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__label__cc	0.659205	0.340795	Google Play To Integrate Google Pay In Android Apps To Boost Usage By Loknath Das \| May 17, 2019 In a bid to strengthen its presence in the growing Indian digital payments industry, US-based search company Google is now exploring ways to boost usage Google Pay in India. According to unnamed sources, cited by Techcrunch, Google is planning to integrate the payment service deeply in Android applications. The company has built an in-app engagement rewards platform which will allow businesses and developers to retain users and drive engagement on their apps. The sources also added that this project is expected to be formally launched as a software development kit (SDK), later this year. Google Pay will act as the core of this service which will allow the transactions between users and businesses and thereby expanding its reach. According to the sources, this project which is internally dubbed as Project Cruiser is being led by Google’s Next Billion Users team. The company has been reportedly working on this initiative since last year. Once the app developers incorporate this platform in their apps, it will allow them to incentivise the users to do certain actions in their app in a “scalable” fashion. Google’s Initiative To Increase Google Pay Users In India Google had launched Google Pay (formerly Google Tez) in 2017 as a payments and commerce app to facilitate both online and offline payments. The application works on top of the customer’s contact list and thus overrides the need to add people as beneficiaries or use bank account numbers. The company had also partnered with popular online brands such as Swiggy, FreshMenu, Niki.ai, Ola, Yatra as well as utility and internet providers. In addition to this, Google Pay has also formed a collaboration with IRCTC which enables its users to manage their train tickets at a zero transaction fee. Not only the online transaction space but Google Pay is also bullish towards offline payment space in India. In March, Google joined hands with retail hardware and software maker Pine Labs to facilitate offline transactions through Google Pay. This speculation comes at a time when the online payment service is facing some trouble in India. Last week, the Delhi High Court questioned Reserve Bank of India (RBI) about the legality Google’s payment app. The high court asked RBI as to how was Google Pay offering online financial transactions without the requisite authorisation from the central bank after a petition was filed by Abhijit Mishra. According to Mishra, GPay did not make it to the RBI’s list of authorised ‘payment systems operators’ released by the central bank on March 29, 2019. Recent reports showed that the government-owned Unified Payments Interface (UPI) had recorded 781.79 Mn transactions with a total worth $20.42 Bn (INR 1,42,034.39 Cr) in April. Most recently, Amazon Pay also entered the Indian peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions market after a delay by almost one year due to localisation laws. The Indian payment subsidiary ofAmazon has also begun issuing @apl handles. With the increasing penetration of smartphones and the internet, the digital payment industry is experiencing a massive boom in India. The mobile payment industry in India is expected to record a CAGR of 22.0% to reach $1.2 Tn by 2025. [“source=inc42”] 'Android Apps boost Google in Integrate pay Play to Usage ← Ecuador Defends Handover of Julain Assange Documents, Computer Hardware to US Sony Xperia Ace With 5-Inch Display, Snapdragon 630 SoC Launched: Price, Specifications → Android R developer preview spotted running on Google Pixel 4 10 Android 10 features to look for when your phone gets updated What Are Android Apps? Everything You Need To Know Samsung Galaxy S9 gets one more Android 10 beta update	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41361
__label__wiki	0.660831	0.660831	RT @aysfzdmr: "Explaining Foreign Fighter Mobilization from the North Caucasus to Syria: Historical Legacy, Existing Networks, and Radicali… 2 hours ago RT @JcBrisard: #Terrorisme Ouverture devant la Cour d’assises spécialement composée du procès de Mourad Farès, l’un des principaux recruteu… 2 hours ago Houthi rebels kill at least 70 Yemeni soldiers in missile attack on mosque theguardian.com/world/2020/jan… 5 hours ago City of London police listed Extinction Rebellion among key threats theguardian.com/environment/20… 5 hours ago Hope rises from rubble of Mosul library thetimes.co.uk/article/hope-r… 6 hours ago Follow @raffpantucci African Security Asian Affairs Central Asian Affairs China Economic Quarterly Current Trends in Islamist Ideology RUSI Journal SAIS Review Studies in Conflict and Terrorism Terrorism and Political Violence Artellus Bug Pit China in Central Asia China Policy Institute: Analysis Free Rad!cals Whose World Order? 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Thanks to Sasha for taking the lead on this one! Terrorism is a menace that resonates across the Commonwealth. From resident domestic violent extremist groups such as Boko Haram in Nigeria or the LTTE in Sri Lanka, to groups launching cross-border attacks from neighbouring countries like Al Shabaab’s attacks in Kenya or Uganda, to lone actor attacks in Canada and Australia, terrorism can be found in some shape in most countries. Yet the reality is that when one looks at the cumulative numbers in comparison with other threats to human life, casualty counts are relatively low. This is not to dismiss the danger from terrorism, but given the current hyperventilation around ISIL (so-called Islamic State or ISIS) in particular, it is important to make sure that this is borne in mind; and furthermore, that care is taken to ensure that the expressions of violence which purport to be linked to ISIL are properly understood within their respective contexts. Fears around terrorism are of course not baseless. Many West African countries have watched the growth of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) with concern, and there has been evidence of AQIM networks having particular inﬂuence over parts of Boko Haram. After the attacks of 11 September 2001, the threat of terrorism in the West spiked – and later materialised in the form of the attacks in Bali 2002 and London in 2005, to name just two. Yet the inﬂuence of Al Qaeda, the group behind much of these fears, has not been as signiﬁcant as initially feared. The group has managed a number of attacks and continues to attempt to launch plots. It has further managed to help grow off-shoots in various countries, including Commonwealth countries, highlighting the dangers of such pernicious ideologies. But it has failed to transform and take over the world in the manner which it claimed to be attempting to do. A New Set of Fears ISIL appears to present a new set of fears. The group has a public relations strategy that makes Al Qaeda appear archaic and detached, ﬁnding innovative ways of engaging with social media to spread their messages, recruit and radicalise new members from as far as the UK, Canada and Australia, as well as the Western Balkans and West Africa. The increase in foreign ﬁghters travelling to join ISIL from around the world has prompted many governments to act, implementing new legislation in an attempt to stop people leaving their country of origin and punish those returning. Concerns have also been raised that the current surge of people displaced by the conﬂict in Syria is potentially being used as a cover by the group to send its people around the globe. But the greatest fear arises from ISIL’s state-building aspirations and the growth of its self-declared caliphate, and all the trappings of statehood and success that accompany this. Boko Haram’s recent pledge of allegiance to ISIL, and the adoption of the new name ‘Islamic State in West Africa’, has led to increased fears across West Africa about what this means for the group’s activity and impact in the region. This is only heightened by the ISIL’s claims of expanding their caliphate into West Africa. Yet, it is unclear the degree to which there has been much back and forth between the two groups – ISIL and Boko Haram – beyond rhetoric or some exchange of tips and capability in terms of developing a more professional media output. Since the formal pledge of bayat (allegiance) by Boko Haram to ISIL, there has been a noticeable improvement in the video output by the West African group. But beyond this, there has not been much more tangible evidence of ﬁghters or money ﬂowing between the two groups in a widely organised fashion. The West African Dimension In many ways, therefore, the link between Boko Haram and ISIL is an extension of Nigeria’s existing problem with violent extremism, rather than something new. A politically-minded terrorist organisation seeking to attract attention to itself, Boko Haram saw the advantage of adopting the ISIL name to bring the bright light of publicity and attention to their cause. Nevertheless, it represents a worrying trend for other Commonwealth nations in the region. While the problem may be largely an extension of an existing issue, the decision by Boko Haram to adopt the ISIL brand reﬂects both an eagerness to attract more attention and a consequent push towards an even more extremely divisive brand of violent rhetoric. This aspect is something that has worrying ramiﬁcations for countries across the Commonwealth, and particularly in West Africa. Ghana offers a particular case study within this context. Geographically close to Nigeria, it is therefore close to the expanding local ‘caliphate’. Ghana has a sizeable Muslim population (though accurate numbers are hard to ﬁnd, with reports estimating it is somewhere between 18 and 45 per cent). Throughout history Muslims and Christians in Ghana have had a good relationship, but the spread of ISIL into West Africa is raising fears of domestic radicalisation. In early October, Ghana’s Deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, addressed Muslims in Accra about ISIL agents at Ghanaian universities seeking to recruit ﬁghters. Two students have already been identiﬁed as joining ISIL and there are concerns among some in the international community based in Ghana that many more have been recruited in the north of the country. While these ﬁndings suggest that the fear of government ministers of ISIL inﬁltration is justiﬁed, there is a risk of over-reaction and polarisation. Northern Ghana, where the majority of Ghana’s Muslim population resides, has experienced violent clashes sparked by ethnicity, land disputes and chieftancy rights for over 20 years, as detailed by Emmanuel K Anekunabe in Modern Ghana (30 November 2009). Although this has historically not been centred on religion or a Muslim-Christian antipathy, there is a risk that fears of ISIL radicalisation may marginalise Muslim communities and create a divide, in turn driving more people into the hands of ISIL. As the brand is perceived to be more present in neighbouring countries like Nigeria, there will be a growing tendency for security forces to look for the problem; and in some extreme cases, this might have a self-fulﬁlling effect. This phenomenon is most recently illustrated by Tom Parker, from the UN Counter Terrorism Centre, who highlights the strategy of terrorist groups in provoking an overreaction from affected governments, which then strengthens the cause of the terrorist group and increases support for their activities (‘It’s a Trap’, The RUSI Journal, 160(3), 2015) . Although the fear of ISIL penetration has not resulted in the draconian state responses described by Parker, there is potential for it to single out certain groups, putting them at greater risk of marginalisation. As Parker points out, “provoking an overreaction by the authorities helps to accelerate the polarisation of society by alienating potential security partners – such as moderate members of a minority community – and providing powerful support to terrorist narratives of victimhood and injustice.” Underlying Grievances Such a response links to the debate over the role of economic, political and social marginalisation. These forms of marginalisation have been linked to violent extremism, in many cases identiﬁed as a ‘push’ factor for radicalisation. Weiss and Hassan argue in their book on ISIL’s roots that the persistent marginalisation of the Sunni Arab majority in Iraq pushed large numbers into violent extremism (ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, 2015). Other cases in which substantial socio-economic grievances feature include northern Nigeria (where the Hausa speaking Muslim north has tended to experience political marginalisation and economic deprivation), Somalia (where Al Shabaab has been especially successful at recruiting from minority clans), and, in previous decades, Sri Lanka (where the Tamil population endured decades of marginalisation). Whether marginalisation is a necessary or sufﬁcient factor for involvement in violent extremism is widely debated. Gupta argues that it is not a sufﬁcient factor, that grievances need to be instrumentalised by charismatic individuals or ‘political entrepreneurs’, and social and psychological factors need to align as well (ILSA Journal of International Comparative Law, 11(3), 2005). With the case of ISIL, the use of social media and other methods to recruit members may ﬁll that role. This lesson is one that is not only salient in an African context. In the West, government’s choice of language has in some cases served to further strengthen the ‘clash of civilisations’ narrative that radical groups feed off to draw people to themselves. By talking of ISIL as an ‘existential threat’ or a ‘nihilistic death cult’, the government rhetoric is elevating the group in importance, but also speaking in terms that are not dissimilar to those deployed by the group. Taken adjacent to language that suggests that governments need to engage in countering not only the violent extremists who help recruit people into ISIL, but also non-violent extremist groups as well, there is a danger that a large section of society is being purposely marginalised. The danger is again of a self-fulﬁlling prophecy where the casting of the ISIL threat as part of a wider community of extremists means a broader community feel isolated – and consequently closer to ISIL. The lesson is a simple one. Although the threat posed by ISIL is generating concern and fear across the globe, it is essential that governments do not overreact. While ISIL does appear to present a much more far-reaching threat than their predecessors through the use of social media and ability to engage with individuals that previously appeared out of reach, to date the expansion of the caliphate is more a product of local grievances expressing themselves through the adoption of the ISIL brand (and therefore the rejection of an old order that was perceived as a failure) rather than a strong and direct connection. This is not to say that it will not expand further (and has already made worrying inroads in various places around the globe), or that it is not a substantial problem that will pose a major headache for security ofﬁcials for the next decade; but rather, that governments need to be sure that in addressing the problem they are focusing on the right issues. Finally, attention needs to be paid to overreaction, something that in many cases will only make the fundamental problem worse.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41373
__label__cc	0.713954	0.286046	Title & authors Abstract Similar articles Cited by Publication types MeSH terms Substances LinkOut - more resources Semin Oncol , 34 (4), 295-302 Strategies for Screening for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma in High-Risk Patients Marcia Irene Canto 1 1 Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology), The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. mcanto@jhmi.edu DOI: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2007.05.008 Marcia Irene Canto. Semin Oncol. Aug 2007 Identification of high-risk individuals, genetic counseling, and informed consent are important components of a screening program for familial pancreatic cancer. Screening high-risk individuals with imaging tests, such endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and computed tomography (CT), can lead to the detection and treatment of predominantly asymptomatic early pancreatic neoplasms, as well as extra-pancreatic tumors. These pancreatic neoplasms consist of resectable, mostly branch-type non-invasive intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs). EUS can visualize these very early IPMNs as focal duct ectasias or cysts. EUS features of chronic pancreatitis are highly prevalent in high-risk individuals and these directly correlate with multifocal lobulocentric parenchymal atrophy due to multifocal pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN). No one molecular marker is ready for "prime time" screening of high-risk individuals. Translational studies are underway to discover novel biomarkers for IPMNs, PanIN-3 lesions, or microinvasive adenocarcinoma, which are likely to be cured by timely intervention. Long-term, multi-prospective studies are needed to determine if screening for early pancreatic neoplasia and timely intervention results in decreased pancreatic cancer incidence and mortality in high-risk individuals. [Strategies for Screening for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma in High-Risk Patients] D Béchade. Bull Cancer 98 (7), 827-36. Jul 2011. PMID 21684836. Screening high-risk individuals with imaging tests, such as endoscopic ultrasound and computed tomography, can lead to the detection and treatment of predominantly asympt … Screening for Early Pancreatic Neoplasia in High-Risk Individuals: A Prospective Controlled Study MI Canto et al. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 4 (6), 766-81; quiz 665. Jun 2006. PMID 16682259. Screening EUS and CT diagnosed significant asymptomatic pancreatic and extrapancreatic neoplasms in high-risk individuals. IPMN should be considered a part of the phenoty … [Strategies for Screening for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma in High-Risk Patients: The Place of Endoscopic Ultrasound] D Béchade. Presse Med 40 (3), 230-8. Mar 2011. PMID 21211938. - Review Screening high-risk individuals with imaging tests, such endoscopic ultrasound and computed tomography, can lead to the detection and treatment of predominantly asymptoma … Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia-Can We Detect Early Pancreatic Cancer? B Haugk. Histopathology 57 (4), 503-14. Oct 2010. PMID 20875068. - Review Haugk B (2010) Histopathology 57, 503-514 Pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia - can we detect early pancreatic cancer? Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal cancer … Five Years of Prospective Screening of High-Risk Individuals From Families With Familial Pancreatic Cancer P Langer et al. Gut 58 (10), 1410-8. Oct 2009. PMID 19470496. In FPC an EUS/MR/MRCP-based screening programme leads to the detection of potential precursor lesions of PC. However, the yield of an extensive screening programme is low … Cited by 15 PubMed Central articles Abdominal Imaging of Pancreatic Cysts and Cyst-Associated Pancreatic Cancer in BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study CX Cao et al. J Am Coll Surg 230 (1), 53-63.e1. Jan 2020. PMID 31672679. BRCA+ patients have similar rates of PCs, high-risk features in their cysts, and PDAC as BRCA- and untested patients. BRCA+ patients likely do not require dedicated abdom … Genomic Features and Clinical Management of Patients With Hereditary Pancreatic Cancer Syndromes and Familial Pancreatic Cancer A Ohmoto et al. Int J Mol Sci 20 (3). 2019. PMID 30699894. - Review Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most devastating malignancies; it has a 5-year survival rate of only 9%, and novel treatment strategies are urgently needed. While mo … Contour Variations of the Body and Tail of the Pancreas: Evaluation With MDCT AK Omeri et al. Jpn J Radiol 35 (6), 310-318. Jun 2017. PMID 28374213. Recognizing the types and subtypes of morphology/contour variations of the pancreatic body and tail could help prevent misinterpretation of normal variants as pancreatic … Pancreatic Cancer Chemoprevention Translational Workshop: Meeting Report MS Miller et al. Pancreas 45 (8), 1080-91. Sep 2016. PMID 27518363. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States with a 5-year survival rate of less than 10%. The Division of Cancer Preventio … Anatomical, Physiological, and Molecular Imaging for Pancreatic Cancer: Current Clinical Use and Future Implications J Chang et al. Biomed Res Int 2015, 269641. 2015. PMID 26146615. - Review Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is one of the deadliest human malignancies. Early detection is difficult and effective treatment is limited. Verifying the presence of micrometa … Show more "Cited by" articles See all "Cited by" articles Search in MeSH Adenocarcinoma / diagnosis * Adenocarcinoma / genetics Biomarkers, Tumor / analysis Endosonography Pancreatic Neoplasms / diagnosis * Pancreatic Neoplasms / genetics Tomography, X-Ray Computed Biomarkers, Tumor MedlinePlus Health Information	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41379
__label__wiki	0.666365	0.666365	This Open Access Article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence DOI: 10.1039/C9SC05600A (Edge Article) Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article Nitric oxide imaging in cancer enabled by steric relaxation of a photoacoustic probe platform† Christopher J. Reinhardt , Ruiwen Xu and Jefferson Chan * Department of Chemistry, The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. E-mail: jeffchan@illinois.edu Received 5th November 2019 , Accepted 29th December 2019 First published on 7th January 2020 Nitric oxide (NO) is a key signaling molecule involved in a variety of physiological and pathological processes. Over the past few decades it has become clear that the microenvironment and concentration of NO are critically linked to its bioactivity. Direct visualization of NO in vivo remains difficult due to a lack of sensitive analytical tools with deep tissue compatibility. Herein, we report the optimization of an activatable photoacoustic probe for NO by planarizing the boron-azadipyrromethene (aza-BODIPY) dye platform via steric relaxation. The lead compound, SR-APNO-3, exhibits maximal absorption at 790 and 704 nm before and after N-nitrosation with NO, respectively, and a 4.4-fold increase in the theoretical maximal ratiometric response compared to the non-sterically relaxed parent compound, APNO-5. This circa 30 nm red-shift enabled direct visualization with the laser system commonly employed in commercially available photoacoustic tomographers and a 1.1-fold increase in sensitivity within an intramuscular lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation model. Moreover, this optimization facilitated the detection of endogenously produced NO in an allograft murine breast cancer model, where steady-state concentrations are several orders of magnitude less than during the immune response. Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species represent a major class of biological signaling molecules. Nitric oxide (NO) was initially identified in the 1980s for its role in the regulation of vascular tone.1–4 Since then, NO has been implicated in a wide range of pharmacologically important processes, such as inflammation,5 neuronal signaling,6 and cancer,7–9 through distinct chemical mechanisms.10 A general and underappreciated conclusion from these works is that there are intrinsic connections between the concentration, cellular environment, and resulting biological effects of NO. For example, high concentrations of NO are antitumoural, while low concentrations promote angiogenesis and tumour growth.8,11–15 For this reason, it is critical to develop new methods that facilitate non-invasive detection of NO within complex biological systems. This remains an unsolved problem due to the lack of imaging technologies with the requisite sensitivity, spatiotemporal resolution, and/or depth penetration along with the capabilities of performing molecular imaging.16 Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a non-invasive modality that has the promise to expand bioimaging beyond purely optical limits (millimeter depths). Mechanistically, pulsed laser excitations are used to induce heating–cooling cycles (∼2 kJ) with corresponding thermoelastic expansion events, which propagate through the tissue as ultrasound. These ultrasound signals are then detected by piezoelectric detectors and reconstructed to yield high-resolution images. By detecting sound, rather than emitted fluorescence, PA imaging depths are limited only by the excitation light and provide high resolution (empirically ∼1/200 of imaging depth)17 within deep tissue (centimeter depths).18 To facilitate PA-based molecular imaging, a range of nanoparticle- and small-molecule-based contrast agents and molecular probes have been developed.18–21 We reported the first activatable PA probe for NO, APNO-5, and applied it for the detection of NO in an LPS-induced murine model of inflammation.16 It is important to note that while APNO-5 was able to detect NO concentrations relevant to the immune response (millimolar range), it was ineffective for NO detection in cancer (103-fold lower concentrations). For this reason, it is essential to enhance the sensitivity of the probe platform for imaging within deeper tissue and at lower NO concentrations.15 To date, only a handful of approaches have been successfully employed for increasing the sensitivity and ratiometric properties of small-molecule PA probes. Specifically, increasing the electron density within the aza-BODIPY22 and conformational restriction of the pendant phenyl rings23 have led to improved designs for ratiometric, activatable PA probes compared to non-ratiometric24 or poorly ratiometric probes.25 While successful in the selected example, increasing electron density may not be trivial, depending on the application. On the other hand, conformational restriction yields reliable red-shifts (∼30 nm per fusion) but increases the molecular weight (26 Da per fusion) and cLogP of the dye platform (increase from the parent aza-BODIPY cLogP = 7.8 to conformationally restricted aza-BODIPY cLogP = 8.2–8.6). Together, these properties decrease the probability of passive uptake into the cell and increase propensity for aggregate formation and peak broadening. We decided to investigate the photophysical effects of planarizing the pendant aromatic rings on the aza-BODIPY core by relaxing steric clash. We generally refer to this approach as “steric relaxation for planarization” with the corresponding PA platform being named SR-aza-BODIPY for sterically relaxed aza-BODIPY (Fig. 1). Specifically, we proposed to replace the phenyls with thiophenes because the average diameter is ∼75% the size. Similar thiophene-modified aza-BODIPYs have been previously prepared and analyzed using X-ray crystallography and UV-vis spectroscopy.26–29 These studies confirmed a substantial planarization of the dye backbone and red-shifting. However, their applicability to activity-based sensors and PA imaging remain unexplored. Moreover, we hypothesized that incorporation of sulphur atoms would induce the heavy-atom effect, causing a reduction in fluorescence quantum yield and increase in PA signal. Herein, we report the optimization of APNO-5 via the systematic replacement of the 1- and 7-position phenyl rings with thiophenes and the application of the optimized compound for imaging cancer-derived NO in live-animal models. Fig. 1 Examples of previous and current approaches for the optimization of aza-BODIPY PA probes. Yellow circles denote past locations of optimization, while red pentagons indicate the location for steric relaxation. SR-APNO-3, the lead compound, undergoes oxidative N-nitrosation and a wavelength shift for ratiometric PA imaging. Representative images of SR-APNO-3 and t-SR-APNO-3 (10 μM) at λblue (690 nm) and λred (790 nm) in a tissue-mimicking phantom. R = CH2–C2H3N3–PEG3–N(CH3)4I. To investigate the feasibility of this approach, we utilized density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) to study the effect of thiophene substitution on the dihedral angle and predicted absorption of the dyes (calculated in implicit methanol solvent). The method was validated by comparing the dihedral angle between the planes of the aromatic rings and the aza-BODIPY core to previous experimental data in which the computational and experimental data were in good agreement (∼28° and ∼18°, respectively, Fig. S1a–d†).26,27 Replacement of the phenyls with thiophenes resulted in a decreased dihedral angle with a corresponding ∼25 nm red-shift per thiophene. Importantly, we observed an inverse linear relationship between the calculated dihedral angle and experimental absorption maximum, suggesting the dihedral angle is predictive (R2 = 0.60, Fig. S1e†). Fig. 2 Computational investigation of the effect of thiophene replacement on the structural and absorptive properties of the SR-APNO series. Locations of the thiophenes and phenyls are indicated in parentheses (left indicates the same side of the molecule as the o-methoxy-methylaniline trigger, right indicates the anisole-containing side of the molecule). The solubilizing PEG chain was truncated to a methyl for computational analyses. With the validated computational workflow, the probes and N-nitrosated products were built in silico with the polyethylene solubilizing group truncated to a methyl for computational analyses. The geometries were optimized, and the wavelength of maximal absorbance was calculated for each compound. In all cases, we observed a near complete decrease (8°, 80% of the disubstituted analogue's effect) in dihedral angle after replacing a single phenyl and a 14 nm red-shift per thiophene (Fig. 2). Additionally, inverse correlations were observed between the dihedral angle and wavelength of maximal absorbance for both the initial probe (R2 = 0.64) and the N-nitrosated product (R2 = 0.59). These trends were consistent with the results from gas phase optimized geometries with only the universal force field (R2 = 0.60, 0.90) and B3LYP (R2 = 0.69, 0.90), suggesting these should be sufficient for predicting the effect of steric interactions on the wavelength for the aza-BODIPY platform (Fig. S1e†). Encouraged by the computational results, we prepared both singly substituted constitutional isomers, SR-APNO-1 and SR-APNO-2, and the disubstituted analogue, SR-APNO-3. First, the desired functionality is installed through the Claisen–Schmidt condensation of the appropriate acetophenone and aromatic aldehyde to afford a chalcone. Next, the chalcone is subjected to Michael-type addition of the nitromethane anion followed by Paal–Knorr cyclization and boron chelation. Finally, the appended alkyne handle was utilized for installation of a solubilizing moiety through copper-catalysed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (Schemes 1 and S1-5†).16 Scheme 1 Generalized synthesis for the SR-APNO series. Ar = Ph or Thio. Photophysical characterization indicated that all probes and N-nitrosated products displayed maximal absorbance at greater than 680 nm, maintained high extinction coefficients and low quantum yields, and exhibited pH-independent absorbance and fluorescence properties (Table 1, Fig. 3c and S2-3†). The oxidative nitrosation products were confirmed using high resolution mass spectrometry and clean conversion was observed by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (Fig. S4-6†). Table 1 Photophysical properties of APNO-5 and the SR-APNO seriesa −Nitric oxide +Nitric oxide λmax ε × 104 ϕ a λ (nm) and ε (M−1 cm−1) are reported in methanol and ϕ is reported in ethanolic 20 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.4, 50% v/v). Data is reported as the average of experimental replicates (n = 3) with less than 15% error. APNO-5 759 3.38 0.0003 670 2.91 0.23 SR-APNO-1 775 3.18 0.004 685 2.25 0.26 Fig. 3 (a) Quantified PA ratios (λblue/λred) for each probe (red) and the corresponding N-nitrosated products (blue). (b) Theoretical maximal ratiometric PA responses for APNO-5, SR-APNO-1, SR-APNO-2, and SR-APNO-3 before and after nitrosation (25 μM dye, 500 equiv. NO derived from MAHMA-NONOate). (c) UV-vis (2 μM) and (d) PA spectra (10 μM) of SR-APNO-3 (red) and t-SR-APNO-3 (blue). All experiments were performed at room temperature in ethanolic 20 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.4, 50% v/v, final DMSO concentration is <1.25% v/v). Data is reported as the mean ± standard deviation (n = 3). λblue/λred (nm): APNO-5, 680/770; SR-APNO-1, 680/780; SR-APNO-2, 680/780; SR-APNO-3, 690/790. As anticipated, each probe underwent rapid NO-mediated oxidation to afford the blue-shifted product. Incorporation of two sulphurs into the chromophore resulted in a decrease in N-nitrosated product's fluorescence quantum yield, presumably due to the heavy atom effect, and the planarization resulted in an increase in molar absorptivity due to more efficient orbital overlap. Striking similarities between the two constitutional isomers confirmed that the planarization is not dependent on the location relative to the trigger (consistent with our computational predictions, Table 1 and Fig. S1-2†). This is in contrast to the conformational restriction approach in which the location of restriction effects both the photophysical and PA properties.23 The SR-APNO series, along with previous reports,26–29 indicate that planarization via steric relaxation is similarly efficient for red-shifting the absorbance (15 versus 0–30 nm and 30–67 versus 0–52 nm after one and two modifications, respectively).23,30,31 To evaluate the effect on the PA properties, the maximal ratiometric responses were measured for each compound following N-nitrosation (Fig. 3 and S2†). Interestingly, neither SR-APNO-1 nor SR-APNO-2 resulted in any increase in sensitivity. On the other hand, SR-APNO-3 was 4.4× more sensitive than the parent molecule with a 44-fold maximal ratiometric PA turn on. It is important to note that the increased sensitivity comes predominantly from more efficient detection of the N-nitrosated product rather than changes in the initial probe (Fig. 3b). With the ideal probe in hand, SR-APNO-3's applicability for NO imaging was evaluated. First, SR-APNO-3 and t-SR-APNO-3 were compared using UV-vis spectroscopy and PA tomography, where maximal PA ratiometric responses were observed at 690 and 790 nm (Fig. 3c and d). Changing the percent ethanol content of the buffer resulted in different ratiometric responses to NO; however, N-nitrosated product was observed at all tested concentrations (0–80% ethanol, Fig. S7a and b†). The spectral changes were consistent with the formation of J-aggregates under aqueous conditions, which has been observed previously with the aza-BODIPY dye platform.16,32 Comparison between reactions performed in the presence and absence of ethanol suggest that the differences in ratiometric response occur due to differences in reaction depending on aggregation state and lower sensitivity due to beak broadening (Fig. S7c and d†). Next, the selectivity of SR-APNO-3 was confirmed against a panel of reactive metals, carbonyl, oxygen, sulphur, and nitrogen species. The panel of potential cross-reactive biomolecules was selected due to the possibility of binding to the thiophenes or oxidation of the trigger, which could lead to false positives. Importantly, no changes were observed via fluorescence or UV-vis (Fig. S8†). Finally, the photostability of SR-APNO-3 and the corresponding N-nitrosated product were measured using an OPO laser for irradiation. All of the SR-aza-BODIPYs were photostable (>90% over 60 s) and the N-nitrosated products showed reasonable stability towards de-nitrosylation (greater than 50% over 30 s, typical imaging is ∼10 s per wavelength, Fig. S9†). t-SR-APNO-3 proved to be the most photostable product. This finding is consistent with the proposed de-nitrosylation mechanism which includes photo-induced electron transfer from the chromophore into the N–NO followed by NO release.33,34 More broadly, this suggests that tuning intersystem crossing rates can be used to optimize both N-nitrosation based NO probes (e.g., APNO-5)16 and photo-activatable NO donors (e.g., photoNOD-1).35 The biocompatibility of SR-APNO-3 was assessed in RAW 264.7 macrophages and 4T1 murine breast carcinoma cells, where good viability was observed (Fig. S10†). The cellular performance was then investigated in 4T1 cells to confirm both uptake and sufficient reaction kinetics for intracellular detection. Cells were stained with SR-APNO-3, washed to remove excess probe, and then incubated with DEA-NONOate. The cells were collected via centrifugation and the cell pellet was imaged using PA tomography. Quantification revealed a dose-dependent, ratiometric response to NO (Fig. S11†). Next, SR-APNO-3 was applied for imaging LPS-induced inflammation in BALB/c mice. To more accurately simulate the deeper tissue involved in cancer imaging, inflammation was induced through intramuscular administration of LPS rather than the subcutaneous model reported in our initial report.16 Under these conditions, APNO-5 was no longer able to detect NO. On the other hand, a statistically significant increase was observed using SR-APNO-3 after 3 h (Fig. 4 and S12†). These results are consistent with the in vitro characterization, where SR-APNO-3 was shown to be more sensitive than APNO-5. Mice were then co-administered SR-APNO-3 and L-NG-monomethyl-arginine (L-NMMA), a pan-selective nitric oxide synthase inhibitor,36 to confirm that the signal enhancement was a result of NO. Under these conditions, we observed a 12% inhibition in the ratiometric response (Fig. 4b and S12†). This suggests that SR-APNO-3 could serve as a tool for the evaluation of anti-inflammatory small molecules within live mouse models. Fig. 4 (a) APNO-5 (50 μM, 25 μL) and (b) SR-APNO-3 (50 μM, 25 μL) PA imaging of NO in an intramuscular LPS-induced inflammation model. Statistical analysis was performed using (a) an unpaired t test (α = 0.05) or (b) Dunnet's multiple comparisons (α = 0.05). p < 0.05. Data is reported as the mean ± standard deviation (APNO-5, n = 5; SR-APNO-3: saline, n = 7; LPS, n = 8; L-NMMA, n = 4). As previously mentioned, NO plays a key role in cancer biology, where high concentrations are initially biosynthesized by macrophages to elicit antitumoural effects. After this brief window of inflammation, emerging evidence suggests that the tumour microenvironment decreases macrophage motility, thereby trapping the macrophages within the tumour. These immune cells, often referred to as tumour-associated macrophages, produce lower levels of NO which promote tumour progression, angiogenesis and premetastatic potential.37 After local administration of SR-APNO-3 we observed a clear difference in the ratiometric PA response between the flank and tumour indicating that the probe was nitrosated. After 6 h, a 1.22-fold increase in the relative ratiometric PA response was observed between the flank and tumour (Fig. 5a and b and S13†). To confirm these results, we deemed it necessary to inhibit NO biosynthesis within the tumour, where co-administration of L-NMMA and SR-APNO-3 resulted in an 81% decrease in the relative ratiometric PA response (Fig. 5 and S13†). This represents the first example of where the PA imaging of cancer-derived NO has been validated using an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase. To confirm that the signal change was not due to changes in any endogenous absorbers (e.g., haemoglobin or deoxyhaemoglobin), we performed an intratumoural injection of L-NMMA without SR-APNO-3. Under these conditions, we observed no change in the relative ratiometric PA response (Fig. S14†). Together, these imaging studies demonstrate that SR-APNO-3 can be applied to facilitate deep tissue imaging of cancer NO, where concentrations are approximated to be ∼103-fold lower than in the immune response. We propose that SR-APNO-3 provides a new, previously inaccessible window of imaging NO within cancer using a single contrast agent. Ongoing efforts in our group are focused on utilizing the increased sensitivity of SR-APNO-3 to study the role of NO within cancer. Fig. 5 SR-APNO-3 PA imaging of cancer-derived NO. (a–c) Representative image overlays corresponding to the N-nitrosated product (690 nm, blue) and SR-APNO-3 (790 nm, red) after 6 h subcutaneous or intratumoural administration (25 μL, 50 μM, 15% DMF in saline v/v). (d) Quantified relative ratiometric PA at 3 and 6 h. Statistical analysis was performed using 2-way ANOVA (α = 0.05) between the flank, tumour, and L-NMMA inhibited tumour. Relative ratiometric signals were compared to the tumour at each time point using Sidak's multiple comparison test (α = 0.05). p < 0.05; **p < 0.01. Data is reported as the mean ± standard deviation (flank, n = 11; tumour, n = 18; L-NMMA, n = 9). Scale bar represents 2.0 mm. In this work, we report the first systematic photophysical optimization of the aza-BODIPY dye platform that interrogates the effect of relieving steric interactions for dye planarization and PA signal optimization. A computational model was validated for predicting the effect of steric relaxation on the dihedral angle, which was confirmed experimentally. Replacement of a phenyl with a thiophene resulted in a circa 15 nm shift in the absorbance maxima, regardless of where the replacement was in comparison to the trigger. This contrasts with the conformational restriction approach, in which the location was essential for obtaining desirable PA properties. Replacing both aromatic rings with thiophenes had an additive effect and yielded the optimal compound, SR-APNO-3, which was 4.4-fold more sensitive than the parent molecule, APNO-5. This increase in sensitivity allowed for higher ratiometric responses in an intramuscular inflammation model and the first successful detection of cancer-derived NO with a small-molecule PA contrast agent. 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__label__cc	0.653432	0.346568	Scalable Incremental Building with Dynamic Task Dependencies Scalable Incremental Building with Dynamic Task Dependencies. / Konat, Gabriël; Erdweg, Sebastian; Visser, Eelco. ASE 2018: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering . New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. p. 76-86. Konat, G, Erdweg, S & Visser, E 2018, Scalable Incremental Building with Dynamic Task Dependencies. in ASE 2018: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering . Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, pp. 76-86, ASE 2018, Montpellier, France, 3/07/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3238147.3238196 Konat, G., Erdweg, S., & Visser, E. (2018). Scalable Incremental Building with Dynamic Task Dependencies. In ASE 2018: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (pp. 76-86). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3238147.3238196 Konat G, Erdweg S, Visser E. Scalable Incremental Building with Dynamic Task Dependencies. In ASE 2018: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering . New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2018. p. 76-86 https://doi.org/10.1145/3238147.3238196 Konat, Gabriël ; Erdweg, Sebastian ; Visser, Eelco. / Scalable Incremental Building with Dynamic Task Dependencies. ASE 2018: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering . New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. pp. 76-86 @inproceedings{e167152d540a4afca6b4636478c2eebe, title = "Scalable Incremental Building with Dynamic Task Dependencies", abstract = "Incremental build systems are essential for fast, reproducible software builds. Incremental build systems enable short feedback cycles when they capture dependencies precisely and selectively execute build tasks efficiently. A much overlooked feature of build systems is the expressiveness of the scripting language, which directly influences the maintainability of build scripts. In this paper, we present a new incremental build algorithm that allows build engineers to use a full-fledged programming language with explicit task invocation, value and file inspection facilities, and conditional and iterative language constructs. In contrast to prior work on incrementality for such programmable builds, our algorithm scales with the number of tasks affected by a change and is independent of the size of the software project being built. Specifically, our algorithm accepts a set of changed files, transitively detects and re-executes affected build tasks, but also accounts for new task dependencies discovered during building. We have evaluated the performance of our algorithm in a real-world case study and confirm its scalability.", keywords = "scalable, incremental, build, dynamic task dependency", author = "Gabri{\"e}l Konat and Sebastian Erdweg and Eelco Visser", doi = "10.1145/3238147.3238196", isbn = "978-1-4503-5937-5", booktitle = "ASE 2018", publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)", T1 - Scalable Incremental Building with Dynamic Task Dependencies AU - Konat, Gabriël AU - Erdweg, Sebastian AU - Visser, Eelco N2 - Incremental build systems are essential for fast, reproducible software builds. Incremental build systems enable short feedback cycles when they capture dependencies precisely and selectively execute build tasks efficiently. A much overlooked feature of build systems is the expressiveness of the scripting language, which directly influences the maintainability of build scripts. In this paper, we present a new incremental build algorithm that allows build engineers to use a full-fledged programming language with explicit task invocation, value and file inspection facilities, and conditional and iterative language constructs. In contrast to prior work on incrementality for such programmable builds, our algorithm scales with the number of tasks affected by a change and is independent of the size of the software project being built. Specifically, our algorithm accepts a set of changed files, transitively detects and re-executes affected build tasks, but also accounts for new task dependencies discovered during building. We have evaluated the performance of our algorithm in a real-world case study and confirm its scalability. AB - Incremental build systems are essential for fast, reproducible software builds. Incremental build systems enable short feedback cycles when they capture dependencies precisely and selectively execute build tasks efficiently. A much overlooked feature of build systems is the expressiveness of the scripting language, which directly influences the maintainability of build scripts. In this paper, we present a new incremental build algorithm that allows build engineers to use a full-fledged programming language with explicit task invocation, value and file inspection facilities, and conditional and iterative language constructs. In contrast to prior work on incrementality for such programmable builds, our algorithm scales with the number of tasks affected by a change and is independent of the size of the software project being built. Specifically, our algorithm accepts a set of changed files, transitively detects and re-executes affected build tasks, but also accounts for new task dependencies discovered during building. We have evaluated the performance of our algorithm in a real-world case study and confirm its scalability. 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__label__wiki	0.905053	0.905053	Qatar Sports H.H Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Thani’s EBRAZ is the victor of Qatar Arabian World Cup (Gr1-PA) Racing & Equestrian Club 2019-10-07 \| Since 3 Month Paris, 7 October 2019 - His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani presented to His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Khalifa al-Thani the Qatar Arabian World Cup (Gr1 PA) trophy following Ebraz’s victory in the prestigious race at ParisLongchamp yesterday. Ebraz (Amer) provided His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Khalifa al-Thani with his fifth win in the Qatar Arabian World Cup (Gr1-PA). He is now the winning-most owner in this event. Ebraz, ridden by Maxime Guyon, started as favourite. Trained by Julian Smart, he sat patiently down the field, with plenty of running. On the straight, however, he stormed down the track to take the lead from Al Shaqab Racing’s Khataab (Amer), trained by Thomas Fourcy and ridden by Jerome Cabre, who battled bravely and finished second three quarters of a length behind his half-brother. The P. Collington-trained and Jean-Bernard Eyquem-ridden Mashhur Al Khalediah held on to third place almost a further length behind. “It’s for days like this that we race”, commented winning trainer Julian Smart. “I am very lucky to train horses such as Ebraz for His Highness Sheikh Mohamed. That’s five wins now in this race, not bad at all! Ebraz won the HH The Amir Sword (Gr1-PA). I don’t normally train horses that shine at that age. “They tend to be at their best later. He has won the best race in the world at the age of 6 and we are dreaming of next year. We do expect Ebraz to follow the example of Gazwan and continue his excellence for one or two years. “My boss has had an amazing weekend after his wins on Friday and Saturday, so there was no pressure today and we’ve added a new victory, which is the most prestigious!” The Qatar Racing & Equestrian Club (QREC) CEO Nasser bin Sherida al-Kaabi congratulated His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Khalifa al-Thani for winning the Qatar Arabian World Cup. “Ebraz’s victory has been admired by everyone”, he said, “It is a well-deserved win in a high quality field. Although it was a soft ground, Ebraz confirmed his class and excellence in prestigious races as he has already done in more than one group 1 event this season. “The Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Tiomphe is fully successful in terms of organisation, turnout and results of Qatari-owned horses over three days. This very positive outcome highlights the value of the efforts and hard work by all racing officials and horse owners in general to ensure Qatar’s presence in the winners’ enclosures in such world-class races and events. “Everyone agrees this is the best edition of the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe weekend, especially in terms of the results realised by Qatari-owned horses. We look forward to maintaining this success in the coming editions. The President of the Qatar and the Asian Equestrian Federations and QREC Vice Chairman Hamad bin Abdulrahman al-Attiyah said: “We congratulate His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Khalifa al-Thani for winning the Qatar Arabian World Cup for the fifth time in this magnificent Qatar-sponsored event. “I would like to thank His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Khalifa al-Thani for their presence and supporting us in the prestigious event, especially as they have always added to horseracing both in Qatar and overseas. “The Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe weekend is very special. The presence of Qatari-owned runners in several races is, in itself, a significant gain apart from the results. Being present in such an iconic event really counts as it reflects the progress of Qatar’s horseracing and the efforts to maintain and enhance its global standing.” Print Whats APP Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Another year of success for Josoor Institute Students show high skills in SOP competitions SOP Volleyball and Basketball competitions continue in style QOC hosts entertainment day for people with special needs SC and Goal Click team up to showcase Qatari football culture Email ( Optional ) All rights reserved for © Qatar SPC 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41382
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__label__wiki	0.534742	0.534742	Toll free: +1(888) 302-2520, +1(888) 216-9741 Excel Exercises Dissertation Abstract Dissertation Literature Dissertation Results Dissertation Discussion Dissertation Conclusion Movie Critique Literary Essay Case Brief Order Log inlock_outline Toll free +1(888) 302-2520 Compute Technologies Censorship in Video Games In Compute Technologies For several years now, the governments all aver the universe have been firing shoots across the bow of the interactive Video Game Industry, seeking out to restrict the graphic and vicious information contained in the present interactive games. However, the morality groups chant battle cries of “protect the children” permanent rationalization for censorship of controversial and violent videos or erotic expression are ready for stately fight between the government and the game developers Top of Form(Green & Nicholas 220). The reality is that children who are into video games have a soft spot for violent and high stress games. In his study, Dr Jeanne Funk, in the Journal of India Pediatrics, established that, among 7th and 8th, students games involved in violence, 29% liked sport games and the majority of them have a bit of vicious content. The irony is that those who prefer educational games are only 2%. Since it conception, most of the video game developers have chosen to develop graphic and violence videos. As the technology, advances extraordinarily, it is evident there is carnage more than ever before. Some games such as BMX XXX, a game launched at the end of 2002, features an absolute motion video footage with true actors as compared to artificial characters. The actors are actual women performing in a strip club, in New York. In Grand Theft Auto, Vice City, the player gets sexually involved with a whore and gets his money back by roughing her to death with his fist or a baseball bat. Action that can be left through the play station controller, or she can be shot, totally with squirting blood and throbbing sound effects (Foerstel 223). The effects of such video games are that they lower the empathy levels in children. Exceptionally inhuman videos are improbable, since they do not depict the real human pain and suffering. On the other hand, they notably boost the adrenaline intensity in players who play them which causes to hyper aggressiveness and attention deficit disorder. The video censorship efforts began following a wave of school shootouts by pupils as an influence of vicious video games. In the United States, for example, the censorship effort began a few years ago with the obligation of a voluntary rating system that called for all video games to include a rating level. The industry settled to a system urbanized through the Entertainment Software Rating Board. The ratings range from E for Everyone, M for Mature, above 17 years and AO for Adults only. The ratings are truly singularly ineffectual since they do not prepare the viewer what class of the game’s content prompted by adult rating. In many states of the United States, there have been a limiting legislation from time to time, but the entertainment industry has heavily imposed it as going, not in favor of the first amendment. On several occasions, they have been struck down. Regulations in the city of Indianapolis prohibit that any operative stockiest of five or extra video games machines in a single area, permit a solitary minor to use an amusement machine that is destructive to minors. If the game has graphic video or strong sexual content, then the video operator should put a warning symbol and differentiate the games by partition then cover the machine from open view. Canada’s regulations concerning the video games are utterly dissimilar with America’s. They enjoy total freedom from government regulation. The Canada Interactive Digital Software Association, consisting of key Canadian video game developers, has implemented the America’s industry’s voluntary categorization system. Union member companies are, encouraged though, and not authorized to present their wares to the US board for rating prior to sending them to Canadian video shops. The role of the board is not to censor but provide viewers with information. Concurrently, the industry ensures the classification system role is to keep adult rated games out of reach of children and youth. They strongly counter any effort to formalize the system by mounting legal hiccups and lobbying politicians. In the United Kingdom, there are 120 British companies concerned with designing, developing and distributing the software allowed by the trade association (European Leisure Software Publisher Association.) They percolate in a system of unpaid self regulation operated by the Video Standard Council. The council has employed a senior Scotland Yard officer to monitor the age ratings (12, 15 and 18 years), and it has to be in agreement with manufacturers. All the video games played in arcades are not shows of moving pictures for the function of The Cinematograph Act 1909, hence; they do not need licensing by the local authorities. Computer games and video are not liable from classification under Section 2 of the Video Recording Act, not unless to a relatively decree they display human sexual activity or vulgar violence towards animal and human being or promote such behaviors (Wolf 387). A trend of the nineties for gamers involving elimination typically the obliterated of animated or digitized carton figures increased the complicated lawful question if such humanoid characters, for instance dinosaurs, dragons, zombies and robots are in the category of animals or human. Another question was if the thrill gained from blasting them to smithereens were probably to encourage brutality conduct in actual life. The superior observation games involving fights amid impractical cartoons do not need categorization except when the players are suppose to take gratification in the injuries or anguish. Equally, if the game called for player engagement in the sexual activity of animated characters, it could stimulate or promote sexual acts hence require classification. 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__label__wiki	0.716708	0.716708	Caraun Reid Rodney Gunter Sports NFL football Professional football Football Athlete injuries Athlete health Arizona Cardinals Pittsburgh Steelers Cleveland Browns Cardinals place lineman Rodney Gunter on IR, re-sign Reid TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals have placed defensive lineman Rodney Gunter on injured reserve because of a toe injury he suffered in the team's loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The 6-foot-5, 305-pound Gunter has played in all 13 games for the Cardinals this season, making 31 tackles and three sacks. Arizona announced the move Tuesday. The Cardinals also announced they re-signed defensive lineman Caraun Reid. The 6-foot-2, 292-pound Reid was released Saturday after originally signing with the team on Dec. 4. He's in his sixth NFL season and has played in 44 career games. Arizona hosts the Cleveland Browns Sunday.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41388
__label__wiki	0.96709	0.96709	Neville Hewitt Derrius Guice Daniel Brown Jeremy Sprinkle Darryl Roberts Adam Gase Mike Hilton C.J. Mosley Paul Worrilow Ryan Griffin Robby Anderson Brandon Shell Jon Bostic Matthew Stafford Jon Gruden Crowder Jamison Crowder Jamal Adams Sam Darnold Paul Richardson Vernon Davis Chris Thompson Matthias Farley Jeff Driskel Daron Payne Bill Callahan Chuma Edoga Dwayne Haskins Sports Athlete injuries Athlete health NFL football Professional football Football Washington Redskins New York Jets Pittsburgh Steelers Detroit Lions Oakland Raiders Sam Darnold throws 4 TD passes, Jets rout Redskins 34-17 By STEPHEN WHYNO - Nov. 17, 2019 05:39 PM EST New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold (14) speaks with Washington Redskins quarterback Dwayne Haskins (7) after an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, in Landover, Md. New York Jets won 34-17. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Toward the end of the game, all Sam Darnold wanted to talk about on the sideline was his interception. Thanks to Darnold’s career-high four touchdown passes and the Washington Redskins’ offensive ineptitude, that mistake was a mere blip in the New York Jets’ 34-17 rout Sunday. Darnold was 19 of 30 passing with 293 yards and tossed touchdowns to Daniel Brown, Robby Anderson, Ryan Griffin and former Redskins receiver Jamison Crowder to help New York win its second in a row. “For us as an offense as a whole, it's just another stepping stone in the right direction,” Darnold said. “Once our offense is in a really good rhythm, it's easy for me and a lot of the other guys on the offense to go and make plays.” Despite getting picked off deep in his own territory by Jon Bostic, the 2018 third overall pick bounced back and now has 11 TDs and 10 INTs this season. Darnold excelled at throwing on the run and managed the game well. “He's still developing,” Crowder said. “You can definitely tell that he's starting to be a little more vocal, take ownership of the offense, which he should — that's part of the development of a quarterback in this league. I'm just glad he's taking the right steps to become a great quarterback in this league.” The Jets (3-7) sacked Redskins rookie quarterback Dwayne Haskins six times, including three by safety Jamal Adams, and linebacker Neville Hewitt intercepted him in his return to the lineup. Le’Veon Bell ran for a 1-yard TD, and New York reached 400 yards of offense for the first time in 20 games. Washington (1-9) set a franchise record by going 16 consecutive quarters without a touchdown before Derrius Guice scored on a 45-yard screen pass early in the fourth. Haskins was 19 of 35 passing for 214 yards and threw TD passes to Guice and tight end Jeremy Sprinkle in his first game since being named starter for the rest of the season. That feels like a long time away for two teams on pace for a top-five draft pick. The Jets look like they’ve made some semblance of progress under first-year coach Adam Gase, while the Redskins are 1-4 under interim replacement Bill Callahan and off to their worst 10-game start since 1961, when they were 0-9-1. “I don’t think we were close today,” Callahan said. “We didn’t come out and put together the type of game early on to make it competitive and put ourselves in a put ourselves in a position to win or separate, or do anything. We dug ourselves a pretty good hole and we never really recovered from it.” COMING UP EMPTY The Redskins’ 16 quarters without a touchdown were the most by any team since the 2000 Baltimore Ravens. They broke the franchise record of 13 quarters set by the 1936 Boston Redskins before Guice finally broke out in his return from a Week 1 knee injury. “It wasn’t good enough to win,” Haskins said. “Life is hard. You’ve got work harder.” SACKMASTER ADAMS Adams became the second defensive back in the past decade with three sacks in a game, matching what Mike Hilton of the Pittsburgh Steelers did in 2017. With six sacks, he set the Jets single-season franchise record for the most by a defensive back. “Honestly, the picks are not coming my way, so I thought I'd do something different,” Adams said. The 24-year-old is on a roll. Adams led the Jets with nine tackles and two forced fumbles last week against the Giants. Adams joked that other defenders are mad at him for hogging all the sacks. “But it's all love,” he said. “I appreciate it.” NO D IN REDSKINS Even after allowing 34 points to a team that entered with the worst offense in the league, it seems like defensive coordinator Greg Manusky’s job is safe. Asked if he was considering any chances to the defensive staff, Callahan said, “Not at this juncture, no.” Jets: Rookie RT Chuma Edoga left with an ankle injury and was replaced by Brandon Shell. ... Played without DBs Darryl Roberts (calf) and Matthias Farley (quadriceps) and LBs C.J. Mosley (groin) and LB Paul Worrilow (quadriceps). Redskins: DL Daron Payne left with an ankle injury. ... WR Paul Richardson didn’t play because of a hamstring injury. TE Vernon Davis (concussion) missed his sixth consecutive game and RB Chris Thompson (toe) his fourth. Jets: Host coach Jon Gruden’s Oakland Raiders next Sunday. Redskins: With Matthew Stafford injured, could face Lions backup Jeff Driskel when they host Detroit next Sunday. Follow AP Sports Writer Stephen Whyno on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SWhyno	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41389
__label__wiki	0.673718	0.673718	Before the opening of the conclave on March 12, 2013, cardinals attend a solemn Mass at St. Peter's. Photo Courtesy of BostonCatholic via Flickr. The story behind Pope Francis’ election by David Gibson VATICAN CITY (RNS) Last Sunday night (March 10), the Rev. Thomas Rosica was walking through the Piazza Navona in Rome’s historic center when he bumped into Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who he has known for years. Bergoglio was walking alone, wearing a simple black cassock and he stopped and grabbed Rosica’s hands. Newly elected Pope Francis appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday (March 13) in Vatican City. Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as the 266th pontiff and will lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. RNS photo by Andrea Sabbadini “I want you to pray for me,” the Argentine cardinal told Rosica, a Canadian priest who was assisting as a Vatican spokesman during the papal interregnum. Rosica asked him if he was nervous. “A little bit,” Bergoglio confessed. He had reason to be worried. Two days later, on Tuesday evening, he and 114 other cardinals entered the conclave to elect a successor to Benedict XVI; a little more than 24 hours and five ballots after that, Bergoglio emerged on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as Pope Francis. It was a surprising outcome, and even if Bergoglio suspected something was up, few others did, including many of the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel with him. “I think it all came together in an extraordinary fashion,” Chicago Cardinal Francis George told the Chicago Tribune. Unexpected momentum (RNS3-feb13) Cardinal Francis George of Chicago defended the Catholic bishops' opposition to health care reform during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Baltimore. RNS photo courtesy Archdiocese of Chicago. George said Bergoglio’s name had not surfaced as an option in the week of closed-door discussions among the cardinals before the conclave, and Bergoglio had also dropped off the radar of most journalists. He was 76, and many cardinals said they would not vote for someone older than 70. Bergoglio was also reportedly the runner-up to Benedict in the conclave of 2005 and unlikely to return as a candidate. “I wouldn't have expected it to happen either this fast or even the way it developed in terms of the choices available to us,” George said. “I believe the Holy Spirit makes clear which way we should go. And we went that way very quickly.” The Holy Spirit, yes, but other forces also contributed to the unexpected result. And despite the cone of silence that is supposed to remain over all proceedings inside the conclave, leaks in the Italian press and interviews with various cardinal-electors have begun to give a clearer picture of how this 28-hour conclave unfolded. What happened, in short, is that during the first “shake out” ballot on Tuesday evening, Bergoglio’s name drew a surprising number of votes, suddenly putting him out there as a potential candidate. “Cardinal Bergoglio wouldn't have become pope in the fifth ballot if he had not been a really strong contender for the papacy from the beginning," Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn told reporters. Until then, the field had been considered fairly open, with two main camps each looking for a champion: There were those who wanted a pope who would reform the Roman Curia, the papal bureaucracy -- and preferably someone from outside Europe to represent the church’s demographic shift to the Southern Hemisphere. Then there were the electors who wanted to defend the Curia, and they were joined by some who also hoped to keep the papacy in Europe, or even return it to an Italian. The “reform” camp had no clear champion but a dozen or more possibilities. They reportedly wanted someone from outside Europe, in particular a Latin American, but weren’t sure who. The Roman camp, on the other hand, had apparently begun to lean toward Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, who was born of German immigrant parents and had long experience in the Curia. That made him a plausible Southern Hemisphere candidate, but one with strong European and curial ties. In the days leading up to the conclave, however, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan had increasingly emerged as an apparent front-runner because he was seen as an Italian who could fix the Vatican, a combination that some said could attract votes from both camps. Before the opening of the conclave today, March 12, cardinals attend a solemn Mass at St. Peter's. Photo Courtesy of BostonCatholic via Flickr. An appealing combination Throughout this wrangling, Bergoglio had maintained a low profile, which was in keeping with his reputation for humility and holiness, and several electors said they found that refreshing. Moreover, Bergoglio had a fierce pastoral dedication to the poor, and he was born in Argentina to Italian immigrant parents. While he is 76, he is in good health but not so young that he is likely have a marathon pontificate. All those elements made for an appealing combination. “He is not part of the Italian system, but also at the same time, because of his culture and background, he was Italo-compatible,” French Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois told reporters. “If there was a chance that someone could intervene with justice in this situation" -- reforming the Curia -- "he was the man who could do it best.” In the first round of voting, not only did Bergoglio make an unexpectedly strong showing, but Scola did not fare well, and neither did Scherer or another leading contender, Canadian Marc Ouellet, who works in the Curia. That night, sequestered at the Casa Santa Marta residence that houses the cardinals during a conclave, the reform camp began to coalesce around Bergoglio. The Argentine continued to gain strength during the two ballots on Wednesday morning. At lunch, he “seemed very weighed down by what was happening,” according to Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who sat next to him. According to La Repubblica, an Italian daily with good sources in the Vatican, Washington's Cardinal Donald Wuerl played a key role in rallying the Americans to Bergoglio, and they were followed by European bishops such as Vingt-Trois. As Bergoglio gained steam, Scola’s fortunes continued to decline, thanks also to “ancient envies and rivalries,” as La Stampa’s Giacomo Galeazzi put it, among the 28 Italian electors – a bloc far larger than any other country’s, but also more fractious and “inexorably hostile to Scola.” Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washinton. Photo courtesy George Martell/The Pilot Media Group. “In the last few hours there were signs that Scola's strong candidacy was a giant with clay feet,” Galeazzi wrote. No Italian restoration By the fourth ballot on Wednesday -- the fifth since the conclave had begun -- Bergoglio passed the threshold of 77 votes on his way to upwards of 90 votes out of 115. It was just before 7 p.m., a little more than 24 hours since they started, and the Catholic Church had a new pope. “I was surprised that consensus among the cardinals was reached so soon,” said Ireland’s Cardinal Sean Brady. Also surprised, apparently, was the Italian bishops' conference, which was so sure that Scola would win that it sent out a message of congratulations to Scola on his election as soon as the white smoke appeared over the Sistine Chapel. Yet there was to be no Italian restoration. “You don't ask why they changed their votes. Nor do you know who changed their votes. But it became fairly clear as we voted that perhaps it was going to go in some other unexpected way, but more quickly also,” said George. “There are surprises. That's a sign of the Holy Spirit, I think.” KRE/AMB END GIBSON “In the last few hours there were signs that Scola’s strong candidacy was a giant with clay feet,” This cardinal seems to be the “False Prophet ” that many talk about taking the Seat of rome and turning it over to the Anti-Christ. Pope Francis election was Just an another counter move by The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is definitively in charge!!! What a display of Heaven. Check-Mate was at Calvary. But the evil one persists. Yes!! It is all about God’s Creation/Life and the integrity of the human genome (no! genetically altered humans) and original genome (no gmo’s!) of HIS Creation! Pope Francis Knows Something..:) I am SO! happy to be a Catholic/Church Militant. I can be a “soldier of Christ for this POPE! Charles Ik. Ave Maria ! Man proposes,God disposes. Miilitant secular press,secular persons,secular world cannot influence the conclave.The Holy Spirit was evidently in control. We are living in interesting and historic time.Did the Cardinals in conclave not call for Him (VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS !) Boy Charlie Renae: that comment about Scola being a false prophet is totally out of line. He was not chosen only because the Holy Spirit had other plans and all the cardinals prayed for His Guidance (the Holy Spirit) and received the answer that was His choice. Sixtus Maximus Of course it was the Holy Spirit! What entity have we been praying to? God! This is a very very strong sign that the Holy Spirit is looking at the poor for sanctity not the rich! The rich are corrupted and this is the sign of the Holy Spirit for the rich Catholics to start giving everything they own to help the poor and to become poor and live in poverty themselves. It’s radical but our King and Savior Jesus Christ is radical, so was St. Francisco and St . Clare were radical in preferring extreme poverty to the false richness of the world which belongs to Satan the lieing prince of darkness. The Holy Spirit sees and knows who are the Catholics who are with the lukewarmness and just can not let go of their materials money. Fellow Catholics are afraid to death of poverty. There are Catholic Cardinals who are the same way. What St. Francisco taught was the Joy that over powers fhe suffering that comes with poverty and that is the Holy Spirit that gives that incredible joy. People who revolt and rebel against poverty resort to crime and of course that does not come from the Holy Spirit! Therefore Papa Francisco ( Pope Fransisco ) is Pope because God Willed it. May the Will of Almighty God be done and those who give up the riches and lead a life in true poverty be blessed now and for Eternity! Amen! I am south-american, but was rooting for the Brasilian cardinal. Now I am glad the Argentine got it. Notice that Buenos Aires means, ‘good breezes’ – The Holy spirit is indeed a comforting wind. If the Holy Spirit was responsible with elevating Pope Francis, the Holy Spirit was also responsible with the demise of Pope Benedict. The catholic church is in serious trouble. Even my diocese of Milwaukee is on the verge of bankruptcy. The reason the Italian cardinals were passed by is because of the homosexual scandal presently going on. This scandal is within the walls of the Vatican! Face the reality that Europe and the US are spiritually dying. Do you think the HS would “reward” any Europeans or Americans with the papacy? I pray to God that Pope Francis will clean up the den of inequity that is in and around the Vatican. Mabel Ikpoh I thank God for such a humble Pope. Edmond Gallant I believe the Holy Spirit was present at the election of the previous Pope and present at the election of Pope Francis. Pope Benedict was also under the guidance of the Holy Spirit when he resigned. The Holy Spirit is also in charge of the situation today. Why are we all trying to analyse His moves and actions? We are in good hands. JACKIE STUTMANN There is no “demise” of Pope Benedict. He was obeying the Holy Spirit in the recognition of his increasing incapacity to meet the demands of the papacy. There is nothing wrong about that. I think you have brought forth very possible thoughts to the selection of Blessed Pope Francis. I too believe the intercession of the Holy Spirit. John Harmsen I do NOT understand the joys many expressed by having a Latin American Pope This pope is NOT a friend of tradition. He is reputed to be an ardent OPPONENT of the Mass of ALL TIMES. Like his conciliar predecessors, he worries too much about the Jews and of other religions. Why doesn’t he first endeavour to create peace among his co-religionists, peace between the traditionalists and the liberals? The more I see and hear about him, the less I like him! Maybe one should consider Pope Francis is doing his best to emulate Jesus so he can get the world to love and follow him. Listen to his own words. He is clearly stating he is Peter. He told the cardinals at the end of their dinner “May God forgive you for what you have done.” Calling Patriarch Barthalomew “Brother Andrew”. Why? His name isn’t Andrew. Andrew was Peter’s brother. Choosing St. Peter for his fisherman’s ring. Stating he is going to take the church back to it’s roots (Peter). In short, if you look at everything he has said since his election, he keeps calling himself Peter, but not directly. Yes, I know that Peter was the first pope and all popes that followed him say he is the inheritor of Peter’s throne, but actually implying, over and over, that he is Peter? He is of Italian (Roman) blood and keeps telling people he is Peter. Read Malachy’s prophecy of the popes! He’s making people believe he is humble and like Christ, then turn on us and show who he truly is…The Antichrist! Don’t be fooled! Terry Virginia Yes, I can see this humble man of 76 years, having worked many years on building this false face, to gain all of our trust and then lower the boom. Everyone is intiltled to their opinion, regardless of how ridiculos it may be. Who are we to question the results of Conclave? If there is one amoung you that has a private revelation, say so. Otherwise, judge the new pope if you must, not by your suspicions, but by his actions. Satan has been running the Catholic Church from the beginning. You only have to look at the state of the world to know what power he has over the masses of people. Don’t be fooled this is his church! +D Paul There are plenty of signs to point to the fact that the entire consistory was orchestrated. It is implied elsewhere that Bergoglio was the runner-up to Benedict. There were forces at work who forced the abdication of Benedict and opened the way for Bergogio. Even in this article, it is implied that Bergoglio was “nervous”. He already had an inkling of the result or maybe more. He is a Christian Marxist of the house of Chardin. So far, he has not removed the doubt of his belief in Christianity. He has the will to destroy capitalist Protestantism and to bring Islam into the fold of God. He has reached out to gays and abortionists as well as the divorced. He has stated through Eugenio Scolari that he no longer “believes in sin”. There is a real good chance that he is the pope of Our Lady of Fatima as well as Pius X. He may not be of God and really be a servant of the devil. My understanding FROM THE LORD is that PETER THE ROMAN IS THE TRUE PONTIFF, rather regardless of whether the one “officially elected,” while the one “officially elected” IS NOT THE TRUE POPE–but an imposter: this Peter the Roman from the prophecy of Malachy who describes a faithful pope. You may also want to read purported prophecies coming from www dot thewarningsecondcoming dot com. Daniel said the daily sacrifice would be taken away; Christianity is the continuation of the church of God at the time of Daniel; Christianity now has the daily Sacrifice–the actual words used in the Roman Catholic Mass. The final religion is THE worldwide religion headed by an adored leader who joins forces with another, both satanic; both deceptive–and preaching untruth; they will focus on economic problems; their solution will require a mark IN ORDER TO BUY AND SELL; “catholic” means universal, Catholic has the daily sacrifice. Malachy reveals the number of the last pope; this one is said to be it; the pope is portrayed as GOOD–my UNDERSTANDING from the LORD is this good one is NOT the one in office; REVELATION says THE LEADER OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH AT THE END IS CORRUPT; THE PROOF will be in the doctrine; WHEN SIN IS DONE AWAY AND THE LEADER OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH DECLARES SELF TO BE JESUS THEN THE DECEPTION IS CLEAR–for Jesus will come in the clouds “and every eye will see him,” and NO ONE will say LOOK for ALL will know him from the least to the greatest and HE said NOT to accept any who come BEFORE HE COMES IN THE CLOUDS that that will NOT be JESUS. So rather than speculate–do as Jesus say-ing told us, Watch!!!!+<3 +<3–where is this quote from eugenio scolari I hate to say it, but according to the messages given to Maria Divine Mercy (thewarningsecondcoming.com)–Pope Benedict was, or is, the last true Pope, and the pope elected after him would be the false prophet. Diana Strauss Francis is a jerk!!! Cardinal Angelo Scola went into the 2013 Papal Conclave as a Pope. And he came out as a Cardinal.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41395
__label__cc	0.687547	0.312453	Websitehttp://www.bath.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-science/ Profiles (1202) Projects (1839) Research Output (20686) Datasets (211) 15259 Article 1139 Chapter 1944 More 271 Review article 188 Abstract 124 Meeting abstract 17 Literature review 6 Special issue 3 Data set/Database 1 Discussion paper 100 - 150 out of 20,686 results 4OD-mediated solitonic radiations in HC-PCF cladding Biancalana, F., Benabid, A., Light, P. S., Couny, F., Luiten, A., Roberts, P. J., Peng, J. & Sokolov, A. V., 2009, 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2009 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, CLEO/QELS 2009. 5224421 solitary waves 4-Substituted 5-nitroisoquinolin-1-ones from intramolecular Pd-catalysed reaction of N-(2-alkenyl)-2-halo-3-nitrobenzamides Dhami, A., Mahon, M. F., Lloyd, M. D. & Threadgill, M. 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__label__cc	0.624311	0.375689	Healthcare Industry News FDA Actions Regulatory (INTL) INDEPENDENT REPS For MANUFACTURERS: Find Reps NOW Post Your Rep Opportunity Not sure? Let us help! For REPS and DISTRIBUTORS: Not in FindReps? Contact us! ISR REGISTRY: Independent Sales Reps - USA Join HSMN Independent Sales Reps & Distributors The Network Bulletin Board Getting Started in Medical Sales FindReps® HS&M Magazine INDUSTRY LINKS: Medical Device Companies Biopharmaceutical Companies PASSWORD REQUIRED: Company Links Listing (Manufacturers) Products & Services Listing (Vendors) Post in Forums Something else? - Contact Us About HSMN Healthcare Industry News: osteoporosis Biopharmaceuticals Oncology News Release - December 10, 2009 Data Presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Demonstrate Treatment with Denosumab is Superior to the Standard of Care Denosumab Significantly Reduced Risk Of Developing Multiple Skeletal Related Events By 23 Percent Versus Zometa(R) In Advanced Breast Cancer Patients SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 10 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN ) today announced further detailed results from a Phase 3, head-to-head trial of denosumab versus Zometa® (zoledronic acid) in the treatment of bone metastases in 2,046 patients with advanced breast cancer. In this trial denosumab met both primary and secondary endpoints and demonstrated superiority for both delaying the time to the first on-study skeletal related events (SRE) (fracture, radiation to bone, surgery to bone, or spinal cord compression) (hazard ratio 0.82, 95 percent CI: 0.71, 0.95), and delaying the time to the first-and subsequent SREs (multiple SREs) (hazard ratio 0.77, 95 percent CI: 0.66, 0.89). Both results were statistically significant. These results will be presented today at the 2009 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) in San Antonio, Texas and highlighted in the congress press conference. "In clinical trials testing new medications for bone metastases, treatment success is measured by whether the bone complications, or skeletal related events, caused by the tumor are reduced or delayed," said Alison Stopeck, M.D., associate professor of Medicine, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Ariz. "Skeletal complications from bone metastases are a critical and painful health concern for patients with advanced breast cancer, and can increase the risk of mortality. Patients who have a first skeletal related event are twice as likely to experience a subsequent SRE, so it is imperative to treat these advanced breast cancer patients." Additional data from this study showed that denosumab significantly reduced the mean annual skeletal morbidity rate (SMR) (the ratio of the number of skeletal complications to the time on trial) compared with Zometa (0.45 vs. 0.58, respectively; p=0.004). Overall, the incidence of adverse events (96 percent denosumab, 97 percent Zometa) and serious adverse events (44 percent denosumab, 46 percent Zometa) was consistent with what has previously been reported for these two agents. Adverse events potentially associated with acute phase reactions during the first three days of the study were reported in 10.4 percent of the denosumab arm and 27.3 percent of the Zometa arm. Adverse events potentially associated with renal toxicity occurred in 4.9 percent of patients treated with denosumab compared to 8.5 percent in patients treated with Zometa. Osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) was seen infrequently in both treatment groups (20 patients receiving denosumab [2.0 percent] as compared with 14 patients [1.4 percent] receiving Zometa). Rates of new primary malignancies were similar between treatment arms (5 patients receiving denosumab [0.5 percent] and 5 receiving Zometa [0.5 percent]). Time to disease progression or overall survival was balanced between the study arms. SABCS Denosumab 136 Data Presentation An oral presentation of the denosumab 136 data by Dr. Alison Stopeck will take place at SABCS on Thursday, December 10 at 3:15 PM (CT) in Exhibit Hall D of the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas. This was an international, Phase 3, randomized, double-blind study comparing denosumab with Zometa in the treatment of bone metastases in patients with advanced breast cancer. Patients enrolled in the study were randomized in a one-to-one ratio to receive either 120 mg of denosumab subcutaneously every four weeks (Q4W) or Zometa administered intravenously at a dose of 4 mg in a 15 minute infusion every four weeks as per the label instructions. The primary endpoint was to evaluate if denosumab is non-inferior to Zometa with respect to the first, on-study SRE in patients with advanced breast cancer and bone metastases. Secondary endpoints were to evaluate if denosumab was superior to Zometa with respect to the first, on-study SRE, as well as the first-and-subsequent on-study SREs, and to assess the safety and tolerability of denosumab compared with Zometa. Other endpoints included time to first radiation of bone; time to first on-study SRE or hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM); skeletal morbidity rate (SMR; the number of SREs per year); and the proportion of patients with at least 1 on-study SRE. About Denosumab and Amgen's Research in Bone Biology Denosumab is the first fully human monoclonal antibody in late stage clinical development that specifically targets RANK Ligand, the essential regulator of osteoclasts (the cells that break down bone). With more than 19,000 patients in trials across indications worldwide, the denosumab development program is the largest ever initiated by Amgen. This broad and deep development program demonstrates Amgen's commitment to researching and delivering pioneering medicines to patients with unmet medical needs. Amgen is studying denosumab in numerous tumor types across the spectrum of cancer-induced bone disease. Over 11,000 patients have been enrolled in the denosumab oncology clinical trials, testing the drug for the reduction of SREs in breast cancer patients, for the amelioration of treatment-induced bone loss in patients with breast or prostate cancers, for the prevention of SREs due to the spread of cancer to the bone in patients with multiple myeloma or those suffering from a variety of solid tumors, and for its potential to delay bone metastases in prostate cancer. Bone Metastases: Impact and Prevalence Bone metastases, cancer cells that separate from tumors and migrate to bone tissue where they settle and grow, occur in more than 1.5 million people worldwide.(1) With improvements in cancer care, including earlier diagnosis and new treatment options, leading to increases in survival rates(2), the number of patients developing metastatic disease secondary to a primary cancer is increasing. Bone metastases are a significant problem for patients with certain types of advanced cancer, with incidence rates of nearly 100 percent in myeloma patients and as high as 75 percent in breast and prostate cancer patients. With bone metastases the growing cancer cells weaken and destroy the bone around the tumor. The damage the tumor has caused to the bone can result in a number of serious complications, collectively called SREs. These include fracture of a bone, the need for radiation to bone, the need for bone surgery, or spinal cord compression. All are serious complications for advanced cancer patients. The economic burden of United States (U.S.) patients with bone metastases is significant and was estimated to be $12.6 billion last year.(3) Patients with bone metastases who experience an SRE incur significantly higher medical costs compared with those who do not experience an SRE.(4) Amgen discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers innovative human therapeutics. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen was one of the first companies to realize the new science's promise by bringing safe and effective medicines from lab, to manufacturing plant, to patient. Amgen therapeutics have changed the practice of medicine, helping millions of people around the world in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other serious illnesses. With a deep and broad pipeline of potential new medicines, Amgen remains committed to advancing science to dramatically improve people's lives. To learn more about our pioneering science and our vital medicines, visit www.amgen.com. This news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including estimates of revenues, operating margins, capital expenditures, cash, other financial metrics, expected legal, arbitration, political, regulatory or clinical results or practices, customer and prescriber patterns or practices, reimbursement activities and outcomes and other such estimates and results. 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ZOMETA is a registered trademark of Novartis Oncology. *Editors Note: The FDA has provisionally approved the trade name Prolia(TM) for the proposed indications of treatment and prevention of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, and treatment and prevention of bone loss in patients undergoing hormone ablation for non-metastatic prostate or breast cancer, for which denosumab is administered twice yearly subcutaneously at a 60 mg dose. The Prolia(TM) trade name is only for these indications and may not apply for other indications of denosumab. Coleman, R. Potential use of bisphosphonates in the prevention of metastases in early-stage breast cancer. Clin Breast Cancer. 2007; 7(Suppl 1):S29-35. 2Coleman RE. Metastatic bone disease: clinical features, pathophysiology and treatment strategies. Cancer Treat Rev. 2001;27:165-76. Capanna R, Coia LR, Coleman R. et al. eds. Textbook of Bone Metastases. Hoboken, NJ: Edition: John Wiley and Sons; 2005:105. Mundy GR. 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__label__cc	0.603889	0.396111	College of Education and Health Professions Rehabilitation, Human Resources and Communication Disorders Links to important University of Arkansas pages UAConnect webBASIS Colleague: news & events Office of Diversity Scholarship Office Request Information: Graduate Request Information: Undergraduate Office of Teacher Education All Faculty, Staff Curriculum & Instruction (CIED) Education Reform (EDRE) Eleanor Mann School of Nursing (NURS) Health, Human Performance & Recreation (HHPR) Occupational Therapy (OTD) Rehabilitation, Human Resources & Communication Disorders (RHRC) OASIS - Advising University Recreation (UREC) Employees: Current Employees: New Non-Classified Administrative Council Impacts of Giving Update your Alumni Records RHRC News Arkansas PROMISE Administration Directory U of A COEHP Brent Thomas Williams Associate Professor of Counselor Education and Supervision Principal Investigator, Arkansas PROMISE Model Demonstration Project (EDUC)-Education (RHRC)-Rehab, Human Resources, & Comm.Disorders Email: btwilli@uark.edu Disability and Social Security/Ticket to Work Rehabilitation counselor professional development Rehabilitation continuing education Rehabilitation outcomes Institution and faculty scholarship Medical aspects of disability Psychological aspects of disability Vocational, psychological and educational evaluation Rehabilitation research Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana, Rehabilitation & Adult, Continuing and Distance Education, 1999 M.S., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology, 1994 B.A., Austin College, Psychology, 1987 Brent Thomas Williams received his Ph.D. in Rehabilitation & Adult, Continuing and Distance Education in 1999 and his M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology in 1994. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Austin College in 1987. Following his master’s degree, Brent worked as the Director of Research for the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Dallas and as the Program Coordinator of the National Center for Physical Activity and Disability at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2002 he joined the faculty as Program Coordinator of the Rehabilitation Education and Research Program at the at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. Brent serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment. Brent has held leadership positions in professional organizations including of the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (ARCA) and the National Council of Rehabilitation Education (NCRE). Brent also holds positions on the board of directors for two local independent living centers as well the Arkansas Governors’ Independent Living Advisory Board. Department of Rehabilitation, Human Resources and Communication Disorders 100 Graduate Education Building rhrcgrad@uark.edu About the U of A Taskstream U of A Cares Pat Walker Health UofA Virtual Tour 1 University of Arkansas APPLY Online Schedule a VISIT Support Campaign Arkansas Edit webpage	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41420
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__label__cc	0.668992	0.331008	Everyone has a friend or acquaintance who’s somewhat difficult to reach. In spite of our sporadic, laborious contact attempts, we eventually managed to meet at a common friend’s place for the photos… And they had to have some iconic Rio view as a background. (They Came to Save Us) A contact leads to a little known place, that somehow symbolizes the changes undergoing in his life. Also an opportunity for a moment of recreation during the photo session. Blending in with the City Marc had been struggling to get back for good to the city he loves so much. He agreed that this picture somehow depicts his will to merge back with the city. An architect, passionate about his work, happens to visit Rio and to stay right in front of one of the most iconic buildings in town. The National Hotel was once part of a now failed and abandoned plan, by progessist architects and city planners like Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, to give Rio an entire new, more democratic face. Heygate Johnny Johnny lives just a few blocks from a huge 1970’s housing project that was being demolished as part of a gentrification process happening in his area, in South London. That was the place he chose to be portrayed for sentimental reasons Change Comes, Like a Thief in The Night Also a photographer, with interesting works in nude, Colton had never been on the other side of the lens. An interaction that was not just fun, but enlightening. Tale of a City An activist, fighting for a greater participation of citizens in city planning, and a guy who happened to live right at the verge of the unchecked high rise developments that have been plaguing what was once a bucolic colonial town in Brazil. A tale of dealing with the devil and the prices to be paid. Nata Goiaba An architect visiting town for carnival. Access to a location in the once thriving, now abandoned city center and it’s high rises from past decades, now decaying. This photo was the happy winner of the French Normal Magazine’s #07, Male Edition contest. Pleasure Pier The exploration of a friend’s fetishes to be registered in photos led to the discovery of this secluded location in northeastern Brazil. The innaugural match of 2014’s World Cup, that literally paralysed the country, was a perfect opportunity to explore possibilities of photographing in “impossible” places, like this 8-lane trhoughfare in Rio. Just add a buddy willing to be in those places and we’re all set. The first day of 2015 marked the fulfilling of an old wish: to photograph in a theatre. Thanks to an unexpected contact with access to one of the main stages in my hometown this series was made. Not a Gated Community A tourist visiting, interested in the project. A little trespassing, a few lights here and there. All very quick, before someone passes on the road behind us. Gavea Tourist Hotel You eventually find about this huge building from the 1950’s that was supposed to be a luxury hotel, perched high in a mountain in Rio. All it takes is a couple of friends who share your passion for abandoned places, and lots of care to get to the top of it and have some images made. Lightrapping in the Making In 2015 a short movie was made, inspired by the “Read the Profile” project. As I followed the cast and crew during the filming, I managed to get some of them to go through a little of the process involved in the project and had some images done between the movie shots. In a trip to the US, I met Dirk, whose journey from coast to coast also led to a much more relevant inner journey. In his workplace serendipity did its trick and I found what might summarize his inner travels: this huge light tree that immediately related to our chats and the story of Buddha, carried by him in his huge back tattoo. During a vacation trip, Oliver sent a message saying that he admired a lot my work but would never have the courage to do anything like that. A few days later we were crossing the city in a taxi, heading towards a liberating experience for him. Eyeglasses, Between the Arch and the Abyss Contact with Edipo led to the discovery of natural wonders from my native state, both human and natural. Eyes that Can't Behold Sometimes the new is right in front of us, but remains unseen. A moment of change and reflection. Who Watches The Lurkers Abandoned places can be a kind of doorway to our unconscious or buried thoughts and wishes. By entering those places one may experience all sorts of sensations and let imagination run free. To some of us it may work as an independent territory, where the reins that usually bind our daily actions can be held a little looser. The reenactment of a game played by the subject in places like that was the theme for these photos, in an abandoned brewery in former East Berlin. Brewery Ballroom Exploring fantasies and taking the game of seeing and being seen to another level amidst the chaos of what used to be a huge industrial installation. To Marcio, the making of the photos was an important moment, part of an ongoing process of overcoming a pathological fear of heights. Danger Series A series involving many subjects, inspired by the many dangers and setbacks that have risen against the progessive sectors of Brazilian (not to say global) society, particularly against the gay community. Dealing with the feeling of belonging to a place you chose to live and the oneness with the natural beauties that surround it. Rebirth, renewal and the celebration of the joys hidden in simple things, like the landscape that surrounds us. White Clouds Overcoming many fears and inhibitions, comes the liberating feeling of surrendering to something you wished for a long time. Like an eletrical discharge that has been building up, waiting to happen… Playing Cat and Mouse – “It is possible to shoot on the rooftop, but a genitor needs to be present all the time…” (Thinking emoji) – Ok! Rumbo al Sur Chance once more doing its work, in what should be only an exploratory excursion for future photos. The Long And Darkening Road The more I talked with Luís about the situations we might portray in the photos, the more it all looked to me like a metaphor for the times we are living in Brazil. Ideas revolving around situations of helplessness, isolation, and imminent danger. Being overpowered by forces one doesn’t control or even fully understand. 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__label__wiki	0.563378	0.563378	Home / Shop / Bookshop / Natural History / Flowers & Botanical / NOOTEN, Berthe Hoola van. NOOTEN, Berthe Hoola van. Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies de la flore et de la pomone de l'Ile de Java peints d'après nature. Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisies de la flore et de la pomone de l’Ile de Java peints d’après nature. Brussels and Leipzig, Émile Tarnier, 1863. SKU: 99618 Categories: Bookshop, Flowers & Botanical, Natural History Tags: 19th century, Colour plate books Rare First Edition, beautifully bound, with the fine decorative plates very clean. They depict a mixture of indigenous, naturalised and introduced plants, chosen principally for their eye-catching beauty. In the preface Berthe Hoola van Nooten (1840-1885) states that she produced this book in order to clear a debt incurred through family misfortune, and ‘provide by labour the wants of a numerous family’. Berthe Hoola van Nooten (1840-1885 produced the present work as a heroic response to circumstances which left her on Java, a widow in her early twenties with a family to support and little money, certainly not enough to pay for her family’s passage home to Belgium. ‘Aware of the vogue in Europe for exotic flora, she decided to take advantage of her enforced exile and put to use the skill at flower painting that she had no doubt acquired as a girl. Thus she prepared forty magnificent plates for Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de l’Ile de Java. [van Nooten] was clearly a more than competent artist, for the splendid tropical plants, with their lush foliage, vividly coloured flowers and exotic fruit, have been depicted with great skill. She managed to accentuate the splendour of each species by adopting a style that combined great precision and clarity with a touch of neo-Baroque exuberance, revelling in the rich forms and colours of the tropics. The reader’s eye is immediately captured by the dark leaves, shown furled or crumpled or partly nibbled away by insects, the delicately rendered details of the follicles and seeds, and the heavy clusters of flowers that cascade down the page. The excellent reproduction of the artist’s drawings in the form of chromolithographs lends an added tactility to these striking images’ (Oak Spring Flora ). The work consists of a lithographed dedication (in rhyme) to the Queen of the Netherlands. This is followed by a preface in which the author hints at the tragic personal circumstances which led her to seek a publisher for the work, and the forty plates, each of which is accompanied by detailed text in French and English giving a description as well as occasional information on the plants’ culinary, medical, religious and other uses. The plates depict a mixture of indigenous, naturalised and introduced plants and include shrubs, flowering trees and, perhaps the most striking of all, 16 portraits of plants with edible fruits: pomelo, rambutan, mangosteen, custard-apple, bread-fruit, mango, bananas, star-fruit and papaya amongst others. From the library of one of Dundee’s most prominent jute barons. Ogilvy Dalgleish (1832-1913) studied at Edinburgh University before joining Baxter Brothers’ mills in 1854. He went on to marry Sir David Baxter’s niece, becoming chairman of the company after Baxter’s death in 1872. A notable philanthropist, he gave generous gifts to many Dundee institutions and was the principal benefactor of Dundee University College’s Medical School. His home was at Errol Park, Perthshire, reknowned for its gardens with many rare and exotic species. First edition. folio (59.5 x 45 cm), 40 chromolithographed plates by P. Depannemaeker after Hoola van Nooten, some heightened in gum arabic; contemporary green half morocco gilt, all edges gilt, a fine copy. Provenance: Sir William Ogilvy Dalgleish of Errol, 1st Baronet (bookplate). Great Flower Books (1990) p.103; Landwehr 80; Nissen BBI 93; Oak Spring Flora 87; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 3025. NEKRASOV, Nikolay Alekseevich. Последния песни. Стихотворения. КОЛОКОЛЬЦОВ, Константин Васильевич [KOLOKOLTSOV, Konstantin Vasilievich]. Хор любителей духовой музыки, состоящий под августейшим государя императора покровительством: Очерк 1858-1897. KRYLOV, Ivan Andreevich. Басни русские: извлеченные из собрания И. А. Крылова с подражанием на французском и итальянском языках разными авторами. KITCHENER, Horatio Nerbert, Earl. Resolution of the House of Lords and the House of Commons	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41439
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__label__wiki	0.797587	0.797587	« Burner Attitude \| Main \| Desert Water Agency Hearing On District Elections - February 19, 2019 » Mission Springs Water District Board Meetings, January 17 & 22, 2019 This is a summary of the board meetings of January 17 and January 22, 2019. On the 17th, all five board members were present. On the 22nd, President Duncan was absent. Jeff Bowman came to the podium. Jeff Bowman, owner of Living Waters Spa. The office of Director for Mission Springs Water District is critical to the people of the district. They depend on their directors to be smart, honest, caring and, above all, truthful. Steve Grasha, you are not a truthful person. You are liar. You won the seat on this board by lying. The pinnacle of your lies was when you called me a child molester, both on Facebook and in an email blast to the voters. It was so outrageous that even the Desert Hot Springs chief of police wrote an email where he said, I quote, "Mr. Bowman, you are not nor have you ever been linked to child pornography or any type of sexual exploitation of a minor. I have never even heard a whisper of impropriety about you." But, Steve, you are a liar and you made that up. You started out with a campaign statement that has lies and fabrications in every paragraph. Let me start with the very first. "Technical Water Systems Engineer for 34 years." Doing an internet research on this occupation reveals that a water engineer is someone who deals with the provision of clean water, disposal of waste water and sewage, and the prevention of flood damage. How does one get this very specific title? Well, water engineers must have a Bachelor of Science or a Master of Science degree in either civil engineering, geology, environmental sciences, or mechanical engineering. So, Steve Grasha, where did you get your BS or MS engineering degree? As it turns out, you don't have one. So you lied and deceived the voters about your education. You presented yourself to the voters and told them that you are a "water systems engineer." And by calling yourself an engineer, you're insulting all those who have earned degrees and you deceived the voters. Then you spun your lie even further and you said "I have designed technologically advanced and sophisticated water projects worldwide. Steve, you've never designed technologically advanced or sophisticated water projects. I cannot find your name associated with any such projects. You've never worked for a company as an engineer because you're not an engineer. Last month when you were sworn into office at the end of the meeting you were served a lawsuit we saw. You've been sued many times. What is the reason you're served now. I'm sure we'll find out. You, Steve Grasha, are a liar, a fraud and deceived your way into public office. Thus, your election is really a sham. It came about by lies. For a fact, if the voters knew these things they would not have voted for you. I'm calling you to resign as you're an embarrassment to the district. Thank you, Mr. President. Bob Thiery with People Over Pollution spoke next. He's also on the SSMP long term committee for the Salton Sea. He came to speak about an MOU that he said would be coming before the board soon. It is being circulated by the Salton Sea Authority. The MOU does not include ocean water importation. He asked the board to add an additional "whereas" to the MOU expressing support for including ocean water importation in the long-term plans for the Salton Sea. The City of Desert Hot Springs has already done so, he said. Dotty Wilder wanted to know if within her park are the water and sewer pipes privately owned by the HOA or by the district? The Finance Director was directed to meet with Ms. Wilder to answer her question. Dick Cromwell thanked the maintenance department for taking care of the CNG station. During the heavy rains, mud washed across the road and into the CNG station. MSWD staffers cleaned the mud away. California Voting Rights Act This was an informational presentation made by the attorney. Voters who are a member of a race, color or language minority group are said to be in a protected class. When there is racially polarized voting, members of a protected class are unable to elect their candidate(s). To determine if there is racially polarized voting, election results are examined. Proof of intent to discriminate is not required. An agency with at-large elections would be served with a demand letter from a potential plaintiff to force them to comply with the voting rights act. The agency then has four months in which to enact district elections. The attorney then said she believed that 91 days is about four months (obviously a student of Russell Betts). 91 days is about three months. The agency can negotiate with the potential plaintiffs for more time. At the end of the process, the agency would pay the potential plaintiffs $30,000. A few political entities have refused to comply and have fought back. All have lost and ended up paying far more than that token $30,000. The population of Mission Springs Water District is about half white, half people of color. An agency does not have to wait for a demand letter, but could switch to district elections on its own and be spared the $30,000 payment. The attorney said many of the demand letters have come from "Southwest Voters and Outreach Project." Google can turn up neither hide nor hair of an organization with that name, but there is the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project which sent just such a demand letter to the City of Palm Springs. Director Grasha asked if they were all lawyers, but without waiting for a complete answer from the attorney, he said he had looked them up and "they're all lawyers." Actually, the President of that organization graduated with a history degree and the vice president with a bachelor's degree in sociology, so there are at least two of them who aren't lawyers. Mr. Grasha complained that the district had paid an attorney $75,000 last month and there had been no explanation. He said that if the district acts to conform to the California Voting Rights Act it will have to pay more money to attorneys. Spicer Consulting Group The district is putting together an assessment district (Assessment District 18) that will allow residents to install sewers to replace septic tanks. This item is for a $39,000 contract with Spicer Consulting Group as assessment engineer. Forming an assessment district is a process that will require a vote of the property owners in the proposed district to form that district. Before that vote, the district will engage in a neutral education effort. Below is a map showing the several non-contiguous areas that will make up AD 18, the biggest of which is Mission Lakes Country Club. MSWD will seek grants, as it has in the past, that will greatly reduce the cost of building sewers for the property owners. Approved 4-0. San Gorgonio Pass Subbasin Rules of Conduct The district is part of the San Gorgonio Pass Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan. Other members are the Desert Water Agency, Banning Heights Mutual Water Company, City of Banning, Cabazon Water District and San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency. This item is only to approve or disapprove the rules of conduct. An example from the agreement: The GSP Working Group members agree to work together to create a problem-solving environment and agree to the following ground rules: Use common courtesy All ideas and points of view have value and will be respected Be honest, fair and candid Avoid editorials Honor time and be concise Think innovatively and welcome new ideas Invite humor and good will They have received a grant of $1 million towards the cost of establishing a groundwater sustainability plan for the San Gorgonio Pass. Mid-year Budget Adjustments Operating Budget Increases: Replenishment of other budget items Meter Postage 3,500 Returned Check Charges 1,000 Smart Meter Pilot Program 79,000 Mid-Year Increases to budget Legal 500,000 Water Prod. Spvsr. Interim 75,000 SOMA Annual Report 7,000 Credit Card Processing 60,000 Valve Maintenance Pilot Program 40,000 Wastewater Outside Services 15,000 Supplies (warehouse) 2,800 Increases related to changes in Classification Plan 3,868 Total Operating Budget Increases $ 787,168 % of Total Operating expenses 5.0% Capital Budget Increases; Production Meters 50,000 Hydrological Study for Indio Subbasin 125,000 Total Capital Budget Increases $ 175,000 The additional legal expenses are for the lawsuit against the Desert Water Agency. Approved 3-1 with Director Grasha voting against. He did not explain his vote. Federal Advocacy Services To renew the annual contract with the district's lobbying service at $48.000 per year. Coachillin' Reimbursement Agreement Coachillin', the big marijuana cultivation site being developed on the east side of Indian Canyon between 18th and 19th Avenues, will construct sewer and water lines. This 10-year agreement allows Coachillin' to be reimbursed for its expenses as new property owners develop their sites. Director Grasha asked if water would be supplied to Coachillin' at agricultural prices. The answer is that MSWD does not offer an agricultural rate. Customers in the Coachillin' development will pay the non-residential rate for water. Mr. Grasha then asked if it was going to be an outdoor grow. [FYI, no one has proposed any outdoor grows in the Coachella Valley]. Coachillin' is the industrial property developer that will sell sites to individual cultivators. So far, all are indoors. Mr. Grasha asked what the enforcement mechanism is to ensure that cultivators are not simply dumping their sewage out onto the desert. There are three operating cultivators there now. Two are already connected to sewer. The Regional Water Quality Control Board regulates the sewage that is flowing to a septic system. Mr. Grasha said he never noticed anything on the site until just a few months ago, even though development of that site has been going on much longer than that. He said he didn't know it was going on, that he doesn't read the newspaper or go to city council meetings. Mr. Grasha said there are some holding tanks on the site. "What are they doing with that...at night?" he asked. A staff member began to reply, but Mr. Grasha didn't wait for the answer and spoke over him saying "'Cause I know what goes on over there." Director Wright who is on the Regional Water Quality Control Board said they know what's going on there. Staff explained that the City of DHS is working out an arrangement to verify that cultivators there are using legitimate haulers to take their waste to treatment facilities that will accept it. MSWD is working with the city on that. Mr. Grasha said that if they are growing hydroponically, then their waste water is toxic. Staff said no one is growing hydroponically there now. Every facility is using reverse osmosis to filter their recirculated water. The two operating cultivators are discharging about 1,000 gallons every three months. There are places in Orange and Los Angeles Counties that will accept their waste. Mr. Grasha said the cultivators are going to provide a paper trail only for what they admit to. Someone told Mr. Grasha that two police officers keep an eye on this. President Duncan explained that regulations are in place for all businesses governing their disposal of wastewater and no district can micro-manage the businesses in its purview. Ms. Wright explained there are big fines for violating the rules on the dumping of wastewater. Liens In Assessment District 12, Area J-1-2 Upon completion of the new sewers in AD12, Area J-1-2, the district notified all property owners that they were required to connect to the sewer. The district files a lien against any property that doesn't connect so that they are forced to connect when they want to sell the property. There are only 12 properties being affected by this. The board president gets to appoint the committees. They are... Executive committee: Randy Duncan, Chair, and Russ Martin. Engineering: Ivan Sewell, Chair, and Steve Grasha. Finance: Russ Martin, Chair, and Nancy Wright. Human Resources: Steve Grasha, Chair, and Ivan Sewell. Public Affairs: Nancy Wright, Chair, and Randy Duncan. The first name listed is the one with primary responsibility for attending meetings of the affiliated entities; the second name is backup. CSDA - Russ Martin CVWD - Randy Duncan, Russ Martin DHS City Council - Russ Martin, Nancy Wright Hoteliers - Ivan Sewell, Nancy Wright RDA Oversight - Russ Martin Groundwater Guardians - Ivan Sewell, Nancy Wright San Gorgonio Pass - Russ Martin, Nancy Wright Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce - Ivan Sewell, Russ Martin Riverside County Flood Control - Ivan Sewell Director Grasha asked if the city still had a redevelopment agency. Russ Martin explained to him the process by which RDAs were dismantled statewide. Mr. Grasha said there seemed to be lot of work outside of the district. He said the district has a built-in plan for failure. President Duncan had offered him an affiliation with the Groundwater Guardians, but he had turned it down. Mr. Grasha said there is only one meeting a month and there are so many things on the agenda it's like "you're trying to keep us out of the building." There are at least two meetings a month, a study session and a business session. In addition, there is often a monthly workshop to focus on one subject. Also, IMO, we don't elect directors to sit in the MSWD headquarters building. The building is for staff. The directors are supposed to be making contact with the public and then voting. Mr. Grasha said the directors should focus on district business. And they should be able to do that without having to go to a Chamber of Commerce meeting in order to receive the per diem. President Duncan explained directors go to other meetings in order to form relationships outside the district and to gather information. Mr. Grasha said the same value was being put on two separate functions. He said young people should never get involved in public life because they would go bankrupt helping their neighbor. Mr. Grasha said the $100 per diem was not enough. Mr. Grasha said that at the business meeting they would be approving a $75,000 payment to an attorney for work "that has yet to be identified as critical." Mr. Grasha is sadly mistaken on that point. The $75,000 was approved and paid before he came on the board. The actual payment is listed in the Register of Demands this month. The Register of Demands is essentially the checkbook statement. You might disapprove of your checking account statement, but doing so won't make those checks you wrote magically reverse direction and flow back into your account. Mr. Grasha said the district can't identify why it's suing. He then went on to say that it has been explained to him, but he doesn't understand it. At this point he was far enough off the agenda that the attorney stepped in and redirected the discussion who offered to discuss the case in closed session. "There's a lot of money flowing in a lot of directions..." Mr. Grasha said, trailing off. President Duncan agreed and pointed out this was only his second meeting and that with time he would learn the purpose of the lawsuit and what could be lost. Mr. Grasha continued to ask for an explanation, but President Duncan said it was not doing to be discussed at this time. Director Wright suggested that Mr. Grasha be given a copy of the lawsuit. Mr. Grasha said he had it and he had read it. The lawsuit they are talking about is against the Desert Water Agency which is trying to take control of our aquifers. New Wastewater Treatment Facility In the past month they have completed the preliminary design report, the geotechnical report, and the permitting technical memorandum. That's about 95% of the Phase 1 tasks. The survey plans are still outstanding. Developing plant specifications and estimates are part of Phase 2, which has now begun. They have completed updates to the NEPA/CEQA project description. They have completed preliminary design on the conveyance, that is, the lift station and pipe to carry wastewater from developed residential areas to the new plant. The solar power plant has been tested and is now online generating electricity. I-10/Indian Sewers Every property owner in that area has been contacted and "they are, frankly, just not ready to take any action." They may be considering an alternate, more expensive plan from the City of Palm Springs. The district's next task will be to talk to Palm Springs about the current status of our new wastewater treatment facility. Register of Demands Director Grasha pointed out two items in the Register of Demands: Check Number Check Date Paid To Description Operating Capital Total 9985505 12-20-18 Slovak Baron & Empey LLP Legal Fees 71,283.85 71,283.85 66883 12-20-18 Desert Sun Publishing Co Marketing Expense 3,332.75 3,332.75 He didn't say anything about these two, but merely read them aloud. Approved 3-1, Mr. Grasha voting against. When Vice President Martin called for the No votes, Mr. Grasha sat silently. Mr. Martin explained to him that if intended to vote No, now would be the time. Mr. Grasha said he thought that when he pulled it from the consent agenda that would register as a No vote. Mr. Martin explained to him that first the board discusses and then it votes on it. Upon hearing this, Mr. Grasha said he voted No. President Duncan reported on the DWA meeting he attended where he noted that they were discussing going to district elections in closed session. Karl Baker was in attendance there also and asked the DWA board to move the discussion to the open session, but of course, they did not do that. When Director Grasha was asked if he had a report to make he said "I do have thoughts." President Duncan asked "Thoughts or reports?" "I'm afraid how far afield I'll go if I start on..." On January 8 he attended the swearing in of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. He rambled on about working on the Sheriff's election campaign four years ago. He asked the Sheriff to resign in December 2017. He said his endorsement in the Sheriff's race was "circulated on the internet more than any other endorsement in the entire 2018 cycle." He didn't share with us his means for making that measurement. The Sheriff was sworn in "just a few days ago," he explained. "I can't and will not address your allegations because of ongoing investigations. I won't do it." He did not identify who he was addressing when he said that, but President Duncan explained that this was not the part of the agenda to do that. Mr. Grasha said he would have to do it in such a way that no one would understand it. Director Wright said she was very sad to hear about Greg Pettis passing away. She had worked with him many times. "God rest his soul." Director Grasha said he was with Greg Pettis the night he got the phone call he was going to be appointed to city council. "He was a lefty! A no good lefty." Mr. Grasha also commented on the subpoena he was served a month previously. He said that was due to Karl Baker investigating his lack of disclosure. The subpoena was from the Fair Political Practices Commission. He had not been willing to provide his bank account records without a subpoena. If he had submitted them by email, then they could have been accessed via a public records request. He used his personal bank account to finance his campaign which is not legal. He was fined $147. Mr. Grasha said he thought he was elected to the board because the subject of the Sentinel power plant came up for discussion during his campaign and he got "a thousand likes" on that. He said he had gotten word that CVAG has "promised" that they would "go after $22 million in funding to put Desert Hot Springs back in the CVAG loop." He said he is opposed to CV-Link. He said CVAG is "laying $22 million at our doorstep as a peace offering." When Director Wright said the money had already been divided up (she's right), Mr. Grasha said this was "new funding." (He's wrong.) "This is a victory for Steve Grasha," he said, "not for Nancy." When Director Wright asked him to explain this, he said "No, it's a surprise." He said "You can read about it on the KESQ website." You can believe that I came home and searched the KESQ website for any recent info on CVAG, Steve Grasha, $22 million, CV-Link, or Desert Hot Springs and found zilch. Repeated my searches the next day and still zilch. Fortunately, a very well-informed person told me after the meeting that Mr. Grasha doesn't know what he's talking about. Filed under Coachella Valley,Desert Hot Springs \| permalink \| February 12, 2019 at 01:59 PM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41448
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__label__wiki	0.519363	0.519363	Embezzler Son of Illiterate Tax Collector Escapes Detectives at Ray’s Mill, GA June 29, 2010 at 1:08 am (Law and Order, Studstill Family) Tags: Ashdown AK, Atlantic Coast Line Railway, Atlantic National Bank, Bank of Milltown, Bowling Green FL, John F. Studstill, Milltown GA, Nashville GA, R.W. Tygart, Ray City GA, Ray's Mill, Silas Tygart, W.H. Studstill, William Hustus Studstill Read more about Ray City, GA history at http://raycity.pbworks.com/ On April 3, 1909 the Atlanta Georgian and News reported charges of malfeasance against the office of the Berrien County Tax Collector, W.H. Studstill. By today’s standards it seems difficult to believe, but just 100 year’s ago the Berrien tax collector was an illiterate who could not sign his own name. All of this may have only indirectly affected Ray’s Mill residents, in that they and all other Berrien County tax payers were the victims of the embezzlement. But a follow-up article (below) from the Atlanta Constitution carries the drama to the Ray’s Mill stage. Atlanta Georgian and News SHORTAGE IS CHARGED Berrien Tax Collector Makes Affidavit. Nashville, Ga., April 3. – Tax Collector W.H. Studstill may be called upon to make good an alleged claim of $913 which is charged against him. A year ago Studstill’s bondsmen made good a shortage of several hundred dollars, after Studstill had sacrificed all his property. The county authorities permitted Studstill to continue in office to the end of his term, January 1, 1909, with the understanding that Silas and R.W. Tygart, of Nashville, have charge of the affairs of the office. When Messers Tygart undertook to collect the Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company’s taxes the company answered by stating that they had forwarded their check for the amount during the latter part of December, and that it had been paid, indorsed [sic] by W. H. Studstill, tax collector of Berrien county, per John F. Studstill, at the Atlantic National Bank of Jacksonville, Fla., on December 27, 1908. Studstill was in Nashville on Monday and signed an affidavit that he had not received the money, and that he knew nothing of the transaction. Studstill is an illiterate man, not being able to even sign his name. During his administration – except last year – his son, John F. Studstill has, transacted all business connected with the office of his father. Studstill’s affidavit, with a statement of the circumstances of the case, have been forwarded to Comptroller-General Wright. On May 26, 1909, the Atlanta Constitution reported the following escape from Detective Tucker in Rays Mill, GA (nka Ray City, GA): ESCAPES FROM DETECTIVE John F. Studsill Charged with Getting Money Fraudulently. Milltown, Ga., May 25. – (Special)- John F. Studstill, who was recently captured in Bowling Green, Fla., on advices from Ashdown for getting money fraudulently, escaped from Detective Tucker, who had him in charge, while waiting for the train at Ray’s Mill, near here, Saturday afternoon. Studstill has been in considerable trouble here of late about money matters; he was for two years his father’s assistant in the tax collector’s office in this (Berrien) county, but was under no bond. Last year the county commissioners called for a settlement from the tax collector, but Tax Collector Studstill was unable to produce the books, claiming his son, John F. Studstill, had them. The commissioners finally checked up Sr. Studstill’s books, and found him several thousand dollars short, which he promptly made good. It seems that his son, John F. Studstill, did all the work in the office, and it was through his hands that the money was short. Some time during the fall the Atlantic Coast Line railway sent W. H. Studstill a check to this place, as this is his home and postoffice, a check covering their taxes for 1908, the check amounting to $913.55. John F. Studstill got it from the office, and carried it to Jacksonville, Fla., and cashed it at one of the banks there. Studstill got word that they were on his track, so he left home here, and took a steamer from Jacksonville for parts unknown. After a delay of two weeks or more the Bank of Milltown, of this place, began to get sight drafts from Studstill at different points in Texas, finally winding up with a draft through the Ashdown bank, of Ashdown, Ark., for $5,-000. All the drafts were turned down, as Studstill had withdrawn all his funds from the bank. Perhaps a reader or additional research will provide the conclusion to this saga of family betrayal, embezzlement, and flight from justice. More on John F. Studstill ~ Ray City Fugitive John F. Studstill Was Wanted in Arkansas (raycityhistory.wordpress.com)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41456
__label__wiki	0.675481	0.675481	Notes on Sarah Malinda Clements January 28, 2015 at 12:09 am (Clements Family, Fender Family, Gaskins Family) Tags: A B Surrency, Abner Sirmans, Albert B. Surrency, Anne Donald Clements, Arrin Horn Guthrie, Beaverdam burial grounds, Beaverdam Creek, Berrien County GA, Berrien Minute Men, Bettie Kirkland, Betty, Bill Jack Knight, Captain Knight's Company, Captain Levi J. Knight's Company, Chester Nobles, Clinch County GA, David G. Clements, Dooly County GA, Elizabeth Clements, Elizabeth Roena Patten, Elizabeth Sirmans, Etheldred Dryden Newbern, Fisher Gaskins, Frank Gallagher, George W. Fender, Gincey Sirmans, Harmon Gaskins, Henry D. Bennett, Henry Studstill, Henry Warren Clements, Indian Wars, Influenza, James W. Suggs, John B. Fountain, John C. Clements, John Gaskins, Josiah, Josiah Sirmans, L.E. Lastinger, Lacy Beagles, Levi J. Clements, Levi J. Knight, Lowndes County GA, Lula Bell Smith, Lula Fender, Malinda Ammon, Malinda Linnie Proctor, Mary Ann Clements, Mary Evelyn Gaskins, New Ramah Cemetery, Parnell Knight, Phil McGowan, Ray City GA, Sarah Malinda Clements, Sherrod Winfield Fender, Wayne County GA, William Anderson Knight, William Clements, William Gaskins, William H. Gaskins, William J. Knight, Wright Suggs Sarah Malinda Clements (1862-1947) Sarah Malinda Clements was born March 12, 1862 in Berrien County, GA. She was the youngest of 13 children born to David G. Clements and Gincey Sirmans. She was a sister of Levi Jordan Clements, who was the patriarch of the Clements sawmill business at Ray City. Sarah’s parents were pioneer settlers of the area. They were married in Lowndes County, GA on January 1, 1835. Her father came with his parents to Lowndes County about 1832. Her grandfather William Clements and William A. Knight had been neighbors in Wayne County, GA, and her aunt Anne Donald Clements had married Levi J. Knight in 1827. Her mother was Gincey Sirmans, a daughter of Abner Sirmans and Bettie Kirkland. Abner Sirmans, his brothers, and father, Josiah Sirmans, were among the first permanent settlers of Clinch County, GA, having arrived there in 1822. Her aunt Elizabeth “Betsy” Sirmans married Etheldred Dryden Newbern, another pioneer settler of Berrien County. Sarah’s father and both of her grandfathers, fought under the command of their friend and neighbor Levi J. Knight in the Indian Wars of 1836-1838. David G. Clements, William Clements and Abner Sirmans all served with Captain Knight’s Independent Company. David Clements was among those who took part in the Battle of Brushy Creek, one of the last real engagements with the Creek Indians in this region. Soon after marriage, David G. Clements acquired lot of land 406, 10th district, on which he lived and farmed until his death. He was cut into Berrien out of Lowndes County, 1856. In Berrien County, the Clements home place was in the 1144th Georgia Militia District just north of Ray’s Mill (now Ray City), GA. In 1854, Sarah’s sister, Elizabeth Clements, married William Gaskins. The Clements were neighbors of William Gaskins, son of Fisher Gaskins. The Gaskins were another of the early pioneer families of Berrien County. William Gaskins came to the area with his father and brothers, John Gaskins and Harmon Gaskins, with their large herds of cattle, about the same time the Knights and Clements were homesteading in the area around Beaverdam Creek (site of present day Ray City, GA). At the outset of the Civil War, Sarah’s father and brother, John C. Clements, answered the call of General Levi J. Knight to form a company of men for Confederate service; their names appear on an 1861 muster roll of the Berrien Minute Men. John C. Clements served with Company K, 29th Georgia Regiment; David G. Clements later appears on the 1864 census of southern men who were excluded from the draft on account of age. 1870 census enumeration of 8-year old Sarah Clements in the household of her mother, Gincey Clements. https://archive.org/stream/populationschedu0135unit#page/n438/mode/1up Sarah, born during the Civil War, grew up on her father’s farm during the Reconstruction period in Georgia. She attended the local country schools and was educated through the 5th grade. It appears that she lived in her father’s home until his death in 1888. Although Sarah married twice, she was not lucky in love. She did not marry until the age of 36. 1880 census enumeration of Sarah Ann Clements in the household of her father, David G. Clements. https://archive.org/stream/10thcensusl0134unit#page/n379/mode/1up In the Census of 1880, 18-year-old Sarah Ann Clements was enumerated by Census taker Lacy Elias Lastinger in her father’s household. Also present was Sarah’s older sister Mary Ann, to whom she was devoted for life, and their siblings. Next door were Sarah’s sister, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Clements, and her husband William Gaskins. Also neighbors were William’s niece Mary Evelyn Gaskins and her husband George W. Fender. On October 26, 1898 Sarah married William J. “Bill Jack” Knight. He was born in 1860, but otherwise little is known of his history. The ceremony was performed by Albert Benjamin Surrency in Berrien County, GA. Sarah Clements Sarah Clements and William J. Knight are enumerated together in the census of 1900 in their Rays Mill home. Sarah’s spinster sister, 59-year-old Mary Ann Clements, had also come to live in the Knight household. Sarah’s brother, John C. Clements, and his family remained as neighbors, as did George W. Fender. Sarah Clements and William J. Knight, 1900 https://archive.org/stream/12thcensusofpopu179unit#page/n763/mode/1up William and Sarah owned their farm near Ray’s Mill free and clear of mortgage. Only one offspring was born of this union, but the child died young. William J. Knight died on January 22, 1909 at his home near Ray’s Mill, GA. Obituary of William J. Knight, husband of Sarah Malinda Clements Information reached here Monday of the sudden death of Mr. “Bill Jack” Knight, a prominent resident of the Ray’s Mill district. Mr. Knight had been slightly indisposed for two or three days. After eating a light supper Friday night as he was sitting at the fireside he suddenly fell over and died. Mr. Knight was fifty years of age and was married about seven years ago to Miss Sarah Clements, of this place. He was laid to rest at the Beaverdam burial grounds. – Milltown News. The widow Sarah Knight was enumerated (as Sarah Clements) in 1910 with her sister Mary Ann Clements in their home just east of Ray’s Mill. They were neighbors of John B. Fountain and Frank Gallagher. 1910 Sarah Clements, Berrien County, GA https://archive.org/stream/13thcensus1910po172unit#page/n636/mode/1up Some time before 1920 Sarah married for a second time, joining in matrimony with James W. Suggs. He was from Dooly County, GA, a son of Malinda “Lynne” Proctor and Wright Suggs. Sarah and James W. Suggs were enumerated together in the Census of 1920, at their farm on a settlement road near Ray’s Mill. Sarah’s sister and constant companion, Mary Ann Clements, resided with the Suggs. On adjacent farms were Parnell Knight and Henry D. Bennett. The 1926 Influenza epidemic reached its peach in Georgia in March; 1926 was the worst flu year since the pandemics of 1918-1919 which had claimed 675,000 lives in the U.S. and more than 30 million worldwide. Sarah’s sister, Mary Ann Clements, at the age of 86, succumbed to Influenza, dying on March 26, 1926. She was attended by her nephew, Dr. Henry W. Clements, who was a son of Rowena Patten and Levi J. Clements. She was buried at Empire Church Cemetery. Death certificate of Mary Ann Clements, March 26, 1926, Ray City, GA Sometime between 1920 and 1930 James W. Suggs died, leaving Sarah widowed for the second time. Sarah, now on her own, boarded in the farm home of Sherrod Winfield Fender and his wife, Lula Bell Smith. Sherrod was a son of George W. Fender, and a neighbor of Henry Studstill, Arrin H. Guthrie, and Phil McGowan. Also lodging in the Fender household was Chester Nobles. https://archive.org/stream/georgiacensus00reel338#page/n369/mode/1up Sherrod W. Fender died in 1931, but Sarah continued to live with the widowed Lula Smith Fender. The 1940 census shows Sarah Suggs enumerated as a “companion” of Lula Fender. 1940 census enumeration of Sarah Clements Suggs in the Ray City, GA household of Lula Fender. Sarah Malinda Clements Suggs died April 8, 1947. She was buried at New Ramah Cemetery at Ray City, GA. (Lula Fender was a member of the New Ramah Primitive Baptist Church.) Grave of Sarah Clements Suggs (1862-1947), New Ramah Cemetery, Ray City, GA. Image Source: Robert Strickland, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52222556 The Estate of Green Bullard April 11, 2014 at 12:57 am (Bullard Family) Tags: Adam Allen Jones, Albert B. Surrency, Buie & Knight, Cat Creek GA, Dollie Howard Knight, Fannie Bullard Shaw, Green Bullard, Henry Needham Bullard, Jesse Shelby Shaw, Malone Bullard, Mary Ann Knight, Mary Johnson, Nashville GA, Possum Creek Road, Ray's Mill GA, Rays Mill Georgia, Sally Louise Bullard, Susan Bullard, W. H. Griffin, Will Simms, William A. Jones, William Berrien Shaw, William Hamilton Griffin, William Malachi Jones Green Bullard was a long time resident of the Rays Mill (now Ray City) area, and husband of Mary Ann Knight. The Bullards owned land out Possum Creek Road and on toward the community of Cat Creek. (See Green Bullard and Green Bullard Fought Sickness in the Civil War) Following Green Bullard’s death in 1907, there was some dispute among his children and step-children over the administration of his estate. One side of the family, represented by Buie & Knight, wanted Henry Needham Bullard appointed as administrator. The other side, represented by William Hamilton Griffin, wanted Mallie Jones as administrator. Attorney William Hamilton Griffin, who was judge of the Valdosta City Court and a former mayor of Valdosta. Col. Griffin was a native of Berrien County and had served previously as clerk of the Berrien County court and as Ordinary of Berrien County. Children of Mary A. Knight and William A. Jones (1835-1866) William Malachi Jones (1861-1925) Adam Allen Jones (1863-1922) Children of Green Bullard and Mary A. Knight Sally Louise Bullard (1866 – 1919) married Albert B. Surrency Susan Bullard (1871 – 1950) married Jesse Shelby “Doc” Shaw Fannie Bullard (1874 – 1941) married William Berrien Shaw Henry Needham Bullard (1878 – 1938) married Mary Johnson Louis Malone Bullard (1881 – 1945) married Dollie Howard Knight The court challenge was reported in the April 11, 1908 edition of the Valdosta Times. April 11, 1908 Administration of the estate of Green Bullard is contested by daughter Fannie Bullard Shaw Contest Over Administration Mr. William B. Shaw, of Bainbridge, representing his wife [Fannie Bullard Shaw], accompanied by his attorney, Judge W. H. Griffin, and Mr. Will Simms, went to Nashville yesterday to appear before the ordinary there and have Mr. Henry Bullard made administrator of the estate of Greene Bullard. Other heirs wanted Mr. Mallie Jones made administrator. Judge Griffin represented one side and Buie & Knight the other. Judge Patterson heard the arguments and later appointed the clerk of the superior court, probably as a compromise, or until the matter may be given further consideration. Green Bullard Green Bullard Fought Sickness in the Civil War DEATH OF MRS. BULLARD Mary “Polly” Futch and John Webb Bazemore-Griffin Wedding 1899 Family of Gus Calhoun, Berrien County, GA William H. Griffin, Wiregrass Jurist	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41457
__label__wiki	0.754823	0.754823	Double Jeopardy for Rachel Sirmans June 17, 2014 at 12:16 am (Sirmans Family, Uncategorized) Tags: Benjamin Swan, Berrien County GA, Bradford Ray, Burrell Hamilton Bailey, Emmaus Church, Flat Creek Church, Hardeman Sirmans, Hiram Ray, Jonathan Sirmans, Josiah Ray, Martha J. Swan, Martha M. Bailey, Martha Patsy Rouse, Rachel Jeffcoat, Rachel Sirmans, Samuel Mattox, Sarah King In Berrien County, GA in the summer of 1873 there arose a dispute between Burrell Hamilton Bailey and Bradford Ray over what has been described as “some family matters.” On June 23, 1873, while the two men were in the community of Alapaha, GA the argument turned violent. The exact nature of the dispute between Bradford Ray and B.H. Bailey has not been known these many years, but the research of Phil Ray may now shed some additional light on the matter. B. H. Bailey was the second husband of Rachel Sirmans Mattox. She was the widow of Samuel Mattox who was hanged at Troupville in 1843. She was a daughter of Jonathan Sirmans and Martha “Patsey” Rouse, and sister of Hardeman Sirmans. Bradford Ray, son of Hiram Ray and Rachel Jeffcoat (1817-1865), was the husband of Martha J. Swan. She was a daughter of Sarah King and Benjamin Swan. Marriage Certificate of Bradford Ray and Martha Swann, January 5, 1865, Berrien County, GA Up until 1873, everything seemed cozy between the Rays and the Baileys. In 1872, Bradford’s father made a land swap with Burrell Hamilton Bailey, trading the Ray place near Cat Creek for another farm in the 1307 Georgia Militia District, Lowndes County, GA. Bradford Ray remained behind to work for Bailey as a tenant farmer. That same year Bradford’s brother, Josiah Ray, married Martha M. Bailey, a daughter of Rachel and B.H. Bailey. In addition to these family connections Bradford and Martha Ray and Rachel Bailey were connected in faith, as well, all being members of the Primitive Baptist church at Flat Creek, then known as Emmaus Church. Flat Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Berrien County, GA. Bradford Ray, Martha J Ray, and Rachel Sirmans Bailey were among the members of the church. Flat Creek was the site at which Berrien County was organized, February 25, 1856 following the creation of the county by the state legislature. Image courtesy of http://berriencountyga.com/ It was in the church minutes that Phil Ray found indications that trouble was brewing between the Rays and the Baileys: “I believe Bradford’s murder by Burrell Bailey was a result of this church incident regarding Bradford’s wife and the accusations by Rachel Bailey against Martha Swan Ray at Emmaus Primitive Baptist, May 3rd 1873. It festered and led to the murder. This is all speculation of course but it does seem to have played a part in it.” The church minutes have been transcribed by W. Henry Griffin, and entries of May 3, 1873 and July 5, 1873 are of particular note: Emmaus Church (Flat Creek), A review of her history The Griffin Papers, Vol III, Pgs 78 – 79 May 3d, 1873 Martha Ray is reported in disorder and committee is appointed as follows Daniel N. McMillian, W. M. Avera and William Luke. Committee relies on statement of Mrs. Rachel Bailey and on her statement Mrs. Martha Ray is expelled. Bradford Ray, her husband demands dismission. D. N. McMillian, Solomon Griffin and D. P. Luke are appointed as a committee to labor with him. † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † † Bradford Ray having died the case on the church books against him was dismissed. While the contention among the women played out in the church, the men fought in the streets. The cause of Bradford Ray’s death was a confrontation with Burrell H. Bailey which occurred in the early morning hours of June 23, 1873, while the two men were in Alapaha, GA. When the standoff turned violent, Ray pulled a knife; Bailey pulled a gun. Bailey shot Ray in the stomach, inflicting a wound which proved fatal two weeks later. “Ray lived until Sunday morning, 1 o’clock, 29th ult. [June 29, 1873], when the spirit of the unfortunate man passed away. Thus were the hearts of two families made to mourn over an irreparable loss.” Burrell H. Bailey was indicted for murder. For Rachel Sirmans Bailey, it was a sort of double jeopardy. Her first husband, Samuel Mattox, had stood trial for the September 7, 1843 murder of William Slaughter and was hanged for the crime. Her second husband, Burrell Hamilton Bailey, tried for the 1873 murder of Bradford Ray, was acquitted. Later, the Baileys relocated to Florida. Rachel Sirmans Bailey died Apr. 14, 1876 and is buried at Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Sirmans, Madison County, FL. Burrell Hamilton Bailey, after the death of Rachel Sirmans, married Mahala M. Taylor Boatwright. He died March 22, 1885 in Lafayette County, FL. His grave is at Salem Cemetery, Taylor County, FL. Martha Swan Ray’s whereabouts after the death of Bradford Ray are unknown. Bradford Ray died June 29, 1873. His final resting place is not known. Special thanks to Phil Ray for research and contributions to this post. Burrell Hamilton Bailey Sells Out in 10th Showdown in Allapaha Memorial of Judge Hansell December 20, 2012 at 6:41 am (Law and Order, Ray Family) Tags: Allapaha GA, Bradford Ray, Burrell Hamilton Bailey, Cat Creek GA, Daniel Turner, Dormind's Store, Georgia Militia District 1307, Hiram Ray, James Brogden, Lakeland GA, Martha J. Swan In previous posts Phil Ray, a descendant of Hiram Ray of Berrien County, has shared his research on the land deals and connections between the Ray and Bailey families that ultimately ended in death (see Burrell Hamilton Bailey Sells Out in 10th, The State vs Burrell Hamilton Bailey). Here is the story of how Bradford Ray was gunned down by Burrell Hamilton Bailey on the streets of Alapaha, GA in 1873. Bradford Ray was the son of Hiram Ray and the husband of Martha J. Swan. In 1872, Bradford’s father, Hiram swapped his place near Cat Creek with Berrien county farmer Burrell Hamilton Bailey for another farm in the 1307 Georgia Militia District, Lowndes County. When Hiram Ray moved his family to their new place, son Bradford Ray remained behind to work for Bailey as a tenant farmer. But in the summer of 1873 a dispute arose between Burrell Bailey and Bradford Ray over some family matter. On the 23 of June, 1873, while the two men were in the community of Alapaha, GA the argument turned violent; Bailey shot Ray in the stomach. Bradford Ray lingered with the wound for two weeks before it proved fatal. Burrell H. Bailey was indicted for murder. Albany News, July 4, 1873. Burrell Hamilton Bailey shoots Bradford Ray. Albany News Pistol Fighting at Allapaha. ELEVEN SHOTS EXCHANGED ONE MAN MORTALLY WOUNDED. Allapaha, Ga., July 1st, 1873. Editors Albany News: – Quite a serious difficulty occurred at this place (Allapaha, Berrien county,) on Saturday, 21st June, between Bradford Ray and Bill Bailey. The following are the particulars: Some two or three months ago, threats were passed between Ray and Baily, in regard to some family matters, which were carried into effect at this place, as the following will show: The meeting of the parties here, I am informed, was a premeditated arrangement. – Soon after their arrival in town, Baily got considerably under the influence of liquor, and fuel was added to the already kindled flame – the long pent-up passions were soon to leap beyond their bounds. But through the influence of friends, they were kept apart. Baily, with pistol in hand, walked away, telling Ray (who was then making desperate efforts to follow him) not to follow him, if he did that he would hurt him. After Baily got away all became quiet, until about four o’clock in the evening, when the parties met again in front of Mr. Dormind’s store, where the fatal difficulty was renewed, with the addition of another party, James Brogden, who was very drunk. Had it not been for Brogden, I am confident that the affair would have passed off without the loss of life. He approached Ray with abusive language, which caused several blows to be passed between them. Seeing that Brogden, who was very drunk, was getting the worst of it, he was parted from Ray several times, but could not be controlled. While this was going on, words were passing between Ray and Baily, who were in ten feet of each other, and as they were about to get together, Daniel Turner came up and tried to quiet the fuss; but by this time the row became general. Ray had his knife drawn, and Baily his pistol. – Baily told Ray that “if he approached him, he would shoot him.” Daniel Turner spoke and said: (I did not learn what he said only from Baily after the fight was over) “If you shoot Ray I will shoot you!” As soon as these words were spoken, Baily fired at Ray – the ball entering the stomach – then turned upon Turner, fired the second shot, which was immediately returned. Baily then fired the third shot at Ray, inflicting a painful wound in his left hip. Ray was at this time retiring from the scene of action. The balance of the shooting passed between Turner and Ray – fortunately neither was hit. The pistols being emptied, all became quiet, and attention was turned to Ray, who was considered mortally wounded. Baily was arrested by a Bailiff and turned over to Sheriff Mathews, (who was absent from town at the time of the difficulty) and held in custody until Monday morning, when he gave bond; but as Ray daily grew worse, Baily’s bondsmen became uneasy, and on Friday, 27th, he was lodged in Nashville jail to await his trial at the August Term of the Superior Court, for the murder of a fellow-being. Ray lived until Sunday morning, 1 o’clock, 29th ult., when the spirit of the unfortunate man passed away. Thus were the hearts of two families made to mourn over an irreparable loss. ALLAPAHA. Tags: A. T. McFrityon, Alapaha GA, Augustin Harris Hansell, Berrien County GA, Berrien County Superior Court, Bradford Ray, Burrell Hamilton Bailey, Cat Creek GA, David Hancock, E. J. McDermid, E. J. Williams, H. G. Turner, Hiram Ray, J. J. Williams, James Patten, John M. Futch, L. A. Folsom, Lowndes County GA, Martha J. Swan, Peeples Whittington, Ray City GA, S. B. Dorminy, Thomas D. Futch, W. H. Lastinger Burrell Hamilton Bailey and family were among those living in the 1144th Georgia Militia District, later known as the Rays Mill district, at the time of the Census of 1870. Burrell was farming and seems to be one of those few who came through the decade of the Civil War better off than he was at the start. In 1870 he owned $1000 in real estate and $1547 in personal estate. In 1872, in a property swap with Hiram Ray, Burrell H. Bailey acquired a place situated about four miles north of Cat Creek. When the Baileys moved to their new place Bradford Ray, the son of Hiram Ray and husband of Martha J. Swan, stayed on as a tenant farmer. But in 1873 a dispute arose between Burrell Bailey an Bradford Ray over the management of the crops. On the 23 of June, 1873, while the two men were in Alapaha, GA the argument turned violent; Bailey shot Ray in the stomach (see Showdown in Allapaha). Bradford Ray lingered with the wound for two weeks before it proved fatal. Burrel H. Bailey was indicted for murder. Following the charge of murder, Burrell H. Bailey seemed anxious for the trial. Court notes show his legal actions expedited the trial. Phil Ray, a descendant of Hiram Ray, has researched the court records of Berrien county and provides the following information: The State vs B.H. Bailey And now comes the Defendant into court and waives formal arraignment & copy bill of Indictment, list of witnesses sworn before the Grand Jury, plead not guilty. Peeples Whittington W. H. Lastinger H. G. Turner A.T. Mcfrityon Defts Atty But bringing the case to court was a protracted affair as indicated in a note from Judge Hansell dated Sept 22, 1874: It appearing to the court that W. S. Nichols a material witness in the above stated case has failed to appear at the term of the Court after being duly subpoenaed It is therefore ordered that said W.S. Nichols show cause instated why he should not be attached for contempt of court. A.H. Hansell presiding The March 20, 1875 edition of the Valdosta Times reported on the actions of the Court when the trial was finally convened: Monday was spent in organizing the Court and the trial of several petty cases – but nothing worthy of note. Thursday morning the criminal docket was sounded and the case of The State vs. Burrell H. Bailey was called. Bailey was arraigned upon the charge of murdering Bradford Ray on the 23 of June, 1873. Up to the time of adjournment Wednesday afternoon the examination of the State’s witnesses only had been concluded. [More of this anon.] Court notes provide further details of the trial Berrien Superior Court March Term 1875 The following is a list of Jurors chosen & sworn to try this case: 1 E.J. Williams 7 S B Dorminy 2 C W Corbitt 8 John M Futch 3 L A Folsom 9 Thomas D Futch 4 J.J. Williams 10 David Hancock 5 E J McDermid 11 James Patten In the final verdict, Burrell Hamilton Bailey was acquitted of the charge. Murder in Berrien Superior Court March Term 1875 We the Jury find the Defendant not guilty. J.M. Futch The Jury in the above stated case having returned a verdict of not guilty it is ordered by the court that the Defendant be discharged without a day Aug H Hansell Judge B.C.S.C. Not long after the trial, Burrell Hamilton Bailey moved his family to Florida. Death Claims Judge Hansell, Feb 10, 1907 The Grand Jury of 1868, Berrien County, Georgia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41458
__label__cc	0.662891	0.337109	Home / Shop / Engagement & Wedding \| Raymond Lee Jewelers / Diamond Engagement Rings / Cushion Cut Engagement Rings Raymond Lee Jewelers Offers Unique Cushion Cut Engagement Rings Trying to find the perfect engagement ring can be a stressful time, especially if you’re not familiar with jewelry terms and if you don’t have a clear idea about what might make your beloved’s heart flutter. Defining your search criteria will give you the confidence to shop around lightheartedly for that perfect engagement ring that will adorn her finger for years to come. As an expression of love, engagement rings symbolize commitment and union between two people who want to share their life together. If you’re looking for a less conventional engagement ring, you might want to explore some special options. Cushion cut engagement rings make the list for various reasons. 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Cushion cut engagement rings were in high demand at the end of the 19th century. Due to their radiance, they were called candlelight stones. That was happening before electricity changed our lives for good. People used candles for illumination, and cushion cut diamonds shimmered beautifully in candlelight. They remained in fashion until the beginning of the 20th century, but they are reemerging today among the preferred choices of people looking to buy the perfect engagement ring. Know What to Look for in a Cushion Cut Engagement Ring The cushion cut is a popular choice among engagement ring buyers, which is surpassed only by the classic round cut, and the stylish princess cut. There are many variations to the cushion cut, and it’s important to understand the distinctions to make the best choice available. For instance, you can have a standard or a modified cushion cut. The differences are often hard to spot, and rather technical in nature. Standard cushion cut diamonds precede modified cushion cuts, historically speaking. The latter are a variation of the former, and change the stone’s facet patterns thorough the cut. There are several terms associated with the cushion cut, and they have to do with the appearance of the stone. The gem of some cushion cut engagement rings looks like broken glass or crushed ice, which gives the ring a distinct look. The facet patterns of chunky cushion cuts, for instance, are better defined than other cushion cuts, while the facets of crushed ice cushion cuts cannot be discerned, which justifies the name. Just as with crushed ice or broken glass, you can’t identify patterns, but you get an intense sparkling effect. As with all diamonds, when you’re shopping for a cushion cut engagement ring, it’s highly recommended to examine the 4 C’s. These are color, clarity, cut, and, obviously, carat. Cushion Cut Color Cushion cut diamonds have a high radiance, and maintain their color better than other cuts. That is why it is advisable to set your cushion cut diamond in platinum or, if you prefer, white gold, and choose a diamond, which has, at least an H color grade. The color grading system is implemented by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), and it measures the color of a diamond. D is the highest, while Z is the lowest within this color grading system. Cushion Cut Clarity When it comes to cushion cut diamond clarity, you need to look at the cushion cut variation. For example, a crushed ice cushion cut diamond obscures imperfections. Clarity needs to be assessed in relation to stone setting as well. A marquise shaped diamond, for instance, behaves differently than a round one. Diamond Cushion Cut The quality of a cut depends on the parameters of the stone and the proficiency of the jeweler performing it. So, when choosing your cushion cut engagement ring, check the certificate of the stone, and ask for expert opinion to see if it’s suitable for a cushion cut. Carat of Diamond Cushion Cut Engagement Rings They say that the clearer a diamond, the more valuable. But times and tastes are changing, and these days more and more people show an interest in black diamonds. The black color results from graphite, which is inserted in the diamond or is obtained through exposure to heat. Black diamonds don’t have the unmistakable shimmer and glitter of white diamonds, but they have their own unique charm resulting from that mysterious black luster. Traditionally, engagement rings used white diamonds, but black diamonds are gaining an increasing popularity. Carats measure diamond and gemstone weight. The international standard is 200 milligrams, which is one fifth of a gram. If a jewelry item includes several diamonds, we can speak about total carat weight. 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__label__cc	0.7152	0.2848	← Leftists Being Groomed To Destroy Civil Society Endless Summer Update → End Of The Arctic Ice Scam Posted on November 23, 2018 by tonyheller North Pole May Be Ice-Free for First Time This Summer Ten years ago, I wrote my first article exposing the melting Arctic scam. The scam is on its last legs. Ocean and Ice Services \| Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut Very cold, northerly winds east of Greenland are driving sea ice extent graphs nearly vertical. Ventusky – Wind, Rain and Temperature Maps This will become particularly problematic for climate fraudsters like Jennifer Francis and Michael Mann, who have been blaming the Polar Vortex on missing sea ice. 69 Responses to End Of The Arctic Ice Scam And so the Arctic will leave the headlines for awhile and global warming will move elsewhere. Alaska will be on the slate since next month a ridge brining unseasonably warm temperatures there is likely to form next month. It will be one of those times when temperatures here in Indiana and to the NE will be colder than they are in Alaska. the scam never ends. It just changes the place it focuses on. JNoDamWay says: Actually during the last ice age the interior of Alaska was ice free according to the University of Fairbanks. Yes it was but that was over 12,000 years ago and the alarmist conception is that the world and it’s climate started in 1979. Donna K. Becker says: I tried to inform a friend of a friend about that, and he replied that it was only the Brooks Range had blocked incoming storms. I suppose any excuse will do. Disillusioned says: Although their publicly funded, pal-reviewed pseudoscience is imploding, the MSM have been silent for over a decade, and instead, they keep propping it up – still pumping out the Party Line of AGW (Climate Change ™) hysteria. But, they have a lot in their disfavor. First, the Sun is spotless; it is not cooperating with their CO2-is-to-blame hyped-pothesis. On top of that, the very natural cycle that allowed the scam to flourish in the first place will reverse course sometime over the next decade, or so. So, this “tipping point” fraud is at a tipping point itself. When the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation naturally changes course, this Titanic [CO2-caused-it-and-warming-is-unstoppable-without-carbon-taxes-and-windmills] fascist scam will go down to the bottom very fast. Naturally. The Jim Joneses at the top of this fraud know that their gravy train is barrelling toward a granite wall – and they know that there is nothing they can do now but keep up the Big Lie and keep pushing for their larger, global government panacea until impact. Their deceived sheep [I used to be one] are completely unaware. This is how they are attempting to do just that: OLD – PAST CENTERED: The definition of ‘climate’ adopted by the World Meteorological Organisation is the average of a particular weather parameter over 30 years. It was introduced at the 1934 Wiesbaden conference of the International Meteorological Organisation (WMO’s precursor) because data sets were only held to be reliable after 1900, so 1901 – 1930 was used as an initial basis for assessing climate. It has a certain arbitrariness, it could have been 25 years. ADJUSTMENT: For its recent 1.5°C report the IPCC has changed the definition of climate to what has been loosely called “the climate we are in.” It still uses 30 years for its estimate of global warming and hence climate – but now it is the 30 years centred on the present. NEW – PAST & FUTURE CENTERED Global warming is now defined by the IPCC as a speculative 30-year global average temperature that is based, on one hand, on the observed global temperature data from the past 15 years and, on the other hand, on assumed global temperatures for the next 15 years. This proposition was put before the recent IPCC meeting at Incheon, in the Republic of Korea and agreed as a reasonable thing to do to better communicate climate trends. Astonishingly, this new IPCC definition mixes real and empirical data with non-exiting and speculative data and simply assumes that a short-term 15-year trend won’t change for another 15 years in the future. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/29/moving-the-goalposts-ipcc-secretly-redefines-what-climate-means/ arn says: That’s a fantastic idea: By using 15 years of already tampered data of the past and mixing them with 15 years of inexistent data they can make up as they like , they will always get the results they want. They should also be paid that way. One half of the money they get should depend on how good their models predicted the past 15 years,(a 98% cut should be fair and scientific) the other half of the money they will receive in 15 years,depending on how good their models worked from 2018-2033. Anon, Thanks for that article. Gotta give ’em props for how desperately they want to keep the Titanic on course. But it is still barrelling toward that proverbial wall out in the middle of the Atlantic. At some point within the next 15 years, the AMO will drop below the median and begin in its ~35-year colder-than-average half of the cycle. Astonishingly, this new IPCC definition mixes real and empirical data with non-exiting and speculative data After following this subject since McIntyre/ McKitrick showed the flagrant abuse of science and statistics by the dendro community, the egregious manipulations of activist “scientists” no longer astonishes. For me, now it is good unbiased science that astonishes. 30 is also about the minimum size a sample, drawn from any shaped distribution of a random variable, can be used to compute an average that itself will be distributed pretty close to Normal. So there could well be some method in that madness… The_Oracle says: Yep. It’s not surprising so many young people buy into it – they’re still thinking they can “change the world”, a world they’ve been told will vanish without their help. But the pathetic part is that so many otherwise reasonably intelligent grown-ups accept the myth of “global warming”. That’s scary. And, for sea ice volume on November 22: DMI reports 14,414 cu km, 99.1% of the 16-year reporting period average for the day. Yet since it is predicted to almost vanish in 15 years, thn currently we have 1000% more sea ice then average. ( based on the last 15 years and our predictions 15 years out) Thanks Anon, now I know how to get my answers. Mark Felkins says: Hahahaha I wish I have a headache over it now. The new Scam is the Sun Spots are appearing and the sun is going dormant for awhile this year. We’re starting a mini ice age yep a mini ice age! Mean while the reactors a Fukushima are spewing radiation everywhere and into our oceans, selling contaminated food to Americans. I bet most of them will get cancer who eat that food. And Most of California is contaminated with nuclear fallout ! And nobody cares! All the beaches are covered with nuclear fallout, most fish are contaminated, what to the libs to rasied the legal amount you can safely eat! Truth is none of it is good for you! Mark Frost says: You got something wrong there… The Sun is not getting more Sun spots… it’s getting fewer. Do some research.. many scientific institutes and College research groups have published articles about this. You’re correct. As an amateur radio operator, I’m acutely aware of the current abysmal RF propagation now, based on the low sun spot rate. Your tin foil hat is leaking, Melkin !! Most of California is contaminated by socialism and leftism. Alien Structures On The Moon! November 8, 2018 Mark A. Felkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSRm80WzZk What are you drinking Mark? The Nuclear fallout hasn’t done much beyond a few dozen miles from the shore, you are showing how little you think, because that small fallout into a massive water basin will be well diluted in a short time. No the state of California is not endangered by what happened in Japan, stop being pulled by the nose over stupid ecoloonie claims! Any way one cuts it, building a nuclear facility on the ring of fire or any area with elevated seismic activity is not a good idea. The ring of fire seems to be getting more active. There were 65 significant volcanic eruptions along the ring of fire during the entire 20th century. In the first 18 years of this century there have already been 25. Coldest Thanksgiving In 150 Years As Northeast Hit By “Siberian” Temperatures ‎11‎/‎23‎/‎2018‎ ‎12‎:‎34‎:‎11‎ ‎AM · 26 of 31 Unfortunately there will be more to come and whatever is triggering these crazy weather patterns pretty much world wide, has also been triggering an increase in earthquake activities as well as volcanic eruptions. After checking various historic accounts, my hunch is that once again we may be looking at a repetition or anniversary of the 3600 signature cycle which last time triggered the Ten Plagues (1500 B.C.)(1500 + 2018=3518 approx.) and drove the then Pharaoh nuts and resulted in the release of the Jews from captivity and became known as the Exodus. The catch is that these plagues in some form or another were not just limited to ancient Egypt but from some not easily obtainable records we find that ancient China had suffered from them as well. If this is the case and will materialize all we can hope for is that this cycle will be less destructive. Aside from that I believe that Global Warming will be the least of our problem. Mike Hilbert says: Weather Manipulation! Global warming is a great cover story. Florida Jim says: Everything Democrats, Socialists and Marxists touch is collapsing around them and they have no where to turn their billionaires don’t like them and will not associate with them any more than they do the San Francisco “feces” dwellers.Democrats are unlikable even among themselves.Here’s how global warming began under FDR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmqqRF9lkfw Mark Levin and Patrick J. Michael’s a Professor and debunker of the global warm scam . This man has no ax to grind and fully debunks the lies of global warming which has been proven o be lies from the United Nations dolts, professor.s receiving grants to say what the global warming lovers want to sustain the lies. Massive phony models used to rape taxpayers and enrich the United Nations, Democrats, and the entire government employee system, at every level, depending upon an endless source of taxes to keep their jobs and pensions in tact.This should end the debate. Ho ho Jim Started by FDR to provide endless jobs for Democrats The federalization of science adds 50% to every job https://nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/vbush1945.htm Another massive Democratic scam raping taxpayers since 1940 The vote for leftist is NOT collapsing. Which is the greatest global scare that allows all other scares. Richard Broberg says: You can thank public education for the liberal brainwashing of students. 1)stuff ballots 2)controle the media and tell people what to vote and think 3)let illegals vote 4)create as much poverty as possible and then pretend to help those poor 5)infiltrate and subvert the school system Considering how much effort they put into all of this and the scale their voting results are a joke. They would lose every election by 20:80 if the system was unrigged. Tony Swindell says: The arctic ice scenario –and global warming — is a political vehicle to advance one-world government. Dr_Albert_Gortenbull says: Meanwhile, Al Gore is enjoying himself at one of his many retreats. Albert That’s OK. James Hansen has himself covered and will just revert back to claiming an ice age is coming like he claimed in the 70s. The chumps will continue to believe him and he will say, “See, I was right all along.” Then he will go on to claim how all the BS and costs we are incurring because of the global warming/climate change scam needs to continue because that will also prevent the coming ice age from happening. al gore got rich off it ! and THAT !!! is a fact !!! Brian J McNamara says: Rich-er… his family was already rich. How did they get rich? Bituminous coal mining. Once they made their stack off of the exploitation of natural resources, they decided that nobody else should have the same chance. He’s a perfect poster boy for the scam. Don’t forget all the money the Gore family made from growing and selling tobacco. Even while Al was preaching against smoking, he and his family were still bringing in all that sweet Tennessee tobacco profit. Of course not just anyone can legally grow tobacco. You have to be in possession of a special governmentally granted license — which his politically well connected family just happened to have. Calling him a thieving hypocrite is a slur against thieving hypocrites everywhere. Fritz-Von-Dago (@PunchaLoon) says: A Common Truth: Just like with people when you torture numbers long enough, you get the answers you want! The sad thing is that there are millions of gullible sycophants unwilling to temper their beliefs with facts. I can understand their initial perception, since there is a strong effort to subvert science; like many times in the past. Unfortunately, false beliefs lead to societal extremism, and some become violent. Their efforts become as backwards as those wanting to rid the world of dangerous witches. Prof Stev says: Come on. Seriously? The graph is only showing data from the last 37 years. And it’s still showing a ~30% reduction in sea ice this year. Calling someone a fraudster in an article about science is a pretty good indication that you’re full of s. 8 paragraph articles from websites that look like their next publication will be about how evolution isn’t real. Cherry picking data about sea ice extent during a cold front isn’t a convincing way to go about an argument. What about all the glaciers receding around the world? What about plants surviving in habitats they didn’t 50 years ago? What about plagues killing wildlife in Siberia because 1000s years old permafrost is melting and exposing diseases? What about coral reefs bleaching because the oceans are warming? I need some convincing… Your mindless hysteria is noted. You need deprogramming. You have mindlessly bought into alarmist hype, and don’t even realize you are presenting cherry picked scenarios, right after you accused Tony of cherry picking. When you can present a coherent comment, please do. How did the pathogens causing the diseases you claim get buried in the permafrost in the first place? Could it have been because it was warmer at some previous time long due to natural variation before the industrial revolution or even the use of fossil fuels. Na! That couldn’t be the reason now could it? LOL! I could go through and poke big holes in the rest of hysterical rantings but why bother since you aren’t even smart enough to have figured out what I just pointed out for you on your own. Hey Prof Stev! Just a polite question for you… Are you really a professor? If so, what field are you a professor in? Jason, I cannot believe you questioned whether or not Steve is a professor. Clearly he is a professor… pro·fes·sor /prəˈfesər/ noun 2. – a person who affirms a faith in or allegiance to something. You nailed that one! How’s that overdue ice-free Arctic looking, Prof? ProfStev, I was a university CAGW educator, with a terminal degree in the fundamental sciences. After Wikileaks broke, I was very upset at what happened to Bernie Sanders and began reading through the emails in earnest. Then this caught my eye: WikiLeaks Exposes Podesta-Steyer Climate McCarthyism hps://www.nationalreview.com/2016/10/wikileaks-john-podesta-silenced-climate-change-dissent/ I was at the point of giving up on our political system and thought for a long time about that Pielke Jr. article. Why would Podesta be interested in Pielke? If the Democrats had no problem corrupting an election, what regard would they have for the climate record? It all seemed too unbelievable. But finally, after enough doubts accumulated, I decided to take a “weekend” and debunk all of the Climate Skeptic arguments. I thought it would be easy as dealing with the Creationists and Flat Earthers and I owed it to my students, to rebuild the CAGW hypothesis from the bottom up. Then I ran into scores of articles like these, that were unbeknown to me (not reported in the MSM I was consuming): Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions? Richard S. Lindzen: Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lead author of Chapter 7, “Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks,” of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report on climate change. The above factors are all amplified by the need for government funding. When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research. This paper will deal with the origin of the cultural changes and with specific examples of the operation and interaction of these factors. In particular, we will show how political bodies act to control scientific institutions, how scientists adjust both data and even theory to accommodate politically correct positions, and how opposition to these positions is disposed of. hp://blog.friendsofscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Lindzen12-March-ClimateScienceNOTansweringQ.pdf Censorship and Intimidation in Climate Science. Willie Soon, PhD Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics https://youtu.be/aYAy871w9t8 How Government Twists Climate Statistics Former Obama Energy Department Undersecretary Steven Koonin on how bureaucrats spin scientific data. https://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-journal-how-government-twists-climate-statistics/80027CBC-2C36-4930-AB0B-9C3344B6E199.html As a fundamental research scientist, with a lot of faith in the peer review system, I found all of this very troubling to say the least. And the more I pulled on each thread, the more and more the CAGW hypothesis began to unravel. I am at the point now where I have withdrawn from educating students about CAGW. Until all of the above can be explained and accounted for, I feel it is simply immoral to educate future generations about a topic I myself cannot understand. I can teach spectroscopy and quantum mechanics with little problem, however CAGW is beyond my capability. I wish you the best of luck on whatever journey you are on… but after an exhaustive review of the CAGW literature and IPCC reports, I am out. Furthermore, how do you account for presenting the graph below as meaningful? I was using it in my classes: NOAA : Hiding Critical Arctic Sea Ice Data https://youtu.be/nIEGo8E9s_8 Or the fact that you can’t find sea level rise acceleration on any longterm high quality tide gauges: Fake News About Sea Level Rise https://youtu.be/K4Wx_FnCW6I And this fact, as elucidated by Heller above, is reported in the IPCC, if you bother to read the 100s of pages of reviewer comments, never reported by the MSM who insist on a 97% consensus: (pg #3) Good quality graphs of full-length tide gauge records from high-quality tide stations are absolutely essential for “grounding” the reader’s understanding of sea level, in particular the (lack of) response (thus far) in rate of SLR to GHG forcings… The omission of such graphs appears calculated to hide the fact that, thus far, sea level rise has not increased in response to GHG forcings, and will surely be powerful ammunition for critics of the IPCC and its reports. And then you move on to the East Anglia Climate Unit email hacks: In Their Own Words: Climate Alarmists Debunk Their ‘Science’ h*ps://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/02/05/in-their-own-words-climate-alarmists-debunk-their-science/#70f6c7f768a3 I used to think it was a moral obligation to teach CAGW, but now I believe it is unethical. Professor, there are things even worse than plague in Siberia. Global warming will kill 4.5 billion people and the rest of us will spend our days in violent fights over beer shortage. And our women will grow gills, webbed fingers and toes to hunt and gather under water. That can only lead to the destruction of the patriarchal world order. You want longer period of Arctic sea ice. How about this one showing that the current level is actually within the top 10% of the last 10,000 years, and only just a small amount down from the extremes of the little ice age. If you pretend to be a Prof. then you should allow yourself to be SO IGNORANT. !! NSIDC Arctic extent just jumped above that of 2000. It has had the fastest growing “same 4 weeks” of any year back to at least 1988 Revealing tree stumps. You do know many of those glaciers didn’t exist before the LIA cold anomaly, don’t you? And this is a bad thing.. HOW? What have you got against plant life? How did those bugs get there? Must have been when it was MUCH warmer, hey. Coral reefs have been around for millions of years , they survived the Holocene Optimum. Bleaching is a natural occurrence, and in the case of the recent GBR bleaching, was due to the El Nino causing a drop in water levels exposing the upper surface of the reef to more sun than it was used to, and still currents not providing food.. It is now rapidly recovering. For a so-called Prof.. you seem to be particularly IGNORANT. Prof Stev said: “What about all the glaciers receding around the world?” spike55 says: “Revealing tree stumps. You do know many of those glaciers didn’t exist before the LIA cold anomaly, don’t you?” Nope. He doesn’t know about stumps under the ice, and doesn’t care to know that glaciers aren’t permanent, nor that they have grown and receded throughout the millenia. Prof Stev said: “What about plants surviving in habitats they didn’t 50 years ago?” spike55 says: “And this is a bad thing.. HOW?” Because the climate was perfect in 1968, and so any deviation from that must be bad. spike55 says: “What have you got against plant life?” If CO2 produces stronger, hardier plants, that is bad news. They produce oxygen, which humans breathe. We must wipe out at least half the human species on earth, in order to protect life on earth. Prof Stev said: “What about plagues killing wildlife in Siberia because 1000s years old permafrost is melting and exposing diseases?” spike55 says: “How did those bugs get there? Must have been when it was MUCH warmer, hey.” Not to that ignorant troll. He clearly believes permafrost is permanent… and that man caused the warmth in this natural cycle. His mind is made up, and despite his disingenuous claim at the end of his rant, he has no interest in being convinced otherwise. Prof Stev said: “What about coral reefs bleaching because the oceans are warming?” spike55 says: “Coral reefs have been around for millions of years , they survived the Holocene Optimum. Bleaching is a natural occurrence, and in the case of the recent GBR bleaching, was due to the El Nino causing a drop in water levels exposing the upper surface of the reef to more sun than it was used to, and still currents not providing food.. It is now rapidly recovering. It is by choice. He doesn’t care to hear about recovering reefs, or about natural cycles. He’s been told CO2’s magical powers are stronger than and will override natural cycles – although EVERY CAGW projection has failed. The drive-by idiot believes his religious leaders who have lied to him time and again. They have convinced him that a dubious, unproven hypothesis is settled science. It is warmer than it was in the 1970s; they claim CO2 caused it and that we’re at a dangerous tipping point. So that settles it. No amount of empirical data will change that closed mind. Hey Disillusioned! You say, speaking of the Prof’s ignorance, “It is by choice.” Yes, exactly. Very few people, scientists included, care enough about the truth to examine ideas with which they currently disagree. For most of us, it is psychologically painful to do so. I have to give a sincere tip of the hat to Anon who has commented above. He is a rare bird who has done something incredibly difficult and unusual; he has re-examined his beliefs. Jason said, “I have to give a sincere tip of the hat to Anon who has commented above. He is a rare bird who has done something incredibly difficult and unusual; he has re-examined his beliefs.” I tip my hat to Anon, also. He and I are kindred spirits. I am guilty of giving Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” DVDs to family and friends, and thusly being influential in helping to solidify their beliefs today. Like Anon, I ignorantly, sincerely led ignorant sheep astray. Later on, I became disillusioned. Thus, my moniker. After my disillusionment (that was powerful), I tried tirelessly for years – as Anon is doing now – to try and help associates understand why found out I was wrong. That is when I realized, you can’t just show a believer dissenting data. A religious believer must WANT to know the truth beyond all preconceived notions and beyond any/all political and social popularity concerns. OR, they will not become disillusioned. IOW, it IS all about CHOICE. Thanks for recognizing and honoring our friend Anon. I have found out (disappointingly) that people like Anon – and myself – are indeed the rare exceptions. What we may lack in conversions, we more than make up for in retention. I have never heard of a skeptic who turned believer. There have been false claims of this, like Muller, but not one example that I can find. Once the truth takes hold, it doesn’t let go. It is by choice. Prof Stev likes to wake up in his bed and believe what he wants to believe. It is more comfortable that way. Did I tell y’all I once worked for “Climate Action Newcastle ” Heck, even was in one of those anti-CO2 human signs on the beach, once. Then I did some research, and I laugh at my past non-thinking gullibility. Prov Stev, difficult to know where to start with your nonsense so let’s just do coral- Where man does not go , use pesticides or where coral is protected ( 5% of the world’s coral) it is growing like a forest in pristine condition- see Bikini Atoll Coral or Coral around Cuba. Well that is unless you think climate change has the ability to miss out where man does not go, where coral is protected or where pesticides are not used. AndyDC says: If you go back and read Tony’s past posts and the irrefutable evidence from unaltered data that he has documented, you would get lots of convincing. But you seem like someone that has already made up your mind, so I seriously doubt that you would have the intellectual curiosity to make that effort. Don’t be silly Andy, Stev doesn’t have the capacity to make up his own mind. Somebody else made it up for him. Bet he needs rubber sheets or Depends to keep from staining his mattress. It is a very obvious cherry pick to go back 37 years to start your chart. If you went back 10 years you get a totally different picture and if you went back 80 years you would get a totally different impression. Those impressions would not show significant warming. TimA says: From the guy that can’t spell professor…or Steve… steve keohane says: Where do you think 6 feet of sea level went in the past 6k years. Hint, Arctic sea ice was much lower to non-existent back then when it was actually warmer. We’ve been cooling for at least 8-10kya. DMI Sea Ice Volume update for Nov 23: Volume now 14,531 cu km, up 117 cu km from the prior day. Growth was 106.40% of the 16-year average growth. Current volume is 99.06% of the 16-year average, ranked #8, and 98.52% of the DMI-charted 10-year reference period 2004-2013. Jim Hovater says: I teach Earth and Space Science. My classes debate the whole glad bal warming issue from all sides. This site has been invaluable as a resource. I teach Earth and Space Science. My classes debate the whole global warming issue from all sides. This site has been invaluable as a resource. I reckon your curriculum is not controlled by a “Trust” … BBC Trust says 200 senior managers trained not to insert ‘false balance’ into stories when issues were non-contentious The Trust said that man-made climate change was one area where too much weight had been given to unqualified critics. In April the BBC was accused of misleading viewers about climate change and creating ‘false balance’ by allowing unqualified sceptics to have too much air-time. We know that only governmental climate scientists must be allowed to speak to the masses. I won’t go on the BBC if it supplies climate change deniers as ‘balance’ —Rupert Read ) *) Rupert Read teaches philosophy at the University of East Anglia and chairs the Green House thinktank No, no, he won’t go! Green Power! Leave a Reply to Jason Calley Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41464
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__label__wiki	0.591323	0.591323	Seven Politicians Making Fools Out of You And not only on April Fools' Day... Ed Krayewski \| 4.1.2014 4:30 PM (White House) Today is April Fools' Day, the one day of the year set aside for trying to prank friends or strangers without appearing juvenile. Newspapers, magazines, and even television programs have used the day to fool people. Among the most well-known are the BBC's 1957 spaghetti tree hoax, which featured footage purportedly showing the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees, and George Plimpton's 1985 Sports Illustrated story about a New York Mets prospect named Hayden Siddhartha "Sidd" Finch who could throw a 168 mile per hour fastball and pitched wearing a single hiking boot. The Mets played along with the hoax, allowing Sports Illustrated to photograph someone playing the role of Finch with various Mets figures and even assigning him a jersey and locker room. According to novelist Jonathan Dee, who was Plimpton's assistant at the time, Plimpton was a "wreck" while writing the Sports Illustrated piece, fearful of a flop. "I still remember my naïve astonishment at the sight of a world-famous, successful writer actually agonizing over whether something he'd written was good enough, funny enough, believable enough," wrote Dee, "or whether the whole thing would wind up making him seem like a national jackass." So instead of risking looking like a jackass by trying to fool you, I've rounded up some jackass politicians making fools out of you 365 days a year, whether you expect it or not. The list is by no means a complete one… California Senate 1. LELAND YEE California state Sen. Leland Yee (D-Senate District 8) might have wished the feds waited until this week to reveal their 137-page criminal complaint against him, charging the anti-gun legislator with political corruption and conspiracy to traffic guns. "Anti-Gun Lawmaker Charged With Gun Trafficking," after all, is the stuff of The Onion headlines (and of the "Not The Onion" subreddit). Yee's anti-gun stances are typical among Democrats in places like California, but Yee was an especially outspoken advocate of more gun control. He had no issue using the 2013 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, to push his agenda: "4 weeks after Newtown I'm still shocked & prepared to take steps to stop gun violence," Yee tweeted last January, while peddling a bill to "strengthen" a ban (how do you strengthen a ban?) on "assault weapons" in California. No matter how strong a ban, a product can rarely, if ever, be eliminated from the marketplace. Witness the drug war. And there are always your Leland Yees, members of the political class ready to demonize a product and restrict your freedoms while planning to profit from it themselves. Syrian Emergency Task Force 2. JOHN MCCAIN On NPR this weekend, Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) pushed for the U.S. to send weapons to its "friends" in Ukraine. He said he understood Americans' "cold war weariness," but followed it up by invoking greiving mothers in Syria. "I'm sure that the mothers in Syria who have lost their children are war weary also," McCain said, suggesting American inaction against Syrian President Bashar Assad was to blame. McCain's previous efforts to drum up American intervention in Syria have mostly failed; the U.S. has been sending military aid to Syrian rebels, but it's not as much support as McCain would like. McCain and other hawks in Congress (and outside of it) will keep pushing for military intervention around the globe even as it contributes to the exploding national debt, which Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen called the greatest threat to national security. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, has been a key water-carrier for the surveillance operations of the National Security Agency (NSA) and other agencies of the federal government. After Edward Snowden disclosed the NSA's massive domestic data gathering programs, Rogers suggested Snowden might be a Chinese spy, because he was in Hong Kong when he revealed his identity. Snowden was charged with espionage and eventually made it to de facto asylum in Russia, so then Rogers helpfully suggested Snowden was a Russian spy. Rogers may be retiring at the end of his current term to take his show to talk radio, but he's still got a bill vying to be the "reform" legislation promised after the NSA spying revelations. And that bill would actually strengthen the agency's ability to collect data as it pleases. Korean Resource Center/flickr 4. HARRY REID Did you hear the one about the Koch brothers being responsible for holding up government spending on Ukraine? Or how the Obamacare website doesn't work because Americans don't know how to use the Internet? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has been on a roll recently, but unfortunately he's not kidding. Reid has been at the forefront of mindless pro-Democratic propaganda, trotting out canards like the one that everyone's "willing to pay more taxes" (except Republicans!) and explaining that the postal service should be saved because "seniors love getting junk mail." These antics are a way for Reid and Democrats to avoid having to prioritize government spending. The last time the Senate actually passed a real budget was 2009. Since then, it's been largely short-term deals. This year, the Senate doesn't plan on voting for a budget because, Democratic leaders argue, last year's two-year budget deal suffices. The government will keep spending because, as Reid reminded us, cowboys need poetry. 5. JOHN BOEHNER Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) has been House speaker since Republicans won 63 seats in the 2010 midterm elections and took control of the lower house of Congress. Democrats had controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency since Barack Obama's election in 2008, and their 2010 losses were a reaction to the policies they advanced (Obamacare!) during this time period. Since then, Democrats like our buddy Reid have used GOP control of one half of one branch of government to blame all of our problems on Republican "extremists" in Congress—and Boehner is happy to oblige the narrative. He bemoans caucus members in Congress who insisted on holding the line on government spending increases. Throughout the debt crises, Boehner—the highest Republican office-holder in the U.S.—claimed he was interested in holding the line on government spending, too, while at the same time insisting "Tea Party" members in the House were preventing him from making a deal. The two-year budget deal struck last year in spite of opposition by those members suggests the intransigent Tea Party Republicans were preventing Boehner not from making a deal, but from being able to keep up the appearance of being a fiscal conservative. 6. JOE BIDEN Joe Biden is his own class of fool, and the epitome of the American politician failing upward. Call Barack Obama a "storybook" because he's an "articulate" and "clean" African-American politician? Get chosen as Obama's running mate. Spend 35 years in the Senate contributing to the growing problems of government? Get elected vice president. Asked how he'd do in primaries in the South, Biden boasted that Delaware was a slave state. In Virginia, he told a black audience that Mitt Romney would "put y'all back in chains." He asked a paraplegic to stand up for a round of applause. He's in charge of the White House effort to prevent "gun violence," but has dispensed illegal advice about discharging a shotgun in the air. In an era when marijuana legalization is making unprecedented headway, he's proud to be the guy who brought you the drug czar. Through all this, Joe Biden doesn't see any reason he shouldn't run for president in 2016. 7. BARACK OBAMA If you like your president, you can keep him. Barack Obama was re-elected in 2012 with less votes than he got in 2008—the first time that's happened in a U.S. presidential election—despite running against Mitt Romney, a candidate who ran a horrible campaign himself. The broken promises kept piling up after Obama's re-election. You couldn't keep your health insurance plan after all—in fact, Obamacare was built on a house of lies. And they weren't the only ones. The 2013 Snowden disclosures put Obama and his administration on a defensive that ended up revealing their deceptions. The administration's weaponization of the Internal Revenue Service, meanwhile, is just one manifestation of the hyper-partisan atmosphere the executive branch has fed on while expanding its powers, a far cry from the promise that a vote for Obama wouldn't be a vote for George W. Bush's third term. NEXT: Mexican Potatoes Now More Welcome in U.S. Than Actual Mexicans Ed Krayewski is a former associate editor at Reason. Politicians Ideology Government Stupid People VoluntaryBeatdown April.1.2014 at 5:07 pm Is being an April Fool a pre-existing condition? Thank god for obamacare. Yee’s anti-gun stances are typical among Democrats in places like California, but Yee was an especially outspoken advocate of more gun control. He had no issue using the 2013 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, to push his agenda It makes perfect sense, really. More gun control = bigger black market = more opportunities for gun trafficking. He’s really just taking cronyism to its next level. “This isn’t even my final form.” Nooo!!! I love Joe Biden. He has done more good with his stupidity then all the others combined. Note: I am referring to Joe screwing up Obama’s anti-gay marriage agenda so bad that it forced Obama to become pro-gay marriage. mrvco It sure turned out ok for our first gay president. Wholesale Stainless Steel April.2.2014 at 6:33 am discount wigs, wigs from China, cheap ladies wigs, party wigs, wigs ballroom http://www.okeywigs.com/wigs-offer-6.htmlDiscount Mall COSPLAY wig, human hair wig store, Wigs and quality at a low price discount / sale discount wigs Mall SutureSelf Geez, tell me something I don’t know. ReganT Harry Reid (R-Nev)??? It Is? That must be the brown M&M. Aloysious Obama and Boner. That picture made me throw up in my mouth. OneOut A normal 2 page article just took 7 clicks . chevy706 Wholesale stainless steel wigs at a discount? Well why didn’t you say so? It is sad to say, but the one douche bag from that list that turns my stomach the most is Warmonger McCain. I quite often find myself thinking that things like Harry Reid and France must be some vast conspiracy to see how far off the deep end “progressives” can go and the sheep will follow. johndub Don’t ever use the word “bemoan” again, seriously, don’t! Dogwater April.2.2014 at 12:05 pm I find this list incomplete without Pelosi. jeeenmik Start working at home with Google! It’s by-far the best job I’ve had. Last Wednesday I got a brand new BMW since getting a check for $6474 this – 4 weeks past. I began this 8-months ago and immediately was bringing home at least $77 per hour. I work through this link, go to tech tab for work detail ?????????????? ? w?w?w.?w?o?rk?b?a?rr.c?o??m MoreFreedom The one thing all these politicians have in common, is they lie to the public and those that elected them. Given they are frauds, Michael Moore should support their beheading. But he has a different standard for political liars, than he does for liars in GM. Paul Spomer Oof. I wish some of these were just April Fool’s jokes. Given they are frauds, Michael Moore should support their beheading. But he has a different standard for political liars, than he does for liars in GM. Making a fool out of us, Reason readers? You’re saying that as libertarians we are too naive and/or dumb to see through the liberty-limiting and criminal actions of these big government boobs? Why don’t you take a great, big, flying leap into Lake Blockhead.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41467
__label__cc	0.558312	0.441688	Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam posuere varius magna, ut accumsan quam pretium vel. Duis ornare felis Hirtenstraße 19, 10178 Berlin, Germany ouroffice@cortex.com Proudly hosted by SCARF Hand in Hand is a significant cultural and community event hosted by SCARF. SCARF is a local community organisation helping to build a sense of belonging for refugee entrants settling in the Illawarra region. In 2019, Hand in Hand celebrated its 10th anniversary in Wollongong during Harmony Week Hundreds of supporters came through the doors from March 21 – 24 at Project Contemporary Artspace to help raise funds for SCARF at the 2019 Hand in Hand art exhibition held during Harmony Week this year. Harmony Week is all about inclusiveness, respect and belonging for all Australians, regardless of cultural or linguistic background. This year the event celebrated its 10th anniversary and over 100 works of art were donated in a range of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, textiles, jewellery and ceramics and featured in this year’s exhibition. All proceeds from ticket and artwork sales support SCARF programs for children, youth and adults from refugee backgrounds. SCARF has over 250 volunteers and offers seven programs to help recently settled refugees and their families to overcome barriers in their settlement journey. Refugees face a range of social barriers and challenges during resettlement in a new country. By creating connections and generating opportunities, SCARF helps individuals and families to establish a sense of belonging, experience social and economic inclusion and access the tools for self-empowerment and independence. Thanks to the generosity of contributing artists, supporters and volunteers, Hand in Hand 2019 attracted over 250 visitors to the exhibition, supported 5 emerging artists from refugee backgrounds to share their works with the wider public alongside over 50 local established artists, and raised more than $12,000 for SCARF! We also held a free Family Day of arts and crafts activities, bringing together people from refugee and non-refugee backgrounds to promote harmony and inclusion. We’re also excited to announce the winner of the People’s Choice Award for Hand in Hand 2019. The winner is Mr Peete Jowanie for his work ‘Generations to Generation’. Congratulations Peete! And a big thank you to our performers who entertained us during opening night Catalina Dermenjian and Kate Cillekens. Once again, thank you for your support! 2019 was the 10th year anniversary Hand in Hand is a unique charity art exhibition where proceeds from the sale of donated artworks directly supports SCARF programs for refugee children, youth and adults starting a new life in the Illawarra. 2019 was the 10th year celebrating this event. Acclaimed artists Acclaimed artists such as Archibald Prize short-listed Paul Ryan, Auguste Blackman, Sallie Moffatt, Blak Douglas, Glen Preece and Dr George Gittoes are among the hundreds of artists who have supported the exhibition in previous years. Tickets for the 2020 Hand in Hand Opening Night being held in March will be available soon. SCARF is inviting artists to donate significant works of art to be displayed in Hand in Hand 2020. Help us grow Hand in Hand to reflect a new goal of showcasing more artists from refugee background Community Gateway Bldg, 26 Atchison St handinhand@scarfsupport.org.au	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41468
__label__wiki	0.641344	0.641344	Home > Theses and Dissertations > 507 A Reexamination of the Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris collaris) in Arkansas Ashley A. Grimsley, University of Arkansas, FayettevilleFollow Master of Science in Biology (MS) Gary R. Huxel Steven J. Beaupre Steven L. Stephenson Biological sciences, Arkansas, Collared lizard, Ecology, Glade, Habitat, Herpetology, Lizard Loss of suitable habitat is a threat to species worldwide. Habitat destruction, including loss, change, and fragmentation of habitat, is the leading cause of species extinction. Eastern collared lizards (Crotaphytus collaris collaris) are habitat specialists on glades. Both C. c. collaris and glade habitats are rare and of special concern in the state of Arkansas. Many glade populations have already been extirpated in the Ozarks of Arkansas and Missouri. Increasing knowledge of the distribution, habitat structure, and population dynamics of C. c. collaris is important to ensure the survival of this species in Arkansas. A literature review of the C. c. collaris is presented in Chapter 1. Lizard characteristics, glade habitat characteristics, and information on habitat change, loss, and fragmentation of glades are described. The main goal of my thesis, presented in Chapter 2, was to determine differences across sites in environmental variables, habitat variables, tree community structure, and lizard body condition. I sought to establish differences in these factors in 17 historical C. c. collaris sites (7 with lizard presence and 8 with lizard absence) and determine if the differences were correlated with the presence or absence of C. c. collarispopulations. Significant differences in some factors were found between present sites and absent sites. Environmental variables were not related to the presence or absence of C. c. collaris, indicating a habitat phenomenon rather than environmental. Lizard presence was correlated with habitat structure, as indicated in the ground and canopy cover surveys. Present sites had a positive correlation with rock and soil cover and a negative correlation with CWD, vegetation, and canopy cover; whereas absent sites had a positive correlation with CWD, vegetation, and canopy cover and a negative correlation with rock and soil cover. Present and absent sites had a significant difference in tree community structure. Absent sites had significantly larger trees and a higher frequency of trees compared to present sites. Lizard body condition was associated with the quality and openness of the glade. These data will prove useful in conservation efforts aimed at C. c. collaris recovery in Arkansas and other glade locations in the Ozarks. Grimsley, A. A. (2012). A Reexamination of the Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris collaris) in Arkansas. Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/507 Forest Biology Commons, Natural Resources and Conservation Commons, Other Forestry and Forest Sciences Commons	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41474
__label__wiki	0.794707	0.794707	Battling belly fat: Specialized immune cells impair metabolism in aging In a new study, Yale researchers have described how nervous systems and immune systems talk to each other to control metabolism and inflammation. Their finding furthers scientists’ understanding of why older adults fail to burn stored belly fat, which raises the risk of chronic disease. The study also points to potential therapeutic approaches to target the problem, the researchers said. Led by Vishwa Deep Dixit, professor of comparative Medicine and immunobiology, the study was published Sept. 27 in Nature. Older adults, regardless of body weight, have increased belly fat. However, when they need to expend energy, older people do not burn the energy stored in fat cells as efficiently as younger adults, leading to the accumulation of harmful belly fat. The underlying cause for this unresponsiveness in fat cells was unknown. In the study, Dixit and his collaborators at Yale, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and University of Bonn focused on specialized immune cells known as macrophages, which are typically involved in controlling infections. The Dixit lab discovered a new type of macrophage that resides on the nerves in belly fat. These nerve-associated macrophages become inflamed with age and do not allow the neurotransmitters, which are chemical messengers, to properly function. The researchers also isolated the immune cells from fat tissue of young and old mice, and together with Professor Schultze and his team at the Life and Medical Sciences Institute of the University of Bonn, Germany then sequenced and computationally modelled the genome to understand the problem. “We discovered that the aged macrophages can break down the neurotransmitters called catecholamines, and thus do not allow fat cells to supply the fuel when demand arises,” said Dixit, who is also a member of the Yale Center for Research on Aging. The researchers found that when they lowered a specific receptor that controls inflammation, the NLRP3 inflammasome, in aged macrophages, the catecholamines could act to induce fat breakdown, similar to that of young mice. “The key finding is that the immune cells talk to the nervous system to control metabolism,” said Dixit. In further experiments, the researchers blocked an enzyme that is increased in aged macrophages, restoring normal fat metabolism in older mice. Dixit noted that this enzyme, monoamine oxidase-A or MAOA, is inhibited by existing drugs in the treatment of depression. “Theoretically one could repurpose these MAOA inhibitor drugs to improve metabolism in aged individuals,” he said. But he also cautioned that more research is needed to specifically target these drugs to belly fat and to test the safety of this approach. In future research, Dixit and his colleagues will further examine the immune cells and their interaction with nerves, and how this neuro-immune dialogue controls health and disease. If controlling inflammation in aging immune cells can improve metabolism, it may have other positive effects on the nervous system or on the process of aging itself, said the researchers. “The purpose of our research is to achieve greater understanding of immune cell interactions with nerves and fat cells to potentially reduce belly fat, enhance metabolism, and improve performance in the elderly,” said Christina D. Camell, the first author of the study. Other study authors are Jil Sander, Olga Spadaro, Aileen Lee, Kim Y. Nguyen, Allison Wing, Emily L. Goldberg, Yun-Hee Youm, Chester W. Brown, John Elsworth, Matthew S. Rodeheffer, and Joachim L. Schultze. The study was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants, the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, and Cure Alzheimer’s Fund to Dixit Laboratory. Army refines recipe for quantum-enhanced technologies Most alternative therapies for treating autism show, at best, inconclusive benefits	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41476
__label__cc	0.600384	0.399616	Most intriguing games of the upcoming NFL season Published on : August 12, 2017 The NFL season is so close I can practically taste it. It’s early August and we are just beginning to get some preseason football action. This is an exciting time of year when football (and Burning Man) is pretty much all I can think about. This is the time when I have an uneasy optimism about my beloved Detroit Lions as I allow myself to believe that maybe, just maybe, this will be the year we overcome the god damned Packers and win the division. Aside from the Lions, I’m excited about the season in general and I’m starting to form opinions (based on nothing other than my own analysis and guess work) about who is going to be worth watching this year. With that in mind, I’ve started to take a look at the schedule and pick out games that I think will be exceptionally entertaining. Here are the most intriguing games of the upcoming NFL season. Chargers at Broncos. Week 1. Bruno thought I was crazy for this one but hear me out. The Chargers still have Phillip Rivers and Melvin Gordon, and if the rest of the team can stay healthy they should have a solid squad. The Broncos should have a good defense with Von Miller leading the way and if they can find any semblance of a competent passing game then they should be in the running for the AFC West. This game, though early in the season, should go a long way to sorting out what that division will look like all year. Cowboys at Cardinals. Week 3 MNF: League’s top young running backs (removed). Before the Cowboys electrifying young running back, Ezekiel Elliot, got suspended for being an asshole this was one of my favorite early matchups of the season. The Cardinals have my favorite running back and the MVP of my championship fantasy football team last year, David Johnson. This was going to be an epic battle on the ground, but now I just hope David Johnson rushes for 250 yards, has 200 receiving yards and scores 5 touchdowns. Atlanta at New England. Week 7: Super Bowl rematch. Remember that one time the Atlanta Falcons had a Super Bowl Victory firmly in their grasp only to choke away a 25 point lead in the second half to Tom Brady and the Patriots? Well this is their chance to get some sort of payback. Dallas at Atlanta. Week 10. This is the first of my potential conference championship game previews on the list. Atlanta represented the NFC in the Super Bowl last year and the Cowboys were favorites to make it to the conference final before running into the Green Bay Packers. Theses two teams will be in the running for it again this year and this first matchup should be a good one. New England at Oakland. Week 11: Mexico City. In the next potential conference championship game preview, we have the Patriots facing off against the Raiders. I would bet money that the Patriots will be heading back to the AFC Championship game and the Raiders seem poised to build on a successful 2016 campaign that was derailed by an injury to their young QB, Derek Carr. Estadio Azteca in Mexico City will surely be rocking as the greatest quarterback of all time faces off against one of the best young gunslingers in the league. New England at Pittsburgh. Week 15. This is a rematch of last years AFC Championship game and if us football fans are lucky, it will be a preview of this year’s. Give me Tom Brady vs Le’Veon Bell and Antonio Brown any day of the damn week. This is deep enough in the season to have serious playoff implications but not so late that Bill Belichick is resting half his team. Get ready for a barn burner in this one. Green Bay at Detroit. Week 17. Normally no one is getting all that excited about any Detroit Lions game, but for the second year in a row the Lions will host the rival Green Bay Packers at home to end the season. Last year this game decided the NFC North and the hope is that it will be the same scenario. And hopefully my Lions will win the NFC North for the first time since the division was created back in 2001. Well there you have it. The most interesting matchups of the upcoming NFL season as I see them. Are there any games that you think shouldn’t have made the list or any marquee games that you think I missed? Leave your thoughts in the comments below. cardinals, Cowboys, Football, Lions, NFL, Packers, Patriots, Pro Football, Raiders, Steelers What to do with Tony Romo? Written by : Bruno Tysh Published on : February 14, 2017 What will happen with veteran quarterback Tony Romo? Rookie Dak Prescott kicked ass all last year and soundly won the job in Dallas. Even when Tony was healthy, it was clear that Jason Garrett and company were going to ride the hot hand and stay with Dak. As management plans out the next season, this question begs to be answered. What do you do with a guy like Tony? The one thing we know for sure is that Tony Romo will be leaving the Dallas Cowboys. I’m sure the faithful would love to see him stay on as a backup but Romo is owed way too much money for that type of role. Plus, Tony sees himself as a starter. Those factors say he is going to a new team. His injury history suggests no one is trading for him but you never know. The best guess is that the Jerry Jones will cut the former face of the franchise. This will allow Tony Romo to sign with any team. Let’s check out some of his options. Just hear me out. The 49ers will have zero QB’s under contract once Kap leaves. New GM, new coach, new start. They will need someone who can play day one and bring some leadership to the huddle. Someone to run the offense through. San Fran will no doubt draft a quarterback but throwing that kid right into the fire may not be the best move for development. So bringing in a Tony Romo type on a 3-year deal makes a lot of sense. But most importantly, it would really piss off Cowboy fans. For that alone, this should happen. The Bears need a real answer under center. I don’t think anyone in Chicago wants another year of Brian Hoyer or shutters Jay Cutler. The team has some weapons on offense and their defense is improving. They are consistent quarterback play away from being competitive. The biggest selling point here is young running back Jordan Howard. He had a stellar rookie campaign and looks to be a complete back. Tony Romo could do much worse than handing off to Howard and playing with that D at Solider Field. Cleveland anyone? If the Dolphins ever want to challenge Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in the AFC East than they need an upgrade at signal caller. It may be time to pull the plug on the Ryan Tannehill experiment and find someone who can win right now. This type of splashy move could help bring the organization over the hump. Their roster is loaded on both sides of the ball but they need someone to galvanize the unit as a whole. Plus Miami never gets cold. Sounds like Tony Romo could be taking his talents to South Beach. There you have it. Tony Romo is FOR SURE going to one of those three. Or maybe to the Broncos, Texans, Bills, Jets or even back to the Cowboys on a way smaller deal. Or somewhere else. But it’s for sure one of those. I mean all we know is he isn’t going to the Patriots. They already have a guy. I hear he’s good. Anthony’s song. 49ers, Brian Hoyer, Bruno Tysh, Chicago Bears, Colin Kaepernick, Cowboys, Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys, Football, Jason Garrett, Jay Cutler, Jerry Jones, Jordan Howard, Miami Dolphins, NFC, NFL, Quarterback, Ryan Tannehill, San Francisco 49ers, Tony Romo My first time horseback riding Published on : January 25, 2017 Over the weekend, I went horseback riding for the first time ever. As a child, I once sat on a pony while it was forced to walk in a circle at a random carnival but I don’t really consider that riding. This all started as plans for my friend Rita’s birthday. She organized a day trip to Griffith Park Horse Rentals here in the Los Angeles area. I had my usual instant repulsion as I do with all new things outside my comfort zone and I didn’t RSVP. Finally, I decided “Fuck it, I’m in”. When am I going to have this chance again? Because I would never do this on my own. We arrived at the stables and met our friends at the check-in table. The only thing I knew coming in was to wear pants, closed toe shoes and it would cost $25 plus a tip for our guide/instructor. Cowboys hats recommended, not required. First step was completing a lengthy waiver where you initial and sign our life away (in the event of an accident). This was all done on iPads but the place only accepts cash. Strange. Once we completed the legal, we each had to pay. I had my $25 ready when the lady running the show told me to step on a nearby scale. No one else had do this so far. I hated the number the scale read and apparently that means more than just shame. It would cost me $35 for the hour ride. The proprietor didn’t have to explain. It was your classic fat tax. I paid but my feelings were hurt. The lady pointed out a rack of helmets in the stable, I wanted to be cool enough to turn down the optional protection and let my dope bandana do the talking but the chances of me falling off the horse seemed more than reasonable. Plus I had just signed that long contract and didn’t even try to scan any of it. I choose a large white bike helmet and strapped it on. Our crew was quite large, maybe 15 riders plus two guides. They circled us up in the gate area and we were given a brief tutorial. I expected a longer speech but nope, here comes the business. A guide would match riders with a horse. You climbed a small set of stairs and hopped on. I was nearly last and feeling nervous. Then they brought my horse. Roland. He was gigantic. Like a blond Budweiser Clydesdale. And suddenly that extra $10 made total sense. I needed a large horse. Everyone else on the team was rocking mediums while I was driving Roland. Or Ro Ro as I often called him. I joined the others at the start of the path. Roland pushed his way through my mounted buddies and found the fence. I gave a test tug on the reigns and he flared his head back like he hated it and me. Roland chomped on some grass while we waited for the last riders. Overall, there were a few large horses but mine was still the biggest and coolest. The real question was, would he listen to me? Our main guide took the lead and started us down the path. The great part about being on the horse in this scenario is that they mostly follow each other and they run this path multiple times a day. So they know where they are going and they won’t do anything that would endanger themselves and by proxy, you. That being said, there was still lots of freedom on the trail. This isn’t some slow, daisy-chained nonsense. It’s you on the horse and unless you are screaming for help or under visible duress, you are on your own. You also cross the driveway, right off the main road you enter from and I still assumed my horse would run into traffic. We get moving and Roland sprints through the pack and gets upfront. Second behind the guide. This is a position we would maintain for most of the ride. Not because of me, but because Roland demanded it. And it wasn’t coincidence. If another horse got ahead of us, Roland would speed up and cut them off to retake the spot. The trail was really pretty and had lots of fun details like bridges, tunnels, inclines and even one muddy descent. Roland did great and he even starting taking a few of my suggestions. I felt like we were bonding but maybe I’m just projecting. Like when a guy thinks a stripper actually likes him. All the recent rain made for a muddy run. But every time I thought the the road looked slippery or treacherous, Roland would expertly navigate each straight. He did have a penchant for walking painfully close to the edges of drop offs and into groups of branches but I chalked that up to him teasing the new guy. It was truly an awesome experience. I felt like an warrior on my steed, racing into battle. Even if help was standing by. My basic takeaway is that these horses see us as substitute teachers. They can instantly tell when you saddle up whether or not you know what you’re doing. And if they determine you are a newb then they become the boss. Examples of this in our group included some biting, some bucking and some general horseplay. But that’s what made the experience real. This wasn’t the carnival pony ride, this was legit horseback riding. It was thrilling, tons of fun and weirdly humbling. Hats off to the staff of Griffith Park Horse Rentals, they run a great operation and they helped me cross something off my bucket list. Everyone should get on a horse at least once. Bruno Tysh, Cowboys, Horse, Horseback Riding, Horses, memoir, Riding, Roland, Roland the horse, Trails Lions to celebrate legacy of ineptitude by honoring 1991 team Published on : July 17, 2016 This is just sad. The Detroit Lions announced last week that they will be honoring the 1991 team that went to the NFC Championship on October 16, when the team faces off against the Los Angeles Rams. But what exactly are they celebrating? Lomas Brown and the rest of the ’91 Lions already celebrated that divisional playoff victory when it happened. On the surface it seems like the team has decided to honor their best team of the Super Bowl era. The team that has the distinct honor of giving the franchise its lone playoff victory since 1957, a 38-6 win over the Cowboys in the divisional round. But what does the fact that they are spending time and money to honor a team that got destroyed in the NFC Championship game say about the franchise as a whole? It says a whole lot actually. First, it says that this has been a bad team for a very, very long time. A team so awful that the only thing worth celebrating is the ONE time they made it to the conference title game. Never mind that the Detroit Lions got obliterated by a score of 41-10 at the hands of the Washington Redskins. Let’s give the boys a participation trophy, cuz ya’ know, they tried. I really hope Bob tried to talk Martha out of this idea. Second, it says that ownership still doesn’t get it. It’s almost like a slap in the face to us fans. We’ve stood by the team through all of the losing and horrible management, and your thanks to us is a ceremony to remind us how stupid we are for supporting you all these years. I love this team but they sure do make it hard sometimes. The focus should be on winning games. It should always have been about winning games. Highlighting the single time the Lions ever made a run at the championship only to get bounced in such epic fashion, shows complacency at the highest levels of the organization. They should be devoting their energy to assembling a winner that actually gives us something to cheer about. It’s doubtful that he had much control over it, but I hope that new general manager, Bob Quinn, put up a little bit of a fight about this. The Lions stole him away from the New England Patriots in the hopes that he could instill that winning attitude in the organization. Do you think the Patriots would be commemorating an embarrassing conference championship loss? I think not. The players from that era deserve all of the respect and praise in the world. I loved guys like Barry Sanders, Herman Moore, Brett Perriman, Lomas Brown, Chris Spielman and Bennie Blades. The organization owes them a lot and they should be recognized, but I think making a big deal over the 25th anniversary of a team that didn’t actually win anything significant sends the wrong message. Barry Sanders deserves all the love but is this really the way to show it? It sends the message that the Detroit Lions might not believe they can get to that next level. Like, that one time 25 years ago when we made it within a game of the big one and got our asses handed to us is the best it will ever get. Maybe I’m over reacting. Maybe I’m not. As much as this team has put me through, I’m still an optimist when it comes to them (as seen here). I just want the team to stop accepting losing season after losing season and raise the bar on their expectations of themselves. Once they do that, maybe they can start being competitive on a consistent basis, but reliving the losing past definitely isn’t the way to make that happen. 1991 Detroit Lions, Barry Sanders, Bennie Blades, Brett Perriman, Chris Spielman, Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, Football, Herman Moore, Lions, Lomas Brown, New England Patriots, NFC, NFL, Patriots, Redskins, Washington Redskins Detroit Lions 2016 Win/Loss Predictions Published on : June 20, 2016 Last season was a disappointing one for the Detroit Lions. The team came out of the gates firing on all cylinders in the first half of their week 1 matchup against the Chargers, and then promptly fell flat on their faces. They started off 1-7, but managed to finish 7-9 by overhauling their offense midseason. They could have easily had two more wins and possibly made the playoffs, but last second insanity against the Seahawks and Packers killed those hopes. This season the team is looking to build off of the second half of last year and keep improving. A full offseason in Jim Bob Cooter’s offense, improvements along the offensive line, and the return of DeAndre Levy should have the Lions looking better than many people in the national media are giving them credit for. Here is my 2016 Win/Loss Predictions for the Detroit Lions. Week 1 @ Colts The Colts were pretty awful last year, especially on defense. In my opinion, they didn’t really do enough to fix that. They do still have Andrew Luck, but they also have an aged Frank Gore slated to start in the backfield. Luck keeps the game interesting but I think the Lions have an advantage in defense, which gives them the edge. The Colts offense will have a good day, but the Lions will get just enough stops to come out on top. The Colts defense on the other hand will have huge problems containing the Lions offense. Lions win, 37-31. Week 2 vs Titans There are some folks out there who are pretty high on the Titans. They have some nice pieces on offense but with Mike Mularkey as head coach this team is going nowhere. They will fold under the pressure of that home opener Ford Field crowd. The defense will come up big and DeAndre Levy will have a pick 6. Lions win, 45-28. Look out for Levy in this one. Week 3 @ Packers The Lions are lucky to once again get to travel to Green Bay before winter has had a chance to wrap its freezing cold hands around the neck of that godforsaken wasteland of cheese. While that definitely helps their chances, I’m not sure the team will get as lucky this year as they did last year. It will be a hard fought battle, but I think Green Bay gets this in a close one. Lions lose, 27-24. Week 4 @ Bears Big thanks to the NFL for sending my favorite team to play their two biggest rivals consecutively on the road. The Bears are much improved, but luckily the Lions have their number in the last handful of years. The streak continues. Lions win, 17-16. Week 5 vs Eagles The Lions obliterated the Philadelphia Eagles last year on Thanksgiving. By that time of year, Detroit was starting to put it together on offense, and the Eagles meltdown was in full effect. Philly will still be recovering from what Chip Kelly has done to them. Lions win, 21-6. Week 6 vs Rams I’m not sure what the Rams plan on doing at quarterback just yet, but they could present some problems for the Lions. Todd Gurley and Aaron Donald are beasts and could very well both be in the running for OPOY and DPOY. I think they give the Lions enough trouble to hand them their second loss of the year. Lions lose, 24-17. Week 7 vs Washington I know Washington was a playoff team, and have some good pieces all over the field. But I find it hard to believe that Jay Gruden and Kirk Cousins are going to have sustained success. The Lions will be sharp after getting worked extra hard in practice following their loss at home to the Rams. They come out on fire and win handily. Lions win, 28-10. Look for a win against Washington. Week 8 @ Texans The Texans always have a scary defense with JJ Watt out there. They will be the big difference here and will give the Lions trouble all game. The Lions offensive line will be much improved but there aren’t many answers for JJ Watt, who will have 2 sacks. Lions lose, 24-14. Week 9 @ Vikings The Vikings are definitely the darlings of the division this season. Most people seem to think that they will challenge the Packers for the NFC North title. I think they are pretty good too, and they are definitely going to be a tough test for the Detroit Lions in Minnesota for this matchup. Lions lose, 28-27. Week 10 BYE Week 11 vs Jaguars The Jaguars should be pretty solid this year, but on the road in Detroit, a win won’t be likely. Ameer Abdullah goes off in this one for 120 yds rushing and 2 TDs, while adding 60 yds receiving. Blake Bortles will also throw interceptions to both DeAndre Levy and Glover Quin. Lions win, 34-13. Look for Ameer Abdullah in the end zone in this one Week 12 vs Vikings Watching the Lions on Thanksgiving is a long tradition. I’ve seen many Turkey Day loses through the years, but as of late they have really shown up. I’ll be damned if I call them to lose this year, even if it is against the infallible Vikings. Lions win, 14-12. Week 13 @ Saints The Saints had an AWFUL defense last year, and Drew Brees started showing signs that he might be past his prime. I’m flying across the country to go to this game so my boys better show up, and get some vengeance for that 2011 playoff loss! Lions win, 21-9. Week 14 vs Bears Lions rule, Bears drool. Jay Cutler throws three interceptions. The streak continues for another year. Suck it, Chicago. Lions win, 45-6. Week 15 @ Giants The Giants are the first of two consecutive road games against the NFC East, a division that was truly awful last season. In typical Lions bad luck fashion, I believe the NFC East will be much improved in 2016. The Giants threw around some serious money in free agency and I think that by this time it will start to pay dividends, especially on the defensive side of the ball. Coming off of a big win over the hated Chicago Bears, I think the team is in for a big letdown. The offense has trouble and Eli Manning frustrates the defense all day. Lion lose, 31-17. Eli will rule the day in week 15 Week 16 @ Cowboys The Detroit Lions return to the “House that Jerry Built” for the first time since getting worked over by the refs in the 2014 Wild Card game. The team is going to come out hot and I see early touchdowns from Marvin Jones and Eric Ebron. Then things will slow down as the Cowboys adjust. In the second half things will get a little hairy for Detroit and the ‘Boys will take the lead. Dez Bryant catches a late touchdown. Lion lose, 28-24. Week 17 vs Green Bay This will be a game that decides whether or not Detroit heads to the playoffs as a wild card team. Teryl Austin is going to have the Lions defense totally fired up and I envision Ezekiel Ansah having a monster game. Ziggy will get to the quarterback three times, including a late one that seals the game for Detroit on 4th down. Lions win, 17-14. The Lions will be the #6 seed in the NFC at 10-6. This is my prediction for the Detroit Lions. It’s quite a bit more positive than most of the win/loss predictions I’ve seen for the team, but I think it’s totally realistic. Most people seem to underestimate the amount of talent on the team. This is a solid squad that has improved both lines and should be able to control the trenches. Playoffs here we come! Ameer Abdullah, Bears, Colts, Cowboys, DeAndre Levy, Detroit Lions, Drew Brees, Eagles, Eric Ebron, Ezekiel Ansah, Ford Field, Giants, Golden Tate, Jaguars, Jay Gruden, Kirk Cousins, Lions, Marvin Jones, Matt Stafford, NFC East, NFC North, NFL, Packers, rams, Redskins, Saints, Teryl Austin, Texans, Titans, Vikings, Win/loss predictions Keep Hope Alive: What the NFL’s Worst Teams Have to Feel Good About in 2016 For many people, right now is as good as it get’s when it comes to football. In places like Cleveland, Detroit and Jacksonville, the offseason is time that is full of hope and possibilities. Last season’s pessimism is out and next season’s optimism is in. With the new league year and the start of free agency just weeks away, we thought we would talk about what some of the NFL’s worst teams in 2015 have to look forward to this year, besides the opportunity to blow it with their high draft picks. Tennessee Titans: Marcus Mariota’s continued progression I’m not going to lie. The outlook is pretty grim in Tennessee. They retained their interim head coach Mike Mularkey for the same position, and he didn’t exactly improve the team when he took over last year. They do still have last year’s number two overall pick playing quarterback, though. Marcus Mariota should continue to improve in spite of the lack of a coaching staff, and for that reason they should keep hope alive. Cleveland Browns: The New Regime I know we’ve all heard this before, but it seems like the Cleveland Browns might finally be getting their heads out of their asses. The new director of football operations, Sashi Brown, went out and got the Hue Jackson, the former offensive coordinator in Cincinnati. Jackson was the guy pulling the strings behind the scenes of the league’s seventh-best scoring offense in 2015. It also looks like he will soon be putting an end to the Johnny Manziel fiasco, and for that we should all be thankful. San Diego Chargers: Return of the injured The Chargers got hit very hard by the injury bug last season. It was kind of ridiculous. Luckily, time heals all wounds and with an offseason to mend up, the San Diego Chargers can’t possibly do as bad as they did last year. The team placed a total of 17 players on injured-reserve last season, which directly led to their 4-12 finish. Many of those players will be back this year and that should lead to more wins. Dallas Cowboys: Dez Bryant He’s a little bit of a head case, but Dez Bryant is by far the best thing the Cowboys have going for them. He is a physical freak who can make plays all over the field. He was limited by injuries in 2015, but then again so was everyone else on the team. Look for him and a healthy Tony Romo to get back to their old play-making ways in 2016. San Francisco 49ers: Chip Kelly’s antics There’s a chance that Chip Kelly is able to come in and fix Colin Kaepernick, but I wouldn’t get too optimistic about that. The 49ers are lacking in quality talent all over the field and it will probably take a couple of years to right the ship. On the bright side, we get at least one more year of watching Chip Kelly roast the NFL media! All of these teams had five wins or less last season. Most probably won’t improve enough to make a playoff run but with a little luck they could pass as watchable football teams. Be sure to keep and eye on them, if for no other reason than those I listed above. 49ers, Alex Jag, Browns, Chargers, Chip Kelly, Cleveland Browns, Colin Kaepernick, Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Dez Bryant, Football, Hue Jackson, Johnny Manziel, Marcus Mariota, Mike Mularkey, NFL, Pro Football, San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers, Sashi Brown, ScoreBoredSports, Tennessee Titans, Titans, Tony Romo ScoreBoredSports NFL Staff Picks: Week 17 Written by : Antoine Poutine Published on : January 2, 2016 Well folks, it’s been an incredible year making picks for the all the SBS staff. We’re a bunch of smart motherfuckers. Though there was a heated competition and I am currently a distant second, I will make my boldest prediction yet: I will become the ScoreBoredSports NFL Staff Picks Champion. In fact, here is an excerpt of my acceptance speech: But the real point here is more exposé than anything. What the hell got into SBS Editor and possible PED user Bruno? Here we are in a two-man race between myself and Ryan, comfortable on our laurels, when all of a sudden this dude Bruno gets the Shining and mounts a ridiculous comeback. In the last five weeks he’s been among the top two in picks, including blowing us all (out of the water) this past week. Sick of it. Someone needs to dig up the dirt. Moving on, the trickiest game on the slate this week for me to pick was the Cardinals – Seahawks matchup, mainly because they’re both damn good. The game is in Arizona, but there’s very little at stake for the Cards, already having won the NFC west, while Seattle and Russell Wilson were straight up Megachurching everyone in their path before that unfortunate Rams loss (yes, when it applies to Russell Wilson on the football field, I believe “Megachurch” can be used as a verb). That loss makes this game critical for the Seabirds, not so much for the Sandbirds, so I went with Seattle. That about does it for the ScoreBoredSports NFL Staff Picks for this year. Thanks so much to the readers, we sincerely hope that you made money gambling illegally, using our tried-and-true methods of nonsense. Here’s to a great end of the NFL season, playoffs, Super Bowl, and hopefully a Roger Goodell Satan-worshipping scandal in the off-season. My New Year’s resolution for 2016: 49ers, Alex Jag, Antoine Poutine, Baseball, Bears, bills, Browns, Bruno Tysh, Buccaneers, buffalo bills, cardinals, Carolina Panthers, Cleveland Browns, Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, Dolphins, Football, Giants, Green Bay Packers, Lions, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, NFL, Oakland Raiders, Packers, Panthers, Patriots, PED, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Raiders, rams, Roger Goodell, Roger Pretzel, Russell Wilson, Ryan Jaquith, Saints, San Diego Chargers, ScoreBoredSports, ScoreBoredSports Staff Picks, seahawks, Seattle Seahawks, St Louis Rams, Steelers, The Shining, Titans, Washington Redskins Published on : December 17, 2015 Here we sit on the precipice of week 15. The ScoreBoredSports NFL Staff Picks are almost done for the season and what a fun ride it has been. At least for Ryan and Antoine, who are the only ones who have had a legit shot at the title since the beginning of the year. With 3 weeks of picks left, it’s not likely that Ryan is going to be unseated from the top spot. I suppose he could have a couple of bad weeks and I could miraculously catch up, but this guy just seems to know how to pick winners. He’s a madman who can’t be stopped, and he should probably start gambling on sports. But we can talk about Ryan’s future gambling addiction some other time, right now let’s look at this exciting slate of games. Actually the only game that really looks exciting to me is Panthers at Giants. Mostly because these last fews Panthers games are going to be really suspenseful as they try to go undefeated, but also because it seems like the Giants are finally starting to put it together. Some of that bad luck has turned into late season good luck with that win over the Dolphins last week and they sit in a 3-way tie for the top spot in the abysmal NFC East. There’s also a bunch of garbage matchups, either between good teams who will crush their bad opponents ( Titans @ Patriots, Browns @ Seahawks), or between two bad teams ( Dolphins @ Chargers, Lions @ Saints.) Either way, those will all be hard games to watch, but we’ll watch ’em anyways, because it’s football. And we love football! On to the picks….. 49ers, Alex Jag, Antoine Poutine, Bears, bills, Browns, Bruno Tysh, Buccaneers, buffalo bills, Carolina Panthers, Chargers, Cleveland Browns, Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, Dolphins, Football, Giants, Green Bay Packers, Joe Piel, Lions, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, NFL, NFL Staff Picks, Oakland Raiders, Packers, Panthers, Patrick Harrell, Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Raiders, rams, Roger Pretzel, Ryan Jaquith, Saints, San Diego Chargers, ScoreBoredSports, seahawks, Seattle Seahawks, St Louis Rams, Steelers, Titans, Treasure Gutierrez, Washington Redskins Written by : Sandy Danto Hi, I’m Sandy, but no, I’m not a female. However, I am the staff writer that follows the NFL the least avidly despite working at NFL Red Zone last season (HINT: there’s a reason they wouldn’t have me back this year….). So, it’s Week 14 and I couldn’t be happier that it’s almost the postseason for a litany of reasons. What makes me the happiest about entering the third trimester of the 2015-16 NFL season’s pregnancy is that SportsCenter will soon reach that sweet spot of the year in February where they’re basically only showing NBA highlights, and in my world NBA reigns supreme. The next best reason to be happy the regular season is almost over: Super Bowl parties. I do kind of love football, but my favorite part of football is easily the eating that goes along with it. Plus, playoff games are way better in general, but also because my team, the Detroit Lions, won’t be able to break my heart and open my mind to the possibility of NFL conspiracy theories against The D. Their season will simply be over. Football in the snow is cool too. Granted I’m the least knowledgable writer for SBS regarding football, I’ve done pretty well predicting winners this season. As for this week, I predict the NFL to beat the film Concussion on account of Will Smith trying out a weird accent. When Will Smith is kicking ass in action movies, we all win. The Lions might lose the rest of their games, or least the ones they should win, but the NFL will always be undefeated against concussions, but will the Panthers? Here are the ScoreBoredSports NFL Staff Picks for Week 14: 49ers, Alex Jag, Antoine Poutine, Bears, bills, Browns, Bruno Tysh, Buccaneers, buffalo bills, Carolina Panthers, Chargers, Cleveland Browns, Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, Dolphins, Football, Giants, Green Bay Packers, Joe Piel, Lions, Miami Dolphins, Mike Bridenstine, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, NFL, Nick Skardarasy, Oakland Raiders, Packers, Panthers, Patrick Harrell, Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Raiders, rams, Roger Pretzel, Ryan Jaquith, Saints, San Diego Chargers, Sandy Danto, ScoreBoredSports, Seattle Seahawks, Sportscenter, St Louis Rams, Steelers, Titans, Treasure Gutierrez, Washington Redskins Written by : Michael Avalos Published on : November 25, 2015 Thursday is Thanksgiving, the holiday that football owns the same way that Bill Murray owns Groundhog Day. It’s inescapable. If you’re not watching it on TV or playing it in the front yard, then you’re probably hiding in the kitchen filling up on hors d’oeuvres and making small talk with your boring cousin. Good luck with that. I’ll see you at halftime. Meanwhile, these ScoreBoredSports NFL Staff Picks remains a tight race. Ryan and Antoine still lead the pack. I find myself squarely in the middle — ten points away from both highest and lowest record. Oh, and Alex and Mike both have the same stats (95-65). Not bad? Not good enough. All it takes it one good/bad week to change everything. I’m not much for trash talk, so I’m going the opposite route this week — passive aggressive kindness. Enjoy your Thanksgiving, SBS staffers, and good luck with this week’s picks. Don’t choke. 49ers, Alex Jag, Antoine Poutine, Baseball, Bears, bills, Browns, Bruno Tysh, Bryce Richardson, Buccaneers, buffalo bills, Carolina Panthers, Chargers, Cleveland Browns, Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, Dolphins, Football, Giants, Green Bay Packers, Joe Piel, Lions, Miami Dolphins, Michael Avalos, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, NFL, NFL Staff Picks, Nick Skardarasy, Oakland Raiders, Packers, Panthers, Patrick Harrell, Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Raiders, rams, Roger Pretzel, Ryan Jaquith, Saints, San Diego Chargers, Sandy Danto, ScoreBoredSports Staff Picks, seahawks, Seattle Seahawks, St Louis Rams, Steelers, Titans, Treasure Gutierrez, Washington Redskins Hello out there everyone, It’s been since week 1 that I’ve written the intro to these ScoreBoredSports NFL Staff Picks, and what a rollercoaster of a ride it has been. I spent the first few weeks in the basement of the standings but since then, I’ve really turned things around. I’ve had a 1st or 2nd place record for the past 4 weeks and I’m clawing my way back to relevance. Sure, I’m still 11 correct picks behind Antoine and Ryan but if they have just a couple more stinkers like last week then I’ll be right in the thick of it. I think I can, I think I can… There are a few interesting trends in the way the SBS Staff picked this week’s slate of games. For instance, the Jaguars are the consensus winner over the Titans, as if the Jags are some sort of standard of excellence nowadays (or maybe the Titans are just THAT bad). Also, the Lions seems to have restored faith amongst quite a few of us here and as a lifelong Lions fan, that is the perfect time for them to let everyone down. Besides that, everyone is picking the Patriots and Panthers to win their respective games and remain the last two undefeated teams. How great would it be for both of them to lose? Anyways let’s get to the picks. 49ers, Alex Jag, Antoine Poutine, Bears, bills, Browns, Bruno Tysh, Bryce Richardson, Buccaneers, buffalo bills, Carolina Panthers, Chargers, Cleveland Browns, Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, Dolphins, Football, Green Bay Packers, Joe Piel, Lions, Miami Dolphins, Michael Avalos, Mike Bridenstine, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, NFL, Nick Skardarasy, Oakland Raiders, Packers, Panthers, Patrick Harrell, Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Raiders, rams, Roger Pretzel, Ryan Jaquith, Saints, San Diego Chargers, Sandy Danto, ScoreBoredSports, seahawks, Seattle Seahawks, St Louis Rams, Steelers, Titans, Treasure Gutierrez, Washington Redskins Zebras in the Mist: NFL Officiating and What Needs to be Done Published on : November 9, 2015 What’s the deal? NFL officiating has been really bad this season, and sadly, that’s nothing new. It seem like it’s always been this way. From the ‘replacement refs’ to the Calvin Johnson rule, to the tuck rule, to the Fail Mary, it just never ends. Perhaps, it’s because my beloved Lions have been victimized by inept officiating so often, that I feel so strongly on this matter. I mean, in the span of 4 games stretching back to last season, the Lions had the insane sequence where the refs picked up a pass interference flag during a playoff game and the blatant illegal batting that was missed on Monday Night Football in Seattle. I still don’t understand how this was a touchdown. I’m probably overly sensitive to the issue but I think everyone can agree that too many games have been adversely affected, or even decided, by the blind bums wearing stripes in recent years. Something has to be done. There was a time when it could be understood due to lack of technology or lack of knowing better, but that time has passed. Fans need to stand up and demand changes, and here are a few things that I think could help improve the situation. What can be done about it? Most people say that the NFL should make its game officials full time employees. That’s right, the officials for the multi-billion dollar media giant that is the NFL, are in fact, part time employees. It seems ludicrous that a business that generates so much money for so many people would put the fate of the game and the integrity of the product in the hands of people that they don’t employ full time. They should be utilizing the offseason to give them ongoing training so that they know the rules and how to apply them, like it’s second nature. But what do I know? I’m just the guy whose team keeps getting fucked over. Second, I think it’s high time that an organization that has pushed the envelope in developing technology to view the game started using the full range of technology available in order to officiate the game properly. Camera’s everywhere… And lasers. There’s got to be someway that lasers can help. Maybe it’s to ensure pinpoint location accuracy for the ball and players on the goal line or to give a quick and corrective shock to officials who make mistakes on the field. Lasers, cameras, and maybe even RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology, should be implemented in every possible situation that could help NFL officials pinpoint the location of both the ball and players. Teams and fans shouldn’t have to bend over and take it when refs drop the ball. The third thing that can be done is something that the NFL already did once this season. In a somewhat unprecedented move, the league has begun penalizing referees that make egregious and game-altering mistakes on the field. Following a game-clock error by side judge Rob Vernatchi in the Monday Night Football game between the Steelers and Chargers that robbed the Steelers of 18 seconds of time at the end of the game, he was suspended for a week with pay. It may not seem like much since he still got paid, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction. The league should continue this trend and hold officials accountable for the mistakes they make. Finally, the league should expand the review of plays on the field. No more of this “we don’t want to review judgement calls” bullshit. You have the capabilities and it won’t slow the game down that much. Penalties, possession, field position. Review it all! The fans and players deserve to see the right calls made on the field and if that means going under the hood, or making the league office in New York review the play, then that’s what should be done. I’m sure that there’s more than what I mentioned that can be done to make sure that it’s the players and coaches alone who decide the outcome of games. NFL Officiating is far from perfect and the fact that the league doesn’t use all of the tools available to improve it is disconcerting. Typical of giant corporations, the league has been content to let change come slowly and the only ones who can change that are the fans. Public sentiment is the ultimate driver of change, and if fans voice their displeasure and ‘vote with their dollars’ then maybe NFL Officiating can become as good as the actual games themselves. Alex Jag, Calvin Johnson, Cowboys, Fail Mary, Football, Lions, NFL, NFL Officiating, Referees, ScoreBoredSports, Tuck Rule Roger Pretzel’s Review ‘n Brew: Week 7 Written by : Roger Pretzel In this little corner Roger Pretzel will review his favorite play of the week along with a thoughtful review of what beverage he was imbibing at the time. Week 7: Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie Pick-Six Rodgers-Cromartie turns upfield after his second interception of the game. VIDEO: HERE Week 7’s divisional matchup was chock full of excellent highlights, mostly by the Giants, but there were certainly some memorable plays by the ‘Boys too. Unfortunately for Matt Cassel, the week’s highlight comes from a brilliant read and pick by DRC. Cromartie gets three strong steps into the underthrown ball as Terrance Williams is forced to dive backwards, but once the cornerback gets the ball he’s just plain gone. Even with the showboating and high-high stepping Cromartie takes it back to the house lightning quick with a big ‘ole convoy of blockers to protect him. I’m definitely a bit sad that we’ve already run out of Cowboys/Giants matchups this season. Week 7: Honorable Mention – Greg Hardy and Dez Bryant Are Gross. Odell Beckham Whines a Bunch. There’s nothing like watching the league’s premier diva and one of its biggest scumbags jaw at each other like babies as “emotions run high.” We’ve seen Dez in this position before and I’m sure we’ll see him there again before long. As for Hardy, the Cowboys organization better thank their lucky stars that the special teams clipboard wasn’t a woman… Speaking of divas, it looks like the Giants have got one in training with ODB. It became pretty apparent in the pre-season that his predilection for whining for flags on perfectly legal coverage was increasing. What is he trying to convey on this play, that it was a facemask? Just shut up and catch the ball, and if you miss it, return to the huddle or sidelines. Everyone’s always talking about how football is a “man’s game.” Is it really manly to complain directly to the officials? Odell, that’s what the postgame press conference and Twitter are for. Week 7: Sum Poosie Energy Drink Mixed With Crystal Palace Vodka Feel that bass, dogg. Feel your heart palpitate as you pump your fist in time to the music. You’re jacked up and amped up and kinda pissed off all at the same time. You’re gonna get laid tonight, dude. Dude, you better. Look at all your homies taking over the floor. Look at all the fine tail in here, bro. Dogg, your shirt cost so much money and it looks so good on you. Throw back another “Poosie and Palace.” Don’t bother to tip the bartender. Just dance so all these fly ladies see you. Try and freak on this girl. Back up, she doesn’t seem into it. Dude, you might be having a heart attack. No, it’s cool. Your shirt’s all sweaty now though. Party foul. Did that bitch just give you stink eye? Fuck that, bro. Better get cleaned up in the bathroom. Grab another P & P on the way to the john. Gulp half of it in one go. That wasn’t a good idea. You’re not having a heart attack; you’re having a wicked panic attack. Hide in the stall. Gasp and sob until your homies find you there at 3:00 AM and drive you home. Wake up in the morning. Have the worst hangover of your entire life. Cowboys, Crystal Palace Vodka, Dallas Cowboys, Divisional Matchup, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Giants, Interception, Matt Cassel, New York Giants, NFL, Pick Six, Sum Poosie, Terrance Williams Champ and Chump Week 7 Written by : Ryan Jaquith Published on : October 30, 2015 A great time to be alive my friends, a great time to be alive. A little something for everybody to enjoy sports-wise right now as we have the World Series going on, the NFL season is almost at its halfway point, college football is in high gear, hockey has been great thus far and now the NBA is underway. Hell, for guys like Antoine Poutine and me, the English Premier League is off to a very interesting start. This week, we honor a couple slingers of the football, say goodbye to a legend with the futbol and we keep on wishing that Greg Hardy would just go away. The Champ and Chump of the Week ladies and gentleman… Champ: Kirk Cousins 33-40, 317 yards, 4 TD’s (1 rushing) – Game winning TD pass with 24 seconds left Cousins rushes for a TD in the second quarter of their wins over the Bucs. The Washington Redskins trailed by 24 points in the 2nd quarter on Sunday, and the sports writers at the Washington Post were all but set to send in their articles for Monday morning’s print. A quarterback controversy was back, would RGIII get another shot? Is Colt McCoy going to be the signal caller next week? Staring a 2-5 start in the face, Cousins came out in the second half and took over, helping the ‘Skins outscore the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-6 for the rest of game. Now, at 3-4 and just a game out of first place in the NFC East, anything is possible. While I don’t see the Redskins winning the division, a big swing of momentum like this has been known to get a team on a roll, and make things more interesting than they otherwise would have been. Ryan Tannehill- Finished 18-19 for 282 yards and 4 touchdowns in a blowout win against the Houston Texans. Also, Tannehill broke the NFL record for consecutive completions going back to last week, with 25 straight. Abby Wambach- After an incredible career, Abby announced her retirement from the US women’s team. The all time leading goals scorer in international competitions (male or female), went out on top after capturing the World Cup championship this past summer. Montréal Canadiens- Started the season 9-0 while leading the NHL in goals scored and fewest goals against. Very impressive start as they look to bring Lord Stanley back for Canada for the first time since 1993. Chump: The U Lost 58-0 at home to Clemson this past Saturday. They couldn’t have guessed just how bad this game would go. As embarrassing as that score reads, I am not making the Hurricanes my chump so much for that particular game. Instead, it is for the sad state in which the program currently sits. Similar to what I said about Texas a couple weeks ago (though they beat rival Oklahoma the next week), this team is so far from its glory days that I don’t even know where they should start. I suppose you could say they have started with the firing of Al Golden, but when you’re a program facing NCAA sanctions, how much growth can any coach get from his guys. With postseason bans on the horizon, recruiting is going to take a big blow. Who wants to go to a school that has nothing to play for? Then the following year or two, because no real talent went there, they are so behind the 8-ball, talent wise, that when the post-season sanctions come off they don’t have a chance to match the skill level required to compete for championships. I always think parody is great for sports, but having the usual powerhouses relevant is just as important. A very interesting year it will be as USC, Miami, and potentially Texas all could be seeking new head coaches for next season. Dishonorable Mention: Ryan Mallett- After missing the team flight this past weekend to Miami, Mallett had to book his own flight. He also slept in and missed a practice during training camp. Today, Mallett finds himself without a team as the Texans cut him saying it’s time to move on. Greg Hardy- A guy who could be in my “chump” category every week. It’s debatable whether this guy should even be allowed to play pro football, of course leave it to Jerry Jones to give him a chance. His sideline antics after the Cowboy’s special teams gave up a game-winning kick return was the icing on the cake to finally put Hardy on this list. Although calling him a chump is actually being kind. Florida State- Who would have thought just a week after the Miracle in Ann Arbor we would have another ranked football team fall on a crazy, game-ending play? Kick Six Part 2. Florida State’s kicker Roberto Aguayo, possibly the nation’s top kicker, is about to attempt a field goal with 6 seconds left in a tied ball game and it’s blocked! Georgia Tech scoops up the ball and runs it for the touchdown to end the game. Abby Wambach, Al Golden, Buccaneers, Canadiens, Clemson, Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Greg Hardy, Houston Texans, Hurricanes, Kirk Cousins, Miami Dolphins, Miami Hurricanes, Montreal Canadiens, Redskins, Roberto Aguayo, Ryan Mallett, Ryan Tannehill, Seminoles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Texas, The U, USC, USWNT, Washington Redskins ScoreBoredSports NFL Staff Picks: Week 8 Written by : Treasure Gutierrez I may be the only football illiterate person on the staff. My wisdom for the weekly NFL Staff Picks is based on which place I’d rather live in, and random tidbits I pick up by listening to announcers. Recently, I heard football spectators commenting on the Seahawks. They argued that they are not offensively ready to go on a winning streak following the royal beating they gave to the 49ers last week. My pick for the Seahawks was justified by Pete Carroll’s trajectory in USC football’s glory years. Trojans stick by each other, which is why I was rooting for him, not the team. Anyway, I was struck by a comment in an email from Alex; “football is stupid.” While making my choices for the week 8 picks, certain thoughts came to mind: I barely watch NFL games, but my picks are doing alright; average at worst and better than I expected. Considering my success in making picks for the first time ever, I’ll wait to till the end of the season to confirm or deny if football is stupid. 49ers, Aaron Rodgers, Adrian Peterson, Alex Jag, Antoine Poutine, Bears, bills, Browns, Bruno Tysh, Bryce Richardson, Buccaneers, buffalo bills, Carolina Panthers, Chargers, Cleveland Browns, Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, Dolphins, Football, Giants, Green Bay Packers, Joe Piel, Lions, Miami Dolphins, Michael Avalos, Mike Bridenstine, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, NFL, NFL Staff Picks, Nick Skardarasy, Oakland Raiders, Packers, Panthers, Patrick Harrell, Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Raiders, rams, Roger Pretzel, Ryan Jaquith, Saints, San Diego Chargers, Sandy Danto, ScoreBoredSports, ScoreBoredSports Staff Picks, seahawks, Seattle Seahawks, St Louis Rams, Steelers, Texans, Titans, Treasure Gutierrez, Washington Redskins	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41477
__label__cc	0.580489	0.419511	11.8.2 Independiente v Godoy Cruz teabp_user~8 March 2013 /Latin America Flares, fencing and fanatics probably sums up my second football game in the Argentinean capital. Whereas 11.8.1 had been organised through a tour agency, this time it was much more rogue. It all started in 11.3 a few weeks ago when I met Bruno at the top of Mount Fitzroy. On the back of his invitation, I got in touch once I arrived in Bs As, and after finishing work on Friday, he met me underneath the city’s “obelisco”. I think it marks the centre of the capital, and it appears to be the equivalent of Trafalgar Square. We then took the subway and bus to his apartment out towards the more residential area. Somewhat reminiscent of 6.1 / 6.3, we nipped to “the Chinese” for some snacks and a beer. Back at the flat we generally spoke most things football, and at around 20:30 we headed out towards the Independiente stadium, a short walk away. I should mention that Bruno is a diehard fan of the Argentinean “Red Devils”. His friend, German (name, not nationality) is equally dedicated in his support. On the way to the ground, the two of them knew all the back-alleys to get there quickly, had people who could open gates to avoid the time-consuming police blocks, and generally were switched on as to how to avoid the crowds. Outside the stadium the crowd piled up and began chanting, partly for camaraderie, and partly as a gentle reminder to the police that kick off was in five minutes. It was at this stage that I undertook the alias of Felipe Gonzales, a friend of the lads’ who couldn’t make the game. With a well-placed thumb, I flashed “my” card and was through the security. We walked into a volcano of red fans – erupting in noise and smoke. Our places were amongst the other season ticket holders, so we found a spot standing just behind the goal. The flares were blaring, drums booming, and we needed to duck several times under the streamed banners being stretched the length of the stand. Soon after the get-go the chants, clapping, and arm thrusting began. Then everyone (well, the guys) took off their shirts and begun whirling them around their heads. Each had at least one ‘Club Atletico Independiente’ tattoo somewhere on their person. This really was the serious end of the club’s support. The match itself started off pretty evenly, with each side sharing possession and the home team hitting the post. Then Godoy took advantage of a sloppy defensive error to take the lead going into the half-time break. In the second half, Independiente were much more dominant, controlling play and constantly threatening the opposition. Their striker missed a simple header from near the penalty spot, and shared the frustration of the home crowd. In the dying minutes, a speculative effort from Independiente’s No. 9 beat the keeper and rattled down off the cross bar, the follow up header was too heavy and the chance was gone. Everyone in our stand had their head in their hands. With typical time-wasting from the opponents, it ended up being the last real opportunity of the game. As the away fans filed out before us, everyone had some time to settle down, and pack up the flags which were hung up along the fencing behind the goal. By the time we were out, it was near enough midnight, and so naturally it was Argentinean dinner time. Once again, Bruno and German used their local knowledge to navigate through the side streets, and we were soon at a “parrilla” (barbeque) with some hot meat baps and a couple of beers. Both were very interested to hear about England, and test out their English (I obliged in teaching them some naughty words) and we also spoke in the international language of football; comparing backgrounds of our respective teams. We sampled a few local drinks and carried on chatting until the early hours. It was then time for me to return the shirt I borrowed for the game, and also Felipe’s card. German and I took the bus back, and I hopped off near my hostel, walking the last couple of blocks. This was once again an example of the friendliness of Latin American people: after merely sharing some trail mix a few weeks earlier, Bruno had completely sorted me for an enjoyable and authentic evening of football. We left in agreement that I would return the favour next time he is England. The home fans Gutted after defeat Behind the goal Entering the fray From Bruno’s flat Walk back ©2020 Sam Floy - :)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41480
__label__wiki	0.538317	0.538317	LATEST on SATP SEARCH ON SATP SEARCH TERRORISM UPDATE Conflict Maps East Afghanistan Nuristan Panjsher North Afghanistan Sar-e-Pul South Afghanistan Uruzgan Southwest Afghanistan Nimroz Southeast Afghanistan Bamyan Paktiya Wardak West Afghanistan Ghor Islamist Terrorism Maoist Insurgency Insurgency North East ISLAMIST/OTHER CONFLICTS Chandigarh (UT) Proviencs Dhekunu (South) Mathi Dhekunu (Upper South) Mathi Uthuru (Upper North) Medhu (Central) Medhu Dhekunu (South Central) Medhu Uthuru (North Central) Uthuru (North) Islamabad Capital Territory North Central Province North Western Province Sabaragamua Province Uva Province The Knights of Falsehood The Global Threat of Terror WAR WITHIN BORDERS ICM IN MEDIA RISK ALERT ISLAMIST EXTREMISM & TERRORISM IN SOUTH ASIA SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/PROJECTS/REPORTS K. P. S. GILL Occasional writings on Terrorism & Governance Law Observed in Breach In India, increasingly, the exception is the rule. In every sphere of governance, we see a pervasive unwillingness to impose or abide by the law. National policies contribute directly to the rising anarchy across the country. Governments then seek to treat these self-inflicted wounds by providing fitful and preferential relief to small and arbitrarily selected segments of the affected population and, in this, compound existing injustice with further inequity. If anything, the consequences are made significantly worse by the inefficiency and corruption of the delivery mechanisms for the distribution of this purported 'relief'. The contempt for the law is not limited to the state and its agencies, and to those who exercise power through these. It extends to the overwhelming majority of citizens who will ignore, if not actively breach, the law at almost every instance when they feel they are not being monitored and would not be liable to penalties. The internalisation of law and of accepted social norms and mores, the hallmark of civilised societies, is becoming increasingly rare, with our educational systems, as well as the example of elders and the leaders of society, failing comprehensively to encourage or inculcate any desirable value system in our children. While particular crimes occasionally engage the attention of the public and the media, these sections are equally and vigorously exercised in seeking to secure exceptions to the application of the law in 'special' cases, including violations by the power elite, in cases where violations are attributed to a variety of unsubstantiated 'root causes', as well as 'politically sensitive' cases - once again, arbitrarily defined. More significant than the unwillingness reflected in our in capricious practices, is the incomprehension within the intelligentsia and ruling classes of the very notion of the rule of law and its role, not only in ordered administration, but in democracy itself. Democracy is not, as is widely believed, the mere establishment of an electoral process and of consequent 'representative' Governments that may do as they please during their term in office (though this is, in fact, what democracy has been reduced to in India). The electoral process is more fundamentally, the means to establish a 'representative' legislature that is intended to frame laws that are in conformity with the will of the people - which laws the Government and its various institutions and agencies are then required to implement without bias or discrimination, and with complete even-handedness. The degree to which India's present legislatures - at the Centre and in the States - ignore or deal in the most perfunctory manner with legislative business, and the extent to which our laws are far behind the imperatives of a rapidly transforming age, are indices of the failure of Indian democracy. The fact that a large proportion of the current Lok Sabha and of the many State Legislatures comprises individuals with records of heinous crimes against them underlines the reality of the national contempt for law. Politics, in fact, has become the ultimate ambition of all successful criminals, because it is in political success that they can effectively wipe out the entire record of past wrongdoing and secure absolute immunity against punishment. Their ambitions have, moreover, been eagerly encouraged and embraced by ideologically bankrupt political parties across the board, who have competed to give election tickets to the worst of offenders and justified the presence of criminals in Parliament and in State Legislatures on the grounds that the 'popular will' was a 'higher law' than the statute book and the Constitution. But this argument is, in fact, the ultimate repudiation of the purpose and spirit of democracy, of which the central and guiding principle demands that no one be placed above the law. There are many false debates in this country, tracing its many ills to a variety of 'root causes', seeking solutions in whimsical notions of welfare, selective protectionism and 'secularism' which provide little relief to their target populations, but give rise to widespread resentment and allegations of corruption, inefficiency and 'appeasement'. What the country needs, for instance, is not 'secularism'; it is simple rule of law. Secularism is part of the state's legal and constitutional obligation and would be automatically guaranteed by an even-handed application of the law. The Constitution has imposed certain obligations and duties on the state, guarantees for people of all Faiths alike, without discrimination of caste, creed, class or gender. It is the failure of the state to deliver on the promise of the Constitution and the mandate of the nation's laws that has created the persistent and insidious inequalities, which are then exploited by unscrupulous politicians and parties for, communal and caste mobilisation. Crucially, decades of these process of communal and caste mobilisation have failed to empower their target communities or to deliver any benefits of development to these populations. They have, on the other hand, polarised communities, and lent legitimacy to other unproductive and violent ideologies of envy and hate - including the rampaging Islamist, Maoist and ethnic (tribal) fundamentalist movements across the country. Similarly, it is the arbitrary exemptions from the law provided to the privileged or to certain politically volatile - often violent - sections among the less privileged that are the basis of the widespread sense of injustice, and of the collapse of the authority and legitimacy of the justice system, and would be more correctly identified as the 'root cause' of the pervasive sense of injury than any other failure of the state. Yet, we are constantly told, that we must create even more exceptions to the application of the law to accommodate these forces of violent disruption in order to address this sense of injury. Recent reports suggest that a leading management institute in the country declined to conduct courses in administrative practices for legislators in Bihar on the grounds that they were uneducable. Far more productive than courses in administration, however, would be courses and training in democracy, its underlying ideology, an understanding of the Indian Constitutional system and the dynamics of a policy and legislative framework that is in conformity with the Constitutional mandate. Had the political leadership evolved even a modicum of understanding of the nature of such a framework, the rising disorders and their increasingly vocal justifications would not find their source in the heart of India's establishment and structure of national power. 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__label__wiki	0.983646	0.983646	ShowBusinessMan + creative Scion Announces Hood By Air Exhibit At LA Gallery Scion has announced today that their lifestyle gallery and retail space on Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles, called the Scion A/V Installation, will host cult fashion label Hood By Air for a month long installation opening May 18. "Scion's goal is to continually support influential and emerging artists with the opportunities and resources that otherwise might be unavailable to them," says Jeri Yoshizu, manager of sales promotions at Scion, "Hood By Air was a brand we felt would really embody the conceptual retail experience we set out to deliver through this gallery space." The Scion A/V Installation is a retail and gallery environment that merges Scion product and lifestyle for the first time by offering consumers the opportunity to test-drive vehicles from the space itself. "Scion A/V Installation is a step in a more interactive direction for the retail gallery," says Yoshizu, "The focus of the space is affordable artwork, and limited edition products. Adding a test drive component moves Scion and our art initiatives closer to each other than they've ever been." The Scion A/V Installation project will bring New York City based fashion label Hood By Air to the west coast for the brands first pop up retail installation. "The partnership between Scion and Hood By Air was a natural step for the cultural strategy we focus on," explains Jeri Yoshizu, manager of sales promotions at Scion, "Scion A/V hosted a concert in Brooklyn with A$AP Rocky. It was during an interview with the rapper that we first began the Hood By Air conversation. It became clear that this would be a perfect partnership to shed light on the work we are doing at Scion and also support these emerging talents across the music and art worlds." The Scion A/V Hood By Air pop up exhibition, entitled "MORPH," will serve as the debut of a capsule luggage concept collection and feature three silicone art objects inspired by hiking luggage, tattooed skin and jewelry piercings as the focal point for the exhibit. On May 18th the Scion A/V Installation space will be transformed into a space reminiscent of a high school locker-room wherein the limited edition products will be sold for the duration of four weeks. Scion A/V has partnered with Hood By Air to produce an entire inventory of limited edition Hood By Air items that will sell within the space, including but not limited to the coveted Hood By Air Classics t-shirt collection in never before seen color-ways, backpacks, posters, water bottles, Emory boards, small accessories and more. The opening reception of the Scion A/V Presents: Hood By Air "MORPH" will be held on Saturday, May 18th from 7 – 10 p.m. at the Scion A/V Installation, located at 7667 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036. The Hood By Air exhibit will be present within the Scion A/V Installation space for the duration of four weeks following the opening reception and close on June 16th. Credits: Creative Agency — Sydney Reising, New York. advert, Art and Design, car advertising, and more: #advert #Art and Design #car advertising Scion Announces Hood By Air Exhibit At LA Gallery + creative	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41486
__label__cc	0.721619	0.278381	Located off of Willa Drive and adjacent to Whittlesey Park, the John and Dede Howard Ice Arena is a great, family-friendly, ice rink within the City of St. Joseph to bring your friends and family. Ice Arena Manager: Carrie Ogonowski Address: 2414 Willa Drive (Whittlesey Park) The John and Dede Howard Ice Arena was made possible by a generous donation from local residents John and Dede Howard. It has been a great resource to the City by providing fun, family-friendly recreation for the community. Some of the programs the John and Dede Howard Ice Arena hosts are open skating, club hockey, and also our Summer Recreation Program. The John and Dede Howard Ice Rink is a partially enclosed, refrigerated NHL-sized (200' x 85') outdoor rink. The rink is open to the weather outside; however, it has a roof above it to help protect it from some of the weather's elements. Because it is an outdoor facility, it is subject to weather. Weather may alter the printed schedule of ice times and also the opening and closing dates of the facility. Please either check the news feed of the website or contact the Ice Rink to inquire about weather-related closings. Ice Rink Amenities Enclosed Roof Rental (for personal use or club) Warming Shelter Winter Schedule and Rates Current Open Skate For information about renting/reserving the John and Dede Howard Ice Arena, please click here. Other Forms and Relevant Information Release of Assumption of Risk (Individual) Release Assumption of Risk and Indemnification (Club) Seasonal Rental Agreement Provisions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41491
__label__wiki	0.543766	0.543766	NCAA - Volleyball NCAA > Volleyball > Arellano back on top of standings after blasting LPU NCAA Season 95 Men's Volleyball: AU vs. MU (1/16/2020) NCAA Season 95 Women's Volleyball: AU vs. MU (1/16/2020) NCAA Season 95 Women's Volleyball: JRU vs. SSC-R (1/16/2020) NCAA Season 95 Women's Volleyball: CSB vs. UPHSD (1/10/2020) NCAA Season 95 Women's Volleyball: AU vs. LPU (1/10/2020) NCAA Season 95 Volleyball Opening Ceremonies (1/10)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41510
__label__wiki	0.824215	0.824215	Buster Olney goes in-depth on Anthony Rendon's impending free agency Julia Karron Amid the uncertainty about Anthony Rendon's future with the Nationals, baseball insider Buster Olney joined Chase Hughes on the most recent edition of the Nationals Talk podcast to discuss all things Rendon. To start, his contract situation is dependent on where Rendon finishes in the National League MVP race. "He's played himself into a position right now where I think he's running a strong third in the national league MVP voting," Olney noted, with Cody Bellinger of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Christian Yelich as the front runners. But if either of those two falters down the stretch, the award could be Rendon's to lose. "Rendon has played so well lately that if you saw a collapse from Bellinger, from Christian Yelich, then I think Rendon could jump in and steal it at the back end," Olney said. Bellinger's Dodgers appear to be co-favorites for Rendon's services, along with his hometown Texas Rangers. "Anthony Rendon's gonna kill it," Olney said. "You would assume that the Texas Rangers, from his home state with a lot of money to spend, new ballpark next year, they would get involved." But don't discount the Dodgers, as their management has liked what they've seen from the stud third baseman. They are, to me, a team to watch cause Rendon is exactly the type of player that Andrew Freeman, their head of baseball ops there, values in on-base percentage and being a well-rounded hitter and being such a serious professional," Olney said. Another reason for the fit is the Dodgers looming issues on third base. "Keep in mind, Justin Turner's got only one year left on his deal so Rendon could be the next third baseman," Olney noted. Rendon's reaction to the hubbub has been, well, typical Anthony Rendon. "He basically said that when he gets to free agency, assuming that he gets to free agency, he basically is gonna run off to an island someplace and not pay attention to anything that's being said about his situation," Olney said. Here's to hoping Rendon can enjoy that island vacation in peace. MORE NATIONALS NEWS: Scherzer is Dealin': Nats score win over Braves 9-4 Pro Baserunner: Scherzer steals second base of season They're gone: Trea Turner, Davey Martinez ejected Buster Olney goes in-depth on Anthony Rendon's impending free agency originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41511
__label__wiki	0.807824	0.807824	Blog Columns Site News Charlie Nicholas predicts Eric Dier to benefit from Mourinho’s arrival Charlie Nicholas predicts Eric Dier to benefit from Mourinho’s arrival Sai 30 November, 2019 English Premier League, General Football News, Site News, Tottenham, Transfer News & Rumours Popular pundit Charlie Nicholas has predicted that Eric Dier will benefit the most from Jose Mourinho’s appointment at Tottenham. Under Mauricio Pochettino, Dier had lost his starting berth. However, he has been involved under Mourinho so far. As per the Sky Sports pundit, Mourinho prefers players like Dier and he will continue to pick the England international going forward. He said (via HITC): “Who will benefit from Jose Mourinho coming in? The first guy who came to my mind was Eric Dier. He sits and protects and you can play him at centre-back if you have to as well. He took him off against Olympiacos but he initially played him and will continue to do so.” The Spurs ace can play as a defensive midfielder, a centre back and a right back. He could prove to be a very valuable squad option for Mourinho this season. The midfielder can be erratic at times but once he learns how to channel his aggression properly, he could be an asset for the Londoners. He will have to work on his positioning as well. To sum it up, Nicholas’s prediction might not be far off. Mourinho has used players like that to a great effect throughout his managerial career and Dier might benefit from that. The likes of Fellaini, Essien have played similar roles for the Portuguese over the years. Jose Mourinho makes a bold claim about Ryan Sessegnon Rhian Brewster would be a superb signing for Leeds Mass Communications Graduate. Football writer with an interest in News, Opinions, Scout reports, Betting tips, Match reports, Previews and Tactical Analysis. Contact - sai[at]sportslens[dot]com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41513
__label__wiki	0.874949	0.874949	24 July 1976 - South Africa 16 / All Blacks 7 King’s Park, Durban. Glorious summer’s day, temperature 30 degree’s. Crowd: 45 000. Referee: Ian Gourlay (Natal). Ian Robertson (Rhod) 1 drop goal Duncan Robertson Edrich Krantz (OVS) Johan Oosthuizen (WP) Peter Whipp (WP) Gerrie Germishuys (OVS) 1 try Bryan Williams B Robertson Lyn Jaffray Grant Batty 1 pen Gerald Bosch (TVL) Paul Bayvel (TVL) 1 Con, 1 pen Doug Bruce Sid Going Morné du Plessis (WP) Jan Ellis (TVL) Boland Coetzee (WP) Andy Leslie (C) Ian Kirkpatrick Moaner van Heerden (NTVL) John Williams (NTV) Peter Whiting Rampie Stander (OVS) Robert Cockrell (WP) Derek v/d Berg (WP) Kent Lambert Tane Norton Kerry Tanner Lineouts Tightheads The first test of the 1976 series was a classic encounter in almost every sense with lots before and after match controversy, some excellent tries. The match also panned out differently than expected with the NZ forward pack surprising the springboks with their physicality and superior technique and the Springbok backline outplaying the New Zealand backline. The match was eventually won by the team who made the least amount of mistakes. Here are the pictures of the Springbok team originally selected and above are the names of the players who eventually played. Dawie Snyman had to withdraw because of a hamstring injury on the Wednesday before the test and was replaced with Peter Whipp with Ian Robertson moving to the fullback position. Before the game incidents/issues/stuff The drama started with some controversial team selections on both sides and ended with those selections being instrumental to the outcome of the match. On the New Zealand side the selection of Duncan Robertson –normally a flyhalf- on fullback ahead of the two touring fullbacks Laurie Mains and Kit Fawcett was a shocker. Laurie Mains did not impress up to this stage on tour in particular with his place kicking which cost NZ the match against Western Province. The Kit Fawcett saga was a much more interesting story with Fawcett’s selection for the touring side being questioned by many as he was not even able to maintain his place in the starting line-up of the Auckland university team. Just after arrival he made a remark, to a female reporter, to the extent that the All Blacks expect to score more off the field than on the field which irked the All Black management to the extreme. McLean has the following on Kit Fawcett and his omission from the team for the first test: Fawcett bounded into the team on the strength of a fine trail a month before the team was chosen without any succeeding recommendations. A bouncy 21-year-old, potentially an outstanding athlete, he was soon found to be the eternal youth, in excelsis –brash, super-confident, harum-scarum. He had scarcely begun the tour before he was announcing that one of his pleasures in life was not conforming. His genial greeting to John Stewart of “Hi Coach” while the All Blacks were preparing in East London for their first match produced such a ticking-off as might have reduced even an insensitive man to whimpers. Kit, or, as he was known to his family, “Louie”, bounced along, charming himself each day with some new facet of his personality. In the background, Jay Jay” took to muttering that if some other bastard did not break Kit’s leg, or arm, he would. When Jay Jay Stewart announced that, as for the first test, Duncan Robertson would play fullback, it was said to him: “It is a criticism that, if you believed Duncan was the man for the job, you did not play him a couple of times in the back before the test”. “I am aware of this,” said Stewart. “It is a fair comment. But I kept on hoping that Fawcett would come right”. Fawcett’s relaxed style clearly did not fit into the All Black culture of respect for traditions and for senior members of the team. This and some on the field incidents which demonstrated lack of discipline and commitment to a pre-arranged game plan which caused the team to leak tries against provincial sides had much to do with the decision to play Duncan Robertson on fullback. On South Africa’s side the inclusion of Edrich Krantz –a 21-year old winger from Free State who captained the SA u/21 side to South America the previous year- was the big surprise as was the inclusion of Ian Robertson, the Rhodesian fullback, on centre which broke-up the established Whipp/Oosthuizen Western Province centre combination. Jan Ellis was playing in his 38th test match equaling Frik du Preez’s national record. The three Transvalers in the team –Ellis, and the halfback combination of Bayvel and Bosch- were considered, before the match, as key to Springbok victory. As it turned out all three had very average matches. The three Transvalers -Paul Bayvel, Jan Ellis and Gerald Bosch- in the Springbok team who was considered to be key players for the Springboks. Derek van den Berg one of two members of the South African team who followed in the footsteps of their Springbok fathers. Two Springbok players followed in their father’s footsteps. Derek van den Berg was the son of Mauritz who locked the scrum in all three internationals in 1937. The other one, who received a lot more attention, was Morné du Plessis who completed a unique double when he emulated his farther Felix by leading the Springboks against New Zealand. Morné was also primarily responsible for coaching the forwards. The Springboks, under the guidance of Morné looked impressive in their workouts. Selection convener, Johan Claassen stayed true to his word that he would not don his tracksuit at the training when asked who would really be handling the coaching of the side. Ian Kirkpatrick –the former Springbok centre and coach- put the backs through some slick handling drills, done at smart pace. Morné du Plessis leading the Springboks on the field in the first test of the 1976 series. Du Plessis was captain and coach and it was his infectious enthusiasm, will to win and leadership more than anything else that rubbed off on the 1976 Springboks and which settled the team in the nerve-wracked first and lifted them to victory in the crucial third test. The preparations were, however, severely hampered when Dawie Snyman –the vice-captain and a vital link in the plans as an attacking fullback- had to withdraw due to a hamstring strain. Rumours buzzed about the Springbok camp when it was learnt that Snyman was flying home on the first flight and not staying for the test. Was there distention in the camp and did Snyman withdrew because we was told to pull out? That was just some of the questions and speculations flying around. The biggest disaster was yet to come and on the Friday morning Gerald Bosch was in bed with a heavy dose of flu running a temperature of 102 degree. It was going to be a desperate close race to get him in any sort of condition to play a rugby test and this news had to be kept from the enemy at all cost as it could gave them a serious psychological boost. Here is Gerald Bosch being led off by the Springboks team doctor Jack Sweidan –to be replaced by De Wet Ras- 10 minutes before the end. The Springboks gambled heavily with Bosch in this test and he could not do himself justice missing with 5 normally easy penalties for him and with the conversion of Krantz’s try –which hit the upright- and two drop goal attempts. Those long kicks deep to the corners driving the opposition back on their heels were also missing from his game and there was no snap about his general play. The general predictions before the match were that South African should dominate set piece forward play and that New Zealand would be the better when it comes to backline play. Moaner van Heerden and John Williams on the charge in the first test. The Springbok forwards did not dominate as expected in this test but van Heerden was a menacing presence right through the series and made his presence felt in no uncertain way with an infamous stepping incident in one of the later tests culminating in some grim exchanges between him and the All Blacks in the third and fourth test. Run of play 11th minute Williams penalty goal, 31m. Bosch penalty, 34m. 41st minute Jaffray try. Germishuys try. Bosch converts. 73rd minute Krantz try. Robertson dropgoal. Williams missed penalty kicks from 42 and 31 meters. He also missed the conversion of Jaffray’s try. Bryan Williams had an average day with the boot. Bosch missed penalties from 48, 45, 34, 22 and 48 meters. Bosch hit the upright when trying to converts Krantz’s try; he also missed two drop goals. De Wet Ras who replaced Bosch missed with a 48 meter penalty. About the match In between all the crises and controversies there was also some rugby, much of it error-ridden and nerve-wracked; some positively breathtaking in execution. In the end the 45 000 spectators and millions in front of the TV –this was in all likelihood the first ever Springbok test shown live on TV in South Africa- were served up a sort of match that one tends to equate with a test between the Springboks and the All Blacks. South Africa kicked off and within a couple of minutes Gerald Bosch was having an attempt at goal –which failed- from near the halfway line. Gerald Bosch kicking for goal in the first test with Krantz and Whipp in the background. Slotting goals under pressure of Test match demands require a clean bill of health. Yet the flu ridden Bosch -repute for his accurate place and drop kicking- although missing with 8 kicks were still able to contribute 5 points; slotting a penalty by halftime to make the scores 3 all and succeeding with the extremely vital conversion of Gerrie Germishuys’s try from an acute angle. It was New Zealand who had the next scoring opportunity when Leslie chased a kick –initially he had a huge slice of luck as Boland Coetzee put him onside when the kick overhead touched him- dribbled it past Springbok fullback Ian Robertson and kicked it ahead for the goalline. He had three meters start on the nearest Springbok. A certain 6 points loomed, but then, at the last second as Leslie began to lunge for the try the ball developed a wicked curl and snuck around the upright, so that Leslie couldn’t get to it. “I’ve never been more frustrated than I was at that moment,” the All Black captain declared later. Two interesting incidents during the first test. Above Tane Norton is landing a kick on Paul Bayvel. Bayvel didn’t get much protection from his forwards with the All Blacks dominating procedures upfront in this is one of quite a few occasions when the New Zealanders got to him. Below is a picture of the close-Andy-Leslie-try with players lying all over the place after the Springboks were able –thanks to a fortunate bounce of the ball- to dot it down. It was all New Zealand for the first 15 minutes and there were a few more scoring opportunities for the All Blacks during this long period of almost complete dominance which they were unable to convert into points. Bryan Williams succeeded with a penalty in the 11th minute but missed with a second one and Sid Going was only inches away from dotting down –a Springbok hand winning the touchdown fractionally ahead of Going- under the posts after Paul Bayvel got caught near the line as he tried to run his way out of trouble. The Springbok pack was being outplayed and the much-vaunted line-out jumping strength was playing second fiddle to a big match-inspired Peter Whiting. Whiting’s controlled line-out deflecting was a revelation. The department, in which the Springboks based so much pre-test faith, was taken over by the Kiwi’s. With a stream of possession from line-out, scrum and more important ruck and maul, the New Zealand bombardment continued unabated. A serious error of judgment by the Springboks was the apprehension that their leading lineout players, John Williams and Moaner van Heerden, would demolish Peter Whiting and Hamish Macdonald in the battle for the ball within the lines and that, at the lineout’s end, du Plessis, 1.98 meters tall, would make a mockery of his contest with Stewart or Leslie. The All Blacks won the lineout contest by 19 clear-cut possessions to 13. It was a remarkable achievement. But the sum of South Africa’s blunders big and small was much, much less than the sum of New Zealand’s. Some pictures of the battle between the locks in the first test. It was intense and New Zealand made a serious mistake by not playing more with their set piece in the second half because Whiting and Macdonald outplayed menacing Moaner and the Jolly Jumper Johnie. See how the Jolly Jumper Williams got knocked down by Peter Whiting. Back of the line-out was also an even contest with Du Plessis slightly taller than Leslie while Kirkpatrick had a slight height advantage over Ellis. Big Moaner charged downfield on a few occasions in storming rage but the lack of Springbok drive on the sides of the scrum was glaringly apparent. Jan Ellis and Morné threw the ball to each other ineffectively behind the scrum making everyone wonder what exactly they were up to while what they needed to do was to drive the ball up. Ian Kirkpatrick, on the All Black-side, was almost unstoppable on the burst; running wide to make valuable yardage across the advantage line. Kirkpatrick was clearly the forward of the match his only mistake doing the runs maybe too often and getting isolated from his support creating turnover ball for South Africa in the process. The Springboks forwards owed a debt of gratitude to their inside backs for the way these little guys went in on defense pulling down, hustling, bustling and hampering the likes of Ian Kirkpatrick, Ken Stewart and Andy Leslie as they tried to punch holes in the South African midfield. Jan Ellis and Ken Stewart chasing after the ball. Ellis was outplayed at the breakdowns and looked just a bit tentative with the ball in the hand not taking it to the All Blacks and it was no surprise when he was replaced by Theuns Stofberg for the second test. Boland Coetzee here in action. He had to play a lot tighter but played well enough to get a recall for the second test. Another Boland Coetzee action picture; tackling Kerry Tanner. Going clearing from behind the scrum. The halftime score was 3 all and the All Black looked clearly in control. They opened the second half quite sensationally when they switched the kick-off with Leslie ordering a kick-off to the wrong side. Morné du Plessis got to the ball first but then threw a pass that was superbly read and intercepted by the illusive and inventive little Grant Batty. He plucked the ball out the air and set-off; slipped inside Edrich Krantz as if debutant 21-year-old Free State winger was not there and with beautiful controlled running, cleverly supported by Stewart, the ball eventually went to centre Lyn Jaffray who scored in the corner. The score suddenly 7-3 in favor of the All Blacks. Jaffray’s try after the Batty interception can be view here. Lyn Jaffray who scored at the start of the second half after some clever running by Grant Batty. This was the supreme test for Du Plessis’s captaincy credentials and indeed for the character of the 1976 Springboks. Nine minutes later the Springboks moment of glory manifest itself in a glorious Gerrie Germishuys try after the wingman legged it down the left hand touch line and eluded the defense of the two Robertson’s (Bruce and Duncan) with just a hint of an in-and-out. It was a full backline move; the ball flowing down the backline for once. Peter Whipp quickly summed up the situation and send a long pass past Oosthuizen into the hands of Ian Roberston coming in from fullback. This allowed Ian Robertson to pull Williams in on defense before putting the flying winger in space. Germishuys had little room in which to manoeuvre but the sheer speed with which a ran into the ball allowed him to slip past Bruce and then with just a slight in and a huge outside swerve he shed off Duncan’s attempt to get hold of him and scored a great try in the corner that set the crowd roaring. Bosch slotted the conversion and the boks where ahead and stayed ahead for the remainder of the game. Gerrie Germishuys scoring a magnificent Springbok try in the left hand corner. There was 7 minutes left on the clock when Bayvel broke from a scrum, going blindside. He showed a surprising turn of speed and was slipping away from Going when Sid in a despairing dive were able to ankle tap him. Bayvel started stumbling –eventually falling forward- but was able to slipped the ball backwards. Duncan Robertson was coming in at speed and bent to pick it up, missed, and swooping in to collect and score was Edrich Krantz. Series of pictures showing Edrich Krantz’s try in his first test. At the top Bayvel breaking away. Second picture Bayvel at full speed with Going diving forward to ankle tap him. Third picture showing Krantz lying in disbelief on the ball after scoring. Fourth picture big Jolly Jumper John Williams walking hand over shoulder with Krantz after he helped the stunned Krantz -who was lying on his stomach staring at the ball in disbelief- on his feet. The All Blacks came back with a vengeance after kick-off. They tried hard to score through spirited use of the backline, but the Springbok defence held. Five minutes from the end Ian Kirkpatrick stormed away from a line-out. Going kept things moving and when Doug Bruce got caught the whole pack enveloped him and drove forward in a wave of bodies that the Springboks seemed powerless to check. Only yards remained and a try looked a certainty when referee Ian Gourlay, “criminally” penalized Leslie, seemingly, for being in front of the ball. No such penalty exist, of course, and Ian Gourlay did not do himself or South African referee’s any favours with vague evasive responses after the match like “I don’t remember that” or “I don’t know” or “when was that?” Sometime later, sources close to Gourlay reveal that he penalized Leslie for over-robust play. It appears that Leslie was penalized for kicking at Du Plessis’s groin after the boks skipper had grabbed his counterpart by the throat in a fierce exchange. Somehow even that just doesn’t have a ring of truth. “I knew at that moment we could not win this test,” said a dejected Leslie later. The last points came in the final minutes of the match when Duncan Robertson failed to find touch from inside his 22 and Ian Robertson slammed a low flying drop goal. After the game reactions/occurrences Apart from the Leslie penalty in the last 5 minutes there were a number of other incidents which caused some controversy and spirited debate afterwards. The replacing of Bosch 10 minutes before the end being one of them with the Kiwi’s complaining that South Africa bent the substitution rule by replacing someone who went onto the field ill and was not injured or indisposed by anything that happened on the field. They were also highly skeptical when it was revealed that Bosch left the field due to a blow to the head. The All Blacks felt afterwards that they allowed this match to slip away by making too many errors; in execution; on the defence; not reading the game tactically well enough. There were defensive lapses on the All Black side with both the South African tries -scored by Germishuys and Krantz- which left the Kiwi coaching staff unhappy. Another critique was that tactically they should have played more with their forwards as they were clearly in control up front. You win test matches by not making mistakes under presuure and by taking your changes and the All Blacks, writes Terry McLean, came-up short in both regards in this test they failed to take their changes and they made collectively more blunders than South Africa. They were warned before the match, by the survivors of 1970 series, about debilitations of Durban’s humility and it was felt by the South Africans that the heat got to them contributing to lapses in concentration towards the mid and later parts of the second half. Grant Batty cooling off during the test which was played in 30 degree heat an which Terry McLean call the shirt-sleeve test. Grant Batty also re-injured his knee in this test. Here he is curling in pain on the ground while being ignored by the South African players.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41514
__label__wiki	0.899383	0.899383	First Test, July 25, 1970 Tension was unbearable, in both camps during the last few days leading up to the first test. Team selection and possible game plan/strategies of the respective teams, were the topics raised in the media and the reason why practice sessions were keenly attended and closely followed. Both teams went out of their way to keep the above mentioned secret. Late announcement of teams; nothing practice sessions; tactical sessions behind closed doors; early morning sessions at unannounced training venues was standard practice. Gabriel David expresses himself as follows: If there’s any more secrecy about this first rugby test then they had beter get James Bond to referee the match. The “bokkies” sneaked behind prison bars on Wednesday to brush up on their tactical ploys and yesterday coach Ivan Vodanovich had his boys out of the hotel just after dawn had broken. The destination was not announced, but it is known that several new attacking moves were studied and practiced. New Zealand selected an experienced team and Bryan Williams –selected on merit- was the only new test cap in the team; Cottrell's form thus far on tour got him selected on no 10 ahead of incumbent flyhalf Earle Kirton, Tom Lister was selected on the flank above Alan Sutherland. The New Zealand side for this test can be seen here. The Springbok selectors (Avril Malan, Flappie Lochner, Daan Swiegers, Johan Claassen and Ian Kirkpatrick) photographed at the Springbok trials. It was during this trials that players like Albie Bates, Johan Spies, Piston van Wyk, Ian McCallum and Joggie Jansen played themselves into the test side. This was a time when it was difficult for a young player to get into the Springbok team due to a policy of sticking with experience that developed after the 1965 disasterous tour to New Zealand (see the article by Alex Versey which feature as part of the post about the third test). The Springbok team had quite a few new faces in comparison with the players / teams that played as recently as 7 months ago in the test matches on the end year tour to the UK. Ian McCallum played in his first test at No 15 in place of HO de Villiers who recently retired; Joggie Jansen was brought on centre above players like JP van der Merwe, Eben Olivier Tonie Roux who played in test matches during the 69/70 end year tour. Tiny Neethling –not his first test- was selected above the experienced Mof Myburg with Albie Bates at No 8 in place of Tommy Bedford and Johan Spies at lock above Sakkie de Klerk. The Springbok team for the first test against the 1970 All Blacks. The Springbok reserves for the first two tests With 17 consecutive test victories and the poor performances of the Springboks during the 69/70 end year tour still fresh in the memories the All Blacks was by far the favourites - even among the South African public and media- to win this test. Ron Burk, manager of the AB, openly set the odds in the media at 60:40 in favour of an All Blacks victory; a remark which was considered as a little inconsiderate and lacking in tact by the rest of the team. Chris Greyvenstein in his book Springbok saga put it like this when he writes about the general perceptions regarding the Springbok’s chances in the first test: The All Blacks' magnificent performances against the provincial opposition and their unbeaten record stretching over five years, all helped to build them into giants surrounded by an aura of almost mystical invincibility and hardly any hope was held out for the Springboks who had fared so poorly on the demo-plagued tour to Britain. South Africa 17, New Zealand 6. The following paragraph by Gabriel David summarizes the general expectation of the kiwi media at the start of the test and the change in perceptions as the test progressed: My companion (on the pavilion) was none other than AC (Ace) Parker, South Africa’s most celebrated and respected rugby writer and author. We exchanged warm greetings and he made what I thought a strange comment. He said with an air of a man who knew what he was talking about “You will lose this test and win the other three!” I mumbled a polite answer and privately thought that dear old Ace was losing his touch. Not that wily character, however, for I turned to him after 10 minutes of the match acknowledged” “Ace, how do you always do it?” David mentions four aspects which in his opinion was key to the Springbok’s victory; The AB's totally underestimated the Springbok flankers and No. 8 and thought they would be too loose to combat the disciplined drive of the All Black forwards. The Springboks aggression and control at the breakdowns and the AB's lack of structure in that department, he thought greatly determined the final outcome. Jan and Piet under a blanket (photo not taken against the AB but in a test against the French in 1971). About the forwards play David made the following observations: ......it was the South African forwards who launched the subsidiary thrust at the breakdowns. Our loose men treated halfback De Villiers and flyhalf Visagie as though both had the plague and scarcely went near them. The lineout duel was lost for the first time on the tour, although the dependable McLeod won the tight head contest, 4-1. Hopkinson was badly beaten at no 2 in the lineout by the new boy Spies. Strahan played extremely well but was no match for the incomparable Du Preez as the key man in the lineouts. Lister was one New Zealand forward who incorporated some efficiency into his game but Kirkpatrick was strangely subdued. Lochore played a fine captain’s game to rally the forwards. A concerned looking Going trying to get hold of Piet Visgaie in process of launching one of his precise tactical kicks. De Villiers and Visagie's precise and clinical play at 9 and 10 and especially Visagie's tactical kicking he thought was decisive. The Piet Visagie dropgoal can be seen on this link. Tactical planning and teamwork were the main ingredients of this Springbok victory whereas New Zealand neglected their patterned football in pursuance of the 15-man attacking game. Piet Greyling kicking through with Dawie de Villiers chasing to score the Springboks first try. Only three minutes had elapsed when the All Blacks won a scrum inside their 25 but, as Laidlaw went back to gather the ball, he was bustled and the ball went loose. Greyling, coming through quickly got his foot to the ball and kicked it through to the All Black line. In the chase for the ball, de Villiers narrowly beat Wayne Cottrell to the touchdown and scored South Africa’s first points, near the left hand corner. Click here to listen to Afrikaans radio commentator describing the first Springbok try by Dawie de Villiers. Footage of De Villiers’s try can be seen here. The Springbok’s defence and especially the infamous tackle by Frik du Preez on Laidlaw and Joggie Jansen’s crash tackle on Cottrell determined to a great extent the result of this test. The tackle on Laidlaw early in the game and his subsequent concussion thereafter, he thought, completely disrupted the All Blacks and was the reason why they couldn’t get into any sort of pattern. The first try by Dawie de Villiers, within 4 minutes after onset, was also a direct result of Laidlaw's concussion. He writes as follows about the infamous tackle by Frik du Preez and Albie Bates on Chris Laidlaw: A knock early in the match concussed halfback Laidlaw and it was in utter disbelief that we watched him fumble for the ball, allow it to lie at the back of the scrum and just let it run between his legs. When he did instinctively grab it he ran straight into attacking forwards when he had all the time in the world to kick for touch. He played in a dazed state for 42 minutes of the match during which time 12 points had been recorded alongside the name of South Africa and a miserable blob was the undistinguished mark by New Zealand. There can be no doubt that the concussed state of Laidlaw had an important bearing on the results but there is no question that the All Blacks played badly, very badly at times just as South Africa played tremendous rugby for the whole 80 minutes. The 1970 sport photo of the year. About Joggie Jansen's crash tackle on Cottrell he wrote the following: One of Jansen's crash tackles laid Cottrell almost unconscious and the onslaught of the dedicated home side had the All Blacks badly rattled. Visagie maintained his tactical kicking and in the 8th minute South Africa won a scrum midway between the New Zealand goal line and 25. De Villiers sent a long pass to Visagie who propped beautifully and sent a magnificent 30-yard left-footed drop kick between the posts. A concerned Joggie Jansen trying to help a gutted Wayne Cottrell just after Jansen flattened him with a crash tackle. Greyvenstein-Springbok saga - also referred to Joggie Jansen’s crash tackle: All Black flyhalf Wayne Cottrell received from a set scrum and, moving to the blind side, he tried to probe for an opening. As he was about to pass, when the big Free Stater hit him squarely with a shoulder-first tackle in the midriff and Cottrell was flattened as effectively as if he had been run over by a truck. Cottrell was never the same again and the 22-year-old Joachim Scholtz (Joggie) Jansen went on to terrorize the All Blacks in the tradition of Jimmy White and Rijk van Schoor. Click here to listen to Gerhard Viviers describing the famous Joggie Jansen tackle on Wayne Cottrell. See that famous Joggie Jansen tackle on Wayne Cottrell here. Finally, the precise place kicking by Ian McCallum at critical times in the game was also crucial with regard to the final outcome of this test match, according to Gabriel David. McCallum will wear the distinctive green jersey for some time. He never faltered under high kicks and his skill in finding the uprights with long, accurate kicks did much to establish the results. That 50-yard penalty in the 35thth minute to give his side a 12-0 lead was the straw that broke the camel's back. Going replaced Laidlaw after approximately 42 minutes with immediate impact. Going's short powerful probes from behind the scrum got the NZ pack on the front foot; Going was also instrumental in Bryan Williams try. David describes this series of events: .... South Africa continued to dominate until Laidlaw finally went off and was replaced by Going. It was a long period, however, before Going came on the field and an understandably impatient coach Ivan Vodanovich fretted and fumed when the doctor carried out one of the most comprehensive examinations any injured rugby player has ever endured. Six minutes at least elapsed before the little North Aucklander came on the field and set about changing the disastrous patterns that were plunging New Zealand to defeat. With the alertness and zip that characterized his match-winning performances behind previous New Zealand packs, the nuggety little Maori gave the All Blacks new hope as he set up new attacking dynamite with brilliant bursts from the base of the scrum. Eight minutes after Syd Going came on he broke to the open side of a scrum, crossed the halfway line as he slipped through a gap and then threw a one-handed pass to Bryan Williams. Williams accelerated and sped round Sid Nomis. He continued another 15 yards before being confronted by a determined Ian McCallum. He eluded McCallum with a brilliant step of his left foot, straightend-up and was over in the corner; suddenly the score was 12-6 and NZ back in the game. The Bryan Williams try can be seen here. Bryan Williams was absolutely brilliant and the try he scored was pure artistry; he sped down the left sideline and in-and-out with such devastating speed between three defenders that they fell over each other and literally sat on the ground afterwards staring at each other with perplexed facial expressions. Four minutes later it was all but over when a alert Sid Nomis intercepted a high-flying pass by Lochore, and raced through on the wave of a euphoric home ground and Gerhard Viviers' almost hysterical shouting SIDDIE, SIDDIE, SIDDIE over the radio as Nomis ran from the All Blacks 10 meter line to score just next of the upright for the final points of the match. Listen here to Gerhard Viviers going Siddie, Siddie Siddie as he describes the Syd Nomis intercept try. These two photograps shows Syd Nomis scoring the intercept try that sealed the match for South Africa. Footage of the Sid Nomis interception can be see by clicking on this link. Terry McLean, in his book "Battling the boks” writes: The South African forwards were balls of fire. De Villiers was galvanized, scarcely able to stand still for a moment. The team was wound up to a state of total dedication. In the early movements, the players took off like projectiles. For New Zealand troubles began in the lineout, where Hopkinson and Smith at the short end were beaten by Neethling and Spies, and Strahan in the main catching position at 5 were beaten by Du Preez. The trouble continued in the open, where Bates, Greyling and Ellis, but especially Bates, were first to the ball, first to the man, first in most things. The poor quality of the All Black forward play was shattering. One saluted the Springboks, especially Bates, who was truly magnificent; du Preez made fine catches; Neethling, who was a considerable nuisance at the front of the line; de Villiers, whose leadership was electrifying; Visagie who kicked with terrifying exactitude; Jansen, who tackled in the manner of such defensive giants as Jackie Matthews and Rijk van Schoor; and McCallum who fielded expertly, kicked accurately, ran smartly and more than salvaged a reputation which might have been lost by the uncertainty of his defence as Williams ran at him. See highlights of the enire test here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41515
__label__wiki	0.690963	0.690963	Home » Timeline » 1960-1962 » Bob Moses goes to McComb Bob Moses goes to McComb When SNCC field secretary Bob Moses arrived in the small Southwest Mississippi city of McComb to begin SNCC’s first voter registration project, an older generation of local civil rights stalwarts had already laid a foundation on which he could stand. The NAACP branch in McComb, led by railroad worker Curtis Conway “C.C.” Bryant, had long prioritized voter registration. In the spring of 1961, Bryant read an article in Jet Magazine reporting that SNCC was about to start a voter registration drive in the Mississippi Delta. Bryant contacted Amzie Moore, his NAACP colleague up in the Delta, asking that Moore send some of these workers to McComb. Bob Moses was the only SNCC worker in the state, and since Moore was not yet ready to launch a voter registration drive in the Delta, he sent Moses to Bryant. When Moses arrived in July, C.C. Bryant wasted no time plugging Moses into McComb’s Black community. One of the first people he introduced Moses to was retired railroad man and NAACP membership chair, Webb Owens. Every morning for the rest of July, Owens picked Moses up and took him around town, introducing him to key figures in the community. They secured enough support from McComb’s Black community–in $5 and $10 contributions–to support the project. Reggie Robinson, who had been working on voter registration with a SNCC affiliate in Baltimore, and John Hardy, a Freedom Rider just released from Parchman Penitentiary, soon joined Moses. House-to-house canvassing began at the start of August. Some honors students from the local high school that Webb Owens had recruited accompanied Moses as he worked his way through McComb’s neighborhoods. He often introduced himself as “C.C. Bryant’s voter registration man.” At each house, he would show a voter registration form and ask if the person had ever tried to fill it out. Then, as a way to cut through people’s fear about registering, Moses asked if they wanted to try filling it out right there in their home. The three SNCC workers held their first voter registration class in McComb’s Masonic Temple on August 7th where attendees practiced filling out the twenty-one question Mississippi registration form. Earlier that day, Moses had brought four people he had met while canvassing to the county courthouse in Magnolia. Three of them were registered. Two days later, three applicants took the test, and two of them registered. Voting had long been the priority of Black people in McComb, and soon, SNCC’s voter registration classes were attracting around 25 people. News of the voter registration efforts in McComb spread, and farmers from neighboring Amite and Walthall County reached out to Moses about starting voter registration schools in their areas. These rural areas of Southwest Mississippi were notoriously violent and poor. The Ku Klux Klan was stronger here than in any other part of the state. Many locals in McComb feared SNCC workers would be killed and tried to discourage SNCC from attempting a voter registration campaign. But Moses felt like he had little choice: “You can’t be in the position of turning down the tough areas because the people, then, I think would lose confidence in you.” Murder and the inability to offer protection forced SNCC to leave these counties until returning in 1964, but this is where SNCC learned to dig in and where it found some of its strongest support. “We had, to put it mildly,” reflected Moses years later, “got our feet wet.” Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1988). Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981). Charles E. Cobb, Jr, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get you Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (New York: Basic Books, 2014). Charles E. Cobb, Jr., On the Road to Freedom, a Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2008). John Dittmer, Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995). Robert P. Moses & Charles E. Cobb, Jr., Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001). Charles M. Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996). Howard Zinn, SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964). Interview with C.C. Bryant by Joseph Sinsheimer, February 7, 1985, Joseph Sinsheimer Papers, Duke University. Interview with Bob Moses by Joseph Sinsheimer, November 19, 1983, Joseph Sinsheimer Papers, Duke University. Bob Moses gives an account of his voter registration efforts in Mississippi in 1961, February 1963, Carl and Anne Braden Papers, WHS Click here to view document Mississippi literacy test, circa 1955, crmvet.org Interview with C.C. Bryant by Joseph Sinsheimer, February 7, 1985, Joseph Sinsheimer Papers, Duke University “Voter Registration Activities of the NAACP,” 1960, crmvet.org Bob Moses reports on Misssisippi voter registration project, SNCC meeting minutes, July 14 – 16, 1961 crmvet.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41519
__label__wiki	0.913026	0.913026	Villa comes back to draw Man United By Nicholas MendolaDec 1, 2019, 1:27 PM EST Manchester United came back from an early deficit to lead against Aston Villa, only to toss away the win in a 2-2 draw at Old Trafford. [ MORE: Watch full PL match replays ] Aston Villa took a point off United at Old Trafford for the first time since a 1-0 win on Dec. 12, 2009, almost exactly 10 years ago. Jack Grealish and Tyrone Mings scored for Villa, who rise into 15th with 15 points, while United’s 18th point leaves it ninth. Tom Heaton‘s own goal was United’s first marker, Victor Lindelof its second. Three things we learned 1. Captain Grealish scores sensational opener: Anwar El Ghazi got off a cross despite his knee buckling, and Grealish collected the ball to the left of the United box. Cutting free of Andreas Pereira to open up space, the Englishman curled an aesthetically-pleasing effort just inside the far post, leaving David De Gea helpless. The marker is Grealish’s fifth to go with five assists in 14 appearances for Villa this season, and his 20th senior goal for his boyhood club. 2. Corner kick routines lead to United goals: Both of United’s goals were set up by corners played short and then sent into the mix. The first was Andreas Pereira making amends for his role in Villa’s opener by sending a pinpoint cross to the back post for Rashford on what would become a Heaton own goal, while Lindelof was at the back post to nestle a header into the same part of the next as Grealish’s first half sensation. 3. Mings punishes United’s advanced back line: Villa’s equalizer came off a corner kick routine of its own, as the United back line pushed high up into own 18 only to see Mings time his run perfectly for one of those chances where most are imagining the player “must be off.” Instead, the English defender thumped Targett’s cross past De Gea for 2-2. VILLA LEVEL IT! 📺: NBCSN 💻: https://t.co/ACCxL1LNdq pic.twitter.com/dYlMjG5If7 — NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) December 1, 2019 Man of the Match: There wasn’t a true star in this one, so we’ll credit Grealish for his marvelous goal. Both sides hit the frame on the day, Rashford and Trezequet the causes. Villa took its lead through Grealish’s wondrous opener, though El Ghazi had to leave the match with an injury suffered on the cross. Rashford made it 1-1 before halftime on a corner kick routine swept to the back post by Pereira. [ MORE: Premier League stats ] United called for two penalties in the first 15 minutes of the second half, but both weren’t legit. Heaton denied a vicious Aaron Wan-Bissaka shot set up by Fred, and United took the lead on the ensuing corner kick when Lindelof scored his second goal in 84 club appearances. The lead lasted a minute, as Mings rose to finish Matt Targett‘s chopped cross over the United back line. A chaotic sequence in the 78th saw Martial chip Heaton and the cross bar. Tags: Andreas Pereira, Aston Villa, Jack Grealish, Manchester United, Marcus Rashford, Matt Targett, Premier League, Premier League 2019-20 game recaps, Tom Heaton, Tyrone Mings, Victor Lindelof, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Andreas Pereira, Anwar El Ghazi, Ba, David De Gea, Fred, Jack Grealish, Matt Targett, Tom Heaton, Tyrone Mings, Victor Lindelof Mkhitaryan leads Arsenal back into Top Four (video) By Nicholas MendolaFeb 24, 2019, 10:58 AM EST Lacazette redirects Mkhitaryan shot Mkhitaryan adds goal of his own Saints remain 18th Henrikh Mkhitaryan recorded a goal and an assist as Arsenal beat Southampton 2-0 at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday. The win pushed Arsenal back into the Top Four, while Southampton remains a point back of 17th place in the race to avoid relegation. Nathan Redmond flew down the right side of the pitch to trouble Bernd Leno with a sixth minute effort. Arsenal went ahead within a minute of that, with Lacazette redirecting a Henrikh Mkhitaryan shot into the goal. Saints had a left-footed shot from Matt Targett blocked by Leno before play was stalled to treat a Sead Kolasinac head injury. Arsenal doubled its advantage through Mkhitaryan, who took the honors himself this time with a low drive inside the near post following a cross through the 18. James Ward-Prowse had an early second half effort rocket wide of the frame for Saints. 4 – Henrikh Mkhitaryan has been directly involved in each of Arsenal’s four Premier League goals against Southampton this season (3 goals, 1 assist). Nemesis. pic.twitter.com/04FY7vyb0b — OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) February 24, 2019 [ MORE: Premier League schedule ] Tags: Alexandre Lacazette, Arsenal, Bernd Leno, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, James Ward-Prowse, Matt Targett, Nathan Redmond, Premier League, Premier League 2018-19 game recaps, Southampton, Bernd Leno, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, James Ward-Prowse, Matt Targett, Nathan, Nathan Redmond, Sead Kolasinac Zaha scores, sent off as Palace draws Southampton (video) By Nicholas MendolaJan 30, 2019, 4:47 PM EST Zaha, Townsend team up for opener Ward-Prowse lashes in Targett pass for 1-1 Zaha gets quickfire, late yellow cards Wilfried Zaha scored and was sent off at St. Mary’s, as Crystal Palace and Southampton drew 1-1 on Wednesday. Zaha’s first goal in 17 Premier League matches was overshadowed late when he took the bait of fellow goal scorer James Ward-Prowse and then insulted the referee. Saints’ point has them three clear of the drop zone, while Palace is 15th with 23 points. Zaha spun a low shot past the diving Alex McCarthy after Andros Townsend worked through a foul to get the ball to the Ivorian winger. Southampton was probably second-best for most of the night, but answered in the 77th minute when he ran onto Matt Targett‘s cutback to slash an equalizer home. Vicente Guaita made a very good save, flying to slap Stuart Armstrong‘s curling shot away from the frame. James McArthur then forced McCarthy into a fine save at the other end. Zaha was given a yellow in the 87th minute, then earned a second by clapping at the referee in the 88th. 3 – James Ward-Prowse has scored in each of his last three Premier League games, after netting in just two of his previous 46 in the competition. Flurry. — OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) January 30, 2019 Tags: Alex McCarthy, Andros Townsend, Crystal Palace, James Ward-Prowse, Matt Targett, Premier League 2018-19 game recaps, Southampton, Vicente Guaita, Wilfried Zaha, Alex McCarthy, Andros Townsend, Guaita, James McArthur, James Ward-Prowse, Matt Targett, Stuart Armstrong, Wilfried Zaha Saints snap Arsenal unbeaten run at 22 By Nicholas MendolaDec 16, 2018, 10:23 AM EST Austin scores late winner Ings nets two headers Mkhitaryan twice equalizes Charlie Austin‘s late goal joined Danny Ings‘ brace as Southampton topped Arsenal 3-2 on Sunday at St. Mary’s to give Ralph Hasenhuttl his first win as Saints boss. Henrikh Mkhitaryan‘s two equalizers were not enough for Arsenal, who remains fifth with 43 points. Saints move 17th with 12 points, pushing Burnley back into the Bottom Three. Arsenal attacked first with Matteo Guendouzi setting Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on goal, but Saints keeper Alex McCarthy cut down the distance considerably to block the shot. Nathan Redmond won a corner for Saints in the 14th minute, but it led to nothing for the South Coast side. And Stuart Armstrong curled a shot that Bernd Leno fell to catch four minutes later. Saints went ahead through Ings, nodding home a Matt Targett cross with authority for the first goal under Ralph Hasenhuttl. Mkhitaryan made it 1-1 when Nacho Monreal sent a cross to the penalty spot for a headed goal. But Redmond’s cross put Ings in for a with a header that was either lucky, clever, or equal parts both. The brace was his first in the Premier League since Nov. 22, 2014, when he scored twice for Burnley against Stoke City. [ MORE: Latest Premier League standings ] 17 – Arsenal haven't led at half time in any of their 17 Premier League games this season (D12 L5). Quirk. — OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 16, 2018 [ MORE: Full lineups, stats, box score ] Mkhitaryan had another answer for Arsenal, though, thanks to a shot that took a significant turn off of Jannik Vestegaard to leave McCarthy answerless. It was 2-2 with 37 minutes to play at St. Mary’s. Arsenal had the better of the chances and the proverbial rub of the green when Saints did challenge, as Shane Long was viewed offside when Maya Yoshida scored late. Mesut Ozil was well saved by McCarthy, and Aubameyang had a promising opportunity blocked as Saints worked hard for their point. Would they get three? Yes! Austin was alone to nod home when Leno couldn’t reach Long’s cross. 5 – Charlie Austin has scored in all five of his Premier League games against Arsenal – only Raheem Sterling versus Bournemouth (6 games) has a better 100% record of scoring against a specific opponent in Premier League history. Routine. Tags: Alex McCarthy, Arsenal, Charlie Austin, Danny Ings, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Matt Targett, Mesut Özil, Nathan Redmond, Premier League 2018-19 game recaps, Southampton, Alex McCarthy, Bernd Leno, Charlie Austin, Danny Ings, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Matt Targett, Matteo Guendouzi, Maya Yoshida, Nacho Monreal, Nathan, Nathan Redmond, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Shane Long, Stuart Armstrong Local lad Matt Targett aims to kick on at Southampton By Joe Prince-WrightAug 26, 2016, 11:55 AM EDT There’s nothing like having a homegrown hero in your team and Southampton certainly knows all about that. [ MORE: Saints to play Inter ] Matt Targett is the latest product of Saints’ famed academy to break into the first team and the 20-year-old was born and bred in Southampton. The England U-21 left back impressed under Ronald Koeman and and broke into the team as a 17-year-old during the 2014-15 Premier League campaign. Speaking exclusively to ProSoccerTalk ahead of Southampton’s clash with Sunderland this Saturday (Watch live, 10 a.m. ET online via NBC Sports) Targett revealed his pride at representing his team in the Premier League. “I am immensely proud to be able to play for the club that I grew up watching and following,” Targett explained. “It has played such a big role in my life, having progressed through the academy to the first team. It’s a really special feeling to be able to run out on the St Mary’s turf and play for my hometown team.” It has been a slow start for Saints this season with one point from their opening two games but new manager Claude Puel is putting his stamp on the team with a new diamond formation in midfield. Targett — an attacking left back who is comfortable on the ball and can also operate as a wing-back and at left midfield — and his teammates know they must improve in the weeks and months ahead but they are confident they can improve as the season goes on. “There are areas we know we can improve on as well as positives that we can build on,” Targett said. “Our new signings have integrated well into the group and there is a good feeling in the squad. We know the quality that we have in the team and we’re confident that quality will show.” (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images) Looking ahead to the game against Sunderland this weekend, Targett knows it would be a nice feeling to head into the international break with a win and says Saints have been “working hard in training” to get a positive result against David Moyes‘ men. [ MORE: 3 things we learned from Saints’ loss at Man United ] At the ripe age of 20, Targett has now appeared in each of the last three PL campaigns for Saints and has racked up 33 appearances in all competitions despite having England international left back Ryan Bertrand ahead of him in the pecking order. Target feels like he is ready to keep pushing on this season. “Every Premier League season is a big one but clearly I am aiming to continue developing and progressing as a player,” Targett said. “I want to keep adding different elements to my game and listening to the coaches on what areas I can work on. It’s a big season for the club with Europa League football too, so I am very much looking forward to that.” James Ward Prowse and Matthew Targett (Photo by Harry Trump/Getty Images) As is usually the case at Southampton, Targett is just one of a number of promising youngsters currently in the system. After selling on the likes of Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana to powerhouse clubs, Saints continue to churn out young internationals. This summer Targett was part of a England U-21 side which had five Saints academy graduates — Arsenal’s Calum Chambers and Saints’ James Ward-Prowse (captain of England), Jack Stephens, Nathan Redmond and Targett himself — and won the prestigious Toulon Tournament in France. Does he think he and Saints’ other youngsters are ready to play week in, week out in the PL? “It was fantastic to be part of the winning Toulon team and great for Southampton Football Club to have several players gain that experience on the international stage. The club has a great reputation for nurturing talent and that success with the England under 21 side can only help us,” Targett said. “Although it obviously depends on several factors, the club has consistently shown that it gives youth that opportunity to go out and play in the biggest league in the world.” On Friday Southampton were drawn against Italian giants Inter Milan, Sparta Prague and Hapoel Beer-Sheva in the UEFA Europa League group stage. It is the first time Saints have ever reached this stage of the competition and local lad Targett is looking forward to some memorable nights ahead. “It will be good to test ourselves against some of the best clubs on the continent and I’m sure we’ll be playing in front of some special atmospheres, especially at St Mary’s.” Follow @JPW_NBCSports Tags: England, Matt Targett, Premier League, Southampton Villa comes back to draw Man United December 1, 2019 1:27 pm Mkhitaryan leads Arsenal back into Top Four (video) February 24, 2019 10:58 am Zaha scores, sent off as Palace draws Southampton (video) January 30, 2019 4:47 pm Saints snap Arsenal unbeaten run at 22 December 16, 2018 10:23 am Local lad Matt Targett aims to kick on at Southampton August 26, 2016 11:55 am Premier League Playback: It’s time to change the Transfer Window rules August 31, 2015 10:51 am Watch Live: Southampton vs Norwich City (Lineups and Live Stream) August 30, 2015 7:50 am Premier League Playback: Reassessing the title contenders, debutants after Week 1 August 10, 2015 5:15 pm	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41522
__label__cc	0.701661	0.298339	Tag Archives: Sword Spirituality Government Messianism Apocrypha Religion, Uncategorized How do you know that the words of a Prophet ring True? You test them against the Word of Hashem. If the Word of Hashem and the words of the Prophet are the same, then the Prophet is True. How do you know that someone is a Prophet? A Prophet does not come to the True Believers; for the True Believers, have already chosen a path, whether they are an Atheist, a Rabbi, a Catholic, a Jehovah’s Witness, or a Seventh Day Adventist. The Prophet comes only to the lost sheep of Israel, who fundamentally question whether the path that they are on, is the One True Path. Who are the lost sheep of Israel? Yisrael (יִשְׂרָאֵל), is a descendant of Jacob. Israel, is the English equivalent of the masculine name. El (אֵל) is God, god, or gods. It is masculine, and is generally taken as plural. It references good, might, greatness, and strength. El is shortened from ayil (אָ֫יִל), a masculine word which means, “ram.” It signifies strength, might, goodness, greatness, and power, the same as does el. It also references the creative force, as the source of the Seed of the Cosmos; i.e., God, or god, or gods. But you will not see anyone from any Church of man, mentioning that one to you. Ayil has exactly the same meanings as does el, which should give one pause to think, Who, or What, was sacrificed as a replacement for Isaac, via the Burning Bush? Yischaq (יִשְׂחָק ) is transliterated in English to Isaac. This masculine name means the same as Yitschaq (יִצְחָק), i.e., “he laughs.” He was the son of Abraham and Sarah, and the father of Yisrael. The name came from the root tsachaq (צָחַק), which ostensibly means, “to laugh,” whether in merriment, or scornfully. Associations are with caress, entertain, mock, poke fun at, joke around, and play. So sacrificing Isaac, could actually have been a bitter-sweet act… For he may actually have deserved it, for not taking the God of his father seriously. That is a possibility, which of course, would have been covered over by the Churches of man. Ayil also has the associations of mighty man, lintel, post, tree, and oak attached to it. Which could mean that the Burning Bush, was a type of oak tree. Think of Samson, the sun, the battlement, the east side, etymologically… He was the Judge, the Support of Hashem, the Rod, the Branch, the Pillar of Punishment. And he killed more while blind than he ever did while sighted, by knocking down their temple’s two supports in one final act of strength. The total of his enemies dead during all of the many years of his fighting with the Philistines who he lived amongst, did not match the toll of that one last Act for YHWH. Think of it… The doorposts, and the lintel. All three of them, smeared in blood – The blood of the Beam of Hashem, Samson. Before you remove the splinter from another, first take out the Beam, which is blinding you. Man put out his two eyes – But he could still See the Light, with his Third Eye. His Third Eye, was the Lintel Above. And the Two Posts to either side were put out, with the Sharpened Tree of Hashem… The Point of it All, hardened and sharpened black as the night, Within the Flames. The Lintel Beam, always bears the whole load of the Temple… Until the two posts are twisted out from below it. Ayil comes from the same root as does the masculine uwl (אוּל), which means, “mighty,” and references strength. It can be applied to a tribal chieftain, a ram, a support, or any other strong tree or man. It comes from another Hebrew root which means to twist. So the Curving Horn of the Ram, which was held fast by the twisting branches of the Burning Bush as a Sacrifice, needs to be considered as well. It doesn’t tell you, does it? That the Living Bush of Abraham and Isaac Upon Moriah, Within the Sight of the Lord, Is the same Burning Bush of Moshe Upon Horeb, the Desolation Which Brings the Wasteland? For the Bush Which Burns, Holds the Ram of the Sacrifice, Hedged all about with the Thorns. The Scapegoat, Who man blames for everything… It is YHWH Himself, the Hidden Name, the Presence Herself, Seen. It is the Giving Up, of those Judged. Israel means, “he will rule as God.” Which, prefigures the role of Moshe… Seen to Enter the Sanctuary… Seen Beneath the Veil, as God Himself, Upon the earth itself. Who Is the One, Between Heaven and the earth? The One Who Talks With YHWH? The One Within the Presence of Shekinah? The One Who Speaks the Hidden Unknown Name, Summoning Forth Hashem? Is it not Always the Prophet? The Very Friend of Hashem? Jisrael is another name for both Jacob and his descendants. It comes, interestingly, from sarah and el. Sarah (שָׂרָה) means, “to contend, persist, exert, or persevere.” An associated word, is to wrestle. Which did not bode well for Peace, within the tent of Abraham… And which prefigures Miriam and Aaron, colluding against their kinsman, Moshe. And no one is more scoffing of the Word, is more insistent, or is more of a busy-body within the pages of the Bible, than is the conniving Sarah, who helped her younger son Jacob to steal his twin brother’s Rightful Blessing, via outright deception. Oh, Esau did not value his Birthright enough; that much is for certain. But his Blessing, he was outright and most certainly cheated out of. Yaaqob (יַעֲקֹב), transliterated in English to Jacob, was the twin son of Isaac, along with Esau. This masculine name has much the same meaning as aqab (עָקַב), which means, “to follow at the heel of (like a dog which bites you right in the ass), to be crafty, to attack sneakily, to circumvent, or to overreach your bounds”. It comes from the masculine word aqeb (עִקְּבֵי), which means, “heel, footprint, of the hind part of.” Associated with aqeb are hooves, steps, trails, tracks, the rear guard, one lying in wait to ambush, or the last one. Which makes Jacob, the heel-grasper, or the supplanter of his brother – The snake in the grass, you might say, who craftily grasps the back heel of the mighty red-haired horse who passes by him, unaware, upon the path. Think of Jacob’s Blessing of Dan… Who, apparently, was a lot like his old man, in many ways. Or, perhaps, we should think of the mighty Greek warrior, Achilles, wounded, stung in the heel by the arrow, by the fang of Paris? And think of Esau as one of the ancient, invading sea peoples, as a Parisianus? For it is only by craft and ambush and collusion with the mother hill country Canaanite tribes, that Jacob could hold his own against the more newly-arrived Philistines. Jacob, like aqab, essentially means, “to deal craftily, to take from behind (to heel, to trip up), to restrain (through craft, grasping from behind), to supplant utterly in the land, and to take it, and to stay there.” Who does the Prophet come for, other than the son of Sarah, the grasper from behind, the wrestler, the seeking serpent within the greenery? And Who does Israel wrestle with, and bind until the dawn, before he can become Israel? Other than, YHWH Himself? And Who is the Angel of the Lord Come Down, the Red Star, the Doer of the Many Things, other than Jacob’s own man-child brother? Who is the horse of Hashem, the wild ass, the hairy one of the wilds of the world, other than Esau? Who is the restless one, the wander in the Desert of Zin, the one who seeks Peace but cannot find it, other than Esau? It is the lost sheep, the lost flock Crossed Over, who have been led into the byways, and who have had all of their strength twisted into the grasping flames of those mighty oaks who have led them astray… That is the one, who the Prophet has come for. The Prophet, has come to liberate el, the ram, the child of Abraham, from the Sacrifice… For the one who laughs, and who mocks, who scorns to this very day, has always made the captives in all of the byways, their sacrifices in their stead. And this is why the Prophet Isaiah (1:10-31, KJB) has railed: “Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.” What does the Prophet say about the One True Path? Actually, absolutely nothing, to the True Believers – For He simply Walks Upon it, all alone. What does the Prophet say about the Kingdom of Hashem to the lost ones, who suffer to come Unto Him? “Let the children Come Up, Unto Me.” And what does the Prophet tell all of the dead round stones, unseeing, unhearing, unfeeling, within the Wilderness of Zin? “Repent! For the Kingdom, Is already at hand!” And just where Is this Kingdom of the Name? It Is, Within the Prophet… And, it Is, Without Him. It Is Right Before the lost, a Light Within the Veil of the Darkness… It is a Leveled Place, Upon the Smoothed Path. And where Is the One True Path? It Is wherever the Prophet Himself, Chooses to Walk. Follow Within the Footsteps… Seek, to Find the Trail. Do you really think that Hashem has given up on you? That He has abandoned you Unto the Flaming Pit? That there can ever be a Last Prophet, yet no Last Days Come Forth? Then how is it said, that a man lives a thousand lifetimes? But yet, a coward dies a thousand deaths, each and every day? How will you know that you have a Prophet Standing Before you? When the people deign to choose between the Harlot and the Beast…And they say that such a choice, either way, is the only right and proper one… When the people elect for themselves, the stones and the dry wadis and the blowing sand of Zin, over the Land Flowing With Milk and Honey… And when they lift up their dressed-up and painted, wooden and stone-hearted idols above themselves, and raise them up unto all of the High Places amongst them, and nail them all fast, against the Whirlwind… Then, you will Know, that you already have the Prophet Standing Right Before you. When the people choose a man as their king, and a woman as their queen, over the Kingdom and the Day of Hashem… When the Prophet and Hashem both turn away from all of them, and show them their back-sides… Then, you will Know, that the Unseen Truth is now Revealed. When the words of the Prophet Burn the rotting flesh off of the bones of the deaf, dumb, and blind, the crippled, unclean, and mortal men… And the people all say, “It is because of the Prophet! He is the One Who Is to blame! If He were not to Speak the Name, then everything would go well with us! So, let us seize Him, and throw Him over the cliff! And pile stones up over Him, so that His Word can never Cut us, can Burn us no more!” When the words of the Prophet Burn Away the Chuppah, Remove the Covering of the Veil, Remove the Scales From Before the Eyes, as do the Word of the Sword of the Very Tongue of Hashem… Then, do you find a Living Prophet of God Before you. Stop; look; listen… And the first death, will no longer have any hold over you. Do not allow the Prophet, to throw you over the Cliff… Do not allow the Very Stones, to bury you Within them. Do not fear the corruption, the wasting away of the mortal flesh; rather fear the Chill of the Indrawn Breath, which snuffs out the Light of the Living Lamp Poured Within. Naked art thou ever Seen, before thine own God… Die first, Within the Womb of the Darkness… And Become Reborn, The Water Within the Cup, Within the Coming Light, East of the Gate of Gan Eden. “Wake Up! 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__label__cc	0.532683	0.467317	Situation Normal, All Farkased Up Published by AJStrata at 12:49 pm under All General Discussions,Obama and FISA The Democrats & News Media (there’s a difference?) are deteriorating into insanity as President Trump’s “surveillance” tweet continues to disrupt DC and expose one of the Capitol’s dirtiest secrets. A secret kept under cover by the self-absorbed Political Industrial Complex (PIC), whose members have been wrapping themselves in the American Flag to coverup gross abuses of power. A secret they themselves have benefited from. That power has kept many careers in the PIC on the rise. It has led to political dynasties within the PIC (anyone think it coincidental “Bush the 1st” was once head of the CIA?). Those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it: Later in life and after his death, [J Edgar] Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses of power began to surface. He was found to have exceeded the jurisdiction of the FBI,[1] and to have used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders,[2] and to collect evidence using illegal methods.[3] Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten sitting presidents. The power I speak of today is the power to surveillance anyone, any time. It was created out of sincere, good intentions. To stop another 9-11 massacre. But as with all great power, it has corrupted our current leaders who began to see themselves as the defenders of America – and so somehow more important than any normal citizen. They bequeathed to themselves extra-legal authority and rationalized obliterating the 4th Amendment. “Better to snoop on everyone (which is lazy) than miss an attack”. That thinking is akin to locking everyone up just so we don’t miss any murderers or drunk drivers. Like I said: Lazy. If you are in the inner circle of Federal Politics you have had access to information that is a pure goldmine. You have insights into political leaders and players, insights into international strategies and thinking. You can see through the normal veil of “private conversations” on a grand scale, detect events as they are being planned, before they happen. And you can fight off those who naively (in your own warped mind) want to take or curtail your weapon against evil! The problem is – that surveillance capability was meant to protect Americans from terrorism and other forms of outside attack. It is illegal – in that it is a violation of the 4th Amendment of the Constitution – to have access to this kind of detailed information on Americans without demonstrable due cause, confirmed in the form of a warrant (either from a normal criminal court or the FISA court). A critical detail that has been ignored by too many for too long. What Washington DC forgot is that Donald Trump is not from the Political Industrial Complex. He does not rely on this fountain of ill-gotten power to achieve his goals. He was able to beat the denizens of the PIC without this devil’s crutch. And he is more than likely ready to put this evil genie back in the bottle, to be opened by a few and only when a cause has been demonstrated. It is now clear from news media reports on damning details in surveillance records – plus the loose-lips of one bit player in a political strategery – that during the primaries, during the election and during the post-election transition Democrats used surveillance data about Americans for political purposes. This is not refutable anymore. Here is a quick run down of the mounting evidence of gross illegal activities by those in power. Let’s begin with the news media faithfully regurgitating the ill-gotten surveillance details that can only come from a few places inside the government: “In the Obama administration’s last days, some White House officials scrambled to spread information about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election — and about possible contacts between associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump and Russians — across the government,” reported the New York Times. “American allies, including the British and the Dutch, had provided information describing meetings in European cities between Russian officials — and others close to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin — and associates of President-elect Trump, according to three former American officials who requested anonymity in discussing classified intelligence. Separately, American intelligence agencies had intercepted communications of Russian officials, some of them within the Kremlin, discussing contacts with Trump associates.” Emphasis mine. Even the release of details regarding foreign players is illegal. It exposes our capabilities and notifies our enemies they need to take steps to cover their tracks better. But we have much more than that here. Please note Judge Andrew Napolitano is actually vindicated in this reporting by the NY Times, when it notes the British provided information. There is more: Further confirmation of his comments comes from Circa News, which says that former CIA director John Brennan, among other Obama aides, had access to intercepted foreign communications involving Trump aides: Dozens of times in 2016, those intelligence reports identified Americans who were directly intercepted talking to foreign sources or were the subject of conversations between two or more monitored foreign figures. Sometimes the Americans’ names were officially unmasked; other times they were so specifically described in the reports that their identities were readily discernible. Among those cleared to request and consume unmasked NSA-based intelligence reports about U.S. citizens were Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice, his CIA Director John Brennan and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Some intercepted communications from November to January involved Trump transition figures or foreign figures’ perceptions of the incoming president and his administration. The evidence documented by the news media of wrong doing is extensive. But they want the gravy-train of leaked surveillance data on Americans to continue. It suites their bottom line. So don’t expect the news media to be open about what is going on. They will deflect from their sources and try and keep the nation distracted by rumors of collusion outside America. All the better to keep people from seeing the collusion from within. The Obama grand plan to disperse cherry-picked surveillance throughout government in order to keep pushing the diversionary story about Trump and Russia had a serious flaw in it. To disperse the ill-gotten propaganda would mean it would fall into less seasoned hands. And these less seasoned hands may blow the whole deal. In steps Evelyn Farkas, former Deputy Secretary of Defense under Obama and member of Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign. Think of her as a liaison between team Hillary, Team Obama and the Congressional Democrats on “The Hill”: Well, I was urging my former colleagues, and, and, frankly speaking, [to] the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can – get as much intelligence as you can – before President Obama leaves the administration. Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama] people who left. So it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy, um, that the Trump folks – if they found out HOW we knew what we knew about their, the Trump staff, dealing with Russians – that they would try to compromise those sources and methods — meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence. So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more. We have very good intelligence on Russia. So then I had talked to some of my former colleagues and I knew that they were also trying to help get information to the Hill…That’s why you have the leaking. “If they [Team Trump] found out how we [team Obama/Clinton] knew what we knew”…. Just savor that for a while. If the new Sheriff in town found out what the previous Sheriff had done …. This is a constitutional crisis. It will consume many top level people who have given cover to these abuses of power for too long. In another report Farkas notes she was communicating with members of both parties on “The Hill”. Don’t believe for an instant Democrats will take all the hits on this one – just most of them. Poor Ms. Farkas has been trying to undo the damage she has done. She has even gone so far as to blame the Russians for her loose-lips. My guess is she has been given a short time period to try and undo this before she herself gets thrown under the bus. But make no mistake, all she did was confirm the NY Times’ claims. This issue is toxic to political careers. You don’t get caught red-handed violating the Constitution (our privacy and the assumption we are innocent until proven guilty) and survive as a politician. There appears to be a good many heads on the line given the screeching cries for House Intelligence Chairman Nunes to step down and Trump to be Impeached. The pitch and volume of cries from the left mean some big players are about to be hoisted on their own petards. The more fevered the cries from the left, the bigger this thing has become. The Sunday shows should be wall-to-wall Democrats and Media circling the wagons and trying to get everyone to look at Russia and not Obama/Clinton. It won’t work. Just recently we have seen reports on the smoking gun evidence. As I noted in a prior posts (here), to disperse unmasked surveillance data still requires someone in the government to sign an affidavit of due cause: For every entity in the US Intelligence Community involved with the intercepts of Team Trump, the head of that entity should have filled out this request, including: (U) Use of information. The IC element will explain how it will use the raw SIGINT, to include identifying the particular authorized foreign intelligence or counterintelligence missions or functions that are the basis for its request. Skipping down, we get to another key item: who reviewed and approved these requests: C. (U) Evaluation of requests. A high-level NSA official designated by the DIRNSA will review requests for raw SIGINT covered by these Procedures. NSA will document its approval decisions in writing and include a statement explaining how the request fully complies with paragraph A. OK, a key person who should have participated in the legal distribution of intercepts involving members of Team Trump would be the Director of NSA and whomever they designated to review the requests. Given that the intelligence community is not partisan, but is made up of people with diverse political views attempting to work towards one goal (defending this nation), it is not surprising that some of these good folks stepped forward and pointed the Intelligence Committee Chairman to the smoking gun(s): For a private citizen to be “unmasked,” or named, in an intelligence report is extremely rare. Typically, the American is a suspect in a crime, is in danger or has to be named to explain the context of the report. “The main issue in this case, is not only the unmasking of these names of private citizens, but the spreading of these names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security or an investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election,” a congressional source close to the investigation told Fox News. Nunes has known about the unmasking controversy since January, when two sources in the intelligence community approached him. The sources told Nunes who was responsible and at least one of the Trump team names that was unmasked. They also gave him serial numbers of reports that documented the activity. Nunes had asked intelligence agencies to see the reports in question, but was stonewalled. Emphasis mine. This is Obama’s (and Farkas’) worst nightmare. Someone willing to come forward and skip the long dance of congressional requests and executive delay and just toss out the document ID numbers that hold the evidence. This is why the Democrats and the News Media (again, is there any difference – I guess in a few corners of Fox News) are going nuts this week. They desperately need to keep this story from coming out. But it is coming out and some big-name heads are about to roll (or roll over): The U.S. intelligence official who “unmasked,” or exposed, the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world,” a source told Fox News on Friday. Intelligence and House sources with direct knowledge of the disclosure of classified names told Fox News that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., now knows who is responsible — and that person is not in the FBI. My guess is Team Obama was so shaken with the realization that Team Trump would have access to all the evidence one would want to show illegal activities before the election, this desperate last minute move to disperse cherry-picked data to deflect from the true crimes seemed like their only play. But of course the cover up is always worse than the crime. This is one big and ugly iceberg that needs to come out into the sun and be melted away. This is akin to a military coupe, where military resources are used to influence an election. While no tanks or fighter jets were used to ‘influence’ voter decisions, the awesome power of our National Security Intelligence resources may have been. So don’t let the News Media/Democrats distract us from the true crime here. Russians did not vote in Donald Trump – fed up Les Deplorables did. Russians did not make Hillary Clinton the worst candidate in memory – the Democrats did. And Russians did not make Obama turn this nation’s defense systems against his political opponent. He did that all on his own. Everyone in DC assumed Trump would protect this grotesque use of our national defense as those before him had. I have seen ridiculous interviews with the likes of Gen Wesley Clark on Fox News trying to divert attention from this to protect the unfettered monitoring of Americans. It never occurred to the denizens of the PIC that the best defense from this kind of abuse was sunlight. And sunlight would also cleanse us of the decay that had created this rot. It never crossed their feeble minds that Trump would simply expose the whole ugly mess to not only protect himself and his team – but to drain the swamp itself. The Intelligence Community is not monolithic politically, and generally they prefer to stay apolitical. Therefore I am not surprised there are people willing to turn on team Obama. I am just curious how big the wave will be now that the damn has cracked. The Political Industrial Complex encompasses all those elites whose livelihoods are predicated on central-control of resources and who determine who is allowed to succeed in society. It is a bipartisan exclusive club. It includes the Politicians and their career staffers. It includes crony donors and lobbyists who reap government windfalls and special treatment that average citizens cannot obtain. It includes the PIC industrial base of pollsters, consultants, etc. And it includes the pliant news media, whose success rest on access to those in power, and in return for access making sure no bad news will disrupt said power. Tags: Evelyn Farkas, FISA, Hillary Clinton, President Obama, President Trump, Surveillance 2 responses so far 2 Responses to “Situation Normal, All Farkased Up” Well said AJ…. Sabastian says: I’ll take a wild guess that these folks watched Supreme Court Justice Roberts and found enough dirt. A confidential, quiet dinner with a good wine and he declares the Mandate is a tax, and Obama-Care survived. Obama-Care was suppose to collapse in May 2017 so Hillary could ride in to save it with Single Payer. It will still collapse, but no Hillary. Congress was too early to fix Obama-Care. Let it implode further, then wait longer to let it gets even worse. Finally when Obama-Care is in smoking ruins, fix it properly. (In 1970, an Ecologist Professor told me, “If you can’t get the fix you want, make the problem worse until people beg for your solution”. Machiavellian advice but spot on.) This is like a movie. I need popcorn while it unravels. What did Obama have on Roberts? Girl Friend? Bastard child? Wife’s abortion? Closet Gay? It must be more interesting than tainted money. I need wine to go with the popcorn. 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__label__cc	0.549132	0.450868	Home/PhD Students PhD Studentsmrw2018-07-16T13:57:14+11:00 The Centre of Research Excellence in Stroke Rehabilitation and Brain Recovery has PhD students researching at both the Florey in Heidelberg and at HMRI in Newcastle. Current PhD students are working on the following projects: List of PhD projects Combined Physical and SEnsOry training to improve arm function after stroke. Urvashy Gopaul Loss of cardiovascular fitness after stroke. Sharon Kramer A clinical investigation of the ArMM (Arm Movement Measurement) device. Maheshwari Aneel Kumar An investigation of neuroplasticity underlying the effects of combining arm task specific training and mindfulness-based meditation and yoga training intervention after stroke. Gabriel Axel To what extent does the built environment influence the physical, psychological and social well-being of acute neurological patients. Michelle Shannon Aerobic exercise to increase efficacy of task-specific training for the upper limb after stroke: a feasibility study. Sarah Valkenborghs Predicting recovery after stroke using neuroimaging. Milanka Visser PhD positions Not available at present View Investigators View Research Affiliates Urvashy GopaulPhD student \| Hunter Medical Research Institute Urvashy (Sandhya) Gopaul graduated in Physiotherapy from the University of Mauritius in 2008. She completed a Masters in the UK and is now a PhD candidate in stroke rehabilitation in Newcastle. Her project title is Combined Physical and SEnsOry training to improve arm function after stroke. Sharon KramerPhD student \| The Florey Sharon Kramer is a PhD candidate at The Florey. Her PhD focusses on cardiovascular fitness training early post-stroke. After finishing her Masters degree she worked at the Dutch and Australasian Cochrane Centre. Currently she works part-time as a research assistant. Michelle ShannonPhD student \| The Florey Michelle Shannon is a neurological physiotherapist who is interested in health architecture (the architectural and interior design features of healthcare facilities). Her PhD topic is: To what extent do healthcare built environment design features have an effect on the physical, social and emotional well-being of acute neurological patients in an Australian context? This research could inform future design of neurological facilities. Sarah ValkenborghsPhD student \| Hunter Medical Research Institute Sarah Valkenborghs is a PhD (Physiotherapy) student based at the HMRI/UoN under the supervision of Professor Paulette van Vliet, Professor Michael Nilsson and Professor Robin Callister and in collaboration with Associate Professor Kirk Erickson (University of Pittsburgh). Her project is a feasibility study to investigate the use of aerobic exercise to increase the efficacy of task-specific training for the upper limb after stroke. Aneel Kumar MaheshwariPhD student \| University of Newcastle Gabriel Axel MontesPhD student \| Hunter Medical Research Institute Gabriel Axel is a PhD Candidate at the University of Newcastle & Hunter Medical Research Institute. Gabriel’s PhD research work focuses on (1) predictive coding models of agency in stroke patients with upper limb motor deficits and (2) how these might be modulated by mind-body practices. Margaret GallowayPhD student \| University of Newcastle Margy Galloway is currently a PhD student at the University of Newcastle. She is investigating the minimum dose of exercise required to elicit a positive effect on fitness for stroke survivors. Margy has a background in exercise science and has worked as a senior sports scientist at the Australian Institute of Sport and the NSW Institute of Sport. Her previous research has been primarily in the biomechanics in sport. Wei Zhen (Adele) ChowPhD student \| University of Newcastle Wei Zhen Chow graduated with a distinction in Master of Medical Science (MMedSc) from the University of Malaya in 2014, focusing on the virology and evolutionary biology of HIV-1. She has received scholarship awards and travel grants to present her research findings at prestigious international HIV/AIDS conferences (CROI 2014 and IAS 2013). She joined the Brain Repair and Rehabilitation team to identify novel biomarkers for early identification and intervention of those at risk of developing post-stroke pathologies. Murielle KlugePhD student \| University of Newcastle Murielle Kluge is working on the molecular effects of stroke on the brain. She is particularly focused on the role of the immune cells of the brain, the microglia, and their involvement in secondary neurodegenerative processes that occur over a long period of time after the initial stroke. She has access to the multi-photon microscope at the Hunter Medical Research Institute which allows her to image live cellular movement of microglia in the context of stroke. Ruby Lipson-SmithPhD student \| University of Newcastle Ruby Lipson-Smith is a PhD student at the Florey. She is investigating rehabilitation hospital design and its impact on patients’ cognition, learning, and recovery. Ruby has a background in psychology and works as a research officer at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in patient experiences research. Korinne NicolasPhD student \| University of Newcastle Korinne Nicolas graduated in Psychology (honours) from the University of Newcastle in 2015. She is a PhD Candidate based at the UoN/HMRI under the supervision of A/Prof Frini Karayanidis, Dr Andrew Bivard and Emeritus Prof Patricia Michie. Her research focuses on cognitive abilities post neurological event and how different cardiovascular pathways can affect cognition. Paul MackiePhD student \| University of Newcastle Paul Mackie is a PhD Candidate (Physiotherapy) based at the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute. He is working under the supervision of A/Prof Coralie English looking at breaking up sitting time after stroke. His project is investigating how much less sitting is needed to improve blood pressure after stroke (BUST-BP-Dose). Giovanni Pietrogrande PhD student \| University of Newcastle Giovanni is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research interests lie in the areas of glia activation, chronic stress, stroke and stroke associated secondary neurodegeneration. Venesha RethnamPhD student \| The Florey Venesha Rethnam is a PhD candidate at the Florey Institute. Venesha’s PhD research project focuses on methodically analysing the high quality AVERT (A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial) dataset to explore who should engage in early rehabilitation, how early they should engage and the intensity of this therapy. This information will be used to develop clinical practice guidelines through prospective data collection from a range of stakeholders and sophisticated clinical decision analysis models. Dawn SimpsonPhD student \| Menzies Institute for Medical Research Dawn is a PhD candidate at the Menzies Institute for Medical research in Hobart, Tasmania. Her PhD project focuses on sedentary behaviour and physical activity after stroke, and what factors may influence these behaviours. Dawn is a physiotherapist, with 19 years clinical experience, predominantly working in rehabilitation, with a particular interest in stroke rehabilitation. Milanka VisserPhD student \| University of Newcastle As a PhD student at the University of Newcastle, Milanka is investigating how we can use imaging of the brain (neuroimaging) to predict recovery after stroke. She is very enthusiastic about the project as it allows her to combine her background in both physiotherapy and human movement sciences. Katarzyna Zalewska PhD student \| University of Newcastle Katarzyna is a PhD student in stroke recovery department with a special interest in neurobiology of stress at the University of Newcastle. More specifically her work examined corticosterone (stress hormone) influence on recovery after stroke. Educational backgrounds include M.Sc. in biotechnology from University of Warsaw and M.Sc. in Chemistry from Military University of Technology. Zidan ZhaoPhD student \| University of Newcastle Zidan Zhao is a PhD student in A/Prof Rohan Walker’s lab, where he researches the effect of high altitude training on stroke recovery. He is building his skills in immunohistochemistry, Western blot, PCR, ELISA, animal behavioural experiment, real time imaging and other techniques. Nicola PostolPhD student \| University of Newcastle Nicola Postol commenced her PhD (Physiotherapy) in Robotics in Neurorehabilitation in September 2016. The project team are assessing the potential benefit of the REX robotic exoskeleton with those who have severe mobility impairment due to stroke or traumatic brain injury, and Multiple Sclerosis. Alistair WalshPhD student \| La Trobe University Alistair Walsh Bsc(Hon) Cognitive Neuroscience, is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof Leeanne Carey and A/Prof Kok-Leong Ong. Alistair is using machine learning/artificial intelligence methods in the prediction of optimal treatment and recovery trajectory for chronic stroke patients. Sonia Sanchez- BezanillaPhD student \| HMRI Sonia Sanchez- Bezanilla is a PhD Student based in the stroke recovery group at HMRI. The topic of her thesis focuses on investigating the molecular reason behind cognitive impairment seen after stroke. Her project focuses on investigating the role of the waste clearance mechanisms in the brain post-stroke and its relationship with the accumulation of neurotoxic proteins and cognitive decline. Nerida FirthPhD student \| University of Newcastle Nerida Firth is a pharmacist undertaking a PhD in stroke rehabilitation through James Cook University, Townsville. She is investigating drug interventions that have potential to promote motor recovery in stroke survivors engaging in physical rehabilitation. This project will contribute to the body of evidence regarding the use of drug interventions to optimize neurorecovery after stroke.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41540
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Greystar has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Principles BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD, a non-profit alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States and operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit www.bbb.org/EU-privacy-shield/for-eu-consumers/ for more information and to file a complaint. 2018 © GREYSTAR. All rights reserved. All images are a combination of photography and artist renderings. The artist representations and interior decorations, finishes, appliances and furnishings are provided for illustrative purposes only. Prices and features are subject to change.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41549
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__label__cc	0.655849	0.344151	Idol Dramas Drama 2019 Drama Pre-2000 Drama English Subbed Double Jade Legend / 雙璧傳說 Zhang Tian Lin, Xu Wei Lun, Ting Ting, Chen De Lie, Wang Si Jia, Guan Yong, Fung Cui Fan, Joyce Ni Broadcast Year: 2005 English Subtitle: No Before his death, the first generation of the pharaoh king in ancient Egypt, divided one of his most beloved piece of jade into two halves. He said to his descendants: "No matter who is it, no one can re-join these two pieces of jade together again. Otherwise, that person will suffer the most severe punishment." After thousands of years have passed, the malicious curse of the king vanished along with the pieces of jade and evolved into a legend… "In a certain corner within this world, there is inevitably someone who looks exactly like you but have no blood relations with you at all. No matter what, you two should never meet. If you two do get acquainted, then the pharaoh king's punishment will certainly befall onto you." After thousands of years, people still remember this legend, but no one knows what this severe punishment is??? This story starts from a game... Coming from a family with great wealth, Fang Yao De is a well-known, domestic financial enterprise group's chairman, Fang Jian Shan's only son. Being spoiled by everyone around him since he was young, Yao De's personality is playful, arrogant and looks down on the world around him. He is always hanging out around bad places. Women, excessive drinking, racing cars are just everyday activities to him. As a result, his parents are always worried and distressed. Fortunately, Yao De has Zi Jie, who grew up together with him, is his assistant and also his college classmate, by his side to keep him from getting into trouble. Zhang Ji Liang comes from a poor family background. Being an orphan since he was young, when he grows up, he works at the orchard to make his living. As a result, he becomes good friends with the orchard owner's daughter, Xiao Jing and Xiao Jing's classmate, Hong Zhen. Ji Liang is born with a bit of a foolish nature. Determined to climb all the way to the top of the world, he is not willing to remain ordinary for the rest of his life. Therefore, he works extremely hard and hopes that one day, he will make a name for himself… Due to a graduation trip, Yao De, Zi Jie, his college classmates and his fellow classmate, Yu Yan, who has deep feelings for him, sets out on the journey together. At the same time, Ji Liang, Xiao Jing and Hong Zhen also set out for a trip. These two groups, with no knowledge of each other, gathers together in Singapore. As a result of a careless error, Ji Liang takes Yao De's cell phone by mistake. After returning to the country, they both agreed to meet to return each other's cell phones. Who would have thought that when they both meet, they are both shocked and stunned. Because, these two people who have no relations with each other, look exactly alike!! Under Yao De's recommendation, they both decide to exchange identities and experience each other's lifestyle. In the beginning, they both felt that this was an amusing little game that they are playing. Yet, they never could imagine that this game gradually starts to deteriorate along with the greediness of human nature. In the end, this will push these two people towards a terrible abyss that is beyond redemption for them both. Double Jade Legend Episode 22 i watched double jade legend without english subbed and i liked the story lines .but it would have been more interesting had there been subtitles .i just relied on the facial expressions of the casts.i could have misjudged or interpreted wrongly.i would appreciate it very much if someone who understands mandarin would do the subbing for the fans like me. TAOZHONGGUO2010 says: google”indaigou”,go to this site:indaigou.com,you’ll find many very cheap and high quality stuff,without hestation:) Kattiawu says: hola yo mencanta ese drama aicy says: oh my, its been 3 yrs. already since i watched this drama and yet there isn’t any english subbings todate.i would like to watch it again hoping to see the subbs. Copyright © 2015 - \| Privacy Policy Disclaimer: To access Sugoideas.com, you acknowledged that Sugoideas.com functioning as a mere index and database of content found publicly on the internet, we do not host any media content (avi, flv, mp4, mpeg, divx, mp3...) on our servers. Unless otherwise stated, all media content are uploaded by and hosted on third-party websites, so called video sharing websites and file sharing websites, such as YouTube, Dailymotion, MyspaceTV etc...In case of any issues regarding the videos, please directly contact the responsible parties.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41557
__label__wiki	0.953511	0.953511	‘Million Dollar Baby’ takes Academy’s best film prize Special to the Daily Sundial The 77th Annual Academy Awards were handed out Sunday with some shocks, and some not-so-surprising winners. Many people expected “The Aviator” to get the coveted best film prize, as it was the movie that received the most nominations. “The Aviator” did win more awards than any other movie (five awards), but “Million Dollar Baby” took away the gold, winning four awards in some of the top categories including best film, best director, best actress and best supporting actor. “Million Dollar Baby” was a better film than “The Aviator.” The strong performances of Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman captured the dream of an ambitious female boxer. “The Aviator,” on the other hand, while still good, was long winded. Much could have been edited out to make for a more concise and stronger film. And it was often hard to buy Leonardo DiCaprio, who appears the perpetual teenager, as the mogul Howard Hughes. The female boxing picture deserved the award over the biopic about the plane freak. But “Finding Neverland” which depicts J.M. Barrie’s inspiration for the classic “Peter Pan perfectly blended comedy and drama, reality and fantasy. “Finding Neverland” captured imagination, inspiration and love beautifully to make not only the best film of the year, but one of my personal favorites of all time. It’s too bad it was overlooked, but it did win for its gorgeous musical score. Surprisingly, “Million Dollar Baby” Director Clint Eastwood won over Martin Scorcese. I believed Scorcese was the sure winner in this category, despite lackluster “The Aviator.” But Scorcese has long been overlooked by Oscar, having never won. It seemed like it would finally be his turn, even if it was more for such great films as “Raging Bull” or “The Last Temptation of Christ” than “The Aviator.” But bypassed again, Scorcese must continue to wait for the prestigious award. Eastwood’s win marked an interesting pattern for this year’s awards. Winners seemed to be honored for the films they were up for, rather than as an attempt to make up for previous years. Johnny Depp still has no award, but relative newcomer Jamie Foxx now does. And Hilary Swank won best actress again for her role in “Million Dollar Baby,” rather than awarding it to someone like Annette Bening or Kate Winslet, who have yet to win. Apparently, Swank’s training paid off, as she beat Bening in what was often called the rematch for the best actress prize (Swank had previously beat out Bening for her role in “Boys Don’t Cry.”) And Swank scored again. Personally, my vote was for Winslet. She always pulls out strong performances, and her role in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” was unlike any of her usual period piece characters. Her spunk and spontaneity brought liveliness to the role. However, Swank’s performance was truly memorable as well. She showed the ceaseless drive of the inspired boxer and delivered extraordinary, chilling hospital scenes. Jamie Foxx’s win for “Ray” was easily the most expected of the night. And he certainly deserved it, as he became Ray Charles. Often, it seemed like it wasn’t Foxx on the screen at all, but the musician himself. And while there were some other strong performances in this category — Johnny Depp brought tenderness to J.M. Barrie in “Finding Neverland,” and Don Cheadle had a flawless accent and delivered a powerful role to “Hotel Rwanda” — Foxx was simply unbeatable. The Academy could have voted for another actor with a longer presence in Hollywood, but they probably feared the public outcry. Both supporting actor awards brought some surprise. Morgan Freeman won for his role as a former boxer and janitor in “Million Dollar Baby,” and Cate Blanchett won for playing Katherine Hepburn in “The Aviator.” Freeman deserved the award. His subtle expressions and quiet composure always gave him a great screen presence even without his having to say much. He showed a grandfatherly and mentor-like love to all those boxer trainees. He often stood in the background, watching, but you could feel exactly what he felt in those moments. Thomas Haden Church would have been another great choice. He managed to play a somewhat repugnant character and make the audience still sympathize with him in “Sideways.” Blanchett annoyed me as Hepburn. But maybe that is how Hepburn was, in which case, perhaps Blanchett did great. Still, Laura Linney’s magnificent performance as the sexologist’s wife in “Kinsey” was remarkable in a subtle way. Her character was torn between her love for the renowned researcher and her own desire not to be cast aside for his studies. Special to the Daily Sundial, Author Activist Bree Newsome delivers ‘awakening’ speech Delicious vegan dining is a Culver City gem John Debney concert brings Disney magic to CSUN Tattoo Tuesday: Only Tattoos with Meaning Weekly Editor’s Picks: farmers’ market, Beach Boys tribute show, “Purple Rain” screening Graduate art students live through their masterpieces TRENDS Fashion Show – A Designer’s Cut Students show support for presidential candidates Three nights only, Dreamgirls to grace the VPAC stage Frame Perfect 2016 hosted by CSUN Anime Club brings competitive gaming to CSUN	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41558
__label__wiki	0.830621	0.830621	Supergirl Wins Saturn Award We're watching the Saturn Awards live right now! The category for best superhero show just came up and against FIERCE competition like, The Flash, Arrow, Black Lightning, Krypton, and Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl took home the prize! In the concert hall to accept the award was Melissa Benoist, Jessica Queller, and Robert Rovner! The trio made sure to thank all the cast and crew for the incredible work they've done. Jessica Queller was also sure to thank Jon Cryer who's Lex Luthor has been hailed as one of the best depictions of the character to date. Let us know what you think in the comments below and in the forum! Keep us advertisement free and visit the support page! #8 Congrats! Saturn Winner — CatPat 2019-10-02 16:05 What we all knew already! +1 #7 RE: Supegirl Wins Saturn Award — Romulus 2019-09-14 19:24 Congratulations on the win! +1 #6 RE: Supegirl Wins Saturn Award — RobertAnthony 2019-09-14 17:36 Quoting jacksc01: Congratulations to SuperGirl - even though there was question of season 4 not being really the best season of SuperGirl - no one can deny that it is the DC show that is not afraid to take on the social problems of today and for that I feel it was a well deserved award. While other shows stay "safe" by not addressing current social problems, SuperGirl displays the guts to go out and tackle those issues. Congratulations SuperGirl to a well deserved Saturn Award. Well I think based on the concept this upcoming season of people being distracted by their phones and social media...it can be either tackling things like the last few seasons OR playing it safe. But I wish the latter was more in play...because the more they go political...the more they risk losing viewers. +1 #5 RE: Supegirl Wins Saturn Award — LibertyPrime 2019-09-14 17:21 Regardless of my feeling about season 4, this is a huge win for the show. Congratulations to the cast and crew. EDIT: Oh, and I thought SG was way better than Krypton. +1 #4 RE: Supegirl Wins Saturn Award — Brierrose 2019-09-14 07:18 Congratulations to everyone involved in making the show. Here ‘s the acceptance speech. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnBgjrCBMc Edit: Chris was there too. They walked the red carpet together. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IML35f4TC90 +3 #3 RE: Supegirl Wins Saturn Award — jacksc01 2019-09-14 05:22 +2 #2 Congrats... — RobertAnthony 2019-09-14 04:05 Even though season 4 was for the most part weak...but once Jon Cryer came on as Lex Luthor...everything changed. By the way to celebrate the win, a make-up artist named Jenna Kristina posted a little video on Instagram of Melissa in her second "identity" The Dancing Queen. And I have found another I-Gram post...this time a picture...of someone holding the Star Ace Supergirl figure at the award ceremony. It's posted by Lisa Joyner...who happens to be Jon Cryer's wife. The hands holding that figure...Chris Wood! (Note the wedding band). +1 #1 RE: Supegirl Wins Saturn Award — vantheman77 2019-09-14 00:32 Congrats to the Supergirl show. It deserves to win the award and it's my top favorite superhero show. Another achievement to the Superman legend!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41560
__label__cc	0.66893	0.33107	Product Personalization: Campaigns to Get Inspired From August 8, 2017 October 9, 2019 customize product social media product personalization product personalization campaign Coca Cola – #ShareACoke Campaign Nutella – #YourNutella Campaign Starbucks – Famous Personalized Cups Campaign A personalized product is a product tailored to the needs and wants of the customer. On social media, product customization acts as a differentiator. Brands need to get ahead of the competition; meaning they must find a way to stand above the crowd in a very competitive market. Product personalization on social media: Boosts brand engagement and loyalty Fosters customer satisfaction Increases conversions By personalizing your product campaign you are able to hook your target audience; convince them that your product can exceed their expectations. Coca-Cola, Nutella, and Starbucks have done an excellent job crafting killer marketing campaigns. These brands leveraged product personalization to provide unique customers experiences. Do you want to know how they did it? Read on to find out more. Leverage #ProductPersonalization to provide unique #CustomerExperiences. In 2011, a market research showed that an average of 50% of teens and adults in Australia had never had a coke drink. To fill in the gaps, Coca-Cola came up with the idea to craft a slightly different marketing campaign. Their strategy was to connect to millennials on a personal level with a product personalization campaign. #ShareACoke was initiated in 2011. The basic idea was to replace the Coca-Cola logo with some of the most common people’s names in Australia. When it launched, the Director of Marketing for Coca-Cola in the South Pacific, Lucie Austin, said: “the campaign capitalized on the global trend of self-expression and sharing, but in an emotional way.” Coca-Cola went global with its “Share a Coke” campaign, spreading its wings to over 70 countries. The US was the last country targeted, where sales increased for the first time in a decade by 2%. On social media, Coca-Cola generated massive content, compelling consumers to share their stories and photos. The people were in control of the #ShareACoke campaign, triggering organic online conversations and boosting engagement by connecting to consumers on a personal level. Takeaway: Coca-Cola’s personalized product campaign made the people feel special because names are seen as personal identities. “Share a Coke” emphasized on a global trend of social sharing and self-expression; but it did it on a personal level. Over 500,000 #ShareACoke photos were shared on social media. At the end of the #ShareACoke campaign, Coca-Cola’s Facebook page gained another 25 million followers. Your name plays a key role in shaping your personal identity. Nutella’s product personalization campaign had a crystal-clear goal: to thank the people for staying loyal to the brand. The company behind Nutella, chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA, took things to the next level with the #YourNutella campaign. Rather than personalize the jar labels with the popular Nutella logo, they switched things up; letting consumers print their own names on the jars. In countries like France and Austria, Nutella took things further, diversifying the campaign. “Say it with Nutella” went viral on social media. Fans could enter the Nutella website, personalize a message, and share it on their social channel. When the campaign was launched, Nutella had a database of words allowed. People went crazy, printing phrases like “I love you”, “sorry”, and “bravo” on the jars. The company’s strategy was to let consumers share a message to their loved ones; using the Nutella brand. Indirectly, the company saw significant increases in brand awareness and customer satisfaction. Fans were driven by the initiative because Nutella kept the trademarked sans-serif font and colors. Imagine seeing your name on a jar of Nutella; but written in Nutella letters! How cool is that? In the UK, the campaign had tremendous success. Selfridge & Co establishments gave customers the opportunity to customize their jars in-store. When the campaign reached Belgium, it created huge hype. The brand’s Facebook page brought on tremendous flow; 185,000+ fans in a country with only 11 million residents. Takeaway: Merging social media with product personalization can have tremendous traction in appealing to customers’ emotions. Nutella did it beautifully because it gave the people a unique opportunity: to send an emotional message to a loved one, in a unique way; indirectly strengthening the company culture, boosting sales and brand loyalty. Boost #CustomerSatisfaction and #BrandLoyalty with product customization done differently. American coffee company and coffeehouse chain, Starbucks, has been writing people’s names on cups for ages. Why do they do it if they have a state-of-the-art mobile app system; and also support cashless payments? The answer: they want to continue to provide customers with unique experiences. People love it when their names are written on a Starbucks cup. It makes them feel special, strengthening customer connections when baristas call them to come and get their coffee. Personalized Starbucks cups almost scream for a photo on social media. Consumers don’t just love the brand; they enjoy the coffee, the logo; and ultimately, the fact that their names are handwritten on the cup. This is the Starbucks “recipe”; their status symbol to provide consumers with top-quality coffee and excellent customers service. When Starbucks launched their hilarious campaign “Why Starbucks Spells Your Name Wrong?”, it created instant engagement among it loyal customers. The strategy was to leverage their hand-written order system, and turn it into a joke. It was the brand’s attempt to make people laugh, creating delight and proving once again that Starbucks is unique. Check out the video below. Takeaway: Starbucks knows how to develop strong relationships with its customers. The coffeehouse chain takes care of its customers by providing them excellent customer care. To preserve engagement on social media, they often do things differently to boost engagement. The “Why Starbucks Spells Your Name Wrong?” campaign exceeded 12 million views on YouTube; it was provoking, emotional, and hilarious; proving once again that there’s no one like Starbucks. One of the key purposes of a product personalization campaign is to drive engagement by letting customers know you care. Balancing “we have our eyes on you” and, “we think you’ll find our product helpful” is not that easy. Before jumping into a product customization initiative, spend time planning, researching and testing your idea. Coca-Cola did a market test in Australia before launching their #ShareACoke campaign. The idea was a brilliant one; but only after finding out that 50% of teens and adults in Australia had never had a coke drink. Put yourself in the shoes of your customer before starting to experiment with your idea. Done right, product personalization will: Drive engagement on social media Strengthen customer service Build brand loyalty Boost brand awareness Have you ever thought of using personalization to make your brand and product stand above the crowd? Drop us a comment, and let us know what you think about boosting sales with personalized products. Facebook Link Previews – The Current State & 5 Workarounds To Modify Link Posts After July 18th Girls Run the Web: The Phenomenon of Female Influencers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41568
__label__cc	0.560234	0.439766	Sexuality & Art SPW Books & Reports Monthly announcements SPW Multimedia Papers and articles Research & Politics SPW Activities Around the world, Library, Publications and resources, We recommend Report of the IE on protection against violence and discrimination based on SOGI Below you will find the summary for the report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Vitit Muntarbhorn, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 32/2: The theme of the present report is “Embrace diversity and energize humanity”. Key developments in 2017 are noted, particularly in regard to the progression of human rights law and practice at the international and national levels; intersectionality between sexual orientation and gender identity and other issues concerning violence and discrimination; and dialogue and cooperation between the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and stakeholders. Two of the various underpinnings introduced in the Independent Expert’s first report (A/HRC/35/36) are singled out for particular attention to help prevent and overcome violence and discrimination: namely, decriminalization of consensual same-sex relations and gender identity and expression, and effective anti-discrimination measures. The report includes an overview of country situations, as highlighted by various actors through submissions sent to the Independent Expert. The report calls for reform of the laws, policies and practices which criminalize consensual same-sex relations, as well as those relating to gender identity and its expression. Pending repeal of discriminatory laws, the preferred policy is to desist from applying such negative laws and policies. Effective anti-discrimination measures are also critically needed; they vary from laws to policies and other action in a comprehensive and human rights-responsive setting. Categoria: Around the world, Library, Publications and resources, We recommend Tags: criminalization, discrimination, gender equality, gender identity, HR defenders, human rights, intersex rights, political economy, reproductive rights, sexual identity, sexual politics, sexual rights, SOGI, UN abortion abortion laws Africa asia Brazil BRICS china contraception criminalization discrimination Egypt feminisms gender gender equality gender identity HIV HIV&AIDS homosexuality HR defenders HR regional systems human rights india intersex rights Islamic societies latin america LGBTQ rights marriage laws political economy political repression race religious discourses religious extremism reproductive rights sexual identity sexuality sexual politics sexual rights sexual violence sex work SOGI trans rights uganda UN US violence	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41570
__label__cc	0.713381	0.286619	Tag Archives: Lucas Lee February 25, 2013 by joecarro in Action (Movies), Comic Book Movies, Fantasy (Movies), Movie Reviews and tagged 2010, 2010's, Abigail Chu, Action, Alison Pill, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Average JOE, Ben Lewis, Bill Hader, Blog, Brandon Routh, Brie Larson, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Canada, Chantelle Chung, Chris Evans, Clifton Collins Jr., Coins, Comeau, Comedy, Comic Books, Comics, Crash, Demon, Drummer, Edgar Wright, Ellen Wong, Emily Kassie, Enemies, Envy Adams, Erik Knudsen, Evil, Ex, Fantasy, Fed Ex, Fight, Film, Frenemies, Gamer, Gideon Graves, Groupie, Hair, Heart, Hip, Hipster, Homosexual, Hot, Indie, Ingrid Haas, Jason Schwartzman, Jimmy, Johnny Simmons, Joseph Carro, Julie Powers, Kerr Hewitt, Kieran Culkin, Kim Pine, Knives Chau, Kristina Pesic, Lesbian, Level Up, Love, Lucas Lee, Mae Whitman, Mark Webber, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Matthew Patel, Michael Bacall, Michael Cera, Monique, Movie, Music, Musician, Nelson Franklin, Oni Press, Other Scott, Party, Power Up, Ramona Flowers, Retro, Review, Rock, Roxy Richter, Sandra, Satya Bhabha, Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Seven Evil Exes, Sex, Sex Bob-omb, Singer, Stacey Pilgrim, Stephen Stills, Tamara Chen, Teen, Thomas Jane, Todd Ingram, Toronto, Trasha, UPS, Vegan Police, Video Game, Wallace Wells, Winifred Hailey, Young Neil \| Leave a comment Original Theatrical Release: August 13, 2010 Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) lives in Toronto, Canada and hopes to be successful with his band, Sex Bob-omb. He is still having trouble getting over his ex-girlfriend and has taken to dating a high school girl, Knives Chau (Ellen Wong), who is five years younger than he is. When Scott meets the much more mature Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), however, he entagles himself in a love triangle. But, that’s not all…if he wants to be with Ramona he has to defeat Ramona’s Seven Evil Exes…all with different sets of fighting abilities. This is, of course, based on the Oni Press comics by Bryan Lee O’Malley of the same name and does a pretty good job (better than I expected, actually) of capturing the feeling of the book and artwork. The special effects are all pretty nice, aside from a few times where it looked pretty unrealistic (even in the context of the film…I call it the Storm-Syndrome because of Storm/Halle Berry flying up the elevator shaft in the first X-Men film…looked completely false and unrealistic and unnatural) I thought Michael Cera was a good choice for Scott Pilgrim and also all of the Seven Evil Exes seemed to be spot on, especially Lucas Lee (Chris Evans) and Gideon Graves (Jason Schwartzman). The movie moved at a pretty decent pace, I thought, but maybe could have either been shortened or made into a couple of movies if more detail was put in. Some viewers might think the movie is all flash and not be able to appreciate the novelty of the story’s premise. There are, of course, tons of throwbacks to classic video games and that gives it a fun sort of edge. Movie Trailer For Scott Pilgrim vs. The World	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41576
__label__wiki	0.540946	0.540946	K37 Gem 5 Revision as of 18:34, March 29, 2019 by Doug86 (Talk \| contribs) TV: The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit K37 Gem 5 was the designation of a black hole which served with Krop Tor, the planet that orbited it, as a prison for the Beast. K37 Gem 5 and Krop Tor were set up by the Disciples of the Light to imprison the Beast. The Beast was trapped within Krop Tor and a power source was implanted to keep the planet from falling into K37 Gem 5. If the Beast tried to escape, the power source would fail and the planet would be dragged into the black hole. (TV: The Satan Pit) Over time, legends developed about the mysterious planet and black hole. One, myth, held by the Veltino, described the black hole as a demon. Walker Expedition team member Ida Scott said the mere sight of the black hole tended to drive onlookers insane. (TV: The Impossible Planet) Around the 42nd century, the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire learned of Krop Tor. The first mission to investigate it, the Galis Expedition, was able to bring back some pottery and a notebook. (WC: Tardisode 8) The next mission, the Walker Expedition, was sent to drill into the planet and get the power source that kept it stable. The Tenth Doctor and Rose also came to Krop Tor accidentally. As the Doctor, Rose and the crew of the Walker Expedition watched, the Scarlet System, home system of the Pallushi fell into K37 Gem 5's gravity field. Eventually, the centre of the planet was reached and the Beast was awoken and attempted to escape, possessing Toby Zed and attacking the rest of the expedition with the possessed Ood. (TV: The Impossible Planet) The Beast planned to let them escape, allowing his mind in Toby to escape as well. The Doctor confronted the Beast and shut off the power source, pulling Krop Tor into K37 Gem 5. The Beast's mind then tried to attack, but Rose was able to shoot him into space and into K37 Gem 5. The Expedition's ship was also dragged into K37 Gem 5, but the Doctor was able to save them with his TARDIS. (TV: The Satan Pit) The black hole special effect was re-used in Invasion of the Bane, with the addition of some tumbling meteorites or asteroids. Retrieved from "https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/K37_Gem_5?oldid=2700284"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41579
__label__wiki	0.614929	0.614929	The Call Of Aurora 2013 THE CALL OF AURORA, an Opera about Love, Death & Madness, is the World’s First and Only Opera to Celebrate and Interpret the Story of Douglas Mawson’s 1911‐1914 Antarctic Expedition. The Call of Aurora After having spent ten years composing and preparing this project, The Call of Aurora, a new chamber opera by Tasmanian composer & librettist, JOE BUGDEN, will premiere in Hobart in December 2013, to coincide with the conclusion of the Centenary of Mawson Events that commemorate and celebrate his epic and heroic time in Antarctica. December 2013 marks 100 years, to the month, that Douglas Mawson, after spending two years in Antarctica, travelled back to Hobart on the Aurora. There have been many books about Mawson’s time in Antarctica, and December will see another, Flaws in the Glass, by David Day, as well as the opening to the public of the replica of Mawson’s Huts on Hobart’s Waterfront. But, Hobartians will also have the unique opportunity to see and hear The Call of Aurora, the only opera to have been composed about Mawson’s 1911 ‐1914 Antarctic Expedition. Brief Synopsis of The Call of Aurora The opera opens with a prologue; set in a mental institution, the expedition’s wireless operator, Sydney Jeffreys, who has been written out of history, and is still haunted by the power of Douglas Mawson, calls on Mawson to amend the official records and to give him his rightful place in Act One begins with the dying and death of Xavier Mertz, who, along with Mawson, and after the death of Ninnis, has to struggle back to base camp, having lost most of their supplies and resources down a crevasse along with their companion, Belgrave Ninnis. Both Mawson and Mertz are suffering the effects of exposure to the elements, lack of nourishment and the effects of eating the toxic Husky Dog livers that, whilst keeping them alive, is also slowly poisoning them. Mertz succumbs to the fatal build‐up of Vitamin A, whilst Mawson, eventually running out of Husky dogs to eat, is able to struggle on alone for over a 160 kms back to base camp. He finally arrives, only to see the Aurora, in the distance sailing away without him. There Mawson, and the few of the original crew who agreed to stay back to search for him (and the two others), remain stranded throughout all of 1913, to finally await the return of the Aurora in the summer at the end of that year. Act Two sees Mawson and his crew confined to spending that long and dark year holed up inside what has become known as Mawson’s Hut. During that year they must deal with the monotony of having to spend a year in cold darkness with no purpose other than to wait for the ship to return. The Call Of Aurora 2013 2 Mawson must endure that boredom in addition to being responsible for buoying the morale of his colleagues, and all the while, silently dealing with the weight of responsibility for the deaths of Ninnis and Mertz – but perhaps more than all this – Mawson also has to content with the effects of ‘cabin fever’ on the newcomer to the group. When the Aurora left Antarctica without Mawson in early 1913, it left Sydney Jeffreys, the ship’s wireless operator to manage the communication between Commonwealth Bay and the Macquarie Island wireless transmitter. But Jeffreys was unaccustomed to the ravages of a long Antarctic winter, and throughout 1913 loses his mind, developing both psychosis and delusion – so much so that he ends up believing that he is Jesus Christ. On top of all this, Mawson is dealt another blow with the terrible news, delivered to him via the now neurotic and gloating Sydney Jeffreys, that the entire crew of Robert Falcon Scott has died on their return from the South Pole. Throughout Act Three Mawson has to manage Jeffreys’ increasing madness until the return of the Aurora at the end of 1913. But until then, Jeffreys’ Christ‐like delusion gives rise to him taunting Mawson about Mawson’s role in the deaths of Ninnis and Mertz, and tempts him, in the Antarctic Wilderness, to script history in a particular way; in a way that might salvage Mawson’s own reputation as a leader and explorer and also cast Ninnis and Mertz as some kind of heroes of scientific endeavour. The Call of Aurora interprets and imagines this tale, which is so well known to so many Tasmanians, but also investigates the lesser known relationship of Mawson and Sydney Jeffreys. The Call of Aurora is also a story about the love of Mawson and his fiancée, Paquita Delprat, and her adoration for Mawson, who she knows is a man of determination and integrity. When & Where is The Call Of Aurora being performed? DATES of the Four Performances Opening Night: Thursday 12th December 2013 with performances on 13th, 19th & 20th December 8pm to 10pm (duration is ca 90 mins with a 15 min interval between Acts 1 & 2) @ The Peacock Theatre Salamanca Arts Centre Salamanca Place Hobart. $35 ($28 concession) Tickets can be purchased online at http://thecallofaurora.eventbrite.com.au Ticket sales also at the door 30 mins before the show. Who will be interested in The Call Of Aurora The story of Douglas Mawson’s epic tale of survival, following the deaths of Ninnis and Mertz, is well known, and through Tasmania’s long and strong connections with Antarctica, this opera will resonate with all those who, through their work or other interests, have their own relationship with Antarctica and Mawson’s place there. The Call of Aurora is also for those who enjoy theatre, story‐telling and music. Interpreted through the intimacy of chamber opera, and the immediacy of live theatre, Bugden has written a libretto that develops the themes of loss, love and heroic struggle against temptation, to a chilling climax. Bugden’s use of rich and beautiful music invests the story with emotion and drama, and envelops the space in a range of textures, from deep and dark to sparse and atmospheric. The Call of Aurora ‐ The List of Characters The characters are (in order of appearance): • Sydney Jeffreys ‐ the mad wireless operator – sung by Jamie Scott • Xavier Mertz / Cecil Madigan / Ghost of Robert Falcon Scott – sung by Nick Monk • Douglas Mawson ‐ sung by Philip Joughen • Mawson’s fiancée, Paquita Delprat / Aurora ‐ the Spirit of the South – sung by Jennifer O’Halloran Meet The Cast & Crew Phillip Joughin as Douglas Mawson Jamie Scott as Sydney Jeffreys Jennifer O’Halloran as Paquita Delprat Nick Monk as the Ghost of Robert Falcon Scott Joe Bugden: Composer & Librettist Gary Wain: Music Director & Conductor Martin Blackwell: Staging & Art Direction Gareth Kays: Lighting Designer Make Up Artist: Corrine Costello Produced & Directed by Joe Bugden The Call of Aurora is scored for flute. Bb clarinet, viola, cello & vibraphone. Sponsors for this event include: The composer gratefully acknowledges the following for their generous & visionary support of this project. The Hon. Lara Giddings, Premier & Minister for the Arts The Hon. Rob Valentine, Independent Member for Hobart, The Hon. Andrew Wilkie, Independent Member for Dennison The Salamanca Arts Centre Tasmanian Energy Brokers Read more at: www.facebook.com/callofaurora www.thecallofaurora.com Martin Blackwell	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41580
__label__cc	0.71991	0.28009	Drone mapping Drone Inspection Drone Visuals Terra Drone Europe Rotterdam Harbour Skeye BV was asked by the municipality of Rotterdam to map an industrial plant in the harbor of Rotterdam. Aim of the city council was to se if surveying using a drone was a good method to obtain results in a fast manner with high quality. Normally the use of unmanned aircraft is restricted up to a height of 400 feet above ground level. This was not possible on this project as there was a building of more than 100 meters on the terrain as well as a chimney stack of more than 125 meters. A special permission was obtained from the authorities to be allowed to fly higher. The Microdrone MD4-1000 multicopter of Skeye flew at a height of 150 meters above ground level and collected high resolution imagery at predefined positions. On the ground a number of survey markers were installed and measured using RTK GPS. The markers had to be constructed especially for this project as the standard markers that are normally used would not be visible from a height of 150 meters. The end delivery to the client consisted of a height model and an orthophoto mosaic to scale. In addition a terrain model was produced by removing all measurements that were not on ground level. A quality control check was carried out using an additional 39 heights on the ground with the RTK GPS. The average difference turned out to be 42mm. Drone mappingDrone surveying and mappingDigital terrain model with drone Industrial Survey using a Fixed Wing Drone, UAS, UAV to create a 3D Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and an orthophoto mosaic. Industrial Survey using a Fixed Wing Drone, UAS, UAV to create o 3D Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and an orthophoto mosaic. RTK GPS Ground Control Measurement for an industrial Survey using a Fixed Wing Drone, UAS, UAV to create o 3D Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and an orthophoto mosaic. Hoorn 312D 2404 HL Netherlands 41 Innovation Building Kent Science Park Sittingbourne Kent ME9 8HL United Kingdom +31 (0)172 242 706 / +44 (0)1795 411 560 info@terra-drone.eu Stay up to data © Terra Drone 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41582
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__label__wiki	0.538161	0.538161	The Ankler Hot Snub Time Machine AMPAS Proposes; The Ankler Disposes Richard Rushfield Jan 14 4 Hot Snub Time MachineAMPAS Proposes; The Ankler Disposes Richard Rushfield First thing that jumps out – and consider this a place-setter for all that is to follow because so much of Oscar fussbudgetry springs out of social media – but no film this year encountered a bigger blowback than The Joker. For a thousand different reasons, up to and including predictions of mass murder that follow it’s release, the social media mobs all but demanded Warners burn the film before inflicting it on a fragile world, In These Troubled Times (ITTT). Actually it wasn’t just social media on this one. The flames burn highest on social of course and without it, the Joker wars wouldn’t have gone far. But traditional media did their part to egg on or amplify (depending on your perspective) the social media outcry. A release so problematic, Warners was called insane not to cancel it entirely. And the result: the highest-grossing R-Rated release of all time and the most Oscar nominations of any film this year. As ever, Hollywood listens to ignore social media at its own risk. • Fear a Netflix on the ropes. Forget about the nominations by company number. That’s wonderful for your corporate boilerplate, but apart from that, who cares or remembers that ten seconds from now? As with the 2019 Dodgers, after all the money and time spent, nothing short of victory is going to count as victory. I don’t know the final outcome, but after tens or hundreds of millions spent, Netflix is staring into the void of losing in the final stretch once again. It certainly feels like that’s the way it’s going. And you’ve got to wonder, if that happens, with growth finally stalled, whether they are going to be able to come back to this well in this way again. • As I noted post-Globes, if you run into OUATIH or 1917 on the sidewalk, watch your head for falling pianos. There’s a lot of money riding on this race and the specter of it all slipping away is going to start to make some folks out there very antsy. And no sooner than this morning, did this little piece of home furnishing come tumbling down on Sony’s head: Which not only recaps QT’s long relationship with Harvey but throws in for good measure: Weinstein aside, Tarantino’s also been accused of being creepy to women in the industry and risking Thurman’s life during the making of Kill Bill. Then there’s Brad Pitt. When his former fiancée Gwyneth Paltrow came forward to accuse Weinstein of trying to assault her, Pitt confessed to the Times that he knew of the attack, and had gotten in the predatory producer’s face over it. I have no idea what instigated this catalog of OUATIH’s Harvey ties past, but this is dangerous ground for Hollywood. If we’re going to start going through all the past ties everyone involved with all the nominees has to Harvey (not a terrible idea, and don’t forget to include the agencies while you’re at it), it’s going to be a very quiet Oscar race before we’re done. • Then there’s the snubocracy that rules nomination days. The madness starts with the insane notion of a snub: when Oscar fails to agree with the critics it is a snub. . . Not a snub of the critics, but of the film itself. Because the fact that it has made so many top ten lists and won critics circle awards proves that it is one of the best movies or performances of the year. Scientifically. If the Oscars fail to honor such consensus certified film, it couldn’t be because they have a different opinion of what was good or just like something else or woke up on the wrong side of the bed that morning. Because it has been scientifically proven to them – by critics! who scientifically know – that this was the best movie or performance of the year out of the hundreds of releases. So if they go in another direction, it can only be because they have chosen to ignore, that is to demean snub, something that they know is the great. That essentially is the logic of “snubs.” And there’s no possibility here that the critics are working with other agendas apart from artistic accomplishment: axes to grind, political hobbyhorses, pack mentalities, chumminess with the candidates, payoffs or anything like that for instance. • Oscars works a particular way, Campaign, play the stupid game., spend a fortune, work the precursor groups – whatever the merits of any film, no one, and I mean No. One. wins without the game. There might be 1000 minority-helmed Citizen Kanes this year but none of them count if they aren’t working the buffet circuit – and the studios aren’t spending for it. Which is why pundits can predict just about all of it, with the few exceptions of the stand out snubs. You might Oscar should overlook that…Oscars should be wise and pure and above the chaos. Might as well say Monster Truck rallies should focus on contestants’ penmanship. • Which is also why the notion that these are the Real Awards and others are the Fake Awards is ridiculous. They are the real sentiments of a group of people who have a lot of time to come get free buffets courtesy of some poor distributor and vote on the basis of how the aspiring nominee reacted when the voter in question tried to force a script into their hand. And also on the basis of what everyone else at the reception said they are voting for, and what the general drift of things indicated was what they were supposed to vote for. Because why waste your vote on something that's not the thing everyone else is voting for! • Which brings us to the Elephant of the Day in the Room. Oscars still so white! It’s that most wonderful time of the year, when social media (and now regular unsocial media) relive the eternal misconception that the Oscars are the problem with Hollywood and changing the Oscars will fix the industry…Which would be like if we ignored Presidential elections and devoted all our attention and energy instead to whom was invited to the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, thinking if there were better speakers at the dinner, the Presidency would be instantly transformed. There should indeed be more diverse Oscar nominees, and a healthy Hollywood would have more. But the problem isn’t per se that the Oscar electorate is ignoring great nominees that it would otherwise nominate. Oscar is behaving as Oscar behaves, as dumbly and predictably as it does on all films. The problem is that Hollywood isn’t telling more diverse stories by a more diverse group of people. There were a lot of very good films by women this year, but as has been noted, they were still a tiny percent of the total films released. The number of Oscary (serious dramas) helmed by minorities telling non-white male stories remains, despite strides, a tiny sliver. And this is not now just an Oscars problem, but an existential industry problem. At a moment when it’s an open question whether people will still be seeng movies in 10 years, Hollywood should be desperately racing to bring in any under-served audiences it can. New customers, imagine that! Instead of dragging our feet, still. In 2020. When you look at these movies considered snubs - Hustlers, Farewell, Dolamite - all movies I enjoyed myself, but what in recent history is the Oscar comp for any of them? Hustlers is too genrey, Farewell too small. Dolamite feels like a HBO movie. Yes, movies with those issues sometimes slip through, but usually they don’t. So when you’ve only got a couple minority-centric movies in the Oscar range, it doesn’t take much for them to fall short, if neither of them is a knockout. Likewise for female-helmed movies. • All that said, it’s time to declare martial law on the directing branch and strip the current membership of its voting rights. In the vast herd of bovine pack mentality that is AMPAS, the directing branch still distinguishes itself in its insularity. There is no group of people more likely to be threatened by anyone new, anyone who doesn’t seem like one of them. Going further, as a general principle, if you had to decide which group in Hollywood was the greatest set of insecure psychopaths, I think you’d have to go with directors. Executives at least have normal hours, bosses to report to, HR reps to keep their homicidal urges somewhat in check. Until they make it to the very top at least. Producers need to make friends, raise money, turn on the charm.. Actors are nuts but in the end are pawns in other people’s games. Writers are too committed to seeing themselves as downtrodden wretched of the earth to unleash the tyrants within. But directors! And every year, they manage to confirm these worst suspicions at nomination time. Again, it being 2020 and all, it’s time to break them up, shut them down and try again. • AMPAS tried to transform by doubling its membership but the fact is that, again, the Academy being the symptom not the cause, Hollywood didn’t employ enough experienced people of diverse backgrounds to let them do that. So they went abroad looking to diversify. Not a bad goal in itself, to internationalize the Academy in these times. But those folks on foreign shores aren’t necessarily going to be able to keep abreast of social media demands and know that Jennifer Lopez’s turn in Hustle has been declared a serious performance by a serious actress and not a star turn in a frothy quasi-thriller (nothing wrong with that). • When all’s said and done, however, if you put aside the shortcomings, we ended up with a pretty good mix of broadly popular and smaller artistic pieces nominated this year. I don’t think it’s any kind of epic year for film, but it’s an interesting, worthy bunch that made it. There’s nothing on the list that you would say snuck in because of a devious consultant or anything like that. There’s also movies with real movie stars, whom got nominated for their roles. Lest we forget its still stars smiles that sell so much of this whole enterprise and are why there’s still two percent of the world that leaves their homes and plunks down their hard-earned money for the movies instead of staying in and watching unwrapping videos on YouTube. • That said, with all these stars, they still can’t find a host? Or have given up trying? • In the end, and in keeping with the bovine nature of this race, thanks to preferential voting, the winner will be not the movie most people like, but the movie the least people hate. Which is going to make the coming bombshells particularly interesting to see what sticks. Problem for the Social Justice in Oscar Nominations forces is that there are too many films they are declared against already. Joker, Hollywood, 1917 have all been declared anathema at various points, and somewhat The Irishman. At least last year, they could focus the ire on Green Book, ineffectively as it turned out. 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__label__wiki	0.747316	0.747316	Consumer & Gadgets Energy & Green Tech Hi Tech & Innovation A new parallel strategy for tackling turbulence on Summit by Oak Ridge National Laboratory An illustration of intricate flow structures in turbulence from a large simulation performed using 1,024 nodes on Summit. The lower right frame shows a zoom-in view of a high-activity region. Credit: Dave Pugmire and Mike Matheson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Turbulence, the state of disorderly fluid motion, is a scientific puzzle of great complexity. Turbulence permeates many applications in science and engineering, including combustion, pollutant transport, weather forecasting, astrophysics, and more. One of the challenges facing scientists who simulate turbulence lies in the wide range of scales they must capture to accurately understand the phenomenon. These scales can span several orders of magnitude and can be difficult to capture within the constraints of the available computing resources. High-performance computing can stand up to this challenge when paired with the right scientific code; but simulating turbulent flows at problem sizes beyond the current state of the art requires new thinking in concert with top-of-the-line heterogeneous platforms. A team led by P. K. Yeung, professor of aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, performs direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulence using his team's new code, GPUs for Extreme-Scale Turbulence Simulations (GESTS). DNS can accurately capture the details that arise from a wide range of scales. Earlier this year, the team developed a new algorithm optimized for the IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). With the new algorithm, the team reached a performance of less than 15 seconds of wall-clock time per time step for more than 6 trillion grid points in space—a new world record surpassing the prior state of the art in the field for the size of the problem. The simulations the team conducts on Summit are expected to clarify important issues regarding rapidly churning turbulent fluid flows, which will have a direct impact on the modeling of reacting flows in engines and other types of propulsion systems. GESTS is a computational fluid dynamics code in the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness at the OLCF, a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At the heart of GESTS is a basic math algorithm that computes large-scale, distributed fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) in three spatial directions. An FFT is a math algorithm that computes the conversion of a signal (or a field) from its original time or space domain to a representation in the frequency (or wave number) space—and vice versa for the inverse transform. Yeung extensively applies a huge number of FFTs in accurately solving the fundamental partial differential equation of fluid dynamics, the Navier-Stokes equation, using an approach known in mathematics and scientific computing as "pseudospectral methods." Most simulations using massive CPU-based parallelism will partition a 3-D solution domain, or the volume of space where a fluid flow is computed, along two directions into many long "data boxes," or "pencils." However, when Yeung's team met at an OLCF GPU Hackathon in late 2017 with mentor David Appelhans, a research staff member at IBM, the group conceived of an innovative idea. They would combine two different approaches to tackle the problem. They would first partition the 3-D domain in one direction, forming a number of data "slabs" on Summit's large-memory CPUs, then further parallelize within each slab using Summit's GPUs. The team identified the most time-intensive parts of a base CPU code and set out to design a new algorithm that would reduce the cost of these operations, push the limits of the largest problem size possible, and take advantage of the unique data-centric characteristics of Summit, the world's most powerful and smartest supercomputer for open science. "We designed this algorithm to be one of hierarchical parallelism to ensure that it would work well on a hierarchical system," Appelhans said. "We put up to two slabs on a node, but because each node has 6 GPUs, we broke each slab up and put those individual pieces on different GPUs." In the past, pencils may have been distributed among many nodes, but the team's method makes use of Summit's on-node communication and its large amount of CPU memory to fit entire data slabs on single nodes. "We were originally planning on running the code with the memory residing on the GPU, which would have limited us to smaller problem sizes," Yeung said. "However, at the OLCF GPU Hackathon, we realized that the NVLink connection between the CPU and the GPU is so fast that we could actually maximize the use of the 512 gigabytes of CPU memory per node." The realization drove the team to adapt some of the main pieces of the code (kernels) for GPU data movement and asynchronous processing, which allows computation and data movement to occur simultaneously. The innovative kernels transformed the code and allowed the team to solve problems much larger than ever before at a much faster rate than ever before. The team's success proved that even large, communication-dominated applications can benefit greatly from the world's most powerful supercomputer when code developers integrate the heterogenous architecture into the algorithm design. Coalescing into success One of the key ingredients to the team's success was a perfect fit between the Georgia Tech team's long-held domain science expertise and Appelhans' innovative thinking and deep knowledge of the machine. Also crucial to the achievement was the OLCF's early access Ascent and Summitdev systems and a million-node-hour allocation on Summit provided by the Innovative Novel and Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, jointly managed by the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilities, and the Summit Early Science Program in 2019. Oscar Hernandez, tools developer at the OLCF, helped the team navigate challenges throughout the project. One such challenge was figuring out how to how to run each single parallel process (that obeys the message passing interface [MPI] standard) on the CPU in conjunction with multiple GPUs. Typically, one or more MPI processes are tied to a single GPU, but the team found that using multiple GPUs per MPI process allows the MPI processes to send and receive a smaller number of larger messages than the team originally planned. Using the OpenMP programming model, Hernandez helped the team reduce the number of MPI tasks, improving the code's communication performance and thereby leading to further speedups. Kiran Ravikumar, a Georgia Tech doctoral student on the project, will present details of the algorithm within the technical program of the 2019 Supercomputing Conference, SC19. The team plans to use the code to make further inroads into the mysteries of turbulence; they will also introduce other physical phenomena such as oceanic mixing and electromagnetic fields into the code in the future. "This code, and its future versions, will provide exciting opportunities for major advances in the science of turbulence, with insights of generality bearing upon turbulent mixing in many natural and engineered environments," Yeung said. Summit supercomputer simulates how humans will 'brake' during Mars landing More information: K. Ravikumar, D. Appelhans, and P. K. Yeung, "GPU Acceleration of Extreme Scale Pseudo-Spectral Simulations of Turbulence using Asynchronism." Paper to be presented at the 2019 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Analysis (SC19), Denver, CO, November 17–22, 2019. 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__label__cc	0.65436	0.34564	Categories BSNLTechnology NewsVoice & Data BSNL Reintroduces Rs 1,999 Prepaid Plan With 3GB Daily Data and Yearlong Validity Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is perhaps the most differentiated telecom operator in the industry because of the plans it offers. While the other telecom operators stick to a handful of prepaid plans, BSNL has a portfolio of plans which makes the other rosters look tiny. This becomes the strength of the telecom operator, as with so many prepaid plans, there is plenty for everyone. Every subscriber can find the plan which suits their needs, and they don’t have to settle for anything less or pay something more for what they don’t necessarily need. Now, BSNL keeps on switching up these plans from time to time with new changes, new introductions or by the revival of some of these plans. The same thing has happened now. Yet again, BSNL has again introduced one of its plans which it had discontinued a while ago. This plan is the Rs 1,999 prepaid plan. Not only this, but BSNL has also introduced a few more prepaid plans while revising the Rs 399 prepaid plan. BSNL Rs 1,999 Prepaid Plan Benefits The first plan that we will talk about here is the Rs 1,999 prepaid plan from BSNL which has been reintroduced for the subscribers. After the reintroduction, the subscribers of this plan will enjoy calls up to 250 minutes per day, even to Mumbai and Delhi. As for the data benefit of this plan, the subscribers will enjoy 3GB data per day with an after-FUP speed of 80 Kbps. Apart from this, the customers also get free PRBT with unlimited song change and SonyLIV subscription for 365 days as well. BSNL Newly Introduced Prepaid Plans and Benefits Another of the prepaid plans which has been introduced in the Chennai, Tamil Nadu circle is the Rs 97 prepaid plan. This plan comes with 2GB data per day data benefit, and it also bundles 250 minutes per day data, and it comes with a validity of 18 days. Similarly, the Rs 998 STV by BSNL comes with 240 days validity, and this one also offers 2GB data per day with an after-FUP speed of 80 Kbps which is same for all the other plans. The prepaid voucher of Rs 365 is another yearlong validity prepaid plan. Although the plan validity is 365 days, the freebies validity in this plan is only 60 days. There is also the prepaid voucher of Rs 997 which offers 3GB data per day to the users and along with it pairs 250 minutes of calling every day. The validity of this prepaid plan is the same as the freebies validity, which is 180 days. The extra benefits in this prepaid plan include SonyLIV content access, PRBT and Lokdhum content. BSNL Revises Rs 399 STV Apart from these plans, BSNL subscribers will also now have access to a revised Rs 399 STV. The Rs 399 STV will offer 80 days of validity to the users, and it will ship 1GB data per day along with 100 SMS per day with free PRBT benefit and 100 SMS per day. BSNL Shipping Attractive Data Offerings It is worth noting that apart from all the other telecom operators out there BSNL is only one of the two telcos which has successfully added subscribers instead of witnessing a reduction in its subscriber base. This is likely because BSNL ships plans which come with attractive data propositions. Even with long term plans like the Rs 1,699 prepaid plan, BSNL offers the most data which the other telecom operators are not offering. NextAirtel Digital TV Is the Only DTH Operator Offering Long-Term Channel Pack to Subscribers » Previous « Xiaomi Redmi K30 to Arrive in a 4G Variant With Snapdragon 730G SoC and 64MP Quad Camera Setup	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41596
__label__cc	0.736605	0.263395	Jio Triggers Massive Data Consumption; Becomes #1 Carrier For Data Traffic Globally! Jio has proved to be massive disruption in the Indian telecom space. By Mohul Ghosh Last updated Jan 5, 2018 Jio’s impressive entry into the Indian telecom space is continuing to make headlines, even after 1 year of its launch. As per a recent report, Jio has triggered massive mobile data consumption, and within 6 months, it had become #1 mobile operator in terms of supporting data traffic. Now, it would be interesting to observe how Jio carries forward its success, and make further inroads into the telecom industry. Will Jio’s hardware disruption be the next big news? Jio Users Break All Records Of Data Consumption As per a recent report by Strategy Analytics, titled ‘Wireless Operator Performance Benchmarking’, Jio along with China’s Omnicom has accounted for nearly 50% of all mobile data consumed, globally. In the third quarter of 2017, globally, mobile data consumption increased by 115%, and it seems that Jio was the primary catalyst for this growth. In fact, the report states that within 6 months of their launch, Jio had become the single largest carrier of mobile traffic, globally. This is a feat which has never been experienced before. For 3rd quarter, Reliance Jio, China’s Omnicom and Vodafone were the three biggest telecom operators whose users consumed maximum mobile data. Phill Kendall, who is the author of the report, and director Service Provider Group which created this report said that zero-rated pricing in Europe by Vodafone has proven to be a game changer. It is still debatable though, whether such plans violate net neutrality or not. India: Riding on Mobile Data Wave Last month, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant had said that globally, India consumes the maximum amount of mobile data as 150 crore gigabytes of mobile data consumed in India per month. He had tweeted: “Amazing! With 150 crore gigabytes per month of mobile data consumption, India is now world’s number one mobile data-consuming country. Its mobile data consumption is higher than that of the USA and China put together,” In March this year, BSNL users in Kerala broke all records, when they consumed 400 TB of mobile data in one day. The data from Jio users’ mobile data consumption, along with BSNL’s success clearly proves that mobile data consumption is at an all-time high in India, and we are literally witnessing a mobile revolution. "Jio Triggers Massive Data Consumption; Becomes #1 Carrier For Data Traffic Globally!", 5 out of 5 based on 3 ratings. Data ConsumptionJiomobile dataNITI AayogOmnicomVodafoneWireless Operator Performance Benchmarking Nokia 6 (2018) Leaked Ahead of Launch – How Different Is It From Last Year? Indian Railways To Install ISRO-Powered GPS Device In 2700 Trains For Safety! Airtel vs Jio vs Vodafone-Idea: Which Has The Cheapest Long-Term Prepaid Plans in… Jio Launches Rs 2020 New Year Plans: Get 1.5GB/Day At Rs 3.69/GB With 365 Days… Jio’s Wifi Calling: Vo WiFi Goes Live In These 3 Circles; It Will Support All… 70% Of Vodafone, 30% Of Airtel Employees Are Looking For New Jobs: Layoffs Coming… Port Your Mobile Number In 3 Days, By Paying Rs 6.46: New MNP Rules Are Live Now… Minimum Recharge Of Jio Is The Most Expensive; Airtel Has The Cheapest Min Recharge?…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41610
__label__wiki	0.928695	0.928695	Biden Son Hunter Admits that Joining Ukraine/China Companies a Huge Mistake Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, appeared on ABC on Monday evening in a desperate attempt to douse the flames rising up against his father. Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, appeared on ABC on Monday evening in a desperate attempt to douse the flames rising up against his father for the unethical deals that made Hunter millions of dollars with companies in some of the foreign nations that his father was tasked with dealing with while he was vice president. During his ABC appearance, Hunter Biden, the son of 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden, forcefully denied any wrongdoing over his business deals with companies in Ukraine and China. Despite his claims of innocence, Hunter went on averring that it was “poor judgment” to join those foreign companies. “In retrospect, look, I think that it was poor judgment on my part,” Hunter told ABC’s Amy Robach. “Is that I think that it was poor judgment because I don’t believe now when I look back on it — I know that there was — did nothing wrong at all. However, was it poor judgment to be in the middle of something that is a swamp in—in—in many ways? Yeah.” “So, I take full responsibility for that,” he added. “Did I do anything improper? No, not in any way. Not in any way whatsoever. Did I make a mistake based upon some ethical lapse? Absolutely not.” EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden tells @abcnews' @ajrobach he did nothing "improper” while serving on board of Ukrainian gas company, but may have showed “poor judgment” in joining: “Was it poor judgment to be in the middle of something that is…a swamp in—in—in many ways? Yeah.” #hunterbiden #exclusive A post shared by ABC News (@abcnews) on Oct 15, 2019 at 3:12am PDT Still, Hunter admitted that he only got this extremely high paying deals because his last name was Biden, not because he had any actual expertise for the jobs. Biden admitted that he would “probably not” have gotten the board position Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma if he was a regular, private American citizen. Yet he still insisted that he did nothing wrong. “I gave a hook to some very unethical people to act in illegal ways to try to do some harm to my father,” Biden said on ABC’s Good Morning America. “That’s where I made the mistake.” The softball interview left many questions unanswered. How much money did Hunter make with all these sweetheart deals? He didn’t say. Exactly what work did he do for these foreign companies? He did not say. What about that photo of Hunter, Joe, and the Burisma executive? He did not mention it. Nor did the ABC softballer ask about any of this. Related Topics:2020ABCChinafeaturedHunter BidenJoe BidenUkraine Trump In A Landslide! Historically Accurate Model Predicts 2020 Election Results Voters in Ohio Blast Impeachment as ‘Distraction’ in Swing State Statement Elizabeth Warren’s Lies About ‘Bipartisanship,’ Taking Credit for Bills She Voted Against Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren laid out a whopper of a lie while trying to burnish her “bipartisan” bona fides by taking credit for a bill that she voted against. One has to wonder if Elizabeth Warren ever tells the truth about anything? Late last year, the Massachusetts Senator claimed that she “works with the other side” all the time. But fact-checkers say Warren stretched the truth quite a bit. Per the Washington Free Beacon: “I do work with the other side,” Warren said in October during a radio interview in New Hampshire. “I’ve gotten more than a dozen bills passed into law, and they’ve been bipartisan. And that’s just been since Donald Trump has been elected president.” A post on the “Fact Squad” section of Warren’s campaign website similarly boasts that “Donald Trump has signed more than a dozen of Elizabeth’s proposals into law” and lists 15 pieces of legislation Warren sponsored. So, did she? Does Warren have this big history of “working with the other side”? Well… not so much. The Beacon adds: Three of the items included in that tally, however, are bills that Warren ultimately voted against. The Gambling Addiction Prevention Act, the Sexual Trauma Response And Treatment Act, and the National Guard Promotion Accountability Act all passed the Senate in August 2018 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2019. Warren was one of only 10 senators who voted against the 2019 NDAA, along with fellow 2020 contenders Kamala Harris (RIP), Kirsten Gillibrand (RIP), and Bernie Sanders. One example of Warren’s “bipartisan” lie is her actions over the National Guard Promotion Accountability Act, a bill that Warren touts as an example of how she works with Republicans. Warren’s campaign site has all sorts of wonderful explanations about how she worked with Republicans on the bill. But Warren’s website is mysteriously quiet on just why Warren actually voted against it when the final version of that very bill came up for a vote in the U.S. Senate. Warren is such a monumental liar, even far left, anti-American, Hollywood, socialist Michael Moore has called Warren a liar. In a recent episode of his podcast, Moore slammed Warren for lying about sending her kids to private school, and for falsely describing her father as a “janitor” when she was young. Moore also attacked Warren for lying about what Bernie Sanders said to her. While Moore did endorse Sanders for 2020, he has had a close working relationship with Warren for years as she has appeared in many of his propaganda films. Elizabeth & Bernie have appeared in my films. I love them both. Why Elizabeth chose to stick a knife in Bernie’s back is beyond me. At a time when job #1 is to remove Trump, how did this help? My new RUMBLE podcast “The Sad Downfall of Elizabeth Warren.” https://t.co/uFwOFNka9U — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) January 15, 2020 And let’s not even get started on the fact that she claimed to be an American Indian for many decades while she earned big cash and was afforded high-paying positions in universities based on the lie that she was a “minority.” Mayor Pete is Making a Move for Midwestern Moderates, and Surprising Many The Democratic Deep State isn’t likely to let him trounce Biden, so is this all for naught? Andrew West In just a few day or so, Iowa will cast the first real votes of the 2020 primaries and, hopefully, shed a little light as to what the underlying storyline is to be. This electoral season has already been a long and crowded ride, with nearly two dozen candidates at one point now whittle down to less than half that, with really only four or so hopefuls showing any real promise. Of the top four, two would be considered fairly radically progressive, while two are out-and-out, old school centrists. The battle for the soul of the Democratic Party has been drawn down this line for years, and the coming months could be crucial to settling this ongoing debate. One of those more moderate candidates, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, is in Iowa this week hoping to court some conservatives…and it almost seems to be working. As Buttigieg entered the Prairie Winds Events Center in downtown Orange City, a crowd of around 200 instead roared in a standing ovation. Regan Harms, a 22-year-old senior majoring in biblical studies at Northwestern College in Orange City, said she wasn’t at all surprised with the turnout. As she introduced Buttigieg, she described him as a neighbor and fellow midwesterner, one who understands life in rural America. “Iowans long for someone who understands them,” Harms said. “The second you meet him, you get that impression that he almost knows you. Of course he can come into Orange City, and people will like him. There’s that common bond among midwesterners.” Of course, there was plenty of opposition as well. In nearby Sioux Center in September, the Sioux County Conservatives alleged a restaurant was “celebrating sin” by hosting Pride brunch on a Sunday. When asked whether people in Orange City cared about whether Buttigieg was gay, Harms said she wouldn’t answer that question. “It’s a divisive topic here in town, of course,” she said. “Obviously, some people care, but look at this crowd. Others don’t.” Buttigieg has thus far shown a surprising amount of strength in the midwest, but it is doubtful that the Democratic Deep State would be willing to suffer the wrath of the Biden family in order to nominate Mayor Pete. Abortionists Planned Parenthood Using Tax Dollars in $45 Million Bid to Elect Democrats in 2020 Abortion mill operator Planned Parenthood is now using our own tax money to launch a $45 million campaign to back Democrats. Abortion mill operator Planned Parenthood is now using our own tax money to launch a $45 million campaign to back Democrats in the coming 2020 elections. PP claims it will be its largest elections spending ever. Planned Parenthood still gets millions of dollars a year in tax dollars from left-wing politicians who want to use our money to fund their blood lust. But now some small part of the millions PP gets from the tax payer will be pumped right back into politics to elect more abortion-loving, left-wing, anti-American Democrats. Don’t believe a word of it if they say otherwise, either. CBS “reporter” Kate Smith recently told viewers how “important” it was for PP to help Democrats win this year. “There is so much at stake if you are an abortion rights activist. Last year, you saw an unprecedented number of abortion restrictions and bans across the country,” she said according to Newsbusters. “This is not just the south and Midwest that we’re talking about. I think there were 38 different states that introduced these restrictions. They are really leaving no stone unturned. Every single state they are looking at, and how can they either find candidates that are less hostile toward abortion rights or in some cases, find candidates that are particularly open to reproductive health. For example, I spoke to a volunteer activist in Colorado. She was telling me that Colorado, there Planned Parenthood affiliates see patients from 38 different states.” As Newsbusters added: The campaign, dubbed “We Decide 2020,” will target five million voters in nine battleground states via “large-scale grassroots programs and canvassing, digital, television, and radio and mail programs.” Smith interviewed Planned Parenthood Votes Executive Director Jenny Lawson who said, “The stakes have never been higher,” and admitted, “[The Trump Administration] has managed to undo so much over the last three years” while scaremongering that “this summer the Supreme Court might gut Roe v. Wade.” According to Planned Parenthood’s own 2017-2018 annual report, the organization committed a record high number of abortions while receiving a record high $617 million in taxpayer funding – representing 37% of its overall revenue. And now it’s spending $45 million to elect Democrats. Smith also passed on the Democrat talking points that the abortion mill is needed because, “Planned Parenthood does so much more than abortions, of course, they do birth control, STI screenings.” Of course, the truth is no one who needs these services has to use PP to get them. There are plenty of other places to get them. Furthermore, PP hardly does any of these services in the first place. Well over half its “business” is abortion, not birth control or STI screenings. Republican Iraqi Refugee Running Against Omar Opens Up On Her Friendship With Ambassador Killed In Benghazi Raid She makes a good point about the double standard of Obama’s invasion of Libya. He didn’t ask Congress first. Dalia Al-Aqidi joined the Daily Caller’s Christian Datoc for a wide-ranging interview, in which she discussed her decision to run against Rep. Ilhan Omar, the media’s coverage of President Donald Trump, rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran, and her personal friendship with Christopher Stevens, the former U.S. Ambassador to Libya killed in the Benghazi raid. TDC: Dalia Al-Aqidi, a former White House correspondent, just announced she will be running on the Republican ticket against Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional district. Al-Aqidi joined the Daily Caller’s Christian Datoc for a wide-ranging interview, in which she discussed her decision to run against Omar, the media’s coverage of President Donald Trump, rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran and her personal friendship with Christopher Stevens, the former U.S. Ambassador to Libya who was killed in the Benghazi raid. A refugee who is grateful for the country that took her in and let her spread her wings. Isn’t this how it always should be? It’s a shame this isn’t more common but I’m glad she has the right mindset. She’s had an amazing career and history. She embodies our American Dream. She could be a good role model for refugees rather than Omar who’s crying about how persecuted she claims to be and how awful and racist she sees our country. Please Minnesota whoever wins this nomination, vote Republican and make Omar go 1 and out! It’s going to be so much fun watching the left try to find a way to paint her as racist, or anti-immigrant or anti Muslim. — Simón Says (@GringoSimon) January 17, 2020 .More reasons why I am so impressed with Dalia Al-Aqidi. I had the privileged to be interviewed by her a few times. She’s an excellent journalist. I hope she joins Congress next January! @Dalia4Congress — Fred Fleitz (@FredFleitz) January 17, 2020 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/5RZe7ExsDB — Pete Cummings 🇺🇸 (@_PeteCummings) January 17, 2020 Joe Biden Makes Mention of Two Former 2020 Hopefuls as Possible VP Picks But have we already seen enough of these also-rans? The sheer length of time that we’ve been examining the candidates for 2020 is, in and of itself, posing problems for the Democratic Party. Dig long enough and you’re bound to find something, right? For Joe Biden, there were seven women lined up to tell the world about his hair-sniffing, grope-y misbehavior before he even officially announced his candidacy, (but long after everyone understood that he would be running). Kamala Harris was raked over the coals for her hard-nosed approach to marijuana offenders during her time as a prosecutor in California, with the now-Senator completely botching the response by laughing about it and making up a lie about partaking herself while listening to Tupac Shakur records in college. Spoiler alert: Tupac hadn’t released any music while Harris was enrolled in any college. Despite the vigorous screening and mudslinging that has already occurred for some of these candidates, it appears as though current frontrunner Joe Biden is considering going back to this dry well for his VP pick. Former Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday he would consider former presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke and Julián Castro to be a running mate or a member of his Cabinet if he is elected president. O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman and high-profile 2018 Senate candidate, was an early frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination before fading into the field’s lower tiers and dropping out in early November. Castro, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama, ended his yearlong campaign earlier this month after struggling in the polls. Biden said he has spoken with both of them since their exits. “My plea to both of them is that they stay engaged,” Biden said Wednesday in an interview with The Dallas Morning News. “They are talented, talented people.” Biden also told The Sacramento Bee on Tuesday that he would consider another former 2020 rival, California Sen. Kamala Harris, for “anything that she would be interested in,” including vice president. Harris and Biden notably sparred on the debate stage early in the primary process, when the senator was critical of Biden’s past opposition to federally mandated busing to diversify schools. This isn’t the wildest idea Biden has had about a possible VP however. Earlier in the race, the former Vice President insinuated that he hadn’t ruled out a possible Republican running mate, shocking many of his die hard liberal supporters. Trump Parrots Bernie Bros’ Conspiracy Theory About Impeachment and Rigged Primaries Is Bernie getting the shaft again? Some believe so. Supporters of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are under a very specific spell, cast by they “outcast” candidate himself. It all began back in 2016, when Bernie was cheated out of the Democratic primary nomination by Hillary Clinton in a morally-reprehensible scam that rigged the entire process. After Wikileaks was able to disclose the scheme, a great many of the Senator’s supporters simply stepped away from the Democratic Party itself, leaving Hillary Clinton to get trounced by Donald Trump in the general election. From that moment on, Bernie’s campaign team has worked hard to maintain this “damn the man” attitude, characterizing Sanders as an anti-establishment revolutionary who they don’t want to win…whoever they are. Of course, it should be noted that Sanders has been a career politician for decades, is an admitted millionaire, and owns a luxury lake house. Still, he’s the perpetual underdog, thanks to clever marketing. This characterization of Sanders has even spawned a number of conspiracy theories as to how the DNC and Democratic Party may try to cheat him again in 2020, including one that involves House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Commander in Chief explained: President Donald Trump said Friday that Democrats were purposely helping former Vice President Joe Biden in the presidential primary by delaying the Senate impeachment trial. “They are rigging the election again against Bernie Sanders, just like last time, only even more obviously,” Trump wrote on Twitter. Current Democrat Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Amy Klobuchar will be called back to Washington, DC, for the impeachment trial that is expected to begin next week. That means Democrats will be occupied in Washington for at least two weeks rather than campaigning in Iowa. But Trump focused on Sanders as the biggest political victim of the impeachment calendar. “They are bringing him out of so important Iowa in order that, as a Senator, he sit through the Impeachment Hoax Trial,” Trump wrote. The unprecedented withholding of the articles of impeached by the aforementioned Pelosi until after the holiday break has set up these circumstances, leading many on the Bernie bandwagon to put stock in the theory that this was about bolstering Joe Biden – who has no such responsibilities back in Washington, allowing him to focus solely on Iowa in the coming days. Warren and Sanders Share Testy Post-Debate Moment: ‘You Called Me A Liar’ The fiery moment could have major implications on the already tense race. Much has been said about the Democratic civil war that continues to rage, particularly in the realm of the 2020 race to the White House. The left simply hates President Trump. They loathe him. They’ve even gone so far as to rage under the “resistance” moniker, as though they are some sort of unified force against the evil that they perceive in the President. Nothing could be further from the truth, and one only needs to examine the 2020 field of candidates to realize this. The most recent flare up among these progressive combatants has come from the far left side of the spectrum, with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders now arguing with one another over something the latter may have said to the former in a private 2018 meeting. As the story goes, Bernie told Liz that “a woman can’t win” in 2020. Warren, who just this week saw Bernie eclipse her fully in Iowa’s polling, dug this gem out of her war room in order to force the issue onto the debate stage on Tuesday night. When Sanders denied the claims, Warren was forced to confront him after the structured broadcast ended in a tiff caught on a hot mic. “I think you called me a liar on national TV,” Warren told Sanders on stage after they both offered perfunctory “good job” greetings to other rivals, according to audio captured by CNN, which co-hosted the debate with the Des Moines Register. “What?” Sanders replied, according to CNN’s report. “I think you called me a liar on national TV,” she said again. “You know, let’s not do it right now. If you want to have that discussion, we’ll have that discussion,” Sanders responded, Warren replied: “Anytime.” That appeared to have irked Sanders who then said: “You called me a liar.” He added: “You told me — all right, let’s not do it now.” Progressive Democrats have lamented the burgeoning feud, believing that this internal rift accomplishes nothing, and only bolsters the outlook of moderate candidates such as Joe Biden.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41613
__label__wiki	0.64438	0.64438	BREW Week to introduce water entrepreneurs to Milwaukee New programming showcases city and startup ecosystem Posted by Molly Dill from BizTimes on March 29, 2019 Next week, about 25 entrepreneurs from as far away as Finland will descend on Milwaukee for the inaugural BREW Week, the kickoff to The Water Council’s BREW Accelerator for water startups. BREW Week was established this year to lead off the sixth cohort of the accelerator, said Steve Glynn, director of innovation at The Water Council. Glynn led the organization of 25 events around Milwaukee over five days to the startups engaged with the startup ecosystem here, he said. In addition to the six startups taking part in the new BREW Accelerator cohort, about seven other startups interested in getting involved with the Global Water Center will participate in the programming, Glynn said. Among them is Finland-based Sofi Filtration. Glynn’s wife Kristin Settle, director of communications at VISIT Milwaukee, sat down with him and helped map out the programming, which includes tours of coworking spaces Ward4, Hudson and The Hive, startup accelerator gener8tor, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Innovation Center, the A.O. Smith Corporate Technology Center, Northwestern Mutual’s Cream City Labs and Marquette University’s 707 Hub; a welcome reception with VISIT Milwaukee, a reception with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, and a lunch with BREW alumni companies. The events are closed to the public, he said, but coaches, mentors, alumni and corporate partners will take part in several sessions. “The goal of the week is to show them not only the water network that is here and support systems around water, but also why Milwaukee and Wisconsin are so welcoming to early stage companies and the other activities that are happening,” he said. “It’s really a way to showcase Milwaukee in general, to really have them experience and feel the support that is here for entrepreneurs and then, I think, finally to show them what they already know and why they’re coming in the first place from as far as Finland in the water ecosystem and network.” The hope is that some of the startups decide to locate in Milwaukee. “It’s really just trying to get these businesses as networked as possible, make it as sticky as possible so they want to do business in Wisconsin,” he said.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41614
__label__wiki	0.701862	0.701862	Home80s Trash of the Week: Ghostbusters 2 80s Trash of the Week: Ghostbusters 2 June 25, 2009 May 26, 2012 Thomas Pluck 80s Trash of the Week80s, Ghostbusters I’ve managed to avoid watching this money-grubbing exercise in sequelry for 20 years, but after the news that Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd are finally coming together to make a third entry, I decided to do it. Ghostbusters II isn’t the worst sequel of an ’80s classic (cough, Caddyshack II) but it definitely loses sight of what made the original great, and seems to have helped herald in the lame feel-good era of the early ’90s. It seems that as soon as the Prez said “a kinder, gentler nation” back in the late ’80s, movies- perhaps also influenced by the new PG-13 rating- had to have a certain … perkiness. Probably best evidenced by the works of Robert Zemeckis and Joe Dante, highly mimicked but never properly replicated, movies got a cartoonish and affected screwball quality, as if made from bad molds of Peter Bogdanovich’s What’s Up, Doc? It would culminate in 1994’s North, best eviscerated by Roger Ebert in his infamous review. Peter MacNicol is the best part of the movie; he began with next week’s ’80s pick, Dragonslayer, and went on to Sophie’s Choice and Ally McBeal. Here he plays an art historian with a hilariously contrived accent who gets possessed by an evil painting of Vigo the Carpathian, sort of a Vlad the Impaler without the vampire stuff. The Ghostbusters are split up and New York forgot all the ghosts from the first movie, and call them frauds; plus the City sued them for property damage and banned them from ghostbustin’. Ray runs an occult book shop on St. Mark’s, Venkman hosts a late night cable access paranormal show, and Egon is performing his trademark experiments that veer toward mad science. They get brought back together when Dana’s baby carriage takes a solo ride down First Avenue. She’s been divorced from Peter- divorce being the ubiquitous subject of movies of this period- and has their baby Oscar but little contact with wacky Venkman, who Murray portrays with his trademark ’80s cokehead glee. I was always more a fan of his somewhat hapless self from Stripes; seeing him as an invincible Bugs Bunny type made him less fun for me. Of course, he was perfect in the original Ghostbusters, but here with family issues he’s a bit less enjoyable. Thankfully Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts all return and are quite good. William “Dickless” Atherton is unfortunately replaced by a snarky mayor’s aide who’s not up to the task. Atherton was also the reporter in the Die Hard films; he’s a tough act to follow. It’s the plot that sinks the movie, and Murray himself said it best- too much slime and not enough “us.” He’s right. The slime river beneath the city gets too much screen time, even though the fact that it runs through the urban-legendary remains of the Pneumatic Beach Transit line from 1870 is a pretty sharp bit of screenwriting; it also vaguely mentions the Malbone Street Wreck, the worst accident in subway history, when a ghost train barrels through. But back to the story: Vigo wants to come back, and chooses Baby Oscar as his vessel. Sort of like how Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom couldn’t balance the horror of child slavery with the kid-pandering of Short Round, the Baby Oscar in Peril scenes don’t seem to fit in a sequel to a movie where the bad guy was a marshmallow man summoned forth by a naked bubbly Sheena Easton. In the end, the mood slime is lame; New York’s bad vibes come from the river of pink goo infused with Vigo’s ancient evil, not because it’s full of entitled, geo-centric materialistic egotists. Scrooged, another Bill Murray mistake, manages to somehow be less cloying. Even the ghost montage- a favorite from the first movie- is disappointing. This time the Titanic returns, forgettable except for a brief Cheech Marin cameo as a dock worker. The ghosts are more angry looking than Slimer, who makes a quick cameo as well. A fur coat comes to life; some Harryhausenesque ghouls haunt the Washington Square arch; and some executed criminals haunt a judge, but nothing as imaginative as the library ghost in the first movie, or as funny as Sigourney Weaver possessed by Zuul. She has little to do except play it straight here, and Moranis gets kissy with Annie Potts, and never recaptures the hilarity as Vinz Klortho the Keymaster of Gozer. The centerpiece of the film is how they try to top the Stay-Pufft Marshmallow Man, by soaking the Statue of Liberty in happy pink goo and playing soul so she’ll boogie down First Avenue and smash her way into the Museum of Art, where Vigo has Sigourney and the baby. It looks cool, but it seems too big. Trading in the proton packs for Happy Slime Jizzer Guns, too many nods to fans of the toys and cartoons, cutsey babies and a fifth wheel Ghostbuster are just wrong moves in a highly anticipated sequel. That’s why even though it set a 3 day weekend box office record, it was swiftly knocked out by Tim Burton’s Batman and quickly forgotten. Unless they’ve learned their lesson from this, I fear for the newly planned third entry. Remember, Vigo is partly defeated by New Yorkers singing in harmony outside, which is perhaps only out-lamed by the ending of Krull, where the villain is defeated by bolts of pure love. Take a good look at Dan Aykroyd’s writing career since Ghostbusters. Besides this sequel, he committed the following crimes that led to the atrocity known as Blues Brothers 2000: Dragnet, Nothing But Trouble, and Coneheads. He’s selling wine now, and I think he needs money. Harold Ramis has had a few stinkers, but I feel safer with him. Bill Murray has become almost as subtle as Jack Benny did in his later years, and has redeemed himself many times over for this sequel. So the new one can be hit or miss, we’ll have to see. The ’90s smarm is over; if this one is better than Die Hard & Indy 4, it’ll be something. Beers Required to Enjoy: 2 Could it be remade today? They’re trying… Quotability Rating: low Cheese Factor: New York aged cheddar High Points: Janosz, Statue of Liberty Low Point: Dancing Toasters, lame ending Gratuitous Boobies: not even ghost boobies http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=plyoto-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B0009RCPY8&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr ← Revisiting The Sting The Hangover → 3 thoughts on “80s Trash of the Week: Ghostbusters 2” J.D. says: Good call on this film. I'm not a huge fan of it for many of the reasons you stated above. It's just not all that funny and has the whiff of a paycheck film for many of the actors. It's hard, maybe even impossible to top the original which is why I don't hold out much hope for GHOSTBUSTERS 3 if it happens. We'll see. Action Flick Chick says: I feel much better about Ghostbusters 3 knowing that Ackroyd is letting someone else write the script. Jay Amabile says: Jeez, people shit on GB2 all the time and it needs to stop! lol…c'mon, it's a fun film the way GB should be. A sequel in the majority of cases can't be as good as the first. Not everything is Toy Story 2, Godfather 2, or The Dark Knight. Let's give Vigo a break, huh? RT @NextOnTCM: ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959) Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters. Dir: Robert Wise 6:45 AM ET Desperate losers… 25 minutes ago RT @LolosLetters: Lovely, ass-kicker of a book by @bcmystery. 26 minutes ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41617
__label__wiki	0.806171	0.806171	FBI issues BOLO for missing Hardin girl From the Complete coverage: The search for Selena Not Afraid series By JULIANA SUKUT Selena Shelley Faye Not Afraid The FBI issued a BOLO alert for a 16-year-old Hardin girl who has been missing for more than a week. The BOLO, which stands for "be on the lookout," was issued just after 4 p.m. on Wednesday by the FBI and asked for the public's help in finding Selena Shelley Faye Not Afraid. It's the first official alert since a Missing and Endangered Persons Advisory was issued for Selena on New Year's Day, hours after she was last seen. An amber alert has not been issued for the girl. Amber alerts, distributed to local media and as text messages to anyone in the region with a mobile phone, are used specifically for cases involving minors in which an abduction is believed to have occurred. Selena was last seen New Year's Day around 2 p.m. at the eastbound rest area at mile marker 474 off of Interstate 90 between Billings and Hardin. She reportedly walked away from the rest stop after the people who were giving her a ride to Hardin drove off and left her and another woman at the rest area. "Selena's direction of travel is unknown, but (she) may be in Big Horn, Yellowstone, Rosebud and Treasure counties," according to the FBI's alert. Selena was last seen wearing a black coat, grey sweater, blue jeans and grey ankle boots. She was not dressed for weather conditions. She's 5-foot-9-inches tall and weighs about 130 pounds. She also has a scar near her mouth and a tattoo of a cross on her middle finger. Law enforcement officers are looking for a green Subaru, possibly a Forester, with Wyoming plates that was seen at the closed rest stop Wednesday. The FBI has been involved since the start of the search, according to spokesperson Sandra Barker. But Wednesday marked the first involvement of a special "child abduction" team. Local law enforcement asked for the team's help Tuesday. The CARD team is a group of specialized investigators working from the sight of an abduction, often with behavioral analysis experts and technical specialists, according to the FBI. Speaking Wednesday Big Horn County Sheriff Lawrence Big Hair said the FBI had set up a command center at the Big Horn County Courthouse, which also houses the sheriff's office. The sheriff's office is the lead investigating agency. The joint investigation into the "suspicious" disappearance of the teen included the FBI, BIA and numerous local and state law enforcement agencies, Big Hair said. Neither Big Hair nor Undersheriff Eric Winburn would say what new resources the FBI had provided. Windburn said the FBI team would help organize and regroup the investigation but declined to comment on what the next moves in the investigation would be. "We're doing everything we can to find her," Winburn said. Searches at the rest area that began hours after she went missing have continued daily. Wednesday both volunteers and law enforcement searched areas south and southeast of the rest stop, Big Hair said. Searches have been conducted on foot, horseback and ATVs; and with helicopters, thermal drones and K-9 units. Anyone with information on Selena is asked to call the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office tip line at 406-665-9800, or the Montana Analysis and Technical Information Center at 406-444-1330, or email dojintel@mt.gov. Search for Hardin girl enters 7th day; FBI sends in special 'child abduction' team Understand it better: Our stories on the missing and murdered indigenous people crisis Selena Shelley Faye More in Complete coverage: The search for Selena Not Afraid (7 of 8) Drivers by rest area where Hardin teen disappeared asked to call tip line The FBI is sending in a special 'child abduction' team to aid in the search. Search expands for missing Hardin girl The search for a missing 16-year-old Hardin girl continued for a fourth day on Saturday, with Big Horn County officials planning to expand the search into the Arrow Creek area north of Interstate 90.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41622
__label__cc	0.560284	0.439716	Tripping Maria human stories from around the world Tag Archives: russians Fleur Sullivan Posted on September 21 by TrippingMaria Everybody around us is uncomfortable. We are sitting in a rustic family restaurant overlooking the bay in the remote New Zealand village of Moeraki, and our table is now drawing sideways glances from the rest of the patrons. The General is being loud and obnoxious. The General is always loud and obnoxious. As the number 5 government official in Russia and an old-school military brass, The General is not used to hearing any form of “no” or wasting time on pleasantries like “please” or “thank you”. Everything out of his mouth is a command, or an erratic soliloquy on why Russia is the best at everything. The General is on a business trip here in New Zealand, and I’m hired by the receiving side to help steer him towards the successful completion of the mission. It’s lunch time. Our table has already ploughed through the restaurant’s supply of smoked fish, oysters, fresh crab and champagne. The General is in good spirits (i.e., loaded) so he awards the table with his prize anecdote of how in pre-school, they kicked him out for molesting his teacher, and in the third grade, they almost sent him to jail for attempting to rape another one. While I try to put a Disney spin on the X-rated original in translation, The General is cracking himself up by wildly gesturing with his hands what, where, how big and how fast. The guests at our table along with the rest of the restaurant are now staring at us in horrid disbelief. The one-man show comes to a screeching halt when The General decides it’s time for vodka. When a young waitress brings him a shot and attempts to leave, he grabs her by the wrist and pulls her in. I register the look of horror on her face and start scanning the table for sharp knives to use as jaws of life, if he doesn’t let go. Turns out, The General just wanted to inform her that one sip of vodka at a time is not something he’s used to – or going to – waste his time on. She starts explaining that the New Zealand law prohibits serving more than one shot per person at a time, while trying to wriggle herself free. All of a sudden somebody from behind our backs plops on the table a silver bucket full of ice and in it, a properly frozen bottle of Russian Standard vodka. The General lets go of the girl’s wrist and slowly turns around. This is how I meet Fleur, the owner. Fleur immediately assures The General that of course no laws apply to a man of his status. She knows Russians are very special, she says with a straight face – and she’s here to help. In front of our eyes, The General converts from a belligerent bear into a happy puppy. The rest of the lunch is a study in crisis management. Fleur does shots with the General and gifts him a jar of her homemade pate. He keeps kissing her hand and rolls his eyes to express how smitten he is with such a worldly hostess. We finally leave after the two finish off that bottle. They hug it out on the porch. For the rest of his stay in New Zealand, The General keeps talking about Fleur. I return to Fleur’s Place after he’s gone, because I can’t forget her either. The first thing out of her mouth is “Did you see that giant flock of mutton birds in the sky? There must have been a hundred!” I’m confused at her excitement. Fleur disappears in the back and returns with a faded newspaper clipping. The headline retells another instance when a giant flock of mutton birds flew by Moeraki , seen as an important omen by the locals. It happened on today’s date exactly 100 years ago. Everything else she says that day is extra memorable. How she went from being a teenage cook for the truckers to running a local pub at 22. How she didn’t want to be just a stay-at-home wife after getting married, so at 28 she bought a vintage 19-room hotel, which she expanded by adding a restaurant, a gallery, and an antique shop. How happy she was with it because it made her learn how to do interior designing, gardening, and plumbing. How her husband took out the mortgage on the place without telling her, and how she had to sell it when the marriage fell apart and move to a new town with her 3 kids and $60 to her name. How she built a new restaurant there, which in 20 years became one of the New Zealand’s most famous places because of its stunning food made from all locally grown ingredients. And how she had to sell it all because a rare cancer hit her hard and she was getting ready to die. Fleur moved to the tiny fishing village of Moeraki because it was serene and it had a bay. She loved going out to sea on the boat with the fishermen, it made her feel calm. It didn’t take long for Fleur to notice they were throwing away the carcasses after filleting the fish, and she started thinking soup. Hearty, filling, inexpensive, easy to make soup. Honest food she could sell from a one-stove shack to fishermen and passing drivers. Something to do while she healed. The soup caravan blew up immediately after it went live. And then Fleur noticed the abandoned whaling station sitting in the bay that could easily house a kitchen and a few tables overlooking the bay. Against her own judgment and despite her children pleading with her to focus on getting better, she turned the abandoned station into Fleur’s Place. The local council was vehemently opposed to Fleur’s plans. No woman had ever owned a business in Moeraki, plus Fleur wasn’t even a local. The day Fleur’s Place was scheduled to open, her fisherman came in and said “You have to go outside now”. In the bay looking at the restaurant sat a huge single whale. They hadn’t seen any in Moeraki in years: the locals believed the whales were avoiding it because it used to house a station where slaughtered whales were carved for meat. Except the station was now Fleur’s Place. Fleur went back inside, told the kitchen staff to stop chopping and prepping, turn off the stoves and join her on the bluff. They watched as the whale cruised up and down the bay three times before he left. She wasn’t the only one who saw the sign: a local Maori elder went to the council and told them to leave Fleur alone. Fleur’s Place is now a gastronomic treasure of New Zealand. Everything she cooks is locally grown, every supplier is family. She saves her food scraps for her egg farmer’s pigs – and he brings her parsley from his garden. Her fishermen adore her. Her venison-rabbit-pickled walnut dish is so popular, all of New Zealand now orders pickled walnuts from her guy. Fleur says she is healthy now and has no plans of slowing down. She tells me she wants to fly to Nordic countries to see how they harvest and use seaweed. When I leave, she hugs me like she means it. I don’t collect cookbooks, but years later I still keep a copy of Fleur’s. 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__label__cc	0.729651	0.270349	Tom Benjey's Weblog Carlisle Indian School, students including football players, band members, single-wing, Jim Thorpe, Pop Warner, Angel DeCora, Lone Star Dietz Rush Roberts’ Heritage It is always gratifying when descendants and relatives of Carlisle Indian School football players comment on this blog. Even more gratifying is when they provide information not known and is not easily found. Most gratifying of all is when relatives use this blog as a way to get in touch with each other. All of these things happened last week. Henry Roberts, left end on the great 1911 team, was the son of Rush Roberts, a legendary figure in Pawnee history. I blogged about Rush Roberts a couple of times in March and April 2010 after discovering things about him I didn’t previously know. Since that time, descendants of Rush have posted comments regarding family genealogy on those blogs, with last week having the greatest concentration of new information. Unfortunately, comments on older posts don’t show up on the first page of the blog. Readers must search to find them. The easiest way is to search for Rush Roberts and open the comments on the posts relating to him. You should find these to be interesting reading. Tags:Fancy Eagle, Pawnee, Roaming Princess, Rush Roberts, Sitting Eagle Posted in Carlisle Indian School, Henry Roberts \| Leave a Comment » Reprints of Early Spalding’s Football Guides Now Available A. G. Spalding’s football guides from the early days of college football are excellent sources of information for football historians and researchers. Unfortunately, these books are now quite old and fragile, a factor that severely limits their use as research tools. To make matters worse, they have become rare enough that, when copies appear for sale, they are quite expensive. Seeing the need for inexpensive copies of these highly useful books, Tuxedo Press is reprinting them in paperback form as they previously did for what they call Pop Warner’s Single-Wing Trilogy. Coaches, researchers and historians have found the Warner books so useful that Tuxedo Press is doing the same thing for Spalding’s Official Football Guides for the years 1883 to 1919 as copies of these books become available to them to reprint in paperback form. Because the years from 1883 to 1893 were very small, they are bound as a single volume. Beginning with 1899, the next year Tuxedo press has found so far, each year is printed separately because those volumes are much larger. Besides the rule changes for the upcoming season, an annual volume includes Walter Camp’s three All-America team selections for the previous season, other critics picks for their All-America teams, assessments of the various teams’ successes for the previous season and outlook for the upcoming season. These books are filled with illustrated ads for Spalding equipment. The equipment illustrations could be very useful in researching the evolution of helmets and such. More information can be found at http://www.tuxedo-press.com/index_files/Reprints.htm. The reprints of the Spalding’s Guides are also available through on-line resellers and can be ordered by your local bookstore. Tags:A. G. Spalding, All-America team, Caspar Whitney, Spalding's Football Guide, Walter Camp Posted in Football \| Leave a Comment » President Visits Places with Names Important to Carlisle Yesterday, a little news snippet caught my ear: President Obama visited Decorah, Iowa where he stayed at the Hotel Winneshiek. While there is nothing about that that is earth shaking or will be of great historic significance, it was of interest to me. It wasn’t what the president was doing that got my attention; it was the names of the places he was that resonated with me. Decorah (often spelled De Cora or Decora) is not just a geographical name but is also the name of an important Nebraska Winnebago family, many of whom were hereditary chiefs. The granddaughter of one of these chiefs, Little De Cora, was Angel DeCora who, after being educated at Smith College, rose to prominence in the late 19th century as the leading female Indian artist of her day and was well known in the leading eastern art circles. In 1906, she accepted the position as director of the Native Art Department at Carlisle Indian School. In late 1907, she married William Henry Lone Star Dietz who, at 25 was her student, but was still 13 years her junior. The two generated much positive press nationally for Carlisle. Winneshiek is the name of an important Wisconsin Winnebago, or Ho Chunk, family which has provided the tribe with many chiefs. The son of one of them was William Winneshiek who was noted more for his musical ability than his athletic prowess at Carlisle and went on to a career in music, even having his own all-Indian band. He did, however, find time to play football in the early NFL for the Oorang Indians. His biography can be found in Wisconsin’s Carlisle Indian School Immortals. His brush with history finished, Obama left Hotel Winneshiek in Decorah for breakfast in Guttenberg. Tags:Decorah, Guttenberg, Obama, William Winneshiek, Winneshiek, Wisconsin's Carlisle Indian School Immortals Posted in Angel DeCora, Carlisle Indian School, Football, Lone Star Dietz \| Leave a Comment » 1905 Carlisle Indians Were Ranked #10 in Country While preparing Spalding’s Official Football Guide for 1906 for reprinting, I noticed a few things about the Carlisle Indian School football team’s 1905 season. These things caught my eye because it was this very team under Advisory Coach George Woodruff that Sally Jenkins maligned in her 1907 book. Caspar Whitney ranked the Indians as the 10th best team in the country for 1905. He also placed Frank Mt. Pleasant as a substitute at quarterback on his All America team. George Woodruff placed three Carlisle Indians to his All Eastern Eleven for 1905: Frank Mt. Pleasant at quarterback, Charles Dillon at guard, and Wahoo (Charles Guyon, older brother of Joe Guyon) at end. N. P. Stauffer placed Dillon at guard on his All Eastern Eleven as well. That an authority of the stature of Caspar Whitney considered Carlisle as the 10th best college football team in the country means something and that something is that the Indians were viewed as having had a very good season. Not their best ever, mind you, but a successful one at that. These selections, along with George Orton’s observations that were posted in the June 27, 2011 message, show that Jenkins’s assessment of the type of play and success of the 1905 Carlisle Indian football team is at odds with the opinions of the experts of the day who actually saw the teams play. 1905 Carlisle Indian School football team from Spalding’s Official Football Guide for 1906 Tags:Chauncey Archiquette, Frank Jude, George Orton, George Woodruff, Littleboy, N. P. Stauffer, Oscar Hunt, Sally Jenkins, Scott Porter, Wilson Charles Posted in Albert Exendine, Archie Libby, Arthur Sheldon, Bemus Pierce, Carlisle Indian School, Charles Guyon, Football, Frank Hudson, Frank Mt. 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__label__wiki	0.931644	0.931644	UK lawmakers pass Johnson's Brexit bill, paving way for EU exit France 24 20 December 2019 Prime Minister Boris Johnson won approval for his Brexit deal in parliament on Friday, the first step towards fulfilling his election pledge to deliver Britain’s departure from the European Union by Jan. 31 after his landslide victory. Lawmakers voted by 358 to 234 pass the second reading of the legislation, underlining Johnson’s large majority in parliament that should ensure a smooth ratification of the divorce deal to implement Britain’s biggest policy shift in more than 40 years. More than three years since Britain voted to exit the EU in a 2016 referendum, the deep uncertainty over Brexit has now been replaced by the firm deadline of the end of January. Only after that will the prime minister face talks to secure a trade deal with the bloc and another target date of the end of next year. Getting “the Brexit vote wrapped up for Christmas” was the main aim for Johnson showing that, unlike his predecessor Theresa May, he now had free reign to drive Brexit forward despite continued criticism from opposition lawmakers. “This is the time when we move on and discard the old labels of ‘leave’ and ‘remain’ ... now is the time to act together as one reinvigorated nation, one United Kingdom,” Johnson told parliament before the vote. “Now is the moment to come together and write a new and exciting chapter in our national story, to forge a new partnership with our European friends, to stand tall in the world, to begin the healing for which the whole people of this country yearn.” The final stages of ratification will take place after Christmas, with the lower house of parliament having until January 9 to approve the legislation, or Withdrawal Agreement Bill, giving it just over three weeks to then pass through the upper house and receive Royal Assent. Trade talks to come After leaving, Britain will need to secure new trading arrangements with the EU - which the prime minister said would see the country agree a trade deal with no alignment to the bloc’s rules. In a change to the bill, Johnson made it illegal to extend those talks beyond the end of next year. But while Johnson has the support of his 365 Conservative lawmakers in the 650-seat lower house, some opposition members criticised him for removing the opportunity for parliament to have oversight over his negotiating priorities in the next phase of talks, and for getting rid of workers’ protections. Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described it as “terrible” and said his party would not support the bill. “This deal does not bring certainty for communities or for business or for the workforce, in fact it does the opposite and hardwires the risk of a no-deal Brexit next year,” he said. Just a week after he won the largest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher in 1987, Johnson has set out an ambitious government programme, with securing Brexit at the top of his agenda to repay the trust of voters. Hoping to satisfy the demands of voters in northern and central England who broke their tradition of backing the Labour Party to support him, he has also pledged more funding to the state health service, education and policing. “Today we will deliver on the promise we made to the people and get the Brexit vote wrapped up for Christmas,” he said in comments before the vote. “Next year will be a great year for our country." No.10 Casts Doubt On Jeremy Corbyn's Move To Get John Bercow A Peerage UK economic growth depends on ‘orderly exit’ from EU, warns IMF Boris Johnson news – live: EU says trade talks with UK might not start until March, as PM faces criticism over spiralling HS2 costs and immigration crackdown Erdogan says Somalia has invited Turkey to explore for oil in its seas -NTV	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41642
__label__wiki	0.533924	0.533924	PCMag UK \| Advertising Content \| Paid Promotion New AMD Laptops are Versatile, Powerful, and Affordable By Currys PC WORLD 28 Aug 2019, 12:56 p.m. The new AMD laptops pack plenty of exciting features and promise breakthrough entertainment, and are available at Currys PC World. Paid Promotion AMD’s second generation of laptops, now available at Currys PC World, promises to be more versatile and offer the best in games and entertainment on the go. Featuring AMD Ryzen Mobile Processors with Radeon Vega graphics, this new range of machines could be a great option for those looking for an affordable laptop with a plethora of capabilities. This comprehensive new range of laptops offers plenty of entertainment prospects, while also being built to be versatile and accessible. As a result, they can easily deliver plenty of gaming, movies, and streaming, and thanks up to 12 hours of battery life, you can do it anywhere you want. There are also top performance stats in a number of areas, as the new range features fast, visually stunning, and ready-to-game laptops. So there are plenty of reasons to get excited. SEE ALSO: The Best VPN Deals for January 2020 Prices range anywhere from £400 up to £1200, so there are options for all budgets. If you opt for a higher-end machine there will be various benefits, such as getting Vega 10 graphics over Vega 8, while some laptops will also pack a faster and more efficient processor. It all depends on what will work best for your lifestyle. Read on and find out why this new generation of AMD laptops was built for the way you live. Impressive Speeds: For Those Who Like to Multi-Task If you’re a multitasker, and like to have a lot of tabs open in Chrome or enjoy streaming video while you browse, AMD processors are for perfect because of excellent multi-threaded performance and won’t slow down at the first hint of multi-tasking. This means you can browse, explore, and stream, and still enjoy performance that moves as fast as you can. In addition, this will benefit those looking to work on multiple demanding apps or programmes at once, whether you’re editing video, reading email, watching a film, or all of that at once. This would be no good if your laptop runs dry after a few hours of use, so thankfully these laptops have decent battery life. The AMD Ryzen Mobile Processors are very energy-efficient, meaning the battery life can push the limits of limits 12 hours on-the-go. Incredible Visuals: For Those Who Want the Best Through the AMD Ryzen Mobile 3700U Processor with Radeon Vega 10 graphics, those who like to hook up your laptop to a monitor or TV will enjoy the 4K HDR support these laptops can offer. This means you can connect your laptop to a 4K HDR monitor or TV and stream your favourite shows with crystal-clear picture quality and colour contrast so you’ll feel like you’re part of the action. When you’re out, a single charge can provide you with up to 10 hours of movie time, meaning you can lose yourself in the moment for even longer. There’s even a range of 2-in-1 laptops available, such as the Lenovo YOGA 530 or the HP ENVY x360. Both of these feature adjustable screens and touchscreen technology, so you can decide how you want to explore the web or watch your favourite show. Dynamic Gaming: For Those Who Want PC Gaming for Less If you enjoy gaming on your laptop, and even like to game on-the-go, AMD laptops could be the perfect companion. Again, the Radeon Vega graphics featuring in plenty of the laptops on offer allow you to enjoy unparalleled detail and smooth gaming on the go. Paying less £750 for your first gaming laptop is also a great way to introduce yourself into the PC gaming world, and there are plenty of affordable gaming laptops available. Affordable doesn’t mean incapable either, as most major sports games will run at 60FPS, and the AMD Ryzen 7 3700U processor offers up to 87 FPS in Rocket League and up to 57 FPS in Fortnite.* Some laptops also feature AMD Radeon FreeSync technology, which will help to reduce screen tearing and provide a stutter-free gaming experience. Breakthrough Entertainment with AMD Ryzen and Radeon Vega Considering the versatility and dynamic potential these laptops possess, it's hard to not get excited about this new generation of AMD devices. There’s an impressive amount of features on offer in this generation, and it’s clear the AMD Ryzen Mobile Processors with Vega Graphics has been designed to appeal to the masses. Featuring affordable gaming machines, 2-in-1 laptops, and lightning-quick processors, there’s truly something for everyone here. Whether you’re getting stuck into a game, managing your everyday tasks, or watching your favourite shows on-the-go, this generation of AMD devices could be exactly what you’re looking for. See AMD’s new selection of laptops at Currys PC World *Testing done by AMD performance labs on January 22 2019. Systems tested were: ASUS TUF FX705DY RX560X Ryzen 5 3550H (2.1 GHz) 16GB DDR4-2666MHz 18.41.14.02-181227a-337613C-Asus. Performance measurements were done while plugged in and battery saver disabled. Testing on the following games with the following settings: CS:GO (DX11, 1080p, Ultra preset), Rocket League (DX9, 1080p, High Quality preset), Overwatch (DX11, 1080p, High preset), League of Legends (1080p, Very High preset), Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Seige (DX11, 1080p, Very High preset), Fortnite (DX11, 1080p, Medium preset), The ASUS achieved 117, 108, 103, 86, 78, and 70 FPS respectively. PC manufacturers may vary configurations yielding different results. 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__label__wiki	0.969184	0.969184	IndyCar / Sonoma / Breaking news Dixon: "Huge" error cost me pole for Sonoma title decider IndyCar title favourite Scott Dixon says a "huge" driver error prevented him from sealing pole for the championship-deciding season finale at Sonoma. Dixon lost out to Andretti's Ryan Hunter-Reay for pole position by just one tenth of a second, meaning Dixon's lead remains at 29 points over Alexander Rossi as he missed out on an extra point for pole. "Huge driver error there. Just needed to get through a right and left [turn] and it would have been looking pretty decent," Dixon said. "We put it in a ’banker’ there early on. It looked like that was going to be good enough. "Then I was on a [1m17m] four or a five [tenths], then locked up going into [the sweeping Turn] 9, I went through the dirt. It was frustrating, I think we had the pole there, but that doesn’t really count for tomorrow." Dixon and his Ganassi team have struggled in qualifying on road courses in 2018, but the four-time champion says a set-up overhaul played a key part in his turnaround. "We're running something totally different than what we typically do," he said. "We had a real think about whether we come and start where we did last year [with the manufacturer aerokit-fitted car], where we thought we would be happy, then shift over. "We just started with it. Seemed to drive quite nice to start with. Stuck with it. Did some minor adjustments to it. "For a lot of us, it's been trying to keep up with the wind direction, track temperature. The conditions change here quickly and abruptly. "We've really sucked in road course qualifying this year. So it was nice to actually make it to the Fast Six. I think it's only my second time this year. "Street courses where we haven't typically been good, we've been good throughout the season." O'Ward impresses on IndyCar debut Dixon was also one of several drivers to praise Harding Racing's IndyCar debutant Patricio O'Ward. O'Ward showed front-running pace in IndyCar practice on Friday before the Indy Lights champion comfortably made the Fast Six in his first top-tier qualifying session. "I honestly don't know what to think about it," said O'Ward. "When I saw that I moved into the Fast Six, I thought [Josef] Newgarden, Dixon, Hunter-Reay, [Marco] Andretti, Rossi, such big names, you've been looking at them for years since I was a kid. It's just something unique. It's something that you have to start believing that you can be like them, that you can beat them, that you can give them a run for their money." Asked how he expects his race to be on Sunday, he said: "Probably overwhelming. "There's a lot of veterans, a lot of people that have been in situations where I haven't been in. I think in that I'm going to have to play a little catch-up in the course of 85 laps." Patricio O'Ward, Harding Group Chevrolet Photo by: Perry Nelson / LAT Images Sonoma IndyCar: Hunter-Reay grabs pole, O’Ward sensational fifth IndyCar prepares to bid sayonara to Sonoma Event Sonoma Drivers Scott Dixon Teams Chip Ganassi Racing	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41645
__label__wiki	0.914842	0.914842	Home/Food/Venezuela opposition leader Guaido vows to lead parliament despite having been blocked from building Venezuela opposition leader Guaido vows to lead parliament despite having been blocked from building Issued on: 07/01/2020 – 04:38 Modified: 07/01/2020 – 04:38 Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Monday branded a rival claimant to the post of speaker of the National Assembly an "accomplice of the dictatorship" of President Nicolas Maduro amid a deepening political impasse. Police prevented Guaido from entering the National Assembly he heads on Sunday and a corruption-tainted opposition lawmaker, Luis Parra, declared himself parliament speaker in his absence, setting the stage for the latest confrontation in crisis-wracked Venezuela. Guaido later held a separate parliamentary session at the offices of an opposition-leaning newspaper in which he was re-elected president of the National Assembly. It was as National Assembly president that Guaido proclaimed himself acting president of Venezuela nearly a year ago, launching a direct challenge to Maduro. Guaido said he would lead a parliamentary session in the National Assembly on Tuesday, despite having been denied access to the building on Sunday. He repudiated Parra as "an accomplice to the dictatorship." Parra, a former Guaido ally who was kicked out of his opposition party last month after being accused of graft, dismissed Sunday's events outside parliament as "a show." He said Guaido knew he "didn't have enough votes" to be re-elected and so fabricated the story of his being denied entry to the National Assembly. "He preferred to stay outside, (and) take the path of a show," said Parra, who added that Guaido would still be welcome in parliament but as just "another deputy." Video and photographic images, however, showed Guaido trying to climb over a metal railing to gain access to the National Assembly compound only to be pushed back by police with riot shields. The United States, as well as the European Union, Brazil, Colombia and the Lima Group — a dozen Latin American countries and Canada — congratulated Guaido on his re-election. "Told him estamos con usted (we are with you) and we will stand with you and the people of Venezuela until your #libertad is restored!" US Vice President Mike Pence tweeted, saying he'd spoken to Guaido on the phone. Spoke today with @jguaido and congratulated him on his re-election as Interim President of Venezuela. Told him estamos con ustedes and we will stand with you and the people of Venezuela until your #libertad is restored! — Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) January 6, 2020 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed "concern" over Parra's self-proclaimed victory, an act that the Organization of American States (OAS) denounced as "null and void and devoid of any legal value." Political confusion Sunday's events left Venezuelan politics in a state of confusion once again. A year ago, Guaido declared himself acting president after parliament branded Maduro a "usurper" over his controversial 2018 re-election in a poll widely denounced as fraudulent. That left Venezuela with two presidents. Maduro holds actual presidential power but Guaido's claim to the presidency is recognized by more than 50 countries, including the United States and many European nations. Now the country also has two claimants for the leadership of the National Assembly, the only government branch in opposition hands. Parra's support mainly comes from deputies loyaRead More – Source Dentist filmed extracting a tooth while on a hoverboard was found guilty on 46 counts Trump recounts Qassem Soleimani’s final moments Former Florida Mayor sentenced to 51 months after defrauding charity	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41647
__label__cc	0.527149	0.472851	Virginia State Senator Issues Warning Hours Before Monday’s 2A Rally: “We Are Being Set Up” January 19, 2020 Constitutional DrunkPolitics (Gateway Pundit) – Democrat Governor Blackface Northam is putting the squeeze on Virginia gun owners before Monday’s Second Amendment protest. The map of the protest grounds was released and shows only one entrance for the thousands of Virginia protesters expected at the rally. Via Erick Hayden. The group will be fenced in. And the governor is ordering the 2A protesters to leave their guns at home — in an Open Carry State! On Friday State Senator Amanda Chase issued a warning to those attending the Monday rally. “We are being set up!” Senator Chase wrote this on her Facebook page. Sadly, I am posting this, knowing that the Governor of Virginia has declared a State of Emergency in our state. I want… Posted by Senator Amanda Chase on Friday, January 17, 2020 I want you to be aware of how we are being set up. Does the Patriot Act ring a bell? Does the National Defense Authorization Act ring a bell? If people show up wearing any kind of uniform, patch or other symbol on their clothing signifying they belong to a militia and something goes wrong, you could/will be held as a domestic terrorist. If anyone steps out of line, all it takes is one person, it may even be a government plant….if that plant does anything to disrupt the rally, you could/will be arrested as a domestic terrorist. The Governor, using the media has already set the stage for this to happen. He has already laid the groundwork to make the entire movement look like insurrection. It will be used to put the rest of the nation on notice of what will happen to you, if you resist. They have used the Southern Poverty Law Center over the last 15 years to lay the groundwork. They have labeled us as potential domestic terrorist for a long time now. Anyone who has ever related to the 3%er’s, a militia, or just belonged to any Patriot group…the groundwork has been laid to brand you as a domestic terrorist. Western Journal has more on the warning: A Virginia state senator has sounded a warning bell three days before a massive rally is set to coalesce in the commonwealth’s capital. Conservative Sen. Amanda Chase of District 11 took to Facebook on Friday with a warning for every patriot who plans to attend the pro-Second Amendment rally Monday in Richmond. Her warning came the same week that Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam issued an executive order temporarily banning firearms in the Capitol Square. “Sadly, I am posting this, knowing that the Governor of Virginia has declared a State of Emergency in our state,” Chase wrote. “I want you to be aware of how we are being set up.” “Does the Patriot Act ring a bell? Does the National Defense Authorization Act ring a bell?” thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/virginia-state-senator-issues-warning-hours-before-mondays-2a-rally-we-are-being-set-up/ Visit the USSA News store! Click this link for the original source of this article. Author: JoshKulp This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://www.teaparty.org and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact the USSANews.com administrator by using the contact form located in the top-left menu. Your request will be immediately honored. Please visit https://www.teaparty.org for more terrific, conservative content. The owner of this website may be paid to recommend American Bullion. The content of this website, including the positive review of American Bullion, the negative review of its competitors, and any other information may not be independent or neutral. Swamp Creatures Unite! Comey’s Daughter Among D... Jobs Increase Under Donald Trump’s ‘Hire Americ... Crime Does Pay – FBI Hiding Dirty Cop Joe Pient... Patriots Say Democrats Are Setting A Trap For ‘... Dem Rep: ‘There Was No Joy’ at Impeachment Cere... Tagged before, hours, issues, senator, state, virginia, warning “Dangerous, Brazen And Illegal” — Breaking: Trump Defense Team Files First Response To Sham Impeachment — With Full Document WATCH: Sharma says that ‘more scrutiny’ is needed over aid spending	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41648
__label__wiki	0.874992	0.874992	No Retina XS Screen (480px) SM+ Screen SM Screen (768px) SM- Screen MD+ Screen MD Screen (992px) MD- Screen LG+ Screen LG Screen (1200px) LG- Screen XL+ Screen (1600px) Sport Programs SkillsQuest Regions & Divisions Rules & Equipment U.S. Rookie Team Athletes Thrive at Waterville Valley Rev Tour By Andrew Gauthier Slopestyle competition at the 2019 Rev Tour ELITE in Waterville Valley, N.H.. (U.S. Ski & Snowboard - Jonathan Klutsch) U.S. Ski & Snowboard Rookie Team athletes excelled at Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, for the second of three NorAm sanctioned Rev Tour ELITE events of the season. The event featured two slopestyle competitions for both snowboard and freeski, providing athletes with plenty of repetitions and opportunities to reach the podium and progress. In the first snowboarding competition, U.S. Rookie Team member Jake Canter (Silverthorne, Colo.) took the victory. After struggling at previous Rev Tour competitions, Canter was ecstatic with his performance. “It feels insane to win a Rev Tour Competition,” said Canter. “I have never made finals ever before at a Rev Tour and today I somehow ended up winning. I just want to keep having fun and hopefully go to the Olympics one day, and of course, keep riding pow! “ Addison Gardner (Riegelsville, Penn.) who took the women’s victory. Not only did she win the event, but she improved on last year’s results. “After getting a second place last year, it feels amazing to bump it up this year with the win,” said Gardner. “Not to mention, just riding with all my friends is a great feeling.” In the second snowboard competition, it was U.S. Rookie Team member Luke Winkelmann claiming the top spot on the podium. Winkelmann struggled in the first competition, so he used his second chance to find redemption. “It feels great to take the win after yesterday not going my way,” said Winkelmann. “My goals for snowboarding are to make a full part for a movie, obviously the Olympics would be a dream, and I also would love to compete in X Games.” For the women, Courtney Rummel (West Bend, Wisc.) added another win to the collection for the U.S. Rookie Snowboard Team. Rummel has her sights set on a bright future and her win at the Rev Tour is certainly a step in the right direction. “It feels amazing and it’s so nice to win first place,” said Rummel. “I want to make to make a name for myself within the sport and also go to the Olympics one day.” On the freeski side, Deven Fagan (Frisco, Colo.) took the top spot in the first of two competitions. Fagan’s comments following his victory mimicked that of the snowboarders staying on the theme of progression. “It feels awesome to win today, I am super stoked,” he said. “My ultimate goals in freeskiing are to win the X Games and the Olympics.” U.S. Rookie Team member Marin Hamill (Park City, Utah) took the win in the women’s event. Hamill struggled throughout practice but managed to put it all together when it mattered. “It feels pretty good to win today, especially because practice didn’t go all that well for me,” said Hamill. My goals are to keep having fun and get as good as I can be in the sport. In the final freeski competition of the week, Hunter Henderson (Madbury, N.H) earned the victory. “It’s amazing,” Henderson said. “Words can’t describe how happy I am. It’s a great competition and I am happy to be a part of it.” Canadian Skye Clark who took the final freeski event for the women. However, third-place finisher and U.S. Rookie Team member Rell Harwood (Park City, Utah) reached the podium with a third-place finish. “It feels really good to be on the podium today,” said Harwood. “I had a lot of fun on the snow at Waterville and plan on continuing to compete and having fun this season.” One commons theme throughout the winning Rev Tour athletes comments is the fact that everyone simply wants to continue having fun while skiing and riding for the love it. The passion amongst the Rev Tour athletes is undeniable. Competition can be stressful, but these athletes clearly have the right mindset. With the improved athlete pipeline throughout the Rev Tour Series, athletes have a chance to compete at the correct level of competition against their peers, continue to improve and climb the competition ladder in an enjoyable atmosphere. The future of snowboarding and freeskiing seems bright with all winning athletes having goals to reach the Olympics, X Games and continuing to progress. The third and final Rev Tour Elite event will be held at Mammoth Mountain, California, Mar. 12-17 with snowboard and freeski slopestyle, halfpipe and big air competitions. In addition, there are also two FIS sanctioned Rev Tour events just around the corner as well. The first at Copper Mountain Feb. 10-14 featuring both halfpipe and slopestyle competitions. The second event will be hosted in Seven Springs, Penn. for another slopestyle and halfpipe competition Feb. 25 - March 1. Men’s slopestyle #1 Women’s slopestyle #1 Check out the latest news, events, & videos from the U.S. Ski & Snowboard teams. Hunter Henderson Hunter has been nominated to the 2019-20 U.S. Freeski Slopestyle Rookie Team. Deven Fagan Deven has been nominated to the 2019-20 U.S. Freeski Rookie Slopestyle Team. Courtney Rummel USASA Series: Midwest Best Series Midwest rider Courtney Rummel brought home three podiums during the 2018 season, including a Toyota U.S. Revolution Tour win in Park City, Utah, to land her spot on the slopestyle rookie team. Dusty Henricksen USASA Series: Unbound Series Jake Canter USASA Series: Aspen Snowmass Series Luke Winkelmann USASA Series: Rocky Mountain Series Jade Thurgood USASA Series: Big Mountain West Series Marin Hamill Rell Harwood Grace Henderson USASA Series: New Hampshire Series Competition Suppliers Media Images Event Accreditation NASTAR Copyright © 2020 U.S. Ski & Snowboard. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41649
__label__wiki	0.807184	0.807184	Utah 1033 Fallen Officers Fund Family Education Trust Fund Honor Circle Donors Friends of Utah 1033 Dave Kaufman Dave Kaufman came to Utah in 2007 after a 10-year career as a marketing manager with Intel Corporation where he managed a team responsible for nearly $5 billion in annual revenue. Kaufman is also the former Head of School at The Winter Sports School in Park City, a secondary school dedicated to preparing young winter athletes for college. He served at the helm of the Winter Sports School from early 2013 through early 2017, where he managed the school’s transition from a private, tuition-based institution to a public Utah Charter School, almost tripling its enrollment and making its education model available to all Utahns. Dave is proud to call Utah home, proud to serve the 1033 Foundation, and grateful for the opportunity to give back to Utah’s law enforcement officers and their families. 2020 Utah 1033 Foundation Leadership Award Application Is Now Live! Thanks To All For an Amazing 3rd Annual Utah 1033 Ride! The Utah 1033 Foundation Announces 2019 Leadership Award Recipients 2020 Leadership Awards Application (now live!) Join Us For the 3rd Annual Utah 1033 Ride! The Utah 1033 Foundation Donates $25,000 to the Family of Master Officer Joseph Shinners Copyright © 2014–2020 The Utah 1033 Foundation. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41650
__label__wiki	0.737269	0.737269	CW shows leaving Hulu, coming to Netflix faster Cynthia Littleton, Variety June 20, 2016 June 20, 2016 Netflix and The CW are close to finalizing a megabucks new deal covering scripted series that significantly speeds up the availability of the shows to less than two weeks after each season ends on the network. The expanded pact with Netflix comes as The CW and Hulu are parting ways on the deal that made selected current episodes of CW series available for streaming on a rolling-five basis. The network first set its streaming deals with Netflix and Hulu in 2011. Those deals were crucial to shoring up the future of The CW five years ago, and now the expanded Netflix pact is a testament to the network’s improved performance. With the Hulu deal ending, in-season streaming access to CW series will flow through the advertising-supported CWTV.com website and app as well as its affiliate stations’ VOD deals with various providers. In-season access will remain limited to a rolling-five most recent episodes, in most cases. Reps for The CW, Hulu and Netflix declined comment. The CW-Netflix deal is expected to be unveiled later this week. The limited access to episodes was the big sticking point for Hulu, which is said to have pushed The CW to offer full stacking rights — access to the full season, in other words — on its Hulu service as a condition of renewing the deal. Hulu and CW parent companies CBS and Warner Bros. negotiated on and off for months, but late last week the sides formally ended the discussions. The existing deal is believed to expire in early October. Netflix, meanwhile, has stepped up the financial terms of its output deal in order to speed up the arrival of the shows on the SVOD giant. Previously, CW series came to Netflix after a months-long wait, usually timed to land a week or two before the start of a new season for continuing series. The total pricetag of the deal is tricky to estimate for Netflix because it involves so many shows and variables such as escalators that kick in depending on how long a series has been on the air and how it performs. But it is sure to rank as one of the largest output deals in the SVOD arena to date with value that could exceed $1 billion. The deal is believed to run five years, with a tail that gives Netflix access to the CW library for several years after each series ends its run on the network. The deal covers domestic rights to the shows, not the vast expanse of Netflix’s worldwide footprint. It also marks the closest window Netflix has ever secured to the in-season period for primetime entertainment series. Category: More TV NewsTagged: Hulu Ratings Netflix Ratings The CW Ratings Posted by:Cynthia Littleton, Variety https://janyobytes.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/the-20-most-popular-shows-on-hulu/ The 20 most popular shows on Hulu \| JanyoBytes […] popular CW shows like “The Flash” and “Arrow,” which earlier this year abandoned Hulu for Netflix and other distribution options. Perhaps those departures have to do with slowing growth at […] http://becomesmore.com/the-20-most-popular-shows-on-hulu/ The 20 most popular shows on Hulu \| Become more - Get more […] are hugely renouned CW shows like “The Flash” and “Arrow,” which progressing this year deserted Hulu for Netflix and other distribution options. 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Take a look at music streaming services – GamesSentry http://listauthor.com/want-to-know-where-tv-is-headed-take-a-look-at-music-streaming-services/ Want to know where TV is headed? Take a look at music streaming services \| List Author http://www.kiwieye.com/2017/01/10/want-to-know-where-tv-is-headed-take-a-look-at-music-streaming-services/ Want to know where TV is headed? Take a look at music streaming services – KiwiEye http://apgeditorial.com/want-to-know-where-tv-is-headed-take-a-look-at-music-streaming-services/ Want to know where TV is headed? Take a look at music streaming services \| APG Editorial Previous article More TV NewsNBA Finals Game 7 outrates Oscars, most-watched Finals game since 1998 Next article Daily RatingsFriday final ratings: 'NCIS: LA' rerun and 'Masters of Illusion' adjust down	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41659
__label__wiki	0.597846	0.597846	http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JayBaruchel Creator / Jay Baruchel Jonathan Adam Saunders "Jay" Baruchel (born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian comedic actor. He is so Canadian, he even has a tattoo of a maple leaf. You might recognize his face as Kirk in She's Out of My League, Jay in Knocked Up, Steven in Undeclared, Kevin in Tropic Thunder, Leon in The Trotsky, Victor in Good Neighbors, or Dave in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and his voice as Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon. In case you are interested: He is agnostic, supports the Montreal Canadiens, is 6 feet tall, and his last name is pronounced with a soft sh- sound like shell (so it's "Baru-shell," not "Baru-kel" or "Baru-chell"). Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1995, 1999-2000) as various characters The Worst Witch (1998) as Bean Pole Almost Famous (2000) as Vic Munoz Undeclared (2001-2003) as Steven Karp The Rules of Attraction (2002) as Harry Million Dollar Baby (2004) as Danger Barch NUMB3RS (2006-2007) as Oswald Kittner Knocked Up (2007) as Jay Just Buried (2007) as Oliver Whynacht Real Time (2008) as Andy Hayes Tropic Thunder (2008) as Kevin Sandusky Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) as Tal Fanboys (2009) as Windows Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) as Sailor Joey Motorola The Trotsky (2009) as Leon Bronstein She's Out of My League (2010) as Kirk How to Train Your Dragon (2010) as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (voice) The Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (2010) Gift of the Night Fury (2011) Dragons: Riders of Berk (2012-2014) How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019) The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) as Dave Good Neighbors (2010) as Victor Spiegelman The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour (2011) as Private Prosciutto / Falcon Goon (2012) as Pat Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017) Being Human (2012) as Stu Cosmopolis (2012) as Shiner This Is the End (2013) as Jay Baruchel RoboCop (2014) as Tom Pope Man Seeking Woman (2015-2017) as Josh Greenberg The Magic School Bus Rides Again (2018) as Dr. Tillage (voice) Letterkenny (2018) as Hard Right Jay Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Series (2019) as Fucknel The Moodys (2019) as Sean Moody Jr. Tropes commonly associated with Jay Baruchel. Doing It for the Art: Of a sort. He's said many times that no matter how many roles he gets in big Hollywood films, he'll always gladly return home to Canada to shoot smaller, more independent fares out of love for country. Case in point, he appeared in season 5 of Letterkenny in 2018. Improv: Judd Apatow selected Baruchel and the rest of the cast in Undeclared largely on their improvisation skills. UsefulNotes/Annie Award CanadianMedia/Canadian Actors, Comedians, and Other Artists Comic Actors Actors/A to C	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41660
__label__wiki	0.811593	0.811593	UmbraXenu β As former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca awaits sentencing, Scientology sticks by its man - 2017-04-30 As former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca awaits sentencing, Scientology sticks by its man April 30, 2017, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker More than a year ago, we wrote a story about former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who at that time was seeking a plea deal that would have sentenced him to only six months of incarceration. Baca, who had been a popular (if odd) sheriff in LA for 15 years, had retired two years earlier and was facing charges that he'd obstructed an FBI investigation into his jails, which were notorious for mistreatment of prisoners. (County jail, it might be important to remember, is different from state prison. While some inmates are serving short sentences for criminal convictions, many others are only awaiting trial.) What caught our eye, however, was that as Baca was no longer in office and was going through that criminal prosecution, he was still helping out the Church of Scientology. In the photo above, you can see Baca at an event held in 2015 by Scientology's most unhinged front group, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. CCHR attacks the psychiatric profession, and at its museum on Sunset Boulevard ("Psychiatry: An Industry of Death"), it even promotes the idea that the Holocaust was a product of psychiatrists rather than antisemitic Nazis. But here was CCHR, asking a Holocaust survivor to make a presentation, and Baca attended to show his support. {{cite news \| author = Tony Ortega \| title = As former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca awaits sentencing, Scientology sticks by its man \| url = https://tonyortega.org/2017/04/30/as-former-los-angeles-sheriff-lee-baca-awaits-sentencing-scientology-sticks-by-its-man/ \| work = Underground Bunker \| date = April 30, 2017 \| accessdate = August 21, 2017 }} Retrieved from "https://umbraxenu.no-ip.biz/mediawiki/index.php?title=As_former_Los_Angeles_Sheriff_Lee_Baca_awaits_sentencing,_Scientology_sticks_by_its_man_-_2017-04-30&oldid=112746" UmbraXenu	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41661
__label__wiki	0.853935	0.853935	Published on Monday, April 20, 2015 By: Ruth Cummins at 601-984-1104 or ricummins@umc.edu. Published in News Stories on April 20, 2015 It meant the world, Liz Wroten said, to stand close to Linda Amos last week and watch a swath of balloons float slowly toward the heavens. After all, the heart of Wroten's son Chase beats today in Amos' chest. Chase Wroten "All I could think about was him and what he did for people like Linda," said Wroten, a Terry resident whose 19-year-old son died from a stroke in April 2011 after pitching in a baseball game at Hinds Community College in Raymond. Chase's healthy heart was transplanted into Amos, whose own heart was left damaged from a heart attack several years earlier. Chase's family made the decision to donate not just his heart, but multiple organs. Their story was among many shared Friday at the inaugural Legacy Lap hosted by the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency and the University Transplant Guild. Held during National Donate Life Month, the event on the UMMC campus brought together the families of organ, eye and tissue donors along with transplant recipients and their families to celebrate those who have given the gift of life and to promote the need for donation in Mississippi. "When you see a recipient and a donor family together and you just know how happy the recipient family is, it does help in some way, and it gives you peace of mind," Wroten said. "Without donor families, I would not be able to be here," said Amos, a Rankin County resident who received her transplant at UMMC. Christy Ivy (left) and Chastity Tanner remember Tanner's son Landon, an organ donor. The balloon launch by family members of both recipients and donors was a highlight of the Legacy Lap, which was to include a walk through the University Hospital lobby to view the Wall of Heroes, which honors past organ donors. Weather concerns canceled that portion of the event. Pictures of both Walls of Heroes from the adult hospital and Batson Children's Hospital were on display for viewing. The event also highlighted the work of the UMMC Transplant program. During the last five years, there have been 181 organ donors from UMMC, resulting in more than 650 life-saving transplants. "Transplantation is often the only life-saving option for patients with end-stage organ failure," said Dr. Mark Earl, UMMC assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery. "The donors and their families are the true heroes by making an incredibly selfless decision in their most difficult hour. "Thousands of lives are saved every year by this precious gift. Without their generosity, transplantation is simply not possible." University Transplant Guild president Theresa Anderson speaks on the importance of organ donation during the Legacy Lab. The Guild is a nonprofit fundraising organization formed to assist UMMC's transplant patients. Today, MORA says, more than 1,400 Mississippians and 123,000 Americans are in need of a life-saving transplant. A new person is added to the national transplant waiting list every 10 minutes, and an average of 21 people die each day waiting for a life-saving transplant that never comes. "Registered donors and donor families keep hope alive for those in need of a life-saving organ transplant," said Kevin Stump, MORA's chief executive officer. "Their decision to give the gift of life allows Mississippians and other Americans on a transplant waiting list to believe that their life will one day be better because someone chose to give." To register as an organ, eye and tissue donor, go to www.donatelifems.org. Belinda Smith proudly displays a photo of her daughter Kira Barrett, an organ donor.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41662
__label__cc	0.688969	0.311031	Marsili seamount: tsunami threat for Southern Italy? 30 March 2010 Posted by admin in Italy, Marsili, natural hazards, submarine volcanism, volcano monitoring, volcanoes. Tags: Italy, Marsili, natural hazards, seamounts, tsunamis, volcano monitoring Mount Marsili is a 3000-metre high seamount beneath the Tyrrhenian Sea, 150 km south-west of Naples. Marsili is active and recent research has indicated signs of restlessness (see this 2006 paper in PDF), although the risks of any dangerous eruptive activity are very slight). In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the director of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Dr Enzo Boschi, has reminded everyone that Marsili is active and that there is a potential threat of an eruption/collapse generating a tsunami that would threaten Southern Italy: It could happen tomorrow. The latest research says that the volcanic edifice is not strong and its walls are fragile. Furthermore we have measured the magma chamber that has formed in recent years and it is of large dimensions. All this tells us that the volcano is active and could erupt unexpectedly. According to the article, observations indicate that hydrothermal emissions from vents around Marsili have become more intense recently, and evidence of landslides discovered by the oceanographic research vessel Urania last February ‘indicate an instability impossible to ignore’. Dr Boschi warns that a flank collapse at Marsili ‘would displace millions of cubic metres of material, which would be capable of generating a wave of great power’. Marsili is currently unmonitored, observes Dr Boschi: ‘A network of seismometers should be installed around the edifice, connected on land to a volcano monitoring centre. But this is beyond the budget’. And it seems reasonable to suggest that the budget is what this article is actually all about. Despite the new attention this story will bring to Marsili as it gets cut-and-pasted around the web, there is nothing substantially new here, as Aldo Piombino notes in a very comprehensive post published on his blog today. No new activity lies behind this report, and nor has the potential threat, such as it is, changed in any way. The novelty, he observes, is in public attention being drawn to the need to monitor Marsili, which has been invisible in every sense as far as the Italian public is concerned. Undersea volcanoes tend to be out of sight and out of mind. Writing in 2008, Aldo Piombino called Marsili ‘one of the least-known of the huge volcanic systems of Europe’, and argued that more attention must be paid to this active and potentially very destructive underwater giant: It is statistically very unlikely that in our lifetimes we will see an explosion of Marsili, and even less likely that we will see a tsunami caused by a landslide on its flanks, but it is to be hoped that it will be placed under close seismic and geochemical surveillance, as with other active Italian volcanoes. I believe that it is necessary for civil protection and for science that one of the largest volcanoes in Europe is better understood. Boris Behncke of the INGV discussed Marsili’s activity in the course of his Q&A on Dr Klemetti’s Eruptions blog last year, but also remarked that monitoring Marsili was not a priority for the INGV [UPDATE: in fact that is not what Boris meant. He meant that Marsili has not been a priority for the Italian authorities, Civil Defence, and the Italian public, rather than the INGV – see his comment at Eruptions]. Dr Boschi’s comments today would seem to indicate that that has changed. Aldo Piombino observes today that the technology is available within the INGV to monitor Marsili directly from the seabed using new broadband seismometers transmitting to land-based monitoring stations, and supports Dr Boschi’s call for full monitoring of the volcano. But that cannot happen without money, which is more likely to be forthcoming if the potential (and real but, it must be emphasized again, very remote) dangers of a tsunami-generating collapse at Marsili are stressed – hence the Corriere della Sera article. So, it seems that a push has begun within Italian volcanology to get Marsili wired up for continuous and comprehensive monitoring. Let us hope it succeeds. UPDATE 30 March 2010: Dr Erik Klemetti has more on Marsili at Eruptions, and Boris Behncke, himself of the INGV (Dr Boschi is Boris’s boss), has an illuminating comment here. Torna a far paura il vulcano sommerso nel Tirreno – Corriere della Sera, 29 March 2010 Undersea volcano threatens southern Italy: report – AFP, 29 March 2010 Il Monte Marsili, un gigantesco vulcano nascosto dalle profondità del Mar Tirreno – scienzeedintorni, 4 April 2008 Finalmente alla ribalta il più grande fra i vulcani sommersi nel Tirreno, il Monte Marsili – scienzeedintorni, 29 March 2010 1. aldo piombino - 30 March 2010 He, Ralph. the main difference between the two surveys is that in the second, wich is 2009 in time, the investigation has been more accurate because of the use of a new broadband seismometer specifically designed for operating on a sea bottom and that a large magma chamber has been detected. In 2008 I wrote that no one in Italy but geologist (or other people interested in) knew the occurrence of this giant volcano and that in the school books it never appears. However, I don’t understand wyhy only yesterday Boschi have done the warning. what is changed from november when Boris Behncke answered me that Marsili was not a priority? 2. Boris Behncke - 30 March 2010 I guess that Marsili has been as much a priority for the INGV as all potentially active volcanoes and potentially seismically active areas in Italy – that is, HIGH. Probaly I have expressed myself not clearly enough in my November 2009 comment, and should have rather said that it was not a high priority for those who give funding to the INGV, foremost the Italian Civil Defense. I am certain that already for scientific curiosity there would be colleagues at the INGV very much willing to cast more than an occasional eye on Marsili. So the thing is that apparently only alarmist tones may reach the public, and the moment is shortly after the strong mediatic impact of the Haiti and Chile earthquakes and the – small and harmless but spectacular and very present on the internet – eruption in Iceland. So this is a moment of particular public receptivity, and Boschi may have chosen this moment for such reasons, besides an increased effort in public outreach that is being launched at the INGV in these days. 3. admin - 30 March 2010 Thanks for your comments, Aldo and Boris. I had been wondering whether there was some internal Italian political context causing Boschi to make these comments at this specific time. By the way, speaking of ‘alarmist tones’, Fox News has picked up the story and is doing its usual dumb things with it: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/29/undersea-volcano-threatens-italy/ this is Italy. have you understood why we are considered the country of the toys and not a “normal” place?????? 5. Salvatore - 30 March 2010 Hi: Here’s a couple more links from the thread at Eruptions that are useful to this discussion. From Aldo, about Italy and why Boschi spoke out now: http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/03/submarine_volcano_off_italy_ma.php#comment-2390318 From Boris, a complete translation of hte orignal Italian article: http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/03/submarine_volcano_off_italy_ma.php#comment-2390327 Thanks to all who have been covering this! 6. Tay - 30 March 2010 The most important question is will adequate monitoring assist in saving lives and warning people of impending dangers of volcanic ash drift and other side effects? I always find it interesting when people think just because a volcano hasn’t erupted in years that it won’t. If it’s not a completely dead volcano wouldn’t it be best to put some time into monitoring it? It should be interesting to see what happens with this particular volcano and how the push for continuous monitoring goes. Very interesting post. 7. Passerby - 31 March 2010 In response to Boris’ mention of regional tsunami monitoring, I posted the following (and more) at Eruptions today. Tsunami warning system in the Mediterranean: March 24, 2010. Harris Corporation’s Maritime Technology and Services to Aid New Tsunami Warning System in Mediterranean Sea. http://www.harris.com/view_pressrelease.asp?act=lookup&pr_id=2931 ‘This system will consist of an array of seismometers and very sensitive pressure sensors installed on several hundred kilometers of seafloor and connected to a Harris OceanNet™ buoy moored about 80 kilometers off the southern coast of Cyprus. The buoy is one element of the Offshore Communications Backbone (OCB) project that Harris is developing with CSnet. OCB is a modular, expandable system of sea floor equipment, power, communications and services for long-term, deep-ocean observation.’ INGV may be able to influence project officials on the proposed placement of one or more sets of Mediterranean OCB sensors such that they afford the volcanologists with provisional capacity for risk assessment of the sea mount belt, until such time that funds are available for dedicated study later on. In my preceding comment, I also suggested a rationale for tagging along on a global-scale submarine volcano monitoring effort constructed for another purpose. Thanks for that, passerby. The discussion thread attached to Erik’s post on Marsili at Eruptions is worth reading in full: http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/03/submarine_volcano_off_italy_ma.php#comments Apparently Harris has installed and been operating a small pressure sensor – communications buoy system in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea since 2004, perhaps as a demonstration system, with an eye towards global contract expansion in underserved marine basins. Being curious that INGV didn’t appear to be an integral partner in the planned tsunami monitoring system development, I did some digging. Not surprisingly, the technology appears to be a spin-off of offshore exploration and drilling platform pressure sensing and communications systems. I presume there are also national security interests beyond natural disaster preparedness, functioning an invisible command layer. 10. Passerby - 31 March 2010 Initial scoping meeting, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural, 2005. Organization’s (UNESCO) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). Impetus was the Dec 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami event. ‘Participants identified key technical needs for the system and adopted an action plan for 2006-2007 focusing on enhancing capabilities for multiple risk assessment, improving warning efficiency based on seisomological, geophysical and sea-level information, and increasing mitigation through coastal planning and public awareness. ‘ News release. UN tsunami early warning systems extended to Mediterranean, Northeast Atlantic. 11-25-2005. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=16657&Cr=tsunami&Cr1 International organization name: The Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas (ICG/NEAMTWS) and website http://www.ioc-tsunami.org/content/view/35/1035/ Jump forward to then IOC Chairman’s (Stefano Tinti) meeting notes, 2006: http://www.ioc-tsunami.org/pdf/chairman_report.pdf Major geological disturbance source considered: earthquakes. Landslides considered to be generator of small, local tsunami, volcanoes not considered to be a significant wave generator, although the director notes that they have in the past. Current chairman: François Schindelé (France, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique – CEA), term 2010-2011 INGV is represented in seismic monitoring workgroup. Working Group 2 – Seismic and Geophysical Measurements – Co-chairs: Giulio Selvaggi (INGV, Italy) and Winfried Hanka (GFZ, Germany) Probably should also coordinate with Tinti, if the volcano monitoring group (UF Geodynamics) is going to get a minimum of monitoring coverage for targeted seamounts that are contiguous with large onshore volcanic centers. Working Group 4 – Public Awareness, Preparedness and Mitigation – Co-chairs: Russell Arthurton (Coastal Geoscience, UK) and Stefano Tinti (University of Bologna, Italy) Maybe INGV could contribute to the cost of a couple of sensor pods and cabling, to be integrated into the planned network. 11. sm - 31 March 2010 Looks like there is no risk of explosions but rather gravitational collapses Caratori Tontini, F., Cocchi, L., Muccini, F., Carmisciano, C., Marani, M., Bonatti, E., Ligi, M., Boschi, E. (2010), Potential-field modeling of collapse-prone submarine volcanoes in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea (Italy), Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L03305, doi:10.1029/2009GL041757 12. mas - 25 June 2010 Greetings from the south Sorry comments are closed for this entry	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41668
__label__cc	0.666386	0.333614	Google Earth VR Adds Search and Oculus Rift Support by Jonathan Nafarrete VR’s killer app just got a major update. It was six months ago when Google launched a VR version of Google Earth for the HTC Vive. And still to this day, Google Earth VR remains one of the best, if not the best, app experiences available in VR. An app with such a mass appeal like Google’s Tilt Brush, Earth VR lets you visit locations around the world in 3D. Whether you decide to fly over a city, stand on top of the highest peaks, or just go on a casual walk through Mother Nature’s finest landscapes, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Now Google Earth VR is getting a major update. Originally launched for free on the HTC Vive, Earth VR is available on the Rift with support for Oculus Touch controllers — and of course it’s still free. On top of expanding the amount of headsets that now have access to Earth VR, the long requested feature of “Search” has also been added. You can just type an address or location name and quickly visit anywhere in the world. I can’t tell you how long it took most of us to find some locations while in Earth VR as you swoop down from space, only relying on physical landmarks. If Oculus Rift plus Touch support and search wasn’t enough for you, Google has announced that they’ve also added 27 new hand-picked locations to help you discover even more of the world’s most incredible places. Some new locations include Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, Table Mountain in South Africa, Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina, Mt Lassen in California, Palermo in Italy, and more. After wondering for months if Google Earth VR would ever show up on the Oculus platform, we can now all rejoice and explore together, what may still be VR’s killer app. Let us know what your favorite places to explore are in the comments below. Google Earth Google VR HTC Vive Oculus Rift F8 2017: Facebook Launches Augmented Reality Camera Platform Ridley Scott’s RSA Films Launches VR Division Jonathan Nafarrete Jonathan Nafarrete is the co-founder of VRScout.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41670
__label__cc	0.747742	0.252258	Buckeye Basketball: Amedeo Della Valle Commits To Ohio State Cabot: Weeden Senses Browns Like Him Cavaliers Sign Guard/Forward D.J. Kennedy Published by Kirk Lammers on April 21, 2012 It was announced today that the Buckeye basketball team will get their first and possibly only recruit for the 2012 class, as Findlay Prep HS (Nev.) guard Amedeo Della Valle announced that he will be a Buckeye next season. Della Valle is a 6’5″, 185-pound guard with point guard experience at the high school level. Known as a sharpshooter, ADV also displays a strong handle and a quick first move to the basket. He is a 3-star prospect ranked as the 29th best shooting guard by Scout and 43rd by ESPN. Della Valle had offers from Texas A&M, Arizona, Michigan, and Gonzaga as well as the Buckeyes. He will be the team’s 10th scholarship player for next season, helping to alleviate the burden of losing guard Jordan Sibert and forward J.D. Weatherspoon to transfers. With any luck, the Italian-born guard who impressed at the Under-18 European Championships (15.1 ppg, 50% 3PT in 7 games) can provide some outside shooting to a team that struggled in that department last season. ClevelandBrowns.com Browns announce full 2019 schedule Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports Ticket punched: Ohio State selected as No. 11 seed in Midwest Region Baker Mayfield, Instagram Browns tied for fifth-best odds to win Super Bowl LIV in 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41673
__label__wiki	0.840753	0.840753	'What's Happening Is Sad': Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Expresses Concern Over CAA By : The Logical Indian Crew Published : 14 Jan 2020 9:54 AM GMT / Updated : 2020-01-15T16:42:53+05:30 Image Credits: Patrika <p>Image Credits: Patrika</p> News report on Satya Nadella's comments on CAA Voicing his concerns over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, Microsft CEO Satya Nadella on Monday said that what is happening in the country is "sad". With the comment, the Indian-origin American became the first CEO of an international to speak on the contentious Act. He was speaking to the editors at a Microsoft event in Manhattan. He was asked to share his opinion on the CAA which will grant citizenship to persecuted non-Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. "I think what is happening is sad... It's just bad.... I would love to see a Bangladeshi immigrant who comes to India and creates the next unicorn in India or becomes the next CEO of Infosys," Nadella was quoted as saying by Ben Smith, the Editor-in-Chief of New York-based BuzzFeed News. He also said that technology and immigration played a crucial role in his career and wished that happened to him in the US should also be implemented in India. Nadella, a native of Hyderabad in India, has been CEO of Microsoft since February 2014. His comments come as protests continue in different parts of India against the contentious CAA. Hours later Microsoft India released a statement from Satya Nadella which read: "Every country will and should define its borders, protect national security and set immigration policy accordingly. And in democracies, that is something that the people and their governments will debate and define within those bounds. "I'm shaped by my Indian heritage, growing up in a multicultural India and my immigrant experience in the United States. My hope is for an India where an immigrant can aspire to found a prosperous start-up or lead a multinational corporation benefitting Indian society and the economy at large." The Centre last week issued a gazette notification announcing that the CAA has come into effect from January 10, 2020. Also Read: Jamia VC Faces Agitating Students Over Police Brutality Tags: SatyaNadellaMicrosoftCAAIndiaProtestsBJP	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41678
__label__wiki	0.939937	0.939937	Fashion Network The Mighty Company and Ilaria Urbinati release space-themed breakup collection Luxury jacket brand The Mighty Company has partnered with celebrity stylist Ilaria Urbinati for a capsule collection with a charitable twist, promising to donate 100 percent of the profits to help end forced and child marriage in the United States. The three-piece jacket capsule, entitled The Breakup Collection, puts a humorous spin on the end of a relationship, taking classic breakup phrase "I need space" literally to create a galaxy-inspired aesthetic. The three jackets; "I Need Space," "Miss Galaxy" and "Lost" feature metallic and patent leathers in pink, silver and black, decorated with playful phrases, hand-cut stars and planets for a celestial effect. The full collection is available now on The Mighty Company's website, with each jacket retailing at $995. The theme, which was thought up by The Mighty Company's Jessie Willner and Urbinati, inspired the duo to consider those who are forced or coerced to stay in toxic relationships, and the luxury of choice. In a press release, the collaborators therefore announced their decision to donate all of The Breakup Collection's profits to Unchained At Last, an organization which works to provide aid and resources to those trapped in forced and child marriages in the United States. "We realize we are very lucky to have grown up under circumstances wherein we get to make our own choices in our lives: to go after our dreams and the careers we choose, to marry or break up with the partners we choose, to make the decisions we ourselves select," said Urbinati. "So we wanted to help support and empower girls and women who don't have that simple privilege." The collection's campaign stars actress Lili Reinhart, with photos shot by Willner in The Mighty Company's Los Angeles studio. According to Willner, "the campaign was space cowgirl themed as a tongue-in-cheek embodiment of a wild, independent woman in a galactic setting." The Mighty Company launched in April of 2016, gaining swift popularity after model Gigi Hadid was spotted in one of the brand's custom leather jackets. Ilaria Urbinati is known for being a celebrity stylist to stars like Armie Hammer, Bradley Cooper and Rami Malek.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41679
__label__cc	0.611638	0.388362	Apr 12, 2015 : Sharon Appalachian Trail Slow Days The foggy rain that we woke up to mirrored the mood of everyone in the shelter. Not only was Lucky leaving the trail, the night’s mist had crept inside and coated all of our belongings with a thin layer of moisture. Lucky left the shelter thirty minutes before Nate and I, figuring his pain would slow him down enough that we would catch him before the road crossing at which he arranged to meet his wife, less than four miles from the shelter. But we scurried down the trail and found the parking lot empty when we crossed it. We didn’t get to say goodbye. The rain continued for the entire day, dampening our spirits as we trekked across what Nate referred to as “all uphill.” We stopped at a gloomy shelter surrounded by withered trees for a lunch break. The sound of the rain on the shelter’s tin roof discouraged us from continuing down the trail but we had miles to walk and gray daylight to burn. “Oh my gosh!” I gasped less than five minutes after we stepped back into the rain. We were descending the mountain when I looked up to see a man standing next to the trail ahead of us. He smiled and introduced himself and his hiking partner who appeared behind him. They were from Pennsylvania, too, and he shared his plans of pulling off an epic trail magic day this year in our home state. We told him to plan it for when we’re up that way! The man and woman of the mist gave us an encouraging weather report- this would be the last day of rain for the week! We were very ready for some sunshine. The sun was shining as we awoke to the chirping of birds. It was bound to be a fine day of hiking as we were set to retrieve a maildrop full of goodies from home at Uncle Johnny’s in Erwin. All of our wet gear had dried out by early afternoon when we arrived at Uncle Johnny’s. We retrieved our two food boxes that Nate’s mother sent us and tore them open. Our hands went straight for the candy corn, shoving piles of it into our mouths at a time, staving off our hunger long enough for Nate to call his mother. As Nate skipped around the corner, chatting like someone who hadn’t spoken to his mother in a month, another hiker stopped by. War Cry, who completed his thru-hike about five years ago, was heading north on a section hike, making his way toward his summer job in the White Mountains. Thud. I looked up from our packages of food to War Cry’s smiling face. “You guys have to help me eat this,” he stated, nodding toward the half gallon of ice cream he had just purchased. He didn’t need to ask me twice. I ran around the corner to tell Nate of War Cry’s kindness. He was off the phone in minutes, but didn’t immediately join us for ice cream at the picnic tables. He rushed into Uncle Johnny’s then came back out with a third package! It was from Nate’s uncle’s brother, who could not have sent a more perfect surprise: mega-stuffed Oreo cookies and packages of almonds, pistachios, cashews and peanuts. We shared the cookies with War Cry while devouring his ice cream. The nuts made the ultimate on-trail snack. Full of energy from the cookies, ice cream and blue skies, we said goodbye to the folks at Uncle Johnny’s, appreciative of their offers of a discount if we stayed at his empty hostel, but knowing that we could not leave the sunshine this early in the day. The next shelter was three miles away from town, but we didn’t stop there. For the first time this trip we hiked into the night, just walking until we found a great place to camp. When the sun was sinking below the mountains in the horizon, we summitted a flat-topped mountain and saw a perfect campsite along the trail. We didn’t have any water but spied a path worn into the side of the mountain. Tossing our packs to the ground and traipsing through piles of fallen leaves, Nate and I found water coming straight out of the mountain. The sunset that night was astounding. It was as if the sky was on fire. Of course, the pictures do not do it justice. Because we hiked until dusk the day before, we got a late start. It wasn’t long before War Cry snuck up behind us, unintentionally scaring the bejeebers out of me. After about a mile the three of us came upon a road crossing with a little bit of trail magic! B.T., or Brother Tom, from Erwin had lawn chairs and a sun umbrella set out behind his pickup truck, which was loaded with homemade baked goods, fruit, coffee and sweet tea. He has been blessing hikers with trail magic for years and his treats hit the spot. We sat and chatted with him, while taking in at least two sweets and a banana each, for over an hour. Then we figured we needed to make some progress down the trail. Nate and I attempted to stay with War Cry up the next mountain but his experienced, trail-runner legs were too much for us–especially when Nate started experiencing the return of his calf cramps. He hobbled along the trail for nearly nine miles before I convinced him to stop. We had already traversed Unaka Mountain, a never-ending, dense spruce forest, and on the way down, Nate’s pace was slower than a snail. At the bottom of the mountain we found a flat spot to pitch our tent with a spring nearby. Not knowing what to do with ourselves, as we stopped hours earlier than we had since our first week on the trail, we gathered enough water to fill our orange-juice-bottle-washbin and added Bonner’s soap. Then we dipped in every sweaty article of clothing we had, rung it out, and repeated about seven times. Nate used our bear bag string to hang a clothesline and we crawled into our fleece sleeping layers and curled up in our sleeping bags. “I can’t feel it yet!” Nate announced as the sun started peaking over the mountain. We were just hitting the trail, but we were both optimistic that our truncated day had helped Nate’s calf heal. Our hopes were shattered not even two miles later as Nate began limping. Having realized that giving his calf a deep massage allowed him to walk pain-free for five minutes, Nate reluctantly took countless breaks. At our lunch stop he was disappointed that he was slowing us down. We wanted to be in Damascus in six days and we had over 100 miles to go. I was just worried about Nate’s leg. In the mid-afternoon we took a break at a shelter to refill our water bladders. Nate rested and massaged his leg while I trotted down the hill to the water source. It was much farther than we thought and I was panting from the steep climb when I returned to Nate in the shelter. As we were finishing our rest, a former thru-hiker and his wife appeared on the path to the shelter. They were out for a day hike and kindly gave us their extra granola bars and chocolates. It was enough to get us over the next mountain, to a campsite where we pitched our tent for the night, hoping a second short day would allow Nate’s calf to feel better. Nate did feel better, until about seven miles into the day. We were thankful that he was able to walk so far without needing to limp, but after hearing the weather forecast for the coming days, we desperately wanted to walk over Roan Mountain, three balds and Hump Mountain, for what would be our biggest mileage day yet. And we did it. The path up to each bald had been transformed into mud so thick that our boots became lodged in a sticky abyss if we lolly gagged too long. It made Nate’s leg even worse. Not only did his calf seize with every step, he had to use his locked-up muscle to balance himself on the slippery trail. The mud got even worse after the balds, and we were both searching for a shelter with anticipation as we slid down the mountainside. “Well, what do you want to do?” I left the decision up to Nate. We had eight miles to hike and four hours of daylight left. We knew we would be able to make it on any other day, but it was this day that we had to do the miles. Knowing that there was one more shelter and a few more campsites within the eight miles, Nate nodded his head. We were going to do it. Just as we were about to leave the shelter, a southbound thru-hiker showed up. He was the first of his kind that we had crossed paths with! Our excitement was replaced with a concern for our well being when the hiker started screaming while describing autumn leaves to us. Veins were popping out of his neck and forehead. As nonchalantly as we could, we excused ourselves and scurried north. Nate got behind me and looked over his shoulder every few seconds, nervous that he would see a wild man, flailing his arms, as he chased us toward Maine. The wind picked up as we ascended Hump Mountain. Seven deer pranced across the trail in front of us and we were happy. Despite the false summits, we didn’t mind the trek to the top and even took the time to look back to over the three balds and Roan Mountain, visualizing how far we had come that day. When we reached the tree line past Hump Mountain I peeked back over my shoulder and was astounded by the view. “Look over your left shoulder,” I demanded of Nate. His reaction was much different than mine. “There’s someone hiking behind us and they’re moving fast!” Unsure if we should wait for the unidentified hiker or try to sprint away, Nate and I hesitated at a fence stile at the edge of the woods. If he caught us, we could be reassured that it wasn’t a turned-around, unstable southbounder, or we could simply allow the wackadoo to meet us. If we shot ahead we may never know the hiker’s identity. We shot ahead. Just before we reached our designated campsite for the night, the mystery hiker got within speaking distance. Once we discovered it wasn’t anyone we had previously met, we slowed down to allow him to pass. We exchanged a few words with him, learning that his trail name is Montana and that he considers himself a “princess,” because he doesn’t like to stay out in storms. He was adding almost four miles onto a thirty mile day in order to stay indoors through the impending rain. Montana also described himself as an “ultra lazy hiker” rather than an “ultra light hiker.” It’s not that he’s concerned about the ounces, he simply doesn’t want to deal with the extra equipment. Nate and I bid adieu to Montana and spent several minutes choosing the perfect spot to place our tent. When we finally had everything set up we climbed into our sleeping bags in anticipation of supper and sleep. But our supper was cold. Our fuel canister fizzled out just as Nate was getting ready to boil water for potatoes and ramen noodles. We’d have to make an unplanned trip off-trail the next day for a refill. Despite the cold food, we were happy. The wind started howling, the rain started falling, we were the only tent in a bundle of campsites, but we had done nearly nineteen miles on Nate’s crampy leg! He had learned how to walk with minimal pain, making our remaining 80 miles to Damascus totally doable over the next five days. Or so we thought. Apr 12th : Sharon Sharon's Bio On a hiatus from medical school, Sharon is thru-hiking the AT with her boyfriend Nate. Having conquered thirteen of the forty-six high peaks of the Adirondacks, a 115-mile week-long on the North Country Trail and a month of hauling their packs around their tiny hometown, they think they’re ready to make it To Katahdin. Orange Crush : Apr 21st Hey there. How’s the trail treatin ya? Hope your shin is feeling better. Leave a Reply to Orange Crush Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41689
__label__cc	0.682678	0.317322	Posts tagged ‘Mr Right for the moment’ First Monday Mentoring July 2018 – What’s changed in romance writing? In life nothing stands still, not even in a genre as well established as romance writing. The changes may happen slowly but they do happen. Many years ago at an Aussie sci-fi convention I met Kouichi from Japan, the fan guest of honour. I gave him a small gift in welcome and he gave me one in return. I soon learned that gifts are taken seriously in Japan and we’d be giving them for the next three decades. He became my pen frendo and we exchanged many sci-fi and Star Trek books in our own languages, until I had a collection of books I could admire without understanding a word. Authors are highly respected in Japan as I found when I sent Kouichi some signed copies of my Japanese translations and Manga, the graphic novels which have a huge following there. My status as a mangaka was a pleasant surprise. One of my Japanese translations After a time I felt free to ask Kouichi what Japanese women enjoyed in contemporary romance novels. The appeal turned out to be the same as for readers around the world. They were uplifting stories that ended happily, in contrast to much Japanese fiction which ends tragically, the reason Japanese readers call we romance writers “happy ending ladies.” These elements haven’t changed, but other aspects have. Love scenes that once ended at the bedroom door have morphed into the sex scenes of Fifty Shades. Many readers still like sweet romances but options vary widely now. Length is another big change. My first category romance novels ran to 60,000 words. Even my romantic suspense novels which once were 80,000 words or more now stop around 60,000. Novellas were mostly only found in anthologies. The advent of ebooks and limited reading time has brought shorter novels and novellas into their own. Graphic novels have taken off in English, too. Recently US book chain Barnes & Noble announced plans to create a dedicated division of graphic novels for children and pre teens. Content has changed, for the better IMO. Category romance once paired innocent younger women with worldly wise men, the latter often arrogant and forceful. The two worked love’s magic on each other but took time, with much of the power on the man’s side. From the start I’ve preferred more equal pairings with all lovemaking clearly consensual on both sides. I also routinely make secondary characters female, especially doctors, lawyers and the like, so the authority world wasn’t seen as exclusively male. The so-called doctor-nurse romances have become medical romances where either or both characters can be doctors and again, the match is more even-handed. There’s less of the travelogue in modern romances. Pre Google, readers enjoyed vicarious visits to exotic locales and different cultures. Today most of us have either visited or can visualise a stately home in Britain, a castle in Spain or a Sheikh’s kingdom. The focus is more on the relationship with a few background details adding spice. Structure has changed in other ways beyond length. With many books being read on phones or other devices, paragraphs and chapters are generally shorter to avoid confronting readers with a solid screen of text. Writers do well to dive into the story at a point of change for the characters, avoiding rambling descriptions or people chatting to their dog or cat. I remember being told I shouldn’t start a book with a line of dialogue. Lucky for me, I’ve never believed in “rules” for writing – only what works for the writer. I still start with dialogue provided it works for the story. Dual or multiple viewpoint has also become a thing. Once the whole book would be told from the heroine’s viewpoint, with the hero’s thoughts only shared through guesswork which was often wrong. This kept story tension high but frustrated me – and many readers. When I ventured into dual viewpoint storytelling, sales spoke for themselves. Likewise, publishers avoided cross-genre stories such as fantasy and romance, sci-fi and suspense with a romantic edge. Today with so many indie writers publishing their own work, almost any mix is possible provided you do it well enough. What hasn’t changed is the need for emotion-charged, unpredictable stories where both characters have to work for their happy-ever-after, or as it’s become, happy-for-now, with Mr or Mrs Right becoming Right-for-the-moment. We still want them to find their perfect match, as we hope to find our own, the popularity of shows like The Bachelor and Bachelorette proving the point. Do you still enjoy happy-ever-after stories as a writer, reader or both? Share your thoughts in the comment box below. The blog is moderated to avoid spam but your post can appear right away if you click on “sign me up” at right. 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__label__wiki	0.635136	0.635136	Tag: Adam Yates VCSE’s Tour de France 2016 Review This is my first post since Roubaix way back in the spring. Since then I have changed jobs and i’m back working full time for the first time since I started the blog in 2013. Back then I spent the entire season watching any cycling I could ‘live’. I posted after every stage of the 2013 Giro whereas this year I didn’t do a single post about it. There have been a number of reasons for this; mostly a lack of time. I do think that you miss something following a race after the event. While many stages ‘caught’ live can be a complete bore there’s often a little thing that not everyone notices that underscores how the stage and / or race is won. There have been some changes to the schedule this year, both in terms of the calendar and the TV coverage that haven’t always been for the better. The Tour or Turkey was pretty much highlights only this year and that was a race that I enjoyed watching live. Then there’s the Tour of Poland that someone has decided would gain so much more from being scheduled to take place during the Tour de France! Watching this years Tour I often found myself thinking that I ought to write about some of the things taking place. Cav’s yellow, GC teams invading the sprints, Froome’s panache, Sky NOT getting trolled for doping to mention just a few. I’ll get around to proof reading this review of the 2016 Tour but in the meantime… Signing off his review of the 2016 Tour de France and Chris Froome’s historic 3rd victory in the race David Millar said we should “..enjoy” Sky’s continuing dominance of the biggest race in cycling while it lasts. This sentiment seems to be widely held by most of the people on my social media timelines, but for this armchair pundit at least I think endure is more appropriate. Tour de France 2016 winner – Chris Froome (yeah, I used this pic last year too Don’t get me wrong; Sky have achieved a fourth maillot jaune in five years and that in itself is a fantastic achievement. But even if the Sky MO has evolved from the one dimensional approach employed to provide Bradley Wiggins his sole grand tour victory my heart sank when Froome assumed the race lead on stage on stage 8. Of course, only the most suspicious conspiracy theorist could suggest that Sky could have known in advance that Froome’s attack over the final climb on the stage would have resulted in him heading the GC for the remainder of the race. Sky employed the same strategy during the Grand Depart and the early stages that had worked for them so well a year ago. A team made up of entirely of domestiques (no sprinting distractions here!) ensured that Froome was kept at the business end of the race even on sprint stages. A crash within the bunch on stage 1 led to some noises off from sprint patron (and ex Sky rider) Bernie Eisel among others criticising the GC teams for getting mixed up with the lead out trains long after the 3km cut off had been negotiated. I wonder if Mark Cavendish would have been quite so diplomatic about this particular strategy that Sky have led if he hadn’t been enjoying a renaissance and his first ever yellow jersey. Froome was pretty much the highest place GC contender on anything that didn’t end up in a gallop before the stage into Luchon and his audacious wrong footing of his rivals over the Col de Peyresourde. Froome had departed the race when the Tour last visited the town in the Pyrenees in 2014. Chief rival that year Alberto Contador had crashed out too allowing his remaining Tinkoff teammates the opportunity to go for stage wins. Mick Rogers, in the break that day, waited until he was on the descent into town before attacking and then time trialling away for the stage win. Sky’s tactic was for Froome to attack the KOM on the penultimate climb. As the TV commentary speculated about Froome’s desire to take the polka dot jersey in addition to yellow he struck out before reaching the top of the Peyresourde and gained vital yards as Nairo Quintana fumbled with his bidon and looked around in vain for Alejandro Valverde. If Sky can be accused of riding conservatively in defence of the GC the same can be levelled at the teams of the rival GC teams when it came to attacking. The relative form of the other pre-race favourites when the came under the spotlight can be debated further but the point at which Chris Froome won his third Tour came in those first few hundred metres of the descent into Luchon. There are many ironies in Froomes victory, not least of which is that he has shown spontaneity while his team have been anything but. It shouldn’t be discounted that there wasn’t a single stage where Froome had to go head to head with his rivals without riders like Wout Poels and Sergio Henao first administering a metaphorical beating to other teams domestiques. Despite this I don’t believe that Sky’s strength in depth was the deciding factor. One of the ex pros (I can’t remember who) invited onto ITV’s coverage of the final stage commented that we might have seen a different race if Alberto Contador hadn’t abandoned after struggling through the first week after a crash on stage 1. Maybe, maybe not. Contador’s luck was particularly bad, at least Richie Porte made the finish (and 5th overall) but he was rueing the loss of time due to a puncture in the final km’s on stage 2. Quintana, fell a long way short of pre-race expectations; a ‘virus’ was conjured up at one point to try to explain his inability to challenge Froome. Movistar’s much vaunted double team of Quintana and Valverde had no answer for Froome and Sky this time and other hopefuls were even further off the pace. There had been speculation before the race that Astana could see a 21st century version of the rivalry between Bernard Hinault and Greg Lemond in the 1986 Tour with Vincenzo Nibali in the Badger role to Fabio Aru’s Lemond. I could use a couple of hundred words explaining how that worked out but rather than waste your time I’ll summarise; it didn’t happen. Nibali looked as if he would rather be anywhere else than the Tour and Aru was no more than a bit part player. Yet another team supposedly offering a spicy inter team rivalry ahead of the race was BMC. Richie Porte was riding in support of Tejay Van Gardaren or joint leader depending on who you listened to or if it was a Friday or something. Porte was resigned to working for Tejay even though he was the much stronger rider until his ‘leader’ fell off the radar by which time the most the Porte could hope for was a podium place. If BMC have learnt anything from this years Tour it should be that Tejay Van Gardaren will never be a grand tour winner. Stage 2 puncture notwithstanding it would have been interesting to see if Porte could have challenged Froome if Tejay had been riding for him. One for 2017 perhaps. Quintana ultimately did enough to get onto the podium, knocking Orica’s Adam Yates off the third step. Yates is not altogether a surprise package but his achievement suggests that there is a potential heir to Chris Froome outside of the Sky machine. Yate’s demotion may have robbed him of a podium place but he was still the winner of the young rider classification and can take some comfort that his time loss was a result of a mechanical rather than a loss of form in the final week. If not many would have predicted two ‘home’ riders in the top 5 on GC, few people would have said that AG2R would have two riders on the Tour de France podium in three years. Romain Bardet delivered a French stage win and rode into second place on stage 19. Dave Brailsford has talked about the possibility of Sky delivering a French rider to victory in the Tour but as long as Froome is motivated to race the Tour Sky won’t be hiring a French GC rider and it’s hard to see a homegrown rider doing any better than what Bardet has achieved this year. ASO recognise that the potential for a Sky dynasty along the lines of (whisper it) US Postal could prove detrimental for the Tour ‘brand’. The idea of 8 man teams was mooted today as a possible handicap to the Sky train (the team have finished this years race with the nine riders who started in Normandy three weeks ago). Others have talked about salary caps and a ‘draft’ for up and coming riding talent but it’s hard to see how such tinkering will upset the Sky juggernaut, at least where the Tour is concerned. There’s another irony that this is the first year where Sky’s dominance of the GC at the Tour hasn’t been accompanied with accusations about doping. This, of itself, is a good thing although I am a little surprised given that Sky have made their opponents look so ordinary. The insights of the peloton have been notable in this respect; Mark Renshaw guesting on ITV today saying he studies Sky’s methods with great interest. Obviously, no one within the sport is going to speculate openly but the fans have shown much more respect to Froome’s result this year. So the 2016 Tour wasn’t a classic as far as I am concerned; a British win isn’t enough of a justification. I have got this far without mentioning what for many was their defining moment of this years race. The incident involving Froome, Porte and Trek’s Bauke Mollema on the Ventoux stage could have played out very differently but actually mattered little to the overall outcome. I’m on board with Froome getting his finish time adjusted (and Richie too, although that was far less significant) as a result of his bike getting smashed by an oncoming moto. I thought that Mollema asked the key question however when he asked if he would have been given the same time as Froome if he had been the only one of the three impeded. When Dave Brailsford suggested that Sky waited patiently for a decision from the race jury I imagine the reverse was true. I can’t help thinking that it would have made for a more interesting race if the original post stage GC positions had been allowed to stand. The likelihood is that Froome would have re-taken yellow on the following day’s TT anyway but it would have shaken things up a bit, something the race needed in my view. So much for the GC. Peter Sagan continues to entertain in the rainbow stripes and collected another points classification win. He vies with Froome as the rider you have to watch. If only some of the Sagz charisma could rub off onto Froome too. The KOM was dull viewing; it’s a classement that I normally enjoy following but Rafal Majka was more enigmatic as 2016 KOM than the entertaining rider who took the same jersey in 2014. The sprints certainly didn’t turn out as expected. The key Mark Cavendish stat is that he wins far more Tour stages when he is in the same team as Bernie Eisel. It was the perfect start to the race that he finally got his maillot jaune after several attempts by the organisers to engineer the perfect opportunity. I think i’m right the expectations of a Cav resurgence were actually not that high and it’s been compelling to see the influence this has had on Marcel Kittel even after Cavendish had abandoned the race. It remains to be seen if he can cap everything with a gold medal in Rio in the next few weeks but Cavendish can be satisfied with his work so far in July, if not this year. Cavendish has been reunited with Eisel and Renshaw at Dimension Data (nee MTN Qhubeka). He wasn’t the only one from the team to have an impact on this years race as Steve Cummings delivered another win to add to his victory in last year’s Tour. Cummings has developed a reputation as the breakaway rider of the peloton and this win added to the others gained in each of the stage races he’s entered this year. Continue reading VCSE’s Tour de France 2016 Review Posted on July 24, 2016 July 25, 2016 Categories Road RacingTags 2016 Tour de France, Adam Yates, AG2R, Alberto Contador, Alejandro Valverde, ASO, Astana, Bauke Mollema, Bernie Eisel, BMC, Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Dave Brailsford, David Millar, Dimension Data, Fabio Aru, Marcel Kittel, Mark Cavendish, Mark Renshaw, Movistar, Nairo Quintana, Orica Bike Exchange, Peter Sagan, Rafal Majka, Richie Porte, Romain Bardet, Sergio Henao, Steve Cummings, Team Sky, Tejay Van Gardaren, Tinkoff, Trek Segafredo, US Postal, Vincenzo Nibali, Wouter Poels2 Comments on VCSE’s Tour de France 2016 Review The little guy and the Dutch ‘Big Mig’ Vuelta a Espana 2015 week 1 review Who knows who it was who coined the phrase; “The Tour is the Tour”. This is the catch all that is used to explain the goings on that characterise the world’s greatest stage race from the guy who dances around the finishing kilometre dressed as a giant ham sandwich; the drunken Dutch that spend a week on Alpe d’Huez; the fact that this is the only professional bike race that transcends professional bike racing. Esteban Chavez But isn’t the Vuelta also The Vuelta? Doesn’t it have its own idiosyncrasies; those things that make it unique? Those features that are just so, well; Vueltaesque. Previewing a grand tour, I’m always looking for half a dozen or so stages that I think will be interesting for the armchair fan. These aren’t always the stages that should be pivotal on paper, although inevitably they’re likely to be included. But the Vuelta can serve up something that inevitably makes me think “Why didn’t I pick this one?” as what appeared to be an innocuous climb turns out to be a sting in the tail. Take stage 6 from last year with the freshly laid strip of tarmac that led straight upwards to La Zubia. The Cumbres Verdes climb might only have been 4.6km but its 13% ramps delivered some of the most exciting racing of the opening week. I didn’t expect much from Sunday’s stage that climbed Alto de Puig Lloren twice but it was one of the most exciting days racing I have seen this year on a climb that was a little over 4km in length (albeit with 19% sections!) Of course the route just provides the stage (in the theatrical sense) and the riders are the players in the same context. Chris Horner could hardly have been described as an emerging talent in 2013 but whatever you choose to think about the merits of his unheralded victory two years ago it was so surprising it made for compelling viewing and the only grand tour that was genuinely decided on the final stage in 2013. The dramatis personae listed ahead of this years race, the Froome’s, Quitana’s and Valverde’s have only had cameos to play so far. The stars of the show in the first week have been comparative understudies; Esteban Chavez the almost childlike Orica Green Edge climber and Giant Alpecin’s Tom Dumoulin. There was a fair amount of chatter about Orica beginning to move their sights towards the grand tours although much of this had focused on the Yates twins. The announcement that the team had signed Amets Turruka from Caja Rural as a climbing domestique ahead of the Vuelta backed this narrative but it’s hard to believe that the team expected Chavez to have a week like this one. Not one but two stage wins and the leaders jersey for six out of ten days of racing must have been beyond the teams wildest dreams surely. They didn’t just have Chavez to celebrate either with Caleb Ewan taking his maiden grand tour stage win. Chavez played pass the parcel on GC with Tom Dumoulin who had already come to the fore this year as a rival to Tony Martin but certainly not as a grand tour overall contender. Chavez has been a joy to watch on and off the bike and you have to go with the instinct that says he was praising his rival when he described Dumoulin’s reclaiming of the race lead as “unbelievable” almost every other word. Dumoulin’s explanation is that he feels good and that he has lost some weight ahead of the race but more cynical eyebrows might be raised if he is still in pole position after four cat 1 and one HC climb on Wednesday. The home fans (and the wider audience) find Chavez easy to fall for. He has been charmingly humble about his prospects and it is hard to see how he could prevail against Sky and Movistar at the very least over two more weeks of racing and arguably the toughest week to come this week. The locals ought to be able to take Dumoulin to their hearts as well; a time trailing grand tour winner? I’m pretty certain Spain has had one of those in the not too distant past! So what of the pre-race favourites. So far not much. They have seemed content to only briefly test their firepower; a stage win for Valverde and Froome going close on Sunday only to be overhauled by Dumoulin at the death. Vincenzo Nibali has capped his miserable season by getting himself disqualified for riding on a team car on stage 2. What Nibali did may or may not be the worst excess of cheating, even in this race, but he was caught (on camera) and was gone without much in the way of genuine protest. He was remarkably prescient on the inconsistency of fines for transgressions within the race when Nacer Bouhanni escaped a similar sanction for an even more blatant car surf the following day by which time Nibali was already licking his wounds at home. Bouhanni has gone now too. The race has been attritional for sprinters in particular whether that be through injury or simply practical longevity concerns. Ewen has withdrawn in much the same way as the Yates boys were protected at the Tour last year. In what was already a shallow field John Degenkolb might have been expected to fill his boots in much the same way as he has in previous years but he has been relatively quiet so far. The first week of the 2015 Vuelta has delivered. The organisers might have preferred a Quintana or Valverde in the leaders jersey but in all other respects this years race has provided something for everyone from surprisingly challenging climbs to exciting emerging talents on GC. Tomorrow ought to be fireworks from start to finish as it’s difficult to imagine one team being able to control the race over that many climbs. After such an entertaining first half of the race it’s to be hoped that the rider who emerges from stage 11 at the head of the GC doesn’t grip the race lead too tightly. But the Vuelta is the Vuelta and no doubt there will be more surprises to come in the next ten days. Posted on September 1, 2015 Categories Road RacingTags Adam Yates, Alejandro Valverde, Amets Turruka, Caja Rural, Caleb Ewan, Chris Froome, Chris Horner, Esteban Chavez, Giant Alpecin, John Degenkolb, Movistar, Nacer Bouhanni, Nairo Quintana, Orica Green Edge, Simon Yates, Team Sky, Tom Dumoulin, Tony Martin, Vincenzo Nibali, Vuelta a Espana 2013, Vuelta a Espana 2014, Vuelta a Espana 2015Leave a comment on The little guy and the Dutch ‘Big Mig’ Unhealthy connections Tour de France 2015 – First Rest Day I had planned to write a short(ish) post ahead of the second full week of this year’s Tour on the speculation (confirmed by the rider himself yesterday) that Richie Porte would leave Team Sky at the end of the season. Ivan Basso opening the Tinkoff press conference with the news that he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer pushed possible Porte moves off the metaphorical VCSE ‘front page’. Ivan Basso Getting the Basso announcement more or less hot off the press on my timeline I was disconcerted by my own (initial) reluctance to ‘say’ something on my own feeds. My immediate reaction, born out of my closest family having suffered was empathetic. No one deserves to suffer with this disease. Then I started to wonder. Basso is a rider with a ‘past’, part of the generation of pro cyclists that ‘competed’ when the doping arms race was at it’s height. How long would it be before people started to join the dots between today’s news; Basso; cancer and Lance. Having seen the very dignified way that he handled the press conference I’m glad that I didn’t think for too long about putting out my own (very small) message of support for Ivan Basso. The dots have been joined however. It’s perhaps only been 5% of the commentary, but it’s out there. If Lance’s cancer was caused by doping then could the same be true for Basso? The aptly named ‘Tin Foil Hat’ brigade thought that this was the story today. There has been a LOT written about Lance, his cancer and his doping. There has been a lot written about whether or not the former was brought about by the latter. I don’t think I have actually read anything conclusive in the many iterations of the Lance Armstrong morality tales that litter my bookshelf. I am something of a contrarian about doping. As much as I support a ban for anyone caught using PED’s I would equally advocate that it’s possible for a rider to return to the sport following said ban. I am more exercised by the misuse of TUE’s (an ongoing issue in the peloton) that I am about a confessed (and one hopes ex) doper riding and racing. Ivan Basso might represent the worst of pro cycling as someone who doped but there is (for me at least) much to be said for his subsequent repentance. Some might argue that he shouldn’t have been given the chance of a couple more years ‘in the sun’ with Tinkoff. Today’s news may bring about retirement sooner than expected but I hope that this isn’t the last we have seen of Ivan Basso on his bike. Forza Ivan! Continue reading Unhealthy connections Posted on July 13, 2015 July 14, 2015 Categories Back Stories, Road RacingTags 2013 Giro d'Italia, 2013 Tour de France, 2015 Giro d'Italia, 2015 Tour de France, Adam Yates, Alberto Contador, Astana, BMC, Chris Froome, Etixx Quick Step, Geraint Thomas, Ivan Basso, Lance Armstrong, Mark Cavendish, Nairo Quintana, Orica Green Edge, Richie Porte, Rigoberto Uran, Rohan Dennis, Simon Yates, Team Sky, Tejay Van Garderen, Tinkoff Saxo, Tony Martin, Vincenzo NibaliLeave a comment on Unhealthy connections It’s that time again; here’s the lovingly tooled VCSE Tour preview Why bother shelling out a tenner for 228 pages of official guide when you can get the VCSE lowdown on this years Tour for nothing? Last year we had Yorkshire. Everyone said it was going to be good; even me (although I added a typically English caveat; weather permitting). And the sun did shine and it seemed like anyone who had ever shown the slightest interest in riding a bike decided to find a spot by the roadside. I know, I was there. The grandest of Grand Departs has spawned its own three day stage race and made Utrecht’s job of hosting this years edition twice as hard. So why then as a (proud) Brit am I feeling a greater sense of anticipation ahead of this year’s Tour than last? There might be another British* rider in yellow besides Chris Froome While a lot of Brit fans were waiting to see who would be backing Froome over the next three weeks here in Essex we were looking to see if ‘our’ World Tour rider was going to France (via Holland). It’s easy to forget that Alex Dowsett’s ‘day job’, when he’s not breaking hour records is riding for Movistar. In the last couple of weeks the more eagle eyed among you might have spotted him on the flatter stages at Dauphine and the Route du Sud providing close protection for Alejandro Valverde and Nairo Quintana. I still suspect Dowsett smarted from his omission from the Movistar squad for last years race that would have passed through some very familiar Essex roads on stage 3. Poor health was cited at the time but other than the obvious home ties last year it was harder to see why he would have been selected. This year is a completely different story. Besides the ‘obvious’ item on his 2015 palmares, Dowsett took overall at the Bayern Rundfahrt and he’s coming off another national TT championship win. The opening stage prologue isn’t quite the quintessential ‘ten’ of the Brit club scene but I think Movistar have picked him to have a go at taking the jersey. It won’t be easy but other than Giant’s Tom Dumoulin I can’t think of another rider that stage 1 couldn’t have been better scripted for. A wide open green jersey / points competition ASO have tweaked the points allocation again this year and that should suit the ‘pure’ sprinters like Mark Cavendish and Nacer Bouhanni. The big blonde German elephant in the room though is the missing Marcel Kittel. Is it illness? Lack of form? There have even been suggestions that Kittel has succumbed to the cyclist’s illness; depression. Whatever the reason, the rider that looked set to dominate the bunch gallops is absent and that means that the metaphorical sprinters ‘crown’ is up for grabs. Of course Kittel’s absence doesn’t automatically mean that Cavendish will reclaim the number one spot. There’s as much depth among the fast men as there is in this years GC field. Let’s start with Alexander Kristoff. I posed the question of who could beat the Katusha rider after he claimed his second monument of his career by winning the Ronde earlier in the season. He’s been kept under wraps in the last few weeks (he didn’t contest his home championships) but you have to think he’s going to be tough to beat as it has felt at times as if all Kristoff has to do is turn up to a race in order to win. Not unlike a Mark Cavendish of old in fact. Cav looks like he’s in good touch too though; he rode an extremely untypical but nevertheless inspired solo effort in last weekends nationals in Lincoln. He looks as if he is peaking at the perfect time and isn’t July a good time to get your mojo back? Another rider who could lay claim to that is Peter Sagan. A rider who has had to endure a stream of motivational messages that his team owner shares with the wider social media audience and possibly the worst national champs kit of recent years could be forgiven for crumbling under the weight of a $15M salary and expectation in the classics. Sagan took the GC along with bagging a stage win or so at this years Tour of California going head to head with Cavendish and I would expect Sagan to have to take the points where he has the advantage over Cavendish (on primes etc.) if he’s serious about another green jersey. While it has been enjoyable to see Sagan in a place where he’s feeling like popping wheelies again I think this could be Kristoff’s year. I’m not as sure about the final showcase in Paris though; that one i’m giving to Cav. Enough already.. what about the GC? Dowsett in yellow. Kristoff v Cav. Mere aperitif’s to the main course that is this years GC battle. Last year we had Contador v Froome. This year we can add Nairo Quintana to the mix and that’s before we even mention last year’s winner Vincenzo Nibali. I’m sure someone has got the ‘stat’ that says when these four last raced against one another (together). Me? Haven’t a clue, but whenever that was a lot has changed not least that each rider is now a grand tour winner. Continue reading It’s that time again; here’s the lovingly tooled VCSE Tour preview Posted on June 29, 2015 Categories Road RacingTags 2015 Giro d'Italia, 2015 Tour de France, Adam Yates, Alberto Contador, Alejandro Valverde, Alex Dowsett, Alexander Kristoff, ASO, Astana, Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Critérium du Dauphiné, Daniel Teklehaimanot, Dave Brailsford, FDJ, Geraint Thomas, Giant Alpecin, Hour Record, John Degenkolb, Katusha, Leopold Konig, Louis Meintjes, Marcel Kittel, Mark Cavendish, Movistar, MTN Quhbeka, Nacer Bouhanni, Nairo Quintana, Nicolas Roche, Peter Kennaugh, Peter Sagan, Richie Porte, Route du Sud, Simon Yates, Team Sky, Tejay Van Garderen, Thibaut Pinot, Tinkoff Saxo, Tom Dumoulin, Tour of California, Vincenzo Nibali, Vuelta a Espana 2014, Wouter PoelsLeave a comment on It’s that time again; here’s the lovingly tooled VCSE Tour preview Back to ’09.. just don’t mention doping! Tour Down Under launches the 2015 road racing season It doesn’t seem like a year ago that I was bemoaning the lack of television coverage (at least in the UK) of the Tour Down Under. Some of that discussion neatly ties in with a recent post I wrote about the launch of Velon and the possible implications that will have for armchair fans in the future (you can read about that here http://tinyurl.com/k3w6poo). If i’m honest I haven’t paid that much attention to the goings on in Australia and even less to the race about to start in Argentina (until today that is). I guess it’s because the TDU takes place during the (Australian) summer and we’re still ‘enjoying’ the coldest part of the year in Europe. I’ll watch the races in Qatar and Dubai, but for me anyway the season doesn’t properly start until the weekend of Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne Brussels Kuurne where the riders will at least be similarly dressed to me. Cav v Heino – in the news for different reasons Anyway, back down under for a moment and firstly I will point you to an article by Lee Rodgers AKA Crankpunk (read that here http://tinyurl.com/m7q8hqs). The interesting point CP makes is that the timing of the TDU and the Aussie National Road Race Champs’ can give a bit of a distorted picture of riders form going into the season proper. It’s an interesting theory and the article looks at Richie Porte’s prospects for 2015 as he’s currently saying how good he’s feeling at the moment. The only way for Richie ought to be up as last season can’t have gone any worse for him really. He’s already got the Aussie TT jersey but I don’t think it’s either important or significant if Porte wins the TDU. What will be interesting is how Sky intend to use him this year. Before everything went pear shaped for Porte in 2014 he was lined up to defend his Paris Nice title until Sky withdrew him at the eleventh hour to ride for Chris Froome at Tirreno Adriatico. With the benefit of hindsight Sky’s desire to protect their star rider made sense but at the time it seemed like a strange decision and for all of the physical problems that dogged Froome’s BFF last year I wonder if having his programme messed with had a negative impact psychologically on Porte. There was a lot of speculation last year, some of it stoked by the rider himself, that Richie would need to consider life away from Sky if he was to really fulfil his potential as a GC rider in the grand tours. I think the way Sky handle Porte this year will have a huge influence on whether or not he decides to stay with the team. I wonder if the stars are poised to align at some point in the next year or so that will see Porte move to Australia’s team Orica Green Edge, with one or both of the Yates brothers moving in the opposite direction to Sky. Talking of Aussie riders I was super happy to see Heinrich Haussler take the Aussie road race title last week. I have been a massive fan of Heino since his Cervelo days and while it has been a while coming it’s great to see him getting a result like this for IAM cycling in their first year at the highest level. Haussler has been out of the limelight for a long time and he wasn’t wrong when he described his win as the biggest of his career. I hope that Heino can kick on from this result; he’s due a better showing in the spring classics too. I remember meeting him during his first year with IAM and he seemed genuinely surprised that anyone would have sought him out when the big crowds were surrounding the Sky Death Star. Hopefully in 2015 Haussler can remind a few more people of just how exciting he was to watch back in 2009. Continue reading Back to ’09.. just don’t mention doping! Posted on January 19, 2015 January 19, 2015 Categories Back Stories, Road RacingTags Adam Yates, Anti Doping, Astana, Cervelo Test Team, Chris Froome, Crankpunk, Etixx Quick Step, Heinrich Haussler, Het Nieuwsblad, IAM, Kuurne Brussel Kuurne, Marcel Kittel, Mark Cavendish, Omega Pharma Quick Step, Orica Green Edge, Paris Nice, Richie Porte, Simon Yates, Team Sky, Tirreno Adriatico, Tom Boonen, Tour Down Under, Velon1 Comment on Back to ’09.. just don’t mention doping! TUE be or not TUE be.. – VCSE’s Racing Digest #32 Criterium du Dauphine 2014 Just as night follows day the winning the Dauphine has become part of the landscape for Sky on their way to winning the Tour a few weeks later. In 2012 it was Bradley Wiggins and a year later Chris Froome. For Froome victory would have been a strong indication of his form ahead of his July target, his race programme for 2014 had been extremely low key so far, although both times he had raced he had won the GC (Oman and Romandie). Backed by a team of domestiques deluxe who would make anyone’s Tour team Froome would be facing off against some of his key rivals for the yellow jersey when the Tour gets underway in Yorkshire and a few pretenders who would be troubling the top ten. Alberto Contador was looking back to his best form of 18 months ago when he captured the Vuelta and Vicenzo Nibali, who while not enjoying the same kind of results would be seen as threat to the Sky rider. “Your name’s not down, you’re not coming in” Wiggins and Froome Froome has a teflon like ability to rise above the ‘noise’ that follows the Tour de France champion although he could not avoid the fact that he was a big part of the story ahead of the race. Following the serialisation of his book in the Sunday Times (ghost written by ST journalist David Walsh) which had cherry picked the chapters that focused on the Froome / Wiggins ‘relationship’ (and lack there of), Wiggins had popped up on radio and TV to announce that he wouldn’t be riding the Tour. In itself this was a juicy narrative for the rotters of the press and social media to get stuck into (VCSE pleads guilty; see the previous post). The will he, won’t he selection of Wiggins for the Sky Tour roster was merely an apertif though. First, we had Froome looking vulnerable and falling out of the GC lead he had establish in the stage 1 prologue and then we had a rather messy spat between sections of the (French) press and Sky over a TUE. For the casual follower of the sport a TUE can be explained as a ‘sick note’ that excuses the rider for using a banned substance if it is necessary to treat a particular condition. So far, so reasonable but TUE’s have a very murky past. It was a false and post dated TUE that Lance Armstrong used to explain the prescence of cortisoids in the ’99 Tour. Ironically and certainly unfortunately for Froome it was the same variety of banned substance that got him into hot water at the Dauphine. After crossing the line ahead of Contador on stage 2 Froome was given an inhaler. No attempt was made to conceal its use and this is an important point. Sky handled the following furore with the typical cack handedness they display when the aren’t in control of the story (or indeed a race) and this certainly didn’t help the situation. Over the course of the week it emerged that Froome had previously stated he didn’t suffer from asthma, the reason given for the use of the inhaler and some commentators took things off on a tangent suggesting that Sky and their rider were somehow being ‘protected’ by the UCI. Perhaps the most damming criticism came from Walsh who had spent the previous year embedded with the team as well as writing the Froome tome. Walsh felt that Sky were backtracking significantly from the standards they had set for themselves at the team’s inception, that they wouldn’t race a rider that needed a TUE. Things are so toxic because of Armstrong and the TUE use cannot help but remind people of cycling’s dark recent past. Sky’s whole reason for existence stems from a desire to race and win clean and the story of Froome’s inhaler shouldn’t be seen as history repeating. Much of the reason for this is what subsequently happened at the Dauphine. Over the final two stages of the race Froome lost his place and the leaders yellow jersey to Contador on Saturday and on the final day fell out of the top ten altogether. Contador, point proven perhaps, lost the lead himself on stage 8 to Garmin’s Andrew Talansky an emotional victor hinting that Garmin may seek to do more than just go for stage wins at the Tour. Besides the collapse of their team leader Sky have a further headache in the loss of form that Richie Porte is going through. Porte has suffered a string of bad luck and non finishes since switching from Paris Nice to Tirreno Adriatico early on in the season. He will go to the Tour but it seems more likely that Froome will be reliant on Euskatel Mikel Nieve as his last man standing. Whether or not Froome will click with Nieve the way he does with Porte remains to be seen and Sky’s jangling nerves won’t have been soothed by Contador’s results with what was pretty much a Tinkoff Saxo B team supporting him. Another rider dusting himself off after a poor week was Nibali who didn’t look like troubling the podium from the prologue onwards. There are a lot of noises off around Astana at the moment with Nibali and the Italian contingent seemingly at odds with the Kazakh management. It maybe too early for a parting of the ways, but it will take some of the bloody mindedness that Nibali displayed at the 2012 Tour in the face of Sky dominance for him to deliver another podium place in July. Another young rider emerging with credit was Belkin’s Wilco Kelderman. With Belkin announcing that they are leaving the sport less than a year after coming Kelderman’s fourth place could prove timely. The team may yet survive as bike supplier Bianchi are keen to remain, but this will dependent on finding a title sponsor and results so far this year have been patchy at best. Orica’s Adam Yates delivered another strong finish in sixth, but will probably find himself squeezed into the top 20 or so, assuming the Aussies select him for the Tour. It’s possible they might be teeing up Simon Gerrans for a tilt at the points jersey if he can get over the climbs better than Peter Sagan this year and the Cannondale rider is squeezed out of the sprints by the three way battle between Cavendish, Kittel and Griepel. The question for fans of Britain’s cycling knight ahead of the Tour de Suisse was would Bradley Wiggins use the race as an opportunity to stick a metaphorical finger up at Team Sky’s management in general and Chris Froome and Dave Brailsford in particular. Having announced that as far as he was concerned that he wouldn’t be part of Froome’s back up at the Tour a win in Switzerland seemed like the perfect risposte to the apparent snub delivered to the 2012 Tour de France winner. That Wiggins chose not to get on the pace, finishing more than 30 seconds down on the opening stage prologue, before losing more time on the subsequent stage and withdrawing from the race early is typical, although not for the reasons some would think. Wiggins is goal driven and after riding Paris Roubaix and winning the Tour of California his stated aim was ride (in support of Froome) at the Tour. Having summised that he would be surplus to requirements in July Wiggins would not have felt the motivation to demonstrate his form in Switzerland while Froome rode in the Dauphine. The difference between the driven, target in mind Wiggins and the rider whose heart just isn’t in it is palpable and Wiggins was probably grateful in some strange way that the accident he was caught up in while loitering at the back of the peloton provided a platform for him to bow out early. Some might say that Wiggins was doing the equivlent of taking his ball and going home and there is perhaps something in this. Now it’s clear that Wiggins never wanted to race the Giro last year it does go some way to explain his poor results and showing in the run up to that race. Wiggins may have felt that he deserved inclusion in the Tour team based on (delete as applicable) being a previous Tour winner and with the race starting in Yorkshire, but this ignores the fact that he merits inclusion based on form alone if you look at how he dominated the Tour of California. The leader for much of the week was Omega Pharma’s Tony Martin who managed to hold on to the leaders jersey right up until the closing kilometres of the final stage. Martin had clung on through two mountain stages without much in the way of riders to support him; OPQS using the race to drill the Cavendish lead out train further ahead of the Tour. Martin took the lead after winning the prologue and cemented things further later in the week with victory in the TT also. He was eventually undone by world champion Rui Costa who is enjoying a better year than his predecessor in the rainbow stripes Philippe Gilbert. Martin, lacking support, was powerless to stop a large break going away on the final stage that included Costa and he was able to distance his remaining companions in the break to claim victory over Belkin’s Bauke Mollema and IAM’s Mathias Frank who made out the overall podium as well. With the Tour starting a week on Monday there’s a bit of a hiatus as the teams announce their shortlists and in some cases actual Tour line ups. We’re still waiting for the final Sky group but it seems likely that Wiggins won’t be a part of it with the rider announced as part of the England team for the Commenwealth Games. The party line remains that Wiggins will only be confirmed in terms of actual events if and when he isn’t selected for the Tour by Sky, but with the resurfacing of the fissure between him and Froome and the TUE controversy it seems more likely that Dave Brailsford will not wish to unsettle Froome further by including Wiggins in the squad. Posted on June 25, 2014 June 25, 2014 Categories Back Stories, Road RacingTags 2013 Giro d'Italia, Adam Yates, Alberto Contador, Andre Greipel, Andrew Talansky, Astana, Bauke Mollema, Bradley Wiggins, Cannondale, Chris Froome, Critérium du Dauphiné, Dave Brailsford, David Walsh, Garmin, IAM, Lance Armstrong, Marcel Kittel, Mark Cavendish, Mathias Frank, Mikel Nieve, Omega Pharma Quick Step, Orica Green Edge, Paris Nice, Paris Roubaix, Peter Sagan, Philippe Gilbert, Richie Porte, Rui Costa, Simon Gerrans, Team Belkin, Team Sky, Tinkoff Saxo, Tirreno Adriatico, Tony Martin, Tour de Suisse, Tour of California, Vincenzo Nibali, Wilco KeldermanLeave a comment on TUE be or not TUE be.. – VCSE’s Racing Digest #32 The Panda’s Revenge – VCSE’s Racing Digest #29 Ardennes Classics Interesting that Amstel Gold was moved to the Sunday this year. Pressure from the sponsors maybe? It can’t help any race in search of an audience to be shunted into a weekday spot and weekends have to be the way to go. And before we go any further; confession time. Your correspondent didn’t manage to see the race live. Providing a decent summary of what happened was further compounded by a very short highlights slot later in the day on Eurosport that was basically the last 15km. Hardly a problem with Amstel Gold and while we’re on this subject Fleche Wallone as the races are pretty much decided on their final ascents of their signature climbs. LBL 2014 winner – Simon Gerrans The organisers have tried to make Amstel a bit more interesting by shifting the finish line a little further up the road from the crest (you can hardly call it a summit) of the Cauberg, but with no breaks allowed to remain from earlier in the race and no one able to get off the front towards the end the race was effectlively decided in the final couple of kilometres. The was still a pretty decent sized peloton that sped down into Valkenberg and onto the Cauberg for the final time. The Cauberg is pretty much owned by Phillipe Gilbert with his previous Amstel wins and 2012 world championship and although he (still) doesn’t hold the record for most Amstel victories there isn’t a single Ardennes preview that won’t give him a mention as a potential winner. Chief rival this year was the rider everyone loves to hate Alejandro Valverde who had stated his aim to challenge for all three races. Let’s consider this for a moment; three hard one day races in the space of seven days and Valverde is unrepentant (as he is in so many ways) that he’s going to go for the win in all three! Almost a week after the races took place and the facts are that the Movistar rider was as good as his word and he was a feature at all three. Whether or not this was the result of fantastic preparation or fantastic “preparation” remains a bit of a mystery but the facts are (for now) that for the 2014 Ardennes Classics Alejandro Valverde came away with a first, a second and a fourth. He was beaten in Amstel by Gilbert who knows better than anyone else ‘when to go’ on the Cauberg. The feint from new for 2014 BMC teammate Sammy Sanchez may have taken the sting out of an attack by any of his rivals, but in shades of his world champs win Gilbert attacked, went clear and looked comfortable by the end of the race. Missing at the mid week Fleche Wallone but on the podium at Amstel was Orica’s Simon Gerrans, perhaps unnoticed at the time but a portent of the Aussie national champs ability to be in the right place at the right time in a one day race. Another rider showing form ahead of the weeks headline race and one day ‘monument’ was 2013 Liege Bastogne Liege winner Dan Martin. Martin looked like he might have snatched the win in Fleche Wallone after steeing a path through his rivals up the Mur du Huy for the last time. Omega Pharma Quick Step’s Michael Kwiatowski who joined Martin on the podium looked a reasonable bet as the riders weaved up the Mur’s 19% ramp but the disappointment was all over the Poles face as Valverde skipped by talking on his mobile and eating an ice cream (OK I lied about that bit, but you get what I mean). Valverde demonstrated he’s a man without irony when he couldn’t understand why a section of the crowd booed as he took the victory garlands. And so to LBL. Martin who famously won the race the year before chased by an inebriated steel worked in a Panda costume (spawning a bizarre marketing tie in for Garmin) looked as if he was catching the late breaking juniors race otherwise known as Domenico Pozzovivo and Giampolo Caruso. As he turned the final corner though Martin was down. OK, there wasn’t a Panda nearby, but even that sounds more plausible than the suggestion that Martin lost his wheel due to someone leaving a pen in the road. This left fans in Birmingham and Ireland cheering for ABV (anyone but Valverde). The juniors were spent, but Gerrans popped up to save the crowd (who were probably at least as lubricated as the Amstel lot) having to boo and hiss at Valverde. An interesting aside (can’t remember who tweeted it) was that Gerrans didn’t win a thing in two years with Sky. This is possibly mischief making at the expense of both Orica and Sky, but VCSE would interpret the comment as a dig at Sky’s inabilty to make data mining work as strategy and tactics for a one day race. Sky fielded a reduced team at Fleche Wallone and didn’t have a single rider in the top 40 at LBL. Ian Stannard’s win in Het Nieuwsblad now confirmed as another false dawn for the team as far as the classics go (not withstanding strong rides from Geraint Thomas and Bradley Wiggins in Flanders and Roubaix). Orica haven’t had the best of time in the classics this year, but of the two teams you suspect they will feel happier with their return of three monuments for Sky’s bust over the same period. Tour of Turkey A race that was really enjoyable last year and then marred by the revelations that GC winner Mustafa Sayer had doped his way to victory. The Torku squad had been dogged by doping issues the previous year as well and were apparently only invited to this years race by agreeing to have all of their riders tested every day (something like that anyway). Adam Yates – Top prospect So the race is a couple of stages that feature summit finishes bookended by sprint stages. Mark Cavendish had turned up with pretty much an A team of lead out men including Petacchi, Renshaw and Steegmans. Andre Greipel was back again, albeit to act as some kind of sprinting Yoda to his Lotto teammates while he still recovers from his seperated shoulder injury. With Marcel Kittel missing as he preferred to ride in the rain in Yorkshire it looked like the sprint stages would be a Cavendish benefit. It looked as if Cav had messed things up on stage one, but he popped up at the end to take the win, before winning straightforwardly on stage two. A further win after the queen stage to Elmali came Cav’s way before things came unstuck and he was beaten not once, but twice by Cannondale’s Elia Viviani. No disrespect to Viviani, but even he looked surprised to have beaten Cavendish who tweeted after his second loss that he had even managed to lose his Garmin. With the final stage, another sprint finish, still to come there’s the enticing possibilty of Viviani levelling the win tally at 3-3 assuming Cavendish doesn’t decide to reassert his authority. It’s not the easiest of finishes in Istanbul so Cav will need his train to keep him out of trouble if he’s to secure victory. Perhaps of greater interest is Kittel going to Yorkshire. It’s a pretty pointed reference to Cavendish that he can’t expect any favours from Kittel if he’s going to take a yellow jersey this (or any other) year. Kittel is setting out his priorities really clearly and there’s obviously a determination to unseat Cavendish from his ‘king of the sprinters’ throne. Cavendish is by no means busted as far as winning races is concerned but its beginning to look like a new generation is taking over where the really big races are concerned. Maybe the losses this week are down to looking over his shoulder at what the man who wants his crown is doing. The other big story out of Turkey is Adam Yates. Capping a successful start to the week with Gerrans Orica have Yates in the leaders jersey in Turkey after a second in stage 3 and a win on Fridays stage to the summit finish at Selcuk. With only a sprint stage left Yates should be safe for the overall and this would represent a massive win for the British rider in his rookie year. He reminds VCSE of a Richie Porte or Joaquim Rodriguez is style and stature and he could prove to be a massive signing for Orica as far as GC ambitions go. After the teams strong showing at last years Tour it’s possible that we could see Yates targeting at least one of the stages for a win this year. Obviously we can’t watch this one so look for insight elsewhere! Chris Froome is a second down on Katusha’s Simon Spilak. It’s entirely possible that Froome will overhaul Spilak on tomorrrows final stage, but then again he might not. Sky’s preparation for domination at this years Tour is looking somewhat wonky so far and without an out and out leader for the Giro and the disdain with which they normally treat the Vuelta this could be a year where they actually don’t have to field US Postal style doping questions. OK, we’re ignoring Tiernan-Locke and Henao here, but you know what I mean! The VCSE view is that anything that means we have a more animated Tour in 2014 is a good thing, whether that’s teams working out how to counter the Sky high tempo approach or stages over the Paris Roubaix route. Posted on May 3, 2014 May 3, 2014 Categories Road RacingTags Adam Yates, Alejandro Valverde, Alessandro Petacchi, Amstel Gold, Andre Greipel, BMC, Bradley Wiggins, Cannondale, Chris Froome, Dan Martin, Domenico Pozzovivo, Elia Viviani, Fleche Wallone, Geraint Thomas, Gert Steegmans, Giampolo Caruso, Het Nieuwsblad, Joaquim Rodríguez, Katusha, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Lotto, Marcel Kittel, Mark Cavendish, Mark Renshaw, Michael Kwiatowski, Mustafa Sayar, Omega Pharma Quick Step, Orica Green Edge, Philippe Gilbert, Richie Porte, Sammy Sanchez, Simon Gerrans, Simon Spilak, Team Sky, Tour de Romandie, Tour of TurkeyLeave a comment on The Panda’s Revenge – VCSE’s Racing Digest #29	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41695
__label__wiki	0.80193	0.80193	FOR A GENDER EQUAL FUTURE UK Budget Assessments UK Policy Briefings Brexit & International Work Economic Strategy & Budgets Housing & Public Services Paid & Unpaid Work Early-Career Network Feminist Economics Book Club Meetings – FemEcon Book Club Past ECN events Future ECN events Commission on a Gender Equal Economy Calls for Evidence Inputs to the Commission Commission Blog Share via: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Women for a People’s Vote Date Posted: Tuesday 16th October 2018 A guest blog by Rachel Franklin, Director of Women for a People's Vote BrexitCampaignEU As the UK lurches towards Brexit, it is becoming increasingly clear that women will be harder hit than men by leaving the EU. Women, now and in the future, face a cut in living standards, threats to their jobs and public services and a loss of hard won rights. While women have the most to lose, their voices are not being heard. Male voices dominate the Brexit debate, both in Parliament and the media. Although in the 2017 election more women than ever were elected to Parliament, they remain in the minority: only 32% of MPs are women. The situation is even worse in the House of Lords where only 26%, of peers are women. In the government departments responsible for delivering Brexit, men dominate not just at ministerial level, but also behind the scenes. Among the senior civil servants in the Exiting the EU and International Trade Departments and in the Cabinet Office, there is on average a 17% gap between the number of male and female staff. But it is not just the decision-makers who are predominantly male but also the primary interlocuters between citizens and policy-makers: men dominate the UK media and outnumber women by 4 to 3 in the parliamentary press gallery. Analysis of guests on the major political TV programmes since the EU referendum also shows that, on average, 59% of guests were male. It is clear that women do not have as many column inches or as much air time to discuss political issues; their views, analysis and comment is too often drowned out. That half the UK’s population is inadequately represented in the Brexit debate is all the more worrying because it is women who will be most negatively affected by leaving the EU. A key area where women could feel a Brexit hit, is its effect on the National Health Service. Women make up 77% of its workforce, but also access its services more than men because of their use of maternity and children’s service and because they live longer. Brexit will damage the UK economy and a knock-on effect will be less money for the NHS. This in turn will lead to longer waiting times, overcrowded hospitals and substandard care. Recruitment and retention of key NHS staff is already being undermined by Brexit. Since the vote 1,000 EU nurses and midwives have left the NHS and our analysis suggests that it will lose a further 4,500 by 2022. In the view of the British Medical Association, Brexit is a “major threat to the NHS and the health of our patients”. Staff shortages could leave the NHS unable meet social care needs. The Department of Health has warned that this could lead to a decrease in labour market participation among women, forced to leave their jobs to take over caring responsibilities. It is clear that Brexit is already having a detrimental effect on the British economy. Typically when the economy is struggling, women are usually the hardest hit. Research for Women for a People’s Vote, found that Brexit is pushing inflation up and wages down and stretching the gender pay gap, with women’s income falling by an expected average of £1,250 annually. Uncertainty about Brexit is already leading to rising household energy bills and consumers can expect hikes in the costs of flights and hotels abroad, travel insurance and mobile phone roaming charges. Brexit also threatens jobs now and future job creation. A study by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) predicts that Brexit estimates that almost 900,000 women’s jobs are at risk across all industry sectors. The EU has long played a role in developing and protecting the rights of women in the workplace but these hard-fought protections are threatened by Brexit. Not only does a reckless Brexit put our existing rights at risk it also means that we will miss out on any future benefits agreed by the EU for EU citizens. Women in the UK currently benefit from EU legislation on equal pay for equal rights, on pregnancy, maternity and parental leave and on gender discrimination. If the UK leaves the EU, any future UK government will be free to dismantle or weaken these vital safeguards. Of the current ministers in the departments for Exiting the European Union, International Trade and the Cabinet Office (the three departments leading on Brexit), none have voted to support key parliamentary divisions intended to strengthen women’s rights in Britain. With this track record, it’s hard to believe that women’s priorities are being taken seriously in the Brexit process. The People’s Vote and The Independent March for the Future will take place on 20 October 2018, 12pm (midday), Park Lane, London. More details about the march can be found here. Written by Rachel Franklin. Rachel is Campaign Director at Women for a People's Vote, which launched in September. It is demanding that politicians give women the right to shape their own future and have a say on the final Brexit deal. Benefits or barriers? Making social security work for survivors of violence and abuse across the UK’s four nations Triple Whammy: the impact of local government cuts on women Consultations on Trade Negotiations What is Gender Responsive Budgeting? 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__label__cc	0.714272	0.285728	Posts Tagged ‘Hardeep Singh Kohli’ Review – Bollywood Cinderella: the Pantomime! – Tara Arts Theatre Cross “Bollywood” and “Panto” and you know that I’ll be beating down the door. I was clued in to this show by, of all things, Time Out‘s London panto listings (rather than the seemingly more comprehensive It’s Behind You). Everything got even better because the theater, Tara Arts, is right down the street from where I live, and as it was early in the run, they were nice enough to give me a free set of tickets (though for cushion seats on the floor). Saturday matinee after a yummy lunch at Tooting Broadway’s Dosa and Chutney, how could this not be a totally brilliant afternoon? As it turns out, I could not have asked for a better time than this authentically British panto. From the pink Christmas tree decorated with plastic fruit and garlands of flowers in the lobby to the tiny auditorium (seating for maybe 50?), it was shiny, glittery, high energy, and fun, fun, fun. The lights went up on a cast of mixed familiarity (evil stepmother and stepsister in traditional eye-burning bad drag – Simon Norburry and Ali Zaidi) and the more glamorous and exotic Prince Raj (Nitin Ranpuria, my God the muscles) and Sunder(ella – Krupa Pattani, as beautiful and graceful as a princess should be, but with way more attitude than the normal humble and somewhat dull Cinders). The bridge between the two worlds is the Buttons-like character of Nitin (Maya Sondhi), who is the prince’s butler/companion. Nitin explains a lot of the Bollywood traditions (and Hindi words) for the benefit of us less clued-in types, so the “dream sequence” and lip synching make more sense. That said, singer Sohini Alam had such a great voice I was happy to have her doing all of the songs – it’s rare to get such raw talent in a “backing band” and I revelled in every note. The story is not much changed from the original, except that the stepmother is a queen (having won the right to the kingdom from Sunder’s father in a bet), and the prince actually meets Sunder before the ball as he roams the countryside looking for someone who loves him for himself, not for his title. This leads to some interesting scenes as both the Queen and her “daughter,” Happy-Lucky, fall in love with the wrong guys. But we of course have a ball, and there is a missing slipper, so most of the traditional elements are firmly in place even though the dancing and singing vegetables (with their hilarious cast-off sweater costumes) are nowhere to be found in the original. There are even a few topical political jokes for the adults. With all of the energy of this show, it’s a grim faced grinch who wouldn’t get into it, as the dancing five year old seated on the front row cushions demonstrated. It’s original, witty, musical, fun to watch, loaded with puns, and has a okra/aubergine romance – and rounds it all out with this year’s obligatory Lady Gaga reference. And it didn’t wear out its welcome. If I were looking for a really fun panto that was a good time for all ages of audience, I would absolutely pick this little diamond. Tara Arts is going to be one to be beat this year! (This review is for the matinee performance that took place on Saturday December 190th, 2011. It continues through December 24th.) Tags:Ali Zaidi, Bollywood Cinderella, Bollywood Cinderella Panto, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Krupa Pattani, Nitin Ranpuria, Simon Norburry, Sohini Alam, Tara Arts, Tara Theatre	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41701
__label__wiki	0.949057	0.949057	Westminster council could send homeless families to Coventry Those who lose homes in capital may increasingly be rehoused outside London as local authorities struggle with cuts. photo credit: Lucky Cavey via photopin cc This article titled “Westminster council could send homeless families to Coventry” was written by Patrick Butler and Robert Booth, for theguardian.com on Sunday 15th January 2017 15.33 UTC People who lose their homes in one of London’s richest boroughs could be sent to live in temporary accommodation as far away as Coventry under new plans announced by the City of Westminster. Westminster council says rising homelessness, coupled with housing benefits cuts and government plans to force local authorities to sell off social housing gives it no option but to place more families outside the capital. At the moment, 3% of Westminster’s homeless families are rehoused outside Greater London, but this is likely to increase because of rising cost pressures and shortages of affordable local accommodation, it says. Related: Britain’s shame: the people who are homeless, even though they’re in work \| Aditya Chakrabortty Rehousing homeless families outside the capital has always proved politically controversial, and London authorities have been reluctant to advertise the fact that they have been doing so routinely for some years. Westminster’s cabinet member for housing, councillor Daniel Astaire, said the council faced intense challenges around housing affordability and difficult choices were inescapable. “While we always try to provide accommodation for homeless people in Westminster, like many other boroughs of all political persuasions we have to look at identifying suitable homes beyond the city’s boundaries,” he said. Labour members said the policy “turbo-charged” a recent trend that had seen increasing numbers of people on low incomes driven away from their local communities and family support networks. There is increasing bitterness among local authorities in the south-east that they are unable to fulfil their own obligations to house homeless families because London councils outbid them for local temporary accommodation. Research commissioned by Westminster council found that with limited affordable properties available in London, the best opportunities for rehousing homeless families in the south-east were to be found in Slough and Maidenhead. Westminster’s homeless households would be put into priority bands, with those with extensive care and support needs who would be at risk if they were moved away prioritised for housing in the borough, together with carers and foster carers. Households with children at key exam stages in local schools and those with jobs in Westminster would be in band two, meaning they would qualify for temporary accommodation elsewhere in Greater London. All other households would fall into band three, meaning they would be offered private rented homes in south-east England or beyond. The council identified urban areas in the West Midlands as presenting the best opportunities, but noted that the supply of suitable properties were limited in those areas too. Related: Tenant wins battle to stop Westminster council moving her out of London Councils are allowed by law to rehouse households outside the local area, but only in areas where suitable accommodation takes the full range of household members’ needs including health, education and employment into account. Westminster also says it will seek to make more homeless households the offer of a private rented tenancy rather than more expensive temporary accommodation. Labour pointed out this would mean homeless families would forfeit their right to social housing. Any properties acquired by the council outside London would be in “more urban and diverse areas where there are more likely to be the health, educational, social and cultural facilities households from Westminster require” and where there were likely to be job opportunities. The council said it would provide a “wrap-around support service” for families moved beyond the capital, including help to enrol children in schools, find nursery places and register with GPs. Westminster said the new policy was essential to the cap the spiralling cost of providing temporary accommodation to homeless families, currently £4.3m annually and set to rise to nearly £12m by 2020. Homeless Westminster families can still choose to be housed in temporary private rented accommodation, but the council says current average waiting times for a social home in the borough range from 10 years for a two-bedroom flat to up to 25 years for a four-bedroom house. Social security cuts, such as the housing benefit freeze and the extended benefit cap will continue to drive homelessness in the borough, it said. About 60% of its homeless acceptances are currently the result of evictions from private rented homes. The council says it is unable to keep pace with demand for social housing in central London. It has 4,500 people on its priority list but only between 600 and 800 rented homes become available each year. The stock of social homes is likely to reduce further, the council says, because it is required under the Housing Act to sell vacant council properties to subsidise the sale of an estimated 120 housing association homes each year under right-to-buy. Astaire said: “Our new approach will give those who are homeless more certainty over their future by offering secure accommodation sooner. Those with the highest needs will of course be prioritised for available properties in Westminster while an extensive support package will be provided to those who are made private tenancy offers outside.” Westminster’s Labour opposition leader, councillor Adam Hug, said: “This council’s decades-long atrocious record on building social and genuinely affordable homes combined with the government’s insidious benefit changes have created a perfect storm for Westminster residents in desperate need for temporary accommodation. “This policy formalises and turbo-charges what has happened in recent years where Westminster residents in temporary accommodation are being sent further and further from home. It is essential that Westminster radically improves its council house building plans and challenges the divisive government policies that underpin these worrying plans.” guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 Published via the Guardian News Feed plugin for WordPress.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41710
__label__cc	0.603072	0.396928	Find thousands of freely licensed digital books, artworks, photos and images of historical library materials and museum objects. All collection Images only Digital Images (15) Sort by RelevanceProduction dates Sort order AscendingDescending Next (page 2) The house I live in, or, The human body : for the use of families and schools Alcott, William A. 1798-1859. 1847, ©1836 The laws of health, or, Sequel to "The house I live in" How to preserve 'the house I live in' ; or, hints for the regulation of health : to which are appended rules for patients adopting the hydropathic treatment Courtney, A. Nerves of the human body. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist. Muscles of the human body. Watercolour drawing by a Persian artist. The course of the veins and the arteries through the body (Table IV), after Eustachius; the arterial system (Table V), after Cowper in Drake. Etching by I. Basire, 1743. Basire, Isaac, 1704-1768. The arteries of the human body with a foetus in the womb. Watercolour by a Persian artist. Watercolour, with pen and ink ; image 31.3 x 21.7 cm. Specification of Marc Antoine François Mannons : apparatus for ascertaining the presence and degree or cessation of vitality in the human body, &c. Mennons, Marc Antoine François. An ill creature with a human head and long tail is seated in a chair being treated by two nurses; representing a case in contemporary British or Irish politics. Coloured lithograph, 1835. The family physician, or, A choice collection of approved medicines for the cure of every disease incident to the human body : with an appendix of the preparation of medicines, necessary for private use Bullman, E. The teacher of health, and the laws of the human constitution The library of health : and teacher on the human constitution The young mother, or Management of children in regard to health. Portraits of William Burke (1792-1829) and Helen McDougal (b. c. 1795), on trial in Edinburgh in 1828 for the West Port murders. Coloured etching, c. 1829. Elements of medical jurisprudence, or a succinct and compendious description of such tokens in the human body as are requisite to determine the judgment of a coroner, and courts of law, in cases of divorce, rape, murder, &c : to which are added, directions for preserving the public health Farr, Samuel, 1741-1795. To the house visitors of the Surrey Dispensary in Union-Street, near St. Margaret's-Hill, Southwark : gentlemen, I recommend... believing... to be a proper object of this charity...day of... 178... Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829. The London dissector, or, System of dissection, practised in the hospitals and lecture rooms of the metropolis : explained by the clearest rules, for the use of students : comprising a description of the muscles, vessels, nerves, and viscera, of the human body, as they appear on dissection : with directions for their demonstration. Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835. William Burke (centre), Dr Alexander Monro III (top left), William Robertson (top right), Thomas Beveridge (lower left), Dr Robert Knox (lower right) Silhouettes, c. 1830. Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations : In two parts. Part. I. Containing observations on the frame of the human body and mind, and on their mutual connexions and influences. Part. II. Containing observations on the duty and expectations of mankind Hartley, David, 1705-1757. William Pitt the younger and his ministers as anatomists dissecting the body of the Prince of Wales; representing Pitt's reduction of the powers of the regent. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1788/1789. Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827. [1788 or 1789] Health without physic : or, Cordials for youth, manhood, and old age : including maxims, moral and facetious; for the prevention of disease, and the attainment of a long and vigorous life The trunks of the vena cava, with their branches(Table VI, fig. 1); the trunks of the vena porta (Table VI, fig. 2), both after an engraving by M. Vandergucht after W. Cowper, 1702, after a preparation by G. Leoni, c. 1645; the brain, nerves and spine, after Eustachius, by 1552 (Table VII) Etching by I. Basire, 1743. Cowper, William, 1666-1709.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41711
__label__cc	0.633458	0.366542	Tebello Tibz Motsoane Opens Up About Abusive Relationship With Tshepi Vundla September started off on a very heavy note here in Mzansi as many women finally spoke out about the abuse and violence they've endured in the hands of men. It's safe to say, Mzansi is finally cleaning out her closet. Socialite Tshepi Vundla and her ex boyfriend entrepreneur and influencer Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane found themselves as the centre of attention in the ongoing dialogue against gender violence. S'fiso Mthethwa, a friend of the alleged abuser Tebello Motsoane, took to Twitter to reflect and confess his guilt for not saying anything about a case of abuse that he had known about for years. S'fiso Mthethwa initially refrained from revealing that Tebello was the alleged abuser in question but Tshepi Vundla came through and called him out. Tebello then decided to open up about the allegations and reveal his version of the truth. In a Twitter thread, he wrote the following: It’s been a few days of introspection for me and I have concluded a few things about myself. I also realize that after these tweets things may spiral out of control, but things have to be said. This isn’t about who believes me, but about my truth. For years I was in a toxic and public relationship with Tshepi Vundla. In this relationship, I [now] realize that I was abusive... but never ever physically. Through my disrespect, I hurt her many times and that is emotional and mental abuse. Because of the climate in the country, I didn’t want to do this and whether or not it makes me look weak, I’m ready to state that Tshepi Vundla used to physically abuse me. I’ve been slapped, scratched, pushed, sworn at and had my mother sworn at. Never have I retaliated. This has happened inside Cocoon, outside Taboo, at her mother’s house and in the parking lot at The Sands. Witnesses have been my friends, her friends, her mother, her sister, her brother in-law, promoters, bouncers and strangers. Never have I hit her. To my knowledge, Tshepi has never said that I hit [her]... but [she] hasn’t corrected those who believe that I have. I have lost friends, income and respect... but I carried on with life. I am being honest about what I now know to be psychological abuse,however she was my physical abuser. I do not know if things like polygraph/lie-detector tests are even a real thing... but I will gladly take one. We all have our truth, this is mine. This will be my last tweet for the sake of clarity and then I will log off like I’m being advised. I never ever hit Tshepi Vundla. Tshepi Vundla used to hit me. I am aware that I emotionally abused her and I take ownership of that. I will apologize to her personally for that. Main Image credit: InformationCradle Read More: Lalla Hirayama Details All About Abusive Ex Chris Nkosi Busiswa Allegedly Beaten Up By Baby Daddy Dj Kaygee The Vibe DJ Kaygee The Vibe Tells His Side Of The Story Olonathando Nkoe	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41719
__label__cc	0.701963	0.298037	Who Cares Wins Not All War Wounds are Visible British Press Articles PTSD Information PTSD Panic Attacks PTSD Nightmares PTSD Guilt PTSD Depression PTSD Anxiety Coping Skills (Family) Nightmares and PTSD Nightmares are dreams that are threatening and scary. Nearly everyone has had a nightmare from time to time. For trauma survivors, though, nightmares are a common problem. Along with flashbacks and unwanted memories, nightmares are one of the ways in which a trauma survivor may relive the trauma for months or years after the event. How common are nightmares after trauma? Among the general public, about 5% of people complain of nightmares. Those who have gone through a trauma, though, are more likely to have distressing nightmares after the event. This is true no matter what type of trauma it is. Those trauma survivors who get PTSD are even more likely to complain of nightmares. Nightmares are one of the 17 symptoms of PTSD. For example, a study comparing Vietnam Veterans to civilians showed that 52% of combat Veterans with PTSD had nightmares fairly often. Only 3% of the civilians in the study reported that same level of nightmares. Other research has found even higher rates of nightmares. Of those with PTSD, 71-96% may have nightmares. People who have other mental health problems, such as panic disorder, as well as PTSD are more likely to have nightmares than those with PTSD alone. Not only are trauma survivors more likely to have nightmares, those who do may have them quite often. Some survivors may have nightmares several times a week. What do nightmares that follow trauma look like? Nightmares that follow trauma often involve the same scary elements that were in the trauma. For example, someone who went through Hurricane Katrina may have dreams about high winds or floods. They may dream about trying to escape the waters or being in a shelter that does not feel safe. A survivor of a hold-up might have nightmares about the robber or about being held at gunpoint. Not all nightmares that occur after trauma are a direct replay of the event. About half of those who have nightmares after trauma have dreams that replay the trauma. People with PTSD are more likely to have dreams that are exact replays of the event than are survivors without PTSD. Lab research has shown that nightmares after trauma are different in some ways from nightmares in general. Nightmares after trauma may occur earlier in the night and during different stages of sleep. They are more likely to have body movements along with them. Nightmares and cultural differences Nightmares may be viewed differently in different cultures. For example, in some cultures nightmares are thought to mean that the dreamer is open to physical or spiritual harm. In other cultures, it is believed that the dreams may contain messages from spirits or may forecast the future. These beliefs may lead those with nightmares to use certain practices in an effort to protect themselves. Are there any effective treatments for posttraumatic nightmares? Nightmare symptoms often get better with standard PTSD treatment. If nightmares persist, there are treatments that can reduce how often they occur. One treatment is Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT). In IRT, the person who is having nightmares, while awake, changes how the nightmare ends so that it no longer upsets them. Then the person replays over and over in their minds the new dream with the non-scary ending. Research shows that this type of treatment can reduce how often nightmares occur. Also, treatment for breathing problems that occur during sleep may reduce the nightmares that follow trauma. High levels of sleep-disordered breathing have been seen in trauma survivors. In one study, patients given a treatment to improve their breathing during sleep no longer had violent, scary dreams. Little research exists on the use of medicines to treat nightmares from trauma. The medicine with the most promise is prazosin. Two studies have found that prazosin reduces nightmare symptoms. More research on prazosin is under way. If you start feeling like you can’t cope, life is becoming very difficult or your life isn’t worth living, get help. These are signs that you need to talk to someone. Either contact your GP or call NHS Direct (0845 4647). You can also contact helplines such as PTSD Resolution (0845 021 7873) for confidential, non-judgemental emotional support. If you’ve had depression and/or anxiety in the past, even if they weren’t formally diagnosed, seek help immediately. You’re more likely to have an episode of depression if you’ve had one before. Visit the Who Dares Wins Shop for T-Shirts, Mugs and More! © Copyright 2020 Who Cares Wins.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41720
__label__wiki	0.805514	0.805514	X2: Wolverine's Revenge (Redirected from X-Men 2: Wolverine's Revenge) Developer(s) GenePool Software Publisher(s) Activision Series X-Men Platform(s) GameCube Release date(s) NA April 14, 2003 EU April 17, 2003 Genre(s) Action Input methods GameCube Controller GameIDs GWVP52, GWVE52, GWVX52 X2: Wolverine's Revenge is a video game released in 2003 to coincide with the release date of the film X2: X-Men United. Revenge was the first home console title to feature Wolverine in a starring role since 1994; he had appeared two years earlier in X-Men: Wolverine's Rage for Game Boy Color. The player helps Wolverine claw his way past the heavily guarded areas of the Weapon X Facility to piece together fragmented clues to Wolverine's murky past and, more important, to save his life. The game was released as a promotional tie-in to X2 but featured an original story by famed comic book writer Larry Hama, and does not take place in the continuity of the film series, but the Marvel comic verse instead. Wolverine has 48 hours to find an antidote to a deadly Sheva Strain Virus circulating in his bloodstream and the clues point to the Weapon X facility, the Canadian fortress where he had his skeletal structure fused with adamantium. The graph below charts the compatibility with X2: Wolverine's Revenge since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred. (60FPS) Dolphin Emulator 4.0-4701 - X2: Wolverine's Revenge (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube Retrieved from "https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=X2:_Wolverine%27s_Revenge&oldid=159251" GenePool Software (Developer) Activision (Publisher) X-Men (Series) Action (Genre)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41722
__label__wiki	0.724976	0.724976	Reds vs Dodgers – 4/16/19 MLB Pick, Odds, and Predictions Cincinnati Reds vs Los Angeles Dodgers MLB Baseball Tuesday, April 16, 2019 (10:10pm et) Current Odds: Dodgers -174, Total Runs 8.5 One day after a dramatic victory, the Los Angeles Dodgers will search for some sustained success by handing the ball to right-hander Kenta Maeda on Tuesday in the second game of a three-game series against the visiting Cincinnati Reds. After a six-game losing streak, the Dodgers have now won consecutive games following Joc Pederson’s walk-off, two-run home run in the ninth inning Monday that gave Los Angeles a 4-3 victory over the Reds. The Dodgers appear to have received some much-needed stability for their pitching staff with the return of Clayton Kershaw on Monday. Kershaw gave up two runs over seven strong innings, allowing a two-run home run to former Dodger Yasiel Puig in the first inning. It was Kershaw’s first start of the season after overcoming shoulder inflammation that surfaced during spring training. As the Dodgers looked for their rotation to step up in the early going, Maeda (2-1, 4.76 ERA) has been a mixed bag. He gave up five runs over 5 1/3 innings during a loss Wednesday at St. Louis, one start after he gave up one run over five innings in a victory at Colorado. The Cardinals chased Maeda in his most recent start with a three-run sixth inning that came just after the Dodgers had pulled to within a run. “I think if you look back at Kenta the last few years, at times he’s been victim to the big inning,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters. “If there’s some trouble but you get out of it. One run, two runs, that allows you to keep pitching deeper into a game — keep your team in the game.” TODAY’S TOP EXPERT PICKS 3-0 Last 3 MLB Parlays! JT’s Parlay Ready To Crush the Books Tonight! JT has locked his sights on both the Side & Total on this game tonight, making it a perfect winning parlay situation! BUY NOW $20 10-Unit Totals Plays 192-108 L300 – High Roller Totals Play Just Released! He’s been on absolute fire all season and looking to continue tonight with his High Roller Totals Play! –– Guaranteed Winner! **8-3 MLB Power Plays Last 4 Weeks – Another Power Play Goes Today! He’s taking advantage of this oddsmaker mistake and doubling down his units to really demolish the book – Guaranteed Winner! The Reds will turn to Southern California native Tyler Mahle (0-0, 0.82) on Tuesday. The right-hander has just one career appearance at Dodger Stadium — May 10 of last year, when he did not give up an earned run over five innings and got the win. In his first two starts this season, Mahle has surrendered just one earned run in 11 innings, and that came in a 2-1 Reds victory at home against Miami on Wednesday. Mahle was also the benefactor of some solid defense by shortstop Jose Iglesias in that one, as well. “It’s awesome when you’ve got a guy like that back there that can make just ridiculous plays,” Mahle said, according to mlb.com. “It gives you a lot of confidence that if they put the ball in play, they’re going to be there. And not just Jose, but everybody out there.” Of concern for the Reds is the early-season pitching of closer Raisel Iglesias, who gave up Pederson’s game-ending shot Monday. Iglesias was 2-for-2 in save opportunities before blowing Monday’s save chance. He has a 6.75 ERA after also taking the loss April 1 against the Milwaukee Brewers and April 6 at Pittsburgh, in addition to Monday’s game. The Dodgers hope that Kershaw’s return ends up strengthening the Los Angeles bullpen. The three-time Cy Young Award winner replaced right-handed reliever Jamie Schultz on the roster Monday. It is possible that standout left-hander Julio Urias could now move from the rotation to the bullpen. Heading into Tuesday’s game the Dodgers will monitor the status of outfielder Cody Bellinger, who had to leave Monday’s game when he was hit by a pitch on the side of the right knee in the third inning. Bellinger entered Monday’s game leading the National League in batting average (.424), runs (22), hits (28), home runs (nine) and RBIs (22). 411Winners Pick and Prediction: Dodgers -1.5 +120 More in MLB Brewers vs Marlins – 9/9/19 MLB Pick, Odds, and Predictions Milwaukee Brewers vs Miami Marlins Monday Sept 9, 2019 (7:10pm et) Current Odds: Brewers... Rangers vs Orioles – 9/6/19 MLB Pick, Odds, and Predictions Texas Rangers vs Baltimore Orioles Friday Sept 6, 2019 (7:05pm et) Current Odds: Orioles... Cubs vs Brewers – 9/5/19 MLB Pick, Odds, and Predictions Chicago Cubs vs MIlwaukee Brewers Thursday Sept 5, 2019 (7:10pm et) Current Odds: Cubs... Twins vs Red Sox – 9/4/19 MLB Pick, Odds, and Predictions Minnesota Twins vs Boston Red Sox Wednesday Sept 4, 2019 (7:10pm et) Current Odds:...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line41724
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__label__wiki	0.627713	0.627713	Voluntourism: the downsides of medical missions By Martiniuk and Negin Photo: Short-term medical missions are not the best use of limited financial and human resources (Giulio Saggin: ABC News) (Giulio Saggin: ABC News) An increasing number of doctors and other health workers from developed countries – including Australia – are packing up their mosquito nets and scalpels and heading overseas on short trips to provide health services. These "medical missions" – frequently a week or two in duration – often conduct specialist surgeries for cataracts and cleft lips as well as basic care. Our recent study of all 230 published accounts of short-term medical missions to poor countries over the last 25 years reveals that there are serious concerns about their sustainability, financial transparency, ethical standards, and appropriateness in meeting the real needs of our neighbours. We found that the USA, Canada and Australia were the countries that dispatch the most missions, with the most popular destinations for Australian health teams being Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The health professionals who went on these missions gained a great deal personally and saw these volunteer experiences as opportunities to reconnect to why they chose to become health workers. And the services provided helped a number of people in need who might not have had access to care otherwise. While these missions are fundamentally altruistic and led by people who "want to make a difference", there are a number of negative aspects. A number of the rich-world doctors demonstrate a lack of awareness about the realities of health care in developing countries and show a lack of respect for local health workers. Visiting health workers often make little effort to understand local health needs and culture – often trying to provide health care to individuals without speaking their language or using appropriate interpreters. One report said of visiting health professionals: They expect to be greeted with warm enthusiasm and are often bearing gifts. They seldom inquire beforehand what is most appropriate for the local needs. The department concerned has not even been told about their forthcoming visit. Furthermore, insufficient attention is given to critical issues of follow-up and ongoing care – often not knowing the local system well enough, there is a failure to refer patients for ongoing care for their high blood pressure, asthma or epilepsy, or having had surgery for cleft lip, for instance. These volunteer health professionals essentially wash their hands of the patients as they board their plane home, souvenirs in hand. Short-term medical missions are also not the best use of limited financial and human resources. The costs involved in financing medical missions such as airfares, accommodation, vaccinations, visa costs, customs fees for medicines and medical equipment are considerable. One mission member, on return to England, asked if the funds spent to fly 10 doctors to Ghana for 10 days would have been better spent building a new wing of the hospital, or up-skilling local doctors over several months, or even providing the annual salary for a Ghanaian doctor. There were also suggestions that some mission participants were not as altruistic as claimed. Medical missions by Canadian health workers to the Caribbean increase during the cold Canadian winter. Some have accused health workers of categorising brief missions as work travel expenses to gain a tax write-off. Then there is the CV factor - some medical students see time working in developing countries as a "right of passage" for admission into residency. One report in our review, from 2002, saw patients in developing countries as a "population on which to perfect their surgical skills". Health work overseas needs to take into account strengthening the health system for the community as a whole and for the long-run, and not just providing immediate bandaid solutions for a handful of individual patients. Considering their popularity and growth, there is a need to harness the positive power of these medical missions by increasing true partnership with people in developing countries and mentorship over the long-term. This will help local people increase their own skills to ultimately reduce the need for medical missions. As with most aid work, the ultimate goal has to be to make oneself redundant. More capacity building, more focus on prevention, and more cost-effective use of funds for infrastructure are needed to achieve that goal. We recognise that many medical missions already adhere to this framework, but it should be all; as privileged citizens of a high income country, we owe it to our neighbours to support their true needs. Short-term, unconnected medical missions seeking new and exotic diseases are not typically what health professionals in developing countries want. We recall reading the vehement comments by a Nepalese doctor about visiting health volunteers who would set up shop on the trails to Everest to provide "who knows what kind of services" to local people instead of working as registered doctors in Nepal. He asked how we would feel if a Nepalese doctor set up a sign in downtown Sydney and started to provide services. Dr Alexandra Martiniuk is a senior lecturer and research fellow at the Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney. View her full profile here. Joel Negin is a senior lecturer in International Public Health at the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. View his full profile here. 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__label__wiki	0.516867	0.516867	The Website Blog 1st Music Experiences Love Listening to the Best Music Home » The Website Blog » Cotton Club Karaoke Dance Club Cotton Club Karaoke Dance Club The Website Blog January 11, 2020 admin 0 Comments along with his chum Frenchy Demange (Fred Gwynne), runs the Cotton Club. Backstage, the performers dance through a parallel plot. Sandman Williams (Gregory Hines) is a dancer driven to stardom, even. Q: I’ve been told that Ray Charles once appeared as part of Lufkin’s Community Concerts series way back when. Anyone remember? I’ve lived here all my life, and it’s news to me. A: Ray Charles — as. The result is The Cotton Club Encore, which adds 24 minutes and deletes 13 from the original cut, to refocus attention on the African American performers who made the real-life Jazz Age nightclub an. The Cotton Club is purposely retro, a Hollywood concoction more elaborate than anything Hollywood ever made. 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__label__cc	0.522006	0.477994	TES 方法给公寓楼外墙墙面装修带来创新 The use of prefabricated wooden facade elements in the renovation of old concrete apartment blocks has proved to be a cost-effective and technically feasible method. According to architect, Kimmo Lylykangas, the renovation to passive level of an apartment block at Peltosaari in Riihimäki using the TES method has been a technical and economic success. ”As an end-result, I can say that the TES method is a highly significant and competitive alternative for repair and renovation construction. The dimensioning of elements, their installation and the integration of building technology were a complete success. The greatest challenges concerned ensuring the comfort of residents during the construction period, and the development of building site practices, by which the length of construction time can be significantly shortened and cost efficiency improved.” In the Riihimäki renovation project, a 75% saving in heat energy was targeted, which can of course only be verified with certainty after the first heating season is over. Indoor air was further improved thanks to a renovated air-conditioning system, and the air-tightness of the building was improved almost to the standard of a passive building. At the same time, according to residents the sound insulation and architectural look of the building were greatly improved. ”We are now seeking new apartment block renovation projects using the method, as well as an industrial-scale method of renovating small residential houses,” says Jukka Sevon, Product Development Manager of Paroc Oy. ”In the current economic climate, it would be good if major building corporations also got into repair and renovation work. Based on the experiences of the Riihimäki Innova project, the TES method is useful for carrying out renovation projects on a large scale. Riihimäki 的开发项目 Peltosaari 社区引起海内外的关注 The renovation to a passive level of the Innova apartment block in the Peltosaari district of Riihimäki with prefabricated passive wooden façade elements has been completed. In the opinion of Seppo Keskiruokanen, Mayor of Riihimäki, the Peltosaari project has become a nationally significant suburban development project, the experiences of which can also be transferred to the renovation and development of other suburban neighbourhoods. ”The renovation of this block of rental apartments to a passive level using the TES (timber-based element system) method attracted organisations developing energy-efficient construction. The TES method is new and so attracted a great amount of interest amongst professionals in the field, both at home and abroad,” says Keskiruokanen. The manager of the Peltosaari project, Irene Väkevä-Harjula, believes that the development of the TES method will further increase interest in the refurbishment of suburban neighbourhoods and that reproduction of the method will be suitable for the large-scale modernisation of these areas. ”The renovation of the Innova building was launched at the same time as an ideas competition for Peltosaari. The publicity received by the Innova building was also a help to the ideas competition, for which we received 61 very good entries.” 住房和交通部部长Kiuru: 一项巨额贷款将用于一栋老公寓楼 Minister of Housing and Communications, Krista Kiuru, thinks that a large number of Finnish apartment blocks built in the 1960s and 70s are ageing, and should undergo repair and renovation work to improve their energy efficiency. ”We have accumulated an enormously large bill to pay for repairs. We can no longer afford to not to make these buildings more energy-efficient,” says Kiuru. ”Pilot projects carried out show that the energy consumption of old apartment blocks can be reduced through cost-effective construction solutions.” Kiuru believes that investments required for such repairs will be recouped many times over by residents and owners, when they can live for a long time with significantly lower costs. In repair and renovation work, Kiuru sees more opportunities for growth and employment than in new construction. ”In the current economic climate, we can also consider counter-cyclical measures to boost repair and renovation construction. We now need to specialise in repair and renovation, to provide training in it and to establish best practices through pilot projects, to show how we can repair large apartment block complexes as cost-efficiently as possible. 芬兰木结构公司的国际贸易 Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, is currently conducting several programmes aimed at the development of the construction business. ”Tekes’ interest in being involved in the development of the wood construction business is to find diversity for building, says Reijo Kangas, Director of Real Estate and Construction Industries. The common denominators of these programmes are energy-efficiency, ecology and services enabled by digital information technology. According to Kangas, Tekes is aiming to grasp the systemic change currently underway in construction, and to promote the access to markets of new innovations and construction service production. 芬兰木结构建筑的统一标准即将公布 The preparation of the RunkoPES industrial standard, a harmonised measurement and jointing system for industrial prefabricated wood construction initiated by the wood products industry is on the home straight and ready to be used by those interested in doing so. Up to now, the lack of a harmonised system has been a barrier to the development of industrial wood construction. ”This removes a significant deficiency from the industry, now that we finally have a harmonised standard,” says Mikko Viljakainen, Managing Director of Puuinfo. Markku Karjalainen, Development Manager of the Wood Construction Programme at the Ministry of Employment and the Economy believes that the open standard will accelerate the breakthrough of industrial wood construction. 木材作为建筑材料对健康的积极影响 According to Professor Matti Kairi of Aalto University, in Europe there have been positive experiences about the health effects of wood construction. Wood is seen as part of good resident-centred architecture and living environments. ”Wood is considered aesthetically beautiful and calming, at its best a material that is beneficial to care work,” says Kairi. The impact of wood and forests on the human mind has been researched surprisingly extensively in different parts of the world. Japan and Norway have done thorough research, according to which it can be said that wood has a positive psychological effect. Architecturally harmonious solutions, a restful palette of colours, a pleasant living environment and wood as a building material stimulate aesthetic pleasure, increase the feeling of calmness and thus make people feel good. 建在坦佩雷的现代木质住宅区 Seven kilometres from the centre of Tampere, a new small town for 13,000 residents called Vuores will be built. The City of Tampere has set an ambitious target for the project - to carry out future construction by combining high-quality architecture, ecological building, a sense of unity, high technology and proximity to nature. The Vuores project will include a small modern district of 4,000 inhabitants called Isokuusi. 埃斯波市和阿尔托大学正合力推广木结构建筑 Aalto University, the Ministry of Employment and the City of Espoo are working together to develop wood construction. The aim is to combine science, technology, design and architecture with the energy-efficient construction of the future. 环境部长Ville Niinistö: 发展木建筑对拯救自然资源很有必要 The Minister of the Environment, Mr Ville Niinistö, who is in charge of Finland’s climate policy, considers it necessary that new, more material efficient and energy efficient solutions are found in construction. Using concrete in construction has a large carbon footprint in terms of natural resource consumption and is coming to the end of its path, says Niinistö. Bearing in mind climate goals, the construction industry, too, must move on to low-emission materials. Niinistö sees wood building as a good example of the possibilities in the green economy and a step towards sustainable consumption. Increasing building with wood has significant influence not only on reaching the climate goals, but also on product development, export and employment. Finland has a chance to showcase wood building as one of its expertise areas in urban planning and to thus promote its export in the field of construction know-how, says Minister Ville Niinistö. 木材在芬兰建筑产业地位日益巩固 The Association of Wood Product Industry in Finland (Puutuoteteollisuus) joined forces with The Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries RT (Rakennusteollisuus RT ry) in January. The Managing Director of the Association, Mr Mikko Viljakainen, stresses that the construction industry is currently going through a time of transition. EU regulations, together with national ones, climate change, and requirements for improved energy and material efficiency all pose new challenges for future building.- We do not imagine the new regulations will be based on terms set by wood alone, but we see it as important that wood has a role in them, as an ecological, renewable material, says Viljakainen. 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