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__label__wiki	0.668735	0.668735	Yorkshire Dales Country News Eagle kills stir windfarm row [Monday 03 July 2006] THE ongoing row over the future building of hundreds of windfarms intensifies today (Monday, July 3) with the issue of a damning report about the slaughter of rare eagles by wind turbines on islands off the Norwegian coast. Wind turbines - bird killers? Although the majority of conservation groups is in favour of building more windfarms to provide "green" electricity, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - Britain's biggest environmental pressure group - has been appalled by the mass killing of white-tailed eagles on the island chain of Smøla, once one of Europe's most important breeding sites for this rare bird of prey. In Britain, where the windfarm controversy has been underway for the past ten years, lobbyists for the heavily-subsidised wind power industry has always dismissed suggestions that turbines are a threat to bird life. But a controversial report issued today by the RSPB shatters that argument. Only one white-tailed eagle is expected to fledge from the wind farm site on the bird's former stronghold of Smøla. Turbine blades have killed nine of the birds in the last ten months, including all three chicks that fledged last year. The number of young has crashed from at least ten each year before the wind farm was built, with numbers outside the wind farm falling as well - there are no breeding pairs within one kilometre of the turbines. In 1989, BirdLife International made Smøla an Important Bird Area because it had one of the highest densities of white-tailed eagles in the world. Scientists now fear that wind farms planned for the rest of Norway - there are more than 100 proposals - could replicate the impact on wildlife of Smøla. Norway is the most important country in the world for white-tailed eagles. Dr Rowena Langston, senior research biologist at the RSPB, said: "Smøla is demonstrating the damage that can be caused by a wind farm in the wrong location. The RSPB strongly supports renewable energies including wind, but the deaths of adult birds and the three young born last year make the prospects for white-tailed eagles on the island look bleak. The RSPB strongly supports renewable energies including wind, but the deaths of adult birds and the three young born last year make the prospects for white-tailed eagles on the island look Dr Rowena Langston - RSPB "There are other wind farms close to Smøla which are putting more eagles in jeopardy too. The deaths of these birds show just how inadequate existing decision-making processes are for new technologies such as wind farms. Developers and governments should be taking note; these types of impact must be properly considered and acted upon when proposals are first made to avoid the unnecessary losses we are witnessing on Smøla." The RSPB is backing a new four-year study at the site by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) at the site to assess the effects of turbines on swans and wading birds such as golden plover, dunlin and whimbrel, and on the ability of white-tailed eagles to adapt to the wind farm. The charity believes climate change poses the greatest long-term threat to wildlife and strongly supports the development of renewable energy including wind farms, so long as they are well sited. But British government proposals, pushed hard by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott before he was stripped of his departmental duties, called for massive programme of off-shore windfarms around our coasts. Unfortunately, these are often important areas for resident seabirds and staging posts for millions of migratory species. Just how to square this circle is all set to be a major problem for the RSPB and other conservation bodies. Feedback received on this subject: It is desirable to take care of eagles. Wind turbines don't last forever, and it is debatable whether the useful energy generated during their lifetime significantly exceeds the energy required to build, instal and maintain them. A distinguished old friend Stephen Salter whom I knew in 1957 would have more to say. Charles Warner Hindhead, Surrey What do you think? Send us your views using the form below. Your city, town or village: Your Views: (required) Keep my view anonymous: Please enter the code above: (required) Disclaimer: Daelnet will endeavour to put up as many of your views as possible. However, we cannot guarantee that all e-mails will be published. We reserve the right to edit any views that are published for legal or editorial reasons. Further, your details will not be used for any other services. 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__label__cc	0.673962	0.326038	Photos: MacGregor Photography 'Maine's Most Enchanting Playhouse' In 1936 a stunning opera house was built on the site of an old deer run in the forest above the friendly village of Harrison, Maine. The theatre was the vision of opera singer Enrica Clay-Dillon. It was designed by Harrison G. Wiseman, a famous theatre architect of the day who was instructed to “Create the most acoustically and technically perfect theatre possible”. Constructed of rose hemlock, in the Adirondack Style, with hand-carved fixtures and near perfect acoustics, the 300 seat theatre was considered as fine as any on Broadway! Now listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, the theatre is operated as a non-profit organization and presents a diverse schedule of performances and events, both musical and theatrical, every summer. Thank you to all who attended, supported, volunteered and gave of their artistic talent making last season so special. We greatly look forward to welcoming you in 2019. Artistic & Executive Director	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20574
__label__cc	0.668097	0.331903	I'm working again--at tiny Detigo Systems in downtown Los Gatos. The whole read the paper/take a shower/out the door by 8:30/back at dark thing. This morning the Verizon guy put in our phone lines, and soon we should have DSL up and running. Knock wood. Right now we're just two programmers in a small room with some ideas, cheap furniture, and a huge whiteboard. A couple of years from now, who knows. But I still get to fly from time to time, and yesterday I made the solo grand tour, flying to three of the four airports I am legally entitled as a student pilot to land at. Each leg of the trip went well, but I learned something on each. First, south 20 nautical miles to Monterey, a class C airport. It's a challenge for me because class C airports require a lot of radio work--approach, tower, ground, clearance, ground again, tower again, departure...it's more intricate than one would expect for a field that's not that busy. My radio work was generally good. Landing to the west at Monterey is interesting because the airport is built next to a ravine--at the edge of runway 28L the ground drops off suddenly a hundred feet or more. This plays tricks with your depth perception as you look down at the field. On final I was too low--I had to drag it in with power, and then I waited too long to flare--so I landed fast and hard. A mediocre landing doesn't qualify as a mistake in my book. Landing is about 95% feel and I am still learning the ropes. Then it was on to Frazier Lake, a grass field a little north of Hollister, tracking a direct course with my GPS. This time, I was high on final but made it down softly with full flaps. If I had to critique my performance at Frazier Lake, it would have been the takeoff. Soft field technique requires that you get the plane airborne early, then fly along in ground effect, maybe 10 feet above the ground, until you accelerate to the speed needed to climb normally. I flew out of ground effect too soon--like a mediocre landing, it's easy to do. Then it took longer than I expected to get to the normal climb airspeed, and more importantly, climb rate. Interesting. I've read about this very situation in accident reports. Also, the other three planes I saw there either didn't have radios or weren't using them. That's a little unnerving. The last stop was Salinas Muni, a class D airport with exactly one controller to talk to. This is more my speed. After checking in, the guy tells me to report a "4 mile left base to runway 13." It took a couple of minutes to fully comprehend what he was telling me, but I got down. I was neither too high or too low on this approach. Another lesson from yesterday--watch that fuel. This was the first flight I've made where fuel was even a minor issue. Normally I fly a 1-2 hour training mission with a generous 4.75 hours of gas on board. Yesterday when I departed Watsonville the plane had 2.5 hours of fuel, maybe a smidgen less, and running out was possible, had I been up there having fun and not paying attention. I didn't forget, but with 1.6 hours logged on the Hobbs, got a taste of running out of gas paranoia. It didn't taste good. Watsonville to Turlock and back. This 63 nautical mile mission seemed simple enough when I sat down with my charts, plotter, and E6B Thursday night to lay out a course. But actually flying to Turlock Municipal Airport yesterday afternoon turned ugly. In three words, I got lost. A day later I have the perspective to analyze what went wrong. The Salinas VOR--the lynchpin of my plan--isn't usable in the Central Valley. Too many mountains between you and it. The worst thing is that I suspected this might be the case as I was planning the flight. Without a radial to track, you must maintain precise compass headings. I didn't--especially at first when I was learning that the SNS VOR wasn't available. You must keep accurate timings over checkpoints so you know how fast you are going, so that you can predict where you will be in M minutes on heading H. Small airports make terrible landmarks. They look obvious on the map, but some are nearly invisible from the air. If you spend too long looking for a landmark and don't see it, precise navigation is doomed. The world looks different from the air, and the map isn't as much help as you'd think. Modesto and Turlock and Merced look surprisingly similar in the hazy air. You can't land if you haven't found your destination airport. I lost altitude as we got "close to the airport," having not yet seen Turlock Muni out the window. The lower you are, the harder it will be to find. Once lost, it didn't occur to me to execute the 5C's--Confess, Communicate, Circle, Climb, Comply... Better planning and precise execution, that's what I need. And/or a GPS on the yoke. (Just kidding, Shawn!) I passed my written test Wednesday down at Ocean Air. The PC-based test setup there, apparently blessed by the FAA, is directly out of 1989: It's a white-on-black character mode app, ad-hoc downloads via a 19.2 KB modem, 13" display--with a mouse. It was like running Sidekick Plus or something. Yeehaw. But I passed, thanks largely to John and Martha King and their excellent training materials. Now I can forget everything I know about ADF gear and the Savannah VOR. Today I went up solo for an hour. The ceiling was too low to do much of anything except pattern work, but I did learn a couple of things. First off, when you slip to a landing, watch that airspeed. You may be close to the ground and headed for the numbers, but if you're doing 85 knots when you get there, that's not so good. My second lesson was more general. After one lap, I took my new Garmin 196 GPS out of the bag and put it on the dashboard. In spite of myself, I spent so much time watching the thing that my next pattern was terrible. I was a good 1/4 to 1/2 mile farther from the airport on the downwind leg than I should have been, so I turned base early and suddenly realized that I was high, high, high. Were it not for the tremendous "get-downability" of a Cessna 172 with 40 degrees of flaps out, I would not have made it to the ground. Moral: Pay attention to what matters--flying the plane. The flying is getting interesting now as we head for the home stretch. Today I flew my solo cross-country--95 nautical miles to Paso Robles with three full stop landings at Salinas thrown in on the way back. The flight was uneventful--two hours of droning a few thousand feet above the Salinas Valley, watching the hazy countryside pass under the wing struts. The Paso Robles airport was pleasantly deserted, with pleasantly calm winds. Pick a runway, any runway. Allow me some light fellow pilot bashing. Today I had finished my pre-flight runup at the appropriate spot of blacktop near the departure end of runway 20. A King Air (big turboprop) went by just as I was finishing up and took the runway--as he should have; he's not the problem in this story. I then taxied up to the hold short line, ready to go. A Cessna Citation (light jet) comes up behind me, and slips around to my right. Now we're both at the hold short line. I'm waiting for the King Air to leave the ground, when the impatient Citation pilot, who is clearly behind me in line, has the gall to ask on the radio if I am ready to go. Implying that if I wasn't, he was. It's obvious as hell that I'm next and that I'm ready to go. I've been holding short for all of 30 seconds, waiting for a plane to leave the runway. I should have hit him with some biting sarcasm, but I didn't--just told him, "Yep, we're going right now." Last night Shawn and I flew to Oakland. At night. In the dark. It was 40 exciting minutes descending into the huge bowl of lights that surround black San Francisco Bay on three sides. A couple of things could've gone better. My radio work was shaky, and it didn't help that our transponder didn't work as we crossed the stream of jets on final to San Jose airport. But we made it, staying roughly west of the hills and east of first Highway 101 and then 880, as we made our way north to Oakland. 10 miles out we were cleared to land, runway 27 right. There's a VOR at the field, so if you load that frequency into the nav radio and tune the 270 degree radial, it will lead you right to the runway. Sweet. My very first night landing went well, and 5 minutes later we were parked next to a King Air at Kaiser Jet Center--sort of a rich man's truck stop. The most eventful event of the evening came when we tried to fire up the engine to head back. It wouldn't turn over--apparently, a dead battery (probably a marginal battery pushed below the limit by the cool temperatures). I figured we'd have to get a jump from the Kaiser guys--but no, Shawn hops out of the plane and starts to hand prop it. I sat there with my hand on the throttle and feet on the brakes, and after five minutes of trying, I had our chances for success at about 0.1%. But on the 20th crank or so, the engine fired and soon we were on our way. Going home I did a better job on the radio, but still missed calls telling us important stuff, like do we see the 737 heading for us 7 miles out at ten o'clock? After climbing up and over the Santa Cruz mountains that separate the Santa Clara valley from the coast, I flew a five mile final back into Watsonville's runway 20, losing 4000 feet in the process for my second night landing. The airport was dark, quiet, and cold. Packing up my stuff and locking up the plane took all the organization I could muster. Summary: At night, you have to work even harder to stay organized and ahead of things. The cockpit is dark and you can't see your notes, maps, pens, or... flashlight. More flying adventures... We've been having exceptional (read dry and sunny) weather around here lately. Today Shawn and I did short field work at probably the sorriest excuse for an airfield in the western world, a rutted, 2000' dirt strip known as Monterey Bay Academy. From there we went to San Jose airport--a busy class C airport half an hour to the north. Talk about about your studies in contrast. It was wild to hear American and Northwest pilots talking to the same controllers as yours truly. As if you didn't know, today is National Letter of Intent day, when high school footballers commit to their respective colleges. Lance Smith, Alex's kid (OT-TE, 6-3, 260 and growing) signed with East Texas Baptist University of Marshall, Texas. Way to go, Lance. Yesterday I flew my first cross-country, from Watsonville to Paso Robles. Before leaving the ground I got weather briefings online and over the phone from a helpful guy named Joe, and painstakingly filled out flight planning forms. We had a good tailwind going down and covered the 110 miles in maybe 50 minutes. Except for a little confusion figuring out what runway to setup for, the flight went well. (Limp windsocks are hard to interpret from 2000 feet up.) We navigated along two VOR radials and flew at a relatively high 5500 feet. Coming back, we flew lower to stay out of the wind and kept basically to Highway 101, flying over the various Salinas Valley towns like Greenfield and King City. There's a big military base and oilfield down there you never sense from the road. Also, you get a good look at Soledad Prison. We overflew Salinas airport and soon were back in familiar country. I made a nice nose-high landing on Watsonville's runway 20--2.6 hours on the Hobbs and another milestone notched. I am driven to comment on the sad news that one of my idols, guitar god Pete Townshend, has been arrested for possessing child pornography. Say it ain't so, Pete! This intelligent, gifted man has brought a lot to the world and to me, personally, but I don't buy his alibi that he was doing research on child abuse that may have happened to him "when he was 5 to 6 and a half." Pete--feed your good dog, not the bad one. The one you choose to feed gets stronger. On a lighter, but still unhappy note, the 49er organization saw fit to fire one of the NFL's best young coaches. All Steve Mariucci did was take a salary cap-crippled 4-12 team to the playoffs twice within four years. He'll be appreciated five years from now after his successor starts losing eight games a year with the very average talent on the team. I flew today--Watsonville to the Marina airport. I didn't land because the cross wind was gnarly and the air was damn choppy in the pattern--and I wasn't going to do anything there other than take off immediately. So I headed west and north, up past Santa Cruz to Scotts Valley and then over the Bonny Doon ridge. I saw the little private airport on Empire Grade up there in the trees. I came down over Davenport and then flew down the coast back to the barn. The winds were favoring runway 8, so I got a little practice seeing the airport from that vantage point. 1.6 hours on the Hobbs meter. Tomorrow Shawn and I will do a cross-country. Last night I met Alanis Morissette in Los Angeles at the premiere for her Feast on Scraps DVD. All I had to do was cough up $560 for two tickets. I flew down in the afternoon on a mostly-empty Southwest flight from San Jose (boy, it's great traveling on empty planes). My bargain car rental was a brand-new Suzuki, of all things, and it took thirty minutes to drive to the Silent Movie theater in West Hollywood. As usual, I was titanically early--I got there at 5:30 and they didn't let us in until around 7:00. But I was chatting with other fans and the time went quickly. Cinnamon Girl While waiting in line I got the idea to give her the Neil Young biography I had been reading on the plane. Sort of a prop in case I couldn't think of anything to say when the time came to meet her. (The book was in good shape and could pass for new.) Hey, dig the parallels between Neil Young and Alanis Morissette: Both are Canadian; both moved to Southern California in their early twenties to find success in American rock and roll. Both favor spontaneity and groove over studio perfection. Neither is reluctant to speak out on political and music industry issues. And needless to say, both are all-time favorites. Maybe she'll find something interesting there. They formed us into two lines outside the theater--about 30 fans who'd won passes from an LA radio station, and another 30 of us who'd won the tickets at auction. Eventually they opened the doors and we filed through through the small theater into a outdoor patio at the back where they were serving drinks and (very little) food. Most of the current band was back there (but not Alanis). After a half hour of mingling, we were lined up again. First the radio pass people went up to meet Alanis. After 15 minutes or so, it was our turn. A road manager-type led our group (pushy Charlie, first in line) up a narrow stairway from the concession stand to a reception room--grand piano, food laid out--and Alanis--standing right there, looking taller and thinner than I expected. The remains of the last group were still waiting to talk to her, but after a minute or two, it was my turn--I can't really even remember what I said--I gave her that book--she laid it on the couch behind her. She said something like, "Oh, I've been wanting to read that..." I gushed a little about how much I liked her music, and I thought my time was up so started to walk away. But the road manager noticed the camera in my hand and asked if I wanted to take a picture. You bet! For the next 10 minutes I sat in a chair and watched her meet the rest of the folks... Sigh... Soon we were back down in the theater. Michelle, the nice girl from Bakersfield who had bought my extra ticket, saved a seat for me on the front row. A Maverick guy spoke quickly, then introduced a woman from the Women's Rights group that was benefiting from the event--a striking, thin Indian woman. Then Alanis came down the aisle and talked for a couple of minutes about the DVD--thanked lots of people, most of whom were there--rounds of applause. Then she ducked off the stage and the lights went down and FOS began. I had a plane to catch, and can watch FOS anytime, so I hit the road. The flight back was also pleasantly and I made it from SJC to the house in thirty minutes. That's got to be a record. My Blog is turning into Diary of a Young Pilot. Today's lesson was humbling. The seemingly innocent mission: fly the 20 miles from Watsonville to Salinas--the birthplace of John Steinbeck and home to a towered airport. But it wasn't that simple. First Shawn asked if I minded if we gave Bob and Robin a lift down there. I said sure, it won't bother me. Wrong answer. Shawn had me work the weight and balance numbers with these two big guys in the back seat. Ahah! Couldn't safely fly with that much weight in our fully fueled 172. By a long shot. Then he asked me to plot a course down to Salinas. I picked a strange, but workable route that followed Hwy 129 through the pass to Hwy 101, then turn and follow 101 down to Salinas. Soon we were airborne and the error-fest began in earnest. We tuned in the ATIS frequency for Salinas and listened about 10 times to the message. The guy talked fast and I wasn't getting anything. Plus I hadn't dug out the frequencies from the map while we were on the ground and gotten them dialed into the radios in advance. We leveled out at 2000 feet, one of the few operations I did pretty well. I had no pen and spent too much time listening to the message instead of doing it carefully once and writing down what I'd heard. Then, right about where I should have made the turn to follow 101 south, I became convinced that I could already see Salinas out beyond the nose, and kept flying east. Shawn correctly let me do this. Eventually I realized that the city I was flying towards was Hollister--and Salinas was nowhere in sight. Cities of 50,000 people, you'd think, would be easily visible from an airplane 2000 feet up and maybe 5 miles away. But not necessarily--not on the hilly California coast. Salinas was tucked in behind 3000 foot Fremont Peak. So as we backtracked, Shawn taught me the five C's of navigation mistake handling: Confess (to yourself) that you are lost. Circle so you don't go farther in what is potentially the wrong direction. Climb, so you can see better and your radios will work better. Communicate: ask for help. Fifth C: Can't remember. Eventually Salinas and its airport appeared and I stumbled through my first call to an air traffic controller. We basically did a six mile final directly in to runway 13. I was high. I started putting out flaps and Shawn shouts, "Airspeed! Careful!" We were going about 100 knots--too fast to put out the flaps--the wind can rip them right off the plane. Not good. By the time I slowed down, a go-around was in order. We made right traffic back to 13, and this time I got it down. Nothing too gross happened the rest of the way, although a crosswind had come up back at Watsonville and I was blown right of the centerline a good bit during my too-high flare--thank goodness for wide runways. But I learned: Prepare, prepare, prepare. Pick a good route. Understand the compass headings and times it will take to get there. Know the runways and frequencies at the airport you're headed to. Have the radios ready before you leave the ground. Stay ahead of things. Watch your heading and stick to the plan. From the air, things may not look like you expect--but it may be your expectations that are wrong. Practice that tower-speak. Don't put out flaps until you're in the white arc. Important! Keep the plane in the middle of the runway, cross-wind or no. Don't drift. Flying is tough. Just because you've soloed, you're not Chuck Yeager yet. "Watsonville Traffic, Cessna 435 is taking two-zero for right crosswind departure." I flew again this afternoon--my third solo flight. This time Shawn let out the leash a bit and let me fly the exciting and beautiful 15 miles to Santa Cruz and back. I put my mini-camcorder on the dash and recorded the action. See it here. It's not edited and will take a while to download. Yesterday was a damn good day. At approximately 1:00 PM, I soloed for the first time--three perfect takeoffs and landings at Watsonville Airport with no one in the plane except me. On that first downwind leg, looking down at the perfect little airport, I felt... exhilarated. Once back on the ground at United Flight, there was high-fiving, pictures, and the traditional t-shirt cutting. I be a pilot! And if that wasn't enough, that afternoon we hosted an early Thanksgiving meal. Guests: Dad and Mary; Roger, Julie, Milli, and Geneva Schlafly; Pat Kittle and Linda Broadman, and the great Arthur Carroll. It was the full 2500 calorie deal: the good dishes, huge turkey, massive bowl of mashed potatoes, three types of stuffing, gravy, rolls, fresh pies, yada yada yada. Our first winter rain has arrived, right on schedule. I'm still waiting for the magic words from my flight instructor: "Pull over and let me out. You're ready to solo." I'm close--I just need some better rudder work 10 feet from the ground in the last few seconds of landing. It's tough to learn those last few seconds because each landing takes 10 minutes to set up. October is fleeting. They caught the jackass DC snipers. Some super crooks they turned out to be--a homeless guy and a teenaged illegal alien sleeping in a borrowed 1990 Chevy Caprice. The Giants went down in seven games. Thanks for the excitement, guys. They went a lot farther than I thought they would. A new coat of paint for the old web site! Now, on to my flash memory standards rant. In the last three years, I've owned four flash memory devices, and so far, they've all taken a different format. My old Olympus digital camera used Smart Media. The Canon PowerShot prefers Compact Flash. The Sony digital voice recorder Arthur brought me back from Japan, Memory Stick. And my new Panasonic digital camcorder requires Secure Digital. Don't they have phones in Japan? Can't Mr. Sony call Mr. Canon on the phone and agree on a standard? It'd be more of a problem if prices weren't falling so fast. Who needs an old 8 MB card when 128 MB is going for sixty bucks? A good day today. At today's flying lesson, my instructor Shawn Kelly let me land the plane a few times. I was too busy flying to verify this, but he claims that he never touched the controls on two of the landings--so I appear to be making progress. Video of Shawn shot post-lesson with my new toy, the tiny Panasonic SV-AV10 solid state camcorder, here. On the way home from the airport, I stopped by the local cable TV company office and picked up a cable box. Within ten minutes of getting home, amazingly, everything worked and it looks like I will get to see tonight's Alanis pay-per-view concert at 6:00. Life is good when things work. I'm back from a weekend visit to Houston. I watched from the 50 yard line as tight end Lance Smith and his Deer Park High School teammates whipped formerly undefeated Pasadena 30-12. Way to go, Lance! (His mom Wanda works for Continental Airlines, and arranged for me to fly in on a buddy pass. It's amazing how pleasant air travel can be when the flight is free. Even the food tastes better.) Speaking of football, this season West Texas sports authority Dr. Scott Starks and I are picking selected NFL and college games against the spread. After yesterday's games my record stands at a gaudy 19-9-2. Had I been betting actual money, which I'm not, a starting stake of $100 would have morphed into $145. Or, somewhat more impressively, $1,000,000 into $1,450,000, and I'm paying cash for a brand-new Cirrus SR-22. It's birthday month. My mother, father, grandfather, brother, niece, and yours truly all entered this life in the last half of Festive October. A less happy note: The need for reading glasses has been slowly creeping up on me the last few years. This morning, I made sure I had a pair on my head before I went down to read the morning paper. I don't need them for reading all the time--just smallish print when the light isn't good. I could probably install a 500 watt bulb over the kitchen table and get by for another year. As mentioned earlier, I'm learning how to fly. And I've already learned that a scheduled flying lesson has only a 40-50% chance of happening. Reserved aircraft are mysteriously missing. The flight instructor has a family emergency. Or most commonly, it is too damn foggy to fly. This has been a gray September. Today the sun never came out, and yesterday's 3:30 lesson was cancelled at 3:32 when the first wispy foglets began to move over the Watsonville Airport. Arrrrgghhh! My golf game is faring better. After suffering multiple humiliations this spring and summer, I have given myself over to building a brand new swing. I've hitched my dreams to a slim $22 paperback: "The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing: Curing Your Hit Impulse in Seven Simple Lessons." I am getting some leg action and shoulder turn that just wasn't there before, and the results are already showing. It's shocking how far and straight you can hit a golf ball once you stop trying to kill it with your arms and hands. Look out, high 70s! I almost forgot to mention: Robbin and I went to an Alanis Morissette concert in beautiful Santa Barbara Sunday the 22. One year ago today, the phone rang early in the morning. It was Alex from Houston. "Go turn on the TV," my friend said. "Just go turn on the TV. Now." Groggy, I settled in front of the small set in Robbin's office and within minutes saw the second WTC tower hit, live. It was unthinkable, unreal, amazing, one of those every-ten-year things like hearing that we were bombing Iraq, or that John Lennon had been shot in front of his apartment building. In repeated slow motion replays, the huge airliner was seemingly absorbed into the lattice of the tower without a trace, like it had flown into jello--only to burst out in a cinematic fireball a heartbeat later on the opposite side. Thinking I had seen it all, that the fires would soon burn out, I went down to the kitchen for breakfast. Minutes later, Arthur called and said that one of the towers had fallen down. Impossible, I thought. Those buildings are steel--they can't collapse. Back to the TV and the dismaying sight of the huge silver and white columns yielding their hard-won space in the sky with surreal slowness, collapsing into the mother of all dust clouds. I'm taking flying lessons again down at Watsonville airport. Two days ago I flew around Santa Cruz county for 1.1 hours in a 30 year old Cessna 152. It's exhilarating and a little scary, but this time I mean to see it through. It's nothing like flying Microsoft Flight Simulator. Nothing. I played golf this morning. Only nine holes, and only Valley Gardens, but still... It was fun! I hit the ball straight and far. I chipped and putted with confidence. I had three tap-in pars and a birdie. Look out golf world: I'm back. Tech note: In an effort to conserve disk space on the third-party server that hosts www.charlieanderson.com, I've moved some files to my home machine--for now, only the larger jpegs that appear when you click a thumbnail in one of the galleries. The ramifications of this change are as follows: Pictures that have been relocated will download more slowly, as I have limited bandwidth. Images will not appear at all if the home server is turned off or has connectivity problems. On the other hand, I am no longer bumping up against the 100 MB limit that my web hosting fee buys me at pacbell.net. The new limit is more like 60 GB, a number I don't figure to challenge anytime soon. The pictures from Portage Lake are up. Check them out here. Got back yesterday from four days at Lake Tahoe. Rode the new Heavenly Gondola over my hotel's pool all the way to moonlike rocky desolation (looks better during the winter). Hiked the Desolation Wilderness. Casino crawled. Gambled. And lost. Saw a great Heart concert. Ate too much. Side trip to Reno. Our last day in town before the summer's third trip, a long weekend jaunt to Lake Tahoe. Robbin and I will rendezvous with Dr. Scott Starks on Friday and presumably have a grand old time gambling, boating, and who knows what all. Today I have some oil to change and that makes today a relatively busy day for me. I'm still working on the Maine trip pictures. Stay tuned.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20581
__label__cc	0.523838	0.476162	Copper Element Facts The chemical element copper is classed as a transition metal. It has been known since ancient times. Its discoverer and discovery date are unknown. Classification: Copper is a transition metal Color: orange-red Atomic weight: 63.546 Melting point: 1084.62 oC, 1357.77 K Electron configuration: [Ar] 3d10 4s1 Structure: fcc: face-centered cubic Electron affinity 118.5 kJ mol-1 Reaction with air mild, w/ht ⇒ CuO, Cu2O Reaction with 15 M HNO3 mild, ⇒ Cu(NO3)2, NOx Oxide(s) CuO, Cu2O (cuprite) Hydride(s) CuH Chloride(s) CuCl, CuCl2 Thermal conductivity 401 W m-1 K-1 Electrical conductivity 60.7 x 106 S m-1 Freezing/Melting point: 1084.62 oC, 1357.77 K A nugget of natural, native copper with imbedded copper minerals Discovery of Copper Of all the metals, copper is the one most likely to be found in its native state, often released by the chemical reaction of its ores. Although only small amounts of native copper can be found, there was enough of it for our ancestors to discover the metal and begin using it. Copper has been used by humans for as many as ten thousand years. Beads made from native copper dating from the eighth millennium BC have been found in Turkey. (1) Crucibles and slags found in Europe suggest that smelting of copper (producing the metal from its ores) took place in the fifth millennium BC. Copper mining and smelting were commonplace by 4500 BC in the Balkans – Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Turkey. (2), (3) The Copper Age sits between the Neolithic (Stone) and Bronze Ages. It took place at different times in different cultures, when people began using copper tools alongside stone tools. The Copper Age was followed by the Bronze Age, when people learned that by adding tin to copper, a harder metal that is also more easily cast was formed. Again this happened at different times in different locations in the world. The word copper is derived from the Latin word ‘cuprum’ meaning ‘metal of Cyprus’ because the Mediterranean island of Cyprus was an ancient source of mined copper. The element symbol Cu also comes from ‘cuprum.’ (4) Growing copper sulfate crystals is cool – chemicool in fact. Copper compounds burn with a distinctive green flame. This is copper (I) chloride. Copper metal is extracted from an acidic solution of copper nitrate. Verdigris (corroded copper) on rooftop decorations. Copper is essential in all plants and animals. Excess copper is, however, toxic. Cooking acidic food in copper pots can cause toxicity. Copper cookware should be lined to prevent ingestion of toxic verdigris (compounds formed when copper corrodes). Copper is a reddish orange, soft metal that takes on a bright metallic luster. It is malleable, ductile, and an excellent conductor of heat and electricity – only silver has a higher electrical conductivity than copper. Copper surfaces exposed to air gradually tarnish to a dull, brownish color. If water and air are present, copper will slowly corrode to form the carbonate verdigris often seen on roofs and statues. Uses of Copper As a result of its excellent electrical conductivity, copper’s most common use is in electrical equipment such as wiring and motors. Because it corrodes slowly, copper is used in roofing, guttering, and as rainspouts on buildings. It is also used in plumbing and in cookware and cooking utensils. Commercially important alloys such as brass and bronze are made with copper and other metals. Gun metals and American coins are copper alloys. Copper sulfate is used as a fungicide and as an algicide in rivers, lakes and ponds. Copper oxide in Fehling’s solution is widely used in tests for the presence of monosaccharides (simple sugars). Abundance solar system: 700 parts per billion by weight, 10 parts per billion by moles Cost, pure: $9.76 per 100g Source: Copper is occasionally found native (i.e. as the uncombined metal), and is also found in many minerals such as the oxide; cuprite (Cu2O), the carbonates; malachite (Cu2CO3(OH)2)and azurite (Cu2(CO3)2(OH)2) and the sulfides; chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) and bornite (Cu5FeS4). Most copper ore is mined or extracted as copper sulfides. Copper is then obtained by smelting and leaching. Finally, the resulting crude copper is purified by electrolysis involving plating onto pure copper cathodes. Isotopes: Copper has 24 isotopes whose half-lives are known, with mass numbers 57 to 80. Naturally occurring copper is a mixture of its two stable isotopes, 63Cu and 65Cu, with natural abundances of 69.2% and 30.8% respectively. Andrew Jones, Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice., 2008, p195. Blackwell Publishing. Douglass Whitfield Bailey, Balkan Prehistory: Exclusion, Incorporation and Identity, 2000, p210. Routledge. Sarunas Milisauskas, European Prehistory., 2003, p207. Kluwer Academic/Plenum. <a href="https://www.chemicool.com/elements/copper.html">Copper</a> <a href="https://www.chemicool.com/elements/copper.html">Copper Element Facts</a> "Copper." Chemicool Periodic Table. Chemicool.com. 16 Oct. 2012. Web. <https://www.chemicool.com/elements/copper.html>. joel says copper will kill sheep, which is why sheep and goat food are different	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20582
__label__wiki	0.576921	0.576921	“We tortured Qahtani. His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that’s why I did not refer the case [for prosecution]. . . . The techniques they used were all authorized, but the manner in which they applied them was overly aggressive and too persistent. . . . You think of torture, you think of some horrendous physical act done to an individual. This was not any one particular act; this was just a combination of things that had a medical impact on him, that hurt his health. It was abusive and uncalled for. And coercive. Clearly coercive. It was that medical impact that pushed me over the edge [to call it torture].” Susan J. Crawford is an American lawyer, who was appointed the convening authority for the Guantanamo military commissions, on February 7, 2007.[1] Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Crawford to replace John D. Altenburg.[2] She had previously served as judge and chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Inspector General of the Department of Defense (appointed by George H. W. Bush), General Counsel for the Department of the Army (appointed by Ronald Reagan) and Assistant State’s Attorney for Garrett County, Maryland.[3][4] 2 Judge on Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces 3 Negotiated Hicks’ plea bargain 4 Guantanamo discussion 5 Denied travel funds to Mohamed Jawad’s military attorneys // if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = “show”; var tocHideText = “hide”; showTocToggle(); } // [edit] Education Bachelor of Arts, Bucknell University, 1969[5][6] J.D., New England School of Law, 1977 [edit] Judge on Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Crawford was an active judge on the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) from 1991 – 2006. She was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to the nation’s highest military court in 1991 for a fifteen year term and later served as its chief judge from 1999 – 2004. The CAAF website shows that she is still a judge in senior status. Crawford was the lone dissenter in a case involving Senator-Military Judge-Colonel Lindsey O. Graham. In 2006, by a vote of 4-1, the CAAF found unconstitutional the dual role of Lindsey O. Graham as a senator (Republican from South Carolina) and as a reserve officer sitting as a military judge on the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals. Crawford, in dissent, contended that there was no constitutional error in Senator Graham’s role, and that, even if there were, it was harmless because the military appellant Airman Lane had been unable to show he suffered any “actual prejudice.” She also said that, if Congress thought there were a constitutional problem in Sen. Graham’s service, it would have been free to take action, and it has not. The majority’s opinion relied upon the Constitution’s “incompatibility clause” in Article I, ” saying that “no person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either House during his continuance in service.” It also relied upon separation-of-power principles, primarily as discussed by the Supreme Court in Buckley v. Valeo (1976) and three Supreme Court precedents from the 1990s dealing with appointments to military courts. Congress, Crawford wrote, “may well desire the synergism that would result from having a member of Congress serving as a trial or appellate judge in the military justice system.”[7] [edit] Negotiated Hicks’ plea bargain Crawford is reported to have directly negotiated the plea bargain of David Hicks, an Australian linked with Al Qaeda and the Taliban, without any input from the Prosecution.[8] [edit] Guantanamo discussion When speaking at Bucknell University on April 27, 2007 Crawford said[9] “Much of the media coverage and commentary has been negative, questioning our legal authority to hold detainees without a trial in U.S. Federal Courts,” Crawford said. “Under the law of war, the detainees at Guantanamo Bay are not held pending criminal charges. While detainees may be tried for violations of the law of war, there is no obligation to so charge them.” During the same presentation, Crawford also said: “One of the biggest problems at Guantanamo is that the detainees gain too much weight because we feed them so well.” In response to a question as to whether she endorses the practice of extraordinary rendition and the CIA’s kidnapping of foreign citizen’s in other countries, Crawford said: “Well, I don’t think we always have the right to kidnap foreign citizens.”[10] On October 10, 2007 Morris D. Davis, the Chief Prosecutor for Office of Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, resigned in protest concluding that[11]: “… full, fair and open trials were not possible under the current system. I resigned on that day because I felt that the system had become deeply politicized and that I could no longer do my job effectively or responsibly.” Morris directly cited Susan Crawford as a cause of the problems in the Military Commissions process through her mixing of convening authority and prosecutor roles and her unnecessary use of closed door hearings.[11] Morris called for removal of political appointees Susan Crawford and William J. Haynes and return of control to uniformed military authorities in order to restore openness and fairness to the Military Commissions process. On August 9, 2008 William Glaberson, writing in the New York Times wrote about Crawford’s role in the recent Hamdan conviction.[12] There were unknowns. A Pentagon official, Susan J. Crawford, has broad power over the entire tribunal process, including naming the military officers eligible to hear the case. Her title, convening authority, has no civilian equivalent. Her decisions to grant or deny financing for items like the defense’s expert witness fees or defense lawyers’ transportation were not explained during the trial. She has never granted an interview to a reporter. In an interview with Bob Woodward published in The Washington Post on January 14, 2009, Crawford said the following regarding why she did not refer to trial the case of Mohammed al Qahtani, the so-called “20th hijacker” of the September 11th attacks.[13] [edit] Denied travel funds to Mohamed Jawad’s military attorneys Susan Crawford denies travel funds. The civilian court system ordered Mohamed Jawad to be repatriated. His military attorneys requested funds to travel to Afghanistan to help aid in his repatriation. Crawford declined to fund their travel, since charges against him had been dropped. Eric Montalvo chose to travel to Afghanistan to aid Jawad at his own expense. [edit] References ^ “Seasoned Judge Tapped to Head Detainee Trials”. Department of Defense.. February 7, 2007. http://www.defenselink.mil/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=10493. Retrieved 2007-06-01. mirror ^ “AWOL military justice”. Los Angeles Times.. December 10, 2007. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-davis10dec10,1,743034.story. Retrieved 2007-12-10. mirror ^ John T. Woolley, Gerhard Peters (1989-11-09). “Nomination of Susan J. Crawford To Be Inspector General of the Department of Defense”. The Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=17781. Retrieved 2008-08-09. mirror ^ “Susan J. Crawford, Class of 1969: 1989 Alumni Association “Achievement in Chosen Profession” Award”. http://www.bucknell.edu/x12875.xml. Retrieved 2008-08-04. mirror ^ “Susan Crawford”. Department of Defense.. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/d20070207crawford.pdf. Retrieved 2007-06-01. mirror ^ “Crawford to speak at Bucknell”. Bucknell University. April 2007. http://www.bucknell.edu/x34091.xml. Retrieved 2007-07-20. ^ Ruling: senator cannot be military judge, too, SCOTUSblog.com, September 21, 2006 (retrieved October 13, 2006) ^ “Australian Gitmo detainee sentenced”. USA Today. March 30, 2007. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-03-30-guantanamo-hicks_N.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-20. mirror ^ Sophia Leong (April 27, 2007). “Judge Crawford discusses detainee controversy”. The Bucknellian. http://www.bucknell.edu/x34233.xml. Retrieved 2008-04-30. ^ Written notes taken during Crawford’s presentation. E-mail dantesvalley@yahoo.com for more information. ^ a b “AWOL military justice”. Los Angeles Times. December 10, 2007. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-davis10dec10,0,2446661.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail. Retrieved 2007-12-10. mirror ^ William Glaberson (2008-08-09). “A Conviction, but a System Still on Trial”. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/washington/10gitmo.html. Retrieved 2008-08-08. mirror ^ Bob Woodward (2009-01-14). “Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official: Trial Overseer Cites ‘Abusive’ Methods Against 9/11 Suspect”. The Washington Post. p. A01. Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2009%2F01%2F13%2FAR2009011303372_pf.html&date=2009-09-04. Retrieved 2009-01-14. About CheneyWatch RICHARD BRUCE CHENEY David Addington GEORGE WALKER BUSH GEORGE TENET Private Interests PNAC GROUP House and Senate Sen. Pat Roberts – R-Kansas List of people accused of terrorism Guantanamo Detainee List Allies, Partners, and Poodles Betrayal – CIA Leak Case “What I Told the Grand Jury” A White House Smear Statement by the President on Executive Clemency for Lewis Libby Transcript of Special Counsel Fitzgerald’s Press Conference U.S. v. 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__label__wiki	0.681739	0.681739	T20 more about the hot fried chicken The TEN Big Bash League commentary team. Not just superstars: The Big Bash offers fleeting opportunities for players like ACT Comets batsman Jono Dean. Photo: Katherine Griffiths Vote: Limited (overs) cricket More and more our world is a struggle between the fast and the slow, the shallow and the deep. That tension is everywhere. Fast food speeds straight from cardboard-box convenience to arteries, while the slow-food movement simmers in the background. Long-form journalism builds as a reaction to the rash of bite-size news outlets and just-add-water opinions of bloggers on the internet. Quality crime drama rises from rare pockets in Scandinavia, Britain and the United States as the prefabricated version rolls off production lines everywhere by the dozen – cheap, cynical and unlikely to take up any space on the hard-drive of posterity. Cricket is going the same way. Test cricket allows us time to appreciate the ebb and flow of grand strategies, while the super-quick Twenty20 version blazes away in a format designed to take up little more time in the television schedule than A Michael Buble Christmas. Enter Channel Ten, which has seized the broadcast rights to the newly outfitted domestic 20-over format of the game. Welcome to Ten’s KFC T20 Big Bash League: 35 matches live in prime time, more than 100 hours of super-paced leather-flying-off-the-willow action, the first time the BBL has been broadcast on free-to-air TV. It features a new commentary team, including cricket legends Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist, plus the slightly less-than-a-cricket-legend (but knowledgeable and very funny) Damien Fleming. They are joined by smartly dressed non-cricketers Mark Howard, Mel McLaughlin and the charming Andy Maher, of the sadly defunct AFL analysis show Before the Game. Can you see what they’ve done there? It used to be called Twenty20, but it seems that even the name of cricket’s fastest format was considered too long by some marketing genius determined to squeeze the last efficiency from a once languid recreation. Why waste time with a mouthful like ”Twenty20” when ”T20” was still available in the trademarks office? Time is money and every syllable shaved is another millisecond available to sell deep-fried chicken. Have we put in the paperwork yet for next season’s rebrand as the KFCT20BBL? No? Come on, people, get with the program. Test cricket holds a special place in the country’s heart and history, but it was never going to succeed where it really mattered – in the world of TV ratings. It’s on during the day, for a start, when ratings don’t matter, and it can go on for days at a time, challenging the attention span and time commitments of the Now Generation. There are periods in Test cricket, quite long periods, of relatively little action when the real battle is going on beneath the surface, deeper strategies invisible to the naked eye, just as the movement of a glacier is impossible to spot except when viewed from a time scale measured in centuries. Only occasionally do we get to enjoy the thrilling climax of a run chase to determine a Test match, 15 overs to go, 70 to get, seven wickets down and stumps to be pulled in an hour. That’s why one-day cricket was invented. The shortened version of the game was an attempt to recreate the most exciting bit of a Test match for TV. But even 50 overs can have dead spots – those middle overs – and who wants anything dead in prime time unless it’s surrounded by female detectives in pencil skirts and tight blouses and male detectives with square chins and broken relationships that make them more determined than ever to crack the case? How to reduce the dead spots and ramp up the excitement? Reduce the overs to 20 a team, add power plays and fielding restrictions, change the rules to favour the batsman, set off fireworks when a wicket falls, have a team of go-go dancers gyrate on the sideline every time someone hits a six. Excitement? Every ball becomes a defibrillator to the soul. The impact of T20 on the game flows upwards. Just as one-day cricket sped up the scoring rate of Test cricket after it was introduced, Test cricket is about to see a record number of sixes hit in an international season. There’s good and bad in that: every cricket fan likes to see a six, but purists lament the loss of patience and the throwing away of wickets in the pursuit of entertainment value. The other victim of the shortened game is the quality of the cricket commentary. In radio coverage of Tests, especially, there’s a tradition of quick-witted, amusing, rambling commentary. On the ABC, the tradition started with legendary cricket broadcaster Alan McGilvray and continues today with the likes of Jim Maxwell, Drew Morphett and the idiosyncratic Kerry O’Keeffe. McGilvray’s BBC equivalent was John Arlott. Today’s Old Country practitioners include Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld and Geoffrey Boycott. India’s equivalent is the marvellous Harsha Bhogle. Brilliant raconteurs all, they are able to fill any yawning chasm between flurries of action with amusing anecdotes and insights. Where in T20 is the room for analysis and amusing forays into tangential subjects? What need is there for analysis when the game has been boiled down to a formulaic bowl-bash-out, 120 times a side? What’s the difference between T20 and baseball? Nothing. In high-octane Big Bash cricket played between a bunch of manufactured teams with no fan base, there’s no nuance and, paradoxically, no excitement. Good luck with those ratings. In truth, the BBL is a corruption of the archetype, nothing more than a manufactured sport delivery system for advertisers, a flash-in-the-pan rush for those without the patience for the long game, but who want a disposable fix of the hit-and-giggle game. Someone has to say it and it might as well be me. KFCT20BBL? It’s just not cricket. T20 Big Bash League starts on Friday at 7.30pm on Ten. This entry was posted on Friday, February 15th, 2019 at 13:37 and is filed under 苏州美甲美睫培训学校. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20584
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__label__wiki	0.714133	0.714133	EatTheCorn.com X-Files mythology, TenThirteen Interviews Database, and more TV Guide Online Chat: Chris Carter TVGuide Chat: Welcome, Chris! Thanks so much for coming! Chris Carter: Hello, “X-Files” fans throughout the world. Question: Is last season’s season finale the last we are going to be seeing of Agent Spender? (We saw no body.) Chris Carter: Agent Spender is dearly departed. But his ghost will live on. Question: On average, how many days does it take for you to write a script for one episode? Chris Carter: Average is seven to ten days. Question: What gave you the idea to start the show? Chris Carter: I was under contract with a gun to my head. Question: What do you think of the fans? Do you think we’re crazy? Chris Carter: Not nearly as crazy as the producers. Question: Is the rumor true about the New Year’s kiss? Chris Carter: I’m assuming that you mean does it happen. You’ll have to wait for the New Year. Question: What is your most favorite episode of “The X-Files”? Chris Carter: I have too many that I am proud of. But I have favorites from each season. The one that was the most personal one to me was the black and white one called “Post Modern Prometheus.” Question: Hey Chris, we met some time ago, and I didn’t get the chance to ask you, who where your influences growing up? What motivated you to make such an extraordinary series? Chris Carter: Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, Philip K. Dick, Sinclair Lewis, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and John Cheever. My television inspiration was “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.” Question: Do you base your characters on real-life people, or are they solely fictional creations? Chris Carter: Mulder and Scully are fictional characters, as are most of the characters in “The X-Files.” But occasionally, and not so occasionally, we name characters after our friends and coworkers. Question: What are your views on the paranormal? Chris Carter: I’m a skeptic by nature. But, like Mulder, I want to believe. Question: Do you get recognized often in public? Chris Carter: More often than I’d like. I’m surprised that anyone recognizes me. Question: From interviews I’ve seen and read, you seem like a truly sincere, all-around nice guy. Because you are able to come up with great story lines for “The X-Files,” you obviously have a dark side. How do you get in touch with that side? Music, movies, books? Chris Carter: I turn on my computer. Question: Are we going to learn more about Mulder and Scully’s personal lives? Chris Carter: Yes, definitely. This could be the last season, so we want to explore them thoroughly. Question: How has religion affected the decisions you make about the show? (I think it’s really cool that Scully is Catholic!!) Chris Carter: Faith is an all-important, ever-present component in the stories we tell. It is Scully’s struggle with her religious faith and her faith in science that provide a good bit of character conflict. It is Mulder’s faith in the unknown, in its unknowableness, that drives his quest. Question: If/when you get writer’s block, what do you do to get past it? Being a writer myself, it’s tough. Chris Carter: 20th Century Fox doesn’t allow us to have writer’s block. It’s in our contract. And we are summarily executed upon display of any symptoms. Question: Can we expect to get answers to a lot of the questions that have been left for us since the first season up until now? Chris Carter: Yes. Sit back, put your feet up, no clicking, and we will explain it all for you. Question: If you could choose one “X-Files” episode to watch on Halloween (besides “Home”), which would it be? Keep in mind, I enjoy being spooked. Chris Carter: “Irresistible.” Or “Oubliette.” Question: Have you ever read the tabloids to get ideas for an episode? Chris Carter: I only read the tabloids for the articles on the “worst dressed.” Question: Hi, Chris! Have you ever thought about doing a show of just the Lone Gunmen? Chris Carter: We have done shows of just the Lone Gunmen. If you mean a series of just the Lone Gunmen, we’ve thought of that too. We’re still thinking. Question: First, please let me thank you for the many great hours of entertainment that you have provided for me and my husband. We would like to know how much of the story line behind “The X-Files” is based upon fact. Chris Carter: Thank you, first of all. Almost every episode of “The X-Files” is based on science fact. We work very hard to be true to science. You might want to pick up Anne Simon’s book, “Science of the X-Files,” which is just out, that does a wonderful job of explaining the science foundations of the show. But it’s where we go from there that creates the science fiction. Question: Are the fans going to be paid off by seeing Scully destroy Fowley before the end of the season? Chris Carter: Stay tuned for the season opening two-parter. Question: Some of the stuff you write about makes the viewer stop and think… is there any one show that you feel does the same for you? Chris Carter: Nothing that I can think of. But… I have to say “Gumby” made me stop and think. Question: Are there going to be any more “X-Files” novels? I really like all the previous ones. Chris Carter: I can’t say, honestly. Question: Will the show get refocused next season on paranormal activity with a kitchy twist… like the circus episode? Chris Carter: We felt last season was very light, and this season we want to see how much we can scare you. But there will be the oddball episode. Question: Two-parter? What’s that all about? Chris Carter: We couldn’t tell the story in just one hour of how Mulder survives (or doesn’t) whatever has befallen him in last season’s finale. Question: Chris, I love your show, but can you tell me if there are going to be any new characters? Chris Carter: Nothing through the first eight episodes. Question: Is it true that there will be a sequel to “Irresistible”? Chris Carter: Yes. Episode seven this year. Question: Will Smoking Man ever be set free? Chris Carter: He is free. Or at least discounted. Question: Will Mulder and Fowley’s past with each other be talked about? Chris Carter: Referenced. Question: Mr. Carter, don’t you find it amazing the following “The X-Files” has? Chris Carter: Every day. It’s like a dream. But I just go with it. Question: What is the purpose of the rebels? Why do they want to stop colonization? Chris Carter: They want to control Earth and its resources for themselves. Question: There are crossovers in fan fiction. I wondered if you ever thought about crossing over with another sci-fi show. Chris Carter: “Harsh Realm.” Too late now. Question: Just wondering… did you decide to stop the “Millennium” story line? Chris Carter: No. The ratings were such that Fox believed that they could do better. Question: Is the “Consortium” really dead, or are they otherwise detained? Chris Carter: They’re dead. Good riddance. Question: Does Fox censor what you can air? Chris Carter: Only the most indelicate or sensitive images and content. But they are very reasonable and always open for arguments. Question: Is Fox’s sister even alive? Chris Carter: Stay tuned for season seven. Question: Is “Millennium” gone for good, or can we expect Frank Black to make additional appearances on “The X-Files”? Chris Carter: Frank Black will be in “The X-Files” this season for an episode titled “Millennium.” Question: Are there any books that have inspired you? Chris Carter: I was not into science fiction as a kid, but my brother was. I read some of his books, mostly Ursula K. LeGuin. Question: What do you believe is one of the more astounding facts that the government has kept under wraps? Chris Carter: That Elvis is alive. Question: Did you feel that the “flavor” of “The X-Files” changed last season? Chris Carter: Yes. After the movie, we wanted to take the show in new directions, and it lightened considerably. But David and Gillian are very good comedic actors and they helped, also, to let us choose this direction. Question: David and Gillian have incredible on-screen chemistry. When did you first begin to sense this? Chris Carter: I didn’t know it until the first day I saw them on the set, which was in March 1993. Question: Where did you get the idea for “Neighborhood” episode? Chris Carter: There were several different elements that came out of a writer’s meeting, but one of them was something called the “Ubermencher,” which I had somewhere in the back of my brain. This was wedded to the idea of a planned community. Question: Any hope of one last Darren Morgan X-File? Chris Carter: There’s hope, but that’s about all there is. Question: How did you come up with the name Fox Mulder? Chris Carter: Mulder is my mother’s maiden name. But please don’t try to activate credit cards. Fox is the name of a kid I grew up with. And NBC Mulder just seemed too weird. Question: How long does it take to make an episode from start to finish? Chris Carter: About five weeks. Question: What was your very first reaction to the fans’ obsessive behavior towards your shows? Chris Carter: Glee. Wild glee. And ecstatic jubilation. Speaking in tongues and running around naked. Question: Will we ever learn more about what Krycek is really up to? Chris Carter: Yes. Stayed tuned for the season opener and episode #2. Question: Is Donnie Pfaster really coming back? If so, can you tell us anything about the episode? Chris Carter: Yes, he’s coming back. And he’s hungry for finger food. Question: What are your hopes for the upcoming season? Chris Carter: I hope that the season will be of a quality with the previous six seasons; that if this is the last, that we end with a bang and not a whimper. Question: Do other people write episodes for you? Chris Carter: No. There’s a staff of writers, who are mostly listed in the credits as producers. Question: Will we be seeing more of the bounty hunter this season? Chris Carter: I don’t know. Question: When can we expect another feature film? Chris Carter: I won’t know until we decide when the series ends. But probably a year after that. Question: Have you decided if this is going to be the last season? Chris Carter: I haven’t decided yet. There are many things that factor in, including the actors’ desire and their contractual obligations, and my contractual obligations. And keeping the show good and fresh. Also, the writing staff. We wouldn’t want to do it without the people who have gotten us all this way. TVGuide Chat: Thanks so much, Mr. Carter, for chatting with us! We’ll definitely keep watching, and we wish you the best! Tags: chris carter, lone gunmen, millennium, x-files, xf2 This entry was posted on Thursday, October 28th, 1999 at 12:00 am and is filed under Interviews: Online. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site. « Variety: Fox axes 'Ryan,' Carter's 'Realm' shows draw lowest-ever Fri. ratings San Francisco Examiner: Networks showing their stupidity again » 2 Responses to “TV Guide Online Chat: Chris Carter” The X-Files – The Post-Modern Prometheus (Review) \| the m0vie blog says: […] is no secret that Carter himself is very fond of the episode. He has described it as the episode “most personal” to him. 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__label__cc	0.582843	0.417157	Babine Builders E-mail: dcanning2@yahoo.ca » Topley Landing Provincial Park Topley Landing Provincial Park Topley Provincial Park lies next to Babine Lake, 12 kilometres east of Granisle, immediately west of the community of Topley Landing and 40 kilometres north of Topley. This small 12 hectare provincial park is within the asserted traditional territory of the Nat’oot’en Nation who have used this site for a food fishery. A large natural beach dominates the park’s frontage on Babine Lake. The park is close to the Fulton River sockeye salmon spawning channel. This park was established for the protection of cultural and environmental values. Recreational use is not encouraged. Established Date: April 17, 1964 This park is in a wilderness area adjacent to the Fulton River spawning channels. Bears frequent this area. Visitors must be familiar with bear safety. Bring your own drinking water as potable water is not available in the park. Visitors reach Topley Provincial Park by travelling 40 kilometres north of Topley, from Highway 16 to Topley Landing on Babine Lake. 900 m south of the Fulton Spawning Channels on the Granisle Road, turn east onto Marina Way. Follow this for approximately 900 m, then turn left onto the gravel road into Topley Landing Park. History: The provincial government established Topley Provincial Park by Order in Council #1034/1964 under the Park Act in April 1964. Culture: The park lies on a traditional Nat’oot’en Nation fishery removal and transport site. Conservation: The park encompasses an extremely small area of the under-represented Babine Upland Ecosection. Currently only 4% of the Babine Upland Ecosection is included in the protected areas system. Topley Provincial Park is one of 19 protected areas in this ecosection, contributing less than 1% of the overall protected area representation of this ecosection. The park contributes minimally (less than 1%) to the overall protected areas system representation of SBSmc2 (Sub-boreal Spruce, moist cold subzone, Babine variant). The park encompasses a remnant riparian ecosystem and has high fish habitat values. Approved Management Direction Statement [PDF 387.87KB] for Topley Landing Provincial Park is available online.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20600
__label__wiki	0.538338	0.538338	Whose stock soared at the Copa America as transfer market kicks into high gear? Copa America Jul 8, 2019 Tim Vickery Copa America review: Brazil worthy winners despite CONMEBOL errors. PLUS: Argentina's bright future Copa America Jul 8, 2019 Gabriele Marcotti Winning Copa America on home soil a morale boost for Brazil on their quest for World Cup glory Toe Poke Daily: Peruvian friends trek across South America for Copa America Toe Poke Daily Jul 7, 2019 ESPN Lionel Messi conspiracy claims cast a cloud over Copa America thanks to CONMEBOL's silence Messi's red card overshadows Argentina's encouraging win and Chile's end of an era Brazil are kings of South America again, but conquering world will be much harder Brazil's massive talent gap leaves Peru needing another superhuman effort in Copa America final Will Peru deny Tite the chance of becoming a genuine Brazil hero? Brazil Jul 4, 2019 Tim Vickery Toe Poke Daily: What did Neymar say to Messi after Brazil's win over Argentina? Toe Poke Daily Jul 4, 2019 Chris Wright Peru are a team transformed, and ageing Chile have no answer in Copa America semifinal Argentina exit the Copa America early but they've won something better: Messi is fired up again Messi can't cover up Argentina's defensive flaws in Brazil defeat Copa America semifinals: Pressure on Brazil and Argentina, while Chile and Peru play with house money Chile manager Rueda has been the star of the 2019 Copa America Copa America's love affair with shootouts down to a matter of survival Copa America Jun 30, 2019 Gabriele Marcotti Brazil vs. Argentina can make up for Copa America's underwhelming knockout rounds Copa America Jun 30, 2019 Tim Vickery Suarez, Uruguay can only look at themselves after Copa loss to Peru Chile advance the hard way, while Colombia taste disappointment Argentina mix surprisingly good cocktail with just a splash of Messi By Tim Vickery One of the great things about football is that every game unfolds in a different way. The same two teams can meet each other twice and produce different narratives. Thankfully for the final of the 2019 Copa America, the second meeting between Brazil and Peru proved very different from the first. In the group game in Sao Paulo, Brazil steamrolled their way to a 5-0 victory. Little more than two weeks later, and a 45-minute flight away in Rio de Janeiro, they had things much harder, with the outcome in doubt until near the end of their 3-1 victory. - Marcotti: Can Copa glory can herald new era for Brazil? - Peruvian friends trek across continent to see final - Copa America: All you need to know - Full Copa America results Before the kickoff, there was a minute's silence in Maracana Stadium for Joao Gilberto, the bossa nova maestro who died the day before. A football fan, Gilberto would often watch games while gently strumming on his guitar, reacting to misplaced passes with a grotesque combination of discordant notes. Moments of this match, though, would have inspired some more tuneful chords. One, for example put Brazil in the lead. Dani Alves, even at 36 such an important part of the side, passed long down the right flank. Gabriel Jesus picked up, shimmied his way outside his marker and crossed to the far post, where opposite winger Everton scored with a superb, first-time finish. Just as in the first game, Peru had been undone down the flanks. It was the first goal in a Copa America final since 2011, and it became the first Copa America final in which both sides scored since 2004. Peru had shown their resolve right from the start. The key question for their attacking aspirations was whether they would be brave enough to get men up the field in support of centre-forward Paolo Guerrero. In the opening exchanges, they played high up the field, and before they went behind after 15 minutes, they had enjoyed most of the play. In the group game, they folded as soon as they went behind. This time, they stuck to their guns, stuck to their plan and found themselves on level terms, scoring the first -- and only -- goal Brazil conceded during the course of the competition. It came from a penalty, perhaps harshly awarded for a handball by Thiago Silva, whose arm was on the ground as he threw himself to the floor to block a dangerous attack. But the striking thing was the way Peru had forced the situation by committing men forward. The combination of Edison Flores and the lively Christian Cueva had pierced Brazil's defensive line. For their boldness, Peru deserved to be on level terms, and Guerrero coolly struck home from the spot. There is a reason Brazil under Tite have lost just two games in almost three years -- the World Cup quarterfinal against Belgium and a friendly against Argentina when an experimental side was fielded. Tite has a more modern approach than his compatriot coaches. Much of Brazilian football has become reactive, defending to interrupt the game. Tite is more proactive. The defensive balance of his team is achieved not only through the individual quality of his back line; Brazil seek to swarm around the ball in the place where it is lost. Tite wants his team to regain possession as early as possible, and this was vital in the second goal, a swift response to the Peruvian equaliser. Roberto Firmino lost possession with his back to goal, but he chased back and just managed to nick it away and into the path of Arthur, who sensed the situation, realising that Peru could be caught on the wrong foot, relaxing at the back after thinking that the ball was theirs. Arthur surged forward, and played a lovely little pass into the path of Jesus, who had made an intelligent move to his left. One on one with the goalkeeper, Jesus produced a subtle finish inside the far post. It was just before half-time, and Brazil had conjured a goal worthy of winning the title. But they ended up having to do it the hard way. There is a downside to the defensive work done by the strikers. They can apply themselves with more enthusiasm than skill to their defensive tasks, especially in a high-pressure occasion such as a final. The coach had already warned Jesus to calm down when he was sent off with a little more than 20 minutes remaining. The second yellow card may have been harsh, but Jesus' first was for a badly mistimed tackle. For all his protests, he was off, and Brazil had to defend their lead with 10 men. Off came Philippe Coutinho, replaced by Eder Militao at right-back, with Alves pushed into midfield. Tite then sought to protect his right flank. An alarm had just come down that side when Peru left-back Miguel Trauco got in behind the line, but the angle was narrow, and Alisson made a routine save. As Peru's pressure mounted, a corer was cleared to Flores, who chested down and volleyed narrowly wide. Brazil lifted their first major title in 12 years -- since their last Copa America crown. Brazil were biting their nails, until the hero of the campaign came good once more. Perky left winger Everton cut in on goal, the ball seemed likely to end up in the arms of the goalkeeper, and so the foul by Carlos Zambrano was unnecessary. But a foul it was, and Richarlison stepped up to the penalty spot and sealed the title for Brazil. Brazil, then, retain their record of winning every Copa they have hosted. A generation of Brazilian players have had an unmatched opportunity to win titles at home: the 2013 Confederations Cup, the 2014 World Cup, the 2016 Olympics and now this Copa. All went to the hosts, with the exception of the one that really matters. And in time, this new triumph will have to be placed in the context of the buildup to the big one, the 2022 World Cup. There is much to celebrate -- beyond, of course, the title. The defensive balance of this Brazil side looks better than it was last year. The emergence of Arthur is important. He skipped through the midfield giving a man-of-the-match performance, and has a vital role to play in the future of the side. Alves, though, cannot go on forever and does not appear to have a natural replacement. More options are needed at centre-forward. The side in possession have not reproduced the exuberance of the World Cup qualifiers in the second half of 2016 and all through 2017. The big test, as recent years have made clear, is provided by a Western European team in the knockout stages of the World Cup. That test will surely come along again in Qatar. But winning the 2019 Copa America is a nice morale boost along the way.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20605
__label__wiki	0.76182	0.76182	Exclusive Malaga Touristic Information Malaga La Axarquia Costa del Sol Salares Vélez Malaga Comarca de Antequera Gualteba Malaga City Center The Port of Malaga Nororma Valle del Guadalhorce La Axarguia Beaches Beaches of Nerja Playa el Cañuelo Playa Calas del Pino (nudist) Playa de la Alberquilla Playa Molino de Papel Playa de Maro La Caleta de Maro Playa de Carabeillo Playa de Carabeo Playa de Calahonda Playa de la Caletilla Playa el Salón Playa la Torrecilla Beaches of Vélez Málaga Playa Torre del Mar (Q) Playa Almayate (nudist) Parque Natural de las Sierras Tejeda, Armijara and Alhama Alcaucin – Area Recreativa El Alcázar Rio Verde – Otívar (Granada) Torcal de Antequera Natural Park Fuente de los Cien Caños Sierra de Camarolos Events & Festivities Calendar of Festivities in the Province of Malaga Where to See Flowering Almond Trees Horse Riding on the Beach Butterfly Park Benalmádena Sea Life, Benalmádena Home > The Villages > Malaga Costa del Sol > Malaga City Center Malaga is a city and a municipality of Spain, capital of the homonymous province and located in the autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 570 006 inhabitants in 2017.8 Malaga is the sixth most populated city in Spain, the second in Andalusia and the forty-sixth in the European Union, as well as the largest among those that are not regional capitals. Similarly, it is the largest and most populated coastal city in southern Spain. Interesting streets and squares to see: Fuente de Génova, Calle San Augustin, Pasaje de Chinitas, Cortina del Muelle, Calle Marqués de Larios, Plaza del Siglo, Plaza del Cárbon, Plaza del Obispo, Plaza de la Merced, Plaza de la Marina, Plaza de la Constitución, Fuente de las Tres Gracias. Alcazaba: This fortress palace whose name in Arabic means citadel is one of the historical monuments of the city, a place that is a lot visited because it is combining history and beauty in the same place. Opening hours: Summer: 09:00 h. – 20:00 h. / Winter: 09:00 h – 18:00 h (the elevator does not work on Mondays). Castillo de Gibralfaro: This Castle, built in the fourteenth century to house the troops and protect the Alcazaba, is today one of the most visited moments of Malaga. You can take a tour over its walls with breathtaking views of Malaga, or enter its Interpretation Center to know his story. Opening hours: Summer: 09:00 h. – 20:00 h. / Winter: 09:00 h – 18:00 h. Cathedral: Its full name is Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación, although for the people of Málaga it is simply “the Cathedral”.The building is one of the best examples of Spanish religious art: located on the remains of other cultural samples such as the primitive Almohad mosque.Its traces began about 1,530 and was completed in the 18th century, although it is an unfinished work since it lacks the main facade and the south tower. Roman Theater: The Roman Theater of Malaga is one of the living symbols of Roman Hispania in the city. It has a modern interpretation center located next to it where you can learn about the life and customs of the time through new technologies. It has also recovered its original use, offering performances inside. Palacio de Buenavista – Picasso Musseum: This 16th century building with Renaissance architecture is home to the Museo Picasso. It was the residence of the Counts of Buenavista, to whom it is named. From the Royal Decree of 1913 it became the home of the Museum of Fine Arts and in 1939 it was declared as a National Monument. Palacio Episcopal – Exhibition Hall: XVI-XVIII century. It is a set of buildings that are together in a wide block until the eighteenth century. It highlights the impressive baroque facade overlooking the Plaza del Obispo. Palacio de Miramar: XX century. It is a work of the architect Guerrero Strachan and it opened its doors in 1926 as Prince of Asturias Hotel. In 1987 it was remodeled and for almost two decades it served as the Palace of Justice. Currently it is a five star luxury hotel which is named Hotel Miramar. Palacio Villalcázar: XVIII century palace built by the first Earl of Buenavista and took its name from the Count of Villalcázar, third Earl of Buenavista to succeed his uncle who was childless. Address: Calle Cortina del Muelle 23 Palacio de Zea-Salvatierra: The Zea Salvatierra palace was one of the most important landmarks of Málaga in the 17th and 18th centuries. The different historical events led the palace to be the town hall during the reign of Elizabeth II. It was assaulted with the revolution of 1868. Later it served as post-office, which was remained well into the twentieth century. Currently it is privately owned. Address: Calle Cister 1. Palacio de la Aduana: Although it original function was a tobacco factory it later became office and headquarters of the Provincial Council and the Prefectures: This spectacular building is now hosting the Museum of Malaga. Address: Plaza Aduana 1. Palacio del Marqués de Valdeflores: Palace which was built in the eighteenth century and modified in the nineteenth that currently houses the Provincial Service for Women. It conserves an austere white marble doorway composed of cajeadas pilasters that support a simple balcony; behind the gate of the hall is a patio, that has retained its eighteenth-century arches on marble columns on three sides, and to the left opens the staircase with classical white marble balustrade. In the upper rooms some original ceilings have been conserved, as well as chimneys and some spaces of interest. Address: Calle Carretería 60. Palacio del Marqués de la Sonora: A palace built in the eighteenth century by Félix Solecio, a Genoese nobleman, who moved to Malaga where he manufactured cards that were commercialized in America. Address: Calle Granada 60. © C. Cornelissen - WordPress Theme : Fotography by AccessPress Themes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20610
__label__cc	0.647223	0.352777	Articles / Uncategorized The Scientific Knowledge in the Quran was known prior to Islam and is False by Satyam · The scientific methods of research and discovery are as follows: Not blindly accepting anything. The ability to doubt. The ability to question anything. The ability to look at alternative theories. The ability to examine all existing documents in the world. The ability to express thoughts freely. The ability to ask for proof. Any theory that is not based on the above approach cannot be called scientific but simply man concocted science. The Quran fails on the above approaches and thus the knowledge in the Quran cannot be called scientific. The Islamic claim of scientific knowledge in the Quran has the following origins: The Greek and Egyptian writings which existed hundreds of years before the Quran. The Christian and Jewish scriptures which existed before the Quran. General observation by those who lived in the desert. The compiler of the Quran basically took the existing knowledge and placed it in the Quran. The followers claim this as a divine revelation from God. The scientific approach is the truth approach. The ability to doubt, question everything, do comparisons with other theories, and seek proof is the scientific approach. Accepting something when it’s not the fact is denial of the truth. The true God is only for the truth. The earth is flat? “Who has made earth for you like a bed (spread out).” (Quran 20:53) “Have We not made the earth as a bed.” (Quran 78:6) There are many other Quranic verses which very clearly state that the earth is flat. The Arabic word used in the Quran to describe the earth shape is ‘Mehad’, which means bed. Origin: General Observation. The earth is flat is a general observation statement which would be made by anyone with very limited education, and especially if they lived in the desert. An educated person would not make such a statement. Scientific Facts The earth is round and not flat. One can get on a plane and prove this within a few days. The suns sets in murky water at night? “And he followed a road. Till, when he reached the setting-place of the sun, he found it setting in a muddy spring, and found a people thereabout.” (Quran 18:85-86) “Then he followed a road. Till, when he reached the rising-place of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had appointed no shelter therefrom.” (Quran 18.89-90) The Prophet of Islam also confirms what the Quran states. “Abu Dharr (one of Muhammad’s close companions) said: I was sitting behind the Apostle of Allah who was riding a donkey while the sun was setting. He asked: Do you know where this sets? I replied: Allah and his Apostle know best. He said: It sets in a spring of warm water.” (Sunan Abi Dawud 4002) Based on the Prophet of Islam, the sun sets and rises. “The Prophet (ﷺ) asked me at sunset, “Do you know where the sun goes (at the time of sunset)?” I replied, “Allah and His Apostle know better.” He said, “It goes (i.e. travels) till it prostrates Itself underneath the Throne and takes the permission to rise again…”. (Sahih al-Bukhari 4.54.421) The sun rises and sets in murky water at night is a general assumption made by those who lived in the desert, 1400 years ago with very limited knowledge. The sun does not set nor rise from water. The earth is rotating on its axis and due to the positioning of the earth relative to the sun, there is day and night in different parts of the world. Based on the scientists if more than 400 billion nuclear weapons were to be set off at the same time, this is the amount of heat that the sun generates in 1 second. It’s impossible for any people to be near it, not even within millions of miles from the sun. The sun is 93 million miles from earth and not at the end of the earth as the Quran states. Humans have existed for only 6,000 years and we all originate from one couple? Based on the Quran, and Hadiths. Adam and Eve were the first humans created by God. They lived about 6,000 years ago and all humans originate from them. This same theory is also supported by the Bible and accepted by many Christians. “O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Adam), and from him (Adam) He created his wife [Hawwa (Eve)], and from them both He created many men and women.” (Quran 4:1) Based on the Islamic tree of prophets. Noah existed between 4900 and 5900 years ago. Before Noah was Enoch and before him was Adam, the first human. Origin: General Observation and the Bible. For the people who live in the desert, they would have a very poor fund of knowledge and thus they will base everything on their own limited perception. Those who have no scientific reasoning of investigation, will blindly accept what they are told. Based on genetic science, it’s impossible for the population of humans in the world today to originate from one couple and humans have existed for millions of years and not just 6,000 years. The bones of humans dating back to millions of years can be seen in museums around the world. The Big Bang Theory in the Quran and the Earth and Universe were one piece? The Quran, Surah 21 verse 30: “The heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them …” Some Muslim claim the above Quranic verse proves the big bang theory from the Quran. A closer examination reveals this to be false. Origin: Egyptian. According to an Egyptian creation myth, Geb (the god of earth) and Nut (the goddess of sky) angered the sun god Ra, because they were locked in a perpetual embrace. On the orders of Ra, they were separated by Shu (the god of air) who stood on Geb and lifted Nut high up above him. Creating the atmosphere by separating the sky from the earth. The Quran will not mention the pagan gods and goddess. But one can clearly see that the statement in the Quran about Heaven (sky) and earth being one and then separated are from the Egyptian creation myth. The compiler of the Quran took the knowledge that was already existing and placed it in the Quran. The Quran is incorrect in saying ‘the heavens and earth were of one piece, then we parted them’. The earth was never existing as one piece joined with the universe. It was created, and it is within the universe and it will never part from the universe. Also, based on the scientists this physical earth planet that we are living on is around 4.5 billion years old, thus it never existed before 4.5 billion year ago. Some Muslims claim that Quran 21:30 supports the big bang theory but this verse is completely incorrect based on the facts. The scientists estimate that the big bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, and this physical earth planet did not exist until 9.3 billion years after the big bang. It makes no sense to think that the earth was one piece with the universe at creation and then it parted. Since there was no earth until 9.3 billion years after the big bang and the creation of the universe. Also some scientists are now rejecting the big bang theory. Embryo creation in the Quran The Quran, Surah 23 verses 13-14: “Thereafter We made him (the offspring of Adam) as a Nutfah (mixed drops of the male and female sexual discharge and lodged it) in a safe lodging (womb of the woman). Then We made the Nutfah into a clot (Alaqa , a piece of thick coagulated blood), then We made the clot into a little lump of flesh (Mudghah), then We made out of that little lump of flesh bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, and then We brought it forth as another creation. So blessed be Allah, the Best of Creators!” Origin: Greeks. The below is what the Greek Physician Galen (AD 129-199) wrote on embryology, more than 400 years prior to the Quran being transmitted. “But let us take the account back again to the first conformation of the animal, and in order to make our account orderly and clear, let us divide the creation of the fetus overall into four periods of time. The first is that in which, as is seen both in abortions and in dissection, the form of the semen prevails (Arabic Nutfah). At this time, Hippocrates too, the all-marvelous, does not yet call the conformation of the animal a fetus; as we heard just now in the case of semen voided in the sixth day, he still calls it semen. But when it has been filled with blood (Arabic Alaqa), and heart, brain and liver are still unarticulated and unshaped yet have by now a certain solidarity and considerable size, this is the second period; the substance of the fetus has the form of flesh and no longer the form of semen. Accordingly, you would find that Hippocrates too no longer calls such a form semen but, as was said, fetus. The third period follows on this, when, as was said, it is possible to see the three ruling parts clearly and a kind of outline, a silhouette, as it were, of all the other parts (Arabic Mudghah). You will see the conformation of the three ruling parts more clearly, that of the parts of the stomach more dimly, and much more still, that of the limbs. Later on they form “twigs”, as Hippocrates expressed it, indicating by the term their similarity to branches. The fourth and final period is at the stage when all the parts in the limbs have been differentiated; and at this part Hippocrates the marvelous no longer calls the fetus an embryo only, but already a child, too when he says that it jerks and moves as an animal now fully formed. It can clearly be seen that the statements in this Quranic verse originate from the account of the Greek Physician Galen. The credit should be given to the Greeks and not the Quran. The compiler of the Quran simply quoted the knowledge that was already existing for more than 400 years before Islam and the Quran. There are many errors in the embryology knowledge in the Quran, which originates from the Greeks and accepted by the Muslims as divine knowledge from Allah. One can visit medical sites on the web or ask medical professionals and confirm all the below. The most important part of embryology knowledge is the role of the female egg and fertilization. This is completely missing in the Quranic embryology. The Quran mentions that the mixed drops of the male and female sexual discharge are first lodged in the womb and then the development starts. This is incorrect. The Quran does not mention that a drop of semen contains millions of sperms, and just one sperm creates pregnancy. One sperm fertilizes the female egg and then it starts multiplying fast and leaves the fallopian tube and enters the uterus where it attaches and develops into an embryo. Then the full development of body occurs. The real science of embryology is completely missing from the Quran. The female discharge of egg occurs even without sex. The Quran does not mention this. Not every male discharge (of sperm) will result in pregnancy. The Quran does not mention this. The male and female discharge does not develop into an embryo. The sperm from the male fertilizes the egg from the female and then the fertilized egg (zygote) multiplies and develops into an embryo. The male and female discharge does not mix with the blood nor does it form into a clot. The bones are not first created as stated by the Quran. The Origin of the Embryology Knowledge in the Quran In AD 555, a medical school was founded by Anusharwan in Jundishapur, which is now southern Iran. This school combined Greek, Indian, and Iranian medical knowledge. According to Muslim medical historians, including ibn Abi Usaybia and al-Qifti, one early graduate of Jundishapur medical school was a doctor named al Harith ibn Kalada. He became a companion of the Prophet Muhammad who sought medical advice from him. Thus, the knowledge which originates from the Greek Physician Galen and others, influenced the Prophet who declared it as a revelation from Allah and put it in the Quran. Living beings created from water? “We made every living thing of water…” Origin: Greeks A Greek known as Thales of Miletus (624 BC – 546 BC) stated the below more than 1100 years before the Quran was transmitted: “The originating principle of nature was a single material substance: water.” It is clear that the theory of life originating from water predates the Quran by more than 1100 years. The compiler of the Quran took the knowledge from the Greeks and placed it in the Quran. The Muslims consider this as divine knowledge from Allah. The Quran also makes contradictory statements. The above verse clearly states every living being is made from water, but in the below 2 verses, it clearly states man is made from clay. “Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: “I am about to create man, from sounding clay from mud moulded into shape” (Quran 15:28) “Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: “I am about to create man from clay” (Quran 17:61) The bodies of living beings are not created from water nor clay. Water is present within the body but it’s not the building block of life. The bodies are created from cells which multiply to form tissues and bones in various formations depending on the species. Semen comes from the backbone and ribs? The Quran, Surah 86, verses 6-7: “He is created from a drop emitted- Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs.” In the above ‘drop’ means semen. More than a thousand years before the Quran, the Greek physician Hippocrates (370 BC – 460 BC) stated that semen comes from all the fluid in the body, diffusing from the brain, ribs, and back bone. The above is incorrect based on modern scientific knowledge. The compiler of the Quran basically took the knowledge that was known at the time and put it in the Quran. He did not consider whether it was correct or not. The semen does not come from the backbone and the ribs. During ejaculation, the prostate glands secrete a fluid which is mixed with millions of sperms which are produced in the testicles (balls) of males, and this is expelled as semen. The prostate glands are below the bladder. Man created from semen without female egg and fertilization? The Quran, Surah 16, verse 4: “He has created man from a sperm-drop; and behold this same (man) becomes an open disputer!” Origin: The Bible and general observation. “he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring…” (Genesis 38:9) The knowledge that man is created from semen was documented in the Bible hundreds of years before the prophet of Islam and the Quran. This is also a general observation by anyone. This Quranic verse statement on creation of man is incomplete and was known long before the Quran. It does not mention the role of the female egg and fertilization. It is the female egg which is within the female that is fertilized by a sperm within the sperm-drop (semen) which develops into a human being. Not the sperm itself. Without the female egg and fertilization, there can be no creation of man. Not every release of the sperm-drop (semen) will result in pregnancy or creation of man. This verse is simply a direct observation of what is released from a male in the human and animal species. The Quran mentions only humans, but the males in every species can and know that they need to release (impregnate) a fluid (semen) into a female to reproduce. Gender of child is based on quantity of discharge from male and female? Sahih Muslim, Book 3, Hadith 38: “I have come to ask you about the child. He (the Holy Prophet) said: The reproductive substance of man is white and that of woman (i. e. ovum central portion) yellow, and when they have sexual intercourse and the male’s substance (chromosomes and genes) prevails upon the female’s substance (chromosomes and genes), it is the male child that is created by Allah’s Decree, and when the substance of the female prevails upon the substance contributed by the male, a female child is formed by the Decree of Allah. The Jew said: What you have said is true; verily you are an Apostle. He then returned and went away. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: He asked me about such and such things of which I have had no knowledge till Allah gave me that.” More than a thousand years before the Quran, the Greek physician Hippocrates (370 BC – 460 BC) stated that the gender of the child will be based on the greater strength or quantity of fluid discharge from the male and female. The above is incorrect based on modern scientific knowledge. The prophet of Islam basically states the same thing as above. The gender of the child is not based on the strength or quantity of the male or female substance and the female substance that develops into a human being is an egg and only one egg is released at a time. So, it is incorrect to say the quantity or strength of female substance because it’s just one egg that is released every 28 days. The male sperm cells have either X or Y type chromosome. The female egg cells have only X type chromosome. If the sperm that fertilizes an egg is X type, then the child will be girl. If the sperm that fertilizes an egg is Y type, then the child will be a boy. So regardless of the strength or quantity of sperms. The gender of the child is purely based on which sperm cell (X or Y type) first fertilizes an egg. Milk in cows comes from between feces and blood in the belly? The Quran teaches a lesson on grazing livestock. It teaches that milk comes from between feces and blood in the belly of livestock like cows. “And indeed, for you in grazing livestock is a lesson. We give you drink from what is in their bellies – between excretion and blood – pure milk, palatable to drinkers.” (Quran 16:66) The people who live in the desert, would have a very poor fund of knowledge and thus they will base everything on their own limited perception. This teaching from the Quran shows that the compiler of the Quran had no biology knowledge. The milk comes from the mammary glands of livestock like cows and not from between feces and blood. There are no feces, nor blood within the belly. The feces are in the colon. Mountains are Pegs to stabilize the earth? Based on the Quran, the mountains are like tent pegs or stakes which stop the earth from shaking. “And the mountains as pegs?” (Quran 78.7) “He who created the earth in two days…” (Quran 41.9) “And He placed on the earth firmly set mountains over its surface…” (Quran 41.10) For those who live in the desert, the mountains will seem like pegs to hold the earth, because they have no knowledge. The purpose of the mountains is not to keep the earth stable as claimed by the Quran. So many people have been deceived by this and other false Quranic teachings. The mountains are part of the ecosystem which affect the weather and fresh water supply. Wind pushes air and clouds upwards when they hit mountain slopes. As the altitude increases, the air pressure decreases. Then, moisture in the clouds condenses and falls as rain. About 80 percent of the planets fresh water originates from the mountains. This very clearly explains the purpose of the mountains based on facts. The planet earth around 4.4 billion years ago, had no mountains for millions of years, but still it was stable just as it is today. The mountains are gradually formed over a period of millions of years, but still the planet is stable from day 1 of formation even though there are no mountains. Based on the Quran (14.9-10), the earth was created in 2 days with mountains over its surface. This is false based on science. The mountains did not exist until millions of years after the creation of earth. The moon planet is kept very stable even though it has no naturally formed mountains. All the mountains on the moon are created by impact from asteroids. So if you go back millions of years in the early days of the moon, there were no mountains, but still the moon was just as stable then as it is today. The Quranic theory of mountains keeping the planet stable is completely false. The Earth was first created and then the universe? Based on the Quran, the earth was first created and then the universe. “It is He who created for you all of that which is on the earth. Then He directed Himself to the heaven….” (Quran 2.29) General observation by an Arab living in the desert. The earth planet is within the universe and thus first the universe must be created and then the earth and other planets. The knowledge is the Quran was compiled from knowledge that was already existing before the Quran and the Prophet of Islam. The scientific knowledge in the Quran is incorrect based on modern scientific knowledge. There are many contradictions and mistakes in the Quran. The Quran is man concocted knowledge. Please don’t follow the blind and blindly accept anything without seeing the facts. World’s Christians believe that, science, scientific processes and scientific studies began just the moment Jesus the Nazarene Jew started walking on water. When a mortal human walks on the surface of water (i.e., liquid substances), that is called science according to followers of Jesus the Nazarene Jew! And, according to world’s faithful Muslims, when Allah’s (i.e., Jehovah’s) messenger Muhammad the Arabian prayed (i.e., Islamic or Arabic words “Namaz Istisqa”) to Allah (i.e., Jehovah), rain started falling on Arabian desert and that is the most significant proof of science since world’s faithful Muslims believe that both science and scientific studies began from the birth of Islam’s founder Muhammad the Arabian. Before Islam’s founder Muhammad, there was no science or scientific knowledge on earth, according to world’s faithful Muslims today. World’s faithful Muslims and world’s faithful Christians believe that, there was nothing wonderful, nothing scientific, and nothing praiseworthy on earth before the births of Muhammad the Arabian and Jesus the Nazarene Jew and, obviously, non-believers of Muhammad the Arabian as well as non-believers of Jesus the Nazarene Jew were (are) stupid, ignorant humans who did (do) not understand science. According to world’s faithful Muslims, science means the proper studies of Islam and, according to world’s faithful Christians, science means the studies of Christianism. According to world’s faithful Christians, science means mortal humans rise after 2 days (i.e., on the 3rd day or within 72 hours) while being dead for the past 2 days! Ali Muhammad Amir Abd’Allah Umar Salehi ibn Sina of FaithFreedom.Org website believes that, when he routinely hallucinates Jesus the Nazarene Jew, that is the ultimate scientific proof of science and Christianism inherently being the same thing. Tom Cheria says: Look at the success of Western Christian Civilization where 99% reject allahTheSATAN and where 90% try to live sinless like JESUS and celebrate Christmas. “Walking on water or arsing from dead is not what makes Christianity successful. It is the sinless nature of JESUS what makes Christianity successful. Wen enough people try to live sinless like JESUS great civilizations are born. SATAN(allah) worship is the worst form of worship. Idol worship is a million times better than allah(SATAN) worship. Idols don’t ask to kill Jews and Christians. allahTheSATAN ordered to kill Jews and Christians. SATAN tried 3 times to make Jesus bow to SATAN and failed but SATAN succeeded in making 1.5 billion people bow to SATAN five times a daily. Real God(Absolute Goodness) is not an egomaniac like allahTheSATAN – JESUS asked no one to worship him or bow to him. Even after 2000 years JESUS’s life is a perfect example how someone can live a sinless life and help create great civilizations. I’m so tired of WINNING. You are confusing things we don’t understand (the physics of black holes and what was happening at the origin of our universe) and something (a man rising from the dead) which contradicts everything we do understand. (Because if you didn’t notice dead people stay dead – as dying involves irreversible physical and chemical processes – a dead person cannot rise naturally any more than a shattered vase could spontaneously reassemble itself into its original state.) “Walking on water or arsing from dead is not what makes Christianity successful. It is the sinless nature of JESUS.” Without a mythical God-man there is no Christianity to believe in. “Black hole has a singularity inside it. A singularity is a point of infinite density and infinite curvature of space time. The singularity simply can’t be described by any physics as we know it. The second problem with black holes is the information paradox. If something falls into a black hole and is destroyed. The information about its state is lost. This is not permitted by physics as we know it. ” Walking on water or arsing from dead is not what makes Christianity successful. It is the sinless nature of JESUS. “Black Hole also breaks all the laws of science.. HAHA Can you tell me which laws of science does BLACK HOLE or BIG BANG obey??” What laws do a black hole break or the Big Bang? While a corpse coming back to life is as unscientific as a shattered vase being reassembled. “Walking on water or arsing from dead is not what makes Christianity successful.” There is no Christianity without a mythical God-man. Schizophrenic >> Steve << Schizophrenic Black Hole also breaks all the laws of science.. HAHA Can you tell me which laws of science does BLACK HOLE or BIG BANG obey?? Christianity = way of life where people try to live SINLESS like JESUS and it is NOT a way of life where people try to walk on water. Walking on water or arsing from dead is not what makes Christianity successful. When enough people try to live sinless like JESUS great civilizations are born. Look at the success of Western Christian Civilization where 98% reject allahTheSATAN and where 90% try to live sinless like JESUS. I'm so tired of WINNING. Schizophrenic > Steve < Schizophrenic Add this to the list.. Please refute.. Vedas & Killing Infidel https://truthabouthinduism.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/killing-infidels-in-vedas/ “It is true walking on water does not obey the “known” laws of science. What laws of SCIENCE does black hole obey?? NONE that we know. Just because black hole does not obey laws of science does not mean it does not exists. I’m so tired of WINNING.” Walking on water, rising from the dead and virgins getting pregnant breaks all the laws of science. If these happened it would mean not only is our scientific understanding incomplete but spectacularly wrong and would make all science BS. “Walking on water or arsing from dead is not what makes Christianity successful.” Without that bullshit there wouldn’t be any Christianity to believe in you moron. Schizophrenic > face_The_Truth < Schizophrenic Oh Boy!! You have a problem with comprehension. Only 90% in the Christian West 'TRY' to live sinless – 1% is allah(SATAN) worshipers and 6% are mostly HATERS. Again don't forget the word "TRY" in the definition of Christianity. TRY doesn't mean they will succeed and there is no 100% Christian and Christians believe there is only one 100% Christian that is JESUS himself. The following LINK shows how Christians in the West (i.e., North America and Europe) live a sinless lifestyle. After all, humans were sinners — according to Christianism — when homo-sexual Jesus the Nazarene Jew came on earth to wash away all sins of human sinners! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5678917/Playmate-Elke-Jeinsen-says-watched-Barbara-Moore-Trump-sex.html "When a mortal human walks on the surface of water (i.e., liquid substances), that is called science according to followers of Jesus the Nazarene Jew!" It is true walking on water does not obey the "known" laws of science. What laws of SCIENCE does black hole obey?? NONE that we know. Just because black hole does not obey laws of science does not mean it does not exists. I'm so tired of WINNING. World’s Christians believe that, science, scientific processes and scientific studies began just the moment Christian idol Jesus the Nazarene Jew started walking on water. World’s faithful Muslims and world’s faithful Christians believe that, there was nothing wonderful, nothing scientific on earth before the births of Muhammad the Arabian and Jesus the Nazarene Jew and, obviously, non-believers of Muhammad the Arabian as well as non-believers of Jesus the Nazarene Jew were (are) stupid, ignorant humans who did (do) not understand science. This FaithFreedom.Org website has now officially become a place where Christianism is promoted by every authors while Islam is demoted in every way possible. I understand Hindus might be upset that some Christians target Hindus for conversion which in-turn causes demographic change in India. But the same Hindus forget that Christian population in India has not been growing because Christians embrace family planning and the conversion that happens is minuscule compared to the huge population India has. Don’t believe the exaggerated numbers that evangelist organization would claim. I have heard evangelicals claiming 80K per year but I think that number is not correct but it would be much smaller if we were to believe official record keeping by India. Even if you buy the 80K per year conversion that evangelicals claim – compared that to Hindus immigrating to Christian West and bringing about much bigger demographics change in % terms is lopsided. Around 70K Hindus migrate to USA and Canada each. Totally around 250K Hindus migrate to Christian West every year and create a much bigger demographic change in Christian West because of lower base population than conversion of Hindus to Christians in India by any stretch of imagination. In addition to immigration Hindu organizations also convert people in Christian west (ISKON, Art of Living etc..) Christian West is tolerating a huge demographic change with respect to Hindu immigration – if that is the case Hindus can also tolerate a much smaller demographic change bringing about by conversion. I hesitated many weeks but Schizophrenic and Steve will start his HATE for Christians that is why I am forced to post this. Truthabouthinduism is setup by a Muslim. Naturally he will lie and deceive to promote his religion. How many terror attacks are carried out by Hindus in the name of Gita/Krishna/Vinshu in the world? This tells you the truth about the Hindu teachings. We all know how much the Muslims deceive others on the true teachings of the Quran. Learn about Hinduism from a learned Hindu and not any Muslim. if you want to learn the truth. We all know about Dr Naik, he is a master deceiver of Islamic teachings and he also deceives people on the Hindu teachings to deceive people into following Islam. One one matter both Christian Bible and Islamic al’Quran are pretty consistent and that is murdering non-believers and looting non-believers’ lands and properties and claiming daily that science and scientific thoughts originated from either Christian Bible or from Islamic al’Quran since according to world’s Christians and world’s Muslims non-believers have always been ignorant people who have not recognized the “Divine” truth revealed by either Jesus the Nazarene Jew or Muhammad the Arabian! One small correction. Humans have not been around for “millions of years” . The earliest “proto-humans” date from 2.8million years ago but recognisably modern humans have been around for no more than about 400,000 years( still a lot longer than the Koran says though).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20611
__label__cc	0.741492	0.258508	Panasonic new Blu-ray recorders are coming to the UK Posted on Apr 16 2009 - 9:22pm by Richard Sharp Gadget Offers New Food Gadget Will Transform Your Taste Buds The Amazon Echo Explored Does The Edge Offer a New Way of Working? The Roost Battery Connects Your Smoke Alarm to the Internet Panasonic are about to launch three Blu-ray disc recorders to the UK market in the summer. The reason for the change of heart by Panasonic, is that at last there is HD content available in the UK to make the market for a Blu-ray recorder viable. The advent of the Freesat HD broadcast service last year has now made it possible to record HD content without breaching any of Sky copyright protection. Freesat for the uninitiated is the new satellite digital television service from the BBC and ITV which provides over 140 channels and HD content without the need for a contract or subscription payments. Panasonic are now launching the three Freesat PVR models, Panasonic DMR-BS850, the Panasonic DMR-BS750 and the Panasonic DMR-XS350 all of which come with twin HD Freesat tuners, this allows for watching a programme from the hard disc whilst recording up to two additional HD programmes. Panasonic models DMR-BS850 and DMR-BS750 are able to record to Blu-ray whilst the Panasonic DMR-XS350 is able to record to standard definition DVD only. The quality of the playback is as if you were watching the broadcast original this is due to the recording of the programmes as pure bitstream to the hard drive which eliminates the need for any decoding. There are so many additional benefits to the new Panasonic recorder including the ability to record your music to the integrated hard disc including all the Gracenote track information. The DMR-BS850 and DMR-BS750 also have the ability to transfer HD camcorder footage to Blu-ray disc allowing for safekeeping but also for sharing with friends and family. Panasonic have also thoughtfully added an Ethernet connection, USB and SD ports. Cost for this latest technology sting a bit the DMR-BS850 is just shy of £1,000 with the BS750 being about £100 cheaper, it may be as well to wait awhile to see if the price goes down a little after the initial launch.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20614
__label__cc	0.529903	0.470097	Reinvented: Drawn to Art On View: June 19 – July 6, 2019 (Closed on July 4) Reception: Thursday, June 20, 6–8 PM Reinvented: Drawn to Art features the work of ten artists who pursued their passion for the arts after working in other fields. From careers in law, medicine, education, television, and politics, the artists showcased in this exhibition turned to art for life’s next chapter. The group formed through weekly art classes, spending years learning from talented teachers. The artists are able to rely on each other for critique and insight, supporting each other’s artistic evolution. The exhibition is organized through a collaboration between Gallery 263 and one of the featured artists—Henrietta Davis, the former Mayor of Cambridge. Recent work in drawing, painting, monotype, and multimedia are included in this show. The subject matter comprises self-portraits of each artist, as well as life drawing, still lifes, landscapes, and figurative abstraction. Featured artists and their respective former professions include: Sally Casper, started and led non-profit organizations; Henrietta Davis, formerly Mayor of Cambridge; Carol Daynard, formerly an assistant superintendent of a school; Sekyo Haines, poet and translator; Mary Harvey, founding director of the Victims of Violence program; Fran Hiller, former Cambridge teacher; Stephen Porter, child psychiatrist; Anne Pouch, web designer; Karen Tierney, had a career in television; and, Elizabeth Zeldin, former trial lawyer. Download the Press Release Gallery 263 to open ‘Reinvented: Drawn to Art’ exhibit June 19, Wicked Local Cambridge A Week of Events in Cambridge, Somerville, Cambridge Day	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20615
__label__wiki	0.597045	0.597045	Ember's Tale 86: Light in Dark Places Started by Guest_Cel_* , Nov 25 2007 02:28 PM #1 Guest_Cel_* Chapter 86: Light in Dark Places The fight with the bone golem left Minsc in a terrible state. The golem's scythes had ripped through his chainmail in several places, and copious amounts of blood seeped through the gashes as he lay unconscious on the rough stone floor, Boo squeaking plaintively beside him. Ember picked up the frightened hamster, placed him in her lap, and set to work healing Minsc. If only he still had his ankheg armour instead of this shoddy stuff, Ember thought in frustration as she inspected the damage; there were several deep gashes across his body, and broken links of chainmail were embedded in the edges of the wounds. As gently as she could, she pulled the metal free from Minsc's flesh, then said a litany of healing prayers over him. Soon, the bleeding stopped, and his face regained some colour. She said a final rejuvenating prayer, and the giant ranger woke up. "Boo! Where is Minsc's Boo?!" "Right here," Ember said, and handed over the hamster. With a happy cry, Minsc clasped Boo safely in his hands. "Do not be afraid, little one!" he cooed in Boo's ear. "Minsc is well now!" With a sigh of relief, Ember sat back on her haunches and wiped a trickle of blood from a small cut on her cheek. "Is everyone else all right?" she asked, looking around at the rest of the group. "I believe so, my lady," Anomen replied. "Some bruises and cuts remain, but all major injuries have been attended to." The cleric had finished healing Valygar's wound - the only reminder of it was a significant tear in the shoulder of his leather armour - and was tending to Mazzy's arm; evidently, it had been broken when the bone golem knocked her down. "At least it was not my sword arm," the halfling said, carefully flexing her freshly mended limb. "Thank you, squire." The cleric mumbled something practically inaudible in response. "Then, my friends," Yoshimo said with a broad smile, "I think it is time for us to move onwards. That golem must have been here for a reason, no?" Whatever that reason might be, it was not readily apparent as the group entered the chamber the bone golem had emerged from. It was a smallish chamber, about three times as wide as the corridor, and there was nothing in it other than the usual drifts of ancient dust, some scattered bones, and a simple sarcophagus with its lid halfway off. The lid of the sarcophagus bore what Ember recognized as the corroded remnants of a sun symbol, and one of the walls was made of some kind of smooth, sooted panels rather than of rough stone. "How exceedingly exciting," Edwin grumbled. The bones that lay scattered across the floor were small and delicate; the bones of a child. The skull had been cracked into three segments, and several of the larger bones looked as if something had gnawed upon them, but as far as Ember could tell, few of the bones were outright missing. "Can you feel it?" Mazzy asked quietly. "Feel what?" Yoshimo asked. "The wrongness of this place. It has seeped into the very rocks themselves." Valygar nodded, his face a stern mask. "It is ...not surprising. Dark, foul magic is drawn to such pits like flies." "I don't think it is dark magic," Mazzy said. "It is something else. Something is out of place." "Boo knows what is out of place! Bones should be in graves, not on floors!" The giant ranger bent down, carefully picked up a shin bone, and placed it in the sarcophagus. Anomen shrugged. "If nothing else, we may at least restore dignity to this tomb," he said, and started gathering up the frail, ancient rib bones. Edwin scoffed loudly at the foolish waste of time, but the rest of the group joined in. It was not long before they had the skeleton neatly laid out in its original resting place. Something seemed to whisper through the chamber, and a small, shimmering figure appeared beside the sarcophagus. "My bones have been retrieved," the figure said in the voice of a young girl. "I am most grateful to you, and I pray that you are in this place to strike a blow against the darkness that has engulfed it." "We... we are," Valygar said. "Who are you?" "I am Amauna," the ghost said. "I was born a prophetess to our lord Amaunator. I was the Child of Light who would fight against the darkness that was beginning to spill into these lands. Long ago, I gathered the last of the faithful, and brought them here. The temple was old, even then, and a shadow had taken up abode in it. We were to destroy the Shade Lord and reclaim the temple. We... we failed in our task." "What happened?" Ember asked. "We drove the Shade Lord from this place, but we did not destroy him. I was killed in the battle. My people entombed me here and set up wards to keep the darkness at bay, but as our Lord's power dwindled, the wards began to weaken. The priests left, or died, and I slept here alone. Then, one year ago, the Shade Lord returned, accompanied by vampires as well as his shadow minions. Together, they destroyed the wards and claimed the temple, and the Shade Lord threw my bones to his dark wolves, that they might defile my remains." "I have seen several of his minions, but no vampires," Mazzy said. "Where are they?" "Once the temple had fallen to darkness, they left. They can find no sustenance in a dead place, and cannot linger long." "There was a light outside that destroyed the shadows," Yoshimo said. "We were searching for its source when we found your remains." For a moment, the ghost brightened. "It still exists? It is good to hear that. The source lies beyond the glass doors," she said, looking towards the panels on the wall. "(Glass?)" Edwin ran a finger over one of the panels, rubbing off a thick layer of soot and grime. A piercing ray of light shot through the freshly exposed glass. "The Altar of the Eternal Sun is behind those doors," Amauna said. "It was once the inner heart of the temple. Daylight reigns eternal in that room, harnessed in a sun gem. No undead creature can tolerate its presence; the Shade Lord could not access my remains until he had sent living creatures, dominated by his will, to darken the glass panels. He fears it even now, and none of his creatures, save the bone golem, would come here." "This sun gem... it can be used as a weapon against the Shade Lord, then?" Valygar asked. "No. The gem will fade if it is removed from the altar." "I see," Valygar said quietly. His shoulders seemed to slump, just a little. "It matters not. I have another plan for the Shade Lord, but... his dragon stands in the way." "I was not strong enough to defeat the Shade Lord, even when I was among the living, but I do have some power," Amauna said. "I have power enough to elude the attention of his guardians, if necessary, and I can give this to you." She spoke a few words over the sun symbol on her sarcophagus, and with a flash of bright light, it broke off and fell to the dusty floor. "Take it. It is now a wardstone... carry it, stay close together, and move quietly. The Shade Lord's creatures will not notice your passing unless you draw attention to yourselves." "Thank you for your assistance," Valygar said, and picked up the wardstone. "We will do our utmost to free your temple from this fiend." "We are truly blessed to have an ally such as yourself, Lady Amauna," Anomen said, "but if you do not object to my inquisitiveness... why does your spirit still linger here?" "My duty was to destroy the Shade Lord. I have not yet fulfilled it," the ghost said quietly, then looked at the cleric; there was a strange weariness in her expression. "As long as he still exists, I will remain here." After leaving Amauna's tomb, Mazzy led the party down the path that she and her companions had followed before, through darkened tunnels and dusty chambers. Amauna's wardstone proved true; they passed by numerous shadows, wraiths and skeletons without ever being noticed. Even though their footsteps seemed to go unheard, nobody spoke, just in case the undead would hear them after all. Soon, Mazzy directed them all into an empty chamber with only one doorway, and called for a halt. "We are not far from the dragon's lair," she said. "We should rest for a while here, and gather our strength. I also think it is time for our leader to tell us what our plans are; I would not go blindly into this battle." "You are right," Valygar said. "It is time." He sat heavily down on the floor, his back resting against the solid rock wall. "Most of you know of my ancestor, the necromancer Lavok, and that I recently vanquished him. Most of you do not know that he had let himself become possessed by a demon. It needed flesh to stay on this plane, and repaid him with longevity. My companions and I knew nothing of this creature until we had beaten down Lavok. The demon left him on the brink of death... and possessed me. I was only saved by the quick actions of the knights that were fighting by my side. They set upon me. The demon had been weakened - whether from the battle or from possessing my body, I do not know - and the knights were able to drive it out of me without killing me. Before it could attempt to claim another body, they destroyed it." "And you suspect the Shade Lord will do the same thing," Edwin said, studiously examining his fingernails. "Yes. It is likely that he will attempt to possess one of us. We- do not interrupt me, wizard! We must be prepared to fight him in more than one host. If such a thing comes to pass... I intend for that host to be me." "No, Mazzy. I will not suffer any of you to endure such a thing in my stead. Come, let us sit down. I will explain further while we rest." The shadow dragon's lair was shaped very much like a crater; it was almost as if some wizard, mad with power, had used his strongest spells to scoop out a circular pit right in the middle of the temple ruins. The dragon itself lay in the center of the pit, lazily coiled up around a small pile of bones that somehow was visible even through the bulk of the dragon's body, and the all too familiar sea of dark fog billowed above it. Mazzy raised a finger to her lips in warning, and the group started a slow, careful climb down into the pit, taking care to stay close to each other and to the protection of the wardstone even as they traversed the sloping sides of the pit, using every slight protrusion of rock as a foothold. Some of the rocks were looser than they appeared, and many slipped loose, creating minuscule landslides that made everyone hold their breath, but the dragon seemed to be used to such things; its only reaction was to lift its head just enough to glance at them with large, empty eyes. Seeing nothing out of the ordinary, it settled down again almost immediately. Their descent stopped a hundred feet from the dragon, where the surface of the pit was level enough to walk without fear of anyone losing their balance, and they moved slowly in a semicircle around the dragon towards the opposite side of the lair. There was an opening high up on that side of the pit; when the dragon had destroyed Mazzy's friends, the Shade Lord had entered the lair there. A second grueling climb, up instead of down, and the group found themselves in a short corridor, its walls still showing traces of elaborate carvings. Amauna's wardstone had held. At the end of the corridor, a flight of worn stone steps led up to a walled courtyard, crisscrossed by a lattice of ancient paths. Something that looked like a seated statue, even darker than its surroundings, stood in the very middle of the courtyard, and a figure wreathed in shadow stood beside it. As the group entered the courtyard, it turned to look at them. "My knight miniature has escaped, and returned with more souls to feed upon," the figure said in a voice that sounded like ashes. "Welcome, all." The figure pointed at them, and Amauna's wardstone crumbled to dust in Valygar's hands. #2 Guest_AlphaMonkey_* Guest_AlphaMonkey_* Boo squeaking plaintively beside him. Ember picked up the frightened hamster, placed him in her lap, and set to work healing Minsc. Poor, little critter. If only he still had his ankheg armour instead of this shoddy stuff, Ember thought in frustration as she inspected the damage Raven: "You know, they say that it's a warrior's mind that wins battles, not their equipment. That may be true at its most basic, but the gear HELPS." Harlequin: (Checks the power levels on her laser carbine) "You said it." and was tending to Mazzy's arm; evidently, it had been broken when the bone golem knocked her down. Ouch. Gotta be careful. We don't have any replacement bones in her size. I also think it is time for our leader to tell us what our plans are; I would not go blindly into this battle. Raven: "Plans are good. Just remember, though, that no battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy. Hope you guys can think on your feet." its only reaction was to lift its head just enough to glance at them with large, empty eyes. Seeing nothing out of the ordinairy, it settled down again almost immediately. This is why I'm so bad at games that require you to be sneaky. I'm always worried if someone saw or heard me. As Han Solo would say "I'd prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around." Well, that's a problem. My Boo may not be a supernatural one, but his bond with Minsc is far from one sided. Back when I played everquest, there was a weapon that was so overpowered they removed it from the game. It was a moss-covered twig Well, who knows what that dragon o' mine is hoarding? I Have Plans. (Of course, mine might not work either...) I could never play a thief. That's all I'll say about the matter. What, for getting back out, you mean? #4 Guest_Ananke_* Guest_Ananke_* Soon, the bleeding stopped, and his face regained some colour. She said a final rejuvenating prayer, and the giant ranger woke up. Aww. That hurt. Ember feels like a very qualified doctor healer, though, from the way she thinks this description. It almost begs me to ask, 'when did she grow up?' (About what level is she now? Tenth/eleventh/twelfth, I guess?) Oh. I wonder how long it'll be until, 'Don't you dare call me a squire, because, let me assure you, you are not a paladin! In the Order-!' and/or 'Isn't it the time to eat something, halfling?' 'smallish' again! You must like this word. I think that it would be nice to remind the reader here that they are seeing this all in a (weak? strong?) spotlight... knowing this changes the look of the scene completely. Great description, though. Aww... Spooky. ...and there is even a ghost! ...vampires? You Have Plans, I get it already. "Thank you for your assistance," Valygar said, and picked up the wardstone. "We will do our utmost to free your temple and from this fiend." The 'and' is superfluous. "No, Mazzy. I will not suffer any of you to endure such a thing in my stead. Now, let us go." Whoa. That was... quick. Perhaps because no one of Ember's party had anything to say. I scratch the previous comment about a great description. This was a great description. It felt... well, it felt like a shell-pit or a bomb crater to me. In a post-nuclear world, where the fallout cuts off the sun. Oh, dear. Are we up for a dragon fight, or will the dragon disappear together with the rest of the nightmare as the new day dawns? If we're up for a dragon fight... cool! Great chapter of moving in a complete nightmare... Thank you. #5 Guest_Phoenix_* Guest_Phoenix_* Ember picked up the frightened hamster, placed him in her lap, and set to work healing Minsc. Yes, that would be the druid thing to do and poor little Boo. He's a good animal companion, he has Ranger Empathy. You silly optimist! I usually like Yoshimo, but I'm still unsure what I should do with him... "Boo knows what is out of place! Bones should be in graves, not on floors!" I see," Valygar said quietly. His shoulders seemed to slump, just a little. "It matters not. I have another plan for the Shade Lord, but... his dragon stands in the way." That can be a bit of a problem, yes. She spoke a few words over the sun symbol on her sarcophagus, and with a flash of bright light, it broke off and fell to the dusty floor. "Take it. It is now a wardstone... carry it, stay close together, and move quietly. So it comes from her grave? That's original, and highly creepy. Yes. It is likely that he will attempt to possess one of us. We- do not interrupt me, wizard! We must be prepared to fight him in more than one host. If things go as I intend, that host will be me." Excuse me? That sounds like a really dumb plan How... scenic. A definite Oh Crap moment... and a nasty cliffhanger. Well done. Heh. She's been doing the healing thing for quite some time (until Anomen showed up, she was the only healer in the group), and it is the druidic discipline she focuses the most upon. Something like that; I don't quite remember. I'm working on it Oh, do I use it a lot? I'm like the game itself; I tend not to think overly much about what might actually be there to light up the scenery. This place stood out as a good spot for Mazzy to notice something. Oh yes. But only one, not three. I'm actually quite proud of this particular Plan, as it adds some logic to a Very Coincidental Thing Thanks for the heads up. They tend to happen when I shuffle things around... ...and the shuffling was done to emphasize that line Valygar is in I Am Boss mode. And Edwin did try to speak up, but didn't get a word out before Valygar stopped him. That's exactly what I was going for We're up for... something I wasn't too pleased with it myself, so I'm very glad you enjoyed it! I don't think he could handle going through battles with Minsc if he didn't I suspect that's a common problem (and one that I share). Well, he's right, isn't he? He was hoping he could just use the light source to mow down the undead. Nope, not going to be that easy I couldn't think of anything else she could use to make one (and if she'd already had one around, they wouldn't have found her bones, would they?) and I didn't want her to just ward the party, as then there'd be no wardstone for the Shade Lord to break. He's being all noble and stuff and doesn't want his hired help to do something that he's already endured and survived. (It's not that he WANTS to do it, it's that he expects it.) I wanted it to look like it once was beautiful. #8 Guest_Theodur_* Guest_Theodur_* The fight with the bone golem left Minsc in a terrible state. The golem's scythes had ripped through his chainmail in several places, and copious amounts of blood seeped through the gashes as he lay unconscious on the rough stone floor, Boo squeaking plaintively beside him. Ember picked up the frightened hamster, placed him in her lap, and set to work healing Minsc. Poor Boo, but Minsc has that fate of the tank, always getting beat up. Wonder if these two will hate each other as much as in the game. Theo: You’d think they would be more in a hurry to be done with this place, it’s not like the skeleton’s feelings will be upset if you leave the bones where they are. Theo: … scowls Pbbt, that was just pure luck. Not enough traffic in the ways of adventurers, too. D’oh. Well… carry it with the altar? Paladin. Dragon. Paladin see Dragon. Charge! "Yes. It is likely that he will attempt to possess one of us. We- do not interrupt me, wizard! We must be prepared to fight him in more than one host. If things go as I intend, that host will be me." Aww, pick Mazzy! This fight was kind of a letdown in the game… hope you make it a bit more dramatic. #9 Guest_Futurist_* Guest_Futurist_* Heh... that is cute. I thought healing spells fixed that? Love the use of their "dugeon talk" He lives in a magcial world and scoffs at the thought that doing something nice for a dead person might yeild som good effect. That is Edwin for ya... Useful gadet. Wish I had it there. The shadow dragon's lair was shaped very much like a crater; it was almost as if some wizard, mad with power, had used his strongest spells to scoop out a circular pit right in the middle of the temple ruins. The dragon itself lay in the center of the pit, lazily coiled up around a small pile of bones that somehow was visible even through the bulk of the dragon's body, and the all too familiar sea of dark fog billowed above it. Mazzy raised a finger to her lips in warning, and the group started a slow, careful climb down into the pit, taking care to stay close to each other and to the protection of the wardstone even as they traversed the sloping sides of the pit, using every slight protrusion of rock as a foothold. Some of the rocks were looser than they appeared, and many slipped loose, creating minuscule landslides that made everyone hold their breath, but the dragon seemed to be used to such things; its only reaction was to lift its head just enough to glance at them with large, empty eyes. Seeing nothing out of the ordinairy, it settled down again almost immediately. That is a fight to aviod... I hated the forced Dragon fights in TOB... Oh ya... The dragon won`t be too happy now I guess... #10 Laufey Transcendant Aw. Poor Minsc. That golem is really, really nasty. No Yoshi, it's a random encounter. Don't expect them to make sense. Okaaaay...that doesn't sound like a very good plan to me. If I were there, I think I'd like him to explain his reasoning some more. There you go, just nuke him, and try to make Val forget about this 'being possessed' thing. Rogues do it from behind. #11 Guest_Cel_* Hamsters do not understand such things. Level of dislike (mostly from Anomen's side of things) will increase the longer Mazzy stays in the group, I suspect. Theo and my Edwin should get along splendidly in many, many ways. Hmm, how many vampire lairs do you think are sustained by adventurers seeking to destroy them? Altar's just a mite too heavy. Mazzy's actually all for that idea, you know. Oh, I intend to try! He can't always be treated as if he's just some kind of growth on Minsc's body It did, but I am treating this as if her arm will be slightly weaker for a while, while the bone fully sets and recovers from the shock of being broken and then restored. Absolutely. And another difference between him and the rest: the others aren't looking to gain something from it. Some are doing it because It's A Good Thing To Do, and the others help because It's Something To Do And It's Not Bad And The Rest Want To Do It. You should have had it. I just beefed it up a little I hated Draconis above all. The dragon can't see them at the moment. Especially if it decides to show up while you're fighting the two spectres and skeleton warriors near the lava chamber. He doesn't want to deliberately get possessed, he just doesn't want the others to risk being possessed instead of him, since he brought them there and is doomed to never escape magic and all that. I edited it a bit in the hopes of clearing things up. Valygar: sullen silence #14 Guest_VigaHrolf_* Guest_VigaHrolf_* It's no good when you're still in Inferior Gear. Need to get him some Dragon Scale or some nice magical plate. As to the chainmail damage... There's a general belief that the broken links getting into the skin actually increased the chance of a fatal wound. And I imagine it also jumped the chances for tetnus and such things. Good thing there are divine powers, no? And the Dynamic Duo of Destruction are reunited! Doctor Anomen, Paging Doctor Anomen! Aleria: "Golems often are. Blasted things. And bone golems are a truly disturbing thing." Ahh... the burial chamber of the prophetess. Yick. Very nice job with that description And the Divine Senses kicking in. snickers I LOVE that line. Just love it. Great use of it by the way. And Minsc with the realization. Something a Helmite should feel quite good about. The pause there does a great job at illustrating that surprise that would come from the appearance of a young girl ghost like that. Interesting... the addition of vampires.... I wonder what you have in mind. But I like the new touches, the greater depth. Nope. Need fresh blood. Boom! Another nice touch making the source of the light more concrete. A better idea than having to use the Sun gem to bash down the barriers. Once again, a definite improvement. Don't poke the dragon and it won't eat you. And that dragon can be a real pain in the tuckus if you're low enough level. Especially without a mage or two to blast down it's protections. It really sounds like Amaunator is a bit of a hard case. Especially with the Fallen Temple in the Unseeing Eye quest... he makes Helm seem cuddly. Sneak. Sneak. Sneak. Bran: "Well, that's a plan." Aleria: "A noble plan." Bran: "But not what I'd call a good one." Aleria: "It likely could succeed." Bran: "Yeah, but kill him in the process." Aleria: "Sometimes..." Bran: "Sacrifice is the last resort of those who don't plan properly." Did I mention I really dislike that dragon? He punked my low level party a couple of times. Now why did I fight him? BECAUSE HE WAS THERE. Also, I think you misspelled ordinary. Shade Lord time... He's such a nice guy. So friendly. Oopsies. Gonna have to fight that dragon after all. And great chapter Cel! Oh yes, he really does need something like that, doesn't he? Minsc destroys, and Boo offers moral support! Anomen: Whatisitnow?! Slightly altered from the game. It struck me as the kind of thing a paladin-in-all-but-name would notice. It should be fairly clear that my Valygar won't let go of his opinions about magic anytime soon Minsc will often notice a simple thing. And every now and then, it's the Right Thing to Notice. Oh, yes. And had he been a better Helmite than he is, he wouldn't even have shrugged before starting. Thanks. (I wrote it without the pause originally, and the effect was that of a Valygar who sees little ghosts every day and treats them as nothing unusual whatsoever It's amazing how much an ellipsis and a repeated word can change a phrase at times!) The vampire thing should be extremely obvious in hindsight, once I get around to it, which won't be for a while yet. It's actually quite concrete in game, too. It comes from the pillar with the first sunstone, and if you set foot outside after removing the stone, the light will be gone. Reasoning: If there are so many barriers there, how on earth did Mazzy's party manage to reach the dragon? True, the Shade Lord might have restored the barriers, but I doubt he'd replace the sun gems. So, I removed the whole locked dungeon system Oh god yes. (Current strategy for getting it out of the way: Traps + several magic missiles = extremely cheesy) And then you go to the Big Bad Boss himself, who is a walk in the park by comparison. Amaunator is nothing if not rigid. What is this word 'sneak' that you speak of? Valygar in a nutshell, in this instant Isn't that why everyone fights him? So I did. Thanks Back to Cel	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20616
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__label__cc	0.511801	0.488199	You are here: Home Who we are Current staff Permanent staff Julio Pérez Telephone: +31 15 27 81482 Address: Department of Biotechnology - Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67 2628 - Delft (The Netherlands) Research ID: www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1468-2009 Position: Guest Professor / Researcher (Marie Curie fellow) at Technological University of Delft (The Netherlands) Other: Associate professor at Univ Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) My background is chemical engineering and (environmental) biotechnology. I initially developed my research career on nitrification in biofilm reactors for life support systems for long-term manned missions in space, a research project of the European Space Agency. After completion of the Ph.D. (June 2001), I spent a postdoctoral period in TU Delft which served for readdressing my research field, towards the use of nitrification in the wastewater treatment field. I obtained a permanent position in Univ Autonoma de Barcelona in 2006, and since then I have been active in research and teaching. I have been involved in different national and international research projects as participant as well as principal investigator. In November 2013 I received a Marie Curie fellowship GreenN2, to investigate greener biological nitrogen removal: minimization of N2O emissions and optimization of the integration issues of the nitritation / Anammox process for main stream wastewater treatment with Mark van Loosdrecht (TU Delft, The Netherlands). Major scientific and technological achievements: I developed a procedure for the use of anammox for sewage treatment based on two steps nitrogen removal (DOSIS-cold ANFIBIO), see patents. I developed an automatic control strategy to achieve and maintain full nitritation in biofilm reactors (ANFIBIO) (Bartrolí et al., 2010). The highlights of the technology are mainly three: (i) the high treatment capacity achieved, up to 6 kg N m-3 d-1 yielding low space footprint installations; (ii) the technology is applicable at relatively low temperature (20ºC); (iii) the strategy did not require of low dissolved oxygen concentrations (demonstrated as applicable even at 7 mgO2 L-1). This last aspect is of unique relevance, since the N2O emissions have been detected associated to this type of processes when low dissolved oxygen is maintained in the reactors. Consequently, the technology might be applied minimizing the emissions of these greenhouse gases. The invention was first validated in the laboratory at pilot scale. I received funding as responsible researcher of a technology transfer project. The project aimed to gain the definitive proof of concept of the ANFIBIO technology. The operation of the prototype installed in a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in NE Spain (June 2012) demonstrated the possibility of switching from initial SBR operation for granulation of the sludge to continuous model of operation (Tora et al., 2013). The efficiency of the installation was tested for two different targets: (i) low ammonium concentration in the effluent, when the application of heterotrophic denitrification is required (e.g. industrial effluents with high ammonium concentration with doubtable use of anaerobic ammonium oxidation): (ii) oxidation of the 50% of the inflow ammonium concentration for a later anaerobic ammonium oxidation –Anammox- process. Both targets yielded satisfactory results. Additionally, during the operation of the reactor, a close collaboration with another researcher, Maite Pijuan (formerly at University of Queensland, Australia, now at the Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain) was established for the measurement of N2O emissions in the prototype. The results demonstrated very low N2O emissions when the reactor was operated in continuous mode at relatively high dissolved oxygen concentrations (Pijuan et al., 2014). I found an explanation for the division on labour in nitrification, based on the kinetic theory of optimal design of the metabolic pathways (Costa et al., 2006). The idea of this study was born after a short period spent as invited researcher in the University of Bonn (Germany, February 2003). Dr. Jan-Ulrich Kreft was lecturer in that university (now settled in the University of Birmingham, UK). Later, I obtained funding in a competitive program to support emergent research projects led by young researchers. With this funding, I could start the research project between both European universities and additionally enrolled a young graduate researcher (Engràcia Costa, chemical engineer, Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Spain). The funding covered mainly the mobility of the three researchers between Germany and Spain for the research progress meetings. The in depth study enabled the postulation of a new microorganism species (named “Comammox” (COMplete AMMonium OXidation). This research was very useful for the subsequent development of the control strategies to achieve full nitritation in biofilm reactors (Pérez et al., 2009), which were the key for developing the ANFIBIO technology just presented in the previous achievements. Keywords describing research interests: wastewater treatment, biofilms, mathematical modeling, N-removal, bioreactors, automatic control. TOP TEN PUBLICATIONS Pérez J, Lotti T, Kleerebezem R, Picioreanu C, van Loosdrecht MCM. 2014. Outcompeting nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in single-stage nitrogen removal in sewage treatment plants: a model-based study. Water Research, 66:208-218. Pijuan M, Torà JA, Rodríguez-Caballero A, César E, Carrera J, Pérez J. 2014. Effect of process parameters and operational mode on nitrous oxide emissions from a nitritation reactor treating reject wastewater. Water Research 49:23-33. Torà JA, Moliné E, Carrera J, Pérez J. 2013. Efficient and automated start-up of a pilot reactor for nitritation of reject water: From batch granulation to high rate continuous operation. Chemical Engineering Journal 226: 319-325. Jemaat Z, Bartrolí A, Isanta E, Carrera J, Pérez J, 2013. Closed-loop control of ammonium concentration in nitritation: Convenient for reactor operation but also for modeling. Bioresource Technology, 128:655-663. Bartrolí A, Carrera J, Pérez J. 2011. Bioaugmentation as a tool for improving the start-up and stability of a pilot-scale partial nitrification biofilm airlift reactor. Bioresour. Technol. 102, 4370-5. Bartrolí A, Pérez J, Carrera J. 2010. Applying ratio control in a continuous granular reactor to achieve full nitritation under stable operating conditions. Environ. Sci. Technol., 44, 8930-5. Pérez J, Costa E, Kreft JU. 2009. Conditions for Partial Nitrification in Biofilm Reactors and a Kinetic Explanation. Biotechnol. Bioeng., 103, 282-95. Costa E, Pérez J, Kreft JU. 2006. Why is metabolic labour divided in nitrification? Trends Microbiol., 14, 213-19. Pérez J, Picioreanu C, van Loosdrecht MCM. 2005. Modeling biofilm and floc diffusion processes based on analytical solution of reaction-diffusion equations. Water Res., 39, 1311-23. Gòdia F, Albiol J, Montesinos JL, Pérez J, Creus N, Cabello F, Mengual X, Montràs A, Lasseur Ch. 2002. MELISSA: a loop of interconnected bioreactors to develop life support in space. J. Biotechnol., 99, 319-30. Inventors: Isanta E, Carrera J, Pérez J A method and a system for wastewater nitrogen removal. Patent Application UK No.: 1317957.7. Patent Assignee: Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain). Date of registration 10 October 2013. Inventors: Isanta E, Carrera J, Pérez J, Campos JL, Mosquera A, Val del Rio A. A method and a system for enhancing Nitrogen removal in a granular sequencing batch reactor (GSBR) and a computer program product. Patent Application UK No.: 1313194.1. Patent Assignee: Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) & Univ Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Date of registration 24 July 2013. Inventors: Baeza JA, Bartrolí A, Carrera J, Lafuente J, Pérez J. Nitrification of wastewater using biofilm reactor, uses closed control loop to regulate flow of wastewater entering reactor as function of ammonia concentration at reactor exit. Patent No.: ES2334321. Patent Assignee: Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain). Licensed to: AERIS Tecnologías Ambientales SL (since 1 January 2012). Thesis: http://tdx.cat/handle/10803/5294	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20619
__label__wiki	0.962917	0.962917	Municipality to Impose Volume Restrictions on Azan Israeli municipal authorities in Jerusalem are planning to require mosques to lower the volume of the Muslim call to prayer, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem said in a statement, Sunday. "Mosques in Palestine, in general, and in Jerusalem in particular, have been targets of a vicious campaign by the occupation authorities," Muhammad Hussein said in the statement. The mufti condemned the plans, saying that Muslim authorities were the only ones who had the right to intervene in mosque affairs. "The occupation authorities make light of all heavenly laws and international law, as they follow a systematic plan designed to efface all Arab and Palestinian landmarks in Palestine and replace them with Jewish landmarks." Palestinian officials frequently condemn what they refer to as the "Judaization of Jerusalem" on the part of Israeli authorities, saying that they engage in discriminatory policies which discriminate against Palestinian residents, seeking to encourage their departure from the city. East Jerusalem has been occupied by Israel since 1967. Settlers uproot 180 sapling near Qalqiliya Israeli settlers on Sunday uprooted over 180 olive saplings in the Kafr Qaddum village east of Qalqiliya, a Palestinian official said. Ghassan Daghlas told Ma’an that a number of settlers from Kedumim uprooted the olive saplings in the Khalet al-Natesh area in the northeast of the village. They belonged to villager Nathmi Obeid. Palestinian run over and killed by Israeli settler Saleh Mlihat,70, was killed on Sunday after being run over by an Israeli colonial settler near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mosa Mlihat said that his father was run over during crossing the main street and transferred to hospital immediately. However, Saleh died before reaching hospital. Local sources said that a settler, driving too fast, ran over Saleh Mlihat throwing him to 80 meters away. Jewish groups tour Al-Aqsa Mosque compound Groups of Israeli Jews entered the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday morning through the Moroccan Gate escorted by a large contingent of Israeli police officers. Witnesses told Ma'an that more than 40 settlers entered the compound in groups, and that a large group was led by the controversial rightist lawyer Yehuda Glick. Worshipers shouted "God is Great" in Arabic while the groups toured the compound and heated arguments were reported. Yehuda Glick is an American-born Israeli who has been banned in the past by Israeli authorities from entering the compound due to provocations while on the site. He is the chairman of the controversial Temple Mount Heritage Fund. Critics charge that the Temple Mount Heritage Fund leads Jewish tours to the site with the intention of leading Jewish prayer there -- currently banned under Israeli agreements -- and encouraging Jews to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque and build a Jewish temple there. Because of the sensitive nature of the Al-Aqsa compound, Israel maintains a compromise with the Islamic trust that controls it to not allow non-Muslim prayers in the area. Israeli forces regularly escort Jewish visitors to the site, leading to tension with Palestinian worshipers. The compound, which sits just above the Western Wall plaza, houses both the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque and is the third holiest site in Islam. It is also venerated as Judaism's most holy place as it sits where Jews believe the First and Second Temples once stood. The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. Al-Aqsa is located in East Jerusalem, a part of the internationally recognized Palestinian territories that have been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967. Settlers attack Palestinian shepherds east of Bethlehem Israeli settlers on Saturday assaulted two Palestinian shepherds while they were grazing their sheep in the village of Tuqu east of Bethlehem, relatives said. Arif Ayish Ubayyat, 23, and Ayyub Hasan Ubayyat were pasturing their sheep in the Romman area east of Tuqu when a group of settlers attacked them. Arif sustained bruises and he lost 17 his sheep during the attack. He was subsequently taken to a local clinic in Tuqu for treatment. His relatives say they telephoned the Palestinian liaison department, who in turn contacted their Israeli counterparts in order to try and find the missing sheep. Relatives highlighted that the area is private Palestinian land, but it slated for confiscation by Israeli authorities. Tuqu is surrounded by roads under Israeli control on all sides. On its east side is the Israeli settlement of Teqoa, and the road to the west is a major artery connecting Bethlehem to the southern West Bank. More than 500,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law. The internationally recognized Palestinian territories of which the West Bank and East Jerusalem form a part have been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967. Israeli forces bar Palestinians from farming on their Hebron lands Israeli forces on Saturday prevented Palestinian farmers in the Hebron district from accessing their privately owned land, local popular committee spokespeople said. Nidal al-Haddar, a spokesman for the popular committee in the southern Hebron district, told Ma'an that Palestinian farmers were sent home at gunpoint when they attempted to reach their lands in the Umm al-Arayis east of Yatta. International solidarity activists, including Israelis, were also sent away from the land, al-Haddar said. Land owner Issa Jabarin told Ma'an that settlers from the illegal Mitzpe Yair outpost had occupied his land in the area since 2000. Israeli courts ordered the evacuation of settlers, "but Israeli authorities have not implemented the orders," Jabarin said. Separately, in Beit Ummar north of Hebron, Israeli forces sent home a farmer and his family as they were tending to their lands, a local popular committee spokesman said. Muhammad Ayyad Awad told Ma'an that Muhammad Abd al-Hamid Jabir Sleibi and his family were working on their land when Israeli troops arrived and threatened to detain them if they refused to leave the area. International solidarity activists were sent away as well, Awad said. Sleibi told Ma'an that he has an Israeli court order allowing him to tend to his land. A spokeswoman for the Israeli army said she was unfamiliar with the incidents. Israeli trailers removed from Palestinian property near Bethlehem Four Israeli trailers were removed from a Palestinian man's privately owned land in a Bethlehem-area village on Thursday, a popular committee spokesman said. Ahmad Salah, a spokesman for a local popular committee, told Ma'an that Muhammad Abdullah Sbeih had received an Israeli court ruling that the trailers -- planted by an Israeli man who runs a nearby settler outpost -- must be removed from his land in the village of al-Khadr. The trailers were installed by settlers four years ago in Sbeih's field in the Ein al-Qassis area, Salah said. Sbeih had received an earlier ruling from an Israeli court that the trailers must be removed, but the settlers had refused to implement the decision, Salah said. When Sbeih complained again, the settlers were forced to remove the trailers after they failed to submit any deeds to prove ownership. However, settlers merely moved the trailers to another privately owned field in al-Khadr, belonging to Khadr Ali Abu Ghalyoun, Salah added. He said the trailers were installed by the Jewish extremist Hananel Shear-Yashuv -- known as Hananiya -- who runs the illegal settler outpost of Sde Boaz, which sits on eight dunams (two acres) of Palestinian land nearby. The Israeli news site Haaretz reported in March 2013 that Israel had issued demolition orders for the trailers, quoting a state attorney as saying the four trailers were to be demolished "within a short time-range." The international community regards all settlements built on occupied Palestinian land to be illegal, while the Israel government distinguishes between the more than 100 state-sponsored settlements and dozens of unauthorized outposts. Settler files lawsuit against Palestinian to remove traditional oven An Israeli settler has filed a lawsuit against a local Palestinian Bedouin in an attempt to remove his traditional oven in a village south of Hebron, the defendant told Ma'an. The oven's owner, Salim al-Hathaleen, said that the oven is on his land and he refuses to remove it because it provides bread to his family of 40 people, as well as others in the village of Um al-Kher east of Yatta. The lawsuit comes after months of harassment by the settler, including raids accompanied by Israeli forces, targeting the traditional "tabun" oven. The settler, who is a resident of the nearby Israeli settlement of Karmel, said in the lawsuit that he and his family suffer a result of the smoke emitted from the oven. He has reportedly requested a compensation of 250,000 shekels ($72,000), al-Hathaleen told Ma'an. He said that settlers harass them daily in order to force them off of their land, while Israeli forces carry out frequent demolitions of Palestinian structures in the area. Al-Hathaleen called on the PA and international organizations to follow up on the case and support his struggle. In January, the settlers raided the camp accompanied by Israeli forces and attempted to demolish the oven. During the raid, they physically assaulted al-Hathaleen, his sister, and an elderly resident. Around 3,000 Israeli settlers live in Jewish-only settlements in the Yatta region, according to the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem, and they regularly attack local Palestinians with impunity. The safety of these settlers is often given as an excuse for forced displacement of Palestinians who live in villages in the area. Palestinians protest across Jerusalem, 4 detained Israeli forces detained four Palestinians in Jerusalem on Friday as clashes broke out throughout the city following the imposition of new restrictions on Palestinian worshipers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound. Two people were beaten and detained by undercover Israeli forces in the Ras al-Amoud neighborhood, while a man described as an "Israeli settler" opened fire at Palestinians from his car. The man reportedly fled the scene without being apprehended by Israeli security forces nearby. Israelis from Jewish settlements on the Mount of Olives near Ras al-Amoud threw stones at Palestinians and their cars as they passed on Friday as well. Near the Old City's Damascus Gate, meanwhile, Israeli forces detained a Palestinian identified as Mohammad al-Rashq after they dispersed local youths and inspected their IDs. In the area between Cotton Merchant's Gate and the Council Gate of the Al-Aqsa compound Israeli forces scuffled with youths, beating them with batons and spraying pepper spray. They detained one youth during the clashes. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that three had been arrested in Ras al-Amoud after "rioted" after noon prayers. He added that two "petrol bombs" were also thrown at Israeli police units near Issawiya, but could not confirm any other incidents. Settlers attack, injure 2 Palestinians near Nablus A group of 20 settlers attacked two Palestinians in the Nablus village of Huwwara on Friday, locals said. Settlers hit Ahmad Awda, 35, and Fuad Daoud Awda, 55, with an iron rod, causing severe bruising. Fuad's leg was broken during the attack and both men were taken for treatment in a Nablus hospital. In 2013, there were 399 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Over 90 percent of investigations into settler violence by Israeli police do not lead to an indictment. Settlers burn entrance of house in Ramallah village Israeli settlers early Thursday torched a house in Silwad village east of Ramallah, residents said. Locals told Ma’an that settlers set the entrance of the house of Mohammad Hussein Hammad on fire and wrote racist, anti-Arab graffiti on its walls near the eastern entrance of Silwad village. The house was empty when settlers attacked, they said. Settlers bulldoze Palestinian lands near Nablus to expand outpost Israeli settlers on Thursday bulldozed private Palestinian lands near the northern West Bank village of Jalud south of Nablus in order to expand an illegal settlement outpost, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, a PA official who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that settlers from the Shvut Rachel outpost had decided to expand their illegal settlement at the expense of nearby private Palestinian landowners. The fields that were leveled belong to Ahmad Ibrahim Hajj Muhammad, he added. Daghlas said that the Israeli government had granted the settlers construction licenses. Jalud is located directly beside a number of notoriously violent Jewish outposts and settlements, and hundreds of acres of its agricultural lands have been confiscated by Israeli authorities for their construction. Settlers regularly attack the village, burning cars and uprooting olive trees, and in January locals captured a group of marauding settler youth before turning them over to security forces. Over 90 percent of investigations into settler violence by Israeli police fail to lead to an indictment. Settlers Raid Joseph Tomb’s in Nablus Hundreds of settlers, under the protection of Israeli forces, raided on Thursday the Joseph's tomb east of Nablus, to perform their religious rituals. Witnesses said that the buses the settlers were riding stormed east of the city and confrontations erupted between the settlers and the Palestinians in that area. IOF forces fired tear gas canisters and several Palestinians suffered suffocation injuries. 3 Palestinians injured in clashes near Nablus tomb Three Palestinians were injured early Thursday during clashes with Israeli military forces in Nablus, locals said. Clashes broke out after a large force of Israeli soldiers entered Nablus to escort hundreds of settlers to Joseph's Tomb. Israeli soldiers fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at local youths, injuring Issa Lutfi al-Hashash, 17, and Abdul-Karim Raed Fattouh, 16. Both teenagers were taken to hospital for treatment. Ibrahim Abdul-Raof Shakokani, 27, was hospitalized after being assaulted by Israeli soldiers. Under the 1993 Oslo Accords, Joseph's Tomb was to remain under Israeli control. But the Israeli army evacuated the premises in October 2000 shortly after the start of the second intifada, or uprising, and it was immediately destroyed and burnt by the Palestinians. The restoration of the tomb was completed recently, and following improved security cooperation with the Palestinian Authority, the army allows Jewish worshipers to make monthly nocturnal pilgrimages to the site. Israel Raids Nabi Saleh, Arrests Activist Fadel Tamimi The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) raided on Thursday, the village of Nabi Saleh in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank and arrested Fadel al-Tamimi, 54, an activist in the popular resistance committees, Tamimi Press said in a press release. Around 1:30 a.m. five military jeeps stormed the village, broke into the house of activist Fadel Al-Tamimi, searched it and brutally intimidated his family members. The IOF arrested Fadel and took him to an unknown destination. Clashes then erupted in response to the continuous intimidation actions that the IOF carries out in Nabi Saleh and in other villages such as: arrests, night raids and repeated attacks. The Palestinian youth rushed into the streets and started throwing stones at the jeeps, while the Israeli forces fired stun grenades before withdrawing from the village. Witnesses said that the IOF also stormed Deir Nidam village near Nabi Saleh at the same time and threw sound bombs in the streets. The IOF arrested 18 years old Tamim Ahmad Al-Tamimi from Deir Nidam. Lately, Nabi Saleh is witnessing continuous turmoils and daily clashes between the two sides due to the gas drilling on the village's land. In addition to, a group of settlers from Halamish settlement attempted to broke into the village but withdrew when they saw the Palestinians gathering to push them back. These actions are all aimed to intimidate the residents in the Nabi Saleh village which, however, the village's residents will continue to stand steadfast and protect their village. Three Soldiers Injured Near Nablus Israeli military sources have reported that three soldiers were injured, on Wednesday evening [February 26, 2014], after a Molotov cocktail struck their vehicle close to the Migdalim illegal settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The army said that the three soldiers suffered mild to moderate injuries, and that the army conducted a search campaign in the area. In related news, the army said young Palestinian men hurled rocks at a settler’s car, near Azzoun town, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia. The army reported no injuries or damage to the vehicle. Soldiers invaded nearby Palestinian areas and conducted military searches; no arrests have been reported. Official: Settlers to operate armed patrols across West Bank Israeli settlers have announced plans to operate armed patrols across the West Bank, a Palestinian official said Wednesday. Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said settlers had announced plans to run patrols of three gunmen on Israeli bypass roads as a form of protection. Daghlas said that settlers planned to station the first patrol on the road between the illegal Yitzar settlement and the Palestinian city of Nablus. The decision will have "dangerous consequences" if put in to effect, he said. Daghlas called on the international community to exert pressure on Israel to prevent the move, which he said would result in "more bloodshed and more attacks on Palestinian properties." Israel has crossed the ultimate red-line: What are Muslims going to do? By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Jerusalem With the most extremist Zionist government ever in power, Israel is taking tangible steps to seize and perhaps destroy the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, one of Islam's principal holy places. Two important events occurred this week which should alert the world's Muslims to the criminal Zionist designs in Jerusalem: First, the Israeli Knesset or parliament discussed proposal to impose "Israeli sovereignty" over the Haram el-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary which houses the two main mosques, the Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock. The Knesset, as we all know, is dominated by hardline Talmudic fanatics who show no respect whatsoever for other religions, their adherents and holy places. Indeed, some of these racists, such as the followers of the Nazi-like Chabad cult don't ascribe mere humanity to non-Jews in general. In fact, their theology has more in common with Mein Kampf than with the teachings of Moses. This is not anti-Semitic propaganda as some people, particularly those long-exposed to Zionist hasbara and propaganda, would claim. These are axiomatic facts that honest people, Jews and otherwise, would easily recognize. The reason I'm alluding to this dimension is because these people are in tight control of Israel today. They control the army, they lead the government and they shape the public discourse in the Jewish state. Their ability and willingness to do the unthinkable can't be underestimated. Their predominance is very much similar to the emergence of the Nazi movement prior to World War II. The sheer evilness of their ideology and millenarian yearnings would make any comparison with the Nazis quite logical. Hence, it is extremely imperative to realize that the next few months and years will be so difficult especially with regard to the al-Aqsa Mosque. The second related event is the refusal by the Israeli justice system to consider acts of sabotage and vandalism perpetrated by Jewish terrorists against Palestinians as acts of terror. Needless to say, this racist refusal spells out the kid-glove approach Israel is adopting toward these terrorists who interpret any leniency by the Israeli state as a green light to commit further acts of terror and vandalism against the Palestinians. This extreme and sickening flaccidity by the Israeli government toward Jewish terror is likely to lead to heinous acts on a wider scale. The attacks by Nazi-like Jewish settlers on mosques and Arab community centers on both sides of the Green-Line can only be compared to Kristallnacht. Yes, the scale is not the same in both cases. However, the acquiescence to Jewish terror shown by the Israeli government and its security agencies can be compared with the German government complicity in what occurred throughout Germany in November, 1938 when synagogues and other Jewish targets were set on fire and vandalized by Nazi gangs. Some readers might protest the comparisons on the ground that Kristallnacht was an event of huge magnitude. True, but can anyone guarantee that the settlers and their numerous supporters in the Israeli army and government are not mentally willing to carry out a Kristallnacht toward the Palestinians? Just listen to what these settlers and their leaders are saying in their meetings and religious sermons. One doesn't have to be extremely smart to read the writing on the wall. They don't stop urging the Israeli government and army to expel the Palestinians and replicate the Nakba of 1948. Well, for those who don't know, ethnic cleansing whether you call it "transfer" or "population exchange" is a mere euphemism for genocide or a holocaust. Besides, we have to remember that the German holocaust didn't really begin with Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen or Treblinka. It started much earlier with relatively innocuous signs, signs that are strikingly similar to what we see in Israel these days. Weak Arab reactions Israeli provocations in Jerusalem have so far been met with insignificant Arab reactions. These reactions include a lukewarm statement by a Jordanian official, warning of the "possible negative ramifications" on Israeli measures on the "peace process." Another reaction came from the Sissi regime, which carried out a bloody military coup against the democratically-elected government of Egypt in order to please Israel and its guardian-ally, the United States. And the chronically impotent Arab League was called for a meeting to discuss the Israeli provocations. I don't really know how the Sissi junta, which murdered thousands of innocent Egyptians at Rabaa and Nahdha, can help the cause of the Aqsa Mosque. Well, let Sissi and his cohorts first stop murdering and tormenting their own people. That would be the greatest Egyptian contribution to efforts aimed at thwarting Israeli designs against holy places in Palestine. I am not sure that morally bankrupt Arab leaders can be entrusted to put up a meaningful collective stance to confront Israeli insolence and arrogance of power. In the final analysis, these despots and tyrants are part of the problem facing the Arab world. Indeed, had these ignoramuses disappeared from the helm of power in their respective capitals, the overall Arab situation would have been much better. Otherwise, it is endlessly foolhardy to expect manifestly murderous regimes, such as that of Bashar el-Assad and Abdul Fattah al-Sissi, to help the Palestinian cause. Just ask any Syrian citizen and he or she would tell you they would prefer to be occupied by the Israeli army rather than by the murderous Nusseiri regime which has killed far more Syrians in three years than has Israel killed Arabs since its creation 66 years ago. Any hope? While we cannot pin any real hopes on the regimes, we can trust the Muslim masses to make the appropriate and adequate stand that is proportionate to the real dangers facing one of Islam's holiest places. Muslims, especially in countries that allow peaceful demonstrations, must take to the streets in the hundreds of thousands to protest Jewish encroachment against our holy places. This is the very least these Muslims should do to communicate an unmistakable message to Jewish fanatics in occupied Palestine. Inaction is no option, for it invites further and more daring aggressions against Muslim presence in Palestine. Not even Islamic holy places in Makkah and Madinah would be immune from morbid Jewish whims if Israel was allowed to have her way in Jerusalem. Indeed, if Muslims failed to respond now, when will they ever do?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20622
__label__cc	0.737174	0.262826	Sud Italia: The Street Food ‘Pizza al Portafoglio’ London, pizza, street-food In a city like London full of pizzerias and fast-food pizza chains, it is not surprising that the idea of a street food pizza truck would develop. Indeed, there are several trucks that have been transformed into mobile pizza ovens. What makes the truck at Old Spitalfields Market so special is the offering of “Pizza al Portafoglio”, wood-fired pizza that you can fold and eat in the street with your hands. This is a simple style of pizza that was born in Naples and reflects what pizza used to be during its humble beginnings: street food. The Pizzaioli Sud Italia has been around for about a year and is a true Italian invention. Silvestro, one of the two founders and presently the only owner of Sud Italia, took this concept and adapted it to London. He bought from France a Citroen H Van from 1974 and made it a pizza truck with a wood-fired oven. Initially, he used to travel to daily food markets and thus change location continuously. Today, instead, the truck is only based at the Old Spitalfields Market, near Liverpool Street. His clients are usually from the area and there are many returning customers! However, many tourists come as well to try this delicious pizza. Silvestro and Customers The name “Sud Italia” reflects Silvestro’s origins. He is from the region of Abruzzo but his origins are from Sant’Antimo, a village close to Naples. He uses only fresh buffalo mozzarella Alburna, which is delivered twice a week from Salerno and authentic Parmesan cheese aged for 24 months. The dough is made using 00 Napoletana and whole-wheat flour, which, along the 24 to 48 hours dough raising, makes it very digestible. After that the panetti (i.e. dough balls) are done, the pizzaiolo makes the ‘disco di pasta’ (i.e. pizza base) that is prepared by hand making a movement from the centre to the periphery in such a way that a thick ‘cornicione’ (i.e. crust) is made. Then the toppings are added. Panetti Pizzaiolo's Hand Movements The menu changes around every two months. The most representative pizza is “Sud Italia”, made with buffalo mozzarella, cherry tomato, basil, parmesan and rocket. It was presented and well received at the London Pizza Festival (a post about it is coming up soon). Other must-try pizzas are the classic Margherita and pizza with nduja, a spicy and spreadable pork sausage from Calabria. Pizza with Nduja The truck is open Tuesday to Sunday from 11:30AM to 3:30PM. It’s a must try for foodies and pizza lovers!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20624
__label__wiki	0.605956	0.605956	Fortuigence Homeschool Blogger Reviews How Our System Works Our Writing Rockstars Evaluation of High School Credit Top Teach End Blank Page Terror Ebook Don't Be an Idea Thief Ebook Student Showcase Essay: Anime For Everyone Today's student showcase essay is by Lindsay G., a homeschooled high schooler. As you can see, she has a lot to teach us about anime in her expository essay! Lindsay finished our Essay Rock Star full course program a few weeks ago. Anime for Everyone by Lindsay G. What do you think of when you hear the word “anime?” Some people may visualize an over-the-top fight scene, filled with fast paced action and funny dialogue. Others may image a cast of characters with unusual hair colors, large eyes, and strange fashion choices. The majority of the people you will ask, however, have no idea what the term “anime” even means. Some people believe that anime is strictly for children, but that thought process is mostly out of ignorance of how vast the world of anime truly is. Anime is a great form of entertainment that people of all ages can enjoy because of its limitlessly creative art styles, the vast availability of genres that there are to choose from, and the wonderful sense of community that comes from being an anime fan. To put it simply, anime is known internationally as animation created in Japan for a Japanese television/cinematic audience. People enjoy anime for many different reasons, with one reason being most anime television shows run for many episodes, which in turn provides lots and lots of content for the viewer to enjoy. Anime is also a very creative medium that has very few structures and boundaries. There is no specific art style that dominates the anime industry, which makes every show or movie a unique visual experience. Many different color schemes and drawing styles can be used to create very interesting and beautiful character and settings that could not be easily achieved using live action sets or actors. There are many types of anime to enjoy. Anime is created for all different demographics of people. There are thousands of different shows and movies to watch, and they’re all created to suit different people’s tastes. For simplicity’s sake, we will look at the five most basic types of anime, with each type representing the demographic that they are targeted for. The first type is called Shonen. Shonen (which translated to English means “young boy”) anime are aimed at the demographic of young boys under 15. These shows are known to filled with action and adventure, and fight scenes. Next, we have Seinen. The word “Seinen” means “young” in Japanese, but it can also mean shows are marketed towards adolescent boys and young men. They tend to be much more violent than Shonen anime in nature and touch on more psychological subjects. Then, we have Shojo. (which translates to “young girl”). This type of anime is aimed at young girls under the age of 15. These shows tend to be focused on romance and friendship, but can still include action and adventure at times. The third basic anime type, Josei (meaning “women” or “womanhood”), is aimed at adult women. These shows tend to be centered around romance, but the subject is handled much more realistically than in Shojo anime. Lastly there is Kodomokuke (which literally means “directed at children”). These shows are very simple and imaginative that tend to teach morals and lessons to children. There are also many different subgenres in each type of anime demographic. Of course, these shows are only grouped together because of the desired viewership. You don’t have to be a young girl to enjoy Shojo, or a grown man to enjoy Seinen. The anime community is an ever-growing group of people love watching and talking about anime. There are hundreds of conventions that happen every year in the United States where people come together and share their love for their favorite shows, whether it be by dressing up as their favorite character or attending panels where people discuss anime-related topics. For the past 10 years, anime has become more and more accessible to watch because of the popularity of streaming shows and movies using Netflix, Hulu, and most importantly Crunchyroll, which is an anime streaming service that oftentimes will simultaneously broadcast episodes of shows that are airing in Japan with English subtitles the day that they are released to the Japanese audience as well. Anime has definitely become much more mainstream than it used to be. In fact, many theaters around the United States will show new popular anime films on certain nights. Many people who have never seen anime consider all anime to be childlike in nature. The reality is that is the furthest from the truth, as seen by all of the different demographics anime is created for. Luckily, anime is steadily growing in popularity in western countries and is gaining more recognition as a legitimate and visually astounding entertainment medium that can be for adults as much as it can be for children. One thing can definitely be sure, it’s a great time to be an anime fan more than it ever has been before. 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__label__wiki	0.837422	0.837422	Fremont Tennis Association Midland University Entries Tagged as 'Tournament Results' Ed Kirkwood wins Columbus Open 3.5 Singles Congratulations to Ed Kirkwood on winning the 3.5 Men’s Single division of the Columbus Open Tournament June 4. Ed defeated David Clark of Lincoln 6-2, 6-1 and then David Taylor of Gretna 6-3, 6-3. Nice hardware, Ed. Great job representing Fremont! Tags: Tournament Results by Dana Mark Alex Bigsby earns Gold at Cornhusker State Games Congratulations to Alex Bigsby on winning the 10-and-under Boys Singles Championship at the 2013 Cornhusker State Games held Thursday, July 25 at Lincoln. Alex played three matches in round-robin play on his way to the win, dominating in every match. He lost only two games in the three matches. Round 1 – Alex defeated Michael Endacott of Lincoln 4-0, 4-1. Round 2 – Alex defeated Caden Haar of Lincoln, 4-0, 4-0. Round 3 – Alex defeated Seth Stowell 4-0, 4-1. Way to go Alex! Leahy/Zoucha win championship at Fremont Open Congratulations to Mark Leahy and Jordan Zoucha of Fremont who teamed up in the 4.0 men’s doubles at the Centre Court-KFC-Pinnacle Bank Fremont Adult Open played June 21-23, 2013 at the Fremont Senior High Tennis Complex. They defeated Mike Gardner (Bellevue) and Ricardo Hernandez (Omaha) in the Quarterfinals 6-3, 6-3. In the semi-finals they defeated Roland Augspurger (Columbus) and Mike Willman (Fremont) 7-5, 7-6(3). In the final, they defeated John Crook and Thomas Huffman of Omaha 6-4, 6-4. Other Fremont players in action: Justin Bigsby played in the 4.5 Men’s Singles, losing the first round to No. 1 seed, Jerry Brocky (La Vista) 6-2, 6-2. Jordan Zoucha played in the 4.0 Men’s Singles, advancing to the Finals with winds over Michael Pivovar of Omaha 6-2, 6-2, Trevor Davis (Omaha) 6-7(8), 6-4, 1-0(7), and Ryan Kellogg who withdrew for illness. He lost a close final match to the No. 1 seed, Christian Cortinas (Omaha) 4-6, 6-3, 1-0(5). Mark Leahy also played in the 4.0 Men’s Singles, defeating Todd Hultman of Omaha, 6-0, 6-0 in the first round, then winning over Rock Hansen of Coucil Bluffs, IA in the Quarterfinals, 6-1, 6-1. Mark withdrew in the Semifinals trailing 2-6, 3-3 due to illness. Dana Mark played in the 3.5 Men’s Singles losing in round one to Sajid Kalmani (West Des Moines, IA) 3-6, 6-3, 10-7. In the consolation bracket, he defeated Jerry Pivivar (Omaha) 6-3, 6-1 before losing to Scott Hagewood (Omaha) 5-7, 6-2, 1-0(1). Ed Kirkwood won 2nd in the 3.0 men’s singles, losing to Panyot Puapanpattana of West Des Moines, IA in the final of round robin play 2-6, 6-2, 1-0(12). Wyatt Spalding was also entered and would have played Ed in the first round, but had to withdraw due to illness. Mike Willman teamed up with Roland Augspurger (Columbus) in the 4.0 Men’s Doubles. They defeated Jason Luedtke and Scott Adams of Omaha 6-4, 6-2 before losing to Leahy/Zoucha in the Semifinals 7-5, 7-6(3). Jim Johnson and Jim Jorgensen (Blair) teamed up in the Men’s 60 Doubles. In round-robin play, they defeated John Crook and Thomas Huffman (Omaha) 6-1, 6-4, and Bob Martin and George Young (Omaha) 6-0, 6-0 to take home first place. Dana and Renate Mark teamed up for the 8.0 Mixed Doubles. In round-robin format, they lost to Paul and Shannon Brinkman (Lincoln) 6-2, 6-3. They also lost to Dana Caudle (Elkhorn) and Joni Woodruff (Papillion) 6-1, 6-1. Ed Kirkwood and Dipal Patel teamed up in the 6.0 Mixed Doubles. They had one match which they lost to Jerry and Leslie Pivovar (Omaha) 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Thanks to all who played in the Fremont Adult Open. And thank you to Diana Myers, Justin Bigsby and their helpers for a great tournament. Spalding, Willman, and Marks earn hardware at Columbus Open. Wyatt Spalding is shown sporting his trophy from the rain drenched/delayed/interrupted Columbus Summer Open Tournament June 8-9, 2013. No matches could be played outdoors on Saturday. Some were played on two indoor courts at the Columbus YMCA and one match played at the Fremont YMCA. Sunday was cool and cloudy but left-over matches from Saturday were finished and all the Sunday matches got finished. Thanks to Roland Augspurger and Curtis Goebel for hosting the tournament. Results from Fremont players who entered: Wyatt Spalding of Fremont earned 2nd place. He was defeated in the final match, 6-1, 6-0 by Ronald Bender of Grand Island. Mike Willman teamed up with Roland Augspurger (Columbus) in the Men’s Open Doubles. They defeated Rich Prochaska and Max Prochaska of Ralston in round one, and Curtis Goebel (Columbus) and Thomas Huffman (Omaha) in the final round 7-6, 6-1 for the championship. Brian and Renate Mark teamed up in the 8.0 mixed doubles. They defeated Ronald Bender and Jessica Bender of Grand Island 6-0, 6-1 in the semifinals, then lost 6-4, 6-1 to Barry Dahlkoetter (Omaha) and Jan Moore (Columbus) in the final. There is some debate on how the final might have turned out if Brian had not sprained his ankle in the first match. Dana Mark played the 3.5 singles event. He defeated Michael Martin of Marquette 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10-7) in round robin play. In the final round, he defeated Daniel Stack of Columbus 6-2, 6-1 for the championship. Congrats to the winners from Fremont. See you at the Fremont Open! Eker, Zoucha win 8.0 Mixed Doubles Title at Fremont Open Nicholas Eker and Lexie Zoucha of Fremont teamed up to win the NTRP 8.0 mixed doubles title at the Centre Court-KFC-Pinnacle Bank Fremont Adult Open held June 22-24, 2012, at the Fremont High Tennis courts. In the final match on Sunday, Eker and Zoucha defeated Jennifer Allison of Bellevue and Tim Dunning of Omaha 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 for the title. On Saturday, they had defeated Renate Mark and Jon Rohloff, both of Fremont, 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 in the semifinals. Several other Fremont area players participated in the Fremont Open. Luke Prescott played in the Men’s Open Singles, losing to Vince VanDyke 6-1, 6-1 in round one, then losing to Justin Brinkman of Lincoln 6-1, 6-1 in the consolation semifinals. Lexie Zoucha also played in the women’s Open Singles division, losing to Hannah Higgins of Lincoln 1-6, 6-2, 6-2 in round one, then going 3-6, 6-4, 4-4 with Katherine Krueger of Omaha before withdrawing due to illness. Erica Dickmeyer teamed up with Lexie Zoucha in the 4.0 Open Doubles, losing the opening round to Elin Smith Of Mount Vernon, Ohio and Anne Yust of Alabama 6-0, 6-2. Smith and Yust ended up winning the open doubles division. Chris Westergaard entered the Men’s 4.0 singles, defeating Michael Pivovar of Omaha 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in round one, then losing to the eventual 4.0 champion Rick Hansen of Council Bluffs, IA 6-4, 6-2. Mark Leahy and Chris Westergaard teamed up, as did Mike Willman and Mostafa Jamshidi of Lincoln, as well as Brian Mark and Jon Roholoff, for the 4.0 Men’s doubles. Mark and Chris lost to eventual 4.0 champions, Eddie Flood and H.D. Osborne of Omaha in round one 6-1, 6-4. Mike and Mostafa won round one against Jonathan Jameson of LaVista and Rodney Spence of Omaha, 6-1, 6-0, and then lost to Jonathan Holtz of Elkhorn and Brian Kounovsky of Omaha 6-7(2), 6-3, 7-5. Brian and Jon won their first round match 6-3, 7-5 against John Blackhawk and Steven Stolen, both of Sioux City, IA 6-3, 7-5, then lost to eventual champions Flood-Osborne 6-0, 6-0. Ed Kirkwood and Dana Mark played in the Men’s 3.5 singles. Ed lost to Robert McGovern of Omaha 6-3, 6-3 in round one, then to Michael Martin of Marquette, NE 6-1, 6-1 in the consolation semifinals. Dana defeated Jerry Pivovar of Omaha 6-3, 6-3 in round one, then lost to Steven Stolen of Sioux City, IA 6-0, 6-1 in the next round. In Women’s 3.5 singles, Dipal Patel lost to Joni Woodruff of Omaha 6-1, 6-0 in the only match played in that division. Joshua Sammons played in the Men’s 3.0 singles, where he dropped two matches in round robin play, to Haibo Huang of Omaha 6-1, 6-1, and Rodney Spence of Omaha 6-0, 6-4. Ed Kirkwood and Dipal Patel teamed up in the 7.0 Mixed Doubles, losing in round robin play to Jerry and Leslie Pivovar of Omaha 6-4, 6-3, and to Robert McGovern and Michelle Roberts of Omaha, 6-0, 6-2. Jay Kohout played in the Men’s 55 singles. He was defeated by Rick Huetson of Omaha 6-1, 6-1, and by David Irons of Clive, Iowa 6-3, 6-0. Thanks to all the participants, and to Diana Myers and Justin Bigsby for their leadership in running another great tournament, and to Sarah Bigsby, Amy Ahrens and Mike Willman for their help in the directors booth, as well as any others who helped in any way. And a big thanks to our sponsors, Centre Court, KFC, and Pinnacle Bank. Mark Leahy is double winner at the Omaha Adult Open Mark Leahy won the Men’s 45 Singles event at the Kubat Pharmacy Omaha Adult Open held at Koch Tennis Center My 25-28. In round-robin play, he defeated Skip Rice 6-1, 6-1, and Brad Miller 7-5, 6-1. Mark also teamed up with Chris Westergaard to win the Men’s 4.0 doubles. They defeated Robert Harris and Paul Morrison 6-1, 6-3, Dan Hrivnak and Thomas Walker 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-1, and the No. 1 seeds, William Stephens and Clark Thompson 7-6(5), 6-3 in the finals. Congratulations to Mark and Chris! Justin Bigsby teamed up with Cassie Krause in the Mixed Open Doubles, They defeated Jacqueline Baude and Joseph Wier 1-6, 6-2, 7-6(3), then lost to the No. 2 seeds, Ron Betts and Kim Miksich 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the semifinals. Brian Mark and Dana Mark also played in the Men’s 4.0 doubles. They lost in the first round to Jay Bernal and Eric Mooss 6-3, 6-3. Get tournament reminders and other Fremont Tennis Association updates. 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__label__cc	0.574181	0.425819	What do you mean "Divine Service"? Sunday Divine Service, Sunday School, & Bible Studies Paths to Becoming a Member Links to Theological Resources on What We Believe, Teach, and Confess... Been away or skipping church? Tried to be spiritual but not religious? Directions and Our Location Who is Jesus Christ? He is the Redeemer of the world! Weddings, Funerals, and Other Occasional Services For Those Not That Familiar with Christianity Pro-Life, Marriage and Family Resources What About that Liturgy? History of Gloria Christi 2007 Building Project Pictures Church Membership Duties About Gloria Christi Why Lutherans have traditionally used this different terminology... In his critique of the medieval Roman Catholic distortion of the Mass as the repeated atoning sacrifice of Christ's body and blood over and over again, Martin Luther made clear that when we "come to church" we are not primarily there to do something for God but rather that He is there to bless us and serve us with His forgiveness, eternal life, and salvation. The cross on Good Friday is where salvation was purchased in full, once and for all. But in the means of grace, the Word and Sacraments, there is where salvation is distributed here and now, according to Christ's promise and authority, until He comes again. This is how what Christ did for the life of the world on the first Good Friday and Easter, comes to us and is applied to individuals as they then are incorporated into the fellowship of the church. The sacrifice of Good Friday cannot be repeated as Christ said, "It is finished." However, the benefits and fruits of that atoning sacrifice (objective justification) continually are distributed in the missionary work of the church, catechesis, and the Divine Service as the Holy Spirit creates faith through the Word and Holy Baptism (subjective justification). While we do serve God "in church" in prayer, praise, offerings, and the life of repentance, the main thing about Sunday morning or whenever the church gathers for a service, is what God does for us to deliver the benefits of Good Friday and Easter to us. Contrary to the theology of many in the liturgical movement, the liturgy is not primarily "the work of the people" or the "sacrifice of the priest." God doesn't need anything from us. While God is everywhere, He locates or localizes Himself for us in Christ and in His Word and Sacraments for the sake of faith that we may say of God's promises, "this is most certainly true." In the liturgy God initiates everything - salvation is by grace even in its deliver in the means of grace. "Divine Service" is just saying "sola gratia" (grace alone) in a liturgical way. In the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Lutheran Confessions said it this way: Leitourgia, they say, signifies a sacrifice, and the Greeks call the Mass, liturgy. Why do they here omit the old appellation synaxis, which shows that the Mass was formerly the communion of many? But let us speak of the word liturgy. This word does not properly signify a, sacrifice, but rather the public ministry, and agrees aptly with our belief, namely, that one minister who consecrates tenders the body and blood of the Lord to the rest of the people, just as one minister who preaches tenders the Gospel to the people, as Paul says, 1 Cor. 4, 1: Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God, i.e., of the Gospel and the Sacraments. And 2 Cor. 5, 20: We are ambassadors for Christ, as 81] though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, Be ye reconciled to God. Thus the term leitourgia agrees aptly with the ministry. In view of this, Lutherans moved away from the term "Mass" (though they never condemned it) and toward terms like these: der Gottesdienst or Hauptgottesdienst (German) Gudstjaenst (Swedish) Jumalanpalvelus (Finnish) All of these terms translate best as "God's Service" or "Divine Service." "Worship service" or "worship" simply doesn't do these terms nor the theology represented full justice. "Worship" and "worship service" are "one-way" terms - they connote only what we are doing for God. Left out is the most important thing of all - what God is doing to deliver salvation to us here and now. But this is why many Lutheran congregations and hymnals use the term "Divine Service" especially for the Service of Holy Communion. Even Matins and Vespers are "divine service" in a general sense, but as the Germans put it the Holy Communion is "der Hauptgottesdienst" or "the chief Divine Service." From Luke 22: 19And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me." 20In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. 21But the hand of him who is going to betray me is with mine on the table. 22The Son of Man will go as it has been decreed, but woe to that man who betrays him." 23They began to question among themselves which of them it might be who would do this. 24Also a dispute arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. 25Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. 26But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. 27For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. 28You are those who have stood by me in my trials. 29And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, 30so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Gloria Christi Lutheran Church (LCMS) 1322 31st Avenue Greeley, Colorado 80634 gloriachristi@gloriachristi.com Visits since 12 December 2006 (counter may have been reset - technical issues)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20635
__label__cc	0.724271	0.275729	Microsoft SQL Server Overview SQL stands for Structured Query Language which is database computer language designed for the retrieval and management of data in relational database MS Sql rely on RDBMS. Relational Database Management Systems like MySQL, MS Access, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, postgres and SQL Server use SQL as standard database language. Wkipedia says “ As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications which may run either on the same computer or on another computer across a network (including the Internet)” . SQL Release History SQL- Query Syntax All the SQL statements start with any of the keywords like SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, ALTER, DROP, CREATE, USE, SHOW. and ends with semicolon(;). Using Sql 1. User can access data in relational database management systems. 2. User can define the data in database and manipulate that data. 3. User can create and drop databases and tables. 4. User can create view, stored procedure, functions in a database. 5. User can set permissions on tables, procedures, and views SQL commands can be divided into three subgroups, DDL, DML and DCL. DDL stands for Data Definition Language which is useful in database schemas and descriptions, of how the data should reside in the database. Create ,Alter ,Drop ,Truncate queries used by DDL . DML stands for Data Manipulation Language which is useful in data manipulation, and includes most common SQL statements such SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE. DCL stands for Data Control Language which includes commands such as Revoke, GRANT, and mostly concerned with rights, permissions and other controls of the database system.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20645
__label__wiki	0.677806	0.677806	Adya KA Inamadar AC Palit A What is Your Dia... Flexural scaly papules and plaques Keshavmurthy A Adya, Arun C Inamadar, Aparna Palit Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, SBMP Medical College, Hospital and Research Center, BLDE University, Bijapur, Karnataka, India Date of Web Publication 11-Jan-2018 Arun C Inamadar Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, SBMP Medical College, Hospital and Research Center, BLDE University, Bijapur - 586 103, Karnataka DOI: 10.4103/ijdvl.IJDVL_5_17 Adya KA, Inamadar AC, Palit A. Flexural scaly papules and plaques. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2018;84:703-5 Adya KA, Inamadar AC, Palit A. Flexural scaly papules and plaques. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol [serial online] 2018 [cited 2020 Jan 20];84:703-5. Available from: http://www.ijdvl.com/text.asp?2018/84/6/703/223059 A 16-year-old female presented with slightly erythematous scaly papules involving both the axillae since the past 3 months. The lesions were episodically pruritic precipitated by sweating on exertion or warm weather. In addition, she had similar lesions involving both the cubital fossae and groins. There was no personal or family history of atopy. The lesions were predominantly discrete papules but had coalesced at places to form plaques with fine scaling [[Figure 1], black circle]. The lesions partially remitted with topical agents (self-medicated by the patient) but never completely healed. Rest of the cutaneous examination was unremarkable. A potassium hydroxide preparation of the scales did not show any fungal elements. A discretely located scaly papule was biopsied for histopathological analysis [Figure 2] and [Figure 3]. Figure 1: Erythematous papules involving the left axilla with fine adherent scaling Figure 2: Compact parakeratosis, epidermal hyperplasia, and dermal perivascular infiltrate is seen at lower magnification. Note the prominent granular layer (H and E, ×100) Figure 3: Higher magnification of the epidermis shows compact parakeratotic stratum corneum with retention of keratohyalin granules within the cells and a prominent stratum granulosum (H and E, ×400) What is Your Diagnosis? Granular parakeratosis. Granular parakeratosis (intertriginous granular parakeratosis, zombie patch) is an uncommon acquired pruritic disorder of the flexures. It was first described by Northcutt et al. in 1991 as “axillary granular parakeratosis.” It affects all ages and both sexes, although a slight female preponderance is noted. Involvement of other flexures and nonflexural areas has also been described.[1] Typical lesions are itchy and erythematous to brownish keratotic scaly papules that may coalesce into verrucous plaques. The exact etiopathogenesis of granular parakeratosis is unclear. The disorder is possibly an irritant response to antiperspirants, deodorants, and excessive use of soaps and creams. However, the current consensus is that such agents aggravate but do not induce granular parakeratosis.[2] Recent studies have assigned this entity to the group of acquired keratinization disorders as a defect in the processing of profilaggrin to filaggrin impairing the normal cornification process demonstrated previously.[3] Hoste et al. observed that mice deficient in caspase-14 (a vital enzyme necessary for the formation of an adequately functional epidermal barrier) were more prone to develop parakeratosis than control mice. Exploring this phenomenon in humans may help unravel the exact etiopathogenesis of granular parakeratosis.[4] Co-occurrence of dermatophytosis and granular parakeratosis that responded effectively to antifungal treatment has been reported, suggesting the possible role of fungi in the disease.[5] Hence, histopathological analysis should also include periodic acid Schiff and Giemsa staining to examine fungal elements. Histopathology shows compact parakeratosis, psoriasiform epidermal hyperplasia, and the pathognomonic retention of keratohyaline granules within areas of parakeratosis with persistent granular layer. The process may also involve follicular and eccrine ostia.[6] Treatment options include topical steroids, topical calcipotriol, topical calcineurin inhibitors, and ammonium lactate. Oral isotretinoin is useful in refractory cases.[7] Spontaneous resolution, as well as relapse after treatment are not uncommon. An infantile form, attributed to diaper wearing, has been described which may present in one of the two forms – linear bilateral keratotic plaques in the inguinal folds and erythematous geographical plaques underneath pressure points.[8] Our patient was treated satisfactorily with topical tacrolimus 0.1% ointment. Granular parakeratosis resembles a host of other flexural dermatoses [Table 1]; hence, Ding et al. suggested reappraisal of this disorder merely as a reaction pattern rather than a distinct condition.[9] Table 1: Differential diagnoses of granular parakeratosis Declaration of patient consent The authors certify that they have obtained all appropriate patient consent forms. In the form the patient has given her consent for her images and other clinical information to be reported in the journal. The patient understands that her name and initials will not be published and due efforts will be made to conceal identity, but anonymity cannot be guaranteed. Joshi R, Taneja A. Granular parakeratosis presenting with facial keratotic papules. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2008;74:53-5. Southwell B, Lockshin BN, Blyumin ML, Khachemoune A. What Caused These Axillary Changes? Available from: http://www.the-dermatologist.com/content/what-caused-these-axillary-changes. [Last accessed on 2017 Apr 22]. Scheinfeld NS, Mones J. Granular parakeratosis: Pathologic and clinical correlation of 18 cases of granular parakeratosis. J Am Acad Dermatol 2005;52:863-7. Hoste E, Denecker G, Gilbert B, Van Nieuwerburgh F, van der Fits L, Asselbergh B, et al. Caspase-14-deficient mice are more prone to the development of parakeratosis. J Invest Dermatol 2013;133:742-50. Resnik KS, Kantor GR, DiLeonardo M. Dermatophyte-related granular parakeratosis. Am J Dermatopathol 2004;26:70-1. Weedon D, editor. Disorders of epidermal maturation and keratinization. In: Weedon's Skin Pathology. 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier; 2010. p. 248-79. Compton AK, Jackson JM. Isotretinoin as a treatment for axillary granular parakeratosis. Cutis 2007;80:55-6. Chang MW, Kaufmann JM, Orlow SJ, Cohen DE, Mobini N, Kamino H. Infantile granular parakeratosis: Recognition of two clinical patterns. J Am Acad Dermatol 2004;50 5 Suppl: S93-6. Ding CY, Liu H, Khachemoune A. Granular parakeratosis: A comprehensive review and a critical reappraisal. Am J Clin Dermatol 2015;16:495-500.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20648
__label__cc	0.64902	0.35098	The Infinite Ideas blog Classic Wine Library Buy Classic Wine Library books The Classic Wine Library collections Infinite Success What did we do this week? 19 September 2014 by Catherine Holdsworth in Business and finance, Wine and spirits It has been a very exciting week in the Infinite Ideas office. We have signed up two new authors and are looking forward to developing our classic wine list with The wines of Austria and Spirits distilled. We have managed to stay (relatively) sober throughout the excitement however and will be updating you on these new titles over the coming months. All good things come in threes and we have also signed up a new book to our business list, Authentic leadership. Next year is shaping up nicely! Our author Richard Mayson won the Louis Roederer award for international wine feature writer of 2014 and Richard had a rather splendid evening at the ceremony. You can download the free ebook, Richard Mayson’s guide to vintage Port and read all about this fine wine. Football business received a fantastic review from Back Page Football, which said ‘it could be Tsjalle van der Burg that fans hold aloft as the saviour of football.’ You can also listen to Tsjalle discuss his book and his thoughts on the future of football here. If you’re a business leader or would like to be one in the future, you can now get your hands on a copy of 100+ management models by Fons Trompenaars and Piet Hein Coebergh. Catherine handed in her MA dissertation and will never do homework again (that is unless anyone is willing to sponsor her PhD?). Rebecca was completely indifferent to the result of this week’s bake off and Richard admitted that he has never read The Great Gatsby. Quiz: how well do you know whisky? 19 September 2014 by Catherine Holdsworth in Spirits distilled, Wine and spirits Now that the referendum is over and we’ve all breathed a sigh of relief over the fact that we won’t have to change our passports or bulk-buy haggis before the price rockets, we think that a drink is in order to celebrate the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So break out your whisky and, if you’re English, relish in the fact that import tax was just a bad dream! Glass in hand, why not try this quiz from Infinite Ideas’ newly signed book Spirits Distilled, by Mark Ridgwell, to see how much you know about the national drink of Scotland. 1. In what year did an Excise Act lay the foundations of today’s scotch whisky industry? 2. Scotch blends account for what percentage of all scotch sold in the world today? A. Over 75% B. Over 80% C. Over 85% D. Over 90% 3. A mash for scotch may be distilled to what maximum level of alcohol? A. 72% abv B. 84.5% abv C. 94.8% abv D. 96.4% abv 4. Which grain(s) are permitted in the production of scotch malt whisky? A. Barley B. Rye C. Corn D. All of these grains 5. Single malts, bottled as such, gained global recognition in their own right from which decade? A. 1880s B. 1900s D. 1960s 6. Which of these terms is a correct and legal description of a blend of malt whiskies? A. A vatted malt B. A blended malt C. A pure malt D. An individual malt 7. Peat found in the Highlands typically contains what type of plant materials? A. Vegetable B. Seaweed C. Fruit D. Heather 8. Which region in Scotland boasts the world’s largest concentration of individual distilleries? A. Lowlands B. Speyside C. Highlands D. Islands 9. Which single malt pioneered the current popularity of single malts? A. Glenfiddich B. Glenmorangie C. Glen Grant D. Glen Scotia 10. In what year was a law passed requiring all Scotch to be aged for at least 3 years? Answers will be posted on Monday. Good luck! If you’re excited about the publication of Spirits Distilled, then why not take a look at the classic wine library too. But what about the whisky? 17 September 2014 by Catherine Holdsworth in Current events, Spirits distilled, Wine and spirits This week, Infinite Ideas signed a new book, Spirits explained by Mark Ridgewell. We love spirits, and not just the ghostly variety, so this new signing will make an excellent addition to the our series on wines and spirits. However, in all the excitement, we forgot, for just a moment, the impending Scottish referendum and were reminded about Scotland’s most profitable export, whisky. Tomorrow the polls will be open and the future of Scotland will be decided, but what does this all mean for the whisky business? With Scotland’s future as a member of the EU still very much in doubt if the vote is a solid ‘YES’ will this mean that we will have to pay import tax on Famous Grouse? Whisky is as Scottish as haggis, tartan and highland cows, and the country thrives on the tourists who come every year for distillery tours and to sample their favourite spirit in its home. Whisky is to Scotland what Guinness is to Ireland. No longer will supermarket shelves be offering our good friends Bell’s, Glenfiddich and Johnnie Walker. The drink is embedded in Scottish identity and yet with Alex Salmond unsure about which currency he will be adopting if the country votes yes (the pound, the euro, the oat?) whisky makers are concerned about the effect that the global market will have on their soon-to-be ‘priceless’ products. Before you rush out to panic-buy your Scottish spirits in bulk, consider that the whisky business will flourish no matter what. An independent Scotland will still be providing us with the perfect nightcap (that is, unless they make an alcoholic irn bru) though it may be slightly more pricey, perhaps we will appreciate it all the more. Visions of hordes of whisky-lovers queueing up at the Dumfries border smuggling whisky back to England is a far cry from what you can expect. But for all those who have yet to make up their mind before the polls, you may be swayed by a tipple or two. Consider the whisky. Consider the whisky drinkers. Consider yourself…on the fence? If this final push from both sides has got you all in a flutter, you can download Nicholas Faith’s guide to cognac for free, and have yourself a drink to settle your nerves. Cometh the hour, cometh the vote. Great sherry tasting 2014 15 September 2014 by Catherine Holdsworth in Sherry, Wine and spirits Today is the Great Sherry Tasting 2014, run by the Sherry Institute, where sherry connoisseurs will be readying themselves to test the bouquets of their favourite wine, and perhaps discover a few new ones with delectable palates. In just over two months’ time, the long-awaited sixth edition of Julian Jeffs’ Sherry will be available, and you’ll be able to learn all about the history of this rather underrated wine. But if you can’t wait until then, and in case you missed out on tickets to the Great Sherry Tasting and fancied giving it a go at home, we’ve got some advice on the best way to serve your sherry. Like all wines, sherry’s raison d’être is to give pleasure. And like all great wines it gives pleasure in complex ways appealing to all the senses. As soon as it is poured into a glass it shows its colour and clarity. A lot can be learned simply by looking at it. Then comes its appeal to the nose. The bouquet of a good sherry strikes the nose while it is being poured into the glass, sometimes even from the next room. The nose is a major organ of tasting, receiving the first sensations. For this to happen the wine needs room for the volatile compounds to collect and concentrate above its surface, contained in the space defined by the glass, which should therefore taper in towards the top and be big enough for the wine only to occupy about a third of it. The little thimbles sold as ‘sherry glasses’ with the wine filled to the brim do not give it a chance. Apart from the bouquet ascending to the nose, the colour and viscosity can be appreciated. These features reveal the character of the wine and lay the foundations for the pleasure it can give in the mouth. There is a difference between aroma and bouquet. The aroma is the smell of a young wine, while the bouquet develops with age as the wine matures, giving a complexity that can be immense, subtle and complex. Chin, chin! Follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with Infinite Ideas and get more tips like this as we get closer to the release date of Sherry. Ideas for London cocktail week 8 September 2014 by Catherine Holdsworth in Spirits distilled, Wine and spirits It’s London cocktail week and whether you’re in the UK’s capital ready and waiting to sample some exciting drinks or just going to play along at home, we’ve got some tasty recipes that you can make easily for yourself. If you like these cocktails and are looking for some more ideas, download Nicholas Faith’s guide to cognac for FREE, yes, free and impress your friends with all your spirit(ual) knowledge! A delightfully named cognac cocktail that can be traced back to the Napoleonic wars, when a common expression used by seafaring folks of the time was ‘cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey …’. The appreciation of brandy by the men of this time is what led to the creation of this cocktail. Today the concoction is still enjoyed in the smartest of cognac bars around the world. 2 parts VSOP cognac ½ part tawny port ½ part Benedictine ½ part fresh orange juice 3 dashes of orange bitters Place the ice cubes in a tumbler glass and then stir all the ingredients together. Garnish with half a slice of orange and serve immediately. Brandy Crusta The precursor to the Sidecar, this is a great cocktail that’s noted for being served in a sugar-encrusted glass. Its origins can be traced back to the first ever cocktail guide by Jeremiah P. Thomas, The Bon Vivant’s Companion, published in 1862. Best served in a tulip glass or small wine glass, this easy to make cocktail is certainly one that will wow your dinner guests (they don’t need to know how simple it is to produce). 2 parts VSOP cognac (brand of your choice) freshly squeezed juice of ½ lemon 1 part orange liqueur (such as Triple Sec) ½ part sugar syrup 1 lemon peel (with pith removed) 1 tablespoon crushed Demerara sugar, for the rim of the Prepare the glass by lining the rim with sugar and chilling. This is done by first wetting the rim of the glass with some lemon juice. Place the Demerara sugar on a saucer or small plate, turn the glass upside down and dip in using a twisting motion. Place the sugar-encrusted glass in the fridge for 15 minutes to cool. Put all the ingredients (except the lemon peel) into a cocktail shaker and mix well. Leave to cool. Pour into the glass and garnish with the peel of the lemon curled into the top part of the glass. Serve immediately. As you’d imagine with such a prestigious name, the Rolls Royce certainly is royalty when it comes to cognac cocktails. But even with such a grand name, this is a simple cocktail to produce, and one that sits well on even the smartest of dinner tables. 3cl cognac (quality and brand of your choice – for a more decadent cocktail go with a higher quality) 3cl Cointreau 6cl orange juice Put the ice cubes in a tumbler or tall glass and then add the rest of the ingredients. Use a cocktail stirrer to mix well. Serve immediately. Yeah, baby! This is one to spice up any party, and is definitely a classic cocktail. It’s also quite alcoholic, so be aware of this when sipping, as it doesn’t taste as lethal as it really is … 3cl cognac (quality and brand of your choice) 3cl white rum 3cl lemon juice 1 slice of lemon Place all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and mix well. Allow to cool, then pour into a tumbler, long glass or balloon glass and serve immediately. Good luck experimenting, please enjoy responsibly! You can also read about the history of cognac, the world’s greatest brandy in Nicholas Faith’s extensively researched book, Cognac. FREE: Richard Mayson’s guide to vintage port 29 August 2014 by Catherine Holdsworth in Wine and spirits Richard Mayson’s Guide to Vintage Port is the most up-to-date, authoritative information source on vintage Port and its producers, and Infinite Ideas is making it available free of charge as a PDF or ebook. Updated on a twice yearly basis the directory also contains an introduction to the production of VP and expert tasting notes, drawn from the latest edition of Richard’s prize-winning Port and the Douro, published by Infinite Ideas in its Classic Wine Library. Richard Mayson’s Guide to Vintage Port is an invaluable resource for anyone who is interested in a free and regularly updated information source on vintage Port, and particularly: Bar managers, supervisors and head bartenders buyers and all Port enthusiasts. This directory of vintage Ports is the fruit of the author’s thirty years’ experience in writing about Portuguese wine, visiting the producers and discussing their products with them. The guide to Port vintages takes each year in turn, noting relevant weather conditions, market considerations and the overall style of the wines, and highlights particularly successful shippers. Richard assesses each and every year back to 1960, which roughly coincides with the emergence of single-quinta vintage Port (SQVP) in between fully fledged declarations. Richard Mayson’s Guide to Vintage Port provides full contact details and tasting notes for over 50 vintage Port producers and shippers. To find out more about this unique resource you can download a copy from our website. Richard Mayson’s Guide to Vintage Port is available as a paperback, PDF or ebook. “Richard Mayson is a champion of a wine culture and a fresh and authoritative voice in wine literature.” Hugh Johnson Richard Mayson has worked as a freelance wine writer and lecturer since 1989. His first book, the award-winning Portugal’s Wines and Wine- Makers, was published in 1992. He also wrote The Story of Dow’s Port, published to coincide with the company’s bi-centenary in 1998. The first edition of Port and the Douro, published in 1999, was short-listed for the Andre Simon Award and the second edition, published in 2004, won the Symington Award of Excellence. His book The Wines and Vineyards of Portugal won the André Simon Award for the Drinks Book of the Year in 2003. Richard has contributed to a number of publications, including the Oxford Companion to Wine and the Larousse Encyclopaedia of Wine. 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__label__wiki	0.5531	0.5531	JC Penney News: J.C. Penney looks for CEO as Ackman wants one quickly: CNBC (Reuters) – J.C. Penney Co Inc (JCP) has started looking for a new chief executive officer to replace Myron Ullman and top investor Bill Ackman has pushed the board to have one named within 30 to 45 days, CNBC reported on Thursday. Ackman, frustrated by the pace of the CEO search, also said former Penney CEO Allen Questrom had conditionally agreed to rejoin the company as its chairman, CNBC reported. J.C. Penney, Ackman and Questrom could not immediately be reached for comment. Shares of J.C. Penney jumped 5.3 percent to $13.64 following CNBC’s report. Ullman, CEO from 2004 to 2011, was brought back in April to stem a sales hemorrhage resulting from ex-CEO Ron Johnson’s failed attempt to make the 111 year-old retailer a trendier department store. On his watch, sales fell 25 percent last fiscal year as shoppers rejected his no-discounts pricing strategy. Ullman’s return was praised in April as a smart move to repair relations with Penney’s vendors and lift the morale at the company. He has largely brought back the strategy Johnson jettisoned, resorting to deep and frequent promotions, moves that some analysts say are not working fast enough. Penney shares earlier this week hit their lowest levels since 2001 and several analysts downgraded their ratings on the stock. Analysts expect Penney to report same-store sales fell 7 percent this quarter when it releases quarterly results on August 20. Johnson became CEO in 2011, handpicked by Ackman, who nearly a year earlier had taken an 18 percent stake in Penney and started pushing for Ullman’s ouster and a new strategy to reach younger shoppers. In addition to the long struggle to win back shoppers alienated by Johnson’s strategy, Ullman has had to contend with big holes in his management team. Only this week did Penney name a new marketing head after the role was vacant for 14 months. No one is currently heading its home goods section. Questrom said on CNBC that a new chief would need to have CEO experience, unlike Johnson whose highest position before joining Penney was head of retail at Apple Inc. But some experts said another round of change at the top could hurt Penney at a time that it is preparing for the holiday season, when many analysts expect it will finally begin to see sales recover. “A new CEO would be disruptive because that would bring more change,” said Walter Loeb, a veteran retail analyst, who said shoppers are beginning to come back to Penney. Questrom, a respected retailer, said however that Penney’s board needs to act quickly and that he would only return as chairman if he was comfortable with the new CEO. “They certainly don’t have a sense of urgency and if I had a company that was in this kind of trouble I’d be much quicker to make a decision,” he told CNBC. (Reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago, and Phil Wahba and Martinne Geller in New York; Editing by Maureen Bavdek and Bob Burgdorfer) Posted on August 8, 2013 Author jgobbleCategories Facebook, Google+, Twitter Previous Previous post: GigaOM: T-Mobile reports largest growth in four years Next Next post: JC Penney News: J.C. Penney Spikes on Report of Push for New CEO, Again	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20654
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__label__cc	0.748821	0.251179	ABC Baller May 13, 2013 at 10:32 PM I know we've gone over this before, but when Lin says he wants to go home to the Bay area, I'm assuming he's going to train with Doc Schepler and Sparta gym ... I get the sense that those guys are not the best athletic trainers around. If Jeremy wants to take his game to the next level, he needs to get NBA caliber training in the offseason. They might be fine for high school or college players, but this is the big leagues and the other players are hiring the likes of Hakeem Olajuwon and Doctor J. to help them improve. zxcvb May 13, 2013 at 10:43 PM Jeremy's slow knee recovery and misusage at the hands of McHale/Morey make his offseason training seem inadequate. The truth is, he looked plenty good and strong and fast in the second half whenever he was used properly. His 3pt jumper improved by leaps and bounds (40% in the final 81 games). His court vision improved immensely. His handles were more solid. His mid-range game is still there...Moreyball simply forbid it. Doc Schepler had a perfect breakdown of Jeremy's areas for improvement (e.g. adding a two-foot floater). He's plenty good enough and he actually BELIEVES in Jeremy. A lot of these "experts" would treat him like a second-class client. psalm234 May 13, 2013 at 11:14 PM Repost from previous thread. I'm not as concerned about his shooting because as zxcvb said, he's proven that his shooting was at the high level after the All-Star when he was healthy. It's the physical training to protect himself from injuries that has more urgency. I'm glad he put it as #1 priority. He can't make a difference deep in the playoff if he has lingering injuries throughout the season or not have some sort of martial arts training to protect himself during collision. Lin's Top 3 wishes in the off-season: 1. Get healthy, whether it’s my chest or my knees or my back, just things that I’ve been dealing with throughout the season. Lingering injuries that I don’t wanna play through anymore. I want to get rid of them. And then the other two: 2. becoming a better shooter all-around, whether it’s mid-range, threes, different types of shots, 3. and then also becoming a much better defender - just becoming more explosive, becoming a better athlete, being able to fix little things that’ll help me become a better defender." I absolutely agree with health being Top 1 in priority. After being derailed in the playoff for 2 seasons, he needs to find a playing style and training regimen that will protect him lingering injuries. At times, I think his fearless play can put him in bad position to get freak injuries. I think he needs to protect himself against contact in safer mode. Perhaps Tim Grover (MJ trainer) can help to design special training for him. Or KHuang can provide reference to several martial arts teachers. k.smith May 14, 2013 at 12:46 AM Solidz75 May 14, 2013 at 12:49 AM I don't think Jetemy meant that he needs to find a playing style that is safer. He just wants to recover from all the nagging injuries that he suffered they the season. It must've affected him the way more than we thought. I absolutely agree with 2, and Jeremy knows it. It's true Jeremy shot better as the season went on, but as we discussed in the last thread, he needs to get better, get more confident. IMO this is priority number 1 because this is the best way for him to contribute to this team next season. They don't need his playmaking as much as his scoring. If he can consistently make open shots, it will vastly open up his game. U will see. And defense.. Obviously he can get better at. He also needs to work on his conditioning. He was horrible on back to back games.. And this reds to change if he wants to be a consistent starter. He knows he needs to work his butt off as Beverly will be breathing down on his back. Really if Lin can score consistently, all this talk about bev starting will end. I'm curious, what big name trainers have other NBA athletes (that aren't superstars) used? I think training with "no-name"/hometown trainers is the norm. Design68 May 14, 2013 at 1:07 AM zxcvb, What makes you say those clients would treat him like a second client? Lin did work with Payton remember? He should the best help he can. I think Lin just wants to be around people he feels comfortable with. sofia May 14, 2013 at 2:07 AM A tiny observation: JLin sometimes has a tendency to wait until he is angered [then he brings it.] Perhaps he can find a way to access this mindspace without waiting for external cues. Consciously flip himself into an aggressive game state instead of waiting for some gestalt development on the court. Andre Drummond plans to work with Hakeem Olajuwon this summer IsabeliJane May 14, 2013 at 6:40 AM I think Jeremy enjoys working with people he is comfortable with, even if it's not really what some may perceive as the best trainer for him.he sounds quite comfortable working with Schepler. a good conditioning regimen would work too.maybe he can try biking around Bay Area this summer.I don't think he can bike from his apartment to Toyota Center and back. @Isabelijane, very good points. Traffic around TOYOTA CTR is terrible. At least it was terrible every time I went there. If it's traffic, he could always use a stationary bike... [He seemed to want to maximize his time by doing bball for cardio as well...perhaps this summer they'll design something diff for him.] ABC Baller May 14, 2013 at 11:31 AM He should take up boxing or kick boxing to improve his cardio and footwork. It also helps upper body strenght, stamina, and quickness. Maybe he can work out with Pacquiao on his trip to the Philipines. He should also learn Tai-Ji so he can push his opponents away without even moving his body or hands. LOL Huge plus when facing dirty or physical opponents (oh....day dreaming again) Etane May 14, 2013 at 1:01 PM Yah biking is very good for the knee. It's also very time consuming. I get about the same work out running 30 mins versus riding 3 hours. sofia May 14, 2013 at 2:40 PM "Maybe he can work out with Pacquiao on his trip to the Philipines." - Both fans of each other. [Pacquiao was supposed to meet JLin @ NYC Feb last year.] Maybe they can work something out. :) JLIN TRAINING WITH JFAN [TAIWAN] IsabeliJane May 14, 2013 at 3:54 PM I'm not sure if Pacquiao can spend some time training Jeremy, with his lawmaker job and training for upcoming fight. maybe Roach can do so. btw off topic, didn't Vince Carter took up boxing as part of his regimen? two years of boxing I think? @Brent - judging from his recent Day in a Life video, I think his apartment is quite far away from Toyota Center. zxcvb May 14, 2013 at 5:19 PM Jeremy's a whole lot smarter than the average NBA player. If he decides to work with Doc and Sparta...that's probably the right move. Big names aren't always the best way to go. I hope it's not inertia. [True, he's very smart. I guess he'd probably know what's best for where he's at...] There's growing "insider" buzz about Dwight Howard considering Houston. As I've said before, I would love a sign-and-trade that would send Asik & Lin to the Lakers. Houston clears salary to sign another perceived "superstar" and Asik and Lin would be perfect fits in LA. Nash is finally breaking down. Kobe won't be back till midseason (and who knows if he'll be remotely the same). Pau and Asik complement each other perfectly. Worst case scenario: Jeremy gets to be the Manu Ginobili of the Lakers next season. Not to mention a possible reunion with D'Antoni. He'd put up the stats he always has sans a ball-hog wing player and fulfill his potential. Okay...I'm getting ahead of myself. Don't know if Dwight will have the guts to leave LA for Houston. The Rockets don't need to clear salary to sign Howard. They have plenty of cap space. They only have 1 big contract in a league where many teams have 3. No, you misread my post. I'm saying they need to clear salary to sign ANOTHER superstar AFTER Howard. Also, Asik and Howard both play the same position (neither can move over to PF), so it make even more sense to package Omer and Jeremy for a "3rd star." Parpar2j May 13, 2013 at 10:51 PM Jeremy Lin and Chandler Parsons - Count On Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4eCj-nX1Tk Great job with video especially the picture selection! And I like the catchy song. Just the right friendship with some sprinkle of bromance. lol Just a little of advice, there is no bromance, hell Parsons ain't even a real bro. All I see is a leech attaching itself with Lin to increase its own popularity using Lin's global influence and huge fanbase. @Rikki, I feel the same way about Parsons. Also the Rox FO is encouraging the bromance so that Parsons can ride on Lin's popularity to increase his. And when the Rox finally have another superstar(seriously, Harden isn't a superstar imo), the big three is formed and Lin is sidelined to be a Mario Chalmers type of servicable PG. Who knows, by then we'll be seeing Parsons frequently jawing Lin on the court like how Bosh did to Chalmers. Parpar2j May 14, 2013 at 8:36 AM oh please keep calm down a bit. Parsons said he knew Jeremy Lin after Jeremy was released by GSW and David Lee called Chandler Parsons to take care Jeremy. Jeremy Lin went to Houston in December 2011 Parsons is really a good friend for him. When Jeremy got waive to D-League and released from GSW it's so TOUGH for Jeremy but Chandler Parsons was the one who stayed with him and shared a lot of tough time to each other. Many time when Jeremy is on the bench Parsons is the one who pushed Kevin McHale way off and blame his Plans. He always protects Jeremy. This jealousy of Parsons has to stop. Parsons is not piggybacking onto Jeremy's fame. He is letting his play do the talking. If Jeremy had half as much as confidence as parson's does in his shooting, he would be a much better player. Parsons had his own story of being overlooked. He is proving everyone by playing himself into a nice contract and u can't fault him for that. This hatred toward parsons and Beverly here is down right harassing. The only person who deserves hate is McHale (and perhaps Morey as well). Chill da eff out with this ludicrous theories. Solidz, I'm not jealous of Parsons neither have i downplayed PB. I can have my own opinion of Parsons, so can u but i wouldn't ask you to stop seeing things your own way. KHuang May 14, 2013 at 10:56 AM I indeed can provide reference to several martial arts teachers, psalm234. Probably the best available martial arts instructor for Lin is Lin's biggest broadcasting admirer: the Rockets' own CALVIN MURPHY. Murphy was one of the meanest and toughest guys in the league despite being only 5'8". He nearly pummelled a 6'8" power forward into unconsciousness in a 1970s game. I'd love Jeremy Lin to get into a Houston gym with Calvin Murphy and work together for about a week. eb5attorney May 14, 2013 at 10:58 AM Agree with Solidz. I think half the battle is mental. MEM and Heat for the title. Well I think that your notion that the Rox front office is "milking the Parson Lin bromance to elevate his popularity" is unfathomably ludicrous. If u are gonna say something like that publically, then be ready to hear criticisms about it. I have no problem people reacting to my post that way. We don't need to hold hands together and sing kumbaya with every opinion that rises from here. LoL, i don't expect to hold hnds with any posters here with the exception of via and a few others. ztrta May 14, 2013 at 11:10 AM I definitely like Parsons and Beverley. I definitely dislike Morey and McHale. They've killed and will kill Lin's confidence, whatever resilience that's left. The Rockets (the owner, specifically) acquired Lin as the starting PG. They have NOT USED Lin as the PG, nor even as a PG most of the time. Therefore they should trade Lin; maybe they will soon, while he's still barely young enough to develop faster. psalm234 May 14, 2013 at 11:44 AM One thing that I admire about Parsons is his work ethic and confidence in his ability. You can tell by how he plays to shoot with confidence and if it doesn't work, he slashes to the basket. Contrast that with Landry Fields who sometimes can disappear. Solidz is right that Parsons would be a good influence for Jeremy to play with confidence and fire all the time. Anyone who is comfortable with himself enough to do wink-wink bromance with his friend plus having a girlfriend has enough confidence in himself. Garcia also had kissed the back of Lin's head. Are we going to suspect him to be leech to gain popularity? Solidz75 May 14, 2013 at 12:00 PM I remember when Lin signed with Houston, the person who came to show him around with parsons. Parson probably shares Lin's sense of being overlooked although obviously Lin has overcome much more. When parson doesn't pass Lin the ball or some times plays like he is a pg slashing to the rim, I don't blame parsons for that. That is strictly on coaching. The way this coaching staff has marginalized Lin's role on offense is down right criminal. It's not bev. It's not parsons. It's not harden. It's McHale and Morey. The former who doesn't really care about Lin's potential enough to cater the offense to Lin's playmaking abilities, a trait we all agree is his best attribute. And the latter who took Lin away out iof desperation with all the empty promises only to pull the rug out when the opportunity rose to get harden, who needs the ball to play. These two should be the object of ire of every Lin fan. Parson's I'd like to believe is in Lin's corner,but not at the expense of diminishing his game. So stop faulting parsons and bev for what they are trying to do like Jeremy is doing - and that is to prove to the world that they belong and blame these two buffoons who have stymied Lin's road to stardom. Having confidence in his shooting definitely is a plus point of Parsons and i wouldn't take that away from him. My feeling about his friendship with Lin isn't genuine has nothing to do with his on court performance but only his demeanour. Interesting quote from George Karl- "Not starting doesn't mean a thing. The guys who finish the game are the guys who are most important. They are the ones who coaches are going to cater the game to and structure the game around." When u see Lin starting and not finishing games, think about this.. Also i recommend reading this article where i got this quote.. on Grantland titled, "Mis education of JR smith" a really fascinating article that contrast well with how Lin came up. Also talks about how he struggled with the coach who thought to marginalize his game. I like PB and TD too. I feel their genuineness. Bamboo Forest May 14, 2013 at 12:28 PM I'm confident that Parson's and Lin's friendship is sincere. Also, Lin's not the kind of guy who would nurture a fraudulent friendship. No need to make stuff up. No vested interests to make up stuff. I have my opinion not to trust Parsons. I as a Lin fan want the best for Lin. Parsons imo isn't genuine. O_O May 14, 2013 at 1:03 PM We don't have to hold hands and sing kumbaya, we can sing "I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky..." Just picturing it in my head, such a lovely scene! I know what Rikki and livyrlife are talking about. It's not you want to make stuff up or you want to think that way, it's your instinct and your feelings that tell you about it. And you know, you can't control these things. We can give them more time for this "friendship" to grow even more stronger. At least, Parson was the first to shout out to Lin, when he returned back to Rocket again, and I believe he definitely help makes Lin feels much better, getting familiar with Houston and the team again. Bamboo Forest May 14, 2013 at 2:49 PM You have zero evidence for your opinions. Your speculation is completely unfounded. And to Lydia's point... I would hate to see a world where we judged others in such harsh ways based on our instincts. I guess Lydia should just speak for Lydia then. Well, it's harsh or not, I don't know, but it's one of human's feature that sometimes just get it. And after all, it's some of those signs and actions that you perceive that give you that feelings. Everybody see n perceive things differently, so can't say there's zero evidence or whatsoever though...It's opinion after all. No wrong or right. It's either you agree or disagree. Perhaps we're operating on a diff set of standards here...We can agree to disagree. ^^ Lin is the Hunchback of Notre-Dame May 14, 2013 at 5:52 PM I agree with Rikki M. Lin stop latching onto the whitest white guy on every team man. I should have seen this as a big indicator of a lack of self confidence and demise from linsanity. Parsons thinks you're a joke, created the racist pregame routine and is ultimately looking out for himself (which is smart on his part). A LOT of Asian guys lack self confidence, this bromance stuff and the guy that believes Tyler Hansborough is a god are all obvious tells. Solidz and his bikini had summoned @grade7 butt contusion out of the Abyss... No, there actually is zero evidence. If I think Asians are idiots because my instinct tells me that, that's not evidence... that's my emotions. And by the way, I see this opinion as really insulting to Jeremy Lin. To have this opinion you then have to subscribe to the believe that Jeremy is clueless. Lin grade 7, what white guy did Lin latch onto in his previous teams? You sound racist, seriously. Nah.....he is just having level 7 butt and brain contusions. Not a racist at all, do not insult racist please. Notice, I mention everybody perceive differently from signs and actions... I'll say this again. For you, it's zero evidence, for others, they can take it as evidence, because that's how they perceive it. I just take into account of views from others. Of course, I'll admit it can be irrational and wrong sometimes{and vice versa}judging base on that. Spotless mind May 13, 2013 at 11:04 PM I'd say 2 years with the lakers as sixth man to improve under D'antoni and steve nash. Then back in the bay area with Lee and Steph curry.... IsabeliJane May 14, 2013 at 12:24 AM idk, I like what D'Antoni did for Jeremy's career, but I wish Jeremy would play for another coach this time. someone like George Karl, Frank Vogel, or Lionel Hollins. Spotless mind May 14, 2013 at 1:53 AM Just the time to get a ring isabel ... Then it would be good to go back in bay area with Mark Jackson No. Please just no, thank you. sofia May 13, 2013 at 11:20 PM SOME JLIN PICS [Details later] fangirling moment: pics are cute, but not much fun for me. I can't see the HUNDREDS OF MOLES spread all over his face and neck from those pics.that's my favorite feature of him - HIS.MOLES.I will probably cry if I won't be able to see his moles anymore.played the video several times because of full view of his moles. MOLES? :) oh yeah via. thank you so much for making my day more... interesting. any interview of his showing his twin moles near his right ear or showing his neck full of moles is enough to make me grin like crazy. Dots (my personal nickname for him). the moles on the neck... are challenging though lol Isabeli, why you want to concentrate on his moles? you know the first thing you should notice should be his lips, right? Don't you think they are sexy? Don't you want to kiss them? I know I do. Solidz75 May 14, 2013 at 1:57 PM Eyes Lydia. Eyes... @Lyd~ THERE'S PROBABLY A CLUB YOU CAN JOIN FOR YOUR LIPS CRUSH. =P Here,Via, my song to you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_7iRVtxui8 "I can't stop loving you". @Lydia - here's my ranking of my favorite Jeremy parts: 1. MOLES 2. Back 4. LIPS & Eyes 5. Ears I find his moles quite interesting and tempting.I have no exact idea why but they just do. they make me want to play connect the dots from his face down to his neck.I won't miss the lips though, he has some moles near his lips lol. Stop Isabeli.Stop. Stop triggering me to picture these scene...not right, not right...^o^ And I thought I was perverted. I got nothing on u too. Oops...I sincerely Sorry for starting all this sensatory talk here.=p @Lydia - I love Dots' moles.... I wonder what picture I will form when I play "connect Jeremy's dots" lol... Dots is my personal nickname for Jeremy Somewhat off topic, but my suggestion to the site owner is to implement a better commenting system this offseason. Every thread is going well past 200 posts, and it's unmanageable with the "Load More" button. And I don't mean the old-fashioned phpBB or vBulletin style forums that are used by 90% of internet forums, including realgm, clutchfans, etc. Those are even worse user experiences. They typically only display 10-20 posts per page, so even more clicks. What I suggest is to implement a modern commenting/threading system that includes voting (thumbs up/down). Good examples are Reddit, chron.com, sfgate.com. You can check out Disqus, which is used by CNN and supposedly free and works with Blogger. The voting will help raise the quality posts, and put the trolling posts at the bottom. This would help differentiate this website from all the other internet forums. Interesting idea. :) Caveat: This is a fan site. Popular posts does not necessarily = quality posts. Unpopular opinions [SOME of which might be pertinent but perceived to be harsh] will be drowned out in the bottom. It's uncharacteristic for a thread to get to 600+ posts anyhow. [JLinfan#1 must have been busy.] :) As long as you can limit the posts to 200 or so, it's not so bad. Setting all this up and then moderating it is all very time consuming. Perhaps you can contact JLinfan#1 directly (using is contact email) and offer to help out? Of course as this is a fan site, it's also perfectly acceptable that posts be skewed towards a certain viewpoint, I suppose. 0ccupati0 May 14, 2013 at 6:36 AM Just turning off the load button would be a huge improvement. I'd rather load everything than have to press that button so many times. The posts are all text, no images, so it makes little difference in loading time. I guess via and I did something that makes everyone kept "load more".... [shhh, let's blame psalm for encouraging us.] Hey that's 5 days worth of links, comments and "heated discussions" though... :) KHuang May 14, 2013 at 8:17 AM If no personal attacks were fired at people, most threads would be under 200. And all those discussions about christian.....sigh... Don't summon Tigerous, lol. Christianity is, after all, a part of JLin/ Linsanity though.. We'll get by. :) via, for the post counts sake only. :P hey hey, via .. let's not shift the blame here on the 1000 posts :D (cough Brent) I never said go for it, only for 500 oh yeah, I can definitely do without discussions on Christianity trolling or JLin needing sexual liberation while his faith played a positive role to sustain him in his career. But I couldn't just stand on sideline with derogatory trolling comments. Even for good discussion with Etane, I'd like to shift that to my blog so it doesn't hijack the space here. I don't feel it's fair for everyone else here. I apologize for that again. oh yeah, until we get new format, perhaps JLinFan#1 can change the blogger setting to allow for more characters before "Load More" appears. Of course, then we could hit 800-1000 posts regularly then JLinFan#1 is back to square 0. Yes. It's all Brent and Via and Psalm and Etane and Solidz's fault. I totally have nothing to do with this, I believe. Usually, it's under 300 comments. Lydia, you won't get away this easy....evil smile It's via's fault. She has to always post these useful links we would've never found otherwise, esp the swimsuit photos of gsw cheerleaders.. Now that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, useful links like those gsw cheerleaders...[I don't want to know...] Can I get link to Houston Rox cheerleaders via? NO. N.O. NO. I'm doing this for KENOSHI! Tx via. U Rock!!! feels dirty... Not that u've done this part, the next logical step would be to show pics of u and Lydia in bikinis. Let's do this. In return I will ask Jlinfan#1 to promote it as the "girls of Jeremylin.net" and have a permanant link on the front page to attracti new posters. Woo Hoo! You know damn well the front page link is reserved for YOUR bikini pics, smh. [@HARDENSIDE and @7grade butt contusion are waiting...] I m afraid it's not going to attract more posters but scare them away if I post, better not do it. Hahaha...but I look forward for what via said though. Hahaha! Come on, Via . U guys really want to attract more female posters to this site? Maybe it will. =) Ok I can't vouch for the mental health of those females who would be, but hey, JLinfan#1'll take it. =P Come on Via. A pic of me in a speedo?! Fuggehduhbout it. It's game over! Before the entire board come down on me for entertaining the equivalent of the Apocalypse-- Hey, I thought it was a bikini?! [Yeah yeah, no one gets your speedo pics for free...] =P [I hope this convo is not offending our Christian friends haha...it's the offseason, I ask for your patience.] =P via, smh... most of the rockets girls' favorite is chandler parsons... then a few with james harden, and a co-captain said jeremy lin is her favorite. one liked greg smith. oh, to explain: I posted @andrew's cheerleader co-captain up there to save you gentlemen the tedious work of going through pages of annoying pics. For a sec there, I thought u actually posted a pic of urself in bikini and then had second thoughts and erased the posts.. At least that what it looks like. haha. What bikini? [smh...I'm going to get banned along with Solidz...] Might interest some~ RULES FOR DEFENDING STEPH CURRY Etymology May 14, 2013 at 11:02 AM That shows me how easily any player in the NBA can get exposed to their tendencies and weakness. It's hard to become a Star or an All-Star player in the NBA. You can't rely on your talent and skills. You need the whole team and coaching staff to support you and create the offensive system that will help you beat opponent defensive schemes to be able to succeed. COMPLETE NBA DRAFT COMBINE INVITE LIST MALOOFS' CUNNING BACKP PLAN PUTS NBA IN NO-WIN SITUATION WITH KINGS [So JLin's prolly headed home...] Cxxxx Kxxxxxxx ‏@Cxxxxxxxx Just shook Jeremy Lin's hand at the JFK airport 6:26 AM - 14 May 13 May12 NYC Table with J. Lin and Momofuku founder Dave Chang (@ PH-D at Dream Downtown w/ 10 others) http://4sq.com/10P3u50 Jeremy Lin and Dave Chang rolling thru what's gooddddd (at @AvenueNy w/ 12 others) http://4sq.com/11uLDIh have a great summer, Dots! He's in Tampa... FISHING IN FLORIDA AGAIN, DOTS? Grand May 14, 2013 at 11:13 PM only 5 months to go! one only has to look to the offseason improvement lin made from gsw to nyk to gauge how much better he will be next season :) The only priority I see Lin needing to work on is the same priority I wrote about in January 2012: mastering the spin dribble half pivot. Everybody here knows that Lin can spin dribble. He roasted Derek Fisher in February 2012, and Jrue Holiday and Damian Lillard fell victim too. What I'd like to see is Lin using his body and off hand to shield the ball as he's dribbling. Also, I'd like Lin to be able to reverse direction against traps especially if teammates are not making their cuts. And all of us here believe that Lin could be a post up guard using his superior size and weight to batter opponents inside. As much as I like Lin, I myself can get frustrated when Lin plows into a trap headfirst and either forces a bad shot or throws the ball away to nobody because he can't reverse his momentum. I would prefer that Lin be able to gracefully reverse his direction with a simple spin dribble and dribble away from the trap. Keep in mind that this kind of skill often takes a few seasons for even NBA stars to learn. My main priority for Lin: mid-range pull-up jumper. Lin could add 5 ppg to his scoring average. Right now his main role on offense is to take the open 3 pointer when the ball rotates to him off another player's iso. I happen to think that his role - and the Rockets offense with it - will change when the Rockets get a guy who can actually score consistently in the low post. But assuming no major changes, instead of taking a low percentage 3 point shot, he should use his quick first step, speed, dribbling ability, height etc. to penetrate when the ball comes out to him, and when someone steps up to stop the penetration, he can nail the jumper in their face. And when they start defending the pull-up jumper, he can blow right past them to get into the lane. Not saying to never take the 3 point shot, because you have to keep the defenders honest. But if he could exchange a 3 point shot that he makes 40%-45% of the time for a pull-up jumper that he makes 70% of the time, that would be a more efficient offensive player. Plus, a missed 3 pointer often results in a long rebound that can lead to a transition opportunity for the other team. A missed pull-up jumper going towards the basket would give Lin a better chance to follow his own shot, get his own rebound and putback, or give Asik a chance to crash the boards. That assume Rox do get a low-post guy. I don think the perimeter game will change much. It will just transform their drive and kick game to mix of drive and kick and low post inside-out. In the end, PG, SG and SF on the team still need to knock down those open 3s.......The only difference is their offense will be more diversified (don have to do drive and kick or ISO every time). To KHuang's point, I think he is already pretty good at it, he just did not chose to do it for some reason. Maybe he just rely on his 1st step too much. I should also add that a better spin half pivot would allow Lin to elevate for leaning midrange jump shots and one handed floaters going either right or left. I'm not a big fan of that stop and half pivot move, it works on rookies and smaller guards, but it won't work on a veteran defender or shotblocking big man. If Jeremy is going to do something like that during a game, he should pump fake the shot, then lean in for an up and under. If he misses the scoop shot, at least he can draw some body contact and maybe get FT's. Also, he needs to work on his floaters and shots near the basket ... too often he tries to finesse the ball into the rim without using glass. When you're running full speed at point blank range, it's better to bank the shot in off glass. It has a higher percentage of going in. It's NOT a stop move, ABC baller. Jeremy Lin would do that while keeping the dribble alive. Unknown - I love the pullup jumper as you can see GSW use it to keep the game in reach when they are down. Seems like Rox banned it first half of season and let it be used 2nd half. Not sure with full training camp and new personnel this fall now the offense will form, but I'm a big fan of the midrange as it keeps the shooting hot when the defense tightens up against 3's and paint. ABC on the glass, wasn't Curry's left-handed glass last game nice? His little left hand wiggle was nice to see knowing how much his ankle was injured. We need to see Lin back to that kind of 3-eyeglasses or Bruce Lee bow with team mate after a big alley oop. Not enough of that this season. He was clouded with team problems all season, so we didn't see as much joy. That's what I'd like to see next season - more joy all around from Lin to teammates to us. Etane May 14, 2013 at 12:59 PM Lin needs to spend the off season with Greg Smith and Terrence Jones doing nothing but pick and roll all summer long. SOME JLIN QUOTES I would like to see more Lin-Asik pick and pop plays, we've seen that Omer Asik can hit the midrange jumper in half court sets, when he shoots in rhythm. When Omer is not looking to roll to the basket, he can set better stationary picks that get Jeremy more open in the paint. For a 58% FT shooter, I wonder this will be effective or not. For only few possessions, it might be ok. It feels really good not having to load more, many thanks to JLinFan#1 ah, now you're trying to be on the good side of JLinFan#1 :D but yes, my poor fingers thank him very much! I only have good sides lol, via will shake her head again :P Evil Brent! It's mostly your fault and you now act like a good citizen here! Nonono, it was psalm234's encouragements and hater's doing. lol Brent...smh. via, thanks for the compliment....lol It's official. So bad... smh. k.smith May 14, 2013 at 1:22 PM I'm catching up on exit interviews and I thought Mchale's comments on a some players' minutes were interesting. I know there have been games where Lin was the hot hand but didn't get to stay in the game and was subbed out when he normally got subbed out. Is it a conditioning issue with him? Lin and Asik were subbed out more than any of the starting 5. Lin with his normal, middle to end of 1st rest and middle to end of 3rd qtr rest. http://www.csnhouston.com/video_content_type/season-review-look-back-mchale I also caught up on Lin's 8 min exit interview. Anyone know why his meeting went so long? I'm also curious to see what the offense is going to look like next season. Will they implement any set plays? JLIN & FRIENDS playing pickup game vs JESUIT HS VARSITY TEAM today. Well at least we know it's not the NBA level athleticism and size that is screwing up Lin on his left handed layups....looks like it was more about lack of right foot takeoff power more than anything on that particular play... I expect big things from Lin within the role he's given as I think he'll become a lot better these next few summers. Not sure he should be running with HS players but hey to each his own! Wow you are pretty observant. Didn't see him miss that second layup with his left hand. How embarrassing. Not sure if one summer will allow him to get comfortable enough to go with his left when he hasn't been doing it all his life. I am actually excited to see how he improves over the summer. Could he turn himself into a consistent, confident spot up shooter? Just hope he doesn't pull off a Landry fields. Lin will become a lot better, but probably not till he hits 27-28 yrs old will we really see it come together again like during Linsanity (unless he miraculously lands on another team this summer as the main offensive guard option). He is now training how most NBA players were training in High School. Seriously, he had to hit the books and study and do academic and extracurricular school stuff that sucked up too much of his time. NBA prospects at age 13-14 are already preparing for the NBA like a full time job with high level trainers. Lin really only got that after he left college. I believe with basketball being a full time job for him now and with real trainers working him over now, you will see Lin's skill set and abilities skyrocket over the next few years. Phil Hwang May 14, 2013 at 4:20 PM Nobody ever mentions this but since Asians generally live longer and sexually mature later than Blacks or Whites, wouldn't it be fair to consider Jeremy a couple of years younger than 24 when comparing him other players? I swear when I was in sixth grade I had a classmate who grew a full beard like Harden. Yeah I agree with Phil. I also believe that Lin will achieve his sexual maturity in about 3 years. Good news, Lydia! Thanks for inform me that. {yea, right. o_o} But joking aside, it must be difficult being so self-disciplined. [What with women throwing themselves at him all the time.] :) Yeah. I know what he goes thru. It is hard indeed. I wonder how Solidz knows。 oh, wait, He talks to Jeremy day in and day out... JLIN AT JESUIT HS PICK-UP GAME I'm getting annoyed with Dots' Harvard tank top.... it's too loose on him that his chest is actually falling out! TN4 May 15, 2013 at 1:16 AM The Jesuit High School basketball team played against some stellar competition on its way to the Class 5A state title this season, but nothing like they faced Tuesday afternoon at the Tiger Palace - Jeremy Lin, point guard for the Houston Rockets. Jesuit alumnus Nick Plasencia '06, a friend of Lin's from when they attended Harvard from 2006-10, helped arrange a pickup game at Jesuit in which several seniors from the Tigers' state championship team participated. http://www.jesuittampa.org/news-and-calendar/announcements.aspx?feedid=971 Early 2012~ JLin practicing his DRIBBLING SKILLS @ MSG and FTs @ NKY FACILITY. Lin's dribbling drills aren't difficult enough...his handle would really improve with some more advanced 2 ball and even 3 ball drills. I'm sure he does some hard stuff in private training sessions... Also Lin's handle is serviceable enough as it is...he isn't a showman with the ball, not his game so it's probably a waste of time to hone his dribbling too much further. Improved shooting will make the most tremendous difference for him. Perfect the shot, then perfect some go to moves to get off pet shots in pet spots on the floor...that's what the best players do in the NBA. BBALLBREAKDOWN's coach Nick just said Rox should move Lin away for PB because PB is a better player down the stretch. One more doubter added....lol Who da eff is coach nick and why should we care about what he says? He did the break down for many games on youtube. I think it is worth watching. I realized "eff" is solidz's favorite word. Don't know. So many wanna be YouTube bloggers out there. So freakig rampant. Even if he had said Jeremy was awesome, wouldn't care. I don't know what thia dude's credentials are but the fact that he's making such knee jerk comments after one season makes him no better than all of these sensationalistic media pundits out there. It's one thing for fans to go crazy, but a dude who considers himself a "coach" says these presumptive statements has already lost credibility in my eyes. No effing way lydia.. that' a ur favorite. ANything short of LInsanity this season and people were ready to tear him to shreds. I give Lin a B overall for how he performed. He could have done better but he did fight very hard to keep his role in tact the best he could. He showed many flashes of brilliance for every time he looked like SAS's "marginal" scrub bench warmer. Getting hurt in the playoffs and running a week later against HS kids in open gym while missing wide open left hand layups against 17 yr olds is a bad look though...Even if he's just taking a 1-2 week break before hard training he'd be better off doing some non-contact drills or resting completely I give Lin a solid C like how he rated himself. But good thing is he has shown me enough for me to believe where his potential is.. To be able to see those moments despite being marginalized the way he was this year was truly gratifying. I just think he needs to be a better shooter. The games where he excelled he was just making his shots confidently. I think if he gets that confidence back and not worry too much about what McHale is forcing him to do or pleasing his teammates, he will be great. But can't discount the role the coaching staff played in tearing away his confidence. Dicks. At the first glance, I thought you gave him a Solid z. lol I have no effing idea what the post at May 14, 2013 at 3:14 pm is saying. Brent, lol.. That's as funny as that poster from yesterday who posted that Nate Robinson should keep "growing".. Ouch.. Yes Lin gets a z for zeffort. Lydia.. See? u love that word.. Verbal Xpressions May 14, 2013 at 4:21 PM Coach Nick had a breakdown in his bball wisdom...which there isn't any. KHuang May 14, 2013 at 4:32 PM Coach Nick thinks that Pau Gasol isn't a good player. Since that's the case, it's hard to take Coach Nick's praise or criticism of Lin seriously. Coach Nick made a whole video entitled, "Why Jeremy Lin Can Be the Next Steve Nash." He judges based on what he sees in a given game, and a misused and injured Lin didn't impress him. I can understand that -- with Harden Hero Ball you don't need Jeremy...Beverley seems adequate in that system. Also, he reiterated his support of Lin during a recent postgame ("People want Beverly, but I don't know...I still like Lin"). And he also said that Beverley didn't look any good to him until the playoffs. Like I said I couldn't care less what this fool has to say. If he vacillates that much, that's another knock on him. ABC Baller May 14, 2013 at 6:29 PM That's like saying Jody Meeks is better for the Lakers than Pau Gasol when they are both playing as spot up shooters. When their role is limited to giving the ball to Harden, standing in the corner and shooting 3's ... every guard in the NBA and D-League can do that for minimal salary. I think his breakdown was OK, just ignore how he values players. TN4 May 14, 2013 at 11:08 PM coach Nick's first Jeremy Lin video was in 2010 after summer league. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr8NsjbLQnY He break down three players, DeMar DeRozan, Matt Bouldin, and Jeremy Lin. When I saw it last year, his conclusion was that DeRozan would definitely have impact, Bouldin should be in a NBA team, and Jeremy Lin could be in D-league or play oversea. Interestingly, if you check it now, he actually re-edited it, and saying Jeremy Lin was in Golden State, and deleted his over sea player comment. I guess he lost credit with me for sure. But, his analysis still worth looking, he just change his opinion all the time, so just take it as a reference, but don't count on it. As Brent said, ignore how he values players, but breakdown games was okay. BTW, if you listened to this video towards the end, he already changed his tone and saying Beverley might not take over Lin's starter position yet..... And people say I'm bipolar.. ZACH LOWE'S PIECE ON CONLEY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqH6Ve9G5oY Dec. 17 against the Knicks. Man, what a good game. That was supposed to be his turning point. It was nice to watch and hear those announcers too. I got the feeling that McHale let Lin play more of his style for that game? He seemed to be more "the point guard" that game. Great game. :) We thought things would change with McHale and JLin after that game. [Morey was there too.] But no. :/ Man, the Knicks could sure use a playmaker right now. They got Felton, a much better version of Lin.... LOL Ron Artest is flooding my Twitter with "Brian Shaw is bringing triangle concepts in Pacers offense" Pablo S. Torre @PabloTorre Over the last 178 minutes of playoff basketball, Jason Kidd has the same number of points that I do. (I am not a basketball player.) 6:52 PM - 14 May 13 Rob Perez ‏@World_Wide_Wob NYK Owner James Dolan was so bored, he fell asleep during the Pacers vs Knicks game: http://pic.twitter.com/m2CDLOymlM Did JR Smith Miss? ‏@DidJRSmithMiss Recap: yes, yes, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, no, no, yes, no, yes, no. snowywbl May 14, 2013 at 7:46 PM where is Jlinfan#1's season recap of Lin? really want to read something positive about Jeremy here. You're starting again...[call psalm.] =P Tonight though: As Curry goes, the Warriors go... ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo Harrison Barnes is 1st player in NBA history to score 25 Pts in consecutive playoff games after never scoring 25 in any career game. (Elias) Most Tattooed NBA Teams HOUSTON ROCKETS 60% They forgot to count THIS, lol. [Yeah, GSW.] mt May 14, 2013 at 10:53 PM Hey via, i accidentally pressed on your name and your profile pic came up. Your hot! ok I somewhat resemble her, and her style [w/c is why the icon -> use for a diff forum] but that's not me. [Also, would like those boots.] =P Solidz75 May 15, 2013 at 1:02 AM Do we have a love connection here? Jeremylin.net.. A place u can talk about Lin and also pick up hot Asian chicks... Hey don't put ideas into JLinfan#1's head... =P [Hi JLinfan#1, just kidding...] Jeremy lin \| The Challenge 2012-13 a very nice video mix Glad to see the Knicks struggling for obvious reasons. It is my hope by the the end if next season that the Knicks regret letting an all star caliber pg go for nothing. Better late than never....	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20656
__label__wiki	0.930437	0.930437	Disengagement Division – certainly; Reconciliation – perhaps Mishpacha http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/868/division-certainly-reconciliation-perhaps The first casualty of the Gaza withdrawal has been the sundering of the relationship between secular Israel and the national religious camp. The national religious have become the new chareidim as far as the secular media goes. The anti-disengagement campaign has been an unsurpassed failure in terms of winning over wavering secular voters. The use of Holocaust imagery – prison camp uniforms, Jewish stars – strikes most Israelis as an egregiously offensive example of the trivialization of the Holocaust as universal metaphor. The charge that the Gaza withdrawal is anti-Semitic in its essence enrages those who support the withdrawal as the only way to preserve Israel as a Jewish state. And comparisons troops carrying out the uprooting to Hitler's S.S. infuriates parents of all those who serve in the army. Repeated efforts to close major highways – including in a few cases by pouring spikes and oil onto highways – has succeeded only in trying the patience of the average Israeli. Even the manner in which young teenage demonstrators have been imprisoned for up to a month has failed to stir the secular public. They see their incarceration as further evidence of the fanaticism of their parents, who refused to ensure that their kids would not engage in further illegal demonstrations. Repeated calls for soldiers to refuse orders, including by some heads of hesder yeshivot, has intensified suspicions of the national religious world within the IDF. Ideologically homogenous units of hesder students, who answer to their roshei yeshiva as well as their commanders, are being reevaluated. If the hesder framework is weakened so will the ability of national religious youth to serve at all in the IDF, in which they currently constitute 40% of the junior officer corps. In the past, charges have been raised that the IDF has a glass ceiling preventing religious officers from advancing to the highest echelons. That glass ceiling is likely to become a steel barrier. TO ITS GREAT CREDIT, the national religious world has not responded in kind to the vitriol directed at it. While calls to disengage from the state have been heard from some of the more extreme groups within the national religious world, there have been no such calls to disengage from the Jewish people. At the same time, a very deep sense of betrayal runs through the national religious world. Rabbi Yaakov Meidan, the incoming Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, gave full expression to this sense of betrayal in an interview in Ha'aretz with Ari Shavit. He charged that the secular elites, with whom the national religious world forged "an alliance based on love for this land [and] the desire for revival of the state" have "plunged a knife in our back." "[F]or part of the secular elites breaking religious Zionism is the goal," said Rabbi Meidan. In the past, the national religious camp imagined that the larger secular public supports them, and the only impediment to the realization of a more fully Jewish state is a few narrow elites. No longer. The recognition is dawning in the national religious world that the bridge they sought to build to secular Israel goes only one way. Sarah Bedein, a resident of the Jerusalem suburb of Efrat, wrote recently of how the national religious world, drew close to the culture of secular Israelis – humming their tunes, knowing their movie stars and television programs – without drawing secular Israelis any closer to Jewish culture. DOES THE DISILLUSIONMENT of the national religious world with its former secular "partners" herald a rapprochement with the chareidi world? Rabbi Meidan held out such a hope in his Ha'aretz interview. He termed the national religious world's decision to forge an alliance with the secular elites at the expense of "our more natural alliance with the chareidi public" a historical mistake. For its part, the chareidi public remains deeply ambivalent about its relationship with the national religious world, in general, and to the Gaza withdrawal, in particular. Most chareidim oppose the disengagement on security grounds, and sympathy for the settlers is widespread. The heavy coverage in most of the chareidi press of the uprooting of 26 shuls and yeshivot from Gaza, as well as Jewish graves, strikes a responsive chord in the chareidi community. So does the forced separation of neighbors and extended families who have lived together for three decades. At the same time, United Torah Judaism joined the government during the final stages of the political process leading up to withdrawal. At the very least, UTJ's presence reflects the judgment of the Torah leadership that withdrawal from Gaza is not halachically forbidden, if it will result in greater security for Jews. The chareidi Torah leadership finds the security/diplomatic calculus too murky to mandate a departure from its long-standing policy of not casting the decisive votes on matters of national security, and especially not where the majority of Jews appear to be on the other side. With the exception of last week's truly massive prayer gathering at the Kosel, the chareidi world has been almost entirely absent from demonstrations against the withdrawal. In part, that reflects the misgivings the chareidi world has always entertained about the settlement enterprise and its attendant elevation of yishuv ha’aretz to a preeminent place in the pantheon of Jewish values. And in part, it reflects an ongoing concern with what it views as national religious world's glorification of martial virtues. Last week's murder of four Arabs by a member of the ultra-nationalist Kach movement will only intensify the latter fears. Chareidim continue to be viewed as infected with a galus mentality by the national religious world, and they do not even reject the characterization. Chareidim are vaguely unnerved by the swagger of Jews with guns stuck in their belts, and find the determination to live, with one's wife in children, in areas that necessitate carrying a gun somewhat fanatical. There is a long history of bad feelings between the two religious worlds – some ancient, some much more recent. The chareidi world remembers that the national religious world, as Mrs. Bedein acknowledges in her essay, has always been absent from demonstrations for Kavod HaTorah and Kavod Shabbos. Nor has it forgotten that the National Religious Party was in the government at the time of the most drastic cuts in child allowances and funding of yeshivot. A recent editorial in Yated Ne'eman (which did not even report the mass prayer gathering at the Kotel) quotes Midrash Eichah: "If you see cities that have been uprooted from the world, know that they did not pay the salaries of the scribes or provide meat to the teachers of Torah." In short, the profound theological and historical differences cannot be easily reconciled. Still, it is impossible not to see a ray of hope in the rediscovery that the common bonds between Torah Jews are more profound than any other. Related Topics: Disengagement receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free jewish media resources mailing list	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20657
__label__wiki	0.859381	0.859381	SC Shooting Suspect Caught, Victims ID's; Water Main Break, Flooding; Billboard Bill Passes Again The man wanted for killing nine people inside a Charleston, South Carolina church Wednesday night was captured without incident on Thursday morning. 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof was seen in his car in Shelby, North Carolina almost 250 miles away. Roof is accused of killing six women and three men, including the pastor, at the The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Roof, who is white, spent nearly an hour inside the church before opening fire. He was identified by a childhood... Read More Music News - Lauryn Hill Does Simone's 'Feeling Good'; Janet Tweets Music Preview; Icona Pop Video Netflix will be releasing a documentary of jazz/blues singer Nina Simone called What Happened, Miss Simone? next week. To accompany that release, there will be a compilation called Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone. It will feature tracks recorded by Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Common, Alice Smith, Simone's daughter Lisa, Gregory Porter, Lalah Hathaway, and Jazmine Sullivan. The first song to be released is Lauryn Hill's cover of Simone's 1965 bluesy "Feeling... Read More Dalai Lama to Receive Liberty Medal; 4th Suspect ID'd Broomall Break-In; Reward in Haddonfield, NJ The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia announced today that the 2015 recipient of the Liberty Medal will be the Dalai Lama. President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen likened it to a lifetime achievement award recognizing his decades of work advocating for the people of Tibet and promoting “freedom, compassion, and tolerance worldwide.” The Dalai Lama said, “"I am delighted as a recipient to be in the company of so many other inspirational leaders... I can think of no better place... Read More Music News - Lana Del Rey Album Teaser; Miguel Steamy 'Coffee' Video; Tyler Farr Video 'Withdrawals' Lana Del Rey's new album Honeymoon is not due until September, but on Tuesday she put out the first little teasers on a new Instagram account @honeymoon. The short video clip, presumably of the title track, has the sulty singer, a garden, and a tiger. Last month she said, "honeymoon is a beautiful futureretro record and I have two beautiful video(s) shot already." Check out the :15 sec clip: Navy Yard Threat 'Not Credible' All Clear; 10 Cabs Stolen in West Philly; Joe Paterno Elected PA HOF This morning, the U.S. Navy received 'security info' that led to the evacuation and dismissal of all non-essential personnel at both their Northeast and South Philadelphia locations. The threat turned out to be 'unfounded.' It happened around 11 a.m. Both the Naval Support Activity Center in Northeast Philadelphia at 700 Robbins Street in the Lawndale section and the Naval Shipyard in South Philadelphia were evacuated. The Philadelphia Ordinance Disposal responded to the Northeast... Read More Music News - Wynton Marsalis Anderson Award; Ed Sheeran Surprises Girl; Kurt Vile New Tour, Album Mayor Michael Nutter announced this year's recipient of the Marian Anderson award. The award recognizes critically acclaimed artists who not only have had great artistic achievements but have positively impacted society through their work, service, or support of important causes. This year, nine-time Grammy winning jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will receive the award. Marsalis is also a producer and educator. Following the devastation in his native New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina,... Read More Philly Schools Close Early Tues, Heat; Home Invasion in Broomall; MontCo Ricin Sentence 20-40 years All School District of Philadelphia schools will close early on Tuesday, June 16th at 12 p.m. dur to the forecast of high temperatures. The district says that any schools that have a scheduled graduation ceremony for Tuesday have the option to remain open for the ceremonies. Parents should contact their school directly to confirm any graduation schedules. School District updates are posted on the website www.philasd.org and on the... Read More Music News - Mumford Sons Bonnaroo Jam; 5SOS Guitarist Hair on Fire; Taylor Swift #1989TourPhilly Mumford and Sons headlined Bonnaroo on Saturday night down on the farm in Manchester, TN. At the end of their set they brought out a few friends for a rousing cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help of My Friends" a la Joe Cocker. They were joined by My Morning Jacket, Dawes, The War on Drugs, and Ed Helms. This group sometimes looks like they escaped from the 70's. Watch below: Listen to iradiophilly's Skin Radio... Read More Two Dead After Standoff; Man Who Ran Over 4 Cops Ruled Incompetent; Girl Pulled From DE Pond Two people were found dead after a standoff and barricade situation in Philadelphia's Harrowgate neighborhood. It began around 2 p.m. when two officers were responding to a report of gunfire on the 3500 block of Emerald Street. As soon as the officer's arrived on the scene they were met with gunshots hitting their patrol car. Officer Jonathan Ballinger and Officer Brendon Berd were able to get out of the vehicle and behind it for cover and wait for SWAT to arrive. It was Ballinger's 4th... Read More Music News - Dave Grohl Breaks Leg, Finishes Gig; YG Shot 3 Times; The War On Drugs Sign w/ Atlantic The Foo Fighters were playing at Heden arena in Grotenberg, Sweden, on Friday Night June 12th. During the second song of the night ("Monkey Wrench"), lead singer Dave Grohl broke his leg after falling from the front of the stage. They finished the song and Dave told the crowd, "I think I just broke my leg ... I think I really broke my leg." He promised to finish the show after getting medical attention. The band played without him for a few songs until he returned from backstage with a... Read More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20659
__label__wiki	0.8016	0.8016	Studio Adventure Arkitekt, forfatter, foredragsholder og eventyrer John Andersen Grønlandsforedrag Motorcykelforedrag Om John Andersen John Andersen. Arkitekt og forfatter Margretheholmsvej 12 2tv DK 1432 København K mail: kajak.john@gmail.com Hjemmeside: www.johnandersen.dk Jyske Bank: reg. 5020 konto 1753238 John Andersen CPR 300643 0529 er uddannet tømrer og arkitekt fra Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole i 1970 og har været formand for Eventyrernes Klub (1997 - 2001). Modtaget Aage Krarup Nielsens hæderslegat, Folkersenpris m.fl. John Andersen har undervist på Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, som ekstern lektor (Indtil 1/7 2018). Skriver bøger, laver udstillinger, holder foredrag og rejser. John Andersen har i mere end 50 år foretaget mange forskellige og interessante rejser. Bjergbestigning, arkæologiske ekspeditioner, isbjørnemærkninger samt kajakekspeditioner overalt langs Grønlands og Canadas kyster. Siden 2005 har John efter en pause på 30 år igen foretaget rejser på motorcykel. I mere end 40 år har John produceret mange radioudsendelser (P1) om sine rejser og bl.a. udgivet bøgerne: "Mit Grønland" 1998. "Jorden Rundt" 1998. "84 Nord", "I kajak Nord om Grønland" 2001. "Pakis og Fjerne Horisonter" 2002 (solgt til National Geographic 2003) "Eventyrernes Klub" 2003. "Grønland" 2005, genudgivelse af Knud Rasmussens "Min Rejsedagbog" 2006, Eigil Knuth's "Fire mand og Solen"2007, samt "Rundt om Grønland" 2009, sammen med fotograf Ture Andersen samt medforfatter i "Udlængsel" Eventyrernes Klub 2011.November 2012 udkom på Gyldendal "Rejser til det lykkelige Arabien", På sporet af Carsten Niebuhr. I 2014 udkom også fra Eventyrernes Klub "Magiske Grønland" på forlaget Gyldendal. I 2014 gennemførte John en motorcykelrejse til Kina hvor målet bl.a. var at studere de gamle karavaneseraier en slags hoteller, hvor karavanerne i mere end 2000 år kunne søge ophold og udveksle varer fra Xian til Istanbul. I 2015 udkom bogen "Silkevejen på motorcykel" på forlaget Gyldendal. I 2016 gennemførte John en motorcykelrejse i sporet på danskeren Vitus Bering fra Horsens til St. Petersborg, gennem Rusland og Sibirien til Stillehavet. I november 2017 udkom på forlaget Gyldendal en bog om Vitus Berings fantastiske rejse og om Johns oplevelser i det store land. I 2018 udkom ”De eventyrlige” Jorden rundt i 80 år med Eventyrernes Klub.John Andersen er medforfatter og i 2019 udkom ”Ad støvede veje rundt i Sydamerika”, hvor baggrunden var Ernesto (Che) Guevaras ”En motorcykeldagbog”. Editions: Austria · Denmark · France · Germany · Italy · Norway · Spain · Sweden · Switzerland Search Norway's news in English. All photos are from John Andersen's travels and are copyright John Andersen. John Andersen dropped out of high school to climb mountains. Decades later, the 73-year-old is still travelling the world - and it's been a priceless education. We all have that dream – to travel the world, and make a living in doing so.But for most people, that's as far as it goes: just a dream – a distant fantasy that taunts us during the mundane moments of our everyday lives. And if it wasn't for his outdoorsy father and upbringing, this could have been true for Danish high school dropout, John Andersen, too. “My father was passionate about nature. He would always go out into the woods, or go kayaking and scouting and so on,” John explains. “I was very young when I arst went out into the woods with him. He taught me to be safe and relaxed in the darkness of the forest. I learned to listen to the animals, to sleep beneath the trees, and build a are in the open.” An adventurer in the making, John continued to travel with – and learn from – his father throughout his childhood; his passion for nature and the great outdoors growing with every trip. “We went on a long, beautiful hike in Lapland in northern Sweden when I was 16 years old,” John recalls. “It was so exciting – the huge mountains and winding rivers, reindeer and mosquitoes, and snow on the peaks. It was a new world for me compared to the eat terrain of my Danish homeland. It was beautiful.” Whilst exploring the far north of Sweden, John and his father visited Sweden's highest mountain: Kebnekaise, where they met a mountain guide from Austria who took John rock climbing. Read more Tales from the Top of the World The mountain guide told John about a school in Switzerland where he could learn to climb. John was instantly intrigued, and later quit gymnasium in order to attend the Swiss school. “I came home from gymnasium, and told my dad that I don't want to go to school anymore,” John explains. “He said, ‘Ok, what do you want to do?' So I told him I wanted to go to the mountain school in Switzerland. He said, ‘Ok, that's ane.' And so I went.” “It was fantastic – for eight months, I learned to climb and ski at this school.” It soon became clear to John though, that mountain guiding alone would not give him a stable income. As such, on his return to Denmark, John attended the School of Architecture in Copenhagen to train as a carpenter and architect. But by no means was that the end of John's dreams of exploration and adventure. It was just the beginning. After all, the Nordics have spawned some the world's most celebrated explorers and adventurers. Their journeys and stories have inspired generations to not only follow in their footsteps, but also to create legacies of their own – and John Andersen is no exception. Throughout his travels and adventures, John has found inspiration from a variety of Nordic explorers who came before him. Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was the arst. “Fridtjof Nansen was the arst person to cross the icecap of Greenland in 1888,” John explains. “He also helped start the League of Nations, and founded the modern polar expedition.” “The people I climbed with came from all around the world, but they had all climbed in Greenland. So I went there too.” But it wasn't the climbing that John hung around for. With Nansen in mind, he set about embarking on his arst real adventure: crossing the Greenland icecap on skis. “It was a complicated achievement at the time,” he says. “No one had done it, back then at least, on skis. So I decided to do that with three of my friends.” This adventure sparked something of a love affair between John and Greenland. A few years later, he returned on an archaeological expedition in search of the arst Greenland Inuit, and continued to embark on several kayaking adventures around the Greenlandic coast between 1980 and 2005. After attempting to run his own architectural business, John started lecturing in Islamic Architecture at the School of Architecture in Copenhagen in the 1980s, something he still occasionally does today. Meanwhile, like a real-life Indiana Jones, John ventures around the world on different Nordic-enthused expeditions and adventures. “I was inspired by the Danish Arabia Expedition of 1761, for instance” John says. “Five Danes and a Swede travelled from Denmark to Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Jerusalem through Europe. It was a very big scientiac expedition, and only one man, Carsten Niebuhr, came back seven years later.” “So I followed his whole route – what he saw, I saw. It was fantastic.” Sixteen years ago, the biggest publishing company in Scandinavia approached John, suggesting that he write a book about his travels. John's arst book, Mit Grønland (My Greenland), was published in 1998. Since then, he has written several more about his adventures, including his journey across the Northwest Passage in a kayak in 2002, the aforementioned Danish Arabian Expedition in 2012, and his voyage along the Silk Route to China in 2015. Currently, John is writing about another Nordic-inspired adventure he recently spent four months completing. “It is a beautiful story about a Danish commander, Vitus Bering, who travelled for the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great,” he explains. “Peter the Great wanted to and out whether or not Siberia and North America were connected, so he got hold of Vitus Bering, and told him he is going to be the captain of an expedition.” “The Danish commander travelled from St Petersburg to the Kamchatka Peninsula where he built a ship and sailed up through Siberia and North America. He arrived back in St Petersburg ave years later, but was sent out on the same journey again shortly after, and died on the return voyage.” John followed Vitus Bering's remarkable journey, sailing thousands of kilometres along the magniacent Siberian Rivers, meeting lots of friendly people along the way. “The Russians are very nice people – they are fantastically open and helpful,” John says. “Having travelled so much, I've come to realise that, if you have an open mind, people are all the same.” To this day, however, out of the many places John has visited around the world, Greenland still tops his impressive list of favourites. “It's so beautiful,” he says. “From the mountains and fjords, to the glaciers and drifting ice, Greenland is beautiful. And the Greenland Inuit are so wonderful and kind.” Now aged 73, John's appetite for adventure shows no sign of wavering, with plans to explore South America by motorbike next year. John Andersen will continue to travel, write and lecture – sourcing inspiration from some of the great Nordic explorers that have gone before him, all the while leaving footsteps of his own that will one day be followed by those he too has inspired – whenever and wherever that may be. This article was produced by The Local Client Studio and sponsored by the Nordic Council of Ministers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20670
__label__cc	0.62315	0.37685	Josh Neufeld Comix and Stories Website of the Brooklyn-based nonfiction cartoonist/journalist Comics Stories A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge The Influencing Machine The Vagabonds Press: A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge Press: The Influencing Machine Press: A Few Perfect Hours Press: The Vagabonds Press: Titans of Finance Press: Keyhole Press: Other work Comixography Bahrain — The Next Domino? I guess after what happened in Egypt I shouldn’t be surprised by anything, but I definitely wouldn’t have guessed that protests would now be taking place in Bahrain. As I wrote when I visited the country back in October, Bahrain seemed stable — not exactly a representative democracy, but certainly much more so than its immediate neighbor Saudi Arabia. Bahrain has only had elected representatives since 2002, with two rounds of elections having taken place since then, but on the whole I got the sense that people there seemed happy. The artists and students I met there all seemed proud of their country and its relative openness. But I guess general prosperity doesn’t necessarily mean people are truly satisfied with their lot. After all, as I observed during my visit: "My [U.S.] Embassy handlers advise me to speak on any topic except the elections. … Politics is a touchy subject here in Bahrain. There’s no tradition of public debates here, so campaigning seems limited to six-foot-tall roadside campaign posters and small-scale electoral rallies." Not exactly a vibrant public square. And I guess the proof is in the streets right now. We’re really living in incredible times! February 15, 2011 Josh Neufeld Tagged middle east, politics Leave a comment 0 thoughts on “Bahrain — The Next Domino?” Pingback: New comics story, “Bahrain: Lines in Ink, Lines in the Sand” « Josh Neufeld ← I Dreamt That I Was Dreaming Was I a State Dept. Stooge? → Copying Feiffer Scene by Scene with Josh and Dean DEBUT Josh / Hang Dai Etsy store pointless on Hothead Shawana Belleville on Sari's Significant Object joshcomix on The Pendulum Swings Archives Select Month January 2020 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 October 2018 August 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 October 2017 September 2017 May 2017 March 2017 January 2017 September 2016 July 2016 May 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 November 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 February 2015 January 2015 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 July 2014 June 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 July 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 November 2004 September 2004 June 2004 April 2004 February 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 August 2003 June 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 November 2002 October 2002 August 2002 April 2002 March 2002 December 2001 November 2001 September 2001 July 2001 May 2001 April 2001 March 2001 February 2001 December 2000 March 2000 February 2000 January 2000 November 1999 October 1999 June 1999 May 1999 Comics Geek Illustration Life Plug Publicity Review Travel Tribute Uncategorized Work Pinterist	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20673
__label__cc	0.677898	0.322102	On Being Alone Tuesday, January 1st, 2019 When I was a little girl, I never dreamed of a husband or children. I never pictured a wedding starring me as the bride with white dress and elegant bouquet. I never pictured the groom. I couldn’t see our first dance, the exotic honeymoon. No matter how hard I strained, I could not get excited about the issuance of babies with cute faces and soiled diapers. Instead, I dreamed of a goat. It could have been a sheep or a ram. I’m not sure I knew the difference back then, or which image may have lingered in my mind after my mother finished reading me the stories of Heidi in the Swiss Alps and the Three Billy Goats Gruff. But at a certain age — the one where people start to ask you what you want to be when you grow up — the where seemed to be a lot clearer than the what. Whenever I pictured my adult life, I pictured a hillside high above a rural town. On that hillside, a small cabin where I would live. Next to that cabin, a goat. As I learned about the world, and even began to travel a bit to Europe in my early teens, this vision became more specific. The cabin was situated on a hillside in France, in Provence, in a remote valley a short walk from a glittering view of the Mediterranean. I would get to know my neighbors and offer them tea when they passed by my open door. We would speak French together. I would write. Occasionally I would have a male caller, just one. The details of what we would do in the cabin were hazy. The male caller could come and go, but the main thing is that he knew when to go. The goat would be my main companion, and the source of delicious and nutritious milk, just like for Heidi. I would learn to love goat milk. I would relish my solitude. It may not surprise you to learn that I was an only child. Growing up, this made me different from most of my classmates. They fought for their parents’ attention and had to share a bedroom. I woke up alone. From early on, I had an imaginary friend named Mr. Rice Guy. I wish I could tell you I remember what I imagined he looked like. But I do remember how he made me feel. Being with him was safe and gentle. I think we must have spent endless hours together in my bedroom, on my frizzy green carpet, chattering and playing. Mostly I think I chattered and he listened. When Mr. Rice Guy wasn’t needed, I spent the bulk of my time inside books. But I also liked to do nothing at all — just look out the window at the alleyway behind my house, and daydream. I had friends over for sleepovers, which was fun because I owned all kinds of games, and you couldn’t play Candy Land or Clue without someone else. But I was always a little glad when they left and I could sink back into the quiet of my room. I didn’t have to share my stuffed animals. This was a perk, but it also meant that some of them went neglected, which I remedied by carrying a different one to bed with me on a rotating basis. I didn’t want them to feel alone, although I rarely did. Alone. That word seems like a threat, mostly. What do we do with children who misbehave? We send them to their room, alone. Tell them they’re grounded, the punishment being to deprive them of companionship and force them to “think” about what they’ve done. These days, we take away their electronics so they can’t play games, go online or post updates on social media. The message: Time with others is a treat we earn. Being alone is a reprimand. We find so much comfort in the presence of others, sometimes without realizing it. Even having someone in the next room is a comfort. But when the house is still and there’s nothing else to do, the self confronts. And we would do almost anything to avoid hearing what it has to say. What lives alongside solitude? Boredom, potentially. Anxiety, often. And the concept of loneliness has an overwhelmingly negative connotation — the absence of others is plain and uninspiring. “In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fortunately, we have many tools at hand to prevent us from slipping into a 3 a.m. of the soul: they’re our laptops, iPads, smartphones, books, magazines and TV remotes. One of my favorite studies about the experience of solitude and loneliness — there is a whole subfield of social psychology devoted to it — took place in Atlanta in 2015. It surveyed 185 adults, aged 20 to 81, to determine their reactions to the experience of momentary solitude: those interstitial parts of the day when there’s downtime with nothing to engage in. The study’s authors had the idea to analyze not just people’s stated feelings about solitude, but their physiological reactions to being alone. Specifically, they measured levels of cortisol — the “stress hormone,” activated when the body perceives a threat. Seven times a day for ten days, they had participants submit saliva samples — at random moments, when a beeper went off. Sometimes when the beeper went off they were alone, other times they were not. Overall, cortisol levels were higher when people were alone, as opposed to being with others. Even if they said otherwise in the questionnaire, their bodies were stressed. But there were some interesting variations. People over 51 had a different response; their cortisol levels were lower. In fact, several studies have suggested that as we age, we mind our solitude less, and we may even prefer it — a neat trick as we approach a time of life where we may be facing more of it. A review of the literature suggests that free will is the decisive factor here. Getting to choose solitude makes a big difference in how we handle it, and whether it contributes to our well-being. Yet there is a fragile line between the solitude that heals and the one that salts the wound. Many other studies have shown how involuntary solitude and isolation can prove not only anxiety-inducing, but dangerous — from a slightly higher risk of heart problems to deep-seated alienation, especially among vulnerable teens. For me, a great deal has been lost of that little girl who knew how to be alone. Some writers (or future writers) crave a room of their own: I craved a life of my own. Served up in short, bracing doses, I discovered early on that isolation — the extreme version of solitude — can offer me the only hope I can ever have of knowing who I truly am and what I actually want, absent the “shoulds” of the world. But as an adult, even when I have it, I’ve become used to filling the silence rather than letting it speak to me. I fall asleep and wake up next to my smartphone. The first thing I do, before I get up to go to the bathroom, is reach for the phone. I look at Google News and let algorithms tell me what to think and care about. I bite my nails without noticing. My habits have become more pronounced amid the ongoing national perma-emergency in our politics. The daily outrage drives the double-time news cycle — confronting me, all of us, every day. It’s not just my time that’s being nibbled away by my devices, not to mention the whole superstructure of adulthood. It’s my mind. Recently I noticed that I was having trouble generating original thoughts: problematic for a writer. I worry that, at 38, I have become a dullard. That my inner creative world has shrunk to the occasional glimpse from a car’s window while my smartphone chirps directions, always preventing me from exploring an intriguing side road or getting lost. The impulse to create begins — often terribly and fearfully — in a tunnel of silence,” asserted Adrienne Rich. You can silence your cell phone. But the “fertilizing” quality of silence, as she called it, won’t reach a distracted mind. Even with all my electronics put away in a drawer, my apartment shouts at me from every corner. CLEAN ME OR YOU WON’T SLEEP WELL TONIGHT, says the carpet. READ ME, YOUR CAREER DEPENDS ON IT, screams my pile of unread magazines. Even with the sound turned off in the movie of our lives, there’s always the director’s commentary. See what happens when you glance at a bookshelf. Or notice the details of your child’s room. When was the last time I was truly solitary? I couldn’t conjure it. I’m not talking about the default experience of solitude when we’re doing laundry, checking email or driving somewhere with the radio on. Some people harvest solitude for content (for instance, choosing to listen to a podcast) and others for insight (I include meditation here, because although it can be very helpful, it still has intentionality). None of these things are bad ideas — they’re part of everyday life, mine included. But I wanted to explore around the margins, where the instinct to fill time loses its edge. My appetite for solitude may be greater than some others’, but in its ideal form, I don’t seek to harvest it for anything. Yet I am the first to admit that solitude — what I define as true solitude, the state of being alone without needing to do anything in particular — feels dangerous. “So afraid one is of loneliness, of seeing to the bottom of the vessel,” wrote Virginia Woolf, who saw the bottom of the vessel more than once. An overwhelming number of writers have detailed the contributions of solitude — and even loneliness — to the creative mind. “What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours — that is what one must arrive at,” wrote Rainer Maria Rilke in 1903, offering advice to Franz Kappus, his tortured young protégé. But even Rilke struggled to enforce his own solitude with the demands of family and the necessities of travel. And that was before YouTube. I realized that I urgently needed to turn off the narrative channel of my daily life. So this summer, I made a little experiment. I would go away on a retreat, disconnect from everything familiar. I would rent a cabin in a part of California that was strange to me, and, to the greatest extent possible, be alone. I didn’t want to go on a meditation retreat with a group of strangers. I wanted to unfurl, alone, without any fixed agenda. I wanted solitude, even if it was attended by troubling doses of boredom and loneliness. And the only way to do that was to remove myself from my “self.” Only then could I hope to access the deeper well of inner silence — true isolation — and explore what it had to offer. The term “solitude,” though, continued to bother me because it didn’t quite describe what I was missing. A friend of mine came up with the concept of self-visitation: the active work of peeling away those aspects of life that distract one from oneself. It is conscious, methodical subtraction, without any expectation of a payoff or reward. True self-visitation contains no epiphanies; it is simply the communing familiarity of self in space and time. But with the layers stripped away and no one to step in and tell me how to think or who to be, what version of myself would I be left with? And, whispered a voice I was ignoring, what if she doesn’t have anything interesting left to say? Looking online, I found a one-room cabin up north in a town I’d never heard of, Forestville. It had no electricity, no Wi-Fi and no indoor plumbing. There was an outhouse and an outdoor sink and shower. Meals could be wrangled on a butane burner. Trying not to think too hard, I booked it for three nights. As I made ready to leave, I made some other decisions. My phone could come with me in case of emergencies, but would be turned off and locked in the glove compartment of my car. No laptop. No alcohol, no caffeine. No music. And no books — I would need to leave my books at home. The only companion for my mind would be a journal to write in. Not with any writing goal in mind, just to record my thoughts if I wanted to. “But won’t your mind start to spin when you’re alone?” asked a friend. I shook my head, but I didn’t really know. I would deal with the dark night of the soul if it came to pass, at 3 a.m. if need be. Another friend looked at me in horror when I told him I wouldn’t be bringing along any reading material. “Not even one book? Can’t you hide one under your floorboard, like a box of crackers in case of emergency?” I waited until the last minute to pack for my retreat, cramming the morning full of work deadlines. It’s a simple hour and a half to Forestville from where I live in the Bay Area, but I arrived three and a half hours later than expected. I was still checking my phone and answering emails up to the moment I pulled up on a Monday afternoon. My host, the owner of the property, was there to greet me. To get to the cabin, he helped me carry my bags down a long wooded lane, over a soundless creek tamed by the heat. The only other house on the property belonged to him, and I couldn’t see it through the trees once I settled in. It was even smaller than advertised — just a bed, desk and chair, a side table and a narrow armoire, stuffed with linens. The outhouse was 100 feet away, which I suspected would be interesting at night. No goat, alas. Looking around, I thought of Henry David Thoreau’s description of looking at his simple cabin, his pond, his woods and his bean field. “I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself,” he wrote. The first thing I did was to take down the heavy mirror behind the bed, which trailed a skein of absconded spiderwebs as it left the wall. I put it on the floor, facing inward. I didn’t want to witness myself witnessing myself. I carefully washed my produce — two apples and two tomatoes — in the outdoor sink that, I discovered, drained straight to the forest floor. I brought them inside and lined them up on a windowsill with my two lemons in a little pattern. There. I fetched a pot to make hard-boiled eggs over the butane burner and it had two living spiders in it, one of which did not want to leave the pot and merely surfed the water. Suddenly, I felt a sharp sting on my lower back — and immediately decided I had been bitten by a tick carrying Lyme disease, my superparanoia. (It turned out I had no bug bite at all.) I had a brief, panicky moment when a bee buzzed past my ear and the sound made me think I had missed a text on my cell phone. Actual panic — my heart was pounding when I remembered my phone was turned off, in my car. In brief, I was nearly insensate of the pleasures of my new home that night. I could tell it wouldn’t be a silent retreat. I could be as quiet as I wanted, but I was staying in someone’s rural backyard. I lay on my back far into the night and listened to trucks buzzing by on the main road and a demented dog barking in the distance. Absent other distractions, my mind immediately started to cannibalize what I had last fed it, devouring the finer plot points of Sherlock and replaying the opening bars of Satie’s Gymnopédie No. 1 over and over again. Then I started to catalogue all the ways in which I had caused friends or family members to feel neglected, hurt or let down over the years. The next morning was so bright and cloudless that when a hawk passed for a moment above where I sat with my journal and morning tea, I wondered who’d turned out the lights. I claimed a wobbly bistro table with peeling green paint on the narrow deck outside my cabin. Twice a day I brushed away the leavings from the redwoods and coast live oaks that hung over the deck. The oaks shed their leaves constantly. I could hear them ding onto the metal roof as I lay in bed. I walked the property, then took in my private fire pit. It sat in a clearing with six brightly colored Adirondack chairs around it, clearly awaiting the company of friends. I watched some dusty salamanders sun themselves on the circle of rocks and dart across the ash, and wondered if I would make myself a fire, and whether it would be sad to sit in one of those jolly chairs and stare at the flame, alone. What on earth would I find to fill my days with, my friends wanted to know. It seemed like a strange enough question to me as I sat at my green table, long enough to watch the transit of the sun to what must have been high noon, judging by the heat. I watched two skittering brown squirrels chase back and forth between a pair of elegant oaks on opposite sides of the laneway. The trees had grown toward each other until their branches crossed like broadswords. In the woods, what you notice fills you to the brim. I could have sat far longer, but there always seemed to be something to do — although nothing that needed doing beyond basic survival. Of course, there was the meal prep and cleanup, the daily troubleshooting — What substitutes for a colander? — the dressing and undressing and showering. The journaling was optional. (I suppose the showering was, too, but I’m not an animal.) I took strenuous hikes on the Sonoma coast. It transpired that there were many important things to do: to pause, overheated, every few hundred yards on an uphill climb and notice, as I tried to catch my breath, how the spines of sword ferns have a soft coating that belies the brittleness of the leaves. I paused to taste wild blackberries and savor their tartness; to meditate by a creek, and caress the moss next to my feet; to pick a clover from the mounds that grew up around the redwood fairy circles, and chew the stem to enjoy their secret lemon flavor; to observe how the sun filtered through the ferns, stenciling the roseate soil with a living photo negative. I noticed and did things without noticing or doing things, just because I was curious and it felt good. It turned out that I liked my mind after all. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself,” wrote Michel de Montaigne around 1572. When I was on forest time, the world belonged to me. I stopped feeling anxious. The most significant questions pertained to the timing of dinner and bedtime. I learned to gauge how much daylight remained by eyeing the corona of blue in the sky above my cabin clearing, rather than the crepuscular creep along the forest floor. Still I misjudged a couple of times and ended up brushing my teeth and showering after dark, with a flashlight, having a giggle at my own expense. I wrote without effort, often at night in bed with my journal propped up on my knees, straining with a candle in one hand and a pen in the other. On my last evening, I built a fire and sat next to it, eating my meal. I looked around at the five other empty chairs and did not feel any desire to fill them. “This is as close as I come to feeling holy,” I wrote that night. But I hadn’t thought about what would come next. Within 45 minutes of leaving Forestville the next day, I had bitten off two nails and was taking mental notes of all the things I needed to accomplish as I zoomed down Highway 101. I had a long and guilty reunion with my laptop that afternoon. My reentry was wobbly. As easily as I had settled into my solitude, I felt myself losing the thread. I cried a lot. I had trouble sleeping, trouble working. For a time, I stayed off Google News. In the car, I forced myself to sit in silence and avoid listening to the radio. I meditated in the morning. I lit candles at night. But little by little, I felt my old condition settle in somewhere near my solar plexus: that state of dullness mixed with hypervigilance. The world felt immense and harmonious when I spent my days hiking in vast places and sleeping in a very small one. But now, with access to everything in the world on my computer, in the Bay Area, and at the supermarket, it felt like I had fewer choices. The air in my lungs felt compressed. I didn’t experience the same sense of possibility. I had been hoping to portage some elements of my retreat life into my ‘real’ life, but I forgot that the same person — me — is always there, struggling and striving and kicking and generally making a mockery of attempts to honor my goals and stay aligned. I should have read my Montaigne more closely: “Ambition, avarice, irresolution, fear, and lust do not leave us when we change our country. . . . Neither deserts, nor rocky caves, nor hair shirts, nor fastings will free us of them,” he wrote. It took only three days of self-visitation to remind me that my internal compass still points in the direction of true north, just as it did when I was a child. But how do I keep it in my sights when I’m getting spun in circles? And, when I find it again, how can I follow it without walking out on my life, when there are so many things that deserve my attention — a project that’s due, a friend who’s in pain, this country’s civil rights, our environment? How can I live in the world, engaged and open-hearted, while cultivating my inner silence and need to withdraw? Montaigne thought it might be possible to do both. “Real solitude,” he wrote, “may be enjoyed in the midst of cities and the courts of kings; but it is enjoyed more handily alone.” Thoreau returned to society after two years, and when he was at Walden he had frequent visitors — he describes his small cabin filled with up to 30 people at a time. He was no hermit, but walked frequently to town along the railroad tracks and recounts his conversations with all manner of folk who knew the woods. There is something reassuring about these questions, and the fact that they have been with thoughtful writers for such a long time — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Merton, Annie Dillard, May Sarton, Emily Dickinson, Louise Bogan and hundreds more. They all sought a balance between the version of themselves they gave to the world, with its traumas and distractions, and the need to belong to themselves, cultivate their autonomy and create something original and true. They weren’t just talking about how to write, but self-visitation in the everyday. My childhood vision has come true. I never did marry or have children, and I have yet to even cohabitate with anyone, although I have had several meaningful relationships. I don’t own a hut on a hillside, but I do have a male caller. He, like me, relishes his solitude and knows how to respect mine. I intend to take a self-visitation retreat every year. In the meantime, I will do my best to keep my door open and, after all the visitors leave, get back to the page, alone. Tags: essay, Henry David Thoreau, Julia Scott, loneliness, Michel de Montaigne, Notre Dame Magazine, solitude, Virginia Woolf Posted in Feature, Front Page \| No Comments » The Panic Button How Canadians Took Silicon Valley… And Never Owned the Win Letter of Recommendation: Candle Hour Senior Tech Moves Beyond “I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Get Up” © 2020 Julia Scott.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20675
__label__wiki	0.837675	0.837675	Results Round Up \| Saturday 14th December  15 Dec 2019 By Simon Harrison We take a look at the results from across The Manchester Football League from Saturday 14th December as we end the 2019 fixtures and head into a two-week break and enter the new year. There was just one fixture which survived the biblical downfalls of the past few days and it was no surprise that the game was played on the ‘trusty’ artificial surface at Belle Vue Village. Bottom team, Manchester Gregorians hosted a Heyside team who suffered consecutive defeats on their last two outings but that baron run ended on Saturday. The visitors moved up four places to fifth with a 2-1 win over Gregs, courtesy of Chris Rogers and Adam Dale goals, all of which came in the second half. Starting the day in second place, Elton Vale missed out on the opportunity of going to the top after they suffered a 2-1 defeat at East Manchester while the league leaders weren’t in action. Jack Alderson netted Vale’s goal at Wright Robinson before his side went down to ten men and allowed the hosts to come back to take all the points. Tintwistle Athletic took advantage of Vale’s slip-up to replace them in second spot with a 1-0 win against Govan Athletic. Harry Newton’s solitary goal proved to be the difference at Platt Lane to take his side to level on points with the leaders whilst having a game in hand. Altrincham Hale rounded off 2019 with a solid 3-0 win at home to Atherton Town and move up a place to ninth as a result. Jack Yates, Ben Vincent and Andy Dawson all scored to seal the three points to deny Town who drop a place to fourth. Leigh Athletic got off the mark from their final game of 2019 as they collected their first point of the season on Saturday in a 1-1 draw at home to Wilmslow Albion. Despite finishing the game with ten men, Latics held on for a point against Wilmslow Albion whose goal came courtesy from a Danny Pearson penalty. Bolton United saw off FC Unsworth to ensure they sit top of the Division Two tree thanks to their 4-1 win. The victory ensures the debutants hold a two-point lead and round off a successful start to their MFL era. A Rico Stewart goal proved to be the difference, being the only goal of the game as Avro Res beat Rochdale Sacred Heart Res at the Vestacare Stadium. The win puts Avro up to second place and are just two points behind the leaders whilst having four games in hand. Chadderton EDS at home to East Manchester was the only game in Division Three to survive the weather and it served up a cracker at St Matthews School. Eight goals were scored as the hosts ran out 6-2 winners to move them up to third and put them within 4 points of the leaders. The defeat leaves East two places and five points off the bottom. Dukinfield Town A were denied the chance to stretch their lead at the top of the table after Royton Town Res claimed all the points when the two sides met at the Oldham Academy North. Royton came out of the encounter with a 3-1 win to reduce the gap to eight points between the teams. However, Heyside Res had the biggest win of the day as they put Leigh Athletic Res to the sword as they won 13-0 at Crompton House. The result is the third time Heyside have recorded double figures this season and puts them within three points of the promotion places. Walshaw Sports A were on form in front of goal on Saturday when they travelled to Salford Sports Village to face Moorside Rangers U21’s. The Bury side romped to a 9-3 victory to help lift them clear of the bottom, up to tenth. Gilgryst Cup Springhead sealed their place in the next round after they eased past Heywood St James with a 6-2 victory. Two goals apiece from Matthew Barlow and Josh Frith helped the cause and was joined on the score sheet by Kyle McGovern and Jamie Smith to put their name in the hat for round two. Lancashire Amateur Cup Wythenshawe Amateurs bowed out of the competition at the Round Four stage after their tie against Milton went to penalties. The game ended 0-0 after 90 minutes but the visitors progressed via a 4-2 victory on spot kicks. The Manchester League would like wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We will recommence the league campaign on Saturday 4th January 2020.  Cup Competitions - Cup Draw Announced The draws for next round of Gilgryst Cup and Murray Trophy in addition to the preliminary and qualifying round draw for the Open Trophy can now be revealed. President's Page - December  League President John Hyde has his final say of 2019 in his latest blog.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20688
__label__cc	0.641549	0.358451	New home. New friends. My joyous days in a hotel are over. (Translate that to Tagalog and you know what I mean :P) No more free full English breakfasts. No more free unlimited high speed internet. No more free cleaning that everytime I get home my my bed's made up and there are clean towels in the bathroom. Oh why did it have to end? I opted for a flatshare instead of living alone because not only it's cheaper, I'd also be forced to get to know other people. It's an opportunity to gain friends here. It's bad enough being assigned tens of thousands away from home, like I'm the only Pinoy in our building. It's even more depressing to cocoon myself from the outside world with December coming up. And besides I figured I can use the extra practice to speak in English at home. Oh diba parang kung sino akong sosyal na kelangan nag-e-english sa bahay, hehehehe :P So I looked for a flatshare online and I got lucky. I found a house where there would only be two other single professional girls sharing with me. It's a storey house where there are 3 bedrooms one for each of us, a big sala, a dining room, kitchen and garden. It's fully furnished. It's just walking distance to/from office. But what made me decide to get this place was that the first time I met my landlord I immediately felt at ease with him. I reckoned I'd be in good hands with Metrobank, este with him as my landlord. He gave me a lift when I transferred here yesterday and even carried all my luggages up to my room. He even introduced me to a Filipina who's a friend of his wife. And we immediately clicked with the his Filipina friend. Her name is Nory, short for Eleanor. Nory's actually a Canadian citizen. She immigrated to Canada during her late twenties, and guess what, she was also an IT developer - the reason why it was so easy for her to migrate in Canada.. hurray for us! But that's a "was" because she retired. She decided to be a stay-at-home mom. Nory's so sweet. The night before my scheduled moving in, she called me up at my hotel and offered me a lift. And yesterday afternoon she went here, with her husband John and their 4 year old son Robert, bringing a duvet for me to use and pizza for dinner. And just this morning her husband picked me up so I can have lunch at their house. I almost hugged her because she cooked rice, yey! It's something I haven't had the luxury to eat since I came here. I stayed in their place for hours, playing with cute Robert (gwapo talaga ng bata, as in gusto ko ireto sa future anak ko!). We then went to Tesco for grocery. She taught me what stuffs to buy, dinner I can prepare on my own. She offered that I can go with them every weekend for grocery since they have a car. They're so nice. I just feel so lucky to have met them. I of course thanked Nory profusely. I guess I can't thank her enough. She just shrugged it off and said "Naku wala yun, alam ko kasi yang pinagdadaanan mo ngayon kasi mag-isa ako ng migrate sa Canada. Alam ko how hard being alone in a foreign country is." My heart swells because of their kindness. I wish someday I can repay that. A day at Windsor Last Saturday I woke up startled with the ringing of the phone on my bed side table. It was the Queen calling me. She wailed saying she couldn't understand why after 3 weeks of being here in London I still hadn't paid a call on her since Windsor Castle's just a few minutes away from where I'm staying. I apologized profusely to the obviously heartbroken monarch, couldn't think of an excuse, and to appease her I promised to visit her that day. And so I went to Windsor. It was just a 15 minutes ride and one can already see the huge castle as the train approaches Windsor and Eton Riverside station. The first time I noticed it, It took my breath away. It's standing there seemingly proud of it's magnificence. It looks exactly like the castle in my childhood fantasies. Queen Victoria's guarded the Castle's entrance The trek up to the castle. A butler opened the grand doors to the Queen's Audience Chamber where the Queen and her husband Prince Philip were waiting. I was amazed at how opulent the room was. There were paintings at the ceiling, paintings by Rubens on the walls, 3 huge chandeliers adorned the room and the furnitures were all cushioned in velvet - simply divine! I must have been gaping silly because the Queen smiled and her husband Prince Philip chuckled. The Queen despite of her age looked as fit as ever. And after 60 years of marriage, she and her husband still looked good together. They graciously showed me around the castle, amusing me with the history of every monarchs who lived there. I had difficulty taking in with my eyes the grandness of the surroundings. I couldn't believe that each chamber looked as opulent as the previous one. The Windsor Castle - lovely, isn't it? We then went to the St. George's chapel, which was also inside the castle. Walking around the chapel was deeply affecting knowing that many royal marriages happened there, many monarchs walked the same halls, they prayed there and some were laid to rest there. There are a few chantries - built by some royals around the chapel. A chantry is a chapel inside a church (in this case St. George's) endowed for the singing of masses for the chantry's founder after his death. Among the other things showcased inside the chapel are King Edward III's 6'8" sword and the coat of arms of the Order of the Garter knights. Entrance to St. George's Chapel My heart leaped when I saw William waiting for us outside the chapel. He seemed taller than I last saw him but I couldn't quell the feeling of dismay that he's looking more like his father now than his late mother. But still he's handsome. He stayed with us during the afternoon tea and he was very entertaining. William and I share this profound friendship after we decided to let our relationship not move a step further. Because we know we can never be together - a future King can never court, let alone marry a woman of no breeding, no royal titles to offer from a faraway Asian country. The British people will clamor for the downfall of the institution if he'll prefer his desires over his divine duty of governing the country. He has my utmost respect for choosing his that duty over his heart. He's simply returning the adoration the British people have for him - some say they love him more than they love his father. I enjoyed my stay my visit to Windsor, regretting not doing it sooner. I'll call on the Queen again one of these days. Yeah yeah yeah, the above about meeting the Queen and William who has always been the prince in my fantasies were all a product of my overactive imagination. This imagination of mine has been working overtime since I arrived in England :p But I did go to Windsor - and it's every bit as opulent as I described :) Just go to my multiply site for the rest of the pictures. The future HRH Princess of Wales The changing of guards ceremony. Lizette, pwede na ba to for Christmas instead of McSteamy? My 1st jologs moment in London Yesterday I boarded the train to Waterloo on my way to meet my friends for the Original Tour sightseeing in London (refer to this link if you want to see my pictures of that said tour). I took the seat across a Pakistani-looking guy and immediately I took a book from my bag since I expected a long ride - around 40 mins. It must have been 15 minutes after when I noticed the guy leave. I continued reading and was engrossed with it for several minutes when suddenly something caught my eye... there was a black bag under the seat he vacated. So I walked over to the ticket inspector and told him about the bag. I watched him opened the bag with my heart pounding because I was remembering news about bombing or terrorist attacks in London that happened before. Another passenger who also got alarmed also watched. Well there was nothing of importance inside the bag. It just contained what seemed like plastic bags. After the ticket inspector examined the contents, he announced that it's safe, that there's nothing to be worried of. Just then the Pakistani-looking guy appeared coming from the rear of the train. He informed us that he just went to the toilet. Hearing that, the truth that I caused a commotion out of nothing sank in. I hastily apologized to him. He looked at me and suddenly laughed, saying "You thought it was a bomb!?!". The other passenger had the gall to join laughing, which made me want to scowl at him because of course he had also thought it was a bomb - traitor! I was so embarrassed, and I couldn't admit to the Pakistani-looking guy that it was exactly what I was thinking because he looked like a terrorist. So I just grinned sheepishly and threw off an excuse mumbling, "No, I thought you already got off the train, and I was worried that you forgot your bag..." But the guy didn't buy it, he continued laughing and he said "don't lie, you really thought it was a bomb". Oo na, oo na! Buti na lang, the ticket inspector jumped to my rescue telling him that I did the right thing, that it's better to be safe than be sorry. Thankfully the Pakistani-looking guy, as well as that other chismosong passenger, nodded in agreement. He sat again on the seat right across me and I swear he kept on smiling at me until we reached Waterloo. London baby.. yeah! I'm here! I'm here in the land of Prince Harry (who's under investigation by the way because he apparently shot 2 protected birds... tsk tsk... naughty Harry). I'm here in the land where people speak in a cute accent that makes me bat my eyelashes and drop into a curtsy. I'm here in the land of cute guys that seem to literally pop out of a fashion magazine (too bad because most of them are obviously a decade - shocks decade - younger than me and it doesn't matter anyway because still Harley is way more cute). Oh yes, I'm here in UK, specifically London baby, yeah! Bloody great. Bloody fantastic. Bloody awesome! Last week, 24Oct, Steng and Jaspher dropped me off at NAIA1. I was 3 hours early for my flight which was a good thing because when the KLM people weighed my luggages they were 6kilos in excess! If I had no more time then, I would have paid the 19k fee (they charge 30 Euros per kilo). Of course I refused to pay such amount so in the middle of that airport I opened my bags and removed the heavy stuffs that I could do without - wala akong pakialam na nakatiwangwang na mga undies ko for all to see. Proud naman kasi ako dahil filtered na yun, meaning di ko dinala yung maluwang na ang garter or yung may butas, nyehehehe :p After countless times of weighing and opening my baggage again to see what else I could remove (I had those stuffs left at the airport for Mau to pick up), I finally managed to lower the baggages' weight to the maximum allowable weight. Even with that much hassle, I was still all smiles when I traipsed towards the gate where I should wait for boarding. Because nothing, absolutely nothing could ruin that day for me. It was one heck of an adventure because not only I was travelling alone, nobody was assigned to meet me at the aiport. I must have had the exact feeling the country mouse felt when he went to visit his cousin who lived in the city. I just had to rely on the fact that no one's a dimwit enough to mug me because no one would expect a Filipino like me carrying a sizeable money in pounds. I decided to hail a cab and was relieved to notice that every cab waiting at the airport had a CCTV camera inside. But I was astounded when we reached my hotel. That was when the cabbie told me the fare was 50 pounds - bloody hell that's 4500 in our money! I made a mental note then that I should never ever convert pounds to peso while spending money here because I might end up miserable throughout my stay. London is so beautiful. Though I am here in the suburbs because here's where my company is located, the place is simply lovely. It's like one big Disneyland minus the amusement rides - the brick roads and houses, double-decker buses, manicured trees - they have some sort of imposed architecture in every house or building here. Walking to/from work brings me across the Thames river (pictured left) and the beauty of the surroundings that I pass by always sends me into a contemplative mood - parang gusto ko magmuni-muni about life, beauty & love, like parang gusto ko magpaint or mag-compose ng poem :p Thames River Town hall - isn't it cute? It's cold but still manageable. It's like walking with full blast aircon following you around. I hope I can survive the winter - I have low tolerance of the cold you see. I shiver easily. Work is also interesting. In our team there's only 6 of us - 3 Britons, 1 French, 1 Spaniard and I'm the only Asian. Britons are very soft spoken and I absolutely love their accent. They are also very polite and they do behave gentlemanly - like they'll always open the door for you. Their work ethics are also very commendable. They work nonstop, almost not even pausing for lunch, like they usually take their lunch at their desk eating while they continue working. But no matter how busy they'll usually rush home after completing the 7.5 hours work per day. Because they say there's life after work - they're anxious to spend time with their families. Britons are also health concious. I notice that most of them have baon na fruits for elevenses (snack in the morning). I roamed around Central London on my own last weekend. I took the train and then bought a one day bus pass. I went first to the London Bridge - a fitting place for my first Georgia-was-here UK list. I then followed a throng of tourists to the Tower Bridge and Tower of London. Next on my agenda was St. Paul's Cathedral but unfortunately I got on the wrong bus and napadpad ako dun sa slum area ng London. It's like a settlement of immigrants because there were many Pakistani & Indians nakatambay sa streets - the part of London na madumi. Good thing I found my way out from there in no time. At St. Paul's I attended the Evensong - choral service in which the St. Paul's Cathedral Chorus sang the prayers in English and Latin. I almost cried because it seemed like a dream that I was actually at St. Paul's Cathedral attending a church service. The cathedral is simply divine. The paintings and carvings on the ceilings seem gilded with gold. Unfortunately it's forbidden to take pictures inside. I just resolved to light a candle just thanking Him of the wonderful blessing of being here. The Tower Bridge Tomorrow I'll go to central London again but this time with friends - they're SAP developers who are here for training. Yey since may kasama ako :)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20690
__label__wiki	0.825655	0.825655	Molluscabase MolluscaBase taxon details Calyptraea Lamarck, 1799 Mollusca (Phylum) Gastropoda (Class) Caenogastropoda (Subclass) Littorinimorpha (Order) Calyptraeoidea (Superfamily) Calyptraeidae (Family) Calyptraea (Genus) Typetaxon Patella chinensis Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy) Calyptraeidae Lamarck, 1809 Orig. name Calyptraea (Turbocalyptraea) Eames, 1957 †· accepted, alternate representation Galerus Gray, 1847 Direct children (89) Species Calyptraea africana Rolán, 2004 Species Calyptraea alta (Conrad, 1854) † Species Calyptraea aurita Reeve, 1859 Species Calyptraea barnardi Kilburn, 1980 Species Calyptraea burchi A. G. Smith & Gordon, 1948 Species Calyptraea capensis Tomlin, 1931 Species Calyptraea centralis (Conrad, 1841) Species Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Calyptraea conica Broderip, 1834 Species Calyptraea contorta (Carpenter, 1864) Species Calyptraea edgariana Melvill, 1898 Species Calyptraea fastigiata Gould, 1846 Species Calyptraea helicoidea (G. B. Sowerby II, 1883) Species Calyptraea inexpectata Rolán, 2004 Species Calyptraea lichen Broderip, 1834 Species Calyptraea mamillaris Broderip, 1834 Species Calyptraea pellucida (Reeve, 1859) Species Calyptraea renovata (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1890) Species Calyptraea sakaguchii Kuroda & Habe, 1961 Species Calyptraea spinifera (Gray, 1867) Species Calyptraea spirala (Forbes, 1852) Species Calyptraea subreflexa (Carpenter, 1856) Species Calyptraea trochiformis Lamarck, 1804 † Species Calyptraea ventricosa (Carpenter, 1857) Species Calyptraea yokoyamai Kuroda, 1929 Species Calyptraea araucana Lesson, 1831 (taxon inquirendum) Species Calyptraea lactucacea Rochebrune, 1883 (taxon inquirendum) Species Calyptraea pallida Broderip, 1834 (taxon inquirendum) Species Calyptraea strigata Broderip, 1834 (taxon inquirendum) Species Calyptraea chiliensis Lesson, 1831 (nomen dubium) Species Calyptraea depressa Lesson, 1831 (nomen dubium, invalid: junior homonym of Calyptraea depressa Lamarck, 1822) Subgenus Calyptraea (Turbocalyptraea) Eames, 1957 † represented as Calyptraea Lamarck, 1799 Subgenus Calyptraea (Calypeopsis) Lesson, 1831 accepted as Crucibulum Schumacher, 1817 » Species Calyptraea (Calypeopsis) tubifera Lesson, 1831 accepted as Crucibulum spinosum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824) Subgenus Calyptraea (Crepipatella) Lesson, 1831 accepted as Crepipatella Lesson, 1831 (original rank) » Species Calyptraea (Crepipatella) dorsata Broderip, 1834 accepted as Crepipatella dorsata (Broderip, 1834) (basionym) Subgenus Calyptraea (Sigapatella) Lesson, 1831 accepted as Sigapatella Lesson, 1831 » Species Calyptraea (Sigapatella) montensis Cossmann, 1919 † accepted as Sigapatella montensis (Cossmann, 1919) † » Species Calyptraea (Sigapatella) novaezelandiae Lesson, 1831 accepted as Sigapatella novaezelandiae (Lesson, 1831) Subgenus Calyptraea (Syphopatella) Lesson, 1831 accepted as Crepidula Lamarck, 1799 » Species Calyptraea (Syphopatella) navicella Lesson, 1831 represented as Calyptraea navicella Lesson, 1831 accepted as Crepidula navicella (Lesson, 1831) Species Calyptraea aberrans C. B. Adams, 1852 accepted as Anomia peruviana d'Orbigny, 1846 Species Calyptraea adolphei Lesson, 1831 accepted as Crepipatella peruviana (Lamarck, 1822) Species Calyptraea alveolata Reeve, 1858 accepted as Cheilea scutulum (Reeve, 1858) Species Calyptraea amygdalus Valenciennes, 1846 accepted as Crepidula onyx G. B. Sowerby I, 1824 Species Calyptraea arenata Broderip, 1834 accepted as Crepidula arenata (Broderip, 1834) (original combination) Species Calyptraea bulla Reeve, 1858 accepted as Cheilea bulla (Reeve, 1858) (original combination) Species Calyptraea calyptraeformis (Lamarck, 1822) accepted as Sigapatella calyptraeformis (Lamarck, 1822) Species Calyptraea cicatricosa Reeve, 1858 accepted as Cheilea cicatricosa (Reeve, 1858) (original combination) Species Calyptraea clypeolum (Reeve, 1859) accepted as Trochita pileus (Lamarck, 1822) Species Calyptraea corrugata Tate, 1893 † accepted as Zegalerus tatei Finlay, 1927 † accepted as Sigapatella tatei (Finlay, 1927) † (invalid, not Broderip, 1835) Species Calyptraea costata Say, 1820 † accepted as Crucibulum costatum (Say, 1820) † (original combination) Species Calyptraea costellata Philippi, 1845 accepted as Trochita pileus (Lamarck, 1822) Species Calyptraea decipiens Philippi, 1845 accepted as Trochita pileolus (d'Orbigny, 1841) Species Calyptraea dormitoria Reeve, 1858 accepted as Cheilea dormitoria (Reeve, 1858) (basionym) Species Calyptraea dorsata Broderip, 1834 accepted as Crepipatella dorsata (Broderip, 1834) (original combination) Species Calyptraea echinus Broderip, 1834 accepted as Crepidula aculeata (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Bostrycapulus aculeatus (Gmelin, 1791) Species Calyptraea excavata Broderip, 1834 accepted as Crepidula excavata (Broderip, 1834) Species Calyptraea extinctorium Lamarck, 1822 accepted as Desmaulus extinctorium (Lamarck, 1822) (original combination) Species Calyptraea foliacea Broderip, 1834 accepted as Crepipatella foliacea (Broderip, 1834) (original combination) Species Calyptraea georgiana (Powell, 1951) accepted as Trochita pileolus (d'Orbigny, 1841) Species Calyptraea hystrix Broderip, 1834 accepted as Crepidula aculeata (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Bostrycapulus aculeatus (Gmelin, 1791) Species Calyptraea incurva Broderip, 1834 accepted as Crepidula incurva (Broderip, 1834) Species Calyptraea inflata Hutton, 1893 † accepted as Sigapatella novaezelandiae (Lesson, 1831) Species Calyptraea laevigata Lamarck, 1822 accepted as Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym) Species Calyptraea layardi Reeve, 1858 accepted as Cheilea layardi (Reeve, 1858) (original combination) Species Calyptraea lessonii Broderip, 1834 accepted as Crepidula lessonii (Broderip, 1834) Species Calyptraea maccoyi Suter, 1917 † accepted as Sigapatella maccoyi (Suter, 1917) † (original combination) Species Calyptraea mamillaris Millet, 1864 † accepted as Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Calyptraea marginalis Broderip, 1834 accepted as Crepidula marginalis (Broderip, 1834) Species Calyptraea monoxyla Lesson, 1831 accepted as Maoricrypta monoxyla (Lesson, 1831) (original combination) Species Calyptraea navicella Lesson, 1831 accepted as Crepidula navicella (Lesson, 1831) (original combination) Species Calyptraea novaezelandiae Lesson, 1831 accepted as Sigapatella novaezelandiae (Lesson, 1831) (original combination) Species Calyptraea pileolus d'Orbigny, 1841 accepted as Trochita pileolus (d'Orbigny, 1841) (original combination) Species Calyptraea pileus (Lamarck, 1822) accepted as Trochita pileus (Lamarck, 1822) Species Calyptraea plana A. Adams & Reeve, 1850 accepted as Ergaea walshi (Reeve, 1859) (invalid: junior secondary homonym of Crepidula plana Say, 1822) Species Calyptraea polii (Scacchi, 1832) accepted as Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Calyptraea polymorpha Calcara, 1842 accepted as Pedicularia sicula Swainson, 1840 (synonym) Species Calyptraea radians (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Trochita trochiformis (Born, 1778) Species Calyptraea scutulum Reeve, 1858 accepted as Cheilea scutulum (Reeve, 1858) Species Calyptraea sinensis [sic] accepted as Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (incorrect subsequent spelling of chinensis by Gmelin (1791)) Species Calyptraea spinosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1824 accepted as Crucibulum spinosum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824) (original combination) Species Calyptraea spirata Nardo, 1847 accepted as Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym) Species Calyptraea squama Broderip, 1834 accepted as Crepidula striolata Menke, 1851 (non Deshayes, 1830) Species Calyptraea stella Reeve, 1858 accepted as Cheilea equestris (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Calyptraea succinea Risso, 1826 accepted as Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym) Species Calyptraea tectumsinensis Lamarck, 1822 accepted as Cheilea tectumsinensis (Lamarck, 1822) (original combination) Species Calyptraea tudung K. Martin, 1905 † accepted as Calyptraea pellucida (Reeve, 1859) Species Calyptraea vulgaris Philippi, 1836 accepted as Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym) Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626 page(s): 78 [details] MolluscaBase (2018). Calyptraea Lamarck, 1799. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137721 on 2020-01-20 Gofas, Serge Cuvelier, Daphne Bouchet, Philippe original description Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626 original description (of Calyptraea (Turbocalyptraea) Eames, 1957 †) Eames, F. E. 1957. Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria: a revision. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 3:23–70, pls. 5–10., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2290338 [details] basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213. (look up in IMIS) [details] From other sources Spelling Calyptrea according to Bernard [details] Dutch hoedjes [details] To Genbank To Mikrotax (Gallerius Fordham 1986) (from synonym Galerus Gray, 1847) Website and databases developed and hosted by Flanders Marine Institute · Page generated on 2020-01-20 12:41:46+01:00 · Contact: Data Management Team	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20694
__label__cc	0.722423	0.277577	Jobless claims inch higher, but remain near 15-year low Following last week’s great news on initial unemployment claims, would the encouraging trend continue this week? Actually, yes. The number of people applying for U.S. unemployment benefits remains near a 15-year low, rising a scant 3,000 to 265,000 in the seven days stretching from April 26 to May 2. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected claims to rise to a seasonally adjusted 277,000 from an unrevised 262,000 in the prior week. The average of new claims over the past month, meanwhile, fell by 4,250 to 279,500, the Labor Department said Thursday. That marks the lowest level since May 2000. The four-week average smooths out sharp fluctuations in the more volatile weekly report and is seen as a more accurate predictor of labor-market trends. To reiterate the point I make every Thursday morning, it’s worth remembering that week-to-week results can vary widely, and it’s best not to read too much significance into any one report. In terms of metrics, when jobless claims fall below the 400,000 threshold, it’s considered evidence of an improving jobs landscape. At this point, we’ve been below 300,000 in 28 of the last 34 weeks. Above you’ll find the chart showing weekly, initial unemployment claims going back to the beginning of 2007. (Remember, unlike the monthly jobs chart, a lower number is good news.) For context, I’ve added an arrow to show the point at which President Obama’s Recovery Act began spending money. Also note, the official job totals for April will be released tomorrow. The MaddowBlog, Economy, Jobless Claims and Jobs Questions surround Michigan governor's... Florida governor haunted by his past	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20697
__label__wiki	0.605846	0.605846	SZA Confirms That She's Working on an Album with Mark Ronson and Tame Impala We need this now... SZA has quietly become one of the biggest success stories of 2017. Her debut album Ctrl is one of the best selling and most critically acclaimed albums of the year and she's also featured on hit collaborations by artists including Maroon 5 and Lorde. That's not all though. SZA has just confirmed the rumours that she's making an album with Mark Ronson and Tame Impala. Why is it so hard to accept the party is over? You came with your new friend And her mom jeans and her new Vans And she's perfect and I hate it Oh so glad you made it I'm so glad you could come back Somebody get the tacos Somebody spark a blunt Let's start the Narcos off at episode one (Bring the gin) Got the juice (Bring the sin) Got that too Whoa, just shut up know you're my favorite Am I... Warm enough for ya outside baby, yeah (Tell me that it's warm enough here for ya) Is it warm enough for ya inside me-me-me-me Warm enough outside, inside me-me-me-me I get so lonely I forget what I'm worth We get so lonely we pretend that it's worse I'm so ashamed of myself think I need therapy I'm sorry I'm not more attractive I'm sorry I'm not more ladylike I'm sorry I don't shave my legs at night I'm sorry I'm not your baby mama I'm sorry you got karma comin' to you Collect and soak it in right Sorry, I just need to see you I'm sorry I'm so clingy I don't me to be a lot Do you really wanna love me down like you say you do? Give it to me like you say you do? Cause it's hard enough you got to treat me like this Lonely enough to let you treat me like this Do you really love me or just wanna love me down? Warm enough outside inside Warm enough outside inside me-me-me-me me-me-me Is it warm enough outside inside Writer(s): Solana Rowe Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com YES. SZA, MARK RONSON AND TAME IMPALA ARE REALLY PREPARING TO RELEASE A NEW ALBUM TOGETHER. The 'Drew Barrymore' star revealed the incredible news in a brilliant Los Angeles Times profile by Gerrick D. Kennedy over the weekend. Kennedy asked the 'What Lovers Do' star about genre and she confirmed the album in a beautiful quote about art. SZA said: "I listen to Stevie Nicks. I love classical jazz. I love folk. I love rap. I love Modest Mouse. I'm making an album with Tame Impala and Mark Ronson. When you try to label it, you remove the option for it to be limitless. It diminishes the music." That's not the only SZA content to get excited about right now though. The 'Love Galore' singer confirmed in an interview with USA Today at the end of August that Solange is directing her visual for 'The Weekend'. Yes. Solange, as in A Seat at the Table Solange, is directing a new SZA video. That SZA reign won't let up. On top of that SZA is also going to release a deluxe edition of Ctrl. Man this video is literally shot n edited ..regret not putting it on the album . Das wat da delux is foe ☺️ https://t.co/Avj0eQps4r — SZA (@sza) August 30, 2017 The 'Doves in the Wind' artist blesses us with so, so much. Please excuse us right now while we cry with excitement. Zayn Malik And Gigi Hadid Are Dating Again After Being Spotted On His Birthday BRITs 2020 Nominations: Dave & Lewis Capaldi Lead The Nods – See The Full List More From SZA Just Us (Ft. SZA) [Explicit] SZA. The Weeknd & Travis Scott Power Is Power 8 Acts We Loved At Lovebox 2018 The Performances, The Winners & Everything Else That Went Down At The BET Awards 2018 SZA Thankful To Have Voice Back After Suffering Potentially Career-Ending Vocal Injury Garden (Say It Like Dat) [Explicit] Doves In The Wind (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) [Explicit] Broken Clocks [Explicit] Kendrick Lamar & SZA All The Stars [Explicit] (From Black Panther) Kendrick Lamar and SZA Stun with 'All the Stars' Music Video Kendrick Lamar Unveils All Star 'Black Panther' Soundtrack SZA Talks Debut GRAMMY Performance	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20699
__label__wiki	0.525796	0.525796	Woody Winfree Explore Exhibits Kentucky Ag Stop in or Call the Office (270) 887-4270 310 East 9th Street, Hopkinsville, Kentucky EXCITING CHANGES Are COMING Museums of Historic Hopkinsville includes both the PENNYROYAL AREA MUSEUM and the WOODY WINFREE FIRE-TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM. The Pennyroyal Area Museum is under renovation and will re-open early 2020. In the meantime, we’re here to answer questions and see visitors at the WWFT Museum. Hopkinsville KY 42240 BE A PART OF OUR FUTURE… Support our efforts to make history relevant to our community's youth. "Like" us on: Supper in the Cemetery, October 11 Tour the tombstones with the Museums of Hopkinsville as part of this year’s Big Read! Our annual Supper in the Cemetery program will be held on Friday, October 11 at 5pm. Enjoy a traditional boxed supper in Riverside Cemetery before convening inside the Riverside Chapel. There, we will be joined by our own Stage Manager who will introduce us to some of our town’s finest in this homage to Act III. This long-standing Museum event explores the history of our community by learning more from those who came before us. Supper will be served at 5:00, and the show will start at 5:45pm. Advance registration is required. Tickets are available at the Woody Winfree Fire-Transportation Museum (310 E. 9th Street under the Town Clock) or online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/supper-in-the-cemetery-tickets-72554162453. Tickets: $20/person; $15/Museum Members For more information, contact the Museum at (270) 887-4270. WWF&T Museum Copyright © 2012-2019 Museums of Hopkinsville \| Site by Hudge Media	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20702
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__label__cc	0.67923	0.32077	The complex devices all around us — from long-range satellite links in our cars and offices to powerful computers in our hand-held gadgets — prove beyond a doubt that we live in a technology-driven world. In the field of dentistry, new technology is constantly changing the way diseases are diagnosed, routine procedures are performed, and illnesses are prevented. Although they may seem unfamiliar at first, new and improved dental technologies offer plenty of real benefits for patients. Here's a look at some of the latest examples, coming soon to (or now appearing at) a dental office near you. Air Abrasion Technology. Bothered by the noise and vibration of the dental drill? This air-powered device could make that familiar high-pitched whine a thing of the past! Working like a mini-sandblaster for teeth, this hand-held device removes tiny amounts of tooth material with precision control. Anesthesia Wand. If you don't like needles, this may be just what the doctor ordered: a pen-like device that meters out the precise amount of anesthetic you need — and even pre-numbs the insertion site, so you really won't feel a thing! CAD/CAM Same-day Crown Fabrication. Hate to wait? By combining 3-D digital imaging and computer-aided design and manufacturing technology, it's now possible to have permanent crown restorations completed in a single day — much better than leaving the office with temporary crowns and coming back weeks later for permanent ones! Cone Beam CT Imaging. What's better than an x-ray of your teeth? An on-screen, movable 3-D representation of your jaws! By taking a series of x-ray “slices” and stitching the images together with a powerful computer program, Cone Beam CT imaging creates a virtual model of your mouth. It can be used to find disease, plan procedures, and visualize internal structures that formerly wouldn't have been visible without surgery. Dental Implants. Tooth replacement took a giant leap forward with the widespread use of dental implants — today's preferred method of replacing teeth. Dental implants are small titanium posts that replace the root part of your missing tooth. A realistic dental crown is then attached to the implant for a replacement tooth that looks and feels exactly like what nature gave you. Digital Dental Impressions. Remember biting down on a tray of putty-like material, so a model could be made of your teeth? A digital imaging device now makes that unnecessary. Instead, your teeth can be “dusted” with a fine reflective powder, which is then recorded by a special camera. A series of images is converted into a 3-D model, which can be used to assess a tooth's condition or fabricate dental restorations. Digital X-Rays. Diagnostic x-rays have long been invaluable to dentistry. The emergence of digital technology in the past decade, however, has made dental x-rays safer and even more useful. Digital technology cuts radiation exposure to patients by as much as 90% over traditional x-rays. And there are other advantages including the elimination of waiting time for pictures to develop, and sharper images that can be enhanced instantly to show detail. Intra-Oral Camera. A picture is worth… plenty, when it comes to helping you understand your dental examination, diagnosis and treatment! With these tiny cameras, you can see what the dentist sees, on a small chair-side monitor. The images of your teeth can be saved as stills or video — or even printed out — so you can see exactly what's happening in your mouth. Laser Diagnosis and Treatment. They're inside DVD players and scanner wands — and now, they are making their dental debut. Lasers are being used to detect tiny spots of tooth decay, treat gum disease, and remove cancerous cells in the mouth. They are also employed in gum surgery… even cavity treatments! The Future Of Dentistry Can you imagine the day your dentist actually grows you a new tooth to replace one that has been lost? Can you conceive of the day when dentists protect babies from tooth decay before they even have teeth? Learn more about these exciting innovations — they're closer than you think... Read Article	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20723
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__label__cc	0.722375	0.277625	Southwestern Gas Measurement Short Course (Now called ISHM) Publications (1940) Functions Of Field Meter Men Author(s): Pat H, Miller Science Begins With Measurement. This statement is credited to Aristotle who, thou.h living in the age of wood, stone and hand forged metals, could Tsion the technical and scientific progress that might be brought about by increasing refinements in methods of meas- jremtnt. Through the ages this has been the rule of things, and today fine measurement is the basis for the manufacture of the industrial machinery that makes our hifjh standard of living possible. Every branch of science and industry is constantly endeavoring to improve measurement practices. In many industries, e.specially amonp public utilities, there are departments set up for the specific purpose of handling the measurement of their commodities. In this field the nat- jral gas industry is probably the most highly developed because it does not manufacture its product, but must maintain meters for lioth purchases and sales. The GAS MEASUREMENT DEPARTMENT consists primarily of an OFFICE force and a FIELD force, both under the direction of the DEPARTMENT SUPERINTENDEXT. FIELD METER MEN arc held responsible for the care ind operation of the GAS MEASURING EQUIPMENT, and the OFFICE looks to them for prompt delivery of CHARTS, PERTINENT GAS TESTS, and other information required for calculating the volumes measured. This responsibility requires the energies of one having an uncompromising determination to have accuracy in every detail. METER Document ID: F18F8ADB Tanning Of Sheepskins For Meter Diaphragms Author(s): H. A. Kahler Animal skins have been tanned by many different processes during the centuries. It is evident that the tanning of skins on a commercial scale has been carried on in this country since the landing of the Pilgrams, however, before that time the aborigines chd have crude methods of tanning skins. This industry was first started on a commercial scale in the New England States, probably near Boston. It must be kept in mind that this deals principally with Lhe tanning of sheep skins for meter diaphragms. The methods discussed are used by one of the largest tanneries in the United States in which tanning has been carried on during the past ISO years which is evidence enough that ears of experience lies back of the industry. It has become a highly specialized profession by those who have the direct responsibility of converting the hides into leather. Many buildinKS are retiuired to house the various departments which constitutes such a tanning plant. The equipment required for the tanning processes is the latest design sjQd the most modern that the machinery manufacturers can huild. Document ID: 116C8FDB Pressure Regulation As Related To Underground Leakage And Consumer Service Author(s): C. H. Cleveland One of the major problems of gas distribution is pressure rcguiation, but only in the 3ast scen nr eight years has it been given the consideration it deseres by the industry. Economic conditions, and the very rapid increase in the use of automatic pilot controlled appliances, have been the principal factors in bringinR the gas industry to a realization of the importance of accurate pressure regulation. It is my desire to point out some of the practical problems of pressure regulation, as encountered in every day sas transportation and distribution. The conventional gas pressure regulator is constructed to maintain a constant pressure at the regulator outlet, and does so, within reasonable limits. Consequently, Ras flow supplied to a transmission line, or into a distribution system, through a pressure regulator, will have a constant jjressure at the regulator outlet, and with no flow of gas or demand on the line the irauge pressure aill be the same at all points on the line but with flow demand on the system, this condition changes, and a pres- ?are dro5 occurs at the terminal or load center of the system :iat is caused by friction as the gas flows through the confuit from point of entry into the system to point of de- - md or consumption. Document ID: 453F1734 Odorization Of Natural Gas Author(s): T. S. Bacon The subject assigned me, namelyi The Odorization of Natural Gas, might be treated in several ways, and from several angles. As this is primarily a course in gas measurement, I shall limit discussion principally to the design, installation, and operation of odorization eciuipment, as that is the phase of odorization that probably has the most immediate interest to you gentlemen. Other phases of the subject that might be discussed include general considerations of odorization, such as the type of odorant to be used, the most desirable concentration of odnrant to use, and the physiological and psychological effects of the odorant both on operators of odorization equipment and on persons exposed to the odorized gas. I have heard long discussions of all of these points, but feel that any lengthy comments of mine would be out of order here. Document ID: 8C50E53F Fundamental Principles Of Orifice Meters Author(s): A. E. Benson Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen Before going into the subject of orifice meter mcusurcment, let us go over some of the terms used and the laws upon which orifice meter measurement is based. Atmospheric presmre.-Atmospheric pressure is the jressure of the atmosphere above an absolute vacuum. It is measured by a barometer. Cage cr line pressure.-Gage or line pressure is the pressure above atmospheric pressure and is measured by an ordinary pressure gage. The pressure gage on a gas main measures the difference in pressure between the gas in the main and atmospheric pressure, or pressure on the outside of the main. Absolute pressure.-Absolute pressure is the pressure above a perfect vacuum. In our work it is equal to gage or Une pres.sure plus atmospheric pressure or barometric pressure. Differential pressure.-Differential pressure is the difference between two pressures. The differential pressure across an orifice or any device in a gas line is the difference between the pressure before the gas passes through the orifice or device, and the pressure after it has passed through the device. Absolute iemperalure.-.bsolute temperature is the tcmrierature above absolute zero. In our work, absolute temperature is 460 degrees plus the reading of an ordinarj Fahrenheit thermometer. Document ID: 1260F84B Problems Of Wet Gas Measurement And Regulation Author(s): W. H. Woods The problems of wet eas measurement and regulation present most of those encountered in drj gas work in addition to several others peculiar to itself. For instance, wet gas meter men are called upon to measure, regulate, and distribute gas varying in pressures in excess of 2,000 pounds per square inch to as low as 28 inches of mercury vacuum. ariations of temperature from 200 degrees Fahrenheit to -35 degrees Fahrenheit are also encountered. In addition to these variations of pressure and temperature there is the ever present moisture, both from water and heavy gasoline fractions, presence of scale, hydrogen sulphide, and a few other foreign materials which considerably handicap the measurement and regulation of wet gas not usually encountered in handling dry gas. In recent years, there have been several contributing factors which had tremendously increased the importance of accurate measurement and trouble free regulation in the handling of wet gas. Up to a relatively few years ago, the problems of gas measurement and regulation were largely confined to the natural gasoline manufacture and the gas distribution companies. However, times have changed and Lhe utilization and con5eration of natural gas has become 1 matter of paramount importance to oil producers. Two -?f the most important reasons for this change arc in the interests of economy and compliance with legislative meas- 3jes. Document ID: A7846EDF Author(s): J. S. Smith Lease gas, which was at one time wasted, now has several important uses. Its value as a convenient fuel is well known, Also, due chiefly to its compressibility, it furnishes an economical means of making oil flow from the oil producing formations into stock tanks. Or it can be made to give up its heavier hydrocarbons, (natural gasoline and distillate), and then be forced back in to the gas formations. It can also be collected from oil and gas separators, compressed and forced back into the producing formation, where it serves to maintain the bottom hole pressure, keeping the oil from rising into the gas sand, and lessening the water encroachment into the oil sand. Practically everj- field regulator and meter man has been, or will be, confronted with the problems of regulating and metering wet gas in one or more of the above mentioned uses that is, as a fuel, for use in various types of gas lift and kick-off arrangements, and through recycling plants, absorption plants and repressuring plants. Recording Instruments Author(s): A. G. Koenig The term recording instrument covers a wide variety of instruments designed to record almost any measurement which is capable of being made today. We are therefore limiting this paper to the two recording instruments most widely used by the gas industry, namely recording pressure gauges and recording thermometers. Almost all recording pressure gauges and thermometers of the pressure spring type as used in industrial practice today employ some form of Bourdon tube as the measuring element. The Bourdon tube is named after the French Engineer Eugene Bourdon, who in 1S49 made the accidental discovery that flattened and bent tubes tend to straighters under pressure, which led him to the invention of a pressure gauge using the expansion of a curved tube. The Bourdon tube is made in three major forms: the circular, the spiral, and the helical or involute Bourdon tube. The circular tube is mainly used in indicating gauges while the spiral and the helical tubes, because of their greater movement, are ideal for recording instruments. One end of the Bourdon tube is securely fastened to the instrument base and has the pressure connection, while the free and closed end carries the pen arm or is connected to it by the necessary movements. Document ID: 95E86DAA Operation And Maintenance Of Orifice Meters Author(s): J. D. Killough In order to obtain accurate measurement by the orifice rnctcr, you must first have a correct installation the equipment must then be kept in correct operating condition and the proper rules for interpreting the results must be followed. Our discussion is limited to second of these qualifications, and the assumption is made that the station is designed, instaUed and interpreted in compliance with the A. G.A. Gas Measurement Committee Report or Manufacturers publication under which the meter is being operated. The orifice meter consists of an orifice plate, the meter tube piping and accessory fittings, the differential and pressure recorder with manifold and leads, and auxiliary instruments of various types. As a general rule a definite testing schedule is followed, based upon terms of a contract, local operating customs and rules, and the convenience of the parties interested in the measurement. This usually occurs once a month, and consists of a calibration of the recorder, an inspection of the orifice plate, and a spot test of the recording thermometer if included in the installation. Much benefit may be derived from the proper planning of a testing schedule to fit in with the inspectors varied duties, so that the work may be accomplished with a minimum of auto mileage and time lost in back-tracking. Operating conditions will of course vary any fixed schedule, but the work should be planned for maximum efficiency, just as revenues are budgeted by the management. Document ID: DCBBD26A Determination Of Line Losses High Pressure Lines Author(s): D. H. Tucker Bulletin No. 265 of the U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, by E. L, Rawlins and L. D, Wosk, published in 1928, is a complete study and engineering analysis of the problem of Leakage from High Pressure Natural Gas Lines. Our company uses methods of determining leakage as set out in this report. We assume that the leakage is a direct function of the gage pressure and the internal area of the pipe and arrange our statistics on the basis of leakage per mile per year of three inch pipe per one hundred pottnds per square inch gage pressure. This report outlines 3 methods of determining leakage, viz.: Document ID: 23D2F866 Domestic Meter Shop Practice Author(s): W. J. Henking In outlininp our meter shop practice I have purposely omitted too much detail as regards tests, records, classification of repairs, etc. I am sure yoii are all familiar with procedure of this nature. I ill endeavor to follow practical lines without thought of having our methods adopted unless they seem logical and would be of material benefit. All incoming meters arc allowed to remain in the proving room over night, proved the following morning, placed in their respective classifications as to age, proof, and previous repairs, our meters are proved and adjusted according to accepted standards, repaired meters 1% slovv, OK meters not more than 2% slow, new meters from 1 to 1J% slow, all OK iron meters that are more than )j4% slow are adjusted to 1% slow following the initial test. OK and partial repairs are taken care of in the usual manner of which I am sure you are all familiar. Meters classiiied for oiling have the tops and back plates removed, diaphragms tested at 4 W. C, those passing this test are sent, to the oiling bench, those showing leaks have their fronts and backs removed, diaphragms are inspected and tested in water. Document ID: 39F3A9E3 Elementary Gas Laws Author(s): E. F. D.AWSON STArt:S OF MATTER Matter is said to exist as a solid, liquid, or pas. Fluids, : mtercst to the engineering field, i. e., water, ammonia, ,-phur dioxide, freon, air, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, : iro.een, etc., may exist in one or more of these phases : the range of pressures and temperatures encountered in i.dern engineering practice. These phases or conditions of :-.:t-r are more often referred to as States of Matter. It ::-nimon knowledge that water in the liquid state may he imeed to ice or steam. The operation of the vapor com- sion system of refrigeration depends upon the change : refrigerants from the liquid state to the gaseous state, ni vice versa. Document ID: A05BD5BB The Slide Rule Author(s): E. E. Ambrosius The cakuJatioiis which the average engineer is required to make in ordinary work are numerous. He could hardly be expected to make them if he did not have the necessary calculating device. Inasmuch as he cannot always carry with him a large, bulky calculator he must resort largely to the use of a slide rule. The slide rule has sufficient accuracy for most engineering calculations and as a result it furnishes a means of performing rapid and reasonably accurate calculations. Little time is required to become familiar with its operation, and with httle practice reliable results can he obtained. Slide rules have been constructed for almost any kind o( computation. Special rules have been made for flow calculations, calculation for quality of steam, interest charges, the discharge from meters, and for innumerable other purposes. The two most common slide rules, however, are the ordinary polyphase and the log log duplex. These two rules arc used for straight multiplication, division, and the elevation of numbers to powers. However, it would be safe to say that with these rules one can do a diversified type of work. The solution of trigonometric relations are easily handled. In algebraic Document ID: 108ED6D1 Gravity Balance And Gravitometer Author(s): H. F. Goodenough Before making a study of tliefe two types of apparatus and tlieir operation it will be well, first, to see what specific gravity really means, and why it is necessary to determine the specific gravity. In the first place, let us distinguisli between the meaning of the density of gas and tlie speciiic gravity of gas. In chemistry and physics, the definition of density is the weight of matter per unit volume of a substance. Whereas, the general definition for specific gravity is the ratio of the density of a substance to the density of some other substance chosen as the standard. In the case of gases, the standard might Ise oxygen-Iiydrogen or air and the commonly accepted standard particularly in regard to gas measurement in the industrial field is air. When considering gas, the density of the gas is the weight of the gas per unit of volume and can be expressed in pounds per cubic foot, grams per cubic centimeter or in any unit of mass and volume desired. The specific gravity of the gas then is the ratio of the density of the gas as measured in certain mass per unit of volume compared to the density of the standard air as represented in the mass per unit of volume under the same conditions of temperature and pressure. The Bureau of Standards gives this definition The term specific gravity means the ratio of the weight of an equal volume of gas to the weight of an equal volume of dry air free from carbon dioxide measured at the same temperature and pressure. Document ID: E9A4DD14 Obtaining Performance From Regulators Author(s): C. E. Terrell One of the first essentials to getting good performance from a regulator is that it be kept in good mEchanical condition. Tight packing glands, worn or eroded valve guides and valves, crooked valve- and diaphragm-stems, off-center diaphrasjms or carelessly adjusted valves, arc sources of trouble which work to defeat our efforts toward the perfect pressure line. The parts requiring most frequent attention arc the valves and in replacing them or making adjustments they should be so positioned on the stem that they will make a perfectly co-ordinated contact with their seats. A test for this adjustment may be conveniently made by closing the valves on narrow strips (approx. % wide) of cellophane or cigaret paper. When both valves take hold of the strips they are in practically perfect adjustment. This careful adjustment is especially important on soft-seat valves where a complete shut-off and no pressure build is desired. If one soft valve contacts its seat slightly in advance of the other scat a high lock-up pressure will occur. In making any adjustment on valves care should be taken to see that lock-nuts are left perfectly tight otherwise they will work loose. A final test for lock-up may be made by cracking the upstream gate admitting a slight flow of gas while the outlet side of the valves is at atmosphere then holding the valves closed by hand or lever. Document ID: F63B59FE Remote Measurement And Control Instruments Author(s): E, H, Hart Every one who is associated with a business concern which rroduces, distributes, or consumes gas is -ivell aware of the inportance of mechanical or electrical devices which pcr- t accurate regulation and measurement of flow, pressure ind temperature. The Bristol Company has cooperated with the ga.s in- iiitrj in solving many of the problems which have arisen 3 the measurement and control of pressure and flow. Many : the earlier applications were of a relatively simple type but as distribution systems were e.ctended the matter of disjiices and time factors became of greater importance and is a result automatic controllers have greater demands placed ipon them. The equipment used for control naturally becomes somewhat more complex hut the benefits dcri-ed easily offset all disadvantages. Remote measurement is accomplished by means of a trans- :2itter which measures the variable condition such as pres- cre or flow, and a receiver which records on a round cliart -he value of that condition for any instant. The transmitter is usually connected to the receiver by two wires or through a telephone circuit. Document ID: C9E8943F Fundamental Principles Of Regulators Author(s): Alex m. Brooks In any discussion of gas regulators, it would seem well to commence by defining just what is meant by a gas regulator and by stating what it is supposed to do. Most people are familiar with the gas meter, and although they may not know how it operates, they are thoroughly acquainted with the service it performs. On the other hand many people have never seen a regulator, or if they have done so, have not recognized it as being such. Inasmuch as the gas regulator does not directly aifect the pocket-book, the general public is little interested in the use and operation of the same. They would undoubtedly be more interested if they realized that accurate metering is impossible without accurate regulation. Document ID: 9F2D7AFF Reconditioning Of Mercury In order to obtain chemically pure mercury for use in meters and other apparatus, the best method used is the distillation of mercury. The distillation method, however, is usually slow and requires glass stills and equipment whicK are susceptible to breakage and therefore not practical in the meter shop and for use in connection with orifice meters. For this reason the present discussion will be confined to the use of the filtration and acid cleaning method for the reconditioning of mercury. The apparatus illustrated in Fig. 40 is for cleaning large quantities of mercury for technical uses. By this means a large amount of mercury can be purilied very readily. The instrument combines pressure filtration with electro chemical activities to effect purification. Document ID: AC4DCBEE Calculation Of Orifice And Displacement Meter Charts Author(s): Roy S. Peace Jr. The calculation of meter charts in the gas industry is the basic accounting of dollars and cents and these charts should be considered as promissory notes of the customers. While the routine calculation of these charts is fairly simple, the importance of the work and the necessity of being thorough should be stressed emphatically. The price of the gas metered influences most companies in the amount of care exercised in the calculation of the charts. It is food for thought that an error ot one pound in reading a 7 day positive meter chart delivering 20 M.C.F. per hour (SO lbs. delivery pressure, 23c gas) amounts to 11.96 a week, and an error of 2/10 inch of differential on a 24 hour orifice meter chart (delivering gas at 30 differential 60 lbs, pressure, 13 tubes with 7 inch orifice on pipe taps, 23c gas) amount to 16.6 per day. In our discussion we will confine ourselves strictly to the calculation of the charts, assuming the meter attendant will keep the meter functioning properly and record correct conditions within commercial practice. Document ID: 6BF8D0C7 Foxboro Orifice Meters Author(s): L. H. Spink The orifice meter is essentially a rate measuring device. From the coniinuously recorded rate of flow on the chart, total flows may be calculated or deduced hence, it is frequently called the inferential type of meter, since the gas is not divided out into known volumes and these volumes counted up on a counter or dial. The orifice meter is based upon the principle that any impediment placed in the hne of flow of a gas or fluid will create a drop In pressure that is. as long as there is any fluid flowing past or through the impediment, the pressure will be lower on the downstream side than on the upstream side, and the amount of this drop in pressure will bear definite relation to the rate of flow. The flat, square, sharp-edged orifice is chosen as the simplest and most easily reproduceable type of restriction. The pressure taps must be at a definite location corresponding to the location at which the calibration tests were run. These are commonly at 1 upstream and downstream on the face of the orifice plate or 24 pipe diameters upstream and eight pipe diameters downstream. Since the location of the pressure taps has a direct bearing on the pressure drop or differential which will be measured, they are a definite part of the meter setup. Document ID: DFADBB9F Measurement And Regulation Of Extremely High Pressure Gas Author(s): R. L. Sullivan The measurement and regulation of extremely high pressure gas will be discussed in two parts: first, there -ndll be a review of a paper presented here last year on high pressure sas measurement and orifice meter installations second, will be a discussion of the regulation problems, with some pictures and sketches of typical regulalinf instaliations in the Gulf Coast Area. In this discussion, the term dry gas will mean a gas which, if subjected to moderate changes of pressure and temperature, will remain a gag, Wet gas will mean a gas that carries entrained hcuid, or liquid in a vapor state, some of which will condense upon a moderate reduction of pressure or temperature. Figure #5S illustrates the reason why condensation takes place in a wet gas and not in a dry gas upon reductions in pressure or temperature. Document ID: A1659A93 Fundamental Principles Of Positive Displacement Meters Author(s): Allen D. Maclean One of the most fundamental precepts of physics, or in fact of our existence in general, is that two bodies can not occupy the same space at the same time. If, by reason of greater force, one body moves in, the body previously in that space must move out. All we do in making positive displacement gas meters is to provide a way for a certain amount of gas to muscle in where a like amount existed previously, and this gas is in turn muscled out by a succeeding increment of gas. To be sure, this arrangement whereby we permit, or even encourage, a muscling in process, may be somewhat complex, may involve some rather intricate mechanical structures, yet all we do is control and count the number of muscling in cycles, and we have a Iositive displacement gas meter. In one of our meter schools a few years ago we approached the principle of operation of a gas meter by putting ourselves in the place of old Xerses, the Persian general, who, as explained, just missed, by about a hair, being the designer of the first positive displacement meter. While Xerxes was on one of his periodical campaigns against his traditional enemies, the Greeks, he was faced with the task of counting the number of his vast army as it was on the march. He built a stockade along the line of march such as shown at the left of Fig. 59 and allowed his soldiers to march into it until it was full. By actual count, he knew the number of troops required to fill it once, and by filling and emptying, filling and emptying as his army marched through, and counting the number of times it was filled, he could obtain the number of his troops. Document ID: 21077E93 The Cutler-Hammer Recording Calorimeter Author(s): G. m. Arnold The first succestful recording Calorimeter, the C-H Thomas Calorimeter, was placed on the market in 1921. The value ::* :hc instrument was quickly recognized by the gas indus- -.- and today it is accepted as a standard for gas heating -.zJit determination. These Calorimeters provide a guide to - economical manufacture of gas, the measure of quality : -end-out gas, the basis for pricing of gas bought and r.:M, and a means for controlling the mixing of gases. The basic principles of the old aluminum type Calorimeter, kive been retained in the new instrument, but with an en- ::r-c!y new construction and arrangernent of parts. As be- :: rr. gas is burned at a constant rate in an enclosed type : -.er. and the heat developed by combustion is absorbed 27 a stream of air. Air is used as the heat absorbing meiSczi! in the recording Calorimeter, because it behaves in r same manner as gas as to temperature, pressure, and Tn-dity. The streams of the test gas and of the heat abaiEtiins air, are maintained in fixed proportion to each tSer by water sealed metering devices geared together and ferren by a common electric motor so that the temperature rsE of the air as it passes thru the burner is directly projcrdonal to the healing value of the test gas. The use of air IE 2. heat absorbing medium, and the measurement of the Er 2iid the gas sample under the same conditions of tempETinire, pressure, and humidity, eliminates corrections for c&ise conditions, and permits automatic recording directly 31 B.T.U. per standard cubic foot, Document ID: 05869BD4 Retrograde Condensation Author(s): R. L. Huntington It has been almost sixty years since Cailletet, (1) a Frenchman, observed the phenomenon of retrograde condensation in the compression of air-carbon dioxide mixtures. He found that up to a certain pressure, the condensation of liquid increased but that still further compression resulted in diminishing liquefaction. In 1892, Kuenen (10) who was also studying the same phenomena, termed this unexpected trend, retrograde condensation. That little research or attention was given to these lindings lias probably been due to the fact that only within the past ten years have engineering operations had much to do with high pressure 5roces5es. Within the past decade a number of outstanding pieces of research (2) (8) (12) (14) have been made on this subject of retrograde condensation. In three large branches of the petroleum industry, high pressure (1000 lbs. per sq. inch and higher) has come to play an important role: Document ID: 20446AB0 Hints For Installing And Operating Regulators Author(s): Chas. D. Peterson In conducting this class, it is my purpose to discuss a number of random and unrelated subjects which may be helpful in the installation and operation of regulating equipment. There are a number of operating kinks and tricks of installation and adjustment which are very helpful in getting better performance out of such controls. While the various subjects that I have selected here will be discussed in their order, I suggest that you take the liberty of interrupting me at any time to ask questions or if you have any special problem which may come within the scope of this class, I would appreciate it if you would bring that up also. It is my opinion that the greatest benefit is derived from a class of this sort when we can get a general discussion of the subject. First of all, I wish to call your attention to the master capacity or alignment charts of which each of you have been provided a copy. These eajjacity charts are for calculating the capacity or size of regulating valves bodies when passing either liquid or gaseous fluids. These charts have been prepared liy actual laboratory tests and measurements conducted on the most approved standards for the measurement of fluid flow and are as accurate as it is humanly possible to make them. They are not based on tlieoretical mathematical calculations. It will be interesting to you if we mention here that it is almost an impossible problem to set up a mathematical equation which would cover the capacity of valves due to the wide number of variables involved. Because of that almost impossible and difficult problem of calculating capacities, by reducing Document ID: 9865DFCE Rotary Displacement Gas Meters Author(s): F. F. Bogardus The rotary positive displacement type meter has been widely used for gas measurement for approximately twenty years, its initial use in measuring unpuriiied manufactured gas gradually spreading to all types of gas measurement. While this is a comparatively short period of time compared to tlie length of time some types of meters have been used, tlie rotary displacement theory for Ijoth measurement and pumping dates back a good many years. As early as 1868 this principle was employed by two brothers, P. H, and F. M. Roots, of Connersville, Indiana, in an attempt to develop a two-impeller type water wheel as a substitute for the undershot water wheel. Indifferent success attended the efforts of the would-be inventors in this attempt, but eventually the use of this theory for measurement purposes resulted, the first meters of the two-Iobed rotary displacement type being used for liquid measurement. Some years later, it was realized this theory could be employed not only in the measurement of liquids but also in the measurement of gas, and in 1022 a number of gas meters of the two-impeller rotary displacement type w-ere installed in manufactured gas plants to measure the plant output. It was only a short time until this type of meter was used almost universally for station metering and as natural gas became available in the industrial centers, the meters were used for measuring large industrial loads, transmission line service, and city gate measurement. Document ID: DD2D73EC What Federal Control Would Mean To The Oil & Gas Industry Author(s): Wm. J. Armstrong I am here to discuss, from a practical administrative standpoint, some of the effects which the proposed bill of regulating the oil industry would have. We have no quarrel with that part of the bill which involves the question of preventing waste in the production of oil and gas, because that questions is not debatable. The controversy concerns the question of what laws, rules and regulations should be established and how, and by whom, these are to be administered without conflict of authority in order to be most effectual and in the best interest of the people and the industry. At the outset, we hold that the regulation of industry should be such as to best serve the interests of the whole people. We hold, at the same time, that an industry as far-reaching as the petroleum industry must not be so over-regulated by duplication of authority that it cannot properly function in the development and production of a product so essential to the Ufe and welfare of the people. Document ID: 0ABB4C02 Determination Of Line LOSSES-LOW Pressure Lines Author(s): O. H. Hegemann The unaccounted for gas, which is the difference between the gas purchased and gas sold, is composed principally of differences in metering, unmetered gas, and leakage. In order to stay within the scope of the subject of this paper, only the determination of actual leakage will be considered. Also, determination of hne losses will be considered as including detection of losses. Since the term high pressure generally is considered to refer to transmission lines, it will be assumed that the term low pressure includes all lines in a city distribution system. This classification may be actually broken down into groups such as low pressure meaning lines carrying from 4 to S inches water column pressure, intermediate pressure carrying from 1 pound to 25 pounds, and high pressure pertaining to supply lines carrying from 30 pounds to 7S pounds pressure, depending on the load and season of the year. Document ID: 8F8C9AF8 Determination Of Specific Gravity Author(s): Geo E. Greiner The terra Specific Gravity may be used in referring to any number of substances but for our purpose and consideration at this time, it will be confined to gases and vapors and its effect upon their measurement through orifice meters. Definition. Webster defines S)ecific Gravity as ttie ratio of the weight of any volume of a substance to the weight of any equal volume of some other substance taken as a standard or unit. So followdng tlic rule laid down by iVIr. Webster-it is a comparaticly simple process to obtain tiie specific gravity of gas or vapor, after we once have obtained or discovered a substance which may be used as a standard. This standard substance, we are told is Air-the air we breathe, which has an assumed S)0cific gravity of 1,00. However, we must be even more specific than Mr. Webster as wc are dealing with gases, standard substance and the gas or vapor whose specific gravity we wish to obtain must be at the same pressure and temperature condition. So with an apparatus of some description, the air and the gas or vapor can be weighed or measured separately, establishing a ratio between the air and the gas or vapor. Having once determined the ratios of these weights wc in turn can calculate the specific gravity. Thus we have established a weight for the gas or vapor directly related to the weight of our air-and we may no%v refer to the gas or vapor as being so much lighter or heavier than air, just the same as we generallj speak of fluids or liquids being so much lighter or heavier than water. Document ID: B3749A07 Back-Pressure Tests Of Gas Wells Author(s): T. W. Johnson The determination of the delivery capacity of a gas well at various back-pressures is a relatively simple operation and the data so obtained are fundamental in the study of many problems connected with the production of natural gas. These data describe the characteristics and performance of the individual well and are fundamental in that they relate the characteristics of the reservoir itself. The usual procedure for determining the relationship between the rate of flow and back-pressure against the sand consists of first measuring the shut-in well-head pressure after the well has been closed in sufficiently long to stabilize the pressure. The well is then produced at several different rates of flow and after stabilization of each rate the wellhead pressures are again observed. The determinations of the rates of gas delivery from the well may be made bjany acceptable method of measuring gas volumes often it is possible to use the orificc-meter equipment normally serving the well and during the periods of testing to deliver the gas to a pipe-line system thus eliminating gas wastage. For the well-head pressures observed under static conditions and at several different measured rates of production the corresponding pressures at the bottom of the well are computed. In general, there are two factors which must be added to surface pressures observed under flow conditions to obtain the absolute pressure at the sand face (P ) first, pressure due to the weight of the column of gas and second, pressure due to friction in the flow string. When the production is through tubing and the pressures are taken on the casing, the calculations are simplified in that only the Document ID: BE0F8312 Gas ACCOUNTING-DRY Gas Practices Author(s): W. A. Stewart The accounting practices used by various companies en- Siafjed in the natural gas industry are fundamentally the same. These practices, however, may vary according to the dictates of the company management, the system of accounting used, or to the requirements of various regulatory bodies. The practices presented in this paper are typical, however, of those used where the Chart Department and Gas Accounting Department are coordinated as one. There are other practices in use which, no doubt, will be of interest to the class. At the conclusion of this paper, the class will benefit from a general discussion of those practices used in the gas industry which I have not brought out. The practices are presented herein in chronological order from the preparation of the meter statements to the closing of the books for the month and the routine handling of the records thereafter. The Gas Accounting Department in this discussion is a division of the General Office. This department, as stated above, is a combination of the Chart and .-Vccounting Departments. Document ID: 28DF05F5 Domestic Meter Repairs Author(s): E. R. Gilmore haye a thorough understanding of the functions of the mechanism. There is a definite reason for each part of a meter mechanism and each part has a definite relation to every other part. The alignment of any one part with the other parts has been established definitely for each type and size of meter. If the repairman has a complete understanding of the relation of the various parts he can assemble them properly. If he has some mechanical means of establishing these relations and uses a few standard measurements he can i)e certain of having all meters perform satisfactorily. It is possible to adjust an improperly assembled ineter by lengthening or shortening the tangent or changing the angle between the tangent and the crank. This adjustment can be made to compensate for the errors which may be built into the meter. Houever, it does not correct the improper alignment or actual fault in the meter. Document ID: 1D840F84 District Station Regulation Author(s): H. Mike Meuffels Tn the previous sessions and classes, the theory, fundamentals, operation and different types of regulators or controllers, have ably and thoroughly been discussed and covered, and these will be reviewed only in so far as they concern this class room work. District station regulators, generally designed to operate on an inlet pressure from I to 60 pounds, reducing to an outlet pressure of 2i to 14 water column, are of many and varied types, but in general may be classified as one of the following: Document ID: 6C7F6030 Chart Integration With The Emco-Mcgaughy Integrator Author(s): J. L. Cottrell The correct amount of gas measured for any time period J 3 very important factor to the industry as a large amount the production, main line measurements and industrial lis of gas is measured with orifice meters. Extensive re- irch has taken place during the past ten years by joint nmittees of the American Gas Association and the Ameri- Society of Mechanical Engineers with the cooperation ir-e Bureau of Standards, Washington, D, C, in proving ccuracy of orifice meter flow coefficients and making iTLant, definite recommendations regarding the correct wi.-- to install this type of equipment so that the most acijratE results could be obtained. This is having an important ZT. on the improvement of measurement with orifice Document ID: F164E1A1 Fisher Gas Pressure Boosters Author(s): Kenneth R. D. Wolfe The subject we arc going to discuss is that of gas pressure boosters. The title on the program wasnt as clear as it should have been, since we have really broken this discussion up into two sections. Immediately following this discussion there will be another on the Time Temjjerature Booster, .t this time, however, we shall discuss the Fisher- King Gas Pressure Booster, or high pressure pounds-pounds booster. We will consider this one on the basis of pounds to pounds pressure. I think perhaps the best thing to do first is to discuss briefly the application of this type of booster and its primary requirements, and where it does the best type of work. Kow there are perhaps various conditions which must be met. We have a system in one type of locality where five pounds would be required, and in others ten pounds, fifty, or even one hundred, so it all depends on your particular type of application. We can boost with this type any pressure from one to four hundred pounds. We can boost as little as one pound, or as much as 150 or 200 pounds. Document ID: 4578BB84 Emco High Pressure Balanced Valve Regulators Author(s): Allen D. Mclean There are four very essential reasons for the control of pressure in gas transmission and distribution. The first is a very obvious one and that is safety, for we cannot have too hiph a pressure on the mains, meters, appliances and other parts in the gas system. The second reason is transmission, for we must have at the initial end of any transmission or distribution hne sufiicient pressure to insure transmission of the gas in satisfactory quantities to the opposite terminal. The third is measurement since gas is a compressible fluid, its weight varies as the absolute pressure at which it exists, therefore at those points where gas is measured the pressure must be controlled very accurately or recorded very accurately. In general the higher the accuracy in pressure control at a meter the more accurate the measurement. The fourth reason is combustion when gas is burned it is forced through an orifice and united with air. The amount of gas passing through the orifice depends on the pressure and tlie efficiency of combustion depends upon the gas velocity and other factors at the point of combustion. Hence, accuracy in pressure control just ahead of the burning orifice is a very important consideration. In general the more accurately pressure is controlled in transmission and distribution systems, the better will be the results in all phases of the operation of the company. Document ID: A9D0E73B Wrinkle Class Author(s): L, F, Carter It gives me great pleasure to present this class again to the Meter School and to linow how enthusiastically you received it last year. I again give my thanlcs to Dean Carson and to Mr. Fay Walters for making this class possible and for their splendid cooperation and to Mr. R. L. Rountree for his able assistance and untiring efforts enabling me to present the Wrinkles to you this year. This month of April celebrates the l.iOth birthday of the Lnitcd States Patent Office. The anniversary of a century and a half of American inventive ingenuity brings to light some of the models reposing on the many miles of shelf space in the Patent Office at Washington. Some of them are odd, many of them humorously impracticable, but the majority of them show American ingenuity and perseverance that is the foundation of our industries and progress. It is by this example that the Field and Measurement men who have problems confronting them that are not necessarily covered by Meter Schools and Hand Bonks, work them out to their own satisfaction. The net results are in most cases worth passing on to others for their merit and further deelopraent. In addition to this, I think this Wrinkle class should become a sort of clearing house whereby any question that you may have ijertaining to your work not covered by the Meter School class instructors could be brought to the groups attention and most likely it would be ans-nered by some one who has had a similar experience. I think too, that Safety Ecjuipraent and Practices used by us men in the field should be brought forward and demonstrated so that we could perform our work in Document ID: E10436E1 Field Testing Of Large Capacity Displacement Meters Author(s): B. F. Worley The tield testine: of large capacity displacement meters ocr- jpies a prominent place in most Measurement Departments. rirticularl in the companies engaged in the transmission izd distribution of natural gaa. There are numerous com- Tinies represented here in this group who use various prorf- dures to meet their particular operations and I am sure .: will be of general interest to Iiave this information pre- STr:ted during the general discussion. My discussion will briefly describe the methods and equipment used by the United G Corporation. Document ID: A83C78A5 The Orifice Meter orifice meter as a measuring unit consists of an aci-. cly designed meter run, flange, proper type orifice plate, -:: lid piping, and recording gauge. -L recording gauge might be divided into two units-one : recording the static pressure similar to an ordinary reiir. 2 gauge and the other unit referred to as the manot: or differential mechanism which is designed for meas- :r pressure drop across the orifice and this drop (or -. n created by the gas going through the orifice) is ex- - r i . for extreme sensitivity, in inches of water on the -: and a differential range chamber should be selected particular retjuircments of the gas that is being meas- Document ID: 5C317A4A Operation Of The Flow Calorimeter Author(s): L. H. Cherry The average domestic customer has little or no knowledge -: the heating value of the gas he buys and uses for heating ..-OSes in his home or business. Quantity costs are com- rri by eastern consumers using manufactured gas with -r-.r.-n consumers u.sing natural gas without a realization - .: -.he heating value of the gas in the two areas may . r s great a difference as 100% in heating value. Te burner designed or adjusted for an 850 Btu/cu. ft. gas -ut burn a 1000 Btu/cu. ft. gas efficiently. In some parts -J-e East where the gas is a mixture of producer gas and :..T--a! gas the mixture is varied to some extent according ----t amount of producer gas available. In the floods of - : i : t , many of the gas plants were flooded to an extent .-. they stopped producing gas and the mixture became natural gas. This example cites an emergency and not be common in daily practice. ITe industries consuming larger quantities of gas are rap- .:!: becoming interested in the available energy of the gas - buy. The result of this interest is the increase in the ..-:er of contracts which specify the heating value of the . purchased or contract for the gas at a certain price -r Pneim. Document ID: CD68EAFC Gas ACCOUNTING-WET Gas Practices Author(s): C. V. Johnson I feel highly complimented in being asked to repeat my last years effort to bring you the first class of this type to be held at the Southwestern Gas Measurement Short Course. If my presentation of this subject, and our ensuing discussion, should bring most of us some features which will allow us to set up and maintain gas accounting records more beneficial and economical to our respective companies, I shall feel sure that our time is profitably spent. My acceptance of this assignment was more with the thought in mind that I should be able to get ideas for my own office, than with confidence in my ability to present the subject in an educational manner. The Department of which I have the pleasure of being in charge has grown to be one of the largest, if not the largest, Gas Accounting Department. Because of the fact that we handle over two thousand charts daily which measure more than a billion cubic feet of gas daily to and from thirtynine widely scattered gasoline plants, as well as from a large number of leases from which gas is sold to other companies, this large volume of work has necessitated a rather complicated routine vhich is almost impossible to describe in an exact consecutive order. For purposes of illustration, I have prepared a diagram, of which you have a copy, in an attempt to clarify the flow of such large scale work. The flow of work, in our instance, has been so devised because of the brief time allotted for getting the information from the field and presenting the final compiled figures to our General Accounting Department for closing periods. It has become necessary to cycle the flow of work so that it will Document ID: 124CB763 The Bell Type Prover The standard of measurement which has been adopted almost unanimously by the gas industry is the cubic foot. A true cubic foot is defined as the space occupied by a cube which is exactly one linear foot on each,side and in which all surfaces are either parallel to or at right angles to all other surfaces. Since the cubic font is important in gas measurement, it might pay us to go back a little into its ancestry, to see just what sort of forbears it descends from, We have stated that the true right-angled cube must be one linear foot on all its sides to give us an exact cubic foot. This means that we must have a real definition of a linear foot, Tt is usually defined as one-third of a yard, a yard being identified as the length of an official metallic bar maintained by the Bureau of Standards in Washington, This yard in turn is a certain fixed portion /36QO of a meter bar of iridlo Document ID: 915B0ABD	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20725
__label__cc	0.624104	0.375896	G. Rosati, M. Faccio, A. Carli, and A. Rossi Fully Flexible Assembly System (F-FAS): a new concept in flexible automation Assembly Automation, 33(1):8-21, 2013 Abstract: Purpose – Flexible automated assembly is an emerging need in several industries. The paper addresses the introduction of an innovative concept in flexible assembly: the Fully Flexible Assembly System (F-FAS). Design/methodology/approach – After an analysis of the state of the art, the authors describe the proposed F-FAS, from a layout, constitutional elements, functioning principles and working cycle point of view. Secondly, the authors compare the traditional FAS and the manual assembly system versus the proposed F-FAS according to their throughput and unit production costs, deriving a convenience map as a function of the number of components used in assembly and of the efficiency of the F-FAS. Finally, using a prototype work cell developed at the Robotics Laboratory of University of Padua, the authors validate the F-FAS concept. Findings – Results of our research indicate that the concept of full-flexibility can be exploited to bring automation to a domain where traditional FAS are not competitive versus manual assembly. In fact, the F-FAS outperforms both traditional FAS and manual assembly, in terms of unit direct production costs, when the size of the batch is small, the number of components used in assembly is large and the efficiency of the F-FAS is reasonably high. The F-FAS prototype demonstrated the possibility of working, for certain conditions (models/components/production mix), in the F-FAS convenience area, highlighting the achievable cost reduction versus traditional assembly systems. Originality/value – The novelty of the study lies in the F-FAS concept, its performances in terms of flexibility, compactness, throughput and unit direct production costs. A prototype work cell validated the concept and demonstrated its viability versus traditional assembly systems thanks to convenience analysis. Winner of the Emeral “Highly Commended Paper Award 2013” - open access until late May 2014 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/01445151311294603	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20726
__label__wiki	0.584272	0.584272	In an effort to support the development of future Omaha directors, Omaha Community Playhouse is excited to announce the Omaha Community Playhouse Directing Fellowship, providing early and mid-career directors with the opportunity to develop their skills by directing an OCP Alternative Programming production, and / or assistant directing a regular OCP season musical or play. The 2019/20 Directing Fellowship inaugural class includes Charisa Ramsey, Breanna Carodine, Sarah Klocke, Brendan Brown, Steve Krambeck, Robyn Helwig, Marshall Carby, Megan Horrocks Storm, Kathy Tyree and Katt Walsh. The directing fellows will be working alongside OCP lead directors Kimberly Faith Hickman, Tyrone Beasley, Denise Chapman, Ablan Roblin, Kaitlyn McClincy and Roxanne Wach. “Theatrical directing is a difficult field to enter and one that leaves many people unsure of how to even begin. I believe that OCP has a responsibility to support the development of community-based artists, and I am thrilled that we are able to provide this opportunity,” said OCP Artistic Director Kimberly Faith Hickman. In addition to directing a staged reading of a play or musical for OCP’s Alternative Programming season, the fellowship provides the opportunity to assistant direct, which includes access to an entire pre-production and rehearsal process as a lead director directs a play or musical. This fellowship will present a new generation of gifted artists with a unique education and understanding of the directorial skills necessary to create theatre, the workings of Omaha’s leading organization for community based theatre and education, as well as the leadership of artists shaping Omaha’s theatrical landscape. Applicants admitted into the program will be put into a pool from which OCP’s Artistic Director will select Fellows for the upcoming season. Generally, Fellows will direct a production in the OCP Alternative Programming season, and / or assist a lead director for one regular season production. While directing an Alt Programming production, a Fellows’ schedule and duties will include coordinating with the OCP Artistic Director and the Executive/Artistic Assistant regarding casting and rehearsal schedules, coordinating with the Alt Programming actors and creating a rehearsal schedule, attending all rehearsals and the performance. While assistant directing for a regular OCP production, a Fellows’ schedule and duties may vary widely based on their personal strengths and the director they are paired with, but may include observership, dramaturgy, note-taking and generally supporting the various people in the rehearsal room. Directing Fellowship applications for upcoming seasons are due on April 15th of each year. The deadline for submissions for the 2019/2020 season has passed. Applicants should send a cover letter and theatrical resume to directingfellowship@omahaplayhouse.com. The next application deadline will be April 15, 2020 for consideration for the 2020/2021 season.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20727
__label__wiki	0.736563	0.736563	OnLiveSpot Shinra Technologies Next-Gen Multiplayer Cloud Gaming Demo Shinra Technologies, a cloud gaming startup company operating under the umbrella of Square Enix, has demonstrated their impressive multiplayer cloud gaming tech at GDC 2015. You can see a video of that demo below. The Shinra tech is the kind of stuff that cloud gaming advocates' dreams are made of, with the world simulation running on a cloud supercomputer in a data center and being rendered and streamed to 64 player viewports. In the demo you can see a highly detailed world with the size of 1000 square kilometers containing 1 million trees and 16000 AI characters. And the world is also very dynamic with real-time terrain deformation and massive physics simulations supporting things like expansive fluid simulations. The demonstrator also mentioned that they use NVIDIA's TITAN Black GPU for the simulations because of its large frame buffer, so the upcoming TITAN X, built on NVIDIA's Maxwell architecture and with double the memory of TITAN Black, should come very handy for Shinra. Posted by John Anderson at 02:20 29 comments Have Professional Reviewers Intentionally Sacked Ryse and the Fun in Gaming I'll intentionally start from the gamers' viewpoint. Yes, I have intentions. Lately I've been asking myself if I have fun playing video games. The Witcher, a highly praised game, is the last thing I brought myself to try and then brought myself to play on and on. Till I stopped and don't know if I'll continue it. Doesn't sound like I had fun? Well, I've beat many games that I hadn't fun playing. Beat that game, made a check mark. From Elder Scrolls to Call of Duty, yes I once brought myself to beat a Call of Duty game. Of course I try to remember when is the last time I had fun playing a game. As I recall I had fun playing many of my SNES games, my first PC game Wing Commander IV, Archimedean Dynasty, Terra Nova, Red Alert and many other RTS games of that time. I guess every gamer has a time when he likes what he's playing or should I say, like in my case, he likes the virtual worlds born in the imagination of game developers that he gets transported to. I bought my first PC because I saw a PC gaming magazine that a classmate let me read. Oh the wonders I saw in that magazine. But when I got my shiny and expensive new PC with Pentium inside after a lot of let's say persuasion of my parents, I forgot the gaming magazines and just gamed. I chose my games based on the pretty covers and descriptions on the back. There were duds and there were shining beacons among them. After getting a game, the duds were weeded out in no time. I still regret exchanging Archimedean Dynasty for a dud that I can't remember with a classmate. Every time I went into my local game shop I was in anticipation what wonders it will bring into my life. But then life changed, the world changed. There were more and more games, which also means more duds, one could get pirate CD copies of games and the internet was coming. My local game shop closed, did I help kill it? Through pirate CD copies and later Warez downloads I consumed more games than ever. Then came Steam and now cloud gaming, it's easier and easier to consume games. And of course I read game magazines and game reviews. I don't know if fear of giving money for duds brought this upon me, or simply me changing with the world. Fun with games was getting less and less. It seems to me that I now read more game reviews and previews online that I game. I know almost everything about a game before I play it and it looks to me that I have formed an opinion on a game before I play it based on online reviews, previews and other information. The crowdfunding wonder Star Citizen has made a game out of releasing information about the development of its universe and I look upon it as the next big thing that will give me fun and transport me to another world. Will Chris Roberts bring my fun and sense of wonder back? Looks like many gamers are like me based on the money that Star Citizen is getting. I also frequent gaming forums like IGN, GameSpot and NeoGAF. Do you know that GameSpot has a subforum named System Wars? It's even the most frequented one there. One would think this has to be a very successful game, System Wars sounds very similar to Star Wars, so could be a space game. But when you enter that forum you notice very fast that other systems are at war there. There fight modern gaming crusaders under the banner of gaming systems. PlayStation is killing the Xbox, and Xbox is slaughtering the PC. Nintendo they don't even take seriously anymore. IGN is not much different and NeoGAF is more the place of the backstabby passive-aggressive diplomat type that hopes to lure the enemy over to his side with a well informed opinion. What are the weapons of these modern crusaders, the system warriors. Metascores, game previews and technical analysis a la Digital Foundry. And of course a lot of name calling, which former Microsoft man Adam Orth can say a word or two about. The words toxicity and troll are often associated with these system war arenas. The word fun is not often used there, could it be that you can't fight with something that you don't have? Let me now come to the professional game reviewers, and I call most of them that way because they are paid for that. Do they turn which way the wind blows? Bam, I started with the hammer. Last year was again the launch of a new generation of consoles, and the flames of war burned hotter than ever. There was aggression, even the passive-aggressive type, there was hate. And there were victims. The victim of the last generation launch was Sony, this time it was Microsoft that made blunder after blunder and made life easier for Sony to win the PR war at launch. The Sony win was so big that the SDF (Sony Defense Force) is still overwhelming the forums, game review comments and articles about the consoles and their games. The Xbots are on the retreat, afraid of the SDF. The SDF is full of praise of almost every move that Sony make, one could call them PSbots, religiously following their leaders like the Manson family. And the gaming press went where the wind was blowing. You could read digital rights bla bla bla, Kinect privacy bla bla bla. Some lords of war at Microsoft had to go because of this defeat and some Xbox One games fell victim. I'm concentrating on the highest profile launch victim here, namely Ryse: Son of Rome. The game was first presented at E3 last year, so after the shitstorm that was the unveiling of the new Xbox. And right away Ryse was labeled by the gaming press as QTE bla bla bla, repetitive bla bla bla, boring bla bla bla. Some of the gaming press chose to ignore the game or only mentioned it casually. It got the lovely nickname Ryse: Son of QTE by the SDF. You could almost feel the fear of the SDF and some of the gaming press that went where the wind was blowing. Would Ryse get great reviews the tide of battle could turn and the gaming press would look like amateurish idiots. First and foremost Ryse's unmatched graphics and high production values made them nervous. What if a good game was hiding under that shiny surface? Then the reviews of Ryse came in, and they were devastating. All the press were tooting in the same horn, boring with a bad combat system, repetitive, QTE, bad story, pretty but nothing to write about. The Adam Sesslers were having dissertations on how historically inaccurate it is, and so on. As often, the one black sheep was Kotaku whose reviewer dared to voice his honest opinion and write that Ryse was fun and he recommends it to gamers. He was promptly flamed by the SDF. As the best looking console launch game, the Xbots of course used Ryse as their weapon of choice in the battle of which system is more powerful. The SDF countered violently with Killzone: Shadow Fall. A game that has higher resolution simply can't look worse than a low res launch game from the weakly Xbone. If they had to retreat from that argument, they of course countered with Metascores. Some more passive-aggressive SDF types praise Ryse for its looks but at the same time don't forget to patronizingly mention that it's still second to Killzone: Shadow Fall or inFamous: Second Son. Just so it happened that, regardless of bad Metascore, some Xbox One gamers picked up Ryse, and surprise surprise, it was fun. Mind you, many first simply didn't dare to write fun, but used adjectives like guilty pleasure and mindless fun to not get flamed. Some admitted completing the game multiple times in contrast to some games that got glowing reviews. On the higher difficulties the game also required strategy to survive. And surprise, the combat system was more realistic than other so called hack and slash games a la God of War, and even the Dark Souls combat looks somewhat crude in execution when you compare it. Luckily many more gamers dared not to listen to reviews and discovered that Ryse is a lot of fun. Simply poking at the Amazon game reviews you see that people have a lot of fun with the game and the game is very popular among the gamers who bought it at the Xbox One digital store. Some gamers ask themselves what were the reviewers smoking when they played Ryse, or if they even played it at all. Seeing the tired faces of game reviewers at the consoles' launch I would say that they sure had to play a lot, the question is how much of that was Ryse. That's simply a guess, could it be that Ryse was anyways labeled as boring, repetitive, soulless since E3, so why bother if I have so much work? Why not just rehash all the labeling? Well, some of the gaming news outlets like IGN latter retracted on the harsh criticism and admitted that the game was fun. But mostly they were concerned that gamers forget Ryse and the reviews, they thought that who wants to bother with that unimportant game and we could be labeled as amateurish idiots or worse, hype followers. One thing that is even worse to say for a professional game critic is that he lost fun playing games, or he never had it. Then they are unusable in gamers' minds, why listen to him if he does it for the money or his ego. Should professional game critics ask themselves if they have fun gaming? Should you play video games because well it's a habit, who needs fun? Everyone has to answer these questions for himself. I know that if I want the mystery of new games to return I should stop looking for reviews, previews, yes even stop peeking at the final scores. And fun is not what I'll find in gaming forums, well sometimes it can be fun, but for the wrong reasons. OnLive Relaunched with CloudLift and OnLive Go After OnLive went through ABC bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Lauder Partners for $4.8 million in 2012, the company went into hibernation mode and started to rebuild. Now the time has come when they are showing the fruits of their labor, as they have relaunched with two new services named CloudLift and OnLive Go. They have also relocated from Palo Alto, California to Mountain View, California, and launched an official OnLive forum at community.onlive.com. On the CloudLift service OnLive has partnered with Steam, with possible future partnerships with other digital game services like EA's Origin and Ubisoft's Uplay. With CloudLift gamers can sync their Steam games library Steam Cloud game saves with the OnLive cloud gaming service and play their games via interactive video streaming on PCs, Macs, TVs and Android mobiles. The OnLive Android App has also been updated to version 1.4 to accommodate the new CloudLift functionality. OnLive still hasn't made it to iOS devices like iPhones and iPads with Apple still refusing to let them in. CloudLift is priced at $14.99 per month in the US and Canada, and at £9.99 per month in the UK. The list of CloudLift supported games is currently very limited with 20 games, but OnLive is in active negotitations with many game publishers and they intend to add dozens more games in short order. There is a 7-day free trial for CloudLift and gamers can also directly buy the CloudLift supported games from OnLive and get a Steam download code for them. This greatly mitigates the fear of gamers not having a product that they can own should the company go bust. OnLive has stated that they have improved the on-boarding process for games, so very little to no modifying is necessary to bring games to OnLive. This should allow OnLive to deliver games on their retail launch dates and is a huge improvement over the cumbersome porting process of old OnLive that required a large games on-boarding team at OnLive. The limited games library was one, if not the, stumbling block of old OnLive that caused limited appeal to gamers. The list of supported games may be short, but there are quite a few interesting among them. The 20 CloudLift supported games are: Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Batman: Arkham Origins, Saints Row IV, Dead Island: Game of the Year Edition, Dead Island: Riptide, Darksiders II, Metro 2033, Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition, The LEGO Movie - Videogame, LEGO The Lord of the Rings, Red Faction: Armageddon, MX vs ATV Reflex, Painkiller: Hell and Damnation, Strike Suit Zero, Truck Racer, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Type:Rider, The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief and The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Deep Silver have returned with their games, and even brought some new ones, after they removed their games from OnLive in fall 2012 following the troubles of old OnLive. OnLive's CloudLift enabled multiplayer games now work like normal PC games and you can play with your friends on Steam. This is also a huge improvement for new OnLive. On old OnLive gamers only had the choice of playing multiplayer games with other OnLive gamers which severely limited their choices. This was another stumbling block for old OnLive, and not only that, old OnLive even had to touch the source code of games to get the multiplayer running on their closed system which resulted in many games that normally supported multiplayer coming without it to OnLive. Looks like CloudLift uses the Steam version of games as the OnLive CloudLift page says that the games use the SteamWorks DRM. OnLive is also keeping their $9.99 (£6.99, €9.99) per month PlayPack plan of over 250 games. The PlayPass option for purchasing single games has been removed, though the games that people have already purchased are theirs to keep. The other new service from OnLive, namely OnLive Go, is a B2B offering. This means that other companies can use OnLive's infrastructure and cloud gaming know-how. In this case the first company that has partnered with OnLive is Linden Lab, the creators of virtual world Second Life. They've launched an app named SL Go. You can get it for Android mobile platforms, or you can run Second Life via OnLive on PCs, Macs and TVs. Second Life on SL Go has the graphics settings dialed to the maximum, so depending on how good your PC is it can look even better on an Android tablet than your PC. Second Life on SL Go is also touch enabled so you can control your virtual avatar via touch controls. OnLive Go, including SL Go, lets you rent the way an internet café would, only it gives the freedom to use it anywhere that you have high bandwidth internet, Wi-Fi and 4G included. In the case of SL Go it costs $3.00 per hour to stream the virtual world of Second Life to a device of your choice. OnLive has also partnered with Gaijin Entertainment and will enable cloud video streaming of their free to play MMO War Thunder via OnLive Go. To enable the new services OnLive has added thousands of new servers to their existing data centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dallas, Virginia and Luxembourg. They've also opened two new data centers in Seattle and Chicago, and upgraded the existing servers with the latest CPUs, GPUs and other hardware. OnLive is still supporting their own hardware accessories. They are selling the OnLive Game System for $99.99 and the Universal OnLive Wireless Controller for $49.99. OnLive has also revamped their leadership. Lead investor Gary Lauder stepped down from his role as chairman and hired Mark Jung as executive chairman. Mark was co-founder and CEO of IGN, which he built into a digital entertainment powerhouse. After taking the company public in 2000 and then private in 2003, Mark led IGN’s sale for over $650 million to News Corp, the parent company of Fox Interactive Media in 2005. Subsequently, he was the COO of Fox Interactive Media (FIM), where he was responsible for all of its internet properties including MySpace, IGN Entertainment, FoxSports.com, AmericanIdol.com, and Scout Media. After that Mark was the CEO of VUDU, a leading provider of digital home entertainment and interactive television services. Joining him are Don Gordon as SVP of engineering. Don was a VP at Gracenote, held executive level positions at Microsoft and holds 55 issued US patents related to video technology. Carrie Holder as VP of business development, before that she was director of partner management at EA. And Rick Sanchez as VP of product & marketing, who was also a co-founder of IGN. Most recently, he was VP of Playdom at Disney Interactive. From the old guard of OnLive there remain Tom Paquin as EVP and chief technology officer, and Bruce Grove as general manager of OnLive UK. The new leadership of OnLive acknowledges a humbler OnLive that wants to work with other platform holders like Valve and being an enabler of business opportunities for other companies. As opposed to the OnLive of old that seemingly went against everyone and everything, impersonated by its founder and former CEO Steve Perlman, which was also one of the causes of their demise. OnLive's new business model may prove successful, but business models aren't enough. And not every change is necessarily for the better. Judging from OnLive's new user interface that is now built with HTML5 and takes some lessons from Microsoft's Metro design that is geared towards touch interfaces, they have some work before them to make it user friendly and good looking. The new interface may look stylish, but it also can run painfully slow and finding what you're looking for can be difficult as there is occasionally so much information displayed that you can be overwhelmed and not know where to navigate next. It might be that the initial load of the OnLive relaunch is putting the strain on the interface servers. Gone is the cool OnLive Arena where you could move between the different live video feeds of gameplay of various games, you can now only spectate other gamers under the game you've selected. The cool looking OnLive start up sequence where the camera moved through the OnLive logo to reveal a giant planetary grid made of gameplay videos was replaced with a hip looking video of colored OnLive logos floating around. And generally the old OnLive user interface felt more solid, with fast responses, and also felt more organized though it didn't have to display so much information. It will be interesting to see how the OnLive user interface will develop and of course the OnLive cloud gaming service at large. Steve Perlman's pCell Wireless Technology Could Usher a Revolution in Navigation and Augmented Reality In 2011 I uncovered the significance of Steve Perlman's DIDO wireless technology that he let slip in a presentation of OnLive at the Columbia Engineering School. Perlman has now, again at the Columbia University in New York, unveiled the fruits of his work on DIDO. The wireless technology is now officially called pCell and is compatible with LTE. Perlman has created a company named Artemis around this technology. All the major news outlets have covered pCell so I won't rehash it. At the end of his Columbia presentation of pCell that you can see at the end of the article, Perlman again risked the disclosure of other projects that he's working on. He hinted that there are radical announcements to come from Artemis and that you can see one of them in the intro video that he showed at the presentation. You can view the pCell intro video below. You don't even have to watch the video carefully to notice that this radical announcement is navigation and subsequently augmented reality. You can witness overlays that display information around buildings, cars and even people. A fully connected world. Since the pCell technology can make out and position pCell radios to a precision of 1 cm, even in fast moving vehicles, this is the ultimate navigation tech. Imagine pCell radios being built into cars, drones, on building walls and inside buildings, on streets and under streets, and of course into people's mobiles or other wearables like Google Glass. Enabling autonomous cars and drones suddenly sounds easy. You can follow every object that has pCell radios on it to a precision of 1 cm from kilometers away. You can cover buildings or moving objects with pCell radios, and see a 3D map of not only streets but even moving objects inside the world. The ultimate motion capture machine. With pCell augmented reality can get reality, but it goes further. Not only can people see information overlaid over other people and the world around them. Suddenly autonomous machines can see the world and its motion in precision, the autonomous internet of things becomes reality. From there Skynet isn't far. NVIDIA Maxwell SteamOS Machine with up to 16 Denver CPU Cores and 1 Million Draw Calls To date NVIDIA's upcoming Maxwell GPU architecture has been rumored to be coming with up to 8 NVIDIA custom designed Denver 64-bit ARM CPU cores. Well, a friendly mole from their cloud gaming division has let me know that they are mulling the option of equipping the highest-end Maxwell GPU with 16 Denver cores. Are NVIDIA insane you ask? Well, it looks like they are insane with core numbers lately, the Tegra K1 mobile SoC being a great example. The Maxwell architecture is presumably so energy efficient that it allows NVIDIA to do such a chip with a TDP of around 225W. No wonder the Maxwell GTX 750 is rumored to need very low power. It's not yet clear if the chip will be manufactured on TSMC's 20nm line or the 16nm FinFET one. The latter would push the chip to 2015. NVIDIA has been able to design the Denver architecture in such a way that it can be manufactured on the same die and process like their high-end GPU's. They somehow managed to architect Denver so that it can be efficiently manufactured on the same process required by high density GPUs. Presumably the trick is that Denver actually very closely resembles a GPU architecture, but has a very powerful instruction set translation unit. As rumored, that translation unit has been first developed for NVIDIA's x86 project years ago after they licensed Transmeta technology. But then NVIDIA signed an lucrative agreement with Intel, and part of it was that they wouldn't develop hardware or software for x86. Since NVIDIA is an economic company they kept on developing their CPU architecture and steered the project towards the ARM 64-bit architecture. Actually their instruction set translation unit is very flexible and programmable, and can be relatively easily refurbished for other instruction sets. This is something that NVIDIA learned by developing Icera soft-modem technology for Tegra, and the experience developing the CUDA platform also helped. Coming back to the integration of Maxwell and Denver. Not only can they be manufactured together on the same high-end GPU process, Denver can also be highly integrated into the Maxwell die. Imagine each Maxwell compute cluster having one Denver CPU core available. NVIDIA is even so proud of their achievement that they will maybe call the combination of a Maxwell and Denver compute cluster the Tesla Compute Core (TCC), and the whole chip could be named the Tesla Processing Unit (TPU) since it can run an operating system like Linux on its own. Of course the chip could also get a new name after some other famous scientist, or a superhero. Did I mention Linux? Isn't SteamOS based on a Linux distro? It's not hard to guess what's coming now. Yeah, NVIDIA is working on SteamOS consoles, with the most powerful of them packing the 16 Denver cores toting Maxwell beast, the ultimate NVIDIA console SoC. The color scheme of NVIDIA's consoles is pretty much guaranteed to be black and green. The name of the new consoles is not yet decided, I don't think they will be called Shield, or will they? Not only that, NVIDIA intends their SteamOS consoles to be reference platforms for other manufacturers who want to get into the console business the cheap way, just like the NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 and the NVIDIA Shield. So just what is the 16 Denver cores toting Maxwell beast capable of? My source told me one number, 1 Million draw calls in DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4. Just for reference, AMD claims that their upcoming low-level API Mantle will be able to issue up to 150,000 draw calls. Presumably NVIDIA's new hardware beast will be able to obliterate AMD's Mantle API, and this with no code changes required by game developers as it will all be done in hardware. You ask yourself what game developer would need so many draw calls? This is the maximum number of draw calls that the 16 Denver cores enable, but they can be used for much more. NVIDIA is working on integrating the Denver CPU cores into their GameWorks code library that game developers can integrate freely into their games. They are porting the library to OpenGL and SteamOS. So what can NVIDIA's new GameWorks library with Denver support do for game developers? For instance realistic physicalization of the whole game world or parts of it with the flick of a switch, including fluids, gases and particles. Advanced ray tracing algorithms. Advanced AI. Advanced data compression algorithms. Advanced adaptable LOD generation and tessellation. Advanced global illumination. Advanced streaming of assets for open world games. Sound processing on the level of AMD's TrueAudio, but programmable. The list goes on and on. Maxwell with Denver is also a high-performance computing beast, and not only for Maxwell's double-precision floating-point improvements. And it can run Linux on its own, without Intel and AMD CPUs. So supercomputers like Titan that already includes NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and data centers could run on NVIDIA's hardware alone without relying on competitors' hardware. No wonder that NVIDIA would like to sell these new chips as Tesla Processing Units (TPUs). It will be very interesting to follow what NVIDIA will unveil this year. Microsoft Actively Sabotaging PC Gaming with the Help of AMD - Valve the Saviour I've learned from a friendly mole at Microsoft that they've silently gave the go ahead for AMD to release their low-level GPU access API Mantle for their Graphics Core Next (GCN) GPU architecture for PC. And not coincidentally, Mantle is very similar in form and function to the low-level API employed in Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One games console that uses AMD's GCN architecture, so that games developers can easily use most of their low-level code from the Xbone for AMD's GCN architecture on the PC side. Again with silent help from Microsoft, AMD is even working on a compiler that will simply port the low-level Xbone code to GCN on PC. But, why is that bad you ask? Isn't low-level access to the metal something that PC games developers crave for years? Wouldn't that help PC gamers enjoy unparalleled performance on games compared to consoles? Is Microsoft good and wants to sing Kumbaya together with all gamers, be it on the Xbone or the PC? One could think that Microsoft is so honest and naive that it thinks this could really pan out, but then if you think that, my fellow gamers, you are the naive. How shall I put it? Microsoft currently deservedly enjoys the reputation from the press and gamers that they are the dark empire which wants to crush gamers' rights. Well, the perfidious plan of the Microsoft head honchos is to let AMD do their thing and deploy Mantle for the launch of their new GPUs. So far so good. Here the evil starts... Microsoft knows that AMD is very desperate and continually taking a beating from Intel and NVIDIA on the CPU and GPU fronts. They can't do much about Intel on the CPU front, but they sure think that they can go against NVIDIA at the GPU front. AMD thinks Mantle is the knife, and they intend to ram it deep into NVIDIA's chest. What a coincidence that AMD intends to reveal more about Mantle just before the new consoles launch at the 2013 AMD Developer Summit in November. Doesn't that reek of desperation? Judging by all the boasting of AMD firsts and bests at the AMD GPU '14 Tech Day in Hawaii where they showcased the upcoming Radeon R9 and R7 series of GPUs, self-esteem must currently be on a record low at the company. Wouldn't it be for the arab oil money that was poured into AMD, cough... drained down into a bottomless pit and because Intel fears the US antitrust laws, I don't think the company would exist anymore in the fierce computer industry. One just has to look at the loses that the company took in the last years to see what an oddity such a company like AMD is. Microsoft knows that NVIDIA is a clever company that has managed to adapt and survive countles battles in the harsh reality of the computing business environment with larger and arrogant companies like Intel and AMD. They know that NVIDIA will strike back fiercely at AMD and try to blow away their Mantle. I'm not so sure AMD, that live in their oil fueled lala land that apparently doesn't need profits to exist, knows that. AMD wants to go against NVIDIA with a low-level GPU API, the same NVIDIA that fell and swallowed the goliath of low-level APIs back in the good ol' days of PC gaming, namely 3dfx with their legendary Glide API. Nothing good can come of it for PC gaming. There will be chaos, there will be blood. And that's what the dark empire seeks. The return of the good old wild west days where PC gamers couldn't be sure if their shiny and expensive new GPU will even run the latest game in all its glory, if at all. Now is the calm before the storm. Some might have noticed, NVIDIA is unusually quiet now when AMD announced Mantle and their new GPUs, though they usually have some product launch to steal AMD's thunder. Well, there are signs. Like Epic's Mark Rein tweeting that he saw the most amazing thing made by NVIDIA, and it's not a GPU, but gamers will love it. Could this be NVIDIA's low-level GPU API? Will they name it Glide? The fragmentation of PC gaming, again. After Microsoft united PC gamers with DirectX, they now seek chaos. Microsoft has been on a crusade against PC gaming since they've launched their Xbox business. First passive-aggressively with the now axed Games for Windows - LIVE, then of course with the ever slowing development of DirectX that has currently come to a crawl, and we shouldn't forget the catastrophe that is Windows 8. And now, could this help by Microsoft for AMD's Mantle be considered an active sabotage of the PC gaming landscape? The answer from Microsoft would surely be a passive-aggressive no. How comes that Microsoft, a company with the market power and the legions of programmers and engineers, can't afford to build a standardized low-level API for GPUs that is part of DirectX and is interoperable with Direct3D? They are clearly able to do it for the Xbox, granted it's a bit trickier for PCs, but why couldn't such a colossus like Microsoft make it work in the PC space? Well, I answered those questions in the preceding text. Could Valve be the saviour and unite PC gamers? They sure are applying a lot of pressure to Microsoft lately with various Steam related announcements, and as my mole at Microsoft tells me this has their head honchos worried. There is some paranoia there that by destroying PC gaming in favour of their Xbox business, Microsoft could play into Valve's cards and inadvertently slaughter their only cash cow, namely the Windows business. No wonder that NVIDIA is lately so friendly to Linux and speaks highly of their partnership with Valve. AMD on the other side has refrained from mentioning anything related to SteamOS and distanced themselves from it. There are certainly interesting times ahead with the possibility of tectonic shifts in the PC gaming landscape, and gaming in general. OnLive Released Rogue Legacy to the Marketplace and PlayPack Rogue Legacy was added to the OnLive marketplace as a PlayPass and to the OnLive PlayPack. The OnLive PlayPack is now at 254 games in the US, 253 games in the UK and 253 games in Belgium, and counting. The game is priced at $14.99 in the US ($10.49 PlayPack discount), £11.99 in the UK (£8.39 PlayPack discount) and €13.99 in Belgium (€9.79 PlayPack discount). Rogue Legacy is an indie action RPG platformer published and developed by Cellar Door Games. Interestingly, OnLive engineer Michael Toy was one of the original developers of the original Rogue in 1980, so no wonder that Rogue Legacy released on OnLive day-and-date with other platforms. Back in the early 1980s, the now legendary game, Rogue, literally defined a genre. Its unique place in gaming history as the blueprint for dungeon-based fantasy role-playing is still recognised today, and the new Rogue Legacy game does more than pay homage to its predecessor. “Rogue Legacy makes brilliant use of permadeath and procedurally generated content to create a brutally fun game,” said Michael Toy, one of the co-creators of the original game and (coincidentally) part of the technical team at OnLive. “I’m thrilled to see that these features are being embraced by young developers.” “We’re delighted to have Rogue Legacy on the service,” said Kevin Keating, Publisher Relations, OnLive. “OnLive’s unique spectating and social features mean great Indie games like this get fantastic traction and, through the players, the visibility they deserve.” Rogue Legacy delivers the game to a new generation of players, this time in a highly addictive action-platformer style. The new game captures the essence of the original, including some of the features like procedurally generated levels and permadeath. The result is 100% pure game. Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colourblind, or they might have tourettes. They could even be a dwarf. That's OK because no one's perfect, and you don't have to be perfect to win this game. But you do have to be pretty darn good because this game is HARD. Fortunately every time you die, all the gold you've collected can be used to upgrade you manor, giving your next child a step up in life and another chance at vanquishing evil. Here's what Rogue Legacy is: A procedurally generated adventure. Explore new castles with every life. Rogue-lite. Your character dies, but with each passing your lineage grows and becomes stronger. Tons of unique traits that makes each playthrough special. Ever wanted to be a dyslexic giant? Now you can! More than 8 classes to choose from (9)! Each class has unique abilities that change the way you play the game. Over 60 different enemies to test your skills against. Hope you like palette-swaps! Massive, expandable skill tree. Rack in the loot to upgrade your manor and give your successors a cutting edge. Oh yeah, there's a Blacksmith and an Enchantress shop with tons of upgrades. Equip your heroes with powerful weaponry and armor. Or gain new abilities like flight, dash, and air jumping. Tons of secrets and easter eggs to uncover... or are there? Yes there are. Got a gamepad? Play with a gamepad. Clowns. Metascore: 87 You can play the free demo, subscribe to the PlayPack and buy Rogue Legacy for the US, the UK and Belgium powered by OnLive. Posted by John Anderson at 08:52 5 comments OnLive PlayPack Get all the latest OnLive PlayPack news, what games have been released and what games will come to the PlayPack. Steve Perlman unveils amazing new wireless tech This is a video of OnLive's CEO Steve Perlman who speaks as an alumnus at the Columbia Engineering School . He speaks about how Mova CO... GameStop is Afraid of OnLive, Plays Dirty Tricks As reported , the PC retail packaged version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution comes with a free digital copy for OnLive in the form of a coupo... The Phantom Lapboard is a Perfect Fit For OnLive Gamers At this point, most gamers remember the infamous Phantom game console . In 2002, Infinium Labs promised to revolutionize gaming by esc... Shinra Technologies Next-Gen Multiplayer Cloud Gam... onlivespot at onlivespot dot com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20730
__label__cc	0.629282	0.370718	A company owned by Cheshire East Council Orbitas Bereavement Services Handyperson service Orbitas Company info Crewe Cemetery Badger Avenue CW1 3JG (Location Map) Plan your journey here with Google Maps November to March Weekdays 8.00am 4.00pm Weekends 9.00am 4.00pm April to October Weekdays 8.00am 6.00pm There is ample car parking provided for the bereaved attending services at the Crematorium and cemetery. Access to the car parks is via the main gates located on Badger Avenue, Crewe, CW13JG. The main car parks are located on the left hand side of the main gates. There is also limited parking for the disabled but please contact the Cemetery Administration Office on 01270 685545 for directions. Notice of works at Crewe Crematorium to improve facilities Work is underway on a major revamp of Crewe Crematorium to improve facilities for the bereaved. The £1.3m scheme, which started on Monday July 6, includes extending the building, boosting seating capacity, improving toilet facilities and increasing parking for people with disabilities. Crewe Crematorium, in Crewe Cemetery, will get a single-storey extension to the front of the existing building. The extension will include an arrival area, a book of remembrance alcove and an area where bereaved families can wait more comfortably. External walls of remembrance will be built to both the front and side of the existing building to replace the ‘carriage porch’ (porte cochere). Some memorial plaques will be temporarily moved and stored during this work. The interior will get an extra 38 seats – increasing capacity by more than 50 per cent from the current total of 68 seats. There will also be an extension of the ‘hearing loop’ to help the hard of hearing access the service. Toilet facilities will be improved as the existing chapel of rest will be converted into male, female and disabled toilets. Two additional disabled parking spaces will also be created. The work will be done outside crematorium opening hours and services will take place as normal. Every effort will be made to keep any impact of the work to a minimum. Search for Crewe Cemetery burial records online We have digitised 51,750 Crewe Cemetery records from 1872 to 2016, including burial register scans and added them to the specialist family history website Deceased Online. Users can search free of charge by name and date and there is a small fee to download register scans or access grave details. Crewe Cemetery Office, Market Close, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 2NA Crewe: 01270 685545 Macclesfield: 01625 383946 Orbitas is a member of the Federation of British Cremation Authorities and complies with the strict Code of Practice, which determines the necessary high standards of cremation. It is also a member of the Institute of Cemeteries and Crematorium Management.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20733
__label__wiki	0.60143	0.60143	Personalia: Jankowski-Diakonoff A.I. Monograph: Mongolica. Vol. XXII, 2019... Personalia: Mesheznikov A.V. Visit of the Grand Mufti of the Repub... Meeting of the Academic Council - Dec... Visit of the prime minister of Mongol... Annual IOM Academic Session - 2019 The exhibition "Light of Knowledge: i... Paper: Tibetan studies in Russia: a b... First International Conference ‟Ori... IOM Journals Videos (rus) Buy books (rus) Library (rus) IOM (rus) What's most interesting for you? Abstracts of monographs WMO English 1(5) 2017 of the Orient 1(5) 2017 Issued twice a year The entire issue as a *.PDF file Olga Chunakova, Federico Dragoni, Enrico Morano. A forgotten Manichaean Sogdian bifolio in Sogdian script — 3 Abstract: The present paper consists of the first edition, translation and commentary of a Manichaean Sogdian bifolio, whose photos are preserved in the Nachlass of Academician Carl H. Salemann at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS (St. Petersburg). The present location of the bifolio is unknown. One joining fragment has been found in the Berlin Turfan collection during the preliminary work on this edition. Two relatively long portions of Manichaean didactic treatises are extant and do not correspond to any known text. The first (I) is a Lehrtext on the duties of Manichaean monks living in a monastery. The second (II) contains the fourth and part of a fifth question, followed by answers, of a catechetical text concerning the fate of the body and of the soul after death. Key words: Manichaeism, Manichaean didactic literature, Sogdian language, Sogdian manuscripts, Carl H. Salemann, Turfan texts, text edition, Iranian philology Adam Benkato. Sogdian letter fragments in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St. Petersburg — 26 Abstract: Among the Sogdian fragments from Turfan preserved in the IOM collections are a handful of epistolary texts. A new edition of these fragments is presented here as part of the author’s ongoing project on Sogdian letters from Turfan. Key words: Sogdian, epistolary texts, Turfan, Manichaeism Peter Zieme. An Embryonic Saint. Interpretation of an Old Uighur Fragment in the Serindia Collection at the IOM, RAS — 40 Abstract: In this paper the author edits a fragment of the Oldenburg Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. The text is a unique story about a child in mother’s womb attaining the srota-āpanna-ship by listening to Buddha’s teaching. Key words: Old Uighur Buddhism, Oldenburg Collection, dharma and srota-āpanna, Old Uighur words Alexander Zorin. Fragments of Tibetan Texts Refound at the Dunhuang Collection Kept at the IOM, RAS: Eleven Identified Fragments of Buddhist Canonical Texts — 49 Abstract: the paper presents texts of eighteen identified Tibetan fragments kept at the IOM, RAS Dunhuang Collection. These are fragments of five canonical Buddhist texts: Shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag brgya pa pa (7 fragments), ’Phags pa ’jigs pa chen po brgyad las sgrol ba zhes bya ba’i gzungs (1 fragment), ’Phags pa chos thams cad kyi yum zhes bya ba’i gzungs (an almost complete text), ’Phags pa tshe dang ye shes dpag tu med pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo (1 fragment), De bzhin gshegs pa bdun gyi sngon sman lam gyi khyad par rgyas pa zhes bya ba mdo sde bklag cing de bzhin gshegs pa bdun mchod de\| smon lam gdab pa’i cho ga mdo sde las btus te rim par bklag pa (1 fragment). The first four texts can be found in Bka’ ’gyur, the latter one in Bstan ’gyur. The Derge edition of Bka’ ’gyur and Bstan ’gyur was used to fill the lacunae in the fragments. Key words: Tibetan manuscripts from Dunhuang, Tibetan Buddhist texts Hartmut Walravens. Symbolism of sovereignty in the context of the Dzungar campaigns of the Qianlong emperor — 73 Abstract: The Qianlong emperor (reigned 1736–1795) proved to be a master in documenting and glorifying his military exploits and creating his own myth. He used a variety of media (paintings, copper-engravings, inscriptions, books, hymns, parades, ceremonies, banquets) for this purpose and would be considered today a master of advertising and public relations. Key words: Qianlong emperor, China — military campaigns: China, 18th c. Joseph F. O’Callaghan. The Last Crusade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, by Anastasia Stepanova — 91 Catalogue of Japanese Manuscripts and Rare Books. Merete Pedersen. The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark. Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Xylographs, etc. in Danish Collections (COMDC), by Karine Marandjian — 95 Anton Schiefner (1817–1879) und seine indologischen Freunde: seine Briefe an die Indologen Albrecht Weber (1825–1901), Rudolf Roth (1821–1895) und William D. Whitney (1827–1894) sowie den Indogermanisten Adalbert Kuhn (1812–1881) / Hartmut Walravens, Agnes Stache-Weiske [editors]. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2015. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte, 868. Bd.; Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, Nr. 89), by Alexander Zorin — 98 Last Updated ( 24/05/2019 ) IOM's page contains Publications 576 Monographs 283	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20735
__label__cc	0.55926	0.44074	Desert Fishes Council, Death Valley, California, November 2006. Phylogenetic patterns within Australian desert gobies. P.J. Unmack & M. Adams Phylogenetic patterns within Australian desert fishes remain relatively poorly known, although considerable research is underway to investigate the systematics and biogeography of this unusual fauna. A phylogenetic study was recently completed on one of the more interesting groups, the desert gobies (Gobiidae: Chlamydogobius) which have many parallels to the Cyprinodon pupfishes of North America. In both groups there are marine and freshwater species, they commonly occur as endemics in different spring complexes, they often inhabit harsh environments and as a result have extreme physico-chemical tolerances. The genus Chlamydogobius is thought to be endemic to Australia with one marine species C. ranunculus (Tadpole Goby) found across northern coastal Australia (sometimes in freshwater as well) and a radiation of five species within Central Australian Province (Lake Eyre Basin). Each species occurs within a distinct geographic area in tributaries of the largely dry Lake Eyre. Chlamydogobius squamigenus (Edgbaston Goby) mostly occurs in one small group of springs in the upper Cooper Creek catchment, C. micropterus (Elizabeth Springs Goby) occurs in one small group of springs in the middle Diamantina River catchment, C. japalpa (Finke Goby) occurs in the upper portion of the Finke River and is the only species found exclusively within riverine habitat, C. gloveri (Dalhousie Goby) occurs in Dalhousie Springs near the lowermost Finke River, and the last species, C. eremius (Desert Goby) is found in numerous small springs and creeks mostly to the west of Lake Eyre. We used the complete sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene and allozyme electrophoresis on 53 presumptive loci to examine species relationships. Results from each dataset broadly agree on species boundaries, with the exception of C. japalpa, as it was not resolved as distinct from C. eremius in the allozyme analysis. However, it was distinct in the cytochrome b dataset and can be easily morphologically distinguished. Within cytochrome b, most nodes had high bootstrap values (> 80), with C. ranunculus recovered as the basal member of the genus. The more geographically isolated and morphologically distinct species C. micropterus was basal within Central Australia, followed by C. gloveri. The remaining three species (C. squamigenus, C. japalpa, C. eremius) were all closely related which is consistent with the more recent isolation of their drainages as well as overall morphological similarity. The phylogenetic patterns observed are likely the result of an initial invasion of Chlamydogobius into Central Australia from northern drainages during Late Miocene or Pliocene during a wetter climatic phase. Once within the Lake Eyre Basin they were able to disperse widely, and due to their ability to live in small, isolated, harsh environments they were able to colonize a number of spring systems. As climate became increasingly arid, it progressively fragmented and isolated these populations, resulting in a phylogenetic pattern broadly consistent with the known climatic fragmentation of these drainages.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20738
__label__cc	0.570605	0.429395	By Josiah Keller · On October 15, 2013 The Portland Center Stage theater company, was formed in 1988, and has been putting on Portland’s finest theatrical productions ever since. Productions from the past have included an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Devils, along with more commonly known works such as West Side Story, Twelfth Night, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Portland Center Stage usually has around 10 productions a year, holding their performances at the Gerding Theater, inside of the historic First Regiment Armory Annex. productions are divided between the Main Stage, and the smaller underground Ellyn Bye Studio. To see the shows for the current season, and purchase tickets, check out Portland Center Stage’s official website at PCS.org. Portland ArmoryPortland Center Stage Josiah Keller Josiah works primarily in web development and writing, and once wrote a 50,000 word (unpublished) novel in a month. He also loves to travel, and explore different cultures and locations. Experience the Breathtaking Multnomah Falls World Forestry Center in Portland The International Rose Test Garden Cool Places in Oregon Wallowa Lake Astoria’s Scandinavian Midsummer Festival Visit the town of Astoria The West Coast Game Park Safari Tillamook Cheese Factory The Pittock Mansion The wreck of the Peter Iredale Things to do at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Portland Japanese Garden Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach Places to See in Oregon Welcome to Oregon This site is designed to help you find cool things to do in Oregon without spending your entire vacation looking for things to do. Enjoy, and get in touch if you have a recommendation for a place we should visit! © 2014 Places to See in Oregon. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20739
__label__cc	0.527304	0.472696	Light and CO2 Response of Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase Activation in Arabidopsis Leaves Michael E. Salvucci, Archie R. Portis, William L. Ogren Michael E. Salvucci Archie R. Portis William L. Ogren Published March 1986. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.80.3.655 © 1986 American Society of Plant Biologists The requirements for activation of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) were investigated in leaves of Arabidopsis wild-type and a mutant incapable of light activating rubisco in vivo. Upon illumination with saturating light intensities, the activation state of rubisco increased 2-fold in the wild-type and decreased in the mutant. Activation of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate phosphatase was unaffected by the mutation. Under low light, rubisco deactivated in both the wild-type and the mutant. Deactivation of rubisco in the mutant under high and low light led to the accumulation of high concentrations of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate. Inhibiting photosynthesis with methyl viologen prevented ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate accumulation but was ineffective in restoring rubisco activation to the mutant. Net photosynthesis and the rubisco activation level were closely correlated and saturated at a lower light intensity in the mutant than in wild-type. At CO2 concentrations between 100 and 2000 microliters per liter, the activation state was a function of the CO2 concentration in the dark but was independent of CO2 concentration in the light. High CO2 concentration (1%) suppressed activation in the wild-type and deactivation in the mutant. These results support the concept that rubisco activation in vivo is not a spontaneous process but is catalyzed by a specific protein. The absence of this protein, rubisco activase, is responsible for the altered characteristics of rubisco activation in the mutant. You are going to email the following Light and CO2 Response of Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase Activation in Arabidopsis Leaves Plant Physiology Mar 1986, 80 (3) 655-659; DOI: 10.1104/pp.80.3.655	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20742
__label__wiki	0.712718	0.712718	Advertise on Parabolic Arc Space Tourism … and Much More Tag: Planet NRO Awards Planet Contract as Part of Transition of Commercial Imagery Acquisition CHANTILLY, Va.. October 15, 2019 (NRO PR) – The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) today announced the transition of the Planet commercial imagery subscription service from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to the NRO. As part of the transition, the NRO awarded Planet an unclassified, multi-year subscription service contract for daily, large-area, 3-5 meter resolution commercial imagery collection. Recognizing the importance of mission continuity, the scope of the new NRO contract is comparable to NGA’s previous contracts with Planet and includes access to new daily unclassified imagery over multiple areas of interest to military planners, warfighters, and the national security community. NRO Awards Fourth Commercial Imagery Study Contract September 24, 2019 News 0 CHANTILLY, Va. (NRO PR) — The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) announced today the award of a commercial imagery study contract to HySpecIQ (www.hyspeciq.com). This award is the NRO’s first such award to a commercial hyperspectral imaging company and represents the latest milestone in the agency’s commercial imagery acquisition and integration strategy. “HySpecIQ is developing interesting new hyperspectral imaging capabilities that have the potential to contribute to our current and future overhead architecture,”said Pete Muend, director of the NRO Commercial Systems Program Office. Iran’s Latest Launch Attempt Fails August 29, 2019 August 29, 2019 News 0 BREAKING: Dramatic satellite imagery from @planetlabs shows that Iran's latest launch attempt has again ended in failure:https://t.co/rJrBYV1L99 (featuring @DaveSchmerler ) pic.twitter.com/5ZyHE9j9p5 — Geoff Brumfiel (@gbrumfiel) August 29, 2019 ESA Evaluating Remote Sensing Data from ICEYE, Planet and Spire August 3, 2019 August 2, 2019 News 0 X2 satellite (Credit: ICEYE) PARIS (ESA PR) — In the framework of the Earthnet programme, ESA and its Member States continue to stimulate global cooperation between space actors around activities aiming to acquire and share resources and knowledge on our planet for the benefit of all citizens. Recently, it was decided to continue the data assessment of three constellations: ICEYE ICEYE Constellation Announced as European Space Agency’s Third Party Mission Under Evaluation European Space Agency’s data assessment of ICEYE’s SAR Satellite Constellation continues through the Earthnet Data Assessment Pilot (EDAP) framework. HELSINKI, Aug. 1, 2019 – ICEYE, the global leader in small satellite synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) technology, today announced its SAR satellite constellation is now considered a Third Party Mission under evaluation for the European Space Agency (ESA). As a result, a continued analysis of ICEYE’s SAR data from its satellites will be performed under the framework of the Earthnet Data Assessment Pilot (EDAP). National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Extends Contract With Planet April 9, 2019 News 0 SAN FRANCISCO (Planet PR) — We’re pleased to announce that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has exercised their option to extend our 2018 contract and renew for an additional six months and $5.9 million. Through this contract, Planet will continue to bring unique value to NGA by providing subscription access to daily imagery over select areas to support mission objectives at the agency. This is Planet’s third contract with NGA since 2016 and is an important milestone as we bridge the leadership transition from Director Cardillo to Navy Vice Admiral Sharp, demonstrating our ongoing relationship with NGA. We’re excited to continue this collaborative partnership as Vice Admiral Sharp outlines his agency’s priorities for the coming years. Additionally, Planet is pursuing NRO’s 2020 commercial imagery contract, and continued engagement with NGA helps us further align around the needs of USG. Spaceflight Prepares to Send 21 Rideshare Satellites Aboard PSLV C45 March 27, 2019 March 26, 2019 News 0 PSLV rocket (Credit: ISRO) SEATTLE, March 26, 2019 (Spaceflight PR) — Spaceflight, the leading satellite rideshare and mission management provider, today announced it will launch 21 spacecraft on a rideshare mission from India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) at India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center. The launch is scheduled for Mon., April 1, 2019 Indian Standard Time (Sun., March 31 PDT). Payloads aboard the mission include the Astrocast-02 3U cubesat from Switzerland-based Astrocast and Flock 4a, 20 next-generation Dove satellites from Planet. D-Orbit Signs Contract for Launch and Deployment Services with Planet Labs February 27, 2019 News 3 FINO MORNASCO, Italy, February 27th, 2019 (D-Orbit PR) — D-Orbit, an Italian service provider for the New Space sector, signed a contract with Planet, a US-based private Earth imaging company, for the launch and deployment of six Dove-series satellites. Under the contract, D-Orbit will launch and deploy the satellites during the first commercial mission of ION CubeSat Carrier, the core technology of the InOrbit NOW launch service offered by the Italian company. The mission will launch in August 2019, on the Vega launch vehicle as part of the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) Proof of Concept flight (POC flight). “We are honored to partner with Planet, the leading Smallsat operator in the industry,” said Renato Panesi, D-Orbit Chief Commercial Officer. “We are proud Planet has chosen our ION CubeSat Carrier for their next mission. Our launch services are ideal for the small satellite market because they provide high performance by accelerating the phasing of released satellites at an affordable cost. We believe this contract is the start of a long-term cooperation.” Planet Acquires Boundless Spatial to Serve Govt, Agriculture Markets December 18, 2018 News 0 SAN FRANCISCO (Planet PR) — Planet is excited to announce that we have entered into an agreement to acquire Boundless Spatial, Inc., a St. Louis-based geospatial software solutions company. The acquisition expands Planet’s commercial business with the U.S. government and commercial agriculture clients. Boundless is a leader in geospatial data management software and is aligned with our objective to deliver novel geospatial data subscription services and accelerate adoption for enterprise customers. NASA Awards Earth Science Data Contracts to DigitalGlobe, Planet & SPIRE October 5, 2018 October 4, 2018 News 0 One of the organizations in NASA’s Private Sector Small Constellation Satellite Data Product Pilot program, Planet, has several satellite constellations including Dove. Two of the Dove small satellites are shown here deploying from the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA) WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA has launched a pilot program to evaluate how Earth science data from commercial small-satellite constellations could supplement observations from the agency’s fleet of orbiting Earth science missions. On Sept. 28, the agency awarded sole-source contracts to acquire test data sets from three private sector organizations. Planet and Orbital Insight Expand Satellite Imagery Partnership SAN FRANCISCO and PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 19, 2018 (Planet/Orbital Insight PR) — Planet, who operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites, and Orbital Insight, the leader in geospatial analytics, announced today a multi-year contract for Orbital Insight to source daily, global satellite imagery from Planet. The contract is an expansion of their previous imagery-sharing agreement. “Orbital Insight has been a fantastic partner for Planet, and we are looking forward to continuing our relationship as they develop analytics that make our imagery more accessible and actionable for businesses,” said Will Marshall, CEO and co-founder of Planet. “The partnership signals the market’s confidence in the growing number of use cases for insights derived from daily global imagery with advanced analytics.” NASA Announces Initiative to Boost Small Science Satellite Efforts August 7, 2018 News 0 Artist illustration of events on the sun changing the conditions in Near-Earth space. A new study finds daily U.S. economic cost from solar storm-induced electricity blackouts could be in the tens of billions of dollars. (Credit: NASA) LOGAN, Utah — The head of NASA’s science programs unveiled an $100 million per year initiative on Monday focused on the use of small scuebce satellites that includes data buys from three spacecraft constellation operators. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said the funding would go to targeted space science, technology and educational projects. He made the announcement during a keynote address at the annual Small Satellite Conference in Logan, Utah. A key element of the initiative is the purchase of Earth science data from companies with satellite constellations in Earth orbit. Zurbuchen announced that the first purchases will be made from DigitalGlobe, Planet and Spire. He did not disclose the amounts of the awards. Zurbuchen said NASA’s goal is to work with the growing small-satellite industry, not to compete with it. The space agency will invest in early-stage research and development to advance and test new technologies. Zurbuchen also announced a new opportunity for small-satellite technology demonstrations focused on heliophysics that will be funded at up to $65 million. “This opportunity will ultimately help deploy #SmallSat technologies to better understand @NASASun science and protect Americans by protecting US technological infrastructure on Earth and in space from the perils of space weather,” he tweeted. Zurbuchen said NASA plans to provide more launch and rideshare opportunities for small satellites built by government, commercial and international partners. Planet Lays Off Dozens of Employees July 19, 2018 July 19, 2018 News 2 In February 2014, Planet Labs Inc. launched its first flock of Dove nanosatellites into space. Shown are two shoebox-sized Doves being ejected into low-Earth orbit from the International Space Station. The company’s goal is for the flock to take a high-resolution snapshot of nearly the entire globe every 24 hours. (Credit: NASA) Space News reports the remote-sensing company Planet has laid off up to 38 employees in what the company has called a “shift of focus” from creating the world’s largest constellation of satellites to “developing commercial products and building successful business” to “more tightly align” with its current goals. Planet said it laid off less than 10 percent of its more than 500 employees. Planet & Airbus Partner to Deliver New Geospatial Solutions June 25, 2018 News 0 Two of the 28 Planet Labs Dove satellites that make up the Flock 1 constellation are seen launching into orbit from the International Space Station on Feb. 11. (Credit: NASA) TOULOUSE, France (Planet PR) — Planet is expanding its engagement in Europe in a big way. Today, we’re excited to announce a partnership with Airbus, a leader in remote sensing, to enable access to each other’s data and joint cooperation on the development of new geospatial solutions. NGA Signs CRADA with Planet May 7, 2018 News 0 SPRINGFIELD, Va. (NGA PR) — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency signed a cooperative research and development agreement, April 4, with Planet, a commercial imagery provider, to explore and potentially improve the speed at which the agency can extract vital information and analytics from the company’s imagery. The CRADA is expected to yield time-saving services for the agency related to change detection, such as monitoring objects across entire countries, advanced broad area search, and the generation of baseline and foundation layers, said Manuela McCabe, NGA’s Planet CRADA program manager. “The Planet CRADA will fully inform NGA on the quality and utility of the services that Planet is able to develop and provide using their high-frequency imagery stacks,” said McCabe. NGA purchased a $14 million subscription for Planet imagery in July 2017, following an introductory contract signed in 2016. Please Support Parabolic Arc Help us continue to deliver the latest in NewSpace news, analysis and commentary. Click HERE to support us via PayPal. Which company will make the first crewed flight to the International Space Station? 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__label__cc	0.522611	0.477389	Hey Daydreamer Rez Toledo Someday Dream Someday Dream: Just a Daydream Away for a Bigger 2012 A new face with a fresh new sound of Pinoy pop music poppin' like a popcorn was delivered to a hungry public early last year. This fresh new music comes from the newest campus crush ng bayan who goes by the name "Someday Dream" a.k.a Rez Toledo. Yes, he's the cute chinito guy, pegged as the Philippines' very own version of Owl City. A local electropop act in the vein of Owl City and The Ready Set who is currently making HUGE waves in the local FM stations. He's 1/2 man, 1/2 amazing. 2011 was a BIG year for Somedaydream and I've heard a BIGGER 2012 for OPM's ground-breaking artist Somedaydream is in order. The 20-year-old Atenean’s first single, “Hey Daydreamer,” got the #1 spot of both Pinoy Myx Countdown and MYX Hit Charts year-ender edition. It was also RX 93.1's "Song of the Year" and also made him "OPM Artist of the Year". He was also awarded by Yahoo Philippines as Breakthrough Artish and Icon of the Year. “You and me, sitting on a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G.” There are some songs in life that make you sing a little louder, smile a little bigger and live just a little bit better... this song is one of them and it is still stuck in my head. It became more of an LSS song as it is heard in the popular TV commercial of Cornetto ice cream. My fave commercial so far. :) It's all over the airwaves and its electro beats and catchy lyrics is infectious. Viral. It's like a drug, and I'm addicted to this song. But the side effects are all good because it puts me in a good mood. Just once I'd like to see a drug commercial that says, "Side effects: May cause extreme awesomeness and happiness." :) That kind of happiness you get when you're daydreaming or when you're simply listening to this song. Ever had that awkward moment when you come out of a daydream and realize you're staring at someone? Or that awkward moment when you're listening to the song you love "Hey Daydreamer" then your brother changes the radio station? Pissed off? I was. I almost gave him a roundhouse kick to the face and nearly had myself throwing a brick at him. That awkward moments. Oh and I had no idea there were so many awkward moments in life though.... until I joined Twitter. LOL Going back to last night's event, I had a blast at Somedaydream's 1st Blogger's Meet-Up at Blue Onion Bar and Restaurant. Rez is undeniably cute and very talented, so to speak. He writes songs, records and performs all by himself. One-man band baby! :) His first album titled Someday Dream contains seven songs that he wrote himself. When asked about what kind of music he plays, Rez says it's electronica-synth pop. Just so you know, electronic pop or Synthpop music are songs wherein synthesizers and electronic instruments were dominantly used in creating the music. This music genre has been around in the music scene for quite some time now but people haven't been paying much attention to it. Here's the complete track list of Rez's album, Someday Dream: 2. Hey Daydreamer 3. Do-do With You 4. Delivery Boys 5. Break 6. Sing This Song 7. Hey Daydreamer (Acoustic) Needless to say, things get bigger this 2012 for this talented singer whose meteoric rise is a breathe of fresh air in the OPM scene. Also, you must be wondering why he chose the name "Someday Dream". It's simply because he likes the name Someday Dream. It means ambiguous and has a lot of meanings. His mentor and manager is a hottie I'm sure you love, too, former frontman and vocalist of the band Hale turned solo artist, Champ Lui Pio. "Everything happened so fast and it's really exciting," Somedaydream said. "I'm definitely looking forward for more great things this year and you should watch out for that." On a lighter note, he plays guitar, bass, synth and piano. He also likes searching for new gadgets during his spare time. As for the girls out there who spend almost half of their waking hours daydreaming about him and listening to his songs, I'm pleased to let y'all know that he's SINGLE.. meaning, he's neither taken... nor taken for granted. :) He says his ideal girl is.. "Someone I can always talk to. I think communication is definitely a big thing." So you go girls! :) But for now, fans a.k.a. "dreamers" can catch him live on his mall shows this Saturday, February 11 at SM Las Pinas; Saturday, February 18 at SM Bicutan; Sunday, February 19 at SM Marikina and Saturday, February 25 at SM Sucat. Show starts at 5ish. Grab a copy of Somedaydream's self titled debut album for only PhP250 and have it signed and meet him after the show. Somedaydream's album is now out in CDs exclusively available in all Astroplus branches under Mecca Music and MCA Music. It is also available digitally via mymusicstore.ph for PhP25 per song. Special thanks to Pinoy Magazine, OrangemagazineTV.com, Selecta Cornetto, Bose, Keds and Terranova. Watch for news about Somedaydream’s music in his Facebook fanpage and follow him on Twitter: Sdrez. Woh oh oh oh-woh-oh Battery low My laptop is dying. Time to become a ninja while "Delivery Boys" is playing on my iPod. I'm pretty sure if ninjas made money, I'd be on a completely different career path right now. Garagow. Follow me on Twitter yo. @rockstarmomma26 missed that event. T.T I'm not chosen. How I wishhhhhh.. jeeeezzz. Blair Villanueva February 3, 2012 at 2:12 AM another promising talent :) Rockstarmomma February 7, 2012 at 10:08 PM I agree. :) lov it :> Helen Blas February 3, 2012 at 2:34 AM LSS ako sa Hey Daydreamer ever since I heard it in the Cornetto commercial. :D true. I was even singing it the whole day. nkklk! lol Edmar Guquib February 3, 2012 at 3:52 AM magkamuka naman pala sila ni champ eh.. Hehe. Hope he'll make big soon. Regards, Edmaration korek. parang big brother lang si champ! cute chinito guys :) promking February 3, 2012 at 4:06 AM meron ako picture with him .. hahaha. ay ako din hehe pero malabo so I didn't get to post it here hehe chrisair February 3, 2012 at 6:12 AM I made also a blog post of him and inform it on his FBpage pero deadma, anyway I likehis music we should supprot this guy aw baka naman busy lang.. hehe but yeah, we should support him. I think he's one of the great Filipino talents we have right now Blanca Dela Cruz February 3, 2012 at 6:43 AM ohh i love Hey Daydreamer also. Lalo na my tween.:) MaryJane Tauyan February 3, 2012 at 7:22 AM i can't totally relate with this post dear! xncia nah but then nice music!! good talent! speaking of daydreaming i always do something like that specially when i have my iPod sounds on its like i don't care whats happening in the world hehe germz February 3, 2012 at 7:23 AM aside from the music I listened, it is also the band singer whom I am looking forward too.hehe chinitos are really cute. chrew.. chrew.. so chrew! :) chinito guys are cute lakwatsero February 3, 2012 at 7:25 AM I love Hey Daydreamer. It's so catchy! Ruth dela Cruz February 3, 2012 at 7:31 AM Ang cute ni Champ dyan ah! Haha Sharing my blog post ;) It was nice seeing you again! http://www.ruthilicious.blogspot.com/2012/02/rez-toledo-somedaydream-sings-hey.html#disqus_thread rjs mama February 3, 2012 at 8:40 AM never heard of him but will definitely check out his music because of this post:) fabgirl Aleah \| AdventuringFoodie.com February 3, 2012 at 9:06 AM Hi Chelle! I love that commercial nakakatuwa. Lucky you, you get to attend the launching! See you in other events, basta let me have your potatoes ulit :) stacy February 3, 2012 at 9:39 AM he looks promising I'm sure he'll have a lot of fans Chriselle Sy February 3, 2012 at 9:49 AM Wow I didn't know he was my schoolmate! :) ROMELO February 3, 2012 at 11:39 AM ngayon ko lang nalaman kung sinong kumanta nung nasa commercial... daig pa ako ng mga anak ko, alam kung sinong kumanta nun... Rudolph February 3, 2012 at 5:37 PM i like his song Delivery Boy oh yea, I like that too :D I think he has a new single .. forgot the title though haha Sing This Song po..:) Eid. February 3, 2012 at 11:54 PM CHAMP!!! Jenny O'Toole February 4, 2012 at 6:03 AM I never heard any of their songs. I don't remember it was play on Pinoy Radio UK. In your post you truly love their songs thats great. I'll check them on youtube. Keep supporting OPM. Mabuhay ka! Tetcha February 4, 2012 at 6:09 AM He's really cute and charming, but I haven't heard his songs yet. Given his good looks and talent, I'm sure he'll go places. Animetric February 4, 2012 at 6:24 AM I'm very out of date when it comes to local celebs because I don't listen to the radio or watch TV. XD Cha February 4, 2012 at 5:13 PM He's so cute,fresh looking and very talented too! http://travel-on-a-shoe-string.blogspot.com/2010/09/day-two-2-high-in-sky-lake-sebu.html Agree.. agree.. :) and fresh, new kind of music too Gemma\|My Dailies February 4, 2012 at 7:01 PM panibagong pipilahan at titilian! cute! korek! waaaaaaaaaaaa hahaha Joy Calipes-Felizardo February 4, 2012 at 7:21 PM Fave to ng mga kids ko! dexter February 4, 2012 at 9:09 PM Thanks for sharing.. Nice photos stacy February 6, 2012 at 1:17 PM I like the name somedaydream. Sounds promising hehe kRyStLe February 6, 2012 at 11:24 PM andun pala si champ! DAPAT LANG SILANG BUMILI NGA ALBUM NIYA!!! Somedaydream po is one word..:) micahel kors outlet red christian louboutin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20765
__label__cc	0.625926	0.374074	RADtv Prototype Team Anim-Boost : Combat & Civilians …to Ruffian Games! Since forming in 2008, Ruffian has become one of Scotland’s most exciting, independent computer game developers. Our highly experienced team have worked on some of the world’s largest AAA franchises… Play Expo Glasgow Posted by Martin Livingston on 15 Jul, 2016 in Fragmental Inaugural Play Expo Glasgow On the 11th & 12th of June, the Braehead Arena in Glasgow hosted the first Play Expo in Scotland. No longer would we all have to trek down to Manchester or Birmingham (or further afield) for our fix of pinball, old coin-ops, indie games, and classic console & computer games. There were other things there as well such as table top games, cosplay, merchandise area etc, but they’re not relevant to this article, so I can’t be arsed writing about them. I’ve got other things to do. Like helping get Fragmental finished! Ruffian by name… Usually at these things people set up their stand with maybe a poster, some sweets to entice the punters, If the budget allows possibly a free-standing banner. For an indie, these events can be expensive, so self marketing is tough. Then we turn up with our 2 large free-standing banners, stick a 3rd up in the seating area, and for good measure bring 4 bright red seats for players to sit on. Overkill? It certainly made us stand out, and hopefully brought a few more people into the indie area to see what was going on. We’re not subtle, but when it comes to selling games, you can’t really afford to be. Devil child Having just mentioned those red seats, now seems the opportune moment to mention the most awkward moment of the day, and that award has to go to the sneaky little girl who stole one of our chairs while we were talking to somebody about to play Fragmental. On top of this, she picked up the iPad at the next demo station along (HEDRA), and promptly exited to the desktop, scanned through everything available, then started playing Candy Crush! Having zero interest in having to remove someone else’s problem child, we left it to Craig from We Throw Switches to sort it out. For the record, he looked ultra uncomfortable doing it. Good job fella. So how did it go? Short answer – exceptionally well. Our stand had a continual stream of players on both days, with virtually no downtime. Once again, our initial thoughts on Fragmental’s demographic proved wide of the mark, with at least half of the players looking like they hadn’t even been on the planet for more than a decade! The feedback was universally positive, and I think in terms of both this, and the amount of people wanting to jump in and have a game, this was up there with the best show’s we’ve done. Except for the 2 young lads who took 96 rounds to win a 1-on-1 ‘first to 10’ game. Watching that was like death by 1000 cuts. Or 96 at least. One thing we’ve learned from our last year working in the indie games scene is that its a very friendly, collaborative community where everyone wants to see each other succeed. From the one-person entrepreneurs to the established studios, everyone just wants to make games, and hopefully make a bit of money out of it too. So, I’m going to promote out neighbours from Play Expo here, in the hope that some of our followers will take a look and support them: “HEDRA” by Kirsty Keatch A remarkably simple idea, all you do is rotate 3D shapes, then drop them on a variety of inclines with the aim of them landing, and settling on the one coloured face. Simple, but ridiculously addictive, especially when someone insists on beating your score you just spent ages achieving. I thought I was pretty good at it getting 22, then not at all competitive Billy went straight on and hit 35. Way to piss on my chips there Billy Anyway, its available for free on iOS, so there really is no reason not to get hold of this. ~Ow~ by Vaida I think this is actually called ~Ow~, though the phrase “Competitive Cuddling Simulator” on the blackboard next to the monitor is much more descriptive. How to describe this… Essentially you control one person of a couple on a sofa, with the aim of matching the required body position through keyboard input. Think CLOP / QWOP, but where you have to first learn which key maps to which limb. It all leads to a confusing mass of limbs, which given I’m led to understand that a lot of Vaida’s work is based on her life experiences, makes me wonder about the origins of this game! When played competitively, ~Ow~ got quite frantic, which is pretty good for a game made so quickly. You should keep an eye on what she does in the future, as her current output level of games is crazy, and each one is something unusual and different. With pretty much every home computer and console ever present, along with a good range of pinball machines and over 40 classic coin-ops, there were plenty of those “Holy Shit!” moments on seeing a piece of hardware or a game you’ve not played since you were a kid. From a personal point of view, I made sure I got some time on Hyper Sports (Coin-op), Paperboy (Coin-op), Robotron (Coin-op), Blastcorps (N64), Power Stone (Dreamcast), and 3D Bomb Alley (BBC B). I’ll not bother talking about the now ever present at these events Vive or Oculus. Needless to say, the queues were as long as usual. ‘Ruffian’ v ‘We Throw Switches’ Team Deathmatch Challenge! Just before the end of the show, Craig & Andrew from We Throw Switches challenged myself and Billy to a Fragmental Team Deathmatch. They talked the talk. But walked the walk? More like shambled like the undead, or crawled like a baby. Next time guys, you’ll get there… Posted by Martin Livingston on 20 May, 2016 in Fragmental …I can’t get no sleep… The latest public showing of Fragmental happened a few weeks ago in Edinburgh, at Insomnia Scotland. Traditionally these large scale LAN party events take place in Birmingham, but for the first time it has branched out and this was the inaugural event in Scotland. Insomnia Scotland – Edinburgh EICC The event started for me on the Friday night, when I finished work then headed home to Edinburgh to what I thought would be a very quick setup, test, then off to the pub for a beer. What should have taken half an hour, took 3 and a half hours. After spending the first 15 minutes in almost total darkness, it turned out the wireless Xbox One pads decided they had no intention of binding to the PC. One change of wireless adaptor later, still no joy. The tech guys from Multiplay Events then tried it on their PC. Nope. In the end, the fallback was to go with wired pads, which is no real problem, just having wires everywhere is a bit of a nightmare and a trip hazard. And OCD hell for anyone so afflicted… No beers were had that night. Halfway through the day, comedian and host of Videogame Nation, John Robertson, wandered by our booth. He was performing his show, The Dark Room that night, and I’d already promised to go to his show in the evening if he played Fragmental (despite the fact I already had tickets. Shhh…). Fair enough, if I must go and see one of the best comedy shows of the last few years, then I’ll take that one for the team! He was immediately good at the game, and full of praise for it, and I’m inclined to think he meant it and wasn’t just being nice. As he wrote on Twitter… He also went one further and at the end of his show that night, in a packed auditorium, told everyone they should go and play Fragmental on day 2. Cheers Robbotron! Overall the first day went well, with myself, Dave and Alex on hand to help fill any spare slots to ensure all games had the maximum 4-players. We had always expected Fragmental to be a post-pub game, for people who remember these kinds of games from the 90’s, but surprisingly there were a lot more children playing the game and loving it. And a lot of parents who opted to just stand back and watch. (I took this to mean they were too scared to get beaten by their kids. Which to be fair, did happen quite a lot) At the end of the day, Dave and Alex headed back to Dundee, leaving me to chat to some of the cosplayers, watch The Dark Room, and totally ignore Craig from We Throw Switches who was apparently waving for about a minute and like a blind idiot I never noticed. After that I headed off to the Beltane after party, which is a bit of an Edinburgh institution. I’ll not attempt to explain it all here, but as expected it went on until 5am, at which point I thought I should probably call it a night. Or morning… Many, many beers were had that night. The doors open time of 10:30 came and went on day 2, but nobody appeared. For a good half hour I thought this might be the most awkward disaster ever for an expo, then one of the organisers mentioned that there had been a brief power cut overnight, causing all of the competition PC’s to reboot then start windows updates. Pfffft! So they had to delay the opening to the public for an hour, which was a nightmare for the organisers, but quite funny otherwise. Instead of Dave & Alex, who cleverly wanted to have at least some of their weekend to themselves, I was joined on the 2nd day by Billy, eager to show off his digital baby. The attendance was visibly lower today, but we still had a steady stream of people wanting to play Fragmental, including many returning for 2nd and 3rd games. My personal highlight was a girl of about 7 turning to her dad and proclaiming that he had to buy it because it was amazing. I agreed completely, which pretty much decided the issue, lest he look like a bad parent. It wasn’t the biggest show in the world, but Insomnia Scotland had a good atmosphere, lots of good games on show from the past 4 decades, and plenty of kids playing indie games and not just Minecraft (although the area with rows of children all silently hooked up to Minecraft was an ultra creepy sight). Hopefully it returns next year, bigger and better! An acceptable amount of beers were had that night. 😉 Post-show At this point in time, I think we’re pretty satisfied that we have a game that is fun, accessible and addictive. What we need to do know is get this thing finished and in the hands of the journalists! Until we have AI in and working (coming soon in the next update), we’re somewhat limited in the coverage we can get, as it is simply not a fully finished game experience yet, especially for the solo player. That said, media coverage is something we need to think about well in advance, and on that note, we got our first, albeit brief, write-up… Stuart Cullen from The Scottish Sun took a few soundbytes from us at the show, and we made it into his final write-up. I was going to crop the image to just include our bit, but that would deprive you of the chance to win one of 20,000 holidays from Walkers… The best way to make contact is to email us at: info@ruffiangames.com Alternatively, we're just a phone call away:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20770
__label__wiki	0.949802	0.949802	May racing carnival goes Wilde for 2014 By admin\|苏州美甲美睫培训学校 REBECCA WILDE, daughter of Warrnambool-based trainer Bill Wilde and wife Karen, will be the face of this year’s May Racing Carnival. She will be joined by high-profile racing identity Bob Charley who will be ambassador for the famous event. Mr Charley, 75, who has an extensive background in racing including as an administrator, trainer, owner, bookmaker and punter, said he was delighted to fill the role for the Warrnambool Racing Club. “It was a real surprise when Warrnambool got in contact with me and asked if I wished to be the ambassador,’’ the Port Macquarie resident said. ‘‘The carnival is one of the greatest racing carnivals in the world. I’ve been to race meetings all over the world and I rate the Grand Annual Steeplechase as the most spectacular race in the world. ‘‘The twists, turns, up and down hills make it such a wonderful race.” Ms Wilde, 31, said she was shocked. “To be the face of the carnival had not been on my radar,’’ she said. “I was just going to go to the races and enjoy the experience of another carnival which has been a tradition for me and my family all my life and out of the blue I’m asked to be the face of the carnival. “It’s very exciting. ‘‘I gave mum a quick call to tell her what has happened and she is really excited for me, which is great.’’ Mr Charley was chairman of the Australian Jockey Club from 1992-97, chairman of Racing New South Wales in 1997-98 and chairman of the Australian Racing Board from 1998 to 2006 and is a passionate jumps fan. Warrnambool Racing Club chief executive officer John Green said the club was pleased both Mr Charley and Ms Wilde were happy to fill the roles. “Bob and Rebecca are great people to be the ambassador and the face of the carnival,” Green said. ‘‘They both love their racing and are keen supporters of our carnival. We’re confident they will both promote our carnival far and wide to people from all walks of life.” Green predicted this year’s carnival may be one of the biggest in the club’s history. World Club Challenge: Sydney Roosters ready for Wigan Warriors’ crash plays Sydney reveal centre of excellence plans BHP threatens union with court action over proposed 24-hour stoppages Paul Gallen a blank canvas as a professional boxer Sally Pearson rules out switch to Winter Olympics sports Powered by the inLine Minimal WordPress Theme	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20776
__label__cc	0.727919	0.272081	Home » Travel to Bucovina » Bucovina Geography » Radauti Travel Bucovina Bucovina Painted Monasteries Bucovina - Monasteries Map Suceava \| Radauti \| Gura Humorului \| Campulung Moldovenesc \| Falticeni \| Vatra Dornei Situated in the plain between the rivers Suceava and Sucevita, 37 km away from Suceava city, at 375 m altitude, Radauti is one of the oldest towns, being known since the 14th century. Radauti Town – general view. The Museum of popular arts from Bucovina, founded in 1934, it presents in all its 11 halls a rich collection of items that reveal the traditional occupations of the inhabitants from these lands and the ceramics collection from Radauti, Marginea and Kuty. Bogdana monument of medieval architecture, Bogdan I’s foundation, the first voivod of Moldavia. It is the oldest and the most precious royal metropolis in Moldavia. Marginea. Locality situated 10 km away from Radauti, it is a famous centre of popular art where people make various items of black and red ceramics, with polychrome enamel. Solca. It is a small town, lying 20 km away from Radauti, in the depression with the same name. It was mentioned for the first time in documents in 1418. The touristic objectives in this area are a church founded by Stefan Tomsa in the beginning of the 17th century and an ethnographic house realized exclusively through the combining of some wooden round girders. Continental * from only € 32 a night Santa Fe Leaganul Bucovinei * Zamca * Lary * Scorpion *** Street from Radauti Town. Putna Monastery, it lies in Putna village, on the river with the same name, 32 km away from Radauti. It is Stefan the Great’s first foundation and his resting place and his relatives’ as well.Stefan the Great’s tomb is covered with a marvelous plate carved in white marble. In the precincts of the monastery, there is a museum that holds documents, rare books, various items and golden thread embroideries. Sucevita Monastery. Among all architecture monuments from the North of Bucovina that present external paintings , Sucevita Monastery is the best preserved one. It is situated in the village with the same name, 19 km away from Radauti. The walls of the monastery are made of rough stone and are 3 m thick and 6 m tall, exposing massive octangular towers and abutments.Built by Ieremia brothers and Simion Movila between 1582-1584, the edifice was painted in the inside in 1601 by the Romanian painters Ion and Sofronie. The inner and outer frescos, dominated by bright colours, especially green, are characterized by a huge number of images and by the presence of decorative elements specific to the folklor of Bucovina. The museum from the precincts of the monastery contains a rich collection of old items, manuscripts and embroideries. Arbore Monastery, it lies 10 km away from Radauti and it’s another monument of medieval architecture, built in 1503 by the minister of war Luca Arbore. Here one may find the Toader Hrib collections of history and ethnography. Balinesti Church, it lies 13 km away from Siret town and it’s a medieval church, built by Ioan Tautu between 1493-1499. 3 Responses to “Radauti” Elena, on September 21st, 2011 at 10:14 am Said: Yes, Linda, you are right. It is a statue of Bogdan II. Linda Rudolphi, on September 19th, 2011 at 9:29 pm Said: What is the name of the statue outside the Gerald Hotel? It is a man on a horse with a large pillar behind them. Is it Bogdan II? thank you andrei catalin daniel, on June 25th, 2011 at 1:33 pm Said: sunt din Bucuresti,am avut ocazia sa vizitez Radautiul,m am intors ieri.mi a placut,am fost 1-a data in acest oras si am ramas impresionat.cine vrea mai multe inf. sa ma sune la 0721149884.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20782
__label__wiki	0.850109	0.850109	Home World Middle East UN experts calls Morsi’s death in Egypt a ‘state-sanctioned arbitrary’ killing UN experts calls Morsi’s death in Egypt a ‘state-sanctioned arbitrary’ killing TDN World Desk: An independent panel of United Nations has raised question on the death of the former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. They said Morsi’s death in June could amount to ” state-sanctioned arbitrary killing”. Issuing a statement UN high commissioner for human rights said, ” Morsi was held in conditions that can only be described as. Brutal, particularly during his five-year detention in the Tora prison complex.” The way Morsi was treated within the prison cell was brutal and complete violation of human rights. Mentioning the kind of torture Morsi had to undergo, UN experts said he ” was held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day… he was not allowed to see other prisoners, even during the one hour a day when he was permitted to excercise. He was forced to sleep on a concrete floor with only one or two blankets for protection. He was not allowed access to books, journals, writing materials or a radio.” “Dr. Morsi was denied life-saving and ongoing care for his diabetes and high blood pressure. He progressively lost the vision in his left eye, had recurrent diabetic comas and fainted repeatedly. From this, he suffered significant tooth decay and gum infections,” Middle East Monitor quotes UN statement. “Thousands of other prisoners in Egypt may also be at risk of death or irreparable damage to their health because of inadequate conditions of detention, compounded by rampant violations of due process, including detention without charge, incommunicado detention, inadequate access to lawyers, and other practices preventing a fair trial,” the statement reads. Sarah Leah Witson, who is an American lawyer and the director of Human Rights Watch for the Middle East and North Africa division, tweeted the UN statement. She took to Twitter that UN’s statement corroborates the findings of Human Rights Watch as well. Echoing @HRW findings, #UN report on #Egypt: ‘Credible evidence’ that ‘brutal’ prison conditions prompted #Morsi ’s death, thousands more at risk. https://t.co/eO5GTMmjbg — Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) November 9, 2019 Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president died in June 17 while standing trial for charges that he and legal experts observers said we’re politically motivated. He was deposed by former army general Abdel-Fattah-el-Sisi through a military coup in 2013. The coup was carried out by Sisi, the current president of Egypt. fattahelsisi Israel expels Human Rights Watch official to hide Human Rights Abuses Israel PM Netanyahu charged with bribery, fraud, breach of trust Demonstration against fuel hike was supported by US, Israel: President Rouhani 38 million people living with HIV worldwide: UN chief Israeli settlements breach of international law: UN	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20792
__label__cc	0.629889	0.370111	Why the Xbox 360 Is Not the Perfect System Most people have an Xbox 360. A lot of people have a Nintendo Wii. PS3 sales are less then the 2 competitors. Since most people prefer e Xbox 360, it’s time for the PS3 to have the fame over the 360. There are a lot of good things about the ps3 like the reflected shiny piano black color is like a mirror. Making decision is a problem so to get the best console; you have to compare the pros and cons. With my guidance, people can see why PS3 is better over the Xbox 360. The disc for PS3 is called Blu-Ray disc and for the Xbox 360, it’s called DVD. Blu-Ray can hold up to 50 gigabytes while DVD can hold up to 10 gigabytes. That means the games and movies for PS3 can be longer with better graphics and since Blu-Ray came from Sony, Blu-ray cannot be on Xbox series. The controller for PS3 is the same as PS2 except the “R2, L2” buttons are trigger and have a “PS” button instead “Select” button. For Xbox 360, the function of the controller is like PS2/PS3 because it was copy from Sony. The best part of the PS3 controller is the controller is wireless and can go up to 75 feet. To recharge the controller, just connect the USB type B to controller from PS3. But the 360 controller uses double A battery, also wireless but only goes up to 35 feet. There is one major problem with the Xbox 360 “Red Ring of Death,” also known as “RROD.” This means if your 360 has 3 read lights, the 360 is dead. The PS3 on the other hand, has less then .3% failure rate while Xbox 360 has more the 10%. There have been reports of system failing after 2 or 3 weeks of play time after out of box. If you have seen the price of PS3 and 360, you might think Xbox 360 is cheaper. You’re wrong. The PS3 now cost 400 USD (U.S. Dollar) while the Xbox 360 cost over 400 USD. Take for example the cheapest 360, 200 USD. Add the double A battery cost plus separate wi-fi connection that is around 100 USD now equal over 300 USD. Now add 50 USD per year for online and other separate stuff. Interested in 360 now? Although the Xbox 360 online (Xbox Live) is better then PlayStation Network and has fees, The PSN is free. The PS3/PSN support internet browsing which you can go to any website wired or wireless using wi-fi. The 360 does not have internet browsing and does not have built-in wi-fi which the PS3 have so you have to buy a separate 100 USD wi-fi connection. Also the highest number of online player capacity for PS3 is 256 players for this new upcoming game called “MAG” while 360 highest is less then 40 players. Even though the 360 is a good system, PS3 has more reason why to get the PS3 unless you want a system that breaks 2 weeks after out of box. If the PS3 is not what you prefer, get the Nintendo Wii. It’s great for family and it’s a family system. The author's comments: I wrote this because PS3 inspire to be a Japanese Nationlist because the PS3 is Japanese. I like this 0 Vote this 0 By Ramir Arboleda SILVER Ramir Arboleda SILVER, Glendale, Arizona Crisis:Warhead By Randy Wolf BRONZE Randy Wolf BRONZE, Cave Creek, Arizona By HarleyBoy SILVER HarleyBoy SILVER, Wells, Maine By Robert Griffiths SILVER Robert Griffiths SILVER, Glendale, Arizona By Matthew McDonald BRONZE Matthew McDonald BRONZE, Phoenix, Arizona By christian valle BRONZE christian valle BRONZE, Huntington Beach, California This article has 107 comments. SergeantSteel82 SILVER said... on Aug. 20 2019 at 12:26 pm SergeantSteel82 SILVER, Fort Wayne, Indiana one of the greatest tragedies of our time is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war. -Francis Collins Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity. -1 Timothy 4:12, NIV Bible For Teen Guys I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -Voltaire this is a very informative article, but it all comes down to personal preference. my preference happens to be Xbox over PS, the PS is a great system, but Xbox just happens to be my choice in this matter. ProtoZero BRONZE said... on Nov. 30 2018 at 10:02 am ProtoZero BRONZE, Grafton, Massachusetts 2 articles 0 photos 1 comment the ps3 sounds great, but a couple of your points were a bit off to me. You said that the 360 would fail in a couple weeks, but i've had mine for 3+ years and it works fine. The ps3 and wii are better in my opinion, but I just didn't agree with some of the reasons. Overall, it's a great review! Zaxes BRONZE said... on Jun. 13 2018 at 1:05 pm Zaxes BRONZE, Plano, Texas Quath the Raven...Nevermore One thing you forgot to mention are exclusives. Not to hate on 360 or anything, I really like that console, still looks great, it's just you don't get nearly as a many great exclusives. And the only one I really like on 360 is Halo 3 and 4. But they pale to PS3's huge exclusive library. With franchises like Uncharted, Ratchet and Clank, LittleBigPlant, The Last of Us, God of War, InFamous, Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter. I know it isn't just exclusives that make a console great; it just seems that a company as powerful as Microsoft would do a little bit more. DinobarNie said... on May. 18 2017 at 8:17 pm DinobarNie, dude...... PS4 is out now skyvex1 SILVER said... on Dec. 1 2015 at 2:10 pm skyvex1 SILVER, New York City, New York 8 articles 1 photo 24 comments "There's always a price for what you want"- Steve Perry Confusing. You gave a point to Xbox in th begging and then you list pointless details like the shiny PS3 controller. on Dec. 1 2015 at 12:59 pm Same. I'll just stick with PC here. You forgot to meantion that the Xbox 360 has no buffers so all your discs would get scratched if the Xbox was moved physically. Many many people's games have been destroyed that way. Brian110 SILVER said... on May. 26 2015 at 12:18 pm Brian110 SILVER, Jonesport, Maine if life gives you lemons..... squeeze them back in life's eyes! forever, 360.... ReviewRiot SILVER said... on Apr. 9 2015 at 10:53 am ReviewRiot SILVER, Fullerton, California Even the smallest chance is still a chance to do something This is review is almost a complete lie. The Xbox 360 is actually $100 USD and it's like $5 every month for live. You also said the 360 controller is a 'copy' of the PS3 controller when in reality it is way different and is designed for comfort unlike the PlayStation controllers. I should also let you know that on PSN it would also cost money for wifi considering wifi isn't bought with the system, it is bought with your cable. Being a fan of both I would say they're pretty reliable. The Red Ring of Death is also a really easy fix if you're quick enough. I got it a couple months ago and I turned the Xbox's power off and turned it back on and then it was fine. danieltc BRONZE said... on Jun. 26 2014 at 10:52 pm danieltc BRONZE, Chapel Hill, North Carolina This is an opinion article. It's supposed to be biased. Mister_J PLATINUM said... on May. 6 2014 at 3:30 pm Mister_J PLATINUM, Colorado Springs, Colorado 42 articles 3 photos 17 comments "Captain, I wish to report a mutiny. I can name fingers and point names." - Captain Jack Sparrow Heh, AlienWares are great, but I just like any PC that will let me play my videogames. Maxman said... on Jan. 10 2014 at 2:32 pm Xbox is better!!!!!!!! MichealMulkey SILVER said... on Dec. 9 2013 at 10:28 am MichealMulkey SILVER, Easley, South Carolina "The thing about music is that, when it hits you, you feel no pain" -Bob Marley i want this to be the most discussed topic P.S. Just to make sure we're clear, I own both devices and a Wii. I am a completley neutral argument, but if you really want to argue facts about these two devices. I will tell you some things wrong with playstation as well. I dont believe either are more dominant, do more people support playstation? Yes, but you have to factor in that playstation has made more consoles that xbox and had way more time to be this advanced. The way that these two consoles are even competing is kind of incredible on Microsoft's behalf. Im just saying, from a completely neutral argument, I believe they both have problems and can both be resented for certain reasons. Im sorry, i strongly dissagree with the PS3 being any better. First off, you are very grammatically incorrect. Second of all, your facts are probably from wikipedia. Xbox software is twice as reliable than any sony device becuase the company speciallizes in what it does. You must remember, you're arguing for a company that makes over 300 different products. Sony is a very unreliable source (example:the playstation network that you keep saying is "sooooo good," got hacked a while back if you dont remember. Xbox may cost money but its only becuase the servers are more expensive, they have to pay those costs off somehow. Playstaion only has one thing over xbox, and that is bluray, and the only reason that is possible is becuase sony doesnt even specialize in gaming devices, the specialize in televisions. This argument is completely invalid. overall gameplay, the connection from servers on playstation network suck. If you can play 5 games in a Call of duty multiplayer match on playstation and not have the host loose connection atleast once, you are lucky. The updates that Microsoft have ran through 360 are more efficient as well. Esspecially considering the speed of updating software and the whole console itself. (speeking of which, we did get a search engine on the last update, thank you very much.) All im saying is, that your argument isnt very valid, and you probably are only arguing becuase your parents wont let you get a console that is, to you, $400? Ask any company, if the product cost more, the quality is obviously over the competitive product, so you stating that the price is obviously more expensive completely validates my point. LionsBlue said... on Nov. 14 2013 at 12:59 pm LionsBlue, Henrico, Virginia Lion does not laugh At Mouse now, Now he knows. The xbox 360 will always be awesome ElBossman BRONZE said... ElBossman BRONZE, Arlington, Virginia 1 article 0 photos 1 comment Lawless-FlameRose, you are wrong. Sure PS3 is a great gamesystem and XBOX360 is also great and thay have both great things about them, but the main thing people buy are Multiplayer games #1 and to a lesser extent Campaign games. Xbox has way better multiplayer but worse campaign than PS3, that is why I say a PC that is AlienWare is better than both, not just a regular PC but AlienWare. Xbox and PS3 are tied because PS3 has worse multiplayer than xbox (which I pretty much only play) but has better games that I would love to play	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20794
__label__cc	0.612628	0.387372	The Viper Label The Viper Store Edgar Jones and The Joneses ‘More Than You’ve Ever Had’ Single CDS4/DL-037 VS1-037 Edgar Jones and The Joneses ‘More Than You’ve Ever Had’ Single CDS4/DL/VS1-037 Released: Sept 2006, CD Single-7″ Vinyl-Download ‘More Than You’ve Ever Had ’ is the new single from Edgar Jones & The Joneses, a re-recording of a track that features on his critically acclaimed debut album‘ Soothing Music For Stray Cats’. ( ‘A stunning collection of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Jazz, R ‘n’ B, and Doo Wop’ said Mojo Magazine whilst it was Noel Gallagher’s album of the year 2005 ‘It’s probably one of the best records I have ever heard.’ ) This is an incredibly catchy track – once heard never forgotten with some soulful vocals by Edgar. Coming in around 2.15mins, they don’t make them like this anymore. Edgar doesn’t do b-sides and track 3 hints at what his new album is going to sound like. A true artist who continues to amaze and surprise. You will be hearing from him for a long time to come. TRACKS PRESS CD-DOWNLOAD 1. More Than You’ve Ever Had 2. We Should Get Together 3. Ain’t No Use In Cryin’ NowVINYL ‘A joyous mash up of rock n roll, jazz and blues’ Ian Harrison , MOJO, Oct 2006 ‘Short blast of good-time grooviness – get on it’ Gigwise.com,Sept 2006 ‘A killer tune- More terrific than ever’ Tim Peacock Whisperin’andhollerin’, Oct 2006	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20797
__label__wiki	0.65421	0.65421	Home > 2013 > States > New York > Putnam Report Card Widget How to Protect Yourself What does INC and DNC mean? New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA If you live in Putnam County, the air you breathe needs your support. Particle Pollution 24-hour Particle Pollution Annual You can make a difference in the air that you breathe. Take Action for Healthier Air Tell us why having healthy air matters to you. Tell your friends about the air where you live. High Ozone Days Learn More Ozone Grade: D How is my grade calculated? Weighted Average: 2.3 Change Since 1996: fewer days this year View Orange, Red, and Purple Ozone Days Orange Ozone Days: 7 What do the colors mean? Red Ozone Days: 0 What do the colors mean? Purple Ozone Days: 0 What do the colors mean? Particle Pollution - 24 Hour Learn More Grade: DNC How is my grade calculated? Weighted Average: DNC No monitor for this pollutant exists in this county. Learn More. 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__label__wiki	0.847537	0.847537	Lonely Planet: Pixar's Wall-E: The Stop Smiling Review The Stop Smiling Review (Pixar/Disney) Directed by Andrew Stanton Reviewed by Chris Wisniewski The references throughout WALL-E to 2001: A Space Odyssey (the Strauss pieces on the soundtrack, the villainous autopilot computer with a single red eye — a dead ringer for Hal-9000) are more than throwaway in-jokes — they’re sign posts. A sci-fi adventure with philosophical resonance and minimal dialogue, the latest Pixar film may be a spiritual cousin to Kubrick’s movie (as well as those of Chaplin, Keaton, Tati, Spielberg, etc., ad infinitum). There is something audacious, maybe hubristic, in Pixar’s gamble to market a potential blockbuster — to families, no less — so out of step with the expectations of multiplex audiences weaned on a succession of Shreks with diminishing returns. But WALL-E dazzles, particularly in its magnificent first half-hour, a post-apocalyptic love-story in miniature that serves as a graceful introduction to the intergalactic journey that follows. WALL-E begins as a portrait of desolation and loneliness. Its titular character, a trash-compacting robot, spends his days collecting the garbage of an empty city, building it into mountainous piles — the ruins of a lost civilization. At night, he watches an old VHS of Hello, Dolly! while his companion, an adorable little cockroach, burrows into a Twinkie. WALL-E seems to be the last of an army of robots, many of them strewn amongst the garbage, left by humans to restore the earth to habitability after excessive consumption, and the waste it created, drove them to life aboard a space ship built by the hegemonic corporation BuyNLarge. The beautiful but haunting long shots of the ravaged, abandoned Earth, untouched by humans for seven centuries, confer a nobility on the planet’s scrappy mechanical inhabitant. WALL-E rises every morning, puts the tracks on his wheels, and goes to work, each day like the one before, until a space craft deposits an ovular white probe bot named EVE. Next to WALL-E, egg-like EVE is elegant and sleek, and when he sees her, he falls head over tires in love to the tune of Louis Armstrong’s recording of “La Vie en Rose.” Writer-director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) has cast two unconventional stars as his romantic leads: WALL-E and EVE are mostly incapable of speech — they don’t even really have proper faces. But who needs dialogue when you have character and scene design like this? WALL-E dances for EVE effervescently, using a hub cap as a hat; she powers a light bulb with the touch of her hand; together, they watch a stunning conflagration when EVE destroys a row of decrepit BNL ships. The feeling that passes between them is elemental and profound in its simplicity. After EVE makes an unexpected discovery, the film veers into broader, more conventional territory, as the two love-bots make their way to the Axiom spacecraft that is home to Earth’s exiled humans. This fish-out-of-water journey-adventure plot, pretty much the Pixar standard from Toy Story to Ratatouille, satisfies on a basic narrative level but lacks the elegance of the earthbound prologue, and Stanton uses the change of scenery to make explicit the social commentary already implied in the film’s post-apocalyptic set-up. The humans on Axiom are all overweight over-consumers, who spend their lives on mechanical chairs in a state of constant distraction. Children learn their ABCs and the basics of excess at the same time (“B is for buy a large lunch in a cup”). A female voice announces, “Try blue — it’s the new red,” and everyone’s wardrobes immediately change color in accordance with the prescribed trend. This is an admirable but hypocritical posture for any summer blockbuster to assume — let’s not forget that the Disney logo that precedes the film is only slightly less ubiquitous than the BNL logo that pervades WALL-E, or that the tie-in video game and action figures are available at a toy store near you, or that an animated WALL-E has been jumping across the Internet Movie Database homepage for the past few days to remind us all that WALL-E is the new blue, and he’s in theaters this Friday. Still, Stanton and team Pixar should be allowed some hypocrisy between their raging ambition and their earnest good intentions, because WALL-E is a small miracle of visual storytelling and a technical wonder with real heart.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20801
__label__wiki	0.630682	0.630682	The Mint Jam The Mint 6010 West Pico Blvd. Doors 9:30 PM / Show 10:00 PM This event is 21 and over Kevin Kanner By the age of 15 he was under the tutelage of the great Jeff Hamilton, who become a serious mentor and musical father figure to him. At age 20, Kevin was the first drummer to ever receive the Los Angeles Jazz Society Shelly Manne new talent award. An award given out by Flip Manne, Shelly's widow. That same year Kevin was invited to perform at the Hollywood bowl in a 4 generations of jazz drumming, along with Jazz drumming legends, Billy Higgins, Louie Bellson, Jeff Hamilton, and fellow youngster, Marco Minnegan. From there, Kevin has spent his career touring and performing with some of the biggest names in Jazz since his late teens. These Artists include John Pizzarelli, Maureen McGovern, The Gilbert Castellanos Quintet, The Bill Holman Band, The Gerald Clayton Trio, The Clayton Brothers, Benny Golson, Sheila Jordan, Jane Monheit, Lee Konitz, Bob Brookmeyer, Larry Goldings, Charles McPhearson, Benny Green, Bob Hurst, Peter Washington, Terell Stafford, Russell Malone, Stefon Harris, Johnny Mandel, Larry Koonse, The Eric Reed Trio, Mary Stallings, Bill Henderson, Anat Cohen, Dominic Faranacci, Carolyn Leonhart, Larry Goldings, Anthony Wilson Nonet and Trio, Laurence Hobgood, Bob Hurst, Joe Magnarelli, Helen Sung, Monty Alexander, Houston Person, Wycliffe Gordon, Patrick Cornelius, Randy Napoleon, Walter Smith III, James Morrison and many more. Kevin was an integral part of Lionel Hampton Jazz festival as an 7year long member of its "All Star Rhythm Section", which Includes Bassist Ben Williams, Pianist Josh Nelson and Guitarist Graham Dechter. Kevin was also on faculty at Port Townsend jazz festival @ Centrum. The Mint Jam is back! Join us every other Monday night for Jazz, Soul, and Hip Hop. Monday, July 15 · Doors 9:30 PM / Show 10:00 PM at The Mint	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20806
__label__wiki	0.750634	0.750634	Transylvania 1999. Guests \| Back to Main Transylvania 1999 page \| Howard Samuels : UK and Eurotour Frank 'N' Furter When we asked attendees for Transylvania 1999 who they wanted to see back from the stage show productions as guests, Howard Samuels was high on the list. A very popular Frank 'N' Furter, Howard had recently been doing his two man caberet show and many fans of Rocky had been along to see him perform. Check out the Notice Board section of the main TimeWarp site for any current shows from Howard. Howard answered a few questions from the audience and we even let him ask a few of his own. Here are a few of the choice questions asked that day. (Audience) "When you played Frank, why did I'm Going Home have a reggae treatment?" (Howard Samuels) "I wanted something upbeat, the song is initially about Frank thinking he is going to see his home again." (Audience) "Which is your favourite of Frank's songs?" (Howard Samuels) "Sweet T is great (at which stage Howard sang the song for the audience!) I love the Charles Atlas song and of course I'm Going Home" (Audience) "Why were you called Mr Springy at drama school?" (Howard Samuels) "Who told you that?! It was because I'd never danced before and part of the training was to dance, I could get more elevation than anyone else so that's where the name came from. (Howard then demonstrated that particular talent, and yes he really can jump)" (Audience) "Did any of the Audience Participation ever give you problems?" (Howard Samuels) "When I started in Easter Europe the AP was all very like the movie version, and the audience would shout at very fixed times. As soon as I did a UK tour it was more ad libs rather than scripted AP. At one show Columbia dropped her mic and someone shouted 'She's dropped her mic', I shouted back 'A round of applause for the man with the f**king x-ray eyes' and that's how it all began." Howard then sang us a great rendition of I'm Going Home before kindly signing a few hundred autographs for the fans. All text and images © TimeWarp/Transylvania 1999 onwards. Transylvania name and Griffin Logo © TimeWarp 1999 onwards.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20807
__label__cc	0.696982	0.303018	Write, edit, publish, repeat. February 19 Posted by Tracy Lucas in Life Simplicity challenge G’s shelves, as of this morning. We watched a TV show last night that challenged families to live with minimalistic limits for a while and take note of how their lives changed, for better or worse. Some of the families were obsessed with name-brand clothes, some were in tons of debt, and some were major wasters of food. The show’s challenges applied strict limits where each family felt them the most. The mom with the designer shoe obsession had to keep just a functional pair or two and pack up the rest. The coupon-obsessed family — with the miles of shelved rice packets and granola bars, but fridge full of hundreds of dollars of expired food — was forced to spend a quarter of their usual food budget and actually use up every perishable before buying more. Whatever was a crutch or acquired through either wasteful or habitual behaviors, they removed and put in storage for the duration of the experiment. For some families, that was a week; others signed on to make the change for three weeks or several months. Every family had its own Achilles’ heel to be addressed, but overall, the basic rules stayed in common. Keep the family food budget to under $100 a week, Limit kids’ access to TV, Eat in together instead of out, Walk, not drive, to wherever you possibly can, Get rid of any extra stuff, and REALLY evaluate what “extra” means. From the far corner of the living room, our four-year-old G, who hadn’t really seemed to be paying attention, piped up and said, “We should get rid of all my toys, too. I don’t really need them.” So, following much after-dinner discussion, we’ve decided to give it a shot. Most of the things, we already do. We had a crappy few years in recent history, and when that was going on, the limits came naturally. As we’ve rebuilt, we’ve kept them on purpose. We spend $50-100 a week for our family of three (and we’re a blended family, so some weeks, it’s a family of five); we’ve always had G watch just an hour or so of TV a night, and that’s prerecorded shows without commercials, most times; and we almost never eat out unless it’s with friends or extended family. Maybe once every two weeks, at the most. Walking everywhere we go isn’t realistic for us, since we live in the sticks. Stuff, though? Oh, that. Yeeeeahhh…. It’s still a problem. Watching this show, we realized, okay, maybe we don’t buy vast amounts of stupid stuff the way we used to, but we also haven’t parted with as much as we could stand to, either. There’s much room for improvement. The other changes served us well when we made them a few years ago, so why not? SO, we’re paring way down for seven days, and seeing how it goes. One of the families on TV was allowed five toys per kid, and there were two or three kids in the family, total. G kept an even dozen, plus three stuffed animals (he sleeps with the same ones every night; they’re a single comfort-object unit, really.) He put everything else in big boxes and shipped it out to the garage. I’d have liked to go even smaller (I’d been thinking ten or so), but upped the number for a couple of reasons. For one thing, he’s an only kid, so it’s not like he can play tag in the yard like the kids on TV did with their extra time. Secondly, he JUST got all of it for Christmas, and he bravely let go of loads and loads. I figured twelve was already less than the zillion that had been in there previously; he’ll get the point. It will be a major adjustment, and that’s the point. His room looks completely empty, comparatively speaking. The echo in there has even changed. I kept feeling guilty, even though this had all been HIS idea. (Jerry kept laughing at me, and reminding me of that.) Obviously, I’m more of the problem than he is. I’m the purchaser. He’s the four-year-old. But whatever. For my part, I hoard clothes. Most don’t even fit me, but I’m so paranoid of not having exactly the right thing to wear that I keep them just in case. I’m not a fashionista by any means. I have zero style. Seriously, ask anyone. But since I don’t trust myself to know the rules that well, I’m always afraid to part with anything in case I find out I should wear it with this outfit or that. I never know, so I keep it ALL. (It’s lack of education, really.) The point is, the clothes have now taken over my whole bedroom. Piles. Everywhere. So, in keeping with the spirit of the experiment, since those are hard for me to part with, that’s what we picked for my sacrificial collection. I threw most everything into laundry baskets and Jerry put it out with the toys. This morning? There’s still plenty on the rack; I’m in no danger of going naked. It’s all in my head. We’re on day one, and there have been exactly two toys G has mentioned; a stuffed duck and a plastic sword. He didn’t dwell. It was just, “Huh, I don’t have those anymore. Guess I’ll play with this, then…” and he moved on. HERE’S WHAT HE KEPT: Halloween bucket half-full of Legos Small bag of Pokemon (he owns a truly giant bin of them, which was removed) Nabi tablet Angry Birds blocks Small bag of hot wheels Gumball machine (the little plastic kind) Robot guy Building truck (erector-style type, changes into different things) Imaginext castle Foam block puzzle pieces (AKA “ninja stars”, which we throw at each other and war with as a family at least on a daily basis. We’re weird.) Typing all this out, it sounds like a lot. It doesn’t look like it. His shelves are pretty bare. (But then, maybe we have too many shelves?) It makes me wonder. What do most kids have? How many toys is average? I know the number of I toys my sister and I had as kids is way more than most people have. We were savers of things, and we had tons and tons of stuff, in a million different categories. My husband? He said just about everything he owned as a young kid would have fit inside one half-size laundry basket. Some Christmases, he got one big present. I always got seventy or so, including one huge one (one year a stereo, one year a bike, etc.) I am sure most people are in between. But the two of us are coming from completely opposite ends of the spectrum. We have no idea where to land, but we want to land there intentionally. So tell me. I really want to know. I need some help here, as we think about all this. What did YOU have when you were a kid? How much stuff do your kids have? And most importantly, what are your thoughts on that? What’s too much? Is there such a thing as too little? The Stories We Do Not Tell Shaman Song Why publishing triggers impostor syndrome How to get your rebellious monkey brain to write every day Coming out of the closet. 6 Responses to “Simplicity challenge” February 19 at 6:09 pm My first thought after reading this was: “Empty shelves?! More books!!!” but that’s not helpful, is it? I was a pretty spoiled kid when it came to toys, but I didn’t have all that much compared to kids these days. We had an Atari and Nintendo but only had about 5 games for each set. Books, on the other hand, are my Achilles’ heel. Moving back home really put into perspective just how much crap I had in a one bedroom apartment…which was quite a shock considering I routinely do “spring cleaning” twice a year–in the fall and spring. Most of it is paper–receipts, tax filings, health documents and the like. It would be nice to scan it all to my computer, but I think that’s still hoarding. My goal for when I move out again is to be a minimalist. I don’t know how successful I’ll be but I do want to try. The thing that keeps me focused on this goal is looking at all the trinkets my mom has around the house. It gives me nightmares, seriously. We left the books on our bookshelf. I could never take those away. We weed them out twice a year, but only barely. I’m a sucker for books, too. Interesting point about digital hoarding. I definitely do that! I’ve consciously switched to hard drive clutter instead of physical clutter. I know it’s just as bad, but it’s easier to clean up when someone’s coming over, that’s for sure. Um, what’s your husband giving up???? Just curious. Not as many toys EXISTED when I was a kid. I had some dolls. I had some books. So did my sisters. We mostly played with those when it rained, because what we really liked was playing outside. We made up a lot of games. We put on plays. We rode bikes, and roller skated. Watched about an hour of tv a week. It was a different era. If I were to give up something now I think it would be clothes and reading material. I feel overwhelmed by both and just might try your experiment, too. Great food for thought. Wow, Lily. Sounds like you had an idyllic childhood, in terms of pastimes! We didn’t have most of the toys my kids have now, but we made up for it in quantity of ’80s junk. My Little Ponies, Barbies, Construx and other building sets… it was insane. We didn’t play with the neighbor kids because we lived on a highway and weren’t allowed out of the yard. Everyone else — EVERY SINGLE ONE — lived on the opposite side of the street. They all played together, and we could see and hear them, but we couldn’t go over. Once in a great while we could convince someone to come to our yard, but that’s hard to do when you don’t actually know them yet. If you DO try a similar experiment, keep me posted! I’m fascinated by humans and our attachment to things. I would love to know how it goes for you. Your question about what he’s giving up made me laugh. I asked him the same thing yesterday. He said, “Procrastination. Tomorrow.” Donna Powell says: February 20 at 9:32 am Tracy, growing up, my toy/play memories are this: My mom bought me REALLY good dolls – Madam Alexander was the brand of my favorite doll….BUT, she had a rule. No dolls that walk, talk, chew, cry, etc….She felt that is what our “imagination” was for. By the way, I still have my doll, “Angela”. She happily resides in a box in storage for now. She is minus patches of hair, due to the hours of “beauty shop” I played with her. She still wears a dress sewn lovingly by my sister, who was 13 when she made it for my doll. I WAS allowed to have barbies (back then we didn’t give a HOOT that she had an abnormally small waist and abnormally large BREASTS). My 3 best neighborhood friends and I would play for HOURS with Barbie and her BFFs Ken, Midge and Skipper. My bicycle allowed us to play “cars” as we would mark the street(yes, we played IN the street – and had enough sense to LISTEN/watch for cars AND the neighbors had enough sense to WATCH FOR KIDS PLAYING IN THE STREET! lol )and sidewalks with chalk lines for our “traffic lanes”. We would go to a dime store called M.E. Moses and purchase a carbon receipt book for .10 cents. We took turns being the “police” and finding “traffic infractions” made by the “motorists” (fellow kids on bikes). We would write them a ticket out of the receipt book and they would take their monopoly money to pay the fines to get out of jail. Yep, our monopoly games were ALWAYS short of money & other game pieces. 🙂 We also played red rover, jacks, jumped rope, played with our footsies (ya might have to google that one!) and put on neighborhood plays that we made up ourselves. Oh, and we LOVED playing school. (I loved it only when I got to be the teacher, though!) We DID watch a lot of tv, apparently, as I remember FAITHFULLY watching Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy, Gilligans Island and the Dick Van Dyke Show every day. How DID we manage to get our homework done??!! We didn’t have a lot of toys but we did have a lot of books. I’m forever grateful to my parents for that. Anyway, that’s my walk down memory lane for the day. p.s. I like the list of toys G kept. Those coupled with his BIG imagination will keep him playing for a long, long time! 🙂 Thanks, Donna! I love hearing your list of memories… that’s what it’s all about. And if we never have any time to just sit and make those memories, what are we going to be left with? Glad yours are so imprinted, they sound like treasures. 13 free writing meters, progress trackers, and word counters How to make 100% sure you never get your big break as a writer As good a time as any Fairy tales are getting stupider The great Twain robbery A boy and his pillow casket I am probably going to offend you. 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__label__wiki	0.981575	0.981575	Summertown Interiors completes Abu Dhabi hospital work Summertown Interiors, a leading fit-out contractor specialising in green interiors in the UAE, has completed the new Mediclinic Dialysis Department at Airport Road Hospital in Abu Dhabi. The project, which took 12 weeks to finalis Zulekha launches 24-hour pediatric emergency dept Zulekha Hospital has launched its new 24-hour pediatric emergency department in its Sharjah hospital to treat pediatric medical emergencies. The department provides specialised care for childbirth and new Al Ain Hospital joins AWC as organisational member The Ahima World Congress (AWC) has announced that Al Ain Hospital in the UAE has joined AWC as an organisational member. The three-year AWC Organizational Membership (AWC OM) programme helps healthcare provider Kuwait opens $1.18bn New Jahra Medical City Developed by Amiri Diwan in collaboration with Pace, a top consultancy, the New Jahra Medical City project, one of the largest healthcare development projects in the Middle East, was recently opened in Kuwait. The inauguration of American Hospital Dubai receives top accreditations American Hospital Dubai, a pioneering private multi-specialty hospital, has announced its latest accreditations by Joint Commission International (JCI) and College of American Pathologists (CAP) for the seventh (JCI) and ninth (CAP) time. Ahalia to build multi-specialty hospital in Sharjah Abu Dhabi-based Ahalia Group has announced plans to set up a multi-specialty hospital, its first in Sharjah, in partnership with the Sharjah Healthcare City Authority (SHCC) at an investment of $100 million. Located conveniently b Investcorp, Vamed to build 100-bed hospital in UAE Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, is set to build a new landmark hospital complex on Reem Island in Abu Dhabi in partnership with Vamed, a global provider of rehabilitation and other services for hospi	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20814
__label__wiki	0.941565	0.941565	Today’s Takeaway Welcome to the new Tree Frog News Category: Today's Takeaway Welcome to the new Tree Frog News. We know it looks a lot like the old news, but if you look closer you’ll see many improvements, and more are on the way. This includes the story hot-links in Today’s Takeaway and the powerful search engine in the top right corner (covering the 44,000 stories we’ve covered over the past 10 years). In business news, Conifex, Canfor and Stella Jones reported positive second quarter results yesterday—mostly due to the lumber segment of their respective businesses. Meanwhile, a New Brunswick marketing board is trying to force JD Irving to negotiate with them rather than individual woodlot owners; plus a story on the Novak brothers’ work ethic at Dunkley Lumber. The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association pounced on “another wood-framed fire” in Massachusetts highlighting the recent Waltham City Council vote that called for tighter restrictions on the use of combustible materials for low- to mid-rise residential buildings. In breaking news, investigators of the massive Waltham fire say the under-construction “apartment fire was arson” and a reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest. The Chicago-based Natural Resources Defence Council says “satellite imagery proves the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement“—established to protect caribou habitat —”was a failure“. FPAC’s Kate Lindsay disagrees. Sticking with ungulates, a coalition of First Nations leaders in Thunder Bay claim the Ontario government’s “proposed actions to protect the woodland caribou will create undue hardships for their people“. Finally, fire has BC considering “closing a wide swath of backcountry”, smoke has a University prof “calling for Domtar to shutdown” and the latest rain in New Brunswick “hasn’t lowered the risk of forest fires“. — Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor Canfor’s net income rises to $81.3 million in 2Q Category: Business & Politics Canfor Corporation reported net income of $81.3 million for the 2Q 2017, compared to net income of $66.1 million for the 1Q 2017 and a net income of $36 million for the 2Q 2016. For the six months ended June 30, 2017, the Company’s net income was $147.4 million, compared to $62 million for the six months ended June 30, 2016. The Company reported operating income of $131 million for the 2Q 2017, up $24.2 million from reported operating income of $106.8 million for the 1Q2017, as a solid improvement in lumber segment operating earnings more than offset slightly lower pulp and paper segment earnings. Loader fire at Skeena Sawmills under investigation BC Local News Region: Canada, Canada West The cause of a loader fire at Skeena Sawmills is still under investigation. On Aug. 9, at about 5:45 p.m., the city fire department received a call about a fire possibly involving a loader at the sawmill, said deputy chief Dave Jephson. A fire crew arrived to find the loader fully involved and in an area where machinery is parked and away from buildings, he said. Firefighters quickly extinguished it and tried to limit any flareups afterward, added Jephson. Immigrants bring hard work ethic By Dave Fuller Prince George Citizen When Henry Novak and his brothers arrived in Canada in 1967 to escape a lack of opportunity in their native Slovenia, they had no option but to work hard. They came without money or English, with the hope of getting a job with their brother Tony who had preceded them in their journey to Canada,and was working as a logger in the B.C. interior. The brothers worked hard to survive and within a few years found someone who would finance them in buying their own equipment. They got some contracts and built their business. One day, Tony overheard that a local sawmill was coming up for sale and the brothers scraped all their equity together and bought the mill. Conifex Announces Record Second Quarter Results By Conifex Timber Marketwired VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Conifex Timber Inc. (TSX:CFF) today reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. Adjusted EBITDA* in the second quarter of 2017, which excludes countervailing duty (“CVD”) deposits of $4.6 million, was a record $14.8 million, compared to $6.1 million in the first quarter of 2017 and $9.0 million in the second quarter of 2016. Compared to the previous quarter, an improvement in lumber segment adjusted EBITDA of $10.3 million was partially offset by seasonally lower bioenergy segment adjusted EBITDA and foreign exchange translation loss. Compared to the second quarter of 2016, lumber segment adjusted EBITDA improved by $6.7 million and bioenergy segment adjusted EBITDA was lower by $0.6 million. Highway 1 reopens after large fire at Abbotsford mill Wednesday By Harrison Mooney Roads in and out of Abbotsford were snarled Wednesday evening after a large fire broke out at a mill on the west side of the city. The blaze, which has been extinguished except for a few hot spots, according to Abbotsford fire chief Don Beer, was located at Precision Custom, a lumber yard at the 30500 block of Matsqui Place, just across the freeway from the Highstreet Shopping Centre. Precision Custom specializes in dry wood and had two kiln buildings that were at risk. “We were able to save both of those kiln buildings,” Beer said. “Another fairly substantial building and a storage building both were lost, and a bunch of materials.” The fire couldn’t have sprung up in a more inconvenient place for Lower Mainland commuters. Forestry remains a growing concern By Stephen Uhler Pembroke Daily Observer Region: Canada East, Canada In this world of economic uncertainty, forestry remains a growing concern. This according to Derek Nighbor, the CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada, who made a state-of-the-industry address to members of Renfrew County’s Development and Property Committee Tuesday morning. Nighbor said forestry is a $67 billion a year industry and rural communities across Canada continue to thrive on these jobs. He said thanks to the planned and sustainable way Canada’s forests are being managed, the resource will remain viable for generations, making a big contribution in this country’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions – by 2030, the forest sector is projected to reduce CO2 emissions by 30 metric tons annually and contribute 13 per cent to Canada’s carbon reduction target – and be a major economic force. Woodlot board fights JD Irving, industry players over control of private wood sales By Connell Smith A fight over the future of wood sales from private lots was argued before the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission Thursday. At stake was the marketing board system that’s governed wood sales from private woodlot owners for most of the past four decades. The case pits JD Irving Ltd., AV Group, and several contractors and smaller players against the SNB Forest Products Marketing Board in Sussex. SNB has not been able to negotiate a contract to sell wood to JDI since 2012. Instead, Irving bought all of its wood in that region directly from individual woodlot owners and a group of wood harvesting contractors. Stella-Jones posts increase in sales, but lower profit in second quarter Canadian Press in the Montreal Gazette Stella-Jones reported second-quarter results on Wednesday, posting rising revenue, but a declining net profit. The Saint-Laurent-based company supplies railway ties and beams to North American railway operators, as well as poles to utilities and telecommunications companies across the continent. Sales increased to $594.2 million this year from $563.1 million last year, an improvement of 5.5 per cent. Earnings were $48.9 million or 71 cents a share, compared with $54.7 million or 79 cents per share a year ago. Railway tie sales were $214.2 million, compared with $216.3 million in sales in the second quarter of last year. Utility column sales reached $167.5 million in the second quarter of 2017, an increase of 17.3 per cent. Canadian giant Irving plans paper plant in Georgia, 200 jobs By Scott Trubey A Canadian paper goods company said Wednesday it will build a new $400 million tissue plant in Macon. Irving Consumer Products, maker of Scotties tissues, Majesta toilet paper and a number of store-branded paper products, plans to hire 200 at the new complex. Construction is expected to start this summer, a news release from Gov. Nathan Deal’s office said, with completion expected in 2019. Irving is a subsidiary of Canadian conglomerate J.D. Irving Ltd., which founded in 1882 and has business in agriculture, construction, forest products, food and shipbuilding. “Selecting Macon for our new facility provides us with an opportunity to establish a footprint in a region that has proven itself as being a strong supporter of business,” .Robert K. Irving, president of Irving Consumer Products, said in the news release. Flames, smoke still visible more than 12 hours later at wood mill By Michelle Nemmers Up North Live EMMET COUNTY, Mich. — Smoke and flames are still visible Wednesday morning after a massive fire broke out Tuesday night at a wood mill in Emmet County. The fire broke out around 6 p.m. Tuesday at Manthei Veneer. Crews have been battling the blaze that completely engulfed the mill. Firefighters say they are not sure what started the fire at this time but some family members have speculated that it could have been from the boiler. We’ve been told this mill has been family owned for nearly 75 years and about 50 years ago, there was another fire at the mill. “I ran down and my sister was there with my dad sitting on a log and we watched it burn,” said Ruth Manthei Wikey. Oregon State University Presents: Edible Food Wrap By Kiki Genoa The Corvallis Advocate Region: United States, US West A group of researchers at Oregon State University have created an ingenious new way to protect and preserve expireable foods like meat, cheese, and cut fruit and vegetables. The team of scientists, which includes OSU Professor of Food Science Yanyun Zhao, a value-added food products specialist with the OSU extension service, developed a delicate film that works like plastic wrap to keep moist foods fresh. However, this wrap has many benefits that typical plastic wrap does not, such as being edible. …Zhao’s most recent development in food sciences was inspired by her 2004 discovery surrounding the benefits of using chitosan, a fiber extracted from crab shells, in materials used to cover food. The material that she and her colleagues— Zilong Deng and Jooyeoun Jung— created this year is made out of a combination of chitosan and a cellulose nanofiber extracted from wood pulp. …In addition to increasing the shelf life of these foods, the newest wrap has the benefit of being completely safe to eat. …these edible and antimicrobial coverings are nutritious and can be enriched with vitamins. Massive Waltham apartment fire was arson, say investigators Boston 25News WALTHAM, Mass. – A massive fire in Waltham that destroyed a 264-unit apartment building under construction was intentional, said investigators Thursday. “An extensive scene investigation was over six days…along with interviews and collection of evidence,” said State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey. He said they systematically eliminated all possible ignition scenarios besides arson. …Officials are offering a $5,000 reward for anybody who can provide information that leads to an arrest. The property owner and the construction company is offering up to $100,000 to someone who gives information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of those responsible. ..One of the reasons the fire was so large and strong was the fact the building was made of wood and fire alarms weren’t installed yet, leading to a delayed response. Haverhill, Mass., Wood-Framed Fire Comes Days After Waltham City Councilors Call For Stronger Building Codes By National Ready Mixed Concrete Association For Construction Pros Yet another wood-framed fire has displaced families in Massachusetts – this time, pushing 24 people out of their homes and into the arms of the Red Cross’ aid. The fire, which occurred Tuesday evening, started on a third floor kitchen and left the 18-unit apartment building currently uninhabitable. The incident comes just a week after the Waltham City Council voted unanimously to call on the state of Massachusetts to implement tighter restrictions on the use of combustible materials for low- to mid-rise residential buildings after not one, but four major fires ravaged wood-framed apartment complexes in the state since the start of summer. “This is yet another preventable fire that could have been easily mitigated with safe and durable construction materials like concrete,” says Kevin Lawlor, a spokesperson for Build with Strength, a coalition of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association. Kahukura Opens: Is It Christchurch’s Greenest New Building? Scoop.co.nz A clever, beautiful, $34 million sustainable building deploying innovative building technologies is soon to open in Christchurch at Ara’s central campus on Moorhouse Ave. Arguably the greenest building in the Canterbury reconstruction programme… Kahukura is made mostly of timber and it is a vast and significant gesture to environmental care. Façade walls are Nelson made cross laminated timber (CLT), with exterior insulation and a German made cladding known as GRC (or Glassfibre Reinforced Concrete). The main structural frame of the building is engineered structural timber called LVL (laminated veneer lumber) from Nelson (rather than steel). Inside, the building also features linings of both engineered plantation pine and sustainably grown New Zealand black -butt eucalyptus. Sir Bob Jones plans to build world’s tallest wooden office tower in Wellington By Chloe Winter Property mogul Sir Bob Jones plans to take the timber industry to new heights, by erecting the world’s tallest wooden office building in central Wellington. Jones has announced plans to demolish the Leader’s Building on Featherston St, to make way for a new 12-storey office block. Standing 52 metres tall, it is due to be completed in 2018. A property investor estimated to be worth $750 million, with buildings in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, Jones rarely constructs buildings himself. He described the development as “an indulgence”, driven by frustration at poorly designed buildings. …There were taller existing buildings in Vancouver, Norway, London and Vienna, which had been built using laminated timber, however they were all residential buildings, hotels, or hospitals, Jones said. New allowable annual cut level set for portion of Pacific Timber Supply Area By Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Category: Forestry VICTORIA – Effective immediately, the allowable annual cut for the portion of the Pacific Timber Supply Area (TSA) outside of the Great Bear Rainforest is 803,300 cubic metres, chief forester Diane Nicholls announced today. It is the first allowable annual cut determination by the chief forester for this portion of the Pacific TSA, which consists of 30 timber supply blocks covering 698,000 hectares across Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, the Mainland Coast and the Douglas Channel. Forests thinned to slow wildfires By Ron Seymour The Kelowna Daily Courier Forests around West Kelowna have a third as many trees as they once did because of fire-prevention efforts. Thinning of forests, particularly near the Glenrosa, Rose Valley and Smith Creek neighbourhoods, has dramatically cut the number of trees that would burn in the event of a forest fire. “We’ve reduced the density of the stands from 1,100 trees per hectare to 350,” Dave Gill of Ntityix Resources, a forestry management company owned by the Westbank First Nation, told West Kelowna city council. The forests on Crown land have also been cleared of many ground fuels, such as dead trees, fallen branches and heavy undergrowth. As well, the crowns of trees have been separated to try to prevent candling, which is the rapid spread of fire from one treetop to another. “What we’re trying to do around neighbourhoods like Glenrosa is put in a (fire) buffer around the entire community,” he told council on Tuesday. Fighting to breathe in the face of Canada’s wildfire emergency By Mika McKinnon It’s stiflingly hot and I’m trapped inside a dome of smoke. I know I’m in a river valley nestled within mountain ranges, but the visibility is cut so low that I can’t see any of the dramatic peaks that dominate landscapes across British Columbia. It’s the worst documented wildfire season since 1958, and smoke is an omnipresent and unwelcome companion. “We have a very significant fire season unfolding,” says Daniel Perrakis, a fire research scientist at the Canadian Forest Service. It’s the largest area burned since the advent of modern fire-suppression and fire-management techniques, he says. Over 591,000 hectares have burned so far. Reforestation company uses subscription model to reduce members’ carbon footprint It’s kind of like Nextflix, but for trees. Instead of making a one-time contribution to an environmental cause, Calgary-based TreeEra works on subscription model. Ryan Heal, co-founder of TreeEra, told the Calgary Eyeopener that for $12 a month, TreeEra will plant 100 trees during the course of a year to help people offset their carbon footprint and speed up wildfire recovery. …you can go to our website, you sign up and, depending on what subscription you choose, we plant a certain amount of trees for you per year. So it’s just as simple as, you know, a few clicks … and we plant those trees on a yearly basis. The concept is we plant these trees to help you offset your carbon footprint and hopefully help you live a more environmentally-sustainable lifestyle. …We’re looking for spots that … maybe have been destroyed by wildfires or something like the pine beetle, where they aren’t going to be replanted, and we’ll take on that responsibility. Sticky sap protects trees from mountain pine beetles, Edmonton study suggests Sticky sap may be a tree’s perfect antidote against the destructive mountain pine beetle, new research from the University of Alberta suggests. Nadir Erbilgin, a forest entomologist at the University of Alberta, made the discovery while studying a stand of lodgepole pines that survived an infestation of the bark-eating insects. The hardy pines, in the Grande Prairie area, were able to survive because of a chemical that produced high volumes of resin in the bark, said Erbilgin. Erbilgin and his team also found that surviving trees contained low amounts of pheromones that are used by the beetle to lure other beetles to the tree. Residents mobilize against logging in Alberta Rockies By Colette Derworiz National Observer Concerns over water and wildlife are heating up as a B.C. company gets ready to log part of the Highwood river valley in Kananaskis Country — a protected area on the Eastern Slopes of the Alberta Rockies — this winter. In the past month, citizen and environmental groups, as well as the mayors of four towns downstream of the logging, have expressed their concerns to the Alberta government about the logging plan. “It will essentially clearcut all of the hillsides around Highwood Junction, right along the Highwood River,” said Stephen Legault, program director for the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. The work, which could start with roads being built this month, is being done by CCI Inc. on behalf of B.C.-based Balcaen Consolidated Contracting. B.C. officials probe ‘back burn’ started by firefighters that ranchers say destroyed land By Mike Hager The provincial government is investigating whether a controlled burn started by firefighters escaped to injure the cattle and property of local ranchers in the Cariboo region. Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, told The Globe and Mail on Wednesday that officials with the provincial Wildfire Service began investigating whether a “back burn” started south of Clinton by firefighters a week ago destroyed local cattle and property instead of protecting ranchers from the encroaching Elephant Hill wildfire. A group of ranchers are calling on the government to pay them for any losses to livestock, rural structures, woodlots, private timber, grazing areas and fencing. First Nations criticize caribou protection plan TB Newswatch THUNDER BAY — A coalition of First Nations leaders in the Thunder Bay region alleges that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) has failed to adequately consult Indigenous communities while developing measures to protect the woodland caribou. Five area chiefs issued a statement Tuesday saying the province’s proposed actions under the Endangered Species Act will create undue hardships for their people. Regional Chief Pierre Pelletier of the Northern Superior Chiefs said a plan to set aside large tracts of land for caribou holds the potential for catastrophic socio-economic impacts on First Nations in the Robinson-Superior Treaty area. Satellite shots show logging in moratorium areas: environmentalists By Mia Rabson Canadian Press in Saskatoon StarPhoenix OTTAWA — Satellite imagery proves a much lauded agreement between Canada’s logging industry and environmental groups to protect boreal caribou habitat was a failure, says a U.S. environment group. The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement was signed in 2010 between 19 forestry companies and six environmental groups, including Greenpeace and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. The environmental groups agreed to stop boycotting the forestry companies in exchange for the companies agreeing not to do any logging on about 70 million acres of boreal forest between British Columbia and Newfoundland. The moratorium was to last for three years, during which time negotiations for permanent protection for caribou habitat were to be completed. However, Anthony Swift, director of the Canada program of the Natural Resources Defence Council based in Chicago, said satellite images analysed over the last six months show logging did not stop in at least two areas of Quebec which were supposed to be part of the moratorium. Policy move puts forestry at risk, say Northern leaders Northern Ontario Business Northern and rural mayors say the Ontario government is reneging on a promise to consult with them on proposed policy changes surrounding legislation to protect species at risk. A joint Aug. 3 news release from the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association, the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities and the Rural Ontario Municipal Association express concern that the province isn’t listening to them or to stakeholders who make a living in Ontario’s forests. The municipal groups say the Ministry of Natural Resources and Climate Change is preparing to post online a draft version of the Species at Risk guide to the Environmental Registry for 28 species. Planning for the future of America’s forests and rangelands By Claire O’Dea Wildfire, insect infestations, drought, and disease outbreaks are increasing the vulnerability of forests and rangelands in the U.S. At the same time, a growing population is increasing demands for goods and services from these ecosystems. Seeking to identify and address these concerns, the U.S. Forest Service report, Update to the 2010 Resources Planning Act Assessment, examines how land development, climate change, natural disturbances and socioeconomic trends continue to influence forest and rangeland ecosystems. Anti-clearcut group wants to buy Weyerhaeuser timberland at Lake Wenatchee By Mike Irwin LAKE WENATCHEE — A group of Lake Wenatchee residents concerned about clear-cutting on a highly visible ridge near here has begun negotiations with Weyerhaeuser to buy the land tagged for logging. The group of mostly property owners from Lake Wenatchee housing developments and lakeshore homes met with Weyerhaeuser execs last week to forge a deal to buy the 206-acre piece on Nason Ridge and halt a proposal to clear-cut much of the land. “It’s a case of buy it or lose it,” said Rob Shurtleff, co-editor of the website Lake Wenatchee Info and a coordinator of the community effort to end Weyerhaeuser’s plans for the clear-cut. In the last two weeks, Shurtleff, a 20-year part-time resident, helped gather more than 1,500 signatures on a petition opposing the logging plan. Sell-off of East Edisto tract causing ‘forest fragmentation’ By Thomas J. Straka – professor of forestry and environmental conservation at Clemson University The Post and Courier The Post and Courier’s John McDermott reported on more than 12,000 acres of forestland being acquired by a “solid conservationist” (Land deal by South Carolina video chain pioneer provides ‘happy ending,’ Aug. 6). That surely was a happy ending, but the article coincidentally reported on a trend that does not have such a happy ending. That forestland was part of former MeadWestvaco’s large East Edisto tract where more than 30,000 acres in Charleston County have changed hands in about 15 sales over the past three years. That trend is large tracts of forestland being subdivided into smaller and smaller tracts, some remaining forestland, some being developed, and, in fortunate cases, some being acquired for conservation purposes. There are consequences to smaller tracts. New forestry standard positive step – Pan Pac boss By Anneke Smith The New Zealand Herald A new national forestry standard introduced to better protect the environment has been accepted as “a positive step forward”, Pan Pac managing director Doug Ducker says. ….While Mr Ducker said it was too early to realise the impacts the new standard would have on Pan Pac’s operations, it was generally accepted as “a positive step forward in the interests of the industry, the environment and the community”….Dr Smith noted a benefit of the new standard was that it related to environmental risk as opposed to which particular council a forestry operation existed in. With 80 per cent of forest owners managing forests in multiple council areas, Ms Upston said the forestry industry would benefit from having a set of consistent regulations to operate under. These Drones Can Plant 100,000 Trees in One Day Billions of trees are felled each year, according to the Rainforest Action Network, and planting a tree requires more time and effort than cutting one down. That makes keeping up with deforestation rates challenging for conservationists. The minds behind one tech startup think they can speed up global tree-planting efforts by taking the burden off humans and placing it on drones. BioCarbon Engineering has assembled a fleet of drones that can plant thousands of trees a day, as Fast Company reports. The company will soon focus its efforts on Myanmar’s Irrawaddy River delta, an area that’s seen rapid loss of its mangrove trees due to aquaculture, agriculture, and logging. Estimates place the amount of regional mangroves destroyed in the past 30 years between 75 and 83 percent. Starting in September, BioCarbon will partner with Worldview International Foundation to aid restoration efforts started by human hands. IWI to build Quebec sawmill paired with pellet plant By Anna Simet Biomass Magazine Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy International Wood Industries is moving forward with a plan to build a sawmill and colocated wood pellet mill in northeastern Ontario. IWI chose the township of Bonfield as the project’s location after identifying a market opportunity by combining certain technologies with local resources in the Mattawa-Bonfield region, according to the company. The state-of-the-art sawmill, wood processing center, and pellet mill is proposed for a 212-acre site that has an existing rail line passing through the property operated by the Ottawa Valley Railway. Climate change poses threat to Swiss and European forestry sector: study GENEVA—In Switzerland, it is not only mountain glaciers that are struggling to keep pace with the rapidly changing climate, but also Norway spruce and European beech trees, a new study showed on Thursday. The problem poses risks in Switzerland and other European countries for the forestry sector, which relies on spruce wood, a study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research shows. It says that these risks could be lessened by relying more on silver fir and using Norway spruce from warmer growth locations. “Climate change is making Swiss forests warmer and drier,” the institute says in its report. The question on how well adapted the trees are today to the future climate will be crucial for the forests’ future.” Thomson River University prof calls for Domtar shutdown By James Peters CFJC Today Category: Forest Fires KAMLOOPS — A Thompson Rivers University professor says it seems Kamloops residents aren’t taking the public health risk caused by wildfire smoke seriously enough. Dr. Michael Mehta says the Domtar pulp mill should shut down until the air clears, and is calling on Ribfest organizers to cancel this weekend’s event. Mehta, a Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, oversees an array of air quality monitors stationed throughout Kamloops, and says nearby wildfires are causing hazardous levels of air pollution. “These levels are unprecedented,” said Mehta. “There are very few places in the world that have seen levels as high as we have seen in Kamloops in the past month. They are typically, right now at least, two to three times higher than you would see on some of the worst air days in Beijing.” B.C. considers closing wide swath of backcountry because of wildfire risk Canadian Press in Vancouver Metro WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — A mix of dry conditions and forecast lightning has officials in British Columbia considering closing access to a vast section of its backcountry to mitigate the wildfire risk. Restrictions on access to all Crown land in the Cariboo fire centre would go into effect at noon on Friday as the province continues to battle what Premier John Horgan has said is the worst fire season since the 1950s. A final decision was scheduled to be made Friday morning. There were 148 fires burning in the province on Thursday with the majority of new starts in recent days attributed to lightning. B.C. Forests Minister Doug Donaldson said the increased threat of naturally caused fires means it’s more important than ever to prevent human-caused fires. Fog, terrain hampers crews battling wildfire near Telegraph Creek By Jeff Bell Victoria Times Colonist Crews are continuing to battle a wildfire about 20 kilometres southeast of Telegraph Cove, near Kaikash Creek. Coastal Fire Centre spokeswoman Nicole Gagnon said Thursday afternoon that the blaze had not been brought under control and was covering an area of about 80 hectares. She said the centre had 37 people assigned to the fire, along with heavy equipment and four helicopters equipped to drop water. Private industry is also providing personnel, Gagnon said. Fog was a problem for crews Thursday morning, she said, and the location of the fire has been a challenge. “The fire is an area where it’s steep and rugged, and hard to get at,” Gagnon said. The cause has not been determined. Latest rain hasn’t lowered risk of forest fires, fire official says By Elizabeth Fraser Recent rainfall hasn’t made dry forests in New Brunswick less susceptible to fire, a provincial fire prevention officer says. Because of high temperatures over the past few weeks, fire crews have been closely monitoring forested areas as part of fire prevention efforts, said Roger Collet. The forest fire hazard in New Brunswick reached its highest level in at least 20 years this summer, and rain over the holiday weekend and on Tuesday had an almost superficial effect on conditions. “It’s a short-term thing, where drying can happen within a day and then we’re pretty close to where we were,” Collet said. Fire managers prepped to engage Lolo Peak fire By Eve Byron The Missoulian HAMILTON — Lolo Peak fire managers have drawn their lines in the dirt, and are now preparing for the flames to march down the mountain toward them. The lines are the first part of a three-phase strategy, Noel Livingston, the new Lolo Peak incident commander, told Ravalli County commissioners this week. Phase One involved using heavy equipment and firefighters to etch 21 miles of containment line, including almost five miles along Highway 12 and 16.4 miles to the east along U.S. Highway 93. “Phase One is coming to an end. We’ve built lines where we think we’ll have a high success in holding it,” Livingston said. “In Phase Two, we’ll figure out what we’ll do with that fire, because it wants to come down the hill.” Return of wind, heat brings back forest fires to Portugal The Associated Press in ABC News Wildfires flared across Portugal on Thursday following a rise in temperatures and strong winds, ending days of cooler weather that had brought a brief respite from a spate of blazes, including one that killed 64 people in June. The Civil Protection Agency said it was tackling 17 forest fires, deploying more than 1,500 firefighters and 24 water-dropping aircraft. The number of wildfires ratcheted up from seven in the space of a few hours, with most afflicting areas in central and northern Portugal. …Massive clouds of smoke prevented the use of water-dropping planes in some places. Portugal usually has woodland blazes in the summer, but this year has been particularly unfavorable because around 80 percent of the country is experiencing “severe,” or “extreme,” drought conditions. Forest fire: Hundreds flee blaze in southern France The Local France A forest fire raged in parched southern France on Thursday, forcing 400 campers and residents to flee, firefighters said. The blaze has been contained after ravaging 500 hectares (1,250 acres) of pine forest and bush 40 kilometres (25 miles) southwest of Montpellier, the fire service said. Some 200 firefighters were still battling the blaze, with strong winds expected during the day. “Today’s weather conditions call for the greatest prudence,” the fire service said. At the height of the blaze 800 firefighters were involved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20817
__label__wiki	0.506293	0.506293	Textainer completes a US$300 million asset backed financing (“Trencor”) We draw attention to the following news release issued by Textainer Group Holdings Limited, in which Trencor has a 47,78% beneficiary interest: Hamilton, Bermuda – (Business Wire) – Feb. 20, 2018 – Textainer Group Holdings Limited (NYSE: TGH) (“Textainer” or the “Company”), one of the world’s largest lessors of intermodal containers, today announced that Textainer Marine Containers VI Limited (“TMCL VI”), an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, closed a $300 million, seven year fixed rate term financing with a lender group comprised of a financial institution and an institutional investor. The facility partially amortizes and the remaining principal is due in full in seven years. The weighted average life of the deal is approximately five years and is secured by a pledge of TMCL VI’s intermodal shipping container assets. The proceeds of the financing were used to pay down certain short-term debt. “The financing is an innovative private ABS structure with one of our financing partners and a traditional ABS notes investor. The deal increases our ratio of fixed rate debt and frees up borrowing capacity in our short-term facilities which we intend to use for additional container investments,” commented Hilliard C. Terry, III, Textainer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.” Textainer Group Holdings Limited Hilliard C. Terry, III, +1 415-658-8214 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer ir@textainer.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20818
__label__wiki	0.516912	0.516912	The weather in Silleda Day 20/01/2020 Courtesy of Meteogalicia Home ->Palaces The Pazos (Palace/Manor House) period left behind important examples, in the former jurisdiction of Trasdeza, they were built mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries at the height of the Baroque. In general they are almost all in good condition and inhabited. The Pazos are privately owned and visits can only take place upon a prior request or from the outside in the parts that are visible. The vast number of these stately buildings, manor houses, big houses and rectories, give Silleda certain uniqueness in the Galician context which should be object of a special study. Here only a few examples are described briefly: Trasfontao, Cascaxide, Sestelo and A Viña. Pazo de Trasfontao Pazo de Cascaxide Pazo de Sestelo Pazo da Viña Location: Trasfontao. Parish Silleda Period: Baroque Chronology:18th century Coordinates: X:562.804 Y:4.726.419 H:29 Located in the hamlet of the same name, on the Camino de Santiago, this building possesses in its interior one of the most outstanding exponents of the Baroque in Trasdeza. On a medieval site, the most important work took place in the middle of the 18th century; it is protected by a walled enclosure which practically surrounds all the properties. The layout is H shaped and the main entrance is through a gate called José, which gives access to a small courtyard that houses a sober fountain, a cloister with arches and side stairs. Worth highlighting is the beautiful French-style garden, an Hórreo (grain store) with five supports which was built in 1895 and destroyed by a storm in this century, an exterior circular dovecote, and outbuilding at the rear where carriages were housed. Carriages which can be admired today in the Pazo de Mariñán, property of the Diputación da Coruña. Adjoining the house is a chapel dedicated to Santo Tomé, which was already being cited in 1560, and which has a polychrome altarpiece giving it a unique beauty. As for heraldry, on the main façade is the coat of arms of the house which represents Montenegro, Mosquera and Oxea lineages. And outside, of note is the centuries-old oak wood which offers a welcome shade over the Camiño de Santiago. Location: Cascaxide. Escuadro Chronology: 17th century Ownership: Private no visits A 17th century property owned by the Espinosa family, it is rectangular building on two floors. Compensating for the uneven terrain, it has another floor with arches on one of its fronts, a four-story tower and balustrade balconies protruding from the façade. The main façade has a door with lintels, a large shield and gargoyles. Noteworthy is the great church of clear Compostela influence. Of particular importance are the woods surrounding the Pazo which belong to the manor and enjoys the status of a protected area. Location: Sestelo. Siador Chronology: 16th and 17th centuries Known as Sestelo House, the most recent memory of this Pazo will forever be linked to that of Francisco de Rivas Taboada, procurator, Mayor of Silleda and benefactor of the parish of Siador, when in 1863, encouraged the devotion to Our Lady of A Saleta, funding the wooden statue of the virgin and the extension of the parish church for the creation of the chapel that would accommodate her. Today, successor and current owner, Roberto Rivas, continues the work and is a fervent defender of Marian devotion and president of the Foundation Our Lady of A Saleta. Newly restored, with the elimination of the most closed and defensive features, this ensemble can be considered one of the best preserved examples and exceptional among the manor houses in the council. The coat of arms bears the symbols of the lineages of Baamonde, Ocampo and Pimentel who also appearin an inscription on the main façade of the existing chapel to the left of the entrance to the manor, dedicated to the Virxe do Socorro. Location: A Viña. Abades Ownership:Private no visits The Pazo da Viña stands out as fine example of civil architecture with a shield with arms of the Gil Taboada, Luaces and crowned lion of the Valenzuela lineages and chapel dedicated to San Antonio. In this house writer and politician Ramón de Valenzuela (1914-1980) was born. Perhaps it is one of the most emblematic buildings of the Baroque era within the collection of Pazos in the council, and because of the people who lived there and who always stood out for their work in the arts, and the design of the ensemble and its academic style comprising the main house with impressive coat of arms, slender chimney, grand access staircase, outbuildings, annexes and of course the Baroque chapel. View Resources Map Carboeiro Monastery Silleda Tourism - Silleda Council Collaborations \|\| Legal Notice \|\| Suggestions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20821
__label__wiki	0.64117	0.64117	‘MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR’ CELEBRATED AT PALEY CENTER – AND HEADED FOR PBS By David Bianculli Magical Mystery Tour, the surrealistic 1967 Beatles TV special shown in the U.K., finally will premiere on TV in the States – 45 years later, newly restored, on PBS… WITH 'HUNTED,' CINEMAX JOINS CABLE’S QUALITY TV CLUB By David Bianculli Every cable network wanting into the quality TV drama game has to start somewhere. HBO broke in 15 years ago with Oz, and sister network Cinemax finally has Hunted… ‘AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM’ IS CRAZY – LIKE A FX By David Bianculli Despite what FX is calling it, or how the Emmy voters are judging it, American Horror Story is not a miniseries. Nor is it a repertory-company series. But it is fascinating… WHY I LIKE CW’S ‘EMILY OWENS, M.D.’ ENOUGH TO DEFEND IT By David Bianculli It turns out I’m in the distinct minority in enjoying CW’s new Emily Owens, M.D. series — but I’m more than happy to defend my qualified yet genuine enthusiasm. Here’s why…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20823
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__label__cc	0.694857	0.305143	ACCESSIBLE CALDERDALE AUDITS AND TRAINING ACCESSIBLE HEBDEN DISABILITY AWARENESS TRAINING WITH A DIFFERENCE ACCESS AUDITING ACCESS CONSULTANCY Home ACCESSIBLE CALDERDALE OVERVIEW ACCESSIBLE CALDERDALE OVERVIEW ACCESSIBLE CALDERDALE PROJECT Making Calderdale a place that offers an accessible and inclusive welcome to people who live, work and study here and those who visit. Calderdale is a beautiful and historic place with a vast amount of hidden gems to visit and get to know. We have a host of interesting and famous places that are on the map including the Gentleman Jack filming location Shibden Hall; Eureka the National Children’s Museum and winners of the Gold Accessible Tourism Awards; The Piece Hall; Square Chapel and Dean Clough. https://www.visitcalderdale.com/blog/gentleman-jack-filming-locations We received 3 years funding from the Community Foundation for Calderdale to work with disabled people and local voluntary groups, the local authority, visitor attractions, transport companies, new planning developers and architects, businesses and Visit Calderdale. We are working together with Disability Partnership Calderdale to make a difference to our local community. “We want everybody to take full advantage of what our beautiful area has to offer. This includes visitors and people who live here. We want to make sure that Calderdale is a fully accessible and welcoming place where people with disabilities and their families can enjoy what is on their doorstep and visitors leave with memories that entice them to return!” Visits Unlimited We are a Halifax based user led organisation working both locally and nationally with colleagues in the tourism industry. We run a popular training and access audit programme across England. Clients include the National Trust, English Heritage, football and cricket grounds, large tourist attractions, small businesses, theatres, music venues, museums and hotels. We ran the successful and sustainable Accessible Hebden project thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation for Calderdale in 2015. Working with disabled people we completed over 40 access audits and surveys on small businesses to support them to become more accessible. This project is now imbedded into local strategic work and the Hebden Bridge Disability Access Forum continues to roll out the work and to be a key player in new planning and designs. Accessible Calderdale is building on the Accessible Hebden work thanks to a grant from Community Foundation for Calderdale. This enables us to work across Calderdale together with our partners Disability Partnership Calderdale. We have established the Accessible Calderdale Disability Access Forum to ensure that the voice of disabled people, their families and carers, organisations working with people with a range of impairments is central working together on access issues and solutions. We are now involved with new plans, local area developments, transport infrastructure, tourist attractions, businesses and the voluntary sector to improve the access and inclusion for those living, working and visiting the area. “Visits Unlimited have been a catalyst for us on the Hebden Bridge project. We had identified access issues with our Access Group but just turning up was not good enough. Visits Unlimited did a report on the train station and to have their report under our arm has given strength to our argument every single time we have met and we were able to go to Network Rail and the highway authorities – it has made a big difference. I have learned a lot – things I did not know or what was available.” Hebden Bridge Partnership. “Our disability survey was extremely useful as we did not appreciate the things that needed doing. Chris gave us lots of useful simple ideas including even changing the door knob on the toilet facilities that we never thought about.” Pennine Heritage. The project has developed a Working Group which regularly meets and includes our partners from Visit Calderdale, Eureka, Countryside and Management, Community Transport, West Yorkshire Transport Authority, the Wool Shops and representatives of the local council. The group is integral to the project in developing Calderdale into an accessible and inclusive place. Accessible Calderdale Disability Access Forum The most important driving force behind the project is the new Accessible Calderdale Disability Access Forum. This group is led by people with lived experience of disability and is building on the good practice of the Hebden Forum. The group is involved with new builds and developments in the town centre, railway station, Northgate House, the A629 between Huddersfield and Halifax, the Hospital transport, and businesses. Among our top priorities are that local tourist attractions and countryside work towards improving their access and that people can travel to venues by public transport or their own vehicles. Information is key and we are working closely with Visit Calderdale and the Council to have Accessibility Guides available on their websites. Our plans include establishing a new Brighouse group, increasing membership of ACDAF, linking in with the Hebden Bridge Forum, and working alongside the Todmorden Access Forum. User led organisations or individual wishing to get involved can contact the project coordinator, Lorraine Beiley. Lorraine@visitsunlimited.org.uk Access Audits and Training We are working alongside local businesses, hotels, restaurants, tourist attractions, local council developments and the voluntary sector to deliver our access audits and to provide recommendations and reports. We know that this makes good business sense and allows organisations and venues to access the Purple Pound https://www.visitcalderdale.com/blog/the-purple-pound-inclusive-accessible-tourism We are also working with businesses to provide our Disability Equality Training and Customer Service – we believe that attitude is key to having an inclusive and accessible environment. For more information on how to apply for a business audit or training programme please get in touch with Katie Clarke. katie@visitsunlimited.org.uk Thanks to our funders at the Community Foundation for Calderdale we are doing free access audits and training for the voluntary sector and community organisations. These organisations are then able to apply for a small grant from Community Foundation for Calderdale on the recommendations by our Access Auditor. For more information contact Lorraine@visitsunlimited.org.uk on 07596707795 or katie@visitsunlimited.org.uk	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20834
__label__wiki	0.849447	0.849447	Call Us: +438-238-8480 Mail Us: tvmtvinfo@gmail.com 372 Catherine Vocal Health TVMTV We've made our list and checked it twice: here are our favourite albums of the year. VOCALIST MAGAZINE NETWORK / Home / Local News / CBC Music’s top 19 Canadian albums of 2019 Claimed to be the world’s largest jazz festival, Montreal Jazz Festival has brought some of… Bass Coast Festival Where: Merritt, BC \| When: Summer Bass Coast Festival is an independent international exhibition of… MIDEM - Event Dates Ticket Pricing Location 2nd – 5th June €295 – €885 Cannes,… The ASCAP Experience - 1st – 3rd April 2020 $289 – $587 Los Angeles, USA… SXSW dedicates itself to helping creative people achieve their goals. 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Below, we’ve ranked the top 19 Canadian albums of 2019, according to us. What were your favourites? Let us know on Twitter @CBCMusic. Editor’s note: this list was compiled from English-language albums released between Jan. 1 and Nov. 29, 2019. Look out for our list of best French-language albums, out later this week. 19. In Full Bloom, Sorrey It took nearly five years to get this first full-length album from P.E.I.-based Sorrey, and it was more than worth the wait. In Full Bloom shimmers with synth-laden, dream-pop colour, as band namesake Emilee Sorrey perfectly captures all the subtle, confusing and heady feelings that come with falling in — and out of — love. With just a few words, Sorrey can transport you to the gut-punch of realizing a relationship has run its course — “Everything’s easy/ everything’s hard/ tried to build a mansion but we built a house of cards,” she sings on “Recalibrate” — or to the joy that comes with finding someone who “fills in all the gaps” (“Signs”). Nothing is syrupy or melodramatic, as Sorrey and bandmates Colin Buchanan, Andrew Murray, Bruce Rooney and Luke Pound build layered earworms to lift you up no matter the state of your love life. — Holly Gordon 18. Mental Health, Rae Spoon Rae Spoon’s voice is the only kind of purity I care about: unadorned and clear, quietly confident and alive with possibility, made all the more luminous by the ways in which they have made themselves vulnerable over their 20-year career. This concept album about mental health reflects part of that journey, and it rocks and pulses, hisses and drones, and thrums with love and acceptance, particularly for all the queer, transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming folks struggling to cope with and navigate our capitalist society’s complex and unnerving healthcare system. — Andrea Warner 17. Forever Overhead, Tim Baker Tim Baker opens his debut full-length with “Dance,” a bonafide late-in-life love song, dedicated to connecting with someone, and the world around them, despite the chaos of their pasts. While the Hey Rosetta! frontman and St. John’s native knows how to ignite a spirited party fuelled by throngs of instruments and big, melodic sing-alongs — which you do get later on Forever Overhead — I’d argue it’s these hushed, vulnerable moments that highlight Baker’s songwriting mastery best. With our first opportunity to sing along with him and him alone, it feels meaningful to start with a slow dance. — Jess Huddleston Tim Baker performs for CBC Music’s First Play Live 5:32 16. Fear, Begonia At the end of a year that saw forefront discussions about radical self-love and acceptance, Alexa Dirks’ honest reflections — via powerhouse vocals and delicious soul pop — are the gift we need and deserve. No stranger to the Canadian music scene (Dirks was originally in the Juno-winning group Chic Gamine before branching out as Begonia), Fear still manages to make you feel like you’ve been let in on pop’s best-kept secret. But, not for long. 2019 might have refreshed our memory of Dirks’ vast capabilities, but 2020 will hopefully deliver her the global recognition she deserves. — JH 15. Still, Tobi Tobi’s debut album exists in unique spaces — in the fluid middle ground where hip hop, R&B and soul collide; and the Atlantic gulf between his birthplace of Lagos, Nigeria, and Toronto, where he’s resided since the age of eight. Still is an exploration of those in-betweens, unafraid to flex like a rapper when needed or bend towards something more smooth and melodic when the soundscape mellows out. As a result, Tobi’s fearless experimentation has landed him somewhere closer to a place he can call home. — Melody Lau 14. X Marks the Swirl, Kimmortal Kimmortal spent five years crafting this urgent, affecting album that melds hip hop, soul, spoken word and pop to talk about racism, colonialism, queerness and misogyny. But this is not just a protest album; X Marks the Swirl is Kimmortal’s unequivocal insistence to be seen, a powerful demand for equity, beauty, and the fullness of life for every marginalized, oppressed person. — AW 13. Wave, Patrick Watson In the last four years, Patrick Watson lost his mother, separated from his partner and his longtime drummer left the band. With these life-altering changes, you might expect a new album to be rooted in grief — but Wave is decidedly not that. “I really write songs when I get to the other side,” he recently told CBC Music. As a result, Watson’s first album since 2015’s Polaris longlisted Love Songs for Robots is his most direct yet, with clear-eyed lines like, “This strange dream I’m dreaming/ if it ain’t wrong it don’t feel right/ never thought you were leaving/ thought we’d get old, get dressed, and walk the dogs” (“Dream for Dreaming”). But, instead of a heavy heart, there’s a lightness attached to each song. Wave is Patrick Watson’s silver lining, and it’s become ours, too. — HG 12. Stay Tuned!, Dominique Fils-Aimé Montreal artist Dominique Fils-Aimé’s ambitious mission to explore the history of African-American music continues on Stay Tuned!, the second instalment in a proposed trilogy. This album journeys into jazz and early R&B, delving into the civil rights movement of the ’60s and transforming that knowledge into songs that burn brightly with the spirit of revolution. Fils-Aimé does this while imbuing the lyrics and her stunning vocals with a palpable sense of strength and resilience that powerfully evoke the past, present and future. — ML 11. Morbid Stuff, Pup Morbid Stuff finds the Toronto band working through negative thoughts and not conquering them as much as learning to live with them — and perhaps cathartically get out some frustrations along the way through its relentless brand of punk rock. It’s a record meant to feel good for those who oftentimes feel bad; a whirling circle pit where you go to feel safe. — ML 10. Half Moon Run, A Blemish in the Great Light The first track on Half Moon Run’s A Blemish in the Great Light starts unassumingly, Devon Portielje’s voice gently opening up the album over an acoustic strum and quiet echo. When bandmates Conner Molander, Dylan Phillips and Isaac Symonds join in, the drums, harmonies, spliced-in strings and that sneaky bassline build into a driving track, transforming what was a subtle folk song into what somehow ends up being an orchestral banger. “Then Again” is exactly what Half Moon Run does best: difficult-to-define, layered songs that straddle the folk-rock divide — and that are often catchy as hell. A Blemish in the Great Light, the band’s followup to 2015’s Sun Leads me On, is a testament to that skill — and the band members’ incredible musicianship — and what rock can sound like in 2019. — HG 9. Spectre, Lightning Dust The fourth album from Lightning Dust, the duo comprised of Black Mountain members Amber Webber and Josh Wells, expertly layers Webber’s spine-tingling vocals alongside moody, psychedelic guitar and stripped-down piano — exactly where her words belong. Featuring cameos from Destroyer’s Dan Bejar and Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, Spectre tells stunning stories of fighting demons and finding your way back home to yourself. — JH 8. Case Study 01, Daniel Caesar As we edge into winter’s tight grip, there’s a special stillness that comes with reminiscing to Case Study 01’s “Cyanide,” the sultry, Kardinal Offishall-assisted ballad that feels like those last few hours of fading summer light and stomach butterflies, all at once. On the singer’s sophomore followup to his celebrated debut, Caesar delves deeper into questions of love, sexuality and philosophy, setting the visual and sonic scene ahead of what might be his most interesting albums to come. — JH 7. Hey, I’m Just Like You, Tegan and Sara Teenage melodrama is important — it’s unfiltered, it’s urgent and its larger-than-life feelings are valid representations of a person who is just beginning to figure out their life. Hey, I’m Just Like You, Tegan and Sara’s album of revamped teenage demos, honours the duo’s younger selves by taking those nuggets of ideas that were jotted down in their childhood bedrooms and blowing them up into the pop-rock anthems that they always knew they could be. — ML 6. ataataga, Riit Riit’s debut is immersive and radiant; a generous and expansive invitation into her world (Panniqtuq, Nunavut). It’s a buoyant, brilliant art-pop album sung in Inuktitut and featuring songs solely by Northern artists, wherein synths glimmer and electro beats gleam, and Riit graciously extends the shared heartbeat of her people through throat singing. — AW 5. Thanks for the Dance, Leonard Cohen You Want it Darker, the album Leonard Cohen released not a month before his death, seemed a perfectly crafted end note from a man who was ready to face life’s end (“Hineni, hineni/ I’m ready, my lord,” he sings on the title track). So we weren’t sure what awaited us with Cohen’s posthumous album, produced by his son, Adam Cohen, and featuring vocals that the late songwriter recorded during those last album sessions. The result isn’t superfluous, but instead a loving elegy to Leonard that centres that gruff, stripped-down baritone, with Leonard’s lyricism, wit and complicated heart front and centre. “Thanks for all the dances/ one-two-three, one-two-three, one,” he sings on the title track, counting off his waltz, gently twirling us into a world where he no longer exists. — HG 4. Do You Drive?, Clairmont the Second There are few adequate ways — save for taking out a billboard or shouting from the rooftops — to properly describe Clairmont the Second’s wildly underrated hip hop artistry. Writing, producing, mixing, mastering and creative directing his latest eight-song collection, the Toronto rapper borrows influence from soulful, mid-’90s Cali rap in crafting everything from late-night, lo-fi reflections to bounce-heavy bangers like the standout single “Grain.” Do You Drive? is a special glimpse into the bright next wave of Canadian hip hop, and no one’s more fit to front that charge than Clairmont. — JH 3. Pony, Orville Peck Orville Peck’s debut subverts cowboy mythology and centres queer narratives. It’s a country album for the underground, a buzzing neon landscape of gritty-but-glam new-wave twang and surf-punk strut beneath Peck’s classically trained voice. It is a tiny miracle, the perfect curve of a horse’s neck, the hug of a man who doesn’t want anything from you. — AW 2. Dedicated, Carly Rae Jepsen Carly Rae Jepsen admits that she doesn’t “know a thing about” real love, but that’s all she wants. It’s a funny statement given that the pop star has built an entire career examining love from every possible angle. But it’s her ability to spin sparkling fables around the subject — and most importantly, make us feel love’s potential on a visceral and gleefully abashed level — that makes her a true virtuoso in her sphere. Dedicated convinces us of the power of love, and sets us on the same wild pursuit that Jepsen herself is on. — ML 1. 13th Floor, Haviah Mighty “This is the first time that I’ve been able to speak my truth, my narrative and have an album that’s based on that theme,” Haviah Mighty said this year, as she became the first rapper to win the Polaris Music Prize in the award’s 14-year history. 13th Floor is Mighty’s debut full-length, a powerful — and empowering — set of 13 songs where she takes full control, delivering rapid-fire verses and melodies about her experience as a Black female rapper in a genre (and world) that’s stacked against her rise to the top. “I gotta do two times more to get four times less,” she spits out on album opener “In Women Colour,” standing defiantly against those barriers — and trying to dismantle them for a generation of rappers to come. — HG Fashion & Luxury News Don Quixote Ballet Anti-smog agency, approved a $36 million program to reduce pollution from trucks. 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__label__wiki	0.87296	0.87296	On these pages: Minehead: The big hill Burgundy Chapel Porlock Shingle Ridge Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Valley of the Rocks Lorna Doone Romans in the south-west The Hunting of the Earl of Rone Here’s an object-lesson in not making assumptions about place-names. The town was never the seat of some imagined ancient lead- or silver-mining operation. Possibly its name derives from an old English word for hill – similar to the Welsh Mynydd or Mynedd. Anyone who has ever stood to the east and looked at the dominating outline of North Hill on the skyline, as Exmoor rears up out of the gentle sands of west Somerset, can understand exactly why it should be named so. However, another theory is that an early resident, William de Mohun (or Moyon) of Dunster, supplied its name. In earlier centuries the sea came considerably further inland than it presently does, and there is evidence of submerged forests to be found all round the bottom of North Hill. Modern-day Minehead spans three earlier settlements that were known as Higher Town (the picturesque cottages around the church), Middle and Lower Town (the modern resort) and Quay Town (around the harbour). Minehead Town Council: History of Minehead Minehead Online: A short history of Minehead A Vision of Britain: Minehead, Somerset Exmoor National Park: Minehead parish Everything Exmoor: Minehead Hobby Horse YouTube: View from an Engine Front – Barnstaple (1898) Hunting the Earl of Rone The hunting of the Earl of Rone is a folk festival taking place every year in Combe Martin on the Spring Bank Holiday, having been revived in recent years. It generally takes the village the best part of four days to catch the Earl once he is at large; he usually goes to ground in Lady Wood at the top of the village before being captured by costumed soldiery, made to sit backwards on a donkey and thrown in the sea. But, before you start to feel too sorry for him, he does get to visit all six pubs on the two-mile route along the country’s longest village high street. We were lucky enough to be in the village to witness the 1997 festival. BBC Where I live: Devon (focus on Combe Martin and the festival) Flickr: The hunting of the Earl of Rone YouTube: Video of the 2008 festival Wikipedia: The Earl of Tyrone Our photos from 1997	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20840
__label__cc	0.610198	0.389802	10:35 pm28 Dec 2005 Escape from the Sunshine State Well, I’m back. I don’t really have much else to say, I suppose, except that after a week in Florida I’m so relieved to be back in DC. Now don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed hanging out with my parents and all the accompanying perks of reverting to childhood like eating all the chocolate and cheese you want and drinking two bottles of champagne solo while watching movies til 3am and not having to make a single decision about anything. Ok, maybe that wasn’t quite my childhood but you know what I mean – total absence of responsibility. But after a week your body and brain begin to rebel and begin to crave the bustle and hum of the city. And that is one thing the particular corner of Florida that my parents inhabit severely lacks. It’s Venice, a quiet little town on the Gulf Coast with some lovely wild beaches (my favorite – Caspersen) and a cute avenue with local merchant shops and a real soda fountain cafe. It manages to feel very sleepy while also being developed within an inch of its charm to hold the first wave of the retiring Boomers as they flock to Florida’s no income tax and temperate climate. Now, with apologies to my parents, I could never ever live in a place like that. Everything revolves around the car, of course, as with the exception of the little avenue most everything is strip mall shops. Its infrastructure hasn’t quite caught up to the expensive real estate being built everywhere – though the gated communities for the Northern snowbirds are in abundance the local movie theatre has closed, restaurants are nothing spectacular, only golf courses abound. It’s very casual and the classic idea of retirement that everyone says the Boomers are going to eschew but they seem to be moving there anyway. Everyone calls you “honey” and are so perfectly outgoing and friendly in that Southern way that makes you wonder what they are saying behind your back. Sigh. Let me repeat – I could never live in a place like that. City life for me. I am so glad to be back in DC. Now it’s off for a night on the town with visiting guests from crazy Amsterdam. I hope I don’t overdo it in my desire to re-urbanify. This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs Jenn Larsen As one of the founding editors of We Love DC, Jenn’s passions are theater and cocktails. After two decades in the city, she’s loved every quirky, mundane, elegant, rude minute of her DC life. A proud advocate for DC’s talented drinks scene, she’s judged the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s ARTINI contest, the DC Rickey Month contest, the Jefferson Hotel’s Quill Cocktail competition, and is a founding member of LUPEC DC. A graduate of Catholic University’s drama program, she toured the country as a member of National Players, and has been both an actor and a costume designer before jumping the aisle to theater criticism. Writing for We Love DC restored her happiness after a life-threatening illness, and she’s grateful to you, dear readers. Send your suggestions to jenn (at) welovedc (dot) com and follow her on Twitter. This entry was posted in: Legacy articles See Jenn's RSS Feed More By Jenn As one of the founding editors of We Love DC, Jenn's passions are theater and cocktails. After two decades in the city, she's loved every quirky, mundane, elegant, rude minute of her DC life. A proud advocate for DC's talented drinks scene, she's judged the Corcoran Gallery of Art's ARTINI contest, the DC Rickey Month contest, the Jefferson Hotel's Quill Cocktail competition, and is a founding member of LUPEC DC. A graduate of Catholic University's drama program, she toured the country as a member of National Players, and has been both an actor and a costume designer before jumping the aisle to theater criticism. Writing for We Love DC restored her happiness after a life-threatening illness, and she's grateful to you, dear readers. Send your suggestions to jenn (at) welovedc (dot) com and follow her on Twitter.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20846
__label__wiki	0.879741	0.879741	Hersh on the Israeli attack on Syria From Seymour Hersh’s article on the Israeli attack on Syria, confirming what I’ve been saying all along: “The former U.S. senior intelligence official told me that, as he understood it, America’s involvement in the Israeli raid dated back months earlier, and was linked to the Administration’s planning for a possible air war against Iran. Last summer, the Defense Intelligence Agency came to believe that Syria was installing a new Russian-supplied radar-and-air-defense system that was similar to the radar complexes in Iran. Entering Syrian airspace would trigger those defenses and expose them to Israeli and American exploitation, yielding valuable information about their capabilities. Vice-President Dick Cheney supported the idea of overflights, the former senior intelligence official said, because ‘it would stick it to Syria and show that we’re serious about Iran.’ (The Vice-President’s office declined to comment.) The former senior intelligence official said that Israeli military jets have flown over Syria repeatedly, without retaliation from Syria. At the time, the former senior intelligence official said, the focus was on radar and air defenses, and not on any real or suspected nuclear facility. Israel’s claims about the target, which emerged later, caught many in the military and intelligence community – if not in the White House – by surprise.” and (the second paragraph in this excerpt is dedicated to the memory of Noam’s reputation): “Shortly after the bombing, a Chinese envoy and one of the Bush Administration’s senior national-security officials met in Washington. The Chinese envoy had just returned from a visit to Tehran, a person familiar with the discussion told me, and he wanted the White House to know that there were moderates there who were interested in talks. The national-security official rejected that possibility and told the envoy, as the person familiar with the discussion recalled, ‘‘You are aware of the recent Israeli statements about Syria. The Israelis are extremely serious about Iran and its nuclear program, and I believe that, if the United States government is unsuccessful in its diplomatic dealings with Iran, the Israelis will take it out militarily.’ He then told the envoy that he wanted him to convey this to his government – that the Israelis were serious. ‘He was telling the Chinese leadership that they’d better warn Iran that we can’t hold back Israel, and that the Iranians should look at Syria and see what’s coming next if diplomacy fails,’ the person familiar with the discussion said. ‘His message was that the Syrian attack was in part aimed at Iran.’” Of course, you could also read this as just more ‘Iran talk’, useless words intended to scare the Iranians into bowing to the Empire. If so, it has been a spectacular failure. If the Iranians have learned anything from the attack on Syria, it is that the Russian air defense system works quite well. The bottom line is that the Israelis won’t be able to knock out enough rocket emplacements in their next illegal and unprovoked attack to prevent a rain of Hell from falling on Israeli civilians. Duck and cover! Freud on Zionism Sometimes I understand why people don't like consp... The racist posting Obama defiantly announces his candidacy for the NM... More on Zionist propaganda contradictions New RFK assassination evidence Lite Zionist news The Propaganda Contradictions of Zionism Hate crimes, free speech, and power Wars For the Is he really dead? Cartoon archives The twisted world in which we live How not to pick a candidate Cartoon explanations for the cable cutting I'm a sucker for self-reference Kill all the witnesses Experiments and drills Cable conspiracies Canadian government blames Israel for murder of Ca... Duck and cover, Israeli style The going rate for Hitler dancers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20847
__label__wiki	0.546706	0.546706	First, you remove the guards From Cryptome, another 9/11 Commission interview, this time with Captain Charles Joseph Leidig, U.S.N., Commandant of Midshipmen, U.S. Naval Academy, the guy in charge of defending that part of the United States from attack on September 11, and a man who can't seem to recall much of anything, describing what appears to be a madhouse (my emphasis in red; 'a small light plane'?): "Shortly after he received the watch from General Winfield, he saw a report on one of the big news stations, a small light plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. They had live television feed from multiple TV stations. Gardner, he recalled flew as crew on an A-6 and the discussed when they saw and they started the internal JCS notification list, to include the Chairman's office. They also notified the office of the Secretary of Defense. Either he or Commander Gardner would have made the notification calls. He reported that a small airplane crashed into one of the two towers of He was prompted that the Senior Operations Officer went to gather up as much information as he could and he recalled that one call was made to the FAA. He thought Commander Gardner actually made that call. FAA had a report of a hijacking on a plane that had departed Boston. They asked if FAA needed any assistance. The answer was no, the pilot had called in and said everything was under control and he was going to land at New York shortly. This call was made to the FAA Operations Center There was something unusual, he and Gardner thought, that a light plane had crashed into the WTC and that there was a report of a hijacking. This is all before the second plane impacted the other WTC tower." "Concerning the NOIWON call (a Washington area-specific watch officer network that links key 24-hour watches, including the White House Situation Room), he does not recall who called first. It is not uncommon for the White House to call first, while' the NMCC is making its notifications. That, and most other calls to the NMCC were seeking whatever additional information was available. He recalled no situational awareness that came from the NOrwON call. He was told that the SIEC was convened between 0920 and 0925 and was asked if he was aware of any other aircraft out there, lost, missing or hijack. He did not recall being concerned about any other aircraft at the point that the SIEC was convened. The only plane he knew about was the one that was going to land in NYC and that had not been resolved. He recalled that FAA only had one STU-III and they could not stay up on a conference on that phone . He had no awareness of AA 77 coming back to Washington D.C. His first awareness was a call from the SECDEF's three-star aide who asked if he felt the explosion in the building and asked Leidig to investigate, it might be a terrorist attack." "No one talked Force Protection before the Pentagon was struck, that he recalled. [9/11 Classified Information] He did not recall phone calls to NORAD prior to the advent of the SIEC. At this point Stafftumed to the transcript of the Air Threat Conference Call (ATCC) and recalled for him his update. His reference to AA 11 he recalled was because that incident was open and not resolved; he said on the conference that AA11 was headed for Washington. He thought his reference was that "it was being confirmed" not that "it has been confirmed." He thought the information came from FAA. They're trying to figure out where the hijacked aircraft was going. There was not a separate hijack conference, he said. Staff then referred to such as an FAA conference. He does not recall being on any such conference. Staff recounted for Liedig, in reference to the SIEC, that NORAD recommended the reconvening of the conference as an ATCC. He thought the SIEC was the right conference, the ATCC had cold war implications and brought a different group of people to a conference. The plane that hit the Pentagon was not the same plane that was under discussion in the Air Threat Conference Call. The fact that he transitioned to an ATCC, in retrospect, he thought was because he perceived an air threat at that time. He recalled that they were notifying people continuously and did not recall who was notified that the ATCC was convened, but was confident that notification was made. He recalled very clearly being frustrated that he could not keep FAA in the conference. They would ask questions, FAA would not be there, and they would have to redial them. He thought it would have been the ADDO or the SOO who was trying to keep FAA in the conference by calling their watch center; he referred to it as an ops center. [EGHet He did not recall if the VCJCS was in the ATCC conference, by telephone. He said they would have been trying to do so; he is a member of the conference." "He described his situation as a multi-tiered battle, to include knowing about consequence management underway elsewhere in the building. He recalled his situational awareness on the Pentagon crash as being an aircraft was from CNN. Leidig is certain that Winfield returned after the Pentagon was hit. He is not certain of Winfield's arrival in relationship with the Vice Chairman. The only specific situational awareness he recalled was on a hijacked airplane that was a threat to Chicago. He was referred to a NORAD report of "a possible fourth" aircraft. He did not recall where the term "fourth" came from. He was not aware of any other continuous open line with either the FAA or with NORAD. "They did not have the thought in the Command Center to put all the aircraft in the United States on the ground. There was no discussion about that event before it Leidig did not know that there were fighter aircraft in CAP over DC before discussions at the national level about that need. He did remember discussions about fighter support for Air Force One, in the conference and not on a separate line. He can't say that there was a separate source for the PEOC report of an inbound aircraft. He equated that report to the same plane that had been headed to Chicago. He deferred to the transcript of the Air Threat Conference for definitive information as to when FAA was on the Conference. He did not recall anyone coming in from another room or calling out himself to bring FAA into the conference. Concerning Andrews, he thought Commander Gardner might have been handling any such calls. He recalled that General Meyers was using available phones to talk to senior officers at multiple locations. He and other Generals/Admirals were working issues using a bank of available phones. The Air Threat Conference was on speaker so everyone could hear. He recalled the room going quiet when the shootdown language came over the Conference. Concerning the threat to DC, the NMCC was convinced, he recalled that there was an inbound threat to the Pentagon. He sense was that there were fighters in the air and they were trying to get them focused on the inbound threat. He had a hard time getting someone to tell him about the fighters." "Concerning the first registering of the Vice President's shoot down language. He recalled that it was more specific than what is registered in the transcript at this point. It is more of a question than an order. He doesn't think that they have given the order at that point. He recalled language that when a plane got 15 minutes outbound (he meant inbound) they had authority to engage. That language apparently came during a blank portion of the tape. [Staff Note. The taping device that day was an analog device that required that someone pay attention and periodically flip the cassette or insert a new one. His recollection was, on reading the transcript, that there were conversations not recorded.] He thought he was still the DDO at this point, not General Winfield. [He later recalled that there wasn't that much missing from the transcript.] He recalled a discussion about what they were going to do with any future threats and that's when the Vice President came forward with other specificity. However, the "pin drop" moment was when the "15 minutes" language came over the speaker phone. All heads in the room turned toward the speaker, he recalled." "General Winfield took over at some point in relation to the report of the Pennsylvania crash. [Crash was at 10:03, so any reporting would be after that time.] There was a question as to whether the military shot down the airplane that he believes was not captured on the transcript. The issue was who's talking to those pilots right now so we can talk to them and find out if the fighters shot down an aircraft. His recall was that the fighters overhead were Andrews fighters." "There was never a doubt, he said, that the President was in control that day. His specific reference was to the Vice President's language, "I've confirmed ... " He also knows from his job that the President is always capable of constant communication with the national leadership. He again reaffirmed that there was never a doubt in his mind." Leidig was the acting Deputy Director for Operations, sitting in for Brigadier General Montague Winfied, who was conveniently absent until later. It looks like the Joint Chiefs arranged for this completely unprepared guy - he had been qualified to do this job for a month - to guard the chicken coop while the fox went egg hunting. More important than the President of the United St... 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__label__cc	0.577947	0.422053	OBO ID: DOID:0050737 autosomal recessive disease Search Ontology: An autosomal genetic disease that is characterized by the presence of two mutated copies of the gene, both of which must be present in order for the disease or trait to develop. (2) Human Disease (DOID:0050737) autosomal genetic disease autosomal genetic disease Show first 5 Terms has subtype: 2-aminoadipic 2-oxoadipic aciduria 3-M syndrome 3-Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency 3-methylglutaconic aciduria type 1 3-methylglutaconic aciduria type 3 ... Show All 824 Terms 2-aminoadipic 2-oxoadipic aciduria 3-M syndrome 3-Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency 3-methylglutaconic aciduria type 1 3-methylglutaconic aciduria type 3 3-methylglutaconic aciduria type 5 3-methylglutaconic aciduria type 8 3-methylglutaconic aciduria type 9 3-methylglutaconic aciduria with cataracts, neurologic involvement and neutropenia 3-methylglutaconic aciduria with deafness, encephalopathy, and Leigh-like syndrome 3MC syndrome ABCD syndrome abetalipoproteinemia aceruloplasminemia achalasia microcephaly syndrome acheiropody achondrogenesis type IA achondrogenesis type IB achromatopsia 2 achromatopsia 3 achromatopsia 7 acrocapitofemoral dysplasia acromesomelic dysplasia, Grebe type acromesomelic dysplasia, Hunter-Thompson type acromesomelic dysplasia, Maroteaux type adult spinal muscular atrophy agammaglobulinemia 4 AGAT deficiency agenesis of the corpus callosum with peripheral neuropathy Alkuraya-Kucinskas syndrome alopecia universalis alpha-2-plasmin inhibitor deficiency Alstrom syndrome amelogenesis imperfecta hypomaturation type 2A2 amelogenesis imperfecta hypomaturation type 2A3 amelogenesis imperfecta hypomaturation type 2A4 amelogenesis imperfecta hypomaturation type 2A5 amelogenesis imperfecta type 1C amelogenesis imperfecta type 1F amelogenesis imperfecta type 1G amelogenesis imperfecta type 1H amelogenesis imperfecta type 2A1 Antley-Bixler syndrome ARC syndrome arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia 11 asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy Athabaskan brainstem dysgenesis syndrome atransferrinemia atrichia with papular lesions autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome type 2B autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome type 3 autosomal recessive Alport syndrome autosomal recessive centronuclear myopathy autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia autosomal recessive chronic granulomatous disease cytochrome b-negative autosomal recessive chronic granulomatous disease cytochrome b-positive type I autosomal recessive chronic granulomatous 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recessive osteopetrosis 2 autosomal recessive osteopetrosis 3 autosomal recessive osteopetrosis 4 autosomal recessive osteopetrosis 5 autosomal recessive osteopetrosis 6 autosomal recessive osteopetrosis 7 autosomal recessive osteopetrosis 8 autosomal recessive pericentral pigmentary retinopathy autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease autosomal recessive progressive external ophthalmoplegia 1 autosomal recessive progressive external ophthalmoplegia with mitochondrial DNA deletions 2 autosomal recessive progressive external ophthalmoplegia with mitochondrial DNA deletions 3 autosomal recessive progressive external ophthalmoplegia with mitochondrial DNA deletions 4 autosomal recessive progressive external ophthalmoplegia with mitochondrial DNA deletions 5 autosomal recessive pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1 autosomal recessive pyridoxine-refractory sideroblastic anemia 2 autosomal recessive pyridoxine-refractory sideroblastic anemia 3 autosomal recessive Robinow syndrome autosomal 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congenital adrenal insufficiency congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia congenital diarrhea 5 with tufting enteropathy congenital diarrhea 7 with exudative enteropathy congenital disorder of glycosylation Ia congenital disorder of glycosylation Iaa congenital disorder of glycosylation Ib congenital disorder of glycosylation Ic congenital disorder of glycosylation Id congenital disorder of glycosylation Ie congenital disorder of glycosylation If congenital disorder of glycosylation Ig congenital disorder of glycosylation Ih congenital disorder of glycosylation Ii congenital disorder of glycosylation Ij congenital disorder of glycosylation Ik congenital disorder of glycosylation Il congenital disorder of glycosylation Im congenital disorder of glycosylation In congenital disorder of glycosylation Ip congenital disorder of glycosylation Iq congenital disorder of glycosylation Ir congenital disorder of glycosylation It congenital disorder of glycosylation Iu congenital disorder of glycosylation Iw congenital disorder of glycosylation Ix congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIa congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIb congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIc congenital disorder of glycosylation type IId congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIe congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIf congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIg congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIh congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIi congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIj congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIk congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIl congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIn congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIo congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIp congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIq congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type Ia congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type Ib congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type II congenital generalized lipodystrophy congenital heart defects, hamartomas of tongue, and polysyndactyly congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy of cornea congenital hypotrichosis with juvenile macular dystrophy congenital leptin deficiency congenital malabsorptive diarrhea 4 congenital merosin-deficient muscular dystrophy 1A congenital muscular dystrophy 1B congenital muscular dystrophy due to integrin alpha-7 deficiency congenital muscular dystrophy merosin-positive congenital muscular dystrophy with cataracts and intellectual disability congenital myasthenic syndrome 1B congenital myasthenic syndrome 2C congenital myasthenic syndrome 3B congenital myasthenic syndrome 3C congenital myasthenic syndrome 4A congenital myasthenic syndrome 4B congenital myasthenic syndrome 4C congenital myasthenic syndrome 5 congenital myasthenic syndrome 6 congenital myasthenic syndrome 8 congenital myasthenic syndrome 9 congenital myasthenic syndrome 10 congenital myasthenic syndrome 11 congenital myasthenic syndrome 12 congenital myasthenic syndrome 13 congenital myasthenic syndrome 14 congenital myasthenic syndrome 15 congenital myasthenic syndrome 16 congenital myasthenic syndrome 17 congenital myasthenic syndrome 19 congenital myasthenic syndrome 20 congenital myasthenic syndrome 21 congenital myasthenic syndrome 22 congenital nongoitrous hypothyroidism 1 congenital nongoitrous hypothyroidism 4 congenital secretory chloride diarrhea 1 congenital secretory sodium diarrhea 3 congenital secretory sodium diarrhea 8 congenital stationary night blindness 1B congenital stationary night blindness 1C congenital stationary night blindness 1D congenital stationary night blindness 1E congenital stationary night blindness 1F congenital stationary night blindness 1G congenital stationary night blindness 1H cortical dysplasia-focal epilepsy syndrome cortisone reductase deficiency 1 craniofacial-deafness-hand syndrome craniolenticulosutural dysplasia cystathioninuria cystic fibrosis cystinosis D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria 1 diastrophic dysplasia dilated cardiomyopathy 1X dilated cardiomyopathy 2A dilated cardiomyopathy 2B DNA ligase IV deficiency Donnai-Barrow syndrome Donohue syndrome Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen disease dystonia 5 dystonia 16 dystonia 27 early-onset myopathy-areflexia-respiratory distress-dysphagia syndrome EAST syndrome Ehlers-Danlos syndrome progeroid type Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome endocrine-cerebro-osteodysplasia syndrome enhanced S-cone syndrome epidermodysplasia verruciformis epidermolysis bullosa simplex with muscular dystrophy erythrokeratodermia variabilis et progressiva 1 erythrokeratodermia variabilis et progressiva 4 erythrokeratodermia variabilis et progressiva 5 factor XII deficiency familial apolipoprotein C-II deficiency familial erythrocytosis 2 familial GPIHBP1 deficiency familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis 1 familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis 2 familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis 3 familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis 4 familial hepatic adenoma familial isolated trichomegaly familial lipase maturation factor 1 deficiency familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency familial partial lipodystrophy type 5 familial partial lipodystrophy type 6 familial temporal lobe epilepsy 5 Fanconi anemia complementation group A Fanconi anemia complementation group C Fanconi anemia complementation group D1 Fanconi anemia complementation group D2 Fanconi anemia complementation group E Fanconi anemia complementation group I Fanconi anemia complementation group L Fanconi anemia complementation group O Fanconi anemia complementation group P Fanconi anemia complementation group Q Fanconi anemia complementation group T Fanconi anemia complementation group U Fanconi anemia complementation group V fatal infantile cardioencephalomyopathy due to cytochrome c oxidase deficiency 1 fatal infantile cardioencephalomyopathy due to cytochrome c oxidase deficiency 2 fatal infantile cardioencephalomyopathy due to cytochrome c oxidase deficiency 3 fatal infantile cardioencephalomyopathy due to cytochrome c oxidase deficiency 4 fatal infantile hypertonic myofibrillar myopathy fetal akinesia deformation sequence syndrome 1 fetal akinesia deformation sequence syndrome 2 fetal akinesia deformation sequence syndrome 3 fetal akinesia deformation sequence syndrome 4 fibular hypoplasia and complex brachydactyly focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 6 focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 9 Fraser syndrome Fuhrmann syndrome fumarase deficiency galactose epimerase deficiency Galloway-Mowat syndrome gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase deficiency gangliosidosis geroderma osteodysplasticum giant axonal neuropathy 1 Gitelman syndrome glutaric acidemia I Goldberg-Shprintzen syndrome Gordon Holmes syndrome GRACILE syndrome Greenberg dysplasia Griscelli syndrome hereditary arterial and articular multiple calcification syndrome hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 2A hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 2B hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 5 hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 6 hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 8 hereditary sensory neuropathy type 2C hereditary sensory neuropathy type 4 hereditary spastic paraplegia 5A hereditary spastic paraplegia 7 hereditary spastic paraplegia 9A hereditary spastic paraplegia 9B hereditary spastic paraplegia 11 hereditary spastic paraplegia 14 hereditary spastic paraplegia 15 hereditary spastic paraplegia 18 hereditary spastic paraplegia 23 hereditary spastic paraplegia 24 hereditary spastic paraplegia 25 hereditary spastic paraplegia 26 hereditary spastic paraplegia 27 hereditary spastic paraplegia 28 hereditary spastic paraplegia 30 hereditary spastic paraplegia 32 hereditary spastic paraplegia 35 hereditary spastic paraplegia 39 hereditary spastic paraplegia 43 hereditary spastic paraplegia 44 hereditary spastic paraplegia 45 hereditary spastic paraplegia 46 hereditary spastic paraplegia 47 hereditary spastic paraplegia 48 hereditary spastic paraplegia 49 hereditary spastic paraplegia 50 hereditary spastic paraplegia 51 hereditary spastic paraplegia 52 hereditary spastic paraplegia 53 hereditary spastic paraplegia 54 hereditary spastic paraplegia 55 hereditary spastic paraplegia 56 hereditary spastic paraplegia 57 hereditary spastic paraplegia 61 hereditary spastic paraplegia 62 hereditary spastic paraplegia 63 hereditary spastic paraplegia 64 hereditary spastic paraplegia 72 hereditary spastic paraplegia 74 hereditary spastic paraplegia 75 hereditary spastic paraplegia 76 hereditary spastic paraplegia 77 hereditary spherocytosis type 1 hereditary spherocytosis type 3 hereditary spherocytosis type 5 Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome histiocytosis-lymphadenopathy plus syndrome hydrolethalus syndrome hyper IgE recurrent infection syndrome 2 hyper IgE recurrent infection syndrome 3 hyper IgE recurrent infection syndrome 4 hyperekplexia 1 hyperekplexia 2 hyperekplexia 3 hyperekplexia 4 hyperphosphatemic familial tumoral calcinosis hyperprolinemia type 1 hyperprolinemia type 2 hypertelorism, microtia, facial clefting syndrome hypogonadotropic hypogonadism 7 with or without anosmia hypogonadotropic hypogonadism 8 with or without anosmia hypogonadotropic hypogonadism 10 with or without anosmia hypogonadotropic hypogonadism 11 with or without anosmia hypogonadotropic hypogonadism 12 with or without anosmia hypogonadotropic hypogonadism 13 with or without anosmia hypogonadotropic hypogonadism 18 with or without anosmia hypogonadotropic hypogonadism 22 with or without anosmia hypogonadotropic hypogonadism 23 with or without anosmia hypogonadotropic hypogonadism 24 without anosmia hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 2 hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 3 hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 4 hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 5 hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 7 with or without oligodontia and-or hypogonadotropic hypogonadism hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 8 with or without oligodontia and-or hypogonadotropic hypogonadism hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 9 hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 10 hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 11 hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 12 hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 13 hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 14 hypoparathyroidism-retardation-dysmorphism syndrome hypotrichosis 6 hypotrichosis 7 hypotrichosis 8 hypotrichosis 9 hypotrichosis 10 hypotrichosis-lymphedema-telangiectasia syndrome immunodeficiency with hyper IgM type 3 immunodeficiency with hyper IgM type 5 immunodeficiency with hyper-IgM type 2 immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies syndrome immunoglobulin alpha deficiency infantile cerebellar-retinal degeneration infantile cerebral and cerebellar atrophy with postnatal progressive microcephaly inflammatory bowel disease 25 inflammatory bowel disease 28 intermediate spinal muscular atrophy isolated hyperchlorhidrosis isolated microphthalmia 1 isolated microphthalmia 2 isolated microphthalmia 3 isolated microphthalmia 5 isolated microphthalmia 6 isolated microphthalmia 8 isolated sulfite oxidase deficiency Jackson-Weiss syndrome Jalili syndrome JMP syndrome Johanson-Blizzard syndrome junctional epidermolysis bullosa Herlitz type junctional epidermolysis bullosa non-Herlitz type junctional epidermolysis bullosa with pyloric atresia Kahrizi syndrome karyomegalic interstitial nephritis Kaufman oculocerebrofacial syndrome Klippel-Feil syndrome 2 Klippel-Feil syndrome 4 Kufor-Rakeb syndrome Lafora disease Laron syndrome Larsen-like syndrome B3GAT3 type late-adult onset retinitis pigmentosa Laurence-Moon syndrome Leber congenital amaurosis 1 Leber congenital amaurosis 2 Leber congenital amaurosis 4 Leber congenital amaurosis 5 Leber congenital amaurosis 6 Leber congenital amaurosis 8 Leber congenital amaurosis 9 Leber congenital amaurosis 12 Leber congenital amaurosis 13 Leber congenital amaurosis 14 Leber congenital amaurosis 15 Leber congenital amaurosis 16 Leber congenital amaurosis 17 lethal congenital contracture syndrome lethal restrictive dermopathy leukocyte adhesion deficiency lymphoproliferative syndrome 1 lymphoproliferative syndrome 2 Marinesco-Sjogren syndrome Martsolf syndrome McKusick-Kaufman syndrome megaconial type congenital muscular dystrophy megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts 1 megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts 2A Meier-Gorlin syndrome 1 Meier-Gorlin syndrome 2 Meier-Gorlin syndrome 3 Meier-Gorlin syndrome 4 Meier-Gorlin syndrome 5 Meier-Gorlin syndrome 7 Meier-Gorlin syndrome 8 microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type I microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II microcephaly and chorioretinopathy 1 microcephaly and chorioretinopathy 2 microcephaly and chorioretinopathy 3 microphthalmia with limb anomalies microvillus inclusion disease mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 1 mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 2 mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 3 mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 4a mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 4b mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 5 mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 6 mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 7 mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 8a mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 8b mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 9 mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 11 mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 12b mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 13 mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 15 mitochondrial pyruvate carrier deficiency mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency Miyoshi muscular dystrophy 1 Miyoshi muscular dystrophy 3 mosaic variegated aneuploidy syndrome 1 mosaic variegated aneuploidy syndrome 2 mucopolysaccharidosis Ih mucopolysaccharidosis Ih/s mucopolysaccharidosis IVA mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIB mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIC mucopolysaccharidosis type IIID mucopolysaccharidosis type IVB mucosulfatidosis mulibrey nanism multinucleated neurons, anhydramnios, renal dysplasia, cerebellar hypoplasia and hydranencephaly multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome 1 multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome 3 multiple epiphyseal dysplasia 4 multiple epiphyseal dysplasia 7 multiple intestinal atresia multiple mitochondrial dysfunctions syndrome 1 multiple mitochondrial dysfunctions syndrome 2 multiple mitochondrial dysfunctions syndrome 3 multiple mitochondrial dysfunctions syndrome 4 multiple mitochondrial dysfunctions syndrome 5 multiple mitochondrial dysfunctions syndrome 6 muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy type B5 muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy type B6 myofibrillar myopathy 1 myofibrillar myopathy 7 myofibrillar myopathy 8 myopathy with extrapyramidal signs Nasu-Hakola disease Native American myopathy nemaline myopathy 1 nemaline myopathy 2 nemaline myopathy 3 nemaline myopathy 5 nemaline myopathy 7 nemaline myopathy 8 nemaline myopathy 9 nemaline myopathy 10 nemaline myopathy 11 neonatal diabetes mellitus with congenital hypothyroidism nephronophthisis nephrotic syndrome type 1 nephrotic syndrome type 2 nephrotic syndrome type 3 nephrotic syndrome type 5 nephrotic syndrome type 6 nephrotic syndrome type 7 nephrotic syndrome type 8 nephrotic syndrome type 9 nephrotic syndrome type 10 nephrotic syndrome type 11 nephrotic syndrome type 12 nephrotic syndrome type 13 nephrotic syndrome type 14 nephrotic syndrome type 15 nephrotic syndrome type 16 nephrotic syndrome type 17 nephrotic syndrome type 18 nephrotic syndrome type 19 Netherton syndrome neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation 2a neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation 2b neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation 4 neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation 6 neurodevelopmental disorder with midbrain and hindbrain malformations neurogenic arthrogryposis multiplex congenita Nezelof syndrome NGLY1-deficiency Nijmegen breakage syndrome nonphotosensitive trichothiodystrophy Noonan syndrome 2 Norman-Roberts syndrome oculocutaneous albinism Oguchi disease-1 Oguchi disease-2 Oliver-McFarlane syndrome optic atrophy 6 optic atrophy 7 optic atrophy 9 optic atrophy 11 orofacial cleft 7 orofacial cleft 14 orofaciodigital syndrome V osteogenesis imperfecta type 7 osteogenesis imperfecta type 8 osteogenesis imperfecta type 9 osteogenesis imperfecta type 10 osteogenesis imperfecta type 11 osteogenesis imperfecta type 12 osteogenesis imperfecta type 13 osteogenesis imperfecta type 15 osteogenesis imperfecta type 17 osteoporosis-pseudoglioma syndrome otulipenia ovarian dysgenesis 1 ovarian dysgenesis 3 ovarian dysgenesis 4 ovarian dysgenesis 5 ovarian dysgenesis 6 ovarian dysgenesis 7 pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration Papillon-Lefevre disease Parkinson's disease 2 Parkinson's disease 6 Parkinson's disease 7 Parkinson's disease 14 Parkinson's disease 15 Parkinson's disease 19A Parkinson's disease 20 Parkinson's disease 23 Pendred Syndrome pentosuria permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus Perrault syndrome PHARC syndrome Pierson syndrome Pitt-Hopkins-like syndrome 2 plasminogen deficiency type I poikiloderma with neutropenia postaxial acrofacial dysostosis primary autosomal recessive microcephaly progeria progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis 1 progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis 2 progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis 3 progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis 4 progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis 5 progressive myoclonus epilepsy 1A progressive myoclonus epilepsy 1B progressive myoclonus epilepsy 3 progressive myoclonus epilepsy 4 progressive myoclonus epilepsy 6 progressive myoclonus epilepsy 8 progressive myoclonus epilepsy 9 progressive myoclonus epilepsy 10 progressive pseudorheumatoid arthropathy of childhood prolidase deficiency prothrombin deficiency prune belly syndrome pseudo-TORCH syndrome 1 pseudoxanthoma elasticum purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency pycnodysostosis pyruvate kinase deficiency of red cells rapadilino syndrome recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa reticular dysgenesis retinitis pigmentosa 1 retinitis pigmentosa 4 retinitis pigmentosa 7 retinitis pigmentosa 12 retinitis pigmentosa 14 retinitis pigmentosa 19 retinitis pigmentosa 20 retinitis pigmentosa 25 retinitis pigmentosa 26 retinitis pigmentosa 28 retinitis pigmentosa 29 retinitis pigmentosa 35 retinitis pigmentosa 37 retinitis pigmentosa 38 retinitis pigmentosa 40 retinitis pigmentosa 41 retinitis pigmentosa 45 retinitis pigmentosa 50 retinitis pigmentosa 56 retinitis pigmentosa 57 retinitis pigmentosa 59 retinitis pigmentosa 62 retinitis pigmentosa 68 retinitis pigmentosa 69 retinitis pigmentosa 71 retinitis pigmentosa 72 retinitis pigmentosa 73 retinitis pigmentosa 74 retinitis pigmentosa 75 retinitis pigmentosa 77 retinitis pigmentosa with or without situs inversus rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata RIDDLE syndrome right atrial isomerism rigid spine muscular dystrophy 1 Ritscher-Schinzel syndrome 1 Roberts syndrome Ruijs-Aalfs syndrome Saldino-Noonan syndrome salt and pepper syndrome SC phocomelia syndrome Schimke immuno-osseous dysplasia Schwartz-Jampel syndrome 1 sclerosteosis 1 sclerosteosis 2 Seckel syndrome Sengers syndrome Senior-Loken syndrome Sensenbrenner syndrome sensory ataxic neuropathy, dysarthria, and ophthalmoparesis sepiapterin reductase deficiency severe combined immunodeficiency with sensitivity to ionizing radiation severe combined immunodeficiency, autosomal recessive, T cell-negative, B cell-negative, Nk cell-positive severe combined immunodeficiency, autosomal recessive, T cell-negative, B cell-positive, Nk cell-positive sickle cell anemia sideroblastic anemia with B-cell immunodeficiency, periodic fevers, and developmental delay Silverman-Handmaker type dyssegmental dysplasia sitosterolemia Sjogren-Larsson syndrome SOST-related sclerosing bone dysplasia Sotos syndrome spermatogenic failure 5 spermatogenic failure 6 spermatogenic failure 7 spermatogenic failure 9 spermatogenic failure 13 spermatogenic failure 14 spermatogenic failure 15 spermatogenic failure 16 spermatogenic failure 17 spermatogenic failure 18 spermatogenic failure 19 spermatogenic failure 20 spermatogenic failure 21 spermatogenic failure 22 spermatogenic failure 23 spinal muscular atrophy with progressive myoclonic epilepsy spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 with axonal neuropathy split hand-foot malformation 1 with sensorineural hearing loss split hand-foot malformation 6 SPOAN syndrome spondylocarpotarsal synostosis syndrome spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, Genevieve-type spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, Pakistani type spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, Sponastrime type T-cell immunodeficiency, congenital alopecia, and nail dystrophy temtamy preaxial brachydactyly syndrome thalassemia thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia syndrome torsion dystonia 2 torsion dystonia 17 transient bullous dermolysis of the newborn trichohepatoenteric syndrome trimethylaminuria triple-A syndrome Troyer syndrome Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy urofacial syndrome Usher syndrome UV-sensitive syndrome Van Maldergem syndrome Vici syndrome Vohwinkel syndrome Walker-Warburg syndrome Warburg micro syndrome Warsaw breakage syndrome Werner syndrome Wolcott-Rallison syndrome Wolfram syndrome 1 Wolfram syndrome 2 xeroderma pigmentosum XFE progeroid syndrome Yunis-Varon syndrome Show first 5 Terms OTHER autosomal recessive disease PAGES GENES INVOLVED No data available WT + CRISPR1-ncapg2 standard conditions Khan et al., 2019 WT + MO1-ncapg2 standard conditions Khan et al., 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20850
__label__wiki	0.884321	0.884321	Home \| Archives \| Contact Us Features Local Israel Next Generation Arts/Op-Eds Editorial/Letters Links Obituary/In Memoriam Rabbi Anibal Mass Rabbi Matthew Leibl MAZEL TOV TO RABBIS LEIBL AND MASS WHO WERE FORMALLY INSTALLED AS RABBIS ON NOV 3-4 AT SHAAREY ZEDEK Rabbi Matthew Leibl and Rabbi Anibal Mass both received their Rabbinic S’micha at a ceremony in New York held July 1st 2017 at the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute (JSLI). On Nov 3-4, they were formally installed as Rabbis at Congregation Shaarey Zedek at a ceremony held at the synagogue. You can see the Rabbis Installation on Shabbat Morning here (Congregation Shaarey Zedek YouTube Channel) and Musical Warm-Up and Kabbalat Shabbat Service with Rabbi Steven Blane here (Sim Shalom Online Synagogue Site). In an interview with the Winnipeg Jewish Review, Rabbi Mass indicated that Rabbi Steven Blane, who taught most of the courses at the online Rabbinical School known as the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute which ordained him "was a visionary in that he could see where Judaism was going." (Rabbi Blane came to Winnipeg for the formal installation of Rabbis Leibl and Mass.) Rabbi Mass emphasized that the S’micha given by JSLI is non-denominational (students from all denominations study at JSLI) and this is what makes the JSLI approach "so unique." "Rabbi Blane would teach us what the conservative and, reform and orthodox seminaries said on a given subject. He compiled all the information and edited it and it enabled us to see different approaches. We were introduced to the views of all seminaries, not just one." Additionally Rabbi Mass indicated that Rabbi Blane's focus was "on giving his students the practical tools to ensure they can function as Rabbis in a Jewish community." Rabbi Blane’s philosophy is "Jewish Universalist" and the website of JSLI indicates that Jewish Universalism (JU) espouses seven key doctrines which include that the Torah is divinely inspired and is Holy, that Judaism seeks to repair the world through Tikun Olam, and that Judaism is a constantly evolving spiritual practice . ( To see all seven principles , go tohttp://jsli.net/jewish-universalism/). According to Rabbi Mass, one aspect of what Rabbi Blane taught is that "most congregations don’t know how to change" and at times it is necessary to change certain ways a synagogue does something when it is not meeting its members' needs. "We studied how to move forward and change something that is not working for a congregation, "Rabbi Mass explained. "For example, many congregants at Congregation Shaarey Zedek are no longer coming for Yizkor except on Yom Kippur. Very few are coming to say Yizkor on Sh’mini Atzeret. So Rabbi Blane suggested that we can say Yizkor not only on Sh’mini Atzeret, the traditional day to say Yizkor, but we can also say it on the Shabbat before. We adopted this approach at Shaarey Zedek this year and we said Yizkor on Saturday, October 7, when we had more of a crowd, in addition to saying it on the traditional day of Sh’mini Atzeret, when fewer people were present," Rabbi Mass pointed out. Rabbi Mass said that one of the aspects of being a Rabbi that he learned about at JSLI was "how to deal with an interfaith family," such as "how to listen to them and to understand that they are trying to incorporate Jewish elements in their family life." "The idea is not to scare them away," Rabbi Mass said. In an interview with Rabbi Leibl, Rabbi Leibl said that Rabbi Blane is "very left leaning" but when he presented a topic "he presented a number of options on how to approach it such that we are the ones who decide what we want to do in our community." "He didn't say here is what I do, so you have to do the same,"Rabbi Leibl explained. Rabbi Leibl added that "while there of course was an academic component to the JSLI Rabbinic course, the course focused on the practical components of being a Rabbi. "For example, the course gave a list of the things you need to ask a couple when you do a wedding, and the questions you need to ask a family in preparing a eulogy. We also had to prepare sermons every week in the course," Rabbi Leibl noted, since this is something that is part of the regular activities of a Rabbi. Rabbi Leibl noted that "one hot button topic" in the course was circumcision. Rabbi Blane does not require circumcision for people who convert to Judaism with him. "We're not there,"Rabbi Leibl indicated, saying "I can't see Congregation Shaarey Zedek ever abandoning the requirement for circumcision on conversion." The topic of Shaarey Zedek potentially conducting interfaith marriage ceremonies is something however that Rabbi Leibl says "potentially could be raised for discussion at some point down the road in the future," albeit he he stressed that "no discussions had yet taken place" and they were not on the immediate agenda. Congregation Shaarey Zedek does not officiate at such interfaith ceremonies now. Rabbi Leibl explained that since 2011 (long before he was ordained) he has officiated at about 50 weddings. He has done these independently outside of the synagogue by obtaining a marriage commissioner license. He indicated that about 1/3 of these weddings were weddings between two Jews, 1/3 were weddings between gentiles, and 1/3 were "dual faith" (otherwise known as "interfaith") weddings with one Jewish partner and a non-Jewish partner. In these "dual faith" weddings the Jewish partner wanted some elements of a Jewish wedding in the ceremony, but the ceremony was a civil ceremony. The question is whether Shaarey Zedek at some point in the future will conduct a religious ceremony for an interfaith couple, and will conduct it in the synagogue. For now Rabbi Leibl noted that no such discussion about this has taken place and we'll have to wait and see if it is discussed at some point in the future. Rabbi Leibl added that Rabbi Blane conducts such interfaith ceremonies and the topic was discussed in the JSLI course. "Rabbi Blane shared some examples of how he does interfaith ceremonies, but also how others do it, as well as giving other viewpoints," Rabbi Leibl said. "He covered all the bases." <<Previous Article Next Article >> Subscribe to the Winnipeg Jewish Review Rhonda Spivak, Editor Publisher: Spivak's Jewish Review Ltd. Opinions expressed in letters to the editor or articles by contributing writers are not necessarily endorsed by Winnipeg Jewish Review. © 2010 Winnipeg Jewish Review. All Rights Reserved. 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__label__wiki	0.621842	0.621842	Writing for the Cycle Sports takes that touch 'em all. Bowl Mania: Round 4 Post-Mortem & Round 5 Picks (Ed.'s Note: I had this thing 3/4 of the way written by 2:45pm. Then we had a local Gopher pregame show at 3pm, so I had to break away from writing. And when I came back to it, the browser crashed and it had only saved the first 1/3. Lovely. Hopefully you trust my honesty when it comes to the timing of the picks!) Hello again everybody! Happy Wednesday to you all. And since this is my last post of 2008, allow me to wish you a Happy New Year! I managed to finish 2008 still gainfully employed (which can't be said for about 20 of my former colleagues), so here's to hoping I can set a slightly higher goal in 2009! It's the last of the Bowl Mania heavy lifting today. Eight picks are headed your way as we start the downhill ride in the college football bowl season. But prior to the Round 5 picks, I have to break down those from Round 4. Did we get things back on track, or are we still slogging along -.500? Stay tuned and find out! "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." - Noel Coward (1899-1973), English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer I can't really add anything to this except: kudos Sir Noel! First up, it's the Round 4 Post-Mortem: One holdover from Round 3... Papajohns.com Bowl: North Carolina State vs. Rutgers -7 ST Pick: Rutgers -7 Hammer's Pick: Rutgers -7 Dark Star's Pick: Rutgers -7 Final Score: Rutgers 29, NC State 23 One freaking point?! Come on Rutgers! Help a guy out! Oof. Sports Take: 5-8 Hammer: 4-9 Dark Star: 4-9 On to Round 4... Valero Alamo Bowl: Missouri -12.5 vs. Northwestern ST Pick: Northwestern +12.5 Hammer's Pick: Northwestern +12.5 Dark Star's Pick: Missouri -12.5 Final Score: Missouri 30, Northwestern 23 F-OT I told all those Mizzou folks that the Wildcats would give them a game and boy did they ever! Fun game to watch. It took a big effort in the second half for Mizzou to get it into overtime and unfortunately it was a series of errors that finally did Northwestern in. But we covered! Woo! Dark Star: 4-10 Roady's Humanitarian Bowl: Maryland vs. Nevada -2 ST Pick: Nevada -2 Hammer's Pick: Maryland +2 Dark Star's Pick: Nevada -2 Final Score: Maryland 42, Nevada 35 The field was blue, and so was my pick apparently. Damn you Terrapins! Damn you! Onward... Texas Bowl: Western Michigan vs. Rice -2 ST Pick: Rice -2 Hammer's Pick: Rice -2 Dark Star's Pick: Western Michigan +2 Final Score: Rice 38, Western Michigan 14 Nice to see a game I knew nothing about break my way! I'd love to tell you more, but I didn't see any of this game since it was on NFL Network (see: Insight Bowl in Round 5). Pacific Life Holiday Bowl: Oklahoma State -3 vs. Oregon ST Pick: Oklahoma State -3 Hammer's Pick: Oregon +3 Dark Star's Pick: Oklahoma State -3 Final Score: Oregon 42, Oklahoma State 31 Ugh... And I officially lose the lead in Bowl Mania. But I'm going to get it back! You hear me Hammer! I'm going to get it back! Sports Take: 7-10 One more... Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl: Houston -3.5 vs. Air Force ST Pick: Houston -3.5 Hammer's Pick: Houston -3.5 Dark Star's Pick: Houston -3.5 Final Score: Houston 34, Air Force28 Another pick I knew nothing about that came through! I should really start tracking these by "guesses" and "I think I know what I'm talking about's". But I'm afraid of how that might turn out. Never mind. Penultimately (sort of...) Brut Sun Bowl - Pittsburgh vs. Oregon State -2.5 ST Pick: Pittsburgh +2.5 Hammer's Pick: Pittsburgh +2.5 Dark Star's Pick: Oregon State -2.5 Final Score: Oregon State 3, Pittsburgh 0 Didn't see any of this one due to work interfering. Don't you hate when that happens? Looks like I missed a whole lot of nothing. Hammer: 9-10 At the time of this writing, the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl had yet to go final. That result will be included on Friday. So on to Round 5 of Sports Take Bowl Mania! First up... Insight Bowl - Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, AZ Wednesday 12/31, 5pm CT (NFL Network) Minnesota vs. Kansas -8 The Gophers are 7-5 (3-5 in the Big Ten). The Jayhawks are 7-5 (4-4 in the Big 12). Kansas split their last 4 games, but beat Missouri to end their regular season. Minnesota lost their last 4 in a row, including getting blown out in the finale against Iowa. Neither team plays much defense, so this should be a fairly high scoring game. I just think Kansas is going to score more. ST Pick: Kansas -8 Hammer's Pick: Kansas -8 Dark Star's Pick: Kansas -8 Chik-fil-A Bowl - Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA Thursday 12/31, 6:30pm CT (ESPN) LSU vs. Georgia Tech -4 The Tigers are 7-5 (3-5 in the SEC). The Yellowjackets are 9-3 (5-3 in the ACC). LSU lost 3 of their last 5 and the two wins were against Troy and Tulane. And one of those losses was against a woeful Arkansas program. Not good. Georgia Tech won 3 of their last 5 and had wins against Florida State, Miami and Georgia. Not too shabby! "Not good" versus "Not too shabby"? Yeah, I'll take Tech. ST Pick: Georgia Tech -4 Hammer's Pick: LSU +4 Dark Star's Pick: Georgia Tech -4 Outback Bowl - Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL Thursday 1/1, 10am CT (ESPN) Iowa -4 vs. South Carolina The Hawkeyes are 8-4 (5-3 in the Big Ten). The Gamecocks are 7-5 (4-4 in the SEC). Iowa won 5 of their last 6 and beat eventual Big Ten champions Penn State. South Carolina lost 3 of their last 5 with the two wins coming against Tennessee and Arkansas. I know that SC has the "ball coach" at the helm, but I don't think they have the talent to overcome their deficiencies. ST Pick: Iowa -4 Hammer's Pick: South Carolina +4 Dark's Pick: South Carolina +4 Capital One Bowl - Florida Citrus Bowl, Orlando, FL Thursday 1/1, 12pm CT (ABC) Michigan State vs. Georgia -7.5 The Spartans are 9-3 (6-2 in the Big Ten). The Bulldogs are 9-3 (6-2 in the SEC). Try and find a clear separation between these two teams, I dare you. As you've seen their records are identical. The Spartans two losses were to Penn State and Ohio State. Georgia's two losses were to Florida and Georgia Tech. When it's this close, I say follow the money. The game opened at Georgia -7 and is now -7.5. That means the money's going Georgia's way, so my pick will go that way too! ST Pick: Georgia -7.5 Hammer's Pick: Georgia -7.5 Dark Star's Pick: Michigan State +7.5 Are we still going? Yes we are! Konica Minolta Gator Bowl - Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, Jacksonville, FL Thursday 1/1, 12pm CT (CBS) Clemson -2.5 vs. Nebraska The Tigers are 7-5 (4-4 in the ACC). The Cornhuskers are 8-4 (5-3 in the Big 12). This is a tough one. I'm friends with a clan of Nebraska fans, but after my "homer" pick in the Champs Sports Bowl, I'm a little gun shy about personal connections. Nebraska won 5 of their last 6. And all of their losses came to bowl teams. There's no question that the Cornhuskers can score as they put 40+ on the board in each of their last 3 games. Clemson won 4 of their last 6. After firing Tommy Bowden, their defense took a big step forward allowing them to beat Boston College and South Carolina. And they gave up no more than 14 points in each of their last 3 games. So I hate to do this to you Kelley family, but defense has been winning bowl games lately, so I'm going with Clemson! But don't fret, at my sub-.500 clip, I probably just guaranteed you a win! ST Pick: Clemson -2.5 Hammer's Pick: Nebraska +2.5 Dark Star's Pick: Clemson -2.5 3 more to go, I promise... Rose Bowl Game Presented by Citi - Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA Thursday 1/1, 3:30pm CT (ABC) Penn State vs. USC -9 The Nittany Lions are 11-1 (7-1 in the Big Ten). The Trojans are 11-1 (8-1 in the Pac 10). I've said it in previous picks, and turned out to be both right and wrong, but I think this will be closer than the pundits predict. Yes, USC is scary-good on defense, but I don't think they have the overpowering offense of past Trojan teams. And Penn State is no slouch on defense either. I think USC will win, but I like Penn State to cover. ST Pick: Penn State +9 Hammer's Pick: USC -9 Dark Star's Pick: USC -9 Penultimately... FedEx Orange Bowl - Dolphin Stadium, Miami, FL Thursday 1/1, 7:30pm (Fox) Virginia Tech vs. Cincinnati -2.5 The Hokies are 9-4 (6-3 in the ACC). The Bearcats are 11-2 (6-1 in the Big East). The least publicized of the BCS bowls might be one of the best. Tech won 4 of their last 5 with the loss coming at Miami. And they blew out a tough Boston College squad in the season finale. Cincinnati won their last 6 in a row with wins over Pittsburgh, West Virginia and South Florida. There's a loss to UConn on the schedule that bothers me a bit, but they've got a solid resume. If I'm going with the defensive teams, I have to go with Tech, though I think a Cincy win would be a great story. ST Pick: Virginia Tech +2.5 Hammer's Pick: Virginia Tech +2.5 Dark Star's Pick: Virginia Tech +2.5 Finally (yes, yes, I did that joke on Monday...) AT&T Cotton Bowl - Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX Friday 1/2, 1pm CT (Fox) Mississippi vs. Texas Tech -4.5 The Rebels are 8-4 (5-3 in the SEC). The Red Raiders are 11-1 (7-1 in the Big 12). Ole' Miss won their last 5 in a row including a win at LSU. They also beat National Championship contender Florida earlier in the year and played Alabama close. Tech's only loss was a blowout at Oklahoma. They also survived a scare in their regular season finale against Baylor. Sounds like I'm leaning towards Mississippi doesn't it? As much as I like what Houston Nutt has done with the Rebels, I think Tech has way too much offense for Ole' Miss to deal with. ST Pick: Texas Tech -4.5 Hammer's Pick: Texas Tech -4.5 Dark Star's Pick: Texas Tech -4.5 Whew! There you have it. Eight picks to get us through the bulk of bowl season. Only six more picks remain to be revealed. Three of those head your way on Friday. Until then, have a happy and safe New Year, enjoy some college football, and thanks for reading! Posted by Dan Cook at 3:30 PM 5 comments Hello again everybody... Another holiday week means more jumbled up scheduling for folks. But not here at Sports Take. The standard 3 columns await you here this week. That's right, we're in the meat of the Bowl Mania schedule, so there will be plenty of college football discussion coming your way this week. I know there are some of you that are itching for me to talk some more about the Hot Stove League. And trust me, I've got plenty of baseball subjects percolating in the back of my mind (R.A. Dickey a Twin?! Really?! Oof). But in the interest of keeping these columns from turning into novellas, I'm going to hold off until we reach the end of Bowl Mania when I can give them the appropriate attention. But today, it's time to break down how the Round 3 picks fared (almost all of them anyway, there's a game kicking off in 15 minutes that'll complete Round 2). And then there's a whole new slate of picks that I like to call: Round 4. I know. It's terribly creative. But that's just how I roll. "It is the mark of the educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Greek philosopher Okay. There are a lot of picks to post-mortem and many more to deliver freshly. So forgive me if I keep the descriptions brief. Trust me, I'm doing it as much for you as I am for me. So here's the Round 3 Post-Mortem: Motor City Bowl: Florida Atlantic vs. Central Michigan -7 ST Pick: Central Michigan -7 Hammer's Pick: Central Michigan -7 Dark Star's Pick: Central Michigan -7 Final Score: FAU 24, Central Michigan 21 Ugh. Two things about this game: One, the announcers were horrible. I mean beyond bad. I know it was Detroit on the day after Christmas, but they had to be able to get somebody better than these two knuckleheads to do the game! It was so bad, I kept a running list on my Facebook page of all the moronic things they said. My friend Dave suggesting finding a way to listen to the game in 5.1 surround sound, so I could disconnect the center channel and eliminate the announcers all together. Unfortunately, my "home theater" system leaves much to be desired, so I was forced to suffer through. Two, seeing FAU head coach and coaching legend, Howard Schnellenberger, doused in Gatorade was one of the more disturbing images I've seen in a while. A 74-year-old man in a suit and tie dripping in "Frost Rip Tide Rush", being clumsily hoisted onto the shoulders of a couple of linebackers? It just felt like elder-abuse! Oh yeah, and Central Michigan was bad. They played bad. They coached bad. They were just bad. Meineke Car Care Bowl: West Virginia -2 vs. North Carolina ST Pick: North Carolina +2 Hammer's Pick: West Virginia -2 Dark Star's Pick: West Virginia -2 Final Score: West Virginia 31, North Carolina 30 This was a key game for me as I was going WAY out on a limb with my next pick. It was a crazy shootout in the first half. The two teams combined for 35 points in the first 13 minutes. I thought I had this one in the bag as UNC led most of the second half. Things got scary towards the end as WVU got the ball with 3:45 left in the game and a clear desire to extend their lead, but the Tar Heel defense held on long enough for me to cover. Thank you Heels! Sport Take: 4-5 Thirdly... Champs Sports Bowl: Wisconsin vs. Florida State -6 Sports Take Pick: Wisconsin +6 Hammer's Pick: Florida State -6 Dark Star's Picks: Florida State -6 Final Score: Florida State 42, Wisconsin 13 Okay, okay, I homered it on this one. I really didn't want to root against Bucky, so I found a way to talk myself into them covering the spread. Despite the blowout score, the Wisconsin defense played pretty well early on. But the inept Badger offense left the "D" out on the field for FAR too long, and eventually they wore out under the Seminoles' attack. Wisconsin still had their running attack, but their passing-game was virtually non-existent. And when you can't throw the ball, the opposing defense can stack the line against your running game and stop your offense all together. It was depressing, but I made myself watch the whole thing. Oh well, at least they made a bowl, right? Oof. Emerald Bowl: Miami vs. California -9 Sports Take Pick: California -9 Hammer's Pick: California -9 Dark Star's Pick: California -9 Final Score: Cal 24, Miami 17 I thought this was a mortal lock. Obviously I was wrong. Can't say much more than that, as I didn't watch a second of it. Yes, I was still bummed out from the thrashing of the Badgers. Independence Bowl: Northern Illinois -1 vs. Louisiana Tech Sports Take Pick: Louisiana Tech +1 Hammer's Pick: Louisiana Tech +1 Dark Star's Pick: Louisiana Tech +1 Final Score: Louisiana Tech 17, Northern Illinois 10 I didn't watch a second of this game either. But in my defense, "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story", "Dr. No" and "National Treasure" were all on at the same time. It took some deft remote control work to make it happen, but I caught significant chunks of all 3. Compare those to Tech/NIU? Sorry. Even I* don't love college football that much! Sports Take: Rutgers -7 This game is currently underway at the time of writing. I'm not feeling particularly good as it's already 10-6 NC State with one minute to go in the first quarter. So 12 games into the 34 game slate, things aren't going nearly as well as I'd hoped. But there are still a majority of the games yet to be played, so let's kick off Round 4 of Bowl Mania! First... Valero Alamo Bowl - Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas Monday, 12/29, 7pm CT (ESPN) Northwestern vs. Missouri -12.5 The Wildcats are 9-3 (5-3). The Tigers are 9-4 (5-4). I've said since this game was announced that the Wildcats are going to give the Tigers a game, and the bettors agree with me. This game has moved a full point in Northwestern's favor since it opened. And I still think the spread is too high. If Missouri comes out flat, I think Northwestern has a shot at a win here. Roady's Humanitarian Bowl - Bronco Stadium, Boise, Idaho Tuesday 12/30, 3:30pm CT (ESPN) Nevada -2 vs. Maryland The Wolfpack are 7-5 (5-3). The Terrapins are 7-5 (4-4). This, of course, is the "blue field" bowl. Played on the famed blue turf of Bronco Stadium in Boise, ID, the Humanitarian Bowl is probably the only game people look forward to purely for the field. These two clubs finished the season in opposite ways. Nevada won 3 of their last 4, while Maryland lost 3 of their last 4. Maryland's losses were against tougher competition as they were beaten by Virginia Tech, Florida State and Boston College. Mixed in there was a win against a solid North Carolina squad. That being said, I'm going with Nevada. They run a spread which I think will give the Terps trouble. Plus, I have a hard time seeing Maryland get up for this trip. Texas Bowl - Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas Tuesday 12/30, 7pm (NFL Network) Western Michigan vs. Rice -2 The Broncos are 9-3 (6-2). The Owls are 9-3 (7-1). Tough one. Rice won their last 6 in a row, and are essentially playing at home. But Western Michigan had some solid wins on it's schedule including MAC Champion Buffalo and Illinois. I'm very tempted to take the dog here. But Rice just scores too many points and the home field advantage has to put them over the top. Pacific Life Holiday Bowl - Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA Tuesday 12/30, 7pm CT (ESPN) Oregon vs. Oklahoma State -3 The Ducks are 9-3 (7-2). The Cowboys are 9-3 (5-3). OSU's only 3 losses this year? Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma. I think those can be forgiven. The Ducks lost to Boise State, USC and Cal. Not terrible, but not the tests that OSU had. This is supposed to be a crazy shootout, so if you're betting, take the over. Otherwise, I'm going with Oklahoma State and hoping they win by a touchdown rather than a field goal. ST Pick: OSU -3 Dark Star's Pick: OSU -3 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl - Amon G. Carter Stadium, Forth Worth, TX Wednesday 12/31, 11am (ESPN) Air Force vs. Houston -3.5 The Falcons are 8-4 (5-3). The Cougars are 7-5 (6-2). These two teams take different approaches to solid offenses. Air Force runs the ball. Houston throws it. So you'd think they'd have trouble preparing for each other. That being said, Houston scores more points on average, and when you know nothing about two teams, that's as good a determining factor as any. Sports Take Pick: Houston -3 Hammer's Pick: Houston -3 Dark Star's Pick: Houston -3 Brut Sun Bowl - Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas Wednesday 12/31, 1pm (CBS) Pittsburgh vs. Oregon State -2.5 The Panthers are 9-3 (5-2). The Beavers are 8-4 (7-2). This is the consolation prize for Oregon State, who went into the last week of the season with a shot at the Rose Bowl. Consolation Bowls generally mean the team won't be as inspired to play. And I fear that'll be the case with the Beavers. Pittsburgh had a sneaky-good year beating West Virginia, Notre Dame and South Florida, who've all won bowl games already this year. And they're getting points? I'll take it! Finally (and I mean finally)... Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl - LP Field, Nashville, Tennessee Wednesday 12/31, 2:30pm (ESPN) Boston College -3.5 vs. Vanderbilt The Eagles are 9-4 (5-4). The Commodores are 6-6 (4-4). Vandy hasn't been to a bowl game since 1982. Boston College has won 8 straight bowl games. That not enough for you? BC won 4 of their last 5 games. Vandy lost 6 of their last 7. If that doesn't make BC the obvious play, I don't know what will. In fact, 3.5 seems a small price to pay. We're taking the Eagles! ST Pick: Boston College -3.5 Hammer's Pick: Boston College -3.5 Dark Star's Pick: Boston College -3.5 Whew. That was more work than I thought! That gets us through the middle of Wednesday. And there are plenty more to come. In fact, it looks like I have 8 games to pick for Wednesday's column. If I start working now, I should be able to have it done at a decent hour on Wednesday! Oh, and in case you were wondering, it's 17-6 NC State over Rutgers as they start the 2nd half. Looks like we're going down in flames on that one! Until Wednesday, thanks for reading! Bowl Mania Round 2 Post-Mortem & Round 3 Picks Hope your Holidays have been safe and fun! Mine went quite well. Got some neat stuff, including the stuffed version of Rocky you see above! (Every now and then my folks come up with a gem!) Round 2 of Sports Take Bowl Mania wasn't nearly as productive however. Today I'll break down how we all did. But the good part about bowl season, there are a bevy of games yet to be picked! And in that spirit, today I'll be bringing you Round 3! So off we go! "I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly." - Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French Renaissance writer A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, no? First up today, it's the post-mortem on Round 2... San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl: TCU -3 vs. Boise State ST Pick: TCU -3 Hammer's Pick: Boise St. +3 Dark Star's Pick: TCU -3 Final Score: TCU 17, Boise State 16 This one lived up to it's billing. I was concerned early when Boise ran out to a 13-0 lead. But as has been the pattern this bowl season so far, my pick made a strong push in the second half. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite strong enough. TCU had the ball late, and could've added a garbage field goal to cover for me. But head coach Gary Patterson decided that running out the clock and taking the win was good enough. Jerk. Much like picking an underdog who then wins outright feels fantastic, picking the winning team that then fails to cover the spread... well that just sucks. Sheraton Hawaii Bowl: Notre Dame -1.5 vs. Hawaii ST Pick: Hawaii +1.5 Hammer's Pick: Hawaii +1.5 Dark Star's Pick: Hawaii +1.5 Final Score: Notre Dame 49, Hawaii 21 Wow. We were way off on this one. Notre Dame hopped on the gas early and didn't let up until the game was long past decided. Irish QB Jimmy Clausen broke Notre Dame's bowl record for passing with 401 yards through the air. The bulk of them going to sophomore WR Golden Tate who caught 6 balls for 177 yards and 3 touchdowns. Anyone see that kind of offense coming from the Irish? Anyone? Yeah, me either. Oh well. Fortunately, Round 2 only had 2 games. Round 3 is bound to go better! Okay... we're all below the .500 mark. Not the way we wanted to start. But we're only 7 games in to a 34 game schedule. Lots of time to go! And with that in mind, it's time for Round 3 of Sports Take Bowl Mania! Motor City Bowl - Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan Friday, 12/26, 6:30pm (ESPN) Florida Atlantic vs. Central Michigan -7 The Owls are 6-6 (4-3). The Chippewas are 8-4 (6-2). Again, not the biggest marquee match-up in the world, but we're picking them all, so I've got to come up with something, right? Florida Atlantic finished on a roll winning 5 of their last 6. But that was in a fairly weak Sun Belt Conference. Central Michigan lost their last two, but won the 6 previous to that. The Mid-American Conference isn't a major conference, but it's rated well above the Sun Belt, so I'm going to give the Chippewas a slight edge there. Throw in the fact that this is a de facto home game for Central Michigan, and I think they're the play here. And apparently most people agree with me. Sports Take Pick: Central Michigan -7 Meineke Car Care Bowl - Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, North Carolina Saturday, 12/27, 12pm (ESPN) West Virginia -2 vs. North Carolina The Mountaineers are 8-4 (5-2). The Tar Heels are 8-4 (4-4). While I'm far more familiar with these two teams, this game is just as difficult to pick as the last one. Neither of these teams has been on much of a roll headed into the post-season. West Virginia went 3-2 in their last 5. And so did North Carolina. I guess you could say that West Virginia's wins were more impressive and their losses were against better teams. But North Carolina was really beat-up at the end of the season and they're likely to be healthy for their bowl game. Plus the Tar Heels dominated their common opponents: UConn and Rutgers. And again, we have a home field advantage as North Carolina's playing a scant 2 hours from home. Put all that together, and I'm going with the underdog in this game. Sports Take's Pick: North Carolina +2 Champs Sports Bowl - Florida Citrus Bowl, Orlando, Florida Saturday, 12/27, 3:30pm (ESPN) Wisconsin vs. Florida State -6 The Badgers are 7-5 (3-5). The Seminoles are 8-4 (5-3). I hate trying to pick this one. On instinct, I want to go with Florida State, but my loyalty obviously lies with the Badgers. So now I've got to try and find a reason to justify my loyalty right? Lets see. The Badgers won their last 3 regular season contests and 4 of their last 5 with the loss coming at Michigan State by one point to a game Spartans team. Those are solid selling points. The Seminoles on the other hand, had a roller coaster ride down the stretch, going 2-3 in their last 5 with big wins over Maryland and Clemson. Their losses came to Florida, Boston College and Georgia Tech. Not exactly pushovers. And the 4-hour trip is pushing the bounds of "de facto home game". Especially considering how well Badger Nation usually travels. So yeah, I've done it. I've talked myself into taking Wisconsin, even though I'm clearly biased. What the hell, let's do it! Dark Star's Pick: Florida State -6 It's starting to look like I'm either going to end up far ahead or far behind! Emerald Bowl - AT&T Park, San Francisco, California Saturday, 12/27, 7pm (ESPN) Miami vs. California -9 The Hurricanes are 7-5 (4-4). The Golden Bears are 8-4 (6-3). At first glance it would appear that Cal has the momentum advantage. They won four of their last six including the last two in a row. Miami on the other hand lost their last two regular season contests. But if you look a little deeper, you see that Miami won the six games previous to those last two losses. So the big Mo doesn't look to be decidedly in either corner. Instead what's tipping this one for me is academics. How could academics factor in you ask? I'm glad you asked. Turns out that Miami starting QB Robert Marve won't be taking the trip out West. He was suspended for the bowl game by head coach Randy Shannon who cited "academics", in the form of missing classes, as the reason for the suspension. So take away the starting QB for the Hurricanes and suddenly California becomes a rather obvious play. Sports Take Pick: Cal -9 Hammer's Pick: Cal -9 Dark Star's Pick: Cal -9 Penultimately (I love that word)... Independence Bowl - Independence Stadium, Shreveport, Louisiana Sunday, 12/28, 7:15pm (ESPN) Northern Illinois -1 vs. Louisiana Tech The Huskies are 6-6 (5-3). The Bulldogs are 7-5 (5-3). And I thought some of the previous games were tough to pick! Louisiana Tech lost to Army. Army! But they also squeaked out a win against Fresno State. Northern Illinois lost to Navy but played Central Michigan close and beat Bowling Green. Aw hell, I've got no clue here. The game opened at NIU -2 and has dropped to -1, which means that more money's gone on Tech than on the Huskies. So let's take the de facto home team and hope that the dog comes through again! Papajohns.com Bowl - Legion Field, Birmingham, Alabama Monday, 12/29, 2pm CT, (ESPN) North Carolina State vs. Rutgers -7 The Wolfpack are 6-6 (4-4) . The Scarlett Knights are 7-5 (5-2). NC State won their last four in a row including wins over Miami, North Carolina and Wake Forest. Rutgers won their last 6 in a row with wins over Louisville, South Florida and Pittsburgh. Maybe a slight edge for the Knights, but not much. I think in the end this could come down to a question of experience. Rutgers has senior Mike Teel quarterbacking their offense. North Carolina State has freshman Russell Wilson. Throw in the fact that Rutgers has score 30 or more points in their last 5 straight and I have to go with them. This could be close enough for me to get screwed by the spread, but I'll stick with Rutgers anyway! Sports Take Pick: Rutgers -7 So there you have it. Six games to tide you over the weekend. 3 favorites and 3 underdogs. And seeing how Hammer and Dark agreed the whole way through, there's a chance for some separation here. We shall see! (Ed's note: Hammer has asked me to point out that he was completely unaware of Dark's picks when he made his own.) Enjoy your weekend and I'll be back on Monday with 7 more games to ponder! Until then, thanks for reading! Posted by Dan Cook at 12:23 PM 0 comments Bowl Mania Round 1 Post-Mortem, Round 2 Picks As this will be my last post prior to Christmas, allow me to start off by wishing you all a Merry Christmas. Also Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa and Happy Holidays in general. We're all-inclusive here at The Sports Take. So I don't want to leave anyone out! Today I'm breaking down how we did in the first round of Bowl Mania here at The Sports Take. So I'll start with a quick Post-Mortem on the first 5 games of the college football bowl season. Then it's time for Round 2. There are 2 bowl games between now and Friday, so I'll bring you my picks and analysis as well as the picks from Hammer and Dark Star. So off we go! "There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German author This especially applies to drivers on snowy roads here in Minnesota. Oof. First up today, I break down Round 1 of Sports Take Bowl Mania. Due to the number of games involved, they won't be quite the same breakdowns as I did during the season. But you'll get the general idea! EagleBank Bowl - Wake Forest -3 vs. Navy ST Pick: Wake Forest -3 Hammer's Pick: Navy +3 Dark Star's Pick: Navy +3 Final Score: Wake Forest 29, Navy 19 I have to admit, when Navy went up 13-0 early in the 2nd quarter, I feared it might be a rough start to Bowl Mania. But Wake stormed back in the second half to grab a 3-point lead late in the 4th quarter. So I thought I was going to have to settle for a push, which as they say, is better than a shove. But it's still not the way I wanted to start the season. But as fate would have it, the Midshipmen defense gift wrapped me a win when they allowed Wake RB Rich Belton to break loose for a 35-yard TD run with :54 remaining. Victory, sweet, sweet victory! ST: 1-0 New Mexico Bowl - Fresno State -3 vs. Colorado State Sports Take Pick: Colorado State +3 Hammer's Pick: Fresno State -3 Dark Star's Pick: Colorado State +3 Final Score: Colorado State 40, Fresno State 35 Oh how we love it here at The Sports Take when an underdog we've picked wins outright! Again, I thought I was in trouble early on, as the Rams couldn't seem to stop Fresno's offense no matter how they tried. But once again, my pick came storming back. CSU hit a Hail Mary at the end of the first half to pull within one at 21-20 (Fresno leading). I don't know what Colorado State head coach Steve Fairchild said at halftime, but whatever it was, he should bottle it and break it out for every game next year. CSU physically dominated Fresno in the second half and pulled away late for the 40-35 victory. Sports Take: 2-0 (34-0 here I come!) Dark: 1-1 magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl - South Florida -12 vs. Memphis Sports Take Pick: Memphis +12 Hammer's Pick: South Florida -12 Dark Star's Pick: Memphis +12 Final Score: South Florida 41, Memphis 14 Woops... So much for 34-0. I could make excuses like Memphis' QB got hurt early on and limped his way through most of the game. But the simple truth is that the Bulls just had way too much for the Tigers to handle. Memphis hung with them for the first half, but got shut-out in the second half while South Florida ran away and hid. What can I say? I got cute and got crushed. It was bound to happen. Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl - Arizona -3 vs. BYU Sports Take Pick: BYU +3 Hammer's Pick: BYU +3 Dark's Pick: Arizona -3 Final Score: Arizona 31, BYU 21 First of all, Arizona's Red monochrome uniforms should have disqualified them outright. I don't know who came up with this idea, but unless your team wears black, your jersey shouldn't be the same color as your pants. It's just wrong. And truthfully, even if it's black, it's really inadvisable. But that not withstanding, this game can easily be labeled as "BYU's Cursed Kicker Game". Cougar kicker Mitch Payne missed two field goals all year, but missed 3 of them in this game. Granted, BYU lost by 10, so 3 field goals wouldn't have won them the game, but it would covered the spread for me dammit! Oh, and I should mention that Arizona QB Nick Tuitama threw for 325 yards and dominated offensively. But three missed field goals?! Come on! R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl: Troy -4.5 vs. Southern Mississippi Sports Take Pick: S. Mississippi +4.5 Hammer's Pick: Troy -4.5 Dark Star's Pick: Troy -4.5 Final Score: Southern Mississippi 30, Troy 27 F-OT Did I mention I love it when the dog wins outright? I have to admit, I didn't get to watch this game. But I saw some highlights. And in the end it came down to a blocked field goal in overtime to clinch the win for the Golden Eagles. Somewhere Brett Favre was smiling I'm sure! So it was a solid start for The Sports Take. Sure 34-0 was taken away a little sooner than I'd have like, but I'm still solidly +.500. Right where I like it! Dark's only a game back, and I'm sure will give me all the competition I can handle. Rough start for the Hammer, but I have no doubt he'll make a run sooner than later. And with that said, it's time for Round 2 of Sports Take Bowl Mania! Let's get to the picks: San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl - Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA Tuesday, 12/23, 7pm CT (ESPN) TCU -3 vs. Boise State The Horned Frogs are 10-2 (7-1). The Broncos are 12-0 (8-0). This game was also considered for "Most Ridiculous Bowl Title - 2008". But the game's so good, I gave it a pass. In fact, this might be one of the best bowl games of the entire season. Certainly it belongs amongst the January 1 bowls in terms of competitiveness. Unfortunately it sort of got buried in the pre-Christmas bowls. I had a helluva time making this pick. Momentum doesn't play a role. Boise went undefeated. TCU won 6 of their last 7 including thrashing Air Force in the season finale. There weren't any common opponents to compare. And their conferences were similar enough in quality that I can't even go there to find a winner. The game basically breaks down to Boise's offense versus TCU's defense. Boise hasn't scored less than 40 pints in a game since October. But TCU hasn't given up more than 14 points since September! So when you have two teams matched up like that, I have to go for the defense. I heard a pundit say today, "Defense wins championships, but points win games." So I'm taking TCU and hoping Boise doesn't run out to an early lead. If TCU keeps the score down early, I think they win it. Sports Take Pick: TCU -3 Hammer's Pick: TCU -3 Dark Star's Pick: Boise State +3 Lastly... Sheraton Hawaii Bowl - Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii Wednesday, 12/24, 7pm CT (ESPN) Notre Dame -1.5 vs. Hawaii The Fighting Irish are 6-6. The Warriors are 7-6 (5-3) This game exists for two reasons. One, to guarantee that if Hawaii wins 6 games, they'll have a bowl to go to. Two, to guarantee they'll have an opponent, because who's going to turn down a trip to Hawaii for chrissakes?! This is another tough one to pick. There's no question that Notre Dame struggled this year. There's also no question that they played a tougher schedule than Hawaii. But there's that pesky loss to Syracuse that keeps bothering me. How in the hell do you lose to Syracuse, Irish fans?! You're going to have to explain that one to me before I can pick you here. Momentum-wise, the Golden Domers lost 4 of their last 5 games. The Warriors won 3 out of their last 4. All the evidence seems to be pushing me towards Hawaii. But the bettors like Notre Dame. The game opened at Hawaii -1.5 and has since moved to Notre Dame -1.5. That means a decent chunk of money has gone down on the Irish. But I can't shake my gut feeling that Hawaii is the play here. So though it'll upset my father, I'm going with the Warriors. Sports Take Pick: Hawaii +1.5 So not a lot of separation's going to happen this week. Oh well. Lots more picks to come on Friday. That's all for today. As I said, I'll be back with more Bowl Mania on Friday. Until then, keep safe and enjoy your holiday celebrations. Oh yeah, and thanks for reading! Bowl Mania There's a palpable feeling of finality to today isn't there? With Christmas next week and New Year's the week after that, hardly anybody's working full weeks for the rest of 2008, so this sort of feels like the end doesn't it? Fortunately for you, my dear readers, this isn't the end. Rather it's the beginning of that wonderful experience I like to call Sports Take Bowl Mania! Yes, the college football bowl season kicks off tomorrow morning. So today I kick off my bowl picks. As an aside, I know I missed the DFTU on Wednesday. I got all excited about Charles Barkley's crusade for Turner Gill and just plain forgot to do it. Perhaps it was a subconscious thing since the Wild have been sucking the bag lately and Wisconsin had the week off for finals. I promise the DFTU will return very soon. But for now, on to the Bowls! "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher and classical philologist I think this is the second or third time I've had a quote from my man Freddy. Mostly because I like typing "Nietzsche". Can't tell you why. It just flows off the fingers! As I said, today begins Sports Take Bowl Mania! College football bowl season means a lot to many of us. I like to think of it as college football fans' own little Hanukkah. It's 20 days of gifts and you don't even have to pretend that the argyle socks Aunt Tessie gives you every year are the greatest gift ever! (The preceding sentence was cleared for P.C. purposes by a close, personal Jewish friend. So feel free to chuckle freely!) So in the spirit of the season, I've decided to pick all 34 bowl games. That's right every single game starting tomorrow and ending with the BCS National Championship game on January 8th will be picked in advance by yours truly. And after careful consideration, I've decided to set aside the "Flier Pick" for the entire slate of bowl games. I figure if I'm going to "pick them all" then it seems kind of pointless to give myself freebies. Even though I defy anyone to speak intelligently on all 34 match-ups! I've also decided not to force you to digest all 34 picks at once. Instead, you'll get them in several well-proportioned doses. Just enough to satisfy your ravenous hunger for college football goodness without leaving you feeling too full to function! And not only are you going to get my quality analysis, but I've also enlisted the services of some other sports gurus. The Hammer you already know from his high-quality NHL and NFL previews. But I'll also be bringing you the picks of the Dean of WCCO Recreational Gaming: Dark Star. (If you haven't enrolled your kids in Uncle Darky's Gambling Camp, sign them up now! Triple Crown primer classes are filling up quickly. "Hitting the 10-team Parlay 101" is always a big hit! And new this year, "Advanced Collection Techniques" will be taught featuring guest-lecturer, The Beast! That's Uncle Darky's Gambling Camp. The only place to send the future recreational gamer in your life!) So prepare yourself for 20 days of Picks and Post-Mortems headed your way! Without further ado, here is the first round of Sports Take Bowl Mania! The Eagle Bank Bowl - RFK Stadium, Washington DC Saturday, 12/20, 10am CT (ESPN) Wake Forest -3 vs. Navy The Demon Deacons are 7-5 (4-4). The Midshipmen are 8-4. The lid-lifter on the Bowl Season doesn't exactly promise to be a barn-burner. Yes, we got it right when Navy thumped Army, but that was more about Army (who's since fired their head coach) stinking out the joint, than Navy being all that good. Wake's been up and down all year, and ended up in the middle of the pack in a mediocre ACC. Both teams are going to try to run the ball. Normally I'd worry about Wake's ability to stop Navy's triple-option threat, but Wake coach Jim Grobe came up as an assistant with Air Force, and is quite familiar with the scheme and it's weaknesses. So I'm giving the 3 points and going with the Deacs to get us off to a solid start. New Mexico Bowl - University Stadium, Albuquerque, New Mexico Saturday, 12/20, 1:30pm CT (ESPN) Fresno State -3 vs. Colorado State The Bulldogs are 7-5 (4-4). The Rams are 6-6 (4-4). I have to admit, I don't know much about either of these teams. The only time I saw either of them play this year was when Wisconsin squeaked out a win at Fresno early in the season. Neither of them have terribly impressive records - I suppose that's why they're in the New Mexico Bowl. But I've always been one to believe in momentum when it comes to bowl performances. Colorado State won their last two including a 20-6 thumping of New Mexico who is not appearing in the New Mexico Bowl for the first time in its 3-year existence. Fresno on the other hand, closed the season by having their lunch handed to them, 61-10, by Boise State. So I'm taking the points and hoping Colorado State keeps it close. ST Pick: Colorado State +3 magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl - Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida Saturday 12/20, 3:30pm (ESPN2) Memphis vs. South Florida -12 The Tigers are 6-6 (4-4). The Bulls are 7-5 (2-5). This game qualifies as "The Most Ridiculous Bowl Name - 2008". Seriously, have you seen the commercial for magicJack?! Infomercials are annoying enough, but creating a commercial to look like an infomercial? That's the last functioning brain cell that comes up with that idea! But on to the game. The Bulls were expected to contend for the Big East crown. In fact, I think I picked them to win the conference in my pre-season preview. It's a long way from a BCS berth to the magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl. Combined with South Florida losing 4 of their last 5, I expect the Bulls to come in on something of a down note. Memphis on the other hand won 3 of their last 5 and put up some serious points along the way, including thumping a game Tulane squad 45-6 in their regular season ender. I don't really think that Memphis will win. But I do think that they'll keep it closer than the odds makers believe. So I'll take the 12 points and root for the Tigers! ST Pick: Memphis +12 Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl - Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada Saturday, 12/20, 7pm CT (ESPN) BYU vs. Arizona -3 The Cougars are 10-2 (6-2). The Wildcats are 7-5 (5-4). The Mormons are coming to Vegas! The end is nigh! Okay, probably not. BYU's fan base travels well, so even though the game is in Sin City, I expect a solid Cougar contingent at this game. But not necessarily in the craps pit. I do have a humorous scene in my mind of a Mormon couple trying to explain to their kids what Clarissa, the nurse in fishnets, does for a living! Can anyone tell me why Arizona's favored in this game? I can think of 3 times this year where I looked at a game and had the wrong team favored in my head outright. And I think I ended up being right all 3 times. So I'm taking BYU and the points here, and gladly so. ST Pick: BYU +3 Dark Star's Pick: Arizona -3 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl - Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, 12/21, 7:15pm CT (ESPN) Troy -4.5 vs. Southern Mississippi The Trojans are 8-4 (6-1). The Golden Eagles are 6-6 (4-4). This one came in second for the "most ridiculous name" title. But because it's in New Orleans, I give it a pass. Again, we're dealing with two teams I know virtually nothing about. The only time Troy appeared in the Picks this year, it was when they gave LSU an enormous scare. Oh yeah, and I was picking LSU -18 in that game. Nice. So I'm a little sore at the Trojans, needless to say. Southern Mississippi won their last 4 straight, while surrendering an average of 8.75 points per game. Those numbers are enough for me. I'm taking the points and screaming "Brett Favre Rules" for very little reason. ST Pick: Southern Mississippi +4.5 So there you have it. The opening round of Bowl Mania here at The Sports Take. If you'd like to join the fray and add your picks, feel free to do so. I may add your record to the three of ours. Just be sure you're committed to pick all 34 games! I'll be back on Monday with the Post-Mortem on the first five bowls, and more Picks for your perusal. It's Bowl Mania! Catch the fever! Until Monday, thanks for reading! Charles Knows Racism... Hope you're all feeling warm wherever you are. Those of us in Minnesota are daring to dream of double-digits today. As I write today's preamble, it's 8 whole degrees above zero here in the great white North. Okay, the windchill is still -2 degrees, but you can't have anything right? But it's Minnesota. We expect this sort of thing, right? It's not like people would decide to leave the 60-degree pleasantness of Phoenix to travel into this meteorological morass right? Right?! Sorry Mom and Dad... but it had to be said! I'm only writing about one subject today. I've got a big column planned for Friday, so I'll keep it somewhat short today. At least that's the plan. I haven't started writing yet, so who knows where this thing will end up! Today I'm talking about the controversy surrounding the new head football coach at Auburn University. Was it racism? Was it cronyism? Was it just an awful hiring? I'll tell you what I think. "In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd President of the United States My man T.J.! So what's all the mess down at Auburn? Let's review. On December 3rd, former Tiger head coach Tommy Tuberville "resigned". I put "resigned" in quotes, because immediately after that announcement, rumors started to surface that indicated that Tuberville's resignation wasn't so much his wanting to leave as it was Auburn officials paying him $5 million to go away. I can hardly blame Tommy for taking the offer. All he did was go 6-1 against arch-rival Alabama over the last 7 years, including a season where his team went 11-0. But even with all that success, he was derided and made to feel unwanted by boosters with unrealistic expectations. Either way, Auburn leadership looked bad given their desire to spin what was essentially a firing as a "resignation". But apparently the PR wizards at Auburn weren't done trashing the University's image. Ten days after Tuberville's "resignation", it was announced that Gene Chizik will be the next Tigers head football coach. And nearly immediately, the uproar began. Chizik is a former Auburn defensive coordinator and had success in that role as well as in his time as Texas defensive coordinator. Those two stints helped him land a job 2 years ago as the head coach at Iowa State... where he compiled a 5-19 record. Now granted, he was taking on a big-time rebuilding project when he took the Iowa State job. But should 5-19 at Iowa State really earn you a job at Auburn which for all intents and purposes is a promotion? And apparently the Tiger fan-base agreed. According to one poll, nearly 2/3 of the respondents were against the hiring of Chizik. But the big hubub began when Auburn alumnus and former NBA MVP Charles Barkley accused the administration of blatant racism in the hiring of Chizik. As it turned out, Auburn officials also interviewed Turner Gill who turned around a moribund Buffalo program and led them to a Mid-American Conference Championship this year. Oh, and by the way, he's also an African-American. When Gill didn't get the job, Barkley suggested that his race was the reason he didn't get the job: "I believe race had a factor. Of course I do. First of all, you can't compare these two, their records. That's not even close to being fair. I look at things from a commonsense standpoint; how do you interview Turner Gill and pick Gene Chizik over Turner Gill?" Auburn Athletic Director Jay Jacobs defended the hiring, claiming that race was not a factor in Chiziks hiring. Rather he said he "picked the best fit for Auburn". That quote smacks of cronyism to me. And I think ultimately that's what happened here. Jacobs is familiar with Chizik from his time as Auburn Defensive Coordinator. And ultimately he decided to go with the familiar rather than the unfamiliar in Turner Gill. But I also wonder if Barkley isn't also right. I mean if the "familiar" is 99% white coaches, then isn't hiring the "familiar" a latent form of racism? Cronyism has always been the reason given as to why there aren't more African-American coaches in a sport dominated by African-American athletes. Simply put, Universities hire people they have a connection to. But if African-Americans aren't given a chance to get their foot in the door, how are they ever supposed to have the opportunity to do the kind of networking that seemingly landed Chizik the Auburn job? Clearly white kids aren't the only ones who are able to translate their skills as players into skills as coaches. So there has to be a way to more fairly involve African-American coaches in the hiring process for a sport dominated by African-American athletes. The worst part about this whole deal is that even if you dismiss the potential racism in this situation, it's still a tough hire to defend. Sure, maybe Chizik was lacking the tools he needed to get the Iowa State program turned around. But what exactly is it about a 5-19 record that you can set aside to decide he should be the next coach at what ought to be an SEC powerhouse?! So why would you hire a guy who's difficult to defend, especially when doing so is going to put you in a position where you'll certainly be accused of racial bias? Arrogance? Incompetence? You'd have to ask the folks at Auburn University I guess, because I can't figure it out. Was it a bad hire? I think so, though obviously Chizik will have a chance to prove the doubters wrong. Was it cronyism? I don't see how you could argue that it wasn't. Was it racism? In a subtle form, yes I think it was. What does it mean for those of us who love college football? That's why I write columns like this. So we can discuss it. If you've got an opinion, attach a comment below and let us know what you think. What it means for me is that I'll be rooting for Wisconsin and "whoever is playing Auburn" next year. Sorry Coach Chizik. It's not necessarily your fault. But you're working for people I have a hard time respecting, and unfortunately, that rolls down onto your program. That's all for today folks. I'll be back on Friday as we get ready to kick off Bowl Season here at The Sports Take. I'm so excited I'm tingling! Well, I hope that's the excitement and not frost bite! Until Friday, thanks for reading! Heisman Recap & ST Mailbag Welcome to another Monday. I hope today finds you anywhere other than the upper Midwest, because oh my freaking lord is it cold up here today. As I write this at 1:30pm central time, the current air temperature is -4 degrees Fahrenheit. And with winds out of the west at 16 mph and gusting to 22 mph, the windchill factor is -25 degrees Fahrenheit. Or as I like to call it "inhumanly cold". Look, I've lived my entire life in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Been there, done that, I can take it. But why should we have to? Human beings weren't meant to live like this! Think about it. People moved out here and learned it gets inhumanly cold during the winter. Did they realize their mistake and leave? Nooooo. They invented means to try and mitigate their misery! What the hell is wrong with us? I know the summers are fairly nice, but come on! This is just wrong people. Wrong. Weather rant, fin. Thanks. I feel better. On to the important stuff. We had the most legendary individual trophy in sports awarded on Saturday. And I have to admit, I was surprised! I'll discuss. Then it's the latest edition of The Sports Take Mailbag. It's a hockey-related question that some of you will already know the answer to, but I'll try to make it an entertaining read anyway! Off we go! "I don't feel I have a concussion problem. I have a problem with people giving me traumatic blows to the head." - Dean McAmmond (1973- ), Canadian professional hockey player currently with the Ottawa Senators Thanks to Renee in Minnetonka for the quote. Sort of a hockey version of the "chicken and the egg" bit if you think about it. First up today, we've got to talk Heisman. The 2008 Heisman Trophy Award winner was announced Saturday evening. And believe it or not, I was both right and wrong! I gave you my ballot on Wednesday as: 1. Sam Bradford, 2. Colt McCoy and 3. Tim Tebow. I also told you that I thought McCoy was going to win it. Turns out I got the order exactly right and McCoy didn't win it. Here's the breakdown: Heisman Voting Player 1st 2nd 3rd Total Sam Bradford, Oklahoma 300 315 196 1,726 Colt McCoy, Texas 266 288 230 1,640 Tim Tebow, Florida 309 207 234 1,575 Graham Harrell, Texas Tech 13 44 86 213 Michael Crabtree, Texas Tech 3 27 53 116 Shonn Greene, Iowa 5 9 32 65 Patrick White, West Virginia 3 1 8 19 Nate Davis, Ball State 0 1 8 10 Rey Maualuga, USC 2 1 1 9 Javon Ringer, Michigan State 1 0 5 8 Notice that Tebow actually received the most first-place votes, yet finished 3rd. Not that it's a distinction that you'd want, but he's only the second player in Heisman history to pull that off. How does that happen, you ask? The best speculation that I've heard is that some voters (one would suspect mostly in the middle-south) made their 3-candidate ballot an all-Big 12 ballot using either Graham Harrell or Michael Crabtree in 3rd and left Tebow off their ballot entirely. Personally I'd argue that's a mistake, but they have actual ballots and I don't. The important thing, obviously, is that I had the top 3 ordered exactly correct. Did I mention that my ballot was dead-on? I just want to make sure I make that point clearly! I did? Okay. Moving on... Time for another edition of The Sports Take Mailbag! This week's question comes from Mary in Plymouth who asks: "What the heck is with the point system in hockey? I think I understand it; it just seems a bit like trying to fix something that wasn't necessarily broken, whatever it was that The Powers That Be thought was broken in the first place." Good question Mary. First of all, let me give you the specific rules. If a team wins a game in regulation, they receive 2 points. If teams are tied after regulation, they each receive 1 point. They then play a 5-minute sudden-death overtime period. If a team scores a goal during that period, they get an additional point, giving them a total of 2. If neither team scores, then the game goes to a best-of-3 shootout with extra skaters added if the teams remained tied. The team that wins that gets the additional point, giving them a total of 2. Straight-forward, the system is not. It used to be that if the game was tied after regulation, they'd play an overtime period and if nobody scored, the game finished in a tie and each team got their one point. The problem was if a team scored in the overtime, they got 2 points, and the team that lost got zero. This created a condition where teams would play super-tight defensively in the overtime, figuring that 1 point was better than none. So the NHL decided to try and create an incentive for teams to open things up a bit in the overtime by guaranteeing each team a point if they tie in regulation. So if a team scored in overtime, they got 2 points and the team that "lost" still got their 1 point. This led to the obnoxious standings line for the NHL which read: "Wins - Losses - Ties - Overtime Losses". See if you won in overtime, you could just put a tick in the "Win" column, but if you lost in overtime, well it wasn't really a loss, because you still got a point. Simple, right? Oof. Then, starting in 2005, the NHL further "fixed" overtime by adding the shootout. On the plus-side, this meant that fans going to a game would be assured that they'd see a winner. But hockey purists hated the idea. And I certainly understood why. If you think about it, it'd be the same if the NFL decided to have teams kick field goals from increased distances to decide a winner. Or if the NBA had teams shoot free-throws to decide a game. Or worst of all, if MLB had teams hold mini-home run hitting contests to decide games that go beyond 12 innings or something. It's taking one small part of a wondrously complex game, and having it decide who wins and who loses. So back to Mary's question, "was the change really necessary"? That's a tough one. At the time the NHL made the initial change, their ratings and attendance were starting to decline, so I guess they figured they had to try something to regain their stature in the sports universe. Unfortunately it didn't work. At best, you could currently say that hockey is 4th amongst the 4 major sports leagues. And though it pains me to say it, if you add NASCAR into the mix, the NHL is probably 5th. So in that sense, the initial change probably wasn't necessary. But assuming that change is made, I'd argue that the 2nd change (the addition of the shootout) was absolutely necessary. As odd as the "Wins - Losses - OT Wins" line looks to some folks, it's far better than having to create a column for a special kind of loss. The purists (and I know there are some that read this blog) will still say that they hate the shootout. I guess I've been moderately won over. I understand the casual fan's desire to have a definite winner and loser like the rest of the leagues (except the rare occasion in the NFL and certain MLB All-Star games). And the shootout does add a layer of excitement to the end of a game. Let's just say I've begrudgingly accepted it's existence. And while I'd like to see it changed to a best-of-5 skaters rather than best-of-3, I can live with the system as currently constructed. Hopefully that clears things up for you Mary. Thanks for the question! Remember, if you want your question answered, submit it to the mailbag at: dcook93@yahoo.com! That's all I've got for today. I'll be back on Wednesday, presuming I don't die of hypothermia before then. Did I mention it's inhumanly cold? As long as we're clear. Until next time, thanks for reading! CC in NY & ST Top 10 (12th Ed.) I'm writing from the Sports Take home offices today. Thank heavens for union mandated vacation time! I did have to stop by the shop for a brief period this morning for an all-staff meeting to meet the new Grand Pooh-Bah. It was an interesting meeting to say the least. Put it this way, you know how I've said all along that there's no doubt Gopher football coach Tim Brewster can get inspire people to run through brick walls, yet I'm not sure if he can coach them up to do it properly? I'm kind of at the same point with the new boss. He says all the right things. And unlike Brewster, he actually has a track record of getting things done. That being said, this is a new ballgame, so we'll see how he follows through on what was an impressive pep talk. Whatever happens, there will still be plenty of sports to discuss. Today I've got to talk about one of the crown jewels of the hot stove league: CC Sabathia. The hefty lefty signed an equally hefty contract with the New York Yankees. I'll share my thoughts. Then it's time for the final regular season version of the Sports Take Top 10 College Football Poll. Florida and Oklahoma ended up 1/2 in the BCS. Did the Sports Take pollsters agree? We'll find out. So let's get to it! "The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance." - Laurence J. Peter (1919-1988), PhD, educator and hierarchiologist Think I'm feeling somewhat cautious of promises hinted at today? Yeah, just a bit. First up today, I've got to talk about the new contract agreed to by CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees. 7 years, $160 million. Ponder that for a second. That's almost $23 million per year. The richest contract ever awarded to a pitcher. And because it's the Yankees, there have been the usual outcries of the doom of baseball as we know it. How on earth are mid-to-small market teams supposed to compete when they can't possibly pay free agents the kind of money that the Yankees are tossing around?! There's one small flaw with that complaint. Mid-to-small markets are competing. They have been competing, and they will continue to compete. Look, all the Yankees money allows them to do is buy their way out of their mistakes. It doesn't guarantee them a championship. It doesn't even guarantee them a playoff spot as we learned just this past season. And it's my opinion that this signing of Sabathia will turn out to be one of those mistakes. Why do I say that? First let's look at history. The Yankees could have had Johan Santana last year for a mere $120 million. All they had to do was sacrifice Phil Hughes who was an unmitigated disaster for the Yankees last year, and Melky Cabrerra who's on the way to becoming the Milwaukee Brewers latest acquisition. But they decided that was too steep a price to pay, so they passed. Now, they've found themselves in a position where they're forced to spend $160 million on a pitcher who most would agree isn't as good as Santana is to begin with. Second, look at CC himself. In the last 2 years he's pitched almost 500 innings. That's an enormous total. It's also likely to have an effect on the condition of his arm. I don't blame the Brewers one bit for the way they used Sabathia last season. If I were them, and knew that they were basically renting CC for half a season, I'd have pitched the bejeezus out of him too. But if I was the Yankees, I'd be awfully concerned about all the tread that was worn off his tire over the last couple of years. Then there's the fact that CC didn't want to come to New York in the first place. He made it quite clear at the beginning of the free agency period that he wanted to play on the west coast. That's where his wife's from. That's where his family is building a house. That's where he wanted to go. Unfortunately, when the bidding began, the interest from out west was tepid to say the least. He practically begged Dodgers management to make him a competitive offer, but to no avail. In the end, New York won him over by offering him two things: $40 million more than anybody else even hinted at, and an opt-out clause after 3 years. So if he decides that he can't handle playing in the Big Apple, he can walk after 3 years and $70 million or so. Anyone want to wager on the likelihood of a "year 4" for CC in New York? I didn't think so. Don't get me wrong, I wish CC and his family the best of luck in New York. I just don't think it's going to work. So I all the folks kicking and screaming about how bad the Yankees are for baseball should take a breath, calm down and see if this thing actually has a prayer of working. Because I don't think it does. Next up it's time for the 12th and final regular season edition of the Sports Take Top 10 College Football Poll. 10 loyal Sports Take readers have come together to bring you the finest in college football rankings. As always, comments on each club are from a random sampling of pollsters. Without further ado... the poll... Rank - Team (First Place Votes) - Points - Last Week's Ranking #1) Oklahoma (6) - 94 - 2 It's not their fault that the system is broken. 5 straight games of 60+ points? Yup, they're my #1 team. #2) Florida (2) - 90 - 4 They sold me on that game. I hate to admit it - as I despise their smug coach - but they look really complete as a team. #3) Texas (2) - 86 - 3 They beat the #1 team and lost on the final play in a hostile environment to a top 10 team for their only loss, so that's good enough for me. #4) Alabama - 64 - 1 Too bad they won't play Texas in January. That would make a nice semi-final wouldn't it? #5) USC - 57 - 5 Might be the non-Title Game team that nobody wants to play. #6) Texas Tech - 43 - 7 "Hey we tied for the Big 12 South too!" #7) Utah - 42 - 6 Pretender or Contender? We'll know for sure in a couple of weeks. #8) Penn State - 35 - 8 When was the last time these guys played... 2007?! Sure feels like it. #9) Boise State - 27 - 9 I know Utah got the nod for the BCS, but I still like Boise better! #10) Ohio State - 10 - 10 I fear another embarrassment in a BCS bowl game... when will people learn? Others Receiving Votes: Cincinnati 1, TCU 1 So the Sports Take pollsters think the BCS should have their #1 and #2 reversed. And several of them think that they've got the wrong team in there completely. Ah, the wonder of the BCS! See anything in the poll you think is dead wrong? Add a comment and let us know! That's it for this week. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I'll be back on Monday with another episode of the Sports Take Mailbag. Until then, thanks for reading! Heisman Vote & DFTU Well the news finally came down today. An all-staff meeting's been scheduled for Friday morning at 9:30 at the big 'CCO. Somewhere God is smiling ("let's see... Dan's not a morning person... he has Friday off.... yup, mandatory meeting time!"). Am I whining? Perhaps a touch. But it's out of my system now and I'm feeling better about it, so thanks for helping with my self-therapy. Today it's time to talk Heisman Trophy. Unfortunately, The Sports Take has yet to earn me an actual ballot for the award, but that won't stop me from sharing my thoughts with you, my loyal readers. Then it's time for everybody's favorite segment. A little thing we like to call the DFTU. So off we go! "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister No real connection to anything I'm writing today, but it made me chuckle, so there you go. First up today it's the official Sports Take Heisman Ballot. Okay, it's not official in the eyes of the folks who actually vote for the award, but it's my official thoughts on the matter. And that's official enough for us! 3. Tim Tebow, QB, University of Florida (28 TD passing, 12 TD rushing, 2 INT, 64% completion %, 176.74 passer rating) Yes, I said on Monday that Tebow might be the best college football player I've ever seen. Yes, that would seem to indicate that he should be my Heisman pick. But the Heisman is given on a single season's worth of work. And my label of "best I've ever seen" is about Tebow's entire body of work. The fact that Tebow will likely be a finalist for the second time while only being a Junior is pretty impressive in and of itself. But his statistics last year were so insanely good that the odds of him being able to match those were very small. And if he wasn't able to match those stats, or at least come close, then the odds of him winning a second straight Heisman had to equally decrease. In the end, I'm voting Tebow third not because he wasn't as good as he was last year, but rather because there were two other players that had such fantastic years, that they simply deserve to be ranked ahead of him. 2. Colt McCoy, QB, University of Texas If I had to place a wager on who's going to win, I'd bet on McCoy. His statistics are excellent, he had the least help of the other candidates and don't discount the sympathy vote given the fact that Texas got "tie-breakered" (yes, I made that word up) out of a shot at the National Title. So why am I not voting him as my number one choice? To explain that, I give you... 1. Sam Bradford, QB, University of Oklahoma (48 TD passing, 5 TD rushing, 6 INT, 68% completion %, 186.29 passer rating) I really struggled in deciding between Bradford and McCoy. There's no question that McCoy's season was damned impressive. And there's also no question that Bradford had more help around him than McCoy had. But ultimately, I couldn't ignore the fact that in nearly every respect, Bradford had a better statistical year than McCoy had. No, the award isn't only about statistics, but considering that both men led their teams to identical 11-1 records, and neither was required to deal with significantly more adversity than the other, which guy had the better stats becomes a reasonable tiebreaker. So I'm casting my vote for Sam Bradford. I don't think he'll win (and in fact, I think there's a reasonable chance he'll finish third), but I'm interested to see how it all shakes out. It should be some of the closest voting we've seen in quite some time. The finalists for the Heisman will be announced tonight. The award itself will be presented Saturday night. Next up it's time for everybody's favorite segment: Dan's Favorite Teams Update! Minnesota Wild: The Wild are 15-10-1, which translates to 31 points, which is good for 3rd place in the Northwest Division, 4 points behind the Vancouver Canucks. The Wild have played 3 games since we last DTFU'd. A 4-0 win over the St. Louis Blues last Wednesday started things off nicely. Minnesota was looking to avenge an earlier poor effort against the Blues and managed to do just that. Unfortunately, that solid effort was followed by two lackluster ones. In their second consecutive Friday/Saturday back-to-back set of games, the Wild dropped two straight. They lost 2-1 at home versus Vancouver (again!) and 1-0 on the road at Nashville. Both losses were tough to take. The Vancouver game sucked because the Canucks were down to their 3rd-string goaltender, yet the Wild could only scratch out one marker. Add to that the fact that Vancouver is a division opponent whom the Wild has yet to beat this year and that loss becomes even more worrisome. The Nashville game sucked because exactly a week prior, the Wild handled the Predators easily, winning 6-2. So to get shut out by a team you scored 6 on a week ago clearly highlights a bad run offensively. But yesterday came news that may help alleviate some of the Wild's scoring woes. For the first time in over a month, winger Marian Gaborik practiced with the team, including skating with the second power-play unit. There's no guarantee that he'll play Thursday night in Phoenix, but I'd be surprised if he didn't make an appearance sometime on this road trip. No, Gaborik isn't the end-all be-all of the Wild's offense. But there's no question that he frees up space on the ice for his teammates when he's out there. And that can't do anything but help. And of course, the other advantage to Gaborik playing is that it showcases him for a potential trade. I think at this point most Wild fans have resigned themselves to the fact that Marian isn't going to be here next year. And if that's going to be the case, then here's to hoping that GM Doug Risebrough can craft a quality return for trading the Wild's biggest star. As mentioned, the Wild are on the road for the next 3 games. They travel to Phoenix (where I can tell you from personal experience that even though Phoenix is a warm-weather city, it's STILL not a good idea to wear shorts to the arena) to take on the Coyotes Thursday night. Then on Saturday they head to L.A. to clash with the Kings. Then Sunday they head down the road to Anaheim to go Duck hunting. Wisconsin Badgers (basketball): The Badgers are 7-2 (0-0 in the Big Ten). I have to admit. Even with college football's regular season being done, it's still really hard for me to get excited about college basketball. Maybe my tastes are changing. Maybe it's just not the right time of year. Either way, I've only caught bits and pieces of a few Badger games this year, so it's difficult for me to speak intelligently about them (insert punch-line here). Here's what I can tell you. The Badgers are good, but not great. They had a lead late in the game versus Marquette, but couldn't hang on down the stretch against the Warriors on the road. They then returned home and squeaked out a 2-point win against that perennial basketball powerhouse known as Idaho State. Idaho freaking State. Are you kidding me? I can only imagine the Bo Ryan tongue-lashing that followed that effort. Bucky faces in-state rival UW-Green Bay Saturday night before taking a week off for finals. That's all for today folks. No picks tomorrow as Bowl season doesn't kick off til the 20th, so I'll be back on Friday with the final regular season ST Top 10 Poll and some week ending goodness. And hopefully I'll be able to report that the purge is done after the big meeting! Until then, thanks for reading! Dan Cook is a radio producer who expresses his lifelong passion for history, sports, and the history of sports herein and in his companion blog: The Gettysburg Files. A native of Maple Grove, MN, his favorite sport is baseball and his favorite team is the Minnesota Twins. In an ironic twist, however, he attended the University of Wisconsin, so his collegiate loyalties lie squarely with the Badgers. College football (Badgers) and Hockey (Wild) closely follow baseball on his list of sports interests. 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__label__wiki	0.863306	0.863306	How Blockchain Is Helping Big Advertisers Eliminate Digital Spending Waste A hopeful solution to a growing problem. JL Lara O'Reilly reports in the Wall Street Journal: Of every dollar spent world-wide last year on “programmatic” ads—ads bought using automated software—just 40 cents made it to the publisher selling the ad space. Advertisers pay a “tech tax” to the chain of vendors between a marketer and the website that runs an ad. Blockchain offers a faster, more reliable way to track spending and reconcile discrepancies with suppliers. The technology can also help track whether ads are running on websites with real traffic and visible to ordinary users. Blockchain technology has made inroads in industries from logistics to health care. Now, it’s gaining traction with marketers, who see it as a potential answer to the pitfalls of online advertising. Anheuser-Busch InBev , BUD -0.65% AT&T Inc., Kellogg Co. K 0.08% , Bayer AG BAYRY -0.04% and Nestle SA NSRGY -0.96% are among advertisers that are starting to use the nascent technology to figure out whether their ads are viewed by real people, not computer-generated bots, and how much of their spending is siphoned off by middlemen. Blockchain is a secure digital database that can house a ledger of transactions, distributed across multiple computers. It allows business partners to keep a record of their transactions, stored as “blocks” and updated in real-time, based on an agreement among the parties. Blocks can’t be altered. The technology, or at least the hype around it, is booming. Now the secure, transparent nature of the technology has drawn interest in the advertising world, where dealings between marketers, their ad agencies and tech vendors often aren’t transparent, leading to distrust and fears among advertisers that they are wasting money. Marketing-intelligence firm Warc estimated that of every dollar spent world-wide last year on “programmatic” ads—a term used for ads bought using automated software—just 40 cents on average made it to the publisher selling the ad space. Advertisers end up paying a “tech tax” to the intricate chain of vendors between a marketer and the website that runs an ad. Marketers sometimes can manually audit digital ad campaigns, but proponents of blockchain say the technology offers a faster, more reliable way to track spending and reconcile discrepancies with suppliers. The technology can also help track whether ads are running on websites with real traffic and on portions of them visible to ordinary users. That type of campaign information can be included in stored “blocks” along with pricing information. The objective here is not about savings, it’s more about transparency to make sure we are reaching consumers in the most relevant way,” said Lucas Herscovici, a global marketing vice president at Anheuser-Busch, one of the world’s biggest advertisers. A-B has tested a solution from mobile ad-tech firm Kiip that records ad campaign data to the blockchain. “I believe in the next two to three years, most of the programmatic media will move to being blockchain-based because advertisers will want transparency and this will provide it,” Mr. Herscovici said. Blockchain has its drawbacks. It’s an extra cost and it depends on a number of players agreeing to sign up to a common agreement. Big online ad campaigns that target audiences across hundreds or more websites can cross dozens of different ad-tech middlemen, many of whom might not be keen on signing up to a blockchain consortium. Alphabet Inc.’s Google, the biggest player in the online advertising ecosystem, hasn’t announced participation in any of the advertising blockchain projects currently under way. Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google’s senior vice president of ads and commerce, said at a conference in March that the company had a small research team looking at blockchain but the core technology “is not something super-scalable in terms of the sheer number of transactions it can run.” Digital-advertising exchanges process millions of ad transactions every second, but it can take several minutes for transactions to be recognized in blockchain and hours for payments to be settled, according to Isaac Lidsky, president of Underscore CLT, a startup working on developing the technology for the digital marketing sector. Still, some industry experts think blockchain’s benefits outweigh these teething pains. When advertisers see how the technology can be applied to solve familiar problems, “it’ll take the boogieman factor out of the blockchain and everyone will instead focus on the quality-of-life improvement possible,” said Josh Herman, global integrated marketing leader at Kimberly-Clark Corp. , one of the members of a blockchain consortium at International Business Machine Corp.’s digital marketing agency, iX. IBM announced its blockchain product in June in partnership with advertising software provider Mediaocean. Major companies that have signed up to use the technology to track their digital ad spending include Pfizer Inc., Unilever PLC and Kellogg. Elsewhere, confectionery giant Nestlé is beginning to test a product from tech startup Amino. The product lets all advertising vendors get paid at the same time directly by the buyer, so long as they meet their pre-arranged commitments. That’s an improvement, Amino says, on the traditional process where the advertiser pays the agency, who pays the next vendor in the chain, and so on, leading to delays and discrepancies. Sebastien Szczepaniak, head of e-business at Nestlé, says he envisions putting a requirement in ad contracts stipulating that partners must use a blockchain solution. As with other new technology in the ad industry, blockchain will get widespread adoption only when prominent advertisers start demanding it as part of their campaigns. “I still think that it’s probably several years before there’s enough groundswell,” says Jeff Rasp, director of U.S. consumer-health digital strategy at Bayer, which has tested Amino’s “Lens” solution to track its ad spending. “But I feel so passionately about it that I’m working to try to have those conversations with other advertisers.” initiates campaign Every business in the chain agrees to the advertiser’s terms. Each entity records transaction data to a shared database Data can include how much of a cut they take in fees and what the publisher receives. Advertiser pays business partners Payment is based on the blockchain’s contents. Data is recorded as “blocks” The “blocks” also store the price of each ad and whether they were viewable. and ad of fees Demand- side platform	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20864
__label__wiki	0.734942	0.734942	Ephel Duath - Through My Dog's Eyes Despite a series of highly volatile line-up changes, group founder/nucleus Davide Tiso has ensured there's always been a surprising amount of consistency to be found throughout Ephel Duath's discography. "Through My Dog's Eyes", a concept album based on seeing life well... through a dog's eyes, is a seemingly ridiculous subject to base an album around, but it's one that Tiso has approached seriously. Littered with blunt and absurd lyrical content, the vocals are often a bit too corny to fully take seriously. This wouldn't be that much of a problem had the rest of the band drowned themselves in the frenetic and highly experimental jazz metal hybrid the group have come to be known for. But with "Through My Dog's Eyes", much of the layers have been stripped away, offering only a crisp and raw take of what was once a deeply rich cornucopia of sound. To be sure the prog/jazz influence is still present throughout, but without that distinct over the top flair to it, much of it just sounds repetitive and bland. It's truly a shame given the caliber of musicians involved that this album pretty much falls flat. Sure it's an interesting listen overall and the slide guitar parts especially make for some captivating moments. But given the overwhelming amount of off-timed drudgery and undercooked ideas served up here, it's only so long before the listener steps in what comes through a dog's behind. Through My Dog's Eyes 01. Gift 02. Promenade 03. Breed 04. Silent Door 05. Bella Morte 06. Nina 07. Guardian 08. Spider Shaped Leaves 09. Bark Loud Ephel Duath's Official Website	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20867
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__label__wiki	0.623609	0.623609	Free websites to check surgeons' records Action News on 6abc.com PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- People scheduled for surgery now have 2 new tools to help them check their doctor's performance - for free. Both were created by non-profit consumer groups. And both are based on data from Medicare, so they lack information on younger patients, or those on private insurance. ProPublica's website scores surgeons based on their complication and death rates for 8 common operations. Patients can see whether hospitals are above, on par, or below the average complication rate. They can also see how all the doctors doing that procedure at a hospital rate. The group notes that even at good hospitals, performance rates can vary among surgeons. ProPublica says the goal of the scorecards is to help address medical mishaps, a pressing problem in healthcare for nearly 20 years. It says ratings are based on two measures: deaths while in the hospital and readmissions to the hospital within 30 days. Another non-profit - Consumer's Checkbook - has also launched a website rating more than 50-thousand doctors for 14 high-risk surgeries. Dr. Robert Krughoff, the founder of Consumer's Checkbook, says 4-million case records were used to create the database. Dr. Krughoff explains that stars are used to rank surgeons, but people can also see whether the doctor they have in mind is being recommended by colleagues, and how many colleagues are making recommendations. Boxes with dash symbols indicate there's not enough data available for evaluation. Action News noted that many well-known, high-profile doctors are missing from the rankings. Krughoff defended their absence. "Either we didn't have enough data on those doctors, because they hadn't done enough of these surgeries, or their results were not good enough to make the list," he told us. "We hope consumers will use it (the database) to chose, to chose surgeons where they have much better chances of good results and avoiding problems," says Dr. Krughoff. He says past experience has shown that Medicare data roughly echoes that for all Americans. "The surgeons who do well with Medicare patients do well overall," he told Action News. The Consumers' Checkbooksite uses data from 2009-2012, but will be updated as a new year's data becomes available. Both websites are free. health & fitnesshealthcheck	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20873
__label__wiki	0.98999	0.98999	Video appears to shed light on fatal police shooting of Alfontish Cockerham By John Garcia CHICAGO (WLS) -- New surveillance video of a deadly shooting involving Chicago police is being seen for the first time as the victim's family attorney says he plans to file a wrongful death suit next week. Activists held a news conference at the scene earlier this week calling for the city to release video footage of the shooting death of 23-year-old Alfontish Cockerham. The city refused, but ABC7 Eyewitness News obtained the video. The video has been shown to family's attorney and an independent expert, who said the officer appeared to act legally and appropriately. An attorney for the Cockerham family said he plans to file suit against the city for wrongful death early next week. He said the video shows a police officer had no justification for shooting Cockerham in June. Police, however, say Cockerham had a gun aimed at officers before the shooting. In the video, an officer chasing a suspect he believes is carrying a gun stops and fires at the suspect. Police later say the suspect, Cockerham, turned and aimed his weapon at the officer, who fired in self-defense. Activists and attorneys for Cockerham's family say the video, taken from a security camera at a private business, supports their contention that the officer not only fired at Cockerham from behind, but that the he also fired again when Cockerham was on his back with his arms in the air apparently surrendering. "The video will show the officer committed a crime," said freelance journalist Brandon Smith. Jeff Cramer is a former federal prosecutor who says the officer had little choice but to fire shots at the suspect. "What else should the officer have done? Waited? No, that's ridiculous. The officer acted appropriately," Cramer said. While much of the image of Cockerham running is a blur, a gun seems to be on the ground after he apparently tossed it. At that point, the officer takes a shooting stance. There is no audio, but Cramer believes the officer fires two rounds at Cockerham. Medical examiner reports confirm two bullet wounds, in the buttocks and the thigh. After that, Cockerham can be seen with his hands in the air. Contrary to the statements by witnesses and activists, Cramer believes the officer never fired at Cockerham while he was on the ground. "At no other point is he shot on the ground, not happening. It's happening during the chase," Cramer said. The attorney for the Cockerham family declined to speak on-camera or issue a written statement, though he did review the video earlier this week. A spokesperson from the city's Independent Police Review Authority said he is unable to comment because the shooting is still under investigation. south shorepolice shootingchicago police department Autopsy released in fatal police shooting of Alfontish Cockerham Fight underway to release video of another fatal CPD shooting 23-year-old man dies after being shot by Chicago police	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20876
__label__cc	0.508943	0.491057	Yeast and Fungal Research Abbreviation: J. Yeast Fungal Res. DOI: 10.5897/JYFR JYFR Home About JYFR Susceptibility of Candida species isolated from recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis to antifungal agents among women at Institut Pasteur of Côte d’Ivoire Kpongbo Etienne Angora Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Felix Houphouët Boigny University, 01 BPV 34, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Vincent Djohan Valérie A. Ira-Bonouman Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Institut Pasteur of Côte d’Ivoire, 01 BP 490, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Henriette A. Vanga-Bosson Kondo Fulgence Kassi Abibatou Konaté Valérie A. Bedia-Tanoh Sébastien A. Miezan Christiane P. Kiki-Barro Hervé Menan André Offianan Touré William Yavo Article Number - 6C6A9D358978 Vol.9(3), pp. 21-26, October 2018 https://doi.org/10.5897/JYFR2018.0185 Recurrent vulvo-vaginal candidiasis is a major issue in pubescent females because of the fact that it is a source of health discomfort. For a better medical treatment, an analysis of susceptibility of Candida species to antifungal agents is fundamental. Therefore, this study aims to determine the susceptibility of Candida spp. to antifungal agents isolated in recurrent vulvo-vaginal candidiasis. This cross-sectional study was carried out in 2014 among 400 women with vaginal discharge. The recurrent vulvovaginitis was defined by the occurrence four times at least in a year. Vaginal swabs were cultured on Sabouraud-chloramphenicol medium, and Candida spp. were identified using a chromogenic technique. Susceptibility testing was performed using a microdilution method. In vitro susceptibility to antifungal agents test was performed using amphotericin B, 5-fluorocytosine, fluconazole, itraconazole and voriconazole against isolated Candida spp. Of 94 women positive from Candida spp., Candida albicans (59.6%) was the most prevalent with 59.6%. C. albicans did not show any resistance to amphotericin B and voriconazole. The susceptibility Candida glabrata to itraconazole was 50% and this species was relatively susceptible to fluconazole (77.8%) and voriconazole (83.3%). The medical treatment of recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis requires a precise diagnosis based on a mycological analysis and the susceptibility to antifungal drugs. Key words: Recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis, susceptibility, antifungal, Candida species. Back to Vol. 9 No. 3	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20878
__label__cc	0.6834	0.3166	Syrian Army Capture Hidden Terrorist Weapons Cache in East Damascus August 10, 2017 By 21wire Leave a Comment Syrian Army stuck another blow to future designs of the US-led Coalition and Israel, as they seized a hidden terrorist weapons cache located in the recently liberated eastern suburb of Damascus, in Barzeh and Al-Qaboun. It is believed that many such weapons caches are hidden throughout the country as part of a NATO covert GLADIO-style contingency plan, or “stay behind operation,” that could be activated in the event that the ‘rebel’ terrorist are eventually defeated and driven from Syria. Western-backed terrorists would then be able to return and access concealed arms depots in order to stir violence and instability again in the future. More on this development from AMN… (Image: Al Masdar News) Al Masdar News DAMASCUS, SYRIA (3:00 P.M.) – This morning, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) seized large quantities of ammunition, automatic rifles, anti-tank missiles and IED’s (improvised explosive devices) left behind by jihadist insurgents in east Damascus. The spoils of war were put on display to a local radio station by Syrian authorities on Wednesday after multiple storage facilities containing armaments were discovered in Barzeh and Al-Qaboun, two suburbs in east Damascus that were restored under SAA control in late May due to an evacuation deal at the time. According to Al-Masdar News field correspondent Ibrahim Joudeh, rebel fighters often try to keep their weapons hidden for good before signing evacuation deals with the SAA, hoping to return for battle on a later date to recover the guns. Photos of the newly captured weapons: Continue this story and see more photos at Al Masdar News SEE MORE SYRIA NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire Syria Files SUPPORT 21WIRE – SUBSCRIBE & BECOME A MEMBER @ 21WIRE.TV Filed Under: Featured, International News, Middle East Tagged With: Damascus, GLADIO, NATO, Syria News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20887
__label__wiki	0.953486	0.953486	Updated May-16-2016, 16:10:58 GMT Scott Van Slyke is put on the disabled list by the Dodgers Los Angeles Times Apr-13-2016, 03:15:21 GMT The Dodgers put Scott Van Slyke on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday because of lower-back irritation. Van Slyke joined Andre Ethier and Carl Crawford on the team's list of injured outfielders. "He's not going to be available for five to six to seven days," Manager Dave Roberts said. "So it just made sense for us." The injury to Van Slyke, combined with Monday's option of infielder Micah Johnson to triple-A Oklahoma City, opened space on the roster for the return of catcher Yasmani Grandal and infielder Howie Kendrick. disabled list, scott van slyke, van slyke, (10 more...) Country: North America > United States > Oklahoma > Oklahoma County (0.37) Industry: Leisure & Entertainment > Sports > Baseball (1.00) Dodgers mailbag: Will Trayce Thompson stick with the team all season? Los Angeles Times May-16-2016, 16:10:58 GMT That translates to an 85-win pace over the course of the season, which is below the team's expectations for 2016. But the team went 4-3 last week against a pair of competent teams, the Mets and the Cardinals, and the schedule calls for seven this week against the Angels and the Padres. As always, there is plenty to discuss. As always, you can send me questions on Twitter @McCulloughTimes. The Dodgers had a decent week. dodger, hernandez, thompson, (13 more...) Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts looking for production from left fielders In the wake of Andre Ethier's broken leg, five Dodgers took turns in left field during the first five weeks of the season. As a group, they have been one of the least productive units in baseball, entering Wednesday's game against the New York Mets ranked 26th with a collective .607 Manager Dave Roberts chose Carl Crawford to play left Wednesday. He opted for Crawford, a left-handed hitter, over Trayce Thompson, a right-handed hitter. Thompson hit a walk-off home run Tuesday night, but the Dodgers preferred a left-handed hitter against right-handed pitcher Noah Syndergaard and his triple-digit fastball. dodger, dodger manager dave robert, manager dave robert, (9 more...) Country: North America > United States > New York (0.36) Los Angeles Dodgers' Carl Crawford, Justin Turner could be rested Thursday Los Angeles Times Apr-7-2016, 02:45:07 GMT Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts will begin parceling days off to his veteran position players Thursday in San Francisco. He expects to sit left fielder Carl Crawford and may also rest third baseman Justin Turner. Roberts has not decided between Scott Van Slyke or Trayce Thompson as Crawford's replacement. Thompson replaced Crawford in the field in the sixth inning of the first two games of the season, part of the team's plan to keep Crawford's legs fresh. If Turner does not play, Roberts would use Enrique Hernandez or Charlie Culberson at third base. carl crawford, crawford, justin turner, (8 more...) Country: North America > United States > California > San Francisco County (0.41) Dodgers' Andre Ethier will be out 10 to 14 weeks with a broken leg Los Angeles Times Mar-22-2016, 23:10:02 GMT A CT scan of Dodgers outfielder Andre Ethier's right leg revealed a fractured tibia, which will sideline him for 10 to 14 weeks. Ethier passed an initial X-ray after fouling a ball off his shin Friday. But he could not put weight on his leg, and required an additional examination. "Obviously, it was a freakish injury," President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman said. The Dodgers planned to use Ethier prominently this season. andre ethier, dodger, ethier, (2 more...)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20888
__label__cc	0.595429	0.404571	Agile Architect ALM/Testing Low Code Waters Works UPDATE: Microsoft May Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrades to Consumers By Kurt Mackie A memo purportedly from Microsoft to its OEM partners suggests that Microsoft will offer upgrades from Windows Vista to Windows 7, starting possibly on July 1, 2009. The upgrade will only be offered to consumers buying new PCs, according to the Tech ARP Web site. Microsoft has not publicly released this information, and it may not be true, or the date may shift. Some authors have suggested the deal implies a free upgrade, but the memo doesn't specifically state that it would be free. Participating OEMs have to agree to the deal, which is optional for them to offer, according to the memo. The deal is reminiscent of past marketing attempts that aim to promote new PC sales. The idea is to encourage consumers to buy new Vista-based PCs in a particular time frame, and not wait for the Windows 7 general release to make those purchases -- hence the idea of a free upgrade. Microsoft still sticks with early 2010 as the general public release date for Windows 7. However, veteran Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley suggested that the release-to-manufacturing date for Windows 7 might be sometime in the third quarter of 2009. According to the Tech ARP memo, this offer will be part of the "Windows 7 Upgrade Program." The offer will be available during a specific "eligibility period," starting on July 1. The ending date for the program is yet to be determined. The leaked draft also proposes a number of restrictions on the deal, depending on which edition of Vista consumers have purchased. New PC buyers can upgrade from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium only. If they have Windows Vista Business, then they can only upgrade to Windows 7 Professional. For those with Windows Vista Ultimate, the upgrade option is only to Windows 7 Ultimate. Those buying new PCs with other versions of Vista loaded on them won't be eligible for the deal. The upgrade is language specific (that is, you can't switch from one language version to another), and 32-bit and 64-bit versions will be supported, according to the leaked draft. Upgrading might not be so smooth, however. One of the proposed caveats in the draft suggests it may involve reformatting the hard disk. "Installation for some of the Windows 7 products may require you to re-format your hard drive," the draft warns. The draft also suggests heavy fines for OEMs that stray from the terms of Microsoft's program requirements, suggesting 130 percent royalty penalties. Currently, Windows 7 is being tested as part of a pre-beta program. The Beta 1 version of the new OS is reportedly available through some BitTorrent sites. Kurt Mackie is online news editor, Enterprise Group, at 1105 Media Inc. Oracle's CPU Includes Only 12 Security Patches for Java SE Python 2 Officially Hits End of Life, Final Few Fixes Coming April 2020 Qualcomm Autonomous Driving Platform Combines SoC and AI Java in 2020: What To Expect, According to the Experts Eclipse Jakarta EE 9 Release Plan Approved Tech Orgs Urge SCOTUS to Reverse Google v. Oracle on Java Copyright AppTrends Free White Papers Best practices for migrating to containerized applications A developer's guide to lift-and-shift cloud migration Teaching an Elephant to Dance Building apps in containers: 5 things to share with your manager Sponsored Webcasts Why You Should NOT Be Using a Relational DB for Time-Stamped Data How Data Insights Can Transform Your Business Problems? Questions? Just want to say "Hi"? Email us!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20893
__label__cc	0.69193	0.30807	Adventures In Evidence A site currently promoting awareness and debate of how the poorest students in Scotland face the highest government debt: "essential reading for a critical commentary on the funding of Scottish higher education" Wonkhe About this blog (new readers start here) Contact and comment ESRC Working Paper: The Fairest of Them All Student funding in Scotland: 2013 report Publications, media etc Related media articles Debating and reporting student support Student grant in Scotland Student guest blogs Student loans and student debt Student support: research resources Debt, scotland, sharia loans, sharia student loans, student loans company, willetts Student loans and sharia law There was a short debate at Westminster earlier this week (on 24 June) on proposals by the UK Government to introduce an alternative student finance arrangement for students concerned that conventional student loans under the new model (“Plan 2”) introduced for England and also Wales in 2012 are not compliant with sharia law. A Whitehall consultation recently closed, seeking comments on a self-contained system under which a pool of funds would be established, from which payments would be made to students while they study. Students in turn would contract to repay what they had taken out, plus a further charitable contribution to the fund, to help future generations of students. The aim would be to make the repayments identical to what students would make under the conventional loan scheme and the scheme would be open to any student, regardless of faith. The fund would be administered by the Student Loans Company, but ring-fenced from its other activities. It is argued that by replacing interest with additional charitable contributions, the same levels of repayments can be obtained as under the conventional loan scheme without breaching sharia law principles. David Willetts, Minister for Higher Education told Parliament this week that this model had been approved by Islamic finance specialists (although there has been some suggestion in the press of concern that the model was not compliant). It has the support of the NUS. It is not yet certain however that it will go ahead. The old loan scheme, as still used in Scotland and Northern Ireland (“Plan 1”), appears not to be regarded as a problem, as interest is pegged to RPI: it is the introduction of real-terms interest in the new scheme which has raised the issue. However, playing down the delay which there will have to be in introducing any new scheme, which wouldn’t be available until 2016 at the soonest, David Willetts noted during the debate that many Muslim students are still taking out Plan 2 loans. The BIS consultation refers to the UK Muslim community and the proposals do not explicitly suggest access would be limited to English and Welsh domiciled students, although that might be regarded as implicit, given it is presented as an alternative to Plan 2 loans. Making this a UK-wide scheme would open up the interesting possibility that Scottish students (of any faith and none) could opt for this scheme if they preferred the higher income threshold for repayments and shorter write-off period applying in the Plan 2 scheme. As noted elsewhere on this site, for those who do not expect to be high earners, the English and Welsh Plan 2 system is potentially cheaper, even with its higher interest rates. It might seem odd to imagine students shopping around in this way: but it’s not entirely implausible. Presuming however this development is directly relevant only to students domiciled in England and Wales, it remains interesting as an extension of the general debate about loans. Indeed, the more explicit linking of contributions to the benefit of future generations has echoes of the model of graduate contribution proposed by the Cubie Committee in Scotland. Although the graduate endowment was not put in place on Cubie’s terms – a wholly separate endowment fund was not set up – the legislation did include a specific provision that income from the endowment should be put towards student support. It’s interesting to see this sort of thinking now re-surfacing from a different direction. Indeed, the proposals in the BIS paper, with a ring-fenced fund and a reasonably high income threshold are in these respects closer to the Cubie model than the version legislated for in Scotland in 2000 – although the sums being sought from students are of course a great deal higher than Cubie’s £3,000, even allowing for inflation. If the SLC could absorb this model, what possibilities would open up for ringing changes on the way the resources available through the SLC are packaged and conceptualised for the devolved nations? From → Student loans and student debt « Education Maintenance Allowance: budget update When does £7,600 mean £18,500, or more? The problem with “final debt” figures » UCAS applications 2019: cross UK comparison July 15, 2019 Living cost support in 2018-19: how do different parts of the UK compare? June 11, 2018 SNP conference announcements on student support: what’s changing and what’s still to come? June 10, 2018 Rethinking the four year degree May 12, 2018 Student support review minutes February 9, 2018 Toby Young’s Schooldays January 6, 2018 The price of meeting political timetables: baby boxes as a case study December 19, 2017 Student support review #7: more trouble with comparisons December 3, 2017 (c) Lucy Hunter 2013	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20895
__label__wiki	0.561077	0.561077	Home Business Interview: Savvas Perdios, Cyprus Deputy Minister of Tourism on Diversifying Strategy to... Interview: Savvas Perdios, Cyprus Deputy Minister of Tourism on Diversifying Strategy to Attract Visitors Interview with His Excellency Mr. Savvas Perdios, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Cyprus. Cyprus’ increasing hotel and resort portfolio is expected to grow by 1,634 rooms this year, with seven new luxury hotels due to open across the idyllic Mediterranean island before the end of 2019. With the traditional summer influx of tourists expected to set new arrival records in the coming months, Cyprus’ Deputy Ministry of Tourism revealed that the latest hotel openings will help attract future arrivals from the GCC. RELATED: Cyprus Tourism Official Buoyed by Record Tourism Numbers “With Cyprus’ diverse array of tourism attractions contributing to year-on-year increases in overall tourist numbers, expanding the island’s hotel portfolio is a strategic necessity that will enhance Cyprus’ appeal to visitors from across the GCC and further afield,” says Mr. Savvas Perdios, Deputy Minister of Tourism. RELATED: GCC Visitors Fuels Record Tourism Numbers to Cyprus “More and more luxury hotels are recognising Cyprus as a vital address in their network expansion and investment plans, so seven new property openings in 2019 is just the beginning. While these properties have been built with both leisure and business visitors in mind, the Deputy Ministry of Tourism will continue to enhance its luxury product portfolio to meet the demands of modern-day travellers.” RELATED: Cyprus’ award-winning, accessible beaches are just a quick hop for GCC travellers VIDEO: Interview with Savvas Perdios, Cyprus Deputy Minister of Tourism At the recently concluded Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, we had the chance to interact with His Excellency Savvas Perdios. The minister started by briefing on the formation of the new tourism ministry and then covered a range of topics including, the ministry’s marketing strategy to attract tourists from the GCC, tourism growth and expectations in the future, tourist attractions in Cyprus in general and development plans to attract more travellers to Cyprus, best time to visit Cyprus, and also on how they plan to best utilize the middle east’s largest trade fair – the Arabian Travel Market. Savvas Perdios, Cyprus Deputy Minister of Tourism speaks all about Cyprus tourism during Arabian Travel Market 2019. Hotes and Resorts opening this year The four- and five-star properties, which include Parklane Resort & Spa, AMARA Hotel, Amavi Hotel and Sun City Resort & Residences, will cater to both luxury and active travellers. All within walking distances of a number of the island’s most popular tourist attractions, each property boasts lavish suites, private swimming pools, world-class F&B options and expansive spas and gyms. Marking Marriott International’s entry into Cyprus and the first international luxury branded resort in the country, Parklane Resort & Spa opened its doors in Limassol earlier this month. Lying within 100,000 square metres of lush landscaped gardens and overlooking a 300-metre pristine sandy beach, the hotel is in close proximity to several heritage attractions, including the Ancient Amathus Archaeological Site. Cyprus’ first five-star, couples-only hotel Amavi opened its doors in February in the heart of Pafos. The recreational areas of the hotel include two outdoor and one indoor pools, as well as a gym, tennis court, spa, four restaurants and three bars. For families looking to enjoy Ayia Napa, the impressive four-star Nissiblu Beach Resort due to open soon boasts four floors of luxe suites, two pools and an array of F&B outlets. What is touted as one of the most exciting openings of the year, the ultra-luxury AMARA is set to change the gastronomic landscape of Limassol when it opens in May. The property will house three restaurants connected to celebrity chefs, including Nobu Matsuhisa, Giorgio Locatelli and Giorgos Papaioannou. Then, there is the five-star Louis Ivi Mare, a member of Louis Hotel’s Elegant Collection, will open on the beach of Kato Pafos – walking distance from Pafos Harbour – in May. The hotel will feature 148 Superior and Deluxe rooms, as well as Junior Suites. The final two openings of the year include the Chrysomare Beach Hotel & Resort in the heart of Ayia Napa’s Nissi Avenue, and the five-star Sun City Resort & Residences. Travellers from across the GCC can reach Cyprus in three-four hours, with direct flights operated by Emirates and Gulf Air. For more information about what to see and do in Cyprus, visit: www.visitcyprus.com or www.facebook.com/visitcyprus.ar. Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios Previous articleSwitzerland Diaries: Exploring Switzerland with Swiss Travel Pass Next articleLower Rents and Incentives Offered Makes Dubai Attractive to Businesses	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20901
__label__wiki	0.971671	0.971671	Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Court OKs Football Players’ Lawsuit Against EA Over Madden Jon Ledford The judicial system is letting a group of former NFL players file a lawsuit against Electronic Arts over the use of their images and likenesses in the Madden NFL series. ESPN reports the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and a district court have declined Electronic Arts' tries to get a lawsuit filed against it by former NFL players thrown out. The Court of Appeals declined Electronic Arts appeals by saying that EA wouldn't win the argument that the players' likenesses were merely incidental. "We hold EA's use of the former players' likenesses is not incidental because it is central to EA's main commercial purpose -- to create a realistic virtual simulation of football games involving current and former NFL teams," Circuit Judge Raymond Fisher said. "Like NCAA Football, Madden NFL replicates players' physical characteristics and allows users to manipulate them in the performance of the same activity for which they are known in real life -- playing football for an NFL team." Former LA Rams QB Vince Ferragamo and other past NFL players filed the lawsuit against EA due to the Madden series using their likenesses without their permission. "We believe in the First Amendment right to create expressive works -- in any form -- that relate to real-life people and events, and will seek further court review to protect it," an EA spokesperson said. In 2013, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against EA again in a lawsuit by former Arizona State QB Sam Keller over the same type of ordeal. EA then agreed to a $40 million settlement for Keller and other former collegiate athletes featured in its games. SEGA SETTLES ALIENS LAWSUIT FOR $1.25M Filed Under: EA, Madden NFL 15 Categories: News, Sports Games Most Modern Games Could Benefit From Special Photo Modes 2020 Arcade Sushi is part of the ScreenCrush Network, Townsquare Media, Inc. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20903
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__label__wiki	0.69401	0.69401	Campus News (16) Apply Campus News filter Mexico City Welcomes Hundreds of Hoyas for Georgetown’s 2018 International Alumni Weekend This year’s International Alumni Weekend, held in October in Mexico City, connected more than 250 Hoyas from nine schools and 17 countries. Georgetown Professor Writes Dramatic Memoir from an Italian Villa Much like the Italian laborers who built Georgetown University's Villa le Balze estate atop a cliff in Tuscany, Professor of English John Glavin (C'64, Parent'95) devoted years and abundant patience... Student and Community Life Alumni Pass On Hoya, College Advice to #GeorgetownBound Students Each year, hundreds of students from various walks of life step foot on the Hilltop, anxiously awaiting the start of their collegiate journeys. From first-generation college students to #... Black Student Alliance Celebrates 50-Year Legacy of Community and Support Georgetown’s Black Student Alliance marks history and milestones on its 50th anniversary. Black Student Alliance Celebrates its 50th Anniversary Campus organization launched to provide support and sense of community for African-American students continues its legacy fifty years later By Chelsea Burwell Photo by Ndeye Ndiaye (C'18). The 1960s... Quotable Moments from JCW-Seattle Panels Insightful panels featuring Georgetown faculty, alumni, and friends invigorated this year's John Carroll Weekend, hosted for the first time in Seattle. Hundreds of alumni and friends of the... First University-Wide Women’s Forum Attracts Alumni, Students and Faculty More than 500 alumni, students, and faculty gathered for the first university-wide Women’s Forum, to share expertise in leadership, entrepreneurship, law, social justice and the sciences.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20910
__label__wiki	0.528049	0.528049	Lewis on the road again Amelia Lewis is on the road again, to Morocco this week for the Lalla Meryem Cup, a Ladies European Tour event at the Ocean Golf Club. In another time, Lewis would have made a great co-star for World Golf Hall of Fame member Bob Hope and... A world traveler, ‘Globetrotter’ Lewis playing well GOLFWEEK – By Julie Williams Opening Amelia Lewis’ closet is like opening a box of crayons. As a Loudmouth-sponsored player, Lewis has received four of the clothing company’s brightly colored designs in pants, skirts and shorts for the past 2 1/2 years. [... FLORIDA’S NATURAL CHARITY CLASSIC FIRST-ROUND NEWS & NOTES Florida’s Natural Charity Classic Lake Region Yacht & Country Club March 22, 2013 LPGA Symetra First-Round News & Notes In this article: A Trio of Players Grab Ahold of the Florida’s Natural Charity Classic First Round Lead She’s the Boss Let’s get Loud! Tweet of the Day A Trio of Players Grab Ahold of... Confidence is high for Lewis after qualifying for LPGA Founders Cup Amelia Lewis is exuding confidence after a sizzling performance in an LPGA Monday qualifier. Lewis, a Jacksonville native and Bolles graduate, shot 6-under-par 66 at the Longbow Country Club in Phoenix, then birdied the first hole of sudden death to finish as the medalist for an... Amelia Lewis on hand for Section III Golf Championship Amelia Lewis on hand for Section III Golf Championship in Syracuse where winner, Lauren Petty, receives a spot in the LPGA Futures Tour Alliance Bank Golf Classic. ... Jacksonville native Amelia Lewis eager for LPGA Tour try Bolles graduate, 19, gets her game in shape for a shot at LPGA card By Garry Smits Her putting stroke improved, and her confidence high, Amelia Lewis will attempt to make history beginning today in the first round of the LPGA National Qualifying Tournament in Daytona... Lewis now a professional winner Amelia Lewis has won dozens of amateur tournaments going back to her junior golf days and through five years of high school golf when she was a three-time Times-Union Player of the Year. She now has a trophy and a check ($3,000) to show for a tournament. Lewis... LaCrosse leads Alliance Bank Classic by one stroke over Lewis It had become, for the two leaders of the Alliance Bank Classic, something of a routine afternoon. So routine, in fact, that Cindy LaCrosse and Amelia Lewis wondered if anyone would inject some adrenaline into a round that tested their sense of adventure. “Nobody was...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20912
__label__wiki	0.528704	0.528704	The Fear by Robert Frost A LANTERN light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their lurching shadows on a house Near by, all dark in every glossy window. A horse's hoof pawed once the hollow floor, And the back of the gig they stood beside Moved in a little. The man grasped a wheel, The woman spoke out sharply, "Whoa, stand still!" "I saw it just as plain as a white plate," She said, "as the light on the dashboard ran Along the bushes at the roadside—a man's face. You must have seen it too." "I didn't see it. Are you sure——" "Yes, I'm sure!" "—it was a face?" "Joel, I'll have to look. I can't go in, I can't, and leave a thing like that unsettled. Doors locked and curtains drawn will make no difference. I always have felt strange when we came home To the dark house after so long an absence, And the key rattled loudly into place Seemed to warn someone to be getting out At one door as we entered at another. What if I'm right, and someone all the time— Don't hold my arm!" "I say it's someone passing." "You speak as if this were a travelled road. You forget where we are. What is beyond That he'd be going to or coming from At such an hour of night, and on foot too. What was he standing still for in the bushes?" "It's not so very late—it's only dark. There's more in it than you're inclined to say. Did he look like——?" "He looked like anyone. I'll never rest to-night unless I know. Give me the lantern." "You don't want the lantern." She pushed past him and got it for herself. "You're not to come," she said. "This is my business. If the time's come to face it, I'm the one To put it the right way. He'd never dare— Listen! He kicked a stone. Hear that, hear that! He's coming towards us. Joel, go in—please. Hark!—I don't hear him now. But please go in." "In the first place you can't make me believe it's——" "It is—or someone else he's sent to watch. And now's the time to have it out with him While we know definitely where he is. Let him get off and he'll be everywhere Around us, looking out of trees and bushes Till I sha'n't dare to set a foot outdoors. And I can't stand it. Joel, let me go!" "But it's nonsense to think he'd care enough." "You mean you couldn't understand his caring. Oh, but you see he hadn't had enough— Joel, I won't—I won't—I promise you. We mustn't say hard things. You mustn't either." "I'll be the one, if anybody goes! But you give him the advantage with this light. What couldn't he do to us standing here! And if to see was what he wanted, why He has seen all there was to see and gone." He appeared to forget to keep his hold, But advanced with her as she crossed the grass. "What do you want?" she cried to all the dark. She stretched up tall to overlook the light That hung in both hands hot against her skirt. "There's no one; so you're wrong," he said. "There is.— What do you want?" she cried, and then herself Was startled when an answer really came. "Nothing." It came from well along the road. She reached a hand to Joel for support: The smell of scorching woollen made her faint. "What are you doing round this house at night?" "Nothing." A pause: there seemed no more to say. And then the voice again: "You seem afraid. I saw by the way you whipped up the horse. I'll just come forward in the lantern light And let you see." "Yes, do.—Joel, go back!" She stood her ground against the noisy steps That came on, but her body rocked a little. "You see," the voice said. "Oh." She looked and looked. "You don't see—I've a child here by the hand." "What's a child doing at this time of night——?" "Out walking. Every child should have the memory Of at least one long-after-bedtime walk. What, son?" "Then I should think you'd try to find Somewhere to walk——" "The highway as it happens— We're stopping for the fortnight down at Dean's." "But if that's all—Joel—you realize— You won't think anything. You understand? You understand that we have to be careful. This is a very, very lonely place. Joel!" She spoke as if she couldn't turn. The swinging lantern lengthened to the ground, It touched, it struck it, clattered and went out. Add The Fear to your own personal library. Return to the Robert Frost Home Page, or . . . Read the next poem; The Generations of Men	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20913
__label__cc	0.660977	0.339023	HomeNew at AMNT How does the rest of the world see us? How does the rest of the world see us? June 20, 2019 By Shelley Ismail Comments are Off Article published in Professional Pensions- Written by David Weeks, co-chair of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees The Association of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT) represented the UK at two major international conferences last month. The European Pensions and Investments Summit 2019 was in Montreux; the eighth annual World Pensions Forum was in Brussels. As usual at conferences, impressions come from both the formal sessions and also from talks in the margins of the main agenda. One theme in particular that was positive stood out across all nations represented. It is the inexorable rise of ESG factors in pension scheme governance. A second more negative theme also emerged, unannounced and unplanned. That was the gloomy assessment that was widely expressed of the UK's likely outcome from a no-deal Brexit. The support for ESG involves all of the underlying environmental, social and governance factors. These three elements have different levels of resonance with different audiences. Together, ESG is not a category. It is a mind-set. In recent years it has moved steadily, in phases, from a minority sport into a mainstream activity. First, there were prophets in the wilderness who brought issues to public attention. Then regulators took up the messages, with a combination of guidance and then instruction on how these should be handled. Most recently, consultants and fund managers have discovered the marketing potential of an approach that is gaining increased currency. We are now embarking on the next phase, when we scrutinise and evaluate more closely the approaches that are put forward. The dangers loom of ‘greenwashing': that existing practices will simply be dressed up in ESG clothing. After these phases, the next step will probably come when lawyers spy a new field where pickings can be made. Some of the titles for sessions at the two conferences highlight how thinking is developing. One was: ‘Unlocking the full potential of ESG to add value to the pensions portfolio'. Another was ‘Socially responsible investing: exploring the profitability and outperformance of sustainably managed companies over their peers with less ESG focus'. ‘Responsible investing: excellence in practice: the ESG game changer' proclaimed a third. Methods by which progress will be made were addressed. ‘Challenges with ESG and active ownership: Leadership; prioritisation; data quality and quantity' was one theme. Millennials will engage more enthusiastically with investment in pensions that support sound ESG impacts. Practicalities received attention. One example was ‘ESG criteria and private equity: challenges and opportunities for pension schemes'. How do you integrate, and then implement, socially responsible investing? There are three phases: screen, integrate, and engage. Proxy voting enables asset owners to play their roles in this. Some sample ESG screens might include weaponry, human rights, labour, environment, governance, and tobacco. ESG scoring needs attention in benchmarking tools such as MSCI. ESG could be one of the criteria that are listed in a factor investing strategy. Some topical themes might include sexual misconduct, transparent tax policy, and stewardship in asset ownership. The UK handling of Brexit, by contrast, attracted melancholy. The context of the conference was ‘The age of uncertainty: managing risk in a geopolitical recession'. Delegates compared geopolitical modelling of Brexit to the frog in the water that is heating to boiling point. The UK is not grasping until too late what are the downsides to Brexit. Brexit is bad for the UK economy. We in the UK underestimate that damage. Opinion in the UK may be that Brexit is small in the international league table of threat, compared with, say, the prospect of a trade war between the US and China. Conference opinion, however, was widespread that Brexit is the biggest risk that the UK faces. I found general surprise that the UK is so sanguine. The conference delegates provided a useful counterweight to President Trump's advice to the UK. The two conferences together give a useful perspective on how others see us. The AMNT was pleased to represent the UK occupational pensions sector. David Weeks is co-chairman of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20915
__label__cc	0.60205	0.39795	Dino Melaye Was My Houseboy – Smart Adeyemi December 2, 2019 AMonpointTV Staff Latest news 0 On Saturday, November 30, 2019, Adeyemi defeated Melaye in the rerun of Kogi West Senatorial election. The political contest between the both parties may have ended, but the two politicians tend to be resolving to name-calling. Reacting to the election, Melaye via his Twitter handle said, he won the election, adding Adeyemi remains his political wife. He tweeted, “The reaction of men and women of goodwill all over Nigeria especially the wonderful people of Kogi west who truly voted for me is a testimony that God is with me and with us all. I won the election and Adeyemi remain my political wife.” Speaking with journalists on Sunday, December 1, 2019, Adeyemi described Melaye as his political servant. “When a servant steals the garment of his master, the garment will be too big for the servant… the joy of having his master’s garment will cause the servant to misbehave to people he ordinarily could have respected. The over-sized garment made Melaye to misbehave while in the senate.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20916
__label__wiki	0.866656	0.866656	About APMA Senior Management and Board Join APMA APMA Speaker APMA Programs O-AMP Career Ready APMA MIP APMA Committees The Intelligent Podcast Newsletter (eNews) Lead, Reach and Connect Automotive Market Intelligence NAFTA Trade Canada, U.S. and Mexico reach deal to lift Trump administration’s steel and aluminium tariffs by Apma May 17, 2019 Adrian Morrow, Lawrence Martin, Globe and Mail Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland have scheduled an announcement in Hamilton Friday, where they are expected to announce a deal to lift the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Mr. Trudeau spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump Friday on tariffs and other trade matters, the Prime Minister’s office said. A Canadian official said Mr. Trudeau and Ms. Freeland will announce the deal today. The agreement will end the continental trade war that has raged for most of the last year. But sources in industry and government on both sides of the border cautioned that Canada is not out of the woods yet: Canada will likely have to agree to tough new export rules on its metals industry that will benefit the U.S. in exchange for the end of tariffs. In exchange for getting the tariffs lifted, Canada and Mexico would agree to actions meant to stop steel and aluminium from China and other countries being sent to the U.S. through Canada and Mexico. They would also lift their retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. Industry sources listed two specific measures: One is a “rules of origin” requirement on Canadian and Mexican-made steel and aluminium that would mandate a specific per centage of the metal had originated in Canada and Mexico – a move meant to discourage, for instance, a Canadian company importing scrap from China and melting it down for sale to the U.S. The other measure would require Canada and Mexico to better track and monitor steel shipments to make sure China wasn’t passing the product through them to get around U.S. tariffs. One industry source said a tariff deal would likely be tied to the ratification of the renegotiated NAFTA, dubbed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement by Washington. None of the three countries has yet ratified. Canada has said it will not bring the deal for a ratification vote in parliament until the tariffs are lifted. In the U.S., meanwhile, congressional Democrats are still calling for changes to the deal before they will vote for it. The rules of origin requirement could also be an impediment to Canadian exports, creating additional red tape for U.S. companies importing steel and aluminium from Canada and pushing them to choose American suppliers instead. Daniel Ujczo, an Ohio-based trade lawyer, said the Trump administration will still find a way to impose import rules even without the tariffs in place. “The idea we’re going to have unbridled free trade in steel and aluminium – that’s unlikely,” said Mr. Ujczo, a laywer with Dickinson Wright who represents companies in all three countries. U.S. President Donald Trump imposed the tariffs of 25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium nearly a year ago on Canada and Mexico. At the time, his administration said the measures were meant to pressure the two countries in NAFTA talks. But even after a NAFTA deal was made in September, Mr. Trump left the tariffs on. Canada and Mexico imposed a suite of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. steel and aluminium and other goods, ranging from bourbon to ketchup to lawnmowers. The U.S. demanded Canada and Mexico agree to quotas capping their exports in exchange for lifting the tariffs. Canada and Mexico said they would not accept quotas, though one Canadian official said Ottawa would agree to a quota provided it was far higher than Canada’s pre-tariff exports. After months of deadlock, the U.S. agreed in recent weeks to discuss a metals deal without a hard quota requirement, the industry and government and sources said. Mexico’s point-man on the file, Jesus Seade, told The Globe and Mail this week that his country initiated the most recent talks with the U.S. three weeks ago. They paused the discussions to give Canada time to negotiate with the U.S., he said. A flurry of negotiations over the last two weeks – including phone calls between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mr. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence – culminated in Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland jetting to Washington Wednesday to sit down with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. That meeting ended without a deal, but the sources said the two sides have remained in touch to keep negotiating. Flavio Volpe, the head of Canada’s auto parts industry group, said the tenor of talks had markedly improved. “This is the most optimistic we’ve been in a while that there is a deal to be done,” he said. “It appears all parties are negotiating in good faith this time.” Via: Globe And Mail Tags:ADRIAN MORROW Chrystia Freeland Daniel Ujczo Freeland Globe and Mail Jesus Seade Justin Trudeau Lawrence Martin Mexico NAFTA Robert Lighthizer Section 232 tariffs Tariff Trudeau Trump APMA President's Message apmaTEC Automotive Market Intelligence Exporting Opportunities Previous Post FCA’s U.S. expansion stokes fears for Brampton Next Post The Intelligent Podcast with EXCO’s Ante Lausic All-Canadian concept car to demonstrate national ZEV production capabilities apmaTEC Auto Industry Auto Parts Automotive Market Intelligence Bulletins Business Development Networking OEM Technology Parts makers plan all-Canadian zero-emissions concept vehicle Advocacy APMA President's Message Auto Industry Auto Parts Bulletins Business Development Technology APMA launches all-Canadian Concept Vehicle, Project Arrow at CES 2020 Are you ready for a better, more productive business? Stop worrying about technology problems. Focus on your business. Let us provide the support you deserve. The APMA is Canada’s national association representing OEM producers of parts, equipment, tools, supplies, advanced technology, and services for the worldwide automotive industry. APMA Newsletter Contact APMA All-Canadian concept car to demonstrate national ZEV production capabilities January 9, 2020 Parts makers plan all-Canadian zero-emissions concept vehicle January 8, 2020 Copyright © 2019 APMA. 10 Four Seasons Place, Suite 801, Toronto, ON M9B 6H7 \| Tel: 416-620-4220 \| Fax: 416-620-9730 Managed by Kloman Studio APMA Sitemap	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20920
__label__cc	0.620051	0.379949	Wall Street reacts to Apple's strong Services and Wearables growth [u] Thursday, October 31, 2019, 05:21 am PT (08:21 am ET) Analysts have passed comment on Apple's record fourth quarter results for the fiscal year 2019, with investor expectations and analyst estimates being beaten in a variety of ways, though the lower iPhone revenue is suggested to be an indicator of challenging December quarter results. For the fourth quarter, Apple earned $64 billion in revenue, earning a profit of $13.69 billion during the period. With iPhone revenue down 9% year-on-year at $33.36 billion, the shortfall from the key product's revenue was mitigated by sales from a number of other areas growing year-on-year. Services saw its growth continue in a predictable fashion at 18% to 12.52 billion, with iPad also up from $4.1 billion last year to $4.66 billion, and wearables rising a meteoric 54% from last year at $6.52 billion for the quarter. Mac revenue fell slightly from $7.4 billion to $6.99 billion. Prior to market opening on October 31, Apple stock pricing is at $247.30, an over $4 per share gain since the earnings report was issued. Cowen and Company Reiterating its "Outperform" rating on the stock the iPhone business is performing "better than market expectations in the near term." The iPhone 11 product family "is being received well by consumers and this could drive a re-rating in shares," the firm suggests, "especially as a potential low-cost SE2 in C1H20 and a 5G iPhone by C4Q20 could be additional catalysts in the coming year." The better-than-expected results prompted a raise in Cowen's 2020 iPhone units forecasts, and a raising of its price target from $250 to $290. Services' growth is "robust" as a number of sub-segments like the App Store, AppleCare, Apple Music, and iCloud "reach new all-time highs." The Services growth is "a testament to Apple's ability to navigate the difficult macro head winds with its pricing strategy." Chinese revenues are also thought to have recovered despite dipping 1% year-on-year, as last year it was seeing 20% shrinkage, with iPhone pricing, wearables growth, and "key game approvals" assisting Services growth in the region. Rosenblatt Securities The 1.58% year-on-year revenue increase is "mainly driven by the wearable segment" and primarily from AirPods, Rosenblatt claims, though this is of limited use to the company as it "does not bring much upside to iOS services" at all. "We believe the lack of upside to services from wearables is why the Street gives low multiples to wearable companies." Despite seeing a resuscitation of revenue for Greater China, Rosenblatt believes "Apple still has yet to face its biggest challenge in China, which is the upcoming launch of 5G service in November as well as the coverage for 5G service expanding to 100 cities by the middle of 2020." The firm expects Apple's market share in the region to decline with the growth of 5G in the country. Globally, the initial 5G cycle will provide two challenges to Apple, in the form of mmWave systems "overheating" and the higher costs and resulting retail pricing. "We believe it may not make sense for Apple to launch a low-end 5G version for the iPhone 12 (the next upgrade from the iPhone 11) due to our estimate that retail prices may start ~$900. We think it makes more sense for Apple to launch both a 4G and 5G model for the iPhone 12 Pro, while just a 5G model for the iPhone 12 Pro Max." It is expected the 5G model of the "iPhone 12 Pro" will be roughly $300 more than the 4G-equipped version. The price rise may be too high, with Apple tipped to ship a total of 20 to 30 million 5G iPhones in the 2020 calendar year. The December quarter guidance of $87.5 billion "suggests slight iPhone revenue growth," which Rosenblatt models at around $52.5 billion in the quarter, slightly up from $52 billion last year. "With the earlier launch of new iPhone models and the upcoming production of the iPhone SE2, we do not think slight y/y growth from iPhone revenues will bring much excitement." Rosenblatt rates Apple as "Sell" with a price target of $150. Zhang's predictions for Apple stock pricing has trailed reality for about four years. Apple "managed to clear even the high hurdle of investor expectations," J.P. Morgan's investor note starts, with the higher revenue demonstrating Apple is able to "comfortably offset margin dilution from sales of a higher mix of lower-end iPhones." The leverage impact will "drive higher investor confidence in gross margin expansion medium-term," due to overall revenue growth and a potential return to growth for iPhone revenue. The improvements resulted in J.P. Morgan raising their revenue and margin forecasts, and its price target from $275 to $280. "Investors might be wary of sales momentum carrying into December quarter," the firm reasons, but "discussions with the company indicate greater confidence in the revenue forecast." Additionally, the higher portion of Services revenue that consist of subscriptions "drives higher visibility into the guide." Both better iPhone pricing and Services momentum have "long-term implications" for the company, with the latter's likely "higher monetization of the installed base" a good sign for the future. Apple "remains on track for paid subscriptions to exceed 500 mn in 2020," J.P. Morgan insists. Calling the quarter "Clean Across the Board, Morgan Stanley notes the iPhone 11 cycle is "strong out of the gate" with iPhone replacement rates nearing a ceiling and "setting up for improving and more stable growth in the medium-term." Battery and camera innovation, more affordable pricing, and trade-in and financing offers are "proving catalysts for stronger upgrade rates," allowing iPhone to beat the firm's forecast. Services growth acceleration "should continue" with more driving by AppleCare and the App Store alongside new services like Apple TV+ and "to a lesser extent" Apple Arcade and Apple Card. Gross margins for Services going forward are tipped to contract "due in part to the inclusion of Apple TV+," though the sequential growth in high-margin services like the App Store and iCloud could "act as a more meaningful offset" than Morgan Stanley currently models. On the subject of wearables, Morgan Stanley claims "We believe Apple Watch and AirPods penetration among the iPhone installed base remains far below mature levels, and considering 3 of every 4 Apple Watch customers are new to the device, expect a long growth runway going forward." Morgan Stanley has set a new price target of $296, with AAPL remaining the firm's "top pick for 2020." Investor, quarterly reports, JP Morgan, Cowen, Rosenblatt AirPods Pro use custom silicone ear-tip, basically non-repairable Editorial: Apple Pay passes PayPal, tramples Google Pay & Samsung Pay	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line20922

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