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__label__wiki	0.834857	0.834857	Resurrected Houses of the Holy Led Zeppelin reunited last night in London, England. I wasn't there. Supermodel Naomi Campbell was. And she got mugged in her luxury suite. Good. Anybody who wants to enjoy Led fucking Zeppelin from a "luxury box" deserves any negative fate they receive. She was the only celebrity known to have had a problem at a concert that was filled with A-list names. Mick Jagger, for example, attended the show with girlfriend, L'Wren Scott, while his children, Georgia and James, came with their mother, Jerry Hall. The two groups did not run into each other. Hall and kids were satisfied to sit in very good seats at the side of the stage near Bob Geldof, while Jagger was seated in resort mogul Sol Kerzner’s private box with Mica Ertegun and James Taylor. Elsewhere in the O2 Arena, lots of other celebrities watched Zeppelin and a stellar roster of musicians put together by producer Harvey Goldsmith pay tribute to the memory of Ahmet Ertegun. They ran the gamut from Rosanna Arquette to guitarist extraordinaire Jeff Beck. Arquette’s friend Paul McCartney was expected but not seen, although his security man arrived and lingered near Arquette in the VIP café before the show. Also seen in the café were the entire Presley family — Priscilla, Lisa Marie, Riley and son Ben. The four appeared to have cornered the London market on mascara, and Priscilla now looks like Morticia Adams. Why? Who knows? Juliette Lewis also was spotted in the O2, as was Nile Rodgers, New York radio personality Carol Miller, Will Arnett of "Saturday Night Live," legendary '60s pop icon Lulu with rock jewelry designer Loree Rodkin, the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and, ultimately, Foreigner’s Mick Jones, who played one song — "I Want to Know What Love Is" — with a full band and girls’ choir as a tribute to Ertegun. Any wonder why there was such a shortage of tickets? Every A-list moron on the planet decided to muscle their way into the show. Jerry Hall bringing her kids to the concert? It's not Barney and Friends. It's not even Hannah Montana. It's Led Zeppelin. Leave the tykes at home so a real fan could attend. FOX News didn't enjoy the show: There was no reason to be. If you were a Led Zeppelin fan when they last performed together 30 years ago, nothing has changed. But to paraphrase the song they chose for a final encore, it’s been a long, lonely time since they rock and rolled. After blowing on stage like a thunderstorm with a trio of hits — "Good Times Bad Times," "Ramble On" and "Black Dog" — the group stumbled. A strange song selection combined with iffy audio dynamics didn’t help. "In My Time of Dying" and "Your Life" were a little obscure and too long for a crowd packed frighteningly like sardines onto the floor of an arena. To use the vernacular, it was a buzz kill. The audience — which had gone wild singing the "ah-hah" refrain in Black Dog — drifted. Plant finally really spoke to the audience at that point: "Thank you for the thousands and thousands of emotions we’ve been going through for Ahmet." He added: "And to bring Jason in." The reference was to Jason Bonham, who joined Plant, Page and John Paul Jones in place of his late father, John, on drums. Bonham the younger is a muscular, hard-hitting and enthusiastic drummer who gave the group a renewed zest for life. His father would have been proud to see his bald son (funny since the remaining Zeps have heads of hair only Sweeney Todd could love) reinvigorate some of the hoariest music rock 'n' roll has ever seen. Some things did not work so well. "Stairway to Heaven," the group’s famous seven-minute-plus reverie and radio staple, should have been the finale. Instead, it sort of popped up in the middle of the set and had a pedestrian quality. The sound quality was distorted, and the grander moments of this soap opera were lost. It was a disappointment. On the other hand, "Kashmir," which has Middle Eastern tones and a shuddering drum line, was remarkable. When Plant twice hit beautiful high shimmering notes, the video operator was wise to show Page smiling from ear to ear. It was as if his partner had just made Olympic history. "There are people from 50 different countries here," Plant announced before the song began, "and this is one of them." Maybe because it was a one-off show and the group was nervous, there was little humor. The connection to the audience was more corporate than personal, a stark contrast to the later soul show when Moore, King and Sledge showed where Ertegun’s real heart belonged. Yet meanwhile I fret, because I only want to know one thing. What was the new song that they played? What was it called? What does it sound like? No? Not bringing it up? FINE THEN. Music\| 2007: A Third Edge of the Sword Year in Review (to... I'm shaking in my boots Scams right in our own backyard Alberta's first two news stories of 2008 A fresh idea in marketing A New Year's tradition... Friday December 28th SUNshine Girl The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto The new face (and snicker) of the Chicago Cubs Coverup at the National Post Christmas is the season for mathematics "You're either with us, or with the terrorists," P... "This is cool. Is this how liberals feel all the ... 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Bad news for Mark Steyn's chances Western Standard news Don't think about what this blogpost is, think abo... Here's an idea: MACLEANS MAGAZINE: A CASE STUDY OF MEDIA-PROPAGATE... Differences between the provincial and federal Lib... A ringing endorsement for President Fred Thompson Laptop-gate Ol' Karlheinz has a lot to learn about influence p... "So much for the little training cruise" I wish I had their problems More Monday Steyn coverage A Google Ad I don't intend to follow Pat Martin is an idiot	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line4
__label__wiki	0.675062	0.675062	Bienvenue sur Aidspan +254 (0)774-135984 \| info@aidspan.org SUBSCRIBE TO GFO/OFM NOW! Aidspan Notre Mission et Vision principales réalisations Observateur du fond mondial ofm en Directe EDITION COURANTE Contact Ofm Portefeuille de subventions Subventions par pays ANALYSE DES RÉSULTATS DES SUBVENTIONS Glossaire et méthodologie OUTIL D'ANALYSE BAILLEURS DU FONDS MONDIAL NOTE DES BAILLEURS DE FONDS Promesses de dons et contributions Accueil » Observateur du Fonds mondial » Bulletin OFM » NUMÉROS PRÉCÉDENTS Creating links between the OIG and local watchdogs numéro 269 20 Août 2015 Transparency and streamlined accountability: what watchdogs, grant implementers and OIG want Both watchdogs and the OIG are having trouble accessing useful and complete country-level data to track and verify grant budgeting, expenditure and results data. There are also significant obstacles keeping implementers from meeting requirements for reporting to national oversight structures. These two conclusions drove two days of strategic discussions at an Aidspan roundtable in early August drawing participants from 10 countries. An ever-greater number of watchdogs are becoming Global Fund recipients During an Aidspan regional roundtable held in early August, watchdogs representing more than 30 organizations spoke candidly about their struggles in securing funding – making their engagement in the Global Fund system a lifeline for their futures. How to manage conflicts of interest now that there is that engagement, however, remains relatively unclear. Etienne Michaud is a senior strategy and policy manager at the Office of the Inspector General for the Global Fund. According to him, there are links to be made between watchdogs at local level as part of the OIG effort to consolidate its network of front-line advocates for transparency and accountability. 4. COMMENTARY Country-led and community-owned? How cultural imperatives at the global level translate on the ground After the recent Partnership Forum in Bangkok, the second in the series of consultations to support the development of the Global Fund’s new strategy, Anna Maalsen reflects on how the principles of community leadership and country ownership that are at the heart of the Fund’s culture actually translate on the ground. New report measures impact of civil society participation in priority-setting in NFM concept notes A new report released by the Eastern Africa National Networks of AIDS Service Organizations (EANNASO) measures the impact of civil society consultations on the final concept notes submitted. Notes submitted by Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zanzibar and Zimbabwe were examined for how responsive they were to priorities identified by civil society during country dialogue. Civil society urges responsible transition towards domestic funding of HIV and TB in EECA A workshop jointly run by the Global Fund and Eurasian Harm Reduction Network aimed to provide more nuanced guidance to EECA countries on sustainability as they prepare to transition some or all of their programming to domestic funding sources. In Malaysia, innovative but vulnerable work to reach MSM with HIV testing AIDS advocates warn that given its low disease burden and relatively high GDP, Malaysia may become ineligible for Global Fund support after 2017, imperiling prevention efforts. Especially vulnerable, they say, are those that target MSM. In Kenya, devolution is interrupting monitoring and evaluation Devolution in Kenya has since 2013 caused some interruptions in the supply chain, stockouts at health facilities and has prevented consistent monitoring and evaluation of programs: all of which could have an impact on interventions supported by the Global Fund. Sustainability at core of new HIV strategy in Moldova In developing its new national strategic plan for HIV/AIDS, Moldova is preparing for a transition away from Global Fund support to prevention, treatment and care interventions. 10. ANNOUNCEMENT A new chapter for GFO editor This is my final issue at the helm of Global Fund Observer. It’s been an extraordinary two years of watching, and listening, as the Global Fund evolves and matures into a dynamic and responsive financing mechanism. I hope that GFO has, equally, evolved and matured to respond to and document the concerns and vision of grant implementers, partners and the people who benefit from Fund-supported programs. Stephanie Braquehais In identifying fraud, watchdogs are playing a vital role in ensuring transparency and accountability The following is a transcript of an interview of Etienne Michaud during a recent visit to attend Aidspan’s Regional Roundtable in August 2015. The interview has been condensed for clarity. Aidspan : The OIG has no presence at country level. How are you working with country-based organizations to support your work ? We depend on whistleblowers, which means that we spend a lot of time and resources assessing and verifying which allegations are worth investigating. First we have to ensure that the information is solid, that it is relevant to the Global Fund… a first alert never has enough information. So it takes us more time than we’d like to confirm the validity of some of the information. And then, the more that time passes, the harder it is to find sources and documents. So if we had systems in place in countries that were stronger, relationships that were tighter, I am sure that our alerts would be much more pertinent and we’d lose less time in trying to verify them. So we need to build a bridge between us and these organizations. Right now, the proportion of investigations to allegations is skewed: 45 investigations from 157 claims in 2014, with an even lower rate of cases reported and published. We need to do better at converting this, and this is where our ‘Speak Up’ campaign comes in; it’s a way for us to be more proactive, to strengthen the information channels. We want to be able to respond more quickly to flag irregularities even at the lowest levels, to prevent them from becoming bigger problems. The ‘Speak Up’ campaign is an effort to encourage individuals to denounce fraud in the grant management and implementation process. Piloted in three countries -- Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi and Ukraine – we are hoping to expanded in the future. Why are watchdog organizations absent from the Global Fund landscape It’s true; these are not actors that are formally integrated and the Fund perhaps does not take them enough into consideration. Sometimes, among the CCMs we see [watchdog representatives] but that’s something that is at the discretion of an individual CCM and country so there is no clearly defined standard that is universally observed. CCMs have within their own mandates the responsibility for oversight and program coodination but they don’t always envision their role in the same way, with the same resources or level of independent action due to prevailing national contexts. This would certainly be something that the Secretariat could pursue [in terms of requiring watchdog capability within the CCM], but one of the attributes of the NFM is a clarification of the roles and responsibilities of the CCM and its members, and a mechanism to help them coordinate better and be more efficient. The other challenge is that a lot of these [local watchdogs] don’t always have the required institutional stability so that they can maintain their watchful eye; they’re young, undeveloped groups whose performance can vary wildly. So it’s important that we identify those groups that are really solid and equipped to play a bigger role. It would be realy interesting, for example, if we could see a track record of a watchdog group working at community level – where the needs are the most acute. Then we could watch to see how this works, and monitor their ability to be effective at the grass roots before expanding their remit to the national level. Why is there no financial mechanism in place to support local watchdogs within the Global Fund? There are funds available for groups that provide legal assistance but I think it would be valid to explore a way to integrate financial oversight/watchdog work into the Global Fund grants. What could also be seen as concerning is the growing number of watchdog groups that are becoming grant recipients/sub-recipients, which means they are no longer able to carry out independent monitoring work. This would seem to risk a lot of the relationships or potential relationships for the OIG? Yes, that is a legitimate question we should be asking ourselves. That said, by integrating watchdogs into the Fund ecology, we could also effectively be integrating that commitment to oversight and transparency into all of the grants we disburse: a great benefit to the Fund. Although, obviously, we would hope that all partners, not just the watchdogs, are committed to transparency, efficiency and accountability and that everyone, regardless of affiliation, is committed to eradicating fraud. \| P.O. Box 66869 - 00800,Nairobi, Kenya \| +254 (0)774-135984 \| info@aidspan.org Tweets by aidspan Copyright © 2002-2019 Aidspan \| Politique de confidentialité \| Plan du Site	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line14
__label__wiki	0.681015	0.681015	From Current Issue Preface Unfinished Business News Raising the Bar Cultural Currency Kawsification The Artists of 2019 Ma Qiusha Countries Myanmar Countries Pakistan Countries Uzbekistan Reflections Tangled Trajectories Installation view of “Considerate Creations: Chameleons Part II” at Gallery 456, New York, 2017. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village. TSAI HAI-RU, No.Yes.Yes.No., 2016, text, object, string, dimensions variable. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village. Considerate Creations: Chameleons, Part II Mimi Wong Taiwan Hong Kong USA The “Considerate Creations: Chameleons” exhibition series, which opened at the Taipei Cultural Center in New York this spring, expanded on the topic of working women artists by highlighting yet another dimension in its second edition: motherhood. While preparing for the presentation at Gallery 456, Taiwanese curator Lee I-Hua shared the news that she was three months pregnant, which added an unexpected, personal significance to the show. The role of a mother is just one of many that female artists inevitably inhabit, according to Lee, who sees the “chameleon artist” as a global phenomenon. Fellow Taiwanese artist Tsai Hai-Ru illustrates the often-contradictory nature of those various roles in No.Yes.Yes.No. (2016). The Chinese phrases “buyao/yaobu” (“不要/要不”), which can be associated with negotiation or compromise, were affixed to the wall. Red string was attached to each character, and the strands joined together to form a single braid—a burden carried by a Wonder Woman action figure. In an earlier installation of the work, instead of using a pedestal, the artist placed the figurine on the floor. As a result, Wonder Woman often fell over, becoming entangled in the string. Tsai has said that she feels the scenario without the pedestal more accurately resembles her intentions for the piece. Dueling parts of the self also manifest in Hu Nung-Hsin’s Corpus Callosum (2017), named for the bundle of nerves that joins the two hemispheres of the brain. Hu centers the installation around an actual wall to literalize this division; on each side, she has woven into the wall a live coconut plant as a stand-in for nerve fibers. Above each plant hangs a motion-activated grow light, which can only be triggered from the opposite side of the wall, mimicking how the left-side of our brain controls the right-half of our body, and vice versa. In addition, the two halves correlate to different modes of thinking, such as analytical versus imaginative, and verbal versus visual. Speech itself becomes a tug-of-war for the bilingual artist, who included video recordings of language-learning exercises in order to emphasize the corpus callosum’s function as the conduit between her two selves. Detail of HU NUNG-HSIN’s Corpus Callosum at Gallery 456, New York, 2017. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village. Installation view of WONG KIT YI/ALI WONG’s Lunatic, Moonquake and I am Two People at Gallery 456, New York, 2017. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village. Hong Kong-born Wong Kit Yi goes one step further by divorcing her artistic persona from her professional one, known as Ali Wong. In her second collaboration with composer Kyle Oppenheimer, the conceptual artist expresses her two alter egos through song. The first track “Lunatic” by Wong Kit Yi reads like free association poetry that traces historical and literary associations of the word as ascribed to femininity. The second track “Moonquake,” penned under her professional moniker, opens with lunar facts spoken over Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” (1905), then transitions to upbeat, electronic pop that unpacks the moon as a feminine trope: “soft, gentle, mysterious, passive / (receiving its light from the masculine / sun), orbiting about the earth as a woman / orbits about her man and her family.” Yet Wong’s lyrics purposefully move beyond the domestic space, articulating how the “stereotype of woman has been / molded by history, culture, society.” The installation concludes with an exploration of her “double” identity in a third song called I am Two People by both Wong Kit Yi and Ali Wong. CHEN HUI-CHIAO, The Silver Dust #3, 2010, steel, ping pong balls, baking varnish, two pieces, 100 × 50 × 3.5 cm and 70 × 40 × 3.5 cm. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village. CHEN HUI-CHIAO, Between Us, 2016, steel, ping pong balls, baking varnish, seven pieces, 25 × 25 × 3.5 cm each. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village. WANG TE-YU, No. 89, 2017, fabric, fan, dimensions variable. Photo by Huang Kuo-Heng. Courtesy the artist and Taipei Artist Village. Chen Hui-Chiao’s The Silver Dust #3 (2010) similarly draws inspiration from celestial bodies by alluding to their orbits in what would otherwise appear to be randomly scattered ping pong balls. The movement of these “planets” and “stars” is meant to parallel civilization’s political and social movements, while nodding to the limitlessness of the universe. The ping pong balls reappear in Between Us (2016), this time balanced upon steel bars, positioned up and down on a figurative scale like notes on sheet music. Chen deliberately coordinated the magenta color of the bars to match that of Wang Te-Yu’s No. 89 (2017), which features a large, balloon-like structure. The interactive nature of the two works reflects not only the artists’ history of collaboration but also Wang’s interest in creating pieces that engage the viewer and invite their participation. Just as the biographies and resumes of the artists in “Considerate Creations: Chameleons Part II” showcase the various identities they assume on daily basis, the perception as to whether or not these are in competition with one another, or working harmoniously in tandem, varies equally from person to person. It is this pursuit to understand the individual artist’s role in a greater societal context that unifies the seemingly disparate works. “Considerate Creations: Chameleons Part II” is on view at Gallery 456, New York, until July 14, 2017. To read more of ArtAsiaPacific’s articles, visit our Digital Library. Article Considerate Creations: Chameleons Article Futures, Again: Wong Kit Yi Hong Kong USA Web Review For a Better Tomorrow Taiwan USA	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line18
__label__cc	0.725282	0.274718	Astronomy for Everyone Astronomy For Everyone: 2018 Solar Probe Touching the Sun: NASA Solar Probe NASA plans to launch its first ever solar probe in the summer of 2018. While the title of this post speaks of touching the Sun, but in no way will NASA’s solar probe be sent to the surface of the Sun; at least not yet. The first hurdle for engineers designing this new spacecraft was the environment in which it will be tasked with operating within. The Sun is a formidable foe when it comes to harsh treatment of anything that passes close by. Many a comets, asteroids, and other types of space debris have found their way into the grasp of the Sun’s gravitational fields and fallen helplessly into the raging inferno. Touching the Sun is how to look at the research, but actually reaching the surface is not what the program was developed for. Solar Wind and How it Affects Earth The Sun is constantly expelling particles from its surface at tremendously accelerated speeds. One of the mysteries of the Sun is how those particles get the propellant to move them so quickly. NASA hopes to discover secrets about this effect and how to combat against them from earth in the future. The particles that are most damaging are the ones that move the fastest. They can even damage the DNA of humans on Earth. It’s one of the reasons for the research and hopefully science can come up with a cause and effect for these super-fast moving particles. The Right Stuff: Heat Shield Tested by the Sun’s Rays NASA’s solar probe will be protected by one of the sturdiest of solar heat shield. Considering that it will be travelling so close to our solar star, it will be operating in temperatures that exceed 2,500-Deg F. The heat shield, if all goes well, will keep the craft at a cool 85-Deg F; that’s a big difference in heat transfer. The probe will rely on its protective heat shield for most of its research time period. After that, it will remain as the closest object that man has sent to the Sun. The heat shield will be tested by the biggest oven in the solar system and NASA has assured us that it is up to the task. Labels: Astronomy heat lesson probe shield solar sun teaching today wind Theme images by Matt Vince Powerfitz Publishing The Netter Report Powerfitz Politics Plantabulous Gardens Planning a Holiday Party Organic Clicks Houston Banquet Planner Holiday Reports Foodies on Food Drag Race Day Carne Vale: Flesh Farewell Mars @ Opposition Signs from Above eclipse2 end of times1 lunar eclipse2 opposition1 probe1 shield1 solar1 Umbra1	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line26
__label__wiki	0.61096	0.61096	ATLRetro Your Guide to 20th Century Atlanta in the 21st Century About ATLRetro Retro Archives Classic Couture & Flashback Fashion Kool Kat of the Week Metal Memories This Week in ATLRetro Tis the Season To Be… Vintage Vacation Wednesday Happy Hour & Supper Club Kool Kat of the Week: Rule-Bending and Award-Winning Author, Nancy A. Collins, Joins the Mayhem and Monster Madness at MONSTERAMA 2019 Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2019 By: Anya99 by Melanie Crew Nancy A. Collins, award-winning multi-genre author, will be joining a sinister line-up of horrorific guests during Monsterama Convention’s sixth frightening rotation around the sun! Monsterama, co-chaired by our classic monster-lovin’ fiend, friend and Kool Kat Anthony Taylor, creeps into the Atlanta Marriott Alpharetta this weekend, Friday – Sunday (Sept. 27-29)! Prepare for a ghastly weekend of ghoulish proportions including a guest list filled to the blood-curdling brim with chillers like actor Ian Ogilvy [RETURN OF THE SAINT (78-79); DEATH BECOMES HER (1992); THE SORCERERS (1967)]; actress Jane Merrow [THE SAINT (1965); THE PRISONER (1967); THE AVENGERS (1967)]; actress Pauline Peart [THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA (1973); CUBA (1979)]; comic artist Craig Hamilton; author Jeff Strand [EVERYTHING HAS TEETH; FEROCIOUS; BLISTER]; creaturific artist Kool Kat Mark Maddox; Victorian chamber metal musicians Valentine Wolfe; Kool Kat Shane Morton, ghost host with the most, a.k.a. Professor Morte; glamour ghoul Kool Kat Madeline Brumby and so many more! Get wicked with our Kool Kat Nancy A. Collins and haunt on down to MONSTERAMA for a weekend of monster madness! Collins’s writing career spans 30+ years as a spinner of wild monstrous tales in novels, comic books and short stories. She brought her infamous character Sonja Blue to life in her first novel SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK in 1989, which went on to win the Bram Stoker Award for best first novel. Collins expanded the Sonja Blue universe with several sequels and is currently working on new dark adventures for her infamous goth-punk vampire/vampire hunter character. Collins is the only woman to pen DC/Vertigo’s SWAMP THING, bringing much-needed controversy to Swamp Thing’s predominantly male perspective, from 1991 to 1993. In 2014, Collins was the first woman to be asked to write VAMPIRELLA, again giving the well-known character a new outlook with untapped new monstrous story lines and more. ATLRetro caught up with Nancy A. Collins for a quick interview to talk comics; being drawn to monsters; killing it in a generally male-driven industries; and the monster mayhem of being a guest at MONSTERAMA! ATLRetro: Your debut horror novel Sunglasses After Dark [goth-punk vampire goodness featuring kick-ass vampire/vampire hunter Sonja Blue] was released in 1989 and won the Bram Stoker Award. Can you tell us what inspired you to go against the grain and create your own style of vampire? Nancy A. Collins: SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK was, in many ways, a middle finger to the then-current best-selling VAMPIRE CHRONICLES series by Anne Rice. It was my revolt against the “pussification” of the vampire. Little did I know that it would get even worse, decades later, with the TWILIGHT series. Following your debut, you released several others in the series [IN THE BLOOD (1991); PAINT IT BLACK (1995); A DOZEN BLACK ROSES (1996); THE DARKEST HEART (2002); and a collection titled DEAD ROSES FOR A BLUE LADY in 2002], all followed by vignettes and novellas and comics. Basically, you’ve kept Sonja Blue “alive” and kicking for a hellacious thirty years! Any exciting new horrors coming our way in the land of Sonja Blue? Sonja Blue – Art by Mel Odom Well, I’ve been working on a new Sonja Blue novel called Kill City for the last five years. It’s a reaction to the most recent “de-fanging” of the vampire genre. Unfortunately, it’s been slow going due to my need to work paying gigs to keep body and soul together. But I would describe it as a cross between THE BIG SLEEP, HARDCORE, and THE SEARCHERS, but with vampires. And it’s the first novel to be told from Sonja Blue’s POV. On to your monsterific comic book endeavors! From SWAMP THING, to JASON VS. LEATHERFACE, to VAMPIRELLA and beyond, you’ve delved deep into the land of what once was a male-dominated field. Can you tell our readers how you broke the barrier and what obstacles you had to face that your male counterparts avoided? I landed the gig writing SWAMP THING largely for three reasons: DC was looking for a horror writer to take the character back to his “roots” (pun intended); I’d worked with the then-new editor on the book, Stuart Moore, on a Freddy Krueger prose anthology, and he put me on his short list because he’d had the fewest edits on my story; and, I was living in New Orleans at the time, and was able to provide local flavor. I was the first woman to write for SWAMP THING, and to date the only one, as well. For the most part, I did not run into any real obstacles regarding my gender among the editors and staff at DC. Most of the push-back I got was from the fans, many of whom did not appreciate or understand my focus on Swamp Thing as a “family man” and the emphasis on his family. I also received some blowback for depicting LGBTQ characters and depicting ecologically-driven protestors as something besides terrorists. I remember a particularly virulent letter from a fan who resented my depiction of abortion as a fact-of-life for many women. I also got a lot of hate for ending Swamp Thing and Abby’s marriage (an editorial edict, btw), for which some fans have still not forgiven me, decades later. However, DC/Vertigo is releasing my entire run on Swamp Thing in early 2020 in a hardcover omnibus format—nearly 1,000 pages—called the SWAMP THING BY NANCY COLLINS OMNIBUS. It’s currently available for pre-order through Diamond Distribution and Amazon, among other outlets. Art by Scott Eaton and Kim DeMulder What was it like to be the first woman writing Vampirella, a character created by the one and only Forrest J. Ackerman? There’s got to be an interesting story about how you landed that gig. Care to share? I ended up writing VAMPIRELLA largely due to Gail Simone, who asked me to write a story for her RED SONJA miniseries “Legends of Red Sonja” for Dynamite. It was my first comic story in fifteen years. I then pitched Nick Barrucci a Red Sonja one-shot called “Berserker,” which sold extremely well. Then Nick offered me VAMPIRELLA and allowed me free reign. As one of my mentors at DC Comics had been the late Archie Goodwin, one of the first real writers on VAMPIRELLA, I always felt he was looking over my shoulder the whole time I was working on the book. I’d like to think Archie would have approved. Can you tell us one thing you did with the character, stepping away from the usual male-created female characters, to bring her into the twenty-first century, a character both men and women would be drawn to and proud of? I often joke that I was probably the first writer on the series to never pleasure themselves to the character, which might have something to do with how I approached my run. I chose to reach back to characters from the original Warren run and incorporate them via modern storytelling into the series’ continuity. I also made the decision to make Vampirella a more integral part of the supernatural world by bringing in classic “monsters” from myth, legend, and the public domain, and expanded on her family and backstory. I also gave her a werewolf boyfriend and depicted their relationship as that of equal partners. Vampirella in my series is a no-nonsense monster-hunter with a well-defined sense of right and wrong but is also capable of recognizing her own prejudices and misconceptions regarding her fellow “monsters”. What can you share about your current collaboration with comic artist Craig Hamilton? Anything monstrous and exciting being brought to life? Art by Patrick Berke Craig Hamilton and I, along with inker Larry Welch and colorist Gerhard, are working on BECOMING FRANKENSTEIN, a six-issue graphic series from Mel Smith’s Wild Card Ink. It is a prequel, of sorts, to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I’m not allowed to say much more than that, for the time being. But I will say that Craig’s art on it is absolutely gorgeous and we’re intensely proud and excited of what we’re creating. Becoming Frankenstein is shaping up to be best work of both our careers. Before you became “Author Nancy A. Collins,” what inspired you to write? Did you begin writing as a child? I’ve always been a storyteller. Even before I could read and write, I would draw stories and stand next to my parents and explain what was going on. It was a given from the age of three that I would eventually become a writer. Marked from birth, I guess you could say. Have you always been drawn to monsters? Care to share your favorite monster or horror story? What makes that story special to you? Like I said, I was marked from birth. My maternal grandfather was a huge Boris Karloff fan, and introduced me to the genre very early. It also helped that I grew up in the 1960s, when monster mania was percolating in the kid subculture with stuff like THE ADAMS FAMILY, THE MUNSTERS, Hammer Films, late night horror movie hosts, and GODZILLA flicks. It is hard for me to pick a favorite monster or horror story, but the first one that I can remember was a Dr. Seuss story about a pair of green pants with nobody in them that walked around on their own, which scared the bejesus out of me as a 3-year-old, for some reason. Which writer from the past and which writer from the present have influenced and continue to influence you the most, and what is it about them that draws them to you? There have been so many. But of the past, I would have t0 say Robert Bloch, who I would later meet as a young writer. Bob befriended me and was like a second grandfather. I devoured his short story collections, which are routinely excellent and the yardstick I use for what I consider makes a great short story, especially when it comes to weird/dark fiction. Not only are you a killer storyteller, but you’re also a spooky horror film junkie and fanatic like us! Can you tell us your favorite horror movie and why it ranks at the top of your list? I would have to say my favorite remains the original THE HAUNTING from 1963. It is a textbook example of how the viewer’s own mind can create far more intense scares than a room full of CGI technicians. Even after all this time, I still get goosebumps watching it. As a writer working in the science-fiction, urban fantasy and horror genres, what challenges have you personally faced that seem to be a common theme amongst women in the industry? Mostly being pigeonholed. I’ve written westerns, Southern Gothics, erotica, crime noir, urban fantasy, as well as horror—but I largely get described as a “vampire writer”, and that has become a largely female-centric field, in a lot of people’s minds. I also find myself labeled a “Strong Woman”, which is the nice way of saying I’ve had to put up with a lot of bullshit that male writers rarely are subjected to. Can you give us five things you’re into at the moment that we should be watching, reading or listening to right now— past or present, well-known or obscure? I’m currently enjoying the final season of PREACHER on FX, as well as the third and final season of LEGION, also on FX. I’ve also been binging THE BOYS on Prime. I also recommend GENTLEMAN JACK; a historical romance/drama on HBO about Anne Lister, an actual Regency-era noblewoman who lived openly as a lesbian, and even went so far as to marry another woman. And I always recommend watching THE VENTURE BROTHERS, regardless of the situation. Any advice for women writers out there trying to get their foot in the door? I have the same advice I give everyone, regardless. Keep submitting your stuff. Learn to tell the difference between legitimate criticism and bullshit. Nothing you write is carved in stone. Never fight with an editor. Never respond to the reviews on Amazon. Getting back to what brought us here, MONSTERAMA 2019! Do you have anything exciting planned for our readers this year? I’m hoping we’ll have the full-color promo posters for BECOMING FRANKENSTEIN ready in time for MONSTERAMA! If so, Craig Hamilton and I will be there signing them. And I’ll be on several panels over the weekend. The first is 6pm Friday, where I discuss Swamp Thing. The second is 10am Saturday, where I’ll be on a Southern Gothic panel, and the third is 10am Sunday, where I’ll be yacking about werewolves. Otherwise, I’ll be at my table in the dealer’s room. 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__label__wiki	0.711075	0.711075	The Round Rock This geological marker provided an indication about a safe place to cross a river and gave a town its name. Crownover Chapel Sit in this 19th Century chapel and you almost expect the farmers of that day to walk through the door at any minute for services. The Treehouse A weird building on a funky piece of land can't seem to get back in the groove. Oak Hill Elementary When this elementary school opened in 1923 Oak Hill seemed seemed quite distant from Austin. The main building at Penn Field. It was also the largest building at the airfield when it was in operation. Penn Field Recent Log Entries [EXTERIOR] Quick site-seeing on lunch break metriaATX visited Millett Opera House Doc Haile Brittany klappenbach visited Haile Airport Now it's a neighborhood and shopping center(s) heatharcadia visited Mueller Airport I miss this place... 5 stars for the memories. heatharcadia visited Haile Airport Old Lime Kilns heatharcadia visited Austin White Lime Mother Neff State Park seeks solutions to refurbish historical structures Revitalized in the 1930S, Mission Espiritu Santo Still Holds the Memory of Texas The Ghosts of Abandoned Texas Buildings Rise Up in an Eerie New Photo Book Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites Receive $50,000 Donation San Marcos community celebrates new historic park Your feedback is important to us. If you've got some details that might be interesting to others on this site, or encounter some problems here, drop us a line. Austin Then and Now (Then & Now) William Dylan Powell List Price: $19.95 Your price: N/A Twenty-first century Austin has a reputation as a quirky, hip, culturally-diverse town that’s home to the world-famous South-by-Southwest music festival and the University of Texas Longhorns. It’s come a long way since Spanish explorers arrived circa 1709. Austin Then and Now rounds up all of the hot spots in a unique photographic history of Texas’ capital city. When Mirabeau Lamar succeeded Sam Houston as the President of the Republic of Texas, he moved the capital from Houston to Austin. The State Capitol that was eventually built in 1888 remains the largest statehouse in the U.S. Students will get a kick out of the side-by-side then-and-now photos of the University of Texas Tower and Main building what was once a humble single building on 40 acres is now one of the largest public universities in the United States. Austin’s Driskill Hotel, one of the finest Victorian hotels in the west, has long been a destination for famous Texans. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson took Lady Bird to the Driskill on their first date! Austin’s most famous landmarks are featured, including the O. Henry House, the French Legation, the Governor’s Mansion, and other locations beloved by Texans. Privacy Policy Advertise Here Copyright © 2020 Robert Barron	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line29
__label__cc	0.597603	0.402397	Asteranthera ovata (Cav.) Hanst. Columnea ovata Cav. A creeping or climbing evergreen shrub which in nature inhabits the trunks of living trees and fallen timber, branching and rooting freely at the nodes. Stems slender, clad with whitish hairs. Leaves opposite, variable in shape but generally rcundish, 1⁄3 to 11⁄2 in. long, obtuse at the apex, covered with pale bristly hairs and edged with three to six coarse teeth; they are rather thick in texture where exposed to light but thinner in shade. Flowers rich raspberry-pink, borne singly in the leaf-axils at midsummer and later; corolla tubular at the base, spreading at the mouth, where it is about 11⁄2 in. wide. Anthers united into a star-shaped cluster – whence the name Asteranthera. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 15. Native of the temperate forests of Chile and neighbouring parts of Argentina from about 40° S. to the Straits of Magellan; introduced by Comber in 1926. It inhabits the cooler and moister types of forest, where it is often to be found with Desfontainia spinosa. Here, thanks to the saturated atmosphere, it is able to grow in open and quite sunny places in the forest, forming dense mats on logs and tree-trunks and so profuse in flower that scarcely a leaf can be seen. In cultivation this delightful species has proved fairly hardy, but rather shy to flower, no doubt because the humid yet bright conditions that it demands are not easy to reproduce. Propagation is, however, so easy (by cuttings, or division) that experiment would present no difficulties. A leafy soil is essential, and something to climb up or over. At Nymans in Sussex, where it has been cultivated since Comber first introduced it, it thrives on shady walls of both sandstone and brick. At Logan in Wigtownshire it is grown on the face of a peat wall. Dryness, at the root and in the air, are its chief enemies. It also thrives at Brodick, in the Isle of Arran. Asteranthera ovata Asteranthera [No species article available]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line30
__label__cc	0.700437	0.299563	A Very BEEKMAN LANE Wedding!!! I wanted to share some photos of my wedding taken by the wonderful Jennifer Sosa in association with Daniel Krieger Photography. Our wedding was styled and filled with antique elements and touches from our very own BEEKMAN LANE. We at BEEKMAN LANE offer event décor services for everything from a dinner party to a wedding. My wedding was recently featured on the stunning wedding blog Ruffled as well so check out that article for even more photographs! When it came to our wedding, my husband Hans and I knew that we wanted to have a wedding that transported everyone to another era. We also knew that we wanted to have our wedding in Jersey City. I have lived here for about 5 years now, and Julia and I started our business BEEKMAN LANE here over a year and a half ago now. Hans and I love Jersey City and knew that our day needed to be in our great city! We decided on the magical Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre near Journal Square for the reception. If you have never been to the Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre it is an absolute must!! It is beyond beautiful. The theatre shows classic movies throughout the year. Hans and I have seen everything there from The Stranger to The Big Lebowski. It is an absolute gem, and the proceeds from the films and events go to restoration, upkeep and preservation of this Jersey City landmark. Our cocktail hour was on the balcony of the lobby. We chose our band, Carte Blanche, from Elan Artists. They specialize in 1920s and 1930s Jazz, as well as classic Latin music. They dress in period clothing, and set the mood for the evening. During cocktail hour they had an accordion and violin duo, and the full band for the reception. We had a table set up with an antique Royal Typewriter from BEEKMAN LANE as the guest book with antique postcards held in vintage flower frogs, and a vintage table lamp and tray to complete the moment. Check out the Jersey City postcard below that shows the theatre in its heyday! The two bars served our signature cocktail, the Cuzco Fizz made with Pisco (a Peruvian Brandy), St. Germain and garnished with green grapes. The cocktail was a tribute to my husband’s Peruvian heritage, and the recipe was listed on display cards by the The Laughing Owl Press. The seating cards were hand typed and then stamped with a chair on each card. They were set in a semi-circle in front of a breathtaking hand-painted theater created by a close friend. He included the personalized “screen” which was painted with historically accurate silent film style font. There was a sign made by our wonderful stationer Andrea from The Laughing Owl Press, which stated “Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Take Your Seats”. After the cocktail hour the guests were asked to come down the staircase to the main floor of the lobby for dinner and dancing. The reception tables were set with gold flatware and amber colored water glasses to relate to the golden hues of the theatre. There were gold and mercury glass votives throughout the tables and buffet. The bouquets and centerpieces were by Jersey City’s own Antheia Floral Design! They were made with a mixture of gold and grey hues to emulate the metallics throughout the venue. I cannot overstate how magical the band was! You can hear samples of Carte Blanche's music here on their site through Elan Artists. They sang Hans and my song “You Belong to Me” in the style of the Patsy Cline version. Then after dinner they got us all up and dancing with songs from early Jazz to Edith Piaf to Latin classics from the Buena Vista Social Club. Just amazing!! Jonathan of David Ellis Events was our amazing caterer and also provided the flowers on the buffet table. The food was absolutely incredible and had touches such as seasonal popcorn as a dessert to play off the theatre theme. Our menu by The Laughing Owl Press was set up like a playbill. Our wedding cake was by the amazing The Hudson Cakery, and was delicious. The cake topper was by Jolie En Rose Vintage from Etsy, and showed a 1920s couple. The favors were such fun! Guests picked up scones, marmalade, and tea for their breakfast the following morning. They then had a choice of classic movies separated by genre. On the table was a sign that said “Breakfast and a Movie, the Makings of a Perfect Sunday”. It was an unbelievable night!! It truly felt as if you walked through the doors of the theatre and were transported back to the 1920s which is exactly what Hans and I wanted. Tweet 05/04/2012 4 Comments Marie Oldham on 05/05/2012 01:28AM said: this is amazing, wish i had thought of the loews for our wedding!! congrats! BEEKMAN LANE on 05/05/2012 04:54PM said: Thanks Marie!! Gena on 09/04/2012 02:54AM said: We are getting married @ the Loews in Nov. I love this place and I love your parting gifts. How did you get the movies? E.Tittlemouse & Co. on 02/17/2013 08:29PM said: Absolutely Beautiful wedding pics! Wish you guys the best in your journey together. What month comes after May? * * Help us verify you are not spam About Beekman Lane Beekman Lane is an Interior Decoration Studio and Antique & Home Goods shop located near Van Vorst Park in beautiful downtown Jersey City. We carry an eclectic mix of antique pieces ranging from rustic & industrial pieces to Mid-Century Modern.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line34
__label__wiki	0.772702	0.772702	Follow @karaswisher Recent Posts by Kara Swisher Yahoo Plans Splashy New San Francisco Digs (And Dreams of Neon Billboard’s Return) July 26, 2013 at 4:20 pm PT Justin Sullivan, Getty Images News According to multiple sources close to the situation, Yahoo is close to signing a lease for a splashy new San Francisco outpost to keep up with the fast growth of other Web companies that have opened high-profile offices here. Yahoo’s Mayer apparently is hoping for a big PR announcement of the space in San Francisco, much as she did with the recent news that the company was opening new digs in Times Square in Manhattan, in the former offices of the New York Times. Mayer apparently likes old media locations. While the company has been looking at a number of locations in an increasingly tight office real estate market in San Francisco, it has zeroed in on a large amount of space in the famed San Francisco Chronicle building at 5th and Mission Streets. That is now the location of Square, the high-profile online payments company which did a handsome redo of its office there. It is expected to vacate and move to an even swankier new space nearby by the end of September. It’s not clear if Yahoo has actually signed the lease there or how many floors it will take, but sources said that the deal is in advanced stages. Yahoo, whose main headquarters are in Sunnyvale, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley, already has a large location in San Francisco that houses several hundred sales, engineering and other employees over three floors. But it is located in a nondescript office tower in the duller financial district of the city and not in the more hip environs south of Market Street, which has seen a major renaissance over the last two years due to the opening of numerous Internet companies. That’s where companies like Twitter, Airbnb, Square and also many Sand Hill Road venture firms have built dramatic and highly designed offices. In addition, companies with existing big Silicon Valley campuses, such as Google, have also located fast-forward spaces in San Francisco. In fact, the search giant is apparently now dramatically expanding its footprint at its SF HQ in Morgan Stanley’s Hills Plaza building, which is right at the foot of the Bay Bridge on the city’s waterfront. As does Google, so copies Yahoo these days — from free food to trendy offices. In fact, sources said Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer — who was a longtime Google exec — has been eager to up the company’s attractiveness to younger entrepreneurs, which includes providing appropriate urban digs within a stone’s throw of twee coffee roasters and ironic donut purveyors. There are, obviously, no molasses, Guinness-soaked pear donuts easily found in Sunnyvale. Yahoo has tried to create some hipster cred in the big city before. In 2006, it founded an incubator space in San Francisco called Brickhouse, to foster fast-forward ideas. But it ended up shuttering it two years later due to cost-cutting. The same expense-chopping was to blame for the end of the iconic Yahoo billboard on the eastbound lane of the Bay Bridge — a retro motel-style one with many quirky mottos, including, “A Nice Place to Stay in the Internet” — that the company gave up in 2011 after a decade. It has since been rented by Clear Channel to the Gap’s Old Navy. According to sources, Yahoo’s marketing head has told employees that the company has been trying hard to reclaim its past glory, in neon lights at least. I emailed Yahoo for comment, but horses will fly — it could happen! — before I expect any kind of substantive response from PR at the company. Tagged with: Billboard, Brickhouse, Chronicle, Google, Googlw, lease, Marissa Mayer, Market Street, offices, San Francisco, Soma, Square, Times Square, Yahoo December 31, 2013 at 2:00 pm PT Some of Our Fave D Conference Videos Before AllThingsD Signs Off in 3 … 2 … 1 … December 31, 2013 at 12:24 pm PT How Can You Miss Us if We Won’t Go Away? Paczkowski and Swisher Highlights From AllThingsD. Viral Video: Even Jerry Seinfeld Has a Drone. What’s With That? The Longish Goodbye: Highlights From AllThingsD Staffers Johnson, Del Rey and Cha api-video/find_all_videos.asp&fields=id,videoStillURL,thumbnailURL,guid,video320kMP4Url,name,duration&count=4&doctype=128&type=allthingsd-section&query=BoomTown There’s a lot of attention and PR around Marissa, but their product lineup just kind of blows. — Om Malik on Bloomberg TV, talking about Yahoo, the September issue of Vogue Magazine, and our overdependence on Google	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line36
__label__cc	0.724537	0.275463	Public University Hosts Blacks-only Student Retreat – to Promote Inclusion Web Team \| August 31, 2016 \| no comments Blacks-only Student Retreat – to promote inclusion? Inclusion by excluding non-blacks? Institutional racism. California State University Fresno recently held a three-day student retreat for black students that aimed to foster inclusion and help incoming African American students adjust to college life and get involved in the campus community. The inaugural “Harambee Student Retreat,” which took place Aug.14 through Aug 17, was free to participating students, who enjoyed housing, meals, workshops and activities meant to help aid in the “successful transition of incoming African American/Black students to Fresno State,” the university’s website states. About 40 new students plus about a dozen returning students took part, and about $16,000 was set aside in the university’s budget to host the event, although the final cost has yet to be determined, said Shirley Melikian Armbruster, associate vice president of university communications, in an email to The College Fix. Attended the Harambee Student Retreat at CSU Fresno w/ @JosephICastro Welcome to new Bulldogs. #BeBold pic.twitter.com/Lv9NPpMwj6 — Angie Barfield (@AngieBarfield) August 15, 2016 Fresno State President Joseph Castro, in an address to kick off the new school year, praised the retreat, noting “the call to better support African American students in connecting with their peers and the university was heard and put into action.” “A first ever retreat, appropriately titled Harambee, which means ‘Let’s pull together,’ was held this week where new and continuing African-American students, along with African-American faculty, staff and alumni, could exchange ideas of how to create a greater sense of belonging on campus,” Castro continued. Bold new @Fresno_State initiative to prepare African American students for success! #Harambee #Letspulltogether pic.twitter.com/w87KhZNsng — Joseph I. Castro (@JosephICastro) August 15, 2016 CSU-Fresno president: ‘Create a greater sense of belonging on campus’ Videos and pictures of the retreat posted on Facebook show black students sharing stories, performing skits together, and even taking a trip to Wild Water Adventure Park, a park with water attractions near the central California campus. According to the university’s website, topics broached at the retreat included information on how to receive assistance with financial aid and housing, as well as how to develop leadership skills and find a job. “The retreat was a three-day residential orientation experience that allowed the students to make connections with alumni, faculty, staff and community members. It also provided an opportunity to introduce students to African-American clubs/organizations and encourage engagement,” Armbruster told The College Fix. “The retreat was a student success event to assist African-American students in their transition to university life and instill a sense of belonging at the institution, which has an approximately 4 percent African-American student population, and help boost retention and graduation rates of African-American students, which are slightly below other groups at Fresno State,” Armbruster added. “With this proactive approach, the goal was to provide experiences and activities to facilitate a smooth social and academic integration of African-American students into the campus community.” Political Power for European Americans! European peoples should organize and advance our own interests just like every other group. Join our fight for Heritage and Identity! The American Freedom Party needs your help! 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__label__cc	0.611787	0.388213	Biointerfaces Institute Mcmaster University Lab Access Institute Overview Research & Support Staff Our Instruments John Valliant Member of the Institute CEO, Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC) NRB-A309 Website Email Our research at McMaster University is focused on development of radiolabelled, ultrasound, and fluorescence molecular imaging probes, for use in medical imaging. We develop both small molecule and large biomolecule agents that target radionuclides, novel fluorescent compounds and microbubbles to tumors or metabolically active tissues, providing medical or research applications by PET, SPECT and ultrasound technologies. The development and translation of these agents benefits from several of the advanced instrumentation and specialized services of the Biointerfaces Institute, including bright-field and fluorescence microscopy, and the MALDI and small compound mass spectroscopy. As our work progresses we expect expanded use of BI facilities including Chemidoc Imaging. The Valliant Research Group (http://www.johnvalliant.ca) offers collaborative expertise and technical resource in radionuclide chemistry for development of radiolabelled probes, used in both biological and biomedical research to members and users of the BI. The Biointerfaces Institute at McMaster University is a state-of-the-art facility designed to use high-throughput methods to provide a new understanding of the nature of the biological/material interface, or biointerface. The overarching goal of the Institute is to understand how biological systems respond to the introduction of synthetic materials, and conversely, how an engineered interface responds to, or is compatible with, a biological system. Research and Support Staff Logo and Slide Templates 905-525-9140 x20706 biointerfaces@mcmaster.ca Copyright © McMaster University 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line47
__label__cc	0.746279	0.253721	Rally! Really. If you're reading this, you're probably not at the Friday 7pm rally organized by our pals at SaveOurSonics.org/SaveOurStorm.org. No worries, though, because there will two more chances to show the teams some love this weekend (as seen on the site's front page): Seafair Torchlight Parade Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 7:00 AM We will be walking in the parade with our banners and shirts. Seattle Storm Game This game needs to be a sellout. Bring your "Keep our Teams here" signs. Volunteers needed before the game. And if you're like me and are unable to join the throngs in person, you could always show your support by turning the image above into a car sign... computer desktop wallpaper... or...uh, fashionable paper briefs and pirate hat, held together with Scotch tape. Posted by chunkstyle23 at 6:53 PM 5 comments: Links to this post Moore Dealt The Sonics traded Mikki Moore to New Jersey today for a 2nd round pick in the 2009 draft. The Sonics roster now looks like this: C - Sene, Swift, Petro PF - Wilcox (?), Collison, Fortson SF - Lewis, Gelabale, Wilkins SG - Allen, Wilkins, Gelabale, Brown (?) PG - Ridnour, Watson Add it up and it's 13 guys, so we're still looking at a one, maybe two roster spots still available. Noel Felix impressed the heck out of everyone at the Rocky Mountain Revue (just curious ... am I the only one who thinks the Sonics' summer league sounds like something gay cowboys would put on?), so Felix may have an even better chance of making the roster. Otherwise, the Sonics may look to add another PG as a 3rd-stringer. Posted by PN at 1:31 PM 23 comments: Links to this post Shinn on New Orleans George Shinn, owner of the Hornets, made a few comments yesterday regarding his team's move to New Orleans, implying that a final decision on where the Hornets will call home after next season should come "as early as September, maybe as late as December or January." Shinn also indicated that he would prefer to spend this season in Oklahoma before moving to New Orleans in the 2007-08. The Hornets are slated to play 35 games in OKC this season. Insert nasty comment about how the Sonics are on a one-year trial in Seattle here. Posted by PN at 11:29 AM 5 comments: Links to this post Artwork by Rafael Calonzo, Jr (Click for larger pic) If you’ve followed the arena situation at all in Seattle, you’ve heard two different arguments. One, we need to build it to retain the tradition of NBA basketball in this city. Two, the NBA is blackmailing the city of Seattle and the state of Washington into building them an arena. This second argument has been reinforced, of course, by the recent sale of the team to Oklahoma City investors. Well, neither side is right. It’s not necessary to carry on the tradition, and it’s not blackmail. It’s extortion. Let’s consult a dictionary, shall we? From Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary: Extort \Extort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Extorting.] [L. extortus, p. p. of extorquere to twist or wrench out, to extort; ex out + torquere to turn about, twist. See Torsion.] 1. To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt. Now, Pete, you’re saying to yourself, isn’t that a little harsh? After all, are Clay Bennett and his colleagues holding a gun to our head? No, they are not. But a closer examination of the definition reveals that, yes, the city is being extorted. Or do you think that forcing the city to make a decision in 12 months isn’t duress? Or that moving the Sonics to Oklahoma would be anything but “tearing away” the team from its devoted followers? Believe me, I have struggled with saying this out loud. As someone who writes for a website devoted to a sports team, it’s more than a little hypocritical of me to criticize those who throw their support and money behind the team. In fact, I admire the tenacity with which others have attacked this issue, trying to raise public consciousness of what is obviously a dire situation. And, most importantly, as someone who tied his shoelaces as a kid to mimic the way Gus Williams did, I have more than just a passing interest in Sonics’ basketball. But after having looked at this from every angle, I cannot legitimately justify going ahead with a new arena. I’m sorry, but when you look at the current situation objectively, you cannot come to any other conclusion. At the present time, basketball fans in Seattle are faced with two options in regard to Clay Bennett: 1. Buy scads of tickets, hoping to convince the city council/state government to build a new arena for Mr. Bennett. End Result: Mr. Bennett becomes wealthier, both via increased sales and the added value to his team due to the new arena. 2. Don’t buy scads of tickets, watch Mr. Bennett move the team to Oklahoma City. End Result: Mr. Bennett no longer has to fly to Seattle and pretend to understand how to pronounce Puyallup. So, we either give him a sack of money, or he takes our team and leaves town? That isn’t extortion? For crying out loud, if this was The Rockford Files, James Garner wouldn’t even take the case it’s so painfully obvious what is happening. I’ve said this before, but I’ll repeat it: I don’t begrudge Schultz or Bennett their reasons for making more money, as we all have the same motivations. But did anyone else read the comments of Ray Allen recently? Look, I like Allen, he’s a gentleman and a terrific player; the consumate pro that any fan would love to have on his team. But when he starts complaining about how the Key lacks wireless connnections in the lockerroom, about how the coaches don’t have proper offices ... well, it makes me want to vomit. Let me get this straight – we need to spend $150 million in taxpayer money so Ray Allen can check his email? Are you kidding me? The argument these stadiums/teams produce economic benefits is provably false, so the only argument can be that we as fans want others to pay for our fun. Sorry, folks, but I won’t play that game, because that makes us no better than Bennett, Schultz, Stern, and all of their ilk – and, in fact, makes us co-conspirators in an extortion scheme. Thanks, but I’ll pass. Posted by PN at 9:08 AM 60 comments: Links to this post He once got busy in a Burger King bathroom Has all this Sonics drama got you down? Then stop by Mirabeau Room on Queen Anne Wednesday night for ComedyNight, a weekly showcase of Seattle's best comedians (like me!). This week's show will feature a guest performance by none other than Mr. Humpty Hump himself, Shock G of Digital Underground. Seriously. Plus, I will be doing a special piece entitled "Why The Sonics Are More Important Than Homeless Shelters". Seriously. Save Our Sonics! In case you haven't seen it yet, the good people at SaveOurSonics.org are organizing an effort to save our team. We've offered our services, and encourage everyone else out there to do the same. Keep hope alive! Posted by Unknown at 10:18 AM 11 comments: Links to this post More Kemp Troubles You know, you want to believe the best in people, and then ... Shawn Kemp, 36, was arrested in Houston early Friday morning and charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana. Kemp allegedly had two ounces or less of the drug in his possession. The story comes from a Houston television station, complete with video footage. Posted by PN at 12:06 PM 14 comments: Links to this post Sonics top Sixers The Sonics got a strong performance from young Robert Swift yesterday in Utah, as the 3rd-year center went for 13-10 with 6 blocks in only 25 minutes of play, and Seattle beat the undefeated Sixers 88-86. Louis Williams continued his high-scoring for Philly by grabbing 21 points, his 4th time in the +20 range this summer. Interesting to see how he fits in the Philadelphia equation when the pre-season gets underway. Aaron Miles also made an immediate impact for the Sonics, as the former KU star scored 14 points in his first game for Seattle this summer. It's also worth noting that Swift got to the line 9 times on 11 field goal attempts, an outstanding mark for a young big man. -Mouhamed Sene sat out his second consecutive game with a bum ankle -Paccelis Morlende sat out -Yotam Halperin only played 3 minutes -Noel Felix continued to play well, and led the Sonics with 27 minutes played. It's beginning to look as though he'll get serious consideration for a roster spot this fall. Posted by PN at 10:04 AM No comments: Links to this post New Arena for Sacto It appears the Kings won't be using moving vans any time soon. "Negotiators for the city and county of Sacramento moments ago finalized a deal with the Maloof family to finance a new arena for the Sacramento Kings," report Mary Lynne Vellinga, Terri Hardy and R.E. Graswich of THE SACRAMENTO BEE. "The financing package would rely on voter approval of a new quarter-cent sales tax that would produce about $1.2 billion over a period of years, sources said." from nba.com Just wondering: If there was a vote today on a 1/4-cent increase in the sales tax, with the money dedicated to building a new arena for the Sonics, would you support it? Lost amidst the furor of the Sonics' sale to Clay "You can call me Jaws" Bennett, the Sonics are on tap to play the Sixers this afternoon in the Summer League. Philly's been the juggernaut of the League this summer, running off to a 4-0 start behind some serious whoopings. Louis Williams, who appeared in 30 games for the 76ers last year, has been pacing them with 20 point outings in 3 of the 4 games. It would be nice to Sene back in the lineup after turning his ankle a few days ago, but we'll have to wait until later (tune in to sonicscentral for up-to-the-minute coverage; kudos to them for have a man on the scene for all of us losers who follow basketball in the summer). Otherwise, we may be treated to another version of the Robert Swift Show. It really has been nice to see how well Sene's played; I still don't know that I'd have taken another big man project in the first round, but he's beginning to get me to come around. Posted by PN at 8:58 AM 1 comment: Links to this post The Bomb has dropped The Sonics are heading to Oklahoma. Sonics fan suicide watch starts . . . now: SEATTLE - The city's oldest major league franchise has been sold to a group from Oklahoma City, according to a report in the Seattle Times quoting multiple sources. The sale is reportedly being made to an investor group led by Oklahoma businessman Clay Bennett. Bennet was instrumental in the temporary relocation of the Hornets to Oklahoma City following Hurricane Katrina. But the Hornets are scheduled to return to New Orleans following the 2006-07 season. A news conference to announce the sale of the Seattle Supersoncis has been scheduled for 3 p.m. from KING 5 Thanks to Susan for the tip. I think I need several drinks and maybe some drugs. Anyone else? Posted by Unknown at 12:58 PM 52 comments: Links to this post Sene signed, sealed for Summer League The Seattle Supersonics signed the #10 pick in the NBA draft, Mouhamed Sene, to a two-year deal yesterday. Sene will join Yotam Halperin, Deng Gai and several other guys you've never heard of in the Rocky Mountain Revue summer league on Friday. Here's the complete summer league roster: 3 Tony Bobbitt G 6-3 200 10/22/79 Cincinnati 2 Denham Brown G/F 6-6 220 1/6/83 Connecticut 30 Ronnie Burrell F 6-9 220 7/21/83 UNC-Greensboro 9 Andre Emmett G 6-4 220 8/27/82 Texas Tech 15 Desmon Farmer G 6-5 220 10/7/81 Southern Cal 16 Noel Felix F 6-9 225 10/4/81 Fresno State 33 Deng Gai F 6-9 220 3/22/82 Fairfield NBDL 22 Yotam Halperin G 6-5 210 1/24/84 Israel 23 Keith Langford G 6-3 210 9/15/83 Kansas 5 Paccelis Morlende G 6-2 185 4/19/81 France 11 Kenton Paulino G 6-2 180 6/23/83 Texas 42 Jared Reiner F 6-11 255 4/8/82 Iowa 18 Mouhamed Sene F/C 7-0 230 5/12/86 Senegal 24 Omar Williams F 6-9 220 8/11/81 George Washington Posted by Unknown at 8:11 AM 1 comment: Links to this post What in the Wilcox is going on? The Wacky World of Wilcox continues today with two conflicting reports on contract negotiations with Dunktron 3000: Sonics won't trade Wilcox! (from the Seattle P.I.) Sonics to trade Wilcox . . . for Shawn Marion! (from the Tribune) This all proves, of course, that no one knows what the hell is going on. Stay tuned! Posted by Unknown at 11:48 AM 4 comments: Links to this post Radman and Kobe, Sitting in a Tree It appears that former Seattle Supersonic Vladimir Radmanovic is bringing his erratic shooting, questionable hairstyles and armpit of doom defense to the other team in LA: Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Lakers may have found a sweet-shooting big man to capitalize off double teams on Kobe Bryant, as the club reportedly agreed to a five-year contract with free agent forward Vladimir Radmanovic late Saturday. The Los Angeles Daily News reports that the Lakers will sign the 6-foot-10 forward to a $30 million contract on July 12, the first day players can officially sign with teams. from the Seattle P.I. Wait a minute . . . five years for 30 mil? Isn't that less than the Sonics offered him last summer? I guess he must really like Kobe. The Dealio Who are these bums? Media Mania! UPDATED** THE SUPERSONICSOUL HALL OF FAME by Rafael Calonzo, Jr. More of supersonicsoul's photos Read the two-part comic event "Danny Fortson: Cyborg Smasher" by Paul Merrill and Rafael Calonzo, Jr! chunkstyle23 Copyright 2013 Grand Bovine Inc. Travel theme. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line52
__label__cc	0.741911	0.258089	Terrain ethnographique en Afrique : théorie et pratique Langage et anthropologie Tag Archives: input method App Store, Apple, Crazy Predictions, Education, enthusiasm, gadgets, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, iTunes, Learning, mac, mac os x, music, musings, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, optimism, PDAs, Placeholders, podcasting, predictions, quickies, shameless plug, smartphones, speech recognition, techno enthusiasts, techno lust, technology, Touch devices, wishful thinking, writing Speculating on Apple's Touch Strategy August 27, 2009 dispar 2 Comments This is mere speculation on my part, based on some rumours. I’m quite sure that Apple will come up with a video-enabled iPod touch on September 9, along with iTunes 9 (which should have a few new “social networking” features). This part is pretty clear from most rumour sites. AppleInsider \| Sources: Apple to unveil new iPod lineup on September 9. Progressively, Apple will be adopting a new approach to marketing its touch devices. Away from the “poorperson’s iPhone” and into the “tiny but capable computer” domain. Because the 9/9 event is supposed to be about music, one might guess that there will be a cool new feature or two relating to music. Maybe lyrics display, karaoke mode, or whatever else. Something which will simultaneously be added to the iPhone but would remind people that the iPod touch is part of the iPod family. Apple has already been marketing the iPod touch as a gaming platform, so it’s not a radical shift. But I’d say the strategy is to make Apple’s touch devices increasingly more attractive, without cannibalizing sales in the MacBook family. Now, I really don’t expect Apple to even announce the so-called “Tablet Mac” in September. I’m not even that convinced that the other devices Apple is preparing for expansion of its touch devices lineup will be that close to the “tablet” idea. But it seems rather clear, to me, that Apple should eventually come up with other devices in this category. Many rumours point to the same basic notion, that Apple is getting something together which will have a bigger touchscreen than the iPhone or iPod touch. But it’s hard to tell how this device will fit, in the grand scheme of things. It’s rather obvious that it won’t be a rebirth of the eMate the same way that the iPod touch wasn’t a rebirth of the MessagePad. But it would make some sense for Apple to target some educational/learning markets, again, with an easy-to-use device. And I’m not just saying this because the rumoured “Tablet Mac” makes me think about the XOXO. Besides, the iPod touch is already being marketed to educational markets through the yearly “Back to school” program which (surprise!) ends on the day before the September press conference. I’ve been using an iPod touch (1st Generation) for more than a year, now, and I’ve been loving almost every minute of it. Most of the time, I don’t feel the need for a laptop, though I occasionally wish I could buy a cheap one, just for some longer writing sessions in cafés. In fact, a friend recently posted information about some Dell Latitude D600 laptops going for a very low price. That’d be enough for me at this point. Really, my iPod touch suffices for a lot of things. Sadly, my iPod touch seems to have died, recently, after catching some moisture. If I can’t revive it and if the 2nd Generation iPod touch I bought through Kijiji never materializes, I might end up buying a 3rd Generation iPod touch on September 9, right before I start teaching again. If I can get my hands on a working iPod touch at a good price before that, I may save the money in preparation for an early 2010 release of a new touch device from Apple. Not that I’m not looking at alternatives. But I’d rather use a device which shares enough with the iPod touch that I could migrate easily, synchronize with iTunes, and keep what I got from the App Store. There’s a number of things I’d like to get from a new touch device. First among them is a better text entry/input method. Some of the others could be third-party apps and services. For instance, a full-featured sharing app. Or true podcast synchronization with media annotation support (à la Revver or Soundcloud). Or an elaborate, fully-integrated logbook with timestamps, Twitter support, and outlining. Or even a high-quality reference/bibliography manager (think RefWorks/Zotero/Endnote). But getting text into such a device without a hardware keyboard is the main challenge. I keep thinking about all sorts of methods, including MessagEase and Dasher as well as continuous speech recognition (dictation). Apple’s surely thinking about those issues. After all, they have some handwriting recognition systems that they aren’t really putting to any significant use. Something else which would be quite useful is support for videoconferencing. Before the iPhone came out, I thought Apple may be coming out with iChat Mobile. Though a friend announced the iPhone to me by making reference to this, the position of the camera at the back of the device and the fact that the original iPhone’s camera only supported still pictures (with the official firmware) made this dream die out, for me. But a “Tablet Mac” with an iSight-like camera and some form of iChat would make a lot of sense, as a communication device. Especially since iChat already supports such things as screen-sharing and slides. Besides, if Apple does indeed move in the direction of some social networking features, a touch device with an expanded Address Book could take a whole new dimension through just a few small tweaks. This last part I’m not so optimistic about. Apple may know that social networking is important, at this point in the game, but it seems to approach it with about the same heart as it approached online services with eWorld, .Mac, and MobileMe. Of course, they have the tools needed to make online services work in a “social networking” context. But it’s possible that their vision is clouded by their corporate culture and some remnants of the NIH problem. Ah, well… AAddress Book.appApp StoreApple tabletApple TouchCreativeCreative LabsDasherdictationeMateEndNoteenhanced podcasteWorldhandwriting recognitioniChat Mobileinput methodiPadISIkeyboardlogbookmedia annotationMessagEaseMessagePadMobileMeOLPCOLPC XOXOPDAspodcast synchronizationRefWorksRevverSafari Padsharing appsmartphonesSoundcloudTablet Mactext entrytext inputXOXOZiiZii EGGZotero enkerli French-speaking ethnographer, homeroaster, anthropologist, musician, coffee enthusiast. 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__label__wiki	0.804025	0.804025	January 17, 1973 - December 29, 1973 (50 episodes) Tachibana, Naoki (played by Tachibana, Naoki) is a pilot for a currier company. He flies a red and white Cessna. When a hostile alien attempts to invade Earth, using giant monsters made out of ordinary animals or inanimate ojects, Naoki's older brother Shinya is killed in the first attack. During the next attack by the same monster Naoki foolishly tries to revenge his brothers death by using the unarmed airplane to attack the monster. The plane is shot down but before it hits the ground the plane is caught by a strange green light. The Emerald Seijin Kain (voiced by Naya, Gorou) gives Tachibana, Naoki the ability to transform the plane into the giant robot warrior Jambougu Êsu (Jumborg Ace) Before Shinya was killed he gave Naoki his watch. It is that watch which becomes the henshin device. When it detects the presence of a monster its crystal flashes. Then Naoki shouts "Jum Faito" (Fighter) to begin the transformation. As Tachibana, Naoki turns the Cessna end over end to end it transforms into Jumborg Ace.br> Tachibana, Naoki controls Jumborg Ace from inside the giant robot's head. Jumborg Ace mimics Naoki's movements. If he throws a punch then Jumborg Ace will punch the monster. If Naoki kicks then Jumborg Ace will kick the monster. Conversly, the monster's attacks against Jumborg Ace can affect Naoki. For example a blinding beam of light aimed at Jumborg Ace will blind Naoki. Damage to Jumborg Ace will show up later as damage to the plane. Of course Jumborg Ace can fly. At super speed his body becomes a streak of light. Jumborg Ace has several energy weapons, the main one, most often used to destroy the giant monsters, is "Beam Emerald" (second photograph). Some of Jumborg Ace's energy weapons come from his hands. Some use his entire body, and others come out of his belt. Jumborg Ace's energy weapons are very colorful. Jumborg Ace has a larger variety of energy weapons than any other tokusatsu hero I've seen. Just when I thought Jumborg Ace was done introducing new energy attacks he pulls out "Screw Hurricane". The energy spins around the monster setting it on fire and causing it to explode. Sometimes energy weapons aren't effective, for those situations Jumborg Ace has physical weapons, "Jum Sword", "Jet Knife" (throwing daggers) and also explosives, "Jumb Missile". And of course there is hand to claw combat. Jumborg Ace also has a heat ray, which is not used as a weapon but as a tool, to thaw out jet planes frozen by a giant monster's freeze ray (episode 17). When Jumborg Ace is running low on energy a warning light flashes on its belt and on Tachibana, Naoki's belt. Jumborg Ace has one major weakness, extreme cold could destroy it. So in episode 17 when a monster tries to use a freeze ray on Jumborg Ace, Kain appears between the robot warrior and the monster, taking the full blast of the ray himself. Then using his last remaining bit of energy on the monster Kain dies. Tachibana, Naoki has to hide his sorrow over the loss of his mentor, because his family and friends do not know that he controls Jumborg Ace. At the end of each battle Jumborg Ace turns back into Tachibana, Naoki's Cessna at the command "Flight Return". Starting around episode 21 the invaders start making more use of the human sized "Gross Star Men", who usually got in a fight with Tachibana, Naoki (he probably got tired of leaving all the action to the stuntman in the Jumborg Ace costume.) Jumborg Ace is defeated in episode 27 but restored in episode 28. Episode 30 reveals that there is an emergency exit on the bottom of Jumborg Ace's right foot. In episode 27 Tachibana, Naoki buys a new car, a Honda Z. After the defeat of Jumborg Ace, by Matagone's super robot warrior, Naoki attempts to defeat the monster by crashing his car into it. He would have been killed if a second Emerald Seijin (Kain's brother?) had not intervened. This Emerald Seijin give Naoki's car the power to >transform into the super robot warrior Jumborg 9. Naoki actives the transformation from car to warrior with "Jum Faito Two Dash". Originally he said "Break Return" and slammed on the breaks to transform 9 back into his car but in the later episodes he says "Quick Return" instead. Naoki controls Jumborg 9 with a steering wheel, pedals on the floor, and switches on the dash, just like a car. The pedals control Jumborg 9's running speed. Intead of flying Jumborg 9 moves swiftly across the ground, running fast. Jumborg 9 has thicker armor than Jumborg Ace, which protects it from explosives. Besides doing "Jum Kick" 9 also has energy weapons and an energy shield. Like Jumborg Ace, Jumborg 9's entire body could become an energy weapon. Jumborg 9's "Boomerang Cut" is similar to Ultraseven's "Eye Slugger". 9 removes part of his forehead and hurls it at the monster. 9 can energize the boomerang with a black beam that causes it to circle the monster at an increasing rate of speed. The energy released causes the monster to explode. Jumborg 9's face is a weapon. Not only does he fire laser beams from his eyes and throw his forehead but he also has a bream that comes out of his mouth. The "Cross Power" ray from his belt vaporises the monster. Another ray from his belt causes them to explode. Jumborg 9's final energy weapon was used only once, in the last episode. Jumborg 9 could transfer energy to Jumborg 9 and Tachibana, Naoki could transport himself from Jumborg 9 to Jumborg Ace. Jumborg 9 has its own theme song Fight! Jumborg 9. There is also a song for both super robot warriors, Ace & Nine. Also fighting the invaders is the Protection Association Troop (PAT). The membership of PAT changes frequently through out the series. There is sometimes three men, sometimes four. There's always at least one woman, but sometimes two. It's hard to keep up with the changes and I may have missed someone. The PAT commander is killed in episode 12. Episode 14 reveals that there was someone above him. It also sees an introduction of a new commander, the previous commander's brother, and two additional officers join the team, but Ippei (first man in third photograph) is dismissed from the service in episode 19 (because his widowed mother needs him to work the family farm). At some point one of the other men leaves so that there are again only 3 men and 1 woman. In 32 the leadership of PAT changes again. Two Science Guard Men (SGM), 1 male, 1 female, join PAT. The man taking charge. SGM was the organization in "Mirrorman", another Tsuburaya series. By episode 35 there is only one woman. In episode 42 PAT shrinks to 2 men and 1 woman when another man is killed in action. In episode 43 a young SGM pilot; Murakami, Hiroshi joins PAT, switching to the PAT uniform in episode 44. PAT starts out with two fighter planes, Jet Condor and Viking Star. The SGM officers bring with them a verticle take of red jet fighter. By episode 35 its gone. In episode 37 Jet Condor and Viking star are replaced by Hunter Q, which can operate in space as well in Earth's atmosphere. Normally Hunter Q is piloted by the PAT commander. If two fighters are needed Hunter Q can split in two seperate aircraft, one piloted by the commander the other by the next senior PAT member. In addition to their jet fighters PAT also had rocket powered yellow cars which (beginning in episode 14) could fly. These cars are also armed with missile launchers (episode 20). When the original jet fighters are replaced, by Hunter Q, the yellow cars are also replaced, with a red truck that carries only one person, the driver (Bamos I), and a blue vehicle that has room for the driver and one passenger (Bamos II). Of course both of these vehicles are armed. The red truck converts into a helicopter and the blue vechicle into a boat. PAT had it's own theme song (introduced in episode 13) Shining PAT. Other regular characters in this series are Tachibana, Naoki's sister-in-law, nephew (Kazuya) and boss (Banno, Daisaku). Naoki's sister-in-law works at a coffee shop which provides meals for the PAT team members. Naoki occasionally helps out there too. Naoki lives with his sister-in-law and nephew. His famiy and friends do not know that he controls Jumborg Ace and flying off to fight monsters gets him in trouble with his boss (he's too good a pilot to fire though). The only person on Earth who knows that Naoki pilots Jumborg Ace is Ken, a young boy, who was in the Cessna when a monster attacked. Music is an important part of this series. Tachibana, Naoki plays the trumpet (in early episodes). When he's sad he plays beautifully, when he's angry he just makes noise. In episode 8 his girlfriend plays the violin. In episodes 9 and 10 another pilot, who plays the saxaphone, tries to take Naoki's job away from him. In episode 16 an alien female sings. In episode 34 another alien female sings. After a long time of not playing it Tachibana, Naoki remembers his trumpet at the end of episode 47. Jumborg Ace and Jumborg 9 battle the daikaiju (giant monsters) created by the Gurosu Seijin (Growth Aliens). Episode Titles Jambougu Êsu featured music by Kikuchi,Shunsuke. Tachibana, Naoki also stared in Za Kage Sutâ [The Shadow Star] (1976). 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__label__cc	0.690794	0.309206	Birth Control and the Population Explosion During a talk in chapel, college chaplain Joseph Washington, Jr. All terms: 1960-1969, Birth control, Chapel, Washington, Joseph Advertisment for Abortions at Hillcrest This advertisement in the November 11, 1993 edition of The Dickinsonian lists available services and locations for the Hillcrest Women's Medical Center. All terms: 1990-1999, Abortion , Birth control, Dickinsonian, Dickinsonian The Dickinsonian Reports on Condom Distribution at Dickinson Liz Lukacs and L. J. Simmons reported in the October 1, 1987 edition of the Dickinsonian on the decision of the Health Center to distribute condoms, free of charge, describing how the Health Center, Sexuality Resource Group and Women's Center were all involved. All terms: 1980-1989, Birth control, Board of Trustees, Chris, Dickinsonian, Dickinsonian, Health and hygiene, Health Center, Health services, Lukacs, Liz, Sex Education Week, Sexual behavior, Sexual health, Sexuality Resource Group, Sexually transmitted diseases, Simmons, L.Z. This article by Tari Getz '91 in the June 1988 edition of Dickinson Today presents the history, purpose and spirit of the Women's Center, describing it as a place of comfort for all. Date: June, 1988 All terms: 1980-1989, Activism, Birth control, Brasser, Julie, Dickinson Today, Getz, Tari, Gleeson, Katie, Health services, Holland Union Building, Nicastro, Mara, Romano, Mary, Ruocco, Karen, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Take Back the Night, Women's Center, Women's Center (student run), Women's rights movement Editorial: "A few small steps do not constitute a revolution" This article by Features Editor Ken Ross comments that “Although the campus itself continues to improve with age, now is the time for ‘real’ social change at the College.” Ross brings up such issues as the lack of availability of condoms on campus (except when the Health Center is open), the scarcity of ‘alternative’ (alcohol-free) activities on campus and the situation of women on campus. He All terms: 1990-1999, Alcohol, Birth control, Bookstore, College catalog, Counseling services, Curriculum, Health Center, Health services, Ross, Ken, Sexual behavior, Temperance The Office of Student Services Initiated a Trial Program of Gynecological Referral In the middle of the spring 1976 semester, the Office of Student Services initiated a trial program of gynecological referal. The funding for the problem was limited so no services were provided by the school. The goal of this program was rather to find out what services women at Dickinson needed. They hoped to provide such car at the college in the future. All terms: 1970-1979, Abortion , Birth control, Gynecology, Health and hygiene, Health Center, Health services, Sexual behavior, Sexually transmitted diseases 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Poster On the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortions the Women's Center placed hangers hung with different phrases around campus to get student attention and make students more aware of the history of being able to choose and make decisions over one's own sexuality and the choice to bear children. This poster says "Don't Like Abortion? Get a Vasectomy!" All terms: 2000-2009, Abortion , Activism, Anniversaries, Birth control, Radesky, Caroline, Roe v. Wade, Women's Center (student run), Women's rights movement, Zatae Longsdorf Center for Women Reaction to Feminist Collective Celebration of 35th Anniversary Roe v. Wade After seeing posters attached to coat hangers put up by the Women's Center in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, an anonymous student put up a reaction coat hanger with this poster. Some of the Womens Center celebration awareness posters included phrases like "Don't like abortion? Get a vascetomy!" and "Keep your theology off my biology." The anonymous student wanted to make it known that abortion and other female issues are much more complicated than narrowing them down to religion/politics and other aspects of opinion. All terms: 2000-2009, Abortion , Activism, Anniversaries, Birth control, Feminist Collective, Religion and spirituality, Women's Center, Women's rights movement	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line74
__label__cc	0.660954	0.339046	Collinwood High School is Saved by Eric S. Gordon Dear parents, caregivers, residents, partners, and friends- As you know, the District has engaged over the past year in long-term planning for our schools that included analyzing data and gathering stakeholder input. Last month, I presented to you and to the greater Cleveland community a set of draft recommendations for proposed impacts to our K-8 and high school portfolio. Following extensive community engagement on these initial recommendations at meetings across the city, and in discussions with our Board of Education, we have explored additional options with District staff. Based on those steps, I am releasing a revised set of recommendations that will be presented to the Board of Education for their consideration on Tuesday evening. The full set of revised recommendations will be available shortly at QualitySchoolsforCLEKids.org. Although much of the plan proposed in October remains unchanged, I am recommending two significant amendments to our high school recommendations. First, I will propose to the Board that any decision regarding New Tech Collinwood and the Collinwood campus be delayed for at least one year. As part of this recommendation, we are asking the Greater Collinwood community to form a Friends of Collinwood High School community group to: develop and implement a robust manufacturing careers pathway and post-graduation opportunities for scholars create and implement a strategy for recruitment and retention of students to ensure program viability, and identify community partners and businesses to assist in providing opportunities for the Collinwood campus to become a mixed-use asset for the Five Pointe area. This recommendation reflects the strong desire of community stakeholders in the Greater Collinwood community to pursue innovative options to keep the campus viable. It is important to note that I am still recommending the consolidation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Glenville programs at the existing Glenville campus. This will allow us to continue enhancing our scholars’ learning experiences by eliminating excess capacity in outdated facilities and by using those operational savings to expand academic and extracurricular offerings. Secondly, after extensive community feedback, I am withdrawing the recommendation to phase out and close New Tech West. While my team and I examined alternative options for co-locating this model with another program, we found no options that will maintain the integrity of the program without adversely impacting other schools. I will therefore recommend continuing New Tech West in its current location to continue its progress on academic growth and enrollment viability. I am grateful for the thoughtful input and participation of the school community in the long-term planning process. I remain inspired by the passion of our school community that was evident at community meetings and in my personal interactions with many of you. I look forward to your continued involvement as we work together to provide quality schools for all of Cleveland’s kids. Eric S. Gordon CEO, Cleveland Metropolitan School District Read More on School News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line75
__label__wiki	0.892421	0.892421	Oxford teen’s penis ‘degloved’ by his bike’s handlebars in freak crash - doctors urge ensuring bars have grips to avoid similar cases by Simon MacMichael December 8 2019 Case report also reveals that youngster’s scrotum was ripped open in incident A teenage cyclist from Oxford had his penis ‘degloved’ and scrotum ripped open by his bike’s handlebars in a freak crash, it has emerged. Doctors are urging people to ensure their bikes have grips on the handlebars to avoid similar injuries. The incident has come to light through a BMJ Case Report, reports the website IFL Science. The 14-year-old cyclist was said to have been riding along at walking pace, with one hand on the handlebars, the other holding a drink when he crashed into a parked car and impaled his groin. He was taken to Accident & Emergency at the city’s John Radcliffe Infirmary, where doctors discovered a large gash extending from his groin, across the public bone and to his perineum and which had also ripped open his scrotum. His penis was also “partially degloved” – in layman’s terms, that means the skin was totally ripped from the underlying tissue with the blood supply cut off. Surgeons successfully repaired the wound and no significant neurovascular damage was discovered, with the youth allowed home from hospital the following day with a course of antibiotics. In a follow-up appointment four weeks later, he said that he had normal sensation in the area, and no problem passing urine, although it is not clear whether there has been any effect on his sexual function. Doctors say that one lesson to be drawn from the unfortunate youngsters’ injuries – the first of this severity they have traced that can be attributed to a bike’s handlebars – is to ensure that handlebars have rubber grips to prevent such an incident from happening. They pointed to a study that examined more than 800 injuries sustained by children while riding a bike, and noted that in 21 cases, handlebars were a factor; moreover, in 10 cases where life-threatening injuries occurred, the handlebars had no covering. The writers added that including adults, incidents in which a penis is degloved mostly result from attacks by dogs, industrial accidents and what is euphemistically described as “sexual misadventure.” "Handlebar injuries causing blunt abdominal trauma are well described in the literature; however, reports of impalement or degloving injuries are sparse," they said. "It is relatively unique in the series of handlebar-related injuries in existing literature and serves to broaden our experience of impalement injuries caused by bicycle handlebars." Last year we reported how the father of a six-year-old boy had appealed to parents to make sure that their children’s bikes had proper bar grips after his son was killed when he was impaled on its handlebars. The grips on Denny Curran’s bike had worn away, causing the metal end of the handlebar to become exposed, and he died after his iliac artery became severed when he crashed. >> US father’s warning after six-year-old dies after being impaled by his bike’s handlebars https://road.cc/content/news/247054-us-fathers-warning-after-six-year-ol... Oxofrd John Radcliffe Hospital Simon MacMichael Simon has been news editor at road.cc since 2009, reporting on 10 editions and counting of pro cycling’s biggest races such as the Tour de France, stories on issues including infrastructure and campaigning, and interviewing some of the biggest names in cycling. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, his background has proved invaluable in reporting on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, and the bike industry. He splits his time between London and Cambridge, and loves taking his miniature schnauzer Elodie on adventures in the basket of her Elephant Bike. Russell Orgazoid 1 hour 32 min ago That is a pretty offensive acticle IMO. Is his PhD shit or legit? I say shit. srchar 1 hour 42 min ago hirsute 1 hour 44 min ago eburtthebike 1 hour 52 min ago Judge dreadful 3 hours 29 min ago I think the 2008-2012 'bubble' has burst. People got all hot under the collar about TDF and Olympic success, went out and bought bikes, smashed...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line82
__label__cc	0.691807	0.308193	MARCH--Sprouts Alive! March 1, 2014 at 12pm to March 30, 2014 at 12pm – Minnesota Landscape Arboretum n the plant word it is time to begin! How do seeds turn into sprouts? Let's look in a microscope at shoots with baby leaves and roots. Prepare a sprout snack in the Harvest Kitchen, design seed pictu… Organized by Jill Leenay \| Type: children-families, nature, education Preschool in Nature: Spring in Blooming Colors March 18, 2014 at 9am to April 10, 2014 at 10:30am – El Dorado Nature Center Enrich your child's sense of wonder, independence, and love of learning in a unique, interactive, natural setting. Through music, movement, art, stories, and explorative science activities, our fun,… Organized by EDNC Preschool in Nature \| Type: preschool, toddler, class, nature March 28, 2014 at 10:30am to April 18, 2014 at 11:15am – El Dorado Nature Center Investigate the incredible, changing natural world with your child while discovering creatures large and small. Stories, songs, puppets and parachute play are all a part of this fun-filled class. Par… Organized by EDNC Preschool in Nature \| Type: preschool, toddler, class, nature Trickles to Torrents March 29, 2014 from 9am to 1:30pm – Calero/Rancho San Vicente Join a park docent for a moderate 5.5-mile loop hike to see how water from winter storms finds its way to the valley below. Meet at the Calero Park office off of McKean Rd. (south of reservoir), then… Organized by Santa Clara County Park Staff \| Type: recreational, hike March 29, 2014 from 9am to 1:30pm – Calero/Rancho San Vicente Join a park docent for a moderate 5.5-mile loop hike to see how water from winter storms finds its way to the valley below. Meet at the Calero Park office off of McKean Rd. (south of reservoir), then… Organized by Santa Clara County Parks Staff \| Type: recreational, hike Maple Syrup Hike at Petrifying Springs Park March 29, 2014 from 10am to 4pm – Petryfying Springs Park With warmer weather, that can only mean one thing - it’s time for Maple Syrup! Join us for one of three hikes (11:00/1:00/3:00) that day in Petrifying Springs County Park. Meet at Pavilion #6. Free;… Organized by Pringle Nature Center \| Type: public, program, family, maple, syrup Farm Day with The Art Barn March 29, 2014 from 12pm to 4pm – Chattahoochee Nature Center Spring is back and so are the animals! Whether they are on the farm, in the woods or in our homes, animals play a central role in our lives. Discover the importance of spring animals and how to best… Organized by Tracy Begley \| Type: nature Math in Nature: Oh, Deer! March 29, 2014 from 1pm to 3pm – Pocono Environmental Education Center Saturday, March 29 – 1:00-3:00pm$5 Join us for a fun, hands-on math program that includes games and outdoor activities. This program is recommended for 7th – 12th grade students. Call for details! Organized by Pocono Environmental Ed Center \| Type: nature, math How Does Your Garden Grow? at Plainsboro Preserve March 29, 2014 from 3pm to 4:30pm – New Jersey Audubon' s Plainsboro Preserve It’s time to plan your garden, and we are planting for birds and butterflies. How to prepare your garden bed, the advantages of a raised garden, and planting choices that will attract butterflies an… Organized by Plainsboro Preserve \| Type: family, nature, program March 29, 2014 from 7pm to 9pm – Chattahoochee Nature Center The night will bring a New Moon, and without the moonlight shining bright, you can get the best of CNC’s night hike adventure! Our trail experts will lead you and yours down one of our woodland or ri… Organized by Tracy Begley \| Type: nature, hike, night	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line83
__label__wiki	0.804294	0.804294	CityLine Hungary Ltd. Address: H-2220 Vecsés Dózsa György u. 86 Sales mobile: +36 30 218 9681 Secretary: +36 29 553 252 The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner or the Fairchild Aerospace Metro is a 19-seat, pressurised, twin turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild at a plant in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The Fairchild Metro was created in the late 1960s specifically to serve the emerging regional airline market. It was developed as a stretched version of Swearingen's Merlin II corporate turboprop, which was introduced in 1965. Regular production of the Metro began in 1971, the same year Fairchild acquired Swearingen. The Metro was the regional airliner first used by many of the most successful regional airlines of the 1970s and 1980s, including Skywest Airlines, Horizon Airlines, Comair and Wings West. The SA227-AC Metro III was initially certified in 1980 at up to 14,000 pounds (6,350 kg) this increasing to 14,500 pounds (6,577 kg) as engines and structures were upgraded. An option to go as high as 16,000 pounds (7,257 kg) was offered. Externally, improvements incorporated into the Metro III were a 10 ft (3.05 m) increase in wing span, four-bladed props, redesigned "quick-access" engine cowlings and numerous drag-reducing airframe modifications, including landing gear doors that close after the gear is extended. Over the years, a total of 331 Merlins, 117 Merlin IVs and 605 Metros would be built. Currently, our fleet comprises of two AN-26 cargo aircraft registered as HA-TCN and HA-TCO, one Boeing 737-200 registered as HA-LEW and one Fairchild SA227-AC Metro III registered as HA-FAO. Using its aft loading ramp, AN-26 can accommodate a wide variety of cargo up to 6170 kilograms. Boeing 737-200 is loadable from its left side and can accommodate up to 15000 kilograms, the Metro III aircraft can take 2100 kg. Basic dimensions Length 59,35 ft inch (18,09 m) Height 16,66 ft (5,08 m) Wing span 57,0 ft (17,37 m) Max speed 246 knots (455 km/h) Max operating altitude 31000 ft (9448 m) Max range 1800 nm (3333 km) Empty weight 8800 lbs (3992 kg) Max takeoff weight 8800 lbs (3992 kg) Max usabale fuel 4342 lbs (1970 kg) Max passenger capacity 19	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line89
__label__cc	0.530663	0.469337	25 years of Hubble Space Telescope images Kim Walker 0 Comment NASA, The Baltimore Sun Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, science NASA celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, which is operated by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Rare solar eclipse sweeps across parts of Africa, Europe and the United States Tim Swift 0 Comment Travel, World astronomy, science, solar eclipse The East Coast bore witness to a hybrid solar eclipse this morning, which kicked off around 6:38 a.m. according to Weather.com. The eclipse lasted about 30 minutes. Massive hurricane circles around Saturn’s north pole Michael Gold 0 Comment NASA, World hurricane, NASA, Saturn, science, space New images released by NASA this week depict an enormous hurricane whipping around Saturn’s north pole. Taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the photos show a storm with an eye about 20 times the the size of a typical hurricane on Earth. Up Close: 2012 Wellcome Image Awards Pete Sweigard 1 Comment Up Close, World Britain, England, Medical photography, Microscopy, science, Wellcome Image Awards The Darkroom will take you Up Close in a new series featuring images and techniques that truly augment our perceptual power, altering our understanding and appreciation of the world. First up are sixteen winning photos from the 2012 Wellcome Image Awards, which highlight the best in medical and microscopic photography, and is sponsored by the London-based Wellcome Trust charitable foundation. This remarkable set of photos includes everything from magnified views of a moth fly to a human brain during a surgical procedure to the building blocks of your morning cup of coffee (caffeine crystals) – all as you’ve never seen them before.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line91
__label__cc	0.748752	0.251248	BRIAN SIBLEY : his blog my world and welcome to it COTTON PICKIN' What were you watching on television over the Christmas holiday period and how did it measure up to your seasonal telly memories from the past? If you are British and over the age of thirty then those memories would undoubtedly include Christmas specials from the likes of Mike Yarwood, Paul Daniels, The Two Ronnies and, of course, Morecambe and Wise... The man responsible for those and many other great BBC television programmes was BILL COTTON (left) who died earlier this year and who at various times in his long and prolific career was Head of Light Entertainment, Controller of BBC 1 and Managing Director of Television. The programmes which he either created or oversaw include The Generation Game, Jim'll Fix It!, Parkinson and a legion of memorable sit-coms such as Dad's Army, The Good Life, To the Manor Born and Monty Python's Flying Circus. As a huge fan of many of those shows it was a thrill to have the job of researching and writing a two-part tribute to this great TV impresario, Showman and Star Maker - A Tribute to Bill Cotton which is being broadcast on BBC Radio 2, beginning tonight at 7:00 pm with the second part going on-air at the same time tomorrow. The programmes are presented by Paul O'Grady and feature, among others, Bruce Forsyth, John Cleese, Val Donican, Cilla Black, Rolf Harris, Des O'Connor, Michael Parkinson, Terry Wogan, Sandie Shaw, Sue Lawley and Tom Jones - all of whom I got to meet --- in person!! Here's a little anecdote from one of those encounters... Bruce Forsyth gave me a great interview talking about the impact which Bill Cotton had on his career and at the end of it I mentioned that I had a bone to pick with our Brucie... "Oh," he asked, "what's that?" "Well," I told him, "when I was a youngster, I wrote to you when you were the star of the TV hit Sunday Night at the London Palladium, asking for an autographed photograph. I got the photo but I was terribly disappointed because the photo I got back had a printed autograph!" "Ah," said Bruce, "well I used to get masses of fan mail... In fact, I remember turning up at my agent's office one day and there was this long line of mail sacks all the way down the hall. 'What's all that?' I asked. 'Your mail!' he answered. So, the agent used to send out the photos for me..." "Hmmm," I replied, "well, Bruce I was in one of those sacks!" And I produced the photo to prove it. "Right!" said Brucie, "give it 'ere!" And grabbing a pen he signed it again - this time with a genuine signature and, as the note on it says, IN REAL INK! And here is Bruce playing piano as a guest (following Jamie Cullum!) on another of those shows launched by Bill Cotton, Parkinson... So, once again you can catch Part One of Showman and Star Maker - A Tribute to Bill Cotton on BBC Radio tonight at 7:00 pm and Part Two can be heard tomorrow, New Year's Day, at the same time. Posted by Brian Sibley at 00:01 9 comments Labels: humour, Me, radio, TV BRIDGEWORK Do you know how many bridges there are in Venice? FOUR HUNDRED AND NINE! Although, to be fair, some sources say 378 and still others 400, but then we are talking about the city of mystery and - in any case - there is, as of last year, a new bridge, so it may well be time for a recount... The Ponte di Calatrava (designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava) is Venice's first new bridge in seventy years - and only the fourth to cross the Grand Canal - but it has been the subject of ceaseless debate and criticism, chiefly for its design which uses traditional Venetian materials of glass and stone but a great deal of chunky iron underwear and has a functional modernity that is at odds with the classical architecture of most of the city... It has also been slated for its lack functionality: unevenly placed steps on the ascent and descent that are a tripping hazard and also - since many of the steps are glass - a slipping hazard in wet and icy weather... Then there is the cost: several times beyond the approved budget (even without the decorations that were originally intended for it, but which, somehow, got left off drawings!) and which is destined to rise even more as the bridge now has to be adapted to provide wheelchair access under modern-day Italian laws relating to disabled access... As for all those other bridges (however many they are): they span some of the 150 canals that divide the island city of Venice into what are, effectively, 118 smaller islands... After eleven years of visiting we still haven't crossed all those bridges, but here are a few we have traversed, some of them many times... Did you know that at midnight tomorrow, New Year's Eve, Greenwich Mean Time will be given a Leap Second? As Wikipedia explains... A leap second is a one-second adjustment that keeps broadcast standards for time of day close to mean solar time. Broadcast standards for civil time are based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a time standard which is maintained using extremely precise atomic clocks. To keep the UTC broadcast standard close to mean solar time, UTC is occasionally corrected by an intercalary adjustment, or "leap", of one second... When a positive leap second is added at 23:59:60 UTC, it delays the start of the following UTC day (at 00:00:00 UTC) by one second, effectively slowing the UTC clock. So, at midnight tomorrow, there will be seven - not six time - 'pips' and just before you get to shout HAPPY NEW YEAR, you'll have one whole second of extra life! Make sure you live it -- to the full!! Oh, yes, and still on the subject of timings... I know that Christmas is been and gone and that the shops are full of New Year Sales (instead of the Pre-Christmas Sales) and that the Radio Times contains more summer holiday advertisements than programme details, but there's still time - although not much - in which to catch Wendy Hiller and Alec McCowen in my Christmas radio dramatisation of The Fox at the Manger. Based on the story by P L Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, it can be heard, on-line, until 31 December via the BBC's Radio 7 iPlayer (you'll find The Fox on the alphabetical listing of shows) but you've only got today and tomorrow to tune in! A FOOTNOTE on the Ponte di Calatrava... The original glass steps had - at more expense - to be made opaque as voyeurs were (apparently) photographing up the skirts of women from boats passing underneath... These Italians! Any excuse! Images: Brian Sibley & David Weeks © 2006/8 For more Venice imagery, visit my website to view the album Venice Observed and then follow the links at the foot of that page to three further albums of photographs. Labels: books, bridges, P L Travers, radio, Time, Venice MOUSE-BOAT After posting that photo of Walt Disney in a gondola earlier today, we spotted - on our way back from the Ospidale - a nasty glass figurine of his Master's Mouse playing gondolier with Minnie as passenger... Needless to say, this is not a genuine, authorised, copyrighted Disney image - but then, again, this particular piece of 'Genuine Venetian Glass' was very probably made in Taiwan! As for the invalid: I've got to keep wearing the bandage, keep taking the tablets, keep off food that requires biting or chewing and, as far as possible - and this is a bit of a challenge - keep my trap shut!! Labels: Disney, Mickey Mouse, Venice WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE... "'But where do the people walk?' inquired I of my gondolier." - Hans Christian Andersen STREETS FULL OF WATER. - Robert Benchley in a telegram to his editor at The New Yorker And speaking of the need for gondolas, here's a photo of a famous gondola-passenger - Walt Disney - with his wife, Lilian, and youngest daughter, Sharon, being ferried up the Grand Canal in 1951, when Walt was attending the Venice International Film Festival. They are passing what is now the Bauer Hotel (a stone's throw from our apartment), possibly on their way either from the celebrated Hotel Danelli or en route to the equally famous Hotel Gritti Palace... This photo is really fascinating because - from the presence of the suitcases behind the passengers - it is clear that when it was taken (almost sixty years ago) gondolas were still being used as taxis, taking people wherever they required to go in the city, rather than - as now - as a mere tourist attraction following a site-seeing circuit... I was just imagining asking one of the gondoliers who have a station behind our apartment if they'd take me to the hospital for my appointment this morning! Images: David Weeks & Brian Sibley © 2006/8; photo of Walt in Venice from Michael Barrier. Labels: Disney, Hans Christian Andersen, quotes, Venice DECIDEDLY DOGE-Y My first thoughts about my bandaged face were, you will remember, Christmas Carol-related, but David, subsequently, said I looked like I was playing the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet - a part which, actually, I think I'd be rather good at! Now, however (especially with my woolly hat on), I think I have a certain kinship with the Venetian Doges who were the chief magistrates and leaders of the Most Serene Republic of Venice for over a thousand years... See what I mean...? Images: Doge Mocenigo by Bellini, 1480; Doge Sibley by Weeks, 2008. Labels: health, Me, Venice JAW-DROPPING ART "Pictures, were there, repleat with such enduring beauty and expression: with such passion, truth and power: that they seemed so many young and fresh realities among a host of spectres." - Charles Dickens "Painting is the way Venetians write." - John Ruskin "White walls, the paper of the mad." - Venetian Proverb A few hours after writing this blog posting, I was having an unexpected Venice adventure: I yawned and dislocated my jaw! We went straight to the Ospidale (water taxi fare: €45!) but the doctors in Pronto Soccorso (the Venetian equivalent of A&E) couldn't get it back into its correct sockets, so I had to wait three hours - in what was excruciating pain - for a specialist to come over from the mainland. He was terrific, but had a heck of a struggle because the jaw had been dislocated for such a long time. Finally - after a needle full of Valium in the bum - the muscles relaxed sufficiently for him to get the jaw relocated and we set off by boat back to our apartment. BUT --- almost an hour later, and three stops down the line, out it popped again! As soon as we could, we jumped ship and headed back to back to the Ospidale... The specialist (who was, by now, back home on the mainland)was telephoned and turned round and set off across the lagoon once more. Another three hours of agony ensued until he got there and put things right for the second time. On this occasion, however, he decided that - having had my jaw out of sync for best part of six hours - I would have to have to bandaged up to prevent it from moving until the muscles relax and go back to where they should be... So I now look rather too like Marley's Ghost with his kerchief wound about his head (to keeping his jaw from dropping open) and I've got to remain like this - on a liquid-only diet, too! - until Monday when I will see more specialists at the Ospidale who will advise me what's best thing to do next... Some holiday!! Images: Brian Sibley & David Weeks © 2007/8. The top image shows Titian's Assumption of the Virgin located in the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. Labels: art, Dickens, health, Me, quotes, Venice BEWITCHED, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED "The senses are so dazzled and almost bewildered, I think, on arriving here, that we are tempted at first to run (or rather swim) up and down... ...staring at one thing... ...peeping at another... ...and endeavouring to find our way about the strange new world, much as a cat does on arriving at a new abode." - Frances Trollope Of course, back in the 19th Century, Fanny Trollope - who was a novelist and, incidentally, the mother of Anthony (Barchester Chronicles) Trollope - probably had people to show her the sites of Venice. Today's visitors - despite being told that half the fun of visiting the city is in getting lost - are often encountered in the desperate throes of map-reading - usually with the aid (or not) of a totally inadequate map! There are, in fact, only a couple of decent maps of Venice - and the best of those is the one from Magnetic North - but you'll never find them on sale in the city! Labels: maps, quotes, travel, Venice VENETIAN ENCOUNTERS It is, as the cliché runs, a Small World... On Christmas Eve, we were walking along a street in Venice, late at night, when we were accosted by an Italian couple who said to David, "Excuse us, but we met on Kalymnos in August: you performed magic for us at the Artistico taverna in Emporios and your friend, here, used to sit under the trees reading..." Now, apart from the extraordinary fact that they identified us by the light of the shop windows of Prada and Fendi when we were all muffled up against the cold in coats and scarves and hats and yet when we last met - in a remote corner of a tiny Greek island - we were all in shorts and T-shirts, BUT they live in Milan and come to Venice every year - for one night only - to attend the Christmas Eve Mass in San Marco... And yet we happen to meet: what are the odds...? Of course, Venice is - and always has been - a city of encounters... Whilst tourists - being intent on seeing the sites - tend not to see the residents (who, in turn, do their best to ignore the tourists), there are places where their worlds, inevitably, coincide... People meet in bars and cafes in campos and on bridges. They stop to talk: their voices ricocheting off ancient walls and mingling with the lap and slap of water in the canals, the chitter-chatter of heels on flag-stones, the murmuring of pigeons and the accordion-accompanied serenading of gondoliers... Labels: Artistico, Emporios, Greece, Kalymnos, people, quotes, Venice DECEMBER THE TWENTY-FIFTH It's Christmas Day in the Morning... ...and we're just back from the Basilica San Marco, where the faithful were celebrating the first Mass of Christmas. Visit the Cathedral when it is unlit and you might consider it nothing more than a grey, dusty mausoleum, but when illuminated - as it was tonight - it is flooded with a breathtaking golden radiance... It is, perhaps, the nearest experience to being inside light: warm, reassuring, womb-like; a cradle in which we - together with the new born Christ Child are gently rocked to and fro within the golden heart of an ancient Faith - beating, pulsating across the centuries... Now, what kind of greeting should I send you on this very special day? Well, I think what would be appropriate would be to quote one of the lyrics written by LESLIE BRICUSSE for the 1970 film... Bricusse wrote the song, 'December the Twenty-Fifth', for the scene featuring Fezziwig's Ball, in which Ebenezer Scrooge relives the Christmas jollifications that he enjoyed as a young man before he became - as Charles Dickens describes him - "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!" The song is sung by Scrooge's former employer, Mr Benjamin Fezziwig, his wife, family and guests and - although written by a later hand - is truly the embodiment of the seasonal spirit which Dickens was attempting to invoke in writing A Christmas Carol... Of all the days in all the year That I'm familiar with There's only one that's really fun December the twenty-fifth! Ask anyone called Robinson Or Brown, or Jones, or Smith, Their favorite day and they will say December the twenty-fifth, m'dears The dearest day in all the year At times we're glad to see the back Of all our kin and kith But there's a date we celebrate At times our friends may seem to be Devoid of wit and pith But all of us are humorous December the twenty-fifth m'dears And now, before you set about your own festivities, enjoy the original film rendition of 'December the Twenty-Fifth' as it was energetically performed by Laurence Naismith and Kay Walsh as Mr and Mrs Fezziwig, throwing themselves into the spirit of the day with total abandonment whilst being observed by Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge and Edith Evans as The Ghost of Christmas Past... So, from David, buttons and myself may we wish You and Yours... A Very, Very m'dears! Images: San Marco on Christmas Eve © Brian Sibley; Title-cards from Scrooge by Ronald Searle. You can see more of Searle's artwork for Scrooge and Dickens' A Christmas Carol at Perpetua - Ronald Searle Tribute. And buttons offers his own seasonal greeting here. Labels: A Christmas Carol, books, Christmas, Dickens, films, Ronald Searle, Scrooge, seasons 'TIS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS... Don't forget, dear readers, that - right now - Santa is going through those lists to find out who's been naughty and whose been nice! If you doubt it, check out this report - c. 1932 - from Santa's Workshop... Here in Venice... Children are obviously more nice than naughty since there are clearly enough of them to require Santa calling on the assistance of a couple of look-alikes... Elsewhere, the question remains: how on earth (and all around the earth) does Santa manage top get all those deliveries made in just one night? Well, at long last - courtesy of a couple of penguins and my friend, the illustrator GORDON FRASER - I can now reveal the secret, for so long hidden, behind Santa's extraordinary annual efficiency! You can see more of Gordon Fraser's fun artwork on his blog Empire of the Gothtwinz. Now, off you go like good little children and get to sleep and if you happen to hear any unusual bumps in the night, tonight --- no peeking!! As for any grown-ups who've got time on their hands today - unlikely though that may seem - you may care to tune in to my Christmas radio dramatisation of P L Travers' seasonal fable, The Fox at the Manger, starring Dame Wendy Hiller and Alec McCowen, which is receiving a repeat on BBC Radio 7 at 10.15 am and 9.15 pm today and at 2.15 am tomorrow morning, Christmas Day. To help you, here's all you need to know about BBC Radio 7; what you need to know about how to listen to Radio 7; the current 'What's On' page for Drama and how to listen again on-line via BBC iPlayer where the play will be listed on this page following its first transmission and can be heard for the following seven days until New Year's Eve. Images: Venice Santas by Brian Sibley and Santa & Tardis by Gordon Fraser Labels: cartoons, Christmas, Santa, Venice Well, here we are in Venice! ...and, as the song says, it's beginning to look a lot like Labels: Christmas, Venice I'll never forget the Christmas - too long ago now to attach a date to - when I spotted a book in my local bookshop entitled The Fox At The Manger. It was written, it said on the cover, by P L Travers, the author of Mary Poppins. Although, at the time, I had yet to read any of the books about Miss Poppins, I knew and loved the Disney musical film based on her exploits whilst serving as a "practically perfect nanny" in the household of Mr and Mrs Banks in Cherry Tree Lane. The Fox at the Manger, I discovered, was nothing like Mary Poppins - except that it was a tale shot through with magic! It re-told the events of the first Christmas - familiar from every nativity scene - but with an unexpected twist. The animals in the Bethlehem stable - donkey, cow and sheep - who witness an unusual birth in the midst of their straw-filled little world are dismayed and alarmed when an alien creature enters their domain: a red, furry, fox - the chicken-stealing outlaw of the countryside. But the fox has come to the manger to bring his own, unique gift to the Christ Child... What that gift is you must read for yourself --- or discover it by listening to a radio dramatisation that I made of the story some years back and which is being repeated this Christmas on the BBC. The Fox at the Manger which stars Dame Wendy Hiller as the storyteller and Alec McCowen as the Fox is being broadcast on BBC Radio 7 at 10.15 am and 9.15 pm on Christmas Eve and, again, at 2.15 am on Christmas Day morning. It will also be available to hear, on line, via the BBC's iPlayer for seven days following transmission. If you'd like to hear The Fox at the Manger, here's all you need to know about BBC Radio 7; what you need to know about how to listen to Radio 7; the current 'What's On' page for Drama and how to listen again on-line via BBC iPlayer (the play will be listed on this page following its first transmission and can be be heard there until 1 January ) And, while on the subject of Sibley radio shows, And Yet Another Partridge in a Pear Tree... my 'Cautionary Tale for Christmas Showing that it is Better to Give than to Receive' can still be heard, on-line, via the BBC's Radio 7 iPlayer (you'll find it on the alphabetical listing of shows) but you've only got today and tomorrow to tune in... Tomorrow we go to VENICE, so any delays in approving blog-comments will be due to changes in European time zones or, more likely, my inability to get on-line! It has been said of the city which the Venetians call La Serenissima... "Other cities had admirers, Venice alone has LOVERS." - Paul de Saint-Victor But it has also been said... "The abuse that the city suffers derives from its own fatal gift for manufacturing endlessly seductive clichés." - Jonathan Keates So, welcome to one of the most complex cities in the world! As for buttons, he can't wait to get there! Images: The Fox and the Raven from Aesop's Fables (and later The Fox at the Manger) by Thomas Bewick; Venetian Masqueraders © by Brian Sibley Labels: Christmas, fantasy, Me, P L Travers, radio, religion, Twelve Days of Christmas A VERY ROCKWELL CHRISTMAS Among my favourite Christmas images are those created by the great American artist and illustrator, NORMAN ROCKWELL. Even though he has been dismissed by many as an arch-sentimentalist whose portrayals of 20th Century American life were overly sweet and thus not worthy of being considered real art, it is impossible not to admire the meticulous precision of his designs and the detailed naturalism which he achieved in his paintings. Many of Rockwell's most memorable pictures adorned the front covers of popular American magazines - most notably, Saturday Evening Post to which he contributed for over forty years. Rockwell (1894-1978) created numerous iconic images, many of them celebrating the Christmas holiday season and, in particular, the personage of Santa Claus, of which the following St Nicks are just a representative delegation... Norman Rockwell also illustrated several Dickensian scenes and characters such as this trio of Christmas Waits... A cherubic Mr Pickwick en route to Dingley Dell with a laden Christmas hamper ... And, from A Christmas Carol, Mr and Mrs Fezziwig dancing the Sir Roger de Coverley... And - of course - Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim... You can read more about the artist at the Norman Rockwell Official Web Site and at that of the Norman Rockwell Museum. FINAL REMINDER!! Don't forget... Time's running out if you want to hear Penelope Keith in my seasonal entertainment, And Yet Another Partridge in a Pear Tree... This 'Cautionary Tale for Christmas Showing that it is Better to Give than to Receive' can be heard, on-line, via the BBC's Radio 7 iPlayer (And Yet Another Partridge... will be found on the alphabetical listing of shows) but you've only got today and tomorrow to tune in! Also, you can read the full text of the Bracegirdle letters on my website, Brian Sibley: The Works. ROGER the LIBRARIAN has just uncovered yet another, American, parody on 'The Twelve Days of Christmas', though of unknown date and authorship... Twelve Days After Christmas The first day after Christmas my true love and I had a fight, And so I chopped the pear tree down and burned it just for spite. Then with a single cartridge, I shot that blasted partridge, My true love, my true love, my true love gave to me. The second day after Christmas, I pulled on the old rubber gloves, And very gently wrung the necks of both the turtle doves. The third day after Christmas, my mother caught the croup; I had to use the three French hens to make some chicken soup. The four calling birds were a big mistake, for their language was obscene. The five gold rings were completely fake and they turned my fingers green. The sixth day after Christmas, the six laying geese wouldn't lay, I gave the whole darn gaggle to the A.S.P.C.A.* On the seventh day what a mess I found, All seven of the swimming swans had drowned, The eighth day after Christmas, before they could suspect, I bundled up the eight maids a milking, nine pipers piping, Ten ladies dancing, 'leven lords a leaping, Twelve drummers drumming and sent them back 'collect'. I wrote my true love, "We are through, love", and I said in so many words, "Furthermore your Christmas gifts were for the birds!" * American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Labels: America, art, Christmas, illustration, Norman Rockwell, Santa, Twelve Days of Christmas I'm a writer and broadcaster and if you'd like to know what I've been writing and broadcasting about, check out THE WORKS! Four NEW Winnie-the-Pooh stories by Brian Sibley & Co. 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__label__wiki	0.618528	0.618528	Thank you, London. A portrait of our Capital during the Games. About the Panorama To celebrate a record breaking year, we’ve taken the world’s biggest picture of the capital. Taken after the end of the London 2012 Games, it's your chance to share your favourite views of the capital and to document London’s year in the global spotlight. The 320 gigapixel image - taken by expert photography firm 360Cities – comprises 48,640 individual frames which have been collated into a single panorama by a supercomputer. If printed at normal photographic resolution, it would be almost as tall and as wide as Buckingham Palace. PS. Our old friend Buzby is hiding in the gigapixel image too. Find him, click the link and you could win one of three iPad 3's. Be the first, and you'll also get a year's free BT Broadband. * The full terms and conditions are here. The 320 gigapixel panorama was photographed by Jeffrey Martin, Holger Schulze and Tom Mills (from expert panoramic photography firm 360Cities.net) and then subsequently created by Jeffrey Martin. It is comprised of 48,640 individual images shot over a period of three days and processed over a period of three months. The pictures were taken using Canon EOS 7D cameras with EF 400mm f/2.8 IS II USM lenses and Extender EF 2x III teleconverters driven by special Rodeon VR Head ST robotic panorama heads from the Clauss company in Germany. If printed at normal resolution, the photo would be 98 meters long (323 feet) and 23 meters high (77 feet) – almost as big as Buckingham Palace. If you have a question about the image, media enquiry or for more information about BT please contact: BT Press office: newsroom@bt.com Download the Press Release (Word) Download images from the panoramic shoot (JPEGs) BT Group plc, BT Centre, 81 Newgate Street London EC1A 7AJ Contact BT »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line100
__label__cc	0.598984	0.401016	»Proposal Text »AJR10: Joint Resolution Text LRB-0633/2 PJD:kg:pg 2003 - 2004 LEGISLATURE 2003 Assembly JOINT RESOLUTION 10 January 28, 2003 - Introduced by Representatives M. Williams, Krawczyk, Foti, Kerkman, Rhoades, Musser, Albers, Olsen, Hundertmark, Krusick, Seratti, M. Lehman, Pettis, Jeskewitz, Vrakas, Powers, Gunderson, McCormick, Towns, Ladwig, Kreibich, Bies, Wieckert, Grothman, Gielow, Underheim, Friske, Lassa, Ainsworth, Nischke, Gronemus, Ott, Van Roy, Turner, Gottlieb, Freese, Hahn, Johnsrud, Schooff, Weber, A. Williams and Townsend, cosponsored by Senators Brown, Stepp, Breske, Harsdorf, Lazich, Risser, A. Lasee, Roessler, Welch, Kedzie, Schultz and Hansen. Referred to Committee on State Affairs. AJR10,1,51 To amend so as in effect to repeal section 4 (3) (c) of article VI; to renumber and 2amend section 4 (1) of article VI and section 12 of article VII; to amend section 34 (4) of article VI; and to create section 4 (1) (b) and (c) of article VI and section 412 (2) of article VII of the constitution; relating to: 4-year terms of office for 5certain county officers (first consideration). Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau Currently, the constitution provides for the election every 4 years of county sheriffs, and every 2 years of clerks of circuit court, registers of deeds, and district attorneys, and, unless a county appoints a medical examiner, coroners. Under current statutes, county clerks and treasurers, and surveyors unless a county appoints a surveyor, are also elected every 2 years, except that the constitution abolishes the offices of coroner and surveyor in counties having a population of 500,000 or more. This proposed constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2003 legislature on first consideration, requires counties to elect county clerks and treasurers every 4 years, and changes the terms of office from 2 years to 4 years for district attorneys, coroners, elected surveyors, registers of deeds, treasurers, county clerks, and clerks of circuit court. For clerks of circuit court and coroners, the first elections to 4-year terms will be held concurrently with the first gubernatorial election following ratification, which is when the constitution provides that sheriffs are to be first elected to 4-year terms. For district attorneys, elected surveyors, registers of deeds, treasurers, and county clerks, the first elections to 4-year terms will be held concurrently with the first presidential election following ratification. The proposal does not change the times for holding regular elections for any county offices, and does not affect the terms of office of elected county chief executive officers (they already serve 4-year terms), or the terms of office of county supervisors or sheriffs. A constitutional amendment requires adoption by 2 successive legislatures, and ratification by the people, before it can become effective. AJR10,2,1 1Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That: AJR10, s. 1 2Section 1. Section 4 (1) of article VI of the constitution is renumbered section 34 (1) (a) of article VI and amended to read: AJR10,2,74 [Article VI] Section 4 (1) (a) Except as provided in pars. (b) and (c) and sub. (2), 5coroners, registers of deeds, district attorneys, and all other elected county officers, 6except judicial officers, sheriffs, and chief executive officers, shall be chosen by the 7electors of the respective counties once in every 2 years. AJR10, s. 2 8Section 2. Section 4 (1) (b) and (c) of article VI of the constitution are created 9to read: AJR10,2,1710 [Article VI] Section 4 (1) (b) Beginning with the first general election at which 11the governor is elected which occurs after the ratification of this paragraph, sheriffs 12shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties, or by the electors of all of 13the respective counties comprising each combination of counties combined by the 14legislature for that purpose, for the term of 4 years and coroners in counties in which 15there is a coroner shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties, or by the 16electors of all of the respective counties comprising each combination of counties 17combined by the legislature for that purpose, for the term of 4 years. AJR10,3,618 (c) Beginning with the first general election at which the president is elected 19which occurs after the ratification of this paragraph, district attorneys, registers of 20deeds, county clerks, and treasurers shall be chosen by the electors of the respective 1counties, or by the electors of all of the respective counties comprising each 2combination of counties combined by the legislature for that purpose, for the term 3of 4 years and surveyors in counties in which the office of surveyor is filled by election 4shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties, or by the electors of all of 5the respective counties comprising each combination of counties combined by the 6legislature for that purpose, for the term of 4 years. AJR10, s. 3 7Section 3. Section 4 (3) (c) of article VI of the constitution is amended so as in 8effect to repeal said paragraph: AJR10,3,119 [Article VI] Section 4 (3) (c) Beginning with the first general election at which 11shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties once in every 4 years. AJR10, s. 4 12Section 4. Section 4 (4) of article VI of the constitution is amended to read: AJR10,3,1513 [Article VI] Section 4 (4) The governor may remove any elected county officer 14mentioned in this section except a county clerk, treasurer, or surveyor, giving to the 15officer a copy of the charges and an opportunity of being heard. AJR10, s. 5 16Section 5. Section 12 of article VII of the constitution is renumbered section 1712 (1) of article VII and amended to read: AJR10,3,2118 [Article VII] Section 12 (1) There shall be a clerk of the circuit court chosen in 19each county organized for judicial purposes by the qualified electors thereof, who, 20except as provided in sub. (2), shall hold his office for two years, subject to removal 21as shall be provided by law; in. AJR10,3,23 22(3) In case of a vacancy, the judge of the circuit court shall have power to may 23appoint a clerk until the vacancy shall be is filled by an election; the. AJR10,3,25 24(4) The clerk thus elected or appointed of circuit court shall give such security 25as the legislature may require requires by law. AJR10,4,2 1(5) The supreme court shall appoint its own clerk, and may appoint a clerk of 2the circuit court may be appointed a to be the clerk of the supreme court. AJR10, s. 6 3Section 6. Section 12 (2) of article VII of the constitution is created to read: AJR10,4,74 [Article VII] Section 12 (2) Beginning with the first general election at which 5the governor is elected which occurs after the ratification of this subsection, a clerk 6of circuit court shall be chosen by the electors of each county, for the term of 4 years, 7subject to removal as provided by law. AJR10, s. 7 8Section 7. Numbering of new provisions. (1) The new paragraph (b) of 9subsection (1) of section 4 of article VI of the constitution created in this joint 10resolution shall be designated by the next higher open paragraph letter in that 11subsection in that section in that article if, before the ratification by the people of the 12amendment proposed in this joint resolution, any other ratified amendment has 13created a paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 4 of article VI of the constitution 14of this state. If one or more joint resolutions create a paragraph (b) of subsection (1) 15of section 4 of article VI simultaneously with the ratification by the people of the 16amendment proposed in this joint resolution, the paragraphs created shall be 17numbered and placed in a sequence so that the paragraphs created by the joint 18resolution having the lowest enrolled joint resolution number have the letters 19designated in that joint resolution and the paragraphs created by the other joint 20resolutions have letters that are in the same ascending order as are the numbers of 21the enrolled joint resolutions creating the paragraphs. AJR10,5,922 (2) The new paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 4 of article VI of the 23constitution created in this joint resolution shall be designated by the next higher 24open paragraph letter in that subsection in that section in that article if, before the 25ratification by the people of the amendment proposed in this joint resolution, any 1other ratified amendment has created a paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 4 2of article VI of the constitution of this state. If one or more joint resolutions create 3a paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 4 of article VI simultaneously with the 4ratification by the people of the amendment proposed in this joint resolution, the 5paragraphs created shall be lettered and placed in a sequence so that the paragraphs 6created by the joint resolution having the lowest enrolled joint resolution number 7have the letters designated in that joint resolution and the paragraphs created by 8the other joint resolutions have letters that are in the same ascending order as are 9the numbers of the enrolled joint resolutions creating the paragraphs. AJR10,5,2210 (3) The new subsection (2) of section 12 of article VII of the constitution created 11in this joint resolution shall be designated by the next higher open whole subsection 12number in that section in that article if, before the ratification by the people of the 14created a subsection (2) of section 12 of article VII of the constitution of this state. 15If one or more joint resolutions create a subsection (2) of section 12 of article VII 16simultaneously with the ratification by the people of the amendment proposed in this 17joint resolution, the subsections created shall be numbered and placed in a sequence 18so that the subsections created by the joint resolution having the lowest enrolled joint 19resolution number have the numbers designated in that joint resolution and the 20subsections created by the other joint resolutions have numbers that are in the same 21ascending order as are the numbers of the enrolled joint resolutions creating the 22subsections. 1Be it further resolved, That this proposed amendment be referred to the 2legislature to be chosen at the next general election and that it be published for 3 3months previous to the time of holding such election. 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__label__cc	0.550221	0.449779	Home Entertainment Smarty Scoop On Weekend Events June 15-17 EntertainmentEventsThings To Do Smarty Scoop On Weekend Events June 15-17 written by CSP Team June 14, 2018 StoryLand: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites 300 E. 7th Street, Charlotte, NC June 15-September 8, See website for schedule, Ages 2-8, Free Summary: Beloved children’s books will come alive with Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites, an imaginative, book-based experience for children ages birth to 8 years old. 2018 Supra Boats Pro Wakeboard Tour and Pro Wakesurf Tour Stumpy Creek Boat Landing 160 Stumpy Creek Rd., Mooresville, NC June 16, 10:00am – 4:00pm, All ages, $10 adults, $5 kids Summary: The world’s top wake athletes will be heading to Stumpy Creek Boat Landing/Lake Norman in Mooresville, NC on June 16 for the 2018 Supra Boats Pro Wakeboard Tour and Pro Wakesurf Tour. 2018 Queen City Father’s Day Festival Carole Hoefener Center June 16, 1:00pm – 5:00pm, All ages, Free Summary: The 2018 Queen City Father’s Day Festival is the perfect place to buy dad something cool. More than 50 vendors, crafts, games, displays, food, and a bouncy house for the kids. Summer Jazz Series At Freedom Park 1900 East Blvd, Charlotte, NC Summary: Come jam to the city’s best jazz! Charlotte Symphony Summer Pops See website for schedule, All ages, $5-$20 Summary: Since 1983, Summer Pops has brought the Charlotte community together to share picnics, laughs, and great music with family and friends. Your favorite summer concert series now includes the Symphony Park experiences you love PLUS two new uptown in-theater options. Tickets to all Summer Pops performances – indoor and outdoor at the Park – are available individually or as part of discounted packages. See tabs above for Premium Club Seating and ticket packages. Tickets to outdoor performances at Symphony Park are also available at the gate. 301 N. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC (704) 372-6261 Summary: Step into a world where science is brought to life through interactive exhibits and explosive experiments during daily programs. Connect with the past and visit the future with groundbreaking exhibitions, larger-than-life IMAX Dome films and hands on activities that let you explore more. Plan your visit today. Click on the links below for detailed information on special events, featured exhibitions, featured shows and IMAX. Featured Exhibitions: For information on all exhibitions click here. Featured Shows: For information on all featured shows click here. IMAX: For information on all featured movies and showtimes click here. Discovery Place Kids – Huntersville 105 Gilead Road, Huntersville, NC (704) 372-6261 Summary: Explore the theme of I CAN at Discovery Place KIDS-Huntersville. The children’s museum features developmentally-appropriate experiences that encourage imagination and offer the opportunity to build confidence while testing skills by trying new things. The exhibits, themed around a small town, allow children to learn through play. Theme Areas: For a complete description of all nine theme areas click here. Featured Shows: For a complete listing of all featured shows click here. Current and Upcoming Events: For all current and upcoming events click here. Charlotte Nature Museum 1658 Sterling Road, Charlotte, NC (704) 372-6261 Summary: Bring little ones for just an hour or the whole day and experience wildlife through live animal exhibits and interactive education programs. The Museum is easy to navigate with fun surprises around every corner. Kids can roam The Great Hall and visit Beginnings, an area filled with young animals and information on their lifecycles. Featured Exhibitions: For complete details on exhibitions and exhibits click here. Featured Shows: For a complete schedule of show times click here. 300 Carowinds Blvd., Charlotte, NC June 9 – June 24, 10:00am – 10:00pm, All ages Explore: what’s new, calendar and hours, park map and directions Play: rides and attractions, shows and entertainment, special events Stay: camp wilderness, preferred hotels, special discounts, easy pay Open Quarry Swim At Carrigan Farms Carrigan Farms 1213 Oak Ridge Farm Hwy. (west entrance), Mooresville, NC June 10-28, See website for schedule, All ages, $15 per person, cash or check only Summary: Located in Mooresville, NC, The Quarry at Carrigan Farms, LLC is a natural, spring fed, body of water where swimming is enjoyed by many. Mined in the late 1960’s for its granite stone, once a spring was discovered, the quarry filled with water and is now a favorite spot for those wanting to cool off in the summer. River Jam Concert Series U.S. National Whitewater Center 5000 Whitewater Center Pkwy, Charlotte, NC May 3 – September 29, See website for schedule, All ages, Free, $6 parking Summary: River Jam at the U.S. National Whitewater Center brings together live musical performances throughout the year to a one-of-a-kind outdoor venue, right in the middle of the world’s largest man-made whitewater river. Genres including roots rock, americana, bluegrass, folk, and funk take center stage Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights as well as during each of the USNWC’s festivals. Bring your friends, enjoy our large food and craft beer selection, and take in the sights and sounds of River Jam. Sounds On The Square The Square at Spirit Square 345 North College Street, Charlotte, NC May 11 – August 31, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, All ages, Free Summary: Don’t miss our free outdoor performances every Friday night this summer at Spirit Square! Local musicians will perform from 7:00-8:30 PM in the Square at Spirit Square. The events will be moved indoors if there is inclement weather. Concessions and beverages will be available for purchase. Don’t forget to bring your own lawn chair! Blakeney’s Summer Concert Series Village Green at Blakeney Ardrey Kell and Rea Road, Charlotte, NC May 25 – September 1, 7:00pm – 10:00pm, All ages, Free Rockin’ and Reelin’ Movie And Concert Series Pineville Lake Park 1000 Johnston Drive, Pineville, NC June 1 – June 22, See website for schedule, Free Summary: Concerts start at 7:00pm and movies start at 8:00pm. Corner of Main & Concord Road, Davidson, NC See website for schedule, All ages, Free Summary: Our Concerts on the Green are a summer family favorite! Concerts take place the first and third Sunday evenings of the month from to 6:00-8:00 p.m. on the town green in front of the Davidson Public Library, at the intersection of Main Street and Concord Road. Music On The Green Concert Series The Green at Promenade Rd and I-485, Charlotte, NC May 4 – September 15, See website for schedule, Free Summary: Live music every Friday and Saturday during the summer. Food Truck Fridays And Concert Series Stumptown Park 120 S. Trade Street, Matthews, NC April 13 – September 28, See website for schedule, All ages, Free Summary: Favorite area food and dessert trucks will provide varied menus including seafood, Tex-Mex, burgers, sandwiches, specialty dishes and more. There will also be a great line-up of local and regional bands, inflatables and a craft beer pavilion Stonecrest Summer Concert Series Stonecrest Shopping Center 7900 Rae Road, Charlotte, NC April. 6 – September 29, See website for schedule, All ages, Free Summary: Live music every Friday and Saturday night throughout the summer. Mingling On The Greens Birkdale Village 8712 Lindholm Drive, Huntersville, NC June 1 – August 25, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, All ages, Free Summary: Join us for live music every Friday & Saturday night from 7pm – 9pm, June 1st to Aug 25th. Bring a chair or a blanket and the whole family; it’s a good time for all! For a complete listing of dates and bands, please visit us on Facebook Old Town Cornelius 2nd Friday Street Festival Oak Street Mill 19725 Oak Street, Cornelius, NC May 11 – October 12, See website for schedule, All ages, Free Summary: 2nd Friday is #OTC’s monthly throw-down featuring a jam-packed lineup of live music, food trucks, craft breweries, local artists, kids activities and much more! The event is RAIN or SHINE so mark your calendars because this is going to be a festival series that you simply don’t want to miss! Music Box Lunch Romare Bearden Park 300 S. Church St., Charlotte, NC April 3 – August 31, 12:00pm – 1:30pm, All ages, Free Summary:Tuesdays and Fridays from April 3rd, 2018, through August 31st, 2018, enjoy live lunchtime music in Romare Bearden Park. Charlotte Knights BB&T Ballpark 324 S. Mint Street, Charlotte, NC Charlotte Hounds American Legion Stadium 310 N. Kings Drive, Charlotte, NC Sportsplex at Matthews 1505 Tank Town Road, Matthews, NC YMCA of Greater Charlotte Event Calendar 19 Locations throughout the Greater Charlotte Area Summary: Most people know their neighborhood “Y” because of its incredible sports, camps and fitness programs but the “Y” has so much more to offer. Spend some time (it will take a while) on the website and learn about all the opportunities the “Y” provides. I promise, you will be amazed. Free Wednesday Evenings At The Mint Museum The Mint Museum – Randolph 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte, NC The Mint Museum – Uptown 500 S. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC Every Wednesday from 5:00pm – 9:00pm, All ages Summary:Enjoy free access to both Mint Museum locations every Wednesday night. Bank of America’s Museums On Us Day Various locations around Charlotte The first Sunday and Saturday of every month, All ages, Free Summary: Now in its 20th year, this distinctive program offers Bank of America and Merrill Lynch credit and debit card holders the opportunity to visit more than 150 of the most popular cultural institutions in the United States free of charge on the first full weekend of every month. 300 E. 7th Street, Charlotte, NC (704) 416-4630 See website for hours of operation Summary: This collaborative effort between the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and Children’s Theatre of Charlotte is a 102,000-square-foot facility recently ranked by Livability.com as the No. 1 children’s library in the United States. ImaginOn features two state-of-the-art theaters, a dedicated library space for kids 11 and under, four multi-use classrooms, a teen-only library, a multimedia production studio, and interactive exhibit space. 6000 Sample Road, Huntersville, NC (704) 875-6521 Summary: Carolina Raptor Center is dedicated to environmental stewardship and the conservation of birds of prey through education, research, and the rehabilitation of injured and orphaned raptors. As a charitable 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, CRC relies on public financial support to fulfill our mission. Supporters can release a raptor, adopt a bird, make a charitable donation, purchase a membership or sponsor a capital improvement project. CRC’s environmental education programs reach approximately 40,000 students each year. Our Raptor Trail hosts more than 35,000 visitors a year. Visit our calendar page for event times or just come and enjoy our nicely maintained trails and see all the amazing birds of prey. The Schiele Museum of Natural History 1500 East Garrison Blvd, Gastonia, NC (704) 866-6900 Summary: The natural wonders of North America and North Carolina coupled with the rich history of our region are all reflected in The Schiele’s exceptional exhibitions and diverse programming. Whether you’re indoors or out, with the kids or your colleagues, by bringing you a lot closer to nature, The Schiele will bring you a little closer to yourself. Featured Exhibits: For a complete listing click here Planetarium: For a complete schedule click here Events Calendar: For all events click here Little Smarty Giveaway: Summer’s Coming! Are You Ready to Combat Boredom AND Summer Learning Loss? Mosquito Authority: Long Time Reader, First Time Dad Smarty Cooking School: Beer Bread (and a bonus... Smarty Scoop on Weekend Activities: 10/23-10/25 Smarty Scoop on Weekend Activities: December 22-24 Check out the Octonauts at Sea Life Aquarium! Carolina Diving Academy Hosting a FREE Open Dive... 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__label__cc	0.555134	0.444866	June 11, 2014 Chester Progressive Y 8B Wednesday, JUne 11, 2014 Bulletin, Record, Progressive, Reporter Same great coffee. Full assortment of pastries, soups and sandwiches. Made fresh daily! Midtown 231 Main St., Quincy 283-5061 Next Door to Papa Murphy's b )ht n, day Sonshine FI Made-to-order arrangements, plants, plush animals, bath and baskets and other gift (sso) 2s 4s43 212 Main St." Chester Vickl Mason, Owner Gifts "Jewelry � Cards OM-fashioned soda fountain Educational toys Year round "Christmas Shop" Gift Certificates 258-2222 220 Main St., Chester evergreen �PARTY/. Delicious Party Platters & Freshly Baked Items from our Bakery for every occasion! S )ecial Hotline Celebrate with us... Weddings, family events, business meetings, company Family Style Ranch Meals Group Rates Reservations 1-800-33-HOWDY (530)283-0930 � 2116 Greenhorn Ranch Rd. � Quincy We accept all competitor coupons 231 Easy & Deficious! The perfect way to celebrate those special occasions Main St., Quincy � " ~i]d Midto,a n Coffee) starts early with delicious, freshly ground coffee and an assortment of handmade pastries, cookies, scones, sandwiches, muffins, breads, and seasonal items such as soups and tarts. Featuring a varied menu full-service catering and special orders for groups of any size. Stop in and enjoy a wholesome breakfast or lunch in our warm and friendly shop. A perfect place to meet your friends, make� new ones, hold a business meeting or study for school. Free WiFi. We are proud to serve you/ 231 Main St., Quincy 283-5061 I':! xt Door to Papa Murphy's The High Sierra Community Youth Orchestra celebrates its performance in the 12th annual Face the Music Studio Spring Concert. Photo courtesy Face the Music Studio Face the Music Studio is proud to announce that the 12th annual Spring Concert featuring the High Sierra Community Youth Orchestra was a huge success. Approximately 180 people showed up to listen to the evening of music. "The featured young performers all played fabulously and the orchestra performed beautifully," said director Johnene McDonald. "It was obvious that the audience enjoyed the variety of musical selections. The intermission featured a savory variety of potluck refreshments. The evening was thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended." McDonald thanks the Central Plumas Recreation and Park District, Plumas Arts, Plumas Unified School District, Quincy Elementary School and all of the musicians who made this performance possible and successful. The 2014-15 orchestra session will start rehearsing again in October and will start working on new music for the annual County Courthouse Potluck Concert in December. Plumas Arts will be presenting the Courthouse Lawn Art Show on Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Last year was Plumas Arts' first try at bringing back the much-loved local event that had previously taken place on the courthouse lawn over the Fourth of July weekend. The public is invited to come and enjoy fine art booths and stroll around downtown Quincy on a sunny summer Saturday. Vendors come from far and wide offering one-of-a-kind items for sale. Booth space is still available for handmade arts and crafts and information booths. Give a call to Plumas Arts at 283-3402 for more information or download the application at plumasarts.org. dinner at Whitehawk Annual fundraiser helps support the ALIVE program Debra Moore Staff Writer dmoore@plurnasnews.com ALIVE has a wish list: a new van, carpet and an updated kitchen ... all to benefit adults with developmental disabilities who rely on the program's services. Proceeds from a fundraising dinner to be held at Whitehawk Restaurant on June 17 will go toward the wish list. The restaurant hosts a "Keep It Local" fundraising dinner once a month to support local organizations. Bob Battistoni, the program's coordinator, wants to ensure that this year's event is a successland he is encouraging the public to attend. In addition to the dinner, � attendees will be able to bid on a variety of items including overnight golf packages, art, beauty treatments and much more. "It's really a nice event," Battistoni said of the evening. Members of ALIVE are familiar faces in the community, largely because the program focuses on integration. It assists men and women age 18 and older with developmental disabilities to live independently, develop job skills and fmd employment. Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., program participants can sign up for a variety of classes. Many take place in the Jackson Street office of ALIVE and it's that facility that needs improving. Battistoni said the program strives to get the participants into the community as much as possible, and they work out at the fitness center and perform tasks around town such as picking up recycling at the county courthouse and other facilities. The participants can keep the money that they earn and often put it toward a variety of trips and events organized by ALIVE. Battistoni said that a core group has been part of ALIVE for many years, while others come in and out of the program. Looking to the future, Battistoni said that ALIVE is gearing up to "support people with autism," as that population continues to grow. To support ALIVE, part of Plumas Rural Services, make a reservation for the dinner by calling the Whitehawk Restaurant at 836-4985. Cocktails begin at 5 p.m., with dinner at 6 p.m. Restaurant owner Sharon Adams said the choice of entrees for the ALIVE dinner will be chicken piccata, salmon or pasta primavera. Search and rescue seeks donations The Plumas County Search to the citizens and businesses and Rescue Team will be of Plumas County. starting its fifth annual "We are also recruiting telemarketing fundraiser� new members to be a part of June 16. the SAR team," said Grant. "The company that handles Classes for new members will this for the SAR team has start soon. To ask questions been very reliable and done a about the fundraiser or good job bringing in express interest in joining donations to help the team in the team call or stop by the purchasing much-needed sheriff's office, 1400 E. Main safety equipment," said St. in Quincy. Ask to speak Communications Supervisor with Lori. 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__label__wiki	0.551624	0.551624	Death of a Latin Lover, Part 3 Posted on May 4, 2019 by Deranged Ramon Novarro’s funeral. [Photo courtesy Los Angeles Public Library] LAPD Detective Lauritzen played it cagey with the press when they asked for details regarding the arrests of Paul and Thomas Ferguson. He said only that they had “physical evidence” of the brothers’ involvement in Ramon’s murder. The reporters interpreted Lauritzen’s comments to mean they found fingerprints at the crime scene. The County Grand Jury indicted the Fergusons and they arraigned the brothers in a Van Nuys courtroom. Attorney Cletus Hanifin (second from left) confers with murder suspect Paul Ferguson (left) while another attorney talks with Ferguson’s brother and fellow suspect Thomas (second from right). [Photo courtesy Los Angeles Public Library] Busted in early November, the brothers awaited trail in county lockup. Early in December new drama in the case erupted with a report that Paul attempted to gouge out his own eyes. At first he told jailers other inmates attacked him, but they proved he injured himself. If he hoped to eradicate the vision Ramon’s murder from his memory, he should have plunged a knife into his heart. The general feeling was that Paul’s self-inflicted injuries were an attempt to garner sympathy. The police found more than fingerprints at Ramon’s home. While Paul beat Ramon in another room, Thomas was on the telephone with his girlfriend of six months, Brenda Lee Metcalf. Brenda flew out to Los Angeles on the county’s dime to testify before the Grand Jury. She was a wealth of information about the night of the murder. She testified that Thomas told her he and Paul were at Ramon’s house because the actor was going to get him into the movies—then he said no, it was Paul who Ramon was going to get into pictures. While he chain-smoked cigarettes and drank beer, Thomas told Brenda, “… he knew there was $5,000 somewhere in the house behind a picture.” Thomas and Paul had plans for Ramon’s money. Brenda said, “They would tie him up to find out where the money was.” Brenda told Thomas not to get into trouble. Brenda said, “He said no matter what happened, he wasn’t going to have nothing to do with it because he didn’t want to get in any trouble.” The screams she heard in the background sound like trouble to her. “He (Thomas) said he (Paul) was just probably trying to scare him or hit him with something.” As the phone called neared an end, Thomas said, “Well, I better go now because I’m going to see what’s happening. . . I don’t want Paul to hurt Ramon.” Another woman surfaced in the case, Paul’s estranged wife, Mary. Mary identified the mysterious “Larry” – the name scrawled several places at the murder scene. Larry was Paul’s brother-in-law, the person Paul blamed for his problems with Mary. Paul’s attempt to frame his brother-in-law was amateur hour, but then nothing about the crime was a stroke of genius. Brenda received one last telephone call from Tom during his stay in Los Angeles. He telephoned her on November 2. He said, “Well you know about Novarro. He is dead. When I bent down over him I saw he was dead and that if we have enough money, we’ll fly back. Otherwise, we will have to hitchhike back. Before they could leave Los Angeles County, they were in police custody. On August 5, 1969, four days before the murders of Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Voytek Frykowski and Steven Parent at Tate’s rented home on Cielo Drive, Paul and Thomas were on trial for Ramon’s murder. The jury of seven men and five women heard Deputy District Attorney James Ideman outline the State’s case in his opening statement. He said he would prove that the brothers tortured Ramon to death on October 30 while trying to discover a hidden cache of money. Paul and Thomas did not differ from any of the other idiot criminals who murdered people they believed kept large amounts of cash at home. Defendants Jack Santo (left), Emmett Perkins (center) and Barbara Graham (right) in court for the murder of Mabel Monohan. [Photo courtesy Los Angeles Public Library] On March 9, 1953, in Burbank, California, Barbara Graham, Emmett Perkins, Jack Santo, John True and Baxter Shorter invaded the home of Mabel Monohan, a widow. The gang believed she kept a large amount of cash in a safe for her former son-in-law, a professional gambler and local mob affiliate, Tutor Scherer. The gang walked away with nothing but a ticket to the “green room” (San Quentin’s gas chamber). Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, two ex-cons, made the same mistake in 1959 in Holcomb, Kansas. They believed a cellmate when he told them one of his former employers, a farmer named Herb Clutter, was rich and kept his money in a home safe. It was a tall tale, told by an idiot, to two other morons who believed it. Hickock and Smith executed Herb, his wife Bonnie Mae, and the couple’s two teenage children, Kenyon and Nancy. The killers walked away with fifty dollars in cash, a pair of binoculars and a transistor radio. Hickock and Smith went to the gallows on April 14, 1965 on the grounds of Leavenworth prison. Truman Capote with his bestseller, In Cold Blood. [Photo courtesy Los Angeles Public Library] Truman Capote turned the sordid murders into a brilliant narrative in the mostly true account of the case, In Cold Blood. Paul and Thomas made the same mistake as their predecessors, but would they pay the same price? NEXT TIME: Paul and Thomas Ferguson pay for Ramon’s murder. Posted in 1960s, Homicide \| Tagged 1953, 1959, 1969, Abigail Folger, Barbara Graham, Baxter Shorter, Bonnie Mae Clutter, Brenda Lee Metcalf, Cletus Hanifin, Emmett Perkins, Herb Clutter, Jack Santo, James Ideman, Jay Sebrin, John True, Kenyon Clutter, Lt. Lauritzen, Mabel Monohan, Mary Ferguson, Nancy Clutter, Paul Ferguson, Perry Smith, Ramon Novarro, Sharon Tate, Steven Parent, Thomas Ferguson, Voytek Frykowski \| Leave a reply Unhappy Holidays The holidays are a time for family, and Sarah Marquez and her two-year-old son, Eric, were looking forward to Christmas 1953 with more enthusiasm than ever. Eric was too young to recall his parents ever living together, they separated when he was an infant, but if all went well on December 18th, the family would be reunited. December 18th came—Sarah gathered up Eric and they left her parents home at 208 West 97th Street to join her husband Reginald at his apartment at 15732 ½ Paramount Boulevard. Sarah and Reginald filled their arms with tree ornaments, toy trains and other gifts designed to make Eric giddy with delight. The get-together went well at first, then Reginald began drinking. Beer cans and liquor bottles piled up on the floor and Reginald’s mood turned ugly. Sarah tried to salvage the day, but it was impossible to reason with her husband. Unable to take Reginald’s bad temper any longer, Sarah drew Eric to her and demanded Reginald take them back to her parents’ home. When they arrived at her door Reginald forced his way in and grabbed a knife from the kitchen. He waved the knife around and made threats terrifying enough to send her running for the bathroom. She locked the door and waited for him to go. Reginald refused to leave. Instead he calmed and persuaded Sarah to come out so they could patch things up. The attempt at reconciliation lasted only until Reginald saw a photograph of Sarah with another man, a mutual friend of theirs. The photo was taken during the period of their separation, but Reginald was not mollified. He became abusive and tore the photo into shreds. He grabbed another knife and chased her around the house threatening to kill her. Sarah ran for the bedroom and slammed the door shut behind her. In a blind rage, Reginald beat his fists against the door and then broke the knife against it. He managed to force the door open and they took their struggle to the living room sofa. In desperation Sarah grabbed at the cushions. She fumbled around and found the .32 caliber automatic pistol Reginald gave her when he returned from the war. She fired six shots. Two of the slugs smashed into Reginald’s stomach and killed him. The other four rounds ricocheted around the room, fortunately none of them struck Eric who cowered in his crib. Police from the Los Angeles Police Department’s 77th Division took Sarah to jail. Eric’s maternal grandparents took Eric. The little boy had a lot of questions his grandparents didn’t want to answer, so they let him open his presents a few days early. NOTE: The Los Angeles Times did not report any further on the case. It is likely that Reginald’s death was considered self-defense. Posted in 1950s, Homicide \| Tagged 1953, Eric Marquez, Reginald Marquez, Sarah Marzuez \| Leave a reply Film Noir Friday: City That Never Sleeps [1953] Posted on October 6, 2017 by Deranged Welcome! The lobby of the Deranged L.A. Crimes theater is open. Grab a bucket of popcorn, some Milk Duds and a Coke and find a seat. Tonight’s feature is CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS starring Gig Young and Mala Powers. Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she’s had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress… Posted in 1950s, Film Noir Friday \| Tagged 1953, Chill Wills, Edward Arnold, Gig Young, Mala Powers, Marie Windsor, Paul Raymond, William Talman \| Leave a reply Film Noir Friday–Saturday Matinee: Cry of the Hunted [1953] Posted on August 13, 2016 by Deranged Welcome! The lobby of the Deranged L.A. Crimes theater is open! Grab a bucket of popcorn, some Milk Duds and a Coke and find a seat. Tonight’s feature is CRY OF THE HUNTED, starring Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, and Polly Bergen. At the Branville State Penitentiary, Warden Keeley conveys to Lt. Tunner, the head of maximum security, the district attorney’s dissatisfaction with the way that Tunner is handling the Jory case. Jory, a Cajun convicted of robbery, has steadfastly refused to divulge the names of his partners in crime. Tunner visits Jory in solitary confinement, and when the prisoner attacks him, Tunner fights back and wins Jory’s respect. After Jory finally agrees to identify his accomplices, he is escorted to the district attorney’s office by Goodwin, the police officer who hungers for Tunner’s job. On the drive downtown, their car collides with another vehicle and Jory escapes. Certain that Jory will go home to Louisiana, the warden dispatches Tunner to bring him back. Posted in 1950s, Film Noir Friday \| Tagged 1953, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen, Vittorio Gassman \| Leave a reply Film Noir Friday: The Glass Web [1953] Welcome! The lobby of the Deranged L.A. Crimes theater is open. Grab a bucket of popcorn, some Milk Duds and a Coke and find a seat. Tonight’s feature is THE GLASS WEB [1953] starring John Forsythe, Edward G. Robinson and Kathleen Hughes. Enjoy the film! The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates. While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secret affair with Henry, who works as researcher for the weekly authentic TV show “Crime of the Week”, which Don writes for. When Henry fails to help her to a role, she insults him deadly… and ends up dead herself. Now Don desperately tries to hide his traces, but Henry sabotages his efforts and suggests he write the unsolved murder case for next week’s show… Posted in 1950s, Film Noir Friday \| Tagged 1953, Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe, Kathleen Hughes \| Leave a reply Policewoman of the Year, Conclusion Florence Coberly testifies at inquest. [Photo courtesy USC Digital Archive] In 1952 LAPD Policewoman Florence Coberly appeared to be a woman with a bright future in law enforcement. She had been instrumental in taking down career criminal and ex-con, Joe Parra. Parra had a history of sexual assault and he was shot and killed during an undercover assignment in which Florence had acted as a decoy. She had stayed tough during the inquest following Parra’s shooting when his brother Ysmael began shouting and then attempted to lunge at photographers. She had appeared on television and had been honored at various awards banquets all over town. Yes sir, Florence’s star was shining brightly. But (you knew that was coming, didn’t you) Florence’s personal life began to unwrap slightly when after only three years of marriage she divorced her husband Frank in 1955. We’ve heard countless times over the years how tough it is to be a cop’s wife, but I imagine being the husband of a cop is not much easier–the unpredictable hours and the danger could be enough to send any spouse out the door forever. But then we don’t really know what caused the Coberly’s marriage to dissolve. The divorce notice appeared in the June 29, 1955 edition of the L.A. Times, but it was legal information only and gave no hint of the personal issues which may have caused the Coberly’s to break up. Even if her marriage hadn’t made until “death us do part” at least Florence had her job. Florence with her back to the camera, befriends a lost girl c 1954 [Photo courtesy of USC Digital Archive] There is no further record of her in the Times for several years following the fatal shooting of serial rapist Joe Parra in 1952, so we’ll have to presume that her career in law enforcement was on track. Then nearly six years after the Parra case, on July 2, 1958, the Times ran a piece under the headline: “Policewoman’s Mother Convicted in Shoplifting”; it was buried in the back pages of the “B” section and it told an interesting tale. Mrs. Gertrude Klearman, the fifty-three year old mother of a policewoman, had been found guilty of shoplifting by a jury of eleven women and one man. The jury had spent only one hour and seven minutes in deliberation. As embarrassing as it would have been to have your mom convicted of shoplifting, it would have been so much worse if you were a cop–and orders of magnitude more humiliating if you were a cop busted WITH your mother for stuffing $2.22 worth of groceries into a handbag and walking out without making the necessary stop at the check-out stand. According to Police Officer George Sellinger, an off-duty cop supplementing his income by working as a store detective, the pair of women, one of whom you have undoubtedly guessed was Florence Coberly, had been accused of stealing two packages of knockwurst, a can of coffee, a package of wieners and an avocado. Florence had remarried and not surprisingly she had married another cop, Sgt. Dave Stanton. But despite a change in her surname there was no mistake that the woman accused of shoplifting was none other than the former Florence Coberly, Policewoman of the Year. Florence seated next to her husband, Sgt. Dave Stanton. [Photo courtesy USC Digital Archive] Gertrude was found guilty, but Florence had been freed of the shoplifting charge during trial on a technicality involving unreasonable search and seizure. At the misdemeanor trial her attorney, Frank Rothman, vigorously questioned Sellinger on the stand and finally got him to admit that he had not actually seen Florence stuff the food items into her purse. He had pressured her to submit to a search outside the grocery store based on the scant evidence of having seen her holding some packages in her hand. As far as Rothman and the law were concerned Sellinger’s reason for the search was seriously flawed and a legal no-no. LAPD in the late 1950s was still understandably touchy about any hint of scandal or misbehavior by its officers. During the decades prior to William H. Parker’s ascension to Chief, the institution had watched as many of its members were accused (some even convicted) of all manner of graft and corruption. While a package of knockwurst hardly rises to the standard of bad behavior that had plagued LAPD earlier, just being arrested was enough to get Florence suspended from duty pending a Police Board of Rights hearing. It couldn’t have been easy for Florence to sit on the sidelines and await the decision that would have such an enormous impact on her future. Law enforcement wasn’t just a 9-5 job for her, it was a career and one for which she had displayed an aptitude. While Florence waited on tenterhooks for the Board of Rights hearing, her mother was sentenced to either forty days in jail or a $200 fine (she paid the fine). Florence’s hearing began on July 22, 1958 before a board composed of Thad Brown, chief of detectives, and Capts. John Smyre and Chester Welch. Officer Sellinger repeated the testimony he had given at the trial and despite the fact that the shoplifting charges against Florence had been dismissed in a court of law, the board found her guilty of the same charge and ordered her dismissed from LAPD. This photo may have been misidentified in the USC Digital Archive as Florence’s misdemeanor trial. I believe it to be the Police Board hearing. It was an ignominious end to a career that had shown such early promise, and I can’t help but wonder if there was more to Florence’s dismissal from the police force than the shoplifting charge. In February 1959, Florence filed suit in superior court seeking to be reinstated. Her complaint was directed against Chief Parker and the Board of Rights Commission. Florence stated that she had been dismissed from the LAPD on a charge that she had, with her mother, shoplifted groceries from a San Fernando Valley market. Florence denied her guilt and contended that the only evidence in the case may have been applicable to her mother alone. It took several months, but in July 1959 Superior Court Judge Ellsworth Meyer sided with the LAPD and refused to compel Chief Parker to reinstate Florence. I haven’t discovered any further mentions of Florence in the newspaper. I’m curious to know how her life played out and what became of her in later years. As it is with so many of the tales covered here in Deranged L.A. Crimes there is no satisfactory conclusion. Of course I can always hope that a member of her family will see the story and contact me. It has happened before. Meanwhile, I salute Florence for her no-holds-barred, kick-ass entry into policing in 1952; and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention one last time that fantastic bandolier that dangled so daintily from her belt–as I said before lady cops knew how to accessorize. NOTE: Many thanks to my friend and frequent partner in historic crime, Mike Fratantoni. He knows the BEST stories. Posted in 1950s, Cops Behaving Badly \| Tagged 1952, 1953, 1958, 1959, Chester Welch, Florence Coberly, Florence Klearman, Florence Stanton, Gertrude Klearman, John Smyre, Officer Sellinger, Thad Brown \| 2 Replies Film Noir Friday, on Saturday! 99 River Street [1953] Welcome! The lobby of the Deranged L.A. Crime theater is open! The holiday has thrown the screening schedule off, so it is Film Noir Friday, on Saturday! Grab a bucket of popcorn, some Milk Duds and a Coke and find a seat. Tonight’s feature is 99 RIVER STREET directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne and Evelyn Keyes. New York City taxicab driver Ernie Driscoll watches the television program “Great Fights of Yesterday,” which is replaying the world heavyweight boxing match that ended his boxing career. Although he dreams of opening his own gas station, Ernie’s wife Pauline berates him for living in the past and blames him for failing to provide adequately for her. After Ernie drops Pauline off at the florist shop where she works, he seeks advice from his best friend, dispatcher Stan Hogan, who good-heartedly suggests that Ernie whisper in Pauline’s ear that they should start a family. Aspiring actress Linda James joins the men at a drugstore lunch counter and shares the good news about her upcoming audition for a Broadway play. At the florist shop, meanwhile, Pauline plans to run away to Paris that night with her lover, thief Victor Rawlins, after he closes a $50,000 deal. Ernie drives up to the shop hoping to smooth things over with Pauline, and sees her kissing Victor. Enjoy the film! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG1guwmVPDk&feature=share&list=PL8324F6C554122985&index=1 Posted in 1950s, Film Noir Friday \| Tagged 1953, Evelyn Keyes, John Payne \| 1 Reply Film Noir Friday: The Big Heat [1953] Welcome! The lobby of the Deranged L.A. Crimes theater is open! Grab a bucket of popcorn, some Milk Duds and a Coke and find a seat. Tonight’s feature is THE BIG HEAT, directed by Fritz Lang and starring Gloria Grahame and Glenn Ford. Enjoy the film! After the suicide of detective Sgt. Tom Duncan, his wife Bertha takes his detailed notes on racketeer Mike Lagana’s organization, then demands money and protection from the mob boss to keep the notes secret. Lagana places the Duncan situation with his right-hand man, Vince Stone. Homicide detective Sgt. Dave Bannion is assigned to investigate Duncan’s death and upon questioning a bereft Bertha, finds her explanation that Duncan suffered a mysterious malady suspicious. Later at home with his wife Katie and young daughter Joyce, Dave reads that the police department has accepted Bertha’s assertions without question. That evening Lucy Chapman, a fading B-girl, contacts Dave and they meet at The Retreat bar where Lucy debunks Bertha’s story, claiming that she and Duncan dated and that Bertha had just agreed to give her husband a divorce. When Dave cautions Lucy not to attempt to blackmail Bertha, Lucy angrily threatens to take her information to the newspapers. Dave then visits Bertha, who dismisses the divorce story, despite her knowledge of Duncan’s relationship with Lucy. The next day at headquarters, Dave learns of the discovery of an unidentified woman who had been thrown from a car after being beaten and tortured. http://youtu.be/7mbCPbc2vNk Posted in 1950s, Film Noir Friday \| Tagged 1953, Fritz Lang, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame \| Leave a reply The Want Ad Killer, Part 2 Dolly McCormick witnessed the fatal shooting of Andrew “Andy” Kmiec by a man who had posed as a prospective buyer for Kmiec’s 1953 Mercury convertible. She was fortunate to have escaped with her life. After she had directed deputies to the scene of Andy’s shooting, Dolly was transported to the Norwalk Sheriff’s Station to be interviewed by Lt. A.W. Etzel and Det. Sgt. Ned Lovretovich. Det. Loveretovich first asked Dolly questions to establish her relationship to the deceased. She told the detective that she and Andy weren’t in a serious relationship, but they had been dating for about two months. She said that Andy lived on Beverly Glen with a roommate, Alex Milne, and the two men appeared to get along well. As far as she knew Andy didn’t have any enemies, despite what his killer had said about having been hired to do away with him. Neither Andy nor Dolly were California natives — Andy’s car still bore Indiana license plates, and Dolly had only recently moved to North Hollywood from Prairie Grove, Arkansas to live with her cousin, a television advertising executive. Andy had come to Southern California during WWII and, like thousands of other veterans, decided to make it his permanent home a few years later. Dolly, too, was looking for a life different than the one she’d had in Arkansas. Andy Kmiec was described by his employer, friends, and acquaintances as a decent guy, liked by everyone who knew him. Det. Lovretovich couldn’t find anyone who had even disliked Andy, let alone hated him enough to hire someone to kill him. Dolly was questioned in detail about the events of the evening of the slaying from the moment that Andy arrived in North Hollywood to pick her up for their date. On the drive downtown to the Biltmore Hotel, Andy told Dolly: “This is sort of an odd situation. I have never heard of a business transaction carried on this way.” When they arrived at the Biltmore, Andy asked Dolly to wait in the car while he went into the hotel to find the prospect. He arrived a few minutes later and introduced Dolly to the stranger — but she couldn’t recall the man’s name. She described him to Det. Loveretovich as being approximately 45-50 years old, about 5′ 10″, with blondish brown hair. He was wearing a tan suede jacket with knit ribbing at the collar and cuffs and tan pants. She said the man needed a shave badly, but that he was otherwise unremarkable. He was wearing a pair of gold metal, rimless, bifocal eye glasses. Dolly became uncomfortable during the drive to Whittier because the stranger told conflicting stories about his employment. He had first implied that he owned a pottery business in Santa Ana, then moments later said he was the plant’s supervisor. What really alarmed Dolly was when the man seemed unable to provide concise directions to his own home. The pretty sales clerk went on to describe what happened after the man had told Andy to park the car. She said that he produced a gun, showed it to Andy and said: “You know what this is.” Andy said yes, of course he knew that it was a gun — then he offered the stranger his wallet, the car, anything if he would leave. The stranger said that he’d been hired to “take care” of Andy, and that he was being well paid for the job. Andy continued to plead, but the man forced him into the back seat of the Mercury at gun point. Dolly was made to drive the car with the stranger sitting next to her. Right before they pulled to a stop the man said to Dolly: “It’s too bad that you had to be an innocent bystander, but as long as you do what I tell you to do I promise I won’t hurt you.” Suddenly the man leaned over into the back seat and fired — Dolly heard Kmiec gasp, and then saw him clutch his chest. The man fired again and Dolly jumped out of the car. She felt something tug on the belt of her dress but she didn’t know if it was the assailant or if she’d caught it on the door handle. The belt ripped away from her dress as she scrambled to get away. Dolly had left behind her in the car a black, faille purse with a gold clasp, her coat, and a Cosmopolitan magazine. Once she got to intersection of Lakeland and Painter she flagged down a a passing motorist. She got into the car and said: “A man’s just been shot. Will you take me to the police, or some place where I can call the police, as quickly as possible?” She was taken to a drug store where she phoned the Sheriff’s Department. Det. Lovretovich gleaned what he could from Dolly’s statement, but it wasn’t much. He had a description of the killer, which could fit thousands of men in Los Angeles, and a description of the weapon, which appeared to have been a revolver with a long barrel. The only decent physical evidence was a pair of eye glasses found at the scene and, if they were lucky, they might be able to ID fingerprints left in blood. Alex Milne, Andy’s roommate, was the next to be questioned by Det. Lovretovich. Alex said he was employed as a test pilot by Lockheed in Burbank. He’d known Andy for about ten months and they had been rooming together in a house on Beverly Glen for a few months prior to the murder. From his interview it was clear that Alex was the quintessential ’50s swinging bachelor. He dropped the names of a few of his actor friends like Don Haggerty, and John Bromfield and his wife Corrine Calvert. He seemed like a guy who wanted to make an impression. When asked if they ever had any arguments, Alex said that he and Andy got along fine. Det. Lovretovich wanted to know if he and his roommate ever went out with the same girls. Alex admitted that they had, but it was not a big deal. He told Ned that he’d fixed Andy up a few times with women he’d previously dated — he even shared that Andy had “made the team” a couple of times with some of them. Of course those girls were simply “pieces of ass” as far as Alex was concerned. When Det. Lovretovich asked if the women were hustlers, Alex said no, they were airline stewardesses! After learning more than he probably ever wanted to know about Alex’s social life, Ned Lovretovich and the others assigned to the case continued to follow-up every lead, trying to get a break. Detectives hoped that the bloody eye glasses found at the scene would crack the Kmeic case, just as a pair of specs had lead Chicago cops to Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in 1924. Leopold and Loeb were convinced they’d committed the perfect crime, a thrill killing, when they murdered 14 year old Bobby Franks. The prescription eye glasses proved them wrong. As Sheriff’s investigators continued to probe for answers, Andy Kmiec’s body was sent by air to East Chicago, Indiana, for burial. As it turned out, Andy Kmiec’s killer wouldn’t be identified by his eye glasses, but rather by the sharp eyes of a Sheriff’s records clerk. NEXT TIME: The Sheriffs make an arrest in Andy Kmiec’s murder. Posted in 1950s, Homicide \| Tagged 1953, Alexander Milne, Andrew Kmiec, Bobby Franks, Det. Sgt. Ned Lovretovich, Det. Sgt. Norman Hamilton, Dolly McCormick, Lt. A.W. Etzel, Nathan Leopold, Richard Loeb \| 6 Replies The Want Ad Killer How many times have you seen a single shoe lying in the road? Did you ever wonder how it got there? I came up with an answer when I was a kid. I was convinced that the shoe was there because the owner had been snatched out of it by a violent death. I speculated that the lone shoe’s owner may have been hit by a car, or involved in some other type of fatal incident. Even now whenever I spy a single shoe in the road it will cause me to shiver just a little bit. My husband Scott, who is accustomed to my obsession with mayhem and murder, thought my theory was ghoulish for a kid. Hey, I never claimed to have been a laugh riot as a ten year old. However, this next case vindicates me on the whole shoe thing. On the night of November 21, 1953, Menlo Butler was driving with his family when his son shouted: “Daddy, there’s a new shoe in the road!” Menlo pulled his car over and parked approximately 50 yards east of Painter Avenue near Lakeland Road. A new shoe wasn’t the only thing Butler had discovered. He found blood-spattered, rimless glasses, the belt from a woman’s dress, and a button, comb, penny and two unfired .38 cartridges. He was trying to decide what to do next when L.A. Sheriff’s Deputies, Rowley and Webster, accompanied by a young woman, pulled up in a patrol car. Butler turned to the cops and said: “Officers, look what I found.” He showed them the belt and other items he’d found in the road, and then he said: “And look over there.” He pointed to the south shoulder of Lakeland Road where Deputies Rowley and Webster saw the body of a man lying on his face in the weeds. They phoned in for an ambulance which came and took the man to Pico Emergency Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival by Dr. Merrill Colton. The young woman who had accompanied Deputy Sheriffs Rowley and Webster to the scene of the shooting was twenty-one year old Dolly McCormick. She had been with the victim, identified as thirty-three year old Andrew Kmiec, when he was shot. Somehow she had managed to escape the assailant, flag down a passing car, and get to the South Whittier Pharmacy at 13331 Telegraph Road where she phoned the cops from a booth. When the deputies rolled up to the pharmacy they found Dolly waiting for them. The officers asked her to get into the radio car so she could direct them to the scene, but she hesitated — she was terrified. She said: “No. I don’t want to go back there – he is still there and he will shoot me.” When asked who “he” was, Dolly said she didn’t know, the man was a stranger. Dolly told Rowley and Webster everything she could recall from the time that Andrew Kmiec, the victim, had picked her up in North Hollywood at approximately 4:30 p.m, until the shooting in South Whittier about two hours later. Andrew and Dolly had planned a dinner date, but first Andrew had an errand to run and he wanted her to accompany him. He had advertised his car, a 1953 Mercury convertible, for sale in the papers and a man had called him and wanted to meet him at the Biltmore Hotel, downtown, at 5:30 p.m. The couple drove to the Biltmore where Andrew left Dolly to wait for him while he ran into the lobby to meet the prospective buyer. A short time later Andrew returned with a man, whose name Dolly couldn’t recall. The stranger told Andrew that he liked the car but wanted to show it to his wife. If she liked it Andrew would be paid in cash that evening. Dolly said that the man sat on her right in the front seat of the car and they drove toward Whittier. The trio made small talk during the drive. The man told them that he worked in the pottery business, but Dolly became suspicious of him because it seemed to her that he was lying about his position. He gave odd answers to her inquiries and contradicted himself a couple of times. She was further alarmed when he was unable to provide clear directions to his home. Finally, they pulled up in front of a house on a dark street and the stranger pulled a gun. Dolly said Andrew told the man he could take all of the money he had, the car, and some stocks and bonds at home if he would let them go. The stranger told him no, that he was a killer, hired to do away with Andrew and that he was being well paid for the job. Pointing his weapon at Andrew, the stranger told him to get in to the rear seat. He then asked Dolly if she could drive. When she said yes the man motioned her into the front seat and told her to take the wheel. The stranger sat next to her, but kept his weapon pointed at Andrew. Finally the man told Dolly to stop the car, then he leaned over the back seat and fired three shots at Andrew. Dolly quickly got out of the car on the driver’s side. She thought the killer had grabbed the belt of her dress, but it didn’t slow her down. Neither did the shot she thought she heard ring out as she ran for her life. NEXT TIME: Det. Sgts. Hamilton and Lovretovich begin the investigation into Andrew Kmiec’s murder. Posted in 1950s, Homicide \| Tagged 1953, Andrew Kmiec, Det. Sgt. Ned Lovretovich, Det. Sgt. Norman Hamilton, Dolly McCormick \| 4 Replies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line115
__label__wiki	0.65663	0.65663	Gallery view Page image PDF of section (7.5 MB) The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1923 Witte, E. E. Statistics relating to Wisconsin from the 1920 census, pp. [17]-40 PDF (7.5 MB) Page [17] STATISTICS RELATING TO WISCONSIN FROM THE 1920 CENSUS By E. E. WITTE Chief, Legislative Reference Library W HILE the Fourteenth Census was taken in 1920, certain por- tions of this census have as yet not been made public by the United States Census Bureau. The census data already published, however, makes it certain that while the population of Wisconsin in- creased somewhat less rapidly between 1910 and 192,0 than did the population ot the country as a whole, the Badger State made more rapid progress than the country at large both in agriculture and manufactures. Wisconsin is the twenty-fifth state in area, but the thirteenth state in population. This has been the rank of Wisconsin in population at each census since 1900. In 1920 the total population of the state was 2,632,067, which is 2.5 per cent of the. entire 1nnnulatin onf t he Unite.d States. _This E. E. WITTE gives Wisconsin an average density per square mile of 47.6 people, as compared with 35.5 for the country as a whole. Of all northern states east of the Mississippi river, however, only Maine and Vermont are less densely populated than is Wisconsin. Within the state the density of population varies greatly, ranging 7.2 people per square mile in Florence county to 2,295.5 people per square mile in Milwaukee county. Between 1910 and 1920 the population of Wisconsin increased 12.8 per cent. This is identically the same rate of increase as between 1900 and 1910. For the entire United States the percentage of in- crease in population during the last decade was 14.9 per cent. Of the increase in population in Wisconsin, more than two-thirds was in cities of over 25;000 and nearly 40 per cent of the total in Mil- waukee alone. The population of Wisconsin at each census since 1840 and the increase over the preceding census is shown in Table I. This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, US Code).\| For information on re-use see: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Copyright	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line117
__label__wiki	0.940448	0.940448	Greetings from the Department Chair Contact EALAC Recent Alumni David Lurie Wm. Theodore and Fanny Brett de Bary and Class of 1941 Collegiate Professor of Asian Humanities and Associate Professor of Japanese History and Literature Office: 622 Kent Office Hours: T 2:00-3:00, R 11:00-12:00 Email: dbl11@columbia.edu BA: Harvard University (’93) MA: Columbia University (’96) PhD: Columbia University (’01) Classes Taught ASCE UN1361 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Japan CPLS GU4111 World Philology HSEA GR9875 Graduate Seminar in the Cultural History of Premodern Japan Japanese History and Literature, Technology of Language in Premodern Japan In addition to the history of writing systems and literacy, David Lurie’s research interests include: the literary and cultural history of premodern Japan; the Japanese reception of Chinese literary, historical, and technical writings; the development of Japanese dictionaries and encyclopedias; and the history of linguistic thought. Professor Lurie’s first book investigated the development of writing systems in Japan through the Heian period. Entitled Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing, it was awarded the Lionel Trilling Award in 2012. He is currently preparing a new scholarly monograph, tentatively entitled The Emperor’s Dreams: Reading Japanese Mythology. Along with Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, he was co-editor of the Cambridge History of Japanese Literature (2015), to which he contributed chapters on myths, histories, gazetteers, and early literature in general. Please see his website for a complete list of publications and contributions. Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011) “The Development of Japanese Writing,” in The Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change (SAR Press, 2012) “Language, Writing, and Disciplinarity in the Critique of the ‘Ideographic Myth,’” Language & Communication (2006) EALAC – Columbia University 407 Kent Hall 1140 Amsterdam Ave. MC 3907 New York, NY 10027 tel:212.854.5027 Copyright © 2020 · Columbia University Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Copyright © 2020 · EALAC on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line121
__label__cc	0.620975	0.379025	Soleimani funeral procession eulogist puts prize on Trump’s head Iranians gather in the northeastern city of Mashhad to pay homage to slain major general Qasem Soleimani. (AFP) Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya English Sunday, 5 January 2020 The eulogist at the funeral procession of prominent Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Iran put an 80-million-dollar prize on US President Donald Trump’s head on live state TV. “We are 80 million Iranians, if each one of us puts aside one American dollar, we will have 80 million American dollars, and we will reward anyone who brings us [Trump]’s head with that amount,” he said, addressing a large crowd in Iran’s north-eastern city of Mashhad. The funeral procession was being broadcast live on Iran’s Channel One as the eulogist made his proposal. Soleimani, who headed Iran’s elite Quds Force - the overseas arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - was killed in a US airstrike in Baghdad on Friday. The deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes was also killed in the attack. Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani, as well as several senior IRGC commanders, have vowed revenge against the US. Last Update: Sunday, 5 January 2020 KSA 17:57 - GMT 14:57 Hezbollah leader says Soleimani killing marks new phase for region Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday the killing of Iranian Major General Qassem ... Soleimani’s death takes America’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign to next level Iran has many options for retaliating against the United States and its interests for the killing of the Islamic ... Taliban condemn killing of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani The Taliban have condemned the killing of prominent Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a statement on Sunday ... Hezbollah will avenge father’s death: Soleimani’s daughter The daughter of Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani said on Sunday that she knows that Hezbollah leader Hassan ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line127
__label__wiki	0.798008	0.798008	Postures - Postures (2013) Band: Postures Country: Gothenburg, Sweden Style: Alternative/Progressive Rock Label: World In Sound I was sent this record several months ago and had planned to write a review for it all the way back then. But life got in the way and I forgot about it until recently when I knew there was a prog-rock band that had contacted me and I wanted to actually review their record. I found it, finally listened to it, and the rest is below. Just to start off, I have no idea how much of this blog/how many reviews this band saw of mine before they sent me this album of theirs but it has to be said that I do consider it rather brave of them to have sent it to me at all seeing how (I'll say) unkind I have been about rock and metal bands with female vocalists who are not Anneke van Giersbergen. Maybe that had something to do with why I procrastinated for so long before finally listening to it, but thank goodness I finally did play it because hot damn this chick's got a voice on her. I'm prejudiced to female metal vocalists because they're either operatic (which I find annoying) or they try and go for more of the intense death metal approach, which is fine but regardless of sex, can make it hard to give present yourself with any personality. I've found in a lot of the female front rock bands I've heard, since maybe the 2000s, have just wanted to sound like Amy Lee of Evanescence. I've pretty much just stopped listening to female vocalists for those reasons, but Postures somehow got a girl how not only can sing (extremely well I might add) but also conveys a personality. Already I'm on their side - so you can pretty much see where this review is gonna go from here. Focusing on the vocalist would be a dumb thing to do though because the instrumentalists backing her certainly don't let her take the spotlight despite her vocals being right up front in the mix. This is a prog-rock band, so there's plenty of showy instrumental passages, which I'm certainly not adversed to. The drums are all over the place, but in the best way possible because they're restrained when the band are either doing more of a straightforward song, Are We Still Breathing? for example, or when the band dive into those more trippy and psychedelic ideas. But just knowing that they could go off and freak out was enough to keep me attentive to what they were doing. I love how the organ tones and bass kind of melded together in a lot of spots as well. It gave the whole track this interesting vibe during those more trippy spots that was quite cool, though it doesn't need to be said (so I'll say it anyway) that they are obviously separate for the majority of the album, doing their own lines. The guitars are nicely clean, but have that retro kind of tone that I thought was pretty cool as well. So, in summary, the instrumentalists are pretty badass on here, but what I thought was pretty cool was how they actually had tracks that were dedicated simply to the instrumentalists (or instrumentals, as they're typically called). For a band that has a such a lovely vocalist, the fact that they were willing to have songs without her shows confidence, and thank goodness these guys know their stuff. As much as I do love all of this album, I have to be honest and say that Clusters is probably my favorite track on here. The way it just grooves and pretty much lures the listener into thinking it's a straightforward rock song and then transitions almost suddenly into more of a crazy prog-rock jam before it ends is just a gut-punch and I loved it. It's probably the track I return to the most when listening to the album. But it has to be said that the last four songs on the album are some of the best rock songs I've heard all year. From the more up-tempo and rocking Clouded Sight to the traditional prog-rock sound on Undertow and the epic jam-rock track closer, Quakes. They're all songs that stand out on an album full of highlights (which I think says a lot for the band's writing in general). But there really isn't a miss on here. But the end result is an album with strong performances and songwriting, which is much more than I came into this expecting. It's a real gem that I did not expect when I first got it earlier this year. You can certainly expect to see this album again on here later this year and hopefully you'll make the right move and listen to it. Highlights: Heavy Tremor, Clusters, Quakes Waning - Feeding of Fragments EP (2013) Esoterica - Aseity (2013) Harrow - Fragments of A Fallen Star (2013) Nutrition - Terminus Occultus EP (2013) Thoreau - IV EP (2013) Koloss - Empower The Monster (2013) Unmothered - Unmothered EP (2013) Marche Funèbre - Roots of Grief (2013) Mamiffer/Circle - Enharmonic Intervals (For Pasche... Cara Neir - Portals to A Better, Dead World (2013)... Deuil - Acceptance/Rebuild EP (2013) Ancst - The Humane Condition EP (2013) So Hideous - Last Poem/First Light (2013) Dead Neanderthals - ...And It Ended Badly (2013) Olekranon - Danaus (2013) Staer - Daughters (2013) Mucho Tapioca - Mucho Tapioca (2013) Peste Noire - Peste Noire (2013) Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was - Liber III EP (2013... Haken - The Mountain (2013) Tangerine Stoned - Tangerine Stoned (2013) Truthseeker - Weightless At Dawn EP (2013) ZUD - The Good, The Bad, and The Damned (2013) Neuma - Totentanz (2013) Astronoid - Stargazer EP (2013) The Severely Departed - Two (2013) Cloudkicker - Subsume (2013) Jesu - Every Day I Get Closer to The Light From W... Cyclamen - Ashura (2013) Vildhjarta - Thousands of Evils EP (2013) Protest The Hero - Volition (2013) Vulture Industries - The Tower (2013) Ephel Duath - Hemmed By Light, Shaped By Darkness ... Ayreon - The Theory of Everything (2013) Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks (2013)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line135
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__label__wiki	0.833145	0.833145	Forums > Prince: Music and More > the Under the Cherry Moon movie project ~ 1986 Page 1 of 4 1234> OldFriends4Sal the Under the Cherry Moon movie project ~ 1986 Goodness will guide When love is inside Until then... PARADE!!! C.Tracy An Honest Man Christopher Tracy's Parade New Position Mia Bocca I Wonder U Under the Cherry Moon Girls & Boys Alexa de Paris Life Can Be So Nice Junk Music Venus de Milo Mountains Do U Lie? Kiss ♥ Or $ Anotherloverholenyohead Sometimes It Snows In April Old Friends 4 Sale Under the Cherry Moon film soundtract score Incidental music Mary Lambert Kristen Scott Thomas Christopher Tricky Nice, France fashion designers Bonucci and Reminiscence Holiday Inn Sheridan Wyoming movie priemere party Condition of the Heart alternative endings http://prince.org/msg/7/440155 -Parade tour 1986 Prince & the Revolution -Parade era 1985 - 1986 http://prince.org/msg/7/439931 -Prince's Mazarati ~ 1984-1986 http://prince.org/msg/7/437421 -Around the World in a Day era 1984-1985 #IDEFINEME #ALBUMSSTILLMATTER A Liar Shall Not Tarry In My Presence I will make you cyber shit in your pants! What's the matter with your life Is poverty bringing U down? Is the mailman jerking U 'round? Did he put your million dollar check Theatre Du Verdure, France 10.27.1985 Late in 1985, Prince broke his self-imposed silence and spoke to the public for the first time in almost four years. First came an interview for Rolling Stone magazine. Later came an interview for MTV. Prince's agreement to be interviewed took MTV so suddenly that the staff at the cable network were unable to arrange to conduct the interview in person. Consequently, the Music News staff resorted to simply providing a list of questions to be read to Prince by his manager and answered by Prince on videotape. MTV elected to broadcast only parts of the interview. The full interview was then offered to other broadcasters. The videotaped interview was conducted in France, where Prince was shooting his forthcoming motion picture, Under the Cherry Moon. He first took a break to film the video for America, the third single from the Around the World in a Day LP, before 2,000 kids at the Theatre de la Verdure (translation: Greenery Theatre), which is a huge tent on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Once the video shoot was completed, Prince & the Revolution treated the audience to a 90-minute concert. Afterwards, Prince sat with a few of the young people in attendance and answered the questions prepared by the MTV Music News staff. It marked the first time in his career that Prince had said more than two sentences on TV. Unfortunately, in many cases, he didn't answer the questions posed, as you'll see. Although Prince is very good at many things, his inexperience with interviews shows greatly. The first and most obvious question is, why have you decided to drop your media guard with the recent Rolling Stone interview and this one for MTV? And why were you so secretive prior to this? Well, as you can see, I've made a lot of friends here, but I was homesick and I missed America. I guess I just wanted to talk to somebody. Someone in Minneapolis recently told us that several months ago they were in a studio there when David Rifkin, your sound engineer, walked in. They asked him what he thought of the new Prince album, Around The World In A Day. He said, "It's great, but wait 'til you hear the new album." Apparently, he meant you're already working on a new LP, and that this one would be a strong return to your funk roots. Is this true? Can you elaborate? What will it be called? When will it be due out, and what's the music like? Don't you like surprises? Guess not. Ah, it is true I record very fast. It goes even quicker now that the girls help me -- the girls, meaning Wendy and Lisa. I don't really think I left my funk roots anywhere along the line. Around The World In A Day is a funky album. Live it's even funkier. Would you ever like to direct your own movie? Yes, (very enthusiastically) yes, yes. Speaking of movies, tell us as much as you can about Under The Cherry Moon. What's the plot, what kind of characters, what kind of music, how many songs, what can we expect? It's a French film. It's a black-and-white French film, and ah, she's in it (girlish giggles can be heard). And her name's Emanuelle. Uptown heads 2 France Sept 1985 (s n -m -t g r -f ) The art or technique of movie photography, including both the shooting & development of the film. Prince with Creative Consultant & Director Mary Lambert Originally, the film was to be directed by Mary Lambert, a premier music-video director who has overseen Madonna's "Borderline" and "Material Girl," Sheila E.'s "The Glamorous Life," and the Go-Go's "Yes Or No." But in mid-September, about a month or so into the movie's two-month shooting schedule, Lambert abruptly walked off the set and handed the directing reins to His Royal Badness. Lambert issued a statement which read, in part, "I'm leaving under totally amicable circumstances. It's just become quite apparent that Prince has such a strong vision of what this movie should be, a vision that extends to so many areas of the film, that it makes no sense for me to stand between him and the film anymore. So I'm going off to work on my own feature and letting him finish his." I've never seen this photo before. The film crew for UTCM Unseen still from UTCM The poster art released with the movie was designed by Ron Larson Ron Larson is an art director, album cover designer and graphic artist. He has won two Grammys for his designs. He has worked closely with John Kosh and also done many various projects for Disney. He was also responsible for helping with the design of the original Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope logo as well as designing the logo for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. He designed the logo for This Is Spinal Tap and the cover for Prince's Under The Cherry Moon. Besides working in both the movie industry and recording industry he was also involved in the art used on video game covers. Larson also helped design one of the logos used by United Artists. He currently teaches graphic design classes for undergraduate students at California State University, Fullerton. Cavallo, Ruffalo and Fargnoli Prince and TrivialPursuit said: I've seen it and I think it might be from Theatre Du Verdure, France 10.27.1985 Condition of the Heart was supposed to be some kind of script for the UTCM movie Always cool how a lot of those album/eras then tied in There was a girl in Paris whom he sent a letter 2 Hoping she would answer back now wasn't that a foolhardy notion On the part of a sometimes lonely musician? Acting out a whim is only good 4 a condition of the heart There was a dame from London who insisted that he love her Then left him 4 a real prince from Arabia Now isn't that a shame That sometimes money buys U everything and nothing? Love - it only seems 2 buy a terminal condition of the heart Oh - thinking about U driving me crazy Oh - my friends all say it's just a phase but? Oh - every day is a yellow day I'm blinded by the daisies in your yard There was a woman from the ghetto Who made funny faces just like Clara Bow How was I 2 know that she would wear the same cologne as U And giggle the same giggle that U do? Whenever I would act a fool the fool with a condition of the heart Oh - every single day is a yellow day (There was a girl in Paris whom he sent a letter 2) There was a girl?whom he sent a letter 2 (Hoping she would answer back) She never answered back and now (Wasn't that a foolhardy notion?) He's got a condition of the heart ROCK & SOUL * APRIL 1986 THE PRINCE INTERVIEW Mr. Purple Discusses His Movies, His Music, His Musicians And More, More, More. By Michael Shore Under the Cherry Moon is a love story, set in the 1940s and shot in black and white. Word from the set has it that the plot is more or less spelled out in the lyrics to "Condition of the Heart" on Around the World in a Day, which appears to be about a musician falling in love with a woman too rich and worldly for his own lifestyle. In her film debut Thomas plays Mary, an upper-class rich girl, soon set to inherit $50 million from her father, a fact that comes to the attention of Christopher (Prince) and Tricky (Jerome Benton). The smooth talking Christopher decides to set himself the challenge of wooing her for the sake of finances, but of course, ends up falling in love with her. Thomas sparkles in a series of elegant dresses, captured in loving spotlights and gorgeous black and white photography. She's every bit the posh girl in attitude, the 'spoilt brat', if you will, but there is a sense of adventure behind the tough exterior. She constantly tries to match Christopher's wit, and as time goes on the sparkly script develops their relationship into a war of the sexes/classes adventure. We've seen it all before, but Thomas totally convinces in the part and watching her unravel into a mistress of the night is gleefully entertaining. She still keeps some of the shield up though - when confronted by her mother about some of her recent life choices she proclaims, "For 21 years now i've listened to you and father tell me what to do. You've painted a picture of a perfect world and you've framed it with hypocrisy, stubbornness and lies. And you've hung it on a trust fund I can't get until I marry a man I don't even love. Doesn't it matter to you and Daddy what I want? Mother. Look at me. I am your painting." It's the combination of old and new life, cold confrontation giving way to a restless heart. The film may not be up to much - although lavish, beautifully shot and well scripted, it's more than a little indulgent and at times feels too much like a vanity project. PurpleYoda3121 Wow, I had no idea there was such an overlap between the two eras like that. And then considering that ATWIAD was pretty much done before the PR tour was over... It's just crazy to think about. I get that he didn't want to do a tour for ATWIAD, but man it just feels like that album was an afterthought in the grand scheme of things. OldFriends4Sale said: U fall in love 2 fast and hate 2 soon And take 4 granted the feeling’s mutual PurpleYoda3121 said: It's not that he didn't want to, but what time was there for it anyway? ATWIAD definitely wasn't an afterthought. He was already bored with PR stuff during the tour, and was recording that album mostly on the tour (although a couple of songs predate the whole PR phenomenon). "Temptation" dates to the summer of 1984. Hell, "The Ladder" was recorded during a dang soundcheck on tour, if memory serves. It was a full year, pretty much, between ATWIAD and Parade albums being released. Pretty typical for the Prince schedule of releasing records. But to your point, I think it's safe to say he was already onto UTCM and taking care of all of that stuff. Making a movie is no easy business, especially overseas when you're normally U.S. based. I do like that ATWIAD & Parade overlapped. They sort of go together in sound and look and feel. They're also polar opposites. One full of color and stories, whereas the other is black and white, supporting a larger story. ATWIAD is a very interesting album that stuff like "Raspberry Beret" video echoed unused scenes from PR in story, and also sounds like "Take Me With U". "The Ladder" is another "Purple Rain"; "America" is "Baby I'm A Star", etc. "Temptation" is another "Darling Nikki". Yet a song like "Condition of the Heart" is said to be a blueprint for the UTCM movie. You could play "Tambourine" instead of "Life Can Be So Nice" in the movie, or use "She's Always In My Hair" instead of "I Wonder U". It really was the evidence of PR and Parade having a baby. kapo74 You can call me stupid all you want, but I find Under the Cherry Moon more enjoyable than Purple Rain. NoOneReally kapo74 said: I love 'Purple Rain' because it reminds me of a time but 'Under a Cherry Moon' was a better movie to me. Marrk AKA "I've been fired!" Yeah, we'll, we'll try to imagine what silence looks like. NoOneReally said: I love both of them. They are 2 different kinds of movies. Both to me feel like Uptown/Erotic City/Paisley Park vs Graffiti Bridge just totally loosing me I think Under the Cherry Moon wasn't a fully realized film like Purple Rain. I think of the altnerative opening scene and the seemingly important significance of the Venus de Milo them throught... Under the Cherry Moon could have been just as good as Purple Rain. the era could have been just as hi as Purple Rain or more. Talk about Haute couture. I call Purple Rain 'Purple Glam' but UTCM Purple Chic. The template for Purple Rain should have continued in part w/UTCM in that there should have been more musical performances. He should have brown Paisley Park to Nice France. Performances didn't need to be on the same level of Purple Rain, and of course no battle of the bands. The themes in his music that lead us ATWIAD: A government of love and music boundless in its unifying power A nation of art 2 production Sharing ideas, a shower of flowers & ALHIYH: We were brothers and sisters United all for love -Purple hippies, he called his camp the purple army... the Family Shiela E Mazarati the Revolution Jill Jones should have been in the movie. The 'gigolo' should have been more an artist-musician among high society. Christopher and his band of artist hired by Mary Sharon's father to entertain at her Nigh & Day birthday party would have made more sense in Christopher and Tricky showing up out of the blue. New Position, and High Fashion(the Family) performed @ the Night party, I Wonder UIor A Love Bizarre) Mia Bocca performed at the Day party. Christopher still having his paino bar Venus de Milo club scenes -But the Revolution taking the stage in the background 4 Alexis de Paris while Christopher & Mary dance. the scene with Girls & Boys could have had the video of Girls & Boys totally ignite that scene in the movie, having Uptown come to High Society France and show them how to do it. One or two other 'background' scenes with bands. And the alternative ending(Christopher not physically dying) would have taken the movie on a whole different level. The soundtrack was on point/the music for the era was there and alive for use. But Prince wasn't a movie director and not a strong enough 'actor' to carry a movie. Like the Purple Rain era, the UTCM movie needed more of his people in it to carry the wonder clothing styles that were blossoming out of this musically creative peak. But I love it still and watch it almost as much as I watch Purple Rain. klick2me Speaking of the MTV interview; I once saw a piece from that interview on MTV news. The piece was not in the original interview and it was Prince speaking about a woman who taught him about off beat sounds or something to that effect. Does anybody know who he was talking about? Is that entire interview available? Thanks! klick2me said: I think I've remember that, I believe he was talking about Joni Mitchell I'll see what I can find. Reply #19 posted 03/23/17 11:36pm khill95 If UTCM was a success..I really feel like it would have changed the outcome of his career. I think he would have been seen as BIGGER than Michael Jackson during that time instead of as a "rival", he would have toured the US more, his videos would have been a bigger budget, and his team of proteges would have had much more success, and of course his album sales and radio airplay and chart positions would have been through the roof. SoulAlive I have always liked UTCM but I really think that it should have been in color.In 1986,a black and white romantic comedy was a tough sell. I wish there was a color version of this movie!!! khill95 said: I believed he blamed the Revolution or at least took it out on them for UTCM not being a success. The music was stellar, top quality, adult music. But he and Jerome just couldn't care the movie by themselves, Prince is not a director, and the movie script wasn't given the time to develope. The opening into someone in the middle of the movie in my opinion was good. But you can where Prince probably took over and see it devolve. What was happing in the purple camp from 1983-1986 Parade -the Dream Factory etc could have caused Prince to soar over the need to try to keep up with what was happening in the music scene. It would have put him on a whole other level above the 90s hip hop take over. I think things were changing in the 90's and not much could stop that. I think that had more to do with record execs than any artist. To take it a step further, I think record companies did not want strong artist anymore, so Prince would have had a harder time. fashion designers Bonucci and Reminiscence Kristen Scott Thomas original name for the movie was Alexa but was later changed to Mary when it was decided her character was English. Reply #26 posted 03/24/17 10:18am The music was stellar, top quality, adult music. But he and Jerome just couldn't carry the movie by themselves, Prince is not a director, and the movie script wasn't given the time to develop. The opening into somewhere in the middle of the movie in my opinion was good. But you can see where Prince probably took over and see it devolve. I never thought of that! That would've been cool to see him be on his own level instead of trying to play catch up with everyone else. The dream factory being released + the black album being released would've been an amazing combo No, I don't think it was Joni. It was some sort of musical teacher. Under the Cherry Moon film score 1. Under the Cherry Moon Outro - Piano Instrumental (Intro Voice over) 2. An Honest Man - Piano Instrumental (Titles) 3. Christopher Tracy’s Parade (Nice) 4. Incidental Strings (Mirror, Mirror, 17 fold) 5. Incidental Sax & Strings (That Bela Lugosi look) 6. Incidental Sax & Strings (Bath phone call) 7. Do U Lie? (Mary’s party) 8. Planet Rock (Party Jam) 9. Incidental Drums (Christopher & Mary’s eyes meet) 10. Mia Bocca: Intro (Mary reappears) 11. New Position (Party Conga) 12. Happy Birthday (Jonathan calls) 13. Incidental Strings (Mary & Christopher) 14. Do U Lie? – Piano Instrumental (Mrs Wellington’s phone message) 15. Incidental Organ (Christopher & Mrs Wellington) 16. I Wonder U (Mary thinks of a retort) 17. Alexa De Paris (Dance on the veranda) 18. Do U Lie? – Instrumental (Isaac’s car at Mrs Wellington’s) 19. Incidental Drums & Bass (Mary wants to take boat out) 20. It’s A Wonderful Day – Instrumental (Butterscotch, Chocolate) 21. Incidental Chamber music (Restaurant) 22. Girls & Boys (making a scene at the restaurant) 23. I Wonder U (Mary in bed) 24. Love Or Money (I know, let’s spend it!) 25. Life Can Be So Nice (Waiting at the Hippodrome) 26. Junk music (Car race at the Hippodrome) 27. Under the Cherry Moon Istrumental (Christopher & Mary) 28. Venus De Milo (Phone booth) 29. Old Friends 4 Sale – Strings only (Tricky confronts Christopher) 30. Mountains – Part 2 (Let’s run away, for couple of hours) 31. Incidental Drums & Bass (Tricky says something he shouldn’t) 32. Incidental Strings (Mrs Wellington & Christopher) 33. Anotherloverholenyohead (Race to the airport) 34. Incidental Sax (Isaac gets to the plane) 35. Kiss (Define ‘Love’) 36. Incidental Sax (Isaac on the phone) 37. Kiss – Part 2 (Tricky oon the run) 38. Venus De Milo (Mary wakes up in the grotto) 39. Incidental Strings (Tricky fights back) 40. Sometimes It Snows In April (Miami) 41. Mountains (End Titles)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line148
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__label__wiki	0.567005	0.567005	An Officer Corps That Can’t Score Thread: An Officer Corps That Can’t Score Polarbear1605 I did a search and was surprised that this article did not make the Journal...Mr Lind published this in The American Conservative ; I discovered it in the "Early Bird"...enjoy. http://www.theamericanconservative.c...at-cant-score/ How military careerism breeds habits of defeat By William S. Lind • April 17, 2014 The most curious thing about our four defeats in Fourth Generation War—Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan—is the utter silence in the American officer corps. Defeat in Vietnam bred a generation of military reformers, men such as Col. John Boyd USAF, Col. Mike Wyly USMC, and Col. Huba Wass de Czege USA, each of whom led a major effort to reorient his service. Today, the landscape is barren. Not a military voice is heard calling for thoughtful, substantive change. Just more money, please. Such a moral and intellectual collapse of the officer corps is one of the worst disasters that can afflict a military because it means it cannot adapt to new realities. It is on its way to history’s wastebasket. The situation brings to mind an anecdote an Air Force friend, now a military historian, liked to tell some years ago. Every military, he said, occasionally craps in its own mess kit. The Prussians did it in 1806, after which they designed and put into service a much improved new model messkit, through the Scharnhorst military reforms. The French did it in 1870, after which they took down from the shelf an old-model messkit—the mass, draft army of the First Republic—and put it back in service. The Japanese did it in 1945, after which they threw their mess kit away, swearing they would never eat again. And we did it in Korea, in Vietnam, and now in four new wars. So far, we’ve had the only military that’s just kept on eating. Why? The reasons fall in two categories, substantive and structural. Substantively, at the moral level—Colonel Boyd’s highest and most powerful level—our officers live in a bubble. Even junior officers inhabit a world where they hear only endless, hyperbolic praise of “the world’s greatest military ever.” They feed this swill to each other and expect it from everyone else. If they don’t get it, they become angry. Senior officers’ bubbles, created by vast, sycophantic staffs, rival Xerxes’s court. Woe betide the ignorant courtier who tells the god-king something he doesn’t want to hear. (I know—I’ve done it, often.) At Boyd’s next level, the mental, our officers are not professionals. They are merely craftsman. They have learned what they do on a monkey-see, monkey-do basis and know no more. What defines a professional—historically there were only three professions, law, medicine, and theology—is that he has read, studied, and knows the literature of his field. The vast majority of our officers read no serious military history or theory. A friend who teaches at a Marine Corps school told me the most he can now get majors to read is two pages. Another friend, teaching at an Army school, says, “We are back to drawing on the cave wall.” As culpable as our officers are for these failings, they are not the whole story. Officers are also victims of three structural failures, each of which is enough to lay an armed service low. The first, and possibly the worst, is an officer corps vastly too large for its organization—now augmented by an ant-army of contractors, most of whom are retired officers. A German Panzer division in World War II had about 21 officers in its headquarters. Our division headquarters are cities. Every briefing—and there are many, the American military loves briefings because they convey the illusion of content without offering any—is attended by rank-upon-rank of horse-holders and flower-strewers, all officers. The pathologies that flow from this are endless. Command tours are too short to accomplish anything, usually about 18 months, because behind each commander is a long line of fellow officers eagerly awaiting their lick at the ice-cream cone. Decisions are pulled up the chain because the chain is laden with surplus officers looking for something to do. Decisions are committee-consensus, lowest common denominator, which Boyd warned is usually the worst of all possible alternatives. Nothing can be changed or reformed because of the vast number of players defending their “rice bowls.” The only measurable product is entropy. The second and third structural failings are related because both work to undermine moral courage and character, which the Prussian army defined as “eagerness to make decisions and take responsibility.” They are the “up or out” promotion system and “all or nothing” vesting for retirement at 20 years. “Up or out” means an officer must constantly curry favor for promotion because if he is not steadily promoted he must leave the service. “All or nothing” says that if “up or out” pushes him out before he has served 20 years, he leaves with no pension. (Most American officers are married with children.) It is not difficult to see how these two structural failings in the officer corps morally emasculate our officers and all too often turn them, as they rise in rank and near the magic 20 years, into ass-kissing conformists. Virtually no other military in the world has these policies, for obvious reasons. Of these two types of failings, the structural are probably the most damaging. They are also the easiest to repair. The Office of the Secretary of Defense, the president, and Congress could quickly fix all of them. Why don’t they? Because they only look at the defense budget, and these are not directly budgetary issues. They merely determine, in large measure, whether we win or lose. Fixing the substantive problems is harder because those fixes require changes in organizational culture. OSD cannot order our officers to come out from the closed system, fortified with hubris, that they have placed around themselves to protect the poor dears from ever hearing anything upsetting, however true. Congress cannot withhold pay from those officers who won’t read. Only our officers themselves can fix these deficiencies. Will they? The problem is circular: not until they leave their bubble. If American military officers want to know, or even care, why we keep losing, they need only look in the mirror. They seem to do that most of the time anyway, admiring their now-tattered plumage. Behind them in the glass, figures in turbans dance and laugh. William S. Lind is director of the American Conservative Center for Public Transportation. "If you want a new idea, look in an old book" Polar Bear, I am too far removed from the US military, today there maybe hope in a SWJ Blog link to 'The Rise of the Junior Officer' on the link below: I cite only the first paragraph: Where are the “generation of military reformers” that some despair will ever arise from the ashes of Iraq and Afghanistan? Coming into their own. Over the last month, I’ve observed an encouraging sign for our military profession. Several junior officers have used the power of the pen to reach outside of their foxholes, moving well beyond the typical sphere of influence of a newly commissioned lieutenant. Through their words, they have helped bring about the change of existing policies, shared lessons on leadership, and sparked multiple professional conversations. You may find this thread of interest Learning the lessons of Afghanistan I was particularly struck by Rupert Lescott's viewpoint:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=20275 Last edited by davidbfpo; 04-20-2014 at 03:50 PM. William Lind simply identifies himself as being uninformed. The military continues to be led by reformers in all of our services, and if he would actually do some homework he could discover that. It would be another thing if he said he didn't agree with their transformational ideas, but that isn't what he wrote. He states we had, four defeats in Fourth Generation War—Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan The actual military objectives for Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan were achieved rather quickly, but our political leadership directed we engage in nation building we ran into challenges for a lot reasons that have little to do with the failure of the military to reform. In fact the military reformed while fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan to adapt to what I believe is a toxic doctrine, but regardless the military adapted. Now the military is adapting to address more pressing threats we have ignored. Generals like Stan McCrystal super sized Boyd's OODA loop with a very innovative approach to disrupt and dismantle terrorist networks in Iraq. GEN Petreaus (sp?) reformed COIN training and practice in Iraq (he failed to adapt to the realities of Afghanistan). The only thought I could find common ground with Mr. Lind on is that our officer corps is too big by at least 30%, and we too quickly move these men and women through their career pipelines which hinders their ability to mature professionally. This is largely due to bean counters in the human resources world seeking ways to retain personnel, versus develop personnel. Quick promotions were, and perhaps are, seen as a way to provide incentive to keep these officers in the service. The ill effects of this decision are coming home to roost. Granite_State The Green Mountains Originally Posted by Bill Moore The only thought I could find common ground with Mr. Lind on is that our officer corps is too big by at least 30%, and we too quickly move these men and women through their career pipelines which hinders their ability to mature professionally. This is largely due to bean counters in the human resources world seeking ways to retain personnel, versus develop personnel. Quick promotions were, and perhaps are, seen as a way to provide incentive to keep these officers in the service. Agree with you on this, but I think it's a lot more far-reaching than that. Despite our officer corps being far too large, we do a horrible job retaining and managing talent (the Marine Corps doesn't even track retention of top performers, at least at the JO level, and I suspect the Army is the same way). Our personnel system is BROKEN. In a lot of ways it's a wonder we get the caliber of guys we do. You don't have to buy the 4th Generation War pseudo-history to see that we have probably lost two wars. Most of that blame may rest at the feet of the politicians and unclear/unrealistic objectives, but the military has to shoulder some of the responsibility. PPE-laden "KLE patrols" don't indicate that we really "get" COIN, and I agree with you that much of our adaptation has been for the worst. Originally Posted by Granite_State I agree with you that our personnel system is broken, but I don't have any feasible recommendations to fix it. I do think individual officers could be managed more effectively we if reduce the size of the officer corps, but downsizing alone won't facilitate that, there will need to be changes in the system also that downsizing may enable. I have seen great officers move up the chain and I have some great officers overlooked throughout my career. If a great young officer with good character and strong potential ends up working for a toxic officer when he is a key developmental position his career can come to a dead stop. Unfortunately career progression is not based on performance and potential alone, there is a fair amount of chance involved (who you work for, the assignments you get, the opportunities to excel during those assignments, etc.). One's head should not swell with excessive pride just because they were selected for promotion and some of their high quality peers weren't, because an honest review of why that happened would point out a number of variables that were beyond the control of the individual officers. Unfortunately most people who work in the personnel field are bureaucrats that are more motivated to defend the system than promote change. On the other hand how do you manage personnel in an organization with a few hundred thousand employees without a bureaucracy? I know that sounds too much like a Zen Koan, but that is the friction that must be resolved. Last edited by Bill Moore; 04-21-2014 at 12:12 AM. Two sailors respond The relatively new blogsite 'War on The Rocks' has two articles on the Lind article, both essentially are retorts. One 'Gardening in a “Barren” Officer Corps' is on SWJ Blog, is from a naval perspective and here is one passage: Lind errs on the side of being insulting to some of the dedicated men and women in uniform, but that does not really worry me. They have thick skin. More seriously, he leads his civilian readers astray, leaving them with an inaccurate depiction of a military completely unused to debate. Link:http://warontherocks.com/2014/04/gar...officer-corps/ The second 'Our Debating Military: Here If You’re Looking' is by another naval officer, it ends with: If, as Mr.Lind describes, our officer corps had a comical “hulk-smash” reaction to suggestions of US Military weaknesses or institutional flaws, we’d have long ago beaten ourselves to rubble in the haze of an insatiable rage. Link is to the full article:http://cimsec.org/debating-military-youre-listening/ TheCurmudgeon While I am never adverse to self-reflection, and I think the Army has its share of issues in the personnel system, I cannot accept the basic premises of Lind’s argument. In the first line he says: The most curious thing about our four defeats in Fourth Generation War—Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan—is the utter silence in the American officer corps. OK, you have to accept that there is a thing called “Fourth Generation Warfare” and that all four of those campaigns are examples of it. Lebanon and Somalia were significantly different than Iraq and Afghanistan in that we (the U.S.) were not truly in charge of mission parameters. Further, where Somalia and Lebanon were peacekeeping/stability operations, Iraq and Afghanistan were more complex. Next, there is no discussion of the how the nature of the mission affected our ability to perform. In both Afghanistan and Iraq, during “Phase III” or the actual ground war, we performed admirably. Fight and Win America’s wars, that’s what we do. What we never cracked the code on was COIN. I would argue that the failure there was largely the fault of the civilian politicians who created a mission that was beyond not only the capabilities of the military but also beyond any logical expectation of success. Assuming that is the case, we will gain nothing by trying to change something that may not be broke … or at least not broke for the reasons Lind cites. "I can change almost anything ... but I can't change human nature." Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan Denver on occasion Lind is far more right than he is wrong, especially when he speak about the Boyd's highest plane, the moral. Lind talks about the officer corps telling each other they are part of the best military ever and get upset if they are disagreed with. There is much disagreement with that but to me a lot of that is based on nit picking definitions and talk about being "insulting". Those counterarguments are basically saying no we didn't lose and stop being mean to me. Another counter argument is 'it was those civilians' who lost, not us (shades post WWI Germany). That kind of argument even more clearly throws light on the moral failings not of the officer corps as a whole, but of the multi-star officer corps, and this failing is serious, loss of the country serious. All those civilian actions and ideas didn't arise in a vacuum. They came in an atmosphere where the multi-stars had had much influence over decades and where they could have told the emperor he had no clothes. They never did. The multi-stars could have said we can't win in Afghanistan if the Pak Army/ISI isn't taken care of and they never did. This hasn't stopped and may not stop until we lose a major war. We see it every day from things like the little, reflective belts, to the big, the F-35 and women in combat roles. The terrifying problem is, for all the debate articles like Lind's will stir, the only real way that things can change is for the officer corps, especially the multi-stars to be thoroughly discredited. That can probably only happen if we are badly beaten in a big war which will mean thousands and thousands of dead and the country defeated. (Now don't let my comment be read as a bash at individual good officers in the US military, of which there are multitudes. It is a bash at the officer corps as an institution, an institution that all those good officers can't seem to fundamentally change. They can only work miracles at a low levels if the big green machine doesn't notice them. The machine grinds on.) "We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. 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__label__wiki	0.559158	0.559158	Ganbare Anime Anime Seasons Fall 2013 Anime Winter 2014 Anime Spring 2014 Anime Summer 2014 Anime Anime Music Fall 2013 Anime Leftovers – Thoughts #1 January 12, 2014 May 18, 2014 Jikman Anime Write-Ups, Fall 2013 Anime Season I figured that I’d keep the two-cour Fall 2013 anime season series separate from the currently airing Winter season. Majority of the shows went on a two week break so it was nice to finally see them start back up again for their second halves! This week I’ll be sharing my thoughts on Nagi no Asukara episode 14, Samurai Flamenco episode 12, and Kill la Kill episode 13. They left the viewers with quite the cliffhanger after the events of the last episode. Manaka being taken away by the sea god along with Hikari and Kaname being dragged back into the sea and leaving us wondering what their fate was. From the OP and ED visuals, it seems that everyone will make a reappearance at some point but its just a matter of when. The series as a whole has had quite a shift in the overall feel or ambiance. It originally gave off a more laid back and somewhat bright tone with Hikari and the rest of the group trying to bridge the gap between the two civilizations. The series as of the last two episodes really took on a more depressing mood where everyone just seems sort of lost as the world around them is changing. It was interesting to see how much the characters have changed. Miuna really matured as a person which is to be expected with her coming of age but it can also be attributed to the pain she felt after losing Hikari and having to be grow up to be strong for her brother and Akari. Chisaki basically lost everything she had, all of her friends, and her family were trapped under the sea. While she keeps up a strong image, she still seems to be lingering and holding onto the past as her eyes always seem to be staring off somewhere into the distance. My last note for this episode is how powerful the final scene with Hikari’s awakening was. As I was watching it, I could just feel how confused and distraught he was. His last memory was him being unable to save Manaka and then he awakens to the world around him being completely different. Having no recollection of anything that happened, he’s still in the same world but everything and everyone around him is different while he’s still exactly the same after his time was frozen. I’m incredibly eager to find out how Hikari will adapt to this, his former peers now being adults while he’s still only a teenager, and the fact that he can’t reach the only people who didn’t change (the others within the sea). You can watch Nagi no Asukara on Crunchyroll (May not be available in all regions) I’ve kind of lost interest in the show after the last few episodes. While I know it’s a parody of other series, it just feels like there’s currently no real direction for Samurai Flamenco. Week after week, we encounter these odd, mundane villains who basically get defeated by teamwork or from never giving up. They also introduced us to a bunch of new characters while kind of setting the established ones aside. The one thing I did enjoy about this episode though was the Flamengers finally bonding which I’m hoping will lead to more character development in the coming episodes. I think Manglobe’s key thing that is keeping viewers into the show is the mystery behind Gotou’s girlfriend which could either make or break the show depending on her role in the series. You can watch Samurai Flamenco on Crunchyroll (may not be available in all regions) This was quite the build up episode or “calm before the storm”. The previous episode we just had Ryuuko go on a rampage and come back to her senses which made her depressed and confused for the majority of this one. As Satsuki begins to prepare for war, we’re introduced to a new character who seems to have a fascination with Ryuuko’s kamui. I’ll have to admit that I was fooled despite there being so many hints to their true identity. With how over the top Kill la Kill is, I just figured it was another new character with their own little quirks. Nui showed off how manipulative she is despite her foolish appearance. Everything went according to her plan and the amazing thing was that she never actually lied despite deceiving everyone (entering the girl’s bathroom, being banned from campus, only having one eye). The other part of the episode that caught my eye was Satsuki’s conversation with her mom and the other REVOCS employees.The first thing that caught my attention was Ragyou bringing up the name COVERS when Satsuki came in and gave her speech. I’m not very good at in-depth analysis of shows but it makes me wonder if REVOCS is just the “cover” for COVERS, which is the true organization. REVOCS being a clothing company while COVERS has some other ulterior motive that will be explored in the near future. The second thing that sparked my interest was Ragyou’s philosophy on clothing, how humanity hides their sins through clothing. The fact that it covers up our bodies and allows us to hide our shame and things we’re embarrassed about. Clothing also allows us to change our appearance and make us appear to be something we’re not (colours, type of clothing, how you wear clothing all affect how you appear as a person). You can watch Kill la Kill on Crunchyroll or Daisuki (may not be available in all regions) That wraps up my thoughts on this past week’s continuing Fall 2013 anime season. I’d like to write down more of my thoughts regarding other shows like Tokyo Ravens and Strike the Blood but not much has really been happening in them and they’re more of a guilty pleasure at this point. Fall 2013 Anime Leftovers – Thoughts #11 Anime Kill la Kill Nagi no Asukara Samurai Flamenco Jikman I'm a marketing student who got back into anime in 2012. I decided to start blogging as a way to improve my writing as well as my ability to express myself. I generally write whatever comes to mind as I'm watching anime! One thought on “Fall 2013 Anime Leftovers – Thoughts #1” leidenschaft says: There is definately a great deal to learn about this topic. Comedy Anime Recommendation – Binbougami ga! Winter 2014 Anime Season – Week 1 Search for an Anime! One Punch Man Episode 12 – Review (Finale) One Punch Man Episode 11 – Review Tokyo Ghoul S2 Episode 12 (END) Tokyo Ghoul S2 Episode 4 - Review Tokyo Ghoul S2 Episode 11 - Review Gangsta Anime Episode 12 - Review (END) Ganbare Anime All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line161
__label__cc	0.550818	0.449182	Food & Drink News By Hood Free Williamsburg The Williamsburg Brooklyn-based culture guide to New York and beyond. Food & Drink All Your guide to celebrating Halloween in Brooklyn, 2017 edition October 27, 2017 By Free Williamsburg Brooklyn is always packed with things to do on Halloween, but this year it seems like there’s even more going on than usual. We’ve already told you about all the scary films you can see in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick. We’re excited to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show at McCarren Park Pool on Saturday! Here are a few more options between now and October 31: Battles Playing Elsewhere Grand Opening Party (Halloween Night) – We were excited about this one even before we knew the line-up. Elsewhere is the new venue from the people behind Glasslands (RIP) and they’ve chosen Halloween night to throw their opening party. Cakes Da Killa, Combo Chimbita, Future Punx, and Alex Pasternak are also performing. Tickets are on sale now. BangOn!NYC Presents Warehouse of Horrors (Secret East Williamsburg Warehouse / Saturday, October 28th) – The beloved party animals of BangOn!NYC are back again with their spooky annual shindig. This year’s edition of Warehouse of Horrors boasts an all-star lineup of local and international talent, including a rare headlining performance from dance music legend, Fatboy Slim. This comes in addition to a tempting array of other tricks and treats including Burning Man style art cars, costumed dancers, high-flying aerialists, a haunted house, silent disco, and much more. Don’t get ghosted! Tickets to this soul-shaking soiree are flying faster than ever before. Get tickets HERE. The World/Inferno Friendship Society 20th Annual Celebration of Hallowmas (Warsaw, Halloween Night) – We can’t believe they’ve been doing this for 20 years! If you’ve never seen them, this is the year because they’re a blast live. Playing with O’Death and Lowdown Brass Band. More Here. Rubulad Presents Boo! (Secret Bushwick Warehouse / Saturday, October 28th) – Another Halloween tradition is the Rubulad party with Les Sans Culettes. RSVP [email protected] for the Bushwick address. MORE HERE Horror Filmmaker Fabio Frizzi at Music Hall of Williamsburg (Sunday October 29 & Monday October 30) – The director of Zombie Flesh Eaters and The Beyond performs new soundtracks to his classic films: “We are used to having theatrical cuts and director’s cuts, but nobody ever dared to conceive and perform a movie version following the musician’s point of view. A new score for a cult classic, realized in a more modern way, almost in the Hollywood style, with very few moments of silence but with great respect for its original identity…Presented in two distinct versions: one at full throttle empowered by a 51-piece symphonic orchestra and another energized by the prog rock strength derived from the orchestration for the Frizzi 2 Fulci band, the seven top performers of the Mastro’s F2F band.” Tickets HERE. Circoloco Halloween DC-10 (Undisclosed Brooklyn Venue / Friday, October 27th – Saturday, October 28th) – Teksupport is teaming up with Ibiza’s famed party brand Circoloco to haunt Brooklyn over Halloween weekend. Featuring techno titans like The Martinez Brothers, Jamie Jones, Seth Troxler, Damien Lazarus and more, this slamming two-day event is sure to wake the dead. The elusive location is currently undisclosed. Ticket holders will be alerted via e-mail prior to 10/27. Snag individual tickets and weekend passes HERE. Haunted Frequencies w/ Sleepy & Boo, Rvdioactive, OKNF (TBA Brooklyn, Tuesday, October 31st) – New York house duo, Sleepy & Boo, will be breaking away from their weekly Cielo residency to headline a scary awesome party at Williamsburg’s TBA Brooklyn (395 Wythe Ave.) on Halloween night. Freaky fiends from Rvdioactive and OKNF offer support in the form of blood curdling beats. RSVP for free entry HERE. 12TH Annual NY Night Train Haunted Hop (Knockdown Center, Halloween Night) OK, OK, this is Queens… Jonathan Toubin’s dance party returns with lots of live music and of course dancing. “Multimedia Halloween dance party and haunted househoneycombed in a labyrinth of theme rooms. Live sets by Shannon and the Clams, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, Escape-Ism (Ian Svenonius’ new project), Nude Party and secret surprise band! Dancing to the spooky 45s of Jonathan Toubin & friends! A dozen of NYC’s finest bands dressing and playing as their favorite bands! Super 8 monster movies, live visuals, mummy go go, late night horror cuisine, and more.” More here. There are lots of tribute shows happening as well including Princess (a Prince cover band fronted by Maya Rudolph) at Brooklyn Bowl on Friday and Saturday. And we’re excited about the Bowie/David Lynch cover band The Agent Jeffries. They’re the house band on Friday, October 27th at David Lynch Night: a costume party celebrating the work of David Lynch. More information here. Brooklyn Bazaar has a cover band night on Thursday October 26 with La Misma as the Misfits and more. It’s a benefit with proceeds going to Puerto Rico so be sure to check it out. Filed Under: Bushwick, Events, Greenpoint, Mccarren Park, Movies, Music, News, Williamsburg Tagged With: 2017, brooklyn, events. parties, guide, halloween, things to do About Free Williamsburg FREEwilliamsburg is the trendsetting home of New York’s most creative neighborhood. The website has been mentioned in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The New York Observer, among others, and was called an "essential New York blog" by New York magazine. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Do it now, dammit! The Best Bars In Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick Visitor’s Guide – 48 Hours in North Brooklyn The 22 Best Restaurants in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick About \| Contribute \| Advertise FREEwilliamsburg © 2020 \| 163 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 \| [email protected] Reproduction of material found on FREEwilliamsburg without written permission is prohibited.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line166
__label__cc	0.557032	0.442968	Opposition Activist Kuprava, One More Person Detained at General Prosecutor’s Office Canine Culprit: Etseri, Svaneti Boosting Rural Access to Public Services: New Community Center Opens in Racha Occupied Akhalgori Faces Humanitarian Crisis Zaza Saralidze: Shotadze's Return as Prosecutor General Not Important For Me NDI: NATO and EU Membership Supporters on the Rise in Georgia NDI: Georgians Name Parliament and Courts as Lowest-Performing Institutions NDI: Tbilisi Mayor is Most Liked Political Leader, President – Most Disliked NDI Poll: 64% of Georgians Assess Govt' Performance as Poor 80 New Ambulances to Serve Tbilisi Citizens Ministry of Internal Affairs Releases Planned Marijuana Use Regulations The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) released a statement yesterday outlining a draft law on the use of marijuana, to be introduced to Parliament at the next session. On July 30, the Constitutional Court of Georgia declared that administrative punishment for use of the drug marijuana was unconstitutional when consumption does not create any threat to third parties - effectively legalizing the consumption of marijuana. “By this decision the Constitutional Court has created a completely new legal reality,” reads the MIA statement. The Court determined that marijuana use may be prohibited in certain contexts. The MIA is tasked with enforcing the law and protecting public safety. Their statement says that “the absence of the relevant legislative framework hinders the effective struggle against illegal circulation of drugs and promotes its use.” The draft law prohibits the use of marijuana in any place of public gathering, on all public transport, in the presence of a minor, in or around educational institutions, their buildings and other facilities for people under the age of 18, at or near public meetings intended for minors, and for certain people performing official duties (for example, teachers, doctors, public servants). Driving a car under the influence of marijuana also remains prohibited. “Popularization or advertising of any drugs is an administrative offense and will lead to the appropriate response” reminds the MIA statement. The draft law aims “to protect juveniles from the harmful effects of marijuana” and uphold public safety. By Samantha Guthrie Parliament to Adopt New Legislation on Drug Use this Fall Smoking Marijuana Legalized in Georgia Constitutional Court: Reaction to the Decision on Marijuana is Damaging	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line170
__label__cc	0.57633	0.42367	Kleptocracy I like this article which was published in Malaysia Today. The Role and Function of a Police Force in a Kleptocracy By Tuan Abu Bakar bin Tuan Abu Khalid Kleptocracy is a government of thieves, by thieves and for thieves. The ruling elite in a kleptocracy governs only to extend its personal wealth and political power by stealing from the state’s coffer. The major characteristics of a kleptocracy are rampant corruption, rent-seeking activities, money-laundering and abuses of human rights. Since a kleptocracy benefits only a small section of the population at the expense of the wider population, the modus operandi of the kleptocracy to stay in power is to divide the population along tribal, racial or religious lines. Contemporary kleptocracies often maintain a facade of democracy to camouflage their kleptocratic tendencies. A kleptocracy may have a state constitution, though it is regularly abused to suit the whims and fancies of the ruling elite. Regular elections are also held to enforce the notion of a democratic state. The elections are rigged and manipulated to provide legitimacy to the kleptocracy. Government agencies such as the judicial system, the civil service, the legislative body, the security forces and even the church act as apparatchik of the kleptocracy. The officials holding key positions are rewarded by having a share of the loot. Read the Rest of the Article HERE Here we go again, another fiasco in the making, another circus display of 'misplaced' governance that makes you wonder if anyone in the country is safe from the authorities anymore and if intelligence is no longer a pre-requisite to work for its religious department. Any government with goons running around and gate-crashing other people's party must be a worry to citizens anywhere. The Malaysiakini report on the 'illegal' and unconstitutional Jais raidon the Dream Centre, a community place run by the Damansara Utama Methodist Church, reflects a government department with nothing better to do than harass law-abiding citizens going about their business peacefully. With thirty enforcement staff led on a wild goose chase when they could be more productively employed during the season of Ramadan is indeed bewildering but not unexpected when you follow the script of an unholy plot and belong to Malaysia's version of the Keystone Cops, those comical cops always chasing someone but only making fools of themselves and making us laugh at their expense. But the Jais raid on the Dream Centre is no laughing matter. It is an attack on the constitutional rights of citizens and an unprecedented low on the persecution of the legitimate activities of citizens in the country by a government department that seems to act with intrusive impunity and that gets more ridiculous by the day. Is religious paranoia following after race that has failed to divide Malaysians after the evident show of unity by Malaysians of all races during the Bersih 2.0 event? They accused certain Muslims and now they are accusing Christians. Who's next?. Really disgusting!!! Bye Bye.. CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL FOR THE "PSM 6" - UMNO'S LAW OF... Another Great Bersih 2.0 Video Defenders of the Rakyat or Goons employed by UMNO?... Story of Abdul Haleem in Bersih 2.0 - Truly a Mala... THE MOTHER OF ALL VIDEO - BERSIH 2.0 BERSIH 2.0 - TRULY MALAYSIA 9711 Bersih 2.0 Video - 9711 A Noob Demonstrator Bersih 2.0 Experience Bersih Taxi Bersih Photos Bersih walk Walkability with Bersih 2.0 Terima kasih rakyat Malaysia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line178
__label__cc	0.643836	0.356164	Triple joy, times two at Ulster Hospital July 25, 2019 July 25, 2019 admin Comment(0) Two sets of triplets have been born within 24 hours in the Ulster Hospital at Dundonald in County Down. On Tuesday, Brendan and Kirsty McMenamin from Downpatrick in County Down had Zoey, a baby girl, and two boys called Cameron and Brody. On Wednesday, Claire and Johnny Stewart from Donaghadee in County Down had three baby girls Libby, Evie and Annie. Claire Stewart said she had been “shocked but delighted” when she found out she was having triplets. Meet the six-year-old litter-picking triplet County Durham couple have identical triplets “One of my first responses was: ‘I’m so glad my mum’s retired’, she said. “The practicalities did come into my head – I only have two hands, what do I do with the third one?” Her husband Johnny said he was glad he was sitting down when he found out, but it was a “pleasant surprise”. “We had an early scan and I remember just listening to the consultant say, ‘do you want to hear something interesting?’ “He said it was twins. Before we had a chance to recover from that he said: ‘Actually hold on a minute – it’s triplets.'” He said the birth had been “calm”, despite the fact that there were more than 20 people in the room and students looking in the windows. Mrs Stewart said: “We were overwhelmed. I lay there with tears rolling down my face, but just to hear their cries was amazing. “We held them before the teams took them off”. Mrs Stewart said twins run in her family. “My younger brother and sister are twins. “My mum is signed up to move into the spare room,” she added. How do they feel from about going from being a couple to a family of five? “It really hit us when we got cards with our names and all their names – that really warmed our hearts,” said Mr Stewart. According to Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust triplets occur naturally in approximately one in 10,000 pregnancies and quadruplets are even more rare. Tagged hospital, Times, Triple, Ulster Languages affected differently by brain disease There are differences in the way English and Italian speakers are affected by dementia-related language problems, a small study suggests. While English speakers had trouble pronouncing words, Italian speakers came out with shorter, simpler sentences. The findings could help ensure accurate diagnoses for people from different cultures, the researchers said. Diagnostic criteria are often based […] GPs ‘shun full-time work as pressures take toll’ Part-time working for GPs is becoming commonplace, regulators say, raising concerns about the government’s drive to recruit extra doctors. Some 45% of GPs are working less than full-time, with a third cutting their hours in the past year, a General Medical Council survey indicated. The poll also suggested more intended to follow suit amid rising […] Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death There’s some good news for people with insomnia – your lack of sleep is probably not going to kill you. A new report published by the journal Science Direct says there is no link between insomnia and early death. This may or may not come as some comfort to anyone who’s lying awake at 4am […] Lady Gaga Once Wore This Cult-Loved Bra as a Whole Outfit—and It’s Over $20 Off Today 10 Secrets a Food Critic Won’t Tell You These Science-Approved Facial Exercises Can Make You Look Years Younger The Best Bread in the World Has Only 2 Ingredients Halsey Opens Up About Using ‘Sex As A Means Of Survival’ When She Was Homeless	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line181
__label__wiki	0.625471	0.625471	The Blendover Podcast The Future of Death Metal Posted by :cGt2099 On : January 21, 2016 Category: Heavy Metal Historian Tags:Abyssal Ascendant, Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, As I Lay Dying, At the Gates, Be'lakor, Black Dahlia Murder, Black Sabbath, Brendon Small, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Chuck Schuldiner, Cuntscrape, Dark Tranquility, Dead Congregation, Death, Death to All, Deicide, Destroyer 666, Dethklok, Devin Townsend, Enslaved, Entombed, Entombed A.D., Gene Hoglan, Gojira, In Flames, Infected, Lamb of God, Morbid Angel, Obituary, Obscura, Opeth, Scar Symmetry, Slugdge, Strapping Young Lad, Suicide Silence, Unholy Triumphant http://media.blubrry.com/heavymetalhistorian/p/heavymetal666.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-01-20-HMH-0046.mp3 Heavy Metal Historian We start to close our exploration of Death Metal, in which we examine the subgenre’s entrance into the 21st century. As it branched out into other forms of Extreme Metal, it additionally had an impact on subgenres like Metalcore. We also turn to tomorrow, and explore what we can expect in The Future of Death Metal… Hosted by Greg Davies from Blendover, the Heavy Metal Historian Podcast delivers to you snippets of tales from years gone by in the world of Metal, one episode at a time. Metal News Links CHRISTIAN BALE Talks About Learning To Play Double-Bass Drums By Listening To PANTERA DISTURBED And ROB ZOMBIE Announce U.S. Co-Headlining Tour Former MORBID ANGEL Frontman DAVID VINCENT Is Back With Country Song ‘Buyer Beware’ IRON MAIDEN release mobile RPG for iOS and Android KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Announce U.S Tour, Reveal ‘Incarnate’ Cover Art KILLSWITCH ENGAGE doing 5-night NYC residency MÖTLEY CRÜE’s MICK MARS Back In The Studio With Ex-CRÜE Singer JOHN CORABI MOTT THE HOOPLE Drummer DALE GRIFFIN Dead At 67 PEARL JAM announces 2016 North American tour dates Return of the Vikings: AMON AMARTH announce new album “First Kill” Reunited GUNS N’ ROSES Plan Pre-Coachella Gigs in Las Vegas SLIPKNOT, JUDAS PRIEST Members React To Passing Of EAGLES Legend GLENN FREY WAYNE STATIC’s Widow TERA WRAY STATIC Found Dead Recommended Listening: “God of Thunder” by Death from Human “Evisceration Plague” by Cannibal Corpse from Evisceration Plague “At War With Reality” by At the Gates from At the Gates “Punish My Heaven” by Dark Tranquility from The Gallery “Morphogenesis” by Scar Symmetry from Holographic Universe “Shitstorm” by Strapping Young Lad from Alien “Ethica Odini” by Enslaved from Axioma Ethica Odini “Ghost of Perdition” by Opeth from Ghost Reveries “Oroborus” by Gojira from The Way of All Flesh “Omerta” by Lamb of God from Ashes of the Wake “The Pursuit of Vikings” by Amon Amarth from Fate of Norns “Confined” by As I Lay Dying from Shadows are Security “You Only Live Once” by Suicide Silence from The Black Crown “Ghostqueen” by Dethklok from Dethalbum III “Murmaider” by Dethklok from The Dethalbum “I am the Wargod (Ode to the Battle Slain)” by Destroyer 666 from Phoenix Rising “Assimilate” by Infected from Crawlspace “My Dick Just Died, Can I Bury it in Your Arse?” by Cuntscrape from Papsmear Campaign “Venator” by Be’lakor from Stone’s Reach “We Will Rise” by Arch Enemy from Anthems of Rebellion “What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse” by The Black Dahlia Murder from Nocturnal “The Anticosmic Overload” by Obscura from Cosmogenesis “Only Ashes Remain” by Dead Congregation from Promulgation of the Fall “Bedlam Attack” by Entombed A.D. from Back to the Front “Visions in My Head” by Obituary from Inked in Blood “Captive Bolt Pistol” by Carcass from Surgical Steel “Voafal” by Dysphorian Breed from Voafal “Garden of Dead Trees” by Unholy Triumphant from Circulus Vitiosus “The Nameless Shape” by Abyssal Ascendant from Enlightenment from Beyond “Darkness Transcend” by Setentia from 2016 Album Promo “Behind the Wall of Sleep” by Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath “Spore Ensemble” by SLUGDGE from Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms Music used in the Heavy Metal Historian Intro Theme was performed and written by AGAINST 72 – used with permission [Music and clips are copyright to respective owners, and are used under Fair Use] The Future of Thrash Metal Posted by :cGt2099 On : December 4, 2014 Tags:AC/DC, Accuser, Ace Frehley, Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Arch Enemy, At the Gates, Battlecross, Black Sabbath, Chuck Schuldiner, Dave Mustaine, Destroyer 666, Devin Townsend, Dimebag Darrell, Evile, Exodus, FKU, Gama Bomb, Gary Holt, Halestorm, In Flames, John Bush, KISS, Kreator, Kurt Cobain, Lamb of God, Megadeth, Metallica, Municipal Waste, Nirvana, Overkill, Pantera, Phil Rudd, Sepultura, Skeletonwitch, Slayer, Slipknot, Sodom, Stormtroopers of Death, Strapping Young Lad, Suicidal Tendencies, Testament, Vargskelethor, Violator, Warbringer After uncovering the origins of Thrash Metal, and the rise of Metallica and others in our preceding episodes; we move now into the 21st century, to look at the revival of the genre – and examine this Thrash Renaissance spreading across the planet. And just as importantly, we look forward to what’s next: into the Future of Thrash Metal… AC/DC Drummer PHIL RUDD Back In Handcuffs ACE FREHLEY Talks Upcoming Covers Album: ‘That’s Going To Be Another Fun Record For Me’ Authorized Documentary On KURT COBAIN Coming To HBO Former SLIPKNOT Drum Tech Confirms Identities Of New Drummer, Bassist HALESTORM Completes Recording Third Album IRON MAIDEN’s ‘Trooper’ Beer To Be Canned For U.S. Market MEGADETH: Body of Dave Mustaine’s Mother-In-Law apparently found NAPALM DEATH: ‘Apex Predator – Easy Meat’ Artwork, Track Listing Revealed Video Footage Of DELAIN Bassist’s Testicle-Rupturing Stage Mishap You Can Now Own ‘Share’ Of TESTAMENT Song ‘Native Blood’ Documentary / Video Clips George Carlin: The American Dream “Expendable Youth” by Slayer from the album Seasons in the Abyss “Symphony of Destruction” by Megadeth from the album Countdown to Extinction “Regular People (Conceit)” by Pantera from the album Vulgar Display of Power “One by One” by Immortal from the album Sons of Northern Darkness “Take This Life” by In Flames from the album Come Clarity “Nemesis” by Arch Enemy from the album Doomsday Machine “Detox” by Strapping Young Lad from the album City “Cult” by Evile from the album Five Serpent’s Teeth “Zombie Blood Nightmare” by Gama Bomb from the album Citizen Brain “Laid to Rest” by Lamb of God from the album Ashes of the Wake “Jackal” by Warbringer from the album Waking into Nightmares “Beyond the Permafrost” by Skeletonwitch from Beyond the Permafrost “The Thrashin’ of the Christ” by Municipal Waste from Hazardous Mutation “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” by Havok from the album Unnatural Selection “Atomic Nightmare” by Violator from the album Chemical Assault “Affluenza” by Grave Forsaken from the album This Day Forth “Twilight of the Thunder God” by Amon Amarth from Twilight of the Thunder God “Rise of the Mosh Mongers” by F.K.Ü. from the album Rise of the Mosh Mongers “Cannibal Insanity” by Accu§er from the album Diabolic “Fight ’em ’til you Can’t” by Anthrax from the album Worship Music “The Evil Has Landed” by Testament from the album The Formation of Damnation “Some Kind of Monster” by Metallica from the album St. Anger “The End of the Line” by Metallica from the album Death Magnetic “Zombie Boy” by Bath Salt Zombies from the album I Don’t Give a Fuck! “Force Fed Lies” by Battlecross from the album War of Will “Symptom of the Universe” by Black Sabbath from the album Sabotage “Pineapples Do Not Belong on a Pizza” by Vargskelethor from BandCamp The Legacy of Nu Metal The Rise of Nu Metal The Origins of Nu Metal Heavy Metal Album Cover Art IV: The Most Iconic Metal Album Covers Heavy Metal Album Cover Art III: Interview with Felipe Machado Franco Designed by ThemeAlley.Com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line182
__label__cc	0.664209	0.335791	The Quran and Hadith Sciences The Quran and Hadith Teachings Hadith Texts Infallibles Dar al-Hadith >Hadithnet>Hadith Texts>Supplications Sorted by Date Toggle Dropdown The Psalms of Islam Fifteen Whispered Prayers the Days of the Week 1 Supplication on the Day of Arafa (47) 1196 8/11/2019 2 Dua'a Al-Mashlool 326 3/3/2018 3 Supplication in Bidding Farewell to the Month of Ramadan (45) 2595 6/24/2017 4 The Invocation (Munajat) of Shabaniyah 1821 5/4/2017 5 Supplication for himself and the People under his Guardianship (5) 2105 3/7/2017 6 Supplication in the Morning and Evening (6) 1148 3/7/2017 7 The Supplication for Monday 1362 3/7/2017 8 The Supplication for Tuesday 1746 3/7/2017 9 The Supplication for Wednesday 1557 3/7/2017 10 The Supplication for Thursday 1782 3/7/2017 11 The Supplication for Saturday 1276 3/7/2017 12 The Supplication for Friday 1344 3/7/2017 13 Dua al-Baha 2997 1437 14 Du'a for Sahar (Dawn) 1849 6/7/2016 15 Daily Supplications for the Month of Ramadan 2607 5/31/2016 16 Jawshan Kabir 858 5/31/2016 17 Supplication in Abasing himself (61) 2755 5/18/2016 18 Supplication in Mentioning the Household of Muhammad (57) 1378 5/18/2016 19 Supplication and Magnification by him upon him be peace (56) 1535 5/18/2016 20 Supplication for the Removal of Worries (54) 1209 5/18/2016 Page From 5 Number of Cases : 89 Copyright © 1996 Dar al-Hadith Institue All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line185
__label__wiki	0.624827	0.624827	Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1976 - More Than Ever Добавил Slavonn 28.11.2010 в 15:11 Style: Jazz Rock / Fusion Format: mp3 - 320 kpbs / Lossless - Flac Size: 127 Mb / 305 Mb Songs / Tracks Listing1. They (6:28) 2. I Love You More Than Ever (5:30) 3. Katy Bell (4:30) 4. Sweet Sadie The Savior (4:24) 5. Hollywood (3:37) 6. You're The One (4:58) 7. Heavy Blue (5:26) 8. Saved by the Grace of Your Love (4:18) Bonus tracks- Medley, Recorded live, Oct 12, 1980 at the Street Scene 9. Down... 10. Lucretia Mac Evil 11. Hi-De Ho 12. And When I Die 13. Spinning Wheel 14. You're Made Me So Very Happy Line-up / Musicians - David Clayton-Thomas / Vocals - Bobby Colomby / Drums - Don Alias / Percussion - Larry Willis/ Electric Piano - Mike Stern / Electric Guitar - Tony Klatka / Trumpet - Forrest Buchtell / Trumpet - Dave Bargeron / Trombone, Tuba - Bill Tillman / Tenor Sax, Flute - Danny Trifan / Bass - Gary King / Bass - Bob James / Electric Piano, Acousting Piano, Celesa, Clavinet, Arp synthesizer. - Richard Tee / Acoustic Piano on "Saved by the Grace of your love" and "Sweet Sadie," Organ on "Sweet Sadie" - Steve Khan / Guitars (except "Heavy Blue," Saved by the Grace," and "I'll Love You More Than Ever") - Hugh McCracken / Electric Guitar (except "Sweet Sadie The Savior) and Acoustic Guitar on "You're The One." - Eric Gale / Electric Guitar on "Sweet Sadie," "I'll Love You More Than Ever," and "Saved by the Grace." - Eric Weissberg / Banjo on "Katie Bell," and Dobro solo on "Hollywood." - Jon Faddis / Trumpet on "Sweet Sadie," "They," and "Hollywood." - Dave Taylor / Bass Trombone on "Sweet Sadie," "They," and "Hollywood." - Dave Bargeron / Trombone and Tuba - Arnie Lawrence / Tenor Sax on "You're The One." - Dave Friedman / Xylophone, Marimba, and Vibes on "They." - Sid Weinberg / Oboe on "I'll Love You More Than Ever." - Patti Austin / Vocals on "Sweet Sadie," and "More Than Ever." - Vivian Cherry, Lani Groves, Gwendonlyn Guthrie, Yolanda McCullough, Frank Floyd, William Eaton, Zachary Sanders / Backing vocals - David Nadien, Seymour Barab, Max Ellen, Harry Lookofsky, Harry Glickman, Max Pollikoff, Matthew Raimondi, Emanuel Vardi, Charles McCracken, Harry Cykman, Richard Sortomme, Theodore Israel / Strings MP3 - Основная ссылка; Ссылка 2 Lossless - Ссылка 1 СКАЧАТЬ Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1976 - More Than Ever The Main Link Link 1 Blood, Sweat & Tears featuring David Clayton-Thomas, 1976 ‎– In Concert [2LP] Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1968 - Child is Father to the Man [LP] Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1972 - New blood Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1969 - Blood, Sweat & Tears Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1970 - Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 [LP] Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1971 ‎– B, S & T 4 [LP] Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1973 - No Sweat Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1974 - Mirror Image Blood, Sweat & Tears featuring David Clayton-Thomas, 1975 ‎– New City [LP] Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1977 - Brand New Day [LP] Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1980 - Nuclear Blues [LP] Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1991 - Live And Improvised George Benson, 1976 - Breezin' George Benson & Joe Farrell, 1976 - Benson & Farrell Blood, Sweat & Tears, 2001 - Musikladen 1973 Tommy Bolin, 1976 - Private Eyes Return to Forever, 1976 - Romantic Warrior Bozzio Levin, Stevens, 1997 - Black Light Syndrome Brett Garsed, 2001 - Uncle Moe's Space Ranch Bozzio Levin Stevens, 2000 - Situation Dangerous Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1980 - Live	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line186
__label__cc	0.616838	0.383162	Holy Sepulchre Mission in the Holy Land Recognition by the Holy See History of the Lieutenancy History of the Order World Wide Government of the Order Audio/Video Documentaries Franciscan Custody Canonised & Beatified Members of the Order Deceased Members of the Lieutenancy Prayers of the Order Donations Paypal Notable Irish Members (Historic): John Delaney John Delaney who died in his 70th. year in September 1911 was a Knight Commander of the Order. He was admitted as a member on 28th September, 1881. John was a member of Cork Corporation and a builder by trade. He built the Cork Exhibition of 1883, erected the spires of St Finn Barrs Cathedral, the addition to Holy Trinity Church and the extension to the Cork General Post office. Joomla template created with Artisteer by Eric Dumas Solid Space.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line193
__label__wiki	0.795122	0.795122	* 200 articles. Two years. Whelk. The best of Upsideclown. Might be reprinted. Jamie's running late... It's 11:51. I know because the clock says so, in harsh orange letters. Or numbers, I should say. More importantly, we've got a meeting in den Bosch, a 2 hour drive away by all accounts, and we're both pretty stressed. Add to that the fact that it's one of the hottest days of the year, the car's a greenhouse because it's been sat in the sun for the last 3 days, I've got to write a clown on the way down as I'm driving on the way back, and there's a taxi doing 100 km/h in the fast lane, and you've got a situation. Sorry if this comes out illegible. While I've been writing this, Mike's managed to get on to the A4 instead of the A2, and we've hit serious trouble. I do a bit of emergency map reading with the smallest and worst map in the world, and make a split-second decision to double back across two lines of traffic and cut cross-country till we're back on track. I hope... 12:04. The A9's in sight, which is supposedly a good thing. Robbie's popped a pill and fallen asleep, the bastard. We, on the other hand, are stuck behind a SEAT. No contest. 12:06. SEAT didn't last too long. Steve Harley and his cockney rebels are doing their best to calm down & come up and see them; one of the all-time classics, Mike says, and I'm inclined to agree. Looks like we're sitting pretty for a bit. Not Cameron Diaz pretty, but Meg Ryan pretty at least, and that's not a bad thing in my book. Certainly settle for it. So, a little breather for me. Time to appreciate the plus points of our current situation: I'm out of the office, I've got great tunes (courtesy of MC Cargow and Fat Reggie), and apart from the twat in a van who's just pulled out in front of us (probably a Belgian), the road looks pretty clear. Touch pseudo-wood dash. And yes, we've made it back onto the A2 without too much time lost. Cool runnings. 12:23. 371 km to Luxembourg, says the sign. Like we care. As Go West comes on, I'm flooded with memories of holidays and Uni, sunsets and sunrises, thoughts of friends I haven't seen in eight months and others I only saw last weekend. Moments that are important to me, friends that matter. It's funny how memory works sometimes; you can forget the most important things like birthdays, or important things to do at work, and they'll jump out at you at the most inopportune moments, normally when I'm dozing off and my mind decides to do the housekeeping. Then sometimes, a sight, a sensation, a smell takes you right back to a particular place or emotion, and it's almost real. Like the other day at work, when I was playing the NPower cricket game and I could taste the M&S lunch I used to have when I played it in London. Or Mike told me about a time in London, where he had a flashback to his time travelling in India and his emotions then. He came to his senses grinning like an idiot at an alley full of piss by the side of Angel tube. Oh, the pitfalls of synaesthetic memory recall (as I like to call it, and who's to say I'm wrong?). 12:45. Looking like we might make it. Man, it's hot though. I'm not sure Mike appreciates the fact (he's wearing his Oakleys), but I'm squinting into the distance (blinded by the sun, if you will), while the Seahorses are playing on the stereo. I'd ask if he's noticed, but it's enough of a job dodging Dutchies as it is. Don't want to throw a music trivia quiz into the mix at this stage, And anyway, Viva Forever's come on instead, and the moment's passed. Reminds me of when I used to fancy Mel C - what the fuck was going on there? But can't get too involved - we're getting quite close, and it's time for me to switch into navigator mode again. See ya... Hey, Flight of the Navigator. Now that was a fucking film... Current clown: 18 December 2003. George writes: This List Most recent ten: 15 December 2003. Jamie writes: Seven Songs 11 December 2003. Dan writes: Spinning Jenny 8 December 2003. Victor writes: Rock Opera 4 December 2003. Matt writes: The Mirrored Spheres of Patagonia 1 December 2003. George writes: Charm 27 November 2003. James writes: On Boxing 24 November 2003. Jamie writes: El Matador del Amor; Or, the Man who Killed Love 20 November 2003. Dan writes: Rights Management 17 November 2003. Victor writes: Walking on Yellow 13 November 2003. Matt writes: Disintermediation (And alas we lost Neil, who last wrote Cockfosters) Also by this clown: 13 October 2003. Jamie writes: The Persistence of Memory 22 September 2003. Jamie writes: The Email Eunuch 1 September 2003. Jamie writes: Credo 11 August 2003. Jamie writes: Brad and Jennifer and Me 21 July 2003. Jamie writes: Interruption 30 June 2003. Jamie writes: Do you remember the first time? 12 June 2003. Jamie writes: Forthcoming Attractions 19 May 2003. Jamie writes: Stupid Mistake 28 April 2003. Jamie writes: Hoping and Praying 7 April 2003. Jamie writes: Strangers on a Plane 17 March 2003. Jamie writes: Q&A 24 February 2003. Jamie writes: Altered States 3 February 2003. Jamie writes: How to say goodbye 13 January 2003. Jamie writes: In A League Of Their Own 23 December 2002. Jamie writes: What's in a name? 2 December 2002. Jamie writes: Lies, Damned Lies and Spastics 11 November 2002. Jamie writes: Memoirs of a Gaysian: A Preface 21 October 2002. Jamie writes: Love is blindness 30 September 2002. Jamie writes: Time for bed 9 September 2002. Jamie writes: Angry Exchanges Can Be Puzzling [10] 19 August 2002. Jamie writes: High Speed 29 July 2002. Jamie writes: Firkin Hell 8 July 2002. Jamie writes: Do you, er... haiku? 13 June 2002. Jamie writes: Unnatural Porn Thrillers 20 May 2002. Jamie writes: The Triumphant Return of the Septic Fiveskins 25 April 2002. Jamie writes: Meeting People is Easy 4 April 2002. Jamie writes: I Want I Want I Want 7 March 2002. Jamie writes: The Player of Games 11 February 2002. Jamie writes: Fat Man Walking 17 January 2002. Jamie writes: Passive/Aggressive 3 January 2002. Jamie writes: Love (classified) 29 November 2001. Jamie writes: A Lil' Nite Muzak 5 November 2001. Jamie writes: Natural born liar 11 October 2001. Jamie writes: All I need 17 September 2001. Jamie writes: Postcards From The Edge (of the pool) 23 August 2001. Jamie writes: Class act 30 July 2001. Jamie writes: Ritchie Neville is dead 5 July 2001. Jamie writes: A Letter from God 11 June 2001. Jamie writes: "If it's in French, it must be deep" 17 May 2001. Jamie writes: Reportage 23 April 2001. Jamie writes: Show me the Logos 29 March 2001. Jamie writes: Sobering Thoughts 8 March 2001. Jamie writes: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid 8 February 2001. Jamie writes: Spent 15 January 2001. Jamie writes: Full to the brim 21 December 2000. Jamie writes: fuck xmas 27 November 2000. Jamie writes: Eye Candy 2 November 2000. Jamie writes: World-wide-web? 9 October 2000. Jamie writes: Kids' stuff 14 September 2000. Jamie writes: Scatological Warfare 21 August 2000. Jamie writes: I can't stand up (for falling clowns) 10 July 2000. Jamie writes: The Etymology of Greatness We are all Upsideclown: Dan, George, James, Jamie, Matt, Neil, Victor. Material is (c) respective authors. For everything else, there's it@upsideclown.com. And weeeeeee can entertain you by email too. 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__label__wiki	0.567036	0.567036	Welcome to Miss Jennifer Lawrence, your ultimate online resource for American actress Jennifer Lawrence who is best known for her roles in the X-Men & Hunger Games movies. We aim to provide you with all the latest news, images & other Jennifer related media. Digital Spy reviews ‘Serena’! (***) JLaw October 13th, 2014 Uncategorized Danish director Susanne Bier is behind the camera and she’s certainly earned her right to marshal a big Hollywood production with credits that include the original Brothers (remade with Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire) and her 2002 Dogme film Open Hearts. She usually handles high emotion with a light touch, and does so once again here (for the most part) against the backdrop of the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. Mist gets in the eyes of George Pemberton (Cooper), the founder of a successful timber company who is experiencing a few financial hiccups during the Great Depression. The woman of the title (Lawrence, as Serena) instantly captures his heart and also offers him sage advice on how to run the business, immediately setting herself apart from the usual society ladies. She is a spirited gal yet there’s an air of melancholy, too, stemming from a tragedy in childhood that wiped out her family. Lawrence conjures all of that darkness and light with a finely tuned instinct. If there is an obvious villain of the piece, it is Pemberton’s business partner (David Dencik) whose rancour at being bumped down in the hierarchy (with Pemberton favouring Serena) begins driving a wedge between the hot and heavy lovers. Fire is a recurring motif and this twosome have plenty – Bier’s camera lens all but steams up – but there is no controlling it. Jealousy rears its head in other ways, when a baby is born in town to a woman George admits to sleeping with before Serena entered his life. Consequences of past actions drive the plot forward, testing the bond between them, but it’s a slow burn and it sometimes threatens to sputter out. Cooper brings the necessary dynamism, like a powerful wind that whips around Serena, making her stronger and weaker, inspiring fateful actions on her part. The way their energies merge, to isolate them in an increasingly hostile environment, makes for an absorbing watch, but in the latter stages, the shading of their characters becomes a little too indelicate. Particularly in Serena’s case, a kind of hysteria takes over and there are misogynistic undertones. George gets off easy in comparison. When the writers start to cut corners like this, all the poetic flourishes – like George’s tussle with a wild cat (guess who that’s supposed to represent) – do not lend gravitas as much as drag the story down. Bier is digging hard for something deep and yet, at the point when you should be reaching for the hankie, it’s only because of so much sweaty desperation. There’s no danger this story will melt your heart. Rather, it is a tantalising, morbidly fascinating study of two hotheads in orbit around each other, headed for nuclear fusion. Tweets by @JenLawUS Site Name: Miss Jennifer Lawrence Contact: Email \| Form Established on:2014 Host: Hosted by: FreeFansiteHosting.com \| DMCA \| Privacy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line201
__label__cc	0.648735	0.351265	August 26, 2016 / By IJC admin / The Weekly Comment - Friday/ 0 Comments The Miracle Within Shabbat, August 27th, Torah Portion: Eikev “Okay Rabbi, now can we ask you some questions?” That was the challenge posed to me recently by some teens I was teaching. They really give me a run for my money — their inquisitive questioning always has me looking for answers. “So,” one of them pressed, “if it was so important for G d to make miracles, why doesn’t He do them today?” The ensuing discussion drew the whole group into a debate about if, when and why miracles are relevant. The students recognized that there are miracles, great miracles, that accompany us on a daily basis, and that there are G dly people in every generation who are endowed with Divine super-natural powers. But, they argued, what about the earth-shattering, plain-for-all-to-see variety of miracles that typified the biblical era? Where – and why – have they gone? I breathed a real sigh of relief when my suggested answer finally got a thumbs-up from my hitherto skeptical colleagues. Though I must add, the idea wasn’t mine. I found it in Eikev, this week’s Torah reading. The ups and downs of Jewish history – the miraculous highs, the tragic lows, and the plateaus of calm in between – are well captured in the Torah readings of the last two weeks. Last week, in Va’etchanan, we read of the epic high of our story, the moment of revelation on Sinai that shaped our identity forever. No moment before or after that episode conveys the essence of Jewish faith like that experience of unity with the Divine in the desert sun. And I can well understand why my new young friends wished that they, too, were given such an opportunity. This week, however, our story takes us to our lowest fall, the episode of the Golden Calf. Only a short 40 days after the grand Sinai revelation, a crisis of faith put our existence in peril. The subsequent journey of repentance and return presaged what later became known as Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday of reflection and renewal. This part of the story, the void of revelation and vacuum of divine presence, is something that I think my students appreciated all too well. Interestingly, both of these stories are followed by almost identical statements of faith that we recite at least twice daily. The Ten Commandments in last week’s portion is followed by the Shema, and then, in the paragraph’s second verse: “And you shall love G d, your G d…” In this week’s portion, the failing at the critical moment of Moses’ absence and our ultimate triumph over failure is followed by the second paragraph of the Shema: “And if you will listen,” many of whose words are a copy from the first paragraph of the Shema read the week before. Despite their similarity, the subtle differences between the prayer’s first and second paragraphs offer perhaps the key to our survival, and our purpose, in the thousands of years since those miraculous moments transpired—and never repeated themselves again. I’ll suggest just two of them. 1. In the first paragraph, the level of our love for and relationship with G d reaches an epic high – “bechol m’odecha” (“with all your might”) – which implies the highest level of selfless service for G d. Shedding any self-enhancing motive, we are asked to reach a level of unity with the Divine where our whole purpose is only to fulfill our mission. This is a manifestation of the very core of our soul, which is one with its Creator. In the second paragraph, however, this level is omitted. We are asked there “only” to love G d “bechol levavechem uvechol nafshechem” (“with all your heart and soul”). Yes, that’s quite an achievement, but at least one that is within our reach if we will it. 2. In the first paragraph there is no mention of reward and consequence. In the second, our relationship with G d is very much intertwined with the fulfillment of our needs — health, wealth, happiness, fulfillment — or the lack thereof. Perhaps these two approaches to divine service are hinting at two different eras in our history. The first reflects our story in the glow of divine revelation — the splitting of the sea, the Sinai experience, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, etc. In that time and place, yes, perhaps the inspiration, the certainty and the absolute knowledge that we gained from those experiences filled us with motivation and ability to follow a selfless path of total piety with no care for gain or reward. The second approach, however, follows our story in the shadow of divine concealment and spiritual confusion — whether at the foot of the mountain on the supposed fortieth day, or in a classroom in Cape Town 2,000 years after the miracles of the Temple ceased to be. In these times our relationship with G d is one where: 1. Our selfish identity remains very much at the fore; we’re not on the level of selfless unity with G d like those of a previous era. 2. Our reasons for serving G d are very much because of the gains – be they spiritual, emotional, or even material – that we see this lifestyle brings. On the surface, one might think that the first approach represents the more ideal aspiration of the Jewish people. In truth, however, it’s – in a certain way – the second, more integrated approach that has a deeper and more long-lasting effect. When there aren’t miracles to inspire us, we have to find the faith within. We need to initiate, to explore, to study and to appreciate what our relationship with G d really means. True, sitting in a classroom and grappling with these ideas at the foot of Table Mountain in South Africa is not nearly as inspiring as sitting at the foot of Mount Sinai when they were revealed to us. It’s not as inspiring, and it’s far more challenging—but it’s a far greater achievement. It says much more about us, as opposed to the revelation at Mount Sinai, which spoke more about G d. Today, when we don’t have the miraculous stories to solidify our beliefs, we have to find that strength within. And that is a true miracle. The moments of G d’s open miracles set the foundation of our people. But now it’s our miracles, miracles of faith and conviction that build the story of our people. And that, our story, is the greatest miracle of all. My eleventh-grade group seemed to think so. How about you? What A Smile Torah Portion: Ki Teitzei Do you smile? There are different types of smiles. There’s the raised-corners-of-the-mouth social smile, which is basically the deliberate flexing of facial muscles to telegraph polite positivity. But there’s also the genuine, full-faced smile; the one that’s clearly proclaiming “welcome, I’m making room for you in my life.” That smile is larger than the simple movement of facial muscles and cordial interactions. That smile is a gesture that transcends simple facial expressions; it’s about offering yourself to another. A real smile means you’ve removed some of the walls between you and the world, that some ‘inner you’ is connecting with an ‘other.’ When you’re on the phone, can you sometimes tell that the other person is smiling, even though you can’t see their face? When someone is genuinely smiling, his voice has a lilt of giving and openness, a flow of bonding, an embracing spirit that goes way beyond facial expressions. Polite smiles don’t express that kind of depth, because they aren’t that deep. They don’t come across the phone. The Torah describes G-d as blessing us by ‘”shining His face” upon us, as though G-d is giving us a glowing, full-faced smile. There’s a friendly face, and then there’s a glowing face. There’s a smile, and then there’s a full-bodied smile. The difference may be difficult to describe, even intangible, but it’s huge. You know it when it happens. This Jewish month of Elul, the lead-up to Rosh Hashana, is a time when we’re told that G-d is giving us a full-faced smile, an open welcome into a caring relationship. How do you respond to an open smile? Smile back. Care enough to give someone a genuine smile today. Find the faith and connection to give G-d a genuine smile today. Get into the Rosh Hashana rhythm. Millions of stars Torah Portion: Devarim Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. “Watson” he says, “look up in the sky and tell me what you see.” “I see millions of stars, Holmes,” says Watson. “And what do you conclude from that, Watson?” Watson thinks for a moment. “Well,” he says, “astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meterologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I see that God is all-powerful, and we are small and insignficant. Uh, what does it tell you, Holmes?” “Watson, you idiot! Someone has stolen our tent! Dear friends, “Our home has been burned!” It happened a few thousand years ago, on Tisha B’Av, the 9th of Av. From that faithful day on we’ve been living without our holy temple in Jerusalem. Sometimes we forget about its existence. We get ourselves used to life as it is… busy with our day to day events. Our lives would look completely different if the holy temple would be standing. Every aspect of our life, not just our spiritual life. This Sunday we commemorate the 9th of Av and we fast. (click here for more info) May it be G-d’s will that the Temple should be rebuild and we will finally experience the redemption, with all the eternal good that comes with it! A Legacy of Love! Followed by Shabbat Dinner Shabbat, November 12th, Torah Portion: Lech Lecha Love is closeness. Even more, it’s whole-hearted, committed closeness. The heart’s warm flutter can be fleeting infatuation, here today and gone tomorrow. Love is different. It’s substantive. Real. Love is a bond that stands strong in the face of day-to-day volatility, an emotional anchor that’s unshaken by life’s waves. Love is other-centered devotion. There’s a Chassidic story about a child who watches an adult catch and prepare a fish. Before his first bite, the adult exclaims “I love fish.” The child responds: “Sir, you apparently don’t love fish; if you did, you would have let this one stay in the water. You actually love yourself, and this fish is just another avenue for feeding your self-love!” Genuine love isn’t about us gratifying ourselves (although that may be a nice by-product). Love is about making space for the other’s needs. Love is when the other’s sensitivities become our personal concern. Sometimes, looking after our personal needs is a part of other-centeredness. If I take a day to care for myself, so that I am better fit to discharge my responsibilities to G-d, to life and the world, I’m still living a day of other-consciousness. Meeting my own needs can be a necessary preparation for fulfilling my responsibility to others. In Torah language, this deeply committed, loving relationship is called a Covenant (Bris in Hebrew); it’s when two parties reach a profound, integral Oneness. That’s what Abraham had going with G-d. Abraham made genuine space in his life for G-d. Abraham’s definition of a ‘meaningful life’ was to be the person who G-d had created him to be. So his material endeavors, including his ‘self-gratifying pursuits,’ were all opportunities for deepening – and expressing – his devotion to living a meaningful life. That’s why G-d commanded him to express their Covenant by marking an area of the physical body which symbolizes the pursuit of pleasurable physical engagement. To Abraham, all of life – even the pleasurable part – was all about reaching his/our Divinely-granted goal of finding deep connectedness with others and making this a better world. Life was all about the Covenant, all about mindfulness of higher Purpose. Abraham showed us how to live life as it’s meant to be lived. August 5, 2016 / By IJC admin / The Weekly Comment - Friday/ 0 Comments Shabbat, July 30th, Torah Portion: Matot-Massei They say life is a journey. That feels like a true statement, but it leaves me with a bunch of questions: A journey to which destination? What if I don’t end up anywhere worthwhile? What if I mess up and take a wrong turn? And how do we know life is actually a deliberate journey? It sometimes feels like a runaway train. The Torah is our model for life, so let’s look there for direction. When the Jews left Egypt, they headed toward the Promised Land. Leaving slavery behind, they embarked on a forty-year journey to their homeland, encamping at forty-two stops along the way. Our Sages tell us that this famous episode is more than historical; it’s actually a template for each of our lives through history. In other words, we’re each headed through our own personal desert to our own Promised Land, with our individual stops and stumbles along the way. You and I don’t live in the desert, but there’s importance relevance to the imagery. The desert isn’t a pleasant place; it’s not somewhere you can expect to find the comforts of civilization. The desert traveler needs to focus on survival, to pay sharp attention to each step. In that sense, even the city can be a desert. At the same time, one can conceivably make even a desert journey into a positive experience. What if we build solid relationships with our co-travelers? What if our desert experience actually becomes a stepping-stone for character growth and development? When all is said and done, even a desert trip – challenges and all – can be a gift. It can be the route to our personal Promised Land. The Jews made some missteps over the forty years in the desert. Some of them were serious mistakes. But they learned and grew from those mistakes. So even if they ‘took a step backward’ in a specific incident, their ultimate growth took them ‘two steps forward.’ They learned from those negative experiences, becoming healthier and stronger human beings for the experience. When the Jews finally approached their destination, they were grateful. Not just for the destination, but for the journey that brought them there. Today will almost certainly have challenges. They may cause you to wonder about the whole journey. Don’t sweat it. Put one foot in front of the other and take a step forward. You’ll be happy you did.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line202
__label__wiki	0.63387	0.63387	Bookdl November 26, 2014 admin Autobiography Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub In Black Hawk Down, the fight went on for a day. In We Were Soldiers Once & Young, the fighting lasted three days. In The Village, one Marine squad fought for 495 days—half of them died. Few American battles have been so extended, savage and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such “Combined Action Platoons” (CAPs) are now a lost footnote about how the war could have been fought; only the villagers remain to bear witness. This is the story of fifteen resolute young Americans matched against two hundred Viet Cong; how a CAP lived, fought and died. And why the villagers remember them to this day. Adam Copeland On Edge Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) district committee. In May, Lam had to sneak into the village. In June, he could casually stroll through the central marketplace. And all he had for backing was a ragtag outfit which included a handful of Americans. The entire force scarcely outnumbered the Binh Nghia guerrillas, and directly across the river the Viet Cong kept a main-force battalion. The situation was intolerable. A dozen Americans could not just move in and live among thousands of Vietnamese and call a village pacified. The three years had killed fourteen of his former comrades. He knew who was sleeping with whom, and his favorite technique was to hide in a house which he suspected a PF would soon be visiting, catch his man at a disadvantage and kill him with a knife. No such incidents had occurred in Binh Nghia, although Phuoc conceded that even if they had, it would probably not have stopped each individual PF from believing it would never happen to him. But on this night there was strict attendance to business, guys search the area.” The action had lasted eight seconds. Lummis and Brannon stepped out of the bushes, peering at the ground in front of them. “One,” Lummis said. “Blown away?” O’Rourke asked. “Yes, sir.” Luong walked forward and struck a match in front of the faces of the two men. He grunted once but said nothing. “Get their rifles,” O’Rourke said. “We’ll head in by the main trail. Make sure you have fresh mags in those weapons. Fielder, take point.” It was growing light when they he left, Dang shook hands with McGowan and publicly thanked him for bringing certain matters to his attention. Shortly thereafter the village chief reported McGowan to district. Thanh had been receiving persistent rumors that the VC across the river were bartering woven mats for rice. Supposedly the wives of the richer farmers in Binh Nghia were quite willing to trade surplus rice to avoid the tedious task of weaving. My Hué was the trading spot. To put a stop to the traffic, Suong ordered all distraction from concentration on the job at hand. So Beebe never heard the Viet Cong. He would never have seen them either had Suong not suddenly begun nudging him hard and pointing across the yard. Where Beebe had been looking blankly for an hour, he now thought he saw a shadow move. Straining to mark the spot, he slowly started to lift the rifle to his shoulder when a noiseless figure darted across an open corner of the yard and disappeared behind a house. Thoroughly startled, Beebe half-rose Previous Post:Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are (Oxford World's Classics) Next Post:Split: A Counterculture Childhood Westerns Fiction Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only (Pedagogy and Cultural Practice) On Literature The Power of Words: Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You The Idea of Writing On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction Stan Lee's How to Write Comics: From the Legendary Co-Creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Iron Man Critical Realism and Composition Theory Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction Writing With, Through, and Beyond the Text: An Ecology of Language	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line203
__label__wiki	0.738876	0.738876	Hawaii architect Rob Iopa shares the story behind the design of Kakaako’s Waiea tower March 29, 2015 By Mark G. Howard Courtesy The Howard Hughes Corp. The Waiea tower The Waiea, The Howard Hughes Corp.’s luxury residential high-rise on Ala Moana Boulevard, will feature one of the most unique exterior designs among the high-rises in Kakaako, reflecting the area in which it is being built. Rob Iopa, president of Honolulu’s WCIT Architecture, who had a major role in designing the tower on a former surface parking lot in Ward Village, shared with PBN the story behind the design. “Essentially, it’s a story of two Hawaiian fishing gods, a father and son from Kauai, who stopped on every island to teach everyone to fish,” he said. “They stopped in Kakaako and found this as their home. When the father passed, he gave his son five fishing tools that were used by Hawaiians to fish. The tower was designed with this story in mind.” The tower, Iopa said, has two segments, the taller and shorter parts, with a net that creates the glass facade. “This land was part of the ocean,” he said. “The former shoreline was right where Ala Moana Boulevard is.” Another part of the story is that the Waiea is a rare example of a local architectural firm playing a major role in the exterior design of a new Kakaako high-rise. Most of the design work is going to out-of-state firms. Find out why in PBN’s Friday print edition. Luxury_Oahu_Estates_$2M -_$3M Luxury_Oahu_Estates_$8M – 10M Luxury_Oahu_Honolulu_Condos Filed Under: 1118 Ala Moana Tower, Featured, Waiea Tower Tagged With: Celebrity home Honolulu, Celebrity Homes Honolulu, Howard Hughes Corp, Luxury Estate Honolulu, Luxury Experiences Honolulu, Luxury Home Honolulu, Luxury Homes Honolulu, Luxury Honolulu, Luxury Living Honolulu, Luxury Mansion Honolulu, luxury real estate Honolulu, Luxury Villa Honolulu, LuxuryHomes Honolulu, LuxuryHomes.com Honolulu, Mansion Honolulu, Million Dollar Estates Honolulu, Million Dollar Home Honolulu, Most expensive Honolulu, Ocean View Honolulu, Penthouse Honolulu, Waiea Tower Oahu luxury housing sales set a record in 2014 This 4-bedroom, 3-bath home in Waialae Iki is currently on the market for about $1.8 million. A total of 842 single-family homes and condominiums on Oahu sold for $1 million or more in 2014, eclipsing a record set in 2005. Oahu’s luxury housing market set a record in 2014, with a total of 842 single-family homes and condominiums sold for $1 million or more, an increase of nearly 16 percent from 2013. The previous peak for homes priced $1 million and above was in 2005 when 794 homes and condos were sold in this price range. Last year’s sales also surpassed the record set in 2005 by 6 percent. “This price point appeals to a broad market including locals, buyers from the U.S. mainland and international second-home buyers,” she said. The areas with the highest number of sales for homes over $1 million were Kahala and Diamond Head in East Oahu, while condos at this price range sold most significantly in Kakaako and Waikiki. In the $4 million and above price range, the Lanikai and Beachside neighrborhoods in Kailua had the highest number of sales with 11 total closed sales. Kahala and Diamond Head followed with eight closed sales each. The largest transaction in 2014 was the record-breaking sale of a property consisting of two adjacent oceanfront lots on Kahala Avenue for about $19.4 million, which was brokered by Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties’ Team of the Avenue in November. The two parcels were sold before they were listed. A month-to-month comparison shows a total of 73 luxury properties changed hands last month, compared to 69 in December 2013. The median sale price for luxury homes in December was $1.45 million, an increase of nearly 8 percent from $1.3 million during the same month in 2013. Filed Under: Featured, Luxury Real Estate Tagged With: Celebrity home Honolulu, Celebrity Homes Honolulu, Luxury Estate Honolulu, Luxury Experiences Honolulu, Luxury Home Honolulu, Luxury Homes Honolulu, Luxury Honolulu, Luxury Living Honolulu, Luxury Mansion Honolulu, luxury real estate Honolulu, Luxury Villa Honolulu, LuxuryHomes Honolulu, LuxuryHomes.com Honolulu, Mansion Honolulu, Million Dollar Estates Honolulu, Million Dollar Home Honolulu, Most expensive Honolulu, Ocean View Honolulu, Penthouse Honolulu Shirokiya owner lists penthouse at ONE Ala Moana luxury condo for $12.5M A pair of penthouse units at the newly completed 23-story ONE Ala Moana luxury condominium atop the Nordstrom parking garage at Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, — including a combined residence and the grand penthouse owned by Takeshi Sekiguchi, owner of Shirokiya and Vintage Cave Honolulu — are already on the market for a total of $22.3 million. Sekiguchi, a Japanese businessman who developed the Grand Wailea Resort on Maui and Ko Olina Resort on Oahu, paid about $9.7 million for the grand penthouse, according to public records. The Nordstrom department store at Ala Moana Center is seen in this photo depicting a rendering of the ONE Ala Moana luxury condominium project, recently completed construction atop the parking garage next to Nordstrom. Two penthouse units are on the market for a combined $22.3 million. He is now asking $12.5 million for the three-bedroom, three-bathroom 4,069-square-foot unit on the 23rd floor. SRE Matrix, a web-based Honolulu real estate firm that is also owned by Sekiguchi, is the listing firm for the fee-simple unit, which includes 180-degree views of the mountains and the ocean, a lanai and rooftop access. Amenities include pool, jacuzzi, gym, media room, golf room, party room with kitchen, spa treatment room, barbecue area and kids recreation area. The monthly association fee for the grand penthouse is about $4,370. The other unit, a combined penthouse unit with five bedrooms, five full- and two half-bathrooms and a second family room that is owned by Lally Family Trust, is on the market for $9.8 million with Heyer and Associates LLC. The combined units were purchased for a total of about $6.5 million, according to public records. “I think we are seeing some profit taking as there is more inventory of proposed ultra-luxury units coming, especially with the Park Lane [Ala Moana] and Waiea projects [in Honolulu],” Trevor Benn, president and principal broker of Honolulu-based Benn Pacific Group Inc. told PBN in an email. “When an investor can achieve a 50 to 100 percent return so quickly, some will start to look for reinvestment opportunities.” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who recently bought hundreds of acres of land on Kauai’s North Shore, has also reportedly purchased several multi-million-dollar units at ONE Ala Moana. Other well-known buyers in Hawaii who have purchased units at ONE Ala Moana include Steve Sombrero, president of NAI ChaneyBrooks; Henk Rogers, founder of Blue Planet Foundation; Dave Erdman, president of PacRim Marketing Group; Eddie Flores Jr., president of L&L Drive-Inn and L&L Hawaiian Barbecue; Richard Lim, former director of the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism; Mike Irish, owner of Halm’s Enterprises; Peter Ho, chairman, president and CEO of Bank of Hawaii; Mark Bratton, vice president and investment properties division manager at Colliers International Hawaii; and Sachi Braden, owner of Sachi Hawaii. Currently Listed For Sale at ONE Ala Moana Filed Under: Featured, ONE Ala Moana Tagged With: Celebrity home Honolulu, Celebrity Homes Honolulu, Luxury Estate Honolulu, Luxury Experiences Honolulu, Luxury Home Honolulu, Luxury Homes Honolulu, Luxury Honolulu, Luxury Living Honolulu, Luxury Mansion Honolulu, luxury real estate Honolulu, Luxury Villa Honolulu, LuxuryHomes Honolulu, LuxuryHomes.com Honolulu, Mansion Honolulu, Mark Zuckerberg, Million Dollar Estates Honolulu, Million Dollar Home Honolulu, Most expensive Honolulu, Ocean View Honolulu, ONE Ala Moana, Penthouse Honolulu Howard Hughes Corp.’s second Honolulu luxury tower to start construction in coming months The Howard Hughes Corp. is preparing to start construction in the coming months on its second luxury Honolulu condominium tower called Anaha that is planned for the former Pier 1 Imports location in Kakaako, the senior vice president for the Texas-based firm’s Hawaii operations told PBN. The Howard Hughes Corp. (NYSE: HHC) said in its first quarter earnings report in March that it had pre-sold 54 percent of the project, which includes 311 units. “Over the last few months, sales have continued to progress,” Howard Hughes Corp.’s Senior Vice President for Hawaii David Striph told PBN via email. Last month, the developer broke ground on its Waiea luxury condo tower on a former surface parking lot fronting Ala Moana Boulevard, diagonally across from the Anaha site. Both towers are part of the developer’s first phase of its Ward Village master plan. The Howard Hughes Corp. plans to add more than 900 residential units in the first phase of its Ward master plan, which includes these two mixed-use high-rises. Filed Under: 1108 Auahi Tower, Anaha Tower, Featured, Howard Hughes Corp Tagged With: Anaha Tower, Celebrity home Honolulu, Celebrity Homes Honolulu, Howard Hughes Corp, Luxury Estate Honolulu, Luxury Experiences Honolulu, Luxury Home Honolulu, Luxury Homes Honolulu, Luxury Honolulu, Luxury Living Honolulu, Luxury Mansion Honolulu, luxury real estate Honolulu, Luxury Villa Honolulu, LuxuryHomes Honolulu, LuxuryHomes.com Honolulu, Mansion Honolulu, Million Dollar Estates Honolulu, Million Dollar Home Honolulu, Most expensive Honolulu, Ocean View Honolulu, Penthouse Honolulu Ultra-luxury condos at Hawaii’s Ala Moana Center to start construction soon This diagram over an aerial photograph of Ala Moana Center provided by developers The MacNaughton Group, Kobayashi Group and BlackSand Capital shows where a group of ultra-luxury condominiums, as well as a new Bloomingdale’s store, will be built. The Honolulu developers of the $300 million Park Lane Ala Moana project, a row of seven ultra-luxury, condominium towers planned for what is now a parking area at Ala Moana Center held a ground blessing on Wednesday morning and plan to start construction within a couple of months, an executive from the development team told PBN. Kathy Inouye, partner and chief operating officer of the Kobayashi Group LLC, which is developing the low-rise project along with The MacNaughton Group, BlackSand Capital and landowner General Growth Properties (NYSE: GGP), said prices for the 215 units in the project haven’t been established. “[The ground blessing] is something that we like to do to thank the different [partners] we are working with, [including] the contractor that’s working on the site,” she said. Located at 1488 Ala Moana Blvd., the eight-story buildings, which will each be 100 feet tall and have 215 units that range in size from 850 square feet to 6,000 square feet, also will include two floors of residential parking, 2.5 floors of commercial parking and amenity spaces. Park Lane Ala Moana, which will be built adjacent to the Bloomingdale’s department store under construction at the state’s largest shopping mall that is undergoing a major redevelopment of its Ewa Wing, was first reported by PBN. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2016. Filed Under: Featured, Kobayashi Group The, Park Lane Ala Moana Tagged With: Celebrity home Honolulu, Celebrity Homes Honolulu, Luxury Estate Honolulu, Luxury Experiences Honolulu, Luxury Home Honolulu, Luxury Homes Honolulu, Luxury Honolulu, Luxury Living Honolulu, Luxury Mansion Honolulu, luxury real estate Honolulu, Luxury Villa Honolulu, LuxuryHomes Honolulu, LuxuryHomes.com Honolulu, Mansion Honolulu, Million Dollar Estates Honolulu, Million Dollar Home Honolulu, Most expensive Honolulu, Ocean View Honolulu, Park Lane Ala Moana, Penthouse Honolulu ONE Ala Moana luxury high-rise expects 2014 completion date March 9, 2014 By Mark G. Howard Feb 28, 2014, 10:33am HST UPDATED: Feb 28, 2014, 11:16am HST The construction scene at the One Ala Moana ultra-luxury condominium tower being built atop the Nordstrom parking garage at Ala Moana Center. The ONE Ala Moana ultra-luxury condominium tower being built atop the Nordstrom parking garage at Ala Moana Center is expected to be completed by the end of this year with units selling for an average of $1.6 million, according to the Howard Hughes Corp., one of the development partners. The Texas-based developer, part of HHMK Development, which also includes The MacNaughton and Kobayashi Group, provided additional details in its annual report this week. The developers expect to invest a total of $265.1 million in the project, including construction, sales and financing costs. As of Dec. 31, they had spent $109.4 million, the Howard Hughes Corp. (NYSE: HHC) said. The project is being financed by a $132 million construction loan, along with two $20 million mezzanine loans from List Island Properties and A&B Properties, a subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin Inc. (NYSE: ALEX). In December 2012, all of ONE Ala Moana’s condo units sold within the first two days on the market for an average price of $1.6 million. As of last July, the developers had collected $66.2 million in buyer deposits, representing 20 percent of contracted sales prices. Among the amenities in the 23-story, 206-unit building are a wine-tasting room, a chef’s kitchen where residents can bring in their personal chefs, and a private salon where personal shoppers from Ala Moana Center stores can bring items to residents. Filed Under: Alexander & Baldwin Inc., Featured, Howard Hughes Corp, ONE Ala Moana Tagged With: Celebrity home Honolulu, Celebrity Homes Honolulu, Luxury Estate Honolulu, Luxury Experiences Honolulu, Luxury Home Honolulu, Luxury Homes Honolulu, Luxury Honolulu, Luxury Living Honolulu, Luxury Mansion Honolulu, luxury real estate Honolulu, Luxury Villa Honolulu, LuxuryHomes Honolulu, LuxuryHomes.com Honolulu, Mansion Honolulu, Million Dollar Estates Honolulu, Million Dollar Home Honolulu, Most expensive Honolulu, Ocean View Honolulu, ONE Ala Moana, Penthouse Honolulu Ultra-luxury project at Ala Moana Center to include 215 condo units February 8, 2014 By Mark G. Howard Feb 5, 2014, 2:55pm HST This rendering shows the six ultra-luxury condominium buildings planned for a portion of Ala Moana Center. The project will have a total of 215 units, according to a building permit filed with the City and County of Honolulu. The planned seven ultra-luxury condominium towers to be built on what is now a parking area of Ala Moana Center fronting Ala Moana Boulevard will include 215 units with 109 two-bedroom units, 65 three-bedroom units, 36 one-bedroom units and five five-bedroom penthouses, according to a permit filed recently with the City and County of Honolulu. The application for the “Low Rise Residential” project includes no other details, except that the estimated sewer connection date is set for Dec. 31. PBN first reported on the project, which is being developed by Honolulu developers The MacNaughton Group and Kobayashi Group as well as the Hawaii-based investment firm BlackSand Capital and mall owner General Growth Properties (NYSE: GGP). The eight-story buildings, which will be 100 feet tall, range in size from 850-square-foot units to 6,000-square-foot units and will have 2.5 floors of commercial parking. No price ranges for the units were given for the project, which will be built adjacent to the Bloomingdale’s store under construction at Ala Moana Center. It is scheduled to start in mid-2014, with a completion date in 2016. Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) is also moving its Ala Moana store to that end of the mall, along Piikoi Street, and a Whole Foods Market (NYSE: WFM) is being planned for the ground floor of that store. Filed Under: Ala Moana, Ala Moana Luxury Row, Featured Tagged With: BlackSand Capital, Celebrity home Honolulu, Celebrity Homes Honolulu, General Growth Properties, Kobayashi Group, Luxury Estate Honolulu, Luxury Experiences Honolulu, Luxury Home Honolulu, Luxury Homes Honolulu, Luxury Honolulu, Luxury Living Honolulu, Luxury Mansion Honolulu, luxury real estate Honolulu, Luxury Villa Honolulu, LuxuryHomes Honolulu, LuxuryHomes.com Honolulu, Mansion Honolulu, Million Dollar Estates Honolulu, Million Dollar Home Honolulu, Most expensive Honolulu, NYSE: GGP, Ocean View Honolulu, Penthouse Honolulu, The MacNaughton Group	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line208
__label__wiki	0.655063	0.655063	Pittsburgh's Source for Insider Rumors, Analysis, & Insight Prospects Tracker Salary Charts Padres sign Manny Machado to $300 million deal Tuesday, February 19, 2019 / by William DePaoli / / MLB The first domino has finally fell as the San Diego Padres have agreed to a mega 10 year, $300 million contract with Manny Machado, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports. Now the baseball world waits for Bryce Harper to top the $300 million contract Machado just got. 2019 Hall-of-Fame Class a joke beyond Rivera? Tuesday, January 22, 2019 / by William DePaoli / / MLB Closer Mariano Rivera, starting pitchers Roy Halladay, Mike Mussina and DH Edgar Martinez have been elected to the 2019 Hall-of-Fame Class. Rivera became the first player to be unanimously (100%, 425 ballots) voted into the Hall. Rivera was always going to be the no-brainer of the 2019 class, question was whether an old school voter or two would actually leave him off their ballot. The rest of the class has a ton of questions. Halladay maybe, but Mussina, Martinez never screamed sure fire Hall-of-Famers during the prime of their careers and this class follows the trend of leaving out the greatest players’ in the game. Barry Bonds the greatest offensive player of all-time getting 59.1% of the vote is a joke and a sure sign he’ll never get in with three years of eligibility remaining. Somehow Edgar Martinez who never picked up a glove, gets in with 85% during theRead More » Andrew McCutchen has his welcome to San Francisco Moment Sunday, April 08, 2018 / by William DePaoli / / MLB Andrew McCutchen (.258-1HR-4RBI) had a night to remember as a member of the San Francisco Giants……. McCutchen’s first career 6-hit game was a storybook ending with a walk-off 3-run homer in the 14th inning to deliver a thrilling Giants win over the rival Los Angeles Dodgers. After a slow start to the season, McCutchen made his mark on Saturday. McCutchen went 6-7 with a walk-off home run, 4 RBIs, double, 2 runs scored and a stolen base. He entered the game 2-for-24 on the season. Gerrit Cole has been unbelievable in two starts Sunday, April 08, 2018 / by William DePaoli / / houston astros, MLB, Pittsburgh Pirates Former Pirate Gerrit Cole (1-0, 0.64 ERA) through two starts with the Houston Astros, is looking everything the Pirates imagined/hoped he was going to be when they took him 1st overall in the 2011 draft. Cole was dominant again Saturday night in his first home start as an Astro, striking out 11 for the second straight this season. Cole allowed 0 runs and 5 hits. Cole in two starts has a K/BB ratio of 22/3. The swing and miss stuff has been at a level never seen from Cole before as the Astros have found something the Pirates couldn’t with Cole in developing a 3rd and 4th pitch. From the Houston Chronicle: [It’s a small sample size, mind you, but after two starts it’d be hard to argue that he’s not the team’s best starter right now..Nineteen of his 102 pitches were swung upon and missed on Saturday, two fewerRead More » Pirates express interest in Travis Snider Sunday, August 16, 2015 / by William DePaoli / / Inside Access, MLB, Pittsburgh Pirates SNIDER ON HUNTINGTON’S RADAR Pirates telling teams they’re likely to keep Pedro Alvarez? Monday, July 27, 2015 / by William DePaoli / / Inside Access, MLB, Pittsburgh Pirates LATEST ON PEDRO ALVAREZ Photo: David Hague MLB: Pirates lock up Josh Harrison to a 4 year deal worth $27.3 million Wednesday, April 08, 2015 / by William DePaoli / / Inside Access, MLB, Pittsburgh Pirates, Rumor Central The Pittsburgh Pirates have agreed to a new four year contract with Josh Harrison. MLB: Jeff Locke beats out Vance Worley for final rotation spot Monday, March 30, 2015 / by William DePaoli / / MLB, Pittsburgh Pirates HURDLE NAMES LOCKE NO. 5 STARTER Left hander Jeff Locke beat out Vance Worley for the No. 5 spot in the rotation, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said after the Pirates thrashing of the Phillies today, 18-4. [BOX SCORE] The move is somewhat of a surprise as Worley appeared positioned to win the job. Hurdle said today the decision was the hardest he had to make since picking Gerrit Cole to pitch over A.J. Burnett in Game 5 of the 2013 Divisional Series. Worley will begin the season out of the pen. Russell Martin to Cubs for around $16 million per season on four year deal? Sunday, November 16, 2014 / by William DePaoli / / Inside Access, MLB, Pirates Rumors, Pittsburgh Pirates $16 million a year for Martin? The Chicago Cubs have been the team all along that Pirate officials feared would outbid the rest of the field and have Pittsburgh nowhere in the ballpark. That’s where things might be headed as Martin is getting close to signing a new deal with Chicago remaining the likely landing spot. Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports reports that executives involved in the bidding regard the Cubs as the “clear front runner” with a deal for Martin coming in the range of four years, $64 million. The sweepstakes for Martin are believed to be down to two (Cubs, Blue Jays?) with the Pirates and Dodgers out of the mix. Martin met with Toronto officials this week and had been considering the AL due to interest in playing less time at first base. Report: Russell Martin seeking 5 year deal worth $75-$80 million Monday, November 10, 2014 / by William DePaoli / / Inside Access, MLB, Pittsburgh Pirates MARTIN SEEKS FIVE YEARS Russell Martin will net at least a four year deal in free agency and his sights remain on a five year deal, a primary reason there isn’t much optimism in Pirate circles of them being able to compete with others for Martin. Jeff Blair of Sportsnet reports “Martin wants a contract worth between $75-$80 million over five years.” While the Cubs continue to be regarded as a front runner to sign Martin, and the Dodgers are looking hard at him again, Martin is giving serious consideration to playing in the American League due to a desire to move away from home plate at some point. The Blue Jays, Mariners are among the AL teams linked to Martin thus far in the process. LIRIANO HAS UNTIL 5:00 PM TO ACCEPT OR DECLINE QUALIFYING OFFER Francisco Liriano’s agent has made it no secret to teams that the PiratesRead More » Sidney Crosby nets OT winner —Goals in three straight games since returning from injury, Sidney Crosby scores the Overtime winner Friday night, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 2-1 OT win against the Detroit Red Wings— Fri, Jan 17, 2020 10:46pm - William DePaoli Bryan Rust hits 20 goal plateau Bryan Rust scored his 20th goal of the season and added an assist in the Penguins 2-1 win. Rust has 20 goals and 22 assists in just 34 games Sidney Crosby shines in return to action With a goal and 3 assists in his first action since Nov 9, Sidney Crosby collects a four point night in the 7-3 win over the Wild Tue, Jan 14, 2020 10:38pm - William DePaoli Bryan Rust sets career-high in goals —Career High: 19 goals in just 32 games this season — Copyright © 2008-2020 Inside Pittsburgh Sports LLC. All Rights Reserved. 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__label__wiki	0.63899	0.63899	Actavis Group PTC EHF & Anor v Pharmacia LLC [2014] EWHC 2611 (Pat) (24 July 2014) Russia: proposed changes to protection of descriptive trade marks Бизнесу запретят патентовать изображения и категории товаров says Izvestia (Известия - the font it uses for the masthead, which looks unchanged from Soviet times, is beautiful), committing the journalist's inevitable sin when writing about intellectual property, because that third word is part of the word 'to patent' and this is clearly a trade mark story. It concerns a proposal to stop the registration of trade marks comprising descriptive words or images of products themselves - a crispbread manufacturer registered a picture of their product as a trade mark and allegedly used it to create a monopoly, and other similar instances are cited in the article, which Google Translate can help you understand. There is also a blog entry from World Trademark Review here which is in English. At present this is just a proposal before the Federal Council, the upper house of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (you might be surprised to find that the word for 'Council' is 'Soviet' - they should surely have found a synonym), but it is interesting to see another country grappling with overstrong trade mark protection. An interagency working group is being set up to consider the problem. Its conclusions might be something from which the European Union could learn. Review of EU copyright rules - result of public consultations The result of the public consultations on the Commission's review of EU copyright rules has been published here. More information about the consultation itself can be found here. Survey evidence allowed in trade mark litigation I had it in the back of my mind that Enterprise and Europcar were related undertakings, the impression dating back to when a friend was a senior executive with Enterprise in Florida - and I realise that we are talking about when INTA met in Orlando, which was probably about 1997. So it would not be surprising if things were now different in the car rental world. Indeed, back then Enterprise were not themselves in the European market. In Enterprise Holdings Inc v Europcar Group UK Ltd & Anor [2014] EWHC 2498 (Ch) (22 July 2014) the survey evidence related to the distinctiveness of the claimant's trade marks. In issue was the use of a stylised letter 'e'. Mr Justice Morgan considered the case-law (in particular, the Interflora cases) and judged that, despite criticisms raised of the survey in this case, it should be allowed. A useful review of the authorities, not a case that makes any new law. US: Ford and General Motors Sued Over 'CD Ripping Cars' TorrentFreak reports that copyright owners in the USA are suing Ford and GM on the basis that they are selling cars on which they should be paying a levy - because the cars contain equipment which can 'rip' recordings from CDs and store them internally. Under the Audio Home Recording Act 1992, originally introduced to deal with the problem of cassette recorders, manufacturers and importers have to pay a levy, and the car makers aren't. But the law contains (as you'd expect) exceptions to cover personal use and recording devices that form part of a larger piece of kit, which should be helpful to the car makers. In the UK, the government has historically sets its face firmly against imposing such a levy, so it isn't a problem that car makers here are ever likely to face. Some continental European countries have levy systems, though. How they will deal with cars remains to be seen. Yellow Van Company Ltd v Driver [2014] EWHC 2135 (IPEC) (27 May 2014) Aga Medical Corporation v Occlutech (UK) Limited [2014] EWHC 2506 (Pat) (22 July 2014) Embracing the open opportunity In a speech yesterday, Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes welcomed the development of 'open knowledge' and called for urgent reform of copyright law: here's the Press release. Her beef about copyright law concerns the effect it can have on teaching and the dissemination of knowledge: educational resources should, she thinks, be free to share. Which sounds fine in theory, but who's going create them without the protection of copyright to ensure that they stand a chance of earning a living from their work? 'It’s a crime', she said, 'when teachers are prevented from freely sharing open educational resources.' On the contrary: it is more likely to be a crime when teachers do share, if they infringe copyright. It's arguably a shame when that happens, but she's got a bit carried away there - and introduced an unfortunate metaphor. She went on to insist that copyright needs changing: “Those rules were designed for a different age, more about limitationand control than creativity and freedom. Holding back ideas from open education to data mining: copyright needs urgent reform.” Well yes, it does, but wouldn't it be better to get copyright back in its box so that there is no danger that ideas receive protection? So generous and indiscriminate is copyright that it's far too easy for its owners to oppress people who do to their work acts that have not the slightest impact on their economic interests - and the best way to deal with that is to make copyright more discriminating, not to punch holes in the fabric of protection. Introduce a sensible test for originality! Labels: Absolutism, Copyright, education FIFA object to design of Rosberg helmet According to Die Welt, FIFA has taken exception to Nico Rosberg's tribute to his country's football team's victory in the World Cup (it has always struck me as slightly odd that the son of the first Finnish world champion should be German, but stranger things have happened). FIFA, who should have learned from the Golden Ball affair not to take such an absolute view of these matters, asserted that including a representation of the trophy on the helmet infringed its intellectual property rights. Really? Which ones? It doesn't look to me like a trade mark infringement - not the slightest impact on the ability of the trade mark (I assume there is one) to identify the source of anything - and anyway FIFA don't sell World Cups, do they? - and if anything the investment function and advertising function will surely be enhanced by such use. By a substantial majority, readers of MarkenBlog agree that this isn't infringing use. And even if there is a potentially infringing act, it's only actually infringing if done without the owner's consent. Not to give that consent is remarkably churlish, and makes the owner look pretty stupid. But FIFA already looked pretty stupid after Golden Balls, so I suppose they had nothing to lose. Actavis Group PTC EHF & Anor v Pharmacia LLC [2014... Russia: proposed changes to protection of descript... Review of EU copyright rules - result of public co... US: Ford and General Motors Sued Over 'CD Ripping ... Yellow Van Company Ltd v Driver [2014] EWHC 2135 (... Aga Medical Corporation v Occlutech (UK) Limited [...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line213
__label__wiki	0.919099	0.919099	Over the past few year’s we have attracted some familiar names to East Anglia’s LeeStock Music Festival. In 2011 we hosted Dodgy and Mark Morriss of the Bluetones. A year later we were paid a visit by New York’s Wheatus and 1990’s British dance group D:Ream. Since moving to Long Melford in Suffolk we have welcomed Space, Toploader, Tom Hingley (formerly of the Inspiral Carpets), Luke Concannon of Nizlopi, John Power of Cast, Tony Wright of Terrorvision and The Lightning Seeds. In 2015 Scouting For Girls and local favourites, Dumbfoundus headlined. In 2016 The Feeling, Hoosiers, Lucy Spraggan and New Town Kings will play for us in the grounds of Melford Hall. Mark Morriss performing ‘Old Man’ at LeeStock 2011 Mark Morriss performing “Old Man” at LeeStock 2011, a song written and recorded by Neil Young for his 1972 album Harvest Dodgy ‘Staying Out For The Summer’ From the album Homegrown released in 1994, Dodgy performing ‘Staying out for the summer’ in front of an excited LeeStock crowd Dodgy ‘In a Room’ This is Dodgy opening their set with ‘In a room’ one of their hit records from Free Peace Sweet Mark Morriss ‘Slight Return’ From the 1996 debut album ‘Expecting to Fly’, Mark Morriss performing The Bluetones biggest hit ‘Slight Return’ Dodgy ‘Melodies Haunt You’ Dodgy performing ‘Melodies Haunt You’ from the album Homegrown, their second album released in Mark Morriss ‘Autophilia’ “Autophilia (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Car)” is a song by The Bluetones, released as their second single from their third album Science & Nature Dodgy ‘Found You’ Performing one of their hits from the album Free Peace Sweet, Dodgy with Found you Mark Morriss ‘Marblehead Johnson’ “Marblehead Johnson” is a song by The Bluetones, released as a standalone single in 1996. It peaked at number seven on the UK Singles Chart Mark Morriss ‘Lay Low’ “Lay Low” by Mark Morriss, released as the second single from his 2008 debut album Memory Muscle LeeStock on the BBC BBC Look East news reporter, Alex Dunlop, visited the LeeStock Music Festival venue to report on and record the 2011 preparations. Mark Morriss ‘The Fountainhead’ Mark Morriss with ‘The Fountainhead’ from The Bluetones debut album Expecting to Fly released on 12 February LeeStock 2010 – The Highlights A quick look back at the LeeStock 2010 music festival in Suffolk. The first time the festival was staged outside at the White Horse pub in Sudbury. The weekend was an eventful one as the show kicked off with Steven Barker; the 2010 LeeFactor Winner Page 7 of 7« First«...234567	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line228
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__label__cc	0.591709	0.408291	About Limor Family Wellness Coaching Teen Coaching Nanny Consulting Sleep Specialists Mental Fitness & Mindfulness Educational Coaching Academic Coaching (Tutors) New Documentary Explores The Effects Of Screen Time On Children A new documentary called “Screenagers” takes a close look at the epidemic we as parents are facing when it comes to our children and “screen time.” While I haven’t had the chance to see the film yet, just the trailer alone sparks some great questions and things to think about. The director, Delaney Ruston, is the leading voice in the film, and she talks through the research she did when her 12-year-old daughter wanted her first smartphone. In the trailer, she says children spend six and a half hours a day looking at screens – not including school and homework time. That’s an incredible amount of time, but it’s a statistic we all probably can relate to. According to GeekWire, which did a review of the film, Ruston presents a great deal of scientific research and medical opinions in the film while also addressing relevant topics like the role technology plays in bullying at schools, violence in video games and body-image issues. She also addresses ways we as parents can put guidelines in place for our kids, stressing the importance of talking through rules and really explaining where we’re coming from as parents. Laurance Steinberg, a professor of adolescence at Temple Univerisity, explains, “The mistake that parents often make is that they assert their authority without explaining it in a way that makes sense to their child.” Children will often come back with, “It’s different now. Everyone has a phone.” And, while it’s true that times have changed, many things about the way children learn and grow into healthy adults have stayed the same. Therefore, it’s so necessary to get on the same page with your kids and monitor the digital world in which we all live in. One of the things that really stood out to me from the trailer is the discussion on multitasking and what it does to children’s brains. I’m sure we’ve all tried to have a conversation with our children – or another adult, for that matter – while they are glued to their phones or video games. The level at which they tune us out or respond without truly listening is frightening. Sometimes, though, people seem to be able to do both (answer e-mails and hold a conversation, play video games while doing homework, etc) with remarkable ease. But, what is really happening when we multitask? Dimitri Christakis, professor of pediatrics at University of Washington, says, “The young, adolescent brain can oscillate back and forth very very quickly, but it comes at a cost.” Ruston goes on to say, “What’s extraordinary about the studies on multitasking is even though you’re doing worse and worse on everything you’re doing, you feel like you’re doing better.” I’m eager to watch the entire film and see what other research is cited, as well as the suggestions for dealing with technology. Scilla Andreen, the executive producer of “Screenagers” told GeekWire, “We have to learn our relationship with food, alcohol, other people — same goes for screens. Ultimately would I like people to look up a little bit more? Absolutely.” I think we have to acknowledge that screens have become just as important of a health concern for our kids as things like eating disorders, drugs and alcohol. Personally, the idea of conscious parenting and the concept of awareness in every day life is something that I believe translates to our children. The more present we are in the moment, the more we are mirroring the behavior we wish to see. We can’t expect our children to look up from their phones when we aren’t willing to do the same. Encouraging genuine conversation, requiring your children to sit at the table without playing video games or watching TV and marking out time for activities like reading, drawing or playing outside are all things we should place a priority on to teach our children about the world outside of the screen. Has anyone seen the film? What are your thoughts? I’d love to hear in the comments section! 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__label__cc	0.677992	0.322008	PeerReview Because collaborations are social works, social problems like dealing with malicious persons or even just errors and inconsistencies must be dealt with socially. At least ultimately. Technology certainly can help (e.g. AuditTrail), but it isn't a panacea. The best way to ensure that the information is correct is through PeerReview à la academic journals. This ensures that actual peers — people with the apropriate expertise — review. There are different forms of academic peer review, however: single blind (reviers don't know the author), double blind (reviewers and authors don't know each other), and occasionally triple blind (editors, reviewers and authors don't know each other). Since it is hard to be truly anonymous in a small academic niche (think writing style), this doesn't always work: power structures remain in place. Transparent academic peer review is practiced by some OpenAccess? sites such as http://ArXiv.org. A page that is universally editable (such as on wikis), while universally destroyable, is universally fixable. Hence, wikis practice extreme peer review. And since wikis have a public AuditTrail (PageHistory, RecentChanges), it's extreme transparent peer review. Other review systems involve annotations like DiiGo, FireTrail (CritDotOrg currently defunct) or threaded discussion like SlashDot. However, these suffer by forcing readers to read both good and bad information before reaching a synthesis. Ultimately, a collaboration works best because peers make up for each others' weaknesses and mistakes. It's not even necessary that all peers work to review, as merely the TeethToTailRatio must be maintained. As a whole, even with a few, the group is then very strong. This is exactly why the Wiki:ScientificMethod is so successful. Strong yes. But in a good sense? Again, successful in what sense? --RichardDrake Successful in the sense that Science is remarkably free of totally bogus ideas. Some may linger, but they will likely be eradicated in time. Strong in the CollectiveIntelligence sense. See also Wiki:PeerReview, and ReversibleChange for some (reversible) means of PeerReview. For a case study in how you can end up with an infinite recursion of PeerReview if you're not careful, see MetaModeration. PeerReview consists of two parts, the PeerPart and the ReviewPart. See also AuditTrail, EnforceResponsibility, AcademicPeerReview, and the GuildModel of peer review. CategorySoftSecurity I believe this focuses almost exclusively on the ReviewPart, which is the actual content of the review. The other significant part of peer review is in selecting (or assessing) the reviewers, or the PeerPart. This is in my opinion given short shrift here, and is a large part of what I've been trying to address with systems such as the ScoopEngine. -- KarstenSelf 8 April 2001 One technical option to ensure the community is being diligent with PeerReview is to ensure each edited page was matched with at least one non-author view. This could be done through the access_log alone. However, since the access_log only tracks IPs, it is easy to dupe (edit at work, view at home). This would violate AvoidIllusion, perhaps encouraging people to be lax in their review of others. I'm not a member, but apparently on TheWell they have a system where a host can hide a comment, but the comment can be unhidden by the author if they choose. See also DelayAction, AcademicPeerReview. [CategoryOnlineCommunity] [CategorySoftSecurity] LionKimbro -- Fri Oct 15 21:05:03 2010 I just saw this article: [Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science,] on the failings of Peer Review. It cites Nature, reading: Nature, the grande dame of science journals, stated in a 2006 editorial, “Scientists understand that peer review per se provides only a minimal assurance of quality, and that the public conception of peer review as a stamp of authentication is far from the truth.” The lesson of the article, (that I take away, at least,) is that: It's not enough to have peer review. You have to actually be making a concerted effort, to find out: "Is this thing true? Is this thing not true?" It reminds me of the ease of saying, "Oh, the wiki will just clean everything up," that comes up so often in situations involving reworking. No, the wiki won't just clean everything up -- if a clean wiki is what is wanted, then we have to actually arrange for that. Similarly, I suspect that in Science, we can't go, "Oh, Peer Review will just sort it out." No, peer review will not just sort it out. You need to actually be very explicit about: We are searching for the truth of things, and we are organizing our search. What I speculate is that we may actually need a scientific program, with actual buy-in "this is important," in order to find out these kinds of truths.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line249
__label__wiki	0.89763	0.89763	Radio Airchecks Grub Street Interview Parlor Recordings If someone urged you to listen to a CD of recording made in living rooms, you would naturally be a bit hesitant. I was, when presented with "Parlour Recordings," a CD-compilation of songs written by David Simmonds and sung in various living rooms. I gave it a listen. Unconventional recording methods aside, this CD is full of surprises from outstanding lyrics to great overall sound. Each song runs no more than five minutes. Most clock in around two and a half minutes, the length of a pop hit from the 1970s. "Parlour Recordings" is an hour of enjoyable music. I would best describe the songs as folk, with a twist. The songs are an eclectic mix, with music and lyrics by David Simmonds. Though the lyrics are the true stars, in his songs, the music is fantastic and knows its place. Never does music overwhelm lyrics; it's always right to convey the tone of each song. Simmonds has Parkinson's, which doesn't affect his mind. Still, the disease makes it hard for him to sing and play guitar. Thus, he enlists his friends to sing and play his songs. "In Best Before," Margaret Currie-Feuerstack adds the right amount of wry humor to the song, which is about knowing when a relationship is over. Who can't relate to a relationship long past expiration? The fact that Simmonds can write a bouncy song equating marriage with various city signs, that's "Municipal Wisdom," is testament to his skill as a writer. Sjef Frenken puts a playful folksy emphasis on the words to let us know it is all a big joke. Simmonds is a gifted writer. His spare lyrics range from funny, such as "Chipmunk Strut," to introspective, such as "The Most of You and Me." Each song has a different vocalist and each singer brings the perfect nuances to the song. "Canadian Gospel" is in the style of a church hymn and its celebration of the most holy of snack foods-the donut are on spot on. "Parlour Recordings" is a fun listen, created by talent men and women. The CD is a great change of pace from carbon copy pop and insipid teen sensations. CD produced by David Simmonds and Ryan Davies. Ryan Davies engineered the CD; CD identification numbers S17249 and HMA52781. To purchase "Parlour Recordings," call the Ottawa Folklore Centre at 1-800-385-FOLK or locally at 613-730-2887; VISA, MasterCard and American Express accepted. Jennifer Flaten lives where the local delicacy is fried cheese, Wisconsin. She writes about family life, its amusing or not so amusing moments. "At least it's not another article on global warming," she says. Jennifer bakes a mean banana bread and admits an unusual attraction to balloon animals and cup cakes. Busy preparing for the zombie apocalypse, she stills finds time to write "As I See It," her witty, too often true column. "My urge to write," says Jennifer, "is driven by my love of cupcakes, with sprinkles on top. Who wouldn't write for cupcakes, with sprinkles," she wonders. More by Jennifer Flaten: Blame the Fries Transmission Christmas Deconstruct This A Visit to the Vet Even more by Jennifer Flaten The Working Vacation A Bit of a Smell Post-surgical Notes The Bettor Way A Reminiscence Wisconsin Peaches Sea Stories 1 Navidad Negra The Trumpan Show NHL Playoffs as Theatre The Master Dedective CFRA 1968 Why and Wherefore Larger Numbers Tashmoo Pond An Odd Gift In a World Like This In the Subconscious	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line251
__label__wiki	0.682647	0.682647	St Andrews Church Rodney Street-Call This Regeneration. How can a City watch a Grade II* listed building deteriate to such an effect that it is a shadow of itself. Even the English Heretics describe its condition as "very bad". The Old Presbyterian Church on Rodney St. John Moores wanted to use this as a library and resource centre after it was on fire. John Moores were promising to make it structurally safe and give it a fresh vibrant use. So the whole scheme was kyboshed, and the decay set in really hard. Now at this precise moment there will be a load of shifty developers waiting for it to completely fall down But now, as if to make matters worse, it has a shed on it. Steve "Ronnie" Corbett at the waste full Liverpool Conservation (sic) Office wanted to store his garden tools and lawn mower on the top of it. While Chris Griffiths the waste of space masquerading as the buildings at risk officer pots his geraniums up there of a weekend. It is a waste, an absolute waste. This building was designed and built by John Foster Jr in 1823. The above picture what it looked like only a couple of decades ago. Its decline was swift. Now this is the picture of St Andrews with Steve Corbetts potting shed on top. Is this a joke? There should be laws against doing this to a listed building anyhow. So what of Malcolm Kennedy and the new buzz word, Regeneration. (code for we are all working for Peel Holdings) Where is all the puff powder PR going. The smokescreen. Every day you read in the Daily Ghost more 'Plumping' about how well its all going, when in reality our some of our historic buildings are rotting. The Old Presbyterian Church on Rodney Street, now gets a shed, on its heavy ballustraded attic. We lost the Welsh Chapel on Penny Lane corner recently http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/05/welsh-presbyterian-chapel-demolished-by.html But what of St Andrews listed Grade II* why has it been allowed to get into this state. Not a recent mention in the local press. Peter Elson once used to be heavily involved in heritage matters! Who is to keep a tag on the decay of our history? Its not all about nicely toned sepia prints. There are vital issues to be raised and those at the local paper need to "Get on Board" instead of inventing fights with Southampton over the Cruise Liner Cock Up Jetty, that the local press have held no-one accountable for, even though the current leader, of the city council, was wrapped up in it all, as part of Liverpool Vision. Our history is our future. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Andrew,_Liverpool http://www.walkingbook.co.uk/liverpool/ Here is a few more sepia prints. SHEDS DIRECT GIVE THEM A CALL 0151 233 5623 ask for Steve Corbett or Chris Griffiths. Further LPT reading http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/07/sheds-direct-new-architectural-craze.html Posted by Liverpool Preservation Trust at Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Labels: Chris Griffiths, Liverpools Heritage at Risk, Malcom Kennedy, Peter Elson, Steve Corbett Strawberry Fools Forever-What Is Beatles History Really Worth? This weekend was the awful Mathew Street, piss up, I mean, Festival. Where they now charge a fiver to get into, your own city centre. Friends of mine come in to busk on Saturday and where threatened with a fine of a grand. All they wanted to do was show off their musical talent for a little appreciation. The Mathew Street Festival no longer belongs to the people of Liverpool. They, the city council, have now taken over and are systematicaly destroying the essence of why it started. At least when it first started, the drunken clouts were confined to Mathew Street and now they are all over town. It is a sickening sight. I couldn't think of a worse and more crude way to spent a Bank Holiday than watching Amy Housewine (yes thats her stage name) and all the other tribute bands that now ply their trades, that were gathered together by the organisers, in a lazy fashion, with little or no real intelligent thought, for a sort of musical jamboree that showcases little of Liverpool. Meanwhile they are removing, if they have not yet done so, the gates from Strawberry Fields. Well, We knocked The Cavern Club Down so why not take all the originality out of the city. Is this the first step to their sale, or even worse being given to Liverpool Museums to make a full set along with Manchester Dock Gates that survived the Luftwaffe's onslaught. Interestingly we have just commemorated 70 years of the blitz. Some people just cant leave well alone. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/10/beatles-strawberry-fields-gates-removed Is this Strawberry Fools Forever. Or is someone at the Sally army who own the site, where the gates stand, getting feeled up for a few quid? Who planted the seed in the field and why isn't our courageous Conservation Officer Steve (Ronnie) Corbett doing anything about it. Yes we know they were taken once, but they were returned they were so hot, they could never be sold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Fields_Forever Is Eel Scales Herr Director of Miserytravel going to buy them and turn them into a Miserytravel bus stop, or cut them into four at a cost 4.2 million pounds and then tell us its great for toursim and he saved them. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-did-merseytravel-spend-42-million.html Or is he trying to get his hands on the yellow submarine and cut that up. Where is the yellow submarine that was once at the International Garden Festival anyway. So last week the Old Sailors Home gates are returned http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/08/henry-pooley-gates-return-can-we-have.html and placed next to John Lewis in Grosvenor-Pool making a new use of the term "Gated Community". So we lose one set of gates and gain one set. Its always one step forward and one step back in this city. HELP! Posted by Liverpool Preservation Trust at Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Labels: Grosvenor-pool, Merseytravel, Neil Scales, U-534 The Lyceum Bold Street-A Whopper Job Well Done! I was astounded when I walked past the Lyceum at the bottom of Bold Street some weeks ago. A giant Whopper a ten foot burger in a bun had been placed on the window of Burger King right next door. Incensed I wrote the the conservation officer, Steve Corbett, who is a waste of time in all matters of heritage, and then decided to bypass him by going direct to Joe Anderson the council leader. I told him that we cannot allow this sort of tacky advertising to go on and advised him that this flagrant breach of planning law was setting a rather bad example, well it was a bloody outrage really. Anything that affects the setting of a listed building or is in a conservation area(unless its the Pier Head conservation area, then they do what they like) requires a planning consent. here is my original post from the 21st June http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/06/lyceum-bold-street-liverpool-how-can.html Fair enough Uncle Joe has delivered and the city councils enforcement officers have told Burger King the 19 externally applied vinyls have to be removed. I think this constitutes a success. A historical Neo Classical building by Thomas Harrison of Chester. Our grand old lady can now rest without the harrowing juxtaposition of a Giant Whopper slapping her in the face. Burger King have also been told that any applications for any similar advertisements on the same elevation would not be welcomed or indeed tolerated. The City Council has also warned Burger King, that, if the advert was not removed formal prosecution would follow. Posted by Liverpool Preservation Trust at Friday, August 26, 2011 Labels: Joe Anderson, Steve Corbett He did himself no favours in destroying JBH as all the fluffy duffys were out in force declaring it a national disaster. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/03/httpwww.html While they dont give a hoop to anything out of Hope Street. I drove down Bridgewater Street and there was a cherry picker and hackers at work, twatting off yet another facade, nothing changes. Its not listed. Steve Corbett says it has architectural merit though.....and thats about it. Labels: 6 Sir Thomas Street, Baltic Triangle, Hahnermann House, Josephine Butler House, Lady Doreen Jones, Maghull Developments, Malcom Kennedy, Sir Trevor Jones, Steve Corbett Call This Regeneration? Liverpool Lime Street A Disgrace. Regeneration, Regeneration, Regeneration. We even have a Regeneration Officer (Code for lets help Peel Holdings) by the name of Malcolm Kennedy. Those in charge of Regeneration seem to concentrate on all the easy jobs while the old stock falls down. The Futurist, that's Ironic, is a mess, left to rot while being so close to the world heritage site it may as well be in it. Last I heard it was being left to fall down by Neptune Developments who wanted to develop the site. On one end of this block we have the Grapes (this block is next to the Adelphi) and the other end the Vines, both listed buildings because of their architectural merit. While we are being spoon fed about Liverpool's (false) new dawn those in charge of Regeneration watch while whole blocks lay in decay. Is it a tried and tested plan. Let it fall down, the city council wont use their powers to have the building kept in a good state of repair. Then the developers claim it is in such a bad condition that the only thing to do is knock our historic pieces of architecture down and then build a modern block of flats. Just to the side of this is the Grade II listed ABC Cinema that those Urban Splash people said they were going to restore ......and then didnt, is rotting away. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/ldpbusiness/business-local/2010/03/22/urban-splash-reaffirms-commitment-to-liverpool-lime-street-and-southport-s-pleasureland-92534-26081951/ As is Littlewoods on Edge Lane that we saved from demolition, only to see it lay empty. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/07/there-was-scheme-to-relocate-school-in.html If only those in charge of Regeneration really were genuine and sincere in the job in hand and stopped dodgy developers in this city letting our historic architectural stock fall down by serving them repair notices. Posted by Liverpool Preservation Trust at Monday, August 22, 2011 Labels: Lime Street Liverpool, Littlewoods, Liverpools Heritage at Risk, Malcom Kennedy, Neptune Developments, Urban Splash The Henry Pooley Gates Return-Can We Have The Sailors Home Back Too? I stumbled across the unveiling ceremony this morning for the Henry Pooley Gates which was part of the old Sailors Home that was demolished in a savage act of civic vandalism when the building was, in not too bad a state of repair. They were just about to pull the curtain and it was fair turnout. Now I am getting sick of people harking on about the past, yes I hear you thinking, what are you saying, but it is true that once the past has gone, what can you do about it? Me and my valued colleagues at the LPT have fought for the future not the past. But, I am sick of looking at old sepia tints and listening to people with a sad lamentation of what we once had...........while doing nothing about it. http://www.liverpoolmonuments.co.uk/gates/pooley12.html The Dockers Umbrella crowd don't seem relevant to me anymore, harking on about how we lost a little treasure, that in reality was an eyesore and was falling down and needed demolishing anyhow. If you cherish your past you will have a good future, of that I am sure. We fought for the future, and preserving what we had was to have been our goal, look at the World Heritage site destroyed and weep. Those Heritage Wallers waffling on about our history while too lazy to do anything about it are of no use to themselves, they will, of course, be out in droves when the last surviving carriage of the Dockers overhead railway is put in the new museum. We tried to save the Manchester Dock Gates from a act of vandalism by of all, the Liverpool Museums, who are supposed to protect our heritage. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/03/manchester-docks-obliterated.html They are now promised, by the Museums Director to be restored and placed in the new Museum of Liverpool. Lets see, shall we, after the very museums, JCB, smashed them to bits. So, on a personal note is it a good thing or a bad thing that the Pooley Gates now seem to look out of place next to John Lewis and appear as a monument to a past tragedy that should never have happened? Should I be thinking is this a good thing that we have spent a fortune reinstating them while care homes close and those inner city's re-ignite? This picture was taken 1oo yards from the newly reconstituted Pooley Gates last night, as there were more riot police turning out to protect our streets from those vandals who have no respect for property. While their city council trashes their own areas such as the Welsh Streets, creating Warrens "War Zones". Is this a new use for the term "Gated Community" where we become a heritage theme park while a hundred yards south the Heaps Rice Mill a listed building lays rotting, and the Police protect Grosvenor-pool and the Dukes Fiefdom. 50 yards the other way, past the awful looking Liver Street Car Park, that the last Unesco mission of 2006 described as truly bad, where the memory of the Mole of Edgehill, is insulted with a awful bit of Jerry building, by a drunken bricklayer, if that's what you could call him, as it is, an insult to drunken bricklayers. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/08/here-lies-mole-of-edgehill.html But its alright the local press say so. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/09/alan-weston-of-liverpool-daily-post-is.html While over in Duke Street the rot continues, while Malcolm Kennedy, Liverpools cabinet member for Regeneration (code for Peel Holdings) and Joe Anderson will be today taking the plaudits for the Pooley gates while doing nothing for the Wellington Rooms or St Andrews Church. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/11/boy-stood-on-burning-deck-picking-his.html I cant make my mind up really, it seems on balance they are better being there, just, even if they serve as a monument to a horrendous past mistake and provoke thoughts of how Liverpool, as a city, is continuing in the same heritage tradition of showing disrespect for its past. Posted by Liverpool Preservation Trust at Thursday, August 18, 2011 Labels: Duke of Westminster, Grosvenor-pool, Malcom Kennedy, Manchester Docks, Warren Bradley Liverpool Looting Their Own Community? And its looting by the very council officials that are now empowered to clean up the "War Zones" that they trashed in the first place with a lack of respect and disdain for the people in their own area. You wont find this in the local press who turn the disturbances into an advertorial for Grosvenor. A Council boss who described government cuts as "severe" and "daunting" received more than £2,000 a day for 39 days' work - equivalent to an annual package of more than £400,000. Ged Fitzgerald, then new chief executive of Liverpool City Council, received salary and pension contributions worth £80,936 between February 7 and March 31 this year, according to the local authority's accounts. The accounts also show that the outgoing chief executive, Colin Hilton , received £113,175 in salary for just two months in April and May last year. Hilton also received £30,000 as "compensation for loss of employment" and a bonus of £26,396. Eric Pickles, the local government minister, last year called Liverpool council "out of touch" after it advertised for a new executive at £197,000 a year - £50,000 more than the prime minister earns. When told of Fitzgerald and Hilton's pay this weekend, Pickles said: "Good Lord. They had said they would be paying less to their executives." Shortly after joining the council in February, Fitzgerald spoke publicly of the "whirlwind" he faced as the tried to balance the local authority's books. "I don't think anybody really knew the size and severity of the challenge that we had around our budget," he said. "I literally .... sat in my office of the best part of a monthly with a calculator where only the minus button was working. It was very, very challenging., "I have every sympathy for all the members of staff .... It took us a lot of working through to balance the budget, and £91m out of a usable amount of £400m was a really big, daunting challenge". A spokesman for the council denied that Fitzgerald was earning a salary of £400,000 a year, but was unable to confirm the true amount. Matthew Sinclair director of the TaxPayers Alliance, said: "These eye-watering pay packages at Liverpool city council are a disgrace at a time when there is so much pressure on the finances of the council and the families who ultimately pick up the bill. Taxpayers should not be asked to accept austerity on the front line but still see a gilded age in full swing in the town hall." Colin "Cover Up" Hilton who was hand picked by Mike Storey and Warren "War Zones" Bradley should be paying a fine for the mess he created as Chief Executive allowing a billion pounds European Objective One Funds being squandered. All three of them were responsible for the Cruise Liner 'Jetty' Cock Up and the trashing of the World Heritage Site...........And whilst not condoning the disturbances what has happened to these people for allowing the destruction of huge areas of Toxteth such as the Welsh Streets. Labels: Advertorial Daily Ghost Aritcles, Colin Hilton, Cruise Liner Jetty, Joe Anderson, Mike Storey, Warren Bradley Mr Brocklebank Turns Into An Estate Agent? When I used to write most of the Brocklebank column it had an edge. We exposed Iliad who destroyed 6 Sir Thomas St, and Maghull Developments for destroying Josephine Butler House, helping to show them up for what they were. Property doing damage had a rough ride. Bernie Turner as a so called historic champion had a rough ride too. I spoke to the new Mr Brocklebank only a couple of weeks ago who assured me that when he went for a free lunch with a property developer he told them "It doesn't mean that I will write anything up about you". Well said old boy. The Old Mr Brocklebank also wrote about the destruction of all the trees in Church Street lobbed down overnight in an act of vandalsim by the council. Even the recent disturbances left the cities trees intact. When Canada Boulevards Maples, donated by the Canadian Government to make a honourable remembrance for Canada's war hero's, and the fallen, in the second world war, he was there writing about it. The outrage. But something has come over very queer with the "New" Mr Brocklebank he now appears to be supporting property developers such as David Brewitt and Alan Beers company, Urban Edge Ltd, who want to build student boutique accommodation in the Hope Street area. This sounds a spun up term made up by a PR company, no surprise when Jon Egan and Co at Aurora Media have been Alan Beers PR for years. WHO’D be a property developer, eh? Mr Brocklebank says http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mr-brocklebank/2011/08/11/mr-brocklebank-regeneration-and-renewal-in-liverpool-what-a-riot-92534-29216253/ Not only does one run the risk of seeing his properties trashed by the baying hordes of rioters who have taken to the streets of Liverpool this week, but he also runs the risk of falling foul of the mobilis vulgaris more commonly known as the planning committee. So found David Brewitt, owner of the Hope Street Hotel, who addressed this week’s planning committee ahead of its decision on his plans to refurbish the old orphanage, on Myrtle Street. The meeting began on a sombre note when Mr Brewitt explained that his other luxury student dwellings atop of Tesco, farther up Myrtle Street, had fallen victim to vandalism. Important it was, he said, that we show that, as a city, we can’t be cowed and are very much open for business. A plea that appears to have fallen on deaf ears, if the planning committee’s decision on the orphanage was anything to go by. In what some might say was a classic “can’t see the wood for the trees” scenario, planning chairman Cllr John Mackintosh ruled that concerns over the fate of the plane trees on Myrtle Street were enough to put the £13m project on ice. Who’d be a developer, indeed? Now I hate the way this planning committee operates but thought on this occasion common sense was being used and they were wanting to protect the trees.......simple as that. Last week Marc Waddington who was at the planning committee meeting wrote http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2011/08/10/row-over-trees-puts-bid-for-luxury-liverpool-student-pads-on-hold-100252-29208619/ Council woodland and tree manager Peter Howsen said if the plan went ahead, the trees would be too close to the new build upper floors and would require excess pruning which would lead to their eventual deaths. He argued for the development to be set back an extra two metres to protect the trees. The week before he spun it up into an advertorial of sorts for the developers. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2011/08/04/13m-to-turn-liverpool-orphanage-into-posh-student-flats-100252-29174661/ The bid to bring the Grade II-listed orphanage back into use has won the support of English Heritage, subject to concerns about the retention of internal features and building materials being allayed. Mr Brewitt said: “Historically it’s a fantastic building which will be brought back into use with minimum intervention. “We’ve tried to take some of the ideas from boutique hotels so we aim to offer the equivalent of the Hope Street Hotel for students. “The accommodation students get these days is quite staggering in terms of quality, but it does appeal more to overseas and postgraduate students. “It’s about the more discerning end, the more studious students.” The old Liverpool orphanage was set up to help the poor children of Liverpool how times change. Lets hope Mr Brocklebank does not become a Daily Ghost PR Plumper. Labels: 6 Sir Thomas Street, Aurora Media, Iliad, Jon Egan, Josephine Butler House, Maghull Developments Warren's War Zones Ignite. The looters were out in force, one got a plasma screen, one got a set of dining chairs, one a dirty movie, and another got a duck house, and not one of them had a hood on. Just what is wrong with society when thieves are operating right in front of your noses and stealing from their own......... and they are the very Members of Parliament that were elected to stop theft, to protect us?. Where has the respect gone? What is wrong with society when the Police are taking back'anders off the corrupted press? What is wrong with society when Matrix officers are sacked by the Merseyside Police for having a total disrespect for the people, be they goodies or hoodies, that they represent?. What is wrong with society when a City Council destroys its own people's hopes by creating blight in whole swathes of Toxteth, Anfield, Norris Green etc, etc? Degenerating huge swathes of the city. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/05/liverpool-capital-of-vandalism.html What is wrong with society when our own city council by its own leaders admission creates "War Zones" while some of his councillor buddies are coining it? While others are dole-ing out millions of pounds of European Objective One funds, y'know the billion pounds that we had to enable us to clean up those "Inner Cities" after the Toxteth Riots of 81. While its alright for a Council to destroy a neighbourhood such as the Welsh Streets, its certainly not if you live there and are at the end of your wits, watching your father duck and dive because he hasn't got a job and has no prospect of one, got the wrong postcode and no education. Never got an apprenticeship, never got a look in on the billion pounds that went into a new museum on the waterfront and blocks of flats that you cant live in. What happens when you can't afford to shop in Grosvenor-pool, that was looted from the people of Liverpool, err I mean given away to a lovely Duke to add to his already sizable fiefdom? What happens when your MP is a hopeless waste of time. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/04/louise-ellman-dame-of-dereliction-time.html Well I don't condone any of the violence that were called riots, by the local press to sensationalize it all. http://condensedthoughts.blogspot.com/2011/08/dealing-with-distortion.html Correspondent calls it a distortion of the facts. Most of the local press are about 12 years of age, and they got a chance in life, what do they know of poverty, some of them even went out of the office this week. But they don't have to get "sussed" everytime they go out for a new sim card. Blame the parents, blame the schools. Blame anyone but yourself at Trinity "Smoking" Mirrors of Oldham Hall Street, filling pages with rubbish about how we are in a new dawn, a new age of prosperity spoon fed through from PR people such as Jon Egan and Larry Nield. While ignoring the true situation. http://blogs.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/dalestreetblues/2011/08/ben-turner-britains-got-riots.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LiverpoolDailyPost-DaleStreetBlues+%28Liverpool+Daily+Post+-+Dale+Street+Blues%29 http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/10/6-sir-thomas-street-every-right-to-feel.html What of the vandals of 6 Sir Thomas Street http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/10/6-sir-thomas-street-every-right-to-feel.html or Josephine Butler House in Hope Street. Are they no better than thugs? http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-hope.html I have already written on these pages of my own experiences during the Toxteth Riots. My current adjacent shopkeeper owned the newsagents in Granby Street where it all started. You would have had to have been there believe the state of Toxteth with decades of neglect. Why is it still a War Zone 30 years later? http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/06/louise-ellman-mp-dame-of-dereliction.html So the so called rioters attacked Lawrence Road, believe me this is a poor area and why? Why didn't the FibDems invest in the area, instead of creating War Zones, now on fire, in Toxteth, that, Ironically Warren Bradley the ex FibDm Council leader, who is a fireman and drives an appliance, would have been called to put out. Did he actually extinguish the burnt out car in Princes Avenue in the picture above? http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/04/warren-bradley-resigns-and-then-is.html What happens for the future, Joe Anderson has to condemn the lost causes on the streets the other night that the Police sorted out (In reality it rained like stink). Yes I would like to put most of them over my knee and tan their arses, but you know what would be better.......give the poor hopeless bastards a job, let them train as a joiner or a bricklayer so they can gain some self respect, so it never happens again. How can we respect hem if they don't respect themselves. Labels: 6 Sir Thomas Street, Jon Egan, Josephine Butler House, Larry Neild, Louise Ellman, Sir Trevor Jones, Toxteth, Warren Bradley Trinity "Smoking" Mirror Get Both Barrels. Sales and profits at UK newspaper group Trinity Mirror have continued their decline in the first half of the year. Revenues dropped 2.9% to £371m in the 26 weeks to 3 July, the company's latest interim results revealed. Profits before tax fell to £28.9m - with underlying profits down 17% to £41.9m. The firm may not itself be immune from the hacking scandal. Three or four cases are due to be brought against the firm, according to lawyer Mark Lewis, who is representing a number of claimants, including the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. The firm said it was still too early to determine what impact there might be on its businesses from the public inquiry or an internal review of editorial controls. "In addition the company has sought and received formal written confirmation from senior editorial executives... [that] they have not nor, to their knowledge, have any of their staff or anyone on their behalf, intercepted any telephone messages, made payments to serving police officers or accessed the police national computer." However over at Oldham Hall Street everything seems fine, Trinity Mirror boosts investment. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/ldpbusiness/business-local//tm_headline=trinity-mirror-boosts-investment-for-future-growth%26method=full%26objectid=29223717%26siteid=92534-name_page.html Chief executive Sly Bailey said: “While the economic environment remains difficult we have undertaken a series of actions to limit the impact on operating profit. “The roll-out of our technology led operating model continues to deliver efficiencies and today we have announced an increase in our 2011 cost savings target to £25m. “At the same time we’re investing across the group to diversify and grow revenues. “Following changes to the national Sunday newspaper market we are highly encouraged by the considerable circulation volume growth seen by our national Sunday titles.” All this while Sly "Arse" Baily got a 300 grand bonus on top of her 600grand salary for making thousands of people redundant and leaving the local press exposed to accusations of shipping their own printing presses out of the city. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/07/liverpool-daily-ghost-reflecting-local.html Did Alastair Machray the grim reaper really become a journalist to sack hundreds of people. The real reason for loss of circulation is you just cant trust them at Trinity "Smoking" Mirror Group. Labels: Alastair Machray, Trinity "Smoking" Mirror Group Liverpool Burning-Toxteth Riots, Deja Vu I sat watching the news last night and I heard the Police Sirens, just as I saw the image of a burning building in Tottenham. It looked strangely like the Rialto burning all those decades ago. I thought, oh no not again, not 30 years after the Toxteth riots. I recall thinkng where would they start would it be the deprived area of Toxteth which has had nothing of investment, when the city centre half a mile away has been flat-ulated? Would it be Anfield? that looks like Beirut in places, or the Boot estate? Norris Green maybe? No it was Lodge Lane, 30 years ago I seen the riots first hand. Now I am lucky enough to not be there. This morning I saw the Police Dog Vans parked up at Canning Street Police Headquarters where I served part of my apprenticeship and the Police car parked outside John Lewis at Grosvenor-pool that cost a billion pounds. What good is this when you have no money I thought, it only serves to wind up the deprived section of society, the have nots. The front page of The Daily Ghost said "Speed cameras could be axed on Merseyside as councils struggle with cuts" What!!http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2011/08/09/speed-cameras-could-be-axed-on-merseyside-as-councils-struggle-with-cuts-92534-29201951/ The Echo carried a picture of a burning Liverpool and a statement from the Police on how they were caught out. Is this a lack of funds through Tory cuts? http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news//tm_headline=merseyside-police-assistant-chief-andy-ward-proud-of-his-officers-but-admits-force-were-caught-out-initially%26method=full%26objectid=29204172%26siteid=100252-name_page.html Princes Avenue was also an area last night where cars were set alight. Joe "tea and sympathy" Anderson condemns the violence in his buddy Liouse Ellman constituancy. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/04/louise-ellman-dame-of-dereliction-time.html What has she been doing? Why is this area still deprived? The Dame of Dereliction. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news//tm_headline=liverpool-council-leader-joe-anderson-mayor-mps-and-community-workers-condemn-last-night-s-riots%26method=full%26objectid=29204127%26siteid=100252-name_page.html The Echo says http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news//tm_headline=voice-of-the-echo-liverpool-mustn-t-let-these-yobs-ruin-everything-we-have-achieved-with-mindless-violence%26method=full%26objectid=29204193%26siteid=100252-name_page.html "It took Liverpool 30 years to rebuild a pride and a reputation shattered by the ravages of Thatcherism and the riots of Toxteth. Two or three more nights like last night is all it will take to destroy them again". That's easy for an editor Alastair Machray who along with the Daily Ghost lives on the Wirral. The comments section talks about lack of respect for the Police. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2011/08/04/five-merseyside-police-matrix-officers-sacked-over-mobile-phone-pictures-taken-during-raids-100252-29174703/ 5 Matrix officers were sacked last week for lewd behaviour. How can you respect these thugs. This violence may be motivated by a lack of respect, I must admit whilst condemning any violence I lost respect too when I realised the Police got paid by the press. So 30 years on The Regeneration con continues and the streets are burning again. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/06/louise-ellman-mp-dame-of-dereliction.html I know I was there last time, Just what is going to happen tonight? Labels: Alastair Machray, Joe Anderson, Louise Ellman, Toxteth Wellington Rooms-Call This Regeneration. The Wellington Rooms-Liverpools Disgrace. They at the City Council talk of Regeneration and even have a Regeneration Officer appointedbyJo Anderson called Malcolm Kennedy, who it appears, to my mind, is so wrapped up with Peel Holdings that he cant see the true nature of our citys historic past. What is the point in letting this historic building rot. Here is a picture taken in 1989 by Jeremy Hawthorn, I hope he won't mind me using it. I am revisiting a plea I made years ago. click on the pic as a demonstration to save the buildng was unfurled all over it It was on a calender that was published by The Nerve a local magazine that does its best to highlight some of the rubbish put out by council spin doctors. http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/ How can this building be left to rot after a billion pounds of European objective one funding has been swagged to the cronies who have contacts in the North "Vested Interest" Development Agency. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/06/joe-anderson-to-save-liverpools.html What will Joe Anderson the Tory Cuts Reaper do. Here is Correspondents take on the situation. http://condensedthoughts.blogspot.com/2011/01/joe-anderson-implements-tory-cuts.html The Wellington Rooms in Mount Pleasant were once described as a ‘house of mirth and revelry’. They were erected after funds were raised by public subscription in 1815. An Adaptation of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates of Athens, which was illustrated in the influential publication by Stuart and Revelt Antiquities of Athens. It had a porch on one side for the setting down of sedan chairs. The Portico was originally open but was found to be draughty and a disfigurement to the original design was made with the blocking up. A ballroom of some 80ft by 40ft it had a card room and a supper room. It was thought to have been frequented by the upper classes, as subscription balls, assemblies and occasional fancy dress balls. How that description conjures up the most remarkable images of Georgian Liverpool. A Maritime City at the nucleus of its upward growth taking it to the city of its height in the early 20th century. I grew up with it being known as The Irish Centre in the 70s and 80s, and ignorant of these facts relating the building back to the Battle of Waterloo and Napoleons defeat by the then axis powers under the leadership of the Duke of Wellington. It was 2008 that I highlighted its plight in a walkabout with Peter Elson. And this Georgian gem still rots. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-special-features/2008/01/29/living-on-the-eve-of-destruction-64375-20405391/ This was for the Daily Ghost. The deterioration seems to have been helped by the lead on the roof going missing. What state inside to the plasterwork? There were ghastly plans to develop it by sticking a rubic cube sort of extension on the back, this was done by a consortium of Flanagans, the local builders. Did one of the Flans go to Shanghai as a guest of one of the senior, very senior members of the council. The plans looked more like a sketch on the back of a jerry-builders ciggy packet than a professionals work . http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/tm_method=full&objectid=20615285&siteid=50061-name_page.html On the English Heretic at risk register for as long as I can remember. Henry Owen John http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-special-features/2008/03/22/the-changing-face-of-liverpool-64375-20658839/ the area director should be ashamed of himself as should the joker who was the Historic Buildings advisor Peter De Figeurido who let it rot while sucking up to the developers of Mann Island, who it is alleged is now working for Peel Holdings. Click the link above to see him and the Reichmarshal Nigel Lee making excuses after my article sent waves out about the neglect. Waffling on about the joke about Liver Building Controversy. While today the Royal Liver is to leave its spiritual home. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news//tm_headline=jobs-axed-as-royal-liver-head-office-in-liverpool-to-close%26method=full%26objectid=29196403%26siteid=100252-name_page.html With the loss of 110 jobs. Now there is contoversy. http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/190609north_west_2009_har_register.pdf And what of Chris Griffiths and Steve Corbett of the useless Liverpool Conservation office. Next to it and with objective one funding an extension was built on the Gibbard Cathedral, that Oscar Niemeyer rip off, Paddys Wigwam while this wonderful little Georgian gem lies there, rotting, a forlorn looking Mausoleum to Liverpools Regeneration Con. A disgrace. The Council Have Powers to Save This Historic Gem. Labels: English Heritage, Henry Owen-John, Joe Anderson, Liverpools Heritage at Risk, Malcom Kennedy, Nigel Lee, Peter de Figeurido, Steve Corbett Merseytravel-Mark Dowd and his Expense Claims Are To Be Investigated By The District Auditor. This time it is Councillor Mark Dowd under the spotlight. THE district auditor has been asked to investigate Merseytravel chairman Mark Dowd’s spending on the transport authority’s credit card. Cllr Dowd has come under fire for using the transport authority’s credit card to pay for his attendance at Labour party conferences, theatre tickets, and a trip to Alcatraz in the USA. Merseytravel can state unequivocally that all items of Cllr Dowd's personal expenditure were reimbursed in full in an appropriately timely manner. It was reported. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2011/08/04/merseytravel-chairman-mark-dowd-s-credit-card-spending-under-the-microscope-92534-29174022/ Granada Reports, or was it BBC Northwest ran an expose recently about this matter. They seemed pretty confident about their claims. The Merseytravel credit card spending was revealed in a Freedom of Information request. Cllr Blakeley ecently said it was not appropriate that Cllr Dowd used the Merseytravel credit card for personal expenditure, even though it was reimbursed. Cllr Dowd was not available for comment, to the local press, but a Merseytravel spokesman said he was considering taking legal action against Cllr Makinson, alleging he had made “malicious and libellous claims”. He would wouldnt he. Miserytravel seem to have a habit of wanting to sue anyone who question them. They tried to gag us in what Correspondent called Mersetravel's Clumsy Attempt at Censorship. http://condensedthoughts.blogspot.com/2011/05/merseytravels-clumsy-attempt-at.html Meanwhile the City does not even have a landing stage. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/05/neil-scales-of-miserytravel-where-is.html For the Mersey Ferries. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/05/ferry-across-mersey-miserytravel.html Despite Millions being spent by Herr Director Neil Scales. Watch Neil Scales talking about his folly the U-534 that he instructed to be sectioned and got annoyed because it was suggested he was a Moron for cuttig up a piece of history that was rscued and arged to Liverpool. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/05/neil-scales-and-merseytravel-spend.html The Miserytravel Gravy Train and its Senior Management Are, in my opinion, Out Of Control. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-did-merseytravel-spend-42-million.html Labels: Merseytravel, Neil Scales Do We Need Another Tesco In James Street. Tesco-pool The New Name for Liverpool. Will the people in Hope Street who, it was claimed, stopped Tesco from opening a store in their cherished zone, their beloved street, even be bothered to bat an eyelid............if Tesco, were to open a store in James Street. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/09/tescopool-is-there-hope-in-liverpools.html http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/09/tescopool-power-to-people.html http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2009/08/tesco-pool-invasion-of-business.html http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/05/welsh-presbyterian-chapel-demolished-by.html Are Tesco taking over the city. Shall we just rename the city Tesco-pool. Labels: Tesco-pool, Tesco-pool the new name for Liverpool LIVER BUILDING DENIGRATION-By Liverpool City Council Why are we paying Liverpool city council officials to bring down the Liver Buildings as a symbol of the city? To Denigrate them. Why are they intent on continually scraping together as much negativity about the Liver buildings as they possibly can. Why does every council official, that you pay, at the earliest opportunity slag off the Icon of the city? Why are these people being allowed to get away with propagating untruths? Is it opinion for hire Peter de Figueiredo http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/09/peter-de-figueiredo-opinion-for-hire.html who was the Historic Buildings advisor for English Heritage when Liverpool Vision put the idea for the ier Head forward? Who is now employed by Peel Holdings. Well its easy the World Heritage Site has been destroyed and they want you the public to believe there was some almighty controversy surrounding Liverpool's waterfront. See pic above of the Port Of Liverpool Buildings now,with a giant Lean-To. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/07/museum-of-liverpool-nominated-for.html There was no controversy whatsoever, there may have been debate and sour grapes on the part of the owners of the Port of Liverpool Building who wanted their building to be the symbol of the city............and that's it. There is no credible reason for anyone to state there was controversy at the time of the building of the Port of Liverpool Buildings and the Liver. Unless you had no pride in the city and had vested interests in slagging off the Liver Buildings. So lets ask who it is doing it, Joe Anderson recently defended Peel Holdings proposals several times by slagging off the Liver Buildings believing that if he says it enough times the public would believe it.......what is the point in that, why bring down your city. Why Denegrate. http://m.bdonline.co.uk/comment/debate/is-liverpool-waters-a-threat-to-the-city%E2%80%99s-heritage?/5021960.article He says "This week, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the iconic Liver Building. At the time of its construction, it too was hugely controversial and divided opinion. A century on, a Liverpool waterfront without the Liver Building is completely unthinkable". This was in BD magazine. See Terminal Ferry Carbuncle above for controversy. Every opportunity they send a councillor out to top up the untruths....so you may believe them eventually. Paul Brandt did the same denigrating speech, yards away from me while I was waiting to do a BBC Northwest interview, he did almost say “When they built the Liver Buildings, err hundreds, err, and then covered himself, err, tens of years ago”, reminiscent of the famous Warren Bradley “When they built the Liver Buildings 800 years ago” speech on BBC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?http://www.liverpoollabour.org/NewsandPictures/Warren_Bradley_Confusion_Over_Three_Graces.aspx The Labour Party even have a swipe at him on their website. Paul Brandt was very active before the last election. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/04/mann-island-is-penny-finally-dropping.html Talking about The Three Black Coffins at Mann Island, he said. “I like the buildings. I think they’re great buildings, but I think they’re in the wrong place or on the wrong scale or massing. (Clever man). http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/04/26/protected-views-of-liverpool-s-three-graces-lost-to-new-mann-island-development-92534-26317623/ Funny That I didn’t see him or hear him objecting he then continues. It seemed to me to be madness to be downgrading views of some of our architectural heritage in a way that might make it less attractive to visit, especially as these areas were deemed to be so exemplar that they were given World Heritage status. “It’s a major piece of investment and what was there before – the Mann Island car place – was hardly exemplar.” He added that the building’s impact on the views has not taken him by surprise because he had looked at models of the area before they were built. But he said: “I’m deeply disappointed that those views are now being lost. It’s bizarre that Liverpool residents now have to go to Birkenhead to see that best view of the Three Graces.” Interesting............... So is it a Liverpool City Council directive, right from the top that states, if you get any opportunity slag off the Liver Buildings, while you are there make up a load of bull about controversy a hundred years ago and then this may justify the current carbunculation crop? Is it because they want Joe Andersons friends at Peel Holdings and their lobby group DLIB, led by Frank McSpiv, to be given a free hand, something that Unesco will now stop, by giving the DCMS directives, that will in turn be passed on with planning orders, to the inept and pathetic Liverpool planners, who cant even read their own planning documents. That were prepared to stop, under Unesco directive, them cocking up the rest of the WHS, away from the Liver Buildings. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2011/07/liverpool-waters-back-to-drawing-board.html pic Joe Anderson with Lindsay Ashworth of Peel Holdings So lets see if you, if you the public, believe the Liver Building lies, could you then be stupid enough to think that the complete architectural carbunculation of Liverpool's Pier Head, a World Heritage Site will be alright, because in some distant time in the past it was all thought to be controversy and you will all love it one day. If I tell you enough times Joe Anderson is clever and understands our architectural history, will you believe me..............not a chance. They have cocked it up the symbol of the city Joe Anderson as part of Liverpool Vision did it, and they at the Council, think if they lie to you often enough it will pull the wool over the public eyes. I think the good people of Liverpool are clever enough to see through the LIVER BUILDING LIES and see the only thing that is controversial about the Liver buildings is why our own city council are spreading them. Remember what we had. http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.com/2010/05/liverpool-world-heritage-site-before-it.html Labels: Downtown Liverpool, Frank McKenna, Joe Anderson, Lindsey Ashworth, Liverpool Vision, Peel Holdings, Peter de Figeurido St Andrews Church Rodney Street-Call This Regenera... Strawberry Fools Forever-What Is Beatles History R... Another Hacking Scandal-Right In Front Of The Live... Call This Regeneration? Liverpool Lime Street A Di... The Henry Pooley Gates Return-Can We Have The Sail... Merseytravel-Mark Dowd and his Expense Claims Are ... LIVER BUILDING DENIGRATION-By Liverpool City Counc...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line259
__label__cc	0.551399	0.448601	NEWSLINK -UNITED KINGDOM-SHROPSHIRE-Big cats in Shropshire: A tall tale or serious threat? There are those who believe pumas and panthers roam the countryside and others who say that without evidence the rumours amount to nothing more than a tall tale. But there have been 14 reported sightings to Dyfed-Powys Police in the past five years. And numerous claims of seeing big cats in Shropshire, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, show that residents across the region have been calling police officers over what they believe is a big cat on the prowl.From large paw prints in the snow to a lamb mauled by a “panther” and a “puma” in a field, alleged sightings have taken place in Telford, Oswestry, Meifod and Llanidloes. Big cats have roamed Britain for hundreds of years, according to believers. Stories of big cats go back to the 1960s and 1970s when it was legal and fashionable to keep exotic animals as pets. Before the Dangerous Wild Animals Act in 1976, the wealthy could take their lion, tiger or cheetah for a walk without even a licence. But the law was changed to protect the public. Savaged lambs and prints in the snow as animals sighted This picture of a suspected big cat lying in a field was taken near Llandrindod Wells in 1994 This picture of a suspected big cat lying in a field was taken near Llandrindod Wells in 1994 2009/10 July, Builth Wells, lamb badly injured, lower jaw bitten off. Panther in area. September, Llanidloes, large black cat sighted in field, size of a golden retriever. 2010/11 June, Builth Wells, large wild cat chased caller. Not a dog, making growling noises. August, Brecon, foal eaten by suspected big cat. September, Oswestry, big cat sighting, running, size of sheep dog. December, Knighton, sighted large animal, definitely cat, passed vehicle in the dark. Tracks in the snow found two days ago. December, Knighton, panther sighting in garden. Large cat, jet black in colour. Large paw prints in snow in the garden, larger than a dog. Possibly large cat. 2011/12 January, Brecon, six years ago reported big cat footprints. Lots of footprints, quite big, see claw marks. January, A4067, sighting of large cat type creature. Crouched as if to spring. In headlights looked brown. February, Brecon, big cat sighted size of large dog. Moved like a cat. 2012/13 January, Brecon, big cat sighted. Size of a cougar, too big to be any local dog. 2013/14 March, Brecon, animal footprints found on Black Mountains, may be big cat sighting. June, Meifod, puma spotted in a field, bigger than a dog. While many owners gave their pets to zoos or put them down, rumours started that some had released their animals into the wild. Enthusiasts also think that they were brought to Britain by the Romans and escaped from travelling zoos and menageries for decades. Over the years each sighting has added a new twist to the mystery of the big cat.READ MORE AND SEE VIDEO LINK-http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2015/01/12/big-cats-in-shropshire-a-tall-tale-or-serious-threat/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line266
__label__cc	0.559914	0.440086	Hindu Temples Hindu Temple-Introduction Hindu Temple-History Hindu Temple-Architecture category: Hindu Gods Lord Krishna is the eight incarnation of Lord Vishnu and the most popular among the avatars of Lord Vishnu. He is considered as the Poorna avatar of Lord Vishnu- that is the complete manifestation of Lord Vishnu. He was born to Devaki and Vasudeva at his uncle Kamsa’s prison cell. According to Bhagavatpurana, the reason for his incarnation is to kill the king Kamsa and there by ensure just rule on earth and also to reduce the weight of this earth by killing many unjust kshatriyas of the earth. The legend is, once Bhumidevi- the goddess of earth, came to Lord vishnu complaining that she could not bear the ever increasing weight of immoral Kshatriya rulers who scarcely provide good rule. Thus Lord Vishnu ensured Bhoodevi that he shall do the needful on his incarnation as Lord Krishna. Lord Krishna inspired the Indian culture; still inspiring it in many ways from the time immemorial. He became the subject of many literature, arts and architecture and what not ! However, the discussion on the historicity of Lord Krishna worship reaches nowhere; some takes the beginning of Krishna cult to the 4th century BC and for many others it all started with the advent of Bhakthi cult through out India in the 14th century. But the fact remains that Lord krishna was an independent deity even in 10 th century AD as is evident from the Jagannath cult in Orissa and of Eastern India. He is the central figure in Mahabharata and Bhagavata Purana- two of the most important Hindu scriptures. As the friend and philosopher of Pandavas, he controls the destiny of many in Mahabharata; the Bhagavat Gita- his divine advice to Arjuna, is part of this great epic. Coming to Bhagavatapurana, his story takes almost 70% of that great purana, which tells the story of all the ten incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The famous Dasamaskantha or the tenth chapter of that purana beautifully describes the life of Lord Krishna, which still inspires many; around the world. At present, his worship is popular throughout India, with many famous temples dedicated to him. In fact, he is a popular deity in Western world too, largely due to the work of famous ISKCON movement. The well- known organization has many temples dedicated to Lord Krishna around the world and in India too. The temple at Vrindavan, near Mathura, is the most popular amongst it. Famous Lord Krishna Temples Dwarakadheesh Temple, Dwaraka Keshav Dev Temple, Mathura Jagannath Temple, Puri Guruvayur Temple, Kerala Udupi Temple, Karnataka Shrinathji Temple, Nathdwara Lord Sriram Lord Parasuram Lord Vamana Lord Narasimha Follow @mytemplesindia In Flickr Stalasayana Perumal (Lord Vishnu) Temple, Mahabalipuram � 2010-2016 My Temples India. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line268
__label__wiki	0.907683	0.907683	Chronicles of Narnia., The voyage of the dawn treader, Fox 2000 Pictures and Walden Media present ; screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni ; produced by Mark Johnson ; directed by Michael Apted The instance Chronicles of Narnia., The voyage of the dawn treader, Fox 2000 Pictures and Walden Media present ; screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni ; produced by Mark Johnson ; directed by Michael Apted represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boxford Town Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Instance, Video Recording. The Resource Chronicles of Narnia., The voyage of the dawn treader, Fox 2000 Pictures and Walden Media present ; screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni ; produced by Mark Johnson ; directed by Michael Apted https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&client=MVLC&isbn=&upc=024543707417&oclc=%28Sirsi%29%201290194/LC.JPG The voyage of the dawn treader Fox 2000 Pictures and Walden Media present ; screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni ; produced by Mark Johnson ; directed by Michael Apted Chronicles of Narnia., The voyage of the dawn treader Based on the book by C.S. Lewis DVD release of the 2010 motion picture Bonus features: Theatrical features; deleted scenes; commentary by director Michael Apted and producer Mark Johnson DVD; Widescreen. DVD ; widescreen (1.78.1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English) and 2.0 stereo. surround (French and Spanish) Context of Chronicles of Narnia., The voyage of the dawn treader, Fox 2000 Pictures and Walden Media present ; screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni ; produced by Mark Johnson ; directed by Michael Apted <div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.boxfordlibrary.org/resource/xevkSByPpco/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Instance"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.boxfordlibrary.org/resource/xevkSByPpco/">Chronicles of Narnia., The voyage of the dawn treader, Fox 2000 Pictures and Walden Media present ; screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni ; produced by Mark Johnson ; directed by Michael Apted</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.boxfordlibrary.org/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.boxfordlibrary.org/">Boxford Town Library</a></span></span></span></span></div> Data Citation of the Instance Chronicles of Narnia., The voyage of the dawn treader, Fox 2000 Pictures and Walden Media present ; screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni ; produced by Mark Johnson ; directed by Michael Apted	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line273
__label__wiki	0.873935	0.873935	Indiana Republican: When life begins from rape, 'God intended' it Wednesday Oct 24, 2012 4:38 AM Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Indiana, said in a debate on Tuesday that "even when life begins with that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen." The remark drew criticism from his Democratic opponent, congressman Joe Donnelly, as well as from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's camp - even as Mourdock defended his words. With 13 days until the election, President Obama tried to fortify his support in Ohio and Florida; meanwhile, Mitt Romney made a big push in battleground states such as Nevada and Colorado. NBC's Peter Alexander reports. During the debate in New Albany, Indiana, Mourdock, Donnelly and Libertarian candidate Andrew Horning were asked about their views on abortion. "The only exception I have to have an abortion is in that case of the life of the mother," Mourdock said. "I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God and I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something God intended to happen." Recommended: Romney shows confidence at Colorado rally Mourdock, the state treasurer who is a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, ousted longtime Senator Richard Lugar in the Republican primary earlier this year. He is locked in a tight race with Donnelly ahead of the November 6 election. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz called Mourdock's comments "outrageous and demeaning to women." Donnelly said that rape "is a heinous and violent crime in every instance." "The God I believe in and the God I know most Hoosiers believe in, does not intend for rape to happen — ever," Donnelly said in a statement after the debate, using the nickname for Indiana residents. "What Mr. Mourdock said is shocking, and it is stunning that he would be so disrespectful to survivors of rape." Romney, who on Monday launched statewide ads endorsing Mourdock, distanced himself on Tuesday from the remark by his fellow Republican. "Governor Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock's comments, and they do not reflect his views," said Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul. Republicans need a net gain of four seats to gain control of the U.S. Senate from the Democrats, or three if Romney wins the White House. Republicans began 2012 in a strong position, but have suffered some self-inflicted wounds. In Missouri, Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin prompted an uproar by saying women's bodies have defenses against pregnancy after "legitimate rape," and now trails in his race. Mourdock issued a statement after the debate that said: "God creates life, and that was my point. God does not want rape, and by no means was I suggesting that He does. Rape is a horrible thing, and for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick." A September Howey-DePauw poll put Donnelly up by 2 percentage points over Mourdock, 40 to 38 percent, with 7 percent for Horning.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line276
__label__wiki	0.83861	0.83861	Advertising - Letters to the Editor - Contact Us - Past Issue Archive Home Calendar Classifieds Subscriptions Caribbean Weather Subscribe to ALL AT SEA Water Vehicle: All At Sea - The Caribbean's Waterfront Magazine on Facebook Press Release -- May 2010 Issue Adventure has a Name - Dockwise Yacht Transport If it weren’t for Dockwise Yacht Transport (DYT), Mary and Larry Mason of Sacramento, Calif., would not be half as worldly as they are today. The husband and wife have been married for 38 years and run their own power yacht. It’s a Nordhavn 57’ named No Plans that they call a “second home” even though their live-aboard status is typically valid nine months out of the year. “Imagine having your boat at St. Marks Square, Venice, and then cruising the Croatian coast and having over 1,000 islands to explore,” said Larry Mason, who typically fills the role of “captain.” He credits Dockwise boat transport with always getting their vessel to their location of choice with ease. Mason’s wife, who is equally adept at handling the boat, proudly accepts the role of “first mate” and is as comfortable in the engine room as the galley – an expansive area that claims a Sub-Zero freezer, a Miele dishwasher, and a potted herb garden among its cruising-serious amenities. “We navigated through the Montenegro Fjord to the Bay of Kotor on the Adriatic Sea, transited the Corinth Canal and Straits of Messina, and then cruised the French and Italian Rivieras before entering the Grand Harbour at Valletta, Malta. Dockwise made our dream of exploring the Mediterranean a reality when they first delivered our yacht from Martinique to France in 2006,” said Mason, citing DYT’s yacht transport as both wondrous and practical. Dockwise has a total of four yacht carriers including the 686-foot (209 meter) super ship Yacht Express. They use the float on/float off loading method that allows yachts of any size to be safely floated on and off as cargo. The carriers submerge themselves by pumping nine million gallons of water into their ballast tanks; the vessels are floated into place one-by-one; and then finally they are sea-fastened before the ship pumps dry to prepare for boat transport. The process is reversed to allow the yachts to safely disembark once they reach their final destinations. “Most yacht owners are well aware of the risks and expenses involved in sailing or powering across the ocean,” explained DYT’s President, Clemens van der Werf. “DYT provides fixed route yacht shipping services so owners can enjoy the benefits of Caribbean or Mediterranean cruising without having to actually sail there themselves.” For the Masons—who were brand new to power boating when they bought No Plans in 2005—crossing the Atlantic on their own wouldn’t have been an option in the first place. “The only experience Larry had was from 40 years ago when he owned a 10-foot catamaran sailboat for all of two years,” said Mary last summer in Newport, R.I., aboard the DYT carrier Yacht Express. With No Plans fully floating in the ship’s dock bay and soon due for departure under its own power, her husband was conducting a routine systems check in the wheelhouse before starting the engines as focused as any commercial airline pilot during pre-flight. At any sign of a possible problem, Mary leaped like a cat to make an adjustment somewhere, sometimes disappearing into the bowels of the vessel but always re-appearing with a smile and an all-clear message. This had been the return trans-oceanic boat transport trip for No Plans, and the Masons were now proud veterans of four cruising seasons (generally February through October) in the Mediterranean. With this adventure over, however, it wasn’t too soon to begin planning for their next. Currently, the Masons are in Papagayo, Costa Rica, having delivered No Plans on its own bottom with two experienced friends last February. The voyage, which started in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., took them to Mexico, then Belize and Roatan (off the coast of Honduras) and the islands of San Andrés and Providencia (Colombia).No Plans then continued through the Panama Canal before heading north in the Pacific Ocean to stop in Costa Rica. “We arrived in Costa Rica a week ago and were sad to learn we had just missed the Dockwise going north,” said Mary Mason, recognizing a new sort of irony in the name written so matter-of-factly on their boat’s transom. “We would have loved to have loaded and shipped No Plans to Vancouver. We needed a break after the long transit, tough weather and shallow waters.” But not ones to stress, the Masons simply adjusted their schedule for a longer stay in Costa Rica and plan to take the trip north by using one of the Dockwise yacht carriers in November. “We have used Dockwise yacht delivery services for two Atlantic crossings,” said Larry Mason, pointing out that Dockwise takes care of customs paperwork and includes insurance for each of its voyages, “and we will work with them to get No Plans to the next great cruising ground of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Another dream to become reality!” According to DYT’s Van der Werf, everyone has a different reason for relying on Dockwise. “Whether it’s a couple like the Masons fortunate enough to be exploring the world as they are, a boat captain needing to get to the Med to meet a charter schedule, or a big-game fisherman seeking hallowed ground for catching giant blue marlin, one of the beauties of owning a boat is that you can transport it anywhere you want.” DYT's global yacht transport routes for its semi-submersibles include the U.S. East Coast (Newport, Rhode Island and Port Everglades, Florida), the Mediterranean (Toulon, France; Genoa, Olbia and Taranto, Italy; Marmaris, Turkey; Palma de Mallorca, Spain), Northern Europe (Southampton, UK), the Bahamas (Freeport), the Caribbean (St. Thomas and Martinique), the Pacific West Coast (Golfito, Costa Rica; La Paz and Ensenada, Mexico; and Vancouver, B.C., Canada) and the South Pacific (Papeete, Tahiti; Auckland, New Zealand; and Brisbane, Australia). “The bottom line is we don’t have to worry about a thing when our boat is making a Dockwise trip,” said Mary. “They take care of the hard part before leaving us in friendly cruising country.” Talking Turkey After not servicing Marmaris, Turkey, for some time now, DYT is re-introducing this port of call on its schedule in June of 2010, with a voyage that originates in either Newport, R.I. or Port Everglades, Fla., and also services Palma on the way. The voyage then returns from Marmaris via Taranto, Italy (gateway to Croatia) and back to Port Everglades, then Newport, in September/October of 2010. “We adjust our schedules to follow the migratory habits of our clients, said Van der Werf. “It is exciting for DYT that nautical tourism along the Adriatic coast has been experiencing steady growth over the past few years.” Lift-On/Lift-Off as a DYT Option Even though its schedule with the semi-submersible yacht carriers regularly covers main harbors around the world, as well as more unique destinations, DYT recognizes that it can’t meet every demand for location or timing with its own ships. Therefore, the company has entered the lift-on/lift-off market, offering the same dogged professionalism and attention to detail in servicing this alternative method ofyacht transportation which is adaptable mostly to smaller yachts that are more easily placed in cradles on the deck of cargo ships. “Owners still work directly with our DYT loading masters and service managers, utilizing the most sophisticated systems for flawless handling of logistics and interaction of transportation routes,” said Van der Werf. With its lift-on, lift-off offerings, DYT has serviced the following ports thus far this year: Dubai (UAE), Genoa (Italy), Jacksonville (Florida), Palma de Mallorca (Spain), Phuket (Thailand), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Singapore, and Southampton (UK). More about DYT Dockwise Yacht Transport (DYT), headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, specializes in the maritime transport of private luxury yachts and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dockwise Ltd., the global leader in maritime transports and installation. DYT's fleet of four ships utilize semi-submersible dock bays that allow yachts of any size to be safely floated on and off as cargo. Since its maiden voyage in 1987, the company has transported over 10,000 motor and sailing yachts to various destinations around the globe, offering owners and charterers safe and easy access to many of the world’s premier cruising grounds. Along with area representatives around the globe, DYT has additional operating offices in Italy, Martinique and Newport (RI). For more information, visit http://www.yacht-transport.com or contact Catalina Bujor, Dockwise Yacht Transport, 954-525-8707, pr@dockwise-yt.com. 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__label__cc	0.680784	0.319216	Peten Paja My endeavors into the world of electronics and microcontrollers ERIC-1: CPU Upgrade I recently got a delivery of two brand new W65C02S chips from Coltek UK (£9 for two chips including shipping to Finland, not bad!). Now, if this didn't ring a bell, here's some news for you: 6502 microprocessors are still made even today. According to Western Digital Center (WDC), the owners of the 6502 intellectual property, hundreds of millions of 6502s are still made each year. Applications listed on their website includes scanners, toys, dashboards, industrial controllers and all sort of other embedded device, the list is long. Not bad for a CPU made over 30 years ago! The processor chips I received are from these newer generations of 6502s made by WDC and they have some major improvements over the old Rockwell 6502 I had obtained earlier. First, the W65C02S version has a fully static design, meaning that it no longer loses the state of its internal registers if the clock is stopped. This makes single-stepping and halting the CPU much easier. I no longer have to wait for the clock and R/W to be high when stopping the CPU. Nice! Also there is a new pin, the bus enable BE pin. When it is low, the address, data and R/W pins go to high impedance state (meaning they are essentially disconnected). This is a really handy feature that can be taken straight away into good use in ERIC-1. The W65C02S can also support clock frequencies up to 14 MHz (max for a Rockwell 6502 is 4 MHz). The breadboarded ERIC-1 probably can't sustain clock frequencies that high due to stray capacitance effects and long wires of the breadboard, but it's good to have that option when I will eventually build this on a PCB. WDC also has implemented a few new opcodes but I haven't taken a closer look at them yet. The W65C02S is almost a direct replacement for the R65C02 but there are a few important details. The RDY pin is now bidirectional when it used to be only an input pin. There's a new instruction WAI that puts the RDY pin into output mode. Therefore it's important that this pin is not pulled up by connecting it directly to VCC or you could risk causing a short if the pin goes to output state. Instead a pull up resistor needs to be used. Well, I was already doing that so no problem. Another gotcha is the new function of pin 1, which used to be GND on Rockwell but it's now an output pin. According to the datasheet pin 1 is now labeled Vector Pull (VPB) which indicates that a vector location is being addressed during an interrupt sequence. I don't know what it is used for but better leave that unconnected. With the new BE pin I was hoping to get rid of the 74HC541 buffers that I was using the detach the 6502 from the address bus when the coprocessor needs to access memory. I replaced the old Rockwell with a W65C02S and replaced the buffer chips with jumper wires. I also needed to invert the sense of the BE signal in the ATmega firmware: 74HC541 have OE which is active low, where as BE is active high on the W65C02S. I made the changes and everything seemed to work correctly. After some time however I noticed a problem. The ATmega refused to be reprogrammed. I'm using an USBTiny programmer to update the ATmega firmware and it is connected to the SPI pins of the ATmega. The same pins are also mapped to I/O port B which is connected to the address bus on the 6502, so I suspected that there must be bus contention going on when the programmer is attempting to reprogram the chip but the 6502 is still driving the same lines for some reason. I disconnected the address lines on the SPI pins and sure the problem went away. This was really strange because the same setup used to work with the 74HC541 buffers. The W65C02S bus drivers must be somehow different than the 74HC4541 buffers or I must have made an error somewhere. It could be some sort of timing issue. According to datasheets the propagation delay for a '541 is typically 10ns and W65C02S BE was max delay of 30ns. Is this enough to make a difference? I doubt it. Anyway, I haven't yet been able to solve this mystery yet. Even with the internal bus drivers of the WDC chip, one 74HC541 must remain for buffering the CE signal for the SRAM chip (when the ATmega accesses memory it needs to take over the SRAM CE signal and the simplest way to do this is to detach the CE from 6502 using a '541). As a workaround for the reprogramming issue, I routed three address lines through the same 74HC541 that is used to buffer the CE signal. With these changes the WDC 6502 can now coexists happily with the ATmega1284P. With two chips gone the design now simpler but I'm still not entirely happy with the results. The strange issue with the firmware updates is still an unsolved mystery and routing the three address lines through the buffer feels like a kludge fix. The kind and wise folks of the 6502.org forum have given me some ideas to try to solve this mystery. I've also ordered a Saleae logic analyzer which should come in handy in debugging these kind of problems. I'll probably revisit this issue later armed with proper tools. The new upgraded ERIC-1 with a W65C02S. Two 74HC541 chips from the earlier design have been removed. Updated schematic. The remaining 74HC541 has a dual duty: it takes care of buffering the SRAM CE signal and also disconnects the three address lines A12-A14 when ATmega's firmware is updated. Follow @petrih3 ERIC-1: Video Memory Interface ERIC-1: Bitbanging the video signal	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line291
__label__wiki	0.945688	0.945688	Εμφάνιση αναρτήσεων με ετικέτα Kostas Katsaros. Εμφάνιση όλων των αναρτήσεων "The Commander of the Abyss": Submariner Kostas Katsaros and the deep sea exploration projects The German submarine U-133, cut into two pieces, lying at a depth of 78 meters near Aegina Island (Credit: Kostas Katsaros) Submarine Commander Kostas Katsaros has spent hundreds of hours underwater with "Thetis", a Remora 2000 submersible and shares some of the unique images he has shot with pierrekosmidis.blogspot.com Submarine Commander Kostas Katsaros Thetis in Greek mythology is a sea nymph or a goddess of water, one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus. Thetis in action The sea goddess gave her name to a REMORA 2000 submersible, which was built in France in 1999-2000 for the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) "The Explorer of the Abyss" The submarine carries two people, the pilot and a scientist, who sit in a... bubble and can reach a maximum dive depth of up to 610 meters below the surface of the sea. On 29 May 1945 “Mars”, outside Patra’s port, crashed into a mine. Due to the explosion and the fire that were caused by the load of the ship (it contained bottles with alcohol), the ship sank and five members of its crew died. (CREDIT: Kostas Katsaros) The submarine's dives are conducted at HCMR's oceanographic vessel "AEGEO" (Aegean Sea), which features all necessary infrastructure for dive support. Thetis, with a total weight of approx. 5 tons, is equipped with modern navigation technology, communication with the surface and seabed survey. Two robotic arms, sensors, samplers, projectors and cameras compose the equipment which allow the submersible to perform a wide range of operations on the seabed. The German submarine U-133, lying at a depth of 78 meters near Aegina Island, Greece (Credit: Kostas Katsaros) The maximum dive time can reach 7-8 hours, depending on the work and energy consumption. From 2000 Thetis has been used in dozens of research trips and with different research subjects: Underwater archeology, ancient and modern wrecks, underwater volcanoes (Santorini, Columbo, Nisyros, Milos and elsewhere), the seabed ecosystems (deep corals) and many more. "I work with HCMR since 2003, my main task is operating Thetis", says submarine Commander Kostas Katsaros and adds: "Diving with Thetis is always a unique experience and each dive has its own beauty". Kostas Katsaros is also a keen Scuba Diver, seen here at the propeller of EUROBULKER shipwreck Read the Greek version	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line292
__label__cc	0.576598	0.423402	ABOUT NVOS CATTLEYA ALLIANCE BRASSAVOLA (Natural) BRASSOCATTLEYA (Brassavola × Cattleya) BROUGHTONIA CATTLEYA (Natural) CATTLIANTHE (Cattleya × Guarianthe) CAULARTHRON / DIACRIUM ENCYCLIA (Natural) EPIDENDRUM (Natural) GUARIANTHE (Natural) LAELIA (Natural) LAELIOCATTLEYA (Cattleya × Laelia × Guarianthe) MYRMECOPHILIA RHYNCATTLEANTHE (Cattleya × Rhyncholaelia × Guarianthe) RHYNCHOLAELIA (Natural) RHYNCHOLAELIOCATTLEYA (Cattleya × Rhyncholaelia) SCHOMBURGKIA SOPHRONITIS BRASSANTHE CYMBIDIUM ALLIANCE CATASETINAE CATAMODES CATANOCHES CATASETUM CLOWESETUM CLOWESIA CYCLODES CYCNOCHES CYCNODES FREDCLARKEARA MONNIERARA MORMODIA CYPRIPEDIUM (Slipper) ALLIANCE DENDROBIUM ALLIANCE MISCELLANEOUS GENERA MASDEVALLIA MAXILLARIA CULTIVATON LYCASTE STANHOPEA BULBOPHYLLUM ONCIDIUM / ODONTOGLOSSUM ALLIANCE INTERGENETIC HYBRIDS ODONTOCIDIUMS GOMBRASSILTONIA PHALAENOPSIS / VANDA ALLIANCE VANDA ALLIANCE ANGRAECUM INTERGENETIC FORUMS & BLOGS THE ORCHID COLUMN SLIPPER ORCHID BLOG ABOUT ORCHIDS - Blog ORCHID NAMES TERMS & PHRASES California Native Orchids Converting the Phalaenopsis to a Hydroponic Environment Comparing the Results of Fertilizing the Phalaenopsis Orchid Oncidesa Gower Ramsey (Division Project) Orchids Cared for by NVOS Members SHOW AND SALE 2019 :: "TBA" 2017 :: "Exquisite Orchids" 2016 :: "Out of this World Orchids" Ribbon Judging Info Member's Plant Sales 2015 :: "got orchids?" 2015 AWARDED ORCHIDS 2015 Cattleya Alliance 2015 Standard Cymbidium 2015 Intermediate Cymbidiums 2015 Dendrobium 2015 Oncidium / Odontoglossum Alliance 2015 Cypripedium Alliance 2015 Phalaenopsis / Vanda Alliance 2015 Miscellaneous Genera MAP - SOCIETIES MAP - SHOWS ORCHID SOCIETIES SHOW VENDORS Phragmipedium warscewiczianum Phragmipedium Rolfe, 1896 Uropedium Lindl. Phragmipedilum Rolfe Phragmipedium is a genus of the Orchid family (Orchidaceae) (Subfamily Cypripedioideae) and the only genus comprised in the tribe Phragmipedieae and subtribe Phragmipediinae. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek phragma, which means "division", and pedium, which means "slipper" (referring to the pouch). It is abbreviated 'Phrag' in trade journals. [clarification needed] About 20 species of these lady's slipper orchids are known from SW Mexico, Central and tropical South America.[1] All members of the genus Phragmipedium are listed in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The genus Phragmipedium is divided into several sections : Phragmipedium : P. caudatum, P. exstaminodium, P. lindenii Himantopetalum : P. caricinum, P. christiansenianum, P. pearcei, P. klotzscheanum, P. richteri, P. tetzlaffianum. Platypetalum : P. lindleyanum Lorifolia : P. boissierianum, P. hirtzii, P. longifolium, P. vittatum Micropetalum : P. besseae, P. besseae var. dalessandroi, P. fischeri, P. kovachii, P. schlimii. Schluckebieria : P. kovachii The exact number of species is still being discussed among specialists : O. Gruss recognizes 20 species, compared to the 15 species accepted by Lucile M. McCook (see References). Most Phragmipedium species are either terrestrial, epiphytic or lithophytic in habit. They show a unique shieldlike staminode, long, moustache-like petals and a 3-locular ovary. The large pouchlike lip is curved inwards at the margins. The acute leaves attain a length of about 80 cm. The stem lacks pseudobulbs and grows about 80 cm high, showing 2 to 3 flowers. Phragmipedium besseae was first found in Peru by Elizabeth Locke Besse in 1981. Soon afterwards, the site was plundered and destroyed by orchid hunters. Luckily enough seed was preserved, to avert extinction. This orchid is unusual, because its flowers have a bright orange-red to almost strong salmon-red color (there is also a yellow variety), unseen in any lady's slipper orchid. The oval-shaped petals are wide. The narrow leaves are elliptic in shape. It has since been used extensively in hybridization. Phragmipedium caudatum is considered a complex, i.e. it could contain several species or subspecies, based on differences in flower size and color. This orchid with a short stem is semi-terrestrial, semi-lithophytic to epiphytic, depending on the substrate . The cream-colored flowers are laced with greenish stripes. The lateral spiraling, drooping petals are red-tinted and very long, even reaching the soil. They grow on wet, moss-covered hillsides. Phragmipedium lindleyanum, named after John Lindley, forms a rosette of five long linear leaves with a yellow margin, reaching a length of 50 cm. The erect raceme can grow as high as 1 m. It is many-flowered and sometimes branched at the basis. The flowers open in succession, giving the orchid a long blooming period. The hoary flowers are green with brown veins. The glabrous, pouchlike lip is yellow, with red veins. Phragmipedium longifolium, described in 1852 by H.G. Reichenbach f. and J. v. Warscewicz, has long laceolate leaves without yellow margin, growing to a length of 60 cm. The inflorescence reaches a length of 1 m, with about 10 flowers, opening in succession. The long lateral petals are purplish green. The rather small glabrous labellum has a green color. Allied genera include Paphiopedilum, Selenipedium, Cypripedium and the monotypic Mexipedium. There are many interspecific hybrids. Rare crossings have been made between Phragmipedium and Paphiopedilum. The genus Uropedium Lindl. is generally included in Phragmipedium. Phragmipedium andreettae P. J. Cribb & Pupulin (Ecuador) Phragmipedium besseae Dodson & J.Kuhn (Ecuador to N. Peru). Phragmipedium besseae var. besseae (E. Ecuador to N. Peru). Hemicr. Phragmipedium bessae var. flavum (Braem) Gruss et Roeth 1999 (Peru) (now synonym of Phragmipedium besseae var. besseae) Phragmipedium besseae var. dalessandroi (Dodson & O.Gruss) A.Moon & P.J.Cribb (S. Ecuador). Hemicr. Phragmipedium boissierianum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe (S. Ecuador to Peru). Phragmipedium boissierianum var. boissierianum (Peru). Hemicr. Phragmipedium boissierianum var. czerwiakowianum (Rchb.f.) O.Gruss (S. Ecuador to Peru) Phragmipedium brasiliense Quené & O.Gruss (Brazil) Phragmipedium caricinum (Lindl. & Paxton) Rolfe (Bolivia). Phragmipedium caudatum (Lindl.) Rolfe : Mandarin Orchid (Bolivia to Peru). (synonym : P. humboldtii subsp. humboldtii) Phragmipedium chapadense Campacci & R.Takase (Brazil). Phragmipedium christiansenianum O.Gruss & Roeth (Colombia) (now synonym of Phragmipedium longifolium (Warsz. & Rchb.f.) Rolfe) Phragmipedium exstaminodium Castaño, Hágsater & E.Aguirre (Mexico - Chiapas to Guatemala). Phragmipedium fischeri Braem & H.Mohr (Ecuador). Phragmipedium hirtzii Dodson (N. Ecuador). Phragmipedium humboldtii (Warsz. ex Rchb.f.) J.T.Atwood & Dressler (Costa Rica to Panama) (now synonym of : Phragmipedium popowii Braem, Ohlund & Quéné) Phragmipedium klotzschianum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe (SE. Venezuela to Guyana and N. Brazil). Phragmipedium kovachii J.T.Atwood, Dalström & Ric.Fernández (Peru – San Martin). Phragmipedium lindenii (Lindl.) Dressler & N.H.Williams (Venezuela to Ecuador). Phragmipedium lindleyanum (M.R.Schomb. ex Lindl.) Rolfe (N. South America to Brazil - Pernambuco). Phragmipedium longifolium (Warsz. & Rchb.f.) Rolfe (Costa Rica to Ecuador). Phragmipedium pearcei (Rchb.f.) Rauh & Senghas (Ecuador to N. Peru). Phragmipedium popowii Braem, Ohlund & Quéné (Costa Rica to Panama) Phragmipedium reticulatum (Rchb.f.) Schltr. (Ecuador to Peru). Phragmipedium richteri Roeth & O.Gruss (Peru). Phragmipedium × roethianum O.Gruss & Kalina (Ecuador) (P. hirtzii x P. longifolium) Phragmipedium schlimii (Linden ex Rchb.f.) (Colombia). Phragmipedium tetzlaffianum O.Gruss (Venezuela). Phragmipedium vittatum (Vell.) Rolfe (WC. & SE. Brazil). Phragmipedium wallisii (Rchb.f.) Garay (now synonym of : Phragmipedium warszewiczianum (Rchb.f.) Schltr.) Phragmipedium warszewiczianum (Rchb.f.) Schltr. (Colombia to Ecuador) Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Albert, V.Z. & B.Pettersson, Expansion of Genus Paphiopedilum Pfitzer to Include All Conduplicate-leaved Slipper Orchids (Cypripedioideae: Orchidaceae). Lindleyana 9(2) 133-139 (1994). McCook, L. An Annotated Checklist of the Genus Phragmipedium - 28 p. - Special Publication of the Orchid Digest (1998). Gruss, O. 2003. A checklist of the genus Phragmipedium. Orchid Digest 67: 213-241. Braem, G. J., Ohlund, S., and Quene, R. J. 2004. The real Phragmipedium warszewiczianum: a clarification of the Phragmipedium caudatum complex (Phragmipedium section Phragmipedium). Orquideologia 23(2): 87-136 Pridgeon, A.M.; Cribb, P.J.; Chase, M.W. & F. N. Rasmussen (1999): Genera Orchidacearum Vol.1, Oxford U. Press. ISBN 0-19-850513-2 Enjoy browsing the Orchids Phragmipedium (frag-meh-pee-dee-um) Culture (commonly called “Phrag”) Written by Andy W The Phragmipedium is commonly known as the South American Slipper orchid and is frequently called Phrag (frag) for short. These are terrestrial growing orchids native to areas of Mexico, Central and South America. These orchids are incredibly easy to culture in the home and often have a blooming period of six months or more. A distinct feature about Phrags is that they produce their blooms sequentially, one after another, after another. Each bloom remains in flower for approximately two weeks while another bud develops. When it is time for the flower to expire, it falls from the stem while still looking nearly perfect. Do not despair, this is common. Once the flowering stem is completely finished producing flowers it will start to turn brown and begin to die back. It then can be removed by cutting it off at the point where it had emerged from the leaf. During the period when the plant was producing flowers, another growth was developing and that is where the next flowering stem will emerge. It is not uncommon to see an adult Phrag produce blooms continually for many months. Published in PHRAGMIPEDIUM Phragmipedilum Jerry Lee Fischer (besseae x Incan Treasure) partial to full shade allow to dry between watering 50% is optimum warm temperature tolerant blooms Summer into Fall Incan Treasure (kovachii x longifolium) did not have a very desirable flower shape, but its size was massive. Crossed onto besseae 'Rob's Choice' 4N, the flower shape drastically improved and created a flower that looks like a huge Don Wimber. This is really one of the most interesting flowers we have produced with a kovachii background. Perhaps one of the best kovachii hybrids to date as of 09/04/2015. Patti T. earned 1st Place at the 2015 October meeting of the NVOS. Published in HYBRIDS Phragmipedium Culture and Potting Medium Recipe Phragmipediums are found in Mexico through South America. Most of the species of this group grow in a terrestrial manner. This may be either loose, forest litter or light, friable soils rich in organic matter. Plants can be found in light dappled shade to sometimes full sun. Rainfall is plentiful in these areas giving way to the common belief that the Phragmipediums should be grown wet. The Phragmipediums can be broken into two major groups. The first group consists of plants that are of an older type of hybridizing using species such as Phrag. caudatum, Phrag. sargentianum, and Phrag. longifolium. The second group consists of Phrag. besseae and Phrag. schlimi. These two groups are considered the “dry group” and the “wet group". Two distinct potting mediums are necessary to grow these different groups. Sunday, 06 December 2015 00:44 Phragmipedium Eric Young Culture of Phragmipedium Hybrids Phragmipedium Orchids (Phrags for short) are my favorite group of Slipper Orchids. There are some 20 or so species of Phragmipedium, which come from Central and South America. They form a group of Slipper Orchids, distinct from the Asiatic Paphiopedilum (Paphs) and the north temperate Cypripedium (Cyps). I felt the need to write this because the older literature generally makes the mistake of lumping Phrags with Paphs in their discussions of cultural techniques. The Phragmipedium are very different in cultural requirements from the Paphs, and really need to be treated differently. I believe the Phragmipedium hybrids are the easiest group of Slipper Orchids to grow in the home. They grow a lot faster than Paphs and are much more forgiving of less than ideal conditions. Hybrid Phrags have great vigor, and when happy can grow incredibly fast and bloom year round. You can't ask for an easier group of orchids to grow. Phrag species are not generally difficult to grow, but I want to emphasize that the hybrids are even easier to grow. These culture tips are pointed more at letting you know what you can get away with while also pointing you toward the ideal cultural practices. Phragmipedium Sergeant Eric (Eric Young x sargentianum) moderate to bright light blooms in February Patti T. earned 3rd place at the June 2015, NVOS "Show and Tell". Phragmipedium Culture Phragmipediums are New World ladyslipper orchids that grow from Mexico through central South America. Most are terrestrial (grow in the ground) or lithophytic (grow on rocks), but a few species can sometimes be epiphytic (grow on trees). The tree dwellers are primarily the long-petaled caudatum types. Some species prefer to grow in the splash zone of waterfalls and on streambanks and can often be submerged during periods of heavy rain. These streams and waterfall dwellers include the species caricinum, kaieteurum, klotzschianum, lindleyanum, longifolium, pearcei, and sargentianum. Phrags flower at various times but most heavily in the late winter and spring. Mature plants of many sequential-blooming species can be in bloom for six months or more. Zapatilla/New World-Lady’s Slipper/Phragmipedium caudatum Phragmipediums are other types of slipper orchids, but these hail from Central and South America. These relatives of the Asian slipper orchids are indigenous to the mountainous areas in Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Bolivia, Brazil, and as far north as southern Mexico. This genus was founded in 1896 when botanist Robert Rolfe separated these orchids from Cypripediums, another slipper orchid genus. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek phragma, which means “division”, and pedium, which means “slipper” (referring to the pouch). It is abbreviated Phrag in trade journals. Phragmipedium (Wikipedia) Phragmipedium is a genus of the Orchid family (Orchidaceae) (Subfamily Cypripedioideae) and the only genus comprised in the tribe Phragmipedieae and subtribe Phragmipediinae. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek phragma, which means "division", and pedium, which means "slipper" (referring to the pouch). It is abbreviated 'Phrag' in trade journals. Phragmipedilum Fireworks (pearcei x Grande) bright, indirect light for bloom-sized plants do not allow medium to dry out between waterings 70% is optimum, air movement is a must warm / moderate tolerant blooms in fall It is advised to use filtered or ‘reverse osmosis’ water to prevent brown tips from forming on the leaves. Bottled water or even water that is allowed to sit for a day before use can suffice. It has been discovered that water containing excess chlorine is especially bad for these sensitive plants. Like Phalaenopsis, do not allow water to sit in the crown of the leaves overnight or on cloudy days. Good air movement is very important. More intense the light, with air movement, the more intense the bloom colors while cooler night temperatures will give better red color development in the flowers. Patti T. earned 1st Place at the 2015 September meeting of the NVOS with her Phragmipedilum Fireworks (3N) (Grande 'Piping Rock' (4N) x pearcei 'Jenna'). All information presented here is for educational and informational purposes only under the guidelines of "Fair Use" policies defined by US Copyright law(s). Some images and select text are protected by respective copyright holders. Material presented here is done so as educational, and "as is". The Napa Valley Orchid Society, it's executive Board, General members and the web site maintainer cannot be held liable for any damages incurred. When necessary, images and texts will be fully credited to the original. 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__label__cc	0.629267	0.370733	List of the Best Rehabilitation Centers in Pune 10 Things You Must Start Doing This Independence Day Drugs, Alcohol or smoking, it all starts with fun and trial which eventually leads to addiction. Naïve young in most of the countries are more prone to such substances which consequently becomes an albatross around their neck and not easy to get rid of. Pune, being one of the most happening places in India, youngsters are vulnerable to addiction and end up getting into de-addiction centres in Pune. Nevertheless, the obsession for such substances makes them extreme recluse from the society which is also known as Schizophrenia and schizophrenia rehabilitation centers in Pune lend a hand to such people to recover. Muktangan Rehabilitation center in Pune It is very well said that actions speak louder than words, and Muktangan rehab Pune has come a long way helping people for de-addiction. 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However, Prendick’s arrival sets off unforeseen events and soon catastrophe looms for all on the island… I said in my review of Martian Invasion, how generally terrifying that adaptation was, and although the interpretation of the Morlocks within The Time Machine, was somewhat lacking it had equally horrific moments. Moreau is easily the most ‘horror’ of all of Welles works, written as a pamphlet against vivisection. Thus this audio features large amounts of body-horror, with detailed descriptions by Hefferman of the inside of Moreau’s workshop. Truth be told the descriptions are not that extreme, but the constant emphasis on blood and the scars on Moreau’s creatures is powerful and leaves the impression of an incredibly graphic tale. Ken Bentley’s adaptation has expertly weaved this horror throughout the entire piece but his crowning achievement is the sequence in which Moreau explains his work and motivations to Prendick. The dialogue in this sequence is utterly chilling and what’s more, like the previous examples, the historical political subtext so important to Welles work is once again inherent here. As stated, Moreau was originally written as a pamphlet against vivisection and (unlike several film adaptations) the means through which Moreau conducts his experiments is still through vivisection and not updated to genetics or any other form of modern science. This works particularly well and the horror with which Welles viewed this particular form of biology is inherent in this audio play. Thus, although comparisons can certainly be drawn, Moreau is not a god-like figure- but a scientific meddler who conducts his work without a care for the creatures he makes. The cast is- as always- exceptional. These Welles adaptations have attracted some talent who are not usually drawn to the more ‘cult’ orientated material that Big Finish usually puts out, but who seems well at home in their ‘classics’ label. None more so than Robert Pickup, who at first comes across as a somewhat kindly Moreau but later transforms into an utterly chilling and inhuman monster. The aforementioned speech he gives about the nature of his work is the golden moment of the entire play, a testament to Pickups superb performance. Hefferman similarly gives an excellent performance, managing to allow his character to come across as somewhat unhinged. This presents a different level to the piece, leaving the audience to wonder whether perhaps his bizarre story is true- or simply the fantasies of a madman. Enzo Cilenti gets some particularly juicy moments and at points comes across as more villainous than Moreau. All in all, The Island of Dr Moreau is another success story in what is quickly becoming the best thing to come out of the classics range. FILTER: - Big Finish - H.G Welles - Classics The Time Machine (Big Finish) Monday, 26 March 2018 - Reviewed by Callum McKelvie Producer David RichardsonScript Editor Nicholas BriggsExecutive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs Written By: HG Wells, dramatised by Marc PlattDirected By: Ken Bentley Ben Miles (The Time Traveller), Nicholas Rowe (Mr Wells), Anjella Mackintosh(Uweena), Nicholas Asbury (Mr Filby), James Joyce (Mr Pollock), Hywel Morgan(Morlock Leader), Christopher Naylor (Mr Naylor). Other parts played by members of the cast. My second venture into Big Finish’s range of H.G Welles adaptations tackles his first novel, 1895’s The Time Machine. Welles story of a man who invents a time machine and travels into a horrifying vision of the future is a tale that should be familiar to many a Whovian as its influence upon our beloved show is beyond vast. That said, it’s not a particularly easy tale to adapt, given that the narrative occurs primarily in the first person with the unnamed ‘Time Traveller’, retelling his story to a group of friends in London. The future world unto which our hero finds himself is not one that allows easy dialogue scenes, as the two species he encounters cannot communicate with him. Big Finish has adapted the original novels narrative style, and what results is something akin to their earlier ‘Companion Chronicles’, with Ben Miles time traveler retelling his tale and other voice actors providing the sounds of the Eloi and Morlocks. An audio drama in this style then relies heavily on the actor delivering it. Admittedly Ben Miles is not an individual I am particularly familiar with, but I am delighted he'll be playing the brooding Callan in BFs upcoming release because here he is fantastic. Throughout the course of the two hours, Miles goes through a variety of emotions, often with no one but himself to bounce off. Not only that, but the nature of Welles 1895 novel means that he is often required to break with the story for sections of discussion regarding such subjects as the class system. Reams of philosophical debate and huge chunks of descriptive dialogue are, with Miles skilled tongue, transformed into mesmerising or terrifying depictions of a future gone horrifyingly wrong. One of the great joys of this version of The Time Machine (and the same can be said for The Martian Invasion of Earth though I failed to mention it in my review) is how much the script revels in its Victorian heritage. Unlike, for example, the 1960 film adaptation (which by the way is still my preferred version away from the novel) this drama doesn’t attempt to update its source material by having trips to events that are to us history but to Welles in 1895, was the future. Not only that but this version sticks rigorously to Welles central theme of class conflict, that is the cause of the development of the Eloi and the Morlocks. So no trips to WW1 here, no world war III sequences and nuclear holocausts. Not only then is it exceptionally close to its source material, but the entire atmosphere of the piece reeks of 19th-century fantasy. Indeed one can imagine that, were the technology around, that a contemporary audio version would have a similar tone. A wonderful score (which includes frightening electronic pieces for the travelers arrival into the future and a beautiful theme for our hero) perfectly captures the wonder present in Welles story, that has been so expertly transported to this version. Which of course brings me to the sound design. In a production like this one can imagine it’s an incredibly hard thing to do after all the soundscape conjured up by the Big Finish team has to stop this piece appearing like a talking book. It must reflect what Miles is saying and compliment it and whilst not dominating the proceedings. Admittedly whilst on the whole, I thought they did a stellar job, there were a few choices which I felt were somewhat uninspired. The sound effects used for the Morlocks, which are made incredibly Simian in this version (I mean just look at the cover) are particularly ape-like and in my opinion a little too much. The Morlocks are on paper, truly terrifying creatures and although there is the reasoning within the plot (Darwinism in reverse) to make them Simian, having them screech like monkeys and nothing else is far from frightening. Perhaps if the ape-like noises had been enhanced somewhat the effect might have been better but as it stands it feels like a missed opportunity. Sadly the same can be said for some of the Eloi sound effects, which come across as intensely irritating and can have an impact on the drama when we’re supposed to care about them. All in all, however, The Time Machine stands as a marvelous achievement and another great entry in Big Finish’s adaptations of H.G Welles. In fact next to the 1960 film, it might be my favourite version of the novel. FILTER: - Big Finish - Classics - Audio The Martian Invasion of Earth (Big Finish) Thursday, 1 March 2018 - Reviewed by Callum McKelvie Written By: HG Wells, dramatised by Nicholas BriggsDirected By: Nicholas Briggs Richard Armitage (Herbert), Lucy Briggs-Owen (Amy), Hywel Morgan (Curate), Ewan Bailey (Daniel), Richard Derrington (Ogilvy), Helen Goldwyn (Agatha), Christopher Weeks (Edward), Benedict Briggs (Boy), Nicholas Briggs (Martians / First Officer). Other parts played by members of the cast. Available to order from Amazon UK The last in Big Finishes series of H.G Welles adaptations, The Martian Invasion of Earth is of course a version of Welles’s magnum opus The War of the Worlds. The story has something of a history on Radio with Wikipedia stating fourteen broadcast versions. Most famously Jeff Wayne created a wonderful musical version starring Richard Burton (later re-recorded with Liam Neeson) and Orson Welles panicked America with his 1938 Halloween broadcast. Admittedly I was intrigued to see how Nick Briggs would handle what he stated was a ‘pet project’, when the story has been done many times and done well. I needn’t of worried however, with Briggs achieving that very rare mix of an adaptation that pushes it’s source material into new and interesting directions, yet allows it to be faithful at the same time. Not only that but he manages to rival the Orson Welles version in how utterly frightening it is. Richard Armitage stars as Herbert Welles (not the first time one of his unnamed characters finds themselves taking their creators name in an adaptation) and it is partly his wonderful performance as a man struggling to keep it together in the face of a terrifying event that lends the play its horrifying power. By adding an extended role to the narrators wife (more on that below) this version works rather wonderfully as a love story. Briggs shows us how the narrator puts on a front for his wife, showing bravery before silently creeping away and sobbing. Armitage makes these moments truly horrifying and it is with this human factor that the play really succeeds. The most startling change implemented by Briggs is the extended role he has given to the protagonist’s wife. In the original novel, the character disappears somewhat early on, only to miraculously reappear at the end. The tome is certainly a mail orientated one and our hero meets no significant female characters. Period adaptation or not, Briggs appears determined to make this adaptation current and thankfully that includes a strong and respectful female role. ‘Amy’) as she is called in this version) is played by Lucy Briggs-Owen who gives a powerful performance and has wonderful chemistry with Armitage. Briggs appears to have invested much time in her character, allowing her to become a wonderfully rounded character. At times she feels of the period and beyond it, having much to do and making meaningful decisions. Coupled with Briggs-Owens acting, she’s one of the highlights of this version. Nick Briggs script also includes several interesting moments of commentary concerning some of the socio-political subtext featured within the novel. This includes interesting moments of discussion concerning colonialism, militarism and religion. At times this is somewhat heavy handed but for the most part it’s effective and certainly allows this version to be current and meaningful. Ian Meadows provides incredible sound design, helping the audio to fully capture the feel of a full scale onslaught with a very small cast. His version of the Martians war cry, is terrifying, particularly when listened to through headphones and mixed with the sounds of screams. The soundtrack is similarly effective, a mixture of bizarre sounds and an epic feel adding to the chaotic atmosphere. Unfortunately it is let down by some ‘bombastic’ moments early on that don’t quite fit with the intimate nature of the horror as portrayed in this version. Thankfully these moments are brief and less frequent as the play continues. For fans of the novel, they really can’t go wrong with this version. Alongside Jeff Wayne’s musical and Orson Welles 1938 version, this has to be one of the best adaptations of the novel. Nicholas Briggs really has outdone himself and along with superb performances from Richard Armitage and Lucy Briggs-Owen create a masterpiece and one of Big Finishes best. 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__label__cc	0.664846	0.335154	Basement Songs: Jeff Beck with Terry Bozzio and Tony Hyams, “Big Block” Written by Scott Malchus• October 29, 2009• Basement Songs, Music In an effort to conserve gas and save money, I’ve been riding my bike to the train station on a regular basis. It reminds me of my sophomore year at BGSU, when I’d zip around the campus on the red one-speed I bought for three bucks from my friend, Brett. With my Toledo Mud Hens hat turned backwards and an obnoxious turquoise backpack over my shoulders, I’d ride to classes or just tool around aimlessly with the strong Bowling Green winds trying to blow me over. Accompanying me on these journeys was my semi-reliable Emerson portable cassette player (made from the finest plastic China had to offer). And blasting through my headphones in October of ’89 were my favorite albums at the time: Edie Brickell & New Bohemians’ Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars and Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop. Brickell and her band were the flavor of the month, with a hit single and exposure on the radio and MTV. Beck’s record, on the other hand, was released with hardly any airplay and little press (the only review I read appeared in Rolling Stone). What the mainstream missed was their loss, because this is one killer album. Featuring his longtime collaborator Tony Hyams on keyboards and former Missing Persons drummer Terry Bozzio, Guitar Shop is a solid mix of rockers and ballads. Moreover, each instrumental displays a 45- year old Beck on fire, showing up the hair metal rockers half his age who dominated the radio in the late ’80s. In the movie in my head, when I wanted to feel cool and ride around like I was Mel Gibson on a bike, I would cue up “Big Block,” with its funky beat and nasty guitar solo, and just cruise the campus. Those autumn months in ’89, when the air was crisp and the skies were gray, when the co-eds began dressing in snug jeans and sweatshirts with the school colors — those were carefree days. Sure, there was pressure to succeed and get good grades, but the sense of security the campus provided made me feel invincible. It sometimes surprises me that I was never hit by a car or ran over any pedestrians — although that could have been a good way to meet girls (damn!) — because I was pretty reckless on that bike. Recently, while riding my 18-speed Crossroad bike, I’ve been acting like I was twenty again: reckless. I’ve got my helmet loosely secured under my chin and a tattered old blue backpack over my shoulders, and I ride the edge of the sidewalk with the strong winds of Santa Clarita trying to blow me over. And wouldn’t you know it, accompanying me on these rides is my reliable iPod blasting the music of Jeff Beck through my headphones. Two weeks ago I set off for the train station and realized that I’d forgotten my monthly pass. I made a U-turn and rushed back home. Here’s the thing about pedaling as fast as you can in 15th gear: there’s a danger of losing sense of how fast you’re actually going. As I came up our driveway, the bike veered toward the large cypress trees growing alongside the side. For a split second, I thought I could save myself; then the front tire hit the bed of stones at the base of the trees and I lost control. The bike smashed into a cypress and I was thrown five feet from my bike. Landing with a sickening thud, my hip slammed into the concrete and my elbow crunched hard. I sat up with a gasp and nearly threw up. After a minute of silent cursing, I got to my feet and assessed my injuries. Elbow? It felt like needles were poking in it, but manageable. Hip? A dull throbbing pain shot through my joints and a burning sensation when I walked. Eh, bearable. As I limped into the house, one thought kept repeating itself in my head: “Dude, you’re going to be 40. You have to be smart. Think of the children. The children! You’re not 20 anymore!” (I also thought: “Dude, you’re a dumbass,” but that’s beside the point.) I didn’t feel confident enough to ride the bike afterwards, and fell into a two-week funk. This whole business about turning 40 started to become a big deal. As the weeks have wound down to my birthday I’ve been thinking “Why? Why does this age suddenly make a difference?” Is it that 40 was the first birthday I can recall for either of my parents? It sure seemed to be a big deal when mom and dad turned 40. I was a kid, and frankly, that number seemed so far off in the future it just made my parents seem, well, old. Of course, they weren’t old. Throughout their forties, and beyond, they accomplished so much. Thinking about them I was reminded of October, 2007, when my parents came out to California so that my dad could help me paint the house. This turned out to be one of my favorite experiences with my dad, just the two of us, talking while sports radio and the Indians/Yankees divisional series played in the background. He shared many stories about growing up in North Olmsted and working on his father’s chicken farm. At one point he had to take a seat and catch his breath; he was 70, after all. “You okay?” I asked, trying to mask my concern. He chuckled and replied, “I’ll tell ya, I’m not 40 anymore.” He could have said “I’m not as young as I used to be,” or “I’m not as spry as I was in my thirties.” Well, maybe he wouldn’t have used “spry,” but you get the gist. Dad using 40 as a barometer gave me reassurance that 40 is young. A mature, graying young, but young nonetheless. This week the air became cooler and the leaves began to fall from the trees; it felt like Ohio in the autumn. It also felt like it was time to turn off the funk and get back to rock and rolling. On Monday, I hopped back on my bike and started off for the train station. With “Big Block” blaring once again, I pedaled through the streets of my neighborhood feeling like I was 20, or at least 32. Screw 40, or 50 or 60. The future is wide open and I’m going to stay atop my bike until I’m 70 — or at least until I run into a cypress tree again. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/wdX6ly6ftUM" width="600" height="344" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /] Tags: Basement Songs, Jeff Beck, Scott Malchus, Terry Bozzio, Tony Hyams Last modified: October 29, 2009 CD Review: U2, “The Unforgettable Fire” (Remastered) NFL Picks: Week 8 DVD Review: “Still on the Run: The Jeff Beck Story” DVD/CD Review: Jeff Beck, “Live at the Hollywood Bowl” Popdose Prime: The 75 Best Paul McCartney Songs	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line328
__label__wiki	0.526316	0.526316	Category: PitchIt Wednesday August 30 2017, Daily News Digest News Comments Today’s main news: Prosper performance update for July 2017.Top Mozido executives quietly left company.White House OKs delay of fiduciary rule.Funding Circle kicks off 12M marketing campaign with TV ad.LATTICE80 to open London fintech hub.Klarna profits up 130%+.RateSetter hits 2,000 broker milestone. Today’s main analysis: Millennials prefer auto, personal loans to credit cards. Today’s […] Today’s main news: Prosper performance update for July 2017.Top Mozido executives quietly left company.White House OKs delay of fiduciary rule.Funding Circle kicks off 12M marketing campaign with TV ad.LATTICE80 to open London fintech hub.Klarna profits up 130%+.RateSetter hits 2,000 broker milestone. Today’s main analysis: Millennials prefer auto, personal loans to credit cards. Today’s thought-provoking articles: There is a major Chinese tech IPO boom happening.Klarna launches ‘Smoooth’ brand.Australian SMEs turning to alternative funding sources.Should established banks fight or assimilate? Prosper’s July 2017 performance. Top execs at Mozido have quietly left the company. AT: “This either spells the nearing of the end for Mozido or the beginning of another comeback story.” Factors that push millennials toward auto, personal loans instead of credit cards. AT: “The larger story could be that digital lending is so disrupting credit card usage that we could be witnessing the decline of bank cards altogether. It’s still too early to tell, but Gen Z is coming up behind Gen Y (millennials) and they were born the year the World Wide Web went commercial. That means Gen Z is the first truly digital native, and who knows where they will stand on credit cards? The future of bank cards may be the mobile app. In fact, I would say it is likely the mobile app.” White House OKs fiduciary rule delay. AT: “Not a surprise.” Banks send warning signs for the economy. AT: ” ‘After a period of strong lending, it is also typical for defaults to start ticking up as levels of indebtedness rise and bills come due.’ Naturally.” ‘Madden fix’ bills are recipe for predatory lending. AT: “Those with a will and a financial motive will always find a way around the law. Such fixes are a game of cat and mouse.” Better options for recovering non-performing loans. Ten-X partners with Money360 on financial services for commercial real estate transaction marketplace. Non-prime boomers struggle financially, but less than other generations. AT: “This study is a nice complement to TransUnion’s study on millennials and Gen Xers. It follows, of course, that non-primes of any generation will struggle more than primes, and I would expect that older generations have figured out some way to cope with their financial struggles more so than younger generations, so I’m not sure we learn much from this research.” How Gen Z will affect the future of the P2P economy. AT: “Beyond P2P lending, this touches on many aspects of the sharing economy. Gen Z could be a greater economic force to reckon with than the millennials, but they are just becoming of age so it remains to be seen exactly how they will impact the economy and how they will use financial services technology. My guess is that Gen Z will accelerate what Gen Y started, but by how much?” Public companies making ICO-related claims. AT: “We very well could many more negative enforcement actions on ICOs in the near future.” RealtyShares raises $10.3M for industrial real estate deals in San Francisco, Boston. Westlake Financial Services embraces Clarity Services’ Clear Fraud to enhance auto lending. AirFox closes $6.5M AirToken pre-sale ahead of schedule. Banks get a wake-up call with loan disbursements. PitchBook Q3 MPL analyst note. Online lenders gain traction by partnering with incumbents. Funding Circle kicks off 12M GBP marketing campaign with TV ad. LATTICE80 to expand into London with fintech hub. AT: “We typically see expansions going the other way. Singapore is stretching its fintech muscle.” The evolution of the UK receivables market. The funding pitfalls a small business owner must know. The major tech IPO boom is happening in China. Zhushang raises millions of RMB in Series A. On ICO pyramid schemes. Net mass transfer of US IPO. Klarna’s profits up 130%+. AT: “Klarna is huge in Europe, but only getting started in the U.S. I’ll be anxious how they butt heads with Affirm.” Klarna celebrates year-over-year sales, profit gains. Klarna launches ‘Smoooth’ brand. Get your PitchIt application ready. Faster disbursement services from alternative lenders put banks on notice. SMEs turn to alternative funding sources. RateSetter reaches 2K brokers. Industrial policy expected in October. Dianrong, FinEx Asia launch first fintech asset management platform in Asia. Regulating P2P lending to SMEs. Top VC funds in Argentinian fintech. Royal Bank of Canada wants to give financial advice with artificial intelligence. IOU Financial releases results for periods ending June 30, 2017. Should established banks fight or assimilate? Prosper Performance Update: July 2017 (Prosper), Rated: AAA The Top Executives Of Former Fintech Unicorn Mozido Have Quietly Left The Company (Forbes), Rated: AAA Digitalization Among Factors Pushing Millennial Credit Preferences Toward Auto and Personal Loans (NASDAQ), Rated: AAA White House OKs DOL Fiduciary Rule Delay (Financial Advisor IQ), Rated: AAA Banks Send Warning Signs for Economy (WSJ), Rated: A ‘Madden fix’ bills are a recipe for predatory lending (American Banker), Rated: A Recovering Non-Performing Loans: Better Options (Lend Academy), Rated: A TEN-X PARTNERS WITH MONEY360 TO OFFER FINANCING SERVICES FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION MARKETPLACE (Money360), Rated: A Non-Prime Boomers Struggle Financially, but Less So Than Other Generations (BusinessWire), Rated: A How Gen Z Will Affect The Future Of The Peer To Peer Economy (Forbes), Rated: A PUBLIC COMPANIES MAKING ICO-RELATED CLAIMS (Investor.gov) Rated: A RealtyShares Reports: $ 10.3 Million Raised for Industrial Real Estate Deals in San Francisco and Boston MSA (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: A Westlake Financial Services Embraces Clarity Services’ Clear Fraud to Enhance Its Auto Lending Nationwide (BusinessWire), Rated: A AirFox Closes $ 6.5 Million AirToken Pre-Sale Weeks Ahead of Schedule (News BTC), Rated: A FinTechs Give Banks A Wake-Up Call With Loan Disbursements (PYMNTS), Rated: A 3Q 2017 PitchBook Fintech Analyst Note: Marketplace Lending (PitchBook), Rated: B Online Lenders Gain Traction By Partnering With Incumbents (ValueWalk), Rated: B Funding Circle is kicking off a £12 million marketing bonanza with a Great British Bake Off TV ad (Business Insider), Rated: AAA Singapore Fintech Hub LATTICE80 Announces UK Expansion (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: AAA The evolution of the UK receivables market (AltFi), Rated: A The funding pitfalls a small business owner needs to know (RealBusiness), Rated: A There Is a Major Tech IPO Boom Happening, Just Not in the United States (TheStreet), Rated: AAA Embracing Auto Finance Wave, Zhushang Financial Raised Tens Million RMB in Series A (Xing Ping She), Rated: A sources said the SFC on the ICO advice Jianzhao pyramid schemes (Yicai), Rated: A Net mass transfer will go to the US IPO official response (01Caijing), Rated: B Profits Up More Than 130 percent In Klarna’s Half-Year Report (PYMNTS), Rated: AAA Klarna Celebrates Year-Over-Year Sales, Profit Gains (Finovate), Rated: A Swedish Tech Bank Klarna Launches ‘Smoooth’ Brand (PR Newswire), Rated: AAA PitchIt @ LendIt Europe 2017 (LendIt), Rated: B NEW REPORT: Faster Disbursement Services From Alt-Lending Players Put Banks On Notice (PYMNTS), Rated: A Australian SMEs are turning to alternative sources of funding (Finder.com.au), Rated: AAA P2P lender reaches 2,000 brokers (Broker News), Rated: AAA ‘Future-ready’ Industrial Policy to be out in October (The Hindu), Rated: A Dianrong and FinEX Asia Launch Asia’s First Fintech Asset Management Platform (PR Newswire), Rated: AAA Seminar: Regulating Peer-to-Peer Lending to SMEs (Asian Development Bank), Rated: B Top VC funds in Fintech in Argentina (TechFoliance), Rated: A RBC WANTS TO USE AI TO GIVE CUSTOMERS FINANCIAL ADVICE (Betakit), Rated: AAA IOU Financial Inc. Releases Financial Results for the Three and Six Month Period Ended June 30, 2017 (Newswire), Rated: A Should established banks fight or assimilate to tech? (African Business Magazine), Rated: AAA Today we are sharing performance data from the Prosper portfolio for July 2017. Our risk team implemented a credit tightening in July aimed at removing certain populations of borrowers from originations on a go-forward basis. As a result of this credit tightening, the overall distribution of the book shifted slightly towards lower risk loans. This slight shift resulted in an overall portfolio coupon decrease of 45bps and an overall return estimate decrease of 26bps. Additional highlights from the July Update include: Charge-off levels in 2016H2 vintages continue to show meaningful improvement compared to 2016H1 vintages. Periodic delinquencies moved higher for 2016 and 2017 vintages. Source: Prosper The top two executives of Mozido, a financial technology company that raised some $300 million to develop a mobile payments business, have quietly left the company. On its web site, Mozido currently lists Todd Bradley as its CEO, but Bradley said in a brief interview that he left the company in June. Bradley’s departure appears to have left Mozido without a chief executive officer. Bradley has also left Mozido’s board but the company’s web site still lists Bradley as a director. Scott Ellyson, Mozido’s chief financial officer who is listed on Mozido’s web site as its second-most senior executive, has also left the company, according to Bradley. Ellyson’s LinkedIn page currently does not mention his time at Mozido. He did not respond to a request for comment. Three weeks ago, Michael Liberty, the founder of Mozido, was sentenced to four months in prison and a $100,000 fine by a federal judge. Liberty pleaded guilty in November 2016 to making illegal campaign contributions. As the first generation to be fully immersed in mass-market digitalization, Millennials are slowing their credit card usage while increasingly using other credit products such as personal loans. A just-released TransUnion (NYSE:TRU) study found that Millennials are carrying on average two fewer bankcards and private label cards than Generation X (“Gen X”) consumers at the same respective ages. Conversely, Millennials’ appetite for new auto and personal loans has grown at a faster rate than Gen X borrowers at the same age points. Credit Cards Out of Fashion; Cars and Personal Loans in Style The study found that, in addition to carrying fewer credit cards than Gen X consumers, Millennials also are maintaining lower balances on those cards. TransUnion analysts believe that this is partly driven by the CARD Act of 2009, which limited the marketing of credit cards on college campuses. The increased use of debit cards also plays a role in this shift. The study pointed to recent Federal Reserve data, which found that debit card transactions grew from 8 billion in 2000 to 60 billion in 2015. In contrast, credit card transactions only increased from 16 billion to 34 billion in that same timeframe. Source: TransUnion Millennials and Mortgages Among all major credit products, the mortgage market has been the slowest to recover from the Great Recession, with home ownership rates still below levels observed in 2009. Overall, homeownership is down 0.8% since the Recession, but this number grows to -1.6% for 35-44 year olds and -2.1% for those under 35. As a result of credit access being limited and, per the U.S. Census Bureau, affordability being affected by income gaps between the two generations, TransUnion’s study found the percentage of Millennials opening mortgages between the ages of 21-34 (5%) is nearly half of the Gen X group (10%) when they were that age. TransUnion observed a smaller but still material gap (13% for Millennials vs. 16% for Gen X) within the Super Prime risk tier, suggesting that this dynamic is not driven solely by credit supply. TransUnion’s study found that access to mortgages has declined dramatically for 21-34 year olds. In 2000, 39% of mortgage originations in this age range were comprised of non-prime borrowers. In 2016, non-prime borrower originations declined to 20%. Further impacting mortgage originations to Millennials are lower income levels. Per the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income of consumers ages 25-34 declined from $60k in 2000 to $57k in 2015. The impact can be seen in the housing status of these consumers: a larger portion of younger adults ages 25-29 are living with their parents, rising from 15% in 2000 to 25% in 2014. Despite these challenges, a TransUnion survey of 1,340 consumers in July 2017 found that nearly 75% of Millennials ages 23-37 said they plan on purchasing a home in the future. The Office of Management & Budget of the White House has approved the Department of Labor’s request to push back the final implementation date of its fiduciary rule — originally scheduled for January — to July 2019, the Wall Street Journal reports. Being a key transmission mechanism for savings, investment and spending, the banking sector is worth watching as a barometer for the health of the overall economy. Lately it has been acting as one would expect toward the end of an expansion phase. Most glaringly, after strong lending growth for several years, momentum clearly is slowing. In its quarterly report on the sector, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. found that total loans and leases by banks and other insured institutions rose by just 3.7% from a year earlier at the end of June. That is the third consecutive quarterly deceleration and is down from a 6.7% pace of growth a year ago. After a period of strong lending, it is also typical for defaults to start ticking up as levels of indebtedness rise and bills come due. This is indeed happening, at least among consumers. Credit-card charge-offs soared by 24.5% in the second quarter, according to the FDIC, marking the seventh straight increase. Charge-offs on loans to commercial and industrial borrowers, however, declined by 9.7%, possibly due to a recovering energy sector. Currently pending in both houses of Congress are versions of the Protecting Consumers Access to Credit Act of 2017 — bills that would “fix” the 2015 appellate court decision in Madden v. Midland Funding LLC. Unfortunately, these so-called legislative solutions are based on a faulty reading of case law. The Madden case held that National Bank Act preemption of state usury laws applies only to a national bank, and not to a debt collector assignee of the national bank. The decision has potentially broad implications for all secondary markets in consumer credit in which loan assignments by national banks occur: securitizations, sales of defaulted debt and rent-a-BIN lending. Unfortunately, the “Madden fix” bills are overly broad and unnecessary and will facilitate predatory lending. The actual “valid-when-made” doctrine provides that the maker of a note cannot invoke a usury defense based on an unconnected usurious transaction. The basic situation in all of the 19th-century cases establishing the doctrine involves X making a nonusurious note to Y, who then sells the note to Z for a discount. The discounted sale of the note can be seen as a separate and potentially usurious loan from Y to Z, rather than a sale. The valid-when-made doctrine provides that X cannot shelter in Y’s usury defense based on the discounting of the note. Even if the discounting is usurious, it does not affect the validity of X’s obligation on the note. In other words, the validity of the note is a free-standing obligation, not colored by extraneous transactions. A small business lender knows that a certain percentage of loans will become NPLs and typically has parameters the business must stay within to remain profitable. The lender may pursue NPLs on an in-house basis indefinitely past the charge-off date or turn them over to a collections agency at some point. Both options create problems in the fintech business model. The best recovery option for online small business lenders is to manage NPLs in-house until they become charge-offs, then use the services of a reputable commercial debt buyer. This is how it works. The lender works with the commercial debt buyer on a one-time basis, periodically, or in a forward-flow relationship where NPL information is sent regularly to the buyer. A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is signed and the lender provides information to the buyer on the pool of non-performing assets. This includes the number of accounts and amount of outstanding balances. Buyer assigns a value to the NPLs and offers a price. Lender signs the purchase agreement. Typically, buyers in forward-flow relationships will send payment within 24 hours. Reputable buyers then work to collect the debts over time, without using the lender’s name and in a sensitive manner, and without reselling the debt. Ten-X Commercial, the nation’s leading online real estate transaction marketplace, today announced that it has partnered with Money360, a technology-enabled direct lender focused on commercial real estate (CRE), to offer financing for properties available for sale. The partnership will expand the investor pool for commercial properties listed on Ten-X by giving prospective buyers assurance they will be able to procure the necessary financing to fill the deal’s capital stack, while providing sellers and their brokers increased confidence that once terms are agreed upon, buyers will be able source a loan and close the deal. Under the agreement, Money360 will work with Ten-X to determine which commercial properties listed on the Ten-X platform are appropriate for pre-arranged financing, and will then pre-underwrite bridge and/or permanent loans for qualifying properties. The lender’s offers will be listed on the Ten-X property detail page, informing prospective buyers about the available financing terms. After the property trades, Money360 will work with buyers to underwrite, process and close the loans to facilitate the transaction. Despite the widespread perception that Baby Boomers (ages 51-64) are struggling to make ends meet more than any other generation, new research from Elevate’s Center for the New Middle Class has found that Baby Boomers are actually struggling the least. In fact, Baby Boomers are the most likely to have steady employment and run out of money less often, compared to data from previous studies. “These findings come as a surprise, as they are counter-intuitive to many of the trends we have seen widely covered around Baby Boomers,” said Jonathan Walker, executive director of Elevate’s Center for the New Middle Class. “Recently, it was reported by the Federal Reserve that Baby Boomers are leaving the workforce in such large droves that they are skewing employment numbers, but we’ve found that 60 percent of non-prime Boomers have had no employment change in the last 12 months, compared with 59 percent of Gen-X and 43 percent of Millennials.” But even though they struggle less than other non-prime generations, they are still facing challenges in the new economy, especially when compared to their prime counterparts. Non-prime Boomers are more likely to hold more than one job and are 10 times more likely to run out of money every month. Additional key findings include that – compared to their prime cohorts – non-prime Boomers are: 2.2x as likely to say that their finances cause them significant stress 4x as likely to live paycheck to paycheck and 1 in 6 use payday loans 14x as likely to express difficulty predicting monthly income and are 2.5x more likely to overdraft on bank account 3x as likely to take a loan against their 401k 46 percent less likely to go on vacation More likely to be living in households with 3 or more working adults Born in the mid-1990s to late 2000s, Gen Z accounts for one-quarter of the U.S. population. They are considered the most diverse and most multicultural generation the U.S. has ever seen. The highly influential Gen Zers are the first digital native generation. They are already impacting the current peer-to-peer (P2P) economy and will have an enormous effect on how this economy evolves. A Gallup study found that about 8 in 10 students in grades 5 through 12 reported that they wanted to be their own boss rather than work for someone else. Additionally, a millennial branding studyreported that 72% of high school students and 64% of college students want to start their own business. The SEC may suspend trading in a stock when the SEC is of the opinion that a suspension is required to protect investors and the public interest. Circumstances that might lead to a trading suspension include: A lack of current, accurate, or adequate information about the company – for example, when a company has not filed any periodic reports for an extended period; Questions about the accuracy of publicly available information, including in company press releases and reports, about the company’s current operational status and financial condition; or Questions about trading in the stock, including trading by insiders, potential market manipulation, and the ability to clear and settle transactions in the stock. The SEC recently issued several trading suspensions on the common stock of certain issuers who made claims regarding their investments in ICOs or touted coin/token related news. The companies affected by trading suspensions include First Bitcoin Capital Corp., CIAO Group, Strategic Global, and Sunshine Capital. Online real estate marketplace RealtyShares announced on Tuesday the closing of two industrial real estate financing transactions in San Francisco and Boston MSA. The amount raised between the deals was $10.3 million. RealtyShares stated it secured $8.7 million industrial debt loan for a San Francisco located mixed-use, industrial warehouse and office space in the city’s South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood. Following impressive results using Clear FraudTM to mitigate losses in targeted auto lending transactions, Westlake Financial Services has expanded its relationship with Clarity Services to strengthen its auto portfolio nationwide. Westlake, which has a network of more than 50,000 new and used auto and motorcycle dealers throughout the United States, began testing Clear FraudTM a year ago in select markets. The California-based finance company has enhanced its profitability by using Clear FraudTM to provide loan terms that are more attractive to both consumers and dealers. By incorporating Clarity’s credit data, Westlake is able to more accurately price and structure deals with profitable loan terms, and determine down payment requirements. Westlake’s use of Clear FraudTM helps the lender evaluate subprime applicants with credit scores below 600. Clear FraudTM also makes it easy to integrate scores into Westlake’s existing scorecard. AirFox, the company making mobile data and the internet more affordable for millions of people, today announced it closed its $6.5 million ICO pre-sale weeks earlier than scheduled. The ICO will open at 10 a.m. ET on September 19, 2017. AirFox will use the ICO funds raised to further develop and launch its new blockchain consumer platform, AirToken (AIR), in order to tokenize mobile access by unlocking mobile capital from the smartphone for the underserved and underbanked prepaid mobile subscribers in emerging markets. Not too long ago, when small- to mid-sized business (SMB) Orion First, a business credit ratings firm, needed a loan, its only option was to visit a local bank, fill out myriad application forms and wait several weeks or months to (maybe) get approved. Fast forward to today, and the small business lending process has undergone a significant overhaul. With a growing number of FinTech players competing in the lending space, small businesses now have improved access to a range of loan options — and, in most cases, funds are disbursed in as little as 24 hours. New services that can expedite the lending process for companies like Orion First are already gaining popularity with SMBs and consumers who need short-term loans. The Innovative Lending Platform Association (ILPA), a trade organization representing several companies in the space — including prominent players like small business loan provider Kabbage and financial consultant and insights provider PayNet — says its member companies have distributed more than $14 billion in capital loan disbursements to small businesses to date. The millennial population is estimated at roughly 83 million, and a recent survey found almost half of millennials (49 percent) plan to start their own businesses within the next three years. A recent survey by YouGov found 81 percent of both retail consumers and SMBs who turned to digital lenders said the ease and speed of completing a loan application were the reasons they made the switch. In the same survey, 77 percent of respondents cited the rapid pace of loan decision making as the key appeal for these platforms. Key takeaways & highlights: Online lenders have faced increased competition from other more established fintech companies. Furthermore, banks such as Goldman Sachs have started their own lending arms Publicly traded firms have made great strides in improving financials; the analyst consensus has Lending Club moving into positive GAAP earnings by year end in part driven by securitizations as a lower-cost source of capital SoFi has made strides towards becoming more bank-like after adding mortgage loans, wealth management services and acquiring (and subsequently shuttering) online bank and money transfer service Zenbanx As the latest PitchBook fintech analyst note points out, some of the most notable companies are becoming more like banks, with SoFi the most prominent example, as it expands from student loan refinancing into unsecured consumer credit, wealth management and more. Yet as some online lenders establish a foothold, there are still significant hurdles to overcome. Online lender Funding Circle is kicking off a £12 million ($15 million) marketing campaign with a prime-time TV advert during the Great British Bake Off. A 30-second TV spot of a woman drumming will run during the premiere of the smash hit baking show on Channel 4 on Tuesday evening. LATTICE80, a fintech hub owned and operated by Singapore-based private investment firm Marvelstone Group, announced on Monday it is set to open a fintech hub in London as part of its global expansion. The organization revealed that as of August 2017, its UK entity has been registered, but a suitable hub space remains to be found. It is currently in talks with relevant parties in the private and public sectors, with plans to secure and open a hub by 2018. In particular, the UK market has lots of new entrants (now in excess of 100 providers) but the number of clients seems to be static at about 40,000-45,000. In order to remain competitive, lenders are required to compete on price and terms, which increases their risk and often reduces their return. Customers also have more choice in the market, in that they have access to working capital both from banks and alternative lenders such as peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms. Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the non-traditional players in the market that are harnessing technology. The new generation of borrowers is more tech-savvy and more comfortable embracing P2P capabilities, which makes new players more attractive. Richard Spielbichler, ABL director North West, Independent Growth Finance “The main pitfall to consider is whether the business has a USP that will protect their position in the market. Many businesses suffer from ‘me too’ syndrome, where their USP is very similar to an existing organisation.” Angelika Burawska, COO, Startup Funding Club “It depends on the type of financing. In the case of loans and various types of trade finance, the main pitfalls lie in payment terms, such as how much and when, late payment fees and what happens if a company fails to pay. “In the case of equity funding, businesses have to pay attention to the valuation they raise which may be too high or too low; and the control rights they give to investors.” In the first half, a total of 59 Chinese technology, media and telecommunication (TMT) companies sold shares through initial public offerings (IPOs), a surge from 10 a year ago. In value, the firms raised a combined 25.8 billion yuan (US$3.9 billion) in the first six months, five times the amount a year earlier, said the accounting firm in Shanghai. The trend is a continuation of a boom that began in the second half of 2016, when there were 58 IPOs of such companies raising a total of 33 billion yuan. On 25th August, Zhushang Financial, a P2P lending platform specialize in providing auto financing services, announced the closing of Tens million RMB in series A funding. Toulang Capital led the round, with participation from Cailang Capital. The “Zhushang Financial” brand has been upgraded from the “Zhushang Dai” brand and announced with this round of financing. Zhushang Financial is based in Chengdu, a developed city in west China, providing P2P auto financing services for small companies and individuals. Currently, it has established branches in many western cities, including Chongqing, Guizhou Province, Kunming, Xi ‘an, Taiyuan and Lanzhou. Also, the company has signed agreements on depository with both Zhejiang Mintai Bank and Hunan Rural Commercial bank (Youxian Branch). Up to now, the total volume of the platform has reached over 500 million RMB. According to the report of Central Bank, China’s auto financing market reached 700 billion RMB in 2016 and may exceed 1.85 trillion RMB in 2018. Its rapid growth comes not just from the wave of “car service”, but also from the policy support. Actually, according to the policy issued last year, the net loan assets must be small and dispersed, and since then auto finance has become a new hotspot of P2P lending industry. August 29, the first financial reporter from a block chain technology business executives were informed that the China Securities Regulatory Commission recently to some of the block chain enterprises on the ICO (Initial Coin Offering, virtual currency initial public offering) for advice, the current In the stage of collecting comments and discussions, the SFC expressed particular concern about ICO projects for pyramid schemes in the name of virtual currency. According to Bloomberg News, Fintech Quantifiers currently selected JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley as US financial adviser to the US IPO, the IPO size of about 200 million US dollars. Klarna, the online payments firm based in Sweden, and one of the unicorns that came of age with a more than $1-billion valuation, posted results Friday detailing growth for the first half of the year. The company said that net profit came in at 228 million crowns, or about $28.4 million, up 138 percent year over year, on sales of 2.05 billion crowns. Sales were up 21 percent. On Friday the company reported sales and profit results for the first half of 2017 that represented gains of 21% and 138%, respectively. The strong financials come amid a series of headlines that show the Swedish payments company making strides on a number of fronts. This includes rumors that Klarna is partnering with Stripe to better access the U.S. market. Such a partnership would make Klarna the only non-credit card option available on the platform, and enable customers to take advantage of Klarna’s signature “pay after delivery” service. A deal between Klarna and Stripe also would provide what an anonymous source quoted in Nordic Business Insider referred to as “potentially an important piece of the puzzle” of Klarna’s plan for expansion in the U.S. Last year, Klarna launched the “Smoooth” campaign with a series of award winning and critically praised advertisements showing just how smooth payments should be. Now Klarna takes the next step by fully implementing the concept of “Smoooth” across all aspects of the brand. This includes not only a new logo, graphic identity and checkout touch-points but towards a completely new user experience – transforming rational payment transactions into an emotional shopping experience for consumers. Ice-cream melting on warm car hoods, shampooed long-haired dogs and pencils being pushed into huge jelly pastries. Klarna`s new identity is definitely not your average bank speaking. “We are on a journey to transform Klarna from a traditional payment provider to a stronger consumer brand. Our new identity is more modern and expresses our focus on the consumer experience, innovation and simplicity in payments. It’s time for a new kind of bank.” Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna This is not only an update of the visual identity of Klarna but also changing the way consumers interact with the company. The concept of “Smoooth” will be evident when watching an ad or pushing a button to pay in the Klarna app. Every Klarna touchpoint has a new unique graphic and will be smarter and more intuitive. That will ensure a better user experience for consumers, but will also support in driving growth, conversion and consumer loyalty for all Klarna merchants. There are three intuitive ways to shop with Klarna: Pay now. – Pay directly at checkout. No credit card numbers or passwords to remember. Pay later. – Try first, pay later. Klarna lets you have 14 days or more to decide if you want to keep your goods or not. Slice it. – Get all your payments on one invoice and choose how much to pay each month. As of today, Klarna has released all touchpoints that can be updated automatically, and over the coming months will continuously roll out “Smoooth” updates to the touchpoints of all merchants. Submit your application to PitchIt, a competition for fintech startups, taking place at LendIt Europe–one of the largest international lending and fintech conferences in Europe. This exclusive programme will nurture emerging talent throughout the competition, provide selected finalists with unparalleled access to industry expertise as well as invaluable exposure, branding and more at the event. Deadline for applications is 4 September 2017. The August edition of the PYMNTS.com Disbursements Tracker™, powered by Ingo Money, highlights several notable developments that explain the waning influence of the paper check, and how new disbursement tools could impact the workplace, pension systems and mobile payment options. Hike recently added a digital payments wallet to its app, allowing money transfers between customers using the country’s United Payments Interface (UPI) service. Skype is another messaging service helping users quickly send money to one another using popular payment option PayPal. The partnership between Skype and PayPal enables users to send money to fellow Skype users in 22 countries, including the U.S., Canada and more than a dozen nations in Europe, through PayPal in the Skype mobile app. Australian businesses are turning to crowdfunding, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending and online loans for finance, according to new research from Businessloans.com.au. The Small Business Credit Survey, conducted by ACA Research, found that the most sought-after alternative funding source was equity finance (34%), followed closely by online lenders (30%) and P2P business loans(21%). However, while small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are embracing alternative sources of capital, not all of them are receiving the loans they hope for. The survey revealed that while 84.1% of businesses were successful in their applications, less than half of those (38.9%) of those were approved for all of the credit they applied for. It is interesting to note that the number of businesses which were declined a loan is only 1.6% of respondents. The remaining 14.3% of the “unsuccessful applicant” group was approved for less than half of the loan they had asked for. Over one-third of this group (35%) had applied for more than or equal to $250,000. The survey found that a rejected application seriously affects a business. Respondents that did not receive the full amount applied for delayed or could not expand their businesses (34%), delayed or were not able to fulfil existing orders or contracts (27%) or did not hire new employees (17%). Peer-to-peer lender RateSetter has accredited 2,000 brokers on its lending platform, amidst a rise in P2P popularity within the general public. Lending volumes through the broker channel, especially in auto and home improvement loans, are doubling every six months, according to the lender’s most recent settlement figures. Across the direct and broker channels, RateSetter has also passed $150m in lending facilitated since 2014. In the last five months alone, lending grew 50% across both channels, passing the $100m milestone in March. Source:: BrokerNews.com The other “illustrative outcomes” are developing alternatives to banks and improving access to capital for MSMEs through ‘Peer to Peer Lending’ and ‘Crowd funding’, providing a credit rating mechanism for MSMEs to provide them easier access to funds, addressing the problem of inverted-duty structure and also balancing it against obligations under multilateral or bilateral trade agreements, studying the impact of automation on jobs and employment, ensuring minimal/zero waste from industrial activities and targeting certain sectors to radically cut emissions. Dianrong and FinEX Asia today announced the launch of Asia’s first financial technology (fintech) asset management platform. FinEX Asia was established in 2017 to connect Asian investors with US consumer lending assets, such as credit card loans. FinEX Asia combines its risk management expertise with Dianrong’s advanced fintech capabilities to give Asian investors access to a diverse and attractive portfolio of U.S. consumer lending assets. FinEX Asia’s fintech solutions offer advanced risk modeling capabilities, blockchain data security, performance monitoring, and secondary marketplace liquidity. Event \| 12 September 2017ADBI, Tokyo, Japan This seminar looks at the regulation of P2P lending in the US, People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the UK, and discusses how regulators can help develop P2P as a safe and effective source of financing for SMEs. Currently, Argentina has four major investment funds that have Fintech companies within their portfolios. NXTP Kaszek – Founded in 2011, it recently announced the release of a third fund of $200 million to be used for young technology throughout the region. To date, Kaszek has invested USD 1.4 billion in 43 companies, including Nubank, Brazil’s largest digital bank. Incutex Canada’s largest bank has announced that its mobile banking app will soon provide users with “actual insights about our client’s financials and a fully automated savings solution that uses predictive technology to identify money in a client’s cash flow that can be automatically saved.” Dubbed ‘NOMI Insights’ and ‘NOMI Find and Save,’ the services are currently in a pilot release. A full launch is expected later this fall. IOU FINANCIAL INC. (“IOU” or “the Company”) (TSXV: IOU), a leading online lender to small businesses, announced today its results for the three and six month period ended June 30, 2017. Loan originations for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017 were US$26.2 million versus originations of US$31.8 million for the same period last year. Loan originations decreased by 17.8% due to changes made to the Company’s lending policies in response to increased delinquency levels. We anticipate that these changes will have a positive impact on our loan portfolio over the course of 2017. For the first half of 2017, loan originations amounted to $48.2 million, representing a decrease of 15.7% over the origination of $57.1 million for the same period last year. As of June 30, 2017, IOU’s total loans under management amounted to approximately $65.7 million as compared to $79.6 million in 2016. On June 30, 2017, the principal balance of the loan portfolio amounted to $41.6 million compared to $35.5 million in 2016. The increase is consistent with the Company’s strategy to retain more loans on its balance sheet. The principal balance of IOU’s servicing portfolio (loans being serviced on behalf of third-parties) amounted to approximately $24.1 millioncompared to $44.1 million in 2016. IOU recorded gross revenue during the second quarter of $4.4 millionversus $3.5 million for the same period last year, representing a 24.5% increase. The increase in gross revenues was primarily driven by a 55.3% increase in interest income from $2.4 million in 2016 to $3.7 million in 2017, as a result of an increase in the size of the loan portfolio. For the six-month period ended June 30, 2017, gross revenues improved to $8.7 million compared to $6.8 million for the same period in 2016. Interest expense during the three-month period ended June 30, 2017increased by 44.3% to $1.0 million, up from $0.7 million over the previous year. The increase is attributable to an increase in borrowings under the credit facility partially offset by a reduction in the cost of funds borrowed versus the previous year. For the six-month period ended June 30, 2017, interest expense amounted to $1.9 million compared to $1.3 million in 2016. Provision for loan losses (net of recoveries) increased to $2.4 million for the three-month period ended June 30, 2017, up from $1.2 million for the previous year. The increase is primarily attributable to an increase in defaults by borrowers and partially due to an increase in the size of the loan portfolio. To improve loss performance, IOU Financial has made changes to its lending policies and deployed its next generation proprietary IOU Risk Logic Score. In addition, the Company has implemented certain process changes to improve its servicing and collections which includes an aggressive litigation process against businesses who intentionally default on their loan obligations. For the six-month period ended June 30, 2017, IOU recorded a provision for loan losses of $4.3 million compared to $2.0 million in 2016. Excluding non-recurring costs, operating expenses decreased 18.1% to $2.5 million for the three-month period ended June 30, 2017 as compared to $3.1 million for the previous year. During the quarter ended September 30, 2016, the Company adopted a plan to reduce operating expenses. The Company is on track to achieve its target of quarterly operating costs of $2.0 million to $2.2 million on a normalized basis in the third quarter. In the second quarter, IOU recorded non-recurring costs of $0.5 million related to vendor contract cancellations and impairment of intangible assets. For the six-month period ended June 30, 2017, operating expenses amounted to $4.9 million, excluding non-recurring costs, compared to $6.0 million in 2016. IOU closed its second quarter 2017 with a net loss of $2.1 million, or $0.03per share, compared to a net loss of $1.5 million or $0.02 per share during the same period of 2016. For the six-month period ended June 30, 2017, the net loss amounted to $3.1 million versus $2.8 million in 2016. IOU closed its second quarter 2017 with an adjusted net loss of $1.3 million, which excludes certain non-cash and non-recurring items, compared to an adjusted net loss of $1.1 million in the second quarter of 2016. For the first half of 2017, the adjusted net loss was $1.9 millioncompared to an adjusted net loss of $1.6 million for the same period in 2016. Assuming the cost reduction plan was fully implemented on January 1, 2017, IOU’s pro forma adjusted net loss for the three-month and six-month period ended June 30, 2017 would have been approximately $0.8 million and $1.2 million, respectively. The same quandary that now faces established banks stood before landline telecoms operators 15–20 years ago. In terms of fintech, it seems likely that the answer will become clear over the next few years, as different banks adopt different strategies. Global consultancy Accenture calculates that fintech threatens more than a third of traditional banks’ revenue. Due to the march of technological innovation and the emergence of more attractive investment regimes, the challenge posed by fintech is only likely to grow. Fintech is not just a threat to established banks but also to other companies in the financial services sector. Visa, for instance, is built on technology developed during a previous financial technology revolution, and should be able to capitalise on the fintech boom. Other attempts to integrate the two worlds include PayDunya, an online payments system that allows African e-businesses to accept payments from credit and debit cards, as well as mobile money wallets. Similarly, Yoco provides retailers with an integrated card acceptance and point-of-sale solution, incorporating a mobile app, and either wireless or plug-in card reader. Some established banks have sought to compete by becoming incubators for fintech. Standard Bank and Barclayshave both launched startup support programmes, with the most successful companies taken under their wing at the end of their periods of support. Author Allen TaylorPosted on August 30, 2017 Categories AirFox, alternative funding, alternative lenders, asset management, auto lending, auto loans, Baby Boomers, Banks, Clarity Services, commercial real estate, Credit Cards, Daily News Digest, Dianrong, Featured, fiduciary rule, fintech, fintech VC, FixEx Asia, Funding Circle, Gen X, Gen Z, ICO, IOU Financial, IPO, Klarna, LATTICE80, Madden v. Midland, marketplace lending, Millennials, Money360, Mozido, News, non-prime, online lenders, p2p lending, personal loans, PitchBook, PitchIt, prosper, RateSetter, RealtyShares, Regulation, Royal Bank of Canada, SMEs, subprime, Ten-X, UK receivables, Zhushang Thursday August 10 2017, Daily News Digest News Comments Today’s main news: NSR Invest, LendingRobot merge: Now the largest alt lending robo-advisor.LendInvest makes London Stock Exchange debut.Big banks losing ground to China’s fintech giants. Today’s main analysis: Q2 update from LendingClub CIO.MarketInvoice loanbook snapshot. Today’s thought-provoking articles: LendingClub’s surprise comeback.Sanborn looks ahead.Personal financial management apps fold as banks work them into their […] Today’s main news: NSR Invest, LendingRobot merge: Now the largest alt lending robo-advisor.LendInvest makes London Stock Exchange debut.Big banks losing ground to China’s fintech giants. Today’s main analysis: Q2 update from LendingClub CIO.MarketInvoice loanbook snapshot. Today’s thought-provoking articles: LendingClub’s surprise comeback.Sanborn looks ahead.Personal financial management apps fold as banks work them into their own apps.China targets mobile payments oligopoly. LendingRobot merges with NSR Invest to make the largest robo in alt lending. AT: “A good partnership, and I’m looking forward to seeing how the robo-advice market responds to this new development.” Q2 update from LendingClub CIO. LendingClub makes a surprise comeback. AT: “There is still a long way to go to get back to those halcyon days of 68%-120% year-over-year growth. However, considering that there has been a downward trend for the past three quarters, a positive YOY growth climb is a positive sign. I can’t wait to see where LendingClub is next quarter.” LendingClub CEO looks ahead. AT: “Must-see video interview.” LendingClub stock soars. Personal financial management apps fold as banks roll them into their own apps. AT: “If banks are going to survive the next couple of decades, they’ll need to realize that millennials really want personal financial advice. What better way to provide it than through a mobile app with a human advisor backup?” Wins Finance Holdings Inc. may get the boot from NASDAQ. AT: “It shouldn’t be a surprise that we see this kind of headline regarding a Chinese company.” LendingClub gets top rating from TopConsumerReviews.com. AT: “Congratulations. Another feather in the cap for LendingClub.” StreetShares raises $10.3M. AT: “Congratulations, and a very interesting business model.” RECF work to find a niche. How GreenSky’s CEO became a billionaire. Jamie Dimon discusses online lending. 5 fintech trends disrupting retail banking. Sam Maule to head 11:FS expansion into North America. Online Lending Policy Institute to host second annual summit. Capital One VP joins StreetShares. EquityBuild to hold master class webinar on obtaining wealth. Labor Department delays fiduciary rule. LendInvest raises 50M GBP, makes London Stock Exchange debut. AT: “Congratulations.” MarketInvoice loanbook snapshot. Meet Finimize. WiseAlpha opens corporate bond market for investors. Six of the best alternative income ideas. Old money, new method. Glint promises to turn gold into a global currency. AT: “This is one of the most interesting ideas I’ve seen in a while.” Railsbank raises $1.2M. China targets mobile payments oligopoly. Big banks losing ground to China’s fintech giants. Top 3 Chinese blockchain asset trading platforms. China Commercial Credit enters share exchange agreement with Sorghum Investment Holdings Limited. Sina Corp sets up $500M online finance fund to bank Chinese fintech firms. Omega One named PitchIt competition winner. Fintech Group counts on BearingPoint RegTech. Populous brings cryptocurrency to invoice financing. Five places millennials can invest instead of property market. Women in Finance finalists. Don’t buy, RentoMojo. Is banking industry facing existential crisis? Fuse to provide loans powered by Mambu. Lattice80 to launch office in India. Modalku the first P2P lender to join International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers. NSR Invest and LendingRobot merge to become the largest robo-advisor in the alternative lending space (LendingRobot Email), Rated: AAA Q2 2017: An Update from Our CIO (LendingClub), Rated: AAA Lending Club makes a surprise comeback (Business Insider), Rated: AAA LendingClub CEO Sanborn ‘Looking Ahead’ After Scandal (Bloomberg), Rated: AAA LendingClub Corp (NYSE:LC) Stock Soars As Banks Prove To Be Hypocrites (BNL Finance), Rated: A PFM apps are folding as banks work them into their own apps (Tearsheet), Rated: AAA Chinese Stock That Rallied 4,555% Could Get the Boot From the Nasdaq (Bloomberg), Rated: A Installment Loan Provider Earns Top Rating from TopConsumerReviews.com (PR Web), Rated: A StreetShares raises $ 10.3m for “Shark Tank meets eBay” approach to P2P lending (Banking Technology), Rated: A Real Estate Crowdfunding Platforms Work to Find a Niche (National Real Estate Investor), Rated: A How David Zalik Skipped High School On His Way To Becoming A Billionaire (Forbes), Rated: A From Illinois’ woes to the state of credit: Jamie Dimon lets loose (Crain’s Chicago Business), Rated: A 5 fintech trends disrupting retail banking (and how banks can fight back) (The Financial Brand), Rated: A Fintech expert Maule to join British digital banking startup (American Banker), Rated: A Marketplace Lending Abs Fund Form D (Weekly Register), Rated: B Online Lending Policy Institute to Host Second Annual Summit in Washington, D.C. (Markets Insider), Rated: B Capital One VP Joins veteran-focused fintech firm (American Banker), Rated: B EquityBuild Announces Master Class Webinar on Five Years to Wealth Through the Brand New Model (Benzinga), Rated: B Labor Department delays fiduciary rule implementation date (Reuters), Rated: B LendInvest makes London Stock Exchange debut with £50m raise (Finextra), Rated: AAA P2P Lending: MarketInvoice Loanbook Snapshot (LinkedIn), Rated: AAA Meet Finimize: The fintech startup that turned a popular newsletter into a financial planning platform (Tech World), Rated: A WiseAlpha opens up corporate bond market for investors (AltFi), Rated: A Six of the best alternative income ideas (IG.com), Rated: A MARKET INSIGHT: OLD MONEY, NEW METHOD (Campden FB), Rated: A Glint is a stealthy London fintech startup that promises to turn gold into a ‘new global currency’ (TechCrunch), Rated: A Railsbank, a new fintech startup from founder of Currencycloud, raises $ 1.2M led by Firestartr (TechCrunch), Rated: A China targets mobile payments oligopoly with clearing mandate (Financial Times), Rated: AAA Big banks on notice that they’re losing ground to China’s fintech giants (SCMP), Rated: AAA Top3 Chinese block chain asset trading platform (the second-tier platforms) (Xing Ping She), Rated: A China Commercial Credit Enters Share Exchange Agreement with Sorghum Investment Holdings Limited (Markets Insider), Rated: A Sina Corp Establishes $ 500M Online Finance Fund To Back Chinese FinTech Firms (China Money Network), Rated: A LendIt Lang Di Fintech Names Omega One PitchIt Competition Winner (PR Newswire), Rated: B FinTech Group Counts on BearingPoint RegTech (BusinessWire), Rated: B Fintech startup brings blockchain and cryptocurrencies to invoice finance (GT Review), Rated: A Locked out of property market? Five better places for Millennials to put money (The Sydney Morning Herald), Rated: A Women in Finance finalists revealed (TheAdviser), Rated: B Just Rent, Don’t Buy (Business Today), Rated: AAA Is our banking industry facing existential crisis from fintech boom? (The Jakarta Post), Rated: A Globe Telecom’s Fuse to Provide Loans Powered by Mambu (Markets Insider), Rated: AAA Singaporean fintech hub Lattice80 to launch office in India (Tech Wire Asia), Rated: A Modalku becomes first P2P lending company to join IACPM (Digital News Asia), Rated: A NSR Invest and LendingRobot, two of the largest specialized Registered Investment Advisors in the alternative lending space, announced today that the companies have merged to create the leading independent advisory platform for alternative lending. Lend Core LLC, the parent company of NSR Invest, acquired Algorithmic, Inc. and all its assets, including the LendingRobot website and technology. The joint team will combine its knowledge in the industry, investment algorithms, machine learning and blockchain technologies with the goal of providing steady investment returns to more than 8000 clients. The websites, operating, and trading systems of NSRinvest.com and LendingRobot.com will continue to function separately in the short term. In the immediate future, the company is focusing its newfound strength on the LendingRobot Series. Projected investor returns are also largely unchanged from the first quarter and continue to range from approximately 4% to 9% (see below). A few factors that influence returns on the platform1 are listed below: Economic Backdrop. The American economy remains robust but growth continues to be relatively modest. The unemployment rate has changed little over the past year, measuring at 4.4% as of July 2017. Meanwhile, GDP increased by 2.6% in the second quarter of 2017. Borrower Performance. Recent vintage performance continues to come in broadly in line with our expectations. As mentioned above, we continue to see lower delinquency rates across most grades and terms than in loans issued in the second and third quarters of 2016, which we attribute to changes made in 2016. Interest Rates. The overall interest rate environment remains low, though the Federal Reserve raised its Target Rate by 25 bps in June 2017. After announcing its latest rate increase, the Federal Open Market Committee signaled its willingness to raise rates further, as it “expects that economic conditions will evolve in a manner that will warrant gradual increases in the Federal Funds Rate.” Interest rates on the LendingClub platform are not changing at this time. Source: LendingClub In Q1 2017, US alt lender Lending Club published disappointing results, which showed a flat performance and seemingly vague turnaround plans, sparking concerns that it could be headed for a dead end. However, the company has now reported its second-highest quarterly revenue to date for Q2 of this year, with analysts pointing outthat it appears back on a growth trajectory. Importantly, peer to peer lending is the fastest growing industry in lending, and while there are a lot of players in the game, LendingClub is one of the largest. On many occasions over the last year, BNL Finance has told members that banks would come back and that LC stock losses were overdone. With that said, LendingClub stock has rallied 26% over the last three sessions. Last week, Level Money, the money management app owned by Capital One Financial, said it will shut down on Sept. 1. Also last week, Prosper Marketplace said it would discontinue the Prosper Daily app and urged customers to bring their PFM needs to Clarity Money. Earlier last month, SoFi said it would nix the services by Zenbanx, just six months after it acquired the online banking company, and would use its technology and personnel for its own online bank. PFM has never been a prominent feature of consumer bank accounts. For most of banks’ existence people had to balance their own checkbooks based on debits and credits. That’s changing now as banks realize the importance of personal financial management for continued customer engagement. And they’re starting to implement PFM features into their offerings to provide more complete banking experiences. As it is today, PFM is usually a separate entity found in entirely different apps like Clarity Money, Moven or Mint. For example, one of the biggest nuisances of PFM historically has been the lack of good financial data. Customers using an app would have to hand over their online banking credentials so the third party financial app could access their banking data to be able to provide users with their financial snapshot. The data that appeared on the home screen of their online banking wasn’t always in sync with what they would see in their PFM app. Wins Finance Holdings Inc., the Chinese loan guarantor that couldn’t explain a 4,555 percent surge in its stock, is set to be delisted from the Nasdaq Stock Market, which cited violations of exchange rules related to its shareholder base. Nasdaq said Wins doesn’t meet regulations requiring it to have at least 300 shareholders who own 100 shares. The exchange’s decision was also based on “the making of alleged misrepresentations by the company relating to the 300 round-lot shareholder requirement,” as well as public interest concerns, Wins said in a statement Wednesday. Source: Bloomberg Markets TopConsumerReviews.com recently awarded their highest five-star rating to Lending Club, an industry leader among companies offering Installment Loans. “For Installment Loans ranging from $1000 to $40,000, Lending Club provides incredible customer service with fair interest rates and fees,” according to Brian Dolezal, of TopConsumerReviews.com, LLC. Alternative lending platform StreetShares raised $10.3 million in a venture round this week, writes Finovate(Banking Technology‘s sister company). The funds come from an undisclosed investor and bring the Virginia-based company’s total funding to almost $20 million since it was founded in 2013. However, as crowdfunding marketplaces are getting bigger and more investors are coming onboard, the power to raise equity through this marketplace is growing, says Tore Steen, co-founder and CEO of CrowdStreet Inc. Initially, many sponsors have been looking to raise $1 million to $2 million as a supplement to their existing base of investors. Those levels are now moving to $3 million to $5 million. CrowdStreet’s largest equity raise on a single offering to date was close to $8 million. Although it remains a fragmented niche that is difficult to quantify, research firm Massolution had estimated the size of the global real estate crowdfunding industry at $3.5 billion in 2016. RealtyMogul emerged as one of the early players in real estate crowdfunding. Since the firm launched in 2013, it has raised more than $280 million in equity through its online real estate investing marketplace. Currently, CrowdStreet has more than 25,000 registered investors on its marketplace. In addition, among its active investors, over 55 percent are repeat investors. Crowdfunding firms such as RealtyMogul are also fueling growth with online “eREITs” that allow them to target a bigger pool of non-accredited investors. Currently, RealtyMogul has 135,000 registered users on its platform, including both accredited and non-accredited investors. With that I become the first public witness to the long, irregularly shaped basement office where GreenSky, America’s third-most-valuable fintech company (after Stripe and SoFi), has been incubating in obscurity for the past decade. And it’s Zalik who holds the golden ticket: Last September, GreenSky raised $50 million at a $3.6 billion valuation. The 43-year-old cofounder and CEO still owns more than half of the company, shooting him well into the billionaire ranks. GreenSky’s real magic, however, is something you can’t see: a model that transfers much of the risk, as well as the work, to other parties–and profits from both sides of each deal. Those 17,000 contractors not only market the loans to homeowners but also pay GreenSky, on average, 6% of the loan amount. Obviously you’re a believer in online lending, given JPMorgan’s relationship with small-business lender OnDeck. Tell me how you see online lending going. What the real issue in peer-to-peer lending is that the borrower will need the money in good times and bad, but the lender will not lend the money in good times and bad. The second there’s a recession, they’ll pull back. That’s exactly what you saw in February of last year when all of a sudden people were pulling back in giving money to the peer-to-peer lenders, who couldn’t then make loans. And they all got crushed. Some have been quite bright. So I think Chicago-based Avant has been quite bright, and they kind of anticipated this, and they created permanent capital. There are multiple ways to create permanent capital. Securitizations kind of work. But they don’t work in tough times. They disappear. Bank relationships work. There are ways to fix the problem. But that is an issue: Can you sustain your business model through the cycle? I think some of them will succeed. Would you ever see banks getting directly into online consumer lending? Remember, there is nothing online lenders can do that we can’t. ling With Insurance Companies Less Miserable Quick money transfer apps – Millennials have come to expect such an experience. Many banks and credit unions are starting to realize this, but they’re a little behind the eight ball. Chatbots and Messenger-Based Payments – Soon, you’ll be able to pay for that used TV you found on Craigslist by texting the seller directly from your phone’s messenger app, including Apple which turned on the Messagespayments functionality in June 2017. Forget the Card, Pay With Mobile Devices – On its own, this doesn’t seem like much of a Trojan horse for banks, but as more people shift behaviors so too will the expectations of banking customers. And with the global mobile payments market estimated to hit $3.4 trillion by 2022, it’s worth monitoring in relation to banking customers. Smart Budgeting and Personal Finance Management Digital Currencies That Don’t Require Central Banks Fintech expert Sam Maule has been hired by nascent digital banking firm 11:FS to head up its expansion in North America. The New Jersey-based Marketplace Lending Abs Fund, Lp filed Form D for $2.75 million offering. This is a new filing. The Limited Partnership raised $2.75 million. The offering is still open. The total offering amount was $2.75 million. This form was filed on 2017-08-09. The Online Lending Policy Institute (OLPI), the leading voice for policy analysis, in-depth research, and education for the online lending industry, today announced it will host its Second Annual Summit on Sept. 25 at The Renaissance Hotel in Washington D.C. A former Capital One executive has moved to StreetShares, an online lending and investing platform. Heather Tuason, formerly senior vice president of small business at Capital One, is now the fintech startup’s chief product officer, it announced Tuesday. EquityBuild announces a new master class on the Power of Five, highlighting their new five-year investment model. Here is the upcoming webinar master class to attend August 14, 2017: EquityBuild Power of Five Master Class – Find out how this unique model changing the way investors view real estate. Join us for this special event here. The U.S. Department of Labor will give wealth management companies more time to get in line with the new “fiduciary rule,” a regulation that requires financial advisers to put retirees’ interests ahead of their own, the regulator said on Wednesday. Securities brokerages like Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp’s Merrill Lynch now have until July 1, 2019, to present retirement savers with new contracts that spell out the fees brokers make on certain investment products or transition them into accounts that charge a flat fee based on assets. LendInvest, the UK’s leading online platform for property lending and investing, today listed a £50 million retail bond on the London Stock Exchange’s Order book for Retail Bonds (ORB). The process to raise LendInvest’s first retail bond was closed early and oversubscribed, thanks to strong demand from retail and institutional investors. About half of the proceeds raised came from major financial institutions including several multi-billion pound asset managers, two global insurance businesses and a major UK state pension fund. The bond pays a fixed annual coupon of 5.25% for five years, and is secured against a portfolio of property loans and guaranteed by LendInvest. From today, the bond trades under the LSE ticker LIV1. MarketInvoice, founded in 2010, is the largest UK online P2P lending firm specialising in invoice discounting and invoice factoring. Selective invoice discounting is a facility that allows businesses to sell individual invoices at a discount in order to unlock immediate funding which can be an attractive solution for SMEs periodically strained with cashflow. In early 2017 the platform launched an additional product in the form of MarketInvoice Pro, an invoice factoring product that essentially is a debt facility which businesses can draw on backed by the business’s sales ledger. Source: Sukhwinder Shoker MarketInvoice celebrated its strongest origination quarter in 2017Q2 with £161.9m in invoices traded and a healthy 25.3% increase from the previous quarter. Annualised invoice origination growth (2013-2016) for the platform stands at 82.6% and, whilst encouraging, it is clear to see from the oscillation in monthly advanced funding that to-date annualised return performance has been highly influenced by seasonality trends. Invoice terms exceeding 60 days formed 28.3% of origination in 2016Q2, however, this has significantly increased to 58.2% of 2017Q2 origination. Invoice originations have shifted away from riskier price grades since the introduction of Market Invoice Pro and this is welcome news for investors. Rofagha quickly realised that the banks couldn’t help him, a financial advisor was unreachable with his income, and the rise of the robo-advisor hadn’t really taken off yet. Then there is one of his favourite statistics: “86 percent of millennials save each month but they keep more than 50 percent of their assets in cash, because there is no suitable way for them to get financial advice.” This was his lightbulb moment. Now Rofagha has launched the next phase, a financial planning platform called Finimize MyLife, which is currently in beta and has a waiting list of more than 24,000 people. The Finimize MyLife platform is free to use and helps users create a financial plan by answering a few questions about their financial position, setting goals and then selecting from a range of options, be that opening an ISA or investing with a partner like Nutmeg or Moneyfarm. The next steps for Rofagha will be to invest in data science so that the platform can make more tailored product recommendations for users, once it has built out its data set. Online lending platform WiseAlpha is adding corporate bond and loan investments to its platform. Retail investors can now access Tesco’s £300m institutional bond that has a 4.8 per cent return. Users can buy the debt for as little as £100 and cash in their bonds via the secondary market on the platform. The grocers bond matures in 2042. Looking at the ten years to the end of May 2017, inflation as measured by the Retail Price Index (RPI) rose 31.8%, while anyone receiving the Bank of England (BoE) base rate would have made a total return of 13.2%. In other words, cash in a bank account has lost 18.6% of its real value over ten years. Over several years, the Investment Trust sector has seen huge growth in alternative income products, and here we list six products from sectors that investors may want to consider for inclusion in their investment allocations. Marketplace or ‘peer-to-peer’ lending can be attractive for family office investors for several reasons: attractive absolute and relative returns compared to other fixed interest instruments ability to create some granular/diverse portfolios through investment in loan parts transparent credit process and loan pricing ability to match maturity profile to desired outcomes At present, the lack of a uniform set of standards places some obstacles for investors willing to invest across multiple marketplace lenders. The data structure, terminology, and methodologies differ greatly from platform to platform. However, good platforms are able to clearly demonstrate how loans are underwritten, an expected loss rate and basis for making investment decisions. How can family offices engage with marketplace lenders? Firstly, investors need to consider the asset class and risk profile they wish to invest in. Secondly, investors need to consider how active they wish to be—in its truest form marketplace lender allow absolute discretion to bid on individual loans at whatever size suits. Glint, a stealthy London fintech startup that promises a new “global currency,” has raised £3.1 million from a plethora of individual backers in the financial services and asset management space, alongside early-stage investor Bray Capital. However, I understand that Glint will offer a frictionless way to both store and spend your money in gold, including at the point of sale, just like a regular local currency. Railsbank, a relatively new fintech startup co-founded by CEO Nigel Verdon, who previously founded money exchange and payments platform Currencycloud, has raised $1.2 million in a funding round led by seed investment firm Firestartr. The company, yet to see its full launch and over a year in the making, offers what it describes as an open banking and compliance platform aimed at other companies, including other fintechs, that have global banking requirements that need to be accessed programatically via an API. China’s central bank has ordered online payment groups to operate through a centralised clearing house, a move likely to undercut the dominance of Ant Financial and Tencent by forcing them to share valuable transaction data with competitors. China is the world leader in mobile payments, with transaction volumes rising nearly fivefold last year to Rmb59tn ($8.8tn), according to iResearch. They are now widely used for everything from high-street shopping to peer-to-peer lending. Now the People’s Bank of China is requiring all third-party payment companies to channel payments through a new clearing house by next June, according to a document sent to payment companies on August 4 and seen by the Financial Times. Ant Financial, the financial services affiliate of Alibaba Group, is the market leader in mobile payments, with its Alipay unit processing 54 per cent share of all transactions in the first quarter of the year, according to iResearch. WeChat Pay, linked to Tencent’s mobile messaging app, held a 40 per cent share. “JPMorgan every year, as we speak, processes through our QuickPay 94 million payments,” she said, “But Tencent, the Chinese company, over Chinese New Year, in five days processed 46 billion payments. Basically that means 800 million payments per hour. “Visa has a maximum capacity of processing 25,000 payments per second. But Alipay can process 50,000 payments, twice as much, per second.” The rise of online payments through non-bank services, exemplified by Alipay and WeChat Pay – which falls under the Tenpay umbrella – in China, has caused another banking giant, Goldman Sachs, to stand up and take notice too. The firm recently published a report, led by Mancy Sun, which reveals the value of third-party payments in China grew more than 74 times from 2010 to 2016, from US$155 billion to a staggering US$11.4 trillion. Of that total, 56 per cent took the form of peer-to-peer transfers while about 16 per cent was consumption-related. Furthermore, payments made via third-party payment companies comprised 40 per cent of all retail sales, a figure that is still growing. First of all, how to define the Chinese second-tier platforms? We refer to the following three factors: It has been established for a long time, and there is little risk of failure for the company after a long-term market test and trials. Popular and profitable. It belong to the major currencies which are the top of the list. And it has certain dominance in a few currencies. So, the TOP3 Chinese second-tier platforms are finally selected as: Online date: May 2013 Website: btc38.com Registered capital: 10 million Office address: Shenzhen CDC CloudCoin Online date: April 2014 Website: yunbi.com Office address: Beijing CHBTC Online date: early 2013 Website:chbtc.com Office address: Zhongshan city, Guangdong province China Commercial Credit, Inc. (NasdaqCM: CCCR) (“CCCR” or the “Company”), a microfinance company providing financial services to small-to-medium enterprises (“SMEs”), farmers and individuals in Jiangsu Province, today announced that, it has entered into a share exchange agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”) by and through its Board of Directors and majority shareholder dated August 9, 2017 with the equity holders of Sorghum Investment Holdings Limited (“Sorghum”), an Internet platform specializing in providing peer-to-peer lending services to individuals and small business owners in China. Pursuant to the Exchange Agreement, the Company has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Sorghum in exchange for 152,586,795 shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Acquisition”). Upon completion of the Acquisition, the Company will own 100% of Sorghum, and will be a financial services group operating in both smart financing as well as microfinance sectors in China. Chinese Internet portal Sina Corp said it would establish an Online Finance Fund with a target fundraising size of US$500 million to invest in Chinese fintech companies. Fintech is one of the most important opportunities in the next three to five years, Chao said during the call. The company believes that it can leverage its own online traffic, data, and microblog services Weibo to attract users and create a strong new brand. Sina will focus on the business categories where it can obtain its own operating license, such as micro-lending. The company is currently offering micro-lending to users via a partnership with other financial firms, but it is in the process to get its own license. LendIt, the world’s largest show in lending and fintech, named Omega One the winner of its Lang Di Fintech PitchIt competition in Shanghai on July 16. Out of eight PitchIt finalists (and hundreds of applicants) at China’s largest fintech conference, Omega One, an automated trade execution platform, was chosen as the winner for its innovation in the cryptocurrency markets. As the winner, Omega One received a RMB 1 million investment from JadeValue and co-working space for six months. The company also received two tickets to LendIt USA 2018 as well as round trip airfare and full accommodations for the duration of the conference. The LendIt team will also curate meetings with fintech companies and investors during Omega One’s trip to the U.S. Lang Di Fintech was held in Shanghai on July 15 – 16, 2017. Management and technology consultancy BearingPoint, a leading provider of Risk and Regulatory Technology (RiskTech/RegTech), announced that FinTech Group AG, one of the leading providers of innovative financial technologies in Europe, included BearingPoint’s regulatory reporting solution ABACUS/DaVinci in its product portfolio. New fintech startup Populous is introducing smart contracts, blockchain technology and digital tokens to the invoice financing space. Having raised more than US$10mn in crowdfunding in just five days, the company has now started piloting its new platform, which lets firms and individuals sell or buy invoices globally. Below are five better places to put your money as a young Australian in 2017. Another investment opportunity emerging with the rise of fintech is peer-to-peer (P2P) or marketplace lending. You input a few details into an online form, such as your preferred credit grade, loan term, and maximum amount you wish to invest in any one loan. The algorithm then does the rest on your behalf, and some lenders claim returns as high as 12 per cent per annum. Online lender Prospa received nods in three categories — Alison Binskin, head of operations, made the cut for Fintech Leader of the Year, Lauren Davidson received recognition for Human Relations Professional of the Year and Anna Fitzgerald for Public Relations/Communications Professional of the Year. India has many consumer-lending companies, but there are very few consumer-leasing firms that borrow, convert the money into assets and lease them. RentoMojo does just that and says it has discovered the playbook fairly early, which could be used across categories and not just furniture. There is one weakness in this model – it is capital intensive, and assets have to be bought before they can be leased. Adukia, who looks after internal finances, says that the company has lines of credit with banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and high net-worth individuals (HNIs). There has been no independent study on the market size of the consumer-leasing business, but the company claims it is about $10-12 billion. To stay on top of this market in terms of affordability, RentoMojo does not deal with middlemen and buys directly from manufacturers, says Nain. “We also act like a quasi-bank that takes a call on the creditworthiness of its customers [to protect our revenues].” Recent developments in the rise of Robo-advisers and investments in digital and P2P lending platforms, however, appear to support arguments on the contrary. Already we are seeing Alibaba dominating the payment scene in China while similar local companies like Go-Pay in Indonesia is also rapidly evolving into a commendable competitor of the banks in the payments scheme locally. The level of threat does not go unnoticed within the banking professionals’ sphere. Based on a survey by PWC, about 81 percent of the banking and fintech players in Indonesia would see a degree of disruption in the way the banks are doing business, with which roughly 50 percent of them observe potential significant disruptions. On the payment and settlements front, we have also seen how fintech has exposed the inefficiencies in the banks’ existing business processes. For example, in the cross-border interbank payment, the current average transaction costs for sending remittances abroad through bank average around 10.99 percent of the nominal amount globally, according to a report by World Bank. This is highly efficient and perhaps one of the catalysts for online remittance companies like TransferWise to exist. Another study estimates suggest that mortgage borrowers in the US and European market could potentially save $480 to $960 per loan and banks would be able to reduce costs in the range of $3billion to $11billion by lowering processing costs in the mortgage origination process. Such figure further highlights the inefficiency in the banks’ current operating structure. The figure would likely be more substantial on the percentage basis if similar survey is conducted in Indonesia. Mambu, the SaaS banking engine, today announced it will be powering the consumer and business lending products of Fuse, the lending arm of Filipino financial technology firm Mynt, by September 2017. Mynt is increasing access to financial services through mobile money, micro-loans and technology by leveraging the mobile and store networks of its partners and parent company in a country with 113% mobile penetration but only 31% banking penetration. Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which account for 99.6% percent of total registered companies in the country, as well as individuals face significant difficulty in accessing credit from incumbents due to stringent credit decisioning, limited authentication documentation and lack of collateral. LATTICE80, Singapore’s fintech hub will be opening an India branch at the end of September, as reported by Bloomberg, marking the company’s first step in expanding their global operations. The fintech hub is planning to open offices in world’s financial capitals, especially London, New York and cities in the Middle East. MODALKU has become the first and only peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company to attain membership at the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM), a forum where financial institutions share and discuss best practices for credit risk management. Modalku co-founder and CEO Reynold Wijaya stated that his team is focused on attaining international, even global standards.standards. Author Allen TaylorPosted on August 10, 2017 Categories 11:FS, alternative income, alternative lending, Banks, Blockchain, China Commercial Credit, cryptocurrency, Daily News Digest, EquityBuild, Featured, fiduciary rule, Finimize, fintech, Fuse, Glint, GreenSky, invoice financing, jamie dimon, LATTICE80, lendingclub, LendingRobot, LendInvest, Mambu, MarketInvoice, Millennials, mobile apps, Mobile payments, Modalku, NASDAQ, News, NSR Invest, OLPI, Omega One, online finance, Online Lending, p2p lending, PitchIt, Populous, Railsbank, RECF, RegTech, RentoMojo, retail banking, robo-advice, Sina Corp, StreetShares, Wins Finance Holdings, WiseAlpha, women in finance Monday April 17 2017, Daily News Digest News Comments Today’s main news: Republicans propose drastic overhaul of CFPB. BOE chief sees no need for tougher FinTech regulation. CBRC assistant chair reported ‘out of contact’. Today’s main analysis: Transparency remains a sticking point for online lenders. The India FinTech Market Map. Today’s thought-provoking articles: How this FinTech CEO plans to prosper. Interview with Scott Sanborn. International regtechs […] Today’s main news: Republicans propose drastic overhaul of CFPB. BOE chief sees no need for tougher FinTech regulation. CBRC assistant chair reported ‘out of contact’. Today’s main analysis: Transparency remains a sticking point for online lenders. The India FinTech Market Map. Today’s thought-provoking articles: How this FinTech CEO plans to prosper. Interview with Scott Sanborn. International regtechs that are keeping the banks honest. How the richest companies can help the poor. Podcast: Yihan Fang of Yirendai. Republicans propose drastic overhaul of CFPB, Dodd-Frank. GP:” This is just a proposal and it will likely change a lot by the time, if and when, it gets adopted into law. In all cases, the theme here seems to be more control and less power for the agencies.” AT: “We saw this one coming. I didn’t expect a name change, but I think that’s interesting, especially the use of the word ‘opportunity,’ which puzzles me. Why would a regulatory agency include that word in its name? Another thing I find interesting is the deputy director holding the job at the will of the president, which I expected. However, it makes the agency serve at the whim of the winds of the political climate, like all other executive agencies. What makes that interesting is it goes against the initial conception of the agency, which was intended to be independent of the chief executive. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, good or bad either way, but we can expect the Democrats to fight this hard.” How this FinTech CEO plans to prosper in 2017. GP:”The key is customer satisfaction, which itself relies on a good product, fair pricing, ease of use whom themselves depend on the cost of financing, employee satisfaction, technology quality and an infinite list of other items.” Transparency remains a sticking point for online lenders. GP:”This is very interesting data. If the online lenders build a reputation of being expensive, regardless if it’s true or not, it will hurt their customer acquisition costs significantly. This has to be fought and this perception is very dangerous. In general consumers, especially opinion leaders, are not stupid. I think a good way to fight for transparency and to fight the high rate and unfavorable terms opinion is by actually releasing actual verifiable data that offers more transparency and demonstrates the rate and term points. ” AT: “It’s important that online lenders not simply claim to be transparent. Most consumers, millennials, in particular, are well aware that technology is not inherently transparent. It can be used to set up walls of opaqueness as easily as see-through curtains, or blinds. If you’re going to call yourself ‘transparent’, you’ve got to be transparent.” Chatting P2P marketplaces with LendingClub’s CEO. GP:” Lending Club is really turning into a large company, run as a large company, on values and brand and letting every department alone to do what they can with controls in place. I am curious how it will defer from a large bank in two or three years.” AT: “Scott Sandborn shares some interesting insights into marketplace lending in general and LendingClub in particular.” BOE chief sees no need for tougher FinTech regulation. GP:”I am pleasantly surprised, and once again I understand how the UK, despite being a small market, continues to be the point of reference in finance in the entire world and has been for hundreds of years. I am yet to see a single US regulator who says even once: there is no need for more regulation.” AT: “This is a sign of maturity. In the U.S., when legacy institutions sense up-and-coming competitors, the first thing they want to do is use regulation as a protectionist scheme. Competition is good–for the goose and the gander.” Researcher showcases unauthorized NFC payments with cloned Android device. AT: “This is interesting. We must all understand there’s no such thing as fail-safe security in the cyber world. Every device is a potential entry point for bad actors. In fact, every app on every device is a potential entryway for hackers and other bad actors. The key goal for security experts is to stay ahead of them. This hole needs to be plugged quickly.” Aegon leaves legacy behind with Ohpen’s cloud finserve platform. Keeping the banks honest: regtech innovators around the world. AT: “I’m super-excited about the possibilities for regtech.” How the world’s richest companies can help the poor. AT: “The U.S. rose to world prominence by keeping the doors of opportunity open to everyone. It inspired innovation, and still does. This is why the U.S. is home to more billionaires that rose out of the ranks of the poor and middle class than any other country. The world’s wealthy needs to understand that by helping the poor have access to better services, they can create future customers who will buy more goods and services. I applaud this effort.” AI in FinTech: 100+ companies using artificial intelligence for financial services. Yang Jiacai reported to be ‘out of contact’. Podcast 97: Yihan Fang of Yirendai. China is cracking down. AT: “Not much new here, another take on the Chinese P2P scandals.” WeiyangX FinTech Review. India FinTech Market Map. GP:” A great map worth checking out.” AT: “The Indian FinTech market has exploded.” ‘Free’ credit reports from fintech portals. Regulate fintech or not? Is India ready for P2P? Razorpay plans overseas foray. ORIX launches online lending business in Japan. GP:” I am glad to see online lending finally coming to a second Japanese company, this time on SMEs. Orix is a known leasing company and an innovator and this is a great step for them.” KoinWorks supports SMEs with online lending solution. LendIt China updates on PitchIt competition. GP:”I am very curious to see if there is real innovation in fintech in China that is sustainable and value-addying. China has always been an innovator and it should find ways to protecting innovators in order to encourage innovation.” The future of digital money. VoguePay wins best FinTech startup award. Republicans propose drastic overhaul of Dodd-Frank and CFPB (Housingwire), Rated: AAA How This FinTech CEO Plans To Prosper In 2017 (Forbes), Rated: AAA Transparency remains a sticking point for online lenders (Tearsheet), Rated: AAA Chatting P2P marketplaces with LendingClub CEO, Scott Sanborn (Simple Innovative Change), Rated: AAA Bank of England Chief Sees No Need for Tougher Fintech Regulation (Corporate Counsel), Rated: AAA Researcher Showcases Unauthorized NFC Payments With Cloned Android Device (The Merkle), Rated: A Aegon Leaves Legacy Behind With Ohpen’s Cloud Finserv Platform (Forbes), Rated: A Keeping the banks honest: meet the regtech rule-obeyers (Wired UK), Rated: AAA How the World’s Richest Companies Can Help Its Poorest Citizens (Time), Rated: AAA AI In Fintech: 100+ Companies Using AI Algorithms To Improve The Fin Services Industry (CB Insights), Rated: B Assistant chairman of China Banking Regulatory Commission, Yang Jiacai, reported to be ‘out of contact’ (SCMP), Rated: AAA Podcast 97: Yihan Fang of Yirendai (Lend Academy), Rated: AAA China is Cracking Down on Unscrupulous Financial Services (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: A WeiyangX Fintech Review (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: A The India Fintech Market Map: 72 Startups Working Across Lending, Payments, Insurance & Banking (CB Insights), Rated: AAA ‘Free’ credit reports from fintech portals (livemint), Rated: A FinTech: To Regulate Or Not To Regulate? Former RBI Deputy Governor R Gandhi Explains (Bloomberg Quint), Rated: A Is India ready for Peer-to-Peer lending industry? (Faircent), Rated: A Razorpay plans overseas foray (The Hindu Business Line), Rated: B ORIX Launches New Online Lending Business for Japanese Small Businesses (Orix), Rated: AAA KoinWorks supports SMEs with online lending solution (Digital News Asia), Rated: A LendIt China Event, Lang Di Fintech, Updates on PitchIt Competition (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: A The future of digital money (Gulf News), Rated: A VoguePay Wins Best Fintech Startup Award (This Day Live), Rated: B According to the summary of bill changes, the original CHOICE Act would restructure the FHFA and OCC as bipartisan commissions. The FDIC would be reorganized as a bipartisan commission with all five commissioners appointed by the president, and both the Comptroller of the Currency and the CFPB director would be removed from the FDIC board. Also, NCUA board of directors would be increased from three members to five. The new CHOICE Act 2.0 cuts a lot of those proposed changes, and instead, the FHFA director would be removable at will by the president, with no changes to the current law regarding OCC and NCUA. The FDIC structure would stay the same as proposed in CHOICE 1.0. The original CHOICE Act replaced the director of the CFPB with a Consumer Financial Opportunity Commission, a bipartisan independent Commission serving staggered terms. Instead, in the newest version, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would be changed to the Consumer Financial Opportunity Agency, an executive agency with a sole director removable at will. The deputy director would also be appointed and removed by the president. While the original CHOICE Act established a CFPB Credit Union Advisory Council, the updated one removed it because the bill eliminates mandatory CFPB advisory committees. Along with FinTech industry guru Ron Suber, Prosper’s president, Kimball is intent on growing loan volumes, offering lower average rates compared to traditional lenders, delivering higher returns to investors and returning Prosper to profitability. Prosper, which is the original online peer-to-peer marketplace, has originated over $9 billion in consumer loans over the past decade. Since being appointed CEO of Prosper Marketplace late last year, Kimball has stepped outside his former financial role as Prosper’s CFO to take on a more operational-driven strategy. David Kimball: Ultimately, the long-term success of platforms will be dependent on their ability to deliver a great product and a consistent experience. The success of the partnerships will depend on the ability for the two companies to communicate and understand each other (language, transparency, and culture), and it will depend on how well objectives remain compatible. David Kimball: Last year, the industry did a lot to lay the foundation for a successful 2017, and we’re seeing that work pay off. The [recently announced loan purchase deal] gives us the funding stability we need to continue to grow, while at the same time giving us some great long-term partners that are invested in our business and its success. David Kimball: A successful CFO is one who partners with the business instead of playing the finance sheriff. That requires a willingness to understand the business, to think holistically, to work with peers who jointly own the results. The CFO is the finance subject matter expert, but should be able to consider other disciplines, just as a CTO should be able to understand the financial implications of engineering decisions. As CEO, I continue to think holistically and I now have an opportunity to flex into other areas of the business. A small business credit survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found 46 percent customer satisfaction at online lenders like Lending Club and OnDeck Capital with a 19 percent rate of dissatisfied customers – compared with large banks’ 61 percent of customers who indicated they were satisfied with their small business loan process and 15 percent of whom expressed dissatisfaction. Almost half of all customers specified that their dissatisfaction came from a “lack of transparency.” Online lending customers are also dissatisfied with higher interest rates and unfavorable repayment terms, two common issues for the growing industry, which continues to have a higher cost of capital and for customer acquisitions. Reasons for borrower dissatisfaction Create your own infographics CL: The LendingClub story is a fascinating one and one that I’ve followed from the early days. So how does it feel to sit here and realize that so much of what is here today and the proliferation of all these different lending platforms is really because of this company and this team and what you have been able to build? SB: I think it is exciting. It’s very gratifying to see how the initial idea has gained traction and how that has spawned new players who are bringing new energy and new ideas to different segments of the market. I think the clearest benefit is looking at how much value we’ve driven to consumers and investors. For example, the personal loan market was actually shrinking when we first started. It shrank like 57% from 2007 to 2010, and yet we were still able to giveCL: There’s this great photo from the day of the IPO back in 2014 in which you can see just how elated you were. At the time you were the CMO and it was a very happy day, but when you stepped into the CEO role recently it wasn’t necessarily under the happiest of conditions. So, how have you handled the ups and downs of being a part of the Lending Club team, and how are do you lead the team through these challenging periods? CL: That’s the answer you want to hear, by all means. Since becoming CEO at LendingClub, what have you learned about your own management style and how are you navigating the transition to this role? SB: So much is swirling and changing in real-time, which means you need to keep everyone in the loop. In those early days after I stepped into the CEO role, I can’t tell you how many times we pulled all 1,500 employees together and marched them across the street to a hotel, to fit them into one room and explain, “Here’s what’s happening. Here’s what we know. Here’s what comes next.” That was certainly critical. Lastly, we have focused tirelessly on assembling the right team. When a business is growing 80% to 100% a year for so many years it’s hard for the organization to keep up, and this was an opportunity to say, “Okay, new reality. Let’s look at what the right foundation is for the next decade of Lending Club.” CL: One of the other reasons that I wanted to speak with you is because I often speak with seed and series A Fintech startups that’ll eventually face the challenges of being a larger organization if successful. So, what do you think are the challenges associated with trying to be an innovator while also being a larger organization? SB: Literally, I left that conversation, and sat down with several team members in a room and said, “Okay, what are our values?” It was remarkably easy, actually, to identify what our values were. We put those down on paper and we revisit them, probably annually, maybe every 18 months or so and say, “Do they still resonate? Are they still right for this stage of the company?” Essentially all of our initial values have remained intact and we’ve added one or two as we’ve grown to reflect the new stage of the company. Since then we have remained crisp on what our values are, and we have made sure we’re hiring to those values, and that our performance reviews reflect those values as well. That’s how you keep the essence of a company and that integrity of the company as you grow. The reality is, as you get bigger and layers get introduced and processes get introduced maintaining that value system will help the company stay, essentially, intact and stay functioning well. CL: As we look to the vision of the future loan markets, do you think that startups will increasingly become the sourcing mechanisms of loans with financial institutions acting more as the wholesale banking providers? SB: I think we’re not done seeing the different types of models that could emerge and how they could participate, and I think that’s part of what’s exciting. Not all of them will be great ideas, and not all of them will work, but some will. If you look at our model, banks provide between a quarter and 30% of our funding and they have a very low cost of capital. When you combine their low cost of capital with our low operating cost it allows us to give, especially that super-prime customer, an incredible value that they couldn’t get at these institutions directly. Fintech could pose a threat to traditional banks in the United Kingdom, according to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney. But that doesn’t mean he thinks they should be subject to tougher regulation. The Bank of England created a New Bank Start-up Unit last year, which advises companies trying to become new banks. Carney said in his speech that four mobile banks have been authorized as a result of the new division. Some of the questions that he said need to be answered, moving forward are: “Which fintech activities constitute traditional banking activities by another name and should be regulated as such? How could developments change the safety and soundness of existing regulated firms? How could developments change potential macroeconomic and macrofinancial dynamics including disruptions to systemically important markets? And what could be the implications for the level of cyber and operational risks faced by regulated firms and the financial system as a whole?” While this concept sounds ridiculous to most people, they should not underestimate the power of root malware on Android devices. By using this type of malicious software, it is possible to abuse the host card emulation protocol. Google introduced this feature in Android 4,4, as it allows for NFC payments by keeping the Android device next to a payment terminal. Unfortunately, it appears this protocol can also be used to make fraudulent purchases. Thankfully, this exploit has been discovered by a security researcher who notified both Google and all of the applications he successfully “abused” about this vulnerability. Ohpen, a banking technology company based in Amsterdam,has announced that it will partner with Aegon to develop a new platform for Aegon’s Dutch services, from banking to investments. It will also support multiple labels including Aegon’s Knab (bank spelled backwards) an entirely digital bank. Aegon, a global financial conglomerate whose American holdings include Pimco, will replace multiple individual systems for pensions, savings, current accounts and wealth management with a single Ohpen platform running in the cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Aegon will plug into Ohpen’s platform through a flexible, 100% API-based interface. Multiple companies under one corporate umbrella do many of the same things and have their own infrastructure and staff. Ohpen lets them merge all those activities onto a single cloud-based back end and then put an API on top so any application or Web site can get to it. Under mounting pressure to become more transparent and accountable, banks and financial institutions are turning to regtech: technology that automates regulatory compliance. London-based FundApps alerts financial institutions when regulations change, and gives them software to help compliance. Launched in 2010, it covers 88 jurisdictions. Legislation in Europe requires companies to “know your customer” to make sure they’re not money laundering. That’s what Trulioo does. Qumram records, retains and allows on-demand replays of digital activity across web, social and mobile. US accounting rules require banks to store historical loan data to predict future repayment. “This is what we help them do,” says Vivek Subramanyam, CEO of Fintellix. Launched in 2006, it recently launched a website targeting US community banks and credit unions that are grappling with accounting regulations. KYC3 (“Know Your Customer, Counterparty and Competition”) automates due diligence, so companies can screen potential clients. From Kenya and Tanzania, to Jordan and Peru, digital technology and simple mobile phones are opening up opportunities for millions of people by helping them to safely save and manage their money. Four of the world’s largest telco system manufacturers — Sweden’s Ericsson, China’s Huawei, Canada’s Telepin and India’s Mahindra Comviva — have put aside their fierce competition and agreed to collaborate, not out of altruism but in order to better compete. Announced at the Innovate Finance Global Summit in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who works to bring competitors together to meaningfully address financial inclusion for the poor, these companies are developing a set of “application programming interfaces,” or in plain English, ways of making computers talk to each other. These APIs will create open-source standards for the development of digital financial services that are automatically compatible with each other, lowering costs for providers and increasing the utility of digital financial services for customers overall. By governing how different digital accounts send and receive money, the APIs can be the basis for a new “internet of payments,” across which individuals, banks, merchants, employers, and governments seamlessly transact. The APIs are still under development, but when they’re complete they will be released as a global public good, available to anyone who wants to invent. Funding to AI startups reached record highs in 2016 and applications for artificial intelligence technologies exist across nearly the entire spectrum of business. Highlighted here are the top 100 AI startups selected by CB Insights operating across numerous industry verticals. Fifty-six-year-old Yang Jiacai, assistant chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) was reported to be “out of contact” since Tuesday, April 11, by Chinese media Caixin and Caijing. Caixin reported Yang had transferred all his responsibilities to his colleague, the commission’s vice-chairman Cao Yu. Yang made his last public appearance a week ago during a press conference for the CBRC, during which he introduced some heavy-handed regulatory moves planned by the commission. In this podcast you will learn: The origins of Yirendai and how it was incubated inside CreditEase. When and why Yirendai was spun-off from CreditEase. Some background on all the divisions inside CreditEase. The typical borrower who comes to Yirendai for a loan. How Yirendai has broken new ground in China. The different channels they use to obtain borrowers. The typical size, rate and term of their consumer loans. How these borrowers use their loan proceeds. How Yirendai differentiates themselves from their competitors. Who the typical investors are who participate on their platform. The average amount each of their 200,000 investors deploy on their platform. How their investor product works and details of their risk protection fund. How their business model works as far as revenue. A breakdown of their institutional investor interest. Why they decided to do an IPO in New York rather than Shanghai or Hong Kong. The impact of the new marketplace lending regulations in China. Yihan’s perspective on the fraud that has happened in China. Details of their new Yirendai Enabling Platform that they launched at LendIt. What areas Yirendai will focus on in the coming years. In a series of reports, ChinaNews is pointing to the increasing scrutiny of the Chinese government regarding financial fraud and over-all malpractice. Now the China Banking Regulatory Commission has published measures to address risks in the financial and banking sectors. According to ChinaNews, CBRC highlighted 10 areas for improving risk control in both traditional and internet finance – which includes peer to peer lending. All of this is taking place with the back-drop of Xian Junbo, Chairman of China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), being placed under investigation for “disciplinary violations.” He will be the most senior government financial regulator to be investigated in several years. Big Data Company Wecash raised $ 80 million in series C funding led by China Merchants Capital, Fore Bright Capital and SIG. Two new investors – Dongfang Hongdao Asset Management and Lingfeng Capital joined the existing investors in this round. On April 10, China Banking Regulatory Commission released “Guidelines on risk prevention and control in banking industry” to make the P2P online lending market standard by perfecting the in-out mechanisms, paying more attention to the supervision and perfecting the governance of online lending companies. According to the PwC Global FinTech Survey China Summary 2017 released on April 6, the three main areas to be disrupted by FinTech in China over the next five years will be consumer banking, investment & wealth management, and fund transfers & payments. E-retailers, large technology companies and financial institutions will be the biggest sources of disruption. Compared with developed countries, the market-penetration level of auto finance in China is much lower. However, it also indicates that China has a tremendous room to develop and grow. Market-penetration 80% – 85% Less than 30% On April 6, second-hand car online trading platform Souche closed on $180 million in Series D Funding led by Warburg Pincus. Other participants in the round included VMS Investment Group, ClearVue Partners, Haitong International, CreditEase and Morningside Capital. Notably, Souche just finished Series C Funding led by Ant Financial in the last November. In the past five months, Souche has raised a total of $280 million. Looking at Indian fintech specifically, funding to private companies in the sector boomed from about $175M in 2014 to a high of $2B in 2015 (buoyed by mega-rounds to Paytm) and then slid to $530M in 2016. Still, 2016′s total funding was more than 200% higher than total funding in 2014. A host of global corporations and their venture arms have entered the fray, eager to reach India’s mostly unbanked population and profit from the country’s tech-friendly regulatory environment. Apart from bureaus, online financial marketplaces are also offering free credit scores and reports. These reports are not counted against the free reports you can get from credit bureaus directly. On the four fintech platforms we went to, it took no more than a few minutes to log on, authorise the fintech to access our credit report, and get it on the screen or in email. And it was also simpler to get a report here than from a bureau’s website. On Bankbazaar, we got the report on its website and in email. Paisabazaar displays the report on its website. Both sites provided reports from Experian Credit Information Co. of India Pvt. Ltd. In lending, peer-to-peer lenders and online SME (small and medium enterprises) lenders are targeting clients considered too risky by banks. They claim to use technologies that can assess credit worthiness in smarter ways than the traditional income statements used by banks. In payments, wallet companies have taken the lead in retail payments forcing banks to up their game. One gripe that banks have is that these fintech firms are getting away unregulated, which gives them a lot more flexibility in how they do business. That’s true for now, said R Gandhi, former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) who retired after a 37-year stint at the central bank earlier this month. The dilemma for the regulator is to decide when to regulate and how to regulate so as to ensure that innovative business models get a fair chance, Gandhi explained in an interview with BloombergQuint on Tuesday. What we are trying to do is to create a P2P (Peer to peer) lending industry. Fundamentally we are providing an alternative to banking and other financial institutions. Karun: Investors whom we call lenders can get returns up to 18% to 20% per annum which is much better than other options today. As a borrower you can avail unsecured loans at much cheaper interest rates. What we feel is that the banks make huge margins in terms of the rates that they offering customers on their savings and the rates they are lending it out to people at, in the form of loans. By reducing the margin, with Faircent as the match maker, we are able to pass value to both sides of the table, to borrowers as well as lenders. Karun: We are purely a digital entity. We are trying to use technology so that there is minimal offline intervention. We’ve done a lot of marketing technology interventions, like we have a CRM which is built on top of our platform, which is a custom made CRM. We have integrated it with our lead gen channels. We have an email marketing platform using which we nurture our customers and also do promotional activities with potential customers. We have done a lot of work in trying to become Omni-channel. Three main channels which we use are email, SMS and Voice. Karun: We are using a lot of the off- the- shelf products. But the challenge for us is really how do we integrate them with our platform. So hence we have to be much more careful about which option we choose. We are using Octane and Amazon for email. Octane is basically a mix of email and SMS which we are predominantly using for marketing. Karun: Yes, we have a mobile app which is available on the Android and iOS platform. Right now, our focus has been more to enable our customers to access our platform on the mobile device. So for example if there is an investor who wants to invest in loans on the fly he can do it using our app. At present we’re not really focused on the app to acquire more borrowers or acquire more investors and lenders. Razorpay, a payment gateway solution provider focused on online merchants, plans to go international. It is looking to enter South East Asia and West Asia markets in 2018-19, Harshil Mathur, co-founder, has said. The fintech startup, which started its journey in mid-2014, is in talks with local and global (banking) players in these markets, Mathur said. Razorpay, which had raised Series A funding of $11.5 million, is not worried about funding for the next two years, according to Mathur. ORIX Corporation (“ORIX”) and Yayoi Co., Ltd. (“Yayoi”), an ORIX Group company, announced today that they are launching a new online lending business, a new FinTech service utilizing accounting big data and proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) based credit model. The business will provide Internet-based lending to small businesses in Japan. A new credit model is under development, utilizing ORIX’s credit expertise, Yayoi’s accounting big data, and cutting edge AI technology by ORIX’s partner company, d.a.t. Inc. Most existing credit models in the market to date relied solely on static data such as financial reports; by utilizing dynamic data, such as day-to-day journal data and other transactional data, the new credit model is expected to offer much better predictive power than before. ALT plans to start offering lending services on a trial basis to the approximately 600,000 companies, who are existing users of Yayoi’s online services1 in October 2017. Customers will be able to apply online, during which process they grant permission to access their accounting data. According to a survey of 7,609 Yayoi customers, 85.0% of small corporations have a need for short-term financing, but 36.5% of those have been shying away from obtaining traditional loans, due in part to the excessive amount of time and efforts required for approval of short-term financing. With respect to sole proprietors, just 16.4% of them have obtained short-term traditional loans. Utilizing online lending can reduce complex administrative procedures, including the need to submit financial reports and other paperwork and to visit financial institutions in person, and can also shorten the time needed to obtain much needed cash, making simpler, more flexible financing possible. AN INDONESIAN peer to peer (P2P) lending startup, KoinWorks is supporting small and medium enterprises (SME) and education by launching an art exhibition, ARTificial Intelligence which will run from April 13 to April 30 at Pacific Place, Jakarta. Benedicto also says that KoinWorks mainly focuses on SMEs that conduct their sales and marketing activities online. He also believes that by connecting SMEs to lenders, it will bring benefits to both sides. Benefits for lenders are through net gained interest from their investment which can be up to 19.8% annually depending on the risk level. The service also fulfils social needs by helping businesses to grow. Users may invest in KoinWorks with a minimum deposit of US$7.50 (100,000 rupiah). The funding will be deposited in real-time at a virtual bank account. Users only need to scan and upload information from their identity card, fill in the form, and deposit the money. LendIt, the global lending and Fintech conference, has announced the official launch of the Asian edition of their Fintech startup competition, PitchIt, in association with JadeValue, a Shanghai-based Fintech incubator. The competition is for all early stage Fintech startups in Asia-Pacific. PitchIt will take place at the Lang Di Fintech conference, China’s largest global Fintech conference in Shanghai in July. The 8 Finalists Will Receive: Opportunity to secure investment and partners by meeting investors Have your pitch heard by the international fintech community in front of an audience of international and local attendees across APAC. Gain valuable exposure through global PR Up to $1,000 for travel to Lang Di Fintech Year-round exposure through press and brand visibility and the chance to gain mentorship from Global VCs on pitching and product positioning prior to the event. The Winner Will Receive: Mentorship, co-working space for 6 months and guaranteed investment of $150,000 from JadeValue 2 free passes to LendIt USA 2018, roundtrip airfare and accommodations Curated meetings for investment purposes in the US during LendIt USA 2018 (April, 2018, San Francisco) Complimentary sponsorship at LendIt USA 2018 At a time when the consumer relationship with cash is more virtualiser and abstract, and where use of physical cash continues to decline in many markets, the next phase of digital money offers undiscovered potential for a new period of expansive growth in transactions, beyond the limits of national borders. The region’s e-commerce marketplace is thriving too, but it depends more on cash on delivery than on electronic payments. At the same time, a relatively low share of adults have bank accounts, while mobile money accounts have had limited success. That could be about to change. New Fintech entrants are playing their part in helping drive payment digitisation. Furthermore, developments in payments technology are making it easier for us all to transact. Egypt’s Payfort recently has successfully helped smaller merchants accept electronic payments, and offers instalment payment options to help merchants improve sales. We’re also seeing global providers such as Apple Pay, Google Pay becoming more active in the region after a slow start and more global players are coming, for example Samsung, with Samsung Pay about to deploy payment services that are promising to be easier, faster and more secure using your Samsung smart phone. VoguePay.com, a secure payment gateway has won the “Best Fintech Startup” at the 6th edition of the Cashless Africa Awards 2017, organised by Mobile Money Africa in Lagos recently. Author Allen TaylorPosted on April 17, 2017 Categories Aegon, Artificial Intelligence, Bank of England, Banks, CBRC, CFPB, china p2p, credit reports, Daily News Digest, digital money, digital payments, Dodd-Frank, Featured, fintech, India fintech, india p2p, india p2p regulation, KoinWorks, lendingclub, Lendit China, marketplace lending, News, NFC, Ohpen, online lenders, ORIX, PitchIt, prosper, PwC, Razorpay, RegTech, Regulation, VoguePay, Wecash, Yirendai The 2017 wave of Lending Fintechs: Alt Lending 3.0 The PitchIt startup awards is one of the best and most exciting parts of the LendIt conference. This year, there were eight finalist competitors who met in front of hundreds of investors to pitch. Four judges picked the ultimate winner, Nova. Below are the profiles of Nova and the seven other PitchIt finalists. Nova – […] The PitchIt startup awards is one of the best and most exciting parts of the LendIt conference. This year, there were eight finalist competitors who met in front of hundreds of investors to pitch. Four judges picked the ultimate winner, Nova. Below are the profiles of Nova and the seven other PitchIt finalists. Nova – Credit History for Immigrants Nova is the world’s first cross-border credit agency. Many immigrants come to the United States with no credit history. They may come from a place where credit is not an option. In many countries of the world, banks do not issue credit cards. There may not even be many, if any at all, banks. Merchants do not offer purchases on credit, so when these immigrants land on U.S. soil, their ability to interact with the economy is limited by the options they had in their native countries. Nova solves that problem. It started as a research project at Stanford University. U.S. property managers run credit and background checks on applicants to screen for potential risks when leasing or renting housing units. Those checks typically do not include overseas credit checks. With Nova, property managers have that ability. Not only can U.S. landlords check overseas credit, but they can also report negative actions so that the credit report is affected in the applicant’s home country. Lenders can use Nova to check the credit history of applicants that come from non-U.S. countries. While many countries around the world do not have FICO scores and credit bureaus, that does not mean citizens of those countries do not have credit histories. Nova gains access to those histories. Aella Credit – Instant Credit for Africans Aella Credit’s focus is on Africa where employed workers may or may not have access to credit. Through Aella, employees can access alternative credit solutions through their employers. Companies register on the Aella Credit platform and give the company access to employee records. Through an API call, Aella Credit can loan money to employees who access the platfom through their mobile phones. In most cases, they can have access to much-needed cash at low interest rates in a couple of minutes. They pay back the loans in payroll deductions authorized during the application process. Over time, their credit improves as Aella Credit reports their payment history to the credit bureaus. Investors make loans and are almost guaranteed payment due to the payroll deduction process. Also, the default rate is low for the same reason. Everyone wins. Alloy – Verifying Identities Identity verification has been a major issue for many people and companies in recent history. As the world grows more and more digitized, identity verification will become an even bigger concern. Alloy makes the process seamless. Through an API call, Alloy verifies identity by checking multiple sources of information. Using financial technology for financial service companies that want to fight fraud, they are able to verify identities quickly and accurately to prevent loss due to fraud and dissatisfaction. Float – Providing Access to Credit Quickly and Easily Float‘s mission is very simple and straightforward. It’s a mobile app that allows people to apply for a line of credit and be approved in just a few minutes—as in, under five. The money being loaned is sent directly to the app and the borrower can use that money from the app. In other words, it’s digital currency. Instead of using FICO scores, the company bases the amount of credit on what they believe the applicant can afford. Credit lines begin at $50 and go up to $1,000, amounts that no bank would touch. Another anomaly is the payback plan. Whatever applicants borrow must be paid back by the 21st of the following month. Therefore, it’s more like a payday loan than a traditional line of credit, but instead of standing in line in a seedy part of town, applicants can borrow money while sitting in their living rooms. Qwil – Unlocking Contractor Earnings As a freelance writer, I’ve experienced times when a slow payment made it difficult to get through the month. It’s an experience that every contractor in any kind of business has experienced. With Qwil, contractors can get through those difficult months without stress. Think of it as a cash flow plan based on the quality of your invoices. When you invoice your clients—whether it be Net 30, Net 60, or Net 90—this is reflected in your Qwil account. Contractors simply cash out on future invoice earnings and go on about their business. RealAtom – Helping Commercial Real Estate Borrowers Find The Right Lender There is a lot of innovation going on in real estate lending right now. Commercial real estate is one area where could be a lot more improvement. RealAtom is here to fill in some of that gap. Their niche is helping borrowers find the right lender. True the marketplace lending format, both borrowers and lenders sign up on the platform. Borrowers post their loan details and documents for review while lenders specify their applicant criteria. RealAtom makes the connection through the platform, matching lenders with borrower requests and borrowers with lender criteria. They deal in loan amounts from $100,000 to $100 million providing access to bridge, mezzanine, and long-term permanent loans. They’ll even work with loan brokers. StackSource – Commercial Real Estate Lending Another marketplace lending platform specializing in the commercial real estate lending space, StackSource allows project managers and real estate developers a way to access funding for their projects by giving them a place to upload their project details and find lenders willing to fund those projects. The basic service is free, but there is an upgrade option that allows developers to pitch their projects to more lenders for a fee. It’s only .3% of gross loan value, which is due at closing. That still beats those hefty broker fees. WeTrust Platform – Providing a Trusted Lending Circle WeTrust is an online ROSCA, which stands for Rotating Savings and Credit Association. It’s a simple idea that has caught on in several countries under different names, but it allows a group of people to pool their money together for a common purpose and reap the benefits together. ROSCAs are peer-to-peer instruments that allow the members to use their pooled money to gain access to credit, make a purchase, fund a business, or whatever they agree upon. They contain all the benefits of insurance as well as credit instruments. Members earn interest on their pooled money, but members rotate the benefits so that not all of them gain access to the money in the pool at the same time. In other words, they rotate the shared benefits to distribute them fairly and evenly so that the entire membership wins. WeTrust operates in India, Latin America, China, and the U.S. with plans to expand to other countries soon. Author Allen TaylorPosted on April 6, 2017 Categories Aella Credit, Alloy, Alternative credit, alternative credit scoring, Analysis, commercial real estate, credit scoring, Featured, Float, invoicing, lendit, Nova, PitchIt, Qwil, RealAtom, ROSCA, small business lending, StackSource, WeTrust Wednesday February 22 2017, Daily News Digest News Comments Today’s main news: OCC addresses risk management for bank-MPL relationships. IFISAs dogged by further delays. Radial integrates with Klarna. Bitbond raises $1.2 mil. Today’s main analysis: Marcus marks the end of traditional banking. Today’s thought-provoking articles: 3 upcoming changes to private student lending. The Pulse of FinTech infographics. United States OCC establishes risk management expectations for bank-MPL […] Today’s main news: OCC addresses risk management for bank-MPL relationships. IFISAs dogged by further delays. Radial integrates with Klarna. Bitbond raises $1.2 mil. Today’s main analysis: Marcus marks the end of traditional banking. Today’s thought-provoking articles: 3 upcoming changes to private student lending. The Pulse of FinTech infographics. OCC establishes risk management expectations for bank-MPL relationships. GP:” This is important for all lenders who partner with OCC regulated banks. This initiative also clears the field for a possible OCC fintech charter by organizing and clarifying existing relationships.” Marcus marks the end of traditional banking. AT: “I wish this were true. I’d welcome a radical change to the entire banking ecosystem. Unfortunately, this is one company, a great company doing something bold, but one company nonetheless. I’ll believe traditional banking is dead when ICBC, HSBC, and JPMorganChase open digital branches or follow Goldman Sachs online.” 3 upcoming changes to private student lending. AT: “I certainly think there’s room for more competition.” Ron Suber joins Unison as investor and strategic advisor. LendIt announces 2017 PitchIt finalists. AT: Congratulations to all these companies.” Kabbage preps small business loan deal. GP:” Kabbage is doing a $500mil securitization. Guggenheim took the lead.” Marketplace deals readied, with innovations. Kroll assigns preliminary ratings to Arcadia Receivables Credit Trust. Why big banks are helping FinTech startups. AT: “Accelerator programs are one way traditional banks can help FinTech startups.” 4 RECF trends to watch. AT: “Further specialization wasn’t mentioned, but it should have been.” PeerStreet talks RECF. Misys targets P2P lending offerings. Premium Title announces integration with LendingQB’s loan origination system. IFISAs dogged by further delays. AT: “We’re on the edge of our seats waiting for approval of the Big 3.” Plum partners with RateSetter. Zopa named best personal loan provider, best alt finance provider at British Bank Awards. AT: “Biggest, first, and best. Congratulations.” RateSetter borrowers have paid back 1B GBP, investors have earned 63M GBP. P2P awareness drops north of London. SME loan fund plans break with GLI in bid for scale. Most P2P trust board members have skin in the game. Radial integrates with Klarna. AT: “This is an awesome value-add for Klarna.” Bitbond raises $1.2M. The pulse of FinTech: KPMG infographics. Australia weathers FinTech slump. OCC’s Third-Party Risk Management Expectations for Bank Relationships with MPLs (Pepper Hamilton LLP), Rated: AAA Goldman Sachs’ Recent Move Marks The End Of Traditional Banking (Newsmax), Rated: AAA 3 Upcoming Changes in Private Student Lending (US News), Rated: AAA Prosper Marketplace President Ron Suber Joins Unison as an Investor and Strategic Advisor (PR Newswire), Rated: A LendIt Announces 2017 PitchIt Finalists (PR Newswire), Rated: A Kabbage preps small business loan deal (Global Capital), Rated: A Marketplace deals readied, with innovations (Structured Credit Investor), Rated: A Kroll Bond Rating Agency Assigns Preliminary Ratings to Arcadia Receivables Credit Trust 2017-1 (BusinessWire), Rated: A Why big banks are helping financial tech startups (Tradestreaming), Rated: A 4 Real Estate Crowdfunding Trends You Should Be Watching (Forbes), Rated: A PeerStreet’s CEO Brew Johnson Talks Real Estate Crowdfunding Market (Forbes), Rated: A Misys Targets Offerings for P2P Lending (Intralinks), Rated: B Altisource’s Premium Title Announces Integration with LendingQB’s Loan Origination System (Yahoo! Finance), Rated: B Innovative Finance Isas dogged by further delays (Financial Times), Rated: AAA Chatbot savings app Plum partners P2P lender Ratesetter (Finextra), Rated: AAA Zopa Named Best Personal Loan Provider & Best Alternative Finance Provider at the 2017 British Bank Awards (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: AAA RateSetter Borrowers Have Paid Back £1 Billion, Investors Have Earned £63 Million (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: A Awareness of P2P drops north of London (P2P Finance News), Rated: A SME Loan Fund plans break with GLI in bid for scale (Citywire), Rated: A Most board members of P2P trusts have skin in the game (P2P Finance News), Rated: A Radial payments platform integrates with Klarna (Finextra), Rated: AAA Bitbond raises $ 1.2 million to grow SME lending platform (Finextra), Rated: AAA Infographics – The Pulse of Fintech – Q4 2016 (KPMG), Rated: AAA Australia weathers fintech slump (The Australian), Rated: A On January 24, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a new bulletin, OCC Bulletin 2017-07 (Supplemental Examination Procedures for Risk Management of Third-Party Relationships). The stated purpose of the bulletin is to assist bank examiners in evaluating the third-party risk management practices of national banks and federal savings associations (collectively, banks). For the most part, Bulletin 2017-7 reinforces existing OCC supervisory expectations. In several notable respects, however, the bulletin breaks new ground, including by addressing relationships with marketplace lenders. In establishing risk management expectations for relationships between banks and marketplace lenders in its new bulletin, the OCC is following the lead of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which issued its own supervisory expectations for these relationships in late 2015. As in the case of the FDIC’s guidance, the OCC bulletin broadly defines the term “marketplace lender” to include any “companies engaged in Internet-based lending businesses (other than payday lending).”2 Specific examples of marketplace lenders stated in the OCC Bulletin include online companies that make small business loans, consumer loans, student loans and real estate loans.3 If a bank plans to contract with a marketplace lender to “perform some, if not all operational functions, including processing, underwriting, closing, funding, delivering, and servicing of loans,” OCC Bulletin 2017-7 requires the bank to have sufficient support “systems, controls, and personnel [in place] to adequately support the volume of planned loan origination, servicing, or collection activities.”4 In addition, if the bank is considering contracting with a marketplace lender to originate or purchase loans, the bank must determine whether the lender’s underwriting methods are “new, nontraditional, or different from the bank’s underwriting standards.”5 Finally, if the bank will be investing directly or indirectly in, or will be providing warehouse lines or other credit facilities to, any third-party lender, including a marketplace lender, the bank must determine whether the third-party lender’s underwriting standards are consistent with the bank’s own underwriting standards.6 At the end of 2016, Goldman Sachs launched a new online lending platform called Marcus. The move into online lending by one of the most successful investment banks in the world is a telling move for two reasons. First, it’s a good indicator of the post-financial crisis banking industry. Second, rising compliance costs—combined with over seven years of zero-interest rate policy from the Fed—was a bad environment for bankers. Peer-to-peer lending has grown from nothing a decade ago to be a $26 billion industry in 2015. However, it still only accounts for 2% of the market for unsecured consumer credit. Goldman Sachs is using Finacle, a software program owned by Infosys, to run the Marcus lending platform. With this software, Marcus customers will be able to fully customize their loan parameters within guidelines set by the bank. Gone are the days of negotiating with a banker on loan terms. The Finacle software is fully automated and will process the transactions in real time. It’s a fully operational “bank within a bank” that only relies on approximately 200 Goldman employees, according to Bloomberg. Marcus is not a peer-to-peer lending platform. Instead, Goldman will be making loans against its own balance sheet. This will give the bank more flexibility with setting competitive loan terms and fees. According to a Morgan Stanley report published in 2015, the effective annual interest on the peer-to-peer lending platforms analyzed was on average 6.8% lower than those offered by banks. All the while, P2P lending platforms have historical net annualized returns between 5% and 10%. Compare that to investing in a 5-year US Treasury note that yields less than 2% today, below the reported rate of inflation, and can you see why Goldman Sachs got involved with online lending. In fact, the day after Trump was elected to office, the stock price for Sallie Mae Corp., a large student loan lender, shot up nearly double from $7.10 per share on Election Day to $12.47 on Feb. 15. For prospective private student loan borrowers, here are a few expectations that experts say consumers may see in the next year or two as a result of changes at the federal level. 1. More lenders entering the private student loan market: Matherson says easing of lending restrictions will lead to more lenders entering the marketplace over the next two years. Experts say large commercial banks that left the private student lending market after the 2008 financial crises may also return. 2. Interest rate hikes for both variable and fixed-rate private loans:The Federal Reserve is signaling that it’s on course to raise the short-term interest rate this year. Lending experts say they expect to see a 1 percent rise in interest rates for private student loans over the next two years. Those increases, they say, will affect both variable and fixed-term rates on private education loans. 3. A growing number of start-ups offering income-shared agreements: Under an income-shared agreement or ISA, students use funds from an investor to pay for college and in turn agree to make payments based on a percentage of their income for a set period of time after they graduate. Casey Jennings, chief operating officer at nonprofit 13th Avenue Funding, which works with low-income students, says clarification of the legislation will make it much easier for financial and educational institutions to enter this space. Unison Home Ownership Investors, the leading provider of home ownership investments, announced today that Ron Suber, president of Prosper Marketplace, has become an investor in the company and has taken on a significant advisory role as the company is experiencing a period of unparalleled growth, opportunity and availability. A financial services industry veteran, Suber brings to Unison a wealth of experience across multiple disciplines. As an influencer in the financial technology space, Suber will look to grow the home ownership investment category through his relationships with marketplace lenders, mortgage companies, realtor groups and banks. LendIt, the world’s largest show in lending and fintech, today announced eight finalists for its fifth PitchIt @ LendIt competition. In partnership for the first time with 500 Startups, the world’s leader in investing and mentoring, and sponsored by Marqeta, PitchIt is a leading global competition for fintech startups to earn mentorship, endorsement and exposure to institutions, investors and broad visibility. This year’s finalists were chosen from nearly 300 high caliber applicants covering all areas of fintech including insurtech, blockchain, payments, online lending, credit and artificial intelligence. The eight 2017 PitchIt finalists are: Alloy.co Real Atom Float Credit WeTrust Platform The finalists will pitch their concepts at LendIt USA 2017 on March 7 to a panel of judges from the venture capital community including: David Teten, ff Venture Capital; Kareem Zaki, Thrive Capital; Ben Malka, F-Prime; and Joel Monegro, Union Square Ventures. Online small business lender Kabbage is marketing a $500m securitization of loans to small and medium sized businesses which will be used to refinance an existing deal from 2014. Guggenheim is the sole lead of the $500m deal, which is expected to officially begin marketing to investors in the week of March 6. Kroll Bond Ratings has assigned an A rating to the $370.37m ‘A’ notes, and BBB to the $79.37m ‘B’ notes. Kabbage is marketing its first marketplace loan ABS of the year and its second since inception. Meanwhile, SoFi is in the market with its second consumer loan ABS – SoFi Consumer Loan Program 2017-2 – backed by US$343m of consumer loans and comprising several elements that differ from its previous securitisation. Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) assigns preliminary ratings to two classes of notes issued by Arcadia Receivables Credit Trust 2017-1 (“ARCT 2017-1”). This is a $213.137 million consumer loan ABS transaction that is expected to close March 6, 2017. This transaction is the first rated securitization of prime unsecured consumer loans facilitated by LendingClub Corporation’s (“Lending Club” or the “Company”) proprietary technology platform supporting an online marketplace that connects borrowers and investors by offering a variety of loan products originated by issuing banks through the platform, www.lendingclub.com(the “Lending Club Platform” or the “Platform”). Finlab, short for Financial Solutions Lab, is an 8-month startup accelerator program funded by JPMorgan Chase and run by the Center for Financial Services Innovation. It just sent out its third call for applications from financial technology startups working on tools for underserved populations. It’s an example of how banks are now partnering rather than competing with startups — a trend that’s grown quickly over the past couple of years. Finlab began two years ago, and winners get $250,000 of capital, one-on-one mentorship and networking opportunities. About eight or nine winners are picked each round. Winners participate in a series of workshops across the country on how to grow their businesses, including a session on regulation. Big banks are likely to keep supporting these programs — not only for relationship building, but also because startups are working on areas major banks aren’t addressing, said Gilbert. Real estate is one of the fastest growing markets to take on the concept of crowdfunding and apply it in a new way. Here are four emerging trends in real estate crowdfunding to watch this year. Regulation Brings Crowdfunding to Maturity. Today, crowdfunding has matured and investors are more intrigued than they are skeptical. This is due, in large part, to the JOBS Act and the enactment of Regulation A+. It legitimized the industry and it has been growing ever since. Foreign Investment in Real Estate Is Booming. According to The Guardian, a recent U.S. real estate study showed that Chinese investors have poured $110 billion dollars into the U.S. market in the last 5 years (both commercial and residential). This investment is set to double in the next 5 years. Because of foreign investment expansion in the U.S., it’s relatively safe to assume that a portion of those dollars will go into alternative funding options like real estate crowdfunding. Wealthy Millennials Are Investing Their Money Differently. However, with the influx of unicorn technology companies and the increase of millennial millionaires, the need to put their money somewhere is still very much on their minds. Real estate crowdfunding has the potential to help them share the wealth while staying true to their sensibilities. Crowdfunding for Retirement. Those considering real estate investing, especially through crowdfunding platforms, could potentially improve their rate of return with tax efficient strategies, more specifically IRA’s. Real estate crowdfunding platforms allow those saving for retirement to invest in real estate right from the golf course, with just a few clicks on their phone or tablet. The company was founded by former Google executive Brett Crosby and real estate attorney Brew Johnson. By the end of 2016, the company originated more than $200 million. Johnson: The biggest differentiators between PeerStreet and other players are pretty simple: (i) our platform is very focused on one asset – first-lien debt. We think creating this focus at the outset is important in delivering value to users. And most importantly, (ii) we don’t originate loans directly to borrowers, but rather we aggregate loans from a distributed network of lenders, curate those loans, and then make it easy for investors to invest in them. Johnson: We exceeded $200 million in origination volume by the end of 2016. Our KPIs are based on loan volume and quality. Johnson: We maintain focused on our core asset: short-term, first position lien loans. Our data continue to show that this asset provides favorable risk-return profiles for investors, so 2017 is about growing our loan volume in order to serve even more investors. Johnson: I think there are opportunities of various sizes across the industry. That said, a couple that I find particularly interesting are the potential implications for a more robust rating and credit scoring of alternative lending investments across platforms and those of creating a truly efficient secondary market or exchange that enables investors to seamlessly trade in and out of positions. Traditionally focused on treasury and capital markets solutions, Misys revised its focus to include solutions that would allow banks to branch into peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, as well as an offering for machine learning that would detect anomalies in trading patterns. Premium Title, a national provider of title and escrow services, announced today its integration with LendingQB’s end-to-end, browser-based loan origination system (LOS). The integration can help provide customers with the ability to obtain title and settlement quotes faster, place orders with Premium Title and receive a title fee certificate guaranteeing fees for 30 days, all without leaving the LendingQB platform. This integration, gives Premium Title clients the capability to experience a seamless and more efficient process within the LendingQB LOS platform. Lenders using LendingQB can receive an automated quote for title services and a title fee certificate guaranteeing title fees, which auto-populates into the LOS. LendingQB can also maintain the loan estimate and any adjustments in fees associated with the loan, assisting with TRID compliance and faster disclosure timelines. The Innovative Finance Isa was officially launched by former chancellor George Osborne in July 2015, putting peer-to-peer lending platforms — where individual investors are matched with interest-paying borrowers — on a level playing field with traditional savings and investment products which can be held within an Isa wrapper. A year on, the FCA has still yet to grant the bulk of peer-to-peer lenders, including the three largest — Zopa, Funding Circle and RateSetter — the authorisation they need to launch an Innovative Finance Isa in time for the new tax year in April. These three peer-to-peer platforms account for more than 40 per cent of the UK’s market share by loan origination, according to AltFi data, having lent nearly £6bn combined. British AI-powered savings Facebook Messenger chatbot Plum is to start steering users that are willing to take on risk in exchange for higher interest rates to P2P lender Ratesetter. According to Moneyfacts, the average UK rate on easy-access accounts is 0.15%, while the average return earned by RateSetter investors to date is 4.7%. The money goes into users’ Plum savings account but the Ratesetter deal means that people can also now choose to earn a better rate – if they are willing to take on the associated risk. Zopa, the UK’s very first peer to peer lending platform, announced on Monday it was named Best Personal Loan Provider & Best Alternative Finance Provider at the 2017 British Bank Awards. This news comes just a few weeks after Zopa was named Personal Loan Provider of the Year at the Consume MoneyFacts Awards for the fourth year in a row. Zopa recently announced it topped £2 billion in lending. According to information provided by the online lending platform, as of today, the lender matched over 246,000 borrowers to 75,000 investors to provide access to capital in the form of loans. Online lender RateSetter has said it has now collected £1 billion in capital repayments from borrowers since its first loan back in 2010. Overall, RateSetter has originated approximately £1.75 billion in loans while paying out £63 million in interest. The average interest rate ranged between 3.1% on the Rolling market and 6.0% for the 5 Year market. In 2016, total lending was pegged at £668 million. AWARENESS of peer-to-peer finance products among small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is at its lowest in the Midlands and the north of England, the British Business Bank (BBB) has revealed. The figures, revealed in its latest annual Small Business Finance Markets report, showed fewer than 40 per cent of firms in the Midlands were aware of P2P lending, compared with almost 60 per cent in London. Around half of firms in the south of England were aware of P2P, while just 40 per cent of firms in the north had come across it. Despite the varying levels of awareness, the report found annual lending through P2P platforms increased by 34 per cent to £3.9bn in 2016. Business lending made up £1.3bn of that amount. The SME Loan Fund (SMEF +), the small directing lending investment trust set up by GLI Finance, plans to break ties with its founder in a bid to gain scale. The trust launched in 2015 amid a boom in peer-to-peer lending launches, yet was able to raise just £12.4 million capital. Assets currently stand at £53 million, mostly from an initial portfolio of loans transferred by GLI Finance (GLIF +) as part of the launch. The SME Loan Fund said that GLI had agreed to sell its 48% stake in the trust through a placing. Should the placing prove successful, the SME trust will switch management from Amberton Asset Management, 50% owned by GLI. If it is not, the board will propose the wind-up of the trust. GLI Finance, an investment trust in its own right, said it would use the money from a share sale to repay a £14.9 million loan to strengthen its balance sheet. THE MAJORITY of board members of peer-to-peer investment trusts have “skin in the game”, research has revealed. Canaccord Genuity research has assessed the pay and investments of board members of investment trusts. The analysis included funds focused on the P2P sector. It showed that the highest annual pay packet among P2P investment trusts is £50,000, taken by the chairmen of the Funding Circle SME Income Fund and Victory Park Capital (VPC) Specialty Lending. Samir Desai, co-founder of the Funding Circle platform, who sits on the investment trust’s board, has put £152,775 into the fund. This is the highest among its board members, followed by £110,349 invested by non executive director Frederic Hervouet. The Funding Circle SME Income Fund board chairman Richard Boleat takes the highest annual fee on the board at £50,000 and has invested £5,157. The trust’s board members Jonathan Bridel and Richard Burwood, both non-executive directors, have also invested £5,157 and their annual fee is £40,000 and £30,000 respectively. Desai does not take a fee and Hervouet has an annual fee of £35,000. Klarna, one of Europe’s leading payments providers, and Radial, the leader in omnichannel commerce technology and operations, today announced a new partnership to further expand Radial’s payment options. The integration of Klarna with Radial’s Payment platform enables clients and prospects to offer a financing option at checkout to give customers more choice and could give retailers a 58 percent higher order value. Financing a purchase over time has historically been optimized for brick and mortar stores. The online equivalent, however, can often be an ordeal, with redirects, lengthy forms and unclear information. Klarna’s process only requires a few fields of information, and lets customers know instantly if they qualify for the financing solution. Global SME lending platform Bitbond today announced the closing of an equity funding round of $1.2 million (€1.1 million). This round brings Bitbond’s raised equity capital to a total of $2.3 million. Led by mobilike founder Şekip Can Gökalp, a number of business angels contributed to the round. Among them were Fyber founders Janis Zech and Andreas Bodczek as well as Kreditech co-founder & CEO Alexander Graubner-Müller. Bitbond will use the additional funds for further product development and to grow its user base in markets which are underserved by traditional lenders. Over 1,600 loans worth $1.2 million were originated on Bitbond since its launch. 76,000 users from 120 countries registered with the service to date. According to The Pulse of Fintech, after 2015’s record-setting $46.7 billion in global funding to fintech companies, 2016 brought reality back to the market with an almost 50 percent slide in fintech investment. Global investment in fintech companies almost halved last year as “froth” comes out of the burgeoning industry and investors wait to see if they can successfully disrupt incumbents such as banks and insurers, according to a new report. Fintech investment funding declined to $US24.7 billion ($32.17bn) last year from a bumper $US46.7bn in 2015, driven by fewer merger and acquisitions, and private equity investments, KPMG found. However, the less mature Australian fintech industry bucked the trend as investment soared to a record high of $626 million last year, up from $185m in 2015 and $461m in 2014. In contrast, corporate venture capital arms — those owned by banks and other incumbents — played a bigger role in the market, expanding investment to $US8.5bn from $US4.9bn. Australia’s institutions, including National Australia Bank, are increasingly investing in fintech via internal VC arms. Author Allen TaylorPosted on February 22, 2017 Categories Australia, Banks, big banks, BitBond, Daily News Digest, Featured, fintech, Goldman Sachs, IFISA, kabbage, Klarna, kpmg, Kroll Bond Rating Agency, LendingQB, Lendit 2017, Marcus, marketplace lending, Misys, MPL-bank partnerships, News, OCC, p2p lending, PeerStreet, PitchIt, Plum, Premium Title, prosper, Radial, RateSetter, RECF, SME lending, student loan marketplace, Unison, Zopa	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line342
__label__wiki	0.677913	0.677913	Home » Holyland Hoops » Game Reviews » 2017-18 Game Reviews » Israel Basketball Gameday 15 Israel Basketball Gameday 15 Posted on January 30, 2018 by admin in 2017-18 Game Reviews, Game Reviews, Holyland Hoops // 0 Comments Maccabi Ashdod 74-65 Hapoel Jerusalem Ashdod played another fantastic game of basketball defeating Jerusalem for their 5th win in a row. The victory moved Brad Greenberg’s team into 5th place with an 8-7 record thanks to Sek Henry’s 22 points coupled with Gerald Lee’s 15 points and 11 rebounds. Nimrod Levi finished the evening with 12 points, 11 rebounds and an incredible +25 for the hosts’s. Jerome Dyson scored 21 points for Jerusalem in a losing effort for their second defeat in as many games. The Reds held a 39-29 lead after 20 minutes and were up 47-34 in the 3rd quarter but that’s when Greenberg’s charges let loose and grabbed the bull by the horns outscoring Jerusalem 40-18 over the last quarter and a half. Ashdod played lock down defense winning the battle on the boards 44-34 which included a whopping 15 offensive rebounds while also taking advantage of 18 Jerusalem turnovers. The host’s aggressive play decided the game with Nimrod Levi leading the way fighting for every single possession in the paint. Head Coach Brad Greenberg discussed the victory: “The defense was the key to the win, we guarded really well in the second half and made a few more shots. We missed some in the first half but got offensive rebounds on those that we missed. We had to come back twice in the second half and we did that by working hard on defense.” Travis Warech spoke about his side’s win: “We gave up a lot in the first half and our defense wasn’t ideal, they were making some tough shots. We really buckled down in the second half and gave up only 10 points in the 4th quarter against a top 2 team, that’s the only was we win that game, through defense.” Sek Henry also chimed in after scoring a game high 22 points: “This was a tough game for me. I missed so many shots in the first half. My teammates told me to keep shooting and we told each other to keep fighting.” Kalin Lucas spoke exclusively to The Sports Rabbi following the game: “We have to learn from them. Watch film, see how we can get better and move on. It’s a long season but we’ll fix it.” Trouble with Ashdod’s swarming defense: “When they send 3-4 guys in the paint we have to look for the kick out.” Offensive issues: “For the most part I feel like we had good shots and we made them in the first half but not the second half. Sometimes instead of taking a jump shot you have to go to the rim and go to the basket and try to get some easy ones.” Looking ahead to Eilat: “The coaching staff will prepare us the right way and the correct way so we will be ready for them.” Head Coach Mody Maor also discussed the trouble his team had with Ashdod: “We were not in the best offensive flow. There are days like this when the ball won’t go in. Ashdod played very good defense and we have to give them credit for that. We are usually the tougher team on the court. We did not respond well to the game. We are focused now on the game vs. Eilat.” Bar Timor also looked back on the defeat: “We fell apart in the second half. We have an issue that we cannot stay in form for the whole game physically. We had a lot of injured players and our practices rejected that. We will improve. I had an injury a long time and it’s hard to stay on track and to deal with my injury.” Hapoel Tel Aviv 86-74 Hapoel Eilat Hapoel Tel Aviv pulled away from Hapoel Eilat as they won 86-74 in what was a close contest until the 4th quarter. Jerel McNeal, Marquette University’s all-time scoring and steals leader, led his squad in scoring with 18 points. Adrian Banks and Raviv Limind contributed 17 and 15 points, respectively. For Hapoel Eilat, Amit Simhon played virtually the entire game as he racked up 23 points. Following were Americans Jordan Loyd and Isaac Rosefelt who combined for 24 points. Rosefelt, the veteran from Minnesota, came off the bench for Eilat and had a double-double. Demetrius Treadwell, a Cleveland native, also had a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds in their defeat. Hapoel Tel Aviv will play Bnei Herzliya in their next matchup and Hapoel Eilat will face a tough Hapoel Jerusalem team on Sunday. Maccabi Haifa 75-85 Maccabi Tel Aviv The top ranked defensive team in the league, Maccabi Tel Aviv (allowing 76.4 PPG) felt confident going into their match against the worst statistical offense in the Super League, Maccabi Haifa (averaging 75.5 PPG). Not only are they the #1 ranked team in the league, but they were also undefeated on the road heading into their match, and that wouldn’t change. While the records of the teams and their placement in the standings lead fans to believe a blowout was imminent, #11 ranked Haifa held their own and kept the game close throughout. The first unit for Haifa played well against the league’s top team, led by Angel Rodriguez’s 19 points, Reginald Buckner’s 14, and Oz Blayzer’s 11. Nearly equaling the total of the starters for Tel Aviv (Norris Cole’s 16 points, John Dibartolomeo’s 16, Alex Tyus 11), the second unit were the downfall of the game. The difference in the game was the efficient, high scoring game from Jake Cohen. Scoring 17 points on 7/9 shooting off the bench for Tel Aviv, Cohen led the second unit to outscoring Haifa’s 30-21. Tel Aviv looks to continue their dominance in the league in their next game against Rishon Lezion. Unet Holon 101-92 Gilboa/Galil In a battle of top teams, #2 ranked UNET Holon defeated #5 ranked Gilboa Galil 101-92 in a tight battle. Gilboa’s dominant rebounding, and a high scoring game for Zach Leday were not enough to beat out the well rounded scoring effort of Holon. Holon’s dominant offensive performance was led by Guy Pnini’s 21 points, Joe Alexander’s 19, and 17 a piece for Terrell Tu Holloway and Shlomi Harrush off the bench. The #1 ranked offensive team in the league continued flexing their muscles putting up 11 points more than their average (averaging 90.1 PPG). On a team lacking depth after the starting unit, Zach Leday and J’Covan Brown did everything they could to keep the game close. Leday scored 32 on 14/24 shooting, with Brown adding in 23 on 6/11 from the field. Gilboa/Galil will look to climb up the league ranks taking on Ironi Nahariya in their next match. Bnei Herzliya 72-69 Nahariya Bnei Rav-Bariach Herzliya pulled off the upset against Ironi Nahariya 72-69 holding off what would have been a thrilling comeback after nearly blowing a 15 point first half lead. Shawn Dawson led the way for Herzliya with 16 points, 6 rebounds, and 4 steals. Dawson, born in Eilat, went undrafted in the 2015 NBA draft and spent brief stints with the Washington Wizards and New Orleans Pelicans but quickly opted to spend his career in his homeland and play for the Israel national team. Also helping out for Herzliya was Jeff Adrien (12 points, 8 rebounds, 3 steals) and Aviram Zelekovits (14 points, 4 rebounds) in their win. Off the bench, Jonathan Skjoldebrand led all scorers in the contest with 21 points, but it wasn’t enough as Skjoldebrand’s fade-away three from the corner to tie the game came up short at the buzzer. Skjoldebrand, the Swedish native, shot 5-6 from 3-point territory and Corey Webster also pitched in 18 points off the bench. Only one starter, Alex Young, scored in double-digits in the loss for Nahariya. On Sunday, after falling to Winner League’s 11th placed Herzliya, Nahariya will look to bounce back versus Gilboa/Galil. Herzliya will be looking to build some momentum against the 9-6 Hapoel Tel Aviv. Maccabi Rishon Le’Zion 84-69 Nes Tziona Rishon handily beat Nes Tziona at home by 15 points thanks to a superb showing by Murphy Holloway who scored 14 points, pulled down 17 big boards and added 7 assists. In a game that was never in doubt, Jason Siggers and Drew Crawford added 17 points a piece for Shmulik Brener’s squad. Jaron Johnson paced Nes Tziona with 23 points on the night. brad greenberg Jake Cohen Nimrod Levi “It’s about who wants it more & we want it more every game” – Zoosman on Maccabi, Comeback City, Pitino on Avdija, Dorsey stars again, Bryant, Wilbekin, Cohen & Much More! 3-Pointers Analysis! Who is Nate Wolters? Coach Scott Nagy and confidant Austin Miller tell all – Sports Rabbi Show Episode 40 STAT Stars & Thomas returns in Jerusalem win, Holon & Nes Ziona pick up victories Maccabi escapes Kazan with 74-73 win	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line347
__label__cc	0.704798	0.295202	Campus Emergency & Inclement Weather Policy Office of Administration and Finance Campus Emergency and Inclement Weather Policy The decision to cancel or delay classes and activities will be based upon the best information available regarding the operational status of the college. This includes heat, power, snow removal, and accessibility to the campus to include the availability of public transportation and street conditions in our service area. Conditions may vary greatly within the college’s service areas; therefore, when classes and activities are being held, students and employees must ultimately determine if they are able to attend. Students are encouraged to become familiar with the policies of their instructors regarding missed assignments. This policy is designed to establish clear direction regarding the charging of time and coverage responsibilities for Bristol Community College employees during inclement weather or other emergencies. The college will attempt to communicate by several means the status of operations. It is the employee’s responsibility to verify if they are to report to work. When the college is closed, only essential employees should report to work or remain at work. If non-essential employees need to be on campus, Public Safety or Facilities personnel will direct them to safe parking in Lot 6. If you need to remain on campus after the college has closed, you must move your vehicle to Lot 6 and notify Campus Police so they know which buildings are secure. When we are closed, please do not come on campus. Our Facilities and Public Safety staff, considered essential personnel, are hard at work trying to make the campus safe to open. Additional cars, traffic, and requests to open buildings deter our ability to prepare the college campus for a safe opening. College Closing Decisions and Announcements If weather conditions or other emergencies dictate that the college should be closed, an announcement will be made on the college’s website and the media outlets listed below as soon as possible. Every attempt will be made to make this announcement before 6 a.m. An announcement will also be placed on the college’s automated answering system at 508-678-2811. The college’s website is the official notice used to communicate this information (see below Local Media Outlets for College Announcements).When the college is closed, designated essential employees must report for work. Non-essential personnel are respectfully requested to not come on campus. BCCalert (formerly BeNotified) As members of the Bristol community, students, faculty and staff have access to BCCalert, Bristols notification system. BCCalert quickly distributes information about emergencies and weather-related closings to your electronic devices via text message. Students who provide their mobile number to the college through Banner are opted in automatically. All others, including faculty and staff, may opt-in to the system by texting keyword BCCalert to 67283. Anyone who previously enrolled in BeNotified has been automatically enrolled to receive messages through BCCalert. If you have successfully received BeNotified messages in the past, no further action is required. To change your mobile number, please log on to accessBCC by visiting accessbcc.bristolcc.edu Delayed Opening Decisions and Announcements Weather conditions or other emergencies may lead to a decision to begin classes later than usual. An announcement of delayed opening will be made on local radio and television stations as listed below and will be placed on the college’s automated answering system. The college’s website is the official notice used to communicate the information. Classes will follow the normal schedule after the delayed opening. Essential personnel are expected to report as scheduled. Those not designated as essential should report at the established delayed opening. For example, if opening of the college was delayed until 10 a.m., faculty is expected to meet with classes that start at 10 a.m. All other employees, who are not designated as essential, should report at 10 a.m. or whenever normally scheduled to report in after the opening. Early Release Decisions and Announcements During inclement weather or another emergency, the college may close early during regular working hours if the college president, in consultation with the Vice President for Administration and Finance, believes that the closing is necessary to protect the health, safety, and security of the students, faculty, and staff. Unless otherwise indicated by the early release, the switchboard must remain open for normally scheduled hours. Other essential employees who are scheduled for work that day are expected to work their normal hours. The college’s website, email system, monitors, and the electronic sign that is located at the front of the campus, will also be used to communicate the information. Activities Cancelled There may be times when classes or activities are cancelled, but the college will remain open. Please check accessBCC, the college’s website,or call the college at 508-678-2811 if there are any questions concerning the status of activities. Essential Employees During inclement weather, certain employees are considered “essential employees” whom must report for work during their scheduled shifts. These employees are notified each year and typically include: A. Campus Police Officers B. Institution Security Officers C. Maintainers D. Grounds Crew E. Switchboard Operators 1. If the college closes before the end or beginning of a shift, or opens later than scheduled and essential employees are expected to work, they will receive compensatory time for hours worked. Full-time benefited employees that are scheduled to work on the day of the closure will be paid for hours scheduled for that day. For example: If an early release is declared for 2 p.m., all essential employees scheduled to work the day shift until 3:30 p.m. will receive 1.5 hours of compensatory time, since the first shift is scheduled to end at 3:30 p.m., and essential employees are expected to remain on duty. 2. Full-time benefited employees scheduled to work second or third shift, who are not designated as essential employees, will also be paid for the day, and essential employees will receive compensatory time for the number of hours worked. 3. Non-benefited employees will be paid only for the number of hours worked before the early release or after the delayed opening. 4. Employees who have elected to be absent from their regular schedule before the announcement of a cancellation, early release or delayed opening, whether on vacation, personal time, sick leave, or compensatory time, are not entitled to compensatory time. 5. If there are inclement traveling conditions, but the college is open, faculty and staff must use their own judgment about the safety of traveling conditions in their own geographic locations. Those who determine that travel conditions are unsafe must use vacation, personal, or compensatory time (if applicable) to charge their absences. 6. Essential employees who call in sick when the college closes, is in a delayed opening, or an early release will be charged for sick time and not awarded compensatory time. A doctor’s note may be required. Local Media Outlets for College Announcements All announcements about college closing and delayed openings will be made on the following radio and television stations: WBZ 1030 AM WRKO 680 AM WSAR 1480 AM WBSM 1420 AM WFHN 107 FM WHJJ 920 AM WHJY 94.1 FM WPRO 630 AM WPRO 92.3 FM WSNE 93.3 FM WWBB 101 FM WWLI 105.1 FM WLNE Channel 6 WCVB 5 ABC WHDH 7 TV WJAR 10 NBC WPRI 12 TV FOX WNAC 64 TV FOX An announcement will also be put on the college’s switchboard at the Elsbree Street Campus, which can be reached by calling 508-678-2811. An announcement will also be placed on the Attleboro voice mail system which can be reached by calling 508-226-2484. Radio and television station information can sometimes be inaccurate. The college recommends that more than one means of notification should be checked. Firearms and Weapons Policies Campus Police Department 777 Elsbree St Email: Robert.Plummer@bristolcc.edu Location: D110 Email: Baxter.Smith@bristolcc.edu	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line349
__label__wiki	0.952464	0.952464	Stuck on 21, Serena aims to finish the job \| June 23, 2016 \| By Reuters Tennis - French Open Women's Singles Final match - Roland Garros - Serena Williams of the U.S. vs Garbine Muguruza of Spain By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – The peak remains tantalizingly close for Serena Williams but negotiating the final incline to a record-equaling 22nd grand slam singles title is proving the trickiest of all. American veteran Williams gets another chance to match Steffi Graf’s professional era benchmark at Wimbledon when the championships start next week, having proved uncharacteristically vulnerable when it matters. Had it not been for defeat by Germany’s Angelique Kerber in the Australian Open final and Garbine Muguruza at the same stage in Paris, 34-year-old Williams would have already passed Graf and would be set to tie Margaret Court’s all-time record of 24. Instead, it has all become a bit of a struggle. Add in her U.S. Open semi-final defeat by Roberta Vinci last year when a calendar slam seemed in her pocket, there are doubts about her finishing skills — and her nerve. “Something is holding her back, and it could be nerves,” 18-times grand slam champion Chris Evert said. “Especially against Kerber and against Muguruza, she wasn’t able to dig herself out of the hole like she has in past years. “She’s been famous for finding that next gear, that next level, when she’s down.” Three-times Wimbledon champion John McEnroe tips Williams to win a seventh All England Club crown, but says self-imposed pressure could be mounting. “It’s not easy to try to do what she’s doing, to make history at this stage,” he said. “There’s not that many people that wouldn’t pick her here. If she’s playing well, she’ll win the tournament.” Of the challengers, they come in two distinct categories. The power hitters such as Spain’s Muguruza, twice champion Petra Kvitova, former world number one and rising American Madison Keys. Sadly Victoria Azarenka withdrew with injury. Then there are the scramblers like world number three Agnieszka Radwanska, Kerber and Simona Halep. World number two Muguruza pushed her hard in last year’s final and overpowered her in the French Open final with a fearless display of attacking tennis. Whether or not the 22-year-old can make the quick switch from clay to grass and deal with the new-found expectation is questionable though, according to Evert. “I’m curious to see how she does that,” the American, who will be commentating for ESPN, said in a phone conference. On her day Kvitova can be unplayable, especially on grass, although the Czech, winner in 2011 and 2014, is still prone to puzzling off-days and she played down her chances after losing to Johanna Konta at Eastbourne. “I’m not personally seeing chances, unfortunately. I will be very happy if I can show up in the second week,” Kvitova, who will be seeded 10th, said. Keys, seeded ninth, reached the quarter-finals last year and warmed up for Wimbledon by winning the Birmingham title on grass. She also won the Eastbourne title in 2014. Evert believes the 21-year-old is now ready to mount a serious Wimbledon challenge. “This girl can play on grass. Her serve I think matches Serena’s,” Evert said. “I think she’s going to win some majors. I don’t have any doubt in my mind.” (Editing by Pritha Sarkar) North Korea Secrets You Never Knew In 1910, Korea was annexed by Japan, but after the Empire’s surrender at the end of World War II in 1945, Korea was divided into two zones, with the north ... New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham dies at 87 Director wants audience to shut up for a bit after seeing Holocaust film Heroic Utah Sergeant Punches Through Ice, Rescues Helpless Boy in Frozen Pond Uber is added to surge-pricing lawsuit, could prompt arbitration Ex-drug executive Shkreli pleads not guilty to latest charge Guantanamo judge nixes Sept. 11 suspect’s bid for new lawyers Ex-Virginia Tech students indicted in death of 13-year-old girl Colorado court picks jury for movie massacre lawsuit Puerto Rico rescue bill advances to full House vote The Rarest Things on Earth: Collectibles and Natural Wonders load more Loading posts...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line350
__label__cc	0.62198	0.37802	Recipes starting with G Subject: Learn AppShed, Actions & Events In Game One of this Game making course, we are going to take a look at the absolute basics of game making. In Game 1 we took a look at the basics of game making in AppShed such has the engine it uses, how to move objects and add more. In this course, we are going to take a look at how to improve upon to look of our game while learning a little more about coding. Until now we have had to just accept that some images in our game are platforms and some are backgrounds. However, in the course, we are going to use “Phaser Groups” to give you more control over your game. In this game, we will be building on our knowledge of groups by adding some advanced groups to the mix. We will also be adding Parallax to make the game look cool. The silence is broken! Finally, we have ways to add sounds to our game to make it feel more like a real game. In this course, we will learn about the actions that cause sounds to play (such as jumping or collecting a star) and how to change the sounds that are played. Game six is incredibly important in our game making course because it gives the designer of the game the first glance at controlling the physics within the game. The point of Game 7 is to build on existing knowledge of groups and how properties are passed on to objects. We will also take a look at some new code we can add to objects in our game to make them do some cool new things. Game Making AppShed can be used to create games through the integration of the Phaser game-making platform. Games are a great way to engage learners while learning quite advanced concepts in programming and unlocking their own creativity. Learners can really learn while they play. Subject: Learn AppShed, Modules & Extensions Google Doc Extension Use this course as a guide on how to use the Google Doc Extension. Learn how to set up both the Google Doc Read and Write extensions in detail. Subject: Grade 6-8, Grade 9-10, Free Courses, Grade 11-12, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Actions & Events, Key Stage 5, Design, Other This course will show you how you to create your own GPS app using the events to aid in navigation. The app is detailed and will require editing of many of the items used.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line359
__label__cc	0.501899	0.498101	KBA North America is awarded web retrofit contract from Times News Lehighton, Penn., group of newspapers upgrades its control system on its KBA Comet press Posted Tuesday, August 16, 2016 1:01 pm KBA North America has been awarded the contract for its expert web offset service department to upgrade the control system on a KBA Comet web offset press at the Times News in Lehighton, Penn., this summer. This unique web service retrofit/rebuild upgrade program offers preventative change-over installation on existing web offset presses and replaces it with new enhanced technology for more efficient throughput. "We had a choice between KBA and a different manufacturer to upgrade our control system on our KBA Comet web offset press," says Fred Masenheimer, publisher of the Times News in Lehighton. "After a careful evaluation of the pros and cons of the two quotes we secured to do the upgrade, we awarded the project to KBA. While the original press came with a non-KBA control system from the other manufacturer, we decided to eliminate the interdependency of two companies to solve future press problems and put that responsibility in the hands of a single vendor and that was KBA. We feel that KBA had the knowledge, resources, and skilled technicians to update our press and its systems." The contract calls for KBA to replace and improve upon the press' computers and software as well as make other enhancements to the press. Masenheimer says that these new additions will allow for increased capabilities, advanced improvements, and permit the company to handle new projects with even greater efficiency. "We run a 24/7 printing operation to handle our own daily newspaper, our eight weekly newspapers and a full schedule of commercial printing which includes another daily newspaper," he says. "KBA gave us the most confidence they would be able to do the upgrade with the least amount of interruption to our busy printing schedule and because of the extensive knowledge of their factory-trained personnel." "The expansion of our service portfolio has gained in importance as the demand for service has increased," says Stefan Prohaska, director of customer service at KBA North America. "Service sales with retrofits, repairs, upgrades, relocations, consulting and training are rising continually. Long-term service and maintenance contracts are on the rise. Our KBA team is skilled at being able to audit, analyze and recommend programs to our customers and even non-customers to increase output and quality. Newspaper publishers depend upon asset condition and reliability for newspaper production and on time product delivery. The web offset retrofit service's goal is to provide newspapers with reliable manufacturing and successful production on their web offset presses and to keep the technology running smoothly."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line363
__label__wiki	0.585772	0.585772	Update Cover Image okansasira @okansasira Rwanda Day \| Bonn German, 05 October 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqTrgGlbZr4 View okansasira posted an update in the group Rwanda Events 3 months, 3 weeks ago Join us LIVE for the 74th United Nations General Assembly debate. More than 100 world leaders, thousands of diplomats and advocates will convene in New York City from 24 to 30 September 2019. The theme for the general debate this year is “Galvanizing multilateral efforts for poverty eradication, quality education, climate action and inclusion”. Provisional List of Speakers 1. President of the General Assembly 2. United Nations Secretary General 3. Brazil, His Excellency Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President, 4. United States of America, His Excellency Donald Trump, President 5. Egypt, His Excellency Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, President 6. Turkey, His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President 7. Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, President 8. Maldives, His Excellency Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, President 9. Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Emir 10. Swizerland, His Excellency Ueli Maurer, President 11. Croatia, Her Excellency Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President 12. Bolivia, His Excellency Evo Morales Ayma, Constitutional President 13. Jordan, His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein 14. Korea (Republic of), His Excellency Moon Jae-in, President, 15. Burkina Faso, His Excellency Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, President of the Faso, President of the Council of Ministers, 16. France, His Excellency Emmanuel Macron, President 17. Chile, His Excellency Sebastián Piñera Echeñique, President 18. Bosnia and Herzegovina, His Excellency Željjko Komšić 4th plenary meeting 19. Angola, His Excellency João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, President 20. Portugal, His Excellency Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President 21. Rwanda, His Excellency Paul Kagame, President 22. Finland, His Excellency Sauli Niinistö, President 23. Monaco, His Serene Highness Prince Albert II 24. Niger, His Excellency Mahamadou Issoufou, President 25. The Netherlands, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander 26. Argentina, His Excellency Mauricio Macri, President 27. Latvia, His Excellency Egils Levits, President 28. Slovak Republic, Her Excellency Zuzana Čaputová, President 29. Kazakhstan, His Excellency Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President 30. Poland, His Excellency Andrzej Duda, President 31. Marshall Islands, Her Excellency Hilda Heine, President 32. Liechtenstein, His Highness Alois von und zu Liechtenstein 33. Peru, His Excellency Martín Vizcarra Cornejo, President 34. Senegal, His Excellency Macky Sall, President 35. Italy, His Excellency Giuseppe Conte, President of the Council of Ministers 36. Spain, His Excellency Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, President of the Government, Spain 37. New Zealand, Her Excellency Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister 38. Japan, His Excellency Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister 39. United Kingdom, His Excellency Boris Johnson, Prime Minister 40. Morocco, His Excellency Saad-Eddine El Othmani, Head of Government Afrikaans Arabic Chinese (Simplified) Dutch English French German Haitian Creole Hebrew Italian Latin Portuguese Russian Swedish Ukrainian Somali Spanish Swahili Zulu Bootstrap 4 Course Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework... No student enrolled Python is a programming language. Python can be used on... SQL is a standard language for storing, manipulating and retrieving... PHP Programming Course PHP is a server scripting language, and a powerful tool... Copyright © 2019 Umuyoboro.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line364
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__label__cc	0.601936	0.398064	TV Home Film WWE Gaming Comics UFC Music Sport Offbeat Quizzes Community Write For Us Careers Comps TV Home Film WWE Gaming Comics UFC Music Sport Offbeat Quizzes Community Write For Us Careers 15 Greatest Comic Book Cartoons Of All Time 14. DuckTales Sporting one of the catchiest theme tunes of all time, DuckTales was actually based on Carl Barks' original Uncle Scrooge and 'Duck' comic series, which were created during the mid-50s. Barks' comics were so brilliant, they ended up inspiring the likes of Steve Spielberg, Osama Tezuka and Will Eisner. It's a bit of a left-field choice, but DuckTales was such a popular show that is spawned four seasons and a movie. It was a big hit with children and adults, as Scrooge McDuck and his three nephews would travel on wild adventures around the world. The cartoon featured some great villains, and a comical lead character, whose greed knew no bounds. Of course, with DuckTales being a Disney production, the animation in the show is near faultless. DuckTales managed to find the perfected mix of adventure and comedy, and it left many viewers questioning how a character like Launchpad McQuack was still a qualified pilot, after years of constantly crashing aircraft. It is arguably one of Disney's better cartoons, and it holds a great deal of nostalgia for many people. Interestingly enough, it was the first syndicated Disney cartoon ever made, which later paved the way for classics such as Darkwing Duck and Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers. Friends: The HARDEST Joey Tribbiani Quiz Ever Friends Or How I Met Your Mother Quiz: The Ultimate Joey Tribbiani Or Barney Stinson Who Said It Quiz? The IMPOSSIBLE Stranger Things Quiz - True Or False Posted On: 17th Feb 2014 Matthew Wells Comic book store employee, writing about all the things I love: movies, comic books and wrasslin'. It's still real to me, damn it. See more from Matthew Crisis On Infinite Earths: 36 Easter Eggs, Cameos And References You Probably Missed South Park Quiz: You'll Never Be Able To Name All These Characters! Crisis On Infinite Earths Finale Review: 9 Ups & 2 Downs From Parts 4 And 5	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line404
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__label__wiki	0.515029	0.515029	Fresh details about the big battle of Game of Thrones season 7 Posted on September 23, 2016 by Sue the Fury · 189 Comments Las Brenas. Photo: LosSieteReinos.com Game of Thrones will be visiting several exciting locations later this fall, and today we have new details about one of them and their role in season 7, courtesy of Los Siete Reinos. Extras casting in Malpartida de Cáceres, Spain kicked off earlier this month, providing a hint at season 7 and confirming that GoT will be filming in the area from November 14th through December 15th. We know from the casting announcement and process that HBO was hunting for Unsullied soldiers, and we also learned then the show was searching for a large amount of horses to use in a sequence for filming there. Light spoilers below the cut! It was commonly believed that Game of Thrones would be filming a battle in Malpartida’s beautiful Los Barruecos National Monument, but the latest spoilers have us shifting our attention a bit. The newest info from Los Siete Reinos confirms that the battle will not happen on the water- it will take place alongside it. Game of Thrones will be shooting on a private property a few minutes’ drive northeast of Los Barruecos called Las Breñas. Los Siete Reinos has also heard strong rumors that the battle will include at least one dragon. There apparently will be filming nearby in the more aquatic Los Barruecos area referred to as Barrueco de Arriba, but on a smaller scale for more individual scenes. The exact specifics are not yet known. Furthermore, Los Siete Reinos has learned HBO will be using carriages or wagons in a scene to carry characters. As they note, we’ve rarely seen characters in a litter like this, and it was often nobility like Cersei, Tyrion or Lady Olenna. We have occasionally seen characters like Sam and Gilly journey in carriages, but most likely it will be a leader of some type being brought to the battlefield. As if all that wasn’t enough, there’s even more new info from El Periódico Extremadura! They are now reporting that there will be three days of filming at Trujillo Castle, not one as we had previously heard. The outlet confirms that there will be one hundred extras present for filming at the location. The purpose of Trujillo Castle is not known, but it’s hard to imagine the place being a part of anywhere but Essos. Posted in News Tagged Malpartida, Season 7, Spain, Trujillo, Trujillo Castle Watchers on the Wall Awards: Best Action Sequence of Season 6 Watchers on the Wall Awards: Funniest Quote of Season 6 Rhaenys Stark says: So we’ll have something like BOB but with DRAGONS? This is going to be amazing! And still not done with Essos? What could be happening there? Rhaenys StarkQuote Reply Tyson Lannister says: Hodor! darn so close… Tyson LannisterQuote Reply Meco says: Go Dragons. MecoQuote Reply Couldn’t it be Dorne? It’s the only place in Westeros that bears a light resemblance to Essos. GermánQuote Reply A Dornish Tyrell says: Could it be the Dornish Marches instead of Essos? A Dornish TyrellQuote Reply A Dornish Tyrell, Yeah in theory but why would they go there, when it seems clear they’re cleaning up the Dorne story and minimizing it. arvgar says: So its like Dragons, Navy,Cavalry,Knights,Unsullied in one big battle. HOLY SHIT arvgarQuote Reply Cersei's Wine Goblet says: Yeah, I’m thinking it’s Dorne. Cersei’s Wine GobletQuote Reply Kargaryen says: At least one dragon? Omg Emilia seemed kinda sad (when asked about S7) in one of her interviewes at the Emmys so I hope, if there’s only one dragon, it doesn’t mean the others have died 🙁 KargaryenQuote Reply Newbietothegame says: Essos? I was hoping we have seen the last of it. Oh well. NewbietothegameQuote Reply Fatio Corcyn says: How could it have dragons and still be in Essos? Did she… did she TURN BACK ? Fatio CorcynQuote Reply Red Viper says: AAaarrgghhhh!!!!!!!!!! Is it summer 2017 yet??? Red ViperQuote Reply AAaarrgghhhhh!!!!! Is it Summer 2017 yet??!! The She Bear says: There is no way that a big scene with 100 extras is set in Essos where the only known characters left are Daario and maybe Jorah. It doesn’t make sense for Dany to go back there so I’m pretty sure it has to be Dorne or some castle like high garden or casterly Rock which they will adapt with some CGI. The She BearQuote Reply Sue the Fury, That’s true… but the same could be said about Essos… Oh well, I guess we’ll have to wait and see. 🙂 EDIT: in an unrelated note… Senpai noticed me!!! 🙂 talvikorppi says: Oh no, not Essos! Is Daario up to something, after all? talvikorppiQuote Reply Just like Essos. mauQuote Reply Sue the Fury: I guess I’ve been thinking they’ve been minimizing the Dorne characters that we’ve had but not the other main characters that may have reason to be in Dorne. It seems like that’s the probable entry point for Daenerys so all of those characters could be there… This will be a long winter. Can’t wait for next season! On another note: Anyone else seeing HUGE ads on the page? Kyle's Fookin Chickens says: the Battle of Fire! Kyle’s Fookin ChickensQuote Reply It could easily be Essos. If you look at the map, there’s quite a bit of Essos coastline between Slaver’s Bay and Westeros. If there was a battle on Essos it would be early in the season, I’d imagine. JoeyQuote Reply Sounds like this is going to be epic! Can’t wait! Aryamad, Haha lol! Love your avatar. Tywin of the Hill says: Unless Cersei has 3 dragons and 100,000 soldiers hidden up her sleeve, there isn’t going to be much drama here. Tywin of the HillQuote Reply So no water battle? Tywin of the Hill: Sean C. says: Dany has the guy who planned the last successful wildfire attack in her camp, and everybody knows that Cersei used wildfire to blow up the Sept, so it’s not like her using wildfire would surprise anyone at this point. Sean C.Quote Reply Yaga says: Like others said, it’s probably Dorne, not Essos. I had exactly the opposite impression from S6E10 – after the Martell-Tyrell alliance, Dorne will be more important than ever. YagaQuote Reply They are not doing 2 big battles next season and that one is definitely from the Dany x Cersei/Euron(?) battle. If we get anything from Essos will be a scene at most. Definitely Dorne. duvrov says: So this is where Daenerys will win her crown Daenerys Targaryen the First of Her Name The Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men The Queen of the Seven Kingdoms Protector Of The Realm duvrovQuote Reply Hey Sue! In L7R are speculating that it could be Essos because in the casting call for Trujillo, the women were told that they were going to be slaves EdithQuote Reply Kargaryen: With 3 less episodes next season, there’s more money for another battle. Ramsay's 20th Good Man says: Clob, Daenerys landing in Dorne would be the worst move, strategically. Especially if the Lannisters are in the process of besieging the Reach and/or Dorne. Dorne is basically a bottleneck, and hundreds of miles from King’s Landing. For Daenerys’ forces to fight their way up from Dorne against the concentrated Lannister forces would be senseless. It makes even less sense given how little time there is left in the show. There may be scenes in Dorne, featuring war or battles and possibly Ellaria and the Sand Snakes getting what’s coming to them. But I’d be very surprised if they dumped Daenerys in Dorne. Ramsay’s 20th Good ManQuote Reply Flayed Potatoes says: Why are we back in Essos? I thought we were done there. Is it safe to assume that based on the information so far we’ll have a small sea battle before this one? I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the smaller dragons is captured/killed by Euron and the other small one ends up under the Night King’s control. Flayed PotatoesQuote Reply Knight of the Walkers says: But less time. It’s Dorne. It would be absolute madness to spend any more than about 5 minutes on Essos from now on. Knight of the WalkersQuote Reply Ramsay’s 20th Good Man, In Dany’s defense, she’s at sea and she doesn’t exactly know what Cersei and Euron are up to. She also knows she has allies in Dorne, so landing there would be safer. Where would you have had her land? Aryamad: I am- I thought it was maybe because I always am on my phone when I check the site, but the ads are massive and I keep getting pop-ups at the bottom despite my settings. Argh! A lot of very cool news! ? BunBunStark says: If this big battle is set to be on the scale of BotB and there’s at least one dragon involved, Cersei Lannister doesn’t stand a chance. And I disagree that Castle Trujillo with it’s 100 extras will be a part of Essos. This castle looks very similar to the Tower of Joy castle stand-in, which was also a Spanish castle that stood in for Dorne. BunBunStarkQuote Reply Wun-Wun says: Wow! Only ~40 weeks to premiere 😀 Wun-WunQuote Reply BunBunStark, Yeah I doubt we’ll get a whole episode dedicated to this battle. Cersei is vastly outnumbered. Maybe it will be similar to the BtoB episode in terms of structure. I hope you’re right about the castle. I wonder what will happen in the North during this time. I hope we get some information. Arya Serious says: I’m thinking Dorne for the seaside battle or maybe Casterly Rock even. And for the comment about the extras being slaves…maybe that is during Jorah’s quest maybe he goes to Volantis or somewhere like that. Or maybe the part with the slaves would be Bran learning important tidbits of the past to understand better what is happening and how to stop it. Ahh it could be so many things!! But I would think that the Essos part is Jorah searching for his cure since Dany already left. Arya SeriousQuote Reply Edith, If true, that would indeed be fairly indicative (though I guess Euron does a bit of enslaving during his raids on the Reach in the books). dothrakian raven says: Fewer 🙂 dothrakian ravenQuote Reply ghost of winterfell says: Flayed Potatoes, I had assumed they were part of the same battle where Dany will be attacked by both sea and land simultaneously, her forces divided. It’s not yet possible not say if there is just one big battle or more than one. Emilia did tease one big battle. ghost of winterfellQuote Reply fierce as a wolverine says: Any chance Daenerys and company stop to liberate Volantis en route to Westeros? Granted, it seems like an unnecessary complication to the storyline, but that would explain the slaves, the Essos location speculation, and also tie to the introduction of the Red Priestess to Daenerys’ storyline last season. Plus the fact that Volantis was set up as an enemy when it backed the slaver cities against Daenerys. Sacking Volantis would also position her just across the sea from King’s Landing. fierce as a wolverineQuote Reply Wun-Wun, Gah! Any woman who has ever been pregnant knows that 40 weeks is a freaking ETERNITY!!! Alexandre Laframboise says: I hope they somehow compensate for the lack of a fewer episodes for the last two seasons. It’s obvious that the budget/episode ratio will improve, but I hope the average episode run-time end up being closer to the 1-hour mark (or beyond). That, or have the finales be shown in movie theaters, a big worthy series finale seen as a long movie. Alexandre LaframboiseQuote Reply Mawk says: Anyone think they will introduce the horn that Euron has from the books? Could be what Dany meant when she mentioned the dragons and being sad. Euron takes over Drogon, who kills the other two before coming back to its senses. MawkQuote Reply Sean C. You are right! It could totally be Also I’ve been wondering about this Euron/Cersei alliance. If this something we are going to see happening or it’ll be already there when the season starts I said nothing about marching through Westeros on land from Dorne. You think her best move after sailing for days is to float straight up to King’s Landing or any other location close that is more likely defended? It certainly seems like a wiser choice to land a majority of her forces at an allied location to restock, rest and then dispatch forces in multiple directions, land and sea. Also, who says the Lannisters will be in the process of attacking Dorne before Daenerys would arrive there? Most are assuming that Cersei will have limited support as it is and the Lannisters alone aren’t going to march all the way down there. Mawk, Emilia did not mention dragons or that she felt sad. All she said was that there was some stuff other than deaths that made her emotional. It could be any number of things , finally conquering KL, finding out that she still has family left and maybe meet that family or it could also be the death of a dragon. Josla says: So the majority of commenters seem to think it will be Dorne. Either I’m missing something or I’m reallyyy slow. Didn’t Varys showed up in Dorne at the end of season 6? I took that to mean that he got Dorne and the Queen of Thornes to be Dany’s allies. Now if the battle is indeed in Dorne who would Dany be battling agaisnt? JoslaQuote Reply Josla, The assumption would be that Cersei has invaded Dorne to fight Dany. The Wolves of Winter, Thanks!! That pic makes me chuckle. 😀 You’ve got a good one too! Oh ok. I’m on a phone as well… Getting the pop up thing at the bottom also. I don’t mind closing it but was startled at how big the ads were. Hoyti Von Totiy says: Essos? WTF? Are they ever going to get rid of that place? Hoyti Von TotiyQuote Reply Arya Serious: … And for the comment about the extras being slaves…maybe that is during Jorah’s quest maybe he goes to Volantis or somewhere like that…. Ahh it could be so many things!! But I would think that the Essos part is Jorah searching for his cure since Dany already left. Aah, I won’t mind Essosi things if they’re to do with the Bear! Thank you! Alexandre Laframboise: NOOO! I want it to be on my TV (well, tablet or laptop since I don’t have a TV set) at home, I don’t want to travel 50K to the nearest cinema showing it ASAP. GoT is a TV show, it should stay that way! So there. Sean C.: If that’s the case I think it is actually very plausible. My guess would be Euron is the attacker since we already know that he and Cersei will be allies next season Stargaryen says: I would have her roll straight up to Kings Landing. She has over 100k soldiers, ships w/ trebuchets, and 3 dragons. StargaryenQuote Reply Thank you as well! Yeah that pic of Aidan Gillen, Michael McElhatton and Conleth Hill is hilarious. If there would be an award for best cast picture, that one would win for sure! icequinn says: Kargaryen, I actually hope for at least one dragon death. It’s unfair that direwolves get picked out one by one but dragons stay strong. It’s also better for the narrative to lessen Dany’s power. It’s high time she struggled in her endeavors like all the other characters. With fewer episodes but the same or larger budget I wonder if we will get to see more than one battle. It’d be weird not to see Jon in one. It’s been obvious since season 4 that the showrunners struggle to give Jon quality material that doesn’t revolve around battles and fights. I fear the Northern storyline in s7 will be greatly limited or totally boring and melodramatic (the whole Jon vs Sansa and LF thing). What else is there for Jon to do but rally the armies and fight the WWs? icequinnQuote Reply You are thinking to current with the times. Her best plan is to straight attack Kings Landing. No place else on the East Coast. Stupid not to. Any day wasted landing somewhere else is an extra day Cersei gets reinforcements and defends much better. At the end of season 6 no one in KL was talking about Dany coming, no mention. They are not planning for it and if they were they don’t have enough time. You wipe out Cersei as quick as possible so her supporters who are near by easily switches sides. You can win a war with one battle in Westeros. fierce as a wolverine: Any chance Daenerys and company stop to liberate Volantis en route to Westeros? I always wanted Daenerys to briefly stop at Volantis and put a real end to slavery. Plus the city is the center of the Red Priest/priestesses, so it sort of made sense to me that she would. I hope this is what it is. I am really, REALLY excited for this battle and normally I am not a battle person. But a battle between very different factions, one that is NOT in the North, and one that involves a dragon? Oh WOW! Stargaryen: Her best plan is to straight attack Kings Landing. No place else on the East Coast. Stupid not to. Any day wasted landing somewhere else is an extra day Cersei gets reinforcements and defends much better. Recall Cersei’s screech: “I will burn their cities to the ground.” What if her first action as Queen is to begin an attack of Dorne? Daenerys will have to rush to the aid of her allies – she can’t see an entire region burn. Edith: It could be interesting seeing it forming because Jaime would be super uncomfortable about it. This is his sister/lover, who’s done things he doesn’t approve of, and she then courting a madman who does things he doesn’t approve of. So you could get a heady stew of resentment, jealousy, honour, conflict. I doubt D&D will go there, there just isn’t enough time and Jaime is a secondary character in the grand scheme of things, and unlikely to survive the series. As much as I like him, this isn’t his story, this is the Stark story. The only way for Jaime to survive is, ironically, to ally with the Starks… or, Rheagar’s last surviving child. If he doesn’t become dragonfood first. But Tyrion owes him one and in the show, Tyrion has already told Dany why Jaime killed her father, so there’s hope. Any battles in s7 just won’ t be the same without the brilliance of Miguel Sapochnik. Hope he’s back for the ultimate one. There’s one more fantasy trope GOT hasn’t used yet. Dragonslaying. Who could be our dragonslayer? Night’s King? Euron? Jon Snow (ironically)? Stargaryen: I would have her roll straight up to Kings Landing.She has over 100k soldiers, ships w/ trebuchets, and 3 dragons. If you’re talking about bombarding King’s Landing in the same fashion as the Masters did Meereen, no, I don’t see her doing that and destroying the very city in which she desires to be queen. Not only has she not attacked a city in that fashion before, she also knows that blindly bombing like that leads to the deaths of many innocent people. I still think that her being “chosen” and accepted by the people to be queen is important. If she just takes it, the issues that the former rulers and she herself had in the slaver cities remain. Aerion Blackfyre says: Hmm only one dragon? Euron probably will take control of one then and the other could possibly escape an attack and fly to Jon. Aerion BlackfyreQuote Reply icequinn: The knight in shining armour will slay the dragon, of course! 😀 Only… GoT doesn’t have any such paragons, it’s part of the appeal. And the dragons, while terrible beasts, are needed for the War for the Dawn (or whatever the final man vs. white walker showdown is called) so dragon-slaying knights in shining armour really aren’t the thing. Quite the opposite. And, please don’t discount all and every battle/action scene if it isn’t directed by Miguel Sapochnik. GoT has several other very capable directors, and isn’t it best to save Sapo for the crucial battles etc. in the final season? It seems from interviews that he might be returning for S8. Ghosts Lunch says: Interesting stuff. It is possible they’ll go back to Essos as I reckon Daario defects to Eurons side but as we saw vs BoB vs BoM, the money will go to emphasising Westerosi based battles My guess is this will take place in the Stormlands. Quite possible Dany/Dorne/Tyrells vs Lannisters at Storms End? Wouldn’t be surprised if Euron snares himself a Dragon Ghosts LunchQuote Reply Stargaryen, Bombing the homes of people she wants to rule over is really bad for her image. We also don’t know what Cersei is up to before Dany arrives. Cersei (and Euron) could invade Dorne or The Reach, so Dany would have to postpone her attack on KL to help her allies. Also, having control over KL doesn’t mean she controls all the kingdoms (as we see with Cersei). clouddragon says: Why is everyone assuming it’s Essos or Dorne? They’re shooting King’s Landing scenes in Spain too, you know. clouddragonQuote Reply AlexG says: talvikorppi, I want a Jaime/Jon reunion…would pay to see Jaime´s face when he sees how far the boy he mocked in the beggining, has come to be AlexGQuote Reply I heard that interview with Emilia. She never said anything about deaths. In fact she actually said it wasn’t because people were dying. She said she got emotional because “emotional stuff happens. Some pretty emotional stuff, like big stuff”. So you can eliminate deaths causing the emotional reaction. Personally, based on the way she has answered in previous years, I think there stands a decent chance it’s meeting Jon Snow. In past interviews, she actually has answered the question on what it’d be like to possibly have scenes with her good friend Kit Harington one day by saying “emotional”. Plus it’s all kind of been leading up to that moment from the very start now hasn’t it? To be there since 2010 working on it for it to finally get to that point…I could see the emotional aspect of it. Personally, that’s my guess. They have less than ten episodes this season, so I can’t believe that they’d waste that on yet another battle on Essos. Dany’s armada was heading to Westeros. It’s difficult to believe that this battle could be taking anywhere else but Westeros. As for where: Dorne is a possibility, as Dany might land there: It’s practical, considering geography and considering they’re allies. I can’t see Cersei sending her one army hundreds of miles away to Dorne, but maybe she does, as both Jaime and Cersei want to avenge Myrcella. It’s a good idea to limit unneeded Dorne plots, but this one is organic: Ellaria killed Myrcella. Ellaria is allied with Dany. Dorne comes in. Depending on when in the season, it could also be Westerlands, Lannister home base. The Trujillo castle looks very Westerosi; it’s the classic medieval castle. mariaQuote Reply Inga says: Ghosts Lunch, My guess is also Stormlands, based on In Production teaser map at 1.30. I have to admit that I have to throw out most of my predictions I developed based on that, but that map has to be important. And now it really looks like Dany’s fleet could be represnted by the ship located by the southern coast of the Cape Wrath and Euron will come from the northeast. IngaQuote Reply Just because direwolves have been dying shouldn’t be an argument to kill dragons. Dragons will be much more useful for the battle against the WW than direwolves. I do agree though taking one or two dragons out would make Dany less strong, because at this point she has much more power than anyone. About struggles, I think people usually forget she had a bad childhood, while most characters didn’t. Just because it wasn’t showed in the books/show it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. And yeah, I don’t think the nothern storyline will be that much interesting in the next season. All that talk about Jon x Sansa/LF points to that. At least for me, doesn’t have too much appeal. So I think it will only get interesting again when the WW invade. That would give Jon less quality material yeah, but he’d not be the first major character to suffer with that. Just look at Dany S4-S5 (most of it) and Tyrion last season. He will reunite with more family members and find out about his real identity.That’s plenty interesting to me.Much more than a Dany and Euron battle when Euron has been a character for like 2 seconds. JennyQuote Reply KissedByFire says: Jon Connington, f’Aegon and the Golden Company’s approach in the books may be melded with Daenery’s approach, as well as whatever happens with the Volantine and Redwyne fleets. (I can’t remember how to use spoiler tags, for what little is known.) Tyrion blessed KL with the Chain and the use of wildfire for an attack on Blackwater Bay, so he is unlikely to just recommend an attack from the bay without knowing the way is somewhat cleared–especially if Dany suffers losses at sea secondary to Euron’s attack, as well as a possible loss of at least one dragon and a scattering of her fleet. She probably will have lost the element of complete surprise with the attack by Euron (as is expected) who’ll probably end up also allied with Cersei. Now that the show has Daenerys already allied with Dorne and with “friends in the Reach”, a beaching of her forces south of KL to regroup and get the Dothraki and Unsullied landed and recovered of their sea legs makes sense, even if it means a march, reverse Daeron I style. Seems as though Storm’s End and the Stormlands will have to be a part of the show this year, too. Where the big battle will fall, though, is anybody’s guess. Not sure about the “castle with the slaves” part of casting, but the first thing I thought of was a scene from Oakenshield Castle. Doesn’t have to be the exact location in book to show adaptation, but it could be reminiscent of the spirit of the scene, and the reason for it. KissedByFireQuote Reply Jack Bauer 24: With 3 less episodes next season, there’s more money for another battle. Fewer. Had to. Personally, I would say that landing in the Stormlands is the smartest move, strategically. They’re weak and leaderless following all their losses during the War of the Five Kings and Stannis’s foray north. It would also be a symbolic victory to conquer the lands of the Usurper. It’d be new territory which, combined with her allies’ lands would mean she ruled the entire southern third of the Seven Kingdoms. But if the Lannisters have made gains into the Reach or into Dorne it would also give her a point from which to come to both their aid, attack supply lines from the Crownlands and potentially cut off and envelop any Lannister forces that are too far south. I am sure this has already been suggested… I’m a little slow on the uptake, and a little absent in the offseason… but you just planted an idea in my head. Is it possible Euron is the Valanquar, the younger brother? I’ve forgotten, has the show emitted this element from Maggie’s prophecy? I have also been thinking the Stormlands is where she’ll land. Seems like there should be some power vacuum there; it would be some poetic justice; and it would mimic the (f)aegon/connington invasion. Ramsay’s 20th Good Man: Personally, I would say that landing in the Stormlands is the smartest move, strategically. Well, it depends on who’s Lord/Lady of the Stormlands after the extintion of House Baratheon… One would asume Cersei could inherit it as the widow of good old Bob Baratheon, but we just don’t know… If that were the case, then it would be a bad idea to land in the Stormlands. In any case, the smarter move is always to land in a friendly territory where they can rest and resupply their forces. Tyrion knows very well that attacking KL by sea is not necessarily a good idea. Jenny: People don’t have to have the same opinion. We already saw him trying to gain support from other families in the past season. Doing the same again now will be interesting because…? This time he’ll actually gain? I’ll pass that. Finding out about his true identity could be interesting but I don’t think he’ll care that much. He’ll always see Ned as his father, mainly after he finds out about his true identity and what Ned did to protect him. I don’t think it will take much time to reveal that to him. Everyone has been focusing on Jon x Sansa/LF since Ep09 from last season. They’ll keep doing that. And I’d think they will focus more on Cersei than Euron in the battle against Dany. KissedByFire: Jon Connington, f’Aegon and the Golden Company’s approach in the books may be melded with Daenery’s approach, as well as whatever happens with the Volantine and Redwyne fleets. I haven’t read the books, though I am a little spoiled by the internet, but didn’t the Golden Company have Blackfyre, one of two ancestral Targaryen swords? There are some common elements between Daenerys coming to Westeros and Aegon’s conquest. It would make for a nice bit of symmetry for her to come upon whoever possesses Blackfyre and ally with that person in her entourage. Could happen on her last stop in Essos before she approaches Westeros. The Lannisters may not have ventured into Dorne by the time Daenerys arrives, but I’d expect them to be besieging the Reach, which would mean that any attempt to attack them via land from Dorne would be playing right into their hands. I don’t expect her to sail right up to King’s Landing, but gaining new territory from which she can both aid her allies and take the fight to her enemies’ lands would be smart. Plus, if they land in Dorne to rest and refuel they lose the element of surprise. Cersei has no idea where they intend to land, so it’s hard for her to prepare adequate defences, especially if her forces are actively engaged in conflict in the Reach or Dorne. But if the Lannisters hear that Daenerys has landed in Dorne then it gives them the time and opportunity to make plans to counteract her most likely next moves. Traveling by ship is dangerous at the best of times. A competent strategist would land at the earliest possible opportunity rather than travel several hundred miles more by sea, which prolongs the risk of a storm sinking or scattering much of the fleet. When you have overwhelming force, as Danny conceives herself to, surprise isn’t all that important. Aegon the Conqueror didn’t need it. In any case, the smarter move is always to land in a friendly territory where they can rest and resupply their forces. And lose the element of surprise? Concentrate all your forces and place all your eggs in one basket? You don’t think opening up a new front, in order to take the pressure off your allies and upset your enemies’ plans is a wise move? This is an invasion force. They should have supplies and be prepared to land wherever necessary, not just where their allies are. Ramsay’s 20th Good Man: The Lannisters may not have ventured into Dorne by the time Daenerys arrives, but I’d expect them to be besieging the Reach, which would mean that any attempt to attack them via land from Dorne would be playing right into their hands. Again, it will depend of many factors… Olenna has threatened several times to cut the food supply to the capital (first to Tyrion and then to Cersei). And the (almost extinct) House Tyrell has one of the biggest (and intact) armies of Westeros. So, it’s not a good idea for Cersei to try to “besiege” the Reach (I guess you meant Highgarden). Plus the Riverlands in a chaos now that Lord Walder Frey and some of his heirs have been assassinated. Plus, there’s a vacuum of power in the Stormlands. Plus, the North and the Vale are in open rebellion (they even declared a Kit in the North!!!). So, the Lannister army is mostly trapped, surrounded by enemies and probably worn out… Even if they have some time to prepare themselves, they are in a dire situation. If I were Dany, I would cut supplies from the Reach and start a guerrilla warfare to exhaust and demoralize the Lannister army. EDIT: Plus what Sean C. said. dblock says: seriously donald trump ads on here, cmon guys dont take that ad money, christ….i just wanna ready about GoT not politics barking at me, couldnt even mute it WTF….. dblockQuote Reply dblock, We shouldn’t have any audio ads here, let alone any Trump ads. But I can have Oz look into it. Battle Bob says: There is obviously a battle going on. If this scene is Dorn that means one or more of the so called allies that were lined up changed allegiances. The Lannisters don’t have the men to invade the south, at least not with a resurgent North. And I don’t see the Iron born not fighting from their ships. If this is Dorn, who is the queen of dragons fighting? Battle BobQuote Reply HunterMac87 says: I hope we dont have to wait all season to see Dany and Jon meet. I hope we get the voice of Tyrion in the trailer saying something like “Snow, my old friend, how have you been? Id like you to meet someone.” That would be so great. Or it would be awesome if Tyrion showed up at Winterfell ahead of Dany and we got to see him interact with the family, it would be great to get a scene between him and Sansa again. damn there are just so many reunion scenes i want this year that im sure we wont get. HunterMac87Quote Reply I don’t think they will have him gain more support from famillies.He already has it that is done.And finding out who he is will be really interesting to me not because he will stop seeing Ned as his father but how it will affect him emotionally and those around.And even if the LF/Jon/Sansa drama will be somewhat anoying or maybe not there is potential for real conflict there,I assure you it will be the most talked about of the episodes considering it will have ambiguity in it.And even though they will touch on CerseivsDany I believe most of Cersei’s drama and her demise will involve her brothers.But as you said everybody has different tastes but imo this late in the game all the main characters will have strong material. Ramsay’s 20th Good Man: Yes. The two most difficult offensive ground operations are an assault on a fortified position and an opposed amphibious landing. In Dany’s case, especially, her army is almost entirely cavalry, meaning she doesn’t just have to land men, but land stupendous numbers of horses. Nobody with access to a friendly port would turn that down. Battle Bob: There is obviously a battle going on.If this scene is Dorn that means one or more of the so called allies that were lined up changed allegiances.The Lannisters don’t have the men to invade the south, at least not with a resurgent North.And I don’t see the Iron born not fighting from their ships.If this is Dorn, who is the queen of dragons fighting? The show has minimized the consequences of the War of the Five Kings for the Lannisters, unlike the books. Last season, Jaime implied that the Lannisters still have the largest army in the Seven Kingdoms, which is definitely not the case in the books. Rhaenys Stark, The Revolution that was Promised #FreeVolantis AndyQuote Reply Sorry, what? The Tyrells have the second largest army in Westeros and control food supplies to King’s Landing and you think those are reasons for the Lannisters not to besiege/attack the Reach. And, yes, I mean the Reach and all its component lands and castles including Highgarden. You think Mad Queen Cersei is just going to sit in King’s Landing and wait to be undermined? Even despite the fact that Ellaria mentioned in the finale to Olenna that the Lannisters had declared war on both their kingdoms and that they needed to ally just in order to survive? The Lannisters will attack their enemies in Westeros and I think we’re all assuming that Cersei will ally with Euron and set him the task of destroying Daenerys’ fleet. Sitting back and doing nothing is not an option, nor is it in the nature of, the Mad Queen. Battle Bob, Technically, Dorne – not entire Dorne, but it’s capital Sunspear/Watergardens or some other castle where the Sand Snakes will happen to be – can be taken, if Euron attacks from the sea and catches the Sand Snakes by surprise. Those bastard girls want to play at war and they have to be punished for that. The rumours about Euron taking out at least one of the Sand Snakes, Ellaria an Tyenne being in Belfast when scenes of the naval encounter were filmed, and In Production Teaser map showing Lannister forces in northeastern Dorne kind of hint to such scenario. Another possible scenario could be a coup against the Sand Snakes, but that would be complicated, because there are no other Dornish characters. Sean C., Lannisters may have numbers, but I assume many or even most of their soldiers are new recruits. Bronn was very critical about their experience and capabilities last season. spaewife says: IIRC, the whereabouts of Blackfyre aren’t known at the time of novels. Likewise with Dark Sister, the other Targaryen ancestral sword. There’s a possibility that the Golden Company have some knowledge of what happened to Blackfyre – there’s a possibility that Bloodraven had Dark Sister or knew where it was… Mysteries that may become important 🙂 Glad you raised this. spaewifeQuote Reply spaewife, Maybe a possibility of meeting of these two swords? Maybe against the WWs? Lots to play with, here. But neither has been important in the show, so maybe not. (And sorry about typos in last message – the ‘Stannis’ in me is peeved about them…) Oh, I’m sure Cersei will do something rushed and foolish… But not attacking the Reach, she ain’t. Who says she will land somewhere where she’d be heavily opposed? How many men do you think the leaderless Stormlands could rally at short notice, considering Stannis could only rally 6000 men, most of whom were sellswords, when he travelled north? You said yourself that such is Daenerys’ overwhelming force she’s probably confident she can roll over anybody obstacles she encounters. Such is the size of her forces she could land at multiple locations along the coast, reducing the chance of facing strong oppostion. Anyway, let’s be honest here. We can talk about where is best for her to land strategically until the cows come home. But she’s not going to land in Dorne. She’s just not. We have 7 episodes this season. They are not going to waste any of them with her landing at Dorne, hanging out with Ellaria and the Sand Snakes, before finally getting down to her invasion proper. They’re going to cut to the chase and throw her in at the deep end. Why on earth not? Regarding the Reach, a coup against Ollena would be the most reasonable solution and considering how much Randyl Tarly hates all kinds of wildlings and women doing something else than spinning, he may come into play. Though on the other hand, he may despise Cersey allied with Euron even more than Dany with her hoards. Baptism by fire!!! Ahahahahahaha! I’d actually say the reverse: the writers will want to delay direct confrontation so that they can do the appropriate scene-setting (in particular, if Cersei’s going to be allying with Euron, that has to happen first). They’ll need to have Cersei ally with Euron and set up the sea battle possibly before Daenerys even lands. They’re not likely to have Daenerys land in Westeros completely unopposed and then have a random sea battle once she’s already invaded. So let’s say the sea battle occurs no later than episode 3, then there’s even more reason for Daenerys not to become bogged down in Dorne with even fewer episodes left. WallyFrench says: Yeah it sucks. WallyFrenchQuote Reply HunterMac87: Or it would be awesome if Tyrion showed up at Winterfell ahead of Dany and we got to see him interact with the family, Why, oh why would Tyrion show up at Winterfell of all places, when he is the Hand of the incoming Queen? This is just my bias, but I very, very much hope that rather than Tyrion or Daenerys ever setting foot in Winterfell, Jon finally decides to see a little more of the world, and comes down South to meet them. Otherwise, he will start to sprout roots from his feet! 😀 spaewife: Maybe a possibility of meeting of these two swords? Maybe against the WWs? Lots to play with, here. But neither has been important in the show, so maybe not. The Tarly sword was not important in the show before it became important last season. Similarly, those two (or at least one) Targaryen family swords could become important next season? Tyrion’s throwaway line “But I don’t actually own a sword” could become important if he got a small one. Perhaps Jorah in searching for a greyscale cure in Essos, stumbles across one of them? Yes, lots of possibilities. News somehow travels amazingly fast in that world it seems. I don’t know that it’s going to be a big surprise when they get there? I mean beyond not knowing where they’ll beach. (I don’t really care where that location is. I just assumed she’d go to Dorne first since it seems like the safest place to serve as a preliminary base of operations.) The bulk of her force is made up of men that fight on horses not boats, so floating around too long probably isn’t a good thing. Euron already knows Yara and Theon were going to aid Daenerys. Hundreds of ships and men presumably sailed down the Mander from Highgarden, possibly some from port in Oldtown as well, and out of Sunspear. News will also likely arrive first from Essos that Daenerys defeated the Masters and attained their ships since there will be quite a bit of time between that event and their arrival. Moving a force that large with three dragons flying overhead isn’t a covert operation by any means. One would think the birds will be flying so most of Westeros will know they’re coming and have a good idea of the numbers she’s bringing. It would seem like a wise plan for Cersei to move what forces she has as close to King’s Landing as she can. Wouldn’t you think she’d fear a direct attack? Euron can get all ballsy and chase them around if he wants but Cersei can’t leave the capitol undefended. I’m just not looking at this and relating it to a country invading another country that has unity. She’s already allied with the lord Houses of the southern regions. If their banner houses fall in line they could practically walk right into The Crownlands. However, the Iron Throne, the Red Keep, the person standing in there proclaiming to be King/Queen mean nothing without support of the people. Daenerys can essentially ignore it for a long time if she’s moving around it earning that support and defeating that oppose her. Ramsay’s 20th Good Man: They’re not likely to have Daenerys land in Westeros completely unopposed and then have a random sea battle once she’s already invaded. The scenario I proposed was that she land (wherever) with the bulk of her troops and then sends a contingent by sea with Yara and Theon to overthrow Euron and provide a force on that coast. It was in that plan/idea that I suggested the Greyjoy is captured… Inga, You’re absolutely right and it would make sense considering the power vacuum that the exctinction of House Tyrell creates in the Reach. I think ACME has explored this issue extensively in other threads. Had Cersei any diplomatic acumen, she would exploit that situation by offering the Wardenship of the South to some lord/lady of the Reach in exchange for his/her alliance. Allas, diplomacy is not Cersei’s strongest trait… and the reputation she has built for herself on how she treats her allies is not very tempting either… I guess we’ll have to wait and see how the story goes in S7. Also, by the same token, a power vacuum has been created in the Westerlands… would the lords of this region rise against the Lannisters? I don’t think we would ever hear about that in the show, but it’s interesting nonetheless. What about this…at least part of the forces land in Dorne because that is the safest place with a port to land with all the horses and unloading them. I don’t know about you but after being on the water my legs feel like concrete when I get to shore and step on solid land. If they have to stop and rest for the horses and the Dothraki that would give Cersei an opportunity to gather some kind of forces. So they land there and then when the fighting is going on Drogon takes Dany away like he did in Meereen but goes to KL and stops at the dragon pit!!! There was a clip from Bran’s vision that a dragon flies over the Red Keep and it’s still standing so maybe it’s Drogon going rogue again! I could totally see Dany getting on Drogon and Tyrion getting on whichever dragon decides to let him (lol!!) then he thinks they are going to fight in tandem (and is all pumped up in his mind like yaaaassssss!!) but Drogon takes off with Dany and the third dragon follows them leaving Tyrion on his dragon at the battle to improvise like he always seems to have to do lol!! I hope he read some dragon commands in one of his books :). Apollo says: You cannot possibly eliminate deaths. To do so is beyond naive. Considering several main characters have pretty much confirmed there will be deaths. And theres always the fact that this is, ya know, Game of Thrones. ApolloQuote Reply Do you think we’ll get a Season 7 teaser before the end of the year? LatrineDiggerBrian says: I might be one of the greatest GoT fans in the entire fandom for my discipline in avoiding spoilers. No one can question my fortitude in avoiding spoilers — I did not read one major spoiler from the winter before season 3 (when I started watching) all the way till season 6. Didn’t know about the Red Wedding, Joffrey’s Death, Oberyn’s Death, Jon’s “death”. Still haven’t read a season 7 spoiler article. Sure, I shitted all over season 6, but that was only because of my love of the show. You guys need to step your game up when it comes to avoiding spoilers. LatrineDiggerBrianQuote Reply The wolves came again says: How can you be a GoT fan and say LESS episodes? Good for you Stannis is dead. The wolves came againQuote Reply whit says: I think this is Dany landing somewhere in central or southern Westeros and battling it out with the Lannisters. Cersei (probably aganist Jamie’s advice) will attempt to contest Dany’s arrival and probably end up BBQ’d like all the characters that went up in the Faith’s temple. whitQuote Reply Jon struggling with his Targaryen identity will be a big part of next season. He may consider himself Ned’s son, but he still cannot ignore what he really is. GRRM would not have built this up to such a big reveal if it were not going to have a major impact on his character and the story overall. El-Bobbie says: Doubt it. Certainly nothing with much substance. At most maybe a teaser like the hall of faces one. El-BobbieQuote Reply MaesterMercy says: Not a chance 🙁 MaesterMercyQuote Reply Didn’t the first one this year get released during March madness? There was a Bran teaser around Thanksgiving last year, which was about 5 months before the premiere. https://youtu.be/IxI8aPISq8I They’ve announced the premiere dates the past few years in January at the Television Critics Association tour. Hopefully they do the same again. I would be happy with another In Production teaser or Behind the Scenes or something similar with some minor spoilers and riddles. Btw, I’ve seen all of these Emilia/Maisie/Sophie Emmy interviews, but where are the Kit, Hannah Murry, Nikolaj, Conleth, Dinklage, etc? ghost of winterfell, The problem with it is that D and D struggle to give Jon good non-battle/fight material. They never focus on Jon’s emotional journey or any of the changes he undergoes. See season 6 for reference. They completely disregarded to address Jon’s mental state after his death and resurrection, how he handled it or how other people handled it in favour of Sansa’s revenge mission. There were times it felt like he didn’t die at all. It was just completely downplayed and brushed aside. So I have little confidence in them giving Jon some good identity crisis arc. They will have him shocked initially, maybe a bit angered and confused and then move onto the White Walkers like nothing happened. They won’t put much emphasis on his emotional conflict regarding his origins. That’s for sure. icequinn, I do agree that D&D struggle, but that is mainly caused by Jon’s personality and by the agendas of the people around him as well. Jon has been set as been an introvert. Speaking of his feelings has always been hard to him and Sam was probably the only one Jon could open to. But last season Sam was far away, and when Jon tried to say “I fought – I lost” to other people, neither of them was willing to listen. Davos and Edd just wanted him to rise and lead them against the WWo, Mel was mostly interested in his afterlife experiences; Tormund made small pecker jokes (which was probably the best thing in that situation, but not a solution anyway), and Sansa was too concentrated on her own post-traumatic feelings to even hear what Jon was trying to say to her (she has always been a bit egocentric). So, Jon had no other choice than to sweep his PTSD under the carpet and do what other people wanted him to do, while we, the viewers, were left with the taste of incompleteness and dissatisfaction. But who knows: maybe that was exactly what D&D intended? Think of it: how often we concentrate on our own agendas neglecting other people’s problems? How often we see the others only as means of achieving our own goals? I don’t know whether that was the intention but Jon’s story really made me to contemplate that and probably this means that D&D did a good job. And I also think that all these issues of death, resurrection, eternal life and similar are going to be addressed further on from different angles and perspectives. I hope that the faceless men and the WW will get involved in that somehow, and that these issues will play the key role in the endgame. If not, that the entire Jon’s death and resurrection plot would be just for shock value. I don’t believe that GRRM would be playing such a cheap trick, though I suspect that all the delay of the WOW is caused by the problem that he can’t get Jon’s resurrection right himself. Javi from Los Siete Reinos says: The pics were taken (by me, hehe) in summer, last weekend. That’s why it’s so dry and yellow. In November-December, when the battle will be filmed, it will be look green, with vegetation and grass. It could be everyone in Westeros except the North IMO. Javi from Los Siete ReinosQuote Reply I had some of the same frustrations last season. But still, to be fair, they did include a lot of his story (related to the effect of death and resurrection on him) within the battle itself. So when you take the season as a whole, it kinda makes sense. As for next season, there is no battle to fight, which means they will have to spend time next season tackling identity and politics. Besides, the question of his identity will not affect only him. It will affect the north as a whole. LF might well try to use this against him. So lack of battle for Jon might well be a good thing. dragonmcmx says: We already did, but I somehow have a feeling we’ll be getting another one. Or at least a tiny glimpse in the year-ender. dragonmcmxQuote Reply I’m just not sure how D&D will deal with it. They have been sacrificing a lot of inner struggle, character development and politics to have more and more epic battles/scenes. Jon wouldn’t be the first one to suffer with that. They basically cut all inner struggle Dany has in the books in the show. Javi from Los Siete Reinos: Hmm, good to know. dragonmcmx: We already did, but I somehow have a feeling we’ll be getting another one. Or at least a tiny glimpse in the year-ender. I forgot about the year ender. There’s always a couple clips in there, so hopefully there will be this time too even with the later filming. Alba Stark says: ghost of winterfell: If LF finds out whose son Jon is then he willy try his best to use it to drive a wedge between Jon and Sansa, arguing that Jon isn’t a Snow never mind a Stark and therefore she has no reason to support him. The irony of that, of course, is that if Sansa was to try and push Jon in the direction of the Iron Throne (something he would never have any interest in) then she would have more power with him on it than with LF. I could also see LF telling lots of stories about the Targaryen madness, and reminding Sansa that Aerys killed her uncle and grandfather. And that will be something Jon will have to get his head round – the fact that one of his grandfathers burned the other one alive. One thing I think that will help Jon is that the only Targaryen he has ever met is Aemon; he therefore has an example of a Targaryen that was intelligent, kind, measured and above all clearly not as mad as Aerys. I do agree that the lack of battle will prove to be a good thing for Jon’s arc next season; politics and identity are the two things I want to see with him. There will be some action, though, I think, as I can see Jon continuing his fighting training at Winterfell and he will want to ensure that those fighting for him are capable. If the writing can do justice to Jon next season, it could prove to be a big one for him in spite of the lack of action. The reality is that the reveal in 610 that Lyanna is Jon’s mother answered a question that has been around since 101; it would be bad storytelling to spend six full seasons stringing out hints that it was Lyanna, only for the reality of Jon’s parentage to be skimmed over. Alba StarkQuote Reply True, I agree. I will hope for the best right now 🙂 . In Dany’s case, I feel it was a conscious decision to focus more on her as an achiever than on her doubts and struggles, which I think harmed her perception among the book reading audience a bit. She is still very popular with the general audience though . Javi from Los Siete Reinos, Does it make this battle less likely to be in Dorne? There are four candidates for Dragon slayer 1. Jaime- He’s the disgrace who yearns to be a true knight of stories. True knights kill the monsters. Jaimie Lannister, Dragonslayer. Kingslayer no more. 2. Brienne- Similarly, Brienne wants to be a true Knight. The Knight slays the dragon 3. Bran- In the books he has a vision of someone carving three arrows out of Winterfell’s heart tree. In another bit we learn Torrhen’s bastard brother had a plan of stealth to kill Aegon’s dragon’s he never went through with. Its likely him that is carving three arrows for three dragons. Only 1 showed up though. We never see the Targs battle the Starks. GRRM has the Starks nobly surrender. I think he’s withholding that so we get no clues about when it does happen. Bran of course is an awful archer, so either that early scene is setting him up to learn or… 4. Arya- Arya in the books can’t shoot an arrow but they’ve set it up a few times she can in the show. She is taught properly by Anguy. NicolaQuote Reply AngryRosFan says: In L7R are speculating that it could be Essos because in the casting call for Trujillo, the women were told that they were going to be slaves. I wonder if it’s Volantis. That would be sort of on the way to Westeros from Slavers Bay, a slave city and a place where Dany’s fleet could come into combat with Volantene forces, or Euron’s forces. AngryRosFanQuote Reply It looks like the cast are not allowed to take photos with fans https://twitter.com/Schism2131/status/779688282506616832 MynameQuote Reply That’s weird. Last year I understood the reasoning why Kit refused to take pics with fans, but what secret are they trying to hide this year?? And it’s not just Kit but the whole cast? Even stranger. BunBunStark: I wonder if they are trying to prevent people working out who is filming together? Although there are multiple units shooting at any given time, it could be possible – particularly when one of the units goes off to shoot on location in Spain – to try and piece together some of the plot lines for season seven based on who is around Belfast at the same time. We saw in season six that characters who had met previously were encountering one another again – if that continues, they may want to hide who will be meeting up again in season seven. They may also want to hide someone coming back. The thing is, preventing people from taking pictures of the cast does not prevent them from tweeting that they have seen that person in a pub or shop or walking down the street. Alba Stark: It also doesn’t prevent people from just photographing them out walking, as often happens. Great now people will turn into paparazzis lol They only think it’s Essos. It could very well be somewhere in Dorne or maybe the Stepstones. SeanQuote Reply Green Chili says: Cáceres was rumoured as being a possible shooting location for King’s Landing this season, and there was no shooting in Dubrovnik announced. Interestingly – and I don’t know if it has been reported here – yesterday a reddit user posted a pic of himself with the Mountain – taken in Dubrovnik 😉 So it seems there ARE at least some minor scenes being shot there again this year… Green ChiliQuote Reply Actually Essoss (Volantis) makes a lot of sense. The northern plot and the one of KL have to have some development until Dany reaches Westeros, and D&D have to give her something to do. So, a stop at Volantis would be very convenient: Dany has to replenish her food and fresh water resources, she has to check the abolition of slavery and last but not the least she has to meet with Kinvara. The Castle of Truillio could be used for the red temple and extras could play grateful exslaves greeting Dany. Maybe that was the extravagance D&D were talking about some time ago? (A new version lol). Meanwhile, the battle will be something totally different and happening in Westeros, of cause. Green Chili, Most probably, that will be a scene (or scenes) in the harbour like in S6. And people have to look for Cersey: the Frankenmountain rarely walks alone. Thronetender says: Fatio Corcyn: How could it have dragons and still be in Essos? Did she… did she TURN BACK ? Or was she caught, mid-sea, and driven back? Oh, perish the thought. After that epic ending scene, with the Armada afloat, heading toward Westeros, it would be totally shitty if she gets turned back. What could possibly happen? Are the Dothraki so unsettled on the sea that they are losing their minds and she has to take them back? No … if there’s a dragon involved, it has to be Dorne, or somewhere on the Westerosi shore. I can’t bear the thought of her not making it to Kings Landing. She was there in her vision. She has to make it, right? ThronetenderQuote Reply arvgar, Field of Fire II PhilQuote Reply Thronetender, She’ll make it. She’s supposed to visit the Dragon Pit Ehh, no… I looked at other pictures. Even when’s it’s green, this place doesn’t look like, let’s say, the Riverlands. There are no trees and, more importantly, there’s a distinct lack of the ‘damp, wet and miserable’ factor. Ehh. I’ve long thought that Dany may start the season with E1 in Volantis/Essos, use the next four episodes to ferry her army over the sea + have some minor battles, have the climactic battle with Euron in E6, and enter King’s Landing, with most of its interesting inhabitants (Cersei, Jaime, Mountain, Qyburn) dead, in E7. It’s a good frame for a transitory season, bookended by cities on different continents. But you don’t put a climactic battle in the first episode. Yaga, Yes, we can’t exclude such a possibility: Dany’s journey to Westeros may take the entire season (5 episodes to be more precise). S2 had a similar layout and S4. The placement of the battle will also very much depend on its supposed result. If Dany is to win, then yes – it should be in Ep6. If she is to lose, I would expect the battle to heppend in Ep4 to give her some time to recover and work out a new plan, but again who knows: the recovery may become the plot of S8 (it’s hard to imagine 5 episodes to be dedicated to the war with the WW (leaving the last one for the aftermath) – it’s quite a lot of screen time: most of battalic moves wrap up in less than 3 hours). It would surprise Dany, how would she know? She’s been on a boat this whole time. RosaQuote Reply I highly, highly doubt that. They’re not going to leave all of Daenerys’ exploits in Westeros until Season 8. It’d be illogical, anti-climactic and hurried. There will be no more adventures in Essos or Volantis. They’ve already set everything up for Season 7. She’s on her way to Westeros. Cersei is on the Iron Throne and at war with Dorne and the Reach. Euron has been set up as her first big hurdle to conquering Westeros. Season 7, I could picture a few episodes dedicated to overcoming Euron and landing in Westeros. A few more episodes dedicated to her conquest, battles and the politics of her situation. And then the climax in her defeat of Cersei (or Cersei’s self-destruction) and the revelation that the real battle is yet to come. Season 8 may have as few as 6 episodes. In which case you could see a couple of episodes of frantic alliances and politics in the face of the oncoming threat. A few episodes dedicated to the battles, cliffhangers, disasters and the ultimate, climactic battle (which could perhaps be split into two episodes, if it’s really huge in scale). And then an episode for the post-war conclusion. Having Daenerys’ crew messing about in Essos again would be disastrous for the narrative pace. Anyway, they managed to fill 10 episodes last season with about 12 story strands: The North – 3 (Jon, Sansa, Ramsay) eventually converging into 1. King’s Landing / Faith Militant story – 1. The Riverlands – 2 – Riverrun siege + the Hound. The Reach – 1 – Sam. Dorne – 1 – the Martells. Braavos – 1 – Arya’s exploits. Bran north of the Wall – 1. Daenerys & co – 2 – the Dothraki and Meereen. Next season they could have minimum potentially 9 story strands to begin with, but with just 7 episodes: The North – 2 – Winterfell + Bran / the Wall. The Riverlands – let’s just say 2 – any combo of Arya, the Brotherhood, Brienne and Melisandre. King’s Landing – 1 – Cersei / Jaime. Oldtown – 1 – Sam. War in Dorne & the Reach – let’s just count that as 1. Daenerys – 2 – defeating Euron + invading Westeros. There’s more than enough potential material without any need for any faffing about in Essos to waste screen time. Daenerys is going to Westeros. Essos is done and dusted. Well, here’s at least one breach of that rule: https://twitter.com/Shannon_Black97/status/780094243352215556 In general, I do agree: Dany will reach Westeros rather sooner, than later and Essos is done and dusted except for the red priests, but I expect them to come into play in Ep1. And my prediction for the big battle (everything implys that it will be related to Dany’s landing operation) is mid-season, most probably Ep4. The rest of the season should be about it’s consequences. BTW, I have noticed an interesting thing in that In Production teaser. They showed some welding works on the background of the tree at which the first man had been converted into the Night’s King (they even focused on that tree a bit) and the next shot was Cersey’s cup. Could it be that Cersey will be allying with the WW next season? I don’t know how it could be done technically (yet), but in general it would be very much in her character. What do you think? No. There is absolutely no way you can make predictions on potential alliances because of the way the production teaser has been edited. Besides which, that’s just a ridiculous notion, sorry. Cersei refuses to even believe of their existence. Inga: Sophie with fans today and she is still blonde. And we clearly can see that the cast isn’t forbidden to take pics with fans. So I guess Kit ‘lied’ to that other fan about that LOL No, there’s absolutely no chance of Cersei allying with the White Walkers. That’s absolutely out of the question. Cersei will go down in flames by the end of this season, lashing out at everyone and everything in a vain attempt to hold onto a throne and power she has no right to. Countries/continents aren’t conquered in one big battle. Euron is just one of Daenerys’ obstacles this season. We’ll see her clash with Euron, clash with the Westerosi/Lannisters in Westeros and see the culmination of the first phase of her conquest at King’s Landing. The second phase will be in defending the Seven Kingdoms from the White Walkers in Season 8. If Sophie’s wearing a wig it’s going to be so distracting after 6 seasons of her own hair. Her hair looks soooooooooo much more natural than Lena’s, Emilia’s or Natalie’s on the show. I mean, there’s just no comparison: http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/game-of-thrones/character/s5/daenarys-1024.jpg http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/game-of-thrones/character/s5/cersei-lannister-1920.jpg https://pcavote.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/natalie-dormer-margaery-tyrell.png http://www.digital-news.it/files-admin/Simone/Sansa%20Stark-2.JPG It’d be such a shame if they’ve had to ruin the consistency after 6 seasons and dump a hair helmet on her head right towards the end of the show. Well, maybe I chose a wrong word. I don’t mean alliance like alliance from which both parties benefit, I mean it like an addition to wildfire. I totally agree that Cersey will go down by the end of the season and that she will destroy or at least try to destroy KL. But KL is just a city and cities can be rebuilt. Destroying all the Seven Kingdoms (and the rest of the world) would be far more satisfactory, and Cersey would absolutely do that given a chance. I think we can agree on that. So, the only question is whether that chance will be given to her and how. The Night’s King is searching for ways to break through the Wall and IMO he has to establish a contact with someon beyond the Wall like he did that with Bran when he was in the cave. And maybe preconditions are already set. Remember that hand of a whit that LC Mormont sent to KL in S1? I have a theory that Qyburn used that to create the FrankenMountain. On the other hand Euron can also talk Cersey into some crasy shit (he said he was a god so he has to wield at least some magic). And though Cersey has never believed in magic, now she believes in prophecies and soon will se dragons, therefore believing in the WW won’t be that hard. And wouldn’t it be a great ending of her story, if she facilitates the breach of the Wall and goes out in both flames and snow? So, it might be just a whishful thinking, but I wouldn’t exclude that. Hannah Murray and Jacob Anderson https://www.instagram.com/p/BKyxtBAAuP_/ And Jon Snow and Ygritte bought some candles to their cave lol https://www.instagram.com/p/BKyxv53gA_L/ I think you’re overthinking what could happen. Cersei has been entirely self-centred throughout the show and that is how her story will end too. She’ll probably remain oblivious to what’s really going on in the North and the threat of the White Walkers, which renders all her petty grudges and quests for power pointless. Euron is just narrative tool. He exists to push the other Greyjoys into Daenerys’ company and as a preliminary obstacle for her to overcome in her quest to conquer Westeros. If they give him any magic powers it would officially be the worst thing they’ve done on the show. And the means by which the Night King will breach the Seven Kingdoms has already been established. The magic holding the Wall together will be undermined, most likely by Bran, in the same way the Three-Eyed Raven’s cave was. The pieces are already in place, and the producers only need to connect the dots. They don’t need to dream up any convoluted ways to bring characters and antagonists together that need not be connected at all. Yeah I saw it 🙂 Probably he didn’t want to take any photos so he lied lol I agree that the wigs the other women wear, no matter how expensive, do not compare to Sophie’s beautiful natural hair. But wasn’t the Darth Sansa hair at the end of S4/beginning of S5 a wig? If it was, that wasn’t bad at all so this season’s wig may not be so bad. Now that it’s pretty much guaranteed that Sophie will wear a wig, I wonder if it has anything to do with Sansa’s storyline. Maybe Sansa chops off her hair for some reason and Sophie didn’t want to cut her own hair. Or maybe it’s just that Sophie is tired of dying her hair. shrugs* Guess we’ll find out in a few months when, hopefully, they release a trailer. Myname: And Jon Snow and Ygritte bought some candlesto their cave lol Huh, I guess Sophie was right in saying cast members are now staying in Belfast for the weekends instead of flying home; because Kit, in particular, seems to always go back to London during breaks in filming. And LOL at your caption of Jon and Ygritte buying candles for their cave. Cute. MeeraReed says: Apologies if I missed this idea… But if it is Essos, couldn’t Jorah be there searching for a cure? MeeraReedQuote Reply I mean sometimes they do film on the weekends.Who knows what their schedule is. BunBunStark: I agree that the wigs the other women wear, no matter how expensive, do not compare to Sophie’s beautiful natural hair. But wasn’t the Darth Sansa hair at the end of S4/beginning of S5 a wig? If it was, that wasn’t bad at all so this season’s wig may not be so bad. Sophie’s hair is quite fine, so multiple dye jobs are harder on it, and red is a tough colour to keep vibrant looking as it tends to wash out easier. Hers tends to get thinner around her hairline and I think that’s why (there were some quite nasty comments about her ‘bald patches’ last year, which was stupid). So she might just be trying to save the health of her hair. Mine is pretty much just like hers, so that’s just a guess…. I don’t blame her if her hair has been damaged and it’s good of the producers to let her wear a wig if that’s the case. I just think it’ll be a real shame to have that inconsistency at this late stage. If the hairpiece is rubbish and distracting then it’s not like they can go back and re-shoot the last couple of seasons with Sophie’s real hair. Daenerys and Cersei’s wigs I find genuinely distracting at times (e.g. Daznak’s Pit). Not enough to ruin the show, obviously, but it does occasionally grate even though they’ve been wearing them since day one. So it’s a shame if they’ve had to go with a wig on Sophie so late in the game. Oh I agree. Dany’s hair is like armor and Cersei looks like she scalped Tommen and is wearing him as a hat. OK. I may be overthinking. It’s just that D&D implied that Cersey would be going far, and I don’t see burning King’s Landing as far enought. Though on the other hand, if she ends up as a miserable villain incapable of inflicting any major damage, that might be satisfactory as well. I didn’t say anything about ‘faffing about in Essos’, though? I said that I thought Dany could start the season there, simply to give us orientation where she is physically located (hard to do that at sea, and Volantis is a known landmark). I would envision the majority of the action (from episode 2 onwards) to take place in Westeros and on the Narrow Sea. Furthermore, I definitely think that, by the end of the season, Cersei (and Jaime, Mountain, Qyburn etc….) will be done with. In fact, I think that, by the end of the season, there will be just two camps remaining: Dany’s/Tyrion’s, joined by Arya and Sam, in King’s Landing, and Jon’s/Sansa’s, joined by Bran and possibly Jorah in his dying moments, in Winterfell. It’s just the most elegant set-up for Season 8, I think. Season 8 will probably spend two or three episodes on the alliance-making, then an episode or two on the final battle, and an episode on the aftermath. There just won’t be much time required for all that – although again, with the proper set-up. Team Hodor says: Maybe it’s the Arbor or the Mainland region nearby. The battle would be between Dany + Euron. Makes sense for Tyrion to go to the Arbor at least. Team HodorQuote Reply ACME says: I am sorry for showing up so late in the conversation but I cannot shake a certain amount of trepidation in relation to the Reach. House Tyrell is, for all intents and purposes, done for : no heir, no hope for an alliance with another house through marriage (Lady Olenna ain’t playin’ the blushing bride for no one !), nothing even resembling a potential legacy. In the nearish future, it will have to be replaced by another House no matter what happens to Westeros as a whole. Would it be that unthinkable for Cersei to get some of the Reach’s families on her side, by offering to put them in charge of the region ? She can even put Jaime on sale (maybe without telling him !) : he is single, out of the King’s Guard so he can marry and inherit now, very far from ugly and, as a Lannister, could be set to take over the Westerlands. On paper, he is the kind of catch many Westerosi ladies would not spit at : for example, Talla Tarly isn’t married quite yet and she would surely prefer Jaime to yellow-toothed Simon Fossoway… Now, it is true that historically the Reach has been faithful to the Targaryens (alongside with Dorne) but that was due to the leadership of the Tyrells who owed the Dragons their status. The last time a Targaryen conquered Westeros, the Reach fought against the invasion… Before they got shish-kebabed. ^^ There is a precedent, no matter how unfortunate. So, while I agree with A Dornish Tyrell that it would be a highly risky move for Cersei to attack the Reach head on, I believe it would not be overly far-fetched for her to attempt a more “diplomatic” kind of takeover. Especially if she starts looking like a potential victor. As Davos wisely said, people prefer to be on the winning side. On a more general note, I think it would be interesting to see Daenerys be opposed by characters who are not “villains”, for lack of a better word : Cersei, Euron, etc. It would highlight a very real, yet not often mentioned, dimension of her arrival namely that it is an invasion ! While Daenerys may feel like she is “just” coming back home and reclaiming what is rightfully hers, to the overwhelming majority of Westeros, it is bound to look like a foreign invader conquering a country. Furthermore, it would put into perspective the whole “breaking the wheel” logic : while her revolutionary agenda was strikingly obvious when taking over places like Meeren where she completely overturned the political and social landscape (no more oligarchy, no more slavery, etc), it is much more difficult to pin down the ways in which she intends to change Westeros… She does not seem keen on abolishing monarchy (she wants to be Queen herself, that would be counterproductive) and she now appears unlikely to take down the feudal House system, since she allied with the Tyrells (a feudal House) and the Sands (a new type of House who, for all intents and purposes, simply replaced the Martells without changing anything else to the Dornish government). So what does she intend to break exactly ? ACMEQuote Reply Maybe they will reuse some of Catelyn’s wigs, dyed a lighter shade of red ? It has been a while since I rewatched series 1-3 but I cannot recall Michelle Fairley’s hairpieces ever seeming too weird-looking to me… I suppose it is also a matter of how the wigs are styled : Daenerys’s hairstyles tend to be so complex and “compact” they feel fake; and I guess the same can be said about Cersei’s former long waves and current “Romulan” do. A simple braid or a relatively lowkey “half up, half down” may not look as jaring. Fingers crossed 😉 Con Jonnington says: Surely Dany is heading straight to Storms End for all the same reasons that fAegon does Its on the East Coast, and its a stronghold that has never been taken so its would be a great strategic location from which to base her operation. Its close to KL and would be a great place to attack it from by land and sea simultaneously. We also know that there are Lannister forces already there besieging it so it would make sense that this would be the first Lannister v Dany battle. Con JonningtonQuote Reply ACME, Yeah, I don’t think it’s out of the question that some of the Lords of the Reach could be opposed to the Tyrells’ allegiance with Daenerys. It was made quite clear in the dinner scene at Horn Hill that Randyll Tarly is not a fan of “savages”, so he and others might not be too happy about allying with Daenerys and her Dothraki. However, as you point out, people want to make sure that they’re on the winning side. So if you don’t want your lands overrun by Dothraki savages or ravaged by a foreign conqueror’s armies then it’s surely smarter to remain allied to Daenerys rather than oppose her. Anybody who distinguishes themselves in support of her cause could potentially be rewarded with control of the Reach. I guess it depends on how matters proceed before Daenerys arrives. If the Reach was really taking a battering and it looked like the Lannisters might win out, especially if they let it be known that they are challenging Daenerys’ fleet at sea, then some Lords might be convinced to throw their hat in with the Lannisters. But I think it’d be difficult to depict such ebbing and flowing of the sides’ prospects and loyalties and the political machinations that would lead to such a revolt in just the 7 episodes of this season. If it was the usual 10 episodes and we weren’t so near to the end I would definitely consider such a scenario possible. Especially, as you say, in order to better depict how the Westerosi would feel about an invasion. Back in Season 5 when Daenerys mentioned that the common people would support her, Tyrion practically scoffed at such a notion. But it’s hard to predict how convoluted the producers will want to make things with so little time left. I agree about the whole “breaking the wheel” issue as well. It’s hard to tell exactly what she intends. But many of the Great Houses have already fallen into decline or been wiped out already. It may be that once she has conquered Westeros she will decide that there will be no successor to the Tyrells, that Ellaria and co (if they survive) have no right to rule Dorne, and demand loyalty direct to the Crown. Or perhaps she will declare herself Protector of the Realm, go and live on Dragonstone and just oversee the wheel, rather than break it. Or perhaps she’ll realise that breaking the wheel simply isn’t practical. People having their idealism crushed or compromised is not exactly an unfamiliar theme on this show. As for Michelle Fairley’s wigs, as I understand it she used her real hair, dyed, but with weaves/extensions to make it longer and more extravagant than her ordinary hair. RhoynarPrincess says: Arya Serious, Haa!! I was thinking the exact same thing 🙁 RhoynarPrincessQuote Reply I remembering reading last year that they don’t use chemicals like peroxide and ammonia but rather something probably similar to henna that doesn’t damage the hair. Does anyone else remember that and what it was exactly? ygritte, As I recall they used a sort of wash when she was starting out, specifically to avoid using dye on her hair when she was that young, but that had to be redone every like two weeks, so at a certain point she switched to dyeing it. You are absolutely right, time is of the essence and it is tough to imagine what the showrunners will want to dedicate it to, in priority. I believe Cersei’s attempt at getting support from within the Reach could be done relatively quickly : at a war council with Qyburn, they could discuss their options in relation to their enemies and the possibility of making a few, strategically chosen Houses an offer they may not be able to refuse. We then hear nothing about it for a while. Cut to a few episodes later, Lady Olenna promised X number of troops to Daenerys and, lo and behold, only Y men show up because, shock horror, Houses Whatever-ington and Something-or-Other-field have switched side ! They may even reveal their change in allegiance mid-battle or mid-march, suddenly attacking those they were supposed to fight alongside with… It borderlines on fanfiction at that point but I suppose it could work out : set up, build up, pay off. Simple, efficient and, above all, not too time-consuming. In relation to Daenerys’s invasion, I did have the Tyrion scene you mentioned in mind. It is a rather significant part of what is about to unfold, I believe. Wherever she has gone, the Mother of Dragons has been welcomed as a liberator by the overwhelming majority of the population. This is what she has very understandably come to expect. But Westeros is a completely different ball of wax… Poor Daenerys is not properly surrounded in this regard. One of her most fascinating characteristics is how she attracts people who feel the need to redeem themselves, to get a new lease on life or to believe in something (anything ?), be it Jorah, Greyworm, Missandei, Daario, Selmy, Varys or Tyrion. They pin on her their crumpled dreams and aspirations as if she were their last hope, their ultimate chance (“My heart’s been broken too many times already” said Varys) and they end up behaving more like disciples than advisors. Tyrion made the switch when she appointed him Hand of the Queen. Being the sentimental man he is, so eager and hungry for love and approval, that sealed the deal to transform him into a believer. Will he lose his edge as a result of it ? Will he no longer be able to advise her appropriately and see reality for what it is, blinded by his faith in her ? We’ll have to wait and see, I guess ^^ Strategically it’s always dangerous to divide your forces. Fatio Corcyn, No. Euron’s hypothetical storm blew her all the way back to Essos. I said that I thought Dany could start the season there, simply to give us orientation where she is physically located (hard to do that at sea, and Volantis is a known landmark). I would envision the majority of the action (from episode 2 onwards) to take place in Westeros and on the Narrow Sea. But why wait? I think they’ll start the shortened season with a bang. If they show lots of sea scenes, they have to cgi the ships and the water, which I imagine is expensive, for very little benefit. Remember how powerful that season 6 episode was that opened with the masters wailin’ on Mereen…from the fireball’s perspective, no less. I’m convinced the last shot of Dany’s fleet was of her getting ready to approach something. There was lots of activity on decks. The Dothraki had their sea legs, with no sign of anyone vomiting. Dany – and crew – is standing at the prow of her ship wearing an evening dress(dragon dress) while covered in salt spray. That’s not what one wears for sailing, is it? Anyway. Suffice it to say that I think they’re right up Westeros’s butt. Season 7, I could picture a few episodes dedicated to overcoming Euron and landing in Westeros. This is a figment of imagination. Rosa, Varys is with her. Even if Tyrion didn’t know, then surely Varys knows(about wildfire at Sept) I think she said she was emotional, not that people are dying. If dragon(s) are dying, then that might be emotional…dragons are not people. It could be that Dany takes KL and grieves for the fact she can’t visit at the gravesite of her ancestors….cause Cersai blew it up(The Sept). “Why, oh why would Tyrion show up at Winterfell of all places” My thought is because the big bad and the story is in the north. Dany may want Support from the North and offer “vengeance on the Lannesters” as reason to help her cause. Tyrion would play Head of State especially since he has connection to Sansa and Jon. I dont think Jon or the Starks will be looking too far south especially since they know whats coming. Although.. if the north is overrun by White Walkers and the North has to flee south as refugees that would be interesting and rather apropos considering the modern climate on the matter. Jon becomes the sort of “Moses” of the north as he leads them south after Others devastate them	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line406
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Orbex Forex Broker has a successful history full of great achievements, technological breakthroughs and long-term relations with our traders. As the company takes a mathematical approach to trading, an 8-minute multiple-choice numerical test is an integral part of its selection process. The firm is still involved in the case of manipulating oil prices in the US, and the US Commodity and Future Trading Commission (CFTC) is still serious about it. First part is an online speed math and sequence test. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Optiver in August 2014. The C++ Master Class will be held in our office in Amsterdam on 11, 12 and 13 May. Cryptocurrency Futures & Options Trading Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum with up to 100x leverage This is DERIBIT TESTNET website, for the production website go to https://www. Companies like Optiver, All Options, Tibra and others have assumed influential positions in Europe, moving from their original expertise in trading options to the full gamut of stocks, bonds and derivatives as well. Eclipse Trading is a proprietary trading firm specialising in derivatives trading, including market making with headquarters in Hong Kong. Does anyone know what happened to the website or what are. +1 for each correct answer and -1 for each incorrect answer. Optiver offered the Trader and Researcher profile in my campus. Citadel Securities helps meet the liquidity needs of asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, government agencies, and public pension programs. 3rd round is an interview with a trader at the firm. Average Optiver Trader yearly pay in the United States is approximately $98,414, which meets the national average. Our core-business is global trading, dealing mainly in derivatives, shares and bonds. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Abhishek’s connections and jobs at similar companies. Optiver replacing management. This blog will focus on the principles and practices of the Technology Group in Optiver's Chicago office. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. So, 500 people take the test, maybe 25 pass. Optiver acquired a non-controlling stake in the Dutch trading firm Optiver becomes an investor in German-owned trading venue after signing a. Optiver has a very rigorous testing and interviewing process. or change settings. Over thirty years ago, Optiver started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam's European Options Exchange. Storing all trades, instruments, pricing parameters and positions, making them available to all of the companies components. This is Optiver. This is about the level of some trading tests. I applied online. Interview candidates say the interview experience difficulty for Trader at Optiver is average. Go to Tradertest. com for good maths tools, especially check out the flashcards link. We build our own sophisticated trading engines, low-latency connectivity software, modern user interfaces and everything in between. org is a free service which provides practice tests, FAQ and cv forwarding for traders. Aldi were extremely supportive as I planned my departure, helping to arrange visas and travel. You might want to check out my "Man Faster than Calculator" seminar on Speed Math https://www. In providing a comprehensive assessment of a trader’s performance, our Profiling tool provides a clear means of developing and improving each trader’s profitability. Does anyone know what happened to the website or what are. Behavioral phone interview - Went through resume and asked me basic questions like why I want to be a Trader. Thomas ha indicato 4 esperienze lavorative sul suo profilo. Haven't gotten to that one yet!. Berlin Area, Germany. View Taras Kozlov’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. More recent news is that Hans Pieterse left the building as well. At Optiver, we believe that people with the same goals and values bring out the best in each other. Optiver offered the Trader and Researcher profile in my campus. OPTAGB22 XXX - SWIFT Code (BIC) - OPTIVER UK TRADING LIMITED in LONDON - UNITED KINGDOM. He told me he was a trader with the company and that they would give me a test before proceeding further. Traders, developers, researchers and a large support team join forces with a unified sense of purpose. The trading firm and liquidity provider Optiver and Utrecht University have come together to offer a new course at the university called Algorithms in Finance, which will be a part of the university’s Banking and Finance Programme. It was conducted by a recruiter, so don't expect too many technical questions, which brings us to the third round trader interview. It was a time test that is similar to SAT math. Try again or change settings. Bunge Loders Croklaan is a leading global producer and supplier of sustainable premium quality vegetable oils and fats for the food manufacturing industry. If you want to be a part of an ambitious team building the world's first Data Science and Machine Learning platform for financial services, get in touch with us!. 1st test (80 questions 8 minutes) is relatively hard, because a lot of people can't score enough points, but if you are natural at mental math test is quite easy. I would also appreciate if anyone can say what kind of things they would ask in the telephonic round ? Thanks guys!! cheers, Aneesh. Or try my app which uses similar tests to that website but allows you to also keep track of your scores and play just 5 or 10 question tests whenever you want. DRW by far had the hardest math test (like you should know lin alg, calculus, probability pretty well), whereas IMC was more of a logic test (reasoning, sequences, etc), Optiver had the mental math component (train through sites you can find online such as zetamac or tradertest). The trading firm and liquidity provider Optiver and Utrecht University have come together to offer a new course at the university called Algorithms in Finance, which will be a part of the university's Banking and Finance Programme. Salary information comes from 6 data points collected directly from employees, users, and past and present job advertisements on Indeed in the past 36 months. Optiver is a trading firm with a difference. Try D&B Hoovers Free. 002 x 40 = 0. This blog will focus on the principles and practices of the Technology Group in Optiver’s Chicago office. This thread isn't for them, and i certainly don't fall in that category, yet i've managed to pass all the barrier tests. ©1998-2019 Tower Research Capital LLC - All Rights Reserved. The people are very talented, the software is cutting edge and fast, and the compensation/benefits are very good. The process took 1 day. Verbal reasoning test. We improve the market through a global network of thousands of servers running the most advanced trading software. The first and one of the most important step is learning the basics. I applied online. Sitting the Optiver's test was a kind of a unexpected thing for me, because I was mainly applying for IB firms in London, and an incidental post of my CV to Optiver got me to the test. Glassdoor gives you an inside look at what it's like to work at Optiver, including salaries, reviews, office photos, and more. Time yourself to 6 seconds per question. View Rahul Singh’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. View Brendan Caffrey’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Second round Behavioral interview. If you want you can also try this level as a test (posts to !) or set up a custom exercise. The test meeting is as follows: Test 1. You will be responsible for quantitative analysis, research, and tool development. And we don't have the ego-driven culture you might be expecting from. Practice Problems to Prepare for Trades Math Assessment Test Form A (Answers are located at the end of this practice exam) The actual Trades Math Assessment Test will have 30 questions, few multiple choice, on it. Robbert Pullen, trainer at Optiver, and Utrecht University professor Dirk Gerritsen created the course. This is what the process was like: The hackerrank test comprised of 3-4 multiple choice questions, 1-2 questions with. But I had a specific question which I couldnt find the answer to. Verbal reasoning test. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Arvind's. Optiver is a trading firm with a difference. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. The first test is an 8 minute, 80 question maths test, focusing on basic mental arithmetic. View Zhivko Zhelev’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. com）★分享面试经验，点击查看Optiver trading面试经验、面试流程、面试内容、面试注意事项以及Optiver trading公司简介、工资待遇、员工评价，以及Optiver trading工资、招聘、评价等信息. com/watch?v. The process took 2 weeks. com homepage info - get ready to check Optiver best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about optiver. If I have incorrectly assumed something about the test kindly correct me. I'm curious to find out more about the "debrief dinner" :D. It inspires traditional traders towards a successful Algorithmic trading career, by focusing on. Optiver is a global, leading market-maker with offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Hong Kong, Shanghai, S ydney and Taiwan. 4 Jobs sind im Profil von Thomas D'huys aufgelistet. Need 55/80 to pass. Read more View more Ford videos View more Ford F150 videos Find 2017 Ford F150 for sale. Numner sequences are regularly used in aptitude tests, psychometric assessments and IQ-tests as an indication for the testee’s ability to reason with numbers. It's somewhat like Hull, but cheaper. Optiver is looking for entry level Data Scientists in our Chicago office. Haven't gotten to that one yet!. Test Format. Bernie Yu Derivatives Trader at Optiver US. Eclipse Trading is a proprietary trading firm specialising in derivatives trading, including market making with headquarters in Hong Kong. More recent news is that Hans Pieterse left the building as well. In providing a comprehensive assessment of a trader’s performance, our Profiling tool provides a clear means of developing and improving each trader’s profitability. Optiver is a trading firm with a difference. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Brendan’s connections and jobs at similar companies. Practice Problems to Prepare for Trades Math Assessment Test Form A (Answers are located at the end of this practice exam) The actual Trades Math Assessment Test will have 30 questions, few multiple choice, on it. First round was a math test. We build our own trading systems in house and it's the close partnership between our trading and technology teams that allows us to achieve our goal of improving the market. number sequences test practice for aptitude tests and psychometric IQ tests. I interviewed at Optiver (Atlanta, GA (US)) in November 2016. We collect and process petabytes of data daily to always provide the best price, no matter where we trade. I applied online. Optiver Trading Math test. 19/25 on the second and braincramped on the third - 25/40. Optiver is an industry leader across everything we do. Forex Education DailyFX Free Online Forex Trading University. There were three rounds in the recruitment procedure. Apply to Software Engineer Intern, Site Reliability Engineer, C++ Developer and more!. Optiver is an international and innovative proprietary trading firm. Optiver test Hi Jhwang, Thanks for the reply. got invited to do a test. I interviewed at Optiver for the role of a software developer last year. Application. I would also appreciate if anyone can say what kind of things they would ask in the telephonic round ? Thanks guys!! cheers, Aneesh. It takes 3 written tests, and after every test it scalps approximately 50% of the students. Michel has 8 jobs listed on their profile. I actually had done the testing in Sydney prior to looking at this thread. Optiver describes itself as one of the world’s leading liquidity providers, a trading firm that uses its own capital to make markets. Regardless of you want to become a retail or institutional trader, there is a path you have to go through. Made a fair amount of mistakes which got me in the grey area (so just passed it as I was close to the line). Needed around a 19 to pass. Our core-business is global trading, dealing mainly in derivatives, shares and bonds. Some recently asked Optiver Trader interview questions were, "General behavioral questions" and "Why optiver?". Chenhao has 6 jobs listed on their profile. first took an online programming test. The test for Flow Traders was similar, and I did well in both. The number crunchers amongst you will be provided with a practice version of our Numerical test, so you can put your mathematical skills to the test. There were three rounds to the interview after applying at my university's career fair. Seconds left: Score: 0 Score: 0. Typical trading firm math test, followed by a behavioral interview, followed by a quantitative/sequences test, followed by a technical interview. Optiver - Best European ETF Market-Maker. , Optiver UK Trading Limited and/or Optiver UK Limited (collectively "Optiver Europe"), for information purposes only and is not a solicitation of any offer to buy or sell any security or other financial instrument or to participate in any trading strategy. A gentleman who was sitting at the table next to me and appeared to be having lunch noticed my visitors pass and that said Optiver. Buy the Quant Trading Interview E-book today on Paypal. Optiver beats Flow in reputation and salary - of course you don't get into prop trading for base salaries, but Flow's bases are really minimal. In addition to trading strategies focused on highly liquid contracts, DC Energy often trades with counterparties to pursue more specific investment objectives. 3rd round is an interview with a trader at the firm. From a trader perspective, they do a lot right. 5 milliseconds, speeds with which mere mortals cannot compete. View Michel Boer, de’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Join them to grow your own development teams, manage permissions, and collaborate on projects. The last and probably not the easiest step is to trade with reasonable money. No later interview arrangement then. Researchers and software engineers on this team work together closely with our traders. As you can see, testing is only one part of a broad, company-wide, reliability strategy around risk limits. Jasper has a Master degree in Econometrics from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and has worked as an equity trader for Optiver for six years. The process took 6+ weeks. They may not be suitable for everyone. Around the millennium, he returned to Amsterdam to join Probrokerage as its general director, before returning to the trading activities of Optiver. Trader shadowing, interview with a head trader, another game or something? My memory is also a bit foggy but I think there's a test on a computer simulator and a group activity, among other things. 8 so not only are you doing the first question but you need to quickly do the answers to the answers as well. The people are very talented, the software is cutting edge and fast, and the compensation/benefits are very good. I interviewed at Optiver. CFD and Forex Trading are leveraged products and your capital is at risk. I was a day trader for many years, and it almost killed me. In its first major case against an algorithmic trader, the. org to practice for it. Apply to Software Engineer Intern, Site Reliability Engineer, C++ Developer and more!. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Stephen’s connections and jobs at similar companies. The business of the Company is primarily to engage as a market maker and a trader in index options, stocks, stock options, futures, and. The test was more like an IQ test rather than programming. No cable box required. Sector Rotation-based trading strategies are popular because they can improve risk-adjusted returns and automate the investing process. com）★分享面试经验，点击查看Optiver trading面试经验、面试流程、面试内容、面试注意事项以及Optiver trading公司简介、工资待遇、员工评价，以及Optiver trading工资、招聘、评价等信息. You will be responsible for quantitative analysis, research, and tool development. regulators claimed their first victory in a four-year old effort to crack down on oil market manipulation on Thursday, announcing a $14 million settlement with high-frequency trading firm Optiver. Some recently asked Optiver Trader interview questions were, "probability and brain teasers " and "Betting section (odds of events vs. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Harjas’ connections and jobs at similar companies. And in one recruiting Web video (no longer online), an Optiver trader sitting before four giant trading screens is seen ogling two skimpily clad women as they sit on his thighs. Optiver is another firm that has become infamous for its difficult numerical tests. Optiver Interviews. And we don't have the ego-driven culture you might be expecting from. This program was designed for students who seek a challenge. Also gave me the option of going with the Execution Trader or Derivatives Trader track. Second round Behavioral interview. View Simei He’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. With a solid team in Europe,. Zhivko has 4 jobs listed on their profile. Orbex Forex Broker has a successful history full of great achievements, technological breakthroughs and long-term relations with our traders. good start but not enough to pass any unit. I applied online. Automated Trading Risk (ATR): This is the risk that our Automated Trading Systems malfunction in a way which results in ongoing financial loss to Optiver or even market disruption more broadly. Bulk standard contracts only loosely capture the true risks inherent to producing energy and physically delivering it to distant points; granular and specific contracts better align with the fundamentals of the grid. The government has released transcripts and taped conversations to back up its allegations that one trader, Optiver, profited by manipulating oil prices. 014 not hard questions but time is major constraint an bascially unless you can see te answers immeadiately your screwed as you dont have time to write them down. SMB Capital 7,702 views. View Chenhao Gao’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. On the 21st and 22nd of November, you will get the chance to join our Trading Business Course or our Technology event, CODE@FLOW!. Our name comes from the Dutch words for Trading and Options. Haven't gotten to that one yet!. A gentleman who was sitting at the table next to me and appeared to be having lunch noticed my visitors pass and that said Optiver. We're an electronic market maker that trades in markets around the world, using our own capital to improve the market. Unlimited DVR storage space. If you look close, quants are actually data scientists who apply their skills on algorithmic trading, or quantitative trading as such. We gave them a try in a blind taste test. Some recently asked Optiver Trader interview questions were, "General behavioral questions" and "Why optiver?". View Stephen Wilson’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. three stage-cv review, numerical test, and ac. I got a call from HR serveral days after the test told me I passed the first test and confirmed with me the second test. The number crunchers amongst you will be provided with a practice version of our Numerical test, so you can put your mathematical skills to the test. It is a multiple choices questionnaire, the question are easy mental calculus or easy equation, with some trick (for example you may find 1/3 for the answer but it won't be on the suggested choices you willl have instead 6/18) it seems easy but the time runs. Not too hard. Numner sequences are regularly used in aptitude tests, psychometric assessments and IQ-tests as an indication for the testee’s ability to reason with numbers. Read more View more Ford videos View more Ford F150 videos Find 2017 Ford F150 for sale. I would also appreciate if anyone can say what kind of things they would ask in the telephonic round ? Thanks guys!! cheers, Aneesh. We're an electronic market maker that trades in markets around the world, using our own capital to improve the market. Optiver is famous on campus, particularly for their maths test. I interviewed at Optiver (Mumbai (India)) in October 2017. Software Reliability at Optiver: Test Driven Development Up to this point, much of the discussion around Software Reliability has focused on the macro level of our systems - software correctness, simple architecture and design, people, process and culture. Try again or change settings. i had a optiver test last month i didn't go to, cus i know i won't pass it. Personally, I would say HR has too much power selecting a candidate as Optiver is a trading company, and the organization of HR department is Interview Questions. com/watch?v. He has lived in several countries including The Netherlands, the UK, the US, Hong Kong, Belgium and Brazil. Hi, I know there are heaps of threads discussing the optiver trader test. View Alexey Nedyuzhev’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. I chose Derivatives Trader. Bernie Yu Derivatives Trader at Optiver US. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Patrick’s connections and jobs at similar companies. The process took a week. William has 9 jobs listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Charles-Auguste’s connections and jobs at similar companies. Behavioral phone interview - Went through resume and asked me basic questions like why I want to be a Trader. Optiver will employ OneTick’s powerful analytics tools for their quantitative research and strategy development. Initial phone screen with a trader - entirely behavioral. Optiver is looking for entry level Data Scientists in our Chicago office. Please change your selection. On the 21st and 22nd of November, you will get the chance to join our Trading Business Course or our Technology event, CODE@FLOW!. 002 x 40 = 0. Optiver Sydney CBD NSW We are looking for passionate and talented Engineers to join us. Our name comes from the Dutch words for Trading and Options. 5 milliseconds, speeds with which mere mortals cannot compete. I interviewed at Optiver (Chicago, IL (US)) in October-2011. We hope they enjoyed the day as much as we did. This helps you understand the challenges of trading, allowing you to make a real impact from the early stages of your Optiver career Who you are. Find used cars and new cars for sale at Autotrader. Interview Questions. of Illinois. Sitting the Optiver's test was a kind of a unexpected thing for me, because I was mainly applying for IB firms in London, and an incidental post of my CV to Optiver got me to the test. While it’s originally a Dutch firm, the CEO is a German and the employees come from all over the world (40 nationalities, according to their latest annual report). Automated Trading Risk (ATR): This is the risk that our Automated Trading Systems malfunction in a way which results in ongoing financial loss to Optiver or even market disruption more broadly. We improve the market through a global network of thousands of servers running the most advanced trading software. com for good maths tools, especially check out the flashcards link. With a solid team in Europe,. I applied through college or university. If you skip a question or run out of time in a timed test, all following questions are not used in your score. Optiver is an independent trading house with offices in Chicago, Amsterdam, London, Sydney and Antwerp. Optiver is a proprietary High Frequency Trading (HFT) firm focusing on electronic market making in exchange-listed financial products. The only way to prepare for such a test is practice. Time yourself to 6 seconds per question. Optiver: Their first step is 8 mins , 80 questions MCQ math test made. I've been told it's an " informational interview ". Practice Problems to Prepare for Trades Math Assessment Test Form A (Answers are located at the end of this practice exam) The actual Trades Math Assessment Test will have 30 questions, few multiple choice, on it. View Taras Kozlov’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. → Follow the Optiver Tech Blog to learn more www. Chenhao has 6 jobs listed on their profile. NYSE Euronext data center turned on (security discussion) By Jacob Bunge, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NYSE Euronext this week flipped the “on” switch for its new data center facility, shifting all trading systems for its New York Stock Exchange and Amex equities markets to a nondescript building 35 miles from the exchange’s Wall Street trading. Greater Chicago Area • Scored a 100% on final exam that all interns and new full-time employees take at end of. This level has a maximum of 4 operations per question and all terms are at most 5 digits including the decimal part. Optiver Holding BV is the parent of Optiver Americas LLC. Optiver test Hi Jhwang, Thanks for the reply. Verbal reasoning test. The test for Blackstone was fun as well. Optiver is a global market maker, trading on all major financial markets around the world, using its own capital at its own risk. We hope they enjoyed the day as much as we did. As if that wasn't extreme enough, their 'pitch' is that a career at their firm will allow you to become as successful as your peers, without losing your 'lust for life'. The Company is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Optiver Holding BV through the Company's immediate parent Optiver US Holding LLC (the Parent). Does anyone know what happened to the website or what are. Time yourself to 6 seconds per question. I applied online. Different logic and math problems. Optiver is an independent trading house with offices in Chicago, Amsterdam, London, Sydney and Antwerp. Sequence is a bit harder but i finished it all. The basic structure of Regulation Automated Trading is set forth in the NPRM, and remains largely intact. View Simei He’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. From our awesome office in Sydney's CBD, using our in-house built applications; we trade across most of the APAC region. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Chenhao’s connections and jobs at similar companies. betting odds. Optiver will be running 2 numerical tests. View Charles-Auguste Durand, MBA’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. I am having a telephonic interview scheduled sometime next week. Technical Operations Analyst. Need 55/80 to pass. Trader Interview candidates at Optiver rate the interview process an overall positive experience.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line411
__label__wiki	0.561059	0.561059	Korean\| Chinese\| Japanese\| Aju Business Daily Home > Software > article SK Telecom agrees to expand cooperation with IT&E in Guam Lim Chang-won Reporter(cwlim34@ajunews.com) \| Posted : March 7, 2019, 11:03 \| Updated : March 7, 2019, 11:03 웨이보 [Courtesy of SK Telecom] SEOUL -- South Korea's top mobile carrier, SK Telecom, agreed with IT&E, which offers telecoms services in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), to expand cooperation in the establishment of a 5G mobile network. SKT and IT&E agreed to commercialize a 5G mobile service in Guam and Saipan in the second half of this year with a fixed wireless access (FWA) system that can replace wired services. FWA provides high-speed communication services over wireless instead of wired networks. The agreement was signed in Guam. SKT CEO Park Jung-ho said in a statement on Thursday that the partnership with IT&E would become a catalyst for SKT's 5G technology and new ICT leadership to spread beyond South Korea. SKT would provide its 5G network design optimized for a local environment and operation know-how for high communication quality. Last year, SKT became the second largest shareholder of IT&E by purchasing shares worth about 35 billion won ($31 million) after the Philippine-based Delgado family. The earlier tie-up enables SKT to provide a faster, more reliable mobile service to customers who visit Guam and Saipan, which are among the top overseas vacation destinations for South Koreans. SKT and IT&E also agreed to cooperate in mobile edge computing. A 5G network equipped with mobile edge computing dramatically improves the quality of customer experience and provides high-speed data processing in real time. They discussed cooperation in security solutions. SKT has developed a quantum cryptographic communication solution. At this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, SKT demonstrated a 5G security solution, based on its convergence technology of quantum cryptography, which allows the completion of various cryptographic tasks. In October last year, SKT agreed to invest in MobiledgeX, an edge computing company founded by Deutsche Telekom AG, the largest telecom provider in Europe. Mobile edge computing technologies, which can reduce data transfer time, are useful for autonomous driving and other 5G-related services. Lim Chang-won Reporter email : cwlim34@ajunews.com © Aju Business Daily & www.ajunews.com Copyright: All materials on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the authorization from the Aju News Corporation. KT joins global forum to speed up delivery of 5G [CES 2020] SK Telecom showcases high-performance Lidar for s… SK Telecom partners with AWS to provide 5G mobile edge compu… SK Telecom leads establishment of 5G MEC cooperative system … [CES 2020] China's aggressive push for AI prompts Samsung a… Real Time Photo News Actor Daniel Henney urges fans to watch online imposters Popular indie band Hyukoh to come back with new album BTS collaborates with Starbucks in fundraising campaign to support disadvantaged young people BTS sells over 3.4 mln copies of new album through pre-order Actor Hyun Bin to take legal action against malicious online rumors State-run university hospital introduces smart operating rooms Researchers join hands with weather agency to develop weather prediction AI KB jumps into race to acquire Prudential's insurance unit in S. Korea Address : Aju News Corporation LEEMA Building, 11th floor, 42, Jong-ro 1-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul. Mail : swatchsjp@ajunews.com Copyright ⓒ 2016 By Ajunews Corporation, All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line416
__label__wiki	0.539159	0.539159	<img alt="dcsimg" id="dcsimg" width="1" height="1" src="//www.qsstats.com/dcs8krshw00000cpvecvkz0uc_4g4q/njs.gif?dcsuri=/index.php/cloud-computing/stranded-oil-pumps-up-it-core-it-services.html&WT.js=No&WT.tv=10.4.1&dcssip=www.baselinemag.com&WT.qs_dlk=XiSmbLEviPn79pTNsdQMfgAAAAA&"> Cloud Computing / Stranded Oil Pumps Up Core IT Services Stranded Oil Pumps Up Core IT Services By Samuel Greengard \| Posted 2016-10-12 Print The oil services firm had hosted IT systems from eight vendors, so it began exploring IT consolidation and vendors that could create a streamlined environment. As organizations look to improve business performance, IT infrastructure is increasingly in the spotlight. The ability to manage systems and data efficiently can determine whether an enterprise soars or stumbles. At Stranded Oil Resources, a Golden, Co., firm (owned by Alleghany Capital) that specializes in extracting stranded oil from depleted fields—which are sometimes 50 to 100 years old—the task is magnified by a decentralized business structure. The firm operates fields in Shreveport, La., Southeast Kansas and Casper, Wyo., with about 30 operational employees at each site and another 10 at headquarters. The employees use a variety of devices, including smartphones and tablets. Over the years, Stranded Oil had amassed an assortment of hosted IT systems from eight different vendors, including email, telephony and an Exchange server. The result was chaos. "A lot of the systems weren't reliable, performance was subpar, we had provisioning and de-provisioning issues, as well as security challenges and people using personal Dropbox accounts for file sharing," recalls IT Manager Kevin Finnegan. "Sometimes, people had to email files to themselves notes. In addition, we had one company managing servers in a hosted environment and another vendor hosting remote desktops. When a problem occurred, companies would point at each other." Exploring IT Consolidation and a Streamlined Environment The business and IT framework was unsustainable. As a result, Finnegan began exploring IT consolidation and looking for hosting companies that could create a more streamlined environment. Stranded Oil eventually turned to Intermedia and deployed the vendor's full suite of services, including Exchange Email, POP Email, Cloud PBX, SecuriSync file backup and sharing, Email Archiving and its Cloud Server application infrastructure. "The concept of a comprehensive yet highly integrated set of hosted solutions was extremely attractive," Finnegan explains. The company migrated to Intermedia in April 2016, and the results have been impressive, according to Finnegan. Eliminating fragmented systems, multiple control panels, confusing technical support issues and other problems has resulted in a 40 percent cost savings—about $96,000 annually. Another plus is enterprise-grade security—which includes real-time provisioning and de-provisioning and remote wipe capabilities—along with a 99.999 percent uptime service level agreement and 24/7 support. Stranded Oil has also realized other benefits. Today, Finnegan and other IT staff members can view everything from a central dashboard on any type of device. In addition, the new environment allows IT to manage accounts and security far better than it had in the past, and it enables employees to work more productively. For example, the SecuriSync tool automatically backs up all files, but it also allows employees to manage and share them. If a problem occurs, there's a complete record of all versions, including who edited or changed something. "We can find the desired version and go right back to it," Finnegan adds. Most importantly, employees are able to work faster and better. The company has introduced collaborative tools, including Skype for Business and distributed calendars and contacts. "We have everyone on a single Exchange server," Finnegan reports. "We have the entire company with a single hosted provider. In addition to the tangible benefits, there have been enormous intangible benefits. The platform has fundamentally changed the way we work and how we get things done." Samuel Greengard writes about business and technology for Baseline, CIO Insight and other publications. His most recent book is The Internet of Things (MIT Press, 2015).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line423
__label__cc	0.68883	0.31117	Male Fox Hosts: Smoking Is Manly And Female Superheroes Should Be Mostly Naked On Screen (VIDEO) By Stephen D Foster Jr on September 21, 2014 12:32 pm · It was a typical Fox & Friends on Sunday, as the two male hosts teamed up to put their creepy sexist a**hole personas on full display for everyone to see. Tucker Carlson called smoking a “masculine” activity that represents freedom, while Clayton Morris expressed outrage that female superheroes have too many clothes on. The hissy fit began when Carlson and Morris discovered leaked images of the new Popeye without his tattoo or pipe. The duo claimed that without his pipe or tattoo, Popeye is now a wuss with Carlson actually going so far as to say that smoking is a manly activity. Then the pair complained that female superheroes aren’t sexually exploited enough in films and comics, despite the fact that children are a large part of the audience for both platforms. Then host Clayton Morris revealed his inner-creep when he said he wants to see the new Wonder Woman wear short shorts and a halter top in the Batman Vs Superman movie. According to him, all women who have great bodies should “flaunt” them on film. CARLSON: This is a sad story. MORRIS: This is a very sad story. Get out your tissues this morning… According to leaked photos, the new Sony Pictures version of Popeye will look like this: Without the iconic anchor tattoo and the smoking pipe! Are they wussifying Popeye? CARLSON: Of course, they’re wussifying. Nothing is scarier to a modern liberal than tobacco. If Popeye were driving around giving the morning after [birth control] pill to fourth graders, that would be totally fine. But smoking a pipe, a symbol of freedom and masculinity in America itself, the reason this country exists, tobacco, that’s like, ‘Oh, that’s outrageous. That’s a major sin.’ KOOIMAN: The thing with Popeye is that Popeye was designed for one reason because it had a nice message for children… Popeye taught you to eat your spinach… And if you smoke, you might get lung cancer. CARLSON: No child has ever smoked a pipe because of Popeye. MORRIS: I watched Popeye as a child and I never felt the need to smoke a corncob pipe. CARLSON: Well, I did, because of Popeye. Of course, the images Carlson and Morris whined about were from test footage that won’t even be used in the film. Once again, the “fair and balanced” button on Fox must be out of order. Then the pair complained that female superheroes aren’t sexually exploited enough in films and comics, despite the fact that children are a large part of the audience for both platforms. Host Clayton Morris revealed his inner-creep when he said he wants to see the new Wonder Woman wear short shorts and a halter top in the Batman Vs Superman movie. According to him, all women who have great bodies should “flaunt” them on film. CARLSON: If you think that’s bewildering, take a look at this. This is Thor. Now you may notice something a little different. Popeye lost something, Thor has added something, a couple of them. That’s the new bustier Thor because Thor is now a chick. After some brief whining about gender equality, Morris changed the topic to Wonder Woman. MORRIS: Look what we’ve done to Wonder Woman over the years. I want the iconic primary colors of Wonder Woman…but they’ve shoved her into that Batman Vs. Superman movie and given her these dark tone colors. And in the comic book, they’ve taken her from that beautiful, you know the short shorts, and they’ve stuck her in a pantsuit like she’s on her way to an accountant’s office. While showing an image of Wonder Woman wearing pants, Kooiman chimed in. KOOIMAN: Some people would say that this is an important thing that we’re not sexualizing these women so much. It’s the same for men. I mean, we make sure they have perfect figures, actually larger-than-life better. It’s good point to make. After all, not only do children watch these movies, women want to be taken seriously in these roles. They don’t just want to be eye candy for a bunch of drooling Neanderthals like Carlson and Morris. Covering up is not only practical, it forces the audience to focus on the acting instead of how much skin is showing. Carlson then compared women covering up in superhero comics and films to Sharia law, even though many conservative “Christians” believe women should cover up because it will somehow help them avoid being raped. CARLSON: That’s a good Islamic point. We should cover them. We should cover the women because, otherwise, it just incites the men. It’s immodest as we say in the Sharia. MORRIS: I want to see Wonder Woman in the original short-shorts, and the halter top. KOOIMAN: I think she looks great. I actually like that outfit better. MORRIS: If you’ve got the body, flaunt it. That’s what I always say. Here’s the video, via Raw Story: Of all the things in the world that Fox News could whine about, they chose to complain about Popeye not smoking or having a tattoo in some test footage that won’t appear in the final film and they bitched about women not being naked enough in comic book movies. And while the men around her were acting like perverts, Kooiman had to just sit there and take it. How she’s able to sit between these guys and listen to their sexism is what’s truly bewildering on this show. Not every movie has to feature breasts and asses on full display. If that’s what Carlson and Morris want, they should go home, select a porno from their secret collection and go watch it in their man caves. Meanwhile, the rest of us will enjoy watching female actresses kick butt without focusing our attention on their butts. Author: Stephen D Foster Jr	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line427
__label__cc	0.721764	0.278236	This month: 172 - Restoring Vision Exploring the Heart of Restoration Wineskins Research Reports Thesis and Dissertation Library Commentary – Old Testament Commentary – New Testament Books By Wineskins Authors Manage Job Listing Bible Class Curriculum Where to?Home Remember Me Register › Lily of the Valley-Healing Racial Polarization Published by Tiffany Dahlman in 119 - Turning the world upside down I stayed up late November 4th, 2008 to watch the presidential election with my son. I held his chubby three-year-old hand like a vise, stone-faced, too nervous to eat the bag of popcorn we made. A few days prior an African American woman at a Christian event told me, while Joshua was there pulling a juice box out of my purse, that I was contributing to modern day slavery by adopting him. I remember few details of our conversation, but I do remember thinking, “Thank God Joshua is too young to know what ‘slavery’ means.” Before that there was the white woman in Walmart who touched Joshua’s hair because “I always wondered what it felt like, but I couldn’t just touch anyone’s head.” Other than he having a white mother, I’m not sure what made my son’s head so accessible to her. And then before the adoption, the whispers, “Aren’t you afraid he won’t be very smart? Black people aren’t as smart as white people.” I learned to tilt gently Joshua’s face away from some people, cover his ears from others. Black people know the hearts of white people, and white people know how best to save black people. We’re full of foolish wisdom. Once, on a road trip, I told him he’d have to wait for juice because ‘that gas station is closed’ when really it was because we were in a small town in Mississippi, and the store windows were covered in Confederate Flags. An unsettling fear crept over me, and I stepped a little harder on the gas pedal. “I’m paranoid,” I told myself. “Not all small town people from Mississippi waving Confederate Flags are racist. Right?” The more true and perceived racism I saw come his way, the more determined I became to shelter Joshua from it. “If I never bring it up…” I thought, “ If I pretend slavery never was, that the Klan is simply cousin to the Boogey Man, and surround him with enough African American doctors and teachers and plumbers and firefighters, maybe he’ll never catch on that racism lives.” There was only one hurdle to reaching my goal of post-racial illusion. I had to be able to say honestly,“Joshua, you can be anything God made you to be.” So, everything rode on that night in November. I felt connected, gripping his hand and an uneaten bag of popcorn in the other, at least in some small way, to African American mothers all around the country praying up the same prayer, “Dear God, for the sake of my child, let him win.” Many question the righteousness of voting for a candidate, a pro-choice one, a spend-money-we-don’t-have one, a not–quite-Christian-enough one, based on race. If we are honest, there were some who voted for the too-old one, stay-in-war-forever one, let’s-just-pray-he-doesn’t-die-and-leave-Sarah-in-control one because of race too. Isn’t the grand irony here that it is indeed racist to cast a vote based on race for either side? Probably. But sometimes a mom’s drive to deliver hope and a future to her child trumps everything else. It can even pull her to the street to give her full-grown son a very public whooping. Planting hope in young African American hearts first requires casting out a lot of rocks from the soil. I will never forget the moment CNN announced that Obama had won Virginia. Hope lurched. And then the screen went blue. I sighed a weight so heavy I fell to the floor with it. Popcorn spilled. Immediately, I grabbed my son’s face and looked into his eyes. I looked past the lady at Walmart, Jim Crow, and the cotton fields. I peered past the North Star glimmering in him, omnisciently created on the fourth day so that God’s children could find their way to Canada millennia later in 1851, and saw all the way to the dew on the lily of the valley of his soul. I found that place of purposed being, and I said as firmly as I could, “Son, you can be anything God calls you to be.” Just like that, America was post-racial. My plan to shelter him from the monster of discrimination was working; he would be able to arrive into adulthood never knowing there was a time when people considered him ‘less than’ because of his skin. But, he went to preschool. One day in the parking lot after I picked him up he said, “Those girls are mean to me. See them?” He pointed to the slide swarming with yellow ponytails. “They won’t play with me. They say I’m ugly because I’m brown.” I was mortified. How dare they undercut my election victory! There was Vacation Bible School the summer after his 1st-grade year. “I don’t want to go back,” he said. “The boys in my group were laughing at the way I was dancing and said I’m supposed to dance different because I’m black. I don’t know how to dance black.” (They were Caucasian and Filipino.) Then there was the time Joshua and a little girl were writing letters in the dirt with rocks at baseball practice. Upon spotting her, her dad leaped off of the top bleacher, and ran to swoop her up-blonde hair flying, blue-eyes startled. He scowled at Joshua, and said to his daughter as they marched back to the bleachers, “You don’t need to play with him.” Finally, at the ripe old age of eight, there was the incident that irreparably broke me, that convinced me my master plan to raise my son believing that racism was a distant fiction was fiction itself. We were at the park, and he said, “I don’t want to get out, Mom. Whenever I get out of the car I never know if white people are going to be nice to me or mean to me. You and Dad are the only white people I can trust.” He hung his head and sobbed. “Can we just go home?” I died a little then. Really. Part of my heart that pumps for that son of mine, it broke. Racism, that beast I so wanted to have died on Nov. 4th, 2008 was not only alive, but had found its way into my son’s soul to such a degree that he never wanted to leave home again. I thought I had done everything right. Though I grew up in St. Louis, we lived in North Carolina, attended a multi-racial church, had an African American pediatrician, neighbors, and school vice-principal. A truly multi-racial community. Yet, even here, racism, real or perceived, had changed my child. I know we think we’re smarter than it. I know the dad at baseball may have been carrying off his daughter for some reason other than race. I know we all perceive things that sometimes aren’t there, like monsters under the bed. But whether or not the monster under the bed is real does not change the very real fear in the child. And fear reacts. But other times I’ve peered under the bed with my son in the dark of night and seen the yellow eyes glow. This monster, Racism, is still alive and well. I’ve unmistakably stared him down in the mall, at the grocery store, and in the church. The deep presuppositions we don’t want to admit about the young, black male walking down the street after dark in a hoodie are real. The presuppositions about white people with Confederate Flags flying high are real. Today, racism lurks, snips at heels, and sometimes hunts and chokes. Our placating wisdom isn’t fooling anyone. Even so, sitting in the car forever, afraid of the playground, is not an option. For the sake of his soul, I must hear Joshua’s words as his true experience. Beyond the playground, into the streets of Baltimore and Fergusson, the way forward is the same. We must love someone enough, consider ourselves a part of the other’s faith journey enough, trust each other enough, to hear each other’s truth as legitimate. Fear’s reactionary friction creates heightened distance, like opposing walls of the Grand Canyon. Polarizing fear has created a nation with only two primary political parties. Republican or Democrat. Driven by fear, we divide churches down dual-ing doctrines. Progressive or Conservative. We are a people who still refer to race in terms of black and white-the same words we use to denote right and wrong. Innocent or guilty. Peering through our binoculars we shout wise solutions and judgment to those standing on the south rim of the canyon while they analyze us through periscopes and shout back what’s really going on in our lives that we’re too naïve to see. So much foolish wisdom without any relationship. It’s an ancient story. It’s the disciples looking at the mountain south of them, Zion, and proclaiming, “That is where God is!” while the Samaritans point north and counter, “No, God is there!” all the while ‘God with us’ stands in the sacred valley between the two offering Living Water to a woman who is willing to move beyond polarization. Paul has to address polarization in the church in 1 Corinthians 1. My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas”; still another, “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? (vs. 11-13) Everyone chose a side. By our experience, our perch high on the canyon ridge, our blog base, and ‘this one friend I know’, we mark the truth of the matter. Quotes from the past two years surrounding Fergusson and Baltimore show this encampment well. All one needs to do is peruse news report comments for hundreds of examples. Paul’s solution is simple – admit we are all sinners, and lay down our wisdom as foolishness. “19 For it is written: ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.’20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?. . . 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength . . . 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God–that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: ‘Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.’” God pleads across the polarized picket line, Unite in me. Your human insight derived apart from love for each other is foolishness. A strange phenomenon happens when we boast only in the Lord. We’re leveled. The privilege of our perch is kicked away. We are humbled there together, one foolish heap of saved souls in the valley of the Cross, able to work through our mutual sin together. The exhausting part of this journey is that we have even managed to polarize sin. Personal sin destroys on one side – lying, insulting, stealing, hitting, boasting and judgment. Social sin corrupts on the other-apartheid, racial profiling, judicial corruption, unequal pay, communities ignoring orphans and widows. We’ve bought the devil’s foolishness that these sins aren’t morbidly addicted to each other. They do not excuse each other, but our righteous perch is a façade. When society and churches fail to bring physical and spiritual food to a community, people will likely steal. That personal sin- stealing- precipitates resentment in the shop owners, which puts the poor on the defensive, and that inspires unjust laws. This injustice increases petty crime, which fuels racial profiling, which lights angry outbursts that give rise to blanket character judgments. This prejudice motivates violence that contributes to mass incarceration. . . .and before long, in America’s case within two hundred years, we find the Colorado river has cut so deep between us that we can no longer hear the shouting of the broken on the other side of the canyon. No one’s sin is excused by another’s behavior. The lack of funding in inner city schools does not excuse theft. Late night drug deals do not excuse violations of dignity in arrests. It is all sin. Yet, one action does excuse our wretchedness- Christ’s death. The Cross is the great leveling ground – the Place of the Skull, the dark valley between the two mountains. And it’s in this place, full of fear and hurt, and arrogance and anger, desperation and panic, where we can sit together with Christ, and drink a cup of water. There’s peace in the valley. In his book, Churches That Make a Difference, Ronald Sider explains how mutual depravity can mend polarization.[1] Many of us fixate on personal sin, and this person, he says, “will point to another’s lack of respect for the law, his unwillingness to accept a traditional job, and his disregard for moral authority.” In contrast, the person fixated on social sin “will point to the persistent racism that limits African Americans’ vocational opportunities and crushes self esteem, failing urban schools that graduate students who cannot read, and the lack of transportation in cities.” He offers the solution, “A holistic view of persons in community [that] understands that individual responsibility and social justice are not an either-or. God holds individuals responsible for their own sinful choices, even when the social context for those choices is oppressive and unfair. God also holds each member of society accountable to help create just, wholesome communities, regardless of whether people are personally responsible for the injustice. Holistic ministers thus reach out to individuals with compassion while working to correct unjust structures” (emphasis mine). Before we judge an entire race of people innocent or guilty, let us come together as compassionate ministers of reconciliation. Let’s adopt each other into our holy families; let’s listen to each other’s truth in community. Let’s share a chunk of bread and water in broken silence with Christ, our wisdom, before we offer foolishness outside of covenanted relationship. After all, Jesus’ wisdom has been solving big social impasses for eternity. The Jews and Samaritans, judging each other by upon which mountain they prayed, were so distrusting of each other that they didn’t cross territory unless necessary. The Samaritans scoffed, “They don’t like us. They don’t consider us full Jews. They won’t listen to our story, and they think they’re better than us.” The Jews countered, “Their temple is in the wrong place. Their blood isn’t pure, and they’re looking for the wrong savior.” A Jewish ruler from the first century said, “The daughters of the Samaritans are menstruants from the cradle.”[2] It got ugly. Both sides forgot how complicated the story was. After all, the Samaritans believed they were in the right-the true Israel-from the moment the sacred center of God’s people was moved from Gerizim to Shiloh in the eleventh century B.C.. Adding to the complexity, the Jews and Samaritans had grown apart culturally, for the Samaritans adopted much more Hellenization than the Jews considered appropriate. They dressed differently. Worshiped differently. Then there’s the whole thing about there being more than one sect of Jews and not all Samaritans being alike. It doesn’t take much imagination to see us in their story. Thankfully, the solution is as old as time too. One woman and one man decided to meet between two polarizing mountains and have a conversation. The One who knows the layers of all of our stories entered into one woman’s truth. He chose to be transparent with her and reveal to her his true identity, and she allowed herself to be laid bare before him, standing there with her bucket full of secrets, poured out. He, the only one who is right to do so, reminded her of her sin, then gave her validity and a purpose in spite of it. He was willing to drink from her vessel. She drank from His. As a result, a community was transformed. Wisdom in Christ. Purpose from humility. Commonality in the family of God. Research out of Italy in 2011 shows that white people and black people assume black people feel less pain than white people.[3] How did we get here, to this place where racial misconceptions are ruling even our sub-conscience? Take a moment to consider how just that one subconscious thought-black people feel less pain than white people– contributes to our racial polarization. What snaps in a tense protest when everyone on the street assumes the African Americans must be hurt harder than white people to feel pain? What prowls in our medical system when we believe black people have a higher pain tolerance? The crippling tendrils of the Fall dig deep. Yet we proudly point and accuse others of inventing prejudice, crying, “Monster!” when none are there, and offer community planning solutions without communing with the broken, taking on their truth as our own. The cleansing blood of Christ must be allowed to flow and seep deep into us, to places we don’t even recognize are in reed of restoration until they are gently exposed through honest dialog with our family at the foot of the Cross. We need vulnerable conversation in our churches that goes deeper than the location of our buildings and stereotypes about our diverse nature. We must come down from our assuming mountaintops to commune with Jesus in the valley of Wisdom. There is a healing hope there, bright as the morning star. [1] Sider, Ronald J., Philip N. Olson, and Heidi Rolland. Unruh. Churches That Make a Difference: Reaching Your Community with Good News and Good Works. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2002. Print. [2] b. Nid. 31b as quoted in Williamson, H. “Samaritans.” Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. Ed. Joel B. Green. 2nd ed. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2013. 832-36. Print. 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__label__cc	0.692746	0.307254	A Space Of Our Own Online Only: Reproductive rights: bound and gagged no longerPDF files may take a moment to load The much-anticipated result of the Nov. 4 U.S. presidential election brought to many a great sense of hope, most notably for an end to the divisive, reactionary policies of outgoing President George W. Bush. The transitional team of President-elect Barack Obama compiled a list of several of these policies dealing with various issues with the hope they will be swiftly overturned. Read more about Online Only: Reproductive rights: bound and gagged no longer Online Only: All I want for Christmas is a ThingamaboobPDF files may take a moment to load The only reason I would want a Thingamaboob is so I could tell people that I have one. A Thingamaboob is an exclusive product, offered by the Canadian Cancer Society, that is not only an educational tool, but a fundraising gimmick. It's an overpriced keychain with a couple of pink beads strung together. Read more about Online Only: All I want for Christmas is a Thingamaboob Burning with shamePDF files may take a moment to load Unless your parents took you out of health class in grade eight and you have been living in a cave ever since, the necessity of being a sexually responsible adult is not a surprise. Education about the spread of sexually transmitted infections and their potentially life threatening consequences has moved out of the classroom and into the media, where television commercials have replaced the beloved straight-talking health nurse. Read more about Burning with shame The truth of feminismPDF files may take a moment to load Thanks to popular culture, the mere mention of the word "feminist" can conjure up many images. We imagine the jackboot-wearing bra-burner of the 1960s, with a profound hatred of all things masculine. We hear U.S. Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin hailed as an exemplary feminist. 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Read more about The incorrect response to HPV: jeopardizing the health of young girls Far beyond a bleached blondePDF files may take a moment to load Flip through the pages of any Indian newspaper and you will find a section dedicated to matchmaking, where profiles of young, single men and women are placed in order to attract a potential husband or wife. These profiles are usually posted at the request of family members, who aim to present their children in the best way possible. One striking characteristic of these profiles is that many of them proudly describe the person as "fair," before listing their education, religion or body type. Read more about Far beyond a bleached blonde Sex sellsPDF files may take a moment to load I am not sure what upsets me more, the Back Alley advertisement on the back cover of the 2008 University of Calgary agenda or the support of women for the way female sexuality is portrayed in advertising. First of all, without question, the ad is offensive. It features a topless woman, photographed from behind and across her back is an advertisement for the Back Alley Saturday Night Sex Party. The ad demonstrates that exploiting a woman's sexuality for commercial reasons has become common-place. Read more about Sex sells Taking back the nightPDF files may take a moment to load Take Back the Night is a truly amazing event that occurs internationally every year and initiates discussion about how violence specifically affects women. It began and is still run by women who feel that safely walking alone at night, without fear, should be an inalienable right and, as women, we are being denied that right due to fear of violence. The fear of rape at night, usually in a metropolitan area, is quite prominent in today's culture. Read more about Taking back the night Take the empower backPDF files may take a moment to load In the '60s and '70s, women in the liberation movement were fighting to change how females were viewed in the world. 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__label__wiki	0.62177	0.62177	Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page. Description of Pictures: We think of the First World War as a European War, but in the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific territories also changed hands. At the Paris Peace conference, the victorious allies reluctantly agreed to administer the former German colonies and Ottoman Middle East provinces under “mandate” from the newly formed League of Nations. This lecture explains what that international regime meant – for the people living in mandated territories; for the League itself; and for the imperial order more generally. It recovers the League’s important role in the end of empire and the emergence of a state-centered world. Susan Pedersen is Morris Professor of British History at Columbia University. A historian of British and international politics, she has written on subjects ranging from the evolution of welfare states, to the impact of women’s movements, to imperial administration between the wars. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and others, in 2014 she delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford University. Her new book, The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2015) has just been awarded the Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. The seminar is sponsored jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Wilson Center. It meets weekly during the academic year. See www.nationalhistorycenter.org for the schedule, speakers, topics, and dates as well as webcasts and podcasts. 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Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject: [Wilson Center Events] [Display ALL Wilson Center Events photos] 2016 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Seven relatively short trips this year: two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City), my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California), a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral, two additional trips to New York City, and a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing. Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000. Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line441
__label__cc	0.743898	0.256102	Your Dog Rescue Stories Bocci's Beefs Professional Dog Walkers Have A Secret Language Did you ever wonder what professional dog walkers said about their clients—both the dogs and the dog's owners? Well, neither did we...until we saw this clever "Walkie Talkie" chart in today's New York Times. The author divides his "secret language chart" into the following categories: Types of Dog, Equipment, Technique, The Biz, and Clients, with examples of dog walkers' code language for each category. For example, an "N.D.F." is a "Not Dog Friendly" dog, "Belly Rub Tax", describes "The extensive petting a dog demands before it is prepared to get up and walk", and to describe clients who are fans of the Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan, the code word is "Cesaritis". I've never had a dog walker, professional or otherwise (just Parental Unit and one friend), but I have no doubt these folks have lots to chat about...in code, of course! Hmmm. I think I'd be called a "Puller" or "Marker". What about you? Sweet photo of me by John Clark. Posted by Bocci at 6:11 PM Labels: Cesar Millan, New York Times Op-Ed, professional dog walkers, secret language, The Dog Whisperer, The New York Times, Walkie Talkie Chart Molly the AireGirl said... We never really thought about it before, Bocci. We'd definitely be called pullers too! Never have had a dog walker either but food for thought. Have a marvellous Monday. The Daily Pip said... That's hysterical. We have had some really wonderful dog walkers, especially the man who took care of Pip during the last year of his life. Pip didn't like to go on walks much, but he would still stop by and visit him while we were at work during the day. Bocci said... I live for my walks, and if Parental Unit was for some reason unable to walk me, she'd have to hire someone. We hope not to ever be in that position because Parental Unit (if I may speak for her) loves our walks, too! Frankie Furter and Ernie said... ERNIE is a PULLER... Hey Bocci.... it is supposed to be 70° today... WHEEEEEE that will be super fur your walkie... wellensteyn jackets We love hearing from you! FREE Newsletters And Coupons Here! Now Enjoy Bocci's Beefs By Email! Blog Written by Joan DeMartin and Bocci. Awesome header design by artist extraordinaire, Darrin Hoover. Fabulous photos of Bocci by Rachel Lauren Photography. More fabulous photos of Bocci by John Clark of Clark Creative Add Us To Your Sidebar! We're In This Book! We're Famous! Dog Time Media The Pedigree Foundation! Super Conference! We're A Top Dog Blogger! Search Bocci's Beefs Bocci's Beefs Archive Bocci's Beefs Archive January (1) December (9) November (11) October (14) September (12) August (12) July (11) June (12) May (15) April (15) March (14) February (14) January (13) December (17) November (15) October (17) September (17) August (18) July (18) June (19) May (20) April (21) March (24) February (20) January (23) December (17) November (19) October (20) September (21) August (20) July (20) June (18) May (17) April (21) March (25) February (21) January (27) December (25) November (26) October (25) September (23) August (26) July (24) June (25) May (27) April (25) March (24) February (24) January (25) December (26) November (24) October (25) September (25) August (26) July (27) June (22) May (28) April (26) March (27) February (28) January (28) December (29) November (33) October (28) September (28) August (32) July (30) June (30) May (31) April (29) March (31) February (27) January (27) December (23) November (24) October (20) September (19) August (20) July (16) June (14) May (14) April (9) March (8) February (12) January (11) December (7) November (7) October (9) September (2) Visit Us On Twitter & Flicker And Pinterest Too! Follow Us On Networked Blogs, Too Stuff I've Ruined Since June 6, 2008 iPhone 4s case (1, black plastic and ugly) Hand-painted wooden snakes from Santa Fe Folk Art Museum ( 2 of 3) My leashes (4, green, purple and black) Acorn terry thongs ( 2, lime green) Contact Lense Cases ( A ridiculously high number) Remote Control For Television (1, but still usable) Hard-Back and Paper-Back Books ( 6-10) wide-ranging topics Washcloths ( Too Many To Count) Rayban Sunglasses ( 1 Pair, Old and Not As Hip Looking As New Ones) Donald Pliner Sport Flats (2, Black) Rayban Sunglasses (1 Pair, New and Hip Looking) Prescription Eyeglasses (1 Pair, Old and Dorky) Cell Phone (1, Way Outdated) Living Room Blinds (4) Donald Pliner Sport Walking Shoes ( 1, Black and Silver) Cole Haan Sandals ( 2, Red) Designer Links Renee DeMartin Photography Scruffy Dog Photography Cassandra Cappello Design Whim-ze	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line447
__label__cc	0.731793	0.268207	Dancehall / Jamaica / News Vybz Kartel Found Guilty of Murder by Boomshots on Mar 13, 2014 • 3:59 pm No Comments The Worlboss and Three Co-Defendants To Be Sentenced March 27 After spending two and half years behind bars, and beating the first of two murder cases, Adidja Palmer aka Vybz Kartel has been found guilty in the murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams. He and his co-defendants—Shawn Campbell, known to dancehall fans as Shawn Storm, Kahira Jones, and André St John for the murder of Clive‘Lizard’ Williams. More Details and Video After The Jump… After a 65-day trial plagued by delays and confusion—and capped by an emotional statement read by Kartel—the jury took only a few hours to reach their 10 to none decision. Despite the fact that no body was ever found, the hotly contested text message and BBM evidence—whose validity was strongly questioned by the defense—proved decisive. The dancehall star’s case attracted international attention, with rap star Busta Rhymes traveling down to Jamaica Crowds have been gathering around the Courthouse for weeks in anticipation of the verdict, along with a heavy police presence. There have been reports of bottle throwing since the news hit the streets that arguably the biggest star in current Jamaican music would not be set free today—or perhaps for many days to come. The sentencing takes places in two weeks. Meanwhile, Kartel and his family, friends, and fans have time to reflect back while reggae music ponders the road ahead. Free Up The WorlBoss RELATED: Mavado, Popcaan, Blak Ryno & Diplo Speak on Kartel Case RELATED: Vybz Kartel’s Attorney Speaks on “Not Guilty” Verdict RELATED: Vybz Kartel Speaks From Behind Bars Subscribe to Boomshots TV Follow @ReshmaB_RGAT Tags: Adidja Palmer, Kartel Guilty, Murder Trial, Vybz Kartel Previous postWATCH THIS: Ace Hood ft. Mavado "Buss Guns" Official Music Video Next postWATCH THIS: Shawn Storm "My Life" Official Music Video	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line449
__label__wiki	0.848565	0.848565	Canoe sprint crowns up for grabs Lisa Carrington’s K1 absence has opened the door for a flurry of young contenders at this week’s New Zealand canoe sprint championships at Lake Karapiro. After a brilliant 12 months - featuring Olympic gold and bronze and capped last week with the supreme Halberg Awards title - Carrington will skip single-boat racing and concentrate solely on team boats for her Eastern Bay club at the three-day championships, starting on Friday. It means fresh winners for the women’s K1 200m and 500m titles for the first time in nearly a decade, with Olympic K4 paddler Caitlin Ryan (North Shore) among those challenging over the longer distance. “The 500 is something I’ve been doing really well at for the past couple of months, technically and physically, and I’d love to put together a world-class performance this week,” Ryan said. “I’m also aware there are some young girls who will be hunting that title too, though - it’s exciting to see the new talent coming through and raising the standard further.” Ryan’s K4 teammates Aimee Fisher (Hawke’s Bay) and Wellington’s Kayla Imrie will also be hunting titles, with Fisher a warm favourite in the 200m after finishing second to Carrington last year and placing eighth at the German ICF world cup round in May. Rising North Shore stars Rebecca Cole and Briar McLeely and Poverty Bay’s Kim Thompson will be pushing to translate their under-23 prowess into open success, with all three joining Ryan, Imrie and Fisher in team boats during the upcoming world cup series in Europe. It’s a similar story in the men’s division, with six-time national K1 200m champion Scott Bicknell not racing this year and Olympic K1 1000m paddler Marty McDowell returning from a long post-Rio break, refreshed and refocused, but without a race since August. In his absence, young rivals Quaid Thompson (Poverty Bay) and Kurtis Imrie have shared selection spoils, with Imrie in particular eager to take on his Mana clubmate McDowell. He’s part of the new national high performance squad training in Auckland under coach Fred Loyer and wants to measure the gains he’s made over the last two months, having inspiration close to home in the form of his older sister. “Kayla is a big inspiration to me - seeing her at the Olympics gave me butterflies and my motivation levels are through the roof at the moment. I’d love to see myself there one day but for now, I'm just enjoying the process and can hopefully see big improvements for myself and the rest of the open boys on the world stage in the near future.” Tauranga’s Taris Harker is also in the high performance squad, having won the under-23 K1 200m title last year and finishing fourth in the open division. Imrie is likely to be in the mix over the shorter distance, along with fellow open squad member William Wilkins and Wanganui’s Max Brown, and North Shore’s Jamie Banhidi and Karl McMurtrie. As well has his individual goals, Harker also has his eye on a big weekend in team boats. “After a lot of endurance training with Fred, it will be interesting to see how that helps my fitness through all the racing over the entire weekend,” Harker said. Friday’s racing gets underway at 8am, with the men’s K1 200m final scheduled for late morning and the women’s final for early afternoon.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line452
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__label__wiki	0.883107	0.883107	2000 NL Champion Mets Reliever: Dennis Cook (1998-2001) Dennis Cook was born October 4th 1962 in La Marque, Texas. The six foot three right hander was named to the All Southwest Conference Team while playing for the University of Texas. For the Longhorns he played primarily as an outfielder. He was drafted in the 6th round of the 1983 MLB draft by the San Francisco Giants but did not sign. He was then signed in 1985 by the Giants as a pitcher. He was a Giants September call up in 1988 winning his first game, while pitching in relief. On September 25th in his second start he pitched a complete game shut out against the eventual World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers. In 1989 he was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies along with Terry Mulholland & Charlie Hayes in exchange for Steve Bedrosian. He was 6-8 before getting traded to the L.A. Dodgers in 1990. The next season the journeyman was on the move again getting sent to the Cleveland Indians. In Cleveland he eventually became a full time reliever, moving on to the Chicago White Sox as a free agent in 1994. After getting placed on waivers he was picked up by the Indians once again. In mid 1995 he was sent to the Texas Rangers for a minor leaguer. In 1996 with Texas, he went 5-2 pitching in a career high (up to that point) 60 games, also appearing in two ALDS games. That impressed the Florida Marlins where he was signed for their 1997 Championship season. He appeared in 59 games with the Fish going 1-2 with a 3.90 ERA. 1997 Post Season: In the NLDS against the San Francisco Giants, he was the Game #1 winning pitcher, after pitching two scoreless innings. He also pitched in Game #3 at San Francisco. In the NLCS win over the Atlanta Braves he was credited with two holds. In the World Series against his former Cleveland Indians team, he was credited with a hold in Game #1 in South Florida. In the wacky Game #3 Marlins 14-11 victory, Cook was the winning pitcher, pitching a scoreless 8th. In Game #7 he held down the tribe in the 7th Inning, on the Marlins way to a Championship. In 1998 he was part of the Marlins fire sale & ended up on the New York Mets. He would be part of Bobby Valentine's strong bullpen leading the club with 73 appearances. Cook led the pitching staff in ERA (2.38) & went 8-4 striking out 79 batters in 69 innings, while just walking 27. He was credited with 21 holds as well in the bullpen, blowing 4 save opportunities. In the Mets 1999 Wild Card season, Cook was true to form again. He led all relievers & was fifth on the staff with ten wins going 10-5 with three saves while posting a 3.86 ERA. He struck out 68 batters in 63 innings making 71 appearances (third on the staff). In the first month alone he was 4-0 with an ERA of 2.00. He was 7-2 at the All Star break & would finish up with 19 holds as well. 1999 Post Season: In the NLDS he appeared in the Mets Game #1 victory, pitching the 6th & 7th innings. He then appeared briefly in three games of the NLCS Loss to the Atlanta Braves, allowing no runs on one hit in 1.1 innings of work. In the Mets 2000 NL Championship season, Cook was 6-3 with a pair of saves striking out 53 batters & walking 31 in 59 innings of work, over 68 appearances, third to Turk Wendell & Armando Benitez. Another good April had him at 3-0. he struggled a bit in the final two months going 1-1 with three September blown saves. He notched 10 holds on the year as well, two in September. 2000 Post Season: In the NLDS win over the San Francisco Giants, he pitched parts of the 7th inning in Games #1 & #3. In Game #3 with the Mets holding a 2-1 lead, he got Bill Mueller & Barry Bonds to ground out with a runner on base. Turk Wendell then came on to strike out Jeff Kent. In the NLCS win over the St. Louis Cards, he struck out two batters in the 8th inning of the Mets Game 3 loss. In the World Series, he walked the first two batters he faced in the 10th inning of Game #1, he was removed & was helped out by Glendon Rusch who kept the game scoreless. He made appearances in Game #2 & the Game #3 Mets win as well. In 2001 he made 43 appearances for the Mets before he was traded along with Turk Wendell to the Philadelphia Phillies for Bruce Chen & a minor leaguer. He ended his career with the 2002 World Champion Anaheim Angels but was not on the post season roster. Mets Career: He spent four years with the Mets, the most of any team in his journeyman career. In that time he was 25-13 with a 3.86 ERA in 255 games 919th all time amongst Mets pitchers). In his15 year career, pitching for 11 MLB teams, he was 64-46 with a 3.91 ERA, making none saves while striking out 739 batters walking 390 in 665 career games. 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Freddy Rubino Italian/ American Comedian DOMINIC CHIANESE Johnny Ola from The Godfather / The Soprano's Uncle Junior CURTIS SLIWA Guardian Angels / WABC Radio KISS Drummer ERIC SINGER Britt Lightning (left) Guitarist of Vixen (2017- present) Jaded (2004-2011) Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth Lead Singer- Overkill MADELEINE PEYROUX Jazz Singer/Musician PETE BEST (Beatles) Original Beatles Drummer (1960-1963) Paul McCartney & Wings (1971-1979) Moody Blues (1965-1966) Drummer DENNY SEIWELL Formerly of Paul McCartney & Wings Guitarist LAWRENCE JUBER & WFUV's Darren Devivo keyboards on Beatles Let It Be album KLAUS VOORMAN (Beatles Revolver Album) Member of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band / Artist of Beatles Revolver & Anthology Album Covers Shea Stadium with Citifield in the Background "Opening Day 2008" Marker of Longest HR Hit at Shea Stadium Darthmaz meets Mr. Met centerfieldmaz ballpark trips thru the years..... Tradition Field- St. Lucie Florida (2008) Marlins Park- Miami Florida (2012) Sun Life Stadium- Miami, Florida (2010) Dodger Stadium- Los Angeles California Dodger Stadium (1999) Petco Park- San Diego, California (2006) Beautiful San Diego from Coronado Island, California Jack Murphy Qualcomm Stadium: San Diego, California (2003) Angel's Stadium- Anaheim California (2003) Candlestick Park- San Francisco, California (1999) Oakland Alameda Colesium- Oakland, California (1999) Fenway Park- Boston, Mass. 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__label__wiki	0.644012	0.644012	New Analysis: Are Social Enterprises Charities? Using the example of “mutual aid health communities” in China, contributor Caitlin Schultz digs into the questions surrounding entities known as “social enterprises”—hybrid organizations that do not fit neatly into either for-profit or non-profit... Business, Charity, or Something Else? Caitlin E. Schultz Around the world, the concept of “social enterprise” has blurred the line between doing business and doing good. Social enterprise seeks to combine traditional for-profit business practices with products or services that primarily aim to benefit the... A Look Back at China in 2018 Kyle Hutzler In 2018, the outlook for China regarding its politics, economy, and relationship with the United States darkened considerably. The removal of presidential term limits and Xi Jinping’s interactions with the Trump administration prompted rare... Cut out of the Operating Room Christopher Magoon In June 2015, doctors told 69-year-old Shuai Shuiqing she had stomach cancer and would need surgery. She left her home in the city of Chongzhou in Sichuan province and traveled 20 miles to visit Chengdu’s Huaxi Hospital, which is ranked second best... It’s Too Easy to Wind up in a Chinese Psychiatric Hospital, and Far Too Hard to Get Out Jerome A. Cohen & Chi Yin Every day in China, hundreds of people are involuntarily confined in mental health facilities, some through their involvement in criminal cases, many more via the government’s civil commitment processes. Whether, how, and how long to detain the... Taiwan’s Vice President Talks to TIME about the Global Health Risks Arising from the Island’s Isolation Nicola Smith When the World Health Assembly (WHA) convenes in Geneva on Monday, it will do so for the first time in nine years without Taiwan, a self-governed democracy that also boasts some of the highest medical standards in Asia. China’s Aged and Sick Flock to a Hamlet Known for Longevity Once a largely undisturbed hamlet hidden in the karst mountains of Guangxi Province, Bama has in recent years become a magnet for China’s sick and aged. Ordinary Citizens Are Hoping to Make a Difference at China’s Biggest Political Meet-Up China’s “two sessions” kicks off this week, bringing together all of the movers and shakers from the top echelons of government for the nation’s two big annual political shindigs. House Calls on the Tibetan Plateau, Children of Divorce, Celebrity Secrets Yan Cong, Ye Ming & more from Yuanjin Photo In the final galleries of 2016, the publishing juggernaut Tencent again shows its leadership in the documentary photography space, but iFeng’s choice to publish a personal photo gallery by Zhou Xin is also worth a good look, especially since... Seeing 2016 Through Eyes on China In June 2015, a couple dozen China-based photographers—some Chinese, some not—founded the Instagram account Eyes on China. Their goal, as member photographer Gilles Sabrié put it, was to collectively create “a diverse, dynamic, and objective view”... Li’s Gamble Muyi Xiao from Tencent QQ Li Mingjin, a 38-year-old coal miner, worked hard and was the sole breadwinner for his family. For 19 years, he toiled deep in the belly of the earth beneath Shanxi province. But in November 2014, by the time he was diagnosed with lung cancer, he... Government Forces Big Pharma to Swallow a Bitter Pill China’s latest round of healthcare market controls could be a bitter pill for multinational pharmaceutical companies that now, after years of what some call easy profits, are adapting to a tougher business climate.The National Health and Family... April’s Best Chinese Photojournalism Over the past few weeks, the publications Sina, Tencent, Caixin, China Youth Daily, and the publishing duo Sixth Tone/The Paper published photo stories on the intimate, the industrial, the private, and the political. Journalists Yan Cong and Ye Ming... Scalped: At China's Creaking Hospitals, Illegal Ticket Touts Defy Crackdown Adam Jourdan Those tickets will get a patient in front of a doctor in two days, compared with a wait that can be up to a fortnight. How Serial Killers Terrorized China’s Disorganized Elder Care Industry The 45-year-old caregiver was calm on the witness stand, but her words were jarring. He Tiandai admitted during her murder trial that she killed a 70-year-old woman she cared for by poisoning her soup with sleeping pills and pesticide, injecting her... A family mourns the loss of a husband and father, who died after a decade-long fight against silicosis contracted while working in China’s gold mines. He was one of an estimated 6 million workers in China who have some form of pneumoconiosis, the... China's Obesity Epidemic: Teaching Children to 'Eat a Rainbow' Lucy Luo The rise in diabetes in China could bankrupt the country’s healthcare system, says a medical expert. Government Enlists NGOs to Help Homeless Drivers roll up car windows as an autumn wind chills a traffic-clogged overpass in western Beijing’s Liuliqiao area. And under the concrete overpass, homeless people are gathering for a chilly night’s rest after wandering city streets.Among the... P&G Tripped Up by Its Assumptions About Diapers in China Serena Ng and Laurie Burkitt Pampers diapers fall behind after aiming too low at the growing middle class. GSK’s Viiv Arm Agrees China Tie-up to Produce HIV Drugs GlaxoSmithKline signs a deal to manufacture cut-price HIV drugs in China as the UK group rebuilds its presence after a corruption scandal. Episode 36 – Sim Chi Yin Sharron Lovell & Sim Chi Yin Multimedia Week Sharron Lovell speaks with Sim Chi Yin about crossing the lines between journalism and advocacy. Chi Yin recently published her four year story following a Chinese gold miner suffering with the lung disease silicosis, caused by years of inhaling... A Miner’s China Dream Over the four years I have known him, He Quangui, a gold miner from Shaanxi, has told me many times he wants to travel with me back to Beijing. It’s not just me he wants to visit. He dreams of going to the Chinese leadership’s compound, Zhongnanhai... Dying to Breathe This is the unseen cost of gold mining in China—the world’s top gold producer. In China, silicosis is considered a form of pneumoconiosis, which affects an estimated six million workers who toil in gold, coal, or silver mines or in stone-cutting... The Chinese Billionaire Zhang Lei Spins Research Into Investment Gold Alexandra Stevenson Starting 10 years ago with $20 million from Yale’s endowment, Zhang was an early backer of Tencent and JD.com. Plan for Next Five Years Must Free Up Disposable Income The government's 12th Five-Year Plan concludes this year, and work on drafting the 13th will begin soon.Which way will China turn? In its work report to legislators at the National People's Congress meeting in March, the government pledged... Why Chinese Promote Confining New Mothers for a Month Rachel Lu HONG KONG—Giving birth is never easy, but for new Chinese mothers the month following a baby’s arrival is particularly fraught. Immediately after I became pregnant for the first time, I started to hear about zuoyuezi, or “sitting the month.” It’s a... Baby Hatch Programs Struggle to Cope With Number of Infants With Birth Defects Giving birth to her first baby granted Zheng Yuling no happiness, but instead brought pain and sadness. The seriously ill girl died hours after birth, and Zheng's husband, Chen Dafu, was arrested on suspicion he abandoned the newborn.Their baby... China to Expand Input to Fight HIV: Premier Noting that China still boasts low HIV rates, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the government must assume the principle role in combating HIV and would continue to increase input on its prevention and treatment. China’s Regulations on Sale of Birth By-product in Chaos Hu Qingyun In a cramped, quiet room, several bloody placentas sit in a machine, drying. Some workers then ground them down and filled capsules with the viscera. This gory scene is not from a horror movie but the day-to-day business of an underground placenta... China Ramps Up Efforts to Combat Ebola Already about 200 medical workers and advisers from China are now stationed in the three West African countries fighting Ebola outbreaks: Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. 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External Evaluation 2003–2007 - Safety and Effectiveness of Contraception in China Barbara L.K. Pillsbury and William Winfrey Luo Xiaoyuan HRP has a long history of successful collaboration in China. WHO is widely respected in that country, and HRP benefits from its prestige. Since 1979, HRP has helped establish and strengthen a network of research institutes and provided support to... Turning the Tide: Injury and Violence Prevention in China Like most countries around the world, productivity (including economic and all other development indicators) in China is very strongly linked to the health of its people. The ability to achieve the Government of China’s overall goal of “xiaokang,”... Economics of Malaria Control in China Sukhan Jackson, Adrian C. Sleigh, Xi-Li Liu Government finance for healthcare in China declined during the 1990s. 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__label__wiki	0.564486	0.564486	Sheeplets Outraged At The Conservative Leadership In a "...24/7 reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines...," New York Magazine journalist Frank Rich"...eavesdropp(ed) on what conservatives say about their own," and since afficionados of Criminalize Conservatism know what this writer has had to say about the Conservative leadership's relations with their hapless sheeplets, Rich's article proves to be another illuminating light upon the desolate Conservative psychological landscape. In the article, "My Embed In Red," Rich says: "What did I learn in my week imbibing the current installment of the Reagan revolution? I came away with empathy for those in the right’s base, who are often sold out by the GOP Establishment...They know, too, that their presidential candidate is the Republican counterpart to Al Gore—not only in robotic personality but in his cautious hesitance to give full voice to the message of his troops. Even Paul Ryan, the right’s No. 1 living hero, let many of his fans down with his convention speech—not because he fudged facts but because he soft-pedaled his 'big ideas' about small government once in the national spotlight. Ryan left some conservatives wondering if the only thing they gained from having him on the ticket was his name on a lousy T-shirt. "Damning Romney with faint praise became an entertaining convention-week parlor game. In The Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson saluted Mitt as “a good guy” only after cataloguing his “breathless, Eddie Attaboy delivery, that half-smile of pitying condescension in debates or interviews when someone disagrees with him, the Ken-doll mannerisms, his wanton use of the word ‘gosh.’ ” Mike Huckabee tried for a homespun maxim: “If you’ve just been diagnosed with a brain tumor, you honestly don’t care if your neurosurgeon is a jerk.” Romney “had to achieve adequacy,” wrote Peggy Noonan, and “he did.” Surely finer words were never written about Thomas Dewey." The sheeplets are angry and upset: "Another bête noire liberals can file and forget is Palin. Except for fleeting cameos fulfilling her waning Fox News contract, she was an also-ran in conservative media. So were the Republican elites (Jeb Bush, Bob Dole, Dan Quayle) who came out for a more inclusive GOP 'big tent' on convention eve; the Establishment press lapped them up, predictably enough, but those in the existing Republican tent sneered. Bushes 41 and 43 have also been consigned to the memory hole along with Nixon, Ford, and every other Republican president except Reagan. (More than a few clueless bloggers naïvely held out hope that Nancy Reagan, now a frail 91, would be the convention’s mystery speaker.) John McCain was as welcome in Tampa as Banquo’s ghost; even Bill O’Reilly’s much-hyped prime-time interview with the 2008 standard-bearer was abruptly truncated for a generic podium speech by Romney campaign chairman Bob White. Beck, for his part, didn’t pretend to grant McCain the respect he accorded Eastwood, instead dismissing the 'old soldier' as a relic who’d crept out of a time capsule to show 'where we’ve been and where I don’t ever want to go again.'” "What drives conservatives crazy (in addition, always, to Obama) are not populist attacks on their supply-side economic gospel or their dream of voucherizing Medicare. They firmly believe, as Ryan said on the podium, that they can win such arguments. It’s the charge that the GOP is a party of old white men waging a 'war on women' that draws real blood. That’s especially the case when the charges are leveled by MSNBC, which now drives conservatives into the same paroxysms of anger and ridicule that Fox News engenders on the left. It’s the only nonconservative news outlet the right pays constant attention to." The sheeplets were left out in the pasture, their bleatings ignored: "Watching a broadcast network or relying on the usual news organizations, you learned that the week was mostly devoid of the rhetoric and anger of the tea party (which was not mentioned by name from the podium during prime time, even by the tea-party champions Rand Paul and Ted Cruz) and was relatively restrained in its expected criticism of the president. "(The)...gist...(of the Convention)... was summed up by Karl Rove when evaluating Romney’s acceptance speech the morning after on Fox & Friends. Romney had succeeded, Rove said, because he had achieved “one of the big goals of this effort—to critique the president not in anger, not in malice, not hot but cool, reflective, polite, pointed and disappointed and regretful.” Or in other words: to placate the 6 percent of American voters thought to be in play, that ever-elusive band of Independents, centrists, undecideds, and suburban women who are said to like Obama but are also disappointed enough to consider firing him. "The only flaw in this placid picture was that if you ventured beyond both the mainstream media and Fox, you learned it bore little resemblance to the mood of much of the right. You also learned that many in the grassroots were infuriated by the media airbrushing, to put it mildly. "That fury, unsurprisingly, was articulated early by Limbaugh. At the start of convention week, he replayed a Bill Kristol admonition, delivered the day before on Fox News Sunday,that the convention had to advance a positive agenda. 'So what he’s basically saying is, "Don’t make the convention about bashing Obama,”' was how Limbaugh translated Kristol’s advice. He was having none of it. 'I think it’s been a trick the Democrats have used for decades, and I’m stunned that our side keeps falling for it,' he said. 'The trick is: "These Independents don’t like criticism! They don’t like raised voices! They don’t like partisanship! It makes them nervous. And whenever the Republicans get critical of President Obama, these Independents just run right back to the Democrats and vote for them." I don’t believe that for a minute!'" And here is what we hear when the inmates are allowed to run the Conservative asylum: "Limbaugh’s disgruntlement proved mild compared to that of his radio peers. As Romney prepared to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday, Michael Savage was on fire during his early-evening broadcast. Declaring himself “sickened” by “the eunuchs in the Republican Party,” he derided the convention for ignoring issues like immigration and Afghanistan in favor of stunts like Ann Romney’s speech domesticating her husband (“Just what we need … a man who may be president, that he does his own laundry!”). He was scarcely more charitable toward Ryan’s, asking if any of the vice-presidential nominee’s fans could “remember one word” that he said. His contempt for the GOP Establishment was bottomless. “The drunken speech the other night by John Boehner was the beginning of the end,” Savage said. “The man slurred as though he was a janitor in a bar, not the speaker of the House of Representatives … Now you understand why the tea-party movement arose, and now you understand why they haven’t even mentioned the tea party … I have no idea what they stand for.” And he was still just warming up. “The Republicans have just dug their own grave,” he continued. “Unless Romney gets up there like a man and stops acting like a pocketbook carrier for his wife, he is finished.” "They helped propel Ryan, a dogged champion of conservative ideals, onto the national ticket. And they saw all of that jeopardized by a Republican National Committee and Romney campaign that muted and dumbed down the message in its tightly disciplined, highly scripted game plan to win over the tiny and elusive percentage of American voters who hold no strong views at all. It’s no wonder that the only authentic moment in the convention was also its only improvised one. When Clint Eastwood implicitly inserted the words 'Tell Romney to fuck himself” into the mouth of his imaginary 'Obama,' he tapped, however artlessly, into the raw id of the right as nothing else in the convention did all week. For an instant, his off-message and off-script gesture of profane disrespect for the president captured the grassroots anger that went largely unacknowledged by the mainstream press and Fox alike. Rich concludes, on the happy hunting grounds of the Native American Conservative sheeplet, their favorite talk shows, "...if I learned anything in my week strolling around the conservative mind, it was that anyone who sticks to an exclusive diet of lamestream media is missing the news." For most of us, the colossal stupidity of the average Conservative human echo chamber makes us queasy as we forget the true viciousness and hate that can emit from the true Authoritarian Personality. But for those of us who have defined classic American humor as what we see in WWE wrestling or t-ball as played by five-year old kids, we can now add: what passes for original thinking in talk shows for the Conservative sheeplets. "Real love stories never have endings." Richard Bach (American author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. Born June 1936) Posted by Joyce, Jnr. at 9:16 AM Labels: authoritarian_personality, conservative_followers, conservatives_are_stupid, sheeplets, stupidity	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line485
__label__cc	0.512343	0.487657	Pulaski High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI) Sfuclenfs Devofe Time To Dance Band. Row 3: R. Banholzer, J. Bain. Row 2: R. Boyum, R. Price, C. Thiel, D. Edwards. Row Boys' Glee. Row 5: J. Pankowski, J. Blawat, M. Flayter, T. LaSota, R. Kuhrt, G. Klisanac. Row 4: K. Kovnesky, D. Mitschke, T. Jazwinski, Mr. Step- ner, J. Funk, D. Speier, K. Rachoner. Row 3: R. Fink, J. Becker, W. Bansemer, T. Lazaris, J. Snyder, 1: R. Woodrow, S. Lambrecht, D. Luell, P. Johnson. A. Rabidoux. Row 2: T. Plecha. R. Zawacki, W. Lazaris, R. Fritsch, P. Fitzgerald, D. Gorzalski, P. Buckett. Row 1: G. DeGroot, R. Jacques, K. Belton, V. Collelo, T. Geib, F. Kritter. . wmwvmr .,,1.:Ww,,W,n,.W,.mn,W .WM ,V MM,-,, , , , , , Activities Pulaski's dance band, the Swiffs is mainly made up of boys from Pulaski. These boys play not only for the school's record hops, but also for many outside musical activities. Under the direction of Dave Luell, the group practices frequently at one of the mem- bers homes. The thirty-four members of the Boys' Glee sing daily and are under the direction of Mr. Bernard Stepner. Their repertoire includes songs of devotion, folk songs, and patriotic songs. One of their duties is to perform at the annual Teachers' Christmas Party. The Pulaski stage crew, under the super- vision of Mr. Rieck, is in charge of equip- ment used for any of the various programs. The P. A. Crew is in charge of all equip- ment used in keeping the students informed. Mr. Schmitz is the faculty advisor. Stage Crew. Row 2: N. Thias, J. Swensson. Row 1: C. Shave, M. Adams, J. Schlei. Public Address Crew. Row 2: M. Young, G. Kla- horst, J. Finger. Row 1: R. LaChance, J. Jens, G. McConkey, S. Amich. 49 Suggestions in the Pulaski High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI) collection:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0089.json.gz/line494
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That’s especially key for a wedding, where Avalon Floral has arranged flowers from $200 to $25,000.Sandy O’Connell, owner, said, “We meet expectations by listening to their desires.”Weddings comprise about 20 percent of Avalon’s business, and it’s a fifth that has considerable challenges.O’Connell said, “When it comes to suppliers delivering needed flowers, weather and natural disasters can play big part.”Openings are narrow, as wedding dates don’t change and set-up has to happen the day before or the day of the wedding.“It gets tricky when the venue is not set up on time. We have to keep flowers from freezing in winter and relocate outdoor weddings due to rain. 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