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__label__cc	0.568057	0.431943	Oprah for President 2020? article by Anna and Emma Snyder edited by Erin Partridge “President Winfrey” was the talk of the entertainment world after Winfrey accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award. On the night of the Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey gave an extraordinary speech. It was so impassioned that after, fans were calling for her to run for president in 2020. After the speech Oprah’s longtime partner Stedman Graham was quoted, saying that a run for Oprah is definitely a possibility. “It’s all up to the people,” Graham told a Los Angeles Times Reporter. “She would absolutely do it.” With all the power and fame Oprah has, this could boost her campaign up by a lot if she decided to run. She has many people who support her and she could definitely handle it with all that she has gone through in the past. Oprah is a American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. So, with all her experience in media this also helps her with the popularity of her supporters and fans. Oprah was also argued the “world’s most powerful woman” by CNN and Time.com, the “most influential woman in the world” by The American Spectator, “one of the 100 people who most influenced the 20th Century" and "one of the most influential people" through 2004 to 2011 by TIME. Through all this recognition Oprah is an influencer, a supporter and she knows what’s right and that’s what definitely makes her qualified to run for president this upcoming election. And with all her influence on the media and with all her fans she could have a really good chance to become the next president of 2020, matter fact the first woman president in America. For when the time comes, let's see what Oprah's choice is, running or not. Oprah Winfrey, on the night of the 2018 golden globes. Labels: National/Global Pep Rallies at MHS Why Everyone Stresses About College, Almost Shark Tank Explosion The History of Valentines PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics The Government Shut Down of January 20th The Psychology of New Year Resolutions The Science Behind Procrastination How to Become Charismatic A Date to the Ball Do Snow Days Actually Affect Our Education? An Interview with a Bus Mechanic Girls Junior Varsity and Varsity Basketball The Perks of Being in Culture Club Massabesic Baseball 2018 Winter Track Season The Arctic Blast The End to Logan Paul? Maine Experiences a Polar Blast	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line412
__label__wiki	0.849138	0.849138	1990s, After-hours, Alternative, Drum 'n' Bass, Electronic, House, Industrial, New Wave, Punk, Rave, Rock, Ska, Techno Then & Now: Catch 22 Marilyn Manson outside of Catch 22, circa mid-1990s. Photo courtesy of Andy Gfy. Article originally published by The Grid online (The GridTO.com) on May 24, 2012. In the early ‘90s, alternative rock was exploding overground, with the rave scene coming up right behind it. This beloved Adelaide Street club bridged these two movements together in a legitimate, licensed space. Club: Catch 22 Niteclub, 379 Adelaide W. Years in operation: 1989-1997 History: While a five-year-lifespan tends to be a decent run for nightclubs in this city, some strike a nerve and manage to go it longer, thanks to an ever-evolving community of supporters. Catch 22 was such a venue. Located on Adelaide near the corner of Spadina, Catch was slightly off the beaten path as it lay on the edges of the then-developing club district and was a few minutes’ walk south from Queen West. It was opened in November of 1989 by a group of friends—with Pat Violo, Lex van Erem, and Gio Cristiano at the core—in a former storage space on the building’s lowest level. 2000s, Breaks, Electronic, Hip-Hop, House, Rave, Techno Then & Now: Element Bar AnnMarie McCullough a.k.a. DJ Amtrak at Element. Photo courtesy of her. As Clubland boomed at the turn of the millennium, this beloved Queen West space provided a big-room experience in an intimate, underground atmosphere—but it ultimately became a victim of its own success. Club: Element Bar, 553 Queen W. History: In the late 1990s, Toronto’s rave and house music scenes were booming. Raves attracted audiences of multiple thousands while even licensed clubs catering to underground tastes tended to hold at least 800. The Entertainment District was littered with venues—most of them commercial and unadventurous—while the College and Ossington strips had not yet developed into hotspots for small to mid-sized venues. In this environment, a group of friends rented a decidedly intimate space on Queen, between Spadina and Bathurst, that had been home to popular pool hall Behind the Eight Ball and, briefly, 24/7 Billiards. The address was also known for after-hours parties on its top floor, dubbed Zodiac. Tony Mutch, Marcus Boekelman, and their silent partner Patrik Xuereb all met in high school. By their late 20s, Boekelman and Mutch had both produced parties, with Boekelman having experienced Ibiza and London and promoted events in Toronto featuring electronic dance-music stars like Paul Oakenfold. 1980s, 1990s, Alternative, Dance Music, Electronic, Industrial, Rave, Rock, Techno Then & Now: Boom Boom Room Boom cage dancers Mikey (far left) and friends. Photo courtesy of Sofia Weber. Article originally published February 1, 2012 by The Grid online (TheGridTO.com). In this instalment of her ongoing nightlife-history series, Denise Benson looks back at the notoriously decadent late-’80s dance club that brought metalheads and rap fans together, installed a hot tub and cages on the dancefloor, and effectively brought the “queer” to Queen West. Club: Boom Boom Room, 650 ½ Queen St. W. History: One cannot discuss this city’s nightlife history at any length without mention of the brothers Ballinger: Lon, Stephen, Douglas and Peter. The self-described “Rock ‘n’ Roll Farmers” from Dundalk, Ontario ruled the roost in mid-to-late-1980s Toronto. In 1986, they converted the former Holiday Tavern at Queen and Bathurst into The Big Bop, a multi-floor rock and dance club that packed in the student crowd. Its success paved the way for future Ballinger club endeavours, including Go-Go, Rockit and, at the northeast corner of Queen and Palmerston, Boom Boom Room. Previously, 650 ½ Queen West was home, at street level, to live blues venue The Pine Tree Tavern, with a hotel above. In 1988, the Ballingers bought and renovated the building, turning the upstairs into Hotel Heartbreak—a hotel-cum-rooming house announced by a big, bold neon sign—and the downstairs into a “Rock ‘n’ Roll Danceteria” that was far more intimate and edgy than their other club efforts.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line413
__label__cc	0.644352	0.355648	Trace: • player_s_guide_chapter_6 player_s_guide_chapter_6 Chapter 6: Interaction The Debate Axis Winning and Losing Interpretation (Advanced) Prev: Chapter 5: Exploration Interaction scenarios cover any situation in which the PCs are engaged in conflict-based discussion with another party. Trivial conversations and rumormongering do not require running a scenario. Rather, the scenarios are used when there is a chance of success or failure with diverging consequences for each. Example situations can include trying to convince someone else to do something or change their mind, attempting to lie or trick and get away with it, or making use of threats or intimidation to coerce. Note that only the players are permitted to use interaction scenarios to convince or coerce others; these scenarios cannot be used the other way around to force players to behave in a manner that is against their will. The gameplay of interaction scenarios primarily consists of the Stage and Debate Axis. Additionally, Actions and Reactions for interaction include the use of Traits. As with the other two scenarios, interaction also has a position-tracking map, here called the Stage. Unlike the combat and exploration maps, however, the Stage is more abstract. It's made up of a series of positions often arranged in a one-dimensional manner. Positions generally exist to track who has whose attention or how various sub-conversations happen within the overall group dynamics; this may or may not involve differing physical locations. As with the other systems, standard Actions can only be played against targets in your occupied position. Ranged Actions can affect targets in other positions based on the Range text, just as in combat; however, unlike combat, you can play Ranged Actions even if there are enemies in your occupied position. Movement is typically simple, with default speeds of 1 allowing crossing into an adjacent position, although Charisma adds an extra wrinkle. Whenever an entity attempts to Move from one position to another, one enemy in the original occupied position can attempt to stop the movement with Charisma. Since the interaction Stage is abstract, this represents a character using their wit or force of personality to try to maintain a hold on another character's attention. Whenever an entity declares an attempt to block the movement, the moving entity and the blocking entity each make a Charisma roll. Ties are in favor of the moving entity. If the moving entity wins, the movement completes without further issue. If the blocking entity wins, the movement is canceled and lost. Charisma entries are considered Skill Dice. Unless otherwise specified, only one entity can block an individual Move attempt. If multiple players want to block a single enemy's movement and cannot agree on who should get the opportunity, the DM may choose for them. If an entity is able to make multiple Move attempts in a single round, each of those Moves may be blocked individually by the same or by differing enemies. If an entity is able to pass through multiple positions as part of a single Move, any one entity in either the starting position or any positions passed through may attempt to block the movement with Charisma rolls. If the movement is blocked, the entity stops in the position where the blocking occurred. The Debate Axis models how convincing the PCs have been thus far. One end of the axis marks the victory position, while the opposite end marks the defeat condition. The central point is neutral, representing an argument that is neither convincing nor unconvincing and is commonly the starting point in such scenarios. The axis consists of a typical number line, with a 0 in the middle, positive numbers in one direction (the victory direction), and negative numbers in the opposite direction (the defeat direction). The length of the Debate Axis is typically equivalent to 2 + the number of PCs in either direction. So, if there are four players at the table (not including the DM), then the Debate Axis will go from -6 (defeat) to +6 (victory) in most scenarios. Each number position is represented by a notch. The current position on the axis is tracked by a special token called the Debate Counter. Abilities that cause movement along the axis will specify movement of the Debate Counter. If the ability says to advance the Debate Counter a number of notches toward victory, then you always move the token in the positive direction, even if it's an Opponent that is moving the token. Likewise, if the ability says to advance the Debate Counter a number of notches toward defeat, then you always move the token in the negative direction, even if it's a PC that caused the token movement. The terms are precise, not relative to the actor. For example, assume the Debate Counter is at the +2 position. An Opponent uses an ability that causes the Debate Counter to advance one notch toward victory. The Debate Counter should move to the +3 position. Hostile Actions played against allies reverse any listed movement of the Debate Counter. Reactions played by the target can only affect the Debate Counter if the attacking ally was forced to play the Action by an enemy. Each interaction scenario has its own conditions for success or failure. Common success conditions include reducing all the opponents' WP to 0 or reaching the maximum position on the Debate Axis. Common failure conditions include having all PC WP reduced to 0 or reaching the minimum position on the Debate Axis. In addition to these requirements, interaction scenarios often provide a round limit, representing how much the NPCs are willing to listen to the PCs. The scenario ends at the end of the final round provided in the limit; for example, if the round limit is 5, then at the end of the fifth round, the scenario ends. Some scenarios consider the round limit to be a failure condition if it is reached. Others require an evaluation of the Debate Axis; for example, if the Debate Counter is on the positive side of the axis at the end of the scenario, then it's victory, while a 0 or negative position would represent failure. Scenarios may branch to different outcomes depending on, for example, whether you won with the Debate Axis or whether you won with WP reduction. There can even be degrees of success or failure depending on just how far the Debate Counter advanced. The success and failure conditions are not hidden, so make sure you are aware of them when planning your approach in interaction scenarios. This will help you prioritize which abilities to use and which opponent to target. Each Reaction and hostile Action in interaction includes a Trait on the card or entry. Narratively speaking, Traits define the type of conversational approach taken by the play. Trait types include Aggressive, Charming, Comical, and Persuasive. Because the Traits are rather vague, and Actions and Reactions have a bit of flavor overlap in terms of arguably including bits of multiple Traits, these classifications should not be used to restrict roleplaying. It's fine to use them as a starting point or inspiration, but individual roleplay should be largely unhindered by such things. Traits have no inherent mechanical function. However, many abilities and effects trigger off of or otherwise function in congruence with Traits. Professions tend to focus on one or two Traits, which directs players who have chosen those roles to particular pieces of Gear that can provide situational bonuses. It's generally a good idea for a party to have multiple specializations, as many Opponents have situational strengths or weaknesses against specific Traits. Rarely, it may be possible to play a Reaction or hostile Action in interaction that lacks a Trait. This is not a problem, and a Trait does not need to be ad-hoc assigned to the play. For example, if the play is an Action, and an enemy Reaction gets a benefit whenever the target plays an Action with a certain Trait, such an Action would never trigger that benefit. On the other hand, if the Reaction gets a benefit whenever the target plays an Action that is any Trait other than a specific one, then the Action would always trigger that benefit. Non-hostile Actions lack Traits and do not interact with Trait mechanics, much like the preceding example. While how to interpret various mechanics in the narrative story is up to each individual group, this section includes some general advice on how things are intended to function, especially in stranger circumstances. First, WP specifically models an entity's willingness to continue to try to argue, talk down, resist befriending, or otherwise protest things. As such, damage is, quite generally, reducing an enemy's willingness to engage in antagonistic conversation. This may be done through building relationships and goodwill, scaring others into acquiescing, or even annoying people into just letting you have your way. The damage provided by each individual Action, Reaction, and other effect should therefore be interpreted uniquely as a part of the general flow of conversation and the distinct personalities involved. All of that is separate from the Round Limit, which basically represents how much time you have to try to get your way before either the opposing party cements their views or chooses to disengage from the conversation entirely. An Opponent that's defeated may still be engaged in the conversation from a listening perspective; they're just not contributing anything particularly useful any longer. Opposed Charisma rolls reflect grabbing and holding someone's attention (usually, but not always, intentionally). This can be direct through the use of pointed words or even physical actions (though not quite to the level of a physical altercation); it could involve general allure; or it could include magical compulsions and illusions. Use whatever fits best for your story and characters. Sometimes, interaction scenarios are used to portray mental battles of will. This usually happens when powerful magics are involved. It may involve charms and illusions, direct attempts at mental control, and even soul-draining efforts from powerful villains or objects. In such scenarios, everyone involved will need to put in a little extra effort to reinterpret their plays within the proper context. When trying to resist evil mind-control, an Action that suggests friendly conversational words might be reinterpreted as an effort to manipulate or subvert the magic, while a damage-focused hateful glare play might be read as using anger as a source of inner strength to resist the dark spells. This may be a fairly difficult thing to do if you're new to RPGs. In this case, seek assistance from veterans at the table. If none exist, the DM should probably avoid running this kind of scenario until everyone gets more comfortable with card interpretations and shared storytelling. 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__label__wiki	0.798868	0.798868	TIME News Watch Professors Read Their Own Reviews on Rate My Professors Despite Scandals, The NFL Always Wins Mandy Moore to Play a Doctor on Red Band Society 5 Grains That Will Overthrow Quinoa Police: Zimmerman Accused of Threatening Driver #AskTIME Subscriber Q and A: Michael Crowley Rob Ford Withdraws From Toronto Mayor’s Race Rooney Mara to Star in Musical Movie Ziggy Union: Prison Learned of Escape Plans Day Earlier The “Apparently Kid” Is Doing Commercials Now, Apparently Taking a nod from Jimmy Kimmel, who likes to torment celebrities by making them read mean tweets about themselves, Lehigh University had some of their professors sit down and read some highlights (and some lowlights) of their reviews on Rate My Professors, a websites where students write their honest opinions of teachers. Not surprisingly, the professors seemed unmoved by evaluations accusing them of “rambling about relevant topics” or being “awefull”—yep, that’s how one student spelled it. MORE: The Newest Drake Meme Shows That He Can Never Escape His True Identity as Jimmy From Degrassi MORE: Watch an Adorable Bear Cub Dance on a Golf Course Last night was the true test. A nation was disgusted with the NFL. At best, the league’s leader, Roger Goodell, was wholly incompetent in his handling of the Ray Rice mess. At worst, he’s lying about the way the NFL conducted the Rice investigation. No matter what, the world had just seen one of the league’s most prominent players punch his fiancée on video. And Rice played for the Baltimore Ravens, the team featured on CBS’ first Thursday night NFL broadcast. The Ravens hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers. And those Ravens, remember, had been tone-deaf to the horrors of domestic violence. Whether or not the team saw the tape of Rice’s assault before Monday — in a pre-game interview, Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti told CBS that he hadn’t — the team knew, months ago, that Rice struck Janay Palmer during their February altercation. Most employees would have been fired after committing such an offense. Instead, the Ravens staged a press conference with Rice and Palmer, and tweeted out that Palmer– now Rice’s wife — “deeply regrets the role that she played the night of the incident.” After the NFL suspended Rice for a mere two games in July, Ravens coach John Harbaugh called Rice a “heck of a guy.” A Ravens PR staffer went out of his way to sing Rice’s praises. So if there was any night for the American public to shun the NFL, it was last night. Ravens-Steelers. But now, the returns are in. And as always, the NFL wins. And wins big. “THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” ON CBS AND NFL NETWORK MORE THAN DOUBLES OPENING NIGHT RATINGS FROM A YEAR AGO, screamed a Friday press release. The twofold ratings increase of the Steelers-Ravens game, compared to the New York Jets-New England Patriots game on September 12, 2013, is impressive, though somewhat misleading. This year’s Thursday night game was shown on both CBS and the NFL Network, while Jets-Pats was only broadcast on the NFL Network. Double the channels, double the ratings. What’s more salient: the game gave CBS its best Thursday prime-time numbers since May of 2006. The NFL has failed leadership. The NFL has behavior problems. The NFL enjoys a federal tax-exemption it doesn’t deserve. The NFL milks the public out of money for stadiums. The NFL turned its back on concussions. It may have enabled painkiller abuse. The NFL supports a racist team nickname. But the NFL is no political entity, no leader. The NFL is a beloved product. The NFL has passes and catches and tackles and gambling and fantasy leagues. The NFL spurs parties and beer-drinking and man caves. Roger Goodell may get booted. More players will likely break the law. But these developments won’t affect the NFL one bit. Because even during one of the league’s worst hours, the votes kept rolling in. They won’t stop. Mandy Moore will be appearing regularly on FOX’s upcoming Steven Spielberg-produced teen-hospital-dramedy Red Band Society, The Wrap reports. The A Walk to Remember and Tangled actress (and singer) will play Dr. Erin Grace, the chief of staff at Ocean Park Hospital, in the show, which follows patients in a pediatrics wing. Red Band Society premieres Sept. 17 at 9:00 p.m. This article originally appeared on Food & Wine. FWx can’t pinpoint when exactly it happened. One day people pronounced quinoa as KWEE-no, and the next day everyone’s mom was plating up a dish of KEEN-wah. Quinoa, the Andean pseudo grain (it’s actually a seed), is so popular that some of the farmers who grow it can no longer afford it. How popular is it? So popular the UN declared 2013 the International Year of Quinoa. Despite attempts to grow the grain in America, it still exists here mostly as a South American import. The US takes more than half of the Andeans yield, which was well over 5,000 tons in 2012. But all trendy foods must eventually be replaced by something newer, hotter and more interesting. We scoured the markets for what we think will be the grains of the future. 1. Sorghum Sorghum looks and tastes like Israeli couscous. It’s a round and chewy grain that can hold up to stews or sauces. This is an ancient grain that’s been a staple for centuries in Africa, India and Asia. It’s completely gluten-free, a major consideration for people with celiac disease and gluten intolerance. Besides containing high levels of beneficial fiber, sorghum is also cholesterol free, which is good for just about everyone. The grain has an edible hull, so it retains the majority of its nutrients because you eat the whole thing. The best news for US farmers is that it’s drought tolerant, requiring far less water than other crops. What’s unique about it: Sorghum—which farmers in the Midwest commonly call milo—can be popped like popcorn. 2. Teff Gluten-free and the size of a poppy seed, this ancient grain is a long-time staple of Ethiopian cooking. You might already know it as the grain that goes into the spongy injera bread that you tear apart with your fingers. The flavor is earthy and nutty and, like quinoa, it can go both sweet—cook it on the stove to make a porridge–like breakfast cereal, or savory––add it to a stew to thicken it up. What’s unique about it: The grain is a good source of vitamin C. Here are some tips for baking with teff. 3. Millet Here is yet another gluten-free option. The name millet actually refers to several different tiny grains from one big family. It grows as tall grass, and then forms ears like corn. The most common version is pearl millet. Although predominantly used in India, Africa, and China, the US is beginning to recognize this grain as a nutritious alternative. If you like tabbouleh, which is traditionally made with bulgur, you can make an almost identical version with millet and impress even your pickiest eaters. What’s unique about it: If you have a beanbag chair, it just might be filled with millet. Feeling like a little millet risotto? Read the full list HERE. More from Food & Wine: Top 10 Quinoa Products Best Recipes: Grains How to Make Almond Milk and More Lessons From an Elite Juicer (ORLANDO, Fla.) — Police say a driver has reported that George Zimmerman threatened to kill him after a confrontation on the road. Police are investigating two reports involving the driver and 30-year-old Zimmerman, who was acquitted last year of a second-degree murder charge for shooting an unarmed teenager. Police say that on Tuesday, the man called police after a truck pulled up next to him and the driver yelled, “Why are you pointing a finger at me?” Police spokeswoman Bianca Gillett says the man recognized the truck driver as Zimmerman. The man says Zimmerman asked, “Do you know who I am?” and threatened to kill him. Two days later, the man says he saw Zimmerman in his truck outside his work. He called police but declined to press charges. His name hasn’t been released. Welcome to TIME Subscriber Q&A, with TIME's Foreign Affairs Correspondent Michael Crowley, who has spent the week traveling with Secretary of State John Kerry to Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The logistical challenges that resulted from his travels prevented this post from being published at 1 p.m. as scheduled. To read the full post, you need to be a subscriber. It's not too late to sign up. yogi asks, Turkey has reportedly refused to allow US to use their airbases to attack ISIS. Why does Turkey feel they don't need to be apart of the fight against ISIS when they have been one of the countries leading the charge against Assad and support of rebels in the Syrian civil war? Hello and thanks for the question. I am actually in Ankara right now with Secretary of State John Kerry, who has come here for meetings on this issue. This is a delicate situation for Turkey. You may also have noticed that Turkey attended the Gulf Cooperation Council meeting led by John Kerry in Jeddah yesterday — but that it did not sign the group’s communiqué pledging a unified effort against ISIS. Administration officials insist that Turkey is helping, although they’d like to see more progress. Why so delicate? Primarily because ISIS is holding 49 Turkish diplomats and security officers hostage — all captured the group captured the Iraqi city of Mosul and overran the Turkish consulate there in June. The Turks are obviously hope to get the hostages back alive and are trying not to provoke ISIS in a way that might lead to their harm. Officials say that Turkey has taken steps to stop foreign fighters from flying into the country and crossing the border into Syria. Six thousand have been denied entry to the country and another thousand have been deported, according to a State Department official. But Washington wants to see more progress on that front. The U.S. is also asking Turkey to crack down on ISIS oil smuggling over its borders which is bringing the group significant revenue. How much the hostage situation will complicate those efforts remains to be seen. In fact, just as I was about to send this, John Kerry visited the press here to make a statement. He is standing ten feet away from me now, declaring that “Turkey and the United States will stand together against any challenges within the region — including all terrorism.” deconstructiva asks, Michael, do you see Kurdistan going independent soon? (I asked Jay Newton-Small a similar question during her Q+A, now it's your turn!) I think they will thanks to growing differences with Iraq and better relations with Turkey, not to mention their oil. It is interesting that oil can play a key role in a region's potential independence, in this case for both Kurdistan and Scotland. Embattled Toronto mayor Rob Ford has ended his bid for re-election after doctors found a tumor in his abdomen. “I’m unable to continue my campaign for re-election as your Mayor,” Ford said in a statement released Friday afternoon. “With the advice of my doctors I know I need to focus on getting better.” “People know me as a guy who faces things head on and never gives up, and as your Mayor I have done just that. I derailed the gravy train, cut unnecessary spending and made government more accountable. I did this by facing these challenges head on,” Ford added. “Now I could be facing a battle of my lifetime.” Ford family representatives rushed to file papers ahead of the 2 p.m. deadline Friday to allow Rob’s brother, City Councillor Doug Ford, replace him on the ballot, the Toronto Star reports. Doug Ford will now run for mayor of the city in Rob Ford’s stead. Rob Ford will, in turn, run for Doug Ford’s Ward 2 City Council seat, a seat Rob held until Doug’s election in 2010. The Fords’ nephew Michael, who had been in contention to fill the Ward 2 seat being vacated by Doug, is expected to pull his name from consideration. Ford was admitted to a hospital Wednesday after complaining of stomach pains. Doctors found a “fair size” tumor in his abdomen but can’t know for sure if it is cancerous for at least a week. The news marks a dramatic watershed in Ford’s tumultuous and scandal-plagued term in office during which he was censured by the City Council after revelations of drug use followed by repeated instances in which he made graphic and off color remarks in public. Australian writer-director Diesel Shwarze, a Baz Luhrmann protegé, is developing an original musical feature film called Ziggy. The plot revolves around a hunchback escape artist who moves to New York in the 1920s and falls in love with the fiancée of a media mogul. Shwarze worked with Luhrmann on Moulin Rouge and is teaming up with music producer and songwriter Alex Da Kid to develop the music. Kid has worked with Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Dr. Dre. Rooney Mara (The Social Network, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) is attached to the picture, as is Dane DeHaan (Chronicle, The Amazing Spider-Man 2). (LIMA, Ohio) — The union representing Ohio guards says prison officials were warned about an escape the day before three inmates scrambled over a fence for a few hours of freedom before being recaptured. The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association says one inmate was put in segregation as a result of the discovery of an escape plan on Wednesday. The union says that inmate was housed in the same unit as the three who escaped. The union says prison officials did not take additional steps to secure the unit. A message was left with the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The three escaped prisoners, including convicted school shooter T.J. Lane, were captured within a few hours of their Thursday evening escape. The union says the state eliminated some security posts at the prison five years ago. The so-called “Apparently Kid,” Noah Ritter, made his commercial debut today in a TV ad for Freshpet, a pet food company. ‘Apparently this is my first ever TV commercial,’ he announces at the beginning of the clip, before going on to play with puppies, talk about dinosaurs, and explain why he likes dogs better than cats (“They like to lick your face.”) Noah, who gained internet fame from his adorable appearance on the news last month, has also appeared on Ellen. So apparently he’s a pretty big deal now. 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__label__cc	0.691319	0.308681	Board index » General Discussion » The WIX Hangar B-26K Counter-Invader Restoration ("Special K") Moderators: Ryan Keough, Ztex, Scott Rose, TimAPNY, dj51d A26 Special K Post subject: Re: B-26K Counter-Invader Restoration ("Special K") Forgot to mention, if any WIX folks live in or near Alexandria, La, please PM me for some questions or if you would like to meet us on the leg out to FL. Thx, JR Our chase plane made it to the Midland Airshow and we were honored to be asked to do a flyover at end of the National Anthem which opened the show. We got lots of compliments on the airplane plus many questions about Kay. Work has continued on the wing pylons, ladders for the cockpit & aft compartment, and replica ordnance for the pylons. Manning Manufacturing is working on a portable tow bar that will fit in the bomb bay. Kennedy Engineering is overseeing the ladder design. It's good to have friends in high places!! CAPFlyer Location: Wichita Falls, Texas, USA Great to hear the CT-133 is a hit. BTW, that tow bar is something I wish more warbird operators would do. I know it can be expensive to get a "portable" towbar made out of aluminum or other lighter-weight metal, but for us line guys, it's a savior when we know that we can move an airplane and not have to kludge something together. When the DFW wing got their new "flyable" towbar for the R4D a while back, it made things so much easier because the new bar came in 2 or 3 pieces, was well machined, and each piece only weighed about 20 pounds, making it much easier to get in and out of the plane for the older volunteers and easier to assemble for the line techs under the plane since you could put it together as you went from the tail wheel. Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2017 11:41 pm Just a short note tonight that we had threee successful flights on the A-26 today. Will try again tomorrow. We are very busy getting ready for the CAF Wings Over Dallas Airshow next weekend and then our trip to Ft Walton Beach for the A-26 veteran’s reunion. The VFM 40’s Hangar Dance is the night of 21 Oct followed by the Alliance Airshow on the 28th & 29th. We did not get a slot in the paint shop like we expected so we removed all the masking we had done to start flying and prepping for these appearances. Kay may be nekid but it would still be worth your time to make one or more of these events. See you there! Be sure to buy a T-shirt and help support a Kay!! rdennard Location: Florida/California Do you have a schedule for the Fort Walton Beach & Destin trip yet? Memories of Naked Fanny More Memories of Naked Fanny (Nov 2013) 609th Nimrod, Bomb loader, Gun Plumber, '68 - '69 Bob, a schedule for us is tough to pin down as weather and mechanical problems can easily change things. With that understanding, we are aiming for wheels up time of 8 am central. Will proceed to England AFB, LA @ Alexandria arriving about 9:30 am. Next we will head to Brewton, AL, to overfly the former Navy airfield wher our Crew Chief’s cousin, Tommy King was lost in a T-28 mid air with another student pilot 59 years ago on Oct 14. JR was seven years old then and his family got the call as they were finishing up celebrating his birthday. Arrival at Destin may be close to noonish. We will have the airplane on display at the south terminal of the Lynx Aviation FBO that afternoon and next morning starting about 9:30 am until launch time to overfly the Air Commando Memorial at Hurlburt which starts at noon. We will pass over at the end of the ceremony and return to Destin. The airplane will again be on display until about 4:30 pm when it will be time to go clean up for the A-26 veteran dinner on Sun evening. Departure will be on Monday (16th) at a time to be determined but probably between 9 & 10 am. We will go direct to Alexandria and then home to Fort Worth. Last edited by A26 Special K on Wed Oct 11, 2017 9:24 pm, edited 1 time in total. Thank you very much. That's close enough to a schedule for me. My days of worrying about late take-offs or an early morning "go" are over for me. I'll see ya'll in Destin. Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:21 am Do you have any specific information on the "A-26 veteran dinner on Sun evening." I can't find anything on it. Sent you an email with contact info. Regards, JR hawkeyepoole Our A-26A flies over the Air Commando Association memorial service on 15 October 2017. Three cameras, one on the ground and two on the plane. Full disclosure the cockpit video is flipped to make the tilt correct as the two airplane cameras are pointed in different directions. I'm particularly fond of the silhouette of the airplane on the ground as it crosses the Hurlburt Air Park! In the aircraft are Tim Black (who flew this airplane in the '60's) on the right, Steve Swift on the left, with Gus Gustafson (who flew with Tim Black) in the back. Tim and Gus are Nimrods who flew with the 609th Special Operations Squadron at Nakhon Phenom Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. https://youtu.be/QzEzhBn8-oA Hawkeye Poole https://www.youtube.com/c/hawkeyepoole franklin@pgctv.com therealJR Location: Ft Worth Nicely done Hawkeye, as usual. Nicely done. The real JR Zac Yates KiwiZac Location: Whanganui, NZ hawkeyepoole wrote: I really enjoyed that too. Great video! Cheers, Zac in NZ "It's his plane, he spent the money to restore it, he can do with it what he wants. I will never understand what's hard to comprehend about this." - kalamazookid We got thru the storms after the Hangar Dance last Sat night. Got in another flight which went splendidly. We are planning to take her over to the Fort Worth Alliance Airshow this weekend. Chase plane is going too. One of our acquaintances is bringing a very rare Beech Starship. The Induction Ceremony for the National Aviation Hall of Fame takes place there on Sat night. Big doings in Fort Worth this weekend. Drop by, see Kay and all the other aircraft. The Navy is showing up with their F-18 formation team... whatz their names? Oh well... Hangar dance was a huge success. Great fun for all. Ditto on the Alliance Airshow. We have commenced the second wave of crew flight training and expect two more DC-B26 type ratings before long. The FAA never changed from the 1947-48 type designation when the USAF changed back to A-26 in 1966 when the airplanes went to Thailand. Since that was a Special Operations designation, it would be understandable that the FAA was not notified. In the FAA Aircraft Registry, Kay is still carried as a B Model. Apparently, the Air Force and CIA never disclosed there were 40 K models either as they never intended any of them to be in civilian hands. But here we are, the only flying K model and the only one not in a static museum! We will be going into winter maintenance before long in order to be ready for the next Airshow season. We have just posted some videos of an engine shutdown and prop feathering test on our public Facebook page. No login or membership required to view. http://www.facebook.com/a26specialkay We plan to continue operating Kay in training mode until Dec 12th when we enter winter maintenance. So far Kay is running okay with 25+ hours added to the flight log. Winter maintenance will focus our attention towards the RH Aux tank. We continue to wait for an opening at the paint shop. Everything is set, paint on hand, just need a slot. Come see us, the other JR posts daily on FB. Had a really nice visit at the Alliance air show with Dale Adams. His dad flew the Martin B26 in the ETO and had the distinction of being shot down by a ME262. After the war he flew for On Mark until his untimely death in 1962. We have been looking over some of his photos from On Mark including the yellow and white "Initiator V" N40Y. Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], JOMiller and 14 guests	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line429
__label__wiki	0.827091	0.827091	Feature: Afghan farmers eye China with optimism for exports of pomegranates Publish- October 24, 2019, 01:14 AM Update- October 24, 2019, 01:15 AM Kandahar, Oct. 23 (Xinhua/UNB) -- The southern Kandahar province and neighboring states in the war-battered Afghanistan are famous for their flavorsome pomegranates and farmers are looking to international markets including China to boost the industry. "The price of one maan (4.5 kg) of pomegranates at the moment in a local market is 50 afghani (0.64 U.S. dollars) and the price is too low for a farmer to support his family," Mohammad Ali, a farmer in Kandahar province, lamented. The veteran farmer and father of nine, who harvested about one ton of pomegranates from his village garden in the Arghandab district, complained that a lack of market opportunities has forced him to sell his pomegranates at a low price, which in no way matches his daily expenses. "Business people from neighboring states import our pomegranates really cheaply at about 50 afghani (0.64 U.S. dollars) for one maan (4.5 kg) during this season and export them back at 150 afghani (1.92 U.S. dollars) per kg in winter and spring," Ali, 47, told Xinhua recently. To find new markets and sell the pomegranate at a reasonable price, the farmer asserted that the pomegranate-growing farmers need cold storages to keep their fruits ripe and sell them in winter at a good price. "We want the authorities to build cold storages and to facilitate farmers in protecting their products in autumn and sell them in winter and spring to foreign markets," Ali said softly. A dejected Ali muttered that their products would spoil in the absence of cold storages and that is why the farmers have no choice but to sell their pomegranates before they are ruined. "I am sure that China could be a good market for our pomegranates," Ali said hopefully. Ali also said with optimism, "Many other farmers and I are looking forward to seeing our pomegranates exported to China, an economic power and populous country, that can potentially import significant amounts of Afghan pomegranates." Afghanistan is an agricultural country as about 80 percent of the country's 30 million population, according to officials, have been relying on agricultural and horticultural products to make a living. More than 3,000 cold storages, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, are operational across the country and more cold storage facilities would be constructed, the ministry's spokesman Akbar Rustami said. Afghanistan produces a variety of fruits such as apples, grapes, pears, melons, watermelons and many more, but pomegranates, according to the farmers are more profitable, but only if properly marketed. Another farmer who introduced himself as Hamisha Gul has also voiced his frustration at what he described as the "low price of pomegranates" and said that the farmers would increase pomegranate production if the government finds new markets for the valuable fruit. Otherwise, he warned that the pomegranate industry here could collapse. The farmers' concerns have been passed on to the Deputy to Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, Hashmatullah Ghafoori, who said that the government would do its best to find new, international markets for Afghan pomegranates including China. "We have already started exporting pine nuts to China and we are now working on exporting pomegranates," Ghafoori said recently, adding that the country will continue working with China to further increase exports there. Libya's rival military commander seeks support in Greece As trial nears, Trump keeps discredited Ukraine theory alive DSquared2 fetes Milan Fashion's 25 years with Sister Sledge 'Bullitt' Mustang sells for $3.74 million at Florida auction	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line431
__label__cc	0.69832	0.30168	Become a Sponsor Now - Before it is too late! Tulsa TechFest 2012 Matt Hester, Technology Professional Evangelist, Microsoft Matt Hester is a seasoned Information Technology Professional Evangelist for Microsoft. Matt has been involved in the IT Pro community for over 15 years. Matt is a skilled and experienced evangelist presenting to audiences nationally and internationally. Prior to joining Microsoft Matt was a highly successful Microsoft Certified Trainer for over 8 years. After joining Microsoft, Matt has continued to be heavily involved in IT Pro community as an IT Pro Evangelist. In his role at Microsoft Matt has presented to audiences in excess of 5000 and as small as 10. Matt has written 4 articles for TechNet magazine. In addition Matt has published 2 books: * Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration Instant Reference by Sybex * Automating Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows PowerShell 2.0 by Sybex Windows Server 2012 Storage One of the most common uses of Windows Servers is for File and Print Services. Windows Server 2012 has huge improvements in the Storage capabilities as well. Storage Spaces happens to be one of these new capabilities that allows an organization to group different storage devices into a pool from which to create thinly provisioned volumes. Another new capability is data de-duplication that allows for storage savings by reclaiming physical space use on the hard drive by multiple copies of the same file. This session will focus on these two enhancements as well as continuously available file shares. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V With the introduction of Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V has definitely matured and will become a major force in the Hypervisor space. As virtualization becomes the norm in our customer's datacenters, IT Professionals are becoming more concerned with Fault Tolerance, flexibility and scalability of the virtualization infrastructure. Needless to say, Microsoft has focused on these areas in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and in this session, we will get into the details of the following key enhancements: * Scalability * Fault Tolerance with Hyper-V Replica * Flexibility with Shared Nothing Live Migrations (VMs and Storage) * Flexibility with Hyper-V over SMB PowerShell Not Your Father's Command Line 10 things you need to know Are you scared of PowerShell or do you think PowerShell is just another command line prompt? Have you used PowerShell? Do you even know how to start with PowerShell? You will learn the basics of PowerShell and what it can do for you!. You will learn how PowerShell combined with your applications can help save you time and money.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line437
__label__wiki	0.876342	0.876342	Microsoft lowers Xbox One price to $400 and drops Kinect Was the $500 asking price of Xbox One too high? Well, Microsoft thinks so, and has so far announced a drop in price by $100. But the new price doesn’t come without its own twist. Fans will have the option of enjoy the gaming console without the Kinect peripheral. Starting June 9th, the Xbox One will be sold in a second bundle sans Kinect (a standalone version of Xbox One’s Kinect will be available “this fall,” should you wish to add one later on). The “premium” bundle with Kinect packed-in will stick around after that. Additionally, the Xbox One and Xbox 360 will no longer require a Live Gold subscription to access streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu Plus, YouTube, and HBO Go. A Live Gold subscription will also not be needed for some premium services on the Xbox One, such as OneGuide, Internet Explorer, and Skype. There will still be some services that are exclusive to Live Gold subscribers, including the “Games with Gold” program, cloud game saves, and Game DVR. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Games with Gold, Live Gold subscribers will receive an additional free Xbox 360 game in June. Additionally, Microsoft announced that both “Games with Gold” and “Deals with Gold” will come to the Xbox One in June. The cheaper price represents a major shift for Microsoft. The cheaper Xbox One model will allow Microsoft to match the $399 PS4 on price. Sony has still managed to extend its lead by two million units. Despite all these new changes, Microsoft reiterates that Microsoft Kinect motion sensor remains an “important part” of the company’s vision, noting that more than 80 per cent of Xbox One owners use it regularly – issuing 120 voice commands per month per console. “We will continue to offer a premium Xbox One with Kinect bundle to deliver voice and gesture controls, biometric sign-in, instant personalisation, instant scanning of QR codes, and enhanced features only available with Kinect in games such as Kinect Sports Rivals, Just Dance 2014, Project Spark and more,” said the company in a blog post. Hispanic Local Search Destination YaSabe Achieves Mobile Milestone YaSabe, the premier local search destination to find and discover businesses, coupons and jobs that… The World’s Biggest SIM Manufacturer Denies NSA Encryption Key Hack Last week, The Intercept reported that the NSA had been able to capture and… Making Education Accessible To All Through Work Experience There is no doubt that online education is doing its bit to increase access to… Google Glass goes on sale to the US public iPhone 6 release date earlier than we expected	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line438
__label__wiki	0.83414	0.83414	Links 16/12/2016: New Linux Mint Releases Posted in News Roundup at 8:00 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Devices/Embedded Free Software/Open Source Q4OS – Part 4 – Life Without Windows The point of this series is to work out whether I can truly ditch Windows and use Q4OS as my sole operating system. All of the office features I need are available in LibreOffice so for the most part I don’t need Microsoft Office at all. The only thing I need Microsoft Office, or should I say Microsoft Word for is to make sure the formatting of my CV is correct and I can use the online version of Microsoft Word for that. The mission of living life without Windows is still very much on the go. Q4OS is extremely stable. As well as working out the Office stuff I have also used it to watch Breaking Bad on Netflix and for researching and writing the articles at Lifewire.com. There is only one more snag. I am a software developer and I develop Windows software. I will show you how I am overcoming that snag next week. Technology needs to get out of its own way For all of its perceived complexity, when it comes to “set-it-and-forget-it” operating system distributions, OSs like Ubuntu Mate 16.04.1 LTS should receive greater consideration for long-term application. [Older] Containers Are The Future But The Future Isn’t Finished Containers are a big deal, and they’re only going to get bigger. That’s my view after attending the latest KubeCon (and CloudNativeCon) in Seattle last week. A year ago, I was confused about what containers mean for IT, because the name ‘container’ had me thinking it was about the little box that code was stored in: the container image. I’m here to tell you that the container image format itself (Docker, rkt, whatever you like) is not the point. Kernel Space Cloud Foundry Launches Open Service Broker API Project The Cloud Foundry Foundation is spearheading an effort to create APIs for connecting applications to cloud-platform services. This involves getting collaborators to work on a piece of not-so-special software that each of them would otherwise have to develop. The aptly named Open Service Broker API project launched Tuesday with members including Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Pivotal, Red Hat, and SAP. Eleven Collabora Developers Have Contributed 37 Patches to Linux Kernel 4.9 Linux kernel developer Gustavo Padovan working for Collabora reports on the latest contributions he and ten other developers have contributed to the recently released Linux 4.9 kernel, which appears to be the biggest kernel release ever. Collabora’s developers are known to contribute a lot of great work to various open-source projects, including Linux kernel, Mesa 3D Graphics Library, GStreamer, or Collabora Online, and for the Linux 4.9 kernel they pushed no less than 37 patches contributed by a total of eleven devs, which is another important milestone for them and their project. Linux 4.10 Gets Early Support For NVIDIA Tegra Parker, Other New ARM Support The big batch of ARM changes for the Linux 4.10 kernel have been submitted, including some new ARM platform support and early code for NVIDIA’s next-generation Tegra SoC. x86 Platform Updates For The Linux 4.10 Kernel The latest pull request to talk about for the Linux 4.10 kernel merge window are the x86 platform driver updates. Linux Kernels 4.8.15 and 4.4.39 LTS Are Out with PowerPC and SPARC Improvements Renowned Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today, December 15, 2016, the availability of the Linux kernel 4.8.15 and Linux kernel 4.4.39 LTS maintenance releases. Arriving only five days after the previous point releases, namely Linux kernel 4.4.38 LTS and 4.8.14, the new maintenance updates bring various improvements and bug fixes across most of the components. However, they appear to be quite small, as Linux kernel 4.8.15 changes a total of 37 files, with 240 insertions and 139 deletions, and only 20 files have been changed in Linux kernel 4.4.39 LTS, with 129 insertions and 59 deletions. SCST 3.2 – Alternative SCSI Subsystem For Linux – Released A new release of SCST, the out-of-tree, alternative SCSI subsystem for the Linux kernel, is now out with its version 3.2 update. Btrfs File-System Changes Submitted For Linux 4.10 The New Linux 4.10 Kernel Features So Far: AMD Zen, TBM3, More ARM HDMI CEC Promoted Out Of Staging For Linux 4.10 Linux Developers Look At Upping The GCC Requirements For Building The Kernel Kernel developer Arnd Bergmann has started a discussion over upping the minimum GCC version that’s supported for building the Linux kernel. He’s been testing every GCC compiler release from 4.0 through GCC 7 to see the results when building the Linux kernel. Midlayers, Once More With Feelings! Discussing midlayers seems to be one of the recuring topics in the linux kernel. There’s the original midlayer-mistake article from Neil Brown that seems to have started it all. But LWN gained more articles in the years since, covering the iscsi driver as a study in avoiding OS abstraction layers, or a similar case in wireless with the Broadcom driver. The dismissal of midlayers and hailing of helper libraries has become so prevalent that calling your shiny new subsystem libfoo (viz. libnvdimm) seems to be a powerful trick to speed up its acceptance. Graphics Stack Float64 Support For Intel’s Vulkan Driver Is Almost Here While it took a long time for Intel’s Mesa driver to begin supporting the ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 extension for double-precision floating-point data types in shaders, fortunately it looks like Intel should soon land the Float64 support in their Vulkan driver soon. The latest patches from Igalia this morning are their revised set of 25 patches for supporting the Float64 capability in the Intel Vulkan driver. The shaderFloat64 capability signifies 64-bit floats (doubles) support within the shader code. The quest for a great text editor: A brief intro to Notepad++ Enter Notepad++. Notepad++ is licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL), and the source is available on GitHub. Installation is via a downloadable executable installer. If you’re comfortable with Windows Notepad or WordPad, the Notepad++ interface will be very comfortable to you also. The default mode is plain-text, UTF-8 encoded, with Windows line-feeds, and word wrapping turned on—normal Notepad defaults. If that’s what you need it for, you’re ready to go. Wireshark 2.2.3 Open-Source Network Protocol Analyzer Released with 19 Bug Fixes Today, December 15, 2016, the development team behind the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer, Wireshark, announced the general availability of a new maintenance update in the stable 2.2 series of the software. That’s right, we’re talking about Wireshark 2.2.3, the third point release for Wireshark 2.2, which lands approximately one month after the previous maintenance version, and, as expected, it addresses a bunch of bugs and annoyances that have been reported by users since Wireshark 2.2.2. Adobe Finally Releases Flash Player 24 for GNU/Linux Systems, Download Now After announcing back in September 2016 the Beta preview of its latest Flash Player technologies for Linux platforms, synced with the Windows and Mac builds, it looks like the Adobe finally released Flash Player 24, for Linux. Adobe updated Flash Player Linux for Chromium (PPAPI) and Flash Player Linux for Firefox (NPAPI) to version 24.0.0.186, the same one that’s also used on Microsoft Windows and Apple’s macOS operating systems, along with Flash Player Linux for Google Chrome and Flash Player for Google’s Linux-based ChromeOS. Microsoft to disable most Flash content in its Edge browser [Ed: Microsoft’s Ad Bot thinks malware like Vista 10 is “A-OK”, but not Adobe Trash] Instructionals/Technical Using the command-line calendar and date functions in Linux How to change the position of Unity launcher in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Typing emoji is weird How to provision Dockerized hosts with Docker Machine from Linux Mint 18, 18.1 How to start with Docker and OpenShift for newcomers Repair of broken system with DNF-2.0 Install Vultr Docker Machine driver on Ubuntu 16.04 and Linux Mint 18 A simple Perl alternative to storing data in Redis Wine or Emulation Wine Announcement The Wine development release 2.0-rc2 is now available. Wine 2.0-rc2 Released, Fixes 20 Bugs One week after going into a code freeze and releasing Wine 2.0-rc1, the second release candidate is now available. Egosoft Is Developing A New X Universe Game Using Vulkan Egosoft, the studio behind the X Universe game franchise with their titles long being Linux friendly going back many years, is developing a new title and will feature a Vulkan renderer. X Rebirth VR Edition is a new standalone game being developed by Egosoft and is based on X Rebirth Home of Light while being completely redesigned — and yes, will support a VR experience. The Other 99, an UE4 single-player action & survival game is waiting on fixes from Epic for a Linux version I’ve been following ‘The Other 99′ [Steam] hoping to see a Linux release soon, so I poked the developers about an update. They said they need fixes from Epic due to bugs in Unreal Engine 4 and Linux support. The open source itch client has been updated with major new features The client for the game store itch.io [Official Site, App Download, Github] has been updated again and it has some really useful stuff this time. Find the new release here. Torment: Tides of Numenera gets a release date After a few years of delay, the spiritual successor and thematic to Planescape: Torment finally gets a release date. The RPG should be available on February 28th. Block’hood, the neighborhood-building simulator is officially coming to Linux I was shared an email from the Block’hood [Steam, Official Site] developers today that states their neighborhood-building simulator should arrive on Linux next week. CryENGINE 5.3 Switches To CMake & Builds In PhysX, But Lacks Vulkan While rumors have recently come back up about the financial health of Crytek, at least this week they managed to deliver on their CryENGINE 5.3 release but it’s coming about one month later than initially anticipated. Dota 2 7.00 – Mesa 13.1-dev: OpenGL RadeonSI vs. Vulkan RADV With the big Dota 2 7.00 update having been released at the start of the week bringing some performance changes, I have carried out a number of fresh benchmarks of Mesa 13.1-dev with AMD Radeon graphics when testing the OpenGL renderer using RadeonSI and the Vulkan renderer with RADV paired with Linux 4.9 AMDGPU. Tests on several different Radeon graphics cards. Desktop Environments/WMs Budgie 10.2.9 Desktop Released with HiDPI Improvements, Panel and Raven Fixes We’ve just been informed this morning by Joshua Strobl from the Solus Project about the general availability of the Budgie 10.2.9 desktop environment for Solus and other supported GNU/Linux distributions. K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt Kdenlive 16.12 Video Editor Adds Advanced Trimming Tools, Rotoscoping Effect The Kdenlive development team announced a new stability version of the open-source video editor designed for KDE Plasma desktop environments, Kdenlive 16.12, released as part of the KDE Applications 16.12 software suite. We’ve already told you all about the goodies and updated KDE apps that have been included in the final release of the KDE Applications 16.12 software suite for KDE Plasma 5 desktops, but it looks like the Kdenlive video editor got its own announcement, and the changes included in this version are quite very interesting. GNOME Desktop/GTK GNOME 3.24 Desktop Environment Getting Improvements for the Notification Applet Long-time GNOME developer Allan Day reports on some of the upcoming improvements that are coming to the built-in Notification applet of the GNOME 3 desktop environment. The Notification applet you see on your GNOME desktop right now has been introduced in the 3.16 release of the popular project, which is used by default in numerous GNU/Linux distributions. But as nothing in this world is perfect, it looks like its user interface needs some improvements here and there. New GNOME API Key for Google Services Recently, a few bugs in evolution-data-server were causing various GNOME components to hit Google’s daily limit for their CalDAV and Tasks APIs. At least evolution, gnome-calendar and gnome-todo were affected. The bugs have since been fixed, but until every single user out there installs the fix, everybody will be susceptible even if they have a fixed copy of evolution-data-server. This is because Google identifies the clients by the OAuth 2.0 API key used to access their services, and not the version of the code running on them. CentOS-Based Rockstor 3.8-16 Btrfs-Powered Open Source NAS Solution Is Out Now Suman Chakravartula informs us today about the general availability of a new maintenance update to his open-source and free Linux-based NAS (Network-Attached Storage) operating system, Rockstor 3.8-16. The new version arrives a little over a month since the previous point release, namely Rockstor 3.8-15, and it appears to be yet another exciting release in the development cycle of the Btrfs-based NAS solution as a total of six contributors have managed to address no less than 35 issues reported by users since November 10, 2016. Introducing GoboLinux 016 GoboLinux was created out of a desire to try new approaches in the Linux distribution design space: the innovative filesystem organization allows us to use a radically different approach in package management — effectively doing away with the package manager. GoboLinux 016 continues this journey, with a focus on the exploration of novel ideas aiming to make the system simpler yet functional. OpenSUSE/SUSE openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the Week 2016/50 Even though the year is not yet completely over, this will be the last review for this year: starting from today on, I will be on annual leave until January 9th 2017, when I will resume all activities. Tumbleweed of course will not stop rolling at this time: it is YOU that makes it rolling after all. Nevertheless, you should not be surprised if the pace goes a bit down as many people will be busy with other things during this period. openSUSE Tumbleweed Gets GStreamer 1.10.2 and FFmpeg 3.2.2, Prepares for GTK+ 4 On December 15, 2016, openSUSE Project’s Douglas DeMaio had the great pleasure to report on the latest goodies brought by a total of seven snapshots to users of the openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution. Since our last report, it looks like another busy week hit the development team behind openSUSE Tumbleweed, a Linux-based operating system that follows a rolling release model, which means that users are always getting the latest software versions without the need to download a new ISO image and reinstall/upgrade their systems. Red Hat Family Red Hat feels the need – the need for OpenStack speed Red Hat’s released its dual-support mode OpenStack Platform 10, for rapid cloud adoption. The branded OpenStack box continues Red Hat’s drive to reduce the headache of installing and running the open-source cloud for those of us who are not rocket scientists. But OpenStack Platform 10 also accompanies a shift in build, partnering and support from Red Hat to catch an edge on rival Linux distros also boxing OpenStack. Red Hat’s OpenStack Release Tackles Complexity Issues Everywhere in the OpenStack arena, addressing complexity is a top priority. As Enterprise Tech noted: “OpenStack developers are addressing complaints about deployment complexity in their latest distributions as they attempt to attract new enterprise customers beyond early adopters.” Will Red Hat (RHT) Pull Off a Surprise in Q3 Earnings? Shares in Focus: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) Worth Watching Stock: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) Stocks With Prominent Analysts Assessments: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) Analysts Valuations For 2 Stocks: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), American Electric Power Company, Inc. (NYSE:AEP) Fedora 25 Release Party Novi Sad Like on the last release party we prepared a Fedora/Linux/FOSS related quiz for the audience with Fedora awards! The quiz was organized by Natasa Sukur (PhD Candidate at the Department and a new Fedora contributor). We had 15 (actually 16) funny and awesome questions and a lot of laughs in between them. Everything from the first commercial Linux distribution (Yggdrasil GNU/Linux!) to the Four Foundations of Fedora. Like last time, people really loved the quiz, and it was really fun for everyone. Top ten participants got the -big- awards (Fedora shirts and Fedora winter caps) and everyone else got a lot of the remaining swag that we had. Fedora 25: With Wayland, Linux has never been easier (or more handsome) For the past several releases, the Fedora Project has been pursuing what it calls Fedora Next. Essentially, Fedora Next took a step back and looked at how the distro is used and came up with editions specifically tailored to those use cases. The most notable of these are Fedora WorkStation and Fedora Server (the desktop/laptop and server versions respectively). Debian Family DebEX LXQt Linux OS Now Based on Debian 9 and LXQt 0.11.0, Powered by Kernel 4.9 GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton informs Softpedia about the availability of a new build of his Debian-based DebEX LXQt Linux distribution, which has been rebased on the some of the latest technologies and Open Source software projects. DebEX LXQt (also known as DebEX Barebone) Build 161209 is now the most advanced version of the Linux-based computer OS. It’s rebased on the Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” operating system, which is still in development and should hit the streets in early 2017, and the recently released Linux 4.9 kernel. The newest LXQt 0.11.0 desktop environment is included as well, and DebEX LXQt now ships with the Nvidia 375.20 proprietary graphics driver for an out-of-the-box Nvidia GPU experience. As expected, all the pre-installed packages have been updated to their latest versions as of December 9, 2016. Canonical/Ubuntu Flaky Wi-Fi is an annoyance on the Ubuntu phone While the Ubuntu phone has seen a great deal of improvement since it was launched in February 2015, one aspect of the operating system that does not work as it should is Wi-Fi. A smartphone is useless without an Internet connection and if Wi-Fi connections keep going up and down like a yo-yo, then even the small number of people who would prefer a Linux phone to any other may well have to start looking elsewhere. Ubuntu To Begin Making Use Of Swapfiles In Place Of SWAP Partitions Ubuntu is going to begin making use of swapfiles in place of swap partitions on new (non-LVM) based installations. Ubuntu 17.04 Swaps Swap Partitions for Swap Files Do you like, use or see the need for Swap partitions on your Ubuntu system? If not, Ubuntu 17.04 ships one change that’ll be of interest. Canonical’s Dimitri John Ledkov announced today that Ubuntu 17.04 will use Swap files by default on non-LVM installs (which if you just click through the installer, is the default setting). He explains that, quite simply, the need for a separate swap partition that’s (at least) twice the RAM size “makes little sense” on systems where memory isn’t limited. Flavours and Variants Merry Christmas: Black Lab Linux 8 Now Ready for Download, Based on Ubuntu 16.04 We were the first to report two months ago, on October 12, 2016, that the Ubuntu-based Black Lab Linux computer operating system was about to become a commercial product due to lack of funding. What that means exactly for end users is that there will be a 45-day waiting period before you can freely download a new release of the GNU/Linux distribution after its official announcement. As such, the latest version, Black Lab Linux 8.0, was released on November 10, 2016, but only now is available for download, a bit early than expected though. Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon & MATE Are Coming Out This Week, Says Clement Lefebvre Today, December 15, 2016, Clement Lefebvre, the leader of Linux Mint, published a new edition of the project’s monthly newsletter for the month of December 2016, informing users of the Ubuntu-based operating system about some of the latest developments. And the good news starts with the fact that the wait is almost over for the Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” Cinnamon and MATE editions, which should hit the streets by the end of the week, but not before the upgrade path from the previous release, Linux Mint 18 “Sarah,” is in place and ready to take users to the next major version of the popular GNU/Linux distribution. Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” Cinnamon and MATE Editions Now Available for Download While there’s no official announcement at the moment of reporting this, it would appear that the Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” operating system has been approved for landing, and the Cinnamon and MATE Live ISO images are available for download. Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” Officially Released with Cinnamon 3.2 and MATE 1.16 Linux Mint 18.1 Released, MATE & Cinnamon Flavors Linux Mint 18.1 ‘Serena’ is here for Christmas! Will you install this open source holiday gift? Linux Mint 18.1 Released \| New Features And Download Linux Mint 18.1 released, will be supported through 2021 Mint 18.1 Eminent with New PIA Manager Linux Mint 18.1 MATE and Cinnamon versions will probably be released this week Clement Lefebvre said today in the Mint Monthly News. Other tidbits were revealed as well such a new PIA Manager in development. Elsewhere, a lot of security related topics emerged in the headlines and OpenSource.com covered three browsers for the commandline. Douglas DeMaio summarized this week in Tumbleweed just as yet another new snapshot was announced. Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” MATE released! Linux Mint 18.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2021. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. Linux Mint 18.1 “Serena” Cinnamon released! Linux Mint 18.1 Released Linux Mint 18.1 has been released and is now available to download. A long term support release, Linux Mint 18.1 is supported until 2021 and is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The release features updates to core Mint software, some new features, the latest Cinnamon 3.2 desktop release, and other refinements, tweaks and bug fixes. [Mint] Monthly News – December 2016 Yocto-driven IoT gateway does Thread and BLE Rigado unveiled a highly customizable IoT Gateway that runs Linux on an i.MX6 UL SoC, and features its “R41Z” Thread/ Bluetooth Low Energy wireless module. Portland, Oregon-based Rigado, which makes a variety of Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Thread modules, is prepping a line of customizable, Yocto Linux-driven IoT Gateways to showcase them. Due to arrive in early 2017, the gateways ship with brandable enclosures and customizable feature sets. The default feature, however, is a combination Thread (802.15.4) and BLE 4.2 module called the R41Z. Rugged module pumps up Skylake Core and Xeon E3 chips Axiomtek has upgraded its “CEM500” COM Express Basic Type 6 module with Skylake Core and Xeon E3 CPUs with up to 32GB DDR4 and -40 to 85°C support. Axiomtek is upgrading its CEM500 COM Express Basic Type 6 module with 6th Generation Intel Skylake processors. The original CEM500 escaped our attention when it was announced in July without support for the Intel Xeon E3 and its associated Intel CM236 chipset. Around the same time, we did cover Axiomtek’s smaller Compact Type 6 CEM501 which integrates Intel’s dual-core 15W TDP, U-series Skylake Core CPUs. By contrast, the larger, 125 x 95mm CEM500 goes high-end with support for Skylake Core EQ and Xeon E3 processors with 25W or 45W TDPs. VIV personal assistant might find its home on Tizen Smartphones, IoT, and Wearables Smartphone App: QR Code Pro – a good QR Scanner app for Tizen Smartphones Moto Z Play Running Android 7.0 Gains Wi-Fi Certification The Motorola Moto Z Play is not the most powerful smartphone the company had introduced this year, it’s inferior to the Moto Z and Moto Z Force, but despite that, the Moto Z Play is one of the best mid-rangers available out there at the moment. Having that in mind, this smartphone is compatible with the Moto Mod accessories, and it resembles the Moto Z’s design quite a bit, so if you like the looks of the Moto Z, chances are you’ll like how the Moto Z Play look as well. Touchjet WAVE is here to turn any TV into an Android tablet Don’t have a fancy shmancy smart TV? Want to interact with the screen in a way a Chromecast doesn’t allow? Fancy yourself holding a hi-tech, collaborative, interactive meeting in front of your flat screen? If you said yes to any two of three questions, then you might want to take a look into Touchjet’s newest creation, the Touchjet WAVE. After a highly successful Indiegogo run that saw it raise 6x its funding goal, the contraption has finally landed in the market for anyone to buy to turn their flat screen TV into an Android counterpart of the Microsoft Surface Hub. Android everywhere: If it has a screen, it will probably run Android soon As the most popular OS on Earth, Android finds itself on a lot of different form factors. Sure, there are smartphones in countless different flavors, and Google has expanded the OS to cover tablets, watches, and TVs. But there’s way more to the Android world than that. Remember, the core Android platform is open source, which means all sorts of companies want it for things other than the typical Google-suggested use cases. Android is becoming the OS of choice for everything with a screen. So that’s what we’re diving into—the weird world of Android devices. 5 tricks to free up space on your Android phone Second Android 7.0 Nougat beta build for OnePlus 3 is now out This smartphone vs DSLR comparison is going to make some Android owners pretty sad Google’s New OS: Android Things For Smart Devices Android Things is Google’s latest addition to IoT The iPhone switcher’s guide: Move from iOS to Android and keep all your stuff If I had to ditch my iPhone for Android, these are the only two phones I’d consider Google Makes It Easy to Switch From iOS to Android How to pair AirPods with an Android device Pebble’s smartwatches will continue to work through 2017 What Is Android Development Kit (Features And Installation) Are you interested in writing android apps? Well, Google has worked really hard to make doing this as simple as it can be. Previously, you needed to download Eclipse and the Android Developer Tools separately and getting it to work was quite a hassle. With Android Studio, Google has provided a very simple and straightforward tool needed to start developing Android apps. RASA NLU gives developers an open source solution for natural language processing For better or worse, 2016 was another year of bots. I probably got more pitches for bot startups than anything else. And yet, bots are far from hitting their stride. If we hope to break beyond the rigid functionality of today’s tools, a prerequisite is going to be giving bot developers a bit more open source love. RASA NLU, a new open source API from LASTMILE, supports developer’s bot efforts by reducing the barriers to implementing natural language processing. 25 companies have been using RASA NLU in closed beta, but now everyone will be able to access the libraries on Github. An Open Source SDK is About Democratising Viewability: Q&A with Jason Cooper, Integral Ad Science Open source diversity efforts gain momentum in 2016 If software is pervasive, shouldn’t the people building it be from everywhere and represent different voices? The broadly accepted answer is yes, that we need a diverse set of developers and technologists to build the new digital world. Further, when you look at communities that thrive, they are those that evolve and grow and bring in new voices and perspectives. Because much of the software innovation happening today involves open source software, the open source community can be an entry point for new people in technology roles. This means that the open source community must evolve to stay relevant. There has never been a better time for the open source community to welcome new community members from underrepresented groups than now, and the community is rising to the challenge. Efforts to increase diversity in open source are showing results, so let’s look at a few examples: The Linux Foundation and OpenStack Foundation provide scholarships, travel assistance, training, mentorships, childcare, affinity groups, and more as part of their events and services. (I’m involved in the Linux Foundation-sponsored Women in Open Source events and the Women of OpenStack [WOO] group.) Since the WOO group started in 2014, more women have been attending and speaking at OpenStack-related events and contributing to OpenStack projects. More than 11% of attendees at both LinuxCon North America and OpenStack Summit in Austin in 2016 were women. Docker Delivers Containerd to Open Source Community Docker containerd ups the open source container management ante Julien Nioche on StormCrawler, Open-Source Crawler Pipelines Backed by Apache Storm Julien Nioche, director of DigitalPebble, PMC member and committer of the Apache Nutch web crawler project, talks about StormCrawler, a collection of reusable components to build distributed web crawlers based on the streaming framework Apache Storm. Telefonica stamps open source intent on LatAm set top future Telefonica has launched into a project to build its own open set top middleware, based on the Frog Source software from French pay TV player Wyplay – a venture which could spell bad news for vendors within the operator’s existing set top ecosystem. Bell Canada joins AT&T ECOMP collaboration targeting SDN AT&T confirms Bell Canada is trialing software-based ECOMP platform Bell Canada Testing AT&T ECOMP Open Source SDN Platform AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) Will Use The Tool To Create And Manage Software-Defined Networks- Linear Technology (LLTC) Bell tests AT&T’s ECOMP platform in the aim of moving more network functions to the cloud Bell Canada Testing AT&T’s Open Source ECOMP Platform for Building Software-Defined Network Capabilities Bell Canada Tests AT&T’s Open Source ECOMP Platform Bell Canada, which provides communications services to 21 million customers in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the Northwest Territories, is testing AT&T’s ECOMP platform. Bell Canada plans to use the Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management, and Policy (ECOMP) platform to create and manage software-defined networks (SDN). AT&T built ECOMP internally for its own use. It says it has had it in production for over two years. In the first quarter of 2017, the will make the code available as open source through the Linux Foundation. Google throws its weight behind open-source Cloud Foundry Google Inc. on Thursday threw its weight behind the open-source Cloud Foundry Foundation, the organization that heads up development of the open source cloud platform Cloud Foundry. Google has signed on as a gold member of the foundation, joining companies such as EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co., IBM Corp., Pivotal Software Inc., SAP SE and VMware Inc. Cloud Foundry is an open-source Platform as a Service that offers developers a choice of clouds, development frameworks, and application services for building and running apps at scale on public and private clouds. Google joins the open source Cloud Foundry Foundation Open source champion Google becomes Cloud Foundry Foundation gold member Google Signs On as Gold Member of Cloud Foundry Foundation SaaS/Back End OpenStack Education Set to Flourish in 2017 You’ve no doubt heard about the shortages in people with deployment and management expertise on the cloud computing and Big Data scenes. There just are not enough skilled workers to go around. The OpenStack Foundation, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and other organizations are now taking some important steps to address the situation. CrateDB 1.0 Delivers New Stable Open-Source Database Option The open-source CrateDB database hit a major milestone on December 14 with the debut of its 1.0 release. CrateDB defines itself as a SQL database that enables real-time analytics for machine data applications. What is also particularly interesting about CrateDB is that it aims to bring NoSQL type capabilities, including improved performance, to the SQL database model. The structural nature of SQL was originally seen as a hindrance to some, which led to the rise of NoSQL. With CrateDB, there is a distributed SQL query engine as well as columnar field caches that help to provide improved speed. German firms unveil DeGov eGovernment platform German ICT service providers are pooling their work on public administration portals, leveraging open source software. The companies unveiled DeGov, a portal solution built on Drupal 8, at the ‘Drupal in der öffentlichen Verwaltung’ (Drupal in public administration) conference in Düsseldorf on 17 November. Pseudo-Open Source (Openwashing) How an old Drawbridge helped Microsoft bring SQL Server to Linux [Ed: Microsoft Peter now admits that SQL Server is not for GNU/Linux but a sham ‘port’ that brings over back doors to GNU/Linux] Linux + PowerShell = Awesome, Not Awkward, Together! [Ed: This is classic case of embrace, extend, extinguish.] OPNsense 17.1 beta: Images available now ! With the best wishes for the holiday season attached we hereby humbly present our 17.1-BETA images and thank everyone for their early input, valid questions and generally keeping us on our toes throughout the past months. The next major release features FreeBSD 11.0, the SSH remote installer, new languages Italian and Czech, state-of-the-art HardenedBSD security features, PHP 7.0, native PAM authentication against e.g. 2FA (TOTP), as well a rewritten Nano-style card images that adapt to the media size to name only a few. Public Services/Government EC looking for help with open source office automation The European Commission is looking to hire ICT staff that can help implement open source-based office automation. The open source expertise is a small part of a larger call for new hires that was published by the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) on 1 December. Aragon parliament asks for open source in schools Members of parliament in Aragon, one of Spain’s autonomous communities, are urging the government to increase the use of open source software in education. On 2 December, parliamentarians asked the minister of education to strengthen support for the VitaLinux Education project, which is developing an Ubuntu-based distribution of open source software made especially for schools in the community. GDS joins international effort on open source The Government signed the Paris Declaration last week at the Open Government Partnership summit, which highlighted the potential for open source to support efforts to reduce corruption by increasing transparency and strengthening governance. The agreement involves promoting the transparency and accountability of the relevant code and algorithms “wherever possible and appropriate”. The first deliverable of the group is an open source contribution policy template, which is already available in an alpha version on github and will be further developed over the next few months. It has been written by a number of governments and organisations to help those wanting to set up a free/open source software contribution policy, and provides some guidance on best practice and central governance. Openness/Sharing/Collaboration Dutch political party deploys “remotely controlled Members of Parliament” Last week, the Dutch society-driven political movement GeenPeil started its own political party, promising its members direct democracy through what it calls “remotely controlled Members of Parliament”. Every week, the party’s members will be asked for their opinions in “mini-referenda” on the votes that take place in the Dutch Parliament. Their (anonymous) votes will determine the voting behaviour of the party’s Members of Parliament, thereby emulating direct democracy in a representative parliamentary system. Open Hardware/Modding Arduino MKRZero shrinks Zero to MKR1000 dimensions Arduino LLC’s $22 “MKRZero” shrinks the guts of the Arduino Zero board to the 65 x 25mm size of a MKR1000, but without the MKR1000’s WiFi. Earlier this year when Arduino LLC debuted its $35, IoT focused MKR1000 board, we suggested it was like combining an Arduino Zero with its WiFi Shield. With its new MKRZero, Arduino LLC offers the same tiny 65 x 25mm footprint as the MKR1000, but with the 68 x 30mm Zero’s original Atmel (now Microchip) ATSAMD21 MCU rather than the WiFi-enabled ATSAMW25. It also lacks the MKR1000’s crypto chip, but does add a handy SD slot. Maker Movement and FOSS: Two Sides of the Same Coin? When you think about it, “making” is just a more down-to-earth and less abstract version of coding, with results you touch and feel instead of experience on a screen. Making your own retro keyboard We’re about a week before Christmas, and I’m going to explain how I created a retro keyboard as a gift to my father, who introduced me to computers when he brought back a Thomson TO7 home, all the way back in 1985. The original idea was to use a Thomson computer to fit in a smaller computer, such as a CHIP or Raspberry Pi, but the software update support would have been difficult, the use limited to the builtin programs, and it would have required a separate screen. So I restricted myself to only making a keyboard. It was a big enough task, as we’ll see. Programming/Development wlc 0.7 Experts, True Believers and Test-Driven Development: how expert advice becomes a religion If you’ve encountered test-driven development (TDD), you may have encountered programmers who follow it with almost religious fervor. They will tell you that you must always write unit tests before you write code, no exceptions. If you don’t, your code will be condemned to everlasting brokenness, tortured by evil edge cases for all eternity. ANNOUNCE: New libvirt project Go language bindings Feed2tweet 0.8, tool to post RSS feeds to Twitter, released Health/Nutrition Marijuana can be covered in pesticides, fungi, and mold — even if it’s legal There is no known lethal dose of marijuana, which means it can’t kill you. But the stuff that gets sprayed or grows organically on pot buds can. Studies show that marijuana sampled across the US carries unsafe levels of pesticides, mold, fungi, and bacteria. Earlier this year, Colorado recalled hundreds of batches that tested positive for banned pesticides. It’s unclear how much cannabis, whether purchased legally in a dispensary or bought from a college roommate’s cousin’s friend, is at risk. But as the industry goes mainstream, experts suggest it’s time legal weed gets quality assurance. The United Nations General Assembly this month is considering a resolution committing to elevate health issues to the highest levels of foreign policy. The resolution includes references and commitments related to dozens of existing instruments and tools aimed at improving health, including a full range of those on access to medicines, such as patent flexibilities under trade rules, and the recent report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on access to medicines and innovation. UNITAID Board Adopts Resolution On IP Flexibilities Under Trade Rules The Executive Board of UNITAID yesterday adopted a resolution on the use of the intellectual property flexibilities enshrined in the global trading system allowing developing countries to facilitate access to affordable medicines. Security advisories for Thursday Why My Heart Bleeds for Open Source [Ed: Name-dropping bugs with brands, logos, and Web sites to make FOSS look bad] Reliably compromising Ubuntu desktops by attacking the crash reporter In this post I’ll describe how I found a remote code execution bug in Ubuntu Desktop which affects all default installations >= 12.10 (Quantal). The bug allows for reliable code injection when a user simply opens a malicious file. The following video demonstrates the exploit opening the Gnome calculator. The executed payload also replaces the exploit file with a decoy zip file to cover its tracks. Dear hackers, Ubuntu’s app crash reporter will happily execute your evil code on a victim’s box Users and administrators of Ubuntu Linux desktops are being advised to patch their systems following the disclosure of serious security flaws. Researcher Donncha O’Cearbhaill, who discovered and privately reported the vulnerabilities to Ubuntu, said that a successful exploit of the bugs could allow an attacker to remotely execute code by way of a maliciously booby-trapped file. LibreSSL documentation status report Reproducible Builds: week 85 in Stretch cycle Should we be pushing OpenPGP? Bjarni Rúnar, the author of Mailpile released a blog about recent blogs disparaging OpenPGP. It’s a good read. There’s one reason to support OpenPGP missing from the blog: OpenPGP protects you if your mail server is hacked. I’m sure that Debbie Wasserman Schultz wishes she had been using OpenPGP. Security experts: ‘No one should have faith in Yahoo at this point’ Experts have attacked Yahoo’s weak security after the revelation it suffered a hack in 2013, which exposed the personal data of 1 billion users, just months after revealing a 500-million-user data breach from 2014. The hack saw the potential theft of login details, personal details and any confidential or sensitive information contained within email correspondences. Yahoo provided the email services for BT and Sky customers, as well as other services. Yahoo admits it’s been hacked again, and 1 billion accounts were exposed On December 14, Yahoo announced that after an investigation into data provided by law enforcement officials in November, the company and outside forensics experts have determined that there was in fact a previously undetected breach of data from more than 1 billion user accounts. The breach took place in August 2013 and is apparently distinct from the previous mega-breach revealed this fall—one Yahoo claims was conducted by a “state-sponsored actor.” The information accessed from potentially exposed accounts “may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (using MD5) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers,” Yahoo’s chief information security officer, Bob Lord, reported in the statement issued by the company. “The investigation indicates that the stolen information did not include passwords in clear text, payment card data, or bank account information. Payment card data and bank account information are not stored in the system the company believes was affected.” Hacked Yahoo Data Is for Sale on Dark Web Some time around August 2013, hackers penetrated the email system of Yahoo, one of the world’s largest and oldest providers of free email services. The attackers quietly scooped up the records of more than 1 billion users, including names, birth dates, phone numbers and passwords that were encrypted with an easily broken form of security. The intruders also obtained the security questions and backup email addresses used to reset lost passwords — valuable information for someone trying to break into other accounts owned by the same user, and particularly useful to a hacker seeking to break into government computers around the world: Several million of the backup addresses belonged to military and civilian government employees from dozens of nations, including more than 150,000 Americans. 0-days hitting Fedora and Ubuntu open desktops to a world of hurt [Ed: even more FUD in Dan Goodin’s UK edition headline] If you run a mainstream distribution of Linux on a desktop computer, there’s a good chance security researcher Chris Evans can hijack it when you do nothing more than open or even browse a specially crafted music file. And in the event you’re running Chrome on the just-released Fedora 25, his code-execution attack works as a classic drive-by. Game Music Emulator Security Vulnerability Patched in Debian and Ubuntu Linux [Ed: The same news without the FUD of Dan Goodin] Security researcher Chris Evans has reported recently on yet another vulnerability in the Game Music Emulator (game-music-emu) package that’s installed or found in the repositories of various popular GNU/Linux distributions. For those not aware, Game Music Emulator is a collection of video game music file emulators designed to playback a large number of formats and systems, including SPC (Super Nintendo/Super Famicom), where the problem was discovered by Chris Evans, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a maliciously crafted file. 0-day alert: Your favorite Linux distro may not be as secure as you think [Ed: Sensationalism from Dan Goodin is infectious. Beta News now parrots his dramatic ‘journalism’] Parrot OS A Linux Distro For Pentesters, Security Analysts And Hackers Parrot OS is a live and installable operating system based on Debian for Penetration Testing, Computer Forensic, Reverse Engineering, Hacking, Cloud Pentesting, privacy/anonymity and cryptography. It has more than 300 penetration testing tools in its repositories. It is developed by Frozenbox’s Team. Ubuntu App Crash Reporter Bug Allows Remote Code Execution A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in Ubuntu’s crash reporter that would allow remote code execution, making it possible for an attacker to compromise a system using just a malicious file. Most Ubuntu Linux Installations Are Affected By A Dangerous Remote Code Execution Bug All recent Ubuntu Linux releases ship with Apport crash handling software. A security researcher has discovered a flaw in this utility that allows an attacker to remotely execute code using a malicious booby-trapped file. Ubuntu has released the fix for the same, which can be grabbed via simple Ubuntu update. Remote Code Execution Bug Found in Ubuntu Quantal A remote code execution bug has been patched in the default installation of Ubuntu Desktop affecting all default installations of Quantal version 12.10 and later. Defence/Aggression Why the United Nations Must Move Forward With a Killer Robots Ban As part of a U.N. disarmament conference, participating countries are deciding on Friday whether or not to start formal discussions on a ban of lethal autonomous weapons following on from three years of informal discussions. Last July, thousands of researchers working in AI and robotics came together and issued an open letter calling for a pre-emptive ban on such weapons. I was one of the organizers of the letter, and today I spoke at the U.N. for a third time calling once again for a ban. South Sudan faces ‘Rwanda-like’ genocide, UN human rights commission warns South Sudan is “on the brink of an all-out ethnic civil war,” the head of a UN human rights commission has warned. Yasmin Sooka told the UN Human Rights Council the international community could prevent a “Rwanda-like” genocide by immediately deploying 4,000 peacekeepers to protect civilians. She also called for the country to set up a court to prosecute atrocities in the world’s newest country. Tens of thousands have been killed in fighting in South Sudan and more than a million people have fled. Pentagon demands China return US underwater drone The Pentagon is demanding that China return an “unlawfully seized” underwater drone after a Chinese warship took the device from waters near a US oceanographic vessel. “We call upon China to return our UUV immediately, and to comply with all of its obligations under international law,” Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement, using the abbreviation for “unmanned underwater vehicle.” In the latest encounter in international waters in the South China Sea region, the USNS Bowditch was sailing about 100 miles off the port at Subic Bay when the incident occurred, according to the official. Transparency/Investigative Reporting Wikileaks founder Assange on hacked Podesta, DNC emails: ‘Our source is not the Russian government’ Wikileaks founder Julian Assange denied Thursday that hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta were stolen and passed to his organization by Russian state actors. “Our source is not the Russian government,” Assange told “The Sean Hannity Show.” “So in other words, let me be clear,” Hannity asked, “Russia did not give you the Podesta documents or anything from the DNC?” “That’s correct,” Assange responded. Assange’s assertion contradicts the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which concluded in October that “the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails [sic] from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations.” Russia hacking allegations in interests of ‘military intelligence’ – NSA whistleblower Bill Binney Claims that Russia hacked the DNC may lead to a new “Cold War” that would be profitable to those interested in military intelligence budgets, says former National Security Agency technical director and NSA whistleblower William Binney. “[The CIA] haven’t come out with the evidence to show the tracing of the data from the DNC server to, for example the Russians, or anybody else, or going from them to WikiLeaks, which is a high priority target for NSA, in terms of network monitoring,” Binney told RT. He’s one of the group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity who signed a letter arguing that if the data was a hack, the NSA would have a trace of the hack. The letter was published by Consortium News on Monday. Claims on Russia Hacking Profitable for US Military Intelligence The parties linked to US military intelligence budgets have own interest in accusing Russia of alleged hacking activities against certain targets in the US, including against the Democratic National Committee (DNC), US National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower William Binney said in an interview published Friday. DNC docs were leaked, not hacked, intelligence veterans say Anonymous allegations that Russian government hackers interfered with the US elections are “evidence-free,” several retired intelligence professionals argued in an open letter. Any hack would have been noticed by the NSA, which has stayed silent, they say. Judge Andrew Napolitano: Did the Russians hack Hillary? The American intelligence community rarely speaks with one voice. The members of its 17 publicly known intelligence agencies — God only knows the number of secret agencies — have the same biases, prejudices, jealousies, intellectual shortcomings and ideological underpinnings as the public at large. The raw data these agencies examine is the same. Today America’s spies rarely do their own spying; rather, they rely on the work done by the National Security Agency. We know that from the Edward Snowden revelations. We also know from Snowden that the NSA can monitor and identify all digital communications within the United States, coming into the United States and leaving the United States. Hence, it would be foolhardy and wasteful to duplicate that work. There is quite simply no fiber-optic cable anywhere in the country transmitting digital data to which the NSA does not have full-time and unfettered access. I have often argued that this is profoundly unconstitutional because the Fourth Amendment requires a judicially issued search warrant specifically describing the place to be searched or the thing to be seized before the government may lawfully invade privacy, and these warrants must be based on probable cause of criminal behavior on the part of the person whose privacy the government seeks to invade. Top US Intelligence Vets Reject Russian Hacking Claim, John Podesta Admits To “Making An Example” While the Democratic Party is intent on making the world believe that the recent 2016 U.S. presidential election was lost due to Russian interference through hacked emails of Hillary Clinton and the DNC, top U.S. intelligence vets from the NSA and the CIA have said that this is far from the case and that there is no legitimate basis for these claims. Furthermore, it has been revealed that John Podesta is not beyond taking liberties with the truth and making spurious claims. Emails published by WikiLeaks attest to the fact that as far back as 2015, he was already suggesting the Democratic Party should make an example of leakers. NBC: Unnamed U.S. Officials Say Putin Personally Involved in Hack of U.S. Election According to NBC, unnamed U.S. intelligence officials say Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the effort to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help Donald Trump win. The CIA has accused Russia of intervening, and President Obama has ordered a review of Russia’s role. President-elect Donald Trump has called the claims “ridiculous.” This comes as a New York Times investigation has revealed the Federal Bureau of Investigation was aware a DNC computer had been hacked as early as September 2015, allegedly by a team known as “The Dukes,” which the FBI says is linked to the Russian government. The Times investigation goes on to report an FBI agent called the DNC repeatedly to inform them of the security breach, but that the party’s tech-support contractor did almost nothing with the information, believing it might simply be a prank call. The Times also reports the hackers used a relatively low-tech means of infiltrating the emails of top targets, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairperson, John Podesta, whose emails were successfully hacked and then leaked over the summer, generating a slew of negative coverage of the Clinton campaign. The tactic is known as phishing—sending an email to a user asking them to change their password or click on a link in order to gain access to their entire account. John Podesta in fact did change his password after receiving one of these phishing emails, after being advised to do so by one of his aides. Hillary Camp is Looking for Russians Under Every Bed. They Might Want to Start with John Podesta’s It’s a truism that American politicians have short memories. It is equally true the same can be said of the U.S. news media. Hillary Clinton and her associates have pivoted from a botched Russian “reset” (bearing the fingerprints of campaign chairman John Podesta) to relentless accusations that the Russkies snatched presidential victory away from their clutching fingers. There’s plenty of circumstantial evidence leading investigators to surmise the Russians played a role in hacking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton Foundation. Environment/Energy/Wildlife/Nature Take the Fight Against the Dakota Access Pipeline to the Banks That Are Funding It It’s been over a week since the Army Corps of Engineers denied the permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline to be built underneath the Missouri River and required an environmental impact statement before the project could move forward. The move came after water protectors and their allies stood strong for months against a militarized police force that employed water cannons, dogs, tear gas, and rubber bullets. The water protectors remained committed to peaceful resistance and they won. One thing we can do to support the water protectors is to target the 17 banks currently invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Nation has joined with the Indigenous Environmental Network, 350.org, Oil Change International, the Native Organizers Alliance, and 18 other organizations to call on these banks to support the sovereignty and rights of indigenous peoples and end their support for the pipeline. Click here to sign our petition. Cuba offers rum to pay off $276m Czech debt Cuba has come up with an unusual way to repay its multimillion dollar debt to the Czech Republic – bottles of its famous rum, officials in Prague say. The Czech finance ministry said Havana had raised this possibility during recent negotiations on the issue. Cuba owes the Czech authorities $276m (£222m), and if the offer is accepted the Czechs would have enough Cuban rum for more than a century. Change at the top for Microsoft Australia with Steven Worrall appointed MD Microsoft has appointed Steven Worrall as managing director for Australia to replace 21-year company veteran Pip Marlow who is leaving to take up a senior executive position with Queensland financial services and insurance group, Suncorp. Worrall joins Microsoft after 22 years with IBM, most recently leading IBM’s Software business for the Asia Pacific region, providing a major source of IBM’s growth in the region. He held a number of marketing, sales and general management roles during his career in the services, software and financing segments of IBM’s business. Microsoft to Offer Software for Local Governments to Regulate and Tax Legal Cannabis [Ed: Tax evader Microsoft to help “tax” pot?] AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics Jill Stein Pulls Back the Curtain on America’s Voting Chaos Let’s acknowledge that Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein’s now-halted bid to recount the vote in three Rust Belt states served principally to earn her a lot of free media and fatten her political fundraising email list. Stein failed to furnish any evidence of the “hacking” and “security breaches” that her many press releases and public comments alleged, but she did scoop up $7.3 million from more than 160,000 donors in less than three weeks. Nevertheless, Stein’s arguably self-serving drive to recount votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin performed an important public service. As Stein noted this week in a press call to mark the end of her recount effort, she did spotlight some troubling weaknesses in the nation’s election system. Voting in America continues to be plagued by malfunctioning machines, byzantine rules, and insufficient cross-checks and audits to ensure that ballots are properly tallied. Stein’s recount bid captured the paradox of this year’s super-charged debate over voting. The most sensational claims and counter-claims about this year’s election—that the system was “rigged” and riddled with fraud, as Donald Trump alleged, or that voting machines may have been tampered with, as Stein herself declared—lacked any empirical evidence to back them up. Trump’s 17 Cabinet-level Picks Have More Money Than a Third of American Households Combined The 17 people who US president-elect Donald Trump has selected for his cabinet or for posts with cabinet rank have well over $9.5 billion in combined wealth, with several positions still unfilled. This collection of wealth is greater than that of the 43 million least wealthy American households combined—over one third of the 126 million households total in the US. Affluence of this magnitude in a US presidential cabinet is unprecedented. Trump Treasury pick Steven Mnuchin has a ‘widow foreclosure’ problem Reverse mortgages are advertised as a way for elderly homeowners to get the cash they need and stay in their homes for the rest of their lives. They don’t have to make payments as long as they live in the home, so few ever worry about foreclosure. But a bank formerly run by Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for treasury secretary, has a record of aggressively foreclosing on these homeowners, according to some borrowers and fair housing advocates. The practice is known as a “widow foreclosure,” and it was far more common at Mnuchin’s bank than at other lenders, according to housing rights advocates. Betsy DeVos and the Plan to Break Public Schools Among the points that can be made in favor of Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s billionaire nominee for the position of Secretary of Education, are the following: She has no known ties to President Vladimir Putin, unlike Trump’s nominee to head the State Department, Rex Tillerson, who was decorated with Russia’s Order of Friendship medal a few years ago. She hasn’t demonstrated any outward propensity for propagating dark, radical-right-leaning conspiracy theories, unlike Michael T. Flynn, Trump’s designated national-security adviser. She has not actively called for the dismantling of the department she is slated to head, as have Rick Perry, Trump’s nominee for Energy Secretary, and Scott Pruitt, the nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency. That the absence of such characteristics should bear noting only underlines the dystopian scope of Trump’s quest to complete his cabinet of cronies. On the other hand, DeVos has never taught in a public school, nor administered one, nor sent her children to one. She is a graduate of Holland Christian High School, a private school in her home town of Holland, Michigan, which characterizes its mission thus: “to equip minds and nurture hearts to transform the world for Jesus Christ.” How might DeVos seek to transform the educational landscape of the United States in her position at the head of a department that has a role in overseeing the schooling of more than fifty million American children? As it happens, she does have a long track record in the field. Since the early nineteen-nineties, she and her husband, Dick DeVos, have been very active in supporting the charter-school movement. They worked to pass Michigan’s first charter-school bill, in 1993, which opened the door in their state for public money to be funnelled to quasi-independent educational institutions, sometimes targeted toward specific demographic groups, which operate outside of the strictures that govern more traditional public schools. (Dick DeVos, a keen pilot, founded one of his own: the West Michigan Aviation Academy, located at Gerald Ford International Airport, which serves an overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male population of students.) Trump meets with tech titans as Bezos lauds ‘productive’ session A confab of tech titans had a “productive” meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Wednesday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told CNBC, as Trump moved to mend fences with Silicon Valley before taking office in January. Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Cisco and Tesla were among the C-suite executives in attendance, with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk expected to get private briefings, according to transition staff. During the campaign, Trump issued a number of barbs directed at Bezos and his businesses, but at the meeting both men appeared nothing but complimentary. Donald Trump doesn’t read: Financial Times names him “person of the year,” but he thinks it’s a compliment Here’s another theory: Donald Trump does read, but he’s banking on other people not reading. He’s banking on people reading his tweet, or even just the reporting on his tweet, without getting into the subtext of the article. Who goes past the headlines anyway? Trump’s not exactly riding a wave of populism into the White House. And as much as he and his team want to say there was a “massive landslide,” the numbers don’t bear that out. He won by a Jill Stein in the states that he really needed, squeaking by in key areas while losing the popular vote by millions. According to a CBS poll released Thursday, only 34 percent of Americans think that he’ll be a good or very good president. Nearly a quarter — 23 percent — think that he’ll be average. More than a third — 36 percent — think he’ll be a poor one. That’s not just Democrats bringing down the average; independents are basically holding true to the average. This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson. In late March, Donald Trump opened a rally in Wisconsin by mocking the state’s governor, Scott Walker, who had just endorsed his Republican opponent, Ted Cruz. “He came in on his Harley,” Trump said of Walker, “but he doesn’t look like a motorcycle guy.” “The motorcycle guys,” he added, “like Trump.” It has been 50 years since Hunter S. Thompson published the definitive book on motorcycle guys: Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. It grew out of a piece first published in The Nation one year earlier. My grandfather, Carey McWilliams, editor of the magazine from 1955 to 1975, commissioned the piece from Thompson—it was the gonzo journalist’s first big break, and the beginning of a friendship between the two men that would last until my grandfather died in 1980. Because of that family connection, I had long known that Hell’s Angels was a political book. Even so, I was surprised, when I finally picked it up a few years ago, by how prophetic Thompson is and how eerily he anticipates 21st-century American politics. This year, when people asked me what I thought of the election, I kept telling them to read Hell’s Angels. The Electoral College Has the Starkly Anti-Democratic Power to Make a Loser a ‘Winner’ The Electoral College has never benefited the republic. And it is unlikely that it ever will. That, unfortunately, is the answer to the question of whether this elite mob might find a way to reject the discredited candidacy of Donald Trump—as amateur historians and sincere activists are so fond of suggesting should be the case. The Electoral College does not exist as a quality-control mechanism. It exists as a check and balance against popular democracy, and the great likelihood is that it will again perform that function on December 19. Jill Stein has done the nation a tremendous public service As lead counsel in Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein’s quest to have votes recounted in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, we have been in court for the past two weeks trying to verify the integrity of the election and make sure that no one hacked our democracy. Some have cast Stein as a spoiler, or alleged that the recounts were futile, because they didn’t change who won the election. But the recount would only be futile if we, as Americans, ignored the lessons of the past weeks and preserved the status quo that is our broken voting system. Green Party endorses Occupy Inauguration; Greens will participate in protests on Jan. 20 and 21 The Green Party of the United States has endorsed Occupy Inauguration, as Greens prepare to participate in events planned for Jan. 20 and Jan. 21. Occupy Inauguration will feature a mass rally and protest in Washington, D.C. to coincide with President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Assange: Election Showed ‘Liberal Press’ Is ‘Not Very Important,’ And They Can’t Handle It [AUDIO] Julian Assange said during the Thursday broadcast of Sean Hannity’s radio show that the 2016 election showed the traditional press is growing “increasingly not very important.” Recount Fiascos Reveal the Profoundly Pathetic State of Voting in America Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s recounts in the three states that gave Donald Trump his Electoral College majority have come to a close, not changing the official results and leaving the public even more wary about the integrity of American elections. After several weeks, $7.3 million in donations from 161,000 donors, obstruction by top Republicans and Democrats, election officials who rejected the most accurate recount procedures, slights against communities of color where voting machines broke on Election Day but recounts were blocked afterward, new hacking pathways discovered, and unyielding responses by state and federal judges who didn’t think much of recounting votes or using best practices, Stein announced Tuesday that her presidential recount was mostly over—and now America needed to heed its lessons. Censorship/Free Speech Amos Yee gets a new hairstyle, says in new interview he has changed The 18-year-old spent 55 days in jail last year, and another three weeks a couple of months ago, with an additional two weeks in home detention, for actions that include insulting Christians and Muslims, apart from his uploading of a distasteful graphic of the late Lee Kuan Yew and Margaret Thatcher to his blog. Understanding the Hamburg “illegal links” ruling and its problems A Hamburg court has ruled that certain links were illegal when they were pointing at photos that were posted in violation of copyright. This ruling follows the worst fears of a previous ruling by the European Court of Justice, and creates many problems for the future. The court in Hamburg has ruled that the operator of a website was violating the distribution monopoly known as copyright when they posted a link to an image, an image which was posted under Creative Commons, but where the posting did not comply with the license terms. Not only was the website operator unaware of the infringement of the original post, but the original poster was also unaware. Facebook enlists help from fact-checkers to fight fake news Facebook will outsource fact checking to fight fake news Facebook partners with fact-checking organizations to begin flagging fake news Privacy/Surveillance German spies ‘can’t be trusted’: Relations between the UK and Berlin intelligence chiefs hit after comments by London 14 eyebrow-raising personal details Google knows about you Google may know more about me than I know about myself. I’m not just saying that, either: I recently started poking around in Google’s personal data repositories and realized that, between my wide-reaching use of the company’s services and my own brain’s inability to remember anything for more than seven seconds, Google may actually have the upper hand when it comes to knowledge about my life. From face-tagged photos of my past adventures (what year did I go to Nashville, again—and who went with me to that Eddie Vedder show?) to the minute-by-minute play-by-play of my not-so-adventuresome days (wait, you mean I really only left the house once last Wednesday—and just to get a freakin’ sandwich?!), Google’s got all sorts of goods on me. Heck, even my hopes and dreams (which may or may not involve sandwiches) are probably catalogued somewhere in its systems. Digital Economy Bill – Second Reading The digital landscape changes rapidly and profoundly. It is vital that our legislation is kept up to date. This is a big and wide-ranging Bill. Its aim is bold: to bring major change to the UK’s digital economy in infrastructure, consumer rights and opportunities, regulation, skills, safety, innovation, and intellectual property. The prize is great, and this country can be not merely a world leader in digital, but the world leader. I beg to move. Wynn Las Vegas putting Amazon Echo in every room [Ed: always-on microphone in every room] Amazon and Google are going head-to-head over smart hubs that can control all the smart devices we keep in our homes, but Amazon currently has a leg up on Google thanks to Alexa’s fully fleshed out system that works with more than Google Home at this point in time. That’s why it’s no surprise that Wynn Las Vegas has announced it will be equipping all of its rooms with Amazon Echo so guests can control everything with their voice. Wynn says Alexa will be fully operational in all of its guest rooms by summer 2017, offering guests the ability to control the room lights, temperature, draperies and the television through the power of their voice. Wynn also notes that it plans on incorporating a personal assistant feature just as soon as Amazon introduces those features to the devices. Civil Rights/Policing NYPD: Muslim teenager who reported harassment by Trump supporters made the story up A Muslim teenager who reported being harassed on the New York City subway by supporters of President-elect Donald Trump fabricated the story, a New York City Police Department spokesperson told Business Insider. Yasmin Seweid, 18, a Baruch College student, was in police custody as of Wednesday afternoon and has been charged with filing a false report, as well as obstructing governmental administration, according to the NYPD. Muslim student filed bias crime report to avoid curfew punishment A Muslim student who said she was harassed on the subway by drunken, hate-spewing white men shouting “Donald Trump!” lied to police because she broke her curfew, law enforcement sources said Wednesday. Yasmin Seweid, 18, joined a growing list of local and national alleged hate-crime victims when she told cops she was taunted Dec. 1 on the No. 6 train by three men who called her a terrorist and tried to snatch her hijab off her head while straphangers did nothing. OVER 300 ABUSED WOMEN ISSUE STATEMENT AGAINST PARALLEL LEGAL SYSTEMS: WHO WILL LISTEN TO OUR VOICES? Also published this week is devastating new evidence submitted by One Law for All to the Home Affairs Select Committee. It reveals how Sharia councils violate human rights, how discrimination and violence lie at the heart of the courts, how they are linked to the transnational Islamist movement, and why they are a parallel legal system, which must be dismantled. The submission also objects to Naz Shah’s line of questioning of Spokesperson Maryam Namazie and accusations of “Islamophobia” and “anti-faith” to discredit secular voices. Woman who defied clerics is now mayor of Kolhapur When Hasina Faras wanted to contest the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) polls last year, she was warned by a local body of 40-50 clerics that it was un-Islamic to do so. In fact, the clerics of the Majlis-e-Shoora-Ulama-e-Shahar had then issued a fatwa to all Muslim women not to stand for polls. However, 19 Muslim women defied the fatwa and contested. Five of them, including Faras, were elected as corporators. A year down the line, 61-year-old Faras has become the first Muslim woman to bag the post of mayor in Kolhapur. Political twists and turns and challenges are not new to Faras, whose family has been associated with the NCP. The religious challenge had posed a new hurdle, but she said support from her family and members of the community helped her face it. Take action for Turkey’s imprisoned writers It has been a particular year of crisis for freedom of expression in Turkey, where the government has targeted the independent media since the failed coup in July, detaining, arresting and prosecuting journalists, writers and academics. Five months on from the attempted coup in Turkey there are now almost 150 writers and journalists in prison, victims of a continuing campaign to silence peaceful and legitimate opposition. These include the leading linguist Necmiye Alpay, who recently spent her 70th birthday in detention, and her co-defendant, renowned novelist and PEN member Aslı Erdoğan. Detained a month after the coup, in August 2016, Alpay and Erdoğan are now due to stand trial on 29 December on charges of ‘membership of a terrorist organisation’. Hong Kong ‘Snowden refugees’ dream of better life Like many four year olds, Sethumdi says she dreams of meeting Father Christmas. But her future is uncertain as her refugee parents fight for a new life abroad after they sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong. The story of how impoverished refugees helped Snowden evade authorities in 2013 only emerged in September, propelling them into the media spotlight. NSA Watchdog Fired After Retaliating Against Whistleblower A top National Security Administration watchdog, who notoriously declared that whistleblower Edward Snowden should have gone directly to him with his concerns, has been fired for retaliating against another whistleblower. Former NSA inspector general George Ellard was found by a high-level Intelligence Community panel to have retaliated in May against a whistleblower. NSA Inspector Who Criticized Snowden for Not Using ‘Official’ Channels Found Guilty of Retaliating Against Whistleblower Who Did Just That National Security Agency (NSA) inspector general George Ellard, an outspoken critic of whistleblower Edward Snowden, personally retaliated against another NSA whistleblower, Adam Zagorin reported at the Project on Government Overreach (POGO) on Thursday. An intelligence community panel earlier this year found that Ellard had retaliated against a whistleblower, Zagorin writes, in a judgment that has still not been made public. The finding is remarkable because Ellard first made headlines two years ago when he publicly condemned Snowden for leaking information about the NSA’s mass surveillance of private citizens, wherein Ellard claimed that Snowden should have raised concerns through internal channels. The agency would have protected him from any retaliation, Ellard said at the time. NSA Inspector General, Who Once Said Snowden Is Manic Thief, May Be Fired For Whistleblower Retaliation The inspector general for the National Security Agency, George Ellard, received a termination notice for retaliating against a whistleblower. The outcome was the result of a process enabled by an executive order containing whistleblower protections issued in 2012 by President Barack Obama, according to a report from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO). “The Ellard case is groundbreaking not only because it represents the most extensive use of PPD-19 procedures to date, but also because of Ellard’s high-ranking position in a national security environment where few, if any top officials are known to have been held accountable. A variety of reprisal accusations have been made against senior officials over the years. Rightly or wrongly, very few have ever been substantiated,” POGO journalist Adam Zagorin wrote. (PPD-19 is the “presidential policy directive” or executive order that Obama signed.) Attorneys for officer claim Castile was high on marijuana, not responsive to commands Internet Policy/Net Neutrality Tom Wheeler Resigns From the FCC—So Long, Net Neutrality The man who saved net neutrality is stepping aside. Federal Communication Commission chairman Tom Wheeler will resign on January 20, the agency announced today. Wheeler’s decision to step down means Donald Trump will have two FCC seats to fill, one Republican and one Democratic. His resignation will also give Republicans a 2-to-1 majority on the commission even before those seats are filled after the departure of fellow Democratic commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel at the end of the year. (FCC commissioners are nominated by the president, but the agency’s rules dictate that only three members of the five-member board can belong to the same party. It’s customary for the chairperson to resign when a new president is elected.) Consumer advocacy groups praised Wheeler, a former telecommunications lobbyist, for standing up to the industry he once represented. Wheeler backed net neutrality, new broadband privacy rules, and subsidies for low-income families to buy broadband, among other initiatives. He also pushed back against Comcast’s proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable. Intellectual Monopolies Crunch time for Kit Kat’s 3D shape as EU judges show teeth in trademark row The European Union’s Intellectual Property Office has been told that it must re-examine whether the three-dimensional shape corresponding to the product “Kit Kat 4 fingers” may be maintained as an EU trademark. The General Court of the European Union—one of the bloc’s highest, if least-known courts—made the ruling on Thursday. In 2002, Nestlé applied to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for the three-dimensional shape of the company’s four-finger Kit Kat product to be registered as an EU trademark. As the General Court explained, in 2006, the EUIPO agreed to register the mark in respect of the following goods: “sweets, bakery products, pastries, biscuits, cakes, waffles.” The next year, rival confectionery giant Cadbury Schweppes—now part of the US giant Mondelez (pronounced “mon-deh-leez”)—applied to the EUIPO for a declaration of invalidity to cancel the trademark. In 2012, the EUIPO dismissed that application, because it said that Nestlé’s mark had acquired a “distinctive character” through the use that had been made of it within the EU. So Mondelez then asked the EU’s General Court to annul the EUIPO’s decision, which it has now agreed to do. US Finds Existing Copyright Law Suited For Software Embedded In Everyday Products The United States Copyright Office has released a study that finds that existing copyright laws are sufficient to cover issues arising over software embedded in everyday consumer products. But it does call for some flexibility for consumers to tinker with their devices. No Deal: German Universities Prepare For Cut-Off From Elsevier Journals After licensing negotiations between German university libraries and Elsevier failed at the beginning of the month, over 60 university libraries in Germany are preparing to be cut off from hundreds of journals of the British publisher, after a standoff over pricing and access. The university libraries organised in the DEAL initiative rejected an offer made by Elsevier earlier this month for a first nationwide licence, because of an aggressive pricing and flaws in the access models. MPAA Takes Credit for The Shutdown of KickassTorrents Earlier this year KickassTorrents was taken down following a criminal investigation into the site’s alleged operators. While the U.S. Department of Justice handles the case, based on an FBI investigation, they were not the only ones involved. According to comments made by MPAA boss Chris Dodd, Hollywood played a crucial role as well. The Pirate Bay and Other Pirate Sites Will Be Blocked in Australia Following a case brought by several prominent rightsholders, the Australian Federal Court has ordered dozens of local Internet service providers to block The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt, SolarMovie, plus many proxy and mirror services. The event marks the start of mass-blocking Down Under. Torrent site-blocking more about PR, says IA chief The peak body representing Internet users in Australia has described the Federal Court decision on blocking sites deemed to be disseminating copyrighted material without permission as being “more about PR than anything real in the fight against unlawful downloading”. Internet Australia chief executive Laurie Patton said: “Even the rights holders are talking about it being part of an ‘education process’. “Meanwhile, the costs of implementing this pointless scheme will no doubt flow on to honest content consumers in the form of increased Internet access fees.” The court on Thursday decided in favour of rights holders led by Foxtel and Village Roadshow against four telecommunications companies which were the respondents in the case: Telstra, Optus, M2 (now owned by Vocus Communications) and TPG. Blocking Pirate Bay will not stop VPN-savvy Australians Despite a Federal Court decision this week obliging internet service providers to block certain piracy-enabling websites, Australians will continue to easily access such sites via virtual private networks (VPNs) and other technologies they already use. The decision was the first use of new powers granted in 2015, which allow rights holders to request that access be blocked to foreign-hosted websites that facilitate copyright infringement. In this case, ISPs including Telstra, Optus and others were told to take all reasonable action to block access to popular torrenting websites including The Pirate Bay, TorrentHound and IsoHunt. Share this post: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Permalink Send this to a friend If you liked this post, consider subscribing to the RSS feed or join us now at the IRC channels. 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__label__cc	0.735752	0.264248	Wildlife Articles #PatchChat Wildlife Sightings The latest wildlife, ecology and conservation news Conservation / Education / Mammals Why Scotland Needs Bear Attacks by Ross Hunter · 12th June 2016 Every year around one million people visit Loch Ness. However, unlike Scotland’s other more adventurous tourist destinations – Ben Nevis, The Old Man of Hoy – it is not out of geological fascination that most of them make this journey into the Highlands. Despite how scientifically remarkable a sight Loch Ness is (it contains more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined) it is the prospect of glimpsing a creature that most know to be a fabrication that leads them to the shores of a loch just south of Inverness. The idea of the Loch Ness Monster grips the traveller’s imagination, so much so that the Scottish economy is £25 million a year better off for it. But why? What is it about the idea of an unknown creature swimming in the depths of a Scottish loch that attracts so many tourists, even when it is widely acknowledged that the most stirring photograph of Nessie is a fake? Namely, it is risk: the alluring prospect of unpredictability. Tourists flock to Loch Ness because they desire the aura of the unknown; the sense of risk that comes with being in a place where something unpredictable, even dangerous, might happen. Yes, most tourists are acutely aware that Nessie is a myth, a piece of familiar Scottish folklore that for some reason caught the imagination of the country in the 1930’s and hasn’t let go since. But they still go there. They still stand by the drizzly shores and squint their eyes in the hope of seeing something; a serpentine movement in the water; an ominous shadow floating through the depths; anything that might make them feel as if the world is truly unpredictable. On their journey to this shoreline they will pass hundreds of other lochs, many of which can boast more ecological diversity and seclusion. Yet it is Loch Ness that everyone knows; Loch Ness that everyone visits. It makes one wonder how many tourists come away from their day trip and say (or perhaps quietly ruminate): ‘Why did I spend so much money to come see, well…nothing?’ The truth is that Loch Ness offers something that the rest of the Scottish wilderness cannot – the unforeseeable. Even though the actual threat to one’s life in the vicinity of Loch Ness is almost exactly as miniscule as it would be on the shores of Loch Rannoch, Loch Ness provides us – via the explosion of a local folklore into an international conspiracy theory – with a modicum of peril not to be found anywhere else in the country. It is not that people actually think they will be constricted by the muscular neck of an ancient dinosaur but rather that the locale allows for that incredibly far-fetched possibility. It is for the very same reason that theme parks put so much effort into erecting menacing scenery around their rides or why ‘ghost-tours’ of cities occur at night – we want to be convinced that the experience is truly dangerous or frightening, despite the fact we know it is not. What this proves is that, in opposition to what a risk-averse, Health and Safety orientated society believes, people are very attracted to the prospect of risk, however small and unlikely. There are many different types of risk, from selling your house to showering less than twenty-four hours after you’ve grouted the bath. What I want to focus on here however are the physical risks we take when doing something like hang-gliding. The kind of risks that usually elicit the production of adrenaline and leave us feeling a little shaken, if also perhaps eager to replicate the rush. Extreme sports and adventure holidays are perhaps the most popular ways in which we express our innate desire to take physical risks, even life threatening ones. But it is only in the last few decades that sports such as bungee jumping, sky-diving, rock climbing and white water rafting have become more than just niche hobbies undertook by foolhardy young men. Today these sports are accessible to anyone with enough motivation and money to seek them out, and so they do. Risk-taking is an inherently human activity, yet in a world where everything is done in the interest of avoiding risk we find ourselves searching out opportunities where we can truly feel as if we are in peril (even if that peril is statistically unlikely or, in the case of the Loch Ness Monster, imaginary). Psychologists have myriad and conflicting answers as to why humans take risks, however Deborah Lupton and John Tulloch’s paper entitled ‘Life would be pretty dull without risk’ seems to get to the heart of the issue. Lupton and Tulloch declare that humans take risks not because it is necessary, but because we want to. It allows us to feel as if we are severed from the obligations and worries of society and returns us to feelings more akin to that of an indigenous Amazonian bushman (or woman) than a Human Resources Executive from Birmingham. As they write: ‘participating in activities that are coded as dangerous or ‘risky’ can bring an adrenaline rush that allows aficionados to escape the bounds of the rational mind and controlled body, to allow the body’s sensations and emotions to overcome them for a time. There is a sense of heightened living, of being closer to nature than culture, of breaking the ‘rules’ we see society as imposing on us’. Risk-taking, then, is a way of asserting our selfhood; of appearing to society as an individual willing to flaunt the regulations of personal safety and, if only momentarily, enjoy feeling as if we are closer to nature than to mortgages, car insurance and renewing the TV licence. In short, it returns us to emotions our risk-averse society shelters us from – emotions that are far more natural and enjoyable to us than the neurosis brought on by a Health and Safety inspection. Risks, and the adrenaline, fear and elation associated with them, are good for us. They recalibrate us to a frequency that allows us to momentarily forget the myriad worries brought on by modern life, which in this day and age is surely a good thing. And so, this opens up a new field of argument in the case for reintroducing large apex predators to the Scottish wilderness. Putting aside the considerable benefits it would have in terms of ecology and solving this country’s various environmental problems (such as the severe overpopulation of deer), I would argue that Scotland needs rewilding so that we can democratise risk by allowing anybody to feel the rush of skydiving or rock-climbing simply by walking through a woodland. At the moment our access to risk-taking activities is severely limited by how much money one can afford to spend on activities like bungee jumping or surfing or sea kayaking. However, if we were to reintroduce bears and wolves into Scottish forests then risk becomes democratised; anybody can walk into a forest where bears roam and feel the slight rush of being at mercy to the laws of nature. This may seem a little senseless, as if I actually want Scottish people to be ripped apart by wolves or mauled by a bears. But the fact is that the amount of risk taken in wandering through a habitat where bears are known to frequent is incredibly small. In the USA bears kill around three people annually, a remarkably small statistic considering the number of people who regularly hike through national parks or live in rural areas. With enough information and the appropriate amount of caution it would be possible to minimise the number of attacks yet still allow people the access to something we so direly need: the feeling of freedom caused by taking risks. Furthermore, just think of the possibilities for tourism. Imagine being able to advertise that the Caledonian Forest once again has bears and wolves lurking between the Scots Pines. Just think how many tourists, and Scots, would make the journey to walk through a forest populated with creatures this country hasn’t seen in thousands of years. The arguments for rewilding can feel a little repetitive and regularly appeal to a conservational ethic that is often suffocated by a society constantly seeking personal gratification. But what if we show what rewilding can do for us, and not just the environment? Framing it this way allows Green party voters to revel in the promise of returning nature to it rightful stewards while simultaneously convincing right-wing ‘nanny-state’ sceptics that democratising risk in this way allows us far more freedom. Best of all, it means tourists might actually see something amazing by the shores of Loch Ness – but this time the monsters won’t be imaginary. Ross Hunter Budding environmental journalist and documentary film-maker. Pure love birds 'n that. Latest posts by Ross Hunter (see all) Why Scotland Needs Bear Attacks - 12th June 2016 The Virtues of Gardens - 28th November 2015 The Hen Harrier and The Dodo - 5th October 2015 Tags: BearsRewildingScotlandWolves Marley was dead, to begin with. by @dunnock67 · Published 20th March 2016 · Last modified 17th March 2016 The final frontier (where no crane has gone before) by Louisa Wood · Published 18th August 2014 Why mosquitoes bite some people more than others by Wildlife Articles · Published 19th August 2018 I think you need to get out more, see more, learn more, and have a more open mind. “even when it is widely acknowledged that the most stirring photograph of Nessie is a fake? ” “most tourists are acutely aware that Nessie is a myth, a piece of familiar Scottish folklore that for some reason caught the imagination of the country in the 1930’s and hasn’t let go since” The photo was certainly a fake, but what was it they were trying to spoof? I’ve got 4 decades of watching wildlife in Scotland, photographing it and filming it too. I’ve seen a otters fighting with octopus, and with crows and even with sheep. I’ve seen a sheep swimming and being drowned by a seal. I’ve watched two crows cooperate to steal food from otters. I’ve watched red deer swimming. Seen eagles chasing deer. Pine marten fighting with crows. And more weird stuff than you can imagine. And I’ve seen otters ‘porpoising’ – mother and three cubs in a line that the unwary would mistake for a ‘sea serpent’. I’ve watched boat wakes on Loch Ness, Loch Lochy and Loch Oich that would also lure the uninformed into assuming that what they see is a monster. So, with my knowledge I know when I see something inexplicable. And I’ve seen it – the ‘inexplicable’. It was surfacing in the Loch, several humps in the water, and I was with a another witness (an experienced naturalist). No doubt it was alive (it was moving) but it simply surfaced moved about then went down again. I’m not saying its “a monster’ – but it’s something very peculiar and certainly alive. Friends near me over in the west at Loch Morar have had similar sightings there. You can mock all you want, you can call it a ‘myth’ or a ‘hoax’ or a foolish person being mistaken. But that wont change the fact that I (and six other people I know personally and trust implicitly) have seen things that they cannot explain in Loch Ness and Morar. And yes, I’ve also seen bears, wolves, and all the rest too. What we need to start with in Scotland is the lynx. Let them go and I’m pretty sure you’d never see them again. And we can take it from there…. Ross Hunter says: Hey Will, I’m not really interested in mocking people who claim to have seen something inexplicable in Scottish lochs, so I apologise if that’s how it seemed to you. It sounds like you’ve seen a lot of interesting things in this country and I’d be interested in reading an article about all the various phenomena you’ve personally seen that could, to a less experienced eye, be mistaken for what some might call a ‘monster’. I would really like if the Loch Ness monster turned out to be something tangible – perhaps not a monster, but something equally remarkable that changes the way people perceive mysterious reports of things such as Nessie or Bigfoot. However, for me personally anecdotal evidence just isn’t enough to prove the existence of something. In a world where everyone has a smartphone perhaps sooner or later an undeniable picture of Nessie will appear and the argument will be put to rest. But until then, I’ve got to go with the scientific evidence. Thanks for your comment, I’d be interested in you publishing “the scientific evidence”. Point is you have not got any! What you HAVE got is an absence of evidence of the existence of something, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If you’re looking for a relict dinosaur you’ll be disappointed, but the problem with having a ‘less than open’ mind is that it blinds you to the possibility of finding something else, less ancient, but equally unlikely. “However, for me personally anecdotal evidence just isn’t enough to prove the existence of something. In a world where everyone has a smartphone perhaps sooner or later an undeniable picture of Nessie will appear ” Anecdotal evidence may not prove the existence of something, but the very least it does when witnessed by someone who knows of what they speak, is prove the existence of something we don’t know about. The problem with photos though is that nowadays (some) people don’t believe them. The bar is high for things like this – DNA or something in a cage or its a nonsense. What we (two of us) saw was eel-like. But large. Girth that of at least a car tyre but a lot longer arch, and we were able to see water through the gap under the ‘hump’ before it submerged. No idea what it was we saw, although I can certainly tell you all the things I know it wasn’t, but it was very strange, so I’m keeping an open mind. Keep watching that loch! Next story Leopards, Snow Sports and the Kremlin Previous story A stroll beneath the waves The Golden Age of Amphibian Discovery Scientists Across The Globe Create A ‘Roadmap to Recovery’ to Reverse The Insect Apocalypse Isle of Wight Deer Conservation Newsletter 2019 Birdwatching survey shows effects of temperatures on population of Jays Euscorpius Flavicaudis – The UK’s Only Wild Scorpion ‘Drowned’ Humpback Whale Washed Up On Scottish Coast Photo of the day: grey wagtail Photo of the day: Fantastic Mr Fox! 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__label__cc	0.625359	0.374641	WildþingUK Wildþing: explore the wild Explore the wild Things to see in the Lake District Wainwright Memorial Walk The Further Wild Sailing in Gibraltar The Cairngorms Village and town Boundary Walks Anglesey Coastal Path Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Hertfordshire Border Walk Lancashire Border Walk Isle of Man – Raad ny Follian Middlesex Border Walk Rutland Round County Ways Berkshire Way The Buckinghamshire Way Hertfordshire Way Oxfordshire Way Downing Street Walks Chobham to Downing Street Downham Market to Downing Street Esher to Downing Street Godalming to Downing Street Henley via Uxbridge to Downing Street North Somerset to Downing Street Penrith to Downing Street Syresham to Downing Street The Resignation Way Walks in the Middle Shires Border Abbeys Way Village Walks Village Walks in Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Ring Chess Valley Walk Ellesborough and Chequers Village Walks in Hertfordshire Croxley Green Boundary Walk Hitchin Outer Orbital Path Village Walks in Oxfordshire Waterfall walks High Force walks around the Tees Wildþing: about us Category: Chilterns New Year’s Day welly walk in Stokenchurch A Happy New Year to all. Today the family enjoyed a gloriously muddy walk in the Chilterns to greet the new year and see if we approve of it. It was a welly walk, as so often and just five and a half miles across fields and woods and valleys on the intertangled border of Oxfordshire with Buckinghamshire, beginning at Stokenchurch, in Oxfordshire. Stokenchurch is a pretty place to start, at the village’s wide, scattered village green, and soon you escape the village, turning north into fields which were almost deserted. The path climbed up and down, reaching the Buckinghamshire border invisibly at the edge of Crowell Wood at another fold in the land, before a short climb up to a lane. More woods followed, to Town End, one of the hamlets which makes up Radnage. Radnage is a scattered place – not a village as such, it appears, but a collection of hamlets. The path leads to one of these, ‘Town End’, though with no town in sight. (At the south end of the parish, not on this walk, is a hamlet called ‘The City’. That might have to come into another walk some time.) The parish church is not on the planned route either, but wander down the hill a little into Town End and it is across the fields, and worth a visit. We had a picnic lunch at Radnage. The return journey is on part of the Chiltern Way, over the fields to Grange Farm, where the lane marks the county border again so it is back into Oxfordshire. Then up and over the hill again – very muddy in winter, with many warnings to keep dogs away from sheep – but we had no dog with us, and saw no sheep – there was a llama though, and two great, black, hairy pigs rooting with delight on their snouts in the mire they had made. All too soon it was back to Stokenchurch. A lovely day, and yes – we approve of the new year. Stokenchurch and Radnage Walk Maps and books Ordnance Survey Explorer 171 (1: 25 000) (Chiltern Hills West) Ordnance Survey Landranger 165 (1:50 000) (Aylesbury and Leighton Buzzard) Thames Valley and Chilterns – Outstanding Circular Walks Author RBPosted on 01 January 2020 Categories Buckinghamshire, Chilterns, Oxfordshire, WalksLeave a comment on New Year’s Day welly walk in Stokenchurch The Icknield Way Path The Icknield Way Path carried one of my favourite sections of the Hertfordshire Border Walk, as I could hardly avoid expressing on the first ‘Herts Embraced’ walk (on Day 3). The path carries a heritage with it that connects you to the walkers of ancient ages, for it follows a road that was ancient even before the Romans came, and which in Anglo-Saxon days was noted as one of the Great Roads of Britain. Much of the ancient Icknield Way is now tarmacked road, but other parts are remarkably left as footpath and bridleway, as they would have been in ancient days. It runs roughly along the chalk ridge of the Chilterns, above the scarp, and the Icknield Way Path follows the ancient road, or close by it, from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire, and thence in an east-north-easterly direction across into Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, for much of its length forming the borders of counties. (It was in the latter capacity of course that it recommended itself to the Hertfordshire Border Walk.) That is not quite the end either – Ivinghoe Beacon is the beginning of the Ridgeway long-distance route, and the north-easternmost end at Knettleshall Heath is the start of the Peddar’s Way. To describe the walk is beyond a single, brief post. I have walk long, lovely stretches, but not the whole thing. The rest of it is bookmarked for later explorations. I’ll take a picnic: those chalk grasslands looking out far over the lower land below the escarpment are as if created for picnics. The Icknield Way Path– the Icknield Way Association The Icknield Way Trail (a longer trail, for cycling and horses) The Icknield Way Path on Wikishire The route is long, stretching across several maps. It might be done with standard Landranger maps, though the additional detail of an Explorer map can be very helpful. In the Ordnance Survey Explorer, 1:50 000 series: Explorer 181 (Chiltern Hills North) Explorer 193 (Luton and Stevenage) Explorer 182 (St Albans and Hatfield) Explorer 195 (Hertford and Bishops Stortford) Explorer 209 (Cambridge) Explorer 210 (Newmarket and Haverhill) Explorer 229 (Thetford Forest in The Brecks) The Icknield Way Path: A Walkers’ Guide 100 Outstanding British Walks Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire – Pathfinder Please donate to the Stroke Association: click here. Author RBPosted on 13 October 2019 13 October 2019 Categories Buckinghamshire, Chilterns, Hertfordshire, Suffolk, WalksLeave a comment on The Icknield Way Path The Buckinghamshire Way – first walk this weekend The Buckinghamshire Way has been a long time in contemplation, but I will finally be starting it on Saturday, 13 July 2019. The starting point will by Buckinghamshire’s south-easternmost point, in Hythe End. I will then walk down to the Thames and the National Trust’s Ankerwycke meadows, and follow upstream to Eton and to Clivedon before turning due north. The next day should see me through the Chilterns and on to Aylesbury. Some of the route is on paths I know, while most is completely new – in any case, the Buckinghamshire Way is no more than a line on a map until it is actually walked. The Buckinghamshire Way has been a long time in contemplation, but I will finally be starting it on Saturday, 13 July 2019. The starting point will by Buckinghamshire’s south-easternmost point, in Hythe End west of Staines, at the county border on the Colne Brook close to the M25 viaduct. I will then walk down to the Thames and the National Trust’s Ankerwycke meadows, and follow upstream to Eton and to Clivedon before turning due north for Beacconsfield, where the Chilterns begin, and beyond. The next day should see me through the Chilterns and on to Aylesbury. Some of the route is on paths I know, while most is completely new and it must be walked just to see that it can be walked, or if the route needs diversion. In any case, the “Buckinghamshire Way” is no more than a line on a map until it is actually walked. I only have weekends, so it will have to be finished off after a fortnight’s gap, but the final aim is to touch Buckinghamshire’s northernmost point at Northey Farm, north of Olney. Then I get to go home. However, rather than set the whole route out here, I will blog as I go. Ordnance Survey Explorer range (1:25 000): Explorer 160 (Windsor, Weybridge & Bracknell) Explorer 172 (Chiltern Hills East) Explorer 192 (Buckingham and Milton Keynes) Explorer 207 (Newport Pagnell & Northampton South) Pathfinder Guide: Thames Valley and Chilterns Buckinghamshire: A Dog Walker’s Guide Walking in the Chilterns: 35 walks in the Chiltern Hills Pub Walks in the Chilterns Author RBPosted on 10 July 2019 12 July 2019 Categories Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire Way, Chilterns, County waysLeave a comment on The Buckinghamshire Way – first walk this weekend Aldbury and the Bridgewater Monument It has been a glorious day, and the perfect one for a short Chiltern walk. As we wait for the joy of Easter, we are in anticipation. Nature is bursting forth in readiness for the rebirth of summer, in all its variety giving praise to its creator. We then stepped out to enjoy it, as we wait for Easter. Aldbury stands below the scarp of the Chilterns, a perfect little village set around a village pond, and buzzing with activity when we arrived – cars had begun to circle like sharks for parking spaces. Rising above the village is the wooded slope of the hills, which here belong to the National Trust’s Ashridge Estate. The eagle-eyed may notice that I was here in Aldbury on Day 2 of my Herts Embraced walk. That day was very different: it was raining so hard I thought my map would dissolve into papier maché and my camera would fill with water. I still recognised that this was a pretty village and the woods were lovely even in those conditions, and the coffee in the National Trust café at the top of the hill was very welcome. Today though was dry, bright and the hottest day of the year so far. We started down an intriguingly named road, Trooper Road, a name which was explained as we arrived at The Valliant Trooper, one of the village pubs, and at once lost the crowd. We continued out of the village across a field to a cross-track, the east, across the road, and began climbing the hill (past a lovely arts-and-craft house, worthy of Lutyens) and up through the woods. As this is woodland held by the National Trust it is left to be more natural than others. At one point a group of roe deer appeared, close to the path and apparently unbothered by walkers. While the escarpment is steep, the tracks climb this part across the contours to make it a gentle climb for the family. Crossing a corner of the road we entered a part of the estate which was suddenly full of other families: The National Trust in partnership with Cadbury were running an Easter egg hunt. Whatever you might think about cheapening the Church’s most precious day, it was getting families out and walking, which is a good thing. Before too long we were joined by a path climbing more directly from the village which I had taken on ‘Herts Embraced’, and soon we arrived at the Bridgewater Monument, the centrepiece of the Trust’s estate. Before the estate was broken up by Lloyd George’s taxes, the monument was part of the scheme of the Duke of Bridgewater’s private estate, standing as it does as a focal point on a two mile vista from Ashridge House, which is not owned by the Trust. The monument was open, so we climbed it, and the views are wide all around, and clear in the brightness of the day. (The last time I was here I did not see if the tower was open, but it would have been hard to see anything very far at all in that weather.) We turned north-west around the Monument and headed back into the woods, then by a cottage lost in the woods turned south-west crabbing down the scarp until at the foot of the slope we emerged into fields by Stocks Farm. From there, across the fields it is just a step back into the village. The whole walk is only about three miles – just right with two tired but enthusiastic children to break a busy day Ordnance Survey Explorer 181 Chiltern Hills North Waterproof version! Ordnance Survey Landranger 165 Aylesbury & Leighton Buzzard Author RBPosted on 20 April 2019 Categories Chilterns, HertfordshireLeave a comment on Aldbury and the Bridgewater Monument New Year’s Day – Little Missenden New Year’s Day, and we greeted the year with a walk in the Misbourne Valley, from Little Missenden. It is a lovely village, barely touched by modernity, but in a good way, with two pubs, an ancient church, farms on all sides, and a network of footpaths. We set off on a loop south from the village. I have included maps of the walks here on the page “Little Missenden Walks“. The village is south of the unforgiving track of the trunk road (the A413), leaving it in happy isolation. We set off east along the village’s one road and up a farm track which is also part of the South Bucks Way. This leads by a meadow beside the River Misbourne until a kissing gate and, turning south, the delightfully named Mop End Lane, a footpath, once a byway, leading south up out of the valley to the equally charmingly named hamlet of Mop End, which is one farm and no more. The sun came out and the views down to the valley were wonderful. It began raining gently after Mop End Farm, but briefly. Turning west from the farm, we followed a path at a hedge line to a kissing gate (recently replacing a stile) where the hedge doglegs, and through to another tree-edged lane, named Toby’s Lane. At this point we chose to take Toby’s Lane north, between high hedges of trees. On this route, there is, after Breaches Wood, a path diagonally across the field north-westward down to the valley floor and back to Little Missenden, emerging almost opposite the church. The longer walk looks like a much wider loop, but adds only a mile to the walk; it passes by Toby’s Lane, crosses Beamond End Lane and continues to Holmer Green. Helpful Signpost, Little Missenden Through Holmer Green, and a bridleway leads north, into Coleman’s Wood / Haleacre Wood, then down sharply into the Misbourne Valley, with, just above the river, a cut-across path to the edge of the village. Little Missenden itself is a pleasant place, catering well for walkers. The parish church is an Anglo-Saxon building, possibly tenth century, but extended in the Middle Ages leaving odd glimpses of the original work. Most eye-opening though are the mediaeval wall paintings, whitewashed over at the Reformation and uncovered in the modern age. In the Explorer, 1:50 000 series: Ordnance Survey Explorer 172 (Chiltern Hills East) Author RBPosted on 04 January 2019 Categories Buckinghamshire, ChilternsLeave a comment on New Year’s Day – Little Missenden Walking Christmas off around Chequers It needs a good walk to break out of turkey-induced lethargy, and so this last week we headed out to the Chilterns and dropped in on the Prime Minister – well not quite, but we took in a good path around her country residence, Chequers. The path we chose, written up on this site as ‘Ellesborough and Chequers‘, starts at the vast church in the tiny village of Ellesborough, at the edge of the Chilterns and really at the heart of Buckinghamshire’s prime walking country. The paths here lead south over the fields to Coombe Hill, then around the south edge of the Chequers estate. It is odd that though this a secured area, bristling with cameras, there is a public path straight through and this we took. Frequent readers may know that I previously wrote up a route hereabouts called the Resignation Way; a walk that a minister might take if he resigns during a visit here and has to find a station having lost his ministerial car. It is a good walk, and almost worth timing the resignation just to get a good Chiltern walk in. Much of our route was, by coincidence, on the Resignation Way. The path is a mixture of landscapes to be enjoyed – fields, woods, hills, and open meadow. From parts of the walk, particularly in Maple Wood, there are good views of the Prime Minister’s residence, and it is a popular route – much of it uses The Ridgeway, a long-distance path very well defined. Turning off the Ridgeway, going north and into Little Kimble Warren, there is an unexpected view: a sudden, deep, heavily wooded valley, named Happy Valley, with a view opening out to Great Kimble’s parish church and the Vale of Aylesbury beyond; the path crosses the head of the valley. Thereafter it open onto a chalk down beyond which Ellesborough’s church comes again into view, topping off a fine morning. There is much to see around here also; the monument of Coombe Hill which is visible from much of the walk, the ancient church at Little Kimble, the little Iron Age fort known as Cymbeline’s Castle, an abandoned mediaeval village, and the anticipation of possibilities in the network of paths which meet here. They are for another time. Author RBPosted on 30 December 2018 Categories Buckinghamshire, ChilternsLeave a comment on Walking Christmas off around Chequers Wellies along the Colne: London Colney and Colney Hatch High Force The Border Abbeys Way The Cateran Trail The Timeball and Telegraph Trail Walking from (or to) Brussels: announcing victory (or surrender) Buckinghamshire Way revisited: Thames to Cliveden Buckinghamshire Way 4.4: Completed Blocked paths Buckinghamshire Way Canal walks County boundary walks Herts Embraced Slieve Donard Suburban Wild The Middle Shires Twenty Favourite Walks from OSGB WildþingUK Proudly powered by WordPress	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line446
__label__wiki	0.569053	0.569053	Resources: Women and Gender Constituency SBI 44 Closing, Shaila Shadid, May 2016 BONN, Germany (May 26, 2016) – Shaila Shadid, of the Gender and Water Alliance in Bangladesh, in a closing intervention for the SBI congratulated the Secretariat on a very engaging and inclusive 2-day workshop on gender-responsive climate policy, which produced a wide variety of recommendations and saw the participation of many Parties. She also recognized progress made by Parties in Conclusions under the SBI which set the stage for a strong set of activities to be outlined in Marrakesh to take forward the important work of the Lima Work Program on Gender– and welcomed that Observers were fully engaged and welcomed in these informal consultations, hoping that this can be a model for other work streams. ADP Closing Plenary, June 2015 BONN, Germany (June 11, 2015) — On Thursday , the Constituency submitted a statement in the closing of the ninth part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) calling for “a just and gender-responsive Paris climate agreement that fundamentally will respect and promote human rights and gender equality.” SBSTA Closing Plenary, Tess Vistro, June 2015 BONN, Germany (June 11, 2015) — On Thursday , Tess Vistro from Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, Philippines, spoke on behalf of the Constituency, and delivered a statement in the closing of the 42nd Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), calling for tools and solutions which utilise “local and indigenous knowledge systems already in place in communities” and keep women at the forefront of their agenda. UNFCCC, Women and Gender Constituency SBI Closing Plenary, Queensley O. Ajuyakpe, June 2015 BONN, Germany (June 11, 2015) — On Thursday , Queensley O. Ajuyakpe from Women Environmental Programme, Nigeria, on behalf of the Constituency, delivered a statement in the closing of the 42nd Session of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI), calling for “a just and gender-responsive climate agreement in Paris that is equitable, ambitious and provides us with binding adaptation and mitigation commitments in line with the principles of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR).” UNFCCC Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Women Environmental Programme Gotelind Alber, GenderCC, Presentation at 2nd Dialogue on Article 6 of the Convention Presenting on behalf of the Women and Gender Constituency on “Good practices and lessons learned in fostering public participation in climate change policy decision-making and action”. Article 6, Public Participation Priscilla Achakpa, WEP, Presentation in 2nd Dialogue on Article 6 Lourdes Barragan, TEM on Land Use, June 2014 “Women are the majority of the world’s subsistence agricultural producers, poor livestock keepers and involved in natural resource management. Women play an essential role in land use in general and future land sector and land use negotiations should recognize them as rights holders with unique needs, preferences and contributions and ensure that actions proposed are based on a gender-responsive approach that recognizes the gender-differentiated use of, access to, and control of the land resources provided through land use.” land use, natural resource management, women Bridget Burns, Informal Dialogue with Incoming COP Presidency, Bonn, June 2014 “We make a strong call to the COP Presidency to ensure that the principles of gender equality and the human rights are fully incorporated in Lima’s outcomes under the ADP. Furthermore, in Lima, we look for concrete progress under the COP agenda item on Gender and Climate Change- taking forward Party recommendations from the Warsaw Conclusions, which included workshops to further incorporate a gender lens across aspects of climate policy; and monitoring and reporting of implementation of gender-sensitive climate actions by Parties.” civil society, COP20, gender equality, Lima Sabine Bock, High Level Ministerial, Bonn Intersessional, June 6th “We stand firm that high-risk technologies that create irreversible damage to our health and the planet, such as nuclear, shale gas, geo‐engineering or the like, are not acceptable. These activities have to be kept out of a 2015 agreement which instead should focus on bottom-up approaches that benefit people and communities, respect rights, enhance resilience, reduce current and future emissions and facilitate the genuine transformation that is a requirement for truly sustainable development and climate protection.” 2014, ADP, Bonn, gender equality, high-risk technology, June, Ministerial, renewables Andrea Quesada, SBSTA Opening Plenary, June 2014 “In these past months SBSTA has made substantial progress integrating gender in some of its agenda items. Particularly, the Constituency welcomes the report of technical expert meeting on available tools for the use of indigenous knowledge and practices for adaptation, and the application of gender-sensitive approaches and tools for adaptation considered under agenda item 3 on the Nairobi Work Programme….Lastly, all land sector and land use negotiations should recognize and incorporate gender as a crucial crosscutting issue; recognize women as stakeholders with unique needs, preferences and contributions; focus on resources on/from land, and not the land itself; and ensure that actions proposed are based on a gender-responsive approach.” gender, IPCC, land use, NWP, Research Bridget Burns, ADP Opening Plenary, June 2014 “The Constituency views this session as an important moment for articulating with Parties how gender equality can be appropriately integrated into the new agreement. Examples from the integration of gender into the Green Climate Fund architecture as well as strong language in the Cancun agreements on human rights and gender equality provide precedents and models to review in considering options. The Constituency members are committed to work and support Parties on this articulation at this sessions.” ADP, COP20, gender equality, Lima Outcome Carmen Capriles- SBI Opening Plenary, June 2014 Comments and recommendations for Parties to consider in the areas of adaptation, mitigation, capacity building and participation. “where the SBI reviews work on mitigation and technology, we remind Parties that mitigation policies in general, and for the energy and transport sectors in particular, should build on gender sensitive methodologies to address the energy and transportation needs of women and men, while improving their wellbeing, access to basic services and access to markets.” Environmental Justice, Human Rights Defenders, mitigation, NWP, Technology SBI Opening Plenary, Gertrude Kenyangi, COP20 At the Opening of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI), Ms. Gertrude Kenyangi from Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment, Uganda, called for further strengthening gender-sensitive climate policy via a new decision under the agenda item on gender and climate change. SBSTA Opening, Kalyani Raj, COP20 On Monday, Kalyani Raj from All India Women’s Conference, on behalf of the Constituency, delivered a statement in the opening of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), calling for safe, nuclear-free, low carbon technologies which take into account the rights and needs of women and men. COP20 Opening Plenary, Carmen Capriles On Monday, December 1st, Carmen Capriles, Reaccion Climatica, Bolivia, on behalf of the Women and Gender Constituency, delivered a strong statement at the opening of the 20th Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC, calling for full and equal participation, human rights, and gender equality as essential to achieving progress and climate change– alongside real and ambitions commitments by Countries to combat this planetary emergency. ADP Opening Plenary, Mrinalini Rai, COP20 As negotiations opened on the new Paris Agreement here in Lima, at COP20, the WGC reminded Parties that we need ambition, real solutions and recognition of human rights, gender equality and the rights of future generations. Word Doc Ulrike Roehr from LIFE e.V. addreses the COP15 Statement in behalf of the Women and Gender Constiuency on the urgent need for meaningful action commitments, COP15, Copenhagen, LIFE e.V. Jo Tenner of GenderCC addreses the COP15 Statement in behalf of the Women and Gender Constiuency and the Women’s Causus at the COP15 in Copenhagn on mitigation COP15, Copenhagen, GenderCC, mitigation, Women's Causus Andrea Guzman from GenderCC addreses the COP15 Statement in behalf of the Women and Gender Constiuency on integrating a gender perspective into all aspects of the process COP15, Copenhagen, gender perspectives Climate Justice Briefs: Rural Women’s Adptation Strategies – Sri Lanka Pervaisive gender discrimination and the need to promote collective adaptation efforts of small-scale Sri Lankan fisheries adaptation, APFWLD, Asia-Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development, empowerment, indigenous women, policy, Sri Lanka	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line447
__label__cc	0.71748	0.28252	Alba-Golden Police/Fire Reports 199 results total, viewing 73 - 84 Mineola Police Report August 23 - 8:28 a.m. A reckless driver was reported at West Broad Street and Loop 564 driving on the wrong side of the roadway, heading toward town. An officer responded the call, but did not locate … more Mineola Fire Report Passenger vehicle fire: Aug. 24, 5:51 p.m., 1092 County Road 2210, Mineola. Medical assistance: Aug. 24, 8:40 p.m., 906 N. Johnson St., Mineola; Aug. 25, 10:47 a.m., 509 Meadowbrook Dr., Mineola; … more Police say no assault in Walmart incident The Mineola Police Department reported the following: Police received a call to respond to Walmart for an incident that occurred in a bathroom Aug. 29 at 4:39 p.m. Officers responded and … more Brush or brush and grass mixture fire: Aug. 23, 1:04 p.m., Hwy. 37 Quitman (assist Quitman FD); Aug. 28, 3:28 p.m., 6815 Hwy. 80, Hawkins (assist Hawkins FD). Medical Assist, assist EMS crew: Aug. … more Wood County Sheriff’s Report, Dec. 31 - Jan. 8 Deputies were dispatched. more Mineola Police Report, January 3-9 A disturbance was reported. An officer assisted. more Mineola Fire Report, January 3-9 building fire, grass fire, medical assistance, motor vehicle accident with no injuries, unauthorized burning more Medical assistance: Oct. 4, 12:33 p.m., 214 W. McDonald St, Mineola. Oct. 5 8:38 a.m. 613 S Stone St, Mineola. Oct. 5, 7:21 p.m., 135 Autumn Winds Ct Mineola, Oct. 7, 3:11 p.m., 1583 FM 1801, … more Wood County Sheriff’s Report, Aug. 21-27 August 21 Deputies were dispatched to FM 2088 near Quitman, at 8:26 a.m., in reference to an incident. Deputies made contact with the reporting party and issued a criminal trespass warning. … more Mineola Police Department activity from Oct. 4 through 10-10: OCT. 10 – At 7:07 a.m. Michael Devon McPherson, 39, of Tyler, was arrested for theft after Murphy’s USA at NE Loop 584 reported … more August 22 7:20 a.m. A resident on East Blair Street reported, she came outside and found a handgun lying next to her trashcan. The department retrieved the .22 handgun. The department had an … more Wood County Sheriff’s Report Wood County Sheriff’s Report 10-3 through 10-9: OCT 9 – Deputies went out on an arrest/warrant service to CR 2380 near Mineola at approximately 12:39 a.m. Charles Elliott, Jr., 38, of Alba was … more « Prev \| 1 … 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 \| 8 \| 9 \| 10 … 17 \| Next » Currently viewing stories posted within the past year. Wood County Monitor 1-16-20 Some cases dismissed against former sheriff Former Wood County Sheriff James Brown got good news at the end of 2019. On Dec. 31, in the 402nd District Court, visiting Judge Joe Clayton dismissed two felony abuse of official capacity charges … County EDC gains new board members, director Commissioners approve organizational chart over county judge’s objection Former Mineola drum major forms non-profit to assist band students © , Wood County Monitor	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line448
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About Abcodia ROCA Ovarian Cancer Test Publications about ROCA Serum Biobank About › News › Abcodia secures funding of £5.25 million ($8m) to launch the ROCA® test for the early detection of ovarian cancer Abcodia secures funding of £5.25 million ($8m) to launch the ROCA® test for the early detection of ovarian cancer Two new investors, Cambridge Innovative Capital and Scottish Equity Partners join existing investors Albion Ventures and UCLB The investment enables the launch of the ROCA® test in US and UK in 2015, as well as the establishment of a US presence Abcodia today announced that it has raised £5.25million funding from existing and new investors to bring the world’s most sensitive and specific ovarian cancer screening test, ROCA® to market. The financing was co-led by Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) and Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), who join existing investors Albion Ventures and UCL Business. Dr Robert Tansley, from CIC and Jan Rutherford, from SEP have been appointed to Abcodia’s Board. Dr Julie Barnes, Abcodia’s CEO, welcomed the funding and commented: “The funding will allow Abcodia to launch the ROCA® test in the UK this summer and US later in 2015. This is the first cancer screening test that we are bringing to market and we are excited about its proven high performance. We feel passionately that the ROCA® test will make a real difference in the lives of women at risk of developing this aggressive form of cancer. The funding will help build operations and commercial teams in the UK and establish our US presence while continuing to grow our product pipeline focused on improving early cancer diagnosis.” Dr Robert Tansley, Investment Director at CIC, said: “The major unmet need in early detection of ovarian cancer and the unprecedented clinical validation behind the ROCA® test provided a compelling body of evidence for CIC’s investment. We are excited to support this groundbreaking test and bring it to the market so women around the world can feel empowered with more knowledge and more options.” The ROCA® test’s proven performance was reaffirmed in a study from the UKCTOCS trial at UCL, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology this month. The publication showed the ROCA® test could detect ovarian cancer more accurately than existing methods and before symptoms occur. Jan Rutherford, partner at SEP, said: “Abcodia is one of the most exciting businesses involved in the early detection of cancer. Its novel data driven approach, underpinned by its unique biobank and its strategic partnership with Cancer Research UK, has the potential to materially enhance the way biomarkers are developed, allowing earlier disease diagnosis and improved patient outcomes. We are delighted to invest in such an innovative company and look forward to the launch of the ROCA test, initially through a number of private clinics in the UK this summer.” Abcodia is a pioneering UK company engaged in the clinical and commercial development of promising tests for the early detection of cancer. The company’s first product to reach the market in 2015 will be the ROCA® test, to which Abcodia has an exclusive license for the early detection of ovarian cancer. In addition and in co-operation with University College London, Abcodia is leading technology developments in disease lifecycle utilizing the world’s largest serum biobank and clinical database ever developed, to evaluate potential tests for the early detection of disease, including all major cancers. In 2013 Abcodia formed an alliance with Cancer Research UK and Cancer Research Technology to discover and validate blood-based biomarkers that may be used in cancer screening. About Cambridge Innovation Capital Cambridge Innovation Capital (“CIC”) was launched with initial funding from long-term institutional and strategic investors including Invesco Perpetual, Lansdowne Partners and the University of Cambridge Endowment Fund. We invest in high-growth life science and technology companies arising from the University of Cambridge and the wider Cambridge Cluster. With our close ties to the University, active angel groups and the entrepreneurial community, our mission is to be one of the leading venture capital investors in the vibrant Cambridge Cluster. Where needed, our investment strategy backed by our permanent capital structure, allows us to provide long-term financial support to our portfolio companies. For further information see: www.cambridgeinnovationcapital.com About Scottish Equity Partners Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) is a leading venture capital investor in high growth technology and technology-enabled companies. Operating from offices in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, SEP invests up to £20m in innovative, growth stage companies with a sharp focus on the IT, healthcare and energy sectors. For further information see: www.sep.co.uk. For press enquiries please contact Lucy Smith, Hot Tin Roof PR: 0131 225 7880: 07849 111 524 About the ROCA® Test The ROCA® test refers to the Risk of Ovarian Cancer Algorithm, invented by academic gynaecological oncologist, Professor Ian Jacobs (University New South Wales; Principal Investigator of the UKCTOCS trial), and Dr Steve Skates (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University; Statistician). Through routine testing, the ROCA® test assesses the likelihood of a women having ovarian cancer and is used clinically to refer women for a diagnostic ultrasound test. It was developed using analysis of years of serial blood chemistry CA125 and clinical data derived from women who developed ovarian cancer those who did not. It was then evaluated in the largest cancer screening trial in the world involving over 200,000 women and up to 10 years of real world experience. For more information about the ROCA® test, please visit www.theROCAtest.co.uk For more information email us at info@abcodia.com © Copyright 2020 Abcodia Ltd. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line455
__label__wiki	0.651451	0.651451	Amy Schutzer Contact/BuyBooks Write Now! Read an excerpt of Spheres of Disturbance. Copyright © 2014 Amy Schutzer At its heart, the story is about the impending death of Helen from cancer. The backstory: When she was younger Helen was unmarried and pregnant. Instead of give the baby up for adoption, as her Long Island Catholic family wanted her to, Helen disappeared, telling only her younger sister where she went. Now, Helen’s daughter, Sammy is an adult with a lesbian lover, and how each of them approaches Helen’s death, and each other, forms the foundation of the story. Each of the nine characters, whose point of view revolves through the novel, impact, impede, accept, and resist the trajectories of Helen’s death, and their own relationship to the living and the dead. Within this framework, the way American culture views death is not only explored for how it tries to push death out of the picture but also for how impossible that truly is. What happens if someone chooses her death? Is opting out of the prescribed medical arsenal of care choosing? The taboo of that ultimate, final choice is the root of the book. Set over the span of one day, in 1985, are the myriad layers that inform, and direct the characters lives: the politics of Ronald Reagan are excoriated; artists reinvent themselves; relationship politics exposes a commune’s hierarchy; a garage sale links past to present; a pregnant Vietnamese pot bellied pig is a reminder of the delicate balance between ideas and the reality of ideas. Experimental and beautiful, this book has a solid core. In the award-winning Undertow, Dotty and Macy are brought together by accident and their love unfolds against a backdrop of the weighed and sifted pieces of their pasts. Freud contended there were no such things as accidents. Shakespeare often referred to star-crossed lovers, and it would seem that lovers meant for each other are truly fated when Dotty, a housepainter, ends up in the hospital after falling from her ladder and meets a nurse named Macy, who used to live in the very house Dolly was painting. Sure enough, after less than a brief spell in the hospital, Dotty allows Macy to move in and look after her for a couple of weeks, and not surprisingly, Macy winds up staying for good. It's all misty and atmospheric, like Dotty's morphine-inspired dreams, which lead to her growing addiction to Vicodin, a painkiller Macy manages to get without benefit of a doctor's prescription. Told alternately by Dotty and Macy in gauzy, fragmented half-thoughts, the conflicts of love and loving, of self-doubt and self-revelation become clearly etched for both as a surprise visit from Dotty's brother and sister causes a major shift in the lovers' lives. Schutzer's debut novel should establish her as a writer to watch. —Whitney Scott, American Library Association. Read an excerpt of Taking the Scarecrow Down About Taking the Scarecrows Down: This collection at first seems pure lyric, with its potent images (woman whose mouth is 'a carnelian flame;' clothes 'that smell like years ago'), yet it offers the reader many narratives too. The poet's life unfolds through the natural world, moving along and circling back around like the creek. She moves easily between flashbacks to long-ago neighborhoods, meditations on friends, on death and loss, and the 'resplendent, gold spark' of a bee laden with pollen. Her preoccupation with word origins ('a parliament of owls;' 'a murder of crows') not only provides rich subject matter but is also put to good use in the crafting and shaping of this lovely work. —Judith Barrington With arresting imagery and subtle music, this book does dare to take the scarecrows down: its evocative poems deftly 'negotiate the emptiness / that is the heart of everything.' In the face of loss, absence, longing and mayhem, Amy Schutzer offers us poetry's 'long sky,' its 'stars flowering on the tongue.' —Paulann Petersen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line465
__label__wiki	0.7373	0.7373	US News and World Report story complaining about CentCom No one doubts that the United States will ultimately sweep to a military victory in Iraq. But the failure of CentCom commanders to offer even a dose of candor about the unexpected problems encountered there has grouchy reporters grumbling about a credibility gap. The war has not played to CentCom's carefully rehearsed script. American and British forces were not initially greeted as liberators. CentCom officials said in recent days that the crowds have begun to help the American forces, but the southern city of Basra remains a dicey place where it's not clear who's in control. Before the war began, the military had planned to airlift chosen television reporters to Basra on Day 2 to beam back pictures of Iraqi Shiites celebrating the demise of Saddam Hussein's regime. The reporters still haven't made it there. When the initial developments did not create the images sought by CentCom, the spin doctors here took over. Franks finally spoke on Day 3, but the briefings contained little useful information. The "mosaic" that Franks and Brooks had said they would stitch together instead became a confused jumble of battlefield reports filed by embedded journalists in the field with little context from the providers of context. In the absence of information, reporters started interviewing each other. New York magazine media writer Michael Wolff–dressed mostly in black–changed his seat each day for maximum opportunity to ask questions and tweak the briefers. One of the generals tried to bond with Wolff by pointing out they both had bald pates, but Wolff was merciless when he asked Brooks on Day 8, "Why should we stay? What's the value to us for what we learn at this million-dollar press center?" The succeeding briefings were not reassuring. Reporters had to act like Kremlinologists to divine what Franks meant Sunday when he attempted to defend his war plan. "The very best planning, I believe, military planning that can be done, is military planning that assures ultimate success but permits the possibility of early success," he said. It wasn't easy deciphering that oblique code, but what Franks seemed to be saying was that his blueprint relied on launching an attack with a smaller, lighter force to secure the lucrative oil fields and see if Iraqi resistance quickly faded. In case the "early success" didn't fully materialize, Franks and the military planners had prepared a contingency: a second wave of forces that would reinforce the invasion. Military officials could then argue that they didn't have to alter the plan because the planners always foresaw changes. "Its chief characteristic," Franks said of the plan, "is flexibility, adaptability." Many people would have considered this explanation–if Franks had offered it in plain English–to be reasonable, though some would have derided it as after-the-fact spin. But Franks failed in three appearances to explain his reasoning in an understandable way, preferring to rely on vague pronouncements such as, "This plan will be unlike any I believe anyone expects." What was so stunning about the CentCom stage was the stark contrast with the generous access given to embedded reporters..... Posted by Amy Welborn at 6:58 AM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line466
__label__wiki	0.8238	0.8238	Opinion poll suggests Mamata Banerjee's TMC to win in West Bengal again, LDF comeback in Kerala, Jayalalitha victory in Tamil Nadu but setback for Congress Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced schedule for the forthcoming assembly elections in four states. With dates announced, already opinion polls are being commissioned to gauge the public mood in these states. So who will win the election? That's a matter of speculation, however, C Voter is the first to come with a survey. It suggests that Congress may face setback, as it is likely to lose two states viz. Assam and Kerala, where it is in power. The four states that are going to polls include West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Kerala. BJP is not very strong in these states. However, it has a significant vote in Assam, and its alliance with the BJP may bring it to power in the State. It is not a power to reckon with in West Bengal even now, but party leaders are hopeful of a good show. In WB, the main fight is between Trinamool Congress and CPI (M) in West Bengal. In Assam, the contest is between Congress and BJP-AGP alliance though Badruddin Ajmal's AIUDF may corner enough seats to emerge as kingmaker after the election. In Tamil Nadu, it is the traditional AIADMK against DMK fight. In Kerala, the Communist front--Left Democratic Front (LDF) is likely to make a comeback. OPINION POLL [INDIA TV-C VOTER] WEST BENGAL: Mamata seems set to form government, Communists may improve their tally but Congress to lose more seats compared to last election, unless there is a tie-up between Congress and Left. TMC 156 CPI-M 114 Congress 13 KERALA: The Communists could return to power again. Congress-led UDF may lose. BJP is not going to do very well and the state remains polarised between Congress and Left coalitions. LDF 89 UDF 49 NDA 1 ASSAM: In Assam, BJP-AGP alliance is doing better as per the opinion poll. Tarun Gogoi-led Congress may get less number of seats. However, Badruddin Ajmal's AIUDF can have a tie-up with Congress, post-polls. Congress looks down but is not out of the race. BJP alliance 57 AIUDF 19 TAMIL NADU: Tamil Nadu has always been a tough state for pollsters and predictions have gone horribly wrong here in the past. However, it seems despite anti-incumbency, J Jayalalitha's AIADMK is performing better than DMK. But a slight vote swing can change the results dramatically. AIADMK 116 DMK 101 Labels: AGP, Assam, Assembly elections, Communists, Kerala, LDF, Mamata Banerjee, Opinion poll, Tamil Nadu, TMC, West Bengal	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line469
__label__cc	0.596353	0.403647	August 26th-September 2nd After an absence of a few years, we once again returned to the charming island of Grand Manan. It was once again a memorable experience. Wader migration was productive and in addition to the expected common species we enjoyed sightings of scarcer species such as Baird’s and Pectoral Sandpipers and all three phalarope species. Warbler migration was, as hoped, a major feature with 17 species recorded and unusually large numbers of Cape May and Bay-breasted Warbler being notable. In addition we saw three species of Empidonax Flycatcher, Philadelphia Vireo and many other interesting land birds. Numbers of large shearwaters were unusually low, but we still enjoyed some close encounters with Great Shearwater, whilst both Leach’s and Wilson’s Storm-petrels provided good views. Whale numbers were also down on my previous tour, but nevertheless we had excellent close views of five Humpback Whales during our pelagic and more distant views of a Fin Whale off Long Eddy Lighthouse. Finally did someone say something about a Burrowing Owl? A gallery of images taken on this tour can be found on our Facebook page here. August 26th: London to Saint John. Our small group met up at London's Heathrow airport for our flight to Toronto and then onward connection to the small city of Saint John in the province of New Brunswick. Our arrival at Saint John was right on schedule, and for a small provincial airport it was fairly busy. However, it was not long before we had secured the rental vehicle and had checked into our hotel for the the night, where some much needed rest after the long journey was in order. August 27th: Saint John - Red Head Marsh & Hanover St. Travel to Blacks Harbour and ferry to Grand Manan. Weather: Warm and sunny with a very light N breeze becoming SE by late afternoon. 21C. Our first morning began with a good breakfast in our downtown hotel, before we made the short drive to Red Head Marsh, just outside town. Here we enjoyed an excellent introduction to North American shorebirds as we soon clocked up both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Plover, White-rumped, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers, and local notables such as Wilson's Phalarope, Baird's Sandpiper (4) and Pectoral Sandpiper (2). Ducks included Black, American Wigeon and Green-winged Teal. A Merlin whizzed past and a Belted Kingfisher was most welcome. Pleased with this start we visited nearby Hanover Street where a Marbled Godwit had been present. Unfortunately we were unable to find that, but more shorebirds included Short-billed Dowitcher, Spotted Sandpiper and Grey Plover. We made a stop to buy provisions and then headed to Blacks Harbour, where we caught an early afternoon ferry to Grand Manan. An immature Bald Eagle flew over as we left the ferry terminal. The seas were flat calm and with almost no wind to disturb the water's surface we were treated to good numbers of Harbour Porpoise (at least 50) and distant brief views of whales that remained unidentified. Seabirds included our first Great Shearwaters (some very close to the ferry), a Sooty Shearwater, a scattering of Wilson's Petrels, a few Puffins, Gannet and some distant flocks of phalaropes. As we neared Grand Manan we noted Black Guillemot and an adult Bald Eagle. We headed to our accommodation at Castalia and, once we'd checked in, had a wander in the local environs. Black-capped Chickadees were predictably the commonest species, but we also had good views of our first Red-breasted Nuthatches, Purple Finch, Yellow and Black-throated Green Warblers, Common Yellowthroat, Ruby-throated Hummingbird and Blue Jay. August 28th: Grand Manan - Whistle Road including Long Eddy Lighthouse. The Anchorage, Long Pond. Castalia Marsh. Weather: Warm and sunny with a very light N breeze. Clear skies. 21C. Our first morning on Grand Manan was spent exploring the area along the Whistle Road and Long Eddy Lighthouse. As we got out of the car we were greeted by large groups of Cedar Waxwings in the trees and totaling in excess of 200 by the time we had finished our morning here. Warblers were a focus of our attentions and Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Bay-breasted, Black-throated Green and Myrtle all noted fairly readily. Alder Flycatchers were present in small numbers, whilst less tricky to identify was Eastern Kingbird and notable others included Red-eyed Vireo, Downy Woodpecker and a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird, all of which showed nicely. An American Redstart was rather less accommodating. After a stop for provisions and lunch we spent much of the afternoon at The Anchorage, and the vicinity of Long Pond. American Wigeon, Blue-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck and Hooded Merganser were all on the pond. The adjacent woodland edge and trail provided some good birding with Cape May Warbler, Myrtle Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler and all too brief American Redstart and Magnolia Warblers all being seen. On the nearby beach was a flock of Sanderling and offshore a drake White-winged Scoter. To end the afternoon we visited Castalia Marsh where it was impossible to miss the local celebrity - a Burrowing Owl. A rarity in New Brunswick and proving a popular attraction. Offshore there were rafts of Eider with Red-necked Grebe and a distant Red-throated Diver new. A return visit after dinner failed to find the hoped for Black-crowned Night-herons, but did add a distant Knot and a few insect bites. August 29th: Castalia, Whistle Road, Crabbe Road, Thoroughfare, Ingall's Head, Castalia Marsh. Weather: Calm and sunny with clear skies in the morning, clouding over during the afternoon with a freshening SW breeze. 22C. A brief spell of birding around our accommodation proved to be a worthwhile start to the day with Myrtle, Cape May and Magnolia Warbler plus Red-eyed Vireo all noted close to our cabins. A little belatedly we saw our first American Robins and then departed for the Whistle Road. Our first productive stop yielded a very brief Northern Flicker, smart Philadelphia Vireo, plus several Black-throated Green, a couple of Bay-breasted, plus Yellow, Magnolia and Myrtle Warblers. Downy Woodpecker showed very nicely, whilst an American Redstart continued the run of brief sightings of this species. At the Long Eddy Lighthouse a Black-and-White Warbler popped up briefly before slipping away prior to adequate views having been secured by all. Similarly brief, although at least seen by everyone was a Baltimore Oriole with further notables including a Chestnut-sided Warbler, a Bonaparte's Gull on the rocks and a tantalisingly distant Fin Whale. With things quietening down we shifted location and ended up in the interior of the island. Initially quiet we eventually found a good mix of species along the Crabbe Road. As we got out of the vehicle a Bald Eagle and Broad-winged Hawk were noted. Good numbers of Black-throated Green Warblers were accompanied by several Bay-breasted Warblers and Red-eyed Vireos (including one still being fed by its parent), plus Magnolia and Yellow Warblers, and new species in the form of Blue-headed Vireo and Golden-crowned Kinglet. A leader-only Nashville Warbler did not linger. After a lunch stop we changed tack and visited the Thoroughfare, with little success, then out to Ingall's Head where we enjoyed some nice views of Semipalmated Sandpipers and Semipalmated Plovers. A return visit to Castalia Marsh yielded a Common Loon (Great Northern Diver), Great Blue Heron, stunning views of adult Bald Eagle feeding on a young American Herring Gull, a smart juvenile Northern Harrier and a small flock of Savannah Sparrows. Out on the marsh a couple of White-rumped Sandpipers were unfortunately distant, but more satisfying were nice views of two Pectoral Sandpipers, four Short-billed Dowitchers and a small group of Lesser Yellowlegs plus a Greater. August 30th: White Head Island, Red Point. Weather: Overcast, mild with very light winds. 16C. We spent most of the morning and early afternoon on White Head Island. We began with a ferry crossing from Ingall's Head, where Cape May Warbler and American Redstart were noted in the alders and pines close to the harbour. The crossing was fairly quiet with a few Black Guillemots and a Great Northern Diver the main birds of note. On the island we explored a small cove and adjacent woodland edge. This was pretty productive with obliging Great Northern Diver close inshore and flock of Black Scoter also present. The woodland edge hosted a couple of feeding flocks with Dark-eyed Junco, Black-and-white, Magnolia, Bay-breasted, several Cape May and Wilson's Warbler all seen nicely. After a bit more effort we eventually found Boreal Chickadee as well. Gull Cove was the next stop, but this was quiet and even lacked more than a handful of gulls! Further exploration generated further encounters with warblers; Black-throated Green and Common Yellowthroat affording very nice views. We had lunch overlooking a small marsh where Great Blue Heron, Short-billed Dowitchers, Semipalmated and Grey Plovers and Savannah Sparrow were the main birds of note. Our post lunch explorations were largely unsuccessful, so we headed back to Grand Manan and then walked the trail at Red Point. This was excellent with the warbler list here including Yellow, Black-throated Green, Parula, Black-and-white and Cape May. A Red-eyed Vireo was also in attendance, whilst we heard a calling Brown Creeper. Golden-crowned Kinglets, Red-breasted Nuthatch and Red-necked Grebe were further nice sightings before we headed back to base. August 31st: Castalia Marsh, Red Point, Pelagic out of Seal Cove. Weather: Clear skies with sunshine becoming cloudier in the afternoon. Winds light then fresh SW during the afternoon veering NW by mid-evening. 18C. We began with a morning visit to Castalia Marsh where a few Savannah Sparrows were in evidence, but not the hoped for Nelson's. Waders included both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and a bunch of Black Ducks were noted along with an adult Bald Eagle. Moving down the island a quiet walk at Red Point yielded a couple of Black-and-White and a single Cape May Warbler and Common Yellowthroat, but it was much quieter than the previous afternoon. The main business of the day however was a trip out to sea in search of whales and seabirds. Although the numbers of seabirds were a little disappointing, we still had very nice views of Great Shearwaters, many Wilson's Petrels, a couple of Leach's Petrels, a nice flock of Grey Phalaropes, two Red-necked Phalaropes and an adult Pomarine Skua complete with 'spoons'. Stars of the show however were the Humpback Whales which performed very nicely for us, with a group of three and later two more. The latter showed nicely alongside a Ruby-throated Hummingbird - an amazing comparison! As we headed back to the island a bat flew over and further less exciting additions to the tour list were Lesser Black-backed Gull and Great Cormorant. Wilson's Petrel September 1st: Whistle Road, Swallowtail Lighthouse, Ferry to Blacks Harbour, Travel to Saint John. Weather: Moderate NW wind overnight becoming W. Largely sunny but showers at Blacks Harbour. Our final day on Grand Manan dawned with a brisk NW wind and sunny conditions. A promising setup for an arrival of migrants and we were not disappointed. We headed up to the Whistle Road where our first stop produced our first Tennessee and Blackpoll Warblers, along with the usual suspects in the form of Black-throated Green, Bay-breasted and Cape May Warblers plus Common Yellowthroat, Red-eyed Vireo and a juvenile Chipping Sparrow. At Long Eddy Lighthouse things were strangely quiet, but returning back along the road we enjoyed a wonderful couple of hours at a clearing where a nice variety of warblers moved through, with in addition to those already noted, we saw Chestnut-sided, Black-and-White, Magnolia, Nashville, American Redstart plus Philadelphia Vireo and a flyover Broad-winged Hawk. The nearby woodland trail added Ovenbird and disappointingly a leader only glimpsed Canada Warbler. By the car we added a juvenile Indigo Bunting before going in search of something to eat for lunch. After lunch we had a wander around the Swallowtail Lighthouse, but added nothing of note in the warm and windy conditions. At 1530 we were in the ferry back to Blacks Harbour. The crossing was breezy with a few white caps on the sea. Although tricky to hold the bins still, we saw Great and Sooty Shearwaters, Arctic Skua, seven Arctic Terns, some Grey Phalaropes and a Puffin. The journey to Saint John took a little under an hour and we enjoyed a very pleasant final nights meal in the hotel. September 2nd: Irving Nature Park. Saint John to Toronto and onwards to London. Weather: Rather windy with a chilly NW wind. 12C. We had a few hours before our flight home, so we visited the mixture of wooded and marshland habitats at Irving Nature Park. Our first stop was not too productive, although Common Yellowthroat, Yellow Warbler and Ruby-throated Hummingbird were all noted. Another couple of quite stops followed but walking into the edge of the woodland produced a nice flock with Black-and-White, Bay-breasted, Myrtle and Black-throated Green Warblers, Northern Parula, Downy Woodpecker and a Brown Creeper all performing nicely. A walk along the edge of the woodland and out on a boardwalk across the saltmarsh yielded nice sightings of Northern Harrier, Merlin, Least Sandpiper and Ring-billed Gull. Finally some water treatment ponds hosted a nice selection of ducks with list additions in the form of Shoveler, Mallard, Ruddy Duck and Lesser Scaup. The trip back to the airport and onwards to Toronto passed off smoothly and we caught our onward flight to Heathrow with no issues, arriving on time early in the morning of 3rd September.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line477
__label__cc	0.722414	0.277586	Get Into the Water from Amazon.com Order our Into the Water Study Guide Part 1, Section 1 Part 1 Section 2 Symbols and Symbolism Into the Water - Part 3, Section 2 Summary & Analysis This Study Guide consists of approximately 69 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Into the Water. Part 3, Section 2, pages 276 - 332, begins with Sean’s perspective as he recounts his relationship with Nel. Growing up, Sean had assumed his mother’s guilt of abandoning him by suicide. When Nel entered the picture she started to question everything about Sean’s mother’s death for the purposes of her project. Sean mentions how sometimes Nel had made him feel disoriented, but that touching the scar on his wrist always brought him back to reality. He and Nel met at the Ward’s cottage near his father’s house for their trysts. After Patrick saw her leave the cottage one day, he beat Sean and drove him home to Helen, exposing the affair to her. As he drives up to Howick, Sean starts to recount again how he had stopped seeing Nel after what had happened with his father, but he had... (read more from the Part 3, Section 2 Summary) More summaries and resources for teaching or studying Into the Water. Into the Water from BookRags. (c)2020 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line481
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__label__wiki	0.650613	0.650613	Castalia House About Castalia House Bookstore: Print Editions REVIEW: Space Empires Close Encounters Tuesday , 16, December 2014 Jeffro Tabletop Games 7 Comments This is an expansion to what is one of the best space games on the market. It is positively loaded with new ships and technologies and the counter sheets are gorgeous. Given that everything in this set is designed to tune and develop aspects of the original game, the new rules and additions can be viewed as being sort of a critique of the core set. (After all, if the original game was giving people the exact experience the developers wanted, why would they feel the need to tinker with it?!) As someone that has played the vanilla version of the game extensively, I will give my opinion on each section and explain whether it actually adds something to the game or not. Given the number of space games that have ended up collapsing under the weight of their own cruft and add-ons over the years, this is actually something that it hard to get right– so let’s take a hard look at these changes. The Basic Expansion Rules These sections are meant to be added into the base game more or less as a unit. Not all of them are immediately attractive, but looking at them more closely, it’s evident that there is more than a little synergy here. New Homeworlds — Given that there is so much more tech to choose from and more units to buy, the income of the home worlds have been raised from 20 to 30 CP. Ship Experience and Military Academies — I did not think I would care for this at first, but upon reflection… being able to have Elite, seasoned units go after Green crews that man newfangled vessles that are fresh out of spacedock and under a temporary disadvantage even though their tech might be top of the line… that is a really good situation that I’d love to see emerge in the course of play. I wondered at first that the additional bookkeeping might be prohibitive, but since you’re already tracking tech level on a counter by counter basis, my attitude now is more along the lines of “why not?!” I have never seen a gamer fail to keep up with their experience points, regardless of the system. On the other hand, I never played enough BattleTech to see my mechwarriors level up in any significant way. This new rule not only gives me that, but it also adds even more incentive for players to play aggressively. This looks like a Good Thing™. Boarding and Capturing Ships –Conducting a raid operation in Space Empires 4X is chancy due to the fact that you get so far from your own space docks. But with boarding ships along, you can continue to “grow” your fleet even while deep in enemy territory! The effectiveness of these units can be blunted with security forces technology, but it doesn’t look like they can be made completely irrelevant the way that fighters and raiders are when they’ve been sufficiently countered. The way that captured ships immediately drop to the “Green” experience level is flavorful. The choice between using your enemy’s ships against him and scrapping them for “free” tech levels adds in another non-obvious decision to the game. If you thought the combat system was a little bland before, this really looks like something that can really add a lot of color. Titans — Okay, this is a unit that makes me wonder how I could have played so many games with just the core set. The titan can take massive amounts of punishment. It does double damage on its hits. It can carry fighters. It can blow up planets. While there are no thermal exhaust ports on this thing, fighters do get just enough an edge against them that it may be worth it to invest in them for planetary defense forces even late in the game. Whatever you use to fight these things, you’ll need a lot of them. The existence of this ship in the game combined with the extra money on the home worlds will inspire a lot more players to go for the “big ship” strategy. Fleet Markers — These have no effect on the rules, but they do make it easy to keep up with large stacks of counters. Keep your three biggest task forces off map on fleet cards and just use the markers on the main hex map. Mine Sweeper Technology — Evidently mines were imbalanced in the core set as their cost for their technology has been increased here while the cost of mine sweeper technology has been reduced. A new level of mine sweeper technology has been added, allowing them to remove three mine markers before the detonation phase. Movement Technology — Perhaps in a move to encourage even more interaction and aggressive play, the cost of movement technology has been reduced and another movement tech level has been added that will allow ships to move three hexes in each of the three turns between production phases. Reaction Movement — If lowering the price doesn’t get people to invest in movement tech, then maybe this will be able to sweeten the deal enough to get people to pull the trigger on it. Units that are equipped with Exploration-2 technology are able to respond to enemy attacks by sending ships into neighboring hexes where an opponent has initiated a battle. The higher the movement technology your ships are equipped with, the larger the ships can be that are able to make the move. (There are relatively complex rules for this sort of thing in Federation & Empire, but these look fairly easy to learn and apply in comparison.) Fast Battlecruisers — Scouts can get point defense. Destroyers can get scanners. Cruisers can get special senors that make exploration safe and reaction movement an option. But battlecruisers didn’t have anything to really differentiate them in the core set… and people that would buy the tech to build them had littler reason not to pass them over in order to invest in even bigger ships. That gets fixed here because this technology gives these units an additional move on turn one. This small change combined with the reaction movement rule does a lot to add flavor and utility to the mid-sized starships of the game. Alien Technology — In the core game, it’s debatable whether or not it’s worth it to invest in terraforming technology and go out into deep space to take over some of the stray barren planets that are out there. Especially if you are playing with the non-player aliens, it’s hard to sacrifice ships on this when you could be burning through your opponents’ colonies. Well these cards give a little something extra to people that dare to “explore strange new worlds.” You draw two and keep one when you successfully colonize an alien world. While none of these perks will necessarily win you the game in and of themselves, they can give you a significant edge and give you an excuse to buy ship classes that you don’t tend to rely on as much. Empire Advantages — As if there isn’t enough variety here already, these cards will ensure that each player empire has its own feel. By giving each player a different advantage, everyone is encouraged to do something outside the scope of their usual preferred strategies. If your opponents are starting to get predictable, this one rule could ratchet back up the tension inherent in first contact engagements. Just looking these over here, I have to say that this looks like a very strong combination of modifications. Mines are dialed back while cruisers and battlecruisers gain new abilities. That’s a very modest adjustment that feels right. The experience system and the alien technology cards provide even more flavor and do even more to reward aggressive play. The boarding ships add one more dimension to the paper-rock-scissors type interaction of the big fleet battles while creating both the potential for entertaining combat results and shortcuts to gaining new technology on top of that. Larger home worlds and cheaper movement tech does even more to help get the game going in the early stages– something I occasionally hear complaints about. Basically everything that could possibly be perceived as being a drag in the core set is getting addressed in some manner here. Nothing in this section seems out of line or overdone, either. The Advanced Expansion Rules We have already reached the outer limits of what I can reasonably expect to explain, teach, and manage with all but the most dedicated gamers. The core set shows no signs of getting stale for me and the basic expansion rules above look like they’re well worth the effort. I’m keen on playing them, anyway. The best thing about them is that they look to be reasonably playable; I expect that they add depth, flavor, and richness without necessarily adding a lot of weight. Admittedly, convincing an actual opponent that such is the case is not a given. Yet the rules do address real weaknesses in the game play that I was inclined to hand wave, work around, and ignore in my games with the core set. There’s nothing left to add now, right? Or is there…? Let’s see about that. Transports and Ground Combat — I have mixed feelings about these optional rules. On the one hand, these aren’t just run of the mill generic “army” units from games like Risk. You have infantry, militia, space marines, heavy infantry, and grav armor to play with. The on-world combat system is almost as well defined as the basic space combat rules from the core game. BUT… adding in these units and the transports it takes to ferry them around is something that will significantly add to the complexity of the game. A playing time of two to four hours was already the upper limit of what I can tend to manage with people. Don’t get me wrong, this stuff is right up my alley; I just imagine myself having to find my gaming soul mate in order to get this option into actual play. Captured Colonies — But the designer is well aware of the fact that this is a hurdle and at least tries to sweeten the deal enough to make me bite the bullet here. (They’ve done it before, after all.) Can the ground combat system pull its own weight? Well, if you’re going to go through the hassle of loading up troop transports and trucking them across the galaxy, it better do something for you that nuking people from orbit doesn’t. The first big perk here is that conquering a world immediately provides an economic benefit. You can expect to gain 3 CP from it on the following income phase instead of going through the usual 0-1-3-5 development sequence. You also don’t have to coordinate sending a slow poke colony ship along with your task force. Capturing any of an opponent’s worlds lets you look at his Empire Advantages and Alien Technology cards. You also get to see his production sheet. (That’s huge!) Finally, you gain two “free” technology levels if the world is from his home system and one if the world was in deep space. Flagships — In the original prototype for the game, Jim Krohn’s group would actually name every single ship in play, writing it directly on the counter. It took a week to play their monster space game and this is one of the things that had to go when he got to work making it into something playable by mere mortals. Reviving that old system somewhat, each empire is given a single “name-level” unit with this rule. The rules for these look to be inspired from the Enterprise’s role in the star fleet of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I’m not particularly wild about arbitrarily handing players a big ship before they’ve earned it, but it would be fun to demoralize someone by capturing or destroying their irreplaceable flagship. Of course, knowing the psychology of the typical gamer, I wouldn’t expect them to want to play with me again after that! Research and Industrial Centers — This rule doubles the potential productivity of the colony worlds. I can’t even begin to wrap my head around this. The problem this rule is supposed to address is in how you tend to stop developing tech at some point in order to produce massive amounts of ships for the final big blowout battle. This rule limits you to spending 15 CPs a turn on technology unless you specifically dedicate a colony’s “bonus” production towards research. I haven’t really seen this as being a problem that needed to be solved, but this is obviously something that other groups have wanted to tinker with. Even the core set has an optional rule addressing this, so this is evidently a well known problem with the game. Terraforming Nebula — I like this rule. This one’s for the people that want to set up a more personalized economic system before their opponents blow it up. It adds more money to the game, but it’s expensive enough to engineer that it feels balanced. I’m curious as to whether people go to the trouble to set these up in the deep space area or not. Unique Ships — If you feel like a particular ship type should be in the game, you can pretty much bring it to the table through this rule. I’m kind of partial to the casual carriers you could make with this. Being able to create a Super Star Destroyer with a tractor beam looks fun. And yeah, this is just one more way that you can make your own special snowflake space empire that’s different from everybody else’s. But my gut feeling on this is that nobody will like losing a four hour game to someone that can get cutesy with this particular rule. It obviously covers a tremendous range of options, but I’m skeptical of how it’d work in actual play. Of these advanced expansion rules, I see ground combat, flagships, and nebula mining as being the ones that I’d expect to get the most use. There are a couple of nuances to the ground combat rules that look like it would make the “short game” victory conditions a lot more interesting, so that’s liable to be the place that they will make their debut. The rest, I don’t expect to see play outside of the solitaire scenarios. And… as with just about everything else with this game… the designers and developers seem to have anticipated that. There are several new scenarios here, including a solitaire Alien Empires game with flowcharts that let the “AI” use all of the goodies in this expansion. There are also cooperative variants to both this and the Doomsday machine games. This not only provides an option for playing the game with people that can’t otherwise stomach a lot of direct conflict, but it also allows players a chance to work together to “beat the game” while they are learning how all the rules work. That’s the kind of nicety that increases the chances of people asking to play again. No matter which pieces of this set end up in your sessions, it’s clear that a lot of care has gone into developing material that deal with things that come up in actual play. There are enough ways to put this expansion to work that it is sure to give you your money’s worth, assuming it sounds like it is up your alley in the first place. And best of all, everything but the craziest optional rules here are lean and mean, adding more to game play than it takes to deal with it. (A lesser designer would have gone overboard with stuff that would slow the game down to a crawl.) I never expected to see GMT get into the space gaming scene. They’re better known for their “serious” war game designs for “adults.” Fortunately for the people that never outgrew the need to explode gigantic starships, GMT has really brought their A-game here and pushed the state of the art in strategic space gaming forward by a giant leap. I’m blown away. chris mata says: after reading this I want to go home and play Space Empires. Jeffro says: Ostar says: This sounds like a great game. One quibble – mines. Are minefields set up to surround a planet or other fixed object in space? I could never stand how Federation and Empire would allow minefields to be a barrier between two star empires, free floating in space. Mines are slow like the colony ships and cannot be moved into an enemy occupied hex, but otherwise act like other ship groups. There aren’t really any minefields per se… and minelayers are presumed to be included in the group. Tallen says: I purchased the base game on your first review to help pass the time overseas. If my brothers like it as much as I do when I get back I’ll get the expansion too. While I’m initially not keen on the idea of ground troops, it might be fun to carry out those combats with WH40k skirmishes, using Space Empires as a campaign. That is hard core. Please let us know how it goes…! Note that, if you are interested in also breaking out the space combat into a more fleshed out tactical game, the designer’s game Talon is on the way and can be integrated into the strategic game with some modifications. Please give us your valuable comment Cancel reply Castalia Books Direct Sensor Sweep: Christopher Tolkien, The Mysterians, Taliesin, Vampirella Bio-Bibliographies: Pulp Man’s Odyssey Fantasy and Adventure New Releases: 18 January, 2020 Brand of the Warlock, by Rob Kroese SUPERVERSIVE: Anime is my Pulp Revolution Appendix N Appendix X Before the Big Three Lit-Crit Otherscience Stories Pulp Revolution Pulp Swordsmen Superversive Top Book Bloggers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line489
__label__cc	0.619134	0.380866	Register Your Visit Dates & Venue Fair Sections CCBF 2019 Online Exhibitors List Quotes About CCBF 2019 SHVIP Fellowship Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition Illustrators Survival Corner Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award Authors Festival Exhibitors' Events Connecting the City Register Your Visit CN 2018 Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Best Picture Book Award regulations The organisers of the Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award (CICLA) are glad to call all publishing houses to enter their best original picture books in the International Picture Book Award 2018. Judged by an international panel of children’s literature specialists, it is a competition that aims to foster international cultural exchange, encourage the production of beautiful and inspiring children’s contents, and promote healthy reading habits around China. Participation in the Chen Bochui Picture Book of the Year Award is open to all publishing companies around the world. Authors and illustrators of children’s picture books can also submit their work directly provided that it has been officially published (ISBN will be taken as proof) and it fulfils the criteria hereunder. 1 Award Criteria The works entered will be assessed against their originality and the creativity of the author(s). The text and pictures entered must be consonant with each other, displaying both literary and artistic value, perfect harmony between content and form, and a pleasing overall visual effect; thus providing a strong stimulus for children’s thought and imagination. Content and form should be suited to young readers. The works entered must also contribute to building strong aesthetic and intellectual grounds for young readers. a. All entries must be original editions of children’s books officially published and printed for the first time no earlier than 1 January 2017 (as stated on the book’s copyright page). b. The entries must not be the subject of any copyright-related controversy and they must fully comply with China’s copyright regulations. Any work found to be copied or in breach of the copyright of a third party will be disqualified and the entrant will be legally liable. c. Publications entered in the 2017 Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature cannot be re-entered in 2018. 3. Maximum number of entries Entrants to the CICLA Picture Book category may submit up to five different original publications. If submitting a series of books, the entrants shall select one book deemed representative of the whole series. For each title, the entrant shall provide two printed copies to the organizing committee. 4. Entry period All digital pre-submissions and all the printed material must be sent to the Organising Committee no later than 30 September 2018 (the postmark will be taken as proof). 5. Entry procedure STEP1: DIGITAL PRE-SUBMISSION Entry forms can be downloaded on China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair website: www.ccbookfair.com. Completed entry forms should be sent back by email to the following address: cicla@sbt.cn before the end of the entry period. One entry form is required for each title submitted. STEP 2: BOOK SHIPPING The entry form(s) should be printed out on paper and sent, together with two samples of each book, to the following mail address: Contact: Mr. Zhang Wei (2018 CICLA Submissions) T: +86-21-2320 4830︱E: cicla@sbt.cn Shanghai Book Traders 390, Fuzhou Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China, 200001 Notes on shipping procedure: (1)If your shipping/postal service requires the recipient’s contact details, please use the following information: Recipient’s name: Zhang Wei Phone number: +86-13816328363 (2) If the nature of the shipped items is required, please specify “Book submitted to the Chen Bochui Award; no commercial value”. 6. Jury and Prize a. Each year in November, a jury formed by nine international children’s literature specialists assess the books entered in the Picture Book Award category. b. A maximum of five titles will be designated by the Jury as CICLA Picture Book Award winner. c. Each winning title will receive a total amount of RMB 50,000, of which RMB 20,000 belongs to the publishing house and RMB 30,000 belongs to the author(s) of the book. By entering a book, all entrants shall abide the following principles: a. The sample books submitted to the award will not be returned. b. The China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair Organising Committee is entitled to use the content of any submitted work, including text and illustrations, to promote the Award or any other related non-commercial activities at the Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair. c. The Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award Organising Committee reserves the right of final interpretation of these regulations. 7. 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__label__wiki	0.973321	0.973321	The original story can be found at http://www.bpnews.net/51177/pastor-120-nigerian-christians-killed-leaving-funeral Pastor: 120 Nigerian Christians killed leaving funeral by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, June 27, 2018 (one year ago) Tags: Fulani herdsmenNigeriapersecuted church PLATEAU, Nigeria (BP) -- Armed Fulani herdsmen killed 120 Christian mourners and injured others leaving a weekend funeral in Plateau State, a Nigerian pastor reported, although varying casualty counts exceed 200. Armed Fulani herdsmen are accused of burning homes and killing as many as 120 Christians leaving the funeral of a pastor’s father Saturday in Plateau State. Screen capture from Empire One News in Nigeria "Fulani people attacked our members who attended the burial of the father (of) one of our clergy," Pam Chollom, a pastor who leads the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) Regional Church Council, told the Premium Times of Nigeria June 24. "The armed Fulani ambushed the sympathizers on their way back from the burial, attacked and killed 34 persons from Nekan village, 39 others from Kufang, and 47 people from Ruku village." Worshipers fearing further attacks did not attend June 24 Sunday services at any churches in the Gashish district of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area in Plateau, according to View Point Nigeria news. Baptist Press previously reported the death count at 86, based on press statements from Plateau police. But other casualty counts range from 106 to more than 200. View Point Nigeria said today (June 27) the official death toll might have been skewed, with some corpses taken away before police arrived to assess the tragedy. Morning Star News cited sources today putting the death toll higher as well, comprising weekend attacks in 10 predominantly Christian villages in Barkin Ladi. "In Nghar village alone, about 70 corpses of Christians were recovered and the entire village has been burnt down by the Fulani herdsmen," Morning Star quoted 45-year-old resident Thomas Chuwang, who said those killed were COCIN members. Fellow resident Dogo Nvou told Morning Star, "It is only God Who can comfort us all." A Morning Star count of 216 corpses collected during the weekend at two area morgues is in line with other news reports of mass casualties at the Accident and Emergency Unit of Jos University teaching hospital. The COCIN worship center and the pastor's home in Kakuruk village are among the buildings herdsmen destroyed, Kakuruk resident Christiana Audu told Morning Star. "The church building, pastor's house and many other houses were destroyed by the herdsmen as they set fire on houses," Morning Star News quoted a text message from Audu. "I saw one corpse as I was escaping. More than 200 of us have escaped to the military base near our village." Plateau Gov. Simon Lalong put the death toll at more than 200, Morning Star reported, as did Nigerian House of Representatives speaker Yakubu Dogara on Twitter. Thousands of residents were displaced after losing their homes and crops, Lalong said. Dogara described the death toll as "about 200 people in the Church of Christ in Nations" in tweets demanding Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari strengthen security. "Our security agencies must rise up to the task of securing the lives of citizens of this country," Dogara tweeted. "The attack reportedly lasted from 1:00 p.m. Friday (June 22), and lasted till about 8:00 p.m. on Saturday. Where was the Police and other security agencies that they failed to respond to stop the killings?" The violence precedes Nigerian national elections in February 2019, when Buhari faces reelection. Lalong told Morning Star the unabated violence was spurring widespread criminal activity, including "cattle rustling, theft, banditry, gun running and other forms of crimes amongst our citizens." Militant Fulani herdsmen have targeted farmers, mostly Christian, killing them and stealing their land to graze cattle in an ages-old land dispute. But the latest attack, as reported, extends outside the farming community. Buhari will restructure security in the area, Dogara told Ripples Nigeria after meeting today with the president. Buhari, himself of Fulani heritage, has lamented the violence and accused his detractors of blaming him because of his heritage. Militant Fulani herdsmen were characterized as a terrorist group as early as 2014, when the Global Terrorism Index described them as the fourth deadliest terrorist group in the world, following Boko Haram, the Islamic State also known as ISIS, and al-Shabab. Herdsmen, targeting Christians, are blamed for thousands of deaths in Nigeria since 2013. See BP's June 25 story on the Barkin Ladi killings. Diana Chandler is Baptist Press' general assignment writer/editor. BP reports on missions, ministry and witness advanced through the Cooperative Program and on news related to Southern Baptists' concerns nationally and globally. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP). One Christian killed, 12 kidnapped in Nigeria 280 Christians killed in attacks in Nigeria 40 Christians killed in attacks in Nigeria Christian 'genocide': naming Nigeria's mass slaughter 86 die in Fulani herdsmen clashes with Christian farmers Group seeks new U.S. religious freedom post for Nigeria	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line498
__label__wiki	0.751711	0.751711	Make India Asbestos Free For Asbestos Free India Ban-Asbestos-India Journal of Ban Asbestos Network of India (BANI). Asbestos Free India campaign of BANI is inspired by trade union movement and right to health campaign. BANI has been working since 2000. It works with peoples movements, doctors, researchers and activists besides trade unions, human rights, environmental, consumer and public health groups. BANI demands criminal liability for companies and medico-legal remedy for victims. For Details: krishnagreen@gmail.com Govt's Collusion with Asbetsos company condemned Asbestos unit plan faces heat Patna: The use of asbestos, the world’s most carcinogenic substance declared by US environmental protection agency, has taken centrestage in Bihar because of all the wrong reasons. The ongoing agitation by people living in and around Chainpur village in Muzaffarpur district where a Calcutta-based company has planned to set up an asbestos cement factory has brought the issue to the fore. The issue has galvanised all sections of the people, be it farmers, farm labourers, students or intellectuals to oppose the construction of the factory under Marwan block of the district. The movement to shelve the asbestos factory has been spearheaded by Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) and Ban Asbestos Network of India (Bani) since July last year. The agitation seems to have grabbed international attention as the World Bank and World Health Organisation’s consultant on asbestos, Barry Castleman, has sought the intervention of chief minister Nitish Kumar and Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh in the matter, explaining the fatality of the use of asbestos. Drawing the chief minister’s attention to the ongoing resistance in the district over the plant and the repressive measures taken by the district administration, Castleman, a noted environmental and occupational health expert, said: “All the world’s leading health authorities predict disaster if the next generation of buildings that people live and work in are built with asbestos.” Demanding that the state government should not allow such a quasi-criminal industry in spite of well-founded public objections, he said: “The heedless building of an asbestos-cement products plant in Bihar would be a monstrous tragedy that you would someday deeply regret if you do not listen carefully to the protests and reasons for them.” Castleman had contributed significantly to the passage of the Ban Asbestos in America Act of 2007 in the US. Gopal Krishna, the national convener of Bani, a voluntary organisation working for asbestos-free India, told The Telegraph: “Fifty-two countries across the globe have already banned the use of asbestos in their respective countries and on Thursday, Turkey became the 53rd country to do so. Even the Centre has banned asbestos mining in our country but allowed countries like Canada to dump their asbestos and related products because of political patronage.” Gopal Krishna said: “Massive opposition in Muzaffarpur has stopped the construction work because students have studied about the hazardous impact of asbestos in their Class X and XII syllabi.” According to WHO estimates, more than 1,07,000 people die each year because of asbestos-related lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis resulting from occupational exposures. It has come to light that similar plants have been proposed by Chennai-based Ramco Industries Limited in Bihiya (Bhojpur) and Calcutta-based Utkal Asbestos Industries in Panapur (Vaishali). http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110102/jsp/bihar/story_13379742.jsp Posted by krishna at 2:21 AM NHRC orders replacement of asbestos sheets roofing with roofing made up of some other material NHRC Acts on TWA's Asbestos Complaint Occupational Health India (OHI) Ban-Asbestos-India Canada's Ugly Secret NHRC issues notices to ministries over Asbestos usage NHRC issues notice on white asbestos to govt ministries Asbestos-related cancer: NHRC notice to health, environment ministries NHRC notice to Centre, State Govts on Prohibiting Use of white Asbestos NHRC notice to states on banning use of asbestos Web www.asbestosfreeindia.org South Asian Ban Asbestos Network (SABAN) BanAsbestosAndhra BanAsbestosJharkhand BanAsbestosGoa BanAsbestosUP BanAsbestosKerala BanAsbestosTamilNadu BanAsbestosRajasthan BanAsbestosGujarat BanAsbestosOdisha BanAsbestosWestBengal Ban Asbestos Bihar (BAB) THE WHITE ASBESTOS (BAN ON USE AND IMPORT) BILL, 2009 HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT STUDIES IN ASBESTOS BASED INDUSTRIES IN INDIA ILO Ban Asbestos Resolution Environmental Health Criteria 203; Chrysotile Asbetos WHO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA 203 ILO Asbestos Convention, 1986 Health Canada on Chrysotile Asbestos BanAbestosMaharashtra ASBESTOS CRISIS WHO FactSheet on Elimination of Asbestos-related Diseases Ban on Asbestos is a Must A study in a peer-reviewed journal had earlier estimated that there could be more than 6,000 workers affected by asbestosis (an untreatable lung ailment) and another 600 suffering at the minimum from asbestosis-related lung cancer in India at present. Occupational cancer from asbestos, the disease caused by emissions at the work place, poses an increasingly serious health problem. But the subject has attracted relatively little attention from industry, labour, public health bodies or the medical profession. Asbestos is one of the single largest sources of occupational cancer. Indian polticians are acting as if they are bonded workers of asbestos industry. Ban Asbestos India asbestos mesothelioma resource International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS) Building and Wood Workers' International International Federation of Building and Wood Workers European Public Health Association Weekly Toll Ban Asbestos Canada (BAC) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Asbestos Bans asbestosblog Killer Fiber OccupationalHealthIndia OHI OHI, India Russian Asbestos Information Source Refuting Industry Claims That Chrysotile Asbestos Is Safe Asbestos Products News Chrysotile Asbestos Institute Rotterdam Convention Updates Govt urged to take lesson from South Africa and ban asbestos White asbestos continues to be in use in India World’s Cheapest, Smallest Car–But Is It Asbestos-Free Statement of Support for the Ban Asbestos in America Act of 2007 Submission on Asbestos before Independent People's Tribunal on the World Bank Group Asbestos, the biggest killer in the workplace Asbestos poisoning at India shipyards Asbestos kills Americans, Europeans, Australians & Japanese but not Indians Say no to white asbestos Killer Asbestos: Breathtaking negligence Asbestos, the Silent Killer Asbestos-Is-A-Carcinogen Canada’s asbestos exports immoral Asbestos: Kill the people, protect the industry India still uses Amphibole Asbestos along with Chrysotile BANI Condemns Indian Government's Double Speak on Asbestos Doctoring asbestos study to promote its use A government under an asbestos roof White asbestos, a health time bomb Use of Russian & Canadian Asbestos Rising in India India’s Position on Chrysotile Asbestos Dictated by Vested Interests! India's Asbestos Time Bomb Asbestos Facts World Trade Center, New York collapsed Thousands of tons of asbestos became airborne. Back in 1981, there was research coming out that Asbestos was cancer causing and this ad was in rebuttal to that research touting the benefits of using Asbestos. The text over the Twin Towers states, "When the Fire Alarm Went Off, It Took Two Hours to Evacuate New York's World Trade Center." I do not need to remind anyone of the images of September 11th and this ad. The copy below the ad goes on to mention all of the places that Asbestos was used in the World Trade Center. I can not not think of all of the innocent victims in the area that were exposed to all of the dust, smoke and inherent asbestos that was in the air after the buildings collapsed. The cloud of smoke went across the entire city and potentially exposed hundreds of thousands of individuals to asbestos. Hopefully there can be a cure or treatment for Mesothelioma before all of these potential victims are diagnosed. Ban Use of Asbestos Products Afer EU, Australia, Japan & others, US pases legislation to Ban Asbestos in its country. Apex Court allocates meagre compensation for asbetsos victims In 1995, the Supreme Court of India fixed Rs 1 lakh compensation amount and identified National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH) as the final authority to certify asbestosis cases. Compensations are given through the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC). Two workers in Ahmedabad Electricity Company diagnosed as having asbestosis by NIOH have been compensated by Gujarat High Court. Twenty-five workers in asbestos jointing and packing industry at Mumbai were compensated by the Special medical board of ESIC. The court ruled that the industrial units must maintain a health record of every worker up to a minimum period of 40 years; insure workers under the Employees State Insurance Act or Workmen’s Compensation Act and give health coverage to every worker. Asbestos Victims Every day estimated 30 deaths in India is under way due to the ongoing trade and use of white asbestos. 'Asbestos' in Greek means 'indestructible'. Greeks called asbestos the 'magic mineral'. Asbestos is a generic term, referring usually to six kinds of naturally occuring mineral fibres. Of these six, three are used more commonly. Chrysotile is the most common, accounts for almost 90 per cent of the asbestos used in the industry, but it is not unusual to encounter Amosite or Crocidolite as well. Though Crocidolite asbestos is banned in India, it can still be found in old insulation material, old ships that come from other countries for wrecking in India. All types of asbestos tend to break into very tiny fibre, almost microscopic. In fact, some of them may be up to 700 times smaller than human hair. Because of their small size, once released into the air, they may stay suspended in the air for hours or even days. Asbestos fibres are virtually indestructible. They are resistant to chemicals and heat, and are very stable in the environment. They do not evaporate into air or dissolve in water, and they do not break down over time. Because of its high durability and with tensile strength asbestos has been widely used inconstruction and insulation materials - it has been used in over 3,000 different products. Where do we use it? In India, asbestos is used in manufacture of pressure and non pressure pipes used for water supply, sewage, irrigation and drainage system in urban and rural areas, asbestos textiles, laminated products, tape, gland packing, packing ropes, brake lining and jointing used in core sector industries such as automobile, heavy equipment, petro-chemicals, nuclear power plants, fertilizers, thermal power plants, transportation, defence. Dr Nikolai F. Izmerov, Head, Russian Occupational Health Institute, Russia Vladimir Putin government set up a panel of experts to give an opinion on a possible Russian asbestos ban. The panel’s report gave an impassioned defence of asbestos use. Dr Izmerov gave a presentation on "Chrysotile. Russian Experience in Occupational Health" at the International Conference on Chrysotile in Montreal during May 23 - 24, 2006. Russia exported 152, 820 MT of chrysotile asbestos to India in 2006.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line505
__label__cc	0.62587	0.37413	HomeAnnouncementNissan and Infiniti ProPilot Assist Nissan and Infiniti ProPilot Assist September 10, 2019 admin Announcement, Automated Driving, News, Research and Development, software development 0 Just a few years ago, technologies like lane keep assist and radar cruise control could only be ordered on high-end luxury vehicles or as added-cost options on the most expensive top trims of others. Now, anything from a base model Corolla to a work truck with vinyl seats comes with some form of advanced driver assist systems (ADAS), and the cost of entry has come crashing down hard as more and more companies jump on board. Nissan is one such company but has taken a different approach to include ADAS in its vehicles. Its ProPilot Assist system is capable of partially operating the vehicle under very limited conditions and can help take some of the stress out of traffic jams. What Is ProPilot Assist and How Does It Work? ProPilot Assist was first just a Nissan thing, rolling out as an option for the Rogue crossover. Infiniti jumped on board for 2019, adding the technology to their QX50 crossover. Starting with traditional advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that we see in many vehicles, ProPilot Assist goes a step further. Using forward-facing cameras, radar, sensors, and a standalone electronic control module, the system helps keep the vehicle centred in its lane and maintain a safe distance from other vehicles on the road without input required from the driver. Once on a highway and when ProPilot Assist activated, the vehicle’s front-facing cameras will scan the road for lane markers. If their presence is confirmed, steering assist and Intelligent Cruise Control will engage, keeping the vehicle in its lane and travelling the desired speed. If the camera fails to detect lane markers at any point, the system will warn the driver and lane centring will disengage. The driver can choose to let the vehicle operate completely on their behalf in stop and go traffic as well, but if there’s a stop for more than three seconds, the system will hold the stop and requires the driver to reactivate with a tap of the throttle or by pressing a button on the steering wheel. It Won’t Do Everything There’s a lot that ProPilot Assist will do for drivers, but there’s even more that it won’t. Those of us living where the roads are mainly composed of sand and salt for months at a time (cries in Maine) may find that the camera has trouble sorting out lane markers and struggles to find its way. Similarly, the system doesn’t work as well at night as it does when the roads are well-lit. It won’t (for good reason) work in a rainstorm, or when the vehicle’s wipers are actively being used but can operate when they are set to auto/mist and activate for small splashes of water. ProPilot Assist will not drive the car without active management from the driver, nor can it change lanes automatically. If a lane change is needed, the driver will have to take control. The system will disengage until it locks onto the new lane. To make sure the person behind the wheel is ready to take control at any moment, the car will beep at the driver to keep at least a finger or two on the steering wheel. If no hands are detected, the system will sound a beep and flash a nastygram in the gauge cluster. If there is no response from that warning, the car will give the brakes a tap. Finally, if there is no response after all of that commotion, the system will slow the car to a stop and turn on the emergency flashers. This can be handy if the driver has a medical emergency or other issues that take their attention completely off of the road. Which Vehicles Come with ProPilot Assist? Nissan has begun including ProPilot Assist in more of its vehicles, either standard or as an added cost option, since the initial rollout in the Rogue crossover. Infiniti gets this tech in one of its crossovers as well. The list of vehicles available with ProPilot Assist in 2019 includes: Nissan Rogue Nissan Rogue Sport Nissan Leaf Nissan Altima Infiniti QX50 The Future of ProPilot Assist Ultimately, it’s a mistake to think of these technologies as giving the car “autonomy”, or self-driving capabilities. The current version of ProPilot Assist lands at Level Three on the SAE International Autonomy Scale, which means that it can manage lane-keeping and speed simultaneously under certain circumstances, but the driver is still expected to be in control. Though both Nissan and Infiniti use the big bad word (autonomous) in their marketing materials, they go to great lengths to make it clear that the systems are put in place to help the driver maintain control and exist to support, not replace the driver. We know that ProPilot Assist is just the first step toward Nissan’s vision of an automated driving future. The company has made it clear that it wants to reach a state of zero emissions and zero fatalities and views its driver-assist technologies as one way to get there. Nissan/Infiniti has announced future updates to the ProPilot Assist system. Version 2.0 is already on the horizon and will represent significant steps forward for the technology: Hands-free use: ProPilot 2.0 will not require the driver’s hands to be on the steering wheel at all times. Instead, the system will use a monitoring system to ensure that the person behind the wheel isn’t doing something else, like napping or scrolling Instagram Lane Changes: Where the current system requires the driver to initiate and control lane changes, the second-generation technology will be more proactive. If it senses a slower vehicle ahead, the car will use its 360-degree sensor array to determine if it’s safe to pass and will alert the driver that there is a lane change upcoming. The driver’s hands will be required to activate the turn signals. The car will then move to complete the pass and will require the driver’s confirmation to move back into the original lane ProPilot 2.0 will involve a much broader array of hardware than the camera and radar sensors we see in today’s system as well. This will include sonar sensors mounted around the vehicle, radar, and cameras. In conjunction with the car’s navigation system and GPS, the system will map out a 360-degree awareness of the car’s surroundings. The new system will roll out in the Japan-only Nissan Skyline luxury sedan later this year, which means the United States may see the tech make its first appearance in the equivalent Infiniti Q50 sometime in 2020. Despite being a big step forward for Nissan’s advanced driver assist systems, ProPilot 2.0 is still not going to be a futuristic “silver bullet” that will relieve drivers of their responsibilities to stay alert. Though we’re just starting to see Level 3 tech make an appearance in the Nissan lineup, it’s not a new thing. Google hit the mark way back in 2012 in its test vehicles but quickly realized that it was just good enough for drivers to completely zone out and do other things behind the wheel. That realization was big enough for the company to abandon its efforts and focus on going straight to level five (fully autonomous) vehicles with its subsidiary, Waymo. In order for these things to catch on and work for Nissan or any other company, the people using them can’t be idiots and abuse them by checking out completely (looking at you, Tesla driver), so do yourself and everyone else a favor and pay at least a little bit of attention to the road. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/nissan-infiniti-propilot-assist/ TomTom launches autonomous car tests Japan To Let Autonomous Cars Roam Around Its Streets Before 2020 Olympics January 14, 2020 admin Announcement, autonomous technologies, innovation, Market opportunities, News, Opinions, Research and Development, Robotics 0 As expected, a key focus for CES 2020 is automotive. While the forecasts for autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been curtailed, the industry continues to rapidly drive (pun intended) toward full autonomy. Qualcomm, the leader in […] The Enemies of the Autonomous Vehicle November 5, 2019 admin Opinions, Research and Development, Stats, Study 0 Sometimes when you are on the brink of a rebellion, it’s hard to see what’s happening around you. Chandler, Arizona, has become a hotbed of attacks on autonomous vehicles (AVs). Over the past three years, […] Smart Mobility Living Lab rolls out CAV testing routes for London July 3, 2019 admin Announcement, Automated Driving, Automated Driving System, autonomous technologies, News, Opinions 0 Smart Mobility Living Lab (SMLL), a UK government-backed initiative aimed at readying London for the arrival of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), has begun constructing its first test routes around the Royal Borough of Greenwich […]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line507
__label__wiki	0.597433	0.597433	SPECIAL TOUR OPTIONS ENSLAVED WORKERS CORNELIA DAVENPORT’S SCRAPBOOK RE-INTERPRETATION JUNIOR INTERPRETERS FRIENDS & DONORS DAVENPORT HOUSE PEOPLE MEDIA COVERAGE & RELEASES EXPERIENCE THE DAVENPORT HOUSe museum MUSEUM RULES East Side of Savannah's Landmark Historic District Parking is available at on-street meters Monday through Saturday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday parking is free. Additional parking is available at city garages including the Abercorn-State Street Garage. Plan on a 50 minute to 1 hour visit. The Davenport House is stop #8 on the Old Town Trolley tour. . Experience the historic atmosphere of the Davenport House Museum. Check out the calendar for upcoming events and annual experiences. A Davenport House Museum venue offers celebrants a private setting in the midst of the Historic Landmark District. Davenport House Museum volunteers are essential to the daily operations and vitality of the site. 912/233-7938 – FAX info@davenporthousemuseum.org 324 E. State Street Monday – Saturday \| 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday \| 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. The last tour begins daily at 4 p.m. The Davenport House Museum is closed on the following holidays: Thanksgiving Day \| Christmas Eve and Day \| New Year’s Eve and Day \| St. Patrick’s Day Facebook Twitter Google-plus Flickr Youtube Pinterest © 2018 Davenport House Museum. All rights reserved. Winter Programs in February - Madeira and The American Songbook! Note: The DHM will be closed for Annual Cleaning 1/19 and 1/21 and to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday on 1/20	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line515
__label__wiki	0.698733	0.698733	Convulse – Evil Prevails by Cory Van der Pol on September 18, 2013 As has been said countless times before, the worst record review is a waffle: “It’s OK for what it is, if you like that.” This corresponds to someone neither moved to ire or adoration by a work; in other words, it barely registered. Convulse is not like that. It is a band to both love and hate, but at the same time. Evil Prevails should be loved for the rare moments of clarity in which riffs are glued together to reach a conclusion that makes sense out of them, causing a sense of rising above the confusion of life as the various dots connect. Themes add up and then grow, and this is where the band shines. They develop beautiful riffs from less interesting ones, and in those riffs, have a sublime sense of how phrase corresponds to emotion. On the other hand, the dark side of this release is twofold. First, many of its riffs are simplistic in an American football death metal way, reminiscent of Carbonized or Grave but less enigmatic. Second, when riffs aren’t galloping across your forehead, the band likes to work in random rock, blues and jazz influences that don’t fit with the whole. These are not only incongruous, but relatively undistinguished. Some might say that this in itself is an unorthodox aesthetic. By making a grab-bag of parts, Convulse is exuding deconstruction or nihilism, in other words. However, more likely, this mirrors a committee. The average is bad, but occasionally someone has a flash of inspiration; in the meantime, dramatic people who are good at what’s normally accepted are busy getting in their moments in the sun, showing off and getting promoted. As a result, it’s hard to like Evil Prevails; it’s a mess with some nuggets of gold. If you like plodding bands like Gorement, the brutal riffs will not disappoint; if you like incomplete-synthesis bands like Afflicted you’ll enjoy the guitar fireworks. But more likely you will background the music until a nugget appears, have an “Aha!” moment, and then forget it as the churn goes on. Tags: blues, convulse, death metal, Finnish Death Metal, jazz, rock 2 thoughts on “Convulse – Evil Prevails” fallot says: This very articulately states my own complaints with the band. I would perhaps have done it a little injustice by putting it in the category mentioned in the beginning of this article, but Convulse can manage some moments. These are best expressed, in my opinion, in some of their demo output. The full lengths dont live up to that, and are so full of trudging banality that you zone out and become distracted. EDS says: Seems like most people are in cahoots on Convulse. I’ve actually never run into a band that predominantly everyone feels the exact same way. The debut full length is completely hit or miss and the good songs on that album are truly good, and the not so hot songs are boring and stale. What always got me though was the demo output. Same complaint applies. Half of the songs from the demo era were lively and inviting while the others were stale and lifeless. Reminds me of Funebre’s demo’s and full length quality. Half the music was great listening material and the other half was trite. Classic reviews: Copyright © 1988-2020 Death Metal Underground.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line517
__label__cc	0.512191	0.487809	Gully Boy Gets Official Release Date Badshah Ranks High On The Forbes Celebrity List By Deepa Unnikrishnan DHH Exclusive - Check Out Haji Springer's Hindi Alter Ego In "Keede" 2018 has begun with hip hop gaining massive response from people in general. May it be from the creative industry or the audience, hip hop has everyone’s attention. Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy has commenced shoot with a new year opening doors for hip hop in India like never before. A lot of buzz has been afloat about this film, but only the hip hop community knows its importance. Hip Hop is successfully becoming the popularly demanded genre in today’s date. Not just internationally, but within India itself the knowledge about the culture’s existence is spreading. Proof of which is the upcoming Bollywood flick “Gully Boy” directed by Zoya Akhtar. Actor Ranveer Singh is playing the lead role of the movie which is loosely based on the lives of Gully stars Naezy and Divine. Also Read – When Ranveer Singh Met Underground Rappers For Gully Boy Workshop Anticipation levels are going up as each day passes by. Fans have patiently been waiting to know first hand details of the movie’s progress. Finally, the official release date for Gully Boy has been announced. The film is all set to release worldwide on February 14th, 2019. Exactly a year later from now, hip hop in South Asia will never be the same. Who’s excited? We surely are! Stay tuned with DesiHipHop.com for more inside scoop on “Gully Boy”. Hip Hop News, News Travis Scott’s ‘JACKBOYS’ Compilation Debuts At No. 1 On Billboard 200	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line520
__label__cc	0.637383	0.362617	calories in honey honey nutrition facts protein in honey carbs in honey fat in honey sugar in honey sodium in honey potassium in honey saturated fat in honey cholesterol in honey magnesium in honey iron in honey calcium in honey zinc in honey vitamin a in honey vitamin c in honey vitamin d in honey vitamin k in honey vitamin b12 in honey vitamin b6 in honey folic acid in honey riboflavin in honey phosphorus in honey niacin in honey thiamine in honey Home / Nutrition / Fiber / honey Amount of Fiber in Honey Welcome to the nutritional fiber content in 3 different types of honey, ranging from 0.8 g to 0 g per 100g. The basic type of honey is Honey, where the amount of fiber in 100g is 0.2 g. 0.2 g of fiber per 100g, from Honey corresponds to 1% of the fiber RDA. For a typical serving size of 1 cup (or 339 g) the amount of Fiber is 0.68 g. This corresponds to an RDA percentage of 3%. The percentage of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for fiber is based on a 25 g RDA level for a mature adult. Honey - Nutritional Content and Chart The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Honey should be considered along with the fiber content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Sweets.Other important and fiber related nutrients are Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Calories is 304 kcal (15% RDA), the amount of Protein is 0.3 g (1% RDA), the amount of Fat is 0 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 82.4 g (63% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the fiber levels in honey. Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Honey has a nutritional value score of 13 out of 100.Comparing the fiber content and the nutritional density in 100g for Honey; We class this as a medium to low fiber content item.In terms of overall nutritional value we class this as an item with a low nutritional density value. Comparing fiber in honey vs lentils The amount of fiber in lentils is 7.9 g per 100g.As fiber percentage of the RDA this is 32 %. Comparing with Honey, in 100g contains 0.2 g of fiber. As a percentage of the RDA this is 1 %. Therefore, lentils has 7.7 g more fiber than Honey. In terms of fiber percentage this is 3850 % more fiber. Lentils has an overall nutritional value score of 18 out of 100, whereas Honey has a nutritional value score of 13 out of 100. The highest content of fiber in the food items under the general description or type of honey, is Honey loaf, pork, beef with 0.8 g of fiber per 100g. Comparing lentils with Honey loaf, pork, beef; lentils has 7.1 g more fiber than Honey loaf, pork, beef. In terms of fiber percentage this is 888 % more fiber. Amount of fiber per 100 Calories 100 calories of honey is a serving size of 0.33 g, and the amount of Fiber is 0.07 g (0.33% RDA). Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Fat, in 100 Calories are as follows; Protein 0.1 g (0.33% RDA), Fat 0 g (0% RDA), Carbohydrate 27.11 g (20.72% RDA). This is shown in the fiber RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients. For the food Honey the typical serving size is 1 cup (or 339 g) which contains 0.68 g of Fiber. The fiber percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 3 %. To give 100% of the RDA, 33.3 servings of the typical serving size 1 cup (or 339 g) give the complete RDA. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Calories content is 1030.56 kcal, the Protein content is 1.02 g, the Fat content is 0 g and the Carbohydrate content is 279.34 g. The percentages are shown below in the fiber chart, for the typical serving of fiber and the related and important nutritional values. Macronutrients in Honey The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 cup or 339 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. From protein the number of calories is 3.4 (kcal).The number of calories from Fat is 0.0 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 1028.0 (kcal). Grams of fiber in honey (per 100g) This list of 3 types of honey, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Honey loaf, pork, beef through to Honey roll sausage, beef where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional fiber content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much fiber in honey. The list below gives the total fiber content in the 3 items from the general description 'honey' each of which show the fiber amount as well as Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 3 food items shown in the fiber chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary. The corresponding nutritional value for honey based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of fiber per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart. The corresponding Calories for honey ranked by the amount of fiber per 100g is shown below in the honey calories chart. Average Content for honey The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of fiber contained in 100g of honey, based on the list below of 3 different items under the general description of honey, is 0.33 g of fiber. This average value corresponds to 1.32 % of the recommended dietary allowance (or RDA) in your diet. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Calories is 203.67 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 10.00 g, the average amount of Fat is 4.99 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g. The median value of Fiber is found in Honey which in 100g contains 0.2 g of Fiber. This corresponds to 1 % of the recommended daily allowance. For this serving the amount of Calories is 304 kcal, the amount of Protein is 0.3 g, the amount of Fat is 0 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 82.4 g. Highest fiber Content per 100g Using the list below for the 3 different honey nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of fiber is found in Honey loaf, pork, beef which contains 0.8 g of fiber per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is 3 %. For this 100g serving the Calories content is 125 kcal, the Protein content is 11.12 g, the Fat content is 4.47 g, the Carbohydrate content is 9.98 g. The lowest amount of fiber in 100g is in Honey roll sausage, beef which contains 0 g. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance 0 % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Calories is 182 kcal, the amount of Protein is 18.58 g, the amount of Fat is 10.5 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 2.18 g. The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a fiber range of 0.8 g per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 57 kcal for Calories, 7.46 g for Protein, 6.03 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate. Highest Amount of fiber per Serving Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high fiber foods in your diet. For example 100g of Honey contains 0.2 g of fiber. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the fiber nutritional content. The food with the highest fiber content per typical serving is Honey which contains 0.68 g in 1 cup (or 339 g). The percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 3 %. For this serving the Calories content is 1030.56 kcal, the Protein content is 1.02 g, the Fat content is 0 g and the Carbohydrate content is 279.34 g. From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing fiber which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of fiber rich foods Honey List, fiber Content per 100g 1. Honey loaf, pork, beef - Fiber Nutritional Value : 14 / 100 food group - Sausages and Luncheon Meats 0.8 g (3%) 125 kcal (6%) 9.98 g (8%) 4.47 g (7%) 11.12 g (20%) Typical Serving size of 2 slices (1 serving) (or 57g): 0.46 g (2%) 71.25 kcal (4%) 5.69 g (4%) 2.55 g (4%) 6.34 g (11%) Other serving sizes 1 slice (or 28g): 0.22 g (1%) 35 kcal (2%) 2.79 g (2%) 1.25 g (2%) 3.11 g (6%) Other serving sizes 3.53 slices (or 100g): 2. Honey - Fiber Nutritional Value : 13 / 100 food group - Sweets Fiber Calories Carbohydrate Fat Protein 0.2 g (1%) 304 kcal (15%) 82.4 g (63%) 0 g (0%) 0.3 g (1%) 0.68 g (3%) 1030.56 kcal (52%) 279.34 g (215%) 0 g (0%) 1.02 g (2%) Other serving sizes 1 tbsp (or 21g): 0.04 g (0%) 63.84 kcal (3%) 17.3 g (13%) 0 g (0%) 0.06 g (0%) Other serving sizes 1 packet (0.5 oz) (or 14g): 0.03 g (0%) 42.56 kcal (2%) 11.54 g (9%) 0 g (0%) 0.04 g (0%) 3. Honey roll sausage, beef - Fiber 0 g (0%) 182 kcal (9%) 2.18 g (2%) 10.5 g (16%) 18.58 g (33%) Typical Serving size of 1 slice (4 dia x 1/8 thick) (or 23g): 0 g (0%) 41.86 kcal (2%) 0.5 g (0%) 2.42 g (4%) 4.27 g (8%) fiber and Nutritional Values - Top 221 Foods	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line528
__label__wiki	0.714738	0.714738	Bogan Book Reviews #LoveOzYA / NZ #LoveOzMG A Curse So Dark and Lonely Book One Written by Brigid Kemmerer Retelling, Fantasy, Romance Published February 2nd 2019 Thank you to Bloomsury Australia Fall in love, break the curse. It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he knew he could be saved if a girl fell for him. But that was before he learned that at the end of each autumn, he would turn into a vicious beast hell bent on destruction. That was before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope. Nothing has ever been easy for Harper. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother barely holding their family together while constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, she learned to be tough enough to survive. But when she tries to save someone else on the streets of Washington, DC, she's instead somehow sucked into Rhen's cursed world. Break the curse, save the kingdom. A prince? A monster? A curse? Harper doesn't know where she is or what to believe. But as she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what's at stake. And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. But powerful forces are standing against Emberfall... And it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and his people from utter ruin. Harper is a formidable character, determined and resourceful. Growing up with cerebral palsy has shaped her into a fierce young woman, capable and never to be underestimated. Since her father left his family with debt they couldn't repay, Harper's brother Jake was forced into a life of thuggery, working as a shakedown man for their local debt collector while their mother battles cancer. Harper is tagging along on Jake's latest job as a lookout when she witnesses a young, unconscious woman being taken from the streets of Washington. Harper intervenes, saving the young woman's life but is taken herself and transported to Emberfall. Prince Rhen hasn't been seen by the good folk of Emberfall since the curse was placed upon him, most believing the royal family had fled the castle due to the monster roaming the lands. For Rhen, his life is on constant replay each season of his eighteenth birthday. To break the curse, he must find a young woman to fall in love with him. He may be a Prince but the ladies of Emberfall aren't so easily impressed, the ones who've survived the monster, so he's been sending his trusted footman Grey to the earthly plane to find a woman to break the curse. They didn't bargain for the streetwise, ballsy Harper though. Prince Rhen is dashing and handsome, clearly intended as the love interest for Harper and readers alike. I wasn't shipping it folks. He's nice enough, when not in monster form but he was too busy trying to woo Harper rather than treating her as an intellectual and his equal. It was Grey that realised Harper's potential and because she begun to feel comfortable in his presence, they soon became friends. Apart from stealing Harper from the streets of Washington, Grey is a gentleman. He refers to Harper as my lady and I can imagine the intense hat tipping as a result. He reminded me of Chaol earlier in the Throne of Glass series, with the difference being that Grey is incredibly polite rather than gruff. I was shipping Grey and Harper. Hard. They shared a chemistry that just wasn't present between Harper and Rhen, whether or not that's due to the pressure of Rhen's curse and Harper feeling overwhelmed or even obligated but I could help but ship the wrong couple. Let me live in ignorant bliss. Being taken and the age old discussion of Stockholm Syndrome will always be raised with kidnapping narratives and rightly so. Often the captor manipulates the person being held captive into believing they need their captor to survive, they're a nice person who's misunderstood and soon enough, feelings are skewed. Harper isn't being manipulated and herein lies the difference, throughout the narrative she isn't forced into a romantic relationship and although she's aware of the curse, she isn't under any obligation to fall in love with Rhen. In fact, he soon releases Harper's independence and tenacity as a strong, independent young woman are the qualities he most admires within her personality. Harper is a character with a disability. Her cerebral palsy is never romanticised nor seen as a weakness, quite the opposite. Those of Emberfall believe her limp is a result of an injury, something she fiercely defends and embraces. Within the narrative, she mentions the multiple operations she experiences as a child to make her the woman she is today. She realises her limitations but also knows she can work around them. It's wonderful to see a character with a disability simply be and their disability not used as a device to further the storyline. From the opulent palatial grounds to the humble merchant towns, the Essence of A Curse So Dark and Lonely is a beautiful retelling of a quiet resistance. A modern fairytale, a tenacious young woman and a ship you can sail into the sunset. Cannot wait for the next installment! We Are Okay Written by Nina LaCour Contemporary, LGBT, Realistic Fiction Publishing in Australia March 5th 2019 Thank you to UQP Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even far away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart. An intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave you urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people you love. The snow continues to fall in New York City, washing the landscape in flutters while students prepare to journey home for the holiday season. Except Marin Delaney, a permanent dormitory resident since the death of her grandfather, the man who raised her after the passing of her mother. Marin has escaped her hometown in San Francisco for the anonymity of New York, her immeasurable sorrow isolating her from her hometown and her best friend Mabel. Mabel is now travelling to New York and after months of avoidance, Marin will need to confront her past, her isolation and the revelations of the death of her grandfather. Marin's anguish is palpable as she grieves not only for her grandfather but for the life she has left behind. After her mother passed in a tragic drowning accident, Marin has lived with her grandfather in their small, San Francisco beachside home. Marin's relationship with her grandfather was wonderfully gentle and considerate and although residing within the same home, both lived separate lives. Her grandfather enjoyed using moments throughout their day as teaching moments, instilling important wisdom upon Marin, preparing her for the challenges of attending university and becoming an independent young woman. Marin and her grandfather shared an unspoken agreement as not to encroach on the others personal space, Marin not entering his study or bedroom and her grandfather, allowing Marin the privacy of her bedroom. As Marin gained her independence, her grandfather became increasingly isolated within his study and Marin, grief stricken long before her grandfather passed. The once sprightly elderly gentleman is sustained by his correspondence with the mysterious Birdie, a woman that has captivated his attention and as Marin matures, she observes his health deteriorating. We observe as Marin and Mabel's friendship transformed from friends to tentative lovers, exploring their sexuality and the new parameters of their relationship. As Mabel visits New York, Marin is confronted as to why she left San Francisco behind. The tenderness between the two young women is beautiful and although they've been separated from one another, Mabel is a wonderful friend who is determined to remain a part of Marin's life. Throughout the narration, Marin's sorrow becomes a tangible element and arbours resentment towards the man who raised her, perpetuated by the isolating, wintry landscape. We Are Okay is a gentle narrative of bereavement and isolation, of solidarity that's encompassed by a quiet artistry that's rarely seen in young adult literature. Simply exquisite. Highway Bodies Written by Alison Evans Apocalyptic, Survival, Diverse, #LoveOZYA Thank you to Echo Publishing Who will you rely on in the zombie apocalypse? Bodies on the TV, explosions, barriers, and people fleeing. No access to social media. And a dad who’ll suddenly bite your head off , literally. These teens have to learn a new resilience… Members of a band wield weapons instead of instruments. A pair of siblings find there’s only so much you can joke about, when the menace is this strong. And a couple find depth among the chaos. Highway Bodies is a unique zombie apocalypse story featuring a range of queer and gender non conforming teens who have lost their families and friends and can only rely upon each other. Highway Bodies centres on three groups of adolescents throughout Melbourne during an apocalyptic outbreak, our humanity and resistance. Fraternal siblings Rhea and Jojo are awaiting information from their mother, a first responder and emergency nurse during the initial epidemic onslaught. Social media websites are being censored by government officials and journalists are reporting of a factory explosion in a neighbouring suburb. Imagine rendered defenceless as your father decimates his family. Your only solace is nestled within the large topiaries masquerading as sentinels in your garden. The deceased faltering throughout the streets as you hear a young woman, a survivor needing assistance. Poppy, Jack, Zufan and Dee are enjoying their freedom, composing and performing among the cicadas of their ramshackle cottage as communications go down. Venturing into the nearest town, the roads are abandoned, blood congealing on pavements. These three narratives sharing a common ambition, to survive. The narrative is experienced through three perspectives and although taking place throughout a terrifying outbreak, it centres upon the survivors. Resilient adolescents that are adapting to their new environment. It's survival against humanity. Throughout their journey, the adolescents are consistently challenged by morality and the debris of human life, dangerous adults recruiting survivors and demanding idolisation under the guise of protection. It soon becomes apparent that it's the living that should be feared. The diversity of characters is wonderful, various identities, cultural backgrounds, genders and pronouns, all wonderfully representative of a multicultural and diverse Melbourne landscape. Genderqueer, bisexual, transgender, lesbian, Ethiopian, Pakistani she and they pronouns, facial scarring and amputated fingers. As each character introduces themselves, they also offer their pronouns. A wonderful and inclusive gesture, being that pronouns are also our own individual identities. The prose is striking. The discourse and interactions allow readers to empathise with characters, their terror and sorrow is palpable. As a debut, Alison's IDA was brilliant and a wonderful precedent of how authors can write diversely. Alison Evans' writing has matured and flourished, their vibrancy shining throughout the narrative by enthralling and captivating readers until the final page. Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) Written by L. C. Rosen Contemporary, LGBT, Diverse, Mystery Publishing February 19th 2019 Thank you to Penguin Teen Australia My first time getting it in the butt was kind of weird. I think it's going to be weird for everyone's first time, though. Jack Rothman is seventeen. A solid student with a talent for art, he likes partying, makeup and boys. Sometimes all at the same time. His active, unashamed sex life makes him a red hot topic for the high school gossip machine, but Jack doesn't really care too much about what the crowd is saying about him. His mantra is, it could be worse. And then it is. When Jack starts writing a teen sex advice column for his best friend's website, he begins to receive creepy and threatening love letters. His admirer is obsessed with Jack, they know who he's hanging out with, who he's sleeping with, who his mum is dating. And while they say they love Jack, they don't love his lifestyle. They want him to curb his sexuality and personality. And if he won't, they will force him. As his stalker starts to ratchet up the pressure, it's up to Jack and his friends to uncover their identity, before their love becomes genuinely dangerous. His reputation proceeds him. He's non conforming, open about his sexuality and his eyeliner game is on point. He's seventeen year old Jack Rothman, high school student and now online sex advice columnist, Jack of Hearts and Other Parts with the encouragement of friends Jemma and Ben. Jack makes no secret of his sexual exploits, he's comfortable with his body, his sexuality and is an advocate for safe, fun sex. He no longer listens to the gossip of his sexual prowess, the private schools halls echoing with rumours of casual sex and a trail of broken hearted boys. The column is anonymous, encouraging students at the elite school to ask questions about relationships, sexuality and how to navigate life as a teen but it seems Jack has a mysterious admirer as a series of notes are found in his school locker. Each one increasingly more disturbing. What appears to be misguided love letters soon becomes threatening, they know where he lives, who Jack is sleeping with and details about the lives of those around him, including his single mother. I absolutely loved Jack. In a world of Mary Sue characters, Jack's frank and openness is refreshing. He's factual, doesn't sugar coat his words and has a confidence and swagger that most of us strive for. Jack identifies as gay, he's sexually active and a safe sex advocate. Identifying as male, Jack doesn't conform to gender standards, he loves ladies fashion, eyeliner and is widely accepted by his peers. His single mother is a renowned doctor who used a sperm donor to conceive Jack and although Jack has never had a father figure in his life, his mother has ensured Jack has never needed to go without. All except her company, working long, strenuous hours at the hospital. Being open about his sexuality has somehow become the topic of Monday morning discussion within the hallowed school halls, Jack listening to the whispers from the girls bathroom of his sexual exploits, the next more outlandish than the last. Although Jack doesn't care what his peers believe, the narrative explores how straight females often fetishise gay men by sexually objectifying them for their own sexual fantasies and as Jack is open about his prowess, believing they have the right to assert themselves into his life. Friends Jenna and Ben are a wonderful means of support. Jenna, a bisexual Latinx and Ben, a black young man identifying as gay. Ben is a budding fashion designer while Jenna hosts a website of investigative journalism, asking Jack to contribute to the site with his advice column. Jack is reluctant but wants to make a difference and perhaps clear up the misconceptions about his own life along the way. The anonymous letters allow Jack to talk about his own experiences, from casual sex, consent, how to give a successful blow job or what happens when both of you want to be on the bottom. It's brutally honest and utterly charming, I loved seeing a character in young adult so open about sex and not ashamed to admit to enjoying it. Of course not all adolescents are sexually active. Some choose not to be or identify as asexual. Through Jack's column, he is incredibly sex positive, asexual positive and reiterates the importance of safe, fun and consensual sex by choice. It's a little crass, a little cringe but so incredibly entertaining. Fabulously so. Jack's openness attracts a secret admirer who now believes they have the right to demand access to the seventeen year old. It begins as letters confessing how they admire Jack but soon turn disturbing as the letters become more frequent and possessive, threatening Jack, his mother and friends unless he conforms to their demands. No casual sex and to stop writing his column. I found Jack incredibly realistic. At seventeen, he's all about having a great time. He drinks, is usually the life of the party and doesn't mind a dirty grind on the dance floor with the next hot guy that catches his eye. The threats leave Jack feeling flat, rather than sparkle he begins to conform into someone unrecognisable in the hope this will keep his friends safe. It also touches upon the lack of acceptance from others, in particular Jack's principal who insinuates that Jack should try to blend in, be someone he's not and stop drawing attention to himself. That somehow, he is to blame for the threatening letters. It doesn't sugar coat how ignorant and in this case, homophobic adults and adults in positions of power can be. It also explores casual homophobic slurs that Jack experiences through anonymous emails addressed to the column and also the stereotypes placed upon queer community members by straight women in particular. On the surface Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) is a hilarious and easygoing contemporary narrative but explores deep societal issues that will invoke discussion among the teen audience about prejudice and how to create more inclusive environments for their peers without judgement. It was glorious. I can't stress enough how much we need these narratives in young adult. Yes it's sexually explicit, yes it's eyebrow raising but it also normalises the sexual spectrum in a category of literature which favours scenes that fade to black. Recommended for the mature young adult reader, Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) is a funny, laugh out loud, heartwarming contemporary about life, love and getting laid. The Wicker King Written by K. Ancrum Contemporary, Mental Health, LGBT Thank you to Pan Macmillan Australia Jack once saved August's life, now can August save him? August is a misfit with a pyro streak and Jack is a golden boy on the varsity rugby team but their intense friendship goes way back. Jack begins to see increasingly vivid hallucinations that take the form of an elaborate fantasy kingdom creeping into the edges of the real world. With their parents' unreliable behaviour, August decides to help Jack the way he always has, on his own. He accepts the visions as reality, even when Jack leads them on a quest to fulfil a dark prophecy. August and Jack alienate everyone around them as they struggle with their sanity, free falling into the surreal fantasy world that feels made for them. In the end, each one must choose his own truth. Written in vivid microfiction with a stream of consciousness feel and multimedia elements, K. Ancrum's The Wicker King touches on themes of mental health and explores a codependent relationship fraught with tension, madness and love. Following the nonlinear narrative of seventeen year old August Bateman, August is incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital, keening and desperate to find Jack Rossi. Jack and August are unlikely friends, Jack the popular, athletic student while August is an introvert, hiding behind fashion labels in the hope no one will discover his low socioeconomic status. Beyond the confines of school, August and Jack and inseparable. Throughout the narration, we experience the codependent and often disturbing friendship between the two young men, the possessiveness, toxicity and domination. It's frightening, fascinating and will captivate readers until the final page. August is a young man who feels like an impostor in his own skin. After his parents separated, August's mother developed a deep depression and retreated to her basement where she spends her days watching game shows. From a young age, August had learned to fend for himself by becoming self dependant and taking care of his mother. Unable to work and with only meagre support cheques from his father, August sells drugs to make ends meet, his side project well known throughout the wealthy student community. It's his friendship with Jack that sustains August, caring for his friend in a world that was created for them and them alone. We get to know Jack through the eyes of August, who often views his friend with rose coloured glasses. Jack is popular, attractive and athletic, not to mention not even remotely in the same orbit as August. But somehow, their friendship works. Growing up, the boys liked to explore their surroundings, from the surrounding forest to abandoned buildings, Jack with his crown made of sticks and makeshift sword, August his loyal champion by his side. But Jack's childhood games have become increasingly disturbing, his imagination existing between two separate worlds sharing the one space. He sees people and objects within his vision from another time, no longer a game and claims the residents of this historical plane need his help to find an object. An object that will save their world. It begins to blur the lines between fantasy and mental illness as Jack experiences delusions, luring August into a world he can only experience through Jack's illness. August and Jack's friendship takes an intense turn while playing in the forest, August slips into the river only to be rescued by Jack. An act of bravery leads August to believe that he now owes Jack, his life, his spirit and whatever Jack will now ask of him. Jack begins to feed upon that toxic devotion and begins to lay claim over August, often resorting to physical intimidation and abuse that August has become dependant on. Similar to being in an abusive relationship where the victim may believe they are deserving of abuse or that toxic possession is a way of expressing love by their abuser. August and Jack are very much a product of their individual environments. Although Jack is from a wealthy family, his parents are often travelling or simply absent. August feels a deep responsibility to care for Jack, understanding his feelings of abandonment and isolation. On the surface of what seems to be a friendship of codependency, is a dangerously toxic love story, an all consuming love that threatens to destroy them both. Written with a passionate intensity, I was swept away by the relationship and hopeful that these two abandoned beings would survive their ordeal. It was messy, complicated and utterly brilliant. I was enamoured by August and Jack and consumed by their relationship. Beautifully written with a dark, brooding realism rarely seen within young adult fiction, The Wicker King is phenomenal. © Diva Booknerd. Design by Fearne.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line530
__label__wiki	0.660582	0.660582	Dog School Our role and mission Team, partners & friends How we are financed? Short film about us Mass neutering of stray dogs and free neutering of owned dogs Veterinary Training Programme Education of School Children Public Awareness and Education Award for Humane Treatment of Animals Technical Assistance Programme Become a Dogs Trust BFF! CUKICA Magazine Newest Dogs Trust Research Shows: 63% Less Dogs on the Streets of Sarajevo Compared to 2013 Dogs Trust dog count, conducted annually since 2012, shows that there are 63% less dogs on the streets of Sarajevo than in 2013, when the Dogs Trust Mass Neutering Programme was first introduced. “Even though initiatives of local authorities are still insufficient and a law compliant Dog Population Management System is still not fully functioning, Programmes created, supported and coordinated by Dogs Trust have contributed to a continuous decrease in the number of stray dogs, increase in public health and safety and improvement of overall dog welfare” emphasized Anel Becirovic, Head of Dogs Trust Representative Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Research shows that the four municipalities of the City of Sarajevo have 20% less dogs, and the rest of Canton Sarajevo has 28% less stray dogs compared to 2017 figures. According to this year’s dog count, conducted in June 2018, a total of 65% stray dogs in the City of Sarajevo have an ear tag and are neutered, and 80% of them have been neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and have received anti parasite treatments through the Mass Neutering Programme supported by the Dogs Trust Foundation. In order to have a permanent decrease in the stray dog population it is necessary to neuter another 10% of the remaining dogs. By neutering another 10% of the stray dog population in Canton Sarajevo through the Mass Neutering Programme, the Dogs Trust Representative Office will achieve its initial aim of neutering 80% of the initial stray dog population. „This result would prove that we have successfully achieved the ‘heard immunity’ for rabies, meaning that a majority of dogs will be vaccinated against this disease leading to a reduced risk of infection. At the same time, this would lead to a high number of neutered dogs which, according to dog population management experts, means that the stray dog problem would be under control and it would be necessary to conduct only periodical mass neutering campaigns along with systematic prevention of dog abandonment” emphasized Becirovic. Less puppies and increased welfare of stray dogs Compared to last year, research recorded less puppies throughout Canton Sarajevo, with 5.9% less than last year in the City of Sarajevo, and 7% less in remaining municipalities. Programmes supported by Dogs Trust, such as the Veterinary Training Programme, Education Programme, Dog School and public education have all contributed to an evident positive shift in public awareness which is a key prerequisite for every positive change. Our research shows increased stray dog welfare throughout Canton Sarajevo; meaning there is a smaller number of injured dogs, less underweight dogs and dogs with skin diseases. Stray dogs in Canton Sarajevo are better socialised and friendlier! Results prove that the problem can be solved only through implementation of a law-compliant System The results of this research clearly show that the stray dog problem can only be permanently and efficiently solved in a law-compliant and humane way by using preventive measures such as educating veterinary experts, children, dog owners and raising awareness of the general public, and interventive measures such as mass neutering of abandoned and free neutering of owned dogs, rehoming, which all lead to a permanent and sustainable solution that is in line with current local legislation. “We hope that the newly elected responsible authorities will work on the implementation of the current legislation and will establish all the elements of a sustainable Dog Population Management System so that Canton Sarajevo can set an example for all other regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” concluded Becirovic. Dogs Trust Representative Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina © 2020 - Dogs Trust Representative Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line531
__label__cc	0.695883	0.304117	Reluctant Habits a cultural forum in ever-shifting standing Follow Your Ears The Bat Segundo Show Modern Library Reading Challenge Ed Walks The Shameful Gaslighting of Bernie Sanders Why I Don’t Think Elizabeth Warren Can Win The Unbearable Stupidity of Chris Cillizza The Black Dog Barks During the Holidays A List of Music Cues in Ducks, Newburyport Tag / children July 3, 2019 by Edward Champion Why I Will Not Be Celebrating the Fourth of July The United States of America is too far removed from the humanity and dignity that it professes to espouse and is not worth celebrating this year. Concentration Camps, Human Rights, Undocumented Immigrants alexandria ocasio-cortez, america, children, concentration camps, elizabeth warren, fourth of july, human rights, independence day, nancy pelosi, omelas, parade, resistance, revolution, Torture, trump, united states, ursula k. le guin, William T. Vollmann In previous years, Independence Day was second only to Halloween as my favorite holiday. You’d show up to a park or a porch in your T-shirt and shorts, catch up with old pals casually overseeing a barbeque thronged with succulent chicken breasts slathered with promising sauce and glistening corn cobs that matched the searing hues of sunshine, and toss back a few beers while giddily tossing ground bloom flowers into the streets with a free-wheeling anarchy that was almost an instinctive homage to our founding firebrands. You’d set aside any stark political differences with casual unifying banter, knowing instinctively that the true quality bonding this nation was the invitational and subdued empathy of the American people. Very often you’d end up making out with a stranger, finding yourself in an unexpected summer romance and experiencing fireworks on the ground level that matched the bright showers exploding in the sky. The Fourth of July was the perfect midpoint to both summer and the year, allowing all to take stock in what had been accomplished and what was still possible. It was never an overtly jingoistic holiday — at least not for me or the people who I gathered with. But I can’t find it within my moral core to party this year. Not while Trump blows $92 million on a fascist spectacle that is more befitting of a dictatorship rather than a democratic republic. This shameful and hopelessly corrupt administration would rather waste precious resources on empty jingoism, money that has been diverted from our cash-strapped national parks, that should be allocated to swiftly rectifying the traumatic conditions in concentration camps, perhaps addressing the lack of water and the indignity and the cramped space currently endured by the people who are needlessly criminalized there, much less punishing the cruelty of CBP animals who mock the deaths of undocumented immigrants when they’re not busy engaging in unacceptable racist rhetoric. This is the kind of evil and unfathomable domestic policy that should cause anyone possessing even the tiniest sliver of a human heart to set aside their tongs and their big bags of fireworks to march loudly in the goddamned streets, vociferously denouncing the barbarism that our nation now practices without true representative resistance. But much like the epidemics of racism and gun massacres, we’ve grown accustomed to the comfort of looking the other way. We’re so seduced by the easy and enchanting susurrus of normalization, of pushing clear human abuses out of sight and out of mind to munch on our hamburgers, that the present administration only needs to keep ratcheting up the ghastly bar, counting on the fact that most Americans simply don’t or won’t give a shit. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” she depicted a thriving city called Omelas united by a Festival of Summer. The citizens were blissfully happy, but there was one small cost for this revelry: In a basement under the one of the beautiful public buildings of Omelas, or perhaps in the cellar of one of its spacious private homes, there is a room. It has one locked door, and no window. A little light seeps in dustily between cracks in the boards, secondhand from a cobwebbed window somewhere across the cellar. In one corner of the little room a couple of mops, with stiff, clotted, foul-smelling heads, stand near a rusty bucket. The floor is dirt, a little damp to the touch, as cellar dirt usually is. The room is about three paces long and two wide: a mere broom closet or disused tool room. In the room a child is sitting. It could be a boy or a girl. It looks about six, but actually is near ten. It is feeble-minded. Perhaps it was born defective, or perhaps it has become imbecile through fear, malnutrition, and neglect. It picks its nose and occasionally fumbles vaguely with its toes or genitals, as it sits hunched in the corner farthest from the bucket and the two mops. It is afraid of the mops. It finds them horrible. It shuts its eyes, but it knows the mops are still standing there; and the door is locked; and nobody will come. The door is always locked; and nobody ever comes, except that sometimes — the child has no understanding of time or interval — sometimes the door rattles terribly and opens, and a person, or several people, are there. One of them may come in and kick the child to make it stand up. The others never come close, but peer in at it with frightened, disgusted eyes. The food bowl and the water jug are hastily filled, the door is locked, the eyes disappear. The people at the door never say anything, but the child, who has not always lived in the tool room, and can remember sunlight and its mother’s voice, sometimes speaks. “I will be good,” it says. “Please let me out. I will be good!” They never answer. The child used to scream for help at night, and cry a good deal, but now it only makes a kind of whining, “eh-haa, eh-haa,” and it speaks less and less often. It is so thin there are no calves for legs; its belly protrudes; it lives on a half-bowl of corn meal and grease a day. It is naked. Its buttocks and thighs are a mass of festered sores, as it sits in its own excrement continually. America has become Omelas. The eerie parallels between the horrific conditions that Le Guin imagined and the realities that the children now suffering in the concentration camps are too nightmarishly exact. I remember this story being taught in high school and college. And there wasn’t a single student I recall who would attend the Festival of Summer knowing that this child existed. Today, I doubt very highly that any of these grown adults would say no to a festive holiday. How little we learn from the fiction that is meant to imbue us with empathy and compassion. But at least I can do my part by resisting a contradiction that should never have become fact in the first place. It is clear that what now passes for the United States of America is a travesty of meanness and gleeful shame inflicted on the wanting and the impoverished, a sick cartoonish sideshow writ large into a heartless spectacle tacitly endorsed by both bloodthirsty Republicans who refuse to remonstrate against these inhumane conditions and the spineless Democratic arm led by the tepid and ineffectual Nancy Pelosi. While true progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren have been out in the field trying to get more information, genuinely caring about the plight of those who suffer, our disgraceful Speaker snoozes and roosts like a smug barnacle patiently awaiting her soy milk latte as people in need desperately approach her for drastic change. In a lengthy report from William T. Vollmann recently published in Harper’s (bless the man for his indefatigable diligence), the prolific writer simply talked to the immigrants, photographing the “black insignia[s] of humiliation” around their ankles and observing the salient and very human reasons why these innocents would wish to flee to America — namely, to escape violence and mayhem. (A detailed study by The Marshall Project earlier this year showed no impact on local crime from immigrants. Numerous other studies reveal inflated numbers from ICE and observe that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crime than the average American citizen.) Like it or not, the immigrants who are mistreated and debased in the concentration camps are Americans. They have lives here and they are deserving, like any human being on this planet, of nobelesse oblige. So long as Americans are starved and denied sleep and bedecked with life-scarring trauma by callous ICE stooges who would sacrifice empathy for the glee of seeing them dead, I refuse to participate in a holiday that now represents a country united by blissful and complicit ignorance. Instead, I will spend the day reciting the Declaration of Independence to remind myself of just what this nation used to be, burning an American flag (a legal act of expressive resistance we thankfully still have) to protest our collective culpability, and thinking about how I can spend my time fighting the bastards with everything I have. These seem to me the only true duties of a principled patriot. I hope that you can find it within your heart to do something similar. September 4, 2014 by Edward Champion Battling the Digital Babysitter: The Case for Reading and Curiosity A new book by Jason Boog examines the effect of digital devices upon a toddler’s reading development, raising important questions on whether or not parents will be sufficiently prepared to deal with Common Core standards. Will the next generation of readers and thinkers be agile enough to meet tomorrow’s challenges? boog-jason, Common Core, Education, parenting, Reading born reading, children, common core, digital devices, dr. seuss, education, jason boog, parenting, Reading, toddlers BORN READING by Jason Boog Touchstone, 336 pages On November 27, 1960, only a few months after Green Eggs and Ham was published, Dr. Seuss called for a movement more modest than the Ham and Eggs pension drive. Seuss argued that “children’s reading and children’s thinking are the rock bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise.” He was deeply concerned about the increasing junk being published under the guise of juvenile fiction and he rightly pointed out how children were “eagerly welcoming the good writers who talk, not down to them as kiddies, but talk to them clearly and honestly as equals.” (In the same manifesto, the good Theodore Geisel also promulgated the fanciful claim that he was “mayor of La Jolla,” but this hardly detracts from his salient points.) Eight years before this, Seuss had written another essay on how people laughed less as they grew older, with the fun “getting hemmed in by a world of regulations.” Yet even Seuss’s imagination could not have foreseen our world of digital devices, with the horrifying 2011 video of a one-year-old baby flipping through a physical magazine, her hand squeezing on fixed text and hoping to push it across a malleable vortex, and with her little fingers, yearning for any toy, trying to flip a photo because she believes that the page is a tablet. The parent, with the toxic cruise control bravado of a privileged Google Bus commuter who refuses to see the world beyond his soy vanilla latte and gluten-free muffin, offers the smug, self-congratulatory, and ire-inducing caption, “For my 1 year old daughter, a magazine is an iPad that does not work. It will remain so for her whole life. Steve Jobs has coded a part of her OS.” With tablets and smartphones increasingly replacing television as the screen-based babysitter of choice for the overtaxed parent, we have very little knowledge on what this will mean for the next generation of readers and thinkers. With Common Core literary standards introducing preposterously dogmatic regulations (“Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson” reads one such farcical instruction) into classrooms with the same blindly faithful haste as the digital devices, any reliable advocate for imagination and salutary tomfoolery is left to wonder if we are preparing a generation that will surrender its wonder and humor earlier, without the pull of palpable paper to trigger some potential to raise this broken nation. As a childless man often on call for friends with kids who demand yet another vivacious in-home performance of my free-form vaudeville show, I didn’t realize how much I cared about any of this until I read Jason Boog’s thoughtful Born Reading. (I also recommend Boog’s recent appearance on Colin Marshall’s excellent podcast, Notebooks on Cities and Culture, which discusses many of the issues in the book.) Boog harbors no illusion that we can go back to the analog ways, but he has gone out of his way to document his reading experiments with his daughter, Olive. He recognizes the overcrowded field of parenting handbooks, pointing out in the book’s early pages that he won’t be offended if the time-challenged parent doesn’t read beyond the introduction. But even with the book’s self-help thrust with sections devoted to a “Born Reading Playbook,” Boog’s volume is worth considering as a whole. Boog is candid enough to cop to enjoying Don Ho’s kitschy ditty “Tiny Bubbles,” but he also recognizes the nefarious ways that diabolical software developers sneak hypnotic advertisements into apps that are ostensibly intended to “educate.” We often forget this Faustian bargain, if we even bother to remember it at all. The smartphone is only seven years old and the iPad, at the age of four, is only a year away from entering kindergarten. How are these new and ubiquitous technological tools shaping our real and decidedly more irreplaceable children? Boog rightfully points out, through the statements of Lisa Guernsey, that the conversations that adults have with their children before the age of two are more valuable than any interactive bauble. If a parent is too beleaguered, perhaps she can find a bedtime solution with the physical book, with its promise of enticing worlds beyond the real, its firm hold requiring neither wi-fi nor batteries, and its manifold possibilities for acting out stories. Last year, in a well-publicized report, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that parents discourage media exposure for children under the age of two. The AAP also suggested that children over that age should never spend more than two hours in front of a screen. Yet there remains the ineluctable lure of the digital babysitter. Put your kid in front of a screen playing mindless entertainment and, voila, even you too can get a few household chores done! But because the new screens are portable and more regularly used, even bright children such as Olive are tempted to imitate their parents, often resulting in workaround mimicry to postpone the inevitable moment when real digital devices will be as close to them as Barbie dolls and Matchbox cars: Even before she turned two years old, Olive would mimic my cell phone cradle with various phone-shaped objects. I designed a pretend computer out of a cardboard box and an abandoned computer mouse, and Olive would dutifully plug in the mouse and press imaginary buttons on the box just like daddy. Boog is extremely diligent in limiting his daughter’s digital usage, yet smartphones and tablets also offer undeniable value in summoning an immediate response to a child’s question. Boog describes calling up several images of Brahams after Olive asks what the famous composer looks like. In the analog days, parents offered approximate and often quite wrong answers to a child’s endless string of whys. But now that the highly specific answer has become commonplace thanks to Google, there remains the more troubling problem of how to encourage imagination and curiosity when nobody can be leisurely wrong anymore. Maybe the key for healthy digital implementation among toddlers resides in only using digital devices to promote curiosity. It is certainly an ethos that Boog subscribes to: Reading for discovery can change the course of your child’s life. You can help him or her maintain a natural curiosity throughout school. This precious flame of scientific wonder can be snuffed so easily. Don’t let your child lose that sense of wonder. Follow up science books and apps with zoo visits or natural science museum trips. Make sure that part of your home library is dedicated to science, gross or scary as it may be. Providing a toddler with limitless words and endless options for discovery can mean the difference between a child armed the tools to succeed and one who gives up in a tougher world of standardized education. Betty Hart and Todd Risley conducted a famous study revealing a thirty million word gap between low and high income kids. This disparity revealed lasting effects later in life. But with enough active parental participation, it is possible to make a book stick. Boog describes repeatedly reading Dick and Jane and Vampires to Olive, often acting out the story with gusto. The book became such a fixture that Olive demanded the book at all hours. For cash-strapped parents who don’t have the resources to fill their child’s bedroom with books, there is also the public library. Judy Blume’s oft-quoted suggestion that children should be allowed to read whatever they want holds true even in this hallowed space, which is not merely a secular temple for books, but a place for many kids and parents to come together. If Boog’s book ends on an appropriately grim note when considering the draconian Common Core standards, very much at odds with unhindered reading and free-flowing curiosity, it is nevertheless a welcome reminder that merely asking children to regurgitate knowledge is a recipe for chaos as the gap between the rich and the poor grows to its highest level since 1928. If we want to lift our nation beyond this crippling inequality, then it is vital for us to reject any measure that prevents parents and educators from talking with children as equals. The Seussian ideal will allow the next generation to embrace and challenge knowledge rather than have facts drilled into their heads with all the delicacy of a bureaucrat fumbling around with a jackhammer. 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__label__wiki	0.929035	0.929035	Eventing Day Eventing News, Insights, and Information Today, Tomorrow, and Everyday... About Eventing Day News On The Event Net The Organizer's Corner The Starting Box Eventing Mandatory Outing Information for 2011 Pan American Games - By Joanie Morris Lexington, KY - The USEF has announced that the Mandatory Outing for Eventing for the 2011 Pan American Games will be held at the Richland Park Horse Trials in Richland, Michigan, August 25-28, 2011. The event will run a separate division for the USEF Short Listed riders. Their division will include the FEI CCI2* dressage test and the Advanced Cross Country and Jumping tracks. The USEF will name a partial Short List for the Games after the Bromont CCI, which will be held June 9-12, 2011. The Event at Rebecca Farm (July 21-24) is the last selection trial designated in the Selection Procedures, after which the final and complete Short List will be named. Short Listed horse/rider combinations must compete in the Mandatory Outing, unless excused for veterinary, medical or exceptional circumstances. The Pan American Games will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico this fall and eventing will be run at the CCI2* level. The eventing competition will take place from October 20-23, 2011. Richland Park features Horse Trials from Novice to Advanced, a CIC3* and a CIC2* as well Young Horse Divisions. Follow Eventing Day Tweets! Friend Eventing Day On Facebook! Eventing today, tomorrow, and everyday... Published Monday, May 23, 2011 Labels: Pan Am Games, USEF News Join in and let us know what you think... Adobe Flash Plug-in Needed This website requires a Adobe Flash plug-in. Please download the latest version of the Flash plug-in by clicking here Search Eventing Day Eventing Radio Player Subscribe To Eventing Day The Blog of the Week New At Eventing Day What's In The Starting Box Eventing Day Archive Eventing Day Archive Oct 24 (1) Oct 27 (1) May 02 (1) Apr 30 (2) Apr 16 (1) Apr 13 (1) Mar 06 (1) Mar 02 (1) Feb 02 (1) Jan 20 (1) Jan 19 (1) Jan 15 (2) Jan 14 (1) Jan 11 (2) Oct 30 (2) Sep 04 (1) Sep 03 (1) Sep 02 (1) Sep 01 (4) Aug 29 (2) Aug 27 (2) Aug 26 (5) Aug 25 (1) Aug 23 (1) Aug 22 (2) Aug 19 (1) Aug 16 (4) Aug 10 (3) Aug 09 (1) Jul 06 (2) Jul 04 (3) Jul 03 (1) Jul 01 (4) Jun 24 (1) Jun 19 (5) Jun 17 (1) Jun 14 (1) Jun 10 (2) Jun 09 (1) Jun 08 (1) Jun 07 (2) Jun 06 (1) Jun 03 (3) Jun 01 (1) May 31 (3) May 30 (1) May 27 (2) May 24 (1) May 23 (6) May 21 (1) May 19 (3) May 18 (1) May 17 (4) May 16 (2) May 10 (1) May 08 (1) May 05 (2) May 04 (3) May 01 (1) Apr 30 (2) Apr 28 (1) Apr 27 (2) Apr 26 (5) Apr 25 (2) Apr 24 (4) Apr 23 (2) Apr 22 (1) Apr 21 (2) Apr 20 (1) Apr 16 (1) Apr 15 (4) Apr 14 (1) Apr 12 (1) Apr 10 (1) Apr 09 (2) Apr 08 (2) Apr 07 (1) Apr 06 (2) Apr 05 (3) Mar 31 (1) Mar 24 (1) Mar 22 (2) Mar 21 (1) Mar 20 (5) Mar 18 (3) Mar 16 (2) Mar 15 (1) Mar 13 (2) Mar 12 (2) Mar 11 (4) Mar 09 (6) Mar 08 (12) Mar 07 (1) Mar 06 (1) Mar 05 (1) Mar 04 (2) Mar 03 (1) Mar 02 (3) Mar 01 (1) Feb 28 (1) Feb 27 (4) Feb 26 (4) Feb 25 (3) Feb 23 (3) Feb 22 (5) Feb 21 (1) Feb 20 (3) Feb 18 (7) Feb 17 (8) Feb 16 (1) Feb 15 (7) Feb 14 (2) Feb 13 (4) Feb 10 (8) Feb 09 (2) Feb 08 (2) Feb 07 (3) Feb 06 (6) Feb 05 (5) Feb 04 (10) Feb 03 (9) Feb 02 (14) Feb 01 (4) Jan 31 (4) Jan 29 (5) Jan 28 (4) Jan 27 (3) Jan 25 (7) Jan 24 (4) Jan 23 (2) The Ping Chronicles, For The Lighter Side	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line545
__label__cc	0.578141	0.421859	Ben Worrall looks ahead at Gameweek 5 Instead of dwelling on last weekends action and tell you what has already happened, I will focus on this upcoming gameweek, with my preview of gameweek 5. QPR vs Stoke: This weeks early kick off sees QPR entertain Stoke. From a fantasy football perspective, both teams don’t offer much potential, but, Mame Biram Diouf has looked lively in his first few games for Stoke and he scored the winner against Man City in gameweek 3. He could well be a bargain at £5.8m, especially considering Stoke have some favourable fixtures coming up in the next few gameweeks, as they face the likes of Newcastle, Sunderland, Swansea and West Ham. Aston Villa vs Arsenal: Aston Villa have made a great start to the season and currently sit second in the table on 10 points. Their defence has been particularly impressive with 3 clean sheets out of 4, but considering they have games against Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City and Everton coming up, it may be a wise decision to remove any Villa players from your iTeam. As for Arsenal, they haven’t been at their full-flowing best so far, with just one win from four. However, Aaron Ramsey has started from where he left off last season with 2 goals and and an assist to his name already and is looking like an essential player for our fantasy iTeams. Burnley vs Sunderland: Both Burnley and Sunderland have made pretty poor starts to the Premier League campaign and both teams are still without a win. Burnley have struggled to find the back of the net so far, managing just one goal. The Clarets need Danny Ings to start banging the goals in, like he did in the Championship last year. Neither team offer much in the way of fantasy potential so I would probably avoid investing in any of their players. Newcastle vs Hull: Newcastle have made a shocking start to the season and currently sit bottom of the table, so it’s probably best to stay away from any Newcastle players at the moment. As for Hull, I think they have made some great signings over the summer with Steve Bruce adding the likes of Gaston Ramirez, Ben Arfa, Michael Dawson and Abel Hernandez to the Tigers squad. I’m backing Hull to come away with a narrow victory and add further misery to Newcastle. Swansea vs Southampton: Both teams are playing pretty well at the moment, especially Swansea who have won 3 games so far. Gylfi Sigurdsson is extremely good value at £6.6m after his flying start to the campaign. Surprisingly, Southampton are looking pretty good despite the departures of most of their key players over the summer. Also, the Saints have an easy run of fixtures coming up so investment in the Koeman’s team looks like a viable tactic. Graziano Pelle is in fine form with 3 goals in his last 2 games and Dusan Tadic has 2 assists to his name already and is priced at just £5.7m. Also, watch out for Southampton’s new winger Sadio Mane who scored 45 goals and grabbed 32 assists in 87 appearances for his old club Red Bull Salzburg. He is priced at just £5.4m. West Ham vs Liverpool: I very much doubt Liverpool will be able to repeat last years second place finish again this season, especially now 2013/14 golden boot winner Luis Suarez has departed Anfield. I think it will be a 4th place finish at best for the Reds, who have had a mixed start to the season with two victories against Spurs and Southampton, but defeats away to Man City and at home to Villa. Raheem Sterling has been in great form so far with 2 goals and an assist to his name and considering Liverpool have a good run of fixtures coming up, the England Youngster looks like a good investment at £7.6m. This will be a close game, but I think Liverpool will just be too strong for the Hammers. Leicester vs Man United: Man United got their first win of the season at the weekend, albeit against a fairly weak QPR side. United’s new signings looked the part and things are starting to look good for Louis Van Gaal and his new-look team. However, they face much tougher tests in weeks to come with tricky encounters against Everton, Chelsea and Man City coming up. Leicester have made a very good start to the season with draws against Everton and Arsenal and a 1-0 victory away at Stoke. The Foxes won’t make it easy for United, but I think the Red Devils will just edge it. Tottenham vs West Brom: Tottenham are looking good under Pochettino, but Spurs never seem to do well against the big teams, as proven by a 3-0 defeat to Liverpool in gameweek 3. Nevertheless, they still provide us with a few options for our iTeams in the likes of Erisken, Lamela and Chadli. West Brom have made an awful start to the season and are without a win so far, so this should be a comfortable win for Tottenham. Everton vs Crystal Palace: This should be a relatively easy game for Everton against a Palace side without a win so far this season. Steven Naismith is on fire at the moment, with 3 goals in 4 and is a bargain at just £7.0m. Mirallas and Lukaku are also in a good run of form with 3 goals and an assist between them so far. Crystal Palace don’t offer much fantasy football potential but Wilfried Zaha and Jason Puncheon are ones to look out for. Man City vs Chelsea: What a game this is so early on in the season! Both teams will no doubt be challenging for the title come the end of the season and this game could have some say as to who will win the title. Chelsea’s Diego Costa is fast becoming the new Suarez with 7 goals in 4 games and he’s not the only new Chelsea signing to have made a cracking start to the season, with Cesc Fabregas grabbing 6 assists in just 4 games. As for City, they have made a fairly disappointing start to the season by their standards, with 5 points already dropped and will no doubt want to make up for that with a win against Chelsea. Top 3 captain picks this week: 1. Diego Costa – The Spaniard has 7 goals in 4 and faces a City side with just one clean sheet so far this season. 2. Wayne Rooney – 2 goals and an assist to his name so far, he squares up to a Leicester defence who have conceded 5 goals so far. 3. Steven Naismith – The Scotsman has scored 3 goals in 4 and the Toffees face a Palace side who have conceded an average of two goals per game so far. Nacer Chadli – The Belgian is in fine form at the moment and has 3 goals in 3. He faces a West Brom side who have conceded 7 goals already this season. Top 5 players to watch over the next few gameweeks: Ryan Bertrand – Southampton have made a very good start to the season and they are looking pretty solid defensively with two clean sheets so far. Ryan Bertrand got an assist and a clean sheet at the weekend and considering Southampton have Swansea, QPR, Sunderland and Stoke coming up, he is one to watch. Kieran Trippier – Burnley have managed back to back clean sheets in the last two gameweeks and Kieran Trippier certainly likes to get forward, proven by his goal and 12 assists for Burnley in the Championship last season. Furthermore, Burnley have fixtures on their side with Sunderland, West Brom, Leicester and West Ham in the next four. Nacer Chadli – Mauricio Pochettino’s arrival has rejuvenated Nacer Chadli as a fantasy football prospect, with 3 goals in as many games for Spurs and with a price tag of just £5.9m, the Belgian could well be a smart investment. Graziano Pelle – Southampton’s summer signing has settled in very quickly at St Mary’s and has scored 3 goals in his last 2 games and at just £7.5m he has Swansea, QPR, Sunderland and Stoke coming up. Leonardo Ulloa – Leicester’s summer signing from Brighton took his tally to three goals this season at the weekend – having already netted against Everton and Arsenal. Considering he is priced at just £6.3m and has Crystal Palace, Burnley, Newcastle and Swansea coming up, he’s one to watch out for. Thank you for taking the time to read and best of luck for the rest of the season. Ben Worrall This post was written by FiT Admin blog fantasyiteam footyblog gw5preview	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line549
__label__cc	0.607315	0.392685	Life of Pi will linger in your senses Frankly, I don't feel the urge to watch a movie for the second time. But Life of Pi has made things different for me. It lingers in my senses. Its memory is far better than the best cuisines I have had. It delights me while I am staring at nothing. It makes me smile while I am doing just nothing. It doesn't leave my memory easily. Ang Lee makes fantasy look real-life on celluloid. He is a magician and he sucks you deep in the impossible story of a boy, the sea, and a tiger. In Life of Pi, director Ang Lee creates a wondrous and imaginative world that makes it impossible to take your eyes off the screen. The story happens in a flashback and is narrated by the adult Pi - Irfan Khan. The young Pi is often ridiculed at school because of his real name Piscine. Pi was born as a Hindu, however, his encounter with Hinduism and Christianity led him into practicing multiple religions. A young Pi had Parents who both gave Science more priority than dogma or faith. Later in the movie Pi’s father tells him that the family must sell their zoo and move to Canada. On the ride over, the ship encounters a horrific storm causing the ship to sink. Because of this scene, I'm compelled to say that Life of Pi has some of the best use of 3D that I have seen. Water is rarely shot in 3D because it is a tricky thing to do, but here it is done marvelously. Pi survives on a lifeboat. However, as the ship had animals too, a few jumped on his lifeboat. He had a Bengal tiger, who was known as Richard Parker, two veg animals, and one non veg animal (I know they are called herbivorous and carnivorous). The hyena kills the zebra first, and sometime later it kills the orangutan. Immediately after the Tiger dramatically appears from the inside of the boat and kills the hyena. He made a raft for himself to maintain distance from Richard Parker. In one of the scenes Pi threatens the Tiger to reserve a Big fish for himself, and later he eats that raw fish in his raft. Life of Pi tries to touch the cliche man-animal love and friendship. However, it takes a sudden upward trajectory in its narrative when Pi has to train Parker so that they both could survive. And also when Pi got the opportunity to kill Parker he pulled back his axe. Before and after the journey, the movie is just an ordinary shit that thousands of Indian Movie Makers do. The movie rises to cinematic excellence only while narrating Pi’s 227 day journey through the middle of the ocean. Life of Pi is a visual treat. It's fantasy that we could have only imagined. It's magical to see it on reel. If you missed it, you've missed a lot. Posted by Faraz Salat at 1:43 AM Faraz Salat Admirer of all things that make up a global human society. Search farazsalat.com The Story of a small town boy who turned big, strong and irresistibly attractive November, 18, 2012 There are many people who want to make it big. Though a very few really work towards making it. Yasir Khan knows wher... The Indian Living in Australia or the Australian from India GAYATHRI SRINIVASAN MELBOURNE: When I was asked to write about life in Australia, I really wanted to express the true nature of a ... A Review of the Media Institute of NDTV: Naam Bade Aur Darshan Chote There is a saying in Hindi 'naam bade aur darshan chote' . Another is 'jo dikhta hai woh bikta hai'. These ideas work v... An Open Letter to Vice Chancellor Of IGNOU I've left abandoned this blog not intentionally. It was its natural paralysis. As I put a halt to my habit of writing. However, ... An Open Letter to the Ardent Fans of Bal Thackeray The Emperor of Hindu Hearts, Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray, is unwell and ailing. I will say a prayer for his recovery. I will arrive at his d... Cinema (1) Consumerism (2) Culture (17) Health (3) Interviews (5) Law (6) Mumbai (6) Opinion (5) Plagiarism (1) Poetry (3) Politics (7) Poverty (1) Reviews (6) Technology (3) Travel (2) Trending (4) Blog Archive Apr 2016 (1) Oct 2015 (2) Sep 2015 (5) Jun 2015 (1) May 2015 (1) Mar 2015 (1) Dec 2014 (1) Nov 2014 (1) Aug 2014 (1) Jul 2014 (1) Jul 2013 (2) Jun 2013 (1) May 2013 (2) Dec 2012 (4) Nov 2012 (18) Oct 2012 (1) Jan 2010 (1) Tweets by @FarazSalat Subscribe To farazsalat.com Follow me by e-mail	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line551
__label__wiki	0.690485	0.690485	Farmingdale State Athletics About FSC Athletics Diversity Hiring Plan FAR on Campus Farmingdale Home Hotels / Visitor Info Ice Hockey Club Use of Facility Forms JOIN FITNESS CENTER Sports Medicine Home Policies/Hours Athlete Clearance Compliance Info NCAA Rankings D3baseball.com Poll Collegiate Baseball Poll Five-Run Sixth Leads #22 Johns Hopkins Past FSC Farmingdale State Farmingdale State (32-8) 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 0 Johns Hopkins (31-11) 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 X 6 8 1 Steven Burke HR: Vincent Rice 2B: Nathan Davis; AJ King; Matt Ritchie HR: Mark Lopez #22 Johns Hopkins - 6, Farmingdale State - 2 Baltimore, Md. - The Farmingdale State baseball team fell to host-school #22 Johns Hopkins, 6-2, in their first game at the NCAA Regionals on Friday afternoon. The Blue Jays scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning en route to the victory. FSC (32-8) opened the scoring in the top of the fourth inning as junior right fielder Vincent Rice (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) hit a solo homerun over the left field fence to put the Rams in front, 1-0. Later in the inning, sophomore catcher Michael Amandola (North Babylon, N.Y.) hit a two-out single and came all the way around to score on a failed pick-off to go up by two. Still leading 2-0 in the bottom of the sixth, Farmingdale State junior pitcher Steven Burke (North Babylon, N.Y.) (L, 6-1) retired the first two batters of the inning before Johns Hopkins (31-11) senior right fielder Chris DeGiacomo (Norwell, Mass.) hit an infield single. The next two batters, freshman designated hitter AJ King (Cincinnati, Ohio) and sophomore third baseman Matt Ritchie (Ashburn, Va.), each registered RBI doubles to tie the game at 2-2. After a walk put runners on first and second sophomore second baseman Mark Lopez (Baltimore, Md.) tallied a three-run homerun to give the Blue Jays a 5-2 advantage. Johns Hopkins senior pitcher Josh Hejka (Dearborn, Mich.) (W, 6-2, CG, 9.0 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 11 SO) held FSC scoreless over the final three innings as the Blue Jays went on for the 6-2 win. Rice went 2-for-4 at the plate with his solo homerun, while Amandola tallied a hit and one run scored. Junior second baseman Tyler Schrimpf (Miller Place, N.Y.) added one hit and a stolen base in defeat. Ritchie finished 2-for-3 with a walk, double, RBI and one run scored in the win. The Rams next play #8 TCNJ in an elimination game tomorrow, Saturday, May 18th starting at 11:00 a.m. Be sure to check out the tournament page for live stats and video. Farmingdale State College \| 2350 Broadhollow Road (Rt. 110) - Nold Hall \| Farmingdale, NY 11735 \| Athletics Phone: 934-420-2482	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line552
__label__cc	0.525237	0.474763	The Pasta + Sauces The Stockists Each pasta shape tells a story. Scroll down and click on the different shapes to learn their heritage, geometry and use in gastronomy. Orzo/Riso There is a class of grain-shaped pastina (small pasta), comprising orzo ('barley'), semi di melone ('melon seeds'), riso ('rice') and risoni ('big rice'). They are virtually indistinguishable in form and function, all being small, and all being vaguely rice-shaped. Fatter in the middle than most pastina, they take longer to cook and are more substantial. For this reason they are more often served to adults than babies, and the longer cooking time makes the difference between true durum wheat and soft wheat all the more important; low quality, low-gluten brands will become unpleasantly mushy. The classic use of orzo et al. is in soups, but they are also excellent in salads or as pilafs, or for stuffing vegetables as one might with rice. They are popular not only in Italy, but across Europe - especially in Greece and, to a lesser extent, Germany. The pasta absorbs flavours very well owing to the longer cooking time, but its smooth surface and small size means it can't catch sauce. Because it is so dense, it can support heavier sauces and mop them up as rice might - it could be the best pasta to eat with meatballs. Aka 'alphabetti spaghetti', alfabeto is a pastina (tiny pasta for soups) made in the shape of the letters of the alphabet. Almost certainly invented to appeal to children, it might also appeal to parents as an educational tool and a source of nostalgic pleasure. Cuscussu Cuscussù is of course famous for its origins in North Africa, but it is also a staple food in Sicily today - one of many gastronomic, architectural and cultural vestiges in what was once an Arab land. That said, couscous recipes are still found across Italy - notably in Sardinia (in a dish of chicken cooked in saffron), and Tuscany (Livorno, with a soupy meatball accompaniment) - perhaps suggesting that its presence on the mainland dates back instead to times of Roman rule. Cuscussù is made unlike any other pasta, where the flour is worked into a strong dough before forming. To make couscous, water is sprinkled on to a bed of semolina (not the finer semola rimacinata, but a reasonably coarse one) with one hand and stirred and raked through with the other until tiny balls of moistened flour are formed. These are then normally dried before cooking over steam - careful work leading to a fluffy texture, and a particular lightness as almost no gluten is formed when the pasta is made (gluten is a product of gliadin and glutenin, which cross-link to form gluten when dough is kneaded). The tiny particles of pasta formed act to mop up a sauce when eaten, like a sponge with water (or rather a bed of sand), or as rice does. Koiaimi ca sciu fai fregula. (Marry me as I know how to make fregola.) Sardinian proverb Fregola is, in essence, Sardinian cuscussù, although actual cuscussù is also found in Sardinia. Made in essentially the same manner, but rubbed in a wide ceramic or wooden bowl (the name stems from the Latin fricare, 'to rub') to create larger, more regular spheres about 4-5mm across. These are lightly toasted to aid drying, so if you buy a packet you'll notice a few that have been toasted brown, and taste a certain nuttiness like the crust of a good loaf. Saffron, along with bottarga, is the flavour of Sardinia - as with malloreddus it sometimes makes its way into the dough of the pasta as well as the sauce. Due to the large size and fierce drying over fire, fregola is cooked by boiling (often in a stew, sauce or broth) unlike its sister, cuscussù, which is steamed. Widely available in their dried form, these 'little ears' of pasta are quite unappetising unless fresh. Orecchiette are made from semolina dough and are fairly thick, so that by the time their interior is cooked from dry, the outside will be over-done. Freshly made, however, their cooking time is reduced to about one-third, the inside already being moist, resulting in a delightful, springy pasta. Orecchiette are delicious with scarce, slightly oily sauces that just coat the pasta, with chunky bits of about the same size that can be eaten well together. Maccheroncini The shape of maccheroncini was born in Naples. Neapolitans were once known across the land as mangiafoglie (leaf-eaters) for their love of greens. The 18th century saw a boom in pasta production centred in Naples, with its climate so suited to drying the dough. Street sellers made steaming hot plates of pasta with cheese, and served them to the local working classes and the young aristocracy of England on Grand Tour alike. These street vendors became a tourist attraction, and a symbol of Neapolitan exuberance. Neapolitans were rebranded mangiamaccheroni (pasta-eaters), and the name has stuck to this day - pasta is almost synonymous with the city, even if Naples accounts for less than a quarter of Italian production. Fusilli ('spindles') are an industrial semolina pasta, a triple helix, like an elongated propeller or fan blade. The design is not only great for holding sauces, but is delightful to behold and has an unmistakable mouth-feel. Ziti/Candele Intrinsically Neapolitan, ziti cannot be separated from marriages. The word in fact means 'the betrothed' or 'the bridegroom', and ziti are invariably served as the first course of a wedding lunch. One by one, the long tubes are broken into four pieces before cooking. Their stout tubular shape works well with robust, meaty sauces as well as simpler ones. Candele ('candles'), or ziti candelati are an outsize version - twice the width, three times the length and with thinner walls, they must also be broken - not only for tradition, but to fit in any pot. Ziti are eaten almost exclusively in the south, and could be considered symbolic of the great divide - northerners can be just as sneery about ziti as about the people who eat them. Fusilli Bucati Corti There is some confusion around certain ancient pastas' names, because over time several pastas have come to share the same name, or pastas still referred to by one name have evolved into a number of distinct species. The inverse is true of some modern pastas, such as the present subject, where a new but popular name has been attributed to a number of forms. Fusilli bucati are a case in point: They may be shorter versions of the above (i.e. smooth, narrowed cavatappi or shortened helical bucatini), here referred to as fusilli bucati corti. - They may be like normal fusilli, but with the flat fins of the double-helix replaced by tubular ones. You might call these fusilli bucati gemellati (twinned hollow spindles), but as with the other suggested names above this is artificial - all you'd likely see on the packet is 'fusilli bucati'. A very locally specific pasta, from Valtellina in Lombardy, this is another form that has emigrated and become probably as well-known outside Italy as it is within, which isn't saying all that much. The name derives from pinzochero meaning 'bigot', but in this case simply implying rustic or provincial connotations (probably). Pizzoccheri are stubby noodles made predominantly with buckwheat flour. Buckwheat in Italian is called grano saraceno 'Saracen grain'; its origins may have been further east than Syria, as it is to this day common in Yunnan in its wild form. It is not a true grain, but a seed, and gluten-free, which presents a challenge to the pasta-maker who relies on the protein to bind his or her pasta. Penne Rigate Penne are probably the best-known tubular pasta. They are hollow cylinders, the length about five times the breadth, and the ends cut at an angle like the quills from which they take their name. They can be smooth (lisce) or ridged (rigate), the ridged ones being slightly sturdier, and holding more sauce. As the quill or pen nib draws ink from an ink-well, so the slanted ends of the pasta draw up sauce. The angled cut makes a larger open surface area for sauce to fall into, and the shape encourages the sauce to work its way into the pasta as it is turned by the spoon. Penne Lisce Tortiglioni are similar to rigatoni, but with more pronounced grooves that are slanted, wrapping around the tubular pasta in a multiple helix, like the red and white rotating signs you used to see outside the barber's shop. The word tortiglione is also linked to heraldry, referring to the headband worn on the testa di moro (Moor's head) on the Sardinian flag - it stems from the latin torquere, 'to turn'. As with most industrial pastas, tortiglioni are popular in the south, in this case particularly Campania and Lazio. Agnolotti Dal Plin Agnolotti dal plin are pinched or pleated tiny agnolotti, plin being a pinch in Piedmontese dialect. They are almost always stuffed with a meat filling and may be served in brodo (in a broth) where the pleat improves the mouthfeel, or in a sauce, which the pleat helps to catch on the pasta. Rigatoni are ridged tubes of pasta, somewhat wider than penne, that may be straight or slightly curved by the extrusion process. They have parallel grooves running down the length of the pasta, hence their name, which stems from rigare (to rule or furrow). They are at their best with substantial, punchy, meaty sauces - famously con pajata, the intestines of unweaned calves, cooked with the mother's curdled milk still inside. Garganelli These thin ridged tubes, closely resemble that oft-unidentified tube in the neck end of a chicken - the oesophagus, which translates as garganel in Emilia-Romagna, hence the name garganelli. Garganelli were traditionally boiled in a rich capon broth and served in brodo - today they are more often eaten asciutta, (literally, 'dry', meaning 'in sauce' as opposed to soup) especially in a creamy sauce of ham and peas. Meaning 'badly cut', these should be just that - fairly random shapes. Originally they would have been made from the left-over scraps of a tagliatelle cutting session, but their shapes may nowadays be more stylised. In Piedmont, they are also called foglie di salice, cut to resemble willow-leaves and served in bean soup, while in Emilia-Romagna they are roughly cut from a roll of pasta and served simply with grated pecorino and oil. Passatelli Like bigoli, these are made at home by forcing a dough through a hand-press, this time one like a giant garlic press, as considerably less pressure is needed for the softer dough. And like canederli, the dough is made from breadcrumbs - unusual perhaps, but just one of many ways to use up stale bread. It may be for this reason that this is one of the key pastas (along with tortellini, and tagliatelle) from Emilia-Romagna, as well as Le Marche and Umbria. Its use of an unpalatable leftover of daily life to make something at once nutritious and delicious has ensured it a hallowed place in the cook's repertoire. The dough itself is made with eggs, Parmesan, lemon zest and sometimes bone marrow in addition to breadcrumbs, and is pressed directly into a boiling broth which flavours the pasta. It may be related to tardura, a Romagna soup of eggs, cheese and breadcrumbs traditionally used to re-energise and sustain new mothers. Quadretti (Little) squares - the simplest shape to make, but rather fiddly and so easier to buy. This delicate pastina (small pasta) is made from an egg dough, which may be spiced with grated nutmeg if making at home. It is traditionally served in a broth, oft-times with beans, notably broad beans in Urbino, or fagioli di Arsoli in Rome. The broth itself might be of goose or chicken, whilst in Gubbio the squares are served in a fish broth with fresh spring peas. Pasta in broth is always restorative, but somehow this shape is seen to be the best to help invalids recuperate. The defining characteristic of these stars, other than their points, is the pin-prick of a hole in their centre. Stelline ('little stars'), stellette (bigger stars), or fiori di sambuco (elderflowers) are also sometimes called avemarie - they are so tiny they cook in the time it takes to say one Hail Mary. Miraculously they have been around for much longer than industrial pasta production - since at least the 16th century. It is hard to conceive how such delicate forms could be made by hand. Like most pastina, stelline are normally served in broths and soup, and normally to the elderly and children. They appeal to both because of the ease with which they may be eaten and digested, and the romantic inspiration of their form, evocative of the night sky, constellations and angels, and the ancient world from which they came. Ditali/Ditalini Ditali, and their smaller brethren ditalini, are short tubes of pasta whose diameter is about the same as their length. Their name stems from ditale (thimbles), and thus dita (finger). Small ones are usually served in brodo, larger ones in thicker soups. Both sizes come lisci (smooth), or rigati (ridged) for thicker sauces - such as Calabrese pasta ca trimma, the pasta cooked with potatoes, and tossed in a sauce of beaten egg, pecorino and parsley. Annellini Anelloni d'Africa, which can still be found in southern Italy, are great hoops of pasta. They originated in the 1930s, probably inspired by the huge earrings worn by some African women, who became known to the Italian military during campaigns in the First World War. Anelletti are their little brother, meaning 'little rings'.Anelletti have other uses within Italy - primarily in soups. But it is likely that by far the majority of their consumption is outside her borders - open a tin of pasta hoops (perhaps the most popular remaining tinned pasta), and anelletti is what you get. A modern form, in the shape of a hollow corkscrew (from which the pasta takes its name) or pig's tail. Cavatappi are not just a gimmick, but are delicious with most sauces designed for smaller tubular pastas, particularly for maccheroncini and sedanini. The diminutive of malloru ('bull' in Sardinian dialect), malloreddus are therefore 'fat little calves'. Made from a semolina dough normally coloured with a little saffron, these tiny dumplings have an elongated, elegant conch shape that is ridged on the outside to catch sauce. Casarecce Casarecce means 'home-made'. Unlike most shapes of semolina pasta that were once made by hand (see orecchiette, cavatelli, trofie etc.), this one has mechanised well, and is an excellent pasta to use, particularly for fresh, chunky sauces. There are a few stories behind the name… One theory is that the azdore (Romagna housewives) would make pasta for men of the cloth as partial payment for land rents. Their husbands would be so angered by the sight of fat churchmen feasting on their wives' food they might wish them to choke as they stuffed their faces. It is also said that the pastas resemble rolled towels, with which one might strangle a priest if one felt so inclined. Perhaps the most commonly told story is the simplest, and probably closest to the truth - that gluttonous priests were so enamoured with the savoury pasta that they would eat it too quickly, often choking, sometimes to death. The common thread in these stories is the gentle anticlericism of the people of Tuscany and Romagna. Trofie Trofie originate from Liguria, where they are the pasta to eat with pesto Genovese. Their name may stem from the Greek trophe ('nutriment'), or be a bastardisation of gnocchi: their origins were as a breadcrumb and potato dough, rolled into the shape of modern gnocchi. Today, trofie are made from a simple semolina and water dough. Trofie bastarde are of the same form, but made with chestnut flour - a staple of the poor in olden days, giving a sweeter taste but less nutrition. These can occasionally be found today. Sedanini Once known as zanne d'elefante (elephant tusks) for their slightly curved shape, these elongated, narrow ridged tubes of pasta were renamed when ivory became taboo. They are now called sedanini, or 'little celery stalks' which is just as descriptive, if less exotic. Gemelli - 'the twins' - are related to fusilli as another complex helix. In this case, always with two blades, but the blades are curved until they almost enclose themselves to make tubes - somewhat like twisted casarecce. They are an example of pasta architecture at its best and, as with all good architecture, not only for adults to enjoy - children just love gemelli, and other entwined pastas. Canestrini Canestrini are 'little baskets', shaped like old-fashioned wicker trugs that might be taken to market, into the woods for foraging, or into the fields to gather flowers. The shape is, in fact, a derivation from farfalle. With its double-cupped shape, it provides an excellent scoop for sauces, especially types of fish and meat ragù in larger sizes, and in smaller ones the texture is delightful in soups and broths. Cavatelli Cavatelli are mostly associated with Puglia, but they are also one of the pastas of choice in Molise, Basilicata and Calabria - the deep south of mainland Italy. Here, where vegetables are exalted and use of meats scarce, cavatelli of appropriate sizes are paired with almost any single vegetable that grows locally. With potato, or cime di rapa and chilli, or cooked rocket, or wild turnips (lassini), or cannellini beans, or perhaps simply dressed with cheese (ricotta salata or cacioricotta), or in a soup. In hard times they would have used a poorer flour - notably made from acorns, or perhaps chestnuts - but today they are made only with semolina. This flour, however, may be in its usual form or di grano arso - made from charred wheat, with a near-black colour and smoky flavour - which is impossible to find outside of Puglia, but worth trying if you visit. Gramigne These tiny pastas, like enlarged commas or young grass shoots in fact take their name from the latter - gramigne means 'little weeds'. They are served with tasty, savoury sauces, often with a base of sausage. Because of their diminutive size, they tend to almost become a part of the sauce, rather than a vehicle for it. In fact, in summer they might be actually cooked in a light tomato sauce and served, hot or at room temperature, with plenty of refreshing basil and oil. Campanelle/Gigli Unmistakably floral, even in name (gigli means 'lilies', campanelle 'bells' or 'bell-flowers'), these pastas are made from a single sheet of pasta with a frilly edge, twisted into a tapering helix - just as a baker might make flowers from sugar paste. They are a fantasy pasta shape - designed to meet consumer desire for something new. Pici (from appicciare, to stick to/be sticky) are irregular, hand-made round noodles from Tuscany - especially the Val di Chiana and Senese. They represent the northern limit of semolina pastas, with the exception of trofie, and corzetti from Liguria. Almost brutish in their diameter and lack of uniformity, they go with brutish sauces - ragùs of any kind of game, heavy doses of mushrooms, oodles of garlic (pici con l'aglione), con la nana (with duck, anatra), con rigatino (bacon and breadcrumbs) or even - as they are still served in Trasimeno - with pike caviar… Maccheroni Alla Chitarra Typical of the region of Abruzzo, this is a long egg noodle made by pressing a thick sheet of pasta dough through a chitarra - a 'guitar' of tightly stretched strings or wires. It may be surprising to find a long noodle called maccheroni but this is historically correct - indeed, the word is still in use as a general term for pasta in the south. Traditionally served with a sauce of hot peppers and diced lamb, this pasta has recently broken out of its original terroir and gone global - a favourite among chefs for the ease with which it is made (if you have the equipment), and the way it marries so well with julienne vegetables. Sauté it with thin strips of raw courgette and peeled red prawns and you're in heaven. Maccheroni Inferrati Maccheroni inferrati are made traditionally by wrapping a strand of pasta dough around an iron rod (an old, thin knitting needle), although a wooden one works at least as well. Where the strand is wrapped diagonally to make the busiati, for maccheroni inferrati the length of the pasta is parallel to the rod, which it encloses to make a tube. Fusilli Bucati Lunghi There is some confusion around certain ancient pastas' names, because over time several pastas have come to share the same name, or pastas still referred to by one name have evolved into a number of distinct species. The inverse is true of some modern pastas, such as the present subject, where a new but popular name has been attributed to a number of forms. Fusilli bucati are a case in point: - They may be long, spiralled, narrow hollow tubes, like spiralled bucatini or smooth, vastly elongated, narrowed cavatappi - here termed fusilli bucati lunghi. Ruote are wheels of pasta. A complex, arguably naff shape that was only possible with the advancement of the pasta industry's mechanisation, it was itself inspired by mechanics. A number of pasta shapes have taken their form from the industries which shaped Italy in the early 20th century, and were much lauded by the Fascists. Pasta Mista Pasta mista (mixed pasta) is essentially broken bits and misshapes, that might have been collected from the bottom of bins of dried pasta and used as 'something out of nothing', just as breadcrumbs present the ultimate economy to homemakers and bakers alike. Pasta mista became popular to the extent that you can now buy purposely made mixed pasta in packets, with no economical advantage over regular shapes. The most traditional recipes call for cooking pasta mista actually in the sauce - broken bits are always accompanied by tinier bits, which might be lost through the colander if the pasta were boiled separately. Dischi Volanti Flying saucers (literally, 'flying discs'), dischi volanti were designed shortly after the name was coined in 1947 following Kenneth Arnold's sighting in the United States. A media frenzy cast these objects of dubious reality into the forefront of the world's psyche. Martians or no, dischi volanti do actually exist as a pasta, and a delicious one at that. Radiatori (obviously, 'radiators') are one of the newest shapes. They have been traced back to between the world wars, rendering the tale that they were created in the 1960s by an industrial designer apocryphal. They are modelled on old industrial heating fixtures (a straight pipe with concentric, parallel fins): in both cases these features are designed to maximise the surface area - in one case for heat exchange, in the other for absorbing flavour and trapping sauce. Chifferi Rigati Chifferi (smooth), and chifferi rigati (ridged, as illustrated), are industrially made pasta in the shape of kipferl, the Austrian biscuits. As fresh pasta used to be made by bakers (there are still some shops that perform both functions), it is likely that this form drew inspiration from Italian mezzelune (half-moon biscuits), themselves an adaptation of kipferl. Gomiti means 'elbows' or 'crank-shafts'. It is unclear whether their inspiration was in fact anatomical or industrial. In either case, the resultant curved, ridged tube is a versatile one, functioning both as a cup and a tube, and excellent at trapping chunky, heavy and oily sauces. Manicotti ('sleeves') are the subject of some confusion. In the USA, where manicotti probably originate, the term often refers to a baked dish of stuffed tubular pasta rather than the pasta itself. Dried tubes of pasta are often sold as cannelloni although cannelloni, at least originally, are sheets of pasta rolled around a filling, rather than extruded tubes that need to be stuffed from the ends. Whilst these dried smooth tubes are not normally named as such, they are likely the original manicotti. There is no doubt that the ridged versions, like ruffled sleeves of fabric, are indeed manicotti. These in turn should not be confused with the Italian pasta, maniche, which are similar to rigatoni and served only occasionally baked, and never stuffed. An abbreviation of maccheroni al torchio ('macaroni in the shape of a torch'), torchio is another shape, near-identical in structure and use to campanelle, but without the frilly edges, the pasta instead being ridged and curved in profile to catch and cup the sauce. Gnocchi shells are an industrial, dried semolina pasta that take their name and image from the famous, freshly made gnocchi dumplings. Rather like an open shell (these are relatives of conchiglie) with a series of bulbous, rounded ridges, this is the pasta the Michelin man would make. They are good baked, as well as with wet sauces. Gnocchi are little dumplings, normally made of potato, boiled and served in a sauce. Their name may derive from gnocco ('idiot'), but seems more likely to stem from nodo ('node', or 'knot' as in wood). This refers to an ancient folktale about a poor wife who laments she has nothing to cook for her husband as he returns from war. She is overheard by a kindly old tree who offers her its knots to boil for him: she accepts, and the gnarled bits of wood turn into fluffy dumplings when the wife lifts the lid from the pot. Spaccatelle Arced in cross-section, and curved in the shape of an crescent, spaccatelle are like gramigne, but over double the size. The name possibly has something to do with there being a speccatura (cleft) along the middle. These are one of the few originally Sicilian pasta forms - bent like the local politics. Agnolotti Agnolotti are, in essence, ravioli, but instead of being made from two squares of pasta, they are made from one piece folded in half. The pasta sheet may be circular or rectangular. A speciality of Piedmont, they were named after a cook called Angiolino from Monferrato, known as 'Angelot', their reputed inventor (the ancient spelling, still sometimes found today, is piat d'angelot or angelotti). Cannelloni are sheets of pasta wrapped around a sausage of filling and baked. Their name derives from canna (cane), thus cannelloni means 'large reeds' - the same stem as cannella (cinnamon - 'little reed'). The idea of stuffing a soft pastry with a savoury filling isn't new in Europe - crêpes have been around for ever, and references to macheroni ripieni date back to around 1770 - but cannelloni were first mentioned in print at the beginning of the 20th century, likely the time they were invented. Their popularity took off and went global after the Second World War, for the dual reasons of their ease of advance preparation (they can be made ready to go in the oven even the day before), and being the symbol of domestic bliss - the housewife at her gleaming white enamel oven. Whilst any shell-inspired pasta might be called conchiglie, the term primarily refers to a specific form, not unlike a stylised winkle or cowrie. With a ridged outside and smooth, deep bowl of an interior, conchiglie rigate cradle a sauce more than any other pasta. They are excellent with lighter sauces, such as light tomato or arrabbiata as well as with chunkier vegetables, where the vegetables might enter into the shell's cavity, and make for easy eating. Lumache ('snails') are much like gomiti but often larger, and with one end crimped so as to be partially closed - better to impersonate the model snail shell, and better too to hold the sauce once it gets into the pasta. Farfalle, ('butterflies') are sometimes known as 'bow-tie' pasta outside of Italy. They are one of the simplest shapes formed by manipulating a sheet of pasta. Rectangles, normally cut with frilly ends as though by pinking shears, are pinched across the middle to make a bow shape. The pinched middle of farfalle helps keep them al dente when cooked, and catches a little sauce. They are often dressed with light vegetable sauces as a summer pasta, to eat outside when the butterflies are in full swing. To read a book in translation is like sucking a sweet in its wrapper. Proverb Caramelle - 'bon-bons' or 'candies' - are stuffed pastas, shaped like sweets whose plastic wrappers are twisted at both ends, and they are the one candy better in its wrapping. They are made like miniature, half-filled cannelloni, the ends twisted to seal them. This at once encloses the filling so it can be boiled, provides a texture that is capable of holding some sauce, and makes a shape that is reminiscent of happy childhood days. Perhaps for this last reason caramelle are generally served on festive days or Sunday lunch, particularly in Parma and Piacenza. They are invariably made from an egg pasta dough (or should be - avoid like the plague any that are pale), and may be stuffed with any manner of filling, but are best with one that is subtle and delicate. Lasagne Ricce Lasagne ricce are crimped, wavy or ruffled lasagne - lasagne with wavy edges - that are decorative and may allow lighter sauces to infiltrate the dish better. This shape of pasta is primarily a southern thing. Across Sicily, baked al forno with layers of a rich ragù and ricotta, it is a staple of the Christmas table. Cappelletti ('little hats'), are closely related to tortelli and tortelloni, but with a subtle difference in the way they are formed, leading to a more elongated shape (like an eye when viewed from on top), and fashioned after an Alpine trooper's or cardinal's hat. Whilst all in this family of stuffed and twisted pasta can be made from squares or circles of dough, most are more elegant when made from squares, and this is especially true of cappelletti. In Emilia-Romagna, and Modena in particular, these are a permanent feature of Christmas lunch, where they appear as a first course stuffed with ricotta, lemon zest and nutmeg and served in a limpid pool of capon broth. As with many older dishes, there are also vegetarian varieties (cappelletti di magro) for lean or fasting days. Tortellini ('small tortelli') are the pride of Emilia-Romagna, Bologna in particular, alongside tagliatelle and lasagne. Miniaturised tortelli formed around the tip of a finger, they require skill and patience to get right. There are various enchanting and similar tales of their origin. In one, Lucrezia Borgia stopped off at an inn in Castelfranco Emilia. Smitten by his guest's beauty, the innkeeper crept up to her door in the night to sneak a peek through the keyhole. All he could see was Lucrezia's navel, but what a navel it was! He rushed to his kitchen and created a pasta in the exquisite bellybutton's image. In an alternative version, the tavern is in Bologna and the guests are the battle-weary Venus and Jupiter. As the two slept, the publican did what all seem to do in Italy - crept up to peer through the keyhole - and was taken by a beauteous navel. Stuffed pastas have trickled down to the populace from the kitchens of (predominantly northern) royal courts since medieval times, and still hold a special place, especially on feasting and celebratory days in cuisine across Italy. None has made the transition more completely than ravioli, made from two squares of pasta pressed together with a filling trapped inside. They are a popular pasta, so claims to their invention are numerous: Cremona lays one claim of origin; it is also possible they developed from manti under Arab influence in Sicily after the 1100 invasion. Genoa holds the same belief, insisting the name stems from rabilole ('thing of little value' in dialect), referring to meals impoverished sailors improvised, turning scraps of leftovers into a whole meal of pasta. The name might also come from the medieval rabbiola (from Latin rapa, 'root vegetable') - ricotta and vegetable dumplings wrapped in turnip tops, or most likely simply from the Italian avvolgere, 'to wrap'. PACCHERI RIGATI Huge, smooth, thick tubes that should never be stuffed, as they collapse on cooking and are often served with a seafood sauce such as totani (‘flying squid’, pinkish in colour, and about the same size as the paccheri). The name derives from paccaria, the Neapolitan term for a ‘slap or smack’, with -ero a disparaging suffix indicative of a common, poor food – indeed, this pasta is now one of the most popular in Naples today. In Tuscan dialect, papparsi means to gobble up, or stuff oneself. This is easily done with this wonderful shape of egg pasta - wide, luscious ribbons of rich egg dough. They are best served with a chunky, flavoursome, oily sauce - oil to coat the pasta, and juicy morsels to catch in the folds. These noodles have been around since medieval times when they were cooked in a game broth, thickened with blood. Vermicellini These are nothing more than short-cut lengths of capelli d'angelo. Primarily used in soups in Italy, vermicellini have broken out and gone global. In India, they are roasted in oil and then cooked in condensed milk as a sweet; in Armenia and Iran, again roasted in oil, then cooked with rice to make a pilaf; in China, cooked with mung beans; in Mexico, in chicken soup; in Spain, in fideuà, and as an ancient tradition in Jewish cookery as vermishelsh. Strangely, they do not seem so popular in Italy. Busiati There are two forms of busiati, made in almost identical manners but looking quite distinct. The other is listed under maccheroni inferrati and is more similar to hand-made bucatini or hollow pici - the version here looks and behaves like a coiled telephone wire. From Sicily (and Trapani in particular) this, along with spaccatelle and cuscussù, makes up the triumvirate of Sicilian pastas. Notwithstanding that all pasta came to Europe via the Arabs, the link between the Latins and the Moors is particularly strong in Sicily. Cuscussù is an obvious result - but this marriage of races is also evident in busiati, which take their name from busa (a type of reed), itself stemming from the Arabic bus. Reginette/Mafaldine This charming pasta was created to celebrate the birth of Princess Mafalda, born in 1902 to Vittorio Emanuele III, the last King of Italy. Indeed, their two most common names refer to her - reginette means 'little queens', and mafaldine 'little Mafaldas'. Made from semola, these are a thoroughly southern pasta (the King had, after all, been born in Naples). With their ruffled edges, like narrow lasagne ricce, they are a joyous sight - there is something intrinsically celebratory about them. Fettuccine are the southern equivalent to tagliatelle. Although they hail from Rome (bang in the centre of Italy), this is already considered 'south' by northern tagliatelle eaters. Although these pastas can be used interchangeably, fettuccine would typically be 2-3mm wider than tagliatelle and perhaps double the thickness. Meaning 'ribbons' (from affettare, 'to slice'), fettuccine are usually served with a creamy sauce, which they can absorb a little, and are thick enough not to become claggy and clump together in the process. Tagliatelle comes from tagliare, 'to cut'. As with almost all ribbon pastas, these are made by rolling up a sheet of thinly rolled egg pasta dough like a roll of cloth, then cutting it across to make ribbons, curled like party streamers which can be fluffed up and laid out to dry a little. Corzetti Corzetti are large coins of pasta from Liguria, made from flour and water, sometimes with a little egg and oil. They are cut into discs and embossed on both sides using a pair of cylindrical fruit-wood stamps, hand-carved with a delicate pattern, normally a family coat of arms. Corzetti are a highly decorative pasta, and would have had some symbolical significance. As with all good pasta design, the decorative is also functional - the embossed pattern helps to hold scant oily sauces such as walnut pesto, or the classic marjoram and pine nuts. As spaghetti is the diminutive of spago (string), so spaghettini are 'little spaghetti'. Their finer texture means they cook faster, take up a little more sauce, and have less resistance to the tooth - you feel them less in the mouth. It seems many, especially non-Italians, prefer this experience to the original spaghetti. Largely, this is a matter of taste and the two may be used more or less interchangeably. In general, spaghetti will be better with a heavier sauce, and spaghettini with a lighter one. For me Italians have only got two things on the brain… and the other one is spaghetti.Catherine DeneuveWhat is pasta, if not spaghetti? Simpler is always better, and it doesn't get any simpler than a cylindrical strand of semola-and-water dough. The name is also as obvious as can be - the diminutive form (for a shorter length) of string or twine ('spago'). The most popular form of pasta in the world, spaghetti account for two-thirds of global pasta consumption. Given the pasta's history, this may be a surprise. The word appeared relatively late, in 1836, the invention delayed because spaghetti are an intrinsically industrial form of pasta which can be extruded only by mechanical press.Spaghetti being known worldwide came even later. Tinned spaghetti were invented in the last moments of the 19th century in America, and this product (that would make an Italian turn in his grave) became widely available in Britain at the end of the Second World War. The Italian journalist Giuseppe Prezzolini noted spaghetti had done more to spread Italian genius across the globe than the work of Dante. He wasn't wrong - we watch spaghetti Westerns, drive through Spaghetti Junction, and spag bol is apparently one of Britain's most cooked dishes today. Bigoli There are three key features of this pasta that render it unique. Firstly, the flour - wholewheat doughs are unusual, in this case lending an earthy flavour and pleasant texture. Secondly, the freshness - this is the only cylindrical pasta, traditionally cooked from fresh), apart from pici. This allows its thick shape to cook quickly, the interior already being moist, leading to a finished product that is springy and chewy, when al dente. Thirdly, the roughness, produced by a coarse dough rubbing against a bronze die, which allows the pasta to take up more sauce than its counterparts. Their name stems from buco (hole), or bucato (pierced), and the hole has a specific function. A pasta with a large cross-section takes a long time to cook. Above a certain diameter they would take so long to cook from dry that the outside would be overcooked before the middle was al dente. The ingenious solution is the fine hole that gives this pasta its name. Water enters as the pasta boils, reducing the cooking time to no longer than that of spaghetti. Long before the advent of the microwave, people were finding ways to cook their food from the inside out. Capelli D'Angelo These thin, thin strands of pasta ('angel's hair' or 'little worms') cook very fast, overcook easily, and their fine texture can become porridgy if served in a thick sauce. Their exceeding fragility means they are always dried in nidi (nests), as they are too delicate to hang up to dry, or to transport otherwise. Linguine, simply means ‘little tongues’. This describes the shape – as long as spaghetti, but flattened to an ellipse in cross-section, like your own tongue. It is commonly used, especially with seafood - and tomato-based sauces. Tagliolini/Tajarin Tagliolini are nothing more than very thinly cut tagliatelle. The art of cutting sheets of lasagne into finer noodles was discovered in the 15th century. Maestro Martino (author, and the world's first celebrity chef) wrote in his Libro de Arte Coquinaria in 1456 that 'macharoni alla Romana' (fettuccine) should be cut to the width of your finger, but 'macharoni alla Genovese' (tagliolini) should be cut as finely as the width of a needle. Their delicacy is both a boon and a burden - these pastas are so fine, they have an ethereal delicacy, but they are easily overcooked by a miscalculation of a few seconds, and can be swamped by clumsy saucing. Tajarin, from Piedmont, are a variation made with a supremely rich pasta dough, rolled a little thicker than the tagliolini made elsewhere. These have slightly more body and bite, and are the classic pasta to serve with the king of the soil, the white truffle. Trenette Trenette are typical of Liguria, and Genoa in particular. Trenette possess two great qualities: they are blessed with a larger surface area than linguine or spaghetti, so they get coated in that little bit more sauce, and they are slightly chunky, so they retain a marvellous bite when cooked properly. Chi guarda a maggioranza spesse volte s'inganna: granel di pepe vince per virtú lasagna. (He who looks at magnitude is often mistaken: a grain of pepper conquers lasagna with its strength) Jacopone da Todi The above quartina dates from the 13th century, proof that lasagne are indeed one of the earliest types of pasta . Lasagne are rectangular sheets of pasta dough, and are always layered with a sauce to make the familiar baked dish. Their name may derive from laganum, a Greco-Roman word for an unleavened cake of dough that would have been baked on hot stones or fried, then used as a dumpling in soups. It has also been attributed to the Latin lasanum or Greek lasonon, a tripod-like cooking vessel. From the early 19th century, as houses began to have their own ovens, lasagne became a popular dinner party dish as a way of showing off - and it still enjoys a place of honour at Italian family meals along with other baked pastas. Found around north-central Italy, and often a favourite of contemporary chefs who enjoy the freeform way these fine, almost transparent squares fall on a plate, fazzoletti derive their name from handkerchiefs They are particularly popular in Liguria (where they are made from a flour and white wine dough - elsewhere egg is used), called fazzoletti di seta, or mandilli di sea in dialect, meaning 'silk handkerchiefs'. The dough is so supple, the thickness so fine, the texture so smooth that, when well made, they do indeed seem silken. It was a conceit of Renaissance cooking to elevate pasta-making to such a high art. When working by hand, it is a rare skill to roll dough so thinly. The finest fazzoletti require levels of artistry that correspond with the Renaissance ideal of perfection. info@geometryofpasta.com Sales enquiries: sales@geometryofpasta.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line558
__label__wiki	0.804945	0.804945	Monday Music Roundup Very late on Saturday night, a group of us descended upon IHOP for french toast and pancakes because we were gripped with an urgent need for them. The place was packed, as usual, with your garden variety twentysomethings with slightly reddened eyes, talking quite a bit too loud. Everything was funny. Front door opens, in walk three guys (no lie) straight from like a Dungeons & Dragons convention — trench coats, goggles (?!), greasy hair, a condescending look to the mortals around them. And even though it made me feel like I was back in junior high, it was really hard not to snicker, especially since ONE WAS CARRYING A SWORD. Like, 5 foot samurai ninja business. Dude at the next table (striped polo shirt, popped collar, backwards baseball hat, used to getting his name on the board in grade school no doubt) starts lambasting the trio relentlessly. I thought I was going to die of silent laughter with tears rolling down my face when he started yelling about his retribution to their sword with his “butter knives of fury” and something about William Wallace. They can take our pancakes, but they’ll never take our freedom. Ah, the things you miss when you go to bed early. This week’s tunes: Slipping Through The Sensors Fruit Bats I was reading this weekend’s interesting article in the Seattle Times about the entitlement mindset towards free downloads and album leaks, and it mentioned all the good free (legal!) downloads on the Sub Pop site for their roster of fine musicians. I promptly clicked over and pleasantly immersed myself in all the artists I had forgotten were on their roster. It’s been awhile since The Fruit Bats have come out with anything new, but I love their past catalog – sheer melodic sunny pop harmonies and floating puffy clouds of goodness. I didn’t have this song on my iPod and it just is fantastic, echoing lazy summer days with a sound that would fit nicely on a mix with The Swimmers and The Shins — and fittingly so, since lead singer/frontman Eric Johnson has actually joined the latter band for the time being. The Songs of National Freedom (live on Daytrotter) Richard Swift Poor Mr. Richard Swift had the misfortune of facing another one of Denver’s finest drunken hecklers from three feet away when I saw him open for Wilco last month, and he took it gracefully. “We’re here to see Tweedy!” Mr. Front Row A-hole shouted at him. “I know. So am I,” Swift replied. This effervescent piano pop tune is cool but possesses just a hint of possible musical dance scenes unfolding in Technicolor. Captured live over on the wordlessly wonderful repository of free live downloads/writing/original artwork at Daytrotter, Swift says of this tune, “I wrote that one in a matter of minutes so I can’t really explain it. It kind of reminds me of ‘RAM’-era McCartney.” It will definitely stick in your head all morning, that melody. Originally found on this year’s Dressed Up For The Letdown. Charles Thompson/Frank Black reclaims the moniker he used during those years with the Pixies for his umpteenthth solo album, Bluefinger, out last month on Cooking Vinyl. This song hits a niche in my heart normally filled by bands like Pavement, Sebadoh or Guided By Voices. I am absolutely loving the combination of scraggly guitars, rebel yell vocals that are just a tiny bit “off,” and wheezy harmonica. On this stylistic departure from the sounds of his previous solo output, Under The Radar called it “the bastard Pixies album that might have been.” Put The Sun Back Earlier this year, Liverpool band The Coral headed into Buckinghamshire’s Wheeler End Studios (the personal recording grounds of Oasis’ Gallagher brothers) to record their 4th full-length album Roots & Echoes. As the title would imply, this is a warmer, rootsier, largely acoustic-based sound from this band of twentysomethings with retro leanings. I’ve most enjoyed their brand of scousey, brassy fun since their self-titled debut album in 2002. Where early efforts seemed to feel like more of a zoot-suit 1930′s vibe to me, the gentle roll of this album reminds me more of a modern Merseybeat collaboration between Gerry & The Pacemakers with a young and crooney Neil Diamond handling vocals. There are some cool moments (like this track, and I love the Doors-style organ and echoey surf guitar on “Remember Me”) but overall it left me wanting earlier days. Eh, maybe it’s a grower. Since The Last Time No, no — not the hip Fox TV show. Anyone who lived through the faux-rap fashion trends for white girls in the early Nineties (purple overalls with one side unhooked?) may have also spent some time listening to Atlanta group Arrested Development. I will grudgingly admit to getting my dance moves on (probably the Roger Rabbit) to “Tennessee” or “Mr. Wendell” — please forgive me, I was in junior high. Yet I still listen to them from time to time (minus most of the dancing), and they don’t sound at all bad. Arrested Development is back this month with their first new album in 12 years, Since The Last Time (October 30). This title track features a scratchy organic/analog vibe, Jackson-5ivey, Motown shuffle and big gospelly vocal samples. Take me to another place, take me to another land… And PS – If I can’t root for the Giants heading into postseason, I’ll get behind the Rockies in their tussle with the Padres for the wildcard spot. Go Rockies! I would love to be there tonight. Tagged with arrested development, baseball, black francis, fruit bats, monday music roundup, richard swift, the coral. BUY THAT FRUIT BATS ALBUM. It’s one of the greatest albums I own. When they were selling for $10 a pop about a year ago at a university gig, I wanted to drop $300 and pass out copies to all of my friends. Seriously. It’s that good. And, you know, perfect for Fall. If you don’t buy it, I may have to send you a copy. Um, okay. I’m done now. Dainon. — October 1, 2007 @ 12:38 pm I thought you were from California? Down with the Rockies!!! Pitch us a shut-out, Peavy! marc — October 1, 2007 @ 3:44 pm I like the new Arrested! Great sound. Reminds me of some old J5! Trey — October 2, 2007 @ 8:50 am Does anyone else think that the vocalist from The Coral sounds a bit like Richard Ashcroft of The Verve? kgb1972 — October 2, 2007 @ 9:56 pm Oh, and until I see conclusive evidence that Holliday actually got his left hand on the plate, I’m going to say the only thing he touched was the catcher’s cleats. I think the Padres got hosed on that call, but with the way Hoffman was pitching, they probably got what they deserved anyway. Go Tigers in 2008. kgb1972 — October 2, 2007 @ 10:07 pm Boo on you. All Cali natives should root for the “hometown” team. Jesse a.k.a. The Vicar — October 7, 2007 @ 9:39 pm	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line560
__label__wiki	0.90767	0.90767	Showing results for tags 'final fantasy xv'. Square Enix promising big year for Final Fantasy in 2018 2016 turned out to be a pretty big year for Final Fantasy as a series with the release of the long-awaited Final Fantasy XV and smaller titles such as World of Final Fantasy. It was surprising, then, that 2017 gave us less in the way of major new Final Fantasy releases save for ongoing episodic DLC for Final Fantasy XV and an HD remaster in the way of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, despite this being the series' 30th Anniversary. However, Square Enix's Final Fantasy brand manager, Shinji Hashimoto, is promising major news for the series in 2018. Hashimoto shared a few tidbits about the company's plans in an interview with Edamame Arcade Channel as follows. "Next year will be the 31st year, and our teams are busy working on new titles," Hashimoto said. "They are all gearing up for a big year next year." "I want to thank the fans for 30 years of support," Hashimoto said in his closing statements in the interview. "Next year will be a big one, and we will bring exciting, new Final Fantasy games to the world." What games might we see in 2018? The only two Final Fantasy titles we know of that are in development right now are the Final Fantasy VII remake, which was previously said to be episodic, and Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, which brings the fighting series to the current generation of consoles. While we're unlikely to get a release of the former's first installment, the latter is planned to kick off the new year with its release on January 30. As for what else might be released, Hashimoto's comments hint that there may be some surprises in store, perhaps with some as-of-yet unannounced games that may release next year. Might we be getting a new Theatrhythm title, a World of Final Fantasy sequel, or even our first look at Final Fantasy XVI? We'll have to wait and see. Source: USGamer What do you think Square Enix has in store for Final Fantasy in 2018? Let us know in the comments below? Multiplayer expansion finally heading to Final Fantasy XV next month Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata mentioned in the past that a multiplayer update would be coming for the game for everyone who bought the Season Pass, but little else has been said about it since. The good news is we're finally getting that multiplayer update next month on October 31st, and it's titled 'Comrades.' The big question on most peoples' minds about this expansion like is: "How does multiplayer fit into FFXV's story, especially when it's about Noctis and his three friends?" And the answer to that gets a bit spoilery; needless to say, you might want to finish Chapter 13 before reading further if you haven't gotten that far yet and want to avoid any spoilers. In any case, this mode takes place in the world that's engulfed in darkness after Noctis disappears. You'll create your own member of the Kingsglaive (who'd managed to survive the attack on Crown City) and set out to discover what happened to the prince while tapping into different powers and abilities from various Lucian kings. Square Enix mentions that there will also be single player quests in addition to multiplayer ones to play through. You can check out the trailer for Final Fantasy XV's 'Comrades' multiplayer expansion below. Source: Press Release Are you interested in playing FFXV's multiplayer expansion? Final Fantasy XV's July DLC update brings Magitek Exosuits Another month, another set of DLC updates for Final Fantasy XV. This month sees four new updates, the biggest of them being the wearable Magitek Exosuits. Essentially, the Magitek Exosuits will grant players 30 minutes of invincibility per day, which can be useful for the more dangerous enemies out there. And even after the invincibility wears off, you can still wear the suit. Next up is a new quest called "O Partner, My Partner," which is accessible at Meldacio Hunter HQ after you complete Chapter 8. There's also a new "Cross Chain" system which lets players increase the number of linked attacks, causing massive damage to more heavily defended enemies. But it's only available after players acquire two Royal Arms: the Sword of the Wise, and Axe of the Conqueror. Finally, the Moogle Chocobo Carnival is returning in Altissia from July 31 to September, where players can play mini-games, participate in Chocobo water races, and buy special Moogle Chocobo items at the Square Enix cafe. Source: Press Release Will you be checking about any of the new DLC from July's update? Game of the Year 2016: GP's Top 10 GP Staff posted a article in Features We're nearly a month into the new year, but you didn't think we forgot to post GP's top 10 games of 2016, did you? Okay, so it's a little late, but better late than never, right? In any case, there were quite a few memorable and great games in 2016; our individual game of the year lists tended to reflect that a lot as each one had at least a few unique games that didn't pop up in others. Some games dominated the conversation for most of the year, some were quaint surprises, and yet others popped up at the last minute to steal the spotlight. And in a year where shooters had one of their biggest years in a while, perhaps the most surprising thing about our list is that only one made it on (which speaks to the quality of the games that released in 2016). But enough talk! Here are the ten games the GP staff and contributors voted on as our overall Top 10 games for 2016. Enjoy! 10. Kirby Planet Robobot "Kirby“s latest outing has me reflecting upon my childhood, and how these games make me feel, in a different way than I expected. I simply haven't felt this impressed, this unbelievably delighted from a Kirby game since my childhood. I've often said that Return to Dream Land marks the pinnacle of traditional Kirby gameplay. But Planet Robobot takes it -- and fans“ expectations -- and manages to make everything feel like a mechanized wonderland." - Jonathan Higgins 9. Severed The beauty and the pain portrayed in Severed is matched only by how simple and refined the combat is. It may not have the whimsy of their other games, but Severed is easily one of DrinkBox Studios“ best, and one of the best games overall on the Vita -- not just of this year, but of any year. - Chris "Wildcard Corsair" Garcia 8. Owlboy So much about what makes Owlboy worth experiencing isn“t in the mechanics, but in its cast and environments. You won“t feel triumphant in the end — it“ll be more like you just watched a really awesome Disney movie. The folks behind Owlboy put so much meticulous care into their work that it took nine years to make. The end result is absolutely worth your own time and attention. - Jonathan Higgins 7. Pokemon Sun and Moon Alola is an absolutely, positively phenomenal place. Its challenges were versatile; I“ve never had as much fun with a main story in a mainline PokÃ©mon game. The soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal; â€œThe Battle At the Summit!â€ is probably Masuda and his team at their absolute best. Narrative direction? Superior, bested only by Black & White. Music, sounds, and general ambiance? Also top-tier. All of this and more make Sun & Moon easy to recommend to first-timers, or lapsed fans. - Jonathan Higgins 6. The Witness It's hard to follow up a game like Braid, but developer Jonathan Blow did it. The Witness is truly unlike any other game I've ever played, thanks to its unique combination of exploration and puzzles. The game teaches you organically how to think about the solutions to each puzzle, and the way that each area is divided into different types of puzzles is extremely well done. It is, without a doubt, the smartest game of the year. - Jason Clement 5. Tokyo Mirage Sessions As a fan of both Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei, I can certainly understand the disappointment some felt when Tokyo Mirage Sessions turned out to be a game that in no way matched what they had envisioned Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem would be. But the heart of both franchises shines through in ways expected and not, with a top-notch presentation and a warm heart that in my mind turned out to be the Wii U“s last and greatest hurrah. - Justin Graham 4. Final Fantasy XV Though it“s rough around the edges, Noctis“s road trip tale of brotherhood and a desire to find his betrothed after his kingdom has fallen under imperial rule shines through where it counts, wearing its inspirations from past Final Fantasy games on its sleeve while standing well on its own. And the game“s ending is not only rewarding, but one of the very best that the series has delivered yet, nailing the game“s themes one after another. - Justin Graham 3. Dragon Quest Builders Building has never been quite as compelling in video games as it is in Dragon Quest Builders. While the simplistic combat is perhaps the game's weakest point, Dragon Quest Builders is by far one of the deepest experiences I've played this year thanks to its blend of exploration, construction, and traditional JRPG mechanics. Nearly everything about it from its addicting gameplay to its fantastic soundtrack make it an outstanding experience and one of this year's biggest surprises. - Jason Clement 2. Overwatch I won“t tell you my exact hour count, but I“ve put a disgusting amount of time into Overwatch. You know how I complained about not having enough time to play games in my backlog? Well, I'm pretty sure I could've finished a couple of RPGs with the amount of time I have thrown at Overwatch. But anyway, Overwatch is a total blast to play. Rich with personality/polish, an incredibly varied playable cast, rewarding team-based gameplay, and plenty of positive reinforcement built right within the game makes the consistent fun I've had with it far outweigh the criticisms I could level against it. And from someone who pretty much never plays first-person shooter multiplayer is incredibly high praise. - Barrel 1. The Last Guardian The Last Guardian is, by all accounts, a game that very possibly could have come out and completely underwhelmed; after all, it was in development for some eight years (and more often than not, those types of deals tend to be disasters in the end). But somehow, some way, Fumito Ueda and his team at GenDesign pulled it off. By no means is it perfect; playing the game can be challenging at times due to some awkward controls and stubborness on Trico's part to obey at times, but the journey is worth it at the end and incredibly compelling. The Last Guardian has some of the most stunning environments and architecture I've ever seen in a video game. The visuals are breathtaking, especially when you're in the outdoors areas and see Trico's feathers glistening in the light and ruffling in the wind. The Last Guardian is triumphant, its story possibly exceeding what Team Ico had accomplished in its two previous games thanks to a touching narrative that is built on the relationship between the boy and Trico throughout their journey. I can't imagine how Ueda plans to top this, but I can't wait to find out. - Jason Clement Pokemon Moon Pokemon Sun Game of the Year 2016: Jason's Picks Jason Clement posted a article in Features I'll skip the real-world comparisons and say that for the most part, 2016 was a pretty good year for video games overall. Two of the most long-awaited games finally came out (and not a moment too soon), and they were both surprisingly excellent. Many more great indie games made their debut, and I'm looking forward to catching up with a lot of them over the next year. And the 3DS had one of its best years yet in terms of RPGs for the handheld. Heck, we even got cool surprises like the NES Classic Edition. As usual, I want to acknowledge some of this year's runner-ups, such as Firewatch and Stories: The Path of Destinies; both of which nearly made my list. Coatsink's Shu also deserves a lot of credit for being one of the most original games I played this year as well. And last but not least, Overwatch is a game I wish I had spent more time with, but ultimately there just wasn't enough time to play everything. In any event, here are my top 10 games of 2016. 10. Fire Emblem Fates Fire Emblem Fates was far and away one of my most anticipated titles coming into 2016. Awakening was my game of the year for 2013, and now the series was plunging headfirst into a story that would see new protagonist Corrin split between two warring sides: his adopted family and the family of his birth. It was an interesting twist and a great setup for a potentially epic story and character-rich plot, even if the story gets away from itself a bit at certain points. The strategic gameplay is still as good as ever and I enjoyed pairing up various units to see how their relationships would unfold. 9. Abzu Confession: I was already completely biased in favor of Abzu from the start, especially since two of the three major creative people behind Journey (aka my game of the year in 2012) worked on it. Also, in light of that latter fact, it's also not surprising that Abzu is essentially Journey except under the water, in a sense. However, it does not out-Journey Journey, and that's okay. Abzu is a short but breathtaking experience, and Austin Wintory's woodwind-filled orchestrated soundtrack adds to the epic feel of swimming alongside majestic sea creatures and currents in exotic underwater locales. There's virtually no challenge to it, but I almost can't wait to dive back in and experience it all again. 8. Batman: The Telltale Series The last Telltale game I had played before this was The Wolf Among Us, which I really enjoyed, but for some reason I hadn't had the desire to play any more after that -- until Batman, that is. Unbeknownst to players at the outset, Batman: The Telltale Series exists in its own universe, meaning Telltale gets to tell Batman as they want to tell him. Everything you knew about Batman potentially gets thrown out the window, which is refreshing and exciting to me, and Telltale used this to their advantage to tell one of the best Batman stories of recent years. Also, it probably has the most exciting quick-time-event sections I've ever experienced. Season 2 can't come soon enough. 7. Star Fox Zero If you haven't played Star Fox Zero yet, you might be surprised to see it on this list. Aren't the controls terrible? Isn't it a bad game? And to that I say no, it's not a bad game. At all. The controls aren't 100% ideal, but they're fine once you get used to them for 30 minutes or so (with occasional spottiness). But underneath the stigma of its motion controls, Star Fox Zero contains one of the best Star Fox games, bar none. Platinum's signature is definitely felt in this game especially with certain levels that feature over-the-top action (especially some of the latter ones), and it was a joy to hear the new songs as well as new renditions of old classics. It may not be exactly what everyone wanted, but as a reimagining of Star Fox 64, it definitely achieves what it sets out to do (with a few twists) and be incredibly entertaining at the same time. 6. Paper Mario: Color Splash Paper Mario: Color Splash may continue the same direction that the much criticized Paper Mario: Sticker Star started, but I'll defend it to the death as one of this year's great titles. While the plot is still rather thin (pun not intended, I swear) compared to the first three Paper Mario games, Intelligent Systems gives Mario and friends more to work with in this game as he investigates why the color is seemingly disappearing from Prism Island. The new color system doesn't add a ton of depth to the card-based battle system, but it's used surprisingly well in various puzzles throughout the game. Also, Color Splash has a fantastic soundtrack and arguably the best/funniest writing in the entire series (The Thousand Year Door included), where each level is essentially a brand new scenario to work through (mini story arcs and all). What it lacks in the main plot, it more than makes up for in its witty writing and zany characters, making for a memorable Paper Mario experience. 5. Song of the Deep In many ways, Song of the Deep is this year's Child of Light. It's a fairytale/storybook plot featuring a little girl who goes on a journey, except this time it's under the sea. It's a shame that this game never got much more recognition than it did because it features some outstanding atmosphere and environments throughout. Insomniac Games managed to tell a touching story about Merryn's journey through the sea but also make a compelling, underwater Metroidvania world to explore at the same time. 4. The Witness As someone who enjoyed Braid (and especially its big twist at the end) years back, I knew I had to experience The Witness when it finally released (being from the same creator and all). While the decision to have no music is definitely strange at first, there is something really interesting about just having ambient rustling of leaves, the wind, and your footsteps as all you hear. The island you explore is incredibly beautiful thanks to the unique low-polygon style used but also hauntingly lonely. More than anything else, the combination of exploration and puzzles is what truly makes this a unique experience. The game teaches you organically how to think about the solutions to each puzzle, and the way that each area is divided into different types of puzzles is extremely well done. It is, without a doubt, the smartest game of the year. 3. Final Fantasy XV What a long, strange journey it's been for Final Fantasy XV. While it's definitely not the game that was originally presented to us at Final Fantasy Versus XIII, I'm thrilled to say that it turned out to be a good game in the end anyhow. It's not perfect by any means, with much of its world suffering from an identity crisis (is this a Final Fantasy world or is this Middle America with some fantasy elements?) and its main plot being a jumbled mess at points. Yet, Noctis and the bond between his three friends form the core of what makes Final Fantasy XV one of the best games this year. They go through quite a bit throughout the game, but none of their interactions ever feel forced, instead feeling like four good friends going a bachelor road trip before one of them (Noctis) gets married. Even though the broader spectrum of the plot (such as the invasion behind Insomnia) is somewhat lost in translation over the course of the game, Hajime Tabata and his team got the most important aspects right by honing on the relationship between Noctis and his friends, making the open world feel alive and worth exploring, and creating a fairly memorable villain that keeps you guessing as to what his motivations are. Also, the ending is definitely one of the more interesting finales in the series and will have fans talking about it for a while. 2. Dragon Quest Builders Minecraft is a game that has only ever vaguely intrigued me, but I still haven't had the urge to play it even in the midst of its insane popularity today. Dragon Quest Builders made me a believer in the concept by taking Minecraft's building and crafting elements and pairing it with objectives and an RPG plot that's surprisingly more compelling than it should be. Exploring each area of its rich world and gathering materials is just as much fun as building towns from the ground up, block by block. It could easily be a dull, grating experience but DQB makes the experience fun by giving you a wide array of building materials as well as objects and rooms to build. While the simplistic combat is perhaps the game's weakest point, Dragon Quest Builders is by far one of the deepest experiences I've played this year, and nearly everything about it from its addicting gameplay to its fantastic soundtrack make it an outstanding experience and one of this year's biggest surprises. 1. The Last Guardian Hoo boy -- where do I even start. The Last Guardian is, by all accounts, a game that very possibly could have come out and completely underwhelmed; after all, it was in development for some eight years (and more often than not, those types of deals tend to be disasters in the end). But somehow, some way, Fumito Ueda and his team at GenDesign pulled it off. By no means is it perfect; playing the game can be challenging at times due to some awkward controls and stubborness on Trico's part to obey at times, but the journey is worth it at the end and incredibly compelling. The Last Guardian has some of the most stunning environments and architecture I've ever seen in a video game. The visuals are breathtaking, especially when you're in the outdoors areas and see Trico's feathers glistening in the light and ruffling in the wind. The Last Guardian is triumphant, its story possibly exceeding what Team Ico had accomplished in its two previous games thanks to a touching narrative that is built on the relationship between the boy and Trico throughout their journey. I can't imagine how Ueda plans to top this, but I can't wait to find out. Batman: The Telltale Series Star Fox Zero Paper Mario: Color Splash Game of the Year 2016: Barrel's Picks barrel posted a article in Features Never has my gaming backlog felt so insurmountable until 2016. I thought I did reasonably well keeping up with popular releases such as Uncharted 4 and Dark Souls III to several lesser known titles that I mostly played for the sake of review (and shall remain unnamed since many don't deserve to be). Well, until the second half of the year. I quickly learned that buying at least five new games a month does not lend itself to a manageable backlog. Despite wishing for more free time, and wishing certain things didn't happen with the world at large, 2016 was an impressive year for gaming even if many of the more noteworthy ones were at the tail end of it. I suppose I can pretend that The Last Guardian has not been released yet for just a while longer while I try and haphazardly present my top 10 games of 2016 without anymore regret. I0. Inside I have a real respect for games that just toss you in and know the player is smart enough to pick up the fundamentals. I have a bigger respect for games that continue to expand upon such ideas with an actual logical escalation of puzzles. A showpiece example of both is playdead's game Inside. Though the developer“s prior work, Limbo, bounced right off me; Inside does in a lot of ways feel like a much better constructed Limbo. With plenty of clever puzzles, an intriguing dark atmosphere, andâ€¦ probably one of the most bizarre finales in terms of gameplay makes it more than worthy to note on my own personal list. 9. Titanfall 2 First-person shooters I rarely go out of my way to play, much less for their single player content. But, both this year“s Doom as well as Titanfall 2's campaign proved otherwise. I personally enjoyed Titanfall 2“s single player just a bit more than the resurrection of the cult-classic shooter in raw gameplay and the briskly paced level design. There is an immense satisfaction towards controlling the powerful and different mech loadouts, or speedily zipping around and wall-running on-foot, that is downright unrivaled in any other first-person shooter I“ve played. Not to mention that the campaign also has very neat gameplay moments that heightens its inherent strengths even more. 8. Shiren the Wanderer : The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate Official GP Review As devious as it is charming Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate climbs right up there to become one my all-time favorite RPG roguelikes. Alleviating many grievances I have with the subgenre with a tangible sense of progression, an insane amount of hidden content and depth, and plenty of old-school charm made it a bliss to play.... despite it occasionally kicking my teeth in. 7. Thumper Thumper is quite unlike any other rhythm game I“ve ever played. I may not quite latch onto its â€œrhythm violence gameâ€ tagline, but no doubt that there is strong brutal-like feeling with its intense rhythm gameplay even as you are just flinging beetles around. With F-Zero levels of gameplay momentum, and the finesse needed of compelling rhythm games (especially for the crazy bosses), creates a highly rewarding gameplay experience, if not a bit unrelenting at times. 6. Blazblue: Central Fiction I make no bones about it that I generally prefer Arc System Works“s fighting game efforts to most others. While I had a lot of fun with Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator, and even enjoyed the likes of non-Arc System Works titles like King of Fighters XIV and Street Fighter V as well, the one fighter that I most felt at home with during 2016 is Blazblue: Central Fiction. The incredibly complex and dense playable character roster, stylish music and 2D visuals, and various smart refinements makes it one of the outright best fighters on the market. Even the huge story mode, which been utter nonsense that almost rivals Kingdom Hearts over the years, also impressed me with the surprising amount of narrative resolution that it had. 5. Final Fantasy XV For a while I have been really unsure as to what my stance is on current Final Fantasy releases. Add an absurd amount of wait time towards Final Fantasy Versus XIII, which as everyone knows became Final Fantasy XV, only added to my increasing doubt with the series going forward. And, while it is certainly easy to nitpick many aspects about it, from disjointed storytelling to gameplay quirks, Final Fantasy XV manages to be much better than the sum of its parts through sheer charisma and heart. There is a wonderful dynamic between the goofball main characters and the journey they have along the way that helps weave it into one the very best games in the series. 4. Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE It“s weird that we got official entries of both Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem in 2016, and my favorite of them was the fanfare spin-off of both. I originally had a strong knee-jerk reaction to Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE with its saccharine approach to anime tropes, especially of the J-pop variety. Quickly enough, however, I warmed up to the game underneath once getting acquainted to the final release. Chock full of lighthearted personality, Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei gameplay fanservice, and probably some of the most insane mechanical feature creep I“ve seen in an RPG in a long while (in a really good way, I think), makes for a whimsical RPG that I never knew that I wanted. Though I may ponder what Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem might've been like, I'm willing to contend with my dislike of J-pop culture in order to play the highly enjoyable RPG that is Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. 3. Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir Official GP Review I was struggling quite a bit to justify putting this on my GOTY list. In my brain, Odin Sphere came out almost 10 years. It was also a game that deeply disappointed me and I would go as far as to say that the actual gameplay of it was just plain bad. At the same time, an excellent remake named Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir magically fixes the game in a way I never thought possible. So lovingly refined was it made, by entirely revamping gameplay mechanics and level design in the best ways possible, and then some, that it has retroactively altered my entire opinion of a game. Which is still near unfathomable to me, because man do I dislike original Odin Sphere and most Vanillaware games but dote upon Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir. 2. Overwatch I won“t tell you my exact hour count, but I“ve put a disgusting amount of time into Overwatch. You know how I complained about not having enough time to play games in my backlog? Well, I'm pretty sure I could've finished a couple of RPGs with the amount of time I have thrown at Overwatch. But anyway, Overwatch is a total blast to play. Rich with personality/polish, an incredibly varied playable cast, rewarding team-based gameplay, and plenty of positive reinforcement built right within the game makes the consistent fun I've had with it far outweigh the criticisms I could level against it. And from someone who pretty much never plays first-person shooter multiplayer is incredibly high praise. 1. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II My adoration of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II is somewhat rather specific to me. I would not go out of my way to really recommend going through one entire lengthy previous game to truly appreciate an equally long sequel. The dialogue-heavy nature and dated presentation alone I'm sure would push many people away from the series. Plus, I was not that enchanted with the original Trails of Cold Steel to hammer down that point even more. That said, because I have developed quite a history with the Trails of- series, it has made me that much more impressed with it being hearkened back in Trails of Cold Steel II. Not only is it an excellent follow-up to the prior game with much better storytelling, fantastic character development, and smart (if not a bit too familiar with recycled assets) gameplay enhancements, but it is also astoundingly meticulous with its consistent world-building. This is complemented further by the superb localization. To be blunt, there were so many moments throughout that made me downright giddy during Trails of Cold Steel II's massive main narrative. From references to very serious cameos, some as deep as featuring characters from entirely separate trilogies like Trails in the Sky, that had me on the edge of my seat as the narrative unfolded. It was also the first RPG in a really long time that totally fooled on what I thought was the ending, only to continue for a third longer. Not because I wanted it to end, but because just that much happens throughout. And surprisingly, it was totally warranted despite jamming in so much character development, narrative resolution, as well as fiendish twists prior to it. Oh, and there are like hype mecha fights, and tons of things to do like a Final Fantasy VII-ish snowboarding mini game, and that's pretty cool. But seriously, guys. You don't know how excited I am for Trails of Cold Steel III on PS4. YOU. HAVE. NO. IDEA. Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir Game of the Year 2016: Hailee's Picks HAIL 9000 posted a article in Features 2016 was a busy year for me, what with moving to a new country and all. Unfortunately that meant that I didn“t get to play everything I wanted to this year, but despite that I still had quite a tough time narrowing this list down to only ten games. There are definitely a few games that I really enjoyed that didn“t make the cut. I won“t give shoutouts to all of them, but at the very least I have to mention Kentucky Route Zero Act IV, which after much deliberation I decided not to put on the list because it“s only a part of a game and can“t stand alone without the other acts. But all and all this was a pretty good year in video games, at least for me, so let“s dive in! 10. Hyper Light Drifter Hyper Light Drifter is a game I“ve been looking forward to since I first ran into it at PAX last year. The game“s art direction is what drew me in immediately, but after playing the demo I was even more excited to see the finished product. When the game finally came out earlier this year, I was excited to find that it had been worth the wait. While I definitely found it to be pretty darn challenging and sometimes frustrating, I overall had a great time with Hyper Light Drifter. The gameplay, although often difficult and tense, was a lot of fun and felt rewarding, featuring some very satisfying and fluid combat which was nicely complimented by great puzzles. That said, the game was certainly an exercise is resilience, and did sometimes feel quite punishing, but never so much that it pushed me away completely. But where Hyper Light Drifter really shines is in its worldbuilding. With the aid of its stellar visual design and soundtrack, the game manages to create a consistent mood that“s mysterious and often sad. It masterfully crafts a world world that succeeds in being beautiful as well as interesting, which drove me to play and explore as much as I could. All these elements helped make Hyper Light Drifter a memorable experience. 9. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse As someone who first came to the Shin Megami Tensei series through Persona, I often find myself wishing that some other games in the series were a bit more accessible with stronger and more prominent plot and characters. While obviously not a Persona game, Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse was kind of a happy medium, at least for me personally. Apocalypse brings back the world, locations, and gameplay of Shin Megami Tensei IV with a new, stronger, and more consistent plot that intersects in interesting ways with that of the original. Additionally, various gameplay and UI improvements address a lot of my frustrations with Shin Megami Tensei IV. The most welcome addition for me, however, was a cast of much more compelling and engaging characters, all of whom are unique and full of personality. All and all, it really felt like it managed to be a new experience that took advantage of its foundations while improving and building on them. It succeeded in not feeling like a rehash, despite revisiting many of the same locations as Shin Megami Tensei IV. And it does all of it with an awesome post-apocalyptic cyberpunk aesthetic and the Shin Megami Tensei art direction that I“ve come to know and love. 8. Dragon Quest Builders This is one game I never would have expected to end up on my list but holy heck did I have a lot of fun with it. I was barely even paying attention to this game until I happened to play the demo at PAX to kill some time. Dragon Quest Builders is kind of a perfect storm of several gameplay elements that I tend to have a lot of fun with. I dabbled with Minecraft a few times back in the day before it became an overwhelming cultural phenomenon, but I was never able to stick with it for more than a few days. Although I very much enjoyed the gathering and building, I struggled to give myself something to do. Ultimately, I just found the sandbox to be too big and directionless for me to really enjoy. Dragon Quest Builders does an excellent job of solving this problem by giving the game a plot (I use this term very loosely here) with quests and objectives. When I wasn“t feeling particularly creative or inspired, I had a stream of guests to give me direction. And when the mood struck, I had the opportunity to set aside the quests for a while and create a new building or improve my town here and there. Additionally, the separate chapters provide enough variety to keep things interesting. And the game has that cute whimsical Dragon Quest feeling which just makes it feel that much more fun and inviting. It ended up being my favorite game this year for all the times I just needed to wind down and relax. 7. Owlboy My list this year seems full of games with notably long development cycles, and Owlboy is no exception. It may be kind of unfairly baised, but Owlboy“s origins definitely color my feelings toward the game. It just warms my heart when developers get to see a personal project that they“re passionate about realized, even if it takes years. Owlboy is first and foremost a really fun platform-adventure game. The mechanics are solid, the levels are well designed, and the fights feel rewarding. Owlboy also builds on its well established genre template by adding fun mechanics of its own, like flight and the ability to carry Otus“ companions to utilize their various skills. It also definitely succeeds in invoking that nostalgia for some of my favorite Nintendo titles of the past. While my taste in videogames has certainly broadened over the years, I got my start with The Legend of Zelda series, and it still feels great to master the mechanics of a well-crafted boss fight and finally get it right after several tries. While great gameplay is at the core of what makes Owlboy great, it“s certainly not the only place that it shines. The art direction and character design are both lovely. The characters are endearing in appearance and personality, and to top it all off the game has a big heart. 6. Overwatch It almost feels silly to write about Overwatch or put it on a GOTY list considering the game“s hilarious popularity, but it definitely deserves a spot on mine. Overwatch is just so darn good and so much fun, and I“m not usually one for competitive multiplayer, especially in first person shooters. As I“ve come to expect from Blizzard, the game takes many of the best aspects of the genre and perfects and builds on them. It“s a class-based shooter with so much variety that it“s easy to find something that works for you. And although I had my favorites, I happily switched between a broad list of characters between matches, unlike other class based games where I tend to perfect my role as only one or two characters and avoid deviation. Overwatch also takes some deliberate steps to take the pressure off by focusing on player accomplishments at the end of matches rather than offering a ranked KDR. It makes the game accessible not just by offering lots of ways to play, but also by giving players lots of avenues to get the hang of things in a low stress way where they could focus on improvement rather than performing well enough to avoid being singled out. It was exciting to see a lot of my friends who don“t usually go for this genre try out and get into Overwatch. On top of all of that, the amazing and diverse cast of well designed characters, the colorful aesthetic, and (notably minimal) interesting lore and character relationships just makes the game a lot of fun. Although we don“t know a ton specifically about the heroes, the shorts, comics, and quips passed between characters gives us a window into who they are. And all in all the game is just a lot of fun. 5. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice The Ace Attorney games are some of of my all time favorites and their characters have a special place in my heart, so I“m always excited about a new entry in the series. While I enjoyed some of the spinoffs like Apollo Justice and Ace Attorney Investigations, I was so pleased with Dual Destinies because it felt kind of like a return to the first three games, which are far and away my favorites. It was nice to see Spirit of Justice continue in this vein while bringing some fresh ideas to the series with the cases in Khura“in and the new Divination Seances. While these cases still stick to the same structure we“ve come to expect, they change up the formula in a way that I thought was interesting and fun and require you to think about things a little differently than previous games. The game of course features the usual series staple of likable characters with horribly punny names and great character designs. Additionally, moving some of the cases to Khura“in also lets the game tackle some new and interesting issues. This leads to some excellent writing which even manages to push the boundaries of the series in a few ways, with one chapter in particular completely overturning my expectations of what was possible in an Ace Attorney case. All and all, Spirit of Justice brought something new while still maintaining the staples of the series that I love so much, making it a welcome entry. 4. Stardew Valley I have a lot of love for the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons series (shoutout to Natsume for making this extremely confusing), so I was pretty darn excited about Stardew Valley. And for me, Stardew Valley is the perfect realization of everything good about Harvest Moon. Pretty much all aspects of the gameplay feel very well done, and make my day to day life as a farmer/adventurer/best friend to everyone in the town so satisfying. It“s addicting to the point of being dangerous, because you can lose hours to the game by falling into the â€œI“ll just play one more dayâ€ mentality. On top of that, it definitely adds a nice level of complexity to the writing and character development that I“ve never really felt was there in Harvest Moon games. The heart events feel more meaningful, and the characters have distinct personalities and backgrounds. It means that choosing a spouse goes beyond â€œdo I want to marry the mermaid or the archeologistâ€ (FYI I wanted to marry both in Harvest Moon DS). And on top of that, the game receives regular content updates based on player feedback, so it just keeps getting better. The other thing that really endears me to Stardew Valley is that it came about as the creator“s passion project which (as far as my understanding goes) he tackled almost completely on his own by learning to create his own art and music. The game is so lovingly crafted, and it“s clear that it could only be born out of a deep love and understanding of the Harvest Moon series. 3. The Last Guardian As an obnoxious Team Ico fan who“s always trying to force Shadow of the Colossus on everyone I meet, I was really looking forward to The Last Guardian. I definitely had tempered my expectations considering how long the game spent bouncing around in development hell, but in the end I really was not disappointed. The game is certainly not perfect, and as many have pointed out, it has its frustrating moments. I am absolutely guilty of having to turn it off and step away from it because Trico was just not cooperating. But I also find Trico to be one of the game“s greatest triumphs. He really does feel like a separate entity with his own personality and agenda, even when his agenda is doing everything but carrying me up to some dang ledge. The game excels at creating a bond between the player and Trico through shared experiences and hardships, and their symbiotic cooperative relationship feels like something unique I haven“t experienced before. I definitely applaud the developers who perfected Trico“s behavior. The game is also reminiscent of Team Ico“s previous games, Shadow of the Colossus and Ico, in more ways that one. It“s definitely a contemplative game, with the moments of calm far outweighing the moments of tension. The level design is both well executed and interesting, and the art direction is beautiful. The game excels at teaching you about its world and characters through small thoughtful details in things like the way characters move and interact with the environment. And as we“ve come to expect, the game has a strong emotional core and a story that many players will find quite moving. Of course, it also has some of the studio“s less stellar staples like awkward movement and controls, but the positives far outweigh the negatives. 2. Final Fantasy XV If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I was kind of taken by surprise by how endearing I found Final Fantasy XV. As a fairly invested fan of the series, I never would have requested an entry centered around trendy rich boys taking a roadtrip across a fantasy version of middle America, but here we are. Something that“s always endeared me to the Final Fantasy series is its willingness to try things out and do whatever the heck it wants, and Final Fantasy XV is certainly no exception. To start out with the bad, the main plot of the game definitely leaves something to be desired. It“s not incredibly interesting, it doesn“t flow very well, and I often found myself confused and wondering if I had missed some bit of context that would help me understand what was going on. I think some of this can be attributed to trying to fit it into the game“s open world structure, but the plot and its delivery feel like a bit of a mess even after taking that into account. My other complaint is that while the combat is definitely fun and satisfying on top of looking real cool, it“s lacking in strategic depth. However, this doesn“t stop the game from having some really awesome fun boss fights. The thing that really endears me to Final Fantasy XV is its characters and their journey together. Even though the main plot didn“t really do it for me, all the little character moments and interactions really did. I loved the little incidental conversations between the characters, camping at night and picking out meals for Ignis to cook, and going through all of Prompto“s pictures at the end of the day. Driving or walking around the beautiful world feels peaceful and reflective, and I think going through the day to day of this journey with the four characters let me get to know them in a different way than I“m used to. You get the sense that you“re really on a journey with four friends who care a lot about each other, and in that way the game shines. Plus the game has a heavy dose of the kind of dorky weirdness I“ve come to love in Final Fantasy games. So ultimately while imperfect and rough around the edges, Final Fantasy XV was just a lovely experience and certainly a lot of fun. 1. Firewatch Every year or so there“s a game which I am gifting to my friends out of the kindness of my heart so that they feel obligated to play it and talk to me about it. This year, that game was Firewatch. There were a lot of things that made Firewatch for me. First of all, it“s gorgeous. The art direction is incredible, and I appreciated all the time the game gave me just to wander through its beautiful recreation of the Shoshone national forest. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest I spent a lot of time outdoors, and, even though it“s set in Wyoming, the â€œhikingâ€ in this game felt so nostalgic to me. The writing is where Firewatch really excels though. It deals with the pretty unglamorous lives of real people, focusing mostly on Henry, a middle aged man who“s reached a difficult crossroads in his life. It touches on a lot of subjects I find are rarely visited in games, which I thought was refreshing. Henry is definitely not your average protagonist, and his efforts to escape his life by taking a job as a park ranger out in the wilderness isn“t your average premise. In addition to Henry“s story, you get to piece together the stories of previous fire lookouts as you find traces of their lives left in the park. Every single story told in the game has a strong emotional core which makes them all feel very worthwhile. The way the story is told through walkie-talkie conversations between Henry and Delilah is kind of delightful, and the writing feels both genuine and natural. I got so wrapped up in Henry“s relationship with her and with the game“s central mystery that I beat it in just two sittings, which is quite unusual for me. I also appreciate that between important conversations, you usually spend some time hiking in silence to let you process what just happened. If you“re thinking of playing Firewatch, I“d recommend not reading this last paragraph since I“d hate to color your expectations. This is where I expect my opinion diverges from many others, but the ending was what really cemented Firewatch as one of my favorite games, because I felt incredibly let down. I found myself so invested in the mysteries and in my relationship with Delilah that when things didn“t play out as anticipated I was disappointed. But I thought about it a lot (I mean really a lot) and realized that the game had intentionally manipulated me into thinking the story was something that it wasn“t, and in doing so, had really succeeded in making my experience as the player mirror the experience of the protagonist. That helped make the game“s conclusion much more meaningful and poignant. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice Game of the Year 2016: Justin's Picks Hailinel posted a article in Features 2016 was an eventful year for gaming. Well, truthfully, the same could really be said for any recent year, but this was the year that: The Last Guardian finally shipped! As did Mighty No. 9! And I FINALLY got my Kickstarter-backer physical copy of Broken Age. And none of the above made my list. (Although, I doubt many people will be offended by the omission of Mighty No. 9. Hoo boy, that was awkward.) But as we get ready for 2017, which also looks ready and waiting to be an eventful year in gaming, let“s take a look back at my ten favorite games of 2016! 10. Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity The Touhou series of bullet hell shooters has long had a fanbase of creators that have spawned numerous fanworks over the years. The games and their characters have inspired fanart and doujinshi comics, music, and even entirely separate games. Scarlet Curiosity is one such title; an action RPG focused on the vampire Remilia and her devoted maid Sayaka, the game is simple, but well-made and incredibly fun. Filled with charming character aided by a great English localization, it was easily the biggest surprise of the year for me. 9. Style Savvy: Fashion Forward The third Style Savvy game took a while to make it to North America, but the wait was worth it. Backed by an unapologetically fantastical premise involving a tiny magical door, Fashion Forward puts, well, fashion forward as it charges the player with running a fashion boutique while also making time to help out at the hair stylist and beauty salon. With a long list of entertaining and eccentric clients in a fashion-obsessed city, dressing, styling, and grooming them all is addicting, and the light-hearted banter just adds to the charm. It was easy for me to get pulled in, playing the video game equivalent of dress-up for hours at a time. 8. Fire Emblem Fates As a long-time fan of the Fire Emblem series, putting Fates on my list wasn“t a difficult decision. But what was difficult was deciding where to actually rank it. Fates was a divisive game for a variety of reasons, whether it be the release of three separate versions (with one being restricted to DLC) that all tell the same story from different angles, and with different focuses on challenge, at that. And for every innovation that felt like a positive direction (changes to the weapon triangle, the removal of weapon durability), other parts didn“t receive the attention that they should have deserved. (The narrative justification for the second-generation characters being able to fight alongside their parents is the most nakedly lazy writing the series has ever endured.) Fire Emblem took steps forward and back with Fates, but at its core, it“s still Fire Emblem. While the game has a number of issues, it still manages to retain enough to be a challenging, entertaining entry. Hopefully an eventual Fire Emblem title on the Nintendo Switch is in the works. 7. PokkÃ©n Tournament One of the unlikeliest of fighting games to see a release in recent memory, this Bandai Namco-developed PokÃ©mon fighting game with its mix of Tekken and Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs.-inspired mechanics turned out to be really darn good! While the size of the roster in the Wii U version is limited, particularly compared to the arcade version that has seen continuous updates, the variety of PokÃ©mon on the roster is well-picked. And the fighting mechanics, which emphasize a continuous shift between open arena battling and more traditional fighting on a 2D plane is fun in both single-player and online. This is the sort of wild PokÃ©mon spin-off that I would love to see more of! 6. Nobunaga“s Ambition: Sphere of Influence – Ascension Official GP Review Koei Tecmo has gotten back into a real groove with western releases of the company“s historical strategy titles, and Ascension really nailed it for me. Since its release just this past October, I“ve played through multiple campaigns, some more successful than others, and still have a desire to go back and try to conquer Japan again. It“s the sort of difficult strategy game where I constantly feel the pull of â€œjust one more turn.â€ Ascension feels like a game I could easily play for years. 5. Attack on Titan Official GP Review Koei Tecmo“s Omega Force studio have become experts at the one-against-a-thousand action combat of the Musou franchise in all its forms. To see them take many aspects of that formula and apply them to a game with an entirely different focus, and do so successfully, is remarkable. Attack on Titan“s smooth, rhythmic flow of swinging through the air and cutting down Titans is a delight as it retells the story of the anime“s first season from start to finish. Hopefully we won“t have to wait for a sequel for as long as we“ve had to wait for the anime“s second season, which is due to start airing next year. 4. Samurai Warriors 4: Empires Official GP Review The third and final Koei Tecmo game on the list, Samurai Warriors 4: Empires continues the Empires spin-off tradition of taking the core hack-and-slash Musou action and giving it the backbone of a strategy game. This year“s Empires title is an excellent refinement of that formula, offering challenges not usually seen in standard Musou titles. Playing defense with an underpowered officer and managing to hold off a much larger and more powerful invasion force is always satisfying. Of all of the Musou series, Samurai Warriors has long been my favorite, and Samurai Warriors 4: Empires helps keep it on top. 3. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X Official GP Review At first glance, Project Diva X might seem disappointing. The game has a relatively small track list, and the more cinematic music videos of past games aren“t present, as all of them are set as concert stage performances. But Project Diva X“s new story mode, which adds a thin but entertaining premise to the proceedings, is surprisingly endearing. The song selection is also top-notch, with some personal favorites of mine making the cut. And the game“s original medleys, which blend songs from past games together into themed performances like Cute, Cool, and Quirky, are some of the best and most elaborate in the game. And it“s a Hatsune Miku game. I just can“t say no to Miku! 2. Final Fantasy XV Oh, what a long and winding road it“s been this past decade. There“s a part of me that says that Final Fantasy XV has no reason to be as good as it is. Pulled out of stagnant development from its years under Tetsuya Nomura as Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Hajime Tabata and his team rebuilt Nomura“s concept into a complete game worthy of being a mainline Final Fantasy title. Though it“s rough around the edges, Noctis“s road trip tale of brotherhood and a desire to find his betrothed after his kingdom has fallen under imperial rule shines through where it counts, wearing its inspirations from past Final Fantasy games on its sleeve while standing well on its own. And the game“s ending is not only rewarding, but one of the very best that the series has delivered yet, nailing the game“s themes one after another. 1. Tokyo Mirage Sessions â™¯FE Several years ago, Nintendo surprised everyone with the announcement of Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem, an Atlus-developed crossover title that would match Fire Emblem“s medieval fantasy strategy role-playing series with Shin Megami Tensei“s demon-infested, apocalypse-happy, modern Tokyo-set JRPG franchise. But there was little meat to the announcement beyond a placeholder title and some old character art from past games. Many assumed that the game would be a standard crossover of franchise casts, possibly involving fights between Marth and the Demi-Fiend before everyone comes together to fight the true, common enemy. Because that“s how these crossover games tend to go. And so it was surprising, to say the least, when Nintendo unveiled Tokyo Mirage Sessions for the first time last year. Bright colors! J-Pop! A bizarre title with a sharp symbol in it! And no sign of the Demi-Fiend! I was on board with this unabashed goofiness from day one. Of course, not everyone was. Some were annoyed, or more bizarrely felt betrayed. Where was the Shin Megami Tensei? Where was the Fire Emblem? While traditional franchise crossover games are all well and good, Atlus and Nintendo chose to take Tokyo Mirage Sessions in the more novel direction of a thematic crossover. With the gameplay design and structure of a MegaTen RPG with Fire Emblem influences, and a modern-day Tokyo set against a world of Fire Emblem characters largely reimagined in the vein of MegaTen demons, well, here we are! The entertainment industry backdrop and the game“s bright, beautiful color palette give TMS an identity all its own, with plenty of nodding references and Easter eggs related to both franchises for good measure. The professionally produced musical performances as sung by the cast are some of the many highlights in a game that isn“t afraid to be goofy with characters that range from an enka-singing elementary schooler to a pitch-perfect parody of a western otaku. And yet, it never feels too silly for its own good, easing between lighter and darker moments with ease. As a fan of both franchises, I can certainly understand the disappointment some felt when Tokyo Mirage Sessions turned out to be a game that in no way matched what they had envisioned Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem would be. But the heart of both franchises shines through in ways expected and not, with a top-notch presentation and a warm heart that in my mind turned out to be the Wii U“s last and greatest hurrah. Pokken Tournament Fire Emblem Fates Nobunagas Ambition: Sphere of Influence - Ascension Samurai Warriors 4: Empires Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X Style Savvy: Fashion Forward Opinion needed: Final Fantasy XV pre-order Jason Clement posted a topic in General Game Discussion Hey guys, For those of you buying Final Fantasy XV on day one, would you prefer getting the game at the usual discount GCU rate ($48) or would you rather get it with the Season Pass if you could get it bundled in, but for $65 total (game and season pass) instead (such as with the Best Buy exclusive version)? I initially did the latter, but the more I think about it, you're really only getting the Season Pass for $17 with that deal as opposed to the $25 will normally cost. That, along with the fact that we don't have all the details on what the Season Pass will bring (it could be disappointing given previous season passes for other games) is making me think I should cancel and just preorder the standard version. What are your guys' thoughts? Conan O'Brien plays Final Fantasy XV and, well... Conan O'Brien did another installment of Clueless Gamer segment recently, where he and Elijah Wood (random cameo) took a stab at playing Final Fantasy XV. The result is pretty funny (as usual), but also actually kind of worrying for the game as well (somewhat). Take a look below. Pretty much all of Conan's criticisms were pretty valid if you ask me. Why in the world does the game look so boring and drawn out? Granted, we're looking at it out of context, but a lot of what they showed seemed like it might indicate that there's a lot of filler. And what's up with that 72-hour fight with the Adamantoise? I'm guessing the guy was exaggerating but I really wouldn't put it past SE to do something like that. What'd you guys think? Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV E3 2016 trailer Jason Clement posted a topic in TV, Movie, Blu-Ray If you haven't seen it yet, here's the E3 2016 trailer for Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV. Personally, I think the CG looks a bit too... uncanny valley-ish, I hate to say. It doesn't look like the mouth animations synch up with each actor when they talk, making it look like there's a slight audio delay. Aside from that, it looks like it'll be a pretty alright watch. I don't think I'll see it in theaters, but I'll definitely check it out when it hits Blu-ray. What do you guys think of it? Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV GP Headlines 3/31/16 - Final Fantasy XV release date, new details, Miitomo launch, and more We've got some big headlines today, most notably related to the Final Fantasy XV news that last night brought, and also a number of other announcements as well. Check out the headlines below! Everything you need to know about the Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV event, including the game's release date Last night's UNCOVERED: Final Fantasy XV event was quite a doozy. Not only did Square Enix reveal the game's official release date, they also revealed that they're going all-out to promote the game with a cross-media projects. First off, let's not beat around the bush - the game is officially releasing on September 30th on PS4 and Xbox One. Oh, and there's a new trailer for the game as well which showcases the song "Stand By Me" as performed by Forence and the Machine. Moving on, there will be three different versions you can buy- Day 1 Edition - $59.99 - Comes with Final Fantasy series Masamune DLC weapon - Xbox Store pre-order exclusive: Two Xbox One avatars, including Noctis Special Outfit and Carbuncle pet - PlayStation Store pre-order exclusive: Dynamic PS4 theme for PS4 owners Deluxe Edition - $89.99 - All Day One content plus... - An exclusive steelbook containing Final Fantasy XV and Kingsglaive movie - Platinum Leviathan Regalia design - Royal Raiment costume DLC Ultimate Collector's Edition - $269.99 (available only on Square Enix's online store) - All Deluxe Edition content plus... - An exclusive steelbook containing the official Final Fantasy XV Blu-ray soundtrack (featuring music from Final Fantasy XV, Kingsglaive, and Brotherhood) - Hardcover artbook - Limited Edition Variant Noctis Play Arts -Kai- action figure - In-game item packs Additionally it was also revealed that Final Fantasy XV would be getting two multimedia projects. The first is a CG prequel movie called Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, and it will set the stage for the game's beginning. Actors Sean Bean, Lena Headey, and Aaron Paul are set to star as the main cast. The movie will be released digitally before the game's launch. The second project is an anime series called Brotherhood Final Fantasy XV, and it will consist of five standalone episodes that explore the friendships between Noctis and his three companions. All episodes will be free and will be viewable on Youtube before the game's launch. The first episode is up for watch . Also, a new demo called Platinum Demo: Final Fantasy XV has been released which players play through a fragmented dreamscape as young Noctis and his companion, Carbuncle. The demo is available right now on both Xbox One and PS4. Finally, Square Enix is releasing a pinball game on mobile devices called Justice Five which features RPG elements and the game's most iconic monsters. It will be coming soon to the Google Play and App Stores, and will also be playable in Final Fantasy XV. Source: Press Release Nintendo's Miitomo launches today on Google Play and iOS App Store It's finally here: Nintendo's first stab at a mobile game. Miitomo is described as a free-to-play social experience with friends. After creating your own personal Mii and customizing it to your liking, you can then add friends who have the app in-person or by linking existing Twitter and Facebook accounts. Ultimately, the app creates conversations and discussion among friends by answering questions that are presented to you. By doing different things on the app, you can also gain coins to use on Nintendo's new reward system, My Nintendo. If that sounds interesting, you can download it for free right now! Source: Press Release Axiom Verge officially coming to Vita in April PlayStation fans have been waiting for about a year for Axiom Verge to come to the Vita, and now it looks like that time is finally upon us. Creator Tom Happ took to the PlayStation Blog to explain what was behind the delay as well as a release date: April 19th! Additionally the game will be cross-buy, meaning that if you already have it on PS4, you'll get it at no charge on Vita (and vice-versa). And last but not least, the game will be 10% off on both platforms for a week when the Vita version launches. If you haven't seen it already, be sure to check out Jonathan's review of the game; it's one of the few games we've given a perfect score to and it also placed 8th on GP's Top 10 Games of 2015. Source: PlayStation Blog Nintendo to shut down DSiware Shop next year It was bound to happen sooner or later. Presumably, all DSiware titles will still be purchasable through the 3DS eShop, so it seems the dissolution of the DSiware Shop will affect very few (only those that own and use a DSi). Users will still have until September 30, 2016 to add new points to the shop to buy things, but the service will shut down altogether on March 31, 2017. Source: Nintendo Life This week in new Nintendo eShop releases (3/31/16) Not a whole lot of big releases this week although there is one new Wii game: Mario Super Sluggers! And of course, Chronicles of Teddy: Harmony of Exidus also makes its debut on Wii U. Check out Jonathan's review of it if you haven't already. Here's a look at all the new releases on the Wii U and 3DS eShop today. Wii U Lovely Planet Pokken Tournament - Demo Version Mario Super Sluggers (Wii) 6-Hand Video Poker Chronicles of Teddy: Harmony of Exidus Now I Know My ABCs Pixlcross 3DS Justice Chronicles DLC Fire Emblem Fates - New DLC Map - Vanguard Dawn What are your thoughts on the new details about Final Fantasy XV? And will you play Miitomo? DSiware Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV Brotherhood Final Fantasy XV Final Fantasy XV News Coming June 4th, 2015 Many of you with PlayStation 4s have experienced Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae by now. If not, you“ve certainly watched all the footage your heart desires. You may even know that an update is coming to Episode Duscae sometime this month. This information was shared by way of a stream director Hajime Tabata puts together devoted to discussing the game, dubbed Active Time Report. The other bit of information fans picked up from the previous Active Time Report is that Final Fantasy XV won“t have a strong E3 presence this year--likely explaining the demo update, to let folks know the game is still being worked on. While that may be disappointing to hear (again), there“s still reason to hope for a surprise or two. Another Active Time Report is going to be broadcast on June 4th. This stream will have English subtitles, so you'll be able to watch it without worry of missing key points. It“s happening at 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET. You can check it out on YouTube or Twitch. Given its proximity to Square-Enix“s Press Conference at E3, I“ll bet any FFXV news we were going to hear from Los Angeles will likely be discussed during this stream. If nothing else, we“ll at least walk away with a release date for the new demo content, as well as an explanation regarding what that content actually is. What kind of news do you hope will be discussed? Are you eagerly awaiting the full release of Final Fantasy XV? Be sure to let us know! Source: Game Informer FFXV Episode Duscae Active Time Report Final Fantasy XV Development Is 55% Complete The world got its first updated look at Final Fantasy XV last week with new video footage surfacing from the Tokyo Game Show last week, but how far along is the actual game development? According to Kotaku, the game's director, Hajime Tabata indicated that the game's progress stands at roughly 55% complete. Tabata also mentioned that this percentage only represents the last two years since he first joined the project, saying that the development could be looked at in two parts—before he joined on, and afterward. He also made mention that there were a few matters that had complicated the development, such as switching platforms entirely as well as the three different teams working on it (gameplay team, CG team, and the game engine team) not being unified until recently. With the game now at 55% and after some two years, it stands to reason that there may be at least another 1-2 years left (if not more) before the game finally releases. For now, Square Enix has announced plans to release a demo for Final Fantasy XV with the release of Final Fantasy Type-0 HD when it releases next year on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Source: Kotaku Are you surprised at where the progress stands on Final Fantasy XV's development at the moment? TGS 2014: Tetsuya Nomura No Longer Directing Final Fantasy XV, New Trailer Unveiled In the long wait for Final Fantasy XV's release, some news emerged today regarding its status. One big announcement was that Tetsuya Nomura, the game's original director, will no longer directing production on the title. Instead, its co-director, Hajime Tabata (director of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy Type-0) will take over the reins of that position. As for Nomura, Square-Enix mentioned that he will focus his efforts on other titles now, including Kingdom Hearts III. Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda commented that Tabata and the rest of the Final Fantasy XV development team are working towards completion on the game's production and ensuring the "highest quality Final Fantasy title to date." Though IGN notes that Nomura's new focus is part of a development restructure within Square Enix, one has to wonder if management was unsatisfied with the slower nature of the progress on Final Fantasy XV over the years (it was originally announced in May 2006 under the name Final Fantasy Versus XIII before being publicly changed to its current title a few years back). One thing for certain is that his increased focus on Kingdom Hearts 3 can only be a good thing for fans having previously helmed the first two games and with the series effectively being his brainchild. In the meantime, a new trailer was released for Final Fantasy XV at TGS 2014 showcasing some impressive visuals. Source: IGN What are your thoughts on Nomura leaving FFXV's production, and what did you think of the new FFXV trailer? "Upcoming" Game Titles Revised for Accuracy Venom posted a blog entry in Venomous Incorporated This started out as a couple of dumb one-off jokes I made earlier today, but then I realized...why not go further with it? Why not make it a number of dumb jokes? Why not indeed. So, in today's post, I'll be talking about some upcoming video games that are taking way too long to come out. But not just that - I'll also be revising their names to more accurately portray their current state and poking a little fun at them along the way. I've got my poking stick set to "stun" and my jokes set to "kill," so let's get this thing on the road! Agent Revised name: Undercover Agent This is literally the game's entire existence. Do you remember Agent? No? No one does, so if you said yes, go sit in time out, Mr. or Ms. Pants on Fire. It was announced in 2009 or so, and since then there's been nothing - total radio silence. Suffice it to say, it appears Agent has gone deep undercover, so until Rockstar pulls him from active duty, he won't be seen in the public eye unless he's in disguise. Let's just hope Momma Agent doesn't get a letter saying he was KIA. Final Fantasy XV Revised name: Final Fantasy 2015, At the Earliest Revised revised name: Pretty Boys with Sharpened Toys At first they were going to call it Final Fantasy Versus XIII, which is a heck of a mouthful. Makes sense to shorten the title a bit, especially after it's completely failed to show up on store shelves since its announcement in 2006, right? But Squenix wasn't just shortening the name, they were telling us something. Something to do with 15...what does it mean? Well, I've deduced that it means 2015 is the absolute earliest we'll see this game on store shelves. So if they rename it to FFXVI, be prepared to wait another couple of years, at least. The Last Guardian revised name: The Last Guardian of the PS3's Legacy "Woof! I mean...meow! I mean...hold on, let me think about this." Let's pretend for a moment that The Last Guardian is still coming to PS3, because that may be the only way for some of you to hold back the tears. Got rid of the sniffles yet? Good, let's move on. The Last Guardian has been "in development" for a while, being announced in 2009, and has always been slated to come out on PS3. Since it looks like the PS3's lifetime will expire before this game ever comes out, I've taken the liberty of crowning it the Guardian of the PS3's Legacy. Once every PS3 game that will ever be released has come out, ol' Trico will finally spread his wings and soar onto the system to secure the console's legacy with one final, amazing game. Unless it turns out to be terrible, like most games that stew in development hell for years, but let's just do what it takes to keep from crying and hope for the best. Beyond Good & Evil 2 Revised name: Beyond Good Graphics and Evil Executives 2 Still waiting. BG&E was a fan favorite and a critical success, but it didn't really do well commercially, so fans were ecstatic when it was announced the game was getting a sequel in 2008. And yet now they've been waiting...and waiting...and waiting. At this point, I'd like to think that by the time the game finally does come out it will have amazingly advanced graphics, probably powered by the Playstation 5, Xbox Two, and Wii U Me, and the developers will have finally found a way to convince the publishing bosses that the game will turn a profit. Prey 2 Revised name: A Longer Development Cycle than Prey, 2 Now with twice the prey! Prey 2 was announced in 2011 or so, but they've been pretty quiet since Bethesda told everyone that it was being polished up to their standards. What standards those are, exactly, we'll never know, but it probably involves releasing it with a host of hilarious glitches. In any case, the original Prey took around 12 years to finally see the light of day, and while Prey 2 has only gotten a few years in, the complete lack of any new info points to the developers trying to match or exceed that cycle. I'm pretty sure at that point it stops being "development hell" and turns into "development hell frozen over." Kingdom Hearts 3 Revised name: We Ran Out of Kingdom Hearts Spinoffs 3 I'm confused about those 3 things behind the logo too, Sora. It finally happened. After so many long years, we finally have confirmation. It's what we all expected, all hoped, all secretly knew. And our waiting has paid off as Square Enix has revealed...that it has finally run out of Kingdom Hearts spinoffs. Half-Life 3 Revised name: No-Life 3 While you wait, enjoy this mockup that took someone literally seconds to make. Because people who are still going around looking for clues of this game's existence have no life. That, and the game itself doesn't have a life, since it doesn't exist. It's a double whammy of painful realization! Starcraft: Ghost Revised name: Starcraft: Ghost I don't know if this is an actual screenshot. No one remembers what the game looks like. Oh, wait. Some of you may be saying that these are the same games I featured in a past article (welcome back, SeÃ±or or SeÃ±ora Pantalones de Fuego) but I talked about them differently this time, so it makes it new. So nyah. So what do you think? Did I hit the nail on the head with my revised names? Do you have a better name for any of these? Or do you not care either way and just want to sound off in the comments about something else? Whatever the case, head on down there and speak your mind! vaporware E3 2013: Nomura Explains Why Final Fantasy Versus XIII Became Final Fantasy XV Wondering why the oft-delayed but recently re-announced Final Fantasy XV made the name change switcheroo from Final Fantasy Versus XIII? The game's director, Tetsuya Nomura, recently shed some light on the situation in intervew with Edge. He mentioned how the three games that were originally set in the Fabula Nova Crystallis series were announced with Final Fantasy XIII monikers, but that the size and scope of Versus XIII was becoming big enough to where it made more sense to make the move to a mainline numbered game. "So we were warming up the idea of considering the move to XV – which is the mainstream Final Fantasy series – and between that time and now we had several chances to announce updates of the series and we debated if we should go with Versus XIII or announce the change to XV," he said. "About two years ago we confirmed, internally, that we would change the title to XV and then at the same time, around that time, the company started working on next-gen consoles, because hard disc was getting ready for the next-gen development. So that became a really good trigger to move on to the change of XV." Not coincidentally, Final Fantasy Agito XIII, the PSP game in development at the time, also had its name changed to something a bit more unique - Final Fantasy Type-0 (and unfortunately, the game still has yet to release outside of Japan). In the meantime, expect to hear more about Final Fantasy XV in the coming months and year ahead as Nomura has confirmed that there will no longer be a media blackout on new information from the title. Final Fantasy Versus XIII E3 2013: Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III Will Also Be Available on the Xbox One gaiages posted a article in Microsoft If you think that Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III will be PS4 exclusives, then think again! Square confirmed during their conference today that both titles will also be available on the Xbox One. This means that Final Fantasy XV loses the Sony exclusivity back when it was called Versus XIII, and also marks the first time a Kingdom Hearts game will be on a Microsoft platform. Which version of these games will you grab? E3 2013: Final Fantasy Versus XIII Reappears... as Final Fantasy XV gaiages posted a article in Sony The Sony Conference today has had some interesting news... and one piece of news fans were hoping to see was some information of the elusive Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Well, Square fans got a taste of what's to come for the title supposedly stuck in development hell... or rather, the new game to the main franchise, Final Fantasy XV. There was no release date, but some gameplay was shown. It definitely looks to be an Action RPG, and seamlessly moves from cutscenes to battle. You can check out the trailer below: http://youtu.be/SilkhjKw9Og Are you excited about the appearance of Final Fantasy Versus XIII--I mean, Final Fantasy XV? Final Fantasy XIII Versus What If Square Enix Isn't Announcing Final Fantasy Versus XIII At E3? Jared posted a article in Analysis & Opinions In February, Square Enix shocked the world at the Playstation 4 presentation by announcing that they would soon be making an announcement about something Final Fantasy related at this year's E3. If your computer's sarcasm filter isn't working properly, I'd like to announce that the previous sentences were filled to the brim with sarcasm. I absolutely hate when companies come out during a big show to announce that they are going to announce something. But that isn't the point of this article. The point is, just what is Square Enix going to be announcing? Everyone, including myself seems to believe it is going to be a Final Fantasy Versus XIII announcement. But what if it wasn't? Just think about it. We know that they'll be making some sort of Final Fantasy announcement at E3 this year, that's absolutely certain. But just how many different Final Fantasy games is Square Enix even working on right now? We've got Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Type-0 could always make an appearance, Final Fantasy X & X-2 HD, the Dissidia series is still floating out in the ether, and who could forget Final Fantasy XIV? How long do you think he's been sitting there waiting for a release date? That last one and Lightning Returns are the real dangerous ones in this scenario. The character Lightning is for some as of yet unknown reason Square Enix's baby recently. Over the last few years, Square Enix has been trying to make her the poster child for the Final Fantasy franchise, but it has been met with quite a bit of resistance. Resistance that Square Enix doesn't seem to notice. I could easily see their big announcement being that Lightning Returns will be ported to the Playstation 4, thus cementing the Lightning character in Playstation history as a mascot for Sony's newest console. Now onto the more likely scenario of Square Enix trying to hype people up for the reveal of Final Fantasy XIV being playable on both the PS3 and PS4. The original plan was to actually have Final Fantasy XIV on the PS3 years ago, but as I'm sure most of you are aware, things went south pretty quickly on those plans. The original version of XIV was torn to shreds, and Square Enix went to work on completely remaking the game. "Haha! I was a colossal waste of money!" A few months ago, they finished it. The new plan was to begin work on a PS3 version of the newer better version of the Final Fantasy MMORPG after work was finished on the PS3 version, but then Sony had to go and complicate things by announcing the PS4. Considering how much money went into making Final Fantasy XIV and then remaking it, Square Enix is going to want to get as many sales as it can. So odds are the PS3 version will stick around, but it could be followed by the "surprise" announcement of it also being on the Playstation 4. And then we have the problem of the Final Fantasy tech demo that has been making waves for the last few months. Square Enix is obviously going to want to get into using that as soon as possible and odds are they already are using it for their next big Final Fantasy title. This, of course, doesn't change the fact that they're still working on Final Fantasy Versus XIII, but I have to wonder, just which one are they going to want to hype up at E3 this year? Mums the word on Versus for the last seven years, so who's to say they won't shelf it for another year so they can start hyping up their next big thing? Its an incredibly stupid move on their part if they try it, but like I said before. They're almost certainly revealing Versus XIII this year, in my opinion. But I said that last year too. As always, thank you for reading. tech demo	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line563
__label__cc	0.645293	0.354707	katie: Oh, relax. Kojima possibly abandoning a project is a BFD. It's not like this article is about who he's dating or photos of him stumbling read more Zack Hiwiller: What is this, a tabloid now? Not cool GSW. read more Kojima Depressed, Tells The World Via Twitter May 24, 2011 8:00 PM \| Matthew Hawkins Easily one of the most outspoken of all the game making personalities in Japan, Hideo Kojima recently stated in the form of a tweet: "The thing that I spent one year delicately preparing became meaningless." He followed that statement up with: "I can’t take it anymore; this is unbearable, I can’t stay positive." Yikes. Needless to say, the guessing game is on as to what he's so bummed out about. More than likely it's a game related project, so the real mystery is figuring out what exactly. My best bet is it's NOT a Metal Gear title. Instead perhaps the long awaited third installment of Zone of the Enders? Though more than likely, some new IP that no one knows of yet, and perhaps never will. I wouldn't be shocked if Konami higher ups had canceled whatever dream project of his in favor of yet another installment of MGS. A franchise that he’s tried to distance himself from a few times already, with little success. Anyhow, my prediction, one based without a shred of hard evidence and only a gut feeling: Kojima quits Konami and goes freelance. He reforms his studio independently, which is mostly filled with staffers that quit their gigs to follow the leader. It's not the craziest of guesses, given how rocky the Japanese development scene has been in recent years, with similar big name creators also flying their respective coops over comparable disagreements. With the most recent being Keiji Inafune, who even left behind a dream project of his as it was finally getting underway (that being Mega Man Legends 3... and who too is the vocal type). At this point, we'll just have to wait for whatever details or clues to show up. Maybe at E3? [via VG24/7] What is this, a tabloid now? Not cool GSW. Zack Hiwiller \| May 25, 2011 10:14 AM Oh, relax. Kojima possibly abandoning a project is a BFD. It's not like this article is about who he's dating or photos of him stumbling out of a club (if you find those though, I still want to see them). Stay strong Kojima-san! katie \| May 27, 2011 10:17 AM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line564
__label__wiki	0.626443	0.626443	Shootout Surprise: Marek Malik At 6'6" and 235lbs, big Marek Malik was an imposing NHL defenseman for 11 seasons totalling 691 games. He steadily patrolled the defensive zone with his massive wingspan and long stick. Not the most agile skater Malik learned excellent positioning to compensate and play defensively with striking poise. While his penalty minutes (620 in his career) don't suggest it, he played a tough, physical game with authority. Offensively Malik we all assumed Malik had a very limited upside. He had a heavy slapper from the point but otherwise played wisely within his limitations. And then this happened: Yes, Marek Malik went between his legs to score the biggest surprise goal in the history of the NHL shootout, ending the longest NHL shootout to date while he was at it. And in doing so Marek Malik - who only scored 33 goals in his entire NHL career - forever became one of the greatest hockey legends. The best part has to be his nonchalant reaction as if he did it all the time. "I was watching everything before me," said Malik, the fun loving giant teammates always called Harry. "Olie was unbelievable. He stopped everything from shots, moves. I just thought to myself, 'Maybe I'll surprise him.' I tried the move and it worked." The proud 2006 Czech Olympian last played in the NHL in 2009 but returned to the Czech Republic to play for several more seasons. Labels: Marek Malik	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line570
__label__wiki	0.525768	0.525768	Places/Vacation Park/Outdoor Product/Services Reviewed Social Media Shares Home/Living Restaurants/Food By Dhemz 11:57 PM // 2 comments Don't you think the corsets of today are lovely and very flattering to a woman's figure? A corset store at Sherwood Forest. Have you ever worn a corset before? I wish to try one someday. "The most common and well-known use of corsets is to slim the body and make it conform to a fashionable silhouette. For women this most frequently emphasizes a curvy figure, by reducing the waist, and thereby exaggerating the bust and hips. However, in some periods, corsets have been worn to achieve a tubular straight-up-and-down shape, which involves minimizing the bust and hips." Never had one hehehe Mel Alarilla said... Corsets were very fashionable during the Victorian age. Corsets then were very voluminous. Now very few women still wear corsets. Thanks for the post. God bless you all always. Email: gregdemcy@gmail.com When traveling as a family it can be tempting to purchase a timeshare for the extra space and amenities. If you bought a timeshare that you no longer want, a timeshare termination company like Omni Ellis can help you get rid of the timeshare. Hey y'all! Welcome to my page. My name is Demcy also known as Dhemz. I'm the author behind Dias Family Adventures, FILIPINO-AMERICAN, military wife & mother, crafter, wannabe chef, savvy shopper, product reviewer, traveler, adventure seeker...I pretty much think I can do anything! Learn more about me and my family HERE Cuisine Study Blog Blog Archive January (18) December (20) November (16) October (27) September (19) August (20) July (21) June (17) May (15) April (15) March (16) February (15) January (15) December (11) November (15) October (16) September (7) August (9) July (15) June (9) May (16) April (19) March (22) February (18) January (25) December (9) November (25) October (29) September (30) August (15) July (20) June (37) May (17) April (10) March (17) February (6) January (19) December (18) November (17) October (6) September (12) August (4) July (8) June (14) May (9) April (8) March (12) February (8) January (12) December (14) November (18) October (23) September (15) August (17) July (8) June (20) May (15) April (13) March (14) February (12) January (9) December (20) November (17) October (20) September (14) August (6) July (11) June (13) May (14) April (18) March (8) February (23) January (19) December (4) November (13) October (9) September (8) August (10) July (4) June (5) May (3) April (8) March (9) February (11) January (4) December (4) November (9) October (10) September (8) August (13) July (15) June (16) May (16) April (22) March (21) February (13) January (20) December (16) November (26) October (18) September (21) August (22) July (23) June (26) May (27) April (31) March (73) February (51) January (34) December (25) November (44) October (51) September (38) August (34) July (27) June (12) May (32) April (22) March (33) February (17) January (12) December (19) November (27) October (38) September (29) August (16) July (22) June (22) May (46) April (18) March (19) February (25) January (74) December (19) November (34) October (36) September (2) August (8) July (13) June (1) January (1) November (1) November (1)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line573
__label__wiki	0.521929	0.521929	Blackboard CUNY Portal CUNYfirst You are here: Home → Communications → Pressroom → News → National Nursing League Names Hunter School of Nursing a “Center of Excellence” National Nursing League Names Hunter School of Nursing a “Center of Excellence” Hunter’s School of Nursing has just been awarded one of the most prestigious honors in its field — a certificate from the National League of Nursing designating the school a “2010-2013 Center of Excellence in Nursing Education.” The certificate, presented on October 1 in Las Vegas during the League’s annual Education Summit, cites the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing for its “sustained achievements in creating environments that enhance student learning and professional development.” The full citation goes on to say that innovative, evidence-based teaching methods are a “key feature” of the Hunter-Bellevue curriculum, adding that the school’s faculty has “fully integrated these pedagogies, along with technological learning strategies, across all programs to enhance student learning and ensure student success.” The award also points to the nursing school’s success in facilitating “deep learning”; strengthening students’ abilities to pursue independent interests; broadening students’ understanding of community needs; and creating partnerships “on the academic, clinical, and community levels.” The award was accepted on behalf of the nursing school by Professor Joyce P. Griffin-Sobel, Hunter-Bellevue’s assistant dean for curriculum and technology and director of undergraduate programs. Previous: Hunter Profs Win Major NIH Funding Next: Hunter College Model U.N. Team Shines at Columbia Debate Hunter Headlines Hunter in the News Photo/Video Release Form Hunter College Celebrates a Banner Year for Diversity with 26 New Faculty Appointments Alumna Vanessa Ruta Receives 2019 MacArthur Fellowship, Commonly Known as the “Genius Grant” Vanessa Ruta ’00 Named 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow In Memoriam: Professor John Loustau President Raab and CUNY Chancelor Rodríguez Open Puerto Rican Summit Isabella Rossellini speaks with WNYC about getting her master’s at Hunter and her new theater production Roosevelt House Director Harold Holzer pens article for the New York Daily News commemorating the 154th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's 1865 death Hunter College alumna Veronica Pasha BSN '15 tells viewers what its really like to be a registered nurse (CNBC) High School senior & three-sport athlete Luca Wernick is a straight-A student who inspires his fellow teammates on & off the court (Spectrum News NY1)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line577
__label__wiki	0.681544	0.681544	The Progress Report: June 2017 by Mike Huck/ Welcome to the June Progress Report. Last month featured some amazing albums, and while the reviews below might not indicate equality to May by their grades, these releases are compelling in their own primarily weird way. Many of these albums have a very avante-garde, experimental fusion of styles. In fact, nothing here would strictly be considered heavy progressive music – well, maybe the progressive death metal album, but even that one is heavily jazz-influenced, and an instrumental to boot. Anyhow, let’s stretch our conception of progressive music a bit this month and dig into these records. Ratings are on a five star scale. InsideOut Music Bent Knee – Land Animal (InsideOut) This first one is a great example of what June had in store. Bent Knee are a Boston sextet, and to be honest I hadn’t heard of them before now, despite Land Animal being their fourth album this decade. Well, I’m digging into their back catalog after this record. Land Animal is a compelling mix of art rock, avante-garde and progressive rock, captained by the charismatic vocalist Courtney Swain. The album features intricate yet quirky arrangements, moving from a Kate Bush style to heavier progressive hard rock. Like everything this month, it takes a few listens to appreciate, but it’s well worth the time. The Artisan Era Dark Matter Secret – Perfect World Creation (The Artisan Era) This is the first time I’ve reviewed a Russian band here. Dark Matter Secret are a trio of heavy hitters, and Perfect World Creation is their first album, following an EP that came out a couple years ago. The release is a short concept album, seven songs under 50 minutes, looking at the creation of the universe from religious and science-based angles. We call Dark Matter Secret an instrumental prog-death band, but the death part of it isn’t suffocatingly prevalent. There’s just as much of a jazz influence here, notably through the fretless bass work. Dark Matter Secret can tear things up much like Scale the Summit, and Perfect World Creation is a superb debut album. Foscor – Les Irreals Visions (Season of Mist) Now that I look back on this month’s reviews, I see how international the entries are. Third review, third country. Foscor are a Spanish heavy prog band. This foursome mixes equal parts sludge, post metal and prog to create an enticing, hypnotic brew. Les Irreals Visions (Unreal Visions) is their fifth release. The music is dark, moody, and hypnotic, as if somehow Kylesa, Katatonia and Pelican had some sort of bizarre offspring. And it works, with driving, repetitive rhythms and chant-like vocals, all of which stick with you and don’t let go. I’d love to get my hands on a translation of the lyrics to see if they match the music. In the Presence of Wolves – Of Two Minds, Stages 1-2: The Ape and the Cage (Self) Nothing threw me off more this month than this EP from In the Presence of Wolves. First of all, Of Two Minds, Stages 1-2: The Ape and the Cage is almost a longer title than the five song album. Too pretentious for my liking. And opener “As We Speak Pt. 1” begins so weakly I immediately regretted grabbing it for review. But things change, and by the end of the first song I was intrigued: by the end of the record I was hooked, and waiting for more. The closest comparison I can come up with for this Philadelphia act would be Coheed and Cambria. The music varies from traditional old-school prog to modern technical metal, to jazzy art-rock breaks and plenty of experimentation. Lots of potential in this band. ToT Records The Soundbyte – Solitary IV (ToT) Norway’s The Soundbyte have been around longer than any of the other bands on this list. Again, a very avante-garde release, with a ton of post-rock influences, and a dash of folk music tinting this progressive release. Solitary IV is the band’s fourth album – although band is a loose term here, as The Soundbyte is essentially a solo project by guitarist Trond Engum. Solitary IV is a short album, just seven songs in 38 minutes. Sounds range from foreboding, almost apocalyptical soundscapes to driving, hypnotic, post-metal, with occasional eerie vocals thrown into the mix – and that’s just in one song. If that doesn’t make much sense, sorry: Solitary IV is incredibly difficult to describe in 120 words. Let me just say you might be confused, but you won’t be disappointed. Völur – Ancestors (Prophecy) Representing the fifth country in this column, Canada’s Völur released Ancestors early this month. It’s the trio’s second album, and it’s another weird one for the month. Why is it weird? Because this doom-laden prog outfit plays drums, bass, and violin and features both male and female lead vocals. Ancestors is comprised only of four songs, but they’re all epic, ranging from 10 to 17 minutes. Each song is skillfully arranged, never leaving the listener bored or clicking through to the next track. Heavy, ponderous, menacing, and filling the soundstage despite the scant instrumentation, Völur are a band to keep an eye on. Tags: Bent Knee, Dark Matter Secret, Foscor, In The Presence Of Wolves, The Soundbyte, Volur Philipe Mendes July 14, 2017 Man I really gotta thank you for this Bent Knee review. You know that rare feeling when you listen to something very special, a album that every song is really great, something that makes you think ‘wow, i’ve been looking for something like this, exactly what I like, this may go straight to my top 10 favorite albuns”. That band is AWESOME. Thank you Mike.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line583
__label__wiki	0.878162	0.878162	Home Research > Members > 1820-1832 > HUNT, Henry (1773-1835) HUNT, Henry (1773-1835), of Middleton Cottage, Andover, Hants and 36 Stamford Street, Mdx. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009 Available from Cambridge University Press 17 Dec. 1830 - 1832 b. 6 Nov. 1773, 1st s. of Thomas Hunt of Widdington Farm, Upavon, Wilts. and Elizabeth née Powell of Week, nr. Devizes, Wilts. educ. Tilshead, Wilts. (Mr. Cooper); Hursley, Hants (Mr. Alner); Andover g.s. (Rev. Thomas Griffith); Salisbury, Wilts. (Rev. James Evans). m. 19 Jan. 17961 (sep. 6 Sept. 1802), Ann, da. of William Halcomb, innkeeper, of Devizes, 2s. 2da. (1 d.v.p.)2. suc. fa. 1797. d. 15 Feb. 1835. Ensign Wilts. yeoman cav. Everleigh troop 1794-8; Marlborough troop 1798. Arguably the ‘best mob orator of the day’, Hunt was a great-great-grandson of the royalist Colonel Thomas Hunt of Enford, whose escape from Ilchester gaol after the Somerset uprising, to join Charles II in exile, caused the family to forfeit Somerset and Wiltshire estates they had held since the Conquest.3 Hunt’s father Thomas, a successful farmer, restored the family to prosperity and added about 3,000 acres, including Littlecot, Glastonbury manor, property in Bath and the tenancies of Chisenbury and Widdington Farm on Salisbury Plain (Hunt’s birthplace), to their holdings. When inherited in 1797 by Hunt, the eldest of his six children, they were worth £1,000-£1,500 a year.4 A headstrong youth, he had resisted his socially ambitious parents’ attempts to educate him for Oxford and the church, espoused the loyalist cause following the French revolution of 1789, enlisted in the yeomanry cavalry and become a gentleman farmer. Defying his father, who nevertheless assisted him at Widdington, he married the daughter of a well-to-do Devizes innkeeper with a dowry of £1,000. When they separated formally in September 1802, Ann was granted custody of their daughter and £250 a year and Hunt, who settled with his lifelong mistress Catherine Vince, took charge of their sons Thomas and Henry.5 William Cobbett†, during one of his many quarrels with Hunt, famously cautioned against associating with a man who ‘rides about the country with a whore, the wife of another man, having deserted his own’.6 Hunt’s Memoirs date both his marital problems and his political awakening to 1799, when his defiance of his militia commander Lord Bruce prompted prosecutions for indiscipline and trespass for which he was fined and imprisoned in king’s bench. There he came under the influence of the reformers Samuel Waddington and Henry Clifford.7 Ostracized by the Wiltshire squirearchy and snubbed by Lord Pembroke, the lord lieutenant of Somerset, after he raised a volunteer militia troop at Enford in 1803, he rallied for Sir Francis ‘Burdett* and independence’ at the 1804 Middlesex by-election and campaigned in 1805 for the impeachment of the first lord of the admiralty Lord Melville. At the 1806 general election he promoted reform from the hustings in Somerset, Wiltshire and Bristol, where he had invested in the beleaguered Jacob’s Well brewery.8 As ‘Bristol Hunt’ he declared as an independent candidate after the 1807 election and established a Patriotic and Constitutional Association to promote local electoral reform. Politically motivated prosecutions ensued, including a successful one in 1809 for assaulting John Benett’s* gamekeeper, for which he was consigned to king’s bench prison, where he shared rooms with Cobbett. Lurching further into radicalism and distancing himself from the mainstream and Foxite Whigs, he joined Major John Cartwright’s radical Union for Parliamentary Reform, whose demands for universal suffrage, short parliaments and the ballot, he promoted as a leader in 1830-2 of the National Metropolitan Union and the Great Northern Union of the Working Classes.9 He polled last at both Bristol elections in 1812 and failed with a petition, but the evidence of charity abuse he acquired during its preparation enhanced his anti-corporation rhetoric and endeared him to the masses.10 His Wiltshire tenancies had lapsed, and he took estates at Rowfant, near East Grinstead, Sussex, where he prospered, 1812-13, and Cold Henley, near Winchester, Hampshire, where the post-war collapse in prices and spurious legal actions, which dogged him for the rest of his life, terminated his farming career. He retained the lease of Middleton Cottage, Andover, with gaming rights over the 8,000-acre manor of Long Parish.11 Hunt entered London politics as a liveryman of the Loriners’ Company in 1813. Verbal skirmishes with the ‘City Cock’ Robert Waithman* and the Whig moderates in Westminster, where he promoted Lord Cochrane’s re-election in 1814 and opposed the property tax and the 1815 corn law, made him one of the leading radical demagogues, keen to denounce, in what Lord Holland termed his ‘brawling eloquence (loquentia potius quam eloquentia)’, the failure of the Whigs in office to prune the civil list and end jobbing.12 In the winter of 1816-17 he addressed the radical meetings at Spa Fields, where, meeting him for the first time, the Middleton weaver-poet Samuel Bamford found him gentlemanly in his manner and attire, six feet and better in height, and extremely well formed. He was dressed in a blue lapelled coat, light waistcoat and kerseys, and topped boots; his leg and foot were about the firmest and neatest I ever saw. He wore his own hair; it was moderate in quantity and a little grey. His features were regular, and there was a kind of youthful blandness about them, which, in amiable discussion, gave his face a most agreeable expression. His lips were delicately thin and receding; but there was a dumb utterance about them, which in all portraits I have seen of him was never truly copied. His eyes were blue or light grey - not very clear nor quick, but rather heavy; except as I afterwards had opportunities for observing, when he was excited in speaking, at which times they seemed to distend and protrude; and if he worked himself furious, as he sometimes would, they became blood streaked, and almost started from their sockets. Then it was that the expression of his lip was to be observed - the kind smile was exchanged for the curl of scorn, or the curse of indignation. His voice was bellowing; his face swollen and flushed; his gripped hand beat as if it were to pulverise; and his whole manner gave token of a painful energy, struggling for utterance ... He was always beating against a tempest of his own or of others’ creating.13 Backed by the northern delegates, ‘Orator’ Hunt (Robert Southey’s* sobriquet) carried resolutions for reform including universal suffrage, the ballot and annual parliaments at the January 1817 Hampden Club convention and forced Cochrane to present a similar Bristol petition, 29 Jan. To distance himself from the Spencean revolutionaries, he sent ‘loyalist’ letters to the home secretary Lord Sidmouth, petitioned to ensure that these were recorded in the Journals of the House of Commons, 4 Feb. 1817, and offered to testify before the House.14 Although his correspondence was intercepted, he evaded arrest under the Seditious Meetings Act, presided at the Palace Yard meetings, 23 Feb. 1817, 7 Sept. 1818, and campaigned against Waithman in the City and the Whigs in Westminster, where in 1818 he polled a poor fourth.15 He petitioned the Commons personally against the Westminster hustings bill, 29 Jan., 2 Feb. 1819.16 Hunt first visited St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester on 18 Jan. 1819, when, deputizing for the imprisoned Stockport radical John Bagguley, he carried the radical Palace Yard remonstrance. Its rejection by the regent spawned mass gatherings and the formation of unions in the major conurbations and culminated at Peterloo, 16 Aug. 1819.17 Fresh from success at the Smithfield meeting, 21 July, and as author of the Green Bag Plot, criticizing Burdett and Lord Liverpool’s Tory ministry, he had welcomed the opportunity to preside and publicize the campaign to secure radical reform by ‘numerical force’ and urge non-payment of taxes (from 1 Jan. 1820) until it was effected. His stance on the proposed elected national convention or anti-Parliament, which he described in his Memoirs as ‘folly’, was ambivalent, but he hoped to become a paid delegate to it with Cobbett, Cartwright and Thomas Wooler. He welcomed The Times reporter John Tyas and the editor of the Manchester Observer, John Thacker Saxton, to his entourage, and was apparently unaware that his Manchester host Joseph Johnson hoped for insurrection.18 He ensured that the crowd of over 60,000 gathered peaceably, but at least 11 were killed and over 400 injured after the Manchester and Salford yeomanry, backed by the 15th Hussars, were sent in by the magistrates to arrest him for high treason under a warrant issued by their chairman, William Hulton of Hulton, a dandy he vilified as Polly Hulton.19 He was charged with the lesser offence of seditious conspiracy and transferred to Lancaster gaol, 27 Aug. 1819. Bailed, he challenged the competence of the Lancashire grand jury and its foreman Lord Stanley, and mustered popular support in the North-West and London, where, according to The Times, 300,000 watched his arrival, 9 Sept.20 He vainly tendered affidavits in king’s bench for the prosecution of the Manchester magistrates, petitioned Parliament alleging that his conduct had been misrepresented, 29 Nov. 1819, and encouraged petitioning for inquiry and redress.21 The Whigs hoped to use Peterloo to discredit the Liverpool ministry and the radicals, but Lord Grey’s son-in-law John Lambton warned Sir Robert Wilson* and the ‘Mountain’ to ‘keep clear of ... [Hunt] as you would of infection’.22 Hunt convened meetings against the Six Acts, chaired dinners to mark Cobbett’s return from America and organized the production of ‘Breakfast Powder’ - a tax-free substitute for tea and coffee. It soon featured in caricatures of the period.23 At the 1820 general election he used funds raised to cover his legal costs to contest Preston, where the franchise was almost universal and the representation vested in a Whig-Tory coalition to which Stanley’s family was party.24 Advocating inquiry into Peterloo, repeal of the Six Acts and the radical reform programme, he polled creditably, albeit in fourth place, prior to his departure for York.25 At the trial, 16-27 Mar., his defence, which he conducted personally, was impressive and widely publicized, but, to the relief of the royal household and the government, he was found guilty, 27 Mar. His appeal failed, and he was refused a retrial, 8 May. On 15 May he was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment and bound over for £2,000 to keep the peace for a further five years.26 Lord Grenville observed (29 Mar. 1820): ‘It would have been a dreadful thing indeed if it had been established by the result of that trial that the Manchester meeting was under all its circumstances a legal assembly’.27 In September 1828 the duke of Wellington as premier made Hunt’s case his precedent for authorizing the detention of the editor of the Irishman, John Lawless, after the rioting at Ballibay.28 While imprisoned (on compassionate grounds at Ilchester), Hunt, who espoused Queen Caroline’s cause, was commemorated by members of the Great Northern Union at dinners and celebrations throughout the North-West. He prepared radical addresses outlining plans for the popular democratic organization he hoped to lead, and drafted his Memoirs for serialization.29 These convinced Bamford ‘that my devoted Patriot was an overbearing Tyrant, one who would rather "Rule in Hell than serve in Heaven"’, but they kept him in the eye of the public and the caricaturists.30 Supported by the parliamentary radicals and the Liverpool Concentric Society (their leader, the Unitarian Dr. William Shepherd, later compared Cobbett to Robespierre and Hunt to Danton), Hunt sought parliamentary inquiry into Peterloo, railed against Burdett’s failure to secure it, 16 May 1821, and mounted a campaign on the Lancaster model against the Ilchester gaoler William Brindle and the visiting magistrates.31 At least 40 petitions (including his own) were presented to the Commons in 1822 protesting at conditions in ‘Ilchester Bastille’ and urging remission of his sentence. Burdett’s motion requesting this was defeated (by 223-84), 24 Apr., amid quips that all Hunt was deprived of was his mistress.32 Despite reports of his waning popularity, his release on 30 Oct. 1822 was widely marked. He attended the processions and public celebrations in Somerset and London, where Johnson published a commemorative cartoon with the caption: ‘They may Hunt me from Brixton to Ilchester again, before I will alter my conduct or Vince’.33 On 21 Jan. 1823, assisted by the radical Sir Charles Wolseley, he addressed a Somerset agricultural distress meeting he had instigated at Wells. The sheriff threw out his eight-point amendment for reform and retrenchment, but he carried it at another meeting the following week. John Hobhouse eventually presented the petition, 16 July 1823.34 An excise board ruling that ‘breakfast powder’ was not tax exempt was rescinded, but in order to recoup financially Hunt turned to the manufacture and sale of the food dye amaretto and ‘matchless’ shoe and hearth blacking. He also invested unwisely on behalf of his son in a Peruvian mining company.35 Caricatures depicting him as a ‘blacking pot’ boosted his sales, and he deployed his ‘blacking vans’ as election transport and wore his prison uniform when he contested Somerset, where he polled a poor third, at the general election of 1826. On the hustings he portrayed himself as the ‘enemy to ... injustice ... corn laws ... game laws, and ... all laws that mark a degrading contrast between the lazy and the industrious’.36 The Bristol Mercury commented: No one perhaps possesses greater tact in managing a mob; he mingles an indiscriminate abuse of the rich and the great with such an affectation of constitutional feeling and disinterested patriotism, that he never fails to carry the crowd along with him; they are led away by the enthusiasm of the moment ... they listen to the professions of the orator and they lose sight of his previous conduct.37 At Andover in September 1826, he took over proceedings at a protectionist meeting and carried a petition for corn law repeal.38 Hunt had re-entered City politics as a self-professed champion of reform and the rate-paying commonalty in 1824. As at Bristol, he campaigned for publication of the corporation accounts, and following his election as auditor in 1826 he exposed the system of feasting (‘guzzlings and gourmandizing’) that prevailed and pressed for reform, retrenchment and greater accountability. He failed to secure a seat on the common council in 1827 and 1828, but exposed the malpractices of the ‘City Jobbers’ in a petition to the Lords concerning the London Bridge bill (June 1829). Before his term as auditor lapsed in December 1829 he carried resolutions compelling officials to keep receipts and produce accounts promptly.39 Bentham grudgingly conceded his achievement, but doubted his long-term utility to the reform movement. Squibs and caricatures depicted him as a blacking man polishing the corporation accounts or hurling his wares.40 ‘Catechising’, a satire marking the establishment of King’s College, London in 1828, gave as its tenth commandment: ‘Thou shalt not buy Hunt’s matchless blacking, not his ink, nor his roasted grain, nor anything that is his’.41 He had advocated Catholic relief since 1819 and, nailing it firmly to reform, he opposed the restriction of the Irish freehold franchise condoned by Burdett in the 1825 bill and criticized Daniel O’Connell, as leader of the Catholic Association, for supporting it.42 He denounced the pro-Catholic Canning as an anti-reformer at the 1827 and 1828 Westminster anniversary meetings and tried to extract a public pledge for radical reform from O’Connell following his election for Clare.43 He accompanied Cobbett to the Kent anti-Catholic meeting at Penenden Heath, 24 Oct. 1828, when they failed to carry an anti-tithe amendment. Hunt carried a similar one in Westminster in 1829 and criticized O’Connell and Burdett privately, in the press and at the anniversary dinner for endorsing a bill that ‘sacrificed’ the 40s. Irish freeholder vote, 25 May. He also deliberately stumbled when the king was toasted and rose for reform.44 Next day, ‘to protect the poor from dissection’, he and Cobbett petitioned the Lords against relaxing restrictions on anatomical dissection.45 He campaigned to reform the parish vestries at Christchurch and Lambeth, Surrey, where he contended that the ‘whole of the ... householders’ were qualified to vote at Southwark elections, and defied Waithman by carrying a petition for inquiry into distress at the City traders’ meeting at the Mansion House, 22 Feb. 1830.46 His reform manifesto (issued jointly with Cobbett, 4 July 1829) was endorsed by the Radical Reform Association, but denounced as extreme by the Westminster Whigs, the Ultra Lord Blandford and at Brooks’s. He briefly aspired to alignment with the Birmingham Political Union established by Thomas Attwood†, despite their endorsement of Blandford’s reform scheme.47 On 8 Mar. 1830 he shared the platform with O’Connell at the City’s Eagle House tavern, to promote a petition for reform, universal suffrage and the ballot. Advocating ‘moral force’, he called for ‘no taxation without representation’ and cajoled the Radical Reform Association members present and their allies into forming the Metropolitan Political Union.48 The Charing Cross tailor Francis Place later wrote that Hunt’s acceptance of the office of treasurer ruined the Union. Several who had been named on the council [of 36] refused to act and nobody would subscribe money to be under the control or care of Mr. Hunt, and the Union was soon extinguished from want of money to pay its current expenses.49 He carried similar petitions in Surrey and in common hall. According to Hobhouse, at the Westminster dinner in May, Hunt met his match in the Newcasatle bookseller Eneas Mackenzie, who stifled his diatribes against O’Connell.50 Realizing his mistake in supporting Attwood and Blandford, he tried to seize supremacy for the Municipal Reform Union and the Radical Reform Association before the general election in July. Both subscribed towards his candidature for Preston that month, when his quarry was Lord Stanley’s son and heir Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley. His supporters, a coalition of Tories, radicals and the nascent political unions, mounted an ineffective campaign and he trailed throughout the five-day poll.51 His blacking business in Paris now failed, yet he welcomed the recent revolution in France.52 In the Northern industrial towns and at the Rotunda in Blackfriars Road that autumn he advocated reform as a means of avoiding insurrection in England.53 He presented reform addresses at the levee, 3 Nov., and similar petitions from the Rotunda and Glastonbury were received in his name, 16 Nov., 6 Dec. 1830.54 Government informants, caricaturists and commentators erroneously associated Hunt with ‘Captain Swing’ in Kent, plots for a Northern uprising and to disrupt the king’s visit to the City (which was cancelled), and rioting at Blackfriars, 8 Nov.55 According to Place: Information was given to the police commissioners that Henry Hunt was to lead 20,000 men from the Surrey side of the Thames over Blackfriars Bridge to Ludgate Hill to pay their respects to the king, and to let him hear the sentiments of the people. That Hunt could collect and lead twice that number I have no doubt, but I do not believe that any such a procession would have taken place.56 Bruised by a public spat with Richard Carlile and the deist Robert Taylor, he was on business in the West country, where he helped to pacify the ‘Swing’ rioters at Overton, Andover and Salisbury, when he learnt on 7 Dec. 1830 of his nomination at the Preston by-election caused by Smith Stanley’s appointment as the Grey ministry’s Irish secretary.57 He arrived on the 13th with the poll 3,311-2,853 in his favour and made Smith Stanley’s opposition to the ballot and the precipitate corn law repeal the main issues. He led by 3,730-3,392 when polling ceased, 15 Dec., and was declared the victor when the scrutiny was abandoned, 24 Dec. 1830.58 The much caricatured success of the ‘Preston Cock’ in ‘blacking’ and ‘hunting out’ Smith Stanley embarrassed ministers, as did his rallying of ‘the 3,730’ and unionists throughout the North-West and Midlands, where he ranted about his tribulations after Peterloo, before making his ‘grand entrance’ to London with his Preston sponsor Mitchell, 10 Jan. 1831. He announced that ‘like O’Connell, for Ireland’, he would have his own parliamentary office ‘for the people’, requested funding for it and made the Irish Catholic reformer John Fitzgerald his clerk.59 His celebrations exposed divisions and in-fighting in the London and northern unions.60 Thomas Creevey quipped that Hunt was ‘the best dressed country gentleman in the House’ on 3 Feb. 1831, when he took his seat between Hume and Warburton on the opposition benches, ‘side by side’ with the Tories.61 According to the New Monthly Magazine: But once, and that for a moment, did his self-possession seem to fail him while going through the ceremonies ... After the Member has signed his name, and taken the oaths, he is formally introduced to the Speaker, who usually greets the new trespasser on his patience by a shake of the hand. The ceremony is generally performed by the present Speaker with a gloved hand towards those not particularly distinguished by wealth or pedigree. When the new Member for Preston was introduced to him, he was in the act of taking snuff with his glove off ... Hunt made a bow, not remarkable for its graceful repose, at a distance - apprehensive ... that the acknowledgement would be that of a noli me tangere (don’t touch me) ... He was agreeably disappointed; the Speaker gave him his ungloved hand at once in a manner almost cordial.62 A self-professed independent, Hunt made over 1,000 parliamentary speeches between February 1831 and August 1832. He claimed to be the sole parliamentary spokesman for the unrepresented poor and the working classes and, from March 1832, ‘the only self-avowed radical in the House’. He learnt to exploit his ignorance of procedure, became adept at raising procedural points and steadfastly refused to be tempted into bringing breach of privilege motions. A staunch critic of the Whigs and their reform bill, on which his stance was confusing, he alienated himself from its middle class supporters and the Midland unions and was credited with fostering a schism between them and the Political Union of the Working Classes in Manchester. Hunt gave qualified support to a petition he presented from Thorne Falcon, Somerset, for tithe commutation and declared firmly for radical reform, the ballot, and corn law repeal, for which he also brought up a petition from Manchester, 3 Feb. 1831. As again, 4, 7, 15 Feb., he promised to legislate for it as the only true means of relief. His criticism of the civil list as ‘a bad earnest of ministers’ intentions’, 4 Feb., brought a patronizing response from the first lord of the admiralty Sir James Graham, and Thomas Gladstone* noted that his natural enough ignorance of the forms of the House was very amusing. He constantly addressed Lord Althorp as ‘You, Sir, have said and done’ so and so, which according to the forms of the House, of course was applied to the Speaker.63 As announced in The Times, 22 Jan., he urged clemency towards the convicted ‘Swing’ rioters, 3, 4 Feb., and, with Hume seconding, requested it in an ‘excessively prosy’ two-hour speech and lost the division (by 269-2), 8 Feb. It prompted hostile exchanges with Benett, whose property the rioters had targeted, but when Admiral Sir Joseph Yorke claimed that Hunt would have responded differently had his blacking factory been attacked, he declined to ‘treat the House with a battle between my blacking and his bilge-water’.64 Greville deemed his ‘manner and appearance very good, like a country gentleman of the old school, a sort of rural dignity about it, very civil, good humoured, and respectful to the House, but dull; listened to however, and very well received’.65 The caricaturist Heath portrayed his ‘matchless eloquence’ as an exploding jar of blacking. Others depicted him as a ‘handsome and promising pupil’ on York’s knee.66 He demanded no taxation without representation, 8 Feb., and accused ministers that day and the next, when he brought up a petition from the Rotunda, of threatening to subdue Ireland by force: ‘Repeal the tithe laws and you will hear no more of the repeal of the Union’. He presented the Dublin tin-workers’ petition for the latter, 14 Feb. By the 28th, when he moved for and was named to the select committee of six on the reform petitions, he had presented and endorsed dozens forwarded to him daily by radicals and union branches. Most requested the ballot. Several called for short parliaments, universal suffrage, lower taxes, vestry reform, the abolition of tithes and corn law repeal. Making light of projected opposition to a wide-ranging ministerial measure, he said that ‘government need not expect to satisfy the country without granting ... the ballot’, 25 Feb., and made his support conditional on its concession, 26, 28 Feb. As the self-professed ‘representative of the people’, he applauded the removal of taxes in the budget but called for a reduction of the duty on soap instead of the ‘disgusting weed’ tobacco, for a property tax and ‘significant reductions’ in expenditure and official salaries, 11 Feb. (and again, 9 Dec. 1831, 27 Jan., 28 Feb. 1832). He reiterated his plea for a graduated property tax, criticized ministers for ‘nibbling away at ... trivial taxes’ and praised the Wellington ministry for carrying the repeal of the Test Acts, Catholic relief and the 1830 Sale of Beer Act, which, unlike most parliamentary radicals, he considered beneficial to the working classes, 14 Feb. 1831. (He opposed petitions for its repeal, 30 June, 3, 17, 24 Aug., 5 Sept. 1831, and Hill Trevor’s ‘premature’ attempt to amend it by curtailing opening hours, 31 May 1832, but conceded that beer houses and public houses should keep the same hours. He echoed Hume’s criticism of expenditure on Buckingham House, ‘a wretched mix of mud and magnificence, built in such a place that no person could put his head out of a window without looking at the back door of some filthy public house’, 15 Feb. 1831. He had testified before the 1828 Lords’ select committee on the game laws,67 and commenting that day on Lord Althorp’s measure, he criticized game keepers, advised extending sales and commended Lord Radnor’s policy of permitting tenants to shoot. He offered to back government on the sugar duties, ‘principally because we are so near the 1st of March’ and the introduction of the reform bill, 21 Feb. 1831. He nevertheless forced a division against the army estimates that day, which he lost by 250-6. He speculated about the details of the reform bill with Henry Bulwer in the Commons tearoom before they were announced, and the magnitude of the proposed changes confused and confounded him.68 He briefly declared for the bill, 2 Mar., but, later that day, drawing on his experience at Peterloo, Ilchester and Preston, he criticized the proposed £10 householder vote and the omission of the ballot, short parliaments and universal suffrage. According to Hobhouse, he ‘talked like an ass about Ilchester gaol; indeed he is a very silly fellow’.69 Hudson Gurney* thought that his ‘speech would have been the best had he known where to stop’.70 He presented and endorsed further radical reform petitions, 4, 9 Mar., and justified his support for the bill because it affected corporations like the City of London’s, 4 Mar. Reporting from the select committee, 11 Mar., he explained that 280 of the 645 reform petitions received, 5 Nov. 1830-4 Mar. 1831, requested the ballot, 239 lower taxes, 182 short parliaments, and 70 the abolition of tithes; 179 sought reform of the Scottish electoral system. He confirmed that he intended dividing for the bill despite its shortcomings, but he refused to praise it and criticized the curtailment in the suffrage of Preston.71 He brought up radical reform petitions, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22 Mar., expressed support for the bill ‘as a City liveryman’, 16 Mar., but confirmed on the 19th that he sought ‘more extensive reform’. Before dividing for the second reading, 22 Mar., he commended a concession giving resident freemen a ‘life interest’ in their constituencies, and claimed that his vote was ‘justified in the eyes of the country’. To taunts and deliberate coughing by the anti-reformers (he offered them lozenges), he refuted Henry Bankes and John Calcraft’s claims that he had been ‘bought off’ by Lord John Russell. Afterwards, his criticism of the bill intensified and he insisted that the potential increase in landlord and landowner influence made the ballot imperative, 24, 25 Mar. His objections to the civil list expenditure that day were shouted down from both sides of the House. Cobbett’s Political Register accused him of colluding with the Tories to ‘destroy the bill’ by denying it unequivocal support and threatened to sponsor a pre-emptive campaign to unseat him at Preston (where his election expenses remained unpaid), unless he toed the line on reform like his colleague Wood. The ‘Preston Cock’ defended his parliamentary conduct in a scathing reply to the ‘Kensington Dunghill’.72 He rallied the extreme radicals, or ‘Huntites’ as they became known, during his Easter progress to Preston, where he maintained that the bill enfranchised the middle classes at the labourers’ expense. Critics promptly exploited differences between Hunt’s parliamentary and extra-parliamentary speeches.73 Introducing a new tone to the latter, and with frequent references to distress in Lancashire’s manufacturing districts, from 12 Apr. he declared daily to cheers from the anti-reformers (they issued free copies of his speeches) that the people were ‘not quite so mad for the bill’ as ministers surmised, now they realized it would ‘not make bread and clothes cheaper’. He poured scorn on the promised £10 votes and predicted a hostile ‘reaction’ to reform.74 The Tory Henry Goulburn* thought his pronouncement the ‘severest blow’ yet inflicted against the government and the bill. Greville observed: ‘The man’s drift is not very clear whether the bill is really unpalatable at Preston, or whether he wants to go further directly’.75 Fearing his influence in the country and with the division on Gascoyne’s wrecking amendment looming, O’Connell, Hume, and the ministerial reformers pre-empted and disputed his claims of ‘reaction’: Edward Littleton criticized his speech at Darleston, 14 Apr., Lord Stanley his inattention to Lancashire and constituency business, 18 Apr.76 Replying, he maintained that only Archibald Prentice’s Manchester Times and John Foster’s Leeds Patriot accurately reported his ‘country’ speeches (he corresponded with both editors). He stood by his claim (of 24 Mar.) that the bill would only enfranchise ten per cent of the population and leave 7,000,000 unrepresented. Before dividing against Gascoyne, 19 Apr., he repeated that the bill would not ‘bring ... cheaper food’. His vote failed to impress his critics. Hume denounced him in the Commons, 20 Apr., and he was caricatured ‘Rat catching’, ‘Between two stools’ (government and opposition) and ‘Hunt-ing’.77 In Manchester, 3 May 1831, he said that he preferred the ‘open enmity of the Tories to [the] false friendship of the Whigs’.78 Ever disruptive, Hunt failed to dominate or unite the Lancashire unionists at the general election and only narrowly avoided a contest at Preston, where Hume and Place, acting on behalf of the Loyal and Patriotic Fund Committee, sent the reformer George De Lacy Evans* to oppose him.79 He called on the hustings for corn law repeal and radical reform and vilified Wood for deferring to ministers and rejecting his political leadership. This alienated the Manchester Times, which cautioned that Hunt went ‘too far’.80 He was shouted down as a Tory turncoat when he proposed the Exeter radical Thomas Northmore at the Somerset election and strove afterwards to build up support for his brand of radicalism in the North, where he addressed over 65,000 in Manchester in June. He found the London-based National Union of the Working Classes less compliant. His Address to the Radical Reformers of Lancashire and Yorkshire (a damning critique of the bill) and meetings organized by the Manchester cotton-spinner John Doherty encouraged petitioning for universal suffrage on the Preston model (excluding paupers and convicts only), annual parliaments and the ballot.81 The bill’s advocates sought to undermine his influence through false reporting and a trumped up charge of short-payment of a hackney cab fare. The anti-reformers, with whom he engaged briefly in mutual flattery, planned to exploit his comments on the labourers’ indifference to the bill and ‘reaction’.82 In late May 1831 the cartoon, Thoughts on Reform, No. 2, depicted him stating, ‘This Reform will not do for me. I must cause a row somehow or other or my matchless oratory will be laid on the shelf’.83 Assessing his prospects at the start of the session, he informed Foster, 17 June 1831: We have chosen our old Speaker again (in spite of the lies of the London press) unanimously. It would have been a great loss if he had not been elected ... He is firm, courteous, and truly impartial, for this the Whigs and Tories hate him and would, if they had dared, put in a tool of their own, Littleton. Thank God they dare not attempt it ... I shall give notice of a motion the first day to rescind the ridiculous resolution wherein we resolve ‘that it is a breach of our privileges for a peer ... to interfere in the election of Members ... This all the world must see not only as a humbug, but a fraud upon the king ... I shall take leave in spite of The Times or the Courier and all the ministerial press, to do that which I think is best to serve the cause of my country and to say whatever I think will best serve the interest of my poor and suffering countrymen and, as long as I have health and strength, I will never cease to advocate the rights of the useful, the labouring classes of the community.84 (He vainly proposed his resolutions, 21, 22 June 1831.) On the address, 21 June, he called for assistance for the Poles against ‘Russian tyranny’ and information on the suppression of the riots in Merthyr Tydfil and Ireland. He predicted that the reintroduced reform bill would be carried by a large majority and explained that unless the Tories introduced a more extensive measure, he would vote for but speak against it, with a view to reducing the £10 qualification and amending its details. Bringing up petitions for the ballot from Preston and Somerset, 23 June, he denied O’Connell’s charge that he was an ‘enemy of reform’ who had sold himself to the Tories and deceived the people, and condemned the Parliamentary Candidates Society for interfering at Preston. Waithman’s caustic comment that he used the pronoun ‘I’ 75 times that day was caricatured in ‘Cacoathes Loquendi: the blacking bottle and the yard stick’.85 He presented and endorsed the anti-reform petitions he had sought from the Northern radicals, 24, 30 June, 1, 4, 5 July, but divided for the reintroduced bill at its second reading, 6 July. He vented his spleen against The Poor Man’s Guardian, the ‘most abominable trash written’, for misreporting, 29 June, and against Wood and Benjamin Heywood (who retaliated) for refusing to fully endorse the 19,409-signature radical reform petition of the Manchester working classes, 8 July; he introduced others 11, 12, 14 July.86 Severely heckled for snubbing Wood, he taunted ministers about the production of celebratory reform medals and criticized the bill as ‘undemocratic’, 8, 12 July. He divided for adjournment that day and reaffirmed his intention of moving for a taxpayer franchise and new legislation to ensure that peers who influenced elections were punished. His call for a £10,000 fine and a years’ imprisonment for the first offence was uproariously rejected. He voted to retain the 1821 census as the determinant of English borough disfranchisements, 19 July, and generally for the schedule A and B disfranchisements, but was a minority teller for that of Saltash, which ministers no longer pressed, 26 July. He held aloof when the anti-reformers’ defended ‘rotten’ and nomination boroughs, but helped them almost daily to delay the bill by presenting petitions and preaching radical reform (18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28 July, 16 Aug.) and quibbling over the arrangements for Wiltshire’s boroughs, 29, 30 July. On the schedule C and D enfranchisements, he contributed to the furore against the anti-reformers’ proposals to unite Manchester and Salford, 2 Aug., welcomed the metropolitan borough representation for Greenwich, 3 Aug., and Finsbury, complained that Chelsea was not awarded it and voted to give an additional Member to Stoke, 4 Aug. (He did not share Burdett and Wood’s preference for single Member constituencies.) He spoke against transferring Gateshead’s seat to Merthyr, 5 Aug. On the 8th he presented and endorsed a temperate petition from the Manchester Political Union urging the prompt passage of the bill despite its faults, and declined to comment on that of the National Union of the Working Classes of the Metropolis for radical reform and against compulsory emigration. He objected to ‘swamping Rochester’ and Strood with the government borough of Chatham, 9 Aug. That day the Poor Man’s Guardian, which on 16 July had reported that he was ‘regularly insulted, and unsupported, even by that traitor O’Connell’, criticized him for endorsing the enfranchising portions of the bill, though he knows how much opposed his constituents are to the principle, and how injurious it will be to the labouring classes, to have the middlemen added to the ranks of their already too powerful opponents. We must with candour say, we cannot reconcile his acts with the sentiments which he must entertain upon the subject.87 He repeated the parliamentary radicals’ objections to the proposed county divisions, 11 Aug., especially the five Member Hampshire constituency, 16 Aug., without voting against them. However, his support for the enfranchisement of tenants-at-will, 18 Aug., with the ballot as imperative to it, 19 Aug., was wholehearted. Joining in the fray on renting and rating, he failed (by 123-1) with an amendment substituting a ratepayer franchise for a £10 householder vote, 24 Aug. (the anti-reformers opposed it as ‘Utopian’), and (by 353-10) with one for the enfranchisement of ‘ten-pounders’ paying rent quarterly, 25 Aug. His ‘compromise proposal’ to exempt the unfranchised from militia service and the payment of rates and taxes was not seconded, 26 Aug. It, however, satisfied the extreme radicals, whose support he courted in the wake of Mitchell’s declaration that month ‘for Cobbett, the bill and gradual reform’. During his ‘Northern tour’ Hunt attacked Wood, Heywood and Manchester’s wealthy mill-owning reformers and alluded to Lord Stanley by his Commons nickname, ‘Tongs’.88 Presenting the Westminster Union of the Working Classes’ reform petition, 30 Aug. (and again, 13 Sept.), he pronounced The Times’s attempt to promote county reform meetings a failure and cited the lack of petitions endorsing the bill in its entirety as proof of its waning popularity. This provoked a furious response from Hume, O’Connell and his ally Richard Lalor Sheil, who denounced him as a ‘false prophet’. He quibbled over the appointment of the boundary commission, to which he wanted Members seconded, 1, 5, 15 Sept. Drawing on his experience at Preston and Westminster, he criticized the bill’s provisions for registration and polling, 5, 6, 13, 15 Sept., and objected to Lord Lansdowne’s borough of Calne retaining two seats, 15 Sept. He protested at the House’s refusal to consider the penalties he proposed for peers guilty of influencing elections, 7 Sept., and spoke similarly when a petition was introduced criticizing the marquess of Salisbury’s influence at Hertford, 21 Sept. He divided for the bill’s third reading, 19 Sept., and prefaced his vote for its passage, 21 Sept., with a hostile and frequently interrupted speech criticizing Althorp’s failure to prevent the press inciting the lower classes to riot and testifying to the increasing apathy towards the bill’s fate. He reserved the ‘right of petitioning the ... Lords to alter certain clauses’. He divided for the Scottish reform bill at its second reading, 23 Sept., presented and endorsed the unionists’ petitions for the ballot, 26 Sept., 3 Oct., and when a motion for papers on the cancellation of the king’s November 1830 visit to the City was refused, deemed himself the best qualified Member to comment, 4 Oct. Drawn into the debate on Lord Ebrington’s confidence motion (which he voted against) by O’Connell’s provocative claim that he had attended the Marylebone meeting that endorsed it, 10 Oct., he revealed that he had not been invited and had chaired the Rotunda meeting which rejected the motion by 2,000-7: I told the meeting that I had no confidence in ... ministers ... because they came in on pledges of economy, retrenchment and reform, which pledges they had violated. The kind of reform which they propose I have never advocated in my life; and I am sure it will give no satisfaction to the people at large. He delivered a litany of complaints against the bill, the civil list, government expenditure on the Society for the Propagation of the Gospels and royal residences and their refusal to concede inquiry into the Deacles’ case and treatment of the Newtownbarry rioters. He castigated the press for ‘making the people believe ministers would achieve more than they have done’: I have all my life contended that every man in the community should have a share in the representation; and I am sure that nothing less will satisfy the people of England than householders’ suffrage and triennial parliaments. I am neither Whig nor Tory, but will join either party which will give something like a principle of reform, which will not draw an arbitrary line, saying that a man living in a £10 house shall have a vote, whilst he who lives in a £9 house shall have none. The principle of scot and lot voting would, if introduced, have had some reason to it, because it is founded on the constitution, and because a man, not then having a vote, would ... be able to see the reason why he should not have a vote. He testified to the reform bill’s unpopularity and the differences between the unionists of Birmingham who advocated non-payment of taxes to secure its passage (which, differing from Hume, he claimed was illegal) and those of Manchester who did not, and blamed the press for inciting trouble, 12, 13, 17 Oct., endorsed the unionists’ petitions that Hume found too radical, 19 Oct. 1831, and had the Birmingham one printed. A cartoon, ‘the led Bear’, portrayed him and Attwood leading the king.89 The Midland unions mistrusted his motives and remained suspicious of his conduct.90 He received a particularly bad press in the wake of the reform bill’s defeat in the Lords and the riots in Bristol, Derby and Nottingham.91 Deeming libel actions pointless, he retaliated during the recess by issuing a series of self-congratulatory penny Addresses ‘to the Radical Reformers of England, Ireland and Scotland, on the Whig Ministers, since they have been in place and power’ and toured the North to rally the working classes with a view to reviving the Great Northern Union of the Working Classes.92 Denouncing its architect Russell (‘little Isaac’), he said the reform bill was a ploy to transfer power to the Whigs and Unitarians, adding: ‘The bill, the eternal Whig Bill, as sent up to the House of Lords, is no more like the bill which was first submitted to Parliament, than a horse chestnut is like a chestnut horse’.93 Pursuing a jealous vendetta against O’Connell, the darling of the Midland unions, he also publicized an allegation that his rival had fathered a child in 1818 by Ellen Courteney.94 A vituperative article in The Times, ‘Hunt turned author’, claimed that his ‘blacking’ campaign was financed by the Tories. The Whig Preston Chronicle condemned him as a selfish and inflammatory speaker and inept legislator.95 Through the Poor Man’s Guardian and from January 1832 the unstamped ‘Letters from the 3,730’ (which replaced his ‘Addresses’), he made martyrs of his imprisoned followers William Ashmore, Nathan Broadhurst and Edward Curran, and launched inflammatory diversionary campaigns for inquiry into Peterloo and against the coroners’ bill, which he termed the cannibal or dead body bill, so deploying arguments against anatomical dissection that he had used effectively in 1828-9 to curry favour with the City mob.96 He proposed an (unseconded) amendment to the address for a 24-hour adjournment which, like his speech prefacing it, attributed distress and the attendant unrest to the 1819 currency change ‘without a correspondent reduction in taxation’, provoked by the government’s policy of ‘prohibiting the importation of necessaries and encouraging that of luxuries’, 6 Dec. 1831. He accused ministers of condoning the political unions when it suited them and turning against them when they asked for more, and confidently countered claims from both sides of the House when reform petitions were presented, 7 Dec.97 He acknowledged improvements in the revised bill, such as the transfer of Calne to schedule B and the removal of restrictions on the mode of rent payment by £10 voters, but contended that it would leave nine-tenths of the population unfranchised (which ministers denied) and cited the case of Bolton, with its 680 £10 houses and 14,000 adult males, to prove his point, 12 Dec. He divided for its second reading, 17 Dec., but ministers failed to prevent him trumpeting its failings and criticizing their civil list immediately before the division. He featured in a cartoon of the debate, ‘Rather Alarming, or the Reception of the New Bill’, and subsequently as a thorn in John Bull’s flesh.98 On 11 Jan. 1832 he was tried on a trumped up assault charge, but discharged.99 He endorsed the Manchester Political Union’s petition criticizing the revised bill’s failings (proprietorial control, long parliaments, no ballot and a £10 borough vote), and was trounced by Hume for denouncing the measure, 19 Jan. He opposed its committal and commenced his endless quibbling, 20 Jan. He objected to giving the sheriffs of Lancashire and Middlesex the right to appoint returning officers, 24 Jan., and spoke in favour of dividing counties but against ‘unicorn’ three and four Member constituencies, 27 Jan. He confirmed his support for the enfranchisement of tenants-at-will, 1 Feb. Pressing the case of Preston, where £6 houses predominated, he failed (by 290-11) to substitute scot and lot for the £10 borough franchise, 2 Feb., and opposed the anti-reformer Vernon’s proposal for a £10 poor rate franchise on the grounds that it would reduce the size of the electorate, 3 Feb. He found little support that day for his proposal to exempt Preston from the bill’s provisions (rejected by 206-5), or for a similar motion on Stamford, 19 Mar. He contributed to futile discussions on rating warehouses and farm buildings, 7 Feb. Three days later he announced that would vote to create peers to carry the bill, but complained that it placed too much power in the hands of lawyers. His amendment limiting the cost of the booths and hustings was a ploy to transfer the expense from the candidates to the constituencies and failed (by 154-4), 15 Feb. He spoke and voted to retain Appleby in schedule A, 21 Feb., Helston in schedule B, 23 Feb., and Tower Hamlets in schedule C, 28 Feb., and objected to the anti-reformers time-wasting attempt that day to procure separate representation for Toxteth Park. He was called to order several times for criticizing the yeomanry and making obstructive interventions on Helston and Dartmouth, 2 Mar. He thought Gateshead deserved separate enfranchisement, but voted in the minority to transfer its seat to Merthyr, ‘a town penalized as a Methodist stronghold and on account of the 1831 riots’, 5 Mar. Choosing between Doncaster and Wakefield on the 9th, he spoke sarcastically of the need to represent the Jockey Club at Doncaster and pressed Wakefield’s claim. He welcomed the concession of a Monmouthshire seat to Merthyr, 14 Mar. Dixon ensured on the 22nd that Hunt’s comments on the Glasgow Political Union’s petition were not heard, but ministers failed to prevent him repeating his criticisms of the bill before dividing for its third reading that day. Aligning with the Tory opposition to the judges’ compensation bill, 10 Apr., he explained: As long as Tories sit on this side of the House and take up the argument they now do, I myself am a Tory; but when they go to the other side of the House again, I shall remain here with the Whigs. When the government’s resignation over the king’s refusal to create peers to carry the bill through the Lords was announced, 9 May, Hunt accused them of gross deceit, as the people had been led to believe that they had had that power for the past 12 months. He left without voting on Ebrington’s confidence motion next day.100 Before doing so, he expressed regret at the bill’s defeat, projected it as an opportunity for political realignment and complained that the people had been duped into believing that William IV supported reform. He also ranted against the Whigs’ failure to live up to their promises to reduce the civil list and the army and (as 18 Apr.) for financing Russian aggression in Poland. On 11 May he endorsed the ‘temperate’ Manchester petition for withholding supplies until reform was secured and concurred in Hume’s bid to adjourn the House to forestall premature debate. He approved Hume’s statement that only a Whig administration could ‘tranquilize’ the country, 14 May.101 He declared that he ‘would vote to stop supply’, when Lancashire cotton towns petitioned thus, 17 May, and objected to similar petitions being shelved, following the Grey ministry’s reinstatement, 18 May. He praised the orderly conduct of his followers at mass meetings that month and on 13 June warned of disappointments in the aftermath of the bill’s passage as expectations ran high.102 He divided for the second reading of the Irish reform bill, 25 May, and called for the restoration of the 40s. Irish freeholder vote, 13, 14, 18 June. He divided in O’Connell’s minority for a £5 freeholder franchise that day, for Sheil’s unsuccessful amendment to the Irish borough franchise, 29 June, and complained that ministers had treated the Irish ‘disgracefully’, 13, 18, 29 June, 2 July. He was refused a hearing on the Scottish bill and voted silently for the proposed dismemberment of Perthshire, 15 June. He voted to alter Stamford’s proposed boundaries, 22 June, and continued to press for the ballot, universal suffrage and annual parliaments, 14, 18, 24, June, 3 Aug. After much bantering that day he withdrew a petition for the enfranchisement of unmarried women. He criticized the Reform Act as a ‘landlords’ bill’ to the last, 15 Aug. He opposed (as a minority teller) Alexander Baring’s ‘useless’ bill to deny debtors parliamentary privilege, ‘as it is self evident that persons who, by their improvidence have reduced themselves to poverty and rendered themselves liable to arrest, are not fit to be entrusted with the power of legislating for the property of others’, and because it did not extend to the Lords, 30 May, 27 June 1832. When the Tory John Herries ordered papers on the Russian-Dutch loan, 17 Dec. 1831, Hunt said that he also supported investigation: the ‘two extremes’, the ‘Radicals and Tories, will meet’. He opposed government on the issue, on grounds of economy and because they had attempted to interfere with the authority of the House, 26 Jan. 1832. However, perceiving it as a question between two great parties, ‘one of whom desired to keep in office, and the other to get into it’, he refrained from voting on the matter again, despite his objections to the payments to Russia, 20 July. He divided with government on Portugal, 9 Feb., and echoed Baring’s claim that there was nothing to choose between Dom Pedro and Dom Miguel, 26 Mar. 1832. Hunt’s increasing radicalism and tendency to obfuscation through personal perspectives and repartee was better suited to public meetings than to the Commons, and was apparent on all issues. He voted in the minority for appointing 11 of its original members to the Dublin election committee, 29 July, was named to it, 31 July, and spoke and voted in favour of printing the evidence before issuing a new writ, 8 Aug. 1831. Impervious to Wood and O’Connell’s arguments that it was a ploy to delay the reform bill, he promised to expose corruption at the highest level in Ireland. Refusing to be silenced by Smith Stanley, he defended the Grattans, exposed the viceroy’s agent Baron Twyll’s intrigues and voted to censure the Irish government for electoral interference, 23 Aug. Nor would he condone corruption in Liverpool, although he agreed that the town should be ‘amply represented’. He voted against issuing a new writ, 5 Sept., and when it was authorized, 12 Oct., accused ministers of ‘playing a little double in this affair’. He presented and endorsed the Westminster Political Union’s petition condemning Russian aggression in Poland, 8 Aug., but refused to back the Ultra Sir Richard Vyvyan’s ‘time-wasting’ motion for papers on the French annexation of Belgium, 18 Aug. On 23 Aug. the foreign secretary Lord Palmerston* told the cabinet that he had informed the French that no party in England, from Grey to Wellington to Hunt, would bear French interference in Dutch diplomatic negotiations.103 Hunt considered corn law repeal more important to the labouring classes than parliamentary reform and ordered papers, 27 June, 1, 22 July, and presented and endorsed repeal petitions, 13, 19, 22, 25, 30 July, 9, 12 Aug. (including a Preston one rejected by 121-6), 13, 30 Aug. 1831 preparatory to moving for it. The motion’s postponement to accommodate the reform bill infuriated its extra-parliamentary advocates, and the Poor Man’s Guardian of 3 Sept. commented: Why Master Hunt, we hardly understand this conduct of yours; do you, or do you not, approve of this reform bill, which you own will do more harm than good to the unrepresented millions, whose champion you profess to be? ... a measure which would lessen the price of bread is of paramount importance to such a canting hypocritical party measure as the middle man’s reform.104 O’Connell, a fellow victim of Hetherington’s pen, tactically raised the libellous comment when Hunt’s ‘untimely’ call for corn law repeal was rejected (by 194-6), 15 Sept. Afterwards he placated the Poor Man’s Guardian by having his speech printed, preparatory to renewing the attempt and by challenging Hume and Sadler to support a motion for repeal of the assessed taxes and the malt duties, 18 Oct., 19 Oct. 1831.105 He was happy to let Lord Milton’s corn law repeal motion take precedence over his own, 30 May, but clamoured successfully for its re-instatement directly Milton’s was rescinded, 15 June, and promoted it as the only effective means of reducing prices to assist the poor, 3 July 1832. Hunt’s criticism of the £170,000 grant for the yeomanry highlighted their use in recent civil disturbances and was attacked from both sides of the House, 27 June 1831. He presented and endorsed petitions against the East India Company’s monopoly, 27 June, 15 July, and charged the government with profligacy and failure to retrench, 27, 30 June, 1, 8, 11, 18, 25 July. He voted to reduce official salaries to 1797 levels, 30 June, and against ‘robbing the poor weavers’ to finance professors’ salaries, 8 July 1831, 13 Apr. 1832. He seconded a motion for civil list reductions (defeated by 142-41), 18 July 1831, and failed to curb spending on the Society for the Propagation of the Gospels (by 155-27), 25 July, the queen’s coronation robes, 3 Aug., and the queen dowager, 19 Aug. He was unsupported on the last two occasions, and failed to goad Hume (who opposed it) into seeking reductions in the coronation expenditure, 31 Aug. However, Hume seconded his motion for deploying part of the award to discharge the debts of imprisoned crown debtors, ‘as an act of grace’ 6 Sept. When he attended the ceremony, 8 Sept., Littleton observed, ‘strange to say [Hunt] seems always to dress himself with taste’.106 He failed to make an issue of Princess Victoria’s absence, 20 Sept. He objected to paying the balance of compensation payments due to the deported ‘free coloureds’ Louis Lecesne and John Escoffery, 22 Aug., and joined in the clamour against the Windsor Castle and Buckingham House expenditure, 28 Sept. Goaded by the anti-reformer Sir Charles Wetherell’s references to charity management in Bristol, he opposed a ministerial amendment to Hobhouse’s vestries reform bill, 30 Sept. He was a teller for a minority of three that day against the Lords’ amendments to the game bill, which he complained was a ‘landlord’s bill’ (18 Aug.) that left the powers of arrest and the treatment of poachers unchanged (19 Oct.). He opposed the general register bill as ‘a job’ which would ‘bring grist to the lawyer’s mill’, 20 Sept., 4, 11 Oct. 1831, 20, 27 Jan., 2 Feb. 1832. He was against renewing the Sugar Refinery Act without prior inquiry, 7 Oct. He also objected to Wood’s attempt to rush through lord chancellor Brougham’s bankruptcy court bill, ‘a great overpowering job’, 12, 14, 17 Oct. 1831. On Irish affairs, which he complained took up an inordinate amount of Parliament’s time, 27 Sept., he drew parallels between Peterloo and the ‘affrays’ at Newtownbarry and Castle Pollard, 23, 30 June, 1, 11 July, 11 Aug. 1831, and voted that day to print the Waterford petition for disarming the yeomanry. To taunts from the government benches that he was the tool of the Tories and Irish radicals, which he denied, he introduced and supported petitions for repeal of the Union and tithe reform, 23, 27 June, 1, 4 July, 5 Aug. He refused to instigate breach of privilege proceedings when The Times repeated the allegations, 12 Aug. He agreed with Hume that land taken from Catholics at the reformation should be ‘applied’ to public purposes, 14 Sept., agitated for government assistance for the Irish poor and objected to delays in legislating for them, 25 July, 10, 12 Aug., 26 Sept. Taunted by O’Connell that day, he defended, as he had on 28 June, the principle, but not the administration, of the English Elizabethan poor law. He welcomed Sadler’s relief scheme, 11 Oct. When he praised the Royal Dublin Society and criticized Smith Stanley’s Irish grand jury bill as a cumbersome substitute for wholesale reform, Lord Sandon* informed Smith Stanley, 29 Sept., that ‘Hunt opposes you out of spite and revenge at being treated by contempt by the Whigs, and because he can be more of a personage as a radical among the Tories, than as a mere follower with O’Connell and Hume.’107 He supported investigation into the Deacles’ allegations against the Hampshire magistracy (a popular issue in Preston), 21 July, 15, 16, 19, 22, 27 Sept. 1831, 23 Feb. 1832, and objected to their cause being taken up by O’Connell instead of De Lacy Evans, 19 Sept., 5 Oct. 1831. Although he had no time for their ‘very Utopian doctrines’, he presented petitions and raised complaints about the prison treatment of Taylor, 22 July, 15, 23 Aug., 13, 22 Sept., 7 Oct., 7 Dec., Carlile, 3 Aug., 22 Sept., the Rev. Samuel Seaton, 11 Aug., and the journalist William Carpenter, 22 Sept. 1831, and invariably drew parallels between their cases and his experience at Ilchester. His recalcitrance and verbosity were unabated. He harried ministers for a select committee on the silk industry on behalf of the Bethnal Green weavers, 9 Dec. 1831, 21 Feb., and welcomed its concession, 1 Mar., but complained that by composition it was a ‘free trade committee’, 5 Mar. 1832. He supported inquiry into the distressed glove trade, 19, 31 Jan., protested at the proposed expenditure on the royal residences, 17 Jan., 23 Mar., and criticized the general lack of retrenchment, 6 Feb.108 He prevaricated over the navy estimates, 13 Feb., and, condemning troop deployments to quell reform riots, he vainly called for a 10,000 (17 Feb.) or 8,000-man (28 Mar.) reduction in the army, 28 Mar. He protested at the cost of the Milford Haven establishment (under the navy civil departments bill), 27 Feb., and shipbuilding costs, 29 June. He opposed the payment to the lord privy seal, 13 Apr., and pressed pointless divisions that day against the secret service grant. Ever critical, he voted to reduce the barrack grant, 2 July, raised several objections to the Irish, 18 July, and colonial estimates, 23 July, and welcomed the cut that day in the award for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospels. He supported inquiry into the Inns of Court, 17 July, and made his support for Hume’s abortive bill to exclude the recorder of Dublin from the Commons conditional on an extension of its provisions to quarter sessions chairmen and others with pressing extra-parliamentary duties, 24 July. He acquiesced in the grant of £100,000 for hurricane damage in Barbados on humanitarian grounds, but called for similar assistance for Bristol and Bethnal Green, 29 Feb. Claiming that cleanliness (untaxed soap) and ventilation afforded the best means of combating cholera, he entertained Members with a reference to the ‘hot air coming up in this House from a very impure source’, 13 Feb., and stressed the inability of the metropolitan districts, especially poor and populous Bethnal Green, to implement the provisions of the cholera prevention bill, 14, 16 Feb. He voted in Hume’s minority of ten that day against including a reference to ‘Almighty God’ in the preamble of the Scottish cholera bill. As requested by Foster and the Leeds Union, he supported Sadler’s bill restricting the hours of child factory labour and endorsed favourable petitions, 1, 7, 10, 28 Feb., but cautioned against trapping the bill in a lengthy committee by legislating for workers up 23-years-old, 20, 29 Feb. He inveighed against those who would perpetuate child labour ‘on grounds of political economy’, 7, 14, 16 Mar. He supported the forgery mitigation bill as a committed opponent of capital punishment, 17, 29 May, and complained of the futility of sending popular measures to the Upper House when they returned to the Commons too late to be salvaged, 15 Aug. He supported the unions’ campaign for the repeal of stamp duty on newsprint, but thought it best left to a reformed Parliament, so he ‘refrained’ from presenting ‘no less than 40 petitions’ he had received requesting it, 14 June. Goaded by references to the Poor Man’s Guardian and the Address of the Electors of Preston, he defied government to put the Preston paper down, 24 July: That is not a periodical, but is called "the 3,730" in honour of the number that sent me to Parliament. One of these 3,730 published an address every week; so that though there is no continuation within the law, we are likely to have 3,730 numbers of the address before the publication is at an end. He presented petitions from the wives of printers imprisoned for selling unstamped papers, 1 Aug. 1832. Hunt voted in the minority for vestry reform, 23 Jan., and a reduction in the sugar duties as a means of lower sugar and tea prices to assist the labouring classes, 7 Mar. 1832. He also acknowledged the ‘real need’ of the planters and accused the Whigs of changing their mind on equalization after attaining office. He opposed the crown colonies relief bill, 3 Aug. He had no objection to awarding a pension on his anticipated retirement to Manners Sutton, ‘who has taken for his maxim that the House should be rode with a snaffle-bridle, and not with a curb’ 1 Aug.,109 or paying the lord chancellor by salary instead of fees, 8 Aug., but considering that suggested too high, he supported Hume’s bid to reduce it, 8 Aug. He proposed a further £1,000 reduction (which was defeated by 60-2), 9 Aug. Althorp, whom he provoked on 18 June by threatening to move to exempt members of the Bank Charter committee from secrecy, was irritated by his repeated accusations that ministers were ‘promising not performing’ on retrenchment, 2, 9 Aug. 1832. Opposition to anatomical dissection and the coroners bill, which his colleague Wood praised, was (with radical reform, corn law repeal and inquiry into Peterloo), central to Hunt’s campaign to win over the lower classes and secure re-election for Preston in 1832.110 He objected to the introduction of the anatomy bill, 12, 15 Dec. 1831,111 was a minority teller against its second reading, 17 Jan., and presented and endorsed hostile petitions, 24 Jan., 3, 15 Feb. 1832. He lost three obstructive divisions (by 87-4, 79-1 and 78-0), 24 Jan., condemned the sale of bodies, 6 Feb., and objected to the measure being timetabled at night when the House could be counted out, 9 Feb. The Preston ‘3,730’ were informed that he stood ‘alone against the principle of that bill’ and ‘only when he is occasionally absent in the early hours of the morning are its clauses carried’.112 He tempered his harangue against its recommittal with citations from medical experts to little effect and the House divided against him (by 64-13 and 59-7), 27 Feb. The ‘factious and popularity-hunting opposition ... set on foot by Hunt and Company’ resumed with spurious amendments, time-wasting divisions and late night sittings, 11, 18 Apr., 8, 11 May, when he failed to prevent its passage.113 He predicted that the coroners bill would fail to root out perjury and corruption and suggested that the post- reform franchise and constituency boundaries should apply at their elections, 7 May. On 20 June, in several interventions later caricatured by H.B., he seconded and was a teller for the minority of 11 for an amendment requiring coroners to be qualified in medical law, voted for inquests to be made public, opposed the appointment of attorneys as coroners and denied that the post-Peterloo inquests had prompted rioting. He recommended paying coroners higher salaries to ensure proficiency, 6 July 1832.114 His call for inquiry into Peterloo was supported in petitions from the political unions, 3, 23 Feb., 15 Mar. 1832, but almost thwarted by ‘this cursed humbug of a Whig bill for reform’. Seconded by Hume, he engaged Peel and intervened at least eight times before the motion was defeated (by 206-31) after a messy debate, 15 Mar. The Manchester Guardian criticized his ‘absurd and violent speech’ and the letter ‘to the ... 3,730’ commended it. Refusing to let the matter rest, between 27 Mar. and 2 Aug. he presented petitions and took up the cause of the martyred ‘Huntites’ imprisoned after the October and November 1831 St. Peter’s Fields reform meetings (Ashmore, Broadhurst, Curran, Robert Gilchrist and John Pym) and other ‘maltreated’ detainees, including Cobbett, 21 May, 30 May, 21 June. He presented a 9,000-signature Manchester petition for inquiry into the 1819 ‘carnage’, 17 July.115 On 20 June he concurred in the adoption of an address congratulating William IV on surviving an assassination attempt at Ascot and blamed The Times for inciting recent insults to the king and queen at Hounslow, Hammersmith and Somerset House. On New South Wales (a ploy to revive the complaints against the former governor Charles Darling) he voted in the minorities for jury trial and a legislative assembly, 28 June, and ordered papers detailing complaints against Darling, 5 July, which he deemed proven, 5, 24 July 1832. He renewed his pleas for the extension of the poor laws to Ireland, tithe abolition and a redistribution of Irish church property, 23 Jan., and criticized Smith Stanley’s arguments for the government’s Irish tithes bill as ‘void’ and ‘threadbare’, 24 Jan. 1832. He voted to print the radical Woollen Grange petition for the abolition of Irish tithes, 16 Feb., and to postpone the ministerial measure, which he vainly urged the Irish Members to reject, 8 Mar., and, clashing with Smith Stanley, 13, 27, 28, 30 Mar., 16 Apr., complained that it would do nothing to alleviate poverty, 27, 30 Mar., 16 Apr. He denounced the government’s entire Irish policy that day, defended Sheil, and called for the ‘separation of church and state as in America’. He referred to the widespread opposition to tithes in England and Wales, 20 June, urged ministers to abandon the Irish tithes composition bill that Parliament and divided against it, 1 Aug. (twice), 2 Aug. Addressing Sheil before leaving the House that day ‘amid much laughter’, he complained: ‘I wish to get rid of this Irish bill, and to go home to bed. I am given the key of the door. I am locked in and I am no longer a free agent’. Sheil delayed presenting Preston’s petition against deploying troops to enforce tithe payment in Ireland until 3 Aug., when Hunt, who claimed that it had been ‘got up’ by Smith Stanley’s former supporters, endorsed it and read out its diatribe calling for his dismissal for attempting tithe enforcement, ‘for the registration of arms, and for giving a reform bill to Ireland much more restricted and inequitable than that for England’. He expressed support for Benett’s intended legislation for the labouring poor, 17 Feb., and Sadler’s scheme to provide for the poor by taxing Irish absentee landlords, 19 June 1832, but would have preferred to see the English poor law introduced in Ireland and the Union abolished. He termed The Times’s report of his speech (20 June 1832) ‘a pure invention’, but added: The fault ... is attributable not to the editor of the paper, but to the reporter for the hour; because, in reference to what I said on the subject of flogging soldiers, I must say that my observations are fairly well reported. Taking up the radical campaign against corporal punishment, he ordered returns on military punishments preparatory to moving to end army flogging, 16 Feb. 1832, when he had 28 in his minority. He tested opinion with similar motions, without proceeding to a division, 2, 5, 14, 28 Mar. He proposed an amendment to the mutiny bill to abolish flogging (in peacetime), 2 Apr., but much to the relief of the war secretary Hobhouse, who personally opposed the practice, he yielded to pressure and ‘either from indifference or generosity, did not press his motion to a vote’.116 He secured a minority of 15 for suspending military flogging, 19 June. His speech, which he repeated at the Kennington Common meeting, 27 June, was an obvious plagiarism of Burdett’s correspondence with John Shipp. Targeting Hobhouse and Althorp, he seconded Hume’s motion for papers on the case of Private Alexander Somerville, whose punishment was popularly attributed to his radicalism, 3 July, proposed a similar motion, 20 July,117 and presented petitions from the political unions for inquiry into the case, 23, 24 July, 10, 15 Aug. The caricaturist Heath included him in ‘Soldier Politicians "A la Somerville" on the Day of Battle’.118 On 3 July, citing details from the Blackburn Mail, he drew attention to the fatal canvassing riot at Clitheroe, which John Irving’s* committee had exploited to ‘blacken’ him as a radical. He questioned ministers and presented petitions from the Northern unions protesting at the suppression of public meetings following the ‘affray’, 10 Aug., and asked if the ‘forthcoming elections are to be carried on under military escort’, 15 Aug. 1832, before ending a time-wasting discussion on the ‘imprisoned blasphemites’ Twort and Ward by forcing an adjournment. Hunt was defeated at Preston, where aristocratic Liberal-Tory representation was restored, at the general election of 1832 and his subsequent petition failed.119 Commentators tended to prefer Cobbett, who came in for Oldham in 1832, and most assessments of Hunt at this time resembled hostile obituaries. They influenced subsequent assessments of his career.120 Sir Robert Heron* dismissed him as ‘more odious and troublesome to the Members, than mischievous to the country: so small was the estimation in which he was held’.121 James Grant observed: His parliamentary career was short ... It commenced at a time it might naturally have been least expected, and closed when it might rather have been expected to begin ... He was altogether a singular man ... He had something of the caprice of ... Cobbett, and a good deal of his irritable temper; but in intellect or information he could not be for a moment compared ... Hunt was not a man of much mind. He was unfitted for grappling with any great question. He never took an original view of any subject; and was altogether incapable of close and ingenious reasoning. He held certain principles of the most liberal kind, and had at his fingers’ ends most of the principal arguments which other persons had urged in their favour. When these were exhausted, so were his means of vindicating his principles. His style was not good; it was rough and disjoined. What he excelled in was ready wit: he had few equals in this respect. All parties in the House, not even excepting the most ultra-radicals themselves, laboured hard to cough him down whenever he attempted to speak ... Nothing could disconcert him ... The fact was, he had been formed for scenes of confusion, and had all his life long been accustomed to them at meetings of his radical disciples ... His manner was as bad as his diction. It had no gracefulness in it. His gesture was awkward, and his voice was harsh and croaking. The bad effect produced by the latter was aggravated by a strongly marked provincial accent.122 Hunt’s business suffered during his time in the House and he tried to supplement his income by lecturing on the history since 1807 of the Whig party.123 He led the protest against the Cold Bath Fields ‘massacre’ in June 1833 and received an invitation to contest East Somerset in February 1834, but not Preston, which he coveted, and he realized that it was too late to recapture his popularity. He died in February 1835 at Arlesford, Hampshire, where he had suffered a stroke the previous month, and was buried in the Vince family mausoleum in Parnham Park, near Stormington, West Sussex. He was remembered as a successful farmer and enthusiastic radical and self-publicist who applied his great strength and energy to electoral endeavours and had the ability to link local and national issues.124 The Gentleman’s Magazine wrote: ‘like other noisy demagogues, he soon found his level [in the Commons], and became harmless and insignificant, except in his votes’. The Poor Man’s Guardian acknowledged his intense egotism and added: ‘to sham reformers he was particularly obnoxious; while to turncoats and trading patriots he was a perfect raw head and bloody louse’.125 Brougham’s private secretary Denis Le Marchant† recalled him as a small landed proprietor in Somerset of broken fortune and profligate habits, ill informed, but clever and resolute, with a fine person, and (when he pleased), rather prepossessing manners; so that altogether he was able to gain an ascendancy in the disaffected districts greater than any man of the day.126 His holograph will, dated 23 Jan. 1835, by which he left his business and remaining property (the tithes of Edgerly, Somerset) to his sons, was proved under £800 by Mrs. Vince, the sole executrix.127 His death left a void in English popular politics and was attributed as a reaction (broken heart) to the working people’s failure to reject the reform bill en masse. A mock funeral was held in Manchester, where in 1842 the Chartist leader Fergus O’Connor laid the foundation stone to a monument in his memory. The Manchester Chartists conveniently forgot that Hunt had advocated moral not physical force and proclaimed him as their champion, which further ‘blackened’ his reputation as a Member.128 Author: Margaret Escott The best modern biography is J. Belchem, ‘Orator’ Hunt: Henry Hunt and English Working Class Radicalism (1985). Hunt’s autobiography, Mems. of Henry Hunt, 3 vols. (1820-2), and R. Huish, Hist. Private and Political Life of Henry Hunt, 2 vols. (1836) are biased and unreliable. Hunt’s parliamentary career is briefly reviewed in J.W. Osborne, ‘Henry Hunt’s Career in Parliament’, Historian, xxxix (1976), 24-39. 1. IGI (Wilts.). Not 12 Jan. as Hunt specified in Mems. i. 295. 2. Oxford DNB. 3. Add. 27809, ff. 16, 22; Belchem, ‘Henry Hunt and Evolution of Mass Platform’, EHR, xciii (1978), 739-72; VCH Wilts. v. 149. 4. Belchem, Hunt, 16. 5. Ibid. 15-19, 22; VCH Wilts. x. 162, 261-2; Hunt, Mems. i. 271, 275, 284-99. 6. Melville, Cobbett, ii. 13. 7. H. Graham, Annals of Yeomanry Cav. of Wilts. 25-28; Hunt, Mems. i. 440-529; Belchem, Hunt, 21-22. 8. S. Maccoby, English Radicalism, 1786-1832, pp. 206, 314, 320-4; Belchem, Hunt, 23-25. 9. Melville, ii. 13, 141; N. LoPatin, Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act, 6, 98. 10. Hunt, Mems. iii. 115-37; HP Commons, 1790-1820, ii. 167-72; CJ, lxviii. 43, 303; R. Harrison, Crowds and History, 88, 125, 205, 208, 211-19. 11. Belchem, Hunt, 18-19. 12. Holland, Further Mems. 250; Melville, ii. 75, 84; Belchem, Hunt, 44-54; A. Mitchell, Whigs in Opposition, 94. 13. S. Bamford Passages in Life of a Radical ed. P. Dunkley, ii. 19. 14. R. Reid, Peterloo Massacre, 32-33; Belchem, Hunt, 54-69, 71-72; CJ, lxxii. 6, 26, 102-3; LJ, li. 22. 15. Reid, 70; A. Aspinall, Lord Brougham and the Whig Party, 67-72; Belchem, Hunt, 69-71, 73-84; HP Commons, 1790-1820, ii. 267-82; Maccoby, 347-8. 16. CJ, lxxiv. 45, 58. 17. Belchem, EHR, xciii. 751-3; D. Read, Peterloo, 106-121; Reid, 104-9. 18. Reid, 116-18, 158-61, 166-7; Read, 123-6; The Times, 19 Aug. 1819; W. Thomas, Philosophic Radicals, 86, 90-91. 19. Belchem, Hunt, 86-112 and EHR, xciii. 756-60; Reid, 124-9, 191. 20. Reid, 202-3. 21. Belchem, Hunt, 113-16; CJ, lxxv. 12, 13, 16, 38, 46, 65, 75, 79. 22. Mitchell, 126, 129, 137; Aspinall, Brougham, 97-98; E.A. Smith, Lord Grey, 217-20; Add. 30109, f. 78. 23. M.D. George, Cat. of Pol. and Personal Satires, x. 13503, 13534, 13561, 13563-4, 13714. 24. Belchem, Hunt, 115; Blackburn Mail, 23 Feb., 1, 8 Mar.; Manchester Mercury, 29 Feb., 7 Mar.; The Times, 1 Mar. 1820. 25. Preston Election Addresses (1820), 1-11, 15, 17-25, 31-32, 37-38, 48; Lancaster Gazette, 11 Mar. 1820. 26. Heron, Notes, 127; Geo. IV Letters, i. 800, 811. 27. Buckingham, Mems. Geo. IV, i. 15-16. 28. Wellington mss WP1/958/42. 29. Belchem, Hunt, 144-65 and EHR, xciii. 769-71; J. Epstein, ‘Radical Dining, Toasting and Symbolic Expression in Early 19th Cent. Lancs.’ Albion, xx (1988), 281-2, 287-8. 30. Diaries of Samuel Bamford ed. M. Hewitt and R. Poole, 74; George, x. 13879, 13895, 14122, 14139, 14187, 14194, 14206. 31. The Times, 22 May 1820, 24 Jan., 11 July 1821, 9 Feb. 1822; R. Walmsley, Peterloo: the case reopened, 400; VCH Som. iii. 186; Som. RO Q\AGi-15; W. Shepherd, Three Letters ... on ... Ilchester Gaol Investigation (1822); Brougham mss, Shepherd to Brougham, 29 Jan. 1823; Hunt, Investigation at Ilchester Gaol; LJ, lv. 100, 104; CJ, lxxvii. 47, 93, 201, 297. 32. CJ, lxxvii. 11, 41, 64, 72, 77, 81, 97, 104, 108, 118, 123, 127, 132, 149, 152, 167, 200; Ann. Reg. Hist. pp. 177-8; The Times, 4, 26 Apr. 1822; Melville, ii. 199; Arbuthnot Jnl. i. 158. 33. Belchem, EHR, xciii. 771; J. Johnson, Letter to Henry Hunt (1822); Letters from Henry Hunt to the Radical Reformers ed. J. Stevens Cox (Ilchester and District Occasional Pprs. no. 19, 1979); The Times, 19, 31 Oct., 1, 12 Nov. 1822; George, x. 14406. 34. The Times, 31 Oct.; Taunton Courier, 22, 29 Jan., 5 Feb.; Keene’s Bath Jnl. 26 June, 3, 24 July 1823. 35. Belchem, Hunt, 167-72. 36. Ibid. 172-5; George, x. 15150, 15155; The Times, 27 May, 5, 21 June; Taunton Courier, 28 June 1826. 37. Bristol Mercury, 26 June 1826. 38. Pol. Reg. 7 Oct. 1826. 39. Belchem, Hunt, 177-9; The Times, 20 Dec. 1827, 25 June 1828, 25 June, 22 July 1829; Coll. relative to Election of Common Councilmen for Farringdon Without 1827, 1828 (C. Wood, 1829 edn.). 40. J.E. Crimmins, ‘Jeremy Bentham and Daniel O’Connell’, HJ, xl (1997), 365; George, x. 15422, 15497; xi. 15783; Anon. Wig v. Blackball [BL 8132. ee. 15. (2).]. 41. George, x. 15542. 42. Belchem, Hunt, 185-7. 43. Ibid. 188, 191; Pol. Reg. 12, 19, 26 May; The Times, 24 May 1827; Add. 56550, f. 176; Crimmins, 371-3. 44. The Times, 18, 23, 24, 17, 28, 30 Oct. 1828, 17 Mar. 1829; Add. 51572, Darnley to Holland [24 Oct. 1828]; Belchem, Hunt, 191-4; G.I.T. Machin, Catholic Question in English Politics, 140-2; Hunt, To the Member for Clare; Pol. Reg. 14 Mar. 1829; Add. 56554, f. 17; Crimmins, 362, 364-5, 374. 45. LJ, lxi. 515. 46. Hunt, Brief Hist. of Parish of Christ Church (1830), p. 35 and passim; Belchem, Hunt, 181-4; The Times, 23 Feb. 1830. 47. Belchem, Hunt, 195-9; M. Brock, Great Reform Act, 79; Fitzwilliam mss, L. Jones to Milton, 8 Dec. 1829. 48. London Radicalism ed. D.J. Rowe (London Rec. Soc. v), 2-7; George, xi. 16070, 16075, 16079-80; Crimmins, 374. 49. Add. 27789, f. 145. 50. Add. 56554, ff. 97-98. 51. Belchem, Hunt, 202-4; The Times, 6 Apr.; Preston Pilot, 24 July, 7 Aug.; Blackburn Gazette, 28 July; Preston Chron. 7 Aug.; Lancs. RO DDPr 131/19/5-8; Hunt mss DDX113/25; Brougham mss, Shepherd to Brougham, 15 Aug. 1830; W. Proctor, ‘Orator Hunt’, Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, cxiv (1962), 136-41. 52. Hunt mss 26. 53. Manchester Guardian, 14, 21 Aug.; Belchem, Hunt, 206-12. 54. George, xi. 16399; CJ, lxxxvi. 86, 149. 55. Wellington mss WP1/1154/9/2; 1160/11; George, xi. 16317, 16344, 16404; Arbuthnot Jnl. ii. 400; Quarterly Rev. xliv (1830), 299-300. 56. London Radicalism, 69-70. 57. The Times, 13 Nov., 11, 13 Dec.; Wellington mss WP4/2/2/34; Lansdowne mss, J. Benett to Lansdowne, 25, 27 Nov. 1830. 58. Preston Chron. 11, 18, 24 Dec.; St. Deiniol’s Lib. Glynne-Gladstone mss 196, T. to J. Gladstone, 16 Dec.; The Times, 18 Dec. 1830; Preston Pilot, 1 Jan. 1831. 59. George, xi. 16539, 16551; PRO NI Anglesey mss D619/31D/6; Bucks. RO, Fremantle mss D/FR/139/20/36; Wilts. RO, Pembroke mss 2057/F4/50; Morning Herald, 27 Dec.; Derby mss 920 Der (14) 116/6, Winstanley to Smith Stanley, 29 Dec. 1830; Wellington mss WP1/1173/2; Hants RO, Carnarvon mss 75M91/F4/3; Manchester Times, 1 Jan.; The Times, 5, 11, 13 Jan.; Bolton Chron. 15 Jan. 1831. 61. Creevey mss, Creevey to Miss Ord, 5 Feb., 23 June 1831. 62. Crayons from Commons (1831), 67; New Monthly Mag. Mar. 1831; Proctor, 146. 63. Glynne-Gladstone mss 197, T. to J. Gladstone, 5 Feb. 1831. 64. Ibid. 8, 9 Feb. 1831; Broughton, Recollections, iv. 83; Three Diaries, 48; Graham, 94-96. 65. Greville Mems. ii. 113. 66. George, xi. 16575, 16579. 67. LJ, lx. 77. 68. H.L. Bulwer, Sir Robert Peel, 87-88. 69. Broughton, iv. 89. 70. Brock, 165; Gurney diary, 2 Mar. 1831. 71. PP (1830-1), iii. 421-32. 72. Pol. Reg. 5, 12, 19 Mar. 1831; The Preston Cock’s Reply to the Kensington Dunghill [BL Tracts 8138. f. 33.]; George, xi. 16634, 16636-8; Lancs. RO DDPr 130/23. 73. Manchester Guardian, 9, 16 Apr. 1831; Brock, 187. 74. The Times, 13 Apr. 1831; Proctor, 147; Three Diaries, 77, 79; Croker Pprs. ii. 114. 75. Surr. Hist. Cent. Goulburn mss Acc 304/67B; Greville Mems. ii. 136. 76. Hopetoun mss 167, f. 255; Three Diaries, 78; Glynne-Gladstone mss 198, T. to J. Gladstone, 18 Apr. 1831. 77. George, xi. 16643, 16653, 16656. 78. Manchester Guardian, 7 May 1831. 79. Hunt mss 27; Add. 36466, ff. 317, 333-5; Belchem, Hunt, 230-2; M.J. Turner, Reform and Respectability, 302, 307, 327. 80. Hatfield House mss bdle. 4, Leigh to Salisbury, 30 Apr.; Manchester Times, 30 Apr.; Manchester Guardian, 30 Apr.; Preston Chron. 30 Apr., 7 May; Brougham mss, Shepherd to Brougham [1831]; Proctor, 148-9. 81. Taunton Courier, 27 Apr., 4 May; Manchester Guardian, 18 June 1831; Belchem, Hunt, 232-6. 82. Wellington mss WP1/1187/1; Hunt mss 28; The Times, 18 May, 18 June 1831; Arbuthnot Jnl. ii. 426-7. 83. George, xi. 16695. 86. Poor Man’s Guardian, 16 July 1831. 87. Ibid. 9 Aug. 1831. 88. Walmsley, 473; Belchem, Hunt, 237; Preston Chron. 3 Sept. 1831. 90. Coventry Archives 323/1; Norf. RO, Bulwer mss BUL1/5/57. 91. Walmsley, 481. 92. Hunt, Addresses, 20 Oct.-21 Nov.; Belchem, Hunt, 241-51; The Times, 3 Nov.; Preston Chron. 12 Nov. 1831. 93. Hunt, Addresses, 20, 27 Oct., 7 Nov. 1831. 94. O’Connell Corresp. iv. 1848, 1852; Crimmins, 374. 95. The Times, 1 Nov.; Preston Chron., 5, 12, 19 Nov. 1831. 96. Preston Chron. 29 Oct.; Poor Man’s Guardian, 19 Nov., 17, 24, 31 Dec. 1831; Lancs. RO, ‘Letters from the 3,730’, Jan.-June 1832. 98. Holland House Diaries, 97; George, xi. 16919, 16923, 16935, 16940-1, 17131. 99. The Times, 12 Jan. 1831. 100. Ibid. 12 May 1831. 101. Holland House Diaries, 179; Add. 52058, C.R. to H.E. Fox, 15 May 1832. 102. Brock, 295 103. Holland House Diaries, 38. 104. Poor Man’s Guardian, 3 Sept. 1831. 105. Hunt, Corn Laws; Poor Man’s Guardian, 19 Nov. 1831; Osborne, 27. 106. Hatherton diary, 8 Sept. 1831. 107. Derby mss (14) 127/3, Sandon to Smith Stanley, 16 Oct. 1831. 108. Add. 51573, Spring Rice to Lady Holland, 6 Feb. 1832. 109. George, xi. 17329. 110. ‘Letters from the 3,730’, Jan.-June 1832. 111. Greville Mems. ii. 230. 112. ‘Letters from the 3,730’, 11, 18, 25 Feb. 1832. 113. Cornw. RO, Hawkins mss 10/2192. 115. Manchester Guardian, 15, 22 Oct., 26 Nov, 3 Dec. 1831, 24 Mar. 1832; Manchester Times, 19, 26 Nov., 3 Dec.; The Times, 30 Nov. 1831; Hunt mss 30, 31; CJ, lxxxvii. 70, 90, 107, 139, 197, 226, 497; ‘Letters from the 3,730’, 25 Mar. 1832. 116. Broughton, iv. 208. 117. Poor Man’s Guardian, 30 June 1832. 119. The Times, 3 July, 14, 15 Dec. 1832, 19 Mar. 1833; Poor Man’s Guardian, 22 Dec. 1832; Proctor, 151-4; Belchem, Hunt, 264-9. 120. Greville Mems. ii. 351; Osborne, 38. 121. Heron, Notes, 200-1. 122. [J. Grant] Random Recollections of Commons (1837), 173-5. 123. Hunt, Conduct of the Whigs to the Working Classes. 124. Belchem, Hunt, 270-5; The Times, 3, 24 Feb.; Ann. Reg. (1835), App. pp. 215-16; Harrison, 219. 125. Gent. Mag. (1835), i. 545-7; Poor Man’s Guardian, 21 Feb. 1835. 126. Le Marchant, Althorp, 196. 127. Poor Man’s Guardian, 28 Feb. 1835; PROB 11/1884/172; IR26/1387/86. 128. Preston Pilot, 2 Apr. 1842; Belchem, Hunt, 276-7; M. Chase, Chartism: a New Hist. 13.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line588
__label__cc	0.574842	0.425158	february 4. More interesting people I have nothing to do with may be accessed here. Also visit the three, that is, one, two, three, preceding pages. Also someone that is someone I don't know left a message in the ghostbook guestbook and that is certainly a kind of website milestone. Also we went to see that Crouching Tiger movie that was good and then afterward outside there was Erika with some friends and there were Jackie and Lynn. february 15. Dag, I feel I'm letting you down by not appearing here more often, and I speak to you directly, sir, because while I am not certain you are the only person who reads this page, and its brothers that have gone before, I have no reason to believe otherwise. So here I am. I should be doing something else though. Time is flying and we are about to go on tour again way too soon for the work I have to do first but it's always that way. I will be updating the webworld from The Road; look for my very special and possibly untrustworthy tour diary coming soon. (You can see it now, but there's nothing much to see.) Loaded up the hard drive with lots of Françoise Hardy and Keren Ann's awesome la biographie de Luka Philipsen. I go I go the 24 of February, get back in April, not counting the Knitting Factory (L.A. branch) shows on the 2 and 3 of March. Until then and then and during and after you can find me here. february 17. Here's a link to the AbbyTravis.com website; you can find me playing varispeeded mandolin on track 2 of her CD album Cutthroat Standards & Black Pop produced (and performed upon) by ex-Mump Kristian Hoffman which has been out for awhile I guess but I just saw it for the first time the other day. Visit this page why don't you to learn more about this aspect of ME. Abby's not like most of us -- she has a logo. I notice she's going out on tour with Kristian and that Phil Parlapiano will be copping those mandolin parts. Not only can Phil kick my ass musically but his website's tons more professional than mine. More John Wembley Harding tour dates have come in, meanwhile, and the new diary page is being painted and the floors sanded for imminent occupancy. The newsboy image there I swiped from Mr. Paul Feig, who hasn't updated his page since September 24, 1999. february 23. Leaving tomorrow for rockville. Follow along in the tour dairy. The cow goes moo. Last night we ate at the sushi place on Larchmont the good one and who was there but Gary and Corinne gosh it was good to see them. Then on the street we passed some dude on a cell phone, saying, "I just sat next to Paul McCartney at dinner," but where was that? Paul not in evidence. I did see Madonna on Larchmont once, she was wearing a leather suit, and there's always someone you've seen on a sitcom coming into the Cafe du Village. John Malkovich I saw once sitting in the window at Starbucks. Okay I'm going now I have a lot of work to do before morning. Check this out though, it's Gavin's literary wonderland and a portal to all things Kelly Link. february 24. ON TOUR. month of january -->* month of march -->* tour diary begins feb. 24 -->* home page page -->* ghostbook -->*	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line594
__label__cc	0.51128	0.48872	Jewish News E-edition Subscribe to Jewish News Advertising Schedule Southeastern Virginia: Chesapeake • Norfolk • Portsmouth • Suffolk • Virginia Beach January 20, 2020 Southeastern Virginia Check out our E-Edition! Electronic replica of our print edition Torah Thought Jewishva.org A Weekend with Rick Recht \| November 29 to December 2 Singer-Songwriter Rick Recht to perform community concerts in Tidewater Thursday, November 29–Sunday, December 2 A popular Jewish rock star, Rick Recht is also an educator and leadership motivator. During his visit to Tidewater’s Jewish community, Recht will bring his unique brand of high-energy, interactive Jewish rock music to multiple audiences at varied venues. Recht’s music [...] Geraldine M. Epstein Norfolk —Geraldine M. Epstein, 88, passed away on November 15, 2018. GiGi was born to Loius and Ethel Amdursky in 1930. GiGi owned Toppers of Norfolk and Mark Lance of Virginia Beach with her loving husband, Irwin Epstein, and partners and close friends, Jerri and Stanley Furman. She was also a devoted member of Temple [...] Marilynn Popkin Faust Sun Valley , California—Marilynn Popkin Faust, age 82, died peacefully on October 31, 2018, in Sun Valley, California, near the children and grandchildren she loved so well. Marilynn was an extraordinary mother and grandmother, a devoted wife, a steadfast friend, and a kind soul. She loved and doted upon children, made houseplants flourish with the [...] Robert Collier Nusbaum Norfolk —Robert Collier Nusbaum was born on February 23, 1924, in Norfolk, Virginia, the oldest son of Justine L. and Virginius H. Nusbaum, and he died peacefully at home in Norfolk on October 31, 2018. He was predeceased by his parents and his two brothers, Sidney L. Nusbaum II and Virginius H. “Pooch” Nusbaum, Jr., [...] Stan Lee, creator of iconic Marvel comics superheroes Stan Lee, who as one of the masterminds behind Marvel Comics created such mega-popular comic book franchises as Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and the X-Men, died early Monday, Nov. 12 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 95. Born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922, the son of a Romanian-Jewish immigrant father and what [...] Art in the family: Temple Israel’s festival of Jewish art Michael Duffy—2018 Scholar-in-Residence Saturday, December 8–Sunday, December 9 Professor Michael Duffy, Temple Israel’s 2018 Scholarin-residence, is chair of the Art History department at East Carolina University. A s Temple Israel’s Scholar-in-Residence, Duffy will focus on the synagogue’s vast collection of art works, including the iconic Ascalon stained glass windows. Also included will be a presentation [...] Switch Day at Beth Sholom Village: Wonderful memories! Now, with a new twist… Tuesday, December 25, 4–6 pm For more than 30 years, Beth Sholom Village has engaged family members and the community as they came to volunteer on December 25. The activity was called “Switch Day.” The idea was born when staff—everyone from food servers to nurses—requested the day off to spend time with their family on [...] Tidewater Chavurah’s second Friday Shabbat service Friday, Dec. 14, 7 pm Tidewater Chavurah meets at the home of Hal and Elaine in the Great Neck Meadows area of Virginia Beach for their second Friday of the month Shabbat service. Events are held in members’ homes or at other locations. Rabbi Ellen Jaffe-Gill leads the service and an Oneg follows. New faces [...] The National Library of Israel: Curating the past, creating the future Leon Family Gallery Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus Through December An exhibition developed in partnership with the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, Curating the Past, Creating the Future, features mixed media that highlights the four central collections at the impressive National Library of Israel. This exhibit focuses on the spiritual realm—with sacred books, sacred places, [...] Latkepalooza: A perfect start to Hanukkah Sunday, Dec. 2, 12–3:30 pm Sandler Family Campus Tidewater’s annual community Hanukkah celebration, this year’s Latkepalooza promises something for every family member and plenty of firsts, including, Tidewater’s first ever Camp Extravaganza and a Rick Recht LIVE! concert. Plus, the Simon Family JCC’s annual Lee and Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival will feature authors [...] Tidewater Jewish Foundation’s LIFE & LEGACY continues growth Community Campaign looks to finish strong…and early! BINA on the go!!!! Second Annual Chinese Community Buffet Iran has retaliated against Jewish targets before. But the Soleimani killing isn’t changing Jewish security around the world. A resolution over Iran splits a tight group of moderate Jewish lawmakers Strelitz International Academy: Teaching to think globally, act locally Hampton U Jewish News Copyright © 2020. All Rights Reserved. Website Design by StrategyTrails.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line595
__label__wiki	0.760482	0.760482	87th Foot Hierarchical Path: Seven Years War (Main Page) >> Armies >> British Army >> 87th Foot 1 Origin and History 2 Service during the War 3.1 Privates 3.1.1 Officers 3.1.2 Musicians Origin and History The regiment was raised at Perth on August 25 1759 from a nucleus draft of 315 men from the 42nd Highlanders by Lieutenant-colonel Robert Murray Keith. Major Keith was a relation of the celebrated field-marshall Keith of the Prussian Army. He had served in the Scotch Brigade in Holland before being appointed to the command of the regiment. Usually known as Keith's Highlanders, the regiment was also designated as the 87th Highland Volunteers. The nucleus of 315 men were formed into three companies were led by Captain Archibald Campbell, Captain Alexander Mclean and Captain-lieutenant James Fraser. They were sent to Germany by late 1759 after the battle of Minden. In 1760, Ferdinand of Brunswick was so pleased by these Highlanders that he requested to complete the initial detachment to a full regiment. Accordingly, 5 additional companies were raised at Perth and shipped to Germany to join the 3 former companies. Highland units were used as a light troops or raiders. The men received little formal training other than to advance with the bayonet. The soldier's backgrounds, extensive cattle raiding in the Highlands, made them well suited to their role in Germany. The unit was often combined with the 88th Campbell or Highland Volunteers and both were heavily engaged in petite guerre operations gaining a fearsome reputation. In 1763, the unit was shipped, via the Netherlands, home. It landed at Tilbury Fort and marched to Scotland. As was common with the light units of the period after wars end, it was disbanded at Perth in July. During the Seven Years' War, the regiment was commanded by: from 1759 to 1763: Robert Murray Keith Service during the War In November 1759, the three first companies were shipped over to Emden in Germany as the Highland Volunteers and joined the Allied army under Ferdinand of Brunswick at Krondorf on November 14 1759. On January 7 1760, in support of the attack on Dillenburg, the 3 coys of Highlanders, with the support of the Luckner's Hussars, attacked the village of Eybach. There, they routed Beaufremont Dragons. The Highlanders had 4 men killed and 7 wounded while capturing 80 men and 120 horses. The opening actions at Viesebeck saw a company of the 87th being captured. On July 31, the battalion took part in the battle of Warburg but was not involved in heavy fighting. On September 5, 150 highlanders took part in a successful raid on a French outpost at Zierenberg. They led the assault on the town and surprised the French stationed there. The losses of the Highlanders in this affair were 3 privates killed and 6 wounded. In October, they were sent to reinforce the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick who was besieging Wesel. On October 14, they made a junction with the Prince's army. On October 16, at the battle of Clostercamp, 100 men of the regiment, along with British grenadiers, tried to seize the convent held by the Chasseurs de Fischer. The Allied detachment was quickly routed and badly knocked about. However, in the ensuing battle, the Highlander corps was the last Allied unit to retreat. In this action lieutenants William Ogilvie and Alexander Macleod of the Highlanders, 4 sergeants, and 37 rank and file were killed, and Captain Archibald Campbell of Achallader, lieutenants Gordon Clunes, Archibald Stewart, Angus Mackintosh of Killachy, and Walter Barland, and 10 rank and file were wounded. On July 15 1761, the regiment took part in the battle of Vellinghausen where it was heavily engaged during the evening. Initially driven back, they recovered, counter-attacked and stabilized their position until morning. The next day, they and the rest of Granby's infantry were ordered forward when another French assault fell into confusion. In the action, the Highlanders corps succeeded in cutting off and capturing Rougé Infanterie but suffered fairly heavy losses. Major Archibald Campbell, Lieutenant James Grant, Lieutenant Angus Mackintosh and Lieutenant William Ross together with a sergeant and 31 men were killed. As for the wounded, they included Captain James Fraser and Lieutenant Archibald McArthur, two sergeants and 70 men. The commander in chief, in a general order, thus expressed his approbation of the conduct of the corps in this action: "His serene highness, duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, had been graciously pleased to order colonel Beckwith to signify to the brigade he has the honour to command his entire approbation of their conduct on the 15th and 16th of July. The soldier-like perseverance of the Highland regiments in resisting and repulsing the repeated attacks of the chosen troops of France, has deservedly gained them the highest honour. The ardour and activity with which the grenadiers pushed and pursued the enemy, and the trophies they have taken, justly entitle them to the highest encomiums. The intrepidity of the little band of Highlanders merits the greatest praise". Voices from the Past On October 26, 1762, William Ogilvie's daughter is baptised at Langenstein On June 24 1762, the regiment took part in the battle of Wilhelmstal where it was lightly engaged with 9 killed, 10 wounded and 15 missing. On September 21, it was at the combat of Amöneburg (aka Brücker-Mühle). In this action, the two Highlanders regiments had Major Alexander Maclean and 21 rank and file killed, and Captain Patrick Campbell, Lieutenant Walter Barland, 3 sergeants, and 58 rank and file wounded. Later paintings illustrate green facings. However, there are also references to buff facings. Uniform in 1759 - Source: Frédéric Aubert Uniform Details Musketeer dark blue bonnet; headband laced with a white braid ; black cockade on the left side Grenadier black bearskin with a small red front flap edged white and carrying a white edged embroidered "GR" Neckstock white Coat short brick red Highland jacket laced and edged white (white braid without decoration) with 11 white buttonholes and 11 white buttons Collar green (or buff) laced white (same lace as above) Shoulder Straps n/a Lapels none Pockets horizontal pockets with white laces (same lace as above), each with pewter buttons Cuffs green (or buff) (slashed in the British pattern) laced white (same lace as above) with white buttonholes and white buttons on the sleeve Turnbacks none Waistcoat brick red laced white (same lace as above) with white buttons Kilt green with narrow blue green vertical and horizontal stripes with very thin black stripes; with a black or dark brown sporran Gaiters none long stockings with red and white diagonal dicing Leather Equipment Crossbelt black Waistbelt black leather Cartridge Box black Bayonet Scabbard black Scabbard black Footgear black shoes Troopers were armed a variety of weapons including a broadsword, a 42" barrel carbine with wooden ramrod, a bayonet, a pistol and a cartouche box worn on the waistbelt. Officers of the regiment wore the same uniforms as the private soldiers but with the following differences (partly based on a painting of Captain James Gorry circa 1760): a golden aiguilette on the right shoulder golden lace on the collar, coat, cuffs, buttonholes pale buff waistcoat buff leather belt Officers wore the same headgear as the private soldiers under their command; however, officers of the grenadier company wore a more decorated mitre cap. Furthermore, line Officers also had a cockade of white feathers attached to the bonnet. Officers generally carried a spontoon, however, in battle some carried muskets instead. According to the Royal Clothing Warrant of 1751: The drummers and pipers of the regiment were clothed in green (or buff), lined and faced with red, and laced in such manner as the colonel shall think fit for distinction sake, the lace, however, was of the colours of that on the soldiers' coats. Furthermore, they probably wore the Royal Stewart tartan. This is described as "scarlet, with medium stripes of dark green arranged in pairs, the pairs spaced widely apart. Over the green stripes were alternating thin over-stripes of yellow and white." The front or fore part of the drums was painted green (or buff), with the king's cypher and crown, and the number “XLII” under it. The drums had red rims, white cords and a brass barrel. King's Colour: Union with a centre device consisting of a rose and thistle wreath on the same stalk around the regiment number "LXXXVII" in gold Roman numerals. Regimental Colour: green (or buff) field with a centre device consisting of a rose and thistle wreath on the same stalk around the regiment number "LXXXVII" in gold Roman numerals. The Union in the upper left corner. King's Colour - Source: PMPdeL Regimental Colour - Source: PMPdeL Fortescue, J. W., A History of the British Army Vol. II, MacMillan, London, 1899 George II, The Royal Clothing Warrant, 1751 Lawson, Cecil C. P., A History of the Uniforms of the British Army - from the Beginnings to 1760, vol. II, p. 102 Mills, T. F., Website - Land Forces of Britain the Empire and Commonwealth (an excellent website which unfortunately seems to have vanished from the web) Reid, S. Highland Regiments in the Seven Years War, 18th Century Military Notes & Queries No. 4 Osprey’s British Redcoat 1740–93 (Warrior 19) Keiths's and Campbell's Highlanders Scottish Military Articles – The 87th Keith's and 88th Campbell's Highlanders 1759-1763 Retrieved from "http://kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=87th_Foot&oldid=10424" British Land Unit	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line599
__label__cc	0.533978	0.466022	Banners & Prints Billboards Ask Locals to Fill in the Blanks (Dig Magazine) B______ R______ BILLBOARDS ASK FOR ANSWERS By Kendra Chamberlain The arts and entertainment nonprofit Culture Candy has teamed with the advertisement company Lamar in a new community ad campaign written by Baton Rougeans themselves. “What does Baton Rouge mean to you?” That’s the question Culture Candy has posed to the community. “We’re interested in stimulating out community to think about itself, to have a conversation with its self and find out what the other is saying,” explained Clifton Webb of Culture Candy. “In twelve characters, you can talk about what you think BR means to you.” The community billboard campaign has become somewhat of a trend in recent years, as a great way to express both unity and diversity across a city. “There were a few communities that have done billboard campaigns,” Webb said. “Ours is a little different.” The idea emerged from another Culture Candy community project, involving photos taken from around town. After conversations with a number of community leaders, the idea to start a dialogue on the billboards emerged. “It’s a good way to have conversations on the billboards, first of all, but then to have conversations with our buddies,” Webb explained. “You know, ‘Hey, what was that? You saw that crazy stuff they had on the board!’” The idea is to think up two words that describe our fair city, one that starts with “B” and another that starts with “R.” The phrases will then be posted on a number of digital billboards, donated by Lamar, placed across the city. “One of my favorite submissions so far is about the Bucky Ford Railcardome – Quite a number of people will be familiar with that,” Webb said. The number of billboards varies, depending on the amount of free ad space that Lamar can utilize for the project, but there will be between 10-18 billboards, located from along the interstate to Perkins Rowe and Corporate Blvd., participating in the project, which will run for the next seven weeks. “It’s nice being a sleepy town, but we’re just stimulating thoughts,” Webb said. “We want us to be alive, we can have a certain type of vitality.” Need some help getting started? Grab a pen and paper, and check out these thesaurus-worthy words to get your mind turning. To submit your phrase, visit www.CultureCandy.org. B words: Bacchanalian Boisterous Bifurcated Burgeoning R words: Ruthful The original article appeared on Dig Magazine's website. Vancouver Video Wall is a Monster (Sign Media Canada) Lamar Transit Advertising and Monster Media Canada have launched a video wall in Vancouver City Station, which they say is the first large interactive liquid crystal display (LCD) array to be installed within any Canadian public transportation system. Billboards ask public to fill in the blanks (Baton Rouge Business Report) A new billboard campaign will allow the public to express what Baton Rouge means to them in 24 letters or less.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line600
__label__cc	0.609378	0.390622	Presentation of the IAM Founding Texts Members of the IAM Support us to join Education, Innovation & Communication International development, public and private governance & financing Art, Culture, Religion – Spirituality, Research & Publishing Tribute to Denis Maugenest (Founder) The IAM Editions African Think Tanks Directory African Library Interreligious dialogue in West Africa The dynamics of illegal migration from West Africa to Europe "Audacity, the only challenge for a new Africa" The Institut Afrique Monde welcomes you. It is a "Think Tank" created in Paris in October 2013, with an office in Côte d'Ivoire set up in 2014, which has set itself the mission of being an independent and apolitical think tank with the aim of: to make Africa's dynamism and potential known to as many people as possible through a better understanding of its society, culture and economy, from both a historical and a contemporary perspective, to position itself as a body for reflection, analysis and debate, proposing innovative and bold ideas for the development of a peaceful Africa, open to the world, with a point of view to defend on what happens, to encourage and implement initiatives that aim to improve the lives of men and women on the African continent. Africa is considered as the continent of the future. We provide you with publications about the African continent, its subjects and its future. Conceptual note of the spirituality pole May 16, 2014 September 24, 2019 Articles and ReportsLeave a comment It is necessary to highlight at the outset the diversity of the religious fact in a plural Africa, whether Muslim, Christian, traditional or other. At the Africa World Institute, we have a project to reflect on spirituality and its impact on the experience in Africa and in Africa’s relations with the rest of the... Concept note of the economics pole Inventing Tomorrow’s Ideas The construction of the African Union is shaping today – the history of an entire continent, the lives of hundreds of millions of African citizens and Africa’s role in the world. Africa, once seen as a poor continent and economically dependent on other regions, has relatively quickly proved the opposite by... Conceptual note of the societies and cultures pole Paragraphs 13, 25, 27 and 28 of the Manifesto of the Fiftieth Anniversary of African Independence mention the predominant place to be given to cultural diplomacy within African States, the prominent role of the diaspora, the necessary contribution of Africa’s voice to ecological issues, the revitalization of African languages as vehicles for the transmission... African emergence: coherence and audacity in multiple voices April 21, 2014 September 24, 2019 Articles and ReportsLeave a comment The Abuja Treaty of June 1991 laid the foundations for the creation of the African Economic Community (AEC), in which the economies of the African Union (AU) Member States should be fully integrated by 2028 in order to develop and face globalization. It seems obvious that the objectives and provisions of the Treaty essentially... ← 1 … 9 10 Tribute to Professor Beseat Kifle Selasiie (Member of the Board of Directors) Denis Maugenest’s Resume Tributes to Father Denis Maugenest Denis Maugenest’s speech at the UCAC colloquium in 2012 Interview with Denis Maugenest Africa African Integration Awards Book Central Africa CFA Franc China Climate Conference Cooperation Culture and Societies Debate Development Development Assistance Diplomacy Economy Education Energy Environment Ethics Finance Forum France Governance History Human Resources Japan Law Lybia Mankind News Partnership Peace Peace Nobel Prize Portrait Public Reunion Religion Russia Security Spirituality Think Tank Training Tribute UNESCO Women Texts written by Denis Maugenest We keep your data private and only share it with third parties who make this service possible. Read our privacy policy for more information. Check your inbox or junk folder to confirm your subscription. The Institut Afrique Monde is in official partnership with UNESCO (consultative status). Centre Sèvres Network of Foundations and Research Institutions for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace in Africa Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation for Peace Research CERAP Choose a language Français English Institut Afrique Monde © 2019.Theme by SiteOrigin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line612
__label__wiki	0.514192	0.514192	The rationale behind Suffragette: unclear Scritto il 15 Luglio 2015 15 Luglio 2015 da martacorato As anyone who knows me is aware, all I want in life is great media products that celebrate women and feminism. Seriously. I was pretty bummed out when the first trailer for Suffragette came out and had more big orchestral music than Titanic. I’ve been having the same problem with many biopics in the last few years, The Imitation Game to mention the most recent one: with such complex, rich stories, is it really necessary to amp up the drama? I appreciate that things were bleak as fuck in 1912 and that life for women’s rights activists was a nightmare. I like that the film seems to show that it wasn’t just rich bored educated women who fought to vote. The big violins and abundant crying, though, give it a “lost cause” feel that really doesn’t satisfy me. The only moments of joy that Carey Mulligan’s character seems to have are the ones where she is being a homemaker and playing with her children. I’m sure Emmeline Pankhurst would have approved, but I hope we get more than this in the full movie. So far, this version of the suffragist movement reads like a dramatic, sadder rendition of the only other cinema suffragette I can think of, Mrs. Banks from Mary Poppins (who, in retrospect, was fab and also much smarter than what she was made out to be, and the opposite of a bad mother). Anyway. I had set my all the feels aside and suspended all judgement until the film release. I would only send pissed off emojis to my friend Danielle every so often. Then these posters were released: Whoever curated this campaign clearly never did anything that had to do with feminism. It would have been enough to watch the trailer: Carey Mulligan says about a million times that this is about recognizing women as humans as opposed to arm candy/babymakers/moneymakers. What are the women on the poster? Mothers. Daughters. Rebels. They can be only identified in relation to others, because by themselves they are nothing. While I know that this is not what the poster means to say, this is a dangerous rethoric and I am, yet again, pretty bummed out that it was used in relation to the suffragettes. While I don’t doubt the intentions of writer and director of the film, both very talented professionals, it feels more and more like the funding of this film came from the wrong place: riding the wave of pop feminism rather than doing something with a soul and some – any – sense. Other stray observations: It doesn’t have anything to do with the film, but how depressing it is that the release slogan is “Recruiting 2015”? I get it, things are still awful for women everywhere, but recruiting? Really? On a non-feminist note, the “bygone times” colour correction and general feel to the movie gives it a nostalgic vibe that does nothing but irritate me. What’s with the wanted-style posters? Are we in the Far West or Edwardian London? Hot pink, because ladies! I wonder if I will live to see the day in which a mainstream film with female protagonists is promoted without using at least a little bit of pink. It appears that we are still not over the The Social Network-style posters. Seriously, it’s been five years, people. Can we just move on to something new? Blog, film, opinions/thoughts carey mulligan, emmeline pankhurst, meryl streep, movie posters, suffragette Precedente I'm starting to play video games - wait, what?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line617
__label__wiki	0.580796	0.580796	« MSN bets big on Live Earth Weekly wrapup, 2 – 6 July 2007 » Review: LiveStation (more live TV on your PC) July 6th, 2007 \| Posted in Net TV, Review \| 14 Comments Similar to Zattoo (see our recent review), LiveStation utilizes peer-to-peer technology to deliverer live TV to a user’s PC. The software has been developed by UK startup, Skinkers, and is in-part based on technology licensed from Microsoft Research (who get a small amount of equity in return). But, perhaps most notably, the front-end for LiveStation is powered by Microsoft’s newly launched Flash-competitor, Silverlight. LiveStation is currently running as a limited Beta (PC-only) and after several weeks waiting, I was finally able to get a look-in earlier today. As already mentioned, LiveStation is designed to stream live television over the net, meaning that it competes more with Zattoo, as apposed to other Internet TV startups such as Joost or Babelgum, both of whom offer an on-demand experience. It’s also clear — based on very limited content — that LiveStation is at the early stage of showcasing their technology rather than launching to the public. While I’m not privy to any on-going content negotiations, the only currently available channel is a test stream of the BBC’s News24. See also: Video: Livestation demos live Internet TV on iPhone and iPod touch LiveStation’s picture quality is good, but doesn’t quite cut it running at full-screen. Doing a side-by-side comparison with Zattoo and Joost, the later faired the best, with Zattoo also slightly better than LiveStation. This suggests to me that the application is more suited to being viewed in one window on your PC while you multi-task in another. On the upside, I experienced virtually no buffering whatsoever, and if there was any, it was masked by a short pre-roll advertisement. Additionally, sound quality was excellent. The UI for LiveStation is slick, making use of translucent overlays not dissimilar to Joost. If LiveStation is to be a showcase for Silverlight’s potential, it does a pretty good job. LiveStation’s emphasis on streaming of live rather than on-demand TV, keeps it from competing head-on with Joost and Babelgum (both of which are extremely well funded). However, as noted, others such as Zattoo are tackling the same problem as LiveStation. In the end, as ever, content will be king. And while we don’t yet know how many different Internet TV applications a user will welcome onto their desktop, it’s likely there’s room for at least one live and one on-demand offering. (For a close look at LiveStation, check out this video demonstration.) More last100 p2p Internet TV coverage Joost ‘opens’ to the public — full review Introducing Babelgum (Joost isn’t the only game in town) Zattoo – live TV on your PC Review: VeohTV Zattoo and LiveStation lookout – Joost to trial "live" television Live TV on PC: Zattoo and LiveStation showing steady growth Zattoo turns off BBC streams, could TVCatchup be forced to do the same? Joost makes live-streaming video available, starting with March Madness 14 Responses to “Review: LiveStation (more live TV on your PC)” Mack D. Male says: Good initial review! I look forward to giving it a shot. wan says: Klian says: Well… I think that Microsoft wont release a Mac version 🙁 Steve O'Hear says: @Klian There will be a Mac version eventually, from what I heard. The application is built on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology which runs on multiple platforms. Jose Lopez says: A free option is to watch myJose.TV Joe Connor says: Livestation is now available for Mac, both PowerPC and Intel processors. Works on OSX Tiger and Leopard. The Mac version does not use Silverlight. http://www.livestation.com/mac Elizabeth Clark says: Zattoo is not bad, I hope they will expand to users from other countries. But picture quality is everything this is why HDTV is sweeping the nation. Once Joost improves it’s picture quality I’ll jump on board. Philip (PC Satellite TV Reviews) Guy says: Nice post. I’m not familiar with LiveStation but with so many new Internet media sites popping up these days and competing with the more established ones, it says a lot what the future holds. With different types of gateways to access free Internet TV/Radio/VOD, people need to be aware of the best products/services available that will meet their entertainment needs and ability, as well as compatible to their computers. The individual’s decision comes down to how s/he wishes to access Internet media to watch on his/her PC. There’s hi-tech software that will easily make this task a lot easier and offers many benefits. For people that prefer automation, use of an all-in-one member’s area, and hi-tech Satellite TV player, top PC Satellite TV software packages offer instant access to Internet TV/Radio/VOD. It also lowers the learning, organizes Internet media, and helps newbies and Internet media enthusiasts focus more on accessing the entertainment they love in lesser steps–rather than going to each Internet media website to access channels and VOD manually, which is time consuming, and may result in slow loading pages, including popup ads. MAC and Linux can also utilize this gateway with compatible software. Avinash says: RAI soft Total Media Player is one of the best and well known media players…..its also known to its Youtube and Live Tv feature…. http://raisoft.tk/ bestcbstore says: SatelliteDirect's online TV technology allows you to watch over 3,500 HD channels right on your PC. 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__label__cc	0.700122	0.299878	Maintenance Grants/ Maintenance Grants Maintenance Grants Maintenance Grant is financial assistance that is given to a parent with a child(ren) that are under the age of 18 whose spouse has died, this financial support is for the care of children. THE TARGET GROUP (Who Qualifies) A biological parent who earns less than N$1000.00 per month and supports a child under the age of 18, where: - the other parent has died - the other parent receives an old-age pension or a disability grant, or is unemployed, or - the other parent is in prison for six months or longer. ose spouse has died and earns less than N$1000.00 per month or is unemployed A childe whose parent receives an old-age pension or a disability grant A parent whose spouse is sentenced to imprisonment for six months or longer Namibian citizens and permanent residents. Certified copies of the applicant’s birth certificate and Identity document (ID). Certified copies of the child or children’s full birth certificates/ written confirmation of birth or baptism card. A certified copy of the applicant’s marriage certificate (if applicable) . The latest school report of each school-going child. A certified copy of the spouse’s death certificate (if applicable). If the spouse is in prison, a letter from the prison and a written declaration from him/her confirming this. Proof of the spouse receiving a disability grant or an old age pension. If the applicant is employed, a pay slip with the name, phone number and address of the employer, if not employed a police declaration. N$ 250.00 per month for each child, for a maximum of six children per applicant or family For more enquiries, Contact: Deputy Director: +264 61 283 3185 Private Bag 13359, Windhoek E-mail: Lydia.Shikongo@mgecw.gov.na Offsite Links Offsite Links Contribute to the Drought Relieve Programme (2019/2020) TIP Awareness Campaign	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line628
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__label__cc	0.646926	0.353074	a top ten for big ben The rally of the dollar this year against the British pound has lovers of London licking their lips. Simply put, value for money hasn’t been this good in over a decade: Americans snag a savings of 20% off the bat due to the weaker currency. Combine that with the current crop of deals and discounts and it means you won’t have to splurge too many benjamins to hear the chimes of Big Ben. Whether you’re tackling London on the cheap or looking for the royal treatment, your buck will go a lot further. Here are ten ways of making London well worth the trip. #1: Free Museums and Galleries From must-see free museums and galleries to historical walking tours, London is nothing short of free activities for tourists. Britain is unique in its Government’s support for the arts – so much so that entry to the world’s most famous museums and galleries is entirely free. Enjoy the collections at London’s Tate Modern, see the Elgin Marbles and the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum or take in the masterpieces at the National Gallery – all free of charge. #2: The Oyster Card The “pay as you go” Oyster travel card caps your daily costs at the cheapest price available – a huge savings over buying individual tickets for journeys using the extensive bus or Underground networks. For example, a single tube journey in central London will cost £4 with cash but only £1.50 with the Visitor Oyster Card. Plus, kids under 11-years-old ride for free when traveling with an adult. Purchase a pre-loaded card before you travel at www.visitbritain.com/onlineshop or pick one up at any London tube station. #3: West End Bargains Just like its Manhattan brother, TKTS sells half-price, same-day tickets to theater lovers in London’s Leicester Square. Unlike Broadway – thankfully – there is rarely a lengthy line, plus a varied performance schedule means you can take advantage of shows that play Thursday and Friday matiness. If you’re headed to the West End expecting to see a sold out hit, check with a reputable ticket agency like Keith Prowse and you can nab seats to top shows like Wicked for $72 (regular price $107) or Chicago for $57 (regular price $101). #4: Hotel Deals The swanky Athenaeum – my favorite hotel in town – is guaranteeing rates in US Dollars throughout 2009 as well as guaranteeing oohs and ahhs with the installation of a dramatic “living wall:” a 10-story vertical garden designed by French botanist Patrick Blanc that fuses the hotel with its Royal Parks surroundings. Book the “London in Style” rate, from $450 per night for two, and take advantage of a bevy of dollar-stretching freebies that come with it: daily English breakfast or Afternoon Tea, fresh fruit and water on arrival, in-room espresso, soft drinks and snacks from the mini bar, WiFi, suit and shirt pressing – plus, kids eat free. Radisson Edwardian Hotels – which has 11 hotels in London – features an Advance Purchase promotion offering 10% off their Best Available Rate through December. Room rates start at £85 (approximately $136) per room, depending on season and bookings must be paid in full at least 10 days in advance of stay. The Bermondsey Square Hotel – colloquially called b² – is a bespoke and stylish hotel with a sense of humor and a cheeky charm reminiscent of the East End in the sixties. 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__label__cc	0.668241	0.331759	admin@macnz.org Friday Khotba MAC History Find MAC Summer School Holiday Programme Supported by MAC management, a group of volunteers (led by a few from the teaching & education background) are organising a Summer Holiday Programme for children from age 5 years to 12 years old. It will be held at Masjeed An Nur from 9am to 1pm from Monday 20th to Friday 24th, JANUARY 2020. If you are interested, please register on the link below. The main motivation for this event is to welcome the children back to the Masjeed and inculcate a love for the House of Allah. We are including 5 days of learning and fun activities for the children including a tram ride. We strongly encourage parents to participate in helping and supporting us for that week of the holiday programme. Please sign up for volunteering! Limited spaces. Please Register online: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdryzZxdebXcSu55CWj5lYeBmuDeKWqCsSy1q_6XC2eh8k8_g/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1 Note: Please do not register your child if they are below 5years old, and above 12years old. Jazakumullakhairan Help Samoa, Stand with them. Donate Generously! Monday 9th December 2019 IMPORTANT ANNNOUNCEMENT @ AN NUR Masjeed Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un Janazah prayers tomorrow (Tuesday, 10 December) at 11.30am,for four deceased, followed by the burial at Memorial Park at 12.30pm. Help needed with the burial. The deceased were involved in the Kaikoura accident. The victims were Adanan bin Jeman, 49, his wife, Rumihati bte Abdul Hamid, 49, and their daughters, Aaleeyah Maisarah bte Adanan, 13 and Nur Irfan bte Adanan, 15. The family were visitors from Sabah, East Malaysia. May Allah s.w.t. have mercy on their souls. Ameen Visit by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints A delegation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints visited Masjeed An Nur, led by Robert Craven, Becky Craven & Sharon Eubank from USA, Elder Allistair Odgers & Noeline Odgers from Christchurch. We thank them for their generous donations that they had made directly to the victims and directly to the two mosques in Deans Avenue & Linwood. From the left: Robert & Becky Craven, Elder Allistair Odgers, Noeline Odgers & Sharon Eubank with MAC Intercultural Facilitators, Jumayah & Sarah From left: Robert & Becky Craven,(USA) Elder Allistair Odgers, Noeline Odgers & Sharon Eubank (USA), Jumayah (MAC) & Hafsa Ahmad from Lady Khadija Trust Visit by Croatian Ambassador We were honoured to welcome the Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia, Ms Betty Pavelich Sirois who came to Masjeed An Nur with her two sons and her Counsellor, Sandra Tvrtkovic. The Ambassador is based in Canberra and was accredited to New Zealand only after April 2019. She conveyed her regrets for not being able to attend the commemoration for the victims of Christchurch Mosque attacks that was held on 23rd March at Hagley Park. She was grateful for the opportunity to lay a wreath/flowers at the Mosque and to pay respect. She had requested and was happy to have the opportunity to meet with Imam Gamal Fouda. She expressed her condolences and presented Croatia’s model of interfaith relations, especially the one with its Islamic community, that is often referred to as exemplary in Europe. From left: Sr Sarah Quadir (MAC Intercultural Facilitator), Imam Gamal Fouda, Ambassador Betty Pavelich Sirois, Sandra Tvrtkovic, Alexander & Christian Sirois Community Busy Bee Gardening Day Thank you to the wonderful Kiwi community and the brothers and sisters who came to help at the busy bee gardening day. We hope to have more of this communal gardening activity. Special thanks to bro. Kynan Buckingham for organising it. Mashaa’Allah. Tributes of Aroha Friday 13th September, 2019 The Christchurch Art Gallery held a 3 days exhibition sharing many tributes that were given to the Muslim Community since the 15th March tragedy. The outpouring of love and condolences were multiplied by numerous tributes in several forms of gifts from paintings, handmade quilts, carvings, origami, fresh and plastic flowers, painted rocks, candles, knitted hearts and the list goes on. https://ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/whats-on/show/3003 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/115797351/christchurch-terror-attack-tributes-reminder-of-aroha-shown-to-the-city Sisters Fun & Get Together Day Saturday 14th December, 2019 There will be a Sisters and children event coming up soon that will be held at Masjeed An Nur. All female friends and neighbours are welcomed. For further details and queries, please contact Sister Tooba Habib (Women’s Coordinator) Mobile contact: 021783077 Sisters fun & Get together d Letter from Sr Tooba, MAC Women Coordinator Christchurch Crisis Update 4.2 1. The Police are engaging with families directly. Each family has been assigned an individual case officer. They are working with each family discussing the release of their deceased. There was a meeting yesterday, and will be again today at 6pm with these families discussing this along with details of next steps. 2. The Community leaders took part in a blessing alongside Ngai Tahu. The respected ‘Kai Karakea’ visited and blessed both Mosques this morning. 3. A meeting took place today discussing the return of the two mosques. We are working on a timeline with Police on when they will be reopened. A dedicated representative from each Mosques is being assigned to work with the Police on this. The key focus is to ensure that they will be returned to us in a state that is suitable for our community to continue regular prayer and activities. 4. Owners of the cars that are within the cordoned off areas will be contacted individually by Police to arrange the return of their cars. 5. Arrangements for Jummah are being discussed for this coming Friday. We will provide an update when a venue has been determined. 6. The coroner team are doing absolutely everything in their power to work through their processes as quickly as possible. They have brought in teams from around New Zealand and from overseas to work around the clock. The Ghusl (washing) teams are established and ready to go and the Burial site is prepped and all processes are in place. Our priority is to engage with the families with the official engagement process. 7. More Specific information on the Janaza is still being finalised. Further information will be provided at our public briefing at 9pm tonight at the Horticultural Centre. Situation updates Dear Muslim Community Since yesterday, every victim’s family have been assigned a case officer from the police who is in charge of giving them status updates as soon as they develop, there has been a meeting with the families yesterday where they have been briefed about the status of their deceased loved ones and the plan going forward, and there is another meeting this evening to give them further updates. As for the Janazah and Ghosl, the families have been given the choice whether to wait for a mass Janazah or have their loved ones buried as soon as possible, for those who chose to have their loved ones buried as soon as possible, the procedure will start once the police allow them to collect the bodies, which should be within the next couple of days. For the mass Janazah, it will be held once the final body is ready, which according the current status will be by Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning. Victim support donation Salam Alykom, MAC has dedicated the following two accounts for the support of the victims of Christchurch: Bank: BNZ Acc#: 02-0800-0041468-06 Reference: CHC Janaza Reference: 15 March	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line632
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__label__wiki	0.653066	0.653066	Mysterious Britain & Ireland About The Site and Authors Copyright and Sources Hauntings / Screaming Skulls Screaming Skulls – An Introduction by Ian · Published September 12, 2008 · Updated December 3, 2018 The tradition of screaming skulls seems to be almost entirely isolated to England, where stories of these mischievous bone locked spirits abound. A screaming skull is basically a skull of dubious origin, said to cause great havoc – storms, poltergeist activity, and (given its namesake) unearthly screams – when it is removed from its pride of place within a stately home, or other ancient abode. Just how each skull came to reside within the house, is the subject of colourful stories, which also explain why the skull is so unwilling to return to the grave. Many of the stories about the skulls origins do not stand up to the scrutiny of investigation, but the actual tradition itself bears interest, and can be seen as a folklore motif widespread throughout the English counties. It has been suggested that the tradition of screaming skulls may be related in some way to a fragmented ancient tradition, associated with the reverence for the head. The Celts in particular were worshippers of the head. There have been many archaeological finds from the Iron Age to suggest that this is so, from skull shrines to the plethora of carved stone heads. The tradition has also been passed down in the Celtic Myths, from Bran’s sacred head to the beheading motif found in Cu Chulainn and other folklore. The only problem with this theory is that the tradition of screaming skulls seems restricted to England, and is not found in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Counties where you would more readily expect to find fragments of surviving Celtic traditions. So whether there is any connection with older traditions is difficult to quantify, and as the stories do not seem to date back further than the middle of the 16th century the tradition may be relatively new. In some stories these skulls have almost become the ‘luck’ of the house, in much the same way as some stately homes and castles have an heirloom, which in tradition must be kept safe to maintain good luck for the home and the family. Here is a selection of some of the most famous and well-documented screaming skulls in Britain: The Screaming Skull of Bettiscombe Manor Perhaps the most famous screaming skull is the one that resides at Bettiscombe Manor in Dorset. The tradition (which has many variations) to account for its presence suggests that it was the skull of a black servant of the manor some time in the distant past. It was his dying wish to have his body returned home to the West Indies, – the land of his fathers. Unfortunately the master of the house – a man called Azariah Pinney – had no intention of returning his earthly remains to the West Indies, and he was interred locally in Bettiscombe Churchyard. Soon after his burial terrible screams and strange guttural noises issued from the grave, and the house was plagued by poltergeist activity. Finally after the local villagers and family members could take no more, the skeleton was recovered and brought into the house, whereupon the haunting ceased. The bones of the skeleton became lost over the years until only the skull remained. Any attempts to rebury the skull are always said to have resulted in the same disturbances. One owner – who was disgusted at the grisly relic – is said to have thrown the skull in a nearby pond only to be plagued by all manner of unearthly screams and groans throughout the night. Inevitably he is said to have quickly retrieved the skull from the watery depths to restore it to its pride of place. In another story the skull was buried in a deep hole in a hasty attempt to be rid of its presence. The perpetrator was shocked to discover that the skull had somehow burrowed itself out of the depths, and was met with its empty eyed stare in the morning, as it sat waiting to be returned to the house. There is also a tradition that a phantom coach issues from the manor house along the road to the local church, and that this haunting is associated with the presence of the screaming skull. Any truth in the mythical origin of the skull was shattered when it was examined by an archaeologist called Michael Pinney in 1963, who dated the skull to the Iron Age. He suggested that the skull was that of a female, and was most probably associated with the Iron Age settlement of Pilsdon Pen close to the Manor House, although its true origins will never be known. The Screaming Skull of Tunstead Farm, Tunstead Milton, Derbyshire Tunstead farm has a skull named Dickie that had its height of fame during the 19th century. The name seems strange in that legend suggests the skull is actually that of a woman, who was murdered within the house. Before she died she managed to blurt out that it was her wish for her remains to stay within the house forever. Over the years the skeleton was gradually lost until only the skull remained, and the tradition grew that if the skull was removed then all manner of things would go wrong at the farm. Accounts in the 19th century also suggest that the farm was haunted by the woman’s’ spirit who was seen as a guardian kind of figure. The other story is that the skull belongs to Ned Dixon – hence Dickie – who was murdered at the farm by his cousin when he returned from some nameless war in foreign parts. The tradition of the skulls power was so well known in the local district that it was blamed on the diversion of the 1863 Waley Bridge to Brunton railway. A bridge was being built near to the farm, but had to be abandoned due to unstable foundations. This was attributed to Dickies influence, obviously not wanting such a noisy diversion to his purgatory slumbering. The skull is also said to have been stolen and taken Disley, where the thieves were plagued by such frightening disturbances that they returned it to the farm. Along with other screaming skulls one owner is said to have provoked its wrath by burying it, inevitably having to return it to the farm to restore peace. The Screaming Skull of Wardley Hall The skull that resides at Wardley Hall is another skull with opposing legends to account for its existence. In tradition the skull – which was kept behind a panel – was supposed to be that of royalist Roger Downs who lived in the 17th century. Roger was a man of ill nature, and according to legend once killed a Taylor in a drunken unprovoked attack, because he had sworn to kill the first person he met. His influence in high society allowed him to literally get away with murder. Eventually Roger picked a fight with somebody more than his equal, and during a drunken brawl on Tower Bridge in London, a watchman (or waterman) severed his head with one stroke. His body was Unceremoniously dumped into the River Thames. His head is said to have been delivered to the hall in a wooden box. The story was disproved when his coffin was opened in 1779, as his head was still attached to his body. The skull actually belonged to Father Ambrose Barlow, who was hung and quartered for his faith in 1641; his head was then put on display at Manchester church or at Lancaster castle. According to some sources the skull came into the hall when it was bought by a catholic sympathiser, who kept the skull hidden lest his true leanings were discovered. The skull was then rediscovered in the 18th century by the owner of the house. One day a servant found the skull and threw the grisly relic into the moat, whereupon there was a terrible storm that led the owner of the hall to believe the skull was venting its wrath at being removed. He had the moat drained and the skull was returned to its position. From traditional stories the skull seems to be indestructible as it has been buried, burned and smashed into pieces, always to be found outside the hall the next day, wearing its eternal grin. The actual story is thought to date from the 1930s when a visiting journalist was duped into believing that that the skull was one with a tradition as a screaming skull. The skull has also been removed (by one time resident the Bishop of Salford) from the house for periods, without the purported paranormal occurrences. The Screaming Skull of Burton Agnes Hall The skull at Burton Agnes Hall is another famous screaming skull, although its exact whereabouts in the hall is unknown. It is thought to reside behind one of the walls, having been bricked up and forgotten about years before. Tradition relates that three sisters built the Hall in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Before they managed to complete the building the youngest of the three sisters was attacked and mortally wounded by a cutthroat while walking in the park. She quickly fell into a fever and died. Before she passed away her sisters promised her that they would bring her head back into the hall so that she could see the completed structure. Her two sisters did not fulfil their promise and had her body buried, after they had moved into the finished Hall they began to be plagued by “strange moaning and weird sounds” until they could stand it no more and had their sisters skull disinterred. It was found to be already detached from the body and was fleshless. After it was placed in the hall all was well until a servant – who disbelieved the story – wrapped the skull in a cloth and threw it on the back of a wagon and horses. The horses reared and trembled in fear, the hall shook and pictures fell of the wall until the skull was replaced. After this the skull was placed in a niche in the wall, and eventually walled up. The actual origin of the skull is unknown, but the Hall was built for Sir Henry Griffiths in the 16th century, and not for the three sisters – who may have been Sir Henry’s three daughters. But it is difficult to ascertain whether the skull actually belongs to Anne Griffith, as tradition asserts. The spirit of Ann was also thought to haunt the hall and was known as Owd Nance. She is still said to appear on the anniversary of her death. The Screaming Skull of Higher Farm, Chilton Cantilo The skull at Higher Farm is said to be that of Theophilus Broome, who died in 1670. Before he passed away he left instructions for his skull to be kept at the farmhouse, and attempts to remove it are said to have resulted in poltergeist activity. The haunting is well documented; a manuscript at the farm has written account from a number of people who attested to the phenomena resulting in the attempted interment of the grisly item. The tale was committed to paper in 1791 by John Collinson in his History and Antiquities of Somerset, and the tomb of Theophilus can be found in St James’s Church. ', enableHover: false, enableTracking: true, buttons:{size: 'tall'}, urlCurl: 'http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/wp/wp-content/plugins/hueman-addons/addons/assets/front/js/sharrre.php', click: function(api, options){ api.simulateClick(); api.openPopup('googlePlus'); } }); // Scrollable sharrre bar, contributed by Erik Frye. 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Roman legionnaires, most of whom were Mainland Celts, had an habit of sacrificing victims when building a new structure and buring the remains in the foundations. Such remains have been found in the foundations of such diverse structures as bridges and permanent military camps. Most of the remains found belonged to animals but some belonged to humans, often children. There’s no definite pattern describing how and why traditions survive but it was put forward this maacabre habit somehow survived in parts of England, perhaps substituting skulls from long-deceased persons to live victims. The idea of tradition surviving in some areas alone is not as far-fetched as it sounds: after all the Celtic tradition of the Procession of the Dead only survived in scattered pockets on the Mainland and not in the Gaelic-speaking, mainly Celtic countries such as Ireland and Scotland. 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__label__wiki	0.663253	0.663253	Opera for Children Live from the MET GALA 100 YEARS OF BALLET NdB I.V. Psota Ballet School Premieres in the Season 2019/20 Home » Repertoire » Nabucco ‹‹ ‹ 1 2 The famous opera about yearning for freedom. Libretto: Temistocle Solera Author: Giuseppe Verdi Musical Preparation: Gergely Kesselyák Conductor: Jakub Klecker, Jaroslav Kyzlink Director: György Selmeczi Set Design: Karel Drgáč, Josef Jelínek Costume Design: Josef Jelínek Chorus Master: Josef Pančík Movement Collaboration: Jiří Kyselák Assistant Conductor: Jakub Klecker Assistant Stage Director: Otakar Blaha Assistant Chorus Master: Pavel Koňárek List of performances Performed in the original Italian with Czech surtitles Premiere on 8th June 2007, Janáček Theatre The famous dramatic opera that Verdi composed in the course of just a few weeks in 1842. It nearly didn’t happen: the premiere of his preceding opera King for a Day was so unsuccessful that the young composer, furthermore crushed by the death of his wife, wanted to give up on opera. It was only with difficulty that he allowed himself to be persuaded to write the music to a libretto with an Old Testament theme. The Babylonians, under the leadership of King Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco), storm Jerusalem, destroy Solomon’s temple and take the Jewish people into captivity. Jehovah punishes Nabucco with insanity, and on top of this he has to face the intrigues of his supposed daughter Abigaille. In the end he recognises his mistake and Jehovah’s strength and sets the Jews free. The popularity of this operatic tale of the freeing of the Jews from Babylonian captivity was linked to the desire of Italians at the time of its creation to be freed from their Habsburg overlords. At the time of the opera’s premiere the famous chorus “Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” (Fly, thought, on golden wings…) became a liberation song sung throughout Italy. For its tense solo performances, beautiful choruses, suggestive music and wonderful journey Nabucco is one of the most successful works in our repertoire. Janáček Opera Ensemble and Orchestra of the National Theatre Brno The terrified people of Jerusalem flock to the Temple of Solomon, to pray that their nation be saved from Babylonian army of King Nebuchadnezzar. The Jewish high priest Zacharias comforts the people, and exhorts them to faith and love. With him is Fenena, the daughter of the Babylonian king, who has come over to the Jewish side out of love for Israelite commander Ishmael. Zacharias believes that she can move the king of Babylon to negotiate, and goes forward with the people to meet the enemy. Fenena remains alone with Ishmael, and at this difficult moment the two assure each other of their love. They are surprised, however, by the sudden arrival of Abigail, Fenena’s ambitious and power-hungry half-sister, who has entered the temple by a secret passage. She is passionately in love with Ishmael, and yearns to become queen of Babylon. Ishmael rejects her love, and Abigail resolves to take vengeance. Nebuchadnezzar attacks the city, driving before him the Hebrew soldiers, who seek refuge in the temple together with people and the Levites. In this excitement Zacharias threatens to kill Fenena before eyes of the Babylonian king. At the last instant, however, he is prevented from doing so by Ishmael, who is thus seen by the people as a traitor. The victorious Nebuchadnezzar orders his troops to plunder and destroy the temple. Abigail learns that, as the daughter of a slave woman, she has no claim to her father’s throne, and so is resolved to eliminate him as well. The Babylonian high priest and his wise men are with her, ready to help her gain power. The subjugated Israelite nation waits to be taken in captivity to Babylon. Zacharias prays to Jehovah, the people, however, desire Ishmael’s death. Zacharias and Fenena save him from the agitated mob. Abigail rushes in with the Babylonian priests and demands the royal crown from Fenena. Nebuchadnezzar interrupts this dispute, and his soldiers force all to submit. In his arrogance and price he mocks at the divinity, and proclaims himself to be the only god. His blasphemous words are cut short by a bolt of lightning which knocks him to the ground. Half-crazed, he calls Fenena to him, while Abigail seizes the crown that has fallen from his head. The people of Babylon celebrate Abigail as their new queen. Nebuchadnezzar, helpless and confused, is decieved into putting his seal on an order for Fenena’s death and the transfer of power to Abigail. Abigail, triumphant, has her father taken away to prison. The enslaved people od Israel, delivered into a hostile country, labor in Babylon building a tower. They long to return to their homeland and to see the defeats of their enemies. Zacharias calls on them to be brave. The people’s determination to rebel is humbled by the quards’whips. In prison, Nebuchadnezzar bitterly regrets his deeds, and frears for Fenena‘s life. He hears the excited cries od the crowd as it condemens her, and wants to run to her aid. His loyal general Abdalo, however, warns him that there in no way of escape. Suddenly the wall of the prison opens, and the trops arrive to free their king. Nebuchadnezzar stands at the head of the army and leads it to Fenena’s rescue. Ishmael, Zacharias and Fenena await their deaths. Nebuchadnezzar arrives at the temple of Baal in time, and orders the statue of the pagan god destroyed in front of the treacherous high priest. Before the soldiers can carry out his order, however, the statue itself falls to the ground. Nebuchadnezzar grants the Israelites their freedom. Abigail, bereft of all hope, finds a way out only in suicide. When we play Thursday 2. 07. 2020 20.00–22.50 FLEXI ABO Persons and roles Nabucco: Richard Haan j. h., Luis Cansino j. h., Martin Bárta j. h., Vladimír Chmelo j. h., Jakub Kettner j. h. Ismael: Peter Berger j. h., Richard Samek, Rafael Álvarez j. h., Petr Levíček Zaccaria: Jiří Sulženko, Martin Gurbal' j. h., Gustáv Beláček j. h. Abigail: Szilvia Rálik j. h., Csilla Boross j. h., Anda-Louise Bogza Fenena: Jana Hrochová, Veronika Hajnová Fialová, Denisa Hamarová j. h., Václava Krejčí Housková The Pontifex: Ladislav Mlejnek Abdallo: Petr Levíček, Zoltán Korda Anna: Daniela Straková-Šedrlová, Tereza Kyzlinková Can we improve something? Leave us a message © National Theatre Brno Web portal supplier - QCM, s.r.o.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line647
__label__cc	0.501007	0.498993	OSRAM AG Switzerland adminMS August 24, 2016 General hardware & software, it, light manufacturer YouCon helps in integrating voice applications OSRAM AG Switzerland and UK OSRAM Ltd. SAP lead a Munich business communications management, July 26th with OSRAM AG Switzerland and the OSRAM Ltd. UK put two more subsidiaries of OSRAM AG in their contact centers on the IP-based communication solution for SAP according to OSRAM China lighting Ltd. business communications management. Again, the YouCon GmbH, headquartered in Munich and Vienna is responsible for the installation of the IP solution and its integration with the CRM applications. Employees of OSRAM customer service in St Helens at Manchester and Winterthur are supported in the future business communications management in many ways through the use of SAP, which benefit the contact center agents as well as the customers. Accessibility and efficiency in customer communication are factors that are becoming increasingly important for the market success of our industry. After the positive experience with YouCon and SAP business communications management in China want we use now in key locations in Europe the communication solution,”explains Christian Wittlif at OSRAM. Because the software completely relies on standard interfaces, YouCon could link them in China with existing hardware and software systems and as a result both create synergies and realize the transition smoothly. Since then all calls over SAP business communications management and all emails and faxes via SAP CRM run in our contact center in Foshan. Thanks to the integration of the systems the service employees have there a consistent user interface to manage all customer contacts.” SAP business communications management is an IP-based communications solution that provides functions for the contact channel cross-business communication. The software replaces the parallel operation of insulated telephone systems, which are used in call centers and enterprise telephony. Logical interconnection of different locations creates a seamless connection between different tasks and knowledge institutions and departments. The software enables a dynamic allocation of the capacity of the in – and outbound as well as a better resource utilization with minimal training. Teaching Role adminMS August 23, 2016 General Today the teacher is not who teaches, but who facilitates, promotes, guides and accompanies in the learning of the learner. Education today is not so much an achievement as the learning of the other process. We must not forget the concept of learning throughout life. From this perspective the presence of institutions or companies such as Master-D is more than justified. The concept of learning is thus more aligned to develop as a person and improving oneself with a banking education. It is not just that the student acquires knowledge and skills, but develop their ability to learn to learn. This precise guidance that, on one hand, who have the responsibility to teach has a remarkable capacity of communication, not only from the point of view of oral, but considering all the skills involved in communication, both the oral, as written, the non-verbal, the gestural, and even the domain of communication as the audiovisual techniques. And, naturally, all adapted to the needs and conditions of their wards. This circumstance is most relevant if the chosen training model is the model of open training or distance learning. On the other hand, the student must bring into play all his effort and desire. Learning is a single fact that requires an effort by the apprentice. Create conditions, facilitate the processes and contents and accompany and direct to you learn are elements that acquire a notorious relevance if we compare educational interventions that demand us today and that our teachers were used in the past. At the end, it’s search for interactions between each other (people, elements, content, designs, media because it is in these interactions where learning occurs. This is the framework in which is based the concept of open learning, training and preparation that defends and proclaims Master-D.. masterdopina. External relations of Master-d, Manuel Fandos has been responsible for the departments of educational innovation, product and Mastervision’s Master – D and is now external relations of the of company. Doctor in psychopedagogy from Huelva University, degree in Education Sciences from UNED and in ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Fandos graduated in theology by the Regional Centre for theological studies of Aragon, and teaching at the University of Zaragoza. Also, it boasts the postgraduate diploma in adult education and is trainer of trainers and monitor of free time. His works include those of director of various public education centres; Permanent training centres for teachers and resources of Ejea de los Caballeros, Calatayud, and Zaragoza Juan de Lanuza Advisor and psychologist of the MEC. Manuel Fandos has worked, moreover, as a Professor of the University of Manchester (England) and Professor of Experimental speech therapy, new technologies and speech therapy and methodology and didactics. Head of the Department of Experimental Logopedia in phono-Leng Aragon, (institution affiliated with the University of Manchester). Bench Post Of DIMATEX Ltd Your Wholesaler In The Field Of Fashion adminMS August 23, 2016 General fashion & jewellery, lifestyle Bench mixed items, the box-office hit bad out. In the DIMATEX LTD. get a top-seller in the range, which almost by itself sold. The bench fashion company, founded in 1989 in Manchester. The streetwear brand’s roots lie in the BMX biking and skateboarding. Bench a small underground label has produced cool T-Shirts for Bmxers and skateboarders started. Over the years, bench has developed into one of the hottest streetwear labels, today as much driven by stars and starlets such as by the average Joe. Bench stands for the pure lifestyle of the street. For this reason, awarded 2007/2008 by the survey panel CoolBrands of title of coolest streetwear company the British label. Today, bench supports large sporting events, festivals and parties. But even well-known artists and bands such as OASIS and the Kaiser Chiefs, are equipped of bench. It’s clear that bench has not only T-Shirts in the range. Women and men can a dress up to the hat at a bench by the underwear. Even shoes and accessories can be purchased in the casual style of the bench. In Germany, bench became known through the fleece jacket with their extremely high collar that closes with Velcro or zipper. Bench. Stock offer premium to TOP terms B2B offerings in the post area for branded apparel and designer fashion. No matter whether for retail, wholesale, resellers, online shops or professional ebay trading. Cheap purchase prices and an attractive range of products are essential for a good sale. Textile wholesale and distributor for brand items, is the team of DIMATEX LTD. successfully operating for over 9 years in the fashion & brands section. Bench mixes, seven for all mankind jeans, Tommy Hilfiger mixed items, and more! The DIMATEX LTD. occurs, not only as a Distributor, she marketed also cancelled orders, stocks, sample collections, returns, second & third season, as well as insolvency goods. Take advantage of these benefits for your business, and work together with specialists in the fashion area. Company portrait: The DIMATEX LTD. is a for over 9 years in the fashion & branded area of acting wholesale based in Dreieich near Frankfurt am Main. In addition to our wholesale division we are represented for over 5 years with a fashion online shop in the B2C – now 3 successfully operating platforms arising from it. Our contacts in Europe and our experience in the retail help us in your daily work – searching for trends, developments and the strategic orientation of our offer. Close collaboration with brands, distributions & reputable partners makes it possible for our customers to provide attractive offers us. We are in addition to the activity as a distro specializing in marketing of sample collections, returns, cancelled orders, stocks, second & third season, etc.. Whether quiet market without influencing the market, search of new sales channels in the Eastern European region or far as Russia – we work successfully with many brands together! Trader, company or brand – talk to us! adminMS August 18, 2016 General fitness & workouts, sports In the first ten, there were no position changes in April, and only football first division are represented. Viewers Croesus is under the rumours as almost anyone Month ALBA Berlin (10.075 viewers on average). The o2 world helps also the ice hockey pros of polar bears with 14.061 fans per game to the place in the Sun at least in the internal classification among the ice hockey teams. He is HSV Hamburg, who replaced the subscription leader THW Kiel that in the course of this season, continues to front the handball players. Average flow 10.290 spectators in the O2 world Hamburg”renamed color line arena. The second Hambuger home team, DEL Club Hamburg freezers, with 6.993 spectators per game clearly is back. The stadium world table of the top 100 in Germany determined the average attendances at League matches of the most popular team sports (currently reach only football, handball, ice hockey and basketball corresponding numbers). The complete overview of the spectators top 100 is available at for download. Viewers top 30 Europe in April 2010: four Bundesliga among the ten most visited football clubs in Europe, FC Barcelona FC Barcelona defended the top position at the Camp Nou is despite the off in the semifinals of the Champions League in the ranking of the 30 best-attended European football clubs remain at the front. The average stream 80.194 spectators at the Camp Nou. The chasers are closely together: with 77.057 viewers the best German Club, Borussia Dortmund, second before real’s Madrid (76.776) and Manchester United (74,900). With Bayern Munich, Schalke 04 and the HSV three other German clubs among the first are ten. SL Benfica made the largest jump (from 16 to 11) compared to the previous month. The Portuguese are in the domestic league shortly before winning the title. “Ranked 25th (plus two positions) United even a second division side in the TOP ranks with Newcastle 30, although the Magpies ‘ direct promotion back to the Premier League have already secured. VfB Stuttgart (41.031) the overall tenth German Club concludes with the TOP 30 despite the fact that a curve at the Stuttgart stadium is currently rebuilt. The stadium world table top 30 is based on the average numbers of viewers in the European Table determined football leagues. The complete overview of the top 30 European viewers available at for download. With friendly regards, Stefan servant editorship Stadium world Schlossstrasse 23 D-50321 Bruhl Tel.: + 49 2232-577 229 mobile: 63 30 94 fax: + 49 2232-577 211 Japan Levels adminMS August 8, 2016 General environment If in Japanese territory the manifestation of the thought if coats with intrinsic character of responsibility, the media around of the world continues waiting the chance to inform degeneration happened human being (7) of the disruption of the physical structure of the Japanese nuclear plant. This hypothesis, is clearly, knows to be sufficiently possible to happen, logically it does not escape in them, not we seriamos ingenuous to such level, but the dosimtricos studies effected by the AIEA come corroborating day the day with our position of that the radiation is in a dangerous level, but will not be the capable to cause problems of health to the short local population nor, average or long stated period. (8) Alarming information to the part, the fact to be joined foods with modified levels of radiation of the other side of the country also, not necessarily, must be cause of alarm of the population (9). This because such levels do not try, at least until the moment, any problems of health to the consumers. All the levels measured until the moment, along with raised, do not try medicamentosa intervention or hospital some in the involved population. Happily we are not only voice in way to the current events. Richard Wakeford, epidemiologista of the university of Manchester assevera: The people are worried about what until the moment they are low levels of radioactivity, but the real problems are to deal with the earthquake and tsunami. As our rank in diverse chances: the panic generated for the nuclear question in Japan is deviating the attention of the authorities of a possible humanitarian crisis, that can more than involve the 500 a thousand people who are living in temporary shelters, that face rain, below-freezing snow and temperatures of in crowded gymnasia, temples and public schools and that they do not possess enough systems of heating, consequently, continue dying.. The Customers adminMS August 5, 2016 General - vacation & tourism, travel Many hoteliers are currently but very accommodating and sometimes waive the usual Cancellation to avoid at least the preventive cancellation of the customers,”so Horn next. Now hopes the industry that soon that relax the situation. In this investigation Citysam.de has up-to-date evaluated prices of over 40,000 hotels in Europe and thereby compared what would have cost an accommodation for the same travel dates, if you had booked them on different days. Room rates when booking on the 1st April, booking at the 18.04, booking at the 20.04.: Hanover: EUR 91-223 EUR (145%) – 147 EUR (- 34%) Munich: EUR 153-267 EUR (75%) – 240 (- 10%) Frankfurt am Main: EUR 102-129 EUR (26%) – 114 EUR (- 12%) Brussels: EUR 125-156 EUR (25%) – 142 EUR (- 9%) Manchester: 127 EUR – 153 EUR (20%) – 140 EUR (- 9%) Madrid: 124 EUR – 149 EUR (20%) – EUR 136 (- 8%) Milan: EUR 133-151 EUR (14%) – 146 EUR (- 4%) Cologne: 95 EUR – 107 EUR (13%) – 99 EUR (- 7%) London: EUR 183-204 EUR (11%) – 197 EUR (- 4%) Barcelona: EUR 156-173 EUR (11%) – 171 EUR (- 1%) Lisbon: EUR 123-135 EUR (10%) – 103 EUR (- 24%) Amsterdam: EUR 180-196 EUR (9%) – 186 EUR (- 5%) Mallorca: EUR 106-115 EUR (9%) – 112 EUR (- 3%) Copenhagen: 141 EUR – 152 EUR (8%) – 154 EUR (1%) Hamburg: EUR 120-127 EUR (6%) – 132 EUR (4%) Rome: 209 EUR – 213 EUR (2%) – 205 EUR (- 4%) Athens: EUR 114-116 EUR (2%) – 112 EUR (- 3%) Paris: EUR 205-202 EUR (- 1%) – 179 EUR (- 11%) Istanbul: EUR 151-150 EUR (- 1%) – 150 EUR (0%) Vienna: EUR 134-132 EUR (- 1%) – EUR 134 (2%) Berlin: EUR 103-102 EUR (- 1%) – 100 EUR (- 2%) Venice: 252 EUR – 241 EUR (- 5%) – 220 EUR (- 9%) Prague: 137 EUR – 131 EUR (- 5%) – 120 EUR (- 8%).	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line649
__label__cc	0.674797	0.325203	NJTOD The Home of New Jersey's Transit-Friendly Development Newsletter Newsletter Board NJTOD Staff What is TOD? NJ TOD & Transit Village TOD News Briefs New Jersey Land Use + Transit Data Application VTC Research TOD Literature Active Transportation & Transit Case Studies & Guidebooks Development & Redevelopment Financing & Economics TOD Glossary NJTOD Partners and Other Resources NJTOD Videos NJ TOD News Paterson Rediscovers Passenger Rail Station July 28, 2008 August 15, 2018 Steph_Admin Issue 8, Paterson NJ, redevelopment, Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Program America’s first industrial city has recently rediscovered its train station. New Jersey’s third most populous city with nearly 150,000 residents, Paterson is also among its most dense, with nearly 28 people and 9 housing units per acre. Since the opening of the Secaucus Junction rail station in late 2003, service frequency on the Main Line has been increased. Paterson train riders can now reach midtown Manhattan, the region’s major destination for jobs, culture and shopping, in about 48 minutes, which includes a transfer at Secaucus Junction. The Main Line trains that stop at Paterson terminate at Hoboken station where riders can transfer either to the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail line to access destinations along the Hudson River waterfront, or to PATH or ferries for travel to lower Manhattan. Average weekday passenger boardings at the Paterson station have more than doubled since the Secaucus Junction station opened, rising from 270 in FY03 to 571 in FY07. 1930’s postcard view of the Fabian Theatre, with the Alexander Hamilton Hotel visible in the foreground The city is beginning to see its station as a hidden opportunity—one that had not previously received a great deal of attention. One project that intends to capitalize on this asset is the Center City project, an effort to redevelop an area located just one block west of the station. The Center City project, encompassing an entire city block, is intended to anchor commercial and other redevelopment throughout the downtown, as well as serve as the first step in developing the station area into a mixed-use, around-the-clock community. Planning began in 2006 when Nick Tsapatsaris & Associates (NTA) was designated to redevelop a city block occupied by two large, city-owned surface parking lots. When completed in fall 2009, this project will serve as a commercial retail center featuring 320,000 square feet of national and regional retail and entertainment uses. NTA is finishing work on the first phase of construction, completing an underground parking garage that will provide 650 spaces. It will alleviate demand at a nearby city-owned garage where valet service is being used so that it can be operated over capacity. When done, the new underground garage will be accessible while work continues on the building above. Looking beyond the Center City project, NTA intends to build on two additional parcels north of the Center City project. On the corner of Smith Street and Veterans Place (less than a quarter-mile from the station), the firm plans to build a 160-unit residential building on a surface parking lot owned by the Paterson Parking Authority. On another surface lot at the corner of Hamilton and Smith streets (slightly more than a quarter-mile from the station), the developer plans to build a five-story office building. Parking lost to these projects will be replaced and supplemented with a new garage the city’s parking authority plans to build on a site located between the new NTA buildings. In another redevelopment effort, the parking authority in January opened a mixed-use parking structure at Broadway and Memorial Drive, located across from Passaic County Community College and about a ¼-mile northwest of the station. This structure includes 24,000 square feet of new commercial space and additional parking for the college. A state Motor Vehicle Commission office opened in March, marking the agency’s return to Paterson after its previous office closed in 1995. The college also anticipates moving its bookstore into the building to make way for new classroom space. Two other projects are in the works for the Paterson station area. One block north of the Center City project, the old Alexander Hamilton Hotel (55 Church Street) is being renovated to provide senior housing. The old Fabian Theatre cinema, located less than a ¼-mile from the station at the corner of Church and Ellison streets, is slated for rehabilitation into a flexible performance space, known as a “black box” theater. The building dates from 1925 and was designed by Paterson architect, Frederick W. Wentworth. The historically recognized structure has been empty since 1993. ← Trenton Continues Station Area Redevelopment Efforts New Brunswick Continues to Grow → Recent NJTOD News The Week in TOD News January 4-10, 2020 January 13, 2020 Stephanie DiPetrillo Comments Off on The Week in TOD News January 4-10, 2020 Transit Village Update Celebrating 20 Years of the NJ Transit Village Initiative January 13, 2020 Stephanie DiPetrillo Comments Off on Celebrating 20 Years of the NJ Transit Village Initiative Webinar: New Discoveries and New Work: Jeff Speck and Jarrett Walker Explore Lessons Learned from Walkable City and Human Transit January 10, 2020 Stephanie DiPetrillo Comments Off on Webinar: New Discoveries and New Work: Jeff Speck and Jarrett Walker Explore Lessons Learned from Walkable City and Human Transit Webinar: APTA Looks at 2020’s Hottest Transit Trends January 9, 2020 Stephanie DiPetrillo Comments Off on Webinar: APTA Looks at 2020’s Hottest Transit Trends From the NJTOD Archives New & Newsworthy: September 2018 October 1, 2018 Stephanie DiPetrillo Comments Off on New & Newsworthy: September 2018 Redevelopment at Raritan’s Woolen Mills July 17, 2007 Steph_Admin Comments Off on Redevelopment at Raritan’s Woolen Mills Building Consensus in Transit-Oriented Development May 30, 2006 Steph_Admin Comments Off on Building Consensus in Transit-Oriented Development New Project Bolsters Cranford’s TOD Mission October 24, 2013 Steph_Admin Comments Off on New Project Bolsters Cranford’s TOD Mission NJTOD is a collaboration of: Alan M. 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__label__wiki	0.785232	0.785232	8-bit Fridays: The Diaries – April 21, 2017 So as indicated last week the games are piling up again, especially for the PS1, but this weekend although tenuous, should have a bit of room to get into a few titles. This Weeks Buys: As previously indicated I’m trying to figure what direction I want to go in next with collecting, so it’s been a very light week. Krazy Ivan (PS1) – This is another tall box title from back in the PS1’s early days, so as a tall box it’s a noted game, but outside of that it’s kind of obscure. Basically, it’s another take on the giant mech thing, but with an obvious Russian theme. This Week Plays: GTA 2 (PS1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ – I’m slowly making my way through the GTA series although I will admit I jump around a lot. GTA 2 as compared to GTA is definitely a lot more fun, and despite the isometric viewpoint, you can see how the third person of GTA 3 springboards off of this. This is actually a better game than Driver on the PS1, which I thought was better game than the original GTA. Graphics wise it’s about as much to look at as GTA or Driver, although is does have the slightly cartoony look of Dick Tracy on the NES. I think the more cartoony look might actually have been meant to give the game that tongue & cheek style the franchise is known for. Playwise it controls better than GTA, but played on the PS2 its only controlled via the D-pad, however I was able to pick up the game’s mechanics quickly. As far as originality this game has it in spades despite seeming like a clone of its first rendition. Overall it’s fun as hell to play. Sabrina the Teenage Witch: A Twitch in Time (PS1) ⭐️⭐️½ – I’m actually doing this game as part of my Game & Watches series so look for that in a couple weeks. Anyway, this is a colorful and upbeat little game as you would expect although it only features the voice of Nick Bakay as Salem, with someone else voicing Sabrina. Graphics wise it’s prisoner of its era and can be a bit hard on the eyes, although it’s pretty solid and hit detection is fairly functional. I did find it a little hard to see what was going on, but perhaps with less glare on my TV it would be a little easier to see. Control wise it needs help with the camera views which never look where you want them to and leave you pretty vulnerable to enemies. As with most PS1 games played on the PS2, controls where on the D-pad which again is a struggle to get use to. The game itself stays pretty true to the comical world of Sabrina, but as for originality this looks like it might have borrowed off other games. It’s an ok game but not one I’d suggest buying. Centipede (PS1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️- Welcome back to the world of Hasbro reboots of Atari games, because dammit they owned the properties and they were going to use them. As with most of these games there’s an arcade mode or basically the original game, and an adventure mode which is the reboot. The arcade mode is of course good, as for the adventure mode it’s fun but also a bit dead-endish. Based on the adventure mode only, the graphics are on par and cartoony for one of these reboots, meaning their solid with good hit detection but nothing spectacular. Control wise the side to side motion had to be done with the R1 and L1 buttons which was a bit off putting considering fire was X, overall though once you got passed that it was ok to control. Originality wise it had some fun elements, and bought some imagination to the 2D world of Centipede. It’s another ok game but only pick it up if you want to experience these reboots. Qbert (PS1) ⭐️⭐️- Yes, another Hasbro Atari reboot! I’m just going to say both classic (arcade) and adventure mode play terribly. Did you ever see the music video for “Groove is in the Heart” by Dee-Lite? That’s how this game looks graphically. I got the cartoony (my word of the day) look they were going for but…seriously. Anyway as mentioned the controls barely functioned on either mode. As far as originality it was there, and I could see the adventure mode was supposed to be like a puzzle game, which is a workable concept with Qbert it’s just too bad the controls were terrible. Deep Fighter (Dreamcast) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Taking a PS1 break I’m moving to the Dreamcast for a game that has been on my wishlist for a while, Deep Fighter. Although the concept of underwater fighter subs was already toyed with in the 1994 Microprose title Subwar 2050, the concept hasn’t really been revisited much. So when I found out Ubisoft flirted with the concept on Dreamcast I had to take a look since I’m always looking for unique Dreamcast only titles. Graphically this one is pretty impressive, and even the FMV looks good. I found the gameplay graphics to be fairly clear looking, despite still have that distant fog limitation typical of games and systems of this generation, but it worked out well considering the underwater setting. The FMV was also clear, and dare I say it very movie like, which I wasn’t expecting. In gameplay I did find the graphics to be pretty solid, but hit detection, and even indication of it was a bit off which was a minor detractor from the game. A major detractor though was the controls, of course if you’ve read my plays on Dreamcast before or have even played on it yourself then you’ll know the Dreamcast controller is far from ideal, and at times painful to use. In this case the game would have benefited from a better controller. As far as originality the game has only a few similarities to the above mentioned Subwar 2050, whoever it’s very much an original in concept and overall gameplay, and somewhat imaginative in its overall story about the last human survivors building a ship to escape Earth. This tends to be a little pricier of a game, but I think the gameplay, concept, and graphics make it an essential for the Dreamcast. Pong (PS1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Back to the PS1, and another Hasbro/Atari reboot. So basically this is still just Pong with some interesting backgrounds, center-field distractions, and with animations. It gets a little more complicated than traditional Pong with multi-balls, and opposing player helpers, but it’s still about blocking and hitting back the ball in play. Graphically, as you guessed again it’s cartoony, but looks well for what it’s trying to get across. Control wise, it Pong just moving up and down and it does it well. I will give this one big props for originality though, since it’s all about making the most of Pong. With that said though I still got bored and moved on from this game quickly since you can’t just play different levels but rather have to unlock them. Frogger (PS1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️- Frogger reboots are nothing new to me since I have some other crazy Frogger game on the GameCube. Now this game like Pong, which I mentioned above, has just the rebooted modes of play and lacks a classic mode. This one does pay tribute to the classic though on the first level which is a 3D re-imagining of the classic Frogger first level, and it’s actually pretty good. The rest of the four levels I had access to however, where challenging and sometimes confusing reboots. Graphics wise again, its good, and cartoony but nothing overly special. Control is also good, but simple, and there are no timing issues. Originality wise yes it’s pretty imaginative, but still a bit lacking. Space Invaders (PS1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- This is the first non-Hasbro/Atari reboot, but a reboot nonetheless and it starts off with a kickass intro. Now maybe it’s because this is an Activision thing but this one was good, I actually stuck with and played the first level all the way through. Graphically, it’s not bad, and on par with most PS1 games being solid and workable. Controls were a piece of cake and made sense. Originality wise I see where they were going and I liked, but still missed the original. This one rates a little higher in my book due to it being a joy to play. Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine (Sega-CD) ⭐️⭐️1/2 – Taking another PS1 break for the Sega-CD. Loadstar is a game about a space trucker with a truck that runs on tracks, but it’s a truck not a train, got it? So it’s got lovely Sega-CD FMV goodness, and a ridiculous plot, but Ned Beaty’s in it (guess Homicide wasn’t paying enough back then). With all that said though once you get how to use this game works it’s somewhat entertaining. Graphically I never expect much from the Sega-CD, but considering this one looked pretty good for that system. Control wise it’s far from intuitive and even after playing it a while I still didn’t have it completely figured out. With that said though this is another game that felt as if it was supposed to have been a light gun shooter, but went a different direction for other reasons. Originality wise a space/truck rail shooter is pretty unique as is the gameplay. I’d recommend this one more for the collector though. So nine games later, I think that’s been a pretty full weekend. I still have a few PS1 games out there including at some more reboots, and some actual good games, plus titles on a few other systems. Anyway I have a big, and probably stressful week ahead of me, and I can’t wait to get to Friday again. Have a good one!!! 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__label__cc	0.730464	0.269536	...the mantra of those who don't battle "...do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic..." "For the good of the Air Force, for the good of the armed services and for the good of our country, I urge you to reject convention and careerism..." - Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Maxwell AFB, April 21, 2008 "You will need to challenge conventional wisdom and call things like you see them to subordinates and superiors alike." - Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, United States Air Force Academy, March 4, 2011 Warfighter Subordinate Feedback Posted by PickYourBattles.Net at 4:15 AM PickYourBattles.Net December 3, 2016 at 9:01 AM Just wanted to note I didn't follow what I believed. I followed our laws which is the compilation of what our diverse group of Americans "believe." Anybody in public service who objects to the legal demands based on their own personal beliefs or morality is unfit for public service. It's that simple. What I did was follow the law. I did my job. I refused to break our law by violating the rights of another American. It wasn't what I personally thought was right, it was what those who pay me collectively think is right and I did my job as they pay me to do, instead of violating my oath of office and their trust in order to please my boss over the Americans who employ me. PickYourBattles.Net My name is Rick Rynearson. My Twitter is @PickBattles. I am an Air Force command pilot and field grade officer. I grew up an Air Force dependent (my father retired a CMSgt after 32 years active duty). I have eight deployments to OEF/OIF as a close air support attack pilot, more than one thousand combat flight hours, seven Air Medals and a Distinguished Flying Cross for valor. I have a B.A. in religion from the Florida State University. 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__label__wiki	0.633045	0.633045	321st BG,447th BS, Lt Ernie Rice and Lt Fred Smith " NEITHER DID I" Off the Island of Corsica in early 1945, I was a B-25 co-pilot on a practice mission testing out the new Norad radar vector bombing system and we were zeroing in on a practice target in Northern Italy. It was a dark night but as I (447th BS, Lt Frederick Smith) glanced out my window of the cockpit I saw a black B-25 flying on our right wing. I grabbed the controls and took us on a steep bank to the left and told Ernie Rice the pilot what I saw and he mumbled something about my combat fatigue and put us back on course. In about 5 minutes he glanced out his left window and saw the plane on the left wing and took us into steep bank to the right and went on IFF to make the plane identify itself, as we were dead ducks and he could have shot us down. I climbed up into the top turret gun to shoot it down if I had too. When I got set in the turret the black B 25 was moving up again to a right wing position and when I swung my turret around to take aim. He banked down and away and we didn't see him again. Good thing as I didn't have any ammunition. Sometime later after the war in Europe was over and I was back in the States on rest leave. I read a story about the Germans having rebuilt a downed B-25 . Painted it black and did spying on our missions and the pilot was interviewed and said one night he almost got shot down trying to find out why we were flying a single plane night mission. I went to the trouble of locating that pilot and dropped him a line introducing myself and advising him that we didn't have any ammunition and he wrote back and said" Neither did I" ( 9-28-08) "Hi Barbie lot of hearsay in those war stories. yes I was Co pilot for Ernie on that confidential night practice mission and when we reported spotting the black B-25 ,our intelligence officer told us to forget about it. The black B 25 had been seen on some day missions and it was kept quite for some counter intelligence reason. FRED SMITH -- (Frederick H Smith and Ernest C Rice) "Fred has quite a story and is a dedicated leader in making "We Remember" sites for the 57th Bomb Wing as well as a major contributor to the AWARDS sites; DFC, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Air Medal and others. Fred was a perceptive Leader and flew in some of the most dangerous and difficult Missions of the war in the MTO. God Bless our brave men." http://57thbombwing.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=49063 They don't make planes like this anymore, but we still have the same dedicated air crews. Although the tail actually bounced and swayed in the wind and twisted when the plane turned and all the control cables were severed, except one single elevator cable still worked, and the aircraft still miraculously flew ! The tail gunner was trapped because there was no floor connecting the tail to the rest of the plane. The waist and tail gunners used parts of the German fighter and their own parachute harnesses in an attempt to keep the tail from ripping off and the two sides of the fuselage from splitting apart. While the crew was trying to keep the bomber from coming apart, the pilot continued on his bomb run and released his bombs over the target. When the bomb bay doors were opened, the wind turbulence was so great that it blew one of the waist gunners into the broken tail section. It took several minutes and four crew members to pass him ropes from parachutes and haul him back into the forward part of the plane. When they tried to do the same for the tail gunner, the tail began flapping so hard that it began to break off. The weight of the gunner was adding some stability to the tail section, so he went back to his position. The turn back toward England had to be very slow to keep the tail from twisting off. They actually covered almost 70 miles to make the turn home. The bomber was so badly damaged that it was losing altitude and speed and was soon alone in the sky. For a brief time, two more Me-109 German fighters attacked theAll American. Despite the extensive damage, all of the machine gunners were able to respond to these attacks and soon drove off the fighters. The two waist gunners stood up with their heads sticking out through the hole in the top of the fuselage to aim and fire their machine guns. The tail gunner had to shoot in short bursts because the recoil was actually causing the plane to turn. Allied P-51 fighters intercepted the All American as it crossed over the Channel and took one of the pictures shown. They also radioed to the base describing that the appendage was waving like a fish tail and that the plane would not make it and to send out boats to rescue the crew when they bailed out. The fighters stayed with the Fortress taking hand signals from Lt. Bragg and relaying them to the base. Lt. Bragg signaled that 5 parachutes and the spare had been "used" so five of the crew could not bail out. He made the decision that if they could not bail out safely, then he would stay with the plane to land it. Two and a half hours after being hit, the aircraft made its final turn to line up with the runway while it was still over 40 miles away. It descended into an emergency landing and a normal roll-out on its landing gear. When the ambulance pulled alongside, it was waved off because not a single member of the crew had been injured. No one could believe that the aircraft could still fly in such a condition. The Fortress sat placidly until the crew all exited through the door in the fuselage and the tail gunner had climbed down a ladder, at which time the entire rear section of the aircraft collapsed . This old bird had done its job and brought the crew home and all in one piece. 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__label__cc	0.576326	0.423674	The Missing Republic Found! The prize goes to my friend, Tom, a long-distance trucker based out of Phoenix, Arizona. You gotta watch those truckers. They have a lot of time on their hands to just sit and think.... Many good theories were proposed, many people drawing a connect between the old Roman Republic and the Municipal Government, but still, nothing very conclusive in terms of any official singular "Republic" associated with any level of our Government. Until Tom said to himself.... well, what else is missing that should be there? The original Confederation of Federal States-of-States is missing. And sure enough, if you dig around a bit, you find that the Confederation of States was sometimes referred to as the "Federal Republic". We still have to be very careful to define what we are talking about. Just because there was once "a" Federal Republic doesn't mean that there is one now, and it doesn't mean that any organization calling itself "the" Republic has any relationship to the original Federal Republic, either. It all depends on how such an organization is structured, what its articles are, what its purposes and leadership and ownership interests are. Is it American? Is it really our Federal Republic being restored? Or another look-alike, sound-alike Ringer trying to sneak in the back door? Obviously, a French commercial corporation calling itself "The Republic of the United States of America" is no more our Federal Republic than a Scottish commercial corporation calling itself "The United States of America, Incorporated" is our Federation of States. And any foreign government infringing on our copyrights and promoting any such confusion needs to have its ass kicked, Mr. President. We've been fooled before with this kind of hooliganism and con artistry. As we have seen, a lot of fraud has been based on similar names deceits in the past and the same Bad Actors are most likely to try to pull the same. See this article and over 1300 others on Anna's website here: www.annavonreitz.com Labels: Anna von Reitz, The Missing Republic Found! MikeV November 11, 2018 at 5:12 PM "Confederation of States was sometimes referred to as the "Federal Republic". " After the Constitution, the old Confederation of States under the Articles which was also called the period of Confederation 1781-87, was now called a Federal Republic but now recognized as 1 single State called the United States. Confederation and Federal are never used interchangeable there was one then it transformed into the other after the Constitution, the Confederated States retained 100% sovereignty BUT as a Federation they all gave up certain sovereignty to create a definitive central government, so never the same after and not interchangeable concepts. It was a far cry from the current information age certain terms obviously took decades to be re-evaluated and corrected 95% of the people had no clue what was happening in government until years after the fact. They say like only 3-5% of people had any part in the Revolution, British citizens woke up and found out they had to make a decision now or be mass naturalized as an American citizen no vote on it no ballet most took no part in any Revolution. Ive also heard "American Republic". For a break down of the origins/creation of Roman Law and the Republic read the "Introductory" section. http://www.mindserpent.com/reference/usufruct/1803_hunter_a_systematic_and_historical_exposition_of_roman_law_in_the_order_of_a_code.pdf It reads like a literal mirror understand the foundation and realize its all the same system going back 2000+ years, commercial debt based, rich verses poor battle between all the classes,church state senates kings presidents, this country was founded as New Rome!!! :ronald :son-of-jack November 12, 2018 at 1:31 AM Fond approval to this type digging. Anglo America November 11, 2018 at 5:50 PM While Thomas Jefferson refered to his State of Virginia as a 'Nation', his opposit in politics, Alexander Hamilton the Centralist did not nor would not recognize any State as a Sovereign Nation. We all should speak of the States as Nation States. Hamilton was a Rothchild 'plant'... NOT an AMERICAN! Leland Roth November 13, 2018 at 3:24 PM Probably so & in this life says he was Washington's illegitimate son back then. Ask best selling author Brad Sczollose about it yourself & mention me if u like🎥 https://www.bradszollose.com/ Abby November 11, 2018 at 8:30 PM Someone left the cake out in the rain, and......... Chef-doctor Jemichel November 11, 2018 at 10:29 PM Dear Anna, Would it be possible to have Tom's award winning theory presented here in his own words? ......... Tom.....Please do. Thank you for bringing up the $64 question about the "original" republic. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack of historical-power-grabbing-straws. Deciding this, looks to me like, THE historical-decision of the now-living-American-generations. Yes. We should take it very seriously. One group, not a fly-by-night-cabal-agent, calls itself "The United States of America". I know the discussion-history of this group and the feuding arguments and name-calling. One thing this group must be given credit for is their very serious discussion of this issue. There are 100 T-ROH broadcasts talking about it. I consider this question the primary political question of my lifetime. I've overturned a lot of rocks and found a lot of things. I am also not done looking. My motto is "the tree is known by its fruit". Leland Roth November 12, 2018 at 4:03 AM Your $50 💰 will be sent shortly...under protest, of course, Anna, for dubiousness😂 'Federal Republic'💛 Private Civillian November 12, 2018 at 2:25 PM Republic is the post office. Open a po box “ anywhere” Designate FULLNAME, estate c/o Office of the Executor UM (is united states outlying nation islands, a sovereign state) Outside of their jurisdiction of the world govt James Pansini November 12, 2018 at 7:25 PM Except for one thing....no one wants to deal with a P.O. BOX #, unless govt. But normal people are routinely asked for their address and no P.O. BOX #...!! And even to get a P.O. BOX #, the post office demands you give a real address to attach to it....!! That's because the IRS wants to know where to really send their letters to...!! 😂💛 For the Bar Members to See and Know--- And Everyon... The Capper --- What ISN'T There 5.0 What ISN'T There 4.0 More Smoke and Mirrors from Manna World Holdings T... Manna World Holdings Trust --- Fraud and Piracy Ex... Moms of America For Richard: A "Good One" From Benjamin Bengal:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line670
__label__wiki	0.664712	0.664712	Greece • History of music • Music of Southeastern Europe Music by nationality Greek people Guitarists by nationality Culture of Greece Arts in Greece Greek musicians by instrument Southern European music Music of Greece The music of Greece is as diverse and celebrated as its history. Greek music separates into two parts: Greek traditional music and Byzantine music, with more eastern sounds. These compositions have ex... Music of ancient Greece • Byzantine music • Greek folk music • Nisiotika • Rebetiko • Greek dances • Greek musical instruments • Music of Crete • Music of Cyprus • Music of Epirus (Greece) • Music of the Heptanese • Ionian School (music) • Greek New Wave • Greek rock • Greek punk • Greek hip hop • Greek music by city • Music venues in Greece • Greek songs • Number-one singles in Greece • Albums by Greek artists • Discographies of Greek artists • Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest • Greek music industry Elli Kokkinou - Den Ginetai Elli Kokkinou - Den ginetai - Sto Kokkino - 2003. Nice modern laika song. Maria Callas Una Voce Poco Fa Barbiere di Siviglia G. Rossini Maria Callas' Diminuendo on E6 (Sonnambula) Highlighted comments from the commenters below: -From Ariadne7710: Sutherland takes this at such a breakneck speed to show how fast she can sing coloratura passages, that it loses all meaning. The g... Maria Callas Live: Bizet's Carmen Habanera, Hamburg 1962 http://www.maria-callas Callas’s only operatic appearances in Germany were Lucia di Lammermoor, with Karajan conducting, in Berlin in 1955, and La sonnambula in Cologne in 1957, but in both 1959 and 1... Maria Callas, Luchino Visconti, Elsa Maxwell - Tu che le vanità... Description There is someone talking at times, so you know... Per una volta, anziché proporre l'arte vocale (sostenuta da uno strumento non certo privilegiato in sé, anche se immediatamente riconosc... Maria CALLAS sings Carmen HABANERA in covent garden Maria callas sings habanera in covent garden 1962. Callas singing Sempre libera like a Wild Cat Highlighted comment from commenters below: -From Felix Carvajal: No one has ever or will ever sing like this. All the trills, scales, everything Verdi wrote is perfectly executed with a gargantuan vo... Puccini, Tosca. Callas,Gobbi - Regia di Zeffirelli. Covent Garden 1964 Early Callas receives endless ovation after the most heartbreaking Vissi d'Arte Highlighted comments from the commenters below: --From MrQbenDanny: VIVA LA CALLAS, Having a heart to heart conversation with GOD. Lo mas grande en la historia. -From Robert Palmer: It's a long ovat... Maria Callas - La Traviata Maria Callas (1923-1977) Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) La traviata E strano! E strano!...Ah, fors'è lui che l'anima...Follie! Follie!...Sempre libera Alfredo - Francesco Albanese Orchestra sinfonica di T... Agnes Baltsa Seguidille Carmen Verona, 1985 Carmen - La Chanson Bohême - Agnes Baltsa Conductor: James Levine Also known as Les tringles des sistres tintaient, this is the entr'acte to Act 2 of the famous ópera comique Carmen. Greek Zorba Alexis Zorbas zorba dance ΧΑΡΙΣ ΑΛΕΞΙΟΥ - ΜΗΤΕΡΑ, ΦΙΛΗ ΜΟΥ ΠΑΛΙΑ - YouTube MOTHER MY OLD FRIEND Music and lyrics by Haris Alexiou Album To paihnidi tis agapis / Το παιχνίδι της αγάπης ΜΗΤΕΡΑ, ΦΙΛΗ ΜΟΥ ΠΑΛΙΑ Ένα χτενάκι στα μαλλιά Μι... Έλλη Κοκκίνου - Δε Γίνεται \| Elli Kokkinou - Den Ginetai (Official Music Video HD) Greek singer Demis Roussos dies aged 68 Greek singer Demis Roussos, who sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, has died aged 68, an Athens hospital confirms to the BBC. Music of ancient Greece The music of ancient Greece was almost universally present in society, from marriages and funerals to religious ceremonies, theatre, folk music and the ballad-like reciting of epic poetry. It thus pla... Byzantine music (Modern Greek: Βυζαντινή μουσική), in a narrow sense, is the music of the Byzantine Empire. Originally it consisted of songs and hymns composed to Greek texts used for courtly cere... Greek folk music includes a variety of Greek styles played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, Australia, the United States and elsewhere. Apart from the common music found all-around Greece, there ar... Nisiotika Nisiotika (Greek: νησιώτικα) is the name of the songs and dances of Greek islands including a variety of Greek styles, played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, Australia, the United States and e... Rebetiko, plural rebetika (Greek: ρεμπέτικο, [reˈbetiko] and ρεμπέτικα respectively), occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Gr... Greek dances Greek dance (horos) is a very old tradition, being referred to by authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch and Lucian. There are different styles and interpretations from all of the islands and ... Greek musical instruments Greek musical instruments, were grouped under the general term of Lyre, all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching horns, having also a cross piece to which... Music of Crete The music of Crete (Greek: Κρητική μουσική) is a traditional form of Greek folk music, also called κρητικά (kritika). Although the lyra is the dominant instrument for the genre, it is often accomp... Music of Cyprus The music of Cyprus includes a variety of traditional, Western classical and Western popular genres. Cypriot traditional music is similar to the traditional music of Greece and includes dances like so... Music of Epirus (Greece) The music of Epirus (Greek: Μουσική της Ηπείρου), in the northwest of Greece (present to varying degree in the rest of Greece and the islands) contains folk songs that are mostly pentatonic and po... Music of the Heptanese The music of the Heptanese is the folk music of the geographic and historical region of the Ionian Islands. It is based a lot on the western European style. It is dominant the use of guitars and mando... Ionian School (music) The term Ionian (or Heptanese) School of Music (Greek: Επτανησιακή Σχολή, literally: Seven Islands' School) denotes the musical production of a group of Heptanesian composers, whose heyday was from th... Greek New Wave The Greek New Wave (Greek: Νέο Κύμα, [ˈneo ˈcima]) was a movement in Greek music that started in the mid-1960s and lasted about a decade. It was a mixture of entechno and French chansons; it was so na... Rock and roll spread around the world in the 1950s and 60s, entering Greece in the middle of the 60s. Greek rock performers in the field include Jimi Quidd (born Jimmy Hatzidimitriou, later member of ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line675
__label__wiki	0.777923	0.777923	UK-Africa Summit: Buhari visits Prince of Wales India unveils $2.5 billion plan to electrify all households by end 2018 India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, on Monday launched a 2.5-billion-dollar project to electrify the country’s households by the end of 2018. More than 40 million households -about a quarter of all in the country – are yet to be electrified and about 300 million of India’s 1.3 billion people are still not hooked to national grid. The states will need to complete the electrification by December 2018 and the government will identify those eligible for free electricity connections across the country. Mr. Modi said at an event where he launched the project that “no fee will be charged for electricity connection in households of poor citizens.” The project, which would be mostly funded by the Federal Government and run by the state-run Rural Electrification Corp Ltd, was aimed at reducing the use of kerosene, the government said. The government also said it would distribute solar power packs with battery bank to un-electrified households in such areas. Another challenge will be to fix finances of debt-laden power distribution companies in states, which struggle to buy and supply electricity to consumers, Ashok Khurana, Director General of industry body Association of Power Producers, said. He said government must take steps to improve the financial health of such companies if the new programme was to be a success. Nigeria records N13.5bn from cashew nuts BBC:Tiwa Savage makes BBC’s list of 100 inspirational and innovative women for 2017 Accountant general says 7.5% VAT is in full force, contadricts Finance Minister’s statements Over 500 Investors others to attend Horasis Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR to penalize err producers Resident Doctors Condemn Suspension Of FMC Umuahia President Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed discloses PMB stand over IPOB Mel B’s ex strongly denies ‘years of abuse’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line676
__label__wiki	0.829669	0.829669	CLICK HERE to Visit Our Blog– for a Wealth of JoJo water tank & Rainharvesting info! Rainharvest.co.za water tanks, JoJo water tanks, rainwater tanks, chemical tanks, underground tanks, water tank stands Choosing A Water Tank ABOUT JOJO TANKS Other JoJo Products Recommended Installers JoJo Vertical Water Tank Prices JoJo Low Profile & Horizontal Tank Prices JoJo Underground Tank & Tank Stand Prices Vertical Tanks Horizontal Tanks Restored Wetlands Rarely Equal Condition of Original Wetlands By admin on February 1, 2012 in environmental issues, JOJO, JOJO TENKE, JOJO WATER TANKS, RAINWATER TANKS, sustainable building, TANK STANDS, TENK, WATER, WATER CONSERVATION, WATER TANK, WATER TANK PRICES, water tanks, wetlands Wetland restoration is a billion-dollar-a-year industry in the United States that aims to create ecosystems similar to those that disappeared over the past century. But a new analysis of restoration projects shows that restored wetlands seldom reach the quality of a natural wetland. Restored wetlands like this pond converted from agricultural use in Aragon, Spain, may look natural, but a new study shows that it can take hundreds of years for restored wetlands to accumulate the plant assemblages and carbon resources of a natural, undamaged wetland. (Credit: David Moreno-Mateos/UC Berkeley) “Once you degrade a wetland, it doesn’t recover its normal assemblage of plants or its rich stores of organic soil carbon, which both affect natural cycles of water and nutrients, for many years,” said David Moreno-Mateos, a University of California, Berkeley, postdoctoral fellow. “Even after 100 years, the restored wetland is still different from what was there before, and it may never recover.” Moreno-Mateos’s analysis calls into question a common mitigation strategy exploited by land developers: create a new wetland to replace a wetland that will be destroyed and the land put to other uses. At a time of accelerated climate change caused by increased carbon entering the atmosphere, carbon storage in wetlands is increasingly important, he said. “Wetlands accumulate a lot of carbon, so when you dry up a wetland for agricultural use or to build houses, you are just pouring this carbon into the atmosphere,” he said. “If we keep degrading or destroying wetlands, for example through the use of mitigation banks, it is going to take centuries to recover the carbon we are losing.” The study showed that wetlands tend to recover most slowly if they are in cold regions, if they are small — less than 100 contiguous hectares, or 250 acres, in area — or if they are disconnected from the ebb and flood of tides or river flows. “These context dependencies aren’t necessarily surprising, but this paper quantifies them in ways that could guide decisions about restoration, or about whether to damage wetlands in the first place,” said coauthor Mary Power, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology. Moreno-Mateos, Power and their colleagues will publish their analysis in the Jan. 24 issue of PLoS (Public Library of Science) Biology. Wetlands provide many societal benefits, Moreno-Mateos noted, such as biodiversity conservation, fish production, water purification, erosion control and carbon storage. He found, however, that restored wetlands contained about 23 percent less carbon than untouched wetlands, while the variety of native plants was 26 percent lower, on average, after 50 to 100 years of restoration. While restored wetlands may look superficially similar — and the animal and insect populations may be similar, too — the plants take much longer to return to normal and establish the carbon resources in the soil that make for a healthy ecosystem. Moreno-Mateos noted that numerous studies have shown that specific wetlands recover slowly, but his meta-analysis “might be a proof that this is happening in most wetlands.” “To prevent this, preserve the wetland, don’t degrade the wetland,” he said. Moreno-Mateos, who obtained his Ph.D. while studying wetland restoration in Spain, conducted a meta-analysis of 124 wetland studies monitoring work at 621 wetlands around the world and comparing them with natural wetlands. Nearly 80 percent were in the United States and some were restored more than 100 years ago, reflecting of a long-standing American interest in restoration and a common belief that it’s possible to essentially recreate destroyed wetlands. Half of all wetlands in North America, Europe, China and Australia were lost during the 20th century, he said. S Though Moreno-Mateos found that, on average, restored wetlands are 25 percent less productive than natural wetlands, there was much variation. For example, wetlands in boreal and cold temperate forests tend to recover more slowly than do warm wetlands. One review of wetland restoration projects in New York state, for example, found that “after 55 years, barely 50 percent of the organic matter had accumulated on average in all these wetlands” compared to what was there before, he said. “Current thinking holds that many ecosystems just reach an alternative state that is different, and you never will recover the original,” he said. In future studies, he will explore whether the slower carbon accumulation is due to a slow recovery of the native plant community or invasion by non-native plants. Coauthors with Moreno-Mateos and Power are Francisco A. Comin of the Department of Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology in Zaragoza, Spain; and Roxana Yockteng of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France. Moreno-Mateos recently accepted a position as the restoration fellow at Stanford University’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. The work was supported by the Spanish Ministry for Innovation and Science, the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and the National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics of the U.S. National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center. Source: Science Daily Property developers in South Africa often exploit environmental impact assessment mitigation recommendations by destroying a natural wetland and then creating an artificial wetland somewhere else. This disingenuous practice is even condoned and recommended by some prominent South African professional environmental assessment practitioners. South Africa can ill afford to lose more wetlands to avaricious developers. World Wetlands Day will be celebrated on Thursday 2 February 2012. 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__label__cc	0.621817	0.378183	Review: The Hill by Karen Bass The Hill by Karen Bass Series: Standalone Published: March 31st, 2016 Publisher: Pajama Press 250 pages (paperback) Genre: Young Adult Thriller/Supernatural Acquired this book: Via Pajama Press in exchange for honest consideration Warning: May contain spoilers {GoodReads \|\| Buy this book: Amazon \|\| Chapters/Indigo} Jared's plane has crashed in the Alberta wilderness, and Kyle is first on the scene. When Jared insists on hiking up the highest hill in search of cell phone reception, Kyle hesitates; his Cree grandmother has always forbidden him to go near it. There’s no stopping Jared, though, so Kyle reluctantly follows. After a night spent on the hilltop with no cell service the teens discover something odd: the plane has disappeared. Nothing in the forest surrounding them seems right. In fact, things seem very wrong. And worst of all, something is hunting them. Karen Bass, the multi-award-winning author of Graffiti Knight and Uncertain Soldier, brings her signature action packed style to a chilling new subject: the Cree Wihtiko legend. Inspired by the real story of a remote plane crash and by the legends of her Cree friends and neighbours, Karen brings eerie life or perhaps something other than life to the northern Alberta landscape in The Hill. Jared is used to getting his own way and getting whatever he wants. He’s dependent on technology and would rather relax in comfort in his designer clothes than do anything in the great outdoors. When his private plane crashes in the wilderness, the first person on the scene is a Cree teen named Kyle. Despite the fact Kyle tells Jared there’s no cell service nearby, Jared is determined that if he climbs the nearby hill, he’ll get reception. Kyle has always been warned away from the hill, but when Jared insists on going, Kyle knows he can’t let him go alone. Once they’ve climbed the hill, both boys quickly realize why Kyle was always told to stay away from the hill. The Hill isn’t a typical story of survival in the wilderness. The boys do need to fend for themselves, but there’s something far more sinister than wild animals and the elements in the forest - Jared and Kyle are being pursued by a Wihtiko, a Cree legend come to terrifying life. The pair need to learn to work together and overcome their differences in order to survive. The dynamics between the two were really interesting - they’re complete opposites and have nothing in common, but in a very short time and under extreme circumstances, they forge a strong bond. Jared especially learns a lot about himself through Kyle, which was interesting to see. The Hill was different from anything I’ve ever read. I loved that it was written by a Canadian author, set in Canada, and used a real Cree legend. I was also really happy to see a main character who was Native. This is so (unfortunately) rare that it actually made me ridiculously excited! The Hill is a creepy, paranormal twist on a survival story. It has great messages about privilege, stereotypes, and friendship. I’d particularly recommend it to fans of the TV show Supernatural - the Wihtiko is similar to the Wendigo, which Sam and Dean fought in season one. Have you read The Hill? What did you think? If you haven't read it, do you plan to? Are you familiar with the Wihtiko (or even the Wendigo) legend? Do you have a favourite story about survival? {Instagram \|\| Facebook \|\| Twitter \|\| GoodReads \|\| Pinterest} Labels: 4 star review, book review, Canadian authors, diversity FTW, Miscellaneous Publishers, young adult paranormal, Young Adult Thriller or Horror Jenny October 24, 2016 at 6:01 PM Sounds creepy! I love that cover too!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line678
__label__cc	0.644147	0.355853	Cover Reveal: At the Mountain's Edge by Genevieve Graham Happy Monday, book lovers! Today I'm excited to be part of the cover reveal for Genevieve Graham's upcoming Canadian historical romance At the Mountain's Edge. I love Genevieve's books, and I especially love that they shine a light on Canadian history. So, without further ado, check out the beautiful cover, followed by the synopsis and links to pre-order the book! At the Mountain's Edge by Genevieve Graham Publisher: Simon & Schuster Canada From bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a sweeping new historical novel of love, tragedy, and redemption set during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1897, the discovery of gold in the desolate reaches of the Yukon has the world abuzz with excitement, and thousands of prospectors swarm to the north seeking riches the likes of which have never been seen before. For Liza Peterson and her family, the gold rush is a chance for them to make a fortune by moving their general store business from Vancouver to Dawson City, the only established town in the Yukon. For Constable Ben Turner, a recent recruit of the North-West Mounted Police, upholding the law in a place overrun with guns, liquor, prostitutes, and thieves is an opportunity to escape a dark past and become the man of integrity he has always wanted to be. But the long, difficult journey over icy mountain passes and whitewater rapids is much more treacherous than Liza or Ben imagined, and neither is completely prepared for the forbidding north. As Liza’s family nears the mountain’s peak, a catastrophe strikes with fatal consequences, and not even the NWMP can help. Alone and desperate, Liza finally reaches Dawson City, only to find herself in a different kind of peril. Meanwhile, Ben, wracked with guilt over the accident on the trail, sees the chance to make things right. But just as love begins to grow, new dangers arise, threatening to separate the couple forever. Inspired by history as rich as the Klondike’s gold, At the Mountain’s Edge is an epic tale of romance and adventure about two people who must let go of the past not only to be together, but also to survive. Pre-order At the Mountain's Edge now! Amazon Canada \|\| Amazon US \|\| Chapters/Indigo \|\| Barnes & Noble Isn't it beautiful? The team at Simon & Schuster Canada always do such an incredible job with Genevieve's covers! This is officially the first 2019 release on my wishlist! {Bookstagram \|\| Instagram \|\| Facebook \|\| Twitter \|\| GoodReads \|\| Pinterest} Labels: Adult Historic Fiction, Canadian authors, cover reveal, Genevieve Graham, Simon and Schuster	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line679
__label__cc	0.742044	0.257956	Gulf Air in-flight experience – from better to best Gulf Air’s in-flight service team treats every passenger as if they are the only passenger on board, by adding a warm welcome to the superb facilities available. This unique service ethic saw Gulf Air awarded Best Passenger Service airline 1995 by international aviation magazine Air Transport World. The highly-trained crew comprise more than 60 nationalities and offer a unique perception of the multi-national nature of the airline’s passenger base. Gulf Air believes that these factors, combined with an extensive upgrading of in-flight facilities and the gradual implementation of new ideas and improvements has taken its in-flight service from better to best. Gulf Air operates First, Business and Economy classes on all its flights. Quality, innovation and tradition are the bywords of in-flight service. Following a pre-flight aperitif, First and Business Class passengers choose from dishes created by Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs chefs, served on fine bone china. Economy Class passengers are offered three main courses and Gulf Air remains the only international airline to offer fresh fruit and liqueurs after dinner in the Economy cabin. A range of Special Meals that cater to passengers particular requirements, whether religious, dietary, medical or just personal preference are available with prior notice. Newly designed crockery and cutlery in all classes indicate an attention to detail and quality that pervades the entire in-flight experience. A welcome touch are the separate male and female overnight kits in First Class full of useful accessories, brand name toiletries and two aromatherapy oils, one to relax the other to invigorate. Gulf Air welcomes U Falcon mileage awarded per one way flight on eligible fares	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line681
__label__cc	0.683157	0.316843	Old Project Avalon Forum (ARCHIVE) > Project Avalon Forum > Project Avalon > Spirituality The adamantine particles - the sacred magnetic heart Avalon Spiritual Mother The Adamantine particles The words “Adamantine Particles” are used for the first time in English in Glenda Green’s book “Love without End” published in 1998. However, the word “Adamantine” has been around for thousands of years. In the Buddhist tradition we can find one of the first references to this word; in Sanskrit “Vajra” means Adamantine, and "Vajradhatu" is a Sanskrit word which means "adamantine sphere”. But perhaps, the most important finding was that the word “Vajrasattva” means “the Adamantine Being” who represents the Buddha of purification and healing. The Vajrasattva Meditation is a special practice recommended by Vajrayana Buddhism to their practitioners who wish to cleanse themselves from impurities accumulated and caused by negative feelings, thoughts, words and actions. In English the word Adamantine means “something extremely hard or unyielding”, in fact “adamant.” It is also an adjective to qualify something as “hard and brilliant as a diamond”. The term particle is used in the context of subatomic particles, thus adamantine particles are subatomic in size and nature. The Adamantine particles form all elements of the Universe; in other words, they are the smallest indivisible particles that assemble the atoms of all original substances like oxygen, nitrogen, iron; therefore, all that is, including our bodies. We can say that “Adamantine particles” mean “pure particles”, not combined with anything; particles so pure, small and simple that cannot be divided and therefore are, and represent, an “absolute”. They are one of the constants of the universe. Adamantine particles are fundamental particles, Adamantine particles are fundamental particles of matter and energy that are not yet properly identified by scientists; most probably, quantum physicists have already discovered these particles and have named them differently; it is also quite possible that our current scientific approach does not allow them to fully understand its characteristics. Adamantine particles are crystal-like particles of infinity, which contain stored potential to manifest any original substance or element. It can also be said that adamantine particles are encoded with a kind of “universal DNA” that allows them to form any possible type of atom. Adamantine particles require “power” to build the other particles and atoms. There is, however, only one type of energy (not energy generated by friction as we know in 3D) that is compatible with them. This energy is the magnetic power of Love, which pervades the Universe in the form of Universal Life Force. Love is not only the most beautiful feeling, it also is the power which ignites and directs adamantine particles into manifestation. We can also call Love and its magnetic power, Potential; pure and infinite potential to command the adamantine particles to form infinite numbers of forms of expression of such potential. Love is the ultimate force in the Universe; it holds every galaxy, star and planet in its place. In the presence of Love, patterns of beauty, perfection, harmony and efficiency manifest spontaneously. http://www.awakening-healing.com/Ada...eParticles.htm Find More Posts by mudra	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line684
__label__wiki	0.866185	0.866185	New review of 2023 In a pretty good-sized review of 2023: A Trilogy at the LA Review of Books, Ron Hogan begins with a good discussion of Robert Anton Wilson before moving on the subject at hand, the new work by KLF folks Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. I was hoping for a bottom line on whether I should actually read the book. The closest thing to that I could find in the review was "Indeed, 2023 is not, as a novel, terribly welcoming to readers who aren’t already familiar with the JAMs, and from a classical literary perspective it’s actually something of a mess — but that’s the point." Thanks to Chris Mayer for writing to me to point out the review. Labels: 2023, The KLF Rasa said... I got 2023 a few weeks ago, and every so often in my insane schedule I read a few pages. I'm enjoying it, but largely because I get the references. It may be a challenge to someone who doesn't. After starting it, a friend gave me a copy of "The Neurogenesis Diet and Lifestyle: Upgrade Your Brain, Upgrade Your Life" by Brant Cortright. I was hoping the upgrade would help me have more time for reading 2023, and other benefits. I'm thinking 2023 and Neurogenesis is a good combination. Ron Hogan said... Hello! So, I'm just now seeing this a year later—and, to answer the question my review didn't answer, I do think you should read 2023, if you didn't go ahead and do it at some point in the last twelve months. I think you, like me, have a particular cultural literacy that the book will make sense to you, even when it's deliberately being "occult" in the sense of throwing up a lot of literary and cultural confetti to confuse the uninitiated. Overall, I suspect we should treat 2023 less as a novel and more as a hypersigil, the full working of which remains known only to Bill Drummond. So, you know, don't go into it expecting the pleasures of a novel, and you'll likely find more in it. It didn't imprint on me as deeply as MASKS did, or even THE INVISIBLES ,but maybe if I read it again in 10-15 years, a whole new layer will open up for me as has been the case with those books. New 'Eris of the Month' Another musician inspired by RAW When you just can't read someone Adam Gorightly on the JFK files and Uri Geller A Henry George community The BBC on Discordianism, RAW and Illuminati paran... Coincidance question Tuesday links Review of '2023' There's that number again A note on RAW and Ulysses Re-reading 'Lord of the Rings' 'Waging Peace from the Inkbattle House: Finnegans ... Read Scott Horton's new book on Afghanistan News from the UK Mozart's 'Magic Flute' I hope the fires stop soon [Updated0 Matt Cardin on Chapel Perilous Mozart's Masonic opera, in a theater near you Bertrand Russell's 10 commandments New book by Steve Pratt New JFK assassination files, Kerry Thornley and Di... New book: The Mysterium Bobby Campbell discusses his new RAW art Upcoming reading groups MC5 in Rock Hall of Fame? Oz Fritz on the feeling of being "home" 2023 on sale for Kindle in United Kingdom The best militarism money can buy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line687
__label__cc	0.711323	0.288677	Amirah Al Wassif’s ‘For Those Who Don’t Know Chocolate’ \| A Review Poetry has taken a lot of forms, structure and meaning since the advent of the 21st century. It is not strange to see the incredible expressions through which contemporary poetry has come to be associated with. From the shores of Africa to Europe, Asia, Antarctica and of course America, it is the case that the manner in which poetry is appreciated has been doubled, even amidst literary critics. Amirah Al Wassif, a born poet from Egypt, has carved out a niche for her poetry collection, ‘for those who don’t know chocolate.’ It is my hope that this review of Wassif’s piece of art, would add to the numerous commendations, observations and encouragement – not just for the poet, but for simple readers all over the world. for those who don’t know chocolate Take a copy of Amirah’s book of poems, ‘for those who don’t know chocolate,’ and you’ll be sure to be welcomed by a yawning sense of imagery. She writes about “the people with half a soul/living in imaginary houses.” She also employs the poetic device called ‘alliteration’ in her poems (“for those who gather in the TORN TENTS around the world”), Rhymes as in “BLOOM of the flowers sky’s GLOOM,” and metaphors like “the smell of humanity,” “sun of tolerance,” “the crawlers of the earth,” and so on. Like sailors, doctors, lawyers, engineers, data analysts, and so on, the poet glorifies her luck to be a writer in her “so lucky.” She celebrates her struggles and likens them to “a fighter eating…worries” and “the opener of all locked doors.” In “love is a perfect poem,” we also see the use of imagery, personification, and rhymes like ‘chest,’ ‘rest,’ ‘best,’ ‘nest,’ ‘first,’ and ‘list.’ Similar rhyme structure was found in “a stranger,” with words such as ‘there,’ ‘fear,’ ‘stare,’ ‘affair,’ and ‘rare.’ “The motherland” followed a themed structure (quatrain with rhyming schemes abab with the first two stanzas and aabccbd). One must wonder if the mind of the poet has truly traveled to places “before my death.” Places like sitting beside an innocent homeless girl, kissing the lilacs, laughing in a loud tone, tossing the most creative jokes, kissing the famine babies, praising the woman who works in breaking rocks, giving endless tickets to orphans, and sharing food with a lost dog. At the end, she submits to learning just how to live! One of her poems, “a woman looking for a tongue,” describes the irony seen every time and everywhere in the world, between women who are expected to be good, and silent women who act real – those who fly. This act of flying is neatly worded in her “courage woman,” the kind of energy that “bribes the Sun with her smile,” not to put many hearts in unending jeopardy, but to “dissolve the hot and murmured, amen.” Amirah Al Wassif, dares to interrogate the ‘fun’ and ‘Sun’ in refugee camps – from Somali lands down to every land that have “details written with no ink.” Watered with emotions, the poet takes us all to reply like refugees waiting for dawn – “No Sun comes into a gun.” Wassif uses a rather uncommon poetic form in “an urgent call in the second life.” There is a description that one may be tempted to call apocalyptic, yet her words are that “it was a mix of waves and dancers and a creation of colourful birds…” This poem captures the ordinary waiting for eternity – the upper world. It is not out-of-place if the reader goes into an inquiry of Wassif’s “the poetry is.” It seems to be like a continuation of conversations somewhere. Everyone definitely has a question befuddling their minds with regards to what poetry is. But for Wassif, “the poetry is finding the details in eyes of another…[it] is more than the silence of beauty and the gossiping of people. I am particularly thrilled by Wassif’s “windows of Madrid.” It evoked some feelings of want, of fear, of desires, and of healing. This is what art does to us, isn’t it? It makes us spy at the stories we dare to write on a secret page. There is an outbreak, not of cholera or Ebola, not deadly and uncontrollable parasites or diseases – but of love. “I love you despite what everyone knows” is just that poem we all need to read to remind ourselves that “a confession of love accepts no delay.” Like all good poetry collections, Wassif ends with words that make us think of “when we meet with death! “Amirah Al Wassif is a freelance writer based in Egypt. Her prolific output includes general interest articles, novels, short stories, songs, and of course, poetry. Five of her books have been written in Arabic and much of her English work has appeared in a great many cultural magazines. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Kurdish, Hindi and Arabic.” This review was written by David Francis. Please check the link below to buy this amazing book of poems: https://www.amazon.com/Those-Who-Dont-Know-Chocolate/dp/1950433013/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7TP0N6XD1Q95XSHZ1M8T David-Francis My name is David Francis . With a lot of trainings and certified courses, I’ll help you edit your books, publish your ebooks, edit your speeches, write your CVs, Resume, Proposals, and Essays, scripts, etc You’re free to visit the books/reviews section of this blog for more gist about some of my edited/proofread books. I’m a dogged Philosopher and Research Consultant (St. Albert’s Institute, Fayit-Fadan, Kaduna, Nigeria); Editor-in-Chief (Sapientia African Leadership Formation Programme, e. 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__label__wiki	0.557577	0.557577	Loving The World The Sheeple Everything Insha’Allah “The City” – An Excerpt From The Dandelion Insurrection © 2013 Rivera Sun Just past the Portsmouth Bridge, the river of humanity began to swell, growling and growing with every mile. The scattered houses of Maine gave way to a mountain range of urban buildings; rising slopes of suburbs, foothills of concrete industrial buildings, peaks of coastal districts, and finally, the summit of New York City. Zadie tucked the car away and pulled Charlie down the city blocks. He tried not to gawk as he hustled after her, half-running to keep up with her longer strides. The buildings towered over them more densely shadowed than the pine forests up north. The roar of traffic flooded his ears. Zadie grabbed him by the elbow and hauled him behind her like a trout on a fisherman’s hook. He hesitated on the street corner. She plunged into traffic. The lifeline of her grip snapped loose. Charlie floundered in the stream of people, bumped and pummeled without a word of apology. The current of the city throbbed and ached like a churning snowmelt flood, dark with dissatisfaction, ripping at the shores, pulling the muck of the river’s underbelly to the surface. Swift-flowing bodies rushed past Charlie. Their unspoken roar deafened him. Desperation stung the whites of their eyes. Hunger gnawed gaunt hollows into their cheeks. Anger tightened lips and tensed shoulders. Hands begged like barren tree branches, uprooted and clawing for a foothold. Charlie drowned in the river of humanity. The city heaved ceaselessly, throbbing and clattering. The air tasted like bitter anxiety. A sharp yearning burned, the scent of souls longing for escape as the city tore itself apart in its frantic self-devouring. The urban behemoth ripped itself to shreds, pounded itself into pulp, smashed itself into paper, wrote down its story, incinerated every word, swept up the ashes, tossed them in the howling winds, and lodged the seed of its own fertility back into concrete cracks. Somewhere in this madness, dandelions grew. “Loving the World” – An Excerpt From The Dandelion Insurrection I hear your despairing rain of cries, Charlie wrote. I sense the burning fury in you, that lustful ache for retaliating lightning strikes. In the distance, I hear the thunder rolls of violence. Remember; weapons never built a house, fed a child, or planted fields. We must turn to tools of nonviolence to build a chance for life. “Times are changing,” the old men of the valley muttered as they watched rural people in other parts of the country get forced off their land by tax increases, mortgage failures, and denials of farm loans for seed and tractor repairs. Agribusiness took up residence, owned by the Banker, dependent on the Butcher’s surplus chemicals from the war industry, and fueled by the Candlestick Maker’s cheap oil. Out moneyed, out subsidized, out gunned in the courts and Congress, the local farmers despaired. On top of it all, the weather defied everyone’s predictions. Early frosts threatened the late summer crops. A heat snap surged for a week before giving way to pouring rain. Fall floods turned fields to mud. Rot and blight proliferated. Charlie’s grandfather and granduncles slid deeper in their chairs, depressed as only old farmers can be as the earth turned wild against their claims of wisdom. As the winter whipped from blizzards to heat waves, they burned their old almanacs, solemnly feeding the pages into their woodstoves, conceding to a changing climate that the National Weather Service refused to report on. Times are changing, Charlie wrote for the Dandelion Insurrection, and we must change faster, growing in our hearts and souls, embracing our diversity as our saving grace as we work to stop our corporate politicians from waging this destructive war upon humanity and the earth. Midwinter, when the high school band kicked off the basketball season, Charlie discovered the national anthem now made him queasy. He could no longer believe his country was the greatest nation in the world. He could not wave the flag or sing along with its slogans. Yet, as he watched the students trumpeting out the anthem with heartfelt effort, he loved them all. They were lambs on the way to the slaughterhouse, playing homage to a government that cared nothing about them. His heart broke a thousand times a day. He took long walks over the hard cold earth as the clouds spit out flakes of snow. Charlie felt stretched across two realities; the beautiful curves of his valley and the starkly brutal landscape of his nation. He paused on the crests of rolling hills, patched with fields both fertile and fallow, and let sorrow and love sit quietly together as he watched the snow tremble earthward. It is our love that calls us into action now, he wrote. Our respect for life and our compassion for creation require us to stand up to the forces that cause oppression, suffering, and destruction. Everything mattered, not just this valley, but every nook and cranny of the earth; every stand of trees; every cluster of children in the school yard; each block of the teeming cities; every language that cried out on the tongues of immigrants; every joy; every sorrow; everything mattered. Charlie knew the heartbreak of his grandfather’s God, watching over the preciousness of all creation and weeping at its suffering. He felt the apathy his own pain sometimes drove him to, and the coldness with which he silenced his compassion when it became too much to bear. But, he also sensed, before long, the tenderness of love reaching out to him again. Each day, this love penetrated further into his bloodstream, pulsed in his veins, rewrote his cells, his muscles, even his genetic coding. In the heat of writing, he would look up in wonderment, feeling tears prickling the corners of his eyes. It was all precious; the snowflakes, the deep night, his grand-père’s snoring in the room next door, Zadie’s voice long distant on the telephone, the scrawl of ink running across the page, the people waiting for his articles; everything. It had been a lonely winter full of the heartache that comes from loving the world too much. “The Sheeple” – An Excerpt From The Dandelion Insurrection Author’s Note: there has been a lot talk about ‘sheeple’ lately. For many years, I have found this term to be quite insulting, frankly. It is also divisive. So, I tackled it in my novel, pulling apart the layers of meaning and metaphor to find the hidden beauty of sheep. As a youngster, I had two sheep, which I never ate, but used the wool for spinning and weaving. So, enjoy this ‘sheeple’ excerpt for the layers of understanding it might open up for you. Crawling across the American landscape were thousands of people who went about their business, swallowed the television’s lies without blinking, and showed up to work day after day. Jesus called them lambs; the anarchists labeled them sheeple; both terms described the great flock of followers that huddled in a frightened cluster while the wolves picked off the sick, the oddballs, and the weak. Charlie felt such frustrated affection for them. On their plump and wooly backs grew the comforts of society. They fed the nation. They clothed the people. They were kind to their own. They respected their leaders, maintained order, and brought up wonderful children. For the Man From the North, they were more dangerous than wolves. They were so frightened of stepping out of line that they would trot to the slaughterhouse with a self-satisfied baaahh. If you tried to warn them, they kicked with their hooves and butted their stubborn heads. They feared the unusual more than familiar tyranny. Charlie shook his head at such folly. Couldn’t they see that the shepherds trained the dogs that nipped them into line? Couldn’t they understand that the wolves were at the door because the shepherds let them in the gate? Charlie sighed. Couldn’t they see that shepherds raised sheep for the butchers? Come on, he urged silently to the invisible masses. Before fences and shepherds, leaders of flocks came from the flock. They led toward better pastures, toward safety, toward life. Even the tender shepherds want to eat you, he told the people silently, and the cruel ones abuse you until you are roasted. Charlie laid his forehead on the truck window and tried to picture this unimaginable flock as a collection of distinct human beings. He had seen them in the supermarket, at the bank, the gas station. He could picture them, one by one; the fat man on the treadmill, the pair of bony legs at the coffee shop, a sweating brow under a hardhat, that pudgy baby clutching his mother, the teenager with acne . . . one of them would be the death of him. “Everything Insha’Allah” – An Excerpt From The Dandelion Insurrection Author’s note: In light of all the posts and comments around Islam and Muslims, I thought I would share a phrase I learned that has been a balm to my soul for many years. I put it in the Dandelion Insurrection to honor the uncertainty of our times and the faith that we all live on, no matter what religion or philosophic belief we call our Faith. Special thank you to my friend who introduced me to this term … you know who you are. She laid her head on his shoulder and tried to tell his heart all the myriad emotions that suddenly flooded through her: love, sorrow, longing, loss, excitement. She felt the aching pulse of his heart. “It’s not forever, Charlie,” she murmured. Charlie shook his head. “Don’t make promises, Zadie.” Uncertainty had become a way of life. Charlie would rather live by that truth than believe in a lie. Anything could happen to Zadie, to him, to the world. It was better to accept the unknown. “Just love me now,” Charlie told her. “If there is meant to be a later, it will come.” “Everything Insha’Allah,” she replied. “It means if God wills. The Muslims use it to take the sting of arrogance out of making plans, such as, I will see you tomorrow, Insha’Allah.” “I’ll stand here all night with you, Insha’Allah, if God wills?” “Exactly. That’s how it is with everything; you, me, the Dandelion Insurrection. Everything Insha’Allah.” Charlie stroked the bright curve of moonlight on her cheekbone then kissed her, hard, heartbreakingly, longing to capture the taste of her before she was gone. She matched his hunger, devouring the sensations of the touch of his hands, the press of his mouth, his scent, the way his body fit against hers, tucking the memories away to savor during the separation that lay ahead. Please God, if you will, let this night last forever, Charlie prayed. “Remember when you asked me how to write about the Dandelion Insurrection?” Zadie whispered. His lips parted against hers, smiling as he remembered. A cool strand of air slid between their bodies. There’s only one way to write about it, she had said. Write like you’re on fire. I am, his body had answered. Write like the love of your life is on the horizon and every word hurtles you toward her. I’m coming, his thoughts had cried out. Find your passion, Charlie, Zadie had urged him. I’m looking at it, he had silently replied. Build a fire of it, she had told him. I’m incinerating in it, he thought. Write from there, she had said. He had written a million words since that day. He had hurtled across the horizon toward her and, still, words could not help them now. In his mind, he tore up every page he had ever written. He tore up his past. He ripped apart the future. He set his memories on fire, his triumphs and failures, his pinpricks of heartaches, losses, and joys. This moment was burning like there was no tomorrow. Everything Insha’Allah. His lips were inches from hers. The scalp of his hair was running with fire. Their bodies blazed like a pair of human torches against the dark coolness of night. He leaned. Their torsos brushed. “Zadie?” he croaked. He froze. It was not a question. It was a command. He shut up, crossed the last half-inch of separation, and ignited the bonfires within them. 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__label__wiki	0.853221	0.853221	SIWFF2019 Awards & Juries International Feature Competition Korean Feature Competition Asian Shorts Competition I-Teens Competition New Currents Polemics: Sexual Politics of 'Room' Special Screening of Polish Women's Cinema Memorial Screening for Agnès Varda & Barbara Hammer Queer Rainbow Korean Film 100 Years: Women’s Faces in Korean Cinema 30th Anniversary of Parituh: the First Korean Women Filmmakers' Collective 10th Anniversary of Pitch&Catch Documentary Ock Rang Award Film Barrier Free Screening Feminist Activism Workshop PITCH&CATCH History of Finalists History of Produced Films Opening/Closing Ceremony SIWFF's Night Polemics Forum Special Talk Director vs. Director Star Talk I-TEENS Training Ground Conference for the Network of Local Women’s Film Festivals [Film×Gender] Press Conference BORA: Breaking the Wall and Facing Each Other MarketF×ModuMarket EXHIBITION: Becoming Mirrors for Each Other Schedule by Section SIWFF News SIWFF Sketch 20th(2018) 9th(2007) 8h(2006) 3rd(2001) 2nd(1999) 1st(1997) KOR Search Award & Jury Opening Film (1) New Currents (24) Queer Rainbow: A Special Everyday Affair (16) Girls on Film: Girls on the Road (15) Open Cinema (4) Women’s Labour and Poverty (5) On Aging (13) Asian Short Film & Video Competition (18) Media Workshop for Women Migrants: Video Daiary of Our Own (9) Documentary Ock Rang Award (1) Stefan SCHAEFER, Diane CRESPO Two young women – one an Orthodox Jew, the other Muslim – meet and become friends as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common, not least of which is that they are both going through arranged marriages. Rochel is a daughter of an orthodox Jewish family. She starts teaching at a public school in Brooklyn, working as a teacher of Special Ed. Rochel meets another teacher, Nasira, and the two become friends. However, Nasira is from a Syrian Muslim family. The two women have completely different religious and cultural backgrounds. Yet their conservative atmosphere and behind-the-times fashion somehow bind them together. The principal calls the two secretly; she tells them about her experience in women’s rights, advising them to dress more sophisticatedly and enjoy life. Other commonground that Rochel and Nasira share is that they have been asked to consent to arranged marriages. Rochel must go on blind dates set up by a familyvetted matchmaker. However, none of the men she meets appeal to her. Arranged attempts to cross hostile social cultural boundaries through the friendship, solidarity, and wit of two women who come from different religious backgrounds. The film suggests that what overcomes social hostility is neither grand discourses regarding politics or world peace or war, but feminine values, such as person-based understanding, consideration, mutual respect and compassion. Instead of utterly abandoning tradition, the film suggests a way for the tradition and modernity to coexist by slightly twisting the former so that it could fit into the latter without harm. Filmed in just seventeen days with a hyper-low budget, Arranged is a delightful independent film that addresses the strategy of co-existence in our multicultural era. (KWON Eun-sun) Stefan SCHAEFERStefan SCHAEFER Stefan Schaefer was born in Boston, spent his childhood in Sussex, England and his adolescent years in Detroit and New York. He graduated from Wesleyan University with degrees in political theory and theater. Following a year and a half in Germany - where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar and worked as a journalist - he returned to New York and founded with Diane Crespo. Over the past ten years he has written, directed and produced feature films, documentaries, music videos and TV commercials. Confess, his debut narrative feature, premiered at the 2005 Hamptons Int’l Film Festival, where Stefan won the Best Screenwriter award. The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela, a film Stefan produced and acted in for Icelandic director Olaf Johannesson, premiered at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the TEDDY Award for Best Feature Film. Diane CRESPODiane CRESPO Diane was born and raised in Queens. Drawn to the dramatic arts at a young age, she received a BA in theatre from Roger Williams College, and studied at the graduate level at the London School of Dramatic Arts. Following a brief stint in LA, where she worked at Canon and New World Pictures, she returned to New York to work in theatre. She met Stefan working off-off Broadway, where she directed a series of one-act plays, written by her. They went on to form the production company Cicala Filmworks, where their initial focus was creating short documentaries for clients such as the Guggenheim Museum, the NYC Department of Education, and Roundabout Theatre. ProducerStefan SCHAEFER, Diane CRESPO Cast Zoe Lister-JONES, Francis BENHAMOU, John ROTHMAN Screenwriter Stefan SCHAEFER Cinematography Dan HERSEY Art director Keren KOHEN Editor Erin GREENWELL Music Sohrab HABIBION, Michael HAMPTON 3F, World Cup-ro 161, Mapo-gu, 03962 SEOUL, REP OF Korea E-mail siwff@siwff.or.kr TEL +82 (0)2-583-3598-~9 / FAX +82 (0)2-525-3920 ⓒ 2019 siwff. All rights reserved 유튜브 바로가기 트위터 바로가기 인스타그램 바로가기 페이스북 바로가기	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line704
__label__wiki	0.56288	0.56288	Soundtrack review: The west wing (W.G. Snuffy Walden – 1999) Mihnea Manduteanu 21st October 2017 “The West Wing” is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006. The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White House, where the Oval Office and offices of presidential senior staff are located, during the fictitious Democratic administration of Josiah Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen). The music was written by W.G. Snuffy Walden. He is a composer with an unbelievably rich TV curriculum and yet there have been so few releases, it’s a very strange situation. I remember “The west wing” primarily because of Aron Sorkin’s unique pace; there isn’t anybody else who can write dialogue as well as he does with fast, snappy and clever replies. I didn’t always watch the show but when I stumbled upon it I just couldn’t get away from the web of dialogue and I usually ended up watching the entire episode. It’s still fresh to this day and I remember I wanted to watch it again when “The social network” came out because I was reacquainted with Sorkin’s mesmerising style. I also remember the music in context and it was mostly joyous as if to keep the pace with the dialogue. Usually I say that it’s hard for composers to nail the really long cues and managed 8 or 9 minute long pieces that stay strong; I never thought how to rank composers who can put meaning into an 11 second long cue but William Garrett Walden (incidentally this would make a great name for a president) makes the opening cue “We begin” count with just a short marching motif. I don’t think the music is presented in any chronological order as right from the get go I get two mournful themes that set a very sombre and elegant tone for this score. The cello and piano combination in “Leo has to go” reminds me of the moments of intense drama this show sometimes had. I am a happy film music fan when the music I listen to outside of context and without having a real connection with the show is so meaningful. I am surprised to discover, at least on the first CD, such a serious sounding score where all the instruments that play be they violin, piano or guitar are heavy with melancholy and, quite often, sadness. There’s an elegance in the music fitting for the White House but where is the sound I was expecting, the quick witted pace, the one I remembered from the show. I think “Ways and means” is the first time when I start to recognise it. Enjoying this two CD release is more than in the case of other scores a matter of taste. The music of “The west wing” is soft lyrical; it’s beautiful to hear, elegant and melodic, and with emotional peaks like “The 14th amendment” or “The aftermath”, both heroic and inspirational. There’s a playful little gem like “Walking the West Wing” which is nothing but pure childish joy. But a score like this outside the context of the movie can lose it’s appeal if a listener is not patient enough with its soft and quiet touches. Luckily for me, I am easily charmed by a score like this and I enjoyed it from start to finish. Every cue was a velvety caress and the occasional military percussion inserts that reminded me this was a political show were more than welcomed. The heroic moments were subtle and believable while the emotional ones were touching without being overly dramatic. It’s a score that comes from another time and one that I am happy got a proper release. We Begin Leo Has To Go Leo’s Lament Mr. Willis of Ohio Halls of The White House Walking The West Wing Proportional Response Charlie in The Oval Office Jefferson Lives Three Presidents The Nomination W.G. Snuffy Walden Soundtrack review: Sword of the assassin (Christopher Wong – 2012) Soundtrack review: All nighter (Alec Puro – 2017) Soundtrack review: Christus (Marco Frisina – 2016) Mihnea Manduteanu Mar 28 Soundtrack review: James Bond – The world is not enough (David Arnold – 1999) Mihnea Manduteanu Jul 14 Soundtrack review: The sixth sense (James Newton Howard – 1999) Soundtrack review: The third miracle (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek – 1999)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line708
__label__cc	0.53077	0.46923	Seafaring neanderthals and switchblade fish: A mega Thursday Afternoon Dredging, May 10th, 2018 Posted on May 10, 2018 by David Shiffman After two weeks off, we’re back and bigger than ever! Cuttings (short and sweet): Archaeologist makes case for seafaring Neanderthals. By Christopher Ingraham, for Scientific American. Larson Creek trout may have been wiped out. By Randy Shore, for the Vancouver Sun. US Coast Guard steps up efforts to protect right whales. From GCaptain. The US and Britain are teaming up to study a massive glacier in Antarctica. By Laurel Wamsley, for NPR. Spoils (long reads and deep dives): Fish with a switchblade and other animal weapons. By Liz Langley, for National Geographic. Fish and chips shops battered by soaring costs: Brexit threatens Britain’s national dish. By Jamie Doward, for the Guardian. Noisy reefs help fish find their way home. By Sue Palminteri, for MongaBay Something slithery this way comes: the difference between sea snakes and eels. By Emily Brauner, for the Ocean Conservancy blog. Catch and deceased. By Christopher Pollon, for Hakai. Why Atlantic species are invading the Arctic. By Eli Kintisch, for Vox. New Brunswick fishermen not happy with rules to protect whales. By Alexander Quon, for Global News. Chinese fish farm tests the waters with the world’s largest salmon cage. By Frank Tang, for the South China Morning Post. Unique Amazon coral reef at risk from oil drilling. By Amelia Urry, for OceansDeeply. Feds agree to list 75 remaining pink dolphins as endangered. By Ramona Young-Grindle, for Courthouse News How to save the high seas. By Olive Heffernan, for Nature. Please add your own cuttings and spoils in the comments! If you appreciate my shark research and conservation outreach, please consider supporting me on Patreon! Any amount is appreciated, and supporters get exclusive rewards! Shark conservation news: Fisheries closures, fish and chips, and a new shark sanctuary Posted on March 12, 2010 by David Shiffman It has been an exciting week for shark conservation! We can only hope that this provides some momentum for CITES, which begins tomorrow. And now, for this week’s shark conservation news: The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission declared a ban on commercial landings of all thresher sharks (each of the three thresher shark species is considered vulnerable globally by the IUCN).While threshers aren’t the most threatened sharks in the area, they are some of the most threatened sharks in the area with an active commercial fishery. Threshers also are common bycatch species, so I’m skeptical about the long-term effectiveness of this plan, but being killed as bycatch only is certainly better than being killed as bycatch and as a target species. H/T WWF Environmental News Spiny dogfish is commonly sold in the United Kingdom as the fish in “fish and chips”. It has been illegal to harvest this species of shark in European waters for some time, so it is simply imported. However,they are one of the species up for CITES protection, which could end international trade of their meat. While I understand the cultural importance of fish and chips to the British, we probably don’t need to be using species that are long-lived and have few young for such a large-scale fishery. If I’ve learned anything from years living in the South, it’s that anything tastes good if you deep fry it. Let’s try to find a more sustainable fishery to use for fish and chips. H/T The Telegraph Finally, the Maldives has made their territorial waters into a shark sanctuary. All shark fishing is banned within their nearly 100,000 square mile exclusive economic zone, and the buying and selling of shark fins within the Maldives is now illegal. Approximately 30 species of sharks are found in this area (though some only pass through as part of large migrations). H/T Oceanic Defense. ~WhySharksMatter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line709
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__label__cc	0.66019	0.33981	I Summon Janus Realization: Leelo's Stanfford evaluation took place exactly one year after the Regional Center evaluation that swept our asses into the world of autism. We've been doing this for a year. Inconthievable. Thinking of myself from one year ago. That was a sucky, fucked up, flailing period. They told us he was autistic, but they didn't tell us what to do about it other than put him in small-group language classes for 3 hours/week. I became an insomniac, then a pneumoniac (which was a boon as it afforded me the reading time to discover ABA therapy). I spent a lot of time having random sobbing fits in grocery store aisles. Great way to clear any strangers in a fifty-foot radius, guaranteed. Seymour and I took off for a two-week trip to Japan to pretend we were normal people while my parents watched the kids. We returned home, I located Therapist F within hours of stepping off the plane at SFO, and we've been working hard ever since. We are such pros now. Or at least have gotten used to readjusting our expectations. I'm really starting to think that we might end up with a functional although slightly odd boy. No problem, he will be safe within our extended circle of nerddom. He will be okay. These tiny hopeful sparks come when we have great weekends like this past one. Leelo kept bowling us sideways, language-wise. He is starting to pull really long sentences out of...thin air. Examples include "I want to see Thomas and Sir Topham Hat and Bertie Bus," "I want to go inside the house," "I want to go in the yellow bed," and (Playing by and talking to himself in playhouse) "Is that an oven? Yes! You're right. That's an oven!" Obviously it would be nice to have a bit more variety and not start most sentences with "I want," but it's all progress. A lot of this is also included in Supervisor M's latest report. Just now he yelled at kind, patient Therapist L: "I want to go on swing! Open door!" Supervisor M says we'll work on manners soon, too. He's also now willing to use his yes/no conversational skills with other people, answering their questions if they're worded in Leelo speak. Asking "Is that a dog on your shirt" will get you a Yes or No, whereas "Who is on your shirt? Is it a doggie?" will get you a blank stare. That's alright, too. He'll figure it out eventually. His language and compliance are good enough that we are starting to use his small playgroups to foster preschool skills, including circle time and all that crap. Important stuff if he ever wants to leave this house. I want him to go to preschool, damn it! I don't care if he's shadowed by an aide. What is causing this language burst? We added DMG two weeks ago, we started giving him eggs last week. But I don't think either is a factor--Supervisor M's tracking has revealed steady progress regardless of diet or supplement changes. I do think that his little gut was reamed out by all those antibiotics he took for his chronic ear infections, I do think that placing him on a non-irritating diet has transformed him into an extremely healthy boy, and I do think that he has a yeast overgrowth problem. But I suspect and hope that many of the dietary and supplement approaches we've been trying will prove unnecessary in the future. For Leelo specifically, as I also believe that these programs can be critical for other children. These strides have been accompanied by not-so-pleasant behavioral developments. He's been having lots and lots of tantrums and crying, especially over food. He still can't stand to see us eat, and if we won't let him get down from the table, he stays in his seat but turns around so he can't see us. He's starting to get really angry if things aren't as he thinks they should be, if I dare to wear a hat or if Seymour is wearing sunglasses. I am not pleased as these seem like stereotypical autism traits to me, but Seymour thinks that our boy is finally engaging with his surroundings. Not such a bad thing. I'll take it, if that's what comes along with the language. I'll take it all.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line713
__label__cc	0.65003	0.34997	Al-Genaina, Jan.6(SUNA)-Prime Minister Dr Abdallah Hamdouk has underscored that parties to Al-Genaina incidents reached agreement in which they committed to cessation of hostilities, non-aggression and keeping peace and stability in the area. He pointed out in a press statement following meeting of the disputed parties in Al-Genaina that the delegation of the High Committee once it arrived in West Darfur State has begun serious steps over a number of axes including formation of a factfinding committee, collection of weapons and provision of humanitarian assistance to the affected people. Dr. Hamdouk stressed importance of providing aid necessary for return of displaced people. He urged Al-Genaina community and the state and federal governments to help the displaced persons return to their areas. The Prime Minister commended efforts of regular forces with its all components , armed forces , rapid support forces , police and intelligence service on keeping security and stability in the area, affirming the state keenness to protect citizens’ lives and safety and impose state authority. He expressed confidence that what have been accomplished over the past five days would remain due to positive climate which prevails the State. ab Governor of Central Bank Discusses Cooperation with Islamic Development Bank Governor of Central Bank Discusses Cooperation with Islamic Development Bank Khartoum, Jan. 7 (SUNA) – The Governor of the Central Bank of Sudan, Pr... Read More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line719
__label__cc	0.546252	0.453748	TODD SEAVEY author of Libertarianism for Beginners and writer of/speaker about many other things Some of My Best Friends Are Religious I had the odd experience of being told by one of my fellow Phillips Foundation Fellows (many of them more religion-friendly than I, most of us being conservative or libertarian writers, recipients of Phillips grants) at one of our thrice-annual meetings this past weekend that lacking religion, he fears, I may eventually go mad — yes, mad! That seems like a question best decided by careful empirical research, but I will say anecdotally that my vocally religious acquaintances — much as I love them — have tended to be a bit eccentric or emotionally volatile themselves, though I am not (let me be clear) claiming that they will eventually go mad (unless you count that whole religion thing, ha ha!). Off the top of my head, there’s: •the one who fasted for forty days and started having “strange ideas” as a result (this after having been, by his own admission, uncertain about the difference between fiction and non-fiction stories until about age eleven) •the one who got so exhausted working on a paper about Milton she thought she saw Satan •the one who said he had to embrace tradition fervently because he had a very hard and anxiety-inducing time reaching any conclusions otherwise •and three lovely ex-girlfriends who, respectively, have suffered (a) severe mood swings, (b) suicidal impulses, and (c) hallucinations (though all would describe religion as helping with these things). (Add to this my hippie-mystic acquaintances, equally dismissive of materialism, who’ve had to endure upsetting things like getting dumped by a fellow hippie-mystic who concluded “The universe doesn’t want me to be with you.” Om.) That doesn’t make any of them crazy or bad — indeed, I expect to see two of them in the next several days and am greatly looking forward to it — but my (admittedly limited) sample makes me wonder whether cold, skeptical rationality is really such a destabilizing way to go. And even when atheism is accompanied by despair, it’s often because religion worked so hard to build up someone’s hopes and get her to emotionally invest in religion in the first place. My friend from college Holly Caldwell, who went from Christian to atheist the summer after freshman year, once said she felt that happy lifelong atheists like me, who had been raised with no particular religion (nor raised as atheists per se), were sort of cheating. We could easily grow up to not believe in God without ever having to go through the angst of “losing” something (though I should say that, technically, I had passively assumed there was probably a God when I was a child, just because the assumption that there is one is so pervasive in the culture — and partisans of religion who think that assumption is not pervasive are ingrates without the slightest idea how the culture looks from an atheist perspective, I must add). But emotional reactions are really beside the point (as Holly would agree). As a rationalist, empiricist, skeptic, and science-admirer, I have thought since at least as young as twelve that emotional reactions to information should play no part in deciding whether the information is true (ever since calling myself a “stoic” in junior high, which I suppose was the first time I applied a philosophical label to myself, definitely a sign of things to come). This seems to me one of the most obvious, basic, and important truths about perception but one vehemently denied by many people. If there is no evidence for God, there is no evidence for God, and whether one rejoices or weeps at the fact is secondary, epistemologically speaking. Indeed, adulthood is largely a matter of recognizing that the boogeyman doesn’t exist even if you are afraid of him and that your beloved deceased family pet is not going to come back to life even if you think that would be beautiful. In a sane world, there would be little more to say about religion beyond that, since its defense tends to rely largely upon the fear of despair or confusion or moral chaos. Still, I won’t deny religion can sometimes give people solace — take my most notoriously religious ex, Dawn Eden, now dealing with a treatable but nonetheless scary cancer in her thyroid and no doubt grateful to hear that people who believe in the power of prayer are praying for her (so get to it, if you’re into that). I hope and expect she’ll be fine — and she’s feeling well enough to parody my blog’s “Month Without God” with her own depiction of what it might sound like if God blogged about a “Month Without Todd.” Another, decidedly more theologically-liberal friend who believes in God (or at least objects to militant atheism), Christine Caldwell Ames, requested in the Responses thread to my recent “Religionists and Reductionists” entry that I get to the point of this whole Month by contending with the “evidence” of the universe’s existence and start explaining just how an atheist makes sense of it all and disposes of theists’ best efforts to do so, aside from by insulting the theists. So, barring the unexpected, that’s what I’ll do tomorrow night. Posted by Todd Seavey at 10:43 PM Labels: Sci./skepticism Downon Luck said... “this after having been, by his own admission, uncertain about the difference between fiction and non-fiction stories until about age eleven” Well, that part is a little silly to make fun of – 11 is still young. Some people are still wetting the bed at that point. “the one who got so exhausted working on a paper about Milton she thought she saw Satan” She really thinks this, or she knows she hallucinated because she was exhausted? There is a difference you know. But yeah, I think religion is something people cling to in order to feel better. Still, there are degrees of it. SAMPLES OF SEAVEY MEDIA: Read my book (with cartoons by Nathan Smith and Foreword by John Stossel) Libertarianism for Beginners. Watch me interviewed here 5/22/17 (Mon. 7pm Eastern) on Remso Republic. Watch my brief appearance 1/20/17 in a Refinery29 video on people from different political persuasions getting along. Watch me as part of an 11/14/16 panel debate between anarcho-capitalists and members of the leftist Zeitgeist Movement. Hear the five-part talk with me from late August 2016 on BreakThrough Radio’s Daily Beat. Listen to Mike Hausam interview me on his radio show for 7/11/16 (I’m the second half hour). Listen to me on the Johnny Rocket Launch Pad show, starting with my Kermit the Frog impression, from 7/2/16. Watch the interview of me from 6/16/16 by Comedy Central’s Amy Schumer. Watch the interview of me from 6/7/16 by Reason’s Nick Gillespie about the book. Watch footage of me moderating this 4/30/16 debate between the four leading Libertarian Party presidential contenders, care of NowThis News. Follow me! Twitter.com/ToddSeavey Face me! Facebook.com/ToddSeavey Read my (libertarian) essay "Conservatism for Punks" in Proud to Be Right! Hire me (I've done everything from Justice League comics to advertising to ghostwriting New York Times bestsellers, really)! 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__label__cc	0.599889	0.400111	TottenhamBlog.com Home Transfers 5 strikers that Spurs could go for in January 5 strikers that Spurs could go for in January By Matthew Harris - January will soon be with us and while the striking situation at White Hart Lane doesn’t seem quite so desperate as it did last season, it still seems likely that Spurs will be entering into the market at some stage for reinforcements. Despite Pav’s wonder strike against his compatriots from Rubin Kazan last week, he has had a lacklustre start to the season and could well move on this winter. Additionally, while Emmanuel Adebayor had an instant impact at the Lane, he is only supposed to be here for one season. So a striker may be high on Harry’s post Christmas shopping list, but who should it be? Countless names have been touted but the following players get more than just a mention in passing. Leandro Damiao Still a favourite option for many fans, Spurs are reported to have made a bid for the Brazilian at the start of the summer. It’s thought that while his current employers, Internacional will be ready to sell in January, the fee involved is likely to have doubled since then in light of the player’s performances this season. After scoring his first international goal for Brazil against Ghana at Fulham in September, Damiao struggled a little with injury but he has still found the net 39 times in 47 games for Internacional in all competitions during this campaign. The CSKA Moscow striker has only really been mentioned as a possible target for Premiership sides following his Champions League displays this season, but he has been a prolific striker for several seasons since he joined Young Boys back in 2008. His scoring ratio, albeit in the Swiss and Russian leagues averages out at way over a goal every other game and his double strike in the CL last week has brought him into the public eye once again. Doumbia has expressed a desire to play in the Premiership so could Spurs be the team to give him that opportunity? Like Doumbia, Sow has emerged as a potential target thanks to his displays in this season’s Champions League. His record with Lille is comparable with Doumbia’s at CSKA, but he has only really emerged as a prolific centre forward in the last 12 months. At 25, he still has a long career ahead of him, but could his reputation as a late developer put managers off this winter? Another player who has evolved to net at more than a goal every other game is Valencia’s Soldado. However, his performances this year have supposedly alerted Spurs as well as Bayern Munich and if it came down to a choice, the financial clout of the Bundesliga giants would probably win the race. Mention of Soldado’s name on here recently drew an apathetic response, so maybe he isn’t our man in any event? Sorry, but you can’t keep this guy away from the rumour mills at the moment and you sometimes wish Spurs would sign him or say they have absolutely no interest in the Dutchman. Only then would we end this link which seems to have gone on for several years now. Huntelaar endured a disappointing first season at Schalke, but seems to have rediscovered his form this campaign, particularly under new coach Huub Stevens. He’s starting to find the net with regularity once again and that will continue to spark these transfer rumours. There may be other names besides that we’ve missed but above all, who is/are our main striking target(s) this winter? Matthew Harris Barrow Boy October 25, 2011 at 6:59 pm Llorente? spurs guvnor October 25, 2011 at 7:05 pm Its very rare that players from bilbao leave, due to them only having players born in the basque area. Damiao and Lavezzi or Cavani with Chris Samba please, we will be title contenders with these additions. Damiao is a must. dawid October 25, 2011 at 8:58 pm Leandro Damioa is a MUST! davspurs October 25, 2011 at 9:24 pm Samba he can do the two jobs HHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAGETIN Jack October 25, 2011 at 11:47 pm How much would cavani cost? cat October 26, 2011 at 12:16 am For a January signing it should be a striker who has played in the EPL. At least then there is a better chance of them settling quickly to play this season. hekko October 26, 2011 at 8:27 am Why is Damiao such a must? My mate keeps on talking about him as well. Is he that good? Why are other clubs not all over him? Why does it just seem to be us? I know we have the internacional contact but if he is that s**t hot that surely would not matter, other clubs would be all over him. Seems like a player that would take time to bed. Sandro did/still is. So buying him in January might be quite a good thing. I still think we would struggle to find anything better the Ade… he’s class and knows the premier league. If we can get a bargain on him (still way more than we’ll want to pay but a relative bargain nonetheless) and he wants to stay… amazing. I also think we should try and get Given, soon. Jamesalot October 26, 2011 at 11:05 am Damiao would be a replacement for Pav and could be blooded in the FA cup and Europa.. Just check out his hit-rate! I think we’ve been trying to get him for ages – and we should have first option because of our relationship with Internacional.. Ade would be great to keep, but it’s wishful thinking that we could meet his wage bill.. spurs guvnor October 26, 2011 at 11:43 am Hekko, check damiao out on youtube mate. I know youtube aint the best way to judge a player but it should give you a taste of what he is about. Not sure what its called but try and see the one where he flicks it over the defender ossie ardiles style! Amay ing skill. There are two, one called amazing dribble and one called amazing skill. Watch them and then you will know why he is a MUST! Mr. Boobs October 27, 2011 at 10:21 pm Lol.. he busted out a rainbow flick and it almost worked for him in an international match.. do you watch Internacional games? have you seen how many times hes tried it and it didn’t work out..he’s a natural finisher, not a clinical finisher. He isn’t the most intelligent finisher and I’m glad to see someone finally questioned him, thank you hekko. Watch Doumbia’s goals and you’ll see how much more clinical he is with his finishing. I have a feeling that Damiao would be a flop just like Pav and Gio. spurs guvnor October 28, 2011 at 1:30 am At least he tries the flick, could you imagine pav trying that! Dont know what your problem with damiao is but your wrong. DJ October 26, 2011 at 9:48 am Damiao is a must because his striking record is amazing, comparable with all great brazilian forwards such as Ronaldo, Romario, etc. He will be World class and this is the only time we will be able to sign his as in 2 yrs his price will be double the 15-20 we could get him for now. He has not looked out of his depth against better opposition either (recently scored great goal against Barca) his wages are also within our budget which is VITAL. other realistic options for us our the lad at CSKA although I believe he will go elsewhere or sign Ade up full time with bonus add ons for appearances and goals. Leave the French league strikers for Arsenal as they blow hot and cold as Chamak and D.Cisse prove. next year maybe Kane should be considered as no4 also. Cavanni is out of our range as well as Hulk and Falcao for anyone that is dreaming of them 25-30m each and sky high wages too Pamelachenko’s strike record was amazing.. how’s he doing now? Damiao and Samba please!! Damaio is a must and he must be the one we are planning on getting, which is why we never signed anyone other that Adebayor. He is tearing up the brazilian league and before I hear people question that league let me tell you Brazilians are far more technically adept players than the english. Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Romario, Neymar all players who came from that league and can we honestly say our league has teams that would do well in that country……..all I will say is would Ritchie De Leat, Zat Knight, Jonas Olsson, Alan Tate, Emmerson Boyce and Phil Bardsley (all premier league regualrs) justify us having better defenders in this league!!!! Will October 26, 2011 at 1:59 pm I think we already have the solution in our youth squad – Souleymane Coulibaly. He’s only sixteen and he’s already scored in all but one of his appearances for Spurs XI and the U19s, including two against Inter’s world-famous academy. £1.75M he cost to sign from AC Siena in the summer after scoring for Cote D’Ivoire nine times in four games at the U17s FIFA World Cup. Just watch this and you’ll see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh5jXWsWHfA PhillyHotspur October 26, 2011 at 2:53 pm Samba…………..And , dare I say, bring back the Bulgarian ??? Probably get him on the cheap from United………..He’ll be motivated and have plenty of energy w/ the way that United have treated him. Borris October 26, 2011 at 7:02 pm bollocks!! DJ October 26, 2011 at 4:22 pm I would have Berba back, Him and VDV would be absolutely amazing up front! most intelligent front 2 in the prem. but Damiao is a priority with a CB such as Cahil or Samba JOHN DUCKETT October 27, 2011 at 11:17 am BERBA , DAMIAO , AND SAMBA AND SANDRO MUST ALLWAYS PLAY IN MIDFIELD !!!!!!!!! Why would any striker come too Spurs too sit and watch us hang on with a midfielder playing striker. Leave our strikers just sell one upgrade Soulman and Kane Buy Samba Hennesey sell Pav to a Russian Club Basssong Dosantos Jenas Obika to Yeovil Gomes Juan Pablo October 27, 2011 at 8:56 pm We first must try to solve our weakness with our academy. Give H.kane and Coulibaly minutes to play so they can show what they can do and if they are a little far to reach the standard buy someone else. We won´t a replacement for GK, right? Why Harry does not use Oscar Jansson in cup matches? 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__label__wiki	0.9307	0.9307	TheSource: Service changes include more evening service to CSUN, more trains to Azusa BY STEVE HYMON ON JUNE 21, 2016 The service changes go into effect this Sunday, June 26. The changes were approved by Metro’s Service Councils and overseen by the Metro Board of Directors. Among the changes: •All Gold Line trains will now run the complete rail extension to the APU/Citrus College Station — instead of every other train running to the new Foothill Extension. Service during peak hours will be every seven minutes. New timetable A view of the different buses currently serving CSUN. •Metro Rapid Line 744 will operate later service to better accommodate late-night class dismissals from CSUN. The last bus leaving Northridge will now be 10:20 p.m. on weeknights. New timetable The route of the 744. Stop #11 is the transit center at CSUN. The campus is also served by other Metro buses. Click to see larger. •Four new late-night trips have been added on Line 230 from the Sylmar Metrolink Station to Mission College. New timetable •In conjunction with the extension of Expo Rail to Santa Monica, the new Metro Local Bus 17 replaces Line 220 on Robertson Boulevard and continues on 3rd Street to downtown L.A. Line 17 will operate as a branch of Line 16. Patrons along 3rd Street may board either Lines 16 or 17. New 16 and 17 timetables •Metro is improving connections between Hollywood and Granada Hills by combining Lines 156 and 237 — which will now be known as Metro 237. This will eliminate a transfer and service on Woodley Avenue will be improved. Late night 656 is unchanged. New 237 timetable •Generally speaking, all Metro Rail lines will now be shifting to running trains every 20 minutes between 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. depending on the line. Some of the lines were already running those schedules due to ongoing maintenance projects. Please see timetables for the individual lines. New rail timetables •For those looking for an outside perspective, Streetsblog LA has a post up on the service changes. •All the new timetables are here. Other service changes going into effect on Sunday: Line 16/316 Line 220 has been combined with Line 16 to create new Line 17. Service starts in downtown L.A. following the routes of Line 16 and old Line 220, terminating at the Culver City Expo Station. Line 51/52, 351/352 Discontinue Limited Stop Line 352 and replace with new Limited Stop Line 351. All existing limited stops on Line 352 will be served by the new Line 351. Line 51 operates more frequently than Line 52; therefore, a new Line 351 will benefit more riders with a faster service. Replace the 1st Street route segment from Indiana Station to East L.A. College with new Line 106. This new line will also operate to County-USC Hospital and replace a large portion of Line 620. New Line 106 will operate as a replacement to a portion of Line 68 on East 1st Street, and a large portion of Line 620. Service will operate in both directions Monday through Friday. Line 111/311 Discontinue Line 311 limited stop service. All Line 311 trips are replaced by Line 111 trips, providing more service to all patrons on Florence Avenue. Line 156 has been combined with Line 237 on Van Nuys Boulevard at the Orange Line, providing a new continuous line from Hollywood to Granada Hills. Line 156 has been renumbered to Line 237. Line 656 will continue to operate unchanged. Service on Lines 190 and 194 will now be operated by Foothill Transit. TAP cards loaded with Metro fare will be accepted on Foothill Transit buses during the first year of operation. Line 220 is now a branch of Line 16, operating from downtown L.A. via 3rd Street to Cedar Sinai Medical Center, and then continuing down Robertson Boulevard to Culver City Expo Station. Line 220 has been renumbered to Line 17. Line 237 has been combined with Line 156 on Van Nuys Boulevard at the Orange Line, providing a new continuous line from Hollywood to Granada Hills. Line 156 has been renumbered to Line 237. Line 656 late night service will remain unchanged. Line 246 in Wilmington will return to its regular route via Harry Bridges Boulevard and Avalon Boulevard and will no longer serve Figueroa Street between Harry Bridges and Anaheim Street, or Anaheim Street between Figueroa and Avalon Boulevard. Line 258 will assume service of Line 485 (which will be cancelled) at Valley/Fremont providing a continuous line from Paramount to Pasadena/Altadena, also providing local service to the Cal State L.A. Transit Center. Service on Commonwealth/Main Streets in Alhambra has been discontinued, and patrons may transfer to Lines 78/378 for destinations on Main Streets. Line 268 will now operate directly into the Sierra Madre Villa Metro Gold Line Station. Line 270 will now be operated by two transit providers. Norwalk Transit will operate the same route and stops from El Monte Station to Norwalk Green Line Station. The route portion from El Monte Station to Monrovia will be operated by Foothill Transit. TAP cards loaded with Metro fare will be accepted on Foothill and Norwalk Transit buses during the first year of operation. Service from Downtown L.A. to Cal State L.A. has been discontinued; patrons may use the Silver Line. Service north of Cal State L.A. will be operated to Pasadena/Altadena by an extension of Line 258, which will be routed to serve the Cal State LA Transit Center. Service will now begin at the Santa Monica Expo Station located on Colorado Avenue at 4th Street in downtown Santa Monica. For service east of Santa Monica, board the Expo Line. Discontinue service on Cesar E. Chavez, Forest Avenue, Wabash Avenue, Evergreen Avenue, Mott Street, and 1st Street. Replacement service is provided by the current routes of Lines 30, 68, and 770. The remaining route of Line 620 will operate from the USC Medical Center, State Street, 1st Street, Boyle Avenue, Whittier Boulevard, Soto Street, 4th Street, Indiana Street, then continuing out 1st Street along the route of Line 68 to East L.A. College. The new service will be renumbered to Line 106 operating in both directions. Hours and days of operation will remain unchanged. Service Improvements Metro has improved service on the following lines: 70, 76, 266, 268, 770. Patsaouras Plaza Closure The bus hub adjacent to the east portal area of Union Station in downtown Los Angeles will closed for construction from July 11 to October 10. During the closure, all vehicles including buses and shuttles that enter the plaza will be rerouted to a new pick-up/drop-off location. (Source: http://thesource.metro.net/2016/06/21/service-changes-include-more-evening-service-to-csun-more-trains-to-azusa/)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line726
__label__wiki	0.597279	0.597279	You are here: Explore > South Cerney South Cerney Type:Village GL7 5UA Surrounded by tranquil meadows this is the biggest village in Gloucestershire with a population nearing 3,500. It was founded in 999 by Saxon settlers, with a charter by King Aethelred II and was a key settlement on the River Churn. The village of South Cerney has prospered throughout the ages with links to farming, cloth production and more recently gravel extraction. lies The village has a range of buildings from small artisan cottages, farm buildings and manor houses all built in the natural Cotswold stone and in the centre of the village you will see the Medieval cross. All Hallows is the village church which has Norman origins before being altered in the medieval period. In 1857 the church spire was struck by lightning and never reconstructed. The active village church was thoroughly restored in 1862. Inside the church you will find a number of important marble wall monuments. While exploring the village make sure you walk along the quaintly named Bow Wow. This small tree lined lane leads out of the village with the River Churn running down one side and the mill stream on the other side. South Cerney has a range of local amenities including a Post Office and newsagents, convenience store and takeaways. There are even three public houses in the village, The Old George, The Oak and The Eliot Arms. With other eating places not far away you will be spoilt for choice. The village is located within The Cotswold Water Park, an area made up of 150 lakes, mostly formed by gravel extraction. Many of the lakes are now used for leisure activities including fishing, watersports and even rallying. To learn more about the Cotswold Water Park call into the Gateway Centre to learn more about this unique area and get out on foot to discover walking trails and nature reserves all offering peace and quiet too. Located off the main A419 Swindon to Cirencester road Public Transport Directions Nearest train station Kemble Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens Get eye-to-eye with giraffe, watch rhinos grazing on Gothic Manor House lawns or walk… Great Witcombe Roman Villa Remains The remains of a large villa, overlooking an enchanting valley. Built around three sides… This unique Garden restoration, situated in a hidden valley, dates from a period when… Gloucester Ski & Snowboard Centre Welcome to Gloucester Ski & Snowboard Centre one of the UK's best and longest artificial… The Wilson - Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum Cheltenham has an outstanding museum and art gallery with a programme of exciting… Gloucester City AFC If you like to see exciting football played by committed and skilful players, in what… Barnwood Arboretum, Nature Reserve & Park Barnwood Park is a formal park with mature trees and ducks. Barnwood Arboretum is a local… Robinswood Hill Country Park Two-hundred and fifty acres of open countryside with viewpoint, pleasant walks, waymarked… The Capital Venue Leisure, entertainment and business centre. Catering for events ranging from conferences… SimAir737 SimAir737, Realistc Full Size Boeing 737 Cockpit.The most true to life flight simulator… St James City Farm An inner city farm providing real hands on contact with farm animals. Rare breeds of… Trapped Escape Rooms Based on the Japanese online game 'Takagism', Escape Rooms is a real-life room escape… GL1 Leisure Centre The leisure centre operates on a 'pay and play' basis and is open throughout the year to… Jet Age Museum The Jet Age Museum is home to a unique collection of historic aircraft and artefacts… The Kings Theatre Tucked just off Eastgate Street, close to the heart of Gloucester City Centre is this… Hillfield Gardens Just outside the city centre lies Hillfield Gardens, a true hidden gem of Gloucester.… Search What's Nearby Any Accommodation Attraction Things To Do Shopping Eating Out Activity Event General & Tourist Information Towns & Villages Within 10 5 2 0.5 miles	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line731
__label__wiki	0.7229	0.7229	BSR to sell 242mn shares at IPO Photo: Khanh Chi (VET) Oil refinery operator aims to sell shares at a starting price of $0.64 on January 17. by Hong Nhung BSR delays IPO plans to 2018 BSR to fetch $88mn from Nov IPO Why Petrolimex is keen on being BSR's strategic partner The Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company (BSR), the operator of the Dung Quat Oil Refinery in central Quang Ngai province, will hold an initial public offering (IPO) of 7.79 per cent of its charter capital, or 242 million shares, on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange on January 17, with a starting price of $0.64 (VND14,600) per share. BSR held a roadshow on December 20 to introduce investment opportunities, shortly after Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue signed a Decision approving its equitization plan. According to the Decision, PetroVietnam will hold more than 1,333,214,835 shares post-equitization, or 43 per cent. Shares sold to employees will total 6,483,000 shares, or 0.21 per cent, while 241,556,969 shares, or 7.79 per cent, will be publicly auctioned, and 1,519,244,812 shares, or 49 per cent, will be sold to strategic investors. Foreign investors may own up to 49 per cent of charter capital. “The company has recently worked with 17 local and international investment funds and five strategic partners,” Mr. Tran Ngoc Nguyen, CEO of BSR, told the roadshow. “They include major investors such as the Repsol Group from Spain, two major oil and gas corporations from the US, Macron Petroleum from South Africa, and an investor from Brunei. Over the last year, many potential foreign investors have come to explore investment opportunities in BSR.” The Repsol Group wishes to not only own shares in BSR but also participate deeply in the management, operations, and crude oil trading of Dung Quat. According to the company’s financial statement for the end of September, BSR has more than $120 million deposited with OceanBank, which has temporarily ceasing trading. This and other losses are a source of some concern for many investors. Major oil and gas corporations such as Russia’s Rosneft, South Korea’s SK Group, Thailand’s PTT, and the Kuwait National Oil Corporation have all expressed an interest in buying BSR shares. The Petrolimex Group also wants to become a strategic partner through share purchases and will prioritize consumption of petroleum products from Dung Quat. After nearly nine years of operations, since February 2009, the Dung Quat Oil Refinery has produced and sold nearly 50 million tons of different products, earning revenue of approximately $38 billion and contributing nearly $7 billion to the State budget. BSR accounted for 16 per cent of PetroVietnam’s total revenue and 10 per cent of its State budget contributions this year. It also contributed 33 per cent of its total profit. Dung Quat PVN IFC provides $212.5mn to VPBank SSIAM partners with NH-Amundi on fund product... Visa: Biometric authentication easier for... Newly-opened stock trading accounts down in 2019 Prudential Vietnam partners with SeABank & BRG... HDBank receives Labor Order on 30th anniversary SeABank completes buy back of all bonds at VAMC ANZ receives highest possible Foreign Currency rating from Fitch VDSC forecasts VN-Index to fluctuate from 950 to 1,120 in 2020 UOB: Vietnam leads ASEAN in fintech funding Saigon Co.op & MoMo to push shopping digitalization PwC: Cash release opportunities of up to $11.3bn in FY18 SeABank buys back all bonds from VAMC FE Credit launches digital roadmap for super financial app Tourism Advisory Board & Visa join forces to attract more visitors Generali Vietnam launches first instore & online-distributed health...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line732
__label__wiki	0.632	0.632	Japan Fair showcases popular products Photo: Internet Archive Japanese goods increasingly favored in Vietnam, according to JETRO Chief Representative. by Quynh Nguyen Japanese-style farms for Can Tho Vietnam tourism week to kick off in Japan Koyu & Unitek to export 300 tons of chicken to Japan Japan is boosting measures to introduce Japanese products to Vietnam, Mr. Takimoto Koji, JETRO Chief Representative in Ho Chi Minh City, said at the Japan Fair on November 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. The fair was held for the first time in Vietnam in 2016 and 40 per cent of goods displayed are now sold in the country, he added. Japan Fair 2017 is exhibiting 76 products introduced in Vietnam by Japanese companies for the first time through 260 stores and supermarkets such as Family Mart, MINISTOP and AEON. Products have high demand but low supply in Vietnam. In addition to main products such as confectionery, juices, and ice cream, Japanese enterprises will also introduce traditional comics for Vietnamese children at this year’s fair. Mr. Yamanouchi Hirohisa, Head of the Marketing and Product Department at Family Mart, said the strengths of Japanese products are advanced production lines, good quality and safety. Products for children also have eye-catching designs. “Family Mart’s revenue growth has been sustainable in recent years, of which confectionery and ice cream produced in Japan are popular among Vietnamese children,” Mr. Hirohisa said. “Products made from tea and juices are also favored by consumers.” The number of Japanese products accounts for 10-20 per cent of all products at Japanese retailers in Vietnam. In the years to come, Japanese enterprises will continue to introduce products such as fruit and functional foods, to expand the market and meet the increasing demand of Vietnamese consumers. In a recent interview with local media, Mr. Koji said that Vietnamese consumers’ desire for Japanese products coupled with a strong flow of Japanese capital into services, consumption, and cuisine have created a driver for the development of Vietnamese businesses. When bringing products to Vietnam, Japanese businesses have adapted them to fit local tastes and have also worked with Vietnamese material suppliers to reduce costs and lower prices. One of Japan’s largest supermarket chains in Vietnam, AEON, has given top priority to selling Vietnamese products. Eighty per cent of goods on its shelves are made in Vietnam, with the remainder imported from Japan and elsewhere. According to a representative from AEON Vietnam, Japanese retailers want to bring high-quality Vietnamese products to consumers, so their presence is a great opportunity for Vietnamese commodities to use the distribution systems of large retailers. In the first ten months of this year, Vietnam’s exports to Japan reached $13.7 billion, up 14.7 per cent year-on-year, while imports from Japan reached $13.3 billion, up 8 per cent. In 2016, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs, Vietnam - Japan trade turnover reached $29.6 billion, up 4 per cent over 2015. Export turnover from Vietnam to Japan reached $14.6 billion, up 3.9 per cent over 2015. Nielsen: Consumers prefer personal touch in... Vingroup shelves plans to launch Vinpearl Air Ford Vietnam announces $82mn expansion to Hai... Grab appoints new Managing Director for Vietnam Siemens Healthineers launches ACUSON Redwood Top 500 largest enterprises in 2019 announced PM's approval sought for new low-cost carrier Experts discuss finance, banking and accounting Banking Academy & Tibco open new data analytics lab Toyota expands in north Pharmacity & Bao Long Insurance launch healthcare program Starbucks Vietnam introduces Vietnam-inspired designs KTG Industrial introduces 'Industry 4.0 Factory' M&A activity up in value in 2019 EVN signs PPAs for 2 hydro plants in Laos South Korea tops 2019 foreign investor list	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line733
__label__wiki	0.535415	0.535415	Prepare for the future with the third in the classic, post-apocalyptic franchise. Now in the hands of Bethesda Softworks (and in the works for several years of dedicated production), this third Fallout finally brings players back to the world of chaos originally produced by the legendary Black Isle Studios. Manufacturer:Bethesda Softworks Publisher Bethesda Softworks fallout, 3, xbox, 360, Brought to you by the makers of Guitar Hero, one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time, Band Hero features the hottest chart-topping hits from everyone's favorite bands including No Doubt, Nelly Furtado, Lily Allen, The All-American Rejects and Jackson 5. Headlined by some of the leading names in music as in-game artists and playable characters, including singer, songwriter and guitarist Taylor Swift and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, Band Hero is the ultimate party game where friends and family can choose to join the band or "take five" at any time without interrupting the performance, in Party Play mode.Minimize Manufacturer:Activision Publisher Activision Genre Music ESRB Rating E10 - (Everyone 10+) ESRB Descriptor Mild Suggestive Themes • Lyrics Release Date November, 2009 band, hero, kit, xbox, 360, EA returns to the ring with this fourth entry in the boxing franchise. Featuring a re-written gameplay engine, Fight Night Round 4 adds a variety of fighting styles and boxer differentiation to authentically emulate the greatest fighters of all time. Manufacturer:Electronic Arts Publisher Electronic Arts Genre Sports ESRB Rating T - (Teen) Output Signal Supported 1080i • 1080p • 720p • 480p ESRB Descriptor Mild Lyrics • Violence • Mild Suggestive Themes • Mild Blood Control Elements Gamepad • Joystick • Headset • Microphone fight, night, round, 4, xbox, 360, Based on the summer 2009 Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster movie of the same name, G-Force the video game is an exciting action-platformer that draws you into the adventures of an elite team of trained guinea pigs on a mission to thwart a sinister plot to destroy the world. James Cameron's Avatar: The Game is the official video game based on the highly anticipated film James Cameron’s Avatar. The video game will take you deep into the heart of Pandora, an alien planet that is beyond imagination. Gamers will encounter the Na’vi, Pandora’s indigenous people and discover other life forms the likes of which have never been seen in the world of video games before.Minimize The real Ghostbusters return in this videogame sequel to the Ghostbusters movies. Stars Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray reunite to reprise their roles as Spengler, Stantz, Zeddmore and Venkman. Supporting the ghost busting crew are the talents of Annie Potts, Brian Doyle Murray and William Atherton.Minimize	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line734
__label__wiki	0.565248	0.565248	by We Are Sikhs — July 11, 2017 We’re so grateful for the positive response our campaign has received so far! We are so touched by the overwhelming support we’ve seen since launching our first local campaign in Fresno, California last month! From college campuses to local officials to Members of Congress, We Are Sikhs Fresno has received a wide range of support from community leaders! Check out some of our favorite quotes below: Andy Vidak - California State Senator “Remember that Sikhs are just like you and me. They worry about paying for their children’s college; they sometimes wear mismatched socks, and despite what may appear to be superficial differences, their values are just as American as baseball and apple pie.” Read his full op-ed in The Fresno Bee Ashley Swearengin - CEO of Central Valley Community Foundation and former Mayor of Fresno “I love the #WeAreSikhs campaign. Thank you, Sikh community, for re-introducing yourselves to your CV neighbors.” Read More on Twitter Jim Costa - U.S. Representative serving California’s 16th Congressional District Post by RepJimCosta. David Valadao - U.S. Representative serving California’s 21st Congressional District “I am proud to represent the Central Valley, which is home to more than 25,000 Sikhs. An integral part of our community, Sikhs have been making contributions to our society for more than a century. As the co-chair of the American Sikh Congressional Caucus, I enthusiastically support We Are Sikhs Fresno, a local initiative to help inform Central Valley residents about the Sikh community. I encourage all Central Valley residents to get to know their Sikh American neighbors, and appreciate the National Sikh Campaign’s efforts in our area.” Lee Brand - Mayor of Fresno “You look at doctors, lawyers, successful business people, farmers – every aspect of life, particularly in small business, the Sikh people embody the American dream!” Scott Robertson - Mayor of Selma “There is a real misunderstanding out there. There is a study that says 60% of Americans admit to knowing nothing at all about their Sikh neighbors. This lack of knowledge is holding back our local communities and we must work to change it through something like We Are Sikhs. I just think that We are Sikhs is a great idea to promote awareness of this humble and hardworking people who don’t promote themselves, but should be promoted and I wholly embrace the We Are Sikhs campaign.” Xavier Becerra - California Attorney General "Thousands of Sikhs call California home. We must always welcome people of diverse backgrounds and religions." Esmerelda Soria - Fresno Councilmember “We know that education and awareness can really cure intolerance – and that’s what we want. We want to be able to live in a community and recognize that our immigrants here in Fresno are an asset.” College Republicans at UC Merced Post by UCMGOP. We’ve also seen incredible coverage of our campaign across local and national news outlets! A few of our favorite updates are below: Valley Voices: ‘On a Sunday, take your family to a Gurdwara, I have’ State Senator Andy Vidak The Fresno Bee “...remember that Sikhs are just like you and me. They worry about paying for their children’s college; they sometimes wear mismatched socks, and despite what may appear to be superficial differences, their values are just as American as baseball and apple pie.” 10 Things To Know About Sikhs Bill McEwan “I have two reactions to the “We are Sikhs” television ads. How sad it is that Sikhs, who have been in the United States since the 19th century, still have to tell their story. And how smart it is for Sikh leaders to mount this extensive effort to get the word out about their values and positive contributions to communities across our land. The hope is that the campaign will reduce discrimination, bullying and hate crimes against Sikhs.” Sikh Community Saves Town’s Independence Day Fireworks Display Alex Seitz-Wald “When the mayor of Visalia, in California's agricultural Central Valley, mentioned to a local Sikh businessman that the city of 120,000 might have to forgo a July Fourth fireworks display because of financial concerns, the religious community jumped. The Sikhs chipped in $10,000 for the festivities, which will also benefit a children's charity. “Visalia considers this to be very generous and helpful. We appreciate their show of patriotic support, as one of our newer groups of American citizens,” Visalia Mayor Warren Gubler told NBC News.” Sikh Values Are American Values Visalia Times-Delta Danielle Martin “We Are Sikhs Fresno, is a local nonprofit part of a national movement to bring awareness of the Sikh population in America and in the neighborhoods we call home. The organization strives to educate people about the Sikh culture with commercials, outreach opportunities and community events, such as the CASA Fireworks Extravaganza in Visalia. ‘As Sikh Americans, we’re committed to serving our communities, and we are proud to help revitalize the Visalia 4th of July Extravaganza, and look forward to enjoying the great American baseball tradition alongside our friends and neighbors at the Fresno Grizzlies game,’ Pal said.” KSEE Sikh values go hand-in-hand with American values – service, freedom, duty and equality for all. We love sharing these values with our neighbors in Fresno and are humbled by the incredible outpouring of support We Are Sikhs has received. There is more to come, so please stay involved in the conversation by following us on Facebook and Twitter!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line735
__label__wiki	0.986508	0.986508	GOAL!!! Footballer of the year On Loan Players Valletta FC Card Special Football Benefits Valletta FC Card Rewards Forza Valletta City 'Forza Valletta City' - the official Valletta Football Club anthem is said to be one of its kind in Europe. Composed and written by two of Valletta FC staunchest supporters Carmelo Xerri and William Arena. The original version of “Forza Valletta City” was recorded by Andrew Sapiano in 1959 but was never converted into a disc. The newer version of ‘Forza Valletta City’ was then performed by the brilliant orchestra composed of some of the topmost musicians around and sung by a new choir - the City Minstrels. The sound effect of cheering crowd was added on to give it a more ‘Stadium’ feeling. The new arrangement by Carmelo Xerri was made at MTV Studios on July 6, 1974. The ‘Forza Valletta City’ was released in 1974, on the ‘Carabott – Diski Maltin’ label, the disc also had a leaflet with lyrics to both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ sides. The latter is also from the ‘Xercarm’/ Arena pens and called ‘Dis-sena tal-Valletta’. It is a musical record of the club’s football successes which landed them at the top of the league table. This medium paced song is bright and breezy, with a get-together type of male chorus, provided also by the City Minstrels, comprising: Orchestra – Xercarm and his friends; Trumpets – Paul Bonnici, Joseph Azzopardi and Carmel Busuttil; Saxophones – Vinny Vella, Turu Pace, Oscar Lucas, Freddie Mizzi and Saviour Mugro; Rhythm – Spiro Zammit (piano), Dominic Vella (bass) and Sunny Vella (drums); Trombones – Clement Sciberras and Tony Zammit. From where did ‘Forza Valletta City’ originate? It all started in 1959, when during a normal working day at the Department of Information, William Arena received a call from Mr. Carmelo Xerri. William Arena already knew Carmelo Xerri, but Xerri only knew Arena through some poems he had written earlier for newspapers and also through songs he had written in the past. Xerri informed Arena that he had written the original music for the Valletta FC anthem. This was the first anthem of it’s kind and the Valletta F.C. committee had already listened to the anthem, they liked it and also approved to be the official anthem of the club. Xerri then went on to ask Arena to write the lyrics for the anthem because he had already read some verses of Arena’s songs and liked them because the lyrics matched the music perfectly. Arena was delighted but was a bit overwhelmed with such a big responsibility as to write an official anthem. Arena immediately asked Xerri to listen to the music, and Xerri suggested he went straight away to a place in St. Paul’s street. Arena went and listened to the anthem and he liked it and learnt it instantly. Three days later Arena produced the lyrics for the ‘Forza Valetta City’ anthem. Arena describes that it was not an easy job to write the lyrics in three days, he even woke up late at night to change some words from the lyrics that he did not like. Arena added that Xerri had personally paid for the production of the first ‘Forza Valletta City’ disc. Download Forza Valletta City in MP3 Format Download Dis-Sena tal-Valletta in MP3 Format Download Forza Valletta City Ringtone in MP3 Format Tracks (c) Valletta F.C. 1974 “Forza Valletta City, min qalbna dan l’Innu nkantaw” Club Info Sub Menu The Valletta F.C. Badge UEFA Competitions Complete League Record Copyright 2012 Valletta FC Web Design and Web Development by	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line740
__label__wiki	0.755845	0.755845	Sweetshop: The art of getting down with younger generations Adland is not especially good at engaging older audiences. It does, however, show sparks of brilliance when it comes to engaging young audiences – no doubt a combination of enthusiasm and resources. The following examples all come from various agencies as well as various Sweetshop directors, beginning with Damien Shatford, who confesses to spending a lot of time doing what young people do – “eating and drinking memes”. That’s why he understands the pace of cuts (rapid), the length of content (short) and that traditional advertising doesn’t apply or appeal, he stated. That understanding is nowhere more evident than in the V Energy commercial that he made with Clemenger BBDO Sydney. Clemenger BBDO Sydney: V Energy becomes weirdly (delightfully) purposeful Shatford commented,“For the Tik Tok generation everything is throwaway. It’s fun, often silly and it’s unexpected. Things are constantly being invented and dying, and that’s fine. With V, we just wanted to make something that felt a little bit new at the moment it appeared. Something not seen before. All of us who worked on the commercial live and breathe these things in the same way as young people do. We were just using the language of the internet that we knew. A whole lot of the references were only a few weeks old at the time and now they feel ancient. The only thing constant about the internet is that it’s frequently changing. We wanted to create something that felt a bit silly that embodies that feeling.” Shatford’s second young audience commercial is for soft drink brand, Lemon & Paeroa (L&P). Oddly, the brand is 112 years old, but it is finding a cult following with people nearly a hundred years younger. Commercials like this teenage-rebellion-meets- zombie-apocalypse-fantasy, made with DDB New Zealand, are doubtless helping that along. DDB NZ & Sweetshop: Forget authentic. This Lemon & Paeroa lifestyle ad is the ultimate teen magnet Kim Kardashian, it seems, would promote a postage stamp if she was paid to do it. Young people don’t care. She has 152 million Instagram followers. She isn’t an actress and she takes herself very seriously – in fact, serious meltdowns are part of her trademark – but Nick Kelly has managed to get two really wonderfully subtle comedic performances from her for Uber Eats. This is KKW seen in a whole new light. That’s a pre-requisite for under 25 y.o. audience success. Nick Kelly said, “I recently heard a boomer refer to millennials as ‘Youngsters’. Brilliant, I’m using that. Youngsters are pretty cynical about advertising. So when we engaged Kim Kardashian (a youngster icon) for Uber Eats, we went a step further than featuring her as a spokesperson. By pairing Kim so unexpectedly with Magda Szubanski’s very down-to-earth Sharon character, we were able to subvert her appearance, putting her in a neck brace for one film and giving her a horrendous bowl cut for another. It was the Kim that youngsters love, but a version of her they’d never seen. I think this self-deprecating humour is so essential as it lets you feature celebrities, while also poking fun at the very culture of celebrity. The writers at Special Group really nailed this dynamic, and on set, I encouraged Kim to lean right into it. She was a great sport.” Special Group: Kim Kardashian struggles to speak Strine for Uber eats For the Vidal Sassoon spot, Sweetshop borrowed director, Maxime Quoilin, from Good Company in New York. The sub-titles are in Mandarin, but don’t fret – the only part you need to understand is the mood of rebellion against doing as you’re told. If you’re over 25, missing the internet references and being bamboozled by the film’s pace are unimportant. Quoilin stated, “I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to shoot all around Shanghai in such interesting settings with such interesting people, where we were able to create this disruptive film about human empowerment. Shanghai has so much to offer, providing us with the perfect backdrop and a fearless cast for VS to tell this poignant story that challenges conventions.” Granted, Spark’s audience for its Play by Spark campaign is grown-ups. But let’s talk about communicating to adults the relationship that kids have with games, turning Colenso BBDO’s idea into a film that carries real weight for a subject that is being thrown about lightly in everyday conversations and getting the performance of the year from a very small boy. Albiston commented, “When I was directing this spot, I really was channelling my kids. In fact, just this morning my son was having a bit of a meltdown because I told him he needed to have breakfast before he got on his phone. He loves Minecraft and was really into Fortnite and was dancing around the house like his avatar. He loves it because he can play online with his mates. “There is a level of love for gaming kids have that is undeniable. I was keen not to trivialise this in the film. Kids have an affinity with games that we adults – like me who hasn’t grown up with them – often underestimate. Kids breaking up with their avatar carries more weight than we realise and I wanted to make sure we empathised with them both.” Colenso BBDO & Sweetshop: Spark uses technology to get kids to use it less Teens tend to hide their problems from adults, especially if asked “How are you going?” or “How was your day?”. Behind the answers, “I’m fine,” and “It was fine,” can be a completely different story of insecurities, anxieties and conflict. And even if you’re fifty, you can imagine how unreceptive teens would have been to being “counselled” about this by a brand. But the film below – Dove’s I’m Fine, directed by Andrew Lang and made with Ogilvy UK? That speaks their language: Sweetshop’s Andrew Lang: Dove reveals what’s behind “I’m fine” At some point in a child’s life – usually at about twelve – his or her parents stop being superhumans and start being annoying. Mostly, parents annoying because they tell their kids to do things. This doesn’t diminish as kids advance through their teen years. By the time they’re driving, anything adults advise is unwarranted and unnecessary – at best. Now they’re the superhumans. Getting young people not to text and drive is a Herculean task. Jakob Marky and Clemenger BBDO also had a legacy of powerful NZTA advertising to live up to when they took on the task. Marky stated “To take a traditionally strong storyteller such as NZTA and try to emulate the broken down fabric of today’s constant disturbance was a huge challenge. A challenge we proved ourselves able to tackle head on. Put down your phone and have a watch.” Clemenger BBDO Wellington & Sweetshop: NZ Transport Agency presents the car as a respite from being constantly connected SweetshopSweetshop directorsSweetshop young Sweetshop: Edward Berger’s Patrick Melrose wins four BAFTAs Sweetshop boosts its might. Greg Fyson becomes EP for Australia Sweetshop’s Alexander Brown & Hyundai: Mastering Mopsters, electricity and in-camera effects	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line747
__label__wiki	0.839154	0.839154	Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia Child and Youth Services Infant Settlements Property Guardian Services Post Majority Services Child and Youth Services FAQ Services to Adults Helping an Adult Get Support and Reporting Abuse or Neglect Assessment and Investigation Services Personal Decision Services Financial Management and Personal Decision Making Services for Adults Review and Monitoring of Private Committees Other Protective Services Woodlands Payments for Former Residents Woodlands Class Action Estate and Personal Trust Services Curatorship of Missing Persons Personal Trust Management PGT Educational Assistance Fund Grant Application Review Services (GARS) News and InformationCurrently selected Client Investments Vendors/Suppliers Chinese traditional - 中文〈繁體〉 Chinese simplified - 中文（简体） Filipino (Tagalog) Punjabi - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Vietnamese - Việt Ngữ Persian (Farsi) - فارسی User Friendly Guide Fees charged in Services to Adults Fees charged in Child and Youth Services Fees charged in Estate Administration and Personal Trust Services Fees for Protective Legal Reviews Making an Information Request or Privacy Complaint Home>News and Information>Archived News Archived NewsCurrently selected PGT releases 2011-12 Child and Youth Guardianship Services Report VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee (PGT) today released its fourth annual Child and Youth Guardianship report. The report focuses on guardian of estate services delivered by the PGT between April 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012 to children and youth who are in continuing care in British Columbia. Click here to view the full media release. PGT celebrates World Elder Abuse Awareness Day VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee (PGT) is pleased to recognize June 15, 2013 as the 8th World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Click here to view the full media release. Provincial Election Voting - May 14, 2013 VANCOUVER - The BC Election Act provides that in order to vote in a provincial election an individual must be a Canadian citizen, 18 years of age or older, a resident of BC for at least 6 months immediately prior to election day and be registered as a voter. Please review the attached for more information. Goods and Services Tax (GST) Implementation VANCOUVER - Fees and commissions charged by the Public Guardian and Trustee are subject to a 12% Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) until March 31, 2013. Effective April 1, 2013, PGT fees are subject to the 5% Goods and Services Tax (GST). Please review the attached for an indication of how this will apply. Public Guardian and Trustee Celebrates 50th Anniversary VANCOUVER - Today, the Public Guardian and Trustee celebrates the 50th anniversary of the creation of its office. On March 27, 1963, the Public Trustee Act came into force, creating a single office for the roles of Official Guardian, Official Administrator and Official Committee. In 2000, the government introduced the Public Guardian and Trustee Act, which created the current Public Guardian and Trustee. Over the past five decades, the Public Guardian and Trustee has upheld its mission of safeguarding the legal and financial interests of children; managing the legal, financial and personal care interests of adults needing assistance in decision making; and administering the estates of deceased and missing persons. Click here to view the full media release. PGT comments on Representative for Children and Youth audit findings VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee, Catherine Romanko, has issued a statement in response to the Representative For Children and Youth report about the Ministry of Children and Family Development entitled "Much More than Paperwork – Proper Planning Essential to Better Lives for B.C.'s Children in Care – A Representative's Audit on Plans of Care". "After reviewing the Representative's report, I am concerned by the audit findings to the extent that they may impact the interests of our child and youth clients in continuing care," said Ms. Romanko. "I have spoken to the Representative and support the intent behind her recommendation directed at the Public Guardian & Trustee." Through its Child and Youth Services division, the PGT currently acts as property guardian for 4,949 BC children and youth. Most are in continuing care of the province. Click here to read the full media release. VANCOUVER - The Family Law Act (FLA) came into effect March 18, 2013, replacing the Family Relations Act. This new legislation has impacted many aspects of PGT work and these are reflected in our information materials. The PGT has changed the content of this website and our publications which are available through our Reports and Publications page. As of today, all website content and publications have been updated to reflect requirements of the new legislation. The FLA places the safety and best interests of the child first when families are going through separation and divorce. It also clarifies parental responsibilities and the division of assets if relationships break down, addresses family violence and encourages families to resolve their disputes out of court. VANCOUVER -The Public Guardian and Trustee has responded to the Ombudsperson’s report entitled “No Longer Your Decision: British Columbia’s Process for Appointing the Public Guardian and Trustee to Manage the Financial Affairs of Incapable Adults”. To see the response, please click here. 2011-2012 Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia Annual Report Released VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee's 2011-2012 Annual Report is now available.The report highlights significant achievements and includes a comprehensive audited performance report and financial statements for 2011-2012. VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee releases 2010/2011 report on child and youth guardianship services. The Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia today released the Child and Youth Guardianship Services Report 2010/2011, which describes its work on behalf of children in continuing care, including details of critical incident reports and describes key actions for improvements to guardianship services. Click here to view the news release and Click here to access the full report. VANCOUVER - November is Financial Literacy Month and the Public Guardian and Trustee is proud to contribute, in partnership with other organizations, to the creation of a Financial Literacy Handbook for Aboriginal youth. The Handbook is designed to assist service providers, parents, guardians and youth in preparing for adulthood and the related responsibilities that come with managing money. For more helpful information on financial literacy information review “Dollars & Sense” a publication created by the PGT for youth and young adults. Click here to be directed to the Handbook. VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee's 2010-2011 Annual Report is now available. The report highlights significant achievements and includes a comprehensive audited performance report and financial statements for 2010-2011. VANCOUVER - The appointment of Catherine Romanko as Public Guardian and Trustee, effective October 10th 2011, has been announced. Please follow the link to the news release from the Ministry of Attorney General for more information. VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia is pleased to note that amended legislation has come into effect to provide British Columbians with improved options for planning for future incapacity, together with stronger legal safeguards for ensuring that one’s wishes are carried out when one is no longer able to provide direction. Click here for further information. VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia (PGT) is pleased to release 2020 Vision: Serving British Columbians Over the Next Decade, a vision statement document which provides a general direction for the future of the office, with ideas of where the PGT may want to move towards to continue the work we are currently doing and to build on our current accomplishments. You can read it by clicking here. VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia (PGT) is urgently seeking to contact people who were resident at Woodlands School in New Westminster, BC on or after Aug. 1, 1974 and who may not be aware of an upcoming class action deadline that affects them. Click here to view the news release. VANCOUVER - On June 21st, the Public Guardian and Trustee is helping to put the spotlight on financial abuse at an upcoming conference which will bring together service providers, agencies, police, community responders and financial institution representatives. Registration is still open. Click here for further information or to register. VANCOUVER -Adults under committeeship are eligible to vote in the federal election on May 2, 2011. In the past, adults under committeeship under the Patients Property Act were not entitled to vote in federal elections. This changed in 1993 when changes were made to the Canada Elections Act. Adults with a committee can vote if they choose; committees do not have the authority to vote on an adult's behalf. VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee releases 2009/2010 report on child and youth guardianship services. The Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia today released the Child and Youth Guardianship Services Report 2009/2010, which describes its work on behalf of children in continuing care, including details of critical incident reports and offers key recommendations for improvements to BC child protection and guardianship systems. Click here to view the news release and Click here to access the full report. Incapacity Planning Reforms to be Proclaimed Sept. 1, 2011 VANCOUVER - On Feb. 4, 2011, the Honourable Attorney General and Minister of Health announced that parts of the British Columbia Adult Guardianship and Planning Statutes Amendment Act, 2007 will be brought into force Sept. 1, 2011. Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) Implementation VANCOUVER –Effective July 1 2010, Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia Fees are subject to the new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). Please review the attached for an indication of how this will apply. PGT services are funded by a combination of fees for services and supplementary funding from the Government of British Columbia . Fees and commissions charged by the PGT are set out in the following regulation: Public Guardian and Trustee Fees Regulation Service During Olympics VANCOUVER – The Public Guardian and Trustee has announced its hours of service during the Olympic and Paralympics Games. Click here for details: PGT service during the Olympic and Paralympics Games. 2008-2009 Annual Report Released VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee's 2008-2009 Annual Report is now available. The report highlights significant achievements and includes a comprehensive audited performance report and financial statements for 2008-2009. We welcome your comments on our annual report. Please take a few minutes to complete and return our Request for Comment form to us at mail@trustee.bc.ca VANCOUVER - The PGT has released a statement responding to some stories aired today on the CBC regarding the PGT’s management of client affairs. Click here to see the statement: Public Guardian and Trustee responds to CBC Media Stories. Public Guardian and Trustee releases first annual report on child and youth guardianship services VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia (PGT) today released the first annual report on its child and youth Guardian of Estate services, which details specific challenges and offers key recommendations for improvements to BC's child protection and guardianship systems. Improvements made to hiring and internal controls VANCOUVER– The Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia announced today that it has significantly improved its internal controls, policies and processes and implemented stronger security practices. VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee's 2007-2008 Annual Report is now available. The report highlights significant achievements and includes a comprehensive performance report and financial statements for 2007-2008. We welcome your comments on our annual report. Please take a few minutes to complete and return our Request for Comment form. Vancouver – The third annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is being recognized on June 15, 2008 by the Public Guardian and Trustee of BC in support of the Proclamation issued by the provincial Cabinet. press release, backgrounder. VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee's 2006-2007 Annual Report is now available. The report highlights significant achievements and includes a comprehensive performance report and financial statements for 2006-2007. Public Guardian and Trustee reports alleged breach of trust by former temporary employee VANCOUVER - The RCMP has arrested a former temporary employee of the Public Guardian and Trustee on charges of breach of trust. The Public Guardian and Trustee notified the RCMP when it first identified potentially fraudulent activity early this month. Attorney General Introduces Bill to Modernize Adult Guardianship and Personal Planning Legislation VICTORIA – The Attorney General introduced Bill 29, the Adult Guardianship and Planning Statutes Amendment Act, 2007. If passed, this legislation will modernize and update the way adult guardianship is dealt with in British Columbia. Read the Attorney General’s press release. An earlier version of this legislation, Bill 32, was introduced in April 2006, but it was put on hold after concerns were raised about the part of the bill dealing with instructional advance directives for health care. VANCOUVER - The Public Guardian and Trustee's 2005-2006 Annual Report is now available. It highlights significant achievements and includes a comprehensive performance report and financial statements for 2005-2006. Public Guardian and Trustee Fees Reflecting the Reduction of Goods and Services Tax to 6% VANCOUVER - As of July 1, 2006, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be reduced to 6%. Please click here to view our updated fee schedule. Attorney General Introduces New Court and Statutory Guardianship Law and Changes to Personal Planning Laws VICTORIA - The Attorney General introduced Bill 32, the Adult Guardianship and Planning Statutes Amendment Act , 2006. Read the Attorney General's press release and backgrounder. If the Bill is passed PGT publications will be updated. In the meantime read existing publications in the context of the bill. Last Modified: 4/12/2018 10:41 AM Address:700-808 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6C 3L3 E-mail:mail@trustee.bc.ca Vancouver Island Office Address:1215 Broad Street Victoria, BC V8W 2A4 Interior-North Office Address:1345 St. Paul Street © 2014 Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line751
__label__cc	0.507282	0.492718	Flo - Season 2 CBS (ended 1981) USER EDITOR No Editor User Score: 0 The Daynce When Flo makes Earl escort her to the formal ball marking her membership in an exclusive club, he helps her make a big impression, but not the kind she hoped for. No Men's Land When Buddy, who runs the gas station next to the Yellow Rose, tells Flo that the bathrooms in her saloon are on his land and she'll have to pay for them, Flo calls on the law of the West for justice. Flo's Encounter of the Third Kind Flo returns late from a trip, dishelved and claiming a close encounter with a flying saucer. You Gotta Have Hoyt When Hoyt Axton hits town and visits the Yellow Rose and Flo, he's just in time to get into one of the best fights the saloon ever witnessed. When Earl decides to play a game with Flo and old girlfriend B.J., he finds out he's in over his head. Flo gets tonsillitis and can't talk, and Earl discovers her age through her birth certificate. He figures he's got her where he wants her, until Flo shows him how an old pro plays that game. What Are Friends For? Flo's former boss Mel stops in to see her at the Yellow Rose and gives her some unwelcomed advice on how to run a business. Gunsmoke at the Yellow Rose Flo fantasizes the Yellow Rose as a roaring saloon in the 1880s. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (a.k.a.) Welcome to the Club Flo's coarse brother torpedoes her efforts to impress a snooty businesswoman who's doing an article on the Yellow Rose. The Price of Avocados (2) When it looks like Flo has lost her money and trailer in a get-rich-quick scheme, her friends make her a winner. (Part 2 of 2) When Flo can't pay her rent, Farley threatens to take her trailer—but somebody beats him to it. (Part 1 of 2) Not With My Sister, You Don't Flo gets her ABCs mixed up when she tries to alphabetize men to protect little sister Fran. Flo's dream of being crowned "Miss Rodeo Days" is almost spoiled by a seven-month-old baby. Grey Escape Mama runs away from home when Flo and Fran decide that she should lead a more productive life. The Miracle of Casa de Huevos Flo is disappointed about not attending the Annual Snowflake Ball on Christmas Eve, but gets a bigger thrill on Christmas morning. Deserted Islands When Randy leaves home, Flo invites him to stay in the back room of the Yellow Rose for a day or two while he practices his singing. She soon regrets it. So Long, Shorty Flo vows to give a favorite customer the sendoff he wants -- a wingding of a funeral at the Yellow Rose. Willoughby Versus Willoughby Flo sacrifices a dream trip to keep Miriam's marriage together. A Castleberry Thanksgiving Part II Flo (POLLY HOLLIDAY) brings her father, Jarvis Castleberry, back into the family fold after a 25-year absence. FORREST TUCKER guest stars as Jarvis Castleberry. Second of a two-part episode. A Castleberry Thanksgiving Flo gathers the Castleberry family together for the first time in 25 years—and they are all in for a big surprise. Bull Is Back in Town When Bull, a wild and crazy miner, comes to town on his annual binge, seeking a good drink, bath and a pretty woman, not neccsarily in that order, he goes wild for Flo. Farley, the People's Choice With Flo's unintentional help, Farley is elected Zoning Commissioner; but, much to his disappoinment, the position is not all it is cracked up to be. The Enemy Below A skunk has stationed himself under the Yellow Rose and threatens to put Flo out of business, both professionally and socially.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line753
__label__cc	0.54028	0.45972	Zonnewal Oostwold A quieter and energy neutral Oostwold Primaire navigatie EN Zonnewal-plan enters final phase By Arnaud on 7 December 2017 in Zonnewal Dear people of Oostwold and neighbours! The last time we could give you a big update about the Zonnewal-project was in May, when we had a gathering in the Gaveborg. We told you about the progress up to that point. How the idea for the Zonnewal had taken its pretty much definitive shape, how students studied the support in and around the village, how you can switch to ECO as your energy supplier and that Oostwold (and therefore, the Zonnewal) was chosen by the Groningen province as one of the six ‘example villages’ to serve as a blueprint for other villages and towns that want to become energy neutral. Also, a short film about the Zonnewal had its premiere that evening – a film in which we explain what the Zonnewal is all about in two minutes. Radio silence? It’s December already, and you haven’t heard from us for a while now. But that doesn’t mean nothing is happening. We meet almost weekly as a project group, attend almost all relevant meetings and events (regarding energy transition) in the region – as long as time permits, because we all do this project next to a full time job and/or company. While we make progress almost every week, sadly, we cannot inform you every time. We are continuously talking to many parties, such as Provincie Groningen (Groningen Province), gemeente Leek (Leek municipality), Rijkswaterstaat, Waterschap Noorderzijlvest, Enexis, solar panel suppliers, our Zonnewal building partner Enviso/DBG and other parties such as the owners of some pieces of land near the A7 highway, where the Zonnewal will be built. In order to not interfere with decisionmaking it is important for all government parties to agree, before we make anything public. Gigantic boost We are proud and happy to announce that this is now the case! Parties such as Provincie Groningen and Gemeente Leek had a very positive attitude towards the Zonnewal, but it has taken a long before everyone was at the same table AND reached an agreement about a thorough and purposeful approach. Provincie Groningen and Gemeente Leek are now in the forward mode which means that they are convinced of the plans and willing to cooperate. We are now working with them to prepare the necessary permit/licence application. Impression of (a part of) the new Ringweg Groningen Apart from this, we have a new partner: the consortium of companies that carries out the reshaping of the Zuidelijke Ringweg in Groningen. This project provides a huge amount of dirt – and what place is better to bring it to than the Zonnewal, which is not even 10 Kilometers away from the Julianaplein? We hope that we can start a great cooperation with them. These to factors have given the project a gigantic boost, and therefore we are confident to announce that we are now in the final phase of planning. We are now working out various details with the government partes, but are also still in talks with land owners. The lots next to the A7 are propery of some government parties (Gemeente, Waterschap) but also owned by a few private owners. Most of them are very enthusiastic about the plan and they have given their cooperation by signing a statement of intent. This statement says that they are willing to sell a piece of their land that adjecents the A7. With some parties we are still negotiating to reach an agreement. As soon as we reach an agreement with all land owners, we can finalize everything with the order parties. We will then proceed to apply for the necessary licences and permits and as soon as they are approved – building can start! Of course, we will notify you right away when this happens! Results of research among Oostwold inhabitants are released! Interview RTVnoord about the Zonnewal Zonnewal selected by Province as one of the energy-neutral villages! Be the first to know the lastest news about the Zonnewal – click here! Follow the project! © 2020 Zonnewal Oostwold. All Rights Reserved. Website realisatie: Bonjour Media	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line758
__label__cc	0.697034	0.302966	Scottish Gaelic Texts Society Comann Litreachas Gàidhlig na h-Alba SGTS Constitution Exec Council On its founding on 13th April 1934, Prof. William J Watson, Professor of Celtic at Edinburgh University, defined the purpose of the Scottish Gaelic Texts Society as: “to provide the publication of texts in the Scottish Gaelic language, accompanied by such introductions, English translations, glossaries and notes as may be deemed desirable.” This is still the Society’s mission. For the latest information on SGTS events and publications, go to News. For more on the SGTS today and through the years go to About us. To see the full range of SGTS volumes available, with links to the Gaelic Books Council for purchase, go to Publications. To find out about joining the Society, go to Membership. For further online resources, go to Links. Scottish Gaelic Texts Society Proudly powered by WordPress	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0098.json.gz/line761

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