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__label__cc	0.749723	0.250277	« killer cops Selena: Como la Flor » Sat Sep 24th 2016 by abagond Disclaimer: I have not been to the museum. This post is based on media hype in the Guardian, New Yorker and The Root that came out before the museum opened. NMAAHC (2016-), the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, is the first national museum of Black history in the US. It opens today, Saturday September 24th 2016, a 101-year-old dream come true. It was opened by President Obama, the country’s first Black president. It is not the Smithsonian’s first Black museum: it has an African art museum and the Black-oriented Anacostia Community Museum. The metalwork matches that made by Black craftsmen in Charleston and New Orleans. The building is brown while next door the Smithsonian’s (White) American history museum is white! NMAAHC looks like a modern art museum, not a Roman temple. The shape is based on the crown of an African queen, its angles matching those of the nearby Washington monument. David Adjaye, a British-Ghanaian architect, was the lead designer. Lower floors: Because of height limits, half the building is underground. That is used to effect: when you take the elevator to the bottom, it counts the years backwards like a time machine: 2015 … 1776 … to the early 1400s. You soon find yourself in a slave ship! From there you work your way up through history to the ground floor, going through slavery, civil war, Emancipation, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, the inauguration of President Obama, all the way to Black Lives Matter. Freedom is still a work in progress. The slave cabin that is now at the NMAAHC (and in better repair). It is not a feel-good history: revolution is set next to counter-revolution, atrocity against protest. “It takes a nation of millions to hold us back.” You see the auction block – and shackles made for a child. You see a statue of Thomas Jefferson and his fine words, but behind him on the wall are the names of his slaves, one brick, one slave. Later you stand in a real slave cabin built in the 1840s: it feels like you are back in time. You see a Klan hood – and walk past the casket of Emmett Till. The P-Funk Mothership Artefacts: NMAAHC has thousands of artefacts, everything from Nat Turner’s Bible to Michael Jackson’s fedora, from a Tuskegee airmen training plane to the P-Funk Mothership; from the dress Rosa Parks was sewing the day she got arrested, to the dress Michelle Obama wore the day she became First Lady. Food from the Sweet Home Cafe. Upper floors: After travelling through history, you can sit in the Contemplative Court (or maybe eat at the Sweet Home Cafe) before moving on to the upper floors to see Black achievements in art, music, sports, science and politics, from Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves to Ben Carson’s lab coat to J Dilla’s MPC. You can see art from people like Kara Walker, Joshua Johnson, Robert Duncanson and Mae Weems. The view: After the art museum you get a wonderful view where you can see the White House and the memorials to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. President Obama is glad the museum is opening this weekend in the wake of Charlotte and Tulsa: maybe it will help the country to understand what it is going through. Tickets are free but you might have to reserve online in advance. Bits of broken stained glass from the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. Tips on visiting DC Charlotte and Tulsa 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Sounds amazing I would love to visit the museum. on Sun Sep 25th 2016 at 00:00:17 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord) The African American History Museum is cool, But, right now, that’s like opening up a holocaust museum during the middle of a holocaust. on Sun Sep 25th 2016 at 00:01:22 Fan ... I wonder if this historical museum will have any exhibitions/revelations on items like this: http://www.blacklistednews.com/_Pentagon_Admits_To_Using_Black_Soldiers_As_Test_Subjects_During_WWII/54248/0/38/38/Y/M.html Police – Hospitals – Vaccinations – GMO/Hybrid foods – Governments: untrustworthy systems, imo. on Sun Sep 25th 2016 at 00:05:39 Deb Abagond, thank you for this. I wish I was better-equipped to write about all that is going on in these alleged United States of America like you. I’m not. On CNN, juxtaposed against the opening of the Museum are the deaths of Keith Scott and Terence Crutcher and I’m just undone. Thank you for being “The Lighthouse” my Brother — just thank you. The slave cabin was taken from Edisto Island, the birthplace of my Mama’s family. I’ll be going to the Museum as soon as I can work it out with my sons’ schedules, because I want them to see it and tie it into the summers they spent on the island every summer when my Mama would take them in Charleston to give me and the husband a break every year, no matter where w were stationed. I’m so damned FULL right now, Family — a state in which I’ve been since moving back home in 2014. From the deaths of Denzell Curnell (http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2014/07/15/denzel-curnell-shooting-read-the-officers-full-account), Walter Scott, the Emanuel 9, Joyce Curnell (http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20160224/PC16/160229636), Keith Scott (his mother lives here on one of the barrier islands right outside of Charleston — I’m fckin’ emotionally, spiritually and physically whipped. Thank you so much for telling the stories, Brother. I appreciate you, more than you will ever know… @Deb: Keep your head up Sis stay strong. I wonder how many white people will visit the museum will it cause them to think about this system their forefathers and ancestors created? If and when they visit will they care or understand that black lives do truly matter? Is it a coincidence that the opening of the museum with all of our history happened in the middle of the police killings of black men and the protest of those killings. Yet a large segment of white Americans want to tell us to forget the past and stop talking about racism it find that to be ironic. on Sun Sep 25th 2016 at 00:47:13 DB Are you kidding, it will probably be predominantly white people visiting this after the initial novelty wears off. White people love to visit this sort of stuff and take it very seriously, without them there be hardly any visitors. This past summer some old white lady, with her own money, started her own African-American museum somewhere in the South. on Sun Sep 25th 2016 at 00:56:39 resw This why you don’t let non- “African Americans” tell “African-American” history. They didn’t even have the decency to get an African-American architect. They had to import an African from Britain, just like they passed off a half-white/half-Kenyan President and convinced everyone he was the same as every other “African-American”. Second, the design is ugly and highly compromised. Maybe its original concept would have been marginally acceptable, but they have bastardized it. I’ll bet it won’t last 40 years. Third, it focuses too much on slavery, segregation and entertainment, in true stereotypical form. Seriously lacking on inventors and pioneers. I will boycott it, just like I boycotted the Chinese-designed MLK memorial down there. on Sun Sep 25th 2016 at 01:21:19 dorisjean23 This museum is amazing, I can’t wait to bring my daughters there – they are still young and have no idea what their ancestors went through. on Sun Sep 25th 2016 at 01:50:13 Angela Alexander Reblogged this on Teach2Know. on Sun Sep 25th 2016 at 02:00:48 starrone83 @resw You make some great points. I too think the story of African Americans should be told by us and only us. Just like the wave of African American historical movies are being directed by Black Brits or are usually starring Black Brits (12 Years a Slave, Selma, etc.) I find that undermining. And I did not know the Chinese built the MLK monument in DC. Just wow. on Sun Sep 25th 2016 at 10:57:13 nomad resw ‘just like they passed off a half-white/half-Kenyan President and convinced everyone he was the same as every other “African-American”.’ great point starrone83 ‘Chinese built the MLK monument in DC’ It’s by design. Black Americans are being reengineered. They’ve already transformed us from advocates of civil rights to lovers of war. on Sun Sep 25th 2016 at 14:42:32 blakksage “Third, it focuses too much on slavery, segregation and entertainment, in true stereotypical form. Seriously lacking on inventors and pioneers. I will boycott it, just like I boycotted the Chinese-designed MLK memorial down there.” – resw This is very true. Personally, get the feeling that this museum is designed to lull Black folks to sleep, … again. Just as soon as more of us are becoming conscious of the cyclical propensity of Amerika to manufacture the appearance of social progress, when in fact, the social clock has been reset to circa 1860, … in 2016 (smh). The so-called elite whites in positions of power are continually studying us to counter our awakening as a people. They do this by sliding a few crumbs off of the table in the direction of a few selected darkies, in order to pacify the billowing discontent that is currently sweeping Amerika amongst Black people. I don’t give a crap about the opening of a museum because black men, women and children are still being shot down in the streets of Amerika by white police officers without provocation or justification and without sincere judicial redress. I could care less about this museum because the ushering in of mass incarceration of Black people has officially replaced slavery. I don’t give a sh#t about this museum of history because it’s actually Black holocaust museum. Trust me, an appropriately titled holocaust building recognizing our wretched history in this bedeviled country would not only signify, but mean much more to the restoration of our collective psyche. As for myself, I refer to a goldfish as a goldfish, a museum as a museum and a holocaust memorial as a holocaust memorial when it involves the intentional, mass slaughtering of human beings for no other reason than for being who they are. Group manipulation of a people to get them to not act at all or to act against their own self interest is quite easy these days through mass media or tell-lie-vision and referring to things by titling or naming of buildings other than what they truly are. This is done so to keep a certain group of people in a state of docility. The only thing different regarding today’s mass incarceration (slavery) and the actual period of slavery is the method and its gradient has been substantially lessened. Nonetheless, it’s still a form of subjugation under the hegemony of white supremacy. Rest assured, this museum alone profoundly testifies against this country history of brutality against us. But yet, some presuppose that all so-called African-Americans are supposed to be happy-go-lucky KneeGroes due to the opening of a museum. Not here! When those fake jueISH, Khazarian people commemorate their fallen ones, they do so at a holocaust memorial, … not a museum. Black folks on this board should asking themself the following question: Why is it that we commemorate our 300 brutal years of historical which lasted merely 12 years (1933-1945)? Instead of KneeGroes getting happy about this museum, they should be mad as hell and enough to move us in the direction of organized rebellion and refrain from petty quarrelling amongst us. I remain unimpressed and will not be placated by the opening of a museum. However, to each his own! Holocaust – destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. Museum – a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited. Abagond, I apologize for this long rant. Why is it that we commemorate our 300 cumulative years of brutalization with a museum as opposed to a holocaust memorial, such as the fake jueISH people, which lasted merely 12 years (1933-1945)? on Mon Sep 26th 2016 at 05:53:32 Deb @ Mary Burrell…Thanx for the love, Lil Sis — I’m workin’ through it. There’s another young Lil Sis like you I’ve had on instant replay lately (helping me to GET why I’m back here): (https://youtu.be/uZ5V6QuAC24) on Mon Sep 26th 2016 at 13:53:17 villagewriter I love that the museum is not designed with European heritage pillars and domes, like the ones of the temple of the Roman god Baccus. It sends a message that this is not just any museum but the museum of African American history. People passing by will ask themselves, what is that, what is it for and why is it so different? Then they go inside and take a journey. One day I will see it. on Mon Sep 26th 2016 at 15:53:31 resw @starrone83 “I find that undermining. And I did not know the Chinese built the MLK monument in DC.” IMO that’s 100% intentional. “The so-called elite whites in positions of power are continually studying us to counter our awakening as a people. ” Barack Obama is the perfect example. It’s all an illusion. “I love that the museum is not designed with European heritage pillars and domes, like the ones of the temple of the Roman god Baccus.” Different is good, but I just don’t find it aesthetically pleasing. And I’d rather it have some greater meaning representative of “African American History and Culture”. The story about it symbolically representing a “corona” is just hogwash. Whose corona? No ” ” African American’s! Rather one from “Yoruban art from West Africa”. And I googled “Yoruba corona” and I couldn’t find any image that really resembles this monstrosity. But that’s not the bad part. Yoruba leaders were some of the biggest middlemen in the Atlantic slave trade. So why the NMAAHC is honouring the Yoruban leadership when most “African Americans” don’t even have Yoruban ancestry is beyond me. (Let’s not also forget that pillars and domes are originally African concepts and Bacchus is a derivative of an African god worshipped primarily in Meroe before anyone ever heard of Rome.) Everybody has an opinion on what is aesthetically good or bad; its in the eye of the beholder. To me, the design is formal and good enough for a museum. Do you prefer a Roman style or Egyptian style design? @Others I don’t understand the bile against Alexander Mc Queen and other black directors and actors from other countries depicting African Americans in movies or directing movies about African Americans. In most movies I have watched African Americans depict Africans. For instance, Invictus, Sarafina, Concussion, Black Panther and many others. I personally don’t mind but I do want to know where all the resistance and bile is coming from. This argument about who should depict who in movies and who should wear what and so on, is a deep hole that will get us nowhere. Its a little xenophobic but I kind of understand the mistrust. The Museum design was chosen by a group of people (I believe most of the members were AA’s) from several designs that were presented. The Architect did pick inspiration from AA experience in the past and the present and from Yoruba’s. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/q-and-a-with-architect-david-adjaye-18968512/ http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/david-adjaye-african-american-museum-160922170433117.html “Everybody has an opinion on what is aesthetically good or bad; its in the eye of the beholder.” Agree, and that’s why I only spoke for myself. “Do you prefer a Roman style or Egyptian style design?” (1) I’d prefer something designed by an actual black person from America, excluding recent immigrants from Africa or elsewhere, or ad minimum, something that pays homage to what famous African American architects designed. (2) Again, I’d prefer something that has a meaning that relates to “African Americans”, not some lame excuse for a “Yoruban corona”. (3) The existing concept was better IMO. What we have now is a rooftop box that does not match the architecture of the rest of the building, and a whole bunch of utilitarian holes throughout the “corona” that undermine the architect’s original concept. “I believe most of the members were AA’s” I hate to break it to you, but I counted 5 out of 10 on the design selection “jury” who were not. And then the design had to go through the majority-white NCPC and the majority-white CFA, and substantial changes were made. on Tue Sep 27th 2016 at 02:17:08 villagewriter So, you wanted it to be an entirely African American affair. I am sorry but your logic is missing something very important here, that AA history did not begin during slavery. I have read countless articles criticizing the idea that AA history began with slavery. That was the point of the African aesthetic to the design of the building. You also seem unaware that African Americans are involved in various projects in Africa too.From your arguments it seems like there was a conspiracy by Africans to steal from AA’s and that there was no major involvement by AAs in the construction of the building. Are you sure you are specifically angry about the building or is your rant inspired by something deeper and more sinister? Here is the crown of the Yoruba Queen; the inspiration behind the design of the museum. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1996.558/ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/15/smithsonian-national-museum-african-american-history-washington-architecture-review on Tue Sep 27th 2016 at 03:26:02 Afrofem Thank you for that link. on Tue Sep 27th 2016 at 15:08:02 resw “I am sorry but your logic is missing something very important here, that AA history did not begin during slavery.” No, that’s not my logic, which is my first comment on this page stated my complaint that the museum “focuses too much on slavery”. And as we can see, the original design of the building has been compromised. And what does a Yoruba Queen’s crown have to do with “African Americans”? That she sold a few of them into slavery? Yoruba cro “From your arguments it seems like there was a conspiracy by Africans to steal from AA’s and that there was no major involvement by AAs in the construction of the building” You can draw whatever conclusion you wish, all I did was stated the facts. It’s a fact that only 50% of the selection committee was black (on the outside at least), a fact that the architect was a foreigner, a fact that the design was changed multiple times after review by majority white NCPC and CFA. “You also seem unaware that African Americans are involved in various projects in Africa too.” Not sure what facts you based that on, and I have no clue how that’s remotely relevant. While you are entitled to your suspicions, I just don’t see the basis for them, I am sorry. The building was not just the work of one architect but only one architect was British-Ghanaian, the rest were African Americans. The director of the museum is African American, the money that went into building it partly came from African Americans, the opening ceremony was attended by African Americans. I think you smelled the rat after it had died, decayed and turned to dust. African American are involved in projects similar to the museum in Africa and a number are also involved in telling African stories (Abagond for instance). I hope that was clear enough- and I think it is pretty relevant. I finally found the “corona” crown you were looking for. Have a long careful look at it, you might just spot the museum’s design. You complain the museum deals too much with slavery but you have not seen it yet . You are angry that a Yoruba crown was used as an inspiration, yet there are African Americans that through DNA analysis have Yoruba ancestors and the Yoruba are part of their story. You complain that the design of the museum had to be approved by the NCPC and CFA and I am starting to wonder whether you approve that the Museum is a reality because of white President Bush. I am afraid you are beginning to sound like the conspiracy theorists who think the world is ruled by Reptilians. “While you are entitled to your suspicions, I just don’t see the basis for them, I am sorry.” Not sure what suspicions you’re referring to. The facts are just the facts. “The building was not just the work of one architect but only one architect was British-Ghanaian, the rest were African Americans. ” Doesn’t change the FACT that the LEAD DESIGNER, the one who actually conceived of the building’s original design, was a foreigner, NOT an “African American”. “The director of the museum is African American” And? That doesn’t change the fact that mostly whites had to approve the design and that they changed it, nor does it change the fact that the museum is still a Smithsonian, whose board is mostly white. “African American are involved in projects similar to the museum in Africa and a number are also involved in telling African stories” And? That has nothing to do with the NMAAHC. “Have a long careful look at it, you might just spot the museum’s design” If you take a “long careful look,” you’d see that the silly crown has two inverted trapezoids, not three. The white committees dictated the change to three. And there’s not box on top of it, another change dictated by the white committees. But more important, you and anyone else buying the lame excuse are basing it on one single Yoruban statue out of the thousands of depictions of “Yoruban crowns” that look NOTHING like it. Of course any Yoruban would be much more familiar with this crown: And once again, you couldn’t even explain what a Yoruban crown on one single statue has to do with African Americans. The museum should have been built in the sky to fit all your requirements; I mean if I was thinking like you, the museum should not have been built by white workers, the engineers should all have been black, and maybe even the visitors should be black. The British Ghanaian guy participated in a competition and won. So far, no one involved in the choosing of the design has complained about that decision. I think you should leave the Ghanaian out of your “conspiracy” theories and go for the jugular of the 50% African Americans (that’s a significant number) responsible for the decision. Your assertions are based on irrational perception not solid facts. The pictures you presented are not the ones that inspired the designer. The carving did. Maybe you can share a link where the designer says that he also used your pictures for inspiration if not, your baseless argument remain baseless. Again the Yoruba are part of African Americans and black Brazilian history. Do you want the museum to deny that fact? People who believe in reptilians also think they have facts. No what you call facts are just perceptions that have do with something else other than the design of the museum. The “foreigner” as you call him, became involved in the project with the approval of African Americans; if you want someone to blame, blame them. It has everything to do with the Museum. I think you are being intellectually dishonest here. If African Americans can handle African projects so can Africans. The knife cuts both ways. Had an African said the same thing about an African American that you are saying about the Ghanaian it would have turned into a perfect storm. Your assertions are xenophobic and fact-less. You are going after the “foreigner” because he is easy prey for you. At the same time you are disrespecting the African Americans involved in the project because you seem to think they had had bad judgement in their decisions. They were not tied to the wall and forced to pick a design at gun point; or maybe they did. “You complain the museum deals too much with slavery but you have not seen it yet” I do not have to see it to know what exhibits there are and what’s in the collection. You do know that information is online. And where’s the exhibit on technology? THERE ISN’T ONE. “You are angry that a Yoruba crown was used as an inspiration” I don’t recall saying I was angry about anything. I’ve expressed my complaints, and others have expressed their agreement with them. “yet there are African Americans that through DNA analysis have Yoruba ancestors and the Yoruba are part of their story” There are also African Americans “that through DNA analysis have” Mexican ancestry and the Mexicans “are part of their story”. If that’s your logic, they should have considered a design resembling a sombrero too. But the facts are that very few African Americans have ever taken a DNA test (which are proven to be seriously flawed, I might add), and Yoruban leadership sold the ancestors of African Americans into slavery. I understand why an African designer would choose to honour them, but an African American? Baffling. “I am afraid you are beginning to sound like the conspiracy theorists who think the world is ruled by Reptilians” Sorry, but I didn’t theorize about anything. Your nonacceptance of the facts is by no means invalidation. “The pictures you presented are not the ones that inspired the designer. The carving did. ” No sh!t. If you read I explained exactly how the white committees altered the original design, and how the basis for the original design is not representative of the vast majority of “Yoruban crowns”. Not even close. And that’s also a fact. “People who believe in reptilians also think they have facts.” LOL! Because you can’t accept or refute any of the facts, you’re derailing the discussion to talk about reptilians. How pathetic. “The “foreigner” as you call him, became involved in the project with the approval of African Americans; if you want someone to blame, blame them.” I do blame them, but as I stated, the design selection committee was only 50% African American anyway. “It has everything to do with the Museum.” And yet you still can’t explain WHAT it has to do with the museum. “Your assertions are xenophobic and fact-less.” Based on your odd logic, maybe. But certainly not according to any dictionary definition. And I must LOL @ ““The “foreigner” as you call him” No, he IS a foreigner, and that’s a fact, not a conspiracy theory. Well if you want to add Mexican history go right ahead, add it but that does not cancel out the fact that there are AA’s that have Yoruba ancestors. A sombrero is a great idea too and Mexicans also have African DNA (there was slavery there too). I mean the museum is NMAAHC has an ‘H’ standing for history. So far, you have denied that you don’t want AA history to be limited to slavery (which is part of your history) but at the same time you don’t want anything about the Yoruba involved (they are also part of your history). By the way slavery in West Africa is very complicated (not black and white); start pointing fingers and you might end up pointing fingers at most of the ethnic groups Americans are descended from; unless you “have no African ancestry”. Maybe you are everything else but not African. You might as well deny your African ancestry. BTW DNA analysis is a pretty solid science; of course, there is room for improvement but it is the most accurate way of establishing someone’s descent. As you lol, let me just clarify that my point was that you are blaming the accomplished architect for the decisions of others (that your conspiracy theory). Childish much. I am sorry but the fact remains that the Yoruban Carving of a queen with a crown is the inspiration for the designer not your pictures. So, your assertions still remain stuck in the baseless section. Again, no facts were presented by you for me to refute. Try again, okay. And the 50% were helpless and threatened at gun point? I don’t think so. Or maybe you think they turned into zombies. I mean its possible considering the scope of your logic. “I’d prefer something designed by an actual black person from America, excluding recent immigrants from Africa or elsewhere, or ad minimum, something that pays homage to what famous African American architects designed.” Him being foreign is not really the issue is it? You made it clear here that you don’t want recent African immigrants involved either; that is xenophobia, in fact you sound like Trump . I mean that’s the definition of pathetic. There goes your “odd logic” argument. I have explained it. You must have missed my explanation as you were cooking up another “factual” conspiracy. Don’t blame me like you blame the designer for other people’s undoing-Pleease, I swear I am innocent. “As you lol, let me just clarify that my point was that you are blaming the accomplished architect for the decisions of others” And where’s the quote where I did that? You don’t need to make up stories to try (desperately) to make a point. “they are also part of your history” You don’t know a thing about my history. Speak for yourself. “BTW DNA analysis is a pretty solid science” But you could have at least spent a couple of minutes researching before proving your ignorance. Numerous studies published “I am sorry but the fact remains that the Yoruban Carving of a queen with a crown is the inspiration for the designer not your pictures.” I’m the first one who said the design was based on a “Yoruban Cornona” FYI. And no one said that it was based on something else. Clearly you can’t read or are being deliberately misleading. My guess is the latter. “Again, no facts were presented by you for me to refute.” LOL. Now you’ve resorted to outright lying. Wow, that actually passes for debate on this blog these days. “And the 50% were helpless and threatened at gun point?” Again, I said “I do blame them”, so why are you still arguing about it? Regardless, 50% does not a majority make, genius. “that is xenophobia, in fact you sound like Trump” Derail again because all of your arguments have failed. “I have explained it. ” And your explanation had nothing to do with the NMAAHC. “And where’s the quote where I did that? You don’t need to make up stories to try (desperately) to make a point. ” The designer designed a building based on a Yoruba curving. You have consistently called his design ugly and said that he is lying about what inspired him because you could not find it online. You are blaming him for the decision of some people who decided that his “ugly design” was the best. Oh, but I know quite a lot about African American history and if you call yourself African American the Yoruba’s are part of your history. Aren’t you the one emphasizing that they sold African Americans as slaves. Is your brain shutting down. “But you could have at least spent a couple of minutes researching before proving your ignorance. Numerous studies published ” Please present your numerous studies and facts. Pathetic. Yeah the corona on the curving of the Queen. FYI the curving is in the Museum too. Can you stop acting like a drooling idiot. No, Mr or Mrs Loler, your arguments are based on assumptions and putting blame on people who are actually innocent. I beginning to suspect you are not really African American. Then stop attacking the designer, attack them. No I am pretty sure you sound like Trump and I have given my reasons why I think so. Your arguments are based on xenophobia, pseudo science and misguided assumptions. It has everything to do with it. That is half of the decision makers. If they all decided that the design was ugly they would have prevented the decision to pick the “foreigners” design. If the process was not carried out properly they would have complained. But your brain just exploded with irrational conspiracy theories. 50% is a significant number. Now, try stretching your challenged thinking capacity and imagine an America where 50% of the population is black and significant number of them is well aware of how politics work. That would be a very different more accepting USA. Stop blaming the designer and grow up for a change. “That is half of the decision makers.” And? I disagree with the decision. And as you seem to have forgotten, the only reason I raised the issue in the first place was to refute your belief that “most of the members were AA’s”, which is FALSE. ” But your brain just exploded with irrational conspiracy theories.” Then it should be easy for you to quote just one of them. But you can’t because it’s all in your little brain. “Stop blaming the designer and grow up for a change.” No surprise you couldn’t even copy a single quote where anyone did that. Sorry your lies didn’t work out for ya. “LOL. Now you’ve resorted to outright lying. Wow, that actually passes for debate on this blog these days. ” The premise of your arguments is firmly embedded in assumptions about the decision making process and the inspiration for the design. About the design: You insinuate that the designer lied about his inspiration. After I present the curving, you present a group of photos that the designer never said inspired him. You call that a fact? About DNA You claim their are numerous studies about DNA analysis being unreliable.You present no links to prove your assertion. About foreigners: You say you don’t want recent African immigrants involved in the Museum even though they are also Americans- tha’ts xenophobia. I think this is behind your clear disapproval for the designer too. You are not debating me. You are giving your opinion and I am criticizing your misguided opinions. Okay. If you disagree with the decision then blame the decision makers and stop insinuating that they were helpless in the decision making process. I mean calling you a liar would be a disservice to real liars. I said I “believe” I did not say I was sure or it was factual. And when you said they were 50% I did not say you were lying, I responded by saying that 50% is a significant number. I actually think you are a childish person. Had you been an actual child I would have ignored your comments. Your comments are all over this comment section if I was lying someone would have called me out for it. SERIOUSLY, GROW UP. ” You have consistently called his design ugly” Yes, I’m entitled to my opinion. Why does that offend you? “and said that he is lying about what inspired him because you could not find it online. ” Another lie of yours. Where’s the quote? “Oh, but I know quite a lot about African American history and if you call yourself African American” And when did I call myself anything? Where’s the quote? “Please present your numerous studies and facts.” Since googling is too hard for you to do: http://www.senseaboutscience.org/data/files/resources/119/Sense-About-Genetic-Ancestry-Testing.pdf http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/genetic-ancestry-testing-is-an-inexact-science-task-force-says/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/9912822/DNA-ancestry-tests-branded-meaningless.html http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/10/18_genetictesting.shtml “Yeah the corona on the curving of the Queen. FYI the curving is in the Museum too” And? Who said it wasn’t? Here you are arguing over something else of no relevance, because your previous argument completely failed. “No I am pretty sure you sound like Trump and I have given my reasons why I think so. ” And? Your opinion about what sounds like Trump has absolutely nothing to do with the NMAAHC. Yet another diversion. “You insinuate that the designer lied about his inspiration. After I present the curving, you present a group of photos that the designer never said inspired him. ” Never happened. Either you can’t read or are lying again, just like you’ve already done numerous times. “I actually think you are a childish person.” Because I called you out on your lies? Then maybe stop lying and stick to the facts. Not reptilians, Trump or making up things and passing them off as my ideas. I will look at your links for DNA tests and reply with my own links. No, childish people rarely offend me. And your opinion is based on xenophobic logic. Here is your comment: And I googled “Yoruba corona” and I couldn’t find any image that really resembles this monstrosity. You were insinuating that the designer was lying about his inspiration. That is why I used the phrase “if you call yourself” but your shifty mind must have sparked with another conspiracy. I don’t care who you are (maybe you are reptilian for all I care) and “if” you are not African American why is the museum design boring a hole in your childish brain. It has relevance because you presented pictures and allegedly searched online and could not find the Corona the designer was referring to. Had you spent time researching about his inspirations your idiocy would not have poured on this comment section. Telling me my argument has failed is your opinion. My opinion is that your arguments are baseless and you are reporting to calling me a liar to divert attention from your xenophobic arguments that are filled with assumptions. “And? Your opinion about what sounds like Trump has absolutely nothing to do with the NMAAHC. Yet another diversion.”‘ You sound like Trump because you are xenophobic. “Here is your comment” And where’s the part where I said “he is lying about what inspired him”? Oh right, you made that part up because you’re a liar. “but your shifty mind must have sparked with another conspiracy” And you still couldn’t copy a single quote to prove your lie. “It has relevance because you presented pictures and allegedly searched online and could not find the Corona the designer was referring to.” Yes, to make the point that most “Yoruban coronas” were not like this one. It is an exception. If you could read, you would’ve figured that out by now. “Telling me my argument has failed is your opinion.” It’s fact since you didn’t prove your points. Sorry, you can only blame yourself for your own failures. And that opinion has no relevance to the NMAAHC. You can’t stay on topic because you don’t know anything about the topic. I take back what I said about DNA testing. The links you gave me were quite informative. They all seem to be pointing out that finding your exact ancestors or ethnic group you descend from is not possible and that it also depends on the methods used to test your DNA. Probably that’s why they offer more than one possible ethnic group for some people who use ancestry.com to find their ancestry. It is possible to find the origin of your ancestors using a combination of historical records and genetic information according to Sense-about-genes. As far as ancestry testing is concerned it is not easy but DNA testing is still a good way to find people who are related. I said you insinuated that he was lying. Try using a dictionary next time. Actually I listed the conspiracy theories you were spewing on this comment section. Remember insinuating that the 50% were somehow helpless in the decision making process and that there was a conspiracy to pick the ugliest design for the museum. Did your memory go on a vacation. Had you researched about the designer you would have found out the Corona he was talking about. But you thought he was party of a larger conspiracy. Pathetic. “It’s a fact since you didn’t prove your points. Sorry, you can only blame yourself for your own failures.” I have proven my points and even copied and pasted your exact comments. Again your shifty mind thinks I have failed. Don’t blame me for your comprehension challenge. It has relevance because you made it relevant by saying that recent African migrants should not be involved in the design of the African American design. You are xenophobic. It has relevance because you made it relevant by saying that recent African migrants should not be involved in the design of the NMAAHC design. You are xenophobic. Your exact comments: I’d prefer something designed by an actual black person from America, excluding recent immigrants from Africa or elsewhere, or ad minimum, something that pays homage to what famous African American architects designed. Again, I’d prefer something that has a meaning that relates to “African Americans”, not some lame excuse for a “Yoruban corona”. I wonder how many African Americans hold the view that African immigrants should not be involved in the design of monuments that celebrate African Americans. David Adjaye’s country of origin Ghana has offered AA’s who want to move to Africa an option to become citizens in the country. AA’s are involved in various projects that tell African stories, African fashion industry, African movie industry. They are everywhere from Ghana to South Africa. I am not sure whether Resw is reptilian or AA but I would love to hear from a real AA about this matter. “I take back what I said about DNA testing” Of course you will because you showed everyone what an ignorant fool you are. It’s another thing you were wrong about and another thing I had to educate you on today. Yet instead of thanking me, you continue your nonsense. I guess you forgot that was AFTER your lie that I “said that he is lying about what inspired him”. You just switched it up after your lie was called out. “Actually I listed the conspiracy theories you were spewing on this comment section. ” Another lie. You just don’t stop. And again, where’s the quote? “Had you researched about the designer you would have found out the Corona he was talking about” And had you researched, you’d see that that corona doesn’t resemble the vast majority of “Yoruban coronas”. That’s the point. “I have proven my points and even copied and pasted your exact comments” You haven’t proven a thing except that you were wrong on many of your arguments (do I need to list them?) and lied about most of the rest. So anyone can see that all you’ve proven was that you’re ignorant and a liar. “It has relevance because you made it relevant by saying that recent African migrants should not be involved in the design of the African American design. You are xenophobic” Those are not my words, and since you clearly don’t know what “xenophobic” means, here is the definition: “fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners”. So where’s the quote where I said anything to express fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners let alone anyone. I’ll wait. “Of course you will because you showed everyone what an ignorant fool you are. It’s another thing you were wrong about and another thing I had to educate you on today. Yet instead of thanking me, you continue your nonsense”” Now I am definitely not going to thank you; because you are clearly gloating. I may have been ignorant about the specifics of the science involved but it is still possible to trace ancestry using a combination of DNA tests and Historical records. The tests do give generalized answers but it gives the person tested an idea of who were his or her descendants. Note: The argument was not just about the DNA but the museum and who was supposed to design it or not. “I guess you forgot that was AFTER your lie that I “said that he is lying about what inspired him”. You just switched it up after your lie was called out. ” I said you insinuated; meaning you gave the impression that there was something amiss with the designers claims about what inspired him. I will continue drumming this into your head and until you absorb it. “Another lie. You just don’t stop. And again, where’s the quote? ” Remember insinuating that the 50% were somehow helpless in the decision making process and that there was a conspiracy to pick the ugliest design for the museum. Did your memory go on a vacation. That is the answer I will continue giving you. Again, the designer was not inspired by the vast majority of coronas but the specific corona on the head of the carving-thus the carving is included in the Museum. Drink some water and read that again. – have proven that you are a childish xenophobe. -I have proven that the museum designer was inspired by a carving with a corona. -I have proven that most of your comments are based on assumptions and suspicions about the bodies that approved the design including the group that had 50% African Americans. “Those are not my words, and since you clearly don’t know what “xenophobic” means, here is the definition: “fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners”. ” They are a paraphrase of your words and I provided a copy pasted comment from you. I know the meaning of xenophobic. Your assertions against including African immigrants in the design of the museum is based on the fact they are “foreign” to you; they are the “other”. Wikipedia: Xenophobia is the fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange.[1][2] Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity.[3] Xenophobia can also be exhibited in the form of an “uncritical exaltation of another culture” in which a culture is ascribed “an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality”.[3] If these are not the reason you want them excluded, I am very curious why you prefer that they be left out. Are you still waiting? “Now I am definitely not going to thank you” No surprise. You’ve convinced everyone that you’re not only ignorant and a liar, but now ungrateful. “I said you insinuated” AFTER your lie that I “said that he is lying about what inspired him” And FYI, whatever you think I insinuated is your OPINION. Not fact. Learn the difference. “Remember insinuating that the 50% were somehow helpless in the decision ” And no one did that. Yet another lie. “have proven that you are a childish xenophobe” No, you’ve proven that you don’t know the definition of a xenophone. I had to educate you on that one too. “I have proven that most of your comments are based on assumptions” LOL. And when did that happen? I can’t understand who would stoop so low as to lie as much as you have. It’s unreal. It’s really not that serious. on Tue Sep 27th 2016 at 23:51:03 gro jo resw wrote: “Seriously lacking on inventors and pioneers.” Like Juan Garrido, who explored Florida in 1508, how about Estevanico who “discovered” New Mexico? Funny thing is that they were both born in Africa. on Wed Sep 28th 2016 at 00:23:39 gro jo Wouldn’t your narrow definition exclude them from the pantheon of African American explorers? Would you also exclude Point Du Sable as the founder of Chicago, or Jan Matzeliger since they were born in other parts of the American continent than the USA? That would make three explorers and one inventor you criterion seems to exclude. Say it ain’t so? your criterion “Wouldn’t your narrow definition exclude them from the pantheon of African American explorers? ” And where’d you get that idea. Quote it. on Wed Sep 28th 2016 at 05:16:13 villagewriter No surpriAnd I googled “Yoruba corona” and I couldn’t find any image that really resembles this monstrosity. But that’s not the bad part. se. You’ve convinced everyone that you’re not only ignorant and a liar, but now ungrateful. Gloating again like a child. No appreciation coming from me. Xenophobe here is the proof. Drink another glass of water and read Two insuanuations: Insinuation one: Again, I’d prefer something that has a meaning that relates to “African Americans”, not some lame excuse for a “Yoruban corona”. Insinuation 2: And I googled “Yoruba corona” and I couldn’t find any image that really resembles this monstrosity. Two insinuations in one comment section is enough for me to conclude you thought he was lying. Pathetic. Yet you still can’t answer why you want recent African immigrants excluded in the design of any AA monument. That is evidence of xenophobia. Proves how pathetic you are. You creating an impression that 50% of the decision makers were somehow helpless and could not stop the others from picking the accomplished architect’s design (assumption one). That the designer was allegedly lying when he said he was inspired by a Yoruba corona ( a carving with a corona was his inspiration not your pictures). That the majority CFA and the NCPC somehow conspired to pick the worst possible design because they were a majority white group (another childish conspiracy). You are a conspiracy theorist Resw, that’s what you are. African Americans were involved in significant numbers in the decision making process and they will be the ones running the museum. “Gloating again like a child.” It’s much better than being wrong again like an idiot. “That is evidence of xenophobia.” No, it only proves you still don’t know what “xenophobia” means. “You creating an impression that 50% of the decision makers were somehow helpless ” That’s all in your head. Of course it never happened, which is why you couldn’t even quote it. But lying is your forte. “Yet you still can’t answer why you want recent African immigrants excluded in the design of any AA monument.” If you actually read, it’d be clear that it’s a museum of AFRICAN AMERICAN history and culture. If you want foreigners determining what constitutes African American history and culture, that’s your prerogative. But many African Americans would disagree with you. “You are a conspiracy theorist Resw” And you’ve said that several times and have yet to quote a single example of any conspiracy theory I divulged. What are you waiting for? About the assumptions and conspiracy theories: There is no evidence that the majority white committee dictated anything. Its another of your many conspiracy theories. 50% is a significant number- no evidence that they were pushed to agree with the decision and no evidence that they were not satisfied with the design picked. About the your xenophobic self: “I’d prefer something designed by an actual black person from America, excluding recent immigrants from Africa or elsewhere, or ad minimum, something that pays homage to what famous African American architects designed” You want them excluded because you feel they can dilute the AA experience. There is no other reason you can give that would get you away from the xenophobia bracket. Maybe the museum should have been built in the sky to satisfy your requirements because at every step of the process something tainted by people from another race, country or ethnicity will dilute the purity of the African American symbols. Go right ahead and criticize the builders that built the museum but were not really AA . Maybe they planted a bomb in the building or did not build a firm foundation for it. You are a pathetic xenophobe About the Corona: But that’s not the bad part. ” The Corona that inspired him was a carving from Yoruba people not your collection of conveniently gathered Google Image pictures. You were insinuating that he was lying but he was not. The museum has the carving maybe when you visit you can ask the director what it means. About xenophobia: You want recent African immigrants excluded and you also want children born of African immigrants excluded (Xenophobia) from telling African American history and you don’t think they are actually black (you want them to be pure African American) Disgusting xenophobe. The last time I checked Obama was elected by all races including “the pure AAs” two times. They bastardized it because you assume they did not because you have facts to prove your point. GROW UP @Resw the xenophobe “I will boycott it, just like I boycotted the Chinese-designed MLK memorial down there.” Boycott any AA center, any AA building , any AA monument that was built by any other race or ethnicity different from “pure AAs”. If there was no “pure AA” involvement from its conception, to its design, to its builders: boycott. You see. Hitlerish behavior is not just something observable on white racists but also on xenophobes of any race. The museum has been built and I wish I was there so I could visit it today. If you don’t like it, maybe you should have presented you won design (remember only pure AA designs qualify). Pathetic xenophobe. Putting quotations on the phrase African-American is also a sign that you probably believe that it is not qualifier for pure “AAs”. You do it because you believe that they should have nothing to do with Africa and anything from Africa should not be associated with them. The evidence for this is, you don’t think the inclusion of Yoruba inspired designs was appropriate. If AA history did not begin in slavery times, then the Yoruba and other West African ethnic groups have everything to do with their history. Unless you believe AAs are the new Israelites or are actually Polynesians. If you exclude the African part of the AA story, you will also have to exclude the slavery part and also every other African influence in AA culture. resw, you wrote: “This why you don’t let non- “African Americans” tell “African-American” history. They didn’t even have the decency to get an African-American architect. They had to import an African from Britain, just like they passed off a half-white/half-Kenyan President and convinced everyone he was the same as every other “African-American”.” Since you can’t accept Obama as African American, he was born in the USA, how could you, in good conscience, claim the explorers and inventor who were all born outside the USA, or before there was a USA? “he was born in the USA” Many people were born in the USA. Does that mean they’re African American? resw, I love your sophistries. Nobody can get a straight answer from you, but I’ll try all the same. Do you or do you not consider Juan Garrido, Estevanico, J-B. Point Du Sable and Jan Matzeliger to be non-African Americans due to their births outside the USA, and therefore unworthy of being included in the pantheon of African Americans? If you do, tell me why Obama doesn’t make the cut, as your comment above implies? Explain to me, given the one drop rule, how a half-Kenyan , half-white American like Obama isn’t simply an African American? Yes, if one of their parents is black. Did you repeal the one drop rule? on Wed Sep 28th 2016 at 15:33:11 Afrofem You are working way too hard with resw. He is making outrageous claims and all manner of fallacious arguments that he can’t back up. That is how he operates most of the time. Your well reasoned arguments and documentation (plus gro-jo’s queries) are ignored because resw doesn’t really have any coherent answers. Namecalling is his first and last line of defense. Abagond wrote an enlightening post about levels of disagreement in 2010. It is worth a read. https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/the-seven-levels-of-disagreement/ ◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇◇ As to “pure AA’s”, that is something of an oxymoron. African Americans/Black Americans are a blended people. The blood of four continents flows through our veins: Africa, Europe, The Americas and to a lesser extent, Asia. Nearly all AA’s (like me) have relatives who could pass for European and some who have a “Ghanaian look” and everything in between. We share a group culture, but even that varies from region to region. We are a pretty exogamous group. We tend to intermingle with everyone. It is both a weakness and a strength. on Wed Sep 28th 2016 at 15:42:05 abagond @ villagewriter I agree with Afrofem. Resw is sometimes a troll. You are never going to “persuade” him – especially since he might already secretly agree with you. Just state your side and let reasonable people come to their own conclusions. Afrofem, No way in hell is resw a “he”. I do enjoy her sophistries. Somebody like that should be handled by asking them questions to keep them busy inventing outlandish nonsense. Villagewriter made the mistake of taking resw seriously. ” We are a pretty exogamous group. We tend to intermingle with everyone. It is both a weakness and a strength.” If society is a fraction, does that make Blacks the least common denominator? @Afrofrem The first African American I ever met was a reverend who come to preach out our small Anglican Church in our small town. I could see she was black but then she was also very light-skinned more light-skinned than the Asians (Indians) in our town. I was just a little boy in primary school then. The service that Sunday was great and she couldn’t stop commenting about how everyone was smiling and hugging. She was from Texas and she was friends with the Anglican Arch Bishop of our church diocese. Afrofem, No way in hell is resw a “he”. You may be right! “If society is a fraction, does that make Blacks the least common denominator?” In US society, European descent people are still the least common denominator. Those early European explorers were always “discovering” women of other cultures. on Wed Sep 28th 2016 at 17:43:34 Solitaire “maybe you are reptilian for all I care” “I don’t understand the bile against Alexander Mc Queen and other black directors and actors from other countries depicting African Americans in movies or directing movies about African Americans. In most movies I have watched African Americans depict Africans. For instance, Invictus, Sarafina, Concussion, Black Panther and many others… AA’s are involved in various projects that tell African stories, African fashion industry, African movie industry. They are everywhere from Ghana to South Africa.” I’m European American, not African American, but the trend of non-US black actors starring in movies like “Twelve Years a Slave” had been bothering me as well. You made some very good points that I hadn’t considered before and caused me to start rethinking the matter. I’m still not entirely comfortable with it, but you’re very right to point out that African Americans have played Africans in numerous movies and tv shows like the original “Roots” miniseries. Deleted three of your comments for not calling another commenter by their right name. “You are never going to “persuade” him” Right, because we should all agree with you, Afrofem and villagewriter? Shows how intolerant you are. Another example showing how sexist you are. Keep it coming. “He is making outrageous claims and all manner of fallacious arguments that he can’t back up. ” You clearly have not been following along since in reality villagewriter is the one who’s done nothing but make “fallacious arguments” such as these: Villagewriter said: “I believe most of the members were AA’s” yet 5 of the 10 design selection jury membersare not, e.g., Robert Kogod, Robert Campbell, Adèle Naudé Santos, and James A. Johnson. Villagewriter said: “BTW DNA analysis is a pretty solid science” and after being proven wrong yet again said: “I take back what I said about DNA testing. The links you gave me were quite informative.” Villagewriter said: “There is no evidence that the majority white committee dictated anything” to which I responded with proof, which abagond then deleted. So once again here’s the proof: NCPC changes are here: https://www.ncpc.gov/files/projects/National_Museum_of_African_American_History_and_Culture_Submission_Materials_6331_Mar2014.pdf NCPC member composition is here: https://www.ncpc.gov/ncpc/Main(T2)/About_Us(tr2)/About_Us(tr3)/Commission.html And here’s a great article detailing the changes I discussed earlier: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/museums-galleries/article/20833780/the-design-evolution-of-the-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture Once again Afrofem and villagewriter are proven wrong with facts. Sorry to disappoint your hopes of it being a “conspiracy theory”. So, you own up to being a male? My apologies for the inadvertent gender reassignment. See what happens when you stop trying so hard to be ‘cute’? Now admit that you wrote the nonsense you did about David Adjaye, not because you have a foolproof definition of what an African American is, but because you’re jealous of his success. Come on, it won’t hurt one bit. @Solitare I understand but there are not that many African actors in Hollywood (I hear its had to succeed in the movie industry) but I have noticed that White Australian, Canadian and British actors are getting more gigs in major movies though. “So, you own up to being a male?” No one admitted anything. But nice try, sexist. “Now admit that you wrote the nonsense you did about David Adjaye” The only thing I said about David Adjaye was that he was an “an African from Britain” and a “foreigner” both of which are 100% true. Feel free to refute it with proof. Since you can’t, run along as I think I’ve given you enough of the attention for which you so desperately yearn. God, I’m mad about you! Back you go to being a girl, as far as I’m concerned. on Wed Sep 28th 2016 at 19:52:37 michaeljonbarker I’m not bothered If Blacks play different theatrical roles that are not representative of where they originally came from. I mean isn’t that what actors do ? lol I don’t think it makes the part less authentic and it’s not the same as white actors playing Asian parts in movies. I look at the museum as being a good beginning and I imagine that over the upcoming years more history and recognition of different achievements will be added. Its content will evolve the same way that all museums do. For me it’s less important the back story of how the building was built and more important that what is represented there is presented historically accurate and hasn’t been “white washed” for white people consumption. I’ve always imagined resw as being a white male in an interacial relationship who relates politically more to Ron Paul then to a particular party. I have no idea really and am more concerned with ideas shared then what sort of person shares them. When posters have anonymous names my mind developes pictures of them as a way of remembering them. When Afrofem first posted I imagined a young college student. But the more she posted the older she became in my mind as she shared life experience and wisdom indicating a mature women. I imagine Solitare as my Kindergarten teacher. Gro Jo wears disheaveld attire, is surrounded by books and smokes cigars. Allan Shaw is a teenager. I better stop and don’t take take my mental pictures seriously lol. Not sure how that’s relevant to the NMAAHC. But I guess when you have absolutely nothing to contribute, it’s time for your usual attention-seeking diversion. Obvious that you enjoy the attention I lavish on you. Why respond otherwise? You still owe me an answer to the following: “Do you or do you not consider Juan Garrido, Estevanico, J-B. Point Du Sable and Jan Matzeliger to be non-African Americans due to their births outside the USA, and therefore unworthy of being included in the pantheon of African Americans? If you do, tell me why Obama doesn’t make the cut, as your comment above implies? Explain to me, given the one drop rule, how a half-Kenyan , half-white American like Obama isn’t simply an African American?” Funny. I think you and I see on a similar wavelength. LOL Our biggest difference is perhaps Allan Shaw who I see as an elder retired Mr Potato/Bobble Head who lives in a rose colored bubble complex for exceptional Negroes who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and believes that everyone else should to, no excuses! “I imagine Solitare as my Kindergarten teacher.” My kindergarten teacher was a battle-ax from hll. We were all terrified of her, even the big sixth graders. “When Afrofem first posted I imagined a young college student. But the more she posted the older she became in my mind as she shared life experience and wisdom indicating a mature women.” She said something early on that indicated her approximate age, but for some reason I still see her as a young woman, only in a 1960s/1970s setting. Bell-bottoms, flowers in her hair, black power salute. on Thu Sep 29th 2016 at 00:22:38 Solitaire “So, what am I?” Mel Gibson in “Braveheart” — blue warpaint on your face and roaring defiance at the English. Only a kind of nerdy hipster Mel Gibson, with eyeglasses and a Boston accent. “Abagond is like God in the movies” Thanks, now my image of Abagond looks like Morgan Freeman. on Thu Sep 29th 2016 at 00:39:49 Afrofem @michaeljonbarker @Fan @Solitaire @Lord of Mirkwood Your comments are absolutely hilarious! I think we all mentally fill in how the other commenters look and behave off-line, their life experiences, even the cadences of their voices. Those are the limitations and joys of posting on forums like Abagond’s Cafe. I totally agree with MJB when he says: “I have no idea really and am more concerned with ideas shared then what sort of person shares them.” I think of most of the regular commenters as people who surround themselves with books, magazines, interesting music (whatever that means to them) and like me battle to keep their computer desktop clear of numerous articles, videos and podcast files they constantly consume. For the record, I am a mature Black woman with glasses. I ditched the bell bottoms a while ago and avoided the flowers. LOL! MJB has an approximate image of himself, so I don’t have to guess. Fan – A mature Black man, whose eyes have seen more trouble than they ever wanted to witness in this lifetime. Solitaire – A late 30s White woman with arched eyebrows and an ear for music and conversation. LoM – Young, White man with sandy hair and a thin build. I imagine your voice rising with unrestrained emotion when you discuss either American history or Eire. I’ve been told I still look that young if you ignore the premature gray hair. But I’m pretty sure I’ve said elsewhere that my spouse and I have been together ~30 years, and I don’t want LoM to think I was some barefoot Appalachian child bride! Correction: michaeljonbarker used to post a thumbnail image of himself. Haven’t seen it for a while. on Thu Sep 29th 2016 at 06:32:00 Michael Jon Barker The thumbnail pops up when I log in with Facebook. Clicking it takes you to my FB page. I mostly post from my phone which logs me into WordPress. I don’t work in an office I’m out driving around L.A. everyday. *Clicking my name takes you to my FB page. on Thu Sep 29th 2016 at 10:52:36 Fan ... Sooooo that’s how you see this tenacious poster?? Well thanks!! 🙂 lol How about I share with you how I see myself …. please excuse the rather lengthy summary. I couldn’t plagiarize a substantially shorter internet missive that would do me justice! “I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing. I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook 30-minute brownies in 20 minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru. Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello. I was scouted by the Mets. I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I’m bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge. I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don’t perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life, but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prize-winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.” Oh,I should probably state here that most times I am good at keeping this secret side of me a well kept private (and modest) matter. That was indeed the most “modest” self description I’ve ever encountered. ROTFL! Afrofem, Well… I wanted you to see me as someone besides having eyes that have seen much trouble. AND, I made you smile! 😀 on Thu Sep 29th 2016 at 15:36:00 resw Congratulations on derailing the thread! I guess the NMAAHC wasn’t interesting enough? @Lord of Mirkwood “I find this personal discussion much more enlightening than the back-and-forth sniping that was going on beforehand.” Almost everyone here knows that you’d rather talk about anything that does not have to do with African Americans. And you can thank villagewriter for the “back-and-forth sniping” that she started. “I must confess, at some points in the past, I have viewed Fan with horns coming out of the top of his head and holding a pitchfork, mainly because of the (sometimes violent) arguments we have had over Irish issues.” I copied and pasted that (self) description here for entertainment. This letter has been around since before the internet. Who originated it, I don’t know. Be warned, I don’t have horns coming out of my head, even figuratively, but I do have a sword and arrows at the ready should you go too far astray with your over-the-top irish impulses. You’ve gotten a little bit better… but time will tell. Resw is correct about your lack of real participation in subjects about Black people. Just got one word for you: COON on Thu Sep 29th 2016 at 16:24:39 gro jo resw wrote: “@michaeljonbarker Attagirl, now answer my question. “Do you or do you not consider Juan Garrido, Estevanico, J-B. Point Du Sable and Jan Matzeliger to be non-African Americans due to their births outside the USA, and therefore unworthy of being included in the pantheon of African Americans? If you do, tell me why Obama doesn’t make the cut, as your comment above implies? Explain to me, given the one drop rule, how a half-Kenyan , half-white American like Obama isn’t simply an African American?” resw, how come you spell favor “favour”? Your big hyper Yankee pose is looking shaky based on your spelling. on Fri Sep 30th 2016 at 00:41:59 Herneith ‘Favour’ is the British or Canadian spelling. on Fri Sep 30th 2016 at 01:16:51 Solitaire “Years ago I discovered the meaning of life, but forgot to write it down.” on Fri Sep 30th 2016 at 03:52:18 gro jo “‘Favour’ is the British or Canadian spelling.” No, it’s Commonwealth and former British colony spelling. Canada is just one of the 53 Commonwealth states using it. resw could be British or a member of any of the nations favoring such spelling. on Fri Sep 30th 2016 at 19:56:39 Afrofem @Fan … That description was meant as a compliment. To me, witnessing and enduring “trouble” is a sign of strength. I meant no disrespect. Yes, you did make me laugh! on Fri Sep 30th 2016 at 20:36:26 Fan ... All is well, Comrade. No disrespect taken! Besides, it not in your nature – here. Trouble = Racism Laughter = Medicine Strength = this site’s owner & collective. Game, set and match villagewriter. on Sat Oct 1st 2016 at 17:02:04 resw Right, if you count lying and being proven wrong over and over again. on Sat Oct 1st 2016 at 19:27:53 gro jo resw, were you looking in the mirror when you wrote this? If the designers of this museum had taken the brief to include the spatial awareness surrounding the other monuments, then I think Mr Adjaye is very clever indeed. The Museum’s design of Yoruba headdress and as an inverted pyramid immediately brings to mind Saqqara, Djoser’s step pyramid, which is the oldest stone complex known in history. It was built during the 3rd Dynasty in ancient Kemet. The obelisk built for George Washington is also inspired by the Ancient Egyptian AFRICANS_ ‘dark-skinned people with woolly hair’ . Among many obelisks one is in the Temple of Luxor( very lucky to have visited Luxor and Saqqara). The other Egyptian obelisks were stolen by the French,British and Americans(in New York) and other Europeans. I think Mr Adjaye thoughtfully brought in the the ancient, the not so ancient and the modern. In a sense, synergizing the Museum (pyramid) and the inspired Ancient African obelisk of Luxor, honouring the ancestors on foreign land. We will never know what the bronze that he had in mind for the intricate lattice, created by Charleston craftsmen, that would have had a beautiful burnished patina, aged through the seasons, will look like. I agree with resw that this brainchild was severely compromised, by the white stakeholders. However, still I would be incredibly lucky to visit the Museum, if I could, if only to see the exhibits of two of the greatest human beings: Harriet Tubman and James Baldwin. Please excuse me, the following comments are of the questions that I had been thinking about for a long time brought up on the Roots thread, tying in Blakksages heartflet comment concerning the lack of a Holocaust Memorial for African/Black Americans. “ It is well past the time for Blacks to heed the advice of Minister Farrakhan and, through careful study, build a new knowledge and understanding of our history—and reassess who are our friends and who are our enemies.” Starronne wrote:“I too think the story of African Americans should be told by us and only us. Just like the wave of African American historical movies are being directed by Black Brits or are usually starring Black Brits (12 Years a Slave, Selma, etc.) Blakksage wrote: ” Trust me, an appropriately titled holocaust building recognizing our wretched history in this bedeviled country would not only signify, but mean much more to the restoration of our collective psyche.” If I may, and this is from a removed perspective : before you watch ANY film that is owned and produced by Jewish media (whether or not with a Black façade )about any African America narrative, watch Dr Tony Martin, and study a book every single African American must read and pass it on: ” The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews”. One then has to intensively investigate and interrogate the relationship of the massive media machine , with the prison-industrial complex, hip-hop, cinema, the total infiltration of the NAACP, and the lengths of the falsification of history. The British directors and actors but bit players (albeit talented ones) that have been directed and casted by the very people controlling the means of production and distribution of the major production of Jewish white supremacy to exonerate themselves from documented historical record (their own) indicting them of being the lead antagonists in the chattel enslavement of Africans. “12 Years a slave” is nothing more than a vehicle for the Jewish producers to subvert Northrops story as their own narrative of innocence to hide in plain sight that Jews, were the weft of the fabric of blanket sadistic oppression of Africans in America in their rise as the richest capitalists in America. Who are some of major players in this sick sadistic double re-enactment?: FoxSearchlight, is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who is the biggest mouthpiece and darling in America of both the ulta-right zionism in Israel. Rupert Murdoch, white Australian. Arnon Milchan a billionaire israeli citizen, who had won an Oscar of a slave narrative, had help undermine the international sanctions against South Africa. Not only that, he was involved in the nuclear testing of a nuclear bomb for israel off the coast of South Africa. Every imaginable weapons system needed by South Africa that could not be purchased directly from Israel was purchased on the international market, and instead of ending up in Israel as indicated on the final destination documentation, was diverted to South Africa. That put israel and one of its top covert operatives, Milchan, in the ideal position to act as the middleman. israel would officially abide by U.N. resolution 418, but secretly, primarily through the services of companies established by Milchan, it would act as South Africa’s primary defense systems supplier, funnelling millions of dollars for purchases from third parties and through direct sales of its own military industries. As with israeli procurements of nuclear wepons , Milchan’s company quickly became the largest defense procurer for the apartheid South African government. But unlike his procurements for Israel, his commissions on his South African deals were pocketed by him and quickly became the largest source of his wealth—which would ultimately be parlayed into’ Hollywood blockbusters’, such as ’12 years a slave’. The commission that Arnon Milchick made a billionaire was through being the largest defence procurer of arms and nuclear weapons for the South African apartheid government, which has enabled him to launder his commission from selling weapons of mass destruction in two apartheid states into Hollywood motion pictures. This man was one of hand-picked men that on an operation called “Tealeaves” was the courier for 12 shipments of 2.5 grams of tritium, extremely rare, and made in Dimona in the Negev Desert, in exchange for 50 tons of uranium from South Africa. He probably had met his South African wife whilst he was offered permanent residence and a mansion, when millions lived in degrading poverty and landlessness. This is a man making a film about slavery in America. This israeli national, earned his money at the expense of Palestinians, Iranians and South Africans now part of the propaganda machine against African Americans. (What is tritium used for? Sophisticated hydrogen bombs, which are dependent on it. It is more devastating than the bombs that flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Apartheid South Africa had six such bombs.) ( It is also found was at Ground Zero at 55 times than what is normal. The one place where it is made is in Dimona in the Negev, israel Michan’s country.) (http://www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/Israel/index.html) The backstory of “12 years” is a propaganda campaign that hides real life assassination of a Black historian , a ten year old onslaught from major Jewish institutions against Dr. Tony Martin and Minister Farrakhan. This is part of an orchestration to wipe out historical record exposed in the Three Volumes of “The Secret Relationship Between Jews and Blacks” written by the Nation of Islam as documented by Jewish historians themselves. It would wise for us to read, research one ‘s own history and scrutinize and interrogate the intentions of the group of people who are the main antogonists , beneficiaries and aiders and abetters of the greatest crimes against humanity, than to accuse other Black people who unwittingly are used as pawns in white supremacy, without placing the blame squarely on the real culprits. The same group of people who were never persecuted by white or Blacks on American or any soil, now have 45 holocaust memorials in the US, mostly funded by American tax-payers. Native Americans have none. And the one that James Cameron kept going for African Americans in Milwaukee has closed due to lack of funding. Is there a Holocaust memorial for the Japanese who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Why isn’t there a Holocaust memorial for the Cambodians? Why isn’t there a memorial for the Congolese? However, still I would like to visit the Museum, if I could, if only to see the exhibits of two of the greatest human beings: Harriet Tubman and James Baldwin. If ever I would visit the USA, perhaps by that time, a Holocaust Memorial honouring The First People and African American American will be built. commission that made Arnon Milchick a billionaire It was also found at Ground Zero at 55 times over the normal level. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut7I75Q_-zA) Dr. Tony Martin – The Jewish Role in the African Slave Trade on Tue Oct 18th 2016 at 19:59:55 resw LOL. Too bad you can’t provesuch “hostility” with some actual quotes. Sorry, this isn’t about you or Asians, despite your pathetic attempts to once again make it about you and Asians. on Thu Apr 5th 2018 at 06:40:39 jefe Today I finally got to visit the NMAAHC, interestingly, on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK. Jr. nonetheless. I have been to the NMAI 3 times in DC and twice in NY. I also tried to go to the Vine Deloria, Jr. library and resources center last week in Suitland, MD, but they told me that a staff member has to be arranged in advance to meet us at the security gate. Well, next time. The NMAAHC is chock full of exhibits and information, and although I spent 4 hours in the museum, I didn’t quite get through all of the parts I wanted to see. You need to spend a full day there to cover everything. I realized that I actually was already familiar with over 90% of the information in the museum, either through my own personal study or through items found on this or other blogs. I didn’t really learn that much new, although it still was an interesting experience. It was meaningful to see that they pointed. out that slavery was established first in the area surrounding the Chesapeake Bay, in Maryland and Virginia (including Washington, DC.) and other things that touch on my own personal history (like the Freedom rides, the Trail of Tears and Loving v. Virginia). They had a lot of interactive stuff involving the last 50-60 years, including music, TV, etc. that was fun. However, I was less impressed by the stuff that dealt with prior to the 1950s or so. I would have found the museum even more enjoyable if – they had more about the actual culture of African-Americans in the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, eg, the music, the food, the social structure, etc. – more realistic hands-on depiction representing some aspect of history or culture. I see that a few things are up — they are setting up the exhibit for the segregated railroad car, for example. – the impact to African-American culture and American society in general from the post-60s immigrants, ie, those from the Caribbean and Africa. I think this is important, as the slavery narrative is not the sole voice depicting African American culture and history. I still have not seen the Anacostia Community museum, but that will have to be another time. Now that I have seen the NMAI a few times and the NMAAHC, I look forward to seeing a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture on the National Mall. But I am sure that the majority of Americans, even Asian Americans, would be that familiar with the contents of such a museum. That is why we need it. on Fri Apr 6th 2018 at 04:48:37 Deb @jefe…Wonderful that you got a chance to see it — I hope to do it this summer. “I would have found the museum even more enjoyable if – more realistic hands-on depiction representing some aspect of history or culture.” I think, if you ever get a chance, the Anacostia Community museum would satisfy your list of wants above. I’ve not been there (though I lived in Anacostia many moons ago after college), but based on what I’ve read, it gives a good history & culture lesson about the descendants of Black slaves in America — specifically the Gullah/Geechie people from whom I am descended. It’s certainly another planned stop on our summer road trip starting in May! “But I am sure that the majority of Americans, even Asian Americans, would be that familiar with the contents of such a museum. That is why we need it.” Agreed! Read this today, which leads me to believe the power of changing shit first begins with the recognition of the need, and then, that the power is in your hands to force it: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/opinion/asian-americans-a-sleeping-political-giant.html on Thu Jul 11th 2019 at 17:07:29 Mary Burrell RIP Phillip Freelon architect of this amazing piece of architecture that is on my bucket list. on Mon Aug 19th 2019 at 17:51:59 Open Minded Observer I was finally able to visit the NMAAHC over the weekend and like jefe mentioned above, a few hours is a worthwhile visit, but it’s not enough time to take it all in. There’s an astounding amount of information packed into this museum and it’s well designed to make repeat visits worthwhile. I feel like I could make several trips over the next few years and get something new out of it with each visit. I’m already planning my return!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4351
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LAB: Could you say more about the title of this work (Hole in The Wall)? What does it mean to you? IK: On Kesha’s 2010 single “Take It Off”, she cries “There’s a place downtown / Where the freaks all come around / It’s a hole in the wall / it’s a dirty free for all”. The phrase hole in the wall stood out for me—it was the first time I’d ever heard that. She describes a party in the grungy parts of the city where nobody will judge her for what she’s into, what she wears and most importantly, who she is. I loved what that phrase projects: a burrowed habitat for outcasts to celebrate themselves and each other. LAB: Which if your Hole in the Wall subjects do you relate to most? Why? IK: Justin (with the pink hair) was the first person I approached for the project. I met them at an East London after party. We were the only chatty ones that evening. I complimented their outfit over a million times that night–and so did everyone else. I really admired their confidence and humility. 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__label__wiki	0.983379	0.983379	In this May 12, 2016, photo, former Nissan Motor Co. President and CEO Carlos Ghosn speaks during the press conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Japan's Kyodo News service said Tuesday, March 5, 2019, a Tokyo court has okayed release of detained Nissan ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn on bail.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) Former Broncos QB pleads not guilty in trespassing caseMind-altering, ketamine-like drug OK'd for severe depressionColorado, baker end legal spat over transgender woman's cakeGrand Canyon chief isn't back after being cleared in inquiry TOKYO (AP) — Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn may leave detention as early as Wednesday, after a Tokyo court approved his release on 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) bail, rejecting an appeal by prosecutors. He said in a statement, "I am innocent and totally committed to vigorously defending myself in a fair trial against these meritless and unsubstantiated accusations." Ghosn's lawyer in Japan, Junichiro Hironaka, said the legal team offered conditions for his release, such as a surveillance camera at the doorway and a promise not to use the internet. He is allowed to make voice calls, but he cannot travel abroad. The former head of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Motors alliance has been detained since November and is charged with falsifying financial reports and breach of trust. Jean-Yves Le Borgne, Ghosn's French lawyer, cautioned that prosecutors still had leeway to file new charges. Suspects in Japan are kept detained for months, especially those who insist on innocence like Ghosn. Some legal experts, including Hironaka, have criticized the system as "hostage justice," saying the long detentions tend to encourage false confessions. Prosecutors say suspects may tamper with evidence and shouldn't be released. Two previous requests for Ghosn to be released on bail were denied. Ghosn contends he is innocent of falsifying financial reports because the compensation he is alleged to have under-reported was never paid or decided upon. The breach of trust allegations center on a temporary transfer of Ghosn's investment losses to Nissan's books that he says caused no losses to the automaker. The charge also points to payments to a Saudi businessman that he says were for legitimate services. A date for his trial has not yet been set. Nissan Motor Co. declined comment on the criminal case but said an internal investigation had found unethical conduct. Nissan has dismissed Ghosn as chairman, although he remains on the board, pending a decision at a shareholders' meeting. Ghosn's family has said that he has lost weight while in detention, and he looked thinner in his court appearance. Hironaka has said he is in good spirits. Ghosn thanked his family and friends, who, he said, "stood by me throughout this terrible ordeal." Yuri Kageyama is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/yurikageyama On Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/yurikageyama/?hl=en Associated Categories: Associated Press (AP), AP World News, AP Business, AP Business - Corporate News Former Broncos QB pleads not guilty in trespassing case Former Denver Broncos backup quarterback Chad Kelly has pleaded not guilty to first-degree criminal trespassing after being accused of entering a couple's suburban Denver home uninvited 8:42PM ( 7 minutes ago ) The Trump Organization's longtime insurance broker has received a subpoena from New York regulators as part of an inquiry into President Donald Trump business dealings	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4355
__label__wiki	0.508098	0.508098	ALA Youth Media Awards Predictions & Musings They’ll be here Monday. 8 am ET, so 5 am here, I will be up & ready to watch before I go to work. You can, too, by clicking HERE. What are the ALA Youth Media Awards, you might ask. My funny answer is the OSCARS of the youth book world: The Newbery, Caldecott, Prinz, to name a few. The YALSA Morris/Nonfiction Challenge I;ve been reading is about the nominees for 2 YA awards. So, let me begin with those. 1. Morris Award for a debut YA novel: I really hope Sex and Violence by Carrie Mesrobian wins this and I think it will. 2. YALSA Nonfiction Award: This is more complicated. I want Neal Bsscomb’s The Nazi Hunters to win but I am pretty sure that Courage Has No Color by Tanya Lee Stone or Imprisoned:The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II by Martin W. Sandler will win. 3. The Caldecott is awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.I’m torn here between The MightyLalouche and Mr. Tiger Goes Wild. 4. The Newbery is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. You have to be American to win this one. As much as I’d like to say Kevin Henkes’ The Year of Billy Miller will win this one, I think it’s intended audience is to young & the committee won’t pick it. I also wish they’s pick Flora and Ulysses by KAte Di Camillo, but humor rarely wins. That said, I’d like it to be The Center of Everything Linda Urban but it will probably be The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata, which I still have not read because I can’t get into it. 5. The Prinz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. I hope Reality Boy by A S King os somewhere on the list. 6. The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.My top 2 are Loteria and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. 7. The Pura Belpre Award is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. Hands down, Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina should win this one. I also predict that Yuyi Morales will win for Niño Wrestle the World. 8.The Robert F. Sibert Award goes to the the most distinguished informational book published in English. This one always overlaps with the YALSA Nonfiction award, so my prediction there also applies here. I hope to see Elizabethe Rusch’s Eruption as well. This list also includes informational books for younger readers so I’d like to add a A Splash of Red by Jen Bryant or Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel or Who Says Women Can’t be Doctors: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell by Tanya Lee Stone. Tags: ALA Awards, ALA Youth Media Awards, Alex Award, Caldecott Award, Carrie Mesrobian, Kevin Henkes, Martin W. Sandler, Meg Medina, Newbery Award, prediction, Prinz Award, Pura Belpre Award, Robert F. Sibert Award, Tanya Lee Stone, YALSA Categories awards ← Stepping off the Path with Neil Gaiman Stephen Krashen on the Common Core → 3 Responses to “ALA Youth Media Awards Predictions & Musings” The Styling Librarian January 24, 2014 at 6:48 am # Odyssey Award? Hoping Reality Boy wins that one, was brilliant… although Fangirl and Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell were both fantastic too… Adrienne January 24, 2014 at 7:30 am # I don;t think I listened to enough to make a call on the Odyssey Award. There are lots of others I loved, but couldn’t put them all on my list. Even driving to work, I was second guessing myself. You see that I haven’t written one this year… still twirling titles around in my head…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4363
__label__wiki	0.767244	0.767244	Tag Archive: Liv Moore borg’s Best of 2018–Kick-Ass Genre Heroines Filed under: Backstage Pass, Fantasy Realms, Movies, Sci-Fi Café, Superheroes, TV — Leave a comment It’s time for borg′s annual look at the Best Kick-Ass Genre Heroines in film and television. This year we selected 25 characters that rose to the top. Again the studios gave us more to cheer about than ever. We’re highlighting the very best from a slate of fantastic heroines, with characteristics to learn from and cheer on. Determined, decisive, loyal, brave, smart, fierce, strong (and, okay, sometimes evil), you’ll find no one here timid or weepy, but all rely on their individual skills to beat the odds and overcome any obstacle that comes their way. Over the years we have expanded the list to include any tough, savvy, gritty character played by a woman, so villains are welcome here, too. Some may be frazzled, put-upon, war-weary, or human, but all have fought, some against difficult circumstances, others against personal demons (literally, figuratively, or both), and some against gun and laser fire. And they all showed what a tough, kick-ass character is about. In 2018 these characters broke new ground, and unlike last year’s great list, this year’s selections would not have worked as well had the characters been swapped for males. We had a former MI-5 agent, bounty hunters, assassins, doctors, defenders, advanced superhumans, superheroines, warriors, witches, and even a few cyborgs–with a roster evenly split between television and movie characters. Better yet, here’s something we haven’t said before. Several of our selections this year were played by women over 50. Enfys Nest (Solo: A Star Wars Story). For the first half of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Enfys Nest was the leader of a band of pirates, a character as cool and ruthless as anyone Han Solo ever faced. But once she took off her mask, it became clear how important she was, how significant her mission was–even more so than Han Solo’s own pursuit of mere wealth. She foreshadowed what Han would later find with Leia, an early glimpse at a rogue and scoundrel who actually had some good in him. When they joined forces, it made their characters even better. And she became one of the best warriors in the Star Wars universe since the original trilogy. (Disney/Lucasfilm) Okoye (Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War). Is there any woman warrior as powerful and impressive in a fantasy movie this year as Danai Gurira’s Okoye? We can’t think of any. A smart commander, a brave soldier, a loyal ally. Stalwart, devoted, steadfast, strong physically, intimidating and wise, with a keen unwavering ferocity, she represented the best of Wakanda, and fought bravely to defend the world at the last stand against Thanos. (Disney/Marvel) Higgins (Magnum PI). Few television characters are as beloved as Jonathan Higgins in the original Magnum, p.i. So it was going to be risky having any actor step into the role John Hillerman made famous. So when the show honored the original character and late actor with such a finely tuned, updated character and actor, we took notice. Perdita Weeks’s Juliet Higgins is everything Robin Masters was–the character we all thought Higgins was in secret. We don’t know whether we’ll learn the truth this time around and what that truth will be, but as an ex-British secret service agent, she’s a James Bond for Thomas Magnum to partner with–literally running alongside the show’s star and fighting and shooting her way as an equal. And the result? Every episode of the first season was full of great action and fun. (CBS) Tags: 20th Century Fox, Alexa Davalos, Alisa Jones, Altered Carbon, Amazon Studios, Amblin Entertainment, AMC, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Aquaman, Art3mis, Avengers: Infinity War, badass women of 2018, Baldwin, BBC America, best female character 2018, Black Panther, CBS, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Counterpart, CW Network, Danai Gurira, Deadpool 2, Doctor Who, Domino, Emilia Clarke, Enfys Nest, Erin Kellyman, Evangeline Lilly, Gemma Chan, Global Road Entertainment, Hailee Steinfeld, Halloween 2018, Hannah John-Kamen, Hannah John-Kamen movies, History Channel, Hotel Artemis, Humans AMC, iZombie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet McTeer, Jodie Foster, Jodie Foster movies, Jodie Whittaker, Jodie Whittaker 13th Doctor, Juliana Crain, Juliet Higgins, Kiernan Shipka, Kristin Ortega, Lagertha, Lara Croft, Laurie Strode, Lionsgate, Liv Moore, Liz Dudley, Lodge 49, Lucasfilm, Magnum PI, Martha Higareda, Marvel's Ghost, Marvel's Hellcat, Marvel's Jessica Jones, Mera, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Mia, Michelle Gomez, Miramax, Ms Wardwell, Netflix, Nice, Okoye, Olivia Cooke, Perdita Weeks, Qi-ra, Rachael Taylor, Ready Player One, Rose McIver, Sabrina Spellman, Sara Serraiocco, Sofia Boutella, Solo: A Star wars Story, Sony Pictures Animation, Sonya Cassidy, Spider-Gwen, Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse, Spider-Woman, Starz, The Man in the High Castle, The Wasp, Tomb Raider, Trish Walker, Universal Pictures, Vikings TV series, Vikings TV series History Channel, Warner Brothers, Zazie Beetz Scoop–New graphic novel series introduces the next teen sleuth Filed under: Comics & Books, Fantasy Realms, Sci-Fi Café — Leave a comment Today a new young heroine arrives in the pages of a graphic novel called Scoop. In Volume 1 with the first story arc titled “Breaking News,” we meet Sophie Cooper, a 14-year-old Cuban-American high school student in Miami. It’s not the red hair and freckles that make her an outsider, it’s her dad. He’s under investigation by a local bank for money laundering–under house arrest he’s trapped in his own home with an ankle monitor, while Sophie’s mother serves as a lawyer in the mayor’s office. Sophie is ostracized by her peers at school and decides to take an internship with a local TV station in the hopes that she can learn something to help prove her dad is not what everyone says he is. Sophie can’t help but make friends along the way, including a has-been TV anchor at the least popular station in town, who proves to be more valuable than she could have imagined. While investigating a lead they encounter a strange otherworldly force that wrecks his car, and an undersea creature who helps her escape a pursuer who thinks she is getting too close to the truth. “Scoop” becomes Sophie Cooper’s clever handle, her nickname (the first letter of her first name and first four letters of her last name), assigned to her by the news station. Scoop has the framework to become the next Liv Moore from iZombie or Veronica Mars. Sophie gravitates more toward the Veronica Mars angle–your basic teen crime detective–since this first volume primarily introduces the main characters, but writer Richard Hamilton and artist Joseph Cooper plant the seeds for a supernatural, X-Files-inspired future for the teen sleuth. The imagery features a dose of Burn Notice style from the investigation plot, Miami setting, and locals that pop up in the series’ first 96 pages. Also like iZombie, this is a story and characters not springing from a major comic book universe, so anyone can climb onboard from page one. Sophie Cooper is exactly the kind of character you might see show up in a year or two on the CW Network, engaging and bright, with her precocious younger brother as an assistant she can tap into the latest technology to hone her investigative skills. Tags: Alba Cardona, Burn Notice, Diverse Books, Insight Comics, iZombie, Joseph Cooper, journalism stories, Liv Moore, Own Voices, ownvoices, Peter Pantazis, Richard Hamilton, Scoop, Scoop Volume 1 Breaking News, Scoop Volume 1 Breaking News review, The X-Files, Veronica Mars The borg.com Best of 2016 — Kick-Ass Genre Heroines What better way to celebrate the strong, determined leader Leia Organa made famous by actress Carrie Fisher than to celebrate her legacy in the genre heroines of today? What do most of the characters on this year’s list of Best Kick-Ass Genre Heroines have in common? Most have roles that could easily be swapped with a male. Sure, you can have heroine characters who are written to largely rely on traditional female qualities, but women characters bending gender roles are breaking new grounds. We met characters this year who were held back in their place in time by their status as women, and it is often that role that prompts them to gain the fire and passion necessary to become the heroine of their stories. So we have both a dress-wearing, well-read 19th century Jane Austen character on our list, but also a space-faring criminal in combat boots, a sea captain, an alien survivor, an alien visitor, a warrior, a sorcerer, a group of clones, a gunslinger, two cops, a zombie, and a supernatural assassin. In past years we were able to select our Best Kick-Ass Genre Movie Heroine and Best Kick-Ass Genre TV Heroine, but this year the studios gave us more to cheer about than ever, and instead of ranking them we’re highlighting the very best from an unprecedented slate of heroines, with characteristics to learn from and emulate. Determined, decisive, loyal, brave, smart, fierce, strong. You’ll find no one here timid or weepy, but all rely on their individual skills to beat the odds and overcome any obstacle that comes their way. Some may be frazzled, put-upon, war-weary, very human, resulting from trying circumstances, personal losses, and even death of friends and family. But they all mustered up the strength to rise above it all. These are the Best Kick-Ass Genre Heroines of 2016: Sara (The Huntsman: Winter’s War). Heroines can be medieval or fairy tale warriors, a trained Huntsman quick with a bow and arrow or two-handed swordplay. Jessica Chastain’s Sara was never seen in Snow White and the Huntsman, but we quickly learned why Chris Hemsworth’s Eric was filled with despair when learning of her supposed death. A loyal warrior to her queen, she must decide whether to join her excommunicated secret husband against the forces of evil or stand with Queen Freya and her manipulative sister. A powerhouse trio of actresses, Chastain’s Sara rises above them all opposite Emily Blunt and Charlize Theron in this great fantasy film. Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies). You already know Elizabeth Bennet as the eldest sister in the classic Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice. An obnoxious mother harassing her, unlikely prospects for marriage, and an oppressive society with little opportunity to make her own choices. Readers finally get to witness how the classic character might react when given opportunity–opportunity to learn Eastern mysticism and Japanese martial arts, and a role where she and her sisters and friends can fully defend their family and home from a zombie onslaught. Lily James couples lacy dresses, Regency manners, and in-your-face, Quentin Tarentino-inspired kicks, with classic swordplay–and bloody beheadings. If a war is coming, you want the likes of Elizabeth Bennet on your side of the battle lines. Tags: Alice Kingsleigh, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Best of 2016, Bitsie Tulloch, Charlize Theron, Doctor Strange, Eleven, Elizabeth Bennet, Emily Blunt, Eve, Felicity Jones, Ginnifer Goodwin, Grimm, Hannah John-Kamen, iZombie, Jaylah, Jessica Chastain, Judy Hopps, Jyn Erso, kick-ass women, Liv Moore, Luke Cage, Millie Bobby Brown, Misty Knight, Orphan Black, Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Rose McIver, Sara the Huntsman, Simone Missick, Sofia Boutella, Star Trek Beyond, Stranger Things, Tatiana Maslany, The Ancient One, The Huntsman - Winter's War, Tilda Swinton, Wynonna Earp, Zootopia borg.com Best of Movies, TV, and Print 2015 Well it’s been one long year, with plenty to do and see, plenty of good and not-so-good to read and watch, and as with last year we’re certain we reviewed more content this year than ever before. This year was a big year for borgs in TV and film, so we had some difficult decisions to make. All year long we sifted through all that Hollywood had to offer and honed in on the genre TV, films, comics, and other books we thought were worth examining. We went back and looked at it all and pulled together our picks for our annual Best of the Best list. Today we reveal the entire list–the best genre content of 2015–with our top categories Best Sci-Fi Fix, Best Fantasy Fix, Best Superhero Fix, Best Animated Fix, and Best Borg selected regardless of medium. A dozen properties garnered multiple mentions. We hope you agree with many of these great creations of the entertainment industries, and wish everyone a great 2016! Best Sci-Fi Fix – Killjoys (Syfy). Surprised? Killjoys pulled together great worldbuilding, characters and actors in a year of a dozen new sci-fi shows to provide us the closest thing to the next Firefly we’ve seen in a long time. Best Fantasy Fix – Galavant (ABC); Runner-up The Librarians (TNT). It aired early in 2015 but nothing surpassed Galavant’s medieval high adventure and all-out Princess Bride-style fun. Best Superhero Fix – The Flash (CW). Of all the Marvel movies and TV series from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to Agent Carter and from Arrow to Supergirl, nothing had us coming back for more each week like the superhero world in The Flash. Best Animated Fix – Star Wars Rebels (DisneyXD). Compare it to Star Wars: The Force Awakens and see if you think this animated Star Wars galaxy had an even better story and characterization, along with the return of its own group of original trilogy actors, compelling visuals and rousing music. Best Borg – Pops (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from Terminator Genisys (Paramount). Schwarzenegger created yet another borg that could stand up against his prior successful characters from the series. A cool, moving character in a big year for borgs on screen! Best Borg Movie – Ex Machina (DNA Films). Incredible storytelling and a small cast of talented actors provided a classic science fiction story and Oscar-worthy film about our favorite subject. Best Borg TV Series – Humans (AMC). On television the most in-depth look at life as a borg and among borgs has never been portrayed more dramatically than on this year’s surprise sci-fi hit series from AMC. Best Kickass Genre Movie Heroine – Rey (Daisy Ridley), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Disney); Honorable Mentions: Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), Terminator Genisys (Paramount); Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), Mad Max: Fury Road (Village Roadshow) Best Kickass Genre TV Heroine – Liv Moore (Rose McIver), iZombie (CW); Honorable Mentions: Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), Killjoys (Syfy); Helena (Tatiana Maslany), Orphan Black (BBC) Want to know who we picked for best villain and best comic books of the year? Take a look after the cut… Tags: 3D Photobooth, 3D printing cosplay, ABC, Abrams Books, Alicia Vikander, AMC, Ant Lucia, Ant-Man, Armie Hammer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Batman Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover, BBC, Best comic books 2015, Best movies 2015, Best of 2015, Best of list, Best TV 2015, Black Widow, borg.com Best of 2015, Byung-hun Lee, Charlize Theron, Columbia Pictures, Crimson Peak, CW Network, Daisy Ridley, David Anders, David Petersen, David Tennant, DC Bombshells, DC Comics, Disney, Disney XD, DNA Films, Doctor Who, Dutch, Dynamite Comics, Elizabeth Debicki, Emilia Clarke, Ex Machina, Galavant, Gore Vidal, Grimm, Hannah John-Kamen, Helena, Humans, IDW Publishing, Imperator Furiosa, iZombie, Jennifer Graham, Jessica Chastain, Jessica Jones, Khlyen, Kilgrave, Killjoys, Legendary Pictures, Lionsgate, Liv Moore, Mad Max: Fury Road, Maggie, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios, Michael Douglas, Mr Robot, NASA, Nathan Edmondson, NBC, New Horizons, Orphan Black, Paramount, Paula M. Block, Phil Noto, Pluto, Pupok the scorpion, Rami Malek, Rey, Rob Stewart, Rob Thomas, Robert Buckley, Rose McIver, Sarah Connor, SPECTRE, Sphero, Sphero BB-8, Star Trek Costumes: Five Decades of Fashion from the Final Frontier, Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War, Star Wars Artifact Edition, Star Wars The Force Awakens, Star Wars trilogy movie adaptations, Star Wars: Chewbacca, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: The Original Topps Trading Card Series, Swords of Sorrow, Syfy, T-1000, Tatiana Maslany, Terminator Genisys, Terry J. Erdmann, The Art of Mouse Guard 2005-2015, The Flash, The Librarians, The Muppets, The Muppets ABC, Thieves Fall Out, Titan Books, TNT, Under the Lake/Before the Flood, USA Network, Veronica Mars: Mr Kiss and Tell, Village Roadshow, Warner Bros	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4366
__label__cc	0.58934	0.41066	Purpose or profit? Or purpose and profit? For business leaders, buying into public debate around social, political or ethical issues has long been a high risk, low return investment. That seems pretty simple until you start to unpick what it takes to make sustainable profits. For one, it requires an engaged, properly skilled workforce willing to supply the discretionary effort the best performing companies enjoy. "Stakeholders are pushing companies to wade into sensitive social and political issues.” - Fink And according to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer “despite a high lack of faith in the system, there is one relationship that remains strong: ‘my employer’”. Fifty-eight per cent of general population employees say they look to their employer to be a trustworthy source of information about contentious societal issues, Edelman found. Successful companies also require long term, competitive sources of funding, whether from financial institutions or investors. And the world’s biggest investor BlackRock has, for the second year running, been unequivocal about what it expects if it is to supply that capital: the companies in which it invests to have a sense of purpose and be able to articulate that. BlackRock’s chief executive Larry Fink, who fanned controversy last year when he raised the concept, doubled down this year in his annual letter to the CEOs of companies in which BlackRock invests. "Stakeholders are pushing companies to wade into sensitive social and political issues - especially as they see governments failing to do so effectively," Fink wrote - speaking for BlackRock’s $US6 trillion of funds under management. “I wrote last year that every company needs a framework to navigate this difficult landscape, and that it must begin with a clear embodiment of your company’s purpose in your business model and corporate strategy,” he wrote. “Purpose is not a mere tagline or marketing campaign; it is a company’s fundamental reason for being – what it does every day to create value for its stakeholders. Purpose is not the sole pursuit of profits but the animating force for achieving them.” Sophisticated investors have long looked for intangible or unappreciated sources of value in companies. How a company interacts with society is one such factor. And now investors are quite explicit about looking at this, currently under the rubric of environmental, social and governance issues (ESG). According to Katie Hudson, portfolio manager and head of Australian equities research at Yarra Capital Management, “incorporation of ESG analysis into investment processes represents arguably the largest advance in investor thinking of the past 20 years”. “As intangible assets – including brands, R&D and even corporate culture – grow to an increasingly high proportion of company value, an investment process that identifies and values social-risk factors will enhance the ability to deliver long-term outperformance,” she wrote in the Australian Financial Review. Fink’s letter is a rational, tightly argued demolition of those who still think a business can somehow isolate itself or ignore the environment in which it operates or claim it is has some amoral indemnity against social licence. “Profits are in no way inconsistent with purpose – in fact, profits and purpose are inextricably linked,” he wrote. “Profits are essential if a company is to effectively serve all of its stakeholders over time – not only shareholders, but also employees, customers, and communities. “Similarly, when a company truly understands and expresses its purpose, it functions with the focus and strategic discipline that drive long-term profitability. Purpose unifies management, employees, and communities. It drives ethical behaviour and creates an essential check on actions that go against the best interests of stakeholders. Purpose guides culture, provides a framework for consistent decision-making, and, ultimately, helps sustain long-term financial returns for the shareholders of your company.” Providers of capital are focusing on factors like purpose and ESG not because they are philanthropists but because they recognise the link between such focus and profitability. Milton Friedman wouldn’t be diametrically opposed to this argument. He wasn’t that simplistic. He did say “there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits”. But he added “so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud”. Critically, it is the “rules” of the game which are complex and, long term, rely on a social licence as well as black-letter regulation. Understood more broadly, the “rules of the game” are not just black letter law but those principles which govern behaviour – they are set by society, by providers of capital, by staff, by customers. Fink wrote “as a fiduciary to these clients (investors in BlackRock funds), who are the owners of your company, we advocate for practices that we believe will drive sustainable, long-term growth and profitability”. Advocating change The Edelman Trust Barometer found employees are ready and willing to trust their employers but the trust must be earned through more than “business as usual”. “Employees’ expectation that prospective employers will join them in taking action on societal issues (67 per cent) is nearly as high as their expectations of personal empowerment (74 per cent) and job opportunity (80 per cent),” according to Edelman. Moreover, “the rewards of meeting these expectations and building trust are great”. Employees who have trust in their employer are far more likely to engage in beneficial actions on their behalf: they will advocate for the organisation (a 39-point trust advantage) are more engaged (33 points) remain far more loyal (38 points) and committed (31 points) than their more sceptical counterparts. The key point is companies should not think of purpose or profits. Purpose - an understanding of what a company stands for, its values, where it sees itself contributing to society – sustains profits. Of course business leaders who speak about social, even political, issues will continue to be criticised – by those who vested interests are challenged. Political parties cajole business to speak up in favour of their policies but pillory them when they disagree. That’s not going to change. But business leaders would be better served paying attention to insights like those in the latest Edelman Trust Barometer: 71 percent of employees believe it’s critically important for “my CEO” to respond to challenging times More than three-quarters (76 per cent) of the general population concur—they say they want CEOs to take the lead on change instead of waiting for government to impose it. Even if it is not articulated specifically, society expects business to have “purpose”. So do shareholders. Business Finance Culture Phi, Friedman and the purpose of business Trust, purpose, social licence, corporate responsibility - no matter which business or political forum you attend, these themes are likely to be aired, if not formally then in discussions before and after. Social issues are shareholder issues There’s been polarised reaction in some quarters of Australia to a letter signed by 30 major business figures in support of marriage equality.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4371
__label__cc	0.603703	0.396297	Tag: Milt Jackson Music Diary #26 – 26th January 2012 – World of Jazz Radio Show As I shall be spending most of the day running around like a mad person and will be out when the show goes out – yes I can be in two places at the same time there is not a great deal to report as I have been otherwise engaged in preparation for the first Salford City Radio Music Night at the Kings Arms, Salford. So the line up for this weeks jazz show revolves around a tribute to Etta James……with a bit of support from Dionne and Aretha doing Burt Bacharach and in between some classic jazz cuts…..listen in here Etta James I’d Rather Go Blind The Best of Etta James Jimmy Hamilton Blues in My Music Room Sweet But Hot Etta James Security Tell Mama : The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions Bobby Watson Watson’s Blues Appointment in Milano Dionne Warwick Walk On By The Burt Bacharach Collection Charles Mingus Blue Cee The Clown Etta James Don’t Cry Baby The Best of Etta James John Coltrane Trane’s Slo Blues Lush Life Etta James Tough Lover Single Milt Jackson I remember Clifford Bag’s Opus Etta James At Last The Best of Etta James Aretha Franklin I Say A Little Prayer The Burt Bacharach Collection Etta James Tell Mamma Tell Mama : The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions Posted on January 26, 2012 by HalfEdgeMediaPosted in Music Diary, Radio Show - World of JazzTagged Aretha Franklin, Bobby Watson, Charles Mingus, Dionne Warwick, Etta James, Jimmy Hamilton, John Coltrane, Milt Jackson. Leave a comment World of Jazz Radio Show – 15th September 2011 A mixed bag of older stuff this week…..i’ll be prowling the record emporia of Mancunia tomorrow so maybe some new things next week… Phil Ranelin – Sounds from the Village – Vibes from the Tribe (1976) : was one of the Detroit jazz scene’s unsung heroes, releasing several excellent, politicized albums that blended post-Coltrane avant-garde jazz, post-Bitches Brew psychedelia, hard bop, funk, and African rhythms. In 1971, trombonist Ranelin and saxophonist Wendell Harrison started a band, recording company, and magazine, and called them the Tribe. Vibes From the Tribe was the last of eight records issued by Tribe/Time Is Now Productions. The CD release of the album is the first of the label’s recordings to be issued in full, with added bonus tracks. John McEntire of the band Tortoise has restored the master tapes, and added some touches to the unreleased material which give the music a contemporary feel. Paul Chambers – Dear Old Stockholm – Bass on Top (1957) – the great bassist from the first Miles Davis Quintet features here one of his seven albums as a leader -it is a set of straight-ahead, mainstream jazz with a quartet made up of Chambers, guitarist Kenny Burrell, pianist Hank Jones, and drummer Art Taylor. Ramon Morris – Wijinia – Sweet Sister Funk (2004) – this lone Morris Groove Merchant date remains one of the most impressive fusion records of its time. Morris soulful tenor saxophone fits well in jazz-funk and the album achieves a near-perfect balance between the mainstream and the experimental leaning. The band includes trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater and percussionist Tony Waters. It is a real pity that Morris never again recorded as a leader as this album promised so much more. Weather Report – A Remark You Made – 8:30 (1979) – This was a rare quartet version of Weather Report, with co-leaders in keyboardist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter are the phenomenal bassist Jaco Pastorius, and drummer Peter Erskine. Shorter shines through on this excellent melodic track. Yusef Lateef – The Plum Blossom – Eastern Sounds (1961) – one of the last recordings made by the band that Lateef shared with pianist Barry Harris after the band moved to New York from Detroit. Lateef had long been interested in Eastern music, and this Moodsville session contains his explorations of Eastern mode and interval, as well as tonal and polytonal improvisation. Al Haig Trio – Autumn in New York – Esoteric (1954) – One of three albums that pianist Al Haig made in 1954 before leaving the scene for the next 20 years, this long out-of-print recording was reissued on CD by the Spanish Fresh Sound label. The bop pioneer is heard with bassist Bill Crow and drummer Lee Abrams. Milt Jackson – Spanish Fly – In A New Setting (1964) – one of his best as a leader. With young pianist McCoy Tyner and tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath, Jackson delivers a great session, Benny Golson – Venetian Breeze – The Modern Touch (1958) – Golson’s second album as a leader is a solid hard bop date featuring the tenorman in a quintet with trumpeter Kenny Dorham, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Max Roach. Kenny Gill – Virgo/Libra – What Was, What Is, What Will Be (1971) – a great solo piece demonstrating the freer side of Gill’s work. Charlie Rouse – Pretty Strange – Takin’ Care of Business – Rouse’s debut as a leader The distinctive tenor saxophonist, who had just started a decade-long stint as a member of the Thelonious Monk Quartet, teams up with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, pianist Walter Bishop, Jr., bassist Earl May, and drummer Art Taylor. To listen to the show click on the link below……. World of Jazz Radio Show – 15th September 2011 by Bobonscr on Mixcloud Posted on September 15, 2011 by HalfEdgeMediaPosted in Radio Show - World of JazzTagged Al Haig, Benny Golson, Charlie Rouse, Kenny Gill, Milt Jackson, Paul Chambers, Phil Ranelin, Ramon Morris, Weather Report, Yusef Lateef. Leave a comment	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4373
__label__wiki	0.97422	0.97422	Thomas Muller Says He'll 'Consider His Options' at Bayern Munich This Summer Christopher Simpson@@CJSimpsonBRTwitter LogoFeatured ColumnistJanuary 13, 2020 Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller has suggested he could be open to moving on in the summer. Muller's contract expires in 2021, so this summer will be Bayern's last major opportunity to cash in on him before he leaves on a free transfer next year. He told Sport1's Florian Plettenberg (h/t Goal's Chris Burton): "My focus is exclusively on being successful this season. What will happen in the summer, I will talk to the club and consider my options. Then let's see in which direction things will go." On the possibility of signing a new contract at the Allianz Arena, he said: "With such a thing, all parties have to put their arguments in the pot. Let's see if you can make an agreement there. You just have to compare what all parties want." The German has spent his entire career at Bayern, having joined them in 2000 as a child. He has 510 appearances for the club, scoring 190 goals and contributing 180 assists in that time. His efforts have helped Bayern win eight Bundesliga titles, five DFB-Pokals and the UEFA Champions League, among other honours. Muller has a century of caps for the German national team, too, with 38 goals and 36 assists to his name and a FIFA World Cup winner's medal from 2014. The 30-year-old's best period for Bayern came in the four seasons from 2012-13 and 2015-16, in which he bagged 102 goals and 61 assists. He's only managed five goals 25 appearances this season, but he has laid on 13 assists. His efforts have made history in the Bundesliga: Goal @goal Thomas Muller is the first player to ever record 1️⃣1️⃣ assists in the first 1️⃣7️⃣ games of a Bundesliga season 🙌 https://t.co/v30u4RwRKL StatsBomb offered further insight into his performance: StatsBomb @StatsBomb Thomas Muller, Bayern Munich radar, final 3rd passes, and key passes. In the hands of the right coach, he remains an exceptional talent. https://t.co/6UGsAA2MQk Muller may no longer be operating at his peak, but it's clear he still has a habit of making match-winning contributions at the top level. At 30, he likely still has several years left in him, too, so he'd be a fine addition to many teams this summer, particularly as he'd likely be available in a cut-price deal because of his contract situation. Daily Schmankerl: Back to the Drawing Board with Sane? Bavarian Football Works via Bavarian Football Works Man Utd’s Romero in Car Crash Argentina keeper Sergio Romero ‘unharmed’ after photos emerge of wrecked Lamborghini near training ground (Mail) Jack Bezants via Mail Online Report: Werner Prefers Liverpool Move If he leaves... 👀 via Football365 Ranking Prem Player of the Year So Far B/R's Sam Tighe looks at the top 10 contenders... Sam Tighe	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4379
__label__wiki	0.641254	0.641254	donate/swag Dystopias A Journal of Cultural Inquiry Defining Digital Humanities, Redefining the University Posted on July 20, 2016 September 28, 2017 by blindfieldcollective Posted in Uncategorized By Andy Hines \| You may not have known it, but you are doing digital humanities right now. Whether you got here from your Twitter timeline, a Google search, or, by just visiting Blind Field, you have become a digital humanist. To one practitioner skeptical of the definition, digital humanities is a “catch-all term for people doing stuff with computers.” Yet, at the same time, another says that, “if you call a class ‘digital humanities’ there is not a student on earth who takes it, because they don’t know what it is.” Basically, what creates digital humanities are attempts to define the digital humanities. No one seems to understand what it is, but there is an urgency to define it, since due to increased funding and hype, it seems to suddenly be everywhere. Despite the digital humanities’s expansiveness and evasiveness, administrators and academic granting agencies have found some cachet in the label. The last fifteen years have seen incredible digital humanities (DH) growth across academia. There are research centers, conferences, courses, jobs, and even majors in DH. So much of the definitional calisthenics exerted on DH seek to define what digital humanities work looks like. Most of what DH claims to do is something familiar, but digital: it is an archive, but online; it is a character network, but computer generated; it is critique, but with software assistance. Granted, computational tools have allowed programs to read thousands of books at once (called a corpus) instead of a few at a time and, under the direction of scholars like Franco Moretti, Ted Underwood, Hoyt Long and Richard Jean So, have supplied long histories of genre development and literary affiliation. Yet the roots of many of these projects are in empiricism more than they are in the digital per se. Moretti, for example, cites his desire to consider literary forms in terms of evolutionary theory as the catalyst for his “distant reading.” All told, the digital in the digital humanities has come to be understood as more of a positioning strategy to gain access to the shrinking funds offered to humanities department during an era of university austerity. If the digital serves as the lightning rod in debates about digital humanities, then the logic of the positions for or against it come into clearer view, as does the relevance of this academic turn to the many who never knew they were doing digital humanities all along. David Harvey has argued that “information technology is the privileged technology of neoliberalism.” [1] Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello point out that new technologies do not liberate laborers from work, but rather expand the “psychological obligation” of workers by monitoring their work activity even when granting them more independence from the workplace. [2] Observations like these on the ramifications of the digital have led a number of skeptics to call attention to the neoliberal affiliations of digital humanities. In the Los Angeles Review of Books in May, an essay by Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia declared the field a neoliberal tool. Controversy ensued. DH advocates rushed to defend the work itself, not the label. The advocates often do not recognize that the struggle over digital humanities is actually a struggle about labor in the university. If advocates recognize the struggle over labor and the restructuring of higher education, they suggest that even critical forces are implicated within that restructuring, meaning that there is little effect in calling DH neoliberal above anything else. In an interview with LARB, published a few weeks before the “Neoliberal Tools” essay, Laura Mandell says that “I don’t object to critique itself, but I do object to critique that says, ‘you are part of the neoliberal corporatization, and we are not.’ By using the ‘I’m an outsider’ stance, you opt out of crucial discussions with the administrators, board of regents, government officials, and venders that we need to be participating in.” Here, Mandell overestimates the power of faculty governance, a power that has been ignored by state legislatures and boards of trusts all across the U.S with little consequence. More importantly, there are many who work in higher education who never have an audience of administrators because their contingent positions make them irrelevant to the university’s future. To ask about the effect of DH is not about decrying an esoteric scholarly development or even technology itself. It is instead to ask about what counts as knowledge at a moment when knowledge is capital, if not power. It is about the labor behind knowledge production, and how that gets calculated. It is also about how institutionalization can erase the political capacity of certain ways of knowing the world. Stefano Harney and Fred Moten have written that critique doesn’t operate outside the university, but has been incorporated within it. It could be in the undercommons, “where the work gets done, where the work gets subverted, where the revolution is still black, still strong” that the futurity of critique may reside. [3] Harney and Moten are not interested in the digital per se, but their account of the university’s reliance on the criminal forces of professionalization and debt has made it clear that critique’s relationship to the university is “in but not of.” I invoke the undercommons and its reminder that the university’s privatization is also a phenomenon of racialization in order to speculate about ties between the digital humanities, neoliberalism, and the latter’s tendency to be an instrument of white, patriarchal nationalism. To make this suggestion, I focus on faculty hiring. The impact of DH on faculty hiring shows its impact on both the epistemological priorities and the forms of labor in the university. If administrations, for example, are approving or encouraging positions in Digital Humanities over other fields that are more broadly oppositional to the neoliberal university, like African American studies, then there is at least some indication that DH functions as a neoliberal tool and there is further evidence for neoliberalism’s embedded defense of whiteness. There need not be coercion for neoliberalization to operate; the sense that an argument for a DH position will sway the upper administration to grant a faculty line over some other field still puts these forces to work. Opening up a position in a particular field is an endorsement of the broad-based understanding of that field, not necessarily an endorsement of a particular individual’s work. There is certainly “critical” work being done with digital and computational aid. But as long as that critical work falls under the wide umbrella of the digital humanities, it is being counteracted by university administrators. At a structural level, the idea that some corner of DH may be opposed to neoliberalization seems besides the point. This isn’t a new problem, even to those who are active digital humanists. Yet it still deserves continued attention as scholars working in minority studies have yet to find a consistent and effective way to counter the depoliticizing strategies of the university. I have found that the magnitude of DH’s growth within advertised faculty positions in English over the last fifteen years has been staggering. While the annual number of faculty positions advertised in the MLA Job Information List – English Edition (JIL) has decreased by nearly half since the year 2000, the number of DH positions advertised annually has increased almost eightfold (Figure 1). [4] Figure 1: Percent Loss/Growth in Advertised Position in the MLA JIL from 2000-01 to 2004-15 That means that the percentage share of DH positions advertised in the 2014-15 JIL was 17.8% of all English jobs, up from a baseline of around 1% in the early 2000s (Figure 2). Figure 2: Annual Percentage Share of Total Jobs Advertised in MLA JIL, English Edition To grow in this particular phase of the university’s development should, at the very least, raise some questions about DH. Other indicators that have grown significantly in higher education during the last fifteen years include the amount of student debt, the number of adjunct and contingent faculty, and administrative salaries. While the JIL data I describe here cannot show a correlation between DH and those factors, thinking about DH in relation to the crisis imposed upon higher education can help to clarify DH’s use as a neoliberal tool. The Politics of Incorporation To contextualize the extent of DH’s faculty growth and how this could shape the field’s politics, it is worth considering a different, but related history of the incorporation of minority studies into the U.S. university. The university has a history of shaping fields to favor its institutional aims, particularly when those fields won space on campus through protest. Roderick Ferguson suggests that these strategies paired the American university with the forces of global capital as a “means of production for a strategic use of minority culture.” [5] Further, administrative interventions with the university have affected not just academic fields, but also the political and aesthetic arms of related movements. Sylvia Wynter writes: Once established, these new programs and departments functioned to enable some of the major figures of the then far more powerful and dynamic Black Arts and Black Aesthetic Movements to carry some of their work into the academic mainstream, even where they, too, like Black Studies as a whole, were to find their original transgressive intentions defused, their energies rechanneled as they came to be defined (and in many cases, actively to define themselves so) in new “multicultural terms” as African-American studies; as such this field appeared as but one of the many diverse “Ethnic Studies” that now served to re-verify the very thesis of Liberal universalism against which the challenge of all three movements had been directed in the first place. [6] As Wynter intimates, the trajectory towards “multicultural terms” resonates with other fields found under the rubric of Ethnic Studies, as well as under Gender and Sexuality Studies. (We’re entering a new phase of this trajectory as many Black Lives Matter movement demands are being incorporated on campuses under the sign of “diversity.”) Tara McPherson has argued that the modular forms of computer code in vogue in the 1970s—modular meaning particular functions can be easily added, deleted, or substituted—resonated with parallel developments in liberal anti-racism, a key instrument for the “strategic use of minority culture.” McPherson doesn’t marshal the university’s history of depoliticization to defend DH, but it is not difficult to imagine others who would. The fact that university administrators eventually embraced black studies even in “multicultural terms” shows that a warm administrative embrace is not necessarily coterminous with a field’s neoliberalism. Yet, to see it that way would be a misrecognition. I am not aware of campus protests, buildings occupations, or widespread social movements that have demanded departments for the study of the digital. DH advocates have met some resistance from administrators to secure funding for DH projects and faculty, but those projects have not been a demand levied from active public unrest. “Digital” and “tech culture” does have its own set of antagonisms to the university and its liberalism. Many of those frustrations, however, are based on the ideas that various liberal protections actually function as market restrictions, meaning a check on neoliberal liberty. Yet tech has been careful to figure its market machinations in the form of a social movement. For example, the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) revolution masked its attempts at “disrupting” higher education, a code for restructuring an industry and its labor practices, by suggesting that MOOCs provided the masses access to elite education. The hype around MOOCs was based on the argument that this access put a figurative wrecking ball through the ivy-covered walls of the U.S.’s elite colleges and universities. However, the “just-in-time” delivery system of MOOCs, their promise of displacement of a number of academic workers, and their unbundling of degree programs belied populist promise of MOOCs, accelerating the deterioration of the Keynesian-liberal university. Of course, the MOOC revolution has largely fizzled out at the nation’s elite colleges and universities. Yet it has had more significant impact on the delivery of “course content” in many community colleges and public universities. Indeed, MOOCs show just one way digital culture reinforces existing divides by attempting to disrupt them. Admittedly, Digital Humanities is not the same thing as Uber, Coursera, Academia.edu, or other tech companies. But, as others have argued, DH often relies on or has become of great interest to tech companies. University administrators, particularly at elite institutions, have recognized this and find value in the economic potential of DH to acquire prestigious grants and private donations to university endowments. Compared to the existing economics of humanities grant-getting, DH offers a way to offset budgets that are either stagnant or in decline. State governments reward administrations that deploy neoliberal reforms to make the university more financially austere. In turn, administrations reward faculty for supporting these austerity measures. A recent report from the Institute of Policy Studies argues that public university presidents are remunerated based upon their success in employing more contingent faculty and saddling students with more debt. The idea that state governments reward neoliberal reforms casts a different light on the fact that “there has been more support [for DH centers] at the state university level.” Instead of reinforcing a reading of DH’s populism spreading to “Ivies-come-lately,” high levels of state university support suggest that DH centers and DH faculty positions appear to be a solid strategy for administrations to satisfy state demands for austerity. Even though academic departments are often directly responsible for a number of aspects of hiring decisions and those appointments are presumed to receive a rubber stamp from upper administrators, administrative priorities stated in public or behind closed doors can frequently pressure faculty choices. Receiving institutional endorsement in the form of faculty positions and research centers, DH benefits from the university’s privatization. A Digital Humanities Growth I have examined the MLA JIL from the last fifteen years but, because of some limitations of the data, I am able to draw only two conclusions about the Digital Humanities that help to contextualize its function as a “neoliberal tool.” The number of digital humanities jobs advertised annually has increased significantly, while the total number of jobs advertised annually has decreased. The share of DH jobs within the total number of jobs has risen while the share of other categories, such as American Literature, African American Literature, Other Minority Literature, and Postcolonial Literature, has declined. I want to be measured about these conclusions. This data cannot show that Digital Humanities positions replaced positions otherwise slated for minority literatures or other fields that might be gleaned as oppositional to the neoliberalizing tendencies of university administrations. Nor does the data show on its own that the digital humanities gain is correlated with the decrease in positions in other fields, including African American literature. These general trends, however, do open up questions about how DH may be protecting forms of whiteness via its association with neoliberalism and the extent to which it has extended those protections. Before going any further, I need to say more about my method and what we are actually observing on these charts. To tabulate the number of DH positions advertised in English Departments, I searched the PDF versions of the English edition of the JIL for “digital.” I counted positions advertising for candidates specializing in “digital rhetorics,” “digital narratives,” “digital cultures,” among others, in addition to those advertising “digital humanities.” [7] However, I did not count positions in film studies that called for familiarity with “digital production skills,” advertisements that asked for expertise in teaching online courses, nor advertisements that emphasized a department’s “strength in digital humanities,” unless the ad specified that candidates should contribute to that strength, in which case I did count it. I also counted positions that asked for digital humanities as a preferred, additional, or secondary qualification. I did not make distinctions between tenure-track, non-tenure-track, part-time, and administrative positions in my count. For all other fields, I’ve used the figures gathered from counts of the MLA’s categories in their annual reports on the JIL. [8] The numbers I observed reflect advertisements, not positions filled. It is entirely possible that advertisements counted here have resulted in a failed search or have hired candidates that did not have a secondary interest in digital humanities. At the same time, this count does not reflect candidates who identify themselves in some ways as digital humanists who were hired for positions that did not advertise for DH and, given my argument about administrative endorsement, this matters less towards identifying DH as a neoliberal tool. My primary points of comparison for DH are fields that could be identified as broadly oppositional to the university’s privatization, fields whose practitioners may be more likely to identify with the non-place of the undercommons: critical race and ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, etc. These fields have performed worse than DH over the last fifteen years. Advertised positions in African American literature have decreased to a 5.5% share from a 10% share a decade earlier (Fig. 2) and the total percentage loss of positions in the field (in 2014-15 approximately 76% of what they were in 2000-01) have been worse than the percentage decline of the discipline as a whole (45% for the same comparison). These numbers prompt further speculations on DH’s relation to whiteness, which neoliberal policies work to secure. Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young have done similar data-driven work with regards to creative writing to understand the relation of poetry’s “mainly white room” to academia’s ivory tower. One effect of universities being the means of production for the “strategic use of minority culture” is their inclusion of fields of study that focus on minority culture within the curriculum and hiring minority faculty members to research and teach in those areas. While this has been the site of crucial gains within the university, it also has a resulted in a prevalent racialization of so-called minority fields, while leaving others seemingly unraced, or white. It is easy to imagine the form this logic takes, perhaps in concerns about minority candidates who do not perform well for a position in a minority studies field, leaving departments having to justify hiring a white candidate when they were otherwise seeking a “target of opportunity.” The idea that positions in certain scholarly fields, like African American literature or Latinx literature come with unspoken subject-position requirements and not others is an effect of white supremacy. While there are scholars working in DH who identify as members of minority groups, that DH doesn’t seem to have an implicit subject-position requirement suggests that it has been wrapped tightly within the invisibility cloak of whiteness and may explain the perception of the field as predominantly white and male even if it isn’t actually. While the “strategic use of minority culture” indicates the persistence of white supremacist logics within the university, the massive growth of subfields where “race doesn’t matter” point to nefarious regimes of colorblindness, or rhetorical assertions that whiteness should be returned to its status as a default and therefore invisible subject position. That is, DH offers the university a different path to racial co-optation by increasing job searches where colorblindness can more comfortably operate. With this in mind, let’s return to the numbers. Figure 2 shows that DH has increased its share of advertised positions, while African American literature has declined. Yet what if this simply reflects the fact that DH is an emergent field, albeit a highly successful one? Perhaps, the decline in share of African American positions is part of a move towards more positions in other ethnic American literatures? Jobs categorized as “Other Minority Literatures” have had a similar decline, though they have traditionally had a larger share of positions than African American literature. This larger share is because most jobs in African American literature are categorized under “Other Minority Literature,” even when those positions do not ask for additional qualifications in fields other than African American literature. From the JIL data alone, a fine grain answer about which race and ethnic studies fields have fared better than others is not possible. Overall, though, the share for ethnic American literature fields, including African American literature, has declined during the span of DH’s rise. The “American Literature” category provides a baseline against which to compare DH and minority fields. American Literature has not had the same magnitude of decline as the African American and Other Minority Literature categories and its share has not increased like DH’s has. That is to say, there has been a slight proportional growth in Americanist positions that do not specify expertise in a minority literature of any kind over the past fifteen years. We do have to read the separation between American Literature and minority American literatures carefully (Fig. 4) because jobs listed in these categories are likely counted three times over. Any increase in American Literature’s share when those other fields are decreasing obscures a larger percentage increase in Americanist positions not advertising for ethnic literatures. When the reverse happens, African American and Other Minority Literature positions are actually keeping the American share artificially high. Even with those subtleties, the graph shows that American minority literatures have fared worse during the job market decline than American literature and significantly worse than DH. Figure 4: Annual Percentage Share of Total Jobs Advertised in MLA, JIL, English Edition The only other field that I tracked that did not have a decline in its share of positions is “World Literature” (Fig. 5). That World Literature is DH’s partner in growth should not be surprising. Waïl S. Hassan compares World Literature’s functions to multiculturalism fueled by the “depoliticizing, homogenizing, and idealizing dynamics of global capitalism.” [9] Even those skeptical of Hassan would be remiss to ignore that World Literature’s contemporary renascence has stemmed in part from Franco Moretti’s “Conjectures on World Literature,” a crucial essay for the formulation of his “distant reading.” Even if distant reading makes claims on considerations of scale for literary studies, not computation, since Moretti’s essay was published in 2000, World Literature has been tied to DH and its alignment with global capitalism. Figure 5: (Line, left axis) Annual Percentage Share of Total Jobs Advertised in MLA JIL, English Edition (Bar, right axis) Annual Total of Jobs Advertised in MLA JIL Given the neoliberalizing tendency of the university and administrative backing for that restructuring, the increase of digital humanities positions during this phase provides support for claims that understand digital humanities as neoliberal. At the very least, this data allows us to say that digital humanities has benefited from the policies of the contemporary university much more so than other subfields within English Departments. Given other measures of the university that have increased significantly during this period (tuition, student debt, ratio of contingent to tenured faculty), it is worth taking seriously the question of DH’s relationship to these factors. DH U. As described by Harney and Moten, the fugitive non-space of the undercommons emerges from the fissures produced by liberal multiculturalism. Those fissures are essential to the university’s larger social and political function; in The Imperial University Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira argue that “debates about national identity and national culture shape the battles over academic freedom and the role of the university in defining the racial boundaries of the nation and its ‘proper’ subjects and ‘proper’ politics.” [10] That is, the university becomes a site to produce “proper,” meaning nationally acceptable, narratives of different forms of minority culture. As I understand it, Critical Ethnic Studies sees the university as one of a number of fronts for the systematic dismantling of liberal multiculturalism and the construction of new models of sociality, economy, and politics. DH, like tech, embraces a similar antagonism to liberal multiculturalism and the restrictions liberal multiculturalism places on its operations, but has a much different model of the world to come. The most compelling case for DH seems to be for the return of the social relevance of the humanities. DH propels the humanities to again speak in the language of the public. Apparently, the language of the public is productivity. Once the fog surrounding the social relevance argument burns off, we are left with serious questions about who or what benefits from the digital humanities. Reading through the LARB interview series about DH, one notices how even those that embrace aspects of DH recognize that the public or the people do not seem to benefit from its growth. Many of those interviewed state that they could only start DH work once tenured. Others acknowledge that early-career faculty who are being hired in these glut of DH positions face serious doubts about how and if they’ll receive tenure. Others recognize that the group-work, which differentiates DH from other forms of humanities labor, fails to credit workers in more precarious positions. DH’s professionalization project appears to be a way for the university to reorganize its labor formation by threatening the status of tenure and creating even more contract positions. The rise of DH only creates additional openings for administrative intervention and for encouraging the neoliberalizing tendencies with which it has become inevitably associated. Those who defend DH’s critical capacity implicitly suggest that DH can transcend the very forces that reshaped radical political movement in the 60s and 70s into multicultural units, without reference to minority studies discourse, which has carefully outlined that history. To take the work of minority studies scholars seriously, may turn the digital humanities away from the fetishization of digital tools as such and direct attention toward examining methods for counteracting the long histories of racialization via quantification and abstraction. If that discourse is ignored, however, the DH label is poised to continue the university’s production of U.S. nationalism. [1] David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011), 159. [2] Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Gregory Elliott (London: Verso, 2007), 249. [3] Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Wivenhoe: Minor Compositions, 2013), 26. [4] Literary Studies is not the only field that has been part of the digital humanities, though some argue that it is at the heart of the formation. Regardless, DH’s reach extends beyond English Departments to other humanities departments and programs, as well as to libraries. [5] Roderick A. Ferguson, The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2012), 181. [6] Sylvia Wynter, “On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Désêtre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project,” in Not Only the Master’s Tools: African-American Studies in Theory and Practice, ed. Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon (Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers, 2006), 109. [7] This explains why my numbers are so different from Brian Lennon, who has been doing a similar tabulation. He exclusively searches for “digital humanities.” [8] Given my choices and the fact that advertisers can tag a position with multiple field categories, the same position can be counted in multiple categories. For example, an Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Studies of Race and Literature job, which lists digital humanities as a secondary qualification, could be counted towards a category’s share of the total number of positions in four different areas: “Digital Humanities,” “American Literature,” and “Other Minority Literature.” When these repetitions significantly affect the interpretation of the charts, I have provided explanations in the body of the text. [9] Waïl S. Hassan, “World Literature in the Age of Globalization: Reflections on an Anthology,” College English 63, no. 1 (2000): 45. [10] Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira, “The Imperial University: Race, War, and the Nation-State,” in The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent, ed. 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__label__wiki	0.750141	0.750141	GWPF Newsletter: After Brexit, UK Tipped To Shift To Fracking Dear Theresa, Get Cracking On Fracking 1) After Brexit, UK Tipped To Shift To Fracking The Irish Independent, 20 July 2016 2) Ineos To Lodge 30 Fracking Applications To Kick-Start UK Shale Gas Market Financial Times, 17 July 2016 3) James Delingpole: Dear Theresa, Get Cracking On Fracking The Sun, 20 July 2016 4) Shale Revolution 3.0: U.S. Exports Gas To The Middle East 5) Matt Ridley: Green Industrial Strategy Is Bad For The Poor The Times, 18 July 2016 6) Philippines Won’t Honor Paris Climate Agreement Philippine Daily Inquirer, 18 July 2016 7) GWPF Climate Briefing: The CCC’s New Climate Risk Report – A Reality Check Global Warming Policy Forum, 19 July 2017 Karolin Schaps After Brexit, the UK is being tipped to shift energy policy to favour domestic production including so-called fracking for gas. A temporary ban was introduced in 2011 on the hydraulic fracturing – or “fracking” – technology used to extract gas from shale rock, but sections of the industry hope for support from new prime minister Theresa May. Stephen Bowler, chief executive of London-listed shale gas developer IGas, told Reuters that Brexit made the case for shale more vital: “An independent Britain needs an independent supply of energy. Security of supply becomes even more important now.” Shale gas had a poor start in Britain. The first well to be fracked, near the seaside city of Blackpool in Lancashire, was abandoned when some of the work there triggered an earth tremor that resulted in an 18-month ban on the technology. More recently, low energy prices have added to strains. “The weak gas price certainly doesn’t help the economics. But there’s still a lot of potential there,” said David Round, analyst at BMO Capital Markets. “You’d expect costs to come down once you get a few years into the development.” Two months ago, Third Energy received the first planning approval for a shale gas fracking well since 2011. It says it will start hydraulic fracturing at its Kirby Misperton site in North Yorkshire before the end of the year. Environmental group Friends of the Earth and a residents’ anti-fracking group have applied for judicial review of the decision at London’s High Court. Other shale gas developers, including Ineos, IGas and Cuadrilla Resources, are now banking on government support for domestic energy sources and an offer of compensation to landowners to reinvigorate their campaign. Cuadrilla aims to produce gas next year in the northwest, subject to planning approval, and Bowler’s IGas plans to test first gas in northern England by 2018. The UK government has already changed planning rules to speed up shale gas projects by giving the communities minister ultimate decision-making power on planning applications. A decision on whether to grant a permit under these new rules to Cuadrilla is due by October 6 and will be a first indication of government support for shale gas under the new prime minister. Peggy Hollinger Ineos, the $50bn petrochemicals giant controlled by British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, aims to accelerate shale gas development in the UK by lodging as many as 30 planning applications to drill test wells in the next six months. Tom Crotty, a director at Ineos, said the company hoped to start drilling in the north of England early next year and could begin extracting gas in about 18 months through the controversial technique known as fracking. The move comes as the group this year ends a six-year tax exile with the opening of a new headquarters in London for its mainly UK-based upstream oil and gas businesses. [...] The group, which owns the Grangemouth refinery in Scotland, has ambitions to become a substantial oil and gas producer, particularly in shale gas. Ineos has backed a highly public campaign to convince the Scottish government to lift its moratorium on fracking over the past year. Full story (subscription required) Fracking has the potential create jobs and boost Britain’s economy after Brexit. Theresa May must be seen as a champion of fracking to get the country’s economy back on track. Imagine if our new Prime Minister Theresa May could wave her wand and achieve the following miracles within five years. Create 500,000 new jobs, slash our electricity bills, restore British manufacturing, boost our economy, make us richer and stop our energy supplies being held to ransom by Putin, the Arabs, the French and other foreign regimes. Well, the good news is she can, right now, and doesn’t need magic to do it. All she needs to do is get fracking — the marvellous technology that extracts shale gas and oil from the ground. Fracking has worked wonders for the US economy and could do the same for ours. Shale gas is just as valuable and useful as the natural gas we’ve been harvesting from the North Sea for decades. The only difference is that, because it’s mixed up with rock sediment, it used to be impossible to recover. Then along came fracking. Suddenly the world had a new energy source just waiting to be harvested by those countries lucky enough to have shale gas and oil deposits. Theresa May must be seen as a champion of fracking to get the country’s economy back on track . Getty Images Britain is one of them. We’ve got loads of the stuff. Beneath Lancashire and Yorkshire alone, in the Bowland Shale, there are reserves so vast — around 1,300 trillion cubic feet — that even if we could extract just a tenth of them it would be enough to supply our gas needs for 50 years. There may be similar energy gold mines everywhere, from the Sussex Weald to the north of Scotland. Under the North Sea, the British Geological Survey estimates there may be ten times as much still. In the Bowland Shale beneath Lancashire and Yorkshire there are reserves with enough gas for at least 50 years. Photo Reuters ‘Miracle’ This would make the UK one of the world’s top gas producers, with enough cheap, clean, homegrown energy to last us for well over a century. But our progress in tapping this has been painfully slow, with the green lobby and councils strangling the process. For example, Cuadrilla was granted a licence to explore for shale in Lancashire in 2007. A decade on, not one single cubit foot of shale gas has yet been extracted in Lancashire or anywhere else in Britain. And it’s still waiting, as Lancashire County Council has rejected Cuadrilla’s planning applications to develop two sites to explore for shale gas, due to noise and transport complaints. So, though the Government last December sold licences for 159 new gas and oil exploration blocks — including 21 to the Anglo-Swiss chemicals giant Ineos — it could be years before any come on stream. In Texas it takes seven days to get permission to frack a site. In Britain, it can take ten years or more to clear the regulatory hurdles. Across the Pond, they have been fracking for more than a decade. It is so advanced it is known as the shale gas “miracle”. The shale oil and gas industry in the US is now worth in excess of 200billion dollars and is expected to get much bigger. In 2015 a BP Energy Outlook report predicted that within 20 years the US could become self-sufficient in oil and will hold 75 per cent of the world’s shale gas market. As a result, America now has the world’s lowest electricity prices and cheapest gas (half what it costs in Europe). It now exports more petroleum products than it imports (so is no longer reliant on the Middle East) and its heavy manufacturing industries are enjoying a huge renaissance. Lower energy costs mean higher productivity, so that suddenly US manufacturers can compete on equal terms with countries like China. Contracts previously outsourced abroad are now increasingly being done at home (“reshoring”), which has meant a rise in jobs (more than 800,000 since 2011) for US blue-collar workers. Could the same happen here? Most definitely, but for one problem. For many people fracking is a dirty word. Not only does it sound rude, it has been the victim of a prolonged smear campaign by various green lobby groups such as Greenpeace which see it as a threat to their beloved renewable energy. And they’re right. It is a threat. Unlike solar or wind turbines (a.k.a. bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco- crucifixes), shale gas is cheap, reliable and does not need any taxpayer subsidies. Nor does it kill wildlife or ruin the landscape for years on end. The gas goes into a contraption, much smaller than a turbine, called a “Christmas tree”, which only stays up for a few months then disappears forever once the gas has been harvested. It’s also clean and safe. The horror stories you hear put out by green activists — gas leaks, contaminated water, dodgy chemicals, “earthquakes” — have been investigated and exposed as lies, propaganda and nonsense. [...] So the next thing Mrs May can do to show she means business is to instruct her Communities Secretary Sajid Javid to reverse Lancashire County Council’s planning rejection of drilling. Mrs May must be seen as a champion for fracking, debunking the propaganda of the small cabal of vocal, well-funded green campaigners and hammer home the message that it is in our broader national interest to frack. If, as she says, she really cares about the needs of ordinary working people, this is her quickest, cheapest way to help them. Ed Crooks For the US to sell gas to the energy-rich Middle East might seem like sending coal to Newcastle, but it has started to happen as the American shale revolution upends the global flows of resources. Cheniere Energy’s LNG plant at Sabine Pass Two cargoes of US liquefied natural gas from Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana have been delivered to Kuwait and Dubai in recent months to meet the rapidly growing demand for energy. This reversal of the well-established flows of hydrocarbons from the Middle East to the US reflects the boom in American gas production caused by the development of previously uncommercial shale reserves, and the soaring demand for energy in economies from the Gulf to north Africa. “We’re in a time of huge change in LNG shipping routes,” said Ted Michael of Genscape, a market data provider. “The old order is being overturned, and we haven’t seen the dust settle yet.” The Sabine Pass plant shipped its first cargo in February, and has already sent LNG to seven countries: Argentina, Chile, Brazil, India and Portugal, as well as Dubai and Kuwait. Many Middle Eastern countries have large gas resources, but have not had the investment they need to bring their reserves into production. Countries with fast-growing economies and populations have been forced to took to gas imports for power generation and industrial uses. Their rising demand for gas coincides with a wave of additional supply reaching world markets as new LNG export projects in Australia and the US come into production. The biggest source of inequality is government intervention on behalf of crony capitalism, not the free market. In her first speech on the steps of 10 Downing Street Theresa May said that she intends to listen to those who “just about manage”, not to the wealthy and mighty. “When it comes to opportunity, we won’t entrench the advantages of the fortunate few.” Dead right: but how? In pursuit of that objective she has signalled that she may favour an industrial strategy intended to help those areas that have it toughest. Some have interpreted this as a sign that markets are out of fashion and that government intervention is back. That certainly seems to be part of the thinking of her aide Nick Timothy and think-tank influences such as David Skelton. Mr Timothy says it is time that politicians “questioned the unthinking liberalism of the policies they support”. Greg Clark, the business secretary, says he is thrilled to take charge of a “new department charged with delivering a comprehensive industrial strategy”. That worries me. The history of industrial strategies is littered with attempts to pick winners that ended up picking losers. Worse, it is government intervention, not laissez faire, that has done most to increase inequality and to entrench wealth and privilege. For example, the planning system restricts the supply of land for housebuilding, raising property prices to the enormous benefit of the haves (yes, that includes me) at the expense of the have-nots. The government favours private pensions, creates tax loopholes and subsidises farming and the opera. Why are salaries so high in financial services? Because there are huge barriers to entry erected by government, which hands incumbent firms enormous quasi-monopoly advantages and thereby shelters them from upstart competition. Why are cancer treatments so expensive? Because governments give monopolies called patents to the big firms that invent them. Why are lawyers so rich? Because there is a government-licensed cartel restricting the supply of them. Why do civil servants get so many knighthoods — symbols of inequality? Because they control the supply of them. I am not saying that all these interventions are wrong. Clearly, we want government to ensure that beauty spots are protected from development, that financial firms are not shysters, lawyers are not crooks and that drugs are safe and effective. But is it possible that both companies and regulators have a common interest in restricting competition, and subsidising each other, at the expense of consumers? Of course it is. Our current “industrial strategy” for energy — to subsidise offshore wind, solar, biomass and nuclear — is responsible for the fact that domestic electricity prices are the seventh highest of the 29 countries that are members of the International Energy Agency, 21 per cent above the median, while our industrial energy prices are fourth highest and 43 per cent above the median. Domestic electricity bills are a higher proportion of household budgets for the poor than for the rich, so this policy is regressive; doubly so, because the wind and solar subsidies mostly go to the rich. High industrial electricity bills are a big part of the cost of aluminium, steel and other blue-collar industries, and bear a heavy responsibility for the painful closures at Lynemouth and Redcar. The policy has been tough for blue-collar workers and poorer people. Marlon Ramos Philippines President Duterte on Monday said his administration would not honor the historic Paris Agreement on climate change that the Philippines adopted along with about 200 countries in December 2015, saying the covenant was “stupid” and “absurd.” The tough-talking President said the international treaty, signed by countries that participated in the 21st Conference of Parties in France, would only limit the country’s industrial growth. Speaking at sendoff ceremonies in Malacañang for Filipino athletes bound for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the President said a foreign ambassador recently reminded him of the country’s commitment to limit its carbon emissions. He said he was angry with the ambassador and “wanted to kick him” when the diplomat, whom he did not identify, asked him if the Philippines could maintain the level of its carbon footprints. “I said, ‘No. I cannot tell … You don’t do it that way, Mr. Ambassador. [Your country] has reached the apex [of industrialization] and along the way put a lot of contaminants and emissions, and went ahead in destroying the climate,’” the President recalled as telling the ambassador. “We have not reached the age of industrialization. We’re now going into it. But you are trying to stymie [our growth] with an agreement that says you can only go up to here,” he added. “That’s stupid. I will not honor that.” Signature not his When the ambassador told him that the Philippines was a signatory to the agreement, Mr. Duterte replied: “That was not my signature. It’s not mine … I will not follow.” The President also said the climate change agreement was forged just when the Philippines was on its way to develop its own industries. “Now that we’re developing, you will impose a limit?” he said. “That’s absurd.” “That’s how very competitive and constricted our lives now. It’s being controlled by the world, it’s being imposed upon us by the industrialized countries. 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__label__wiki	0.951869	0.951869	Report: Uber exec plots revenge on journalists, eliciting outrage By Kale Williams on November 18, 2014 at 8:03 AM People leave a hotel in an Uber vehicle in Los Angeles last month. (Emily Berl/The New York Times) The folks at Buzzfeed dropped big news Monday evening with a story quoting a senior executive from Uber, the popular San Francisco-based ride-services company, as suggesting the company should consider hiring opposition researchers to dig up dirt about journalists who criticize the company — specifically Sarah Lacy, the outspoken editor-in-chief of Pando Daily, an online publication covering Silicon Valley. Emil Michael, Uber’s senior vice president of business, made the remarks — which he apparently thought were off the record — Friday at Manhattan’s Waverly Inn, according to the Buzzfeed report, at a dinner attended by such high-rollers as actor Edward Norton and publisher Arianna Huffington. Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists http://t.co/Wmv1lgvkyR pic.twitter.com/IvAvjrWgwN — BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) November 18, 2014 Also in attendance was an unnamed Buzzfeed editor, who maintains that no one told him that anything said at the dinner was supposed to be off the record. Michael allegedly floated the idea of spending as much as $1 million to hire four researchers and four journalists to “give the media a taste of its own medicine” by going after reporters’ personal lives and families. Michael, who came to Uber from Klout and sits on an advisory board for the Department of Defense, was primarily focused on Lacy because of a post she published earlier this year calling out the company for the misogynistic practices of its founder, Travis Kalanick. In the post Lacy called for women to delete the app from their phones due to safety concerns trickling down from the founders’ perceived lack of respect for women. While Michael never said the company had hired researchers, he proposed the idea of slinging mud at the Uber’s critics as something that would make sense. In a statement issued through an Uber spokeswoman, Michael quickly backpedaled. “The remarks attributed to me at a private dinner — borne out of frustration during an informal debate over what I feel is sensationalistic media coverage of the company I am proud to work for — do not reflect my actual views and have no relation to the company’s views or approach,” he said. “They were wrong no matter the circumstance and I regret them.” Unsurprisingly, the internet was not exactly receptive. According to Lacy, Michael reached out to her directly to talk, again, off the record. It did not go over well. just got a call from @emilmichael asking if we could chat off record. i said no. readers and riders deserved to hear it. so he hung up — Sarah Lacy (@sarahcuda) November 18, 2014 Lacy is no stranger to criticism, but in her own response, she detailed just how far out of bounds the latest accusations went. “These new attacks threatened to hit at my only vulnerability,” she wrote. “The only part of my life that I’d do anything to protect: my family and my children.” She again called for a huge app-deleting campaign against Uber, an idea that appeared to be picking up steam on Twitter. It sucks that #Uber is a great idea and @Uber is a vile company founded by some of the worst people on earth. — Peter Henderson (@Henderburn) November 18, 2014 I’ve used @Uber exactly once (and ridden in a few more). So long as @emilmichael is in its leadership, once is quite enough. — Rus McLaughlin (@rusmclaughlin) November 18, 2014 Apparently @uber is run by dangerous egomaniacal misogynistic asshats. Who knew? Uninstalling… now. #ubergate — Mr Shoggoth (@MrShuggoth) November 18, 2014 According to Buzzfeed, at least one person at the Waverly Inn dinner anticipated this kind of blow-back if the plan ever became public. “Nobody would know it was us,” Michael reportedly responded. Kale Williams	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4401
__label__cc	0.647125	0.352875	SIOR Launches 'The Deal Center' - A Transaction Ranking Resource Headquarter Highlights Deals/Transactions The Society of Industrial and Office REALTORS® (SIOR) the world’s leading professional industrial and office real estate association — is pleased to announce the launch of its newest transaction resource, The Deal Center. The Deal Center will allow members to keep track of transaction rankings through an easy-to-use submission platform. The leaderboards reflect the top 10 members by reported Total Dollar Volume and Total Deals. The Deal Center also ranks the Top 10 Members per chapter. It will also regularly highlight some of the most impactful deals for economic growth in the U.S. and abroad. “The Deal Center was created as a way for members to seamlessly keep track of their transactions and to provide a system to showcase the impressive work that is typical of an SIOR,” said Del Markward, SIOR’s Global President. “Additionally, this new resource is a way to encourage global cooperation and motivational member-to-member competition.” In addition to annual tracking, the platform aggregates data dating back to 2013, capturing several years’ worth of deal and transaction information to give a broader view of the scope and impact SIORs have on the commercial real estate world. 2019 Winter Edition of the SIOR Report Now Available! 10 Pieces of Advice from Top CRE Pros	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4403
__label__wiki	0.952987	0.952987	Convicted killer in swarming death granted bail once again pending Supreme Court appeal Assmar Shlah is transported to the Calgary police Arrest Processing Unit in Calgary Thursday, December 12, 2013, in connection with death of Lukas Strasser-Hird - who police say was swarmed outside a Calgary bar Nov. 23. Stuart Gradon / Postmedia Convicted murderer Assmar Shlah is a free man once again. Court of Appeal Justice Jo’Anne Strekaf on Thursday granted Shlah bail pending a hearing in November before the nation’s top court. In her written ruling, Strekaf said Shlah remains in a similar position to the one he was in pending his conviction appeal to the Alberta Court of Appeal. She noted that in December 2017 a three-member panel of her fellow appeal judges determined Shlah was a suitable candidate for release on strict conditions, which included house arrest. Strekaf agreed with defence counsel Balfour Der that the application to the Supreme Court to have Shlah’s conviction struck down is not frivolous. She noted while two appeal judges upheld Shlah’s conviction in the Nov. 23, 2013, swarming death of Calgary teen Lukas Strasser-Hird, a dissenting judge said an outright acquittal was warranted. Because of the dissent, Shlah has an automatic right to take his case to the nation’s highest court. “Would a reasonable member of the public . . . be of the view that the appellant, who has been on bail without incident, largely since he was charged, should be permitted to stay on bail pending his appeal as of right to the Supreme Court of Canada, or should he now be incarcerated because his first level of appeal was not successful?” Strekaf said. “I have reviewed the majority and dissenting judgments of this court and I am satisfied that the proposed grounds of appeal have clearly passed the ‘not frivolous’ standard. It would not be helpful to comment further on the prospects of success.” Shlah was convicted along with another man, Franz Cabrera, by a Calgary jury in June 2016 of second-degree murder in the death of Strasser-Hird in an alley behind a Beltline nightclub. Both men were handed life sentences, with Shlah’s parole ineligibility set at 12 years and Cabrera’s at 15. A third man, Jock Pouk, was convicted of manslaughter by the same jury, which acquitted a fourth man, Jordan Liao. Nathan Gervais, who had fled justice while on bail before being arrested in Vietnam, was later convicted of first-degree murder after a judge ruled he stabbed the deceased while he was being attacked by others in the alley. Cabrera’s lawyer, Gavin Wolch, who has also taken his client’s case to the Supreme Court, said he will review Strekaf’s decision before deciding whether to seek bail for him. The victim’s father, Dale Hird, expressed outrage at the latest development. “We’re . . . just shocked and disappointed with our justice system,” Hird said. “I’ve been fighting this for 5 1/2 years and I’m out of gas.” KMartin@postmedia.com Twitter: @KMartinCourts Olympic Plaza wading pool closed after fecal matter found in water As thousands flocked to Banff over long weekend, transit numbers ‘skyrocket’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4407
__label__cc	0.650199	0.349801	RumbleMonkey allows Hearthstone gambling; Loot Box discussion in UK parliament BY Lee Davy ON October 20, 2017 TAGs: Hearthstone, RumbleMonkey, UK Two stories from the world of video gaming and gambling including RumbleMonkey allowing betting on Hearthstone matches, and the question of whether Loot Boxes constitutes gambling arrives in the UK Parliament. When it comes to naming your brand, Seth Godin, author of the Purple Cow, believes the vital question is, “When I Google this name, will I find you?” If you Google RumbleMonkey you only land in one place, a platform that allows you to gamble for real money while playing Hearthstone. The name might not have anything to do with esports, but who cares, right? RumbleMonkey works like Hold’em Manager (HEM) in as much as it operates in the background while you compete. Rather than annoying you, the seamless application improves the user experience. While HEM provides statistics, RumbleMoney gives you with the opportunity to gamble for real money against your opponent. The application is currently in Beta Mode, and only available for Blizzard Entertainment’s Hearthstone. So if you have a buddy who plays Hearthstone, and you want to have a little digital wager on the outcome, then register a RumbleMonkey account and off you go. RumbleMonkey plan to add more titles to the client. When this happens, players can use one wallet to play a broad variety of games in the same way PokerStars players can use a single wallet to play online poker, casino, and make sports bets. What if you don’t have any friends who happen to play Hearthstone and gamble? There is a player list on RumbleMonkey of people interested in gambling (there are 42 at the time of writing). You can tag them as friends, and RumbleMonkey will let you know when they are online. I like the idea. Playing video games is fun, but playing with some money at stake takes things to a whole new level. Not only will the addition of a wager increase the excitement for the competing players, but it also improves the live stream for viewers should players want to go down that popular route. The Beta Mode only allows punters to wager $5 each on a single match, and this will have to increase for the idea to work. As far as I can tell the only way to get money on and off your wallet is via PayPal, and this won’t do moving forward. Cryptocurrency options is also a must. If you want to get involved in the Beta Mode then Google ‘RumbleMoney,” I promise you will find them. “RumbleMonkey empowers gamers to engage in contests of skill against other RumbleMonkey users for real money,” said RumbleMonkey CEO Jacob Rapoport. “Our goal is to democratize esports and enhance gameplay. RumbleMonkey does not support betting, gambling, or wagering of any kind. This is not merely semantics. RumbleMonkey’s business facilitates contests of skill in which players pay an entry fee to engage in a match for a fixed prize, which is announced by RumbleMonkey and guaranteed to the most successful player. At no time does RumbleMonkey offer the ability to place a bet, or wager, or gamble on the outcome in any form or by any means. Nor do we offer or engage in fantasy sports for that matter. The fact that users play for real money has no bearing on the legality of RumbleMonkey’s activities, and certainly does not make the services ‘gambling.’” Loot Boxes Make it to The House of Commons. When your teenage son wants you to watch him open a ‘Loot Box’, you know the game developers have got him hooked like a sardine. The ‘addictive’ nature of these boxes have caused some furore in recent months, brought to a head when developers of the Lord of the Rings spin-off Shadow of War allowed players to purchase Loot Boxes outside of the game, meaning if you had the collateral, you could become better at the game. You have to feel sorry for the adults feeding this frenzy. In some quarters of the esports industry, people believe opening a Loot Box is akin to spinning the roulette wheel and have posed the question: is this gambling? As covered by our intrepid reporter, Peter Amsel, The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) recently declared that Loot Boxes and gambling aren’t in the same ballpark, but that hasn’t stopped an MP in good Old Blighty bringing up the same question in the Houses of Parliament. Labour MP for Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner, brought up the question of Loot Boxes and gambling during a session on October 6 and the UK Government now have a month to make their judgment. There is also a petition asking the UK Gambling Commission to create a law protecting children from Loot Boxes. It has 10,000 signatures, and if it comes across my email, there will be 10,001 because I am currently going broke buying these things. Tories vow vengeance on UK gambling operators after election Watch out for WeWork tremors in the UK ComeOn calls it quits in the UK over tighter regulatory environment BoyleSports makes its way into UK’s retail gaming industry UK’s online gambling operators might have licenses canceled	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4409
__label__wiki	0.757842	0.757842	Performance & Precarity La littérature québécoise, versant mâle by Benoît Trudel Être ou ne pas être un homme : la masculinité dans le roman québécois by Victor-Laurent Tremblay Au-delà du nom : la question du père dans la littérature québécoise actuelle by Lori Saint-Martin Land, Identity, Community by Jasmine Johnston Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts by Bruce Granville Miller The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak by Priscilla Settee Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Indigeneity by Pamela D. Palmater German Critics on Canadian Women Writers by Rosmarin Heidenreich Erscheinungsformen der Macht in den Romanen Margaret Atwoods by Hannelore Zimmermann Selbst und Andere/s by Christina Strobel and Doris Eibl Sex, Gender and Space by Geraldine Pratt Mapping Desire by David Bell and Gill Valentine Reconfigured Spheres: Feminist Explorations of Literary Space by Margaret R. Higonnet and Joan Templeton (M)others’ Voices by Christopher Brayshaw Frog Moon by Lola Lemire Tostevin Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature by Di Brandt Katrina Onstad Everybody Has Everything. Emblem Editions Marie-Claire Blais Mai at the Predators' Ball. House of Anansi Press Reviewed by Gillian Dunks As Judith Butler argues, individuals who do not “live their gender in intelligible ways” have precarious lives. They are exposed to social misrecognition, violence, and even death. Katrina Onstad’s Everybody Has Everything and Marie-Claire Blais’ Mai at the Predators’ Ball examine characters whose subversive performance of gender makes their lives precarious, yet Blais finds potential for positive social change in subversive performativity, whereas Onstad does not. The dust jacket of Katrina Onstad’s Everybody Has Everything poses the book’s central question: can everyone be a parent? The book’s implicit answer to this rhetorical question is no. James and Ana, married, middle-class professionals in Toronto nearing the age of forty, cannot conceive. In a convenient plot twist, when their best friends Marcus and Sarah crash their car, James and Ana become the legal guardians of their friends’ son, Finn. Ana, a corporate lawyer, struggles to orient herself within her new role as “mother,” whereas James, upon losing his job, takes on the role of “stay-at-home-Dad” with aplomb. Sarah, Finn’s biological mother, survives the crash, but remains in a coma for most of the novel. Like Alice Munro, Onstad is more attuned to the subtle complexities of character development than plot. Much of the plot feels shopworn: Finn’s arrival in the couples’ life reveals their increasing incompatibility, and Sarah recovers from her vegetative state precisely when Ana recognizes she is not interested in mothering Finn. There is another question, though, that the novel poses: why are women expected to be mothers? Ana consistently fails to perform the “maternal,” demonstrating a marked lack of interest in Finn. Furthermore, Ana’s professional life proves inhospitable to motherhood—her office, dominated by better-paid male colleagues, causes another female lawyer with children, Elspeth, to pretend she has no children. Although Ana’s husband expects her to accommodate a child easily—based on his assumption of women’s innate maternal nature—Ana resists constructed femininity. It is only when Ana rejects her husband and child that she gains autonomy, yet Ana remains emotionally unfulfilled at the end of the novel, perceiving only “pointless” white space in the universe around her. Ana’s existential angst, Onstad suggests, is a result of her refusal to remain within the confines of constructed gender identity. As such, Ana’s life becomes increasingly “unreadable,” as Butler claims precarious life is. Mai at the Predators’ Ball unites the narratives of a group of men in drag at the Porte du Baiser Saloon with the story of a teenage girl named Mai. Blais accomplishes this through the use of free indirect discourse. One key Saloon character is Yinn, a costume designer and artist who presents as both male and female throughout the novel. Yinn’s name, surely an overt pun on the interconnected, opposing forces of yin and yang, reflects the social constructions of gender for the drag Queens at the Saloon. Their successful performances of femininity and masculinity de-stabilize notions of innate gender identity. However, such performance is not free of pain: HIV, drug-abuse, and systemic problems that are the result of social injustice mark the lives of these characters. The Saloon is a liminal zone—Blais’ frequent references to the hostile world surrounding it, full of abusive johns and harassing police officers, locate Yinn and friends in a world where they are socially stigmatized and exposed as objects for public consumption. The death of the aptly named Fatalité, a performer at the Saloon who has succumbed to AIDS, becomes an occasion for Yinn to make a public bid for equal social recognition. Yinn’s elaborate public pageant is motivated by a recognition of “the overwhelming precariousness of all their lives” and a desire to “get back some hope.” Although the pageant may not secure the political recognition Yinn desires, Blais locates the potential for positive social recognition within precarious communities like the Saloon. For example, Petites Cendres, a character with HIV at the fringes of Yinn’s glittering circle of Queens, nourishes a desire to be recognized by Yinn. In the novel’s final scene, Yinn makes eye contact with Petites Cendres and waves “tenderly”—a powerful moment suggesting the potential within precarious communities to resist the violence of imposed gender identity and social misrecognition. Mai’s life is also bound by heteronormative gender constructs, but, unlike the Queens at the Saloon, Mai struggles to make her performance a subversive bid for social change. Mai is capable of making mature observations but is limited by a body hovering between childishness and full sexual maturation. Mai’s friend, Tammy, oppressed by her parents’ patriarchal expectations, takes more action than Mai does: Tammy becomes anorexic, attempting to reject her newly minted hips and breasts in order to emulate the bodies of male rappers, who look “like just a heart with some flesh and skin around it.” Tammy’s desire for an identity that is not defined by her femininity is shared by Mai and several of her other female relatives, who are unsure of how to be good daughters, wives, and mothers. It is in connections like the ones between Mai and Tammy that Blais locates potential for a re-engagement of gender identity. Despite the difficulty of Blais’ style and the occasional redundancy of Onstad’s, both novels do an exemplary job of examining the ways in which the social construction of gender shapes individuals’ lives. Canadian Studies Feminism Gender Home & Family Novel Sexuality Twenty-First Century Women's Studies This review “Performance & Precarity” originally appeared in Contested Migrations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 219 (Winter 2013): 142-43.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4412
__label__wiki	0.502354	0.502354	Startups fight hacking, spying on car technology after CIA leaks Mark Niu @MarkNiuWrite Published March 28, 2017 at 3:28 PM Many startups are examining the leaked code from the Wikileaks documents on the CIA’s hacking capabilities and already developing ways to protect something you might not think of when someone says “mobile device”: your car! GGTN’s Mark Niu reports. Many startups are examining the leaked code from the Wikileaks documents on the CIA's hacking capabilities and already developing ways to protect something you might not think of when someone says “mobile device": your car! GGTN's Mark Niu reports. The Silicon Valley startup, Visual Threat, can simulate how to maliciously attack a car’s computer system and kill the engine. Fortunately, the company has developed a solution for car manufacturers that is both firewall and anti-virus system to protect a vehicle. The recent WikiLeaks dump of alleged C.I.A. documents claims the agency has looked into hacking cars to carry out assassinations that look like accidents “It didn’t surprise me a lot, because when I read the articles. It looks to me that every vehicle have serious security problems. For example, we do the experiment before. We put a car into a certain status you can send any format of the message the car will stop. It’s very scary just imagine the autonomous driving yourself highway and people just control your vehicle remotely or put something in the OBD port when the next driver step in there may be some problem,” said Wei Yan, CEO & Founder, Visual Threat WikiLeaks also claimed the C.I.A. could remotely turn on smartphone microphones and through “Operation Weeping Angel” — put a Samsung Smart TV in fake “off” mode, while it was secretly recording conversations. Companies are beginning to hire hackers from all over the world to find security flaws in technology, including HackerOne. “These are really tip of the spear attacks designed by CIA spies for targeting very hi-profile individuals. But technology is so commonplace that the methods used for those individuals could very easily be used for [edit] normal people, like I have a Samsung TV sitting in my bedroom and so I can empathize with what that feels like,” said Alex Rice, Co-Founder & CTO, HackerOne. What surprises Rice most about the latest WikiLeaks document dump is how unprepared the CIA was despite earlier hacks of government agencies like the U.S. Office of Personal Management, OPM. “It is absolutely a positive step that WikiLeaks is offering to share this information with defenders. The part is still an open question in my mind is it shouldn’t be a surprise to the CIA that an attack like this was possible, it happened to the NSA a few years ago, it’s happened to OPM, it’s happened to most tech companies at some point or another. So they should have been ready for what happens if our entire weapon arsenal leaks,” he said. Rice is conflicted about the motives of WikiLeaks. While it may be in the public interest to know about the C.I.A.’s hacking methods, releasing the tools could make it possible for ordinary criminals – if not foreign governments – to use them. Trump signs roll-back on Obama-era climate plans »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4420
__label__wiki	0.582589	0.582589	The White Blot by Henry van Dyke The real location of a city house depends upon the pictures which hang upon its walls. They are its neighbourhood and its outlook. They confer upon it that touch of life and character, that power to beget love and bind friendship, which a country house receives from its surrounding landscape, the garden that embraces it, the stream that runs near it, and the shaded paths that lead to and from its door. By this magic of pictures my narrow, upright slice of living-space in one of the brown-stone strata on the eastward slope of Manhattan Island is transferred to an open and agreeable site. It has windows that look toward the woods and the sunset, watergates by which a little boat is always waiting, and secret passageways leading into fair places that are frequented by persons of distinction and charm. No darkness of night obscures these outlets; no neighbour's house shuts off the view; no drifted snow of winter makes them impassable. They are always free, and through them I go out and in upon my adventures. One of these picture-wanderings has always appeared to me so singular that I would like, if it were possible, to put it into words. It was Pierrepont who first introduced me to the picture--Pierrepont the good-natured: of whom one of his friends said that he was like Mahomet's Bridge of Paradise, because he was so hard to cross: to which another added that there was also a resemblance in the fact that he led to a region of beautiful illusions which he never entered. He is one of those enthusiastic souls who are always discovering a new writer, a new painter, a new view from some old wharf by the river, a new place to obtain picturesque dinners at a grotesque price. He swung out of his office, with his long-legged, easy stride, and nearly ran me down, as I was plodding up-town through the languor of a late spring afternoon, on one of those duty-walks which conscience offers as a sacrifice to digestion. "Why, what is the matter with you?" he cried as he linked his arm through mine, "you look outdone, tired all the way through to your backbone. Have you been reading the 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' or something by one of the new British female novelists? You will have la grippe in your mind if you don't look out. But I know what you need. Come with me, and I will do you good." So saying, he drew me out of clanging Broadway into one of the side streets that run toward the placid region of Washington Square. "No, no," I answered, feeling, even in the act of resistance, the pleasure of his cheerful guidance, "you are altogether wrong. I don't need a dinner at your new-found Bulgarian table-d'hote--seven courses for seventy-five cents, and the wine thrown out; nor some of those wonderful Mexican cheroots warranted to eradicate the tobacco- habit; nor a draught of your South American melon sherbet that cures all pains, except these which it causes. None of these things will help me. The doctor suggests that they do not suit my temperament. Let us go home together and have a shower-bath and a dinner of herbs, with just a reminiscence of the stalled ox--and a bout at backgammon to wind up the evening. That will be the most comfortable prescription." "But you mistake me," said he; "I am not thinking of any creature comforts for you. I am prescribing for your mind. There is a picture that I want you to see; not a coloured photograph, nor an exercise in anatomical drawing; but a real picture that will rest the eyes of your heart. Come away with me to Morgenstern's gallery, and be healed." As we turned into the lower end of Fifth Avenue, it seemed as if I were being gently floated along between the modest apartment-houses and old-fashioned dwellings, and prim, respectable churches, on the smooth current of Pierrepont's talk about his new-found picture. How often a man has cause to return thanks for the enthusiasms of his friends! They are the little fountains that run down from the hills to refresh the mental desert of the despondent. "You remember Falconer," continued Pierrepont, "Temple Falconer, that modest, quiet, proud fellow who came out of the South a couple of years ago and carried off the landscape prize at the Academy last year, and then disappeared? He had no intimate friends here, and no one knew what had become of him. But now this picture appears, to show what he has been doing. It is an evening scene, a revelation of the beauty of sadness, an idea expressed in colours--or rather, a real impression of Nature that awakens an ideal feeling in the heart. It does not define everything and say nothing, like so many paintings. It tells no story, but I know it fits into one. There is not a figure in it, and yet it is alive with sentiment; it suggests thoughts which cannot be put into words. Don't you love the pictures that have that power of suggestion--quiet and strong, like Homer Martin's 'Light-house' up at the Century, with its sheltered bay heaving softly under the pallid greenish sky of evening, and the calm, steadfast glow of the lantern brightening into readiness for all the perils of night and coming storm? How much more powerful that is than all the conventional pictures of light-houses on inaccessible cliffs, with white foam streaming from them like the ends of a schoolboy's comforter in a gale of wind! I tell you the real painters are the fellows who love pure nature because it is so human. They don't need to exaggerate, and they don't dare to be affected. They are not afraid of the reality, and they are not ashamed of the sentiment. They don't paint everything that they see, but they see everything that they paint. And this picture makes me sure that Falconer is one of them." By this time we had arrived at the door of the house where Morgenstern lives and moves and makes his profits, and were admitted to the shrine of the Commercial Apollo and the Muses in Trade. It has often seemed to me as if that little house were a silent epitome of modern art criticism, an automatic indicator, or perhaps regulator, of the aesthetic taste of New York. On the first floor, surrounded by all the newest fashions in antiquities and BRIC-A- BRAC, you will see the art of to-day--the works of painters who are precisely in the focus of advertisement, and whose names call out an instant round of applause in the auction-room. On the floors above, in degrees of obscurity deepening toward the attic, you will find the art of yesterday--the pictures which have passed out of the glare of popularity without yet arriving at the mellow radiance of old masters. In the basement, concealed in huge packing-cases, and marked "PARIS--FRAGILE,"--you will find the art of to-morrow; the paintings of the men in regard to whose names, styles, and personal traits, the foreign correspondents and prophetic critics in the newspapers, are now diffusing in the public mind that twilight of familiarity and ignorance which precedes the sunrise of marketable fame. The affable and sagacious Morgenstern was already well acquainted with the waywardness of Pierrepont's admiration, and with my own persistent disregard of current quotations in the valuation of works of art. He regarded us, I suppose, very much as Robin Hood would have looked upon a pair of plain yeomen who had strayed into his lair. The knights of capital, and coal barons, and rich merchants were his natural prey, but toward this poor but honest couple it would be worthy only of a Gentile robber to show anything but courteous and fair dealing. He expressed no surprise when he heard what we wanted to see, but smiled tolerantly and led the way, not into the well-defined realm of the past, the present, or the future, but into a region of uncertain fortunes, a limbo of acknowledged but unrewarded merits, a large back room devoted to the works of American painters. Here we found Falconer's picture; and the dealer, with that instinctive tact which is the best part of his business capital, left us alone to look at it. It showed the mouth of a little river: a secluded lagoon, where the shallow tides rose and fell with vague lassitude, following the impulse of prevailing winds more than the strong attraction of the moon. But now the unsailed harbour was quite still, in the pause of the evening; and the smooth undulations were caressed by a hundred opalescent hues, growing deeper toward the west, where the river came in. Converging lines of trees stood dark against the sky; a cleft in the woods marked the course of the stream, above which the reluctant splendours of an autumnal day were dying in ashes of roses, while three tiny clouds, poised high in air, burned red with the last glimpse of the departed sun. On the right was a reedy point running out into the bay, and behind it, on a slight rise of ground, an antique house with tall white pillars. It was but dimly outlined in the gathering shadows; yet one could imagine its stately, formal aspect, its precise garden with beds of old-fashioned flowers and straight paths bordered with box, and a little arbour overgrown with honeysuckle. I know not by what subtlety of delicate and indescribable touches--a slight inclination in one of the pillars, a broken line which might indicate an unhinged gate, a drooping resignation in the foliage of the yellowing trees, a tone of sadness in the blending of subdued colours--the painter had suggested that the place was deserted. But the truth was unmistakable. An air of loneliness and pensive sorrow breathed from the picture; a sigh of longing and regret. It was haunted by sad, sweet memories of some untold story of human life. In the corner Falconer had put his signature, T. F., "LARMONE," 189-, and on the border of the picture he had faintly traced some words, which we made out at last-- "A spirit haunts the year's last hours." Pierrepont took up the quotation and completed it-- "A spirit haunts the year's last hours, Dwelling amid these yellowing bowers: To himself he talks; For at eventide, listening earnestly, At his work you may hear him sob and sigh, In the walks; Earthward he boweth the heavy stalks Of the mouldering flowers: Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily." "That is very pretty poetry, gentlemen," said Morgenstern, who had come in behind us, "but is it not a little vague? You like it, but you cannot tell exactly what it means. I find the same fault in the picture from my point of view. There is nothing in it to make a paragraph about, no anecdote, no experiment in technique. It is impossible to persuade the public to admire a picture unless you can tell them precisely the points on which they must fix their admiration. And that is why, although the painting is a good one, I should be willing to sell it at a low price." He named a sum of money in three figures, so small that Pierrepont, who often buys pictures by proxy, could not conceal his surprise. "Certainly I should consider that a good bargain, simply for investment," said he. "Falconer's name alone ought to be worth more than that, ten years from now. He is a rising man." "No, Mr. Pierrepont," replied the dealer, "the picture is worth what I ask for it, for I would not commit the impertinence of offering a present to you or your friend; but it is worth no more. Falconer's name will not increase in value. The catalogue of his works is too short for fame to take much notice of it; and this is the last. Did you not hear of his death last fall? I do not wonder, for it happened at some place down on Long Island--a name that I never saw before, and have forgotten now. There was not even an obituary in the newspapers." "And besides," he continued, after a pause, "I must not conceal from you that the painting has a blemish. It is not always visible, since you have failed to detect it; but it is more noticeable in some lights than in others; and, do what I will, I cannot remove it. This alone would prevent the painting from being a good investment. Its market value will never rise." He turned the canvas sideways to the light, and the defect became apparent. It was a dim, oblong, white blot in the middle distance; a nebulous blur in the painting, as if there had been some chemical impurity in the pigment causing it to fade, or rather as if a long drop of some acid, or perhaps a splash of salt water, had fallen upon the canvas while it was wet, and bleached it. I knew little of the possible causes of such a blot, but enough to see that it could not be erased without painting over it, perhaps not even then. And yet it seemed rather to enhance than to weaken the attraction which the picture had for me. "Your candour does you credit, Mr. Morgenstern," said I, "but you know me well enough to be sure that what you have said will hardly discourage me. For I have never been an admirer of 'cabinet finish' in works of art. Nor have I been in the habit of buying them, as a Circassian father trains his daughters, with an eye to the market. They come into my house for my own pleasure, and when the time arrives that I can see them no longer, it will not matter much to me what price they bring in the auction-room. This landscape pleases me so thoroughly that, if you will let us take it with us this evening, I will send you a check for the amount in the morning." So we carried off the painting in a cab; and all the way home I was in the pleasant excitement of a man who is about to make an addition to his house; while Pierrepont was conscious of the glow of virtue which comes of having done a favour to a friend and justified your own critical judgment at one stroke. After dinner we hung the painting over the chimney-piece in the room called the study (because it was consecrated to idleness), and sat there far into the night, talking of the few times we had met Falconer at the club, and of his reticent manner, which was broken by curious flashes of impersonal confidence when he spoke not of himself but of his art. From this we drifted into memories of good comrades who had walked beside us but a few days in the path of life, and then disappeared, yet left us feeling as if we cared more for them than for the men whom we see every day; and of young geniuses who had never reached the goal; and of many other glimpses of "the light that failed," until the lamp was low and it was time to say good-night. For several months I continued to advance in intimacy with my picture. It grew more familiar, more suggestive; the truth and beauty of it came home to me constantly. Yet there was something in it not quite apprehended; a sense of strangeness; a reserve which I had not yet penetrated. One night in August I found myself practically alone, so far as human intercourse was concerned, in the populous, weary city. A couple of hours of writing had produced nothing that would bear the test of sunlight, so I anticipated judgment by tearing up the spoiled sheets of paper, and threw myself upon the couch before the empty fireplace. It was a dense, sultry night, with electricity thickening the air, and a trouble of distant thunder rolling far away on the rim of the cloudy sky--one of those nights of restless dulness, when you wait and long for something to happen, and yet feel despondently that nothing ever will happen again. I passed through a region of aimless thoughts into one of migratory and unfinished dreams, and dropped from that into an empty gulf of sleep. How late it was when I drifted back toward the shore of consciousness, I cannot tell. But the student-lamp on the table had burned out, and the light of the gibbous moon was creeping in through the open windows. Slowly the pale illumination crept up the eastern wall, like a tide rising as the moon declined. Now it reached the mantel-shelf and overflowed the bronze heads of Homer and the Indian Bacchus and the Egyptian image of Isis with the infant Horus. Now it touched the frame of the picture and lapped over the edge. Now it rose to the shadowy house and the dim garden, in the midst of which I saw the white blot more distinctly than ever before. It seemed now to have taken a new shape, like the slender form of a woman, robed in flowing white. And as I watched it through half- closed eyes, the figure appeared to move and tremble and wave to and fro, as if it were a ghost. A haunted picture! Why should it not be so? A haunted ruin, a haunted forest, a haunted ship,--all these have been seen, or imagined, and reported, and there are learned societies for investigating such things. Why should not a picture have a ghost in it? My mind, in that curiously vivid state which lies between waking and sleeping, went through the form of careful reasoning over the question. If there may be some subtle connection between a house and the spirits of the people who have once lived in it,--and wise men have believed this,--why should there be any impassable gulf between a picture and the vanished lives out of which it has grown? All the human thought and feeling which have passed into it through the patient toil of art, remain forever embodied there. A picture is the most living and personal thing that a man can leave behind him. When we look at it we see what he saw, hour after hour, day after day, and we see it through his mood and impression, coloured by his emotion, tinged with his personality. Surely, if the spirits of the dead are not extinguished, but only veiled and hidden, and if it were possible by any means that their presence could flash for a moment through the veil, it would be most natural that they should come back again to hover around the work into which their experience and passion had been woven. Here, if anywhere, they would "Revisit the pale glimpses of the moon." Here, if anywhere, we might catch fleeting sight, as in a glass darkly, of the visions that passed before them while they worked. This much of my train of reasoning along the edge of the dark, I remember sharply. But after this, all was confused and misty. The shore of consciousness receded. I floated out again on the ocean of forgotten dreams. When I woke, it was with a quick start, as if my ship had been made fast, silently and suddenly, at the wharf of reality, and the bell rang for me to step ashore. But the vision of the white blot remained clear and distinct. And the question that it had brought to me, the chain of thoughts that had linked themselves to it, lingered through the morning, and made me feel sure that there was an untold secret in Falconer's life and that the clew to it must be sought in the history of his last picture. But how to trace the connection? Every one who had known Falconer, however slightly, was out of town. There was no clew to follow. Even the name "Larmone" gave me no help; for I could not find it on any map of Long Island. It was probably the fanciful title of some old country-place, familiar only to the people who had lived there. But the very remoteness of the problem, its lack of contact with the practical world, fascinated me. It was like something that had drifted away in the fog, on a sea of unknown and fluctuating currents. The only possible way to find it was to commit yourself to the same wandering tides and drift after it, trusting to a propitious fortune that you might be carried in the same direction; and after a long, blind, unhurrying chase, one day you might feel a faint touch, a jar, a thrill along the side of your boat, and, peering through the fog, lay your hand at last, without surprise, upon the very object of your quest. As it happened, the means for such a quest were at my disposal. I was part owner of a boat which had been built for hunting and fishing cruises on the shallow waters of the Great South Bay. It was a deliberate, but not inconvenient, craft, well named the Patience; and my turn for using it had come. Black Zekiel, the captain, crew, and cook, was the very man that I would have chosen for such an expedition. He combined the indolent good-humour of the negro with the taciturnity of the Indian, and knew every shoal and channel of the tortuous waters. He asked nothing better than to set out on a voyage without a port; sailing aimlessly eastward day after day, through the long chain of landlocked bays, with the sea plunging behind the sand-dunes on our right, and the shores of Long Island sleeping on our left; anchoring every evening in some little cove or estuary, where Zekiel could sit on the cabin roof, smoking his corn-cob pipe, and meditating on the vanity and comfort of life, while I pushed off through the mellow dusk to explore every creek and bend of the shore, in my light canoe. There was nothing to hasten our voyage. The three weeks' vacation was all but gone, when the Patience groped her way through a narrow, crooked channel in a wide salt-meadow, and entered the last of the series of bays. A few houses straggled down a point of land; the village of Quantock lay a little farther back. Beyond that was a belt of woods reaching to the water; and from these the south- country road emerged to cross the upper end of the bay on a low causeway with a narrow bridge of planks at the central point. Here was our Ultima Thule. Not even the Patience could thread the eye of this needle, or float through the shallow marsh-canal farther to the east. We anchored just in front of the bridge, and as I pushed the canoe beneath it, after supper, I felt the indefinable sensation of having passed that way before. I knew beforehand what the little boat would drift into. The broad saffron light of evening fading over a still lagoon; two converging lines of pine trees running back into the sunset; a grassy point upon the right; and behind that a neglected garden, a tangled bower of honeysuckle, a straight path bordered with box, leading to a deserted house with a high, white- pillared porch--yes, it was Larmone. In the morning I went up to the village to see if I could find trace of my artist's visit to the place. There was no difficulty in the search, for he had been there often. The people had plenty of recollections of him, but no real memory, for it seemed as if none of them had really known him. "Queer kinder fellow," said a wrinkled old bayman with whom I walked up the sandy road, "I seen him a good deal round here, but 'twan't like havin' any 'quaintance with him. He allus kep' himself to himself, pooty much. Used ter stay round 'Squire Ladoo's place most o' the time--keepin' comp'ny with the gal I guess. Larmone? Yaas, that's what THEY called it, but we don't go much on fancy names down here. No, the painter didn' 'zactly live there, but it 'mounted to the same thing. Las' summer they was all away, house shet up, painter hangin' round all the time, 's if he looked fur 'em to come back any minnit. Purfessed to be paintin', but I don' see's he did much. Lived up to Mort Halsey's; died there too; year ago this fall. Guess Mis' Halsey can tell ye most of any one 'bout him." At the boarding-house (with wide, low verandas, now forsaken by the summer boarders), which did duty for a village inn, I found Mrs. Halsey; a notable housewife, with a strong taste for ancestry, and an uncultivated world of romance still brightening her soft brown eyes. She knew all the threads in the story that I was following; and the interest with which she spoke made it evident that she had often woven them together in the winter evenings on patterns of her own. Judge Ledoux had come to Quantock from the South during the war, and built a house there like the one he used to live in. There were three things he hated: slavery and war and society. But he always loved the South more than the North, and lived like a foreigner, polite enough, but very retired. His wife died after a few years, and left him alone with a little girl. Claire grew up as pretty as a picture, but very shy and delicate. About two years ago Mr. Falconer had come down from the city; he stayed at Larmone first, and then he came to the boarding-house, but he was over at the Ledoux' house almost all the time. He was a Southerner too, and a relative of the family; a real gentleman, and very proud though he was poor. It seemed strange that he should not live with them, but perhaps he felt more free over here. Every one thought he must be engaged to Claire, but he was not the kind of a man that you could ask questions about himself. A year ago last winter he had gone up to the city and taken all his things with him. He had never stayed away so long before. In the spring the Ledoux had gone to Europe; Claire seemed to be falling into a decline; her sight seemed to be failing, and her father said she must see a famous doctor and have a change of air. "Mr. Falconer came back in May," continued the good lady, "as if he expected to find them. But the house was shut up and nobody knew just where they were. He seemed to be all taken aback; it was queer if he didn't know about it, intimate as he had been; but he never said anything, and made no inquiries; just seemed to be waiting, as if there was nothing else for him to do. We would have told him in a minute, if we had anything to tell. But all we could do was to guess there must have been some kind of a quarrel between him and the Judge, and if there was, he must know best about it himself. "All summer long he kept going over to the house and wandering around in the garden. In the fall he began to paint a picture, but it was very slow painting; he would go over in the afternoon and come back long after dark, damp with the dew and fog. He kept growing paler and weaker and more silent. Some days he did not speak more than a dozen words, but always kind and pleasant. He was just dwindling away; and when the picture was almost done a fever took hold of him. The doctor said it was malaria, but it seemed to me more like a trouble in the throat, a kind of dumb misery. And one night, in the third quarter of the moon, just after the tide turned to run out, he raised up in the bed and tried to speak, but he was gone. "We tried to find out his relations, but there didn't seem to be any, except the Ledoux, and they were out of reach. So we sent the picture up to our cousin in Brooklyn, and it sold for about enough to pay Mr. Falconer's summer's board and the cost of his funeral. There was nothing else that he left of any value, except a few books; perhaps you would like to look at them, if you were his friend? "I never saw any one that I seemed to know so little and like so well. It was a disappointment in love, of course, and they all said that he died of a broken heart; but I think it was because his heart was too full, and wouldn't break. "And oh!--I forgot to tell you; a week after he was gone there was a notice in the paper that Claire Ledoux had died suddenly, on the last of August, at some place in Switzerland. Her father is still away travelling. And so the whole story is broken off and will never be finished. Will you look at the books?" Nothing is more pathetic, to my mind, than to take up the books of one who is dead. Here is his name, with perhaps a note of the place where the volume was bought or read, and the marks on the pages that he liked best. Here are the passages that gave him pleasure, and the thoughts that entered into his life and formed it; they became part of him, but where has he carried them now? Falconer's little library was an unstudied choice, and gave a hint of his character. There was a New Testament in French, with his name written in a slender, woman's hand; three or four volumes of stories, Cable's "Old Creole Days," Allen's "Kentucky Cardinal," Page's "In Old Virginia," and the like; "Henry Esmond" and Amiel's "Journal" and Lamartine's "Raphael"; and a few volumes of poetry, among them one of Sidney Lanier's, and one of Tennyson's earlier poems. There was also a little morocco-bound book of manuscript notes. This I begged permission to carry away with me, hoping to find in it something which would throw light upon my picture, perhaps even some message to be carried, some hint or suggestion of something which the writer would fain have had done for him, and which I promised myself faithfully to perform, as a test of an imagined friendship-- imagined not in the future, but in the impossible past. I read the book in this spirit, searching its pages carefully, through the long afternoon, in the solitary cabin of my boat. There was nothing at first but an ordinary diary; a record of the work and self-denials of a poor student of art. Then came the date of his first visit to Larmone, and an expression of the pleasure of being with his own people again after a lonely life, and some chronicle of his occupations there, studies for pictures, and idle days that were summed up in a phrase: "On the bay," or "In the woods." After this the regular succession of dates was broken, and there followed a few scraps of verse, irregular and unfinished, bound together by the thread of a name--"Claire among her Roses," "A Ride through the Pines with Claire," "An Old Song of Claire's" "The Blue Flower in Claire's Eyes." It was not poetry, but such an unconscious tribute to the power and beauty of poetry as unfolds itself almost inevitably from youthful love, as naturally as the blossoms unfold from the apple trees in May. If you pick them they are worthless. They charm only in their own time and place. A date told of his change from Larmone to the village, and this was written below it: "Too heavy a sense of obligation destroys freedom, and only a free man can dare to love." Then came a number of fragments indicating trouble of mind and hesitation; the sensitiveness of the artist, the delicate, self- tormenting scruples of the lonely idealist, the morbid pride of the young poor man, contending with an impetuous passion and forcing it to surrender, or at least to compromise. "What right has a man to demand everything and offer nothing in return except an ambition and a hope? Love must come as a giver, not as a beggar." "A knight should not ask to wear his lady's colours until he has won his spurs." "King Cophetua and the beggar-maid--very fine! but the other way-- humiliating!" "A woman may take everything from a man, wealth and fame and position. But there is only one thing that a man may accept from a woman--something that she alone can give--happiness." "Self-respect is less than love, but it is the trellis that holds love up from the ground; break it down, and all the flowers are in the dust, the fruit is spoiled." "And yet"--so the man's thought shone through everywhere--"I think she must know that I love her, and why I cannot speak." One entry was written in a clearer, stronger hand: "An end of hesitation. The longest way is the shortest. I am going to the city to work for the Academy prize, to think of nothing else until I win it, and then come back with it to Claire, to tell her that I have a future, and that it is hers. If I spoke of it now it would be like claiming the reward before I had done the work. I have told her only that I am going to prove myself an artist, AND TO LIVE FOR WHAT I LOVE BEST. She understood, I am sure, for she would not lift her eyes to me, but her hand trembled as she gave me the blue flower from her belt." The date of his return to Larmone was marked, but the page was blank, as the day had been. Some pages of dull self-reproach and questioning and bewildered regret followed. "Is it possible that she has gone away, without a word, without a sign, after what has passed between us? It is not fair. Surely I had some claim." "But what claim, after all? I asked for nothing. And was it not pride that kept me silent, taking it for granted that if I asked, she would give?" "It was a mistake; she did not understand, nor care." "It was my fault; I might at least have told her that I loved her, though she could not have answered me." "It is too late now. To-night, while I was finishing the picture, I saw her in the garden. Her spirit, all in white, with a blue flower in her belt. I knew she was dead across the sea. I tried to call to her, but my voice made no sound. She seemed not to see me. She moved like one in a dream, straight on, and vanished. Is there no one who can tell her? Must she never know that I loved her?" The last thing in the book was a printed scrap of paper that lay between the leaves: IRREVOCABLE "Would the gods might give Another field for human strife; Man must live one life Ere he learns to live. Ah, friend, in thy deep grave, What now can change; what now can save?" So there was a message after all, but it could never be carried; a task for a friend, but it was impossible. What better thing could I do with the poor little book than bury it in the garden in the shadow of Larmone? The story of a silent fault, hidden in silence. How many of life's deepest tragedies are only that: no great transgression, no shock of conflict, no sudden catastrophe with its answering thrill of courage and resistance: only a mistake made in the darkness, and under the guidance of what seemed a true and noble motive; a failure to see the right path at the right moment, and a long wandering beyond it; a word left unspoken until the ears that should have heard it are sealed, and the tongue that should have spoken it is dumb. The soft sea-fog clothed the night with clinging darkness; the faded leaves hung slack and motionless from the trees, waiting for their fall; the tense notes of the surf beyond the sand-dunes vibrated through the damp air like chords from some mighty VIOLONO; large, warm drops wept from the arbour while I sat in the garden, holding the poor little book, and thinking of the white blot in the record of a life that was too proud to bend to the happiness that was meant for it. There are men like that: not many perhaps, but a few; and they are the ones who suffer most keenly in this world of half-understanding and clouded knowledge. There is a pride, honourable and sensitive, that imperils the realization of love, puts it under a spell of silence and reserve, makes it sterile of blossoms and impotent of fruits. For what is it, after all, but a subtle, spiritual worship of self? And what was Falconer's resolve not to tell this girl that he loved her until he had won fame and position, but a secret, unconscious setting of himself above her? For surely, if love is supreme, it does not need to wait for anything else to lend it worth and dignity. The very sweetness and power of it lie in the confession of one life as dependent upon another for its fulfilment. It is made strong in its very weakness. It is the only thing, after all, that can break the prison bars and set the heart free from itself. The pride that hinders it, enslaves it. Love's first duty is to be true to itself, in word and deed. Then, having spoken truth and acted verity, it may call on honour to keep it pure and steadfast. If Falconer had trusted Claire, and showed her his heart without reserve, would she not have understood him and helped him? It was the pride of independence, the passion of self-reliance that drew him away from her and divided his heart from hers in a dumb isolation. But Claire,--was not she also in fault? Might she not have known, should not she have taken for granted, the truth which must have been so easy to read in Falconer's face, though he never put it into words? And yet with her there was something very different from the pride that kept him silent. The virgin reserve of a young girl's heart is more sacred than any pride of self. It is the maiden instinct which makes the woman always the shrine, and never the pilgrim. She is not the seeker, but the one sought. She dares not take anything for granted. She has the right to wait for the voice, the word, the avowal. Then, and not till then, if the pilgrim be the chosen one, the shrine may open to receive him. Not all women believe this; but those who do are the ones best worth seeking and winning. And Claire was one of them. It seemed to me, as I mused, half dreaming, on the unfinished story of these two lives that had missed each other in the darkness, that I could see her figure moving through the garden, beyond where the pallid bloom of the tall cosmos-flower bent to the fitful breeze. Her robe was like the waving of the mist. Her face was fair, and very fair, for all its sadness: a blue flower, faint as a shadow on the snow, trembled at her waist, as she paced to and fro along the path. I murmured to myself, "Yet he loved her: and she loved him. Can pride be stronger than love?" Perhaps, after all, the lingering and belated confession which Falconer had written in his diary might in some way come to her. Perhaps if it were left here in the bower of honeysuckles where they had so often sat together, it might be a sign and omen of the meeting of these two souls that had lost each other in the dark of the world. Perhaps,--ah, who can tell that it is not so?--for those who truly love, with all their errors, with all their faults, there is no "irrevocable"--there is "another field." As I turned from the garden, the tense note of the surf vibrated through the night. The pattering drops of dew rustled as they fell from the leaves of the honeysuckle. But underneath these sounds it seemed as if I heard a deep voice saying "Claire!" and a woman's lips whispering "Temple!" Add The White Blot to your own personal library. Return to the Henry van Dyke Home Page, or . . . Read the next short story; What Peace Means	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4421
__label__wiki	0.871036	0.871036	About Theodore Roosevelt Malloch Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Malloch is a scholar, diplomat, and strategist. His latest book (with Felipe J. Cuello) is TRUMP'S WORLD: Geo Deus. Thomas Mann, the German Nobel laureate and author of The Magic Mountain, made Davos famous for its mystical and curative powers. For him, it was a sanatorium to overcome the disease, psychological stress, and damage inflicted by modern life. In some ways, it remains so. These are my personal impressions as a former executive board By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch\| 2020-01-19T22:21:10-07:00 January 19th, 2020\|Tags: Weekend Long Read\| Rest in Peace, Dearest Roger I have been, like most true-blue conservatives, in tears and mourning for over a week reflecting on the passing of our friend and mentor, Roger Scruton. Last year he was finally and duly elevated in a country that never appreciated him sufficiently, to the Order of the British Empire, which made him rightfully a “Sir.” By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch\| 2020-01-18T20:36:34-07:00 January 18th, 2020\|Tags: In Memoriam\| Don’t Fight the Last War A firm President Trump laid down the gauntlet on Iran and stepped back from all-out war when he announced in the radiant and brilliant light of the White House—accompanied by the full military brass, his vice president, secretary of defense, and secretary of state—that, “he was backing away from further military action” after Iran “backed By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch\| 2020-01-15T00:42:07-07:00 January 15th, 2020\|Tags: America First\| Solving the Persian Problem President Trump has had a number of advisers with seemingly very different strategies for dealing with the long-standing radical fundamentalist Shiite nemesis of Iran. This came to a head last week, when Trump pulled the trigger and extinguished General Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force and the most revered and powerful military and By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch\| 2020-01-12T16:27:14-07:00 January 5th, 2020\|Tags: America First\| Do You Have Sluggish Schizophrenia? On a recent CNN “news” panel, one of the mad zealots adamantly opposed to all things Donald Trump suggested that the president’s supporters and stalwarts must have something called, “sluggish schizophrenia.” You may not be familiar with that term since it was never used outside the former Soviet Union. Now it is one thing to By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch\| 2020-01-02T19:52:05-07:00 January 2nd, 2020\|Tags: Media Malpractice\| The ‘Exile Chic’ of Leftist P.C. Evangelicals With the obscure and departing editor of Christianity Today calling for the removal of President Trump in a vile and hateful, uneducated and partisan fashion this week, it proved that there are some (thankfully few) left-wing evangelicals for whom political correctness trumps biblical literacy. I don’t consider myself an exile, but I do consider myself By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch\| 2019-12-22T17:35:38-07:00 December 22nd, 2019\|Tags: Impeachment Hysteria\| Trump Saves NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization turns 70 this year. NATO is an old man looking for a mission and befuddled by the fact that only nine of its 29 member states pay their agreed dues—up from five last year, thanks to President Trump’s pestering. Not that he gets any credit for it. Nevertheless, that is By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch\| 2019-12-05T06:13:38-07:00 December 4th, 2019\|Tags: America First\| The Mug Behind the Globalists (and Anti-Trumpism) A “dark money” group that received millions from George Soros’s advocacy network is the source of a seven-figure ad blitz urging vulnerable Republicans in swing districts to support the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. In the battle royale between patriots and globalists, between Trump and his myriad of adversaries that my co-author Felipe Cuello By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch\| 2019-11-26T09:32:41-07:00 November 26th, 2019\|Tags: The Left\| Postmodern Revolution and Ukraine Since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti birthed a “Republic of NGOs”—in government, this is a much-vaunted case study by international humanitarians—the postmodern revolutionary’s quiver found a new arrow with which to fight power. The “civil society organization,” direct descendants of Gene Sharp’s OTPOR movement in Yugoslavia, has been the organizing method of choice for the By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch\| 2019-11-10T18:37:47-07:00 November 10th, 2019\|Tags: Deep State\| Trump’s Economic Warfare Economic warfare is defined as “the use of, or the threat to use, economic means against a country in order to weaken its economy and thereby reduce its political and military power.” Such nonmilitary, yet essentially warlike activity includes the use of economic means to compel a given adversary to alter its policies or behavior By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch\| 2019-09-09T13:02:54-07:00 September 9th, 2019\|Tags: America First\|	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4422
__label__cc	0.519442	0.480558	2020 Ammodo Science Award for groundbreaking research for fundamental research Ammodo Science Award for groundbreaking research Ammodo Science Award The Ammodo Science Award for groundbreaking research is intended to stimulate potentially groundbreaking research. Such research is usually the result of team work, and for that reason this Award is for research being carried out by a group of researchers working together, and is intended to recognise the contribution of every member of the group. The Ammodo Science Award for groundbreaking research is presented biennially to research projects in two of the following scientific disciplines: Biomedical Sciences, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. Nomination & Selection The Ammodo Science Award for groundbreaking research consists of two prizes of EUR 1,200,000 each. The coming edition of the Award will be presented to one research project in the field of Natural Sciences and one in the field of Social Sciences. The rectors of the fourteen Dutch universities that are members of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) may each nominate one research project per scientific domain. Ammodo will announce the winners in January 2020. More about the selection procedure The Ammodo Science Award for groundbreaking research focuses on potentially groundbreaking research and ensures that all researchers involved in the winning project are recognised and rewarded. In 2020, the Award will be presented for the first time to two research groups. to the winners Eveline Crone appointed professor of Developmental Neuroscience in Society at the Erasmus University Rotterdam Ammodo expands Ammodo Science Award with new price Ammodo Privacy-en cookieverklaring Asifa Majid Laureate Humanities 2015 Asifa Majid (1974) studied psychology in Glasgow and language and cognitive science in Edinburgh. After receiving her PhD in Glasgow, she was a visiting researcher in France, Canada, Germany, Sweden and the United States. She is now Professor of Language, Communication and Cultural Cognition at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. In addition to an Ammodo KNAW Award she has also received a NWO Vici grant. She has been a member of The Academy of Europe since 2013 . Asifa Majid explores the deeper relationships between our brains and our language and culture. A round the world journey through the relationship between brains, language and culture How do people from different cultures capture subtle concepts into words? How entangled are our linguistic and cultural roots and how do they affect each other? Majid’s scientific discoveries embrace not only the field of linguistics, but also those of psychology, cognitive science and ethnography. And involves the study of cultures in distant parts of the world. It was long thought that everybody had difficulty describing odours. Western subjects invariably make many mistakes in odour testing; only describing scents by comparison. It was as if instead of saying a tree is ‘green’, they were saying it ‘looks like grass’ suggesting that in our brains, few connections exist between smell and language. Asifa Majid’s fieldwork challenges such dogmas. She discovered nomadic peoples in Asian rainforests who have a rich scent vocabulary. It maybe, therefore, that people in Western cultures simply stopped talking to children about scent. Majid also researched words for other sensory stimuli – colours, shapes, sounds, textures. Dutch people distinguish ‘high’ sounds from ‘low’; Iranians and Turks between ‘thin’ and ‘fat’. Her observations teach us about the intense interaction between our brains, our language and our culture. Majid: “Where do our thoughts come from? Is our understanding of colour, sound and space ingrained from birth? Or do children learn such things from the language and culture around them? And how does that understanding develop during their early years? These are things that fascinate me. Thanks to the Ammodo KNAW Award I set up a new experimental study, as well as expanding other research considerably. We want to know how the meaning of concepts differ around the world. To answer such questions, we apply new linguistic computer programmes to a database of concepts from more than sixty languages. We also want to know how concepts change in one individual over the years. Therefore we are following two groups of young Dutch children, one with Dutch as their native language and the other with Turkish as their mother tongue. Do these children talk about ‘high’ and ‘low’ or ‘thin’ and ‘thick’ tones? Does that change, and if so, when? Such studies help us understand how human language and mind varies and changes.” Asifa Majid laudatory speech The Neglected Sense Vici for Majid The Lecture Hall with Asifa Majid info@ammodo-science-award.org Follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn or Vimeo Blijf op de hoogte van de laatste ontwikkelingen binnen de kunst en wetenschap. Schrijf je in voor de nieuwsbrief. Ammodo Nieuwsbrief Wij gebruiken functionele cookies en externe scripts om deze website goed te laten functioneren en de beleving te verbeteren. Ook plaatsen wij analytische cookies om het gebruik van de website kunnen meten. 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__label__wiki	0.522794	0.522794	The Blundering Beauty of The Nice Guys May 27, 2016 September 29, 2018 Posted in comedy, Movies, ReviewTagged 2016, 70s, Anthony Bagarozzi, film, review, russell crowe, ryan gosling, shane black, the nice guys By: Chris Mendizabal In the midst of the Summer blockbuster torrent, Shane Black’s “The Nice Guys” (2016) comes blundering through and reeking of alcohol, leaving behind trails of shattered glass. Surely this would make for a haphazard action mess, were it not so entertaining and fresh. Films labelled ‘formulaic’ often receive a low reputation, as something replete with the humdrum and the uninspired, but “The Nice Guys” is one of those films that, to its advantage, knows exactly what it is and is not. Holland March (Ryan Gosling) is an unscrupulous, not-so-hard-boiled private investigator in 1977 Los Angeles. When Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe), a hired intimidator—knocking on doors, selling sucker punches—chances upon March through their mutual person of interest, a young woman named Amelia (Margaret Qualley), the two are compelled, by a matter of money over heroism, to investigate her disappearance. The mystery becomes ever so confounding when Amelia is discovered to be linked with a prominent pornographic actress, a near-blind grandma, and a protest group, to name a few. What adds to the verisimilitude of the 1970s L.A. Action flick are the curious deaths, missing persons, and paranoia so often associated with the conspiratorial and drug-hazed ethos of that time. The depth of mysteries is compounded when the Department of Justice involves itself in the disappearance of Amelia. As the web of conspiracies ostensibly substantiates and the body count goes up, the story seems something like a Pynchon novel, at least until the scenes of violent slapstick and explosive action commence. And though the amount of action is sparing in comparison to most action films, it is enough to appease the fans without veering away from the sharply-written story. Shane Black’s and Anthony Bagarozzi’s script is witty in dialogue and inventive with the tropes and cliches of the genre it so proudly places itself in. The two leads are less sentimental and divulgent in the reveals of their earlier lives than in the typical Buddy film, but shed enough information to flesh out March and Healy as people with an offset, if lost, sense of purpose in life. The shred of intimacy that there may be between the two is swiftly displaced by March’s snoring or his daughter Holly (Angourie Rice), remaining faithful to the duo’s air of coolness. And while the two are similar in their aloof demeanor, their partnership is at no point either chummy or abrasive. Yet March’s shrill screams and Healy’s bulky punches still make a great combo. Unlike most young actors, Rice’s acting abilities are something that enhance rather than hinder the interactions between characters. Rice plays an intelligent and eager sidekick who, to March’s chagrin, frequently tags along to lush L.A. parties and ends her sentences with “n’ stuff.”—he corrects her, “Just say, Dad, there are whores here.” Nevertheless, her prominence amid the murky investigation is a delight. The humour, ranging from dark one-liners to good ol’ fashioned slapstick, with some screwball wedged in between, is something best left to be seen and heard. When it comes down to the action blockbuster heap, this film comes out on top. Maybe they ought to refashion that age-old adage about Nice Guys. You’ll Spend About 10 Percent of Uncharted 4 Standing Still CineMasher: Brick	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4431
__label__wiki	0.540903	0.540903	Manage supply chains Faces of working capital: the human impact of empowering small and midsize businesses The C2FO Team At C2FO, we often talk about our mission to liberate working capital and the global economic impact of freeing trillions of dollars in liquidity for millions of businesses. With numbers at this scale, it’s easy to lose sight of just what “access to working capital” means in human terms and just how much impact you have. When companies like yours offer suppliers access to affordable working capital through C2FO, you do more than just build the health of your supply chain. By creating liquidity, you build a better world. Here’s how. You empower SMEs to solve societal needs Most successful entrepreneurs start businesses with some societal need in mind, according to N. Craig Smith, INSEAD Chaired Professor of Ethics and Social Responsibility. Because these founders are more engaged in their businesses, their commitment to purpose is easier to maintain than it would be in a large, publicly-held corporation. For Mary Ann Weerts, founder of fair trade clothing wholesaler Tey-Art, access to lower cost of capital helps her maintain a commitment to providing safe and healthy work conditions and well-paying jobs for artisans in Peru. Tey-Art also provides microloans to help her Peruvian suppliers launch their businesses. Businesses like Tey-Art are a powerful force for integrating women and children into the economic mainstream. When you support the growth and success of SMEs that have fair trade practices, they, in turn, are helping developing nations alleviate poverty. Economic opportunity also has impact in developed nations. Entrepreneurship fuels economic innovation and prosperity. It offers a means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class, helping some close the income inequality gap. You help SMEs build their local economies For emerging markets, SMEs create seven out of 10 formal jobs. In the US, two out of every three net new jobs are created by the SME sector. In Emporium, PA, manufacturer Embassy Powdered Metals added 50 jobs to their employee roster in April 2017, nearly doubling their headcount. The company’s market expansion allowed them to purchase local competitor American Sintered Technologies from its bankrupt parent company. Had AST simply been shut down, noted Alan Ramsey, Embassy’s financial officer and co-owner, the impact of losing those jobs would have been devastating to the Pennsylvania county that is home to only about 5,000 residents. Embassy hopes to expand their operations, continue investments in employee training, and hire nearly 40 more employees in the future. Embassy uses C2FO to help control its cash flow as it rapidly expands and invests in employees and equipment. C2FO is the only such program Embassy uses. Embassy’s owners have supported the region’s economy in other ways. Whenever possible, Embassy buys supplies, such as gloves and safety glasses, from local businesses. Embassy is also involved in a cooperative program with local educators to teach teens the skills they will need down the road for manufacturing jobs at Embassy and other companies. “We want to help youth, and help the town,” said Ramsey. “That’s the battle here and in any small town … giving people a living wage is tough.” Accelerated payments help companies like Embassy provide better pay. Research from the MIT Sloan School of Management and The Harvard Business School examined the impact of Quick Pay rules for small business government contractors. For each dollar of accelerated payment there was a nearly 10-cent increase in payroll. Overall, the direct effect of accelerated payments increased annual payroll by $6 billion, creating just over 75,000 jobs over the three years following the reform. When your suppliers have good cash flow, they can afford to support their communities and smaller causes SMEs support local charities from sponsoring little leagues to small organizations with big goals. But before SMEs can help others, they have to be stable themselves. Sunday Afternoons’ community and charitable giving efforts are a successful example. From a product and marketing partnership with the International Dark Sky Association’s work to preserve the night skies, to helping fund She Jumps, a nonprofit devoted to educating women and girls about the outdoors, Sunday Afternoons cultivates authentic charitable partners who share their brand values. Outside of these partnerships, Sunday Afternoons also donates hundreds of hats to volunteers at fundraisers. Their management team and employees commit time to serve on boards of directors for local nonprofits, volunteer in local community service projects. But, says Sameh, the types of charitable support Sunday Afternoons can offer is limited by their cash flow. “If it’s a good year, we may do more monetary contributions than product donations,” Paulino said. “We can also give our time, which is not something to underestimate.” Starting next year, Sunday Afternoons will expand their community service commitment by giving every employee a paid day off to volunteer at a nonprofit. Joining a committee or providing sweat equity “helps a younger workforce understand what it looks like” to become engaged in helping others, Sameh said. She also believes the volunteer efforts help build a positive company culture and increases employee satisfaction. Your suppliers’ success means better and safer work environments for their employees Like Sunday Afternoons’ example, societal benefits of SMEs often extend to their employees. In part, this is because founders and managers at a smaller size company are more likely to know their employees personally. For SMEs like outdoor kit manufacturer Outdoor Living Today, a safe environment for workers is just as important as their sustainability goals for the greater environment. “Our company has spent so much effort and dollars on making sure that our workers are safe and that’s probably our number one thing that we do better than anyone else in our industry and the forestry industry,” says OLT founder Greg Bailey. When your suppliers have cash flow, customers benefit from their innovation and better pricing The smaller size of SME organizations also fosters innovation. “Because of their size, SMEs are often much better at identifying and embracing new trends in the industry and, therefore, driving the innovation within their respective sectors. This allows SMEs to be pioneers in emerging technologies, paving the way for bigger and braver investments,” says Simon Blagden, non-executive chairman at Fujitsu UK & Ireland, in a post for Growth Business UK. Ocean Yuan, founder of Grape Solar, reshaped the already cutting-edge renewable energy sector by creating the first direct-to-consumer retail option for solar technology. His thinking was revolutionary. And yet, logical. If a “green” technology is not accessible to consumers, it will never be economically sustainable no matter what the environmental benefit. Grape Solar experienced 700 percent growth in just five years. They continue to innovate, collaborating closely with their consumer base for new product ideas. “Sometimes people call, and they are more knowledgeable than us in certain areas and aspects. It helps us out in adapting and getting ahead of something before it happens. Sometimes they introduce product ideas that are not financially feasible or don’t make business sense, but it’s a cool idea coming from consumers,” says Jack Caruso, Project Executive for Grape Solar. Grape Solar leverages Costco’s C2FO program to access cash flow for new product offerings and inventory. “When we get a good price on inventory — and it’s a quality product, and we want to move on it — C2FO is a good way for us to move some cash. It’s more competitive than getting a loan from a bank. It’s just another tool you can use to diversify the options you have,” he says. Caruso adds that C2FO is a valuable tool to bridge cash flow. It allows Grape Solar to take advantage of lower cost inventory and then pass those savings along to retailers and customers. Your role as a customer holds the key to growing the global economy Small and midsize businesses (SMEs), companies of 250 employees or less, are the lifeblood of the global economy. Globally, SMEs represent more than 95 percent of registered firms, accounting for more than 50 percent of jobs. SMEs contribute more than 35 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in many emerging markets, a number that swells to over 50 percent for developed countries. In the top 10 cities of the UK alone, SMEs are projected to contribute £241bn to UK economy by 2025. Collectively, the impact of SMEs is staggering. Also staggering is the gap between the current impact of these companies and their potential impact. SMEs in both emerging and developed markets lack access to affordable financing. Most, 74 percent on average globally, rely on cash flow and internal funds for working capital while managing against an ongoing trend of late payments from their customers. Unlocking this cash flow trapped on corporate balance sheets for SMEs has powerful implications for the global economy. SMEs are critical for economic growth, which explains why there are so many policy initiatives and programs in place, or in discussion from the G20 Summit and the World Bank, to regional, national, and local efforts across the globe. But policies take time to implement and more time to have an effect. Next decade’s policy initiative won’t help SMEs who need cash flow for this month’s payroll. Fortunately, there is a more immediate and direct solution: you. As individual consumers, the choices we make impact the success of businesses we frequent — or don’t. Corporates, as customers to a global supply chain, have exponential impact. Those who source goods from SMEs and ensure these suppliers have access to affordable working capital make it possible for these SMEs to grow, hire employees, pay their suppliers, and give back to their communities. The biggest key to empowering SMEs isn’t economic policy or global initiatives. It’s responsible customers. “What’s Happening in the Missing Middle? Lessons from Financing SMEs,” Salman Alibhai, Simon Bell, and Gillette Conner, World Bank “SMEs to contribute £241bn to UK economy by 2025,” Centre for Economics and Business Research, Business Quarter Live “When It Comes to CSR, Size Matters,” N. Craig Smith, INSEAD Chaired Professor of Ethics and Social Responsibility, Forbes “Creating Jobs By Investing In Small Business,” Michele Schimpp, SBA News and Views “The importance of SMEs,” Simon Blagden, Growth Business UK “Small and medium-sized businesses can lead the agenda on sustainable growth,” Mark Hillsdon, The Guardian “Three Reasons Community Matters For Small Business Success,” Amanda Brinkman, Forbes “Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2017, AN OECD SCOREBOARD” Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development “Small Businesses = Big Impact,” Rebecca O. Bagley, Entrepreneur “Growing the global economy through SMEs,” Edinburgh Group Research “Want to Cure Income Inequality? Promote Entrepreneurship.” Entrepreneur “Faster Payments to Small Businesses Leads to Job Growth” MIT Sloan School of Management Control financial metrics What Does “Trapped Cash” Really Mean? Dynamic Tools for Accounts Receivable Management Complete Guide to Dynamic Discounting	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4433
__label__wiki	0.909871	0.909871	WEED.TO - Canopy Growth Corporation Open 31.40 Bid 32.48 x 0 Ask 32.58 x 0 52 Week Range 18.23 - 70.98 PE Ratio (TTM) N/A EPS (TTM) -5.76 Earnings Date Feb. 11, 2020 - Feb. 16, 2020 Forward Dividend & Yield N/A (N/A) Ex-Dividend Date N/A The 45-year old marijuana advocacy publication will be getting into the cannabis retail business. CANOPY GROWTH 72 HOUR DEADLINE ALERT: Former Louisiana Attorney General and Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC Remind Investors With Losses in Excess of $100,000 of Deadline in Class Action Lawsuits Against Canopy Growth Corporation - CGC Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, the former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have only until January 20, 2020 to file lead plaintiff applications in securities class action lawsuits against Canopy Growth Corporation (NYSE: CGC), if they purchased the Company’s securities between September 8, 2017 and November 13, 2019, inclusive (the "Class Period"). These actions are pending in the United States District Courts for the District of New Jersey and Southern District of New York. TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:Toronto Stock Exchange (17,559.02, up 74.25 points.)Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Industrials. Down 10 cents, or 8.2 per cent, to $1.12 on 34 million shares.Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB). Health care. Down two cents, or 0.72 per cent, to $2.77 on 10.3 million shares.Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA). Energy. Down 23 cents, or 4.14 per cent, to $5.33 on 9.2 million shares.Baytex Energy Corp. (TSX:BTE). Energy. Unchanged at $1.77 on 5 million shares.Hexo Corp. (TSX:HEXO). Health care. Down 21 cents, or 9.09 per cent, to $2.10 on 4.9 million shares.Zenabis Global Inc. (TSX:ZENA). Health care. Unchanged at 16 cents on 4.3 million shares. Companies in the news:Bombardier Inc. — Two major rating agencies have voiced concerns over the finances of Bombardier Inc., whose future is being questioned as it considers options to raise its more than US$9 billion debt. S&P Global Ratings changed its outlook to "negative" from "stable" on Friday, following in the footsteps of Moody's Investors Service, which did the same Thursday evening. The Montreal-based transportation manufacturer's stock dropped another seven per cent after plunging 32 per cent on Thursday. Bombardier has faced persistent difficulties in its rail division but also raised doubts about its continued participation in the A220, less than two years after having ceded control of the program formerly called C Series to Airbus.Canopy Growth Corp. (TSX:WEED). Up 90 cents, or 2.84 per cent, to $32.57. Canopy Growth Corp. is delaying the launch of its cannabis-infused drinks. The company says work to scale up to commercial production is not complete and it is delaying the launch date while it completes the final steps. Canopy submitted its final documentation for its beverage facility to Health Canada last June and received its license in late November. The company had expected to have its beverage products on store shelves in early January. It did not say when it now plans to launch its beverage products.This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 17, 2020.The Canadian Press Canadians thirsty for Canopy Growth Corp.'s cannabis-infused drinks will have to wait a bit longer.The Smiths Falls, Ont.-based company said Friday that the debut of its cannabis drinks will now be delayed because it requires more time to develop its beverage facility and "the scaling process is not complete.""In order to deliver products that meet our customer's high standards we are electing to revise the launch date while we work through the final details," Canopy chief executive David Klein said in a statement.Canopy's beverage business is expected to be a cornerstone for the company, which is behind the brands Tweed, Tokyo Smoke, Doja and Van der Pop. Canopy has said it is preparing to produce 13 cannabis-related beverages. The company has the backing of Constellation Brands Inc., a New York company which invested $5 billion in Canopy in 2019 and has a portfolio of brands including Corona beers, Robert Mondavi and Kim Crawford wines and premium spirits from SVEDKA Vodka and Casa Noble Tequila.Canopy had expected to release its cannabis beverages in early January as part of Cannabis 2.0, where the country is allowing a second wave of products such as edibles, extracts and topicals to hit the market following the October 2018 legalization of cannabis in CanadaCannabis-infused chocolates, cookies, soft chews, mints, tea and vapes were made available on the Ontario Cannabis Store's website at 9 a.m. local time Thursday and were on sale the week before at physical retailers in the country.Canopy did not say when it now intends to launch its beverages.It submitted the final documentation for its beverage facility to Health Canada last June and received its license in late November.The company's statement said it does not believe the delay will have a material impact on its revenue for its 2020 financial year. It plans to provide an update on the beverages' status when it releases its third-quarter results.RBC Capital Markets analyst Douglas Miehm said in a note that he saw Canopy's news in a "neutral light" and believes that engineering issues connected to the introduction of tetrahydrocannabinol — the psychoactive compound that gives users a high — emulsion syrup into other ingredients have "ultimately contributed to quality assurance shortfalls upon completion.""While the release is somewhat surprising, we do reaffirm our confidence in the company's production capabilities and note that when it comes to beverages, Canopy remains ahead of the pack," he said."In our view, the issues likely rest in translating the quality, taste, and consistency generated in a lab setting to large-scale commercial manufacturing."This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 17, 2020.Companies in this story: (TSX:WEED)Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) Stock Price: Should You Buy the Bounce? Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) (NYSE:CGC) is up 20% in the past week. Are more gains on the way? Baystreet Stocks in play: Canopy Growth Corporation Submitted its final documentation for its beverage facility to Health Canada in late June 2019 and subsequently ... CNW Group Canopy Growth Revises Beverage Launch Timeline SMITHS FALLS, ON, Jan. 17, 2020 /CNW/ - Canopy Growth Corporation ("Canopy Growth" or the "Company") (TSX:WEED.TO - News), (NYSE:CGC - News) submitted its final documentation for its beverage facility to Health Canada in late June 2019 and subsequently received the licence in late November 2019. In the seven weeks since receiving the licence, the Company has made meaningful progress towards scaling the production process for its cannabis beverages from lab scale to commercial scale. "Canopy has had seven weeks to work with THC in the brand new beverage facility to scale processes and IP it has developed in the R&D environment," said David Klein, CEO, Canopy Growth. 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The Cannabis Industry’s Dirty Energy Secret The business of growing cannabis is anything but green, in fact, the growing of pot is so power-intensive that its ecological footprint is quickly becoming an environmental nightmare 1 Forgotten Weed Stock Could Make a Mighty Comeback in 2020 Investors dumped the Canopy Growth stock in 2019 because of its very disappointing performance. New catalysts, however, should help the most popular cannabis producer to make a mighty rebound in 2020. Why the cannabis industry has stalled for more than a year: Morning Brief Top news and what to watch in the markets on Tuesday, January 14, 2020. Is Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) Stock a Good Pick for 2020? Can Canopy Growth stock make a comeback this year after a disappointing 2019? Don’t Expect Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) to Rebound in 2020 There are signs that Canopy Growth Corp (TSX:WEED)(NYSE:CGC) has further to fall, as the legal cannabis market falters. CES takes half-baked stance on cannabis Called Keep, the desktop storage device features biometric security to secure cannabis products, and looks good while doing it. The CTA gave them an Innovations Award Nominee in October and then weeks later told the company they were unable to use the word "cannabis" when exhibiting. Vaporizers, cannabis and tobacco alike have long been found on the CES show floor. Will Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) Stock Rebound in 2020? Canopy Growth Corp. (TSX:WEED)(NYSE:CGC) stock could rebound stronger than before in 2020. Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) Stock Price Impacts Constellation Brands’ EPS Canopy Growth Inc (TSX:WEED)(NYSE:CGC) stock's poor price performance in Canada weighs down the high earnings at Constellation Brands (NYSE:STZ). View from the C-Suite: Rade Kovacevic, President, Canopy Growth Corporation, tells his company's story. Filmed on December 17, 2019 TORONTO , Jan. 8, 2020 /CNW/ - https://youtu.be/PXwzPZ-UGE0 The View from the C-Suite video interview series highlights the unique perspectives of listed companies on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture ... Should Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) Stock Be on Your Buy List Right Now? Are pot stocks now too cheap to ignore? Why Hexo (TSX:HEXO) Is a Better Pot Stock Than Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) Discover why Hexo Corp (TSX:HEXO)(NYSE:HEXO) stock gives you more upside and less risk when compared to competitors like Canopy Growth Corp (TSX:WEED)(NYSE:CGC).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4435
__label__cc	0.732161	0.267839	Category Archives: Role-Playing Game Epistory: Typing Chronicles – Linux, Mac OS X 10.11, and Windows 10 Game Compatibility Epistory: Typing Chronicles Title Screen Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04 or greater Processor: Intel Core i5 2400 or greater Video: ATI Radeon HD4850, GeForce GTX 295 or greater Operating System: Mac OS X 10.9 or greater Operating System: Windows XP or greater Posted in 2016, Action, Adventure, C0/S100, Compatibility, Edutainment, Exploration, Fishing Cactus, GOG.com Download, Humble Bundle Download, Linux, Linux Compatible, LNX-0012, Mac OS X 10.11, Mac OS X Compatible, Plug In Digital, Puzzle, Role-Playing Game, Single Player, Steam Download, Typing, W10-0016, Windows 10, Windows 10 Compatible, X11-0006 \| Leave a comment Epistory: Typing Chronicles – Linux, Mac OS X 10.11, and Windows 10 Game First Impressions Epistory: Typing Chronicles is a hack and slash role-playing typing (yes, role-playing and typing) game released in 2016. Epistory was developed by Fishing Cactus and published on the Steam platform by Plug In Digital. It was also published DRM free to Humble Bundle and is featured in their Humble Bundle Trove for Humble Bundle Monthly subscribers. Excited about starting a new engaging adventure, I browsed through a list of games I had not yet played and saw the title Epistory. “Epistory, like epic story?” I thought. “I should give this a try.” I loaded up the game and saw the complete title, Epistory: Typing Chronicles. “What? This is a typing game? Like Mario Teaches Typing or Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing? This is going to suck.” I resolved to give it a chance and started the game. The game begins with narration. Once upon a time. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. My head was in my hands. They took a line from a classic Charles Dickens novel without directly alluding to the meaning of that line in its context. This is going to be painful. There was a girl. And she rode on the back of a great fox. Ok, that’s better, could we have just started the story with that? Please tell me more. Don’t tell me what to do. I’ll use the W, A, S, D keys if I want. Epistory begins with a young blonde girl mounted on a very red fox. It is recommended from the start to use the E, F, J, I keys for movement in lieu of the W, A, S, D keys typically used for movement in most PC games since they are closer to the center of the keyboard for quicker typing speed. I spent over an hour trying to get used to navigating with the E, F, J, and I keys. My biggest issue was that while the E, F, J, and I keys are recommended, the W, A, S, D keys are still mapped, so accidentally touching the D key (which is beneath the E key) sends you in the wrong direction. When I finally switched back to using W, A, S, and D for all of my movement, Epistory became so much easier to play, so I recommend using W, A, S, and D from the beginning. First combat, first blood. Therefore, using the W, A, S, and D keys, the player navigates through the world as the story is told. Despite the rocky start, things only got better and more impressive from there. Epistory feels like any other role-playing game where you’re navigating through and exploring a fascinating, colorful world. When an obstacle is encountered, the player must type out a word to remove it. Whenever a word is typed, the player receives experience points. Chaining words in rapid succession, the player can score combos to get a greater number of experience points. Once experience points have been sufficiently accumulated, the player levels up and can choose how to spend skill points to unlock new player skills. You will encounter real enemies on your quest with real words. Large words. Pressing the space bar will show the player all of the words in their immediate area they can type for points. Whenever a word is successfully typed, a magic bolt is fired by the girl and her fox at the object that had the word. As the game progresses enemies will approach the player and can be defeated by successfully typing words to eliminate the deadly creatures. Epistory reminds me of Diablo. One direct hit from a creature will kill the player, and Epistory does not start at the lowest vocabulary like other typing games do. The words employed have meaning in relation to their objects. All are real dictionary words and rarely repeated as the game progresses, keeping play fresh. This is not Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing or Mario Teaches Typing. No one is going to help you find home row in this world where evil roams. Playing Epistory is more like playing Diablo as a Ranger class, but instead of clicking the mouse button to shoot your bow, you are typing to do so. I am a software developer by trade and have been told I am an excellent typist, and I still find Epistory to be challenging. This is a good title for adults and those who feel their typing skills are up to the task. Puzzles are well integrated and increase in difficulty. I have played through the first two boss fights thus far and have actually really enjoyed myself. The story, though a little scattered, has gotten better and more engrossing. The music is superb, but not overwhelming. It sits in the background and supports the story, helping engross the player while not drawing too much attention to itself. I was pleased to find increasingly difficult puzzles to solve and in game art items to collect throughout the world. At times while playing I caught myself saying, “Wow!“ Epistory Level Up screen. Epistory is now on my shortlist of games I hope to complete in the near future because I want to see what happens next. It has thus far done a phenomenal job striking a balance between challenge and fun to compel me into wanting to continue to play. I don’t recall ever having played an edutainment title as enjoyable as Epistory: Typing Chronicles. Posted in 2016, Action, Adventure, C0/S100, Edutainment, Exploration, First Impressions, Fishing Cactus, GOG.com Download, Humble Bundle Download, Item Collecting, Linux, Linux Compatible, LNX-0012, Mac OS X 10.11, Mac OS X Compatible, Plug In Digital, Puzzle, Role-Playing Game, Single Player, Steam Download, Typing, W10-0016, Windows 10, Windows 10 Compatible, X11-0006 \| Leave a comment Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms – Compatibility Posted on November 8, 2017 by ElbinoBunny Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms Title Screen System Requirements – Windows 10 Operating System: Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or later Windows. Processor: Pentium compatible 2.33GHz or greater. Intel Atom 1.6GHz or greater. System Requirements – Mac OS 10.13 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 or later. Processor: Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz or faster. Posted in 2017, Action, C0/S100, Codename Entertainment, Codename Entertainment, Compatibility, Mac OS X 10.12, Mac OS X Compatible, Role-Playing Game, Single Player, Steam Download, Tower Defense, W10-0007, Windows 10, Windows 10 Compatible, X12-0002 \| Leave a comment Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms – Windows 10 Game First Impressions Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is a point and click, hack and slash, grind fest developed and published by Codename Entertainment. The game is a licensed Dungeons and Dragons title. It was released for Windows 10 and Mac OS 10.12 in 2017. Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms plays similar to a tower defense game. The player’s party inhabits the left most part of the screen while enemies advance from the right. As the enemies approach, the player may attack them by clicking on them. This deals a small amount of damage and slows the enemies down. Members of the player’s party will also attack when they are able and deal an amount of damage proportional to their current level and ability. When Gnolls Attack… When an enemy is slaughtered, the enemy will drop gold pieces that will accumulate in the player’s purse. The player may use the gold to level up their characters, hire new characters, or level up the damage dealt by their click attack. The game is divided into stages. Each stage has its own objective that must be satisfied in order to progress. Most of these objectives deal with killing a certain number of creatures or collecting a certain number of items. There is a boss at the end of every fifth stage that must be defeated to move on to later stages. I feel your pain, Dryad. It is challenging to describe what genre of game play Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms most closely resembles not because of any particular originality or creativity, but due instead to the fact that it doesn’t feel particularly like a game. There are certainly game mechanics here, as I said before there are hack and slash role-playing and tower defense elements, but the game is really one big needless grind. All a player does when playing this game is click a green button across the bottom of the screen, collect gold by hovering the mouse over said gold, or click on an enemy to deal it a small amount of damage. Boss making her way through my party. Outside of clicking to level up your characters, no other action is actually necessary to play the game. The gold automatically enters your party’s inventory when your party walks close enough to it. If the characters are sufficiently leveled up, they will take out any enemies before the player would ever need to click on them. In later stages, ranged units can become a pest if not eliminated quickly by the player’s click attack, but I haven’t noticed them provide enough damage to truly influence the outcome of a stage for the party at large. When a boss or an overwhelming number of units slaughter one of the party members, as long as the boss or enemies are defeated, that player will simply respawn with full health in the next stage. If for some reason the player’s party can’t successfully defeat a boss, the game sends the player and her party back to a previous stage to level up their characters until the boss can be defeated. Kill the Rabbits The only other place Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realm could redeem itself would be in having a rich story at the book ends of the long arduous grinds of sitting and watching your characters slowly make their way through the levels. The story is paper thin; it is not at all what I would come to expect from a Dungeons and Dragons title. The characters have zero depth. In the first 30 minutes I played Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realm, I played two stages where the whole point was to collect food for a village and the party. Those stages played like bonus rounds where rabbits and wolves that were easy pickings came slowly up to the adventurers to be easily slaughtered for quick gold. These stages left me scratching my head wondering what the point was. Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms seems to be bug free and plays moderately well for what it attempts to achieve on my Windows 10 system. That being said, it has felt like a complete waste of time for me that isn’t any real fun. This game is free for the next two days on Steam as a promotion to get people to play it. After 30 minutes of playing it myself I feel it’s a shame they can’t give me my 30 minutes back. Posted in 2017, Action, C0/S100, Codename Entertainment, Codename Entertainment, First Impressions, Mac OS X 10.12, Mac OS X Compatible, Role-Playing Game, Single Player, Steam Download, Tower Defense, W10-0007, Windows 10, Windows 10 Compatible, X12-0002 \| Leave a comment Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven – Compatibility Posted on September 26, 2017 by ElbinoBunny Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven Title Screen Processor: Intel Pentium compatible 133MHz Memory: 32MB RAM Video: 1MB PCI Graphics Card, supports DirectX Sound: “All major sound cards” says it right on the packaging. Not sure what “major” means in this case. Optical Drive: 4x CD-ROM Hard Drive: 170MB Installs – Yes Runs – Yes Uninstalls – Yes Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven appears to run flawlessly in Windows 10. Posted in 1998, 3DO, C0/S100, Compatibility, ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), New World Computing, Role-Playing Game, Single Player, T - Teen, W95-0009, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 95 \| Leave a comment Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven – Windows 95 Game First Impressions Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven is a Windows 95 role-playing game released in 1998. It was developed by New World Computing and published by 3DO. The game has a Doom-like 2.5D graphics engine the player may use to traverse and interact with the in-game world. The beginning cutscene’s story is simple. All sorts of monsters are invading and terrorizing the land. Some heroes run away from certain doom and are aided by a wizard. These are dire times, and those who are able to stand must somehow be part of the Mandate of Heaven. Obviously I will need to play further into the game to unveil the mystery of these things. Create Party Screen After character selection is completed, the party begins their quest in front of a town. There are a great number of townsfolk there that can be talked to as in most RPGs. I went to talk to a peasant who said they didn’t want to talk to my party and I discovered there is a “Beg” mechanic. Apparently you can beg a person to talk to you. Even stranger was that while I was having Serena, my party’s most diplomatic and charismatic member do all the talking, she often had to beg too. With a goddess-like personality rating of 18, she did receive far more positive responses. Funny enough, whenever she would approach anyone she would say, “Hey you!” I guess when you have a personality of 18 you can just say anything and people will want to please you. Talk to this guy in the local inn. He’ll give you some gold. The first thing you will want to do when playing Might and Magic VI is enter the local inn. It is to the right just as you enter town. There you’ll want to talk to a Andover Potbello and tell him about a letter. He will give you 1,000 gold pieces and tell you to scram. Spend this money quickly, because you will lose it when you die. I decided to adventure around the outskirts of town to check out the goblin critters the townsfolk had been complaining about. Once an enemy is triggered to spot and follow you, I don’t know how you can get them to ever stop following you unless you have killed them or they are dead. I went a little too close to the goblin camp outside of town and around ten goblins followed me back into the city. I did what any sane role-playing game adventurer would in my predicament and hid behind the peasants hoping the goblins would be distracted and attack them. No dice. I ran all over town trying to get away from the goblins. They would completely ignore the townspeople and come directly for my party. Even ducking into a building for a few minutes and then coming back out had no effect. The party vs. one goblin has an easy enough time. Three goblins on an open field are not too great a challenge for the party either. But much more than that and the party is overwhelmed and succumbs to death. When you die, the grim reaper himself greets your party and says (I’m paraphrasing), “You’re done when I say you’re done!” and the party is resurrected to the entrance of town penniless. At least Alexis is having fun. I went out the north, south, west, and east sides of town, and found them all covered by goblins. The only theory I have to adequately begin this game is to get the 1,000 gold pieces and figure out how to smartly equip the entire party for battling a small army of goblins. There are those in the town who will allow you to join the local spell casting guilds for 100 gold each and others who will sell some items to the party. Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven Game Disc Might and Magic VI has been an almost comical experience for me thus far. This game is polished and really what I would expect from an early role-playing game from the first person 2.5D game engine perspective era. From what I have read, this game was originally released to critical acclaim. The graphics are decent for 1998, and it seems to have in many ways aged quite well. But it seems like I fumble through the game at every turn in ways that I haven’t experienced in any other RPG. It makes the experience feel so terrible it’s great. This is a title I will need to explore further in a Twitch stream segment. To be continued. Posted in 1998, 3DO, C0/S100, First Impressions, ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), New World Computing, Role-Playing Game, Single Player, T - Teen, W95-0009, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 95 \| Leave a comment Arcanum – Windows 98 Game First Impressions Posted on September 7, 2017 by ElbinoBunny Arcanum Cover Art Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magic Obscura is a role-playing game developed by Troika Games and published by Sierra in 2001. The game is played from an isometric perspective and combat occurs in real-time. I would say Arcanum feels most like a cross between Diablo and Fallout. Upon starting the game the player first creates a new character or selects a pre-built character. The pre-built characters have compelling back stories regarding who they are, where they are from, and why they are boarding the IFS Zephyr air ship on their way to Tarant. The entire world of Arcanum has this steampunk feel to it. Some players are best with magic, while others with technology, and a few walk the line between both. There seems to be a great tension in the Arcanum story as to which type of power is stronger and will ultimately win out over the other. After selecting or creating a character, the opening cutscene plays and the player sees the air ship shot down by some unsavory fellows. Many character background stories are fascinating. After the crash, while fumbling in the wreckage, the player hears someone crying for help and moves debris in order to get to the person pinned down. Upon inspection, it appears the person is an elderly gnome. He gives the player possession of a ring and tasks her with bringing the ring to a boy while talking of unspeakable evil saying that the boy will know what to do. After breathing his last, a shadowy figure is seen approaching through the smoke of the wreckage and the game enters its first load screen. Arcanum summed up in two words: Steampunk Arcanum is incredibly rich in story but chock full of technical difficulty. The game lagged constantly while I played it. You can make your character walk smoothly or you can scroll to see more of the surrounding area in a given direction smoothly, but if you try to do both at the same time you will have problems. Entering new areas causes the game to seemingly lock up, though it really just seems to be an extension of the really long load times. After the first obnoxiously long load time the player meets the shadowy figure from the cutscene, a man by the name of Virgil. He informs her that he is a recent follower of the Panarii religion, that she is the chosen one, and that she must fight the evil one while babbling about her like a half-wit. He suggests they go into the nearby town of Shrouded Hills to meet one Elder Joachim to get some answers. Once she agrees, he joins the player’s party. Arcanum gameplay I decided to take this time to scavenge among the wreckage and hunt wolves and other hostile creatures I found. From just killing all the unsavory creatures around the downed air ship I was able to reach level 2 and I picked up a sword that was twice as good as my starting dagger. Combat is achieved by clicking on an enemy using the left mouse button. Once a player has successfully slain all nearby enemies, combat mode does not always go away. Clicking the right mouse button will exit combat mode in those cases. Notes are kept on vital in-game info you can refer to later. Satisfied I had explored everything and received as much experience in the area as possible, I traversed the clearing that seemed to be part of a road. On the way the party of Virgil and I was greeted by a strange cloaked figure that wanted to know if I had survived the crash. It doesn’t matter what dialog options you use with this guy, he will attempt to kill you. He was apparently there to ensure no one survived. Arcanum Overworld Map Once the party is done killing the assassin, it is possible to bring up the overworld map and travel to Shrouded Hills. Alternatively it appears it is possible to just continue to walk through the entire world map without any fast travel, much like in more recent role-playing games such as those in The Elder Scrolls series. Upon fast traveling to Shrouded Hills, after fumbling about in town looking for it we entered the Shrouded Hills Inn. There we found dead assassins in Elder Joachim’s room. He had left a note and bid us to travel to the place where he was safe. It was at this point that I began looking for a way out of town. While looking we ran into an incredibly lucky wolf that got a fatally critical hit on yours truly. The graphics are superb for when Arcanum was released. The cutscenes are emotionally stimulating and truly make you feel a part of the story. The in-game graphics are a step above Fallout and Fallout 2 though obviously similar in design. Arcanum was developed by Jason D. Anderson, Leonard Boyarsky, and Timothy Cain, all former designers of the game Fallout. The sound and background music is also superb and really places the player in the mood and environment of the story the designers intended to tell. Arcanum contains great cutscenes. It’s obvious I am going to have to spend much more time playing Arcanum. There is so much story here, all of which appears to be incredibly deep with well crafted lore. The question will be whether my patience will hold out with the technical difficulties presented by the game’s issues. This would seem to be the perfect title for a remastered version, one where all the bugs are fixed. Troika Games closed their doors in 2005, but given that Arcanum can still be purchased on Valve’s Steam platform, I would imagine that someone would have the rights to make such a remastered version possible. Arcanum Game Disc I would say Arcanum is worth owning for serious computer role-playing game fans who have already played through all of the other more approachable classics such as those from The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Diablo, and Dungeons & Dragons series. Even without the technical difficulties present in this game, it seems to be geared more toward the experienced role-playing gamer. The setup application even suggests the player get familiar with certain chapters of the manual while waiting for the game to install on their hard disk. At the moment I am writing this article, Arcanum is selling on Steam for $5.99. I feel that is a worthy price to have this one in my collection, but be advised this game does not hold your hand at any point. I look forward to exploring this game further as time goes on; perhaps as an angry Twitch stream, that could be interesting. Posted in 2 Player, 2 Player Cooperative, 2001, 3 Player, 4 Player, C25/S75, First Impressions, Internet (Direct TCP/IP), ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), Local Area Network, M - Mature, Platform, Role-Playing Game, Sierra, Single Player, Troika Games, W98-0003, Windows, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 98 \| Leave a comment Arcanum – Compatibility Operating System: Windows 95, 98, ME, or 2000 Processor: Pentium II 450MHz Memory: 128MB RAM Hard Disk: 1.2GB Required Video: DirectX certified for version 7a. 16MB video RAM. Sound: 16-bit DirectX compatible sound card. Format: 2 CD-ROM Discs Installs – Yes. Runs – Yes. Uninstalls – Yes. Posted in 2 Player, 2 Player Cooperative, 2001, 3 Player, 4 Player, C25/S75, Compatibility, Internet (Direct TCP/IP), ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), Local Area Network, M - Mature, Role-Playing Game, Sierra, Single Player, Troika Games, W98-0003, Windows 10 Compatible \| Leave a comment	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4438
__label__wiki	0.560515	0.560515	Carbon capture: Expensive, risky – and indispensable? - Daily News Egypt Environment Carbon capture: Expensive, risky – and indispensable? Carbon capture: Expensive, risky – and indispensable? Deutsche Welle March 29, 2018 Be the first to comment New research suggests that unless we rapidly cut greenhouse gas emissions we will have to extract far more CO2 from the atmosphere than we are technically prepared for.A study published by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) warns that we need to cut carbon emissions by at least 20 percent more than countries have pledged under the Paris Agreement by 2030 – otherwise we risk putting far too much emphasis on the costly and controversial process of removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Most scenarios – including some from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – imply that to reach the target of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial times, we will probably need to remove carbon we have already emitted from the atmosphere. Yet there are still major questions over the feasibility of carbon dioxide removal (CDR). One way to do it is through natural carbon sinks, such as forests and wetlands. But carbon capture on the scale needed to keep global warming in check will probably also require more controversial – and, as yet, unproven – technology. Costly and energy-intensive Carbon capture and storage (CCS) captures CO2 before it is released and stores it underground, in rock formations, or beneath the seabed. In Europe, the high cost of the technology, fears over the safety of storing CO2 underground, and the perception that CCS is a way to prolong fossil-fuel use, mean it has largely failed to get off the ground. Large-scale trials in North America aim to make fossil-fueled energy production or industrial processes carbon-neutral. But when used with biofuel, CCS can even result in negative emissions: Growing plants and trees extract carbon from the atmosphere, which is then captured and stored as they are used for fuel. The PIK study assumed both the use of CCS and direct capture – a new technology that sucks carbon directly out of the atmosphere. But lead author Jessica Strefler told DW, “you have to keep in mind that all CDR methods have drawbacks.” Both CCS and direct capture – the latter in particular – are extremely expensive and consume vast amounts of energy. And growing biomass in sufficient quantities – either to burn as fuel or to leave as carbon sinks – would occupy vast expanses of land, potentially putting pressure on food production and the planet’s remaining natural environments. The quantities of water and fertilizer required could also impact biodiversity, Strefler said. The CCS gap The PIK study assumes that from 2050, we will need to extract about 5 billion tons of CO2 per year – any less would dramatically increase the challenges of meeting the Paris goals. Glen Peters, research director at the Center for International Climate Research, says that globally, we have just around one percent of the CCS capacity we need to meet even modest projections of how much carbon removal we will need by mid century, and aren’t investing nearly enough to make it economically viable in time. “We have a pilot project here and there, but to make this a commercial success, we’re going to have to have some technological breakthroughs to make it cost-competitive,” he told DW. The PIK study says we still have some leeway to reduce our dependence on the technology. But only by rapidly reducing emissions now. “Every ton of carbon we don’t emit now, is a ton we don’t have to extract later,” Strefler said. “Delaying mitigation is hugely expensive.” Ramping up ambition Far from allowing us to burn more fossil fuels, examining the role of CCS implies a fast-phase out. “The most important thing we can do is phase out coal very rapidly,” Strefler said. “That’s the first step.” Added to that, the PIK researchers advocate introducing a carbon price. “Rapidly phasing out coal in developed countries such as Germany and introducing minimum prices for CO2 in pioneer coalitions in Europe and China makes sense almost irrespective of the climate target you aim for,” PIK’s chief economist, Ottmar Edenhofer, said in a statement. The scientists insist that more ambitious 2030 goals are economically feasible. It remains to be seen if the political will pledged in Paris will materialize and will depend on countries upping the nationally determined contributions they set out as a first step in 2015. “I think there is a valid chance we can do it,” Strefler said. “The NDCs were a first step. It’s inherent in the Paris Agreement that we ratchet up ambition.” But in almost any scenario, CDR will play an essential role. Scientists insist keeping global warming below 2 degrees without it would only be possible if we cut emissions to zero by 2050 at the latest. Topics: Carbon capture http://www.dw.com/en/carbon-capture-expensive-risky-and-indispensable/a-43172422?maca=en-rss_en_DailyNewsEgypt-14679-xml-mrss Environment Minister attracts tourists to visit Saint Catherine mountains Environment Ministry finds 20 illegally possessed animals in Al-Ahram Ministry of Environment, WB address air pollution management in Cairo Videos showing blue whales in North Coast likely to be fabricated, Environment Ministry Embassies of Chile and Spain organise an event at the Cervantes Institute on the occasion of COP25 in Madrid, under the presidency of Chile Egypt’s Environment Minister stresses Africa’s rights to development, climate finance https://cdn2.dailynewsegypt.com/2018/03/29/carbon-capture-expensive-risky-and-indispensable/ Before catastrophe, IPCC report warns of climate devastation EEHC opens financial envelopes for Hamrawein coal plant before cabinet NBE-led coalition finances nitrate project for Abu Qir Fertilizer Oldest dated Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa, Levant unearthed in Saudi Arabia Sahara Desert grew 10% since 1920 due to climate change March 29, 2018 Breaking News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4445
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__label__wiki	0.820475	0.820475	Chicana from Chicago Films, mostly brown Chilean Film WTF is Latino at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival? December 4, 2012 February 24, 2013 Christine Davila3 Comments Glad you asked. Now that the entire programming slate has been announced for the 2013 edition of the Sundance Film Festival, let’s take a look at the representation of Latinos in the broadest, most diverse sense, because that is what that ill-defined lump category encompasses. {Full disclosure: I work as a Programming Associate for the Festival. These are not reviews but an insider breaking-it-down preview} Gael Garcia Bernal in Who is Dayani Cristal? At first glance the Latino representation may not seem obvious. Nor may it seem as strong as the films and filmmakers from the African-American and LGBT community representing, or the record breaking number of female directors’ – each group highly visible by their nature. We may not have a Mosquita y Mari or Filly Brown, two fiction films, which broke out of the festival this past year, but we do have two hugely relevant and urgent documentaries exploring the effects of a bi-cultural U.S. & Mexico social fabric, NARCO CULTURA which explores the phenomenal music and social culture being shaped and perpetuated by the influence of Mexico’s violent drug cartels, and WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL? an innovative doc-fiction hybrid produced by Gael Garcia Bernal that will hopefully re-divert much needed attention back to the US/Mexico border. By the way, Who is Dayani Cristal? screens in the high profile DAY ONE slot. What’s Latino anyway? I personally embrace the responsibility of changing the conversation as to what constitutes representing American Latinos. First, by focusing on both the above-the- line-talent (filmmaker or actor) AND storyline/subject. The second part is highlighting the second, third, fourth and so-on generations of filmmakers. What about the filmmakers in the festival like Kyle Patrick Alvarez (C.O.G), Liz W. Garcia (The Lifeguard) and Eduardo Sanchez (S-VHS horror anthology and co-director of the infamous Blair Witch Project)? I don’t know these filmmakers personally so I can’t speak to how they might view their cultural identities and how it informs their work, if at all. But I do believe it is worth pointing out and feeling good about these last names being out there as part of the mainstream fabric. It is similar to how Robert Rodriguez does not identify himself as a Mexican-American yet his last name has been key to driving the younger Latino generation in feeling a proud connection as an American and not just “dash” American. Chile is still hot There are three films from Chilean filmmakers. In unprecedented fashion – because that’s how Sundance likes to roll- there is a repeat of last year with two in competition, EL FUTURO by Alicia Scherson (mostly taking place in Italy) and CRYSTAL FAIRY by Sebastian Silva, an alumnus who broke out in 2009 with LA NANA. In the section Spotlight aka “Movies we love and don’t care if they’ve traveled the festival circuit”, is Pablo Larrain’s NO starring Gael Garcia Bernal. Chilean cinema is hot and king of engrossing character-driven fare. What we are seeing is a boom on two fronts; an invigorating new generation of provocateurs (Marialy Rivas’s Young & Wild comes to mind) and a slightly older generation of equally exciting filmmakers who continue to sustain their careers with their distinct voice (like Pablo Larrain along with Andres Wood). So now lets dive in and look at the list. Loglines copied from official press release – BOLD ITALICS are my comments. US DRAMATIC COMPETITION The lovely and talented Boricua actress Melonie Diaz Fruitvale / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Ryan Coogler) — The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008. Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melonie Diaz, Ahna O’Reilly, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray. Puerto-Rican Diaz delivers a fiercely moving performance embodying the girlfriend of Oscar Grant who was with him that fateful day. Diaz is no stranger to the festival. She’s previously been at the festival with four films including seminal indie American Latino story, RAISING VICTOR VARGAS 2002 and comedies like HAMLET 2 20008. Why homegirl hasn’t gotten more props for her mad acting skills I don’t know, but this girl is wildly talented and Fruitvale showcases her dramatic chops. US DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION an image from Narco Cultura. For more arresting film stills check out: http://www.shaulschwarz.com Narco Cultura / U.S.A. (Director: Shaul Schwarz) — An examination of Mexican drug cartels’ influence in pop culture on both sides of the border as experienced by an LA narcocorrido singer dreaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s Drug War. Absolutely arresting photography that works in giving weight to the violent images the public has become numb from seeing. I predict some of my hard core brown and proud friends might focus and hence diminish this film based on the fact that this bi-cultural, Mexican-American subject is made by non-Latino filmmakers. It could be argued as a valid point. When it comes to documentaries a legit question to make when evaluating is “What makes THIS person the right one to tackle THIS subject? What is their connection?” Let’s watch it to find out, then give consideration to what other docs are currently out there on this same timely topic made by Latinos, and without bias regard their depth and artistic merit. WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION Michael Cera on the right in Sebastian’s latest, Crystal Fairy Crystal Fairy / Chile (Director and screenwriter: Sebastián Silva) — Jamie invites a stranger to join a road trip to Chile. The woman’s free and esoteric nature clashes with Jamie’s acidic, self-absorbed personality as they head into the desert for a Mescaline-fueled psychedelic trip. Cast: Michael Cera, Gabby Hoffmann, Juan Andrés Silva, José Miguel Silva, Agustín Silva. World Premiere. DAY ONE FILM This marks Sebastian’s third appearance at the festival following LA NANA and GATOS VIEJOS. Remember what I said about character driven? Silva excels at getting at spilling out the insides of his protagonists. Manuela Martelli in El Futuro The Future / Chile, Germany, Italy, Spain (Director and screenwriter: Alicia Scherson) — When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future. Cast: Manuela Martelli, Rutger Hauer, Luigi Ciardo, Nicolas Vaporidis, Alessandro Giallocosta. World Premiere Scherson’s last film, TURISTAS screened at various film festivals including the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2009. Shot in another country and in a different language, The Future continues the filmmaker’s incisive capturing of the strong female led journey. WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Who is Dayani Cristal? / United Kingdom (Director: Marc Silver) — An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for its identity leads us across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo. World Premiere. DAY ONE FILM An extraordinary cinematic and symbolic approach to the border crossing genre, this meta reflexive journey retraced by none other than Gael Garcia Bernal imagines the grueling experience of a migrant and who he might have been. Bernal has been lending his star power to the social justice causes that move him and you can tell its genuine. From the eerie and haunting Mexican film, Halley Halley / Mexico (Director: Sebastian Hofmann, Screenwriters: Sebastian Hofmann, Julio Chavezmontes) — Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Before surrendering to his living death, he forms an unusual friendship with Luly, the manager of the 24-hour gym where he works as a night guard. Cast: Alberto Trujillo, Lourdes Trueba, Hugo Albores As unsettling it is watch, it is as deep to ponder, this incredibly-shot first feature had its world premiere at the Morelia Film Festival and its inclusion in the most daring section of the festival speaks to the highly diverse and radical new cinema coming from Mexico. No / Chile, U.S.A. (Director: Pablo Larraín, Screenwriter: Pedro Peirano) — When Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet calls for a referendum to decide his permanence in power, the opposition persuades a young advertising executive to head its campaign. With limited resources and under scrutiny, he conceives a plan to win the election. Cast: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco, Marcial Tagle, Néstor Cantillana. There have been many films about the Pinochet regime and its wide-reaching after effects. But none have had as unique an entry point as NO. Trust. We Are What We Are / U.S.A. (Director: Jim Mickle, Screenwriters: Nick Damici, Jim Mickle) — A devastating storm washes up clues that lead authorities closer and closer to the cannibalistic Parker family. Cast: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Michael Parks, Wyatt Russell, Kelly McGillis. Okay, I only include this because this is based on the Mexican cult hit, Somos Lo que Hay by Jorge Michel Grau. Jim Mickle of Stakeland has promised to “Not Fuck it Up” per Twitch interview To cap off the features; Stalwart Spanish actor Alfred Molina is in Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes by Francesca Gregorini in US Dramatic Competition, and we have a strong acting splash by Marcus DeAnda, a co-lead in PIT STOP directed by Yen Tan and co-written by David Lowery. The film about two gay working class lovers in small town Texas is in the Next section. And lets not forget about shorts! SHORT FILM COMPETITION Broken Night / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga) — A young woman and her four-year-old daughter drive across desolated hills. Everything looks fine and they seem to enjoy the ride, until an accident sends them into the nightmare of darkness. Ever since writing and directing team Arriga and Innaritu broke up (Amores Perros, Babel) Arriaga has been trying to make his stamp directing his own material. The Companion / Peru (Director and screenwriter: Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio) — On the outskirts of Lima, a young prostitute tends to his father, a fallen-from-grace artisan. However, the young man feels that his efforts are never enough. He tries to break free, but his father’s dependence is stronger than his son’s will. Intriguing and highly atmospheric gem from Peru! Paraíso / U.S.A. (Director: Nadav Kurtz) — Three immigrant window cleaners risk their lives every day rappelling down some of Chicago’s tallest skyscrapers. Paraíso reveals the danger of their job and what they see on the way down Chicago? Check. Mexicans check! No, but really this intimate glimpse is poetic and moving. A Story for the Modlins / Spain (Director: Sergio Oksman, Screenwriter: Sergio Oksman) —The tale of Elmer Modlin, who, after appearing in Rosemary’s Baby, fled with his family to a far-off country and shut himself away in a dark apartment for 30 years. Must see. Fascinating and inventive ‘Found family photos’ yarn. #PostModem / U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Jillian Mayer, Lucas Leyva) — A comedic, satirical, sci-fi pop musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists, #PostModem is the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with technological singularity, as told through a series of cinematic tweets. My favorite locos from Miami. After making the rounds with Life & Freaky Times of Uncle Luke, which played last year, these rump-shakers have been busy with their work in and out of their funky audiovisual collective Borscht Corp. {check my addendum to this post here} See you on the mountain! 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Film Festivals, WTF is LatinoChilean Film, Documentary, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jorge Michel Grau, Latino, Melonie Diaz, Mexican Documentaries, Morelia Film Festival, Narco, Pablo Larrain, Sebastian Hofmann, Somos Lo Que Hay, Stakeland, Sundance Film Festival, We Are What We Are 10 Outstanding Movies Made by Latinos COMING SOON 8 Movies Made by Latinos to Watch Out for in 2018 When will Latinos get our Black Panther? Caribbean filmmakers on the rise Borscht Diez – the festival at sea level that’s Next Level Artist Services Sundance Institute Alumni and Filmmakers tools and resources Latin Heat NALIP National Association of Latino Producers Remezcla Seed & Spark Shadow and Act On Cinema of the African Diaspora Sydney's Buzz World Cinema, Latino Buzz, Distribution, Acquisitions and more What Not to Doc A must resource for all documentary junkies 2013 Sundance Film Festival Ariel Awards Awards Coming Soon Crowdfunding Dispatch Film Festivals Film Reviews Hot Sec Fridays Interviews LALIFF2011 NALIP News SXSW2013 Telluride 2010 Top Lists Watch now WTF is Latino Friday mood. Rest in Power Eartha Kitt #BPE https://t.co/zgZ2xYwoCd 2 days ago RT @AmaraEnyia: The documentary series "City So Real" really highlights the stories of regular Chicagoans making it day to day. I'm proud t… 1 week ago @raulcampos for the win. This last 2019 MBE was LIT. 2 weeks ago Christmas hen Bloody Mary with the folks https://t.co/3qP3M0HHI3 4 weeks ago Daria Kashcheeva combines stop motion, documentary-style filmmaking and painterly techniques itsnicethat.com/articles/daria… 1 month ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4456
__label__wiki	0.700865	0.700865	Home Single Parent Adoption Easy Guide to Single Parent Adoption Laws Easy Guide to Single Parent Adoption Laws Reactions to single parent adoptions in the United States have followed a path similar to that of private/independent adoptions. Regarding the latter, adoptions employing public notice and advertisements were much more common prior to the mid-20th Century, when child welfare advocates grew concerned about the safety of children being put up for adoption and the likelihood that birth mothers might use adoption as a means of selling their babies rather than as a last resort. Single parent adoption, too, was affected with little restraint, until changing American attitudes led the Child Welfare League of America. Still, single parent adoptions have their opponents. Many single parents have encountered difficulties trying to secure children through adoption agencies. While every State has a provision today that single people are allowed to be adoptive parents, private agencies, especially those that are family-based and Christian-oriented, typically only allow married couples to adopt from them. Intercountry adoptions also may succumb to anti-single parent prejudice. Legislation against single parent adoption reflects a widespread fear of challenges to the tradition nuclear family model. But in cases where children are in desperate need of a home, single parent adoptions may be just the answer. After all, usually one parent is better than no parent. Previous articleWhat are Adoption Records Next articleSuzannes Law Understanding Altruistic Surrogacy Getting Help From The Government Easy Guide to Type of Gaurdians	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4459
__label__wiki	0.599462	0.599462	SURF’S UP July 4, 2017 July 4, 2017 ~ Chris Green SURF’S UP by Chris Green Most people in the UK associate surfing with Newquay but Widemouth in North Cornwall was its original home. Widemouth is where the Australian pioneers of the sport came when they first arrived in the country to test the waters. Surfers will tell you that the bay has an easy paddle and peaks holding six to eight feet at mid to high tide. Black Rock at the southern end of the bay becomes wild in the winter months with a hollow and powerful reef break reaching ten or twelve feet on a good north-westerly swell. These huge waves were the main attraction for our Antipodean friends, who loved to show off their skills. Before his premature death in 1963, at the age of twenty three, local lad, Mawgan Tresco loved surfing here. Mawgan was able to negotiate the largest breakers with grace and dexterity. Apparently, crowds gathered on the beach in all winds and weathers to watch his exploits. No-one knows the reason why one frosty night in December 1963, Mawgan took his Norton Dominator out on the windy coastal road. It was to be his last trip on the powerful machine. Big speeds, black ice and a brick wall saw to that. Some say that Mawgan had started taking amphetamines. But, where he might have found amphetamines in rural Cornwall is hard to say. His friend, Jago remembers a meeting Mawgan had with a well-dressed geezer from out of town and wonders if this might be connected with his fatal ride. He adds that Mawgan modelled himself on James Dean. Perhaps he harboured something of a death wish. Recordings Mawgan Tresco made on a reel to reel tape recorder shortly before he died show that he was also a talented musician. He sang and played lead guitar in The New, a band whose grungy sound was years ahead of its time. As was their name. Back then, group names were still plurals, The Shadows, The Drifters, The Ventures, etc. The New had somehow anticipated the trend for singular band names, The Who, The Move, Cream. Had they lived anywhere else but Cornwall, they would have made it big but Cornwall back then was a cultural desert, hardly the best place to be for upcoming pop groups, hoping to get noticed. Yet, someone from the music business must have come across The New. Perhaps a Soho impresario on holiday with his family in the south west found himself at one of the gigs they performed in village halls and thought to himself, I’ll use this because a year or so later The Kinks were playing one of Mawgan’s edgy riffs on You Really Got Me and soon after, Pete Townshend and Jeff Beck were using Mawgan’s feedback technique, passing it off as their own creation. The general public may not realise it yet but sixties rock and even heavy metal and punk owe a great debt to Mawgan Tresco’s guitar strangling on those early recordings. The Troggs’ Wild Thing is easily recognisable from Mawgan’s, Wild Nights and Purple Haze is virtually a note for note copy of Mawgan’s, Hazy Days. On Mawgan’s death, the band, acknowledging that he had been the songwriter and driving force, split and persevered with their day jobs. ‘That’s what we have so far,’ Macy Reno says. With no films currently in production, Macy is trying to thrash out the screenplay for Surf’s Up with his screenwriter, Dirk Van Dijk. Having worked closely on the script, Dirk will already be aware of the details. Macy’s summary must be for my benefit. My name is Chance Hacker. I am a rookie film editor sitting in to advise on possible continuity issues. I am new to the project and I’m not completely sure why I’m here. Normally a continuity editor wouldn’t be needed until after filming had begun. ‘Sure, it’s got surfing and music going for it but we are still talking rural Cornwall in the early sixties,’ Macy says. ‘And Joe Pub will not have heard of Mawgan Tresco. Not going to pull them in necessarily, is it, Dirk?’ ‘You don’t like what I’ve written?’ Dirk says. Apparently, he has submitted numerous drafts now. I detect that all is not well between the pair. I say nothing. Let them settle their differences first. ‘To be honest, Dirk, the script is a bit ……. downbeat,’ Macy says. I’m inclined to agree with him. In these days of CGI and superheroes, you need something sensational to sell a film. This is not the time to wheel out plodding parochial dramas. ‘Perhaps we should change the location to attract the big distributors,’ Macy continues. ‘What do you think? …… California?’ ‘If you do that, you lose the story,’ Dirk says. ‘Surfing and California. Been done to death. Besides, the main focus here is surely the unlikely rural origins of the heavy guitar riff. We could concentrate more on the soundtrack.’ ‘But we do need to big it up a bit,’ Macy says. ‘Come on now, Dirk. What have you got?’ They seem to be at odds with one another. Dirk writes dialogue, Macy wants pictures. Dirk writes realism, Macy wants surrealism. They are going round in circles. Perhaps I’ll have a go at something myself. …….. After all, I know how to research. I did a degree in Creative Writing. Well, Pulp Fiction. OK, I didn’t finish it, things got in the way. But, I’ve had dozens of stories published in Schlock magazines. I’m not sure how I ended up in film editing. It’s not where my heart is. I’d rather be writing. It would be nice to have a screenwriter’s credit. ‘What about a sliding doors moment?’ Dirk says. ‘A pivotal scene where the plot could go one way or the other. And then we could run the two narratives alternately.’ ‘Perhaps more of a forking paths moment.’ ‘Isn’t that the same thing?’ ‘Not really. I’m thinking of a Borges scenario.’ ‘Hey?’ ‘Jorge Luis Borges, the writer of Labyrinths. His story where the protagonist comes to a fork in the road and instead of going one way or the other takes both paths simultaneously. Perhaps we could keep forking the paths and have endless split screen shots.’ ‘Might be a hard slog ….. well, for me, the writer, for instance.’ I am thinking Dirk should count himself lucky, it will be a harder slog for me, the editor. Hopefully, Macy will realise the impracticalities. When you read a novel or indeed a work of non-fiction, if there is still such a thing in these post-truth times, and then see a film based on the book, you can’t help but notice subtle differences. You may prefer the novel. Or you might prefer the film. Most people are likely to say they prefer the novel. The director’s job is therefore not easy. He has to condense the novel into an acceptable length for the film so he needs to be creative. This can make an arty director like Macy Reno, who relies on his eccentricity, more prone to flights of fancy. Not that flights of fancy are altogether a bad thing. But, at the same time as being creative, the director needs to keep it simple. The attention span of cinema-goers today is slight. You need to put in some narrative redundancy so they can check their phones. I recommend a comic book approach. ‘Or he could have a doppelgänger or a series of doppelgängers,’ Macy says. ‘Split screen would work here too.’ I’m thinking split screen is hopelessly dated. Surely an innovative director like Macy realises he needs to move with the times. ……. There again, perhaps it would help give a retro feel to the film. ‘And being Cornwall,’ he continues. ‘We could maybe have Mawgan drawn into a sinister cult of fly agaric mushroom worshippers.’ ‘Didn’t you do something like that in the last film?’ Dirk says. ‘The one about the exploding hedgehogs.’ ‘Turbulence wasn’t about exploding hedgehogs. There was just a scene in it where a hedgehog explodes. And it is was central to the plot. Anyway, that was a cactus worshipping sect.’ ‘Yes, I think I remember now. It was all to do with that sinister high pitched hum that was spreading across the country.’ ‘If you remember, the sound was the rotation of the earth slowing down.’ ‘Perhaps it was misleading to advertise it as being based on a true story.’ If you ever you come across the phrase, based on a true story, in relation to a film, read it as bears no resemblance to the original. Whatever the genre. This is one of the first things you learn in Film Appreciation 101. ‘Or maybe the villagers could be pagan cultists,’ Macy continues. ‘You know like The Wicker Man. Always in top ten British films, that one.’ ‘I suppose you are talking about a small rural community at a time when there was not much going on,’ Dirk says. ‘It’s the right setting, but …… ‘ ‘What about vampires? They are always good box office.’ ‘Didn’t you have vampires in In the Dead of Night.’ ‘No. That was zombies. I’ve never had vampires.’ ‘You know, Macy. I’m wondering if perhaps we’ve got enough of a story already,’ Dirk says. ‘We’ve got a dazzling surfer, not to mention the musician who gave us modern rock music,’ Dirk has hit the nail on the head. Certainly, we need to emphasise the dark parts more, bring in a menacing villain or two and big up the love interest, but let’s keep to the point. Leif Velásquez displayed similar hyperbolic tendencies when I was working with him on Friday the Thirteenth. He suggested we run the filmed footage backwards and not in a Benjamin Button kind of way. The film would have been a box office disaster. For his epic State of Mind, I had to talk Leif out of using Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle to plot the action. Great idea but too highbrow. As Macy and Dirk don’t seem to be able to agree on anything, I decide to get cracking on some research towards my own screenplay. It doesn’t start well. I discover that Macy has been sitting on the project for years and most of those who might remember Mawgan are now dead and gone. Mrs Trescothick from the Women’s Institute remembers him as a shy boy who used to talk to cats and his old schoolmistress, centurion, Miss Penhaligon says he used to masturbate in class. None of his surfing contemporaries are around and I find nothing that sheds fresh light on Mawgan’s fatal ride. For all I know, he may have been riding a Honda 50. Or not gone out at all. While surfing is still going strong in Widemouth, all that is left to remember Mawgan’s efforts are a few black and white photos on the wall in a Widemouth beach café and these grainy images could have been of any surfer. I can see why Macy did not want to run it as it was. It would have been dull. Nor do I manage to find out how Mawgan’s songs got into the wrong hands. Nor is there any proof that he actually wrote them. No choice then but to embellish the story. Start from scratch even. Then I have a stroke of luck. It seems far more sinister things were happening in the pop world than a few of Macy’s tunes being copied. News is breaking that many of the big hits back then were hyped up the charts by Wardour Street racketeer, Vito Gunn. Vito arranged for his associates to buy dozens of copies from each of the stores that put in returns for the charts up and down the country but he quickly realised that on a weekly basis this could become expensive so he dispensed with this nicety. Instead, he told the stores what numbers to put into their returns with the threat of sending in the boys if they didn’t. It worked. He only had to send the boys in once. Acts as unlikely as Brian Poole and the Tremeloes or The Dave Clark Five had number one hits. I mean, Glad All Over, really! Hyping worthless tunes by talent-free groups up the charts became standard practice in the mid-sixties. Vito and fellow racketeer who went by the name of Maltese Fred quickly had the market sewn up. Between the two of them, they dictated what was played on the radio and who appeared on TV pop shows. The only surprise is that given the throwaway nature of some of the number one hits the story has taken so long to come to light. Surely people must have had their suspicions that something was amiss. But, what about Mawgan Tresco’s tunes being stolen? This is not quite the same. I have actually heard Wild Nights and Hazy Days. They were transformed into Wild Thing and Purple Haze. Whether Mawgan actually wrote them or nor, these were important developments in rock music. Might Vito Gunn have been the mysterious geezer from out of town that Mawgan’s friend Jago referred to? We may never know but it hardly matters if it isn’t true. Vito is dead now. Alternatively, we could just make someone up. I’m pretty sure we will be able to create a credible character profile of a morally bankrupt sixties music mogul. A gun-toting Soho kiddie-fiddler perhaps or a Neo-Dickensian Reggie Kray. The badder the better. After all, it’s villains that put bums on seats in cinemas these days as much as heroes. Think Darth Vader, The Terminator, Hannibal Lecter. If you have a goodie in a movie then for balance you are going to need a baddie. It’s rule one of drama. Macy phones to tell me that Dirk is off the film. Irreconcilable differences, he says, Dirk’s just not adventurous. I tell him not to worry, I have some ideas. I already have the music part of the film sketched out, I tell him. He is excited by my new discoveries about the sixties underworld and says we can definitely factor the gangland corruption into the script. We arrange a meeting. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from working with Macy Reno and Leif Velásquez, it is that truth has nothing whatsoever to do with movie making. It gets in the way. You can write whatever you want about anyone, dead or alive and make a film of it. No-one is going to come after you with lawsuits. Not even the Royals. Look at all those potentially libellous films about them and not a dickie bird. Carte blanche, then. I quickly put together a script where our young British rock and roller gets fleeced by transsexual Bethnal Green gangster, Vito Gunn then in a turf war is taken out by Maltese Fred’s hitman, Harvey Wallbanger. All I need to do now is introduce the demon surfer from Hell, the badder the better, to spar with our protagonist and add a little love interest, perhaps a salacious, suntanned Californian Baywatch babe who just happens to find herself marooned in nineteen sixties Cornwall after a time travel experiment went wrong. By the time I am finished, I will have transformed a forgotten Cornish surfer who wrote a couple of grungy rock songs and may or may not have crashed his bike on a dark night in December into a legend of biblical proportions, a veritable superhero with arcane powers. Mawgan’s death then would be by no means the end. I could leave room for his mystical return in a sequel. Maybe later we might turn it in into an adult cartoon series. Mawgan Tresco could become a comic book hero. Fortunes are made from small beginnings. You have to speculate to accumulate. You are probably beginning to notice the Mawgan Tresco merchandise in the shops. There will be a lot more when Surf’s Up comes out. Posted in Short Story Cornwallcrimefilmmysterypostmodernrock musicsurfing ‹ PreviousSHOOTING SCRIPT Next ›THE END	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4463
__label__cc	0.649552	0.350448	The graph above shows obesity rates in the US in the year 2000, with darker colours meaning more obesity. Here’s the graph showing the same, but for 2018: It doesn’t look like much has changed, right? Only four more states report higher obesity, indeed three report less. A net gain of one state that is more obese than in 2000. (The black circles show states that reported obesity in 2000 but not in 2018. The red circles show the opposite.) From this finding, it’s hard to believe that America is facing a health crisis. But let’s take a look at the legends that came with the original maps on the CDC website, where the raw data was taken from. 2000 on the left, 2018 on the right: They’re completely different. For a state to be dark blue in 2000, obesity rates had to be above 21.8. This means that all dark blue states in the 2000 map would be light green if we used the 2018 legend. If we make the legends and colouring consistent between the maps, here’s what we see for 2018: When using the data ranges from 2000, every single US state is in the top bracket for obesity. Over 21.8% of adults in every state report as obese. From the first two graphs we saw, you’d be forgiven for thinking things weren’t too bad: But the actual picture is a lot more severe: Using consistent scales when presenting different datasets is vital if you want to make it possible to draw clear conclusions from the data. Which we all do, right? Otherwise, why would you include graphs at all..?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4464
__label__cc	0.689936	0.310064	[Blog] [Pubs] [Digests] [Open Innovation Learning] [Ing Brief] [Media Queue] [Distractions] [Contact] 2007/11 Services Engineering and Management, Value Coproduction, and Situated Practices Submitted by daviding on Sat, 12/17/2016 - 18:46 Service businesses are not new. For many services businesses, however, the “world is flat” context (Friedman, 2005) of globalized scale and ubiquitous information and communication technologies (ICT) is new. The “world is flat” viewpoint sees global economics and politics as reshaped by three great flatteners: (a) new players (i.e. India, China and other developing countries rather than local competitors); on (b) a new playing field (i.e. global marketplaces and resources rather than regional) that are (c) coordinated through horizontal collaboration (i.e. inter-organizational alliances rather than vertically-integrated firms). The provision of services described in service-dominant logic (Vargo & Lusch, 2004) that are based on invisible and intangible resources – e.g. competences or processes – may be impacted more in this new context than the delivery of physical goods. Physical goods with distribution costs mean that local providers have a cost advantage over remote providers. Services that take advantage of ICT, however, can relocate work at flat or near-zero costs. The decision to assign many service production activities to another continent is practically as easy as assigning it across town. Value coproduction that does not require face-to-face coordination can be rethought in this new frame. Thirty years ago, the idea of service from an automated banking machine (ABM) was new. Over the past five years, customers phoning a toll-free number are no longer surprised to be served by a pool of company representatives that are half a world away. If the more automated alternative of self-service over a secure connection on a web browser is chosen, the location of the originator and service provider is even less relevant. The research into management and engineering of customer experiences of this type is far from mature. This paper proposes adding two additional contexts for consideration into the emerging framework for service engineering and management: value coproduction in a global business ecosystem adds dimensions of dynamic cooperation, competition and coexistence across companies, regional cultures and communities of practice; and situated practices, mediated in a “Web 2.0” infrastructure resurfaces the influence of background cultural habits and predispositions on the “right” way(s) of getting things done, both in asynchronous and synchronous person-to-person negotiations over ICT and in predefined interorganizational computer-to-computer protocols. Engineering service businesses for a “world is flat” context requires designing business architectures in which networks of customers, suppliers and alliance partners maintain consistent levels of quality, while allowing for minor variances in ends and means. Resources managed through ICT mediation can instantaneously (re-)route the work of service delivery personnel, intelligent information infrastructures and distributed physical locations for handling. Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) introduces both benefits of and challenges to distributed expertise and their coordination. Principles of management and engineering that do not directly deal with the capability to electronically automate or relocate work may require revision for this new paradigm. Offshore call centres have become an everyday way of doing business in the first decade of a new millennium. Examples of similar impacts in services across many other industries can be listed. In media and entertainment businesses, the production and distribution of digital content — in music, movies and video — is making physical media irrelevant. Retailing in product categories ranging from books to consumer electronics has drawn volume away from “bricks and mortar” infrastructure towards web portals on the Internet. Academic education and professional training, scheduled as e-learning conducted asynchronously and at a distance, reduces attendance at campus facilities. Health care no longer needs to be bounded by the memory of a local physician, as diagnoses and prescriptions can be digitized and distributed across a virtual team. All of these examples point to opportunities and challenges for service businesses, as leaders transform through their business models to leave laggards behind. David Ing, "Services Engineering and Management, Value Coproduction, and Situated Practices", in Research Perspectives in Service Engineering and Management, Volume 1, (Saara A. 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__label__wiki	0.645202	0.645202	Army Camp, Somme, France, Sergeant John Lord, World War I, 1916 Photographer: John Lord Public Domain (Licensed as Public Domain Mark) Can I reuse this image without permission? Yes Tick Small (733 x 500, 43.3KB) Medium (1500 x 1024, 160KB) Large (3000 x 2047, 872.6KB) Museums Victoria supports and encourages public access to our collection by offering image downloads for reuse. Images marked as Public Domain have, to the best of Museums Victoria’s knowledge, no copyright or intellectual property rights that would restrict their free download and reuse. Images marked with a Creative Commons (CC) license may be downloaded and reused in accordance with the conditions of the relevant CC license. Please acknowledge Museums Victoria and cite the URL for the image so that others can also find it. Item MM 120188 Photograph - Army Camp, Somme, France, Sergeant John Lord, World War I, 1916 One of 185 black and white photographs in an album, taken in France during World War I by Sergeant John Lord. Some pages are blank. Photographs in the album depict army camps, hospitals, trenches, early tanks, landscapes, cemeteries and graves and groups of posed Australian soldiers. The places Lord mentions in his captions are La Boiselle, Quarry Siding, Pozieres, Albert, Bapaume and Favreuil. The album was one of many souvenirs brought back to Australia after World War I by John Lord (service # 6252). He donated photograph albums, images, documents and World War I memorabilia to Museum Victoria. A selection of buildings in the middle of a field.There is a wooden building in the left of the image. There are some smaller wooden huts in the centre of the image. There is a cylandrical iron structure in the right of the image and another wooden building to the right of this. There are some wooden horse carts in the foreground. Black and white silver gelatin photographic print. Military Memorabilia Collection, John Lord Collection Public Life & Institutions Donation from J. Lord, 1986 Sergeant John Lord, Somme, France, circa 1916 Hand written on the secondary support to the left of the image: '738' Military history, Service, Army camps 65 mm (Width), 43 mm (Height) Image Dimensions - Photograph album page World War I, 1914-1918, Battle of the Somme (Somme Offensive), 1916 article The Battle of the Somme, 1916 'We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it.' Private Edward Francis Lynch, 45 Battalion, 4th Division AIF, 1916. The Battle of the Somme (Somme Offensive) saw ... article Sergeant John Lord, AIF (1896-1951) John Lord, who served in the AIF in World War I, service # 6252, was the source of a sizeable collection of significant World War I material held by Museum Victoria, including six photograph albums containing hundreds of original ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4471
__label__wiki	0.945297	0.945297	Derek Culver Max Mahoney College basketball Basketball Sports College sports Men's basketball Men's sports Men's college basketball Sukhmail Mathon Logan Routt Javante McCoy Miles McBride Alex Vilarino Oscar Tshiebwe Emmitt Matthews Walter Whyte Jermaine Haley Joe Jones Jack Hemphill Boston University Patriot League West Virginia Big 12 Boston University Terriers at West Virginia Mountaineers 11/22/2019 Boston University forward Max Mahoney (51) passes the ball as he is defended by West Virginia forward Derek Culver (1) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) Boston University forward Sukhmail Mathon (41) dunks during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against West Virginia on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) West Virginia forward Logan Routt (31) defends against Boston University guard Javante McCoy (30) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) West Virginia forward Oscar Tshiebwe (34) defends against Boston University forward Max Mahoney (51) during the half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) West Virginia guard Miles McBride, left, and forward Oscar Tshiebwe defend against Boston University guard Alex Vilarino (3) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) Boston University guard Walter Whyte (5) is defended by West Virginia forward Emmitt Matthews Jr. (11) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) West Virginia guard Jermaine Haley (10) goes to make a shot as he is defended by Boston University guard Alex Vilarino (3) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) Boston University coach Joe Jones shouts during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against West Virginia on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) West Virginia coach Bob Huggins reacts to a call during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against Boston University on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) West Virginia's Oscar Tshiebwe (34) shoots during the second half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against Boston University on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) West Virginia forward Oscar Tshiebwe (34) is defended by Boston University forward Jack Hemphill (32) while guard Alex Vilarino (3) watches during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) West Virginia forward Emmitt Matthews Jr. (11) defends against Boston University guard Walter Whyte (5) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten) West Virginia's Jordan McCabe, back left, defends against Boston University guard Walter Whyte during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4473
__label__wiki	0.865984	0.865984	Brandon Leftwich Nick Richards Omar Habwe Sports Men's basketball Men's sports Basketball Men's college basketball College basketball College sports Kentucky SEC Mount St. Mary's No. 9 Kentucky pulls away from Mount St. Mary’s 82-62 By GARY B. GRAVES - Nov. 22, 2019 10:55 PM EST Mount St. Mary's head coach Dan Engelstad watches his team during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/James Crisp) LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Just as No. 9 Kentucky seemed destined to grind past another supposedly overmatched foe, it clicked into high gear against Mount St. Mary’s to finally win comfortably. Immanuel Quickley had eight of his 13 second-half points during an 18-3 run that helped the Wildcats pull away from the Mountaineers 82-62 on Friday night. Ashton Hagans had 16 points, including a three-point play during the surge the Wildcats (4-1) needed after struggling with lesser opponents the previous past two games, including last week’s stunning upset loss to Evansville. For one half they appeared to follow the same pattern in leading by just 39-34 at the break with four lead changes. Forward EJ Montgomery, who had missed three games with an ankle injury, sank a 3-pointer soon after to provide some breathing room before Kentucky took off. Quickley himself returned from a one-game absence with a chest injury and eventually hit a short jumper before dropping two 3s to make it 59-39, leading Kentucky’s 5-of-10 long-range shooting after the break. While the Wildcats made just 6 of 15 from behind the arc, that marked improvement from their 7-for-43 performance over the previous three contests. And that’s where being close to full strength paid off. “For EJ and Immanuel to be back, they gave us some big-time minutes, big-time plays and that's what we needed,” Hagans said. “It just seemed like everyone was locked in tonight. And that's what we need from here on out.” Nick Richards had 11 of his 19 points in the first half and finished with seven rebounds in nearly 33 minutes. Tyrese Maxey added 11 for Kentucky, which shot 55% from the field. Quickley scored all 13 of his points in the second half, while Montgomery had seven points and six rebounds. The Wildcats recorded 20 assists and outrebounded the Mountaineers 35-31, but only grabbed six offensively. And coach John Calipari quickly noted that must improve for his team to meet expectations. Such as, handily beating visitors. “We showed signs of the second half, but we're not there,” the coach said. “We may be two months away with this team, I don't know.” Damian Chong Qui had 11 points, while Brandon Leftwich, Omar Habwe and Malik Jefferson 10 each for the Mountaineers (1-5), who lost their fourth in a row. PRAISING EJ Whether it was just having another big man on the floor, or welcoming back a key regular, Calipari was glad to have the 6-foot-10 Montgomery at his disposal. “Not having him really affects us,” the coach said, “and having him when he's playing, you know, he's a difference maker.” Told of Calipari’s compliments, Montgomery just laughed and added, “I don’t know if they really needed me, but I’m somewhat of a help. I just try to get it in, play with energy and just help my team win.” Mount St. Mary’s: The Mountaineers offset their height disadvantage to Kentucky with hustle that kept them close, especially on the glass. Keeping up became tougher once the Wildcats started hitting 3s, an area the Mount started well before making just 2 of 13 in the second half. “Our plan was to limit transition, limit in the paint and make them jump shooters,” coach Dan Engelstad said. “But we were they were capable shooters. We wanted to make sure everything was contested, and I thought in the first half our contests were much better than they were in the second.” Kentucky: The Wildcats got a little closer to full strength with the returns of Montgomery and Quickley. Montgomery was a big help in the post and made a couple of nice baskets in his return, with his 3 helping ignite the decisive spurt. POLL IMPLICATIONS After two lackluster efforts including the Evansville upset, Kentucky finally played the type of game that should maintain its top-10 presence with another game on Sunday. Mount St. Mary’s hosts Utah Valley on Tuesday in its final game of the four-team BBN Showcase featuring Lamar and UAB. Kentucky hosts Lamar on Sunday in the third contest of the BBN Showcase. More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4474
__label__wiki	0.84	0.84	Mountain West reaches 6-year deals with CBS, Fox Sports By Pat Graham Jan. 09, 2020 06:36 PM EST DENVER (AP) — The Mountain West has agreed to six-year media rights deals with CBS Sports and Fox Sports that are worth a combined $270 million. ... North Carolina beats UCLA 74-64 to end 4-game losing streak New coach Juwan Howard talks up Michigan at media day By Noah Trister Oct. 17, 2019 06:17 PM EDT The Latest: Stackhouse headlines 4 new SEC head coaches Oct. 16, 2019 11:02 AM EDT Pac-12 players, coaches briefed on California likeness law By Janie Mccauley Oct. 08, 2019 05:32 PM EDT The Latest: Pay for play big topic at ACC media day Krzyzewski says California law a needed conversation starter By Steve Reed Oct. 08, 2019 10:16 AM EDT Longtime KU broadcaster Max Falkenstien dies at 95 By Dave Skretta Jul. 29, 2019 07:57 PM EDT Big 12 is a 10: Bowlsby says no talk of expanding league By Stephen Hawkins Jul. 15, 2019 04:03 PM EDT UNC's Cunningham eager to see impact of 5 new coaches By Aaron Beard Jul. 05, 2019 02:31 PM EDT UConn rejoins Big East for hoops, other sports; not football By Pat Eaton-Robb Jun. 26, 2019 01:40 PM EDT At least 6 men's hoops programs to face NCAA allegations Jun. 13, 2019 01:40 PM EDT ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A key NCAA official says six schools are going to be facing allegations of Level I violations as early as next month, the latest fallout in the... CBS Sports buys some Big East men's games from Fox Sports May. 09, 2019 01:50 PM EDT NEW YORK (AP) — The Big East Conference has reached a multi-year agreement with CBS Sports to televise its men's college basketball games through the 2024-25 season.... Vitale raising millions for pediatric cancer research By Fred Goodall May. 05, 2019 05:53 PM EDT For all the accolades he's received as a college and professional basketball coach and an even longer career in broadcasting, Dick Vitale insists his greatest... NCAA title game, tournament see increases over last year Assistant coach Mark Adams masterminds Texas Tech's defense By John Marshall Apr. 05, 2019 04:53 PM EDT Director's chair: CBS's Fishman ready for 37th Final Four By Joe Reedy Apr. 02, 2019 05:36 PM EDT Michigan State-Duke helps boost NCAA Tournament TV ratings By The Associated Press Apr. 01, 2019 11:52 AM EDT UConn expresses reservations about AAC media deal with ESPN By Pat Eaton-Robb Mar. 28, 2019 11:39 AM EDT American touts ESPN deal as similar to conference network By Ralph D. Russo Mar. 27, 2019 04:02 PM EDT American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco says the league's new media rights deal with ESPN gives the AAC a platform similar to having its own branded...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4475
__label__cc	0.531627	0.468373	Wild Western: Confederate Rose #4 Want more action? Check out these titles we rounded up here!! Missed Last Issue? Check it out here Wreck of the SS Helena, Washington Territory - 1865 The black coach stopped just short of the wreck of the SS Helena, the former clipper sitting perched on the hill side, as the passengers disembarked. The two men dressed in leathers, kept their guns trained on the next passenger, as the driver, a hooded man dressed in black, save for a white beak like mask dropped down to stand beside them. “Get out missy!!” One of the men bellows, his hand resting on his pistol. Delicately, the woman inside stepped out before putting her hands on her hips, and shaking her head in disgust. “I don’t know why you have brought me here.” The lady states, in a Louisiana accent, “But you have made a terrible mistake in doing so.” She adds, before holding out her hands and squinting. “Witch, your powers have abandoned you.” The man in the raven mask crows, as he removed a long pole hook from beneath his cloak and closes the carriage doors. “In time it will return, but until then you are a mortal maid.” “Well ain’t that fortunate Able.” One of the gunmen snorts, as he pushed the woman in the back. “Sam and his sons would do worse then kill us if we brought him a powered witch.” “Aye Quincy, just a shame Barton jumped the gun or he’d be here as well.” Able grunts, as the group of four heads towards the wreck of the Helena. As they neared the group stopped, as two thin figures squeezed out of the stone underneath, their bodies clad in bone armour, whilst their beetle black eyes glowered up at the arrivals. Both of them had long stringy black hair and grey skin marred with cuts and notches, some that went through the muscle all the way down to their bones. “We bring Holtz’s debt.” Able announced, as Quincy pushed the woman forward. “It’s a witch according to Coachman over there.” “I’ll say what it is and what it ain’t.” One of the short figures growled, as he removed a cut down pike and poked the woman with the haft of the weapon. “Sam likes them with names, what’s your name miss?” “Rose Mulholland,” The woman replied, “not that a filthy band of Orkney Trows far from home, would know the power behind that title.” She added, before getting a pistol shoved in the back of here skull by Quincy. “Me brother and me don’t care about names of power, we cares about nothing save our selves and out family.” The second Trow spluttered, as his skin began to blister. “Bring the mouthy harlot inside before the Sun does us in.” He ordered, as he and his brother retreated into the rock. Moving forward Coachman reached up with his staff, and plunged the hook into the wood before drawing it down, the timbers shifting slightly to reveal the edge of a door. Slipping his hand inside, Able opened it and the group moved inside, with Coachman closing the door behind them. For a brief second or two, after the door closed, all was dark, before a radiant purple light illuminated the chamber the group found themselves in. While the room had once been a storehouse, the chamber now was furnished like a hotel lounge, random stools and chairs set around stumpy tables that gleamed under the light of a rose-quartz chandelier. That said the room was almost abandoned, with only a few Trows slumming in the corners furthest away from the chandeliers radiance. “Father will be here soon, he’s just finishing up below decks.” One of the Trows hissed, as the other occupants of the rundown room got to there feet, and readied the wide array of weapons they had. “Here’s here, so remember don’t try anything and you won’t join the wall.” He warned, as a Trow, a good foot and a half taller then the rest, waddled into the room followed by a lithe harpy, her red flecked wings folded behind her back. “Who is this?” The new Trow asked, his tone reeking of boredom as he looked around the room. “Holtz’s debt, he paid with a witch Sam.” Quincy snorted, as the Harpy walked over and ran her taloned hands up Rose’s neck, a single drop of blood gleaming on the tips. Flicking her hand, the Harpy turned to Rose and spat on her face, before slamming Quincy against the wall. “Hmm Angelique doesn’t agree with your statement.” The larger Trow hissed, before turning to face away from the main floor, the back of his misshapen head penetrated by a silver bladed hatchet stuck in his skull. “You think I’m an idiot because I got scalped Quince. Don’t answer I know you do, stupid Sam won’t know I’ve been slacking off in the whore house instead of picking up debts.” “No it’s not…” Quincy spluttered, only to be stopped as Angelique uttered a shrill piercing whistle. “Oh no please not him Sam, I swear…” He spluttered, as a hole in the floor opened up, and a massive hand appeared over the edge, massive fingers grabbing Quincy’s leg and dragging him down into the pit. For a almost a minute, the sound of desperate screams and wild bullet shots echoed up from the hole, only for both to be silence by an inhuman roar, and the crack of something breaking. “That missy is a skoocoom, nasty fella with nasty ideas on how to treat folk.” Sam stated, as he turned back to face the room. “Quincy knew that when he lied to me, so its only fair that you do too.” “I can see you’re a fair man sir.” Rose purred, as the whole in the floor closed and several of the Trows started exchanging coins and gemstones with each other over the result of Quincy’s execution. “Ah a swamp girl, you little minxes are always so entertaining.” Sam cackled, as he rubbed his hands together with glee. “Like opening a chest of looted gold for the first time, all that excitement and suspense. Course that won’t spare you if you happen to lie to me.” “She is a witch; you know that my kind could sense magic of all kinds.” Coachman muttered, as he shot a piercing look at Angelique. Sam cocked his head, before scratching his chin, his nostrils flared. “Well now I feel bad about poor Quince, not enough to check if he’s okay you understand, but defiantly enough to dust off his family and hang them over the bar for a week.” Sam lamented, before clicking his fingers, a few of the Trows running of to the bar and un-hanging the mounted wolf heads, whilst a few others left the room entirely. “Got those shortly after I got this.” He announced as he tapped the hatchet, as Rose watch the activity around the room. “It’s not as good a story as this un.” He hissed, “Back before the war I hunted men for sport and money, got a real good target too this guy called Foggy Morgans, a singer on a paddle ship…” “I thought it was Morgan Fogg, that old red skin who half the…” A Trow interrupted, only to be silenced as Sam walked up towards him and ripped his head off. “I don't like being interrupted, and it don’t matter anyways, all we need to know is the name of yer coven and if your marked.” Sam hissed, as he walked up to Rose. “She has no coven and she isn’t marked.” Coachman whispered, as Rose grunted in pain, before falling to her knees, a black scar shaped like a crow, its wings outspread appeared on her neck. “She is now.” Angelique purred, “Which means her value has sky-rocketed.” Utah Territory - 1865 Whittaker rubbed his hands, before getting to his feet and kicking out the fire. Walking over to Tolliver and his female partner, the pair of them standing with their arms crossed. “She’s marked; we can follow her everywhere she goes.” Whittaker grunted, as the Union soldiers that had accompanied them began to stir and head towards the road. “Then the next action should be to determine what kind of witch she is.” Tolliver announced, “From what our friend told us, it sounds like we are facing a powerful conjurer, although we had inkling of that after Briar’s statement.” “Mr Hopkins, this witch isn’t the only enemy we will face,” The woman with a flower brand stated, “there is also the Grey Ghost, should he know of her location, will also be hunting for her, and while he isn’t a sorcerer, he does contain a dark power.” She added, as the sounds of gunshots sounded, accompanied by the clatter of a Williams Gun. Running to the front line, the trio of witch hunters raised their weapons as a unit of grey clad rifle men opened fire from the road. “Sir with all due respect the Union is…” The Union Captain stated, as Tolliver opened fire with his pistols, the first two shots hitting a grenadier, his body rolling down the slope, as more Confederate troopers surged forwards, their hands clenched around sabres and pikes. “These men harbour devil’s daughters and constructs of witchcraft.” Tolliver answered, as Whittaker snatched a rifle with a bayonet attached from a Union soldier, and threw it at the operator of the Williams Gun, his body drooping over the canon. “Besides Captain, we will need all the men you can spare by journeys end.” He added, as Briar lashed out with a barbed whip, a wall of thorns growing within the Confederate ranks, screams replacing gunshots as those troops that could retreat, fled into the hills. Spinning around, the Captain held his sabre at Tolliver’s neck; his hands wavering as his men half-heartedly pursued the routing Confederates. “You were contracted to hunt witches, yet you have one in your very ranks!!” “Nay, she isn’t a witch, but rather a victim of witchcraft.” Tolliver answered, as he pushed the sabre away. “There is much about Briar, that appears to be witchcraft, yet it isn’t her own but rather her mothers. She cursed her daughter to be a flower surrounded by a wall of thorns, using vile magic to torture her husband who lover her very much. It is her spells that you saw in action tonight. Her mother’s death will remove the curse, and restore her beauty; as such it is my duty to restore her. If you have any honour you and your men will aid us in our task.” “So where is this witch?” The Captain asked, as his men gathered around him. “They are on a hillside in Washington.” Whittaker hissed, “And if we leave within the hour we can be there by daybreak tomorrow.” “That’s impossible.” The Captain spat, as he shot a look at the impaled men on the thorns blocking the pass. “Not if your men remain strong and faithful.” Tolliver answered grimly, “And as long as they don’t fear death.” @turbinail, @batkevin74, @cbishop, @dngn4774, @tommythehitman, @wildvine, @delphic, @wim_garnet and @whoisme #3 batkevin74 @impurestcheese: “I thought it was Morgan Fogg, that old red skin who half the…” A Trow interrupted, only to be silenced as Sam walked up towards him and ripped his head off. Well he ain't that old...he may even make to 1865...time will tell. Poor Rose got ink'd against her will. Something tells me that they're all dead men walking! @batkevin74: He might indeed, although he has to survive five years of combat first @impurestcheese: He has to survive his next chapter! @batkevin74: True Dat #7 Wim_Garnet "Remove the curse and restore her beauty" - a Disney seed planted in a garden of grimness. Did I miss a chapter? I thought we last saw Rose going to ground in her cocoon. Or will the jump be explained later? @impurestcheese: My brain is a round of Swiss cheese. #10 Edited By ImpurestCheese @wim_garnet: Good thing I'm not Swiss then @impurestcheese: Gah! How did I not let you know that this has been corralled in the Wild Western Roundup?! Yeehaaaa! :) @cbishop: No idea @impurestcheese: Please tell me this year wait has just been you playing up the suspense XD #14 ImpurestCheese @wildvine: Uh no comment (no in other words, still Rose has potential...)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4479
__label__cc	0.727757	0.272243	SteadicamForum.com Matt Pacini About Matt Pacini Moritz Matlik Brian McAllister Can u run 2 wired lavaliere mikes into 1 zoom h4n? Matt Pacini replied to Eric F Adams's topic in Sound I realize this is a late post, but my two cents: 1. A $30 Radio Shack mixer is not a professional piece of gear. You aren't just getting 'effects' for the extra money, you're getting quality components that sound better and are more rugged. 2. I always record on separate tracks if at all possible. You have more control that way. Yes, it's almost certainly going to end up as mono after post, but that is no excuse to make that decision while recording, painting everyone else down the line into a corner. Matt Pacini WAGES - What do location sound guys get? Matt Pacini replied to Matt Pacini's topic in Sound Wow, does nobody actually come to this forum, or was this a bad question to ask? Matt Pacini posted a topic in Sound ... or girls :) What's an average, saying working in a major city like Los Angeles, for both union and non-union work? And what's the best way to get work, if you were starting out? MP Is there a way to record with timecode onto a cheaper recorder? I just can't afford multi-thousands of dollars for what I SHOULD be buying. I have a Zoom h4n, and I'm wondering... is there some way to get this to record SMPTE timecode? Perhaps an external SMPTE generator (if there is a battery powered version) that would record timecode on an extra track? Any suggestions? Otherwise, what is the lowest price typical unit someone would use that has timecode capability? MP Super 8 or K3 16mm Matt Pacini replied to Greg Stoltz's topic in General Discussion I disagree completely. And I'm someone who has shot an entire feature on Super 8. If it's worth shooting, it's worth shooting on the best format possible. The limited places that telecine Super 8 means that there's less competition - so it's not cheaper than 16mm to transfer to video. That, and it's so much harder to get a decent image on S8, it takes more time, and/or you end up burning more stock getting it right. I wish I'd have shot my feature in 16, even though it would have cost more in film stock - it was a really expensive for the telecine, and a lot of the film is really not too great looking. Matt Pacini Advice for an interested high school kid? Matt Pacini replied to Katryn Dierksen's topic in General Discussion I don't think he was giving you general advice not to go to college. You absolutely should. The entertainment industry is one of the very, very rare professions where college doesn't matter that much, like 99.99999% of the 'real world jobs' out there. I would highly suggest sticking with the college plan, and I'm someone who did NOT get a degree, and I'm suffering for it now! Don't fall into the trap of 'just follow your dreams' and give up thinking about doing anything else for a living. (You only hear that from people who are the extremely small minority who 'got in'). It is HIGHLY unlikely that you will make a living in this business (I'm not). You don't have to ONLY know one skill to make it in the entertainment industry. There are many examples of people with other careers, even very difficult ones, who have also done very well in the industry, but the example I like to give is Michael Chrichton. He went to Harvard Medical School & was trained to be a doctor before getting into the entertainment industry. Check out his resume as writer/director/producer: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000341/ Here's a new one: cinematograpy and dating Matt Pacini replied to Brian Rose's topic in General Discussion Well, this issue has been highly distorted and skewed by political propaganda. Just a few facts to enlighten: Nobody is going without healthcare in America, unless they choose to. I'll explain: In America, there is a federal law, that no hospital emergency room can turn you away for failure of ability to pay. So if you have a true emergency, you get it taken care of, period. In addition to that, most (if not all) states have free health care. There is Medicaid, Medicare, MediCal - the federal and state welfare agencies pay for free healthcare - our poor in fact get free healthcare (and dental and vision, etc.), but since we don't pay for EVERYONE, and it's not called 'Universal Healthcare" there is this incorrect assumption that poor people in America have no healthcare, which is false. And all the lefties who want the government to do everything the private sector can do, ignore, distort, or outright lie about this, and it's so common, that most people believe the myth. Now, before everyone chimes in and declares me a liar, perhaps you should check it out yourself. Here's what we have in California, for instance: http://www.medi-cal.ca.gov/ So us not having "Universal Healthcare", but having a system where you share the cost with your employer (if you have one), or the government picking up the tab (if you don't), is more fair, because it's asking people who CAN afford it, to pay it. Like my Dad used to say: "There's no such thing as a free lunch." We're all paying for it eventually anyway. It's a matter of HOW, and WHEN. And it's much MORE expensive when you are ALSO paying for the added expense of a gigantic government bureaucracy to manage the whole thing. Investment in film equipment worth it? Matt Pacini replied to Jonathan Bel's topic in General Discussion There are a lot of good points here, on both sides of the issue. But for us "old timers" here, a lot of this sounds old & stale (having heard of the imminent demise of film literally our entire lives), and yet film is still here. I heard all of this stuff when Blair Witch Project came out (it doesn't matter what you shoot on anymore, it's all about the story!!!), and that wasn't even digital - it was Hi8 analog tape! And yet here we are, a multitude of 'film-killing' formats later, with everything still NOT standing up to film in quality. There are pro's & cons to shooting any particular format, but EVERY electronic imaging format has major problems that film does not. And pretty much nobody 10 years ago thought film would still be going strong, yet it is. One thing I've noticed, is that every format that comes out seems to be considered 'dated' or 'no longer hot' in about 2-3 years time... except film. I think most of this is driven by the marketing cycles of the manufacturers, and not in any way based on what's best, etc. We're all responding to the same marketing propaganda that is used to get us to buy new cars every few years - the new ones are going to change our lives, then in a couple years, those same companies are telling us how stale and outdated the last product is, and we MUST buy the newer model to be cool. Matt Pacini Extras talking on set Matt Pacini replied to Patrick Cooper's topic in General Discussion Just did a low-budget shoot this weekend, recording sound for a friend who was directing. This is always a problem. I always make a big deal to all the extras that they need to be absolutely silent during takes, and fake talking, but not actually make any noise. Even though you actually want talking in the background, you don't want it to actually take place while the shot is happening. The problem is, you're cutting different shots together in editing, if you're hearing extras talk, you'll be chopping right in the middle of their dialog and you might hear it. Carrie 1976 Matt Pacini replied to Michael Schroers's topic in General Discussion A lot of this type of thing can be had at www.imdb.com Just search for any movie you're interested in, and look at "technical specs". Here's what imdb.com says about Carrie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074285/technical Camera Panavision Split Diopter Lense Laboratory DeLuxe Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm Cinematographic process Spherical Printed film format 35 mm Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1 How Can B Movies Exist? Matt Pacini replied to Peter Ellner's topic in General Discussion You are "saddened by the existence of B movies"? Well, I hate to say it, but yes, you do come off as being pretentious. But more than that, you illuminate (to this crowd, anyway) that you not only know little or nothing about making films, but that you are possibly destined to never make a film at all. We have all met countless film students who are committed to never making anything but masterpieces. You guys live inside the myth that you are special, and that the film industry are just waiting to hear your pitch or read your script, then they will no doubt hand you giant big bags full of cash to make your masterpiece. My advice? Make a film. ANY film. You will be humbled. As someone who has made a "B-film" myself, NOT intentionally, I can tell you that once you actually make a film, you will discover that feeling familiar to all of us on this board who have made actual films (not just discussed them in class with some instructor who probably hasn't made actual films either) that the entire universe is conspiring to keep you from getting your film made. The problem with movies, is that ANY ONE THING can turn your masterpiece into a B Movie. Bad acting, not enough money (to hire skilled people, build good sets & design, etc.), bad or even just a slightly problematic script, bad weather, lazy crew members... The list is endless, and these don't include the most obvious one - you will be a first time director, and it's almost inevitable that you will make crap your first time out. Literally every top director, writer, etc. has made what you consider to be crap. All you have now, is good intentions and a overabundance of false confidence. That's not a good combination. Matt Pacini Achieving a certain look (70s American New Wave + indie/hipster aesthetics) Matt Pacini replied to Andrew Yi's topic in General Discussion I think for the most part, what you are describing were not necessarily intentional, but the results of lower budget films. Some of those you list were shot on 16mm, for instance, and therefore would have more grain. Lens flares are what you will get if you either aren't using a Mattebox and/or shade setup, or you are sloppy and forget not to shoot into the sun or lights. Same with large amounts of over or underexposure. Some were a touch of 'run & gun' situations, like Easy Rider for instance, because of low budget and a bit of 'get the shot while you can' situations. Some will argue these points with me, but I'd say that most intentional applications of these things, started out as accidents & someone liked the look, so they duplicated it for a certain aesthetic. Matt Pacini Should I use Super 8? Matt Pacini replied to James Burns's topic in Students and New Filmmakers I have a LOT of Super 8 experience - I even shot a feature on that format! Over 350 rolls of experience. I would highly suggest NOT shooting on it for what you are doing. The reasons? 1. ALL Super 8 cameras with the exception of the Nizo 6080 are VERY noisy. I've shot with all the high-end S8 cameras, and I've tried everything to quiet them down, and nothing works! 2. There is no such thing as sound film anymore, so you will have to record sound separately. You can sync audio in your editing software, but DO NOT use an analog device to record audio. You will have problems. Also, the only non-modified S8 cameras with crystal sync are the high end Beaulieu's, (which I don't particularly like that much, but some do). 3. Only 2 makes of S8 cameras take lenses - all the others are built in (Some Beaulieu's, and I can't remember the other make - an obscure make, takes them. All the Canon's, Nikon's, Bauers, etc. have built-in lenses). I would shoot in 16mm if I were you, IF you really want the film look and have the budget. It's infinitely easier to get a quality image, they are generally quieter, it's easier (and usually cheaper) to get your film processed and transferred to video, etc. Matt Pacini Matt Pacini replied to Andrew Carter's topic in Students and New Filmmakers You need to give a lot more information in your question: What's your budget? What format? (film, digital, aspect ratio, film stock you're using, or digital camera you're using). How to light a Night- Bathroom scene? Matt Pacini replied to Simona Analte's topic in Students and New Filmmakers I'm going to assume you are in a small bathroom, and on a budget (both time and money). I'd either hang something directly overhead, and use bounce cards for fill where you need it, or I'd aim a PAR light at the ceiling from the floor (put a large chunk of foamcore on the ceiling to make sure it bounces white light). Either way, as stated above, use some black-foil to control spill. I'd keep some of your top-light off the walls with the black foil - you will probably get as much as you need coming off the bounce-fill. Matt Pacini Cinematography.com Powered by Invision Community	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4482
__label__wiki	0.912534	0.912534	Climate Income How Climate Income works Carbon pricing in the UK Why we need fee and dividend The US Policy Report on the Impacts Write to Your MP Write to your local media Lobbying for a carbon fee and dividend Updated 18 June 2019. This can change at any time, especially after a cabinet reshuffle or general election. Who are the people in the UK government who make the laws to make the most (and any real) impact on the reduction of fossil fuel greenhouse gases to tackle climate change and who do they consult? And who’s who in the opposition and other political parties? Contact your constituency MP First and foremost, contact your MP. As long as you remain reasonable, they have an obligation to respond to your requests. though they may immediately pass your correspondence onto the relevant department – in fact, you can ask them to do just that, and the department should send you a reply. Contrary to what you may think, the Department of the Environment is not the first point of call but the Department of Business as climate change is caused by emissions, mostly fossil fuels. Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Write to your MP about fossil fuel emissions or carbon fee and dividend and you will most likely receive a reply from this department. You can reply directly to whomever replied to you – but copy in your MP so they are aware of progress and can follow it up for you. Most likely to reply: The Rt Hon Claire Perry MP Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth (currently on leave from her ministerial position). Conservative MP for Devizes. View Claire Perry’s voting record and contact information. Most likely to reply: Chris Skidmore MP Interim Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth Conservative MP for Kingswood View Chris Skidmore’s voting record and contact information. Head of Department: The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Conservative MP for Royal Tunbridge Wells View Greg Clark’s voting record and contact information. Department of Environment Food & Rural Affairs Head of Department: The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP – Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Conservative MP for Surrey Heath View Michael Gove’s voting record and contact information. Roseanna Cunningham MSP: Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Scottish National Party MSP for Perthshire South and Kinrossshire View Roseanna Cunningham’s voting record and contact information. Welsh Government (Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru) Lesley Griffiths AM: Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs Welsh Labour AM for Wrexham View Lesley Griffiths’s voting record and contact information. Other politicians Rebecca Long Bailey MP: Shadow Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Labour MP for Salford and Eccles View Rebecca Long-Bailey’s voting record and contact information. Rachel Reeves MP: Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee Labour MP for Leeds West View Rachel Reeve’s voting record and contact information. Committee on Climate Change The Committee on Climate Change (the CCC) is an independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008. Their purpose is to advise the UK Government and Devolved Administrations on emissions targets and report to Parliament on progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for climate change. Chair: Lord Deben Keep up to date with our latest campaigns and actions. © 2017 - Citizens' Climate Lobby UK Join Citizens' Climate Lobby UK A password is optional, but providing one will mean you can login to this site and update any of the information you've given us. You'll also be able to keep up to date with what's going on and connect with other members. Your postcode will not be displayed to other people but will be used to get the constituency you're in and the name of your MP. Write to my MP Get involved in social media campaigning Take part in actions in my local area Write articles for your website I'm a bit of a policy wonk and would like to help with that kind of thing I'm not sure yet, I'll let you know later We will never post to Twitter or Facebook without your permission. Welcome to Citizens' Climate Lobby UK To finish activating your account, check your inbox for our Welcome message and confirm your email address. Sign into Citizens' Climate Lobby UK or create an account Not a member? Join Citizens' Climate Lobby UK Citizens' Climate Lobby UK	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4486
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__label__wiki	0.587651	0.587651	Museum Bites A little taste of history, one morsel at a time. Lovely Monsters: Reboot The Wizard of Oz, Margaret Hamilton & Judy Garland, MGM (1939) It’s been a whirlwind week and today on Museum Bites we’re reaching back into the archives. Please enjoy this wild and windy reboot of Lovely Monsters. Today on Museum Bites we’re talking tornadoes with a tour through photographer and storm chaser, Camille Seaman’s The Big Cloud exhibit at the Michigan State University Museum. Thanks to years of watching Dorothy (and her little dog too!), tornadoes have been my go-to nightmare. Seaman’s haunting photographs capture the dark, tornado-rich clouds hovering open-mouthed over vulnerable farmland. Captivated by the fierce beauty of these supercell storms, my fight or flight response was pinging. Here there be monsters: Seaman describes supercells storms, as lovely monsters. These nasty beasts can stretch 50 miles across, reach 65,000 feet into the atmosphere, and produce grapefruit-sized hail. And if the booming thunder and driving winds weren’t enough, this swirling brew can also whip up a tornado. Supercell Storm, Photo by Skeeze, Pixabay High Plains Drifter: Tornadoes have ravaged every continent (except Antarctica), and every state in the United States. The US is home to 3/4ths of the world’s tornadoes, and the southern Plains States are so frequently plagued by twisters the region has earned the nickname, Tornado Alley. Warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico pushes north and collides over the Plains States with cool air from Canada, and dry air from the Rocky Mountains. This volatile mixture contains the necessary ingredients to create Seaman’s lovely monsters. The United States averages over 1,000 tornadoes per year, and peak season occurs between May and July. Most tornadoes form between 4 pm and 9 pm. But keep in mind, if weather conditions are right, tornadoes can touch down at any time and any place. Click on this Tornado Fact vs Fiction clip created by the Weather Channel to dispel many of our tornado myths. Did you know a highway underpass is an extremely dangerous place to ride out tornado? Seriously, take a few minutes and watch this highly informative clip. Enhanced Fujita Scale, Source FEMA Drastic times call for drastic measures: Meteorologists rate the severity of tornadoes using the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale. Based on wind speed and storm damage, the original Fujita scale was developed by meteorologist and storm researcher, Tetsuya Theodore Fujita. In 2007, it was fine-tuned and upgraded to the Enhanced Fujita scale. According to the National Weather Service, the most devastating EF4 and EF5 tornadoes account for 2% of all tornadoes. Despite this fact, all tornadoes pose a risk and it is crucial that we all take appropriate action when tornadoes are on the horizon. Tornado Watch vs Warning: Know the Difference! Worst of the Worst Facts: Despite Tornado Alley’s reputation, the world’s worst tornado did not occur in the United States. In 1989, a devastating tornado ripped through the Manikganj district of Bangladesh. Approximately, 1,300 people were killed, 12,000 more were injured and 80,000 were left homeless. In 1925, the deadliest tornado in US history tore a path across southern Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana at speeds of 73 mph. Lasting a nail-biting 3.5 hours, this mile-wide monster had wind gusts up to 300 mph. Dubbed the Great Tri-State Tornado, this horrific storm killed 695 people, injured 2,000 more, and left thousands homeless. Dolley Madison, by Gilbert Stuart (1804) The British Are Coming! The British Are Running! In a strange twist of fate, a tornado touched down on August 25, 1814, interrupting the British siege on Washington, D.C. Two days prior, first lady, Dolley Madison made her famous escape with George Washington’s portrait in hand. The redcoats subsequently torched the White House and ransacked the capital until the tornado chased them out of town. This wraps up our look at tornadoes. Click on Camille Seaman’s website to enjoy a slideshow of her stunning photographs and click on Seaman’s TEDTalk to learn the story behind her storm chasing. Also, if you’d like to geek out on all things tornado, click on this link from the Storm Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Center. That’s a wrap! Next week, we’ll be taking a road trip back to ancient Rome. Until then, have a great week! Cover photo by Skeeze, courtesy of Pixabay. 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__label__cc	0.730584	0.269416	arrow-drop-down Skill Assessment Content Engine™ bookmark Upcoming TrainingExplore our training roadmap Cloud Roster™The Job Roles Matrix Cloud Catalog™The Global Technology Index ResearchData Reports & Analysis Solution Architect Professional for AWS - Domain Six - Security Designing security controls Domain 6 - Security PREVIEW44s Designing ISMS systems and compliance controls PREVIEW4m 31s Designing IAM management controls Designing protection of Data at Rest controls Designing protection of Data in Flight and Network Perimeter controls play-arrow DifficultyAdvanced Duration1h 15m In this course, you'll gain a solid understanding of the key concepts for Domain Six of the AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification: Security. 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This Course Includes Expert-led instruction and exploration of important concepts. Complete coverage of critical Domain Six concepts for the AWS Solutions Architect - Professional certification exam. Security in the cloud is composed of four key areas. Number one, data protection, where we are protecting data in transit, and at rest. Number two, privilege management. Controlling who has access to what, and when. Number three, infrastructure protection. Ensuring the network and the base infrastructure is protected from compromise. And number four, detective controls. Monitoring what happens at all levels of the environment, and being able to detect and inform of any erroneous or unusual activity. AWS provides a shared responsibility security model for infrastructure services. It's important you recognize and understand the shared responsibility model for the exam. Questions might be around identifying which security task would be completed by AWS, and which may be the responsibility of the customer. Now, a simple way I like to remember who does what, is that AWS manages security of the cloud, and customers manage security in the cloud. AWS provides a secure infrastructure and foundation for compute storage network and database services. Regions, availability zones, and in points are some of the components of the AWS secure global infrastructure. Now, that includes the facilities, the physical security of the hardware network, and the virtualization infrastructure. Everything else run on top of that is the responsibility of the customer. Let's break this down a bit. AWS manage this the security of facilities, physical security of hardware, network infrastructure, virtualization infrastructure. If we are defining an information security management plan, for example, we could consider AWS the owner of those assets for the purpose of our ISMS asset definitions. Now, customers are responsible for the security of Amazon machine images, operating systems, applications, data in transit, and data at rest, data stores, credentials and policies, and most importantly, configuration. Now, the shared responsibility model means AWS customers are responsible for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their data in the AWS cloud, and for meeting any business requirements for information protection. When we apply the shared responsibility security model to those four areas we looked at for cloud security, three out of the four tasks will be tasks customers need to do; data protection, privilege management, and monitoring will be the responsibility of the customer, with AWS managing infrastructure protection out of that grid. Now, AWS provides a range of security services and tools that customers can use to secure assets within AWS services. Services such as server-side encryption, HSM keys, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail, to name a few. Customers retain control of what security they choose to protect their own content, platform, applications, systems, and networks, so it's by choice. AWS manages the regions, availability zones, and age locations. While AWS manages security of the cloud, security in the cloud is the responsibility of the customer. Let's go through some common areas where people tend to get tripped up. Data at rest and in transit is the responsibility of the customer. Yes, it's easy to assume that, because AWS manages the infrastructure, they should surely manage security of your data at rest and in-transit, right? Well, customer data is the responsibility of the customer. AWS does not audit or read data volumes. 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AWS provides machine images and they go to great lengths to ensure that those images have the latest patches, and security ciphers, etc., but once you provision and start that machine image, it becomes your responsibility to keep it patched and secure. AWS provides services like security groups, and network access control lists, however you also need to consider running firewall appliances to protect those servers from the public domain. Platform and application management is the responsibility of the customer. AWS provides a secure platform, however, it is our responsibility to ensure it stays that way. Any platform patch or update is your responsibility, unless you are running IDS, which is a managed service. AWS maintains things like Oracle, and SQL server patches, and versions for you. For abstracted services, such as Amazon S3, and Amazon Dynamo DB, AWS operates the infrastructure layer, the operating system, the platforms, and you access the in points to store and retrieve data. So, Amazon S3, and Dynamo DB are tightly integrated with IAM, and you are responsible for managing your data, and for using IAM tools to apply access control level type permissions to individual resources at the platform level. All permissions based on user identity, or user responsibility, at the IAM user or group level. For Amazon S3, you can also use platform provided decryption of data at rest, or platform provided HTTPS encapsulation, to protect data in transit, to and from the servers. Now, platform compliance, data encryption at rest, and in transit, auditing tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS config enable detective controls inside of that. Imagine you operate a web application in one AWS region. The application runs on an auto scaled layer of EC two instances, and you have an RDS multi-AZ database. Your IT security compliance officer wants evidence we have a reliable and durable logging solution to track changes made to our EC two dot IAM, and to our RDS resources. Setting up CloudTrail logging to an Amazon S3 bucket could achieve this level of reporting for us. Amazon CloudTrail can provide deep visibility into API calls, including who, what, when, and from where any calls were made. We can also define log aggregation options, to streamline investigations and compliance reporting. We can then configure Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the incoming log entries for any desired symbols or messages, and to surface the results as CloudWatch metrics. Using CloudTrail logs, we could track the invalid user messages, so that we could see how often spiritless login attempts were made against any instance. To do this we could first request the list of log groups, selecting the stream, and clicking on create metric filter. 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__label__cc	0.738264	0.261736	Archives – Index CSAAM Partners The Mentions CSA Awareness Month Keep your Children safe CSA Survivor Story – 2. This is probably the first time that I have decided to pen my story of abuse and relive those moments. It’s time. I was probably seven years old when it all started. It was my cousin who was ten years older to me. The first instance of me feeling something strange happening, was during this particular family gathering. We were all sleeping next to each other and he slept next to me. He was touching my private body part and I felt really uncomfortable. It just didn’t feel right. It felt ugly. I was so damn scared, but I really didn’t know what to do. I changed places, but he still followed me. I wonder how anyone didn’t notice it back then. Was it really possible? The abuse continued. It would happen every time the extended family came together, which was during festivals, public holidays and birthdays. What were fun times for the rest of the family was a torture for me. I just hated all that was happening to me. It was not nice. I can’t forget this particular instance where all of us had gone to the terrace to play and he under some pretext made me stay when all my cousins went away. He mounted me and started doing something. I kept crying Dada in pain (“Elder brother”) but it fell on deaf ears. What followed next was beyond my comprehension. Suddenly I felt wet. I couldn’t understand what it was. I think under extreme excitement he peed on me, and asked me to tell everyone I fell in a pool of water. I wonder when I got over that sickening feeling. I wonder if I really have. All hell broke loose when I lost my father. Firstly, for the obvious reason that Dad, the most important person in my life, was no more. Secondly because, my aunt whose son this man was came to live with us to help my mom. There was nowhere I could run away. But a few years later I had become so used to the abuse that I probably also started to enjoy it. I don’t know what I enjoyed more, the male attention that I missed so much after my dad or really the act. The abuse grew in intensity and also the feeling within me that it was consensual. Though I would never go to him asking for it, it ceased to be an ugly experience as far as the physical feelings were concerned. But inside I was rotting. From a bright cheerful child, I became a dull and quiet introvert. I felt like a sinner. Dirty. I was always aware of this aspect of my life, always. Even when I was in school or with friends. I always thought in my head that none of my friends must have known or have experienced anything similar. I felt worthless. Unspecial. Always seeking approvals, always trying to win the good girl’s title. I started connecting to my abuser. I felt I liked him. Sometimes I felt his mannerisms were similar to my father. I also remember thinking that he was the smartest guy around. I tried to win him over by doing little things for him. He had become an important figure in my life. In between, he also got married. I remember being sad about it. I remember seeing the woman as competition. This went on for a while till one day; one of my cousins saw him doing something to me. She confronted me, and asked me what was happening between him and me. I told her the whole story. I still am not sure what she made out of it, but thanks to her decision of sharing the news to the world, the abuse stopped. Though the entire family now knew about it and thought I was involved in it, the abuse stopped. It took me another 5-6 years to deal/comprehend with what happened with me. Initially, I carried the “I am dirty and now no one will marry me” syndrome. I was sinking. I slipped into depression and was suicidal. I also decided the day I will end my life. I really had no one whom I could talk about it, not even my mom. Especially not my mom, because subconsciously, I hold her responsible for whatever happened to me. I know that she knew the existence of this but denied it completely. She is a weak person when it comes to confronting reality. I can understand that. But how can someone be so weak that she endangers the safety and well-being of her own child?! I know of no species which does not act to protect its off-springs. I am saying all this because once when this abuser was involved in the act my mom walked in. She questioned me about what was happening. I was frightened. I spent the entire night next to her, feeling apologetic. But the next morning when she woke up she pretended as if nothing had happened. She said nothing to my predator. She let him be. She let him be around me. And much later after my cousin had blown the whistle, when she got to know about it, she acted as if it was something she was completely unaware about. Shethen fought with everyone who dared to say it was consensual. She fought for my respect, my pride. But for me it was a lost battle. I still haven’t asked my mom why she let me go through all this, but I love my mom far too much to do this to her. She in every other sense has been a perfect mother, but probably failed when it came to parenting. I still haven’t forgiven her, but I can never cease to love her. Being a victim of sexual abuse changes you completely. It changed how I viewed relationships. It changed my notions of physical proximity between two people. It made me a far more sensitive person than I ever wanted to be. It made me feel powerless almost in all aspects of my life. Thankfully, I entered a discipline that helped me understand human behavior and also helped me do something about it. I am a counselling psychologist and a child rights activist. I work with an organization that works for juvenile justice and child protection. I strive to protect any and every child that I can from abuse. I do not want any child to be robbed of its childhood anymore. That man still exists. He has a family, with a daughter too. I have never confronted him directly for what he did to me. May be because till date I don’t believe it was entirely his fault. Till date I have not been able to accept myself that it was abuse. I still can’t forgive myself for enjoying any moment of it. I guess I was wrong when I wrote above that I have dealt with it, I am still dealing with the feeling of being abused. – Ankita. Category : SurvivorSpeak Tags : SurvivorSpeak ← Recognize Child Sexual Abuse by Desi Girl How soon is it to begin, discusses Kiran. → 43 thoughts on “CSA Survivor Story – 2.” Goofy Mumma on April 2, 2011 at 09:21 said: HUGS, big fat tight hugs. You know this sympathising with the abuser, guilt for the feeling of pleasure, is a torment many many victims carry for life. While I am not a full fledged counsellor like you, but I believe, when something becomes a part of life, and happens regularly, we normalise it, to survive it. Just as do many many victims of domestic violence. I strongly believe that to be the case with you too. And then as you grew up, to be an age, where your hormones surged, your physical sexuality began to develop, the situation had become completely expected and normal in your life, and it was the physical aspect of it that led to the feelings of ‘pleasure’. It happens even in cases of non-violent rape, like a boyfriend doing it without the girl really wanting it. Its a physical response, a very normal one to a stimulant. Just like we enjoy ice-creams even though in our mind we know its not a healthy thing to eat. The thing I believe for you Ankita, I believe is to understand that everything that happened was still against your will, and definitely WRONG, you were abused. In no and I mean no damn way are you wrong or guilty. That man is a perverted predator, with obviously no morals. And even if you cannot bring yourself to say it on his face, or getting him punished by law(which would a be a great idea I think), its important for you to understand that you are not at fault, not even in the smallest possible way. I wish i could talk it out with you, and explain my understanding of your situation better. But really you have nothing to feel guilty about, pain and sadness maybe, but please don’t bear any guilt! Sending loads of healing love to you! csaawarenessmonth on April 5, 2011 at 01:10 said: There is a great deal of wisdom in what you’ve said, GM. The guilt is one of the most corrosive scars every survivor carries. Diya Sen on April 2, 2011 at 11:31 said: There will always be a pain, my dear. I too have faced this, and although the man died in a gruesome accident, I still cannot understand how he could have done this to me, his own close relative, someone with whom he should have had a relationship of love and warmth. I could never come out with it, but the pain is still a dagger in my heart!No one has yet figured out how to deal with it. When the first mother stands up for her child, then and only then will we be vindicated! dipali on April 2, 2011 at 12:58 said: When the first mother stands up for her child, then and only then will we be vindicated! That is so true. In practically every case, the child feels more betrayed by the parents not confronting the abuser, than by the abuse itself. That is a recurring theme in the majority of the accounts, Dipali — the feeling of betrayal by the parents. We work towards creating a world in which our children do not have to carry this burden too. We are standing up now, Diya. Too late for some but we all hope it will help our children and their children too. bombaydosti on April 2, 2011 at 11:33 said: I have no words. This feeling of ‘am i wrong’ is the part every abuser makes use of. I am so glad you wrote about it. I hope moms and dads read this. I hope teenagers read this. I hope the world can stand up and say, its not your fault, when something like this happens. I cannot imagine the fight you would have gone through in your own family. I dont know what to say. Yesterday, I watched a movie named Hard Candy. It is the story of a fourteen year old who is out on a revenge on a pedophile. A dialogue in the movie stays with me, ” Just because a girl pretends to be a woman, does not mean that you make her do the things which a woman does” Its a must watch, to see how handsome and normal a pedophile can seem and how they can manipulate to make us feel, maybe it was our fault, after all! I hope you get over it, sweet. It was an abuse. Period. That quote is a very hard-hitting one, thanks. We have all known young people who tried to behave like they were older than their years but the fact remained that they were children at heart and this innocence must always be respected and protected. You were a powerless child when it began. There is no reason at all for you to feel guilty about having felt pleasure later on. This was a relationship forced upon you by that much older cousin, and perhaps abetted by your mother out of sheer weakness and fear of her circumstances . I am glad that you are working as a child rights activist. I wonder if confronting the man would provide catharsis: if it was pointed out to him that if it was his daughter being abused, how would he feel. He betrayed your entire family’s trust by his misdeeds . Just thinking aloud. It may be way too painful and he may try and load you with more unnecessary guilt. Live your life with joy, and take care. Thank you for those wise words, Dipali. Corinne Rodrigues on April 2, 2011 at 12:12 said: Dear dear Ankita – I’m sure you know in your mind that you are NOT wrong. I understand that it takes time for you to believe it though …a long process of healing and this sharing is another step in that direction. You are also so very special that you were able to direct your personal pain in to assisting others in similar situations. You are indeed brave and I applaud you. We all applaud her, thanks Corinne. the mad momma on April 2, 2011 at 12:15 said: Sometimes the way we deal with things is different to how we imagine we should. You’ve taken up child counselling. I’d see that as a step in the right direction. Stay strong. Know that you are not alone. These are huge traumas and we’ll never forget them. But we can forgive ourselves and work towards being stronger and happier. Hugs. Yes indeed. It takes a survivor to help another victim survive. Thanks, TMM. Writerzblock on April 2, 2011 at 12:27 said: I am speechless. That b***d took advantage of a child, and a child who has lost her father! HOW DARE HE? Why don’t you confront him? Maybe not in front of people, but don’t let him go so easy. You are a strong woman, Ankita. The fact that you could write about this itself shows how much courage you have in you. If nothing else, atleast making him face the fact and making him apologise, will help you to move on. I hope God hears our prayers. I hope you are able to confront him. There are more sadists like Ankita’s abuser walking around us. Perhaps if more of us spoke up they would dare a lot less. UmaS on April 2, 2011 at 15:31 said: I’ve no words Ankita…..if my hugs can make u feel better, here they are ((((hugs)))) !!! The sad part is when u dont understand that its abuse….I am able to understand that from ur story….I am glad u crossed all those thots of ending ur life and have made good in life. God Bless You. God bless all survivors, thanks Uma. swethaballa on April 2, 2011 at 16:41 said: It is just beyond me – how can someone have such perverted thoughts towards an innocent kid. It is really admirable that you are working as a child rights activist trying to protect other kids from an abuse you have been put through. You are definitely not guilty. I am sure if you had someone to turn to (like what you are doing now), you would have been able to deal with it better. It’s really sick that our supposed “relatives” are such immoral people and still we try to “be nice” to them under the pretext of social norms. It is incredible what is allowed to go on under the facade of ‘maintaining appearances’… Shilpa Garg on April 2, 2011 at 17:29 said: My heart goes out to you, Ankita. But must say, that you are a courageous lady and you must not at all feel guilty about it. I agree with Writerzblock, you must confront him, it would be emotionally cathartic for you and also it would be good to know how he’d react, if something like that happens (god forbid that though… CSA should never happen to ANY child) to his own daughter! It was indeed courageous of her to openly talk about her trauma and share it on such a public platform. Roop Rai on April 2, 2011 at 17:43 said: I agree with everyone else. You deserve applause for making the best out of your situation. Whatever happened was unfortunate but you didn’t let it completely break you down. You got up, put your life together and are living it! That requires courage and you have it. Good luck for your future too, ankita. You are meant for great things. Thank you for sharing this. We all applaud her for the strength and fortitude she has shown. Thanks Roop. Vandy on April 3, 2011 at 02:00 said: The saddest part is nobody can bring back those innocent childhood days back and undo those memories . hey Ankita U should let him know that how he has spoilt ur life .Blackmail him, torture him ,literally SPIT on him…and then forget that b…..d forever!! -Vandy One can never regain those innocent childhood days… Ankita has shown us however that it is possible to turn one’s life around through sheer grit and determination. Padma on April 3, 2011 at 09:00 said: Let me give you a big handshake for coming out with your story. It was very brave of you. It would definitely give moral strength to many others who have been through the experience. It is comforting to know that one is not alone and there is no reason to feel guilty or unworthy just because someone was sexually abused. i would not blame your mother for not taking up for you earlier than she did. Society is very cruel to women and she must have had her compulsions. A widowed woman is treated as if she is not supposed to open her mouth. She is afraid that the support she gets will be withdrawn. Put all that behind you and do your bit to help all those little girls who are going through the experience of sexual abuse. That is a valid point, Padma. Like Ankita, her mother too was vulnerable and we should keep that in mind before pointing fingers. Mamma Mia! Me a Mamma?!? on April 3, 2011 at 11:56 said: I agree with Dipali, Ankita. You were too young and vulnerable to understand what was happening to you. Then, as you grew up, the abuse assumed a level of normalcy in your life because of it’s frequency and because you were used to it due to its regularity. Hugs. Big, fat hugs. I too am a victim and while I know that you know now that it’s not your fault, somehow it doesn’t help. Those feelings of shame and revulsion don’t make that knowledge any easier. I often fantasise about confronting my abusers. Do you think you could confront yours? We hope you can indeed confront them one day, M4. Ankita, you are on the path of recovery. The trauma is huge and it’s not easy to let go. You have been very courageous. We hope you stop holding yourself responsible for what happened. It’s totally heart wrenching to know you are working as a child right activist. If together we can save children from these monsters we will all be vindicated. Our prayers are with you. We hope you let go of the past and start afresh. wondernoon on April 4, 2011 at 04:06 said: I cannot imagine the torment you went through and are still going through. Life is so unfair. I wish your mother had stopped this. Women are as it is made to feel insignificant in so many families in subtle ways. And with your dad gone she must have felt so powerless in her own way. What is your aunt stopped supporting you all – she must have been scared. I don’t know. I just don’t get it. Feel like pulling a dagger and thrusting it into these slimy men who do this to innocent kids. It is so cowardly and cheap. How do they treat their own daughters? Life has a way of punishing them in their own way. I think, I hope. I feel so bad for what you went through. It was heart breaking to read. It was so candid that it was wrenching. The mixed emotions and the guilt and the confusion. I am so sorry for what you went through. I pray for you to come to terms with it if that is even possible for such victims of abuse. I don’t believe one can ever really come to terms with it fully. I hope you are having a happy life otherwise…wish you the best. We women can be our own worst enemies, being the harshest on our daughters and nieces. It comes from a sense of inferiority engendered since birth and it is up to us to not let our children, nieces and nephews grow up with it. Suburban Mumma on April 4, 2011 at 11:28 said: OMG!Ankita! My heart goes out to you!!I am soo soo sorry you had to go thru this. And I so agree with Dipali,the day the first mother stands up for her child,that is the day,we will see some breakthrough! Gosh!I cannot believe the B****d could actually do this to a child who has just lost her father..Such people should really be given a public trial and left to the public to be dealt with! All these abusers should be tried in public. Named and shamed with photographs disseminated to their homes, workplaces and leisure areas. Jo on April 4, 2011 at 11:40 said: Ankita Dear– I can so relate with you, Hats off to you for coming out with your story. I wish your mother had confronted the predator. Having gone through a similar incident. I can very well understand what you have been through. They say Nature and Life has a way of taking care of things if we just let time take care of it….I am sure Abuse is something no one can ever come out of fully, but by sharing your pain through this blog it must have eased the pain a bit. Wishing you all the best in life… Try and push this part of your dark phase right in the darkest closet of your mind…. Thats what I have done . Thank you for your forthrightness, Jo. We wish you the very best for your future, too. lubaina kothawala on April 4, 2011 at 15:35 said: god give u strength n may god give u a man who will love u against all odds even if ur cousin if he has not faced any problems here,on earth he will before he dies.Iwas in tears with ur story n really like to hug u. It is up to us Lubaina to create a world in which predators find it more difficult to prey on our children. The change — like the predators — must come from within our society. nolongeraslave on April 5, 2011 at 08:39 said: Oh, Ankita-my heart goes out to you. I too was feeling alone and disgusted by orgasming at my father’s sexual abuse. But, it’s normal to feel pleasure and bond with the abuser. The above posters are right that normalizing it is what helps you survive. Some abuse survivors even feel bad or abandoned when the abuser stops the abuse, because we’re conditioned that sex means we’re being loved. It’s astounding that you are now a psychologist helping others in pain. It’s brave to share your story, but also brave to show that you triumped a dark stage of your life. It is indeed brave of her to share such a shattering story. Punam J R on April 17, 2011 at 19:24 said: How so horrible that this happened to you, Ankita, and no where were you to be held responsible because I am sure you understand that this started in an age that was tender and when you did not know what was going on. Then you gradually became used to it. Maybe in some way, when your mum chose to ignore it, you felt it was justified.. maybe. But please help yourself ease out of it, because it was a play on your mind (and body) but you had no say in it. It angers me to read your story. How he could have carried on such a thing for so long!! BUT you have chosen your path. You have chosen to protect others who are facing similar circumstances. We are proud of you and the cause you work for now. csaawarenessmonth on April 18, 2011 at 15:29 said: Punam: Yes, the fact that Ankita has channelled her traumatic experience into something that helps other CSA victims is very inspirational. Grab this code to display the logo on the side bar https://csaawarenessmonth.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/batch-code-txt.docx A word of Caution Readers are advised that the contents of this blog may not be appropriate for children. Parental discretion is advised in this context. 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__label__wiki	0.987705	0.987705	Weekend At The Movies This Month In Film Inna De Yard DVD Review The Runaways Review The best misfits, outsiders and nerds from across TV and Film Best TV shows of 2019: Fleabag, Chernobyl, On My Block and more 18 best TV characters of 2019: Klaus Hargreeves, Nadia Vulvokov, Jim Hopper and more Gabrielle Aplin – Dear Happy Review Laneway Festival 2020 Preview DeWolff – Tascam Tapes Review Book Review: The Colour Of The Sky After Rain by Tessa Keswick Book Review: Infinity Son by Adam Silvera Book Review: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Author Guest Post Stage & Culture TV News Roundup: The Walking Dead Spinoff & Childhood’s End Adaptation Announced Rosy Deacon September 8, 2014 FeaturedTVTV News Hunt or be hunted. Those are the words emblazoned on the brand new artwork for the new season of The Walking Dead, which is set to return later this year. The fifth season will comprise of sixteen episodes, once again shown in two parts, and will pick up shortly after last year’s cliffhanger which saw Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his fellow survivors trapped in a train car. AMC also announced a spinoff series is in the works, which would look at events following the zombie apocalypse in other parts of the world. Syfy has ordered a six part mini series of Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, adapted by Matthew Graham (Life on Mars). Childhood’s End tells the story of an alien invasion of Earth which results in the gradual loss of human identity. David Howe, Syfy President, said of the project, “the powerful themes of Childhood’s End, from the fearsome price of peace and prosperity, to the very question of what constitutes a human being, remain fascinating and timeless”. Check out the trailer for Sky1’s newest series The Last Ship starring Eric Dane (Grey’s Anatomy) and Rhona Mitra (Strike Back). Created by Hank Steinberg (Without a Trace) and Steven Kane (The Closer), and based on the novel by William Brinkley, it follows the crew of a US navy ship in the aftermath of a deadly outbreak that has decimated the rest of the world. Netflix has announced that its original series Hemlock Grove will return for a third and final season. Showrunner Charles Eglee said of the renewal, “We are delighted that our fans have invited us back to explore the fiendish recesses of the human condition for another season. Knowing it will be our last gives us the opportunity to go out in a mushroom cloud of clever and soul shattering mayhem. See you soon on the twisted streets of Hemlock Grove”. Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Cranford) have been cast in ITV’s upcoming WWII drama, Home Fires. The six-part series tells the story of a group of “inspirational women” in a Cheshire village as the war sees them separated from their husbands, brothers and sons and they are forced to band together in order to survive. It has been written by Simon Block (Lewis) and also stars Ed Stoppard (Upstairs Downstairs), Ruth Gemmell (Utopia), Mark Bonnar (Line of Duty) and Claire Rushbrook (My Mad Fat Diary). There’s lots of great TV returning to our screens in the next few weeks, so get these dates in your diary: Sleepy Hollow will return to the Universal Channel for its second season, from 9pm on Wednesday 15th This season sees the addition of Sakina Jaffrey (House of Cards) and Matt Barr (Hatfields & McCoys) to the cast. The Vampire Diaries spinoff, The Originals will premiere its second season from 10pm on Tuesday 14th October on Syfy UK. HBO drama The Leftovers, created by Damon Lindelof (Lost) will have its UK premiere on Sky Atlantic from 9pm on Tuesday 16th. Bad Education will return to BBC Three from 10pm on Tuesday 16th September, for its third season. Jack Thorne’s (The Fades) new E4 series Glue will premiere at 10pm on Monday 15th. bad educationchildhood's endgluehemlock grovehome firesnetflixsleepy hollowthe last shipthe leftoversthe originalsthe walking dead TV News Roundup: First look at The Last Panthers Rosy Deacon September 27, 2015 Black Mirror Season 3, Episode 3 – ‘Shut Up and Dance’ Review Jerome Cox-Strong October 25, 2016 Walker Stalker Con London 2018 Review Natalie Xenos and Lynnette Rivera March 14, 2018 TV News Roundup: FX Teases Fargo Season 2 Natalie Xenos June 19, 2015 The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 13 Review Jerome Cox-Strong March 10, 2015 BoJack Horseman Season 1 Review Tom Morgan August 25, 2014 More Reviews, News & Features © Culturefly 2017	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4516
__label__cc	0.514262	0.485738	Technology / Semiconductors Canadian Solar Inc. Canadian Solar Inc. is a publicly traded company that manufactures solar PV modules and provides turn-key solar energy solutions. Quick facts about Canadian Solar Inc. Number of locations Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Africa, India, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Korea, Australia, the United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Brazil, Panama, Turkey, United Kingdom, South Africa, Vietnam, Indonesia Photovoltaic modules, Photovoltaic systems Renewable energy, Photovoltaics industry Dr. Shawn Qu, Chairman and CEO Guelph (Ontario), Canada Net Promoter Score for Top Brands compared with Canadian Solar Inc. Is Canadian Solar Inc.'s estimated NPS of 3 considered to be good? The industry average for Technology / Semiconductors is 0. Consider an example: If Canadian Solar Inc. sends out NPS surveys immediately after purchase, they are tracking their customers' initial excitement and the checkout experience. Therefore, comparing the NPS score of Canadian Solar Inc. with your own without any further context is not that useful. Other companies with Net Promoter Score similar to Canadian Solar Inc. U.S. Bank Financial Services / Banking 3 Discovery Channel Consumer Brands / Entertainment 4 Super 8 Travel and Hospitality / Hotels 4 Total Fitness Other 4 We have estimated the Net Promoter Score of Canadian Solar Inc. based on the publicly available information	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4518
__label__wiki	0.87038	0.87038	Third Eye Blind Tour Dates 2020 Mar 11, 2020 - Jul 23, 2020 Third Eye Blind announce 'Screamer' tour Veteran rockers Third Eye Blind have announced a fall 2019 tour across America behind their next album 'Screamer'. The 17-date trek takes place in November visiting cities like Richmond, Orlando, Grand Rapids, Peoria, Oklahoma City and Reno. Joining the tour in support will be special guests Smallpools. The band recently joined forces with Jimmy Eat World for another version of their Summer Gods Tour along with Ra Ra Riot. UPDATE: Tour dates have been extended into 2020 making additional stops in Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, New York and Washington, DC. The new shows will be joined by special guests Saves the Day. Third Eye Blind released their sixth studio album 'Screamer' on October 18th, 2019 via Mega Collider. The new album follows up 2015's 'Dopamine' which reached #13 on the Billboard 200 and was their first since 2009's 'Ursa Major'. Back in 2017, the band's Summer Gods Tour celebrated the 20th anniversary of their self-titled debut album which was certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA. The prior year, they launched a major U.S. tour with support from Dashboard Confessional. Third Eye Blind Concert Schedule The Showbox - Seattle, WA Mar 11, 2020 \| Wed 8:00 pm Mar 12, 2020 \| Thu 8:00 pm Fox Theater - Oakland - Oakland, CA The Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA Mon 8:00 pm Mar 16, 2020 \| Mon 8:00 pm The Van Buren - Phoenix, AZ Mar 17, 2020 \| Tue 8:00 pm The Mission Ballroom - Denver, CO Uptown Theater - KC - Kansas City, MO The Sylvee - WI - Madison, WI Riviera Theatre - IL - Chicago, IL Mar 22, 2020 \| Sun 7:30 pm House Of Blues - Boston - Boston, MA The Fillmore - Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA Radio City Music Hall - New York, NY 2513 tickets left starting from $78.00 9:30 Club - Washington, DC Twin Cities Summer Jam - 3 Day Pass Canterbury Park - Shakopee, MN Jul 23, 2020 \| Time: TBA About Third Eye Blind Tour Albums Third Eye Blind arrived on the Alternative scene with the release of the album 'Semi-Charmed Life' released on June 17, 1997. The song 'Semi-Charmed Life' was instantly a fan favorite and made Third Eye Blind one of the newest emerging performers at that moment. Later on, Third Eye Blind released the most beloved album 'Third Eye Blind' which contains some of the most famous tracks from the Third Eye Blind catalog. 'Third Eye Blind' hosts the single 'Losing A Whole Year' which has been the most requested for fans to enjoy during the performances. Apart from 'Losing A Whole Year', most of other songs from 'Third Eye Blind' have also become sought-after as a result. A handful of Third Eye Blind's most beloved tour albums and songs are provided below. After 19 years since the release of 'Semi-Charmed Life' and having a massive impact in the industry, followers continue to gather to see Third Eye Blind in person to play favorites from the full collection. Third Eye Blind Tour Albums and Songs Third Eye Blind: Third Eye Blind Losing A Whole Year Semi-Charmed Life Jumper - 1998 Edit Graduate [Explicit] How's It Going To Be Third Eye Blind: Blue 10 Days Late Deep Inside of You 1000 Julys An Ode to Maybe The Red Summer Sun Farther Slow Motion (instrum... Third Eye Blind: A Collection Crystal Baller Forget Myself Can't Get Away Third Eye Blind: Rhino Hi-Five: Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind: Out of the Vein My Hit and Run Wake for Young Souls Palm Reader Self Righteous Third Eye Blind Concert Tour Questions & Comments Third Eye Blind Tour and Concert Ticket Information Third Eye Blind tour dates has finally been reported. Tour dates for Third Eye Blind can be found above. Tickets for the approaching Third Eye Blind concert are in stock. Concert schedules for all Third Eye Blind concerts are updated on a regular basis. Third Eye Blind may come to a city near you. Browse the Third Eye Blind schedule above and click the ticket link to checkout our big selection of tickets. Browse our selection of Third Eye Blind front row tickets, luxury boxes and VIP tickets. Once you find the Third Eye Blind tickets you need, you can purchase your tickets from our safe and secure checkout. Orders taken before 5pm are generally shipped within the same business day. To purchase last minute Third Eye Blind tickets, browse through the eTickets that can be downloaded instantly. Third Eye Blind Top Tour Album Seattle, WA Portland, OR Oakland, CA Los Angeles, CA San Diego, CA Phoenix, AZ Denver, CO Kansas City, MO Madison, WI Chicago, IL Royal Oak, MI Boston, MA Philadelphia, PA New York, NY Washington, DC Shakopee, MN	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4519
__label__cc	0.694871	0.305129	a solemn reminder Dec3 by Julie (aka Cookie) Time and tide wait for no man. (historic marker / Savannah, GA / Julie Cook / 2019) Perhaps this is an odd place for an early morning stroll but Colonial Cemetary in Savannah is both a peaceful and serene place to wander… Not only are there tabby lined paths that weave throughout this rather massive burial place, but there are also beautifully majestic ancient oaks veiled in the otherworldly ethereal Spanish moss which cast dancing shadows across the landscape of an otherwise eerily still and silent place … All of which adds to the allure of this surreal and tranquil place. It is a place steeped in centuries-old history. (tabby path / Savannah, GA / Julie Cook / 2019) The stories and lives of the known as well as the unknown. Folks who had come from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Poland, Germany… Most of who had come pre-Revolutionary War and who have since each found a resting place in this protected piece of land, in a country they would each come to call home. A Declaration of Independence bears many of their names just as do state counties. State colleges have named buildings in their honor as we remember both the heroic and the notorious. From Today in Georgia History: August 2, 1776- Statewide Georgia joined The United States on August 2, 1776, the same day that Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. The declaration was approved on July 4, but signed by only one man that day, John Hancock. Fifty other delegates to the 2nd Continental Congress signed on August 2. Later that year, five more brought the total to 56. Eight of the signers, including Gwinnett, were foreign-born. One was Roman Catholic, a handful were deists and the rest were Protestants. They all went on to lives of public service in the republic they founded: there were two future presidents, three vice presidents, two Supreme Court justices, and many congressmen, diplomats, governors, and judges among them. In 1818, 14 years after Georgia’s last signer died, Georgia named counties in their honor. Charles Carroll of Maryland, the last of all the signers left, died in 1832 at the age of 95, but their revolutionary idea of a self-governing free people lives on. The experiment they began remains unfinished, as it was on August 2, 1776, Today in Georgia History. (Colonial Cemtetary / Savannah, GA / Julie Cook / 2019) The cemetery, no matter how many times I find myself wandering, affords me new discoveries hidden amongst the trees and mostly ignored by the abundant squirrels who call this park-like cemetery home. Numerous tiny graves now protect the innocent… some who are named, some who are not. Eternally protecting the mortal remains of those who were born only to quickly pass away— as they were born during a time when both birth and death walked hand in hand Some grave markers are elaborate—hand carvings which are each works of art while others remain plain and simple. Some markers offer kind and poetic words while others have lost all legibility to the passing of time. Names, dates, and lives seemingly washed away from both time and the elements. It is said that despite the iron fence that now encloses the cemetery, the buried actually extend yards beyond, extending outward into the city they called home. The city paved and built over many graves long before a permanent fence was erected. Even the office of the Archdiocese of Savannah is housed in an old colonial building that undoubtedly was built upon the graves of the unknown as recording details of those buried was not always a priority. Yellow fever victims are in a mass grave in a far corner of the cemetery while unknown Confederate and Union soldiers now spend eternity side by side. It is said that this is one of the most haunted places in the city… but yet this city boasts many an otherworldly spook and specter. I like to learn of the lives who have all gone before me. Those who lived in a time much different from my own and the similarities of lives lived are more alike than different. For we all live, love, hurt, suffer, laugh and cry…and each eventually die. Not so much different as we are still very much alike. And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV This entry was posted in Christian Spirituality, Creativity, Family, Gratitude, History, Inspiration, Nature, Transition, Travel and tagged alike, birth, Button Gwinnett, cemetery, change, Christianity, colonial, Colonial Cemetery, Confederate soldier, death, Declaration of Independence, different, Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV, England, Faith, Family, famous, France, George Walton, Georgia, God, Grace, gratitude, grave markers, haunted, History, Hope, Innocent, Ireland, Jesus, life, love, Lyman Hall, nature, notorious, Peace, Philadelphia, photography, Poland, prayer, presidents, Protestants, reminder, Roman Catholics, Savannah, Scotland, serene, solemn reminder, spanish moss, spook, Supreme Court justices, tabby, The Archdiocese of Savannah, time, Today in Georgia History, tranquil, tranquility, Transition, Travel, truth, Union soldier, Vice Presidents, Wales, wandering, yellow fever. ← ‘unthankful day’??? what comes from the Spirit → 12 comments on “a solemn reminder” a solemn reminder — cookiecrumbstoliveby \| Talmidimblogging says: […] via a solemn reminder — cookiecrumbstoliveby […] The photographs are inspiring. I, like you, have a strong conviction about preserving our history – even and especially our cemeteries. There is literally year of history buried there. Buried all over this nation of ours— and each burial has a history and a story!!! scatterwisdom says: Excelland points and a reminder of wisdom. I have visited the same cemetery and heartily can relate with you comments. It is a must see to anyone who visits Savana in my opinion. Regards and goodwill blogging. Thanks Rudy— Bonaventure cemetery is equally as lovely and steeped in history— larger and a bit more grand but I just seem more drawn to Colonial cemetery What a cool place Julie, I’d love to visit it sometime! We share a common interest in perusing old graves and wondering about the lives of those that inhabit them. History is so so fascinating and more than a little bit humbling too. you’d love it Tricia–I bet we were Mayflower buds 🙂 I like that notion that our history can be humbling…I think younger generations need more history lessons (those that have not been altered) as humbling is much needed in our current culture. I bet we were Mayflower buds too! 🙂 I, also, have felt the impact of seeing a grave stone marked with the (name of the mother) and “baby” – a likely memorial to the a mother and child who did not survive the birth process. Another grave marked the resting place of a baby who died at one year with a grave next to him that held a baby one year later. So many stories can be assumed while walking through a cemetery. I’m glad it all in God’s hands. And that this cycle of life and death will end. I know that most of those “dearly departed” are indeed with the Lord—but our burden on earth remians heavy as we deal with our various losses…yes…one day there will be no more death, no more loss, no more tears or sorrow— So much history….	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4527
__label__wiki	0.920156	0.920156	Andrew George to head up Cornwall CLT An audience of business and community leaders were at the Eden Project on 2 July for the launch of a £250,000 share issue by Cornwall Community Land Trust (Cornwall CLT) and learned that the organisation’s new leader would be former St Ives MP Andrew George. Cornwall CLT’s Chairman Phil Randall announced the share launch – aimed at providing working capital to increase Cornwall CLT’s output of affordable homes for local people – and at the same time welcomed Andrew to the company’s team. Speaking about his appointment Andrew said “securing decent and genuinely affordable homes for local families is the most pressing challenge for Cornwall and the Scillies. Although Cornwall is one of the fastest growing places in the UK – doubling its housing stock in forty years – the housing problems of locals have got significantly worse. What we need is for communities and charities like the Cornwall Community Land Trust to do more.” “It’s an honour to be asked to take on such an important role and with a charity with such a strong national reputation. I look forward to the challenge of maintaining the excellent work that Alan Fox, Helen Downing and the Board have already initiated since 2006.” At the event Phil Randall also praised Cornwall CLT’s founding director Alan Fox for his hard work and dedication in establishing Cornwall CLT in 2006 and making it one of the most successful CLT’s in England. He announced that Alan would be retiring at the end of July but would remain on Cornwall CLT’s Board in a voluntary capacity as Company Secretary. Andrew George with our chairman Phil Randall Photo credit: P. Tremewan, Cornwall Rural Community Charity	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4530
__label__wiki	0.907516	0.907516	Finding Life after Debt An acquisition saves a software company from crushing leverage. ApplicationsBankruptcyCapital Markets Acquisitions have killed many companies, but Infor may be one of the few saved by one. Leveraged to the hilt two years ago, the company, which makes enterprise-resource-planning software, has returned from the brink of a major restructuring. A merger with fellow ERP software vendor Lawson Software, combined with an injection of equity capital, was the key factor in Infor’s revival. “I think a lot of people thought the endgame would be bankruptcy or some kind of negotiated restructuring with existing lenders,” says Infor CFO Kevin Samuelson. But Infor avoided that outcome. How did Infor get so deep into debt? In 2006, it was a four-year-old company owned by private-equity firm Golden Gate Capital and humming along at a good clip. But that year it spent $2.5 billion on acquisitions in a short period of time. The credit markets had opened up to software firms, recalls Samuelson; “the debt was incredibly inexpensive, and we could get as much as we wanted.” So Infor went from financing acquisitions almost entirely with equity to “a more traditional leveraged-buyout-type capital structure,” he says. The company’s pro forma leverage after the 2006 deals was 6.5 times EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization). Then the economy nose-dived, and Infor suffered large declines in EBITDA and profits, pushing its leverage to 10 times EBITDA. Although servicing debt was never an issue, “the ability to refinance debt certainly at anything approaching 10 times was off the table,” says Samuelson. By December 2010, Infor had a new management team and profits were growing again. But that didn’t solve the capital-structure problem: Infor was still more than nine times leveraged. The company considered several options for right-sizing its capital structure and chose one true to its history: acquire a company that Infor and Golden Gate could “overequitize” and combine with Infor to bring leverage levels down, Samuelson says. Lawson to the Rescue Publicly held Lawson Software, with $800 million in revenues, had the scale to help fix Infor’s capital structure. But a take-private transaction for Lawson still would not have brought Infor’s leverage down to a level that was “palatable in the capital markets,” says Samuelson. And as the company was trying to close the deal in 2011, the earthquake in Japanese occurred and the euro-zone crisis flared up, making the debt markets difficult again. As a result, Golden Gate Capital financed the $2 billion Lawson unsolicited takeover separately and kept the company a stand-alone entity. But the PE firm eventually combined the companies this year, after it and Summit Partners kicked in $1 billion of new equity. Infor used $600 million of that sum to pay down debt. At the same time, Infor obtained a $3.4 billion first-lien bank loan and raised $1.9 billion in a public bond issue, one of the largest post-credit-crunch refinancings in high tech. Those transactions lowered the leverage of the combined Infor-Lawson to 6.5 times EBITDA. The addition of Lawson’s cash flow also helped. Infor now has a window of six years before any meaningful maturities and $350 million to $400 million of free cash flow after debt service. The company is now looking to spend heavily in international markets in the next 18 months, and going public is also on its radar screen. “With the proceeds of an [initial public offering], we could pay down debt and get to a more normalized public-company debt level,” says Samuelson. For Infor, at least, there is life after debt. Bridging the divide between IR and PR Apple's stock falls with new Trump tariff looming Microsoft's market value briefly surpasses Apple Energy companies lose combined value of $1 trillion in 40 days Apple lose $40bn as "peak iPhone" fear infects investors Why cybersecurity is the new priority for CFOs Apple's value dips below $1 trillion mark despite high revenues Facebook saturated in developed countries claims Zuckerberg Amazon loses $250bn one month after becoming a $1 trillion company Samsung warns of weaker earnings despite record growth Spotify's stock hits new low Qualcomm demands $7bn from Apple as legal battle escalates IBM to acquire Red Hat for record-breaking $34bn Amazon shares plummet as Microsoft overtakes it as the second largest company Apple Watch driving huge growth in wearable heart monitoring devices Finance At BeyondCore	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4535
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__label__cc	0.714777	0.285223	« F-5A upgrade proposal Characteristics of aircraft types » How to reduce fighter aircraft costs Posted by picard578 on May 15, 2015 There are three basic principles of fighter aircraft cost reduction: keep it small keep it single However, they are not the only relevant issues; others will be adressed here as well. Empty weight is a major factor in aircraft’s cost, since higher empty weight (larger aircraft) means more materials used as well as more man hours of work to build it. Thus smaller aircraft are also cheaper, assuming identical technology level. Further, smaller aircraft use less fuel and have lower operating costs. Keeping aircraft smaller will also improve its air combat ability, as it will improve ability to achieve surprise as well as transient performance, which is crucial for outmaneuvering the opponent. This should be true for both development and the final product. Design group should have one person overseeing the process, and one engineer for every area (reliability engineer instead of group dedicated to reliability, for example). It should be small enough so that all people in the group can effectively work together at a single place. Management should be hands-off, so that once design goals have been provided in broad outlines, neither the military or upper levels of the company interfere with the design process. Military in particular should only define what weapon should do in broad outlines, and leave it to company to decide on how weapon will achieve these goals. Formalization during process should be minimized – military should get the same data, and in the same format, as the design group, and it shouldn’t go through approval cycles. This is a key factor in keeping the aircraft simple while achieving adequate effectiveness. Fighter aircraft should be single-role, single-engined and single-seat (except for training variants). It should also be designed for a single service, and then adapted for other service(s) if at all possible. Typically, multirole aircraft cost as much as all the types they are replacing placed together (unless there is an overlap in capabilities between said types). This is because multirole aircraft have to carry far more extensive sensor and avionics suite and have to fit more requirements than single-role ones. An air superiority fighter is ideally small, single-engined, with either no or a small radar, as well as good cockpit visibility and passive sensors suite. Ground attack aircraft can vary in size from small to extremely large, depending on role and requirements. They tend to have two engines, large total fuel capacity, a ground-following radar, and limited cockpit visibility. As a result of combining the requirements for two, a multirole aircraft tends to be of either medium or large sized, twin engined, with extensive sensors suite including radar and good cockpit visibility. Only exceptions from this rule aire aircraft that were designed for air superiority and then adapted for ground attack (F-16) or were primarily air superiority aircraft used by countries where range was not as much of an issue (Gripen). In both cases however there are still clear sacrificies made for the ground attack performance (increased weight and cost in the F-16s case, sacrificed rearward visibility in Gripen’s case). Single engine helps reduce cost in several ways. Single-engined fighters are more amiable to area ruling, which means that they tend to have less drag and thus lower fuel consumption. This can also lead to reduced size, weight and thus procurement cost as well. Further, a single engine tends to have greater thrust-to-drag ratio than two engines producing equal amount of thrust, which leads to further improvement in fuel efficiency. Maintenance downtime required is also lower. All of this leads to single-engined fighters having significantly lower direct operating cost than twin-engined fighters (7.000 USD for F-16C vs 16.500 USD for Rafale C. Note that Rafale C has 11% greater empty weight, 28% more dry thrust, yet costs 2,36 times as much to operate as the F-16C. F-15C costs 30.000 USD to operate (or 4,3 times as much), yet has 48% greater empty weight and 52% more dry thrust compared to the F-16C). When designing an aircraft meant for multiple services, best way is for it to make sure that it fits naval requirements. All successful multi-service aircraft – F-4, F-18, Rafale – were designed as naval aircraft and then adopted into air forces (YF-17 was designed for USAF, but the F-18 was designed for naval use from the beginning). Reason for this is that carrier aircraft have to fit far more strigent criteria in terms of size, airframe strength, corrosion resistance, landing gear design and cockpit visibility. In terms of airframe strength, naval aircraft use safety factor of 1,85 compared to 1,5 for ground-based aircraft, meaning that they need stronger airframe for same operational g limits. For example, F-18 has an ultimate load limit of 13,6 g. USN F-18s are limited to 7,33 g compared to 9 g for Finnish F-18s. Rafale has an ultimate load limit of 16,65 g. While both AdlA and Aeronavale Rafales are limited to 9 g during normal operations, only AdlA Rafales have an override function that allows them to pull up to 11,1 g in flight (and this is regularly done without shortening airframe life). Corrosion resistance is an issue for naval aircraft because they spend entire service life in very humid conditions. While some land-based aircraft may also face rather humid conditions in tropical countries, naval aircraft also have to withstand salt. Landing gear is also more problematic issue for naval aircraft. It has to be strong enough to withstand stresses of rough carrier landings. This also means that it should be located in the body to relieve wings from stress. However, distance between main wheels should be large enough to provide a safe overturn angle (25* or more). Placement also has to allow for sufficient tail clearance during landing in spite of typically higher landing AoA than is the case with land-based aircraft, as well as room to install a sufficiently strong tail hook. Out-of-cockpit visibility must also be good. In addition to standard requirement for providing 360* horizontal visibility, naval fighter also has to have excellent over-the-nose and over-the-side visibility to facilitate a safe approach and landing. All of this will lead to higher production cost for an air force variant than would otherwise be the case, but will also mean significantly lower R&D costs. Production cost increase may also be compensated by having a significantly greater production run. Start from the weapon This is one of reasons for why aircraft should be single-role. When designing an aircraft, one should always consider what weapons will it use and how will it use them. This means that designs for air superiority aircraft – using gun and air-to-air missiles – will be very different from those for ground attack aircraft, which typically carry bombs and missiles far fatter and less aerodynamic than air-to-air missiles are. If done properly, however, it will reduce cost of both design, weapons integration and testing, and will lead to improved performance in aircraft’s role. Use off the shelf components Using off the shelf components where acceptable would reduce development time and costs, since not only some systems will not have to be developed, but some factors influencing the end design may also be known. For example, using an existing engine – even if planning for a future uprated variant of the same, or a completely new design of similar dimensions – will automatically point to some design and performance parameters. Using an existing gun means that some issues – concerning size and weight of a weapon as well as possible vibration issues – can be known before the design process even starts. Optimize the production Optimization of the production line also plays part in the cost of a fighter aircraft. Typically, cost falls the longer the aircraft is in production. This decrease is comparably small for modern fighters but in large numbers can lead to significant total savings. Entire aircraft should be produced in one place, so that any errors in production can be fixed as soon as possible. This entry was posted on May 15, 2015 at 10:00 am and is filed under spending. Tagged: cost, fighter aircraft, price, reduction. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 28 Responses to “How to reduce fighter aircraft costs” Chris said The issue right now is that technology, people management, and everything else is not the bottleneck. The big bottleneck right now is that the defense industry likes the status quo because they can get fat off of it. That being said, this project management set of guidelines seems to be very similar to that of computer programming – Scrum for example. Massive teams are counterproductive. “The big bottleneck right now is that the defense industry likes the status quo because they can get fat off of it.” Agreed. And it actually reinforces itself – big design teams are forced on by technological complexity, but they only serve to make both management and design even more complex, which leads to delays and additional costs. Which is what industry wants. Reading this reminded me of the justification behind the rationale for the FW-190 design: The Messerschmitt 109 [sic] and the British Spitfire, the two fastest fighters in world at the time we began work on the Fw 190, could both be summed up as a very large engine on the front of the smallest possible airframe; in each case armament had been added almost as an afterthought. These designs, both of which admittedly proved successful, could be likened to racehorses: given the right amount of pampering and easy course, they could outrun anything. But the moment the going became tough they were liable to falter. During World War I, I served in the cavalry and in the infantry. I had seen the harsh conditions under which military equipment had to work in wartime. I felt sure that a quite different breed of fighter would also have a place in any future conflict: one that could operate from ill-prepared front-line airfields; one that could be flown and maintained by men who had received only short training; and one that could absorb a reasonable amount of battle damage and still get back. This was the background thinking behind the Focke-Wulf 190; it was not to be a racehorse but a Dienstpferd, a cavalry horse. Ernst Udet was critical in particular of the Bf109. Views on visibility: “From my own flying experience, I knew how important it was for a fighter pilot to have the best possible all-around view, and we decided to fit a large frameless bubble canopy to the new fighter. Later, these became very fashionable, but in 1938 the idea was something of an innovation. He did predict the increase in the rise in mass over time of planes as well, so he built that into the design: For the design weight and estimated landing speed of the prototype aircraft, we calculated that the undercarriage should withstand a sinking speed of 2.5 meters/second [8.5 ft./sec.] to be sufficient. But if the aircraft was developed [over time], its maximum speed, weight and landing speed would all increase. That would result in considerably higher forces on the undercarriage during landing. So in the original stress calculations, we allowed for a sinking speed not of 2.5 m/sec. but of 4.5 m/sec. [15 ft./sec.]. And then we designed the undercarriage to be strong enough to take that. The move paid off. During its life, the maximum loaded weight of the Fw 190 rose from 2.75 tons to more than twice that figure, but with few changes, the undercarriage remained adequate. I have used the undercarriage as an example, but in fact several parts of the original structure were a great deal stronger than the minimum necessary. They used very wide landing gear for that reason. Add to that the fact that FW-190, while not the best turner, had better transient performance than Me-109, and it could be said to have been the best Luftwaffe fighter of the war. The Fw-190 I remember did have high wing loading, so turn rate was not as good. Out of curiosity, what fighter did have the best transient performance in WWII? I’d presume that would be the top fighter. Either FW-190 or P-51, I think, but I’m not certain. I know that P-38 and Me-110 were among the worst. The big takeaway from this is that the Fw-190 was developed by someone who had seen war, who knew what lessons had to be learned, and who tried to apply those lessons. It seems to be the polar opposite of what the current status quo has become, which is a subsidiary for the defense industry. Another consideration is mass production – Chet Richards once noted that the best practices of civilian manufacturing were not going to go into fighters – for a number of different reasons. I think one that he did not elaborate on enough was that the status quo is “working” quite well for the defense industry. vyse said Picard, I have an issue against your idea that weapons like fighter aircraft should be single-role. Sure they can be better in their respective domain and at a lesser price. But… Life is never doing what we expected or wanted. And war is even worsening that statement. From my experience in real life if you leave with a hammer, you’ll soon need a corkscrew. But had you left with a corkscrew, you’d need the hammer. Then if you had got yourself equiped with both a corkscrew and hammer, you’d definitly need a wrench. Didn’t you experience that? IMO I you’ve got attack planes on a forward base waiting for orders to blow up ennemy tanks, you can bet you’ll need them to intercept ennemy aircrafts, escort civilian planes, or do SAR, etc… Having several specialised aircrafts on said base would obviously limit capability for each possible mission too. Pilots would also either be specialised to one type of mission, or need to be qualified to fly several different types of fighters. In the end I believe a multi-purpose tool will always suck at doing what a purposely designed tool do, but at least it can help in every scenario. However this supose it is really credible in a large job-spectrum, and not just fat attack bird stamped with wishful “multirole” logo, ala F-35. But planes like Gripen, Rafale or modern F-16 are quite good bets in any case, whereas single role squadrons dispatchment would consist on risky gambles about future operational needs don’t you think? But you can have more aircraft. For cost of a single multirole fighter – which typically is nothing more than an air superiority fighter capable of carrying bombs and blowing up buildings – you can have an air superiority fighter plus a CAS fighter, providing far more versatility. Not to mention that pilots have to train, which means that aircraft should be easy to maintain and cheap to fly, and single-role aircraft, when properly designed, will be cheaper on both counts than multiroles. And even on multirole fighters, pilots tend to be specialized for one type of mission. In France e.g., single-seater Rafale pilots tend to focus on air superiority while twin seater crews focus on ground attack. So in effect you still have two groups of specialized aircraft. There are exceptions (single-seater pilots focusing on ground attack), but they’d still comparatively suck at what they train less at. In US, you have F-16C crews training for generalized ground attack (and a bit of air combat) and F-16J crews training for SEAD/DEAD. Aircraft themselves are also specialized, with one mission being primary and others an afterthought (Rafale and Gripen are primarily air superiority fighters, F-35 is primarily a ground attack aircraft). “Having several specialised aircrafts on said base would obviously limit capability for each possible mission too.” Depends. An aircraft designed for one type of ground attack missions can easily carry out other types as well. But I’m against designing aircraft for widely different types of missions (air superiority + ground attack, for example), as these mean compromises in primary mission and aircraft still won’t be able to really carry out its secondary mission as it should. “But planes like Gripen, Rafale or modern F-16 are quite good bets in any case, whereas single role squadrons dispatchment would consist on risky gambles about future operational needs don’t you think?” None of these can carry out effective close air support and battlefield interdiction. So since CAS pilots will have to train for ground attack anyway, and in specialized aircraft, why not leave them the whole spectrum of ground attack missions and leave air superiority to fighters designed for it? And considering lesser need for airbase maintenance and generally easier maintenance of single role fighters, you could easily afford two or three squadrons in place of one multirole. “But you can have more aircraft. ” True, but any base has a limit of how much planes it can handle, so in any case chosing single-role way is mostly dividing that number by the number of types you want to operate. In the end each specialised squadron is only fraction of the number potential you have with full multi-role fleet, although as we both recognize it’s more efficient and lest costly. Yes you have a big point here. But CAS is very special case. Leaving it aside, the whole pannel of missions achievable with said multi-roles aircrafts (Gripen, Raffale, F-16…) is comprising almost all you need. In case of Raffale, you don’t even need to change anything bar weapons before switching to AtA type from AtG, or even drowning sea targets, performing recon, etc. This have a strong impact on strategy as it allows pertinent reactions in lots of possible scenarios, which means ennemy will struggle to put you in a situation where you can’t react. I’m not really arguing that multi-role is paramount, I mostly agrees with the core of your reasoning (especially cost/efficiency ratio). I just think it much less straightforward than you put it, because tactical flexibility suffers from that choice. “True, but any base has a limit of how much planes it can handle” Indeed. But generally speaking, single role aircraft can be made smaller, lighter and more resillient, so you can operate them off dirt strips or road bases, which reduces base maintenance costs. And for the most important roles (close air support and tactical transport) you don’t have any choice but to go single-role, meaning that multirole aircraft will be carrying out single role missions most of the time anyway. “Leaving it aside, the whole pannel of missions achievable with said multi-roles aircrafts (Gripen, Raffale, F-16…) is comprising almost all you need.” But the most important missions – close air support and battlefield interdiction – are left out. And I would not have very narrow specialization, but rather specialistic design for a number of roles. For example, take a look at roles that aircraft I have proposed can carry out: FLX: air superiority, bomber interception, air recon, standoff jamming, communications jamming ALX: close air support, battlefield interdiction, SEAD, DEAD, air interdiction, low-altitude strike, maritime strike, air control, standoff jamming, communications jamming OLX: air control, COIN ops, close air support, battlefield interdiction In these cases, secondary roles naturally flow from aircraft’s primary role. They all have similar training and design requirements, so there are few compromises. Therefore, each of these aircraft can afford to be smaller, lighter and less complex than “true” multirole aircraft, and still be far more effective at every single role due to similar / reinforcing design requirements for these missions. This means that they will be cheaper, easier to maintain and more survivable than multirole aircraft as well. Now compare this with multirole aircraft: F-18: bomber interception, maritime strike, SEAD, DEAD, air interdiction, aerial reconnaissance, air superiority F-35: low-altitude strike, SEAD, DEAD, air interdiction, standoff jamming, communications jamming Gripen: air superiority, bomber interception, air recon, air interdiction, SEAD, DEAD, low-altitude strike, maritime strike, standoff jamming, communications jamming Rafale: air superiority, bomber interception, air recon, SEAD, DEAD, air interdiction, low-altitude strike, maritime strike, standoff jamming, communications jamming, nuclear strike Typhoon: bomber interception, air superiority, air recon, air interdiction, SEAD, DEAD, maritime strike, standoff jamming, communications jamming FLX would cost ~40 million USD, ALX ~10 million USD and OLX ~5 million USD, for a total of 55 million USD. Even with additional stuff (pods etc.) it won’t go past 70 million USD. Gripen C costs 45 million USD but is far more limited than FLX in terms of capability. F-18E costs 70 million USD, Rafale C costs 90 million USD, EF2000 costs 130 million USD, F-35A costs 145 million USD. Gripen NG, which would bring Gripen closer to the FLX in terms of capability (when it comes to air combat, anyway), may have unit flyaway cost of anywhere between 50 million and 120 million USD. In other words, for price of a single F-16C you can have 1 FLX, 1 ALX and 1 OLX. For price of a Rafale, you can have 1 FLX, 3 ALX and 4 OLX. For price of an EF2000, you can have 2 FLX, 3 ALX and 4 OLX, and for price of an F-35A you can have 2 FLX, 5 ALX and 3 OLX or 3 FLX, 2 ALX and 1 OLX. You get more aircraft, more sorties per aircraft and better performance in any single mission. I do agree that having twin-seater FLX carry out ground attack roles could be a good thing (superior speed and agility would be a bonus in strike and SEAD/DEAD), but a single-seater FLX should always stay single-role. Possibly more important issue is that of pilot training. Good pilots are more important than good aircraft (or numbers). Aside from a simpler and cheaper to operate aircraft providing more opportunities for training, having pilots train for a number of closely related roles will greatly improve their ability to carry out these roles when compared to pilots who train for a number of disparate roles. Further, if you take a look at current force structure of “multirole” aircraft, they lack ability to carry out close air support, battlefield interdiction and COIN warfare. For these missions, you still need specialized aircraft… which means that either way, you will need a minimum of two different tactical aircraft types, just with my proposals. And I’d say that the entire “easier logistics”, “standardization”, etc. BS falls flat on its face when you take a look at how many different aircraft most Western air forces operate. They carry out standardization where it shouldn’t be done – in combat aircraft – while leaving around dozens of types of transport, AWACS, AEW etc. aircraft with significantly overlapping characteristics and missions. “I just think it much less straightforward than you put it, because tactical flexibility suffers from that choice.” It never is completely straightforward. Finding good balance is the hardest part. The other issue may be “failure by design”. If you think about it, a successful aircraft would be a nightmare for a contractor. 1. No serious problems to fix 2. Cheap aircraft (probably very low margins per plane) – only somewhat helped by lower volumes 3. Only real profits would be spare parts and maybe maintenance 4. Easy to maintain means nothing like complex hangars 5. Successful combat performance would mean fewer future defense expenditures I suppose for the defense industry, the system is “working”. Indeed it is. Now, military could easily insist on a proper aircraft, and not buy aircraft until proper testing is completed, but generals looking for jobs in defense industry will not accept that. Economists have a name for this – perverse incentive. Basically the benefits for milking the existing system are better than playing it honest – even if it would mean other possibilities. I suppose the fact that the defense industry has consolidated means that the “survivors” are the ones who are most adept at playing the system. Agreed. Which is why unregulated market-based systems don’t work anywhere – especially in the military. Felix said What’s your view on the russian planes like mig29 – 35 are they cost effective or “adjusted” by the government? Cost-effective is a relative thing, but I’d say that MiG-29 variants are OK. Not too good thanks to relatively large size, twin engined configuration and inefficient engines (early models), especially when combined with short range, but far better than, say, F-35 or most other stealth fighters. The latest report is actually quite funny: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/why-its-sad-that-the-f-22-just-fired-its-first-guided-a-1704889474 Apparently the F-22 is only just testing the ability to get a Helmet Mounted sight and the AIM-9X. Kind of scary if you think about it. They spent so much money on the fighter and missed quite a few major details. It makes you go, what else was overlooked? Pilot training is a known. It has no IRST. Its IR/UV MAWS can be used as IRST in theory (just as EO DAS and DDM NG), but it will be range-limited. And they didn’t “miss” these details, IRST and HMD were both deleted to “save money”. It is the classic “penny-wise” and “pound foolish”. Logically, if one spends so much on the aircraft, I think it would be logical that it’s a Might as well” develop the best array of sensors possible – including IRST. The disturbing thing is that this is not an expensive technology to be investing huge sums of money in either. Of course, in this case, it’s not even penny wise to be neglecting IRST. PassTheAmmo said Picard578, speaking of the necessity of certain features on future warplanes, what do you think of the usefulness of swing-wings in modern warplane design? I’ve heard that the F-18’s combat payload isn’t as much as the F-14’s, given that the F-18 doesn’t use swing-wings like the F-14 did. Swing wing’s primary advantage is fuel economy during subsonic cruise while allowing high maximum speed. However, it results in low optimum cruise speed (M 0,7 vs M 0,9 for a delta), increasing vulnerability to surprise attacks. It also increases mechanical complexity. Another advantage is that they need shorter runways. The big problems are: – Weight (about 10-15% penalty here) – Will cost more to build than other wings – Lower flight to maintenance ratios I would argue it’s not worth it in most cases. Also less wing area and no propensity towards vortex generation, which means lower turn rates (especially instantaneous). Also add I don’t think swing wings can hold much on their wings – fuel or missiles. So maybe lower fuel fraction too? Another consequence of very high flight to maintenance ratios in aircraft – vulnerability to disasters « Defense Issues said […] solution is to procure cheaper aircraft (so that more aircraft can be procured and losses would be a small percentage of the […] MarkyMark said For a cheap aircraft, I’d go with either an F-20 Tigershark with upgraded avionics; that was the best fighter the USAF never bought but SHOULD have. The F-16 re-engined (GE F110), more modern materials for weight loss, and upgraded avionics would be good too. Make ’em small, simple, and cheap. WTF do we need all this gee whiz tech when you’re sooner or later going to be dogfighting WVR anyway?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4550
__label__cc	0.645055	0.354945	How Shall the Commons Be Governed? New Challenges Facing the Digital Commons Sector David Bollier, Author of "Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own" Technology & the Law Tuesday, May 12, 12:30 pm This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET. David Bollier will discuss the rise of the commons paradigm in the digital environment, the subject of his new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press). The book traces the origins of free software, the Creative Commons licenses and the online “sharing economy” as well as the development of open business models, the open educational resources movement and open science innovations. In this talk, Bollier will examine how, as the commons sector matures, commoners are asserting differing notions of freedom, community boundaries, social norms and reliance on law to protect the integrity of their shared resources. The proliferation of new sorts of commons is raising new practical and philosophical questions about how best to structure and govern digital communities, and how we should begin to conceptualize the commons sector and its relationship to markets. David Bollier is an author, activist and editor of Onthecommons.org. He is also Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, and co-founder of Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C., organization that advocates for the public's stake in the Internet and copyright law. Bollier is the author of Silent Theft, Brand Name Bullies, and five other books, and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. On The Commons Blog Viral Spiral Ethan Zuckerman liveblogged the talk David Weinberger liveblogged the talk David Bollier blogged the talk Healthcare general counsels explore pressing health policy and legal issues at Harvard Law School Regulate Stablecoins – Don’t Squash Them Innovation, Justice and Globalization Projects & Tools 01 Law Lab The Law Lab is a multidisciplinary research initiative and collaborative network of University, nonprofit and industry partners. Its mission is to investigate and harness the… More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4552
__label__wiki	0.652651	0.652651	Label: AMLODIPINE AND OLMESARTAN MEDOXOMIL tablet, film coated Boxed Warnings 50228-366-30, 50228-366-90, 50228-367-10, 50228-367-30, 50228-367-90, 50228-368-10, 50228-368-30, 50228-368-90 Packager: ScieGen Pharmaceuticals, Inc Category: HUMAN PRESCRIPTION DRUG LABEL Marketing Status: Abbreviated New Drug Application These highlights do not include all the information needed to use AMLODIPINE AND OLMESARTAN MEDOXOMIL TABLETS safely and effectively. See full prescribing information for AMLODIPINE AND OLMESARTAN MEDOXOMIL TABLETS. AMLODIPINE and OLMESARTAN MEDOXOMIL tablets, for oral use WARNING: FETAL TOXICITY See full prescribing information for complete boxed warning. When pregnancy is detected, discontinue amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets as soon as possible (5.1). Drugs that act directly on the renin-angiotensin system can cause injury and death to the developing fetus (5.1). Warnings and Precautions (5.9) 11/2016 Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets are a combination of dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker and angiotensin II receptor blocker combination product indicated for the treatment of hypertension, alone or with other antihypertensive agents, to lower blood pressure. Lowering blood pressure reduces the risk of fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events, primarily strokes and myocardial infarctions. (1). Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets may also be used as initial therapy in patients likely to need multiple antihypertensive agents to achieve their blood pressure goals (1). Recommended starting dose: 5/20 mg once daily (2). Titrate as needed in two week intervals up to a maximum of 10/40 mg once daily (2). Tablets: (amlodipine/olmesartan medoxomil content) 5/20 mg; 10/20 mg; 5/40 mg; and 10/40 mg (3). Do not co-administer aliskiren with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets in patients with diabetes (4). Hypotension in volume-or salt-depleted patients with treatment initiation may be anticipated. Start treatment under close supervision (5.2). Increased angina or myocardial infarction may occur upon dosage initiation or increase (5.3). Impaired renal function: changes in renal function may be anticipated in susceptible individual (5.4). Sprue-like enteropathy has been reported. Consider discontinuation of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets in cases where no other etiology is found (5.6). Most common adverse reaction (incidence ≥ 3%) is edema (6.1). To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact ScieGen at (855) 724-3436- or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch Amlodipine (7.1): If simvastatin is co-administered with amlodipine, do not exceed doses greater than 20 mg daily of simvastatin. Increased exposure of cyclosporin and tacrolimus. Increased exposure of amlodipine when coadminstred with CYP3A inhibitors. Olmesartan medoxomil (7.2): Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) may lead to increased risk of renal impairment and loss of antihypertensive effect. Dual inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system: Increased risk of renal impairment, hypotension, and hyperkalemia. Colesevelam hydrochloride: Consider administering olmesartan at least 4 hours before colesevelam hydrochloride dose Lithium: Increases in serum lithium concentrations and lithium toxicity. Geriatric: Not recommended for initial therapy in patients ≥75 years old (8.5) Hepatic Impairment: Not recommended for initial therapy (8.6) 5.1 Fetal toxicity 5.2 Hypotension in Volume- or Salt-Depleted Patients 5.3 Increased Angina or Myocardial Infarction 5.4 Impaired Renal Function 5.5 Patients with Hepatic Impairment 5.6 Sprue-like Enteropathy 5.7 Electrolyte Imbalances 6.2 Post-Marketing Experience 7.1 Drug Interactions with Amlodipine 7.2 Drug Interactions with Olmesartan Medoxomil 8.8 Black Patients 14.1 Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets 14.2 Amlodipine 14.3 Olmesartan Medoxomil BOXED WARNING (What is this?) Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets are indicated for the treatment of hypertension, alone or with other antihypertensive agents, to lower blood pressure. Lowering blood pressure reduces the risk of fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events, primarily strokes and myocardial infarctions. These benefits have been seen in controlled trials of antihypertensive drugs from a wide variety of pharmacologic classes including the class to which this drug principally belongs. There are no controlled trials demonstrating risk reduction with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets. Control of high blood pressure should be part of comprehensive cardiovascular risk management, including, as appropriate, lipid control, diabetes management, antithrombotic therapy, smoking cessation, exercise, and limited sodium intake. Many patients will require more than one drug to achieve blood pressure goals. For specific advice on goals and management, see published guidelines, such as those of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program’s Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC). Numerous antihypertensive drugs, from a variety of pharmacologic classes and with different mechanisms of action, have been shown in randomized controlled trials to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and it can be concluded that it is blood pressure reduction, and not some other pharmacologic property of the drugs, that is largely responsible for those benefits. The largest and most consistent cardiovascular outcome benefit has been a reduction in the risk of stroke, but reductions in myocardial infarction and cardiovascular mortality also have been seen regularly. Elevated systolic or diastolic pressure causes increased cardiovascular risk, and the absolute risk increase per mmHg is greater at higher blood pressures, so that even modest reductions of severe hypertension can provide substantial benefit. Relative risk reduction from blood pressure reduction is similar across populations with varying absolute risk, so the absolute benefit is greater in patients who are at higher risk independent of their hypertension (for example, patients with diabetes or hyperlipidemia), and such patients would be expected to benefit from more aggressive treatment to a lower blood pressure goal. Some antihypertensive drugs have smaller blood pressure effects (as monotherapy) in black patients, and many antihypertensive drugs have additional approved indications and effects (e.g., on angina, heart failure, or diabetic kidney disease). These considerations may guide selection of therapy. Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets may also be used as initial therapy in patients who are likely to need multiple antihypertensive agents to achieve their blood pressure goals. Patients with moderate or severe hypertension are at relatively high risk for cardiovascular events (such as strokes, heart attacks, and heart failure), kidney failure, and vision problems, so prompt treatment is clinically relevant. The decision to use a combination as initial therapy should be individualized and should be shaped by considerations such as baseline blood pressure, the target goal, and the incremental likelihood of achieving goal with a combination compared to monotherapy. Individual blood pressure goals may vary based upon the patient’s risk. Data from an 8-week, placebo-controlled, parallel-group factorial study [see Clinical Studies (14.1)] provide estimates of the probability of reaching a blood pressure goal with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets compared to amlodipine or olmesartan medoxomil monotherapy. The figures below provide estimates of the likelihood of achieving the targeted systolic or diastolic blood pressure goals with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets 10/40 mg compared with amlodipine or olmesartan medoxomil monotherapy, based upon baseline systolic or diastolic blood pressure. The curve of each treatment group was estimated by logistic regression modeling from all available data of that treatment group. The right tail of each curve is less reliable because of small numbers of subjects with high baseline blood pressures. Figure 1: Probability of Achieving Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) < 140 mmHg at Week 8 With LOCF Figure 2: Probability of Achieving Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP) < 90 mmHg at Week 8 With LOCF The figures above provide an approximation of the likelihood of reaching a targeted blood pressure goal (e.g., Week 8 SBP < 140 mmHg or < 130 mmHg or a DBP < 90 mmHg or <80 mmHg) for the high-dose treatment groups evaluated in the study. Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets 5/20 mg, the lowest dose combination treatment group, increases the probability of reaching blood pressure goal compared with the highest dose monotherapies, amlodipine 10 mg and olmesartan medoxomil 40 mg. For example, a patient with a baseline blood pressure of 160/100 mmHg has about a 48% likelihood of achieving a goal of < 140 mmHg (systolic) and a 51% likelihood of achieving a goal of < 90 mmHg (diastolic) on monotherapy with olmesartan medoxomil 40 mg, and about a 46% likelihood of achieving a goal of < 140 mmHg (systolic) and a 60% likelihood of achieving a goal of < 90 mmHg (diastolic) on monotherapy with amlodipine 10 mg. The likelihood of achieving these same goals increases to 63% (systolic) and 71% (diastolic) on amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets 5/20 mg, and to 68% (systolic) and 85% (diastolic) on amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets 10/40 mg. The usual starting dose of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets is 5/20 mg once daily. The dosage can be increased after 1 to 2 weeks of therapy to a maximum dose of one 10/40 mg tablet once daily as needed to control blood pressure [see Clinical Studies (14.1)]. Dosage may be increased after 2 weeks. The maximum recommended dose of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets is 10/40 mg. Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets are formulated for oral administration in the following strength combinations: Amlodipine equivalent (mg) Olmesartan medoxomil (mg) Do not co-administer aliskiren with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets in patients with diabetes [See Drug Interactions (7.2)]. Pregnancy Category D Use of drugs that act on the renin-angiotensin system during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy reduces fetal renal function and increases fetal and neonatal morbidity and death. Resulting oligohydramnios can be associated with fetal lung hypoplasia and skeletal deformations. Potential neonatal adverse effects include skull hypoplasia, anuria, hypotension, renal failure, and death. When pregnancy is detected, discontinue amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil as soon as possible [See Use in Specific Populations (8.1)]. Olmesartan medoxomil. In patients with an activated renin-angiotensin system, such as volume- and/or salt-depleted patients (e.g., those being treated with high doses of diuretics) Symptomatic hypotension may be anticipated after initiation of treatment with olmesartan medoxomil. Initiate treatment with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets under close medical supervision. If hypotension does occur, place the patient in the supine position and, if necessary, give an intravenous infusion of normal saline. A transient hypotensive response is not a contraindication to further treatment, which usually can be continued without difficulty once the blood pressure has stabilized. Amlodipine. Symptomatic hypotension is possible, particularly in patients with severe aortic stenosis.Because of the gradual onset of action, acute hypotension is unlikely. Amlodipine. Patients, particularly those with severe obstructive coronary artery disease, may develop increased frequency, duration, or severity of angina or acute myocardial infarction on starting calcium channel blocker therapy or at the time of dosage increase. The mechanism of this effect has not been elucidated. Olmesartan medoxomil. Changes in renal function may be anticipated in susceptible individuals treated with olmesartan medoxomil as a consequence of inhibiting the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. In patients whose renal function may depend upon the activity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (e.g., patients with severe congestive heart failure), treatment with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor antagonists has been associated with oliguria or progressive azotemia and (rarely) with acute renal failure and/or death. Similar effects may occur in patients treated with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets because of the olmesartan medoxomil component[see Drug Interactions (7) and Clinical Pharmacology (12.3)]. In studies of ACE inhibitors in patients with unilateral or bilateral renal artery stenosis, increases in serum creatinine or blood urea nitrogen (BUN) have been reported. There has been no long-term use of olmesartan medoxomil in patients with unilateral or bilateral renal artery stenosis, but similar effects would be expected with olmesartan medoxomil and amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets. Amlodipine. Patients with hepatic impairment have decreased clearance of amlodipine. Starting amlodipine or adding amlodipine at 2.5 mg in hepatically impaired patients is recommended. The lowest dose of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets is 5/20 mg; therefore, initial therapy with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets is not recommended in hepatically impaired patients [see Use in Specific Populations (8.6)]. Since amlodipine is extensively metabolized by the liver and the plasma elimination half-life (t1/2) is 56 hours in patients with severely impaired hepatic function, titrate slowly when administering to patients with severe hepatic impairment. Olmesartan medoxomil. Severe, chronic diarrhea with substantial weight loss has been reported in patients taking olmesartan months to years after drug initiation. Intestinal biopsies of patients often demonstrated villous atrophy. If a patient develops these symptoms during treatment with olmesartan, exclude other etiologies. Consider discontinuation of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets in cases where no other etiology is identified. Olmesartan medoxomil.Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets contain olmesartan, a drug that inhibits the renin-angiotensin system (RAS). Drugs that inhibit the RAS can cause hyperkalemia.Monitor serum electrolytes periodically. Because clinical studies are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical studies of a drug cannot be directly compared to rates in the clinical studies of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in practice. Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets The data described below reflect exposure to amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets in more than 1600 patients including more than 1000 exposed for at least 6 months and more than 700 exposed for 1 year. Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets were studied in one placebo-controlled factorial trial [See Clinical Trials (14.1)]. The population had a mean age of 54 years and included approximately 55% males. Seventy-one percent were Caucasian and 25% were Black. Patients received doses ranging from 5/20 mg to 10/40 mg orally once daily. The overall incidence of adverse reactions on therapy with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets were similar to that seen with corresponding doses of the individual components of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets, and to placebo. The reported adverse reactions were generally mild and seldom led to discontinuation of treatment (2.6% for amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets and 6.8% for placebo). Edema is a known, dose-dependent adverse effect of amlodipine but not of olmesartan medoxomil. The placebo-subtracted incidence of edema during the 8-week, randomized, double-blind treatment period was highest with amlodipine 10 mg monotherapy. The incidence was significantly reduced when 20 mg or 40 mg of olmesartan medoxomil was added to the 10 mg amlodipine dose. Placebo-Subtracted Incidence of Edema During the Double-Blind Treatment Period 12.3% = actual placebo incidence － Across all treatment groups, the frequency of edema was generally higher in women than men, as has been observed in previous studies of amlodipine. There was a greater decrease in hemoglobin and hematocrit in patients treated with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets as compared to patients receiving either component. Adverse reactions seen at lower rates during the double-blind period also occurred in the patients treated with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets at about the same or greater incidence as in patients receiving placebo. These included hypotension, orthostatic hypotension, rash, pruritus, palpitation, urinary frequency, and nocturia. The adverse event profile obtained from 44 weeks of open-label combination therapy with amlodipine plus olmesartan medoxomil was similar to that observed during the 8-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled period. Initial Therapy Analyzing the data described above specifically for initial therapy, it was observed that higher doses of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets caused slightly more hypotension and orthostatic symptoms, but not at the recommended starting dose of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets 5/20 mg. No increase in the incidence of syncope or near syncope was observed. The incidences of discontinuation because of any treatment emergent adverse events in the double blind phase are summarized in the table below. Discontinuation for any Treatment Emergent Adverse Event1 1Hypertension is counted as treatment failure and not as treatment emergent adverse event. N=160-163 subjects per treatment group. Amlodipine has been evaluated for safety in more than 11,000 patients in U.S. and foreign clinical trials. Most adverse reactions reported during therapy with amlodipine were of mild or moderate severity. In controlled clinical trials directly comparing amlodipine (N=1730) in doses up to 10 mg to placebo (N=1250), discontinuation of amlodipine due to adverse reactions was required in only about 1.5% of amlodipine-treated patients and about 1% of placebo-treated patients. The most common side effects were headache and edema. The incidence (%) of dose-related side effects was as follows: Adverse Event For several adverse experiences that appear to be drug- and dose-related, there was a greater incidence in women than men associated with amlodipine treatment as shown in the following table: Male=% (N=914) Female=% (N=336) (N=1218) Female=% Olmesartan medoxomil. Olmesartan medoxomil has been evaluated for safety in more than 3825 patients/subjects, including more than 3275 patients treated for hypertension in controlled trials. This experience included about 900 patients treated for at least 6 months and more than 525 treated for at least 1 year. Treatment with olmesartan medoxomil was well tolerated, with an incidence of adverse events similar to that seen with placebo. Events were generally mild, transient, and without relationship to the dose of olmesartan medoxomil. The overall frequency of adverse events was not dose-related. Analysis of gender, age, and race groups demonstrated no differences between olmesartan medoxomil- and placebo-treated patients. The rate of withdrawals due to adverse events in all trials of hypertensive patients was 2.4% (i.e., 79/3278) of patients treated with olmesartan medoxomil and 2.7% (i.e., 32/1179) of control patients. In placebo-controlled trials, the only adverse event that occurred in more than 1% of patients treated with olmesartan medoxomil and at a higher incidence in olmesartan medoxomil treated patients vs. placebo was dizziness (3% vs 1%). The following adverse reactions have been identified during post-approval use of the individual components of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets. Because these reactions are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to drug exposure. Amlodipine. The following post-marketing event has been reported infrequently where a causal relationship is uncertain: gynecomastia. In post-marketing experience, jaundice and hepatic enzyme elevations (mostly consistent with cholestasis or hepatitis), in some cases severe enough to require hospitalization, have been reported in association with use of amlodipine. Postmarketing reporting has also revealed a possible association between extrapyramidal disorder and amlodipine. Olmesartan medoxomil. The following adverse reactions have been reported in post-marketing experience: Body as a Whole: asthenia, angioedema, anaphylactic reactions, peripheral edema Gastrointestinal: vomiting, diarrhea, sprue-like enteropathy [see Warnings and Precautions (5.8)] Metabolic and Nutritional Disorders: hyperkalemia Musculoskeletal: rhabdomyolysis Urogenital System: acute renal failure, increased blood creatinine levels Skin and Appendages: alopecia, pruritus, urticaria Data from one controlled trial and an epidemiologic study have suggested that high-dose olmesartan may increase cardiovascular (CV) risk in diabetic patients, but the overall data are not conclusive. The randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind ROADMAP trial (Randomized Olmesartan And Diabetes MicroAlbuminuria Prevention trial, n=4447) examined the use of olmesartan, 40 mg daily, vs. placebo in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, normoalbuminuria, and at least one additional risk factor for CV disease. The trial met its primary endpoint, delayed onset of microalbuminuria, but olmesartan had no beneficial effect on decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR). There was a finding of increased CV mortality (adjudicated sudden cardiac death, fatal myocardial infarction, fatal stroke, revascularization death) in the olmesartan group compared to the placebo group (15 olmesartan vs. 3 placebo, HR 4.9, 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.4, 17), but the risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction was lower with olmesartan (HR 0.64, 95% CI 0.35, 1.18). The epidemiologic study included patients 65 years and older with overall exposure of > 300,000 patient-years. In the sub-group of diabetic patients receiving high-dose olmesartan (40 mg/d) for > 6 months, there appeared to be an increased risk of death (HR 2.0, 95% CI 1.1, 3.8) compared to similar patients taking other angiotensin receptor blockers. In contrast, high-dose olmesartan use in non-diabetic patients appeared to be associated with a decreased risk of death (HR 0.46, 95% CI 0.24, 0.86) compared to similar patients taking other angiotensin receptor blockers. No differences were observed between the groups receiving lower doses of olmesartan compared to other angiotensin blockers or those receiving therapy for < 6 months. Overall, these data raise a concern of a possible increased CV risk associated with the use of high-dose olmesartan in diabetic patients. There are, however, concerns with the credibility of the finding of increased CV risk, notably the observation in the large epidemiologic study for a survival benefit in non-diabetics of a magnitude similar to the adverse finding in diabetics. Simvastatin: Co-administration of simvastatin with amlodipine increases the systemic exposure of simvastatin. Limit the dose of simvastatin in patients on amlodipine to 20 mg daily [see Clinical Pharmacology (12.3)]. Immunosuppressants: Amlodipine may increase the systemic exposure of cyclosporine or tacrolimus when co-administered. Frequent monitoring of trough blood levels of cyclosporine and tacrolimus is recommended and adjust the dose when appropriate [see Clinical Pharmacology (12.3)]. CYP3A Inhibitors : Co-administration of amlodipine with CYP3A inhibitors (moderate and strong) results in increased systemic exposure to amlodipine and may require dose reduction. Monitor for symptoms of hypotension and edema when amlodipine is co-administered with CYP3A inhibitors to determine the need for dose adjustment. CYP3A Inducers: No information is available on the quantitative effects of CYP3A inducers on amlodipine. Blood pressure should be closely monitored when amlodipine is co-administered with CYP3A inducers. Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents including Selective Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitors (COX-2 Inhibitors) In patients who are elderly, volume-depleted (including those on diuretic therapy), or with compromised renal function, co-administration of NSAIDs, including selective COX-2 inhibitors, with angiotensin II receptor antagonists, including olmesartan medoxomil, may result in deterioration of renal function, including possible acute renal failure. These effects are usually reversible. Monitor renal function periodically in patients receiving olmesartan medoxomil and NSAID therapy. The antihypertensive effect of angiotensin II receptor antagonists, including olmesartan medoxomil may be attenuated by NSAIDs including selective COX-2 inhibitors. Dual Blockade of the Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS) Dual blockade of the RAS with angiotensin receptor blockers, ACE inhibitors, or aliskiren is associated with increased risks of hypotension, hyperkalemia, and changes in renal function (including acute renal failure) compared to monotherapy. Most patients receiving the combination of two RAS inhibitors do not obtain any additional benefit compared to monotherapy. In general, avoid combined use of RAS inhibitors. Closely monitor blood pressure, renal function and electrolytes in patients on amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil and other agents that affect the RAS. Do not co-administer aliskiren with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil in patients with diabetes [See Contraindications (4)]. Avoid use of aliskiren with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil in patients with renal impairment (GFR <60 ml/min). Use with Colesevelam Hydrochloride Concurrent administration of bile acid sequestering agent colesevelam hydrochloride reduces the systemic exposure and peak plasma concentration of olmesartan. Administration of olmesartan at least 4 hours prior to colesevelam hydrochloride decreased the drug interaction effect. Consider administering olmesartan at least 4 hours before the colesevelam hydrochloride dose [see Clinical Pharmacology (12.3)]. Increases in serum lithium concentrations and lithium toxicity have been reported during concomitant administration of lithium with angiotensin II receptor antagonists, including amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets. Monitor serum lithium levels during concomitant use. Use of drugs that act on the renin-angiotensin system during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy reduces fetal renal function and increases fetal and neonatal morbidity and death. Resulting oligohydramnios can be associated with fetal lung hypoplasia and skeletal deformations. Potential neonatal adverse effects include skull hypoplasia, anuria, hypotension, renal failure, and death. When pregnancy is detected, discontinue amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil as soon as possible. These adverse outcomes are usually associated with use of these drugs in the second and third trimester of pregnancy. Most epidemiologic studies examining fetal abnormalities after exposure to antihypertensive use in the first trimester have not distinguished drugs affecting the renin-angiotensin system from other antihypertensive agents. Appropriate management of maternal hypertension during pregnancy is important to optimize outcomes for both mother and fetus. In the unusual case that there is no appropriate alternative to therapy with drugs affecting the renin-angiotensin system for a particular patient, apprise the mother of the potential risk to the fetus. Perform serial ultrasound examinations to assess the intra-amniotic environment. If oligohydramnios is observed, discontinue amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets, unless it is considered lifesaving for the mother. Fetal testing may be appropriate, based on the week of pregnancy. Patients and physicians should be aware, however, that oligohydramnios may not appear until after the fetus has sustained irreversible injury. Closely observe infants with histories of in utero exposure to amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets for hypotension, oliguria, and hyperkalemia [See Use in Specific Populations (8.4)]. Olmesartan No teratogenic effects were observed when olmesartan medoxomil was administered to pregnant rats at oral doses up to 1000 mg/kg/day (240 times the maximum recommended human dose (MRHD) on a mg/m2 basis) or pregnant rabbits at oral doses up to 1 mg/kg/day (half the MRHD on a mg/m2 basis; higher doses could not be evaluated for effects on fetal development as they were lethal to the does). In rats, significant decreases in pup birth weight and weight gain were observed at doses ≥ 1.6 mg/kg/day, and delays in developmental milestones (delayed separation of ear auricular, eruption of lower incisors, appearance of abdominal hair, descent of testes, and separation of eyelids) and dose-dependent increases in the incidence of dilation of the renal pelvis were observed at doses ≥ 8 mg/kg/day. The no observed effect dose for developmental toxicity in rats is 0.3 mg/kg/day, about one-tenth the MRHD of 40 mg/day. Amlodipine. No evidence of teratogenicity or other embryo/fetal toxicity was found when pregnant rats and rabbits were treated orally with amlodipine maleate at doses of up to 10 mg amlodipine/kg/day (respectively about 10 and 20 times the maximum recommended human dose of 10 mg amlodipine on a mg/m2 basis) during their respective periods of major organogenesis. (Calculations based on a patient weight of 60 kg). However, litter size was significantly decreased (by about 50%) and the number of intrauterine deaths was significantly increased (about 5-fold) in rats receiving amlodipine maleate at a dose equivalent to 10 mg amlodipine/kg/day for 14 days before mating and throughout mating and gestation. Amlodipine maleate has been shown to prolong both the gestational period and the duration of labor in rats at this dose. There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. Amlodipine should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus. It is not known whether the amlodipine or olmesartan medoxomil components of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets are excreted in human milk, but olmesartan is secreted at low concentration in the milk of lactating rats. Because of the potential for adverse effects on the nursing infant, a decision should be made whether to discontinue nursing or discontinue the drug, taking into account the importance of the drug to the mother. Neonates with a history of in utero exposure to amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets: If oliguria or hypotension occurs, direct attention toward support of blood pressure and renal perfusion. Exchange transfusions or dialysis may be required as a means of reversing hypotension and/or substituting for disordered renal function. The safety and effectiveness of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets in pediatric patients have not been established. Amlodipine. The effect of amlodipine on blood pressure in patients less than 6 years of age is not known. Olmesartan medoxomil. Safety and effectiveness of olmesartan medoxomil in pediatric patients have not been established. Of the total number of subjects in the double-blind clinical study of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets, 20% (384/1940) were 65 years of age or older and 3% (62/1940) were 75 years or older. No overall differences in safety or effectiveness were observed between subjects 65 years of age or older and younger subjects. Elderly patients have decreased clearance of amlodipine. Starting amlodipine or adding amlodipine at 2.5 mg in patients ≥ 75 years old is recommended. The lowest dose of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets is 5/20 mg; therefore, initial therapy with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets is not recommended in patients ≥ 75 years old. Amlodipine. Reported clinical experience has not identified differences in responses between the elderly and younger patients. In general, dose selection for an elderly patient should be cautious, usually starting at the low end of the dosing range, reflecting the greater frequency of decreased hepatic, renal, or cardiac function, and of concomitant disease or other drug therapy. Elderly patients have decreased clearance of amlodipine with a resulting increase of AUC of approximately 40% to 60%, and a lower initial dose may be required. Olmesartan medoxomil. Of the total number of hypertensive patients receiving olmesartan medoxomil in clinical studies, more than 20% were 65 years of age and over, while more than 5% were 75 years of age and older. No overall differences in effectiveness or safety were observed between elderly patients and younger patients. Other reported clinical experience has not identified differences in responses between the elderly and younger patients, but greater sensitivity of some older individuals cannot be ruled out. There are no studies of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets in patients with hepatic insufficiency, but both amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil show moderate increases in exposure in patients with hepatic impairment. The recommended initial dose of amlodipine in patients with severe hepatic impairment is 2.5 mg, a dose not available with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets. Amlodipine. Amlodipine is extensively metabolized by the liver and the plasma elimination half-life (t½) is 56 hours in patients with severely impaired hepatic function [see Warnings and Precautions (5.5)]. Olmesartan medoxomil. Increases in AUC0-∞ and peak plasma concentration (Cmax) for olmesartan were observed with moderate hepatic impairment compared to those in matched controls with an increase in AUC of about 60%. There are no studies of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets in patients with renal impairment. Amlodipine. The pharmacokinetics of amlodipine are not significantly influenced by renal impairment. Patients with renal failure may therefore receive the usual initial dose. Olmesartan medoxomil. Patients with renal insufficiency have elevated serum concentrations of olmesartan compared with patients with normal renal function. After repeated dosing, AUC was approximately tripled in patients with severe renal impairment (creatinine clearance < 20 mL/min). No initial dosage adjustment is recommended for patients with moderate to marked renal impairment (creatinine clearance < 40 mL/min). Of the total number of subjects in the double-blind clinical study of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets, 25% (481/1940) were black patients. Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets were effective in treating black patients (usually a low-renin population), and the magnitude of blood pressure reduction in black patients approached that observed for non-black patients. There is no information on overdosage with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets in humans. Amlodipine. Single oral doses of amlodipine maleate equivalent to 40 mg amlodipine/kg and 100 mg amlodipine/kg in mice and rats, respectively, caused deaths. Single oral amlodipine maleate doses equivalent to 4 or more mg amlodipine/kg or higher in dogs (11 or more times the maximum recommended human dose on a mg/m2 basis) caused a marked peripheral vasodilation and hypotension. Overdosage might be expected to cause excessive peripheral vasodilation with marked hypotension and possibly a reflex tachycardia. In humans, experience with intentional overdosage of amlodipine is limited. If massive overdose should occur, active cardiac and respiratory monitoring should be instituted. Frequent blood pressure measurements are essential. Should hypotension occur, cardiovascular support including elevation of the extremities and the judicious administration of fluids should be initiated. If hypotension remains unresponsive to these conservative measures, administration of vasopressors (such as phenylephrine) should be considered with attention to circulating volume and urine output. Intravenous calcium gluconate may help to reverse the effects of calcium entry blockade. As amlodipine is highly protein bound, hemodialysis is not likely to be of benefit. Olmesartan medoxomil. Limited data are available related to overdosage in humans. The most likely manifestations of overdosage would be hypotension and tachycardia; bradycardia could be encountered if parasympathetic (vagal) stimulation occurs. If symptomatic hypotension should occur, supportive treatment should be initiated. The dialyzability of olmesartan is unknown. Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil provided as a tablet for oral administration, is a combination of the calcium channel blocker (CCB) amlodipine besylate, USP and the angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) olmesartan medoxomil. The amlodipine besylate, USP component of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets is chemically described as 3-ethyl-5methyl (±)-2-[(2-aminoethoxy)methyl]-4-(2-chlorophenyl)-1,4-dihydro-6-methyl-3,5pyridinedicarboxylate,monobenzenesulphonate. Its empirical formula is C20H25ClN2O5•C6H6O3S. Olmesartan medoxomil, USP a prodrug, is hydrolyzed to olmesartan during absorption from the gastrointestinal tract. The olmesartan medoxomil, USP component of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets is chemically described as 2,3-dihydroxy-2-butenyl 4-(1-hydroxy-1-methylethyl)-2-propyl-1-[p-(o-1H-tetrazol-5-ylphenyl)benzyl]imidazole-5-carboxylate, cyclic 2,3-carbonate. Its empirical formula is C29H30N6O6. The structural formula for amlodipine besylate, USP is: The structural formula for olmesartan medoxomil, USP is: Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets contains amlodipine besylate, USP a white or almost white powder, and olmesartan medoxomil, USP a white to off-white crystalline powder. The molecular weights of amlodipine besylate, USP and olmesartan medoxomil, USP are 567.1 and 558.59, respectively. Amlodipine besylate, USP is slightly soluble in 2-propanol, water, freely soluble in methanol and sparingly soluble in ethanol. Olmesartan medoxomil, USP is practically insoluble in water and sparingly soluble in methanol. Each tablet of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil also contains the following inactive ingredients: microcrystalline cellulose, pregelatinized starch, croscarmellose sodium, colloidal silicon dioxide and magnesium stearate. The color coatings contain polyvinyl alcohol, macrogol/ polyethylene glycol 3350, macrogol/ polyethylene glycol 8000, titanium dioxide, talc, iron oxide yellow (5/40 mg, 10/20 mg, 10/40 mg tablets), iron oxide red (10/20 mg and 10/40 mg tablets), and iron oxide black (10/40 mg tablets). Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets: Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets is a combination of two antihypertensive drugs: a dihydropyridine calcium antagonist (calcium ion antagonist or slow-channel blocker), amlodipine besylate, and an angiotensin II receptor blocker, olmesartan medoxomil. The amlodipine component of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets inhibits the transmembrane influx of calcium ions into vascular smooth muscle and cardiac muscle, and the olmesartan medoxomil component of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets blocks the vasoconstrictor effects of angiotensin II. Amlodipine. Experimental data suggests that amlodipine binds to both dihydropyridine and nonhydropyridine binding sites. The contractile processes of cardiac muscle and vascular smooth muscle are dependent upon the movement of extracellular calcium ions into these cells through specific ion channels. Amlodipine inhibits calcium ion influx across cell membranes selectively, with a greater effect on vascular smooth muscle cells than on cardiac muscle cells. Negative inotropic effects can be detected in vitro but such effects have not been seen in intact animals at therapeutic doses. Serum calcium concentration is not affected by amlodipine. Within the physiologic pH range, amlodipine is an ionized compound (pKa=8.6), and its kinetic interaction with the calcium channel receptor is characterized by a gradual rate of association and dissociation with the receptor binding site, resulting in a gradual onset of effect. Amlodipine is a peripheral arterial vasodilator that acts directly on vascular smooth muscle to cause a reduction in peripheral vascular resistance and reduction in blood pressure. Olmesartan medoxomil. Angiotensin II is formed from angiotensin I in a reaction catalyzed by angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE, kininase II). Angiotensin II is the principal pressor agent of the renin-angiotensin system, with effects that include vasoconstriction, stimulation of synthesis and release of aldosterone, cardiac stimulation and renal reabsorption of sodium. Olmesartan blocks the vasoconstrictor effects of angiotensin II by selectively blocking the binding of angiotensin II to the AT1 receptor in vascular smooth muscle. Its action is, therefore, independent of the pathways for angiotensin II synthesis. An AT2 receptor is found also in many tissues, but this receptor is not known to be associated with cardiovascular homeostasis. Olmesartan has more than a 12,500-fold greater affinity for the AT1 receptor than for the AT2 receptor. Blockade of the renin-angiotensin system with ACE inhibitors, which inhibit the biosynthesis of angiotensin II from angiotensin I, is a mechanism of many drugs used to treat hypertension. ACE inhibitors also inhibit the degradation of bradykinin, a reaction also catalyzed by ACE. Because olmesartan does not inhibit ACE (kininase II), it does not affect the response to bradykinin. Whether this difference has clinical relevance is not yet known. Blockade of the angiotensin II receptor inhibits the negative regulatory feedback of angiotensin II on renin secretion, but the resulting increased plasma renin activity and circulating angiotensin II levels do not overcome the effect of olmesartan on blood pressure. Amlodipine. Following administration of therapeutic doses to patients with hypertension, amlodipine produces vasodilation resulting in a reduction of supine and standing blood pressures. These decreases in blood pressure are not accompanied by a significant change in heart rate or plasma catecholamine levels with chronic dosing. With chronic once daily oral administration, antihypertensive effectiveness is maintained for at least 24 hours. Plasma concentrations correlate with effect in both young and elderly patients. The magnitude of reduction in blood pressure with amlodipine is also correlated with the height of pretreatment elevation; thus, individuals with moderate hypertension (diastolic pressure 105 to 114 mmHg) had about a 50% greater response than patients with mild hypertension (diastolic pressure 90 to 104 mmHg). Normotensive subjects experienced no clinically significant change in blood pressures (+1/-2 mmHg). In hypertensive patients with normal renal function, therapeutic doses of amlodipine resulted in a decrease in renal vascular resistance and an increase in glomerular filtration rate and effective renal plasma flow without change in filtration fraction or proteinuria. As with other calcium channel blockers, hemodynamic measurements of cardiac function at rest and during exercise (or pacing) in patients with normal ventricular function treated with amlodipine have generally demonstrated a small increase in cardiac index without significant influence on dP/dt or on left ventricular end diastolic pressure or volume. In hemodynamic studies, amlodipine has not been associated with a negative inotropic effect when administered in the therapeutic dose range to intact animals and man, even when co-administered with beta-blockers to man. Similar findings, however, have been observed in normals or well-compensated patients with heart failure with agents possessing significant negative inotropic effects. Amlodipine does not change sinoatrial nodal function or atrioventricular conduction in intact animals or man. In clinical studies in which amlodipine was administered in combination with beta-blockers to patients with either hypertension or angina, no adverse effects on electrocardiographic parameters were observed. Olmesartan medoxomil. Olmesartan medoxomil doses of 2.5 mg to 40 mg inhibit the pressor effects of angiotensin I infusion. The duration of the inhibitory effect was related to dose, with doses of olmesartan medoxomil > 40 mg giving > 90% inhibition at 24 hours. Plasma concentrations of angiotensin I and angiotensin II and plasma renin activity (PRA) increase after single and repeated administration of olmesartan medoxomil to healthy subjects and hypertensive patients. Repeated administration of up to 80 mg olmesartan medoxomil had minimal influence on aldosterone levels and no effect on serum potassium. The pharmacokinetics of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil from amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets are equivalent to the pharmacokinetics of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil when administered separately. The bioavailability of both components is well below 100%, but neither component is affected by food. The effective half-lives of amlodipine (45 ± 11 hours) and olmesartan (7 ± 1 hours) result in a 2- to 3- fold accumulation for amlodipine and negligible accumulation for olmesartan with once-daily dosing. Amlodipine. After oral administration of therapeutic doses of amlodipine, absorption produces peak plasma concentrations between 6 and 12 hours. Absolute bioavailability is estimated as between 64% and 90%. Olmesartan medoxomil. Olmesartan medoxomil is rapidly and completely bioactivated by ester hydrolysis to olmesartan during absorption from the gastrointestinal tract. The absolute bioavailability of olmesartan medoxomil is approximately 26%. After oral administration, the peak plasma concentration (Cmax) of olmesartan is reached after 1 to 2 hours. Food does not affect the bioavailability of olmesartan medoxomil. Amlodipine. Ex vivo studies have shown that approximately 93% of the circulating drug is bound to plasma proteins in hypertensive patients. Steady-state plasma levels of amlodipine are reached after 7 to 8 days of consecutive daily dosing. Olmesartan medoxomil. The volume of distribution of olmesartan is approximately 17 L. Olmesartan is highly bound to plasma proteins (99%) and does not penetrate red blood cells. The protein binding is constant at plasma olmesartan concentrations well above the range achieved with recommended doses. In rats, olmesartan crossed the blood-brain barrier poorly, if at all. Olmesartan passed across the placental barrier in rats and was distributed to the fetus. Olmesartan was distributed to milk at low levels in rats. Metabolism and Excretion Amlodipine. Amlodipine is extensively (about 90%) converted to inactive metabolites via hepatic metabolism. Elimination from the plasma is biphasic with a terminal elimination half-life of about 30 to 50 hours. Ten percent of the parent compound and 60% of the metabolites are excreted in the urine. Olmesartan medoxomil. Following the rapid and complete conversion of olmesartan medoxomil to olmesartan during absorption, there is virtually no further metabolism of olmesartan. Total plasma clearance of olmesartan is 1.3 L/h, with a renal clearance of 0.6 L/h. Approximately 35% to 50% of the absorbed dose is recovered in urine while the remainder is eliminated in feces via the bile. Olmesartan appears to be eliminated in a biphasic manner with a terminal elimination half-life of approximately 13 hours. Olmesartan shows linear pharmacokinetics following single oral doses of up to 320 mg and multiple oral doses of up to 80 mg. Steady-state levels of olmesartan are achieved within 3 to 5 days and no accumulation in plasma occurs with once-daily dosing. The pharmacokinetic properties of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets in the elderly are similar to those of the individual components. Amlodipine. Elderly patients have decreased clearance of amlodipine with a resulting increase in AUC of approximately 40% to 60%, and a lower initial dose may be required. Olmesartan medoxomil. The pharmacokinetics of olmesartan medoxomil were studied in the elderly (≥ 65 years). Overall, maximum plasma concentrations of olmesartan were similar in young adults and the elderly. Modest accumulation of olmesartan was observed in the elderly with repeated dosing; AUCѕѕ, τ was 33% higher in elderly patients, corresponding to an approximate 30% reduction in CLR. Amlodipine. Sixty-two hypertensive patients aged 6 to 17 years received doses of amlodipine between 1.25 mg and 20 mg. Weight-adjusted clearance and volume of distribution were similar to values in adults. Olmesartan medoxomil. The pharmacokinetics of olmesartan medoxomil have not been investigated in patients < 18 years of age. Population pharmacokinetic analysis indicated that female patients had approximately 15% smaller clearances of olmesartan than male patients. Gender had no effect on the clearance of amlodipine. Olmesartan medoxomil. Minor differences were observed in the pharmacokinetics of olmesartan medoxomil in women compared to men. AUC and Cmax were 10% to 15% higher in women than in men. Olmesartan medoxomil. In patients with renal insufficiency, serum concentrations of olmesartan were elevated compared to subjects with normal renal function. After repeated dosing, the AUC was approximately tripled in patients with severe renal impairment (creatinine clearance < 20 mL/min). The pharmacokinetics of olmesartan medoxomil in patients undergoing hemodialysis has not been studied. No initial dosage adjustment is recommended for patients with moderate to marked renal impairment (creatinine clearance <40 mL/min). Amlodipine. Patients with hepatic insufficiency have decreased clearance of amlodipine with a resulting increase in AUC of approximately 40% to 60%. Olmesartan medoxomil. Increases in AUC0-∞ and Cmax were observed in patients with moderate hepatic impairment compared to those in matched controls, with an increase in AUC of about 60%. Amlodipine. Patients with heart failure have decreased clearance of amlodipine with a resulting increase in AUC of approximately 40% to 60%. Simvastatin: Co-administration of multiple doses of 10 mg of amlodipine with 80 mg simvastatin resulted in a 77% increase in exposure to simvastatin compared to simvastatin alone. [see Drug Interactions (7.1)]. CYP3A inhibitors: Co-administration of a 180 mg daily dose of diltiazem with 5 mg amlodipine in elderly hypertensive patients resulted in a 60% increase in amlodipine systemic exposure. Erythromycin co-administration in healthy volunteers did not significantly change amlodipine systemic exposure.However, strong inhibitors of CYP3A (e.g., itraconazole, clarithromycin) may increase the plasma concentrations of amlodipine to a greater extent [see Drug Interactions (7.1)]. Cyclosporine: In a prospective study in renal transplant patients, an average 40% increase in trough cyclosporine levels was observed in the presence of amlodipine. [see Drug Interactions (7.1)]. Colesevelam: Concomitant administration of 40 mg olmesartan medoxomil and 3750 mg colesevelam hydrochloride in healthy subjects resulted in 28% reduction in Cmax and 39% reduction in AUC of olmesartan. Lesser effects, 4% and 15% reduction in Cmax and AUC respectively, were observed when olmesartan medoxomil was administered 4 hours prior to colesevelam hydrochloride [see Drug Interactions (7.2)]. Cimetidine: Co-administration of amlodipine with cimetidine did not alter the pharmacokinetics of amlodipine. Grapefruit juice: Co-administration of 240 mL of grapefruit juice with a single oral dose of amlodipine 10 mg in 20 healthy volunteers had no significant effect on the pharmacokinetics of amlodipine. Maalox® (antacid): Co-administration of the antacid Maalox® with a single dose of amlodipine had no significant effect on the pharmacokinetics of amlodipine. Sildenafil: A single 100 mg dose of sildenafil in subjects with essential hypertension had no effect on the pharmacokinetic parameters of amlodipine. When amlodipine and sildenafil were used in combination, each agent independently exerted its own blood pressure lowering effect. Atorvastatin: Co-administration of multiple 10 mg doses of amlodipine with 80 mg of atorvastatin resulted in no significant change in the steady state pharmacokinetic parameters of atorvastatin. Digoxin: Co-administration of amlodipine with digoxin did not change serum digoxin levels or digoxin renal clearance in normal volunteers. Ethanol (alcohol): Single and multiple 10 mg doses of amlodipine had no significant effect on the pharmacokinetics of ethanol. Warfarin: Co-administration of amlodipine with warfarin did not change the warfarin prothrombin response time. No significant drug interactions were reported in studies in which olmesartan medoxomil was coadministered with warfarin in healthy volunteers. Digoxin: No significant drug interactions were reported in studies in which olmesartan medoxomil was coadministered with digoxin in healthy volunteers. Antacids: The bioavailability of olmesartan medoxomil was not significantly altered by the coadministration of antacids [Al(OH)3 /Mg(OH)2 ]. Amlodipine. Rats and mice treated with amlodipine maleate in the diet for up to two years, at concentrations calculated to provide daily dosage levels of amlodipine 0.5, 1.25, and 2.5 mg/kg/day showed no evidence of a carcinogenic effect of the drug. For the mouse, the highest dose was, on a mg/m2 basis, similar to the maximum recommended human dose (MRHD) of amlodipine 10 mg/day. For the rat, the highest dose was, on a mg/m2 basis, about two and a half times the MRHD. (Calculations based on a 60 kg patient.) Mutagenicity studies conducted with amlodipine maleate revealed no drug related effects at either the gene or chromosome level. There was no effect on the fertility of rats treated orally with amlodipine maleate (males for 64 days and females for 14 days prior to mating) at doses of amlodipine up to 10 mg/kg/day (about 10 times the MRHD of 10 mg/day on a mg/m2 basis). Olmesartan medoxomil. Olmesartan was not carcinogenic when administered by dietary administration to rats for up to 2 years. The highest dose tested (2000 mg/kg/day) was, on a mg/m2 basis, about 480 times the maximum recommended human dose (MRHD) of 40 mg/day. Two carcinogenicity studies conducted in mice, a 6-month gavage study in the p53 knockout mouse and a 6-month dietary administration study in the Hras2 transgenic mouse, at doses of up to 1000 mg/kg/day (about 120 times the MRHD), revealed no evidence of a carcinogenic effect of olmesartan. Both olmesartan medoxomil and olmesartan tested negative in the in vitro Syrian hamster embryo cell transformation assay and showed no evidence of genetic toxicity in the Ames (bacterial mutagenicity) test. However, both were shown to induce chromosomal aberrations in cultured cells in vitro (Chinese hamster lung) and tested positive for thymidine kinase mutations in the in vitro mouse lymphoma assay. Olmesartan medoxomil tested negative in vivo for mutations in the MutaMouse intestine and kidney and for clastogenicity in mouse bone marrow (micronucleus test) at oral doses of up to 2000 mg/kg (olmesartan not tested). Fertility of rats was unaffected by administration of olmesartan at dose levels as high as 1000 mg/kg/day (240 times the MRHD) in a study in which dosing was begun 2 (female) or 9 (male) weeks prior to mating. An 8-week multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, parallel group factorial study in patients with mild to severe hypertension was conducted to determine if treatment with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets was associated with clinically significant reduction in blood pressure compared to the respective monotherapies. The study randomized 1940 patients equally to one of the following 12 treatment arms: placebo, monotherapy treatment with amlodipine 5 mg or 10 mg, monotherapy treatment with olmesartan medoxomil 10 mg, 20 mg, or 40 mg, or combination therapy with amlodipine/ olmesartan medoxomil at doses of 5/10 mg, 5/20 mg, 5/40 mg, 10/10 mg, 10/20 mg, and 10/40 mg. Patients discontinued their prior antihypertensive treatment. The mean baseline blood pressure of the study population was 164/102 mmHg. Of the total cohort, 970 patients were treated with the combination as initial therapy. Treatment with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets resulted in statistically significant greater reductions in diastolic and systolic blood pressure compared to the respective monotherapy components. Maximum antihypertensive effects were attained within 2 weeks after a change in dose. The following table presents the results for mean reduction in seated systolic and diastolic blood pressure following 8 weeks of treatment with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets. Placebo-adjusted reductions from baseline in blood pressure were progressively greater with increases in dose of both amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil components of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets. Reduction in Seated Systolic/Diastolic Blood Pressure (mmHg): Combination Therapy vs. Monotherapy Components (Double-Blind Treatment Period) (mmHg) Mean Change Placebo-Adjusted Mean Change -12/-8 -16/-10 The antihypertensive effect of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets was similar in patients with and without prior antihypertensive medication use, in patients with and without diabetes, in patients ≥ 65 years of age and < 65 years of age, and in women and men. Limited data exist in patients ≥ 75 years of age. Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets were effective in treating black patients (usually a low-renin population), and the magnitude of blood pressure reduction in black patients approached that observed for non-Black patients. This effect in black patients has been seen with ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, and beta-blockers. The blood pressure lowering effect was maintained throughout the 24-hour period with amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets once daily, with trough-to-peak ratios for systolic and diastolic response between 71% and 82%. Upon completing the 8-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, 1684 patients entered a 44-week open-label extension and received combination therapy with amlodipine 5 mg plus olmesartan medoxomil 40 mg. During the open-label extension, patients whose blood pressure was not adequately controlled (i.e., did not achieve a blood pressure goal of < 140/90 mmHg, or < 130/80 mmHg for those patients with diabetes) on amlodipine/olmesartan medoxomil 5/40 mg were titrated to amlodipine /olmesartan medoxomil 10/40 mg. Patients whose blood pressure was still not adequately controlled were offered additional hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg and subsequently 25 mg as required to achieve adequate blood pressure goal. There are no trials of amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil demonstrating reductions in cardiovascular risk in patients with hypertension, but at least one pharmacologically similar drug has demonstrated such benefits. The antihypertensive efficacy of amlodipine has been demonstrated in a total of 15 double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized studies involving 800 patients on amlodipine and 538 on placebo. Once daily administration produced statistically significant placebo-corrected reductions in supine and standing blood pressures at 24 hours post-dose, averaging about 12/6 mmHg in the standing position and 13/7 mmHg in the supine position in patients with mild to moderate hypertension. Maintenance of the blood pressure effect over the 24-hour dosing interval was observed, with little difference in peak and trough effect. The antihypertensive effects of olmesartan medoxomil have been demonstrated in seven placebo-controlled studies at doses ranging from 2.5 mg to 80 mg for 6 to 12 weeks, each showing statistically significant reductions in peak and trough blood pressure. A total of 2693 patients (2145 olmesartan medoxomil; 548 placebo) with essential hypertension were studied. The blood pressure lowering effect was maintained throughout the 24-hour period with olmesartan medoxomil once daily, with trough-to-peak ratios for systolic and diastolic response between 60% and 80%. Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets contain amlodipine besylate at a dose equivalent to 5 or 10 mg amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil in the strengths described below. Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets are differentiated by tablet color/size and are debossed with an individual product tablet code on one side. Amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets are supplied for oral administration in the following strength and package configurations: Tablet Strength (amlodipine equivalent/ olmesartan medoxomil) mg Package Configuration NDC# Product Code Tablet Color 5/20 mg Bottle of 30 Bottle of 1000 50228-365-30 50228-365-90 50228-365-10 SG 365 White 10/20 mg Bottle of 30 Bottle of 1000 5/40 mg Bottle of 30 SG 366 Cream SG 368 Brownish Red Store at 25ºC (77ºF); excursions permitted to 15°C to 30ºC (59°F to 86ºF) [see USP Controlled Room Temperature]. Pregnancy: Tell Female patients of childbearing age about the consequences of exposure to amlodipine and olmesartan medoxomil tablets during pregnancy. Discuss treatment options with women planning to become pregnant. Tell Patients to report pregnancies to their physicians as soon as possible. ScieGen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 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__label__cc	0.72995	0.27005	Daniel Tutt Posted on August 29, 2010 December 26, 2011 by Daniel Tutt Is Oedipus Online? The best place to start with Is Oedipus Online? is to look at the intersubjective turn, i.e. that all desire is the desire of the other and that the overarching question asked in the face of desire is “what does society want from me?” And since the Lacanian unconscious is like a language, each word and statement is a knot of meaning that forms itself into the desire system as like a ring in another ring ad infinity. So our desire is like a necklace of rings inside of another necklace of rings, (the other’s desire) hence the use of fractal expansion of language down to the base of the desire system. Not only is our desire caught in a fractal spin with other people intersubjectively, it is also intrasubjectively – i.e. the unconscious is a complex weaving of subjectivity, that in a fractal parallax, intersubjective language is structured by and like the unconscious and they play off one another vice versa. Spin in three dimensions, four if you count Einstein’s time dimension, in which multiple iterations of speech unfold. This signifying chain in its turn structures and exemplifies language. Language in turn structures and exemplifies the unconscious. The unconscious in turn signifies the split psyche. The split psyche in turn exemplifies the subject, and the subject in turn structures and exemplifies the intersubjective relation. The intersubjective relation determines the social fabric. This structural set up of language makes the Lacanian signifying chain a more digestible metaphor for desire. From this we also grasp how the world of analogy, metaphor and allegory are really the only devices available. Indeed to understand the notion of human subjectivity Lacan employs his most famous metaphor that “a signifier is a subject for another signifier” or, a demand for love or recognition is addressed to an object who/that never fully responds, which is similar to the “return to sender” concept, that desire, as the left over of demand over need is the left over, that motivates the ongoing power of desire, which keeps the system of language on its tracks – keeps us in motion. Language is the world and we cannot understand the codes of any two systems independently according to Wittgenstein. Manuel De Landa, dystopian techno author, argues that inherent in each website of the “meshwork” of various toplogical variances lies a certain extremism inflected by positive and negative, that each site is simultaneously technophilia and technophodia, dystopian and utopian depending on whether that node is imbued with an expanded sense of human possibility or a sense of nostalgia about the presumed loss of human values in a posthuman world – depending on one’s perspective. Or take Virilio’s statement that the more informed one is, the more the desert of the world extends around her/him. Is Oedipus Online? makes an excellent Parallax connection between emerging systems theory / chaos theory / fractal geometry and Lacanian psychoanalysis, that the Internet itself is a psychosomatic topology of hitches and slips in a net of intersubjective desire, a knotty field that operates as a grand metaphor of desire itself. The fact that 8,000 people get online for the first time each day puts a legitimate global perspective to our need to classify this phenomenon, is it in terms of identification, projection and intersubjective desire? Lacan’s neo-Freudian network is a nodal poetics of emergence which has great literary semblance with the Internet, however, its more important to notice the trends of what we are constructing via discourse in society itself. In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari’s continuation of the Anti-Oedipsu, every interaction of society functions as an abstract machine that spits out a subjectivity that are determined by the conditions we shape. The central question of the Anti-Oedipus is not what does desire mean but how does it work, how does it function and structure society by answering the Freudian version of the Oedipus myth. Oedipus, who faces the postmodern “opacity of the other” in cyberspace, is he able to gain the secret of humanity in the face of humanity losing its opacity and mystery as such. Oedipus is then an abstract machine, not a role model. Oedipus’ struggle is in the automatism of the real. Oedipus was displaced from the truth of the oracle by his too-literal reading of it, making his affection to the object of knowledge infinitely regressive. The Oedipus of the post-symbolic order is a spectral figure inhabited by a blinded “knot-it-all” even though he sees nothing and understands nothing. Why? Largely because the subject of cyberspace has lost his opacity of the other, he has lost the mystery of the other. For Deleuze, there are only resistances and machines. To be anti-Oedipus is to be pro desire plain and simple, i.e. to secretly advocate a recall of the symbolic order to save-face. Who is Oedipus online? • Psychoanalysis markets and does not invent Oedipus. • Oedipus is a Lacanian caught up in the trinity of Lack, Law and Signifier. • He kills our capacity for becoming animal. • He is a despotic kill-joy, and he is everywhere, i.e. society is the stronghold for Oedipus. The dream induced by the cyberspace reality is severed in a viscous eternal recurrence of the same, or what Baudrillard refers to as the simulacra of the blurring between the three levels: the real, fantasy and desire. Cyberspace causes a rupture between the real and fantasy which causes us to be post humans due to a lack of signifying within our others, as in the other becomes stripped of her mystery, that we determine all that we need to know through the blurring and loss of mystery itself. In this case we cannot present absences in cyberspace; similar to how the unconscious cannot say “no.” The dream of cyberspace only presents visible images. The unconscious (in traditional Freudian terms) is followed by absence of contradiction. Cyberspace neo-reality is not an either/or, but rather an “inclusive injunction.” Inconsistent terms may coexist based on extra “or” that creates a paradoxical emblem of separation and inclusion simultaneously. CategoriesIs Oedipus Online? TagsFreud and internet studies, Is Oedipus Online? Previous PostPrevious The Rending of the Veil of Double Consciousness Next PostNext The Euthanasia of Liberal Tolerance: The New Discourse on Tolerance in the Age of Terror Follow the spirit Daniel Tutt, Ph.D. Academic Page A Lacanian Reading of Joker What's a Face? Why Dismantle It? The Red-Green Conspiracy: On Messiah Nietzsche, Islam, and the Rashidun Religion and Communitas: Structure and Anti-Structure Desire is Productive: Why Deleuze & Guattari Love Henry Miller The Womb and the Matrix: Psychoanalysis and Birth	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4562
__label__cc	0.580541	0.419459	← Tournament Spotlight: Sooner State Softball Classic 100 Days and Counting: Dallas Series 2014 → Monthly League Spotlight: K-Town Softball League Posted on June 13, 2014 by misterdish Softball is King….and Queen in Knoxville In East Tennessee, situated in the Tennessee Valley you’ll find the city of Knoxville, home to the K-Town Softball League. The state of Tennessee has three NAGAAA cities, the other two being Nashville and Memphis. In fact, the state of Tennessee is tied for the 2nd most NAGAAA cities by state with Texas and Florida. Knoxville is the newest city in Tennessee to join NAGAAA being admitted in as a member city in 2011. The K-Town Softball League was founded in 2004 and while the league is thriving now in its 10th year, there was a time when the league struggled on many levels. “We struggled to find fields as we were told the fields were not available for use,” said K-Town Softball NAGAAA Representative, Tonya Vaughn. To say that the league has come a long way would be an understatement. The league’s steady growth has allowed it to have a positive impact on Knoxville LGBT residents and LGBT allies. “Coming from not knowing if we had a place to play to where we are now is heartwarming,” said Vaughn. Knoxville has built quite a reputation for its teams traveling all around the country to participate in NAGAAA sanctioned tournaments and it comes as no surprise that they have been very successful at the Gay Softball World Series as well. “We (K-Town Board) highly encourage our teams to travel for the experience, camaraderie and competition,” Vaughn says. The best finish at a GSWS for a Knoxville team came by the Knoxville Cyclones who took 2nd place in the B Division at the 2011 Chicago GSWS. While the K-Town Softball League’s season ended on June 1st the league is far from done this summer as it is gearing up for the K-Town Softball Klassic this August! The tournament is featuring B, C and D division play this year after hosting 27 teams at last year’s Klassic. The opening party will feature the entertainment stylings of the vivacious and super sickening Alyssa Edwards from RuPaul’s Drag Race season 5, not to mention it is a perfect end of season tournament for teams that have a lag time between their season and the 2014 GSWS in Dallas. It is easy to see that Knoxville has a lot to be proud of as the K-Town Softball League turns 10 this year. NAGAAA representative Tanya Vaughn understands that softball is fun, but it’s about more than competition. “I think what is important in our league is it allows LGBTQ and straight members to come together and have an outlet to do something that they enjoy athletically,” said Vaughn. The competition is fierce in Knoxville, but it’s good to see that fun still plays a key part in the whole K-Town Softball League process. When asked if Knoxville desired to host a Gay Softball World Series in the near future, Vaughn stated, “not currently, if Dollywood builds a Wide World of Sports like Disney we might be good for a whirl at it.” That answer is exactly what makes Knoxville, well, Knoxville and the DD loves it. K-TOWN SOFTBALL LEAGUE – BY THE NUMBERS: League Founded: 2004 Joined NAGAAA: 2011 Membership: B Division (1), C Division (3), D Division (7), Women’s (5) Regular Season: April 6 – June 1 Venue for League: Caswell Park (Knoxville) & Everett Fields (Maryville) Best Team Finish @ GSWS: Knoxville Cyclones, 2nd Place B Division, 2011 Season Cost Per Team: $475 per team League Sponsors: The Edge, Club XYZ, Cocoa Moon, Kristtophers Host Tournament: K-Town Klassic – August 1-3 League Website: http://www.ktownsoftball.com The DD would like to thank Tonya Vaughn for her help with this league spotlight. This entry was posted in Monthly League Spotlight and tagged Knoxville. Bookmark the permalink.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4563
__label__cc	0.730972	0.269028	Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) Journal Article Series (JA) RF wave effects on the neoclassical electron distribution function in tokamaks Schultz, S.V.; Bers, A.; Ram, A.K. (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 1995-01-01) Mode conversion of fast Alfven waves at the ion-ion hybrid resonance Ram, A.K.; Bers, A.; Schultz, S.D.; Fuchs, V. (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 1996-01-01) Finite temperature effects on the space-time evolution of two-stream instabilities Francis, G.; Ram, A.K.; Bers, A. (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 1985-01-01) Lower hybrid current drive in the presence of ion cyclotron waves Ram, A.K.; Bers, A.; Fuchs, V. (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 1993-01-01) Comments on absolute and convective instabilities Ram, A.K.; Bers, A. (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 1991-01-01) New mechanisms of ion energization by multiple electrostatic waves in a magnetized plasma Benisti, D.; Ram, A.K.; Bers, A. (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 1998-01-01) Coupling to Electron Bernstein Waves in Tokamaks Bers, A.; Ram, A.K.; Schultz, S.D. (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 1998-01-01) Studies of Stimulated Raman Scattering in Laser Plasma Interactions Salcedo, A.; Focia, R.J.; Ram, A.K.; Bers, A. (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 2002-11-12) Enhanced current drive with lower-hybrid and ion-Bernstein waves Ram, A.K.; Bers, A.; Fuchs, V.; Schultz, S.D. (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 1994-01-01) Bandwidth of scattered radiation in laser-plasma interactions Chow, C.C.; Ram, A.K.; Bers, A. (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 1990-01-01) Bers, A. (52) Ram, A.K. (52) Schultz, S.D. (9)Fuchs, V. (8)Benisti, D. (7)Chow, C.C. (5)Davies, C.N. (4)Kupfer, K. (4)Taylor, G. (3)Decker, J. (2)... View MoreDate Issued2010 - 2015 (2)2000 - 2009 (10)1990 - 1999 (36)1985 - 1989 (4)Has File(s)Yes (52)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4568
__label__cc	0.658864	0.341136	The DT Division of Cultural Heritage welcomes Wayne Cozzolino! by Doug Peterson \| May 11, 2015 \| Cultural Heritage News We are excited to announce our latest addition to the Digital Transitions Team! Wayne Cozzolino, a long-time veteran in the photography industry, will be joining the Division of Cultural Heritage to provide complete high-end digitization solutions, and most importantly, expert level knowledge and support tailored to the needs of this specialized market. Over the years Wayne has enjoyed working with museums, and is excited to now provide the complete solutions that make the DT Division of Cultural Heritage unique. With 25 years of experience serving photographers and cultural institutions working at MidCity Camera, Calumet Photographic, SSI and ProCenter Camera, Wayne has a reputation of providing long-term customer service and providing “big picture” solutions. As a photographer and mentor himself, his passion for honing his own craft and sharing that knowledge with the community makes him a perfect fit for the DT Division of Cultural Heritage and our mission. Wayne Cozzolino 212.529.6825 x2330	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4569
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__label__cc	0.74595	0.25405	16/09/2018 Beth Gray - the little black ant Sermons Leave a comment How many of us have heard the warning – play with fire and you will get burned? This morning, our reading from the book of James reminds us that the tongue is a fire – and it can consume us. On the one hand, fire brings warmth, safety, clean drinking water and cooked food. But on the other hand, it is also an unruly beast, bringing with it the threat of devastation and death. Fires can roar through communities, burning down houses and leaving many homeless. Fire can raze habitats and displace thousands of animals. The most flammable ecosystems tend to be grasslands and shrub-lands, because the plant stems are thinner and quicker to catch light – causing all of the animals to either burrow deep into the ground, flee or fly away. But, like I said at the beginning – fires can also be used to bring us warmth, safety, energy and cooked food. The fire eventually ends, when it runs out of fuel or when it is put out (by firemen or by nature itself). And James says something along these lines – when speaking about the tongue (it can be good or bad): James 3: 9-10 With it we bless God, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. … this ought not to be so. Many of you may remember, that last week I said: Are you, as a Christian, allowing your identity – “I am a child of God” – to be a catalyst of transformation, through the continual renewing of your mind? You can choose to align your thoughts, your words and your actions with this identity. How do the words out of your mouth reflect that identity? Today, I want to delve into the power of our words – how they shape our reality, our relationships & our way of thinking and being. The first aspect of our words that I want to consider is “Keeping our Word” – the idea that “my word is my bond“. You might remember that last week I started with a quote from Dostoyevsky: Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect, he ceases to love. Something happens inside of us when we fail to keep our word to ourselves – we start to lose faith. In ourselves. Do you mean what you say? Do you say you will do something and then not do it? Imagine the following story: Vanessa and Robert are married and have been married for years. But they have a problem within their conversations and expectations. Robert often asks her Vanessa for help with things. She always says yes because she experiences his request as a demand and is afraid of his reaction if she says no. But then — afterwards — she is angry! Why does she ALWAYS have to do this? A resistant, wounded part of her that was very controlled as a child takes over. She then fails to keep her word. She always has an excuse: “I forgot.” “I haven’t had the time.” “I don’t know how.” “I’m afraid of not doing it right.” Robert, over times, starts to feel frustrated, and eventually gets angry – lashing out at her verbally, which — as you can imagine — serves to create more fear and resistance. Vanessa now feels terrible — she has lost respect for herself — and Robert thinks Vanessa just really doesn’t care for him and his needs and desires. There’s a lot going on below the level of the words – the words are usually the symptom of something deeper. But if we could control our tongue – it would probably mean that we are controlling all those other layers deep below. Life lessons have taught us not to trust people who fail to keep their word. If they let you down numerous times, you come to the conclusion that they are not reliable. We don’t trust them to follow through on what they say they are going to do. Friendships and deeply connected relationships thrive on trust. And so, for this relationship between Robert & Vanessa – trust is getting broken. On the inside of Vanessa, we see the problem as described by Dostoyevsky – she cannot love and respect herself when she does not feel worthy. She does not value herself enough to act with integrity. If she learns how to control her tongue – learns to say “no” when she means “no, sorry, I can’t help you with this at this time”, even though she feels it is an order and not just a request, another little fire will start to burn within her – this time a warming fire, rather than destructive. Imagine if Vanessa loved and respected herself — if she learned to allow her identity – “I am a child of God” – to be a catalyst of transformation, through the continual renewing of her mind? One day, she would reach a moment where she understands that sometimes she needs to say “no” because she doesn’t have time to do what Robert is requesting of her. She does so kindly and graciously, taking a compassionate moment to explain that her word is very important and she wants to keep her word. If Robert, on the other hand, could allow his identity – “I am a child of God” – to be a catalyst of transformation, through the continual renewing of his mind – what type of man might we find? One less demanding and controlling. One less angry and accusing. One that could compassionately express his needs without demanding that they be met. A child of God that knew that his needs were met from above, not by a person – not expecting another person to meet his needs, because he already has his needs met. If either of them chose to make this change — what transformation might occur within the relationship? Can you see, for a moment, how the tongue has so much power? James 3:3-5 tells us: If we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Or look at ships: though they are so large that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! Think, for a moment, about the power of the tongue to set gossip on fire… who has ever played Chinese whispers? I tell you a story, “in confidence”, well… maybe you and two or three more people… but it’s only a couple of people I’ve told. And then those two or three share with others…and the fire grows. How many lives are destroyed by gossip? How big does this fire grow? How about complaining? How many of you know someone that brings you down by complaining? We complain about our politicians. We complain about the healthcare system. We complain about the economy. We complain about the Sunday sermon… think about it — you are with a group of friends and ONE of them starts the complaints about the politicians, local government, the flooding in Via Argentina, the bad job that XX company is doing… and everyone has a log to throw into the fire! But what changes when we complain? What wisdom are we adding? What solution to the problem are we providing? What are we actually doing to fix this and move to a new level? What about the fire of anger and hatred? Have you noticed how those fires are burning at the moment? Fires of racism? Fires of discrimination? Fires of gender inequality and discussions? Fires of religious differences? How many examples of this can you think of right now? Imagine if that one person, at the very beginning, had control of their tongue? What kind of fires could we have that gave us safety, gave us food, gave us energy? Think, for a moment, of words of encouragement? Or words of gratitude? What has happened within your heart when someone has used their tongue to build you up? To encourage you? To give you thanks for what you are doing? What kind of fires could you start with positive words — loving words — compassionate words? Words are so powerful – how many of us have not heard, at some time, the words from Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech? Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” How many fires of hope did Martin Luther King ignite that day with his speech? Or how about Winston Churchill’s speech — commonly referred to as the “We shall fight on the beaches” speech: Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. How many tired and scared souls were ignited that day with courage – roused to carry on fighting against all odds – because of this speech? What kind of fires are you choosing to light with your tongue? bridleChristianitycommandscontrolFaithhandlelanguagemouthpowerrelationshipsself controlspeechthanksthoughtstonguetruthWordwordswords of my mouth Previous Post: What does it mean? Next Post: Lady Wisdom…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4575
__label__wiki	0.646014	0.646014	First Slice: Kamala Harris comes to town Plus: A pair of local elected officials get robbed Photo credit: Courtesy of Kamala Harris ON THE RISE: Senator Kamala Harris By Kimberly Lawson Monday October 2, 2017 01:34 pm EDT #blackgirlmagic: California senator and rising political star Kamala Harris was in town yesterday, giving the keynote speech at the 150th anniversary of First Congregational Church's founding. Politics, schmolitics: An Atlanta city councilman and a City Council hopeful were robbed Saturday night. "That's part of our problem right here is what's happening in this corridor,' said Andrea Boone, who's running for the seat representing District 10. Waste not, want not: An analysis from an environmental watchdog found that Coca-Cola increased its production of plastic bottles by over a billion last year. Another reminder that no place is safe: A gunman shot and killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 400 last night during a country music festival in Las Vegas. They can't even do it for the children: The future of health care coverage for millions of kids hangs in the balance because Congress couldn't get their shit together and approve funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, a bipartisan program that drastically cut the number of uninsured tiny humans in the U.S. In Georgia, it's called PeachCare, and the state stands to lose $427 million. In case you missed it: Tom Price, who was serving as the nation's secretary of Health and Human Services, is coming home. First Slice 10-4-17: Women lead Atlanta's mayoral race Article Wednesday October 4, 2017 02:02 pm EDT 10/04/2017 2:02 pm Plus: The conversation on gun control strikes back \| more... First Slice: Atlanta decriminalizes weed Article Tuesday October 3, 2017 01:38 pm EDT 10/03/2017 1:38 pm Plus: RIP Tom Petty \| more... First Slice 9-28-17: Out on Film kicks off Article Thursday September 28, 2017 01:30 pm EDT 09/28/2017 1:30 pm Plus: RIP Hef \| more... First Slice 9/28/17: Out on Film kicks off Article Community cinema: The 30th annual Out on Film festival kicks off today. It was only a matter of time: Six Georgia professors have filed a lawsuit against the campus carry law, saying the University System of Georgia should be dictating educational policies, not the state government. Taking it offline: GOP state Rep. Jason Spencer and LaDawn Jones, a former state representative, are... First Slice 9-27-17: Arm tights are real Article Wednesday September 27, 2017 01:32 pm EDT 09/27/2017 1:32 pm Plus: Weed in Atlanta moves toward decriminalization \| more... Search for more by Kimberly Lawson	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4582
__label__cc	0.741484	0.258516	Tag Archive for: newspaper You are here: Home / Blog / newspaper Irish Times 31st May 2010 May 31, 2010 /2 Comments/in All Posts, Media /by Peter Donegan I got a call last week from Conor. He was doing this article on Grow Your Own and asked for some thoughts. To the pieces I know that I have written that may refer to my quotes below. Grow your own kits cheaper than B and Q. I think it’s a logic alternate piece. There are many products I have reviewed that I purchased from b&q. This just happened to be one I thought was a bit not for me. This is one post on which compost to buy. If of course one wishes to buy miracle grow compost, which comes with a feed in it, plant in your bedding plants – which have a feed in them and then purchase a liquid or granular feed… The ultimate guide to chickens. There are hen houses out there that do cost more than others. But if I see one more person tell me that my hens know by instinct to not eat my lettuce, radishes and prize roses will eat weeds and that grow your own hens will save me money…. i’ll implode. €1500 plus is a lot of eggs. And as a buy the way I also did a talk, quite recently, for one of GIY groups. The pieces I point out above are just some. There are many others in there. You may have to search within the blog. My comments are in bold below but I do recommend you read the entire original Pricewatch article by Conor Pope. Pay Less For Your Greens The Grow it Yourself movement means gardens everywhere are being taken over by fruit and veg – but growers take note – there’s no need to spend a fortune, writes CONOR POPE IT IS A WARM sunny afternoon and Trevor Sargent, the former Green Party leader and recently resigned Minister of State with responsibility for Food, is covered in bees. Since he stepped down from his ministerial post in controversial circumstances earlier this year he has become an amateur bee-keeper and has proved so adept at managing his hive that the bees now need a second home. He is in the process of relocating some of them when Pricewatch interrupts him to talk gardening. Along with the bees, Sargent has a kitchen garden which has grown rapidly in the last two years. While it is hardly a surprise to learn of this ardent Green’s green fingers, the amount of fruit and vegetables he is cultivating on his small plot of land – no bigger than 7 by 13 metres – is quite remarkable. This year he has potatoes, onions, leeks, shallots, garlic, beets, chard, kale, cabbage, four types of beans, lettuces, radishes, apples, blackcurrants, plums and a cornucopia of other fruits and vegetables growing in his patch. It has even been floodlit and laid with concrete paths to allow him to garden day and night and in good weather and bad. For Sargent the motivation is not about saving money but about “appreciating what goes into making the food that appears on our supermarket shelves and understanding the difficulties our growers face. I don’t know how I’d measure the financial cost of the hours I spend in the garden in the middle of the night but it is cheaper than a psychotherapist and keeps me sane. I find the weeding relaxing and something of a therapy after the frustrations of politics,” he says. Sargent is part of a growing army of Grow It Yourself (GIY) advocates in Ireland and as the movement grows so does the amount of cash we spend on herb, fruit and vegetable plants. It has increased by 40 per cent over the last eight years. The estimated spend on such plants in the gardening year between April 2009 and March 2010 was around €14 million. Spending on sheds, glasshouses growing tunnels and the like increased by 38 per cent to €58 million from 2007 to 2010. Not wanting to be left out, Pricewatch hopped on the bandwagon earlier this year and we planted our own potatoes in a barrel. In keeping with a long-standing Irish tradition, the planting took place on St Patrick’s Day. Incidentally, this tradition first took root because in the 19th century, the Catholic Church distrusted potatoes because there was no mention of them in the Bible and they grew underground so were obviously closer to the devil. Not wanting to incur the wrath of God or the priest, the peasants sowed their spuds on holy days and sprinkled them with holy water, for all the good it did. Our seed potatoes cost less then a fiver, the bag in which they are growing cost the same, the compost was another tenner which takes the total cost of bringing our crop to table at around €20. We could, in fact, buy considerably more potatoes for that sum than we’re likely to get, but to look at it from a purely money-saving perspective is to miss the point, says radio and TV presenter and ardent grow your own enthusiast, Ella McSweeney. “You’re not going to save money in the first year but if you set yourself up properly it is conceivable that you will ultimately cut your costs by growing your own vegetables,” she says. She cautions newbies like us against rushing out and buying all the gear needed to set up a full-scale kitchen garden on day one. “The more you spend the higher your expectations and the more likely you are to feel like you have failed if things don’t go right from the start.” She advises people to start with the easy things – lettuce, radishes – and points out that the key is to grow the things that you like eating. The other key is the soil. “If you get your soil right then everything will happen but if you get it wrong then it will be a lot of frustration.” She says people can source well-rotted manure from farms and stables for free or half nothing. All might not be rosy in the GIY garden, however. Peter Donegan has a landscaping business in north Co Dublin and writes an engaging blog on all things gardening. While he is 100 per cent supportive of people who decide to grow their own vegetables, he expresses grave concern at the rampant commercialisation of the sector and wonders why many of the GIY advocates, those with the loudest voices, are not warning people against spending big money on fertilisers and kits which are entirely unnecessary and ridiculously overpriced. He cites the example of a grow your own kit which sells in B&Q for €6.99. “For that you get three small pots, three handfuls of compost and a couple of seeds. Given the fact that a couple of handfuls of compost cost virtually nothing – five cent tops – and you can buy 1,000 seeds for no more than €4 and use jam jars as pots, the total cost of a DIY kit could be no more than 10 cent.” Donegan points out that there are scores of companies trying to cash in on the grow your own movement by selling bags of supposedly enriched fertiliser at sky-high prices, chicken runs for €1,500 and glass houses for even more again. “Gardening as I knew it when I was five years old was compost-less. It was a handful of muck, sieved and at the back of it all just good craic. But now there is so much claptrap paraphernalia out there now that people are being conned into buying and no-one seems to be shouting stop.” While McSweeney agrees that we don’t need to be spending much on getting off the ground, she does look beyond the finances and says growing your own gives you “an enormous amount of respect for what you buy in the shops and it gives you a huge insight into what it takes to grow crops. You learn all the time and it is possibly the most satisfying thing of all.” For his part, Sargent is critical of the “purist approach” supermarkets adopt to vegetables. “Their insistence on vegetables conforming to a standard size for example leads to a huge amount of waste.” He also bemoans the fact that a lot of the stuff cannot be bought from Irish growers in Irish shops. Only 15 per cent of the onions sold in Ireland are actually grown here so if you want to be sure of eating Irish onions your best bet is to grow them. A lot of vegetables which can and are grown in Ireland never make it on to supermarket shelves because the big retailers and wholesalers prefer to deal with international suppliers who can guarantee a constant year-round flow of information so while scallions grow handily enough in Ireland, the big boys prefer to ship it in from Mexico where they are produced for a pittance by workers paid peanuts. “Wholesalers would have to shift their gaze to smaller Irish producers,” says Sargent. “But they seem reluctant to do that but it is what is going to have to happen at some point if we are ultimately to have food security.” https://doneganlandscaping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/donegan-landscaping-logo.jpg 0 0 Peter Donegan https://doneganlandscaping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/donegan-landscaping-logo.jpg Peter Donegan2010-05-31 07:52:292010-05-31 03:03:07Irish Times 31st May 2010 Irish Mail On Sunday 23rd May 2010 Yesterday, Eugene Higgins of The Irish Mail On Sunday did a great Piece on The Garden Group with the tagline How a Bloom maverick is taking bloggers on tours of our ‘secret’ gardens and titled it A www.walk on the wild side The main picture is of Dena [@curlydena], Mom Vena [@VenaW] and Dad Andrew Walker. [And to think I spent so long brushing my hair that day 😀 ] The other two images are courtesy Jennifer Farley Photography [@laughing_lion]. I’ve asked Eugene for the main text of the piece and will post it below as soon as I get it. For now….. https://doneganlandscaping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/donegan-landscaping-logo.jpg 0 0 Peter Donegan https://doneganlandscaping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/donegan-landscaping-logo.jpg Peter Donegan2010-05-24 16:20:402010-05-24 16:41:40Irish Mail On Sunday 23rd May 2010 Irish Independent March 3rd 2010 March 4, 2010 /5 Comments/in All Posts, Media /by Peter Donegan Wednesday 3rd March was a nice day. I’d had a really great chat with Susan Daly over the phone last week and awoke to a clatter of texts and messages all singing Carly Simon on the answering machine 😉 Great to have humorous friends… I must say it is a great article. Extremely well written by Susan and it was an absolute honour to speak with her. One of life’s really nice people. For those that didn’t get to do so, one can read the article in full here. Apart from a sexy gardener erm….. 😆 also featured are two more of lifes really nice people kieran Murphy and Pat O’Mahony. Thanks also to John Mc Williams for the photograph used above. ‘People ask why I don’t charge for my expertise — where’s the fun in that? Wednesday March 03 2010 “I’m not stupid with the euro in my pocket, but some of the things I most enjoy I do for free. “Recently I took a group of people around the war memorial gardens in Islandbridge. “My wife made country apple pie and we had coffee in flasks, and we have another trip coming up to Ireland’s Eye. “But what people kept bouncing back to me afterwards was: Why didn’t you charge for it? “I don’t get that. I competed at the Irish Conker Championships last year just for fun. “It’s like I won’t put a shop on my blog (doneganlandscaping.com), because that’s not why I do it. “I’d say 50pc of the phone calls I get are for free gardening advice, and I’ve been on the garden side of things on the Niall Mellon trips. “I’m going to sound like a martyr, but for me, it’s just not the point of life to always have to tie in everything you do to paying the bills.” https://doneganlandscaping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/donegan-landscaping-logo.jpg 0 0 Peter Donegan https://doneganlandscaping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/donegan-landscaping-logo.jpg Peter Donegan2010-03-04 00:45:372010-03-04 10:40:34Irish Independent March 3rd 2010 The Guardian Newspaper – The New Carbon Hypocrites…? February 23, 2010 /0 Comments/in All Posts, Good Life /by Peter Donegan Today I got a message noting the guardians coverage of a nice story World’s coral reefs could disintegrate by 2100 Researchers at Carnegie Institution say corals are being overwhelmed by rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere This is the original post for The Guardian by Ian Sample, science correspondent, in San Diego…. It even has some lovely photos 😉 I read the piece. And a fine written article it is if I may say so. I was impressed. That was until I saw their ads for their online shopping parked right beside it….. ...? Yes that’s right…. you can read about the CO2 destruction of the coral reefs whilst drinking your coffee from a mug that has been posted and delivered to you from the UK…. ? Aparently…. It reveals the worlds most severe carbon footprint offenders Erm…………? What’s the word I’m looking for……? I live in Ballyboughal. So it’s plane to Dublin Airport. Then to the sorting office…somewhere…. then to Balbriggan and then to my house…… ? I’ve spoke about green ethics here before… but this one simply stinks of anything that’ll make a few bob being very honest…. that is unless the guardian are going to have an organic corn fed carrier pidgeon deliver this mug right to my door….. ? Wouldn’t it be nice if the Guardian Eco section simply had a sign there saying buy local as possible…. ? ....? https://doneganlandscaping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/donegan-landscaping-logo.jpg 0 0 Peter Donegan https://doneganlandscaping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/donegan-landscaping-logo.jpg Peter Donegan2010-02-23 15:22:502010-02-23 17:21:16The Guardian Newspaper - The New Carbon Hypocrites...?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4590
__label__wiki	0.816082	0.816082	Cop Patrols to Hit Downtown ‘Hot Spots’ By James Turner Winnipeg Sun – February 2, 2012 Winnipeg police have unveiled a long-awaited downtown foot patrol in hopes of curbing negative safety perceptions in the often-badmouthed area. “This is an important step for us,” Winnipeg police Chief Keith McCaskill said Thursday in unveiling the seven-man, one-woman patrol. The beat cops will work days and evenings and are assigned to specific areas in the downtown. Their first day on the job was last Sunday. The cops’ presence will help enhance safety, engage the public and reduce negative impressions people have about crime in the area, the service hopes. The patrol does not interfere with other downtown-safety resources already in place, McCaskill said. “We do know what a lot the problems are,” the top cop said, citing public intoxication, drugs and panhandling as identified issues. “There’s hot spots in certain areas … we think that with concentrated people in those areas and have the ownership of that area, I think it’s going to make a difference.” People are already reacting positively to the patrols’ presence, said Const. Lorraine McDonald. Her first day shift was Monday. She described the current atmosphere on her day shift as “quiet.” “As the weather gets warmer, it will probably pick up,” the former Vice Unit cop said. Cops will be paying close attention to the area around the Portage Place mall, long identified as a problem area for drug slinging. “It will be one of the places we monitor quite frequently,” she said.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4595
__label__wiki	0.796406	0.796406	home>Book-Recommendations 12 Nature Books That'll Help You See the Beauty in Every Day These inspiring books will open your eyes and ears to the wonders of the natural world. Promoted by Patagonia Books By Early Bird Books Staff After what seemed like an endless winter, summer is finally here—which means it's the perfect time to get up and get outside. As tempting as it is to park yourself into front of the A/C, there's a whole world out there, ready for you to explore (or at least, y'know, to notice). As good ol' William Shakespeare once said, "The earth has music for those who listen." As part of our "Get Inspired" Summer Reading Challenge, we're encouraging you to read nature books by people who can hear that music. In the vein of popular nature memoirs like A Walk in the Woods and Into the Wild, the following recommendations, inspired by our sponsor Patagonia Books, are full of insights and wisdom that can only be gleaned from the natural world. Pick one up, find the perfect outdoor reading spot—and you'll start hearing the earth's music too. Still haven't joined our summer reading challenge? Sign up now! (Get the details here.) Yes! I also want to get the Early Bird Books newsletter featuring great deals on ebooks. Swell: A Sailing Surfer’s Voyage of Awakening By Liz Clark For a young Liz Clark, “sailing was [her family’s] way of connecting with nature”—and their frequent outings, plus a nine-month voyage, nurtured a passion for the open water. Clark’s dreams of a worldwide surf trip came to fruition in 2006 when, all alone, she set off for the South Pacific. But the adventure she had always imagined wasn’t picture-perfect: There were dark, lonely nights. There were disasters, both big and small, and personal crises to contend with. As she writes in Swell, these obstacles were matched by once-in-a-lifetime experiences—and both gave her a profound sense of gratitude, self-love, and a greater appreciation for the deep blue. The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains By Barry Blanchard Once upon a time, Barry Blanchard was a poor “half-breed” from a broken family. Armed with guides, dreams, and a naive self-confidence, he began climbing in his native Calgary. Today, Blanchard is a record-setting alpinist who has stood at the summits of the world’s most impressive peaks. The Calling is his account of how he started from the very bottom and—through sheer determination and skill—managed to reach the very top. With reflections on the culture of climbing to descriptions of his craziest adventures, it’s a gorgeous memoir about how finding nature can help us find our truest selves. Closer to the Ground By Dylan Tomine As appealing as it sounds, abandoning our lives for a Walden-esque existence isn’t exactly practical. But Dylan Tomine offers a better, middle-ground alternative in his book. A resident of a Seattle suburb, he and his family strive to live off the local land—without sacrificing TV or wifi connection. They forage for the food they eat, or they catch it from the sea. They use fallen trees as firewood to heat their home. As he describes their environmentally conscious lifestyle, Closer to the Ground becomes as much a memoir as an assurance that there are, in fact, ways you can lead a fulfilled, modern life that is attuned to the natural world. Slow Is Fast: On the Road at Home By Dan Malloy In 2012, surfer Dan Malloy and two of his friends embarked on the bike ride of a lifetime. Their goal? To travel the California coast—all 700 miles of it—and record everything they saw along the way. Needless to say, there were a lot of book-worthy experiences during their 50 days of travel, as they came across knife throwers, farmers, and makers of prehistoric tools. Once you read all about Malloy's statewide trip in Slow Is Fast, you’ll be itching to bust out your neglected Schwinn—even if it’s just for a quick cruise around the neighborhood. Chasing Rumor: A Season Fly Fishing in Patagonia By Cameron Chambers Some people’s imaginations are captivated by stories from ancient Greece, others by childhood fairy tales. But for fly fishing enthusiast Cameron Chambers, an entirely different legend had captured his attention—that of the 20-pound trout found in Patagonia, South America. His fascination led to a six-month search for these mythical fish, which took him into the heart of the Patagonian landscape and culture. Chasing Rumor is the result of that expedition (aside from some pretty impressive catches, of course), and, according to the Chicago Sun Times, is “a fly-fishing book the same way Moby Dick is a whaling tale.” A Mountaineer’s Life By Allen Steck With a nickname like “the Slim Fox,” you know Allen Steck has had his share of wild adventures. Over the past seven decades, he has dared to go where no mountaineer has gone before, including Mount Maclure and Mount Logan’s Hummingbird Ridge. While we don’t recommend you try his stunts at home (unless you're trained!), Speck’s anecdotes about life high up in the air can be motivational for testing the limits of your own strength, endurance, and guts. Malama Honua: Hōkūleʻa - A Voyage of Hope By Jennifer Allen A double-hulled “voyaging canoe,” the Hōkūleʻa is a major part of Polynesian culture and history—one that stems back to the very first Hawaiian settlers. After fading into obscurity, they were rediscovered and, today, are seen as symbols of exploration, courage, and ingenuity. In 2014, a crew traveled 60,000 miles aboard a Hōkūleʻa, using only the wayfinding techniques of their Polynesian ancestors. Their goal? To inform others about the necessity of environmental sustainability, of greater compassion for the natural world, and of fighting against climate change. Author Jennifer Allen chronicles the journey in this book, complementing the crewmates’ stories and teachings with gorgeous photographs taken by John Bilderback. The Voyage of the Cormorant By Christian Beamish Some people tinker with cars in their garages while sipping on ice cold beers. Others build pieces of furniture. But Christian Beamish went a little beyond, constructing an 18-foot wooden boat that he then sailed, solo, along the Baja coast. So began a life-changing odyssey full of lonely nights in coves and days of surfing, speaking with strangers, or learning from the sea. Readers will find all of the details in Beamish’s The Voyage of the Cormorant, “a colorful and humanistic case study of the daily struggle between reconciling ideals and the hard truths of reality” (The Santa Barbara Independent). A Temporary Refuge By Lee Spencer Lee Spencer spent over two decades as an archaeologist, but perhaps one of his most important jobs has been the one he's taken on himself: protecting wild steelhead salmon. Every May through December, Spencer and his dog ward against steelhead poachers, setting up camp alongside Oregon's North Umpqua River. A Temporary Refuge is filled with the observations Spencer made during these seven-month watches—from the fish’s annual cycle to the natural and human histories of the area. More than a study of steelheads, it’s a Thoreau-like meditation on living quietly and harmoniously among nature. Surf Is Where You Find It By Gerry Lopez If there’s anyone who knows about surfing, it’s Hawaii’s Gerry Lopez—a legendary tuberider and "the most stylish surfer ever." In Surf Is Where You Find It, Lopez shares the wisdom he’s gained from riding the wives, his various contributions to the surf community, and his experience as a major pioneer of stand-up paddle. Whether you’re familiar with surfing or not, Lopez’s dedication, expertise, and innovative spirit will inspire anyone trying to find their own passion or refine their own craft. Under the Sea Wind By Rachel Carson Rachel Carson’s revolutionary study of pesticides gave birth to modern environmentalism—but her first and greatest love was always the sea. She wrote her debut (and the first installment of a trilogy), Under the Sea Wind, with a novelist’s flair, creating characters out of the creatures she observed. Poetic prose replaces the biology jargon typical of science nonfiction, and the effect is a fascinating chronicle of East Coast marine life that encourages readers to open their eyes to the wonders of the natural world. Today, Under the Sea Wind is considered a seminal work of nature writing. Related: 6 Rachel Carson Books That Will Make You See the World With New Eyes Arctic Dreams Barry Lopez spent several years with a group of scientists—and the Inuit people themselves—exploring the Canadian Far North. He put his experiences to paper, and wrote the National Book Award-winning Arctic Dreams in 1986. In it, he takes readers into the corners of the world only the bravest have ventured, revealing the landscape’s history, menacing beauty, and transformative impact on the human psyche. Unfortunately, Arctic expeditions aren’t in the cards for many of us—but Lopez’s gorgeous book is the next best thing. Related: Inspiring Nonfiction Books About Nature and Animals Still haven't joined our summer reading challenge? Sign up now! This post is sponsored by Patagonia. Thank you for supporting our partners, who make it possible for Early Bird Books to continue publishing the book stories you love. 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__label__cc	0.70037	0.29963	New ECRM Brand Identity Reflects Technology Enabled, High Touch Evolution 1/14/2020 It's finally here! ECRM has transformed its brand identity with an updated, modernized logo, signifying a new era for the company. ECRM has been helping buyers and sellers achieve success since the company was founded in 1994. In an ever-evolving marketplace, ECRM has continually been at the forefront of change, enhancing its business and processes to better serve its customers in today’s increasingly fast paced digital age. With the increasing number of new product launches and category disruptions occurring each year, staying ahead of innovation has never been more important…or more challenging. To help its customers successfully navigate these challenges, ECRM has transformed its service offering into a comprehensive, technology enabled and high touch suite of category management support solutions that deliver greater efficiency and effectiveness to the buying and selling process. "ECRM's consultative approach results in a much more tailored experience for buyers attending its category programs, which delivers me a productive schedule of appointments with a diverse array of qualified suppliers," said Kenneth Hausmann, Senior Category Manager - Dairy, Frozen & Bulk Foods at Fresh Thyme Farmers Market. "In addition, ECRM’s RangeMe platform is a perfect digital complement to these in person programs that extends our product discovery capabilities year round." 'ECRM’s RangeMe platform is a perfect digital complement to these in person programs that extends our product discovery capabilities year round.' -- Kenneth Hausmann, Senior Category Manager - Dairy, Frozen & Bulk Foods, Fresh Thyme Farmer's Market. ECRM’s new brand identity is a reflection of this transformation and the company’s relentless dedication to serving its customers’ needs via technology and enhanced services: Technology-Enabled Offering: To expand its capabilities, ECRM acquired RangeMe in May 2017 and has been continually integrating the product discovery platform’s powerful functionality into its industry leading category programs and everyday processes. The extensive reach of the RangeMe platform allows buyers to search and access more than 150,000 suppliers, making it an essential category management tool. This online functionality seamlessly augments ECRM’s category programs by expanding its reach, facilitating communication and leveraging proprietary data to drive decision making capabilities. High-Touch Services: ECRM differentiates itself through continuous engagement with its customers via a large, service oriented Client Success team. The team’s capabilities have been enriched with a newly revamped menu of category management support services specifically designed to better align buyer needs and objectives with supplier capabilities. The customer centric approach and on-demand accessibility of the Client Success team ensures more targeted and relevant connections and superior outcomes for category program customers. For suppliers, ECRM drives maximum exposure to the most relevant buyer community. "As a long time ECRM program participant and RangeMe Premium Verified member, I've experienced firsthand how ECRM's evolution has created more diverse opportunities and expanded ROI for suppliers like myself," said Shiv Joshi, Managing Director of Greystone Premium Organic. "Its category programs put us face to face with the right buyers in an incredibly efficient and intimate manner, and RangeMe helps extend our reach even further with additional exclusive opportunities to be discovered." ECRM’s new brand identity has a design that’s strong, bold and modern, yet unquestionably ECRM. “ECRM has done an amazing job adapting to fulfill its customers’ needs,” said Greg Farrar, CEO of ECRM. “Now is the time for the brand to embody the company that we have become.” 'Now is the time for the brand to embody the company that we have become.' -- Greg Farrar, CEO of ECRM Today’s ECRM brings technology, services, industry knowledge and networking together unlike anyone in the industry – creating a competitive advantage for its customers. We’re here making it happen, being your catalyst, your engine, your spark. ECRM is…a driving force for buyers and sellers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4603
__label__cc	0.578821	0.421179	Cape Town’s Gary Eisenberg is top immigration lawyer in South Africa by Eisenberg and Associates \| May 19, 2017 \| News GARY Eisenberg, founding attorney of Cape Town-based law firm Eisenberg & Associates, was named by his peers as South Africa’s best immigration lawyer for the seventh consecutive year. The announcement was published in Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected... Passport expiry date now binding & linked to all temporary residence visas! by Eisenberg and Associates \| Feb 22, 2017 \| News All our clients are urgently advised that the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has recently issued a new Directive which could have severe implications on all temporary residence visas issued beyond the date of expiry of the holder’s passport document. This... Home Affairs: from “horror affairs” to costly outsourced affairs. Carte Blanche reports on Visa Vitriol. by Eisenberg and Associates \| Oct 31, 2016 \| News On Sunday Carte Blanche reported on “Visa Vitriol”. Given our lagging economic growth and widespread lack of skills there is argument that South Africa should be the prime destination for professionals willing to bring their knowledge and experience here. Many... Institutionlised xenophobia? ‘Education is key!’ by Eisenberg and Associates \| Sep 15, 2016 \| News In June this year South African Government said it would be soon publishing a hate crimes bill for comment in order to clamp down on acts of racism and xenophobia. Deputy Justice Minister John Jeffery says, “The inclusion of hate speech and the legal issues that need... Eisenberg challenges the legitimacy of Home Affairs’ contracted visa service application provider in High Court by Eisenberg and Associates \| Nov 18, 2015 \| News Legal proceedings against the Department of Home Affairs (‘the Department’) and its contracted visa application service provider, VFS Global, have been instituted in the Cape High Court with the objective of challenging the legitimacy of the appointment of VFS, the...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4610
__label__cc	0.748283	0.251717	Jurnal Nukleus Peternakan purposes to publish original research and reviews articles on tropical veterinary medicine and domesticated animals such as dog, cat, cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, poultry, as well as Indonesian wild life. Jurnal Nukleus Peternakan cover a broad range of research topics in animal production and fundamental aspects of genetics, reproduction, socioeconomic of livestock, nutrition, physiology, and preparation and utilization of animal products. Articles typically report research with beef cattle, goats, horses, pigs, and sheep; however, studies involving other farm animals, aquatic and wildlife species, endangered animals, and laboratory animal species that address fundamental questions related to livestock and companion animal biology will be considered for publication. The suitability of manuscripts for publication Jurnal Nukleus Peternakan is judged by peer reviewers and editorial board. 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__label__cc	0.582653	0.417347	Top 10 CommScope Innovations: Outside Plant Closure Solutions Christiaan Radelet December 21, 2016 Note: we have been revealing in recent blog posts the top 40 innovations made by CommScope (or one of its acquired companies) as part of our 40th anniversary celebration. We continue today by revealing an innovation from the final grouping of innovations—the top 10—which are being announced in alphabetical order. These are our all-time greatest product and technology innovations. You can also review the complete list of innovations we’ve revealed so far and read more about the overall program and selection process in this November 4 post. CommScope’s Top 40 Innovations—Grouping 1-10 Outside Plant Closure Solutions Definition: Gel seals help seal the cable entries of fiber optic closures in a very reliable and craft-insensitive way. It eliminates the use of gas torches, electrical generators or other specific tooling. It can be easily re-opened and re-used to add cables without compromising the connection. Year of the Innovation: 1992 What is the innovation that CommScope or one of its acquired companies was first in creating? Until 1992, most fiber closures – a box that contains the devices to connect various fiber optic cables – used heat shrinking as a sealing mechanism. This meant that a technician couldn’t open the seal without having to replace it. In addition, heat shrinking required a torch or heat gun to install the seal, so technicians either needed a tank of gas (for a torch) or an electrical source such as a generator to power a heat gun. The market wanted to go to cold-sealing technologies. A Raychem division (now part of CommScope) was the first to use gel sealing for fiber closures in 1992. It further extended the application of this innovation to all fiber optic splice enclosure families with its fiber infrastructure sealing technology (FIST-GCOG) and fiber optic splice closure (FOSC-450) solutions between 1993 and 1998. This Raychem division developed the range of gel formulations as well as the specific physical geometry of the supporting structures that made gel sealing a reality. What was happening in the market that this innovation was needed? As fiber moved from central offices out into the access network in the early 1990s, there was a need for adding and replacing cables in the outside plant, where they were exposed to outdoor elements such as weather, water and more. However, all fiber-sealing technology at the time used heat shrinking as the seal, and these seals couldn’t be opened without having to be replaced. The industry needed a re-sealable closure. The challenge was the gel composition – it had to survive 20-30 years in underground conditions, create a positive, watertight seal, and be easy to deploy. Other companies used solid rubber or mastic sealing mechanisms, but solid rubber often requires additional glue or grease to properly seal, and mastic can’t be separated and reconnected along the same line. These materials are also more cumbersome to apply. Gel base seals can be easily applied by hand, and the gel can always be separated along the same parting line over and over again. How did this innovation benefit customers and the industry? Essentially, gel closures revolutionized the building of the outside plant by making copper and fiber closures watertight and easily applied. Gel closures were easily re-sealable and could be closed by simply pushing them together. This meant that no tools or heat sources were needed, and the system was easier and faster to install. It also required less technician expertise because technicians didn’t have to be trained on heat shrinking technology. Did this innovation act as the springboard for other innovations, and if so, how do they all tie together? Gel closures became the standard sealing method for many CommScope cable joints for outside plant applications. FIST and FOSC products, as well as most copper cable joints and more recent fiber splice terminals, use gel-sealing technology today. What is the significance of the innovation for CommScope? The gel sealing technology is still a key differentiator in the fiber closure families we bring to market today, including FOSC and FIST. With the launch of the Tenio closure family three years ago, we took the next step in the modularity and ease of use of gel seals. In 2016, CommScope sold a record number of the original gel-sealing blocks. Over more than 20 years, there has never been a reported failure of a gel block seal, which is clear evidence of the reliability and strength of this technology. Top 40 Innovations Christiaan Radelet Christiaan Radelet is the director of engineering, advanced processes, for CommScope, and has been with the company for 24 years. Most of his 24 years with the company has been spent working on Outside Plant closures, both in product development and manufacturing. Christiaan is working on the next generation of closures with the materials scientists and advanced engineering team. 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__label__wiki	0.910087	0.910087	Select Language (en-us) (en-us) ESO, the European Southern Observatory Survey Telescopes Usage of ESO Images and Videos About ESO ESO Media Newsletter Gamma-Ray Bursts Science Archive ann1089 — Announcement Summary of International Year of Astronomy 2009 Released 24-page brochure with highlights from the IYA2009 available for download The brochure, called the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Final Report Executive Summary, offers an overview of the many events that took place during the Year, as detailed in full in the 1450-page IYA2009 Final Report, which was released earlier this year. “Tens of thousands of events were held during IYA2009, but unfortunately there is only space in this Executive Summary to mention a small handful,” says Catherine Cesarsky, chair of the IYA2009 Working Group, and the IAU President for most of IYA2009. “We’ve included a diverse cross-section of events that are representative of the Year, but they should not be viewed as a ‘best of IYA2009’. We are grateful to everyone who took part in IYA2009 and we would like to say thank you to you all." The print-ready files and source files (Adobe InDesign file and images) are also available for IYA2009 stakeholders to adapt for use in their own reports. The Executive Summary, print-ready files and source files are now available for download here: http://www.astronomy2009.org/summary/ The IYA2009 Final Report can be downloaded in full here: http://www.astronomy2009.org/report/ Pedro Russo IYA2009 Global Coordinator IAU/ESO ePOD Garching, Germany Email: prusso@eso.org About the Announcement Id: ann1089 PR Image ann1089a Front cover of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Final Report Executive Summary	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4620
__label__wiki	0.672216	0.672216	Overwatch is a hugely popular hero shooter that allows players to combine character strengths and overcome opponents. Pick a champion with esports betting for the ability to gain massive cash rewards! Best Overwatch Betting Brands 2019 Best Esports Brand 18+ New Customers Only. Terms & Conditions Apply. Rated (237) BET NOW Visit Betway BET £10 GET £10 FREE BET NOW Visit Mr Green GET £40 BET NOW Visit Unibet BET NOW Visit Bet365 BET NOW Visit Paddy Power Brief overview & history In the world of first person shooters, Overwatch is among the newest and most unique additions to the genre. While some players compare Overwatch to the Valve title Team Fortress 2, Blizzard’s game has much to offer in terms of interactions and storyline. Blizzard has actually created a whole new universe to add to their gaming eternity, with teamwork necessary to succeed and amazing personalized heroes to choose from. How it’s played & how to win real money The game is played like a first person shooter with the added element of character diversity and development. Overwatch, when played in a competitive style, has two teams of six players each. Before spawn, each player gets to choose their character for the match – the goal is to combine champion strengths to overcome your opponents in strategic face-offs on the map. There are four competitive modes here, with each of the maps designed especially for the corresponding game mode. Let’s take a look at all of them now. Claiming the defending capture points on the map grants teams victory points. With a certain similarity to Battlefield’s Conquest, Assault lets teams work together to reach the desired capture points and keep them to themselves for as long as possible. Group tactics are of an extreme value here, as any Overwatch player will tell you. The eligible maps for Assault are Hanamura, Temple of Anubis, and Volskaya Industries. We can play the Escort Mode in Overwatch on the Watchpoint, Gibraltar, Dorado, and Route 66 maps. The mode is more often than not called Payload, too. The goal of the attacking team is to move a cart to the designated delivery point. This sounds simple enough…until a group of opponents starts raining down bullets on your head. Standing in close range of the cart enables us to guide it – what’s more, an increased number of teammates standing in the vicinity grants the cart with an increased movement speed. So again, playing the mode like a well-oiled machine is vital. Meanwhile, the defending team needs to prevent the cart from reaching its designated finish point. If they manage to keep it out of their protected place until the mode time runs out, they are victorious. Vice-versa, if the attackers get to “drive” the cart to the promised land, they win the round. The Control Mode is exactly what the name suggests – two teams fighting at various objective-based challenges in three rounds. Each of those rounds designates an area as the Object. Teams can move closer to the object area by keeping a close formation of their characters – this gets them closer and closer to the win, with each round requiring us to visit a different location on the map. There is a Ban Map option here – each team takes turns to put a veto on a certain map. All remaining maps are eligible for play as different tournaments have varying ban structures – some take out more maps than others. But the goal at the end is the same – claim the Objective Points and win two out of the three rounds. Control is played on Lijan Tower, Nepal, and Ilios Maps. As we can guess by the name, Hybrid combines a number of FPS game modes. The first part of Hybrid is represented by the Battle for Capture Points. Secondly, we get to the Escort play mode. This makes Hybrid maps more versatile to play, and provides more opportunities for high-skilled players to shine. The maps here are King’s Row, Numbani, and Hollywood. As a part of the esports betting scene, the FPS is still a baby compared to other titles like CS: GO and Call of Duty. Despite that fact, the game is becoming increasingly popular with esports betting sites like Unibet Esports, Paddy Power Esports, Mr Green Esports, Betway Esports, Pinnacle, GG.bet, Thunderpick, or Bet365 Esports, and we can see it being a core fantasy sport with those in the future. Real money and play money bets are open in Overwatch. The latter is not of our concern, so we will skip them. No in-game items can be posted as bets for this one, so they are out of the mix, too. Depositing with a credit card, PayPal, Paysafecard, and other payment options makes us eligible for an esports bet on Overwatch. Betting on such a game is similar to traditional sports betting. We decide which market to pursue, take our desired odds to pick, and place our bet. It’s that simple! There are a couple of ways to stake at Overwatch. The most popular type of Overwatch bets is to combine them with other famous esports titles. In those cases, the game acts as an enhancer for combination slips while we leave the bigger profit odds for the bigger fantasy sports. Currently, most esports betting sites, even renowned names such as GG.bet, Pinnacle, and Thunderpick, offer limited Overwatch betting options. In most situations, we would want to predict the winner of a matchup and bet in their favour. We can also go for Fantasy Leagues scoreboards but this method is still in development, and it doesn’t require real money to be played. How is the game different from others? The sole difference in Overwatch comes from the character introduction for Blizzard. They are most adept in creating RPG titles such as Diablo 2, Diablo 3, and World of Warcraft but the developer company have found an unexplored avenue to look into. While many MOBA players like to switch it up with FPS games, Blizzard has combined the two genres to give us Overwatch. The characters in the game all have unique abilities and strong or weak points. We usually don’t get to play an FPS with a storyline behind our character. In Overwatch, we find 21 different champions to pick from. They all have 2 basic abilities and an Ultimate one. These are the available classes to play in Overwatch: Offense Characters Starting with the damage dealers, the Offense Class in Overwatch is designed to deal as much damage as possible to enemy units. They can also work as assassins for valuable heroes on the opposing team. Almost all of their Ultimates are suited to nuke enemies in a matter of seconds. Examples of such champions are Pharah, Reaper, Tracer, and Hanzo. Defense Characters On the other end of the spectrum, Defense Champions are used as mines/turret placers in high-priority sections of the map. They also support the Offense/Tank teammates to ensure they are healthy enough to go into a fight. Such characters are Bastion, Widowmaker, and Torbjorn. Tank Characters Tanks in Overwatch hold our positions and push away enemy attacks. They protect their fellow champions by using shields, absorbing and deflecting damage. They may be slow but they are extremely powerful so don’t underestimate them. Examples of this class are Winston and Reinhardt. Support Characters Supports are the helping hand in Overwatch. Be it healing Tanks, aiding Defensive Champions to reach a certain map point, or enhancing the damage of Offense Teammates, supports are there to pave the way to victory. Such heroes are Mercy, Zenyatta, and Symmetra. Another unique point in Overwatch is the character composition during any match. While in other FPS games, we simply choose a hero and finish the game with him/her, Blizzard suggests that competitive play requires more thought to the process. In an anti-static meta-structure, characters can change forms throughout any match. We can choose a Tank for the start of the game just to realize that another Support is needed on the battlefield. This also pushes players to try out more champions – there isn’t any restriction to how often duplicating champions can be used by either of the teams. Most tournaments, however, regulate in-team compositions to avoid overwhelming character-combos. Overwatch can be played on both console and PC systems. Current tournaments only take place on the PC platform but this is due to the keyboard-mouse combination in PCs. If future console controllers evolve, we may be seeing a shift in the platform of choice for competitive Overwatch play. Furthermore, we can’t mix consoles during a game – meaning our teammates must play on a PC if we are using one, and we have to get behind a console if we are playing with our PS4 friends. Overwatch Betting Rules Overwatch betting standard rules are pretty easy to follow. We launch the game, enter the game finder, pick a champion, and follow the objectives on the map. Completing them gets us ahead on the scoreboard until an eventual win. Feature & advantages We talked a lot about the Overwatch features in each section, and now it’s time to take a look at the advantages and prize pools of the game. It is kind of a unique merging of MOBA and FPS, and it is still a fresh addition to the esports betting community – this makes all Overwatch tournaments open for every player with the means to enter them. This is why placing bets on Overwatch tournaments may be extremely volatile. Prize pools in Overwatch tournaments aren’t even close to reaching the heights of DOTA 2 and League of Legends. Most tournaments don’t come with over a $1,000 prize money pool, with a few exceptions going up to $10,000 ($5,000 for the winner). This can lead to great difficulties with regular players but this is soon to change, according to esports experts. The small prize pools only catalyze wider sponsorship for promising players – don’t think that huge esports enterprises don’t see the promise in Overwatch. It is just a rumor, but some Overwatch enthusiasts expect that Blizzard will start their own tournament scheme. If this happens, betting options at all esports gambling sites will increase immensely. Nowadays, some tournaments of the game gather up to 40,000 people at once but imagine the number if Blizzard started hosting the competition themselves. The moment they take a step into the market, we will head to the Overwatch tab in our favourite esports betting platform! © esportsbettingexperts.com 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4621
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__label__wiki	0.822767	0.822767	Former Bosnian minister accused of embezzling EU funds A former Bosnian minister and three others have been charged with abuse of power and corruption for illegally profiting from an EU-funded project, the prosecutor’s office in Sarajevo announced on Monday. In a written statement from the Sarajevo Prosecutor’s Office, former Bosnia and Herzegovina Security Minister Dragan Mektic, the head of the cabinet, an assistant and a businessman were “involved in high-level corruption that damages the country’s international reputation”. The alleged acts are linked to the implementation of an EU-funded project of 198,000 euros to facilitate cross-border cooperation in the fight against fires. The four men are suspected of having fraudulently pocketed some 125,000 euros, through the purchase of equipment and the recruitment of companies and staff for the project. Dragan Mektic, in office from 2015 until the establishment of a new government in December 2019, told local press that these charges were politically motivated. According to the statement, the prosecution plans to call 31 witnesses to the stand and present140 pieces of material evidence. Since the end of the Bosnian war (1992-95), the country has been divided into two entities, one Serb and the other Croat-Bosnian, united by a central government, which is mainly in charge of foreign affairs, defence and finance. This complex and bloated system is accused of fostering corruption and embezzlement. Bosnia applied to join the EU in 2016 but is still awaiting candidate status due to necessary reforms often being blocked by political and community conflicts. Liviu Dragnea - Italian mafia - In-Depth - drug trafficking - drug smuggling - organised crime - montenegro organised crime - Ukraine - Polish judicial reforms - money laundering - cyber crime - people smuggling - Romania - Italy - fraud - Viktor Orban - Mob Watch - human trafficking - Legal Watch - Laura Kovesi - Kosovo - UK - Ukraine corruption - bribery - Milo Djukanovic - Transparency International - National Anticorruption Directorate - Spain - Viorica Dancila - people smugglers - cocaine - Interpol - dark web - Spanish National Police - National Crime Agency - Political Watch - Albanian criminal groups - terrorism - Europol - Council of Europe - corruption - romania corruption - Jan Kuciak murder - European Commission - Daesh	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4625
__label__cc	0.534985	0.465015	Eurasian Geopolitics Edward W. Walker, UC Berkeley Arctic maps Baltic maps Belarus maps Central Asia maps Eur’s migrant crisis Geopolitical maps Moldova maps North Caucasus maps Russia maps South Caucasus maps Syria maps Ukraine maps USSR maps Why the Ukraine crisis is still very dangerous (short version) Posted on March 16, 2015 by Edward W. Walker • Posted in Ukraine crisis • 1 Comment I am about to post a long piece on the Ukraine crisis derived from a talk I gave last week at Berkeley. I have indulged myself, however, and allowed it to grow too long for the average reader. So what follows is an eight-point summary of the argument for those with less patience. The U.S. and its NATO allies have been taking significant steps to build up NATO’s eastern defenses since Russia annexed Crimea early last year, and those measures are going to continue. They have also been providing military assistance to Ukraine, and that assistance is going to increase. If the fighting in eastern Ukraine ramps up again, it is very likely that the U.S. and at least some of its NATO allies will begin providing lethal weapons to Kyiv, which will likely mean an all-out proxy war between the West and Russia in Ukraine. It might also precipitate an open Russian invasion of Ukraine. Western governments are increasing military assistance to Georgia, and NATO membership for Georgia (as well as for Ukraine) has not been taken off the table. Indeed, Western officials continue to signal that Georgia is on a path toward eventual NATO accession. Not just the Kremlin but the Russian political elite and public broadly view all this as extremely provocative, as an illegitimate encroachment on Russia’s rightful sphere of influence, and as a threat to Russian national security. While many Westerners find those interpretations implausible and unwarranted given Russia’s behavior towards its neighbors, it does not really matter what they think as far as the risk of war goes – what matters is what Moscow thinks. Although Russian officials have made very clear that Moscow views NATO’s military response to the Ukraine crisis as threatening and illegitimate, the Kremlin’s redlines are not particularly clear. Nor is it clear how it will react if those redlines are crossed, openly or covertly. Nonetheless, the Kremlin will take countermeasures one way or the other, and it will do so in part asymmetrically – that is, it will respond not only in Ukraine but in the Middle East, East Asia, the Arctic, and so on, and it will make moves in arenas where it believes it has a comparative advantage, such as brinksmanship, including nuclear brinksmanship, or cyberwar by proxy. (I outlined some of these possible responses in earlier posts, but see in particular “No own goals at the September NATO summit,” posted on June 16, 2014.) Part of Moscow’s response will be political and economic in nature, but a good part – and the most dangerous part – will be military. Moscow’s response is also going to be guided by a (doubtless correct) assumption that the Russian public has a much higher pain threshold, and a considerably higher tolerance for risk, than either the U.S. or especially West European public. The current confrontation between Russia and the West entails a risk of a military clash between NATO and Russia. I would characterize it as a kind of Black Swan-type risk – not in the sense that it is inherently unpredictable, but in the sense that it is a low probability event with potentially enormous and unforeseeable consequences. The current goings on in and around the Kremlin (notably Putin’s apparent health problems, the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a possible challenge to Kremlin authority from the Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, and signs of serious differences among elite factions in Moscow) only add uncertainty to an already uncertain, and dangerous, relationship between Russia and the West. I believe they should be viewed a wildcard factor that makes risk assessment all the more difficult, not as signs of Putin’s imminent demise or a change of direction in foreign or domestic policy. ← The spillover effects in Eurasia of Russia’s economic woes Why the Ukraine crisis is still very dangerous (long version) → One thought on “Why the Ukraine crisis is still very dangerous (short version)” Pingback: RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2015-#55 table of contents with links :: Wednesday 18 March 2015 \| Johnson's Russia List Follow Eurasian Geopolitics on WordPress.com I’m a recently retired comparative political scientist who worked at UC Berkeley from 1993 to December 2017. I’ve been studying the Soviet Union and its successor states since I began my graduate work at SAIS in 1984. (I went on to get my Ph.D. at Columbia — see “About” above). I started this blog in March 2014 as a way to share my take on the unfolding drama in Ukraine, but as the title suggests I plan to cover a broad range of topics. I also intend to make the posts future-oriented — that is, mostly about where we are going, although that necessarily requires consideration of where we’ve been. If interested, you can follow me on Twitter: @gnuggat1. Bellingcat – crowd sourcing intelligence Carnegie Corporation: Rebuilding US-Russia Relations Council on Foreign Relations: Russia and Central Asia David Johnson: Johnson's Russia List Dmitry Gorenburg: Russian Military Reform Judy Dempsey: Strategic Europe Mark Galeotti: In Moscow's Shadows Meduza News Michael Kofman: Russian Military Analysis MilitaryMaps: Russian language military maps of conflict zones Russia Insider: Taming the Corportate Media Bias South Front: Geopolitical analysis and intelligence (Russian based) The Kyiv Post UA "live" map of Syria-Iraq battlezone UA "live" map of Ukraine crisis VoxUkraine: Policy analysis on Ukraine EWW Recent Publications and Media Appearances A Strategic Response to the Ukraine Crisis, Huffington Post, April 1, 2014 Between East and West: NATO Enlargement and the Geopolitics of the Ukraine Crisis Bread and Circus: Putin and the Sochi Olympics, ISEEES Newsletter, Spring 2013 EWW email interview, Ashish Kumar Sen of The Atlantic Council, March EWW interview on Ukrainian "Historians" website, published October 22, 2014 EWW interview with Liga.business in Kyiv, Oct. 28, 2014 [In Russian] EWW moderating discussion with Russian Duma member Ilya Ponomarev at SF World Affairs Council, May 21, 2015 The Growing Risks of Moscow's Military Intervention in Syria, The Moscow Times, May 19, 2017 Twenty Years On: What We Thought Then, What We Know Now What’s Behind Russia’s Moves in Ukraine? NATO Expansion, L.A. Times, March 4, 2014 EWW bio EWW c.v. (pdf) UC Berkeley Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Ukraine crisis Institute for the Study of War (in particular, for coverage of Syria/Iraq conflict) Energy politics Illiberalism and populism Russia domestic politics Russian foreign policy Soviet history Syria conflict US-Russian relations	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4628
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__label__cc	0.509439	0.490561	"Pirate Sun" by Karl Schroeder "Stalking the Vampire" by Mike Resnick “Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy” edited by Wi... Winners of the Mike Carey Giveaway and Misc. News.... “The Magicians & Mrs. Quent” by Galen Beckett "Lord Tophet" by Gregory Frost Dabel Brothers Publishing to Adapt the Cult Classi... "Vicious Circle" by Mike Carey w/Bonus Q&A Winners of The Ten Thousand, David Weber, The Dang... "An Autumn War" by Daniel Abraham w/Bonus Q&A "The Essential Batman Encyclopedia” by Robert Gree... “The Man with the Iron Heart” by Harry Turtledove “By Schism Rent Asunder” by David Weber Press Releases — Debut Novelist Suzanne McLeod, Re... "The Dangerous Days of Daniel X" by James Patterso... “The Alchemy of Stone” by Ekaterina Sedia "The Martian General's Daughter" by Theodore Judso... Interview with Marie Brennan "Through a Glass, Darkly" by Bill Hussey “The Grin of the Dark” by Ramsey Campbell Winners of the Chris Evans/A Darkness Forged in Fi... 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INTRODUCTION: “Pirate Sun” is the third book in Karl Schroeder’s hard SF Virga series, following “Sun of Suns” and “Queen of Candesce”. This book focuses on the character of Chaison Manning, former admiral of Slipstream which is one of the more powerful Virga nations. The series will continue with “The Sunless Countries.” SETTING: Virga is a 5,000-mile wide balloon of air warmed by artificial suns, mostly built by the small nations inhabiting it, but with one huge central “sun” called Candesce. This huge enclosed realm contains a miniature cosmos of floating worlds and wheel-like townships, and since they tend to move around, their political relationships evolve in time based on the relative degree of closeness. In book one, we followed Hayden Griffin on a mission of revenge against Chaison Manning, the admiral in charge of the task force that suppressed the Aerie resistance and killed Hayden’s family and friends. In book two, we followed the ambitious, foreign born wife of Chaison, Venera, who believing her husband dead tries to build her own power base on the nation of Spyre. In “Pirate Sun”, we follow the admiral himself, Chaison Manning, who has been imprisoned for his daring raid that foiled the attack on Slipstream in the first book. After his rescue, he teams with a mysterious woman named Antaea from the outskirts of Virga—“the sunless countries” as those are called—and tries to get home and clear his name. But few things are as they seem, and some new facts about the Virga are revealed with more to come in the next installment. FORMAT/INFO: The ARC edition of “Pirate Sun” that I own stands at 319 pages divided into three named parts and twenty numbered chapters. There is a prologue connecting with what happened in book two, and an epilogue that is a clear connection with the next book considering its title. There is also a map of Virga on the first page. The narration happens in the novel's present and is third person, following mostly the adventures of Chaison and Antaea, with appearances by several important secondary characters. Venera Manning also has some intriguing moments, but this is definitely Chaison and Antaea's book. While you can read “Pirate Sun” as a standalone novel, you will get more enjoyment out of the book after reading the first two volumes in the Virga series. August 5, 2008 marks the North American Hardcover publication of “Pirate Sun” via Tor Books. Cover art is provided by Stephan Martiniere. PLOT HINTS AND ANALYSIS: After the connecting prologue, “Pirate Sun” starts off with a bang when Chaison Manning, on his way to the customary rough prison interrogation, manages to escape with several companions. Wondering about their mysterious helper when hiding from the ensuing pursuit, Chaison and his companions, Darius and Richard, finally meet their benefactor in the form of Antaea, who is disguised as a Virga home guard scout. From here, the novel keeps up its fast pace following the adventures of our heroes as Chaison wants to get back to Slipstream, clear his unjustly blackened in absentia name, and find out what happened with his wife. However, he is also strongly attracted to the warrior-like Antaea who makes a sharp contrast with the sophisticated and intrigue-prone, Venera. On his way home, Chaison gets involved in local politics and war between various nations of Virga and shows a lot of courage in helping Stonecloud—one of those “city states”—use innovative tactics to defend itself against an attack by powerful neighbors that would have destroyed it otherwise. The final part of the novel mostly takes place in Slipstream itself and contains quite a few unexpected surprises. One of the main pleasures of reading the Virga series is figuring out the strange environment of the setting and this book makes no exception. Both the technological and physical wonders of Virga are on display here, sometimes overshadowing the characters and story, but for me the interactions of the people of Virga are of special interest and here we get to see more of the worlds/nations there and their specific, and sometimes, unique socio-political setup. So we get to see “states” like Falcon Formation; Gretels; political movements like the hardline Aerie resistance fighters who, as it may be surmised, do not have a great fondness for Chaison; and also more of the internal workings of Slipstream itself. Topping this, there are hints about what's beyond Virga in the larger Universe out there. The book wraps up quite a few threads from the previous novels and the ending is well done, but it is clear that the larger issues that hover in the background require more books in the series. The change of POVs between the novels work well in this case since Chaison—the epitome of “honor, courage, military and integrity”—while glimpsed first through the biased eyes of Hayden, is a very interesting character. The mysterious Antaea is also developed pretty well though some of her motivations remain murky and probably will be explored later. And if you like strong female characters, you cannot go wrong with Venera Manning, whose limited appearances here—after she was the star of “Queen of Candesce”—are some of the novel’s highlights. Overall, “Pirate Sun” is a fast-paced and interesting hard SF adventure… Hey Robert, You've got a great couple of books forthcoming for review, really looking forward to all of them. Will you also be doing a review of Steel Remains soon? I was planning on posting a review of The Steel Remains next week along with a Bonus Q&A with Richard. Unfortunately, my blog has been mistakenly tagged as a 'spam-bot' and I can't publish any new posts. For instance, the August 2008 spotlight was supposed to go up today. Instead, I have to wait for someone to review the website, which may or may not ever happen. Needless to say, I am extremely frustrated...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4641
__label__cc	0.623069	0.376931	Farazian Focus A no-nonsense, unbiased perspective on global foreign policy BRIEF RESUME OF GENE RAINEY, Ph.D. The KURDISH DILEMMA IS GEOPOLITICS NOT OIL « MANCHESTER, BAGHDAD, KABUL, MANILA, AND LONDON: THE TRUTH President Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy: Rhetoric, Twitter/Theatricals, and Reality In Syria and North Korea » 6 Jul 2017 \| BRITAIN · Erdoğan · HASSAN FARAZIAN · KURDS · NIGERIA · PESHMERGAN · TURKEY · US / WESTERN FOREIGN POLICY By: HASSAN FARAZIAN SUMMARY: The recent opinion by Ellen Wald on the planned Kurdish referendum for independence without any international and UN mandate needs more historically geopolitical scrutiny to connect the dots with the evolution and prospects of the Kurdish movement and the Kurdish Regional Government(KRG) in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The following are pertinent by respectfully filling the factual gap in examining a different analysis. In the 1970’s during the Iran/Iraq politico-regional tension and rivalry The Shah of Iran with the help and approval of the United States, Britain and very high participation of Israel helped Mustafa Barzani, also known as Mullah Mustafa a true Kurdish nationalist leader with arms and logistic support to destabilize Saddam Hussein’s regime — at the time an ally of the Soviet Union in the context of East-West geostrategic conflicts. Mullah Mustafa also helped smuggle Iraqi Jews to the safe Heaven of Iran as their first stop that had a de facto relationship with the Jewish State. But for Israel, apart from the rescuing of Jews, the bigger strategic objective was to destroy the rising Iraqi military. Therefore, when the entire operation ended in 1975 because of the Iran-Iraq Algerian Peace Agreement, Israel was extremely unhappy. However, it is crucial to remember the Kurdish help was an essential part of The Shah’s strategy that had finally brought Saddam Hussein to the negotiation table. In the aftermath of the US, Britain and its allies 2003 invasion of Iraq, Israel was at it again by sending its military and intelligence operatives to Iraqi Kurdistan as well as encouraging the return of Kurdish Jews to that region as its fifth column – until now. It has also helped the KRG enormously through political, financial, military and intelligence aid and guidance. The clandestine sale of Iraq’s oil by the KRG through Israeli ports is indeed masterminded and implemented by Israel. The aim this time around for Israel has been to diminish the Iranian presence and influence in Iraq, by creating a surrogate base that would match the Iranian socio-cultural and religious affinity in the region. The oil factor and its acquisition by the KRG although financially important to its objective of pursuing Israeli guided scenario of independence is not crucial anymore to the global oil industry given oil’s declining position that shall continue to haunt all producing countries. In the United States alone, solar and wind has just reached the 10 percent level of its Total Energy production and rising. Ironically, Texas is the biggest producer of Wind power in the United States. The market glut is here to stay as new technology (such as oil fracking) along with the continuing economic slowdown has meant the end of OPEC as we have known it. According to a reliable source, at least 5 to 10 percent of all oil sales by OPEC members and other producers are sold as much as 10 percent below the official announced market price — because of the oil glut as well as economic necessity and enormous budget deficit in the oil-producing countries with Nigeria being the biggest unofficial price discounter. The KRG cannot hope to use the oil as leverage to reach its political goal of independence and recognition either by OPEC members or the international community. Surrounded by hostile environment as a landlocked region, the KRG and any future independent Kurdistan will have to surmount many practical as well as political obstacles in the long run diplomatically and not, as Ms. Wald has suggested, through arms struggle which is not a realistic option. The historical Kurdish heritage has meant a deep-rooted cultural bond and harmony with Iran that has never had a “Kurdish” problem in the same way experienced by Turkey or Syria. In fact, the Kurds celebrate the same Iranian New Year Norooz, and their flag resembles a large degree the one used by the pre-revolution Iranian regime; and their current Prime Minister Nechervan Barzani is the grandson of Mullah Mustafa and a graduate of Tehran University. The Turkish and Syrian perspective is, however, very different as they have both shared a common political, territorial and military goal and hostility in suppressing any Kurdish aspiration for independence. For this reason alone, in the current Syrian crisis, Turkey has repeatedly launched fatal airstrikes against Kurdish fighters in Syria that Washington has supported and consider effective against ISIS. It has also operated deadly strikes in northern Iraq against the US and Israeli supported Peshmerga. This is drawing a line in the sand by Turkey as a grave warning against any declaration of independence either by KRG or its recognition by their supporters such as Israel and the United States or Europe that have been in a tense relationship with Turkey’s government. In the current very precarious Middle East turmoil and economic uncertainties in the West as a whole, they cannot afford yet another dispute with the controversial Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan that has been on thorny grounds, even with its traditional allies the United States and Germany since his accession to power. In short, the West needs Turkey more than it can afford another geostrategic challenge — with most likely another wave of human tragedy — which a new conflict for the support of an independent Kurdistan would undoubtedly imply. There is also the reality of a fractured Kurdish political entity that should not be underestimated by the supporters of an independent Kurdistan. As the United States and its allies have found out the hard way in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now forgotten South Sudan, these countries are riddled with many ethnic and religious schism. Hence an important underlying reason for the US and the West’s failure, in general, to “babysit” and accomplish the act of nation-building. In the aftermath of the 1975 Algerian Peace agreement between Iran and Iraq, Mullah Mustafa and many of his collaborators were sacrificed and were given refugee status in Iran. Then in 1999 the United States and Israel abducted Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK [Kurdistan Workers Party] leader handing him over on a silver platter to Turkey. But Henry Kissinger’s cold-blooded response in a leaked report on covert intelligence activities known as the “Pike Report” had summed up the true nature of the United States and Israeli attitude and objective in the Kurdish operation when he had stated: “…..Covert action….should not be confused with missionary work.” The declared Kurdish leaders of various factions should seriously heed the call of history. By responsibly accepting, for now, greater autonomy in Iraq to an unattainable independence objective that can very well drag the brave, courageous Kurdish people into yet another disastrous and consequential calamity witnessed in Syria, Libya, and the greater Middle East – as envisaged and proven by the unscrupulous foreign interests. The United States and Israeli support for the Kurds right now are based on their – flawed – strategic and tactical interests, Period. The recent statement by the Pentagon that all arms given to the Kurdish fighters will be retrieved after the defeat of ISIS and as unrealistic it may sound is supposed to reassure Turkey, NATO’s southern flank partner about its policy toward Kurdistan. There is no doubt that because of their shortsighted and an unattainable “policy” in the long run and as sure as eggs is eggs, the United States and Israel will eventually abandon both the Syrian and the Kurdish factions they are supporting solely for their strategic purposes. Just as they have always done previously on other occasions over the past decades. Please help Support FARAZIANFOCUS through your financial generosity. 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__label__wiki	0.504841	0.504841	HomePosts tagged 'Croatian music teacher' Croatian music teacher Fasab’s Fact Feast Day! August 19, 2014 August 17, 2014 fasab Factoids, Unusual 2010 earthquake, a combination overcoat and parachute, animals were put on trial, Archi, author, Bay area resident, Bristol, California, car caught on fire, Caspian Sea, charities, China, conjugations, Croatian music teacher, dentures, drove into a gorge, drowned, dung beetles, education, England, Entertainment, escaped the jaws of death, fact, fact feast, factoid, factoids, facts, first chocolate bar, Francis Ford Coppola, Frane Selak, Franz Reichelt, French tailor, Fry's chocolate factory, haystack, Hollywood, Hollywood Walk of Fame, humorous and serious quotes, information, invention, jumping off the Eiffel Tower, language, larger-than-life legends, malfunctioning plane door, medieval times, Milky Way, Misc, Miscellaneous, navigate, New Zealand, passengers, plane crashed, Pony Express, R2-D2, random facts, rebuild the city of Christchurch, river, Robert de Niro, Robin Williams, Rubicon restaurant, San Francisco, Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2, Selak, sentenced to death, skidded off the road, spoken, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, star, Star Wars encyclopedia, Star Wars robot, struck by a bus, teeth of dead soldiers, ten deadliest wars, Thoughts, title, train, tribute, trivia, verb, widespread consumption, World’s luckiest unluckiest man, WWI Hello and welcome to another fact feast day on the fasab blog. The usual selection of random facts, but with a few extras thrown in as a tribute to the late, great, and apparently much troubled Robin Williams. In spite of the larger-than-life legends, the Pony Express only lasted 19 months (April 1860 to October 1861) According to a published Star Wars encyclopedia, the real name of the Star Wars robot known to us as ‘R2-D2’, is actually ‘Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2’. Robin Williams was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California The first chocolate bar suitable enough for widespread consumption was produced by the Fry’s chocolate factory, located in Bristol, England in 1847. Of the ten deadliest wars every fought, seven were fought in China More people died in each of the two largest than in WWI Up until the 1800s dentures were often made from the teeth of dead soldiers. Robin Williams devoted much of his time and energy to charities. he supported St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and helped to rebuild the city of Christchurch after the 2010 earthquake in New Zealand. In Archi, a language spoken around the Caspian Sea, each verb can have up to 1.5 million different conjugations During medieval times animals were put on trial and sometimes sentenced to death Robin Williams co-owned the Rubicon restaurant in San Francisco with his friend Robert De Niro and fellow Bay area resident Francis Ford Coppola. You have roughly 70,000 thoughts Dung beetles can use the Milky Way to navigate. (My stars!) The title, “World’s luckiest unluckiest man” belongs to Frane Selak, a Croatian music teacher, who has literally escaped the jaws of death seven times. On January 1962, a train he was on flipped off the tracks killing 17 passengers. He survived. In 1963, he was sucked out of a malfunctioning plane door and landed in a haystack; the plane crashed killing 19 people. In 1966, a bus Selak was on skidded off the road and into a river where four passengers drowned. 1970 and 1973 his car caught on fire; 1995 he was struck by a bus and in 1996 he drove into a gorge. In 1911, French tailor Franz Reichelt decided to test his invention, a combination overcoat and parachute, by jumping off the Eiffel Tower. It didn’t work. Robin WIlliams is also the author of many both humorous and serious quotes such as: “Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.“ “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.“	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4644
__label__cc	0.665202	0.334798	Kid of Kid n’ Play Arrested, Says “Peace to the Po-Po” – No Hard Feelings After Major Mistake In Legal News by FASHIONENTLAW™ August 9, 2011 So you guys, earlier today, TMZ reported “Christopher “Kid” Reid — one half of the rap group Kid n’ Play — was arrested in Los Angeles earlier today … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us the 47-year-old rapper is currently in custody. We’re told LAPD officers went to Reid’s home to take him into custody because there was an active warrant out for his arrest. So far, it’s unclear why the warrant was issued in the first place. Sources tell us Kid was “very cooperative” with the cops. . .” Later in the day TMZ reports he was released and it turns out, according to TMZ, Kid was a “victim of some seriously messy paperwork at the LAPD.” Now what does Kid have to say to about the erroneous work by LAPD ? “I love L.A. Peace to the Po-Po,” was his response. Gotta love the Kid. What a response. Clearly he does not do drama. UDUAK LAW FIRM FASHIONENTLAW.COM BLOG ANALYSIS In Kid’s case, there is no report of any kind of inappropriateness or intentional framing etc. by the police. They were doing their job and it appeared they were respectful of Kid. There was a huge “clerical error” they realized it and released him within hours. Nice ending to what could have been a horrible story. What if you are not that lucky and the “huge clerical error” stays undiscovered? Would you be saying “peace to the Po-po?” No you won’t. As crazy as this might sound, these things happen and I can definitely attest to criminal matters that I have had that was as a result of mistaken identity/erroneous police paperwork. These mistakes speak to the kind of challenges our legal system faces ,compounded with the enormous strain in terms of budget on court resources and law enforcement. In any event, clearly if you fell into this situation, there would be no “peace to the Po-po” it would be a “it ain’t dat kind of party” response. So, arm yourself with proper information, now. For information on what to know about your rights if you should be arrested “clerical or non-clerical,” click here. The information in the aforementioned link included violation of probation. For TMZ’s subsequent report, click here. On another note, I miss the Kid n Play. 🙂 They were so fun back in the days and seem like they still are. Check a more recent interview with the duo.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4645
__label__wiki	0.523573	0.523573	Louis V. Turi Recommend Louis's obituary to your friends Plant A Tree for Louis Turi Obituary of Louis V. Turi Turi, Louis V. of Totowa at rest in Totowa on April 27, 2004. Beloved husband of the former Margaret Mazzeo. Father of Barbara Pepe and Victoria Turi. Brother of Anthony Turi and Martin Turi. Also survived by 4 grandchildren and a great grandson. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from the Festa Memorial Funeral Home, 111 Union Blvd, Totowa, on Friday at 9:00 AM. Funeral Mass to follow at St. James RC Church, Totowa at 9:30 AM. Entombment at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa. Friends may call Thursday 2-4 and 7-9 PM. For more information, go to www.festamemorial.com OBITUARY Louis V. Turi age 82 of Totowa died Tuesday. Born in Paterson, NJ he lived in Totowa the past 46 years. He was the Deli Manager for Foodtown, Paterson, NJ before retiring After that, he was a bartender for Murphs Liquors, Totowa for 10 years before retiring. Mr. Turi was a parishioner of St. James R.C. Church, Totowa, NJ. He was a WW II Army Veteran and was a Prisoner of War, receiving the Bronze Star Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal. Mr. Turi was a member of the American Legion Post #227, Totowa, NJ. Survivors include his wife: The former Margaret Mazzeo of Totowa 2 daughters: Barbara Pepe of Bloomfield, NJ, Victoria Turi of Monroe Twsp, NJ 2 brothers: Anthony Turi of Toms River, NJ, Martin Turi of Elmwood Park, NJ Also survived by 4 grandchildren and a great grandson. Festa Memorial Funeral Home, 111 Union Blvd, Totowa is in charge of arrangements. To plant a tree in memory of Louis Turi, please visit Tribute Store	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4651
__label__wiki	0.568693	0.568693	Artists ∨ deM atlaS DJ Abilities Dynospectrum Hail Mary Mallon Musab Sa-Roc Music ∨ Apparel ∨ Home > CDS > Nikki Jean "Beautiful Prison" Nikki Jean "Beautiful Prison" CD - $9.99 MP3 - $5.99 Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Nikki Jean studied theatre before moving to Philadelphia and joining the band Nouveau Riche as lead singer. She gained major recognition for her contributions to Lupe Fiasco’s “Hip Hop Saved My Life” from the Grammy-nominated album, The Cool, before going on tour with Kanye West (Glow In The Dark Tour, 2008) and Mayer Hawthorne (A Strange Arrangement Tour, 2009). Nikki Jean co-wrote songs with Bob Dylan, Burt Bacharach, Lamont Dozier, Carly Simon and more for her 2011 Pennies in a Jar LP, before releasing 2013’s X-Mas EP and 2014’s Champagne Water EP. She also appeared on Brother Ali’s A Bite Marked Heart (2012) and Lupe Fiasco’s Tetsuo & Youth (2015), for which she performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Last year, in addition to appearing on a whopping six tracks from Lupe Fiasco’s Drogas Wave LP, Nikki Jean also released a string of new singles, including “People & Planes”, “Mr Clean”, and most recently, “Pink Lemonade”, all of which appear on her Rhymesayers Entertainment debut, Beautiful Prison. People & Planes Beautiful Prison (Know Me Like That) Mr Clean (feat. Lupe Fiasco) Red Black & Blue (2012 Tulip St. Demo) Aesop Rock "Appleseed" CD → ← Brother Ali "Secrets & Escapes" from $9.99 Atmosphere "Whenever" [Pre-order] from $9.99 Brother Ali "Secrets & Escapes" $11.99 - Sold Out Aesop Rock "Appleseed" CD from $6.99 Grieves - The Collections of Mr. Nice Guy 612.377.0044 - 2411 Hennepin Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55405 Order questions: orders@fifthelementonline.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4653
__label__wiki	0.693224	0.693224	“Hes Unreal”: Virat Kohli Impressed With Kevin Pietersens Selection Recommendation Virat Kohli was impressed with a kid’s batting brilliance after former England batsman Kevin Pietersen took to Instagram to share a video in which a kid can be seen playing copybook cricketing shots. Kevin Pietersen had asked Virat Kohli to include the kind in his squad. “WHAT?!?!?!?!?! Get him in your squad, @virat.kohli! Can you pick him?” Virat Kohli was quick to respond to Pietersen’s post and appreciated the kid’s batting technique. “Where’s he from? He’s unreal,” the India captain commented. South Africa captain Faf du Plessis and former all-rounder Jacques Kallis were also left surprised by the kid’s brilliance with the bat. “No ways that’s crazy,” Faf du Plessis replied. “Serious talent that and not even outta nappies yet,” Jacques Kallis left a comment on Pietersen’s post. The video, that went viral, sees the kid doing indoor practice and displaying a wide range of drives on the front foot as the ball is thrown at him. Last month, former England skipper Michael Vaughan shared the video on Twitter. “Surely he has an English cat or dog…” Vaughan wrote while tweeting the video. On the field, India captain was on song against the West Indies in the recently concluded Twenty20 International (T20I) series, scoring 183 runs in three innings. In the first match, Kohli played an unbeaten knock of 94 and in the final the 31-year-old slammed another half-century to help the hosts clinch the three-match series 2-1. ← Ravi Shastri Has “Utmost Respect” For Sourav Gangulys Contribution To Indian Cricket India vs West Indies: Rishabh Pant Can Be An “X Factor”, Says India Batting Coach →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4661
__label__cc	0.638556	0.361444	early 20th century window patterns in the marino estate, dublin March 12, 2013 by fmgarchitects. « View more conservation research « View more articles The evolution of 20th century windows is illustrated in Marino. The extracts from photographs from the Dublin City Archive in the slideshow above illustrate the window patterns from the time it was built as the first social housing of the newly-independent Free State (for more on the planning history of the estate see here). Marino was built in the 1920s when building technology was changing from “traditional” construction and materials to the modern technologies such as cavity walls, cement renders and solid ground floors. There was some suspicion about the new construction methods being adopted by Dublin City Council – sales advertising for private developer housing in the Dublin Builder at the time often promoted “traditional construction” as a positive feature. Above: surviving timber casement windows, Marino Park Interestingly, this significant watershed in building technology is illustrated in the variety of window technologies featured in the Marino estate. Some house designs featured traditional one-over-one or mullioned timber sashes with an exposed weights box to the front elevation. Other houses featured timber casements (increasingly popular from 1900s) or the latest technology in steel casement windows. (The steel windows were an unusual choice for a local authority scheme being imported from England at a time when the fledgling Free State was promoting the use of locally-produced materials). Above: surviving sash window with exposed weights-box, Brian Avenue Surviving exemplars of these windows in among the 1500-odd houses in Marino are rare but do exist. The photographs illustrate surviving examples of steel casements, timber sash windows and timber casement windows. As these houses gradually change hands and get refurbished, should (or could) a homeowner consider retaining them? Its a hard sell given the leap in thermal performance of modern windows and the maintenance-free finishes available. Nevertheless, the original windows are at this stage very rare and of interest as a record of how the houses were built. The ratio of frame to opening can be 30% or more in modern windows compared to the more slender predecessors. Retention and thermal upgrading options can be considered before their replacement (but it might take an enthusiast to do so). By way of anecdote, a colleague was involved in works to a house on Griffith Avenue in recent years where a bay window was being replaced. When the replacement bay window sections arrived, it was discovered that the framing of the original window was part of the structural support of the bay which had to be replaced with unforeseen steel posts internally behind the windows – it would have been more practical to retain the near 100-year old pine framing (which was in sound condition) and replace or retrofit double glazing into the opening sections. Things are not always simple! Above: surviving steel casement windows, Shelmartin Avenue Lambstongue Windows histories: http://digital.libraries.dublincity.ie/vital/access/manager/Index Dublin City Digital Archives: http://digital.libraries.dublincity.ie/vital/access/manager/Index No comments on ‘early 20th century window patterns in the marino estate, dublin’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4662
__label__cc	0.683148	0.316852	on Sunday, January 19, 2020 Passenger air traffic from / to Cluj International Airport, during the winter holidays Over 57.000 passengers traveled during the winter holidays on and from the International Airport "Avram Iancu" Cluj, the main air gate of Transylvania. The total number of passengers transported on the external routes between Christmas Eve and New Year is about 52.500, while on the internal routes they traveled almost... During the festivals in Cluj, the most requested route was Bucharest -… Most of the roundtrip tickets, during the festivals, were on the Bucharest - Cluj-Napoca route. And among them... Higher demand and more expensive airline tickets during the Untold festival Cluj has won two of the largest festivals in the country, Electric Castle and Untold. Their audience... 1 million passengers at Avram Iancu International Airport - Cluj "Avram Iancu" Cluj International Airport celebrated, on 23 May 2019, its passenger with the number 1.000.000 registered in the year 2019. The threshold of 1 million passengers was reached a day earlier compared to the year 2018. It follows that Cluj International Airport is on an increasing trend in passenger air traffic. Airport... RYANAIR landed at Cluj / Inauguration of Cluj - London route Ryanair inaugurated, on April 11th, the first route to Cluj, the third Romanian airport from which it operates.... Direct flights Cluj - Constanta with Blue Air, from 2 to July 2019 In the summer season, starting with July 2, direct flights on the Cluj - Constanta route with Blue Air. The route will be operated... Wizz Air flights canceled to Brussels, strike in Belgium Wizz Air warns passengers that it has to cancel all flights tomorrow, 13 February 2019, to and from Brussels. The reason: general strike in Belgium. The flights, which will be rescheduled on February 14 2019, are: Wizz Air flights canceled W6 3351 Cluj-Napoca - Charleroi, W6 3352 Charleroi... Cluj - London with Wizz Air, from 31 to March 2019 (Schedule of flights) From 31 March 2019, Cluj Napoca - London Gatwick with Wizz Air. Tickets for the new route are already on sale and... Cluj - London with RYANAIR, from 2 April to 2019 (Flight schedule) Ryanair announced today, 13 June, its first route from Cluj-Napoca, its fifth airport in Romania. This is NOT... 2018 Report Cluj Airport: 3.5% increase compared to 2017 In 2018, passenger traffic at Avram Iancu Cluj International Airport increased by 3,5% compared to 2017. In total, 2.782.401 passengers registered last year. In 2018, at Avram Iancu Cluj International Airport there was a 2% increase compared to 2017 in terms of freight traffic. 3.5% loss a... LOT Polish Airlines plane tickets Anniversary offer LOT Polish Airlines for air tickets The start of the year comes with many promotions for air tickets. Now is the time to hunt for tickets... Romanians return home for holidays (Video) Normally, December is known as the holiday month. This is not clear from the data recorded by... 1 2 3 ... 12 Next	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4676
__label__wiki	0.843443	0.843443	TOP 15 longest routes in the world, sorted by distance (November 2019) By Sorin Rusi Last updated NEVER Nov , NEVER I have written dozens of tops and rankings in the aeronautical field. The most read are the top longest flights in the world. I made one ranking in 2015, TOP 15 longest flights by plane (2016) TOP 10 longest flights in the world (March 2018). And now we said to update. We have a TOP 15 longest flight in the world, by distance, valid in November 2019. In recent years, more and more airlines have begun to launch longer and longer flights. Commercial aviation has begun to give up aircraft with 4 engines, but the new wide-body models are much more efficient and with increasing autonomy. And I remember here the A350 XWB and 787 Dreamliner aircraft family. Top 10 long haul routes WITHOUT direct flights, but with potential NEVER Nov , NEVER TOP 10 airports in the world after 2018 air traffic 27 Sept , NEVER TOP 10 airlines by number of flights operated by… TUESDAY , NEVER In addition to more efficient aircraft, the price of oil is still at its lowest levels. Thus, airlines manage to fly further and further, at lower costs and profit is growing. TOP 15 the longest routes in the world in 2019 But let's see which are the longest routes in the world, by distance, valid in November 2019. Newark - Singapore / Singapore / 15,344 km / Airbus A350-900ULR Auckland - Doha / Qatar / 14,535 km / Boeing 777-200LR Perth - London / Qantas / 14,499 km / Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Auckland - Dubai / Emirate / 14,200 km / Airbus A380 Los Angeles - Singapore / Singapore / 14,113 km / Airbus A350-900ULR Houston - Sydney / United / 13,834 km / Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Dallas - Sydney / Qantas / 13,804 km / Airbus A380 New York - Manila / Philippine Airlines / 13,712 km / Airbus A350-900 San Francisco - Singapore / Singapore and United / 13,593 km / Airbus A350-900 and Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Johannesburg - Atlanta / Delta / 13,581 km / Boeing 777-200LR Abu Dhabi - Los Angeles / Etihad / 13,502 km / Boeing 777-300ER Dubai - Los Angeles / Emirates / 13,420 km / Airbus A380 Jeddah - Los Angeles / Saudi / 13,409 km / Boeing 777-300ER Doha - Los Angeles / Qatar / 13,367 km / Boeing 777-200LR Toronto - Manila / Philippine Airlines / 13,230 km / Airbus A350-900 As you can see, Airbus A380 is beginning to lose ground. But more and more A350 aircraft have started to be introduced on very long flights. The ranking is led by A350-900ULR. And the family of Triple Seven aircraft has sovereignty over the number of very long routes. Unfortunately, the 787 Dreamliner failed to win, but it's not the past. Qantas managed to operate one flight of about 20 hours, on the route New York - Sydney, without a stop. In time, the 15 flights range from 15 to 18 flight hours without easel. Future very long flights with potential for operation I should mention that only 6 of the 15 very long routes were open before 2016. Otherwise, the others were inaugurated somewhere between 2016 and 2019. What does the future hold for us? Certainly other very long routes. I wrote about Top 10 long haul routes WITHOUT direct flights, but with potential. In April 2020, the Chicago - Brisbane route will be inaugurated. It will enter the top 5, considering that the distance between the 2 destinations is 8.916 miles (14.348 km). On the waiting list we also have the route Dubai - Panama City, which could be honored by Emirates. Chances are Vietnam Airlines will enter the US market. Airlines look to greatly reduce their flight time between 2 and long-haul destinations, but are passengers prepared? Do you prefer to fly directly on very long routes or do you prefer the stops? What was the longest direct flight you ever experienced? A350-900ULRAirbusNewarkSingaporesingapore airlines	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4677
__label__wiki	0.742005	0.742005	Cinema under the stars 2018 @ Mandela Forum home.events. Mandela Forum.Cinema under the stars 2018 Cinema under the stars 2018 Cinema - Event posted by elena Location: Mandela Forum , sporting events, concerts, exhibitions, conferences and meetings, shows, meetings and parties Address: Viale Paoli 3 , Florence Cinema under the stars 2018 - Florence Arenas di Marte at the start on Monday 25 June together with Paola Cortellesi and Riccardo Milani Until September 2nd great successes, restored classics and auteur films Meetings with Alice Rohrwacher, Francesco Falaschi, Dario Albertini and The Third Secret of Satire After the record of attendance (24,000 spectators) of the last season, starts on Monday, June 25 with the screening of "Like a cat in the ring road" - the extraordinary presence of actress Paola Cortellesi and director Riccardo Milani - the Cinema review under Stars 2018, until September 2 at the Arenas di Marte del Mandela Forum in Florence (piazza Berlinguer). 130 films of quality, every evening two different proposals, starting at 9.30 pm and at 9.45 pm, to facilitate entry. The opening night pays tribute to the Italian actress who was most appreciated during the winter season, and the choice could not fall on Paola Cortellesi, with her perfect starring role in the film "Like a cat in the ring road". On Tuesday, June 26th there will be another event, the screening of "2001: A Space Odyssey" in a restored 4k version, 50 years after the release of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece. The Arena Grande, with its open-air hall of over 450 seats, will alternate throughout the month of July the best titles of the season: from "Loro" by Paolo Sorrentino (Thu 28/6, Tue 03/7, Thu 26 / 7 and Mar 31/7) to "Dogman" by Matteo Garrone (Thurs 05/7 and Wed 25/7), from the winner of the Oscar "La forma dell'acqua" (Sun 08/7 and Fri 27/7) to the masterpiece of "Tre manifesti a Ebbing Missouri" (Sat 30/06 and Thu 7/19/07), from "Call me with your name" of Guadagnino (Wed 27/6 and Sat 14/7) to "Dunkirk" by Christopher Nolan ( Mar 17/7). Moving on to the small Arena, the public will be able to find a selection of quality titles transiting too often in indoor rooms. Among others, "La Melodie" (Sat 30/6), "Gatta Cinderella" (Sun 1/7), "Ammore and Malavita" (Winner of the David di Donatello 2018, Sat 7/7), "Visages Villages" ( Sun 15/7), "The Island of Dogs" (Fri 1/7), "The Secrets of Wind River" (Sat 2/7). And again, masterpieces of cinema in a restored version: Mar 3/7 "Last tango in Paris" by Bernardo Bertolucci, Wed 10/7 "Eraserhead" by David Lynch (original language, subtitled), Wed 17/7 "L'Atalante" by Jean Vigo (original language, subtitled), mer 24/7 "Blow-up" by Michelangelo Antonioni (original language, subtitled). There is no lack of meetings with some authors of Italian cinema who have made important films in the past season, now a trademark of the Arena di Marte. Thurs 5/7 Alice Rohrwacher presents and discusses with her audience her film awarded at Cannes "Lazzaro Felice", Thurs 12/7 will be the turn of "Quanto Basta" with the director Francesco Falaschi, Thurs 7/9 will touch the authors of the group "The Third Secret of Satire" present their first big screen movie "Everybody dies Christian Democrat" and finally, Thurs 26/7 there will be "Manuel" presented by the director Dario Albertini. A small but personal means is dedicated to the director Paul Thomas Anderson: in addition to "The hidden thread" Sun 1/7 at the Arena Grande, you can see "Magnolia" (Mon 2/7), "Il Petroliere" (Mon 9 / 7), "The Master" (Mon 16/7), "Vizio di Forma" (Mon 23/7). Wed 18/7, date of birth of Nelson Mandela, two films in memory of the Nobel Peace Prize and symbol of the struggle against apartheid: the first "Defense Act - Nelson Mandela and the Rivonia trial" retraces the process that he condemned the South African activist to life imprisonment. The second is "The young Karl Marx", the latest film by Raoul Peck, a Haitian director and writer who is already an Oscar nominee with the documentary "I Am Not Your Negro". Recall that the Mandela Forum participates in the Nelson Mandela 100 campaign sponsored by the Nelson Mandela Foundation on the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela. Since last February, at the entrance of the structure, you can visit for free a glass replica of the cell in which Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in the prison of Robben Island. The ticket price is blocked at 5 euros (for the 15th year in a row) with the possibility of a reduction of 1 euro for Coop Members (from Monday to Thursday) and a loyalty card that allows free entry every five. Every night from 8.00 pm the excellent and tested cinema restaurant is open, with tables arranged in the green. The programming, as usual, is signed by Stefano Stefani. Events, meetings with authors and premieres at the end of August are by Michele Crocchiola. In collaboration with the Niels Stensen cultural foundation, within the Florentine Summer promoted by the Municipality of Florence. Arenas of Mars 2018 c / o Nelson Mandela Forum piazza Berlinguer - Florence Info tel. 055 678 841 www.mandelaforum.it Mars Arenas Program June / July 2018 Mon 25/06 Arena Grande, 9.30 pm: Like a cat in the ring road, by Riccardo Milani, 98 ' Mon 25/06 Arena Piccola, 9,45 pm: Wajib - Anne-Marie Jacir's wedding invitation, 96 ' Mar 26/06 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, 140 ' Mar 26/06 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: Maria by Callas by Tom Volf, 113 ' Wed 27/06 Great Arena, 9:30 pm: Call me with your name by Luca Guadagnino, 132 ' Wed 27/06 Little Arena, 9:45 pm: Body and soul of Ildiko 'Enyedi, 116' Thu 28/06 Arena Grande, at 9:30 pm: Loro 1 by Paolo Sorrentino, 100 ' Thu 28/06 Little Arena, 9:45 pm: Overnight at Fatih Akin, 106 ' Fri 29/06 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Lady Bird by Greta Gerwig, 94 ' Fri 29/06 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: The insult of Ziad Doueiri, 110 ' Sat 30/06 Great Arena, 9:30 pm: Three Posters at Ebbing Missouri by Martin McDonagh, 115 ' Sat 30/06 Arena Piccola, 9.15 pm: Rachid Hami's melody, 102 ' Sun 01/07 Great Arena, 9:30 pm: The hidden thread of Paul Thomas Anderson, 130 ' Sun 01/07 Arena Piccola, 9.15 pm: Alessandro Rak's Cinderella cat, 86 ' Mon 02/07 Great Arena, 9:30 pm: Murder on the Orient Express by Kenneth Branagh, 114 ' Mon 02/07 Arena Piccola, 9.15 pm: Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson, 193 ' Tue 03/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Loro 2 by Paolo Sorrentino, 104 ' Mar 03/07 Little Arena, 9:45 pm: Last tango in Paris by Bernardo Bertolucci, 132 ' Wed 04/07 Great Arena, 9.30 pm: Robert Guédiguian's house by the sea, 117 ' Wed 04/07 Little Arena, 9:45 pm: Kim Ki-duk's Korean prisoner, 114 ' Thu 05/07 Great Arena, 9:30 pm: Dogman by Matteo Garrone, 102 Thu 05/07 Little Arena, 9:45 pm: Lazzaro happy by Alice Rohrwacher, 125 ' Fri 06/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Wonder by Stephen Chbosky, 113 ' Fri 06/07 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: The party of Sally Potter, 71 ' Sat 07/07 Great Arena, 9.30 pm: The secrets of Wind River by Taylor Sheridan, 111 ' Sat 07/07 Little Arena, 9.45 pm: Ammore and Malavita by Manetti Bros., 133 Sun 08/07 Great Arena, 9:30 pm: The shape of the water from Guillermo Del Toro, 123 ' Sun 08/07 Little Arena, 9:45 pm: Two under the Sou Abadi burqa, 88 ' Mon 09/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Put your grandmother in the freezer by Giancarlo Fontana, Giuseppe G. Stasi, 100 ' Mon 09/07 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: The oilman of Paul Thomas Anderson, 158 ' Mar 10/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: The Post by Steven Spielberg, 115 ' 10/07 Mar Small Arena, 9:45 pm: Eraserhead - The Cancer Mind of David Lynch, 100 ' Wed 11/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Joe Wright's darkest hour, 125 ' Wed 11/07 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: Loveless by Andrey Zvyagintsev, 128 ' Thu 12/07 Great Arena, 9:30 pm: What will the people of Iram Haq say, 106 ' Thu 12/07 Arena Piccola, 9.15 pm: Enough by Francesco Falaschi, 92 ' Fri 13/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Napoli Veiled by Ferzan Ozpetek, 113 ' Fri 13/07 Little Arena, 9:45 pm: Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, 101 ' Sat 14/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Call me with your name by Luca Guadagnino, 132 ' Sat 14/07 Little Arena, 9:45 pm: Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel, 101 ' Sun 15/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Ella & John - The Leisure Seeker by Paolo Virzì, 112 ' Sun 15/07 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: Visages Villages by JR, Agnes Varda, 89 ' Mon 16/07 Arena Grande, at 9:30 pm: At home all well by Gabriele Muccino, 105 ' Mon 16/07 Arena Piccola, 9.45 pm: The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson, 137 ' Tue 17/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan, 107 ' Tue 17/07 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: Jean Vigo's Atalante, 89 'vers. or. restored under it Wed 18/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Young Karl Marx by Raoul Peck, 118 ' Wed 18/07 Arena Piccola, 9.15 pm: Defense Act - Nelson Mandela and the Rivonia trial by JV de Velde, 121 Thu 19/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Three posters at Ebbing Missouri by Martin McDonagh, 115 ' Thu 19/07 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: All Christian Democrats of Il Terzo Segreto di Satira die, 89 ' Fri 20/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: I am a storm by Daniele Luchetti, 97 ' Fri 20/07 Arena Piccola, 9.15 pm: The square by Ruben Ostlund, 145 ' Sat 21/07 Arena Great rest Sat 21/07 Arena Small rest Sun 22/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Like a cat in the ring road by Riccardo Milani, 98 ' Sun 22/07 Little Arena, 9:45 pm: Robert Guédiguian's house by the sea, 117 ' Mon 23/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Lazzaro Felice by Alice Rohrwacher, 125 ' Mon 23/07 Arena Piccola, 9.45 pm: Formal flaw of Paul Thomas Anderson, 148 ' Mar 24/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Lady Bird by Greta Gerwig, 94 ' Mar 24/07 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: Blow-up by Michelangelo Antonioni, 110 'vers. or. restored under it Wed 25/07 Great Arena, 9:30 pm: Dogman by Matteo Garrone, 102 ' Wed 25/07 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: Hotel Gagarin di Simone Spada, 93 ' Thu 26/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Loro 1 by Paolo Sorrentino, 100 ' Thu 26/07 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: Manuel di Dario Albertini, 98 ' Fri 27/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: The shape of the water by Guillermo Del Toro, 123 ' Fri 27/07 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: Paris barefoot by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, 84 ' Sat 28/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: The hidden thread of Paul Thomas Anderson, 130 ' Sat 28/07 Arena Piccola, 9.15 pm: The secrets of Wind River by Taylor Sheridan, 111 ' Sun 29/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: Wonder by Stephen Chbosky, 113 ' Sun 29/07 Little Arena, 9:45 pm: Loving Vincent of Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, 95 ' Mon 30/07 Arena Grande, 9:30 pm: C'est la vie - Take it as it comes from O. Nakache, E. Toledano, 115 ' Mon 30/07 Arena Piccola, 9.15 pm: Cairo murder of Tarik Saleh, 106 ' Mar 31/07 Arena Piccola, 9:45 pm: Mektoub my love: singing one by Abdellatif Kechiche, 174 ' www.mandelaforum.it www.mandelaforum.it Other events on Wednesday 18 July : This page may have been translated using the Google automatic translate engine; please excuse any mistakes this translation might have. 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__label__cc	0.625083	0.374917	en.infoglobe.cz » Places of interest » CZ: Přerov Nad Labem - Museum In Nature I. - Back Cross Centuries - VIDEO CZ: Přerov Nad Labem - Museum In Nature I. - Back Cross Centuries - VIDEO About 35 kilometres to east of Prague lies an inconspicuous village Přerov above Labe - to first glanc seems to be adjusted, but when one observe more, looks as all others - a bit sloppy. The main tourist attraction is the local museum - the oldest in the country and the fourth oldest in Europe. Experts call it officially as the Elbe ethnographic museum. About it a local take care as gem. Strength of the April sun gathered strength after a cool morning and around midday temperatures climbed to over twenty degrees of Celsius. Cash worker in the museum sits on a bench outside and laments about how the morning is not current. Sipping coffee and every time, if someone comes, goes inside the office to sell him a ticket. All said that due to failure of power, will be lit otherwise the right exposure period atmosphere. But the atmosphere of the long time ago period has everything there – with or without electric power. It was the intention. Traditional village and community of people who inhabit it, in modern times disappear. The Industrial Revolution took care of the comfortable life and the need to rely on each other. Typically, village life is more or less disappeared, and it is certain that old times will never return. The appearance of the centuries old village, but it shows perfectly Přerov museum has been operational since 1967. If we are to return to the real beginning, we would go back to somewhere around 1900, when the old Bohemian cottage as a museum bought the then owner of the castle - Tuscan Habsburg Ludvík Salvator. His successor - Museum of the Elbe, his idea came near the end. How the comrades weren’t wrong... After the liberation of the World War II. one of old Czech house remained empty and virtually unused. Confiscation of property was not needed because no one neobýval cottage. I just went to the state, as indeed all in the name of nationalization. In this case, it is a miracle that did not end in ruins, but has become a sort of cornerstone of the Elbe Valley Ethnographic Museum. After decades an absurd idea to preserve old cottage turns out to be brilliant. For people who live in today's IT time, visit the museum is therapeutically active. The ancient building, where the walls feel moisture in the human spirit returns back centuries and easy to realize that no time is not easy. SCIFI for future generations While today's seniors, who sarcastically referred to themselves as the oldest exhibits, with a smile touching objects that once used, the generation after us in the same place will probably seem like a sci-fi movie. Once through the old school, a typical old Czech drying or cottage will have a head full of uncomprehending questions. In Přerov you can see 30 historic buildings in total - nine cottages, four granaries and several other smaller buildings and popular landmarks. Together they offer an unusual insight into the life of villagers at that time. One can easily understand how to bake bread, sawed wood, grown rabbits, went to school or celebrated. The museum in Prerov is not only for rest but the people could learn there. Classic words: "He who knows history, he is forced to repeat its mistakes." Text/photo/video: Klára Svobodová Čelákovice - The Town of Kings Čelákovice is a town, situated on Labe (Elbe) river, approx. 20 kms distant from capital Prague. From times immemorial, this town is known as King´s town. CZ, Podebrady: Fame of Iron Spa - VIDEO There are many reasons why to visit Podebrady, an ancient city on the Elbe. One of the reasons is the spa specializing on heart diseases and circulatory system. CZ, Sestajovice: Magic of Candle Fire - VIDEO Weather this year doesn’t look good. Thus we decided to give you a tip, our dear readers” to an interesting “roofed” activity. It may be easily linked up with outdoor activities, if weather is good. CZ, Vyšehořovice: Stronghold Guarded by Collective Farmers – VIDEO One of the most preserved medieval strongholds is located in the strategic area of former collective from where whole Polabí is nicely visible. CR: Přerov Nad Labem II. - Chateau: Disputes About Ownership - VIDEO About Přerov nad Labem recently discussed mainly in connection with a local chateau. Till recently was officially owned by the Czech Radio, today, just speculation about the new owner. Nobody has anything, nobody knows anything. Nymburk: Bohumil Hrabal's Inspiration - VIDEO Nymburk is a district town in Central Bohemia, and remains probably for ever in a shade of near Poděbrady Spa. The colonnade or healing springs are missing there but another places of interest which are to be admired, are available in sufficient number, such as, for instance, medioeval fortificatioms of Postřižiny Beer. CZ: Zeleneč - Favourite Place For Living The village near Prague, where is easily to get by bike from the capital. CZ: Sestajovice: The Magic of Candlefire Only few kilometers from Prague there is a place where you may explore the secret of candle-makin... CZ, Přerov nad Labem - castle without owner About Přerov nad Labem recently discussed mainly in connection with a local castle. Recentl... CZ: Přerov Nad Labem - Museum In Nature I.- Back About 35 kilometres to east of Prague lies an inconspicuous village Přerov above Labe. The main t... CZ, Prague: Ctěnice castle - relaxing Ctěnice castle you would find at the very edge of Prague, in the Prague 9 - Vinoř. Ctěnice is ide...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4682
__label__wiki	0.791762	0.791762	PM Imran expresses disappointment over Punjab MPAs, ministers' salary raise 04:19 PM, 14 Mar, 2019 Islamabad (Staff Report): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday expressed his disappointment over a decision by the Punjab Assembly to raise pays and privileges of its members, the provincial chief minister and other ministers. In a message on twitter, the prime minister said that such a move could be justified once prosperity returns to the country. He said this decision is untenable as currently we do not have resources to provide basic amenities to all our people. I am extremely disappointed by decision of Punjab Assembly to raise pays & privileges of MPAs, Ministers & esp CM. Once prosperity returns to Pak such a move cld be justified, but now, when we do not have resources to provide basic amenities to all our people, this is untenable — Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) March 14, 2019 Meanwhile, Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry also criticised the decision of the Punjab Assembly. He tweeted, "Seems Punjab Government and the CM House is in the dark about the PM and the federal government austerity policies otherwise such sham exercise of awarding huge benefits to themselves would not have happened." Seems Punjab Government and the CM House is in the dark about the PM and the federal Govt Austerity policies otherwise such sham exercise of awarding huge benefits to themselves would not have happened... — Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) March 14, 2019 On Wednesday, the Punjab Assembly unanimously passed a legislation to increase the salaries, perks and privileges of its members to more than double. The legislation was tabled by the treasury member Ghazanfar Abbas Cheena as a on a private members day on Tuesday. The bill ended up as a unanimous bill since none of the members opposed it from both sides, except PPP’s parliamentary leader Hasan Murtaza. It was unanimously passed after a standing committee also gave its approval within a few minutes of discussion. After the passage of the resolution, the Punjab chief minister will draw Rs 350,000 per month, while members will draw over 200,000 per month as their basic pay and allowances rose to more than double. The salaries of the members of the Punjab Assembly (MPAs) and ministers raised by the provincial assembly exceed the pays of their counterparts in all the provinces and at the federal level. Tagged Pakistan Punjab PM neo tv Pakistan condemns Indian CDS General Rawat's remarks about Kashmir, ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4683
__label__wiki	0.771501	0.771501	Turkey toughens penalties for sexual offenses against children By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend: Turkey toughened penalties for sexual offenses committed against children, Turkish Family and Social Policy Minister Aysenur Islam said on May 9, Sabah newspaper reported. "All layers of the society must struggle against the sexual offenses towards children," Islam said. The amendments to the law will include an imprisonment for up to 39 years for sexual offenses committed against minors. Earlier, Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said the country can restore the death penalty, as four children have been raped and killed in the past two months in different cities of Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan also speaking on this matter said Turkey's commitments to the EU do not allow restoring the death penalty. The death penalty was abolished in Turkey in 2004 as part of the reforms for the EU accession. Translated by NH Edited by CN Aysenur Islam Turkey 19 January 05:18 Erdogan calls on Europe to support Turkey's moves in Libya Turkey’s Arfem Aluminium company talks on plans in Azerbaijan Turkish farmers to save money by using solar power	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4684
__label__wiki	0.72113	0.72113	From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia 中国共产党一党专政人民当家作主共和国中國共產黨一黨專政人民當家作主共和國 Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Yīdǎng Zhuānzhèng Rénmín Bùkakke Dāngjiā Rénmín Zuòzhǔ Gònghéguó Republic of Rush Hour 3 Jackie Chan China Edition Flag Coat of Arms Motto: "MADE IN CHINA" Anthem: "Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting" Nanjing, but since most land has been occupied by pseudo-regime government, central government now located in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Mao Zedong Speech, informally known as Zhongwen Communist / Capitalist depending on who you are ‑ Emperor of the pseudo-regime government ‑ Leader of the official government ROC(Taiwan) ‑ God ‑ Chairmen Jackie Chan, Kung Fu Tzu Official Cuisine Flied lice, lice pollidge, lice pudding, lice dumprings, lice cake, Jelly Lice, lice wine, Lice-A-Loni, Tsing Tao, Condoreeza Lice National Hero(es) Mulan, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, George W. Bush, Genghis KHAN, Mao Ze Tongue, [jhhh[Hello Kitty]], The Chinaman, Samuel Robson Walton,tank man, and lei feng( retard ） The Kung Fu Dollar, Walmart's toilet paper Atheism, Taoism, Confucianism, Kungfuism, Corruptionism, Walmarxism “Mr Deng, tear down this wall!” ~ Ronald Reagan on China “NO! PRC is not the fake China, the only official government of China is ROC government in Taiwan! China is always a part of Taiwan! ” ~ Republic of China government in Taiwan The People's Republic of China (PRC; Simplified Chinese: 中国共产党一党专政人民不可当家作主共和国, Traditional Chinese: 中國共產黨領導多黨合作制下華夏人民不便當家作主的共和國; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Yīdǎng Zhuānzhèng Rénmín Bùkakke Dāngjiā Rénmín Zuòzhǔ Gònghéguó, often abbreviated as Ching Chong Ding Dong Land), Overly Simplified Chinese: You order?, or Big Land, Big Cheeks is a pivotal support mechanism for the United States retail industry. It is known as "birth place of "everything". Everything was invented in China first, including the television, internet, bad driving, toilets, Japan, paper, cheese, industrial pollution, Mexicans, bird flu, SARS, Heterosexuality, gunpowder, Astronauts, Jews, Nazis, Gypsies, Condoms, America's Debt, Anal Probes, and CCTV. The exception is babies, which are mass produced in VaChina. You name it, they invented it before anyone else. For centuries China was ruled by a series of dynasties that supplanted each other by scheduled and formal occasion, no bloodshed necessary; that was until some incredible dickhead obsessed with kitten huffing decided to mess things up (you'll read about this douche below). After a sudden and unexpected five-hour civil war in 1949, the Communists led by the maniacal but adorable Mao Zedong poster hanging on Tiananmen Gate took over China in a sweeping musical revolution known as "The Cool" by Lupe Fiasco. Eyewitness accounts now confirm that your Mom was there. The People's Republic of China has often been at odds with its 20th century nemesis, the American Empire, but ever since 1972 the two countries have grudgingly met together for an annual gift exchange and hand job. 1 First, a brief history of China 1.1 Prehistory 1.2 Xia Dynasty 1.3 The Shang Dynasty (1600 - 1046 BC) 1.4 The 'Zhou' Dynasty (1046 - 256 BC) 1.5 Warring States of Death (403 - 221 BC) 1.6 The 'Qin' Dynasty (221 - 207 BC) 1.7 Han Dynasty (sometime-220) 1.8 Three Kingdoms (220-280) 1.9 Jin Dynasty (280-420) 1.10 The Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD) 1.11 The 'Song' Dynasty (960 - 1279 AD) 1.12 The 'Yuan' Dynasty (1279 - 1368 AD) 1.13 The 'Ming' Dynasty (1368 - 1644 AD) 1.14 The 'Qing' Dynasty (1644 - 1912) 1.15 Modern era (1912 - present) 2.1 Branches of the armed forces 2.2 Nuclear missile program 3 Inventions 5 Genetic Differences to the rest of the world 7 Neighbors First, a brief history of China[edit] Prehistory[edit] China was founded by a Chinaman named Yellow Emperor in 9999 BC, he taught the Chinese how to plow using a hoe, farm, kung fu, play with fire, and stop, drop and roll. Oh yeah, and the secret to immortality.... This bizarre face on a Shang bronze shows what the Chinese deemed attractive male features at the time. An inscription on the back reads "Aren't I pretty? Kiss me soldier boy!" Xia Dynasty[edit] Invented around 3000 BC, all the archaeologists were too lazy to research this dynasty, plus nobody really cares anyway. But if you are one of those CUNT that care anyways: I guess China was populated by a bunch of Drag-ons? They apparently starved after a while, thankfully, so now only scalies remain of them (Wait is that a bad thing?). The Shang Dynasty (1600 - 1046 BC)[edit] Soon the Chinese discovered how to write character symbols for court divination ceremonies on animal bones, strips of bamboo, and the gigantic, she-male nail clippings. The Chinese figured out how to ride in spoke-wheeled chariots in the shape of pimped out Cadillacs by the middle of the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC - 1046 BC).[1] The Shang Dynasty Chinese crafted brilliant bronzewares at discount prices, and carved jade ornaments in the form of panda bears sexually violating Japanese tourists.[2] The 'Zhou' Dynasty (1046 - 256 BC)[edit] The Duke of Zhou was a star-studded cowboy in the wild western frontier of China, a Tom Jones impressionist who had a fief based on the peripheral edges of the burgeoning Han Chinese civilization. It was a groovy time back then, full of psychedelic drugs and sexual experimentation at band camp; but hard times were up ahead. His tributary master, King Dixin of Shang, became a stupid ruler. Dixin once erected a gigantic pool of Smirnoff Vodka along with a forest of A1 Wagyu Steak and forced 1,000 midget courtiers to swim, drink, and drown in it (true story). He forced the Duke of Zhou to pay annual tribute of 10,000 coupons to the Shang court. He also forced the Duke to give his royal ball sack an annual sniffing at court in order to humiliate him like the other vassals. In 1046 BC, the Duke of Zhou "had enough of this shit";[3] he gathered an army of Chinamans, nerds, pirates, paraplegics, African-Americans, and disgruntled ex-Disneyland employees to fight the Shang Dynasty. In that year, the Duke of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty and their Japanese allies in the Battle of Midway, a decisive Zhou victory celebrated afterwards with a gigantic beer slid] and jello shots.[4] Hence the Zhou Dynasty was founded, and lasted until 256 BC when some asshole decided to ruin a good thing (you'll read about this incredible dickhead below).[5] Also, to commemorate the victory, the groovy swingers' manual of the Tao Te Ching was written shortly afterwards. The book was awarded in China in 1999 with the "Funnier-Than-Bill-Clinton-On-Viagra-While-Guest-Appearing-On-Temptation-Island" award, but this has recently been usurped by Bobcat Goldthwait's face.[6] Warring States of Death (403 - 221 BC)[edit] The ancient philosopher Confucius (551–479 BC); Confucius say: "It takes lots of wood and bolts to make crib, but one screw to fill it". While the Zhou Dynasty was still warm and kicking, their rulers lost much of their central authority and legitimacy in 771 BC. This happened because King You of Zhou lost his reputation when he decided that pink was his favorite color and lost a pivotal arm-wrestling match to a peasant named Yu Er Dum, who had a total of four fingers left for both hands; the others were lost during furious masturbation, an ancient Daoist exercise ritual.[7] The furious mastubating by Daoists, however, created the first great Chinese population explosion as women who squatted in the rice paddies found themselves becoming pregnant.[8] Meanwhile, regional strongmen and nobles amassed their own power and started calling themselves kings in an era known as the Warring States of Death, Destruction, Mayhem, Murder, and Infidelity (403 - 221 BC).[9] This was an era when war was fought and fluctuating borders came about not through bloodshed and violence, but with a Dance Dance Revolution match. Eventually Shang Yang, the Chancellor of Gay Sex from the State of Qin, realized how stupid and ineffective this type of warfare was, and so actually started killing people when the Qin forces showed up to the monthly Dance Dance Revolution get-togethers. About this time, master Sun Tzu (544 - 496), author of the Art of War, wrote the lesser known Fart of War, which is hailed as a military classic and the first book to mention the use of siphoned human farts to choke enemy troops to death while sapping under city walls.[10] Other clever tactics included "Hey your shoelace is untied, I'll kick you in the nuts just as hard as I can then you kick me, and the first one to give up loses." In 479 BC, the philosopher and educator, Confucius, a man responsible for consolidating the guidelines that would shape East Asia, died after choking on a KFC chicken bone. Though his earlier works were hailed as successes, commentators note that as he got older, the old man started to lose clarity. Phrases like: “Confucius says: Kids today don’t know they’re born”, “Confucius says: Take your coat off or you won’t feel the benefit”, and “Confucius says: I remember when this was all millet fields”, fail to make it into final editions of The Analects.[11] They did, however, make it into Oprah's book club listing. The 'Qin' Dynasty (221 - 207 BC)[edit] See also: Qin Shi Huang The Terracotta Army was created in 210 BC to hide the naughty porn collection of the First Qin Emperor, who had a fetish for midgets, horses, blind women, women with no legs, 10-year-old boys, and grandmothers. In 221 BC, the armies of Qin Shihuangdi “peacefully liberated” the whole of China for the first time under one Qin Dynasty (221 BC - 206 BC), and the government went around relieving citizens of burdensome relics of the old feudal system, such as life and happiness. Qin Shihuangdi also built the retro version of the Great Wall of China, encouraging the workers to labor over his construction projects with the constant threat that they would be forced to watch the dumbest movie lines of Keanu Reeves over and over until they succumbed to his labor demands. It is recorded in Chinese historical texts that 180,000 laborers died in this manner, their brains exploding within their skulls due to the incredible pressure of relentless playing of nauseating Keanu Reeves lines. The poor bastards! The Qin Emperor was far too hard on his people (in more ways than one, wink, wink), and so they rebelled against his son once he was dead. The First Emperor died when his Prime Minister Li Si and Vice Chancellor Rick James convinced him that liquid mercury "was one hell of a drug", much more so than cocaine, crack, or laundry detergent.[12] The First Emperor snorted a liquidy line of mercury off of a hooker's back and was found dead two hours later in an imperial bathroom with a pair of panties worn around his head like an official's hat, beer goggles on, anal lube caked onto his fingers, and a tattoo on his back of Kenny Rogers holding a bottle of whiskey while vomiting into a girlscout's mouth.[13] Han Dynasty (sometime-220)[edit] The Liu's ended up reigning China. No one really cares whatever went on during this time. Three Kingdoms (220-280)[edit] Main article: Romance of the Three Kingdoms Yellow Turban propaganda. After the Han fell, there was this civil war bullshit that lasted 60 years too much. I guess you can say it started in 184 when the Yellow Turbans rebelled. Currently there is too much influence in pop culture from this period of shit. However, the Battle of Red Cliff was fucking awesome and don't you ever forget that! Jin Dynasty (280-420)[edit] Then the Jin stole the land from the original Three Kingdoms. They don't deserve a section, those bitches. The Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD)[edit] The Leshan "Lesbian" Giant Buddha, 71 m (233 ft) in height; construction began in 713 and was completed in 803 to commemorate overweight, freakishly tall and long-eared Buddhist monks everywhere. Modern-day communist China has decided to "update" the statue with a resculpted face of Mao Zedong by 2020. A gossipy singing boy named Li Yuan–employed in the house of a wealthy military general–learned the tactics of war and overthrew the previous Sui Dynasty, founding the Tang Dynasty in 618.[14] However, Li Yuan (now Emperor Gaozu of Tang) was still such a gigantic pussy that his 5-year-old son Li Shimin overpowered him in a punching match. The latter became Emperor Taizong of Tang, informally known as the "Nicely-Dressed Emperor".[15] However, everyone became fooled by his sense of fashion, as Emperor Taizong was really a crazy war nut, surpassing even George W. Bush as a war-freak by invading every single foreign country within the vicinity of China's borders, including the small landlocked nation of Tajiki-no-one-knows-this-country-stan.[16] In 755 AD, at the height of China’s “Golden Age”, rebels An Lushan and Shi Siming lead an armed uprising against the ruling Tang Dynasty. Disgruntled peasants complained that the government spent too much time and money having passionate affairs and stirring political intrigue in order to attract CCTV producers of television dramas from the future. The Curse of the Golden Flower fails to win a single Oscar nomination at the 2007 Academy Awards, and producers begin to leave the past as audience’s demand more modern dramas. The An Lushan rebellion is quickly quelled and the Emperor blames everything on the time-travelling foreigners. The Tang Dynasty fell in 907 after regional military governors known as jiedushi began amassing more power in their own regions. They undermined central authority and broke all taboos, such as "mooning" the emperor, telling the emperor to "fuck off" in front of his ministers, and egging and toilet-papering the walls of the emperor's palace as a hilarious prank and means to show who was the real boss.[17] Finally a man named Zhu Wen, a deoderant-factory supervisor and part-time call girl,[18] became a powerful jiedushi and overthrew the Tang Dynasty after convincing the last Tang emperor that eating hard, concentrated balls of deoderant as medicine was not lethal and had no detrimental effects in the long-run. The 'Song' Dynasty (960 - 1279 AD)[edit] Emperor Huizong, aka The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Huizong; after this flamboyant connoisseur of art was captured by the Jurchen invaders in 1126, he spent his days in Jurchen captivity in the north. Some say he ran away and joined a circus; others say he became the male concubine of the Jurchen ruler; others simply don't give a shit what happened to this fairy. The Song Dynasty was founded by Zhao Kuangyin, a Hong Kong actor famed for his brutal martial arts moves. These included cruel tactics such as "Tiger-Who-Claw-Off-Penis" and "Intestine-Reaching-Dragon-Fist-Anal-Stuffing-Power-Punch".[19] Since none of the would-be regional governor-generals (jiedushi) were a match for these tactics, Zhao Kuangyin scared everybody into following him. Thus the Song Dynasty was born, and everyone was forced to wear funny hats. From 1125 to 1126, the Jurchens from Manchuria started a war by the command of the Japanese mercenary Tom Cruise–"the last Samurai"–against the Chinese Song Dynasty. The Jurchens were temporarily stopped from invading China by Mulan, but she retired from the army after getting a role in a Disney movie. After Mulan retired, the Chinese armies were helpless and died on site once Tom Cruise began spouting his earth-shattering one-liners. That was until the Song Dynasty enlisted the aid of the shaolin monks, who used the powers of the ancient Buddhist sect Bjork to chop off Tom Cruise's balls, thus emasculating the enemy Japanese commander. This is the reason that he is now a scientologist today (believing that this cult holds the cure for his lack of balls and diseased brain uncurable by modern psychiatry). However, the Jurchens conquered the cold, bitter, northern part of China, forcing the Song court to flee south, rubbing their defeat in their face with annual New Year's gift cards reading "Happy New Year, Pussies! I bet you miss the north, don't you bitches?"[20] The Jurchens' Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongols in 1234 by Genghis Khan when he finally realized that Tom Cruise was too boyishly-good-looking for him. Kublai Khan won over a lot of the southern Chinese in a propaganda campaign with slogans such as "Mongols and Chinese go together like milk and cereal!", clearly an effort to win over the poor people of China by appealing to them through their daily diet.[21] To win over the rich and affluent members of society, the Mongols promised wine, women, silk, and free tickets to see Crouching Walrus, Shitting Dragon, a popular play staged at the time. To force the Song imperial family into submission, Kublai Khan arm wrestled with the Song emperor, betting that if the Song emperor lost he would hand over southern China to Kublai. The Song emperor lost, and was forced to give up southern China, but Kublai promised the emperor that he would grant him the title, Lord of Southern China. (Doesn't the title lord sound so badass?) The 'Yuan' Dynasty (1279 - 1368 AD)[edit] After Kublai Khan conquered all of China in 1279 and created the Yuan Dynasty, Marco Polo arrives in Beijing and brings with him the inventions of spaghetti, ice cream, and gunpowder. Five years later, after investing in the Joint Venture “Sino-Polo Happy Food and Fireworks Factory”, a bankrupt Marco leaves China with all his ideas pirated and distributed freely around China. The Mongol government responds to Venetian protests by saying it was all a ”misunderstanding”, and Marco “didn’t understand the Chinese way”.[22] The Mongol rulers were cruel to the Chinese, forcing them to eat milk and cheese (a no-no in the Chinese diet), celebrate Christmas, greet only by bowing backwards, and forced them to accept Japanese people as their friends and neighbors, an evil sin in Chinese culture. The latter requirement was only stalled once Kublai realized he could not successfully invade Japan by sea, since the Japanese had littered the Sea of Japan with land mines disguised as Hello Kitty lunchboxes, which were just too cute and irresistible not to take. Once the Chinese became tired of Mongol oppression, the iron workers, hydraulic dam workers, and prostitutes' unions began staging protests in demand of higher wages and better working conditions. These led to revolts that the Mongols couldn't quell, since they were too preoccupied with hunting, tent-building, pillaging, and worshipping their chief deity, Chow Yun-Fat.[23] The 'Ming' Dynasty (1368 - 1644 AD)[edit] The Great Wall of China, quite possibly the stupidest idea for defense in human history, is a product of the Ming Dynasty; the old Warring States, Qin Dynasty, and Han Dynasty Great Wall was of rammed earth and wooden rampart construction, so did not survive easily, much like your mother after I rolled off of her. Shaa! The Ming Dynasty was founded by a carriage driver and comic book guru named Zhu Yuanzhang, who joined a Buddhist monastery because all of his neighbors refused to take him in (he rarely washed his asshole).[24] Zhu Yuanzhang joined the Red Turban and Pink Armband Rebellion against the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty in 1352, happy at last that he was able to kill him some Mongols, yee-haw! In the year 1363, Zhu defeated his arch nemesis and fellow rebel leader Chen Youliang in the Battle of Lake Poyang, but only after Chen had made the fatal decision to equip his navy with "Made in China" swords, which turned out to have lead in them, and everyone was poisoned due to the Chinese tradition of licking the sword before battle. Some 600,000 idiots died in this battle because of it.[25] In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang managed to kick out the last remaining Mongols and renamed himself the Hongwu Emperor, or the "Vastly-Obese Emperor". In 1405, Admiral Zheng He and his men arrive on the east coast of Africa: a feat accomplished 87 years before Columbus discovered America. Zheng He then proceeded to write a letter to the later Portuguese explorers saying "Got here first bitches!"[26] In reality, the Chinese had been sailing to Africa for centuries, but Zheng really wanted to drive the point home, you know? The Ming Dynasty ended when a border general named Wu Sangui let the Manchu prince Dorgon through at the Shanhai Pass in a treacherous plot that was aided by the future CIA after being bribed. The Manchus stormed Beijing during an internal rebellion and proclaimed the Shunzhi Emperor the new ruler of China; the people who were still loyal to the Ming Dynasty–such as Adam Sandler–decided it was best to commit suicide rather than submit, and so drove their carriages off of a cliff near Beijing while singing "O'Doyle Rules! O'Doyle Rules!"[27] The 'Qing' Dynasty (1644 - 1912)[edit] The Qianlong Emperor writing a poem entitled Ninja Rap: "Yo, it's the Green Machine, gonna rock the town without being seen, have you ever seen a turtle get down? Slammin’ Jammin’ to the new swing sound." It became a classic in Chinese poetry, "sampled" later by tasteless hacks such as Vanilla Ice. After Dorgon helped the Shunzhi Emperor snatch the throne in Beijing, the Qing began a long process of conquering Ming remnants, which ended in 1662 when the Qing army lured to last remaining Ming prince to a Metallica concert which was really a Phil Collins show (as anyone knows, the piercing shrill of Phil Collins' voice kills men, women, children, goats, fish, grass, and bacteria within a twelve mile radius).[28] The Manchus enforced universal dress codes and hairstyles upon the Chinese that were native to the Manchu, such as the Mexican zoot suit and mohawks, which became Chinese stereotypes well into the 1980s.[29] The Qing Dynasty reached its height under the Kangxi (r. 1661–1772), Yongzheng (r. 1722–1735), and Qianlong (r. 1735–1796) emperors, all of whom efficiently ran the empire under a shadow organization of state spies known as the Power Rangers, who could conveniently morph into a Manchu, Chinese, or inconspicuous trashcan at will (those evil bastards!).[30] Evil indeed. Since a lot of Chinese were pissed with the Manchus, the Manchu emperor allowed Han Chinese territories to be govern by Han Chinese governors., but the same emperor also was never potty-trained. In 1793, Lord MaCartney–a well-known porn celebrity and Austin Powers look-alike in Great Britain–sailed to China and pleaded with the Emperor Qianlong to accept British exports of microwaved vegetarian meals, opium, and kitten huffing products in return for more Chinese tea, which–along with the Sex Pistols–was all the rave back in England. MaCartney’s demands weren’t met and he returned disheartened to the United Kingdom. However, the British never forgot this slight, and so returned to China in 1840 with a navy led by Ozzy Osbourne. Ozzy's navy crushed Chinese resistance once the Chinese realized that their army of bats was no match for Ozzy, who simply bit their heads off and mumbled so low and incoherently due to rabies that Chinese spies listening in could not comprehend his orders. By 1842, faced against powerful slogans like “Keep China British” and “It’s time to euthanise the Sick Man of Asia”, feeble catchphrases like “Get high on Confucianism!” fails to win the War on Drugs for the Qing government in their efforts to stamp out opium and kitten huffing.[31] In the aftermath, Hong Kong was ceded to the British, and the Chinese vow to seek revenge by bricking the windows of the British Embassy 125 years later. Modern era (1912 - present)[edit] "Was that a piece of shit floating in the coffee that Lin Biao just served me?" ponders a young Mao Zedong, "Oh well, I'll get him back later; it'll be something to do with planes, for sure". Lin Biao would later be Punk'd by Mao Zedong in a mysterious plane crash on September 13, 1971. What a funny prank on Lin! That'll show him for putting shit in the Chairman's coffee. In 1911, Sun Yat-sen’s new Republic ends nearly 5000 years of imaginary imperial rule. The new Chinese Congress promised to eradicate bad and repetitive jokes within the next five years. “China is a developing country” they remind critics. In 1949, after years of civil war, Japanese invasion, and national humiliation, a giant portrait painting of Chairman Mao gained control of China. The giant poster wielded power through an army of smaller, photocopied, versions of itself, and promises to rid all China of stamps featuring Queen Victoria and placards of Chiang Kai-Shek. The giant poster of Mao is head of the Chinese Communist Party, which at the time was the biggest, and probably the best, Communist Party in the whole world.[32] The drunken, inept, overweight administration of Mao's ping pong tournament enemy Chiang Kai-shek was forced to flee to the island of Taiwan, where he established the Wal-Mart's Republic of China. In 1950, while a regiment of the People's Liberation Army was really drunk after attending a Mao-Look-Alike celebration, they decided to stumble into Tibet to find some bars to drink at and some Tibetan girls, and woke up the next morning to find they had killed half the population and slept with the other half (including the men). Well, since they were there and had already struck fear into the hearts of the people with their drunken rage, why not occupy the place and build some giant Mao statues there? Mao was told of the events soon after they unfolded on the ground, and he nodded in approval while yawning, scratching his crotch, and flipping the channel from CCP News to The Andy Griffith Show. In 1958, Chairman Mao began the Great Leap Forward, which quickly leaps to the top of the BBC’s All-Time Best Misnamed Political Campaigns, pushing aside old favorites like Hitler’s “Great Hanukah Promotion Drive” and Gandhi’s “Let’s Kick Their Fucking Heads Open”.[33] In 1966, Mao followed his success with “The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”. The Chinese foresaw a great travesty to mankind, so they then set out on a campaign to destroy The Four Olds: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ron Wood. Unfortunately, the hippie movement overtook the Cultural Revolution, and with the death of Mao in 1976 the Chinese were forced to concede that Mozart and Elvis weren't such evil bourgeoisie capitalist pig-dogs afterall. In 1969, the dreams of Man were realised as Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon. China responded by stating it too will place a man selling lamb kebabs, t-shirts, and musical lighters. However, US-China relations improved when President Richard Nixon visited China in 1972; warm relations had been spurred between the United States and China since Zhou Enlai and Henry "Kiss Me" Kissinger developed a secret love affair, tickling each other and nibbling on each others' ears, holding each other at night in a long embrace while watching Bruce Lee flicks. Their hideous love affair became the basis for Ang Lee's movie Brokeback Mountain.[34] Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao discussing anal play. On June 4th, 1989, according to the official records of the CCBP (Chinese Communist Block Party), on this day the sun was shining, so Deng Xiaoping decided to have a nice picnic with his friends out in the countryside. On the way home, he saw a cute kid selling homemade lemonade by the roadside, so he bought six glasses for only one yuan each, and then gave the kid a shiny button to take home. Oh, and some student in Tiananmen Square made some graffiti that was cleaned up by authorities soon after. Nothing to see here, nothing to see at all! Move along folks. In 1997, the comet Hale-Bopp graced the heavens in one of the most beautiful sights ever to appear upon the celestial basin in recent years. Angry that the arrival of the comet was diverting media attention from the upcoming handover of Hong Kong, Deng Xiaoping passed away in a pathetic face-saving attempt to bring global attention back to China.[35] The trick was a success, and none less that Dame Edna Everage himself arrived in Hong Kong to preside over the handover ceremony. In 2000, Beijing authorities greeted the arrival of the Olympic committee by painting the grass green and removing all the tramps off the streets. Six weeks later, Beijing authorities greeted the arrival of the Eurovision Song Contest committee by painting the grass brown again, bringing the tramps back in, and letting them run wild on crack cocaine.[36] Military[edit] China's newest secret weapon, the LiPeng1000, unleashed upon the crowds at Tiananmen Square in an experiment upon expendable peasants to test the device's destructive force before applying it to real war. Beware! Branches of the armed forces[edit] People's Liberation Army has 5 well known branches; People's Liberation Army Tibetan Occupation Force People's Liberation Army Taiwan Invasion Force People's Liberation Army Navy People's Liberation Army Air Force People's Liberation Army Censorship People's Liberation Army has many lesser known branches; People's Liberation Army Beaver Pounding Force People's Liberation Army Anti Emo Force People's Liberation Army Feng Shui Alignment Force People's Liberation Army Japanese Annihilation Force People's Liberation Army Meh Armored Force Nuclear missile program[edit] China has exactly 1000 nuclear bombs aimed at the U.S.A.! Run for your life! 0 nuclear warheads at its disposal, which it plans never plans to use for destroying the world at any minute feng shui garden arrangements as decorative items amongst rock sculptures and marble Mao Zedong busts. China plans to sell nuclear warheads to Iran for a measly five "yuan" a piece hand over any possible nuclear warheads to the UN on January 1, 2060, with a big greeting sign that will read "Get ready to die, Yanky pig-dog slime. I will kill you until you die from it!" "You're welcome". But still, its effectiveness is questioned, after all it is still made in Cheena. 1232 Inventions[edit] The Chinese invented Maozilla, so that Mao could live on, in freakish form, his only vulnerability being the cooked explosion of kosher meat from Israeli missiles. It's a well known fact that the Chinese invented everything. The Chinese people are proudest however of four great inventions, which they call, "The Four Great Inventions of China." These are 1) gunpowder (which the Chinese mix into their New Year's fireworks to frighten evil human rights activists and Tibetans) 2) the printing press (which they used in turn to invent bureaucracy) 3) Senkousha, and, last but not least, 4) McDonalds. In fact, the real name of McDonalds is not McDonalds at all but, as every Chinese will tell you, "麦当劳" (or Mai Dang Lao in Pinyin), roughly translated as "Eat Here Or We Will Crush Your Souls", which has been always misinterpreted as Microsoft, and legal debates over which company really has the most soul crushing power continued until the year 2078, when Microsoft finally bought out McDonald's in the year that Microsoft finally took over the world. Lesser-known inventions attrbutable to the Chinese: 1) Formaldehyde or as what we, the normal people, call today as food from China. For over 2000 years, the the People's Republic of China has been exporting ready-to-cook foods to all over the world which was the real cause of Ireland's Potato Famine and 9/11. Trade with other nations was fair and steady, until an UBER huge plague wreaked havoc on the Chinese food industry and lead to an immense scarcity. The incident made the population to compulsory carve out pig skins, body excrements, and a little egg rolls to produce formaldehyde which is the 10000000000% composition of everything you eat today. Yum! 2) The Shanghai Metro opened in 2007 just in time for the Rugby World Cup in South Africa. China's over-60s ladies' team, which trains daily on the Shanghai Metro by forming scrums at train doors shortly before they open, has gone undefeated for 388 games, including one memorable 111-0 victory over the Japanese men's team. 3) Astronaut Neil Armstrong, famous for being the first man on the moon, was actually cobbled together with bits of old pinball machines in 643 B.C. by the father of quantum physics, Rui Jing Lu Ni. Following France's lead in presenting The Eiffel Tower (coincidentally, towers were also invented in China) to the USA, Neil was given by China to the USA as a symbol of peace in 1963. Six years later, America put their first man on the moon (which the Chinese had put into orbit 900 years earlier after constructing it from leftover bricks originally meant for the Great Wall). The Chinese character "Dhó", roughly translated "Impossibly complex pictogram-based writing system that takes a person a thousand thousand years to learn." 4) Famous Chinese basketballer, Yao Ming, killed two stones with one bird when he went to play basketball in the USA. Not only did his arrival spark the creation of the NBA (National Basketball Association) and the invention of the television, but also led to the creation of the much-vaunted spacetime continuuum. 5) Science Fiction was invented in China. The first science fiction hero 'Dr Hu' appears in ancient Chinese writings from 1650 B.C. some thirty years before the first clock was invented (also in China). Some disbeleivers think this actually signifies that China will be the first country to invent a means of time travel and exploit it to enforce copyright and patent laws to bankrupt the rest of the world (which would already have happened if it were really true so it probably isn't unless they know how suspicious we would be if we were all suddenly made bankrupt overnight). 6) Optical Illusions were also invented by the Chinese. The best example of this is the great wall of China which makes China appear to be bigger than it really is. In the 1960's when the US president ordered the invasion of the moon, the first troops there commented on how big China looked with its great wall surrounding all the sweat shops. If only they had looked in the opposite direction they might have noticed the first "Mr Wong's" chinese take-away on the moon (as the Chinese got there 12 years earlier but returned due to a lack of passing trade). 7) Anthrax. China seems to have also invented anthrax. However they say its psdered milk. Demographics[edit] Since China has become so overpopulated, the government has come up with the solution of the One-Child-Policy as well as the lesser-known Crush-At-Least-One-Man-Daily-With-A-Tank policy. As of the census of 2007, there were 51,478,229,653,775,206 people, 614,609,874,589,226 households, and 2 families residing in China. The population density was 8,573,389/km² (22,204,975/mi²). The racial makeup of China was 138.72% Chinese (If they aren't Han Chinese, let's make them!), 890% undead monsters, 1337% nunchucks, 94.04% Communist, 1.23% Hong Kongese, 0.1% Minnesotan, 0.0000002% Uighurs (Turks who think they black, but they ain't), 0.00068% Falun Gong and -22.1% Capitalist, 666% Rise Against fans, and 0.00006% from five or more races. 61.32% of the population were Bon Jovi fans of any race. There were so many people so most of the damn lot decided to imigrate to BC, Canada, and be the majority of the population. There were 14,609,874,589,226 households out of which 14,609,874,589,210 had children under the age of 18 living with them, 14,609,874,589,212 were married couples living together, 2 had a female householder with no husband present, and 14 were non-families. 0.00000005% of all households were made up of individuals and 0.00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 334,259,880,542,667.89 and the average family size was 335,117.23 despite the "one child per family" rule. In China the population was spread out with 33.33% under the age of 18, 25.33% from 18 to 24, 4.34% from 25 to 44, 1.25% from 45 to 64, and 35.75% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 117 years. For every 100 females there were 489.53 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 26.23 males. Typical Chinese signs warn tourist not to confront the spirits of the dead ancients. This is Lu Bu, who pwned lotsa faggots in his time. The median income for a household in the country was $64 per year, and the median income for a family was $51 per year. Males had a median income of $15 versus $0.04 for females. The per capita income for the country was $2.99. 102.85% of the population and 389.56% of families were below the poverty line. 491.25% of those under the age of 18 and 0.13% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. Special food rations were given out to the Republic of China after the great hippo brother Extethior fed the world with pancake juices with runs the line along Samuel L Jacksons plot to conquer China, but DEUS EX MACHINA occurred. If every person in China jumped at the same time, all homosexuals would become straight, and Hulk Hogan would be able to time travel. It has also been known to cause global earthquakes and scientists speculate that early China people may have had something to do with the Dinosaur extinction. The people of China to western eyes all appear to be the same (which is why the Chinese know each other as "The Thousand Thousand Same-Look People of Wise Virtue Who no Rikee"). Because all Chinese people look exactly the same, when they encounter someone who is not Chinese they tend to laugh hysterically, point and stare. Since the government forced all Chinese to learn English they will also shout "HARRO", or "Gook maoing" at foreigners. This phenomenon is known as the "HARRO factor" and can lead foreigners to suffer temporary insanity after some time in China. Foreign opinion on the Chinese population is generally good, though Chinese hate everybody, especially ghosts, people who live in the Republic of China (Taiwanese), and farmers near big cities. But the Russians feel that they are still stuck in the Stalinist Stage (comes right after the Anal Stage), so they feel superior. The Americans may now like them because they learned to love SUV's and pollution, but this is undetermined as no-one has deciphered the meaningless drivel yet, despite the discovery of the Roosevelt Stone in Southern Arkansas. The Japanese are never asked, and rightly so, because no-one speaking English would understand the answer. Genetic Differences to the rest of the world[edit] Recent scientific studies at CERN, under the supervision of noted scientific genius Oscar Wilde, discovered that the Chinese had many genetic differences from other humans. Instead of evolving from regular monkeys, the Chinese evolved from Sun Wukong, thus the reason why the Chinese look so different from other people, and why they are so damn smart! Economy[edit] A typical Chinese-based American product. After the economic disaster of the Cultural Revolution, China began tentatively to embrace capitalism much like an awkward teen clumsily feels up his first girlfriend. Reformist Deng Xiaoping was misquoted as stating "It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." In actuality he had said "Do whatever the hell you want, just try not to kill another 50 million people in the span of a few decades!" Deng's advice worked. China opened its doors, and foreign investment poured into the country. China's economy took off, and more people were lifted out of poverty than ever before in human history - or at least since the UN clerical error that caused Mexico to briefly dissolve in the summer of 1985. Due to the robust Chinese economy, the gap between the super-poor and the dirt-poor is expanding. According to uncited sources at Wikipedia, 80 percent of the Chinese will be only dirt-poor, while 20 percent will remain super-poor. This is a change from 1995 when 110 percent of Chinese were too poor for words. The Chinese is economy is much more than low-cost products. Most of the world's fine and authentic cat and dog furs are manufactured in China. China is also a major producer of bear bile from happy, live black bears for sophisticated medical use, as well as the popular Apple iPod. Neighbors[edit] China's neighbors are a varied lot. Mongolia, Japan,Nintendo, North Korea , South Korea, Vietnam, etc., were all once part of China, (evident because they all look the same and they all say "yokóhuā njèn chǎnghuǎnn zuòdǎng", or something sounding like it). They broke off during the 70s, when the gap between the super poor and ultra poor had grown too wide to reconcile peacefully. The wage difference was almost 3 dollars (Zimbabwean; the currency's projected value in 2164) per-capita per year. India is China's only cool neighbor. India attracts a lot of Chinese, with its Hippie-like free-sex have-twenty-children attitude. Most Chinese immigrants get away by calling themselves Assamese. Russia has a population-decline problem, and would love Chinese sex-addicts to repopulate it. However, its cold weather and disappointing lack of yellow fever make it uninhabitable for most Chinese. Those who survive typically migrate to Mongolia for reasons that confound modern scientists. Romance of the Three Kingdoms Chinese Abortion Factories Goa Tse Unquotable:Sun-Tzu Extreme Torch Relay Yellow Turban Rebellion Battle of Hulao Pass Battle of Xiangyang Battle of Jieqiao ↑ That's right bitch, the Chinese even had Cadillac first, so deal with it. And refer to Joseph Needham's Science and Civilization 4, Part 112, How the Chinese Invented Everything Before the West Did So You Might As Well Get Used To it, Bitch. Printed in 1966 by Cambridge University Press: The Damn Right, You Better Believe That Shit Division. ↑ It's well known that Chinese people love to have dirty, foul sex with Japanese tourists; it's a new fetish from Fujian province, try it out! What are you? Some scared little sissy-nanny? I bet you never stuck your mouse in a jar of cheese whiz. If you answer no, that explains everything. ↑ Enough of your mom, that is. ↑ Incidentally, your mom was there. ↑ Trust me, he's the ultimate douchebag. ↑ No official comment from Bobcat Goldthwaite, but his lawyer told us to fuck off. Go figure? He seemed pretty cool in all those Police Academy movies; I think he's gone soft, people. ↑ Clinton, Bill. (2007). The Art of Daoist Masturbation: How Hillary Won't Pleasure Me Anymore So I Have to Resort To This Shit and Write a Scholarly Journal About It To Pick Up On Some College Girls. Boston: Butt Plug Press. ISBN: Does-Anyone-Even-Check-This-Number?-666-420-Your-Mom-Sucks-Gargoyle-Statue-Cock-For-Coke-449-01-X. ↑ I hate to be redundant here, but this includes your Mom; someone had to break it to you, I hope you were sitting down for that one. ↑ Otherwise known as "Your A Gay Fag And You'll Never Be As Cool as This" Period. Let's face it, you're a fucking dork, cunt. ↑ Does this even need a citation? Where have you been for the last century? Living in a fucking cave, you ignorant pee-brained wastebucket in the bathroom at an Arbys restaurant (that's how low you are, I should know, you've made an ass of yourself on several occasions)? Even the Beatles sing about this in one of their famous songs, The Yellow Submarine Full of Chinese Fart Technology; It's Quite Randy, Baby! ↑ Buddha. (504 BC). Confucius was a Snob: How Buddhism Totally Owns His Senile, Erudite Philosophy. New Delhi: The Hindu Nationalist Extremist Press. Page 12. ↑ Page 894,549, Footnote B of the ancient Shiji. ↑ Sun, Yat-sen. (1922). Legalism and State Terror: Why Qin Shihuangdi is My Sexy Dream-Boat Man Hero. Guangzhou: Poo Poo Platter Press. ISBN 420-666-911-99-Problems-But-A-Bitch-Aint-One-204-X. Page 7. ↑ Hu, Jintao. (2004). Li Yuan the Singing Boy: How I Plan To Train My Son To Sing Just Like Li Yuan! Beijing: Heart-of-the-Commie-Beast Press. Page 111. ↑ Sima, Guang. (1085). Zizhi Tongjian. Kaifeng: The Kosher Kaifeng Jewish Press. Page 485. ↑ He also invaded your Mom's underpants. Oh! Snap son! ↑ At this point, even your Mom was a contender for imperial power; she became too busy telling you to get your damn laundry done, though. ↑ Jiang, Zemin. (1998). A History of Zhu Wen, the Male Prostitute Who Became an Emperor and Shortly Afterwards the Janitor for the Imperial Palace. Beijing: The People's Cultural Prostitution Revolution Press. Page 234. ↑ Zhao, Ziyang. (1995). Zhao Kuangyin: The One Mother Fucker You Should Definitely Stay Away From In a Fist Fight. Taipei: The Mainland-Haters Press. Page 232. ↑ Li, Peng. (1996). Enemy Pen Pals: The Juvenile Insults Made by the Song and Jin Courts. Nanjing: We're-Better-Than-Shanghai Press. Page 117. ↑ Which also included Big Macs, fried chicken, and caviar, when the latter was still known as a poor man's food. ↑ Zhu, Rongji. (2002). Marco Polo is Not Welcome Back to China Until He Realizes That We Will Not Cower Down Before His Capitalist Pig-Dog Demands for Copyrights. Beijing: The People's Liberation from Liberation Press. Page 339. ↑ Incidentally, your Mom also worships him, but only his penis. ↑ Wen, Jiabao. (2003). Zhu Yuanzhang and His Smelly Asshole. Beijing: The Committee to Investigate the History of Smelly Anuses. Page 445. ↑ Like the Japanese guy in the Weird Al movie UHF would say in such a case, "So Stupid!" ↑ Hu, Yaobang. (1985). Zheng He and His Non-Stop, Frat-Boy Foreign Slumber Parties of Sex With Exotic Natives In Foreign Devil Places Outside of China. Chongqing: The Mariner's Peg-Leg Press. Page 647. ↑ The Chinese movie called Billy Madison (1995) covers this event thoroughly. ↑ Collins, Phil. (2008). The Phil Collins Travel Diaries in China: The Chinese Are Just Dying To See Me!. Baghdad: Hang the Infidel By His Ball Sack Press. ISBN 666-The-Devil-X-X-X-9. ↑ This style of dress and haircut faded away in China with the arrival of Emo, now the most common form of dress and hairstyle. ↑ Be careful, they could morph into your computer at any moment! ↑ Chen, Yun. (1994). British Foreign Devils, Evil Manchus, Capitalist Pig-Dogs, and the Opium Temptress. Beijing: The Glorious State Department of Propaganda and Rubber Toys. Page 2. ↑ If you don't believe me, go ask your Mom, she had sex with virtually every member of the party in those days. ↑ Attenborough, David. (1992). The Boring, Yawning, Terribly-Miserable BBC Documentaries of World Affairs in the 20th Century. London: Goddamn This is Boring Press. Page 11,245. ↑ Takeshi, Kaneshiro. (2005). Gay Butt-Sex Love Affairs and Their Effect on Contemporary Chinese Gay Man Culture. Hangzhou: The Fabulous and Well-Dressed Chinese Boy Press. Page 222. ↑ Christ, Jesus. (1994). Deng Xiaoping: The Reformer Who Unselfishly Gave His Life and Should Be Revered More Than Me, Jesus, Even to the Extent That He Replace Me On the Image of the Cross. Fuzhou: The People's Hatred for All-Things-Japanese Press. Page 178. ↑ Stern, Howard. (2007). Bums, Crack-Whores, Porn-Peddlers, and Midgets: My Visit to China as the Premier Radio Host of American Values. Chicago: The Low-Life Scumbag Good-For-Nothing Press. Page 211. 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__label__wiki	0.849732	0.849732	Nyanaponika Thera Nyanaponika Maha Thera Mahathera (Great Elder) Siegmund Feniger (1901-07-21)July 21, 1901 Hanau, German Empire October 19, 1994(1994-10-19) (aged 93) Forest Hermitage, Kandy, Sri Lanka monk; co-founder, Buddhist Publication Society Senior posting Forest Hermitage U Nārada Bhikkhu Bodhi (at BPS) Buddhist modernism Buddhism in the United States Buddhism and the Roman world Tibetan dissemination Lama Anagarika Govinda Theravada dissemination Thai Forest Tradition Vipassana movement Anagarika Dharmapala Sangharakshita Ajahn Chah Nyanatiloka Thanissaro Bhikkhu Zen dissemination Zen in the United States Modern Chinese Chán Hsuan Hua Sheng-yen Hsing Yun Rinzai Zen D.T. Suzuki Sanbo Kyodan Haku'un Yasutani White Plum Asanga Taizan Maezumi Korean Seon Seung Sahn Vietnamese Thiền Listing of Zen Buddhists Amidist dissemination David Brazier Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Temples of Canada Buddhism and Christianity Buddhism and Gnosticism Buddhism and psychology Buddhism and Western Philosophy Outline of Buddhism Hinayana Indian Buddhism Korean Buddhism Listing of Buddhist topics Nyanaponika Thera or Nyanaponika Mahathera (July 21, 1901 – 19 October 1994) was a German-born Sri-Lanka-ordained Theravada monk, co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society[1], contemporary author of numerous seminal Theravada books, and teacher of contemporary Western Buddhist leaders such as Bhikkhu Bodhi.[1] 2 Selected publications This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Nyanaponika Thera" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (Siegmund Feniger) was born in Hanau, Germany on July 21, 1901 as Siegmund Feniger, the only child of a Jewish family.[2] In 1921, he moved with his parents to Berlin, where he met with German Buddhists and also had access to Buddhist literature in the German language.[3] He first came across the writings of Ven. Nyanatiloka Thera (1878–1957), the former German violin virtuoso Anton Gueth, which had already been published in Germany.[3] Young Siegmund had learned that Ven. Nyanatiloka Thera had established a monastery for Western monks on an island lagoon (opposite the Railway station) Polgasduwa, Dodanduwa named Island Hermitage. This news stirred his conscience to go to Asia and become a Buddhist monk.[3] However, circumstances prevented him from acting on this plan for quite some time. In 1932 his father died, and he did not wish to leave his widowed mother in the lurch. Then, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. In November 1935 he and his mother left Germany and moved to Vienna, where they had relatives. Having arranged for his mother to stay in Vienna, in early 1936 he finally was able to leave Europe for Sri Lanka, where he joined Ven. Nyanatiloka Thera at the Island Hermitage, Polgasduwa, Dodanduwa.[4] After several months of studies, in June 1936 he was ordained as a novice and was given the name Nyanaponika.[2] In 1937 he received Upasampada (Higher Ordination) under the tutelage of Nyanatiloka Thera. In 1939, after the Nazis invaded Poland, Ven. Nyanaponika Thera arranged for his mother and other relatives to move to Sri Lanka. Through the influence of her son and the generous hosts, she embraced Buddha Dhamma and became a devoted Buddhist. She died in Colombo in 1956. When World War II broke out in 1939, the British Government had all German males resident in their colonies consigned to internment camps, suspecting them to be German spies. Nyanaponika's and Nyanatiloka's internment was first at Diyatalawa Army Cantonment in Sri Lanka, and later at Dehra Dun in northern India.[5] Despite these traumatic experiences as a prisoner of war, during this period Ven. Nyanaponika Thera completed German translations of the Sutta Nipata, the Dhammasangani (the first book of the Abhidhamma Pitaka), and its commentary. He also compiled an anthology of texts on Satipatthana Meditation.[5] This work was begun at Diyatalawa, and it was finished while he was interned at Dehra Dun. With the cessation of war, the two bhikkhus were released from internment at Dehra Dun. They returned to Sri Lanka in 1946 and resided at the Island Hermitage, Dodanduwa. In early 1951 Sri Lanka granted citizenship to both of them. In 1946, Ven. Nyanatiloka Thera was offered a hermitage in the Udawattekelle Forest Reserve, but being advanced in age he preferred the cooler climate of Kandy to the hot and stuffy sea-coast climate of Dodanduwa. In 1947, Ven. Nyanaponika Thera joined him at the new Kandy Hermitage. In 1952, both Venerable Nyanatiloka Thera and Nyanaponika Thera were invited by the Burmese (Myanmar) Government to be consultants to the Sixth Buddhist Council, to be convened in 1954 to re-edit and reprint the entire Pali Canon and its commentaries.[5] After their work with the Council was completed, Ven. Nyanaponika Thera stayed in Burma for a period of training in Vipassana (Insight Meditation) under the renowned meditation teacher Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw Thera.[6] The experience he gathered motivated him to write his best-known work, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, published by the Buddhist Publication Society. This work was reprinted in many editions, and was translated into more than seven languages.[6] In 1954, the teacher and the pupil returned to Burma for the opening ceremonies of the Sixth Buddhist Council,[6] which was held in a cave-like structure built similar to the Sattaprani Caves in Rajagaha (Rajgir), India, where the First Buddhist Council had been held. For the closing ceremonies in 1956 Ven. Nyanaponika Thera went to Burma alone, as his teacher Nyanatiloka was indisposed at that time.[6] In 1957, the health of Ven. Nyanatiloka Thera deteriorated, and he moved to Colombo for easy and ready medical attention. Finally, on May 28, 1957, the great pioneering scholar monk died, and he was accorded a State Funeral at Independence Square, Colombo, attended by the Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, many State officials, and both the laity and religious dignitaries and prelates of all Nikayas. His ashes were enshrined at the Polgasduwa Island Hermitage, Dodanduwa, and a tombstone was built to perpetuate his memory. Ven. Nyanaponika Thera, thereafter dutifully honoring the request of his teacher, revised Ven. Nyanatiloka Thera's German translation of the complete Anguttara Nikaya, retyping the five volumes in full by himself, and also compiling a forty-page Index to the work. Six months after the death of his teacher, the career of Ven. Nyanaponika Thera was to be launched in a new direction, a permanent contribution to the spread of Buddhism worldwide. A.S. Karunaratne (a prominent lawyer in Kandy, who was Mayor of Kandy in 1945) suggested to his friend Richard Abeysekera (d. August 1982) (Trinity College teacher in retirement), that they start a society for the publication of Buddhist literature in English, mainly to be distributed abroad. The unanimous decision was that Ven. Nyanaponika Thera, in the Udawattekelle Forest Reserve Aramaya, would be the best director of the institution. Thus, on January 1, 1958, the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS) was born. Devoting his entire time and energy to the publications of the BPS, Nyanaponika Thera wrote tracts, encouraged others to write, collated and translated important suttas, and had them published. In addition to his own writings, 200 Wheel titles and 100 Bodhi Leaves (booklets) - authored by numerous scholars - were issued during his editorship at the BPS. Ven. Nyanaponika Thera's biography is completely submerged in his writings. With advancing age having a heavy toll on his strength, in 1984 Ven. Nyanaponika Thera retired as editor of BPS, and in 1988 he retired as President, ending his career there with recognition as a Distinguished Patron of BPS. His fame as an exponent of authentic Theravada Buddhism reached all corners of the globe. In 1978, the German Oriental Society appointed him an honorary member, in recognition of his combination of objective scholarship with religious practice as a Buddhist monk. In 1987, the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka at its first convocation, conferred on him its first ever Honoris Causa Degree of Doctor of Literature. In 1990, he received the Honoris Causa Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Peradeniya. In 1993, The Amarapura Maha Sangha Sabha, to which he belonged for 56 years, conferred on him the honorary title of Amarapura Maha Mahopadhyaya Sasana Sobhana (The Great Mentor of the Amarapura Maha Sasana Sabha, Ornament of Teaching). His last birthday (which fell on July 21, 1994) was celebrated by his friends and the BPS staff with the release of the BPS edition of his book The Vision of Dhamma, a collection of his writings from the Wheel and Bodhi Leaves series. On October 19, 1994, the last day of his 58th Rains Retreat as a bhikkhu, he breathed his last in the pre-dawn quietude of the Udawattekelle forest hermitage. Selected publications[edit] Thera, Nyanaponika (1998). Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Explorations of Consciousness and Time. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0861711352. [7] Thera, Nyanaponika (1999). The Life of Sariputta compiled and translated from the Pali texts. Thera, Nyanaponika (2000). The Vision of Dhamma: Buddhist Writings of Nyanaponika Thera. Pariyatti. ISBN 978-1928706038. Thera, Nyanaponika; Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2000). Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300165203. Thera, Nyanaponika (2001). The Power of Mindfulness (PDF). Thera, Nyanaponika (2003). Great Disciples of the Buddha : Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0861713813. Thera, Nyanaponika (2014). The Heart of Buddhist Meditation. Weiser Books. ISBN 978-1578635580. [8] ^ In the Preface of the posthumously published Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya (1999, co-authored with Bhikkhu Bodhi, published by Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA), p. xv, Bodhi writes: "The original version of this anthology was compiled by my personal mentor, the eminent German scholar-monk Venerable Nyanaponika Thera...." ^ a b "Buddhism and Judaism: Exploring the phenomenon of the JuBu". Thubten Chodron. March 19, 2010. Retrieved September 11, 2015. ^ a b c Thera 1986, p. xv. ^ "Contributing Authors and Translators Biographical Notes". Access to Insight. Retrieved September 11, 2015. ^ a b c Thera 1986, p. xvi. ^ a b c d Thera 1986, p. xvii. ^ Shrader, Douglas W. (2000), Review: Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Explorations of Consciousness and Time by Venerable Nyanaponika Thera, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Philosophy East and West 50 (4), 637-640 ^ Scaligero, Massimo (1959), Review: Satipaṭṭhāna. The Heart of Buddhist Meditation by Nyanaponika Thera, East and West 10 (3), 230-231 Buswell, Robert Jr; Lopez, Donald S. Jr., eds. (2013). "Nyanaponika Thera", in Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691157863. Thera, Nyanaponika (1986), The Vision of Dharma, Rider and Company, ISBN 0877286698 Musch, Sebastian. Jewish Encounters with Buddhism in German Culture. Between Moses and Buddha (1890-1940). Palgrave 2019. ISBN 978-3-030-27468-9. Accesstoinsight.org short biography BPS's "About Us" page "For the Welfare of Many" (1994), obituary by Bhikkhu Bodhi, originally published as the BPS Newsletter cover essay no. 28 (3rd mailing, 1994). 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__label__cc	0.655836	0.344164	Europe > Central Europe > Poland > Kujawsko-Pomorskie > Toruń 7.1 Bars 7.2 Cafés 8.1 Private rooms 8.3 Mid-range Toruń (Kashubian: Torń, German: Thorn) is a beautiful, medieval city in North-Western Poland, situated on the Vistula River. Its architecture was not hit by bombs during World War II, and as such represents one of the few examples of true Gothic architecture in Poland. It is still reasonably off the radars of most European travelers, so one can expect to have an amazing Polish experience here without the nightmares of a million and one Interrail travelers. It has been one of the capitals of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, and was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998 and of the Pomeranian Voivodeship from 1921 to 1939. The city is located near the Geographic Center of Europe. Toruń's medieval Old Town or Starówka is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Toruń is the birthplace of the world famous astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. The house where Copernicus was born and the chapel where he was christened are still standing in the city. From Middle Ages the town is known for its gingerbreads. As of the last census in 2004, Toruń has 208,386 inhabitants. Tram in Toruń Bus in Toruń The nearest airports that offer commercial flights are in (60 km) Bydgoszcz (low cost airlines across Europe), Poznań - Ławica airport (140 km, low cost airlines across Europe), Gdańsk - Lech Wałęsa airport (~180 km, low cost airlines across Europe, connected by motorway) and Warsaw - Okęcie airport - long haul airlines (230 km) - or Modlin airport. Polish State Railways operates train connections to Toruń from Warsaw, Poznań, Gdańsk, Łódź, Katowice and Olsztyn. Toruń's main railway station 53.0001218.6145831 Toruń Główny is across the river Vistula from the city. To walk into town takes 35 minutes. A taxi into the old town will cost less than 20 zł. Alternatively, buses #22 and #27 run directly to the old town. These depart from both sides of the railway station; however, the kiosk for buying tickets is on the south side of the station. Take the bus two stops to Plac Rapackiego (You'll also notice the old town as you cross the bridge - it's the stop that immediately follows the bridge). You don't need an additional ticket for the bag, as long as you don't put it on the seats. 53.01207818.6198692 Toruń Miasto railway station is another railway station which is smaller but situated much closer to the old town. Not all trains stop there, but if your train does then getting off at Toruń Miasto is the simplest solution. Highway runs between Toruń and Gdańsk - quick way (170km). You can reach Łódź by highway (175km). Warsaw can be reached via route 10 (220km) or via + motorways (260km). There are many bus connections to Toruń, and the 53.0156218.6080423 Bus station is just a short walk from the Old Town. (see Poland::By bus). Main street in Toruń (ul. Szeroka) Toruń's Old Town is small. Torun's public transportation system does not enter the Old Town itself. Walking around is your best option. During summertime it is possible to hire a pedicab. Outside of the Old Town, there are plentiful buses and trams. There are more and more ticket machines in buses and trams. Still there is a small possibility that you will find one without a ticket machine, and will have to buy a ticket from the driver (they rarely speak English). You can also buy a ticket in one of the many kiosks (newspaper shops), but only for cash, unless you buy something more than a ticket. If ticket inspectors (always in plainclothes) board the bus with you, you may have only 10-30 seconds to stamp your ticket before the stamping machines are frozen. Don't assume that a jam-packed bus will prevent ticket inspectors from checking your ticket: they quite frequently force their way through crowded buses to check everyone's ticket, to maximise their chance of finding a ticketless traveller. If you plan to use public transport, you can consider using a mobile ticket (Mobilet or SkyCash; even if the websites are in Polish, the apps fortunately have English language versions). The operators have an English version of the timetable available, but better is to use the Jak Dojadę application. It is reliable and has up-do-date info in changes in timetables. Best bet is to walk, or if you can speak Polish or have your destination written down. Taxis are quite cheap. To get further afield, cars can be hired for around 100 zł a day. 53°0′40″N 18°36′38″E Map of Toruń Old Town Hall in Toruń Statue of Raftsman playing the violin Panoramic view of the Old Town Stare Miasto (Old Quarter). A UNESCO World Heritage List site dating back to medieval times. Almost intact medieval street layout. In fact, it consists of two, formerly independent cities - Stare Miasto (Old Town) at the West, founded in 1233, with the most tourist attractions, Nowe Miasto (New Town) at the Northeast, found in 1264, and ruins of Teutonic Knights' Castle (one of the oldest in Poland) between them. 53.009318.6038441 Nicolaus Copernicus' House (Dom Mikołaja Kopernika), ul. Kopernika 15-17 (Old Town). The Copernicus' House is closed till January 2018 due to renovation works. Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Toruń in 1473. The museum is in a house which belonged to the Copernicus family in the 15th century, and where probably Nicolaus Copernicus was born. The architecture of the building dates back to the 15th century, and its interior is a fine example of a Gothic house refurbished throughout the centuries. The museum's "collection" mostly comprises copies and facsimiles with very few explanations. (updated Jan 2018) 53.010518.60432 Old Town Hall (Ratusz Staromiejski), Rynek Staromiejski 1 (at the centre of Old Town Market Square (Rynek Staromiejski)). Open daily except Mondays, Oct-Apr 10-16, May-Sep 10-18.. One of the most beautiful Gothic town halls in Europe. Despite its many treasures it is however not too rewarding for foreign visitors as it is almost entirely explained in Polish. Translations are very sparse or non-existent. The museum consists of Gallery of Gothic Art, including a collection of a 14th-century stained glasses from Toruń and Chełmno churches, Exhibition of Old Toruń 1233-1793, Exhibition of Toruń Coins, Court Hall, Hall of Polish Kings, collection of Polish 19th- and 20th- century painting, etc. Climb the tower for a beautiful view! 13 zł, reduced 9 zł; combined ticket for Old Town Hall and for the tower is 21 / 16; admission to permanent exhibition on Wednesdays is free. (updated Jan 2018) Tower of the Old Town Hall (Wieża Ratusza Staromiejskiego) (at the centre of Old Town Market Square (Rynek Staromiejski)). Open daily, Nov-Mar 10-16, Apr and Oct 10-18, May-Sep 10-20. The Old Town Hall tower is the oldest town hall tower in Central and Eastern Europe. It is worth to climb the steep wooden steps to admire beautiful view on the historic center of Toruń. 13 zł, reduced 9 zł. 53.0102318.612383 Baj Pomorski Theatre (Teatr Baj Pomorski), Piernikarska 9. Puppet theatre. 53.0093818.606264 Cathedral of SS. Johns (Katedra świętych Janów), ul. Żeglarska. Main church of the city in the Medieval times, built during 14th and 15th centuries, since 1996 cathedral of Toruń Diocese. Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was christened here. On its tower hangs Tuba Dei bell from 1500, one of the largest Medieval bells in Europe. The interior is partly renovated, and work continued in 2013. Now the Gothic stellar vault in the nave is restored. The furnishings and decorations are witnesses of history of religion in Toruń - besides Gothic wall paintings and fresco from 1380 you can see some epitaphs from protestant era, but the most prominent are Baroque and Rococo altars founded by Jesuit Order in the 18th century. The church hosts occasional concerts with performers from around Europe. Entrance is not free, additional fees apply for taking photos and filming. On the southern exterior of the tower is the Digitus Dei clock 'the finger of God', as only an hour hand shaped as a pointing finger denotes the time. 53.0110418.602365 Church of Virgin Mary (Kościół Najświętszej Marii Panny), ul. Panny Marii 2 (Northwest corner of Old Town Market Square (Rynek Staromiejski)). Open all day, except during prayers. Gothic church, built in 14th century by Franciscan Order, now parish church. Notably this church has no steeple, instead are three octagonal fleshes of the chancel. This three aisled interior was the tallest nave in the area. The very high interior is filled with precious works of art: Gothic wooden stalls, Renaissance organ, Renaissance and Mannerist epitaphs of Toruń's citizens, monumental Baroque main altar and a Gothic crucifix from the early 16C. This is also a burial place of Anna Vasa of Sweden, Polish and Swedish princess, the youngest child of King John III of Sweden and Catherine Jagiellon. In the southern aisle monumental Gothic mural paintings from 14th century, depicting Christ, St. Mary and saints. Entrance is free. 53.0107218.605116 House Under the Star (Kamienica Pod Gwiazdą), Rynek Staromiejski 35. Open daily except Mondays. Oct-Apr 10:00-16:00, May-Sep 10:00-18:00. The house, built in 13th century and rebuilt several times up to 19th century. Baroque richly decorated facade and reconstructed interior - one of the best preserved houses from that period in Poland. You must climb the wooden spiral stairs decorated with sculpture of Minerva. The painted wooden Renaissance ceiling at the back is one of the best examples such a decoration in Poland. The interior hosts small exhibition of Far East art - not abundant, but really interesting. 10 zł, reduced 7 zł. (updated Jan 2018) 53.0084418.602727 Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Granaries. Between 15th and 18th centuries Toruń was a big center of grain trade, hence many granaries are preserved in the Old Town. The oldest and most interesting can be seen on the corner of Piekary Str. and Rabiańska Str, near Leaning Tower. Its top is decorated with window bands. Another granary, so-called Swedish Granary, is adapted for a hotel. 53.0083618.602068 Krzywa Wieża (The Leaning Tower), ul. Pod Krzywą Wieżą. Part of old Toruń defense wall system built in the 13th century. Poor foundations caused by the sorting of the clay subsoil led the tower to lean at a sharp angle around 140 cm soon after its construction. Check out if you can stand with your back and heels against the wall and your arms outstretched in front of you (it's pretty much impossible) 53.0099218.604459 Dwór Artusa (Artus Court, Artushof), Rynek Staromiejski 6. Monumental building on the place of medieval Artus Court in the end of 19th century. Now it hosts cultural centre. 53.0049918.6105810 Vantage point on the left bank of Vistula River (From pl. Rapackiego go through the road bridge across Vistula, then turn left by the campsite). Excellent panorama from left bank of the river Vistula. Vantage point on Kępa Bazarowa island is accessible by foot or by bus from pl. Rapackiego (Rapacki Sq.) 53.011518.584411 Bydgoskie Przedmieście (west of the Old Town). Mostly residential district build in the late 19th and early 20th century. It comprises many monuments of architecture, a city park, and a zoobotanical garden. The most interesting are timber-framed houses at Bydgoska and Konopnickiej Streets. 53.012118.61712 Przedmieście Świętej Katarzyny (Wilhelmstadt). Built in the late 19th and early 20th century east of the Old Town, is a specific combination of residential and military architecture. St. Catherine's church is located at Wilhelmstadt's main square; with its over 80-meter high tower it remains the highest building in Toruń. 53.009318.610713 Ruins of Teutonic Knights Castle (Ruiny zamku krzyżackiego), ul. Przedzamcze. 10AM-6PM. An outdoor museum. One of the first Teutonic Knights castles in Poland, built already in 13th century. It was extended and rebuild through 14th-15th centuries. In 1454, the Toruń citizens demolished the castle, and that was the beginning of a war between Poland and Teutonic Knights. Then the castle served as a bastion and garbage dump. In 1950s the castle was unearthed, as until then the whole ground floor was covered by earth and litter. The best preserved part is so-called gdanisko, used by Teutonic Knights as toilet tower. Admission: 2 zł. 53.013918.604214 Ethnographic Museum. An open-air museum showing the folk architecture of many regions of Poland. Includes a windmill. 53.0011918.6000515 Dybowski Castle Ruins, opposite the river and small walk from the bridge on the west most side of the city (From the Old Town, cross the bridge to the other side of Vistula, then turn right and walk a cobblestone road you found under the bridge). A skeleton of what is left of the old Castle, built by Polish king Władysław Jagiełło (Jogaila) in the 15th century (1424-1428). You can explore the ruins at your leisure and walk the walls (which can be dangerous). Forts of 19th-century Toruń fortress (12) (Some are located close to old town, others like Fort No. 4 are just outside the city). 53.018718.546316 Motoarena Toruń. The biggest and most modern purpose-built speedway stadium in the world, in use since 2009. It has been one of the sites for FIM Speedway Grand Prix since 2010. 53.095218.559717 Piwnice Radio Observatory (Piwnice). A radio observatory with two dishes (diameters: 32 meters and 15 meters). Old-Town Market Square (Rynek Staromiejski), Rynek Staromiejski. (updated Jan 2018) 53.00861118.60472218 Museum of Toruń Gingerbread (Muzeum Toruńskiego Piernika), Strumykowa 4, ☏ +48 56 656 70 87, ✉ dhtp@muzeum.torun.pl. May-Sep 10:00-18:00, Oct-Apr 10:00-16:00; closed on Mondays except May-Jun. Description from Museum's website: The Museum of Toruń Gingerbread, a branch of the District Museum in Toruń, in the 19th c. gingerbread factory formerly owned by the Weese family, can be found at 4 Strumykowa St. It has taken three years to convert the building into a museum and prepare an exhibition space of some 1200 sq m. The Museum of Toruń Gingerbread is likely to become a unique tourist attraction. Not only is it Poland’s largest museum dedicated to the history of gingerbread but it is designed to be modern and interactive and solely dedicated to the long-standing European tradition of gingerbread making. Exhibition and gingerbread baking workshop – normal: PLN 13, reduced: PLN 9; gingerbread baking workshop (excluding exhibition) – normal: PLN 8, reduced: PLN 6; exhibition - normal: PLN 10, reduced: PLN 7. (updated Jan 2018) 52.997518.691219 Złotoria Castle Ruins (Zamek w Złotoria), https://goo.gl/maps/yaYasHaB9VD2 (Bus Line 23 & 46 run every hour; or drive 10km). Anytime. Built in 1343 it was one of the most important locale during the conflicts between Poland and the Teutonic Knights and is now in ruins. A picturesque setting only meters from the Visła river. Free. (updated Jul 2018) A list of events, entertainment, culture in Toruń - updated daily (also in English) can be found online: [1] 53.0086718.604771 Bake traditional gingerbread at Gingerbread Museum, Rabianska street, very centre of the old town, ☏ +48 56 663 66 17. 9-18. Get involved in an interactive show throughout visitors are guided by Master of gingerbread bakery and the Witch. Having sworn the oath you become member of the guild. First you will prepare dough the way it has been done for centuries, you will kneed it. You will also use traditional baking-moulds then you'll bake your own gingerbread. As the museum is located in an old granary you'll be shown how to produce flour using old mill stones as well. And remember - should you break the oath you shall be punished. If you hace passed with flying colours little examination and endured hardships of working at bakery you'll be also promoted and become a craftsman. Show takes up to one hour. This museum forms part of gingerbread tradition for which Toruń is famous. Check availability in advance on +48 566636617. During peak season you should book your visit beforehand unless you plan to show up on Sat - Sun. Open from 9AM to 6PM Off-peak season (from January to the end of March) open from 10AM to 6PM. There must be at least 5 people to start show, this condition does not apply at 4PM. Need more information? Phone the museum or e-mail them at muzeumpiernika@muzeumpiernika.pl Trails. There are several city trails although all poorly signed and requiring a map. The easiest to follow runs alongside the Gothic city walls of Toruń. Ceramic statues made by local artists add an artistic atmosphere and draw attention to otherwise missed features. Look out for historic townsfolk, a Teutonic knight, angles and a dragon! (updated Jul 2018) There are many shops, boutiques in old town selling clothes, souvenirs, jewellery, music, food, drinks, vegetables and fruits (on New Town market), etc. 53.025418.63791 Galeria Copernicus (40 min walk from old town, reachable by bus #15, 19, 21, 30, tram #2). Large shopping centre 53.01518.56152 Toruń Plaza, Broniewskiego 90 (30 min walk from old town, reachable by bus #15, 17, 18, 26, 28, 34, 36, 40, tram #1N, 2, 3, 4, 5). Large shopping centre 53.0105818.605363 Dom Towarowy, Rynek Staromiejski 36/37 (in houses on Old Town Square). Shopping centre 53.0099518.604354 Toruńskie pierniki, Rynek Staromiejski 6, Żeglarska 24. Specialized gingerbread shops. At warm times of year Toruń's old town is full of street cafes, restaurants where you can eat or drink outdoors and enjoy the medieval atmosphere. Some cafés are located on the bank of river Vistula, and at least two are on boats on the river. Various dishes - traditional and fast food, drinks - beer, soft drinks and ice cream are offered there. If you are a football lover there are many street cafés where you can watch a game on TV while drinking good Polish beer. Toruń is known for its gingerbread (Toruńskie Pierniki). You must try it. 53.0108518.610981 Leniwa (Pierogarnia), ul. Ślusarska 5 (close to New Town Market), ☏ +48 564775403. 8-16 zł. 53.0107318.603232 Manekin, ul. Wysoka 5, Rynek Staromiejski 16, ☏ +48 566522885. Delicious, huge naleśniki (filled crêpes) with a large choice of fillings for only about 10 zł each. It can get quite busy at peak times, but you will be warned if there will be a long wait. The staff are friendly and helpful and the restaurants have a nice ambiance. The restaurant on the old market square (Rynek Staromiejski) is particularly nice. 53.0098718.607053 [dead link] Metropolis (Restaurant & Bar), ul. Łazienna 26, ul. Podmurna 28. 53.0087518.607294 Karotka (Restaurant & Bar), ul. Łazienna 9. Budget vegetarian and vegan food. 6 zł for soups, 12-15 zł for main dish. 53.0097318.608945 Ciasna (Restaurant & Bar), ul. Podmurna 17, ☏ +48 690 060 036. Vegetarian and vegan food for reasonable price. 53.009118.608936 Luizjana (Restaurant), ul. Mostowa 10, ☏ +48 790 220 210, ✉ kontakt@restauracjaluizjana.pl. Mo-Th 12:00-22:00, F-Sa 12:00-23:00, Su 12:00-21:00. Restaurant serving Creole food. 11-16 zł for soups, 24-64 zł for main dishes. 53.011118.60587 Jan Olbracht, Szczytna 15, ☏ +48 797 903 333. 11:00-24:00. Excellent food (mainly Polish cuisine) at a reasonable price. You can sit at level 0 in a big barrel, downstairs in a pub or upstairs in a restaurant room. This place has its own microbrewery making 4-5 types of fresh beer. 11-16 zł for soups, 24-64 zł for main dishes. 53.0128818.608448 Piccolo Grande, Wysoka 12, ☏ +48 56 684 42 29, ✉ biuro@grande.net.pl. Restaurant serving mainly Italian-style food (pizzas and pastas). 8 zł for soup, 12-20 zł for main dish. (updated Jan 2018) 53.0105618.608169 Szeroka No 9, Szeroka 9. (updated Jan 2018) Bars[edit] Grota, Rynek Staromiejski 24 (north side of the Old Market Square, underneath the Orange shop). Friendly bar staff and locals, reasonable prices and an excellent range of spirits (including a terrifying assortment of vodkas!) makes this an excellent place to quench a thirst you may work up exploring Toruń's Old Town Szwejk. Togun, ul. Żeglarska 24. Kawalerka, Rynek Staromiejski 1 (Old Town Hall building, cellar, entrance in front of the Post Office). 53.0109518.612031 Klub NRD, ul. Browarna 6 (Near New Town Market Square (Rynek Nowomiejski)). Pub, but also centre of alternative culture. Dwa Światy, ul. Ducha Świętego 10/12. 53.009418.60492 Lizard King, Kopernika 3, ☏ +48 56 621 02 34. 17:00-04:00. Good club with rock and pop music. Two bars (two levels), dance floor, live concerts 53.011518.61173 Krajina Piva, Rynek Nowomiejski 3, ☏ +48 607 589 607. 16:00 - 1:00. Great place for beer lovers. Over 100 types of beer in the bar, mostly regional Polish beer and many interesting tastes from all over the world. 53.008718.60594 Kadr, Żeglarska 5, ☏ +48 56 621 1433. 14:00-01:00. Good place to have a drink or two. Walls filled with still pictures from movies. Desperado, ul. Kopernika 45. Cafés[edit] 53.0118518.604225 Kona Coast, ul. Chełmińska 18 (near Old Town Market Place). One of the best cafes in Toruń, serving wide range of coffees. You can also eat some soup, pasta or panini. 5-13 zł for coffee, 16-18 for pasta. 53.0104418.605636 Pijalnia czekolady E. Wedel, ul. Szeroka 40, ☏ +48 696 437 105, ✉ torun@wedelpijalnie.pl. Mo-Sa 9:00-22:00, Su 10:00-21:00. 53.0107818.602847 Atmosphera (Kawiarnia), ul. Panny Marii 3 (near Old Town Market Square, opposite the St. Mary church), ☏ +48 56 651 78 97. 53.010918.609918 Cukiernia Lenkiewicz, ul. Wielkie Garbary 14 (Old town, near the crossroad of Królowej Jadwigi, Szeroka, and Wielkie Garbary - there is an Empik store and concrete bench with clock on it. ~50 metres from there. They have the best ice-cream in Toruń), ☏ +48 56 62 256 35. Private rooms[edit] If you would like to stay in one of the historic buildings in the old town, it is possible to rent a furnished apartment for the night from a local family. Go to the tourist information centre and ask them for a phone number, or have them call on your behalf if you don't speak Polish. It was less that 80 zloty per night during the summer in 2010. Budget[edit] 53.009918.603911 Angel Hostel, ul. Rynek Staromiejski 8 (right on the Old Town Square), ☏ +48 694 152 398. Check-in: 14:00, check-out: 12:00. Placed in the Old Town Square, with a view over Town Hall. Contains eight-, four- or two-bed rooms. 35-100 zł. [dead link] Camping Tramp. Open spring & summer. 53.04118.63262 Fort Yorck, Chrobrego 86 (5 km from downtown). In a 19th century Festung Thorn fort. Orange Hostel, ul. Prosta 19 (in the Old Town, 5 minutes walk from the river), ☏ +48 56 652 00 33. Dorm bed: 30 zł. Freedom Backpackers, ul. Szeroka 31/4 (right on the main street (ulica Szeroka)), ☏ +48 790 704 785. Check-in: 14:00, check-out: 12:00. A great, friendly hostel, right in the heart of the city centre, giving great access to the whole Old Town, Internet, solid breakfast. All in all, a great base to explore the city! 40 zł. Mid-range[edit] 53.0099818.607923 Central Hotel, Hotel Pod Orłem, Mostowa 17. Reasonably priced but sometimes noisy. 53.0083518.595764 ibis Budget (formerly Etap), Popiełuszki 2a (within 0.5km from the Old Town). Offers a standardized budget experience by providing the simplest possible ensuite rooms made to the usual ibis Budget standards. 53.0095218.602445 Gotyk, Piekary 20 (Old Town). 3-star hotel 53.0114118.608886 Heban, Małe Garbary 7 (Old Town). 3-star hotel 53.013218.6127 [dead link] Hotelik w Centrum, Szumana 2 (Old Town). 2-star hotel. Watch out for bell from a nearby church, ringing every hour, even at the night! 53.011518.61438 Kopernik, Wola Zamkowa 16 (Old Town). 2-star hotel 53.009518.60219 Petite Fleur, Piekary 25 (Old Town). 3-star hotel 53.008618.604310 Pod Czarną Różą, Rabiańska 11 (Old Town). 3-star hotel 53.012418.603811 Polonia, pl. Teatralny 5 (Old Town). 3-star hotel 53.008618.604312 Retman, Rabiańska 15 (Old Town). 3-star hotel 53.0107118.6024813 Solaris (3-star hotel), Panny Marii 9 (Old Town). Located in a historic townhouse with a timber frame and steep stairs, this charming hotel offers creature comforts such as Japanese washlets in its 23 rooms. Located over a nightclub, which may become an issue. 53.008718.608714 Spichrz, Mostowa 1 (Old Town). 3-star hotel Trzy Korony, Rynek Staromiejski 21 (Old Town). 2-star hotel [dead link] B&B, Leona Szumana 8 (Old Town). 2-star hotel Splurge[edit] 53.009918.611115 1231 Hotel, Przedzamcze 6 (Old Town). 4-star hotel 53.00818.60216 Bulwar, Bulwar Filadelfijski 18 (Old Town). 4-star hotel 53.013218.596617 Mercure Helios, Kraszewskiego 1/3 (within 0.5km from the Old Town). 4-star hotel 53.019318.608518 Filmar, Grudziądzka 37 (within 1 km from the Old Town). 4-star hotel. Chełmno - beautiful well-preserved medieval town 40 km north from Toruń. Chełmża - old small town with Gothic cathedral, situated by the lake. 15 km. Golub-Dobrzyń - former Teutonic Knights' Castle, 40 km east from Toruń Szafarnia - Frédéric Chopin museum, 45 km east from Toruń Ciechocinek - famous Polish spa, with unique graduation towers, 25 km south from Toruń Biskupin - archaeological reservation of the Lusatian Culture settlement (650-550 year BC), 90 km from Toruń Poznań - city where Poland has started; with beautiful Old Square and Cathedral Island Bydgoszcz - second capital of the Voivodeship, on the Brda river, with art nouveau architecture, opera house, and Brda waterfront, 50 km from Toruń This city travel guide to Toruń is a usable article. It has information on how to get there and on restaurants and hotels. An adventurous person could use this article, but please feel free to improve it by editing the page. 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__label__cc	0.661471	0.338529	Home » News » Lu Weibing: Smartphones with 5G will weigh 200 grams or more Lu Weibing: Smartphones with 5G will weigh 200 grams or more Pierpaolo Figuccia The advent of 5G technology on our smartphones will not bring changes only in the field of download and upload speed usable by the end user, but the way in which this device is created will also change. The presence of an 5G connection means in fact an increase in consumption and therefore requires an increase in the size of the batteries. This obviously not to return to the times in which arriving at mid-day autonomy was already a goal. Well, to confirm just said the words of Lu Weibing, the vice president of Xiaomi Global and general manager of the Redmi brand, arrive. Weibing has indeed published a post on the famous Chinese social network Weibo in which he states that "With the arrival of the 5G, batteries are increasing in size. The smartphone then becomes heavier and thicker (more than 200 grams and thickness over 9 millimeters). " Lu Weibing then went on to ask users what they thought of this phenomenon, giving them two options: “1. Better a bigger battery at the expense of weight "and" 2. Better thinner even if with smaller battery ”. Chinese users have responded perhaps as we would have answered, choosing the 1 option, so with a larger battery and better autonomy even if sacrificing lightness. In any case, Lu Weibing's post arrives after the various leaks that partially confirm the arrival of a new version of the Xiaomi Mi 9. As some of you may know, the Chinese giant is in fact intending to launch the 5G edition of this year's flagship under the name of Xiaomi Mi 9S. In addition to the 5G module, the smartphone would have a larger 4000mAh battery (against the 3300mAh than before), a thickness of 8,95mm (against the 7.6mm of the Mi 9), and a weight of 196 grams (the Mi 9 weighed 173g). We have to admit that they all look like improvements that we would have liked even without the presence of the 5G. What do you think instead? Do you agree with us? Let us know in the comments section below! The next smartwatch Huami Amazfit looks a lot like Apple Watch Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro: confirmed the 20 release in Europe in August tags: Lu Weibing5G smartphoneXiaomixiaomi mi 9 5GXiaomi Mi 9S Nerd, passionate about technology, photography, video maker and gamer. And of course I love Xiaomi products! Fabrizio Catena I don't think 5G is essential on a phone. Better to use it on machines or as a modem in offices or homes. Wasn't it supposed to be a technology for interaction between objects? Why use it on the smartphone?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4689
__label__wiki	0.840915	0.840915	HomeNews‘The Orville’ proves Hulu is gearing up for war ‘The Orville’ proves Hulu is gearing up for war by: Simone Barbon As we reported earlier this year, Seth MacFarlane-helmed (and glorified Star Trek fan fiction) sci-fi show The Orville was renewed. We thought it would be returning for S3 on Fox – but news at Comic-Con confirmed that Hulu will be officially streaming the space opera series. The action on The Orville occurs 400 years in the future on the Planetary Union’s USS Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship staffed by humans, machines, and ETs who balance the complications of superluminal travel as well as relationships with their diverse team (sound familiar?). What started as a Star Trek homage with a couple of jokes thrown in became much more confident in S2. The Orville saw better storytelling, funnier jokes, and fandom support naming the show much closer to the Gene Roddenberry vision of Star Trek than the current tentpole at CBS, Star Trek: Discovery (or ST:D, if you’re nasty). The Orville averaged 3.16 million live viewers and we’re guessing millions more on catchup and VOD. In the viewing wars, audience figures in the millions are nothing to be sniffed at, but The Orville likely made the hyperspace jump to Hulu for two reasons: 1) greater freedom story-wise, including more adult themes, and 2) the simple fact that Disney is preparing for war against all the big streaming services. MacFarlane made the announcement at San Diego Comic-Con, revealing The Orville’s third season wouldn’t arrive until 2020. We predict the episodes will be released weekly, for a total of up to thirteen episodes. MacFarlane added that The Orville “has evolved and become more ambitious production-wise”, leading to a production delay. MacFarlane also gave us further insight into the question on all the fans’ lips: when can we expect a musical episode of The Orville? “I have no idea how that would work” the showrunner replied. “There would have to be a reason for it. It would feel self-indulgent if we do that.” He also claimed a hard science-fiction preference: “Where we can, we try and keep the science real.” The Orville’s move to Hulu may well be one of the first battles in the streaming war between Disney and Netflix. With Disney now owning Fox and Hulu, Disney will likely shunt high-traffic content to Hulu in a bid to encourage users to flock from Netflix. Netflix has made some epic missteps in the past year: cancelling One Day at a Time, not renewing Shadowhunters, and losing Friends and The Office. Outside some low-budget made-for-Netflix movies, La Casa de Papel (a.k.a. Money Heist), and Stranger Things, there’s not a lot of peak content to keep us on their platform. Hulu meanwhile streams The Handmaid’s Tale, Harlots, The Orville, and offers access to HBO’s back catalog which includes Big Little Lies and Game of Thrones to keep you interested. The Orville stars Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, J. Lee, Mark Jackson, Chad L. Coleman, and Jessica Szohr. It was created and written by MacFarlane, who also executive-produces alongside Brannon Braga, David A. Goodman, Jason Clark, and Jon Cassar. Star Trek: Discovery continues to subvert audience expectations of what a Star Trek show should be, while The Orville is the most Star Trek of all Star Trek shows on TV. We’re excited to see how The Orville’s third season wages its own war in sci-fi history. As Hulu is USA-only, this will likely not impact viewing The Orville internationally. Hulu costs $5.99 per month or $11.99 for the ad-free version. Simone Barbon Simone Barbon's ghostwriting resume is long and illustrious, though you'll never see it. She is also a screenwriting teacher and freelance script reader. Her grandson is her favorite thing to watch, though. simoneb@filmdaily.co Adrianne PalickiBrannon BragaChad L. ColemanDavid A. GoodmanDisneyFoxHuluJ. LeeJason ClarkJessica SzohrJon CassarMark JacksonNetflixPenny Johnson JeraldPeter MaconScott GrimesSeth MacFarlaneStar TrekstreamingThe Orville Black Mirror: The best anthologies on TV Everything great about ‘Everything Sucks!”s 90s soundtrack Love gone too far: What ‘6 Balloons’ gets right about enabling an addict Hulu announces new premium content partners in the streaming war 10 Hulu movies you might have missed	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4694
__label__cc	0.672388	0.327612	MONDAY DEADLINE ALERT: The Schall Law Firm Announces it is Investigating Claims Against Plantronics, Inc. and Encourages Investors with Losses to Contact the Firm Business Wire January 10, 2020 The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces that it is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Plantronics, Inc. ("Plantronics" or "the Company") (NYSE: PLT) for violations of the securities laws. The investigation focuses on whether the Company issued false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose information pertinent to investors. Plantronics engaged in channel stuffing to artificially increase its sales figures. The Company failed to maintain appropriate internal controls on inventory. Plantronics failed to monitor inventory levels before the introduction of new product models which would lower demand for older stock. Based on these facts, the Company’s public statements throughout the class period were false and materially misleading. When the market learned the truth about Plantronics, investors suffered damages. If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate. We also encourage you to contact Brian Schall of the Schall Law Firm, 1880 Century Park East, Suite 404, Los Angeles, CA 90067, at 424-303-1964, to discuss your rights free of charge. You can also reach us through the firm's website at www.schallfirm.com, or by email at brian@schallfirm.com. The class in this case has not yet been certified, and until certification occurs, you are not represented by an attorney. If you choose to take no action, you can remain an absent class member. The Schall Law Firm represents investors around the world and specializes in securities class action lawsuits and shareholder rights litigation. This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and rules of ethics. The Schall Law Firm Brian Schall, Esq. info@schallfirm.com www.schallfirm.com Stocks retreat as investors cash in on rally Does Landmark Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:LARK) Have A Place In Your Dividend Portfolio? Artificial Intelligence ‘Needs to Be Regulated’, Says Google CEO Here's What Lampsa Hellenic Hotels S.A.'s (ATH:LAMPS) P/E Is Telling Us	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4695
__label__wiki	0.939663	0.939663	Online Wealth Mgt Finantix Acquires Singapore FinTech Startup Smartfolios Finantix announced end of March its acquisition of smartfolios, the creators of quant-enabled investment tools that support the key stages of the digital advisory value chain. With this acquisition, Finantix is set to combine its enterprise-grade technology and its recently Singapore Robo Advisors secures USD $5.3 million in Series A Funding StashAway, a Singapore based robo-adviser with retail license in Singapore, announced that it has completed a USD $5.3 million (SGD $7.0 million) Series A round of funding. A group of family offices subscribed to the round. The round included new Standard Chartered Selects Moneythor To Enhance Digital Services Moneythor, the technology company providing financial institutions with a digital banking toolkit powered by artificial intelligence (AI), has been selected by Standard Chartered to further advance personalization and engagement in its digital services. The initial deployment will add advanced client-facing Former CEO of Morgan Stanley Singapore Joins Advisory Committee of Singaporean Robo-Advisor Ms Sim Hwee Hoon, former CEO of Morgan Stanley Singapore, is the fourth and final member of StashAway’s Advisory Committee. She joins Pranay Gupta, former Head of Multi-Asset Strategies at Temasek’s Fullerton Fund Management; Prof. Annie Koh, Professor of Finance Robo Advisors in Singapore Robo-advisors are all the rage in the wealth management industry as banks and financial institutions around the world are looking to respond to the industry’s rapid adoption of technology, changing consumer expectations and the disruptive potential of new entrants. Even AGDelta wins MAS Fintech Awards (Singapore SME) at the 2017 Fintech Awards AGDelta was awarded the MAS FinTech Awards (Singapore SME) at the 2017 FinTech Awards on 16 November 2017, thanks to its award-winning B2B and B2B2C Digital Wealth Platform, and achievements over the past 12 months. AGDelta was one of only Robo-Advisory In Asia/Pacific Set To Cross US$500 Billion In AUM By 2021, IDC Reports IDC Financial Insights has released its first perspective on robo-advisory titled Robo-Advisory: Changing the Face of Wealth in Asia/Pacific , which highlights the state of robo-advisory in seven hot markets in Asia/Pacific. China, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, and Taiwan lead Online Wealth Mgt Vietnam Vietnam Welcomes First Robo-Advisor Platform Vietnamese fintech startup Finhay is targeting the country’s millennials with a new robo-advisor service that lets customers invest in top mutual funds in Vietnam starting with as little as 50,000 VND (US$2.6). Finhay provides a platform connecting mutual funds with Secretive Startup Tests Wealthtech Product in Singapore Fintech Regulatory Sandbox Did you know that next to PolicyPal there is one more Fintech Startup in the MAS Singapore Fintech Sandbox? A secretive fintech startup is currently experimenting with a wealthtech product in the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Fintech Regulatory Sandbox. Robo-advisor platform Bambu announces strategic investment led by Franklin Templeton and Wavemaker Bambu, a B2B robo-advisor platform provider, announces it has completed a funding round led by three new investors. Franklin Templeton Investments, a global leader in asset management, becomes the first strategic investor in Bambu. Wavemaker Partners, one of Singapore’s leading	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4699
__label__wiki	0.73635	0.73635	2 arrests made after FBI conducts raid at Muncie Sanitary District offices Posted 9:37 AM, July 16, 2019, by FOX59 Web, Updated at 08:25PM, July 16, 2019 MUNCIE, Ind.-- The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a raid at Muncie Sanitary District at Muncie City Hall Tuesday and made two arrests. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says Debra Nicole Grigsby, the District Administrator for the Muncie Sanitary District, and Tony Franklin, the owner of Franklin Building, and Design, LLC, have been indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, making false statements and falsification of documents in a federal investigation. Grisby, 44, and Franklin, 60 were arrested and are set to make an initial court appearance this afternoon. The Sanitary District offices were closed during the FBI's activity. Mayor Dennis Tyler's administration and the Sanitary District have been under investigation for years. Several people have been arrested in connection with the investigation. Former building commissioner Craig Nichols was sentenced to two years in federal prison along with three years of supervised released. He was also ordered to pay restitution. Nichols was initially charged with more than 30 counts related to wire fraud and money laundering in 2017. He was accused of using two companies he owned to do work for the city without competitive bidding. Investigators said the companies were paid inflated prices for those services and were sometimes paid without finishing work. According to court documents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Nichols billed the city nearly $800,000. He told contractors to submit false claims and quotes to make sure his companies’ inflated bids would win. In September 2018, Muncie Sanitary District’s Superintendent of Sewer Maintenance Tracy Barton was indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, falsification of documents and witness tampering. He’s accused of getting kickbacks. Jeffrey Burke was arrested on charges of bank fraud and lying to the FBI. The DOJ says Grigsby served as Muncie Sanitary District’s District Administrator since 2013, and was responsible for approving the selection of contractors to perform work on Muncie Sanitary District infrastructure projects. She's accused of "abusing her position of public trust and agreed to steer contracts for work arising out of infrastructure projects for the Muncie Sanitary District to Franklin, the owner of Franklin Building and Design, LLC, in exchange for kickbacks," according to the DOJ. “Public servants need to serve the public instead of serving themselves,” said U.S. Attorney Josh J. Minkler. “When someone betrays the public’s trust by stealing tax dollars for personal enrichment, my office will identify, investigate and, if the evidence supports a charge, prosecute the individual who violates that sacred trust.” Grigsby and Franklin face up to 20 years in prison if convicted on all charges. “The indictment and arrest of these two individuals is one more step in an ongoing investigation to identify any and all public officials or private citizens who have committed federal crimes and victimized the tax paying citizens of Muncie, Indiana,” said Grant Mendenhall, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis Division. “Investigating public officials who exploit their official position for personal gain and erode the public’s confidence in government is one of the FBI’s top criminal priorities and is the sole purpose of the Indiana Public Corruption Task Force.” Court documents say Grigsby and a Sanitary District supervisor agreed that the supervisor would obtain fake quotes from other contractors to demolish homes so that Franklin Building and Design, LLC's quotes would be the lowest and Grigsby could steer contracts to Franklin's company. Public invoice reports show the City of Muncie paid Franklin's company more than $130,000 for demolition services and cleanup projects. Officials also accused Grigsby and Franklin for lying to FBI agents during interviews in 2017. Video provided by Ro Selvey, Muncie Resident Disgraced former Muncie building commissioner sentenced to 2 years in federal prison Federal authorities make 2 arrests in connection with Muncie corruption investigation Police, FBI serve search warrants at Muncie Sanitary District FBI arrests Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler on theft of government funds charge Crimetracker Politics Lawsuit alleges police ran illegal background checks on Muncie councilwoman’s opponents Muncie Mayor-elect discusses past, future in 1-one-1 exclusive Indiana GOP aiming to take some mayor offices from Democrats Next Muncie police chief focused on transparency, building community relationships Kokomo police make dozens of arrests following 5-month drug investigation Prosecutors: Video in apparent Epstein suicide attempt is lost Prisoner released under Trump’s criminal justice reform law now accused of murder Prosecutor closes case on double murder-suicide in Muncie Prosecutors announce indictment of former Baltimore mayor on wire fraud and tax-related charges Colorado mom charged with killing 7-year-old girl after faking her terminal illness, police say Exclusive: FBI official under investigation after allegedly altering document in 2016 Russia probe Body camera footage released after lawsuit against Muncie PD claims excessive force	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4712
__label__cc	0.633441	0.366559	Page 4 of 10 Previous 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 Next Last Thread Tools This baffled me for the longest time. You are right though, the more I talk to PC users with an iPhone they have never connected it to a computer. After Apple pushed this: They would still have a means to cable connect a PC for the masses that do connect that way... or make iCloud storage cheaper. I'm one of only two (maybe three, I haven't checked in a while) people I know who connects their iPhone to iTunes for syncing (and, more importantly, backing up). Pretty much everyone I know - particularly non-Mac users - has never connected their iPhone to a computer/iTunes. And as much as I'd like to say "it's because they're all using iCloud", I can't...these people have never backed up their phones, anywhere, to anything! It's gonna be ugly when the inevitable occurs. But I'm tired of beating the drum. Let some of them lose about 300-400 cherished photos/videos and maybe they'll realize why it's important. Originally Posted by Ebby ...when Apple is out of their comfort zone we'll start seeing new, cool products again. More functions, more capabilities, better Interoperability... I sure hope so, but I can't shake the belief that without a tech-minded leader with a clear vision the company will remain a mere manufacturer. Environmental Bloodhound Location: Land of ice and snow Yep, my sister didn't backup and lost a year and half of videos and photos of the kids when an update bricked the phone prompting a restore. The only thing that saved her from losing 3 year of stuff was that when iCloud was originally introduced it was on for backups by default. Formerly known as cynical_rock censeo tentatio victum There is no snooze button on a cat. Send a private message to Elysium Visit Elysium's homepage! Find More Posts by Elysium Another log for this crazy bonfire we're building, this time from Forbes: iPhone 7 Leak Reveals Significant Feature Removed This one is based on speculative intel that Apple has removed rumored updates from the phone. Now, having personally been labeled a troll by Craig Federighi, I feel embarrassed to be reacting to the rumored scuttling of a rumored upgrade, but the commenter's points that the hardware features are becoming balkanized across the product line are correct and seem to point to the lack of a "grand plan" as we so often fantasized existed in one of Steve's underground S.H.I.E.L.D. style bunkers. I am due to upgrade this time around, as my 5s is long in the tooth and battle-damaged, and I have to confess that I am excited to hear the rumor that the rumored digital audio connector won't make it in this time around – that means that I won't be facing a revamp of my current system, unless Craig and Eddie embark on some madcap scheme to personally screw me over just because I grumbled that the digital fireball didn't hold their feet to the fire on Apple's confounding software shenanigans. It's late and I'm writing a Pscates-length novella, something that I try to avoid these days, so allow me to close with: what have you done for us lately, Tim Cook? Steve Jobs ate my cat's watermelon. Captain Drew on Twitter So what is the meat of the article you linked to? They want me to disable ad-blocking to see it and I have no plans to do that. Originally Posted by turtle My first thought is how do I break this... didn't think to disable it. Also, nope. careful with axes Location: Hillsborough, CA Here are the discontinuation dates of 4" iPhones: iPhone 5 - Sept. 10, 2013 iPhone 5C - Sept. 9, 2015 iPhone 5S - Mar. 21, 2016 Except for 10 days in March this year, the 4" iPhone has been continuously available since inception. We all knew a 4" iPhone update was coming, and so did Apple. It was just a matter of waiting for the natural death of the 5S because remember -- old iPhone models stick around for a generation. With the iPhone 5C/5S split, Apple deprecated the 5C after one full generation and the 5S followed a half generation later. It all went according to a well thought out plan, so I find it odd that you think Apple was being arrogant or out-of-touch. Send a private message to Eugene Find More Posts by Eugene Well I do, because it could've all happened from the get-go and there would've been nothing for people to squawk and write Apple about, these past 18 months. They had a proven winner in the 4" size (gazillions of 5, 5s and 5c models out there). And yes, just because some were on the two-year cycle that doesn't mean a) everyone has one, or b) an A8 or A9-equipped 4" model in 2014 or 2015 wouldn't have sold in huge numbers (people like me, coming off a 2012 iPhone 5, etc.). If it was some master "plan" that all went perfectly, it seems they sure took the long, aggravating way around the bend to make it happen...go a year-and-a-half without a current-spec'd 4" model, then release one in mid-cycle in a three-and-a-half year old body design? It smacks of scrambling and "oh crap, we kinda misjudged all this", IMO. I've seen fifth-grade talent shows better coordinated/staged. Last edited by pscates2.0 : 2016-05-09 at 10:47. Sorry y'all, didn't realize it was doing that... Do you want an iPhone 7? In past years this would’ve been a rhetorical question. Of course millions and millions of Apple AAPL +0.12% customers wanted the latest and greatest iPhone. But doubts are growing about what users might get in 2016… And now according to the usually reliable Macotakara, Apple’s latest hardware innovation to be pulled from the iPhone 7 is the ‘Smart Connector’. Interestingly this was clearly visible in a leaked iPhone 7 prototype (identifiable by the three dots on the back of the device – below) and Macotakara says Apple decided not to carry it forward to the final design. What is the Smart Connector? In short: something potentially rather exciting. Apple introduced the Smart Connector with the iPad Pro range and it enables the Lightning port to deliver both power and data simultaneously. For example, with the iPad Pro this means third party keyboards don’t require batteries or charging – they just work the moment they are plugged in. How would this be used with iPhones? That would obviously be up to Apple and creative third parties to decide, but with accessories able to take power from an iPhone it could’ve led to some seriously sleek wireless headphones, mini keyboards, ‘smart’ protective cases, etc. iPhone 7 Feature Cuts Mount Meanwhile the eagle eyed will spot this isn’t the first time Apple has supposedly scaled back ambitions for the iPhone 7. Breaking from tradition, Apple is widely thought to have ditched a new design for the iPhone 7, instead sticking with the same chassis as the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S. Meanwhile, despite controversially removing the headphone jack, it appears Apple has not used the internal space this saves too much obvious effect with minimal battery life gains and tentative plans for a second speaker also pulled. In fact famously accurate KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has claimed the iPhone 7 will not have “many attractive selling points”. Bigger Apple Concerns All of which has me worried. Yes Apple suffered its first major iPhone sales decline last month, but it still made millions. Instead my issue is with Apple’s growing practice of fragmenting its hardware innovations. Think about it for a minute. On the software side, iOS is lauded for its lack of fragmentation compared to Android but equally key is the major advantage of hardware unity as well. Features like Touch ID gain traction as Apple included it in all iOS devices ensuring developer support, while Android struggles to get anything like the same unity between manufacturers. But right now Apple’s strategy is faltering. For example, the company introduced 3D Touch on the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, but left it out the iPhone SE and iPad Pro range making it a curiosity rather than a key differentiator to rivals. Similarity the Smart Connector now looks marooned on the iPad Pro range when it should be spread liberally across all Apple hardware to encourage user adoption. What could be fuelling this? Is the so-called ‘All glass’ iPhone 8 the real priority? At this point it’s impossible to say. I’d advise staying calm for now. After all there is still plenty of time for Apple to pull out some surprises and wow us with the iPhone 7. But right now, it’s not looking great… Try to think about this logically (logistically) rather than whatever mode you are in right now. I'm not talking about 2-year contract cycles. I'm talking about Apple's planned obsolescence. Premium -> budget -> discontinuation. 1a) How easy do you think it was for Apple to obtain A8s for the original iPhone 6 and 6 Plus? 1b) How do you think a third set of SKUs would have affected supply and inventory in stores? 2) Until the die shrink to 14/16nm FinFET, what do you think battery life would have been like on a 4" phone? 3a) What would the pricing structure have been like? 3b) Would you have Apple shutdown the iPhone 5S production line prematurely and lose the profits that go with it? Having to make four different PCBs and four different enclosures seems terrible. Also you could have bought an iPhone 5S in 2014 and an iPhone SE in 2016. It's pretty much your own fault for waiting so long. Especially now that contracts are disappearing. If you aren't selling a used phone within 1-2 years, you aren't getting money's worth. The more I think about your situation, the more I realize how specific it is. You fall into a small subset of consumers who demanded a new 4" phone inside the window of 2015. The irony being you're the kind of user who holds onto their phones for three years, so you really don't need the latest, greatest hardware anyway. Yep, you should have just bought an iPhone 5S 1.5 years ago and handed down your 5 to a relative or sold it while it still had good resale value. Last edited by Eugene : 2016-05-09 at 22:23. I was pleasantly surprised at what I got for a three-year-old iPhone 5. The new battery (which was covered by Apple) surely helped a bit, but it was still a solid performer in excellent, like-new condition and it went to the right person. The SE hit at a good time. Just wish that size had been around all along because I certainly would've bought a 4" 6s well before the end of 2015. But I have a phone I'm happy with, paid-for upfront and all mine (first time I've ever gone this route) so its really all just after-the-fact, who-gives-a-damn jibber-jabber at this point, isn't it? Old habits. That's as may be, mate, but they're still screwing the pooch on the company's future!!! I take it all back!! Apple invests in Chinese Uber Apple says they're investing in Didi Chuxing to learn about the Chinese market. What market might that be? Hmmm … I think it's more than that. What do you guys wanna bet Apple's investment requires GPS tracking information in all those "taxis"? I think Apple is using those cars to accurately map China and track how Chinese people drive, because Cars! Well, I have noticed that Chinese Google maps is really incomplete and inaccurate. Apparently this is due to Chinese law restricting mapping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restri..._data_in_China Getting accurate maps of China would require special authorization from the Chinese government. If they become partners with Didi Chuxing, maybe they can get access to the accurate maps that they must have in order to operate there. And maybe that could pave the way toward bringing a self-driving car to China. I don't know, just spitballing. When I saw that a couple days ago, my first thought was the same as Luca's last. Autonomous car trials in a random central/western Chinese city like Chengdu or something. In a few years you guys can tell me what a great investment this was but for now it's on my list of "things that Apple shouldn't be fucking with". (Everyone I know in San Francisco (a small and finite amount) is obsessed with the Chinese market, going out of their way to cater to it, sometimes to ridiculous extremes.) Originally Posted by drewprops I sort of agree. Everyone wants to be part of the Chinese market because it's so huge, but they're not going to let companies like Apple get a foothold. We've seen Google and Facebook try and they were thwarted, and Chinese companies release alternatives. We've seen Google and Facebook try and they were thwarted, and Chinese companies release alternatives. Yes, and yes. I would prefer Apple dishwashers to Apple cars. iWash™ Major iTunes Overhaul to be Announced at WWDC Who said companies don't listen to their users... ten years later. Maybe. Or they might make it look like Photos, but for Music. That I would totally expect. Don't forget to attempt to force us to pay for Apple Music while increasing out iCloud Storage option too. It'd be nice if at the very least they made Mail not count toward iCloud storage. It would, but given the number of people who hoard mail and the attachments in mail I don't blame them for making it part of it. Not being able to backup my iPhone though, that sucks. For me it means I just back them up locally to an iTunes install. The free level is just inadequate for even casual users. You should be able to backup your iPhone to iCloud for free. Period. If you own multiple iOS devices and have them registered to the same Apple ID your iCloud free storage should increase proportionately. I totally agree with you on this. This is also where Apple's bean counters have come into play. Get them to buy an iPhone then pay at least $.99 a month to backlit up hassle free. "It's only $.99 a month after all." No thank you. I don't want to pay for storage when I have TBs of it in my house. When OS X is being a smart-ass... What, it's not giving you an eta down to the millisecond? :-) How long did actually take? About 18-20 minutes. This popped up at the very end, with about "one minute remaining". Stayed that way about 45 or so seconds, enough to snap a pic (and to make me think I might need to do some serious calendar-clearing). If I did my math right, I think that comes to over 159,000 years. My iMac will probably be obsolete by then! Page 4 of 10 Previous 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 Next Last	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4718
__label__cc	0.737867	0.262133	Blazers Trade Kent Bazemore, Anthony Tolliver To Kings For Trevor Ariza, Wenyen Gabriel, Caleb Swanigan Luka Doncic: I Honestly Thought Kings Were Going To Pick Me Board index Sports Talk RealGM Basketball NBA Team Forums Los Angeles Clippers VIDEO OF KAWHI/PG-13 WELCOME PRESSER 7/24 Moderators: og15, TrueLAfan, QRich3 Quake Griffin Post#61 » by Quake Griffin » Thu Aug 8, 2019 2:38 pm Clever reactions to aggressive situations #NoMoreDocRiversScholarships Re: VIDEO OF KAWHI/PG-13 WELCOME PRESSER 7/24 QRich3 Forum Mod - Clippers Post#62 » by QRich3 » Fri Aug 9, 2019 10:10 am Per Shams Charania of the Athletic, Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers are “working towards a minicamp, potentially in Miami, before the start of training camp”. (Check the 55 second mark of the video embedded below.) https://www.clipsnation.com/2019/8/7/20759305/shams-kawhi-leonard-and-clippers-working-towards-minicamp-before-training-camp mkwest Post#63 » by mkwest » Sat Aug 10, 2019 6:02 am TheNewEra Location: Lob City Post#64 » by TheNewEra » Sat Aug 10, 2019 2:25 pm mkwest wrote: Missed it lol Post#65 » by mkwest » Sat Aug 10, 2019 7:12 pm TheNewEra wrote: Missed it lol It re-airs tonight at 8:30pm on Prime Ticket and tomorrow at 9:30pm on FSW. Mike Hill and Maggette recapped the summer so far. If you don't get to see it, you're not really missing much. esqtvd Location: LA LA LA LAND Contact esqtvd Post#66 » by esqtvd » Sat Aug 10, 2019 11:37 pm Corey "ESL" Maggette back from the #MeToo dead. Looks like the rape allegations against him and the Lt. Gov of Virginia are going to be permitted to just fade away. Good news for him. Bad news for those of us dreading him getting the color commentary gig. The only thing worse would be Ryan Hollins, and that only by a whisker. Since two other people have already passed on the job, neither is their first choice, and you'd think obvious first choice (IMO) Don McLean has passed too. ..............................................................................IGNORED: nobody really, though some folks make my eyes glaze over The Jump's Reaction to Kawhi-PG13 Press Conference Contact Ranma Post#67 » by Ranma » Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:51 am LA Legends: Kershaw & Koufax_ _IGNORED: Max Headrom-esqtvd-QRich3-EBledsoe12-alon8882-45clip House of Highlights' Welcome Videos Post#68 » by Ranma » Mon Sep 9, 2019 2:30 am Lowe Looks at Possible Trend for Big 2 Post#70 » by TheNewEra » Mon Sep 9, 2019 4:01 pm Probably have seen every highlight mix for every player on the team three times already. Ready for the season Old Open Floor Podcast Post#71 » by Ranma » Sun Sep 15, 2019 8:24 am On today’s show Andrew Sharp and Ben Golliver are talking through the Kawhi Leonard and Paul George introductions in L.A. and the reasons to buy or sell what’s next for the Clippers. Topics include: living life like Steve Ballmer, whether Kawhi will ever top his final two months with the Raptors, Paul George’s twist on the OKC story, load management strategies in the West, and a looming war for Andre Iguodala. From there: Zion Williamson signed with Jordan Brand, is 56 year-old Michael Jordan currently more effective as a basketball player than he is as an owner, and would Tim Duncan ever want to be the head coach of the Spurs? At the end: Team USA continues to hemorrhage talent, apologies to our Australian listeners, the way to fix the USA basketball model going forward, updated thoughts on a Bradley Beal trade, solutions to the retired number crisis of the future, and an update on Sharp’s Raptors tribute. Post#72 » by esqtvd » Thu Sep 19, 2019 8:27 pm straight from the shoulder Leonard wanted to sign with the Clippers, but they would have to find a way to acquire a second star. “We actually had a list of guys, which was a mistake, but we got lucky,” Rivers said. “We shouldn’t have had a list, because then he got to choose who he wanted to play with and the assumption was that we could get them. We didn’t know if we could get anybody. We just showed him guys that we thought would match him and when he saw Paul George’s name he said, ‘I want to play with him.’ “We showed him everybody else and he didn’t want to hear it. He just stayed on Paul George, so after the meeting we sat down and I said, ‘We got to get Paul George. I don’t know how we are going to do it, but we have to do it.’ We did know that Oklahoma City wanted to break their team up, so that helped, but we didn’t know if we could get him.” The Clippers traded five first round picks plus two pick swaps to the Oklahoma City Thunder for George. “Steve Ballmer was nervous about the picks,” Rivers said. “I said, ‘Steve, you keep saying six picks for Paul George is insane, but you’re saying it wrong. It’s not six for Paul; it’s six for Paul and Kawhi. So three for each. I would do that.’ You have to look at it in those terms.” The Thunder initially rejected the trade, leading the Clippers to believe he was set to sign elsewhere. “The day of the trade at 12 noon the deal was off,” Rivers said. “I was at home in Malibu and Lawrence called me and told me, ‘It looks like he’s either going to Toronto or the Lakers.’ The Lakers part just threw me over. I told him that can’t happen. … I remember I kept telling him, ‘We cannot allow that to happen!’ “I actually told Steve jokingly that if that happens, we’re moving the team to Seattle. It was a joke, but I was actually serious about it. I really believed that.” https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/255428/Kawhi-Leonard-Told-Clippers-He-Preferred-Signing-With-Them-If-They-Improved-Roster Illustrated Soundbites Post#73 » by Ranma » Sun Sep 22, 2019 11:04 am Return to Los Angeles Clippers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4722
__label__cc	0.555122	0.444878	Adventure/Action Genre Forum Captain Blood and other great Pirate films? By moviegeek, January 30, 2006 in Adventure/Action moviegeek What an exceptional film. This weekend I watched Captain Blood again and it was just as riveting as the first time I saw it. The birth of a true legend in Errol Flynn and the birth of an exceptional duet of actors in Flynn and De Havilland. And with PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST coming out this summer, an all day long pirate movie marathon sure would be great. This particular theme of film-pirates-is a truly under-appreciated type of adventure film. Perhaps it's due to Hollywood not ever filming on the seas, but let's take a minute to reflect on some of the great swashbuckling films of all-time. CAPTAIN BLOOD is at the top. SEA WOLF with Edgar G. Robinson is terrific. TREASURE ISLAND is anothe rone of my favorites from this brand. tracey65k TCM_allow The first "Pirates of the Caribbean" was fun, too. Lots of funny lines and sight gags. Johnny Depp was too funny as the dissipated Jack Sparrow...and the soundtrack was amazing. I'm looking forward to the sequel. 3s2ges "The Sea Wolf" is one of my favorite movie, and my favorite actor is in this movie, Edward G. Robinson, not Edgar, sorry about this, but i just had to mention it, but I'm glad you enjoyed the movie. I can't believe I mis-spelled one of the greatest actors of all-time names! Little Caesar for pete's sake! Anyway. I've been wanting to see THE SEA HAWK as well. Believe that comes on this month. No problem, he's too good of an actor, nobody comes close to him, thats my opinion, please dont lynch me. I was very pleased with THE SEA HAWK. That one ranks right up there with the other classic pirate films. Geniebeanie I bought the Erroll Flynn DVD Collection just to get Captin Blood and The Sea Hawk. Very disapointed that they did not include his best film Adventures of Robin Hood. Does anyone know if the Charge of the light brigade is on DVD? I would love to have it if it is. TheQuietMan I finally bought the "CAPTAIN BLOOD" film on DVD, and I've had "THE SEA HAWK" on VHS for quite sometime. filmgeezer Other classic pirate-theme films I like are: The Black Swan (1942) with Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, and Anthony Quinn; Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) with Robert Newton and Linda Darnell; and The Spanish Main (1945) with Paul Henreid and Maureen O'Hara. I guess my memory is failing me, but I would swear I once saw a swashbuckler from the period (the 50s) called Port Royale (or Port Royal). However, I have been unable to find a reference to it in any film database. FredCDobbs Show me your badges! LocationTampico. What a town. Port Royal was a famous old town in the Caribbean back in the 1600s, and it was said to be a hideout for a lot of old pirates. But it is more famous because it was completely destroyed by a big earthquake in 1692. http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/portroyal.html I think I?ve seen it mentioned in a few old pirate movies, and one movie mentions it a lot. pktrekgirl I have heard that "The Charge of the Light Brigade" will most likely be part of the second Errol Flynn boxed set. I hope that rumor is true. "Captain Blood" and "The Sea Hawk" are both at the top of my list, for pirate films. I love "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex", "Dodge City"...and even the dramas I've seen Errol Flynn in ("Another Dawn", "Escape Me Never"). But there is no doubt about it - he's at his best in "Captain Blood" and "The Sea Hawk" Mark_Thorson Against All Flags is another good one with Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara and Anthony Quinn. For me Errol Flynn is the best Pirate of all time. He just got voted number one Pirate in some poll. Captian Blood and The SeaHawk are just great movies. :-) And Robin Hood was not in the boxset because there is a special two disk aniversiry edition of it out. I have it. The restored movie is just sunning. I've seen it at Best Buy and Amazon.com as it as well. CharlieT Although he's no Errol Flynn, Burt Lancaster did an excellent job swashing his buckle in The Crimson Pirate. It was one of those films I always had to watch as a kid whenever it came on TV. ken123 "The Black Swan" was recently released on DVD by Fox>The two best things about the DVD are Maureen O' Hara in Technicolor,and her providing the audio commetary. JackBurley 'The Black Swan' was recently released on DVD by Fox>The two best things about the DVD are Maureen O' Hara in Technicolor,and her providing the audio commetary. Thank you for mentioning this! I hadn't planned on attaining this DVD, but with Miss O'Hara's audio commentary -- now I'd say it's must. Nobody mentioned poor, little Alan Ladd in 'Two Years Before the Mast', I don't think people associate him with swashbucklers. anne lindley miyagawafan i think it deserves a space somewhere.... "sinbad the sailor"...fairbanks jr, o'hara, quinn, and a great performance by slezak. dfordoom I found the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie rather boring. It's so long! And so boring! Without Depp it would have been unbearable. It may be perverse of me, but I actually preferred Cut-Throat Island (Yes, I know it was a monumental flop, but it's actually rather fun).. The Douglas Fairbanks silent swashbuckler The Black Pirate is fantastic. Personally I prefer Fairbanks over Flynn as a swashbuckler (which isn't very patriotic of me). MikeBSG I saw an interesting movie on DVD a few weeks ago. It was "High Wind in Jamaica" directed by Alexander Mackendrick. It is about a group of four English children who are captured by pirates when their parents send them from Jamaica to England to be educated properly. Anthony Quinn and James Coburn are the leading pirates. This takes place late in the pirate era, I would guess around 1830s, and the film isn't a conventional swashbuckler. However, it is very interesting and extremely well done. Something like a more realistic "Swiss Family Robinson." Hard to believe it was by the guy who directed "Man in the White Suit" and "Sweet Smell of Success." Cinemascope I should like to check that out! PFriedman I recently bought and just received "The Errol Flynn Collection" on E-Bay. "Captain Blood" is awesome. Not only was Errol Flynn exciting and handsome and in his prime, Olivia DeHaviland was radiantly beaurtiful. Ross Alexander is also quite impressive as well in his role. Ahhhhh.... Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland... what a romantic adventure couple! :x audreyforever I like the Crimson Pirate...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4724
__label__wiki	0.501833	0.501833	Oracle: 'Eight Android files are decompiled Oracle code' Oracle has claimed that Google derived its Android code from the specifications for "hundreds" of Oracle's copyrighted Java files, and that at least eight Android files are actually decompiled Oracle object code. Last week, Google asked a federal court to consider dismissing the copyright portion of the patent and copyright … This topic is closed for new posts. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 18:47 GMT Destroy All Monsters US companies doing their Mickey Mouse lawsuit circlejerks again, I see. "Harm done? We don't need no stinking harm done. All these ideas, all that code and all the work of your developers formerly employed at my place belongs to meeee...... Me MEEEE!" Wednesday 23rd February 2011 18:47 GMT Anonymous Coward "The seven files - one identified by Oracle, six by Muller - were from the "unit test" area of the Android open source code tree. Unit test code doesn't typically ship with a final product, and the files have since been deleted from the tree. " title? So are you saying that this means it's OK to copy and steal code if you're only using it internally? Wednesday 23rd February 2011 23:15 GMT ~mico So, are you saying,,, ...that you never looked at others' code while developing and testing stuff? Even if it was your own code that you wrote earlier for another company? Let me get this straigh: Do you consider programmers to be incapable of performing jobs in another company after they worked in $Oracle, lest they reuse their own ideas in their new job? Let me put it even straighter: Do corporate employers intend to force programmers to go from their work at the company directly into retirement? Or maybe work as waiters? Thursday 24th February 2011 04:41 GMT Version 1.0 Excellent point Who "owns" the code? Who owns my mind? Let's say I sit down at home and write a little function, play with it, polish it a little and think, "That's neat" - and then a few weeks later I;m coding at work and find the same piece of code/method works well so I reuse it ... who owns that code? Did I just lose my "rights"? Did I have any "rights"? But this conundrum only exists because of the idea that code can be copyrighted. If you want to maintain your "rights" to the code then use the trade secrets method and keep your mouth shut .... sure - you can decompose the binary but that's generally not worth the hassle - it's way easier and a hell of a lot more robust to just write your own code. Thursday 24th February 2011 09:56 GMT Ian Michael Gumby @ Version 1.0 You have this concept... your code is a 'work for hire'. That is, depending on the wording of the contract, your client owns the code. Depending on the client's contract, you may have to surrender your notes or any physical copy of the code at the end of the project. But what the client doesn't own is what's in your head. Yes, you're right, you could always go back and write a better version of the code, but you will have to do it from memory. Going back to your previous client's notes or copies of the code for 'hints'... thats a no no. And yes, if you get caught 'reusing' your code for a different client... you'll get sued. (I've seen it happen.) But unless you have perfect recall, you won't recreate the same functional code using the same variables, like you would see if someone decompiled your code to reverse engineer it. This is why Oracle kind of has Google on this one. Google's other tactic is trying to get the patents overturned. And that's a different story... Thursday 24th February 2011 13:50 GMT Tom 13 Granted it's been ages since I touched code, and it was never real code only BASIC, but at the time I was taught to group certain variables and consistently use them for types of things I was doing. So if I worked at Oracle and wrote a piece of code, and then I worked at Google and was asked to write a similar piece of code, I would be likely to hit the same variable names. After that there tends to be an orderly progression of variable declarations. Where commutative properties apply, did Oracle reorder for purposes of comparison? Yes there might be actual copyright infringement. But it's not a slam dunk based on this single piece of evidence. Thursday 24th February 2011 10:15 GMT /\/\j17 Poor point "Let's say I sit down at home and write a little function, play with it, polish it a little and think, "That's neat" - and then a few weeks later I;m coding at work and find the same piece of code/method works well so I reuse it ... who owns that code? Did I just lose my "rights"? Did I have any "rights"? But this conundrum only exists because of the idea that code can be copyrighted." Umm, no. I'd say there is about a 10% chance of there being any conundrum as it will almost always be covered by the documents that make up your contract of employment. If you read this you will usually find something along the lines of "any IP you create as part of your work for The Company, or on systems and hardware owned by The Company belongs to The Company". So, do it at work -> theirs. Do it at home on your work laptop -> theirs. Do it at home on your own PC/laptop (and not SSHed in to/using software licensed by The Company) is your IP. In that latter case you should keep a verifiable copy o the code 'at home' to prove it was created there first and, unless you get a legal agreement with The Company otherwise you are giving them implicit global rights to that code if you re-use it as part of your work. See, not that hard really if you put your mind to it and actually read your contracts/know anything about IP law. Thursday 24th February 2011 09:52 GMT Anonymous Coward @mico After years of software development, if my current employer (customer really) wants me to go straight into retirement, I say, bring it on! Thursday 24th February 2011 12:50 GMT MyHeadIsSpinning Referring to work of others, and binding contracts If you include the work of others in a body of your own work then it is proper to include a reference to that work, and this helps avoid claims of plagerism. Also, when people start work with a company, they sometimes have to sign a contract which states 'anything you create during work hours on our money on our premises shall belong to us'. Thursday 24th February 2011 04:41 GMT Martin Usher Its not about 'stealing', its about compatibility One reason for open source is that it enables transparent specifications and testing. When you're working in a not-so-open environment you need test vectors for your product, if you don't you'll end up with the traditional Windows "spray and pray" type of programming where you ship buggy code and wait for users to complain. Programmers typically churn out reams of code. Although its all technically "valuable IP" its really only so to an accountant. A lot of it has 'no commercial value' -- unless its used to fuel inter-company lawsuits. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 18:47 GMT Frumious Bandersnatch looking at the code ... It's hard to see how the function (or do the call them methods in Java?) could really have been implemented any differently. All the interface definition lines have to be the same anyway in order to ensure compatibility, and the semantics of the function (what it's supposed to do) will also dictate in general terms exactly what the general flow of the code should be. Add to that the fact that the code is only four "if" or "if/else" statements plus a short number of assignments, and I can't see any wiggle room for doing things any differently. In fact, the function looks for all the world like it's nothing more than a constructor/initialiser for some sort of object. Just how many ways are there to write such things anyway? My guess: just the one. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT adnim The right code for the job A developer will write the most efficient code he can. He will write that code for the employer. The same developer finds another employer and as usual writes the most efficient code he can. If any of the projects of the two employers have anything in common it is highly likely that our roving developer will have written code that has much in common with the code he wrote previously for his/her last employer. One writes good, useful and reusable code for a reason. Petty and greedy, that must be why we all get along so well. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT Stephen 27 looking at the code ... → # Its like saying every piece of C code with #include <stdio.h> is copied (which it is in my case). Soooo freaken WHAT! Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT Sam Liddicott differently? Maybe it is hard to write some functions differently, but when you have parameters called "set" and "set1" (both of which are sets) and "flag" and "flag1" (both of which are boolean) you start to think they must be de-compiled. Just because it's hard to write it differently doesn't mean you can copy it. Thursday 24th February 2011 09:52 GMT Someone Else I can't tell you how many times I've written: for (int i = 0; i < count; i++); I guess by your "logic" I must have decompiled that hunk of C++ each of those times. Puh-LEEEZE, already! Thursday 24th February 2011 14:51 GMT Aquilus Why have you written that so often? Unless you've got a sneaky #define of count hidden somewhere that causes side effects, what possible effect would that bit of code have, aside from wasting a few CPU cycles? Typography is a skill...maybe I'll master it one day It was late, and my semi-colon finger had..er...a spasm. Yeah...that's it...a spasm, yeah.... (Good catch. Seems you were the only one who caught it, though.) Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT Shonko Kid Missed the point Sure, it is a simple function, and sure, any implementation would likely be structurally similar. But the point is it has likely* been lifted from the Java Source and relicensed as if it were Google's IP to relicense. The Android version has tell tale signs of having been produced by a code generator, in it's naming of the local variables, names which wouldn't have appeared in the final compiled .class file. If only they'd had the sense to mixup the declaration ordering of the member variables, that might have been the 'wiggle' room they need to get off the hook. Also, the private fields A decompiler will also duplicate the names of the private fields. That's also not generally regarded as part of the class interfaces, though it can be observed through reflection or JNI. The assignment of false to an instance variable in the constructor; that's also a decompiler artifact. Javac cheerfully converts those (unnecessary!) instance variable initializations to assignments in the constructor, and the decompiler faithfully renders them that way. Note that an innocent explanation is entirely possible, but it looks exactly like code that would come from a decompiler. Thursday 24th February 2011 13:47 GMT Loyal Commenter @also the priovate fields If what you are saying is true, and the decompiler inserts assignments into the declarations, then surely the Oracle code is copied from Android in this case, as the Android code lacks the declaration/assignment. Reductio ad absurbum, QED, etc... Monday 28th February 2011 15:58 GMT Anonymous Coward You have it backwards Original has the "boolean field = false;" instance variable declaration. There is no direct equivalent in the bytecodes. Instead, the bytecodes have the assignment in the constructor, and the decompiler reflects this in the generated Java -- in exactly the way you see it in the Android version. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT Charles 9 But LINE FOR LINE? I mean, you would expect two different programmers working independently on the same thing to do at least SOME things differently. If nowhere else than in the private declarations, which IIRC are mostly order-independent. Yet the two examples are shown to match line-for-line, including the declarations. Thursday 24th February 2011 04:41 GMT Steven Knox @LINE FOR LINE? Well, they match line for line partly because the person doing the comparison removed all the comments and adjusted the spacing. Since all that's left is the functionality (and has been mentioned, a very small amount of functionality), the odds that two good programmers (or the same one working for two different companies) would produce the same code are not actually that low. Thursday 24th February 2011 12:20 GMT Charles 9 You forget the declarations. Those declarations are order-independent. Different ways of thinking can EASILY result in a different arrangement to an order-independent grouping because it's less a matter of objective logic and more a matter of subjective style. It's like taking the four queens of a deck of cards and having people arrange them in whatever order they feel. The odds of two different people putting them in the same order starts to drop because each person can think differently and may have a different sense of arranging things (in other words, a different style). The end result will still compile the same no matter how you arrange them (just as quad queens are still quad queens no matter how you arrange them). Thursday 24th February 2011 22:53 GMT Ammaross Danan "Those declarations are order-independent. Different ways of thinking can EASILY result in a different arrangement to an order-independent grouping because it's less a matter of objective logic and more a matter of subjective style." As for as Unit-Test code goes, I'm unsure, but the actual Java APIs are quite thoroughly documented, including private variables, etc. so one can extend them and use them properly in your own Java code. The need for 100% compatibility with Java forces the Android developers to completely whole-sale rip off the Java docs so custom extends and be supported. The easiest way to do this? Duplicate the Java API classes and member variables then write code that utilizes them. As far as classes such as Array and Iterator are concerned, there's not much leeway in how to implement the code utilizing only the member variables (and functions!) listed in the Java Docs. Given a very small set of pre-moulded Legos and told to build the same simple structure, it's no surprise programmers came to the same conclusion (code). Although, as a side note, they likely did just decompile UnitTest code. What better way to test compliance and compability of their own Java build than to use the actual Java Unit Tests? Bad? Likely. Good to ensure complete compatibility? Definitely. Thursday 24th February 2011 21:26 GMT Renato Re: @LINE FOR LINE? If you read the text right above the Android code, you will see it wasn't stripped of its comments. And a non-commented piece of code with such variables as s, set, flag etc on a function declaration is a good indication of decompilated code. Monday 7th March 2011 10:16 GMT James Anderson These are implementations of a very simple interface. There are thousands of ways a poor programmers or a room full of monkeys could implement this. But a good programmer using best practice and following the very detailed Java style guide would always come up with something very close to Suns original code. Its that FM man again Quote "Well-known open source watcher Florian Muller" wtf? He's a paid shill. surely looks like it Certainly a able self-publicist. Refused to deny he was paid by MS when accused of it on slashdot. He's getting onto the reg just a bit too often these days. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT Rob Dobs open source watcher...not Monk People, unlike software are not usually happy living purely off the donations of others. How exactly can a person be opensource? Other than being a beggar or laborer for hire who will work for food (e.g. a monk) Being paid to do a job certainly does not preclude you from watching and observing on the opensource market, or even offering your opinions on it. Now if you said WTF? he works for Oracle that might carry weight and make sense. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT Rombizio That is pathetic... Even Microsoft writes its own bad code. No need to copy from anyone. Google just dropped the ball, again. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT Anonymous John All your source are belong to us" See title. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT James 47 @looking at the code It's not just down to the algorithm. They are remarkably similar, down to variable names Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT bazza Reap what you sow All this was completely unnecessary. I suspect that Google only built Dalvik to try to create a closed app market place so that they collect more revenue. I doubt that any claimed technical benefits are worthwhile from an end users point of view. It's just another virtual machine on an ARM not terribly different from any other. If they'd just done a normal Java setup, just like everyone else has ever done (apart from Apple), or a just allow native apps, then none of this would have occured. Instead there is this legal question mark hanging over Android. Just imagine the consequences to Android and all those who have bet on it if the US courts put some sort of sales blocks on it? If this court case starts swinging Oracle's way, what are the manufacturers supposed to do? If Google ultimately lose it will make them look quite careless. Android updates are a joke. Being found to have copied large chunks of someone else's work would be ridiculous. Android's anarchy will ultimately cost end users. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 23:58 GMT Paul Shirley G built Dalvik because Sun wouldn't play nice If Google had licenced Java, Android could not exist as a useful OS* because Sun absolutely refuse to certify anything above ME for mobile devices. In that scenario Android would be just another Java phone, with its own new set of incompatibilities with every other 'standard' Java phone. Dalvik exists because of Sun (and now Oracles) intransigence, Sun wouldn't play nice so Sun got bypassed in the Android ecosystem. Oracle is a near step for step repeat of SCO vs IBM, new guy asserts claims that the history does not support and spends years blustering on, hoping the rising costs will force a settlement. Only this time it wont fizzle out in an engineered bankruptcy with nothing important decided and Google have more than enough time to remove Java completely if things start looking bad. In about 9 years time this will be decided, either Google wins or Oracle gets a chunk of cash but there's nothing left to tax. The beauty of Dalvik is: it's not Java, it doesn't need Java source and the VM patents aren't likely to survive. ahh. No. G built Dalvik because they didn't want to pay Oracle for licensing Java ME. Just follow the money and your questions will be answered. Thursday 24th February 2011 09:56 GMT alisonken1 Actually - Sun (and Oracle) refused to license So if Sun/Oracle refuse to license java for android because of their stance on mobile phones, how is it Googles fault that they had to rewrite a compiler to use a different vm than java? Java ME wasn't what Google wanted. It was too limited. It was Java SE that they wanted: the Java that's gotten supported enough and mature enough to have common ground. But Sun/Oracle said, "No way! Full-blown computers only!" So Google was in a lose-lose. Java ME was too finnicky, and Java SE was Verboten. So they went to the third option: since Sun/Oracle didn't want to play, they took their ball elsewhere. Thursday 24th February 2011 13:34 GMT vic 4 ahh No. Why would Google have had to license ME (apart from the nexus)? They built Dalvik because ME is, quite frankly rubbish and only fit for purpose in a few small niches (relatively speaking). Trying to write fully featured and portable in ME is in most case not worth the effort. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT Version 1.0 So what's patented here? Are Oracle saying that they own the right to use Java and that if you want to use Java (as in write a module that accesses a Java-like module in the same way as Java at a low level) then their Patent applies? Let's face it Larry - you're kinda late to this party - although personally, if he want's to take his ball and go home, I for one would pay his bus fare. P.S. Damn, how I wish I'd patented the MOV instruction... Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT Do Not Fold Spindle Mutilate Source is GPL 2 Just because the code is the same does not mean Google is using copyrighted Oracle code. The "2.5.29.32.0" seems to from a standard called X.500 PKI. I Googled "private static final String ANY_POLICY = 2.5.29.32.0 ;" and found two exact source codes under GPL 2 released by Sun. To me this means that Google could have used the GPL version not Oracle's version. http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Java-Document/Security/Bouncy-Castle/org/bouncycastle/jce/provider/PKIXCertPathValidatorSpi.java.htm http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Java-Document/6.0-JDK-Modules-sun/security/sun/security/provider/certpath/PolicyNodeImpl.java.htm The code looks like stuff GPLd by Sun many years ago. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 23:33 GMT Yeik enough for "prior art" Those do look very similar. I would say that the code provided for comparison was modified from the GPL code. I wonder if they are breaking the copyright by not posting the GPL 2 license with that small piece of code or by removing it after it was modified if it isn't in the full Java version. Java/sun wouldn't rewrite the code, they would modify it. With the header/copyright notice saying it cannot be removed or altered. If android did not have that header/copyright notice then I would say they are looking for trouble. Other than that It looks like what anybody else would have come up with. Thursday 24th February 2011 00:31 GMT Jolyon Smith 2 problems with this excuse... 1) if Google are going to argue that they used the GPL'd version, then they have to admit not complying with the terms of GPL - the fact that they could have complied doesn't alter the fact that they didn't 2) to support the argument that they used the GPL code and simply "forgot" to comply with the GPL terms, they would then have to explain why there code looks LESS like the GPL'd version and MORE like a decompiler product Google - Don't get caught doing evil. Did not comply? How did they not comply? by not including the GPL copyright? Remember, the shot we're shown here has had COMMENTS REMOVED -- so it's quite possible that the GPL copyright was there and was removed by the person comparing the code (if not, there was a GPL violation, if so, there was a good faith violation by the person removing the comment.) If it looks like a duck... smells like a duck... squacks like a duck... must be a duck. The point is that if you're looking at code that appears to be 'de-compiled' the odds are it is. Apply Occam's Razor. Coincidences like that aren't likely to occur by accident.... The other area in discovery is to see what the svn servers contain. Soon Oracle will own Google. Either that, or we'll start to see Google charging $$$ for using its ad service. Thursday 24th February 2011 14:38 GMT Paul Shirley my theory of what happened with PolicyNodeImpl No need to wait for discovery, we know about PolicyNodeImpl and friends because the repository has already been looked at. It tells a rather obvious story: engineer does bulk checkin (2500+ files), 8 weeks later engineer reverses the checkin, some time later a corrected checkin happens. That suggests to me simple error, an engineer committing more files that (s)he was supposed to, an error quickly fixed by Google. Remember, this all happened more than a year before Oracle started alerting Google. My own daily battle with SVN tells me how easily these tools will stab you in the back if you aren't constantly vigilant. Changing the licence is a serious problem, even if done accidentally (running automated search&replace on copyright&licence headers is fairly common), but if Google can establish this was a corrected error de minimus neuters the penalties. The other half of the issue is the nature of copyright: copyright controls copying, it does not directly control use, that's what licences are for. And that's how its possible to legitimately have copyrighted source in a working copy that cannot be distributed, because it's possible to have a licence to use without a licence to copy. The source for these particular files was available under a variety of permissive licences (including direct from Sun), severely reducing the scope of Oracles complaint to just dumping them into a public repository with a changed licence for a couple of weeks. Oracle may be able to win on the fact that the files were made available for distribution, they can't win on Google using these files, cant establish Android needs or uses them and cant establish any meaningful damage was caused. So good Google bashing PR that leads nowhere. Wednesday 2nd March 2011 09:47 GMT THUFIR HAWAT Source is GPL, or ASF? @Do Not Fold Spindle Mutilate err, you've got the whole thing backwards. Is the original code GPL of ASL? If it's GPL, then why is the Google code under the ASL? It's ironic that you use the "fail" icon, because you've failed completely in understanding the problem: you can't just take GPL code and slap an ASL on it. If thats what Google did, if, as your statements indicate happened, then the code is really GPL. When you remove the GPL boilerplate bad things happen. Once you break the conditions of the GPL, you lose patent protection as well. That's, basically, Oracle's argument. You may think you're supporting Google, but your argument actually supports Oracle's contention: that the code was copyrighted. All Google had to do was to keep the GPL boilerplate and there wouldn't be a problem. Which raises the bigger question, of why Google didn't just fork OpenJDK -- much easier. However, any such fork would, naturally, be under the GPL and not the ASL. I think this is just a case of a business (Google) deciding that the ASL is preferable, and then a mix-up. However, the facts, as you present them, make that a really expensive case of copyright infringement (and patent, as well, because when you drop the GPL you lose patent protection). Penguin for the GPL :) Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT brale Who's Florian? "well-known open source watcher Florian Muller"? Can we be a bit more down to Earth when describing Florian? Such quotes make people stop reading these articles. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 22:29 GMT SilverWave Muller is working for who exactly? I mean at the moment, as obviously his employer will change from time to time. So... is it a large software company for instance? Any idea which one? I have asked Muller but he wont tell... Nothing wrong with that of course but it does make one curious. Not like Apple at all Big difference in the cases here. Apple did not invent or own the GUI idea. MS, HP and the rest had all seen this demonstrated at Xerox palo alto research center (the mouse and other neat ideas shown off there too). Prior Use totally blows apples attempted theft of these inventions out of the water. Now I don't agree at all that software code should be patentable... like the EU sees it. These are instructions, and part of a language, they can only be assembled so many ways when trying to efficiently create a program to perform a common task. That said, as the law currently stands Sun (read Oracle) created and developed JAVA, and patented it. That means they own it, and Google may have to go back to the R&D lab or pay bucket loads of cash to Oracle (i would bet on the latter one in the short term, with them remaking a new OS without using JAVA for the next version) People were foolish to trust in the good nature of a corporation. In fact shareholders can sue a US corporation if they are too charitable, generally nice, or just not seeking the Maximum dollar for their shareholders (unless you are a new type of special benefit corp). Oracle's buy of SUN will go down as one of the best bargains in business history. They are still making money off the hardware, and JAVA, open office and other "open source" software that is OWNED by Oracle will keep cranking out the money for years due to the entire markets heavy borrowing and liberal using of Sun's previously unprotected code. The only real chance that Oracle doesn't make a bucketload is if the JAVA community can argue a bait and switch type trick where Oracle is trying to charge now, for things that were allowed liberal public use by SUN previously. (boils down to them not enforcing the rights earlier and thus loosing the right to complain now) we will see.... Re: Not like Apple at all "That said, as the law currently stands Sun (read Oracle) created and developed JAVA, and patented it." JAVA, eh? As in "I'm shouting! It's JAVA!"? In fact, Sun filed for patents on certain principles used in their implementation of the Java virtual machine, some of which were quite probably described in academic papers, at least in some earlier form. So whether they "own" anything in the sense of having a monopoly on something remains to be seen. As for people deserting Oracle, it's happening already. That may explain why Oracle has to go for a patent shakedown so quickly, as the earning potential evaporates from all those other open source projects that they have completely failed to manage in any reasonable fashion. It would be hilarious if the eventual value in the Sun acquisition came from the SPARC end of the business - the bit nobody wanted to buy. Wednesday 23rd February 2011 23:33 GMT Charlie Clark That's what the final question will be, how much money does Oracle want. Preceded by how long? ie. how long can Google get the case to drag on before it replaces Dalvik with something that doesn't need Java at all. Something based on NaCl or Flash perhaps? Android has a lot of momentum and Oracle should be sweet-talking developers into using more Java and buying tools and training not antagonising them with threats. That's like kicking the goose that lays the golden eggs. Oracle's PR is seriously fucked up at the moment. Which is fine as far as I'm concerned - Oracle fucks up MySQL and it's a win for Postgres, they fuck up OpenSolaris and it's a win for FreeBSD, they fuck up Java and it's a win for every other bytecode runtime. Adobe and Google tie up anyone? It's fine Oracle trying to improve the bottom line that Sun seemed to have forgotten how to monetise but increasing fees is one thing, totally screwing customers over quite another. Thursday 24th February 2011 04:40 GMT Goat Jam "Oracle's PR is seriously fucked up at the moment" I'm confused. There was a time when they weren't fucked up? On another note, wasn't this the exact sort of thing that the various competition bodies were concerned about when they were blocking the sale of Sun? There I was assuming that they had received all the necessary assurance from Crazy Larry. Silly me! Thursday 24th February 2011 00:31 GMT Pete 8 to watch such troll on troll action. The emphasis is Oracle's... oh yes it is indeed. >"Google derived its Android code from the specifications for hundreds of Oracle’s copyrighted Java files," the letter reads. The emphasis is Oracle's." Well, yes. Because any remotely neutral observer would have put the emphasis in that sentence where it really belongs: on the word "specifications", not the word "hundreds". See, Oracle is deliberately conflating two things here: the fact that Google's Java implementation implements the same APIs, which is something that should not be copyrightable, versus whether or not they actually directly copied the source or reversed the binaries for a handful of files in the testsuite. Stealing someone's code is of course disallowed, but implementing the same APIs - which of necessity will have the same function/class prototypes/definitions - is entirely legitimate and with precedent since the earliest days of PC-compatible manufacturers implementing their own BIOSes that used the same INT definitions as IBM's one. These are two entirely different matters, and it is utterly specious and frankly fraudulent of Oracle to try and pretend that they are the same. Re: utterly specious and frankly fraudulent of Oracle Absolutely. And their lawyers will have earned their bonuses if they successfully pull it off. Thursday 24th February 2011 09:58 GMT Loki 1 Oracle got their code from Google You see, while it blatantly looks like it was decompiled, what really happened was some Oracle/Sun engineer used Google search to find some code to do what he needed to do his work. This was the same code that was already in use and open sourced by Google. The Oracle engineer thought, hey, those variable names are a bit crap, i'll rename them to look better and impress my bosses. So, you see, its quite a simple explanation. Google should be suing Oracle for stealing their code! you think you're joking.... ...but Google already told the court 2 of the 14 files Oracle identified were written by Google and contributed TO Java. Suing the real copyright holder didn't work out too well for SCO. Wont work out too well for Oracle. There is one big difference between Sco vs Novel and Oracle vs Google; Google isn't a company that has been teetering on the edge of solvency like Novel was. Instead they practically have a license to print money. Which means the sue them until they can't afford it ploy isn't going to work at all. I think I'd also be careful about suing a company that knows more about me than I do. That seems likely to hurt in the end. Thursday 24th February 2011 10:06 GMT Wang N Staines Sh!tty Java That'll will teach them to use sh1tty tech. Thursday 24th February 2011 10:17 GMT mikebartnz @SCO Oracle are coming across like SCO and alienating too many people. They better watch out else they will go the way of SCO. Thursday 24th February 2011 11:20 GMT Leo_yvelines Java ME vs Android future ? One think that puzzles me is that I saw nowhere any connexion had been made between the Nokia/Microsoft deal on WP7 and the future of Java ME. This is evident. With the rapid rise of smartphones under Android and iOS (perhaps in the future WP7 and webOS), none of which uses Java ME, and the abandon of Symbian, the market for Java ME apps will shrink to almost desappearance within less than a year. I would bet that already no reasonnable devloper is still coding for Java ME platforms. So, unless Oracle wins thiscase, which to me seems very unlikely or at least will need a very long time, it will be unable to make any money from Java ME any more. Looks like Oracle is fitting over wars of the past and already lost battles. All it will win in this lawsuite is utter disregard. Is and will be used in Nokia S30/40 mobile phones. And there were over 120 million sold during Q4 2010 only. Java ME application market is huge and any reasonable developer is using Java :-) Nevertheless it is a rapidly shrinking market. Android smartphones are cannibalizing feature phones and even dumb phone markets very rapidly. Today, Java ME is perhaps a huge application market but within less than two years there will be almost no new phone sold with Java ME. Considering that users are replacing their phones every 18 to 24 months, this means that within 3 to 4 years there will be no more market for Java ME apps. This doesn't mean Java will no more be used as a programming language, but almost all Java phone apps will be compiled for Dalvik and running on Dalvik VM, not Java ME. There will be over billion Java ME enabled mobile phones in near future. Android will never reach those numbers. Android sales have gone from 6.8 million to 67.2 million in a single year according to the latest sales statistics (http://www.techspere.com/mobile/android-smartphone-sales-up-by-888-8). Sounds to me like that might be the real reason Larry is going after Google: They're eating his lunch in the expansion of the phone market. If he can just FUD up the water like Balmer does, maybe he figures he can get more protection money out of his mushrooms. I don't know how many Java ME enabled mobile phones there are out there. Perhaps not far from a billion, but it will not grow for a very long time now that Java ME has been abandonned on the most récent smartphones OS, perhaps for one year with about 150 million more Java ME mobile phones. Then it will start to decrease at a very rapid rate as those phones are replaced by the new smatphones, mostly under Android if Android keeps growing at the same rate. The smartphone global market capacity is estimated at about 4 to 5 billion units, of which Android phones could get more than 30% within less than five years if it keeps selling at the actual rate. So it is most likely that Android phones will outnumber by far the number of Java ME phones that have and will ever be sold. Thursday 24th February 2011 13:34 GMT screaminfakah Here ya go Burn them all. Actually don't.... I came up with the code Java is based off of along time ago. Don't burn them till I sue. Thursday 24th February 2011 13:45 GMT Simon B Sybian! Nokia keep Symbian alive! it may be needed! Sybian? Now that's an operating system with a gui that really works Sybian - wow Might I suggest that this is the funniest spelling error so far this year. I commend to you all to type sybian into scroogle, and see what the number one hit is. rotfl Paris: She knows what a sybian is for sure ;) Sunday 27th February 2011 17:22 GMT Mordan J2ME still a powerhouse J2ME phones and app will not disappear. New phones are eletronic shit that break, too big and cumbersome, a little moisture and you got to buy a new one. niche app on J2ME phone is a viable option. I still have a 5 years old SE phone and I would not trade it for an iphone. small phones with lots of keys are an asset in some situations.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line4726
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