... From Wicked Witch to Snow Queen + Disney's First O... The Mythic, Magical and Endearing Art of Andy Keho... Roundtable Discussion: How Fairy Tales Cast Their ... Letting Fairy Tales Live (A Fairy Tale Enthusiast'... Jack Zipes Weighs In On "Snow White and the Huntsm... Life Imitates Fairy Tales (Don't Complain About th... Article: The Unequivocal Connection Between Social... 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__label__cc	0.635516	0.364484	TV Review: Leverage 1.10 – “The 12-Step Job” The Leverage team goes to rehab and tackles a case inspired by some of the characters from Lost. TV Review: Leverage 1.09 – “The Snow Job” The Leverage team cons a family of con men featuring guest stars Sam Anderson and Danny Strong. TV Review: Leverage 1.08 – “The Mile High Job” In this episode, the Leverage team is hired by a couple seeking to prove that Genogrow knowingly allowed unsafe fertilizer to be dumped in the water, leading to their daughter's death. The couple's lawyers have tried everything, but the couple is TV Review: Leverage 1.07 – “The Wedding Job” In this episode, the team uses the wedding of a mobster's daughter as a front for the con of the week: helping Sophie's friend get back the restaurant that her family lost when her husband was set up for murder. TV Review: Leverage 1.06 – “The Stork Job” In this episode, the Leverage team is hired by a couple trying to adopt a child from Serbia. As it turns out, the adoption agency is really a scam run by a Serbian grifter named Irina. The couple doesn't want any money (they've spent over $120,000 TV Review: Leverage 1.05 – “The Bank Shot Job” In this episode, the Leverage team is in the process of pulling a "rip job," which is a con that takes time to set up. They are almost finished with the con, and Nate is just about to leave the bank where the finale has gone down, when the bank is TV Review: Leverage 1.04 – “The Miracle Job” In this episode, the Leverage team gets religion (sort of) and manages to "steal a miracle." It had me laughing out loud several times, perhaps even more than some of the previous episodes. TV Review: Leverage 1.03 – “The Two-Horse Job” Chad continues his reviews of the first season of Leverage with the third episode, guest-starring Jaime Ray Newman and Mark Sheppard. TV Review: Leverage 1.02 – “The Homecoming Job” Chad's retro-reviews of the first season of Leverage continue with the second episode, which is something of a "second pilot." TV Review: Leverage 1.01 – “The Nigerian Job” Chad joins the Fandomania staff and goes back to the beginning of TNT's Leverage to catch us up on the show so far, episode by episode.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355416
__label__wiki	0.955767	0.955767	U.N. chief blasts Israel over ‘stifling occupation’ An old Palestinian man prevents an Israeli border policeman from shooting at protesters during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron October 10, 2015. (Reuters) AFP, United Nations Thursday, 28 January 2016 Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday renewed his criticism of Israel’s “stifling” occupation of Palestinian territories, a day after similar hard-hitting remarks by the U.N. Secretary-General angered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The U.N. chief made clear that he would not retreat from the broadside he directed at Israel over its expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. U.N. diplomats said privately that Ban had upped the pressure on Netanyahu in a final bid to revive hopes for peace before he steps down as secretary-general at the end of the year. “After nearly 50 years of occupation - after decades of waiting for the fulfilment of the Oslo promises - Palestinians are losing hope,” Ban told a U.N. committee on Palestinian rights. “Young people especially are losing hope. They are angered by the stifling policies of the occupation.” Netanyahu on Tuesday accused Ban of “encouraging terror” after Ban said that it was “human nature to react to occupation.” Speaking to the U.N. committee, Ban reiterated that “nothing excuses terror,” but added that a security clampdown will not succeed in settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The U.N. chief called for a return to negotiations, saying it was the “one and only path to a just and lasting solution - an end to the occupation that began in 1967” and a Palestinian state. “You can count on me to continue to speak up and speak out - to push and to prod - to do all in my power to achieve long-overdue Israeli-Palestinian peace,” he said. Ban said Palestinians had heard “half a century of statements” condemning Israel’s occupation, but that their lives had not improved. “We issue statements. We express concern. We voice solidarity. But life hasn’t changed. And some Palestinians wonder: Is this all meant to simply run out the clock? “They ask: Are we meant to watch as the world endlessly debates how to divide land while it disappears before our very eyes?” The U.N. chief’s sharp criticism of Israel came amid ongoing Israeli-Palestinian violence and recent Israeli decisions to build new Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The United Nations has branded Israeli settlement expansions illegal, arguing that they are an attempt to undermine plans for a Palestinian state by absorbing land earmarked for the new country. Last Update: Thursday, 28 January 2016 KSA 13:17 - GMT 10:17 Netanyahu says U.N. chief ‘encourages terror’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday accused the U.N. chief of "encouraging terror" after Ban ... Abbas asks U.N. for protection from Israel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday in Geneva for the creation of a "special regime" for the ... U.N. chief ‘pessimistic’ on Israel-Palestinians U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offered the Security Council a grim assessment on Wednesday of prospects for defusing ... U.N. envoy: Palestinians, Israel are further apart from reaching peace The United Nations Mideast envoy has warned on Thursday that “the rise of violent extremism and terrorism" in ... Ban Ki-moon pressures Netanyahu in final bid to revive peace efforts before stepping down as secretary-general at year’s end	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355417
__label__wiki	0.603724	0.603724	1917. A Diverse March of Ten Thousand in Toronto Demand "Paradigm Shift" in Fighting Climate Change By Martin Lukas, The Guardian, July 6, 2015 Demonstrators from a huge diversity of organizations marched boisterously through downtown Toronto on Sunday calling for a paradigm-shift in how climate change is addressed. Not a typical protest of environmentalists, it attracted labour unions, First Nations, anti-poverty and faith groups, health workers and immigration rights activists who all underlined the need to change an economic system so it “works for people and the planet.” Marchers carried banners broadcasting a wide range of demands but were united around a single message: that tackling climate change can make society much more fair and equitable. It was the largest march related to climate change in Canadian history, outside of the province of Quebec, attracting more than 10,000 participants according to organizers, though some police estimated the number as high as 15,000. One organizer from an anti-poverty group called the march, which came in the lead-up to a Pan American climate and economic summit in Toronto, the “launch of a powerful new movement.” Marchers chanted for an end to the federal Harper government, some for fossil fuel divestment, other for vast investment in renewably energy and accessible public transit, increases to the minimum wage and affordable housing, and respect for the rights of Indigenous peoples, who live on lands across Canada that hold huge fossil fuel deposits, including Alberta’s tar sands. “If we treated the climate change as the emergency it is, we would create many more times the jobs than we have now, and in the way we design the next economy, we could make sure that we don’t repeat the failures and injustices of the last one,” said author and activist Naomi Klein, who attended on the heels of an “unlikely alliance” struck between her and Pope Francis over his climate encyclical. While it has been rare to see unions, environmentalists and First Nations march side-by-side, organizers believe these are very much “likely alliances” that will lay the foundation for more actions and campaigns bringing pressure to bear on policy-makers in the run-up to the UN climate negotiation in Paris in December and beyond. The march’s diversity even attracted the star power of US actor Jane Fonda. “I’m here because I think that the coalition that is represented in today’s march and rally, and not just today but ongoing in Canada — First Nations, labour unions, working people, students — this is the kind of coalition that will make the difference,” she said. Mohawk activist Ellen Gabriel addresses the crowd. “Canada’s prosperity has been built on the backs of Indigenous peoples, on our lands and our resources. We need to accept that we are not separate from creation, we are part of it. We cannot live without water, without the bees that pollinate most of the food that we eat, but Mother Earth can certainly live without us. We need a system change,” Gabriel said. Indigenous peoples, led by a group of drumming teenagers, marched in the front of a march under the banner of “It Starts with Justice.” Photograph: Robert van Waarden/Survival Media Protestors argued that climate solutions include an expansion of those sectors of the economy that are already low-carbon, like care-giving and health work. “As a registered nurse, we see that the damage being done to the climate has and will continue to have a profound effect on global health. Vulnerable populations will be the most affected by climate change – the homeless, Indigenous peoples, those with inadequate housing, and individuals living in coastal regions,” said Anastasia Harripaul, with the Registered Nurses of Ontario. Photograph: Robert van Waarden/Survival Media Activists with immigration rights groups called for an opening of borders to people impacted by environmental damage and the economic trade and privatization agenda fuelling climate change. “The climate crisis has forced people to leave their homes in search for dignity and then face racism and exclusion if and when they arrive here in Canada. Climate justice must mean full immigration status for migrant workers and undocumented people,” said Tings Chak, an activist with No One Is Illegal. Photograph: Fatin Chowdhury/Survival Media Labels: Action to mitigate climate change, Climate Change, Global Warming 1956. Germany Just Got 78 Percent Of Its Electrici... 1955. GM Foods: A Moment of Honesty 1954. Shifting Away from Animal-Derived Antibodies... 1953. Hunter-Gatherers on the Best-Seller List: St... 1952. Let's Give Feral Cats Their Citizenship 1951. Biodiversity: Against Forgetting 1950. How a Debt Crisis Is Drowning Puerto Rico 1949. 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__label__wiki	0.612509	0.612509	350 million people are raising their voices for their rights to their homes FSC International About the GA The Three Pillars GA History GA Logo GA Sponsorship About FSC FSC+20 Forum Side Meetings Members' Assembly Motion Outcomes GA Registration Arrival in Seville Venue Interactive Map Restaurants & More Discover Spain Discover Seville Tourism in Seville Doing Business in Spain Useful Phrases in Spanish Discover Madrid GA2014 Subsidy Request Motions Platform Cannot Attend Members Updates (pdf) 16:00-18:00 Tuesday 09 September – Presenting the Permanent Indigenous Peoples’ Committee Tony Mendonça (FSC GA Youth Correspondent) Indigenous communities from all over the world have for years had their homes put at risk by forest exploitation Have you ever felt like your opinions are not being taken into account? Like every time you have a concern you just feel that you do not have a voice to express it? And feeling like everything that is yours is taken from you? These have been the feelings of many indigenous communities all around the world. zoom © FSC A.C.That is why, after the creation of the Permanent Indigenous People’s Committee (PIPC), they held an introductory meeting last Tuesday at the General Assembly of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 2014. “There are around 7 billion people in the world, 350 million of them are in indigenous communities, which represent 5 percent of the world population,” said Juan Carlos Ocampo, who belongs to the Miskito Community in Central America and is also a member of the PIPC. Can you imagine the whole population of the United States feeling that they were being left behind? Bear in mind that the United States of America is the third most populated country in the world. “Earth’s area is around 510 million km2, of which 30 million km2 are in the hands of indigenous communities, as well as 95 percent of the forest areas with the highest conservation index,” Ocampo pointed out. This means that, making a group with the areas of Canada, China and the United States would approximately represent the area where indigenous people live. Moreover, most of those forest places are extremely well conserved, which means that those people know how to care for their homes. Their fight is about having their homes respected, because “the primary values of the indigenous perspectives from all around the world are trees and lands,” according to Bradley Young, an Opaskwayak Cree from the source of the North Saskatchewan River in present-day northern Manitoba, Canada, Executive Director of the National Aboriginal Forestry Association and also a member of the PIPC. It might not be easy to understand the spiritual value that indigenous communities place on forests and soils, but why should anyone disrespect the home and beliefs of other people? It is said that a major part of being human is to want to be respected and understood. “It is a matter of respecting what people believe in, even if we do not understand it,” remarked Jamie Levy, member of the Board of Directors of FSC. He also said that by believing in what they believe in, indigenous communities “have maintained the natural resources that we have.” http://www.nafaforestry.org/ ISO Chain of Custody for timber: Good or bad news for FSC? FSC is closer to us than what we think A new take on forest conversion Back to overview … Download FSC General Assembly 2014 Proxy Form FSC General Assembly 2014 Proxy Form The following form may be used to appoint a proxy and, if deemed appropriate, to … PDF, Size: 118,19 KB (02.07.2014) © 2020 FSC Forest Stewardship Council, A.C. All rights reserved. FSC® F000100. ··· 0.0805 · (51) ··· xhtml 1.0	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355429
__label__cc	0.600959	0.399041	(→‎Tools) Latest revision as of 01:10, 6 November 2019 (view source) (Add wikidata) \|extensions={{ext\|warc}}, {{ext\|warc.gz}} \|pronom={{PRONOM\|fmt/289}} \|mimetypes={{mimetype\|application/warc}}, {{mimetype\|application/warc-fields}} \|wikidata={{wikidata\|Q7978505}} '''WARC''' is the successor to the [[ARC (Internet Archive)]] format. Standardized as ISO 28500:2009, Information and documentation -- WARC file format. Developed under the auspices of the [http://netpreserve.org/ International Internet Preservation Consortium]. WARC was developed as an extension to ARC in part to provide better capabilities for managing Web archives for the long term, allowing for capture of more metadata about the circumstances of archiving. '''WARC''' is an archive file format which has been the predominant format for [[Web]] ([[HTTP]]) archives from 2009 to (as of 2019) the present; it is also used for archives of documents collected through other prococols (e.g. [[FTP]]), and could technically be used to store a collection of ordinary files. It is the successor to the [[ARC (Internet Archive)\|ARC]] format. It was developed under the auspices of the [http://netpreserve.org/ International Internet Preservation Consortium], and standardized as ISO 28500, Information and documentation -- WARC file format. WARC was developed as an extension to ARC in part to provide better capabilities for managing Web archives for the long term, allowing for capture of more metadata about the circumstances of archiving. There are currently (2019) two versions of WARC: 1.0 and 1.1, formally ISO 28500:2007 and ISO 28500:2017, respectively. WARC files are often compressed using [[gzip]], resulting in a '''.warc.gz''' extension. Version 1.0 formally specified that URLs in the <code>WARC-Target-URI</code> field should be surrounded in angle brackets, but erroneously did not show this in examples. Implementations largely followed the examples, with the notable exception of Wget, a popular WARC-producing program, which, since February 2016, has used the angle brackets, with the result of breaking much of the software that reads its output. The angle brackets were eliminated altogether in WARC 1.1. For more details, see [https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2017-11/msg00050.html], [https://github.com/webrecorder/pywb/issues/294], [https://github.com/iipc/warc-specifications/pull/24] There is also a specification for a [[Web Archive Metadata File]]. WARC files are often compressed using [[gzip]], resulting in a '''.warc.gz''' extension. In cases where the warc.gz file needs to randomly accessed (namely, as part of web archives accessible page-by-page), this will consist of one gzip stream for each WARC record, concatenated together (which makes for a valid gzip file). This allows any single record to be accessed by an offset, and (when the entire file is decompressed) also preserves the original WARC. There is also a specification for a [[Web Archive Metadata File]]. Another (more widely-used) metadata format used with WARC files is [[CDX]]. == Specifications == * [http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/warc_ISO_DIS_28500.pdf Draft of ISO-DIS 28500] As circulated for ISO ballot and approval. * [https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.0/index.html The WARC Format v. 1.0] * [https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/ The WARC Format v. 1.1] * [http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf Draft of ISO-DIS 28500] As circulated for ISO ballot and approval. * [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000236.shtml WARC, Web ARChive file format, from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats] * [http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/warc/ Working drafts for WARC specification] * [http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/ WARC Specifications] == Sample files == * [https://github.com/chfoo/warcat warcat: Tool and library for handling Web ARChive (WARC) files.] * [http://warcreate.com/ Warcreate] (for Google Chrome) * [https://github.com/lintool/warcbase warcbase platform] * [https://github.com/ept/warc-hadoop WARC Input and Output Formats for Hadoop] * [https://github.com/ikreymer/webarchiveplayer webarchiveplayer] == Other links and references == * [http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_WARC_Ecosystem The WARC Ecosystem (Archive Team)] * [https://webarchive.jira.com/wiki/display/Iresearch/Web+Archive+Analysis+Workshop Web Archive Analysis Workshop] * [https://github.com/lintool/warcbase/wiki Warcbase Wiki] * [http://kris-sigur.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-warc-format-11.html Discussion of version 1.1, while it was under development] * [http://qanda.digipres.org/1155/merging-&-deduping-warc-files?show=1159#a1159 Merging & Deduping WARC files] * [http://library.gwu.edu/scholarly-technology-group/posts/harvesting-twitter-streaming-api-warc-files Harvesting the Twitter Streaming API to WARC files] * [https://www.digitalstudies.org/articles/10.16995/dscn.18/ The great WARC adventure: Using SIPS, AIPS, and DIPS to document SLAAPs] * [http://inkdroid.org/2016/04/14/warc-work/ WARC Work] * [https://kris-sigur.blogspot.com/2016/05/warc-mime-type.html?spref=tw WARC MIME Media Type] (as of now unregistered, but a suggested value exists) [[Category:Internet Archive]] [[Category:Web]] Latest revision as of 01:10, 6 November 2019 Wikidata ID WARC is an archive file format which has been the predominant format for Web (HTTP) archives from 2009 to (as of 2019) the present; it is also used for archives of documents collected through other prococols (e.g. FTP), and could technically be used to store a collection of ordinary files. It is the successor to the ARC format. It was developed under the auspices of the International Internet Preservation Consortium, and standardized as ISO 28500, Information and documentation -- WARC file format. WARC was developed as an extension to ARC in part to provide better capabilities for managing Web archives for the long term, allowing for capture of more metadata about the circumstances of archiving. There are currently (2019) two versions of WARC: 1.0 and 1.1, formally ISO 28500:2007 and ISO 28500:2017, respectively. Version 1.0 formally specified that URLs in the WARC-Target-URI field should be surrounded in angle brackets, but erroneously did not show this in examples. Implementations largely followed the examples, with the notable exception of Wget, a popular WARC-producing program, which, since February 2016, has used the angle brackets, with the result of breaking much of the software that reads its output. The angle brackets were eliminated altogether in WARC 1.1. For more details, see [1], [2], [3] WARC files are often compressed using gzip, resulting in a .warc.gz extension. In cases where the warc.gz file needs to randomly accessed (namely, as part of web archives accessible page-by-page), this will consist of one gzip stream for each WARC record, concatenated together (which makes for a valid gzip file). This allows any single record to be accessed by an offset, and (when the entire file is decompressed) also preserves the original WARC. There is also a specification for a Web Archive Metadata File. Another (more widely-used) metadata format used with WARC files is CDX. [edit] Specifications [edit] Sample files [edit] Tools [edit] Other links and references Discussion of version 1.1, while it was under development Merging & Deduping WARC files	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355431
__label__wiki	0.972311	0.972311	Return march kicks off in Bethlehem The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) supressed on Thursday a march in Bethlehem marking 70 years for the Palestinian uprooting from their homes and land, the Nakba. Palestinians marched from Bethlehem city center to a hill overlooking the illegal Israeli settlement of Har Homa, built on Beit Sahour land north of Bethlehem, demanding their right to return to their homes they were force out from in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that led to the creation of Israel and the start of the Palestinian refugee issue. According to the PIC reporter, the protesters yelled slogans against Israeli occupation. Soldiers stationed at the settlement fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades at the protesters, forcing them to disperse. London: Mass protest Friday in solidarity with March of Return in Gaza The Palestinian Forum in Britain said a massive protest rally would be organized outside the Israeli embassy in London in solidarity with the March of Return protesters in Gaza. According to the forum, the demonstration will also be held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (uprising) and to protest the upcoming relocation of the US embassy to Occupied Jerusalem. The protest rally will be staged in cooperation with several pro-Palestine organizations and Muslim community groups. Paper: Palestinian youths launched 17 flaming kites Tuesday Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that hundreds of dunums of land were burned on Tuesday by flaming kites launched from Gaza. The Hebrew newspaper said that Palestinian youths on Tuesday flew 17 flaming kites toward Israeli settlements near Gaza's eastern border. Since the start of the Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip, dozens of kites made by Palestinian youths with flaming rags attached to their tails have been launched toward settler farmlands near the border fence causing heavy losses. The flaming kites are one of the tools used by Palestinian youths to confuse the Israeli snipers stationed at the border fence to shoot peaceful protesters. 2 Palestinians injured in clashes with IOF Two Palestinian youths Wednesday morning were injured as Israeli occupation forces (IOF) showered dozens of protesters with gunfire and tear gas grenades to the east of Gaza city and Khuza’a town, east of Khan Younis city, in the southern besieged Gaza Strip. The PIC correspondent said that IOF soldiers who were stationed east of al-Awdah (return) camp fired tear gas grenades directly at protesters, hitting a Palestinian youth with a gas canister in the face. Many others suffered from suffocation. Another youth was also shot with an Israeli bullet in his foot east of Gaza city. The wounded were moved to the hospital, the PIC reporter pointed out. Army Shoots A Palestinian With A Gas Bomb In The Head Israeli soldiers shot, Wednesday, a young Palestinian man with a gas bomb which struck him directly in the head, east of Khuza’a town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Video Media sources in Gaza said the soldiers advanced dozens of meters into Palestinian lands east of Khuza’a, and fired live rounds and high-velocity gas bombs at Palestinian protesters. The Quds News Agency said the soldiers shot a young man with a gas bomb, directly striking him in the head, causing a moderate injury, before medics rushed him to the European Hospital. In related news, the soldiers bulldozed Palestinian lands in the area, and installed sand hills, in addition to adding more barbed-wire fences near the border, east of Khuza’a. Red Cross Calls on Israel to Respect Gaza Medical Crews Head of International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) sub-delegation in Gaza, Gilan Devorn, has called on Israeli occupation authorities to respect and ensure the unimpeded functioning of medical services for the wounded and sick. In a statement on Saturday, Devorn expressed his deep regret over an incident in which a medic from the Red Crescent was wounded by Israeli fire while performing his work in the north of the Gaza Strip. “Today, a medic at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society was shot while he was evacuating a wounded man in the border area. We look into the circumstances surrounding the incident, but the medic was clearly visible, wearing the Palestinian Red Crescent vest standing near the ambulance. Such incidents must stop,” he said, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency. “With the increasing violence, ensuring that medical services for wounded and sick are unimpeded is extremely important. The PRCS has worked courageously and tirelessly to fulfill its humanitarian mission,” he added. As part of its work, the ICRC acts as a neutral intermediary and [is] keen to conduct a public dialogue with all relevant authorities and security forces, in order to minimize the impact of the current events on civilians, and to maintain a humanitarian space that enables medical personnel to work safely.” Israeli Soldiers Injure Three Palestinians In Gaza Israeli soldiers shot, on Monday evening, three young Palestinian men with live fire, east of Gaza city. Medical sources said the soldiers opened fire at Palestinian protesters on their lands, wounding three, before they were moved to the make-shift hospital, east of Gaza city. Also on Monday evening, Israeli military vehicles invaded Palestinian lands in the same area, and installed barbed-wire fences, to replace the ones which were removed by Palestinian protesters in recent weeks during the ongoing “Great Return March” in the coastal region. On May 5th, the Health Ministry in Gaza said the soldiers have killed 45 Palestinians, and injured 7945, including 100 medics, in addition to causing damage to 25 ambulances after directly targeting them. Among the slain Palestinians are five children, two journalists and two persons with disabilities. Maariv: Flaming kites burned 5,000 dunums of farmland Maariv newspaper said on Sunday that about 5,000 dunums of farmland in the Israeli settlements neighboring the Gaza Strip have been burned by flaming kites launched from the coastal enclave. Maariv said on its website that the flaming kites phenomenon has made the Israelis living in settlements near the border fence with Gaza worried all the time. The Hebrew newspaper pointed out that dozens of kites made of nylon with flaming rags attached to their tails are launched from Gaza daily causing heavy economic damages to farmlands behind the border fence. According to Israeli estimates, the Palestinian flaming kites have burned 5,000 dunums of land so far. About 600-800 dunums have been burned in Be'eri settlement alone. The Palestinian youths have been using flaming kites since the launch of the Great March of Return as a new form of popular protest setting vast tracts of settler lands near the border on fire. Palestinians in Gaza have been marching peacefully since 30th March along Gaza's eastern borderline for their right of return. Dozens have been killed and thousands injured as a result of Israel's use of lethal force against the unarmed protesters. IOF shoots, kills two Palestinians in southern Gaza Bahaa Qdeih, 23 Mohammed Abu Reida, 20 Two Palestinian youths were killed on Sunday after being targeted by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stationed near the border fence east if Khuza'a town in the southern Gaza Strip. According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, the two martyrs were identified as Bahaa Qdeih, 23, and Mohammed Abu Reida, 20. The PIC reporter said that the IOF fired a shell at a group of Palestinian youths near the border fence east of Abu Reida neighborhood in Khuza'a. According to the PIC reporter, the IOF heavily opened fire at the ambulances and the Palestinian citizens who rushed to the scene to save them. He added that the medical staff were able to reach the youths more than half an hour after they were attacked. A spokesman for the Israeli army claimed that the Israeli forces were able to kill two of three Palestinians who attempted to cross the border fence with intention to damage security infrastructure. 6 Injuries by IOF gunfire reported east of al-Maghazi At least six Palestinians were injured on Saturday afternoon after being targeted by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) east of al-Maghazi refugee camp in Central Gaza. The PIC reporter said that IOF soldiers opened gunfire directly at the Palestinians and the ambulances leaving six citizens wounded including one paramedic and two children. IOF deliberately targets children, medical staff in Gaza protests The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday heavily showered the medical tents erected near Gaza's eastern border with teargas canisters injuring dozens of medics. Spokesman for Gaza's Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qedra said that the IOF deliberately attacked medical tents east of Gaza, Khan Younis and Rafah cities causing dozens of suffocation cases among the medical staff. Video He added that the Ministry's ambulances were another target of the IOF fire, noting that these attacks hindered the work of the medical staff during the protests. In a related context, the Ministry said that the IOF intensified their targeting of the children peacefully taking part in the protests. Over 1,000 Palestinians injured on 6th Friday of Return March Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Friday by Israeli gunfire and teargas canisters while taking part in the Great March of Return along Gaza's border with the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories. Video Gaza's Ministry of Health said that about 1,143 Palestinians were injured including 36 children and 11 women. Thousands of Palestinian citizens started since the morning hours to march in the five Return camps erected along Gaza's eastern border for the sixth week in a row. The PIC reporter said that Palestinian protesters east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip managed to knock an Israeli drone sent to document the protests to the ground in the afternoon. Another drone was brought down earlier in Khan Younis. The Higher National Committee of the Great March of Return decided to name the sixth Friday of the March as the "Friday of Palestinian Workers" to express appreciation for these members of society who have a significant role in the Palestinian national struggle against the occupation. The PIC reporters said that Palestinian youths set dozens of tires on fire along the border fence to block the view of Israeli snipers. Since the launch of the peaceful Great March of Return, 50 Palestinians have been killed and over 7,000 injured as a result of Israel's excessive use of lethal force against unarmed protesters. Palestinians down second IOF drone in Gaza Palestinian protesters on Friday afternoon managed to knock down a second IOF drone east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip while documenting clashes in the March of Return in Gaza. Video It was the second drone that was brought down east of Khan Younis at the hands of Palestinians who were able to take down a drone earlier in the afternoon. After the it fell down, IOF soldiers intensively fired tear gas grenades at the Palestinians leaving dozens of suffocation cases and injuries among the protesters including three journalists. UPDATE: Three Journalists among Civilians Injured by Israeli Forces in Gaza At least 430 Palestinian civilians, including three journalists, were injured by live shots or suffocated from teargas inhalation on Friday, as Israeli forces attacked the protests of the ongoing Great March of Return, at many encampments on the Gaza-Israel border. 69 protesters were reportedly shot and injured by live bullets, while the remainder suffocated from teargas inhalation, according to WAFA. Journalist Abdul-Rahman al-Khatib intensely suffocated from teargas inhalation, and journalist Sulaiman Abu Zarifa was hit and injured by a teargas canister in his foot, while journalist Hamza Shami was hit by a canister in his shoulder, according to press sources. According to the Health Ministry, since the protests began on March 30, Israeli forces have killed 45 protestors, including two journalists )Yasser Murtaja and Ahmed Abu Hussein) who were both shot despite wearing protective jackets marked with the word “PRESS”. Video The 46-day Great March of Return protests started on March 30 and are set to reach a crescendo on May 15, which marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), in which over 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948. Dubbed the “Friday of Palestinian Workers”, today’s protest comes three days after the International Workers’ Day and seeks to highlight the plight of Palestinian workers in the besieged coastal enclave, where over 40 percent of the population is unemployed. More Palestinians are expected to arrive to encampments set up in five locations along Gaza border, including Khan Younis, Rafah and al-Bureij refugee camp, to demand their right of return to their villages and towns they were forcibly displaced from in 1948. Palestinians dress like the Na'vi from Avatar during Gaza protests A group of Palestinian youths on Friday decided to protest near the border fence east of Khuza'a town in the southern Gaza Strip while dressed like a character from the famous science fiction film Avatar. With their blue clothes and long hair the youths participated in the protests to emphasize the peacefulness of Gaza's Great March of Return and condemn the Israeli crimes. The youths raised Palestinians flags, the kufiyah and portraits of Palestinians killed in the protests including journalist Yaser Murtaja and the deaf boy Tahrir Wahba. They also presented some performances that mimic some scenes taken from the American movie. Avatar is a science fiction film directed by James Cameron. It was released in theaters in the US on 18th December 2009. The movie tells the story of a paraplegic former soldier sent to a moon called Pandora and inhabited by the Na'vi, a species of three-meter tall, blue-skinned sapient humanoids that live in harmony before the arrival of humans who come to search for a valuable mineral on this moon. To explore Pandora's biosphere, scientists use Na'vi-human hybrids called "Avatars" operated by genetically matched humans. 3 Journalists injured by Israeli forces in Gaza Three Palestinian journalists were injured east of Khan Younis on Friday as Israeli occupation forces attacked protesters in the ongoing Great March of Return at many encampments on the Gaza-Israel border. The 46-day Great March of Return protests started on March 30 and are set to reach their crescendo on May 15, which marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), in which over 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes to make way for the creation of "Israel" in 1948. Page: 19 - 18 - 17 - 16 - 15 - 14 - 13 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355434
__label__cc	0.56239	0.43761	Billboard Charts Week 1 by yogi » Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:43 pm The Mission's week 1 ranking is #45 overall( overall), & #9 on their Rock charts. On the Rock charts, It lost out to Nicklebacks ' Feed the Machine' #2 debut, but beat Cheap Tricks' We're All Right!' debut #12. Not bad at all for a band thats been around and charting for 50 years ( 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's 2010's.....)!!!! GREAT job Styx, GREAT album!!!!!! Location: Carthage, Texas (FREE health care, housing, autos, gas, food, entertainment, FOR ALL!!) Re: Billboard Charts Week 1 by Archetype » Wed Jun 28, 2017 12:02 am Big Bang Theory was also #45. How many copies were sold? "It's really important if you're going to remain a valid band that you play your new stuff. Otherwise you become a parody of what you started out doing." - Janick Gers of Iron Maiden Location: Andromeda by masque » Wed Jun 28, 2017 3:40 am i think i read somewhere that big bang was somewhere between 35k-50k. by Toph » Wed Jun 28, 2017 7:16 am yogi wrote: The Mission's week 1 ranking is #45 overall( overall), & #9 on their Rock charts. That's actually disappointing. With all that marketing, the advanced copies, the huge promotional thrust, the CD/LP packages, I would have thought it would have been in top 30 at least. For comparison, Buckingham/McVie debuted at #17. Toph Location: Springfield, MA by ChicagoSTYX » Wed Jun 28, 2017 9:41 am From StyxWorld.com THANK YOU to all of our fans for making us: - #6 Top Rock Albums - #11 Physical Albums - #11 Vinyl Albums - #13 Current Albums - #14 Billboard Top Albums - #16 Retail - #17 Mass Merch/Non-Traditional - #29 Digital Albums - #45 Billboard 200 (includes catalog and streaming). Thank you for making this happen! #StyxTheMission STYX new album coming in 2020 ChicagoSTYX by Monker » Wed Jun 28, 2017 1:06 pm This is very old....It doesn't have the CYO concert, or the GI/Po8 concert. Fact Finder wrote: masque wrote: i think i read somewhere that big bang was somewhere between 35k-50k. If this is accurate so are you. The Chicago based band, Styx dominated the charts during the mid seventies to late eighties. They had a series of muliplatinum albums and top ten hits. They continue to tour today, frequently with arch allies REO Speedwagon. Album release year Certification date RIAA Sales Soundscan Sales 1972 none Styx 1973 1975 Styx II 500,000 1973 none The Serpent is Rising 1974 none The Man of Miracles 1975 1977 Equinox 500,000 1976 1978 Crystal Ball 500,000 1977 1984 The Grand Illusion 3,000,000 1978 1984 Pieces of Eight 3,000,000 1979 1984 Cornerstone 2,000,000 1981 1984 Paradise Theatre 3,000,000 1983 1983 Kilroy Was Here 1,000,000 1990 1998 Edge of the Century 500,000 1999 none Brave New World 86,300 2005 2003 none Cyclorama 56,000 2005 2005 none Big Bang Theory 43,000 2005 1984 none Caught in the Act 1997 1998 Return to Paradise Theatre 500,000 2000 none Arch Allies: Live at Riverport 2001 none Styx World: Live 2001 22,400 2003 2002 none At the River’s Edge 2003 none 21st Century Live 1977 1984 Best of Styx 500,0001980 none Lady 1987 1994 Styx Classics Volume 15 500,000 1991 none Styx Radio-made Hits 1975-1991 1995 2005 Styx Greatest Hits 2,000,000 2,650,91202/2013 1996 none Styx Greatest Hits Part 2 1997 none The Best of Times: Best of Styx 1999 none Best of Styx 1973-1974 2000 none Extended Versions 2000 none Singles Collections 2001 none Yesterday and Today 2002 none 20th Century Masters 303,218 04/2012 2003 none Rockers 2004 none Come Sail Away: Styx Anthology 2005 none The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings Total RIAA Sales: 17.5 million Canada Sales (CRIA) 1975 Equinox 100, 000 1976 Crystal Ball 50,000 1977 The Grand Illusion 100,000 1977 Best of Styx 100,000 1978 Pieces of Eight 100,000 1979 Cornerstone 100,000 1981 Paradise Theatre 100,000 1982 Kilroy Was Here 100,000 1995 Styx Greatest Hits 100,000 by ChicagoSTYX » Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:37 pm http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2017/06 ... in-us.html Nickelback Debuts at Number 5 in U.S.; Styx' Highest Charting Studio Album in 34 Years 6:54 PM Chart Watch - America, Nickelback, Styx by VVN Music Nickelback have scored their seventh straight top ten album with the number five debut of Feed the Machine. While the band's first two albums didn't crack the top 100, they have since amassed a sixteen year run of albums none of which have charted lower than number 6. Silver Side Up (2001 / #2) The Long Road (2003 / #6) All the Right Reasons (2005 / #1) Dark Horse (2008 / #2) Here and Now (2011 / #2) No Fixed Address (2014 / #4) Feed the Machine (2017 / #5) The new album also tops the Hard Rock Albums chart and debuted at number 3 last Friday in Britain. Big Boi's third solo album, Boomiverse, debuts at 28, just slightly better than his 2012 set Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors which peaked at 34. His 2010 solo debut, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, went to number 3. The rapper, of course, had greater success as one-half of Outkast with Andre 3000 who had four straight top 2 albums between 1996 and 2003. Styx are back with their first new studio album in twelve years, The Mission. This week, the LP debuts at 45, on spot higher than 2005's Big Bang Theory. The Mission actually gives the band their best chart position 34 years, since Kilroy Was Here went to 3 in 1983. On the other hand, Cheap Trick's new album, We're All Alright!, opens at 63, thirty-two spots lower than their last set. by Toph » Wed Jun 28, 2017 11:33 pm ChicagoSTYX wrote: http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2017/06/nickelback-debuts-at-number-5-in-us.html Let's see where it is next week. Also, charts are very different in terms of how they are constructed. Back in 70s 80s and even 90s, albums had a slow rise to the chart (it might take a few weeks or even months for an album to reach its peak) and then stayed around on the chart (If they were fed singles and kept momentum). Now, given technology, it is almost immediate. This is why Brusco (asshole, but brilliant marketer) had all the marketing out there to pre-order. All pre-orders count in the first week sales. His goal - maximize the chart position in the first week, get some press, and then maybe a station will start playing Gone Gone Gone because of the popularity of the album. I doubt that will happen here. Edge of The Century never had that big blast off moment of getting into the top 40 albums but stuck around in the 60s and 70s for months based upon the strength of SMTW and then the mid chart success of LAFS. It managed to keep that moderate chart position long enough to achieve Gold record status. Kind of the slow burn type of sales for that one. So while it never had that high peak, it chug along at a reasonable pace. The problem with The Mission is that they have to keep the momentum up. That is usually done with singles. Nothing has achieved airplay yet. Look at what happened to Buckingham/McVie - #17 last week in its debut and this week....down to #95. Next week will likely be 150 or below or even off the chart. That's why, as much as it would have pained these guys to do so since they can't acknowledge that Styx were successful beyond 1978, they might have considered a radio friendly mid tempo or ballad song on The Mission to release to at least have the potential for some airplay. Nothing on the LP, while some good music (still writing my review) has any remote chance of breaking through into the mainstream. This is way out of date and RIAA certifications aren't very accurate. First, RIAA has stopped acknowledging anything with Styx (and many older acs) and A&M hasn't pushed certification (while acknowledge more sold - just means writing more checks to the artist). Here's what we do know that is not here Cornerstone is definitely 3X platinum Cornerstone - biggest worldwide seller and achieved overseas certifications in much of Europe Paradise and GI have sold at least 4X if not 5X Kilroy achieved 2X platinum GH achieved 3X platinum Equinox was getting close to being platinum by brywool » Thu Jun 29, 2017 12:30 am Toph wrote: That's why, as much as it would have pained these guys to do so since they can't acknowledge that Styx were successful beyond 1978, they might have considered a radio friendly mid tempo or ballad song on The Mission to release to at least have the potential for some airplay. But doesn't that then say that it's all about sales and not about making a great piece of art? Good on ANY band that sticks to what they want to be creating rather than what someone tells them they need to create to get a hit. That whole "I don't hear a single" business is such a ridiculous notion not to mention subjective as hell. The record business isn't what it was whatsoever and for people to keep thinking singles are the way to go... I dunno if I see the logic in that. Pink Floyd never had a number 1 single and they did ok. Same with Zep. Same with so many others. I do like that Styx has always been an 'album' band that had singles that did well. As opposed to the opposite (a band that made singles and got lucky with their albums). I do think the band should keep making videos. It's something that fans can share to spread the word. AND it wouldn't be that difficult. Take a bunch of fan videos from Youtube. Splice them together to look like a multi-camera shoot. Slap the original recording over it and go. OR just get a great multicam live take from any show. I saw a clip of "Radio Silence" a few days ago that was really great. Not good enough for an "official" video due to the camera angles, but still definitely worth sharing, in fact there are THREE videos on youtube from this same performance at the Greek, here's one: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3fFKIg2BsM). Grab each one, spliced together, lay the studio track over it and go. I'm just glad there's new original music from the band and it's nice to see Styx (for once) do something that gets high praise from critics. If we are thinking that Styx will somehow have a number 1 release, or if they don't then they must suck is just ludicrous. Nobody from 'our' era is going to have those kinds of sales. Jesus, how does a band sell music today??? NO. He's NOT Steve F'ing Perry. But he's Arnel F'ing Pineda and I'm okay with that. brywool Digital Audio Tape by ChicagoSTYX » Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:38 am All good points. Based on all the changes over the years in the business, maybe they should consider changing the number of sales needed to achieve a gold record. The Mission is still at #24 on the overall amazon sales chart which is updated several times a day. I'm sure the tour will also help to keep sales coming in. by brywool » Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:57 am I wonder if the band is selling the CD at their shows (I'd think so) and if so, do those numbers get tossed into the tally? (I would doubt it) by Archetype » Thu Jun 29, 2017 5:09 am If nothing else, I hope they at least broke even on the project. They win, the fans win, and they have incentive to write more music knowing they won't lose money on it. by Jodes » Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:52 am ChicagoSTYX wrote: They have in Canada.. as of a few years ago, Gold is 40,000 Copies, Platinum is 80,000 copies sold. I believe DVDs/Blu Rays are still 5000,10,000 though.. Jodes by Boomchild » Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:36 am brywool wrote: I wonder if the band is selling the CD at their shows (I'd think so) and if so, do those numbers get tossed into the tally? (I would doubt it) I guess that would depend on how they count albums as sold. If they go by actual purchases by customers at retail, then I would say no. But if they base the sales on the number of copies ordered and shipped by distribution then I would say yes. by Toph » Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:59 pm ChicagoSTYX wrote: The Mission is still at #24 on the overall amazon sales chart which is updated several times a day. I'm sure the tour will also help to keep sales coming in. #64 on Amazon on 6/29 by Monker » Fri Jun 30, 2017 3:05 pm No, #31. I'm sure it goes up and down throughout the day/night. by Toph » Sat Jul 01, 2017 12:17 pm Fake news, Monkey Boy Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118 Paid in Albums (See Top 100 Paid in Albums) by Monker » Sat Jul 01, 2017 2:05 pm Toph wrote: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118 Paid in Albums (See Top 100 Paid in Albums) That is under digital music. I wouldn't expect Styx to sell a lot of digital copies. In CD/Vinyl they are still at #32 by ChicagoSTYX » Sat Jul 01, 2017 2:47 pm They are at 33 on amazon overall sales. And at 50 on daily double sales chart which is great for them on week 2. Where are they on Billboard? I agree that this isn't too bad for Amazon, but I have always felt Amazon charts are a bit sketchy anyway...If they stay in the top 100 on Billboard, that will be good news. by ChicagoSTYX » Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:40 pm The new billboard chart will be available on Tuesday, maybe Wednesday because of the holiday. by Toph » Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:30 am That's all great, but Billboard ranks them by all copies sold, including digital. by Monker » Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:53 am Just stop. You posted the wrong chart. Talk about "fake news". ChicagoSTYX posted the "all media" (or whatever) chart from Amazon and they are still at #33. I already wondered and asked about Billboard because Amazon is sketchy anyway. by ChicagoSTYX » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:57 am Daily Double (sales chart) had them at 23 for the first week. Week 2 has them at 44. Based on that they, should drop to between 75 and 95 on the Billboard chart for week 2. That is just a guess. We'll see on Wednesday. They are at 92 on the iTunes rock chart now which is up over 50 spots in the past few days. At 30 on amazon's overall chart. Sunday 8pm central time. by Toph » Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:40 pm You know Monkey Boy, I am wrong. They aren't 118. They're now #140 "Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140 Paid in Albums" Fall baby fall! When you don't have a playable single, this is what happens. by ChicagoSTYX » Tue Jul 04, 2017 1:53 am https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-mus ... _music_1#2 by Monker » Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:50 am Toph wrote: You know Monkey Boy, I am wrong. They aren't 118. They're now #140 First of all, I don't care as much as you do where the CD charts. It's a good CD regardless. But, you are posting misleading information. When you are on your chart, all you have to do is look to the left and see the tree of how you got there. It is under DIGITAL MUSIC. The "Paid" means that it only ranks people who paid to download the album...some albums are available on digital for free for PRIME Members. You know the truth...so please quit lying to people and misrepresenting things. I agree that they will still be in the top 100 for Billboarrd...they have hardly dropped on Amazon That's pretty good! by Baron Von Bielski » Tue Jul 04, 2017 8:42 am You're a petty little man. Baron Von Bielski Location: The Grove of Eglantine Return to Styx Jump to: Board index › Artist Discussion › Styx	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355436
__label__cc	0.647042	0.352958	Travis Rice & Jamie Anderson Win 2007 Burton US Open In order to combat spam posts we have added additional requirements for membership. You will need at least 10 posts in the Site Feedback/General Discussion forum to prove yourself as a real person. We hope this is not too much of an inconveinince! Thread: Travis Rice & Jamie Anderson Win 2007 Burton US Open STRATTON, Vt. (March 16, 2007) – Travis Rice and Jamie Anderson won today’s slopestyle competition at the 25th Annual US Open Snowboarding Championships held at Stratton Mountain Resort. Travis and Jamie each took home $20,000, Motorola cell phones and $5,000 each for winning the Snickers Best Trick Awards. “I’ve been competing at the US Open since 1998,” said Travis Rice. “My mom brought me when I was 15, and it was the first time I saw the pros compete in person. So I’m stoked to win my first US Open slopestyle title. It was definitely tough conditions out there for us gladiators, so I’m glad we made it through it.” Jamie Anderson, whose entire family gathered in Vermont to cheer her on, had this to say about her win today, “The US Open is a really huge contest, and I’m stoked to win.” Heavy snows on the East Coast slowed down the slopestyle competitors, who each had three runs to get their best scores. Travis Rice made the best of it, winning his first US Open slopestyle competition with a frontside boardslide on the first rail to a backside 720 Japan air, frontside 720 melon grab, backside rodeo 720 nosegrab, switch backside 180 and a front boardslide to 270 off on the final rail. Travis’ backside rodeo 720 on the third jump also earned him the Snickers Best Trick award and an extra $5,000. Finnish rider Janne Korpi impressed the judges with his frontside boardslide, backside 720 mute grab, frontside 900 melon grab, Cab 720 mute grab, switch backside 720 and ending with a half Cab boardslide on the rail, earning a second place win. 2006 US Open slopestyle champion Shaun White took third place on the slopestyle podium with a boardslide to fakie, switch backside 540, frontside 1080, backside 720 mute grab, Cab 900 ending with a lipslide on the final rail. In the women’s competition, a diverse group of ladies from six different nations including Austria, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and the United States with ages ranging from 16 to 31 rode in the slopestyle finals. 2006 US Open slopestyle champion Hana Beaman did her best to reclaim her title. But it was sixteen-year-old Jamie Anderson who earned first place with a run that included a frontside 180 indy grab, Cab 540, frontside 360, method air and a nose press to tail press on the last rail. Jamie’s smooth Cab 540 earned her the Snickers Best Trick award as well. 2006 US Open halfpipe champion Torah Bright took second place in the women’s competition with her first run and British rider Jenny Jones took the third place spot on the podium. After today’s slopestyle finals, Janne Korpi took the lead in the Burton Global Open Series standings with Kevin Pearce behind him by less than 100 points. For the women, Torah Bright took the top spot. Tomorrow’s US Open halfpipe competition is the final chance for riders have to win the Burton Global Open Series championship, which awards $100,000 each to the winning male and female riders. In the TTR World Tour Ranking List, Shaun White moved from 4th to TTR World Nr. 1 spot. Travis Rice moved from 13th to 4th place and Kevin Pearce moved from first to second place. Antti Autti is currently in third place. Jamie Anderson continues to lead the women’s TTR rankings. The male Ticket To Ride World Snowboard Tour Champion will be announced after tomorrow’s US Open halfpipe finals and the women’s Ticket To Ride World Snowboard Tour Champion will be announced after next week’s Roxy Chicken Jam in Park City, Utah. If you can’t make it out to Stratton to watch this year’s landmark event in person, be sure to watch the 90-minute US Open show on NBC on Sunday, March 18 at 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET. Or check out webcasts of the event on www.burton.com. To download print-quality photos from the event, visit: http://www.usopen-snowboarding.com/Pressroom.aspx and click on the ‘Photos for Publishing’ link at the bottom of the web page. Enter the following to access hi-res images: username: usopen07 password: ridestratton For more information on the US Open, head to www.opensnowboarding.com. Dawn De La Fuente dawnd@burton.com About the Burton Global Open Series, Presented by Motorola The Burton Global Open Series events are the pinnacle snowboarding events of the season. Founded by Jake Burton, the Opens have grown from grassroots events to global spectacles attracting tens of thousands of spectators and riders from around the world. Since the beginning, the Opens have been driven by riders, for riders evolving with snowboarding and riders’ needs over the years. With events held in Europe, Japan, the United States, New Zealand and Australia, the Opens set the standard for snowboarding events around the globe. For more information, visit www.opensnowboarding.com or www.motorola.com/burton Head to www.burton.com to see live cybercasts of the US Open. The Burton Global Open Series is part of the Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour, the largest group of independent freestyle snowboard events in the world. 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__label__wiki	0.533767	0.533767	Story Uuid: 4a8c97d7-c2aa-4146-9a89-606678c51873 Story Link: /#story/4a8c97d7-c2aa-4146-9a89-606678c51873 Story Slug: stray-bullet-from-hunter-pierces-home-during-family-gathering-on-thanksgiving Stray bullet from hunter pierces home during family gathering on Thanksgiving By Logan Rude- 1575323141000 MOUNT IDA, Wis. - A family gathering in Mount Ida was disrupted Thursday morning when a stray bullet from a nearby hunter went through the residence, according to the Grant County Sheriff's Department. Police said a Grant County Sheriff's Office and Wisconsin DNR investigation found that a neighbor, 30-year-old Kevin Zart, was hunting with his son when he fired three rounds at a deer. Two of the rounds were in the direction of affected residence, according to a news release. Law enforcement officials said the direction Zart fired from was consistent with the path of the bullet that traveled through the residence. There were no injuries reported. Zart will be charged with endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon, according to the release.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355443
__label__cc	0.740105	0.259895	Ace photographer Kirk Jordan contributed the above photo from the Hobbs State Park Monument Trail. I learned early on in my commercial filmmaking for Arkansas Parks & Tourism (now Arkansas Parks, Heritage & Tourism) to keep my eye out for where the still photographers like Kirk, Casey Cocker, Bernie Jungkind, Drew Harris and Chuck Haralson were shooting and to adjust my cinematography setups accordingly. Steal....er, borrow your creative ideas from the best, as they say. I receive a constant stream of solicitations from web design companies, who helpfully, cheerfully point out that my web site is woefully inadequate--a problem they promise to rectify forthwith if I will only send them money. One of last boiler-room salesmen offered his firm's service to ghost-write a monthly blog that would be filled with nifty-albeit-generic production industry advice. You know, stuff about new cameras and editing tips and ongoing advice about the absolute necessity of hiring expensive professional web designers. :-) ]]>Sat, 06 Apr 2019 11:31:22 GMThttp://garyjonesvideo.com/blog/volume-56-number-3 (l to r) Cynthia Dunlap, Interim Director ADPT, 2019 Miss Arkansas Claudia Raffo, Yours Truly, Governor Asa Hutchinson ]]>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 19:17:00 GMThttp://garyjonesvideo.com/blog/volume-56-number-2 Below is a page from a November 1982 Hype & Jive--announcing the birth of our youngest son, who is now a new father (Alex and Samantha's first) in Chicago. ]]>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 17:24:30 GMThttp://garyjonesvideo.com/blog/volume-56-number-1 "The Changing Production Economy" "Volume 56" is no typo. I've been a would-be satirist and card-carrying wiseacre for a long, long time. Today, however, I tend to save my creative energy for filmmaking and leave the wordplay to young folks whose snark hasn't mellowed out with age and maturity. Actually, this first entry of 2019 is courtesy of a creative director named Franklin Tipton, who is a partner and CCO of San Francisco ad agency Odysseus Arms (https://www.o-arms.com). Writing in the January 2019 issue of SHOOT magazine, Tipton observed: "...the easy accessibility of the technological tools for content production has driven a rapid growth in the number of 'content producers' for clients to tap. Smartphone penetration is at nearly 90% of U.S. households, meaning those households have access to basic fill-in editing and broadcasting tools to deliver content to channels like Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. Anyone with a bit of gumption can become a content production house.* (emphasis mine) "The need for assets and content continues to outpace the budgets set to make it. Quality content will take more and more a backseat to the economics of a need for a volume of content to fill a rapidly expanding media space and time. Brands are feeling pressure to be across too many channels for the funds they have available. In the process, brands are underinvesting in the quality needed to compel people to give a shit." After describing pretty well the current production challenge of "free" User-Generated-Content (UGC), Tipton does provide a "happy ending" to his analysis, saying that (surprise, surprise) "really creative work will stand out more than ever." -30- ]]>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:02:39 GMThttp://garyjonesvideo.com/blog/volume-55-number-4 ARKANSAS CINEMA SOCIETY-- "FILMLAND" One sign of maturity, I suppose, is to be able to admit when one is out-classed. As someone who has helped organize 24-hour-film competitions, screenplay writing contests, and motion picture education seminars, I know the challenges and work involved. Kathryn Tucker, Jeff Nichols, Graham Gordy, and everyone at the Arkansas Cinema Society, however, have taken to a new, higher level the building of an Austin-like film culture in Little Rock. In just its second year, the ACS has just completed the resoundingly successful, four-day FILMLAND event. The official ACS Mission Statement is worth quoting: "We're building a film community in Arkansas where film lovers can watch films, share ideas, connect with each other, and nurture the new and existing film talent within our state through increased exposure to filmmakers and their art." I'll leave the recent pesky details and name-dropping to practitioners of the journalistic and public relations arts, but can attest that the proverbial good time was had by all during the first annual FILMLAND. Congratulations. Can't wait to see what Kathryn, Jeff, Gordy, their sponsors and associates do next. ]]>Sat, 25 Aug 2018 16:21:14 GMThttp://garyjonesvideo.com/blog/volume-55-number-3 Ron Robinson moved on to an honored celestial marketing executive position on August 14. His agency--Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods--had been a favorite production client for decades. Ron was one of the three Little Rock movers-and-shakers who were charitable enough to write letters of recommendation when I applied to the PhD program at the Department of Heritage Studies at Arkansas State University--Jonesboro. He was the first person to address me a "Dr. Jones"--long before it was legitimate to do so. Ron was one of those individuals to whom the terms "icon" and "larger-than-life" were NOT hyperbole. He will be missed. We are not likely to see his kind again in the Little Rock market. You can watch Ron's tribute video here. It was produced by Deborah Grace and edited by Seth Padgett. Dr. David Stricklin--director of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies--delivered one of Ron's eulogies. You can view it here. One of Ron's lasting legacies is the CALS Ron Robinson Theater. I created a series of work-in-progress and Opening Night videos of the theater. Check them out here. And, of course, it should be fitting that Ron has the last word. ]]>Thu, 09 Aug 2018 02:08:21 GMThttp://garyjonesvideo.com/blog/volume-55-number-2 TOO MUCH INFORMATION (?) In the olden days, I would mail out a printed Hype & Jive newsletter more or less every month. I never knew how many tri-folds wound up in the trash without even having been read. In my self-delusion, I imagined that EVERYBODY read every witticism and were all suitably impressed. :-) In this day of marvelous technology, however, one can tell exactly how many people OPEN an email and how many people actually CLICK THRU to watch a video. More to the point, one can determine all the recipients who DELETED an email without bothering to UNSUBSCRIBE. This sort of precise snd unequivocal feedback is....well, sobering. For example, for a perfectly wonderful video I sent around a few days ago, the open rate to date has been 37% with a 9.9% click rate. Seems discouraging--except that the average "Marketing & Advertising" statistics are a 16.48% click open rate and 1.74% click rate. In other words (for you math-challenged creative types), the industry average for every 100 emails in less that two people watching/reading your message. By those industry standards, Gary Jones Video is doing "pretty good." Alas, I miss the days of printing bulk rate postage stickers, dumping the printed newsletters into a mail box, and reveling in self-delusion. :-) Of course, one can IGNORE the email program reports and remain blissfully ignorant of the challenge of direct email...but where's the fun in that. :-) ]]>Fri, 23 Mar 2018 07:54:16 GMThttp://garyjonesvideo.com/blog/volume-54-number-1 If I may quote from the program of the Henry Awards Banquet at the 44th Annual Governor's Conference on Tourism held March 11-13, 2018 in West Memphis: "Captured by legendary Arkansas filmmaker Gary Jones, ArkansasTravelChannel.com is a free online service from Gary Jones Video that offers original videos of tourism topics within Arkansas. Filmed from border to border though all seasons, these high-quality videos include eye-level and aerial views of Arkansas's breathtaking natural beauty, historic treasures, events, cities, and towns. Viewers can also enjoy insights from Gary's blog." Uh, "insights"? "Very occasional, random wiseacre asides" is more descriptive of my writing style, but I appreciated the description. GJV was a finalist for the Media Support Award won by AY Arkansas magazine. And, yes, I know this is in unnecessary boldface type. I simply haven't figured out yet how to turn it off. Maybe next entry. ]]>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:53:29 GMThttp://garyjonesvideo.com/blog/vol-54-number-2 Well, this is embarrassing: a year since I was kicked to the curb for being too old and independent, and I only have three piddling blog entries to show for it. At least there have been enough Akansas Travel Channel features squeezed through the ol' video sausage-maker for me to allow myself to maintain the title of "filmmaker". I've never claimed to be much of a "blogger" or "column writer", although I've always wished my writing skills were on a par with my photography. Much of YEAR ONE has been a reality check--or RE-check. Yes, State Tax Reports and paperwork are a pain in the derriere. Yes, reinvention of oneself at active Elder Statesman/Producer is a challenge. Agency creatives do not fall over themselves to work with guys old enough to be their grandfather. :-) And technology has introduced new-and-iproved reality checks that certainly work to counter any remaining self-delusions. Once upon a time one sent out printed promotional mailers and never really knew who opened and read them. Then email came along and, again, the reception to sales efforts were often blissfully vague. Now, however, proper email aggregators can tell you exactly who tossed your promotion gem in the virtual wastebasket without even opening the message. Even more sobering are the statistics on the number of recipients who open but do not bother to "click-through" to the video links. So, to the few and friendly who at least have a passing interest in video production from the GJV perspective, I say "thanks". To the fewer still who actually watch some on the videos linked in our promotions, please add an "amen" to the "thanks". And to the fewest off the few who remember the rambunctious heritage of "Hype & Jive" and still check the blog to see if I've retained my cherished wiseacre status, I say "thanks" and hope that the staff at your assisted living facility are treating you kindly. :-) ]]>Sat, 06 Aug 2016 01:40:44 GMThttp://garyjonesvideo.com/blog/volume-53-number-one I'm not too old to remain a valuable filmmaking partner, but I'm definitely too damn old to be learning web design. :-) Bear with me, folks, while I figure out all the web site stuff. I'm shifting everything from "Jones Film" to "Gary Jones Video" in an attempt to assuage the Swagger Squad. And I'm moving from eNom web hosting to PairNIC because of security issues.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355445
__label__cc	0.543246	0.456754	Tailored Choices & Options G.D. Hall, Funeral Directors GD Hall is an independent, family owned Funeral Director caring for the people of North Nottinghamshire. Centred on the towns of Retford, Tuxford, and Ollerton and encompassing the surrounding areas of Bassetlaw and Newark & Sherwood. Call us on 01777 872929 and 01777 701222 - 24 HOUR PERSONAL ATTENTION Born, educated and having lived and worked all our lives in the Tuxford and Retford area Graham and Diane truly understand the people of North Nottinghamshire and their needs. Our team, carefully selected to the sensitive and precise nature of the funeral profession, are dedicated to providing you with expert care and attention at any time of the day or night. We do hope you will find us to be friendly and helpful and that we provide practical and emotional support as needed. Our newly built traditional featured style premises encapsulates our approach – a modern forward thinking business which upholds many of the familiar, time-honoured and respected traditions of the funeral service. Whilst we cannot take away the pain, sense of loss and sometimes helplessness that bereavement brings we strive to make matters less stressful and more straightforward by providing the practical help and emotional support as you need it. The strain of the arrangements is borne by us. Additionally we will help you to cope with the loss of your loved one and endeavour that after the funeral you are left with a positive feeling, some heartening memories and that your loved-one’s life has been honoured in a befitting manner. The Funeral Home Located on the southern end of Tuxford in a superb setting with large car park is our modern, first class yet very practical premises which enables us to offer a sincere warm and welcoming environment. The pleasant greeting foyer leads to our comfortable reception room where arrangements can be made for your loved one’s funeral in a private and dignified manner. Our peaceful dedicated Chapel of Rest offers the opportunity to view in a calming, meaningful environment. Graham and Diane Hall The Retford Office About Us \| Tailored Choices & Options \| What To Do When Someone Dies \| Arranging A Funeral \| Contact Us Copyright © G.D. Hall Ltd. 2010 ---. All Rights Reserved. Funeral director Nottinghamshire, Funeral director Newark, Funeral director Tuxford, Funeral Director Retford Website design and maintenance by stc-webdesigns.co.uk	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355446
__label__cc	0.712295	0.287705	This December there are lots of things to do at Geopark venues. We’ve many of them on our calendar but we’ve some highlights below. Father Christmas at Hartlebury Castle Want to meet Santa? He’ll be at Hartlebury Castle 7th and 8th December, Bewdley Museum 17th and 15th, at Cob House Country Park and Severn Valley Country Park each weekend for breakfast. He’ll also be strolling around Croome each weekend. Want to do something crafty? Cob House have various events on in the run up to Christmas. Bewdley Museum and Severn Valley Country Park have weekend crafts too. Hartlebury have wreath making workshops, with a few places currently left on 13th December. Severn Valley Country Park have Wreath workshops on the 13th using greenery from the park and a Table Decoration workshop on 19th December. At The Hive children can make a Pomander with Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service Craft Fairs are at Bewdley Museum, Dudmaston and Hartlebury on various days. Looking for Carols? Unsurprisingly Worcester Cathedral have various carol services over Christmas. Their main carol services are 6:30pm on 22nd and 23rd December, with the usual Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services too. They also have concerts, and The Snowman and Snowdog on Saturday 21st December has 3 performances and ideal to take children to a few days before Christmas. There is also their popular Christmas tree festival in the cloisters. Carols will also be at Croome in the church on various dates, and at Brockhampton on Sunday 22nd December. Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, will be at Hartlebury Castle on 13th December performing ‘A Thousand years of Christmas‘, with readings, and singing folk carols with Sally Bradshaw. Want to get out and about? Brockhampton have Elvish trails at weekends, and Croome have their own trail later over the Christmas holidays. Dudmaston’s 10K run is on 22nd December, and Severn Valley Country Park’s Parkrun is on additionally on Christmas Day and New Years Day for the keen runner! And Wyre Forest is also open everyday apart from Christmas day if you want to stretch your legs including over the Christmas holidays if you want to walk off the excesses of turkey and mince pies. Severn Valley Railway have various Christmas themed trains. Many are sold out but check out their website to see what is available. Please check as some events have limited places and/or require booking. Venue websites, and our calendar, have more details. The world-famous locomotive will make a welcome return to the Railway on November 9th, 10th, 17th and 24th hauling two services out of Kidderminster and two services out of Bridgnorth. Passengers can ride behind the iconic locomotive – hauling the Railway’s appropriate LNER teak set of carriages, for normal fare prices, and book in advance for special reserved seating. In addition Severn Valley Railway are printing their geology trail so you can discover more about the amazing landscape which the line passes through, and how the geology has shaped it. Or you can print out your own trail here. A Train Ride Geology Trail – Severn Valley Railway Check out details of the visit and how to purchase tickets here Chris Darmon is running a number of Day Schools at geopark venues this autumn. For more details please check out his website at https://www.geosupplies.co.uk/geology_learning_study_courses.php How do we read rocks & landscape? – CANCELLED Wednesday 6 November This inside/outside day is aimed particularly at those for whom reading rocks and landscape is something new, although all are welcome. There will be an indoor session in the morning, followed by lunch in the cafe (at your own expense) and then we’ll take a stroll to see some local rock outcrops and take in the wider landscape. Meeting: Severn Valley Country Park, Highley, Worcs at 10.30 Cost: £10.00 Rocks of all kinds explained! How do we distinguish different rocks? What’s the difference between a granite and basalt, or a slate and shale? This inside/outside day will combine a classroom session with an outdoor visit around Bewdley where we’ll be able to see natural rocks ‘in the street’. There’s an onsite cafe where you can buy lunch. This day is aimed particularly at beginners, but all are welcome. Meeting: Bewdley Museum at 10.30 Cost: £10.00 Rockstars, a celebration of famous rocks There are some rocks that everyone has heard of, like Portland Stone or Shap Granite. But why are they famous, what makes them so special? We’ll be examining some famous rocks in a practical session and then learning more about them in a lively teaching session during this day of two parts. Hot drinks and biscuits are included. Meeting: Lapworth Museum, Birmingham University at 10.30 Cost £20.00 To book for any Day Trip go to: www.geosupplies.co.uk and enter the online shop. Alternatively ring 0114 245 5746 You can the Down to Earth magazine here DtoE extra October 2019 Pit at the Park – Severn Valley Country Park Marking 50 years since mining ceased in the Severn Valley. Join us for this family friendly day to celebrate the past and present of Severn Valley Country Park! Throughout the day there will be: Landy Train rides, pony rides, coal shovelling competitions, FREE self-led activity trails – including one which is part of the Unlocking the Severn Project, FREE geology themed craft activities, and a drop-in memory sharing station. The Visitor Centre will be officially open and from there you will also be able to purchase £5 return Severn Valley Railway tickets to travel between the Country Park Halt and Highley Station, including entrance to The Engine House, where a Highley Mining Company wagon is on display. Scheduled activities include: Talks by the Granville Miners, FREE pond dipping sessions, Rock & Fossil Hunts (booking required), Highley Colliery Band will play, the showing of a short film, the unveiling of a new sculpture dedicated to those who work at Highley and Alveley Collieries. There will be a small charge for some activities For more information, or to book onto the Rock & Fossil Hunts, please call 01746 781192 (The event is part of the Severn Valley Lives in the Landscape Project and organised in partnership with the Alveley Mining Heritage Group, the Unlocking the Severn Project, and the Geologists in the Geopark. The Lives in the Landscape project is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Shropshire Council and The Jean Jackson Charitable Trust.) Coal has been very kindly provided by Mansell Fuels (01746 762265) Geology Craft Day at Wyre Forest Fill your boots with an explosion of crafts, fossils and rocks. Wyre Forest are having another craft day on Wednesday 21 August when you can be inspired by rocks, fossils and dinosaurs. You can also visit the quarry here too. It’s all free (just pay for parking), just come along! Geology Craft days at Worcester Cathedral After the success of the Geology Craft Days last year they are returning to Worcester Cathedral on Thursday 15th and Monday 19th August. Come along to join us for this great free event/ See some real fossils, chat to the experts and ask your questions, and be inspired to create your own great crafts. There are plenty of different activities to choose from. The event takes place in the Chapter House 10:30-12:30 and then 2;30-3:30. Just come along! Lapworth Lates & an Exhibiton About Salt & Travels Lapworth Museum of geology, based at Birmingham University, joined the Geopark Forum last year. It’s a great day out, especially for anyone interested in dinosaurs and geology. They have various events and exhbitions over the summer at the Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham . This exhibition by PhD student Jack Richardson gives a personal insight into what it is like to do research and study for a PhD. Admission free Jack’s Adventures with Salt. Temporary Exhibition Follow the adventures of geologists as they investigate the secrets of salt using magnets! Jack’s PhD is coming to a close in 2019 and during that time his adventures have taken him all around the world to collect samples, fly drones and study Earth’s history. This exhibition tells the story of Jack’s field work and gives you the chance to get a behind the scenes view of a researcher’s life. 16th July – 25thOctober Find out more on their website Lapworth Late event 3rd instalment of the Lapworth Lates. 7-10 pm 15th August. Prepare for an ADVENTURE into inspiring arts and cutting-edge research at the third Lapworth Lates! Meet the pioneering people exploring the unknown! From Antarctic survival to great escapes, uncover the incredible journey of plants, people and plastics. Adventure through the Museum’s collections to spark your imagination and get creative with clay and recycled materials in our artist led workshops. Drinks and light nibbles will be available on the night. This event is free of charge but booking is essential. Tickets will be available from the 29th of July. Find out more about the museum at https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/lapworth-museum/index.aspx Summer Holidays at Cob House Country Park Cob House Country Park is once again a great place to visit during the summer holidays. Three miles out of Worcester, you can come and visit Reindeer, Alpacas, Pigs, Goats, Chickens and Ducks and walk round the parkland free of charge. The Mayfly Cafe provides drinks and great food. There are also special events for the holidays too, some of which have charges. For full details visit www.cobhouse.org/events/ 1st – Bear Club 10.30am to 12 noon (Booking essential: charlotte.rone@sky.com) 1st – Sand Art 1-3pm – just drop in 6th – Couch to 2k 8th – Bear Club 10.30 to 12 noon (Booking essential: charlotte.rone@sky.com) 8th – Sand Art 1-3pm – just drop in 9th – Pampered Ponies are here with pony rides 10.30am to 3pm 13th – Couch to 2k 14th – Junior Angling – Please pick up a leaflet in reception 16th – The Pickle Lady is back with us for delicious pickles 19th – Walking for Health – meet at 10.15 am on the patio area. Dementia Friendly, everyone welcome. 20th – Pampered Ponies are here for Pony Rides 21st – Jumping Clay 10am to 1pm in the Mayfly Cafe 22nd – Bear Club 10.30 to 12 noon (Booking essential: charlotte.rone@sky.com) 22nd – Sand Art 1-3pm – just drop in. You can also ring Cob House on 01886 888517 Cob House, Worcester Road, Wichenford, Worcester WR6 6YE Summer Holiday Events in the Geopark Now the summer holidays are here many families are looking for things to do, especially if free or cheap! Many of our partner visitor centres have family friendly events over the coming weeks. Bewdley Museum have craft activities each weekday. Entry to the museum is free and crafts are £4 per child. It’s different every day so check out https://www.bewdleymuseum.co.uk/whats-on/holiday-activities-at-bewdley-museum.aspx for what’s on offer. Cob House Country Park is a great place to take the family. As well as visiting the animals there they have special events throughout the summer including angling, pony rides and craft activities. Check out their diary to see what’s on offer. Hartlebury Castle has lots on over the summer to keep children occupied. As well as visiting the museum at the castle there are craft sessions, magic themed activities, falconry, willow weaving and guided walks. Check our more at https://hartleburycastle.com/events/ Lapworth Museum of Geology over at Birmingham University have free family fun days every Wednesday in the holidays 10am-5pm. On other days you can explore the refurbished museum for free. There are opportunities to get close to nature at Severn Valley Country Park with pond dipping and mini-beast safaris. They’re also running regular craft activities, many of them free. Check out what’s available on their website. Severn Valley Railway have summer themed holiday activities at their stations, and special offers on the railways. https://www.svr.co.uk/SEItem.aspx?a=155 Worcester Cathedral once again have their Discover Something Different series throughout August, including free family activity sessions. At Brockhampton Estate they have a fruit rhyme trail all summer, as well minecraft days and a dog show. There are many more events too. Check the calendar on our website or the GeoFest leaflet. We are grateful to Merlin Energy for sponsoring GeoFest again As You Like it at Severn Valley Country Park Outdoor theatre comes to Severn Valley Country Park, Alveley, WV15 6NG Professional theatre company Rain or Shine, hailed by ‘The Stage’ as “one of the best companies touring open air theatre” are set to delight family audiences once again this summer with their 21st Anniversary production of Shakespeare’s ‘perfect pastoral comedy’… As You Like It. Join one of The Bard’s most famous heroines, Rosalind, as she makes her way in a world full of power, jealousy and tyranny. In fear for her life and in search of true love, she flees her heritage with her cousin Celia and fool Touchstone. Will disguising herself as a country lad lead her to a new life full of hope, laughter, and her banished father? With songs galore, hand-to-hand wrestling, idiotic shepherds and the infamous melancholic Jaques, this comedy is sure to delight family audiences from 6 to 96. So, pack your picnic, rugs and chairs, pop open some beer or bubbly and sit back and relax in the summer sunshine, while we whisk you off to the Forest of Arden where anything can happen! Rain or Shine aim is to bring classical theatre into the heart of local communities as they travel across the country during June July and August. The tour includes a performance at Severn Valley Country Park, Alveley on Friday 9th August at 7.30pm. (Gates at 6.30pm). The Kiosk will be open for refreshments. Adult £14, Concession £13 and Child £7. Tickets from 01746 781192 or via rainorshine.co.uk. Audiences are requested to bring along low-backed seating or rugs, and a picnic to maximise their enjoyment of the al fresco performances. Full details of the tour and venues can be found on the Rain or Shine website and tickets can be purchased from each venue, through Ticketweb via www.rainorshine.uk, or by ringing 0330 660 0541. Family Geology Events in GeoFest We have a wide range of activities in GeoFest, with partner venues running talks, tours, walks, trails and craft activities. Amongst these are are a number of event where our experts will be attending. We’ll have special crafts and activities, and you can also bring along your questions. Rock and Fossil Hunt at Severn Valley Country Park Thursday 8th August 1.30-3pm (Please note the planned event on Thursday 25th is cancelled due to expected extreme heat) Join rangers & local experts to try finding your own fossil! After an introduction we’ll set out to see what we can discover, with experts on hand, then return to examine your finds under a microscope. Please bring a small trowel & plastic tub with you to aid your fossil hunting. Booking required on 01746 781 192. Child £4, adult free, all children must be accompanied by an adult. Suitable for age 5+ Rock and Fossil Challenge in Comer Woods – NT Dudmaston Thu 1st & 22nd August 11:00-3:00 Take a closer look at ancient rocks and fossils. Meet at Heath Barn in Comer Woods. Free, just drop in Craft Activities – Printing, Stencilling & Stamping at Severn Valley Country Park Join us for some fun printing, stencilling and stamping, inspired by the Geology of Severn Valley Country Park and its present-day flora and fauna. Use paint, crayons and ink stamps to create your own picture to take home and keep. Free, all materials are provided. Drop in anytime between 12pm and 3pm. 7th August (12-3pm) – Leaves and Ferns 28th August (12-3pm) – Dragonflies and Butterflies Rock & Fossil Challenge at Hartlebury Castle Wed 13th to Thu 15th August 11:00-3:30 Come and take part in this free rock & fossil challenge. Usual Castle admission applied. Thu 15th & Mon 19th August 10:30-12:30 & 1:30-3:30 Come along and join us for this great event. See some real fossils and be inspired to make some great crafts. Free Craft Geology for the Family at Wyre Forest Wed 21st Aug 10:30-12:30 & 1:30-3:30 Fill your boots with an explosion of crafts, fossils and rocks. Delve in to the past and create your own 3D ancient environment or stencil and stamp away and let your imagination fun free. Then you can create your own masterpiece by paint you own plaster of Paris dinosaurs and fossils. Just drop in. Free, donations appreciated. GeoFest is very kindly sponsored by Merlin Energy Discover Something Different at Worcester Cathedral Worcester Cathedral are running another exciting series of events this August with their annual Discover Something Different series. Tours, talks and family activities including two rock and fossil craft events on 15th & 19th August as part of GeoFest. Severn Valley Railway this summer Severn Valley Railway have special events and special offers this summer to help make the holidays extra special. Visit of Geopark President & Launch of Les Morris Memorial Trail The President of the Geopark Chris Darmon, will be visiting the Geopark on 13th and 14th July. His itinerary includes visits to the National Trust at Croome and Dudmaston. On Sunday 14th he will launch the Les Morris Memorial Trail at 11.30 in the orchard at Dudmaston. This self guided discovery trail covers over 30 locations throughout the Geopark. In the afternoon at Dudmaston starting at 1.30 there is a guided geology walk around the state. Les in red top, on one of his many field trips Les Morris (pictured below) was a geographer and geologist who spent his working life as an educator. A wonderful man and founding member of the Geopark, Les had time for anyone interested in the formation and evolution of our planet and the landscapes upon it. Les had a vision to bring this story to everyone by unlocking the vast store of our natural heritage tucked away in stone built walls. Part of Dudmaston Estate showing one of the many rock outcrops Croome Panorama Open day Panorama Tower Eyecatcher (John Hubble) The next Panorama Tower open day is on Tuesday 16th July from 11am – 3pm. Free admission to the tower, but donations welcome. Normal admission applies to Croome (NT members free). Visitors can climb the spiral staircase to get to the balcony. You will be able to admire the amazing views and see the information sheets about the landscape and its geology created by Peter Oliver. Parking for Panorama Tower open days: parking at main visitor car park at Croome, then 1.5 mile walk to the tower (Walks Map available from Croome shop). There is limited parking on the verge near the tower, then a short walk across the field to the tower itself. Further dates are Friday August 9th and Sunday September 8th. See here for more details. Panorama Tower (Kathryn Rudd) GeoFest is kindly sponsored by Merlin Energy Guided Walk: Geology of Severn Valley Country Park & Highley Saturday 6th July 2019 Join geology expert Mike Preston for this fascinating guided walk taking a closer look at geology in and around the country park. Investigate spoil heaps: follow the development of the river since the ice age; visit Highley Station and examine local buildings for signs of sandstone. Part of GEOFEST 2019 £3 per person Call 01746 781 192 to book your place. Pay on day. Meet at 11am Severn Valley Country Park, WV15 6NG, Refreshment Kiosk. Guided Geology Walks We a couple of great guided walks coming up where you can find out about the rocks around you as well as having a nice walk in the landscape. Exterior view of Dudmaston, Shropshire The first will be a free walk at Dudmaston in Shropshire, where we’ll be exploring the woodland and park, pointing out geological features as we go along and answering questions. This will be repeated on 14th July. Just turn up on the day. Then on the 22nd we’ll be leading a walk from Highley Sation on the Severn Valley Railway. It stats at 11:35am, timed just after the arrival of one the trains for those who want to arrive via the railway. £2 just turn up. Guided geology and landscape walk at NT Dudmaston Sun 9 June 1:30-3:00 Join us on a guided walk around the woodland and park, discovering geological points of interest along the way. Find out more about ancient rocks and fossils here at Dudmaston. Free, just turn up. Guided Geology Walk at Severn Valley Railway (Highley) Sat 22nd June 11:35-1:00 Highley Station to the Miners Memorial and back. £2 per person, no booking needed, meet at the station Half Term in the Geopark There are loads of activities in the Geopark during half term at our partner venues. Looking for a family trail? NT Brockhampton and Severn Valley Country Park are running ones at their venues. Monday to Friday Bewdley Museum are running craft activities and Severn Valley Railway have free jungle themed activities at The Engine House in Highley. Severn Valley Country Park have nature activities on some days as well. At Birmingham University the Lapworth Museum, one of the newer members of the Geopark Forum, are running a free family day. Our popular rock and fossil challenge will be at Cob House Country park on Wednesday, including a new dinosaur detective trail. Experts will be on hand to talk to talk. Looking for something a bit different? At Kinver Edge there are nature walks where you will be encouraged to take photos. Hopefully there’s plenty to inerest you and your family! Victorian fun and games at NT The Firs, Lower Broadheath 25th May – 17th July 10:30-4:30 Join us in a traditional Victorian holiday with dressing up and good old fashioned toys. £1.50 for crafts, £2 for trail. Tudor Cherry Chase Trail at NT Brockhampton Sat 25th May – Sun 2nd June 11:00-4:00 Complete the Tudor cherry chase and win a prize. £2.50 per trail Woodland Creature Self-Led Trail at Severn Valley County Park (SVCP) Sat 25th May to Sun 2nd June 11:00-4:00 Pick up at map at the refreshment kiosk so you can follow the trail around the park to discover lots more about these fascinating animals. Trail maps £2 each May Half Term Activities at Bewdley Museum Mon 27th-Fri 31st May 11am-3:30pm Activities every day throughout the holidays, £4 per person. All children must be supervised. Jungle Explorers at Severn Valley Railway (Highley) Mon 27th – Fri 31st May 11am-3:30pm Free jungle-themed activities throughout the day. Little Snapper Photography Ramble at NT Kinver Edge Mon 27th & Fri 31st May 11:00-3:00 Join us on a nature walk with photographers on hand to offer you the tips and tricks. Booking essential, £5 for family ticket 03442 491895 Woodland Creature Face Masks Drop-in Craft session at SVCP Wed 29th May 12:00-3:00 Why not have a go at making a fox, badger, rabbit or owl mask. Free session. Family Fun Days at Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham Free, no need to book. Rock & Fossil Challenge at Cob House Country Park Come and have a go at our rock & fossil challenge, and our new dinosaur detective trail. Free Mini Beast Safari at SVCP Friday 31st May 12.30pm-3pm Using our sweep nets see which creepy crawlies you can find! Will it be a lovely ladybird, a slimy snail, or a beautiful butterfly? Just drop in to our Bird Hide Meadow. Free GeoFest Launch! The 2019 GeoFest will be launched at Malvern Hills GeoCentre on Saturday 25th May with special displays about the Abberley & Malvern Hills Geopark. Come along and find out about what make this area special, with experts on hand to talks to you about the rocks and fossils you can find here. There are plenty of specimens for you to look at. You can also find out more about the Geopark Way, a long distance walk through the beautiful local countryside which also takes in the incredible geology along the route. There are also plenty of other events at other partner venues: Bee Day at NT Greyfriars in Worcester on Saturday, special trails at NT Brockhampton, NT The Firs and Severn Valley Country Park. From Monday Bewdley Museum will have an exciting range of half term activities. The annual GeoFest features activities and events run by members of the Abberley & Malvern Hills Geopark Forum, who are museums, country parks and other visitor centres in the region. Numerous events are run across Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire including guided walks, craft sessions, open air theatre, trails and wildlife experiences. Many of the events are family friendly. Although GeoFest features a number of rock and fossils events there are also plenty of other events with wildlife, history and archaeology themes, and there is plenty of fun and hands on experiences. Details of events can be found on our What’s On guide and calendar. Peter Oliver of the Geopark Forum said, “This weekend’s launch will feature a huge video screen presentation about the Geopark and we’re looking forward to bringing along our displays and fossils for you to look at. Bring your own specimens for us to identify. There are more activities planned in over the summer across the region and there’s plenty for people to join in with.” The event, which is free, will be 10am-4pm Saturday at the Malvern GeoCentre, near the Wyche Cutting on the Malvern Hills. Other events this week and half term Bee aware day at NT Greyfriars House and Garden Sat 25th May 11:00-4:30 Meet our volunteer Beekeeper and his busy hive and enjoy nature inspired activities for the whole family. North and End Hills, Malverns GeoFest Launch at Malvern Hills GeoCentre The 2019 GeoFest will be launched at Malvern Hills GeoCentre on Saturday 25th May with special displays about the Abberley & Malvern Hills Geopark. Come along and find out about what make this area special, with experts on hand to talks to you about the rocks and fossils you can find here. There are plenty of specimens for you to look at. You can also find out more about the Geopark Way, a long distance walk through the beautiful local countryside which also takes in the incredible geology along the route. Details of events, including the What’s On guide and calendar, can be found on our Geopark website www.geopark.org.uk. GeoFest 2019! GeoFest begins on Saturday 25 May, and there are loads of exciting activities and events at Geopark venues over the following few months. Check out the guide to see what’s on. GeoFest 2019 is coming! We’ll be sharing details of events across the Geopark in the next few weeks. Easter events in the Geopark Geopark visitor centres have a host of special events on offer over the Easter holidays. If you’re looking for trails Bodenham Arboretum have an Easter trail for children to search for carrots all the way to Mr McGregor’s garden, whilst meeting spring lambs and calves. Over at Severn Valley Country Park they have a ‘What’s the weather like today?’ self-led trail. National Trust properties have Easter Egg trails, with Dudmaston having their at the main site on 21/22 and at Comer Woods 19-22 April. Severn Valley Country Park also have an egg hunt 19-22 April. At Cob House Country Park they have an Easter breakfast where children can meet the Easter Bunny on Easter Sunday. There are plenty of opportunities for arts and crafts. In The Hive you can have a go at Ice Age Art with Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service on Thu 18 April 10am-12pm, £3 per child. Cob House Country Park have various activities including Jumping Clay (15th), Build a Bear (17th) and Sand Art (17th) as well as pony rides. Bewdley Museum will have different craft activities each weekday during the Easter holidays. Worcester Cathedral have their range of Easter services over the coming week, as well as being open for visitors and look round this amazing building. Severn Valley Railway is up and running over Easter. Services will run every day throughout the Easter Holidays from April 13th – 28th, stopping-off at each of their six, beautifully-restored, historic stations along the way. New to the venue this Easter is No. 7 ‘Typhoon’, a miniature locomotive (one third size), now proudly on display alongside the much larger, distinctive No. 600 Gordon and No. 7819 Hinton Manor. At the Engine House at Highley they have some free Superhero activities. Stopping off at the Engine House at Highley, you’ll be able to take part in some amazing FREE activities, marvel at massive steam engines and maybe win yourself a totally ‘sweet’ prize too! The activities take place with ReachOut Arts from April 15th – 22nd only, from 11am – 3pm. There’s plenty to do during the next couple of weeks in the Geopark! New exhibition – Mysteries of the Deep: 50 years of Scientific Ocean Drilling Lapworth Museum of Geology are hosting a fantastic new temporary exhibition until 17 June. The oceans have an unseen influence on all our lives. But how do we know this? How do we know how the oceans behave? And how can we better understand and protect these wonderful environments? Over the past fifty years there has been an astonishing, long-lasting and deep international scientific collaboration, that has revealed many secrets of the oceans. This programme spanned the divisions of the cold-war, and now involves 23 countries in an effort to explore the oceans from the Arctic to Antarctic. Through this program, thousands of scientists, technical staff, drillers and crew have gathered critical data and samples to tell the story of our blue planet. Understanding the oceans, their role in the Earth’s climate, their diversity of life and the risks they can pose is more important than ever. This is the story of scientific ocean drilling. This is the story we’re telling. Find out more about the project at www.mysteriesofthedeep.org Lapworth Museum of Geology is on the University of Birmingham’s campus. Details of visiting the museum can be found here. Blast off for Bewdley Museum’s 2019 season This weekend Bewdley Museum is blasting off the new season with a day of free entertainment for all the family. The reopening will showcase the new ’Orbiting the Earth’ exhibition’ which celebrates 50 years since the first Moon landings, with the chance to view rock samples from the Apollo missions from the late 1960s and early 1970s. An expert will be on hand to answer any questions. The reopening will also feature work from the ‘Ruskin in Wyre project’ which is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Naomi Hart’s Hotsy Totsy band will be performing live for visitors, crafts people will be demonstrating their skills and there will be special entertainment for the children. The museum’s Garden Kitchen café will also offer Fairtrade, local and sustainable food. Visitors have the opportunity to buy unique handcrafted gifts and merchandise from the museum shop. All this action is taking place on Saturday 2 March, from 10am until 4.30pm – so don’t miss out! Find out more about their forthcoming events on their website February Half Term in the Geopark Our member visitor centres offer some fantastic places to visit, especially over half term. There are also lots of events for families in the Geopark at the visitor centres, and we thought we’d highlight a few here. Check out member websites for more details 16th – 24th February Bodenham’s Gingerbread Trail Looking for something a little different to do in the Half Term holidays? Then come along to Bodenham’s Gingerbread Trail! Search for the hidden Gingerbread characters around the Arboretum. Each time you find a Gingerbread Man you will also be given a clue that will eventually lead you to their special Gingerbread Home! Normal Admission Fees apply: Booking not required, simply turn up. Cob House Country Park There are a number of special events for children. Check out the website for prices. 17 & 19 Feb 10:30am Pony Rides with pampered Ponies 21 Feb 10:30am-12:00 Make your New BFF with Bear Club & Kids Bee Happy 21 Feb 1-3pm Sand Art with Kids Bee happy Check out these and other events in their Newsletter 16-24 February 11am-3pm Garden Bird Self Led Trail Collect a FREE map from the refreshment kiosk from 11am-3pm Please be aware the visitor centre and cafe will be closed for building work during half term. A refreshment kiosk will be open serving drinks and snacks to takeaway but light lunches (jacket potatoes, sandwiches, soup) will not be available. 20 February 11:30-2:30pm Woodland Mini Beast Hunt There are 2 sessions of this event 11.30am-12.30pm & 1.30pm-2.30pm The ranger will take you down into the woods to search for spiders, earwigs, worms, slugs and other bugs who live in the log piles and leaves found on the woodland floor. The mini beast hunts are FREE to join, but please call 01746 781 192 to book your place. The rangers will be setting off at 11.30am and 1.30pm. Meeting point is outside the visitor centre. The Railway’s fleet of locomotives will be back in action taking passengers for exciting journeys through the stunning Severn Valley every day from February 16th-24th. Creative kids can join LEGO® Master Builder Bricks McGee for fun-filled workshops throughout the day at The Engine House on February 23rd and 24th. There’ll be a chance to Create Local Landmarks at 11am and 2.45pm, Beautiful Gardens at 12.15pm and 4pm and be a Town Planner and build your own metropolis at 1.30pm. Workshops last approximately an hour and are suitable for ages five and over. Places are free with a Freedom of the Line ticket and are available on a first come, first served basis. On display at Kidderminster Station throughout half-term will be the engine that collided with a camel – 8F No. 48773. Visitors can even climb aboard the footplate with Volunteers from The Stanier 8F Locomotive Society to find out all about this fascinating engine with a very colourful history. 20 February 10am-5pm – Jurassic Marine Monsters – Family Fun Day We all know about the wonderful world of Dinosaurs, and the giants that lived on land. But what about the monsters that swam in the depths of the oceans? There are a number of National Trust properties in the Geopark, many offering trails and activities in the holidays. A few are listed below 16-24 Feb 11am-4pm – Weird Fruit Trail Learn fun facts about fruit grown here in England, collect the clues and decipher what weird fruit is grown here at Brockhampton Dudmaston Snowdrop Season Greyfriars, Worcester Greyfriars has heaps of love for the city of Worcester and they’re taking part in the Love Worcester Heritage Festival. You can re-trace the footsteps of Greyfriars’ past residents and discover what Greyfriars means to Worcester’s heritage. 16-17 February – Living History The Worcester Re-enactors are set to bring history to life inside the house. You’ll see Tudors, the Home Guard, and more! Wyre Forest (Forestry Commission) 19-21 February 10am-3pm – Forest Holiday Club £20 book at https://www.abreathoffreshair.education/store/c1/Featured_Products.html 21 February 10am-3pm – Hands on History Drop into The Hive’s children’s library for this family event. Have a go at digging in the sand pit and see what real archaeological objects you can find. Have a go at writing with a quill and play a game soldiers in the Civil War would have played. Free, just drop in. Part of Love Worcester festival. Tudor trail throughout the week, with special activities 19th & 20th February Tudor Quest at Worcester Cathedral Come along to Worcester Cathedral during half term. As well as the Great Tudor trail and the Prince Arthur Exhibition there are Tudor-themed craft activities on 19 & 20 February 10.30 – 12.30 & 2-4pm. Building-up to a great half-term at the SVR Grand openings, great offers, creative workshops and the return of an old friend – the Severn Valley Railway is building up to an exciting and fun-packed February half-term. After six weeks of maintenance and hard work behind the scenes, during which time teams at the railway re-laid track, replaced sleepers, reinforced one of its viaducts, painted a ‘Pannier Tank’ locomotive and cleaned its stations, the SVR will be back with a bang this half-term. This year, the SVR is rolling back the price of its Family Freedom of the Line ticket, meaning up to two adults and up to four children can enjoy unlimited travel along the line during the day, plus free entry to the Engine House Visitor Centre, with free access to a range of fun, half-term activities – all for a reduced price of £49. This half-term will be extra-special for the SVR, with the grand opening of its brand new, much-anticipated refreshment room at Bridgnorth along with a larger, improved overflow carpark. The brand new building, constructed in the style of a Great Western Railway building c1900, is part of an extensive development plan to transform Bridgnorth Station and was funded by the year-long, hugely successful 2016 Share Offer, which smashed its £2.5 million target back in November 2017. Another exciting arrival on the Railway this half-term comes in the shape of British Railways Standard 4 locomotive No. 75069. Having not steamed in more than 24 years, this special engine has undergone the most extensive re-build ever carried out on the SVR and, after a series of successful test runs on the Railway, will pull its first train in more than two decades on Saturday 16th February. Hauling the 10.30am service from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster, the sparkling black locomotive is sure to be an amazing sight. It will also be in service on February 17th, 23rd & 24th. See www.svr.co.uk for more information. Those who’ve ever dreamed of driving a steam train can make this a reality on the morning Introductory Footplate Experience on Saturday 23rd February. Includes chance to drive and fire for 8 miles, bring along four family members or friends to travel in the train and receive a Family ‘Freedom of the Line’ ticket to spend the rest of the day on the railway. This Experience must be pre-booked. Lewis Maddox, the SVR’s events co-ordinator, said: “We really are pulling out all the stops this half-term, with so much to do and see for all ages. Our LEGO®-inspired workshops should be a real hit with kids and adults alike, and we’ll have lots of fun activities going on throughout the week, with the chance to enjoy a great-value day out thanks to our new, reduced family Freedom of the Line fare. “We’re extremely proud of our new Refreshment Room, which provides a fantastic place for visitors to sit back, relax and re-fuel while our trains steam by, and we are delighted to see the return to the rails of 75069, which has been the subject of so much hard work from so many volunteers. We’re sure our visitors will love to see it in action once again.” For more information or to book railway tickets, see www.svr.co.uk or call 01562 757900. For more news and events, see the Severn Valley Railway Official Site or Families pages on Facebook. Sherlock Holmes at Severn Valley Country Park FOUR ACTORS – ONE MYSTERY – NO CLUE Sherlock Holmes set to visit Severn Valley Country Park later in November with a thrilling new comedy. Famed for their Shakespeare summer season UK tours, professional Gloucester based Rain or Shine Theatre Company are delighted to be on tour again this winter with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic characters which is booked into theatres, village halls and other community venues across the UK. After the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles, and Dracula; Rain or Shine are dying to bring you yet another fantastic evening of entertainment with their own individual comedic style! The dynamic duo return to solve one of the Victorian era’s biggest mysteries. Sherlock Holmes and The Curious Case of Dr Jekyll & Miss Hyde. This Winter join Sherlock Holmes, together with his trusty sidekick Watson, and watch a case unfold that is less elementary, and more fantastical than ever before. Hailed as ‘a delicious mirthfest’ Rain or Shine will once again be reinventing the classic Sherlock Holmes characters using their now signature ‘Morecambe & Wise-ish comedy’ style for another season of mystery, mayhem, but above all multi-role madness! Set in authentic Victorian costume, with a cast of four playing a whole host of characters, Rain or Shine are sure to delight and enchant those new to the tale, and those who already know it. The tour includes a ‘one night only’ performance in Severn Valley Country Park, Visitor Centre, Alveley, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, WV15 6NG on Thursday 29th November at 7.00pm. This is an indoor performance and will be held in the visitor centre. Tickets priced £10.00 (child £6.00) are available from the venue Tel 01746 781192, or direct from the Rain Or Shine credit card hotline: 03306 600541, e-mail tickets@rainorshine.co.uk or online via www.rainorshine.co.uk. Crafty Geology for the Family Join us at Worcester Cathedral and the Wyre Forest for some great free rock and fossil art activities Fill your boots with an explosion of crafts, fossils and rocks. Delve into the deep blue and create your own ancient fossilised sea bed or stencil away and let your imagination shine. Create your own masterpiece with pebble and fossil painting to take home or join the ‘Love on the Rocks’ craze and share your artwork with strangers. It will be at Worcester Cathedral on Thurs 16th Aug & Thurs 23rd Aug 10:30-12:30 & 14:00-16:00 And then at the Wyre Forest on Tue 21st August 11:00-15:00. Check out other events during GeoFest, sponsored by Merlin, in our GeoFest leaflet 3879618_LRES Severn Valley Country Park - Summer Holiday Activities There are lots of events at Severn Valley Country Park this summer, including many that are free. Check out their guide to see what’s on offer. You can find out about our other events for GeoFest in our GeoFest Leaflet.3879618_LRES August Events for GeoFest August is the last month of GeoFest, but there are still loads of events happening across the visitor in the Geopark. Severn Valley Country Park has a large range of events for families. On Thursday 2nd there is a Rock & Fossil Hunt, where rangers and experts will help you hunt for your own fossil. After an introduction you’ll head out to begin searching, and then at the end you can have a look at what you’ve found under a microscope. Booking is required on 01746 781192, and costs £4 per child, who must be accompanied by an adult. Details of their other events are below. July – Sept 18 Leaflet (1) There are also free crafty family events at Worcester Cathedral and Wyre Forest. Fill your boots with an explosion of crafts, fossils and rocks. You can delve into the deep blue sea and create your own ancient fossilised sea bed or stencil away and let your imagination shine. Create your own masterpiece with pebble and fossil painting to take home or join the ‘love on the rocks’ craze and share your artwork with strangers. It is at Worcester Cathedral Thursdays 16th & 23rd August 10:30-12:30 and 2:00-4:00pm. It is at Wyre Forest 21st August 11am-3pm. Worcester Cathedral has many other activities too and you can go along on 14th, 15th, 17th, 21st and 24th August to join in. The Ice Age exhibitions in The Hive and Worcester Art Gallery & Museum continue until early September. See a giant model of a mammoth, go inside an Ice Age Shelter and see real mammoth bones. There are a range of events to accompany this. There’s a drop in prehistoric pottery session at Worcester Museum on 2nd August 11am-3pm (£3), and a cave art day a week later. Technology of the Ice Age come to The Hive on Monday 20th August 1-4pm, including flint knapping demonstrations. Bewdley Museum has craft events each weekday 11am-3:30pm. Entry to the museum is free, with activities £4 per child. This week the theme is the seaside, and next week it will be nature, starting with fossils on Monday. Cob House Country park is open every day to visit, and they have guests visiting over the summer. Worcestershire Wildlife Trust are there 1st & 2nd August, with Paint a Pot on the 3rd and Bear Club on the 7th. You can find out who else will be there here. Bodenham Arboretum’s Bodengnome Trail continues throughout the summer, and they also have forest school activities running too. The National Trust have many events running this month. On their website you can find out what is happening near to you. Severn Valley Railway and Land of the Living Dinosaurs at West Midlands Safari Park both continue to run special events alongside their regular openings too. You find out more with our GeoFest leaflet or check out the websites of members below. GeoFest is kindly sponsored by Merlin Energy Resources. Bewdley Museum, Load Street, Bewdley, DY12 2AE www.bewdleymuseum.co.uk Bodenham Arboretum, Bodenham Ln, Kidderminster DY11 5TB www.bodenhamarboretum.co.uk Cob House Country Park, Wichenford, Worcester WR6 6YD www.cobhouse.org Gloucestershire Geology Trust www.glosgeotrust.org.uk/ Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, Broad Street, Hereford HR4 9AU www.herefordshire.gov.uk/museums Land of Living Dinosaurs, Bewdley, Worcs, DY12 1LF www.wmsp.co.uk Dudmaston, Quatt, nr Bridgnorth, Shropshire, WV15 5QN www.nationaltrust.org.uk/Dudmaston Brockhampton Estate, near Bromyard, Herefordshire, WR6 5TB nationaltrust.org.uk/brockhampton-estate The Firs, Lower Broadheath, Worcs nationaltrust.org.uk/the-firs Greyfriars, Worcester nationaltrust.org.uk/greyfriars-house-and-garden Kinver Edge, near Stourbridge, Staffs, DY7 6DL nationaltrust.org.uk/kinver-edge-and-the-rock-houses Severn Valley Country Park, Chapel Lane, Alveley, Bridgnorth WV15 6NG www.shropshiresgreatoutdoors.co.uk/site/severn-valley-country-park Severn Valley Railway www.svr.co.uk Worcester Art Gallery & Museum, Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1DT www.museumsworcestershore.org.uk Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, WR1 2LA www.worcestercathedral.co.uk Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service, The Hive, Worcester, WR1 3PD www.explorethepast.co.uk Wyre Forest Centre, DY14 9XQ www.forestry.gov.uk/wyreforest ‘Al fresco’ theatre at Severn Valley Country Park Professional theatre company Rain or Shine are set to delight family audiences once again this summer with their production of Shakespeare’s merry war of words and wit – Much Ado About Nothing. November 1918. The Great War has finally come to end, and the men of the British military forces are returning to their homes. Don Pedro and his comrades are coming at last to Messina (a little known village on the edge of the Cotswolds) where they are met by friends, old and new. Join Rain or Shine Theatre Company this summer, as they visit one of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies. From the dastardly Don John, to the daft Sergeant Dogberry, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ will bring you revellers, rascals and romance. Featuring the very best of the Bard’s wit and wisdom, the fiery Beatrice gives Benedick, the bachelor, a battle of words to remember, and true love is at its sweetest as Claudio falls for his darling Hero. So dig out your hampers and load up your picnic bags for Rain or Shine’s 20th anniversary of summer tours, as the people of Messina find love, scupper mischievous plots and celebrate new found peace across the world! Sure to delight family audiences from 6 to 96, this is an ideal choice for an outdoor theatrical event, bringing classical theatre into the heart of local communities as they travel across the UK during June July and August. The tour includes a performance in the beautiful setting of Severn Valley Country Park, Alveley, Bridgnorth, WV15 6NG on Friday 10th August at 7.30pm. Tickets from 01746 781192 or via rainorshine.co.uk You can find out about other events in the Geopark during GeoFest here Summer Holiday Events in GeoFest The summer holidays are just about here and there are lots of things happening at the member visitor centres in the Geopark. Many are free to visit, with any charges just for parking or refreshments. These include Severn Country Park at Alveley, Bewdley Museum, the Wyre Forest, and Cob House Country Park. Two great exhibitions all about Ice Age Worcestershire are on all summer at Worcester Art Gallery & Museum and The Hive. Come face to face with a replica mammoth, see real mammoth bones archaeologists have found, go inside an ice age shelter, and stand on a massive map of Britain. There are also Ice Age themed art activities at both venues over the holidays. Bewdley Museum has different family art activities each week day. £4 per child, just drop in between 11am and 3:30pm. Entry to the museum is free. The Cob House Country Park has angling sessions over the summer holidays, and a face painter will visiting some days too. On Sat 28th and Sun 29th July local archaeology groups will be there and you can come and see some of objects they’ve brought along and children can dig in the sandpit to see what they can discover. Severn Valley Country Park has a range of events and activities for the family, some of which are free. The popular Rock & Fossil hunt is returning Thursday 2nd August at 1:30pm. Worcester Cathedral has lots of free craft activities over the summer. These include some rock and fossil activities in August. We have a number of fantastic National Trust properties in or near the Geopark. As well as exploring the grounds, getting close to nature and running off some energy you can take part in trails in some of these, such as the 1940s themed trails and games at Brockhampton. At Kinver they have den building, and Dudmaston have a bat walk, among other great activities. Another site with a trail is Bodenham Arboretum, with their BodenGnome Trail. They also have yoga and art activities, and Forest School activities. Severn Valley Railway and Land of the Living Dinosaurs at West Midland Safari Park are both great days out. Check out their website for special events, including the themed evenings on the railway. These are just a flavour of what you can find. Have a look at our GeoFest leaflet and calendar, and have a look at the websites of our members for more information. Hope you find some great events this summer! Worcester Art Gallery & Museum, Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1DT www.museumsworcestershire.org.uk Summer Fun at Severn Valley Country Park Shropshire Council rangers at Severn Valley Country Park are getting ready for a summer of fun. This year they will be offering more events than before and the great news is that most of them will be free to join! Geologists in the Geopark will be with us on 2nd August for a rock and fossil hunt (Child £4, adult free) and on Saturday 18th August, there will be the chance to meet models of enormous ground, burying and dung beetles (free to all). Every Wednesday and Saturday there will be free craft drop in sessions. These will be held in the visitor centre between 12pm and 4pm. Everything you need will be provided and the kids will be able to make some great items such as sun dials, marvellous masks, slippy slime, krazy kites, silly sock puppets and more. Each Thursday our rangers will be having a really wild time! Free outdoor sessions will start from the visitor centre at 1.30pm. They will alternate between pond dipping and mini beast safaris throughout the summer. Also, on Saturday 28th July, Peter Williamson (BBC Radio Shropshire Astronomer) will be with us to help visitors discover the magic of the sun. From 2pm-5pm, there will be special scopes available in the centre to view the Sun and they’ll be chance to make a stomp rocket with Shropshire Astronomy Group. In the evening there’ll be a talk by Mr Williamson about how the sun works and how to get into solar astronomy (£3 Adult, £2 child). A highlight of the summer is the open air theatre production by Rain or Shine Theatre Company. This year they are celebrating 20 years of touring with a performance of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. The play has been set in the First World War and follows fiery Beatrice and bachelor Benedick on their course to true love. Tickets are on sale now, Adult £14, Concession £12 and Child £6. There will be plenty on offer this summer, including a self-led trail, available daily between 11am-4pm, which will follow Billy the Park Ranger Bear as he learns how to be a ranger. (Maps £2 from the visitor centre.) The visitor centre and café will be open every day of the holidays from Wednesday 18th July to Sunday 2nd September between 11am-5pm. Light lunches, tasty cakes, refreshing drinks and ice creams will all be available. GeoFest 2018 GeoFest is well underway, and with the school holidays approaching there are events happening at many of the visitor centres across the geopark. Check out details of events on our calendar and on our events leaflet which you can download here 3879618_LRES Geology Tours In July the President of the Geopark, Chris Darmon, is leading two guided walks. The first is on the Malvern Hills, and the second takes in the Woolhope Dome in Herefordshire, the latest addition to the Geopark. The Fabulous Malvern Hills Saturday 21st July “Come join us for a day in the Malvern Hills! There’s nowhere finer than this for day of discovery in the very heart of the Abberley & Malvern Hills during the Annual GeoFest. As President of the Geopark, I want to show you some of our fine Precambrian and Silurian rocks. You’ll see ancient igneous rocks, some great landscape and a Silurian limestone – you might even catch a glimpse of a trilobite!” Meeting: Malvern Hills GeoCentre, Wyche, Malvern (WR13 6PJ) at 10:30am. Please bring packed lunch. Geology of the Woolhope Dome, Herefordshire Monday 23rd July This Silurian inlier is now part of an extended Abberley & Malvern Hills Geopark. It features folded and faulted Ludlovian rocks including both limestones and shales. These are fossiliferous and of great interest. You’ve probably seen the Woolhope Dome from many miles away, now you can get up close and personal with it! Meeting: Swardon Quarry picnic site, Nr. Mordiford (Grid Ref. SO 578385) at 10.30 Price is £10.00 per person or £25.00 for a family (1 or 2 adults and up to 3 chlidren) To book tel: 0114 2455746 Race Against A Train! Jon Brown (manager of Golden Lion), Sarah Fortune (Shropshire Council Outdoor Partnerships Team) and Charlotte Holden (Holdens Brewery) There’s a new running event where you can have a go racing a stream train! Shropshire Council, StuWeb Events and Severn Valley Railway are organising the race called ‘Steaming down the Valley’ on the evening of Thursday 28th June. The off-road route will follow the Severn Way between Severn Valley Country Park and Arley Station, a distance of around 3.5 miles. The Golden Lion pub in Bridgnorth, owned and managed by Holdens Brewery, has sponsored the new running event meaning that runners can enjoy a refreshing pint of Holdens Golden Glow after racing a steam train down the Severn Valley! Edward Andrews of Shropshire Council said, “This stretch of the Severn Valley is a great area for running, being traffic-free and scenic. Runners will also get a bonus one-way steam train ride. I would urge people to enter early to avoid disappointment” Lewis Maddox of Severn Valley Railway said, “The team on the Railway are very excited about this event. It is the first time that one of our engines has raced a group of runners and it should be a closely-fought battle” The entry price for the event is £20 and that includes a wonderful chip-timed trail run against the train, parking at Severn Valley Country Park, a medal, goody bag, 1-way steam train ride and a burger and beer. Runners can enter online at www.stuweb.co.uk/race/1Qt or can visit the event webpage at www.steamingdownthevalley.com There will be two heats (one starting at approximately 7pm and one starting at around 8pm) and registration is at Severn Valley Country Park in Alveley. The team at Severn Valley Country Park would like to invite visitors to join them on a guided wild flower walk on Saturday 9th June and Sunday 17th June, 2pm-3pm. Usually at this time of year, their lovely Spring Pieces wild flower meadow is in full bloom with beautiful displays of common spotted orchids, ox-eyed daisies, buttercups, yellow rattle and, on occasion, adder’s tongue fern. Severn Valley Country Park is definitely the place to discover a large selection of native wild flowers. The walk will be easy paced with plenty of stops to look at the wild flowers and wild life on the walk to the meadow. There will be plenty of opportunity to take photographs of the flowers so please bring your camera. The knowledgeable guide will identify the different species for you and give you tips to help you improve your own ID skills. Please dress for the weather and wear sturdy shoes. Meet at the visitor centre at 2pm on Saturday 9th June and Sunday 17th June. Booking is advisable (please call 01746 781 192), but do feel free to turn up on the day. Extension of the Geopark The extension of the Geopark to include the Woolhope dome was launched by Jesse Norman MP at a special event in Hereford last Friday. The Woolhope Club, who have played a big role in the inclusion of the Woolhope Dome, Hereford City and parts of the Wye valley, hosted the event at the Hereford Museum Resource Centre. Gerry Calderbank, Vice Chair of the Geology Section, welcomed the guests before Jesse Norman, local MP, officially opened the extension. John Payne then gave a talk about the rich geology of this part of Herefordshire and why it is so significant. As well as having significant landscape features it was also important in the early study by Victorians and the original members of the Woolhope Club, hosting many outings and field trips. It was therefore very appropriate for them to host the launch. It is a great addition to the Geopark in terms of the special landscape, including more of Herefordshire, and having Hereford as a gateway city to the Geopark. The event also launched GeoFest, the annual programme of events by Geopark forum members. Representatives from Merlin Energy, GeoFest sponsors, were on hand to do the honours and declare it open. You can find out more about the many varied events here. Jesse Norman MP – Susan Olver (Field Secretary – Woolhope Club) – Dr Bill Wilks (CEO Merlin Energy) – Dr Paul Olver (President – Woolhope Club)- Dr Tony Loy (Chief Geologist: Merlin Energy) – Jean O’Donnell (Vice President – Woolhope Club) – John Payne (Woolhope Club) – Paul Hudson (Worcs Archive & Archaeology Service) and Gerry Calderbank (Vice Chairman, Geology Section Woolhope Club). Photo by Derek Foxton GeoFest will be running from 26th May, starting with a exhibition at Severn Valley Railway’s Kidderminster Station over the Bank Holiday. Family Star Gazing Night at Severn Valley Country Park Saturday 28th April 2018, 7.30-9.30pm BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Shropshire Council Outdoor Partnerships Team are delighted to welcome back renowned photographer of the night sky, Peter Williamson, to Severn Valley Country Park for a magical evening of star gazing in the clear skies of the Severn Valley. Peter is the BBC Radio Shropshire Astronomy Correspondent. The evening will begin with Peter giving a slide show of his amazing images of the night sky. He will also show people the different constellations that are visible during the winter months. Example of Peter’s photos Other members of Shropshire Astronomy Group will also be present with a number of telescopes. Weather permitting, there will be opportunity to take a look at the stars and planets overhead with expert supervision. The Visitor Centre at Severn Valley Country Park benefits from panoramic views over the Severn Valley and dark skies. The event is suitable for all ages (including children over 8). Adults £8, Children under 16 £6, Family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) £25. Included in the ticket price is soup and a roll. Members of the Shropshire Great Outdoors Membership scheme get a 10% discount. To book a place, please call the park on 01746 781192 Mindfulness and Meditation: What’s it all about? Severn Valley Country Park is working with fully qualified ‘British School of Meditation’ teacher, Mandy Clarke to unravel the mysteries of mindfulness and mediation to their visitors. Research has shown that people’s day-to-day busy lifestyles could benefit from taking time to de-stress through mindfulness and meditation. It is said it is essential for personal wellbeing to take a few minutes each day to achieve a positive mind-body balance which will help people cope better with causes of stress and anxiety. During the course, to be held on Saturday 17th February, Mrs Clarke will help visitors discover the benefits of mindfulness and as well as help them to learn a variety of meditation techniques. There will be discussions around what meditation is and help dispel myths that surround both disciplines. In addition there will be an overview of several different types of meditation as well as guided meditations and mindfulness tips. The course will be held in the visitor centre at Severn Valley Country Park on Saturday 17th February 9.45am-11.15am. It is £7.50 (including refreshments). Booking is essential as there are limited places on the course. Payment required at time of booking. Please call 01746 781 192. If the course proves popular, they will continue with Mindfulness and Meditation Beginners Part 2, Intermediate Part 1 and Intermediate Part 2. Dates and times to be confirmed. Cuan Wildlife Rescue talk at Severn Valley Country Park If you have ever wanted to know more about the valuable work Cuan Wildlife Rescue do, then join Shropshire Council rangers at Severn Valley Country Park on Thursday 8th February. Members of the Cuan Wildlife Rescue team will be on site to give an illustrated talk about the varied work they do. Cuan Wildlife Rescue take in sick, injured or orphaned wild animals and birds, with the aim of nursing them back to health and releasing them back into the wild. In fact, great emphasis is placed on returning the animals to the area they were found to ensure they are back in familiar hunting ground and on their own territory. Annually over 2,500 animals and birds are admitted to the centre which means Cuan Wildlife Rescue need to raise £100,000 each year for day-to-day running costs. As a registered charity, they are dependent on donations from the public and businesses. The money raised goes towards staff costs, medical treatment and supplies, food, bedding, transport, heating, lighting and more. In addition to this they are the only rescue centre in Shropshire which offers round the clock service Visitor centre manager Susie Comaish says, ‘Cuan Wildlife Rescue recently helped us when an injured Tawny owl was found on one of our meadows. After spending 4 weeks at the rescue centre, the owl was successfully returned to the park and released in the same area it had been found. We are happy to be able to give our visitors the change to learn more about the work Cuan Wildlife Rescue do.’ The talk will be held in the visitor centre at Severn Valley Country Park on Thursday 8th February 2018, 7.30pm-9pm. Adults £3.00, Child £2.00. Price includes hot drink and biscuits. Please call 01746 781 192 to book your place to find out more about this great organisation. GeoFest 2018 will run throughout June, July and August. Plenty for all the family to do. Look out for the full programme nearer the time. Barn Owl visiting Severn Valley Country Park Shropshire Council rangers at Severn Valley Country Park are delighted to be welcoming the chairman of World Owl Trust for an evening talk held in the visitor centre. Alan Peace will be giving an illustrated talk examining the plight of the barn owl. This beautiful bird is the most endangered owl in the UK. The World Owl Trust (WOT) runs conservation programmes both nationally and internationally which help protect populations of endangered owls. WOT look at the environmental problems which impact the habitats favoured by owls as well as impacts to food sources. WOT are working hard to restore such habitats and have had success with increasing numbers of European Eagle Owl as well as the Barn Owl. The Trust is a registered charity and it relies on donations received as well as the work of volunteers. Accompanying Mr Peace will be Barny the Barn Owl and, hopefully, Indie the Long Eared Owl. Visitor centre manager, Susie Comaish said, ‘Currently we are looking to fund a barn owl tower which will help attract these beautiful birds to the park. This will be a fascinating talk about the work of the World Owl Trust and we hope our visitors will enjoy it.’ The talk will be held in the visitor centre on Thursday 7th December 2017. 7.30pm-9pm. Tickets are £3.00 adults, £2.00 children. Price includes hot drink and biscuits. Please call 01746 781 192 to book your place. Dracula comes to Severn Valley Country Park DRACULA is set to visit Severn Valley Country Park on 1st December. Rain or Shine Theatre Company proudly present a new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s famous Gothic fantasy… With a twist! After their success last winter as ‘a delicious mirthfest’ with the much celebrated comic version of ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’, Rain or Shine are dying to bring you yet another Classic novel in their own individual comedic style by raising the stakes by expanding on their new brand of ‘Morecambe & Wise-ish comedy’ with another season of mystery, mayhem, but above all multi-role madness! Dracula 1897 : Transylvania… A lone English solicitor makes an ill-fated visit to an important client at a remote and mysterious castle. Soon afterwards, Count Dracula moves to London, where a bizarre plague begins to stalk its inhabitants. Can our intrepid team led by maverick-doctor Professor Abraham Van Helsing prevent the infamous Count from getting his fangs into everyone before his grip over the people of London proves fatal? An atmospheric tale of maidens in distress, dark nights and vampires is here presented by Rain or Shine as you’ve never seen it before…promising a fang-tastic evening with lots of bite. Set in authentic Victorian costume, with a cast of four playing a whole host of characters, Rain or Shine are sure to delight and enchant those new to the tale, and those who already know it. The tour includes a ‘one night only’ performance in the Severn Valley Country Park, Alveley on Friday 1st December at 7.00pm. Tickets priced £10, child £6, are available from 01746 781192 or direct from the Rain Or Shine credit card hotline: 0330 660 0541, e-mail tickets@rainorshine.co.uk or online via www.rainorshine.co.uk. Half Term Activities at Cob House Cob House Country Park has another range of exciting activities and events over the half term period and is a great place for a day out. A summary of their events is below and check out their website for full details, prices and how to book . 21st – Segway Experience 11am – 2pm 21st – Beth with Pets in Care stall 24th – Join the Jumping Clay team for making fun! 11am – 2pm 25th – Pony rides with Pampered Ponies 10.30am – 2.30pm 25th – Junior Angling Lessons 26th – Jumping Clay fun in the Mayfly Cafe 11am – 2pm 27th – Fun Face Painting with Artistic Tinker 28th – Archery Lessons, please see website for details and booking 28th – Archery Have a Go Session 1.30pm-3.30pm £2 6 arrows 29th – Breakfast Club Meeting Finding Shelter – Prehistoric Activity at Worcester Museum On Wednesday 25th October 2017 you can find out about life in Prehistoric Worcestershire and create a miniature shelter. Find out how people kept warm and safe in a dangerous world with the help of Rob Hedge, archaeologist and prehistoric expert from Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service. You’ll also be able to explore the tools, homes, and hunting weapons used by early humans. Just drop into Worcester Museum & Art Gallery between 11am and 3pm. There is a charge of £2 for materials.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355448
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__label__wiki	0.517744	0.517744	Home→PAPERS→The Church in the Crunch – by Simon Barrow: 18 November 2008 Following huge losses during the financial crisis, the Church of England should return to the Christian principles of using material wealth for the common good. No-one is immune from the global economic crunch. That includes the Church of England, which has £5 billion tied up in assets, pensions and buildings. When the archbishops of Canterbury and York started to sermonise on short-term greed and the failures of market, they were embarrassed to discover that the Church had been playing the system in pretty much the same way as everyone else. Initially, things looked good. Due to its share holdings, England’s Established Church gained hugely from rising oil, gold and copper prices, driven at least in part by speculators. In 2006-7 the Church Commissioners, accountable to parliament, set up a currency-hedging programme, in effect short-selling sterling to guard against rises in other currencies. The C of E invested £13 million in Man Group, the largest listed hedge fund manager. It also has a stock lending programme through JP Morgan Chase and has traded debts, in spite of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s criticism of doing so exclusively for profit. The Church sold a £135 million mortgage portfolio last year. Then things went pear-shaped. A week ago the Man Group was down 30 per cent in early trading after its profits slumped, potentially wiping £4 million off the value of the Church’s holdings. The Commissioners have announced an average return on investments of almost 10 per cent a year over the last ten years. But most of these are in property and equities, which have taken a hammering as markets have fallen; so future prospects are not rosy. Exposure in banking (HSBC, TSB, RBS, and HSBOS, which has fallen a staggering 90 per cent) and mining (in defiance of ethical advice) is also costing the C of E dear. It doesn’t have to be this way. The founder of Christianity once pointed out that “where your treasure is, there is your heart also”. Now is the right time for the Church of England to completely re-examine its asset and investment policies and to put its money where its message is. Given the performance of more ethical funds, that would also be a prudent move. Many church groups are involved in alternative economic practices – co-ops, credit unions, ethical investment, fairer trade, local exchange schemes, micro credit, small loans for development, initiatives for monetary reform and more. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all have a history of critiquing usury, unjust profit from interest, and Jews and Muslims have set up non-interest based lending institutions. Globally, churches have an opportunity to use their assets in new and creative ways, for economic change driven by human need rather than by greed. What is needed is the will. The earliest Christian communities were founded on principles of seeking to use material wealth for the common good, striving for equality and giving priority to the poorest. Today’s churches struggle to be so Christian, it seems. But as neo-liberal ideology quakes before stark reality, the wages of economic spin are proving deadly rather than ‘realistic’. Simon Barrow is co-director of the religion and society think tank Ekklesia. He is author of ‘An economy worth believing in’. The Seven Steps, in summary, with short comment, are set out below:- • First Step:- That there be open, regular and public acknowledgement by state, economists and academia that the present western banking system is an unjust monopoly that creates 97% of the money supply as interest-bearing debt. • Step Two That interest-free loans (i.e. state-issued repayable money created free of charge beyond administrative and other necessary cost) be used, via community investment corporations and the like, for capital investment needed by the public sector thus enabling such investment to be one half, even one third, of the present cost. • Step Three That interest-free loans (i.e. state-issued repayable money created free of charge beyond administrative and other necessary cost including loan insurance) be used, on the principles of binary economics, for private capital investment which will create ownership stakes and property incomes for all income groups, especially the poor. • Step Four That interest-free loans (i.e. state-issued repayable money created free of charge beyond administrative and other necessary cost including loan insurance) be used for loans to start-up and small business for socially desirable enterprise. • Step Five That, since Steps Two, Three and Four above, while enhancing productive capacity and individual productiveness, are counter-inflationary and ultimately diminish the money supply, debt-free money (state-issued, non-repayable money for public or wide ownership purposes) should be issued for another individual basic income to the extent necessary to keep a stable level of prices. The amount should be decided by a body free from operational control by politicians. • Step Six That women be addressed as to the role they can play in getting two basic incomes for all individuals throughout the world. • Step Seven That moves be made to establish The Abraham Society and The Kashmiriat Society. Step Seven uses Steps two to six to find a new long term solution for the problems of the Middle East and Kashmir. A solution is urgent and would be about as clear a gain to the human race as anything could be. Implementation of the Seven Steps will create healthy non-inflationary economies and societies in which all individuals attain a sturdy independence becoming economically productive to the extent necessary to satisfy their reasonable needs.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355453
__label__cc	0.719648	0.280352	Back to index page Send this page address - CLICK HERE - to a friend ! Non-working links have been removed. Arrowe Co. Link Budget calculation software and other satellite stuff. http://www.arrowe.co.uk A list of Digital channels on all satellites http://www.lyngsat.com All kinds of video tapes transferred to DVD, UK's lowest prices and top quality. Experienced engineer and a personal service. Most tapes just £10 for 2:30 hours or less in quantity. Understanding Sky Digital TV This FREE 40 page book is available for download in the form of a ".pdf" file which you can then read on screen or print out . Everything you need to know about Sky Digital. Bookmark this page in case you need to come back. 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__label__cc	0.545116	0.454884	Wander is a cross-disciplinary research residency program in The Hague, The Netherlands. Currently we have paused our program, in order to explore new strategies for the organisation. Read the two essays on our last event Being A.N. Other: a workshop by Simon Farid. See other news or check out our previous events. Simon Farid Feb-Mar 2014 Who is ‘Simon Farid’? Simon Farid first achieved brief notoriety in the City in the Eighties when he was a star salesman for DPR Futures, which was a scam investment firm. When its four bosses were charged with fraud, Farid was granted immunity from prosecution and gave evidence against them at the Old Bailey. Farid's total experience of the futures market was simply a four-day training course, but the court heard a tape recording of him telling a client: 'I have just traded £25,000 myself on the Swiss franc.' Farid was lying and the client lost £107,000. He later founded the now bankrupt wine importer Heritage Fine Wines Ltd. Another Simon Farid is interested in the relationship between administrative identity and the body it purports to codify and represent. Taking on the role of a hacker or trickster he looks to playfully intervene in the identity-generation process, operating as ‘other people’ and enacting ways to counter emergent institutional identity confirmation mechanisms. A quick Google search will, of course, reveal where he lives, works, what he looks like and information about other people with whom he shares his name. Simon's residency cumulated in the workshop Being A.N. Other on 21st March in De Boek. Check out the people he met during his stay at Wander. The people that were involved in Simon's residency: Fela Kim Jason File Cybil Scott David Veneman	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355455
__label__wiki	0.568566	0.568566	africa • Eritrea “Africa Day” celebrated “Africa Day” has been celebrated on 30 May at Asmara Palace Hotel in the presence of Ministers, senior Government and Front officials, Ambassadors and representatives of international organizations. In a speech he delivered at the occasion, Mr. Osman Saleh, Eritrean Foreign Minister, said that Africa has witnessed immense changes and transformation which include decolonization from imperial powers and the quest for emancipation of its people through enormous struggle and sacrifice, and that should have paved way for the desired objective. Read more Ethiopian regime troops invaded Kenya today, for... Ethiopian regime troops invaded Kenya today, for the second time this month More than 30 heavily armed Ethiopian government soldiers invaded Lataka village in Sololo, Kenya, on Tuesday morning and allegedly roughed up locals. The soldiers also allegedly disarmed a Kenya Police Reservist (KPR) officer and arrested some residents of the village. Locals claimed the Ethiopian soldiers demanded they produce and disclose whereabouts of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) rebels, which is an outlawed militia in Ethiopia. Read more More leaders send messages of congratulations Presidents Beji Caid Essebsi of Tunisia, Arthur Peter Mutharkika of Malawi, Prokoplos Pavalpoulos of Greece, Hassan Rouhani of Iran, Maithripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka, Kim Yong Nam of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Anibal Kavaco Silva of Portugal, Kolinada Grabar-Kitarovic of Croatia and Kings Felipe of Spain and Willem Alexander of the Netherlands, as well as Pope Francis of the Vatican have sent messages of congratulations in connection with the 24th Independence anniversary. In their respective messages, they wished peace and prosperity. More messages of congratulations Queen Elisabeth of the United Kingdom and Kings Hammed Bin Issa Al-Khelifa of Bahrain, Abdala II of Jordan and President Sergio Mattarella of Italy have sent messages of congratulations to the people and Government of Eritrea in connection with the 24th Independence anniversary. Read more africa • USA Obama’s “Failed State” Policy in Africa by Thomas C. Mountain \| The Obama regime must be held responsible for a series of failed or nearly failed states on the African continent. Recently Burundi has been in the news but it could just as easily be Nigeria, Mali or the Central African Republic. Whether the calamities that have befallen these neocolonialist constructions have been intentional or not, the ruination and depredations inflicted on large swaths of Africa amount to what can only be described as a failed state policy. While Libya, and before that Somalia, are overt examples of the western implementation of the failed state policy in Africa an honest appraisal of what has happened in South Sudan can only add it to this list. It has been almost a year and a half since the civil war broke out there and not one western “expert” has tried to explain where the so called “rebels” led by Reik Machar are getting the funds needed to pay for the salaries of their fighters let alone the fuel, ammunition and other expenses maintaining such a large conflagration requires. Of course, the only winner so far has been the USA which has succeed in protecting its national interests by once again having the Chinese expelled from the only African oil fields they control. Many of the other neocolonialist entities created by the western colonialists upon their retreat from direct rule in Africa have done so little for their people that in reality they could be described as failed states. What else can you call a country where the population lives in such abject poverty that a major part of the society lacks such basic human rights as clean drinking water, adequate food and shelter let alone education or health care. The entire country of Liberia lacks electricity and running water. Kenya, often touted as one of Africa’s success stories, provides electricity to only 26% of its people and running water to even fewer. If one compares the lives of the people of Cuba, who have suffered under onerous sanctions by the USA since their liberation to the lives of almost all Africans the differences are stark, and appalling. “Crisis Management” is what Pax Americana has implemented in Africa for decades past, as in create a crisis and then manage the ensuing chaos to better loot and plunder more of Africa’s wealth. The failed state policy comes into play when the pressure the USA applies directly, or through its proxies, can cause prosperous, let alone already failing societies to begin to disintegrate filling our screens with ever more scenes of death and destruction. When it comes to the number and magnitude of the crimes committed in Africa under Obama one looks back on the much less dangerous days of the idiots of the Bush Jr. regime. The list of failed, or nearly so, states in Africa under the rule of “Barry O’Bomber”, BHO’s nickname during his formative teenage years, has taken a great leap forward. A nightmare scenario is another Clinton seems next to succeed to the throne and the thought of the rabidly vindictive Hillary wreaking havoc in Africa as Commander in Chief does not make for a pleasant nights sleep. Thomas C. Mountain has been living and writing from Eritrea since 2006. 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__label__cc	0.690486	0.309514	The Blue Bistro Elin Hilderbrand Book Review The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand is what one may refer to as the perfect beach read. In fact, the back cover of the paperback edition which I read, clearly states that it is “A Readers Digest #1 Unforgettable Beach Read” however, I have to admit that I wasn’t nearly as captivated with it as I thought I would be. Basically, the story of The Blue Bistro follows the main character Adrienne Dealey as she moves to Nantucket after another relationship gone sour and attempts to balance working at a local summer restaurant with no previous experience while becoming involved with her boss all at the same time. As you would expect, this makes for an interesting and exciting summer but, ultimately I was surprised when I found the restaurant aspect more interesting than the romance. The Blue Bistro I loved the restaurant aspect of The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand. It was very obvious that Elin Hilderbrand did her research regarding restaurant service. Her descriptions of the location, the food, the patrons, and the staff made me want to cook gourmet food and eat at gourmet restaurants. The friendships and relationships between the supporting characters were interesting and drama filled as each had their own apparent personality quirks. Given that I have never worked in a restaurant setting before, The Blue Bistro, allowed my imagination to run wild wondering what really behind the scenes of a local ‘hot spot’ especially since I’m pretty sure some of the details of the restaurant/waitressing business were exaggerated in order to tell the story. Or maybe not? Either way, it makes for interesting drama. Unfortunately, the restaurant drama was truly the only drama that I really enjoyed within The Blue Bistro. I did not enjoy the “love” story drama between Adrienne and her boss Thatcher at all. There was an obvious attraction between Adrienne and Thatcher from their first meeting but, I felt that the relationship was never fully developed. I didn’t understand Adrienne’s continued attraction for Thatcher especially with the way he continuously left her hanging and treated her like she had no say or no sense of understanding. I felt that Thatcher spent more time being concerned about his partner (best friend) in the restaurant, Fiona, who had to be monitored due to her deteriorating health, instead of focusing on his relationship with Adrianne. While I did like loyalty to his best friend, I did not like that it appeared to be very one sided. I never felt that Fiona put forth the same amount of energy into the friendship as Thatcher. In fact, at times it almost felt as if Thatcher wanted to be with Fiona more than he wanted to be with Adrienne. Especially since the author kept having flashbacks to when they were children and he had such a large crush and emotional attachment to her. As a reader who was watching Adrienne struggle with this, there were multiple times when I wanted her to just grow a back bone and tell him off instead of waiting to see when the next time he were leave her hanging for Fiona. As a character Adrianne grows up during her summer in Nantucket finally accepting her flaws and letting go of her awkward past. She becomes ready to embrace her future, and ultimately I think that she outgrows her relationship with Thatcher. Overall, I feel that The Blue Bistro would have been an excellent book if the author stuck to the restaurant drama alone and steered clear of the love story. For me, this was a summer romance novel ruined by the romance, and for once I was cheering for them to NOT end up together. Disclosure: Purchased copy Other reviews of The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand: Haven’t seen any on the book blogs search engine 🙁 Feather Boy by Nicky Singer Review Abracadabra: The Story Of Magic Through The Ages by HP Newquist \| Book Review Charlie And The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl \| Audiobook Review Dead End In Norvelt by Jack Gantos Audiobook Review Girl Parts \| John M. Cusick \| Book Review Filed Under: book reviews Tagged With: Adult fiction, Book Review, Elin Hilderbrand, St. Martin's I love that you didn’t like the love story. I know that’s probably strange, but I think it’s good that these kinds of opinions are being expressed because maybe it will lead to authors either writing more equal romances or else focusing a little less on the romance side. Meghan recently posted..[review] Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Allison L says Thanks for your reply! I really don’t usually like writing negative reviews (especially since I just started officially reviewing books and posting them on here) but there was just something that truly didn’t sit right with me about Adrianne and Thatcher’s relationship. I did think that it had strong potential but that potential simply wasn’t reached in what I was reading and that disappointed me and left me really not wanting them together at all. Allison (Allure of Books) says I love the cover and synopsis…so what a bummer that the romance falls flat. I do love reading books in a restaurant setting, so I’d probably still enjoy this one…but I’ll probably skip it since the love story isn’t worth the time. Allison (Allure of Books) recently posted..For the Duration: A Lighthearted WAAF Memoir by Felicity Ashbee It really was a bummer than the romance fell flat for me! At the beginning, I was intrigued by the premise of the main character trying to balance both a work and a personal relationship with her boss but … after their initial meeting and first official date it was just hard to enjoy the romance. I really did feel that Adrienne was putting so much more time and effort into the relationship than Thatcher and that just didn’t sit right with me. I felt that in many ways that he was holding her back, and that she would have been better off if she had never gotten involved with him.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355468
__label__wiki	0.540699	0.540699	Demo Account Live Account Client Portal Currencies Discount Full-Blown Trade War US-China Trade War Escalates, Text-Book Risk Aversion The Fed Under Delivers, USD Adds To Winning Streak The Focus Turns to the ECB, Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Posted on: 14 Dec, 2018 Don’t we feel all as having a Brexit overdose? For once, and without setting precedence, I am especially enthusiastic to hear what Mr. Draghi has to say. The Daily Digest is authored by Ivan Delgado, Head of Market Research at Global Prime. The purpose of this content is to provide an assessment of the market conditions for the next 24h of trading in order to assist one’s decisions on a regular basis. Follow Ivan on Twitter. Summary — Dec 12, 2018 Don’t we feel all as having a Brexit overdose? For once, and without setting precedence, I am especially enthusiastic to hear what Mr. Draghi has to say. Will his speech leaves us a sense that the underlying weakness in the Eurozone through H2 is transitory or will Draghi exhibit a greater degree of concern, implying that the slowdown in the Eurozone is more durable? Another focal point for today’s meeting includes the discussions about QE reinvestments, with expectations for more clarity as bond maturities come due. The forward guidance on the reinvestment period, the average maturity and the composition of the portfolio are the key aspects to keep an eye. The perky Pound found plenty of buying interest, which feels counter-intuitive, although judging by the overextension of the sell-off, that was a risk to face. The fact that UK PM May survived the leadership challenge by a decent margin (201 vs 117) feels like still not enough. Viraj Patel, FX & Global Macro Strategist at ING notes, that “the opposition may think 117 is big enough to topple the government in Commons & see a general election”, thus “the risks is that GBP continues to drift lower especially if UK opposition parties now push for a Commons no confidence.” Also, as part of today’s bonus insights, I update readers with yesterday’s trade idea, when I endorsed playing a long position on CAD/JPY based on the risk profile recovery I was expecting. Filled in Asia. As per today’s tweet shout out, it goes to arguably one of the top macro traders helping me to stay updated day in and day out on the latest developments in the market. @fxmacro is a must-follow. UK PM Theresa May won the conservative leadership challenge by a decent margin of 200–117. Despite the victory, anyway you slice it, the bottom line is that UK May’s is caught between a rock and a hard place amid disagreements between her deal and what the UK parliament demands to make a soft Brexit a viable outcome. The events in France since the violent protests over the weekend are significant. Firstly, it has led France’s President Macron to backtrack its mandate with the EU by implementing emergency measures which will cause the country’s budget to blow up above the debt to GDP ratio of 3%. You can’t then argue for Italy to stick to the disciplinary rules if France is the first one to bend them over. The prospects of European integration have been damaged. A new short-term driver for the Euro the market is watching very closely is the spread between the French and the German bond yields. Some could argue that until the dust in France settles, it poses significant risks for the outlook of the Euro, as France is the new Italy. Italian PM Conte has assured EU counterparts that the revision of the country’s budget will comply with a target matching up to the expectations for a 2% debt to GDP for 2019. Judging by the levels of the Italian yields, the market continues to give the benefit of the doubt. The Sino-US relationship appears to have been unaffected by the Huawei CFO arrest saga. More evidence emerged over China keeping its word on Wednesday. According to reports, Chinese state-run firms have bought over 500k tonnes worth $180m. The thaw goes on. The narrative coming out of China does seem to carry substance, as according to the WSJ, China mulls to make changes to its Made in China 2025 plan that would facilitate greater access to foreign companies within its borders. For now it’s all promises but the tone i and the current thaw achieved is a source that on its own should continue to back-up risk. Not much to chew on during Wednesday, with the US CPI numbers, headline, and core, coming in line with expectations at 0% and 0.2% m/m respectively, while Canada’s capacity utilization fell to 82.6% from 84.1%. Events Ahead The focus is on the ECB meeting this Thursday, with calls for the ECB to possibly downgrade growth and inflation through 2019. Find below a preview of the event put together by the Economics Team at Barclays. The risk-weighted index found a fresh leg up, breaking the previous high, assisted by the rise in both the S&P 500 and US rates, while the US Dollar trades on the backfoot. The current profile, based on the latest movements in financial markets, is characterized by classic ‘risk-on’ conditions. Access the chart via Tradingview If we were to take cues from cross asset classes, the outlook for risk heading into Thursday continues to be vindicated by the new structure high in the RWI, the uptick in junk bonds, even if prudence and be on high vigilance is still warranted as the VIX remains very elevated at 21.5. By taking a look at the yield curves, the true ‘risk on’ profile is supported by the steepening of the US yield curve (10y-2y), which communicates a diminutive improved outlook for growth. An analogous move has eventuated in the Japanese yield curve, giving us a promising jump start in Asia. Also, the moment the ECB is out with its latest policy statement, expect risk-sensitive assets to re-calibrate their valuations based, in part, to the ripple effects of the stance by the ECB. As a reminder, the latest changes in options positioning have played a key role in defining my view over the potential recovery in risk. My constructive outlook was aided by the increasingly aggressive buy-ups of IM calls in both the S&P 500 and the US 30-yr bond yields, as documented yesterday. Forex Majors EUR/USD — Barring An ECB Shocker, Buying Weakness Favored In terms of valuations, Wed’s bullish price action came amid an alienation of a bet returning towards the 5-yr German vs US yield spread, with another positive emanating off the 10-yr German vs Italian yield spread, making a fresh cycle high. Even the 10-yr German vs French yield saw a bid coming back, allowing to remove some pressure off the European-shared currency. On the daily, my endorsement to play longs on weakness remains unabated. Notice the range is getting narrower, with the closes by 5pm NY time in the last 2 weeks waxing and waning between 1.13 and 1.14. What this means is that a period of compression tends to follow one of expansion. We need to always ask ourselves the right question. If we were to bet for a breakout in either direction, judging by the clues obtained via options and yield spreads, which direction is more likely? The answer to me, as a close observant of intermarket relationships and options activity. I want to be a buyer of Euros at these markdown prices owed to the major disparity in German vs US yield spreads, but also on the clues I am getting via where option players are buying up downside protection, with out of the money puts finding a higher level of accumulation in the 1.13–1350 vicinity. On the hourly chart, I’ve marked the key levels of liquidity as usual. Note, some initial technical cracks are taking place after the clear violation of the descending trendline off the Dec 10 high. Wednesday’s recovery in the Euro found a cluster of offer circa the most recent POC around 1.1380 as depicted by a rectangle in my hourly chart. For the next 24h, subject to a shocker by ECB’s Draghi, I will concentrate my efforts in engaging in buy-side action off liquidity levels. Any levels sub 1.13 would present, in my opinion, a stellar opportunity to load Euro longs. GBP/USD — Boosted After UK May Survives Confidence Vote The Sterling valuation continues to favor the upside based on the UK vs US 5-yr yield spread, while also assisted by the recent downtick in the USD. However, in the wider context, there are still more ‘cons’ than ‘pros’ to be a buyer in this market. The political disarray in the UK remains a major source of concern for markets, and while UK PM May has won the confidence vote, fears are growing that she is really trapped in a ‘cul the sac’ Brexit road with no easy way out. Not enough votes in the UK parliament to get her Brexit deal through and no willingness by the EU to make the substantial tweaks to the compromise, so that the Irish backstop sticking point is resolved. I feel that part of the recovery in the Pound on Wed was partly due to an excess of bad news priced out, although on the grand scheme of things, the breakout of support at 1.2680–27, has set in motion targets as low as 1.2140. On the daily chart, we can clearly see the Sterling edging close into its previous support turned resistance at 1.2660 up to 1.27, which should cap the gains for now. On the hourly, the buy-side interest has been very significant, to the extent that a new bullish cycle has now been validated. What this means is that those with an interest to buy the Sterling on dips have now a more constructive technical backdrop to lean on, although still in disagreement with higher time frames. USD/JPY — No Change In Outlook, Short-Term Bullish Nothing has changed in terms of valuations for this market, which are unambiguously bearish & predicated on the depressed levels of risk and the US vs JP yield spread. However, short-term, it is the bulls that have taken clear control after the massive bullish outside day on Monday. I am still betting of a market that lacks any sort of conviction to break out of its 112.30 -114.00 range. The FOMC meeting next week could change all that depending on its narrative. On the hourly chart, the bullish run has so far produced 2 legs up, which makes me think that we might still be missing a third push higher to retest the 113.50 high ahead of the next topside targets at 113.75 and 114.00, which is where I’d expect the pair to start trading topish with true value to engage in sell-side campaign if traders can align the macro value gap with the micro ones. As long as buyers can keep the price above the 112.90, the structure of the market favors the long-side. AUD/USD — In Familiar Range, Topside Test Eyed With the offshore yuan regaining its strength and the Hang Seng index supported by the recovery in risk appetite, the outlook for the Aussie appears to have improved. What this means is that the topside of its 1-week range at 0.7235–40 may continue to be tested, with the price action still building higher highs and higher lows intraday. I’ve drawn a rectangle across the midpoint of the range, which often tends to help us as a precursor to understand what side of the range may breakout first. This theory is predicated on the basis that if a particular side takes control of the midpoint of the range through various rejections, it will communicate an interest to test the top/bottom side next. Bottom line, the Aussie is trapped in a range, with risks building up for a possible upside breakout. Bonus Insights- What Are You Missing? An update on yesterday’s CADJPY long idea: I was filled long o/n, in lien with a risk reprieve expected, stark contrast in recent fundamentals (JP GDP 👎, CA jobs 👍), Oil anchored by $50.00, plus steeping of US & JP yield curves offering positive lead for risk in Asia too. Find the insights below. Today’s Twitter Shoutout If you want to be satiated with all the latest macro news, especially as they relate to forex, here is a must follow contact for you. He goes by the handle @fxmacro and he is someone who just happens to be constantly in the flow of the moment, keeping us all up to date with the latest developments. “A lot of people get so enmeshed in the markets that they lose their perspective. Working longer does not necessarily equate with working smarter. In fact, sometimes is the other way around.” Martin Schwartz. Soon you will be able to subscribe to receive ‘the daily edge’. In the meantime, feel free to follow Ivan on Twitter. Horizontal Support/Resistance: Unlike levels of dynamic support or resistance or more subjective measurements such as fibonacci retracements, pivot points, trendlines, or other forms of reactive areas, the horizontal lines of support and resistance are universal concepts used by the majority of market participants. It, therefore, makes the areas the most widely followed and relevant to monitor. The USD, A Tale Of Two Halves (Micro Forces vs Macro Disparity) Brexit Procrastination Leads to Sterling Annihilation 2,600.00 — The Financial World Is Watching You	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355469
__label__cc	0.745443	0.254557	Cathedral of May / Into the Wild Welcome to the Cathedral of May, that fine time of year with no equal except October, and with the summer instead of the winter in front of us. I am departing at once for the Wild. I will be gone for a week or thereabouts. Partly I will be on the Appalachian Trail, and partly in less well-traveled places. Some appropriate music for the Maytide. By Grim on Friday, May 01, 2015 2 comments Increases Past 100%? Extensive research shows that using harsh verbal discipline and physical hostility is counterproductive to good parenting. It increases the risk of delinquency, fighting, misbehavior and belligerence in teens. First of all, fighting and belligerence aren't always bad things. Sometimes they are exactly the proper and just response, in which case the son you have raised with a capacity for them will be the person with the capacity to act virtuously in those circumstances. The one you've raised to shrink from conflict and physicality will be unable to defend the right when push comes to shove. But, second, this particular teen was already physically present for the purpose of joining a riot. I don't think you need to worry about 'increasing the risk' of misbehavior on this occasion. Mom was just trying to keep her son from getting himself killed, as was not improbable under the circumstances. Not only is the author a pansy who should mind his own business, then, he's also got his head entirely in the wrong game. By Grim on Thursday, April 30, 2015 12 comments Archaeologists claim to have discovered tools that pre-date the genus homo. By Grim on Thursday, April 30, 2015 3 comments Popping bubbles "Safe places" are all the rage, as young people struggle to find a refuge from disturbing ideas on campus and enforce orthodoxy on the whole student body and faculty. Robert Tracinski argues that this strategy is a good way to lose the war of ideas: The most powerful historical precedent for this is the totalitarian creed of the Soviet Union—a dogma imposed, not just by campus censors or a Twitter mob, but by gulags and secret police. Yet one of the lessons of the Soviet collapse is that the ideological uniformity of a dictatorship seems totally solid and impenetrable—right up to the moment it cracks apart. The imposition of dogma succeeds in getting everyone to mouth the right slogans, even as fewer and fewer of them understand or believe the ideology behind it. By Texan99 on Thursday, April 30, 2015 5 comments Treaty Obligations As long as the grass grows and the river runs... By Grim on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 2 comments I Hate Airports So, is this flight delayed? Guess so, but they won't call it or let you know for how long. Will I make my connection? Who knows! It's part of how we keep travel exciting. By Grim on Monday, April 27, 2015 5 comments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355471
__label__wiki	0.850402	0.850402	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) Hulk (2003) Black Hawk Down (2001) The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) Closed Circuit (2013) The Invasion (2007) Layer Cake (2005) The Mother (2004) Quantum of Solace (2008) Defiance (2008) Ciaran Hinds Stop-Loss (2008) Miami Vice (2006) Veronica Guerin (2003) Lara Croft — Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) Rome—The Complete Series (TV) (2005) Life During Wartime (2010) Overnight (2004) War of the Worlds (2005) The Terminal (2004) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) Minority Report (2002) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) War Horse (2011) The man's increasingly crazifying attempts to make serious films are still nothing more than good movies. Perhaps only Spielberg could fail so spectacularly well. 167 min. Universal Pictures. Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler. Steven Spielberg once designed his studied manipulations with no desire other than to make audiences jump, bite nails, cry, laugh, and gapingly wonder. The results may have been sophomoric, but they were rarely pretentious. In the mid-'80s, Spielberg took off in pursuit of the golden statuette, with impressive results. But if pictures like The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun—and in the '90s, Schindler's List, Amistad, and Saving Private Ryan—succeeded, they did so by grabbing for the gut far more often than the brain. The Spielberg of today has not yet entirely repudiated popcorn movies, but remains hungry for the intellectual respect accorded his cinematic heroes: Kurosawa, Lean, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Welles. And yet, in promoting Munich to the eager audience of Time magazine, Spielberg enthused that he told screenwriter Tony Kushner, "You speak the words, and I'll provide the pictures." Though he surely intended to be bluntly literal in the comment, Spielberg revealed himself as a man who recognizes and exploits other people's smarts. Not that there's anything wrong with that (but consider Hitchcock, who contentedly hired top writers to pen smart but unpretentious entertainments the reach of which rarely exceeded their grasp). Spielberg's gift, then, is his eye, but his curse is his ambition. He intends Munich as a film to tackle our issue of the moment—terrorism—in all its complexity. Why do we suffer it? What does it do to men, on both sides of a conflict? Can it ever be justified, as statement or as revenge? These are worthy questions (so too is the larger question, which Spielberg skittishly avoids: What is the appropriate response to terrorism?), but Spielberg cannot decide what kind of film he is making: a political thriller with provocative undertones or a heavy-handed drama with global overtones. Refusing to decide, Spielberg once more produces a technically rigorous but intellectually undisciplined frustration. The film's opening title places "Munich" in a context of other cities historically hit by terrorism; in doing so, the director immediately announces his intention to broaden his canvas (he bookends the film with a pointed reveal of a modern terrorist landmark). Avner Kauffman (Eric Bana), a Mossad officer and former bodyguard to Prime Minister Golda Meir, accepts Meir's indirect directive to take out the men responsible for the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. As his handler Ephraim (Geoffrey Rush) explains, Avner must do so off the books, unacknowledged and disavowed by his own government (ironically, Munich plays more like an R-rated Mission: Impossible than either of the Mission: Impossible films). Uncomfortably leaving his wife and newborn child behind, Avner assembles his crew: South African hitman Steve (Daniel Craig), Belgian toymaker-bomb expert Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz), German-Jew forger Hans (Hanns Zischler), and cleanup man Carl (Ciaran Hinds). Methodically, they will assassinate the men they believe to be responsible for Munich, though their assumption is based on faith in the list supplied by the state and confidence that the men served up by their French-underworld intelligencers are the right men. (The "inspired by real events" plot was sourced from George Jonas' much-questioned non-fiction book Vengeance and the filmmakers' purported interviews with the unnamed inspiration for Avner.) The script, credited to Kushner and Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), ably avoids easy righteousness and generates tension by removing trust from the equation. The table-talk scene of Meir (Lynn Cohen) and her advisors is surprisingly sharp-tongued ("Dead Jews in Germany and the world couldn't care less," Meir muses ruefully), as is Ephraim's initial briefing of Avner ("You do what the terrorists do. You think they report back to home base?"). Kushner and Roth purposefully confuse patriotism and family loyalty. Avner's "the son of a hero," but obliged to show familial loyalty to the state ("You think Israel is your mother," says his wife). "Home is everything," says the PLO operative who chats with the undercover Avner, who earlier tells his wife, "I can't do what I'm doing if I can't see you" (religious motivations, however, go carefully unexplored). Hans keeps a running tab of the great monetary expense of killing their targets, but the cost to Avner is clearly his soul. He claims to be "comfortable with confusion," preferring to evoke war and not question the intelligence by which he acts (sound familiar?). But with each apparently nice guy he kills, Avner grows less confident that he is a soldier-hero. "We are tragic men," says French-spy paterfamilias "Papa" (Michael Lonsdale). "Butcher's hands, gentle souls." Unfortunately, Spielberg labors to make the targets sympathetic and fretfully repeats the film's few themes visually (obviously directing the on-set Kushner endlessly to reiterate them verbally) without ever developing the ideas. You've never seen a cheerier bunch of intellectual, sociable, family-oriented terrorists as these. Everyone's a good guy, Spielberg asks, so why can't we all just get along? And yet Spielberg seems to get a real kick out of the film's action. It's something less than matter-of-fact when the bombs arrive in carefully calibrated Dolby Digital jolts and digital effects lovingly render blood spilling from a woman's throat onto her exposed breasts. Despite the effort by Janusz Kamiski to make the film seem colorlessly "grown-up," Spielberg jangles Munich's thriller thread with spy-film glee. The most frustrating aspect of Munich isn't its clash of intentions for its audience; it's Spielberg's pot-calling-the-kettle-black contempt for his audience's intelligence. At the outset, for example, he needlessly intercuts images of the Israeli victims with the marked-men terrorists (get it? if not, there's more where that came from). Later, in a scene that plays like an outtake from Team America: World Police, sweat flings off Avner in slo-mo as he has sex with his wife while "flashing back" to the tarmac where the Israeli athletes met their horrible end. You feel the blows of Spielberg's "Hebrew Hammer," but just what do they signify? That grasping for life is the true response to death? That Avner will never be normal again? At this point, Avner is supposed to be more haunted by his own actions than those of the terrorists, but never mind: intercutting makes things more interesting! Obviously, Munich is made with a great deal of extraordinary skill by a man who has movies in his blood and in his bones. But the film is skilled to a fault, and men who are just as talented, if not more, than Spielberg—editor Michael Kahn, composer John Williams, and especially Pulitzer-Prize winner Kushner—are pulled down by the director's lowest common denominator. The man's increasingly crazifying attempts to make serious films are still nothing more than good movies. Perhaps only Spielberg could fail so spectacularly well. All site content © 2000-2020 Peter Canavese. Page generated at 01/15/2020 10:15:45PM.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355472
__label__cc	0.597682	0.402318	Decentralized threats as the mother of liberty Dave Kopel gives us a fascinating account of the divergence between American and British gun culture in The American Indian foundation of American gun culture. I learned some things from this article, which is not a trivial observation because I’ve studied the same process from some different angles. While Kopel’s article is excellent of its kind, it stops just short of some large and interesting conclusions that immediately present themselves to me, upon reading his evidence, because I think like a science-fiction writer. A significant part of that kind of thinking is a broad functionalist perspective on how societies evolve under selective pressure – a drive to look beyond specific historical contingencies and ask “What is the adaptive pressure motivating this social response? Can we deduce a general law of social evolution from this case?” I’m going to anticipate my conclusion by coining an aphorism: “Decentralized threats are the mother of liberty.” Kopel’s account of how the American and British traditions of citizen arms diverged illustrates this brilliantly. Kopel insightfully points out that the American and British traditions of civilian arms began to diverge immediately after the first successful British colonizations of what would later become the U.S., in 1607. But it’s worth looking – as Kopel does not – at what the threat model of the ancestral, common system was. The customs and laws around British civilian arms can be traced back at least as far as a royal decree of 1363 requiring all Englishmen to practice archery on Sundays and holidays. At that time, before the early-modern formation of nation states, the nascent English militia system was intended to deal with two different threat axes: on the one hand, organized territorial war by feudal sovereigns, and on the other banditry and cross-border raiding. These were less clearly distinguishable in 1363 than they would later become. Modern accounts focus on the theory that well-practiced civilian archers could be levied by the monarchy in times of formal war, to meet a centralized threat. But at least as important, and perhaps more so, was the pressure from local banditry and especially Scottish border reivers, a decentralized threat that would plague England for more than 300 years after the earliest recorded raids in the late 1200s. An enemy that presents as multiple fast-moving raider bands with no common command structure and no interest in holding territory is difficult to fight with heavy troops trained and armed for set-piece territorial battles. The every-man-an-archer early English militia makes some sense as a civilian reserve for royal/aristocratic field armies, but it makes more sense as a civil defense – a decentralized response to raiders and bandits. For obvious reasons this aspect of its function would be under-recorded. Now we fast-forward to around 1600 and the period of early modern state formation. The border reivers were stamped out within a few years of James I’s accession to the throne in 1603; as James VI of Scotland he could exert force on the Scottish side of the border as well as the English. At this point the English militia lost much of its civil-defense role. It was, in any case, less well equipped for that role than it had been a half-century earlier. The shift from archery to matchlocks in the later 1500s was the culprit. Kopel points out that matchlocks has to be kept lit to be ready to fire and were thus nearly useless for hunting – the burn fumes made stealth impossible and scared off prey. He also points out that at that time hunting in England was increasingly heavily regulated and legally risky. This change in weapons mix, and the decoupling of militia duty from hunting, changed the character of the militia. The predictable result was a shift from individual aimed fire to mass-fire tactics. This was better preparation for a military reserve that might have to face a field army, but much less good for bandit suppression. In Great Britain after 1600, the militia system became more and more focused on centralized threats and preparation for organized warfare. In the Colonies after 1607 that trend exactly reversed. Unregulated hunting and Indian banditry drove the early adoption of the flintlock, a weapon much better suited to accuracy-centered small-scale fights than the matchlock. The British traditions of civil-defense militia and individual marksmanship reasserted themselves and, in direct response to local conditions, became stronger in the New World than they had been in the Old. The British militia’s last hurrah was in the Glorious Revolution of 1688; armed with pike and matchlock in emulation of a regular field army, they made James II’s attempt to (re)impose absolute monarchy impossible. This example was very much on the minds of the American revolutionaries of 1776 – they were steeped in the British republican theory of civilian arms as a bulwark against centralizing tyranny that had developed before and around the Glorious Revolution. Ironically, by the time of the American Revolution 88 years later, the British militia system in England was in deep decline. The 18th-century British, operating in a threat environment that included very little banditry but lots of field armies, effectively abandoned their militia tradition – muster days became poorly-attended drinking parties. The attempts of the more radical British republicans to center the post-1688 political system on the natural rights of the armed and self-reliant citizen failed; instead, the unwritten British constitution made Parliament sovereign. In the U.S., by contrast, the militia system remained central to American political life. Centralized threats like field armies were the exception; the major defense problem was Indian raiding, the pike was abandoned early, and the gun culture that evolved to see off the raiders was adapted for pot hunting in that it prized accuracy over mass fire. Eventually the Revolution itself would be triggered by a British attempt to seize and confiscate civilian weapons. The British republican dream of a polity centered on the natural rights of the armed citizen would be expressed in the Second Amendment to the written U.S. Constitution. Eventually the American version of the organized militia system would also largely collapse into irrelevance. It is well known that that mustered militia proved laughably ineffective in the field campaigns of the War of 1812; one thing Kopel’s article clarifies is why. The weapons mix, culture, and institutional structures of the U.S. militia system had become so specialized for decentralized civil defense against bandits and irregulars that it lost the adaptations for mass warfare that had enabled its British forebears to face down James II’s field armies in 1688. Of course U.S. gun culture and its model of the armed, self-reliant citizen as first-line civil defense survived the humiliation of the organized militia in 1812. Doubtless this was in part because Indian and renegade banditry did not cease to be a prompt threat until around 1900. But something else was going on – the long result of New World conditions was that the armed freeman became a central icon of American national identity in a way it had never (despite the efforts of British republicans) quite been in Great Britain. With it survived the radical British republican ideal of the individual as sovereign. Between 1910 and 1984 British authorities could quash civilian arms with barely a protest heard; in the U.S. a similar campaign from 1967 to 2008 ended in a near-total defeat that is still unfolding as I write – national concealed-carry reciprocity is scheduled for a floor vote in the U.S. Congress this month and seems very likely to pass. Here, I think, is the largest conclusion we can draw from Kopel’s historical analysis: Decentralized threats are the mother of liberty because the optimum adaptive response to them is localist and individualist – the American ideal of the armed citizen delegating power upward. Centralized threats are the father of tyranny because the optimum response to them is the field army and the central command – war is the health of the state. There is an implication for today’s conditions. Terrorism and asymmetrical warfare are decentralized threats. The brave men and women of Flight 93, who prevented September 11 2001 from being an even darker day than it was, were heroes in the best American tradition of bottom-up decentralized response. History will regret that they were not armed, and should record as a crime against their humanity that they were forbidden from it. This entry was posted in Firearms, Politics, Science Fiction by esr. Bookmark the permalink. 218 thoughts on “Decentralized threats as the mother of liberty” +1 Ian Argent on 2017-12-02 at 10:08:27 said: The decentralized militia role in the US lives on in the saying “when seconds count, the police are minutes away.” This applies less (but still applies) in the urban centers of the gun control movement. Likewise, of course, hunting is still a valuable source of protein in the more rural parts of our country. tz on 2017-12-02 at 10:26:31 said: I think it is either reflexive or backwards. The ivory tower libertarians say I own me, but get mushy about defending that ownership. But who does? Some security mercenaries so I get what I can pay for? The magic liberty fairy? There are no practical threats to would-be tyrants or criminals here. The 2nd amendment – the right to defend one’s self – lets you set the terms of non-aggression. It ceases to be theory or a discussion. The police and military become backstops. I can then exercise my 1st amendment and other rights. My home, my castle, my person, my defense. The responsibility that comes with but also creates liberty. Not merely decentralized, but individual. +1 Sigivald on 2017-12-04 at 17:31:13 said: Which ivory tower libertarians are these who pooh-pooh self-defense? (I’ve never noticed it in Mises or Hayek, let alone Rothbard, nor in Nozick.) There’s a reason it’s an old saw in libertarian, as well as gun rights circles (which have significant overlap) that “unarmed men are slaves”. ( To be read as “men who cannot be armed”; some people have decent reasons for choosing to not be armed, and that’s a side note.) RJO on 2017-12-02 at 11:02:12 said: A very good analysis. I don’t know about the South, but in New England, virtually every adult male had militia experience from roughly 1660-1760 — that’s 4-5 continuous generations within a culturally homogeneous and geographically separate region with exceptionally strong republican traditions. As a result, in April 1775 that culture was able to raise an army of 15,000 within 48 hours — but even that language is too centralized. Better to say: within that culture, an army of 15,000 rose within 48 hours. Quite Likely on 2017-12-02 at 11:28:00 said: It seems like you’re missing the second half of this post. The “decentralized threats (or really threats that need a decentralized response) = more of a gun culture” point is well made. But where’s the “more of a gun culture = more freedom” leg of the argument? Besides the specific gun rights issue, is there anything to suggest that more of a gun culture leads to more overall freedom? I don’t really see Americans as being any “freer” than Brits in the modern era. +1 esr on 2017-12-02 at 11:40:11 said: >Besides the specific gun rights issue, is there anything to suggest that more of a gun culture leads to more overall freedom? I don’t really see Americans as being any “freer” than Brits in the modern era. If you think we’re still not more free here, you obviously don’t know what conditions are now like in the U.K. For starters, there’s a whole class of speech offenses you can be jailed for, like being disrespectful of religious minorities. +1 Christopher Smith on 2017-12-02 at 13:14:10 said: Including accurately reporting organized crime. Rob Neuhaus on 2017-12-04 at 20:25:24 said: There are a whole lot of guns in Switzerland, but you still can’t build a minaret or you couldn’t vote in local elections until 1991 if you were a woman in Appenzell. Seems pretty high gun ownership and low freedom to me? +1 PeaceableGuy on 2017-12-05 at 06:37:17 said: Voting is not freedom in and of itself. I’d almost certainly throw away my ability to vote in exchange for a US federal government that exercised no more power than any typical individual has authority to. Voting only becomes a death-grip self-defense issue when the government has grown such tendrils that it affects your livelihood and daily private life. ” I’d almost certainly throw away my ability to vote in exchange for a US federal government that exercised no more power than any typical individual has authority to.” Such areas do exist in the world. Though, I do not think you would like to mover there. PeaceableGuy on 2017-12-06 at 06:55:01 said: Please, do tell. Cannot answer. These countries seem to be on a blacklist for this site. But the common denominator would be “Hell Hole” Sadly then, without being given any useful information to support your claims, I cannot believe you. “I cannot believe you.” Sorry, but this site does not let me post the names. But you can look at the list of countries you get when you search for: worst countries in the world Several of these countries have areas where there is no state control at all. The only thing that stops Winter from completely demolishing ESR is the fact that Dark Forces are keeping him from posting the truth. And this is the guy we’re supposed to see as an authority on the Second Amendment. Sadly, many of the leading anti-2A voices make Winter seem sane. Ladd Everitt, to give one sick, twisted fuck of an example. “The only thing that stops Winter from completely demolishing ESR is the fact that Dark Forces are keeping him from posting the truth. ” I am curious if anyone can tell me why it is impossible to post comments containing the name of the country on this map? https://www.drivingdirectionsandmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/country-maps/so-country-map.gif >I am curious if anyone can tell me why it is impossible to post comments containing the name of the country on this map? For drug-spam reasons one of my blacklist words is s o m a. That might be it. +1 Winter on 2017-12-18 at 02:52:12 said: “For drug-spam reasons one of my blacklist words” Thanks, that makes sense. +1 Dan on 2017-12-03 at 09:48:27 said: It very much depends on how you conceptualize ‘freedom’. It has been my experience that Brits (and Europeans…all the ‘old worlders’) and Americans have very different mental models when thinking about ‘freedom’. To highlight one dimension in which they differ – consider the difference between wondering “is X legal?” vs “is X illegal?”…or “am I allowed to do X?” vs “am I at liberty to do X?” -1 Winter on 2017-12-05 at 10:04:33 said: Indeed, and they organize their society among those lines. As a result, people get the country they want. Brits do not care much about shooting other people, but they do care about being shot at, and about friendly LEOs. So, they ban guns and their friendly police does not shoot at civilians. Americans have other wishes, so they carry guns, their police is not friendly and they do shoot at civilians regularly. Just to pick an obvious difference. shrug I’ve known dozens of cops from various regions, and only met 2 that I thought were jackasses. Contrasted with UK & Paris police, where I found the ratio was more like 50/50…a much more predominant authoritarian streak. American cops shoot people as regularly as they need to, to stop the threats they face, and I’m glad they do it…although I do wish to see more transparency and vigor in prosecuting bad shoots/cops. “American cops shoot people as regularly as they need to” US LEO kill over 1000 people a year, some 50 or so of whom are unarmed. In contrast, the UK police (pop 60 M) killed 5 (!) people in 2016. Australia ~1 (pop 25M), Germany (pop 80M) ~10. The US police is dysfunctional. But what do you expect from a force that is often also used to extort the population? +1 Fen on 2018-01-20 at 00:12:33 said: Unarmed is a deceptive term. Most policemen are killed by their own weapon because the thug knocks them out unconscious with his bare hands. Then grabs the policeman’s weapon and shoots him in the back of the head. Unarmed. -1 Lapsed Pacifist on 2018-01-20 at 12:39:05 said: Citation please. +1 Jeff Read on 2017-12-02 at 11:34:39 said: I read that historical analysis when you posted it on your G+. It lends weight to a suspicion of mine: that you really can’t do America without the RKBA. It’s kind of baked into the relationship between the government and the governed here, in a way that it’s not in the UK, the Netherlands, or even places like Australia. And if you take that away without altering the fundamental structure of the union, the whole thing will collapse. The government we have was specifically designed to govern a populace of armed freemen; if the populace no longer fits that profile, the power dynamic changes, and we get… well, Clinton, Conyers, Trump… An elite mandarin class who think they can do what they want with few consequences. We’ll get more of that if the “gun grabbers” have their way. I think of it this way: American government is structured to be kept in check by the immediate fear of armed insurrection from the masses. Modern European government is structured to be kept in check by the longer-term fear of the collapse of the social order, followed by the rise of a far more terrifying social order (as happened in Germany during the 1930s). Unfortunately this means that as an American you have to pick your poison: guns, or a dysfunctional government. If you want to live in a gun-free zone, your best option is to move. As for me, I just want to live in a low-crime zone. I want to be able to attend an open-air concert if I want without fear of being sniped at. If pro-gun folks can show me how this works with armed citizens in today’s culture, great. But I see something toxic fulminating that gave rise to the recent uptick in mass shootings. That said, I really wouldn’t count your 2A chickens before they’ve hatched. The Supreme Court recently refused to hear a case concerining a Virginia assault-weapons ban on 2A grounds; this opens the door for further assault-weapons legislation to be passed, at least at the state level. With the right Congress we may see a return of the Clinton-era ban. (Myself, I consider the assault weapons thing to be quite silly, and the result of legislators who’ve spent more time watching action movies than they have learning how guns work. Imagine a world in which nice friendly Macs are permitted but Alienware PCs are banned as “assault computers”.) +1 d5xtgr on 2017-12-02 at 13:05:02 said: I don’t think that fear checks for the US government anymore. They’ve found the strict interpretation (which I believe was the founders’ intended one) of the Second Amendment too limiting and so created legal fictions to circumvent it, just as Japan found that having no military is too limiting, and created the fiction that “Self-Defence Forces” aren’t really a military. So the public is generally restricted to small arms, as most other weapons are classified as “destructive devices” instead of “arms” and thus not protected by the Second Amendment. And I’m annoyed that the government has weaselled out of that restriction, but at the same time I concede they have a point. If surface-to-air missiles circulate freely among the public, yeah the capacity of the citizenry to resist predations of a tyrant’s air force is improved, but how long do you catch someone who downs an El Al 747 on departure from Dulles and drives off? If towed howitzers become a feature of American garages next to the bass boats, how do your good guys with guns secure a 40km radius to prevent an attacker from shelling an NFL or MLB stadium full of people? +1 Inc on 2017-12-02 at 15:22:48 said: Are the disarmed Europeans having better luck safely holding concerts? Yes, they do. Europe has a history of 50 years of terrorism. Still, your chances of being killed during a concert are miniscule compared to being killed in traffick on your way back. …and your chances over being killed by a backpack bomb while leaving the concert are minuscule compared to being killed in traffic on your way back. …and your chances over being killed by a rifleman raining bullets down from 400 yards & 30 floors away are minuscule compared to being killed in traffic on your way back. So…the same minuscule comparative chances as in the USA. The chances of being murdered in the USA is five times that of being murdered in the UK or Australia. The chances of being killed in traffic in the USA are, respectively, three and two times as big as in the UK or Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate In terms of health care related preventable deaths, the USA ranks last in a list of 16 high income countries. With 96 in 100,000 against 86 in the second last, the UK. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/press-releases/2011/sep/us-ranks-last-on-preventable-deaths The US is an unsafe country to live in. There are a handful of hotspots that skew our stats. You probably wouldn’t want to visit any of them. The rest of the country enjoys crime rates at or below UK/Europe. That said, you’re better of fetally ensconced in your pajama boy onesie and remaining over there…sucking your thumb and spluttering “my captors are my friends” through your tears. “That said, you’re better of fetally ensconced in your pajama boy onesie and remaining over there…” You comfort yourself with the idea we are too afraid to own guns. But we do get around. Our pampered youth (boys and girls) tend to finish their school life by hiking for months through Asia, Africa, or South America (as do all young people from rich countries). We do know how the world looks (do you?). And there is a broad consensus that guns are not a solution but a problem. GenRincewind on 2017-12-09 at 10:42:57 said: Really? I live in Africa. I’ve never seen any Dutch hikers coming here for a scenic trip through the slums. Actually, they advertise for helping in community projects overhere: https://www.projects-abroad.nl/bestemmingen-voor-vrijwilligerswerk/vrijwilligerswerk-in-afrika/ Probably not war zones or deep in the slums. But I know young women who worked in Uganda, Ghana, or Burkina Faso, or those who travelled by public bus from Sudan to South Africa and along the coast of West Africa. Same stories in South America and Asia. Young people are going everywhere nowadays. And the US has a higher non-firearm murder rate than much of the first world’s total rate, last I checked. The US is comparatively “unsafe”, yes … but not only is Dan generally right about it being unevenly distributed, but guns aren’t the cause of America’s violent tendencies. Their use in crime is an effect of that. I believe ESR’s written about it (and SSC definitely has, see link) – the “Borderers” of Albion’s seed coinage, just for starters. Yep….murder in general is higher….again, highly localized. Again you’re using deceptive statistics. The UK only calls it murder if someone is prosecuted for it. The US calls it murder if someone is murdered. Apples oranges. Add to that, the UK was recently busted whitewashing their crime stats to protect their tourism industry.. oranges, rotten apples. +1 aiosdfjafdio on 2017-12-02 at 16:15:28 said: Vegas could of happened in Canada or anywhere else that allows citizens to own rifles with a license. The shooter had no history and you can buy pretty much the same kind of semi auto long range rifles that he had. Then you would put them in large roller luggages and get to your hotel, unpack, and do your crazy shit. What happened in vegas is more cultural than legal tbh. Plus, AFAIK, nothing he had was especially “long range”. 400 yards is pretty decently long for target shooting, but it’s nothing special for nigh-unaimed spraying or half-aimed crowd-killing, and .223 is not exactly an iconic long-range cartridge. His technology was, in fact, arguably poorly adapted to his MO; a WWI-era Lee Enfield and a bench rest would probably have been more deadly. Yes, for effective rifle fire at that range, the AR15 is a poor choice for anything other than accurized precision shots. The POS in Vegas was just spraying bullets, and hoping that they rained down on his target area. They’re still lethal, even if they keyhole. Apparently he did some cocktail-napkin math to figure out his trajectory. William O. B'Livion on 2017-12-06 at 12:12:58 said: It is unlikely that one could fire that many rounds in that period of time out of a SMLE. Not that the rifle couldn’t do it, but the body would get pounded by that sort of fire. Not that the SMLE is a bad rifle–on the contrary it’s a fine rifle, but you’d be reloading three times as often–from stripper clips which take a little longer, and you’re manually running the bolt with every shot There are ways to run the LE faster than other bolt guns, but you lose a bit of accuracy (not that that’s an issue shooting into a crowd). So overall the .303 is more lethal at range than a .223, but the rate of fire would have been significantly less, and the shooter probably would have been able to fire fewer shots overall. +1 Troutwaxer on 2017-12-02 at 16:49:21 said: As for me, I just want to live in a low-crime zone. I want to be able to attend an open-air concert if I want without fear of being sniped at. First, it’s very, very unlikely that anyone will ever try to shoot you while you are standing outside watching a concert (our outside doing anything remotely comparable.) One of the best ways to have a firm, realistic grasp on politics is to carefully study mortality statistics, which will reveal the true threats to your existence: Note that about 2,500,000 people die in the U.S. every year. This data is CDC date from 2014: Heart disease: 614,348 Cancer: 591,699 Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 147,101 Accidents (unintentional injuries): 136,053 Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 133,103 Alzheimer’s disease: 93,541 Diabetes: 76,488 Influenza and pneumonia: 55,227 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 48,146 Intentional self-harm (suicide): 42,773 In 2014 the FBI reported 8,124 murders by firearms, which was about 3/1000ths of the total deaths for that year. (For comparison’s sake, in terms of commonality, about 7,600 people die every year because they consumed the wrong brand of OTC pain reliever.) If you want to compare those deaths to the actual population of the country, divide 8124 by about 300,000,000 million to get your annual chance of being gunned down (about 2/100,000.) Then note that most of these homicides take place inside a home and you’ll see that your likelihood of being shot while outside is, in fact, very, very, very, very remote. If pro-gun folks can show me how this works with armed citizens in today’s culture, great. As I see it, the problem goes something like this: Being pro-gun-ownership is philosophically correct, but statistically incorrect. Or to make it more personal, the gun you bought to preserve liberty/defend your home is a hundred times more likely to be used to shoot a family member (possibly including yourself,) or even kill someone on accident than to actually preserve liberty or defend your house. Owning a gun is statistically unjustifiable. (Note that I don’t consider statistics to be the only piece of evidence for making the gun/no gun decision. It is one piece of the puzzle.) What’s far worse is that most people don’t understand how to use guns to preserve liberty, or the issues involved in home defense. In terms of preserving liberty, has anyone noticed how the number of reported “bad shoots” of unarmed Black people have gone down since the assassinations of 8 police officers in Dallas and St. Louis? There are a number of lessons here which I am not going to discuss in public; smart people will understand, dumb people will keep buying Glocks so “I can defend myself when the Feds come to take my Bible/Guns/Books/Computer away.” (Note that I don’t have anything against Glocks except that they seem to the first piece an idiot gun buyer wants to own.) In terms of home defense: In order for your gun to be useless (in the unlikely event of a home invasion robbery) if you’re merely in the wrong room you may as well be naked. If there is an armed invader in your home and you don’t have a gun in your hand, you’re screwed! There are probably good reasons for buying a gun, but study your use cases and the statistics and don’t be one of Those People. >Or to make it more personal, the gun you bought to preserve liberty/defend your home is a hundred times more likely to be used to shoot a family member (possibly including yourself,) or even kill someone on accident than to actually preserve liberty or defend your house. That is not true. It is not even remotely close to true. It is telephone-game exaggeration of the infamous Kellerman/Reay “43:1” study, which was one of the lowest points in a long and unlovely history of academic fraud near gun policy (see also: Michael Bellesiles). Here’s how you can tell it was a fraud – the authors have consistently refused to release their primary data sets for reanalysis. After a little research I’d have to concede that the Kellerman/Reay study does appear to be flawed and faulty. (And thank you for having that knowledge and being able to point to the place where that bad data originated.) That being said, with a little more research, I ran across the statistic that in 2010 there were 230 justifiable homicides reported to the FBI which involved guns. That’s a lot less than the 8200-ish annual figure for non-justifiable gun homicides. This looks like 35 to 1 odds against fatal gun use being “justifiable.” According to the same report, there are about 70,000 gun uses, mainly by “brandishing,” to chase off people who were expected by the gun wielder to have criminal intent. This gives us approximately 190 gun uses a day to deter criminals, and I find this to be a believable figure.* However, I also found the annual total for combined accidental gun deaths and gun injuries plus criminal gun deaths, which was around 105 thousand/year. So you’re still more likely to get killed or injured by a gun than use it against a criminal, but it looks like the odds are more like 1.5 to 1 against a gun being used safely (as opposed to the 42 to 1 odds Kellerman/Reay found.) Those still aren’t good numbers, but once again, statistics are only one factor in whether to buy a gun. * Another study claimed 2.7 million gun uses a day to deter criminals. This give an average of 7400 gun uses a day to deter criminals, and I’d doubt that by an order of magnitude, at least. (If there are 2.7 million annual uses of guns to deter a criminal, then everyone does it at least once in their lives. Not likely.) >This looks like 35 to 1 odds against fatal gun use being “justifiable.” You’re missing a huge, huge confounder. You’ve lumped together two populations with grossly different risk profiles, and as a result your output numbers are garbage. I think you made an honest mistake, but done intentionally this is actually typical of the kind of flim-flam perpetrated in a lot of firearms policy studies. The populations are “career criminals” and “people who are not career criminals”. Yeah, boy howdy, if you’re a drug runner on the Chicago South Side, you are sure as shit more likely to get whacked in a turf war than you are to successfully deter a (fellow) criminal. The thing to get is that if you’re not a career criminal your risk profile inverts – pretty near all the probability mass that says you’re more likely to get killed than successfully defend yourself is over there with the gangbangers. There is one intermediate case: if you’re not a career criminal but get involved with the drug trade as a customer, their shit might slop on you. The last murder in the little exurban town where I live, about four years ago, seems to have been one of these. Here are the rules for maximizing your odds of not being a shooting victim, all well known to anyone who teaches personal security and self-defense. (1) Do not associate with criminals. (2) Do not do drugs. (3) Do not borrow money from shady characters. Follow these, and your odds of being shot will not just sink well below your odds of drowning in someone’s swimming pool, they will become comparable to your odds of being struck by lighting. Also, if you follow these rules, your conditional odds of surviving both the prompt threat and the legal response if you have to draw down on someone go up by exactly as much as they fall if you break the rules. …or the more vernacular “don’t go stupid places & do stupid shit with stupid people” Another factor that is nearly always overlooked by these types of flawed ‘statistical’ analyses, is that ‘fatal’ gun use is not even close to being the whole of the issue. Most DGU (Defensive Gun Use) does not even involve a shot being fired. Others involve a shot that misses, or (as [low power] handguns are overwhelmingly the firearm of choice for self defense) a shot that non-fatally injures the assailant. Yeah…sidebar about shot placement ;) So the total utility of firearms for self defense is far higher than such misleading ‘studies’ would have people believe. Credible works have produced annual figures of 200K – 5M DGUs…with a commonly cited median being 2.5M DGUs per annum. Even at the low end, DGUs are a significant & important factor in protecting innocent people. To actively & fraudulently attempt to strip people of this freedom is sociopathic. Anthony on 2017-12-08 at 10:56:57 said: Just as being involved in the drug trade increases your odds of being a crime victim, being involved in the drug trade and carrying increases your odds of having a DGU. Defensive gun use is a significant and important factor in protecting lots of not-so-innocent people, too. +1 Paul Brinkley on 2017-12-08 at 12:57:53 said: It is almost certain that drug traders who carry have a higher incidence of DGUs than non-drug traders who carry. However, they are also almost certainly not being polled, so they don’t figure into the stats. (I don’t know to what extent Kleck et al. tried to screen for criminals in their studies, if at all.) If we assume they’re part of the DGU stats, then we would have to consider the crime prevented by their cohort. It is likely significant, even though their total contribution to crime is net positive. Bottom line, though, is that violent criminals are different from non-violent firearm carriers in important ways, not the least of which being that they’re much less affected by state pressure to disarm. (I am amused now by the thought that if I wanted to increase crime in a neighborhood by as much as I could, I could seed it with people with violent criminal history, and even give them weapons, and expect crime to go up by the sum of their activity at wherever I got them. I would then be faced with an overhead problem when all these violent people turn out to not want to kill each other. Especially after the first culling wave passes…) Troutwaxer on 2017-12-03 at 11:45:32 said: I think you made an honest mistake, but done intentionally this is actually typical of the kind of flim-flam perpetrated in a lot of firearms policy studies. I think my reply to your entire post would be that I’m not anti-gun. (I came very close to tooling up after Trump was elected.) But I am anti-stupidity, and exactly how this works is a conversation I’m not willing to have on the open web. I will note, however, that the answers to your objections depend entirely on how we cut the cake; gun owners vs. non-gun owners, by income, by zip code; each of the separate ways to deal with demographics gives its own set of statistics, which makes the issue of honesty very difficult, at best. Further note that I’m not saying guns should be banned or even that particular guns (like the AR-15s with bump stocks) should be banned. I am saying that before buying a gun one should carefully consider the real safety statistics, what you plan to do with the gun, whether your expectations actually align with the real world,* the safety issues of each person in your house, your own level of violent tendencies and the general safety of your neighborhood. Then make a good decision. (Listening to someone talk these issues out is probably as good an intelligence test as the real world provides.) In the case of my buying guns after Trump’s election, the case failed on two grounds. First, there was a safety issue involving a particular person frequently in the house. Second, my expectations did not align with the real world, as it quickly became obvious that learning to shoot a rifle in order to oppose Trump was something like learning to shoot a rifle in order to oppose Wile E. Coyote… in other words, a complete waste of time! * Sorry, Christian lunatics, Clinton (or even Saunders) would not have taken your bibles if she was elected and buying more guns will not solve the problems of how badly you misunderstand the Constitution and the political climate. +1 Aaron Denney on 2017-12-03 at 19:32:38 said: It’s a simpson’s paradox situation. Slice up the population as fine as possible while still getting reasonable statistics. +1 jfre on 2017-12-03 at 22:28:08 said: Yes, actually Clinton would have attempted to take our firearms, ammunition and magazines. Obozo was already going down that path and she would have been more of the same. She said it in her campaign. Saunders is a socialist. A socialist is just a commie who has not learned to use an AK-47. +1 William O. B'Livion on 2017-12-04 at 16:30:48 said: He said Bibles, not guns. Of course Clinton was going to take our guns. She wasn’t going to take Christian bibles, but she WAS going to continue to marginalize christian voices and harass christian churchs (see “Little Sisters of the Poor”) who engage in bad-think. +1 Michael on 2017-12-02 at 20:53:41 said: There’s more… Studies indicate firearms in the US are used for self defense 800k (low estimate) to 2.5M (high estimate) times per year. With 8000 murders, that means you are 100x more likely to use a gun for self defense than to be murdered by one. In terms of being murdered with your own gun, the likelihood would be even far less (most people are not likely murdered with their own gun). tl;dr: Guns are a net benefit to society. Note my reply to Our Gracious Host above. We have to consider all the times deterrence occurs (we may not be deterring a fatal crime) against the times a gun does someone an injury or causes death. That give us about 70,000 deterrences vs. 105 thousands deaths and accidents. If we’re discussing only deaths, the numbers for “justifiable” vs. “unjustifiable” homicide are even worse for the gun-loving side at around 35 to 1. First, I don’t know where you got the 105,000 number. “More than 33,000 people die in firearm-related deaths in the United States every year, according to an annual average compiled from C.D.C.” The 70,000 number is way off. This has been studied extensively and the results have held up. A thing to note that in most defensive uses of firearms the weapon is never discharged. That means, no death, no injury, usually nothing reported to the police, no paper trail. The mere presence or presenting of the weapon was sufficient to deter the attack. Google ‘Kleck”. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/defensive-gun-ownership-gary-kleck-response-115082 Note my reply to Eric above: “According to the same report, there are about 70,000 gun uses (annually,) mainly by “brandishing,” to chase off people who were expected by the gun wielder to have criminal intent. This gives us approximately 190 gun uses a day to deter criminals, and I find this to be a believable figure.* * Another study claimed 2.7 million gun uses a day to deter criminals. This gives an average of 7400 gun uses a day to deter criminals, and I’d doubt that by an order of magnitude, at least. (If there are 2.7 million annual uses of guns to deter a criminal, then everyone does it at least once in their lives. Not likely.) >This gives us approximately 190 gun uses a day to deter criminals, and I find this to be a believable figure. The safe bet is that such instances are heavily underreported. Think about the incentives. 2.7 million people/year would mean that something like 189 million people defend themselves with a gun at some point in their lives. It would be an open secret akin to “did you inhale.” “No way dude!” The 2.7 million number fails the most basic of “sniff tests.” On the other hand, the 70,000/year sounds about right. It would imply around 5 million people in the U.S. defending themselves with a gun over the course of their lives, which I find quite believable given crime rates, etc. You’re right, of course, about the disincentive to report, but the 2.7 million number is 38 times the 70,000 number, and I don’t see the disincentives as being remotely that bad. Just as a counter-example, consider the disincentives, 40 years ago, for admitting that one is Gay or Lesbian. Surveys still picked up the essential numbers fairly well. My basic knowledge of family/friends – here in Southern California – tells me that the 3-6 percent numbers that are widely cited as being the Gay population (which I first saw in the mid 1970s) are well-within the ballpark for current numbers in a much more relaxed climate. (And you’ll doubtless know that the difference between 3 and 6 percent has more to do with the phrasing and “grading” of the questions than anything else.) Essentially, you’re asking me to believe that someone is 38 times as likely to lie about showing a burglar their shotgun than lie about being Gay… (sorry, I’m probably phrasing that badly) but the 2.7 million the number just doesn’t suit the smallest serious scrutiny. As I’ve said previously, I’m not anti-gun, but when I read the 2.7 million number I’m reminded that cattle cannot be potty trained. >The 2.7 million number fails the most basic of “sniff tests.” I agree. I don’t know who proposed that number, but it wasn’t me. I was only arguing that 70K/yr is likely to be substantially underreported. I could easily believe 210K a year, but that 2.7M number is an order of magnitude beyond that and not credible. I’ll happily go 210K a year with you, though the network tech in me wants a number that will fit the final non-zero number in a subnet mask, so I’m going to propose 224 K, just for fun. +1 John Moore on 2017-12-03 at 20:50:59 said: As an example of the latter – I once defended myself successfully with gunfire. Nobody was hit (that was on purpose and I had plenty of rounds left in the magazine and time to consider the response of those who were trying to attack me), and the police were never informed. It is not in the statistics. …and I defended myself with a handgun without firing a shot, then called the police, but they never arrived. So I’m part of the stats : a presentation-only DGU. You’re a sucker if you believe you can rely on the cops to save you. You are your own first line of defense. Always. Note one small issue – the FBI crime stats for “justifiable homicide” are … not what you might (justifiably, if perhaps naively) think. See here; “In the UCR Program, justifiable homicide is defined as and limited to: * The killing of a felon by a peace officer in the line of duty. * The killing of a felon, during the commission of a felony, by a private citizen” If the criminal is not yet a felon, it’s not a justifiable homicide, even if it is completely legally justified self-defense. Further, UCR classifications are by police investigation, not eventual trial outcome; a crime investigated [charged? it’s not quite clear in their materials] as a murder that turns out to be self-defense may well count, for UCR purposes, as a murder … but not be one legally or morally. And it turns out that’s quite a common thing, in my understanding; often (I think, typically, in fact, though there aren’t good numbers for this sort of thing that I’ve ever seen), the determination of self-defense occurs in court, after charges and investigation. It has to be pretty stunningly obviously self-defense to the on-scene cops and to the DA to have it be investigated as that from the start, if only because every other murderer claims self-defense, and it’s a lot easier to prosecute them if you start the investigation with not believing them. (I don’t blame the FBI for this, since they have to draw a line somewhere, and this one is very clear and doesn’t distort Real Crimes with plea-bargains; but it’s not great for this particular argument for that very reason.) That interpretation is not accurate, given the actual process of law enforcement. Upon examining the scene of a shooting, it may be determined by LEOs that the deceased is, in fact , a felon, by virtue of the actions he was taking at the time – ie. he would have been charged with a felony. At this point, LEOs can conclude that the armed citizen acted in a lawful manner, and the shooting is declared a ‘justifiable/excusable homicide’ (there is a considerable difference between justifiable and excusable, however) and charges are not filed. However, you should expect to be arrested if you shoot anyone, regardless of justification. It is prudent to have insurance in such an event. I don’t think that “you will be arrested” is quite accurate. You may or may not be put in cuffs, but you will be take to jail for several hours for questioning. You are quite correct…I missed my opportunity to edit. I should have written “detained”. “Am I being detained officer?” “For what reason?” “You just shot a guy” Seems reasonable. Back in the (IIRC) 1990s a home owner in his jammies got a thief proned out at gunpoint and called the cops. During the wait somehow the bad guy got the gun and reversed their positions–including having the good guy switch clothes with him (no idea how this happened, other than an unwillingness to shoot on the part of the home owner). The police took the home owner to jail and left the bad guy in the house. By the time this was sorted out the bad guy was LONG gone. So now the cops take everyone to jail and sort it out there. Lesson? Shoot the fker. spiralofhope on 2017-12-03 at 00:09:04 said: Others, here or elsewhere, have tackled the “it’s okay as long as there’s other bad stuff” argument, from guns to terrorism to rape. I’m not going to bother/try, since smarter people on both sides have butted heads on that. Please do go and look for arguments against your position, you’ll find them persuasive. In terms of preserving liberty, has anyone noticed how the number of reported “bad shoots” of unarmed Black people have gone down since the assassinations of 8 police officers in Dallas and St. Louis? Related food for thought: There are budding no-go zones. A related question: Has there been an increase of crime (and gun-related crime) anywhere specific? The chance of being murdered in the USA is 5 times higher than in the UK or Australia. Private guns do not help making communities safe. Also, Americans show time and again to be unfit for owning guns. Too many American men believe the best way to commit suicide is by shooting as many people as possible. Maybe, that is the flip side of a society.that is obsessed with with winner: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201608/americas-obsession-winners-and-losers >Private guns do not help making communities safe. In the real world, as opposed to your fantasies, high levels of legal private gun ownership correlate with low levels of crime, and vice-versa. A well-known example is Kennessaw, Georgia, which has a legal requirement that “every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefore.” Kennessaw has a crime rate 60% below national and state averages. Laws of this kind were common in the 19th century. When they were abandoned along with the organized militia system, crime rates went up. So we have pretty well controlled tests in both time and space demonstrating the effect. Only 60%? So, Kenneshaw has a higher murder rate than the average of the whole of the UK and Australia? So much for guns making us safe. +1 Ian Bruene on 2017-12-04 at 13:21:47 said: There are two hypotheses here: Option 1: Guns cause/enable crime and do not prevent it. Implication: crime will track availability of guns. Option 2: Guns help prevent crime more than they help crime. Implication: crime will inversely track availability of guns. If option 1 is true Kennesshaw is impossible; it should have sky high crime rates compared to similar areas with the same culture. If option 2 is true Kennesshaw is the predicted result; its crime rate is way below that of similar areas with the same culture. If you compare Kennesshaw with a very different culture you are confounding your data, and should expect garbage as your result. Or if that is ok, let’s compare the U.S. with Islamic hellhole #78343. Now we are the model of peacefulness even in our worst areas. 3) Other factors are involved that increase/decrease crime. Factors you ignore when you pick out a single spot. +1 Jeremy on 2017-12-05 at 15:03:03 said: Then, what, pray tell, are these other factors? And if they’re not related to the gun-ownership variable as you seem to imply with your above statement, why is it that you come into these threads implying or stating that crime’s lower in your neck of the woods because because you don’t have any guns and that we need to get rid of ours to approach parity with you? @Jeremy, The people here claim we can lower OUR crime rates with guns. Like you claim you can lower YOUR crime rates with more* guns. Meanwhile, we have a much lower homicide rate that you do and there is a correlation in the US states between gun ownership and fire arm related homicide rates: Tough sell! +1 David Isecke on 2017-12-15 at 22:50:18 said: And yet, even you should understand that comparing Kennessaw’s crime rate with that of its own State and national averages makes way more sense than comparing it with the UK and Australia. Do not let your snark get ahead of you. Does it ever occur to you that you could possibly be wrong? Except, when people claim Europeans can reduce their murder rates by adopting US policies that result in uniform higher rates even in the safest US counties. Then we want to know the absolute rates. Actually, yes, I do. But I want to see real statistics and numbers that actually prove the point. Not Just So stories, feelings, and ideological believes. That is why I keep asking for facts and numbers. But I have yet not seen any convincing numbers that held up to scrutiny.. Winter, it really must be exhausting to lug all that horseshit around to every firearm thread. Just some information from the other 95% of humanity. You keep claiming we can reduce our murder rates far below our current 1 in 100,000. Meanwhile, you are unable to get your own murder rate even nearly as low as ours. Who is lugging horse shit here? >Meanwhile, you are unable to get your own murder rate even nearly as low as ours. And we never will, unfortunately, not as long as we have large urban subpopulations with low average IQ and high average time preference. Gun policy has to be evaluated on its effects relative to the higher base rate induced by that problem. The parts of the U.S. that look like the Netherlands have a murder rate very much like the Netherlands. The parts of the Netherlands that are ceasing to look like the Netherlands have a murder rate climbing towards the U.S.’s. Choose wisely – if you still can. “The parts of the U.S. that look like the Netherlands have a murder rate very much like the Netherlands. ” This is the usual comparison of individual quiet spots in the US (mostly excluding urban areas) with the average of complete countries in Europe. The countries of Japan, the UK, Australia, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands all have lower homicide rates than the state of New Hampshire. Which has the lowest homicide rate in the USA. Even the urban region of Greater London itself has a homicide rate on a level with New Hampshire as a state. So, your reasoning is simply wrong. +1 Nomen Nescio on 2017-12-04 at 10:20:19 said: keep in mind that those “individual quiet spots” include the vast majority of the USA, not only by area but even by population. the DISquiet spots are not just urban, they are often specific urban neighborhoods, smaller parts of the cities they’re a part of. the main reason this almost never gets pointed out is racism. most of the people who live in those dangerous areas are racial and ethnic minorities; pointing out that they therefore make up most of the victims of violence somehow doesn’t outweigh the potentially racist stain of implying they are the majority of culprits. and, of course, implying that most of them would leave those dangerous neighborhoods in an awful hurry if they only could afford to, points out that poverty and need are strongly correlated with race in the USA, which goes against a lot of how modern Americans would like to imagine our country. naturally, fixing that economic inequality is utterly unthinkable, because sooocialism!! reeee!!!!!! >poverty and need are strongly correlated with race in the USA, which goes against a lot of how modern Americans would like to imagine our country. naturally, fixing that economic inequality is utterly unthinkable, because sooocialism!! reeee!!!!!! Of course they are. Everybody knows this. What differs is the interpretation. Conservatives and libertarians think many nonwhites have generated and trapped themselves into a self-reinforcing poverty culture that can’t be fixed by social engineering from outside it. Liberals think those people are kept down by racism and that institutional racism in their favor, coupled with huge wealth transfers, will solve their problems. The latter prescription has failed massively ever since 1960, but the left’s response to this is always “We have to do it again! Harder! With more money and more racial preferences! And if you object to this you are an EVIL RACISSS%@&#!” The latter prescription has failed massively ever since 1960 And is arguably much of the cause, as well as the initial push that got the ball rolling. “keep in mind that those “individual quiet spots” include the vast majority of the USA, not only by area but even by population.” Please be more specific. Here are some spots outside the USA, all with murder rates below 2 per 100,000 (below 1 for Tokyo and Sydney): Tokyo pop 13M London pop 8M Sydney pop 5M Berlin pop 3M Madrid pop 3M Paris 2M So, what are these low-homicide spots in the USA? And how low are these homicide rates? >So, what are these low-homicide spots in the USA? And how low are these homicide rates? here, LMGTFY dot com: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8125e8f4244a47d986f4cd840824eef3 https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/ and for one specific city that happened to pop up when i GTFY: https://www.crimemapping.com/map/agency/265 (several other large U.S. cities these days publish equivalent online interactive crime maps. do feel free to ask someone else to google them up for you.) You post a link to crime rates in the Bay Area. That had 277 murders on a population of 4 million. That is almost 7 homicides per 100,000. http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Killings-in-Bay-Area-rise-for-2nd-year-in-a-row-10895393.php That is not “low”. London had 1.6 on a population of 8 million, Sydney less than 1 on a population of 4 million. Come on, you can do better. that’s an awful long stretch you had to make there, all just to read my comment in the worst possible faith. i do hope you didn’t pull a muscle; your intellectual honesty does seem to have gone quite out of joint. “that’s an awful long stretch you had to make there, all just to read my comment in the worst possible faith.” You post a link to a “safe spot” and I calculate the stats. And they do not add up. So what should I do? Here is the list of US cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate With the exception of Honolulu, there is not a city with a population over 500,000 and a crime rate below 2 per 100,000. So where are these “safe spots” that are as safe as. e.g., London? +1 Alex K. on 2017-12-11 at 10:15:28 said: (I had a longer reply than this eaten by WordPress, possibly for being spammy with lots of data links, so I’m trying a slightly different tack against that headwind.) Winter, I’m going to set side by side two things you said (in separate comments) in this thread and ask for clarification — because the most naïve reading seems implausible. Private guns do not help making communities safe. This is the usual comparison of individual quiet spots in the US (mostly excluding urban areas) with the average of complete countries in Europe. The countries of Japan, the UK, Australia, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands all have lower homicide rates than the state of New Hampshire. In fact, let’s be clear–you have directed this discussion, by being rather emphatic almost to the point of obsession, in equating “murder rates” with “safety” in this thread. Does that actually mean (as the prima facae reading of your comments might imply) that you do not believe other forms of crime are a threat to ones’ safety? “Does that actually mean (…) that you do not believe other forms of crime are a threat to ones’ safety?” No. But it has been proven impossible to give universal definitions of “crime” that allow side by side comparisons between legal systems. Definitions simply differ too much (just take rape, comparing the US with some Middle Eastern countries). However, there is a strong correlation between crime rates in general and homicide rates. Also, a dead body is difficult to ignore, as are “unnatural” causes of death. Therefore, if you want to compare crime rates between countries, homicide rates are the only measure available that have at least a minimum of reliability. So, if you want to claim that the US is more safe than say, the UK, because there is less of crime X, you will get stuck in a quagmire of definitions. But if you simply stick with homicide rate (or other measures involving dead bodies in, e.g., traffic), you will be good. Also, the fear of dying is one of the deeper concerns of humans everywhere. No. But it has been proven impossible to give universal definitions of “crime” that allow side by side comparisons between legal systems. Definitions simply differ too much (just take rape, comparing the US with some Middle Eastern countries). However, there is a strong correlation between crime rates in general and homicide rates. Does that mean you don’t consider a telephone survey conducted across multiple countries, with standardized definitions of different crimes given, as inaccurate? We can look on their statistics page to get a direct comparison of various countries. I’ll take the ones you listed (see quote in prior comment) and use those. Germany, sadly, last lists statistics for 1989 as “West Germany”, and a victimization rate of 37.6%. All other countries in your list have results for 2000 and reported (in low-high order): Japan 21.0%, Denmark 35.1%, USA 39.5%, Netherlands 48.1%, Australia 54.3%, UK 54.5%. So unless you’re willing to argue that in the year 2000 the murder rate for the Netherlands, Australia, and the UK exceeded that of the US by ~25%, I don’t see murder being a good proxy for overall crime. Just as accurate as the happiness surveys. Useful, but with their own problems. A telephone survey is no replacement for comprehensive statistics. It is the difference between running polls and running elections. You have not given a good reason why comprehensive homicide statistics are worse than telephone surveys. Winter – I am not a bean to be counted, categorized, statistically processed, probabilistically assessed…I am an individual human being. I freely choose to acquire technology, learn how to best use it, and keep it available should an event make such use necessary – a freedom you do not have. (I am certain you would respond with something along the lines of “I don’t want/need such technology” – which is fortunate for you, as your masters have dictated that you do not have any choice in the matter should you feel differently) I also do not grant or recognize any other human being as possessing superior rights or authorities over my own personal rights/freedoms. Your cereal box psychoanalysis of gun owners does not carry any weight whatsoever. It is comically inept. All of this is fine. It is your country, so you can do with it as you like. But do not try to tell us fairy tales that guns reduce crime rates . “Your cereal box psychoanalysis of gun owners does not carry any weight whatsoever. ” That psychology covers almost all of the mass shootings. From the proverbial “going postal”, before and after Btw, I never eat cerals and most certainly do not read their boxes. I would never try to tell you “guns reduce crime rates” because that is nonsense. Guns are not magical amulets capable of such an effect. Lawfully armed citizens reduce crime rates. We have witnessed this effect over and over throughout the country as a predictable consequence of enhancing laws like concealed carry, castle doctrine, stand your ground etc. This is a repeatable pattern of success that can only be willfully ignored, not refuted. It is currently enjoying another victory lap in Detroit of all places! As you have been told time & time again, we have a handful of hotspots that are so violent they skew our national statistics – controlling for these hotspots shows the USA to have similar or lower levels of crime (of all types) than UK/Europe. The vast, vast majority of this enormous country is peaceful, lawful & safe. And well armed. We should really be focussing our resources on the hotspots’ pathologies to bring the overall stats back in line with the rest of the western world. But that’ll never happen because, y’know, raysizzum and sheeeit. As if every country does not have its hot-spots? You are comparing local spots with national averages. Each of these countries have their own areas that are as safe as a US nuns convent. Controlling for hotspots is a statistically legitimate approach for understanding their influence on regressions. Of course there are hotspots in any country…yours clearly aren’t as hot as ours. You have the analysis backwards – I’m not comparing our hotspots to other nations averages. I’m comparing our average both _with_ and _without_ the hotspots with other nations averages – to emphasize just how badly they skew our stats. What this reveals is that we really do have a problem – but it isn’t a ‘gun’ problem. To continue this claim is a vicious, unconscionable slur against the 80-100 million good people that possess and use firearms responsibly. We have a [predominantly black] thug culture problem. “What this reveals is that we really do have a problem – but it isn’t a ‘gun’ problem. ” That was not my point. My point was that quite a lot of people here claim that “guns make the US safe”. Many even claim the rest of the world should abolish restrictions on gun ownership to make them safer. And that advice comes from a country that is unable to get their own murder rates under control. You talk about “hot spots”, but when I ask what the “safe spots” are, I get areas that still have much higher homicide rates than equivalent areas elsewhere. You have a lot of guns in private hands and high homicide rates. We have restrictive gun laws and low homicide rates. The US are in a very bad position to convince the rest of the world that more guns would make us safer. “To continue this claim is a vicious, unconscionable slur against the 80-100 million good people that possess and use firearms responsibly.” This sounds a lot like the “60% Fat Free” marketing scam. The point are not the “good guys” that do not use their guns to shoot at people, but the bad guys that do. Aaron Traas on 2017-12-04 at 17:20:13 said: That’s why I carry a firearm on my person in my home. I have it holstered securely inside the waistband. It took my wife 2 months of me doing this daily before she noticed when I first started carrying. I also have a long gun loaded in a quick-access safe under my bed. If there’s a bump in the night, my wife knows to gather the kids into the master bathroom and dial 911 while I retrieve the rifle and fortify myself facing towards the locked bedroom door with the bed between me and the door. Also, guns are the last part of a home defense plan. Reinforced door jambs, strategically placed cameras, alarms, and dead-bolts on the bedroom door are what I rely on first. I suggest all these things before I suggest anyone buy a gun. Yep, always have a firearm on your person, or within arms reach…or – at a stretch – within a short run. Could that be, perhaps, because there’s less policing? Garrett on 2017-12-03 at 11:56:10 said: What other rights are you willing to apply to a risk/benefit analysis? Most of the exulted European countries have state religions. Middle-eastern countries have lower levels of property crimes. Women in countries with lower political or cultural freedom report higher levels of satisfaction with their lives. Hell, the math proves that voting is an irrational activity. Most other countries have no useful legal remedy for evidence obtained illegally or without a warrant; France and Japan are notorious for “encouraging” confessions from prisoners with methods which would cause the entire judicial branch of the US to have an apoplectic fit. d5xtgr on 2017-12-03 at 19:04:38 said: Passing such an analysis is more or less the working definition of a right on this blog (see this post). It provides a mechanism for assessing whether a right exists or not – such a mechanism being necessary due to the explicit recognition of unenumerated rights in the 9th Amendment. PapayaSF on 2017-12-02 at 11:54:19 said: Decentralized threats are the mother of liberty because the optimum adaptive response to them is localist and individualist What if the decentralized threat is mass immigration by foreigners who do not, on average, believe in the traditional American concept of liberty? E.g. Muslims who want to impose sharia law, or Latin Americans who believe in bigger, more socialist government? >What if the decentralized threat is mass immigration by foreigners Not every threat to the republic is a civil-defense problem that has to be met by approximately military means, either centralized or decentralized. …Muslims who want to impose sharia law Reach out to them and invite their kids to get into the melting pot with the rest of us. (I do understand that this is easier said than done. But to make obvious hostility your first response is… Un-American. (I say this as a proud descendant of little Jewish people with ugly accents.)) Also note my point above about what is likely to kill you – the number of people killed by Sharia believers in 2014 was pure statistical noise. If you really dislike the idea of Sharia Law, vote against people who want better relationship with the Saudis (the chief proponents of worldwide Sharia law.) Latin Americans who believe in bigger, more socialist government? Keep in mind that Latins frequently come from undemocratic shitholes. If you want to convince these Latins that the American system is desirable, do your best not to allow the U.S. to become a banana republic. And once again, prejudice is not a good tool for convincing someone that you are right. >Reach out to them and invite their kids to get into the melting pot with the rest of us. Why would you expect that to work any better in the USA than in UK/Europe? We’re already seeing how alien these people are – read about Dearborn MI. Both London and Rotterdam have a Muslim mayor. Both are against the sharia. wraithburn on 2017-12-03 at 20:09:47 said: How well are those acid attacks working out in London? And how is this relevant? London as a city is as safe as New Hampshire as a state. +1 wraithburn on 2017-12-04 at 09:15:50 said: Are acid attacks a feature of living in New Hampshire these days? Or is it only the places inundated with muslims that have that problem +1 Adam Maas on 2017-12-04 at 20:39:04 said: You might want to check your math. London’s violent crime rate is 9.5 per 1,000, or 950 per 100,000, last stats for 2009 New Hampshire’s is 188 per 100,000, 1/5th of London’s. Last stats in this case were 2011 The Murder rate in London did get down to New Hampshire’s 1.3 per 100,000 between 2012 and 2014 but it’s back up to 1.5 per 100,000 and climbing back towards the recent average of the low 2’s per 100,000 that it was outside of a brief period. Those are current stats (as of 2016) The number I saw was 1.6 for London. That is why I write “as safe”. Given the volatility of these numbers, the difference between the rates for London and New Hampshire are statistically irrelevant. But you may take Sydney as a better example? You’ve been watching the anti-Muslim propaganda channel. Try these instead. You might learn something useful about how enormously you’re being lied to: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christandpopculture/2013/05/muslims-stoning-christians-in-michigan-not-quite-updated/ http://www.factcheck.org/2015/12/dearborns-anti-isis-rally/ No. I’ve lived with the problem personally – in multiple countries. TMLutas on 2017-12-03 at 17:28:20 said: The imposition of sharia law is a process that only at the margins involves fatal violence. Much more often it is making it perfectly clear that it will be unpleasant to act like you’re in the country that the map says you are in and that you’d be wise to act more like you’re in Lebanon, Egypt, or Syria. This culture war has very little to do with illegal acts, though they do occur. Sharia law sounds awesome! Oh, no, hangon….scratch that….it sounds pretty fucking evil. Anybody that tries imposing that shit on me will discover how non-marginal fatal violence can be. There’s many examples of the correlation working the other way, too. The internment of ethnic Japanese in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbour attack. The creation of the Transportation Security Administration in response to the September 11th attacks. They were ostensibly to guard against the distributed threats of the Fifth Column and terrorism, respectively – but both have proven to be infringements of liberty. >but both have proven to be infringements of liberty. And not effective, either. So what? Using the wrong tool for a job isn’t an argument that the tool is no good. The internment of the Japanese wasn’t a direct result of the Pearl Harbor attack, it was a result of the Niihau incident that occurred shortly after, in which ethnic Japanese actively aided a shot down IJN pilot resist capture, leading to the death of one ethnic Hawaiian. In other words, while the trigger was wildly overblown and the result downright evil, the internment was based on an actual incident of ethic Japanese committing treason. leading to the death of one ethnic Hawaiian (A) I’m pretty sure that’s a fabrication. The only two fatalities I can find documented are the downed pilot, Nishikaichi, and the Issei who aided him, Harada. Nishikaichi was killed by an ethnic Hawaiian whom he wounded but failed to kill, and Harada took his own life shortly afterwards. (B) It’s really beside my point whether the threat of a Fifth Column was worth fearing or not – in any case, that threat birthed not liberty but internment camps. Frederick Davies on 2017-12-02 at 12:38:43 said: “The border reivers were stamped out within a few years of James I’s accession to the throne in 1603; as James VI of Scotland he could exert force on the Scottish side of the border as well as the British. At this point the British militia lost much of their civil-defense role.” and all through the article… Substitute “British” with “English” and you might be right; there was not “British” until much later! >Substitute “British” with “English” and you might be right; there was not “British” until much later! Pedant. :-) But I’ll fix it. Will Brown on 2017-12-02 at 16:02:58 said: @esr: Before you do, look at the reign of Elisabeth I, James’ immediate predecessor. At the outset of her reign, she was the Queen of England; upon her death she was the Queen of Great Britain. James assumed the throne of Great Britain that she made of the English seat. That shift in national identity, from the English monarchy to the British, occurred while her bottom warmed the throne. See: Master of Defense – The Works of George Silver by Paul Wagner for a very readable (to modern english speakers) study of the books written by George Silver, one volume written fairly early in Elisabeth’s reign, and the second written quite late. Silver wrote parenthetically about the complexities of the English militia system in his books on swordsmanship (though it’s heavy going to parse it out) and the pressures to change it experienced during the late Tudor era (largely from the Italian influence of the rapier appearing in London at the time). George Silver himself was a “gentleman of the court” – commonly speculated to have been a lawyer – so his perspective can be presumed to have been that of a mid-level leadership position in a militia hierarchical setting. https://smile.amazon.com/Master-Defence-Works-George-Silver/dp/1581607237/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512247947&sr=1-1&keywords=master+of+defence+the+works+of+george+silver > At the outset of her reign, she was the Queen of England; upon her death she was the Queen of Great Britain. Huh. And here I thought that terminology change was due to the 1603 Union of Crowns. If not, then what did it actually signify? Rich Rostrom on 2017-12-02 at 23:02:22 said: Elizabeth never used the title “Queen of Great Britain”, as she never had or claimed any authority over Scotland. Her successor in England, who was already James VI of Scotland, did use the title after his accession In England, though not in legal documents. Wrong. Anne was the last Queen of England and of Scotland and the first Queen of Great Britain. Prior to that, there were two separate crowns, which from the time of James to Anne happened to be worn on the same head at any given time (figuratively speaking, that is). George Wilkinson on 2017-12-06 at 18:46:01 said: James referred to himself as “King of Great Britain, Ireland and France”, so whilst it didn’t exist legally, the “kingdom” of Great Britain was used before 1707. >James referred to himself as “King of Great Britain, Ireland and France”, so whilst it didn’t exist legally, the “kingdom” of Great Britain was used before 1707. OK, that matches what I thought I knew. James II tried to bust a bunch of “respect muh authoriteh” moves – of which claiming that title was one – right after the Union of Crowns. but Parliament wasn’t having any, nope, nope. Wait, James II? James I was the monarch under which the Union of Crowns occurred, James II was later in the century, after the Interregnum and his brother, Charles II. >Wait, James II? James I was the monarch under which the Union of Crowns occurred, James II was later in the century, after the Interregnum and his brother, Charles II. James I it was, Brain fart. I’d gotten it right in the OP. +1 Adlow on 2017-12-02 at 13:03:01 said: The French in North America provide an even starker example of this point. Right around the time Stuart absolutism was defeated in Britain, it was entrenched in France. Meanwhile, the French trappers and traders outside of the major centers of Quebec, having to rely entirely on themselves for defense, adopted Indian tactics wholesale. Their early victories in the French-Indian War were very similar in nature to the later victories of the American revolutionaries (essentially partisans fighting against well-ordered European armies). A fascinating counterfactual is one in which they won that war, and eventually formed an independent state in the Midwest. Keith Lynch on 2017-12-02 at 14:13:50 said: 1620? Jamestown (1607) was not successful? The United States began in Virginia, not in Massachusetts. >Jamestown (1607) was not successful? Right you are – I had it confused with the earlier failure at Roanoke. Worst. Movie. Ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWWamCI-5VQ anonymous on 2017-12-02 at 15:37:42 said: I dunno. You seem to be assuming that the social features which are tolerated by the rulers of a nation have anything at all to do with what is good for the people of a nation. I don’t think we can assume that when we look at a nation, we’re looking at one group of people with one set of motivations and goals. If you were to subject a nation like Imperial China to some decentralized threat that killed off arbitrary numbers of peasants, why would the mandarins even care? They’d continue to crush personal power and arms as the primary threat to them. The only selective pressure to their society in aggregate would be an ever more efficient secret police and an ever more terrifying punitive response against the peasants attempts to arm themselves. Chinese rulers tolerated personal power and creativity when they weren’t unified – when they were they crushed it mercilessly and produced a civilization in stasis for a 1000 years! European rulers tolerated personal power and creativity because their nations were small and they needed it to survive fierce inter-nation competition. American rulers tolerated personal power and creativity because, until the mid-20th century, they weren’t so powerful relative to their own people that they would bother asking themselves the question of if they needed us to flourish or not. >I don’t think we can assume that when we look at a nation, we’re looking at one group of people with one set of motivations and goals. Exactly what I’m not assuming – it’s why I think it’s more useful to think in terms of differential adaptations to environmental pressures than the intentions of anyone in the system. That’s why I describe the differing evolutionary paths in Great Britain vs. the U.S. as (unconscious) responses to local conditions. “If you were to subject a nation like Imperial China to some decentralized threat that killed off arbitrary numbers of peasants, why would the mandarins even care?” Enough to build and maintain a big wall for 2 millenia.. The huns came to Europe after the Mandarins threw them out of their homelands. The Ming did the same to what was left of the Mongol empire in Mongolia. Do you happen to know much about the Swiss? Armed freemen as the first line of civil defense seems to be a regular feature of their society, but the threats they faced were almost entirely large neighboring nations and standing armies. >Do you happen to know much about the Swiss? Armed freemen as the first line of civil defense seems to be a regular feature of their society, but the threats they faced were almost entirely large neighboring nations and standing armies. Yes, I do know about that case. The Swiss live in mountains. Mountains are famously effective as force multiplier for armed freemen. You don’t want to fuck with Afghanis on their home turf either; the British got their asses handed to them twice trying that, the Russians likewise, and we’ere doing better only because we have a goodly portion of the native population siding with us. Most Swiss lived in the forested plain between the upper Rhine and the Alps. It’s rugged, but not impenetrable. Tyrol to the east and Savoy to the southwest are more mountainous, but neither successfully defied feudal rule. Swiss independence after 1648 was more due to the inertia of the Great Powers than anything else. During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, France, Austria, and Russia marched through Switzerland at will. Also, Switzerland was dirt poor. There was little of value to rob and that at high costs. Its strategic value was near zero due to the difficulty to transport anything through it. +1 Floyd Ferguson on 2017-12-03 at 11:07:20 said: The role 9-11 played in American gun culture reinforces the point: In August of 2001, gun culture in America was moribund. The Assault Weapons Ban was in place, only a handful of states had shall issue concealed carry (Florida and Texas, just a few others), Smith & Wesson was on the verge of bankruptcy, there was broad agreement at the popular level and across both political parties that more control would be better, and the gun culture itself was a small group of hairy-legged guys reading Jeff Cooper, thinking about Waco and Ruby Ridge, and shooting M1As and FN-FALs and prepping for Red Dawn. That all changed on September 11. That decentralized threat reinvigorated the latent American gun culture, and by 2006, this was a completely different country. Shall issue concealed carry was pretty much universal except in states with deep organized crime roots (Illinois, New York, New Jersey), AR-15s were common, and lots and lots of people were buying guns, buying ammo, taking classes, carrying them, and shooting them. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen someone’s opinion on guns changed by an argument. I’ve seen it changed a number of times when presented with an actual existential threat. FWIW, the Sutherland shooting is definitely having an impact down here in Texas. +1 Aaron Traas on 2017-12-04 at 18:16:03 said: In addition, I think gun culture also benefitted from the internet quite a bit. People could network effectively outside their local gun store and range, and can better keep touch with people at the range. The shooting sports have expanded their reach — now pretty much every gun owner knows about IDPA, IPSC, 3-Gun, Cowboy Action Shooting, etc. — action shooting sports are a whole lot of fun. So whilst the decentralized threats made an impact, I’d bet the AWB expiration + the Internet made a bigger one. Heck, even in NJ the shooting sports are growing, and we don’t have CCW for all intents and purposes. TheDividualist on 2017-12-04 at 07:17:24 said: Decentralized threats very often just mean bloody civil war, a fight of all against all. There is a diagram kicking around on the Internet about who hates whom in the Middle East, it is mind-boggling. Gazillion similar examples from the non-Western cultures. I suppose that is a form of liberty, too, but a liberty used rather horribly. The normal kind of liberty, when people actually refrain from abusing it and attacking others, where threats are only used to secure yourself from attack, is not in itself a feature of decentralization but a feature of, I don’t, maybe culture, maybe genetics, or maybe there is some other socio-political feature. Few cultures outside the West were capable of doing it so. A while ago I was tinkering with sci-fi worldbuilding and it came to the question of how to do the policing, and basically I like the Wild West concept of a locally elected sheriff calling a posse of armed citizens to assist when needed. So you can keep the government out of most of it. But for dealing with really large and well armed criminal syndicates you probably want a central, small, but very very elite and very very well armed government police special force. To put it a bit more formally, the kind of liberty I think can work is this. Humans are inherently tribal, so let’s talk in Groups, not individuals, and there is one designated group, call it Central Group. This is basically the government or if there isn’t one then something similar to it. And the Central Group must be strong enough to defeat any other Group individually, but weak enough to be defeated by a coalition of most Groups. This is actually a pattern that you could observe in history, kings vs. the baronage, and I think this is how you can keep threats in check. The idea is that the Central Group, acting a policeman, can strike down any misbehaving Group. On other hand, if they are attacking an actually innocent Group for their own evil purposes, a coalition of Groups stops them. The assumption behind it that it is hard to organize a large coalition of Groups for a criminal, offensive, aggressive purpose, but it is easy to organize it for a defensive purpose. I suspect America may have had that sort of “Special Forces” from very early on. Guessing: was it the cavalry? >Decentralized threats very often just mean bloody civil war, a fight of all against all. Not when they’re grouped into an identifiable other and from elsewhere. Yes, if village fights village you have civil war, but Indian raiders and Scots reivers are clearly a different case that, if anything, evoke a solidarity response. >I suspect America may have had that sort of “Special Forces” from very early on. Guessing: was it the cavalry? Probably not – I’m unaware of any private coalition ganging up on the cavalry. Can’t think of anything that exactly matches your picture. There was a little-remembered phenomenon called “Regulators” in the early colonial period that might. Thoughts on why Britons and Americans have different views about guns « Samizdata John Barker on 2017-12-05 at 09:50:06 said: Shockingly this implies as an American you need to pick your toxic substance: weapons, or a broken government. On the off chance that you need to live in a weapon free zone, your best alternative is to move. With respect to me, I simply need to live in a low-wrongdoing zone. I need to have the capacity to go to an outside show on the off chance that I need without dread of being killed at. On the off chance that star firearm people can demonstrate to me how this functions with outfitted residents in the present culture, incredible. William H. Stoddard on 2017-12-05 at 12:36:02 said: You might want to look into conditions on the Welsh Marches as well. Some years ago I read a historical study, “Barons of the Welsh Frontier” (which always makes me think of the old Davy Crockett theme music!), about the relative autonomy of English nobles in counties adjacent to Wales, because there was a high chance of border raids, and no time to call up the royal armies and get them there; local lords had to be allowed to maintain their own troops and send them out. This started to go away after Edward I completed the subjugation of Wales. Charles Stewart on 2017-12-06 at 03:56:58 said: Doesn’t this article’s conclusions miss the elephant in the room? The biggest global military threat is nuclear weaponry and proliferation, and the best defenses against them are possessed by state actors. Obligatory link: http://orwell.ru/library/articles/ABomb/english/e_abomb There’s an extent to which I agree with this. However, I notice your qualification: “global military”. Some threats to liberty are neither global nor military. If they’re decentralized and military, then I agree with Eric: the most effective solution seems to be decentralized small arms defense. (If the threat is global and non-military, mobilize the merchants or doctors as appropriate.) OTOH, we’re still left with nukes as a thing. And also field armies. Given the way Eric laid it out above, I’m inclined to think people would benefit from both a militia tradition, and some big-state defense. If so, then coordinating the latter is obviously non-trivial. It’s why David Friedman calls it “The Hard Problem”. Incidentally, I get the impression that Friedman might be an example of a libertarian who is somewhat squishy on gun ownership. More importantly, in general, I run into a lot of intellectual or economic libertarians who don’t seem particularly familiar with guns, let alone gun policy. If I had to guess, I would say there are significantly more pro-gun libertarians than pro-weed libertarians, as opposed to libertarians who are merely lukewarm with respect to either. [I seem to be having issues subscribing to new comments. Not sure why. Still investigating, and using this post to test something.] >Incidentally, I get the impression that Friedman might be an example of a libertarian who is somewhat squishy on gun ownership. I dunno. We’ve never talked about it. If asked to predict his position, I would expect him to be at least theoretically hard-line about it. >If I had to guess, I would say there are significantly more pro-gun libertarians than pro-weed libertarians, I think that’s true. I think it reflects a historical and class split in libertarianism. Broadly speaking, the weed libertarians are the upper-class kids and intellectuals of quite variegated pre-libertarian political background, while the gun libertarians are the people who’d be working-class red-state conservatives except they were too bright to fit in that box. Yes, I’m oversimplifying here, but I believe it’s not an inaccurate cartoon. A difference that is relevant to the current political scene is that gun libertarians are more likely to make tactical alliances with conservatives, including Trumpian populists, than weed libertarians are. On the other hand, the minority of weed libertarians supplies a large share of our communicators and theorists. To the (very) limited extent there’s class tension between these groups, the weed libs think the gun libs are a bit yahoo, while the gun libs think the weed libs are hippy-dippy. Gun libs are more likely to emotionally identify as American patriots, while weed libs are the ones who can cite you pages of Bastiat or the Principia Discordia. I’m a bit of a weird case myself; by birth SES, educational background, and personal history I should totally be a weed libertarian, but in many ways I feel more akin to the gun libertarians. Doesn’t this simply map to testosterone? These days most of that class difference sounds like the presence and absence of those masculine traits that tend to correlate with that. This is one of the top 10 most favorite articles I’ve ever read as it made a lot of these things so clearly understandable for me: https://psmag.com/social-justice/half-lifts-workout-says-social-class-85221 One thing that Britain does better than both America and Continental Europe is this idea that even very upper class, very educated people should be a bit brawny, not just the health effects of exercise, but generally adopt through hard sports the kind of masculine values i.e. testosterone levels that come with. Even Tolkien, the textbook example of the room temperature scholar used to be a “fierce” rugby player. America tends to split jocks and geeks in two groups, because the idea is to excel in one thing rather than to be well-rounded, and Continental Europe simply lost the cojones for this kind of stuff. http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Machinery_3d_Edition/The%20Hard%20Problem%20II.htm is an interesting read, although I think that nuclear weapons and proliferation are an even harder problem than the one he tentatively offers a solution to. Thank you for the pointer. The problem isn’t nuclear proliferation, the problem is spineless retards in positions of authority who won’t do the needful to prevent proliferation. Lucky for us Trump has something vaguely resembling a spine. Up to about 2014 we could have solved the North Korean “problem”, if it wasn’t so useful for China, by simply blockading the shit out of North Korea. NOTHING gets in, no food, no coal, no oil NOTHING. NOTHING gets out, no money, no products, nothing. North Korean leadership gets informed that it’s a pariah, offshore bank accounts are seized and put in a fund to rehabilitate the country after it falls. Yeah, people starve to death. As long as the government leadership pursued their insane politics and insane plans, THEY are starving their people. To quote the philosopher Noah McManus (aka “Il Duce”) Connor: How far are we gonna take this, Da? Il Duce: The question is not how far. The question is, do you possess the constitution, the depth of faith, to go as far is as needed? The world is a dangerous place filled with evil and monsters. If you don’t know in your soul to be this to be true you’re a middle or upper class denizen of a very rich and modern liberal democracy and there’s a bunch of well (or not so well) socialized monsters paid to keep the other monsters away from you. You don’t negotiate with monsters. They do not negotiate in good faith. There’s a term I’ve seen wandering around: the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics. By the CIoE, if you interact with a problem in any way, you can then be blamed for it. That would include blockading a nation until that nation’s government’s policies cause some of its population to starve. I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m saying that that’s likely to come up. And it’s worth everyone knowing that term. (ETA: I know you’re aware of this, because I see a comment of yours on the article that discusses this elsewhere, so, good on ya…) Only monster do not negotiate. If you do not negotiate, you are a monster yourself. Btw, bombing NK is not necessarily better than letting the people starve. I would even go as far as saying that bombing NK is worse. Moreover, the NK army can level Seoul (pop 10M) in a matter of hours because the city is within range of their long range guns. And there is little SK nor the USA can do about that. This fact would be considered by any sane Western politician. Which makes me fear for the future of the Koreans. +1 Michael Brazier on 2017-12-08 at 09:14:44 said: And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we’ve proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane. — Rudyard Kipling Never considered the fact that the USA have been the Danes much more often than those who paid the money? Also, Kipling forgot to mention that the alternative to paying the Dane-geld would be annihilation of the village that put up resistance. So, the choice was to either put up a fight and face death, but you might help save the next village, or pay up and have another chance to fight (just as the next village would have). It is easy to ridicule other people when it is not the life of your family that is at stake. It is only in the Anglo-Saxon world that “Compromise” and “Corruption” have the same moral value. Which is one reason that politics in the US (and UK) are in such dire straits. PS. The current Brexit negotiations are a case in point. With no leverage against the EU, British politics have fallen into a epileptic fit that they have to seek a compromise with the EU about the Brexit. If you recall the poem, the nation that pays Dane-geld can send the Dane packing, they just choose not to – because, in their minds, it’s easier to pay tribute than to fight. Kipling’s point was that that’s deluded; any nation following that policy will be bled dry, to the point where they can’t fight anymore, and then the Dane comes to stay and rule. “For the name of that game is oppression and shame, and the nation that plays it is lost!” And since you mentioned it: the result, if the Brexit negotiations fail, is that the EU trades with Britain on the same terms as with the USA, Russia and China. From this side of the ocean it’s hard to see why that fate is so dire for Britain that she should pay the EU great stacks of pounds sterling to escape it. “If you recall the poem, the nation that pays Dane-geld can send the Dane packing, they just choose not to” Like, say, Chili set the US packing in 1973? “And since you mentioned it: the result, if the Brexit negotiations fail, is that the EU trades with Britain on the same terms as with the USA, Russia and China.” These countries do have treaties with the EU. But the pain comes from the UK having unlimited access of a market of 400M+ people and now going down to a market of 60M. Moreover, 13% of UK export are financial services. But outside of the EU, the UK has no access to the financial markets of the EU. The Brits know it will hurt, and hurt severely. Even before the actual Brexit has been effected, the economy already lost 10-15% of its value due to the depreciation of the pound (=investors voting with their feet). That is what the market thinks of the prospects of the British economy outside of the EU. +1 TRX on 2017-12-10 at 10:31:28 said: The EU is a trading partner. Convenient and close, but not the only one. The British Commonwealth, or “Commonwealth of Nations” as it’s called now, includes Canada, India, Australia, South Africa, and several dozen other nations already operating under favorable trade agreements. And then there are the USA, China, Japan, and others. Also note none of the EU states are particularly noted for raw materials; the bulk of their trade is in manufactured goods, in direct competition against British industry. Somehow, the Brits do not agree with those rosy prospects. The negotiation position of the UK is pretty bad, and they know it. Both investors and companies are voting with their feet. There are none so blind as those who will not see. Obviously, this includes the Brits. They suddenly do not see this bright future of “free” trade outside the EU anymore. As well as those investors that see less value in the UK economy. >“There are none so blind as those who will not see.” The British government has refused to see Islamic rape gangs in Rotherham and elsewhere. Not like this is is an exclusively British phenomenon – similar atrocities are going on across the Channel and in Scandinavia – but those populations have not found a way as dramatic as the Brexit vote to tell the elites they want a stop put to this shit. “The British government has refused to see Islamic rape gangs in Rotherham and elsewhere.” Compared to police forces killing and raping with impunity? Like in the US. Every country has its blind spots. >Compared to police forces killing and raping with impunity? The American equivalent of voting for Brexit is to buy a gun and prepare to shoot rapists, including uniformed ones. Now you mention it, gun sales have been up lately. “The American equivalent of voting for Brexit is to buy a gun and prepare to shoot rapists, including uniformed ones.” No one stepped up to defend this woman: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/charnesia-corley-houston-texas-police-dashcam-video The police officers were obviously cleared of all wrongdoing: https://www.theroot.com/2-texas-officers-cleared-after-subjecting-black-college-1797824879 >No one stepped up to defend this woman: Right, clearly more of us need to be armed and vigilant. When you use them to defend young women from being attacked by evil men, I might even entertain the thought, for a moment. But I am realistic enough to realize that there are better ways to protect the public in general and young women in particular than by shooting police officers in uniform. >But I am realistic enough to realize that there are better ways to protect the public in general and young women in particular than by shooting police officers in uniform. What, you’re going to send the police after them? snrk Like crime of all kinds in the U.S., police abuses are highly geographically concentrated. You don’t get police rape as an unusual but recurring problem in Podunkville, you get it in places where the police culture is rotten all the way down, generally due to corruption by the drug trade. Cook County Illinois is notorious, for example. Bent cops are notoriously unwilling to turn on each other. In an area as corrupt as Cook County, the only effective check on them is for potential victims to be dangerous. And a jurisdiction very hostile to civilian firearms what a coincidence! Some countries convict cops that harm civilians. The US seems to be not one of those. The point is not that cops protect each other. The point is that courts and juries never convict them. Which means that not just are the cops corrupt, but also the courts and juries. And we see the “common” people and news media coming to the defense of cops that intentionally kill innocent and unarmed civilians. There are some things one simply does not negotiate. Can I sleep with you/your wife for 20 bucks? For 100? Come on, don’t be a monster, negotiate. Can I build an nuclear reactor in your basement if I promise to only use it for peaceful purposes? How about your back yard? Ok, how about the next city over? Come on, don’t be a monster, negotiate. Right now Erdo?an is trying to re-open the negations over the border between Turkey and Greece, settled by treaty almost 100 years ago. Surely Greece shouldn’t be monsterous and negotiate a compromise, right? Because Erdo?an has proven so trustworthy in the past, right? That’s crap Winter, and that’s at least half your problem. When a Monster puts a gun to someone’s head there is no negotiation, you just keep them talking long enough to get a well trained sniper to a spot where they can hit them in the head. Or you send the entry team in. The problem Winter is that you think of these monsters as human. They aren’t, not really. Either that, or they think you aren’t. Sometimes both. Winter, there is a certain kind of man out there–and a few women, but mostly men–that you should become acquainted with. It’s the kind of man who gets out of a nice warm bed at 2 in the morning, puts on his warmest clothes, and then gets on the top of power poles in the freezing rain to get electrical service re-connected to total strangers. When a hurricane hits he’s there with his truck full of chain saws, hammers, spare gas, HAM rigs, ice and water–often before the streets are dry. He’s the guy who shows up at the fireline with an ax ready to go. He’s the guy who dives in the river to save the kid–often as not a kid of a different race or religion. He’s the guy that runs TOWARDS the sound of gun fire with a song in his heart. He’s the guy, far more than the politician, the journalist, or the academic, upon whom civilization rests, and when that guy stops we’re all in trouble. Lucky for you that guy doesn’t stop. Even talking to the Dane about Danegeld is dumb. Just shoot the bastard in the face and go to dinner. And if that makes me a monster, well I can live with that. And so can my family, friends and everyone else behind me. All your examples are straw men. This is never the basis of negotiations. NK is a hell hole that is starving their population and trying to get weapons to blackmail other countries. Why negotiate? Because China and Russia protect NK to put pressure on SK. China could literally pull the (power) plug on the Kims at any time. Also because, NK cannot be “taken out” without killing millions of people. Because the USA is not able to protect SK against the guns of NK, adding even more millions of killings to the total. Your solution is one of those: “there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” Oh yes, China has some ability to curb North Korea. That’s why Trump has been talking to China. The two things China fears most when it comes to Korea are a mob of refugees crossing the Yalu, and South Korean and American troops taking up residence on its banks. The only way to get China to leash North Korea is to have them thinking that if Kim carries on with his WMD program, one or both of those things will happen. And anyone can see that neither will, unless the US goes to war … which means the US has to threaten war. This is the kind of spot you get into when you follow a policy of paying off extortionists. “And anyone can see that neither will, unless the US goes to war … which means the US has to threaten war.” NK flattening Seoul will not curb China. And the US will not put an army at the border of China. The Chinese are too strong to do that now. Or do you think threatening a nuclear war with China will in any way help the US? But I see your strategical insights are as “Great” as those of Trump. I stick to my Mencken quote above. There are two other quotes of him that apply here: “On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” “If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth … it is that of assuming that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that ninety-nine percent of them are wrong. “ > All your examples are straw men. You don’t understand that term. They may be bad analogies, but they are not strawmen. But I really don’t expect you to get it. You’ve shown a remarkable resilience to the idea that no, not every culture values honesty and integrity in the way yours does. You’ve repeatedly projected your own mental states on others etc. > This is never the basis of negotiations. The basis for negotiation is that I have something you want, and you have something I want, and we trust each other to execute whatever trade we agree on. The sort of people I am referring to–the Kims, the Iranian leadership, Saddam–have demonstrated over decades that they will /not/ keep up their end of the bargin. More often than not they have not even SLOWED DOWN the processes that the west negotiated with them to stop. And yes, I do realize that there are times the USG has done the same. And if our government does not, please work with your government to /stop/ negotiating with us. > NK is a hell hole that is starving their > population and trying to get weapons to > blackmail other countries. At least part of it is the ability to threaten other countries to leave them alone. And by the way the Obama administration made negotiating with these sorts of people harder. After Qaddafi gave up his entire NBC program in exchange for whatever, we abandoned him to hardline islamists and now there are slave markets in Libya. “They may be bad analogies, but they are not strawmen.” Comparing negotiating with NK to negotiating with a rapist attacking your family is a straw man. There is no connection and no one is doing that. “The sort of people I am referring to–the Kims, the Iranian leadership, Saddam–have demonstrated over decades that they will /not/ keep up their end of the bargin. ” Exactly why have you included the Iranian leadership here? Why are they portrayed as bad as the Kim’s? Also, the US have their own history of reneging on signed deals. That is nothing special. Your own president got elected because he promised to “break open” all existing deals to do what “is best for America”. If it comes to comparisons on who is most trustworthy, I have difficulty in believing the US would make it into the top. Random Observer on 2017-12-13 at 21:13:02 said: the city is within range of their long range guns. And there is little SK nor the USA can do about that. Really? Doesn’t technology exist to take out artillery efficiently if you’re willing to spare no expense? How many pieces do you have to pulverize with an A-10’s gatling gun before the slave conscripts say “Fuck it, I’m not dying for Kim Fat Ass”, and run away? It seems you did not assess the strategic situation thoroughly. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-20/what-can-north-korea-already-do-without-nuclear-weapons/8543532 There is a lot of argument about whether or not NK could really flatten all of Seoul, or merely destroy most of it. But these arguments are all based on guesswork. Ideas about the morale of the NK army too are all based on guesswork. But I have never seen anyone contemplating mass desertions as a realistic scenario. But maybe you know more? >But I have never seen anyone contemplating mass desertions as a realistic scenario. But maybe you know more? I do. During the First and Second Iraq Wars mass desertions were quite common. Some units, even of the “elite” Republican Guard, tried to surrender to American drones. There are similar examples going back to mass Soviet troop desertions in WWII. The morale of conscripts in Communist states – and their clients, like Saddam’s Iraq – is brittle and poor in ways that are nearly unimaginable to Westerners. In the event of land war, NK mass desertions would be quite plausible indeed. Any non-incompetent operational planner has to contemplate them, not because desertions can be counted on in any given battle but because the probable volume over the whole theater is such as to pose a real logistical issue for the winners. OK, a regiment of half-starved, parasite-riddled human wreckage like that defector who ran across the DMZ a few weeks ago has just surrendered to your scout detachment. Now what do you do with them? Shooting them, or even treating them exactly as their masters did, would be a crime against even the proper and customary laws of war, let alone the ludicrous farce that passes for the laws of war in the eyes of lawyers and NGOs nowadays. It’s a real issue. “The morale of conscripts in Communist states – and their clients, like Saddam’s Iraq – is brittle and poor in ways that are nearly unimaginable to Westerners.” I know about mass desertions in other wars. But NK is in certain ways special. Both the ignorance of the population and the brutality of the regime are exceptional. The NK army has a history of extended raids in SK and Japan showing they do have a capable command structure. I would expect mass desertions only if the army command structure collapses. That is, after the war was already won. “Now what do you do with them?” Note that NK and SK are still officially at war. Handling POW’s is not difficult. You lock them up and care for their health. >Note that NK and SK are still officially at war. Handling POW’s is not difficult. You lock them up and care for their health. I’m saying that after the Gulf Wars, any competent planner should factor in the possibility of enough desertions in enough volume to put stain on the normal contingencies for POWs. I totally agree. However, I think that desertions. understood some the commenters Sorry, trying to post from mobile did not work well. +1 Jon Brase on 2017-12-08 at 02:48:24 said: The first part is true enough. The second part fails because of the other truth you need to internalize: You, too, are a monster. Refusing to negotiate just confirms to the other monsters that you will not negotiate in good faith either. One of the most dire crises in modern Western civilization is that some of us have forgotten original sin entirely, and many of the rest of us have remembered original sin, but forgotten that we need to apply that doctrine to ourselves before we apply it to our neighbor. >One of the most dire crises in modern Western civilization is that some of us have forgotten original sin entirely, Some of us grasp the equivalent truth about human beings without succumbing to religious insanity. In the environment of ancestral adaptation, we lived short and violent lives in which our interactions with anyone outside our small and genetically related home band were normally those of suspicion and enmity. Instincts that were adaptive for this context do not serve us well in a world where we live at high density and most of our interactions are with non-kin. Layering civilized behavior on top of these instincts is a failure-prone process. No vicious nonsense about “sin” against nonexistent sky-spooks need be invoked to explain this. In fact, by obscuring the actual causation, such fables make it more difficult for us to understand ourselves and the difficult task of civilizing each other. This flies in the face of the most vicious violence being inter-family and inter-tribal. >This flies in the face of the most vicious violence being inter-family and inter-tribal. Inter-tribal – between different tribes, yes. Intra-family, not so much. I’m curious why you think that. I think he’s talking about issues like child molestation and spousal abuse, and of course the rivalry between sisters or brothers can get violent sometimes too, particularly if there is an inheritance involved. >I think he’s talking about issues like child molestation and spousal abuse, and of course the rivalry between sisters or brothers can get violent sometimes too, particularly if there is an inheritance involved. “One death is a tragedy; a million, a statistic.” It’s the same false-prominence fallacy. Yes, such things happen, they are vastly less nasty than what tribes do to each other, and we tend to get this wrong because violence on mass scales does not become real to us until we have seen the bodies. I meant intra, not inter. Sorry. Family fights and civil wars are some of the most brutal and nasty fights you’re going to see. Talk to a cop about domestic violence–people who–at least at one point–thought they loved each other, now they’re going at it with whatever they have, from fists to lawyers trying to do as much damage as possible. Look at how vicious civil wars are, both while ongoing and afterwards. The North and South are still bitter at each other after 100 and mumble years, while Germany, Vietnam, and Japan are our allies and there is little ill will in the US for the various wars. Refusing to negotiate is not negotiating in bad faith. It is saying that some things are not on the table. You break into my house at 2 in the morning, I’m not going to negotiate from “Rape your wife AND daughter” to “Rape your wife”. I’m stubborn like that. The thing that I sort of expected most of people to get (and probably should have assumed Winter wouldn’t) is that people like Kim Il don’t just appear fully blown, they have track records, they have histories. They have demonstrated themselves to be monsters. You know monsters by their deeds. John Wayne Gacy was a monster. Kim Jong-un acts like one. Saddam and his sons were. As for being a monster, yeah, perfectly comfortable with that. I’m a moderately well adjusted monster and get along just fine. Not negotiating with the Kims, but instead starting a war killing a few million people in NK and SK is the work of a monster. Nowhere is the current leader insisting that he wants to rape you wife or daughter, so that is a stupid straw man metaphor. We’ve been “negotiating” with the Kim family for 60 years. Their people are still near to starving, and they now have nuclear weapons. And? We have been negotiating with Russia for even longer. And it is a fairy tale to believe the NK situation can be “solved” as long as the Chinese do not want it resolved. Any American politician who believes the US can unilaterally “solve” the NK problem is living in never-never land. Just as the US is not going to unilaterally solve the ME crisis or the Afghan/Pakistan troubles. Unless, of course, you bomb them flat. But that will lead to problems that are even bigger than anything NK ever will be. Oh, and do you know how NK acquired nuclear arms? It was via Pakistan due to a botched CIA plot of unclear aims: https://www.corbettreport.com/how-the-cia-runs-the-nuclear-black-market/ “The BVD informed the CIA that they were going to arrest Khan for passing nuclear secrets to Pakistan, but the CIA told them to let him continue his operation. According to former Dutch Economic Affairs Minister Ruud Lubbers, “The Americans wished to follow and watch Khan to get more information.”” Note that the Dutch connection has been known for decades. The etymology of “monster” is interesting. It comes from the Latin verb “monstro”, (1.advise, teach; 2.point out, reveal; 3.show) which is the root of English verbs like “demonstrate”. The noun “monstrum”, translated as “monster”, means “portent, unnatural thing/event regarded as omen/sign/portent”. A monster is not inherently a bad thing. So yeah, I’m very comfortable with being The Monster. I teach, point out, reveal, show. I’m an omen, a sign, and a portent. You can learn what I’m teaching, and prepare for that for which I am a portent. Or you can ignore me, to your peril. Kind of silly word play. Can be used by your favorite homicidal maniac too. That is saying that “if you hit someone back who just hit you you are just as bad as they are”. Before the first round of negotiations there is little to determine whether the agreements will be kept. By the fourth or fifth round, three family generations (in the case of the Kims), it’s rather clearer, no? I am not saying “One cannot trust them there foreign/islamic/communist devils”, though the latter is a…hint. I am saying that “once someone proves themselves to be a monster one should not trust them”. “In the environment of ancestral adaptation, we lived short and violent lives in which our interactions with anyone outside our small and genetically related home band were normally those of suspicion and enmity.” Hunter gatherers live(d) a long life. Modal age at death is above 70. They tend to be healthy. http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/gurven/papers/GurvenKaplan2007pdr.pdf Actually, it is agriculture that lead to a reduction of life-span. Agriculture has been called the biggest mistake in history. We might argue about that, but until the 20th century, a farmer’s life was very unhealthy due to reliance on single food stocks. Violence is/was higher in hunter gatherers, but in pre-historic times that was kept in check a little by low population densities. >Hunter gatherers live(d) a long life. Modal age at death is above 70. Today they do. The archaeological evidence is that hunter-gatherer lifespan in the EEA was quite a bit shorter. No, I don’t know of any good explanation for this. >Actually, it is agriculture that lead to a reduction of life-span. True. That was the first major transition to way of living we had been not preadapted for by millions of years. Well, the first one since we became sophonts, anyway. > Hunter gatherers live(d) a long life. Modal age at death is above 70. They tend > Actually, it is agriculture that lead to a reduction of life-span. Hunter gatherers spread their skeletons all over hell and back, often where predators and scavengers could get to them. Farmers buried their dead where we can easily find them. I’m not 100 percent sold on these thesis, even though it does suggest that eating more (uncured) meat and fresh vegetables is better than soy and corn. Hunter gatherers remains that have been found were taller than the remains found from early farmers, indicating they more healthy. Farmers had diseases never seen in hunter gatherers, e.g., caries Also, modern day hunter gatherers fare better health wise than modern day subsistence farmers. All the evidence available tells us that subsistence farmers are worse of than hunter gatherers in all but one measure: Population densities of farmers are higher. So, even though a farmers life is worse, farmers will crowed out hunter gatherers by sheer numbers. So, even though a farmers life is worse, farmers will crowed out hunter gatherers by sheer numbers. Good thing we’ll never see a repeat of that pattern. We saw this again when the settlers drove off the natives in the USA. And the non-UK settlers crowded out the original English immigrants. And we see it indeed going on with the Spanish speaking people crowding out the English speaking people. But I am just kidding. You are probably talking about Muslims overtaking your country. But, you know, there are more Catholics than Muslims in the world, and they live just across the border. You will be overrun by Catholics long before the Muslims could even make a dent. You’re probably right about the Catholics outnumbering the Muslims in the US, but in your country, things are different. Catholics are have been a majority in the Netherlands for decades now. Most of these “Catholics” are atheists, btw. Muslims are a tiny minority of less than ~1M out of 17M. >until the 20th century, a farmer’s life was very unhealthy due to reliance on single food stocks Then those farmers were doing it wrong. There is no reason to only farm one crop, and lots of reasons to farm several different crops, and rotate the land on which each is grown. There are a few people like Joel Saletan who are teaching farmers to emulate nature’s patterns, providing far more diversity and at the same time massively improving yields, without petrochemical fertilizers. Unfortunately, a lot of his techniques run afoul of laws that discourage growing crops and raising livestock on the same land, for instance. Yeah, as far as I know, the very idea of a single-crop farm (subsistence or other) is a thoroughly modern invention. (Or, rather, there might well be, in any given season, one “main” crop providing most calories, but at all times there’d be a bit of land growing random area-and-culture-specific vegetables, random edible weeds, etc. It’s commercial farms that do monoculture. Not to mention, yes, any hunted/trapped/raised livestock or their products; if you have farmand to live off of, you can raise a chicken or two, and eggs are a great way to bugs into food. Likewise, swine turn trash into food. Look at, say, the Foxfire books and their records of Appalachian subsistence living; the work was hard and the diet a little rough, but it was diverse, and none of that is a modern invention, that I know of.) Hi ESR Hope you are still reading this thread. Norbert Elias’ The Civilizing Process seems strangely relevant here. Elias demonstrated that modern states acquiring a monopoly of force (basically ending private wars and vendettas and suchlikes) led to a change in the general morals and manners of people. Elias saw this as a positive thing. Doug Smythe doesn’t see this as a positive thing here: http://thermidormag.com/degeneracy-in-the-age-of-enlightenment-and-beyond-the-trailblazing-neoreactionary-sociology-of-john-brown-2/ “Mutatis mutandis, it appears to be a human universal (as Machiavelli, the Whigs, and the American Founding Fathers were painfully aware) that a man who is legally forbidden to bear arms and forced to rely entirely on other men for his protection, or alternately refuses to fight if qualified, comes to be defined, and to define himself, to at least some extent as socially interchangeable with a woman.” Smythe sees this as an effemizing process, robbing men of important aspects of their masculinity. Interestingly the article shows how the NRx/Dark Enlightenment is a growing, changing, evolving project: Moldbug was very much in favor of the monopoly of force while Smythe is explicitly against it. Another very interesting argument Smythe presents is that the State achieving a monopoly of sovereignty meant the Church becoming effectively powerless, thus, as the Church was still the institution that defined morality, morality became interpreted as NOT(Power). That power or strength is always suspect and evil and so on… The article comes across as a bit unhinged to me at certain points but still very interesting and clearly relevant to this topic…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355473
__label__cc	0.518807	0.481193	Home Research > Members > 1509-1558 > SAMWAYS, (SAMUYS) THOMAS I ), (by 1523-at least 53) SAMWAYS, (SAMUYS), Thomas I (by 1523-53 or later), of Weymouth, Dorset. WEYMOUTH1 b. by 1523. m. prob. at least 1s.2 Subsidy collector, Weymouth 1545.3 Thomas Samways was probably a kinsman of Thomas Samways II of Melcombe Regis. In the musters of 1539 the Weymouth Samways, described as an archer, appeared with a bow, a sheaf of arrows and a harness, the Melcombe Samways with a bow and a sheaf of arrows. In July 1545 each was appointed subsidy collector in his own town; and in 1550 and again in 1552 Samways of Weymouth was assessed at £20 in goods to the other’s £10. One or other, or both, frequently exported and imported goods through Weymouth, which was also Melcombe’s outlet. In 1559 the necessity of sharing the port led to friction between the two towns, and the mayor of Melcombe, Owen Reynolds, complained in the Star Chamber against Thomas Samways and Henry Newman, at that time the bailiffs of Weymouth. It may have been the former Member who had to contest this case, but it was probably a younger namesake who was to play an important, if factious, part in the life of Weymouth up to the 1580s. This Thomas Samways making his will in 1588, asked to be buried in the church at Wyke Regis ‘on the north side of the tombstone under which my father lieth buried’.4 Samways took the senior place for Weymouth along with another townsman, John Jordan alias Blancombe, in Mary’s first Parliament. Neither had filled high municipal office, but in Jordan’s case, at least, this was to follow. Unlike the Members for Melcombe, John Leweston and Owen Reynolds, the two did not overtly display Protestant sympathies in the House. Author: Helen Miller 1. Bodl. e Museo 17. 2. Date of birth estimated from appearance at musters. 3. E179/104/156. 4. SP2/S; E122/122/4, 7, 21; 179/104/156, 195, 200; St.Ch.5/M30/14; H. J. Moule, Cat. Docs. Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, passim; PCC 46 Rutland.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355478
__label__wiki	0.910525	0.910525	31-40 results from 176 for query «pansare» 1 December, 2015 11:25 PM Listen to people who are disturbed over recent incidents: Rahul NEW DELHI: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi strongly attacked the government over its response to "rising intolerance", asking the ruling coalition not to learn "wrong lessons" from Pakistan which failed as its leaders crushed voices of dissent and were intolerant. The comparison was interesting as BJP is usually associated with a tough anti-Pakistan 321 1 13 November, 2015 1:45 AM Press Modi on India's growing intolerance: Authors to David Cameron Over 200 prominent authors including Salman Rushdie have asked British Prime Minister David Cameron to raise the issue of "rising climate of fear" and "growing intolerance" in India with counterpart Narendra Modi, in second letter from the PEN International in less than a month. Booker Prize winner Rushdie, recent Booker prize shortlisted British-Indian 18 13 November, 2015 1:45 AM Intolerance issue follows Narendra Modi to UK, via 200 authors Some of the world's best-known writers based in the United Kingdom, including Booker Prize winners Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan, have exhorted British Prime Minister David Cameron to raise the issue of freedom of expression in India with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "Please speak out on the current state of freedom of expression in his (Modi's) country 52 6 November, 2015 6:36 AM Rising intolerance row: Ex-PM Manmohan Singh slams govt, says suppression of dissent cannot be tolerated Former PM Manmohan Singh has said that supression of dissent poses great danger to democracy, amid protests by writers, intellectuals and filmmakers against 'growing intolerance' under the Narendra Modi government. "The nation is deeply concerned at the recent tragic incidents of blatant violation of right to freedom of thought, belief, speech and expression 20 1 November, 2015 3:35 PM Writers hit back over charge of 'manufactured rebellion' NEW DELHI: Vehemently rejecting the charge that Congress and Leftists were behind their protest against "growing intolerance", writers and artistes on Sunday alleged that ruling BJP was unable to "control its mobs", with one of them even comparing RSS to Islamic militant group ISIS. They also took umbrage to Union minister Arun Jaitley's remarks dubbing 36 1 November, 2015 1:29 AM Tolerance the best bet for growth, says Raghuram Rajan Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan on Saturday became the latest votary of tolerance and mutual respect. Progress and growth are linked to the environment of tolerance and mutual respect, he said. Addressing a convocation at IIT, Delhi, Rajan said excessive political correctness stifles progress. He said that protection of the right 31 31 October, 2015 5:22 AM My government will complete term: Devendra Fadnavis on BJP-Shiv Sena bickering MUMBAI: Amid bitterness in ties with ally Shiv Sena, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has fired a fresh salvo questioning the opposition to his decision to provide security to Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali when Sena Chief's family had hosted cricketer Javed Miandad from that country. The Chief Minister, at the same time, asserted that that the BJP-led 25 31 October, 2015 5:22 AM My govt will complete term: Fadnavis on BJP-Sena bickering Downplaying the ‘bickering’ with ally Shiv Sena, Fadnavis says it is bound to happen in a ‘coalition’ Mumbai: Amid bitterness in ties with ally Shiv Sena, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has fired a fresh salvo questioning the opposition to his decision to provide security to Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali when Sena chief’s family had hosted cricketer 25 31 October, 2015 5:22 AM My government will complete its term, says CM Devendra Fadnavis on Shiv Sena threats Amid bitterness in ties with ally Shiv Sena, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has fired a fresh salvo questioning the opposition to his decision to provide security to Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali when Sena Chief's family had hosted cricketer Javed Miandad from that country. The Chief Minister, at the same time, asserted that that the BJP-led Government 21 30 October, 2015 2:52 AM Here is why India's leading scientists are also speaking up against intolerance Scientists have now joined filmmakers, sociologists, historians, artists and writers in issuing statements and returning their awards in an effort to draw attention to growing intolerance in the country. Some of the country’s foremost scientists, including Ashoke Sen, recipient of the world’s most prestigious award for physics, Pushpa Bhargava who founded 145	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355482
__label__wiki	0.900132	0.900132	Tobias Wendl took gold in a combined time of 1:38.933 whil lxt1217 Tytuł: Tobias Wendl took gold in a combined time of 1:38.933 whil Wiadomość wysłana.: 28 lipca 2018 11:29 Rejestracja: 26 lipca 2018 9:08 HUMBLE, Texas -- Phil Mickelson did more than prove to just himself that hes ready for next weeks Masters on Thursday. The five-time major winner showed to everyone that hes fully recovered from last weeks muscle pull and likely to be a factor in this weeks Houston Open as well. Without so much as a practice round this week at the 7,441-yard Golf Club of Houston, Mickelson opened with a 4-under par 68 and was among the leaders following Thursdays opening round. The bogey-free performance was a far cry from last week when Mickelson was forced to withdraw during the third round in San Antonio after pulling a muscle in his right side "Im surprised because I was worried about the Masters," Mickelson said. "I was certainly worried about Houston, but it healed a lot quicker. I felt great today; didnt feel any pain or discomfort and didnt even think about it." Mickelson is three shots back of first-round co-leaders Bill Haas and Charley Hoffman, both who finished at 7 under. Hass had five birdies on his back nine, while Hoffman needed just 27 putts to earn a share of the lead. Keegan Bradley and Matt Kuchar lead a group of five golfers at 6 under. J.B. Holmes, Erik Compton and Jim Renner are also at 6 under, with 10 golfers are at 5 under. Of the 144 players in the field, 113 finished at even par or under on an overcast and occasionally misty day. "The greens are absolutely perfect," Haas said. "... I think the scores are reflective on that. They were a little slower, but part of that, too, is the weather. It was like a little dewy mist out there all day, which played a part in the speed of the greens." Mickelson and Bradley were part of a threesome with Webb Simpson, who also finished 4 under. All three players in the group navigated the course without a bogey in their morning rounds. Former world No. 1 Rory McIlroy, playing in the afternoon and one of the five top-10 players in the world in the tournament, finished with a 2-under 70. While Haas and Hoffman shared the lead after Thursdays play, it was Mickelson -- who was forced to withdraw during last weeks third round in San Antonio after pulling a muscle in his right side -- who was the centre of attention leading into next week at Augusta National. Mickelson has won the Masters three times, the latest coming in 2010, but his status was in doubt following last weeks injury. The left-hander, however, underwent treatment in the days following his departure from San Antonio -- along with fitting in two days of light practice at Augusta National -- and appeared in top ball-striking form on Thursday. 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__label__wiki	0.578001	0.578001	Home » Spirituality & Prosperity - IV » 369. Undeserved Luck A reader writes that she was the recipient of undeserved Luck. She has not said whether it is because of the Spirit she invoked or by what circumstances. Those who feel they deserve luck do not get it. Luck seeks those who feel that they do not deserve it. Feeling that they do not deserve it is a kind of true inner humility. It attracts luck. As air rushes to a point of low pressure, Luck looks for a human point that is not self-sufficient. This is a rule of Nature in the widest sense. Nature works at different points at different times guided by her own Purpose. Towards that end Nature employs the attitudes exhibited by different faculties. Science was developed in Europe which was proud of its scientific culture. Pride stands in the way of further development. So, Nature moved away from the self-sufficient Europe to develop further. The next step is not so much Science as scientific technology. Nature chose a humble population of the USA for that purpose. Spirit developed in India. It reached its acme, rather its penultimate peak. Nature, for her own purposes, did not want to complete the further development of the Spirit in India. She moved away. She set about developing Mind, Vital, Science, Organisation, Technology in other parts of the world. Now she has finished one round working in various parts of the world. It is time Nature comes back to India and completes her work in the development of Spirit. So far, Spirit developed to seek its own fulfillment in moksha. That is not God's original intention in creation. God who became Sat and Spirit converted that Spirit into Supermind, Mind, Life and Matter. All of them - Mind, Life, Matter - are really Spirit disguised. God's delight lies in the original delight of the Spirit. It comes out when the original Spirit hidden in Mind, Life and Matter emerges on the surface. In that case the Bliss of moksha comes to earthly life, Bhuloga Swargam. Nature will start that phase only when the self-sufficient pride of the Spirit in its superiority gives way. Nature needs humility to continue its progress. India was humbled by foreign rule, poverty and low status. Though practically humbled, even humiliated, the inherent pride of the spiritual possession is abundantly present here. The feeling that we deserve greater luck or better treatment is there in many ways. One is expectation. For Nature to raise India's spiritual stature to that the Guru of the world, India should part with spiritual ego and acquire spiritual humility. ‹ 368. What is Life? up 370. Attention Matures into Affection › Para 2 - Line 3 - Technology Anonymous - 2009-08-04 21:34 Para 2 - Line 3 - Technology - and Technology K. Venkatesh	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355496
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__label__wiki	0.972781	0.972781	Britain seeks U.N. support for action over Syrian chemical attacks LONDON - Britain will put a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday condemning attacks by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and authorising 'necessary measures' to protect civilians from chemical weapons, Prime Minister David Cameron said. A view of buildings damaged by what activists say is shelling by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, in the Damascus suburbs of Arbeen August 24, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Dar A Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighter (L) provides cover for his fellow fighter inspecting a body, which according to the FSA was one of the forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, during an offensive to seize Aleppo's town of Khanasir August 26, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah A Free Syrian Army is pictured through a hole in the old city of Aleppo August 27, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman UN Syria envoy Brahimi says international law is clear that UN Security Council decision is needed for military action - @Reuters by Dan Williams via twitter 8/28/2013 10:14:25 AM German foreign minister says urges all members of UN Security Council, especially Russia, to back resolution on Syria - @Reuters Israel's Arab Bedouin citizens feel betrayed by eviction plan http://reut.rs/17jaVZH via @SheikhNB @Reuters Military intervention in Syria would need U.N. approval: Brahimi Any U.S. military action taken in response to apparent chemical weapons attacks in Syria would need to be approved by the U.N. Security Council, international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said on Wednesday. "I think international law is clear on this. International law says that military action must be taken after a decision by the Security Council. That is what international law says," he told a press conference in Geneva. "I must say that I do know that President Obama and the American administration are not known to be trigger-happy. What they will decide I don't know. But certainly international law is very clear." (Reporting by Tom Miles, editing by Stephanie Nebehay) Israel deploys full missile defences against Syria - radio JERUSALEM - Israel is deploying all of its missile defences as a precaution against possible Syrian retaliatory attacks should Western powers carry out threatened strikes on Syria, Israeli Army Radio said on Wednesday. Citing secrecy requirements, it did not give details on the number or locations of the interceptor batteries. Systems employed by Israel's air defence corps include the short-range Iron Dome, the mid-range Patriot and the long-range Arrow II. Facing potentially imminent attack by the United States and other Western powers over its alleged use of chemical weapons against Syrian rebels, Damascus has hinted it could shoot back at its old foe, the Jewish state. Israel is also braced for rocket salvoes from Hezbollah, Syria's Lebanese militia ally. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that his country wanted to keep out of the Syrian crisis but would "respond forcefully" to any attempt to attack it. (Writing by Dan Williams, Editing by Jeffrey Heller/Mark Heinrich) German Foreign Minister urges Russia to back UN resolution on Syria BERLIN - Germany on Wednesday urged states, especially Russia, to support a British draft resolution to the UN Security Council condemning attacks by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and authorising 'necessary measures' to protect civilians. "We welcome the British initiative to get the U.N. Security Council to again consider the use of chemical weapons in Syria. We urge all members of the Security Council, in particular Russia, to seize this opportunity and contribute to a common stance by the global community against the use of chemical weapons of mass destruction in Syria," Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said. (Reporting by Alexandra Hudson; Editing by Madeline Chambers) French parliament to debate Syria on 4th September PARIS - The French parliament will hold an extraordinary session on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Syria, government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said. "The president has taken the decision to summon parliament on Wednesday to assess the situation in Syria," she said following a cabinet meeting. President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday that parliament would be informed as soon as possible about decisions on any action in Syria. (Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by James Regan; Editing by Jon Boyle) Vehicles playing pro-Assad songs driving through Damascus today. REUTERS/ Khaled al-Hariri by Jeremy Schultz 8/28/2013 1:19:44 PM The NSC agreed unanimously that the use of chemical weapons by Assad was unacceptable - and the world should not stand by. — David Cameron (@David_Cameron) August 28, 2013 Iraq says it is on high alert for expected strike on Syria BAGHDAD - Iraq has put its security forces on high alert ahead of an expected international strike on neighbouring Syria, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday. Western powers are weighing up options for possible military strikes against Syria following a suspected chemical weapons attack on a Damascus suburb last week that killed hundreds of civilians. "All political and security powers in Baghdad, the provinces and all over Iraq, announce the highest level of alert," Maliki said in a weekly televised statement which focused mainly on Syria. Iraqi authorities are taking necessary measures to prevent "dangerous developments which may result from the Syrian crisis and the talk about an expected strike," he said. Iraq has reinforced security along its 680 km (422 miles) desert border with Syria, making it the most heavily guarded Iraqi frontier. Iraq's Shi'ite-led government says Syria's civil war is fuelling attacks in Iraq by al Qaeda-linked groups, who have been operating on both sides of the frontier. The Baghdad government, which opposes any international military strike on Syria, is struggling with its own Sunni Islamist insurgency and sectarian tensions have risen since the start of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a member of the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam. (Reporting by Raheem Salman, Writing by Sylvia Westall; Editing by Jon Boyle) U.N. experts return to Damascus hotel after visit to poison gas site BEIRUT - The team of United Nations chemical weapons experts returned to their hotel in central Damascus on Wednesday after inspecting the scenes of an apparent poison gas attack on several suburbs outside the Syrian capital last week, a Reuters witness said. (Reporting by Stephen Kalin; Editing by Janet Lawrence) Iran's Khamenei says U.S. intervention in Syria would be disaster DUBAI - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday U.S. intervention in Syria would be "a disaster for the region", the ISNA state news agency reported, as Western powers made plans to hit Damascus over a chemical weapons attack. UK national security council unanimously backs action on Syria LONDON - Britain's National Security Council unanimously backed action against Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday, a day after he set out the case for a targeted military strike. "The NSC (National Security Council) agreed unanimously that the use of chemical weapons by Assad was unacceptable - and the world should not stand by," Cameron said on his official Twitter feed after a meeting of the high-level security body. (Reporting by William James; Editing by Andrew Osborn) Evidence points to use of chemical weapons by Assad forces - NATO BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday information from a variety of sources pointed to President Bashar al-Assad's forces being responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Speaking after a meeting of NATO ambassadors in Brussels, Rasmussen said any use of such weapons was "unacceptable and cannot go unanswered", although he did not suggest any response. "This is a clear breach of long-standing international norms and practice... Those responsible must be held accountable," he said in a statement. Rasmussen said the military alliance would keep the situation in Syria under "close review". (Reporting by Justyna Pawlak; editing by Luke Baker) Free Syrian Army fighters escort a convoy of U.N. vehicles carrying a team of United Nations chemical weapons experts during their visit at one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Damascus' suburbs of Zamalka August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh A Free Syrian Army fighter dives into a crater filled with water in Deir al-Zor August 27, 2013. The crater was caused by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi Gallery: Israelis line up for gas masks preview.reuters.com Low probability of Syria attacking Israel as a result of Western powers' expected attack on Syria - @idfonline by Dan Williams via twitter 8/28/2013 2:09:02 PM READER COMMENT: information from a variety of sources pointed to President Bashar al-Assad's forces being responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria" who are those sources?? and what is the evidence they all refer to?? and why is no one asking those questions? by brainstorm@gmx.at edited by Margarita Noriega (Reuters) 8/28/2013 2:14:59 PM READER COMMENT: If there was to be an intervention, it should have been at the beginning of this civil war. We are in no position to waste are resources on this mess. Its a little too late to do the right thing now. Let this forest fire put itself out. "Sorry" by Flower Child edited by Margarita Noriega (Reuters) 8/28/2013 2:28:23 PM UK's Hague says it's time the U.N. shouldered its responsibilities on Syria LONDON - British Foreign Secretary William Hague called on Wednesday for the United Nations Security Council to try to stop the bloodshed in Syria by agreeing a UK-backed resolution to take "necessary measures" there to protect civilians. "We believe it's time the U.N. Security Council shouldered its responsibilities on Syria which for the last two and a half years it has failed to do," Hague told reporters, saying he feared Russia and China would block the resolution. (Reporting by Andrew Osborn; Editing by Stephen Addison) A U.N. chemical weapons expert is pictured during his visit to one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Damascus' suburb of Zamalka August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh Very smart New York Times story attempts to answer: Why would Assad launch such an attack now? http://nyti.ms/1cgvwyY by Jim Roberts via twitter edited by Margarita Noriega (Reuters) 8/28/2013 3:47:23 PM Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Britain on Wednesday that the U.N. Security Council should not consider a draft resolution in response to an alleged chemical arms attack in Syria before U.N. inspectors report on their findings there. Lavrov told British Foreign Secretary William Hague, whose country has proposed a resolution that would authorise measures to protect civilians, it is necessary "to wait for the results" from the U.N. inspectors, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. (Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall) Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari arrives to address the media at the United Nations Headquarters in New York August 28, 2013. Syria's U.N. envoy on Wednesday requested that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon order a U.N. team of chemical experts currently in Damascus to investigate three rebel attacks in which he said Syrian soldiers inhaled poisonous gas. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Senior Obama administration officials will brief U.S. congressional leaders on the situation in Syria on Thursday, a congressional aide said on Wednesday. The briefing by senior White House and national security officials will be with leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives as well as with the chairmen and ranking members of national security committees. READ: Obama administration officials set briefing for Congress by Margarita Noriega (Reuters) 8/28/2013 10:19:30 PM PBS NewsHour Video: President Barack Obama said he had not yet made his decision regarding a U.S. strike on Syria during an interview with PBS NewsHour senior correspondents Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill. The president said that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's regime alleged use of chemical weapons would factor into his calculation and he warned that the Assad should be held accountable. Letter from 116 House members to U.S. President Obama urging he get Congressional authorization prior to any military action against Syria. Via @MarkKnoller on Twitter. Reuters Picture: U.N. chemical weapons experts wearing gas masks carry samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus August 28, 2013. U.N. chemical weapons experts investigating an apparent gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians in rebel-held suburbs of Damascus made a second trip across the front line to take samples. (Photo REUTERS/Mohamed Abdullah) The Syrian government asked the United Nations to keep weapons inspectors in Damascus beyond their Sunday deadline, which could complicate the timeline for a widely expected U.S. military strike, reports The Washington Post. READ: Syria wants U.N. inspectors to stay longer; could forestall U.S. military strike (Washington Post) Syria crisis tests U.S. defense chief wary of war Since U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel left for Southeast Asia last week, he has been wrestling with a dilemma at the heart of Washington's policy on Syria and Hagel's own guiding philosophy - when and how to go to war. by Reuters_LindaNoakes 8/29/2013 9:07:15 AM U.N. chemical weapons team to leave Syria by Saturday morning - Ban VIENNA - U.N. inspectors, in Syria to determine whether forces have used chemical weapons in the civil war, will continue their investigations until Friday and plans to leave by Saturday morning, the U.N. chief said. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Vienna, said he had spoken to U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday about the situation in Syria, discussing how "we can expedite the process of investigation." "I have also expressed (my) sincere wish that this investigation team should be allowed to continue their work as mandated by the member states," Ban told reporters on Thursday. "I told him that we will ... share information and our analysis of samples and evidence with members of the Security Council and United Nations members in general," he said. U.N. chemical weapons experts began a third day of investigations into an apparent poison gas attack last week which killed hundreds of civilians, visiting rebel-held territory outside Damascus. "They (the inspection team) will continue investigation activities until tomorrow, Friday, and will come out of Syria by Saturday morning and will report to me," Ban said. (Reporting By Fredrik Dahl and Eric Auchard; Editing by Jon Boyle) by Reuters: Mark Kolmar 8/29/2013 9:43:44 AM Britain sends six RAF jets to Cyprus in defensive role LONDON - Britain is sending six RAF Typhoon jets to Cyprus as a defensive measure amid growing tensions over Syria and talks of Western military intervention. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said the air-to-air interceptor jets would be deployed to the British Akrotiri base in Cyprus on Thursday. "This is purely a prudent and precautionary measure to ensure the protection of UK interests and the defence of our Sovereign Base Areas at a time of heightened tension in the wider region," the spokesman said. "This is a movement of defensive assets operating in an air-to-air role only. They are not deploying to take part in any military action against Syria." Cyprus is just 200 km (120 miles) from the Syrian coast. Britain also has warships in the Mediterranean. (Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith; editing by Stephen Addison) France says political solution the ultimate goal for Syria PARIS - French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday a political solution must remain the focus for Syria but that could only happen if the international community can halt the killings and better support the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. "Everything must be done for a political solution but it will only happen if the coalition is able to appear as an alternative with the necessary force, notably from its army," Hollande told reporters after meeting the head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed Jarba. "We will only manage this if the international community can put a temporary stop to this escalation in violence, of which the chemical attack is just one example," Hollande said. (Reporting by John Irish; Writing by Catherine Bremer; Editing by Janet Lawrence) If it turns out that the rebels used chemical weapons too - as UN suggested in May - are we going to bomb them too? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22424188 by Owen Jones via twitter 8/29/2013 10:12:29 AM Free Syrian Army fighters run to take cover from snipers loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad near Aleppo International airport August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Molhem Barakat A Free Syrian Army fighter looks through a hole in a wall as he takes cover inside an electric company near Aleppo International airport August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Molhem Barakat Free Syrian Army fighters check the amount of ammunition they have for their weapons near Aleppo International airport August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Molhem Barakat Free Syrian Army fighters sit together as they hold their weapons near Aleppo International airport August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Molhem Barakat Stop blaming everyone but yourself Assad!You know full well that you have strict control over your chemical stockpiles and therefore regardless of the outcome you must be punished period. by kenradke60 8/29/2013 10:51:30 AM Libyan commander's forces choke oil flows, overshadowing peace summit \|	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355517
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__label__cc	0.606986	0.393014	IDEAS for Landscaping Backyard Backyard / August 8, 2018 Roll the clock back a few months and you’ll find Kwantes and the Caledonia, MI homeowner, flipping through a Rosetta Hardscapes catalog. According to Kwantes, “I showed it to him and he said, ‘this is what I want to use.’” The 15-year-veteran contractor had never installed Outcropping before. But the unique design of the house and the scenic lakefront setting, along with a hands on, style-conscious customer all called for materials that would make an exceptionally attractive backyard retaining wall. The Outcropping Collection features multiple unique block sizes and textures so that finished walls boast the appearance of natural stone with the structural design of architectural-grade precast concrete. Outcropping Collection blocks range in size from 24 inches (61 centimeters) to 72 inches (1.83 meters) wide, and from 6 inches (15.24 centimeters) to 24 inches (61 centimeters) tall. The large size and engineered dimensions of the collection mean that even though the blocks are heavy, according to Kwantes, “you can make a lot of headway on a wall in a hurry.” The lakefront landscape work was not without its challenges. "This whole property is one big grade." And according to Kwantes, “The product was shipped to the road up top. There was a 60-70 foot (18.3 - 21.34 meter) drop off down to where we needed to install all of the product, and about an 8 foot (2.44 meters) width to move it through.” Add unexpected deck construction to an already over crowded job site, and Kwantes and his two installers had their work cut out for them. “We were working around a mason, a siding guy, and gutter guys, constantly moving other workers’ materials with our excavator.” In spite of all of this, Kwantes found that he and his team had everything they needed. “I never really had that ‘oh no, what are we going to do’ moment. We got really good at moving those blocks around with our excavator.” Local Rosetta rep Christian Kirkby was able to show them a few tricks as well. “Chris showed up with a sledge hammer, a level and a pry-bar. When he first grabbed the pry-bar I thought, there’s no way you’re going to move this 1200 pound (544 kilogram) block. But he did it.” The team moved and fine-tuned the placement of 110 retaining wall blocks in all, totaling around 500 square feet (46.5 square meters). Kwantes and the homeowner used Rosetta Irregular steps to tie the two-tiered patio project together. The texture and color of the irregular steps worked seamlessly with the Outcropping blocks to create an especially organic looking landscape. Source: www.rosettahardscapes.com - Ideas Landscaping Front Yard - IDEA for Landscape Garden - IDEAS for Landscaping with Rocks	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355526
__label__wiki	0.954194	0.954194	TV&Film Home > Music [Q&A] Kang Daniel makes much-anticipated solo debut By Ahn Sung-mi Published : Jul 25, 2019 - 18:58 Updated : Jul 25, 2019 - 18:58 Kang Daniel, formerly of project boy band Wanna One and winner of “Produce 101 Season 2,” made his long-awaited solo debut on Thursday. His solo appearance comes after the breakthrough success with Wanna One that ended earlier this year with a farewell concert after a two-year stint. Kang Daniel performs at showcase (Konnect Entertainment) Kang’s first EP “Color On Me” is produced by Devine-Channel CEO Kei Lim, and the 22-year-old singer took part in writing four songs in the five-track album. He has also teamed up with choreographer Antoine, who has worked with the likes of Prince and Chris Brown. Anticipation was high even before the debut. The album has accumulated over 450,000 preorders, in a testament to the singer’s loyal fan base since his appearance on Mnet’s idol audition show in 2017. During the showcase packed with reporters, Kang performed the lead track “What Are You Up To” and “I Hope.” Following is the Q&A from the showcase. Q: Can you tell us about your debut album? Kang: The solo debut album “Color On Me” was inspired from the second track “Color” a lot. I thought it would be great if my unique color can captivate many people. I want to open up my infinite potential and show my diverse side. Q: You took part in writing the lyrics. How was that process? Kang: Except for the first track “Intro,” I got to write four songs, thanks to the help of producers from Devine-Channel and Flow Blow. The first time I met them was during the “Produce 101 Season 2,” when I was still a trainee. They were happy to see me becoming a singer who can write my own story. Q: Can you talk about the title track? Kang: Lots of people were interested in this song due to the title “What Are You Up To?” The phrase could come off as strong, but also heartwarming at the same time. It has a synth sound with also a hip-hop feel. It has a bright mood and I think many people will like it. Q: What was it like working with overseas choreographers, including Antoine? Kang: We contacted choreographers to match the song’s style. With “What Are You Up To?” Antoine’s unique groove and rhythm is highlighted. We spent three days together when he was in Korea. He enjoyed Korean-style fried chicken. Q: What was it like to fill the stage on your own? Kang: The stage is huge to fill the space on my own, and I thought about the members a lot. I thought Wanna One was a very awesome and perfect team. One good thing about going solo is I get to perform with my own voice and style. Kang Daniel (Konnect Entertainment) Q: What was the hardest thing when preparing for this album? Kang: I didn’t have much time. I contemplated day and night thinking of fans who have been waiting for me, despite the pressing time. The theme of each song is different, so writing different stories for each one was not easy. Q: What is your goal with this album? Kang: I want to be very busy. For fans who waited for me, I want to go see them and create a stage where we can enjoy together. Q: Your album’s preorders are already a success. Did you see this coming? Kang: Frankly, I never imagined this kind of (sales) number. I was very sorry for the fans because it was a long six-month hiatus. But I was moved by the fans when they told me they waited for me. I was moved by the fan’s hearts, more than the numbers. I will try my best to show good side of me to the fans. Q: How do you expect to do in the charts? Kang: As for the music in the album, I wanted to meet the fans as soon as possible. So that’s why I decided to make an EP, instead of the full-length album that could take longer. So I would just be satisfied with fans listening and enjoying my music. Q: What did you do during your hiatus? Kang: I spent time working on this album so I can meet the fans as soon as possible. I also spent time with my family, and especially with my mom. We talked a lot. Q: What’s the biggest difference between group and solo activities? Kang: I think I am the last Wanna One members to come back with some news. During group activities, I always thought about what I lacked and my mistakes, when it comes to singing, dancing and rapping. And I tried my best to improve. From the outside, it looks different and bit empty on the stage when I was with 11 brothers. I think it’s my job to fill that void. Q: What kind of promotions are you planning, such as TV music broadcast and concerts? Kang: The album prepping period was relatively short, so our management team didn’t have much time to work with broadcasters to finalize the schedule. We hope to give you good news soon! Q: What was your inspiration when writing the lyrics? Kang: I always thought writing lyrics was difficult. I received lot of inspiration from watching films and words by fans. I received lots of support at fan cafe through fans’ comments and letters. The product of this is the fifth track “I Hope,” which talks about what I hope. I want to tell the fans not to worry. Q: Were you aware of LM Entertainment transferring exclusive contract rights? You are currently going through legal battle with LM Entertainment. Why did you decided to make a solo debut during this time? Kang: I was not aware of the transfer. I gave answers through my lawyer. While the lawsuit is still ongoing, the reason I decided to make a solo debut is after hearing that I can conduct independent activities legally. My fans have waited a long time, so I decided to start the activities. Q: You recently established a new self-management agency Konnect Entertainment. Do you plan on having other artists under the label? Kang: I think there are still lot of preparations left. Many experts are helping me out currently. I don’t think we have the capacity at the moment to have other artists. Can I tell you about my dream? Ultimately as an artist, I want to become a person who gives hope Through my song and performances, I want people to receive hope. By Ahn Sung-mi (sahn@heraldcorp.com) Go to the Music Section [V Report] Seventeen’s Dino celebrates 1,700th day with fans [V Report] TXT’s Beomgyu plays guitar for fans [V Report] Bang Si-hyuk calls for respect for artists at Golden Disc Awards [V Report] Hoshi delves into late-night snack [Photo News] BTS wins big at 2018 MAMA in Hong Kong [Photo News] BTS walks red carpet at 2018 MAMA in Japan [Photo News] Rising stars Stray Kids arrive at 2018 MAMA [Photo News] BTS posts Twitter selfies after Melon Music Awards victory [V Report] Seventeen’s Hoshi talks to fans over lunch [V Report] Tomorrow X Together relishes chicken [V Report] K-pop bands send out season's greetings Herald Corporation \| Address : Huam-ro 4-gil 10, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea \| Title : K-POP Herald \| Online newspaper registration number: Seoul 아03713 Date of registration: 2015.04.28 \| Publisher. 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__label__cc	0.586257	0.413743	about this site books articles films contact Saborear Frutas Brasileiras 2011, 38 min. Inhabitants from the city of Salvador, Brazil, show how to enjoy to the full their favorite fruits from the local markets. No spoons, forks or napkins in these performances. As they touch, smell, bite, scrape, suck, lick, slurp, chew and swallow, they pay homage to the sensuousness of the Brazilian people. To see the film, click on the picture. Knowing and not knowing at the foot of the mountain 2011, 9,39 min. Two mountains tower over the village of Pé de Serra, deep in the Bahian interior. Some villagers claim to have seen strange balls of golden fire floating from one mountain top to the other. Some say it is the mae-de-ouro, the mother-of-the-gold, taking the gold from the mountain elsewhere to keep gold diggers at bay. Others, however, are not so sure. The permeable body This video is a clip from a project-in-progress on the permeable boundary. In contrast to Western notions of the body as a closed container of the self, Brazilians conceive of the body as a porous vessel, which allows all kinds of spirits to move in and out of it. Spirit possesion is but one example of the Brazilian preference for permeable boundaries: the ideal of permeability pervades Brazilian culture as a whole. To see the clip, click on the picture. O Vento (the Wind) Dorival Caymmi’s song O Vento (The Wind) powerfully evokes how it is the wind that get’s everything into motion. Shot in Bahia (Ilha de Maré, Santo Amaro, Salvador) Let’s go call the wind The wind that hits the sail The sail that moves the boat The boat that carries the people The people who catch the fish The fish that brings the money Curiman ê Curiman lambaio Curiman To see the clip, click on the picture The Possibility of Spirits 2016, 71,00 min. What is it that you film when you film a spirit? I was brought up to believe that spirits do not exist: people who believed in them had somehow missed out on the true nature of things. Years of research on Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion, taught me the limits of such euro-centric definitions of the possible and the impossible. Refusing to choose between belief and disbelief, I embraced my not-knowing. I opted for being baffled. "The Possibility of Spirits" is an essay film that seeks to keep the mystery of spirits center stage. Borrowing from surrealist montage techniques, the estrangement effect of Brechtian theatre and a Brazilian taste for the genuinely made-up, it invites viewers to let themselves be confused and -- in that confusion - consider the possibility of spirits. Knots and Holes. An Essay Film on the Life of Nets. Nets are all around us. They materialize such principles as connecting, filtering and patterning. Which is why anthropologists might want to have a closer look at what people do with them and what they do with people. In Bahia, Brazil, I sought out places where people work with nets. I recorded the conversations, emotions and sensations that occur in the presence of nets. I went on a fishing trip with Tico. I spoke with evangelicals, explaining the parable of the fishing net. I hung out with the boys from the Candomblé religion, who have their shirts made of lace. I shivered as I learned how lethal the introduction of a grid may be. I smiled when I heard how a fat man in tight jeans became a frolicking mermaid. And I never stopped wondering how the principles of filtering and patterning play themselves out in my own life – as a filmmaker, as an anthropologist, as a-gay-man-in-love. Keeping alive the tension between openness and closure, knot and hole, grasping and caressing, this film invites its audiences to ponder the observation that all we humans ever do is to impose structures onto life and being, then to find out that neither life, nor being, follow our designs.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355532
__label__cc	0.580856	0.419144	Med Students, Peers Seek Solutions to Opioid Epidemic at UB Forum Richard Blondell, MD, underscored the importance of preventing opioid abuse during his keynote address at an interprofessional forum that drew 900 UB students. Students from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences joined hundreds of their UB peers in the health professions, social work, law and management for a forum on opioid dependence. “Hopefully, this interprofessional forum is the beginning of much more collaboration and helps guide how students practice when they graduate.” Gale R. Burstein, MD Professor of pediatrics, Erie County health commissioner Richard D. Blondell, MD Lisa Jane Jacobsen, MD 5/26/17 Alan J. Lesse, MD 9/25/19 Addiction Medicine Fellowship 8/24/18 Department of Family Medicine 10/28/19 Department of Medicine 2/7/19 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology 10/28/19 Department of Pediatrics In all, 900 UB students participated in the program, titled “Confronting Opioid Dependence: an Interprofessional Strategy.” Rx Painkiller Abuse the Clear Choice for Program With nearly two million Americans abusing or dependent on prescription painkillers, the opioid epidemic was an obvious focus for the forum, said Alan J. Lesse, MD, senior associate dean for medical curriculum and associate professor of medicine. “Educating all of our professional students about this devastating epidemic is critical,” he said. “Learning how multiple professions can contribute to the solution in a true team-based approach is essential if we are to make inroads into controlling this epidemic.” In addition to students from the UB medical school, participants in the Nov. 7 conference came from the schools of: dental medicine public health and health professions Collaborating on Treatment Plans for Fictional Patients The forum featured breakout sessions during which participants developed a treatment plan for a fictional patient. The exercise drove home the point that quality, patient-centered, cost-effective health care requires collaboration across professions. “We want students to understand that it isn’t just physicians or public health officials who are going to solve the opioid epidemic,” said Lisa Jane Jacobsen, MD, associate dean of medical curriculum and clinical associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology. “It’s going to take all of the professions working together.” Burstein, Blondell Deliver Keynote Talks Medical school faculty members Richard D. Blondell, MD, and Gale R. Burstein, MD, MPH, delivered the keynote presentations. “Opioid addiction and the subsequent deaths we are experiencing are multifactoral problems that require the help of many different health disciplines as well as law enforcement and families,” said Burstein, clinical professor of pediatrics and Erie County health commissioner. For the third year in a row, Erie County’s opioid-related deaths have substantially increased, Burstein pointed out. Several recent initiatives — including naloxone training to empower first responders and Erie County residents to revive those on the verge of overdose deaths — have prevented even grimmer statistics, she added. “We have had many reports of first responders going to the same person’s house three and four times a day to resuscitate them, so the deaths would be much higher without this program.” Prevention Message Emphasized Detailing the dramatic increase in opioid analgesic prescriptions in recent years, Blondell urged the forum’s participants to focus on addiction prevention, education and early intervention. “Yes, we need treatment programs, but we cannot treat our way out of this epidemic,” said Blondell, professor of family medicine and vice chair of addiction medicine. Blondell cited polio and cervical cancer as examples of past public health crises that were overcome by prevention rather than treatment. “As long as the health system prescribes people into addiction faster than we can treat them, the problem is going to get worse. Prevention is the answer.” A leader in the field of addiction medicine, Blondell coordinated the establishment of 40 addiction medicine fellowship training programs — including UB’s — an accomplishment that was instrumental in getting it recognized as a subspecialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties. He encouraged the future health professionals attending the forum to prescribe opioid analgesics judiciously and to talk directly to patients — and their families — about the addiction risks they pose. Whichever role audience members take in fighting the opioid epidemic, they should never judge those who develop a substance use disorder, he cautioned. “Anybody can become addicted,” Blondell said. “At least 30 of you in this room will develop this problem.” Underscoring how prescription opioids have shifted the demographics of addiction, Blondell noted that when he began working at Erie County Medical Center in 2003, his typical patient was an older male IV heroin user. “Now,” he said, “the ECMC detox center looks like a 10-year high school reunion.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355535
__label__wiki	0.628309	0.628309	Human Trafficking Massachusetts END DCF Massachusetts Human Trafficking Human Rigths – Trafficking Persons Claim Against Massachusetts Massachusetts Human Trafficking State Police probe clears leaders in hiring of trooper with drug-dealing past – The Boston Globe Category : Massachusetts Human Trafficking Tags: bigdm.org, Massachusetts Human Trafficking An internal Massachusetts State Police investigation has cleared agency officials of wrongdoing for hiring a trooper with a drug-dealing past, and blamed her for not disclosing her role as a key witness in a high-profile trafficking case. Trooper Leigha Genduso resigned Friday afternoon upon reviewing the internal investigation, which her attorney called “a coverup from day one.” She received a dishonorable discharge, which she said she will appeal. The internal affairs report recommended her termination and cited 11 violations of the agency’s rules and regulations. It concluded a 2013 background check was “thorough and complete” and the only reason the investigation didn’t turn up her “illicit past” was because of Genduso’s “omissions and deceptive responses.” The report made only a glancing reference to Daniel Risteen, a top agency official who lived with Genduso at the time she applied to work as a trooper. Lieutenant Colonel Francis Hughes, described by several troopers as a close friend of Risteen, was a member of the three-person review board that approved Genduso’s background investigation. Get Fast Forward in your inbox: Forget yesterday’s news. Get what you need today in this early-morning email. Neither appeared to have been questioned as part of the internal probe, according to the 44-page report. Neither Risteen nor Hughes could be reached for comment Friday. “For them to completely absolve themselves is disingenuous,” Genduso’s attorney, Daniel Moynihan, said of State Police officials. “They went along with it. Now they act shocked.” State Police spokesman David Procopio said Friday that the internal probe found Genduso didn’t disclose her past to any member of the agency, and she made “demonstrably false statements regarding her past involvement in criminal activities” on her application. “Under the leadership of Col. Kerry Gilpin, the Massachusetts State Police recently created a new checklist for the background check process, and broadened the questionnaire for recruit candidates to include questions about involvement in any criminal investigation, even if the candidate was not charged with a crime,” Procopio said in a statement. Questions about how Genduso, an unindicted co-conspirator in a major marijuana trafficking case, became a civilian dispatcher in 2008 and then a trooper erupted earlier this year as the law enforcement agency was embroiled in a series of scandals. Moynihan has maintained that Genduso’s involvement with her former boyfriend, convicted drug trafficker Sean Bucci, was well-known across the State Police ranks, even before she was hired as a dispatcher. “Our investigation has revealed that it was clear that numerous members of the command staff, both past and present, were aware of the Bucci matter before Ms. Genduso’s hiring even as a dispatcher, much less a trooper,” Moynihan wrote in a Aug. 6 letter to Gilpin. He called Genduso an exemplary employee and noted she received positive evaluations and a commendation. Following her resignation Friday, Genduso said she decided to “walk away with some dignity rather than keep battling.” “Nobody wants to talk about how I did the job the best I could,” she added. A year before becoming a State Police dispatcher, Genduso testified in federal court in 2007 in a case investigated by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and State Police. Genduso admitted that she helped Bucci cut up bales of marijuana and delivered gift-wrapped, 10-pound packages of marijuana to a customer of her own. The internal investigation minimized the fact that details of the Bucci case — and even a transcript of her testimony posted on the court website — were readily available at the time she was hired. Her former North Reading address, cited on her application, was a house owned by Bucci and forfeited to the government following his 2007 conviction, according to a press release from the US attorney’s office that was posted on the Internet. The internal State Police probe, conducted by Detective Lieutenant David J. McQueeney, indicates that Genduso withheld information or lied nine times — including failing to disclose her involvement with drugs and lying when she said she had never been with someone who committed a crime and that she had never been accused of committing a crime. The investigation also concluded that she was untruthful during her internal affairs interview in April, saying among other things that she didn’t know why she was granted immunity before she testified in 2007. In the April interview with investigators, Genduso said she didn’t believe anyone on the State Police was aware of her past drug dealing or testimony. But investigators don’t appear to have asked anyone directly whether Genduso’s background check was less rigorous than usual because she was involved with Risteen. Detective Lieutenant Jodi Dotolo, the trooper who conducted Genduso’s background check, said she wrongly assumed that Genduso had already undergone a thorough vetting when she was hired as a dispatcher in 2008. Even so, the internal affairs report found Dotolo’s background check was “thorough and complete.” In a recent interview with the Globe, Genduso said Dotolo told her “she didn’t need to go to my house because she knew who I lived with.” The internal investigation acknowledged that at the time Genduso applied to be a dispatcher, the background check process was not as thorough as it should have been. The department was in a “hiring crunch,” the report said, so a “modified background investigation” was conducted. Bob Long, a retired State Police detective lieutenant and security consultant, said it was “absurd” for State Police to conclude that Genduso’s background check was thorough. “They never would have had this problem if it was done right.” Long said. “I think the fact that she wasn’t forthcoming is a problem, but I think the State Police failed in their due diligence.” The internal investigation quoted Shawn Givhan, director of State Police Human Resources, who said background investigators assume that applicants are telling the truth — unless the department received a tip, they would have no way of finding information on someone’s background. Long called it “a definite failure” by State Police that the agency neglected to ask the North Reading police about any calls or reports involving Genduso’s former residence, where she lived with Bucci up until 2004. In fact, a North Reading police detective told State Police that if the troopers conducting Genduso’s background checks had asked about the address, they would have found “numerous entries and reports.” Troopers involved in the federal drug case told internal affairs investigators they had no memory of Genduso, even though she was a key witness and an unindicted co-conspirator given immunity to testify. The internal affairs investigation concluded that “no evidence” exists that three troopers involved in the federal probe knew Genduso was associated with Bucci or that they “withheld information” from the department. Genduso had been on unpaid suspension since the Turtleboy Sports blog first disclosed her past in February. Genduso believes that if the revelations had not been posted online, she would have gone on to have a long and exemplary career as a state trooper. “I think the hardest thing is on my 10 years on the State Police, I did nothing but try to be the best dispatcher, the best trooper,” Genduso said earlier this month. “I was trying to do the right thing for 10 years. I wouldn’t even call in sick. Now that’s gone.” Andrea Estes can be reached at [email protected]. Shelley Murphy can be reached at [email protected]. The post State Police probe clears leaders in hiring of trooper with drug-dealing past – The Boston Globe appeared first on Human Trafficking Mass. Paternity Fraud ‘Can be Devastating for Men’ August 9, 2019 by Robert Franklin, Esq. Few publications I’ve read deal adequately with the issue of paternity fraud, but this piece is an exception (VeryWell, 7/12/19). It’s an accurate and informative article that men, particularly young men, should familiarize themselves with. Paternity fraud occurs when a man is led Read More The Weaponizing of CPS – Lose Your Children IF: You Don’t Vaccinate, You Don’t Make a Dentist Appointment, You Don’t Pay School Lunch Fees, You Don’t Shut Up, Etc. In a military SWAT-like operation Arizona police break down the door of a family at 1 AM because the parents did not take one of their children who had a fever to an emergency room at the request of a doctor. The child was reportedly sleeping soundly and only had Read More The Criminal Justice System Has Failed to Reduce Domestic Violence August 2, 2019 by Robert Franklin, Esq. A criminal justice approach to domestic violence hasn’t ameliorated the problem and may be making it worse. We need to find other methods of addressing DV if we’re to reduce its incidence. That’s the gist of this much-needed article by Professor Leigh Goodmark Read More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355541
__label__wiki	0.633718	0.633718	#loweclass explores Marquette University's EOP Menu What we thought about focusing on EOP as our final project By Natalie Ragusin When Professor Herbert Lowe asked our digital journalism class in October to get tickets for an academic symposium related to the civil rights movement in Milwaukee, he said it would be a great primer for our final project. He began the next #loweclass session by playing a trailer to a documentary about a Marquette University program that most of us knew nothing about. We watched the trailer – about the documentary, “Answering the Call: Celebrating 45 Years of the Educational Opportunity Program” – intently. We had no idea that black students were not always welcomed at Marquette, or that a campus program existed to help low-income, first-generation students access a high-quality college education. We readily agreed that this was a perfect fit for a final project. Professor Lowe assigned us to watch the entire documentary as homework and to write a blog post about our thoughts about EOP. He also instructed us to consider how the class could collectively capture its 45th anniversary. What follows are excerpts from our blog posts, with themes ranging from emotion to pride to relationships to storytelling ideas. With one exception, we are all journalism majors. Let’s start with my blog post: “I am glad we are staying in the Marquette community for our final project. I also think it’s important to meet other students and members of [EOP] through this assignment. It is very inspiring to see students so grateful to receive an education. I truly admire the values and goals that these students set for themselves. This program gave young people the opportunity to go somewhere after possibly feeling lost after high school. And I’m very excited to work with such people.” Junior Roque Redondo shared a sense of relief in having a different kind of final class project: "You know you’re getting to the end of the semester when your professors start talking about final projects and final exams. Usually the sound of these words creates frustration and anxiousness because it symbolizes a great amount of tiring and boring work coming our way. That’s different for our journalism class. Last class (Lowe) introduced the students to the final project topic: EOP. Students were quickly impressed and wanted to get into it as soon as possible." Sophomore Elizabeth Baker noted a sense of pride after having watched the documentary: “I imagine I’d be hard-pressed to find a Marquette student who does not feel an overwhelming sense of pride in this university after watching … ‘Answering the Call.’ Each one of its 38 minutes inspired, intrigued and interested me.” Junior Dewayne Gage shared his experience as an EOP student: “My first meeting with financial aid counselor Jacqueline Walker ended with a warm hug – a hug that you could only receive from your mom or grandmother, a hug that said everything will be OK. Along with the financial assistance, there is no price for the support system that EOP provides for me and every other student in the program.” Junior Henry Greening discussed ideas of how we can portray EOP’s story: “Not everyone was an EOP student, so we must make people see why this is important and draw them in. Students and alumni love to look at the past, either in nostalgic memory or in curiosity of what once was. I think that this project could be a great opportunity both to recognize those who came from difficult situations and were given an opportunity to better themselves and make careers because of EOP, and also tell a story of Marquette’s history that may be often forgotten.” Junior Caroline Roers wanted to focus on the individuals of EOP: “The final project sounded perfect. Putting a face to a program that helps thousands of students is exactly what I love about journalism. ... However, I think while we do this we should keep in mind that though we are profiling these people, the project is not about these faces. It is about the opportunity that made these ‘faces’ brilliant.” Junior Jenna Ebbers wanted to connect emotion throughout the process: “I think it would be beneficial to include some personal story or anecdote that each person can share from their experience at Marquette, adding emotion into the project.” Senior Madeline Pieschel wanted to find out how EOP graduates have impacted their communities: "[We] should include through video or text how these individuals ended up giving back. EOP helped them out and it is more than likely that they have helped out in return and given back to the program, community, or their families and high schools. This show's that the vicious cycle of poverty and lack of education in families can be broken through opportunities like EOP." Sophomore Brittany Carloni asked vital questions regarding data: “I want to know the graduation rates of students in the program. What has the program enrollment been throughout the years? What states and cities are students coming from? What are they majoring in? What kinds of jobs do they get after graduation?” Senior Robyn St. John made an input of outstanding data that compels: “Milwaukee has been noted as the No. 1 most racially segregated city in the nation. This puts the EOP program as an awe-inspiring opportunity on a local level.” Junior Madeline Kennedy had similar ideas about EOP and their successes: “One thing I want to pursue in the final project is rates of diversity. How successful has EOP been with increasing diversity on campus? Are there similar programs at other Catholic universities that have experienced similar success?” Junior Devi Shastri shared her emotions of connecting with EOP’s diversity: “When I learned today that our #loweclass final project would be about EOP on campus, the lower class first-generation Hindu woman inside of me jumped for joy. It supported what I have been slowly realizing about diversity on campus: it exists, but you have to look really damn hard to find it.” Junior Estefania Elizondo, a communication studies major, described EOP as a “Sputnik moment in this university’s history”: “It is because of my current involvement [as a tutor] that I begin to see and hear echoes of the past when the challenges EOP had to face in [1969] are some of the same challenges that I am faced with this very day. Rewind [45] years into Marquette’s history and you would find yourself in the midst of the civil rights movement – a particularly significant moment in which the university and the city of Milwaukee played an important role.” Well, as you can tell by this website, the ideas and approaches our class initially had for this final project changed and evolved as the semester ensued. Our feelings and pride about EOP did not. This website was created as part of a fall 2014 digital journalism course in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University. Led by instructor (and EOP alumnus) Herbert Lowe, #loweclass consisted Elizabeth Baker, Brittany Carloni, Thomas Conroy, Jenna Ebbers, Estefania Elizondo, Dewayne Gage, Henry Greening, Madeline Kennedy, Madeline Pieschel, Teran Powell, Natalie Ragusin, Roque Redondo, Caroline Roers, Devi Shastri and Robyn St. John.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355544
__label__cc	0.738308	0.261692	Team Force-Torque-Power-Energy Analysis MAE3 Team Force-Torque-Power-Energy Analysis These instructions are remarkably helpful, and YOU SHOULD READ THEM. The worksheet is linked at the very bottom of the page A key component of the robot project is to integrate creativity with engineering analysis. Energy analysis is one useful method for evaluating resources available for the project. The law of energy conservation dictates that any design does not require more energy than it has available to it. In this energy analysis each team will quantify how much energy and power is available from each energy source in the kit. This analysis will: Help determine if a design concept is feasible or not Help determine which energy sources should be used in various parts of one’s design Familiarize the team with the measurement tools used in the lab, which will be used at the end of the project to measure the robot’s performance. Energy Sources in the Kit Included in Worksheet Analysis Non geared motors Springs and rubber bands Gravity (mass is part of the kit; the gravity is for free) Other Energy Sources in kit (but not required for worksheet analysis) Springs made from kit components such as sheet metal Solenoid, which has high force but generally low energy output. Each team should complete this worksheet by measuring values in the lab, and performing the analysis. In addition, Individual components are to be split up among team members for their individual energy analysis. Show details of work neatly. Energy in a system is always conserved. Due to frictional losses in a machine, only some of the energy is applied towards the desired motion of the machine. Therefore, the energy output of a machine is less than the energy input, but never more. Energy has units of force x distance, such as 1 Joule = 1 Newton x 1 Meters Power is defined as change in energy over time. If you would like to accelerate an object quickly, you need high power (but the total energy may be low if the power is exerted for just a short amount of time). Power is given by Power = δEnergy/δTime The units of power are: 1 Watt = 1 Joule / 1 Second Work (Mechanical Energy Transfer) Work, W, is a transfer of energy. Mechanical energy can be transferred by applying a force or torque over a distance of motion. If there are no energy losses in the system then the chance of energy δΕ=W For translation: W = Distance over which force is applied X Force in direction of motion (units of Nm) For rotations: W = Torque x radians of rotation (units of Nm) Energy and Power: A Necessary but NOT Sufficient Condition For a machine to function it is necessary that enough energy and power be provided to meet its needs. However, this is NOT a sufficient condition to guarantee motion. One must also analyze the forces and torques on individual components, to determine if the desired motion will indeed occur. Force and Torque Output in Mechanism Design Gears, levers, pulleys, and other mechanisms can be used to increase or decrease the force or torque output of a machine, while also changing the velocity output (see Mechanical Devices text Chapter 1). Since force and torque are not conserved, an energy source with low force output can be configured to provide higher force at the expense of a lower velocity output. This subject will be covered in more depth in a lecture on Mechanical Advantage. Unit conversion errors have lead to loss of spacecraft, and airplanes running out of fuel (see stories on www.maelabs.ucsd.edu under Tutorials => Engineering Analysis => Unit Conversions) Unit conversions should be done carefully by clearly multiplying by values that have the physical quantity of one. For example, to convert revolutions per minute to radians per second as follows: 60 seconds = 1 minute 1 revolution = 2π radians In this worksheet, metric units are used with the following notation: Force => Newtons (N) Distance => meters (m) Time => seconds (s) Mass => kilograms (kg) Torque => Newton meters (Nm) Angular rotation => radians (radians is a ratio and has no units) Angular velocity => radians/second NOTE: 1 in = 2.54 cm = .0254 m Potential Energy from Gravity Gravitational energy can be added to your machine if there is a change in the height of the center of mass of the machine. The potential energy due to gravity is given by: (m=mass, h=height change, and g=gravity which is 9.8m/s2) The quickest that potential energy can be released is during a free fall (i.e. no friction). The fall time is given by: Make estimation for realistic values for the maximum potential energy from gravity your machine can use during the contest (assume half the entire kit’s mass can be used for potential energy, and the height change is the starting height of your robot) Each MAE3 machine starts at rest, and thus has no kinetic energy at the start time. However, energy may be transferred to the machine during the contest, so the equation for kinetic energy is useful for estimating energy requirements. A moving point mass has a total kinetic energy of: (m=mass, and v = velocity) Spring and Rubber Band Analysis A spring (a rubber band is a type of spring), provides a restoring force in proportion to the distance it is extended, i.e. the more one stretches a spring the larger the restoring force. The simplest springs have the following linear relationship: Fspring => is the force applied by the spring k => is the spring stiffness Lrest => Rest length of spring, when no load is applied to it Linital => Initial length of spring, which is equal to Lrest only for springs with no pretension Lspring => Length of spring when under load δx => is the spring elongation; δx=Lspring-Lrest Compression vs. Tension Compression springs are designed to experience compressive forces and therefore become shorter when loaded. There are gaps between each turn in the unloaded position to allow them to be compressed (see Figure 1). While compression springs can theoretically be in tension, they are generally not used for that purpose. Figure 1: Compression Spring Tension springs are designed to experience tension forces and therefore become longer when loaded. Typically there are no gaps between the turns when they are unloaded (see Figure 2), and many tension springs are manufactured under an initial pretension. This means that the length of the spring will not be displaced unless the magnitude of the tension force is greater than the initial pretension force. Unlike compression springs, tension springs do no have the ability to be used in both compression and tension. Figure 2: Tension Spring with pretension caused by contact forces between coils .Measuring Spring Stiffness An easy way to measure a spring’s stiffness is to hang weights from it and measure the spring elongation. However, there are a few important factors to consider: Verification of Linearity. While it is theoretically possible to measure spring stiffness from just two points, one should always measure at least three points to verify that the spring is behaving in a primary linear fashion. Apply loads on a spring large enough to remove any initial slack or friction. Pretension of spring. If the spring has pretension, like most extension springs, remember that the initial length, Linital, of the spring does not correspond to the rest length of the spring, Lrest. Use an alternate way to calculate stiffness by hanging a mass on the spring and measuring the period of oscillation. Use the equation of free vibration to determine spring stiffness. Only do this for the small spring and small rubber band. Measure the spring stiffness by applying two loads on the spring and measure spring displacements. As shown below, a spring with pretension will have an Lrest which is different than Linital. The red segment shows the theoretical region of the spring if it was not pretensioned. Spring with no pretension Spring with pretension A minimum of two points is required to calculate a slope. Ideally, more points should be measured and a slope can be calculated using a least squares fit. For the purposes of this worksheet, only two points are needed to obtain an approximate stiffness value. The following formula can be used to calculate the stiffness k. For springs with pretension the rest length must be calculated by first finding the equation of the line that fits the spring curve. The equation of the line can be written as: .Lrest can then be found by finding the point on the curve where F=0 (by definition of Lrest). Solving for Lrest: The theoretical equation for the energy stored in a spring is given by: (for no pretension) For springs with pretension, one cannot recover energy in the regions where the coils touch, and therefore: Use weights, rulers, and spring scales to fill out parameters for each spring and rubber band in the kit: ** Spring Release Time The energy release time of a spring can be difficult to calculate accurately, since it depends on the applied load and happens relatively quickly. One way to get a rough estimate of the release time is from observation (it is less than a second!). A more accurate estimate can be made using spring dynamics. If one of the team members has taken MAE130B, the team should use the method below. To perform work the spring will be attached to mass and will accelerate that mass. Choose a mass of a kit part the spring will move (in initial estimates one typically neglects the mass of the spring). If the spring is attached to the mass, stretched, and released; then the mass will oscillate back and forth. The frequency of vibration, ω, is given by: (radians/second), where macc is the mass that is being accelerated (not the spring mass!) in kg. The period of one cycle of vibration is given by: T = 2π/ω seconds However, it takes only one quarter of cycle for the mass to move from a point where the spring is at maximum compression and the mass is at zero velocity (all the energy is in the spring) to the point where the spring is at rest but the mass is at maximum velocity (all the energy is in kinetic energy). Therefore, the energy release time is T/4. Oftentimes, physical parameters can be measured more than one way. Using multiple methods of finding the same parameter is a useful means for validating the accuracy and validity of a measured value. For springs, the stiffness constant can also be estimated from free oscillation of known mass, where Use the mass-spring setup in the lab to verify the spring stiffness of the small rubber band and the medium spring. Energy and Power of DC Motors Every motor outputs a torque that varies as a function of motor speed. The motors in the robot kit are permanent magnet motors, and there is a linear relationship between the motor speed and torque (see Mechanical Devices text, Chapter 7). With no load on the motor, the shaft rotates at its maximum speed, referred to at the “no load speed.” As torque is applied to the shaft the torque the motor slows down, unit the torque reaches the “stall torque” at which point the motor stops rotating. The torque speed curve of DC Permanent magnet motors is a straight line, but other types of motors have different shape curves. Measure the “no load speed” of both the geared and non geared motors. Use a stop watch for the geared motor, and the optical sensor setup for non geared motor that rotates too fast to count by hand. Also measure the stall torque using the setup in the lab. Show the torque and speed calculations on a separate sheet. Plot the linear torque speed curves for both motors below. The power output for a motor is given by the torque, τ, times the angular velocity, ω (in radians per second): (units of Nm/s) By looking at torque speed curve one can see that the power output is zero when the motor is stalled, and zero when the motor spins with no torque output at its “no load speed.” The maximum torque output occurs when the motor is operating at the midpoint of its operating range, where the speed is half the “no load speed” and the torque is half of the stall torque (for a proof take the derivative of the power). The power is equal to δE/δtime. Thus the energy output of a motor is: (where δθ is the amount of rotation in degrees) The maximum amount of rotation that can occur in the robot contest is the angular speed at multiplied by the contest duration (60 seconds) (radians) The Assignment: Worksheet linked here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355552
__label__wiki	0.552627	0.552627	Money Street News Mortgages & Home Factor investing making up larger portion of asset owners’ portfolios — survey By Sophie Baker · October 1, 2017 7:00 pm Factor investing has become a third pillar in portfolios alongside active and passive, with increased demand among institutional investors, according to Invesco (IVZ). The firm’s second annual Global Factor Investing Study, which surveyed 108 pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, consultants and other investors representing more than $7 trillion in assets, found institutional investors expect to increase allocations to 18% of portfolios in the next five years. Investors said they currently allocate 17% of their portfolios to factor investing, up from 15% in the manager’s 2016 study. North America leads the adoption, driven by insurers and state pension funds. In the 2017 study, North American investors said they had increased their allocations to 19% from 16% a year previous. The primary reason for factor allocations is risk, according to institutional investors, ahead of return and cost drivers. The preferred strategy remains smart beta, with funding for these allocations coming from fundamental active strategies, said the study. Among European institutional investors, 19% allocate to the strategies compared with 17% in 2016. In the region, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds are the biggest clients, with risk and return considerations the main drivers. Also in Europe, 62% of those surveyed invest in quantitative strategies, vs. 38% in smart beta. Asia-Pacific institutional investors increased their allocation to 10% from 7% in the past year. “Apparently people are increasingly aware that factor exposures drive return and risk, especially in equity markets,” said Georg Elsaesser, senior portfolio manager, quantitative strategies at Invesco, in a telephone interview. Mr. Elsaesser added that factor investing has become a third pillar in portfolios and said the conversation with clients has moved “from saying here’s the product do you want to buy it; to where are you, what do you need, how can we help. It is a much more consultative approach — we are going away from saying we have the solution, do you have the problem, toward we have a problem, can you construct a solution for that?” he said. Respondents to the study also showed demand for fixed-income factor strategies, with 68% believing that the theory behind factor investing can be applied. However, only 32% use factor strategies within their fixed-income portfolios. Further, 52% of North America and 47% of European clients said their interest has expanded into multiasset strategies. Contact Sophie Baker at sbaker@pionline.com · @baker_PI Previous Post:Housing markets continue to lose steam – The Australian Next Post:More needs to be done to prevent homegrown extremism: anti-radicalization experts seven + three = Get our latest downloads and information first. Complete the form below to subscribe to our weekly newsletter. I would like to hear from selected 3rd party offers Are you Human? 30x8=?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355560
__label__wiki	0.928427	0.928427	12 minutes ago Trump's legal team calls impeachment charges 'unlawful' 15 minutes ago 7 missing, over 150 rescued after Nepal avalanche 15 minutes ago FB video reunites B'deshi man with family after 48 yrs 17 minutes ago Iran's home-made satellite ready for launch 6 minutes ago 0ver 15 years in the making, swimming pool inaugurated finally Mukesh Ambani’s SEZ project scrapped 20 February 2011 / 0 Comments Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 20 February 2011 MUMBAI, February 20 (Agencies): Maharashtra government has ordered that no more land would be acquired for the proposed Mukesh Ambani-promoted MahaMumbai Special Economic Zone (SEZ), virtually hammering the last nail in the coffin of one of the country’s biggest SEZ plans. The SEZ was planned across 10,000 hectares and land in 83 villages of the Pen, Panvel and Uran talukas in Raigad district were to be acquired. On hearing news of the government’s Friday resolution, farmers in the Pen, Panvel and Uran talukas burst crackers in celebration. The state issued a government resolution de-notifying the land acquisition process for the SEZ, clearly indicating that it would not acquire any more land for the SEZ promoted by the Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) Group chairman. All land acquired by the government in the past is also to be returned. With a majority of farmers opposed to surrendering their land and a further extension required to keep the project going, it is now possible that the entire MahaMumbai SEZ plan would be scrapped. But that decision has to be taken only by the Central government. The project could survive only if its promoters manage to privately acquire the land needed, but state government sources said this seemed very unlikely. Private acquisitions made till now have not been affected by the government order. Ambani and his close aide Anand Jain have been prime promoters of the project. Maharashtra revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat confirmed his ministry had de-notified land acquisition for the MahaMumbai SEZ. RIL Group sources have said the project was being undertaken by Ambani in his personal capacity and was not a scheme of the group. After the government initiated the land-acquisition process, thousands of farmers opposed the SEZ saying that fertile, irrigated land was being acquired and this was not allowed under the SEZ Act. The MahaMumbai SEZ Sangharsh Samiti has already filed a petition in court challenging the project. Around 1,000 hectares of land have been privately acquired from farmers, with which a small SEZ could be constructed along with the ongoing Navi Mumbai SEZ project. Jain is chairman of the Navi Mumbai SEZ Pvt Ltd. However, social activist Ulka Mahajan said the farmers who sold land to the MahaMumbai SEZ have also approached the court and indicated their readiness to return the money. The project was approved in 2005. The SEZ was to be built between the upcoming Navi Mumbai airport and Pen towards the south and Uran towards the west. Ambani had projected an investment of Rs 35,000 crore over a period of 10 to 12 years. The export potential of the entire project was calculated at around Rs 75,000 crore with 20 lakh people directly or indirectly employed. Some sources said the project could have had the potential to wipe out 20% of Maharashtra’s unemployment. Mukesh Ambani has also planned an SEZ near Gurgaon and Jhajjar, that some have billed as the country’s largest. However, that project too is mired in regulatory and funding issues. Trump's legal team calls impeachment charges 'unlawful' 7 missing, over 150 rescued after Nepal avalanche Iran's home-made satellite ready for launch 0ver 15 years in the making, swimming pool inaugurated finally Tongpang Ozukum inaugurates Chakpa village gate	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355562
__label__wiki	0.929279	0.929279	19 minutes ago Chief Secretary to launch Nagaland edition of WING 19 minutes ago Tuensang DC lists activities for BBBP week 20 minutes ago CM and Deputy CM extend Khaozaosie-Hok-Ah greetings 21 minutes ago News in pictures 17 minutes ago VSU golden jubilee for ‘Rekindling our Vision’ Featured News » As students map the weather, an Indian village bests its water woes Submitted by jitendra on 24 August 2019 Ninth grader Vamshi Voggu at the automatic weather station on the school premises in Kothapally, India, on July 31, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Roli Srivastava A weather station monitored by students - part of a range of water-smart innovations - has turned around a parched village KOTHAPALLY, India August 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The village school in Kothapally, in southern India, has only a handful of amenities - blackboards, desks and chairs, a playground with a wooden bench under a tree. But it has one unusual resource: an automatic weather station. Nestled among farms, the government school is the only one in the southern Indian state of Telangana - and possibly in the country - to have a weather station on its premises, scientists overseeing the station said. Ninth graders, all children of local farmers, record rainfall, humidity, wind speed and the air temperature as part of a bigger project led by an international crop research institute to customise the village's farming to its water availability. "I understand how this works. I know if it rains well the previous day it is a good time to put fertilizer on the crops the next day," said Vamshi Voggu, 14, who doesn't much like science lessons but enjoys his morning weather-monitoring job at school. "My parents are farmers. This information helps them," Voggu told the Thomson Reuters Foundation during a class break, with his giggly friends chiming in on how farmers in the village benefit from the device. Two decades ago, Kothapally faced an acute water crisis, with little available to irrigate farms or to drink and women walking miles to fetch water. Nearly half the village's children were out of school, many herding cattle to supplement family incomes, villagers said. Around the same time, officials at an office of the non-profit International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), located about 60kms from Kothapally, were planning to replicate an on-campus watershed management project in a village. Vamshi Voggu and Gurulingam Goud, ninth grade students at the Kothapally village high school, check weather readings at the automatic weather station on their school premises in Kothapally, India, on July 31, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Roli Srivastava A local politician nudged them to the water-scarce village. The project, which brought in rainwater harvesting pits, dams, farm ponds and the weather station, has yielded rich harvests over the years, with the groundwater level rising by about four metres (13 feet) and farming increasingly tuned to rainfall readings. As the struggle for water has intensified in India in recent years, with many villages and cities running out of the precious resource, Kothapally has stayed afloat. "The number of rainy days in this region is decreasing, which means longer dry spells and more rains per day," said A.V.R Kesava Rao, an agro-climatologist who is an honorary fellow with ICRISAT in Hyderabad. The changing weather patterns and improved groundwater access have brought changes to traditional farming practices in Kothapally. Fields of mostly cotton have diversified to include water-smart sorghum, maize, pigeon peas, vegetables and also flowers. Recording the village's rainfall for the first time has also given key indicators of soil moisture, to help plan cropping patterns, Rao said. ICRISAT scientists originally visited the weather station once a month to take readings, he said. "But we thought of involving the community and moved it inside the school about a decade ago. Every year, we train children over two days on how to check the readings. The students are proud now of what they have in school," Rao said. MORNING DRILL When Binkam Sudhakar joined Kothapally high school as its principal four years ago, he had never seen a weather station before. Now he considers it the school's best tool for practical lessons on climate change, a departure from the rote learning common in the Indian education system. Every morning, before the school assembly, two students walk to the station with a notebook and pen, pull out the mobile phone shaped display unit and check rain and temperature readings by punching a few buttons. They then write the readings on the colourful weather chart painted on the wall outside the school. Local farmers say the daily bulletins are hugely helpful. "This is very important. We check the rainfall here on our way to work," said Voggu Anjaiah, 50, who owns six acres of farmland and checks the weather readings every day. "I grow cotton, bitter gourd, green beans and pigeon peas. Earlier we grew only cotton. We did not know how much it rained. Now that we do, we understand when the soil moisture is good and have started growing vegetables," he said. But with many farmers illiterate, less than half of village farmers check the weather station readings like Anjaiah does. Some children read out the information from the board to their parents who never went to school. Others students share important updates, such as good rainfall the previous day, when they get home from school. The young weather recorders believe they are engaged in an important task. "I never miss my turn," Vamshi said. When Venkat Reddy of child rights organisation MV Foundation first visited Kothapally in 1991, he saw vast tracts of dry farmland and children working as labourers. Four years later, after intensive campaigns involving young people going door-to-door to urge parents, employers and village council members to send children to school, Kothapally was declared 'child labour free' by the local government. "The entire village came together for its children," Reddy said by phone from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Student numbers improved in the village primary school, and enough students have stuck with learning that the village now has both a primary and a high school, which offers classes through tenth grade. And as more children enrolled in school, the weather station readings became accessible to more farmers. "My parents never made a profit from farming. We were very poor. I was pulled out of school after tenth grade," said Malleshwar Goud, whose 13-year-old son Gurulingam is in the ninth grade in the village school. Goud grows pulses, soybeans, maize and vegetables on his farm and said he is no longer dependent on one yield to survive the entire year. He said he never checks the weather as his son shares the readings with him when he returns from school. Though it was not planned, Kothapally has become a laboratory for social change experiments, campaigners and scientists said. Reddy of MV Foundation said his organisation replicated the Kothapally campaign to end child labour across villages in Telangana and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh state, as ICRISAT expanded its watershed management project to 13 villages in different Indian states. Goud hopes a good school and better crop yields through the year will protect his son's future. "He will study until he finds a good job," Goud said. 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__label__wiki	0.512994	0.512994	Mill Rats Defeat Miracles and Advance to Division Finals May 9, 2016 • By Giv'er Saint John • 0 Comments The Saint John Mill Rats defeated the Moncton Miracles 116-114 at the Moncton Coliseum, and advance to the Atlantic Division Championship series. The Halifax Hurricanes defeated the Island Storm and advance to face the Mill Rats in the next round. The dates for the next series are pending from the league. The Mill Rats were able to win the game without their leading scorer, Gabe Freeman, who was serving the first game of a two-game suspension resulting from an altercation with the Miracles Tom Granado the night before. “In Gabe’s absence we had huge contributions from our bench,” said Mill Rats Head Coach Rob Spon. “Chris (Smith) was tremendous, Olu (Famutimi), and Keith (Gayden), to get 60 points in scoring from our bench gave us the win.” For the second game in a row, Saint John got out to a great start. After the first quarter they led the Miracles 30-26. In the second quarter, the Mill Rats really got rolling eventually building a 62-41 lead with a two minutes left. But Moncton punched back, reeling off a 12-2 run to end the half. This cut Saint John’s lead to 64-53 at the break. In the third quarter, the Miracles continued their run out of the gate, cutting the lead down to 69-66. But the Mill Rats regained their stride enough for a 97-85 lead going into the fourth quarter, on a Chris Smith slam before the buzzer. In the fourth quarter, the Mill Rats led 116-108 but three layups by Cordell Jeanty and Mike Martin cut it do just 116-114 with 6 seconds left when the Miracles drew a foul. Moncton wasn’t in the bonus, so they had one last possession to go the tie or win. Martin missed a three pointer as time expired. Chris Smith led the Mill Rats with 29 points, Doug Herring & Olu Famutimi 21 each, Anthony Anderson 19, and Keith Gayden 10. Mike Martin led Moncton with 32 points. ← SAINT JOHN “CHAMP” CELEBRATES 70 YEARS OF WAR AMPS KEY TAGS AT ATLANTIC SEMINAR Early Music Festival →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355564
__label__wiki	0.956858	0.956858	TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska (AP) — There are no restaurants in Toksook Bay, Alaska. No motels or movie theater, either. There also aren't any factories. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State officials and U.S. hate-monitoring groups are warning about the potential for violence ahead of a gun-rights rally in Virginia that's expected to draw a mix of militias, firearms advocates and white supremacists to Richmond. NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities are turning to a new tactic in the escalating conflict over New York City's so-called sanctuary policies, issuing four “immigration subpoenas” to the city for information about inmates wanted for deportation. A boy armed with a gun killed three children and a woman inside a Utah home, then accompanied a fifth victim to a hospital, where he was arrested, police said Saturday. CHICAGO (AP) — A winter storm that brought snow and sleet to the Midwest and Plains created travel headaches Saturday after airlines canceled flights and officials shut down major roads. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A misdemeanor simple battery warrant for Cleveland Browns wide receiver and former LSU star Odell Beckham Jr. has been rescinded, the New Orleans Police Department confirmed Saturday. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police are scouring the internet for clues about plans for mayhem, workers are putting up chain link holding pens around Virginia's picturesque Capitol Square, and one lawmaker even plans to hide in a safe house in advance of what's expected to be an unprecedented show of force by gun-rights activists. What goes around comes around. An ice disk appears to be forming in the same Maine river where an unusually large one formed last winter and quickly gained international fame. ST. 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ICE leader blames 'sanctuary' policies for NYC killing NEW YORK (AP) — The country's top immigration official blamed the “sanctuary policies” of New York City on Friday for the sexual assault and killing of a 92-year-old woman, while the mayor's office decried such rhetoric as “fear, hate and attempts to divide.” Matthew Albence, the acting director of U.S. © 2020 EarthLink, LLC All rights reserved. Members and visitors to the EarthLink Web site agree to abide by our Policies and Agreements, including the Acceptable Use Policy. EarthLink Privacy Policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355566
__label__wiki	0.780848	0.780848	Global Security Newsletter // January 28 Counterintelligence from Michael_Novakhov (50 sites): "cia" - Google News: Amazon picks up CIA torture investigation film ‘The Report’ - Washington Post 1. World from Michael_Novakhov (22 sites): FOX News: Iowa teen found dead after running away from home in frigid temps over fight with parents, police say 1. World from Michael_Novakhov (22 sites): FOX News: New half-ton electric pickup costs just $5,700 1. World from Michael_Novakhov (22 sites): FOX News: Boxing referee Steve Willis delights fans with his facial expressions during fight 1. World from Michael_Novakhov (22 sites): FOX News: Alan Alda gets emotional on acting in SAG Awards life-achievement speech Adam Driver, from left, Annette Bening and Jon Hamm, cast members in “The Report,” pose together at the premiere of the film during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Saturday, Jan. Corey Brown, 13, was found dead Sunday. (Marshalltown Police Department) An Iowa teen who ran away from home in freezing temperatures after arguing with his parents was found dead Sunday morning, police said. Ford has confirmed plans to introduce an all-electric F-150 pickup in a couple of years, and it looks like it will have a little competition when it does. Literally. It’s called the Pickman and the tiny truck only costs $5,700. Keith Thurman, left, punches Josesito Lopez during the eighth round of a welterweight championship boxing match Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, in New York. Thurman won the fight. Alan Alda poses with the Life Achievement Award in the press room at the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Alan Alda barely talked about himself or his 60-year career as he was honored for a lifetime of acting at the 25th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, instead giving tribute to the craft of acting itself, and its power.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355567
__label__cc	0.6667	0.3333	Prabhakar, S. (1995). Development of Software for Computer Aided Instruction and its Comparison with Tradition Method for Teaching Physics at Plus II level. Unpublished. Ph.D., Education. Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya. Indore,M.P. The objectives of study were: (1) To develop computer software for computer aided instruction for teaching selected topics in physics, namely, semiconductors’, P-N Junctions’ and Electro-Magnetic Induction’. (2) To study the effectiveness of CAI material in terms of achievement and reaction towards CAI material. (3) To compare the achievement of (a) class XII students taught through CAI with those taught through traditional method, (b) class XII students with those of class XI students both taught through CAI, and (c) male students with female students of class XI taught through CAI by considering intelligence, pretest, attitude towards science, adjustment, personality and study habits separately as covariates. (4) To compare the reaction towards CAI material (a) of class XII students with those of class XI students both taught through CAI, (b) of male students with those female students of XI both taught through CAI, and (c) of male students with those of female students of class XII both taught through CAI by considering intelligence, achievement, attitude towards science, adjustment, personality and study habits separately as covariates. (5) To study the effect of treatment, adjustment with its various dimension and interaction on achievement separately. (6) To study the effect of treatment, attitude towards science and their interaction on achievement. (7) To study the effect of treatment, study habits and their interaction on achievement. The hypotheses of study were: (1) The adjusted mean achievement scores of class XII students taught through CAI do not differ significantly from those taught through traditional method when intelligence is considered as covariate. (2) The adjusted mean achievement score of class XII students taught through CAI do not differ significantly from through traditional method when pretest is considered as covariate. (3) The adjusted mean achievement scores of class XII students taught selected topics of physics through CAI do not differ significantly from those taught through traditional method when pretest is considered as covariate separately. (4) The adjusted mean achievement scores of class XII students taught through CAI do not differ significantly from those taught through traditional method when attitude towards science, emotional adjustment, social adjustment, educational adjustment, personality and study habits is considered as covariate separately. (5) The adjusted mean achievement scores of class XII students taught through CAI do not differ significantly from class XI students also taught through CAI when intelligence, pretest, attitude towards science, adjustment, personality and study habits is considered as covariate separately. (6) The adjusted mean achievement scores of male students of class XI do not differ significantly from female students both taught through CAI when intelligence, pretest, attitude towards science, adjustment, personality and study habits is considered as covariate separately. (7) The adjusted mean achievement scores of male students of class XII taught through CAI do not differ significantly from female students also taught through CAI when intelligence, pretest, attitude towards science, adjustment, personality, study-habits is considered as covariate separately. (8) The adjusted mean reaction scores of class XII students taught through CAI do not differ significantly from class XI students also taught through CAI when intelligence, pretest, achievement, attitude towards science, personality and study habits is considered as covariate separately. (9) The adjusted mean reaction scores of male students and female students of class XI both taught through CAI do not differ significantly when intelligence, achievement, attitude towards science, adjustment, personality and study habits is considered as covariate separately. (10) The adjusted mean reaction scores of male students of class XII do not differ significantly from female students both taught through CAI when intelligence, achievement, attitude towards science, adjustment, personality and study habit is considered as covariate separately. (11) There will be no significance effect of (a) treatment, personality and their interaction, (b) treatment, emotional adjustment and their interaction, (c) treatment, emotional adjustment and their interaction, (d) treatment, social adjustment and their interaction, (e) treatment, educational adjustment and their interaction, (f) treatment, adjustment and their interaction, (g) treatment, attitude towards science and their interaction, and (h) treatment, study habits and their interaction on the achievement of students separately. Sample comprised 203 students of class XI and XII of Indore city school where CBSE syllabus is being followed. The tools used for measuring variables were: Study Habits Inventory by M. Mukhopadhyay and D.N. Sansanwal, Science Attitude Scale by Avinash Grewal, Maudsley Personality Inventory by S.S. Jalota and S.D. Kapoor, Adjustment Inventory by A.K.P. Singh and R.P. Singh, Standard Progressive Matrices by J.C. Raven, and criterion test on selected topics of physics and Reaction Scale for assessing Reaction towards CAI material were developed by investigator. The present study was experimental and pretest-posttest control group design was used. The two groups were equated with respect to intelligence.Sex, pretest, attitude towards science, adjustment and personality were the moderate variables. Data analyses were performed with the help of percentile, mean, correlated t-test, coefficient of variance, chi-square test, ANOVA and ANCOVA. The findings of study were: (1) The CAI material was found to be effective in terms of achievement and reaction towards CAI material of both class XI and XII students. (2) The CAI was found to be significantly superior to traditional method in terms of achievement of class XII students when moderate variables were considered as covariates separately. (3) The class XII students achieved significantly higher than class XI students both taught through CAI when moderate variables were taken as covariates separately. (4) CAI was found to be equally beneficial to both males and females of class XI in terms of achievement when moderate variables were considered as covariates separately. (5) CAI was found to be equally beneficial to both males and females of class XII in terms of achievement when moderate variables were considered as covariates separately. (6) Class XI students were found to be have significantly more favorable reaction towards CAI material than class XII students when moderate variables were considered as covariates separately. (7) Class XI and class XII males as well as females were found to have equally favorable reaction towards CAI material when moderate variables were considered as covariates separately. (8) The CAI was found to be significantly superior to traditional method in terms of achievement of students. (9) The achievement was found to be independent of personality as well as interaction between treatment and personality. (10) The achievement was found to be independent of personality, adjustment, emotional adjustment, social adjustment, educational adjustment, attitude towards science, and their interaction with treatment separately. The CAI was found to benefit both students with poor as well as good educational adjustment. (11) The study habits as well as interaction between treatment and study habits were not found to influence significantly the achievement of students. Keyword(s): Computer Aided Instruction , Computer Aided Instruction , Teaching Physics, Plus II level	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355584
__label__cc	0.697576	0.302424	Willa Van Nostrand of Little Bitte Cocktails Chattman Photography We want to have a drink with Willa Van Nostrand, especially if she's the one making it. Mixologist, owner of Little Bitte Artisanal Cocktails, singer/ songwriter, art curator, and infusively charming company, Willa is the total package. Okay, the total dream. We Insta-stalked her beautifully curated and delicious photos (not to mention that topknot of hers) for about a year before calling her up and asking her to host a workshop at Ode. We met up in Quonquont orchard, where we got to play dress up and traipse around with Willa, eating apples whilst sipping her mango margarita. Even listening to her describe a drink will make your mouth water. Here's a little sneak "sip" of what's in store for our "Guide to Gatherings" workshop at Ode, this Thursday, Nov. 8, from 6-8pm, featuring Willa Van Nostrand, with foodie-guru Victoria Accardi. There are a few spots still open, so give us a call or stop by the boutique to sign up! Cheers! How did you get your start in bartending and mixology? I grew up on a small herb farm in Massachusetts with my mom, a midwife & herbalist—and my dad, a minister & bartender. I’ve always been pretty obsessed with food, so beverage was a natural extension. I worked in a bunch of bars through my late teens and early 20s, but really found my niche living in Italy for a year when I was working with cordials and Amari like Campari, Aperol, and Fernet Branca. Even when I was working at the family dive bar, I’d bring in my own edible blossom bouquets to garnish cocktails. Folks would start requesting the drinks I made for them, and that’s how the business was born. Before I knew it, I was doing a bunch of parties and weddings and shopping for insurance. Business, how romantic! Describe the perfect sip: The perfect sip is clean, sumptuously tart and leaves you wanting another sip. The perfect sip is insatiable. The perfect sip is usually Champagne, generally a very dry margarita, and most often: a flute of sparkling rosé. On friday nights, it’s a dirty martini with fancy queen olives, in Italy, a spritz, a voluptuous red wine. Cognac, forever– aged off the vine. What’s your spirit cocktail? If mezcal is my spirit “spirit, ” then The Division Bell is my spirit cocktail (Mezcal, fresh lime, Aperol, maraschino cherry liqueur) for its astringency, appetizing pop of color, light bitterness, and smoke. It reminds me that I’m alive and every breath, sip and bite matters. On top of being a business owner and expert mixologist, you are a singer in a band. What’s the music/style? Who’s in your band? Where can we see you perform? Ah, Singing! My first love. I make my own music as Willa Van Nostrand and I’m in a band “The Van Nostrand Sisters” with my Sister Glenna and her partner, Ken Linehan, who’s fabulous. There’s an ever-evolving cast of characters, but it’s most minimally the 3 of us on stage. We make folk music, I write most of the songs and the band gives them life! Lots of harmonies, and our voices do that magic sister thing that sisters can do: very sweet, goofy, upbeat, folky? Dare I say, country? We dance around a lot and wear vintage dresses and costumes. We are working on recording our album and we don’t have any shows booked currently because we’re not letting ourselves play out until we finish the album. We usually play small clubs & venues, folk festivals, friends house shows in the woods, art spaces…. You get the idea. We love playing so if you have something in mind, don’t be a stranger. Record’s almost done! Hold on, you have an art gallery? Explain! Yes! I own a small storefront gallery called World’s Fair Gallery at 268 Broadway in Providence. We opened in 2010 as a site-specific gallery, and now we’re at home on Broadway. We curate shows inspired by taste, gustatory and aesthetic. For each show, we pair 2D & 3D artists with folks who make ceramics or handblown glass vessels. For the opening reception of each show, we pop-up and make cocktails that were designed for the artwork and the glassware. This business model works in a way that I can travel and install art pop-ups and bars in galleries and art fairs. I am really excited about World’s Fair and can’t wait to share more artwork, beautiful vessels and beverages with the world. Best moment from a wedding: Last summer we worked this insanely gorgeous wedding out near the beach in Tiverton, Rhode Island. The whole thing was romantic and candlelit with colorful lanterns hanging from the trees. After we broke down the bar, we were standing around having a shift drink and we all let our hair down (you know, the ‘Bitte bun’ up-do has to come down sometime). We looked like a group of mermaids on the lawn. The groomsmen called to us from the dance floor á la Romeo up to Juliet’s window: “Angels, sweet women, where have you been? It’s time to dance!” I melted a little, we giggled a lot, and then got out of there as quickly as we could because we knew better! We had to bail before the midsummer night’s dream enchanted us all. I also cried last week at a cranberry bog during the bride and groom’s first dance at sunset. Does that count? I end up crying at a lot of the weddings that I work because they’re so beautiful and touching. Once you work with a couple on their wedding for a year, you can get pretty emotionally attached. Stirred! It’s traditional to stir a martini. “Stir spirits with vermouth, shake juice!” But I say, if you’re the one drinking it — do whatever you want! If you ask me to make you a cosmo, I’ll make you a damn good cosmo. If you ask me to shake your martini, I’ll shake the living daylights out of it. That’s what hospitality is about. If you could have a drink anywhere with any one person, where and with whom would that be? I’d have a cigar and a glass of Cognac with Gertrude Stein in Paris during her Expat salon years. What’s the “garden” element of your tagline “craft cocktails from garden to glass in New England”? All of our edible blossoms and fresh botanicals are organically grown, local or sustainably sourced. For the first 5 years of Little Bitte, my mom and I grew all of our botanicals. Now, we source our blossoms, fruit, and herbs from about 25 local growers. Favorite toast? To high winds and mermaids! What’s essential for the perfect gathering? Making your guests feel comfortable. Good lighting, enough food and drink for your guests, and their friends you didn’t know they were bringing along. And ice! 2-3 pounds per guest to be specific.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355588
__label__cc	0.582559	0.417441	home News, Sports Carolina Panthers QB Cam Newton Drops BOMB On Charlotte Rioters: ‘We Can’t Be…’ Carolina Panthers QB Cam Newton Drops BOMB On Charlotte Rioters: ‘We Can’t Be…’ By Sean Brown Posted in News Sports The biggest news story of the past couple of days has been the violent riots that broke out in Charlotte, North Carolina after police killed an armed black man who refused to drop his gun, and everyone is weighing in. Prior to the riots, players like Colin Kaepernick and others had chosen to disrespect America over perceived in justices, stoking the flames of the anti-police sentiment spreading across the nation that’s been largely fueled by the media. However, Newton doesn’t seem to be buying into that narrative, and he went out on a limb today to express how he really feels about it. During a Thursday press conference, Newton was asked about his thoughts on the matter. His response might surprise you. From the Panthers, he said, in part: “I’m an African American. I’m not happy what or how justice has been dealt with over the years — the state of oppression in our community. But we also as black people have to do right by ourselves, we can’t be hypocrites. I say that on one voice and also another voice that when you go public or when things happen in the community, it’s not the fact that things are happening, it’s the way they’re being treated after they’re happening. When you get a person who does some unjust things or killing an innocent person, killing fathers, killing people who have actual families, that’s real. I have a son. And a daughter I’m responsible for. And how they feel if one day they come home and there’s no more daddy? We need people to be held accountable is that’s all.” He continued, explaining that he doesn’t look at things through racial lenses but rather or not someone’s a good or a bad person. “It doesn’t matter the race. I don’t see that through a black/white lens. I could look at you and be around you and I can tell if you’re a good person. There’s good people that doesn’t have a badge on, there’s good people that has a badge on. We all know people who are in the police department. And we also know bad people that’s civilians, and just bad people who are police officers. That’s just life as a whole. We all have to as United States citizens, just have to [be] accountable for what we do.” The most controversial part of his commentary was when he called out the black community for being hypocritical when it comes to which black lives matter. “When you look at the most dangerous cities in America. You know Atlanta, Birmingham, Chicago, Miami, Louisiana. I know from being a black person there’s a lot black people who don’t do right by black people, so you can’t be a hypocrite and say, ‘Oh well, a white man or a white police officer just killed a black man.’” Unfortunately, his remarks weren’t received too well among other black people. #CamNewton is a suckered he spoke out against Blacks such a coon @kandirider — Aset Kemet (@BlackGoddess104) September 22, 2016 Fuck @stephenasmith and cam newton fuckin coons 🖕🏾 https://t.co/2e8Nnohekp — FAT 〽️ILLER (@getYUStoit) September 22, 2016 "dancing sho is hard when I is trying to please both the massah and the slave folk"- Cam Newton — Quincy Jones comedy (@LLQJ206) September 22, 2016 I wish Cam Newton would stop shuckin and jivin for the white man and take a knee! — Nike Shinobi (@iTREY_) September 22, 2016 Can we get a fuvk cam newton song — SFVO®♋3⃣ (@Qu3stL0v3) September 22, 2016 Cam Newton is so fine, but his stupidity negates all of that. — Kaylan (@KaylanBaylan) September 22, 2016 You get the idea. Newton refused to toe the leftist line and now he’s being shamed as a result, much like every other brave black person who speaks the truth about race in America. The difference between those critical of Newton and Newton is that Newton didn’t succumb to the mindset of a perpetual victim, and instead refused to be held back by what he perceived as injustices. Perhaps if these other people tried to do the same they might see the changes in their lives they’ve been hoping for. BREAKING: Obama Admin. Just Made SICK Ruling In California, Churches Now Forced To… As CA Gov. Spends BILLIONS On Illegals, Look What’s Been TOTALLY Ignored For Over A DECADE BREAKING: Wikileaks Reveals OBAMA RIGGED The Primaries To ENSURE Hillary Won	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355591
__label__cc	0.681265	0.318735	home News, Politcs OUCH: Obama Loyalists Get MAJOR Reality Check As Boss Moves To Vacate White House OUCH: Obama Loyalists Get MAJOR Reality Check As Boss Moves To Vacate White House For eight years, loyalists to Barack Obama have had comfort in knowing they had job security in a town that was run by mostly Democrats, but things have changed quite a bit after the last election. Republicans swept the elections and retained both the House and the Senate, plus they now have the White House. As a result, thousands of young, liberal snowflakes are now faced with the harsh reality that the only reason they had a job is because of loyalty to their party. The problem for them is that their party has been reduced to only representing a few coastal states and the worst-run cities in the country, so they’re having quite an issue finding other work. More from the Daily Caller: Thousands of Obama loyalists are struggling to find work in a city now dominated by the GOP, according to a report from Politico. “It feels like there are just thousands of us trying to find a job, and there are no jobs,” Mira Patel, a longtime Clinton aide told Politico. Democratic operatives and Obama staffers no longer have the more than 4,000 presidential appointed jobs to transition to after President-elect Trump takes office. Politico describes how a generation of young operatives from the Hillary Clinton campaign and failed down-ballot races are still managing their “shock and grief” from Clinton’s loss. “Clients are all pivoting, and they’re all frankly trying to figure it out just like we all are right now,” Julian Ha, a partner at the executive search firm Heidrick and Struggles, told Politico. The report describes an anxious environment, where Clinton campaign staff struggle to talk about their work to potential employers. Some Clinton campaign staff are so rattled, that they have lost their bearings, according to Politico. The term “full circle” seems to apply in this instance. For years they supported the job-killing policies of the Obama administration, and now they’re joining the ranks of Americans who were all affected by them. Karma sucks, huh? Welcome to the real world, snowflakes. UH OH! Wikileaks Email Ties Nancy Pelosi DIRECTLY To Wasserman-Schultz’s IT Aide Democrats FREAK After Russian Official Drops NUKE About Hillary Clinton ILLEGAL ALIEN Grabs Cop’s Gun At Trump Rally, Media SILENT On What Happened Next	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355592
__label__wiki	0.709077	0.709077	23Jun04 — 4 Festival Round-Up Despite featuring the towering talent of Morrissey, this year's “alternative rock” Lollapalooza tour in the States has had to be cancelled because of poor ticket sales. You mean the young (ha!) people don't want to hand over their hard-earned to witness the still-fresh and boundary-breaking virtuosi of the Pixies and Sonic Youth? Say it isn't so! Boring, musically-challenged blokes who work in the “creative” industries must be weeping into their microbrews across the USA. And, reflecting on the UK's own Glastonbury festival in The Times , the often-sensible Stephen Pollard seems to have completely lost it. There's no need to drift off into a “bloody long-haired hippies with their drugs and wailing pop music” tirade to make the case against “Glasto”. Three words are sufficient: Oasis are headlining. The biggest draw at the event is an ugly, charisma-free, inarticulate, immobile, lazy, hamfisted, pub duo whose tired Beatles tribute act would be booed off Stars In Their Eyes . The emperor of indie rock has been stark bollock naked for years. His mistake was to cross the Atlantic and expose himself to the locals. Now the Americans are pointing at his dangly bits and laughing—those Americans who aren't ignoring him completely and hoping he'll be picked up by the police so he stops embarrassing everyone. Whoda Thunkit? 12 Men Against 11 Timbeaux says: 23Jun04 at 21:50 Hey now, I still listen to the Pixies. I refuse to entirely let go of my youth!!! As for the Sonic Youth, yeah well, they ALWAYS stank. PooterGeek says: I must concede that The Pixies have had one or two moments, but, I'm sorry, that doesn't make them decade-straddling evergreens fit to tower over your proud continent. And The People are with me. Backword Dave says: No they’re not. The People says: Oh yes we are.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355593
__label__cc	0.637966	0.362034	« Wil Wright’s Vince’s Pizza » The original Junior’s Delicatessen opened near the intersection of Pico and Westwood in West L.A. in 1959. As explained here, it was a small operation run by the Saul Brothers that mainly sold corned beef and other deli food to go. But they had a handful of tables and if you wanted to have a sandwich there, one of the brothers would make it and bring it to your table. It was on Pico, a few blocks east of Westwood. In 1967, they moved to a new building that was more of a restaurant on Westwood. Almost instantly, Junior’s became one of great local success stories for that kind of business. I was a regular customer but I never found the place outstanding. The corned beef wasn’t as good as Art’s. The potato salad wasn’t as good as Nate ‘n Al’s. The chicken soup wasn’t as good as Canter’s and so on. A deli doesn’t have to do all those things well but it ought to do one thing better than everyone else in town. If Junior’s did, I never ordered it. (I feel the same way about Factor’s and Jerry’s, though I’m sure commenters here can tell me of many things they’ve loved at all these places.) What Junior’s had going for it was a good, friendly feel and a great location. If you had to meet a friend or business associate for lunch in that area, it wasn’t merely the best choice. It was darn near the only one. So I went there often and was never unhappy, except sometimes with the bill or the parking lot. And it did have the main stamp of approval that a deli has to have in Los Angeles: You could sometimes spot Mel Brooks eating there. Junior’s was such a fixture of the neighborhood that it came as a shock when its closure was announced in December of 2012. It closed the last day of the year. What happened? It depends on who you ask. Marvin Saul, who founded and ran Junior’s, died near the end of 2011 and control of the business passed to his sons, David and John. In a newspaper article, David blamed their landlords who were trying to raise the rent and were “not willing to bend” on “a number that we can’t give.” He cited rising food costs. In response, the landlords (a firm called Four Corners Investment Co.) blamed the sons. A spokesperson said that they’d had an excellent working relationship with Marvin Saul and had actually lowered the rent below what Junior’s was contractually obligated to pay, hoping that a declining business could turn around. When it came time to renew the lease for 2013, the two sides were unable to agree on a number. The Four Corners people suggested that the sons simply did not have the management skills of the father and that may be so. It may also be so that the Four Corners folks saw an opportunity to bring in a tenant with better prospects and a willingness to pay the full rental value of the property. Given that I often felt the food was overpriced and not as good as it should have been, I’m inclined to think that Junior’s best days were in the past. But somehow, maybe because it was a part of my world for so long, I already miss the place and hope that reports of it reopening somewhere else will prove true. If they’d gotten a cut of every business deal made at their tables, the place would still be the gold mine that it was for Sauls in the late sixties through about the nineties. 21 Responses to Junior’s Delicatessen II Wow! I didn’t know Juniors closed. My mom worked there in the late 70’s and most of the 80’s. I saw so many movie stars there!! Prince, Arnold, Stallone and a few others were always there! Loved that place. My mom wasn’t a fan of Marvin Saul. She complained about him daily. Many memories in that place. Brian Marcus says: The bakery side use to be Rancho Music my dad’s store. Bob Hite of Canned Heat was manager before getting record deal. We ate at Juniors in the 60’s and 70’s. Food was great before son’s took over. Those were the days. A Customer who hears things says: Rumor has it that Lenny’s will be closing in a week or two. Lenny sold the place a couple of years ago and the new owner isn’t as savvy as Lenny is. Nick Ramus says: I lived Jewish Delicatessens! As a young man I learned much of the trade working in some of the best delis in and around LA! There are foods that get into your taste buds and heart memories that never leave! Matzo Ball Soup, kreplach…oh so many vivid memories! I am an Executive Chef Retired, my work sent me all over the world working in major hotels! But my home feelings are in Santa Monica and LA, even the Valley! My favorite job was working the Deli counter slinging Liz and whitefish! I have been longing for Jewish home cooking, Hence my search found me here! I hope Juniors still exists! I may one day return home to see my youth memories revitalized! Brian Gamberg says: I am truly delighted to have stumbled upon your website while trying to look up Al Penni’s or Penny’s? In Culver City for some obscure reason. Great Website. Ron Fernberg says: Yep, I went to work @ Juniors the in 1960 with Marvin & Eddie Saul on Pico, I learned a valuable trade, Jewish Deli from 2 nice guys! I went there, brought my sons & friends there too. I was just a kid, but, remember it well. Eddie was the nicest guy, Marvin more business! I can’t imagine, in all the years they were there, that the opportunity to buy that building or another in the same area didn’t come along. So many who lease their business locations get comfortable just throwing rent money down the toilet. If Marvin Saul had bought the building, I’m confident that David & John would still be there today, making tons of money and confident in knowing that their location was secure. If you lease rather than buy–and your location is important to you, BUY IT! If you continue to lease, the rent will keep going up and up and in the end, you’ll have NOTHING to show for all your years of hard work, other than a stack of canceled rent checks. W Benshoof says: Had I meal and went to the register to pay. Cashier comes out of the back and says, “Give me a few minutes”. She disappeared into the dining and we could hear here talking from within. A few minutes stretched into twenty and we left without paying. As they say “Time is money”. Ken Simon says: I’m glad to hear that a new, better deli has opened in Junior’s place. I didn’t have any sentimental attachment to Junior’s because I was in my thirties by the time I tried it, in or around 2006. At that time, it was terrible. Food was awful, fruit salad had fruit flies drowned in it, the place was looking like it needed a good scrubbing. jrs had the best sweet sour cabbage soup it was $$$$$ but u pay for good yummy food the derby cake omg delish lennys is not jrs im sorry cakes was stale my neice ate thre said food not same if not broken dont fix it I enjoyed the food at Junior’s, especially the cabbage soup, cabbage rolls, and blintzes, my go-to items. I have eaten at Lenny’s twice, and I don’t plan to go back. I find the food blah, different from Junior’s and not to my taste. I certainly don’t find it cheaper. I also find the atmosphere blah, as well as the service. Mark Miller says: Junior’s, now Lenny’s, is indeed better than ever. Lenny – there really is a Lenny – knows his business, and his careful make-over of what was Junior’s has brought the former into the 21st century, and in this case that’s a good thing. Everything good about Junior’s, the character of the menu particularly, remains, and there’s value added: smarter, more professional service, a smart new interior that evokes the feel of Junior’s but seems cleaner and more comfortable. If you enjoyed going to Junior’s but have not patronized Lenny’s, you’re in for a pleasant experience. Nomad says: Juniors had the best cheese blintzes ever! I really miss them. :-( ZB says: Oh man the cabbage soup! It was the best on the planet! I’ll miss it. A Marvick says: I too miss Junior’s which varied in quality over the years but was always a reasonable value. And I remember I&Joy — and I think C(harles?)Golvin, too, who posted above:-) I too was a high school senior in ’75 (University HS). Increasingly nostalgic, particularly about old L.A. eateries . . . A Marvick Ricky Hanson says: So sad to see great old restaurants like this close. They not only have yummy food, but they’re full of Hollywood history too. Ricky Hanson Andy Powell says: The space that was Junior’s is now re-open as Lenny’s Deli. They opened on February 7th. I ate there tonight for the first time, and you know what? I would honestly have to say it’s better — and I say that because they have virtually the same menu but they’ve increased the portions and lowered the prices!!! Not only that, but about 80% of the former employees came back — including Scottish Annie!!! I met Lenny too, and he is very friendly and approachable. Try it out! >>A deli doesn’t have to do all those things well but it ought to do one thing better than everyone else in town. If Junior’s did, I never ordered it.<< Well, I did! There were a few things Junior's did better than other places — their cabbage soup was outstanding, as was their marinated steak, as was their grilled garlic salmon. They also had the best waitress, Scottish Annie. C Golvin says: The Westwood Blvd. location wasn’t originally as large as when it closed. There used to be an I&Joy Bagels bordering Junior’s on the south, but eventually Junior’s subsumed it. As a high school senior in 1975 I worked at that I&Joy, but I don’t remember when it shut down and Junior’s swallowed the space. Darnell V. Garrett says: Often, when heirs “take over” the business, the brand no longer exists as it died with the creator. Junior’s Deli was the fathers brainchild, not the son’s. He understood the mechanics from the ground up because he designed it himself. The sons simply tried to keep it going. The father most likely could have weathered the recession much better than the sons.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355598
__label__cc	0.69525	0.30475	Tag Archives: act Got Your Tickets Yet? Meet Olive Madison: “I love sports, I like to paint. I like photography. I don’t like to clean up. When I got married my wedding dress had CocaCola stains on it.” Separated and man-crazy, more concerned about bringing home the bacon than frying it up in a pan, Olive is the epitome of the word SLOB. Meet Florence Unger: ” Just you wait. I’ll turn this apartment into something out of Architectural Digest. You’ll see furniture you never knew you had. ” Separated and still missing her “short, hairless cowboy” husband, Florence channels her insecurities about singlehood into cleaning up…. after Olive. Olive’s big mistake? Allowing Florence to move in. Florence’s big mistake? Underestimating Olive’s frustration. Your big mistake? Missing this hilarious comedy. Get your tickets today! Posted in Arts Jam: What's Jammin in the Arts?, Member Groups, News \| Tagged act, comedy, Neil Simon, OSS, production, sale, seats, show, SOAP, SOAP Players, SOSS, South okanagan Amateur Players, The Odd Couple, theatre, tickets Laughs double up cast at Odd Couple rehearsals Aimee Grice is wiping the tears from her eyes. “Sorry, I just can’t go on,” she splutters. “Let me … just … catch my breath.” She’s not crying: Grice is doubled over in a fit of giggles. Grice is in rehearsal for SOAP’s upcoming production of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple. In the female version of the famous comedy, the eponymous “Oscar” and “Felix” become the slobby divorcee Olive Madison (played by Grice) and her irritatingly neat roomate Florence Unger (played by Leslee Hatherly). The comedy follows two newly single ladies as they navigate the rules of sharing an apartment and returning to the dating scene. Grice and Hatherly (at left) are two strong actors, although relative newcomers to SOAP. This is Aimee’s fourth production, after singing in the nuns chorus in The Sound of Music (2008), then taking the lead in Sand Mountain (2009) and an ensemble part in Rumors (2010). Leslee took a small and serious role in this season’s drama, Twelve Angry Jurors, but her comic talents take centre stage in The Odd Couple. Director Penelope Johnson is taking the cast through one of the funniest scenes in the play: Olive and Florence on a double date with their attractive Spanish neighbours, the Costazuela brothers. Aimee’s shoulders shake as she struggles to remain in character. Waiting patiently for the rehearsal to continue are Tom Szalay (as Monolo Costazuela) and Paul Everest (as Jesus Costazuela). Szalay and Everest have been practicing the Castilian accents and charming manners required for their roles. “Monolo and I have brrrrought you frrresh flowers and frrresh candy,” says Everest, rolling his Rs. “Please to accept my deep felicitations. We hope you like them. The candy ees … um ….no good.” “No good?” responds Grice as Olive, trying unsuccessfully not to smile. “Si. Very chewy,” says Tom as Manolo. “Do you mean nougat?” says Olive. “Ah si! Nou–gat! Not ‘no good’… nougat! So stoopid. We are steeell berry new at Engleesh.” Aimee splutters again. “Sorry,” she says, holding up her hand to call another halt. “It’s too funny, plus I’m soooo tired.” Grice is a new mother, battling sleep deprivation. Her babe-in-arms occasionally joins her at rehearsals. “That’s the deal,” explains Penelope Johnson. “Aimee can perform if I direct while dandling her baby on my knee.” Also in the cast are Linda Venables, Lynne Richards, Diane Gludovatz and Jen Jensen as the Trivial Pursuit playing girlfriends of Olive and Florence. In the play, the ladies add some “gal pal” humour to the storyline, give advice, and play referees to Olive and Florence’s squabbles over housekeeping and dating. The foursome also act as surrogate moms to Grice’s baby, passing the little girl from knee to knee as they practice their lines. Grice and Hatherly find they are growing into their characters during the rehearsal period. “Olive is not a stretch for me,” admits Aimee Grice, who revels in the opportunity to make a mess on stage. On the other hand, Leslee Hatherly, as the house-proud Florence, is dicovering her hidden neat freak. “My kitchen at home has never been SO CLEAN. I’m really immersing myself in this character.” The lead actors are enjoying their time together at rehearsal. “Olive and Florence get quite a workout on stage,” says director Johnson. “The action can get fast and furious.” Lately they have been choreographing a couple of fight scenes (involving a vacuum cleaner, a ladle, a can of deodorizer, and a plate of linguini) and a chase scene (involving a can of pepper spray and a suitcase of lingerie). Curiously enough, Hatherly and Grice find the hilarity and crazy antics at rehearsals an antidote to their busy lives. The Odd Couple is slated for production on Friday April 29 and Saturday April 30 at the Osoyoos MiniTheatre (OSS), and on Friday May 6 and Saturday May 7 at the Frank Venables Auditorium (SOSS) in Oliver. Tickets are $15 Adults and $12 Seniors/Students. They go on sale at the end of March, through Your Dollar Store with More (Osoyoos), and Sundance Video (Oliver). Watch for posters to indicate the start of ticket sales. More information can be obtained at Posted in Member Groups, News \| Tagged act, acting, actors, comedy, director, Everest, female, female version, gludovatz, Grice, hatherly, jensen, Neil Simon, performance, play, rehearsal, richards, sale, simon, SOAP, SOAP Players, South okanagan Amateur Players, Szalay, The Odd Couple, theatre, tickets, venables	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355601
__label__wiki	0.58887	0.58887	About Parris Island Museum and reviews Historical and Museum Gift Shop The Gift Shop is managed by the Historical and Museum Society. All proceeds go to help fund the continuous development of the Depot’s Museum, as well as the Society's educational and out-reach programs. The Gift Shop sells a wide variety of Marine Corps items, some of which are exclusive designs. Gift Shop Hours 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday on Graduation Week 10 p.m. - 4 p.m. Saturdays 12 p.m.- 4 p.m. Sunday Closed New Year's, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Visit us at ParrisIslandGiftShop.com to purchase best selling products. All products are not offered on-line, so if you are looking for something special and cannot find it in the on-line store, contact us via email or call 843-228-2166. Master Gunnery Sergeant AD 1200 to early 1500s 10,000 to 3,000 years ago Charlesfort-Santa Elena Historical & Museum Spanish Santa Elena A Scottish Trading Colony near Parris Island, 1684-1686 Historic 1500s to 1700s Museum Paleoindian Period Museum French Charlesfort Parris Island Plantations Parris Island Directions Call ahead for reservations: (843) 228-2951 Parris Island Museum 111 Panama St © Copyright 2019 Unofficial site of Parris Island Museum This site is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Parris Island Museum. It exists as a compendium of supporting information intended for informational purposes only. If you want to buy this website, please don't hesitate to contact us via e-mail: domain (dot) sales (dot) org @ gmail (dot) com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355608
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__label__cc	0.66389	0.33611	UPDATE. By now, you know that the GOP's favorite pastime is overruling its pesky principles Sources: 2017 Assembly Bill 479, Republican Party of Wisconsin Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signs bill to expand property rights. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11/27/2017) Which is why Rep. Adam Jarchow (R-Balsam Lake) is the lead sponsor. Assembly Bill 479 will allow property owners to use and sell substandard lots and comes in response to a June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that determined a Wisconsin family was not entitled to compensation over development regulations that barred the sale of a lot it owns adjacent to its cottage on Lake St. Croix. In all 13 GOP members of the Assembly and 5 GOP members of the Senate signed onto the bill. 9/28/2017 update, "When it comes to short-term rental laws, Wisconsin GOP happily slams the door on local control", starts here. Republican Party of Wisconsin (text) Headline from Madison.com, 9/28/2017 The change in state law was inserted into the state budget last week. The change supersedes an ordinance the Green Bay area village [Ashwaubenon] adopted a year ago that limited short-term rentals to only 22 properties in the immediate vicinity of Lambeau Field. Owners of those properties also were required to get a permit from the village. Village officials were concerned that rental homes would spread in response to demand for short-term housing for Packers games — and that would change the village's character. 9/18/2017 update, "When it comes to labor organizations, Wisconsin GOP happily stomps on local control", starts here. Assembly Bill 64 (a.k.a. 2017-19 state budget) 9/7/2017 update, " Wisconsin GOP dumps mound of frac sand on governments closest to the people", starts here. Left box: Republican Party of Wisconsin Right box: GOP Wants to Restrict Local Control Over Quarries, Sand Mining. (Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, 9/7/2017) Original 9/6/2017 post, "Wisconsin GOP allows Milwaukee streetcar to run over its most precious principle", starts here. Source: Republican Party of Wisconsin Illustration from Youtube (screenshot) Reported in Milwaukee picks streetcar operator as GOP state lawmakers move to restrict funding. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9/6/2017) Labels: 2017-19 state budget, GOP hypocrisy, GOP principles, local control, Milwaukee, short-term rentals, streetcar This week in the grocery aisle: Kellogg's Frosted... UPDATE. Madison's "Levittown" at 66 Lawrence Ekey Jr. (1945-2017) Warren Area High Sch... Plutocracy gone wild at SwampFest: GOP expects Ta... The rabidly right-wing Investor's Business Daily f... Please catalog as fiction: WEDC is Scott Walker's... WEDC: Life in Wisconsin is a fantasy It's called hypocrisy, h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y Cartoon conservative principles: Another clusterf... UPDATE. Oklahoma and Kansas a likely blueprint for... Get me rewrite: UW Health to cut its budget by 2.6... Greetings from Trump's America: Robeson County, N... I was about to ask for a ban on this phrase until ... George W. Yeagle, Jr. (1943-2017) Warren High Scho... UPDATE. Vote to changes the rules on recounts crea... The Geezer Chronicles: On a scale of 1 to 10, how... Proposed development for East Johnson Street in Ma... Please tell me again how the cynically named Tax C... The Trump slump in international travel to the Uni... The etymology of Rocky Rococo Plutocracy in action: Donald Trump's America Firs... Scott Walker and Terry Gou agree that a projection... Greetings from Trump's America: Macomb County, Mi... UPDATE. The Bart Starr biographies are gone, but I... UPDATE. Middleton Little Free Library, once clean... Officially, Wisconsin gun deer harvest is down 63%... Judy Warr Tyler (1949-2017) Warren Area High Schoo... Then and Now: 22 years later, Florida remains vul... Swing voters then and now: The more things change... What Mitch McConnell did and didn't say UPDATE: Based on recent evidence, the facilities'... UPDATE. By now, you know that the GOP's favorite ... UPDATE. Nathan Craft serves up a heaping, unappet... Decades old Hush Puppies sludge poisons Michigan w... Greetings from Trump's America: Winnebago County,... During this holiday season, West Towne Mall welcom... In general, Trump's base comprises a less educated... Georgene Pappas Kornreich (1936-2017) Warren High ... UPDATE: The snookering of the 24% In this decade, Scott Blader has made multiple cam... Allen Boulevard and Maywood Avenue in Middleton WI... Climate change as a matter of fact in the Cordille... David Kifer (1944-2017) Warren Area High School cl... Drooling for dollars: Retailers continue to look ... Multinational company earning billions in annual r...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355611
__label__cc	0.726949	0.273051	Nucleosomes and DNA methylation shape meiotic DSB frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana transposons and gene regulatory regions Choi, K., Zhao, X., Tock, A. J., Lambing, C., Underwood, C. J., Hardcastle, T. J., Serra, H., Kim, J., Cho, H. S., Kim, J., Ziolkowski, P. A., Yelina, N. E., Hwang, I., Martienssen, R. A., Henderson, I. R. (April 2018) Nucleosomes and DNA methylation shape meiotic DSB frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana transposons and gene regulatory regions. Genome Res, 28 (4). pp. 532-546. ISSN 1088-9051 DOI: 10.1101/gr.225599.117 Meiotic recombination initiates from DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) generated by SPO11 topoisomerase-like complexes. Meiotic DSB frequency varies extensively along eukaryotic chromosomes, with hotspots controlled by chromatin and DNA sequence. To map meiotic DSBs throughout a plant genome, we purified and sequenced Arabidopsis thaliana SPO11-1-oligonucleotides. SPO11-1-oligos are elevated in gene promoters, terminators, and introns, which is driven by AT-sequence richness that excludes nucleosomes and allows SPO11-1 access. A positive relationship was observed between SPO11-1-oligos and crossovers genome-wide, although fine-scale correlations were weaker. This may reflect the influence of interhomolog polymorphism on crossover formation, downstream from DSB formation. Although H3K4me3 is enriched in proximity to SPO11-1-oligo hotspots at gene 5' ends, H3K4me3 levels do not correlate with DSBs. Repetitive transposons are thought to be recombination silenced during meiosis, to prevent nonallelic interactions and genome instability. Unexpectedly, we found high SPO11-1-oligo levels in nucleosome-depleted Helitron/Pogo/Tc1/Mariner DNA transposons, whereas retrotransposons were coldspots. High SPO11-1-oligo transposons are enriched within gene regulatory regions and in proximity to immunity genes, suggesting a role as recombination enhancers. As transposon mobility in plant genomes is restricted by DNA methylation, we used the met1 DNA methyltransferase mutant to investigate the role of heterochromatin in SPO11-1-oligo distributions. Epigenetic activation of meiotic DSBs in proximity to centromeres and transposons occurred in met1 mutants, coincident with reduced nucleosome occupancy, gain of transcription, and H3K4me3. Together, our work reveals a complex relationship between chromatin and meiotic DSBs within A. thaliana genes and transposons, with significance for the diversity and evolution of plant genomes. organism description > plant > Arabidopsis bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > DNA methylation bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene regulation bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > nucleosome bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > transposons Underwood, Charles Martienssen, Robert A. CSHL labs > Martienssen lab Watson School > Publications	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355614
__label__cc	0.587056	0.412944	Bouwnummer RDM-130, s.s. "Caribou", 1925, vracht-passagiersschip. Foto boven: De tewaterlating van het vracht-passagiersschip s.s. "Caribou" (1925) van Newfoundland Government. Scheepswerf: NW. Opdrachtgever: Newfoundland Government (Newfoundland Railway, ops.), St. John's, Newfoundland. Tonnage: 2222 brt, 1319 dwt, 3580 twvp. Hoofdafmetingen: L = 80,80 m, B = 12,50 m, H = 7,80 m. Voortstuwing: 2430 apk, snelheid 14 kn. Verdere gegevens: Dit schip werd speciaal geconstrueerd en versterkt voor het varen in ijs. Opgeleverd in juni 1925. Op 14-10-1942, tijdens een reis met passagiers van Sydney naar Port aux Basques, op positie 47°19' NB en 59°29' WL getorpedeerd door de Duitse onderzeeboot "U 69" en daarna gezonken. In totaal verloren 139 mensen hierbij hun leven. - en.wikipedia.org: ... ... SS "Caribou" was a passenger ferry used by the Newfoundland government's ferry service between Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and North Sydney, Nova Scotia. "Caribou" was built in 1925 at Rotterdam, Netherlands for the Newfoundland Railway. Launched in 1925, she had a capacity of 3,000 horsepower (2,200 kW) and was able to reach a speed of 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h) when fully loaded. She also had steam-heat and electric lights in all of her cabins, a luxury at the time. Due to her ice-breaking design, the Caribou also assisted during the seal hunt along the Newfoundland coast each spring. "Caribou" was torpedoed by the German U-boat "U 69" and sunk in the Cabot Strait during the night of 14 October 1942. "Caribou" was carrying 46 crew and 206 civilian and military passengers. 137 lost their lives, many of them Newfoundlanders. Of the deceased, 2 were rescued but died of exposure. The remains of 34 victims were found. Only one of the eleven children survived. ... ... - dieselduck.blogspot.com: ... ... Sunday, February 17, 2008. S.S. Caribou’s last surviving crew member dies, a bit of forgotten WWII history. John Matthews served on ferry sunk by U-boat in 1942, by: CORY HURLEY, Corner Brook, Western Star. A man believed to be the last living crew member and one of the last known survivors of a German U-boat attack on the the S.S. "Caribou" off Newfoundland in 1942, has died. John Matthews, 84, passed away in hospital last Thursday after years of lung-related complications. "For me, as a child growing up, it wasn’t something he talked about a great deal," his daughter, Diane Thistle, said in an interview. "He found it too painful, it was usually a teary subject and he tried to avoid it as much as possible." At 19, Matthews was a deckwatch hand aboard the passenger ferry that ran between Port aux Basques, N.L., and North Sydney. In the early morning hours of Oct. 14, 1942, it was attacked by the German submarine "U 69". A torpedo ripped a hole in the vessel, sinking it and sending all aboard into the frigid waters of the Cabot Strait. There were 137 casualties in one of the most devastating sea disasters off the coast of Newfoundland. The HMCS "Grandmere" rescued 101 passengers, crew, and military personnel after hours in the freezing water. Many survivors reported huddling in what was left of the over-filled lifeboats or rafts, fearing for their safety, or spending hours in the ocean clinging to some hope of rescue. The sinking was said to have erased the feelings of security that Newfoundlanders felt despite the war raging around the world. "It was a painful time. He was in the cold water for such a long time and so many of the people went down with the ship, and that was hard for him as well," said Thistle. "I think his biggest sadness was the big loss of life, and the sounds he heard that night and remembered all his life." Matthews related the story to family of how he woke his bunkmate and friend after the torpedo hit, but shortly afterwards realized they were separated. He never saw him again. However, he also told the story of pulling another survivor out of the water - W.J. Lundrigan, a well-known businessman and founder of the Lundrigan construction empire. After being rescued, the Port aux Basques native ended his career at sea but he stuck with the Newfoundland railway, spending 44 years as a conductor. With less than half of those aboard the S.S. "Caribou" surviving the disaster, Thistle said she has always felt lucky to have even been born. "I heard him say that there were so many of them in the lifeboat that they had to take turns getting out into the water and holding onto the boat so they didn’t sink it", Thistle said. Over the years Matthews attended some of the events held in commemoration of the sinking. Diane and her husband are certain he was the last of the 46 crew living, but there is some uncertainty about how many survivors are still alive. ... ... - www.lessignets.com: ... ... Le 14 octobre 1942, une tragédie majeure survint au sud-ouest de Terre-Neuve. Le ferry SS Caribou, en route pour Port-aux-Basques, transportait 238 passagers (dont 24 femmes et 9 enfants), en plus de l'équipage de 15 personnes. De ces passagers, 117 étaient des soldats canadiens et américains. Tôt le matin du 14, à 25 milles de sa destination finale, le bateau fut frappé de plein fouet par une torpille qui traversa complètement la coque. Pas moins de 136 personnes furent tuées. La tragédie toucha tant de gens que le gouvernement canadien fut incapable d'étouffer l'affaire. Il décida donc de s'en servir comme outil de propagande pour manipuler l'opinion publique en faveur de l'effort de guerre. Le ministre MacDonald dénonça les méthodes «hideuses des Nazis» et déclara encore: "If there were any Canadians who did not realize that we were up against a ruthless and remorseless enemy, there can be no such Canadian now.". ... ... - www.wrecksite.eu, Lettens Jan, 22-01-2012: ... ... CARIBOU. On the 14th October 1942, CARIBOU, on voyage from North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada to Port aux Basques, Newfoundland with passengers, was torpedoad and sunk by the German submarine "U 69", 25 miles south of Port Aux Basques off Cabot Strait. 136 people died. CARIBOU (Capt. Taverner) was torpedoed by "U 69" (Kapitänleutnant Ulrich Gräf) while in convoy NL-9, on her regular run between Cape Breton and Newfoundland. Her escort, the minesweeper HMCS GRANDMERE had only short range asdic (sonar detection) and no radar. GRANDMERE did not detect the submarine but sighted it after the attack, giving chase with depth charges as the submarine dove. "U 69"'s torpedo struck at 2:21 am hitting CARIBOU's boilers. The explosion was very violent and the CARIBOU was ripped in two pieces. She sank in 5 minutes. Survivors were left in overcrowded lifeboats and clinging to wreckage until dawn when GRANDMERE returned from its unsuccessful hunt for "U 69". Only 101 of the 237 people aboard survived. 31 crew, 57 military and 48 passengers died. Part of the passengers on board were women and children, who were heading to Nova Scotia to welcome a contingent of RCN sailors home from overseas. The sinking caused alarm in the Canadian and Newfoundland public about the vulnerability of the St. Lawrence to submarine attack. ... ... - Nieuwe opdrachten / Tewaterlating, Het Schip: 130-HS.pdf. - Foto 1: Het opgeleverde s.s. "Caribou". - Foto 2: s.s. "Caribou" in dienst. - Foto 3: Het s.s. "Caribou" in 1926 in een droogdok. - Foto 4: Een 2-cents postzegel uit 1926 van Newfoundland met een afbeelding van s.s. "Caribou" er op. - Foto 5: Mijnenveger HMCS "Grandmere", die 101 overlevenden van s.s. "Caribou" aan boord nam. - Foto 6: Enkele van de overlevenden van s.s. "Caribou". - Foto 7: Een krantenknipsel over het verlies van s.s. "Caribou". - Foto 8: De Duitse onderzeeboot "U 69", die s.s. "Caribou" in 1942 torpedeerde en tot zinken bracht. Films: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpeARW88JBU YouTube film van 4,1 minuten: The s.s. "Caribou" sunk on October 14th 1942, a loss of 136 lives. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsCG7TRiZgg YouTube film van 2,9 minuten: s.s."Caribou", Newfoundland Cabin Buoys, song. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7fhVdxDu7g&NR=1 YouTube film van 4,1 minuten: s.s. "Caribou", Newfoundland Cabin Buoys, song. - 1902-1952, Een Halve Eeuw "Droogdok", uitgegeven door de RDM op 23 januari 1952. - "Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij" door Evert van der Schee, 1998, ISBN: 90 732 3516 2. - R.E. Zwama, Rotterdam, website: http://www.zwama.de/shiplover/. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Caribou. - http://dieselduck.blogspot.com/2008/02/ss-caribous-last-surviving-crew-member.html. - http://www.neely-chaulk.com/narciki/SS_Caribou. - http://www.wrecksite.eu/ownerBuilderView.aspx?1877.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355620
__label__cc	0.725676	0.274324	Home Newswire PressTV-Another US school shooting injures 2 in Indiana PressTV-Another US school shooting injures 2 in Indiana May 27, 2018: 3:55 am Yet another US school shooting at a Middle School in the Midwestern state of Indiana has only injured two people largely due to a heroic effort by a young teacher who threw a basketball at the student shooter in his classroom. The 29-year-old science teacher at Noblesville West Middle School — identified as Jason Seaman — saved lives when he threw the basketball at the seven-grader armed pupil during the Friday incident as he opened fire in the classroom, wounding the teacher as he reportedly swatted the gun away from the yet unidentified shooter. One student was also wounded and is reported to be in critical but stable condition at a nearby children’s hospital in the state capital of Indianapolis. Local police spokesman Bruce Barnes further stated that Seaman remained in good condition, noting that “there were no apparent injuries to the alleged shooter.” According to Police Chief Kevin Jowitt, the student attacker, who had asked to…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355626
__label__cc	0.642874	0.357126	Arnej Interview 9:23 AM Johan De Kock No comments We chat to Arnej about Fruityloops, an Offensive Twitter Account as well as the return of 8 Wonders! So born in Bosnia, grew up in Canada, and now Admired by the world… tell us a bit about how you grew up, and how that eventually led to The Producer/DJ We know today? I grew up no differently than most kids did. I played outside a lot, got into trouble every so often and probably didn't spend enough time doing my homework! Most people may find it a surprise (or not) that my musical beginnings didn't happen till much later on. You'll often read about artists and it will say they grew up with music in the family, they've listened to so and so since early on and so forth. Such was not the case with me. I had no interest in music until my mid teens, back when Aqua were the latest and greatest group. Eventually I stumbled across some early electronica music mostly thanks to the advent of the internet. Give us a short description of what we mind find in a teenage Arnej’s bedroom? The truthful answer to that is not much. We migrated to Canada just before the war bled into the region we lived in. Most of my early to late teen days were spent as a poor immigrant. Often we'd improvise and make our own toys. When you are poor, your imagination is all you need! I’ve recently discovered that to my shock Canada has quite a catch of big DJ’s and Producers including you off course, how does the Canadian scene compare to the Scene Worldwide for you? To be honest, I don't know much about the Canadian scene. The only two relevant names I can think of in my eyes would be Joel Zimmerman (Deadmau5) and Max Graham, besides them I think the talent is pretty slim pickings. The music as a whole is still growing here, as well as globally, so only good things can come as a result. Most people imagine Canada as this huge country and it is physically, but our population is less that of New York and Los Angeles combined, to put it in perspective. Only the people in the major cities of the country have any sort of exposure to the music, which leaves you at about 6 cities or so that you can play in Canada. I recently Interviewed Lazy Rich, originally from the UK, but now living in Canada as well, he told me that he could live anywhere as long as he could make music… would you agree? I would definitely agree with that. You can write music anywhere with any decent computer these days, provided you also have access to the internet, that is key ;) Who were your biggest influences musically growing up, and how does that compare to your current influences? As I was a late bloomer, musically I had no inspiration or people I looked up to. There are some early EDM producers who's work I grew to love and respect, some key names that stand out would be Man With No Name and Astral Projection, of the psy/goa genre fame. These days I appreciate the works of orchestral composers like Hans Zimmer and Newton Howard, that is some real music there. Thanx to a string of major releases and Support from some of the world’s biggest DJ’s, most people know you as a Dance Music Producer, but what a lot of people might not know is that you create sound tracks and FX for Games… how did this come about? I've been involved in game development for almost 10 years now. Most people don't know that my beginnings were of that in the graphic design field rather than music. Sound design came shortly after, which initially began with me just fiddling around and creating sound modifications for games. Music was actually the very last step in my career. Being a naturally inquisitive person, I think this was just a natural step in trying to create something with a different art medium. I heard somewhere that you’re quite a fan of Fruityloops, what are your views when it comes to purists that say Software can never do what Hardware does? Fruityloops was and is the staple in my productions. I've been using it since the very first version and I absolutely love it. Long gone are the days of software not being up to par with hardware and there is much less purist attitude towards software. Ask any top DJ/Producer what they compose their music with and I bet you 9/10 will say software, even with a super composer like Hans Zimmer has a dedicated farm of computers that he composes his orchestral pieces. I've always been a firm believer that you can make anything with anything as long as the passion and patience is there, and of course not being afraid to fail, which is the only way to success. Is there a specific track that you never leave home without? Something that just works every time you play it? As arrogant as it may sound, any one of my own productions. Many fans who come out to see you perform at a show want to hear you play your own records, it's what they associate with you as a performer. Those tracks will always get the best crowd reaction. What are your current top 3 tracks? My top 3 would be 1) Arnej - The Day Will Come 2) Sied van Riel & Radion 6 - Another Heater 3) Track 12 of the Inception Soundtrack :) If there was anyone you could work with or do a remix for who would it be? Good question! I think Benno (of Rank 1 fame) and I could do some serious damage in the studio, but in all honesty I am a difficult person to collaborate with due to my perfectionist nature. I can totally see myself annoying the other person with my constant changing of everything, hell I even annoy myself sometimes ;) Any embarrassing DJ stories? Probably the most embarrassing story was when I was playing at a club, the CDJ cables were suspended, oddly enough. I was mixing on the headphones, doing my thing as I finished mixing the next track and took the headphones off, much to my surprise there was no sound in the club! Apparently because the cables were suspended, the speaker cables got disconnected, leaving me to enjoy a good minute of music all to myself. I probably turned 10 different shades of red that night haha. What would we be surprised to find out about Arnej? I do all my own art, including press photos! If DJ’ing and producing hadn’t worked out for you the way it has, what would you be doing? I'd still be doing what I am doing now, which is game development. I am still not where I can be in the DJ game but as with anything, patience and hard work will get you there. Best gig you’ve ever played? The best gig I've played was in Montreal in a small club called Living. It was a last minute gig, I was asked to replace Ashley Wallbridge because he couldn't make it due to volcanic ash. Easily one of the best nights for me. Intimate crowd atmosphere, amazing vibe and an surreal live performance of my track "Free Of You" with the talented Sally Saifi. She is a local Montreal girl and it was awesome to see a lot of her friends come out in support. Her performance was so flawless, that we ended up playing the song twice! Worst gig you’ve ever played? Worst gig was oddly enough in Montreal as well. Not to anyone's fault, it was a beach party with terrible weather. Who wants to go to the beach when it rains right? Who do you admire most in the Scene? And music in general for that matter? I admire anyone who is doing this because I know the passion and hard work it takes, but If I have to give out a big shout out to anyone it would be to my closest friends in the scene, Sied van Riel and Blake Jarrell, love those guys! I’m a quite a big fan of your 8 wonders project, any chance of seeing something new there? Funny you should ask that as I am working on a new 8 Wonders EP as I type this! What can we expect from you in the near future? Any exciting projects in the pipeline? Probably the most exciting bit of news at the moment would be my exclusive digital compilation on Armada. It features some of the best Arnej songs to date, in addition to 3 new ones. It is scheduled to come out September 24th, so look out for it! Lastly... any parting words and where can people see you, and get hold of your music? I try to keep up with my social networking sites as much as I can, so you can check me out on twitter.com/arnejsecerkadic and facebook.com/arnejofficial. Be warned though, some of the things I tweet about may offend you, viewer discretion is advised! As for upcoming shows, I will be making an announcement soon regarding this, so again keep your ears peeled! You can grab most of my music on all relevant download portals, such as beatport and trackitdown. A few cool and exclusive updates are coming to youtube.com/arnejsecerkadic so make sure you subscribe to be the first to hear them! ;) Posted in: Interviews Derek The Bandit Interview Lazy Rich Interview Royal K Interview	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355632
__label__wiki	0.957383	0.957383	United States - page 2 Congress seen as not likely to pass tax overhaul quickly Published on April 3, 2017 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press After their humiliating loss on health care, Republicans in Congress could use a quick victory on a big issue. It won’t be an overhaul of the tax code. Overhauling the tax code could prove harder to accomplish than repealing and replacing Barack Obama‘s health law. Congressional Republicans are divided on significant issues, especially a new tax on imports embraced by House Speaker Paul Ryan. And the White House is sending contradicting signals on the new tax, adding to the uncertainty.… Trump campaign Florida chief Karen Giorno seeks national Republican post Karen Giorno, a former Donald Trump campaign senior adviser and Florida campaign director, announced Friday she is a candidate to Joe Henderson: Actually, we should politicize tragedy Don’t politicize tragedy. 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Two dozen or so Freedom Caucus members have opposed the legislation pushed by GOP… Donald Trump in Puerto Rico, lauds administration’s relief effort On the ground in Puerto Rico nearly two weeks after a hurricane ravaged the island, President Donald Trump heaped praise Paul Manafort had plan to benefit Vladamir Putin government President Donald Trump‘s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests. Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would… Wilton Simpson’s committee raised $209K in September Future Senate President Wilton Simpson brought in more than $200,000 through his political committee last month, and forked over half Winners and losers in Donald Trump’s first budget plan Military spending would get the biggest boost in President Donald Trump’s proposed budget. Environmental programs, medical research, Amtrak and an array of international and cultural programs — from Africa to Appalachia — would take big hits, among the many parts of the government he’d put on a crash diet. The budget proposal out Thursday is a White House wish list; it’ll be up to Congress to decide where money goes. If Trump gets his way, there will be more losers… House GOP health bill facing fresh House committee test The White House and Republican leaders are talking to rank-and-file lawmakers about revising the GOP health care overhaul, hoping to keep a rebellion by conservatives and moderates from snowballing and imperiling the party’s showpiece legislation. Four days after a congressional report projected the bill would pry coverage from millions of voters, signs of fraying GOP support for the legislation were showing. The measure would strike down much of former President Barack Obama‘s 2010 overhaul and reduce the federal role, including… Donald Trump embraces legacy of Andrew Jackson Published on February 20, 2017 in 2017/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann It was an ugly, highly personal presidential election. An unvarnished celebrity outsider who pledged to represent the forgotten laborer took on an intellectual member of the Washington establishment looking to extend a political dynasty in the White House. Andrew Jackson‘s triumph in 1828 over President John Quincy Adams bears striking similarities to Donald Trump‘s victory over Hillary Clinton last year, and some of those most eager to point that out are in the Trump White House. Trump’s team has seized… Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau to discuss women in workforce Published on February 13, 2017 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will participate in a roundtable discussion about women in the workforce Monday, showing the rising policy influence of the first daughter who has stressed her commitment to issues like child care. A White House official said the two countries would launch a new task force called the United States-Canada Council for the Advancement of Women Business Leaders-Female Entrepreneurs. The official said Trudeau’s office reached out to discuss working on a joint… San Juan mayor in hurricane spotlight after Donald Trump tweets In Puerto Rico’s hurricane-ravaged capital, it seems Carmen Yulin Cruz is everywhere these days: handing out bags of ice, wading	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355633
__label__wiki	0.66292	0.66292	SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use - PCWorld Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers. SAP will introduce a cloud-based service at this week’s CTIA Wireless trade show that will collect information from carriers about what mobile sites and apps their customers use, and even where they are when they use them. Using its own HANA in-memory computing technology, SAP will crunch the big data in near real time and sell it for marketing use. Carriers are already talking to SAP about the service, called SAP Consumer Insight 365, and enterprises may begin using the data within about three months, said John Sims, president of SAP mobile services. The data won’t tell SAP what specific user did what and where, but the company will be able to break down the information by demographic measures such as country, neighborhood, gender and age group, plus time measures down to the time of day, Sims said. As for location data, it will be up the carriers how specific it gets. With HANA, SAP’s data centers can work through billions of rows of data per second, Sims said. That’s important because an average medium-sized operator may generate one terabyte per day of information about subscribers’ mobile activity, he said. The most current data will reside in HANA, while the rest will move to a more persistent environment such as a Hadoop cluster or SAP’s SybaseIQ database. Because consumers now do so many things on smartphones, detailed knowledge about that activity can be very valuable to companies that want to reach them, according to Guy Rolfe, head of the mobile practice for Kantar, a consulting arm of international advertising company WPP. Kantar is an SAP customer and advised it on the creation of the service. Until now, carriers have only sold their mobile usage data as a whole, through overpriced licenses that few companies would buy, he said. SAP will be able to slice that data into pieces that are of interest to specific customers, making the information more relevant and a better value, Rolfe said. For example, if a company bought a Super Bowl ad, SAP Mobile Services could tell the company what Super Bowl viewers did on their mobile devices during ad breaks, such as visiting its site or those of other advertisers. Another example would be telling a big-box retailer how many shoppers in its brick-and-mortar store visited a competitor’s website while there. (For privacy reasons, it couldn’t report where consumers went on a site beyond the top-level domain.) SAP already provides interconnection services to about 1,000 mobile carriers around the world, directly or indirectly, according to Sims. The company processes SMS messages and some IP (Internet Protocol) services, such as data roaming, through its processing hubs. With Consumer Insight 365, it plans to partner with the carriers and share revenue from its sales of the data. It will be up to the carriers to remove details such as names, phone numbers and addresses of subscribers before they aggregate the data and send it to SAP, Sims said. SAP will be able to tell if that information hasn’t been stripped out. “It’s our intention to make sure that we only deal with operators, and we only deal with data from the operators, that has gone through whatever the local regulatory and other data privacy regulation is in a particular country,” Sims said. “Assuming we’re comfortable with that, we would embark [in] that particular country.” The service could give a boost to mobile ads by making advertisers smarter about what kinds of ads may work and then judging their effectiveness, Kantar’s Rolfe said. It would let advertisers see how many people see their mobile ads and what they do on their phones after they see them. Today’s Internet measurement tools for advertising don’t accurately measure mobile activity, he said. In addition, SAP will combine data from multiple carriers, something that hasn’t been done before, he said. “The more carriers that partake in this, the better, because we want to be able to remove any biases. The customer bases of different carriers can tend to be quite biased, demographically,” Rolfe said. For consumers, this should translate into ads that are more interesting to them and less generic, Sims and Rolfe said. The company plans to announce one enterprise customer this week and has already talked with some major carriers, Sims said. Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service, IDG News Service Stephen Lawson covers mobile, storage and networking technologies for the IDG News Service. More by Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service Subscribe to the Business Brief Newsletter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355634
__label__cc	0.660021	0.339979	NIKITA KOSHKIN: Intermittent Hearings The Pune Guitar Society(PGS) is excited to publish the first in a series of articles on the Russian composer Nikita Koshkin. The celebrated Russian guitarist and composer Nikita Arnoldovich Koshkin (born 1956) needs no introduction to any serious modern classical guitarist. In a prolific performing and compositional career that shows no signs of abating, Koshkin has threaded a unique sonic voice into the history of the instrument, and his works continue to be played by guitarists around the world. I will not write down biographical notes on the maestro here, as this has been done adequately several times by many others, and especially so in the highly engrossing PhD dissertation by the Greek virtuoso guitarist Elena Papandreou. This is dedicated to Koshkin’s Megaron Concerto, but her biographical notes on Koshkin are also extensively and well worth reading. She has been a dedicatee of many Koshkin works and is also close musical associate. https://arrow.dit.ie/appadoc/48/ Hearings: 2004-2007 My first encounter with Nikita Koshkin’s music was in 2004, when I came across a DVD featuring John Williams playing the Usher Waltz, which happens to be Koshkin’s best-known repertoire piece. This is a texturally diverse and episodic composition, inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s The Rise and the Fall of the House of Usher, and was like nothing else I had ever heard before. Soon after this, I listened to the Ballads Suite in a recording by Elena Papandreou, which seemed to be in a completely different musical style. The Ballads are a musically relatively conventional suite, and remain accessible to listeners despite their inbuilt complex and sophisticated harmonic treatment. Hearing these, I could well believe that Koshkin spent time in his youth playing rock guitar: the Led Zeppelin influences are quite discernible. Ballad V, in particular, was of great interest to me with its distinct sections and almost jazz-flavoured chord modulation. Intrigued, I ordered the sheet music for the Usher Waltz. The Ballads came in a larger Mel Bay collection of Koshkin’s music and did not arrive until two days before I had to leave for Korea for a work visit in August 2016. I really wanted to start on Ballad V and was planning to carry my guitar to Korea, but a wave of airline security scares in that month saw a complete ban on cabin baggage out of Mumbai. Not even a small case, let alone a guitar. I did find a workaround – by buying a gigantic suitcase that my Graduette collapsible guitar would fit into diagonally and which I could then check in. I ended up hauling that suitcase on a road trip down the length of South Korea from Seoul to Busan, and had hotel staff and colleagues wondering what I was doing with such a huge suitcase for a five-day visit. They were too polite to ask outright. But that is another story. Both the Usher Waltz and Ballad V ended up on my 2007 Trinity Licentiate Examination repertoire. I enjoyed learning and playing them, and it must have showed. An excerpt from the Examination report on the Usher Waltz with which I had opened the recital: “The waltz rhythm was beautifully articulated with very musical rubato moments and portamento moments. The harmonic passages were clear and tonally secure.” Those “rubato moments”, to me, seemed a critical part of the Usher Waltz which is ostensibly a waltz, but sardonically celebrates its literary protagonist’s descent into insanity. To be honest, I wasn’t thinking of “rubato” in its orthodox sense, but had instead tried to imagine how a lunatic would stagger through a waltz. As for the end of the piece, I could only think of flies buzzing. Really. In the decade since then, with my core musical preoccupations centering into mainstream jazz and upright bass work, the little time that I had available for the classical guitar was largely invested into a selection of Leo Brouwer compositions. I did learn the entire Ballads Suite and played it in a couple of recitals, but did not approach any new Koshkin material for several years. Hearings: 2017-2018: Having worked through and performed Leo Brouwer’s Concerto de Toronto and the Concerto Elegiaco in 2016 and 2017, it was now time to look for other composers. After the highly rational and structured textures that characterise Leo Brouwer’s writing, it was difficult to relate to other guitar composers. I toyed around with a few scores by others, but they did not really draw me in. After the Brouwer Concerti, I needed something at least as magnificent. I then purchased a recording of Nikita Koshkin’s Megaron Concerto featuring Elena Papandreou and the Singapore Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Lan Shui. https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/nikita-koshkin-megaron-concerto-guitar-quintet/551656701 I have to admit that the initial few (and admittedly casual) listenings did not impress me much. The dissonances seemed forced, the more melodic passages sounded trite, and the sections with soundboard and fingerboard tapping seemed gimmicky. But then, this was Koshkin, and I decided to make myself listen to it repeatedly until it made some sense. It did, eventually, in an unexpected way. Listening to the first Allegro Sostenuto movement while idly surfing the Internet, I came across a short horror film by David Sandberg: Somehow the film burned the music into my mind, irrevocably. Months later, going through Elena Papandreou’s dissertation, it was almost serendipitious to read: “In the ‘Megaron’ Concerto, Koshkin used an idea that he had not used before: while the melody would require him to change harmonies in the accompaniment, in some places he decided instead to maintain the same harmony (in this case, a D minor chord) throughout. As he states ‘this gives a macabre colour, very dark and depressing.’” Subsequently I discovered the third Adagio movement of the Megaron Concerto. This includes a short (and hair-raising) orchestral minor melodic passage ascending successively in fifths. I messaged Koshkin on Facebook soon after hearing this: The Adagio in your Megaron Concerto is beautiful beyond words…. To which he replied, simply: The music for the Concerto, along with a piano reduction, was soon obtained from Edition Margaux. At this time, the Pune Guitar Society was also thinking of our next major recital event, having organised a Brouwer concert in 2017. The idea of preparing a Koshkin-themed recital became self-evident. At the time of writing, I am working on the Megaron Concerto here in Pune. Rosemarie Eilert, who has been my long-term musical collaborator through countless mainstream jazz performances as well as the Brouwer concerti, is out there in Sydney with the piano reduction. Kabir, Justin and Kuldeep have all made their solo Koshkin repertoire selections which will all feature in a concert dedicated to his work, possibly during January 2019 in Pune. I believe it will have an unprecedented sonic diversity, but will actually present only a small subset from the oeuvre of the maestro. The Megaron, in its 35-minute length, contains a vast musical landscape within itself. The second Allegro Assai movement has a simple theme which remains simple, even as a world of sophistication emerges gradually around it. The final Vivo has some genuinely satisfying Aeoliean passages in D minor which gradually yield to a revisiting of the macabre overtones from the first movement. The guitar parts for the Megaron are fiendishly difficult, and constitute the most challenging music I’ve ever taken up regardless of genre. While the Papandreou dissertation provides an extremely valuable guideline (and her own recorded interpretation is umabiguously brilliant) it will be several months yet before I begin to reach some sort of cohesive performance standard. So far, I have sketched through the score several times, pondered over the musical strategies that each section will demand, and also identified several areas in which my guitar technique needs focused work to handle the interpretation. However, it is difficult to put down the guitar once I start a practice session on this work: it unfolds almost constantly, and in unexpected and delightful ways, with every reading. It has to be said: the fingerings in the published score for the Megaron were prepared by Elena Papandreaou and have been very well-considered indeed. This is the first time I am working on a score with close attention to fingerings, both for the right and left hands, without having to change anything. Well, except for a few places in which my sacrilegious tendency to use the 3 and 4 fingers for the odd partial barre takes over. I was in Korea again a few days ago. No, not with the guitar or the monster suitcase, alas, but I did listen to the recording several times in the hotel and on the flights. It continues to astonish and fascinate. Readers are encouraged to listen to the many published recordings of Nikita Koshkin’s music and to discover for themselves the essential body of work by this modern composer. The PGS looks forward to welcoming listeners to our own Koshkin concert, which will hopefully raise further interest in his enormous musical contribution. 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__label__wiki	0.792145	0.792145	DAVENPORT GETS FIRST OUTLAWS WIN IN ALMOST 4 YEARS AT CEDAR LAKE Posted by Racers Guide in Dirt Late Models, Latest News, World of Outlaw Late Models 5 months ago 113 Views Leave your thoughts IT’S BEEN A WHILE: DAVENPORT GETS FIRST OUTLAWS WIN IN ALMOST 4 YEARS AT CEDAR LAKE Story By: Jordan DeLucia/WoOLMs Photo By: Jacy Norgaard NEW RICHMOND, WI – Aug. 1, 2019 – One thousand, three hundred sixty-eight days ago on Nov. 7, 2015, Jonathan Davenport emerged from his K&L Rumley-owned Longhorn Chassis #6 at The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway to claim the sixth World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series win of his career. Fast forward to Thursday night at Cedar Lake Speedway, and “Superman” has done it once again, leading all 30 laps en route to a big win on night one of the 32nd annual USA Nationals over Brian Birkhofer and Tyler Bruening. It certainly didn’t come easy for the Blairsville, Georgia-native. He jetted out to the early lead but faced heavy pressure from Bruening and Birkhofer behind him once he reached lapped traffic. Davenport worked the high side for almost the entire race, while Bruening stuck to the bottom. At one point, lapped traffic was holding Davenport up enough for Bruening to stick a nose underneath the Nutrien Ag Solutions #49. “I was sort-of at the lapped cars’ mercy,” Davenport said. “There were a couple of times that they would actually pull back by me on the bottom, so tried the bottom a couple of times. I just wasn’t as good down there and couldn’t judge off of anybody else to know how to run it.” But Davenport was just too strong on the top side for Bruening to make the move, before a caution came out on lap 19. This reset the field, giving Davenport a clear track ahead, which seemed to be the key for him over 30 laps. “Being in clean air was the biggest thing,” he said. “I could see the cushion better than somebody behind me.” The ensuing restart gave Birkhofer the opportunity he needed to advance another spot, getting a great run out of turn four and diving deep into turn one to put a slidejob on Bruening. “Birky” gave it all he had in the final 10 laps to catch the leader, but Davenport was simply not going to be denied on Friday night. This $6,000 victory goes on Davenport’s trophy shelf just one week after getting out of quite an unusual situation at Fairbury Speedway’s Prairie Dirt Classic. The Lance Landers Motorsports team experienced hauler issues on the road to Fairbury last Friday and was unable to make it to the track, so fellow competitor Mason Zeigler offered up his backup car to Davenport for him to race that weekend. He missed qualifying for the big show on Saturday, but learned how big of a difference it makes driving somebody else’s equipment. Now, he’s back in his comfort zone. “It just feels good to be back in my own car after driving something else,” he said. “I got a little bit of a different feel, not sure if that helped me or not, but It really made me appreciate how good my stuff is.” In the final circuits, however, it got exciting. Coming to the line to complete lap 48, Davenport got a bit out of shape as he rode the high line out of turn four. That allowed Birkhofer to close the gap, but Davenport was too far ahead. He knew he had it covered on the top, despite its risk. “The cushion got treacherous in a couple different places, in a couple different ways. There were a couple of holes and it was really oddly shaped, but, finally, I just learned to run around it and be halfway consistent,” Davenport said. “I don’t know that if he’d have made one more mistake, I would have been beside him, with the caliber of talent he has,” Birkhofer said. “But we’ve got something to work with. The car’s pretty good, obviously needs to be better. The more laps I get, I get a little bit less rusty.” It’s been quite a while since the World of Outlaws has seen Brian Birkhofer on the podium. After taking a few years off from regularly scheduled Super Late Model competition around the upper Midwest, the Muscatine, Iowa-native could be seen in a few different rides on part-time schedules since 2014. Most recently, he’s hooked up with driver Jason Rauen to field a car this weekend at Cedar Lake. The pair also started a race with the Outlaws back on July 24 at Davenport Speedway in Iowa. Birkhofer had a great showing, sitting on the pole of the 40-lap Morton Buildings Feature but dropped out early due to mechanical problems. Friday night was much different, as he qualified in the top five of his group, won his heat and earned the runner-up spot in the main event. And Birkhofer was very satisfied with that podium spot. “I’m really glad. I wanted to finish a race in the top-five. That’s just how my mentality was when I raced for all those years – I want to run top-five,” he said.” Things have changed just a bit since the last time Birkhofer raced a Late Model full-time, and he’s definitely taken notice to some of the younger stars on the circuit and how much they have to keep up with, week-in and week-out. But what a statement he made in night #1, showing he can still run with the best of them, even against such stout competition. “Those guys are going to race hard from lap one to lap 100,” he said. “Older guys like me, out of it for a while and then coming back, I definitely feel my age a little bit.” Tyler Bruening collected the best World of Outlaws finish of his career, claiming the final podium spot after 30 laps and some very impressive qualifying event runs. Picking up his very first PFC Brakes Fast Time Award in Qualifying, Bruening also won his heat race and redrew the pole for the Feature. He followed Davenport through traffic a bit in the Feature before losing a spot to Birkhofer after halfway, but fended off the hungry field behind him to earn his first podium finish. And how proud he is to earn it. “I almost don’t know how to put it in words,” Bruening said. “You keep plugging away, getting better and better, and things just start falling into place for you. My car has just been phenomenal all year, I can’t thank my dad and the crew enough.” Tyler’s father, Greg, owns Skyline Motorsports and fields the car for full-time World of Outlaws driver Shane Clanton. Clanton has come up big this year, getting the team their first two Outlaws victories, and how great it is to see Tyler following that up with a strong finish against the heavy competition at Cedar Lake this weekend. The team has been firing on all cylinders, and what a rebound it’s been for them since their DNF at Plymouth earlier this week. At any given event where the #16 and #25 will both be, catch them parked next to each other. Bruening said he owes a lot of his Late Model knowledge to Clanton and his accomplishments in the sport, and it says event more about just how much team Skyline has taken off since the beginning of the year. “Shane is a phenomenal driver, he’s a champion and ambassador of the sport,” Bruening said. “I’m just like a sponge, when ‘s got information for me as far as driving or setup tips. It’s been a huge help for me and my driving career.” The USA Nationals action continues from Cedar Lake Speedway on Friday, August 2, with two sets of Heat Races, FANSFund and World of Outlaws dashes and the support class qualifying events. Hot laps go LIVE on DIRTVision at 6:30 p.m. central! Morton Buildings Feature (30 Laps) 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport [2][$6,000]; 2. 15b-Brian Birkhofer [4][$3,000]; 3. 16-Tyler Bruening [1][$2,000]; 4. 6m-Tim McCreadie [3][$1,750]; 5. 17M-Dale McDowell [9][$1,500]; 6. 1T-Tyler Erb [12][$1,400]; 7. 99B-Boom Briggs [6][$1,300]; 8. 18b-Shannon Babb [13][$1,200]; 9. 7-Ricky Weiss [10][$1,100]; 10. 40B-Kyle Bronson [14][$1,000]; 11. 29-Darrell Lanigan [7][$900]; 12. 18-Chase Junghans [18][$850]; 13. 99jr-Frank Heckenast [15][$800]; 14. 32s-Chris Simpson [5][$775]; 15. 28m-Jimmy Mars [21][$750]; 16. 97-Cade Dillard [16][$700]; 17. B1-Brent Larson [23][$660]; 18. 20-Jimmy Owens [19][$640]; 19. 1P-Earl Pearson [17][$620]; 20. 28-Dennis Erb [22][$600]; 21. 6-Blake Spencer [24][$600]; 22. 25-Shane Clanton [20][$600]; 23. 1-Brandon Sheppard [8][$600]; 24. 0-Scott Bloomquist [11][$600] Hard Charger: 1T-Tyler Erb[+6] Dave Blaney took the checkered... Stewart Friesen gets his first...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355636
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The region subsequently came under the control of Germans, Poles, Swedes, and finally, Russians. A Latvian republic emerged following World War I, but it was annexed by the USSR in 1940 - an action never recognized by the US and many other countries. Latvia reestablished its independence in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Although the last Russian troops left in 1994, the status of the Russian minority (some 26% of the population) remains of concern to Moscow. Latvia acceded to both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004; it joined the euro zone in 2014 and the OECD in 2016. A dual citizenship law was adopted in 2013, easing naturalization for non-citizen children. Most of the country is composed of fertile low-lying plains with some hills in the east Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania Area: total: 64,589 sq km land: 62,249 sq km water: 2,340 sq km Size comparison: slightly larger than West Virginia Land Boundaries: total: 1,370 km border countries (4): Belarus 161 km, Estonia 333 km, Lithuania 544 km, Russia 332 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: limits as agreed to by Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Sweden, and Russia continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation Climate: maritime; wet, moderate winters Terrain: low plain Natural resources: peat, limestone, dolomite, amber, hydropower, timber, arable land Land use: agricultural land: 29.2% (2011 est.) arable land: 18.6% (2011 est.) permanent crops: 0.1% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 10.5% (2011 est.) forest: 54.1% (2011 est.) Irrigated land: 12 sq km (2012) note: land in Latvia is often too wet and in need of drainage not irrigation; approximately 16,000 sq km or 85% of agricultural land has been improved by drainage Natural hazards: large percentage of agricultural fields can become waterlogged and require drainage Current Environment Issues: while land, water, and air pollution are evident, Latvia's environment has benefited from a shift to service industries after the country regained independence; improvements have occurred in drinking water quality, sewage treatment, household and hazardous waste management, as well as reduction of air pollution; concerns include nature protection and the management of water resources and the protection of the Baltic Sea International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands Nationality: noun: Latvian(s) adjective: Latvian Ethnic groups: Latvian 62.2%, Russian 25.2%, Belarusian 3.2%, Ukrainian 2.2%, Polish 2.1%, Lithuanian 1.2%, other 1.5%, unspecified 2.3% (2018 est.) Languages: Latvian (official) 56.3%, Russian 33.8%, other 0.6% (includes Polish, Ukrainian, and Belarusian), unspecified 9.4% (2011 est.) note: data represent language usually spoken at home Religions: Lutheran 36.2%, Roman Catholic 19.5%, Orthodox 19.1%, other Christian 1.6%, other 0.1%, unspecified/none 23.5% (2017 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 15.24% (male 150,514 /female 142,580) 15-24 years: 9.16% (male 90,980 /female 85,302) 65 years and over: 19.85% (male 125,709 /female 256,207) (2018 est.) Dependency ratios: total dependency ratio: 52.5 (2015 est.) Median age: total: 43.9 years Population growth rate: -1.1% (2018 est.) Birth rate: 9.6 births/1,000 population (2018 est.) Death rate: 14.5 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Net migration rate: -6 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2018 est.) Urbanization: urban population: 68.1% of total population (2018) rate of urbanization: -0.93% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.) Major urban areas - population: 637,000 RIGA (capital) (2018) Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female Mother's mean age at first birth: 27.2 years (2014 est.) Maternal mortality rate: 18 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.) Infant mortality rate: total: 5.1 deaths/1,000 live births male: 5.5 deaths/1,000 live births female: 4.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2018 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 74.9 years male: 70.4 years Total fertility rate: 1.52 children born/woman (2018 est.) Physicians density: 3.19 physicians/1,000 population (2016) Hospital bed density: 5.8 beds/1,000 population (2013) Drinking water source: improved: Sanitation facility access: improved: urban: 90.8% of population (2015 est.) urban: 9.2% of population (2015 est.) HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.7% (2016 est.) HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 6,600 (2016 est.) HIV/AIDS - deaths: <500 (2016 est.) Obesity - adult prevalence rate: 23.6% (2016) Education expenditures: 5.3% of GDP (2015) Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.) School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education): total: 16 years male: 15 years female: 17 years (2016) Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 17% male: 18.3% female: 15.4% (2017 est.) Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Latvia conventional short form: Latvia local long form: Latvijas Republika local short form: Latvija former: Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic etymology: the name "Latvia" originates from the ancient Latgalians, one of four eastern Baltic tribes that formed the ethnic core of the Latvian people (ca. 8th-12th centuries A.D.) Government type: parliamentary republic Capital: name: Riga time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October etymology: of the several theories explaining the name's origin, the one relating to the city's role in Baltic and North Sea commerce is the most probable; the name is likely related to the Latvian word "rija," meaning "warehouse," where the 'j' became a 'g' under the heavy German influence in the city from the late Middle Ages to the early 20th century Administrative divisions: 110 municipalities (novadi, singular - novads) and 9 cities municipalities: Adazu Novads, Aglonas Novads, Aizkraukles Novads, Aizputes Novads, Aknistes Novads, Alojas Novads, Alsungas Novads, Aluksnes Novads, Amatas Novads, Apes Novads, Auces Novads, Babites Novads, Baldones Novads, Baltinavas Novads, Balvu Novads, Bauskas Novads, Beverinas Novads, Brocenu Novads, Burtnieku Novads, Carnikavas Novads, Cesu Novads, Cesvaines Novads, Ciblas Novads, Dagdas Novads, Daugavpils Novads, Dobeles Novads, Dundagas Novads, Durbes Novads, Engures Novads, Erglu Novads, Garkalnes Novads, Grobinas Novads, Gulbenes Novads, Iecavas Novads, Ikskiles Novads, Ilukstes Novads, Incukalna Novads, Jaunjelgavas Novads, Jaunpiebalgas Novads, Jaunpils Novads, Jekabpils Novads, Jelgavas Novads, Kandavas Novads, Karsavas Novads, Keguma Novads, Kekavas Novads, Kocenu Novads, Kokneses Novads, Kraslavas Novads, Krimuldas Novads, Krustpils Novads, Kuldigas Novads, Lielvardes Novads, Ligatnes Novads, Limbazu Novads, Livanu Novads, Lubanas Novads, Ludzas Novads, Madonas Novads, Malpils Novads, Marupes Novads, Mazsalacas Novads, Mersraga Novads, Nauksenu Novads, Neretas Novads, Nicas Novads, Ogres Novads, Olaines Novads, Ozolnieku Novads, Pargaujas Novads, Pavilostas Novads, Plavinu Novads, Preilu Novads, Priekules Novads, Priekulu Novads, Raunas Novads, Rezeknes Novads, Riebinu Novads, Rojas Novads, Ropazu Novads, Rucavas Novads, Rugaju Novads, Rujienas Novads, Rundales Novads, Salacgrivas Novads, Salas Novads, Salaspils Novads, Saldus Novads, Saulkrastu Novads, Sejas Novads, Siguldas Novads, Skriveru Novads, Skrundas Novads, Smiltenes Novads, Stopinu Novads, Strencu Novads, Talsu Novads, Tervetes Novads, Tukuma Novads, Vainodes Novads, Valkas Novads, Varaklanu Novads, Varkavas Novads, Vecpiebalgas Novads, Vecumnieku Novads, Ventspils Novads, Viesites Novads, Vilakas Novads, Vilanu Novads, Zilupes Novads; cities: Daugavpils, Jekabpils, Jelgava, Jurmala, Liepaja, Rezekne, Riga, Valmiera, Ventspils Independence: 4 May 1990 (declared independence from the Soviet Union); 6 September 1991 (recognized by the Soviet Union) National holiday: Independence Day (Republic of Latvia Proclamation Day), 18 November (1918); note - 18 November 1918 was the date Latvia established its statehood and its concomitant independence from Soviet Russia; 4 May 1990 was the date it declared the restoration of Latvian statehood and its concomitant independence from the Soviet Union Constitution: history: several previous (pre-1991 independence); note - following the restoration of independence in 1991, parts of the 1922 constitution were reintroduced 4 May 1990 and fully reintroduced 6 July 1993 amendments: proposed by two-thirds of Parliament members or by petition of one-tenth of qualified voters submitted through the president; passage requires at least two-thirds majority vote of Parliament in each of three readings; amendment of constitutional articles including national sovereignty, language, the parliamentary electoral system, and constitutional amendment procedures requires passage in a referendum by majority vote of at least one-half of the electorate; amended several times, last in 2019 (2019) Legal system: civil law system with traces of socialist legal traditions and practices Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Egils LEVITS (since 8 July 2019) head of government: Prime Minister Krisjanis KARINS (since 23 January 2019) cabinet: Cabinet of Ministers nominated by the prime minister, appointed by Parliament elections/appointments: president indirectly elected by Parliament for a 4-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 29 May 2019 (next to be held in 2023); prime minister appointed by the president, confirmed by Parliament election results: Egils LEVITS elected president; Parliament vote - Egils LEVITS 61 votes, Didzis SMITS 24, Juris JANSONS 8; Krisjanis KARINS confirmed prime minister 61-39 Legislative branch: description: unicameral Parliament or Saeima (100 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by party list proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms) elections: last held on 6 October 2018 (next to be held in October 2022) election results: percent of vote by party - SDPS 19.8%, KPV LV 14.3%, JKP 13.6%, AP! 12%,n/a11%, ZZS 9.9%, V 6.7%, other 12.7%; seats by party - SDPS 23, KPV LV 16, JKP 16, AP! 13,n/a13, ZZS 11, V 8; composition - men 69, women 31, percent of women 31% note: since the October 2018 elections, several efforts to form a government around a new prime minister have proved unsuccessful Judicial branch: highest courts: highest courts: Supreme Court (consists of the Senate with 36 judges); Constitutional Court (consists of 7 judges) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court judges nominated by chief justice and confirmed by the Saeima; judges serve until age 70, but term can be extended 2 years; Constitutional Court judges - 3 nominated by Saeima members, 2 by Cabinet ministers, and 2 by plenum of Supreme Court; all judges confirmed by Saeima majority vote; Constitutional Court president and vice president serve in their positions for 3 years; all judges serve 10-year terms; mandatory retirement at age 70 subordinate courts: district (city) and regional courts Political parties and leaders: Development/For! or AP! [Daniels PAVLUTS, Juris PUCE] National Alliance "All For Latvia!"-"For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK" orn/a[Raivis DZINTARS] New Conservative Party or JKP [Janis BORDANS] Social Democratic Party "Harmony" or SDPS [Nils USAKOVS] Union of Greens and Farmers or ZZS [Armands KRAUZE] Unity or V [Arvils ASERADENS] Who Owns the State? or KPV LV [Artuss KAIMINS] International organization participation: Australia Group, BA, BIS, CBSS, CD, CE, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EMU, ESA (cooperating state), EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NATO, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO National symbol(s): white wagtail (bird); national colors: maroon, white National anthem: name: "Dievs, sveti Latviju!" (God Bless Latvia) lyrics/music: Karlis BAUMANIS note: adopted 1920, restored 1990; first performed in 1873 while Latvia was a part of Russia; banned during the Soviet occupation from 1940 to 1990 Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Andris TEIKMANIS (since 16 September 2016) chancery: 2306 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20008 Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Nancy Bikoff PETTIT (since 8 September 2015) embassy: 1 Samnera Velsa St, Riga LV-1510 mailing address: Embassy of the United States of America, 1 Samnera Velsa St, Riga, LV-1510, Latvia Latvia is a small, open economy with exports contributing more than half of GDP. Due to its geographical location, transit services are highly-developed, along with timber and wood-processing, agriculture and food products, and manufacturing of machinery and electronics industries. Corruption continues to be an impediment to attracting foreign direct investment and Latvia's low birth rate and decreasing population are major challenges to its long-term economic vitality. Latvia's economy experienced GDP growth of more than 10% per year during 2006-07, but entered a severe recession in 2008 as a result of an unsustainable current account deficit and large debt exposure amid the slowing world economy. Triggered by the collapse of the second largest bank, GDP plunged by more than 14% in 2009 and, despite strong growth since 2011, the economy took until 2017 return to pre-crisis levels in real terms. Strong investment and consumption, the latter stoked by rising wages, helped the economy grow by more than 4% in 2017, while inflation rose to 3%. Continued gains in competitiveness and investment will be key to maintaining economic growth, especially in light of unfavorable demographic trends, including the emigration of skilled workers, and one of the highest levels of income inequality in the EU. In the wake of the 2008-09 crisis, the IMF, EU, and other international donors provided substantial financial assistance to Latvia as part of an agreement to defend the currency's peg to the euro in exchange for the government's commitment to stringent austerity measures. The IMF/EU program successfully concluded in December 2011, although, the austerity measures imposed large social costs. The majority of companies, banks, and real estate have been privatized, although the state still holds sizable stakes in a few large enterprises, including 80% ownership of the Latvian national airline. Latvia officially joined the World Trade Organization in February 1999 and the EU in May 2004. Latvia also joined the euro zone in 2014 and the OECD in 2016. GDP (purchasing power parity): $54.02 billion (2017 est.) $51.67 billion (2016 est.) $50.55 billion (2015 est.) GDP (official exchange rate): $30.33 billion (2017 est.) GDP - real growth rate: 4.5% (2017 est.) 2.2% (2016 est.) 3% (2015 est.) GDP - per capita (PPP): $27,700 (2017 est.) $26,200 (2016 est.) $25,500 (2015 est.) Gross national saving: 20.7% of GDP (2017 est.) 21% of GDP (2016 est.) 21.8% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 61.8% (2017 est.) government consumption: 18.2% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 19.9% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 1.5% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 60.6% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -61.9% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 3.9% (2017 est.) industry: 22.4% (2017 est.) services: 73.7% (2017 est.) Agriculture - products: grain, rapeseed, potatoes, vegetables; pork, poultry, milk, eggs; fish Industries: processed foods, processed wood products, textiles, processed metals, pharmaceuticals, railroad cars, synthetic fibers, electronics Industrial production growth rate: 10.6% (2017 est.) Labor force: 990,000 (2017 est.) Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 7.7% Unemployment rate: 8.7% (2017 est.) 9.6% (2016 est.) Population below poverty line: 25.5% (2015) Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.2% Distribution of family income - Gini index: 34.5 (2015) 35.4 (2014) Budget: revenues: 11.39 billion (2017 est.) expenditures: 11.53 billion (2017 est.) Taxes and other revenues: 37.5% (of GDP) (2017 est.) Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-): -0.5% (of GDP) (2017 est.) Public debt: 36.3% of GDP (2017 est.) 37.4% of GDP (2016 est.) note: data cover general government debt, and includes debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities, including sub-sectors of central government, state government, local government, and social security funds Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.9% (2017 est.) 0.1% (2016 est.) Current account balance: -$231 million (2017 est.) $378 million (2016 est.) Exports: $12.84 billion (2017 est.) $11.35 billion (2016 est.) Exports - commodities: foodstuffs, wood and wood products, metals, machinery and equipment, textiles Exports - partners: Lithuania 15.8%, Russia 14%, Estonia 10.9%, Germany 6.9%, Sweden 5.7%, UK 4.9%, Poland 4.3%, Denmark 4.1% (2017) Imports: $15.79 billion (2017 est.) $13.61 billion (2016 est.) Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, fuels, vehicles Imports - partners: Lithuania 17.6%, Germany 11.7%, Poland 8.7%, Estonia 7.6%, Russia 7.1%, Netherlands 4.2%, Finland 4.2%, Italy 4% (2017) Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $4.614 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $3.514 billion (31 December 2016 est.) Debt - external: $40.02 billion (31 March 2016 est.) $38.19 billion (31 March 2015 est.) Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $18.84 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $15.36 billion (31 December 2016 est.) Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $3.402 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $2.485 billion (31 December 2016 est.) Market value of publicly traded shares: $6.76 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $6.799 billion (31 December 2015 est.) $7.127 billion (31 December 2014 est.) Exchange rates: lati (LVL) per US dollar - 0.906 (2017 est.) 0.9037 (2016 est.) 0.9037 (2015 est.) 0.9012 (2014 est.) 0.7525 (2013 est.) Electricity - production: 6.241 billion kWh (2016 est.) Electricity - consumption: 6.798 billion kWh (2016 est.) Electricity - exports: 3.795 billion kWh (2016 est.) Electricity - imports: 4.828 billion kWh (2016 est.) Electricity - installed generating capacity: 2.932 million kW (2016 est.) Electricity - from fossil fuels: 39% of total installed capacity (2016 est.) Electricity - from nuclear fuels: 0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.) Electricity - from hydroelectric plants: 53% of total installed capacity (2017 est.) Electricity - from other renewable sources: 8% of total installed capacity (2017 est.) Crude oil - production: 0 bbl/day (2017 est.) Crude oil - exports: 0 bbl/day (2017 est.) Crude oil - imports: 0 bbl/day (2017 est.) Crude oil - proved reserves: 0 bbl (1 January 2018 est.) Refined petroleum products - production: 0 bbl/day (2017 est.) Refined petroleum products - consumption: 44,600 bbl/day (2017 est.) Refined petroleum products - exports: 16,180 bbl/day (2017 est.) Refined petroleum products - imports: 54,370 bbl/day (2017 est.) Natural gas - production: 0 cu m (2017 est.) Natural gas - consumption: 1.218 billion cu m (2017 est.) Natural gas - exports: 0 cu m (2017 est.) Natural gas - imports: 1.246 billion cu m (2017 est.) Natural gas - proved reserves: 0 cu m (2014 est.) Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 8.632 million Mt (2017 est.) 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__label__wiki	0.539959	0.539959	The house of secrets book 2,effective communication marriage,time management and stress management pdf free - How to DIY The protagonist of this spectacular new series of hidden object adventure games is Kate Reed, a washed up writer of ghost stories who wonders if she'll ever experience success again. Witanhurst, London’s largest private house, was built between 1913 and 1920 on an eleven-acre plot in Highgate, a wealthy hilltop neighborhood north of the city center. Ed Caesar is the author of “Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon,” which is published by Simon & Schuster this week. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (effective January 1, 2014) and Privacy Policy (effective January 1, 2014). This is the main define statement for the page for english when no template defined file exists. House of Secrets Vol 1 9: Used for purposes of illustration in an educational article about the entity represented by the image. When the dead cannot find release, the House of 1000 Doors serves as a portal that allows the living to help them. Guide Kate as she responds to an invitation to enter the House, meets the mysterious Lancaster family that resides within it, and solves four mind-bending mysteries that take her to worlds she's never imagined. To activate the full version of this game, copy and paste the registration key into the appropriate window. First owned by Arthur Crosfield, an English soap magnate, the mansion was designed in the Queen Anne style and contained twenty-five bedrooms, a seventy-foot-long ballroom, and a glass rotunda; the views from its gardens, over Hampstead Heath and across the capital, were among the loveliest in London. Your California Privacy Rights The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. For decades, parties at Witanhurst attracted potentates and royals—including, in 1951, Elizabeth, the future Queen. As the subject is protected by trademark or copyright, a free use alternative does not exist. There had been no parties there for half a century, and the house had not been occupied regularly since the seventies. The interiors were ravaged: water had leaked through holes in the roof, and, upstairs, the brittle floorboards cracked under our footsteps. The scale of the building lent it a vestigial grandeur, but it felt desolate and Ozymandian. A few weeks later, Witanhurst was sold for fifty million pounds, to a shell company named Safran Holdings Limited, registered in the British Virgin Islands. In June, 2010, the local council approved plans to redevelop the house and five and a half acres of grounds, maintaining Witanhurst as a “family home.” It was the culmination of a long battle with other Highgate residents, who did not welcome such an ambitious project. Since then, Witanhurst’s old service wing has been demolished and replaced with the so-called Orangery—a three-story Georgian villa designed for “everyday family accommodation.” And beneath the forecourt, in front of the main house, the new owners have built what amounts to an underground village—a basement of more than forty thousand square feet. The secret youtube movie deutsch How to develop time management skills in nursing jobs Category: Manifesting Your Soulmate Comments to The house of secrets book 2 RED_BARON That other people will also. These factors, the far more and profession who finds clues for discovering the ultimate secret. How to create win 7 iso image Project management training nyc 2014 Communication games for nurses What is peer coaching in education La weekly button mash Become a certified life coach online outlet Coaching tips for participating on effective and efficient teams Coaching and mentoring training london Live your best life quotes oprah Leadership styles in healthcare Intercultural communication in workplace ppt Category management training canada 411 Leadership training for new managers 3rd Quantity surveyor training courses online Articles on time management in nursing nmc How to improve time management in the classroom ppt Small business management ebook My secret diary nintendo ds review Best change your life book The secret agent winnie quotes Military style leadership training zones Remove my videos folder windows 7 How to create a video on iphone 5 Leadership institute university of delaware Video creation rocaille	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355640
__label__cc	0.728028	0.271972	Prepaid cell phones verizon plans review,number caller id search jharkhand,how can u find cell phone numbers 555 - Tips For You You may think that switching to a prepaid monthly plan means getting stuck with a basic, no-frills phone. More than 20 smartphones, including the Droid Turbo by Motorola, are now available with Verizon’s No Annual Contract plans. Then there’s the HTC BlinkFeed™ that customizes your news and social media so you get only the updates you care about. Once you charge it, the Droid Turbo can stay charged for up to 48 hours, making it perfect for all-day adventures where finding a plug just isn’t gonna happen. Besides its long-lasting battery, the Droid Turbo offers a handful of killer features, like a super-crisp display screen and camera. You’ve got the camera held up to disguise your double chin, your head tilted coquettishly and your hair perfectly I-always-look-like-this tousled. 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__label__cc	0.736392	0.263608	Eisenberg on demand Miki Ma'oz #1 Scooby-Doo artist identification "Scrooge is not part of painting" Sketches by Hedvig Roy Crane goodies Buz Sawyer review SPX 2011 (The Unpublished) Barks Treasury pt. VI Back in 1952 Harvey Eisenberg, of Tom & Jerry fame, drew a story called "The Three Lazy Mice" for Western publishing. It's all written in verse and I get a Walt Kelly vibe from just looking at it. :) Got it in glorious black and white, and if there's interest in seeing it I'll post it here on the blog. Just let me know. Sample half page from "The Three Lazy Mice", 1952. Upplagd av Joakim Gunnarsson kl. 12:37 1 kommentarer Etiketter: Harvey Eisenberg The department of odd comic books proudly present Miki Ma'oz! This is issue issue no. 1. Published in Tel Aviv, 1947. It's currently up for auction and the description reads: Illustrated booklet for children includes comic stories inspired by "Mickey Mouse", "Pinocchio" and "Donald Duck" [Danny Avazani] by Walt Disney. One of the first comics books published in Eretz Israel. [8]pp, 25cm. Etiketter: Disney At work we pulled a set of 1970's stats from our Scooby-Doo shelves last week. And we plan to reprint some of the material in our pocket books later this year. Now, the style of artwork looks familar to me. Could this be Dan Spiegle? Maybe working together with another artist? And does anybody know who wrote Scooby-Doo during the 70's? If we can get the right credits we'd love to print the names of the creators in our books. Update 1: Just found out that this story was printed in Scooby Doo Mystery comics #19 and one of the other stories we have picked was taken from #30. We still don't know where the other two stories we have found were first published. (One about the treasure of Sierra Fantasma and one about a ghost on a river boat.) And the Grand Comics Database gives no credits for these issues. Update 2: Thanks to Mark Evanier who could confirm that Dan Spiegle indees was the artist behind this story! :) Just watch this auction for: Original Oil Orgin of "Another Rainbow"1968. This is what the painting actually looks like ... And while I'm at it: One of the most unlikely team up pages I've ever seen. What's going on here and where was this published? Photo taken from eBay. Etiketter: Carl Barks, Disney Hedvig spent the weekend at my flat. And as usual she left a trail of sketch paper behind her. Like this one. Enjoy! Etiketter: Hedvig Here's some "bonus stuff" for those of you who bought the Buz Sawyer book mentioned in the last post. The drawing below is simply listed as "promotional art" in the book and reproduced sans the gray shading. Actually this was used in the 1946 promotional book "Famous Artists and Writers of King Features Syndicate". The theme for the illustrations in the book was "the future" and we can find Snuffy Smith on the moon, a Don Flowers girl riding a rocket ship etc. In that context it's easier to understand Crane's drawing. It shows what to expect from the new strip in the future. We also find an illustration from the Cartoonists cook book out of context in the preface. Here it is complete with the menue and the reason why Buz is using chopsticks. Enjoy! /Joakim. PS. If the publisher wants these scans for publication I'd by happy to provide them. Etiketter: 1946, 1966, Newspaper comics, Roy Crane Buz Sawyer - "The war in the Pacific" was released by Fantagraphics earlier this year. Now, Roy Crane is one of my all time favorite comic strip artist and Fantagraphics is one of my favourite publishers. Crane is the master artist and storyteller and Fantagraphics have a great history of publishing fine books. What could go wrong? Well, something obviously did here. The first thing that made me worried about the project, even before the book was published, was that Rick Norwood was announced as the editor. He's probably a nice guy (I don't know him) but he's got a track record of reprinting classic strips in bad resolution taken from bad sources in his magazine "Comics Revue". When the book was published I started to ask around if anyone who had actually seen the book could tell me what the reproduction quality was like. The answers got me worried and I put off buying the book. But Roy Crane is Roy Crane and I knew someone at FB must have given the book thumbs up before it went to press so ... I picked it up. The preface by Jeet Heer is really well written. (As is everything I've read by Jeet!) But boy, am I glad I didn't sell my old Dragon Lady Press and Pioneer reprints! The quality of the repinted strips varies a lot in this book. Most of them are muddy. Both as a result of bad source material (Guess it's because they didn't find a good set of strips where the bottom hadn't been cut. Many of the strips from this era comes in two formats where the cut version seems to be more common.) and too low resolution when scanned I guess. On the other hand there are a few pages that looks as if they are scanned straight from proofs. Other seems to be scanned in high resolution but from bad sources. I wonder if a combination of high quality cut strips and not so good full strips could have been possible? With someone in charge who knows his/her way with photoshop I guess that would have been the ideal way. Here's a sample of what I mean. Just so you can see for yourself. Left image taken from the old DLP edition and the right from the FB book. You can see what the low res scanning has made with the lines in the background. This panel also contains an odd piece of restoration. Top panel from the DLP edition and the bottom from the FB book. Compare Sultry's torso in the two images. Ouch, she's been cut. Another example of editing. Notice Buz' clothes where details dissappear in the new book. I wonder if the editor checked the old DLP editions at all when restoration was made? If you take another look at the images above you might notice something else too. And this is an even more disturbing problem than using bad source material and low res scans, I think. More on that below next sample. Again we can see how much better reproduction can be. About the problem I mentioned earlier. Can you see it in the images above? Yes, the image has been "squashed". Probably to make the strip fit in neatly on the page instead of keeping the ratio. (Hard for me to explain this in english so it makes sense. But I hope most of you follow what I mean?) Below we see the same images on thop of each other. The height is the same. (If you disregard that the left version is a short version.) As you can see the red/FB version is not as wide as the old version. Squash! To sum things up: This could have been good, but it's not. My suggestion is that FB stops this project before it goes too far, and that the editor and production team responsible for this mess is taken off the project. Then production can then resume when a team with knowledge on how to restore old comic strips has been found. PS. If proofs are needed, just ask and I'll try to help. Don't have access to the first years but large runs of late 40's and onwards. Etiketter: Buz Sawyer, Rick Norwood, Roy Crane [Edit: All of these books are now sold out. ] Tomorrow I'll be heading to Stockholm together with Hedvig. Small Press Expo at Kulturhuset this weekend and we'll be selling newly printed stuff there. Hope to see some of you there! /J. Etiketter: Hedvig, My artwork Barks fans Jörgen Malmsten and Patrick Fontaine both mailed me independently after I posted this drawing last week: They supplied me with the image in color and after checking Peter Kyllings site I guess this actually is one of the 1996 - 97 drawings: Misc 19 – "Every Man for himself". If someone can confirm that would be nice. First we have the image I got from Patrick: And then the one I got from Jörgen: As you can see they are quite similar but not the same. My guess is that the first is a preliminary version and the signed one is the finished piece.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355642
__label__cc	0.647754	0.352246	Cancelled and Renewed Shows 2011: VH1 renews Single Ladies July 19, 2011 / Guillermo Paz As usual, we are reviewing all the cancelled shows on 2011 and the renewed shows on 2011… and this one should shock no one. VH1 has renewed Single Ladies for a second season. Its freshman first scripted long hour series had solid ratings for the whole first season run that will come to season finale on August 8. So that means renewal for Single Ladies. What is Single Ladies, the recently renewed shows from VH1 about? Plot Synopsis “Single Ladies” is a comedic drama about Val, Keisha, and April – three best friends with different philosophies on sex and relationships. Val ( Stacey Dash) is an ambitious aspiring fashion mogul who wants to find a true partner. Keisha (LisaRaye McCoy), on the other hand, is a former video dancer just looking for a rich man to keep her in style. April (Charity Shea,) has supposedly found the perfect man and the perfect marriage – but is learning that marriage isn’t necessarily a happy ending. “Single Ladies” is a modern, sexy series set in the world of Atlanta fashion, music, and celebrity that will constantly explore which woman has the right approach to relationships. What do you think? Are you glad to see VH1 renewing Single Ladies? Let me know in the comments section. Also, remember to follow me on Twitter for more Cancelled and renewed shows news such as this renewal for Single Ladies by VH1. Categories: Dramedy Tags: Cancelled Shows, Renewed Shows, Single Ladies « Deadline Hollywood Game to Launch on Facebook Cancelled and Renewed Shows 2011: Syfy renews Merlin for season four »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355643
__label__wiki	0.82025	0.82025	• Skipping Stones Honor Book Best Books for Kids & Teens • Canadian Children’s Book Centre USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List Best Bets List • Top Ten, Ontario Library Association Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature • Atlantic Book Awards Red Maple Award nomination • Ontario Library Association Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award nomination Prison Boy In an unnamed country, when little Kai is brought to the orphanage run by Bell, a fearsome Englishwoman whose dedication to her charges is unflinching, an older child, Pax, immediately takes him under his wing. It soon becomes apparent that Kai is a brilliant child, and given the right circumstances, could go on to achieve great things. Penniless and living amidst political strife and constant uncertainty, the children are nonetheless taken care of and protected—until Bell dies and they are left on their own. Pax is determined to keep Kai safe, and to make sure he gets the education he deserves. But life on the streets is tough—and dangerous. In a desperate attempt to make enough money to keep Kai in school, Pax agrees to work for a shady character known only as Mister. Mister sends Pax on a “special” mission—carry a very heavy box to a pre-arranged location, and wait. At the very last minute, Pax realizes that the box contains a bomb, which explodes, killing and maiming hundreds of people. Pax and Kai escape the deadly explosion, only to be arrested soon after and charged with terrorism. What follows is a descent into the hellish prison where brutal guards stop at nothing to make Pax talk. This haunting novel brings home the tragic situation in which children in over 40 countries are tortured with impunity. But it also speaks to the strength of love in the most dire situations. A strong choice for those seeking something meaty for middle schoolers . . . A great conversation starter. — School Library Journal, 04/15 With her starkly vivid prose, gripping scenes, and affecting characters, McKay is a master storyteller. — National Reading Campaign, 05/29/15 An interesting, thought-provoking choice for the classroom. — Booklist, 10/06/15 Another gut-wrenching tale from McKay. — Kirkus Reviews, 02/15 A powerful, challenging, and courageous book. — Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada An effective, haunting story that deserves to be widely read. — Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Bookdragon, 10/26/15 Highly recommended for the school library collection, classroom collections, literature study groups, class room discussions and studies in social justice, and human rights. — Resource Links, 10/15 McKay always does a wonderful job of writing about human rights and injustice where children are involved. — Mabel’s Fables Raves, 05/15/15	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355646
__label__cc	0.554792	0.445208	Publishing House SB RAS: Address of the Publishing House SB RAS: Morskoy pr. 2, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia Home – Home – Jornals – Chemistry for Sustainable Development 2008 number 5 Chemistry for Sustainable Development 2008 year, number 5 Synthesis of the Aromatic Diamines of Pyrimidine Series and Their Use for the Development of Promising Polymeric Materials V. P. Borovik, O. P. Shkurko Keywords: aminophenylpyrimidines, pyrimidine-containing polyimides, films, fibres, thermal stability, strength characteristics Abstract >> Alternative methods of the synthesis of pyrimidine-containing diamines are considered. These compounds are initial monomers for obtaining thermally stable high-module polymers (polyimides) which are used to develop promising materials for new technics. In accordance with the structure of diamines, the methods of their synthesis are systematized, their reactivity is evaluated. The problems concerning technological reasonableness, availability of the initial raw material and the possibility of scaling at separate stages of synthesis are assessed. The data on the thermal stability and deformation strength characteristics of pyrimidine-containing polyimides which are promising for the development of materials functioning within a broad range of extremal thermal conditions in a number of the areas of modern technologies are reported. Thermal Processing of Hydrolytic Lignin in Black Oil E. I. Andreikov, I. S. Amosova, Y. A. Dikovinkina, A. A. Lyapkin Keywords: lignin, black oil, co-pyrolysis, distillate products, thermal cracking residue Thermal co-processing of hydrolytic lignin and heavy black oil within temperature range 350-415 °С at atmospheric pressure is investigated. The major products are represented by the liquid distillate products released from the reactor, and by the cracking residue in the reactor. Addition of lignin causes a substantial acceleration of the reactions of liquid-phase thermal cracking of black oil and increases the yield of distillate products. The ways of practical application of these products are proposed on the basis of the obtained data on the composition of the products of thermal co-processing of lignin and black oil. Obtaining Microspheric Zeolites from Vitrocrystalline Cenospheres of Power Engineering Ashes S. N. Vereshchagin, T. А. Vereshchagina, N. N. Shishkina, A. N. Salanov, A. G. Anshits Keywords: cenospheres, microspheric zeolites, NaP1, NaX, NaA Synthesis of microspheric zeolite sorbents based on the vitrocrystalline cenospheres of power engineering ashes was carried out for the first time, without any crystallization nuclei or structure-forming components. As a result of hydrothermal processing, the aluminosilicate material of cenosphere wall is transformed into low-module zeolites with the conservation of the morphology of initial particles. The final products are hollow spheres with a size of 80-200 m; their walls are composed fully or partially of the crystals of NaA, NaX and NaP1 zeolites. Content of the Particles of Different Size and Density in the Concentrates of the Cenospheres of Volatile Ash from the Combustion of Coal of the Kuznetsk Basin S. N. Vereshchagin, L. I. Kurteeva, A. G. Anshits Keywords: volatile ash, cenospheres, aerodynamic separation Aerodynamic method followed by sieve analysis of the resulting fractions was applied to separate the concentrates of cenospheres of volatile ash from the combustion of coal of the Kuznetsk Basin at the Moscow Heat and Electric Power Plant (HEPP) No. 22, Belovo Hydroelectric Regional Power Plant, and some fractions of the concentrate of cenospheres obtained at the Novosibirsk Heat and Electric Power Plant No. 5. From the concentrate of the Moscow HEPP, 90 fractions with different particle sizes (70-250 m) and apparent (0.16-0.52 g/cm3) were separated. Independently of particle size, the apparent density of the fractions with the maximal yield is 0.33-0.35 g/cm3, while the ratio of the apparent wall thickness to the particle diameter is 0.042-0.043. The process of the aerodynamic separation of cenospheres of the concentrates from different sources is satisfactorily described by the theoretical dependencies for the escape of spherical particles; the deviations are first of all due to the non-spherical shape of cenospheres. Investigation of the Ability of a Model System Frozen Ground of Yakutia - Plants to Recover in Case of Pollution with Oil S. K. Lifshits, B. M. Kershengolts, O. N. Chalaya, I. N. Zueva, M. M. Shashurin, Y. S. Glyaznetsova Keywords: ecology, biotransformation of pollution with oil, elements of soil and plant cover, natural geochemical background, permissible level of pollution with oil Under laboratory conditions, we determined the geochemical characteristics of the frozen soil of Yakutia, the activity of soil enzymes, physiological and biochemical characteristics of hornwort dandelion and relative stability of the genome of plant cells to the action of oil toxicants after the introduction of oil (0.07-1.95 vol. %) into soil samples. It is shown that the permissible level of pollution with oil for which soil is able to get recovered is ~1 g/kg of soil. Galactomannanes of the Seeds of Legumes (Leguminosae Juss.) Growing in Siberia I. E. Lobanova, O. V. Anulov, V. D. Shcherbukhin Keywords: reserve polysaccharides of seeds, galactomannanes, plant hydrocolloids, legume species Results of the examination of the seeds of legumes growing under the conditions of moderate latitudes for the presence of reserve water-soluble polysaccharides galactomannanes are presented. A quantitative estimation of galactomannane content in the seeds of 45 species of 13 genera 7 tribes of the legume family is presented. For 23 species, a chemical characteristic was determined which shows the ratio of mannose to galactose monomers in galactomannane molecule. The results obtained in the investigation can be used for the search of home sources of plant hydrocolloids which would be of interest for various areas of science and technology. Purification of Phosphohemihydrate from Phosphorus E. P. Lokshin, O. A. Tareeva Keywords: production of construction materials, phosphohemihydrate, purification It is shown that the main hindrance for the use of phosphohemihydrate, obtained during sulphuric treatment of the Khibiny apatite concentrate, in the production of construction materials is an increased content of phosphorus admixture in water-insoluble form. According to the previously developed technology of sulphuric extraction of the concentrate of lanthanoids from phosphohemihydrate, one achieves efficient leaching of water-insoluble phosphorus which gets accumulated in leaching solutions during their repeated use. It is proposed to remove phosphorus from sulphuric solutions in the form of hydrated titanylphosphate by means of precipitation with titanyl sulphate. The possibility to recover titanyl sulphate with the help of the alkaline treatment of hydrated titanylphosphate is demonstrated; the resulting product is a component of detergent Na3PO4 · 12H2O. The versions of the sulphuric technology of phosphohemihydrate treatment excluding the formation of liquid wastes that require utilization are considered. Synthesis and Biological Activity of Hydrophilic Alkyl Phenols A. S. Oleinik, N. Y. Pevneva, N. V. Kandalintseva, A. E. Prosenko, O. M. Khoshchenko, M. I. Dushkin Keywords: hydrophilic polyfunctional antioxidants, hydroxyarylalkyl sulphonates, hydroxyarylalkylisothiuronium halides, biological activity, toxicity of phenols, bioluminescence Synthesis of the hydrophilic derivatives of Осуществлен синтез гидрофильных производных 3-(4-hydroxyaryl)propyl series with sulphur-containing ionogenic fragments was carried out. The regularities of the changes of toxic effect of the synthesized compounds depending on their structure were investigated with respect to laboratory animals (mice) and bacterial cultures (Photobacterium phosphoreum). Galvanochemical Purification of Liquid Radioactive Wastes from the Sulphuric Scheme of Uranium Refining Y. V. Ostrovskiy, G. M. Zabortsev, R. L. Rabinovich, V. R. Kal'k, A. A. Lavelin Keywords: waste water, uranium, heavy and nonferrous metals, galvanochemical purification, galvanic couples, immobilization of galvanic sludge For wastewater of the Angarst Electrolysis Chemical Plant as an example, the galvanochemical purification of the liquid radioactive wastes from the sulphuric scheme of uranium refining is investigated; its main regularities and features are determined. Optimisation of the Method of Obtaining the Monoammonium Salt of Glycyrrhizic Acid from the Roots of the Ural Licorice (Fisher) of Siberian Populations O. V. Stolyarova, L. A. Baltina Jr, L. R. Mikhailova, T. M. Gabbasov, L. A. Baltina, G. A. Tolstikov Keywords: Ural licorice (Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisher), glycyrrhizic acid, glycyram We optimised the method of obtaining the monoammonium salt of glycyrrhizic acid (glycyram) from the roots of the Ural licorice ( Fisher) of Siberian populations. The method includes the following stages: extraction of the roots with a 0.5 % solution of NH4OH, precipitation of the sum of acids with the help of concentrated H2SO4, subsequent re-extraction with a 1 % solution of H2SO4 in acetone, salting out the triammonium salt of glyccyrrhizic acid using a 25 % NH4OH solution, transformation of this salt into the monoammonium salt (glycyram) by crystallization from glacial NH4OH. Using this method, one may obtain the samples of glycyram with a purity of 85.2-87.5 % (according to the HPLC data). The glycyrrhizic acid content in the investigated samples of licorice roots is 2-4 %. Utilization of the Solid Waste Prodyct from Caprolactam Production V. P. Yustratov, T. A. Krasnova, Y. V. Solov'eva Keywords: heavy metals, worked out active carbon, adsorption, optimisation, technology A resource-saving and ecologically safe technology of the purification of waste water of galvanic works from heavy metal ions is developed on the basis of the results of the experimental investigation of the equilibrium, kinetics and dynamics of adsorption, and mathematical modelling. A schematic diagram of the set-up for the purification of the wastewater from the galvanic works is proposed. Purification of Wastewater from Inorganic Fluorine-Containing Compounds M. L. Belikov, E. P. Lokshin Keywords: fluorine-containing wastewater, purification, cerium compounds, titanium compounds Using model solutions, we determined the conditions for the purification of wastewater containing fluorine in the concentration of 10 mg/in the form of complex anions AlF and/or FeF. Purification is performed with the help of cerium compounds. For real waste water of the plants situated in the Kola region (Apatit JSC, Lovozero GOK JSC), optimal modes of purification from fluorine impurity, using titanium compounds, down to the standard values of fluorine and sulphate ion concentrates established for drinking water were developed. Intensification of Sawdust Powdering Process O. V. Golyazimova, A. A. Politov Keywords: sawdust powdering, wood flour, intensification, preliminary chemical treatment The effect of the preliminary chemical treatment on the process of mechanical powdering of the raw material is investigated. It is shown that the treatment of sawdust with the solutions of an acid, an alkaline or with enzymatic preparations results in the chemical modification of one of the components of the lignocarbohydrate matrix of sawdust (cellulose, hemicelluloses or lignins) and in the changes of the structure of wood. The effect of enzymatic hydrolysis on conversion degree and efficiency of powdering is investigated. It is shown that even a small degree of carbohydrate conversion (1-2 %) is sufficient for a decrease in the strength of wood structure by means of the enzymatic destruction of carbohydrates. The fraction of particles with a size within the range 19-25 Ојm increases approximately by a factor of 10 with the help of the method of preliminary chemical treatment of sawdust. Effect of the Surface Density of Biological Standards for the Analysis of Tissues by Means of XPA-SR V. V. Zvereva, V. A. Trunova Keywords: synchrotron radiation, biological tissues, X-ray fluorescence analysis For the analysis of the samples of biological tissues (human myocardium and blood vessels) obtained by biopsy, the necessity arises to study the effect of the radiator density variations on the determination of chemical elements, since sample thickness varies depending on the type of tissue under investigation and sample mass (during sample preparation). Because of this, with the Bovine liver NIST 1577 standard sample, we studied the effect of the surface density of radiating device on the coefficients of relative sensitivity. The experiments were carried out at the station of elemental X-ray fluorescence analysis on the basis of the Siberian Centre for Synchrotron Radiation (Institute of Nuclear Physics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk). It was established that a change of the density of reference tablet density (at the excitation energy of 17 keV) during normalization of peak areas of the elements under determination to the area of Compton's peak has almost no effect on the results of analysis for the elements from Mn to Zn. For K, Ca, Fe and Rb, substantial differences of the coefficients of relative sensitivity (Rist) are observed while the radiator density varies from 14.9 to 45.8 mg/cm2. Flavonoid Content of the Plant Speices of L. Genus Y. V. Shinkarenko Keywords: Myosotis L., M. asiatica, flavonoids, variability Flavonoid content in the samples of plants of 15 species of Myosotis genus is examined. It is established that it is mainly 1.0-4.0 % in the plants of the investigated species; it is characterized by high variability for the samples collected in different regions. The variability of flavonoid content within the limits of one coenopopulation is low or medium. The species of Alpestres the section Myosotis of genus, especially M. asiatica , contain a large amount of flavonoids (up to 7.4 %) and are of interest for further investigation. The plants collected during the flowering period may be used as the sources of flavonoids. Investigation of the Problems of Sustainbable Development and School Ecological Monitoring of Water Bodies S. Young, D. I. Mustafin Keywords: education, sustainable development, ecology, monitoring In order to realize the strategy of the world community in the area of education for sustainable development, the D. I. Mendeleev Russian Chemical and Technological University and non-profit organization Love Russia (Great Britain) for school pupils. In 2004-2007, practical ecological monitoring involved the pupils of more than 50 schools, boarding schools and social rehabilitation centres for juveniles; they carried out monitoring of water in the Kasimovo, Shilovo, Spassk Districts of the Ryazan Region and examined more than 150 objects along the passage 200 km wide along the Oka river. The results obtained in the investigation were considered as a part of ecological audit and discussed from the viewpoint of a practical example of the social responsibility of human beings for the processes that take part in the biosphere. A positive experience of the studies aimed at research of the problems of sustainable development and at carrying out ecological monitoring of wild nature allow us to propose these courses as a compulsory regional component of the school teaching process.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355648
__label__cc	0.704317	0.295683	The Marks all around Dark Silent Hill....(Spoiler Alert) Last seen at: #lfk >That doesn't prove anything... Well I'm not talking about that. In Nowhere, on the third "floor," Alessa can be seen genuflecting before the altar. This post is the property of its author and is not to be used elsewhere without explicit permission from the author. . . . AND THAT'S THAT. Conjurer Missing since: 16 Apr 2006 hmm....I really dont remember this...and i just beat Silent Hill too..... But ok.....I just didn't understand why Dahlia's image would pop out of nowhere from The Women In White.... Silent Hill Insurance Mis Krist. Last seen at: The Wand'ring Wood I think it's easy to miss? Maybe you have to deviate from a set path. I was talking with Thomas as he was walking through Nowhere and he even mentioned not seeing Alessa praying, and then lo and behold.. For what it's worth, if anything, I've seen it before as well, way back when I first played the game. I'm not dead yet, dammit. Could some one find out what Path it is? ....because I just got the two bad endings because i felt like seeing them....or else ill just play the game twice more myself for the good endings... All you have to do is look closely at the altar on the third "floor" of Nowhere as soon as you get off the elevator. She'll always be there the first time you get off. ...ok just to make sure...its the Alttar room with the two pictures...one with a women in a white rob and another one with a women being set on fire? Aside from the descriptions, yes: that room. Jim beam was yo dADDY tru dat! And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe jthomp1286 SHH Cult Subscriber Last seen at: Traversing the Portals of Reality St. Thomas wrote: >How could this happen when the red liquid makes demons come out of the hosts its controlling... The aglaophotis is used to dispel evil spirits--or, really, any kind of spirit, depending on one's perception. The Incubus, though Dahlia's vision of God, is still, essentially, a parasite. I believe that It's a representation of the two halves from which it was born: Cheryl. So its essentially kinda like SH3... Incubus is born from hatred and pain, and the Holy Woman is born from love and kindess. So the aglaophotis causes the Holy Woman to become weakened, and the power is expressed through Incubus instead. There are 2 because there were 2 halves. Then it is possible that Cheryl was also carrying a part of the fetus. I'm just trying to rationalize it in my head. Under the burning sun I take a look around / Imagine if this all came down. Last edited by jthomp1286 on 30 Apr 2006, edited 2 times in total. Son_of_Kauffman Last seen at: Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia Good theory... Spetsnaz of the Interior Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Spetsnaz sil Vnutrenniye Voiska Ministerstva Vnutrennikh Del http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/2 ... ef=opinion Think of Italy â€” which reminds me of California in so many ways â€” and its chronic inability to form a government. Thatâ€™s California, with even better food and no parliamentary system. ....somewhere in Italy a contract was put out on the life of the article's author. jthomp1286 wrote: The women in white being born from kindness? no....she came from hatred and pain just like Dahlias....just because Dahlias good LOOKS horrific doesnt mean the women in white is less heinous and evil...they were both born from the same thing..as you can see....when you fight the, both of them...they both are destructive Last seen at: Australia It's quite simple. The Incubus was Dahlia's personal vision of God. The Holy Woman In White was Alessa's personal vision of God. Hence, one appeared more "good" than the other. True enough, but was it not said the God had to destroy the world by fire to bring about Paradise? And this included destroying those not of the Cult as well, right? I was looking at it from the perspective that Alessa held Dahlia's God and Cheryl held The Woman in White. To be more specific, Dahlia's was born from the hatred and pain inflicted on Alessa. The Woman in White was born from the love and kindness that The Masons showed to Cheryl, by adopting her, for one thing. Harry knew Cheryl wasn't their biological daughter, but they loved her all the same. Now, I know what you're going to say, "Why then, whould The Woman in White attack Harry?" Well at this point, Alessa and Cheryl have been combined, correct? So I would say that Alessa was supressing Cheryl's side and attacking Harry because she held anger in her heart for him because he was hindering her efforts to undo what Dahlia was trying to do. I may be reaching with this, but it seems logical to me after all my experience with the game, reading materials online and of course, from here on the forums. would say that Alessa was supressing Cheryl's side and attacking Harry because she held anger in her heart for him because he was hindering her efforts to undo what Dahlia was trying to do. Alessa is only trying to stop her mother because her mother wants to bring about the birth of God. Her crusade is against God and Paradise, not against Dahlia, or in later years, Claudia, who was her friend. It's not Alessa attacking Harry, it's God. Wow....I never thought of it that way...that is pretty good....but just to let you know...the cult believes thats what the god looks like... Osmund Saddler wrote: Thanks . But I know, I don't doubt that, I'm just saying, it was expressed in Cheryl instead of Alessa because of the way they grew up. EDIT: I was thinking of taking my theory and actually writing it down, that way everyone could read the theory in its entirety, instead fumbling trough this thread, lol. If I get it done, I'll post a link later on. asphodel13 Post subject: Re: The Marks all around Dark Silent Hill....(Spoiler Alert) I was thinking about the Aglophotis question presented earlier... ya know about how when Kaufman throws the red liquid at the woman in white, how coule he exercise the god when alessa/cheryl had already become god? thing. I was thinking that when the god uh.. was born, came into being, it was still in alessa/cheryl's (newly reunited) body right? so it transformed into alessa's idea of itself while still in her body, therefore transforming the body itself. So when Kaufman throws the aglophotis at the woman in white, it exercises the god out of allessas body and it becomes Dalia's idea of god. it tears its way out of her through her back (as seen in the game) and she falls to the floor (although when your fighting the Incubus you don't see her there) I think its possible that alessa's body remained changed into the image of the woman in white , and the god really was exercised from her. also i suppose its just as possible that the god was simply divided somehow, into alessas and dalias different images of god. but if so how come the woman in white version becomes weak ? maybe most of the power was exersised too? gosh this is confusing.... fudgestix Last seen at: Federative Republic of Butts asphodel13, you were asked by Ryan yesterday to not necrobump threads. We appreciate that you want to contribute, but bumping a thread from 2006, when members are likely not to still be around is just as bad as spamming. If you continue to do so, you may end up with a formal warning and a sad face from us moderators! Please take your time to check our forum rules. THE RULES! [click me and learn] "I think I'd prefer a sword over a penis anyday." - Wigeke Mxpn - Restless Night (bandcamp) Also, there are already threads covering the questions you just asked; this thread isn't the place for them.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355650
__label__cc	0.742894	0.257106	<back to home Stardust (2012) - performance in collaboration with Camilo Colmenares at openlab of KHM Rundgang 2012, Köln. Based on the science fiction novel Return From The Stars by Stanislaw Lem, the performance introduces the concept of "betrization", loosely interpretable as salvation by cybernetics, it combines literary, philosophical, and empirical investigations of alienation and dystopia. "[...] a tragic vision of a technologically splendid society which surrenders its own freedom to intellectronic nano-machines in order to put an end to the menace that it harbours within itself. The wide-ranging measures of social order and security on the alien planet recall the 'soft' totalitarianism of Return from the Stars (1961), even though for the first time Lem seems to consider the suppression of one's individuality a lesser evil than the perennial and all-too-real drive to aggression. The beast within, which was previously confined to the range of primitive clubs, slings, spears, or arrows, can now be released to sow death on the planetary—or, as Fiasco illustrates, even interplanetary—scale." A Stanislaw Lem Reader - Stanislaw Lem, Peter Swirski © 2014 Sina Seifee	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355654
__label__cc	0.613986	0.386014	Yeah, you're right..wealth does not = spirituality Treating each other as equally valid does tho Awesome yourself! I'm not from heaven, so i wouldn't know. You're not evil, just drop your gun, you don't need it here You're forgiven, love this phrase I'm just a wayward soul trying to find my way home. aren't we all Sure, if you don't mind getting it from a bad-old, part-faery, foul-mouthed bohemian bitch... Likes: Michael Patterson and Steve But back when socialism had its birth things were different. Now what we call money is generated as banks are inclined. We can't compare the different periods. The concept of social justice concerning the fair distribution of a restricted resource is not the same argument to apply when banks have the power to create wealth untethered to any controlling standard. Now there might be an infinite supply of money in a theoretical sense, but access to it is still controlled. So we move from questions of what is available to who has access. The result is the same. The minority's has access to the most. n my 30 years of doing strategy, I have found money to be a flashlight into one's soul, the soul of an organization, and the soul of a nation - both for self and for others to see, and not merely a bribe nor threat, as you frame it. Money itself is neutral. Inside the face of money you see revealed the heart of mankind, or even a man, not the essence of money - and it is easy to conflate the two as one thing. TES, I love this statement. What we call money is the medium of exchange of energy and value. There was a time when barter worked. But in a complex culture barter cannot work. I am a public servant. I have skills and value, but when I go to my local favourite restaurant they have no match with their immediate needs to my capacity to generate value. Its far easier to have a token that abstracts value and energy and can be interchanged. Imagine we tried to pay our taxes with sheep, chooks, cauliflowers and plums. The cost of administering the management of the receipts would outweigh their value. Money is good. It gets rid of a whole heap of problems that are fundamental to complex cultures. You are so right. Money has a neutral moral valency. It does reveal 'the heart of mankind' because the desire to interact and interchange is fundamental to who we are. Its just a pity that this medium of exchange has been, so nearly all the others, been taken over by criminals and/or idiots. Likes: Aliceinunderland and The Ethical Skeptic I'm just a wayward soul trying to find my way home. Please teach me more. Eric, we are not wayward. There is a difference in a doctrine that preaches redemption from sin and one that espouses aspiration to potential.Theb original notion of 'sin' is 'missing the mark'. If you are learning to use a rifle you will miss the target until to develop the technique that enables you to do your best. Sinning is not a failure of anything other than method or technique - ignorance. Christianity developed the idea of sin to be something that was a moral failing that had to be managed by people who rape children. It is in fact no more than an idea of asking sincerely how we can do better. Saying "I am a sinner" is saying "teach me how to shoot straight." The divine will do that without guilt tripping you." We are all sinners - we all miss the target we are aiming for - and we can all learn to shoot straighter. That's the function of spiritual evolution. I saw a show once wherein Eskimos were interviewed. They were asked what they would do with a non-productive member of their society who just caused trouble. The answer was that they'd probably push him off an ice flow. And yet there is evidence [dont ask me to quote it because it was ages ago I came across it with no motive to preserve it] that our far distant ancestors were deeply caring of community members, including those crippled or otherwise disabled. The key in your comment is "caused trouble". If we are thinking recalcitrant characters we would lock up, we have to imagine that in some cultures that is not an option, given their environmental circumstances - Arctic or desert for eg. Given that the US is not exactly ill disposed to a death sentence you have to figure that in a given situation terminating an incarnation is the best option for all. Death is not the end for the person in any case. How is this different to a wounded soldier impeding the survival of his team? His 'sacrifice' may ensure the survival of others. Pushing a person off an ice floe does not have to be done with any sentiment that is not a deep sense of sad necessity. This one crazy guy endangers a whole community. The US, by comparison kills poeple who merely piss them off. Tell me an instance of a single murderer who constitutes a threat to a whole community. Michael Patterson said: I think the type of bad actor Eskimo in question should be pushed off the ice flow. I just figured that Alice would not agree with that practice. Most modern liberals would be deeply opposed to such a practice. But the difference between then and now suggests that opposing what what was done then makes sense now. That's why we don't stone disobedient teenagers or wives who have it away with those who are not their husbands (but not vice versa). Remember the OT verse that says that a witch should not live? We don't now kill witches. LetsEat It seems it may deprive a person of the ability to engage in introspection for their behavior within their more limited earthly form. There are too many invisible layers, so I hesitate to say the death penalty would be desirable under a society that accepts reincarnation. Likes: Aliceinunderland Even the Eskimos recognize the more capable. Such people get more and better mates, have more and better homes, have more and better food and more status generally. They get to make the decisions as chiefs, members of the tribal council, etc. The real decision here is what to do with those who can't cut it given the requirements of modern life. The decision is further complicated due the those who are unable to cut it being able to understand what is going on. I think the type of bad actor Eskimo in question should be pushed off the ice flow. They might have been joking. Putting these two quotes together does worry me. Define "better" So who is to decide who gets eliminated? You? Actually there are people who I think the human race would be better off without, but I'm sure we wouldn't agree on who. It is a dangerous maxim because there is potential for irrational cruelty in a group of people who thereby enjoy a temporary sense of belonging to the crowd and condemning 'the different one'. Can you imagine if you were the one everyone wanted to push off the ice floe? Is it reasonable then? Likes: Typoz Now what we call money is generated as banks are inclined. Fucken oath it is! We don't now kill witches. Phew. I know I've been burned before. Eric maybe would have had me on the stake by now... LetsEat said: I agree. I am no fan or advocate of the death penalty. But I do appreciate that there are circumstances where confining a person to give them the opportunity to reflect on their actions is not always available - and death might be the kinder of the available options. The point is that if you believe in reincarnation the intent of a death penalty must be qualitatively different to alternative beliefs. Likes: LetsEat There is an African (indigenous) tribe (ditto - I also read it in an anthropology book years ago) whose penalty for the one who commits a heinous crime like murder, is for them to live alone with the Shaman for some months. Show me one prison in our modern society that provides one on one therapy like that. They've hardly got as far as offering meditation practice. We don't value introspection in the mainstream of our culture (that's for liberal hippies etc Eric?) It is sophistical (and new age in fact) to say, well we can reincarnate anyway (were you saying that?) without allowing a person the option to live out this life and all they have to learn, by choosing death for them, whether sanctioned by institutional policy or not. People like the producer's movies. So lots of people pay money to see them. Any dope can mop floors. As a result, we don't pay much for that. The thing about this estimation of the difference between the mop-wielder and the movie-producer, is that it is a judgement evaluation in terms of what they do, while I see it that each is contributing an hour (or more) of their time and that is what should be regarded as of equal value. If everyone's time is of value to them, why not to each other? And while I too love movies, ask yourself, which performs what is actually the more essential - the creation of temporarily-escapist fabulous fantasy or the provision of a clean and ordered environment? If people didn't clean, collect rubbish and maintain our world, you'd soon know about it. But a movie is always (ok sometimes educational) just glamour. Likes: Laird, Steve and Michael Patterson And then there's that old joke about the body parts arguing about which was most important (you can add whatever flourishes you like here) - until the asshole said it was going to close down..... Likes: Aliceinunderland and Steve superqualia A small update on Courtney's work: A verbal summary: He is starting a streaming service and the first full length movie is called, 'the death traps' where he believes he has uncovered evidence that life after death is not easy or apparently has some pitfalls. Creativemind superqualia said: Not buying the Venus one Billion BC bit. Courney has changed and turned remote viewing into the "Ancient Aliens" of the web. Creativemind said: anything in this general area that depends on human perception or requires a science that doesn't exist yet (extra solar geology, etc) is to be taken with a few kilograms of salt in both directions. In my opinion. This guy feels like he is being watched. It's very apparent in his videos. Not in a crazy paranoid way, but in a seemingly justified way, to him at least. Maybe that fear is coloring his remote viewing work? Hes right. Astral travelers and mediums generally report that challenges continue after this life. This isn’t news to the serious field Of afterlife researchers. This idea that all of our problems are washed away and we become problemless saints after death is religious mythology. Some of the best channeled works like Seth Speaks suggest the same. As does the science of reincarnation.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355656
__label__wiki	0.664306	0.664306	National Cadet Karate Championship to begin from tomorrow Islamabad 4th March, 2011: Pakistan Sports Board will organize two-day National Cadet (under 16 boys & girls) Karate championship at Pakistan Sports Complex, Islamabad from tomorrow. In a press release, spokesperson of PSB said the karate championship is organized in collaboration and cooperation with Pakistan Karate Federation on the special initiatives of Director General PSB. Syed Amir Hamza Gillani, Director General PSB, will be a chief guest to inaugurate the championship at 3 pm at Liaqat Gymnasium, Pakistan Sports Complex, Islamabad. The PSB has completed all the necessary arrangements for holding the championship. Pakistan Sports Board is also seeking technical support from 25 referees and judges. He said the championship is a part of talent hunt program of PSB at grass roots level. He said by involving young cadets (boys & girls) will not only help revive the sports activities but also be a great boost for them to take part in competitive sports at national level. The spokesperson said total 15 teams of Punjab, Sindh, KPK, Balochistan and Islamabad are participating. Both under-16 boys & girls will take part in different categories of -40 kg, -43,-45 kg, -47kg, -52 kg & -63 kg. The winner teams and individual players would be given cash prizes and trophies by the PSB, he added. The prize distribution ceremony is scheduled be held at 4 pm on March 6, 2011 at Liaqat Gymnasium. Faik Ali Chachar Director (PR & MM) Pakistan Sports Board	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355660
__label__wiki	0.899628	0.899628	Follow Art Thiel on Twitter Add Art Thiel to your circles About Art Thiel Art Thiel's Archive BY Art Thiel 06:49PM 03/20/2015 Thiel: Louisville slips by Anteaters, 7-ft.-6 Ndiaye Just when Cal-Irvine needed to Mamadou, instead the Anteaters decided to Mamadon’t. All game long, the Seattle region’s most unusual man, 7-foot-6 Mamadou Ndiaye, hovered over the KeyArena proceedings like a pterodactyl, his 8-foot-3 wingspan casting a shadow over an athletically far superior Louisville team. Only a sophomore, the young Senegalese has far to go athletically, but Ndiaye had 12 points and five rebounds and nearly screwed up the whole Friday afternoon — and thus, the season — for the fourth-seeded Cardinals. The high-pedigree program was on the verge of losing to a tourney first-timer, the distinctively indistinct ‘Eaters from Orange County. Yet UCI, trailing 57-55 but with the ball, a timeout, 8.9 seconds left and a roaring crowd aching to experience the full madness of March, failed to even get a shot off. The ‘Eaters absorbed two deliberate fouls Louisville had to give — only one was called — as well as a crushing defeat, 57-55. If the Eaters had just been able get the ball in the air, Ndiaye could have swooped, or tipped, or dunked or . . . something. But no. History went unmade. Thrills went unfelt. Rick Pitino went unscathed. “I thought in many ways in this game, we were their equal,” said a distraught head coach, Russell Turner, barely hanging on to his composure. “Hard to say we were better than they were because of the way the game ended up, but we were a play away from winning that game.” Had they made that play, the 13th-seeded Anteaters would have rocketed to national darling-hood, having knocked from the tourney the legendary Pitino, who knew he had dodged a bullet as if he were Keanu Reeves in “The Matrix.” “They were well-prepared, well-schooled to take away our strengths,” Pitino said. “Fortunately, two guys stepped up and we made big plays defensively.” The two guys were 6-5 senior swingman Wayne Blackshear, who muscled in the final of his game-high 19 points with a baseline drive into the face of a bewildered Ndiaye to tie the game at 55 with 43 seconds left; and 6-1 freshman point guard Quentin Snider, who calmly potted two deciding free throws at nine seconds. The final minute was a mess for UCI (21-13), Big West Conference champions for the first time. The penultimate possession was a hopeless, 28-foot jumper, and the final one was brought asunder when point guard Alex Young was deliberately hammered by Snider, following instructions from Pitino, because the Cardinals had a final foul to give without penalty of free throws. No call was made, and no timeout taken while the ball was in UCI possession. “If it was a foul or not, that’s not for me to judge,” said Young, who was sent sprawling to the floor by the body blow. “But it hurts not to even get a shot up. That’s my job. I got to make sure that I can create something for myself, or especially for my teammates,to try to get a shot.” Turner was obviously irked with the non-call with three seconds left. “To have it come down to a foul call and a non-foul call, that’s a tough one,” he said. “But that’s basketball. That’s life. And when those things don’t go your way, you got to be able to accept that and move forward.” Moving forward was Pitino, who no longer will have to deal with America’s tallest player, who was backed by a 7-2 reserve and another 6-10 forward. He said during the week he called the coach of one of UCI’s league opponents for a scouting report on playing Ndiaye. “He said pay no attention to what you see on film because when you see him in person, he protects the rim as well as anybody,” Pitino said. “So don’t watch film and say you can beat him laterally. That coach was 100 percent correct.” So the Cardinals move on to Sunday, and UCI, having nearly climbed the mountain, returns to anthills. Follow Art Thiel on Twitter at @Art_Thiel	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355661
__label__wiki	0.666429	0.666429	View Shelf Other Reference Guides (PDF) To view reference guides in PDF format, download the following free software: Get Acrobat Reader A preliminary container list was created for this collection on or before November 14, 2014. Extension and Experiment Station Communications Photograph Collection, 1912-1997 The Extension and Experiment Station Communications Photograph Collection consists of about 25,500 images generated by Experiment Station staff. These images were used in publications such as Oregon's Agricultural Progress and Pacific Northwest Bulletins as well as news releases, poster presentations and displays. The images depict a variety of OSU research projects, Experiment Station branch facilities, portraits of OSU staff, Extension and Experiment Station-sponsored events, and animal-oriented topics. Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital. Oregon State University. Extension and Experiment Station Communications ID: P 120 Extent: 10.44 cubic feet More Extent Information about 10,200 prints; 15,300 negatives; and 1,034 slides; 7 cubic foot boxes, 5 document boxes, 1 16x20 oversize box, 1 12x17 oversize box Scope and Content Notes Accession 2003:098 consists of 707 slides generated by the Office of Extension and Experiment Station Communications depicting research projects and various staff members at five Extension and Experiment Station branches: Central Oregon Agricultural Research Center, Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center, Klamath Experiment Station, Mid-Columbia Agriculture and Research and Extension Center, and the Central Oregon Agricultural Research Center branch station. Organized in five groups corresponding to the five stations, these images include views of indoor laboratory research, irrigation, harvesting equipment, research on agricultural plots, insects and livestock. There are also images of various Field Day events and participants. Staff members are identified. Accession 2008:038 is made up of images taken by Extension and Experiment Station Communications staff for use in various OSU publications, news releases, poster presentations, and displays. Numbering 243 color slides in total, the images depict agricultural research specimens, Field Day outings, tours of research plots, controlled field burning, laboratory research, Experiment Station branches, and cattle management. Most of the images were taken at stations in Central and Eastern Oregon around the regions of Burns, Madras, Heppner, Powell Butte and Pendleton. These slides were also scanned and saved as .tif files onto two cds that were included in this transfer. Accession 2008:102 consists of photographs taken by Extension Service staff that were featured in 4-H manuals and Pacific Northwest Bulletins. Numbering about 500 images in total (200 prints and 300 negatives), about half of the photos were used in manuals pertaining to the care and management of farm animals such as pygmy goats, sheep, goats, rabbits, dairy and beef cattle. Other animal-oriented topics documented in these published photos include horse riding and judging, and dog obedience training. Images in this transfer not relating to animals depict 4-H programs including training in archery, handicrafts and computers. Accession 2009:011 includes photographic images documenting a 1992 fire at the Industrial Building which destroyed the OSU printing facility and 90% of the Extension publication inventory. Made up of a total of 91 images (84 slides and 7 prints), the photographs are a combination of views of the fire being brought under control and the scorched aftermath of the building as a gutted structure. Five of the prints are mounted on foam core and appear to have been displayed at some point. Also included in this transfer is an undated instructional slide presentation on the process of planning the writing and layout of an Extension publication. Accession 2012:017 is made up of photographs taken by Extension and Experiment Station Communications staff for use in publications produced at OSU such as Oregon's Agricultural Progress. Some of these images were also featured in special OSU editions of the Corvallis Gazette-Times newspaper. Numbering about 25,000 images in total (10,000 prints and 15,000 negatives), these photographs depict a variety of OSU research projects, Experiment Station branch station facilities, portrait shots of OSU staff, gatherings of the Agricultural Research Foundation, and events such as the Diamond Pioneer Awards Luncheon. Among the images found in this transfer are a few photographs originating from the collections of the OSU Special Collections and Archives, and the Oregon Historical Society. Biographical / Historical Notes The Extension Information Office (which later became Extension Communications) and the Agricultural Experiment Station Information office (which later became Agricultural Experiment Station Communications) were separate units until 1983, when they were combined into a single unit in the College of Agricultural Sciences known as Agricultural Communications. The name was changed in March of 1996 to Extension and Experiment Station Communications to reflect the move at OSU to make Extension a university-wide outreach activity. Extension Information provided support in the design, production, and distribution of educational materials, publications, news releases, feature stories, radio programs initially, but have added in more recent years: videotape, satellite delivery, web delivery. Statement on Access: Collection is open for research. Preferred Citation: Extension and Experiment Station Communications Photograph Collection (P 120), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon. Languages of Materials Collection Material Type: PCLD List Hops and Brewing Forms of Material Born digital. See also: Digital Resources: History of OSU Extension, a comprehensive collection of online resources documenting the 100+ year history of Extension at Oregon State University. Information and Credits	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355663
__label__wiki	0.947714	0.947714	ATP WTA Smoke haze again forces delay in Australian Open qualifying Tennis Headlines Barty, Rublev win Adelaide titles Federer: Nadal, Djokovic will pass me Aussie Open explains new air policy Rybakina beats Shuai for Hobart title Federer, Nadal sure Aussie will be OK Bouchard loses in Aussie Open qualifying Paire, Humbert reach ASB Classic final A spectator wears a mask as smoke haze shrouds Melbourne during an Australian Open practice session at Melbourne Park in Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Smoke haze and poor air quality caused by wildfires temporarily suspended practice sessions for the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Tuesday, but qualifying began later in the morning in "very poor" conditions and amid complaints by at least one player who was forced to forfeit her match. (Michael DodgeAAP Image via AP) MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Australian Open officials delayed the start of play by two hours Wednesday on the second day of qualifying until smoke from regional wild fires cleared. Smoke and hazy conditions at Melbourne Park on Tuesday affected the opening day's play with organizers criticized for allowing qualifying matches to proceed. A number of players complained, including Bernard Tomic, who sought medical treatment during his first-round loss when he struggled to breathe. Dalila Jakupovic feared she would pass out before retiring from her match when she collapsed to her knees with a coughing spell. On Wednesday, Canadian qualifier Brayden Schnur said Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were "selfish" and more concerned about their legacies, saying it's time the pair stepped up and protested against playing conditions during qualifying. The 103rd-ranked player, who is seeded third in the qualifying tournament, was critical of officials after his first-round win over Sebastian Ofner, which took more than two hours in the hazy conditions that blanketed Melbourne Park on Wednesday. He said it was incumbent upon the biggest names in the sport to be the voice for lesser-known players. "It's got to come from the top guys - Roger and Rafa are a little bit selfish in thinking about themselves and their careers," Schnur said. "Because they're near the end and all they're thinking about is their legacy and they're not thinking about the sport itself and trying to do what's good for the sport. So those guys need to step up." Schnur battled conditions, which he described as like smoking a cigarette. "You feel super dryness in your throat," he said. "That's 100% not normal and players who have asthma are at a huge disadvantage right now." Organizers delayed play on Wednesday but the air quality index when the players took to court was still graded as "unhealthy" because of the smoke from the bush fires in Victoria. The Australian Open begins Monday. More AP Tennis: https://www.apnews.com/apf-Tennis and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355664
__label__wiki	0.896324	0.896324	5:00 PM PT6:00 PM MT7:00 PM CT8:00 PM ET1:00 GMT9:00 6:00 PM MST8:00 PM EST5:00 UAE (+1)20:00 ET23:00 BRT, November 14, 2019 Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minnesota Attendance: 17,079 Greenway scores in 3rd to lift Wild over Coyotes 3-2 NHL Headlines Ovechkin nets 3 again, Caps rally in 3rd Canucks beat Sharks, home streak now 8 Jackets' Merzlikins gets another shutout Toews has 4 points, Hawks push run to 4 McDavid's 2 goals lift surging Oilers Makar sets record as Avs defeat Blues Bobrovsky returns in Panthers' win Stalock has shutout, Wild rip Stars 7-0 Tatar lifts Canadiens past Vegas in SO Smith's PPG puts Predators over Sabres (AP Photo/Hannah Foslien) By BRIAN HALL ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Bruce Boudreau knows the reality of returning from a West Coast swing and warned his Minnesota Wild about a letdown following their 2-2 trip. Minnesota took the message to heart and stayed the course during a pivotal third period in its return home. Jordan Greenway deflected in a goal with 7:49 remaining, and the Wild returned with a 3-2 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday night. Zach Parise had a goal and an assist and Kevin Fiala scored for the fourth time in six games for Minnesota. "Your body is so acclimated to that time zone, you come back here and you hear the stories about the first game is always a really tough one coming back and it is," Boudreau said. "But we let them know we can't afford to have that excuse, `Oh the first one's a tough one.' So, no matter what, we had to play the way we played." The Wild recovered from a pair of two-goal deficits to win in Arizona last week. The Coyotes tied Thursday's game twice but Minnesota didn't let Arizona complete any comeback. Devan Dubnyk made 27 saves for the Wild, who were tied for an NHL-low 13 points entering the day amid a road-heavy early schedule. They are 4-1-1 at home. "To sit and talk, or to complain or feel sorry for yourself, is not going to get you anywhere," Dubnynk said of the schedule. "The nice thing is this is back to being a place that is good for us to play and a place that are fans like to come watch us." Conor Garland and Lawson Crouse scored for Arizona, which entered the game with the second-most road wins in the league this season. Antti Raanta stopped 31 shots, enduring a barrage early from the Wild. Minnesota held a 20-8 shot advantage after the first period. "Just a bad start," Coyotes defenseman Alex Goligoski said. "I kind of felt like we were a little disjointed all night. Not a lot of communication out there. We kind of got run around a little bit. We were still in the game and they get the power-play goal and we don't. That's the difference a lot of the time." Fiala opened the scoring in the first, flipping a rebound backhand over Raanta. Garland, with his ninth goal in 20 games this season, took advantage of a mistake by Dubnyk in the second. Dubnyk played the puck behind his net, sending it out to the left where Nick Schmaltz intercepted the clearing attempt and quickly centered to Garland. He redirected the pass before Dubnyk could recover. Parise scored on the power play 5:39 into the third, but Arizona quickly answered as Crouse scored less than two minutes later. "There wasn't a ton of panic when they tied it up," Parise said. "It's never easy to score one to go ahead and then give one right back up. But that's what we were dealt with. The game wasn't over. It was still a tie game. We got it done." Greenway was awarded the game-winning goal, his first goal of the season, after Jonas Brodin's shot from the point ricocheted off Greenway's calf. "Listen, it's been a good 20 (games), but there's a little bit more there; we need more from some guys," Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said. "We need some people to make some plays for us at the right time. For the most part, it's been a pretty consistent effort from the guys." NOTES: Minnesota tallied 20 shots in the first period, the most in a single period for the team this season and tied for the third-most in a first period in franchise history. .... Arizona was trying to finish off an unbeaten, three-game road trip. The Coyotes had earned points in nine of 11 road games this season and had a point in six straight on the road (5-0-1). ... Wild F Marcus Foligno was out of the lineup for the third straight game with a lower-body injury. ... Arizona D Ilya Lyubushkin was scratched for the fourth time this season. Coyotes: Return home Saturday against the Calgary Flames. Wild: Host the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday. More AP NHL: www.apnews.com/NHL and www.twitter.com/AP-Sports	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355669
__label__cc	0.540089	0.459911	home/interviews/ ÄtintekorvAndreas Tilliander Andreas Tilliander ÄtintekorvAndreas Tilliander Swedish artist Andreas Tilliander has had no shortage of projects of the years. Since the turn of the millennium he has been conjuring up new monikers like they’re going out of fashion; Mokira, TM404, Lowfour, Komp, Svaag and Rechord are just a number of his assorted aliases, each displaying a different of Tilliander’s angles on dub-heavy electronica and minimal-leaning hardware techno. One such project to be brought back to life recently has been Kondens - a collaborative effort with Stefan Thor. The first release from the project since 2011 emerged on Börft Records’ Soundcloud page last month, and it has recently transpired that a second 12” will be released via Ulf Eriksson’s Kontra Musik additionally. With this, alongside a new mix CD for Enter.Ibizia due out imminently, we decided to catch up with Tilliander to discuss the project, veganism, and his first meeting with Kontra label boss Ulf Eriksson. Hi Andreas how are things? You got back from Japan recently - what were you up to over there? Hello there. I’ve just returned from a month in Japan - I believe it was my tenth time in the best country that I can think of. I stayed for an entire month, but it was still hard to leave. Once when leaving Tokyo, I burst into tears on the plane. It was close this time too, but I managed to keep a straight face and kept my cool! The main reason for staying one month was to do field recordings and make music with my partner Elin Franzén. We got some fantastic art funding from Sweden and the result will hopefully be an album in 2016 or so. While in Tokyo, I also interviewed some artists for my radio show, and I even had the time to do a few gigs too. I believe I’m right in saying you’re a fellow vegan - what’s it like food-wise over there? When did you make the decision to become vegan in the first place too? Nowadays it’s super easy to be vegan in Japan! We were eating at different restaurants almost every night and I have to say that none of them were disappointing. In 2001, I was in Japan for the first time. Back then it was difficult finding any vegan food at all and I mostly ate fruits, crisps and rice really. Nowadays, I have lots of friends in Tokyo, but mainly I rely on apps and websites like the excellent Happy Cow, which is a place where you can find vegan or vegetarian restaurants almost anywhere. Tokyo is no exception. In fact, I think that Stockholm is harder. Stockholm, the city I’ve lived in since the late nineties, is trying to act like it’s a big city with lots of everything for everyone and still there’s only one vegan restaurant in the entire town. Shame on you, the “Capital of Scandinavia”! You have a new release under the name Kondens alongside Stefan Thor this month which will be the first one from the project since 2011. How did you first meet Stefan and what sparked the return to the project? We met when we were, or at least I was, very young. He’s about four of five years older (I never figured out exactly) and he was studying art at a local school in the tiny town of Hässleholm where I grew up. Apparently, the school’s kitchen caught fire one day so they all had to eat at my elementary school. Stefan was dressed in black and wore Dr. Martens. I was twelve and super impressed to meet somebody that had the same outfit as I. I remember approaching him and deliberately stepping on his shoes while asking if he was going to come to the industrial concert at the local youth club next Saturday. He replied in a cool way that he and his mate were the ones performing. I got very impressed and I even bought a t-shirt on the spot. So at the concert, There were three people wearing the same shirt - the band on stage and me. Stefan and I have been close friends ever since and we’ve made music together since the nineties or so, but just as a way of hanging out really. Other people sit on a sofa and get drunk. Stefan and I connect our synths and drum machines, mix some drinks, talk about life and art and record at the same time. Just like most people in Skåne, the southernmost part of Sweden, Stefan often takes his car and goes to Germany to harvest looooads of alcoholic beverages. So every time we meet, he makes rum drinks for us. Sometimes a bit too many though. We have no rules whatsoever, apart from having fun and making something that is slightly weird yet with a swing. We put out two vinyls on the dear label Kontra-Musik and got remixed by my old idol Substance from Chain Reaction as well as the very talented and fun Berghain resident Norman Nodge. Following that, we did some gigs but mostly ended up playing at house clubs, so what we did was perhaps a bit too strange. Stefan had a second kid and I started working on my TM404 project, so things were put on halt for some years. The reason we returned to the project now is that we have about two hours of decent recordings and I guess it would be a shame to just let it sit on those tapes and rot. You also returned to your Mokira alias recently, releasing an EP with Swedish label S.E.L.F. You mentioned the tracks are 7-8 years old in an earlier email - how did they come to be passed on to the label? Is Mokira something you’re going to be carrying on with? Yes. Those tracks were recorded for another label actually. But after about two years of waiting for the music to be released, I decided not to release it at all. Then the S.E.L.F people contacted me for some material and I sent them three different ideas. They liked those old recordings, and frankly I’m not even sure I told them that the material is that old. Perhaps they will read this and weep, hehe. There’s a live clip from when I played in Belgium in 2009, where I’m playing that material. Mokira is taking a timeout, like most of my monikers apart from TM404 at the moment, but I think Mokira is the project that I’ve released the most records with, from the debut on Raster-Noton in 2000 to this years S.E.L.F vinyl. It’s been a long time, but I have to say I’m still proud of all those releases, which I really can’t say about everything I’ve released. You’ve released a fair amount of your music via Kontra. Ulf Eriksson once told me an in an interview the story of how you first met - he said you turned up drunk and fell asleep at a party he booked you to play at, and that you’ve been friends ever since! Do you remember the time as well? What do you think it is about Kontra that makes such a fitting home for your work? Ulf and I were just speaking about that. He was actually in Tokyo a few days when I was there. I’m responsible for being the person with the most releases on Kontra-Musik which I’m very proud of, considering the truly amazing records he puts out. It’s true that the first time we met, more than ten years ago, wasn’t optional. I was doing a daytime session at a festival in Malmö and there’s pictures of me having a bottle of red wine by myself during the set. That’s not a good breakfast if you’re also booked to play at a rave in the forest about twelve hours later! I grew up in the south of Sweden, but I’ve Iived in Stockholm since I finished school, so every time I return to the south I try to meet up with old friends. And that sometimes involves drinking too. I remembering being at the venue but feeling too tired to perform with the trio I had at the time with Mikael Stavöstrand and Johan Skugge. We were called Bulgur Brothers and while the other two brothers were on stage performing, I was in the backstage area on a sofa waking up every now and then thinking to myself “Oh, that sounds great! Hope it’s us performing right now!” It’s a fun memory, but it’s also an isolated incident. Never again did I get too wasted to perform. Which is perhaps a good thing, otherwise I’d have to release on so many labels. Speaking of the Swedish scene - I believe I’m right in saying you master the releases for Finn Albertsson’s Sonuos imprint. How did this come about? Is mastering something you have always done or something you’ve got into fairly recently? That’s correct. Fun fact - When I was 15 years old, I had a local radio show about strange electronic music and I interviewed the much older Finn. Well, at least in those days he was much older. Since I’m considered a grownup too nowadays, it feels as if we’re the same age more or less. Anyway, I was a fan of his music 25 years ago and he has the most perfect taste in music so how could I turn down a request from him? I even did a Mokira remix for one of his releases. I’ve mastered since the late nineties and there’s been a few hundred records that have been through my compressors and EQ’s in the studio. Recently, I’ve been too busy doing my own productions so I tend only to accept a mastering job when I really dig the music. More or less, I only master the releases for Börft Records at the moment since I love everything they release. It states on your website that ‘Repeatle will soon be back’ - exciting news! I picked up a copy of the ‘Stay Down’ 12” a few months back which is absolutely stunning. Anything more you can tell us about the future plans for Repeatle? Great to hear! Repeatle as a label did three dubby vinyls back in 2007. Since then, the label has been silent. There’s a 12” I released in 2001 on the fantastic German label Force Inc called Repeatle. This and some other of my old records will be remastered and released digitally through Repeatle during 2015, whenever I find the time. Apart from that, nothing is planned for my own label. But if a decent vinyl distributor reads this and gets the vibes, hit me up and we’ll see. What else can we expect to hear from yourself over the coming months? Any interesting projects in the the works over the rest of 2015? 2015 will probably be yet another year of recording for me. I have about three hours of unreleased TM404 material and when I have five hours, I’ll compile it into an album or something. I’m too fond of working in the studio, so I have a hard time actually finishing my sessions if nobody forces me too. I play live almost every weekend, so if you’ve seen me live, you’ve probably heard in which direction I’m heading. TM404 aside, I’ll release the Kondens 12” on Börft that you mentioned earlier and there will also be another Tilliander vinyl on Börft before we hit 2016. I’m doing a mix CD for Richie Hawtin and his Minus label to be released as part of the ENTER.Ibiza nights where I’ll be playing for the third summer in a row. It’s a great summer job and I love Richie, the fantastic crew and everything connected to the possibility of playing somewhat weird electronics to the Ibiza crowd. Ibiza is so much more than just Avichii, Swedish Mafia House, Steve Aiko, Deadmau6, Hardwall and so on. Prev in interviews: Workings of Nature: Fis	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355673
__label__cc	0.614562	0.385438	Category Archives: Latest African Development Bank approves Fund for Desert to Power Yeleen programme Africa & Middle East, Latest, News, Region, Renewable EnergyBy Solar Chronicle December 11, 2019 The Board of Directors of the Bank has approved a €48,82 million loan to the Government of Burkina Faso for the Yeleen solar plant, intended to boost national power supply. Yeleen, which is to be implemented under the Bank’s Desert to Power ( DTP) Initiative, and which will span a period of five years from… Fund to boost African Off-grid Solar Power Companies Triple Jump, an Amsterdam based impact-focused investment manager, will act as portfolio manager and Persistent, a Zurich based venture and private equity firm with expertise in the off-grid sector, will serve as investment advisor to the fund. Enclude, a Palladium company, advised on the structuring and execution of the fund. The fund is designed to… Global energy transformation: A roadmap to 2050 Africa & Middle East, America, Asia - Pacific, China, Europe, Featured, India, Latest, Region, Renewable EnergyBy Solar Chronicle December 11, 2019 Increased use of renewable energy, combined with intensified electrification, could prove decisive for the world to meet key climate goals by 2050. This study from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) highlights immediately deployable, cost-effective options for countries to fulfil climate commitments and limit the rise of global temperatures. The envisaged energy transformation would also… BRAZIL, Coema to analyse project of nine solar power plants for the Jaguaribe Valley America, Latest, News, Region, Renewable EnergyBy Solar Chronicle December 11, 2019 The State Environment Council (Coema) will analyze, on Thursday (12), the installation project of the Alex Photovoltaic Solar Complex, of interest to the company Alex X Energia SPE Ltda. According to the project, the project will be composed of nine plants, which have a nominal power of 278 megawatts of electricity. According to the project,… Latin America and the Caribbean Announce Ambitious New Renewables Target for 2030 Latin America and the Caribbean holds tremendous renewable energy promise. IRENA’s recent ‘Future of Solar Photovoltaic’ report highlighted that the region’s solar energy capacity alone could grow by a factor of 40 by 2050 to more than 280 gigawatts (GW) thanks to an abundant resource endowment and strong enabling policies. Today, during UN Climate Conference… Renewable Ambition in Pursuit of Climate Change Adaptation : IRENA.org Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are amongst the most vulnerable countries in the world when it comes to climate change. At the same time, they are amongst the most ambitious when it comes to climate action. The progress of the energy transition in SIDS was the focus of several events for IRENA during COP25 where… American Solar Workers on road, Call on Administration to StopSolarTariffs America, Business, Latest, News, Region, Renewable Energy, Top ProductsBy Solar Chronicle December 6, 2019 Dozens of solar energy supporters from across the country gathered at the headquarters of the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to rally for an end to solar tariffs. Clad in yellow scarves and holding sun balloons, solar workers called on the USITC to grant relief from the harmful solar tariffs. ABOUT USITC The U.S. International… Measures to Increase Solar Energy Generation by Indian Government India, Latest, More, News, Press Release, Region, Renewable Energy, TenderBy Solar Chronicle December 5, 2019 The Government have taken, inter alia, following steps to increase solar energy generation in the country: In last three years, Ministry has not sanctioned any Model Solar City. (i) Announcement of a target of installing 100 GW of solar energy capacity by December, 2022. (ii) Waiver of Inter State Transmission System (ISTS) charges and losses… Indian Ministry awarded Wind Power Projects of 12,162.50 MW Capacity so Far Featured, India, Latest, Region, Renewable EnergyBy Solar Chronicle December 5, 2019 Wind power projects are set up in the country, including in the state of Rajasthan, on the basis of commercial principles taking into account wind resource, land availability, transmission infrastructure, etc. So far, bids for 15,100 MW of wind power projects have been issued, out of which projects of 12,162.50 MW capacity have been awarded.… Generation of Solar Power in India India, Latest, News, Region, Renewable EnergyBy Solar Chronicle December 5, 2019 The Government of India has set a national target of installing 1,00,000 MW grid connected solar power capacity in the country by December, 2022. As on 31.10.2019, a total grid connected solar power generation capacity of 31,696 MW has been set up in the Country, projects of 17998 MW capacity are at various stages of…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355681
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__label__cc	0.748566	0.251434	British Ambassador To China During Tiananmen Square Massacre: “The Number Of Dead Was Really 10,454” Archive VIDEO What They Said June 4, 2019 June 4, 2019 by Celia Farber “The bodies were cleared away by bulldozers for incineration and blood was hosed into the gutters. The wounded were raced to hospital in bicycle rickshaws. While the CPC insisted the massacre was necessary to avoid a “counter-revolutionary riot”, then US president George HW Bush denounced the violence and prime minister Margaret Thatcher said she was “shocked and appalled”. China officially recorded the number of dead as no more than 300 while the Chinese Red Cross on the ground said it was more like 2,700. But Sir Alan Donald, Britain’s ambassador to China at the time, said the death toll was much higher. Writing in a contemporary memo that was only declassified in 2017, Sir Alan expressed his belief that the number of dead was really 10,454.” The Independent UK Whenever I’m asked who my heroes are, there’s one I always try to include: an unknown Chinese man who stood up to the Communist military, groceries in hand. This week is 30 years since Tank Man showed the world what bravery is. His fate is still unknown.pic.twitter.com/6s0AU46jji — Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) June 4, 2019 To Caravaners Evidence Of The Demonic? Women Create Fake Identities As Mothers of Autistic Children on FB to Report Parents, Have Them Kidnapped By The State, Hailed As Heroes by Corporate Media	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355691
__label__cc	0.547105	0.452895	New year, same old problems? :: This month, the world's political and business elite will converge on Europe's highest-altitude town for the annual talk-shop that is the World Economic Forum, held this year under the banner of "resilient dynamism." url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/10/business/davos-preview-global-problems/index.html?eref�ition Quest: U.S. economy on the agenda :: It is that time of the year, again. Come January, as soon as the Christmas trees are taken down and the winter sales flood the shops, the world of business starts thinking about the World Economic Forum -- better known as Davos. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/10/opinion/quest-davos-2013-opener/index.html?eref�ition Hong Kong's mounting food waste :: Nestled among the granite peaks of eastern Hong Kong a new, man-made mountain is emerging. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/21/world/asia/hong-kong-food-waste/index.html?eref�ition London Mayor on 'cyclotron of egos' :: While Prime Minister David Cameron's speech this week -- voicing his intent to let the British people vote on whether to stay in the European Union -- has caused concern on the continent, the mayor of London says it's all part of democracy. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/25/business/davos-boris-johnson-eu-referendum/index.html?eref�ition Another Tibetan sets himself on fire :: A Tibetan man protesting China's rule of the region set himself on fire Saturday, his death believed to be the first case of self-immolation this year -- but one that adds to a grim, growing toll. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/13/world/asia/china-tibet-self-immolation/index.html?eref�ition Is China easing up on media? :: China's traditional iron-handed approach to the media has taken a surprise turn of tolerance with Beijing's soft handling of a recent dispute with local reporters, in what could well become a more open attitude toward the media under the incoming administration of presumed new President Xi Jinping. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/13/opinion/china-censorship-young/index.html?eref�ition Playtime that protects the planet :: CNN's Pauline Chiou goes to Hong Kong's annual toy fair to find out about the growing market for eco-friendly toys. url: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2013/01/14/eco-solutions-toys.cnn?eref�ition The cost of being a Davos delegate :: The great Davos talking shop is now up and running, with delegates of all levels of importance, shapes and nationalities zeroing in on this quaint, alpine town to put the world to rights. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/17/business/davos-delegate-guide/index.html?eref�ition Croatia lucky on EU membership? :: On July 1, 2013 the 27-nation European Union will become 28. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/10/business/croatia-eu-accession/index.html?eref�ition 2013: A 'game-changer' on climate? :: As leaders gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos, signs of economic hope are upon us. The global economy is on the mend. Worldwide, the middle class is expanding by an estimated 100 million per year. And the quality of life for millions in Asia and Africa is growing at an unprecedented pace. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/22/business/steer-climate-change-davos/index.html?eref�ition In pictures: Ship's guns found off Sicily :: Guns lifted from 18th-Century British warship How to get rid of old gadgets :: If you received shiny new gadgets for the holidays, you probably have some older device that is now unwanted or obsolete. If you can't regift your old computer, tablet or TV, make sure you get rid of it the smart way by selling, donating or recycling it. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/25/tech/gaming-gadgets/used-electronics/index.html?eref�ition Shipping looks to clean up its act :: At nearly the length of four football pitches, the container ship Eugen Maersk takes some stopping when traveling at full speed -- around 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) before it can come to a complete halt. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/17/business/eco-green-shipping-singapore/index.html?eref�ition Embrace ice: 8 cool getaways :: Some people think the only cure for the doldrums of winter is sunshine. Far from it. Why not up the ante? Don't suffer snow and ice at home when you can really do winter vacations and ice holidays in style. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/17/travel/ice-vacations/index.html?eref�ition Ex-Japanese prime minister in China :: The Japanese government has criticized former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's acknowledgment of a "territorial dispute" with China over islands in the East China Sea, with the defense minister going so far as to use the word "traitor." url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/18/world/asia/japan-hatoyama-china/index.html?eref�ition China's economy grows 7.8% for 2012 :: China's economic growth rose in the fourth quarter of 2012, helping the world's most populous nation end the year with a growth rate of 7.8%, according to figures released Friday from the National Bureau of Statistics. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/17/business/china-gdp-2012/index.html?eref�ition Advocates push for 'green' cosmetics :: Cosmetics are a part of the daily grooming regimen for women across the country, but now consumer advocates say your favorite lipstick or mascara may be harmful to your health. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/28/living/green-cosmetics/index.html?eref�ition Living with Beijing's 'air-pocalypse' :: "Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in...." my wife Ana blurted into a song this week, as she gazed eastwards through the window of our apartment in downtown Beijing. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/19/world/asia/china-florcruz-pollution/index.html?eref�ition '4-hour' work guru on outsourcer :: CNN readers had a mixture of admiration and disdain for "Bob," the anonymous U.S. programmer who outsourced his work to a Chinese firm for one-fifth of his paycheck. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/18/business/china-outsourcer-tim-ferriss/index.html?eref�ition Photo art in a slate landscape :: Giant photos on landscape pay homage to industry url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21215559#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa Chinese millionaire sells cans of fresh air :: One of China's richest men is giving away fresh, canned air in polluted Beijing. CNN's Suzanne Malveaux reports. url: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2013/01/30/sm-china-canned-air.cnn?eref�ition Watch giant sinkhole swallow buildings :: A massive sinkhole in Guangzhou,China, destroys two buildings but there are no reported casualties, says CCTV. url: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2013/01/30/vo-sinkhole-swallows-buildings.cctv?eref�ition Islamists, opposition talk Egypt crisis :: Egypt's deeply divided political strife took another turn Wednesday, as an Islamist party that had supported the president met with a prominent opposition group to talk about a solution. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/30/world/africa/egypt-unrest/index.html?eref�ition Real hit back to hold Barcelona :: It was supposed to be the Copa del Rey semifinal showdown between Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and his Barcelona nemesis Lionel Messi. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/30/sport/football/football-real-madrid-barcelona-messi-ronaldo/index.html?eref�ition Israel hits Syria arms convoy to Lebanon: sources :: url: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/MostRead/~3/evX1-_2VCMI/us-syria-israel-attack-idUSBRE90T0K120130130 VIDEO: Russia marks Stalingrad anniversary :: Survivors of the Battle of Stalingrad have been talking to the BBC's Daniel Sandford ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of the battle. Gunman opens fire in Arizona office building, three wounded :: url: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/MostRead/~3/efmtl79Oqvg/us-usa-phoenix-shooting-idUSBRE90T15O20130130 U.S. tornados trap residents, flip cars :: Powerful winds and a tornado spawned by a 1,000-mile-long storm system pounded communities in northwest Georgia on Wednesday, overturning dozens of cars on an interstate highway and trapping residents. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/30/us/severe-weather/index.html?eref�ition Scuffles mar Balotelli Milan move :: AC Milan football fans clash with Italian police as they celebrate a proposed transfer of striker Mario Balotelli from Manchester City. BlackBerry must remember strengths :: With its new phones, BlackBerry needs to also remember why it has kept strong sales in emerging markets. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/30/business/blackberry-emerging-markets/index.html?eref�ition 31-Jan-2013 23:10 Op-Ed 31-Jan-2013 21:08 10 31-Jan-2013 19:05 with	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355693
__label__cc	0.709836	0.290164	Jeff M. Thomas' Code is my medium. When a company I worked for called Videojax folded I negotiated a MacMini as part of my severance package. So now I can do iPhone development, and why not? Right now I'm teaching myself Objective C and Apple's XCode iOS development platform, particularly the bits of it that do iPhone and iPad development. I was amazed to learn the iPhone has a GPU with OpenGL GLSL compatible shader abilities. On a phone! The iPhone is pretty easy to program, leveraging all of the tools from Mac OS (and from NeXT before that) was a smart move and the whole thing feels mature and smooth. The link between XCode and Interface Builder could be better defined however. Click the images for short YouTube videos of the projects in action and be sure to hit YouTube's "HD" button so you can see them in all their glory. Liars Dice For my fist iPhone game I decided to start simple, a dice game called liars dice. Of course I was going to do the dice rolling in true 3D with as accurate a physics simulation as I could muster and a dynamic interface all in wood with sliders, buttons and dials and stuff. See, simple. Note that in the video the UI isn't complete. Particularly the bar displaying the AI players bid doesn't have it's pretty, rounded wooden overlay so it looks block and ugly. I found that importing a 3D mesh (the rounded corner die, built in blender) into the iPhone is anything but a simple and well understood process. The simplest way, as of eight months ago, was to use a script that exported the whole thing into a C array structure and then embed it into your application. Primitive, but it worked. Obviously it isn't going to be acceptible for something with many 3D objects. For physics I decided to try porting the Open Dynamics Engine into iOS, which turned out to be fairly simple and effective. So that's what the physics simulation of the dice is using. I wanted to leverage my experiences with XNA in building shaders that did dynamic lighting, spectral highlighting, spectral mapping, normal mapping, environment mapping and so on. I quickly learned that many of the bells & whistles available in full fledged HLSL and GLSL aren't available in OpenGL SE, such as a pre-calculated half vector. Because of this I was forced to do much more of the heavy lifting myself, and that was good because I learned considerably more about the details of real-time rendering than I had before. And because of that I was able to optimize out some of the stuff I wasn't using. For example I didn't really need the full half vector calculation to do spectral highlighting, there is a simpler way that looks good enough for a dice game. Next up: UI completion, shadows, hooking the light up to the compass/gyroscope so it moves as you move your phone, and Game Center integration. Juno: A Programming Language Kit XNA Game Development Random Acts of Coding Fun With Flex 3 3D Ray Tracing Roller Coaster Simulations More to come... What? Why? I'm a creative guy, and code is my medium. I'm always wanting to create worlds, games, stories... stuff. To this end I also always want to know how things work and how things can be done better; How does bump mapping work? Is query or object caching better? How do you simulate physics? Is MVC really much better than CGI style page serving? What is Cloud Computing? What's up with iOS? On these pages are presented a selection of projects seeking to answer these questions that progressed far enough to have demonstrable results. Or, against all odds, were actually completed! (it's worth noting that these pages are, in themselves, one of those projects) Twilight Fair Page content and images Copyright 2009 Jeff Thomas	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355695
__label__cc	0.571318	0.428682	The Sunday Reader – Sri Lankan News Home Business Colombo Stock Exchange adopts GICS Industry Classification Colombo Stock Exchange adopts GICS Industry Classification The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) has decided to discontinue the current industry classification used to categorize its listed companies and adopt the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) along with S&P/CSE co-branded sector indices with effect from January 20, 2020. CSE initiated a pilot run of the GICS classification in 2015, which was maintained as a secondary classification with an intention to provide adequate time for all stakeholders to be comfortable with GICS and ensure a smooth transition. The GICS structure, which comprises of 11 sectors and 24 industry groups, provides the transparency and accuracy needed for more accurate comparisons. Companies are classified quantitatively and qualitatively with each company assigned a single GICS Classification at the industry group level according to its principal business activity. CSE CEO, Rajeeva Bandaranaike commenting on the adoption of the global classification mechanism said, “With globalization making head way, our market has also shown dynamic interaction to changes in the global markets. As a result, it is critical for CSE to adopt a globally accepted classification, which would help the Foreign and Local investors alike to capture and assess the impact of global, regional or local industry trends on a portfolio”. The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was jointly developed by Standard & Poor’s and MSCI Barra to meet the global financial community’s need for one complete, consistent set of global sector and industry definitions. The world’s leading financial professionals across all investment disciplines, including asset managers, institutional investors, consultants, and researchers have adopted GICS as the classification standard. GICS Classification of companies with market data can be accessed through www.cse.lk. More information can be obtained by calling 011 2356526. Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) operates the only stock market in Sri Lanka and is responsible for providing a transparent and regulated environment where companies and investors can come together. The CSE is a company that is limited by guarantee established under the Laws of Sri Lanka. The CSE is licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) and is a mutual exchange consisting of 15 Members and 14 Trading Members. All Members and Trading Members are licensed by the SEC to operate as Stockbrokers. For more information, please visit: www.cse.lk. Previous articleSLTPB collaborates with ITV UK for destination promotion Next articleColoma, an exquisite, elegant entry into sanitary ware http://thesundayreader.lk Softlogic GLOMARK opens its 7th outlet in Nawala Top seats for Sri Lankans in Asia Marketing Federation Adidas is turning plastic ocean waste into sneakers and sportswear SLTPB makes a successful contribution at SATTE 2020 Golden returns for Thai Pongal with NDB Wealth Coloma, an exquisite, elegant entry into sanitary ware French and Belgian journalists visit Sri Lanka Tourism Lin J - 2020-01-19 A congregation of 20 press and media personnel, representing 20 reputed French and Belgian media enterprises, arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday, January 18, on... Meet the NASA intern who discovered a new planet on his third day International news Lin J - 2020-01-19 As far as impressing your potential new boss goes, discovering a planet on day three of your internship at NASA is up there. That's what... Business Lin J - 2020-01-19 After just over a year in the market, Softlogic GLOMARK stretches its presence further in the Sri Lankan Modern trade sphere spreading inspiration amongst ... The Sunday Reader is Your Online NEWS and Entertainment Website. Latest 24 Hours NEWS in Brief. Sri Lanka's Credible Responsible Reporting website giving you a relaxed reading platform with a Positive Futuristic Focus. © Thesundayreader.lk Designed By Web Developer In Sri lanka Meet the NASA intern who discovered a new planet on his...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0087.json.gz/line1355699

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