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It happens every Tuesday. http://sharonfirebrace.com/2013/12/03/john-passant-australian-national-university-8/ (0) Club Troppo Other lefties and politicos Bartlett’s blog Benjamin Solah, Marxist horror writer Marxist Left Review Marxists internet link Sri Lanka is not at peace Posted by John, July 3rd, 2014 - under Refugees, Tamil Refugee Council, Tamils. Tags: Asylum seekers The following is a statement released on Thursday 3 July by the Tamil Refugee Council: The Australian government has reached a frightening new low as a human rights’ denier and perpetrator, the Tamil Refugee Council said today. “Australia’s moral, ethical and legal compass has been lost at sea,” said Tamil Refugee Council spokesman Trevor Grant. “Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s claim today that Sri Lanka is ‘a society at peace’ is not just baseless but a deliberate lie, cynically presented to the Australian public for one reason: to support his indefensible, illegal policy of sending back Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka. “The timing of his statement today on Melbourne radio is clearly linked to the credible media reports about his immigration minister’s abhorrent act of secretly sending back a boatload of Tamil asylum seekers to the certainty of a Sri Lankan jail and the probability of rape and torture. “Media reports this week have said that 153 Tamil asylum seekers on the boat have almost certainly been sent back to Sri Lanka. Also, it has been reported that people have had their refugee claims assessed in brief teleconference calls on a boat that was involved in sending them back. “These actions not only breach Australia’s legal responsibilities under international law but put our nation into the category of gross violators of human rights. “Sadly this is the path Abbott has been on since he infamously condoned torture in Sri Lanka in a speech at the CHOGM conference in Colombo last November, saying ‘difficult things happen in difficult circumstances’. “Now, in the face of damning evidence that Sri Lanka is on a genocidal path against Tamils, Abbott declares the country is at peace simply to support his ‘whatever-it-takes’ intention to stop asylum seekers from reaching our shores. “Australia’s appalling alignment with the brutal Rajapaksa regime, which includes the supply of boats to stop asylum seekers from fleeing persecution, is trashing our international reputation. We are now seen as a country not just ignoring massive human rights’ abuses but also as an active, eager facilitator of those abuses. A society at peace? The facts are: 1. Abbott says Sri Lanka is “a society at peace” yet his own Foreign Affairs department latest travel advisory, issued last month, says: “We advise you to exercise a high degree of caution due to the unpredictable security environment.” 2. The Sri Lankan government is currently under investigation by the UN for war crimes and crimes against humanity, accused of the pre-mediated murder of as many as 70,000 innocent Tamil civilians at the end of the civil war in 2009. The Sri Lankan government has refused to co-operate with the investigation and has threatened to prosecute any of its citizens who give evidence. 3. Under Abbott, Australia refused to join its traditional allies such as the US and UK in supporting the investigation. Instead it has aligned itself with the likes of China and Russia in trying to block any independent investigations into these war crimes. 4. Torture and rape are common occurrences in post-war Sri Lanka, as documented in many reports. Human Rights Watch last year detailed 75 cases of rape and sexual torture of men, women and children in custody, almost half of them had taken place since the war ended and about a third had been citizens returning to the country. The UK Foreign secretary, William Hague, announced last month his government was investigating the rape and sexual torture of returned Tamil asylum-seekers. 5. The Sri Lankan military has increased in size since the end of the war. There is a military occupation in the Tamil homelands in the north, with one soldier for every five people. For further information contact the Tamil Refugee Council on 0400 597 351. Pingback from Sri Lanka is not at peace \| OzHouse Time July 3, 2014 at 7:11 pm […] Jul 03 2014 by admin […] Comment from Zak God help these unfortunate Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers, the Australian Govt didn’t. Treated like unwanted animals the country who has lost its soul returned them to persecution Pingback from En Passant » Saturday’s socialist speak out Time July 5, 2014 at 12:44 pm […] isn’t. As the Australian Tamil Congress makes clear in a press release I republished here, Sri Lanka is not at peace. The Council […] Comment from Kay Time July 6, 2014 at 8:20 am Actually, I thought at least some of the asylum seekers on the boat reported to be on its way to Christmas Island came from India – from refugee camps there. Surely these would have to be considered economic refugees given that they are safe from persecution where they are? Some asylum seekers may have come directly from Sri Lanka. Comment from John Yes, they were kept in squalid conditions and not allowed to become part of Indian society. That is not ‘protection’. In any event there are open borders for capital into Australia so why not for labour? © 2020 En Passant - Entries (RSS) - Comments (RSS) - Log in Powered by WordPress - Theme design by Andreas Viklund	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1292
__label__cc	0.602462	0.397538	Creative Nonfiction / EssayPoetry Its Hand. written by Cheyenne Nimes February 23, 2017 Iowa River: How many times can you retell your story? A glass of water; blue is all you want, you’re thirsty. On the nation’s most endangered list. Santa Fe 2nd, San Mateo Creek 3rd. Words on a page cannot fully describe the background to the number given: First. Entrance To Hell! Get Back If You Can… Runs 329 miles south to east where it empties into the Mississippi like an esophagus. Fecal bacteria, sediment from farm fields, livestock sewer system: No, ‘there’s nothing’ they- the EPA- ‘can do’. Iowa City: top American stomach cancer city. Did sell us down the river. The basics of how to take care of something. Rivers: you can’t surround them on all sides and expect them to work. All along the river, people seem preoccupied, live perpetually in a total blackout. That locks the deep broad river in its grip. You want to lose consciousness of it as fast as you can. To all that you are and all that you have been. The wine you start drinking when everything older has been drunk. Have difficulty standing. To withstand this enormous lateral force. But nothing by a river is escapable. We’ve played this game until late into the night. Little is left to leave behind. How a soul can temporarily leave the body. It didn’t follow the rules anymore. Driven back and withdrew from the land. Will never pay its way. All it can do is roll. This direction and that direction and another direction. Like a wild animal trapped in a suit. A license to shoot an animal is cheap- you know it, I know it. River seldom touches the land moving past. The river speeds around, it could flow into this room. You create a system of logic to explain how this is not really happening. It may seem obvious to those who hear these words- you, you, and you- but the unobvious portion rises, ascends. A museum was built on the site. Over it all, a great calm. It smells like the backbone of a fish. It smells like the evidence. I stood against one of the windows. There it goes. Bend into descent. You can almost hear things breathing, sucking in and out. Going outward only. The only need it has is to flow. To get away. Merge into the horizon on its way to a distance too far to imagine, world’s end. I am glad to see you, he said. I have been looking for you a very long time. He put a finger to his lip. In his other hand was a rifle. I stopped, turned, and looked back. Let’s go down there. He lays down in the yellow centerlines along the road. We are no longer on the shoreline, we are the shoreline. At first you think there’s nothing out there. Soon they were all around us in the water, eyes wide with fear. Fish have expressions. To breathe underwater. Walleye and pike. Descendents of fugitives. Calling for your help to remember who they are. Greeted long-unseen friends. Seeming to move as one organism. It brushed my leg. Incredible body language it speaks. Maybe it needs some water. Water, water! I halted. Became soaked to the skin. Some skulls still wear blindfolds tied on before execution. He came by again. Fish looks up, grins, but it’s a lesion on its lip. Tumor. Inward-curling. Say you’re sorry. Then it was gone. Disappearing among the underwater shadows. How many others were there. Up and down the big brown river. No one is denied entrance into this realm. And you know it; you have seen it. You want to make it make sense but it can’t. Floater trash. Rubbish. & other junk rusting away because we came here to forget who we had been. Neon orange styro balls. Beer cans. Tires. Refrigerator. Scrap metal wedged which would cut worse than a knife. Plastic toy boat right back to where it is now. Black-necked. Gathers in spirals in the eddies. The debris slides down. Everything is worn out or broken. Have and discard after the novelty has worn off. Water is there. In the empty spaces between things. A Barbie doll burned at a stake. Barely moving as she held her place against the current. The way he looked at her. She felt a feeling that she had been missing. Then she couldn’t remember why she would have been missing such a feeling. Slowly reeled it in, to get it out. Touch the face. You don’t forget anything you have seen. Scars running down it, leaving the skeleton, the surface glare, head bared to the skies a skullcap of light. This could be seen. Like a river’s body was being exposed. “Bang, you’re dead” he says, fires at the water then tossed it back. There are those of you who would ask why we would do such a thing. We are taking our bodies with us. The carbon in our cells. Nearly three-quarters of the earth is covered by water. Define the word river. The river holds silt & – it holds its hand out for you, it holds its hand. Its Hand. was last modified: February 23rd, 2017 by Cheyenne Nimes Cheyenne Nimes Living by the Great Salt Lake, Cheyenne Nimes is a cross-genre writer currently working on poetry/nonfiction hybrids. Work is forthcoming in The Shell Game, an anthology on forms (University of Nebraska). Awarded the Edwin Ford Piper Scholar Award for Names for Water Bodies & Other Places the Water Fell: A Micro-history of American Rivers and the World Water Crisis, she was a University of Iowa Art Museum resident writer chosen by Eula Biss. Passing Through 90 Degrees, which garnered an NEA, received the Michael Rubin award from San Francisco State University. South Loop Review, Ninth Letter, DIAGRAM, Kenyon Review, etc. are recent homes, and work is forthcoming in Jellyfish Review, Threadcount, interIrupture, & Anti-Heroin Chic. 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__label__cc	0.707181	0.292819	The Theme Team I’m super-excited to announce to you today that WordPress.com now has an official Theme Team. In a nutshell, we’re a bunch of people who really care about WordPress Themes and want to see them get better and better—on WordPress.com and for every WordPress.org user. And yes, that means we’re getting more themes, more often. 🙂 You’ll be hearing more from us individually in the coming weeks but I thought, to get started, it’d be a good idea to share a few of the Theme Team goals we’ve been discussing. Just some rough thoughts really. But I’m hoping that by sharing them here you can get a better idea of what we’re up to—and get as excited as we are about it all. Every WordPress.com user should feel like there’s a theme that fits them perfectly, that is exactly how they want to present themselves to the world, that they’re excited to show to their friends. We want everyone to feel a sense of momentum and ever-increasing possibilities, and to do so we will present as many perfect-fit WordPress themes to as many WordPress.com users as we can. We will ensure all of our public work represents the best in coding practices, web standards, and technical excellence. We will craft all of our themes to have a consistent user experience and meet our users expectations and hopes. We will teach WordPress developers to become the best theme developers in the world. If you’re a WordPress theme developer—commercial or 100% free—we want to help you be the best. We will ensure all our improvements make it back to the open source community. I love the idea of meeting the “expectations and hopes” of everyone here by delivering to you the best in WordPress themes. Pretty, painless, perfect-fit ones that just plain work. Keep watch here for more announcements—and more new themes! General, WordPress.com New Theme: Inuit Types Hook, Line, and Sinker 橘 Apr 15th at 5:53 pm yes!!!!!!!!! thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is great great great news! Stanciu Floryn Apr 15th at 5:54 pm perfect, i need a new theme, i love wordpress!! Sven Seebeck Apr 15th at 5:56 pm Read this earlier today on Twitter already. I think this is great news and looking forward to find some nice new themes! Munda Sanichari Apr 15th at 5:56 pm Ya kewl ..waiting for it !!! sally Apr 15th at 5:56 pm This is fantastic. I look forward to seeing what’s on the horizon! Adz Apr 15th at 6:00 pm Excellent. Point 5 got my attention the most. I look forward to seeing this in action 🙂 Thema Felix Apr 15th at 6:02 pm Sounds good! Do you think some of the older, less flexible or attractive themes might be retired? Ian Stewart Apr 15th at 6:50 pm There aren’t any plans to retire older themes just yet—only plans to bring more and more attractive and flexible ones to you. escada0206 Apr 15th at 6:02 pm Sounds great! I look forward to seeing more new themes! 🙂 ileaneb Apr 15th at 6:04 pm Congratulations on being part of the team! Looking forward to new themes. planejaner Apr 15th at 6:05 pm Thanks! I love seeing new themes, and experienced that “a-ha” moment, myself, when coming across the theme I am currently using. StarSpry Apr 15th at 6:05 pm This sounds great! I’m excited to see all the new themes 🙂 Mika Karhulahti Apr 15th at 6:07 pm Wow, that´s great news! I´m looking forward to seeing more variety on the themes, I like my current theme, but I would also love to have the possibility to add graphic on the header. I also look forward to having more flexible-width choices.. Beanie Apr 15th at 6:07 pm Looking forward to the themes! :3 tiffaneydanielle Apr 15th at 6:08 pm can u make sure u incorporate themese with 3 columns, because I have a lot of widgets More 3-column themes are on the horizon. sickr Apr 15th at 6:08 pm You have delivered some brilliant new themes over the past few weeks. Glad to hear that there are even more coming. Sajib Apr 15th at 6:09 pm Good. I love WordPress and I think forever I will be doing. 😀 WordPress.com is the best free blogging platform in the world with the features that should not be given for free. 😉 And the idea of open-sourcing the entire script on WordPress.org is just awesome. WordPress has the greatest contribution for what we have zillions of active blog sites on different niches. Thank you WordPress team. Mark Penrith Apr 15th at 6:10 pm You guys are so cool, and you make blogging fun. Thanks! Keep up the stellar work. Mary Apr 15th at 6:10 pm What we’ve been waiting for! DOPE Apr 15th at 6:11 pm Really cool! I hope that with this great team we could possibly see a few upgrades like a integrated Twitter and Facebook share button. Also the ability to place a Facebook Fan Page widget. Thank you for your hard work! Lee Apr 15th at 6:12 pm “Every WordPress.com user should feel like there’s a theme that fits them perfectly” sadly there isn’t one that fit me. We’re trying, Lee! Stay tuned to the news blog for more theme announcements. captainquaker Apr 15th at 6:12 pm Jan O'Hara (aka hope101) Apr 15th at 6:12 pm Really appreciate the energy and sense of mission I get from you guys. Awesome! ChickNamedHermia Apr 15th at 6:14 pm Fantastic!!!! That’s great to hear!!! timethief Apr 15th at 6:16 pm What would be great news is the news that wordpress.com has installed an editor that allows us to change fonts and background colors by clicking buttons. Just saying … it’s very hard to fathom why these features aren’t available to us here at wordpress.com when they could be. It’s very difficult to explain why there is such a glaring difference between those who have free hosted blogspot (Blogger) blogs and can do these things free of charge by clicking buttons, butt we can’t do them at wordpress.com without paying for a CSS editing upgrade that must be renewed annually. We’re thinking hard about ways to make theme customization painless. Expect more and more customizable themes in your dashboard. ravikaushik Apr 15th at 6:16 pm Great news! please carry on with your awesome work! WordPress rocks! memsaab Apr 15th at 6:18 pm Great!!!! I would really love to see more themes that give us the ability to add a custom header graphic 😉 Us too! You’ll be seeing more of them. helenhudsonhere Apr 15th at 6:22 pm Love this idea! Had a blog now for 2 weeks & already almost 600 hits–but tired of same old tags….file me under: Hopes & Expectations ….in other words…. THEME ME UP, SCOTTY!! June Malone Apr 15th at 6:23 pm Pinch me! WordPress Dream Team more like! Kam Apr 15th at 6:28 pm Sounds good !!! :-]> WordPress rocks ^_- Thanks alex wyler Apr 15th at 6:29 pm Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! I’m happy! Tito Salgado Apr 15th at 6:29 pm Awesome! wordpress themes are kickass. Adam Apr 15th at 6:30 pm Very cool theme team! One request in keeping with “Every WordPress.com user should feel like there’s a theme that fits them perfectly,”: could we see more themes with custom headers? You guys are doing a great job! Keep up the great work! Absolutely. More themes with custom headers are coming. Reggie Apr 15th at 6:37 pm I really like that idea, and I look forward to seeing some new themes. Although I’m very fond of the theme I use on my blog (Mistylook), I do sometimes experiment with using other themes. So far, though, I haven’t found any that make me jump up and down with excitement, shouting “Yes, that’s the one I want to make permanent!” Regardless, I’m still a HUGE fan of WordPress! الهام - روح پرتابل Apr 15th at 6:38 pm hey new team, I love you for your goals and hope to love you for your amazing works soon fotdmike Apr 15th at 6:39 pm Oh yes, excellent news. I’ve tried out quite a few themes and although some have come pretty close I’ve yet to find one that’s “just right”. More choice is definitely the way to go. Well done. Colleen Young Apr 15th at 6:39 pm I am continually astonished at what WordPress offers all for free – fabulous. June is right. I love WordPress! Now I shall just have to create more blogs so I can have all the beautiful themes! admin. Apr 15th at 6:43 pm I love this. What I’m using now is soooo close to what I want, but not quite! Thanks for all the work guys! I agree w DOPE re: the 3rd party widgets or buttons – please! thecatsman Apr 15th at 6:45 pm Sounds fantastic to me. I know that my experience here has been a totally positive one and I look forward to seeing what the team comes up with. You people do a fantastic job with this place and you certainly have my most profound thanks … TheresaZphotography Apr 15th at 6:47 pm AWESOME! Thank You Theme Team! As a photographer I would love to see more themes for photo bloggers. That would be great. pbeug Apr 15th at 6:49 pm Wow, this sounds great! I’ve been looking for a theme that I really like. The one I have now is okay, but I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with! I can’t wait… troy Apr 15th at 6:49 pm I think offering more customization options for existing themes would be a huge help with finding the ‘right’ one. phrenzy84 Apr 15th at 6:49 pm This is amazing news. You guys really know where to focus your efforts. Look forward to your future developments. Christian Apr 15th at 6:53 pm Great! Hope to see more themes localized too. cmc0 Apr 15th at 6:55 pm Well done Theme Team…well done! besserEsser Apr 15th at 6:56 pm Thats really great. Thanks Theme Team. musicofourheart Apr 15th at 6:56 pm I like the “theme” of this initiative. You have me enthusiastic and very interested. Please give thought and consideration to WordPress 3.0 themes that are: – HTML 5.0 and CSS 3.0 based – Complement and enhance an iPad blogging experience 😉 I would love a theme that incorporates the above suggestions and is ideally suited to a music journalist like myself. I am also interested in a theme that tells people visting my blog that I am an instructional technologist. “If you build it they will come – Field of Dreams” Moses Apr 15th at 6:58 pm Go T – Team!!!! Make us proud! =) Birdwhisperer Apr 15th at 7:02 pm Wow, this is great! I can’t wait for the new themes! efratkashat Apr 15th at 7:05 pm Such good news! Please give us more customization options! It will be SO great if we can change the background, the text size, the font, the colors etc. And of course – a custom header is a must! I want my blog to look unique and not just the same as lots of other blogs, so more customization options will be really really great. miroslodki Apr 15th at 7:06 pm Very Cool Ian can i put forward a theme request hoping to see a format condusive to longer…and/or more scholarly posts akin to a professional publication/magazine where the text on a page is split into two (or three) columns to help the reader’s eye traverse shorter horizontal spans. another way of expressing it is to achieve the same impact of a word document with a page layout modification from single to multicolumn. naturally one would still need a column (or two?) for widgets and with the addition of a customizable header would end up making this a perfect complement to the stable hoping someone takes up the challenge have seen it rendered by other bloggers using customized CSS Zeenat Apr 15th at 7:07 pm This is awesome! I am yet to find a theme that fits me best. I am making do the best i can with Vigilance. Which is my fav so far. The most customizable without knowing any css 🙂 BUt few things i would love to suggest: -i love the thesis theme-any 3 column version of that would be great. -three column with a customizable header and yes customizable font sizes. -I love vigilance…but i wish i could make the font size a bit smaller for thr the posts 🙂 -a theme thats SEO ready But i am so gald you guys are on with a team! Means more fun for us here at wordpress.com!YAY! Pingback: WordPress Launches Theme Team, Challenges Blogger For Theme Supremacy \| The Blog Herald the rufus Apr 15th at 7:08 pm Dream team – yeeeeeeaaaaaaaah. I’d like to have a theme with a costom-header image not too small sized and in some kind of 3:4 or simila aspect ratio … some other details to follow – where can I post this? Good question! You can either contact support with the request or drop a line in the Themes Forum. Car Apr 15th at 7:10 pm sorta like the A team but themes retrovintageantiques Apr 15th at 7:13 pm Cool. Could you do a vintage/retro toys looking theme? But I do like the one I am using now. Thanks!! jord Apr 15th at 7:23 pm Looking forward to finding my perfect theme! Thanks WP!! Vanilla Bean Baker Apr 15th at 7:25 pm Thank you and your team for continually working to improve WordPress. I appreciate all your efforts, known and unknown and look forward to seeing new and exciting themes choices. hannie96 Apr 15th at 7:29 pm I’d really like a new theme! That’s great! Adrienne Apr 15th at 7:38 pm I love to change my themes from time to time to shake things up a bit; it helps me ‘clean house’ periodically, and is a nice change to viewers! Thank you and keep ’em coming! I love 3 column with color options. God Bless! Rokugatsu Apr 15th at 7:38 pm Finally more themes! Hope I can find something nice for me 🙂 ivankay Apr 15th at 7:42 pm OMG…excited. I hope we have more themes that have more widgets..so we can do add and do more stuff to our blog(s). Pingback: WordPress.com Fonts and Background Changes « onecoolsitebloggingtips.com rich Apr 15th at 7:57 pm Is it possible to get involved in some way? I love the post and the thoughts but feel it would be good to contribute in whatever way possible. Theme suggestions! We love hearing them. Contact support with a request or drop a line in the Themes Forum. Joyce Apr 15th at 8:04 pm Awesome news! Kudos. T3CK Apr 15th at 8:07 pm This is Gr8 news! I am excited to see what the theme team has to offer x 3 🙂 coolponds Apr 15th at 8:07 pm Thank you!! Can’t wait to see them!! mrasherkade Apr 15th at 8:08 pm oh yea, forgot to mention….FONTS! we nned more fonts!!!!!!!!!! danny bleed Apr 15th at 8:09 pm Great! We need to see more themes based in media and news lay out! Hinano Apr 15th at 8:15 pm excellent, i hope more themes also have the custom banner option as well. the EB duo Apr 15th at 8:16 pm Flexibility rules. Lots of options, epsecially for lesser-minded folks who don’t know how to edit their css scripts (sigh… ): ). – E from EB George Apr 15th at 8:17 pm More themes to choose from sounds great. I’d like to suggest that it become a firm standard that all themes should allow flexible-width content and custom headers. aerosol Apr 15th at 8:18 pm Great news indeed! sylviahubbard1 Apr 15th at 8:20 pm Is there a spot for an official cheerleader (jumping up in the air) GooOOOOOO! Theme TEAM!!! YEAH!!! Anne Lessing Apr 15th at 8:25 pm Yay WordPress!! You guys are the best! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!! 😀 It always makes my day when a new theme is released. Jeremy Irish Apr 15th at 8:35 pm Good deal. I had been hoping more would come along. 便当小兔儿 Apr 15th at 8:36 pm fantastic!!! look forward to more beautiful themes! mauricio aguirre Apr 15th at 8:41 pm Great news for all of us!!! Thanks! Moon Man Two Apr 15th at 8:45 pm I can’t wait for the new themes. I’ve been switching between Digg 3 Column and Tarski becuase those themes are awesome. Is there some way you can make a theme like Tarski, but with 3 columns? Ian Stewart Apr 16th at 12:44 pm More 3-column themes (and 2-column, and 1-column) are on the way. Denise Apr 15th at 8:54 pm Aaaaahh, weeping with joy over this…FINALLY! Big, big, thanks and much gratitude for finally nailing this side of blogging for all of us who enjoy decorating, and re-decorating, our spaces often. For a long time now I’ve wanted to be able to change themes at least each season to reflect the changing colors, energies, moods and attitudes etc. Under the hood can totally rock but if the car body is painted a dull grey primer, it just doesn’t catch the eye or heart. Seriously, thank you for this. XOXOXO Disciple Apr 15th at 9:01 pm You’ve made me a very happy camper with this announcement! And three columns? With custom headers? And more customization? I may swoon! Or maybe just smile really really big. 😀 dom Apr 15th at 9:02 pm sounds amazing! great idea. 🙂 Jennifer Apr 15th at 9:15 pm THANK YOU! I am so excited about this. I always check out the new themes but still haven’t found “the one” yet. I agree with some of the above comments which mention more easily customizable fonts for free. Thanks for everything yall do! John Hicks Apr 15th at 9:23 pm Hooray! Thank you, WordPress! Now… Please create more themes with customizable headers that users can replace with their own image; Been waiting and waiting, praying each time when a theme is released that it has that option. Much love, and thanks again. Лита Apr 15th at 9:25 pm Thanks!! Fantastic news 🙂 I wish all the people of the team good luck with the job 🙂 Thanks, guys 🙂 Kelly 유켈리 Apr 15th at 9:32 pm OMG this is why i love wordpress 😀 please think about more themes where bloggers can be creative and free to express their own designs. im using vigilance right now and i love having the ability to change colors, adjust columns, etc. THANKS~! Dan North Apr 15th at 9:41 pm Oh, yeah! I always settle with my theme and then a prettier one catches my eye and I get tempted to stray. I need theme counselling. Does the theme team get a uniform? Jim Apr 15th at 9:45 pm brilliant. can you put together a mozart theme? and how bout a ‘dead sea scrolls’ theme for the biblical scholars among us? shamballa9944 Apr 15th at 9:49 pm I think you guys do an outstanding job of keeping new technologies and options coming! I am always excited to read about new gizmos you guys come up with…especially themes! danyasteele Apr 15th at 9:49 pm I LOVE WordPress. Denise Duguay Apr 15th at 10:01 pm More photo themes please, and thanks, ian, for confirming: “More 3-column themes are on the horizon.” Pingback: WordPress Theme Team barbara Apr 15th at 10:06 pm singing, dancing happy, happy HAPPY Love you people AA Apr 15th at 10:12 pm I left below comment at your other site.. Here it is and it was meant for the wordpress.com blogs. I think it is also important to update/upgrade the themes that’s been in use for long time. 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__label__cc	0.575556	0.424444	Ornithoptera chimaera Ornithoptera chimaera is a butterfly from Australasia / Indomalaya ecozone (Australia). The first description was in 1904 by Rothschild. The wingspan is about 13 – 16 cm. This butterfly is a member of the family PAPILIONIDAE. Ornithoptera chimaera is black. It has green and golden areas on the wings. The females are dark-brown and have some white spots. Here you can see some photos of Ornithoptera chimaera charybdis (male above / female below). Ornithoptera chimaera is a member of the family PAPILIONIDAE from Australasia / Indomalaya (Australia). The fore wings are black. There are two green strips on the wing. The underside of Ornithoptera chimaera is green. The edge of the wing is black. The veins are black. There is a chain of little black spots on the wing. The hind wings of Ornithoptera chimaera are multicoloured. The inner part of the wing and the edge are black. The other part of the wing is green. The green part contains some large, golden spots and two black spots. The underside is green. Some large, golden spots and three black spots are on the wing. The inner edge is very hairy. The body (abdomen) is yellow. Head and thorax are black. The underside of thorax has two red tufts. Sex differences: The female covers the upper range of the wing-span. The basic colour of the female is dark-brown. There are some white spots on the fore wings. In the middle of the hind wings there is a large, white area. The outer edge of the white area is yellow. Between the white part and the yellow part there is a chain of black spots. Ornithoptera chimaera is a butterfly from the Australasia / Indomalaya (Australia) ecozone. The distribution is restricted on New Guinea and other islands in the neighbourhood. Aristolochiaceae: Aristolochia pithecurus The first description of this butterfly was in 1904 by Rothschild. There are two subspecies. Ornithoptera chimaera charybdis van Eecke, 1915 Ornithoptera chimaera flavidior Rothschild, 1913 Ornithoptera chimaera is, like all other Birdwings a true miracle of nature. This butterfly is strictly protected. It is listed in the appendix II from CITES. Photo © by Naturhistorisches Museum Wien; Photographer Thomas Neubauer; macro photograph of Ornithoptera chimaera f (upside) Photo © by Naturhistorisches Museum Wien; Photographer Thomas Neubauer; macro photograph of Ornithoptera chimaera f (underside) Photo © by Naturhistorisches Museum Wien; Photographer Thomas Neubauer; macro photograph of Ornithoptera chimaera m (underside) Here you can see some macro photos of Ornithoptera chimaera. -Appendix II- (as at 12.02.2008) EU regulation on trading with species of wild Fauna and Flora: -Appendix B- (as at 19.08.2005) -no entry- (as at 2008) Ornithoptera rothschildi Kenrick 1911 (Rothschild´s Birdwing) Ornithoptera tithonus de Haan 1841 Ornithoptera chimaera Rothschild 1904 (in past: Troides chimaera) Tribe: TROIDINI Genus: ORNITHOPTERA Specific name: CHIMAERA To family tree (Genus: ORNITHOPTERA)... AUSTRALASIA / INDOMALAYA (Australia) Back to family Papilionidae from AUSTRALAISA / INDOMALAYA (AUSTRALIA)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1308
__label__cc	0.56187	0.43813	RU UK EN Статьи > Visit > THE ISRAEL DIAMOND EXCHANGE IN TEL AVIV THE ISRAEL DIAMOND EXCHANGE IN TEL AVIV Автор: Anastasiia Shkuro 25.12.2015 \| Israel The Israel Diamond Exchange is a real "state within a state": a business complex hosts thousands of companies effecting a lot of transactions every day. This destination attracts visitors who came to Tel Aviv from all over the world to visit the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum and watch cutting and polishing stages, to learn how fate of diamonds is decided. Four skyscrapers pierce the sky above Tel Aviv - that is how, according to the designers, has to look a treasure trove of the diamond industry in Israel... It all started in 1937 when the cornerstone was laid for the modern Exchange building. In contrast to the current span when the main tower of the Exchange covers 74 floors and is 244 meters high, previously, diamond transactions were negotiated inside a small room. The same year in the city of Petah Tikva was opened the first factory engaged in diamond cutting. There masters learned the sacrament of gems, tested them for hardness, and through the finest quality cutting transformed them into multi-faceted diamonds shaped round, radiant; created heart-shaped diamond jewellery. They also experimented with the outer and inner brilliance, fixed correct cut, and achieved real radiance. Hardly anybody thought at that time, that two small businesses will rise Israeli jewellery industry to dizzying heights. And many years later, when the Diamond Exchange in Tel Aviv was inaugurated, it has become a place were the best professionals are working, and even the precious stones themselves wait in queue to be polished there. Half of all existing diamonds available for sale on the world market originates from the Israeli Diamond Exchange. Daily, samples of variety of colours flock there - from colourless and yellow, to pink and blue. Stone, which is dubbed the king of jewellery, is brought to Tel Aviv from India, Australia, South Africa, Brazil and Russia. Their age is the same adamant as the stone itself - from one hundred million to two and a half billion years. All these factors over the years have been attracted twenty thousand people a day to the halls of the Exchange. ... Let's say you are lucky, and you were on the territory of the Exchange. On the ground floor there is the Diamond Museum named after Harry Oppenheimer, where you can see multiple replicas of the most famous of the existing diamond. Each of them has its own story. Here is Cullinan I, discovered in the early years of the 20th century in Africa. Jewellers were examining this diamond for two years - by the way, that time there was no formula to calculate accurately the parameters for subsequent cutting, and the work had to be done "by eye". The result was worthy of royal attention, the diamond enhanced the collection of the British King Edward VII, crowned with its beauty the sceptre of aged monarch. The next "wonder of the world" was found in India five thousand years ago, as reported in the ancient scriptures. Throughout its long life, the Kōh-i Nūr diamond saw a lot of royals – it was admired by Indian rajahs, it was fought for by the Mongols, this stone used to be the subject of contention, and sovereigns even committed crimes to possess it. It was until the Kōh-i Nūr was presented to Her Majesty Victoria, and from the beginning of the 20th century, this jewel has become an integral part of the crown of the British Queen. Of course, it is not all that will please the eye of curious tourists in the museum, the list is endless: the largest pink diamond from Africa the Steinmetz Pink; precious stone from the Congo the Millennium Star, which is the second largest among the transparent diamonds; yellow rough diamond Oppenheimer inviting with its golden glow, and many others... It is not easy to get to the Diamond Exchange. Entrance only with a pass, so random people are not admitted. The person eager to grasp the true brilliance of diamonds must have an invitation from a member of the exchange, as well as to obtain permission to be engaged into jewellery business. Fingerprints, a special badge - the atmosphere of secrecy is strictly observed: in the hall, it is prohibited to take photo and video in order not to fix the faces of people entering into contracts. This is dictated by security concerns and by the fact that many traders and buyers are very well-known people in the world. For membership of the Israel Diamond Exchange, in order to occupy a treasured place, applicant must meet strict selection criteria: with a lot of experience in this field, become an expert diamantaire recommended by the four current members of the stock exchange who provide objective proofs. What makes the Israeli Diamond Exchange so unique? Here you will find not only the offices of producers and an exhibition hall, but also enterprises for processing of diamonds, as well as everything else that can be useful to a person lost in a boundless space, namely, post office, restaurants, medical centre, bank, customs controls, and even houses of worship! Indeed, where else but in the spacious halls where the language of diamonds is translate into the language of luxury, it is necessary to say an ancient spell in Hebrew: "mazal u'braha" which means "good fortune and a blessing". Вам это будет интересно: Incredible school lessons from around the world Grinding away at their books to master basics of algebra and geometry, or memorizing years of monarchs’ reign skimming history textbooks is commonplace for schoolchildren all over the world while getting ready for a test in cybersecurity or boasting to have “A”s in beekeeping is strange at the vey least. Hereafter we are going to touch upon these and other unusual classes taught in foreign schools. National winged symbols Each state has its own official symbols: flag, coat of arms and anthem. But in addition to the traditional "identification mark" there are symbols chosen by people, for instance, a favourite bird. It is about them OUTLOOK expands below. To register the people's love by document, in 1960 in Tokyo at the International Conference on the Protection of Birds was created the concept of "national bird". Eilat: Oasis of pleasures Eilat springs on a guest suddenly, like a desert storm. Among sands and rocks, a garden of tellurian bliss blossoms; stones, melted with heat of fables, acquire gift of speech; and springs of King Solomon’s wisdom shoots through kaleidoscope of entertainments. With a sight wandering along placid mirror of waters by the shore of the Gulf of Eilat, everyone becomes a philosopher. And after a couple of sips of spicy cocktail – also a poet! Unusual therapy: dolphins help to get rid of stress How to get rid of stress and get a lot of fun? They say dolphin therapy is an effective remedy against emotional pain. Walking with dolphins can bring a bottomless amount of emotions and even expand the boundaries of the mind ... At least, the supporters of this way of thinking say so. Which countries are best to travel in order to be treated by the method of dolphin therapy? Herzliya. Sun with a touch of luxury If we turned time, say, eight centuries back, we would have got to Apollonia – a humble Greek port town. Now this spot located just ten kilometres from Tel Aviv, is a lazy spa-resort absorbing all the warmth of the Mediterranean sun and, let’s put it straight, a considerable amount of touristic investments. OUTLOOK visited Herzliya... and we challenge you to follow our footsteps immediately after reading! They need warmith. Where birds stay for winter As a child I could spend hours gazing at the sky and spying majestic flocks of birds winging their way south. For a kid this movement was a real magic. Today my bookshelf hosts almost no books about magic, though I am still excited about feathered tribes travelling in hope to land on their winter grounds. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with film director Doron Paz OUTLOOK managed to talk to Israeli film director Doron Paz who presented in Kiev his new work JeruZalem. You are welcome to read our interview about search for inspiration in titles of magazine articles, film industry future trends, and reasons of being not fond of critics. There was held an opening of the exhibition and mural by the author KLONE in Kyiv KLONE is artist who was born in Ukraine. He left country when he was eleven years old. That is why he pays a special credit to the opportunity to present his exhibition in Ukraine and color mural. We were able to take an exclusive interview from the mysterious master who accurately hides even his true name from the world. Embassies of Bulgaria and Israel opened in Kyiv exhibition dedicated to the destiny of Jews in Bulgaria The embassy of Republic Bulgaria and State Israel to Ukraine as well as Department of culture of Kyiv city national administration and National historic and architectural museum Kyiv Fortress opened an exhibition dedicated to the destiny of Jews in Bulgaria. Start-ups from Israel: the best resource is brain There are legends touching the ground of the fantastic fleet-footedness of Jewish nation and ability to make money on completely everything. Our twenty-first century when more and more people are creating business all over the world is not the exception if one says about the success of the citizens of Israel as it is enough to look only at their profitable and incredibly creative start-ups. We were there: Israel When unpacking suitcases upon arrival home from a trip you discover there not souvenirs, not memorable postcards, not a pair of trodden down sneakers that bear an imprint of a foreign land but something that has changed you by making you have a wider look at this world from a new angle. I am Alexandra Portyanko, production editor of theoutlook.com.ua, and this is my story of a trip to Israel. The representation of ministry of travel of Israel arranged a panel discussion in the frames of forum Ukraine-Israel for 25 years of diplomatic relations In the frames of the forum Ukraine-Israel ‘Twenty-five years of diplomatic relations: from the common heritage to the total vision’ which happened in the capital of Ukraine there was a panel discussion on the topic ‘Collaboration between Israel and Ukraine in travel sector’. The moderator of the discussion was PR Director of State travel fund of the office of Israel in Kyiv Anna Serokurova. In Kyiv it was going the forum Ukraine-Israel. 25 years of diplomatic relations In the capital of Ukraine it was a forum Ukraine-Israel ’25 years of diplomatic relations: from the common heritage to total vision’. The forum was organized by the Embassy of Israel State to Ukraine and personally the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Eliav Belotserkovski as well as under support of enterprise A7 CONFERENCES. Living Water of Dead Sea Already on the way to the water, the strong smell of salt and sulphur hit my nose. Shore were dotted with bizarre-shaped yellow-white boulders, and the whole expanse of the sea was enveloped in mysterious, whitish haze. This strange place was very quiet: no birds, on holidaymakers on sun loungers, the sea looked like a huge pot with hot thick jelly that barely reacted with light rips in response to rather strong wind. PHOTOproject: Nobody leaves hungry. Colourful bazaars of Israel. With support of the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine, OUTLOOK visited this exciting country. Today we share with you vivid photos of urban markets! Even through the photos on the screen local flavour makes you plunge into authentic and incredibly delicious atmosphere! Enjoy! The delegation of Ministry of tourism came to Ukraine In the course of the guests visit in the capital there have been thematic conferences and meetings. On the 14-th of September, the evening of presentations and business communication with the representatives of Ministry of tourism of Israel, mass media of Ukraine, leading travel operators, travel partners, and pilgrim centers. The Embassy of Israel the awarding of the Righteous among the nations On the 16-th of June, 2016 in National museum of history of Ukraine in the Second World War the Embassy of Israel State to Ukraine arranged a festive ceremony of awarding the Righteous among the nations with the diplomas and medals, particularly, people who gamble with life saving Jews during the Great Patriotic War. The Ministry of tourism of Israel to Ukraine organized workshop "Jerusalem – Tel Aviv: two capitals in one country" The delegation of Ministry of tourism of Israel to Ukraine along with the Association of Hotels of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, under the auspices of travel office of municipal administration of Tel Aviv and company developing Jerusalem arranged in Kyiv workshop ‘Jerusalem – Tel Aviv: two capitals in one country’. Embassy of Israel Holds Concert in Honor of 25th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations with Ukraine On May 26 at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine a concert took place, dedicated to 25th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Israel. Ambassador of Israel Plants an Alley to Honor 25th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israel to Ukraine Eliav Belotserkovsky planted an alley in Mariyinsky Park in Kyiv in honor of 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between our states. 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__label__wiki	0.80123	0.80123	Calls for dialogue as Coastal GasLink pipeline polarizes some in northern British Columbia Crescent Point Closes Sale of Gas Infrastructure Assets Crescent Point Energy selling Saskatchewan midstream gas assets for $500 million November 14, 2019 The Canadian Press CALGARY — Oil and gas producer Crescent Point Energy Corp. says it is selling Saskatchewan midstream assets for $500 million as part of a divestiture strategy adopted following a management shakeup last year. The Calgary company says it has struck a deal to sell nine natural gas processing facilities and two gas sales pipelines with total throughput capacity of more than 90 million cubic feet per day to privately held Steel Reef Infrastructure Corp. The companies say Crescent Point has agreed to long-term take-or-pay commitments of about $47 million per year to use the facilities, while Steel Reef has committed to fund a $30 million, 12 million cf/d expansion of one of the gas plants. The deal is part of a recent trend by producers to sell gathering and processing assets to fund capital programs and pay down debt in light of poor access to capital markets and low share prices. Last month, Tourmaline Oil Corp. announced it had created a new company which would buy a royalty on certain of its oil and gas lands, along with interests in two of its 19 natural gas processing plants, for $775 million in shares and cash. Crescent Point says its net debt will fall to $2.3 billion from about $2.8 billion when the Steel Reef deal closes early next year. It also plans to use about $50 million to buy back its own shares. "Through the sale of these gas infrastructure assets, we will unlock value for our shareholders and further strengthen our financial position," said Craig Bryksa, CEO of Crescent Point. "We have now entered into agreements to sell, or have sold, in aggregate approximately $1.45 billion of assets in 2019." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 14, 2019. Companies in this story: (TSX:CPG, TSX:TOU) BIDDING ENDS NEXT WEEK! DON’T DELAY! Absolute Public Online Auction – Bertram Drilling Corp. Bankruptcy- Details HERE: Century Services Heavy discount narrows to near one-month low Valener and Gaz Metro Conference Call to Discuss Second Quarter 2017 Results New West Energy Services Inc. Announces Appointment of Executive Chairman and Lead Director, Change in Financial Year-End and Grant of Stock Options Weekly Canadian Oil & Gas Industry Highlights – July 24, 2017 Savanna Energy Services Corp. Announces First Quarter 2017 Results and Temporary Waiver Amendment and Extension from Syndicated Credit Facility Lenders Categories Canadian News, EnergyNow News and Press Releases Post navigation Birchcliff Energy Ltd. Announces Solid Q3 2019 Results and Preliminary Outlook for 2020 Alberta IoT: Geospatial Enabled IoT for Oil and Gas	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1313
__label__wiki	0.945802	0.945802	View source for Mikro ← Mikro [[Mikro]] is the pen name of '''Christoffel Hermanus Kühn''' (1903–1968), who was a South African author and poet. == Biography == The writer was born on Van Reenens Farm, in the district of Williston, on 8th October 1903. His longing and love for his birthplace and surroundings runs like a silver thread through many of his books i,e. "Waar die Bokmakierie fluit". He received this nickname, Mikro, at the campus of the [[University of Stellenbosch]] after his excuse for coming late was that he mislaid his mikroflea. He was summarily asked to leave the lecture hall. The nickname stuck and later he used it as a pseudonyme for the hundred books written by him. He was married twice and his eldest daughter is the well-known author and playwright '''[[Corlia Fourie]]'''. He held a BSc degree in agriculture and a Teacher Diploma. He was head teacher at Kuilsrivier school and lecturer at the Oudtshoorn Training College. After teaching he worked for ''Boerdery in Suid-Afrika'' (a farmers' magazine) as chief editor from 1956 till 1960 and thereafter became chief leader for the Farmers Movement (Landdiensbeweging) for the Agricultural Ministry from which he resigned in 1964. From 1930 to 1931 he wrote poems for the magazine ''[[Huisgenoot]]'' and published some biographies, novels and adventure stories as a pareet-time writer, but from 1944 till 1949 he developed into a fulltime author. He ultimately produced more than a hundred books and novels, covering a wide range of themes and topics, from some of the first works dealing with the "coloured" people of South Africa (e.g ''Toiings'' - ie "Rags" - in 1934) to Boer War adventures (e.g the hugely popular novel ''[[Die Ruiter in die Nag]]'' , 19**) and detective stories (e.g ''[[Kompartement 1001E]]'', 1939). ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== His novels ''[[Gonnakolk]]'' and ''[[Soetwater]]'' were adapted for the theatre by [[P.G. du Plessis]] under the title ''[[Mattewis en Meraai]]'' (1970) and this was later filmed as a TV series. Two films were made of his novels, ''[[Die Ruiter in die Nag]]'' and ''[[Moord in Kompartement 1001E]]'' (). === Plays === ''[[Diplomaties]]‎‎'' (1930) ''[[Die Grootste Genot]]'' (1931) ''[[Net Een Dag]], of, Die Vakansiegangers'' (1936) ''[[Elke Huis het sy Kruis]]'' (radio) (1946) ''[[Die Dae van Ons Jare]]'' (1956) ''[[Die Rooi Lêer]]'' (1961) ''[[T in die Blou Kamer]]'' (1963) ''[[Twee Goue Beddens]]'' (1963) === Films === Two of his literary works were made into [[Afrikaans]] feature films: ''[[Moord in Kompartement 1001E]]'' (1961) ''[[Die Ruiter in die Nag]]'' (1963) == Awards, etc. == He was awarded the [[Hertzog Prize]] for Prose 1936 for ''Toiings'' and ''Pelgrims''; W A Hofmeyr Prize 1956 for ''Die Porseleinkat''; Scheepers Prize for youth literature 1957 for ''Die Jongste Ruiter'' and National Publishers Award 1961. == Sources == SA History Online [http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/afrikaans-author-mikro-born] Stellenbosch Writers [http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/100mikro.html] ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikro_(author)] ''Afrikaans Wikipedia'' [https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikro] Wallis, F. 2000 Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau. http://www.karoohoogland.co.za/Willistonpages/mikro.htm Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]] == Return to == Return to [[ESAT Personalities M]] Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Personalities\|South African Theatre Personalities]] Return to [[The ESAT Entries]] Return to [[Main Page]] Return to Mikro. Retrieved from "https://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php/Mikro"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1315
__label__cc	0.633965	0.366035	By Owen Gleiberman Updated August 28, 1992 at 04:00 AM EDT Enchanted April (PG) Rose (Miranda Richardson) and Lotte (Josie Lawrence), two middle-class Londoners, take a vacation from their overbearing husbands by renting a majestic Italian villa. Joining them are Mrs. Fisher (Joan Plowright), a poker-faced dowager, and Lady Caroline (Polly Walker), a beautiful, upper-crust flapper. Before long, the women smile, relax, let their hair down. Enchanted April is perfectly pleasant, but it’s also second-rate-a tasteful spectacle of middlebrow feel-goodism. B-	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1317
__label__wiki	0.630623	0.630623	Therapeutic and prophylactic uses of invertebrates in contemporary Spanish ethnoveterinary medicine José Antonio González1, Francisco Amich1, Salvador Postigo-Mota2 & José Ramón Vallejo3 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine volume 12, Article number: 36 (2016) Cite this article Zootherapeutic practices in ethnoveterinary medicine are important in many socio-cultural environments around the world, particularly in developing countries, and they have recently started to be inventoried and studied in Europe. In light of this, the purpose of this review is to describe the local knowledge and folk remedies based on the use of invertebrates and their derivative products in contemporary Spanish ethnoveterinary medicine. An overview in the fields of ethnozoology, ethnoveterinary medicine and folklore was made. Automated searches in the most important databases were performed. All related works were examined thoroughly and use-reports were obtained from 53 documentary sources. The traditional use of 18 invertebrate species and five ethnotaxa and a total of 86 empirical remedies based on the use of a single species was recorded. The two most relevant zoological groups were found to be insects and molluscs. A broad diversity of body parts or derivative products have been and are used to treat or prevent ca. 50 animal diseases or conditions, in particular diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, different infectious livestock diseases, and disorders of the eye and adnexa. Cattle, sheep and equines form the group of domestic animals in which the greatest number of remedies are mentioned. In addition, seven magical remedies and practices are documented. In comparison with other culturally related areas, this is a rich heritage. The use-reports included here will help in the search for new and low-cost drugs for treating livestock and alternative materials for pharmaceutical purposes, future research addressing the validation of the effects and the development of organic farming. Several authors have argued that the medicinal use of animals and products derived from them is a worldwide phenomenon, dating back to prehistoric times and co-evolving with human communities [1, 2]. In this sense, invertebrates and derived products have been used for curing and preventing different diseases affecting humans throughout the world [3–9]. Study of this group of animals, in particular insects, is of great interest owing to the large number of chemical compounds they synthesise [10–12]. According to Cherniack [13, 14], globally ubiquitous invertebrates potentially provide a cheap, plentiful supply of healing substances in an economically challenged world. Likewise, invertebrate-based medicine is coming under increasing scrutiny for its incorporation into evidence-based medicine [12–15]. In view of the above, the use of invertebrates in ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM), the scientific term for traditional animal health care [16, 17], is currently a major topic in an increasing number of research projects (see http://www.ethnovetweb.com/), and the publication of studies on certain territories or reviews in international journals dealing with veterinary medicine or pharmacology is increasingly frequent around the world [18–20]. As in other developed countries, in Spain there are few works addressing local EVM that include animal-based remedies; however, as we have recently highlighted [21], there is valuable information disseminated in numerous anthropological or ethnographical studies. Thus, the aims of the present review were as follows: (1) to document and analyse local knowledge about the veterinary use of invertebrates and their derivative products in contemporary Spanish EVM; (2) to contribute to the transfer of part of the traditional knowledge to new generations; (3) to contribute to the dissemination of results within the scientific community in order to open a door to research in other disciplines, for example future research into the validation of the effects, and (4) to contribute to the establishment of animal production systems consistent with ecological agriculture and sustainable development. To access the maximum number of documentary sources, a qualitative systematic review of international and national databases was conducted. The ISI Web of Science and Anthropology Plus and JSTOR III—Arts and Sciences international databases were consulted. The national resources referenced include the database of PhD theses, TESEO; the information system of the databases of the CSIC (Spanish Research Council); the Dialnet bibliographic website; Google Scholar, and the catalogue of Public State Libraries. The overall search pattern covered the title, abstract and keywords concerning ethnozoology-related disciplines that have UNESCO codes (e.g. anthropology, the history of veterinary science, zoology) and the terms “invertebrates”, “folk veterinary medicine”, “folklore”, “ethnobiology”, “ethnozoology”, “ethnoentomology”, “ethnoveterinary medicine” and “zootherapy”, in conjunction with the Spanish geographical context. No restrictions regarding the language of the publications consulted were imposed. Taxonomy and nomenclature After performing a thorough analysis of the references retrieved and studied, the data were included in a database with a number of fields to characterise the animal species used, the ailment treated, the geographical location of the remedy and its corresponding bibliographic citation. The vernacular names found were contrasted and subjected to discriminatory analysis following biological, ecological and biogeographical criteria [22, 23]. Regarding animal taxonomy and nomenclature, we followed the Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2016 Annual Checklist (see www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2016/). In relation to the pathologies of livestock and domestic animals treated, it should be noted that most of the works consulted include popular names to refer to them, names that have been necessary to correspond with the nomenclature used by professionals in animal healthcare. For the proper identification of diseases we have consulted some classic Spanish dictionaries [24, 25] and much of the current veterinary literature [26–32]. Documentary resources This review was carried out using data including more than 60 documentary sources from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Among them, 53 have allowed the registration of a total of 93 remedies based on the use of a single animal species. As for the type of these 53 sources, we have obtained use-reports from six theses, four of which approach the study of EVM in a particular geographical area, and two belong to the field of ethnobotany. We also obtained data from 26 journal papers, most of them (80 %) published in journals in the field of folklore and ethnography, and 21 books, nine concerning superstition, folklore or ethnobotany, five within the scope of ethnomedicine and only seven directly related to EVM. In order to assess how contemporary the reviewed veterinary practices are, we mainly obtained use-reports in studies published over the past 15 years, namely from 12 works published between 2001 and 2008 and 13 published between 2010 and 2015. We have also included data collected in 11 works from the 1990s, nine from the 1980s, six from the period 1952–1976, and two from the early 20th century (1907 and 1927). General ethnozoological and ethnoveterinary data We recorded the use of 18 species of invertebrates (belonging to 16 zoological families) in Spanish EVM. The terms “snails”, “spiders”, “beetle larvae”, carcoma (i.e. “woodworm and powder-post beetles”) and “ants” are considered as “ethnotaxa” (Fig. 1). Table 1 summarises the scientific and vernacular names of the animal species used, and the 93 veterinary remedies documented: 86 of the empirical type and 7 magical. Examples of invertebrates and derivative products used in contemporary Spanish EVM. a – brown garden snail (Cornu aspersum), b – cuttlefish bone, c – cobweb, d – female of Berberomeloe majalis, E – Scarab beetle larvae, F – bee honey (photos by J. A. González) Table 1 Invertebrates used in contemporary Spanish EVM with indications of the body parts and/or products used, ailments treated, target domestic animal groups, modes of preparation and application, and geographical location of the remedies The value of this useful species richness is much greater than that of the single species of invertebrates collected for our country by Souto et al. in their world overview [19]. The two most relevant zoological groups in terms of their contribution to EVM in Spain are insects (41 remedies, 6 useful species and 3 ethnotaxa) and molluscs (19 remedies, 8 useful species and 1 ethnotaxon). Forty-four remedies (47 %) are based on the use of the whole animal. However, many animal products are used as therapeutic resources in Spanish EVM: shells, slime, haemolymph, etc. (see Table 1). Bee honey and cobwebs are the most commonly employed derivative products, being used in a total of 24 remedies (26 %). As in human medicine [12, 13, 15], honey is a highly reputed product in current EVM, especially in the treatment of wounds and eye infections [33, 34]. In Spanish ethnomedicine, cobwebs have formed part of the arsenal of traditional remedies since time immemorial [35], but in Spain they are also considered to be useful for domestic animals. According to popular belief they protect animals against all diseases and this is why they are never removed from stables [36–40]. There is a proverb that says: Cuadra sin arañas, bestias nunca sanas (lit. “A stable without spiders holds no healthy animals”) [41] and, for example, around the first third of the last century in the Merindad de Tudela area (Navarra), the cobwebs were never removed from stables owing to the belief that they prevented stomach cramps in sheep and equines [42]. The majority of remedies (87) are of the curative type, and they are applied externally in 69 cases (79 %) and internally in 18 (21 %). Zootherapeutics are usually applied in simple ways, mostly through direct application to the affected area and without preparation. Note should be taken, too, of the use of olive oil in the preparation of 16 remedies. Olive oil is a very important therapeutic resource in all cultures, both in ethnomedicine and EVM [43–46]. As well as being an extraction medium for active ingredients from animals, the chemical composition of this oil is rich in flavonoids, secoiridoids, iridoids, flavanones, biophenols, triterpenes, benzoic acid derivatives and isochromans, and these offer added medicinal value since they account for its anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, analgesic, antimicrobial, antinociceptive, and wound-healing activities among others [46]. In addition, the animal resources documented are used to treat or prevent ca. 50 animal diseases or complications. More than half of the species, and ethnotaxa, are reported for the treatment of more than one ailment. Several species (6) are used for multiple veterinary purposes (at least four). For instance, Hirudo medicinalis and Berberomeloe majalis, together with products derived from Apis mellifera (honey and beeswax), are the most versatile zootherapeutic resources (see Table 1). Traditional veterinary medicinal practices Thirty-one of the 93 documented remedies (33 %) are used to treat all types of livestock in general, not for any single domestic animal group in particular. In accordance with their economic importance in Spain, cattle, sheep and equines are the groups of domestic animals for which the greatest number of remedies are mentioned (35, 16 and 13 respectively). The use of invertebrates to treat goats and pigs is also documented (Fig. 2), as well as a curative remedy for canaries. Number of remedies documented and invertebrates used in the care and treatment of specific domestic animal groups The remedies refer to eight main categories of therapeutic use (Fig. 3). The most frequent indications are diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (16 remedies, 7 useful animals), different infectious livestock diseases (15 remedies, 11 animals), and disorders of the eye and adnexa (13 remedies, 9 animals). Number of remedies documented and invertebrates used per disease category Skin and subcutaneous tissue (injuries) Cobwebs are undoubtedly the most important product of animal origin in Spanish EVM for staunching haemorrhages caused by wounds or amputations. Their use as a haemostatic agent extends throughout the country [38, 43, 47–54]. After the wound has been washed with water, cobwebs are applied directly to the wound, as a dressing. It is also claimed that that are a good anti-scarring agent; they form a cap similar to fibrin on the surfaces to which they are applied. In the Basque Country, cobwebs used to be placed on the cuts made to the scrotum after castration as a healing and antiseptic agent [51] and for healing dehorning (by amputation) in calves [47, 48]. After the wound had been washed with water, the cobwebs were placed over it and the abrasion was bandaged. On successive days the affected area was subjected to cures with hydrogen peroxide and cobwebs again [47]. Similarly, when they were cutting off the tails of lambs the shepherds from Teverga (Asturias) and the Valle de Carranza (Vizcaya) used to place cobwebs on the site of the cut [55, 56]. We have also documented other remedies for treating the wounds of domestic animals. Drying and grinding the internal shell of the common squid (Loligo vulgaris) and applying the powder to wounds was a common practice in the Sierra de Aracena (Huelva) [57]. In the province of Salamanca we have documented three remedies based on the use of scorpions; in Almendra, farmers would apply the oil used to fry the leaves of wall pennywort – Umbilicus rupestris (Salib.) Dandy, Crassulaceae – together with a whole scorpion to make an ointment that they applied with a stork feather [58]; in Morasverdes, they would place a squashed scorpion on the wounds of cattle brought in due to fighting (with their horns) and at Aldeatejada they used to put several scorpions in olive oil to macerate, and with this oil, which was kept in the house, they would treat the animals’ wounds [52]. Also in the province of Salamanca, at the beginning of the twentieth century a common practice was to fry several scorpions (usually three), which were then spread on the wound a couple of times a day [52, 59, 60]. For the same purpose, in the provinces of Badajoz, Granada and Salamanca the farmers would fry or macerate several fat larvae from beetles of the family Scarabaeidae in olive oil, which was then used as an anti-inflammatory and healing agent, applied before and after castration [43, 52, 61, 62]. The same larvae were used in several villages in the province of Salamanca to treat wounds and chafing on draught animals, mainly on their legs. To do this, farmers would oil-fry or roast several larvae in a pan and spread the fat they exuded on the animals’ wounds [52]. In the south-western quadrant of Spain, to heal infected wounds (particularly on the legs) the recommendation was to cut off the head of a blister beetle, Berberomeloe majalis, and spread the haemolymph on the wound [63, 64]. By contrast, in the western part of the province of Granada and at Berganciano (Salamanca) a medicinal preparation was made by macerating many specimens of this beetle in olive oil [52, 61, 65]. At Aldea del Obispo (Salamanca) farmers used to collect several specimens and fry them in olive oil and use this to cure the chafing due to the tack of draught animals [52]. In the Basque Country the dust emerging from woodworm burrows (i.e. frass, a mixture of sawdust and excrement) due to the exit of the imagos of woodworm and powder-post beetles from their burrows was applied directly to chafing caused in equines by tack [51]. Finally, in Tierra de Cameros (La Rioja) shepherds would treat the abscesses on sheep and goats by spreading these abundantly with honey [38]. At Berrocal de Huebra (Salamanca) in order to cure cows affected by pasteurelosis, livestock raisers used to put a stick dipped in honey in the animal’s mouth (tying it there with string around the horns). The effect sought was that the animal would move its tongue, savouring the honey, hence increasing the animal’s salivation [60]. In Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country scald or hoof rot, the ruminant hoof disease caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum, is treated by applying a snail-based poultice on cows. Farmers would tie a piece of cloth full of snails onto the animal’s hoof and would leave it there for a few days [48, 55, 66]. In these same Autonomous Communities, slugs were used to cure infections; thus at Proaza and Piloña (Asturias) farmers would apply poultices with verdigris, salt and squashed black slugs (Arion ater) [55], and in the District of Campoo (Cantabria) they would tie a bag of slugs (A. hortensis in this case) on the leg of the animal and leave it there for a few days [66]. By contrast, in the Valle de Carranza (Vizcaya) just a few decades ago farmers would mix olive oil and the frass of woodworm and powder-post beetles. They would then knead this until they obtained a whitish paste with the consistency of an ointment and apply it to wounds [67]. The shepherds in Tierra de Cameros (La Rioja) have traditionally applied abundant honey to the hooves of their sheep and goats [38]; shepherds in Nocito (Huesca) rubbed, once or twice on alternate days, the legs of their animals with an ointment prepared with 250 g of honey, red wine vinegar and five tablespoons of copper sulphate [68], and when their sheep’s hooves were very long and deformed the shepherds at Almendra (Salamanca) would cut them off and treat them with cobwebs [52]. In the region of Pallars (Lérida) aphthous fever was cured with powders for internal use with the following ingredients: a cuttlebone (the internal shell of Sepia officinalis), incense, wheat bran, a piece of the snake Hierophis viridiflavus (Lacépède, 1789) and toasted eggshells. These ingredients were ground and mixed with salt, the major component of the medicine, and were given to cattle in a single dose [69]. For their part, farmers in the mountains of Huesca prepare a kind of hyssop with honey and vinegar, putting this mixture around a stick and allowing it to cool. Then they passed the hyssop mixture across the mouth of the sick animal, for disinfection [54]. The preventive remedy used in the provinces of Cáceres and Salamanca was very different, where scorpions (always an odd number, as a ritualistic component) were placed in a cowbell without a clapper and sealed with cork. The bell thus prepared was hung round a sick animal’s neck. When the scorpions died and dried up, the group of animals was believed to be protected [52, 64]. In the Monfragüe district, farmers claimed that sick goats could be cured by putting 15 scorpions in a cowbell around their necks [64]. Known also as anthrax, splenic fever is a serious bacterial infection that mainly affects cattle. To cure this disease, in Zumaia (Guipúzcoa) a poultice of crushed terrestrial snails, mixed with resin, a few drops of wine, a piece of church candle, and a bit of olive oil were used. All this was heated and passed through a cloth. Once cool the resulting ointment was applied to the sick animal [48]. In Badajoz, at the beginning of the twentieth century, infections caused by Clostridium were cured by giving powdered ants to the animals to make them break wind [70]. In the Sierra de Cádiz, bloodletting with medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) was performed to treat infected cows [71]. Finally, in Extremadura, warts on animals were treated by rubbing a specimen of Berberomeloe majalis directly or mixed with oil on the affected part [43]. In the case of genital warts in male equines the beetle’s haemolymph was used to treat the affected area [43, 64]. Sensory organs (eye and adnexa) To alleviate pain in cases of ocular contusions, in Huesca and Lugo honey was spread on the eye of the animal [72, 73]. To cure corneal ulcers caused by eye lesions, mainly scratches and cuts from branches or vegetation in general, in Asturias and Cantabria the eyes were also treated with honey [55, 66], and at Saelices el Chico (Salamanca) a cobweb was placed liberally on the affected eye [52]. However, such ocular lesions have usually been treated in Spain by administering (on the eye) a fine powder made of different animal elements. At Zafra (Badajoz) the valves of the shell of the common mussel (Mytilus edulis) were ground to a fine powder and sprinkled directly on the affected eye [43]. It is highly likely that in the interior areas of the country traditional use involved river mussel shells, of species such as the painter’s mussel, Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758), or the swan mussel, Anodonta cygnea (Linnaeus, 1758), which can still be found in the south-east of the province of Badajoz [74]. In the District of Serrablo (Huesca) snail shells were gathered and roasted on coals. At first they turned black, and then white, after which they were ground and sieved, until a very fine powder was obtained. A tube of rolled-up paper was then filled with the powder, which was blown into the eye of the animal. It was claimed that this cure should be applied for nine consecutive days [75]. On the island of Gran Canaria, shepherds treated their sheep and goats with mierda de gaviota, i.e. the internal shell of Loligo vulgaris. They would scrape this with a knife and place the powder in the eye of the sick animal [76]. Despite this, the most common remedy was to put powder obtained by scraping a cuttlefish bone into the eye of sick animals. The powder was placed on a piece of paper, which was rolled up, and the powder was blown directly into the bad eye. In many districts and regions in the north of Spain this simple remedy was practised daily until the animal was cured [38, 49, 55, 56, 66, 67, 73, 77–79]. Likewise, to combat infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, also known as “pinkeye”, caused by the bacterium Moraxella bovis, in the Valle de Carranza (Vizcaya) and the Pallars region (Lérida), shepherds would blow the powder obtained from finely ground cuttlebone into the bad eye through a thin paper tube [67, 69]. In this same Catalan region, to treat keratoconjunctivitis in sheep, four or five caragols bovers (Cornu aspersum) were roasted in coals together with a stem of cabbage. After crushing all together, a pinch of salt was added. The mixture was sieved and applied to the conjunctiva of the sick animal [69]. In order to treat disorders of the lacrimal system (dacryocystitis, canaliculitis, stenosis) in Alburquerque (Badajoz) a scorpion was placed in a bell, sealed with cork, and hung from the neck of the sick animal [62]. Shepherds in the north of the province of Cáceres used to hang a needle case containing a scorpion around the sick animal’s neck [50]. In both cases, the scorpion and the eye problem were assumed to “dry out” at the same time. Towards the middle of the last century, in Ibias (Asturias), to treat any type of ocular disorder, the animal’s eye was opened and home-made medicine was applied; this was a mixture of different plant products (rose petals, rosemary, garlic, rue, etc.) together with the innards of a black field slug [80]. In this case, the remedy has strong associated symbolisms. Plants considered to be universal panaceas are used such as rosemary, which appears in classic works such as Cervantes’ Don Quixote [81] and in pharmacopoeias such as the Hispana from 1794 (Spiritus Rosmarini or Aqua Reginae Hungariae), together with other plants with an apotropaic effect used to treat psychological problems, such as rue or rose petals [82, 83], all combined with the innards of a black mollusc. Disease is black and dirty, as opposed to the whiteness of health, and this is why antidotes tended to be dark in colour [84]. At Villarino de los Aires (Salamanca) when an equine suffered from glossitis a medicinal leech was placed with great care on the animal’s tongue to reduce the inflammation [52]. In Proaza (Asturias), to combat meteorism, an ant colony (with earth included) was placed in a bag and then placed on the sick cow in the area of the spleen. This was a reputable remedy [55]. By contrast, in the Campoo (Cantabria), cows were given red wood ants (Formica rufa) to eat when their digestive tract was blocked, to facilitate rumination [66]. A remedy recommended to cure indigestion in Asturias and Galicia was to put an ants’ nest in water and boil it, giving the resulting drink to the sick animal [73, 85]. In Asturias it was also claimed that a complete cure could be obtained with a purge of hornets (Vespa crabro) [85]. The inhabitants of Malpartida de Plasencia and Toril (Cáceres) recommended that the sick animal should be bathed over several consecutive days in a pool with an abundance of leeches [64]. In Treviño (Burgos) lambs and kids with constipation were treated by inserting beeswax candles into their rectums [86], and in Salamanca sick animals with stomach cramps were made to eat a specified amount of honey [87]. At Ibias (Asturias), when a cow choked (on a large piece of apple for example) and the ministrations of the local curandero (healer) had no effect, in order to force the foreign object out of the mouth or pass down the gullet of the animal the inhabitants would prepare a lubricant compound with different plant components (cloves of garlic, rosemary, parsley, etc.), white wine, oil, milk, holy water and the slime from a black slug (as a ritualised element). The resulting liquid, once sieved, was placed in a bottle for giving to the sick animal [85, 88–90]. At Gallegos de Argañán (Salamanca) the inhabitants would fry scorpions and use the oil to rub the bellies of equines suffering from equine colic [52]. In the province of La Coruña beef farmers cured any kind of digestive disorder by forcing cows to take honey mixed with bran [73]. The haemolymph of Meloe proscarabaeus was applied by cattle ranchers in Cantabria on inflamed areas (due to trauma), as a resolutive [91], whereas in Extremadura the haemolymph of Berberomeloe majalis was used to cure lumps in articulations, either by rubbing the beetle directly on the affected part or applying the medicinal oil prepared with many specimens macerated in olive oil [43, 64, 92]. At Apodaca (Álava) bloodlettings were performed with medicinal leeches to treat bruises on livestock [39], and in the province of Salamanca common medicinal leeches or sanguijuelas rojas (duck leeches, Helobdella stagnalis) would be used on the legs of animals (mainly cows) affected by osteoarticular inflammation [52]. In both cases, this was believed to “draw out the bad blood”. The shepherds of Santa María de Sando (Salamanca) would cover the broken leg of a sheep with large, “dirty” cobwebs from stables. They would then tie splints around the broken limb with a cloth bandage [52]. And in many localities of this province when a cow broke a horn they would cover the stump with abundant cobwebs from stables (“large and dirty, so that the wound will not become infected”) [52]. In the province of La Coruña there was a strange relationship between the health of the cows and ants. Cows are forced to eat ants boiled in water to promote their pregnancy, and a curious ritual was used to treat mastitis: fresh milk was taken from the sick cow and poured over an anthill (preferably over one located on the road towards a church). After doing this, the container in which the milk was transported was broken in the same place and the fragments were left there [73]. Also in La Coruña, as well as in the Valle de Carranza (Vizcaya) and the District of La Campiña (Guadalajara), mastitis in cows and ewes was treated by washing the udders well with cold water and then applying honey [67, 73, 93]. Similarly, in Extremadura, to clean and cure wounds and cracks in the udders of ewes, shepherds would rub honey on them [50], while in the District of Campoo (Cantabria) a salve prepared with beeswax and rosemary was spread on the udders [66], and in the Canary Islands the powder obtained by grinding a cuttlebone was directly applied to injuries on goats’ udders [72, 94]. To interrupt breastfeeding in calves at Benalup de Sidonia (Cádiz) the shepherds would cover the udders of cows with the haemolymph of Berberomeloe majalis [63]. Against colds, in Bárcabo (Huesca) scorpions were captured live and boiled, after which the liquid was applied to the chests of sick equines [95]. In A Pastoriza (Lugo) water with honey was given to cows to drink [79]. To combat cough, in Cee (La Coruña) water in which a common octopus had been boiled (Octopus vulgaris) was given to pigs to drink [73]. Also in this province, to cure pneumonia sick cows are forced to take honey mixed with pig fat and water [73]. Curiously, in Sarria (Lugo) honey was also used internally as an effective remedy to combat pneumonia in canaries [73]. We have documented two remedies against urinary retention based on the use of scorpions: one or several of these arachnids (always an odd number) would be placed in a bottle containing olive oil. They were allowed to macerate and the oil was then used to rub on the belly of the sick animal, or the penis in the case of colts [43, 96]. Alternatively, eggshells would be fried with onion, laurel leaves and a scorpion; a loose paste was made of this and given to the sick animal to drink [97]. In both cases, it was believed that the affected animal would be able to urinate again after a few hours. Also basing themselves on the use of scorpions, as an anticystitic or to treat ureteral obstruction in Castile-La Mancha shepherds would use the oil obtained from frying two or three whole scorpions in olive with laurel leaves. The filtered oil was given to mules to drink [98]. At Monzón (Huesca) scorpion stings were treated by applying the liquid resulting from the maceration of a scorpion in a bottle containing alcohol to the area of the sting or by applying the crushed body of the scorpion responsible for the sting directly to the area of the sting [95]. At Las Veguillas and Peña de Cabra (Salamanca) the scorpion that had stung an animal was caught and fried in oil, and the resulting salve was applied to the area of the sting [99]. Similarly, in Extremadura, shepherds would crush and fry the perpetrating scorpion and put the oil on the sting area [50]. To prevent stings, the cattle ranchers of Encinas de Arriba (Salamanca) would place a scorpion inside a cowbell and seal it with a piece of cork. This ritual was believed to protect the cow [52]. In the case of viper bites, at Viniegra de Abajo (La Rioja) shepherds used to place a specimen of Berberomeloe majalis on the bite areas of their sheep and goats. This would cure the animal once the area had been punctured and the venom drawn out [38]. In the Pallars region the shepherds, after removing the venom through a cut, applied a poultice made with several snails (with shell), three cloves of garlic, salt and olive oil to the bitten sheep [69]. In Asturias, what is known as cuerno de la vacaloura, i.e. the mandibles (and head) of the male stag beetle (Lucanus cervus), was a traditionally highly valued amulet for the prevention of snake bites [85]. To eliminate intestinal parasites in Sarria (Lugo) equines and cattle were given a mixture of honey, ginger and sodium carbonate to take [73]. In the Basque Country, in the case of golpe de sangre (“blood hit”, cerebral congestion) or paralysis, pigs were bled by placing medicinal leeches on their ears, and on the dewlaps of cattle [100]. At Zafra (Badajoz) leeches were placed on the neck of any animal with cerebral congestion [43]. In the western part of Asturias, farmers used to hang the shell of a snail around the neck of the animals to protect them against diseases in general [99]. Finally, in Doñana (Andalusia) the inhabitants would grind a large calcareous shell of the oyster Crassostrea gigas for use on poultry farms as a supplement to poultry feed [101]. Current uses Sixty of 93 documented remedies (~66 %) were collected in documentary sources published in this century. Only 31 remedies (33 %) were gathered from those published over the last six years (2010–2015). Among those works, in a very few cases the authors used the present verbal form, just to refer to the veterinary use of honey or cobwebs [51, 54]. Another currently valid practice is the external application of the medicinal oil prepared with many Berberomeloe majalis specimens macerated in olive oil [65]. No magical remedies or rituals are still practised. Most veterinary uses and practices documented in this review only remain alive in the memory of elderly people. Potential veterinary uses As we have already mentioned above, bee honey is a highly reputed derivative product in current EVM. The use of honey for preparing ethnoveterinary herbal medicines is widespread but it is used as a single element too. For example, it is used in the treatment of wounds [34] and eye problems [33]. Likewise, at present there are numerous scientific evidences supporting its use in human medicine [102–104]. Therefore, we believe that it is very necessary to develop scientific projects aimed at validating traditional veterinary remedies based on the use of honey and developing its use in clinical practice. The protein structure of spider silk and its exceptional mechanical properties are the main subject of many investigations regarding its potential biomedical applications. This is a very promising biomaterial in fields such as tissue engineering, because, unlike traditional inert implants, it stimulates growth and the natural activity of the cells in contact with it [105–107]. Spider silk is resistant, biocompatible and biodegradable [106]. Fernández-d’Arlas [108] recently proposed that progress in the understanding of the effects of ions on spider silk could expand its use by developing ointments, vesicles for controlled release systems or cellular substrates. Its role in wound healing constitutes a research field that should certainly be developed. Like other blister beetle species, Berberomeloe majalis secretes cantharidin, a potent vesicant terpene (blistering agent) which has a long history in ethnomedicine. For example, in dermatology, topical cantharidin has long been used to treat warts and molluscum contagiosum [109]. In the field of modern veterinary medicine, cantharidin has been demonstrated to act as a vasoconstrictor and positive inotrope [109]. Moreover, the importance of some products derived from terrestrial snails in different aspects of human and veterinary medicine [14, 110] should be pointed out at this point. In relation to molluscs, although today it is not used in Spanish EVM, another interesting product is cuttlebone. The internal shell of cuttlefish is composed primarily of aragonite (crystal forms of calcium carbonate) and it has a very elaborate architecture [111]. Commonly used as a calcium-rich dietary supplement for caged animals (birds, turtles, snails), it is also an important natural material in Biotechnology [111]. From time immemorial, cuttlebones have been ground up to make polishing powder, which was used for medicinal purposes as an antacid and as an absorbent for treating sore skin. Recently, antibacterial activity [112], bone healing properties [113] and wound healing activity on skin ulcer lesions [114] of cuttlebone have been shown. In addition, Lee et al. [115] found that cuttlebone extract induces acute inflammation and promotes cell proliferation. A cross-cultural comparison Remedies based on animals have an ancestral origin, and throughout history have been gathered in the main reference works on pharmacology. With respect to the issues addressed here, invertebrates formed an important part of the therapeutic arsenal of antiquity. Thus, for example, in his encyclopaedia and pharmacopoeia De Materia Medica, Pedanius Dioscorides (ca. 40–90 AD) mentions the ophthalmological use of cuttlefish bone to treat leukoma in livestock, applying the powder obtained from it to the eyes of sick animals –Book II, chapter 21– [116, 117]. In turn, in his encyclopaedic work Naturalis Historia Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) also indicated that this powder was able to cure cataracts (Book XXXII, chapter 71), although he did not specify whether it was a useful therapy for both humans and animals [118, 119]. The Hortus Sanitatis, attributed to Johannes de Cuba [120], is a good work for understanding ethnoveterinary knowledge in antiquity, since it is the last encyclopaedic book on medical matters written in Latin and the first incunabulum dealing with these issues. Continuing with cuttlebone, in this work we hear from Aristotle that when mixed with salt it is a good remedy for curing white ulcers in the eyes of people and animals [121]. In a more agronomic context, one could mention, among others, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (4 – ca. 70 AD). In his work De re rustica we find remedies such as those prepared with honey that were applied to combat indigestion, lameness, pains and eye conditions [122]. In general it may be affirmed that the therapeutic indications described by Aristotle, Pliny and Dioscorides were used by renowned albéitares (the name formerly given to veterinarians and that is still used in some parts of Spain, especially in rural settings), such as Francisco de la Reina and Fernando Calvo in the sixteenth century, Martín Arredondo in the seventeenth, or Fernando de Sande Lago in the eighteenth; and in the history of Spanish veterinary medicine it should be noted that during the reign of Isabel II (1833–1868), among the extra-official therapeutic resources the most widely used ones were honey and leeches. Moreover, for this purpose the Royal Apothecary dispensed products based on invertebrates, in particular medicinal oils such as scorpion oil, blister beetle oil or earthworm oil [123]. Undoubtedly, the parallelism between human and veterinary medicine in medical systems in both the official and popular contexts can be seen in Spain throughout its history [22, 35, 124, 125]. In comparison with ethnoveterinary data gathered recently by other authors for other Mediterranean countries [20, 126–129], it should first be noted that the 16 invertebrate species (and five ethnotaxa) used in contemporary Spanish EVM constitute a very high number of zootherapeutic resources. Another relevant aspect is that we only observed coincidence in the use of cobwebs as an embrocation for skin injuries in horses and cuttlefish bone against eye infections in sheep. Bartha et al. [129] have documented the use of cobweb for wounds in Transylvania. For their part, Piluzza et al. [20] have recorded the use by shepherds in certain rural areas of Sardinia of powdered cuttlefish bone, which they blow into the eyes of the animals or massage it into them. This medicinal product of animal origin has been used in traditional healing since antiquity. For example, Lev [1] mentions cuttlefish bone as a remedy for human skin, eye and tooth diseases in the early Muslim and Crusader periods and in the late Ottoman period; this remedy is still in use in the twenty-first century. By contrast, with respect to Latin America we also find a greater parallelism in the invertebrate groups and body parts used and the animal ailments treated. Honey from Apis mellifera is used in Paraíba State (NE Brazil) to treat eye problems in domestic animals in general, especially blindness and inflammations, and colds in cattle [33]. The óleo-de-bicho, the oil obtained by frying the larvae of the weevil Rhynchophorus palmarum (Linnaeus, 1758), has also been reported as being a medicinal agent in the EVM of the Marajó Island (Eastern Amazonia, Brazil). The main applications of this medicinal oil are wound healing and anti-inflammatory treatments [130]. This review concerning the ethnoveterinary use of invertebrates reveals that humans have always considered this animal group as a source of surprising and numerous therapeutic properties, and it shows that a plethora of invertebrate-based remedies has been amassed in Spanish EVM. 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All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Grupo de Investigación de Recursos Etnobiológicos del Duero-Douro (GRIRED), Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain José Antonio González & Francisco Amich Equipo de Antropología Social y Cultural, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain Salvador Postigo-Mota Departamento de Terapéutica Médico-Quirúrgica (Facultad de Medicina) – Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales y de las Matemáticas (Facultad de Educación), Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain José Ramón Vallejo Search for José Antonio González in: Search for Francisco Amich in: Search for Salvador Postigo-Mota in: Search for José Ramón Vallejo in: Correspondence to José Antonio González. González, J.A., Amich, F., Postigo-Mota, S. et al. Therapeutic and prophylactic uses of invertebrates in contemporary Spanish ethnoveterinary medicine. J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine 12, 36 (2016) doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0111-1 Ethnozoology Ethnoveterinary medicine Zootherapy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1321
__label__cc	0.69927	0.30073	Title: Characterisation of nitric oxide synthase activity in the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida and an evaluation of responses to environmental stress Author: Morrall, Clare Emma Awarding Body: University of Plymouth Current Institution: University of Plymouth Immediate download. Please login to continue. Access from Institution: http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2282 Studies were undertaken to investigate the presence of nitric oxide synthase (NOS; E.C. 1.14.13.39) activity in number of cnidarian species from shallow marine subtropical environments. Enzyme activity was assayed by measuring the conversion of 3H L-arginine to 3H L-citrulline (the citrulline assay). This assay was shown to be sufficiently sensitive for studies of this nature but was not optimised for use with cnidarian preparations. As a result, confidence in the accuracy of the generated assay results is limited. NOS activity was nevertheless demonstrated in the sea anemone A. pallida, in the zooxanthellae associated with A. pallida, Symbiodinium spp. and in five scleractinian coral species. Preliminary studies were conducted to characterise NOS from A. pallida. NOS activity of this species was shown to be predominantly cytosolic and basal rates of enzyme activity were determined to be 0.47 ±0 - 9.96 ±0.06 pmoles citrulline µg proteinˉ¹ minˉ¹. The biochemical signature of the enzyme is defined by an apparent Km of 132.9 µM L-arginine and an apparent V max of 17.7 pmoles citrulline µg proteinˉ¹ minˉ¹. The NOS enzyme from A. pallida was inhibited by the arginine analogue L-NMA with an apparent K1 of 1014 µM. Histochemical localisation of NOS activity by NADPH-diaphorase staining showed the enzyme to be present in the epidermal cells and at the extremities of the mesoglea. The hypothesis that NOS has potential as an innovative biochemical effect biomarker in cnidarian species was investigated with a number of experiments. NOS activity levels were determined in A. pallida previously dosed with sublethal concentrations of copper, fluoranthene or tributyltin-oxide. No clear evidence to support this hypothesis was provided by these studies. Morphological responses of A. pallida were monitored during exposure to contaminants, arginine analogues, a nitric oxide donor and a thermal regime that induced bleaching. Contraction of tentacles and body columns was a noted response to each of these exposures; individuals exposed to the most extreme concentrations of chemicals or the highest temperature tested typically elicited the most extreme contraction responses. Exposure of A. pallida to temperatures gradually increasing from 25 to 35°C over 10 days induced bleaching characterised by reduced zooxanthellae densities. NOS activity levels and antioxidant capacity, both expressed in terms of per unit protein, were increased in anemones exposed to temperatures of > 31 °C. NOS and FRAP activities expressed on a per anemone basis showed no clear change over the experimental period despite the substantial declines in host protein noted in anemones over the experimental period. These results indicate that FRAP and NOS activity levels were maintained over the course of the applied experimental thermal regime despite the occurrence of dramatic physiological changes. Taken together, these results suggest that NOS plays an important role in the biology of cnidarians, and that as such, the activity of this enzyme has the potential to be developed into a valuable biomarker for the evaluation of initial responses of key organisms in tropical and subtropical marine ecosystems to adverse conditions. However, these results also reveal that a more comprehensive knowledge of both the roles played by NO and the responsiveness of NOS to a range of potentially adverse stimuli is required to fulfil this potential. Supervisor: Not available Sponsor: Bermuda Biological Station for Research Keywords: Marine subtropics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1322
__label__cc	0.620144	0.379856	Op-7 Therapeutic Effects Of Domperidone On Abdominal Pain-Predominant Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo- Controlled Trial Karunanayake, A.; Devanarayana, N.Manjuri.; Rajindrajith, S.; de Silva, A. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 61(4): 511-512 The therapeutic effect of domperidone on abdominal pain-predominant functional gastrointestinal diseases (AP-FGIDs) was assessed on children in 5-12 year age group at the Gastroenterology Research Laboratory of Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. Children fulfilling Rome III criteria for AP-FGIDs were recruited from the out-patient clinic of the University Paediatric Unit, North Colombo Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka, after obtaining parental consent. They were randomized in to 8 weeks of placebo or Domperidone (Motillium 10 mg, 3 times per day, before meals) groups, using computer generated random numbers. Placebo was a specially prepared dummy tablet without any active ingredients, had the same colour, size, shape and taste of domperidone tablet and were packaged similarly. Primary outcomes defined were cure (abdominal pain less than 25 mm on the visual analogue scale and no impact on daily activities) and improvement (pain relief and sense of improvement recorded on global assessment scale). Secondary outcomes were significant improvement in symptoms, gastric motility, quality of life (QoL) and family impact. Both patients and investigators who assessed primary and secondary outcomes before and after intervention were blind to inventions administered. Symptom severity was recorded on a validated 100 mm visual analogue scale. Translated and validated PedQL Generic Score Scale version 4.0 and Family Impact Module were used. Gastric motility was assessed using a validated ultrasound method. One hundred children were enrolled and 89 completed the trial [Placebo 42 (22 girls), Domperidone 47(33 girls)]. While comparing primary outcomes, domperidone group had significant improvement [37 (78.7%) vs. 25 (59.5%) in placebo group, p = 0.04], while no such difference was observed in cure. When assessing secondary outcomes, domperidone group reported significant reduction in abdominal pain severity (70.84% vs. 48.18% p = 0.03) and improvement in motility index (29.3% vs. 8.6% p = 0.04) after intervention. No such difference was seen in improvement of QoL and family impact (p > 0.05). Domperidone has a favorable therapeutic effect on improvement AP-FGIDs in children aged 5-12 years. It causes significant reduction in abdominal pain and improvement in motility of the gastric antrum. However, it has no significant effect on improvement of QoL and family impact. (PDF emailed within 0-6 h: $19.90) DOI: 10.1097/01.mpg.0000472211.46517.33 A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of Lactobacillus GG for abdominal pain disorders in children. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 25(2): 177-184, 2007 Randomized double blind placebo-controlled trial of Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-3856 in irritable bowel syndrome: improvement in abdominal pain and bloating in those with predominant constipation. United European Gastroenterology Journal 4(3): 353-362, 2016 A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial of Lactobacillus reuteri for Chronic Functional Abdominal Pain in Children. Iranian Journal of Pediatrics 25(6): E2616, 2015 Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 for the Management of Functional Abdominal Pain in Childhood: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. Journal of Pediatrics 174: 160-164.E1, 2017 Neurostimulation for abdominal pain-related functional gastrointestinal disorders in adolescents: a randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled trial. Lancet. Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2(10): 727-737, 2017 A Randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Qi-Zhi-Wei-Tong Granules on Postprandial Distress Syndrome-Predominant Functional Dyspepsia. Chinese Medical Journal 131(13): 1549-1556, 2018 Pregabalin for the treatment of abdominal adhesion pain: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. American Journal of Therapeutics 19(6): 419-428, 2013 A randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial of domperidone in lactating mothers of premature newborns. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 65(2): 176, 1999 Effectiveness of intravenous magnesium on postoperative pain after abdominal surgery versus placebo: double blind randomized controlled trial. La Tunisie Medicale 88(5): 317-323, 2010 Double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial of homoeopathic arnica C30 for pain and infection after total abdominal hysterectomy. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 90(2): 73-78, 1997 Double blind randomized placebo controlled trial for the evaluation of domperidone in the treatment of children with gastroesophageal reflux. Gastroenterology 98(5 Part 2): A21, 1990 Symptomatic response to Helicobacter pylori eradication in children with recurrent abdominal pain: double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology 38(8): 646-650, 2004 A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to assess the essentiality of acid inhibitors for abdominal pain after gastroscopic mucosal biopsy. Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology 24(3): 197-203, 2014 Effects of GH in women with abdominal adiposity: a 6-month randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. European Journal of Endocrinology 166(4): 601-611, 2012 Duloxetine versus placebo for the treatment of women with stress predominant urinary incontinence in Taiwan: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Bmc Urology 8: 2, 2008	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1325
__label__wiki	0.76538	0.76538	Successes Awards Awards Gallery 2013 Mixed-acid vanadium redox flow... Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Dept. of Energy Mixed-acid vanadium redox flow battery technology As renewable energy becomes more important to our future, the challenge of incorporating it onto the grid must be surmounted, in part, with large-scale energy storage solutions. Redox (reduction-oxidation) flow batteries are considered an advantageous alternative, but some technical improvements are needed for the technology to be viable. The mixed-acid vanadium redox flow battery, developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is the first commercially viable redox flow battery capable of deployment at grid scale. This breakthrough battery uses a novel approach to the battery chemistry to overcome the limitations of current generation redox flow batteries — a new mixed-acid electrolyte with vastly higher energy density and operating range than the current state-of-the-art, all-vanadium redox flow batteries. PNNL’s role in this transfer was initially that of technology developer, but it shifted to that of careful and strategic planner and negotiator as multiple parties became interested in exclusively licensing the same technology. UniEnergy Technologies’ (UET) role was as a potential licensee, with the objective and expectation of obtaining an exclusive license for the technology its founders had developed during their tenure as researchers at PNNL. An anonymous licensee’s role was similar to that of UET, with the exception that it had not been involved in any way with the technology’s development. Both parties interfaced with PNNL to carefully negotiate license agreements that achieved their unique business goals, even without full exclusivity. Because of the high degree of commercial interest in this technology, PNNL formed a Grid-Scale Energy Storage Commercialization Team comprised of appropriate staff in research and development (R&D), lab management, general counsel, and technology commercialization to develop an appropriate licensing strategy. The team determined that only three licenses would be offered to retain value for prospective licensees (often seeking exclusivity) while meeting PNNL’s objective to secure more than one license. When two distinct parties expressed the intent to move forward with licensing, including a startup formed by two of the technology developers for this sole purpose, license agreements offering exclusivity to each party in certain countries and limited exclusivity elsewhere were carefully negotiated and drafted. In the end, both parties were satisfied with their respective agreements. This transfer benefitted all parties in that all walked away having met their core objectives. PNNL was able to deploy a lab-developed technology more broadly than a single exclusive license would allow. Both licensees received exclusivity in their top priority geographic locations, with limited worldwide exclusivity in that they would share nonexclusive countries with up to only two other parties as guaranteed by PNNL’s strategy to limit licensees to three. Excellence in Technology Transfer Award Year:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1334
__label__wiki	0.560166	0.560166	Putting the ‘fun’ in science fiction, Space Opera hits all the right notes Gautham Shenoy March 2, 2019 8 min “Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of all-annihilating flames to help you follow along.” One great tragedy of the SF genre is comedy. Or rather the lack of it. Very few attempt it, fewer still manage to pull it off well – like the great Terry Pratchett with his Discworld series, or his collaborative novel with Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, in recent times John Scalzi’s Redshirts and of course the gold standard in science fiction comedy – that classic trilogy (in five parts) by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. After what seems like ages, now there’s another novel that I can confidently add to this illustrious list: Catherynne M. Valente’s Space Opera, a book that comes as a breath of fresh air at a time when contemporary SF seems to be all gloomy. In contrast, Space Opera is all glam, glitter and guffaws. Space Opera is that fiery, friendly, shiny disco ball. So, what’s Space Opera all about? The short answer: Eurovision in space. Here’s the slightly long answer: Humanity discovers that it’s not alone in this universe. A bird-like creature known as the Esca arrives one fine day – as an alien envoy of a now-happy and prosperous intergalactic civilisation to make first contact with Earth – not asking to be taken to our leader (or a librarian) but instead speaking individually to every person on the planet, in a voice and through a form that would help each specific individual cope with the enormity of it all. “Everyone cried when the creature first spoke to them. No, not cried. They wept. They wept like the cavemen of Lascaux suddenly transported into the Sistine Chapel just in time for a live performance of Phantom of the Opera as sung by Tolkien’s elves.” But this first contact is not all song and dance, there’s a catch. Like a client who sends a brief about an ‘important project’ to an advertising agency, but generous enough to give the agency a fighting chance, just enough time to scramble around, bend over backwards and pull pangolins out of an old hat to deliver on the job that’ll ensure it gets to keep the client and die another day, the interstellar society has discovered humanity and contacted it just in time for Homo Sapiens to prove that it’s sentient and sapient – by way of an intergalactic music competition whose purpose is to decide if a newly-discovered species is worthy of being a part of said intergalactic civilisation. Well, as it does turn out, this first contact is all about song and dance, for that is what the survival of this species depends upon. Song and dance. Also read: Set phasers to fun: John Scalzi boldly goes where no Trekkie has gone before, with ‘Redshirts’ Left: Catherynne M. Valente, author of Space Opera. Right: The cover of Space Opera (from Saga Press) Following the devastating Sentient Wars, all the species that survived – by the skin of their mandibles or otherwise – decided that there must be an easier, less destructive and more practical way to decide who gets to live long and prosper, and who doesn’t. That way turned out to be the Metagalactic Grand Prix – a pop music competition (yes, a Eurovision in space; see above) held once every cycle in which Earth must now participate through a chosen musical ambassador. And to continue to do whatever humanity does, all that the artist representing Earth has to do is ensure that we don’t come dead last. Coming second-to-last ensures we get to continue whatever it is that we’re doing, while being a part of a galaxy-wide society, while finishing last means that humanity will get wiped out – all the memory of our collective existence archived (lovingly), all of Earth’s resources extracted (tenderly) and our species annihilated (totally). But to look on the bright side of life, the aliens promise to reincorporate our organic material into earth’s biosphere and the planet left in peace and given a chance, a million or so years later, to participate once again in the Metagalactic Grand Prix, with dolphins or something. The competition is tough. And the stress is not just on the music, but also the theatrics of the performance. For example, the species that won the Metagalactic Grand Prix three cycles ago, The Trillion Kingdoms of Yüz won it with an earworm called, ‘Love Means Forgiving the Sins of Our Colonial Expansion Phase’ and when the bass dropped, their entire proletariat became a flaming comet. That’s why to give Earth a fighting chance, the alien envoy has come with a handy list of artists who they think can best represent – and save – Earth. A list that includes Yoko Ono, Kraftwerk, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tangerine Dream, Brian Slade (of Velvet Goldmine), Spice Girls, Insane Clown Posse, Björk, Skrillex, Grace Jones, RuPaul, Jefferson Starship, Nicki Minaj, Hüsker Dü, Courtney Love, Donna Summer and Richard Harris. And right at the bottom of that list is the down-on-his-luck, washed-up Decibel Jones (born Danesh Jalo), inventor of the entire electro-funk glamgrind genre and for a while (half a minute, give or take) the biggest rock star in the world once upon a time. Needless to say, it now falls upon Decibel Jones to save Earth and all the humans on it. Needless to say, the alien envoy doesn’t give earth much of a chance, given we’re still a planet that still uses Auto-Tune. ALSO READ: Science fiction you can listen to: The New Worlds Weekly Playlist – Vol II So it is comes to be that Decibel Jones – with his backing band, The Absolute Zeroes which now is technically The Absolute Zero, Oort St. Ultraviolet (born Omar Çalışkan) with the other member who made it a plural having passed away – travels to participate in the 100th Metagalactic Grand Prix being held on Litost, the Klavaret homeworld, on the ruins of Vlimeux where the Sentient Wars ended. A good, enjoyable science fiction comedy, Space Opera is Catherynne Valente in top form, not just as an SF writer but also as a fan of science fiction and pop music with nods to classics of both these forms of art popping up more often than not. Descriptive to say the least, over-the-top at times and filled with adjectives, metaphors and similes that strangely make sense, and non-sequiturs, Valente’s glittering prose is purple and the long-drawn sentences meander languidly, but once you get into its rhythm, the going is groovy. The dénouement is abrupt, but it’s the journey – and not the destination – that makes Space Opera a good read, as the reader is treated to descriptions of not a few alien species (including postcapitalist glass balloons filled with sentient gases, all called Ursula) and the history of past editions of the Metagalactic Grand Prix. And all along the way, Catherynne Valente doesn’t miss any opportunity to make trenchant observations about our culture & habits and gently upend many a science fiction trope, all to great comic effect. And here we must thank Twitter for being because Space Opera is a novel born out of a dare on twitter. A laugh-a-minute read, Space Opera literally puts the ‘opera’ in space opera (the genre) and is recommended for anyone who enjoys a fun read (SF or otherwise) and surely for anyone who wants to read science fiction that’s not dystopian. A note of caution: People are advised not to read Space Opera on an Indian Railways train late into the night. As this reader discovered, sleeping co-passengers find people laughing a lot more irritating and objectionable than people playing a succession of tik tok videos on high volume or men snoring loudly and atrociously out of tune. Speaking of tunes, it’s now time for the New Worlds Weekly giveaway, and this time you stand a chance to win a copy of – you guessed it! – Catherynne M. Valente’s Space Opera. All you have to do is tell us – assuming you were contacted by an alien envoy right now and tasked with deciding Earth’s nomination for the Metagalactic Grand Prix – which living artist/musician/band would you nominate and why? Tell us your answers by way of a tweet with the hashtag #NWWonFD, or with the same tag on Facebook or as a comment below. Yes, answers, plural, because you can submit up to 3 entries. Just make sure you send in your entries on or before the midnight of Saturday, 9th March (IST). All entries that qualify will go into a lucky draw and the winner announced on the 10th. All the best. And as always, Live Long and Prosper! Disclosure: FactorDaily is owned by SourceCode Media, which counts Accel Partners, Blume Ventures, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Jay Vijayan and Girish Mathrubootham among its investors. Accel Partners and Blume Ventures are venture capital firms with investments in several companies. Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the founder of Paytm. Jay Vijayan and Girish Mathrubootham are entrepreneurs and angel investors. None of FactorDaily’s investors has any influence on its reporting about India’s technology and startup ecosystem. NWWonFD Gautham Shenoy ‘Comic books do not sell themselves’: A Q&A with comic creator, artist & publisher, Vivek Goel India has always had a strong tradition of homegrown comics and comics fans. However, when people think of comics from … Hiding in plain sight: Yes, Speculative Poetry exists! Haunting and harrowing in its portrayal of existential struggle, Aniara is a wonderfully crafted film recommended for anyone looking for … July 21, 2019 Culture 5 superhero novels for people who love comics (or don’t) Think of superheroes and the first thing that comes to mind is comics, a medium that feels like the right, … When men and women don’t need each other: A review of Sadhna Shanker’s Ascendance On a distant planet called Elone, in the distant future, live two ‘species’ antagonistic to one another. Given their violent … June 30, 2019 Future	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1336
__label__cc	0.575853	0.424147	The 10 Most Anticipated Blockbusters Released in 2018 Posted 2018/02/04 4029 0 Let’s get a list going of the 10 most exciting prospects in big budget land. 10. Venom The story is about a man who develops superpowers after becoming a host to an alien. 9. A Wrinkle In Time Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, have been without their scientist father, Mr. Murry, for five years, ever since he discovered a new planet and used the concept known as a tesseract to travel there. Joined by Meg's classmate Calvin O'Keefe and guided by the three mysterious astral travelers known as Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the children brave a dangerous journey to a planet that possesses all of the evil in the universe. 8. Solo Through a series of daring escapades, young Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian. 7. Ant Man and The Wasp As Scott Lang balances being both a Super Hero and a father, Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission that finds the Ant-Man fighting alongside The Wasp to uncover secrets from their past. 6. Avengers: Infinity War Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the Avengers unite to battle their most powerful enemy yet, the evil Thanos. On a mission to collect all six Infinity Stones, Thanos plans to use the artifacts to inflict his twisted will on reality. The fate of the planet and existence itself has never been more uncertain as everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment. When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg. 4. Deadpool 2 Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles ninjas, the yakuza and a pack of aggressive canines as he embarks on a new adventure. 3. Aquaman Arthur Curry learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and to be a hero to the world. 2. The Predator Major Dutch Schaefer is the leader of a military rescue unit looking for allies captured by guerrillas in the Latin American jungle. At first it seems like any other mission: Schaefer and his team of seasoned combat veterans spot a guerilla camp, destroy it, and find the men they were sent to rescue executed. But when Schaefer attempts to lead his unit out, with a captured guerrilla in tow, something horrifying and inexplicable begins to happen: One by one the men are killed by a mysterious adversary, a predator from another world. 1. Black Panther After the death of his father, T'Challa returns home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his rightful place as king. When a powerful enemy suddenly reappears, T'Challa's mettle as king, and as Black Panther, gets tested when he's drawn into a conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people. TAGs: Venom, A Wrinkle In Time, Solo, Ant Man and The Wasp, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Infinity War, Ready Player One, Deadpool 2, Aquaman, The Predator, Black Panther Check Out John Carpenter's 9 Scariest Films! Posted 2018/02/06 The 11 Best Sci-Fi Movies on Netflix Right Now Predicts: The 10 Biggest Box Office Flops Of 2018 5 Intense Crime Movies You Should Definitely Watch 20 Movies That Are Turning 10 In 2018 (P.2) Watch5s	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1352
__label__cc	0.56433	0.43567	High Performance Is The Name Of The Game CapTech Sponsors PGA TOUR Players For 2020 / 2021 Season RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CapTech, a technology consulting firm which has partnered with some of the world's most successful companies in pioneering custom solutions that bridge the gap between business and technology, is pleased to announce the sponsorship of four PGA TOUR players and one Senior PGA TOUR player for the 2020 / 2021 season. According to Sandy Williamson, Chairman and Co-Founder of CapTech and a 2019 inductee to the Greater Richmond Hall of Fame, "We are known for bringing high energy and curiosity to advance what's possible and using technology to drive innovations that best serve our clients. Golf has certainly been one of the sports to embrace technology advances – from golf club construction to golf simulators and wearable technology. We are thrilled to sponsor PGA TOUR players Brandt Snedeker, Harris English, Patton Kizzire, J.T. Poston as well as Senior PGA TOUR player Joe Durant." CapTech was founded based on the principle that technology will drive the future and has earned the reputation with its clients as a trusted partner that delivers human-centered digital solutions. Whether a business process, IT service, client-facing solution, or a program governance strategy, CapTech mobilizes teams of sharp and adept professionals to facilitate success. As Williamson points out, "We ignite innovation while bringing expertise and objectivity to every undertaking. By listening closely to each client's needs, we deliver results that are as purposeful and powerful as the organizations we support. The PGA TOUR players we are sponsoring are always striving to better themselves and deliver powerful results; often using technology to bring out their best. We see this sponsorship as a perfect fit." CapTech (https://captechconsulting.com) is a national technology consulting firm that collaborates with clients to design, develop, and manage technical and digital solutions that delight customers, as well as drive and meet strategic objectives. They have a passion for building lasting relationships and driving innovation and growth for their clients. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, CapTech has locations in Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Columbus (Ohio), Denver, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. View original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/high-performance-is-the-name-of-the-game-300984561.html SOURCE CapTech Rory McIlroy could knock off Brooks Koepka as World No. 1 with Torrey Pines win Talking points in golf this week Landry wins AmEx for second PGA TOUR title Joe Montana has a joke about the 49ers-Chiefs 'Joe Montana Bowl' Ohio State brings back Titans assistant Kerry Coombs, this time as defensive coordinator 'We are confident' - Inter sporting director confirms latest Eriksen bid	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1358
__label__wiki	0.867563	0.867563	Weather forecasting team tracks, predicts 'fire-cloud' phenomenon MONTEREY, Calif., Jan. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory advanced their ongoing work to understand and predict formation of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds in 2019, collected the most detailed sampling of the clouds in history. Photo of a Pyrocumulonimbus cloud (pyroCB) taken over the Pacific Northwest on Aug. 8, 2019 during the FIREX-AQ field campaign from the cockpit of the NASA DC-8 aircraft. (U.S. Navy photo by Dr. David Peterson) PyroCbs are massive thunderstorm clouds created by heat and fire. Such clouds, which can reach heights of more than 8 kilometers, heave intense wind, thunderbolts, and smoke toward anything in their path—sometimes even igniting new fires. Between July and September, NRL meteorologists took part in multi-agency studies of pyroCbs in the western and central United States. PyroCbs: intense storms reaching into the stratosphere Fires leave little time to escape, and wreak mass destruction. It's no wonder NASA refers to the pyroCb as "the fire-breathing dragon of clouds." But unlike threats posed by dragons, the devastating power of fire is all too real, and the implications of large fires don't stop on the ground. Large fires can extend their destructive force high into the atmosphere, drawing smoke and particulates. "They [pyroCbs] act as giant chimneys, transporting smoke from the ground to high altitudes," said Dave Peterson, meteorologist at NRL. "Intense pyroCbs can inject smoke into the lower stratosphere, where it can persist for weeks or months." Typically, smoke, ash and other pollutants produced by fires are contained within the troposphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere, where they are removed quickly through normal weather processes like precipitation. When they reach the stratosphere, these substances block sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface, and become radiated by the sun, which can alter the altitude and chemical composition of the smoke plume. Warm, dry environments here in the U.S. create ample opportunity for pyroCbs to thrive. In 2018, the Carr Fire burned for 164 days in California. It killed three, destroyed or damaged more than 1,800 structures, and charred approximately 229,651 acres. The destructive force of the Carr Fire did not stop on the ground — it was so strong it created a pyroCb, carrying smoke well above jet aircraft cruising altitudes. The largest known pyroCb event occurred in British Columbia in 2017, and rivaled a moderate volcanic eruption, Peterson said. Peterson detailed his research "Wildfire-driven thunderstorms cause a volcano-like stratospheric injection of smoke" in a 2018 paper published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. A new frontier in meteorology NRL has been a pioneer in the pyroCb research community since the late 90s, when researcher Mike Fromm and his partner, René Servranckx from the Canadian Meteorological Centre, first discovered the pyroCb phenomenon. In 1998, Fromm and Servranckx ran analysis on clouds forming in the northern and southern hemispheres using NRL's Polar Oxone and Aerosol Measurement satellite (POAM III) and saw something puzzling. "I started to see things that looked like polar stratospheric clouds," Fromm said. "But they were occurring in the summer time, not in winter." Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are clouds that develop in the extremely low temperatures of the polar stratosphere in winter. The clouds he observed existed in temperatures too warm to create a PSC. "They looked like PSCs but could not be PSCs, so we had to look for another explanation," he said. "I found almost immediately that people expected layers like this to be caused by volcanoes. So I explored the possibility of a volcano." According to Fromm, volcanoes were known to create aerosol layers that look similar to polar stratospheric clouds. Scientists generally assumed these layers occurred from volcanic eruptions, which was the only known way to get such a large amount of aerosols into the stratosphere. So dominant was this assumption that even unreported volcanic eruptions were suspected even when none could be found. "There was no volcano I could link," Fromm said. "So I was left with a puzzle." He was able to trace the aerosol layers he saw back to a major wildfire. He continued to dig into decades of research and discovered several of the previously assumed volcanic eruptions were actually caused by pyroCb events. Today, a growing number of researchers study pyroCbs in hopes of gaining a better understanding of how these storms impact climate over time. But the number of experts and data available are still relatively scarce; the science is still in its infancy. Collaborating with NASA, NOAA, and academia Peterson believes the key to improve our understanding of pyroCbs is to obtain detailed measurements of their outflow, a residual smoke layer or an "anvil ice cloud." "In the early stages of the pyroCb, an active thunderstorm updraft is present over the fire," Peterson said. "The cloud flattens out as it pushes up against the tropopause [boundary between troposphere and stratosphere] forming an anvil cloud. Eventually, the pyroCb updraft dissipates, the high-altitude anvil cloud drifts downwind and also dissipates, and you are left with a residual smoke layer in either the upper troposphere or lower stratosphere." To get outflow measurements scientists must anticipate and track when and where a pyroCb may occur, and have the appropriate aircraft with a variety of instruments (and the scientists to operate them) readily available to fly at just the right altitude to capture the data. It's complicated, and requires extensive coordination. Nevertheless, a joint NASA and NOAA venture, Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments Experiment - Air Quality (FIREX-AQ), was able to do just that. Taking place July 23 to Aug. 18 in Boise, Idaho, and Aug. 20 to Sept. 5 in Salina, Kansas, it was one of the largest field experiments dedicated to the sampling and characterization of fires and their impacts from the point of emission. Throughout the campaign, researchers investigated the impact on air quality and climate from wildfires and agricultural fires across the continental United States. Peterson served as the lead for the multidisciplinary fire and weather forecasting team and worked closely with Edward Hyer, a meteorologist at NRL, who also participated in the campaign. Each morning Peterson and his team of more than 10 researchers and interns reviewed computer models, based on satellite observations and existing data about fire behavior, and delivered the fire and weather forecast to campaign participants. Those forecasts told researchers when and where to fly and drive to collect the most data at a given time. According to NOAA, researchers will eventually use FIREX-AQ's data to make these models even more accurate. The team began forecasting favorable conditions for pyroCb development in the Pacific Northwest, Aug. 5. Peterson hitched a ride on a NASA DC-8 airborne science laboratory to see a pyroCb for himself, for the first time, Aug. 8. With a camera in tow, he snapped the now famous photos of a pyroCb from the cockpit while flying over the Williams Flats Fire in Washington. This flight provided the most detailed sampling of pyroCb outflow in history. Now that the campaign is complete, scientists are eager to review the data collected to answer a variety of questions. The detailed observations of the chemistry within pyroCb smoke plumes at high altitudes can contribute to initializing modeling studies that aim to understand the role of pyroCb in the climate system, Peterson said. "Observations from within the pyroCb ice cloud [anvil] can be used to understand how cloud water droplets and ice particles change in the presence of smoke," he said. "Remote sensing observations of the contributing fire [Williams Flats] can be used to understand what fire characteristics are required for pyroCb development, such as the overall size of the fire, the dimensions of the flaming region, and how these characteristics evolve prior to pyroCb development." Researchers believe they are on the right track to demystify pyroCbs. "This is a relatively new and interdisciplinary science," Peterson said. "The next big discovery is likely just around the corner." About the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory NRL is a scientific and engineering command dedicated to research that drives innovative advances for the Navy and Marine Corps from the seafloor to space and in the information domain. NRL headquarters is located in Washington, D.C., with major field sites in Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, Key West, Florida, and Monterey, California, and employs approximately 2,500 civilian scientists, engineers and support personnel. 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__label__wiki	0.838871	0.838871	KYOCERA Introduces Irish Claddagh Ring Designed by Paul Costelloe, Using Hypoallergenic COBARION Using new material COBARION, symbolic Irish design meets Japanese technology; portion of proceeds to benefit Great East Japan Earthquake recovery Kyoto/London – Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto) today announced that it has developed a hypoallergenic Claddagh ring with renowned Irish-born designer Paul Costelloe. The jewelry utilizes COBARION, a new material that rivals platinum in shine but which is much less likely to cause metal allergies1. The product is now available to the Japanese market and overseas sales are under consideration. Dating back to the 17th century in Ireland, the traditional Claddagh ring is given to represent love, loyalty and friendship. The ring is now available in two types: the stylish thin AMATERUS and the gorgeous bold WADADUMI. Both styles are unisex, making them ideal for matching rings for friends or romantic relationships. A part of the sales of this product will be donated to the recovery support of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Paul Costelloe Claddagh ring AMATERUS using COBARION “The COBARION Claddagh is a symbol of the deep and long friendship between Ireland and Japan — the joining of hands of Irish design and Japanese technology. It is also a sign of the deep respect I have for the city of Kamaishi ― where COBARION is developed ― Iwate Prefecture and the Tohoku Region, and a remembrance to all that was lost in the Tohoku Earthquake of March 2011,” said Paul Costelloe. “I am very excited to be working closely with Kyocera to make the COBARION Claddagh a success for Kamaishi, for Japan, and for the world.” About COBARION COBARION material is a type of Co-based alloy jointly developed by Tohoku University, Iwate Prefecture, and Eiwa Co, LTD (Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture). A collaboration of industry and university, the team developed the new biologically friendly material by minimizing the nickel content, typically a main cause of allergy, while maintaining a brightness and sparkle that is equal to platinum. In addition, it features four times higher toughness than silver so a COBARION ring is virtually scratch-proof and will not easily discolor. About the Claddagh Ring The Claddagh ring is a traditional design that has been produced in Ireland for a few hundred years and loved by many around the world. It features two hands clasping a heart surmounted by a crown to depict love (the heart), friendship (the hands), and loyalty (the crown). Depending on which hand the ring is worn and the direction of the heart, the ring can be worn to indicate a person’s relationship status: single, in a relationship, engaged or married. About Paul Costelloe The designer Paul Costelloe was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1945 and established his own brand “Paul Costelloe” in 1979. A prominent fixture at London’s Fashion Week for 30 years, Costelloe has designed for British Airways and the Irish Olympic Team. He also served as Princess Diana’s personal designer for 16 years until her death. 1 This product does not guarantee that it will not cause metal allergy to any person. Reactions and severity of allergy-causing ions are dependent on the individual. Press picture (jpg) (98.5 KB) Contact for technical information: Mr. Kenichi Hara webmaster.pressgl@kyocera.jp	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1361
__label__cc	0.528078	0.471922	Mark Finnern Navigation Playful Enterprise Thrivable Futures Blog My Influence Marketing Podcast Interview: Building Your Enterprise Tribe My Influence Marketing Podcast Interview: Building Your Enterprise Tribe February-12-18 Originally written and posted by Influence Marketing Council Co-Founder John Mark Troyer on Medium. Building Your Enterprise Tribe, featuring the SAP Mentors story with Mark Finnern — EP002 Passion, purpose, and playfulness are three top qualities of encouraging members of any advocacy program, to guarantee success and positive connection with community. Mark Finnern shares his expertise in bringing out these qualities in both online and face-to-face events. On today’s episode of The Influence Marketing Podcast, we are joined by Mark Finnern, founder of the boutique consultancy Playful Enterprise. Mark shares how he built the SAP Mentor Program, explains the terminology and ideology behind the concept of an “Enterprise Tribe,” and gives tips on how a company can encourage mentors to highlight and support the community. Finnern discusses bringing passion, purpose, and playfulness into the advocacy program to create deep connection and trust. Subscribe to the Influence Marketing Podcast on iTunes Links: Episode 002 mp3 file, Influence Marketing Podcast RSS feed [1:56] This podcast will show listeners both the business and personal values of advocacy programs, and what does and does not work. [2:06] Enterprise advocacy programs are about taking the people who are the most engaged with your company and community, and interacting with them in a structured and programmatic way that interacts with the rest of the business. [4:14] Mark developed and and ran SAP’s Enterprise Tribe, the SAP Mentors, and the SAP Developer Network, which has three million members. He now brings that knowledge to other organizations as a consultant, and has his own Playful Enterprise program. [6:20] Just the term “advocacy program” can sometimes be too short for all that is possible. The term Enterprise tribe encompasses deep engagement of people from ideation to maintaining shorter feedback cycles as the project continues, so they are proud of what they helped build and develop. [8:17] Mark mentions how Enterprise should be playful, and what led up to people singing a lullaby in front of thousands with no warning when they thought they were just going on stage to accept a T-shirt. Once the attendees got out of their comfort zone, it set the tone for playfulness and created an environment of trust. [13:52] An environment of excellence and aspiration is necessary to succeed. These and other key principles of what makes a successful mentor are listed in the SAP Mentor Magic Foundation Document that Mark developed with his tribe. [27:10] Mark’s Playful Enterprise grew from his discovering how powerful it was to reward people for exceptional community work. [27:35] Top advice: Get executive sponsorship. There will be critiques and you need your boss to help give you support. Create a steering committee nominated by support, product, etc. They will help you make sure your tribe is connected to all assets of your company. [31:24] Mark talks about the importance of webinars. [36:22] Mark talks about budget needed to get deep connection and growth within advocacy programs. He also addresses the “velvet rope,” and exclusive element of the tribe, by driving home the fact that their purpose is to help others and encourage connection. [49:40] Mark discusses the powerful and important nature of well-organized community Meetups run by mentors. [55:12] Mark is proud of bringing the community together with things that grow with time, such as Run with the Wolf Pack, in Las Vegas, that started from a fun idea to an official annual run on the Vegas strip, and a band playing on the showroom floor at a “Back to the Future” themed event. Mark Finnern on enterprise tribes “You want to have your top influencers in it for the whole product development process.” “I didn’t want to do hazing or anything, but the microphone was out there already, I gave them the shirt and said you know, how about you sing a song?” “You can only be really playful if you trust people.” “You don’t have to be playful, but you have to support other people’s playfulness.” “Deep curiosity and being technically friendly is much more important than having a technical background.” “If you can align with the purpose of people, you have won.” “The only lasting competitive advantage is to have a strong community.” About our guest, Mark Finnern As if a magician, Mark Finnern creates communities from thin air around work, ideas, and local playfulness. Recently Mark Finnern founded Playful Enterprise, a boutique consultancy where he brings his “magic” social technology for community to organizations ready to engage their enterprise tribes. As SAP Chief Community Evangelist he developed and ran the SAP Mentor Initiative. TheSAP Mentors are the top ~ 150 community influencers of the SAP Ecosystem of ~3 million members. At the 10 year anniversary, the community voted him as the “real founder” of SAP Community Network for his Don Finleone performance. (also voted most likely to join the circus….) Since 2003, Mark has hosted the Future Salon he founded, a get together of a group of eclectic change makers curious about a world that works for all. At TEDx he shared his 5 Ideas on How to Bring All of Our Schools Into 21st Century. Mark also initiated Sandwich and Play, a weekly informal play time of families in the San Mateo Highlands. He also founded and led the San Mateo Highlands Renegade Marching Band to two consecutive best of 4th of July parade wins. While it may seem like a romp at the circus, Mark Finnern’s magic creates the conditions and culture for community to thrive. Mentioned In This Episode John’s Twitter: @jtroyer Kathleen’s Twitter: @DailyKat Mark’s Twitter:@finnern Mark Finnern’s website: finnern.com Mark Finnern’s email: finnern@gmail.com Playful Enterprise website: finnern.com/playfulenterprise Mention of his past blog Future Salon: futuresalon.org SAP Mentors: Sap.com/community/about/mentors-program.html The Influence Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the Influence Marketing Council, an industry council for B2B brands who innovate in influencer, advocacy, and community marketing. Your hosts, John Mark Troyer and Kathleen Nelson Troyer, are co-founders of the IMC. The Influence Marketing Podcast is part of the research program of the IMC. For more information, go to influencemarketingcouncil.com. 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__label__cc	0.599478	0.400522	The Daniels Corporation 项目网站 From 1001 Sq. Ft. To 2289 Sq. Ft. King St West & John St 社区: Waterfront Communities-the Island 80 John St, Toronto, Ontario M5V3C6 Toronto Ontario M5V 3C6 The opportunity to live above such an important cultural centre is truly unique. Festival Tower Condos, rising 41 floors above Festival Centre’s five-storey podium building at King and John in the heart of Toronto’s Entertainment District, is being developed by The Daniels Corporation in partnership with renowned filmmaker Ivan Reitman and his sisters Agi Andel and Susan Michaels. Festival Tower Condominiums are unrivalled in the Toronto condo market and is destined to e downtown’s hottest, hippest address. Conceived by the award-winning team of Kuwambara Payne McKenna Blumberg (KPMB) in collaboration with Kirkor Architects and Planners, Festival Tower will include 528 condominium suites, ranging from 435 sq. ft. studios to the ultimate in penthouse living at up to 4,000 square feet. On the outside, the building soars from its limestone-clad base into a tower sheathed in clear and sandblasted glass-a symphony of the transparent and the translucent-and crowned by an illuminated glass top that will serve as a welcoming beacon, a lodestar to Festival Tower residents and visitors alike. But it is inside the building where Festival Tower's luxurious livability becomes palpably apparent. And it begins, as it should, in the lobby. Festival Tower Condo residents at 80 John St will also experience all the amenities of the Tower Club, a complete spa and fitness centre with indoor and outdoor whirlpools, saunas, aromatherapy steam rooms, and access to a full menu of spa treatments. Kick-boxing, tai-bo, Pilates, and yoga classes will also be available, as will personalized training on the most advanced lineup of aerobics and weight training equipment. A La Carte Services Include: Special Spa/Massage Treatments Personal training and more... Festival Tower is the ultimate in ultra-chic, sophisticated living in the heart of Toronto's Entertainment District. With 5-star Hotel-Inspired Services, this lifestyle will be a world first. Tower Cinema Festival Tower is the only condominium residence in Toronto that will have its own fully equipped authentic cinema, with seating for up to 55 people. The cinema is so state-of-the-art that the Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) will use it for screenings. Equipped with a concession stand and catering kitchen, the adjacent Cinema Lounge is the perfect place to host your private pre- and post-screening parties. Another of the perks of living at Festival Tower is the luxury of having TIFFG involved in producing a program of films exclusively for you to enjoy in your own cinema. Tower Fitness Centre Overlooking the pool is the Tower Fitness Centre. Here, the latest equipment will provide residents with the opportunity to enjoy optimum workouts in an environment that will be absolutely beautiful. Your workout time will pass quickly with the ability to watch television or even a film on one of the many flat screen TV?s positioned for your viewing pleasure. bardot chaplin eastwood hayworth	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1369
__label__cc	0.587812	0.412188	Games Errors - Fixes, Tutorials and Guides for games Apple Announces Q1 2017 Revenue Results – Several Records Broken HardwareMobile iPhone, Services, Mac and Apple Watch Set All-Time Records By Denis On Feb 1, 2017 Apple announced yesterday, 31 January 2017, the financial results for its fiscal 2017 first quarter. For the first time in 4 years, this is the first quarter that includes 14 weeks. The company said that they reached an all-time record with quarterly revenue of $78.4 billion and an all-time record quarterly earnings per diluted share of $3.36. International sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter’s revenue. They sold nearly 80 million iPhones in this quarter alone and the sales expect to increase with the prospect of newly designed iPhone 8. As for the other gadgets, they sold 13 million iPads and 5.3 million Mac machines. “We’re thrilled to report that our holiday quarter results generated Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever, and broke multiple records along the way. We sold more iPhones than ever before and set all-time revenue records for iPhone, Services, Mac and Apple Watch,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Revenue from Services grew strongly over last year, led by record customer activity on the App Store, and we are very excited about the products in our pipeline.” -Tim Cook, Apple CEO Below you can see the financial results for the first quarter of 2016 and 2017 for comparison purposes. Q1 2016 Financial Results $75.9 billion in revenue $18.4 billion in profit EPS of $3.28 74.8 million iPhones sold 16.1 million iPads sold 5.3 million Macs sold $17.89 billion in profit 13 million iPads sold “Our outstanding business performance resulted in a new all-time record for earnings per share, and over $27 billion in operating cash flow,” said Luca Maestri, Apple’s CFO. “We returned nearly $15 billion to investors through share repurchases and dividends during the quarter, bringing cumulative payments through our capital return program to over $200 billion.” Apple also provided the following guidance for the second quarter of 2017: revenue between $51.5 billion and $53.5 billion gross margin between 38 percent and 39 percent operating expenses between $6.5 billion and $6.6 billion other income/(expense) of $400 million tax rate of 26 percent The company predicts that they will be able to exceed the number of iPhones sold in a given quarter since the iPhone 8 is going to have a genius design.In addition, a new and highly improved iPad family is expected to be announced later this year and that might add to the sales numbers for future quarters. What’s your opinion on the records broken by Apple this quarter? Let us know your thoughts below. Apple Financial ResultsApple iPhone 8Apple Q1 2017Apple Q1 2017 Revenue Denis 263 posts 115 comments Hello, my name is Denis, I am a gaming enthusiast and I started this website to help other people fix their games issues. A few years ago I saved some money to buy a game that I expected for a long time and I was unable to play it due to some issues. After that, I started this blog to help others in this situation. The 5 Most Important Factors That Go Into a Gaming Setup Borderlands 3 system requirements, settings, benchmarks, and performance analysis Bubble Shooter: One of the most famous flash games What Difference Does a VPN Make to Mobile Gaming? Ultimate Boss of FFVII is coming to Final Fantasy XIV Is Mobile Gaming Taking Over The World? New Indie Steam Games You Probably Missed The most popular gaming news of the season at a glance Game Preview – Final Fantasy Remake Borderlands 3 system requirements, settings, benchmarks, and… © 2020 Games Errors - All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1373
__label__wiki	0.829188	0.829188	Games Hard E-Sport teams to be followed in 2019 Considering that e-Sport is now burgeoning all around the world, international competitions are launched in this regard. No matter if it goes with League of Legends or Dota, or others reference games, the best games are played in direct by distinguished teams, all better than ever. What teams will chill video games amateurs in 2019? Read this article! Misfits, unbeatable on League of Legends 1 Misfits, unbeatable on League of Legends 2 Astralis, the 2018 revelation 3 Cloud9, the multi-skilled and rewarded team 4 Team Liquid, the most promising 5 Vitality, the e-foot reference Only through one year, the team Misfits Gaming, based in Europe, has gained popularity: UK Premiership, Challenger Series US, LCS EU, the team got its fourth place during the World Spring segment. Now, it dreams better and stronger, being the second qualified in Europe. Let’s follow them in their international path. Among the best players is a French, Paul Boyer, aka soAZ (team’s TOP), who’s also one of the most remunerated e-Sport players from France. Astralis, the 2018 revelation They are well-known for their performances at Counter-Strike and their amazing track record, but in 2018, the Danish team got the crown, being undefeated on their terrain of predilection. With its title of “best team of the year”, of the world and of all times on CS, the team also won the Grand Chelem organized by Intel and the last Major in London: we don’t know the team could be less successful. Cloud9, the multi-skilled and rewarded team It raises consensus: in 2018, it was amongst the best world e-Sport teams, not only for its game tournaments multi-presence (Cloud9 progresses in 11 game divisions, including Counter Strike and Lol), securing themselves a place for the Worlds 2018, and was also the first North-American team to raise a Major Cup. It was qualified as the Overwathc League best team, that is why its name is on the lips of all for 2019. Team Liquid, the most promising After a wheezy start in 2015 (totalizing as much victories as defeats on the international scene), the Team Liquid is now on track with victory in a number of tournaments in 2018, notably in Call of Duty and Fortnite. Under the limelight, the team has just signed new contracts with top-level sportsmen, including Michael Jordan. This constitutes a great early season for a promising team! Vitality, the e-foot reference The bee team has not only skilled players at League of Legends, Call of Duty (with which it begins), but also in e-foot, notably on FIFA, in which one of its mentees, Fouad Fares, became famous in international championship. The French club of reference has now the light shone on it, and will look for new trophees in 2019, just when the EU LCS (League of Legends Championship) has just started in Berlin. With a mean age of 27,3 years, the e-Sport teams are not the exclusive prerogative of young gamers, but are real professions, remunerated like real ground players! One more reason to follow these teams in 2019. Copyrights© 2020 All rights reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1374
__label__wiki	0.564479	0.564479	Zurich, Frankfurt Technology, Industrials and Industrial Technology Deal Value Deal Team Alexander M. Grünwald, Thomas Egli, Geoffrey Baldwin, Thorsten Weber, Mario Schlup, Daniel Schreiber, Adrian Nowitzki, Bernhard Trösch, Jannik Bold, Peter Latka GCA Altium advised the shareholders of Xovis on the sale to Capvis GCA Altium advised the shareholders of Xovis, the Swiss 3D sensor and analytics company, on the sale to Capvis, a Switzerland based private equity firm. The funds advised by the Munich investment company EMERAM Capital Partners GmbH have agreed to sell their stake in Xovis AG to Capvis Equity V LP, a fund advised by the Swiss private equity firm Capvis AG. The parties have agreed not to disclose any financial details of the transaction. Xovis is the worldwide market leader for the analysis of people flows and waiting times. EMERAM acquired a stake in the company in August 2016. In close cooperation with the founding team, Xovis became the leading provider in its business segments and markets. In the business segment "Airports", the number of customers has tripled within the last three years. Approximately 75 of the world's largest airports use Xovis' technology, including the airports in Atlanta, Dubai, Frankfurt, Paris, and Delhi. The "Stationary Retail" business segment has also developed very successfully, with three of the world's largest supermarket chains among Xovis' customers. In addition, the business segment "Public Transportation" has been established as a further growth area. As part of the strengthening of worldwide sales, an office in Boston has been opened in order to access the US market. In the course of the positive operational development of the company, the number of employees rose from 34 in June 2016 to almost 90 today. Moreover, investments in innovations increased and, in 2018, Xovis celebrated a world first with the introduction of the first sensor with AI characteristics. David Studer, CEO of Xovis, commented: "Together with the EMERAM team, we have strategically and operationally developed Xovis over the past three years. We have further professionalized our financial aspects and consistently strengthened our sales and marketing activities. As a result, we have significantly increased our market penetration with an average growth rate of 40%. In the process, the EMERAM team supported us both as a financial partner and as a valuable sparring partner. We will continue our successful path with our new owner." Volker Schmidt, founding partner of EMERAM Capital Partners, added: "We would like to thank the management team and all employees for their great cooperation and commitment. Today, Xovis is excellently positioned as a technology leader in a dynamically growing industry. It was our pleasure to support the company for parts of this journey. We are convinced that Xovis will continue its success story.” The three founders and managing directors – Christian Studer, David Studer and Markus Herrli – will remain shareholders of Xovis and will continue to lead the company in the next growth phase.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1377
__label__wiki	0.546437	0.546437	By Qwackie, September 21, 2010 in Music Vexx Doesn't really hang around much anymore That song Sexy . "Damn you's a sexy ." ....sounds like 'Sexy fish'. Edited October 18, 2012 by kiffren Toki Mishidozi Location: Dante's Inferno I don't speak Spanish but I have my own made up lyrics to La Bamba. If I start singing it now it sounds like lalalalala bamba a nessa see una poca la tokya.... there's more but I'll spare you. "Para bailar la bamba Para bailar la bamba se necesita una poca de gracia" I'm hispanic and even I thought it sounded like "lalalalala Bamba" for a while. As I got older and listened a bit closer, I could just fainly make out the "P" and the "b". Lol Yah I Just Love Dragons 666 Yes I know, this username makes me cringe too. Location: Candy World Whenever I sing that song, I sing the misheard lyrics Edited October 22, 2010 by Yah I Just Love Dragons 666 Infinis "Hold on to that hatred." Help Moderators Location: The Forgotten City When I was younger I could not for the life of me tell the lyrics apart so I heard 'lalalala Bamba.' (And I'm the one person in my family with insanely good hearing...>.>) Lol, well, when you speak fast in spanish, most of the B's, P's and R's sound like L's. pokemonrock123 Location: New York State I can't understand just about any of the words in songs these days. (I'm not old.) I just sing jibberish like the other dorky girls. The only thing I like about those songs is the tune. Kanaye Goddess of Cheesies Location: Connecticut, USA They paved paradise and put in a ***ing lot. I'm serious, I heard it say this for years, and could never understand why it wasn't beeped out. Then my sister was singing it randomly, without the song playing as well, and I'm like "Oooooh. So thats what it says." Defiantly a facepalm moment. Dracoers Right here. It's hilarious, and true at the same time. VulpesAcicula What's Up People by Maximum the Hormone. Period. I've been hearing it this way for so long that I can't recognize the real lyrics at all when I'm reading them along with the song. HawktalonOfRiverClan The phrase "good morning" is an oxymoron. Location: Someplace magical I used to think that the title lyrics in the song "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was "do the Macarena." And I still can't decide if this one line in Owl City's "To the Sky" is "on the hills of war and wonder" or "on the heels of war and wonder." And just about every Spanish song. I always try to listen hard and see if I can understand the lyrics but I usually only catch snippets of meaning... Aquenee Location: Somewhere where there is a lot of stuff. There's always the "I paralyzed a cow" that everyone hears with this song. Supposed to be "I came alive somehow." The movie 27 Dresses has the main characters mishear the song Bennie and the Jets. It's a hilarious scene. My friend misheard one line from "Long as I'm Here With You" from the play Thoroughly Modern Millie that went "and baby you're front row" as "and baby I'm from Rome." facepalm* @Aquenee- Even with the lyrics in front of me, I heard "I paralyzed a cow" in that song... Edited October 2, 2012 by HawktalonOfRiverClan demonicvampiregirl Feel free to call me Demi!~ I can agrue against that. I heard it the way it was supposed to be. Their is one Fall Out Boy song I mishear sometimes. Sugar We're Going Down. It's the line about the god complex I hear gun where it says god sometimes. futuregohangurl linkin park leave out all the rest. dont be afraid ive taken my beating from that i did when it said ive taken my beating from stuff that happened something like that nitty gritty dirt band- cadillac ranch tearing down the highway like a pickled dinasaur when its like a big old dinosaur cotton eyed joe where have you come from where did you go where did you come from cuttin eyed toe when its cotten eyed joe Edited October 3, 2012 by futuregohangurl Starphyre77 I used to think that the title lyrics in the song "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was "do the Macarena." I ruined this song for a co-worker by informing her that it's not "Move it Like a Lady" ROFL. At least that's closer than "do the macarena." lizardtail Eins, Zwei, Drei! ★ Location: Cram School one song i heard had a line "ill take the shot for you, ill be the shield for you" and for the longest time i was confused because i thought it said "ill take the shot for you, ill even shoot for you". Pixxelation Distancing myself from pies since 2019. Location: Encircling birdz from 3 hours away Edge of Seventeen, by Fleetwood Mac. I heard "Just like the one-winged dove" instead of "white-winged dove." gyiyg http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/45257 Most of that. (Also seizure warning.) Small amount of that one, too... (A second seizure warning. Also potentially slightly disturbing Teletubby face warning. :V) Actually misheard lyrics are a staple of a lot of Animutations. Edited October 15, 2012 by Pika_Oi Zovesta Queen of Foreign Cartoons/INACTIVE In Green Day's "Holiday", I always hear "scented pliers" instead of "setting fires". And that's how I got my alternate username. u_u Seriously? I always thought it was "country-eyed joe." In this one song in the movie Evita, I misheard the lyrics "don't cry for me Argentina" as "don't cry for me I'm Evita." It kinda works, actually... I always thought it was, "I'd throw my head on a plane, for ya!" In grenade, and I never thought it made sense. Then I found out it was, "I'd throw my hand on a blade, for ya!" Now THAT makes sense coralkiki Location: Britanny. It's raining, in case you're wondering. What? It's not 'I'll throw my head on a plane for ya'? I've been singing that wrong since forever. My best one has to be 'I'm still, I'm still, Jenny from the block' being heard as 'Hamster, Hamster Jenny from the block' and of course, since I was 6 or something, I totally didn't care that that was the most random thing to put in a song Ikr? I JUST found out yesterday when I googled the lyrics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1384
__label__wiki	0.511517	0.511517	Search in titles only Search in Aviation Safety Discussion Forum only Aviation Safety Discussion Forum Breaking news: Ethiopian Airlines flight has crashed on way to Nairobi Previous 1 2 3 4 11 51 75 template Next ErezS VERY SAD NEWS: Ethiopian Airlines flight has crashed on way to Nairobi. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/worl...-a4087466.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47513508 On FR24: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...t-avj#1fc0cdb5 Brand new aircraft!!! https://www.jetphotos.com/info/737-62450 R.I.P all on board. I know I might be jumping the gun here, as this is another 737-MAX accident could this be the same problem as the Lion Air crash with the MCAS being involved. On The Aviation Herald: Crash: Ethiopian B38M near Bishoftu on Mar 10th 2019, impacted terrain after departure (By Simon Hradecky, created Sunday, Mar 10th 2019 09:29Z, last updated Sunday, Mar 10th 2019 11:38Z) An Ethiopian Boeing 737-8 MAX, registration ET-AVJ performing flight ET-302 from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) to Nairobi (Kenya) with 149 passengers and 8 crew, departed Addis Ababa's runway 07R and was climbing out of Addis Ababa when the aircraft levelled off at about 9000 feet MSL, radar contact was lost shortly after at 08:44L (05:44Z). No survivors were found. The airline reported rescue and recovery forces are on their way to the crash site near Bishoftu (Ethiopia) about 17nm southsoutheast of Addis Ababa. The aircraft had departed Addis Ababa at 08:38L, radio and radar contact with the aircraft was lost at 08:44L. Ethiopia's states owned Broadcasting Corporation reported citing an unidentified spokesperson of Ethiopian Airlines, that no survivors have been found at the crash site. The aircraft carried citizens of 33 different countries. At 13:21L (11:21Z) Ethiopian Airlines reported they deeply regret the fatal accident involving ET-302. Their CEO just having arrived at the crash site regrets there have been no survivors and released a photo showing the CEO at an impact crater at the crash site. Ethiopia's Prime Minister expressed his deep condolences to the families who lost their loved ones. The last transponder data were received from position N9.027 E39.153 about 21nm east of Addis Ababa at FL086. Terrain elevation at that point is 8130 feet MSL, FL086 reported by the Mode-S Altimeter (which always measures to standard pressure 1013 QNH) corrected for QNH indicates the aircraft was flying at 9027 feet MSL at that position. Boeing stated with respect to flight ET-302 on Mar 10th 2019: "Boeing is aware of reports of an airplane accident and is closely monitoring the situation." At about 11:25Z Boeing followed up: "Boeing is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of the passengers and crew on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a 737 MAX 8 airplane. We extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families and loved ones of the passengers and crew on board and stand ready to support the Ethiopian Airlines team. A Boeing technical team is prepared to provide technical assistance at the request and under the direction of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board." Metars: HAAB 100600Z 07010KT 9999 FEW025 18/09 Q1029= HAAB 100100Z 09006KT 9999 FEW025 13/11 Q1027 Attached photo: CEO of Ethiopian Airlines at the crash site (Photo: Ethiopian Airlines). obmot The a/c appeared to climb to ~8200ft, then descend to ~7700ft, then climb again to 8600ft in timespan of about 90 seconds. I'm not a pilot, so no sure if that is atypical - though it represents a climb then ~7% altitude decline then ~11.5% altitude increase then a/c disappearance from radar. From layperson standpoint (me) it seems perhaps not typical (??) I defer to experts/pilots here. Oh man, what's going on... Even if this turns out to be pure pilot error, the media coverage is going to be brutal for Boeing until the cause is determined. I think this might result in enough public pressure to ground the MAX for an extended period. Peter Kesternich Originally posted by Evan View Post (...) I think this might result in enough public pressure to ground the MAX for an extended period. And not just public but also industry pressure... At first flush, there seem to be similarities to the LionAir accident... Originally posted by obmot View Post Could be indicative of a sudden loss of autoflight... ...Even if this turns out to be pure pilot error... Some reason you didn't list explosive device or gross maintenance violation? We don't have a bias that pilots are procedure-skipping, improvisational cowboys, do we? Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut. Originally posted by Peter Kesternich View Post At first flush, there seem to be similarities to the LionAir accident... We currently have statements that this has many differences from the LionAir accident. Originally posted by 3WE View Post Could you please give some more information if you have it, including sources... On avherald.com, there is nothing yet to indicate major differences... Last edited by Peter Kesternich; 2019-03-10, 17:08. Some reason you didn't list explosive device or gross maintenance violation? Maintenance could certainly be at fault, but the CEO has reported that the crew requested a return without declaring an emergency, so it doesn't read to me like an explosive event (or meteor strike). It reads more like a control problem or a systems problem. CNN reports that the pilot called in technical problems and requested a return to the airport. That leads me to believe it was not a meteor or similar type of circumstance. Looking at the ADS-B, it also doesn't look like a crew dealing with repeated trim runaway, as an MCAS issue would show. However, the end of the ADS-B data is possibly due to a loss of signal in that part of the world and there were obviously events that occurred beyond that point that led to the crash. The real danger with MCAS is that pulling the column back (the first instinctive reaction to runaway) no longer deactives the electric pitch trim, and pilots were not told this, so the flight control issue and related confusion can easily escalate. HalcyonDays Very early days, I know, but one difference between this and the Lion Air is that the latter aircraft had known flight anomalies on the previous flight or two, but this does not seem to have been the case with the Ethiopian. BTW Flightradar plots may be misleading, the Bole Intl airport elevation is 7625 ft and the ADS-B was last seen at about 8200 ft. It seems to me they were climbing for just 15 seconds before the end of the plot, as if unaware of the raising terrain and/or their own altitude. Did the EGPWS (radalt) call come too late? Copyright (c) JetPhotos 2003-2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1386
__label__cc	0.62329	0.37671	United States Armed Forces finally recognizes combat duty of women SammyF Registered User regular spacekungfuman wrote: » Soldiers follow orders, yes? And disobeying these orders is bad and met with punishment. One of those orders is to not have sex in combat zones. And somehow, punishing those who disobey that order is a problem? For the record, my single favorite thing about the US military is that it punishes adultery. I just wish it wasn't discouraged as a sole charge for military prosecution. Space, buddy, I am going to do you a solid here and help you not look like an asshole. The fact that adultery is a punishable offense isn't ACTUALLY your favorite thing about the military, right? You like it. It might be your favorite thing about the UCMJ. But your favorite thing about an organization that killed Osama Bin Laden isn't that it's illegal to fuck someone who isn't your wife. Quid I don't... what... hnnng Registered User regular McDermott the only solution is to kill anyone who is caught disobeying orders. Bam. All our problems are solved. Bastable Registered User regular Yeah, it's like shooting soldiers for cowardice during wwI when all that was happening was that they were experiencing shell shock or what we blanket term PTSD today. It does not solve the problem, unless the problem is punishing poor sods. Dixon (Phycology of military incompetence) noted a correlation with bad/incompetent officers and officers who were prudish as well. It seems officers that focused on such matters were a lot poorer at actually leading "men" in battle. Philippe about the tactical deployment of german Kradschützen during the battle of Kursk: "I think I can comment on this because I used to live above the Baby Doll Lounge, a topless bar that was once frequented by bikers in lower Manhattan." Egret Registered User regular SammyF wrote: » In SKFM's defense, Bin Laden did not commit adultery. mcdermott Registered User regular Evigilant wrote: » This is all bullshit. We value results over masculine attributes. Tall skinny guys, or short fat guys always, always get stuck with the crew served weapon. When I was team leader, my driver was 4'8". I'm 6'1 and I weigh around 150lbs on a bad day, and 145lbs usually. I have done everything in a team or squad: from team leader, squad leader, driver, gunner, security dismount, whatever. Tall, skinny, big, fat, it doesn't matter. Like mcdermott said, it's a "check in the box" (btw, I hate that phrase so much). Everyone knows how to ruck, everyone is supposed to know how to shoot and move and communicate, some units do it better than others because of their specialty (like an infantry unit will do it better than a support unit), but that support unit at least knows the fundamentals and basics (In theory). I used to hate "check the box" training because I was young and stupid and wanted to go do the cool shit I found fun. Now I hate "check the box" training because of the attitude all the young and stupid soldiers have towards it, including calling it "check the box" training. Because I understand the purpose. I really hate it when leadership treats it as "check the box" training. When I was squad leader, of course I knew who was better at what, but I also knew that when my best went down, I had other people able to step in and pick up that slack, or I'd do it. If I went down, I know someone in my squad was going to take my place, because I had been training them on it. I don't know about your units, but in mine there's always the chance that a guy in your squad will be out for the day due to illness or injury, and you'll wind up with a guy from another squad entirely to fill the role. You may have no idea whatsoever what his strengths and weaknesses are. But you know what tasks he can perform to standard, and you can at least hope he's familiar with the unit SOP. Soldiers aren't snowflakes, m i rite? And mcdermott, FA batteries (line units) are male only since it's a combat arms MOS. Now, there are some MOS's in the 13 series that allow women, but those MOS's don't see combat all that often, and those are usually a few individuals rather than a company/battery. Here's how badly women are being treated in my primary MOS: 4. Field Artillery: It is important for all female officers considering the Field Artillery as their branch of choice to fully understand the implications of the current DOD policy excluding females from service in MLRS and Cannon units based on the collocation exclusion criteria. This policy limits the opportunities for female officers to gain credible Field Artillery leadership experiences and tactical and technical training proficiency. This policy places an additional burden on female Field Artillery officers to remain competitive with their male peers. Currently female officers cannot be assigned to Field Artillery tactical battalions (TOE units - cannon or rocket). Therefore, female officers are excluded from many of the primary leadership positions (platoon leader, fire direction officer, and fire support officer) that are the foundations of experience in building a successful Field Artillery career. Female officers will routinely be assigned to the Field Artillery Training Center (Basic Training or Advanced individual Training units) or other TDA assignments at Fort Sill (1-78 FA or 2-2 FA - training support units), or at Brigade or higher levels (HHB DIVARTY, HHB FA BDE, HHB Corps Artillery). Females are limited to commands outside the tactical Field Artillery battalions. Therefore, female captains must seek battery commands at Brigade level or higher (usually headquarters type batteries) or in training center batteries. At the Major level, a female officer can become an executive officer or S3 of a training battalion but would lack the TOE experience to perform duties as a S3 or XO at a brigade level TOE unit. Yeah, this is exactly the kind of shit that needs to get fixed. emnmnme Registered User regular Quid wrote: » You need to stop reading those Warhammer: 40K books, Quid. They're messing you up. emnmnme wrote: » Listen. We need harsher punishments for people who disobey orders apparently. And since fucking their whole lives for two months or for the rest of their like isn't enough, this is the only solution that can satisfy SKFM. rockrnger wrote: » First off, awesome. But I'm explaining myself ok right? That the boxes you check and the expectations are based on the society that birthed them and that a society that had always used women for combat would have a whole different set of expectations. They would expect a man to fit into a IFV designed for a 110 pound woman and be small enough for the weakest woman to carry. So what's the problem? They are leaving half the possible talent for their military on the table when, with some small adjustments, they can expand their recruitment and have better soldiers. No, the requirements have little to do with the masculine society that birthed them. They have to do with the nature of warfare, which is that big armoured things shoot heavy rounds at each other, and occasionally shoot smaller rounds at people, until the other guys in the big armoured things and/or the people that love them are all dead. The weapons, equipment, and ammunition required to wage war are heavy. And people are heavy. It's not so much that we calibrate the load to males. We calibrate it beyond males. I just read a document out of the Center for Army Lessons Learned on basic combat loads for dismounted infantry units (based on experiences and data collected in Afghanistan). Basically it outlined the fact that the modern loads that soldiers were being expected to carry were fucking ridiculous, and even well conditioned male soldiers were having trouble managing them. But most of that equipment was, you know, necessary. So we needed to find new ways to try and adjust how we fought war just so that men would be able to handle the loads necessary. Like, we have weapons that are heavy enough, and for which the ammo is heavy enough, that we require multiple men to carry and operate them (even in dismounted units). Why don't we just make them smaller, if your mythical "female sized army" would be a thing? EDIT: "Read" was an exaggeration. Did a lot of skimming. I wasn't that bored. mcdermott on January 2013 Like, if we just made mortar tubes smaller and rounds smaller, we could carry twice as many, right? And be twice as effective? electricitylikesme Registered User regular They would hardly be expecting people to be small enough for the weakest to carry. The hypothetical female dominated military would've set it's standards as needed and they'd still be high - the military itself tends to set standards based on need - they go down during wartime, up during peacetime as you're trying to improve readiness and capability. And this is all irrelevant anyway - it's not like there are a deluge of men capable of lifting all possible other men if the need arises. Hell, at the moment I probably couldn't do it (because I'm unfit as hell right now). At any rate we can happily let this all play out with increased acceptance of women in more roles, but the general expectation I'd have is the physical standards for the US are going to go up in the near future since as I hear it they were way the christ down during Iraq. mcdermott wrote: » Yeah, spending some time up at the headquarters level, as well as playing some strategy videogames, gave me new perspective on all the "check the box" training you have to do. So, at least from what I've gleaned, here's a brief lesson in "Army." Here's what a Brigade Combat Team looks like: For reference, the left three columns or so were previously male-only. Maybe four, I forget if artillery battalions had females. But that's beside the point. The point is that each of those icons represents a unit of a given size, that is expected to have a given capability, according to Army doctrine. Each of those icons has its own org chart, that looks much the same. The brigade icon at the top will become a battalion icon, the battalions companies, and the companies platoons. Then each company has a similar org chart, with similar icons, all the way down to individual fireteams, vehicles, or even soldiers. Each of those, according to the required training and doctrine, is expected to be able to perform a slate of tasks to a given standard. There's a reason that you have to be able to complete a ruck march with a given weight in a given time as a required training event. Because, according to doctrine, the unit containing you is expected to be able to move at a certain rate, for a certain period, and deliver a certain level of capability (including firepower and/or support) along with them. These are the expectations higher-level commanders have when they make decisions. That if they give the order for that icon to move to that part of the map, that it can do so. Because according to doctrine, that's what it's supposed to be able to do, and in theory that unit has completed training events demonstrating that it is indeed capable of achieving that standard. General Dudeguy has no fucking idea who Sally and Ox are, nor does he much care. This is why, when my unit deployed, companies got sliced up and parted out to each other. Because they were armor companies, but we were deploying in (IIRC) a motorized rifle role. Well, an armor company doesn't have the manpower to fill that icon, so some companies got downsized (they had more guys than necessary) and some got upsized, so that each had the proper capability to fill the role implied in the org chart. And, even though these were tankers or cavalry or combat engineers and not infantrymen, each of them had trained in the tasks they were being expected to perform as part of the role of their new icon. They had "checked those boxes." Hopefully they were paying attention, right? And when, say, a tank crewmember is killed, wounded, or for some other reason evacuated and needs to be replaced, neither the receiving nor sending commander necessarily knows the particular strengths and weaknesses of the crewmember that was lost...nor do they necessarily care. Being able to load a HEAT round in a specificied amount of time is a part of the Tank Crew Gunnery Skills Test that every member of both the receiving and sending unit have passed. It's a box that every soldier within those icons has checked. Every member of both units has demonstrated, and been tested on, having the physical strength to perform that task to standard. Which isn't even a particularly herculean feat, mind you, but just an example This is, of course, on top of all the basic soldier tasks that every soldier is already expected to be able to perform. But each icon has additional implied expectations of the members within that icon. To a higher level commander, you're not Sally or Ox, you're a line number and a stack of paperwork documenting that you've completed the required training and demonstrated that you're capable of the implied tasks. So what's the problemr? They are leaving half the possible talent for their military on the table when, with some small adjustments, they can expand their recruitment and have better soldiers. Rock, here's kind of the take away that I think you are missing and which is leading to cross-purpose convers. Tation. You are approaching the question like it's a matter of corporate culture, what's on someone's job description, how well you live up to your resume or whatever. The military doesn't even think about the question like this. The expectations aren't defined by the society that birthed them. They are defined by the mission. Either you can do the mission, or you can't. Darklyre Registered User regular AFAIK the standards for Iraq were "Are you still breathing? If not, can you at least make a good show of it?" poshniallo Registered User regular That isn't actually the way it works though. The expectations are defined by the society that birthed them. I mean, I know zero, absolutely zero, about what fitness standards might be best. But I am sure that, since the military hasn't been treating men and women equally in the past, there is a considerable chance that those standards could use some re-evaluation. Isn't that logical? I get that some military people wouldn't like that, and I understand that too. But it's the same argument as DADT, isn't it? I figure I could take a bear. electricitylikesme wrote: » Well yeah, I'm just answering the idea of a military designed around a mythical all-female force, and how suddenly "men would have the issues." Which is perhaps true, but the reason we don't necessarily see this hypothetical all-female force is because the male-dominated nature is due to the nature of war itself...destruction has always been easier if you're stronger. Even with firearms, this was still to a large extent true...because bigger rounds do more damage. So like SammyF said, and as you seem to be alluding to, the requirements are calibrated to the mission, not necessarily to men. The mission is "destroy things." As it stands, we already find cases where our desire to be able to project force actually outstrips male capabilities as well (leading to injuries and such), and we need to rethink doctrine and equipment to readjust. Worked for 5,56 bro should work for everything. No, it's a bit different from DADT. That's a cultural issue in that some guys are uncomfortable with guys who dig wangs seeing their wang because, like, oh em gee. But gay male soldiers and straight male soldiers don't actually present a different distribution of physical capability that might impact mission performance. Both can still, on average, be expected to sling the same rounds across the bulk of the distribution. Agreed, however, that obviously the expectations can be, and perhaps should be, re-evaluated. I've never maintained otherwise. EDIT: But you have to accept that in some roles, that re-evaluation may conclude that hey, for these roles we kinda still need the bulk of the distribution to be stronger than all but the top percentile or two of women. Bastable wrote: » your views on adultery are messed up man spacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular Fair enough. I may have gotten a little carried away. The institution's high points are obviously it's many victories to protect our country and the world, and killing Osama Bin Laden and defeating the 3rd reich are just high points in an incredibly distinguished history. I also really like that the institution imposes standards on its members. Just one of many reasons that I respect the hell out of our military. rockrnger Registered User regular Sounds like a page turner. It would not necessarily be smaller we would just have to use the tens of thousands of years of experience lifting stuff heavier than we could with just our bare hands. It's not like there has ever been a time when military designers just gave up and went "we are not getting thru that armor with a man portable system" we figure out how a 150 pound guy could do it, I am sure that our hypothetical could get it down to 110 (not that we should in the real world mind you). Likewise with the packs, we make people carry what they are able and then some and then decide what you have to have. Every soldier since Marius had to deal with that but I am sure your bizzaro counterpart would want to know how you get enough calories into a combat zone to feed a 200 pound man. Aside: what do you think about auto loaders on tanks? Always wanted an expert opinion on that. But the main question I would ask you is why isn't the army going the other way, if strength is so important. We could be force feeding soldiers whey protein and cretin and making them lift weights until they could lift twice what they do now. rockrnger on January 2013 It would necessarily be smaller we would just have to use the tens of thousands of years of lifting stuff heavier than we could with just our bear hands. It's not like there has ever been a time when military designers just gave up and went "we are not getting thru that armor with a man portable system" we figure out how a 150 pound guy could do it, I am sure that our hypothetical could get it down to 110 (not that we should in the real world mind you). Likewise with the packs, we make people carry what they are able and then some and then decide what you have to have. Every soldier since Marius had to deal with that but I am sure your bizzaro counterpart would want to know how you get enough calories into a combat zone to feed a 200 pound man. I don't know that I'm an "expert," and I'm likely biased since I've been on non-autoloader tanks, but everything I've seen or read suggests that it's just a tradeoff. Human loaders are slightly faster (to standard...a particularly fast loader is significantly faster). Plus that manpower isn't wasted...you've got an additional machine gun he can man, plus that crewmember can be useful for maintenance, security, or other duties. As for trying to bulk up soldiers, I don't have a particularly educated opinion there, either. I'm guessing it has a lot to do with working with what you have (recruit-wise) with perhaps a side of musculoskeletal problems that might come from attempting to bulk people up who aren't genetically predisposed to it. Dunno, though. For some reason, I got to thinking of this image, and figure some here may not have seen it: Quid isn't the only one reading 40K books. FWIW, the emperor's armies welcome men and women. _J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular So It Goes wrote: » He's really insecure about Mrs. SKFM. Really insecure. _J_ wrote: » That is really uncalled for (and completely false), _J_. You're better than that. My views on adultery are not ontopic for this thread. Suffice to say I are adultery as the one act that is always wrong because there are no non-selfish justifications for it. You can have good, non-selfish reasons to even kill someone (see the army) but adultery is always about the adulterer's own selfish desires, not some external justification. Missed this writing a post. Agreed, 100 percent. If there is a legitimate, physical need for someone to do something for a specific job then it doesn't matter if only men or only women can do that job. I've said it before, but I'll just kinda restate my positions to be clear... Regarding physical limitations, all I'm saying is that I do believe there likely exist tasks which require physical capabilities that approach the extreme of the female distribution, particularly in upper body strength. And probably some that are integral to the job, or which there isn't necessarily some workaround to accommodate. Combat arms positions seem the most likely to be an issue, but honestly I don't know...this is something that'll need to be evaluated in any newly opened positions. That said, the new policy seems to approach this from the right direction. The burden appears to be placed on anybody requesting an exception to justify it, rather than requiring justification to allow women to serve. This is the correct place to put the burden, and it should be treated seriously by all involved. The pregnancy bit was separate. I'm not sure if I made it clear, but I'm not convinced it's actually an issue...which is to say that on the net I'm not sure that female soldiers on average actually see greater periods of nondeployability than males due to pregnancy (or at all). However, much like gun violence it's something that appears to have been intentionally left unstudied for a decade or two, and as we look to increase the positions open to women I think it's crucial to actually look at this issue, and assess the impact and possible responses. Not just to address some supposed shortcoming of female soldiers, but also to help female soldiers. Doubtless there are policies that could be tweaked and programs implemented to aid both single and partnered mothers increase availability and minimize the impact of family obligations on their military duty (and vice versa). And fathers for that matter. Additionally, any "responses" to the issue of nondeployability or losses within deployed units to pregnancy need not be punitive...for instance, in many cases, it could be as simple as a marginal increase in overall strength in any female-heavy MOSs, to ensure that the required number of replacement soldiers are available. Duh. But to determine this, you have to study the issue. Right now the military seems to think a policy of willful ignorance is safest. And given some of the institutional misogyny that still exists, they may not be wrong. But that needs to change. That is really uncalled for (and completely false) I just noticed, "adultery is THE ONE ACT that is always wrong" Logically, rape is not always wrong is skfm todd akin by any chance? Shivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Eastern coastal temptressRegistered User regular Egret wrote: » A lot of people think that. Especially with respect to prison rape. A lot of people are terrible. Also, I do think there's some conversation to be had around any specific role where a non-zero, but incredibly low, number of women are capable of performing the job. Like, hypothetically, if only half a percent of women are physically capable of meeting the standard at some task that can't be tweaked after re-evaluation, do we still open that position? Obviously the feminist side of me says of course we do...if even one woman is capable, she should be allowed to perform the duty. Duh. On the other hand, are there legitimate reasions that allowing such a low number of female soldiers into a combat environment could present issues? Like, I can imagine that in some cases a skewed enough ratio would present the issue, not females as a binary value...where a 50:50 or 30:70 ratio might be acceptable (if enough capable females could be found), but for whatever reason having a single female out of a thousand just isn't justifiable due to...issues. But at this point it's imagination. I can't clearly detail any actual example. At least nothing significant enough to warrant exclusion...I have noticed some difficulties we had on a FOB that had about twenty females out of seven hundred, that wouldn't have been present at a more equitable ratio, but nothing serious enough to justify imposing a "penis test" on positions. All I'm saying is that I'm open to the idea that an exclusion should be justified on these grounds. But again, I think the burden needs to be placed on those seeking the exclusion, and I don't think we should accept any half-assed arguments. Consider me extremely skeptical of such a justification. I'm certainly not interested in any hand-waving towards "cohesion!!!1!" Not that discipline and unit cohesion aren't serious concerns, but honestly I feel like as with DADT it's more of an attempt to maintain the clubhouse mentality, where we get to call each other fags and make rape jokes all day. Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud bear with us as we do some "rebranding" Registered User regular Not that discipline and unit cohesion aren't serious concerns, but honestly I feel like as with DADT it's more of an attempt to maintain the clubhouse mentality, where we get to call each other fags and make rape jokes all day. PLAY GWENT WITH MEEEEE https://playgwent.com/en/invite-a-friend/7BN8VIJJHT Ultimately, I think our military is too important to lose any amount of usefulness for fairness. So if one woman doesn't get her dream job because it would actually hurt the ability of a unit to do their job, that is a fine trade off. The goal of bring women into the military shouldn't be political correctness (hate that phrase but it works here.) The goal is to double the number of potential soldiers and raise the quality of our troops. except for when we don't let them even try for the position that doesn't raise the quality or double our potential I agree w/mcdermott, and phrasing it the way you did "one lady doesn't get a dream job boo hoo" is a bit callous I would say the one plausible concern is that if a given position does actually seem to screen out all but a tiny percentage of women, standards will be adjusted in a way that actually reduces military effectiveness in order to achieve some greater gender parity. On the one hand, this is pretty much what 'cists always say about affirmative action...that we wind up lowering standards for the disadvantaged group, harming everybody. On the other hand, in this case you are dealing with actual demonstrable biological differences (unlike with, say, black folks and the book learnin') that only the most extreme of feminists really try to deny. So it's at least a legitimate concern. But plausible doesn't mean likely. And yeah, still skeptical. It's callous, but honestly when it comes to this stuff I don't think that's really a bad thing. Thin skins aren't welcome in the military, so yeah if there's one female soldier who really wants to be a Ranger, and even if she'd be a perfectly decent Ranger, if allowing her alone to serve as a Ranger somehow hampers unit effectiveness then yeah...boo hoo. Not everybody who's capable gets to be a Ranger as it is. As long as we place an appropriately high burden of proof on "hampers unit effectiveness," I'm happy. EDIT: Basically, at this point I start channelling the good parts (and they are few) of Jack Nicholson's character from A Few Good Men, Colonel Jessup. "Hampering unit effectiveness," in this context, means people die. On the other hand, I'm now stuck trying to square that with my position on gun control, where I'm willing to make tradeoffs of avoidable deaths in exchange for greater freedoms. So there's that. we open all positions to women certain elite group's standards are applied to women. fewer women can pass this standard than men so the ratio of men to women in this group is 20/80. or even 10/90. now, saying "welp i guess we can't let women do that job because the culture is such that they will be harassed because they are in the minority" is just a reinforcement of culture that should never exist in the first place. it's like loving v. virginia where one of the arguments was that interracial children will be subject to increased bullying or psychological harm because other people are assholes about it. the only way to change that prejudice in society? MORE INTERRACIAL CHILDREN! "hampers unit effectiveness" cannot be predicated on prejudices or misogyny that already exists. other than that, I can't come up with a good reason that a woman who passes all the same standards can't be effective. I guess we'll have to see what they come up with. Pretty much. I'm all ears as to a justification that might be legitimate, but I can't come up with one, and I'd be unsurprised if none exist. EDIT: And I'm in total agreement that institutional misogyny cannot be considered as a justification. And yeah, I'm just unable to even imagine a logical framework aside from institutional misogyny for barring a capable individual, other than the concern I mention above (that once one individual is present, there's the risk that standards could be lowered to try and raise that number). I really don't think there is one. Syrdon Registered User regular My understanding of the answer to this comes in a few parts: 1) There seem to be issues getting everyone up to current PT standards. This strikes me as more of a leadership issue than anything else, but it should probably be handled before you raise those. 2) It's more expensive than what we're already doing, I suspect enough more that DARPA programs are a cheaper alternative 2a) Also, getting this implemented seems like a bureaucratic nightmare in which you have to pick a bunch of values that manage cost and efficiency. 3) We can sort of get by with what have. Not well, but its not a problem that desperately needs fixed. 4ish) There's probably a public relations issue that you'd need to deal with, along the lines of getting crap for training super soldiers. I'm explaining this one poorly, but basically I think there's a hurdle in getting a substantial portion of the Army to significantly above normal fit people and not creeping the public out. 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__label__cc	0.571254	0.428746	Penny Arcade Forums › Games and Technology [Anthem] Early Access is live. Please mark spoilers. God speed, Freelancers. cloudeagle Registered User regular Ninja Snarl P wrote: » cloudeagle wrote: » So if you were annoyed by the lack of narrative agency at the end of Mass Effect 3, prepare to hate this game. Well, they aren't pitching this game as a piece of a multi-part franchise alongside promises of player choices having major effects in the overall story, then throwing away all of those choices for some incredibly terribad options with virtually no subtlety or player influence outside some very broad, very bad choices. As long as they're just up-front with what they're actually putting in the game instead of blowing mountains of smoke, there shouldn't be any issues. It's obviously not meant to be like Mass Effect originally claimed to be, so who cares if it doesn't have much in the way of character choices? Clearly just isn't a priority of the game design, and it's not like they're trying to trick anyone into buying the game. I'm fine if they're upfront with it being shooty first and narrative a relatively distant second, but “a reinvention of personal narrative in a multiplayer game” is edging into Molyneux-level expectation-building. cloudeagle on September 2018 Switch: 3947-4890-9293 Ninja Snarl P My helmet is my burden. Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered User regular Eh, they're owned by EA, they're just about contractually required to lay on the hype speak pretty thick. Bioware has been pretty clearly been veering increasingly away from story towards action for many years now. At best, I'd expect a serviceable story, with the bulk of the attention obviously given to the gameplay. But they can't just come out and say something like that as an EA property, they have to always talk about the game like it will be the most mind-blowing thing every on every front. Xeddicus Registered User regular To be fair, NO ONE is going to come out and say their game is just OK or lacking in parts, EA or not. EA and BioWare's history just isn't helping. "For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men. Not women. Not beasts...this you can trust." SeGaTai Registered User regular The game is 100% going to be as much story as destiny but they continue to be asked if there characters and stories that only work in rpgs PSN SeGaTai Jeep-Eep Registered User regular This is before the constant hemorrhage of experienced personnel, some going back to the very beginning that Anthem has been happening alongside. There are many signs that bioware and this project are both deathly ill. I would rather be accused of intransigence than tolerating genocide for the sake of everyone getting along. - @Metzger Meister I wouldn't count the game out yet... Destiny 2 appears to be faltering, if its inclusion as a free game for PS+ members this month is anything to go on. (the free games tend to be MUCH older than Destiny 2 is now.) That could make room for Anthem to pick up an audience. ...or maybe all the Destiny 2 people are playing Fortnite now and will ignore Anthem. Whichever. It's been shedding folks for years in a very telling way, and the resource drain was a significant factor in the failure of ME:A - and it shares another major factor, namely a temperamental, under-tested, ill-understood engine that is simply unready for anything technically adventurous, let alone this! You remember that foboff at E3? HexDex Registered User regular Giving away the base Destiny 2 game, without any of the expansions or the upcoming Forsaken expansion is pretty meaningless. Consider it an extended beta to see if the formula is up your alley. You still need to buy the expansions to actually have "The Game." It being "free" with PS+ is as close to an empty gesture as you can possibly get by both Sony and Activsion. If you are reading this add me. D3: HexDex#1281, PSN: DireOtter, Live: DireOtter Forar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular I just hope that if there are challenges and snags and rushed elements, that they have the sense to add a quarter or two to the release date. After the fiasco that was ME:A's launch (simply noting it happened, and I'm aware of the caveats and elements that were blown out of proportion), I do hope they can openly and transparently note 'hey, we know delays suck, but this needs another half year to bake to perfection, etc, etc' if necessary. It shouldn't need saying, really, but they should release a quality product they are happy with, not something rushed out to meet an arbitrary release schedule (and I'm also aware it might not just be arbitrary, that contracts and arrangements to put out a major release aren't something one just half asses over a weekend). As before, I remain cautiously optimistic, with a healthy sense of skepticism and slightly wary unease. Like, my friends will definitely be getting this, and I likely will as well, but my native land is on the PC, they're on the PS4, and thus far the word is that there won't be crossplay compatibility, at least at launch. So going in for a PS4 edition and potentially finding myself alone with it a few months later makes it a tougher call. It'd help if the account info allows us to play on either platform, even if PC users can't play with PS4 users in game, or something, though I probably shouldn't expect much out of that either. First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER! HexDex wrote: » Although somehow Destiny 1 never went free. And apparently 85 percent of Destiny's player base bailed by February. Unless things have somehow significantly turned around by then, something's up. Whether that's good news or bad news for Anthem, we'll just have to see. Preacher Registered User regular People have been decrying anthem is dead before they have touched it at all. Every impression of gameplay by people who have played it is pretty universally positive, there'll be a demo or something in february before release right? So calm down and actually play it before deciding the game like totally sucks. I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine. Http:// pleasepaypreacher.net GMaster7 Chili Dog Enthusiast Registered User regular I think (and hope, more than think) that a lot of these games-as-a-service devs have learned a ton from the way Bungie bungled D1 and D2, and from the way they've made improvements at times, and from the way they've been horrible with their messaging, etc. Lessons abound. Massive/Ubi were certainly better than Bungie with how they improved the Division's undercooked base game and communicated that to players. It was too little too late for some. I'm sure Bioware/EA have seen what kinds of things have resulted in praise for Bungie and upticks in playerbase numbers, and what things have had the opposite effect. Worth noting that D2 has had a free trial mode (missions on two planets, MP quickplay, and progression up to level 7) since Nov. 2017 (two months after release) and that D1 had a similar free trial mode introduced in Nov. 2014 (two months after release). No question that D2 has had a huge population dropoff that has occurred much faster than D1. It'll be interesting to see what happens with Forsaken. You can only jerk people around so much before they move on permanently. PSN: SKI2000G \| Steam: GMaster7 \| Battle.net: GMaster7#1842 \| Twitch: twitch.tv/SKI2000G The My name if byf interview touched on that a bit, the dev said that you want to have truth to your vision so you don't necessarily want to be playing follow or avoid the leader, but he also said they'd be pretty bad if they didn't at least see what worked/what didn't, and where their competitors misstepped. I mean story dlc being free and no loot boxes just what you see is what you get paid cosmetics is pretty much avoiding destiny 2's opening debacle. Not having a PvP mode as well slots over a good amount of extra dev time and not needing to worry about tuning weapons for both modes I think will help a lot in making the progression more enjoyable. D1 PvP was a blast but if I get 20% more things to blow up while pretending I'm Iron man I don't think I'll notice shoeboxjeddy Registered User regular They're giving away Destiny 2 in order to sell Forsaken. Other companies do very similar things, giving away the old Forza just as the new comes out, that kind of thing. Fencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular Preacher wrote: » Yeah, the thing that gets me is that everyone who touched it as far as I have seen have had really positive things to say about it. Fencingsax wrote: » And that's gameplay, story I play once, gameplay keeps me coming back, that's the gold. Like I enjoy the ME story, but what has had them be replayable even the first one is the gameplay. HappylilElf Registered User regular Yup I didn't play through ME 1-3 a half dozen times because of the story, I did it because they're fun to play. The story helped but once I'd seen once it I'd pretty much seen it all. I think Anthem will probably have a very fun campaign but be completely dead in the water as a "service," when it comes out, like The Division 1. I don't think Bioware is ready for the demands of this at all. No PvP is a large hint, because it's a lot of work to make, but then infinitely churning content to keep players attached to the game after that. Not having it is... what's a term that means short sighted but with extreme emphasis? AspectVoid Registered User regular shoeboxjeddy wrote: » I gotta disagree with you. This isn't Bioware's first dip into the service field. The have The Old Republic, after all. I think they know exactly what they are getting into with this. Of course there will be people who rush, rush, rush, and complain about there being nothing when they put 40 or 50 hours into the game in the first three days. There's no way to escape that. But I think Bioware's experience with TOR means they have the first few months of content already planned out so that they are introducing something new to do every couple of weeks. PSN\|AspectVoid Forar wrote: » This has already happened once openly, not counting the ones behind the scenes. I don't know if EA will give them another if they need it, and [url="https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/24/16929154/bioware-anthem-delay-ea-electronic-arts[/url] bioware has basically stated that the future of the studio is staked on it. No pvp is a choice, not every game needs it, not every game lives and dies on it. They are already talking about post release content, again lets see where the game goes, lets see how people are before we assume its a failure. AspectVoid wrote: » Yes, the Old Republic, which famously crashed and burned from a full price subscription game to a free-to-play game, largely because of its incompetent end game once players finished the by-all-accounts above average campaign section. I... didn't base my assessment on nothing you know? Well, if you consider being profitable for 7 years crashing and burning...I don't know what to tell you. Because The Old Republic is still there, still profitable, and still getting patches and expansions. 7 years seems like a solid length of time for a service game to me. The problem with that theory is there's a LOT of Destiny 2 to play before you have to buy an expansion. Granted the hope is that they eventually buy, but this really smacks of a bit of a desperation move, especially as popular as Destiny 1 was. Trajan45 Registered User regular Also we are talking lessons learned. It doesn't matter if it crashed and burned, if they learned from the issues that format had. As others have mentioned, the game just looks fun. Maybe it's not something I'll stick with, but outside of some major launch issues, I'll be giving it a shot when it launches. Origin ID\ Steam ID: Warder45 The assumption was that the Star Wars IP would make this an MMO akin to a WoW killer. Instead, it turned out to be not even Bioware's most notable game. I don't know how long it took them to get out of the red from development costs alone. Maybe that will come up in the sequel to Jason Schreirer's game dev book, who knows. Certainly there have been bigger MMO failures and Old Republic turned out to be a marketable game. But calling it a success story is a bit much. I avtually don't want multiplayer, because balancing the crazy shit it looks like you can do tends to make that stuff less meaningful Fencingsax on September 2018 Aegis Not Quite TorontoRegistered User regular I'm happy that the short gameplay video last page decided to feature quite a bit of flying action shots. Makes me hopeful that it's going to more involved in terms of the combat gameplay than a short burst of flight every so often. We'll see how long this blog lasts Currently DMing: None [5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 \| HP 40 \| Melee +5/1d8+3 \| Spell +4/DC 12 Aegis wrote: » I think some frames use it more than others. Like there's for lack of a better phrase wizard style ranged dps frame that they've shown doing more aerial attacks, where as the tanky frame seems to have limited jet usage. We do know you can fly through water to reset the cooldown on your jets overheating, or they did that in the E3 demo dunno if that'll remain in the game. I've got over 1,000 hours clocked into Warframe, approximately 1 of those was spent in the PVP. I've end-game raided, collected every frame and almost every weapon (up until a few recent releases), I'd never declare it a game mastered, but one I've become quite proficient in. So count me among those who don't really care if PVP is implemented. I wouldn't begrudge anyone for wanting it, or for Bioware to commit to it being in the game (at release or later), but it's not a driving factor for me. I know that PVP is the hot shit thing that brings some people into the fold, the CoD/BF/BR/PUBG/whatever crowd that are looking for the hot new thing. The next Evolve or whatever, and hopefully it won't be a flash in the pan that loses like 90% of its playerbase within a quarter or two once the next hot shit thing comes out. Granted, there's nothing wrong with a game having a satisfying duration in the 5-20 hour range that tells the story it means to, but at the same time, some games like Diablo or Warframe or X-Com can keep me back for orders of magnitude longer. I think that's actually kind of the crux of the matter. I look at a game like Horizon Zero Dawn; I've beaten it twice, and am working on my third clear of it. That's dozens of hours of enjoyment, and I think the account is somewhere around 160-200 hours now total (including faffing about, exploring, pondering over upgrades, trying challenges a dozen times to get them, etc), but not every game needs to become a lifestyle choice. Even games that just want me to tap in for 2-20 minutes to get my 'dailies' done are starting to grate a little. Just between a handful of games, ones 'gaming chores' can add up to an hour or more easily each day, and more companies seem hellbent on giving us direct or indirect incentives that edge upon completionist tendencies, fear of missing out, whatever. What I think I'm trying to get at is that I loved ME 1-3 (and even enjoyed elements of Andromeda) for being tight, contained, complete games. Sure, ME3 MP got hundreds of hours of extra attention, and had the little weekly events and whatnot, but more and more developers and games seem to be trying to become pervasive beyond weeks and even months, into the years, which can become massive 'value' when one compares dollars spent to hours played, but also can lead to obnoxious intentionally extended mechanics, in ways that strive to take over our free time in a mutually exclusive fashion. Apologies if I'm getting a little far afield here, just a couple of thoughts that have been percolating for a while, possibly a thread or two that I should just create and see where they go. I am optimistic, I can't wait to see more about the game, but at the same time, even if they're learning from others successes and mistakes, at the same time, they were looking at Lootboxes, and then stopped when the internet shat itself over Battlefront 2's bullshit. I'm glad they learned, but I distinctly recall they were at least leaning in that direction. They learned from the outrage over ME3's ending and I found Andromeda's to avoid many (if not all) of those pitfalls, and yet as an 'open world game' I found it lacking at times, which makes Anthem being "open world" not exactly a selling feature. I trust the impressions of others over my imagined fears and concerns, but in this era of marketing, I'm also not willing to take everything said fully at face value either (having a beta in February (if then) certainly helps with that). Forar on September 2018 Frem Registered User regular I mean, you can play base Destiny 2 for quite a while, especially if you really get into the PvP. But you can be done with the main story in a dozen hours and just about everything is kinda pushing you towards The Next Thing You Can Buy, from the final cut-scene in the base campaign, to some of Xur's wares being inaccessible if you don't own the right DLC/expansion, to gated weekly missions, to slowed progress towards the base game's (low) level cap, to literal upsell advertisements on the solar system map. Steam \| Blog \| Mastodon \| BoardGameGeek \| Game library And it was the Storm frame I was thinking of, the wizard elemental frame that uses flight more. Like when they sprint they just hover over the ground. I think that'll be my starting main frame, just because being able to drop lightning on things is always my jam. shryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular It's an MMO with DLC as the subscription. That's basically the model. And lo, a new expansion is coming out as we speak. They are giving it away for free now, actually like almost a week early since it's a September free game that dropped in late August, because they just dropped a big pre-patch for the next expansion and they are trying to get people to log on, get hooked on the new changes and then buy the new expansion. It's just a marketing exercise. http://steamcommunity.com/id/Crocodylus_Pontifex Kotaku has more details on story stuff. The big takeaways: Conversational stuff generally only has two choices (not yes/no, but generally opposite) that affect how your relationships form No decisions that affect story during missions Decisions you make with NPCs won't create or lock off content "Limited character creation options" with some backstory Vendors will give you their story ("I have a very tragic reason I'm selling you guns") “A reinvention of personal narrative in a multiplayer game,” whatever the hell that means This is interesting. A little disappointing but also kind of expected. They are straining at the limits of what you can do with a persistent multiplayer world experience in regards to storytelling, which is territory MMOs have done a fairly good job at this point of mapping the extents of. I was hoping for a bit more interactivity back home but it does end up feeling kind of artificial to, like, permanently get rid of a cetain NPC who also gives missions and then have a replacement giving the exact same missions just pop up in their place.* I'm generally kind of suspicious at this point how narrative driven this whole thing is gonna end up being. *Although thinking about it, it would be hilarious to have like a faceless larger entity send some generic NPC to hand you missions that you can kill and they just keep getting replaced each time you return with a different NPC with a different name that does the exact same thing. shryke on September 2018 Obviously with a large enough group, there'll be overlap. I think there's at least 6-8 of us who are likely to get the game, so a lot of doubling up on 'main' frames is likely to occur (at least in terms of focus of time and resources), but knowing my crew, I'm striving to keep my mind open and likely try to fill whatever gap we might end up with. Likely support of some sort, if by frame or focus on other elements of the game (I'm assuming it'll even be possible, that is). Edit: interesting, I didn't know this. From the wiki: "By default, the Ranger is the first javelin obtained by The Freelancer. The others can be earned in non-sequential order within the first quarter of the main story." Yeah makes sense I believe the ranger is the jack of all frames, so as far as a default tutorial that synchs up. I mean you'll have all frames and much like destiny it'll probably be smart to level and use them all just to fill gaps. And really I shouldn't commit till I actually play a frame and go "oh yeah this is my jam." Video going over recent tweets, blueprints for crafting aren't drops, there are set pieces that will grant you bonus's to stuff, and you can get a perk to have a larger pick up radius for loot. Limited face options but we get to choose a specific voice, that's an interesting detail. Preacher on September 2018 shryke wrote: » That somehow never got done with the better-performing Destiny 1. They are learning. The point of an MMO-style game is always to sell the latest content. It's why a lot of games even let you skip past all the previous stuff.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1390
__label__cc	0.647222	0.352778	daydreamnation About daydreamnation Your 2009 Summer Under the Stars Wishlist daydreamnation replied to sweetsmellofsuccess's topic in General Discussions Paul Newman William Holden Robert Ryan Robert Montgomery Robert Walker Gloria Grahame Deborah Kerr Carole Lombard Judy Holliday Peter Sellers Fredric March Julie Christie Richard Basehart Tom Courtenay Alan Arkin Albert Finney Rosalind Russell Leslie Howard John Cassavetes John Garfield Richard Widmark Joan Fontaine Jean Simmons Jean Seberg Cary Grant Gregory Peck Robert Shaw Lee Remick Bette Davis Barbara Stanwyck Montgomery Clift If I hadn't already seen almost all their movies, Ingrid and Audrey would be on the list, and if it were only possible - Gene Tierney TCM Remembers 2008/Deaths of 2008 daydreamnation replied to Chimerical's topic in General Discussions Awww . . . you're nice! I saw all your posts about Brad - I like you! lol For the past year, unless I've been on a Brad messageboard (unfortunately it's happened there too), I've gotten so used to people constantly bashing him. That's why I'm always pleasantly surprised to find people like you who ARE fans and only have good things to say about him. And thanks for posting the picture of beautiful Brad. I'm still sad about Brad's passing (I was never a big fan of Heath so his death didn't upset me too much). What's worse than him being overshadowed by Ledger's death is the fact that when he was mentioned, more times than not it was in a negative way. He was generally brushed off by the media, and many people felt compelled to post incredibly cruel and hurtful comments about him. Which breaks my heart because from all accounts, he was a really sweet, caring guy. I've always thought he was such a unique talent and I hate that he hasn't really been given credit for it. Sorry, I could rant about this for days..... but I won't. lol > {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote} > TCM Year End Obit 2008 TCM Remembers I'm So happy that Brad Renfro gets a nod!! Me too. I always adored that guy. I LOVE TCM for not overlooking him because that's happened way too much. People can think what they want about him, but he was very talented and deserves to be remembered for that. TCM Poor Programming daydreamnation replied to GABullDogg's topic in General Discussions Tales of Hoffmann is sooooo boring. I rented it once and could only get halfway through it. But The Red Shoes is much better. [b]The List[/b] daydreamnation replied to hlywdkjk's topic in General Discussions In no particular order: The Terminator Se7en L.A. Confidential All About Eve The L-Shaped Room The Parent Trap Pickup On South Street Heavens Above Pollyanna Wild is the Wind My All Time Favorite Cary Grant Movie daydreamnation replied to cgslinger's topic in Your Favorites Definitely North By Northwest! Followed closely by Charade and Notorious. Top/Bottom Five actors/actresses whose movies you watch/don't watch... daydreamnation replied to ILoveRayMilland's topic in Your Favorites Thank you! I especially don't get the appeal of Brando and Hepburn. Never have, never will. Your favorite 80s movies? daydreamnation replied to Film_Fatale's topic in Your Favorites Alright I'm an idiot. I thought Tremors was 1989. I was a kid in the 80's so there are a lot of teen movies on the list: Adventures In Babysitting Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Pretty in Pink Ferris Bueller's Day Off Heathers Breakfast Club Sixteen Candles Some Kind of Wonderful Better Off Dead Valley Girl The Shining Near Dark The Lost Boys Tremors Clue Say Anything Footloose Bad Boys On Golden Pond 9 to 5 The Terminator Pee-Wee's Big Adventure This is Spinal Tap National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Stranger Than Paradise The Ninth Configuration Midnight Run The Big Chill Steel Magnolias Parenthood Empire of the Sun A Christmas Story Goonies Legend of Billie Jean Just One of the Guys Can't Buy Me Love Superman II Back To the Future Mask Stand By Me Full Metal Jacket Desperately Seeking Susan River's Edge Running On Empty Shy People Return of the Seacaucus Seven Top: Paul Newman William Holden Robert Ryan Audrey Hepburn Ingrid Bergman Honorable mention: Gene Tierney, Robert Montgomery, Robert Walker, Gloria Grahame, Carole Lombard, Peter Sellers, Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Bette Davis, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alan Arkin, Cary Grant, John Cassavetes, Judy Holliday Bottom: John Wayne Charlton Heston Gary Cooper Joan Crawford Marilyn Monroe Honorable mention: Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, Steve McQueen, Lana Turner, Jennifer Jones, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn Thank you so much TCM for including Brad Renfro in the tribute, and not snubbing him like the Oscars did. I was afraid he would be left out again and I'm glad you were respectful enough to not let that happen. Message was edited by: daydreamnation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1392
__label__wiki	0.952547	0.952547	SF SCHOOL INSIDE THE GALLERY Manuel Neri B: Sanger, CA 1930 California native Manuel Neri was born in 1930 to immigrant parents who fled from Mexico during a time of political unrest. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts and later at the California School of Fine Arts. His mentors included Bay Area abstract expressionists Elmer Bischoff, David Park, and Nathan Oliveira, amongst others. Initially sculpting in wire and plaster, Neri also works with bronze, marble, graphite, oil-stick, and plaster. He continues to work and exhibit internationally. 1959 Spatsa Gallery 1972 Davis Art Center 1976 The Oakland Museum of California 1977 Crocker Art Museum 1979 Gallery Paule Anglim 1980 Richmond Art Center 1981 The Art Museum Association 1981 The Mexican Museum 1989 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1992 John Berggruen Gallery 1995 Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art 1996 Corcoran Gallery of Art 1997 Galerie Claude Samuel, France 1997 San Jose Museum of Art 2005 Fine Arts Museums of California 2007 Hackett-Freedman 2008 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art 1977 Smithsonian Institution 1978 Everson Museum of Art 1984 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 1985 Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1988 Bronx Museum of the Arts 1991 M.H. de Young Memorial Museum 1995 The Whitney Museum of American Art 1995 California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1997 Walker Art Center 2000 Los Angeles County Museum of Art San Diego Museum of Art The Oakland Museum of California Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Corcoran Gallery of Art El Paso Museum of Art Laumier Sculpture Park and Museum Neuberger Museum of Art GRANTS AND AWARDS: 1953 Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA. First Award in Sculpture 1957 Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA. Purchase Award in Painting 1959 Nealie Sullivan Award, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 1963 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 82nd Annual Sculpture Award 1965 National Art Foundation Award 1970-75 University of California, Davis, CA. Sculpture Grant 1979 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY. Artist Fellowship 1980 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC. Individual Artist Grant 1982 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY. Academy-Institute Award in Art 1985 San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA. Award of Honor for Outstanding Achievement in Sculpture 1990 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Honorary Doctorate for Outstanding Achievement in Sculpture 1992 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA. Honorary Doctorate 1995 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC. Honorary Doctorate 1999 Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA. Distinguished Artist Award 2006 International Sculpture Center, Washington, DC. Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture 2008 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. Bay Area Treasure Award *(for a complete list of exhibitions and more information, please inquire to gallery) Manuel Neri, 1974 Foster-Gwin 38 Hotaling Place San Francisco California 94111 Phone: 415.397.4986 Facsimile: 415.397.4988 Email: info@fostergwin.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1393
__label__wiki	0.526198	0.526198	Trump administration now says entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down Posted 7:13 AM, March 26, 2019, by CNN Wire, Updated at 07:34AM, March 26, 2019 The Trump administration on Monday said the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down, in a dramatic reversal. In a filing with a federal appeals court, the Justice Department said it agreed with the ruling of a federal judge in Texas that invalidated the Obama-era health care law. In a letter Monday night, the administration said “it is not urging that any portion of the district court’s judgment be reversed.” “The Department of Justice has determined that the district court’s comprehensive opinion came to the correct conclusion and will support it on appeal,” said Kerri Kupec, spokesperson for the Justice Department. Cyclone Idai: Fears for 500,000 people as 90% of Mozambique city destroyed, aid officials say It’s a major shift for the Justice Department from when Jeff Sessions was attorney general. At the time, the administration argued that the community rating rule and the guaranteed issue requirement — protections for people with pre-existing conditions — could not be defended but the rest of the law could stand. After the Justice Department took that position, federal District Judge Reed O’Connor struck down the entire law and the case is currently before a federal appeals court. Trump and the administration repeatedly promised — particularly leading up to the midterm election — to protect people with less-than-perfect medical histories. But this shift in the Justice Department’s stance doubles down on stripping away all the protections that were a hallmark of the landmark heath reform law. Overturning the law would have far-reaching consequences — way beyond disrupting coverage for the millions of people who get their health insurance on the exchanges or through Medicaid expansion. Virginia mother takes to Facebook to find kidney for her 12-year-old son Obamacare saves senior citizens money on their Medicare coverage and prescription drugs. It lets many Americans obtain free birth control, mammograms and cholesterol tests. And it allows children to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans until they turn 26. And, even the Trump administration is using the landmark health reform law to try to lower prescription drug prices. The Trump administration would not defend the law in court so a coalition of 21 Democratic states led by California stepped in. “This lawsuit is as dangerous as it is reckless. It threatens the healthcare of tens of millions of Americans across the country — from California to Kentucky and all the way to Maine,” said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in a statement. “The Affordable Care Act is an integral part of our healthcare system. … Because no American should fear losing healthcare, we will defend the ACA every step of the way.” Warning: Top dangerous foods for young children After November’s midterm elections, the Democratic-led House of Representatives also moved to defend the law. In briefs filed with the appellate court, House lawyers said that if O’Connor’s ruling were upheld “the consequences will be devastating.” “Millions of Americans will be denied affordable health care,” the House lawyers wrote. They added that “insurance costs will skyrocket” and “Medicare recipients will face steep increases in the price of drugs and other services.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the administration’s stance amounted to “all-out war on the health care of the American people.” “On the very first day that the Democratic Majority held the gavel, the House of Representatives voted to intervene against Republicans’ monstrous health care lawsuit to defend people with pre-existing conditions and the health care of all Americans,” Pelosi said in a statement. “While the Trump Administration broadens its monstrous ambitions from destroying protections for pre-existing conditions to tearing down every last benefit and protection the Affordable Care Act provides, Democrats are fiercely defending the law of the land and protecting all Americans’ health care.” Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat, became the first 2020 candidate to weigh in on the filing with her criticism Monday night. During Attorney General William Barr’s confirmation hearing in January, Harris asked him whether he was open to reconsidering the department’s position. He replied: “Yes.” “Trump and his administration are trying to take health care away from tens of millions of Americans — again,” Harris wrote in a tweet. “We must fight back again with everything we’ve got. And in 2020, we need to elect a president who will make health care a right.” Topics: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Health, healthcare Trump administration proposes rule that allows faith-based child welfare groups to exclude LGBTQ families Appeals court throws out lawsuit by children seeking to force action on climate crisis Ex-White House lawyer McGahn ordered to comply with subpoena US judge blocks Trump’s health insurance rule for immigrants Trump to sign order to interpret Judaism as a nationality Trump wants Supreme Court to block subpoena for his taxes Split Supreme Court appears ready to allow Trump to end DACA Appeals court skeptical of Trump’s effort to block subpoena for his tax returns Trump aims to crack down on anti-Semitism on college campuses using civil rights protections Trump could be impeached again, House committee warns Historic Supreme Court arguments Tuesday in LGBTQ workplace rights dispute Judge rejects Trump moral-objection rule for health care	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1394
__label__wiki	0.9696	0.9696	2 dead, 44 hurt in bus crash in Mississippi BYHALIA, Miss. — The Latest on the winter storm hitting parts of the South (all times local): A Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman says two people are dead and 44 others have been injured aboard a tour bus that overturned on an icy highway in the northern part of the state near Memphis. Sgt. Joey Miller with Troop E of the Mississippi Highway Patrol says in a statement that the bus was carrying 46 people in all and that the crash was “weather-related.” He did not elaborate in the statement emailed to The Associated Press but said the injured were taking to several hospitals and were suffering a wide variety of injuries. The crash came as a pre-winter storm dropped sleet and light snow on parts of the South. The statement says the bus was southbound on Interstate 269 in Mississippi’s Desoto County — headed from Huntsville, Alabama, to Tunica, Mississippi — when it crashed at 12:35 p.m. A tow truck has been hooked up to the tour bus that overturned on an icy route southeast of Memphis in a pre-winter storm. Authorities say two people died and several others were hurt, some critically, when the bus overturned shortly after midday Wednesday in northern Mississippi. The region is southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. An Associated Press reporter says the red tour bus with white and gray stripes has most of its windows missing and that an odor of gasoline still hung on the air hours after Wednesday’s crash. The bus had suffered damage including large scratches on the driver’s side of the vehicle. Workers also are clearing the highway of debris and some of the crashed-out windows could be seen resting on the median. Traffic headed west on Interstate 269 near the crash site in northern Mississippi remained closed for hours after the crash though eastbound traffic had resumed by Wednesday afternoon. At least eight police vehicles remained on the scene. A coroner says two people have died and several others are injured, some critically, after a tour bus overturned on an icy highway ramp in northern Mississippi. DeSoto County sheriff’s deputy Alex Coker said the tour bus carrying about 50 people overturned just after midday Wednesday south of Memphis, Tennessee. The crash came as a winter storm has been raking parts of the South. The county coroner, Josh Pounders, says two people are confirmed dead in the crash where Interstate 269 meets with Interstate 22. He says that the injured have been taken to area hospitals, some in critical condition. The Mississippi Department of Transportation reports that Interstate 269 in closed in both directions at the interchange. The road agency reports icing on roads and bridges in 10 north Mississippi counties from a winter storm raking parts of the South. The planned launch of an unmanned cargo rocket from Virginia to the International Space Station has been rescheduled because of bad weather. NASA says the launch is now set for 4:23 a.m. Friday. Blastoff was originally scheduled for early Thursday morning. The unmanned Cygnus cargo craft will lift off from Wallops Island along the Eastern Shore. It will carry 7,500 pounds of groceries, hardware and research. One of the science experiments onboard will explore how the universe formed from stardust. Another will explore the pathology of Parkinson’s disease. Yet another involves the sustainable fabrication and repair of plastic materials on lengthy space missions. NASA TV will stream the launch on its website. Visitors can watch the launch from the NASA Wallops Visitor Center grounds and bleachers. A wintry mix of snow and sleet has led to early closings of schools, churches and museums in west Tennessee. The National Weather Service said trace amounts of snow had fallen in Memphis and west Tennessee cities by Wednesday afternoon. More snow was forecast to fall Wednesday night and Thursday in the region, with up to 3 inches (7 centimeters) possible in areas such as Dyersburg and Paris. Threat of inclement weather and deteriorating traffic conditions led Jackson State Community College to dismiss afternoon classes. Some schools in Shelby County also did not open or closed early due to heating issues. News outlets reported that Shelby County Schools called off after-school activities and Tennessee College of Applied Technology canceled evening classes. Sleet and light snow fell in Mississippi, where a tour bus overturned a slick road as lingering precipitation mixed with cold temperatures to send the Deep South into the freezer Wednesday, and forecasters said other places also could get a wintry mix. After days of heavy rain and storms along a cold front, flurries left a thin layer of snow atop vehicles in western Mississippi overnight, and a Mississippi River bridge turned white in Greenville, Mississippi. New outlets reported that several people were hurt when a tour bus overturned on a slick highway in DeSoto County, Mississippi, south of south of Memphis, Tennessee, where after-school activities were canceled because of the weather. The Mississippi Department of Transportation said there were reports of ice on roads and bridges in adjoining counties. Forecasters say light snow and freezing rain are possible as far as the northwest corner of Alabama, but no accumulation is expected as a winter storm sweeps across parts of the South. Low temperatures dropped into the 20s, and forecasters say the chilly weather will spread. The National Weather Service issued a freeze warning for Louisiana through western Alabama as far south as the Gulf Coast into Thursday. Forecasters say temperatures could drop into the upper 20s. A flash flood watch remained in effect for north Georgia and the Carolinas, which forecaster say could get another 3 inches (8 centimeters) of rain. With wind chills in New Orleans predicted to drop as low as 29 degrees, officials activated the city’s “freeze plan” Wednesday, arranging for free shelter at several locations for homeless people. Official: At least 5 dead, 60 injured in massive crash on Pennsylvania Turnpike outside of Pittsburgh Storms sweep southern US, Midwest as death toll rises to 11 9 killed, 3 injured in South Dakota plane crash 10 hospitalized after driver of semi tractor-trailer plowed into school bus; charges pending Drunken driver in Italy plows into German tourists, kills 6 1 dead, 4 hurt after wrong-way driver causes crash on I-41: ‘Tragedy that was preventable’ A bus crashed into a semi truck, splitting it in half and leaving 19 people hospitalized ‘It was gut-wrenching:’ Wauwatosa teens hit by semi, injured in Adams County crash Video shows train narrowly miss school bus stopped under crossing arm ‘Go to your cell and kill yourself:’ Fiery sentencing hearing for man accused of racing before fatal crash Police: 2 from Wisconsin among 6 dead, 1 missing in Hawaii tour helicopter crash 4 plane crashes across US left 6 dead and at least 8 injured in 2 days As snow moves toward East Coast, bitter cold hits Midwest	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1395
__label__wiki	0.908207	0.908207	Selena Gomez Gets New Tattoo With Friend Julia Michaels Emma McIntyre, Getty Images Selena Gomez and Julia Michaels got new tattoos to commemorate their friendship. The "Lose You to Love Me" singer surprised fans during Michaels' concert in Los Angeles on Monday night (November 11) when she hit the stage with her friend to perform their song "Anxiety" live for the first time. The two then celebrated the moment by getting matching ink backstage after the show. In videos uploaded to Instagram, the pop stars' tattoo artists, London Reese and Brad Reis, can be seen drawing on them with a pen. Though it's unclear what they got, Gomez and Michaels both got tatted on their wrists. Their matching tattoos also come one day after the "What a Time" hitmaker held a '90s prom-themed party to celebrate her upcoming 26th birthday. Gomez shared photos from the star-studded bash on Instagram, writing, "My love, my heart and my soul @juliamichaels." "The amount I love you is unreal," Michaels replied in the comments section. The pair have been friends for quite a while now. Not only have they written multiple songs together, including "Bad Liar" and "Good For You," but their collaboration "Anxiety," which was released in January, means a lot to Gomez and Michaels because it featured both of them opening up about their experiences with anxiety and depression. Gomez previously discussed it's importance earlier this year, writing, "This song is extremely close to my heart as I’ve experienced anxiety and know a lot of my friends do too. You’re never alone if you feel this way." Celebrities Before their Tattoos Source: Selena Gomez Gets New Tattoo With Friend Julia Michaels Filed Under: selena gomez	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1398
__label__cc	0.565064	0.434936	The american and african american history in the narrative life of frederick douglass Tools and techniques impact report Research paper on birds Home homework help programming Tuesdays with morrie lessons essay Tuesdays with morrie lessons essay After he has received his diploma, Mitch approaches his favorite professor, Morrie Schwartz, and presents him with a monogrammed briefcase. While at Brandeis, Mitch takes almost all of the sociology courses Morrie had teaches. He promises Morrie, who is crying, that he will keep in touch, though he does not fulfill his promise. Morrie soon grows reliant on a tank of oxygen which he requires to breathe, and on his aides, family and friends for simple tasks such as eating and going to the bathroom. However, despite such adversity, Morrie, like the plant,"holds on, small but firm" to his life as he nears its end. The hibiscus embodies the concept that all living creatures experience a natural life cycle which inevitably and rightly ends in death; eventually, both Morrie and the plant will die, as all living beings eventually must. Morrie recites a quote by his favorite poet, W. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler Auden, to convey one of his most vital lessons to Mitch: When love abounds, Morrie tells Mitch, a person can experience no higher sense of fulfillment. In all of his fourteen Tuesday lessons, Morrie teaches that love constitutes the essence of every person, and of every relationship, and that to live without love, as Auden says, is to live with no means for survival. The importance of love becomes especially clear to Morrie as he nears his final days, for without the love of his family and friends, he would quite literally perish, as he depends on them for spiritual and physical endurance. Determined to accept his own death and the concept of death itself, Morrie consciously "detaches himself from the experience" when he suffers his violent coughing spells, each of which comes loaded with the possibility of his last breath. Morrie derives his method of detachment from the Buddhist philosophy that one should not cling to anything, as everything that exists is transient. In detaching, Morrie is able to step out of his tangible surroundings and into his own state of consciousness, namely for the sake of gaining perspective and composure in a stressful situation. Morrie does not intend to stop feeling or experiencing when he detaches, but, rather, detaches out of a desire to experience wholly. He explains that it is only when he releases himself from a life-threatening experience that he is able to completely let go of his fear, to detach from a situation that renders him terrified and tense. Expert Advice on Choosing & Formulating Good Topics Morrie does not want to die in fear or in pain, and detaches in these frightening moments so that he may accept the impermanence of his life and embrace his death, which he knows may come at any moment.Nursing Lessons From Tuesday With Morrie Essay Pages: 6 ( words) \| Bibliography Sources: 2 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a non-fiction book that centers around the relationship between Albom and his former professor Morrie Schwartz. Tuesdays With Morrie is a true story of the remarkable lessons taught by a dying professor, Morrie Schwartz, to his pupil, Mitch Albom. SparkNotes: Tuesdays with Morrie: Study Questions I wanted to give you one important reminder before you begin. Tuesdays with Morrie - New York Essays A Singular Experience Driven by the desire to enhance literacy skills and bring generations together, many schools are not just taking part in community reading activities but organizing them. Why do mosquitoes spread malaria? Being curious and trying to explain the world around us is part of what makes life interesting. They explain how to research, select, and finalize the perfect topic. Lesson Plans, Teaching Guides, Learning Resources (grupobittia.com) Mitch Albom, the novelist of the novel Tuesdays with Morrie, uses flashbacks to bring out deeper connotation to the story. The book is an account of the relationship between Mitch and his dying professor. Morrie teaches Mitch the lessons of life, lessons such as death, fear, aging, greed, marriage, family, society, forgiveness, and a meaningful life. Foreign Language / Spanish 1. Vocabulary. Retake the quiz of your worst vocab score from unit 1, unit 2 or unit grupobittia.com is why I had you label the quizzes V1, V2, V3 for vocabulary units 1, 2 and 3 so that you could find them easily. Tuesdays with Morie “I’ve got so many people who have been involved with me in close, intimate ways. 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__label__wiki	0.515736	0.515736	The style and point of view of herman melvilles billy budd Classifications for anxiety disorders essay Corruption in sports essay An analysis of the writing by s e hinton That group, a society of intellectuals named Orbis Tertius, studied " hermetic studiesphilanthropy and the cabala " an allusion to societies such as the Bavarian Illuminatithe Freemasons and the Rosicruciansbut its main purpose was to create a country: If the man was to come upon serious danger, the dog would not be eager to offer itself for help. The Outsiders is about a gang. Hinton, was easy to follow. As people on different planets encounter the book, it infects their worlds, overcoming them in the way a malignant tumor would. The story begins and ends with issues of reflection, replication, and reproduction—both perfect and imperfect—and the related issue of the power of language and ideas to make or remake the world. He has an elfin face and icy blue eyes and, unlike his friends, does not put grease in his white-blond hair. Three rings are on the hand of the Soc who beat Johnny. Is this spam or not? Alexius Meinong — —Austrian psychologist and philosopher, who wrote Gegenstandstheorie "The theory of objects"where he wrote at length about the notion of objects that exist only in our minds. As she had no middle name, she chose K for Kathleen as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother. Narrated by fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis, a sensitive, orphaned greaser who tells the story in retrospect, the novel explores the camaraderie, loyalty, and affection that lie behind the gang mystique while pointing out similarities between members of the opposing groups and the futility of gang violence. Typically, man never wants to deal with the reality, especially when it is unpleasant. They run a couple of hundred miles south into the Tigris. Strong, athletic, and intelligent, Darry has quit school. After 50 trials it learned to distinguish between cards marked on the left and cards marked on the right. Neural nets are good at recognizing patterns—sometimes as good as or better than we are at it. All the lower valley was covered with mist, and sometimes little pieces of it broke off and floated away in small clouds. In the story, Borges notes the absence of any mention of Uqbar in Ritter's cartographic index Erdkunde. Her mother's reaction to the novel was shock; she said, "Susie, where did you pick up all of this?Get free homework help on S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders: book summary, chapter summary and analysis, quotes, essays, and character analysis courtesy of CliffsNotes. In The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton tells the story of year-old Ponyboy Curtis and his struggle with right and wrong in a society in which he is an outsider. Each of these titles is available under a Creative Commons license (consult the individual text for the license specifics). Click on the title to view the chapter abstract and a downloadable PDF of the chapter. 2. Samuel A. Poole North Carolina Conviction:Charges Dismissed: After being convicted of first degree burglary and given a mandatory death sentence, Poole had his conviction overturned by the N.C. Supreme Court because the case lacked substantial evidence. - Comparing Johnny and Dally in The Outsiders by SE Hinton Johnny and Dally are both major characters in the novel “The Outsiders” by SE Hinton. “The Outsiders” is a novel about friendship, rivalry, stereotypes, trust and family relationships set in. Complete summary of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Outsiders. Joanne Rowling, CH, OBE, FRSL, FRCPE, FRSE, (/ ˈ r oʊ l ɪ ŋ / "rolling"; born 31 July ), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film producer, television producer and screenwriter, best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than million copies, becoming the. Business plan for incubator A literary analysis of parliament hill fields by sylvia plath Socrates vs sophists Bio 130 formal lab spectroscopy Business plan zum verlieben deutscher trailer park Homosexual marriage and the catholic church essay David cooperrider dissertation The importance of the food pyramid guide Writing a business letter sample with cc Living in texas vs louisiana essay Research paper submission	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1401
__label__wiki	0.642851	0.642851	AGW in general » Policy and solutions » The Hyperloop Author Topic: The Hyperloop (Read 89980 times) crandles Re: The Hyperloop Quote from: Bob Wallace on June 05, 2018, 07:33:16 PM Elon is a genius engineer? I don't know about that. Vertical powered rocket landings not enough to convince you? (He was chief designer for Falcon 1, perhaps by time of falcon 9 more supervising larger team but spends quite a bit of his time on design.) Bob Wallace I don't know that many engineers. A couple I know are danged smart and inventive but haven't had the opportunity to take big ideas and run. Elon's come to the game with unusual resources. There are also some very stupid engineers. It seems a lot of climate change deniers at least claim to be engineers. Perhaps they are sanitary engineers.... Sigmetnow Ukraine has plans for a hyperloop Ukraine is yet another country hopping on the hyperloop train to the future. The country's Infrastructure Ministry signed an agreement Thursday with US-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to begin building a commercial hyperloop system -- a trainlike transportation setup that industry watchers say will be able to hit airplane speeds and shorten travel time from hours to minutes. "Ukraine is at the crossroads of the new Silk Road transportation corridor and we can expect Hyperloop to play a major role in connecting Europe and Asia," HTT CEO Dirk Ahlborn said in a release. ... https://www.cnet.com/news/ukraine-has-plans-for-a-hyperloop/ People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. Construction of the test route of 15km from Balewadi to Gahunje will start in 2019. Mumbai-Pune hyperloop test track work may start in 2019 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/mumbai-pune-hyperloop-test-track-work-may-start-in-2019/articleshow/64641200.cms Below in blue is roughly the section of the route being discussed, shown on a road map. Looks like a rather straight shot, if they follow that road, for their first section of the Mumai-Pune track. (“22 minutes” is the current road travel time! ) E20CE4DD-1F9C-4936-879A-07D4ADE5BB2E.jpeg (622.09 kB, 1382x834 - viewed 171 times.) 8A28B2CD-920A-4E5C-BBAF-79ABAC2AC691.jpeg (1290.32 kB, 1536x1570 - viewed 94 times.) Firms with local smart-city offices picked for Hyperloop One feasibility, environmental studies on Chicago-Columbus-Pittsburgh route Los Angeles-based AECOM will take the lead the feasibility study for the hyperloop technology along two possible paths. It will look at how to apply the technology, passenger and cargo demand, economic benefits and costs, effect of regulations, implementation strategy and opinions of stakeholders including governments, businesses and the public. It would explore both the route along existing rail lines first proposed by MORPC and identify and alternative route. The study is expected to be complete next March. https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/06/20/firms-with-local-smart-city-offices-picked-for.amp.html U.S.: Texas Today, the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Transportation Council announced that it will explore hyperloop technology for two major transportation initiatives across the state. https://mobile.twitter.com/hyperloopone/status/1017089422276190208 Video at the link includes shots of the test loop. Texas Officials Confirm Hyperloop As Technology Option For Dallas-Arlington-Ft. Worth High Speed Corridor - Following Visits to the Virgin Hyperloop One Test Site in the Nevada Desert and its California Innovation Campus, the Dallas-Ft. Worth Regional Transportation Council Announces Intention to Evaluate Hyperloop Technology in Dallas-Arlington-Ft. Worth Project’s Environmental Impact Study - The Agency Will Also Undertake Conceptual Feasibility Study Considering Hyperloop for Longer Fort Worth to Laredo Corridor Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth Environmental Impact Statement Later this year, the RTC will issue a Request for Proposals for a consultant team to complete the Tier 2 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a high-speed corridor connecting Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth. The RTC wants to consider both hyperloop technology and traditional high-speed rail in the environmental study of the route. A preliminary analysis by Virgin Hyperloop One engineers estimated a six minute hyperloop trip between Dallas and Ft. Worth. “As our region grows from 7.2 million people now up to 11.2 million by 2045, we are planning a transportation system that offers choices to our residents. Adding an option like hyperloop to the existing system of roadways, rail transit, bicycle/pedestrian facilities and high-speed rail to Houston would expand the system in an exciting way,” said Michael Morris, P.E., Director of Transportation for the North Central Texas Council of Governments. “Connecting other regions in Texas through hyperloop would open up economic opportunities throughout the state.” Fort Worth - Waco - Temple-Killeen - Austin - San Antonio - Laredo Feasibility Study In addition, the RTC has provided funding and has obtained additional funding commitments to undertake a conceptual feasibility study of high-speed technology including hyperloop to connect Fort Worth, Waco, Temple-Killeen, Austin, San Antonio and Laredo. This corridor will be requested to move into a more detailed Tier 2 EIS following the feasibility study. ... https://hyperloop-one.com/texas-officials-confirm-hyperloop-technology-option-dallas-arlington-ft-worth-high-speed-corridor Edit: added map. 34947678-84F2-4496-9035-F7BEF2EC7759.jpeg (171.48 kB, 2001x1001 - viewed 110 times.) « Last Edit: July 11, 2018, 11:33:11 PM by Sigmetnow » https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/22/17601280/warr-hyperloop-pod-competition-spacex-elon-musk 457 kph self propelled reached by students. but BBC pic looks like only very small part of cross section of tunnel. I assume speed will gather more problems with larger cross section even if kept to half that of tunnel. Quote from: crandles on July 23, 2018, 05:17:55 PM The tube was scaled down for the student competitions, for cost and logistical reasons, including transporting their projects to Hawthorne. For prior competitons, some brought parts with them on the plane, and re-assembled their pod there! One of the biggest obstacles is that the tube is only .8 miles long. Achieving higher speeds in that short a distance is hard in itself. Photos show Elon Musk closely examing the pods — probably getting his own ideas from the different techniques the students have employed.... 4B93B56C-80F3-41F4-99FC-593C78BD8465.jpeg (90.58 kB, 650x430 - viewed 934 times.) Pennsylvania state representative says they should think about maybe considering a hyperloop on the heavily-travelled Philadelphia to Pittsburgh route. Particularly since Pittsburgh is looking into joining a hyperloop route going the other direction, to Chicago. State House resolution calls for feasibility study of Phila. to Pittsburgh hyperloop - Philadelphia Business Journal https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2018/09/26/state-house-resolution-calls-for-feasibility-study.html A Philly-Pittsburgh Hyperloop? State House resolution calls for feasibility study http://planphilly.com/articles/2018/09/26/a-philly-pittsburgh-hyperloop-state-house-resolution-calls-for-feasibility-study CNBC reports that the Saudi's have pulled the plug on their Hyperloop venture. https://twitter.com/CNBCnow?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor A blogger says this is "false news" Either way you Heard it Here First It looks like Virgin Hyperloop ditched the deal first. “Saudi Arabia pulled a planned deal with Virgin Hyperloop One after Richard Branson said he would suspend investment talks with the country due to concerns about Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance...” https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-saudi-arabia-pulls-out-of-planned-virgin-hyperloop-deal But the UAE project is still on: DPWorld UAE (@DPWorldUAE) On the second day of #Gitex2018 we were honored to have H.H. Sheikh Ammar Bin Humaid Al Nuaimi Crown Prince of Ajman & President of the Ajman Executive Council visit our stand to learn about our projects including the #DPWorld Cargospeed project. @HyperloopOne https://twitter.com/dpworlduae/status/1051868913632460804 Branson also pulled back from a big Saudi space investment: Richard Branson suspends Saudi Arabia’s investment in space ventures over missing journalist https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/13/17967954/virgin-galactic-richard-branson-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi « Last Edit: October 17, 2018, 11:38:15 PM by Sigmetnow » Feasibility study delivers Kansas City-to-St. Louis hyperloop results. (Interestingly, it's the first time feasibility numbers have been released in the U.S. for a hyperloop system, according to a Hyperloop One spokesman.) Hyperloop: Missouri could be epicenter for 21st-century transportation (Video) Black & Veatch's release of its Missouri Hyperloop feasibility study is a "historic moment" for Missouri, Virgin Hyperloop One's Ryan Kelly told the Kansas City Business Journal. Not only does the feasibility study confirm the viability of a hyperloop route along Interstate 70, it's the first time feasibility numbers have been released in the U.S. for a hyperloop system, Hyperloop One's head of marketing and communications said. The nine-month feasibility study conducted by Black & Veatch and Olsson Associates evaluated several aspects concerning the I-70 route that would connect Kansas City to Columbia and St. Louis, including social impact, potential station locations, route alignments, regulatory issues and rights-of-way access. The study confirmed that the proposed route between St. Louis and Kansas City would shave travel time to 28 minutes. By car, it takes about 3.5 hours. Travel to Columbia from St. Louis or Kansas City would take about 15 minutes, compared with today's two hours. Black & Veatch also identified potential station locations, known as portals, which could be located near downtown Kansas City along the riverfront or near Arrowhead and Kauffman stadiums, said Drew Thompson, Black & Veatch's director of data center/mission critical facility solutions and a project lead on the feasibility study. In St. Louis, an ideal location could be at Lambert International Airport, which also is a hub for light rail and bus transportation, Thompson said. One of the most important aspects the study brought to light is ticket costs, which are expected to cost less than a high-speed rail ticket, Kelly said. A one-way hyperloop trip from Kansas City to St. Louis, for example, would be cheaper than driving when considering the average price of gasoline. With gas prices currently at about $3 per gallon, it costs about $30 to drive to St. Louis. If prices continue to rise, the cost of 10 gallons of gas could rise above the predicted cost for a one-way hyperloop ticket — about $30. The Missouri Department of Transportation also owns or manages the rights-of-way along I-70, which eases the path to construction. Another compelling factor for Missouri is its central location, which could accelerate the build-out of a regional and eventually national network for transporting goods and people, Thompson said. The study also found that less time spent on the road could result in a savings of $410 million a year and would lead to fewer accidents along I-70, creating an additional savings of as much as $91 million a year. https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2018/10/17/virgin-hyperloop-one-missouri-feasibility-report.html It's <240 freeway miles from St Louis to Kansas City. <24 mpg is poor highway mileage today. Perhaps they'recomparing the ticket price to what it would cost if you made the journey by Hummer? (the gas version does much worse, but a diesel version boasts 25 mpg highway!) Personally my gasoline powered VW would make a round trip, them back to Columbia before I required a fill - up. - and I don't have a 60 gal. tank. “...Fuel economy... now stands at 22 mpg for all cars and light trucks on U.S. roads.” http://247wallst.com/autos/2017/03/02/average-fuel-economy-for-264-million-us-light-vehicles-22-miles-per-gallon/ I must say that is hardly the point. Short-haul flying costs more than driving and yet people fly. 30 minutes instead of 3.5 hours, I am sure there will be enough passengers for $30 each way. They simply picked a bad comparison. (In addition the true cost of driving is not just fuel.) The real questions are - will the vacuum technology work? Will the construction and maintenance costs be reasonable with this technology? Will the ride feel indeed like a roller coaster? I guess we won't know for certain until someone builds an actual flight-speed hyperloop. Quote from: oren on October 18, 2018, 02:20:01 PM This plains states construction could be a good first project — it’s mostly flat, and the highway is already smoothed terrain. But they will still need to dig out or elevate the tube over the ground as needed to keep the tube level. They must have examined the route in detail and evaluated that, to come up with a price. I hope they move forward with it. sedziobs California-based company HyperloopTT is officially scheduled to begin construction on the first commercial Hyperloop system in Abu Dhabi in the second half of 2019, according to a company press release. When HyperloopTT said it was aiming to be “passenger ready” by 2019 during the capsule unveiling earlier this month, we were cautiously excited, as legislative hurdles can often ground projects before they get a chance to take off. With new backing, a regional partner, and a clearly defined timeline for next year, it certainly seems as though HyperloopTT is on track to get this system in place sooner rather than later. http://www.thedrive.com/tech/24492/u-s-company-to-start-construction-on-abu-dhabi-hyperloop-track-in-2019 I recently attended a HyperloopTT presentation at an engineering conference. Some interesting tidbits I learned: Passive maglev in low pressure tubes Elon Musk's design "does not work" Acceleration will be limited to 0.5g Two tubes, one for each direction Working with Leybold on vacuum tech Quote from: sedziobs on October 27, 2018, 12:42:53 AM Thanks sedziobs. No doubt that Elon's design, with the air cushion skits and the compressor (spinning at 10x rpms of a turbine), shooting a spaceship through a barrel at the speed of sound was bat-shit crazy. But what did HyperloopTT change so that it would work ? There are significant other technical issues, which we discussed in this thread, which have not been addressed at all by the Hyperloop companies. For example : - thermal expansion of the tube, a significant issue for any Hyperloop longer than a few miles. - the Kantrowitz limit which will start to kick in at around 300 mph. - the power source (and temperature control) of the pod Did the HyperloopTT presentation address any of these issues ? Meanwhile, since the current concept of Hyperloop is Maglev in a vacuum tube, it will be more expensive than Maglev without a tube. So why build a Hyperloop if plain Maglev is cheaper ? This presentation outlines some more issues with Hyperloop : « Last Edit: January 24, 2019, 09:25:47 AM by Rob Dekker » Quote from: Rob Dekker on January 24, 2019, 09:16:13 AM The concept of maglev trains in an evacuated tunnel isn't new. A working model was demonstrated in 1914 by Boris Weinberg. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2014/06/14/a-new-commute-2/ I think that thermal issues in the pod put the final spike in anything resembling Musk's vision of the Hyperloop. His own drawings featured a (very) high pressure steam container that was to be swapped out with fresh, cold water at every stop. Shades of 19th century steam engines stopping every 50 miles to take on water. Thanks, Rob. That was an interesting watch. No, unfortunately. This was a civil engineering conference, so it focused on construction/geology and gave only a cursory review of the mechanical/electrical aspects. The pods are supposed to be battery powered and made of carbon fiber that is lighter than aluminum and stronger than steel by an order of magnitude. I don't know much else. I'm interested to see how they address thermal expansion. Oil pipelines are deliberately laid out in successive curves that can accommodate expansion. That won't work with a hyperloop. I don't believe they use an air compressor, so larger tube size must be the plan to avoid the Kantrowitz limit. New Hyperloop company emerges from SpaceX Pod Competition – Swisspod After EUROLOOP, Hardt, Zeleros and Hyper Poland, another Elon Musk’s SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition participants decided to form a commercial company. This time Denis Tudor, who was a founder of EPFLoop and a former member of rLoop Controls Team together with his colleague from EPFL Cyril Denereaz formed a company called Swisspod. ”We safely build the most efficient, cheapest and fastest Hyperloop solution. After 3 awarded Hyperloop prototypes, it is the time to take it seriously.” ... https://intheloop.news/new-hyperloop-company-emerges-from-spacex-pod-competition-swisspod/ “This is not your grandmother’s mag-lev.” Virgin Hyperloop One CTO on When You Can Ride: "Years... Not Decades" Virgin One says it's improved upon the designs etched out in the famous Musk white paper. https://www.inverse.com/amp/article/52293-virgin-hyperloop-one-cto-on-when-you-can-ride-one-years-not-decades With a video answering the Top Ten Questions. Quote from: sedziobs on January 29, 2019, 06:22:50 PM Musk has now gone underground with his version. That eliminates the thermal expansion and pod cooling problems. It minimizes terrorist/yahoo damage. Going underground avoids most route acquisition problems. Just put the tunnels under federal and state highways. With their permission, of course. The tunnels do not need to run side by side, they can be stacked one over another for as many levels as we would need. The current approach is to start with lower speed (155 MPH) "Loops" which would function as very rapid, non-stop subway systems in crowded cities. That would give Boring Company opportunity to develop faster and more efficient tunneling machines and work out a lot of the details. Plus prove their concept. Recently a short Loop system was approved in Las Vegas and construction work is expected to begin soon. A longer Loop is in the planning/permitting stage to connect Baltimore and Washington, DC. Quote from: Bob Wallace on June 22, 2019, 08:02:56 AM Going underground avoids most route acquisition problems. Just put the tunnels under federal and state highways. Yes, that's a simple solution for the lower speed "loops". Higher speeds of 700+ mph will require significantly greater curve radii than those found on roadways. Limiting lateral acceleration to 0.5g at those speeds would require a curve radius of more than 11 miles. Current 300 mph maglev tracks in Asia have 5 mile radii. Highways with a 75 mph design speed can have radii of less than half a mile. Quote from: sedziobs on June 23, 2019, 06:51:30 AM If the Loop works as expected then we should see a serious effort to build a hyperloop system using the same tunneling approach. And that might take some eminent domain work to put together the sort of route that would be needed. The same problem with routing high speed rail, highways, roads, and transmission lines exists. But you've got to take land away from people that they were probably using. And put in things they might not want to see. Go deep with a hyperloop system and the worst you'd need to deal with would be water wells. Awarded costs shouldn't be high. Musk's initial "vision" was to load a water tank and offload a sealed container of very high pressure steam at each stop. The pod draws a lot of kW and runs in an evacuated pipe. How does putting the pipe underground even address this issue? Isn't the Las Vegas project a <1/8 mile non-hyper loop? Quote from: TerryM on July 01, 2019, 02:01:05 PM The initial propulsion ideas seem to have been scrapped. But since Boring is not talking about building a hyperloop system at this point in time we don't know what Musk and engineering team is planning for their hyperloop approach. For now Boring is building 'very rapid subway systems'. Top speed is planned to be 155 MPH, not the ~700 MPH of a hyperloop system. At the lower speed there's not the need to lower the air pressure in the tunnel. I think Musk is bootstrapping a hyperloop system via lower speed Loop systems like he's done with Tesla and SpaceX. Find an entry point at which innovation can create capital and use that capital to move up another level in order to gain more knowledge/experience and more capital. A Loop system can be built quickly and start earning money. The LA Loop is likely to be producing income this year and the LV Loop in 2021. The Baltimore to Washington DC Loop may start construction soon. These projects will give Boring Co. engineers opportunities to refine their tunnel boring machine technology, increasing tunneling speeds and lowering costs. I expect to see serious talk of a Boring Co. hyperloop project within the next five years. When Boring feels they have the technology nailed down they'll start serious talk with someone, somewhere about building their first hyperloop. Gumbercules NewMembers Has anyone linked yet to the youtube channel Thunderf00t? It's a scientist that debunks hyperloop as anything but a PT Barnum style con. b_lumenkraft Ah, Thunderf00t. The Youtuber who knows a little about chemistry is considered a scientist now. What's gonna be shared next? Harris or Peterson? Yeah, what a slippery slope this Youtube thingy is... GoSouthYoungins Quote from: Gumbercules on July 14, 2019, 01:20:34 AM No man. The hyperloop is real. I rode one to work yesterday. I got there 10x faster. Also, I'm a cyborg thanks to Neuralink. It really helps me drive my Tesla safely, cuz it accelerates so fast. And I make so much money now investing in Tesla stock that I was able to buy a ticket to Mars. So long you non-cyborg, earth-side LOSERS. big time oops SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne is the location of an almost a mile-long vacuum tube for testing hyperloop pods. The 2019 pod competition has begun. Hyperloop (@Hyperloop) Teams have arrived in Hawthorne for the 2019 Hyperloop Pod Competition! Now underway: pod testing https://twitter.com/hyperloop/status/1150461883952115715 https://www.spacex.com/hyperloop Quote from: Sigmetnow on July 14, 2019, 11:45:52 PM Why does the video show nothing but a rail system which just happens to be in a tube and skips of the difficult engineering problems of the vaccuum part a "hyperloop"? BAE has made a rail system which travels over Mach 7. I didn't see the "hyperloop" rail system break the sound barrier, so I guess it has at least 7x to go until it isn't a laggard. Although, the kids did seem to cheer really good, so maybe it is legit. Quote from: GoSouthYoungins on July 16, 2019, 02:39:34 AM That BAE system is a railgun. That's for shooting missiles. Far cry from rail transport. I don't think a railgun would give an enjoyable ride Elon Musk says he wants a new 10km (six-mile) vacuum tunnel for his futuristic Hyperloop - ready for next year's speed-record competition. Hyperloop aims to transport people in high-speed pods in underground tubes. Mr Musk tweeted his plan after the Technical University of Munich set a new record for the fourth year running. Its pod reached 463km/h (288mph) on the current test tube in the US, which runs for 1.6km straight. Mr Musk said the new vacuum tube would be curved. Quote from: crandles on July 23, 2019, 12:21:58 AM Elon Musk says he wants a new 10km (six-mile) vacuum tunnel for his futuristic ?Hyperloop - ready for next year's speed-record competition. It's about a hundred years since the first high speed models of maglev trains running in evacuated tunnels were demonstrated. Hyperloop may be many things, but futuristic isn't one of them. Early Patents date back to 1799 in England for evacuated tube trains, and a Siberian by the name of Professor Boris Weinberg built an evacuated maglev model in 1909. His Popular Science article promised 500 MPH rides from San Francisco to New York City in 1917. Sound familiar? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Popular_Science_Monthly_Volume_90.djvu/721 That’s like saying a jet aircraft is no more advanced than Orville and Wilbur’s flying machine. Those historic trains did not run at anywhere near 463km/h (288mph). Saudi Arabia wants to build a 35-km hyperloop test track and research its potential. Saudi Arabia Looks to Build World’s First Long-Range Hyperloop Test Track In Partnership with Virgin Hyperloop One LOS ANGELES, JULY 22, 2019 – Virgin Hyperloop One, the only hyperloop company in the world to successfully test its hyperloop technology at scale, today announced a development partnership with the Saudi Arabia’s Economic City Authority (ECA) to conduct a study to build the world’s longest test and certification hyperloop track, as well as a research and development center and hyperloop manufacturing facility north of Jeddah. Today’s announcement took place this week at Virgin Hyperloop One’s Los Angeles headquarters during a visit from a senior delegation of Saudi Arabia’s Economic City Authority, led by Secretary-General Mohanud A. Helal. The study will focus on King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), located 100 kilometers north of the Red Sea port of Jeddah. The project, which would include a 35-kilometer test and certification track, will create opportunities for the development of specific hyperloop technologies and develop local expertise in Saudi Arabia which be commercialized and scaled. The study will also facilitate the development of localized hyperloop supply chains and the acceleration of innovation clusters across the Kingdom. “Our partnership with Virgin Hyperloop One is a matter of pride for us and all of Saudi Arabia,” said Secretary General Mohanud A. Helal. “As we continue to help deliver the strategic pillars of Vision 2030, technology transfer and high-tech job creation opportunities that this relationship will bring are fundamental to our progress as a nation and our efforts to create opportunities for our bright young people. Having hyperloop at King Abdullah Economic City is going to act as a catalyst for a Saudi Silicon Valley effect and galvanize our software development, high technology research, and manufacturing industries,” he added. ... https://hyperloop-one.com/saudi-arabia-looks-build-worlds-first-long-range-hyperloop-test-track-partnership-virgin-hyperloop-one 500 MPH was the projected speed according to the 1917 article. Did Wilbur ever design a plane to go that fast? Those evacuated tube trains from the 18th century probably could be compared to the Wright's aircraft. but the Russian evacuated tube maglev of the early 20th century seems comparable to Musk's contemporary designs. - and Prof. Weinberg had a working model 110 years ago. It's just not a new concept - let alone "futuristic". “Projected” is not the same thing as “accomplished.” 30977097-E724-4DF5-A206-C999229AAC78.png (84.96 kB, 250x257 - viewed 168 times.) I know. Pass it along to Elon The world is already more “futuristic,” after less than two decades of Musk’s efforts. His advances in the next five years will make today’s accomplishments seem quaintly old-fashioned. Can you give me an example? I'm not trying to be a smart ass. Evacuated Tube Maglev and commercially built electric cars are >100 years old. Reusable rockets and rockets that landed on their tails have been around since the very early days of space exploration. PayPal was something he bought into, then got fired from the board before it was sold to Ebay. I was lighting my walk with cheap solar lights that ran through a battery pack before Elon left Africa. PV and batteries have been around since most here were kids. I went to high school with a kid who was implanting electrodes into lab rats brains, recording the output - then playing their thoughts back to them. I'd hold up a pissed off cat, or unwrap some very stinky cheese and he'd record the results. That was in the early 60's when others were playing with human brains and electrodes at McGill! He's one hell of a salesman, but he's far from the first to make big bucks using the gift of the gab. What has Elon done in the last 20 years that qualifies as "futuristic" ie things that are actually new? Before SpaceX, there has never been a rocket that reached orbit (orbital velocity) and survived re-entry to land. Let alone was launched to orbit and re-landed a second time. Or a third time! Tesla changed the electric vehicle universe, transformed EVs to be sexy, desirable, and widespread, and forced the entire industry to begin a transition it has resisted for decades. Tesla installed what was the biggest grid-tied battery in the world in Australia, and changed the view of such an installation from impossible/unnecessary to one of being vital for grid resilience. Just having an idea for something, or making a prototype, or doing something in a limited way or for a limited time, does not move the world forward. I doubt a person afflicted with a neurological disease would agree to have your friend’s electrodes implanted in their brain! Mass manufacturing of cars, or rockets, is a hundred times harder than making a prototype — witness all the EV startups going broke trying to bring their idea to market: of all the attempts, none has survived since Ford. Except for Tesla. If you don’t see the difference between what was then, and what is now, then I can’t explain it to you. Google is your friend. The technology existed for decades. There was no point in doing it. There still is no point in doing it. If it can safely be repeated 10 times over, then it will make sense. Musk invented nothing (except a really strange rocket-fueled "green" cult). India has advanced the world’s first passenger hyperloop system by deeming the Pune-Mumbai Hyperloop a public infrastructure project, India has labeled hyperloop a public infrastructure project — here’s why that matters Hyperloop, the futuristic and still theoretical transportation system that could someday propel people and packages at speeds of more than 600 miles per hour, has been designated a “public infrastructure project” by India lawmakers in the state of Maharashtra. Wrapped in that government jargon is a valuable and notable outcome. The upshot: hyperloop is being treated like any other public infrastructure project such as bridges, roads and railways. In other words, hyperloop has been plucked out of niche, futuristic obscurity and given a government stamp of approval. The hope is that India’s government will award the contract by the end of 2019, a VHO executive told TechCrunch. If that occurs, Phase 1 of the project — an 11.8 kilometer (or 7.3 mile) section — would begin in 2020. The cost of building Phase 1 will be covered by DP World, which has committed $500 million to this section. The government is covering the cost and logistics of acquiring the land for the hyperloop. Phase 1 will initially act as a certification track, which will be used to certify the hyperloop technology for passenger operations. VHO wants this certification track built and operating by 2024. If this section meets safety standards it will become part of the larger hyperloop line between Pune and Mumbai. ... https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/31/india-has-labeled-hyperloop-a-public-infrastructure-project-heres-why-that-matters/ DrTskoul No tunnel will be built in Pune Cognitive bias Codex. Know your enemy... Most of the route will be along an existing highway. Quote from: Sigmetnow on August 01, 2019, 01:41:25 AM Will. I have been in Pune recently. They need infrastructure money for buses, trains and roads ( they are awfully crowded ) and not spend money on things like hyperloop. Really??? Most people have barely enough money to travel with autorickshaw or a scooter for a family of four. Ridiculous display of excessive wealth divide.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1404
__label__cc	0.719895	0.280105	polotek/ember_hurdles.md Last active Mar 30, 2017 Code Revisions 8 Stars 39 Hurdles getting started with Ember.js ember_hurdles.md This is a brain dump of my experience trying to get something going with Ember.js. My goal was to get to know the ins and outs of the framework by completing a pretty well defined task that I had lots of domain knowledge about. In this case reproducing a simple Yammer feed. As of this time, I have not been able to complete that task. So this is a subjective rundown of the things I think make it difficult to get a handle on Ember. NOTE: My comments are addressing the Ember team and giving suggestions on what they could do to improve the situation. The new guides have pretty good explanation of the various parts of the framework; routers, models, templates, views. But it's not clear how they all get strapped together to make something that works. There are snippets of examples all over the place like: App.Router.map(function() { match('/home').to('home'); But they're out of context. What is App.Router? Is it an instance of a Ember.Router or a subclass? In trying to set up my App, I got tripped up for hours on where it was appropriate to do extend() or create(). I thought I had an understanding of the difference between these (though I don't think you can count on that from all your users). But I found the behavior of these in Ember thoroughly confusing. I'll come back to that later. Suffice it to say it wasn't clear to me which one the framework required at any given time. So App needs to be an instance, Ember.Application.create(). But then you need to set properties on that instance directly, App.ApplicationController = Ember.ObjectController.extend();. And that needs to use extend(). And you can't pass in an object to set the properties of the App instance. // Doesn't work, even though it's in some of the docs var App = Ember.Application.create({ ApplicationController: Ember.ObjectController.extend() I lost a lot of time trying to figure that out. You need to talk about how to set up an Ember Application and what is actually happening. Here are some rough things I pieced together. You can see how I did based on how wrong and incomplete they are. You must create an instance of an application. It functions as a namespace, so if you don't title case it (app vs. App), you'll get a weird warning. It won't stop you from continuing, but the warning is disconcerting and unhelpful. You must create Classes and assign to properties on the App instance You need to use extend() on pretty much all of these. I believe these will be "registered" with the App automatically. If they are not placed on the App object, things don't work. It's not clear if you can manually register Classes with the App. Near as I can tell, Ember will look these up by naming convention and create instances of them at "the right time". It's not clear when that is or if the instances get reused. The App will initialize and auto-start after an asynchronous turn. Some docs have an explicit call to App.initialize(), that doesn't seem to be necessary anymore. Definitely unexpected. Not sure if auto-start can be disabled. You MUST create App.ApplicationController, App.ApplicationView, and App.Router. If you don't, you get more unhelpful errors. Even with all of these things, I'm not sure how to get an Application that does nothing and doesn't error. It's difficult to start from a working no-op App, and then add functionality incrementally so you can learn. Creating classes and instances The Object Model section of the guide talks about Class and Instances. Classes are created using extend() and instances are created using create(). This seems fine, but once you get these objects, the javascript rules we've come to expect start breaking down. var O = Ember.Object.extend({ classProp: 'classProp' , classMethod: function classMethod() {} // good typeof O // "function" O.prototype.constructor === O // true // WAT O.toString() // "(unknown mixin)". // Also displays this in the chrome console instead of // letting you inspect the Object or printing the // function body. O.prototype.classProp // undefined O.prototype.classMethod // undefined var o = O.create({ prop: "prop" , method: function method() {} // this seems to behave normally o instanceof O // true o.prop // "prop" typeof o.method // "function" o.classProp // "classProp" o.__proto__.classProp // "classProp" // Except when you evaluate `o` in the Chrome console, // it prints an object named "Class" // WAT. now the constructor somehow behaves too O.prototype.classProp // "classProp" I can understand doing some trickery with your type system if it adds value. But you don't explain what that value is. And this weirdness is another thing that makes it hard to figure out what's going on by inspecting objects. Router API I have no idea how the router is supposed to work. Early on I was using the old router api and I understand you guys aren't proud of that one. But I didn't find any good tutorials on the api. Even others who are publishing working examples say in their docs that they don't really understand the magic encantation for the router. They just put it in and things worked. It seems intuitive that connectOutlets allows you to fill the places that say {outlet} in your template. But the api for this method is thoroughly confusing. I kept finding slightly different examples around the web. Probably due to evolving apis. But some questions that still stick out: What is the object context in this method? What does this refer to? The first argument seems to be router. Is that an instance of router or the same as App.Router? Is it the same instance for the whole app? Are there other arguments? If so, when are they passed and what's their significance? router.get('applicationController'). How exactly do I know I can do this? What's the convention for what you can get out of the router? applicationController.connectOutlet. Again, what's the method signature here? It seems to take the name of a template (or is it the name of a View?). The other argument seems to be a model or a controller? Still confused about what's happening there. After a while of things kind of working, but being frustrated, I was fine discarding that for the new API. So I'm currently running master so I can use the new Router. I've read and watched videos about it. But it just spits errors for me. And there doesn't seem to be enough documentation on it yet to figure out what's going on. Would love to drop back to the old router which at least let me continue without really understanding. But that doesn't seem to be an option. I'm all about progress, but it feels like the api is currently in a gap of uncertainty between old Router and new. Ember data I've been intrigued by ember data since first learning about it. It's an attempt to create an abstract data layer that can represent models and relationships on the client. Essentially allowing to create a sensible data domain for client-side apps. We have a custom solution for this at Yammer, and it was really interesting drawing parallels. That said, I had a really hard time doing that and never actually got things working. My exploratory project was a little app to display a simplified Yammer feed using test yammer data. We have custom api urls that don't follow rails conventions, and a custom data payload format. I was interested in attempting a really simple custom adapter/serializer combo that could load our data. I read lots about adapters and serializers and looked at your youtube videos explaining them. I even dove into the code and read the extensive comments there. But when it comes down to it, the architecture is just too opaque. There are so many open questions to answer in order to go from a call like app.Feed.find(), to an ajax call with the correct url and data, to a valid Model that will load data successfully. Here are a few: When filling in YamAdapter#find, what's the significance of this stuff that I pulled from the built-in adapters? Ember.run(this, function(){ this.didFindRecord(store, type, json); I know about the Ember run loop, and I'm assuming didFindRecord passes things off to the serializer among other things. But there's a lot to put together here. The adapter methods don't return anything. I vaguely understand that they get called via the Store. But when you consider that the Model methods return those promise-like records, it's very unclear how these adapter methods connect back to those. The adapter uses methods like rootForType() and buildURL() to figure out what ajax calls to make. I found that sometimes I didn't have enough context to build the url I needed. The only data that gets passed in for find() is a type and an id. If you need to put more parameters onto the url, the adapter has to get those from somewhere. I ended up adding a 4th data argument, but that means I'm firmly outside of the realm of compatibility. Once I made it into the serializer, things got even more hairy. I read a lot about extracting vs. materialization. But I couldn't figure out the right combination of things to create my models and wire up the relationships properly. It looks like the core of extraction is the method loadValue which creates a Model instance in the store. I got that far, but then I don't really know how to hook up relationshiops. I see things like "prematerialized" and I'm not sure how that factors in. My promise-models never loaded and I got bogged down in the weeds. I tried to take a step back. Because of my background with the Yammer paradigm, I understand what's supposed to be happening at a high level. I want to end up with a set of models created from the data payload and have their relationships hooked up. Nevermind the events that need to be fired for now. I tried to figure out how to just process the payload manually because I know exactly what's in it. But I don't know the right methods to do so. I'm thinking of something like the following: var messages = json.messages.map(function(msg) { var message = App.Message.createRecord(msg) , thread , user; // look up references _.each(json.references, function(ref) { switch(ref.type) { case 'thread': if(ref.id == message.thread_id) { thread = ref; } else { return; } case 'user': if(ref.id == message.sender_id) { user = ref; if(thread) { // set the thread relationship on the message thread = App.Thread.createRecord(thread); message.setRelationship('thread', thread); console.log(message.get('thread')); if(user) { // set the user relationship on the message user = App.Thread.createRecord(user); message.setRelationship('sender', user); console.log(message.get('sender')); All this is just to do a simple find(). There were a few other things I wanted to get going. I still don't exactly get how sinceQuery or extractMeta fit in. I think I get it conceptually, but I don't think it's flexible enough to fit my needs. There's a gap between looking at the RESTadapter/RESTSerializer, which are geared towards rails conventions, and looking at the base adapter/serializer which are pretty low level and don't give you much help in filling in gaps. I still think ember data is an impressive undertaking. In it's current state, it's gonna be pretty difficult to take advantage of if you have non-trivial api requirements. Where are the tests? I know they exists. There's a tests folder, but there aren't any readable tests there. Things are obfuscated, probably for the test harness. But this is a mistake. When trying to learn a system, tests are a great resource to see examples of usage and get a better understanding of components. But that avenue isn't available here. It also hampers contributions from folks who want to help improve things. Also I can't run the tests without phantomjs? That's no good. Ember is for the browser first and foremost right? IMO, tests for browser javascript should always be available by just hitting a url. Chrome dev tools is the preferred tool for debugging. You can add options for running in a headless browser or node. But browser should be the default. I know there are no good standards here yet. But I think you get a lot of mileage out of these suggestions. My foray into Ember land was extremely enlightening. Make no mistake, I could write a document this size about the stuff I like as well. But the barriers to entry are really significant unless you have a rails background. It's okay to lean on familiarity with rails if that's the audience you want. But if you want to capture more of the larger js community, you've gotta pull back the covers a bit more. Or at least you need to give us a thorough introduction to Convention over Configuration in the context of Ember, because not all of us are going to learn rails just to learn Ember. I hope this has been helpful, and I'd be happy to talk to you in more depth about any of it. I should be clear that this exercise was for my own education, and I was not evaluating Ember for use at Yammer. Yammer's just a great example for getting a non-trivial overview of what frameworks can do. Owner Author polotek commented Jan 13, 2013 Here are a bunch of references I've been using: Ember docs - http://emberjs.com/guides/ TodoMVC Ember example - https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/architecture-examples/emberjs Ember tutorial by @trek - http://trek.github.com/ Ember tutorial by @toranb - http://www.toranbillups.com/blog/archive/2012/10/14/Getting-started-with-ember-js/ Ember example from @trek - https://github.com/trek/ember-todos-with-build-tools-tests-and-other-modern-conveniences Code Camp Ember example - https://github.com/toranb/ember-code-camp Ember data example from @dgeb - https://github.com/dgeb/ember_data_example Ember adapter for elasticsearch - https://github.com/karmi/ember-data-elasticsearch/blob/master/ember-data/lib/adapters/elasticsearch_adapter.js Nettuts Backbone/Ember comparison - http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/game-on-backbone-and-ember/ Ember talk by @wycats - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ed_o3_59ME Another Ember data talk by @tomdale - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6yMxU-_ARs Ember data talk by @tomdale - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djhAsWGOImk I had a great conversation with @tomdale about these issues. The Ember team is really interested in improving the story here. Lemme update a few items that are already addressed in a soon to be released build. When setting up an Ember.Application, all of the default components are now created for you. Namely App.Router, App.ApplicationController and App.ApplicationView. You can just use these. I think the point about the app auto-starting is relevant. But it's fair to note that Ember is designed this way. It can be initialized before everything is "ready" because it's meant to be lazy and respond to changes in application state. It's much easier to get a "no-op" app now, and there's less setup boilerplate that contributes to a lot of the confusion I mentioned in the App setup section. Also, after getting a partial introduction to the architecture of ember data from Tom, I was able to get much further with implementing a custom adapter/serializer system. The system still isn't very approachable, even with docs, and my solution isn't complete to my satisfaction yet. But ember data is definitely an interesting system that has lots of upside when it's working as expected. I'll probably publish what I end up with. bsodmike commented Jan 13, 2013 I've done quite a bit with Backbone.js and wanted to give Ember ago, but never really got around to it due to some bad experiences with SproutCore. Pretty fantastic write up and I look forward to an alternative take once you're ready, how to approach building an Ember app the 'right' way, without taking the try/fail approach you've done here. I think that would be quite beneficial to those looking to get to grips with Ember quickly, although that's not to take anything away from this fantastic gist :) tomdale commented Jan 13, 2013 Thanks for the feedback. This kind of stuff is literally the most valuable thing you can provide to library authors; if you're struggling with an open source project, things like this are a fantastic way to help make it easier to use. So, thank you. The first thing I'd like to say is that I think a lot of the problems you hit were due to coming into the framework at a bit of a transition period. We were in the midst of making many changes that addressed most of the on-ramp problems that you had. Unfortunately, we needed to do a better job of communicating that on the website. If you had started with a copy of Ember built from master, I think a lot of your frustration would have been eliminated. We'll be doing a pre3 release shortly that incorporates the fixes to many of the problems that you hit. The TL;DR here is that App is a single instance, so you create() it. When in doubt, everything else should be a class. Views, controllers, routes, etc. should all be extend()ed. Ember.js is responsible for creating the instances for you and wiring them up, which makes it much easier to test pieces of your application in isolation. (Some people refer to this as dependency injection, but we find that that has too much Java flavor. :P) You do need to set them as properties of the Ember.Application instance, yep. We are working on a coherent story for people that want to use modules. I am a fan of using modules to load dependencies, but treating each file in your application as a separate module introduces more complexity than it's worth, IMO. Still, we know people want to do this and we're working on it. The current system uses a "container" under the hood that can be hooked into by any kind of loader. We even wrote it as a microlibrary: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/master/packages/container/lib/main.js Inside the application, we lookup classes and instances via this container API (https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/master/packages/ember-application/lib/system/application.js#L524). Currently this just roundtrips back to the Application instance, but in the future, you can imagine this plugging into an AMD loader. Like I said, this is still a work in progress, but the pieces are there, and people like Ryan Florence and Tim Branyen have been extremely helpful with assisting us in thinking through this problem. I'm not sure what your objection to auto-starting the application is, but it's definitely the behavior that most people want. If you want to defer the application starting, just call App.deferReadiness(). When you want to release your "lock" on the application starting, call App.advanceReadiness(). Again, this is fixed on master, and will be fixed in the forthcoming pre3 release. We document all of the value of the Ember object model at http://emberjs.com/guides/object-model/classes-and-instances/. Classes, instances, mixins, observers, computed properties, bindings, etc. I'm not sure what we could do to explain the value other than to make the documentation more "sales-y." Perhaps we need to do that for people who are primarily JavaScript developers, but people coming from other dynamic languages see the value immediately. You're expecting to be able to use introspection tools from JavaScript with Ember.js objects, which obviously won't work. Ember objects are composed using those JavaScript primitives. We would be handicapping ourselves pretty severely if all we could to improve the development experience was do things that maintained JavaScript semantics precisely. Ironically, the main introspection tool that you attempted to use (inspecting the prototype) does work, but for performance reasons, we wait until the first instance of a class is created to flatten the prototype. If you had done this after creating an instance, it would have worked as expected. In terms of debugging, we provide lots of introspection tools into the object model. We should document those better, and we're always open to suggestions for improvement. The old router is dead. Conceptually there are similarities between the old router and new, but the API is completely different. I'm surprised you had trouble with the new router. The documentation on the website's routing section is up-to-date, and people have been reporting tremendous success compared to the old router. I'd be interested in knowing which errors you hit. We already fixed many of the exceptions that people were hitting, so we should figure out if you were hitting a different error, or if this has been fixed already. My exploratory project was a little app to display a simplified Yammer feed using test yammer data. We have custom api urls that don't follow rails conventions, and a custom data payload format. I was interested in attempting a really simple custom adapter/serializer combo that could load our data. I read lots about adapters and serializers and looked at your youtube videos explaining them. I even dove into the code and read the extensive comments there. But when it comes down to it, the architecture is just too opaque. There are so many open questions to answer in order to go from a call like app.Feed.find(), to an ajax call with the correct url and data, to a valid Model that will load data successfully. The more conventional your API, the better. If you have an extremely non-standard API, it may be easier to just write imperative code, rather than trying to override the hooks built-in to the default adapter. But, we did design the adapter API to be layered, so if it's easier to write imperative code, just override the top-level hooks (serialize, extract, materialize) and do what you need to do. Admittedly, we need to document this better, and explain precisely what is going on under the hood so that adapter authors have the right mental model. I hope that my explanation via IM the other night helped at least nudge you in the right direction. Ultimately, we expect the majority of Ember.js developers to not be adapter authors. Most people will pick a backend, stick to those conventions, and find an adapter that works with those conventions. Not sure what you mean by this. Ember.js is architected as a series of "microlibraries" that are composed together at build time. Each package has its own set of tests. I don't believe they are obfuscated in any way. For example, all of the routing tests are here: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/tree/master/packages/ember-routing/tests You can definitely run the tests without phantomjs. Just run bin/rackup in the Ember directory, then visit http://localhost:9292/tests/index.html?package=all. You make a very good point. We definitely assume a worldview where our target developers accept that convention-over-configuration is good. We've tried to take the DHH ethos and recontextualize it in JavaScript. That's not really the current culture in JS (unfortunately, IMO). I think focus in a project is important. For now, we are okay with focusing on meeting the needs of developers who already believe in convention-over-configuration. Once we've saturated that market, perhaps we can turn to convincing the rest of the JS community that some of these ideas are good ones. :) Thanks again for your feedback. As I said at the beginning, stuff like this is absolutely invaluable for library developers. toranb commented Jan 13, 2013 I can relate to the pain when learning ember and without a doubt you will find that the docs are in flux as the team approaches the 1.0 release. To help people learn about how to build a minimal ember app (with ember-data) I did a short screencast after the new router was merged into master. A few points above are mentioned as I attempt to show the template first model that ember is working toward in the latest release. http://toranbillups.com/blog/archive/2013/01/03/Intro-to-ember-js-and-the-new-router-api/ I also wanted to show ember-data is more than a rails friendly project so I built a django adapter / serializer and open sources it for others to learn from. https://github.com/toranb/ember-data-django-rest-adapter Thanks @tomdale. The thing that excites me most about your response is the tests :) I totally get what's happening now. But I really didn't put that together. Even though I was looking through code files. Putting things in packages/ isn't a structure I've seen anywhere. And I kept looking in the root tests/ dir and all I saw was weirdness. I even see the notes about running tests in the README now. Apologies. @toranb it's been a long time since I used django. Does it have a pretty standard REST infrastructure now? I'm gonna take a look at that. Thoroughly enjoyed your feedback @tomdale - color me tempted to give Ember a spin now..! Would appreciate any details on this please, even a nudge would suffice :) @polotek currently the django community has 2 well done REST frameworks that sit on top of the core django framework (django doesn't support a full blown REST api itself that I know of). The one I wrote is for the latest called "django-rest-framework" but the other framework "tastypie" also has an ember-data adapter https://github.com/escalant3/ember-data-tastypie-adapter/ The big difference that I've seen (never done an app with tastypie myself so keep that bias in mind) is that django rest framework holds closer to the django convensions (think of a method in django and this REST framework has a method with the same name that does about the same thing except it makes it REST friendly). Also the tastypie setup assumes hypermedia out of the box and the DRF makes that optional / both are worth a look sly7-7 commented Jan 13, 2013 @bsodmike: I think http://vimeo.com/37539737 is a very good start. Some references are outdated, but it may help. @toranb thanks for your screencast on the new router, I'm 30 minutes in and can already see the forest for the trees :D @sly7-7 Thanks! thecodejack commented Jan 15, 2013 I like Ember and want to prefer it over other frameworks..But there are so many changes happened and expecting more, its really making difficult for the people like me.... bernardeli commented Jan 20, 2013 Thanks for putting all your thoughts together and share.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1407
__label__wiki	0.804941	0.804941	Moore’s Morning Sports Briefing for Thursday, April 25 By Kelly Moore Global News Posted April 25, 2019 8:30 am The Winnipeg Blue Bombers hold their mini-camp in Bradenton, Florida. Kelly Moore / Global News Good Morning from Winnipeg Blue Bomber free agent camp in Bradenton, Fla. The third and final session of the Blue Bombers free agent camp is just underway. And I noticed a few players leaving the field “somewhat gingerly” after yesterday afternoon’s second session. It will be interesting to see if it’s all hands on deck this morning. Ex-Dallas Cowboy Receiver Lucky Whitehead appeared to be fine — and says he arrived at camp ready to compete both physically and mentally. https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/lucky-whitehead.mp3 And Quarterback Bryan Schor says he’s appreciative of the opportunity and the patience the Blue Bombers have shown him: https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/bryan-schor-bomber-patience.mp3 Schor, and the other two QB’s, Sean McGuire and Kevin Anderson, have certainly been given the opportunity to show off their arms and passing skills. Head Coach Mike O’Shea explained why he prefers to go into these scenarios with no preconceived notion that would affect the evaluation process: https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/mike-oshea.mp3 And one of those guys is former NY Giants Draft Pick Mykkele Thompson. And the Italian born, San Antonio raised Cornerback and Safety says his introduction to CFL rules was “educational:” https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/mykkele-thompson.mp3 The Canadian Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2019 will include former Bomber great Ernie Pitts, as well as Receiver David Williams who finished off his CFL career in blue and gold in 1995. Three-time CFL rushing leader and Most Outstanding Canadian Jon Cornish of Calgary, ex-BC-Lion receiving great Swervin Mervyn Fernandez, and former Argo pass-catching great Terry Greer are also going in as players. The newest additions to the Builders category are former Saskatchewan President Jim Hopson and legendary UBC Coach Frank Smith. French tennis player Elliot Benchetrit scolded for ball-girl banana request Houston Astros, Boston Red Sox face fans for first time since sign-stealing fallout Carolina Hurricanes left wing Brock McGinn, center, celebrates his game-winning goal during double overtime of Game 7 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series as Washington Capitals defenseman Matt Niskanen (2) and left wing Alex Ovechkin (8), of Russia, skate by, Wednesday, April 24, 2019, in Washington. The Hurricanes won 4-3 in double overtime. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) It wasn’t enough that both regular season conference champions were punted out of the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. All four division winners failed to make it to round two as well after Washington was bounced 4-3 in double overtime by Carolina. Brock McGinn was the hero for the Canes, scoring at 11:05 of the second extra period: https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/brock-mcginn.mp3 McGinn scored in identical fashion to Jaden Schwartz of St. Louis in Game Five versus the Jets when he re-directed a mid-air centering pass off the right wing boards from “Mr Game Seven” Justin Williams. Schwartz and the Blues begin Round Two tonight, hosting Dallas. Columbus also visits Boston. Carolina plays the Islanders, and San Jose is at home to Colorado tomorrow. Baseball’s No. 1 prospect is finally getting the call to the big leagues as Toronto is recalling Vladimir Guerrero Jr from Triple A Buffalo for tomorrow’s start of a weekend series versus Oakland. Manager Charlie Montoya says the decision to recall Vladdie Guererro Jr. from Triple AAA Buffalo is a defining moment for the franchise: https://shawglobalnews.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/charlie-montoya-on-guererro.mp3 Rhys Hoskins of Philadelphia responded to having a pair of pitches from Mets releiver Jacob Rhame sail over his head the night before by taking more than 34 seconds to make his way around the bases after going hard on Rhames in the ninth inning of the Phillies 6-0 win last night for the slowest homerun trot of 2019. So much for speeding up the slow pace of the Great American pastime. The Goldeyes have announced their annual Open House is set for a week from this Saturday on May 4 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Shaw Park. And the Houston Rockets are on to round two of the NBA playoffs after a 100-93 win over Utah to take out the Jazz in five games. Lou Williams’ 33 points and 10 rebounds helped the LA Clippers knock off Golden State 129-121 to force a Game Six in that series. 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Facilitate transactions and maintain accountability and compliance standards for investors, including coordinating across multiple GP teams to gather and compile quantitative and qualitative data, legal documents, and organizational information. Analyze and monitor investor engagement and pipeline development to support evolving capital strategy. Develop and operationalize reporting frameworks to support senior leadership. Collaborate closely with the Managing Director of Capital and Impact on GP’s conference presence and memberships in industry networks. Attend and represent GP at select conferences and within aligned networks and lead team’s preparation and post-event debriefs. Precision and excellence in verbal and written communication. Utmost professionalism with strong listening/interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to support and build trust-based relationships that inspire action. 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Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint required; Salesforce and Tableau preferred. Willingness to travel domestically or internationally up to 15% of the time. Business language fluency in English required. Ability to work legally in the United States. To apply, please send the following materials in a single PDF document to info@globalpartnerships.org and include the title ‘Application: Director of Investor Relations’ in the subject line. Brief cover letter Global Partnerships is an equal opportunity employer. Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. For priority consideration, please apply by February 3rd. Due to the volume of applications received, we will contact only those candidates selected for interviews – no follow-ups, please. Finalists will be asked to submit references, including name, email, and phone number, of at least two former supervisors. 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__label__cc	0.693695	0.306305	Enoch Adeboye Adeboye urges government to lessen masses’ suffering 7 Oct Nigeria The General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye, has called on the Federal Government to focus on policies that would lessen the suffering of the masses. Obasanjo, Adeboye, others for TACN thanksgiving 1 Aug Nigeria Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye, are among eminent Nigerians... PFN faults calls by protesters for Adeboye’s suspension 11 Jul 2019 Nigeria Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has faulted calls for the suspension of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye. You have talked about COZA, now talk about RUGA, Charly Boy, other protesters urge Adeboye 9 Jul 2019 Nigeria Some members of the Creative Group Industry yesterday staged a peaceful protest to the Redemption Camp, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to make some demands from the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.... Adeboye donates N10 million to UI 27 Jun 2019 Nigeria Vice chancellor of the university, Prof. Idowu Olayinka, disclosed this yesterday during the matriculation of 3,464 students, including 17 foreigners. Man docked for impersonating Adeboye, Odukoya, TB Joshua 4 Apr 2019 Nigeria The police yesterday arraigned a 27-year-old businessman, Yusuf Atanda, who was charged with impersonating Pastor Enoch Adeboye and two other church general overseers to defraud members of the public. Redeemers’ college debuts to boost science, technology development 21 Feb 2019 Education As part of efforts to build human capacity through imparting knowledge in the field of science, technology and management, the Redeemers College of Technology and Management (RECTEM) is set to commence academic activities. RCCG establishes College of Technology and Management 3 Jan 2019 Education The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has announced the establishment of the Redeemer’s College of Technology and Management (RECTEM), a new polytechnic established by the church to raise champions in the field of technology and management. Adeboye optimistic of glory ahead for Nigeria 9 Dec 2018 Nigeria The General Overseer, The Redeemed Christian of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has assured Nigerians that, if they could humble themselves... Adeboye commissions remodeled Dominion Sanctuary building, prays for parishioners 5 Aug 2018 Ibru Ecumenical Centre General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has commissioned the remodeled headquarters parish building of the First Born Family, RCCG Dominion Sanctuary, Region 19 in Ogba, Lagos. Want to create transformational change? Recruit candidates to run 15 May 2018 Politics A few weeks ago, I woke up to messages from a few friends urging me to apply for a high profile job at a music streaming company, which they thought held the keys to transforming the burgeoning African music landscape. Adeboye prays for release of all girls in Boko Haram captivity The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has prayed for the immediate release of all the female students still in Boko Haram captivity. 30 mins ago World 57 mins ago Nigeria	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1434
__label__cc	0.582922	0.417078	This section includes information on: How to interview a complainant Suggested initial questions to ask a complainant How to evaluate a complaint, and How to follow up Promptly reply to the complainant to acknowledge receipt and to seek additional information. If possible, do some quick research to confirm at least the basic transactions involved in the complaint, e.g., that only one bidder was evaluated, or that the lowest bid was not accepted, before responding. This will help you prepare for the interview and will greatly encourage the complainant by showing that you made some effort to follow up on the complaint, which, unfortunately, is not always the case. The failure to do even the simplest preparation can be very discouraging for the whistleblower and can affect his or her desire to cooperate further. Be alert for procurement complaints that suggest but do not directly allege underlying corruption, e.g., “Our bid was the best but we still lost,” or “We had the lowest price but were improperly disqualified.” Losing bidders often are willing to complain about procurement abuses but are reluctant to allege corruption – even when they know it is present – because they fear that such complaints will lead to their blacklisting or other retaliation. Politely press hard to reach the corruption issues in such cases. Emphasize confidentiality and your commitment to follow up on the corruption issues. Suggested questions to ask a complainant: Initial interview questions to ask a complainant Specific initial interview questions for each scheme How to evaluate a complaint The primary factors to evaluate the usefulness and legitimacy of a complaint are: Is the information sufficiently detailed to evaluate? significant enough to pursue? plausible when compared to other available information and documents? corroborated by other reliable information, or can it be? supported by reliable documents, or can it be? Is the complainant credible? If the complaint involves an alleged “Red Flag” of possible misconduct with which you are not familiar, go to the red flags section of this program. There you can learn about the red flag, match it to the related scheme or schemes and learn how to proceed. If the complaint involves an alleged SCHEME, go to the schemes section of this program, find the alleged or suspected scheme or schemes and proceed as directed under each scheme. Other information on complaint handling See how to generate complaints and reports and a list of fraud reporting sites for Multilateral Development Banks.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1436
__label__wiki	0.568204	0.568204	World Government Summit 2019: Five bizarre ideas that actually fly Plastic waste as currency, algorithm to find jobs, manure to battle pollution Published: February 10, 2019 15:20 Sharmila Dhal, UAE Deputy Editor From the Edge of Government meet Image Credit: Atiq-ur-Rehman/Gulf News World Government Summit 2019 in Dubai: Shaping the future of the world The World Government Summit is not all shop talk. On its sidelines is an enclosure called Edge of Government that encourages you to let your imagination go wild, as it presents some bizarre but effective ideas that have taken shape in different parts of the world. Here's some food for thought as Gulf News zeroed in on five innovations: What if plastic waste is used as currency? Well, it is no utopian idea as the Surabaya City Bus project in Indonesia actually shows. Citizens in this city can now pay for a bus ride with discarded plastic bottles - five bottles for a two-hour ride. The result: Surabaya manages to collect 7.5 tons of plastic every month and deals with the garbage as it should be dealth with. What if an algorithm could boost employment for refugees? It definitely can as the Swiss Secretariat for Migration has proven. They directed the power of data to locate the best geographical area for a refugee to find a job and integrate into the community. An algorithm, which determines in which area of a country the individual is a best fit, has helped boost employment rates in Switzerland by 73 per cent. What if an impending bus traffic accident never has to happen? In Singapore, the government turned to artificial intelligence to predict how likely drivers are to cause an accident. Road performance data and observation of two data scientists monitoring the bus driver’s behaviour changes the algorithm that pre-empts accidents and sends the drivers to improve their driving skills. Result: Employee accident frequency rate in Singapore has come down to 1.41, below the global average of 2.8. What if you could consult your digital twin to steer your life? Finland has developed a digital twin 'Aurora' who can analyse our needs and make predictions. This includes telling you if your career path is good for you or not, whether the job you're in will become obsolete and what you need to do to improve your prospects. What if cow manure could clear air pollution? Karachi in Pakistan has introduced buses powered by a new kind of fuel; cow dung. Animal waste is converted into biogas and purified to biomethane so that it can power the bus. The network is set to cater to 320,000 passengers daily, while reducing planet-warming emissions of carbondioxide by 2.6 million tonnes equivalent to emissions over 30 years.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1437
__label__wiki	0.979342	0.979342	Ethiopian Airlines: ‘Crash victim DNA tests to take 6 months’ World Africa Team of investigators in Paris have begun examining black box recorders Published: March 16, 2019 17:23 Agencies Wreckage lies at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff at Hejere near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Sunday, March 10, 2019. Image Credit: AP Airlines fear long grounding of Boeing 737 Max jets after Ethiopian crash Addis Ababa:The investigation into the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that killed 157 people and caused the worldwide grounding of a brand-new Boeing aircraft model will take "considerable time," an Ethiopian government minister said Saturday. "The investigation of such magnitude requires a careful analysis and considerable time to come up with something concrete," transport minister Dagmawit Moges told a press conference. Earlier, Ethiopian Airlines said that DNA testing of the remains of the 157 passengers on board flight 302 may take up to six months as it offered bereaved families charred earth from the plane crash site to bury. A team of investigators in Paris have begun examining the black box recorders recovered from the site where the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane crashed into a field on Sunday after taking off from Addis Ababa. Passengers from more than 30 nations were aboard. As families wait for the results from the investigation into the cause of the crash, Ethiopian Airlines is planning to hold a service on Sunday in Addis Ababa, at the Kidist Selassie, or Holy Trinity Cathedral, where many of the country’s past rulers are buried beneath its pink stone spires. “We were told by the company that we will be given a kilo (of earth) each for burial at Selassie Church for a funeral they will organise,” said one family member who asked not to be named. Papers given to the families at the Skylight Hotel on Saturday said death certificates would be issued within two weeks, and an initial payment made to cover immediate expenses. The return of remains — most of which are charred and fragmented — would take up to six months, the papers said, but in the meantime earth from the crash site would be given. Abdul Majid Sheriff, a Kenyan whose Yemeni brother-in-law died, said they had already held a service. “We are Muslims we didn’t care about that (earth). We did yesterday our prayers at the mosque and that is all for us.” Experts say it is too soon to know what caused the crash, but aviation authorities worldwide have grounded Boeing’s 737 Maxs, as concerns over the plane caused the company’s share price to tumble by around 10 per cent. Flight data has already indicated some similarities with a crash by the same model of plane during a Lion Air flight in October. All 189 people on-board were killed. Both planes crashed within minutes of take off after pilots reported problems. The grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max jets after the crash in Ethiopia has had no immediate financial impact on airlines using the planes, but it will get painful for the industry the longer they do not fly, companies and analysts said on Friday Boeing plans to release upgraded software for its 737 Max in a week to 10 days, sources familiar with the matter said. The US plane maker has been working on a software upgrade for an anti-stall system and pilot displays on its fastest-selling jetliner in the wake of the deadly Lion Air crash. Papers show how 'Africa's richest woman' stole fortune Edible caterpillars become rare in drought-hit Botswana South African aims to break pole sitting world record Swarms of locusts threaten food security in Africa Police chief links Lesotho PM in murder of own wife Uganda police arrest pop-star MP Bobi Wine	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1438
__label__cc	0.649667	0.350333	My GS Account Maker Dashboard How It Works : Shop – Make – Ship – Smile Handmade Wholesale Connection GS Handmade Hometown Shop By Popular Tag Premier Shops A-G A Crafty Mama Company Cr8tive Release Gifts DesignsbyDanielle GoosieGirl GSHandmadeMerch Premier Shops H-S HappyDayApplique KustomCrossStitch MGEDesigns MyGirlsEmbroideryAndVinyl Small Shop School Premier Shops T-W ThatsSoAddie TresChicTumblers StitchesByLaura DisorderlyAttitude WallowaWonders WeLuvDizne Founding Member Shops Apply To Open A Shop GS Handmade : 100% Handmade by American Small Shops Home \| Posts tagged "bossbabe" Tag: bossbabe Dorcas Reilly : Who is she? and Why Are We Thankful For Her This Thanksgiving? It started with a call from the Associated Press and a question: What’s a good recipe for a vegetable side dish that features common pantry products? It is the dish everyone is expecting on the holidays, and it is so easy to make, you can serve it any day. If you plan on eating green bean … read more Goosie Foundations: Our Beliefs, Independent Business News, Motivation Monday, News Affecting Handmade, Small Business Tips america, associated press, bake, baking, bossbabe, brand, branding, Camden, Campbell's, campbell's soup, chef, cooking, cream of mushroom, dorcas reilly, encouragement for entrepreneurs, entrepreneur, food, foodie, french fried onions, green bean bake, green bean casserole recipe, green bean casseroles, gypsy spoonful, handmade, home economics, kitchen, leadership, milk, momboss, New Jersey, prep, recipe, side dish recipe, side dish recipes, small business, small shops, sy sauce, thankful, thanksgiving, Thanksgiving traditions, USA, vegetable recipe, vegetable side dish, vegetable side dish recipe, vegetarian, veggies 0 It started with a call from the Associated Press and a question: What’s a good recipe for a vegetable side dish that features common pantry products? It is the dish everyone is expecting on the holidays, and it is so easy to make, you can serve it any day. If you plan on eating green bean casserole this Thanksgiving, the memory of it’s inventor will live on. Created by Campbell Test Kitchen Manager Dorcas Reilly in 1955, its creamy, smooth sauce and un-matchable flavor combined with its simplicity makes Green Bean Casserole so appealing. Just six ingredients and 10 minutes to put together, this family pleasing side has been a favorite for over 60 years. In 1955, the AP, like other newspapers and magazines of the time, was running a feature of an easy-to-make Campbell’s Soup side. The question came with a caveat: the recipe had to be built around green beans and Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup, two items most Americans regularly had in their homes in the ’50s. The request fell to the Campbell’s Soup Co. test kitchen in Camden, N.J., an arm of the company that focused on coming up with recipes for its products. Dorcas Reilly, a supervisor for Campbell’s home economics department, was tasked with leading her team to figure out what could be done. The group would test and grade recipes repeatedly. Only a perfect score would qualify it as ready to go. In November of that year, Reilly and her team settled on what would be first known as “the Green Bean Bake,” an easily adaptable six-ingredient recipe of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, milk, soy sauce, black pepper and French fried onions that takes 10 minutes to prep and 30 minutes to bake. Photo Credit: Campbell’s Soup “We worked in the kitchen with things that were most likely to be in most homes,” she told NPR in 2015. “It’s so easy. And it’s not an expensive thing to make, too.” During a time when many women were homemakers, Reilly embarked on a career at Campbell’s Soup in Camden, New Jersey. She worked in the test kitchens, where she and her colleagues brainstormed recipes that used Campbell’s products, and then did blind taste-tests. The test kitchen employees rated a recipe on a scale of one to ten, tweaked it if necessary, and then submitted it to headquarters for approval. When Campbell’s started to put Reilly’s recipe on the cans of its cream of mushroom soup in 1960, the popularity of the dish hit new heights. More than 60 years since the dish was invented, green bean casserole is a Thanksgiving staple, with an estimated 20 million-plus American households expected to serve it this year, according to Campbell’s. Throughout her life, Reilly, a culinary trail blazer during a time when women were often on the sidelines in corporate America, remained astonished at the success of a dish based on green beans and cream of mushroom soup, one referred to by Campbell’s as “the mother of all comfort foods.” “We all thought this is very nice, etc., and then when we got the feelings of the consumer, we were really kinda pleasantly shocked,” she said in a Campbell’s promotional video for the dish. “I’m very proud of this, and I was shocked when I realized how popular it had become.” Reilly, an influential innovator of beloved comfort food in the U.S., died on Oct. 15 of Alzheimer’s disease in Camden. She was 92. A visitation and celebration of her life will be held on Saturday in Haddonfield, N.J. Rest in Peace Mrs. Reilly! We will all remember you this Thanksgiving as we take a big scoop of our favorite comfort food, We’re all thankful for you and your recipe! photo credit: https://www.nj.com Source: The Washington Post What’s the takeaway that we can learn from Mrs. Reilly? 1. Sometimes we can think we are just “doing our jobs” but to other people, it may make a big difference. This lady invented a recipe that was just a day on the job… but 60 years later, here we are, blogging about her and being inspired by her. Her recipe has been on a kabillion soup cans since 1960, everyone knows what “green bean casserole” is. 2. She was a team leader, and when talking about the challenge, she never took all the credit. She always said “we” when speaking of herself and her team. The TEAM was important, each member of the team contributed something, and she never lost sight of that. Although Reilly cooked up the recipe, she does not take sole credit for it. “It was about the team working together,” she said. “I didn’t do it; we did it.” 3. Sometimes things start out small, and we never know how they may end up… I’m sure when Dorcas Reilly went to work that day, she never imagined her recipe invention would be called the “mother of all comfort foods” … She didn’t give up though, she stood by her work, and her work spoke for itself in the end~ gaining fame across the country. Keep your chins up, and keep on doing the “little things” that you may think are unimportant… you never know how they may end up in the long run. Dorcas Reilly was quoted as saying, “It was such a rewarding feeling when your recipe was published,” she added. Further stressing the importance of sticking with it, and following your ideas through to fruition. 4. She was a pioneer of sorts, in post World War II America, more than most women became homemakers. Dorcas pursued a college education. In the early 1950s, there was a cultural shift; a post-war wave of consumption was prevalent in America. Marketing departments of major companies were pushing products heavily, because Americans were spending more and the economy was flourishing. Campbell’s in particular published their signature recipes (all whipped up in the test kitchen) in ads, newspapers, magazines, and on their product labels. When Reilly’s green bean casserole recipe appeared in print, it took off. Some say its popularity was initially due to the fact that it used ingredients that were typically found in American pantries; others say that the flavor alone skyrocketed it to fame. Regardless, it was a dish that was being prepared in countless American homes. 5. The Campbell’s website boasts new, more modern spin offs of the recipe, and even more current versions but there is never quite anything like the original, is there? This reminds us to appreciate the original, to respect the creator of the REAL recipe, and give credit where credit is due. This reminds me of handmade vs handmade knock-offs… what once was a totally handmade market (not mentioning any names) that is flooded with mass -produced goods masquerading as handmade… being produced in overseas factories and imported. Nothing is as quality as handmade, nothing can capture the attention to detail that a handmade garment, sign, purse or home decor item can. One person working on one piece at a time, paying attention to the details, giving the customer one on one service and customer care. Motivation Monday Overcoming Obstacles in Entrepreneurship There is an old saying: Champions don’t become champions in the ring- they are merely recognized there. That’s true, if you want to see where someone develops into a champion, look at their daily routine. Former heavyweight champ Joe Frazier stated: You can map out a fight plan or a life plan. But when the … read more Goosie Foundations: Our Beliefs, Independent Business News, Motivation Monday, Small Business Tips a lesson, advertising, advice, blog, blog post, blogger, blogging, blogs, blogs with quotes, bossbabe, boutique, brand, brand rep, branding, business news, consistency, craft, crafts, custom boutique, determination, entreprenette, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurs, etsy, etsy alternatives, fierceness, gypsy spoonful, handmade, hard worker, henry ford quote, hustle, hustler, independent, inspiration, inspirational, leadership, learn, learning, life lesson, mom blog, momager, momboss, monday, money, motivation monday, photographer, photography, pr, president, promotion, public, public relations, quote, quotes, roosevelts, running a small business, SBA, sewing, Sewist, Shop Small, shopping, small business, small business association, small shop, small shop boss, small shop bosses, success, teddy roosevelt, teddy roosevelt quotes, the man in the arena, the man in the arena quote, theodore roosevelt, tips, tr, tr quotes 0 There is an old saying: Champions don’t become champions in the ring- they are merely recognized there. That’s true, if you want to see where someone develops into a champion, look at their daily routine. Former heavyweight champ Joe Frazier stated: You can map out a fight plan or a life plan. But when the action starts, you’re down to your reflexes. That’s where your road work shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, you’re getting found out now under the bright lights. Boxing is a good analogy for developing bossbabes because it’s all about daily preparation. Even if a person has natural talent, they have to prepare and train to become successful. One of this country’s greatest leaders was a fan of boxing: President Theodore Roosevelt. In fact, one of his most famous quotes uses a boxing analogy THE MAN IN THE ARENA Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic” delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910 download PDF of complete speech It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. TR (Teddy Roosevelt’s nickname) was known for regular boxing and judo sessions, challenging horseback rides, and long, strenuous hikes. A French ambassador who visited Roosevelt used to tell about the time that he accompanied the president on a walk through the woods. When the two men came to the banks of a stream that was too deep to cross by foot. TR stripped off his clothes and expected the dignitary to do the same so taht they could swim to the other side. Nothing was an obstacle to Roosevelt. Of all the leaders this nation has ever had, Roosevelt was one of the toughest-both physically and mentally. But he didn’t start that way. America’s cowboy president was born in Manhattan to a prominent wealthy family. As a child he was puny and very sickly. He had debilitating asthma, possessed very poor eyesight, and was painfully thin. His parents weren’t sure he would survive. When he was twelve, young Roosevelt’s father told him, “You have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body, the mind cannot go as far as it should. You must MAKE the body.” and make it , he most certainly did. TR began training every single day physically, building his body as well as his mind, and he did that for the rest of his life. Roosevelt didn’t become a great leader overnight either. His road to the presidency was one of slow, continual growth. He improved himself and in time, he became a strong leader. Roosevelt’s list of accomplishments is remarkable. Under his leadership, the United States emerged as a world power. He helped the country develop a first-class navy. He was that the Panama Canal was built. He negotiated peace between Russia and China, winning a Nobel Peace Prize in the process. On January 6, 1919 he died in his sleep. Then vice president Marshall said, “Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight” When they removed him from his bed, they found a book under his pillow. Up to the very last, TR was still striving to learn and improve himself. *Source: Leadership 101 by John C. Maxwell What are the takeaways we can learn from Roosevelt that may apply to our lives as Entrepreneurs? 1. Be FIERCE : obstacles will come, it’s how you approach those obstacles. Are you going to say , “It’s too hard, we can’t cross this stream, it’s too deep” and turn back? Or will you strip naked and lead the way? Nothing in life is easy. Entrepreneurship isn’t for sissies. You have to get in there, roll up your sleeves and be FIERCE. Are you stronger than the obstacles in your path? 2. Even a great leader like TR started off small. He wasn’t expected to survive from his own parents! If that’s not a kick in the teeth, then I don’t know what is! Of all people in the world, you want those who love you and you share your life with to believe in you and your dreams, it’s hard when you don’t get the support you’d like. But what did TR do? He set out to prove them wrong. He was CONSISTENT, he worked towards his goal of strengthening his body every.single.day. Consistency wins the prize in owning and operating a small business. Many times it can be isolating, people in our family would rather share a celebrity’s status or meme on social media. Your loved ones may shop at a big box store rather than supporting your small shop.. you can’t control other people, you can only change how you react to them. Seek out OTHER support from friends, or like-minded individuals and other small business owners. The community at Gypsy Spoonful is a great source of strentgh, knowledge and inspiration for me everyday. I am so thankful to have people that cheer me on and totally GET what I am trying to do with my life. Everyone starts off small, it’s up to YOU to seek out ways to grow and learn new things to embolden your entrepreneurial spirit. ” slow, continual growth.” 3. The mind and body combination is important, It was once said by Henry Ford, “Whether you believe you can or can not, you’re right” . Your mental attitude determines your outcome most of all. TR blazed a trail where no one dared to go before. He traveled all over the world pursuing adventures. Each trip, each adventure prepared him for the next one. He built knowledge upon his experiences. We all fail and fall short, just like the man in the arena~ but do we get up again after we get knocked down? or do we stay down? A product might not sell, a promotion may flop… KEEP LEARNING, learn from your mistakes and build on that. Go forward with the ideas of what went wrong and how to overcome that in your future small shop “adventures”. If you are looking for a creative community where you can find limitless support from like minded creative folks, and you feel you’ve got a great product to offer the world, Gypsy Spoonful is seeking new shop owners, please go to this page and read what we believe about handmade and how we do things. If you vibe with what we’re doing, please fill out an application. We will be screening and vetting applicants for 2019. Go HERE Supreme List of Handmade Hashtags : the best hashtags to use for Instagram Supreme List of Handmade Hashtags for Instagram You’ve been accepted to Gypsy Spoonful, Set Up Your Shop, Worked on Creating your first 10 product listings, and graduated to the bigger group… Now What? How do you get found and get any real, engaged followers? Does it feel like you’re just talking to yourself (I can … read more Goosie News Affecting Handmade, Small Business Tips all the things, best handmade hashtags, blog, blogger, blogging, blogs, boss babe, boss babes, bossbabe, boutiue, chicago handmade, cincinnatti, collab, collaborate, crafting, crocheting, dallas, entrepreneur, etsy, etsy alternatives, etsy shop, facebook, hand made, handmadeinTexas, hash tag, hashtag, hashtag it all, hashtags, houston, IG, Illinois, instagram, knitting, maker movement, makers, making things, marketing, mom blog, momager, mompreneur, new yor, new york, oregon, painting, pin, pinning tips, pinterest, pr, public relations, Quilting, san diego, sculpting, seattle, sewing, small business, small shop, small shop boss, small shops, social media, Supreme List of Handmade Hashtags for Instagram, tag, tags, twitter, ultimate list of handmade hashtags 1 Supreme List of Handmade Hashtags for Instagram You’ve been accepted to Gypsy Spoonful, Set Up Your Shop, Worked on Creating your first 10 product listings, and graduated to the bigger group… Now What? How do you get found and get any real, engaged followers? Does it feel like you’re just talking to yourself (I can relate!) On many social media platforms, but most of all Instagram, hashtags are one of the quickest and easiest ways to grow your following. Instagram allows up to 30 hashtags per post, so here is a quick and dirty list of some great Handmade and Gypsy Spoonful specific hashtags to use for your copy and pasting ease. #GypsySpoonful #GSShopOwner #GypsyStrong #GSsellersofinstagram #GSseller #GSlove #GSfinds #GSsuccess #madeintheusa #handmadegifts #shopGS #smallshop #shopsmall #handmadefavorites #mamamade #makersgonnamake #artistsofinstagram #AmericanSmallBusiness #shophandmade #shopsmallbusiness #shopsmallbiz #handmadesmallbusiness #handmademarketplace #handmadesale #handmadetribe #handmadebestsellers #handmademen #handmadewomen #handmadesellers #handmaderevolution If you are looking for more specifically handmade, but not specifically Gypsy Spoonful hashtags, here is a list of my favorite of those: #crafter #handmadewithlove #creativelife #makerslife #makerlife #makersmovement #handmademovement #waketomake #calledtobecreative #handmadeisbest #makersgottamake #createmakeshare #instamaker #instahandmade #handicraft #handcrafted #instacraft #wearethemakers #creativeatheart #supportthemakers #supporthandmade I’ve found it is a great idea to use a variety of hashtags — switch it up, and rotate often, some about handmade items, some about Gypsy Spoonful specifically, and some about your particular niche and geographic location. Geographic location? What does that mean? #handmadeinTexas #chicagoartist #kansascitymakers Do you have any particular hashtags that work well for you? Of course We’d love to hear them! Interested in finding out more about being a shop owner/seller on Gypsy Spoonful? Read this page and see if you vibe with what we’re doing. See the members of our community in action and interact with them in our Facebook Group. Join: Be a Maker Website Customized By PixelCode \| © 2019 Gypsy Spoonful All rights reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1439
__label__wiki	0.602211	0.602211	Brown University Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative The next generation of human-machine technology HCRI Staff HCRI Members Brown Robotics in CS Research Spaces Abot Database Robot Block Party Societal Implications of Robotics Symposium (SIRoS) HCRI Joins The Partnership on AI HCRI is pleased to announce it has joined the Partnership on AI. The Partnership on Al exists to study and formulate best practices on Al, to advance the public’s understanding of Al, and to provide a platform for open collaboration between all those involved in, and affected by, the development and deployment of Al technologies. To … Read more HCRI Joins The Partnership on AI HCRI Partners with Sproutel “Brown’s HCRI is excited to be working with Sproutel on such socially focused research. The work Sproutel does exemplifies the type of humanity centered robotics we aim to support at Brown’s HCRI.” Peter Haas, Associate Director, Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative, Brown University Sproutel, Inc. and Brown University’s Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative are partnering to assess the … Read more HCRI Partners with Sproutel Peter Haas at TEDxDirigo Peter Haas spoke at TEDxDirigo on The Real Reason to Be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence Michael Littman at TEDxProvidence Michael Littman spoke at TEDxProvidence September 30th 2017 on “How I learned to stop worrying and be realistic about AI” HCRI Partners with Hasbro A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a three-year partnership that seeks to enhance Hasbro’s Joy for All Companion Pets into smart robots that can help older adults with everyday tasks. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A group of academic researchers, led by cognitive and computer scientists from Brown University, is … Read more HCRI Partners with Hasbro Could your robot hurt you? Perhaps, but not intentionally. August 29, 2013 August 30, 2013 brownhcri Because robots’ decision-making abilities are not at the level of humans’, there are liabilities that come with industrial robots, automated vehicles, caretakers, and other positions that involve life-or-death situations. More so than robots rebelling and taking over the world, people should be worrying about robots malfunctioning or falling into the hands of the wrong people. There have been three reported incidents of industrial robots causing deaths in factories, the latter two of which involved human error at least in part. In 1979, a Michigan Ford Motor robot’s arm crushed a worker while both were gathering supplies. The jury awarded the employee’s family $10 million, the state’s largest personal injury award ever at the time. Ford Motors was blamed for the incident because of a lack of safety precautions, including an alarm that should have sounded when the robot approached. In 1984, a die-cast operator was pinned between a hydraulic robot and a safety pole. The worker was blamed for entering a robot envelope, which was prohibited in training. The company subsequently installed a fence to keep unauthorized workers away from the robots. This incident led the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Division of Safety Research to make recommendations in “ergonomic design, training, and supervision” for industrial robots, including design measures for the robot envelope, safety precautions for workers and programmers, and instructions for training. Supervisors were advised to emphasize in training that workers should not assume that a robot will keep doing its current activity or stay still when stopped. More recently, in 2009, a robot’s arm again crushed and killed a worker at a Golden State Foods bakery in California. According to the inspection detail, the case is not closed yet, but it appears that Golden State Foods has to pay several fines, over $200,000 total. The incident was chalked up partially to the worker’s lack of precaution. The inspection report reads: “At approximately 7:55 a.m. on July 21, 2009, Employee #1 was operating a robotic palletizer for Golden State Foods, Inc., a food processor and packager for fast food restaurants. She entered the caged robotic palletizer cell while the robotic palletizer was running. She had not deenergized the equipment. Her torso was crushed by the arms of the robotic palletizer as it attempted to pick up boxes on the roller conveyor. She was killed.” The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published 10 standards for industrial robots and drafted two standards for personal care robots. The American National Standard and the Robotics Industries Association have jointly developed detailed safety regulations for industrial robots, which were recently updated to incorporate the ISO’s guidelines. A newer development for governments to respond to is the automated car. Self-driving cars are legal in California, Nevada, and Florida for testing on roads as long as there is a human behind the wheel. The only Google car accident so far occurred when the car was controlled by a human, as opposed to a computer. When asked who would get ticketed when the Google car ran a red light, co-creator Sergey Brin responded, “self-driving cars do not run red lights.” Currently, however, the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is working on a set of rules governing the use of self-driving cars. The recommendations include special training to obtain a license for an automatic car and a requirement that those testing the vehicles report all accidents. The NHTSA proposal points out that most cars already have automated features, such as brake pulses during potential skids, automatic braking during potential collisions, and cruise control. Another liability for robots is hacking. People can hack into not only computers, but also any machine that is part of a network— including cars with the features described above. To illustrate this possibility, computer scientists Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek hacked into a Ford Escape and caused it to crash even when the driver hit the brakes. Robot hacking similarly contains the potential for physical damage. Increasingly automated machines are also bringing up security questions.1 Some medical and domestic robots record personal information and behavioral patterns, which privacy laws do not yet address. If information is not kept between the machine and its user, the consequences for medical robots, automated vehicles, or smart houses could be dire. Apps such as Nest, which connect your phone to your house in order to control the temperature, could give a hacker information about your home — and if it were a robot the app was controlling, much more. Current hacking laws are difficult to apply to the 21st century, let alone beyond. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, passed in 1986, has been used to prosecute internet users for finding loopholes in websites without even revealing the information they find. When we ascribe blame for a crime, we usually ascribe it to an individual who has acted maliciously or carelessly. But those words don’t really apply to robots, who act based on programming, intended or not. Adapting our laws to robots may require us to rethink agency, or at least to think more about who the agents are in these situations. –Suzannah Weiss 1 A Roadmap for U.S. Robotics: From Internet to Robotics. 2013 Edition. March 20, 2013. Law/Ethics/Policy, Uncategorized Ford Motor, Ford Motor Company, Golden State Foods, Google, Industrial robot, International Organization for Standardization, Robotic Industries Association, robotics 1 Comment HCRI on Twitter HCRI Events Contact HCRI 201 Thayer st, 8th Floor E-mail: hcri(@)brown.edu Twitter: @BrownHCRI	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1446
__label__cc	0.54718	0.45282	Travelogue: Coba and Tulum, Mexico It was ten years ago that Aron and I took a two-week road trip around the Yucatán Peninsula, but I still recall how incredible it was: with visits to ancient Mayan temples and swimming in the sinkholes—cenotes—that connect to underground rivers under the limestone. When we decided to spend a week in the region over spring break, I knew we’d need to devote at least one day sharing just that with the kids. Our itinerary had been to split the week between Isla de Holbox, a small island to the north of Cancun, and the resort area of Mayakoba, so we would add a visit to the ruins of Coba—a Mayan site we hadn’t previously visited—at the halfway point. But ever since a car break-in years ago in France, we’ve felt hesitant to leave suitcases in the car while sightseeing, so we decided to take a night from the island stay and add it in Tulum so that we drop our bags and save ourselves the worry. It also meant that we could arrive at the ruins just as they were opening. Finally, I confess I was curious to see just how much Tulum had changed since that trip so many years ago. So we left that little paradise of Holbox around midday and ferried back to our rental car, only to pull into Tulum a few hours later… We had considered basing ourselves at a hotel in Cobá, and in hindsight that would have been the most efficient—one could just stay in Holbox until the afternoon and arrive at a hotel in time for dinner and a night’s rest. Instead, we drove about 30 or 40 minutes beyond to Tulum, through the commercial core to the beach. As the main road reaches the coastal one, there are wooden signs with hotel names on posts and right away I recalled that where there were now half a dozen posts, there once was one. Our hotel, Piedra Escondida, was at the northern end of the stretch—a nice hotel with its own little cove, that’s been there for twenty years. It was nicer than we needed for just the one night, really, but we appreciated being on the water so that we could just spend the rest of the day walking along the shore until dinner. Of course, that meant choosing exploring over just relaxing—something that actually would have been quite easy there, as they had toys set out in a box for the kids and some little shade structures that both Hudson and Skyler dashed into immediately. Swimming, however, was not an option there, as the wind was pretty strong and the waves were coming directly onshore. We noticed that there was another small cove just south—in front of the hotel El Pez—that probably seemed like the most safe, protected spot for small swimmers. I’d read so many horror stories about Tulum’s overdevelopment that I was expecting the worst, but it was as gorgeous as ever on the surface. I’m sure the stories are all true—that the crowds have over-taxed the infrastructure and the development’s pace is unsustainable; it’s a cautionary tale that should be told. But it also struck me that if one hadn’t been to Tulum when it was a bargain-backpacker haven, with curfews on electricity and no wifi signals as we had, you would just arrive and think only about how it’s one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline in the world. We never made it to the most trendy stretch south by Gitano and Hartwood and Be Tulum, after all, so our experience is quite limited. For dinner, we ended up across the road at Safari, a typically boutiquey little taco spot that drew us in with the promise of smoked-meat tacos and an attractive patio with an airstream. It seemed to capture everything that people love and hate about Tulum: it was a perfectly-styled, casual spot, all open and colorful, with some bats flying around as the sun went down. The servers had French and British accents and we learned later that the owner came home to open it after working as a chef at Tacombi in Manhattan. No big surprise, it ended up being one of the more expensive meals on our trip, and it involved a comically upsetting encounter with copal incense smoke blowing into our faces a few times, but the tacos—crispy fish, fire-roasted octopus, and pork pastor—were truly delicious, as well the mezcal-spiked juices. The next morning, we rose with the sun, prepared for a day of exploring. We brought our bags up to the front desk for storing, had a wonderful (if quick) breakfast overlooking the water, and Hudson taught himself to cartwheel in the sand while Skyler adorned her hat with the butterfly clips her grandmother had made. It was honestly a little hard to leave. But the drive back up the road to Cobá wasn’t too long, and we were excited to see the site. Back home, I’d checked out some books about Mayan Mexico and archaeological discoveries from the library, and we’d watched a Disney Cartoon called The Road to El Dorado which, while Aztec-themed (and over-simplified in its colonial messages)—to help the kids to imagine ball courts and temples in their prime, and I think they were excited, too! The Mayan City of Coba was first inhabited around 100 AD and was eventually abandoned when the Spanish conquered the peninsula 1400 years later. It is estimated to have had a population of over 50,000 at its peak, and controlled farmland, trading routes, and important water sources all around the region. In other words, it’s an enormous site—most of which has still not been excavated. We opted to explore on our own, but there are many guides offering services at the entrance to the site and I’m sure this would enhance any visit. To get around, visitors can walk, hire and bici taxi (like a pedi-cab), or rent a bicycle. We were lucky that Skyler agreed to get a quick lesson in hand-brakes so that we could opt for the latter. As we were choosing our four bikes, we noticed that they were going fast and the line for the bici taxis was growing long—so we did have a sense of urgency about making that decision. The site features the largest network of stone causeways in the ancient Mayan world, called sacbes (white roads): the raised stone pathways connect clusters of residential areas to the pyramid areas and to small lakes. We followed one through the trees to the largest pyramid first, knowing that it might get more crowded as the day went on. But in general I was struck by how uncrowded the area felt at many times. It’s such a vast site that we often found ourselves practically alone on the paths between the structures. The largest pyramid at Coba is called Ixmoja, part of the Nohoch Mul group of buildings. The pyramid is 138 feet tall, and is still open to climbing. We had some trepidation about watching the kids ascend (and, especially, descend) the steep steps, but had also chose to visit Cobá knowing that they’d appreciate it more with the chance to engage in this way. They gave me their best warrior poses after braving the climb—and making it back down safely. There are many tall stone carved monuments at the complex, called stelae. Some stelae here depict women, suggesting the city had female rulers. There are two well-preserved ball courts on the site too, used for playing ōllamaliztli, a traditional Mayan ballgame. Specific rules differ depending on the time period, but basically players attempted to bounce a heavy rubber ball through stone rings using their hips. And there was plenty of wildlife, if you looked closely. We spotted some giant lizards in the brush, bats hanging from the thatched roofs, and some enormous arboreal termite nests. Hudson kept trying to scare Skyler about the possible presence of a jaguar, but the closest we got to that were signs along the road warning motorists to look for them crossing. After we’d wrapped up our visit, and before we left for some swimming, we crossed the road outside of the ruins and sat down for lunch at one of the eateries across from the lake—there, we introduced the kids to Fanta and spotted our first crocodiles! The Yucatán Peninsula’s limestone surface is especially porous, so there are thousands of sinkholes called cenotes, many of which can be visited for swimming, that connect to one of the longest underwater cave systems in the world. They are still exploring the miles of them and finding the most incredible artifacts! There are three of these cenotes just a 10-minute drive away from the ruins, accessible with an entrance fee. We visited two of them, Cenotes Choo-Ha and Tamcach-Ha. At the first, we walked down the staircase and found a cave with cool, crystal-blue water, and many stalagmites hanging from the ceiling. Cenote Tamcach-Ha is a deeper underground cavern, with a much deeper pool and a winding wooden staircase with platforms for jumping at 15 and 30 feet high. I got vertigo just looking over the edge, but both Hudson and Aron took turns off the lower platform. (I think Hudson did it five or six times over!) From there we returned to Tulum to pick up our bags and drive on to Mayakoba, but you could easily spend an entire week just exploring the various cenotes and ancient Mayan sites around the peninsula. Have you perhaps done just that? Which were your favorites? Previously: Isla de Holbox (& a much earlier Yucatán trip with stops in Merida, Campeche, Isla Mujeres, and Tulum—where we went scuba diving in one of the cave systems!) 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__label__cc	0.696541	0.303459	Home \| Interviews \| Interview: Jackson A. Dunn (Brightburn) Interview: Jackson A. Dunn (Brightburn) Janel Spiegel 08/26/2019 Interviews Jackson A. Dunn (“Avengers: Endgame”, “Shameless”) took time to speak with Horrornews.net about his new film, BRIGHTBURN. Hi Jackson, Tell us a little bit about “Brightburn” and how you got involved? Jackson- I got the audition for “Brightburn” and I went through several rounds. I met with the director David Yarovesky. I met with him several times. I didn’t have the script or anything, I just had sides. So, I did what I could with the sides and I tried to piece together what I could from the material I was given. From what I had I kind of deduced that he was more of a possessed, demonic-type character and a shy intellectual. I tried to take inspiration from some horror movies like “The Sixth Sense” and “Insidious” movies like that to get that possessed type of character. It was an interesting audition process. What was it like working with the director, David Yarovesky? What was his process like? Jackson- He is a great director. He has a vivid imagination, a vision and he wants to make it happen. There is a twinkle in his eye every time he thinks of something. It was fun to bounce ideas off of him. It was fun to work with him as an actor. People are excited for “Brightburn.” What is like for you being this awesome superhero? Jackson- It is every kids dream to be a superhero or to be a movie star. Just my luck, I got to do both. Maybe not in the most orthodox way because I played a demonically possessed super-villain who kills everyone. I am super excited to be able to do the things I do and get the opportunities I’ve been given. The cast is incredible. What was it like working with Elizabeth Banks, David Denman… This amazing cast. Jackson- Elizabeth Banks and David Denman are both incredible actors. It was beneficial for me to see them first-hand and be able to bounce ideas off of them. To be able to see what things they did that I should include in my repertoire of acting abilities. As people, they are both amazing. David went the extra mile to treat me as an equal. What are you working on next? Jackson- There is nothing I can speak about now but you can follow me on all my socials. Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. It is all @jacksonadunn What was it like being a part of “Avengers: Endgame?” Jackson- It was amazing. It was secretive so I didn’t entirely know until Endgame came out. It was really cool and getting to be on-set. Seeing all the Avengers sets. It was quite an experience. It was amazing seeing it in the movie theater and everyone was laughing, cheering, crying and just baffled. It was great. You did a great job. Jackson- It was quite a ride. What do you want the fans to know about “Brightburn?” Jackson- Probably just to understand the arc of Brandon throughout the movie. Thank you so much Jackson. It was an honor. You are so talented. Jackson- Thank you. www.imdb.com/name/nm6676262/?ref_=tt_cl_t3 Twitter: @jacksonadunn Instagram: jacksonadunn Tags Brightburn Jackson A. Dunn Film Review: Brightburn (2019) Brightburn arrives on Digital 8/6 and on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray™ & DVD 8/20	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1454
__label__cc	0.531249	0.468751	2016 Family Concert Mozart for Minors Music lovers of all ages were treated to an afternoon of fabulous music at Bard College’s Bito Auditorium. Thank you to the Preparatory Division of the Bard Conservatory for once again making our free annual concert such a success, and to our extraordinary musicians who kept a very enthusiastic young audience rapt! Bitó Hall 2016 Fall Benefit An Autumn Afternoon of Music Thanks to all who came out on a beautiful fall day for a garden stroll through the impressive grounds of the Wethersfield Estate and a music program in the Carriage House featuring works from 1880 through 2011 , followed by wine and hors d’oeuvres. 2016 June Concert Series Calidore String Quartet Mozart: String Quartet in D Major (K.575) Rachmaninov: Two Movements for String Quartet Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44, No. 3 Olin Hall Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio David Ludwig: Titania’s Dream Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor. Op. 67 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8 Schubert: String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 29 (D.804) “Rosamunde” Bartok: Fourth Quartet Brahms: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2 Tunes for Tots The 5th Annual HVCMC/Bard Prep Family Concert was another success! The concert featured Prep students and their teachers performing in Bito Hall. Young children gathered up front, close to the musicians, and afterwards, the audience was invited to meet the performers and see the instruments. As always, donations went to support the Bard Conservatory – Prep Division scholarship fund. Thanks to all of our performers and audience for a fun afternoon. Ludwig van Beethoven: “Kakadu Variations” for Piano Trio, Op. 121a Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50 Antonin Dvořák: Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 26 Les Amies Trio Jacques Ibert: Two Interludes Sir Arnold Bax: Elegiac Trio Maurice Ravel: Sonatine (arranged as “Sonatine en trio” by Carlos Salzedo) Gabriel Fauré: Impromptu for Harp in D-flat Major, Op. 86 François Devienne: Duo for Flute and Viola in C Minor, Op. 5, No. 3 Claude Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp Cho & Kim Clara Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22 Robert Schumann: Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 121 Joan Tower: STRING FORCE John Corigliano: Sonata for Violin and Piano Franz Waxman: Carmen Fantasie for Violin and Piano The Sound(s) of Music Music lovers of all ages were treated to an afternoon of fabulous music in Bard College’s Bito Auditorium. Music pieces ranged from Brahms Sontas and pieces by Mozart and Schumann to a lively and joyful selection from The Sound of Music! Thank you to Susan Hinkle Lindner for arranging such a wonderful event, and to our extraordinary musicians: Nicholas Alton Lewis, Susanne Son, Stella Prince, Luba Poliak, Brian Krinke, Daisy Dundas, Lucy Dhegrae, Gretchen Kamm, Ethan Richman, Slava Koblov and Calvin Walker. Also, a special thanks to Montgomery Orchards for donating apples for the after-concert snack! Time at Tailings Part 3 A beautiful evening of music was enjoyed by many at the HVCMC Benefit Concert at Tailings, the home of Robert Montgomery. The program, our third at Tailings, featured a unique selection of music ranging from pieces by Antonín Dvořák to new and original works by the winners of the HVCMC annual Helen Shafer prizes. Thank you to Robert Montgomery for opening his home to us, as well as Flatiron and Market St. restaurants, and many others, for providing delicious hors d’oeuvres. Koh & Hochman Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78; Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108 The Dover Quartet Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1 Viktor Ullmann: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46 Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in F Major, Op. 135 Pressler, Laredo, Tree & Robinson Franz Schubert: Sonata in D Major for Violin and Piano, Op. Post. 137, No. 1 (D384) Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2 Antonín Dvorák: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 87 Menahem Pressler Intro to Classical Near Bard’s Blithewood Garden and Hudson River trails, this one-hour program featuring Bard Prep Conservatory students and their teachers captured the hearts of babes in arms, toddlers, teenagers, and classical music devotees alike. The little ones sat up front, close to the musicians, to enjoy vocals, four-hand piano and strings. Donations to this free concert supported the Bard Conservatory – Prep Division scholarship fund. Thank you Helena, Barrett, David, Tanya, Yael, Julian, Jordan, Francesca, Willa, Ethan, Isabel, Morgan, Elischka, Maggie, Ani, and Lucy for your wonderful performances! Bard Hall More Past Events Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle P.O. Box 17, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 hvcmc.bardcenter@gmail.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1456
__label__wiki	0.500693	0.500693	Canada Dashboard Digest \| Notes from the IAPP Canada Managing Director, Nov. 9, 2018 Related reading: Podcast: Does Washington's privacy bill represent meaningful privacy reform? Notes from the IAPP Canada Managing Director, Nov. 9, 2018 schedule Nov 9, 2018 Kris Klein, CIPM, CIPP/C, FIP Kris Klein, CIPM, CIPP/C, FIP If you know anything about me, you know I’m a pretty big Ottawa Senators fan. Yes, even after the tumultuous year it has been. So, it’s no surprise this week that I’m taking this space to rant about the Senators because they are actually involved in an interesting privacy case. Of course, I’m referring to the fact that an Uber driver surreptitiously recorded several players while they criticized one of their coaches. We know that the driver first contacted the Senators organization, and I can only assume that he was trying to extract something from them. A few days after informing the organization he had the video, he released it publicly, and the entire organization was embarrassed. Uber has come out to say that what the driver did was wrong. I guess that’s a good thing, but there are other interesting privacy-related issues that arise from this story. I’ve heard some people say it isn’t really a privacy issue because the hockey players were professional athletes and therefore didn’t have any expectation of privacy when riding around in a cab. I don’t agree, but I understand the point of view, and it is another example of why working in the privacy industry is so interesting. Another angle to the story is that most internet sites that posted the video of the players have taken it down. One notable exception is the Ottawa Citizen. The Senators organization has asked that it be taken down, but the newspaper says that the video is news. Again, the tension between privacy rights and freedom of speech is at play. What do you think? Should the players be given the "right to be forgotten" in this instance? NIST unveils first version of privacy framework The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced the release of the "NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management." Following stakeholder feedback on a draft of the framework, NIST's published framework provides "a useful set of privacy protecti... Researchers: Surveillance footage has 'great potential' in behavioral science A group of British and Danish researchers said surveillance footage can be used to better understand human behavior, Vice reports. The researchers recently published a study using government closed-circuit TV footage from cities in England, Denmark and South Africa, seeking to answer questions about... USENIX to host privacy engineering conference May 11–12 The 2020 Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect, sponsored by USENIX, has been announced for May 11 and 12 in Santa Clara, California. Conference organizers are seeking practitioners and researchers to “illuminate topics in the fields of practical privacy engineering and building sys... library_books NIST unveils first version of privacy framework library_books Researchers: Surveillance footage has 'great potential' in behavioral science library_books USENIX to host privacy engineering conference May 11–12	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1460
__label__wiki	0.797819	0.797819	Current: IMAGE ANNOUNCES THE LUDOCRATS, ALL OTHER ART OBSOLETE. IMAGE ANNOUNCES THE LUDOCRATS, ALL OTHER ART OBSOLETE. Today, Image Comics announced THE LUDOCRATS, a new comic by Kieron Gillen (THE WICKED + THE DIVINE, PHONOGRAM), David Lafuente (Ultimate Comics: Spider-man), Jim Rossignol, and Ricardo Venancio. “The Ludocrats is a decade-in-the-making opulent fantastical comedy,” said writer of THE WICKED + THE DIVINE and PHONOGRAM, Kieron Gillen, “This is a book which has hyperbole as its baseline, and considers the impossible as an aim only fitting for underachievers. It'll change your life. Primarily by letting you own a comic called The Ludocrats, where BARON OTTO VON SUBERTAN and PROFESSOR HADES ZERO-K are the last defenders of a ludicrous aristocracy against the insipid forces of normalisation.” Artist Lafuente tried to add a few notes on the artistic challenge of drawing truly improbable yet charming beings, but Gillen refused to pass the mic, instead adding: “Imagine The Metabarons as a comedy! Imagine all of Ibiza captured by William Burroughs-trained extraterrestrials, transported to a distant world to spend all eternity throwing impossible shapes to Baron Münchhaus Music! Imagine Doom if you could talk to the monsters, then really hit it off and end up being master of ceremonies at a delightfully hellish wedding!” Esteemed game developer of Sir, You Are Being Hunted Jim Rossignol was asked for comment, but was lost in the general tumult of Gillen stomping around, shouting “Imagine a story that colonizes the potent liminal space between Ghostbusters and 'Blockbuster' by The Sweet! Imagine The Neverending Story, except instead of an adorable luck dragon you have a Prussian Steam Judge with an enormous mechanical pelvis! Imagine a book as good as Brandon Graham thinks his are!” Venancio was not asked for comment, because no one asks colorists anything, because the entire industry is broken, but we can safely assume that Gillen would have shouted something akin to “Every generation has a defining moment. We snoozed through ours. Ludocrats is its replacement” over him. “It's not about Ludo,” Gillen added. “Kieron pitched this to me over burgers in Soho, and it sounds just as insane now as it did then, if not more so,” said Eric Stephenson, Publisher at Image Comics. “That is in no way a bad thing.” THE LUDOCRATS will be released in Summer 2015.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1466
__label__cc	0.638349	0.361651	Head Wrightson The Stocktonian Stockton Market the 'Queen of the North' Stockton's market can trace its history to 1310, when Bishop Antony Bek of Durham granted a market charter - 'to our town of Stockton a market upon every Wednesday forever'. The Bishops of Durham residing at Stockton Castle took tolls from the markets as well as from goods coming into the ports. A 1666 renewal of the charter allowed Stockton to hold a market every Wednesday forever and a fair once a year, which later became known as the Cherry Fair. The market was central to life in the Borough, it was where town and country folk assembled to buy and sell. Stockton market was known far and wide and for a time was known as ‘The Queen of the North.' All manner of essential local food produce and clothing could be found at different parts of the market. Farmers would bring their livestock to market for sale, including geese, sheep, cattle and pigs until 1875 when the Public Health Act removed the cattle market from Stockton High Street. The cattle market then moved to The Square, where the library now stands until 1959 when it closed for the last time. Standard town weights and measures ensured market goers got what they were charged for! By 1835 three searchers of weights and measures were employed by Stockton Corporation, alongside fish and flesh lookers, butter searchers and ale tasters to ensure quality. By the 1800s it was an important agricultural market. Millers and corn merchants used it, as did farmers and market gardeners who sold fresh produce. In 1933 when JB Priestley visited Stockton he saw 'an agricultural fiesta... the uncommonly wide High Street was filled with stalls and women shoppers and brick-faced lads from the country. The hotels along the street were loud with farmers roaring for beer.' There was still the risk of runaway animals though! The Tees was once a good Salmon river and some splendid fish were for sale on the market Dealers could also be found selling saddlery, cooperage, caps, stockings, shawls, boots, ribbons, sweets and cakes. Street vendors sold their wares from carts, shouting their prices and advertising their products. Quack doctors also had their place in the market and came from far and wide to sell their pills and potions. On Saturdays the market stayed open until 10.30pm and was an exciting mixture of sights and sounds. It would be difficult to buy a saddle or find a quack doctor at the market today, but it still dominates what is reputedly the widest High Street in the country on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Stockton-on-Tees incorporates the towns of Billingham, Ingleby Barwick, Norton, Stockton, Thornaby and Yarm	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1470
__label__wiki	0.643501	0.643501	Night #27: Final Destination 2 October 31, 2010 October 31, 2010 / hintonblogs A review coming up for this just as soon as I go to the Dentist… Those sharp eyed readers may have noticed that I stated coming up next would be slasher films, and to that end I absolutely consider Final Destination 2 as a slasher film. There’s no reason that Death can’t be Michael Myers or Jason Vorhees. He actively stalks his victims until it’s the right time to strike, and he certainly has a better sense of humour than they do. No Death is definitely a slasher, a maniacal, giggling and unseen slasher. We all know the set up of these films by now, there’s a giant accident with mass casualties, but someone has a premonition and stops it. Death gets pissed and decides to make up for it, with hilarious consequences. What sets apart this film from the others is that it understands just how ridiculous the premise is, and decides to run all the way with it. The first and third films of the series were handled by Glen Morgan and James Wong, the second and dire fourth part were handled by David Ellis, famed second unit Director and the man who later went on to helm Snakes on a Plane (Oddly not as good as it’s own rip-off Snakes on a Train). Ellis does a remarkable job here, ably abetted by his screenwriters (Who wrote the similarly dark The Butterfly Effect). They have great fun with the audience’s expectations here, and manage to play the scenes beautifully. Each death scene is build up and payoff, and when they do payoff there’s such a great cathartic moment. For an example just look at the Dentist scene, Ellis plays on a natural fear of things going wrong at the Dentist and then lulls us into a false sense of security before capping it off with a spectacular death. There are some shenanigans about death’s plan etc, and they give the lead from Final Destination the most undignified off screen death when we learn that he was killed by a brick. It’s all played with the right amount of tongue in cheek, and Ellis manages to keep the film moving before it gets bogged down too much. Supposedly Morgan and Wong weren’t happy with the overly jokey tone that was taken with this film, so they came back with the overly serious and entirely too mean spirited Final Destination 3, which is sadly missing the humour of this one. You simply can’t treat this idea seriously, not when you show death actively toying with people like it’s the bloodiest game of ‘Mouse Trap’ ever. We’re told time and time again that you can’t cheat death, and for once I’m glad. Up Next: More slasher shenanigans. 31 Nights of Frights, Horror, Movies ← Night #26: Clownhouse Night #28: My Bloody Valentine → RT @nickusen: let’s hear it for the boys https://t.co/BjhLb3PLTp 2 hours ago @jeffgerstmann Talking about comedy duos then cutting to Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington was perfect. 2 hours ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1473
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__label__cc	0.707011	0.292989	The Cambridges Return to Anglesey for RAF Disbandment Parade The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to their former home of Anglesey, North Wales to attend the Search and Rescue Force Disbandment Parade at RAF Valley. The event marks William and Kate's first joint engagement of the year. Fresh from yesterday's very successful day editing The Huffington Post to raise awareness for children's mental health, Kate was all smiles and without doubt immensely pleased by the success of the day. The couple travelled to Anglesey via helicopter and received a warm welcome upon arrival. Of course, Anglesey holds a very special place in William and Kate's hearts. They shared their first home together - a four-bedroom rented farmhouse - on the Isle for three years before and after they were married. When the couple left William said they would return "again and again". I expect it's important to them to support the people there, who afforded them privacy and respect during the time and perhaps they privately return on occasion. Today's visit also holds additional personal significance for William, who served as Flight Lieutenant Wales in the role of operational search and rescue pilot flying the Sea King helicopter. During that time, William undertook a total of 156 search and rescue operations, resulting in 149 people being rescued. William and Kate looking through the ceremony programme. Today formally marks the end of the RAF's provision of search and rescue in the UK. Today's events offered the opportunity to commemorate the RAF SAR Force's exemplary service since its inception, and enable search and rescue members and their families to pay tribute to the force's achievements. The history of the RAF Search and Rescue Force is a fascinating one and their achievements are undeniable. The RAF SAR Force, formerly known as the RAF Directorate of Air/Sea Rescue, was formed in 1941 following the Battle of Britain, and grew to become an integral part of the Allied vanguard for the remainder of World War II. After the war, RAF squadrons were equipped with a newly invented helicopter, specifically modified for search and rescue operations, and saw their remit extended from assisting military personnel in distress to civilians, both on land or at sea. For over thirty years, the RAF SAR Force has responded to more than 34,025 callouts and rescued over 26,853 people. The service is now privatised and operated by civilian company Bristow Helicopters after it was awarded the contract by the Department of Transport in 2013. At the time, Prince William objected to the privatisation of the service and it was thought to have influenced his decision to leave the RAF. Following the parade, the Duke and Duchess met current and former search and rescue personnel at a reception held in the officers' mess, It offered a lovely opportunity for William to meet old colleagues. Wing Commander Sparky Dunlop spoke to the Mirror's Victoria Murphy and described William "as one of the family". 'He was not only up to doing it but he did more than that. When he was serving with us he was a very good pilot. I did his operational captaincy check, when jump from co-pilot to captain, and he was given a very tough check and he more than rose to the occasion. He would come on shift and do all the duties associated with going on shift. He would live and work with his crew, go on rescues with his crew, eat with his crew. He was just another one of the guys. He is one of the family and we wanted as many of the family to come back today and say goodbye.' Kate mention her fond memories of Anglesey "It was such a special time for us, it was the start of our life together really". The RAF disbandment blade, taken from Sea King Har 3, was signed by all search and rescue staff. The Duchess brought back her L.K. Bennett 'Ami' coat for today's events. Kate debuted the piece during the couple's visit to Copenhagen in 2011, and wore it again for a Welsh Rugby Union game in Cardiff in 2012. The 'Ami' is from L.K. Bennett's autumn/winter collection, features a high collar, front slit pockets, and originally came with a belt. The wool/nylon piece is a lovely garment, and obviously a favourite of Kate. Kate wore her £245 Lock & Co 'Betty Boop' hat. The brown piece is a favourite of Kate and she's worn it numerous times for events including Christmas Day, St Patrick's Day and a friend's wedding in Switzerland. Another look at Kate wearing the hat today. With thanks to Victoria Murphy for this shot of Kate's ponytail. The Duchess accessorised with her Mappin & Webb 'Empress' earrings. The £3,450 earrings are described as "a stylish, elegant pair with 0.88 carats of round-cut brilliant diamonds set in 18 carat white gold". Mappin &Webb The Duchess carried her brown suede Emmy Shoes clutch. Emmy Shoes Kate completed the look with a pair of brown gloves and brown suede heels. I will update the post if better photos emerge and we can positively ID them. It was a lovely engagement for William and Kate and one I expect they very much enjoyed. Unfortunately, there wasn't a stellar selection of photos available from the event as only a very small number of the royal press pack were present, and with no fixed point for royal photographers there was limited variety in angles. You can watch a video from the engagement at ITN Source. :) Labels: duchess kate, duchess of cambridge lk bennett ami coat, duke and duchess of cambridge raf disbandment parade, kate Middleton, william and kate, william and kate wales Laura - NY 18 February 2016 at 13:57 I have always loved this coat, but I agree with so many others that the length of a hemline can instantly add or subtract years from your perceived age. I just like Kate better in shorter hemlines. Also, I'm wondering why William did not wear his military uniform. I'm not familiar with proper protocol...is he not permitted to wear the uniform any longer? Rebecca - Sweden 18 February 2016 at 16:12 I'm not familiar either, but I assume it's because he's not currently serving in the regiment. But we always see veterans in their former uniform so I don't know. Julie from NC 18 February 2016 at 14:04 Charlotte from the picture of her sitting down and her dress showing through the coat with her legs crossed, do you think that is the “Sophie Rae” Burgundy Dress that she has worn before? It looks to be the right color, length and fabric type. http://www.katescloset.com.au/whistles-burgundy-sofie-rae-dress.html MusingLen 18 February 2016 at 17:03 How rare to see Kate cross her legs at a public outing. Perhaps because she's more comfortable with this group, she relaxed into her normal self instead of being so aware of appearing "proper"? Refreshing... Vicky 18 February 2016 at 17:52 Yes, I had the same idea, Julie! Admin 18 February 2016 at 18:53 I think you're spot on Julie :) I agree about the dress. Kate now has a visible vein in her leg, courtesy of two pregnancies. Or am I just seeing a shadow rather than a vein?? Sarah Maryland USA 18 February 2016 at 14:17 I'm not sure I like the hat and coat together...but I know I love that coat! Ive never been a fan of the hat Robin in Ontario 18 February 2016 at 18:41 Agreed... unfortunately I have never liked that hat. Deliah USA 19 February 2016 at 01:07 I also am not a fan of the hat, but they truly look so relaxed. The coat is great- a good color for HRH eclaires 19 February 2016 at 21:58 I agree that the combination of the hat and coat is not my favorite. I like both items separately, but together it makes her look kind of like a flight attendant. The coat color is wonderful on her. And I've like the hat on her in the past. The ponytail is great. I just wish it was more on display with a hat. I think the shoes are the Stuart Weitzman “Power” Pointed Toe Courts, the same ones she wore yesterday, because of their soles which are very worn out. She wore black yesterday morning. The shoes today are brown. Might they have been dyed?? Not likely. They would not have dried overnight. She owns dark brown pumps! Nobody can identify these ones.. I think the shoes are from Gianvito Rossi, they exist in brown as well. http://www.matchesfashion.com/products/Gianvito-Rossi-Gianvito-point-toe-suede-pumps-1033484 Has anyone identified the gloves? I agree, Anon 23:13. Good call What about her gloves? You did not mention them. Look at the end of the post. :) She is doing some research on them and then she will let us know. The article said she would attempt to identify them later as the photos are limited. Zef Dahlia 18 February 2016 at 23:03 They are the Cornelia James 'Imogen' wool gloves Wool!!!! That sounds warm!! :) I love that she looks so vintage-chic. A nice, solid look today :) I like her ponytail, especially how she always hides her hairband with some hair. Very chic. Haha, this must be a bit of an odd engagement for them. Being in "official mode" in front of people they used to be in "private mode" with. I love the stories of how when William came back to work after the wedding, they had pillows and towels and such with William and Kate's faces on it to tease him with :P Must be a very bittersweet engagement for them. I really enjoyed seeing a small glimpse of their "private mode". They looked very comfortable with each other and with everyone they talked to, more so than normal. Gabriela 18 February 2016 at 14:51 I believe it must be great for William and Kate to return to Anglesey and I hope they will take their children there one day Jenna 18 February 2016 at 14:52 I wonder why William did not wear his military dress at this service. Would it be because he is no longer actively serving in the RAF? I don't know the rules for UK service members, but in the US for this type of ceremony veterans and retirees wouldn't wear their former military uniforms. Instead, you'd typically see them in a suit or jacket with lapel pins identifying their affiliation. What a great look on her and I love the red/brown combination. The hat she wore today is one of my favorites as well! Ohio gal Erika 18 February 2016 at 15:27 Why don't like the Betty Boop today? Usually, I love this hat. It seems to be blending with her hair too much today, maybe. Not photographing well from a distance and making her look as if she has some odd architectural hair style. I do like the ponytail. It is less severe than an updo with the smaller hats..... and the coat is lovely. Anett-Austria 18 February 2016 at 16:25 I love this hat too, my old time fave. But this ponytail is too up, makes it her look odd in deed. Yankee from California 18 February 2016 at 20:11 I agree -- I typically love this hat, too, but it is distracting me today. Maybe the red/brown combination isn't working for me. Or maybe it's the ponytail/hat shape combo? I LOVE the coat though and she still look s beautiful, as always! royalfan 19 February 2016 at 00:29 Erika, this is my favorite hat, but I don't think the ponytail works as well as previous hairstyles she opted for while wearing it. And, ironically, I believe this hairstyle is more severe because the sides are pulled back so tight. :) Yankee, I too am struggling with the brown and red combination. Beige and red can be striking, but the brown doesn't allow the red to shine, and vice versa. Call me old fashioned, lol, but black accessories would have been a better match. And perhaps boots rather than pumps given the length of the coat...? This is my all-time favorite hat of hers, but today I didn't like it as much. I thought it was very square-shaped and Kate's face is quite oval-shaped and I thought it looked almost nutcracker-like, if that makes sense. The shapes didn't blend well. I think it might be the ponytail. I prefer the times she wore her hair half up/half down with this hat. There isn't enough contrast between her hat and her hair when its in an updo or ponytail. What a nostalgic event for both Catherine and William - a little more poignant perhaps because of the privatization of the rescue service. When I think of their time together on Anglesey I always think of the Queen and her halcyon days in Malta, and am so glad that Catherine and William had the same sort of experience. I really like her outfit today - love the red and brown together and on the closeup of her face, her eye makeup is so well done - it makes her look much younger. I'm pleased to see Kate veering more toward mixed color schemes. I love the combination of brown and red. I agree 100%. Love the red-brown combination. She looks beautiful!! Kate looks very nice. I lke that coat except for the front of the belt. Good color choice. The hat is my favorite. Hair down would not have been good and it probably was too early in the morning to accomplish a proper bun, but the pony tail looks a bit odd. At least it is neat. Kate could have worn slightly darker tights, but not black. I do like her dark brown accessories. William looks older, and it's not just the loss of hair. But they both look very happy to be in Anglesey to honor the RAF search and rescue service as it ends. I agree about the ponytail. As much as I am a fan of her updos/ponytail/bun, this look with this hat is off. Zora 18 February 2016 at 17:52 It seems to me that in the first picture, William looks like Prince Charles more than usually. Perhaps his smile? I'm not sure but when I saw him I instantly saw the likeness. Zora kwatson 18 February 2016 at 15:44 The Lock & Co hat is one of my all-time favourites on Kate, although I found the effect of the bold, boxy coat and the hat with the hair pulled back to be somewhat less flattering on her. That said, she's still drop-dead gorgeous, flattering ensemble or not! I agree, I like the hat, but not with her hair pulled back tight in a full pony tail. It makes her head look awkward to me. With hats that cover most of her head, her hair looks nicer down, or half down. I do like the rest though, the brown and red is very nice :) I think I have to agree Anon 17.24. Or even her regular low buns tend to show on the sides as well which gives a nice shape. I like the ponytail, I like the hat, but I'm not sure about them together. It's still a proper, nice look. Just nitpicking :P Tedi in California 18 February 2016 at 19:40 I wonder if she had worn boots with this coat, that the look would have been better. The coat length does not flatter. Kate always is lovely, just prefer a shorter hemline. Wonderful visit to their favorite place. Kate mentioned it was the beginning of their life together. Very sweet. I expect they will go back to Anglesey time and again, with their children too. What a spectacular week for the Duchess. Yikes. Tedi, I just commented about the possibility of boots being a better match given the length of the coat! :) You know, when I compare the homes they have lived in (Anglesey, KP, and AH) I would take the Anglesey cottage in a heartbeat! And perhaps they have moments when they would too!! ;) I think you are right RF. Even with the children, if they could, I think they would be living in Anglesey tomorrow. I wouldn't blame them a bit. I love the ponytail!! Maybe you could attach a photo of how to do it? Rebecca 18 February 2016 at 18:47 That would be a nice idea. :) Hahah, Rebecca. I got so confused because I couldn't remember writing that :P Hahah. Francis 18 February 2016 at 19:20 Charlotte, just in case you should be busy with the post on possible designers for the next tour: Perhaps someone has already looked for a photo (or explanation on how to do the ponytail) before and could post it in the comments section? :) Sabine/California 18 February 2016 at 21:42 The ponytail had me run to my mirror. I gathered hair in ponytail with matching color ribbon. Then took one thick strand of hair from underneath, wrapped it around the base of the ponytail and secured the ends underneath with three pins. I couldn't get the clean, neat wraparound on the first try - but the look is very similar. Definitely worth playing with. Yeah, I do that look sometimes Sabine. Very nice way to make an ordinary ponytail look finished and clean :) Registered Mommy Nurse 18 February 2016 at 16:54 Nice that they made the effort to attend and catch up with old friends. Is Anglesey far from where they live? I love the hat, the ponytail and the coat, but they don't work together! Somehow the high, straignt collar and the tall, straight sides of the hat look very odd together. I do like the red/brown colour combo, though! Lekheeka 18 February 2016 at 17:36 I think she is wearing the same Whistles red burgundy dress that she wore to a museum. She looks very lovely and I liked her hair pulled up. I think you are right about the dress, which has a sort of double hem. It was one of my favorites when she wore it for her portrait unveiling. (The portrait was not.) And I believe she wore it with this coat in Denmark. I love the hat, the ponytail, and the coat, but not together! Somehow the high, straight sides of the collar bring out the tall, straight sides of the hat too much. I think it would have been better with hair down or a different hat. I do love the red and brown colour combo, though! I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Duchess looks AMAZING in brighter colours. Love the coat especially paired with brown accessories. She is also wearing one of my favorite pair of earring. Wish I could afford a pair. Sigh. Marny 18 February 2016 at 18:01 A lovely engagement for William and Kate today. I'm an "overall look" person, not big on the details, but I have to say that I find this ensemble on Kate too severe. The length of the coat, the primness of the hat and the sleek backed hair, just don't look as attractive as usual for Kate. So, its not a winner for me, but that's a minor thing. Kate is generally on a winning streak in my book and today doesn't detract from that. As for the reporters and photographers, I see that Palmer is bitching about that today and stirring up trouble. I understand he's not happy and I get that he's finding it difficult to adapt to the changing times, but this event was in an airplane hanger on an air base. And it wasn't about William and Kate, but about the RAF and honouring the "family" who served for so many years. There was only so much space and I'm sure KP didn't think making the press happy was their first priority. The "press pool" needs to get over themselves. common sense was in order there today. I agree Marny complaining about stuff like that is unprofessional and detracts from credibility. he had a point. when the queen visited the base they all were allowed to come. they have every reason to be upset because KP is increasingly try to keep the media out and its scary you think its unprofessional when they get upset when they can't do their job its scary that so many of you are blind to what KP is doing. they are purposefully making an effort to keep the media at a distance which is a mistake I also agree that the military could not be expected to host a massive press influx. And since it was indeed a military event in a hangar, I think Kate's attire was very appropriate. Marny, thanks for the laugh! Your comment about Richard Palmer is just what I needed this morning! Maggie - Minneapolis 18 February 2016 at 20:22 As others have mentioned, including Claudia in a great post below, the RAF has been known to be quite accommodating in the past about allowing a large media presence, and has a reason to do so given that it is publicity for them. Also is it necessary to say that it is "bitching"? Aside from it being an incredibly sexist term, it's also a very ignorant thing to say. Maybe if this was the first time a KP-related event excluded media, Palmer's complaints wouldn't be fair. But given that at this point, SO many of William, Kate, and Harry's engagements are becoming more and more closed off from most of the press, I'm not sure why you think it's "bitching" to think that this is a trend at this point, even if you don't agree. Also think about it this way - Kate and William went on the taxpayer's dime, including the helicopter ride, to mark the end of the RAF the way it was. Why should the public pay for this trip, unless it is truly a public appearance? And how is it a public appearance unless the media can report on it to the people? Look, it's one thing for meetings, etc., to be private. But this was a CEREMONY. The whole point of it was to publicly and grandly mark the end of the RAF as unprivatized. So having very limited media doesn't make sense. And to predict people's responses - no, I don't think limited media is sufficient to provide the public with information. The media is a check to make sure taxpayers' money isn't abused. Limited media cannot do that, because it isn't free press and often implies things like agreements about what pictures to publish, etc. In fact, if it wasn't about William and Kate and WAS about the RAF, then why did William and Kate make the call about how much media would be allowed in?! What is a greater HONOR than having a ton of newspapers publish front page stories with great pictures about the RAF "family" because Kate and William were there. If Kate and William wanted to privately honor the RAF family, then they should have gone privately, not on the taxpayers' dime. The term "bitching" is super offensive, but calling another poster's comment "ignorant" is okay? Think about that. You really are a treat Maggie. And I mean that sincerely. Please explain to me how "ignorant" is sexist. That was my criticism. Not just a generic "you can't be mean to people" statement. Think about that? I was pretty specific and the term "sexist" wasn't a part of my very short comment. Your response has nothing to do with my words. I'm not interested in debating with you what sexism is or isn't as it doesn't have anything to do with the day's events. If you want to think it a word was sexist, that's your right whether I agree or not. However, you told another poster that her use of a word was "a very ignorant thing to say." I thought you were one of those who champions the idea of expressing an opinion without tearing down the original poster. I thought pointing out that you called another's comment "ignorant" would be more positively received by someone who calls others out. I didn't realize it didn't apply to you. Michael, GH 18 February 2016 at 23:35 Can I ask where exactly this was confirmed that they went on the "tax payer's dime". Just curious Maggie, in reading Richard Palmers recent articles what else would you like to call it if not "bitching". If not bitching then I would call it a temper tantrum. Either way his articles were immature and degrading to my intelligence. I am more than capable in seeing behind his verbal assaults on William and Kate. Maggie, chill. Do the words diatribe or vitriol ring a bell here? Maggie, when the Obamas fly to Hawaii to spend Christmas with family, or anywhere else, do they pay for the trip or their security? Of course not. WE pay. W&K are members of the RF and, as such, they are unlikely to travel in a family minivan, and they will have the security the situation warrants. I agree that today was not about W&K and they did strike the correct balance. The event was covered, but they didn't allow it to be the W&K show. When the Queen visited William, it was different because her visit did not overshadow another event. I also think it is unprofessional and detracts from credibility plain and simple. Melinda 19 February 2016 at 05:18 Count me in as someone who now laughs as Mr. Palmer as a sad joke of a journalist. Someone who calls his own newspaper boss a fat cat and the greediest man in Britain out in the open. It just tells you his method of venting frustration is to lash out in public rather than do something about it in a professional manner. He has said time and again that Kate needs to find her voice and now that she does, he does not write a single word about it and instead throws around links to discredit Stephen Hull and his American company. Very unprofessional. I have sympathy for people are fearful for their livelihood but if he is unhappy with his job, maybe he should find another place to work in. It is disingenuous to the public to only report on salacious gossip and not cover the royal family's good work because you are only after your paper's personal interest. I read Maggie's comment as saying that it was ignorant of the poster to use the word "bitching" to describe Palmer's complaining. Not that the poster herself was ignorant, but that it was an ignorant thing to say - and I happen to agree that it was - given the backstory, which maybe Marny wasn't aware of: that this is becoming a more common practice by KP, and considering W&K went in an "official capacity" with the trip paid for by British taxpayers, the royal press corps should have been allowed access to cover it. I took it to mean that she was just adding context to the reporters' comments. It's scary that you all think that KP restricting media from Doug their jobs is fine and you call out Palmer for not liking the idea of the freedom of the press being violated In America that crap wouldn't be tolerated but maybe u guys would like to go to north Korea? anon 17.57 I think freedom of the press is one thing, (hence, why the pictures are available for all papers to use through the PA) and planning an event and how much media can be on the spot is a whole different thing. Choosing 2 PA (rotating) reporters and 1 local reporter instead of cramming in a presspack of 15 (taking spots from families and servicemen who there occation was about) just so each photographer can take their own (often very similar to eachothers) picture doesn't make sense. It's called eventplanning, not restricting freedom of the press. Think you are confused 17.57. KP is not stopping them doing their jobs. All the papers reported on the event. They limited the number of the pool attending. Most royal reporting and photography is done from a rota pool anyway. When the queen and Charles were in Malta for the big commonwealth gathering in November, which is a bigger event than Anglesey, Palmer did not go because his paper said there were no funds. Instead he took a holiday. It boils down to frustration because media is changing and some are not keeping up. "156 search and rescue operations resulting in 149 people being rescued". wow William. Kudos. Couple that with the fact that it is no walk in the park to fly a helicopter and one of that size AND in the blustery Wales climate and even more Kudos are due to William and the team. Julia from Leominster 18 February 2016 at 18:27 I love the coat and always have and I love the length - I'm a bit of an outsider here because I prefer longer lengths on Kate- I liked the outfit yesterday except for the length - dark tights and a short skirt are so school girlish. There sometimes is a Peter Pan quality to me about Kate's choices, yet I know others see her style as too old! I like the hat and I like Kate's hair in a pony tail but somehow the two didn't quite work together for me - but overall, I thought the red coat added cheer on a bittersweet day and I thought she looked extemely nice. A wonderful engagement today - I think William didn't wear a uniform because he left the RAF in part in protest over the standing down and privitising of the rescue services - I agree. Still have concerned about yesterday's engagment and having the president's wife make political remarks where a royal is a guest editor - very dodgy in a week where William has already found himself embroiled - I hope Kate keeps a safe distance from politics everywhere in the future - don't like to see royals used for any politicians agenda whether I agree or not - can't be helped at times but could here. But otherwise it was a brilliant tour de force for her and a massively important one - and I was deeply touched by all the remarks it generated on this blog - so alls well that ends well. Not sure why people said it wasn't in the Daily Mail, I saw it there as well as in the Telegraph - they didn't feature it - nor would I expect them to - but they did cover it. I think it wasn't in the UK publications during the day, but later in the day (possibly when they saw how big of a thing it actually became) they published stuff. Or so I've been told. Michelle's and Kate's statements were separate. They never conversed directly about how to fund health care. I don't think there is a conflict. bluhare 18 February 2016 at 20:43 The DM article was in the evening, Julia. It wasn't during the day. I didn't see it until evening my time, which would be after midnight UK time. Yes after midnight which I believe was done purposely. So not Kate's fault if they decide to write a lengthy article on her eyebrows and brush over stuff that really matters. Shows where their priorities lay Cate 18 February 2016 at 18:32 I just love it how she takes pieces she's had for a while and changes them up. Love the ponytail too! Just curious, this is totally off of topic, but does Kate only know one language or many? If so, what languages? Or does anyone know? I can't find any info on the web about it. She appearantly took french in school. (A levels or something I think it was called :P ) but we don't know if she speaks it well still. She has been seen conversing with the French Prime Minister and he is known to be bad at english but I don't know to what extent. Kate was seen conversing with President Hollande in France. He apparently only speaks French. She also did parts of her gap year in Italy and South America. Probably she speaks some Italian and Spanish. I also remember reading closer to the wedding that she was learning to speak Welsh. Thank you!!!!! Kate studied Art, Biology and Chemistry at A Level, if I remember rightly. I thought that I read a report once that Kate surprised a dignitary from the Middle East with some Arabic that she remembered from her childhood? MAV Anon 18.06 yeah, appearaantly she learnt the Happy Birthday song on arabic before she knew it in english :P A very good language to have some knowledge in as a diplomatic figure today :) Given Kate's new collection of Gianvito Rossi shoes, could these be a brown pair (maybe bespoke) in their 85mm? She looked really relaxed today! I too love the red and brown combo - didn't realise that coat had such a high, stiff collar though! I adore that hat, too! Erin (NZ) William look like George in some of the pictures today. I was actually surprised at the resemblance. I.e apart from being his Dad I think the photo of her sitting with her legs crossed is a lovely photo of them both. I like the brighter color of her coat today. It added a lot to the venue. I am in agreement with William about them privatizing the rescue services. A shout out to Becca who seems so faithful to W/K. A dream Job yes, a demanding one yes. She is by virtue of her Job an integral part of history. How cool is that. Claudia 18 February 2016 at 19:25 So let's clear up the press issue. Photographers asked for access to the event as is typical for official royal events, and were told there would be no fixed point for them. They were a bit stunned as the hangar as held many members of the press at previous events, and the RAF is usually hugely accommodating and helpful to the press. (as are most military depts, they want good coverage and attention) When the press pushed them as to why the change they were told "it's been imposed upon us by KP". Why? Who knows. Probably punishment for some perceived slight on William's end. I'm boring myself now at how many times I need to say I'm bewildered by their communications strategy. And if you wonder why the press is so on edge, it's because as I've said it's an ongoing issue. Love them or hate them the press have a job to do in covering publicly funding officials. Think of it if you can from the perspective of the press. Accredited royal photographers have been banned from royal events in the past, because they've broken one of William's rule - like photographing him at a society wedding. Ridiculous, as society events and weddings have literally been covered for ages. But the HuffPostUK which regularly prints titillating and sensational articles on the royals, notorious for click bait and an artice just last summer on Kate's royal orgasm faces, gets invited to KP for a partnership. The press are just frankly gobsmacked at this point. They have no idea what the rules are or how to make sense of the Cambridges likes and dislikes. That's one viewpoint. Another is that the royal press are unhappy with things no longer been handed to them on a platter. Charles and Camilla were also out today. How many of the press rushed there? There are other royals to cover but the press hound the Cambridges. It's probably time for royal reporters to diversify. Some already have and do both royal reporting and other stuff as well and you don't get Twitter whining from them. Personally I don't think it's necessary for a whole press pack to go to one engagement to report the same thing. Palmer still managed to write an article today without been there. Press complain about money and this is one way to save money. I know, it really makes no sense Claudia! Who was invited to takes these photos may I ask? Or could they still see the event even without a fixed point? Maybe Will and Kate think they can just use Twitter to publicise their interests and have no need to collaborate with the press anymore? Anon 20.24 I think hound is a bit strong word here. But if they try to ban the press or limit them, do you think it will be helpful regarding the future. They need to make peace with them, somehow, some kind. Wise words!! No press should even complain. Yesterdays event was barely mentioned by some of them only because of competition in spite of being one of the highlights of Kate's work. The press always seems to complain when things do not go their way. Also I would take most of this rumours with a pinch of salt. As has been said numerous times we do not know what goes on behind the scenes They are always going to go to the event which will generate more interest, or revenue, or both. The question to ask is whether Charles specifically restricted press presence as William's office did. We all know who the big draws are, as does the media. And The Sun . . . oh my. They laid it out there today! Well they're not writing for their own amusement Anon, they go where readers are interested, and the fact is the younger royals have always brought the most interest from the public and thus kept the interest in the monarchy. How many Twitter accounts "love all things Duke and Duchess of Cornwall"?? Social media is about Kate and the Cambridges, not to mention the blogs, because that's where the public interest is. I hugely admire Anna and her Countess of Wessex blog and would love to see Sophie get more positive press, but I'm not naive, I recognize the public pays attention to the younger set in the main line of succession. Always have. Isn't trying to "make peace" with the media kind of like trying to tame a rattlesnake? "clear up the press issue", good luck with that. singlehandedly? lol Bluhare you should also read the commentary on the article by Roy Greenslade at The Guardian, if you haven't already. Wow Caludia, how did you find out all that information. Who do you know to get such information? Why do they need 100 or more photographers at one hanger to cover this one event? In all your information gathering how did they decide on how many and what photographers would be there and where those obviously chosen would be stationed? Anett, I would like to suggest that perhaps it is the media that need to try to make peace with William. William and Kate have other means to get there messages out without them just as they did yesterday. Can we read it also? It would be wiser for the press to give Kate the credit she deserves for yesterday, and all the work that went into it. I stated this elsewhere, but instead of complaining, what about being proactive and suggesting another partnership like yesterday? Honey vs. vinegar. :) Cynthia 19 February 2016 at 02:31 First of all, there was press there. Rota and local. But everyone wants to be invited. Second, it hasn't been established for certain that it was KP's decision to limit the number. That is presumption. Instead of grumble, I suggest these so called journalists cover other Royal events like a more important visit by Charles and Camilla to the flooding. Who went? Zero. If the young royals are the only ones who sell, does that mean it is their responsibility to give these hacks jobs? No. The British press who once held all the power are throwing tantrums and diminished their credibility by lifting stories from social media and resorting to tabloid gossip. They boycott HuffPost in defiance when there's real value. Who's petulant? To me it's not William. Media relations can be improved but what these so called journalists are doing are further creating their own demise. No wonder their readers aren't taking them seriously anymore. I just went and read it, Claudia. A little more reasoned than The Sun, but throne idle? I laughed at that recalling my mother calling me bone idle when I was a child. Ha! I guess I don't have issues particularly with the royals having political opinions (thinking of Charles' memos and even the Queen appearing to take a stand on Scottish independence), but his office certainly should have realized how his speech would sound with Brexit being such a hot topic right now. I do think William should be careful and not poke the bear too much, though. There will be a day that he needs them on his side, and he's not looking at the big picture if he thinks he won't. Did Charles and Camilla restrict the press on their flood visit? If so how come there are no complaints? Could it be that the whole RF decides on how much media to invite so everyone can get publicity? Blaming William, Kate and Harry for lack of access so you can keep your job is just petty when there are other royals to cover. More senior ones too. Anon 20:36 There were some media in the event. But everyone wanted to be there and we know that is not always possible. I would have more sympathy if journalists made an effort to cover other royal events to keep themselves relevant but many don't. They just sit in their desks and whine. Johanna 19 February 2016 at 06:28 It's all well and good to parrot the royal line and abuse "the press." But if you follow the royal reporters on social media, like Twitter, what you'd realize is the veteran reporters - Victoria Arbiter, Arthur Edwards, Katie Nicholl, Richard Palmer - are not just royal reporters they are royalists and devoted to and supportive of the monarchy and the Windsors. They always have been. Arbiter's father was the queen's press secretary, she grew up in Kensington Palace, where they had an apartment. Arthur Edwards took some of the first photos of William as a baby. Their reward for all that loyalty, for providing years of good PR for QEII and her sometimes-dysfunctional clan is to now be lumped in with paparazzi by Will and Kate and Charles and Camilla and their apparently-inept communications staffs, and essentially banished or banned from doing their jobs. By any stretch of the imagination, the Windsor public relations and media communications office is in complete chaos and has been for some time. As funds get tighter, as generations get younger, the pressure on the monarchy to foot more of its own upkeep and security bill (or the entire thing) is going to get louder. As generations get younger, interest in the monarchy, especially the UK monarchy, which is seen as one of the most stodgy and antiquated in Europe, also drops. That doesn't mean people want a republic but it does mean that the public may want their elected representatives to insist the uber-wealthy queen and Prince Charles pay more of their own way - and that of their offspring. This reclusive, hyper-paranoid hatred from Charles and his sons toward the media is not doing them any favors at all. And let's drop the pretense of "it's because of what happened to Diana." Diana's been dead going on close to 20 years. Her sons apparently rarely, if ever, visit her gravesite. Most accounts say that William wasn't even speaking to his mother, that they were fighting, when she died. They'd spent more time with the Windsors than with their mother. So they need to stop using Diana as an excuse and hire some PR staff who can hopefully bail the sinking Windsor public relations boat out. Oh, I wouldn't agree at all Johanna that they are grouped together. Katie Nicholl coined the Waity Kaity term and wrote ALOT of mean or backhanded articles when William and Kate were dating but the moment he proposed her articles have been over sweet and supportive of Kate and it shows how much she is changing her narrative for what sells. Richard Palmer has himself said that his job is to stir mischeif and that Harry need to date someone becasue they have nothing to write about (people told him that maybe he should try writing about the engagements) and also regularly threatens to change the narrative when he's grumpy. Arthur and Victoria on the other hand are on good terms with the royals. Arthur especially. When William and Kate showed George to the public for the first time William said "Oh look, there's Arthur, give him a wave" so Arthur get pictures. William is also reported to have said that Arthur "is not allowed to quit" and they will roll him to the front so he get the best pictures. He is very much loved by the royal family and not bunched together with paparazzi. Some reporters probably get squished but I do think that while the royals have made some of their trouble themselvees, so have the reporters. And the last part, I don't think you or me are in any position to judge their relation to their mother.. My grandfather was one of my most favourite people in the world. I've not visited his grave once or were there at the funeral. I don't think his spirit is in that stone and can mourn him better from my own home. And the "fighting" part, if even true, can leave a person with alot of added guilt after a death. So I will not comment at all on the validity of their relation or grief for their mother. Just that "oh it's 20 years ago" might work when you're talking to a fan, but they were her sons. Ofc her death in their teenage years have shaped them for good and for bad. With all due respect Johanna, "the press" abuse their subjects too, and the UK press is known for that. And Katie Nicholl may be a veteran, but she's not a credible source. The only persons who you would truly say are royalists in that bunch are Victoria and Dickie Arbiter. They are level headed but do not sensationalize. They also do not have personal agenda. Good questions, 23:38. and the answers are?????? Cynthia, BRAVO, finally more common sense. Robbie from Hampton VA, USA 18 February 2016 at 19:30 She looked amazing,and I love how her look meshed so perfectly in the military environment. Also think how she can wear such different styles, hem lengths, etc., is another reason why it is such fun getting to see how she is dressed for various occasions. She is a great role model. Cee 18 February 2016 at 19:36 I'm really not a fan of this hat with her hair up. It makes her head look huge and pointy. I personally like it up. Although, it loooks good down too. :) Maureen Dawson 18 February 2016 at 20:03 The Duchess looked elegant without looking to regal for this down to earth group of people, they lived and worked with, for several years! In my opinion, she nailed it! Gorgeous, elegant, mature, on-point. HRH has been knocking them all out of the ballpark with her appearances these past few days. THIS HRH is what we've all been hoping for....even the speaking component has improved so much (and am looking forward for that to increase). Today's event makes me a bit sad, though (as I'm sure it was bittersweet for the royal couple). Privatization is never (or let's temper that with "rarely") a good thing in my book for anything having to do with government/security related services. Anyhow, I'll leave it at that, this is not really the place to get into politics. Again, loved the outfits, both yesterday and today. Perfection in every day. Very classy and classic. Today's outfit, in particular, has a truly timeless quality. Thanks, Charlotte. Silvia. Sorry if someone else has already posted it, but a very interesting article about William from Emily Andrews has come out: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6938927/Prince-William-on-his-first-Royal-engagement-of-the-year.html They are not the first media outlet to report that William got 3-4 weeks off during Christmas, which is true, seems quite silly and without any good reason other than a royal perk. This article seems to me to be a hash of everything that has bee said before. Nothing new just written to incite. Royal reporting seems to involve very little investigative journalism. Probably because non of the royals are providing scandals at the moment so go after the popular ones. Surprised no mention of Harry. When did we last see him and he does not have a job. That was a blunt article. I am not surprised that William got 4 weeks off at Christmas. It would be unreasonable to expect otherwise. What did surprise me that the EAAA person says that he is already bored of his piloting job. If that is true that would be unfortunate. Yeah.. because Emilys sources are always very reliable....... I saw this on another forum so it's not my words: "...If it came from a different writer I might raise an eyebrow, but Emily Andrews has a long history of fabricating sources and/or trusting unreliable ones. Recently, she proclaimed in big letters that Arthur Landon was engaged. And her “exclusive” was believed by many royal watchers. Why even on this site people were congratulating Arthur. Then Arthur Landon took to Twitter, he said he wasn’t engaged, and that The Sun had fabricated the story. Emily Andrews and The Sun had to issue a humiliating retraction. According, to Ms. Andrews a troll on social media sent her the claim and she believed it, so she published it, it’s not her fault she published something without independently verifying, or looking for a legitimate source. Then there was Emily Andrews' “exclusive” on Juliette Labelle. She claimed that Harry has being having a secret liaison with the American woman. Of course, Ms. Labelle came forward and said she never met Harry and that she was in Mexico during NYE when Ms. Andrews claimed she was in LA. It was another embarrassment for Ms. Andrews, so she kept her head down on the subject for awhile. But apparently she got a lot of clicks out of her original article - enough to warrant ignoring the denial, because today she published pictures of Harry’s ‘LA girlfriend’ topless. She said she had 'exclusive' access to the pictures, when actually they were posted on IG, and Ms. Andrews merely copied and pasted. And these examples are just in the last month. I’d like to believe that her editor is bullying her for exclusives, and because she doesn’t have any, she resorts to fabrication. The other alternative is that she has no journalistic integrity and enjoys the attention she gets from yarns, the Katie Nicholl blueprint. I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and say she’s her editors puppet, and right now she’s over her head." Also, this comes the day after William is accused of saying something pro-EU while the Sun is appearantly lobbying for Brexit. So I think a bit of source awareness is needed on this one. I'm not saying it's false, I have no evidence of that. Just has there is no evidence the article is true. Anon 22.37: Harry is out and about every single week. He is doing many things for flood victims and his other charities. He has had multiple appearances this week itself. He is actually much more visible than William and Kate. Given it was someone "ratting" (and the tone was such) on William about the four weeks, I certainly wouldn't believe his assumption of William's feelings. Ok, just went and read this article. Even the commentors on the site take Emily Andrews to task for such a trashing article. It really reads like a made up story with a lot of made up quotes by unnamed people. Certainly doesn't read like a reputable report. Anyone who read the articles about his speech at the Foreign Office can make up there own mind and don't need to be told what Emily Andrews want them to think. She now has gone in the same negative column as Palmer. Ugh!!! Blunt doesn't begin to cover it. Someone's knickers are beyond starched. What a nasty bit of "journalism". The same writer also said that Juliette Labelle will hook up with Harry when she comes to London, quoting a 'friend.' She has great sources alright! Wow, this is much of what many have been saying about William for years. It's just interesting having everything summarised like that. Obviously it's quite biased, but all the small things count. It's interesting to me, for example, that he would miss the baftas, especially when he didn't have another engagement on. I'm actually more than annoyed about all the time he took off at Christmas. He made a point of taking the required "paternity leave" as other "normal" people do, but then had a month off over Christmas. I wouldn't mind if he took a week or two, but four?? I also take issue to William hunting yet speaking out for animal conservation - almost seems like it should be on an American sitcom. Ridiculous. Oh please rebecca Emily Andrews has been a respected journalist for years and just because she's pointing out something negative about William doesn't automatically mean it's made up Royal involvement in the BAFTAs is not about the awards ceremony though. When Princess Anne was president, how many times did she go? What about the Duke of Edinburgh? Less than five total in a span of decades! I think people just want William to go in the hopes that Kate will go too. Very nicely said, Rebecca. For a "youngster", :) your wisdom and maturity astound me. I mean that in the best way, btw. Charlotte posted the link to Roy Greenslade's piece on her twitter account: http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/feb/18/the-sun-gives-both-barrels-to-prince-william … Anon 17.53 you didn't read the examples I gave? They have nothing to do with William. For all I know William might be a mean, reluctant duchebag, but since I have no evidence of that I choose to belive he's not. Anon 19,14 Oh thank you very much :) Sorry, 17:53, Emily Andrew's reputation proceeds her and has for years as a consensus of many in her field and out. Unfortunately, her reputation is askew as many here have commented. Certainly no one, least of all Rebecca, is making that up. Agree with Rebecca. Emily Andrews not always so reliable. I agree!! :) I like to coat, but I don't like this hat in combination with the hair and the coat. Also her makeup. It is not a bit strange to put pink circles on your cheeks? And I am sorry, but her eyebrows are way to straight and flat. Where are the curvy ones? oh my. I thought she looked beautiful. I think we should have a contest here where THE ONLY TOPIC can be about the clothes! Or the patronage or a little history about any of that. Just ONE POST where we move from the even to discussing the politics....the press behavior or anger ....why KP is damaging themselves....Williams perceived attitude.... who paid for what... cost of helo rides.....negative comments... why can't we do a strictly sartorial critique on clothes? Why do we have to drift into all the muck? It is becoming a difficult blog to read these days. Have a contest! The winner gets some peace of mind rather than a headache from scrolling down...then up trying to find the actual threads regarding the post over the ' I told you this or that...I keep saying this or that....' All worthy topics of course but are they necessary every single time? That was the old blog. I kindda agree with you a little bit. Just tired that no matter, I repeat no matter what is done people still complain. At a point that it becomes funny and really frustrating Trying to contribute to the fashion discussion: I quite liked this article in the Daily Mail - and the similarities with Kate's blouse for #youngminds matter. :) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3453364/Now-S-vintage-5-000-year-old-Egyptian-garment-confirmed-world-s-oldest-dress.html I'm really torn on the media issue. On one hand I understand the media. They had gotten used to being handfed stories and have big, crazy things happening around the royals. I cannot have sympathy for Richard anymore (well, I do, but I don't take him seriously anymore) since he ranted about how Harry need to marry so they can have a story or they would have to "change the narrative". But he's not the only one who have shown displesure. And I do see their point. It is effecting their livelyhood so I think it's fair for them to feel shunned. But also, since all pictures are shared through PA, it's not like the photographers are getting exclusives. Instead of having bunches of photographers takeing basically the same picture disrupting events, taking space etc, they now share pictures AND usually choose a local reporter who get's a chance instead. So in this case, they had more space for families and servicemen to attend the event. The other times that press were allowed in there was only personel etc and not a family event so it can't be compared, space wise. So while I understand how it might be annoying for an individual photographer to get less work, I truly do, I think that for the public it's not needed to have more than 2 or 3 taking pictures at events like these. And especially on visits with charitys. The writing reporters I can get though, that they want to interview the people present. But isn't that possible to do beforehand? They must know which people will be "relevant" to the story (except if something random happens) so why can't they get a comment on the phone before or after the events? And it seems like it's only the reporters on the written press that are complaining. Maybe because their medium is already in trouble and this just adds another headache for them. I honestly don't know. Also, the comment that alot of media is needed to see where the tax money goes to. I mean... shouldn't that be a reason for them to cover all the royals? Sophie, Edward, Anne etc get very little coverage. Aren't they using tax payer money as well? Same with Camilla and Charles, that don't get the same coverage. I don't buy that argument. Or well, I do on the big scale. But not on an event-to-event basis. This is purely because William, Kate and Harry are young and popular and sell. I do agree, that even if I see KPs points and kind of agree with alot of them, that for their own sake, they should do a bit of sucking up to the media. I don't know how, but something. Just some rambling thoughts since I have no set opinion on this, yet. Can any one please confirm if KP actually had anything to do with it. We do know these reports like to stir controversy (extremely often) And this is why you are one of my favorite posters, Rebecca. You appreciate my being able to see both sides of the coin, and I want you to know I appreciate you for doing that too. No has confirmed anything, Michael. Reporters grumble that they were invited before. Well in previous occasions it's just William and the Queen or William alone. There was no parade and there were no other families. If you think about it that makes quite a difference in the decision making not just for the palace but for the RAF. I found interesting information about the British Royal Family's relation to the media (UK and overseas engagements, Filming & Interview policy, Foreign media etc.) http://www.royal.gov.uk/LatestNewsandDiary/Mediaguidelines/Overview.aspx Lily 18 February 2016 at 21:55 I know that this is off topic, but, is Kate learning to ride horses? The media have reported that she is allergic to horses, but not sure if that is true. I think it was confirmed that she's not Anon 00.27, but don't quote me on that. Thank you for your lovely post! Interesting to note on twitter that a royal photographer says that all royal events are on a rota system but at the moment there is a lack of rotation. This infers that there is a problem with all the Royals and not only KP. So maybe the blame should not only fall on William but rather somewhere higher up. I also wonder, how much is the rotation on the other royals and what is the presidence in these cases. I recently saw a documentary about the queens cameraman. Appearantly he has more access than other media at all events the queen does and has been the cameraman for her for over 20 (or was it 25?) years as the main source of video for all news sources. So is it normal to have full press pack or is it more normal to go through PA? hummm. Thanks 22:12 Pandora 18 February 2016 at 22:22 Pitch perfect. Thank you Charlotte What are the rules and guidelines for "when to wear a hat?" Is it this frequent for ordinary people in the UK? I don't know. But since this is an official military event, hats seem to be rather usual. The majority of the women in the benches seemed to have at least a facinator. In UK, people are born in a hat...I´m kidding..., sorry!! alimai 19 February 2016 at 20:16 Wish so much that hats would make a big comeback for everyone. A very neglected fashion item. Miol Mor 18 February 2016 at 23:06 Thank you for the post, Charlotte! As always a pleasure to read. The Duchess looked lovely in red and brown - a color combination I personally prefer over red and black (not that the Duchess doesn't look stunning in red and black as well). I just don't much care about the hat. Wished she would return - every once in a while - to hats with a brim. She's worn hats like that in the past and they suited her well, I thought. I like the photo where the man is rolling his eyes sideways to look at Kate. Siddhii 18 February 2016 at 23:35 Thank You for the post, Charlotte! Love the red color, however she could've made a bun instead of a ponytail,IMO. I have a question, why was Rebecca Deacon at this event? This was not Kate's solo event. Im noticing she's being phased out this year.,, We've seen that hat quite a few times! Oh well, it's thrifty. It looks a bit large on her head here, I don't know if it's because she has her hair tied back. Mellie 19 February 2016 at 00:27 Thank you Charlotte for a great post she looks gorgeous I love the colour on her poor William is losing his hair but looks great still Sarah from Calif. 19 February 2016 at 01:47 Well done William and Kate !!! Hey Charlotte, taking a minute to say Hello to you. Hope you are well :) Terri Wilson 19 February 2016 at 01:54 I know that I always focus on her jewelry choices, but I would have liked to have seen a gold pair of earrings with this outfit. I'm 99% of the time a gold person so I might be biased, but I agree. Gold would have looked lovely with these colours! Valerie in US 19 February 2016 at 02:34 It must have been very poignant for William to return to an area where he was so happy, where he was happy in his job, and know that everything has changed. Not only for him, but for the men and women he worked with. Watching the ITV video, I felt that Kate was supporting him--he looked so sombre and a couple of times she gently leaned in to ask him a question, almost calling him back from wherever he was mentally. And she was much more animated talking to the people at the reception than he was. I think (well, heck, it shouldn't be a surprise) there is a lot more to this marriage than people give it credit for. I think that Kate truly is William's rock. She seems quite comfortable standing back when he takes the lead and moving forward when he doesn't. I think it petty that the Daily Mail used really unflattering photographs of Kate in their news story. Maybe this is the "revenge" that some of our bloggers are concerned about. One thing that Royal photographers should realize is that ALL "professional" photographers are feeling the bite of the digital/selfie/amateur photography era. And I really liked what Max French said about how Kate has every right to take her own photos of her children and share the ones that SHE likes instead of seeing random photos splashed in every tabloid. SPH on the East Coast 19 February 2016 at 02:36 From a fashion perspective, I'm kind of curious how long they stayed at the reception after (maybe I missed that in the post). If it was just a brief walk in and walk out, I get leaving the coat on, but most people would take off a coat inside. It's not really a "coat dress" which transitions better to indoors as well - to me it's clearly outerwear! I just think it looks a little rushed when one keeps one's coat on the whole time! But again, if it was for just a few minutes then it probably didn't come off as strange. The media was not there the whole time. They were there for the reception but it was a lunch after. The other women also wore their coats in the pictures so maybe it came of when they sat down for lunch? Denise 19 February 2016 at 03:07 Kate is always lovely, but I don't prefer the red and brown together at all. Good catch on the leg-crossing---very rare to see her do. I bet this was a poignant time for them and am glad they could make the engagement. Is anyone still wondering if she is pregnant after all the speculation about it recently? The belt seems to be sitting up quite high on the coat. Rosman at St Joe 19 February 2016 at 18:05 You know I find this pregnancy talk incredibly offensive. As a woman can you not understand or appreciate why it can be so? Would you like your family or your colleagues to be constantly staring at your body to discern whether or when you will reproduce? I think that we owe this basic respect to one another. It is one thing to dissect her clothing choices but pregnancy is an incredibly private decision. Bluefire 19 February 2016 at 04:29 I love the coat the duchess looked today she looks good and it seems they use the helicopter ride the limit the press people media people are not allowed to complained they because they are covering these the duke and duchess official duties Can anyone shed some light on why Rebecca Deacon was given a front-row seat as opposed to a serviceman or his family? Unless there is some sort of imminent security threat to Kate, isn't that rather bizarre that her personal secretary would be given priority seating over those who the event was actually honoring? Beautiful lady, beautiful clothes, but so predictable and so boring. Yawn. Predictive and boring (although I don't quite agree) is probably the way to go for a commemorative militray engagement where the focus is not on you. Amen, Rebecca. :) alexandra 19 February 2016 at 10:41 I like the coat but I think the hat is it wrong with the hair tight. Love your blog. I really like her look. Love dark brown and red together. I actually think the hair looks great and for me works with the hat:) If I had to change anything I would shorten the coat an inch or two and the belt buckle looks a bit dated and inexpensive. Thought she and William both looked relaxed and God. lol, "trying to make peace with the media" IS "like trying to tame a rattlesnake". That was a good one. Peace is not the nature of the beast. I follow all the comments on the media angst with interest.I think part of the problem for the press is that their exclusivity is well and truly challenged now.I am interested in the royals and enjoy watching how each generation manages to represent and in a way mirror their people of that generation. However now I do not need the press to paint the picture for me and that is their problem. I follow three blogs on the subject and that is it. So although the royals may well need the press, the press also very much need them and unless they change their type of reporting to attract readers why bother when one has interesting and informative blogs like Charlottes. I think this is one of the reasons for their continual complaints. Richard Palmer could have had a massive blog following had he moved with the times but there he is stuck in the same old same old rut. Now to the important things. Really like Catherine's coat, beautiful colour on her and I loved the length, but not so taken with the hat though perhaps the photos don't do it justice.I am so pleased the mental health day went so well. It is so important we all see mental health as a disease just the same as any other without a stigma. No one minds discussing their blood pressure and it should be the same for mental health. I hope in my life time I will see this important change. Well done Catherine for being part of changing our attitudes and doing it so well. On the hat thing, Fug girls pointed out that the hat looked wierd at the reception but worked at the parade. And they travelled by car between the places. Maybe she took of the hat/it got moved somehow when they travelled? Just a thought :P	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1479
__label__cc	0.504361	0.495639	Review: The Encounter Adelaide Festival The 3D audio technology in The Encounter is so sharp you would swear actor Richard Katz is whispering directly in your ear. You can practically feel his warm breath. Richard Katz in The Encounter at the Dunstan Playhouse. Photo: Shane Reid Wednesday March 08, 2017 Comments Then you’re transported to the depths of the Amazon jungle. The loud whirr of a plane landing. The roar of the river. A crack of thunder right next to you. Frenzied swarms of mosquitoes buzzing around your head. Rain falling through foliage directly above. The rustle of grasses as National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre walks through the jungle, lost with the mysterious Mayoruna tribespeople. Now you’re in the home of the narrator/creator … yes, that’s his young daughter’s sweet, high-pitched voice asking Daddy for a snack and a bedtime story. Now she’s singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” right behind you. There goes the door as she leaves the room. And you’re back in the forest with McIntyre, trying desperately to communicate with the tribespeople, to find a way out of the dense, moving maze. Created by Simon McBurney, director of UK theatre company Complicite, The Encounter is a one-man show inspired by Romanian author Petru Popescu’s novel, Amazon Beaming, based on McIntyre’s accounts of his experiences in the Amazon jungle in 1969. It uses binaural technology (3D audio), with myriad sounds relayed to the audience via supplied Sennheiser headphones. The Encounter also poses philosophical questions: What is reality? Can we get back to the beginning? What is the impact of “discovering” lost tribes? Katz’s performance throughout the one-hour-and-50-minute show is mesmerising. He transforms seamlessly from narrator to McIntyre, using his voice, audio loops and sound effects created live on stage with ordinary objects (a crushed chip packet emulates the crackling of a fire, a shaken water bottle replicates the sloshing of a river) to build what is described as “a shifting world of sound”. That sound is relayed from the stage through a head-shaped microphone. Adelaide Festival co-artistic director Neil Armfield has described the magic as being created “with the sleeves rolled up”, in that audience members can see the various pieces being put together, but are nonetheless swept up in the strange unfolding events. The audio feeds our visual imagination, enabling us to picture the emaciated head tribesman with “barnacles” on his legs, the exposed camera film dangling from a tree branch. Close your eyes for a few minutes and let the sounds flow over you, through you, around you – so real they provoke involuntary shivers. We’ve come to expect technology to be integrated into live entertainment experiences, but it’s rare to see (and hear) sound wizardry take centre stage in the theatre. Getting lost in the jungle with The Encounter is absorbing, surprising and at times hypnotic … it’s almost a wrench when you find your way out again. The Encounter is being presented at the Dunstan Playhouse until March 11 as part of the Adelaide Festival. It is recommended for ages 10 plus. 2017 Adelaide Festival More Adelaide Festival stories Adelaide Festival Adelaide Festival Adelaide Festival appoints new executive director Festivals Festivals Reggae star leads final 2020 WOMADelaide line-up reveal Suzie Keen Wednesday, November 20 Adelaide Festival fires up for 60th anniversary year Suzie Keen Tuesday, October 29 First 20 acts revealed for WOMADelaide 2020 Suzie Keen Thursday, October 17	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1484
__label__wiki	0.752765	0.752765	Adelaide Tuesday October 02, 2018 HLB Mann Judd Adelaide appoints Chief Executive Officer HLB Mann Judd Adelaide has promoted Mike Rowe to the newly-created role of chief executive officer to lead the accounting and advisory firm through its next phase of its growth. This article is sponsored by HLB Mann Judd Alan Green, Mike Rowe and James Hooper of HLB Mann Judd. Tuesday October 02, 2018 Comments Mr Rowe first joined the firm in January 2018 as Chief Financial Officer. The appointment is part of a broader strategy to transform the firm from a traditional accounting practice to a fully integrated professional services provider. HLB Mann Judd Adelaide managing partner James Hooper said Mr Rowe is an accomplished financial and change management executive whose skill set is an ideal fit for the role. “Mike’s experience and vision will help us identify new opportunities, particularly around the use of technology so that we can build a platform that will enable the partners to dedicate more time to delivering client service excellence,” he said. Mr Rowe said that HLB has an exceptionally talented and engaged team that has consistently delivered award-winning client service. “In the role of CEO, I really want to unlock future growth opportunities. The challenge I am most looking forward to is building on the existing track record of exceptional service to meet the changing needs of our clients.” Prior to his time at HLB Mann Judd Adelaide, Mr Rowe had worked in Big 4 consulting roles and spent 20 years in various senior leadership roles both in Australia and abroad in the technology, e-commerce and professional services sectors. His promotion follows the appointment last October of Alan Green as chairman of HLB Mann Judd Adelaide. The newly-formed role was part of the firm’s strategy to transform how it engaged with its clients. “We are a proud South-Australian owned and operated business. I believe we are taking the right steps to move the firm forward so that we can help our clients grow and prosper,” concluded Mr Hooper. HLB Mann Judd is an Australasian association of independent accounting firms and business and financial advisers, with firms in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. More Sponsored stories Sponsored Story Sponsored Story Fault lines appear in ‘liveable city’ urban plans Bushfires have reshaped life on Earth before. They could do it again Mike Lee Tuesday, January 07 Voyages to help solve plastic pollution Medical help for homeless children and their families	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1485
__label__cc	0.631213	0.368787	The SJL/J mouse: a new model for spontaneous age associated amyloidosis. I. Morphologic and immunochemical aspects M. A. Scheinberg, E. S. Cathcart, J. W. Eastcott, M. Skinner, Merrill Benson, T. Shirahama A high incidence of spontaneous amyloidosis is described in SJL/J mice. Amyloid was detected as early as 30 wk of age and the incidence rose to 90% by 60 wk of age. Amyloid deposits were most prominent in the perifollicular zones of the spleen and the lobular areas of the liver. Ultrastructural analysis revealed rigid, nonbranching fibrils indistinguishable from those observed in casein induced murine amyloidosis. On the other hand, immunochemical studies indicated that amyloid deposits in SJL/J mice differ from those found in casein treated CBA mice with respect to size, amino acid content, and antigenic properties. Since the SJL/J mouse also develops spontaneous reticulum cell tumors and serum M components, it appears to be a useful model for study of the pathogenesis of amyloidosis and its relationship to aging, neoplasia, and certain B cell dyscrasias. Laboratory Investigation Amyloid Plaques Caseins Myeloma Proteins Inbred CBA Mouse Scheinberg, M. A., Cathcart, E. S., Eastcott, J. W., Skinner, M., Benson, M., & Shirahama, T. (1976). The SJL/J mouse: a new model for spontaneous age associated amyloidosis. I. Morphologic and immunochemical aspects. Laboratory Investigation, 35(1), 47-54. The SJL/J mouse : a new model for spontaneous age associated amyloidosis. I. Morphologic and immunochemical aspects. / Scheinberg, M. A.; Cathcart, E. S.; Eastcott, J. W.; Skinner, M.; Benson, Merrill; Shirahama, T. In: Laboratory Investigation, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1976, p. 47-54. Scheinberg, MA, Cathcart, ES, Eastcott, JW, Skinner, M, Benson, M & Shirahama, T 1976, 'The SJL/J mouse: a new model for spontaneous age associated amyloidosis. I. Morphologic and immunochemical aspects', Laboratory Investigation, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 47-54. Scheinberg MA, Cathcart ES, Eastcott JW, Skinner M, Benson M, Shirahama T. The SJL/J mouse: a new model for spontaneous age associated amyloidosis. I. Morphologic and immunochemical aspects. Laboratory Investigation. 1976;35(1):47-54. Scheinberg, M. A. ; Cathcart, E. S. ; Eastcott, J. W. ; Skinner, M. ; Benson, Merrill ; Shirahama, T. / The SJL/J mouse : a new model for spontaneous age associated amyloidosis. I. Morphologic and immunochemical aspects. In: Laboratory Investigation. 1976 ; Vol. 35, No. 1. pp. 47-54. @article{b76e5c96a81244ae80702f3fd074448f, title = "The SJL/J mouse: a new model for spontaneous age associated amyloidosis. I. 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__label__wiki	0.559201	0.559201	By Simeon on April 8, 2016 • ( 2 Comments ) Femina Miss India 2013 review The show started with the host of the night – Manish Paul cgiving a short speech saluting the women of today and about the qualities that makes them beautiful. To celebrate fifty year of Miss India contest, a video was showed with some of the former Miss India sharing their experiences as Miss India and the things that they learnt from the contest that helped them established as strong independent women. Then Godrej Appliances and Pond’s Femina Miss India felicitated social activist Urmi Basu with a special ‘Woman of Substance’ award for her constant work towards the upliftment of women in the red light areas in Kolkata. The real competition started with an ‘Introduction Round’ where all the 23 contestants were walked the ramp in cocktail dress. While the contestants walked the ramp they introduced themselves through a pre-recorded voice. Then the trio of Grand Masti – Vivek Oberoi, Aftab and Ritesh Deshmukh came on stage joining the host and the contestants on stage. If appearing on stage and taking away the limelight from the beautiful contestants, they also danced to their own film song. That was absolutely unnecessary and again proved to many fans that Miss India was more of Bollywood event. There are other events which are much better platform to promote their films. The Judges and the contestants Next, the contestants get to show their dancing skills on the song ‘Radha teri chunri.’ Soon the swimsuit round followed. The beautiful ladies walked the ramp in two piece neon swimwear. 23 beautiful women but the limelight given to them was so short. Felt like watching Miss World introduction where they had to give footage to more than 100 representatives from different countries in a matter of second. Soon after, the gorgeous Aishwarya Rai Bachchan took the stage to perform a dance sequence. This was her first appearance after three long years. She performed on the number ‘Udi’ from Guzaarish. She danced so elegantly in the red and black flowy attire and her tap dance moves, choreographed to perfection by Shiamak Davar. This is the kind of performance that we want to see on Miss India stage. Sonu Niigam’s performance was next. He charmed everyone through his melodious voice and mesmerizing performance. As a tribute to Miss India beauties, he rendered his voice to songs like ‘Chehra hai ya chand khila hai’, ‘Mere rang mein rangne waali’, ‘O haseena zulfon wali’ and ‘Yeh jawaani hai deewani’. He was flanked by the aspiring Miss India dressed in beautiful gowns by designer Gavin Miguel in different hues of gold. Soon it was time to announce the Top 10 lucky girls out of the 23 contestants. Out of these 10, one was chosen through an online poll. Shobhita Dhulipala was crowned as the ‘Itimes digital diva’ by Karan Johar. The top 10 were Anukriti Gusain, Apurva Lonkar, Gail Nicole Da Silva, Navneet Kaur Dhillon, Sagarika Chettri, Sobhita Dhulipata, Srishti Rana, Swati Kain, Vijaya Sharma and Zoya Afroz. The top 10 Question and Answer round: Anukriti Gusain If you had the chance to exchange your beauty for anything else in the world, what would you exchange it for and why? If I have to exchange my beauty I would go for intelligence because I believe beauty without brain stand nowhere. Apurva Lonkar There are parents today who raise their children without letting them watch TV or look at the internet. What do you feel about it? I feel parent who raise their children without letting them watch TV, they shouldn’t ban them completely because TV also shows some important knowledge that children can gain. That’s what I feel about it. Gail Nicole Da Silva Well today which is more significant to you – today’s sunrise or you’re looking forward to tomorrow’s sunset? For me, both are equally important as with every sunrise there is a new opportunity that come our way and it depends on us how much we make the best of that opportunity and with every sunset, we get to know all the things, the things that we regret, the things that we learn at the end of the day that we should not have done. Navneet Kaur Dhillon If there would be no rules in your life for one day and you could be outrageous, what would you do? If there were no rules in my life for one day, I would ride a horse in the busiest street, go on the tallest building and scream that “This world is so beautiful, Live it to the fullest.” Sagarika Chettri Besides being beautiful, what else people would you like to think about you and why? I would like to be known a beautiful human being for my good deeds and or the person I am, for a positive outlook that I have towards life and one who is very beautiful from within. What do you think of the government’s restriction on dress code in schools and colleges? I do not think the government has a right to impose restriction on uniform because, a deficiency in moral policing cannot be compensated by imposing insensible rules that only take away freedom. A strong sense of understanding and respect for conduct should be inculcated. Only that will bring a change that is real and lasting. Srishti Rana What are the three things you would never do to hurt the person you genuinely love? The three things I would never do to a person I genuinely love would be; I would never cheat to the person anyway, I would never lie to that person and I would never run away in difficult situation when he needs me the most. Swati Kain You have a chance to make one call after which all the phone line dies. Apart from your parents who would you call? If I have to make that one last call I would genuinely love to call the late Jyoti Singh Pandey – The Delhi gangrapre victim and just ask her about her health and how she is doing in heaven. And one more thing I would ask her is would she like to be born again as a girl. Vijaya Sharma If you could be water or fire, which could it be? I would choose water because it can be soothing, it can be protective and it can kill also and it is very important for all of us and nobody can live without it. Zoya Afroz If you were crowned Miss India tonight, what message would you give to your fellow contestants and to the world? If I were privileged to be crown Miss India tonight, the message I would like to give to my fellow contestants would be that we are all winners tonight. Having reached this far, the message I would give to the world or rather would like to say tp the world that I feel so grateful to be crowned Miss India tonight and to use my beauty for a noble cause. While the judges were busy over deciding who should be in the top 5, former Miss World and Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra charmed the audience and viewers with her ‘desi girl’ number. To showcase the true essence of Pond’s Femina Miss India 2013, which had beauties from all across the country competing for the title, Priyanka performed on dance forms like the kathak, bharatnatyam, Assamese bihu, Maharashtrian lavani, Gujarati garba, Manipuri raas leela Marwari ghoomar, Punjabi gidda etc. She was joined by the contestants showing the true diversity of India. The top 5 result didn’t come as a surprise. Overall it was a good top 5. But I would have loved to see Sagarika Chettri in this round. She was so confident and positive besides having an amazing stage presence. The five finalists to face the last question and answer round before being crowned as Miss India were Zoya Afroz, Srishti Rana, Shobhita Dhulipala, Anukrti Gusain and Navneet Kaur. The common question was “If you were to die tomorrow, what would be your one regret?” Zoya Afroz – “I don’t think i have any regrets. I am that kind of a person who learns from mistakes. It has made me the person that I am today” Srishti Rana – “I just missed a new beginning” Sobhita Dhulipala – This reminds me of a quote I read of Marilyn Monroe. It says, ‘Fears are stupid. So are regrets’. So I have inculcated this belief that whatever I do, I do it fearlessly. If it turns out good, it is a memory I will cherish. If it ends up negative, it is a lesson I learnt. So I don’t believe in the concept of regret. However, if I had to pick one regret, it would be sibling rivalry because, as I grew older I realized how much love there really is between my sister and I. That’s all. Nothing else. No regrets.’ Anukriti Gusain – “If tonight I won’t be able to win the crown that will be my biggest regret” Navneet Kaur – “The only thing I would regret would be not having done much for society. Abhi tak maine society ke liye woh sab kuch nahi kiya hai, I would love to work for Women empowerment, Child labour and social evils of our society.” Among the top 5 answers, I loved the way Anukriti answered her question. It was short and humorous but very honest and straight from the heart answer. But this is Miss India contest. The one with a philosophy and world peace type answer always have an edge over someone who is very honest in her answer. The result was announced and Navneet Kaur Dhillon from Chandigarh was crowned as Miss India. Sobhita Dhulipala and Zoya Afroz were her runners up in the contest. Categories: MISS INDIA Tagged as: Femina Miss India 2013, Navneet Kaur Dhillon, Sobhita Dhulipala, Zoya Afroz Mamta Chandani crowned Mrs. Pune 2016 Winning answers of fbb Femina Miss India 2014 winners Indian Ad Divas says: Well composed Simeon. Awesome! 🙂 Thanks alot, Indian Ad Divas! Cheers 🙂	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1488
__label__wiki	0.710729	0.710729	P. Town Boyz drum group make TV debut (+Video) Parent Category: Indigenous Culture Category: Pow Wow Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$image_fulltext_caption in /home/indiancountrynew/public_html/templates/ja_wall/html/com_content/article/default.php on line 164 src="http://indiancountrynews.net/images/stories/images2/ptownboys.gif" alt=" Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$image_fulltext_alt in /home/indiancountrynew/public_html/templates/ja_wall/html/com_content/article/default.php on line 167 News From Indian Country (ICC) P. Town Boyz Ojibwe youth drum group from the Red Lake Chippewa Reservation in Minnesota originated in the year 2000 while participating with the Ponemah Elementary Drum & Dance Troupe. The group consists of six singers, all of whom are cousins who grew up together in the traditional village of Ponemah in Red Lake: James Cloud III (age 14), Brian Stillday Jr. (age 14), Tony Cloud (age 12), Neal Johnson (age 12), Eldon Cloud (age 12), and Bryce Cloud (age 8). They made their TV debut on the PBS Special ZOOM and have since received International recognition and acclaim. P-Town Boyz Video at Lac Court Oreilles in 2007 {youtube}<object width="425" height="373"><param name="movie" value=" name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="373"></embed></object>{/youtube} In 2005, P. Town Boyz began to travel and perform at traditional pow wows and schools within Indian Country. The Boyz performed at the National School Board Conference in Chicago, Illinois, and the Kristin Monroe Dance Special in Ball Club, Minnesota; and they took first place at the Bug O Nay Geezhig School pow wow in Leech Lake, Minnesota, and second place at the Minnesota Drum & Dance Competition in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. They were also honored with a traditional drum from the Lac Courte Orielles school committee for their leadership, behavior, and respect at the LCO school pow wow in Lac Courte Oreilles, Wisconsin. P. Town Boyz also had the honor of performing as the Youth Host Drum at the White Fish Bay pow wow in Ontario, Canada, and at the Honor the Youth Leadership Conference & pow wow in Red Lake, Minnesota. In 2006, P. Town Boyz were invited by the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to perform at the General Assembly Hall and Cultural Event at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, New York. With their unique and powerful vocal style, they performed to over 2,000 Indigenous Delegates, World Leaders, and United Nations Officials during the opening ceremony of the Second International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples. This fall, the highly anticipated P. Town Boyz self-titled debut CD of original songs will be released exclusively in Indian Country on Eagle Thunder Records and distributed by Drumbeat and Indian Arts. To listen to the tracks and for more information, please visit www.PTBoyz.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1489
__label__cc	0.647098	0.352902	Hacksaw Ridge (2016) R A gripping true story about a man who stood for his convictions while defending his country, Hacksaw Ridge details the life and service of Desmond Doss. A conscientious objector, Doss refused to bear arms. Nevertheless, like many others, he volunteered to join the army after the attack on Pearl Harbor. As a combat medic, Doss's heroics saved 75 lives during a WWII battle. Just a warning: the combat scenes (which start about halfway through) are quite graphic. Hacksaw Ridge won Oscars for film editing and sound mixing. Andrew Garfield (actor) and Mel Gibson (director) received Oscar nominations. Learn more about the true story of the first conscientious objector to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor in an NPR article and Army history. drama movie war Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeym... The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (2014) Monday, January 20, 2020 Get a Life, Chloe Brown Monday, December 30, 2019 The Mars Room Saturday, December 21, 2019 Yesterday Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener Dear Mrs. Bird by A. J. Pearce (2018) Bones: Season 1 Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series fiction movie drama nonfiction historical fiction comedy mystery romance suspense/thriller adventure suspense fantasy literary fiction tv show women's fiction music history biography audio memoir humor teen sports kids spotlight animals western science fiction multicultural rock horror sci-fi pop chick lit war foreign documentary graphic novel musical gentle reads inspirational travel animated short stories science cooking jazz medical true crime religion soundtrack country economics self help holiday	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1490
__label__cc	0.617806	0.382194	Home Embedded Systems Artificial intelligence Mouser Electronics’ New Engineering Big Ideas eBook Examines Ways to Move from Inspiration to Design Mouser Electronics, Inc. today released Designing an Idea, the first eBook from Engineering Big Ideas, the newest series in Mouser’s award-winning Empowering Innovation Together™ program. In the new eBook, experts from Mouser and the electronics industry provide an in-depth look at how innovators move from the first spark of inspiration to product design to the first steps of production. Designing an Idea begins with a foreword by Skullcandy Chief Product Officer Jeffrey L. Hutchings, who examines how the path from idea to product is changing, with expanded access to tools and resources presenting organizations and individuals with new, more affordable routes to production. Special contributors to the new eBook include Bob Martin, “Wizard of Make” and Senior Staff Engineer at Microchip Technology; Josh Lifton, Ph.D. graduate of the MIT Media Lab and co-founder and president of Crowd Supply; and Dr. Andy Stanford-Clark, CTO of IBM in UK and Ireland. The book also includes an innovation-to-productization model that can help technology creators improve their chances of success. The Engineering Big Ideas series is supported by Mouser’s valued suppliers Analog Devices, Intel®, Microchip Technology and Molex. “The road from idea to product can be arduous and filled with obstacles, but new technologies are opening up new and quicker paths,” said Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President, Marketing at Mouser Electronics. “The Engineering Big Ideas series begins with a look at how innovators develop their concepts and where they go from there.” Mouser recently launched the Engineering Big Ideas series with a video that followed celebrity engineer Grant Imahara as he visited the Arizona test track of Nikola Motor Company. There, he spoke with CEO Trevor Milton about how Nikola Motor Company is bringing its vision for hybrid truck design to market, and revolutionizing the economic and environmental impact of commerce in the process. The Empowering Innovation Together program has been one of the most recognized and notable electronic component marketing programs since 2015, highlighting a range of innovative developments from IoT and smart cities of the future to robotics technologies. To learn more about this and all of Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together series, visit www.mouser.com/empowering-innovation and follow Mouser on Facebook and Twitter. To read the new Designing an Idea eBook, go to www.mouser.com/news/ebi-ebook1/mobile/index.html.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1499
__label__cc	0.641699	0.358301	Breaking China: here’s how IPA Director of Marketing Strategy Janet Hull OBE asks how the UK ad industry can break into China. Janet Hull Janet Hull OBE looks at the lessons learned from our recent trade mission on how the UK ad industry can 'break' China. "By 2050 China's GDP will be 80 per cent more than America's… If you’re at all international in your outlook, make Asia part of your plans." The message from The Economist’s Daniel Franklin at a recent IPA Conference couldn’t be clearer. But while China’s economic rise is irrefutable, what does this mean, specifically, for UK ad agencies? President Xi has talked about the need for China to invest in soft power – and that’s where our industry can help, according to Feref’s Chief Executive Graham Hawkey-Smith whose agency has been successfully operating in China for the last two years. “China is an economic superpower but it doesn’t yet have the volume of global brands or entertainment franchises to reinforce its economic power with a soft power that introduces its culture to the rest of the world.” So, how can we, the UK ad agency business, be a part of this success? Can we break into China? Should we – is the appetite there? Can we help China brands come here? What do we need to know before we start this journey? And crucially, where do we begin? An appetite for partnership Having recently returned from an IPA agency trade mission to China, with the Department for International Trade (DIT), I can say unequivocally that yes, the appetite and, most importantly, the opportunity for the UK and China ad industry to work together is there. As outlined to the audience of the China International Advertising Festival (CIAF), taking China brands global is no longer a pipe dream for them. It is in fact part of Government (PRC) strategy in China. Three years ago, they instituted a China Brand day of 10 May. Its slogan, roughly translated is ‘Transform China product to China brand. Convert China brand to world brand.’ And they have set an aspiration for 50% of brand sales by company to come from overseas. China is proud to quote that China brands are now in the top 500 Global BrandZ league table but deplores the fact there are still only 38. It aims for more, and forges a comparison with the 129 Chinese companies in the Fortune 500 manufacturing league table. So, there is much room for growth. The key word to keep front of mind to achieve success, according to Feref is bilateral. According to CEO Graham Hawkey-Smith, while the world’s businesses have been vying to sell to China’s 1.4bn people for a long time, China doesn’t want to simply throw open its borders for the rest of the world to exploit its population’s growing wealth. "The UK needs to make sure it approaches China in a balanced way that is as much about helping China’s global ambitions as it is about making money in China. A bilateral approach is the only long-term way of truly working together." A bilateral approach to entertainment means Feref will spend as much time helping China export its films and TV shows as it does helping US and European film and TV studios market to Chinese audiences. A bilateral approach to education means using film and TV to teach English language and culture in China and Mandarin and Chinese culture in the UK. A bi-lateral approach has also reaped rewards for VCCP and The Specialist Works. Having started creating work to run in China three years ago, making the 'Together we Triumph' campaign for the lingerie brand, Triumph, VCCP has since acquired multiple clients they work for in China, including Cathay Pacific, Shell and Hisense. Similarly, the Specialist Works has been established in Beijing since early 2017, and from an initial conversation with a gaming company realised that there was huge appetite for Chinese online brands to break into the US and Europe. That gaming company was Elex and the game Clash of Kings and that UK campaign spawned many more including work for Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance, Netease and FunPlus. As an interesting aside, this desire for brands to succeed through advertising is made all the greater for the fact that M&As - the first model for going global - have not necessarily worked. One speaker at the Conference claimed M&As peaked in 2015, and 70% of them have failed. China aspires to more. Staying in Asia and Africa is only a halfway house for them. It aspires to be the best of the best when it comes to brands going global and this means going from East to West and competing on quality as well as price. Ensuring there’s no lost in translation… While there is appetite and opportunity, there are of course many differences and similarities between the ways in which the UK and China ad industries work. As the IPA outlined on stage at CIAF, for China brands using the UK as a gateway to the west the significant market similarities include a trend to mobile first, a strong digital marketing ecosystem and a consumer franchise who are early adopters of new technology. However, there are significant challenges too: the three Cs of Competition, Context and Culture. Brand leaders in China need to adopt a 'challenger' mind-set when they enter Western markets. The regulatory and media marketplace is different, including social and tech platforms. Consumer behaviours and attitudes are also different. Equally, we, in the UK, must better understand the China market when operating there, something that Feref, The Specialist Works and VCCP have experienced first-hand. Key lessons for UK agencies working in China: Understand China As Feref realised early on, a key first step for them was to acknowledge that they knew nothing about China. Before they could offer useful advice or begin trading, they needed to understand the market. The first thing they did was to arrange a "rising stars" exchange programme with Shanghai Media Group (SMG), trading an employee each to spend a month at one another’s agencies and to take this learning back with them. Project-based contracts are favoured The Specialist Works have found that brands tend to appoint agencies project by project, as opposed to long-term contracts. However, that doesn’t mean to say they don’t invest in long-term relationships, once you have their trust. Reputation is key As The Specialist Works’ MD Sharon Browne told me, "If you’re known for delivering brilliant work, brands are attracted to you." Equally, if you are a member of an internationally-recognised Chartered Institute like the IPA and have a reputation for excellence in professional development and/or awards wins, this will count in your favour. Turnarounds are tight The Specialist Works have found that their Chinese clients expect turnarounds at lightning-speed. However, something Sharon wishes she’d realised sooner is that it’s ok to push back: "It takes time to produce and execute effective media and creative strategies. The campaigns where we’ve been given the chance to pause have been our most successful." Agencies with a reputation for working in a different way with international clients that they admire have more room for manoeuvre. Emphasis lies on commercials and ROI As VCCP’s Vice Chairman Julian Douglas confided: "Strategy and creative quality are important, but it’s all about the results." China is not "one single thing" The big difference between the UK and China according to VCCP’s Douglas is the speed, scale and diversity of China: "China is not one single thing." As Feref’s Hawkey-Smith, noticed, there is real rivalry between Beijing and Shanghai, with one city "enjoying talking politics while the other only talks business. It’s key to remember that China has 37 cities bigger than Birmingham and these are spread across 34 separate administrative divisions." Know your USP "What’s your advantage?" is the most commonly asked question to Feref’s Hawkey-Smith: "They accept that we are good at our jobs – but what they really want to know – in one sentence – is 'what is the advantage that your company has over everyone else in your sector – and how does that help my business?'. If you’re going to do business in China – make sure you’ve got a snappy answer for that one!" Contacts and relationships are vital Even if you think you know something about China – still use every resource available to you – from your personal contacts, to the DIT to the IPA - before you head out there, advises Hawkey-Smith: "It’s important to think long-term and to build relationships with individuals who have real influence and a strong network of connections. The Chinese call this Guanxi." China in our hands: how to get started It is this last point, regarding Contacts and relationships, where the IPA can help. In October of this year at the CIAF, the IPA signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the host organisers the China Advertising Association (CAA) to steer CAA/IPA co-operation in helping: Chinese brand owners to internationalise through IPA member agencies and IPA agencies to do business in China; to provide best practice in client agency relationships and brand communication campaign planning and to develop a structure for Continuous Professional Development and qualifications relevant to both markets. This is the first MOU the CAA - who represent indigenous Chinese brands including Huawei, Tencent, Haier, SAIC, iQIY, Xaomi as well as indigenous agencies - has signed with a Western country and provides the IPA and the UK with first mover advantage. The MOU is symbolic of a wider acceptance that the IPA and the UK can be a trusted partner in helping Chinese brands internationalise. In addition, we will be hosting annual delegations of Chinese brands seeking to go global, as well as continuing to take UK delegations of agencies – in partnership with DIT - to China, which we have been running since 2010. This is something that our UK agencies have reaped great rewards from, as Graham says: “A small, independent agency like Feref benefits enormously from the prestige of being part of an IPA mission. It gives us a platform to reach a wider audience beyond our heartland of entertainment. But the main thing is benefitting from the company we keep on an IPA mission. UK Creativity is held in the highest regard in China – so being part of that collective voice is an immensely important opportunity and undoubtedly adds to our brand.” On our most recent IPA-led, DIT-supported, trade mission we took 18 different advertising and marketing service companies to Shanghai, the lead City in China for advertising that has been designated as the entry and exit City for international brand trade. It spends the equivalent of a £18 billion on advertising each year and is growing at 28% year-on-year. Off the back of the mission, all 18 companies raised their profiles in China, 11 reported new business leads and three of them are now opening offices out there. We are now recruiting for our 2020 Shanghai Mission (2-7 March) as part of the UK Advertising Export Group (UAEG) initiative. If you’d like to be a part of this activity, please contact Janet Hull It’s a two-way street. For those agencies seeking to open up in China, and/or service Chinese brands seeking to internationalise, it is an introduction service that carries weight in China. Last updated 12 December 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1503
__label__wiki	0.50487	0.50487	01 - Contributo in rivista 1.01 Articolo in rivista Improving the Conservation of Mediterranean Chondrichthyans: The ELASMOMED DNA Barcode Reference Library Cartilaginous fish are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic stressors and environmental change because of their K-selected reproductive strategy. Accurate data from scientific surveys and landings are essential to assess conservation status and to develop robust protection and management plans. Currently available data are often incomplete or incorrect as a result of inaccurate species identifications, due to a high level of morphological stasis, especially among closely related taxa. Moreover, several diagnostic characters clearly visible in adult specimens are less evident in juveniles. Here we present results generated by the ELASMOMED Consortium, a regional network aiming to sample and DNA-barcode the Mediterranean Chondrichthyans with the ultimate goal to provide a comprehensive DNA barcode reference library. This library will support and improve the molecular taxonomy of this group and the effectiveness of management and conservation measures. We successfully barcoded 882 individuals belonging to 42 species (17 sharks, 24 batoids and one chimaera), including four endemic and several threatened ones. Morphological misidentifications were found across most orders, further confirming the need for a comprehensive DNA barcoding library as a valuable tool for the reliable identification of specimens in support of taxonomist who are reviewing current identification keys. Despite low intraspecific variation among their barcode sequences and reduced samples size, five species showed preliminary evidence of phylogeographic structure. Overall, the ELASMOMED initiative further emphasizes the key role accurate DNA barcoding libraries play in establishing reliable diagnostic species specific features in otherwise taxonomically problematic groups for biodiversity management and conservation actions Titolo: Improving the Conservation of Mediterranean Chondrichthyans: The ELASMOMED DNA Barcode Reference Library Cariani, A Messinetti S Ferrari, A ARCULEO, Marco Bonello, JJ Bonnici, L Cannas, R Carbonara, P Cau, A Charilaou,C El Ouamari, N Fiorentino, F Follesa, MC Garofalo, G Golani, D Guarniero, I Hanner, R Hemida, F Kada, O LO BRUTTO, Sabrina Mancusi, C Morey, G Schembri, PJ Serena, F Sion, L Stagioni, M Tursi, A Vrgoc, N Steinke, D Tinti, F. Citazione: Cariani, A., Messinetti, S., Ferrari, A., Arculeo, M., Bonello, J., Bonnici, L., et al. (2017). Improving the Conservation of Mediterranean Chondrichthyans: The ELASMOMED DNA Barcode Reference Library. PLOS ONE, 12(1), 1-16. Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1371/journal.pone.0170244 Abstract: Cartilaginous fish are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic stressors and environmental change because of their K-selected reproductive strategy. Accurate data from scientific surveys and landings are essential to assess conservation status and to develop robust protection and management plans. Currently available data are often incomplete or incorrect as a result of inaccurate species identifications, due to a high level of morphological stasis, especially among closely related taxa. Moreover, several diagnostic characters clearly visible in adult specimens are less evident in juveniles. Here we present results generated by the ELASMOMED Consortium, a regional network aiming to sample and DNA-barcode the Mediterranean Chondrichthyans with the ultimate goal to provide a comprehensive DNA barcode reference library. This library will support and improve the molecular taxonomy of this group and the effectiveness of management and conservation measures. We successfully barcoded 882 individuals belonging to 42 species (17 sharks, 24 batoids and one chimaera), including four endemic and several threatened ones. Morphological misidentifications were found across most orders, further confirming the need for a comprehensive DNA barcoding library as a valuable tool for the reliable identification of specimens in support of taxonomist who are reviewing current identification keys. Despite low intraspecific variation among their barcode sequences and reduced samples size, five species showed preliminary evidence of phylogeographic structure. Overall, the ELASMOMED initiative further emphasizes the key role accurate DNA barcoding libraries play in establishing reliable diagnostic species specific features in otherwise taxonomically problematic groups for biodiversity management and conservation actions URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5215922/ Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: Settore BIO/05 - Zoologia Appare nelle tipologie: 1.01 Articolo in rivista Barcoding Elasmomed PlosOne 2017.pdf N/A Administrator Richiedi una copia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1506
__label__cc	0.654778	0.345222	Sikar CITY GUIDE Sikar Directory About Sikar Administration in Sikar Culture of Sikar Arts and Crafts in Sikar Dance and Music Schools in Sikar Economy of Sikar Companies and Industries in Sikar Consultancies-in-Sikar Emergency Services in Sikar Entertainment and Nightlife in Sikar Food in Sikar Restaurants in Sikar Geography of Sikar Healthcare Services in Sikar Chemists in Sikar Hospitals in Sikar History of Sikar Important Links in Sikar Laxmangarh Fort Lifestyle in Sikar Localities and Areas of Sikar Shopping in Sikar Social welfare in Sikar Children Welfare Groups in Sikar NGOs in Sikar Sports Facilities in Sikar Tourism in Sikar Hotels in Sikar Khatu Shyam Temple Museum and Libraries in Sikar One Day Trip From Sikar Prajapati Maha Yagya Religious Spots in Sikar Sikar in One day Things To Do In Sikar Tourist Spots in Sikar Travel Agencies in Sikar Weekend Getaways From Sikar Transport in Sikar Utilities and Services in Sikar Banks in Sikar Courier Services in Sikar Currency Exchange and ATMs in Sikar Electricity in Sikar Florists in Sikar Packers and Movers in Sikar Petrol Pumps in Sikar Photography in Sikar Post Offices in Sikar Property Dealers in Sikar Home city guide religious spots in sikar Almost everyone is aware about the religious significance of Sikar, a popular historical city located in the state of Rajasthan. In addition to its famous embroidery works, mirror works and paintings in ancient palaces, Sikar is famous because of its significant religious places. These religious spots in Sikar attract more casual visitors than the religious ones. So, ensure that you plan to visit the religious spots of Sikar when you want to travel around the best places in Sikar. India is renowned around the globe as the place of spirituality. People particularly visit Sikar in order to experience spiritualism and comprehend the meaning of religion. You can notice that in Sikar, all religions are given equal importance. For example, a gurudwara is present in Sikar for the Sikhs, and people from different religions visit it. Similarly, a mosque from ancient days, many churches and various temples are situated in this great multi-cultural city, since there are people from different religious backgrounds here. There are various pujas and festivals which are conducted all through the year. During the time of the festival Durga Puja, you can observe Pandals of the Bengali community decorating the entire city and at the time of the Ganesh festival, you can see everyone busy with their rituals. There are various famous churches, Gurudwara’s, temples and mosques present all over Sikar city. The people here are religious-minded and quiet and normally tend to reach extremes in the matter of religious sentiments. There are plenty of religious places to be explored in Sikar. Famous Religious Spots in Sikar Ramgarh, situated in Sikar, was established by the household of Poddar in 1791 and it is said to have been among the wealthiest towns in India, in the 19th century. Ramgarh is known for its beautiful havelis, one of which is the Bashashwarlal Poddar Haveli which was most probably built during the 1830s. This famous haveli contains nice ochre paintings with floral designs. Ganeshwar Village Ganeshwar Village is another must visit spot in the city of Sikar. Some believe that a plunge in Ganeshwar’s warm sulfur springs would cure all kinds of skin ailments. The village of Ganeshwar is located near the Neem ka Thana town in Sikar. In the archaeological excavation done surrounding Ganeshwar, age old ruins dating from a 4,000 year old civilization were discovered. Baleshwar city situated near Ganeshwar is another popular place mainly because of its very old Shiva temple. Madho Niwas Kothi Madho Niwas Kothi was constructed by HH Madhav Singh Ji and this is an amazing illustration of a great Fresco with marvelous works of gold paintings. Sikar is located at a distance of 115km from Jaipur, so it is convenient to visit the kothi from Jaipur. Harshnath Temple Harshnath Temple is the single hill station within the city of Sikar, and is a must visit for tourists visiting Sikar. According to folk tales, this temple was utterly destroyed by the army of Aurangzeb. You can view the ruined parts of the Harshnath temple which have not been attacked at all. The charm of the main temple is indescribable with its splendid architecture and marvelous view of the city that lies below. It is important that the driver is experienced with driving on hill roads and knows the place well, since driving on hill roads is hazardous for those who do not have experience. Khatushyamji Temple Khatu Shyamji temple is a famous religious spot close to the Ringas Railway Station (around 17 km) and is at a distance of only 80km from Jaipur. There are various conveyance facilities throughout the day and also many Dharamshalas for refreshment and accommodation. The temple and it surrounding areas are maintained in a good condition even though there are great numbers of people crowding it. The floral decoration around the idol is beautiful and not like any seen anywhere else. The kund of the temple which is located at a distance of 100 meters from the main temple has a fascinating design. There are many Dharmashalas here along with a few hotels for comfortable stay. There are plenty of restaurants too, providing delicious food. There is a huge throng of people here always but the organization of the queue is done in a systematic and perfect manner. You can see friendly people here and there is also a small market here, where you get almost everything easily. Every year, many annual events happen here which draw millions of people, and special facilities are also arranged for them. A fair called Khatu Shyamji fair takes place every year in March, where people take part in various religious rituals. Large crowds of people from local as well as the whole of India visit Sikar for this fair. You should also know that it is only possible for you to reach close to the temple on foot since vehicles are forbidden inside. Khatu Shyamji is a renowned temple for Khatushaymji, believed to be a present day avatar of Krishna in Sikar. The Khatu Shyamji mandir is also dedicated to Bhim’s grandson and a version of Ghatotkacha’s son, Barbareek. According to Hindu legends, the belief is that Barbareek was given a boon by Krishna that in future, people would call him by Krishna’s name and will bestow the title Krishnaji upon him. Both Barbareek and Khatushaymji are famous among the Hindus in Rajasthan state. Legend talks about this renowned Krishna temple that it was from the ancient medieval Mahabharat period where the son of Pandav Bhim Barbareek and Nag Kanya exhibited his mighty warrior skills and that it pleased Shiva who gave him the boon of three arrows, Teen Ban and Agni Dev offered the boon of a bow, in order to conquer the total three worlds. People from all across the world go to this temple during the mela time in the month of Kartik or Falgunsudi Ekadasi. Their devotion and belief simply pours from their conscious belief. The temple is presently run by a Trust. Other Famous Temples and Mosques in Sikar The following are the famous temples and mandirs in Sikar: Address: NH 65, Salasar, Rajasthan, India Vishwanath Temple Address: Vishwanath Gali, Sikar, India Saini Mandir Address: Bagar Road, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India Address: Veer Teja Colony, Sikar, Rajasthan, India Kalyanji Mandir Address: Kalyanji Temple, Chidawa, Rajasthan, India The other popular religious spots here are Lord Ganesha temple, Junjharji mandir, Shri Gayatri mandir, VM mandir, Sri Durga Chouki Balaji mandir, Sri Budheswar Nath mandir, Devi Pura Balaji, Sukhdev Das Baba temple, Jodha Das Baba mandir, and Shyam Baba mandir. Rani Sati Temple This temple is built like a beautiful, impressive and huge castle! The atmosphere inside the temple is relaxed and well-organized. Inside the temple, meals and accommodation are obtainable at subsidized rates. At present, it is mostly visited by Marwaris, who are among the primary business communities in the Hindu sect, and has the ability of becoming a magnet to draw diverse communities. Kuldevi is the deity from family ancestry and regarded as the family’s guardian. During the 'Bhadrapada' New Moon occasion, which mostly falls in August or September months, there are large crowds of people rushing here from all over India. The Marwari community is dispersed geographically today, and this is an event when they gather together. You must not miss the delicious Chirawa pedas and mouth-watering chaat counters outside the temple. There are also tasty puchkas, kulfis and dal pakodas to be enjoyed here. Jeenmata Jeenmata temple located close to the hill and 10km from Rewasa village is encircled by a deep forest. This famous temple is situated about 29km from Sikar in the south. Jeen Mata’s full and real name had been Jayantimala and Jeen Mata is also called Shakti Peeth. The year of the building of this shrine is not known, but people believe that this temple was rebuilt by Pandavas as per the style during the period of their banishment from Hastinapur. Yet, the pillars and sabhamandapa are very ancient. This is a very old temple dedicated to Jeenmata and it is believed by many people to be about a thousand years old. Millions of people gather here for the colourful festival that takes place twice a year during the months of Ashvin and Chaitra at the time of Navratri. There are plenty of dharamshalas here to accommodate a huge number of visitors. The beautiful architecture of this temple is awe-inspiring and there are pillars full of carvings of flora and fauna, deities and dancers all over the main hall. The shrine of Jeenmata was a pilgrimage place from ancient years and people say that it was repaired and rebuilt many times. A natural atmosphere of tranquility is given to the place due to the gorgeous lush green plants and flora and fauna enveloping the temple. Just near this temple is Harsh Bhairavnath's temple which is located on the peak of a hill. Mosques in Sikar The following are the famous mosques in Sikar: Sadar Masjid Mochibara Ashiya Masjid Mohalla Narwan Abuzar Masjid Aayesha Masjid Abrar Masjid Abrar Masjid, Mohalla Naarwan Rahmaniya Masjid Comments / Discussion Board - Religious Spots in Sikar Read More About sikaronline.in Information About Education In: Sikar	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1518
__label__cc	0.720176	0.279824	John Batdorf Music www.2recovery.net Bio – Short Version Bio – Long Version B&R History Press/Promo Category: Musings A Word From John Welcome to 2020. I certainly hope sanity and tranquility will return to this great country so we can once again be that guiding star that just might help re-unite the… social-fb Two New Songs and Videos Just Released Hi, I have just released two new songs, “Hope Is Everywhere” and “You Don’t Have To Know My Name”. Eventually, these songs will be a part of the “Singles Anyone?”… New Video. New Song! I Know What Girls Like Hello! I just released a video for my other single release “I Know What Girls Like”. It’s a fun song and a fun video. I sure hope you check it… New Music Video For “Broken” Hello. I wanted to share a little picture video for my newest release, “Broken” I would love your thoughts! John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jRDyX9mFRU&feature=share Music For A New Day! Hello and thanks again for supporting Me And My Guitar! The original release was last May and with the help of a radio promotion campaign on Airplay Direct, the music… New CD Concept/Kickstarter Campaign I started my recording career at a very young age, 15. Even before Batdorf and Rodney, The Luv’d Ones, a group from Ohio I came to California with in 1967,… The link below will take you to my 30 minute interview/concert on Border Crossings on the Voice of America network filmed last month in DC. https://www.voanews.com/a/4105153.html Download Onesheet © 2005 - 2020 John Batdorf Music(™) - All Rights Reserved \| Site by .:. Matt	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1524
__label__cc	0.73863	0.26137	New Delhi – Agra – Taj Mahal (India #6) We fly from Chandigarh to New Delhi. It is cold and our phones don’t work, but no matter – after settling in for a night we take the train to Agra to see the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort. The Taj Mahal, tourist attraction #1 in India, is utterly mind blowing. The best way to explain it that I’ve heard is that it is beauty at every scale: gazing at it from a rooftop miles away, standing in front of it, and examining its ornately carved surfaces up close. The story of Shah Jahan, the emperor who commissioned the Taj Mahal, is bizarre and somewhat tragic: After Mumtaz Mahal [Shah Jahan’s wife] died in 1631 while giving birth to their 14th child, Shah Jahan undertook the work of constructing world’s most beautiful monument in her memory. This monument, which entombs Mumtaz Mahal as well as Shah Jahan, came to be known as “Taj Mahal”, the building of which took 22 years and 22000 laborers. It was in 1657 that Shah Jahan fell ill, and Dara, Mumtaz Mahal’s eldest son assumed responsibility of his father’s throne. His other son, Aurangzeb, accompanied by his younger brothers Shuja and Murad marched upon Agra to in order to claim their share. They defeated Dara’s armies and declared their father Shah Jahan incompetent to rule and put him under house arrest in Agra Fort. After Shah Jahan died in 1666 in captivity, his body was taken quietly by two men and was laid beside Mumtaz. (tajmahal.org) So ahh, yeah, to recap: Emperor spends 22 years building “the world’s most beautiful monument” in memory of his beloved wife who died during childbirth; son stages a coup, takes over throne and imprisons the Shah in the fort where he can only stare across the river to the Taj Mahal for the rest of his life. Harsh, bro. (Admittedly this is an utterly incomplete accounting of an incredibly complex period of history, one assumes – and hopes – there was more to the story 😉 ) Following the Taj, we tour Agra Fort, splendid in its own magnificence, then head back to Delhi. The rest of our short stay in New Delhi is is defined by rest after a few long days of travel. Mandeep recovers from stomach illness, I do a few runs around Defense Colony (nothing like running outdoors in the most polluted city in the world!!), and an old friend of Mandeep’s pays a visit. Time to head to the Himalayas. Famous New Delhi Airport hands Train food yummmmm Beautiful. (Building in the background is ok too) Behind the Taj Mahal Dope lunch spot Entering Agra Fort This is where the Shah was imprisoned by his son. Not a bad looking place to be imprisoned, but still… (See post for story) There are about 1,000,000 little tiny mirrors imbedded in the tilework Agra train station Next stop Himalayas Dat smog tho McGill out. Staring out a train window, Agra bound Agra traffic from a tuk tuk Monkey business, pt. 2	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1526
__label__wiki	0.77881	0.77881	Karenina ELAINE SHOWALTER TOWARDS A FEMINIST POETICS PDF About the author: Elaine Showalter (born January 21, ) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. 3/25/16 Welcome: Elaine Showalter: Towards A Feminist Poetics: The Summary More Next Blog» Create Blog Sign In Welcome Dilip Barad’s Blog Home About. Toward a Feminist Poetics. Elaine Showalter . In this essay, therefore, I would like to outline a brief taxonomy, if not a poetics, of feminist criticism, in the hope .. We are moving towards a two-tiered system of “higher” and “lower” criticism, the. Author: Mazuzshura Shaktijas Country: Saint Kitts and Nevis Genre: Travel Uploader: Ketilar University of Massachusetts Press, The most natural direction for feminist criticism to take has been the revision and even the subversion of related ideologies, especially Marxist aesthetics and structuralism, altering their vocabularies and methods to include the variable of gender. Friday, 27 December Elaine Showalter: Elaine Showalter born January 21, is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on showalted and social issues. Poeticcs problem is that role of male theoretician is a must in some fields of shosalter. Working in the field of feminist literary theory and criticism, which was just emerging as a serious scholarly pursuit in universities in the s, Showalter’s writing reflects a conscious effort to convey the importance of mapping her discipline’s past in order to both ground it in substantive theory, and amass a knowledge base that will be able to inform a path for future feminist academic pursuit. ECODESIGN THE SOURCEBOOK PDF Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness. Towards A Feminist Poetics About the author: They rejected any text that stereotyped the women. According to Dame Rebecca West, unhappiness is still the keynote of contemporary fiction by English women. Women and the Novel: Fern recommended that women write as therapy, as a release from the stifling silence of the drawing room, and as a feminlst against the indifference and insensitivity of the men closest to them: Gender at Culture at the Fin de AaHystories: I invite Criticus, Poeticus, and Plutarchus to share it with us. In trying to account for these complex permutations of the female tradition, feminist criticism has tried a variety of theoretical approaches. Showalter says the most constructive approach to future feminist theory and criticism lies in a focus on nurturing a new feminine cultural perspective within a feminist feminiat that at the same time exists within the male tradition, but on which it is not dependent and to which it is not answerable. Welcome: Elaine Showalter: Towards A Feminist Poetics: The Summary Quadrangle Books,p. In her essay Feminist Criticism in the WildernessShowalter says, “A cultural theory acknowledges that there are important differences between women as writers: ElaineFeminismfeminist criticgynicriticgynocriticismLiterary theoryShaowalterWomen’s day; gayatri chakravorty spivak. Because it is extremely hard to truly understand what you have only heard about, and not experienced. If we study stereotypes of women, the sexism of male critics, and the limited roles women play in literary history, we are not learning what women have felt and experienced, but only what men have thought women should be. Toward a Feminist Poetics by Elaine Showalter Its subjects include the images and stereotypes of women in literature, the omissions of and misconceptions about women in criticism, and the fissures in male-constructed literary history. With that wariness of ages which has come to be instinct, she. Showalter has been a television critic for People magazine and a commentator on BBC radio and television. Showalter wonders if such Farewell Speech stereotypes emerge from the fact that feminism lacks a fully articulated theory. E BALAGURUSWAMY C SHARP EBOOK PDF A Jury of Her Peers: In this way, gynocritics eschews deliberately avoid the inevitability of male models and theories and seeks a purely female model. Showalter has been a television critic for People magazine and a commentator on BBC radio and television. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 12 Oct. In the Cold War atmosphere of the late s, when European structuralism began elqine develop, the morale of the Anglo-American male academic humanist was at its nadir. An Idea in Fiction Cambridge, Mass.: She claims that like the male writers, female writers too have their own tradition. Showalter covers the contributions twards predominately intellectuals like Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Camille Paglia. Showalter was the television critic for People magazine in His tragedy lies in realizing the inadequacy of this system, and in his inability to repossess the loving bonds he comes desperately to need. 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__label__cc	0.607994	0.392006	kariny's book frenzy goodreads twitter facebook google+ instagram It's been a week since YALC and I cannot explain how much I miss it!!! My poor student purse is withering and crying. I'm gonna start off with the proofs I managed to snag. Ruin of stars is the sequel to Mask of Shadows which I have but have not read yet! And Sawkill Girls I really wanted because I love Claire Legrand! The Shadowglass is the 3rd book of the Bone Witch Trilogy and is probably my proudest possession because I had no CLUE they'd be giving out these proofs but on the very first day of YALC as soon as I entered, I went to the book stand right opposite the elevators and there it was in all of its shining glory! I just freaked out and grabbed a copy like it was my life on the line. These are the books I got signed! All the authors were super SUPER nice and it was lovely meeting them! They really made an effort to chat with you and not just sign your book and move on to the next person. I unfortunately couldn't get my book signed by Tomi Adeyemi, the queue was just insane and when I went back a couple of hours later, they'd just stopped giving out tickets! I did attend her panel and it was amazing. Some authors even stayed past their signing times to make sure everyone in their queues got their books signed for example Alwyn Hamilton and Sasha Alsberg! I can't believe I met Sasha, she was just such a lovely person!!! I had to (embarassingly) get Alexandra Christo and Louise O'Neill to sign my notebook because the books I ordered on amazon prime the Monday before had been left out of my package and only arrived the day after the authors were at YALC. Still slightly annoyed with Prime about that. These are the beauties I bought. Though Three Dark Crows was free! I'm really sorry but I have no courage to link all these books to the Goodreads page because most of them you've probably heard of anyways! I will mention these 5 books though because I am so excited for them and they are fairly new releases! As you can see most of my money went to the Harper360 stall. 9 of these books came from them. 9. Click the covers to add them to your Goodreads shelf if you haven't yet :)! Thomas Fawkes is turning to stone, and the only cure to the Stone Plague is to join his father’s plot to assassinate the king of England. Silent wars leave the most carnage. The wars that are never declared, but are carried out in dark alleys with masks and hidden knives. Wars where color power alters the natural rhythm of 17th century London. And when the king calls for peace, no one listens until he finally calls for death. But what if death finds him first? Keepers think the Igniters caused the plague. Igniters think the Keepers did. But all Thomas knows is that the Stone Plague infecting his eye is spreading. And if he doesn’t do something soon, he’ll be a lifeless statue. So when his Keeper father, Guy Fawkes, invites him to join the Gunpowder Plot—claiming it will put an end to the plague—Thomas is in. The plan: use 36 barrels of gunpowder to blow up the Igniter King. The problem: Doing so will destroy the family of the girl Thomas loves. But backing out of the plot will send his father and the other plotters to the gallows. To save one, Thomas will lose the other. No matter Thomas’s choice, one thing is clear: once the decision is made and the color masks have been put on, there’s no turning back. They call her Traitor Kate. It’s a title Kate Brighton inherited from her father after he tried to assassinate the high king years ago. Now Kate lives as an outcast, clinging to the fringes of society as a member of the Relay, the imperial courier service. Only those most skilled in riding and bow hunting ride for the Relay; and only the fastest survive, for when dark falls, the nightdrakes—deadly flightless dragons—come out to hunt. Fortunately, Kate has a secret edge: she is a wilder, born with magic that allows her to influence the minds of animals. But it’s this magic that she needs to keep hidden, as being a wilder is forbidden, punishable by death or exile. And it’s this magic that leads her to a caravan massacred by nightdrakes in broad daylight—the only survivor her childhood friend, her first love, the boy she swore to forget, the boy who broke her heart. The high king’s second son, Corwin Tormane, never asked to lead. Even as he waits for the uror—the once-in-a-generation ritual to decide which of the king’s children will succeed him—he knows it’s always been his brother who will assume the throne. And that’s fine by him. He’d rather spend his days away from the palace, away from the sight of his father, broken with sickness from the attempt on his life. But the peacekeeping tour Corwin is on has given him too much time to reflect upon the night he saved his father’s life—the night he condemned the would-be killer to death and lost the girl he loved. Which is why he takes it on himself to investigate rumors of unrest in one of the remote city-states, only for his caravan to be attacked—and for him to be saved by Kate. With their paths once more entangled, Kate and Corwin have to put the past behind them. The threat of drakes who attack in the daylight is only the beginning of a darker menace stirring in the kingdom—one whose origins have dire implications for Kate’s father’s attack upon the king and will thrust them into the middle of a brewing civil war in the kingdom of Rime. The ancient land of Éirinn is mired in war. Ciara, Princess of Mide, has never known a time when Éirinn’s kingdoms were not battling for power, or Northmen were not plundering their shores. The people of Mide have thankfully always been safe because of Ciara’s unearthly ability to control her enemies’ minds and actions. But lately, a mysterious crow has been appearing to Ciara, whispering warnings of an even darker threat. Although her clansmen dismiss her visions as pagan nonsense, Ciara fears this coming evil will destroy not just Éirinn, but the entire world. Then the crow leads Ciara to Leif, a young Northman leader. Leif should be Ciara’s enemy, but when Ciara discovers that he, too, shares her prophetic visions, she knows he’s something more. Leif is mounting an impressive army, and with Ciara’s strength in battle the two might have a chance to save their world. With evil rising around them, they’ll do what it takes to defend the land they love…even if it means making the greatest sacrifice of all. In this contemporary YA, a teenager’s favorite literary heroes woo her in real life The first of two books in an intended paperback original series about a girl whose classic literary crushes manifest in real life. Merrilee Campbell, 16, thinks boys are better in books, chivalry is dead, and there’d be nothing more romantic than having just one guy woo her like the heroes in classic stories. She’s about to get the chance to test these daydreams when she, her best friend, Eliza, and her younger sister, Rory, transfer into Reginald R. Hero High, where all their fantasies come true—often with surprising consequences. I am Anda, and the lake is my mother. I am the November storms that terrify sailors and sink ships. With their deaths, I keep my little island on Lake Superior alive. Hector has come here to hide from his family until he turns eighteen. Isle Royale is shut down for the winter, and there's no one here but me. And now him. Hector is running from the violence in his life, but violence runs through my veins. I should send him away, to keep him safe. But I'm half human, too, and Hector makes me want to listen to my foolish, half-human heart. And if I do, I can't protect him from the storms coming for us. It was lovely meeting people especially my queue buddies, Fi from The Bookish Outsider and Lily from The Whispering Of The Pages. Lily had the most amazing cosplays and she gave me some awesome J-drama recs :D! I also got these cool Marvel matching posters that I'm going crazy about!!!! Some Tote bags... I came back with only 3 tote bags this year, I think last year they were just handing them out like crazy. Also last year the YALC goody bag was a proper goody bag with samplers and bookmarks and everything but this year it was just the tote and I think a YALC guide inside? But the design is gorgeous!!Also I bought a lanyard. Because I think 'lanyard' is a cool word. There was just less swag, less bookmarks, less samplers, less totes and less badges this year. I remember last year I came back with a bag full of all these fun things but yeah it seemed quite toned down this time round. I have to mention that i did miss FairyLoot at YALC this year, I was really sorry that they couldn't make it. SWAG. SWAG. SWAG. I was dying to get my hands on those Cassie Clare samplers, they were going SO FAST. I am so excited for Stain, doesn't it have the most gorgeous cover ever!!! A. G. Howard always has the most magical covers and I'm so glad her books are keeping a cover trend! This year I spent less time running after ARC's and just focused on getting the ones I wanted which was so much more relaxing. It also let me enjoy YALC much more than if I was obsessing about proof drops. It was much calmer this year with the raffle system but at the same time I couldn't be bothered to enter the raffles that much. Jason Momoa. JASON MOMOA. So last year Benedict Cumberbatch. This year JASON MOMOA. I LOVE YALC. This was my first year going down to LFCC and it was amazing but WAY too hectic for me. Especially since I got a photoshoot with two TVD actors, the crowd around that photo area was extremely overwhelming so I don't think I'll be doing that again unless it's guests I'm dying to meet (which in this case it was). I know I look horrible in that photo but I can't even bring myself to care I'm just still shocked that I was in breathing distance of them. One thing I really want to complain about is accessibility for disabled people. This is something you don't have to worry about if you're not disabled because you don't know about it. But since I was hanging out with a friend who was on crutches it was amazing to see a different side of YALC that kind of ruins it for people with disabilities. A few people were really rude to my friend when she got to go first in a signing queue because she couldn't stand in line. Let me point out one thing. People with a disabled wristband don't just get one without proving with official documents that they have a disability. So it's not like they're faking it. Secondly, there are not a lot of disabled people AT ALL and if one or two people get to skip ahead of the queue because they PHYSICALLY CANNOT STAND IN THE QUEUE it won't push back your turn by much!!! What is it maybe an extra minute to wait? Is that so life altering?? Also, a person on crutches, who does not have access to a wheelchair, CANNOT sit on the floor or a BEAN BAG. My friend was told to just sit on the floor or a bean bag when she asked for a chair. It's not like YALC lacks the space for chairs. There are HUGE HUGE empty spaces all around, would it be that hard to maybe dedicate a small square for disabled people with some chairs? And this doesn't only extend to YALC but also to LFCC. I'm not saying this to attack YALC or LFCC but things need to improve. On a side note, I also bought Heart of Thorns from Harper360 but because I'm currently reading it I forgot to put it in the photo and I'm too lazy to get all my books out to take another pic. slaps face. So that makes 10 books from Harper360. In the ancient river kingdom, touch is a battlefield, bodies the instruments of war. Seventeen-year-old Mia Rose has pledged her life to hunting Gwyrach: women who can manipulate flesh, bones, breath, and blood. Not women. Demons. The same demons who killed her mother without a single scratch. But when Mia's father suddenly announces her marriage to the prince, she is forced to trade in her knives and trousers for a sumptuous silk gown. Only after the wedding goes disastrously wrong does she discover she has dark, forbidden magic—the very magic she has sworn to destroy. And I also managed to get Mirage on Netgalley!!! In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated moon. But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped by the regime and taken in secret to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is nearly identical to the cruel half-Vathek Princess Maram. The princess is so hated by her conquered people that she requires a body double, someone to appear in public as Maram, ready to die in her place. As Amani is forced into her new role, she can’t help but enjoy the palace’s beauty—and her time with the princess’ fiancé, Idris. But the glitter of the royal court belies a world of violence and fear. If Amani ever wishes to see her family again, she must play the princess to perfection...because one wrong move could lead to her death. Whew and that is it! I hope everyone had a fantastic week and don't forget to link your blogs back in the comments to I can check them out <3! TITLE: Legend Of Me AUTHOR: Rebekah L. Purdy SERIES: Standalone PUBLICATION DATE: September 4 2018 PUBLISHER: Month9Books No one should ever go into the woods alone. Brielle has grown up listening to tales of a beast that attacks humans, leaving behind only a scattering of bones and limbs. It’s probably the elders’ way of keeping little children in line, but it doesn’t explain her grisly premonitions of blood, claws, and severed heads. But when Brielle finds a mangled body in the woods, she begins to wonder if the grim stories may actually be true. Soon, Lord Kenrick, Knight of the Crowhurst Order, arrives asking questions about the legendary monster. Brielle’s attraction to him is immediate and undeniable. She volunteers to help him search for clues to the creature’s existence, despite her suspicions about his timing. As her seventeenth birthday approaches, Brielle’s nightmares worsen and more villagers go missing. If Brielle doesn’t figure out the connection between Kenrick, the beast, and her visions, more people will die. As Brielle falls deeper in love with Kenrick and deeper into the snares of the abominable beast, she’ll become part of a legend so great, no one will ever question its validity again. Google Play \| BAM \| Chapters \| Indies \| Amazon \| B&N \| Kobo \| TBD \| iBooks Brielle lives with her grandmother in the outskirts of town but she has trouble fitting in with all rules that are expected of young women. Things take a weird turn after she starts getting bloody visions of a beast attacking villagers. But not long after, the villagers she dreamed about end up dead. With these new killings, her crush, Raul, back in town and the arrival of Lord Kendrick, a knight intent on fighting the beast, Brielle is thrown into a weave of curses, spells, magic and a truth about the beast that no one could have seen coming. Okay let's get the iffy stuff out of the way first. My only criticism is that the beginning was a bit slow and the way the actions were happening was a bit wooden, as in they didn't really transition smoothly, but after a while the whole story really got its footing. I'm not a huge fan of love triangles. I wasn't too swept away with the love interests either because there was a a bit too much drama involved when Brielle interacted with each of them. But I kept reading because the plot was really interesting and once you get caught up in the mystery and suspense that the author does a fantastic job at keeping up, there was no putting this book down! God the twists and the revelations this book! I can't even talk about. I was just mind blown. Also I am really really digging girl-guy friendships!!! Brielle's relationship with her best friend, Rhyne, was one of the best things in this book! They had really good banter and they protected each other and didn't care that other people didn't think it was 'proper' for a girl and a boy to spend so much time together alone. I really liked the author's writing too! It felt like a dark, suspenseful fairytale and it gave off vibes of the Red riding Hood movie with Amanda Seyfried! But I wouldn't say it's a retelling exactly, more like a fairy-tale inspired story. Overall a really cool read :D! Really recommend it if you want a quick read with a gripping story line! Rebekah was born and raised in Michigan where she spent many late nights armed with a good book and a flashlight. She’s lived in Michigan most of her life other than the few years she spent in the U.S. Army. At which time she got a chance to experience Missouri, Kansas, South Carolina, and California.Rebekah has a business degree from University of Phoenix and currently works full time for the court system. In her free time she writes YA stories, anything from YA Fantasy to YA Contemporary Romance. Rebekah also has a big family (6 kids)—she likes to consider her family as the modern day Brady Bunch complete with crazy road trips and game nights.When not hiding at her computer, Rebekah enjoys reading, singing, soccer, swimming, football, camping, playing video games, traveling, and hanging out with her family and gazillion pets. Follow the rest of the tour Here! · One (1) winner will receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card and a digital copy of Legend of Me by Rebekah L. Purdy (INT) TITLE: Sea Witch AUTHOR: Sarah Henning PUBLICATION DATE: July 31 2018 Everyone knows what happens in the end.A mermaid, a prince, a true love’s kiss.But before that young siren’s tale, there were three friends.One feared, one royal, and one already dead. Ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. A freak. A curse. A witch. A girl with an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears offshore and, though the girl denies it, Evie is convinced that her best friend actually survived. That her own magic wasn’t so powerless after all. And, as the two girls catch the eyes—and hearts—of two charming princes, Evie believes that she might finally have a chance at her own happily ever after. But her new friend has secrets of her own. She can’t stay in Havnestad, or on two legs, unless Evie finds a way to help her. Now Evie will do anything to save her friend’s humanity, along with her prince’s heart—harnessing the power of her magic, her ocean, and her love until she discovers, too late, the truth of her bargain. The rise of Hans Christian Andersen’s iconic villainess is a heart-wrenching story of friendship, betrayal, and a girl pushed beyond her limits—to become a monster. ORIGIN STORY OF THIS CHILDHOOD VILLAIN?! so let's go back back baaaaaack to where it all began The synopsis is really self explanatory so I won't get into it again. This book was really not what I was expecting. I went into it comparing it to Marissa Meyer's 'Heartless' which is a darker tale of a rise of a villainess and I expected this book to be a similar dark retelling. But instead I got a quick, pretty easy going historical tale about love and friendship. I can't say much without spoiling. I think my main issue with this book was the protagonist, Evie. There's nothing I hated about her but I didn't get attached to her either. And if the central plot line of your story is how your character became a certain way (how Evie became Ursula) then the focus and character development should be prioritised. The events that lead to the change are important too don't get me wrong but seeing the change in the protagonist is more important. So it's not that Evie was a bad character she was just underdeveloped and not central to the plot which is what she should have been. But I did change my opinion of her in the last two chapters-that was phenomenal. Though two things stood out with Evie, one I hated and one I loved. I hated, absolutely hated, her relationship with Iker. I hated Iker from the beginning and the romance was just slapped on at the beginning out of nowhere then pulled around in a different directions just as fast and senselessly. There was no development to their relationship. And Evie was disgustingly drooling after him like a love sick puppy. I can say that I loved that she's a good friend to Nik and wants to help Annette. And that's one of the best things in this book-the friendship. I loved, loved it especially between Nik and Evie. It was just so easy and fun and perfect and you could tell how much they cared about each other. As for the other characters I wasn't particularly attached to any of them except for Nik. God he was just such a cutie and I liked his vulnerability. He was so protective of Evie and it just warmed my heart!! The background was really well written and the author did a great job at accurately writing a historical setting, especially when it came to the people's reaction to Evie's friendship with Nik because she was poor. But it was really lacking in tales and legends, that part only appears at the ending of the book but it was not enough. That part of the story, especially Evie's magic background needed much more weight. In the end I found myself a bit confused about the magic in the book because it didn't seem to link smoothly to the mermaid parts. The book only started gripping me at about 60% through and I remember checking my kindle to see what percentage in I was and how much time it took to really get to me. There was a good twist that pumped up the whole story and made you want to keep reading. So overall I think it was a great story, but I don't think it managed to really meet expectations when it was marketed as a retelling of Ursula. Things get a bit nonsensical in the end even though the last two chapters were amazing in terms of action but the tiny things like the romance just became an illogical whirlwind (even though I was happy about it). I LOVED the last two chapters, it was really well written and cool interpretation of the little Mermaid. There is a pretty good buildup of tension and suspense from the 3rd person chapters. The writing was honestly excellent and was the best thing about this book. The author is clearly really talented because those chapters especially were nothing short of beautiful! They really felt like I was reading a fairytale! Overall it was an okay book but I felt like there was a huge chunk of it missing like legends, more character for Evie and much much much MORE development on the romance towards the end of the book, because there is a twist and it's an amazing one that I wanted to happen all along but then it's just left there. It's not provoked or pursued it just IS. And for a book about a character that turns evil I think characterisation should have been central. Because it was a good solid plot, with a cool twist BUT the main part of the story which is the protagonist was flat. There are quite a bit of mixed review so you never know, this book might end up being one of your favourites!! Especially if you liked Aquamarine! I do have to mention, that is honestly one of the most beautiful covers I've ever seen!!! It's done by Escume and you can check out more of her work on Deviant Art here. Hope you guys had a lovely week :D! ACOWAR AlexandraBracken ARCs from authors audiobook audiobook from Estories blitzes and cover reveals book hauls contemporary discussions dragons dystopia everless faeries giveaways HollyBlack interviews listings mini reviews Netgalley Popular promotions publisher ARC retellings review SeaWitch SJM stacking the shelves standalones tags TheCruelPrince tours vamps witches YALC Hi guys and welcome to my blog! I'm an eighteen year old Slytherin/ shadowhunter/ demigod (Cabin 3) YA book addict living in London! I love English Literature and i'm hoping to be an author one day! I love to connect with people so feel free to leave me a message and we can fangirl :)! Follow me :)! connect with GFC! YALC+STACKING THE SHELVES(8)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1530
__label__cc	0.612656	0.387344	“Global Communication Culture in the Japanese JHS and SHS” Creating a more English-friendly and multi-cultural or globally-minded school culture is important in encouraging classroom engagement. In this short presentation, I will discuss practical and simple ideas that have worked well for me in Japanese schools (JHS & SHS). Japanese English teachers and administrators helped me implement these to best fit their own unique school’s culture: Alternative ESS – Lunch English discussion club OR Lunch English speaking ping-pong club (once or twice a week.); Non-verbal communication skills “workshop” classes – simple, fun, humorous, artistic path to improving global communication skills; Global discussion topics and opinion expression, negotiation, and debate classes; In-school English expressions and greetings in the hallways and on the school grounds to help create a more globally-minded school atmosphere; Suggestions for showcasing schools global culture at school festivals, events, and competitions; and Super English immersion lunch club idea – each day with a different theme – ping-pong, art, global debates, gardening, world-music drum circle (see 1). Participant experiences/discussions are encouraged. Dr. Robert Charles Ames, English Instructor and TOEFL Prep Coordinator Seifu Nankai Junior and Senior High School Robert Charles Ames is currently Native English Instructor Conversation, Listening, Writing and TOEFL Prep at Seifu-Nankai Gakuen (private junior and senior high school ) and English Teacher at Osaka Dance and Actors School (vocational college – 専門学校). He has seven years of experience teaching English to Japanese and Korean students at various public and private schools and companies; fifteen years teaching prep school /college/university law, business and economics classes (part-time) in the United States; twenty five years international law practice. University of Michigan School of Business Administration (BBA), Wayne State University School of Law (Juris Doctor.) Robert (“Bob”) has presented at and/or participated in conferences and seminars with ETJ – English Teachers in Japan (since 2011), Oxford University Press (since 2013), and National Geographic/Cengage Publishing (since 2016). He has had a life-long interest in Japanese and Asian culture; rock, blues, jazz, and folk music; global pop-art and culture. His hobbies include exercise, bike-riding, and music studio recording and video production (with family and friends) including creating some low-tech educational materials. He lives in Osaka with his wife, Hisayo (also an English teacher and musician) and their elementary school age daughters where they all enjoy learning Japanese and English language; and global culture, citizenship and communication skills. – List of Presenters and Events	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1531
__label__cc	0.659386	0.340614	Photo of the Day: Peek of the Fairmont Jasper Lodge In this photograph, here we see a peek of the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge at a distance across Lac Beauvert. See more landscape photos in my Facebook Gallery. Landscape Workflows That Will Help Photographers Save Time Editing I've recently updated my old version Adobe Lightroom to the latest Lightroom 6. It's much faster and I'm really happy with it. I realized this license only allowed LR installed on 2 computers max. All of my presets were automatically transferred from the upgrade so I didn't need to reinstall them. I was recently introduced to Sleeklens' Lightroom landscape workflows. They sell professional workflows that help photographers save time with photo editing and get better results. I'm so glad I was able to try it out and share this with you all and my photographer friends. The results are great! Now this is what I'm looking for. Photo of the trail near Rearguard Falls in BC: The original (shown above) was actually taken early morning, but I decided to have fun and turned it into a sunset photo using the "Calm Sunset" preset in the collection. Photo of Pyramid Lake near Jasper, Alberta: AFTER For this one, I used two of the presets and the cloudy sky definition brush to make the sky pop. WHERE TO BUY? You can get the Landscape Workflows through Sleeklens.com website. They are available for both Photoshop users as PS Actions and Lightroom as LR Presets. Disclosure: I received Sleeklens Landscape Lightroom Presets at no charge in exchange for my honest review in this post. My opinions are my own and may differ from those of other consumers. No other compensation was given. What Does Fall/Autumn Mean to You? Today (September 22, 2016) marks the first day of Fall/Autumn. The weather is still nice, but after a couple more weeks, it will become cooler (especially in the early mornings). Many plants will become dormant, leaves change color and will fall from the trees. What comes to your mind when you think of Fall? When I think of Fall, I think of orange and yellow tones. Let me know what Fall/Autumn means to you. Below are images of Fall/Autumn you might enjoy and tell us your favorite: The Yoga Expo is Coming to Vancouver, BC on Oct.1-2 The Yoga Expo Saturday/Sunday, October 1-2, 2016 The Vancouver Convention Center 1055 Canada Place Vancouver, BC. V6C 0C3 Canada www.theyogaexpo.org The 2016 Yoga Expo is making its debut in Vancouver at the Vancouver Convention Center on Saturday, Oct. 1st-2nd. Master teachers from around the globe will join Vancouvers’s top local teachers and studios to give participants an opportunity to connect, reflect and learn about the joys and benefits of yoga. Attendees will have access to unlimited yoga and meditation, programs, live music, local and sustainable food samples, a unique 50,000 square foot yoga-themed marketplace and more. The Yoga Expo launched in January 2016 and hosts events throughout the U.S. and Canada to educate and empower participants to enact social change through their daily choices. Founder Kyle Michaud says “I started the Yoga Expo because I wanted to create a community where students and teachers have the opportunity to connect. Students take classes with local and international teachers, explore our yoga-themed marketplace and enjoy a day of mindfulness.” Highlights at The Yoga Expo Vancouver include: ■ Tantra Fitness Vancouver’s premier dance and aerial yoga fitness studio ■ Hannon Cluff Teacher at Dharma Movement Company, specializing in Hatha, Candlelight Yin, and Dharma Karma Flow. ■ Shivaji Wells of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy ■ Rachel Scott Director of Teachers College & Development at YYoga ■ Lori & Jeremy Lowell Vancouver locals specializing in live music and vinyasa flow experience- Drishti Beats ■ Rebecca Hall Founder of the Hoopurbia Festival ■ Chrystal Pearl Vancouver local hot yoga instructor from West Coast Hot Yoga & Oxygen Yaltetown ■ Carly Hayden Founder of Catalyst Yoga LLC ■ Amara Blue Jewelry ■ Meditation Classes ■ Yoga and Essential Oils Classes ■ Mindfulness Classes ■ Yoga Classes with Live Music ■ Local and Sustainable Food ■ 50,000 square foot marketplace featuring unique vendors, yoga and fitness apparel, and related accessories. Tickets are $35 for one day, or $60 for a weekend pass. Ticket holders are entitled to all events all day, including an array of over 85 classes. Tickets can be purchased at www.theyogaexpo.com Photo of the Day: View of Red Deer River From Star Mine Suspension Bridge View of the Red Deer River from the Star Mine Suspension Bridge in Drumheller, Alberta. See more landscape photos in my Facebook Gallery. Is Crepey Skin Giving You The Creeps? What is crepey skin? Is it wrinkles? Thinning skin? A combination? Crepiness is a term used to describe the changes in skin noted with aging. Skin becomes thinner, more fragile, and wrinkles more easily. We can see this first occurring on the backs of hands, décolleté, and around the eyes. What causes crepey skin? Is it due to sun damage? Aging? Dr. Kally Papantoniou, a NYC board certified dermatologist explains that, “Crepey skin occurs with age and the process is accelerated by photo-aging (frequent sun exposure without protection) which leads to the break down of collagen and elastin fibers, causing skin to lose its elasticity and become thinner.” For those of us who already dabble in Botox, filler, and facials, what can be done about this additional “evil?” Prevention for crepey skin. Dr. Papantoniou says that, “The most important way to prevent creepiness is to protect skin from sun exposure, the UVA and UVB rays are the leading cause for crepey skin, thus daily photo-protection is key in preventing creepiness.” Which over-the-counter products and solutions does Dr. Papantoniou recommend to specifically treat crepey skin? For face- SkinCeuticals A.G.E. interrupter For eyes- Revision makes a cream – DEJ repair, for the delicate area around the eyes to address crepiness. For neck- Revision Nectifirm For chest- SkinCeuticals Neck, Chest & Hand Repair For arms- SkinCeuticals Body Tightening Concentrate For legs- Excipial 10% lotion, or Amlactin What is the ideal way to apply products? For best results it is recommended that you make sure to cleanse the affected area prior to applying creams to treat skin. Applying the creams twice daily will provide the best results. What can you expect from a crepey skin cream? Temporary or long-term? Depending on the types of creams being used, in the short-term you can expect, reduction of the appearance of crepey skin. The long-term benefits from keeping skin hydrated and applying certain ingredients to heal and repair skin, may induce new growth. What ingredients make these products work? Dr. Papantoniou explains that, “Creams often will contain proteins called peptides such as Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 which act on the cellular level to help prevent the degradation of collagen, and can help promote synthesis. Hyaluronic acid will help plump and hydrate skin, which improves the immediate appearance of crepey skin. The addition of antioxidants such as Vitamin C, E have the effect of reducing oxidative stress and damage to skin and can stimulate new collagen growth. Certain plant extracts can also be found as ingredients in tightening creams for their natural properties. Using a retinol containing product can also have great effect on rebuilding collagen and rejuvenating skin.” Dr. Papantoniou warns to steer clear of creams that don't contain any active ingredients, and are essentially just moisturizers. These are just gimmicks and won’t help with crepey skin. Is there any evidence that higher-priced products are better? Dr. Papantoniou says that, “I would not base the effectiveness on the price tag of a product. Research instead what ingredients it contains and read reviews, this can help guide your selection.” Are all over the counter products limited in what they can achieve? Over the counter products can actually be very helpful in this instance, the only prescription medication that will perform better is retinoic acid, but retinol can still be very effective is used regularly. What are Dr. Papantoniou’s in-office treatments for crepey skin? Her favorite treatments for crepey skin are the Thermismooth 250, which feels like a hot stone massage, it can be used under the eyes, neck area, and almost anywhere on the body. Thermismooth 250 works by stimulating skin to produce collagen and rejuvenate. It tightens and can even help the appearance of cellulite. The Ulthera is also a powerful energy based machine, using ultrasound energy to stimulate tightening and new collagen as well. “Ulthera is great for the face, neck and chest area especially. For even more of a lift there is the ThermiTight, which is a minimally invasive procedure in which radiofrequency energy is placed under the surface of the skin, and stimulates skin remodeling with results that are very impressive,” says Dr. Papantoniou. About Dr. Kally Papantoniou Dr. Kally Papantoniou is a Cosmetic Dermatologist, Board Certified by the American Board of Dermatology. She specializes in Injectables, Lasers, Body Contouring, Surgical and Medical Dermatology. Dr. Papantoniou is also a clinical professor at Mount Sinai Health Center in New York City. She applies expert techniques and the newest technologies to treat her patients. Dr. Papantoniou focuses on providing her patients with the highest level of care, with special interests in natural and healthy alternatives to treatments and disease prevention. Connect with Dr. Papantoniou via twitter @DrPapantoniou or her website www.DrPapantoniou.com Infographic: The Best Movie Dragons Ever Infographic courtesy of morphsuits.com. Charlie Puth Coming to Vancouver for Concert November 2016 We Don’t Talk Tour 2016 With Special Guests Joel Adams and Hailey Knox Vogue Theatre 918 Granville Street – All Ages Welcome Friday November 4th 2016 Doors 7:00PM, Show 8:00PM Tickets: $39.50+ Get your tickets now at: http://www.charlieputh.com/tour Charlie Puth – We Don’t Talk 2016 Tour Dates: Monday, September 26, 2016 Dallas, TX House of Blues Tuesday, September 27, 2016 San Antonio, TX The Aztec Theater Thursday, September 29, 2016 Houston, TX House of Blues Friday, September 30, 2016 New Orleans, LA Orpheum Theatre Saturday, October 01, 2016 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle Monday, October 03, 2016 Orlando, FL House of Blues Tuesday, October 04, 2016 Miami Beach, FL The Fillmore Thursday, October 06, 2016 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore Friday, October 07, 2016 Raleigh, NC The Ritz Sunday, October 09, 2016 New York, NY Beacon Theatre Monday, October 10, 2016 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore Wednesday, October 12, 2016 Boston, MA House of Blues Thursday, October 13, 2016 Toms River, NJ Pine Belt Arena Saturday, October 15, 2016 Westbury, NY Theatre at Westbury Sunday, October 16, 2016 Montreal, QC Metropolis Tuesday, October 18, 2016 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall Wednesday, October 19, 2016 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE Sunday, October 23, 2016 Nashville, TN Ryman Theatre Monday, October 24, 2016 St Louis, MO The Pageant Tuesday, October 25, 2016 Madison, WI Orpheum Theatre Thursday, October 27, 2016 Tulsa, OK Brady Theatre Friday, October 28, 2016 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre Sunday, October 30, 2016 Denver, CO The Fillmore Auditorium Tuesday, November 01, 2016 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex Wednesday, November 02, 2016 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom Friday, November 04, 2016 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre Saturday, November 05, 2016 Seattle, WA The Showbox SoDo Monday, November 07, 2016 San Jose, CA City National Civic Tuesday, November 08, 2016 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern Charlie Puth’s debut album Nine Track Mind is available at http://smarturl.it/NineTrackMind Follow Charlie on Social Media: http://www.twitter.com/charlieputh http://www.facebook.com/charlieputh http://www.charlieputh.tumblr.com http://www.instagram.com/charlieputh https://soundcloud.com/charlieputh https://www.youtube.com/user/CharliesVlogs Smiling Purple Blue Cubic Swarovski Necklace Giveaway Welcome to the Smiling Purple Blue Cubic Swarovski Necklace Giveaway! Sponsored by: PLATO H ONE (1) lucky winner will receive the Smiling Purple Blue Cubic Swarovski Necklace ($122RV)! Read more about the review here. Can’t wait? You can always purchase these on Amazon today. Contest is open to US only, 18+ (ends October 15th, 2016 at 11:59pm EST). All entries unless otherwise noted are optional. Please enter the giveaway form below. The winner will be emailed and have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Good luck! Disney's Moana New Trailer Released Walt Disney Animation Studios’ new feature film “Moana” is about an adventurous teenager who, with help from demigod Maui, sails out on a daring mission to prove herself a master wayfinder and save her people. The brand new trailer for Walt Disney Animation Studios' “Moana" is now available! Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one knows exactly why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes “Moana,” a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager who sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey, Moana (voice of Auli‘i Cravalho) meets the mighty demigod Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson), who guides her in her quest to become a master wayfinder. Together, they sail across the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous monsters and impossible odds, and along the way, Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors and discovers the one thing she’s always sought: her own identity. Directed by the renowned filmmaking team of Ron Clements and John Musker (“The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin,” “The Princess & the Frog”), produced by Osnat Shurer (“Lifted,” “One Man Band”), and featuring music by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foa‘i, “Moana” sails into theatres on Nov. 23, 2016. #NYFW Hair How To: Zang Toi SS17 It's nearly the end of NYFW! If you were in the area and had the chance to attend, hope you enjoyed it. Zang Toi captivated audiences this evening with a stunning Spring/Summer 2017 collection inspired by a “Glorious Giverny Garden.” Using Macadamia Professional products, lead stylist Eiji Yamane created the “The Perfectly Parisian” hairstyle with an elegantly executed double chignon bun. Lead Stylists for Macadamia Professional: Eiji Yamane Look: The Perfectly Parisian 1. Evenly distribute Macadamia Professional Blow Dry Lotion, section hair and blow dry. 2. Part hair over the left eye moving diagonally to the right side of the head, stopping at the crown. 3. Pull back into a low ponytail at the nape of the neck – pulling tightly to ensure the top of the head is smooth and sleek. Using a curling iron, curl the entire ponytail at once to give slight softness and movement. 4. Separate ponytail into two sections. Take the left section and curling up; create a large hiding the curls of the newly defined loose bun. Secure with bobby pins and spray with Macadamia Professional Style Lock Strong Hold Hairspray to lock in place. 5. Repeat step 4 with the right section of the ponytail, to create a loose, chic double chignon. 6. Using a comb, gently smooth out all hair that is pulled back one last time and apply Macadamia Professional Whipped Detailing Cream to tame any flyaways. 7. To complete the look, liberally spray Macadamia Professional Weightless Moisture Dry Oil Micro Mist for added shine and luster. www.MacadamiaHair.com \| Facebook.com/Macadamia Hair \| @MacadamiaHair The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today {DVD Giveaway} The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today is out on DVD from Sony Home Entertainment! In the brand new original animated film, Princess Alise is training to be the perfect royal but in her heart all she wants to do is sail the seven seas as a swashbuckling pirate! After setting sail, Princess Alise is shipwrecked and washes ashore on an island where she meets Lucas, a young boy who has been living there by herself. They have to work together to survive and get back to civilization! Do you have a favorite classic Swan Princess movie? Buy The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, PIrate Today! http://sonypictures.us/swan Follow The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today! https://www.facebook.com/swanprincessmovie Prize: ONE (1) lucky reader will receive their very own copy of The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today! Contest is open to US & Canada, 18+ (ends September 25th, 2016 at 12am PST). All entries unless otherwise noted are optional. Please enter the giveaway form below. The winner will be emailed and have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Good luck! Are you fit for a storybook fairy tale or a swashbuckling high seas adventure? Take the quiz to find out and unlock a GIF! Take the quiz below. I'm curious to know what your result is! Continue to the Rafflecopter form below to enter for your chance to win the DVD for your family. Disclosure: Sony Home Video provided me with some of the materials I used in this Blog Post/Giveaway. This blog is not responsible for prize fulfillment. This giveaway is in no way endorsed, affiliated, or associated with Facebook, Twitter or any other Social Media Networking Site. All opinion are my own. No other compensation was given. Huge Promotion on GearBest and Deals to Take Advantage of We're into the second week of September now. It's back to school for many of us and if you're looking for gadgets or accessories, check out GearBest.com. They are currently having a huge promotion starting today (September 12, 2016) where you can find deals up to 70% off on selected items! Hurry, because it is only for a limited time ends in a couple of days. I am definitely going to take advantage of the deals (and even pick up some early Christmas gifts). After being introduced to GearBest, I browsed the website for quite a while. There are a lot of variety of items available, from home and garden supplies, smart phones and watches, electronics, pet supplies to beauty products and more. I had the opportunity to work with GearBest and was given the choice to review one of the Smart Watches, but unfortunately the post office had messed up with their tracking and we have no idea where the item is at this point. All I know is that the delivery location on the tracking says in a different city than my address city. I'll keep you all posted about the status and hopefully get a review on this Bluetooth Wristband Smart Watch or similar soon. All Time Low Release Bonus Track "Take Cover" All Time Low dropped a never before released bonus track "Take Cover" along with a new video! The song and video footage is taken from their upcoming release of "Straight To DVD II: Past, Present, and Future Hearts". All Time Low has some of the most dedicated fans in music and that is because the band has always given them a look behind the curtain. They have nothing to hide and this time around is no different. All Time Lowis inviting fans back for an in depth look into their world with the release of 'Straight To DVD II: Past, Present and Future Hearts'. The documentary, directed by Rafa Alcantara (Twentyfourcore Productions), picks up right where 2010's 'Straight To DVD' ends, diving deep into the past six years with Alex, Jack, Zack and Rian leading up to the band's sixth studio album, Future Hearts. The album debuted #1 in the US and UK and gave All Time Low the highest charting and biggest selling week of their careers. Along with the journey of the documentary, Directed & Edited by Rafa Alcantara for TWENTYFOURCORE (Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed), the release includes the live performance from the sold out Wembley Arena show, directed by Tim Mattia, in its entirety giving fans who missed the epic night in London the opportunity to feel side stage, and for fans that were there, the chance to relive the night over and over again. Additionally, two never before released B-sides tracks from Future Hearts are also included. Watch the New Official Trailer 'Straight To DVD II: Past, Present and Future Hearts' will be officially released on September 9th, 2016 through Hopeless Records and is now available for physical and digital pre-order. MerchNow - http://alltimelow.merchnow.com/ iTunes - http://goo.gl/mg5WIU Amazon - http://amzn.to/2cjXLW8 When pre-ordered digitally, fans will receive "Take Cover" as an instant grat track! In addition to the standard CD/DVD, a special deluxe version of STD II will also be available to pre-order. It includes 2 CDs + DVD with 4 Exclusive Fan-Favorite Tracks + 12" x 12" Limited Edition Photo Art Book featuring 72 pages of exclusive live and behind the scenes photos. Only 5,000 are available worldwide. Deluxe Track Listing: 2. A Love Like War 3. Lost In Stereo 5. Somewhere In Neverland 6. The Irony of Choking on a Lifesaver 8. Remembering Sunday (feat. Cassadee Pope) 9. Therapy 10. Kids In The Dark 11. Guts 12. Outlines (feat. Josh Franceschi) 13. Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't) 14. Forget About It 15. Backseat Serenade 17. Something's Gotta Give 18. The Reckless and the Brave 19. Dear Maria, Count Me In 1. Six Feet Under The Stars 3. Jasey Rae 4. Take Cover (B-Sides) 5. Caroline (B-Sides) Past, Present, and Future Hearts Documentary Live At Wembley Arena Standard Track Listing: 20. Take Cover (B-Sides) 21. Caroline (B-Sides) New Neighbourhood Small Grants Funds Available for Canada's 150th in East Vancouver Help us celebrate Canada's 150th Birthday! I am happy to announce that our Neighbourhood Small Grants (NSG) area has received a small pot of additional funding through the Community Fund for Canada’s 150th, a collaboration between the Vancouver Foundation, the Government of Canada, and extraordinary leaders from coast to coast to coast. These funds will be distributed by Cedar Cottage, Kiwassa and Frog Hollow Neighbourhood Houses and local volunteers to neighbourhood-based projects that "build vibrant and healthy communities, encourage participation in community activities to mark Canada’s 150th, and inspire a deeper understanding about the people, places and events that shape our communities and our country." We have enough funding to support 13 projects in our NSG area (the catchment areas of Kiwassa, Frog Hollow and Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood Houses (see map below) at $500 each. The guidelines for approving grants will be similar to our regular Neighbourhood Small Grants funding. Please see www.neighbourhoodsmallgrants.ca for more information. In particular we are looking for creative, unique projects that focus on building community in our neighbourhoods. We will place priority on funding projects that are organized by and engage youth, seniors, Aboriginal communities, new immigrants and refugees. We are happy to have current NSG Project Leaders apply, but ask that your application tell us how this project will be different than your past ones and build new connections. Applications are now open and the deadline is Monday September 26th! Funded projects must take place between October 15, 2016 and January 15, 2017. You can apply online at www.neighbourhoodsmallgrants.ca. (Click on "I'd like to Apply", then scroll down to "Neighbourhood Small Grants - Apply", then scroll down to "Apply/Login"). Have questions or want more info? Please see the www.neighbourhoodsmallgrants.ca or contact nsg.east@gmail.com If you are receiving this email and do not live within the boundaries of the East Vancouver Neighbourhood Small Grants area, please check if you are eligible to apply in your neighbourhood at www.neighbourhoodsmallgrants.ca Please note: Businesses and registered organizations cannot apply for funding. 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__label__wiki	0.578178	0.578178	Jac o' the North Bodelwyddan and the Bigger Picture On 13/03/2014 09/06/2019 By JacIn Colonisation of Wales, Demographics, Planning Inspectorate (Wales) I had intended putting this out on Twitter or Facebook, just to inform people that the deadline for representations on the planned 1,700 new homes at Bodelwyddan in Denbighshire has been extended to March 21st. In view of the new figures available for both population predictions and household size it is well worth challenged this plan because it is clearly no longer needed. (In fact, these 1,700 new homes were never needed.) I have chosen to develop the subject into a post after reading the planning inspectors’ report on Denbighshire’s Local Development Plan. I want to pick out certain comments made by the inspectors because they are worthy of a wider audience. I say that because although we may be talking here of Bodelwyddan, or Denbighshire, the attitudes displayed by the inspectors have national implications. Because this is how they operate all over Wales. Let’s start by identifying the inspectors, Anthony Thickett and Gwynedd Thomas. We can safely assume that the report is the work of Thickett and that Gwynedd Thomas is there to lend a little local colour. I Googled ‘Anthony Thickett’ and found his name linked to planning matters all over England and Cornwall in recent years. Though he seems to be based in Cardiff, which provides further proof that the Planning Inspectorate is an Englandandwales body, and answers to the Department for Communities and Local Government in London. So what did Mr Thickett have to say last year in response to Denbighshire County Council’s revision of their Local Development Plan? As you might imagine, I was specifically interested in those recommendations that related to housing. Starting with 4.1 (page 16) we learn that, “The 2008 Welsh Government* projections indicate the need (my italics) for around 8,500 new units in Denbighshire between 2008 and 2023.” The council argued for a lower figure on the grounds that more recent statistics showed a reduced need. The inspectors would have none of it, and their response was a gem of officialese that can be found in the panel (click to enlarge). In essence, it says, ‘Yes, the council is quite right; but we shall still insist on thousands of unnecessary new housing units anyway’. So what are “the objectives and aspirations” that justify the Planning Inspectorate ignoring the council’s plea? We are told that Denbighshire has an ageing population – or “aging” according to the inspectors – with more deaths than births, which would result in a declining population unless young people moved in to the county. Let us examine this claim. Denbighshire, like many other parts of Wales, has an ageing population due to the lack of a healthy and balanced economy. Worsened by tourism creating few worthwhile jobs for locals while attracting retirees and elderly people. This can be remedied, according to the inspectors, with a building programme to attract a younger population from outside of the county. But wait! if the lack of jobs forces many young people to move away, where are the jobs for this younger population moving in? Well, most of the jobs will remain where they are now, in Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire. For what the inspectors are really talking about is attracting a commuter population. (Apart from the riff-raff being dumped in the coastal ghettoes.) This explains why the bulk of the planned new housing is close to the A55. Moving on, what do Messrs Thickett and Thomas have to say on the Welsh language? You may not have noticed – few have – that Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh Language Society) has started a campaign demanding that the Welsh language be a material consideration in planning matters. The inspectors address the very same issue, and produce another little gem of officialese (click panel to enlarge). What this says (again, in essence) is, ‘We shall always find a reason to ignore the Welsh language’. But there is sugar on the pill with the following assurance (yup, in essence), ‘Even though we are doing our best to kill off your language, and your very identity, we shall disguise this atrocity with Welsh street names in the new developments’. The kind of cheap and meaningless cosmeticism that has satisfied language (non-)campaigners in recent decades. The answer to Denbighshire’s “aging” population is not an unending programme of house building but a healthy and balanced local economy to stabilise and grow the indigenous population. Coupled with a presumption against those housing developments designed to attract elderly buyers from outside Wales. These are hardly radical demands when Welsh identity is under threat in a way it never has been before. An assault that if it showed itself with the ugly visage of overt oppression would be resisted; but when it sidles up behind the mask of ‘development’ and ‘economic activity’, then too many are fooled. We cannot allow ourselves to be fooled any more. There are too many areas where we Welsh are already in a minority. It’s time to say, ‘Thus far and no further’. Speak out and don’t allow the colonisation of our homeland to be brushed under the carpet any longer. Now is the time to do it. I say that because for years the Planning Inspectorate has had everything its own way, It has browbeaten our local authorities with questionable statistics produced by in-house statisticians demanding thousands upon thousands of new homes Wales doesn’t need. Demands then mouthed obediently for them by those traitorous buffoons down Cardiff docks. The game is up. No one can persist in arguing that Denbighshire needs 8,500 new homes to meet a population increase of 4,134, and a household size of 2.31, without admitting to a colonisation strategy. Make a start by writing to Denbighshire County Council arguing against the plan for a new town of 1,700 homes next to Bodelwyddan. (Many councillors and council employees will be glad to hear from you.) Send an e-mail to planning@denbighshire.gov.uk or write to the Planning Department, Caledfryn, Smithfield Road, Denbigh LL16 3RJ. Why not also contact the Planning Inspectorate at their Welsh outpost: either e-mail wales@pins.gsi.gov.uk, or write to, The Planning Inspectorate, Crown Buildings, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NQ. Tell them you know what their game is, and from now on their ethnocidal strategy will be opposed. * Talking here of “the Welsh Government projections” is rather naughty. The figures were produced by the Knowledge and Analytical Services which, like the Planning Inspectorate, has a few staff based in Cardiff, pretends it answers to the ‘Welsh’ Government, but is in reality part of the Department for Communities and Local Government in London. Anthony ThickettBodelwyddanBodelwyddan commuter townBodelwyddan New TownCardiff docksCymdeithas yr Iaith GymraegDenbighshireDenbighshire county councilDenbighshire Local Development PlanDepartment for Communities and Local GovernmentGwynedd ThomasKnowledge and Analytical ServicesLocal Development PlansPlanning INspectoratequisling buffoonsquisling buffoons down Cardiff dockstraitorous buffoonstraitorous buffoons down Cardiff docksWelsh Language Society The Lost Watering Holes Of Morriston Why I Detest The ‘Welsh’ Labour Party 11 thoughts on “Bodelwyddan and the Bigger Picture” For a start, don’t let anyone brush this subject under the carpet. Don’t let anyone stifle debate by saying it’s ‘racist’. (If destroying a national identity isn’t racist, then what is?) Study your local LDP, check the population projections for your area, see if the figures stack up. Again, Jac, what can be done to stop this? I’m not sure what you’re expecting me to say. But the priority has to be getting the subject aired, make people understand what’s happening, why it’s happening, who’s responsible for it happening, and what the consequences will be. The more people realise what’s happening the more opposition there will be. But with a media too lazy to bother, or just not up to the work involved, it is difficult. Royston Jones your nationalism is right of centre ? What sort of nationalism is that? It sounds more like English nationalism than Welsh nationalism. You’ve lost me, but don’t bother looking for me. Ffransis Interesting comment above, is Terence saying that you can only be a Welsh nationalist if you are left of centre? daffy2012 This is what MH posted on his blog re Ukraine: ” We need to uphold the rights of people in any territory to determine how they wish to be governed. Therefore, in principle, I don’t have any objection to the people of Crimea deciding that they no longer want to be part of Ukraine.” Below was my response to it. Of course, I’m not English. Just trying to show how absurd his political belief is that we can accommodate all these people many of which are anti-Welsh without there being any repercussions. He’s deleted the message twice already. I’ve now put it up for the 3rd time this morning. “In a few years time, we the English will be numerous enough in Wales to demand a referendum to get rid of the Welsh Assembly. I’ll give it 20 years at most.” I believe there may be in these circumstances a category referred to as (something like) a colonial population, or an ‘implant’ population. Members of a group encouraged to move to a territory in order to secure that territory for the homeland of that group. It’s the argument used by Argentina to invalidate any referendum conducted in the Falklands / Malvinas. Saying, basically, ‘It’s a waste of time because you know which way they’re going to vote – it’s why they were put there!’. The question is, is this argument recognised by the UN, or does it have any other international validity? Because there are countless applications around the world. Tibet would be one example, as would New Caledonia. I recall a referendum on independence there many years ago when the balance of population was almost equal between the indigenes and the French settlers. Then there was the 1995(?) referendum in Quebec when a clear majority of Quebecois voted for independence but the vote was lost due to the 20 per cent non-French voting almost unaminously No. Many of these were just waiting for their Green Card to enter the US. Obviously Crimea fits into this category as it has only had a Russian majority for . . . how long? Eastern Ukraine as well. And of course Wales. But the really fraught issue goes beyond just numbers. Does an immigrant majority have the right to outvote the native minority? Or, do recent arrivals in a territory – i.e. an ‘implant’ population – have the same rights as those born in that territory, should their views, and their votes, be of equal value? When it comes to Wales, the UK regime will argue, ‘Yes, of course, they’re all UK citizens, etc.’ but it will take a different tack in other circumstances; for example, if it can be used to put a block on Russian expansionism. The reason the Chinese get an easy ride on Tibet and Xinjiang is purely venal. The kind of hypocrisy and double-standards England has always employed. As for MH, it’s fine in principle to talk of the rights of a ‘majority’ but a lot depends on how that majority got there. Looking at English colonial history – and without looking over the Irish Sea – we find that the French were expelled from Atlantic Canada to secure that region; and when gold and diamonds were found in the Boer republic of the Transvaal settlers were pushed in and a crisis created because the Boers denied the ‘Uitlanders’ the vote. So England had her casus belli, which – heaven forfend! – had nothing to do with the wealth of the ‘Rand, but was all about democracy and human digity, giving people the vote, dontcha know. I’m not sure why he won’t allow the comment. All he has to do is argue against it. He’s deleted it approaching 10 times now and some other comments too. I don’t understand that. 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__label__wiki	0.515799	0.515799	to study, if you hadn't noticed." "Yeah, I know." He made a face and rubbed his flank, where the bike had left a new little silvery paint transfer. "Study is overrated." He sprawled out dramatically, almost knocking her clean off the couch with his wings. "Like you'd know." Pulsar recovered her poise without too much loss of dignity, and propped herself on an elbow. "When have you ever studied, in your entire life?" "Pssh. To quote my former fellow Con? Sentiment: unchanged." He flicked her antennae, and added, airily; "I studied at the university of life." Pulsar couldn't help the little bark of laughter that escaped her vocaliser. "You failed that too, huh?" "Oh, ha." He jabbed stiffened fingers at her midsection, and snerked as she twisted out of reach. "I might not be as brainy as Screamer, but at least I can use what I know, Smart-Aft. What are you reading, anyway?" Before she could answer, a large purple hand dropped into her field of view and carefully manoeuvred the databoard so its owner could see the screen. Pulsar made a point to sigh exaggeratedly, but let him scrutinise the display. "I thought you weren't interested." "You shouldn't confuse being nosey with genuine interest. I just wanna look." He peered more closely. "I mean, it could be some juicy gossip I can bribe Whisper with." He wrinkled his nose, disappointedly. "Ugh. Crime stats." He relinquished his hold on it. "What are you reading that for?" "Well, I might not want to be a patrol sergeant for the rest of my life." She tried to concentrate on the words on the screen again, using her stylus to append notes to the section she wanted to research further. "I'm just… keeping my options open. Professional development, and what have you – not that you'd know much about that." "Pssh. Please forgive me for not wanting to be some geeky little Autodork." Pulsar stuck out her tongue and countered with; "You just know you wouldn't be able to cope with all the brainwork, Skydork." Blissful quiet reigned for maybe half a breem. Skywarp hooked his thrusters up on the low table in front and took refuge in a flask of multiple-filtered energon, looking like he was perhaps going to attempt to go dormant and get some recharge, and Pulsar decided it was probably safe to tuck herself more comfortably against him and get back to her reading- A sharp, not-quite-painful tweak on the tip of the longest of her antennae made her jump. "Skywarp," she scolded, automatically. "Quit that." "What?" He sounded genuinely hurt at the accusation. "What makes you think that was me?" "Because it usually is you." He muttered something incomprehensible into his flask, but settled back down. After a second or two, where she began to think maybe it was just a system spike and she had in fact imagined it (and prooobably should feel bad for yelling at him), there came another – slightly less hard, but for slightly longer, accompanied by a very subtle almost-purr from the languid Seeker. Two and two came together to make four. "…are you biting my aerials, Skywarp?" "Tch! No," he snorted, as though it were the most ludicrous thing he'd heard all orn, then added; "I'm nibbling them." Slightly blindsided, all she could do for a full second or two was stare at the far wall. At last, her voice decided to return. "All right, allow me to rephrase that. Why are you nibbling my aerials?" He gave another of those funny why-are-you-asking-silly-questions sort of chuckles. "Because they're there?" A beat of silence passed, for dramatic effect, and when he spoke again, his voice was a little louder, a little closer. "And they're near my mouth?" Another little silence. "And I'm bored?" This time, his lips had got close enough that she could actually feel them stirring the air as he spoke, softly, right next to her audio; "you'd enjoy it if you weren't, ah..." Pause, little snerk. "...'studying'." The small femme pursed her lips, irritably, and shot him a sidelong glare. "Well I'm not playing your game, you useless fragger." It took considerable effort, but she successfully ignored the thoughtful strum of his fingers down her right sensory array, staring hard at her datapad. "It wouldn't kill you to wait for me to finish what I'm doing, for once." "And where's the fun in that? C'mon, your name isn't Screamer, you can work at work. This is like, 'evening off'." She could feel the subtle movement of warm air from his cranial vents as he leaned closer. "Can't you find someone else to heckle, for once?" "Nah." His other hand came to rest carefully over the alarm blinker on the other side of her head. "Maybe I should do some study too. Like... how many alternate uses can we find for that fluff you keep insisting on wearing." He vented chilly air over her scarf and made the ends flutter. She rolled her eyes, tolerating his manhandling with an increasing impatience. One more breem, and I'll sock him in the faceplates. "I will use my siren on you if you don't stop being a pest, and putting your hands over my audios won't help you in the slightest." "Oh, pssh." He tightened his grasp a little and forced her to roll her head forwards. "I swear, if you don't frag off, I-...ahh-" The protests building in her vocaliser died in a helpless little gurgle of pleasure as he carefully kissed the nape of her neck. The chilly trace of energon left on his lips made the sensors laminated into her armour tingle, and electrifying feedback shot straight down her main motor complex, like a chrome-plated icicle. Her fingers convulsed open, involuntarily, casting her stylus to the floor, where it rolled somewhere inaccessible under one of the other chairs. "P-primus-..." "Sorry, I didn't catch that." His smirk was so obvious, it was almost audible. She croaked something wordless, unable to divert the processing power to her vocaliser. "S-so-... study what...?" she managed, at last. "Energy efficiency." His voice descended into a murmur, his lips almost touching her audios. "You've got a full tank, right? How about I see how many times I can get you to overload before you need to refuel." He applied his denta to the side of her throat, carefully drew them across the soft grey elastomeric surface, mouthing his way down to her shoulder. "Then I can, ah, 'audit' my findings later, to see if your energy handling's improved any." "You're such a glitch," she scolded, helplessly, unable to keep from trembling. There was absolutely no way she was going to hide her stuttering fans and purring engine from him now. "I know. And I'm gonna keep being a glitch until you put that pad away, Dorkface." One big hand closed on both her wrists, casually, and the other carefully plucked the polycarbonate from her unresisting fingers. OK, she conceded, finally giving up any effort to keep working in the face of insurmountable odds. Maybe studying was overrated… ", "url": "https://keaalu.livejournal.com/298967.html", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/sign.png" }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Abi Scott", "image": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/85119135/3660383" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Journal keaalu", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://keaalu.livejournal.com", "contentUrl": "https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userpics/userpic-user.png" } } } "Study is Overrated" (short) A/N: This fell out of my pen after a particularly trying on-call, one evening, when every time I tried to go home... something else would appear, JUST to heckle me. Okay, so this doesn't bear much resemblance to that, BUT THE THOUGHT IS WHAT COUNTS. I could apologise for the shameless, Sue-ly fluff, but I won't. ^_^ I had to suffer it, sooo I guess you can just all join in my pain? It could be worse; Warp actually wanted me to elaborate on the "alternate uses for the fluff" but I've banned him from talking to me about that for a while. "Study is overrated" So… Quayside is improving, but the overall rates are only going down slowly. Pulsar chewed thoughtfully on the end of her stylus, studying the little board of figures. Which means the crime is just… moving to different areas? Which areas? And that means- A big dark abstract shape blotted out the light from the stand-alone lamp in front of where she sat. "Come on, budge up, Squeaks." A familiar voice instructed. "I wanna park my aft." Pulsar glared up at her visitor, but obediently moved up. "It's not like we've got a dearth of seating, Skywarp." "Yeah, but they're all empty." Skywarp dropped his bulk onto the couch with enough wilful abandon to make all the cushions (and an alarmed policebot) bounce dramatically. "This is the only one you're sat on." "That makes a difference?" "Well, duh. I can't molest you from way over there." She gave him an elbow in the midsection as he got himself comfortable. "I'm trying to study, if you hadn't noticed." Tags: blue au	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1556
__label__wiki	0.737195	0.737195	K & M Movie Review Archive The Phenomenal 5 ‘The Greatest’ Series Great Images From Great Movies Classic Movie Spotlight Keith & the Movies Valhalla Who is this Keith ? Search Keith & the Movies K & M on Twitter @Ken_Rosenthal The farther we get from their stain on the game the closer the PED pushers get to squeezing into the HOF. 45 minutes ago Three days of “Bad Boys” starting today with a retro review of the original 1995 film. Check it out. keithandthemovies.com/2020/01/20/ret… 2 hours ago @rachel_reviews HA! For sure! 15 hours ago Well done JP! 👍🏼 twitter.com/thr/status/121… 15 hours ago @rachel_reviews Maybe. I just thought he was drunk out of his mind at the Globes. There was quite a bit of alcohol on those tables. 😂 15 hours ago Follow @keithandmovies April 21, 2014 by Keith Neill Blomkamp surprised a lot of people with his 2009 science fiction thriller “District 9”. While I wasn’t drawn to it, the majority of critics gave it high marks. It would go on to earn four Academy Award nominations including one for Best Picture. His eagerly anticipated follow up comes in the form of “Elysium”, another sci-fi foray soaked in social commentary. It’s a bleak, gritty, and violent film with high ambition and a much bigger budget. Blomkamp once again writes and directs the movie which starts with a pretty heavy-handed setup. Blatantly obvious political statements on immigration, healthcare, and class warfare are thrown at the audience without an ounce of tact or subtlety. In fact it’s so painfully obvious that I started rolling my eyes and began to dread what was ahead. But to my surprise the film steers away from that and instead of shoving its positions in our face it allows them to simmer underneath the surface which definitely better serves the movie. The story basically goes like this – in the distant future Earth is an impoverished and overpopulated planet. People struggle against starvation, disease, and a brutish robot police force. But while the poor make up the Earth’s population, the rich upper-class live on a luxurious space station community known as Elysium. This orbital paradise features mansions, lush gardens, and machines able to cure any health problem instantly. But here’s the catch – only the wealthy and powerful are allowed on Elysium and there are strict government and military bodies that enforce that rule. As I said, not an ounce of subtlety. Enter Max De Costa (Matt Damon), a struggling assembly line worker on Earth who has an accident which exposes him to lethal amounts of radiation. He learns he has only five days to live, but he’s not ready to kick the bucket just yet. He has to get to Elysium for treatment so he makes a deal with an underground smuggler. In exchange for a trip he must steal some important information from a corrupt military contractor. Seeing Max’s failing health, the smuggler has his doctors implant him with a super-strength robotic exoskeleton and cerebral implant to help with the mission. But Elysium’s Defense Secretary Jessica Delacourt (Jodie Foster) also wants that information for her own nefarious reasons and she will do anything to get it. Oddly enough “Elysium” drastically changes course as the film goes along. It moves from an obvious heavy-handed social critique to a fairly conventional sci-fi action flick. It uses several all too familiar approaches and it’s fairly easy to gain a sense of how things are going to end. That said, Blomkamp’s pacing is spot on. He keeps things moving which keeps the audience attached. He also has wonderful visual senses. The movie looks great whether it’s the big sweeping location shots or the intense and sometimes brutal action (and there is quite a bit of it). I loved the contrasting aesthetics between the dirty, rundown vision of Los Angeles (which was actually filmed in the Mexico City area) and the spotless Eden-like Elysium. Blomkamp has an unquestionable knack for visual filmmaking. Matt Damon is a solid choice to portray a ‘regular guy’. There’s not a lot of flash or bravado to his performance. He’s not a bold or larger-than-life character. In fact I would call him a very atypical hero and that works well within the story. But then there is Jodie Foster. I have no idea what she’s doing in this movie. Her erratic performance is all over the map and her accent morphs from French to British to something I’ve never heard before. I also thought Sharlto Copley was pretty bad as a ruthless sleeper agent who works for Delacourt. He certainly looks the part but that’s it. I don’t know if it’s his voice or his line delivery but nearly all of his dialogue feels terribly off. But thankfully this is Damon’s movie and he carries most of the load. There’s no doubt that Neill Blomkamp is a gifted visual storyteller. I loved the overall look of “Elysium” from the futuristic technologies to the locations. I also thought the action scenes popped with intensity and grit. Unfortunately his writing prompts the question mark. Early on he uses a mighty broad brush to paint his social/political landscape and later the movie turns into a fairly conventional action film – two issues that I think keeps “Elysium” from being the really good movie that we get glimpses of. Still it has its moments. and as conventional as it may be, the action and pure visual spectacle keep it from being a total loss. VERDICT – 2.5 STARS This entry was posted in Movie Reviews - E and tagged Elysium review, jodie foster, matt damon, movie reviews, Neill Blomkamp, Sharlto Copley. Bookmark the permalink. ← Cinema Snapshot Know Your Movies – One Image, Three Hints → 41 thoughts on “REVIEW: “Elysium”” cindybruchman says: April 21, 2014 at 9:11 pm Yes, totally agree with your review. Visually stunning but lacking the ability for me to care for any of the characters because they were devoid of any depth. keith7198 says: April 21, 2014 at 9:14 pm It had its good moments for sure but it also had enough shortcomings. Ultimately it was very mediocre. sidekickreviews says: April 21, 2014 at 10:13 pm Yeah, Jodie Foster felt out of place in this movie didn’t she? It wasn’t a bad movie it just turned out to be more conventional than I’d anticipated like you mentioned. Great review Keith! keith7198 says: April 21, 2014 at 10:53 pm Thanks so much. You’re right. It certainly isn’t the high science fiction that I know many we’re expecting. Not terrible, but pretty mediocre. CMrok93 says: April 21, 2014 at 10:30 pm Maybe not nearly as subtle with what point it was trying to drive home like District 9, but still an exciting thriller all the same. And that’s all I really wanted in the first place. Good review Keith. Thanks! It had some good moments for sure. But man it turned out to be pretty generic. Kinda expected more. Terry Malloy's Pigeon Coop says: April 22, 2014 at 3:10 am Still not caught up with this. Sounds pretty disappointing after District 9, which I absolutely loved. Nice review mate. keith7198 says: April 22, 2014 at 6:43 am I was mixed on D9 so my expectations weren’t as high as most. I’m glad of that now. It was a very so-so picture. thomasjford says: April 22, 2014 at 3:24 am Yeah, totally average this one. Promised much but ultimately delivered little. Nothing close to District 9 despite the bigger budget. It’s a shame really. It shows signs of real life but it flounders it with its faults. Should have been a lot better than it was. Popcorn Nights says: April 22, 2014 at 4:38 am Nice review Keith. Personally I didn’t like the fact that it dropped all the thinly-veiled social criticism for the conventional action, I wish it had carried on with that tack, even though I agree it wasn’t subtle at all. It just seemed to turn into a series of Damon v Copley fights (with a few disposable others thrown in for good measure) and I ended up a little bored as a result. Still, I’m with you on Copley’s performance – not great at all – and I thought it was visually very impressive, particularly the first half. For me the heavy-handed commentary and the conventional action both worked against it. I guess I was hoping for messaging that wasn’t so obvious and action that defied convention. We get glimpses of the later but certainly not enough. MovieManJackson says: April 22, 2014 at 7:52 am I really liked this film. No D9 it is not but I thought it was more than entertaining and a perfect end to the summer, and the issues really didn’t feel forced to me. I would have liked to see more backstory on Elysium though and I do think the film could have benefited from a longer runtime (15-20 minutes) but all in all it was one of my favorites last year. And some people hate Copley, but I believe he stole the show here. Equal parts menace and hilarity. We didn’t had different experiences but that’s what makes movies so great. Each film can effect different people different ways. Glad you had fun with it. Mr Rumsey says: April 22, 2014 at 9:16 am Interesting… I do mean to see this one as I liked (but didn’t love) D9. Judging by your thoughts here I won’t be rushing out to grab the DVD! I’m with you on D9! Unlike most, I wasn’t just blown away by it. This one wont do it either. It has good spots but it will leave you wanting. ruth says: April 22, 2014 at 10:21 am I was quite disappointed by this one Keith, as I’m a big fan of District 9. I agree Blomkamp is a gifted visual storyteller and he had some intriguing ideas but this became an action extravaganza that lost its heart. I didn’t really care for Damon’s character the way I felt for Copley’s Wikus in D-9, that’s still one of my fave sci-fi films as I found it to be very moving. keith7198 says: April 22, 2014 at 11:04 am This one certainly doesn’t have the staying power. I wasn’t crazy about D9 but I know many really love it. This one was far more conventional and even though the visuals shine at times, ultimately it was fairly forgettable. Writer Loves Movies says: April 22, 2014 at 12:01 pm Great review. The finale of this one really let it down – it becomes predictable sci-fi action fare and the bad guys are very stereotypical too. I hope Blompkamp returns to something quirkier next time. You explained it very well. That’s exactly how I felt. Not sure why it had to go the more conventional route but it really let the movie down. Tim The Film Guy says: April 22, 2014 at 1:18 pm Surprisingly dull and the fights where unwatchable 😦 Yep. It really should have been better. It was a definite missed chance. Tim The Film Guy says: April 29, 2014 at 10:58 am On my most anticipated list that year 😦 Couldn’t even bring myself to review it 😦 It seems to have let down a lot of people. Really unfortunate. So much potential there. Abbi says: April 22, 2014 at 4:38 pm I liked this more than you but I agree that Foster and Copley were both awful. I felt it was very average. It did have some good moments though. The action was pretty intense. Zoë says: April 24, 2014 at 4:00 am Great review here Keith. I must say I really, really didn’t like this movie, not one little bit. Looked pretty and all that but MEH. Not cool! It really didn’t have much under the hood, did it? So much potential but hardly any if it realized. What a shame. No, it really didn’t. And Copley really made us locals look like absolute tools… I still have not gotten over the sting of how awful that was… This really could have been something more. ckckred says: April 24, 2014 at 12:58 pm Nice review. I agree, the movie was pretty messy at times. Some of the action was enjoyable but Elysium doesn’t really distinguish itself very well. Did you get the feeling that there was a ton of potential for a really great movie here? That’s what I left thinking. Victor De Leon says: April 26, 2014 at 12:35 pm Good review, Keith. This flick bored me. Could have been much better and the visuals and action weren’t unique enough for me to give it a re-watch. (even with Foster being really kick ass) Kind of a mixed bag. Nice work, bro. Thanks. Did you leave with the feeling that it should’ve been a lot better than it was? I know I did. Victor De Leon says: April 26, 2014 at 2:52 pm Oh yeah, big time. The film was really generic in parts and felt incomplete or under-accomplished. Austin @ The Bishop Review says: April 26, 2014 at 5:25 pm I think that ultimately the expectations were to high for this film. I really enjoyed it, but it was no where as good or unique as District 9. I liked them both about the same honestly. I liked D9 but didn’t exactly love it. Both had good moments though. Jaina says: April 27, 2014 at 3:00 pm Think I enjoyed this film a bit more than you and more than I probably would, if I saw it again now, because I saw it at the cinema. The cinema effect as I like to call it lol. I can see where the big screen could influence the film. That is certainly the case with an assortment of movies. Jaina says: April 28, 2014 at 1:23 am Definitely. Think one of my favourite things about Elysium was the visuals and Matt Damon’s performance. I was left a little disappointed with Sharlto Copley, most because the role he was given was awful! Copley was pretty terrible. He was like some weird caricature that I never could buy into. And this coming from the guy who gave us Vickers! Massive fan of District 9. 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__label__wiki	0.863562	0.863562	info@heathermenzies.ca The Treaties \| Ottawa negotiated in bad faith Indigenous Rights, Social Justice printed in Literary Review of Canada Magazine in October, 2019 Read our lips: we agree to share the land, not surrender it. That, according to this fine, careful study, is what Indigenous parties were trying to say during the negotiations of Treaties One through Seven on the prairies 150 years ago. Compare this with what was written down in the final texts, and the implications are huge — not just for who “owns” Canadian land but for what “sharing” it means today. Sheldon Krasowski takes his time building his argument, starting with popular perceptions of the treaty process. Generations of historians have relied on an account by Alexander Morris, a Winnipeg land speculator, lieutenant-governor of Manitoba, and chief commissioner in most of the negotiations. When evidence has conflicted with Morris’s version of events, it has often been deflected by the historian George Stanley’s “cultural misunderstanding” thesis, which prevailed well into the 1980s. As Krasowski puts it, Stanley viewed European cultures as inherently superior to Indigenous ones and expected that such superiority would be an “insurmountable barrier for Indigenous leaders.” Even if different interpretations of events were possible, it was the European understanding of treaties — as narrowly legalistic — that mattered. In a sweeping correction, Krasowski adopts a methodology he calls the Treaty Bundle approach, which foregrounds the oral histories of treaty elders. Starting in the 1970s, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars like Harold Cardinal and Walter Hildebrandt recorded many oral histories of the treaty process, which have been handed down from generation to generation. Krasowski uses this evidence to reconstruct each treaty-making endeavour as the process moved westward through the 1870s. He persuasively reads oral histories alongside more traditional scholarly evidence: diaries, letters, and private eyewitness accounts from settler-farmers like James “Peace River Jim” Cornwall. In negotiation after negotiation, Canada promised to provide agricultural equipment, schools on reserves, health care, and, in at least two instances, measures to conserve the bison and block liquor trafficking. The symmetries between the oral and written accounts are compelling: regardless of source, Krasowski finds no agreement to “cede, surrender and yield up to the Government of the Dominion of Canada for Her Majesty the Queen and her successors forever, all their rights, titles, privileges whatsoever to the lands included within the following limits,” as Treaty Four would have it. In fact, he suggests, Morris and other commissioners strategically avoided any specific mention of ceding or surrendering land. Krasowski argues that Morris may have learned a lesson from his predecessor, Adams Archibald. While negotiating Treaty One, which was signed in August 1871, Archibald explained that all land not specifically set aside as part of a reserve would be turned over to the Crown. As a result of that statement, he spent “nine days discussing the land question because the Cree and Saulteaux demanded nearly the entire province of Manitoba as reserved land,” Krasowski writes. “Archibald resolved to avoid the topic of land cessions in future negotiations, and Morris clearly followed that example.” Evidence does support notions of sharing the land. Parties involved with Treaty One, for example, agreed to set aside some areas for settler-farmers and some for Indigenous communities. “The remaining lands,” Krasowski explains, were supposed to “fall under dual Indigenous and Canadian jurisdiction.” In Treaties Four and Six, negotiations focused on permitted land use — surface rights, more or less, that were limited to the depth of a plow blade in some cases. No Surrender is full of insightful details that challenge popular narratives. One insight is that First Nations had to spend years pressing for treaty making in their territories, as settlers squatted on choice locations and surveyors and telegraph construction crews went around planting sticks and running lines. Another is the role that character and integrity play in shaping history. Simon Dawson, who worked as a government surveyor and road builder and was one of the commissioners for Treaty One, was respected by the Anishinaabe because he honoured their jurisdiction and the tolls they established to cross their lands. By contrast, Morris comes across as closer to the fictional picture Rudy Wiebe drew of him in The Temptations of Big Bear, where Morris contemplates the rolling prairie “now at his booted feet . . . with no more than a few embraces endured.” While Krasowski bends over backward to give Morris his due, suggesting in one instance that he was under pressure from his bosses in Ottawa, the facts beg to differ. Morris casually reneged on treaty promises, referred to promised schools as imparting “the cunning of the white man,” and tried to bar Indigenous leaders’ own interpreters from treaty council meetings. In Treaties Four and Six, negotiations focused on permitted land use — surface rights, more or less, that were limited to the depth of a plow blade in some cases. Through Krasowski’s deft use of the Treaty Bundle approach, the book reveals a historic vision of Canada shared by two groups of people, albeit with differing belief systems, and it contextualizes Indigenous world views that informed negotiations. As Winona Wheeler, a Cree academic from Treaty Five Territory, puts it in her foreword to the book, the methodology presents treaties as sacred undertakings framed and confirmed in ceremony. Throughout No Surrender, Krasowski references the work of the Cree lawyer and academic Sharon Venne, who has pointed out that ceremony bestowed rights and responsibilities on Indigenous and non-Indigenous parties alike. Both have ongoing “obligations” to act as “stewards of the land.” The oral accounts, in particular, position the Sacred Pipe Ceremony — not the written text that went back to Ottawa — as the centrepiece of treaty making. It solemnized the sharing relationship that the treaties embodied, with the smoke from the shared pipe understood as “the very point of contact with the Great Spirit,” according to some quoted elders. Krasowski describes the ceremony as one that “linked the partners in the treaty relationship” — an act that was both perpetual and grounded in kinship. Consider the words of Anishinaabe Chief Sah-Katch-eway. In accepting the terms of Treaty Three, in October 1873, he invited Morris to “lend me one of your daughters and one of your sons,” and in return the chief would lend Morris one of his daughters and sons “for you to teach what is good, and after they have learned, to teach us.” No Surrender is a dense read, with too many details at times and not enough interpretation of their significance. Still, it is a valuable book that builds on other accounts of treaty making from an Indigenous perspective, notably the Abenaki literary scholar Lisa Brooks’s The Common Pot, from 2008. It also sets treaty making within a tradition of nation-to-nation dealings mandated by the Royal Proclamation of 1763, one of our founding constitutional documents. As such, it helps set the stage for the future, as Canada follows through on its 2016 adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and takes on the “foundational change” that Carolyn Bennett, then minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, described at the time. As a forward-looking text, No Surrender also complements Braiding Legal Orders, a collection of essays recently published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation, in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars juxtapose international and domestic laws with Indigenous legal traditions to imagine plausible shifts in policy in light of the UN declaration. How were the numbered treaties actually forged? Did the nineteenth-century negotiations represent only legalistic — transactional — agreements? Or were they sacred, ceremonial starting points for ongoing relationships? There’s a huge difference in meaning between the two, just as there is between two views of land: as property to be surrendered or as a life-giving gift to be jointly stewarded. Krasowski’s work challenges us to consider those differences and the shifts — even foundational shifts — in popular perception they might require. Today I Stand upon the Shore Honouring the Peace Why Hassan Diab’s ongoing incarceration in France is Canada’s ‘Dreyfus Affair’ Land and Power We have a historic opportunity to consider alternatives to Site C Enter Mourning (13) Indigenous Rights (13) No time (2) Peace Activism (3) Reconnection (17) Books By Heather Menzies Enter Mourning Whose Brave New World? 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__label__wiki	0.712569	0.712569	By Fearsome Web Goddess Featured, Reviews - Audio July 17, 2009 Tardy Brothers: Bloodline By Albert Mansour Tardy Brothers is the new project featuring Florida death metal band OBITUARY’s founding members John (vocals) and Donald Tardy (drums). Their new nine track debut album under this name, Bloodline, is absolutely fantastic from the start to the end. The riffs, the solos, the killer voice of John Tardy and the powerful drumming of Donald (who also plays the bass) are all solid throughout For this first release, the brothers have invited new Obituary (and former Deicide and Death) guitarist Ralph Santolla and have also brought back the original Executioner guitarist Jerry Tidwell to perform on the disc as well. This album is highly recommended for fans of metal in general. This piece is much more than a death metal album and you’ll surely find something of your taste here, regardless of what is your favorite metal genre. http://www.myspace.com/tardybrothersbloodline Fearsome Web Goddess Candlelight USAObituaryTardy BrothersUSA Quick VIEWs – July 17th Skull: Self-titled Gaz Jennings and Michelle Nocon declare their ‘Death Penalty’ for Rise Above! By Steve Earles It was unlikely that Cathedral guitar legend Gaz Jennings would go into premature retirement with the demise of the already much-missed…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1569
__label__wiki	0.610095	0.610095	Births and Maternity Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG Population Estimates and Projections Protected Characteristics Table 1: Live Births to Mothers Living in NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG (2011-13) Mothers Under the Age of 20 Table 2: Proportion of Live Births to Mothers Aged Under 20yrs in NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG (2011-13) Table 3: The proportion of live births that are of low birth weight (<2.5kgs) in NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG (2011-13) Under-18 Conceptions In 2013, there were approximately 2,285 live births to mothers whose usual residence is within NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG. Total 2011-13 Burgess Hill 515 510 515 1,540 East Grinstead 415 415 380 1,210 Haywards Heath 635 650 635 1,920 Horsham 820 760 755 2,335 Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG 2,380 2,340 2,285 7,010 Source: West Sussex Birth Notification data (CHIS). Note: values are rounded to the nearest 5 so totals may not sum due to rounding. Recording differences may mean that values vary slightly from the ONS usual residence tables. Young mothers (first time mothers under the age of 20) are a target group for the work of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP). Not all hospital maternity records used a “flag” for first time mothers, therefore the information provided relates to all mothers under the age of 20. The majority of these women will be first time mothers. Of the total number of live births in Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG (4,612 live births), 2.0% were to women under the age of 20 years. Burgess Hill 2.7% 1.0% 3.1% 2.3% East Grinstead 3.1% 1.9% 1.3% 2.1% Haywards Heath 2.4% 3.2% 2.5% 2.7% Horsham 1.1% 2.2% 1.2% 1.5% Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG 2.1% 2.2% 2.0% 2.1% Source: Birth Notification (CHIS). In 2013, approximately 5.4% of live births in NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG were recorded to be of low birth weight (less than 2.5kg); this accounts for between 120 and 130 live births in the CCG. Burgess Hill 6.4% 7.0% 4.3% East Grinstead 6.1% 8.2% 6.8% Haywards Heath 5.8% 5.7% 4.1% Horsham 7.4% 6.0% 6.5% Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG 6.6% 6.5% 5.4% The total fertility rate (TFR) is the average number of children that a group of women would each bear if they experience the age-specific fertility rates of the calendar year in question throughout their childbearing lifespan. It provides a snapshot of the level of fertility in a particular year and does not necessarily represent the average number of children that a group of women will have over their lifetime. Birth statistics for England and Wales are based on the details collected when births are registered. By law, births should be registered within 42 days. The information in the chart below relates to data at local authority district level. Horsham local authority spans both NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG and NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG. As such, the data presented here represents the whole of the Horsham local authority, not just that covered by NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG. It is based on the resident population and not on GP registered population. Source: ONS Birth Summary Statistics (released July 2016). Conception data combine information from registrations of births and notifications of legal abortions occurring in England and Wales for women who are usually resident there. Conception statistics include pregnancies that result in: One or more live, or stillbirths (a maternity) A legal abortion under the Abortion Act 1967 They do not include miscarriages or illegal abortions. The date of conception is estimated using recorded gestation for abortions and stillbirths, and assuming 38 weeks gestation for live births. A woman’s age at conception is calculated as the number of complete years between her date of birth and the date she conceived. The figure reveals that in Horsham and Mid Sussex local authorities the number teenage conceptions have generally been deceasing. The rate of under-18 conceptions is significantly lower in Horsham and Mid Sussex than in England (12.4 and 14.0 under 18 conceptions per 1,000 women aged 15-17 respectively, compared to 22.8 in England). This information is only available at local authority district level. Note that Horsham local authority spans both NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG and NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG. Source: ONS – Conception Statistics – England and Wales 2014	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1579
__label__cc	0.683327	0.316673	One leaked file, the location of 12 million smartphones by Nathan Yau / December 31, 2019 / Charlie Warzel, Maps, New York Times, privacy, Stuart A. Thompson A file leaked to The New York Times contained location traces of 12 million unique smartphones. Stuart A. Thompson and Charlie Warzel went digging: The data set is large enough that it surely points to scandal and crime but our purpose wasn’t to dig up dirt. We wanted to document the risk of underregulated surveillance. Watching dots move across a map sometimes revealed hints of faltering marriages, evidence of drug... Amazon stores voice recordings indefinitely by Nathan Yau / July 3, 2019 / Amazon, ethics, privacy, Statistics Alfred Ng for CNET: Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in May, demanding answers on Alexa and how long it kept voice recordings and transcripts, as well as what the data gets used for. The letter came after CNET’s report that Amazon kept transcripts of interactions with Alexa, even after people deleted the voice recordings. The deadline for answers was June... Readability of privacy policies for big tech companies by Nathan Yau / June 13, 2019 / facebook, New York Times, privacy, Statistical Visualization For The New York Times, Kevin Litman-Navarro plotted the length and readability of privacy policies for large companies: To see exactly how inscrutable they have become, I analyzed the length and readability of privacy policies from nearly 150 popular websites and apps. Facebook’s privacy policy, for example, takes around 18 minutes to read in its entirety – slightly above average for the policies I tested. The comparison is between websites... 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Alias by Bjørn Karmann is a device you put on top of the assistant the block any unwanted listening: Alias acts as a middle-man device that is designed to appropriate any voice activated device. Equipped with speakers and a microphone, Alias is able to communicate and manipulate the home assistant... Apps gather your location and then sell the data by Nathan Yau / December 13, 2018 / location, New York Times, privacy, Statistics The New York Times takes a closer look at the data that apps collect and what they know about you: At least 75 companies receive anonymous, precise location data from apps whose users enable location services to get local news and weather or other information, The Times found. Several of those businesses claim to track up to 200 million mobile devices in the United States — about half those in... Reduced privacy risk in exchange for accuracy in the Census count by Nathan Yau / December 6, 2018 / census, privacy, Statistics, uncertainity, Upshot Mark Hansen for The Upshot describes the search for balance between individual privacy and an accurate 2020 Census count. It turns out to not be that difficult to reconstruct person-level data from publicly available aggregates: On the face of it, finding a reconstruction that satisfies all of the constraints from all the tables the bureau produces seems impossible. But Mr. Abowd says the problem gets easier when you notice that... Millions of internet-connected TVs track viewing habits by Nathan Yau / July 17, 2018 / privacy, Statistics, Television Sapna Maheshwari for The New York Times on Samba TV software running on smart televisions: Once enabled, Samba TV can track nearly everything that appears on the TV on a second-by-second basis, essentially reading pixels to identify network shows and ads, as well as programs on HBO and even video games played on the TV. Samba TV has even offered advertisers the ability to base their targeting on whether people... When surveillance turns into stalking by Nathan Yau / May 23, 2018 / Data Sharing, ethics, privacy, surveillance Many surveillance apps cater to parents who want to keep tabs on their children who have mobile phones. Many of these apps are used for less parental purposes. Jennifer Valentino-DeVries for The New York Times reports: More than 200 apps and services offer would-be stalkers a variety of capabilities, from basic location tracking to harvesting texts and even secretly recording video, according to a new academic study. More than two... Every document copy stored on used digital photocopiers by Nathan Yau / May 14, 2018 / photocopier, privacy, Statistics CBS News picked up four used photocopiers and looked at the hard drives. There was a lot of private information stored in them: Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive – like the one on your personal computer – storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine. In the process, it’s turned an office staple into a digital time-bomb packed with... Make a streets map of anywhere in the world By: 2020年　Tableau を始めるための１２のステップ – Tableauから始めるデータサイエンス Cow representation in the Senate ✚ Misleading Map, or Misinterpreted? 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__label__wiki	0.926558	0.926558	State, Nation & World Los Alamos Accuweather Satellite – West Conus Water Vapor Loop NM Road Conditions Long Range Radar Google Public Alerts (Weather, etc.) LANL Weather Machine NOAA Aviation Satellite Loop National Science Foundation Awards UbiQD Phase II SBIR Grant Submitted by Carol A. Clark The UbiQD team taken at its September board of directors meeting a short walk from the quantum dot company’s headquarters in Los Alamos. Courtesy/UbiQD, Inc. UbiQD team members measure the electrical output of a window prototype near the company’s headquarters in Los Alamos. Courtesy/UbiQD, Inc. UbiQD News: Funding will accelerate development of its quantum dot solar glass technology UbiQD, Inc., a New Mexico-based nanotechnology development company, announced today that it was recently awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will provide $750,000 in funding over two years for UbiQD’s continued research and development of quantum dot-tinted glass luminescent solar concentrator technology for electricity-generating windows. The company was previously awarded a $225,000 Phase I SBIR grant in July 2016, the results of which were published in ACS Energy Letters in January 2018. The publication highlights UbiQD’s novel quantum dot laminated glass concept and the first-ever third-party certified solar window efficiency. “With NSF’s support we demonstrated a novel, high-performance sunlight-harvesting window concept in Phase I,” said Dr. Hunter McDaniel, Founder and CEO of UbiQD. “Now with continued funding in Phase II, we plan to optimize for a higher performance-to-cost ratio, scale-up product prototypes, and deploy our windows in pilot installations.” To further accelerate glazing market exploration, UbiQD has hired Jeffrey Granato as an Advisory Board Member. Granato, who worked for DuPont for more than three decades, is a highly energetic leader with proven experience in developing new and growing markets, and has deep knowledge of the window industry. “I am excited to be back in the glass industry and working with UbiQD,” Granato said. “Quantum dot technology has the potential to be a game-changer by turning curtain walls into solar collectors without sacrificing optical quality.” About UbiQD, Inc. UbiQD is a nanotechnology company based in Los Alamos, New Mexico that manufactures high-performance cadmium-free quantum dots and composite materials. While the company’s primary focus is on sunlight-harvesting applications, UbiQD also currently sells its materials for R&D purposes and provides materials technology development services. Spun out of technology developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Washington, and Western Washington University, UbiQD envisions a future where quantum dots are ubiquitous in a wide spectrum of applications. For more information visit UbiQD.com. In And Around Town Subscribe FREE to News Alerts Make the Daily Post your Homepage More News – Like us on Facebook ladailypost.com website support locally by OviNuppi Systems Council, Boards & Commissions Calendar Hilltopper Sports Scores from MaxPrep Facebook Rss Twitter Youtube Subscribe to your choice of breaking and/or daily news headlines. Copyright © 2012-2020 Los Alamos Daily Post – the Official Newspaper of Record in Los Alamos County. This Site and all information contained here including, but not limited to, news stories, photographs, video, charts, graphs and graphics is the property of the Los Alamos Daily Post, unless otherwise noted. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted, provided that the Los Alamos Daily Post and the author/photographer are properly cited. Opinions expressed by readers, columnists and other contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the Los Alamos Daily Post. The Los Alamos Daily Post was founded Feb. 7, 2012 by Owner/Publisher Carol A. Clark.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1583
__label__cc	0.630336	0.369664	LandWise Home Resource Equity Home Bengali1 Kyrgyz Republic1 Multiple Countries2 Legal Materials1 Research Articles1 Co-ownership1 Customary Practices2 Family & Personal Law1 Land & Property7 Marriage & Divorce4 Widows1 Displaying all 7 records Sort By: RelevancyTitleLast UpdatedCollection Type Who Owns the Land? Gender and Land-Titling Programmes in Latin America Full citation: Deere, C. D. and Leon, M., "Who Owns the Land? Gender and Land-Titling Programmes in Latin America," 1(3) JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE 440 (July 2001). - The main focus of state intervention in Latin American agriculture in the 1990s was on land-titling programs, designed to promote security of tenure and enliven land markets. A review of seven of these projects suggests that they were often designed without sufficient attention to civil codes and marital regimes that protect women's property rights. They often ignored that a household's endowment of land may consist of three forms of property: the wife's, the husband's, and jointly owned property. By assuming that the family farm is owned by the male household head, these projects trampled upon women's ownership rights. Nonetheless, the share of female beneficiaries of land-titling projects has been much higher than the share of women adjudicated land under the agrarian reforms of previous decades. This is partly because the primary way that women acquire land is through inheritance, and inheritance appears to be more gender equitable than other manners of acquiring land. It is also due to the impact of the more gender-equitable agrarian legislation of the current period, itself a product of the impact of women's movements on the state. [Threats to Women’s Land Tenure Security and Effectiveness of Interventions - Annotated Bibliography] Collection Type: Deere, C. D. and Leon, M. Control and Ownership of Assets within Rural Ethiopian Households Fafchamps, M. and Quisumbing, A. Making Women's Land Rights a Reality in Uganda: Advocacy for Co-Ownership by Spouses Asiimwe, J. Women and Land Tenure in China: A Study of Women’s Land Rights in Dongfang County, Hainan Province Li, P. and Duncan, J. Women's Rights to Land in the Kyrgyz Republic Aidarbekova, C., Duncan, J., Giovarelli, R., Rasmussen, K. and Tabyshalieva, A. Ephraim v Pastory (2001) AHRLR 236 (TzHC 1990) High Court of Tanzania at Mwanza Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America Full citation: Diana Deere, Carmen and Magdalena Leon, 2001. Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America. Resource Equity is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. © 2020 Resource Equity	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1585
__label__cc	0.699209	0.300791	高级客房与豪华客房至尊经典套房至尊客房与至尊行政客房豪华行政客房与豪华家庭客房餐饮场所 Melting Pot 咖啡馆 Spices 餐厅与葡萄酒吧泳池露台照片与视频本地时间 : 05:03, 21 Jan 2020 选择目的地吉隆坡凯煌酒店莎亚南凯煌酒店新加坡凯煌酒店 Concorde Hotel New York Home » Blog » Best Restaurants in Kuala Lumpur Must-Try: 10 Best Restaurants in Kuala Lumpur 04 二月 2017 \| by Jie Jing Chow What is striking in this city is that there are so many good options to eat out, it is not difficult to stumble upon some of the best restaurants in Kuala Lumpur at any given turning, and the diversity of options is sure to appease all tastes. 1. Melting Pot Cafe Melting Pot Cafe is an excellent representation of Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur and the diversity of its guests, as it includes Chinese, Malaysian, Halal and Continental cuisine, with a wide ranging menu, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Tom Yam, Raw Seafood and Dim Sum here are exquisite, and artisan chefs are at hand cooking a variety of dishes at a Teppanyaki grill on request. This fantastic dining experience is further enhanced by the live music, performed by Batak Strollers. 2. Naughty Nuri’s Life Centre Naughty Nuri’s Life Centre is a famous Balinese restaurant and was described in the New York Times as being an essential place to dine. It prides itself on its delicious barbecued and grilled foods, with their BBQ Balinese Pork Ribs being their standout dish. Naughty Nuri’s is very easy to get to, as it is located in the heart of the golden triangle, and is quickly establishing itself as one of the best restaurants in Kuala Lumpur. 3. Opium KL The Shanghai themed restaurant, Opium KL, has quickly become one of the most frequented eateries in the Changkat Bukit Bintang area. A specialist in oriental cuisine, its most revered dishes include the Beef Brisket & Tendon Stew, Angus Beef Rendang, Crispy Duck Noodles, and Fern Leaf Salad, Huge Chinese wine pots and opium pipes pervade the vintage interior of the restaurant, exuding a charming sense of nostalgia, coupled with traditional live music. 4. Xin Cuisine At Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Xin Cuisine has been consistently producing the finest Chinese dishes for many years now, with their Dim Sums being some of the most delectable you will get to try anywhere in Malaysia. The Chinese Parsley Dumpling and the Steamed Scallop Dumpling are both generously filled, and must be tasted to believed, while the Siew Mai combines pork and prawn in a truly satisfying concoction. Their deserts also match the quality of the mains, with Chilled Aloe Vera and Mango Pudding being popular selections. 5. Din Tai Fing Din Tai Fing has been considered as one of the best restaurants in Kuala Lumpur for decades, and in 2010, its Hong Kong branch earned one Michelin star, the first Taiwanese restaurant in the world to do so. Often referred to as the “taste of Taiwan”, the prestigious restaurant boasts a number of signature dishes, like the Din Tai Fung House Special, comprising of seaweed, beansprout and bean curd strips, while the exotic Spicy Jellyfish meal is an absolute delight. 6. Tg’s Nasi Kandar Tg’s Nasi Kandar can be found in the heart of the Bukit Bintang area, and has a splendid halal menu offering some of the tastiest Indian and Malaysian food around. This eating place prides itself on its large menu that consists of popular rice meals such as Kari Kepala Ikan, Udang Goreng and Rice Ayam, all at very affordable prices. Not only does it also serve breakfast and brunch, but it is open 24 hours, and is visited often by tourists from all over the world. 7. Hard Rock Cafe For those who want to sample some more Western flavours, Concorde Hotel KL’s Hard Rock Cafe has an authentic American menu including Country Fried Chicken, Twisted Mac, Chicken & Cheese and Famous Fajitas. They also boast a smokehouse, with a selection of meats being slow-cooked to perfection, such as Roasted Lamb Ribs, Smoked Beef Brisket and Hickory-Smoked Pulled Lamb. The Hard Rock Cafe is also a fine place to enjoy a large cocktail menu, and listen to live bands perform. 8. Restoran Sambal Hijau It can safely be said that Restoran Sambal Hijau is one of the best restaurants in Kuala Lumpur when it comes to Nasi Campur, an Indonesian/Malay mixed rice meal that is usually accompanied by small portions of other dishes. In this quaint buffet establishment, over 50 kinds of Malay and Minang style food can be found, and mixed and matched to one’s liking. The Daging Salai Masak Lemak and Ikan Bakar are simply sumptuous, and deserve special mention! 9. Simple Life Healthy Vegetarian Simple Life Healthy Vegetarian is a restaurant that has a strong ethos on providing organic dishes that contain no MSG, colouring, trans-fat or preservatives. A common misconception about eating healthy foods is that they can be bland or flavourless, but this restaurant has a delightfully vibrant menu, filled with superfoods and fresh ingredients, proving that you don’t have to have meat in your dish for it to be an exciting meal. 10. Dining In The Dark The Dining In The Dark restaurant serves continental food and describes itself as “an authentic refined dining experience in true darkness”, and it is just that. A quite unorthodox means of dining, guests are subjected to complete darkness, relinquishing their phones in the process, while mystery multi course meals are served to them. It is of the belief that visual impairment heightens other senses, so experiencing Dining In The Dark may result in a scrumptious treat for your taste buds. What is striking in this city is that there are so many good options to eat out, it’s not difficult to stumble upon some of the best restaurants in Kuala Lumpur at any given turning, and the diversity of options is sure to appease all tastes. 常旅客宾客评价由 HPL 酒店及度假村集团管理吉隆坡凯煌酒店电话: +603 2144 2200 传真: +603 2144 1628 邮箱: kl@concorde.net © 2020 年 HPL 酒店及度假村国际集团。保留所有权利。. H Paper \| 隐私声明 \| 推荐酒店	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1587
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__label__cc	0.69167	0.30833	Lawpath Blog Government Approves new Mental Health Reforms in Wake of Mental Health Commission Review In 2015 the Federal Government introduced reforms governing mental illness in the workplace. Understanding these reforms can help your business comply with workplace regulations concerning mental illness. Every year, between 4 and 5 million Australians suffer from some form of mental health issue. Mental Health is the third largest chronic disease in the country, just behind cancer and cardiovascular disease. And as such, it is important that steps are taken by employers as well as the government, to ensure that mental illnesses is not aggravated by the workplace. While there is already significant spending from the government to the Mental Health sector – the Federal Government currently spends $10b – too often, many Australians still fall through the cracks or do not receive the full individual support that they require. The current reforms will see no extra overall funding in the mental health industry, however it will reshape the current regime of mental health services and how they are delivered. The federal government has released a reform package which aims to address issues in the Mental Health sector as a direct response to a review from the National Mental Health Commission on Mental Health Programmes and Services. The new reforms aim to cater for the complexity of Mental Health and the broad spectrum of needs that individuals have, rather than the traditional one-size-fits-all approach to treatment. What’s in the Government’s new Mental Health reforms: Tailored care packages for severe and complex mental illness. Flexible support for mild and moderate mental illness. The implementation of more digital mental health services to better cater for individuals living outside of urban areas. A new telephone hotline to direct people to appropriate services, such as suicide prevention services. $85m will go towards Indigenous mental health over the three year period. The aims of the Government’s Mental Health reforms The new reforms aim to shift current mental health services towards a more modern, flexible model of care, with the individual’s needs at the centre. “We are setting out a blueprint for reform that puts the individual at the centre of our mental health system.” Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said. People identified by health professionals as needing complex care services will be eligible to access a package of integrated health services, including comprehensive assessment and care-coordination support, psychological services, mental health nursing, drug and alcohol services, vocational assistance and peer support. The reforms will be introduced in early 2016, and implemented over a three year period. Mental illness and employment It is highly likely that as a small business owner, you will work with an individual with a mental illness at some point in your career. It is imperative then that there are policies in place to accurately deal with mental illness in the workplace when it arises. This includes sick leave, or additional workplace support. Providing a healthy and safe workplace for employees, free from unnecessary stress is a great business tactic for small businesses. Preliminary research shows that Australian businesses lose over $6.5 billion each year by failing to provide early intervention/treatment for employees with mental health conditions. How to ensure your workplace complies with mental illness regulations Ensure that adverse action against a worker because of their mental illness is not taken; Have mental health strategies implemented into Occupational Work Health and Safety processes to ensure the workplace does not cause unnecessary stress or aggravate existing health conditions; Implementing a discrimination policy. An Discrimination Policy provides your business with a simple way to clarify what’s considered workplace discrimination, information on how to report incidents of discrimination and an explanation of the consequences of breaching this policy; Take reasonable care to accommodate the needs of workers with mental illness; Implement a harassment and bullying policy. This is essential to explain what actions classify as workplace harassment and bullying, and to clearly emphasise that these actions will not be tolerated; and Ensure that a worker’s mental health status remains private and not disclosed to anyone without the worker’s consent. Unsure where to start? Contact a LawPath consultant on 1800LAWPATH to learn more about customising legal documents, obtaining a fixed-fee quote from one our network of 1000+ expert lawyers or any other legal needs. Dominic Woolrych Dominic is the CEO of Lawpath, dedicating his days to making legal easier, faster and more accessible to businesses. Dominic is a recognised thought-leader in Australian legal disruption, and was recognised as a winner of the 2015 Australian Legal Innovation Index. We've helped 100,000 Australians get smart and simple legal protectionSign up for free We made legal easy Our platform allows you and your business to get simple and smart legal protections. A Patent Too Far? 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__label__cc	0.710971	0.289029	Odessa seminary enters second year by Norman Threinen Seminary students in Odessa with Dr. Threinen (right) and interpreter, Marya After a two-day delay leaving Toronto due to Hurricane Irene, I was finally on my way to Odessa again on August 30. This is my fifteenth trip in as many years to the country from which my German ancestors emigrated more than a century ago. Since seminary classes would not begin for a few days after my arrival, I took a two-day side-trip for research purposes to Lviv. This city was once called Lemberg when it served as the capital of the Austrian province of Galicia in the days when my ancestors lived in the area. Coincidentally, my modest guest accommodations were in the facilities of the former German Lutheran Church which had been handed over to the Baptists after the collapse of theSoviet Union in 1989. On September 6, Concordia Seminary,Odessa opened its second academic year in its new building. With the local pastor Rev. Oleg Shewtschenko conducting the service, I preached on 1 Kings 3:5-9 with the theme, “What is your dream?” Our current six students attended along with Marya my interpreter, a young lady from Dnepropetrovsk where Lutheran Church–Canada missionary Rev. Alexey Novrotsky serves. For the first six-week session in this academic year, I am teaching two courses. A study of the book of Genesis will occupy the students’ attention in three-hour blocks of time in the mornings and Christian Ethics studies fill similar periods in the afternoon. After this six-week session, other professors and pastors from Canada will teach courses throughout the year to prepare the students for their vocation as pastors. The seminary is not admitting new students until the current students have graduated in 2013. Rev. Dr. Norman Threinen Having taught these students for three months in September 2010, I am pleased to see a notable growth in maturity in their theological outlook and a greater seriousness about preparing for the ministry. Although the size of the student body has diminished from a year ago, I recognize greater cohesion in the group including our student from Moldova. Spirited discussion still takes place both in the classroom and in such places as the seminary dining room, but it is all an essential part of shaping future theologians and pastors for the Lord’s Church. A grant from LWML-Canada is funding the installation of more adequate kitchen facilities, and plans are in place for additional development of the seminary facilities including a separate chapel. The overall setting in which theological training currently happens is already far superior to that under which previous classes of pastors studied. The seminary program itself, including travel of faculty to Ukraine, is funded by generous Canadian donors through the Concordia Lutheran Mission Society. Our thanks to all who have, through their prayers and gifts, supported this mission of training of Lutheran pastors in Ukraine which is so vital for strengthening the Lutheran Church and for the expansion of the Gospel in this former Soviet Union country. Rev. Dr. Norman J. Threinen is a professor emeritus of Concordia Lutheran Seminary, Edmonton and president of Concordia Seminary, Odessa. 1 Comment \| Ukraine \| Tagged: Lutheran, Odessa, seminary, Ukraine \| Permalink Passing the test of fellowship on a special day by James Dimitroff Seminary students prepare a birthday barbecue for instructor Rev. James Dimitroff The last several days at the Odessa seminary have seen heavier study loads. I gave the students their first test (which, in Russian, is called “control work”) on Tuesday, May 17. The seminarians wanted all true/false questions because, they said, people in Ukraine disdain ambiguity in theological discussion. I compromised with some true/false but also five short essay questions. The results proved they have good retention and excellent understanding of their introduction to Dogmatics. Next were oral reports, with each seminarian given 30 minutes and a theme. The themes seemed simple on the surface, but led to deeper issues. For example, “faith” as a theme required some attention to what the Bible calls “saving faith.” Likewise, the theme of “the kingdom of God” saw the seminarian quickly identify its polar opposite, the kingdom of evil that bedevils each of us in our daily life. After sweating over the challenges of this week, word got out that Wednesday was my birthday. A rousing chorus of “Happy Birthday” in English punctuated the morning meal! Then, for the evening meal, there was silence. Literally, silence. The clock moved past 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and well beyond 7 p.m. Normally, we all take the evening meal together at 5. Something was up. With hunger pangs gnawing at my stomach, I decided to start exploring. After a few minutes, the reason for the quiet kitchen became obvious. Way out by the rear seminary gate, the students had dug a fire pit and were concocting a birthday barbecue to surprise me. Fortunately, I didn’t spoil the surprise too much since the cooking was all finished. I ran to grab the camera for a shot to share with family and friends back home. The grilled chicken was excellent, but getting it was not as simple as making a trip to the supermarket. The students first had to find the chicken, which in Ukraine took some extra reconnaissance in the neighbourhood. Our cook made a big tub of mashed potatoes to serve with the meal and whipped up a 20-layer (count them!) birthday cake and brought a jar of red tulips to grace our table. As we completed today’s topic, “The Love of Christ in Christian Fellowship,” our theme was demonstrated again and again in this spontaneous birthday surprise. Even with a test and oral reports looming, the students went out of their way to express kindness and generosity at this Odessa birthday surprise. I’ll always remember the lesson so well taught, of fellowship far from home. Rev. Dr. James Dimitroff, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Saskatoon, Sask., is currently teaching seminary students in Odessa, Ukraine Leave a Comment » \| Ukraine \| Tagged: barbecue, Dimitroff, Odessa, Ukraine \| Permalink A bishop’s visit stirs vivid memories Bishop Graefenstein (centre), Rev. Dimintroff (second from right), and the delegation headed to Yalta with humanitarian aid. There was a buzz in the classroom. The seminary students had heard they may receive a visit from their bishop, Rev. Dr. Viktor Graefenstein, this weekend. Bishop Viktor lives in Marburg, Germany, and his visits to Odessa, while consistent, are not always planned far in advance. Whenever he sees a need or wants to make the trip, he drives—some 30 hours one way—usually pulling a trailer full of humanitarian aid. I met Bishop Viktor 15 years ago in St. Petersburg, Russia, during my previous mission service there. He sat behind me during a major meeting (Sinod in Russian) of ELKRAS, a now-defunct entity that tried to draw together all German Lutheran believers then living in the former Soviet Union. As the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod representative, I was given a courtesy invitation. My task was to try to understand the rebuilding of the Lutheran church after the Soviet collapse and what role LCMS Lutherans might be allowed to play. Bishop Viktor was one of the leading voices of Lutheran churches in Ukraine. What made this particular meeting most memorable was the open and very public clash between Viktor and the presiding ELKRAS officer, the celebrated Lutheran theologian Georg Kretschmar. It hinged on women’s ordination and the German State Lutheran Church’s decision to bring female pastors immediately into Russian and Ukrainian ministry. Apart from being contrary scriptural teaching, this was an unprecedented action, with no prior consultation. Bishop Kretschmar wanted to move quickly over the thorny question. But Bishop Viktor refused to be silenced. Finally, after loud parliamentary objections, Viktor rose and informed President Kretschmar that Ukraine Lutherans would walk out of the Sinod and never return. Kretschmar suggested they adjourn to a quiet room, suspend the agenda, and try to resolve female pastors’ activity in Ukraine. Bishop Viktor said no, he would not accept “secret discussions” and right then and there walked out with his entire delegation of Lutherans from Ukraine. Today’s meeting gave me a chance to get reacquainted. This time Bishop Viktor led a delegation of 10 German-Ukrainian Lutherans who now live in Darmstadt,Germany. They collect aid for some of the aged Lutheran pensioners and travel back into Ukraine several times every year. This delegation will worship with us today, Sunday, and then continue 650 kilometres to Yalta in Crimea. Bishop Viktor explained that there is only a Lutheran Prayer House in Yalta, not a full-fledged congregation, because there are no funds to support a Lutheran pastor. Two elders from the delegation presented sermons and then Bishop Viktor preached his own sermon. This is a regular part of Ukraine Lutheran worship, with three sermons the norm at Sunday worship. Some of our seminary students had travelled Friday night to Dnepropetrovsk to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Alpha and Omega Christian Student Fellowship. The guest preachers from Germany were welcome as seminary students often have the privilege of preaching on Sunday mornings. After a quick lunch at a downtown Odessa cafeteria, the delegation (a van and a minibus) were back on the road to Yalta, dropping me off first at the seminary. Classes resume tomorrow, on biblical teaching concerning the Christian Church as the Body of Christ. Today’s international flavour at worship makes a perfect introduction into the very meaning of the term “Body of Christ” for pastors-to-be in Ukraine. Rev. Dr. James Dimitroff is pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is currently teaching at Concordia Seminary, Odessa. Preparing Lutheran pastors for the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Ukraine is a project of Lutheran Church–Canada financially supported by Concordia Lutheran Mission Society. Leave a Comment » \| Ukraine \| Tagged: Dimintroff, Graefenstein, Odessa, SELCU, Ukraine \| Permalink Visit to Ukrainian village parish inspiring for LCC pastor Seminarian Yuri, Rev. Sasha Yurchenko, and Elder Misha greets Rev. Dimitroff (right) at the door of the church. Wednesday’s (May 11) invitation to travel to Kagarlik was a bit out of the ordinary. Usually church is held on Sunday, even in small villages. The added invitation to attend Holy Communion made the trip all the more appealing. Besides, this was an opportunity to visit the home village of one of our seminarians and meet his family. In an effort to become better acquainted with the students, it was an offer I wouldn’t want to decline. Kagarlik is about 40 kilometres away from the million-plus city of Odessa. Wednesday’s preacher was to be Rev. Sasha Yurchenko, who graduated from the first Ukraine seminary class almost 11 years ago. As we drove toward Kagarlik, one could see endless fields of yellow-flowered canola. No wonder so many people have remarked on the similarity between Ukraine and Saskatchewan. Other fields awaited seeding, but overall the agricultural enterprise seems efficient and up-to-date. To get to Kagarlik, the car passed through the even smaller village of Kamenka. I remembered that Kamenka was the site of the original seminary LCC helped staff and organize in 1998. I hoped we would pass by that first seminary building, but later was told that the church area in Kamenka is now, unfortunately, in ruins. As we arrived in Kagarlik, the entire congregation was already seated. I entered along with senior pastor Yurchenko, church elder Misha and seminary student Yuri. After singing a number of beautiful hymns, the normal style in Ukraine of two consecutive sermons followed. My student, Yuri, preached first on Luke 24. He brought out the important message of Our Lord’s constant caring and companionship along the road of life. Next, Rev. Yurchenko spoke. He impressed me deeply with his God-given ability to zoom in on important Bible themes. His style was intense and full of vigour. After almost half an hour, the congregation sang a few more hymns before Communion began. The tradition in this congregation, and possibly others in Ukraine, is to allow individual congregants to pray personal prayers aloud, just before consecration of the elements. On this day, some seven people raised their voices to ask for help at the throne of grace. Personal prayers also followed, once the sacrament was finished. All congregation members in Ukraine receive Holy Communion kneeling—but there are no pads or pillows. This meant everyone knelt and rose on the linoleum, without a mishap. When my turn came, I hoped I would not tip over, and fortunately, there was no problem. It was my pleasure to bring greetings to this congregation from all the believers in Lutheran Church–Canada. The congregation, in turn, sent back praise and glory to God for the faithful support LCC has given over the years to seminary training and congregational support of the small, confessional Ukraine Lutheran Synod (SELCU). Following the service I was delighted to meet Yuri’s wife and six-year-old daughter. The elder, Misha, announced that this coming Saturday would be a work day for the congregation–the entire third floor needed painting. Many volunteers offered to help. Even though the village is one of thousands scattered in southern Ukraine, Kagarlik was very special. Here we see the Lord’s hand steadily at work, bringing Word and Sacrament to all who believe, even on a Wednesday afternoon. I am still trying to determine why Sunday was unavailable and it may have had to do with the church repair and painting set to begin Saturday. But in any event, this was a most memorable village that formed a solid contrast with metropolitan Odessa. Odessa may be “Mama” in the local slang (meaning flamboyant and intrusive) but Kagarlik is faithful, devoted to the Lutheran confessions, and inspiring! Rev. Dr. James Dimitroff is pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is currently teaching seminary classes in Odessa Ukraine. 1 Comment \| Ukraine \| Tagged: Dimistroff, Kagarlik, Lutheran, Odessa, Ukraine \| Permalink A timely illustration for seminary students Dr. Dimitroff (second from left) and seminary students celebrate Victory Day, May 9 May 9 is a national holiday in Ukraine (and in most of the former Soviet Union). It was universally called Victory Day as it marked the final capitulation of Nazi forces in World War II, with special reference to the Nazi onslaught that started against the Soviet Union in June 1941. In Ukraine, which suffered occupation by Nazi forces between 1941 and 1944, memories are especially severe and tragic. And so even though Ukraine enjoys sovereign statehood today, the government still celebrates the victory over Hitler and his forces. In the city of Odessa, the lilacs burst into bloom just before May 9. With spring in the air, Odessa seminary students decided, rightly, to respect the holiday and attend a festival honouring the World War II defenders of the city, and Ukraine in general. We drove downtown from the seminary and parked near the central train station. There, through the park, we visited several tank emplacements, saw a few of the remaining veterans proudly wearing their medals and vintage uniforms, and heard an orchestra play patriotic tunes. Of course, being good Lutherans, the students arrived an hour and a half before the festivities began. That meant we needed something to fill in the time. “Why not walk to the Black Sea?” they suggested. It sounded like a perfectly reasonable idea, especially since the seashore was only “20 minutes” away. Some 40 minutes later, we were still walking, but finally arrived at a lovely, private beach not yet open for business. We got back to the city plaza in good time. We watched the parade and heard the patriotic music. The younger generation in Ukraine has a hard time imagining events of 66 years earlier. There seem to be more immediate concerns: high inflation in the economy (somewhere around 10 percent per month), unemployment and a muddled political picture. As we drove back to an area called, ominously, The Catacombs, we stopped to see the underground tunnels used by partisans in their struggle against the Nazi occupation. These underground labyrinths weave an extensive net that extends for a hundred miles deep underneath the Odessa highlands and city proper. Tomorrow we return to the seminary curriculum, which happens to be “The Nature of Sin.” A perfect tie-in to what we saw today: results of unbridled sin and defiance of God’s love and law in the city of Odessa and world-wide. We will have lots to talk about as we look at humanity’s inhumanity, our inherent corruption, and God’s great love in sending us a Saviour who brought us redemption. Rev. Jim Dimitroff is pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Leave a Comment » \| Ukraine \| Tagged: Lutheran, Odessa, seminary, Ukraine \| Permalink LCC pastor reports from Ukraine seminary Rev. Dr. James Dimitroff, who is fluent in Russian, is beginning a six-week seminary teaching assignment in Odessa , Ukraine. May Day greetings to all from the heart of Odessa, Ukraine! May Day used to be the big political holiday with parades and fireworks. Now things are far more quiet. Arrival here from Toronto via Istanbul was hectic and slightly confusing. The Concordia Seminary, where I am to teach beginning tomorrow, was closed for the Easter holidays. All the students went home to villages and other cities for a few days’ rest with family. Only one student, Valery Verba, returned early to meet me at the Odessa airport. We had never seen one another, but amid the wild crush of frantic Odessans trying to return home from Turkey, Valery somehow found me easily. The Ukraine immigration inspector was more officious. He demanded to know exactly how much cash I was carrying at that moment and the reason for my coming to Ukraine. I told him I was the Concordia Lutheran Seminary instructor but he heard only the word “seminar” and let me through with little trouble. Odessa is in bloom—all the flowering cherry trees, apple trees and linden trees declare the glory of God’s creation. On the surface, it is a charming seaport with more than 1 million people living in and around the coastal areas. Pre-trip reading of a new book just released in 2011 (Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams) spells out the tragic history of this major Ukraine metropolis. True, there were decades of great export deals, a large Jewish cultural influence and the special flavour of Odessan humour. But so much was lost during the war years. Odessa was occupied by Fascist Romania as a “gift” from their Nazi allies. Horrendous pogroms and deportations followed. When the Soviets regained control in 1945, they proclaimed Odessa to be a “Hero City” because it had resisted the Nazis for 87 days. There were only a total of four original “Hero Cities” that earned this special mention. This is important because next week, on May 9, Odessa will celebrate “Victory Day” as a national holiday along with many other former republics of the former Soviet Union. Concordia Lutheran Seminary is a beautiful example of cooperation in international mission. The brand-new building, dedicated in August 2010, is comfortable and clean. Its location on the outskirts of Odessa means there is a haven of peace and quiet for the seminarians to study and apply themselves. This morning, I visited the Lutheran congregation pastored by Rev. Oleg Shewtshenko in downtown Odessa. As Oleg is away in Germany for a few weeks, the main sermon was given by Valery Verba, the only student I’ve met so far. Seminary students fill in at this congregation from time to time. That church too has been beautifully and tastefully rebuilt. It is the landmark St. Paul’s Lutheran, which towers over the city from one of its highest hills. For almost a century, ships arriving at the Odessa port would use the light from St. Paul’s steeple to be their beacon for navigation. Our beacon is Jesus Christ. This morning’s sermon dealt with Our Lord’s powerful words to Thomas and Thomas’ subsequent declaration of new-found faith. In his sermon, Valery Verba asked the parishioners to examine their faith too, so that it is not found to wobble in the face of “Reason’s” so-called challenge. Once again, may I wish you a blessed May Day from the Instructor’s Room in Concordia Lutheran Seminary. Keep the Odessa seminary and its students in your fervent prayers as they prepare for a lifetime of faithful ministry to the Lord and Beacon of our life, Jesus. Early Christianity revisited in modern Ukraine Dr. Threinen (third from left) and eight seminary students recently received copies of The Book of Concord in Russian. It never ceases to amaze me how personally relevant theology often is for students attending seminary classes in foreign mission areas! When I began teaching courses on Early Christianity and the Survey of the Bible at the seminary in Odessa, Ukraine, I expected that a study of the Bible would personally touch the student’s lives and professor alike; it always does in many ways. But the most memorable experience for me came as we looked at the growth of the church in the Early Christianity course. Quite naturally, the topic came up of the way people became members of the Christian church in the centuries following the period of the New Testament. The topic prompted one student to tell his story. His wife came to faith after she accepted an invitation to attend worship from another young mother whom she met in a park. Merely tolerant at first, he came to faith when he saw how his wife changed following her conversion to Christianity and, as he waited for her after church. he observed how happy church people seemed in spite of really difficult times. Similar stories from other students told me this student’s story was not unique. Having come out from under Communism only twenty years ago, people are experiencing conditions much like those of the early Christians. It is simply amazing that despite having the Christian Gospel in this country for more than 1,000 years this should be the case. Reflecting on the first weeks of classes, I am gratified to note that our student body of eight men are relating to one another well. Some have a better background of knowledge and some enter into the discussions more readily than others, but judging by the diligence with which they attend to their studies, all are serious about becoming pastors in the church. For some it means being apart from their families for periods of six weeks while they attend seminary. For all it will mean facing an uncertain economic future when they are finished seminary training since SELCU congregations have not yet learned to support their pastors. I continue to appreciate the skill Pastor Oleg Schewtschenko brings to translating my lectures, and for the presence of my dear wife, Muriel. Dr. Norman J. Threinen is rector of Concordia Seminary, Odessa, Ukraine 2 Comments \| Ukraine \| Tagged: Christinaity, Lutheran, seminary, Ukraine \| Permalink	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1610
__label__wiki	0.747559	0.747559	The only weekly newspaper locally owned, printed, and published in Lincoln County. The Lincoln County News Serving Maine and Lincoln County for over 140 years Engagements, Weddings, & Births Lincoln County Magazine Submit a Classified or Line Ad Submit Other Lincoln County Courts Ryan Doane, 32, Portland, refusing to submit to arrest or detention, physical force, June 16, 2018, dismissed (other). Michael R. Emond, 33, Augusta, assault, Dec. 27, 2018, $300. Rebecca Fuller, 26, Durham, OUI (alcohol), prior, Sept. 6, 2018, $700, Two Bridges Regional Jail 364 days, all but seven days suspended, probation one year, license suspended three years, registration suspended; violating condition of release, Sept. 6, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail seven days. Adam Giles, 27, Boothbay, domestic violence assault, May 19, 2018, probation violation, Two Bridges Regional Jail nine months, probation revoked; domestic violence assault, priors, Nov. 11, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail two years, six months, all but nine months suspended, probation two years. Alexandre Gorey, 27, Edgecomb, aggravated criminal trespass, Sept. 11, 2016, probation violation, Two Bridges Regional Jail seven days, probation partially revoked, probation continued; theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, priors, July 18, 2018, dismissed (other). Kyle M. Gornto, 26, Southport, criminal threatening, Aug. 24, 2016, probation violation, Two Bridges Regional Jail eight months, probation revoked. Cainin S. Griffin, 22, Wiscasset, operate while license suspended or revoked, prior, Dec. 30, 2018, dismissed (insufficient evidence). Nicholas A. Hodgdon, 24, Boothbay, OUI (alcohol), June 2, 2018, $500, Two Bridges Regional Jail three days, license suspended 150 days; domestic violence assault, June 30, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail 364 days, all but 30 days suspended, probation two years; criminal mischief, June 30, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail seven days; obstructing report of crime, June 30, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail 30 days; violating condition of release, June 30, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail 30 days; violating condition of release, Jan. 24, Two Bridges Regional Jail 30 days. Stephen Hood, 54, Wiscasset, criminal mischief, July 25, 2018, dismissed (other). Franklin T. James Jr., 57, Wiscasset, failing to make oral or written accident report, Nov. 21, 2018, $250; failing to notify of motor vehicle accident, Nov. 21, 2018, dismissed (plea to other charge). Friedrich A. Kattermann, 59, Summerland, Fla., OUI (alcohol) – no test, May 21, 2017, dismissed (plea to other charge); driving to endanger, May 21, 2017, $575, license suspended 30 days. George W. King III, 59, Union, OUI (alcohol), Oct. 14, 2018, dismissed (plea to other charge); driving to endanger, Oct. 14, 2018, $575, license suspended 30 days. Travis D. Lee, 26, Waldoboro, place bait to entice deer, Nov. 10, 2018, $200. Jeffrey R. Luce, 40, Whitefield, arson, June 21, 2012, dismissed, (plea to other charge); hindering apprehension or prosecution, June 10, 2012, Two Bridges Regional Jail five years, all but six months suspended, probation three years, restitution $262,700. Vincent P. Maltese, 53, Jefferson, dissemination of sexually explicit material, Aug. 16, 2016, dismissed (plea to other charge); possess sexually explicit material of minor under 12, Jan. 31, 2017, Two Bridges Regional Jail five years, all but nine months suspended, probation three years; nine counts possess sexually explicit material of minor under 12, Jan. 31, 2017, Two Bridges Regional Jail nine months; two counts violating condition of release, Nov. 15, 2017, Two Bridges Regional Jail 90 days. Kodi E. Merrill, 33, Waldoboro, burglary, Aug. 7, 2018, Maine Department of Corrections four years; theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, Aug. 7, 2018, priors, Department of Corrections four years; burglary, Sept. 5, 2018, Department of Corrections five years, all suspended, probation three years, restitution $2,660; two counts theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, priors, Sept. 5, 2018, Department of Corrections five years, all suspended, probation three years, restitution $2,660; three counts theft by receiving stolen property, priors, Sept. 5, 2018, Department of Corrections five years, all suspended, probation three years, restitution $2,660; attaching false plates, Sept. 5, 2018, unconditional discharge; theft by unauthorized use of property, priors, Sept. 5, 2018, Department of Corrections five years, all suspended, probation three years, restitution $2,660. Cassandra Miller, 25, Waldoboro, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, Nov. 23, 2017, Department of Corrections 364 days, all suspended, probation one year, restitution $6,511.50. Chelsea Morton, 22, Boothbay, criminal mischief, June 26, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail seven days; domestic violence assault, Dec. 13, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail 364 days, all but seven days suspended, probation one year; violating condition of release, Dec. 13, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail seven days. Jasmine M. Page, 21, Boothbay, OUI (alcohol), Aug. 31, 2018, dismissed (plea to other charge); driving to endanger, Aug. 31, 2018, $575, Two Bridges Regional Jail 72 hours, license suspended 30 days; failing to notify of motor vehicle accident, Aug. 31, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail 48 hours. Norman A. Palmer, 31, Nobleboro, operate after habitual offender revocation, prior, Feb. 16, 2017, probation violation, Two Bridges Regional Jail 30 days, probation partially revoked, probation continued; allow minor to possess or consume liquor, Nov. 23, 2018, $1,000, Two Bridges Regional Jail 30 days. Cameron J. Pease, 21, Cushing, failing to notify of motor vehicle accident, Oct. 29, 2018, $250. Joseph A. Seigars, 81, Damariscotta, criminal attempt, Sept. 4, 2017, dismissed (plea to other charge); assault, Sept. 4, 2017, $300. Nicholas C. Sellick, 33, Rockland, fail to appear for disclosure or contempt hearing, Aug. 17, 2016, dismissed (other). James R. Simmons, 44, Nobleboro, arson, June 21, 2012, Two Bridges Regional Jail four years, all but five months suspended, probation three years, restitution $262,700. Sarah A. Stewart, 25, Wiscasset, two counts allowing dog to be at large, Oct. 9, 2018, $50 each count. Edward Strozier II, 48, Wiscasset, OUI (alcohol), Jan. 2, $500, license suspended 150 days. Ronald Weeks Sr., 62, Jefferson, violating condition of release, Nov. 5, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail 24 hours. Larry Wellman, 40, Waldoboro, theft by receiving stolen property, Dec. 5, 2016, Two Bridges Regional Jail 21 days, restitution $1,250; commercial shellfishing without a license, second, Dec. 5, 2016, $250; criminal trespass, Dec. 11, 2016, Two Bridges Regional Jail 21 days; burglary, Dec. 11, 2016, dismissed (plea to other charge); theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, March 10, 2017, dismissed (other). Russell G. York, 58, Rockland, violating protection from abuse order, Dec. 11, 2018, Two Bridges Regional Jail 48 hours. To stay informed on local happenings, sign up for our newsletter! 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__label__cc	0.648386	0.351614	Show Related Q&As Bachelor's in Geology Geologist Schools and Training Programs Where Can I Find Free Online Geology Courses? Laboratory Technology Associate's Degree How Do I Become a Geology... Physical Sciences FAQs Science FAQs How Do I Become a Geology Technician? Explore the career requirements for a geology technician. Get the facts about job duties, education requirements, salary and job outlook to determine if this is the right career for you. Schools offering Engineering & Technology Management degrees can also be found in these popular choices. What Do Geology Technicians Do? Geology technicians work as assistants for geologists. Most specialize in either field work or lab work. Those who work in the field collect relevant specimens, such as rocks and soil, and prepare them for analysis in the lab. Those who work in the lab run tests and compile data for analysis and interpretation. 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__label__cc	0.524969	0.475031	Rachael Harratt from Century 21 Platinum Agents. Four local businesses, individuals finalists in state awards GYMPIE will be well represented at the 2020 REIQ Awards for Excellence in March, with several high performing local businesses and individuals making the list of finalists. The REIQ Awards for Excellence recognise the real estate profession's top performers across the state. The awards will be presented on Saturday, March 14, in Brisbane as part of a gala event celebrating real estate in Queensland. Rachael Harratt from Gympie's Century 21 Platinum Agents is up for Business Development Manager of the Year (Property Managament Office). Rachael Harratt Ms Harratt has been with Century 21 since it first opened in 2015, starting as a senior property manager in Tin Can Bay, and working her way up to Business Development Manager for Gympie and Tin Can Bay. Starting her real estate career in 2005 in Murray Bridge, South Australia, she moved to Tin Can Bay with her family and continued her passion to manage properties. "I am so proud to be a finalist. It's an honour to be recognised alongside the best business development managers in Queensland," Ms Harratt said. "I couldn't be a finalist at this level without the fantastic team I have around me at Century21." Laguna Real Estate Gympie is nominated for Regional Residential Agency of the Year, and Johnathon Merton of Laguna Real Estate Gympie is a finalist for Regional Salesperson of the Year. Mr Merton said the nomination was "fantastic, especially the fact that what I do really doesn't feel like work". Johnathon Merton Anchor Realty is also a finalist for Regional Residential Agency of the Year. Anchor agent Tina Tillinger said the nomination was "testament to our hard work, exceptional results, and commitment to our clients". Tina Tillinger from Anchor Realty, Gympie. The broader Laguna Real Estate is a finalist for Large Residential Agency of the Year and Community Service Agency, and Eric Sutherland from Laguna Real Estate is a finalist for Corporate Support Person of the Year. Owner of Century 21 Platinum Agents Billy Mitchell	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1621
__label__cc	0.525451	0.474549	Law Firm in Toronto, Ontario practicing family law and estates law Thomas J. MacLennan Dividing Assets Custody & Access Child & Spousal Support Changes to Support, Custody or Access Business Interests & Business Valuation Marriage & Cohabitation Agreements FOR A CONSULTATION, CALL: 4 1 6 - 5 9 1 - 1 3 5 4 Law Office of Thomas J. MacLennan Lawyers Feed the Hungry Home › Blog › Lawyers Feed the Hungry By Thomas J. MacLennan January 5, 2010 lawyers, lawyers feed the hungry, volunteerism The legal profession has a long tradition of charity and volunteerism. I am happy to be a supporter of the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Lawyers Feed the Hungry program. I have also volunteered my time at the program; preparing and serving meals, and cleaning up. The Law Society has operated the program for the past 11 years. Four sit-down meals and three take-away meals are served each week, for a total of 1,600 meals weekly. The program operates out of the Law Society’s Cafeteria at Osgoode Hall in at 130 Queen Street West, Toronto. It is humbling to serve people in need, and I am honoured to be a supporter of this good work. The program costs about $6,000.00 each week, and although most of the support comes from lawyers and the Law Society, donations are welcome from all (plus, you’ll get a tax receipt). About Thomas J. MacLennan Custody Trials and Costs David and Goliath: How a Young Lawyer Took on Wells Fargo and Saved a Family Home from Foreclosure Unbundled legal services — engaging a lawyer for part of a court case By Thomas J. MacLennan costs, family law, lawyers, self-represented, substantial indemnity, unbundled services Barrister & Solicitor Sending this message does not create a solicitor and client relationship Call to Arrange a Consultation Thomas J. MacLennan brings a sense of calm and rationality to challenging legal issues. Contact The Law Office of Thomas J. MacLennan through our online form or call 416-591-1354 to arrange a consultation. Copyright © 2015 DAHZ All Rights Reserved. Dejure	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1631
__label__wiki	0.962266	0.962266	Robert Curvin Robert Curvin former Vice President of Communications for the Ford Foundation was replaced by Alex Wilde in 2000. "Curvin, a former member of the Editorial Board of the New York Times, joined the Foundation in 1988 to head the Foundation’s Urban Poverty Program. In 1996, he was tapped to fill a new vice president’s position created to place a stronger emphasis on communications." [1] Former Director, Rand Corporation 1 Employment 2 Fellowships 3 Other Professional Activities 5 Former Activities 2000 - 2003 President, Greentree Foundation 1996 - 2000 Vice President, Communications, The Ford Foundation 1988 - 1996 Director, Urban Poverty Program, The Ford Foundation 1984 - 1988 Dean, Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions, The New School for Social Research 1978 - 1983 Member of the Editorial Board, The New York Times 1974 - 1978 Associate Professor, Political Science, Brooklyn College 1968 - 1970 Community Development Specialist, Rutgers University 1966 - 1968 Director, Rutgers Community Action Training Program 1965 - 1966 Director, Harlem Leadership Training Institute, New York 1960 - 1965 Caseworker and Supervisor, Essex County Welfare Board 1976 - 1977 Ford Foundation Travel Study 1971 - 1973 Wallace Eljabar Fellowship (studies in New Jersey) Princeton University Other Professional Activities 1973 - 1977 Research Associate, Brookings Institution 1970 - 1973 Consultant to National Affairs Division of the Ford Foundation 1978 - Trustee, The Victoria Foundation 2000 - Trustee, Fund for the City of New York 2000 - Trustee, Humanity In Action 1999 - Trustee, Beth Israel Hospital 1999 - Trustee, [New Jersey Institute for Social Justice]] 2000 - Trustee, Center for Health Care Strategies 2001 - Trustee, RAND Corporation Former Activities 1977 - 1981 Trustee, Princeton University 1987 - 1997 Member, National Academy of Public Administration 1986 - 1991 Director, The Revson Foundation 1979 - 1997 Member of Advisory Committee, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University 1986 - 1988 Director, Broad National Bank Retrieved from "https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Curvin&oldid=510599"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1635
__label__cc	0.521809	0.478191	Rita Agarwal Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Dr Agarwal is a Pediatric Anesthesiologist who went to medical school and completed her anesthesia residency at Baylor College of Medicine, with a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Denver Children's Hospital. Her interests include pediatric acute pain management, regional anesthesia, ambulatory anesthesia and neuro-anesthesia and medical student, reisident fellow education. She was the Pediatric Anesthesia Program Director at the University of Colorado for 18 years and the Course Director for the Colorado Review of Anesthesiology for Surgicenters and Hospitals for 17. She has served as the Editor for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Newsletter, Communication Chair and member of the Board Of Directors. She is immediate past Chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics:Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Management, and the Vice President for the Society of Pediatric Pain Management. She is delighted to be at Stanford and Lucille Packard Children's Hospital Chair, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Anesthsiology (2015 - 2017) President, Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine (2019 - 2021) Pediatric Anesthesia Trauma Liaison, Stanford (2015 - Present) Associate Director Pediatric Anesthesia Education, Stanford (2014 - Present) Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations Junior Editor, American Board of Anesthesiology: Pediatric Anesthesiology Examination (2009 - Present) Senior Editor, American Board of Anesthesiology (2011 - Present) Director -At -Large, Pediatric Anesthesia Program Directors (2010 - 2014) Course and Program Director, Colorado Review of Anesthesiology for Surgicenters and Hospitals (CRASH) (1997 - 2015) Treasurer, Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine (2014 - Present) At-large Director, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (2006 - 2014) Chair-Elect, American Academy of Pediatrics:Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Management (2013 - Present) Residency:Baylor College of Medicine Anesthesiology Residency (1990) TX Internship:Baylor College of Medicine Surgery Residency (1987) TX Fellowship:Childrens Hospital of Colorado Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship (1991) CO Medical Education:Baylor College of Medicine Registrar (1986) TX Board Certification: Pediatric Anesthesia, American Board of Anesthesiology (2013) Pediatric ANEsthesiology, Denver Children's Hospital, Pediatric Anesthesiology (1991) Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Anesthesiology (1990) Board Certification: Anesthesia, American Board of Anesthesiology (1992) MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Medicine (1986) BA, Texas A&M, Biology (1982) Academic agarwalr@stanford.edu Administrative Contact Kathryn De Rama Pediatric Anesthesia Division Administrator kderama@stanford.edu Clinical Anesthesia 300 Pasteur Dr Rm H3580 MC 5640 Stanford, CA 94305 Curriculum Vitae PDF SPPM Newsletter Editorial SPA News letter editorials SPPM Newsletter Editorial Winter 2015 Update from the AAAP Providers Network AAP News 2014 AAP News Survery on Combined Pediatric and Anesthesiology Programs CSA On line Blog Current Research and Scholarly Interests Part of a multi=institutional national group comparing various techniques of analgesia used in the management of surgical repairs. The first surgical procedure we are studying is Pecturs Excavatum repair. Each institution follows its usual protocols and data is collected on a variety of outcomes, including length of stay, pain scores, opioid consumption, time to start walking and any long term issues. Once data collection and analysis of that procedure is complete we will start looking at Spinal Fusion Practice Characteristics of Board-certified Pediatric Anesthesiologists in the US: A Nationwide Survey CUREUS Muffly, M., Scheinker, D., Muffly, T., Singleton, M., Agarwal, R., Honkanen, A. 2019; 11 (9) View details for DOI 10.7759/cureus.5745 View details for Web of Science ID 000487712800010 The Society for Pediatric Anesthesiology Recommendations for the Use of Opioids in Children During the Perioperative Period. Paediatric anaesthesia Cravero, J. P., Agarwal, R., Berde, C., Birmingham, P., Cote, C. J., Galinkin, J., Isaac, L., Kost-Byerly, S., Krodel, D., Maxwell, L., Voepel-Lewis, T., Sethna, N., Wilder, R. 2019 Opioids have long held a prominent role in the management of perioperative pain in adults and children. Published reports concerning the appropriate, and inappropriate, use of these medications in pediatric patients have appeared in various publications over the last 50 years. For this document, the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia appointed a taskforce to evaluate the available literature and formulate recommendations with respect to the most salient aspects of perioperative opioid administration in children. The recommendations are graded based on the strength of the available evidence, with consensus of the experts applied for those issues where evidence is not available. The goal of the recommendations was to address the most important issues concerning opioid administration to children after surgery, including appropriate assessment of pain, monitoring of patients on opioid therapy, opioid dosing considerations, side effects of opioid treatment, strategies for opioid delivery, and assessment of analgesic efficacy. Regular updates are planned with a re-release of guidelines every two years. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. View details for DOI 10.1111/pan.13639 View details for PubMedID 30929307 Practice Characteristics of Board-certified Pediatric Anesthesiologists in the US: A Nationwide Survey. Cureus Muffly, M., Scheinker, D., Muffly, T., Singleton, M., Agarwal, R., Honkanen, A. 2019; 11 (9): e5745 Introduction We conducted a survey to describe the practice characteristics of anesthesiologists who have passed the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) Pediatric Anesthesiology Certification Examination. Methods In July 2017, a list of anesthesiologists who had taken the ABA Pediatric Anesthesiology Certification Examination (hereafter referred to as "pediatric anesthesiologists") was obtained from the American Board of Anesthesiologists (theaba.org). Email contact information for these individuals was collected from departmental rosters, email distribution lists, hospital or anesthesia group profiles, manuscript author contact information, website source code, and other publicly available online sources. The survey was designed using Qualtrics (Qualtrics, Provo, Utah; Seattle, Washington), a web-based tool, to ascertain residency/fellowship training history and current practice characteristics that includes: years in practice, clinical work hours per week, primary hospital setting, practice type, supervision model, estimated percentage of cases by patient age group, and percentage of respondents who cared for any patient undergoing a fellowship-level index cases within the previous year. The invitation to complete the survey included a financial incentive - the chance to win one of twenty $50 Amazon gift cards. Results There were 3,492 anesthesiologists who had taken the Pediatric Anesthesiology Certification Examination since 2013. Surveys were sent to those whom an email address was identified (2,681) and 962 complete survey responses were received (35.9%, 962/2,681). Over 80% (785) of respondents completed a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship. Of these, 485 respondents (50.4%) work in academic practice, 212 (22.0%) in private practice, 233 (24.2%) in private practice and have academic affiliations, and 32 (3.3%) as locum tenens or in other practice settings. The majority of respondents (64.3%) in academic practice work in freestanding children's hospitals. Pediatric anesthesiologists in academic practice and private practice with academic affiliations reported caring for a greater number of younger children and doing a wider variety of index cases than respondents in private practice. Conclusion The extent to which pediatric anesthesiologists care for pediatric patients - particularly young children and those undergoing complex cases - varies. The variability in practice characteristics is likely a result of differences in hospital type, anesthesia practice type, geographic location, and other factors. View details for PubMedCentralID PMC6825435 Perioperative Management of the Pediatric Patient on Medicinal Marijuana: What Anesthesiologists Should Know. Anesthesia and analgesia Flannery, K. M., D'Souza, G., Agarwal, R. 2019 In 2018, 29 states allow the use of medicinal marijuana. In these states, minors, with parental permission, are granted access. Use has increased in some states, although there remains a paucity of clear evidence regarding usefulness and dosing. There are 2 Food and Drug Administration-approved synthetic derivatives. One purified compound was just approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and another is undergoing Food and Drug Administration review. This article will review the literature regarding the use of each of these compounds in the literature, with particular attention to data in children. The history, known pharmacology, data from nonmedicinal use, current evidence, and anesthetic considerations will be described. View details for DOI 10.1213/ANE.0000000000003956 Perioperative Management and In-Hospital Outcomes After Minimally Invasive Repair of Pectus Excavatum: A Multicenter Registry Report From the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Improvement Network. Anesthesia and analgesia Muhly, W. T., Beltran, R. J., Bielsky, A., Bryskin, R. B., Chinn, C., Choudhry, D. K., Cucchiaro, G., Fernandez, A., Glover, C. D., Haile, D. T., Kost-Byerly, S., Schnepper, G. D., Zurakowski, D., Agarwal, R., Bhalla, T., Eisdorfer, S., Huang, H., Maxwell, L. G., Thomas, J. J., Tjia, I., Wilder, R. T., Cravero, J. P. 2018 BACKGROUND: There are few comparative data on the analgesic options used to manage patients undergoing minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum (MIRPE). The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Improvement Network was established to investigate outcomes for procedures where there is significant management variability. For our first study, we established a multicenter observational database to characterize the analgesic strategies used to manage pediatric patients undergoing MIRPE. Outcome data from the participating centers were used to assess the association between analgesic strategy and pain outcomes.METHODS: Fourteen institutions enrolled patients from June 2014 through August 2015. Network members agreed to an observational methodology where each institution managed patients based on their institutional standards and protocols. There was no requirement to standardize care. Patients were categorized based on analgesic strategy: epidural catheter (EC), paravertebral catheter (PVC), wound catheter (WC), no regional (NR) analgesia, and intrathecal morphine techniques. Primary outcomes, pain score and opioid consumption by postoperative day (POD), for each technique were compared while adjusting for confounders using multivariable modeling that included 5 covariates: age, sex, number of bars, Haller index, and use of preoperative pain medication. Pain scores were analyzed using repeated-measures analysis of variance with Bonferroni correction. Opioid consumption was analyzed using a multivariable quantile regression.RESULTS: Data were collected on 348 patients and categorized based on primary analgesic strategy: EC (122), PVC (57), WC (41), NR (120), and intrathecal morphine (8). Compared to EC, daily median pain scores were higher in patients managed with PVC (POD 0), WC (POD 0, 1, 2, 3), and NR (POD 0, 1, 2), respectively (P < .001-.024 depending on group). Daily opioid requirements were higher in patients managed with PVC (POD 0, 1), WC (POD 0, 1, 2), and NR (POD 0, 1, 2) when compared to patients managed with EC (P < .001).CONCLUSIONS: Our data indicate variation in pain management strategies for patients undergoing MIRPE within our network. The results indicate that most patients have mild-to-moderate pain postoperatively regardless of analgesic management. Patients managed with EC had lower pain scores and opioid consumption in the early recovery period compared to other treatment strategies. Concerns Regarding the Single Operator Model of Sedation in Young Children PEDIATRICS Agarwal, R., Kaplan, A., Brown, R., Cote, C. J. 2018; 141 (4) The Pediatric Anesthesiology Workforce: Projecting Supply and Trends 2015-2035 ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA Muffly, M. K., Singleton, M., Agarwal, R., Scheinker, D., Miller, D., Muffly, T. M., Honkanen, A. 2018; 126 (2): 568?78 A workforce analysis was conducted to predict whether the projected future supply of pediatric anesthesiologists is balanced with the requirements of the inpatient pediatric population. The specific aims of our analysis were to (1) project the number of pediatric anesthesiologists in the future workforce; (2) project pediatric anesthesiologist-to-pediatric population ratios (0-17 years); (3) project the mean number of inpatient pediatric procedures per pediatric anesthesiologist; and (4) evaluate the effect of alternative projections of individual variables on the model projections through 2035.The future number of pediatric anesthesiologists is determined by the current supply, additions to the workforce, and departures from the workforce. We previously compiled a database of US pediatric anesthesiologists in the base year of 2015. The historical linear growth rate for pediatric anesthesiology fellowship positions was determined using the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Data Resource Books from 2002 to 2016. The future number of pediatric anesthesiologists in the workforce was projected given growth of pediatric anesthesiology fellowship positions at the historical linear growth rate, modeling that 75% of graduating fellows remain in the pediatric anesthesiology workforce, and anesthesiologists retire at the current mean retirement age of 64 years old. The baseline model projections were accompanied by age- and gender-adjusted anesthesiologist supply, and sensitivity analyses of potential variations in fellowship position growth, retirement, pediatric population, inpatient surgery, and market share to evaluate the effect of each model variable on the baseline model. The projected ratio of pediatric anesthesiologists to pediatric population was determined using the 2012 US Census pediatric population projections. The projected number of inpatient pediatric procedures per pediatric anesthesiologist was determined using the Kids' Inpatient Database historical data to project the future number of inpatient procedures (including out of operating room procedures).In 2015, there were 5.4 pediatric anesthesiologists per 100,000 pediatric population and a mean (±standard deviation [SD]) of 262 ±8 inpatient procedures per pediatric anesthesiologist. If historical trends continue, there will be an estimated 7.4 pediatric anesthesiologists per 100,000 pediatric population and a mean (±SD) 193 ±6 inpatient procedures per pediatric anesthesiologist in 2035. If pediatric anesthesiology fellowship positions plateau at 2015 levels, there will be an estimated 5.7 pediatric anesthesiologists per 100,000 pediatric population and a mean (±SD) 248 ±7 inpatient procedures per pediatric anesthesiologist in 2035.If historical trends continue, the growth in pediatric anesthesiologist supply may exceed the growth in both the pediatric population and inpatient procedures in the 20-year period from 2015 to 2035. Fifty years of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Anesthesiology: a history of our specialty. Paediatric anaesthesia Agarwal, R., Riefe, J., Houck, C. S. 2017; 27 (6): 560-570 The American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2015. The Section was one of the first and only subspecialty organizations in anesthesiology at the time. This special article will focus on the contributions of the Section to the practice of pediatric anesthesiology in the areas of advocacy, education and member contributions. In 1986, the Section created the Robert M. Smith Award to honor those members who had made significant advances in the practice of pediatric anesthesiology. It is named after one of the Section founders, an influential educator, inventor, and researcher in our field. We will focus the latter part of the article on the Robert M. Smith award winners to illustrate the contributions of the Section and its members to the development of the field of pediatric anesthesiology. Airway management in laryngotracheal injuries from blunt neck trauma in children PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA Chatterjee, D., Agarwal, R., Bajaj, L., Teng, S. N., Prager, J. D. 2016; 26 (2): 132-138 Airway management in laryngotracheal injuries from blunt neck trauma in children. Paediatric anaesthesia Chatterjee, D., Agarwal, R., Bajaj, L., Teng, S. N., Prager, J. D. 2016; 26 (2): 132?38 Pediatric laryngotracheal injuries from blunt neck trauma are extremely rare, but can be potentially catastrophic. Early diagnosis and skillful airway management is critical in avoiding significant morbidity and mortality associated with these cases. We present a case of a patient who suffered a complete tracheal transection and cervical spine fracture following a clothesline injury to the anterior neck. A review of the mechanisms of injury, clinical presentation, initial airway management, and anesthetic considerations in laryngotracheal injuries from blunt neck trauma in children are presented. Pain and Pain Relief Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care Gardner, S. L., Hagedorn, M. E., Agarwal, R. 2015 Educate parents on benefits of smoking cessation before child?s surgery AAP: News Teng, S. N., Agarwal, R. 2015; 36 (13) View details for DOI 10.1542/aapnews.2015369-13 Use of oral opioids during tonsillectomy re-evalauted AAP News Agarwal, R. 2014; 35 (13): 13 Neonatal Anesthesia Anesthesia Secrets Agarwal, R. Elsevier. 2013 A practical Approach to the Pediatric Neurosurgical Patient A practical Approach ot Neuroanesthesia Dean, K., Agarwal, R. 2013 Pediatric Anesthesia Anesthesia Secrets Agarwal, R. Elsevier. 2013 Acute Pain Services Pediatric Anesthesia: Basic Principles, State of the Art, Future ? Update Agarwal, R., Polaner, D. PMPH-USA. 2011 Improvement of intraoperative samatosensory evoked potentials by ketamine PAEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA Agarwal, R., Roitman, K. J., Stokes, M. 1998; 8 (3): 263-266 Many anaesthetics effect the latency and amplitude of somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP). We present a patient who underwent two anterior/posterior spine fusions (A/PSF) at age 11 and 12 years old after resection of a spinal astrocytoma. She did have residual neurologic deficits of her lower extremities. SSEPs were unobtainable during the first surgery using an opioid-based anaesthetic. A ketamine-based anaesthetic was used for the second surgery and SSEPs were easily monitored. No other factors seem to have changed between the two surgeries. The anaesthetic management during each procedure is reviewed and the contributions of other factors to SSEP monitoring discussed. View details for PubMedID 9608975 Faculty by Division PostDocs & Visitors Proposal Preparation & Awards Fellows Funding Compliance & Human Subjects Databases & Informatics Career Development & Mentoring Spectrum Child Health Statistical Unit Medical Student Training Fellowship Training Division Specialty Clinics Clinical Community Partnership Pediatric Executives / Associate Chairs Department Webmaster	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1643
__label__cc	0.50715	0.49285	Fatherhood Adventures Fish ‘N OC The Resorter Revisited Vanishing Ocean City Best Beats Faces in Places Arts Around The Area People In Society Spotlight on Wicomico Social Lounge Priceless Each Friday, 52 Weeks a Year! E-dition City, Chamber Merge Tourism Guides Apr 16,2009 by DispatchAdmin OCEAN CITY – The Town of Ocean City and the Chamber of Commerce came to an agreement this week to merge each entity’s tourism publication into one joint book that will not only create a single message, but will also save the town a substantial amount of money. By merging the “Sea for Yourself” guide and the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce “Ocean City Maryland Vacation” guide, Ocean City will save upwards of $95,000 and ease expenses on the business community, which, in the past, has purchased advertisements in both publications. “This has been discussed for many years, and we’ve finally come to an understanding to merge the two,” said Assistant Tourism Director Debbie Travers. “What this does is save the business community money, streamlines the fulfillment process and puts it all under one umbrella and message.” Chamber of Commerce President Todd Ferrante said the town needed a “single-message” tourism guide and not the mixed message created by the presence of two different publications. “We plan on working together with the town and sharing ideas to make this a great publication so this is a win-win for everyone,” said Ferrante. “This move will improve the quality of the book and showcase Ocean City for what it is.” The agreement between the town and the chamber was outlined in a 29- item MOU (Memorandum of Understanding), which the council voted unanimously to approve, showing the split in responsibilities for the new guide. The town will have creative control over the design and editorial content in the publication, and will pay for the cost of the design and the layout as well. In addition, the town will pay the chamber a fee per fulfilled requests from the new town website (www.ococean.com) and the 1-800-OCOCEAN hotline. In comparison, the chamber will handle the printing, postage and handling costs, as well as the bulk distribution of the publication, which according to Ferrante, “will increase and will be extended farther north in order to get the word out about Ocean City in new markets.” The chamber will also sell all the advertisements in the book and will retain all the revenue, according to the MOU. The merger was welcomed with open arms from the council, who agreed that it was a long time coming. “This is wonderful,” said Councilwoman Margaret Pillas. “I’m glad that this is finally going to happen.” Mayor Rick Meehan gave a nod to Councilman Joe Hall, who has been pushing for this merger since he started serving the Ocean City community in 2000. “Joe, you have been talking about this since you started on the council and you should be proud of where we are today,” said Meehan. “Sometimes good things take time, and this is one of those things, especially when it’s private enterprise and the city working together, which has grown in leaps and bounds in the last few years.” Although the town has the official “final say” in the content of the new book, Ferrante noted that the chamber will have a voice in the content and that both the town and the chamber will have an equal visual presence in the new tourism guide. The town and the chamber will both come to an agreement on how many publications will be printed, and the number of pages in the book has also yet to be determined. In comparison, the Sea For Yourself guide was 120 pages in 2008, but chopped to 88 pages for 2009 during October’s budget cuts. The chamber’s Ocean City Maryland Visitor’s Guide in 2008 had 136 pages. Regardless, the mayor said that the merger is a better move for all involved parties. “Not only will we have a first-class piece, and not only will it go out to more people, but it will also be saving the town of Ocean City and the business community money, and creates revenue for the Chamber of Commerce,” said Meehan. Hundreds Attend Offshore Wind Hearing In Ocean City OCEAN CITY — The detriments and merits of super-sized wind turbines offshore were the subject of Saturday’s five-hour-plus public hearing, which ended with state officials mulling a re-opening of an evidentiary hearing on the proposed projects.In December, the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) issued an order opining the proposed changes in wind turbine heights for… Read more » OCPD Reports Drop In Applicants For 2020 Season OCEAN CITY – As the Ocean City Police Department prepares for the upcoming summer season, Police Chief Ross Buzzuro shared his recruitment concerns this week.On Monday, Buzzuro presented the Ocean City Police Commission with an update on recruitment efforts for seasonal officers and public safety aides.“We have seen a dropoff in candidates,” he said, “about… Read more » Resort Weighs Relaxed Fees, Incentives To Grow Residential Base OCEAN CITY — Encouraging more year-round residents to make the resort their home by relaxing some of the fees associated with new construction or creating other incentives was the subject of debate this week with a decision made to continue pursuing a program.For several years, the Mayor and Council have heard concerns from property owners… Read more » Wicomico Opts For Post-Labor Day School Start Date SALISBURY – The school board voted this week to approve an amended calendar for the 2020-2021 academic year after receiving more than 1,600 responses from the community.On Tuesday, the Wicomico County Board of Education approved on second reading a 2020-2021 school calendar for that will begin the academic year on Sept. 8 and end the… Read more » Sign Up for the Daily Buzz E-News to receive the latest news around the area delivered to your inbox. 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__label__cc	0.677664	0.322336	academia, stepper reading, The Wire Juking the academic stats – the ivory tower game explained. May 3, 2015 marchudson Leave a comment Is it possible to be cynical enough? That’s one of those questions I ask myself occasionally (daily/hourly) and usually when I begin to chide myself for corrosiveness, along comes confirmation/warning that I haven’t even got to cynicism basecamp. The latest timely warning is “Ring a Ring Roses: Quality Journals and Gamesmanship in Management Studies.” This is an article by Stuart Macdonald and Jacqueline Kam, that appeared in the Journal of Management Studies (where else?) Journal of Management Studies 44:4 June 2007 Here’s the abstract A paper in one of the quality journals of Management Studies is much more important as a unit of measurement than as a contribution to knowledge. It measures academic performance and determines much academic funding. There is consequently some pressure to publish in quality journals. But quality journals are defined in terms that are themselves defined in terms of quality journals – a circularity that explains both the paper’s title and the frustration of those who do not mix in these circles. We examine the gamesmanship of publishing in quality journals. Findings from a survey of heads of Management Studies departments in UK universities suggest that such gamesmanship is common. Cunning and calculation now support scholarship in Management Studies. Gamesmanship will remain common until the rewards for publishing attach to the content of papers, to what is published rather than where it is published. We propose a ‘Tinkerbell Solution’: without belief in the value of a paper in a quality journal, the game is no longer worth playing. Before unleashing a bunch of quotes on you, with comments attached, you should definitely watch this 100 second clip from season 4 of The Wire; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQI_Te3lmgY (Soz, embedding disabled) Poor Prebs. He thinks he’s left the game-playing-at-the-expense-of-the-stated-mission behind him when he left the Baltimore Police Department. But the game is omnipresent, omniscient. It stalks you … “Wherever you go, there you are.” So, a sample of the quotes I loved Rejection rate is also an important guide to quality in journals: the higher the rejection rate, the higher the quality….Only spoilsports will observe that the more authors are encouraged to submit their papers to quality journals, the higher will be the rejection rates of these journals, leading to an increase in their quality, yet greater incentive to submit papers, a higher rejection rate still, and yet more quality. Only cynics and statisticians will observe that as rejection rates rise past 90 per cent, the reliability of screening plummets (Miner, 2003). (Macdonald and Kam, 2007: 642) University departments play the game. Their managers encourage publication in quality journals because the return is great and because the measure of performance allows those who know nothing about a subject to judge the work of those who do…. In some French institutions, €12,000 is the going rate for a publication in a quality journal. In Australia, just about to introduce its own version of the RAE, there are similar enticements. Melbourne Business School pays $A15,000 cash for every paper published in the Top 40 list compiled by the Financial Times…. As these payments are per author rather than per paper, authors can bestow riches on favoured colleagues, presumably in return for similar favours. External authors get nothing so collaboration beyond the department is unwise. Cutting long papers into two or three, however, is logical. There is little incentive to write anything for practitioners. (emphasis added) Conspiracies against the laity, much?? Finally – The canny editor cultivates a cadre of authors who will boost the measured quality of his journal, authors who cite themselves and each other, who dedicate swathes of their papers to reviewing past work, authors whose work is so anodyne and so generic that it can be cited almost anywhere. Recently the wife told me that I wasn’t a cynic, but rather a disappointed romantic (I shot back an unrepeatable joke that would get me sacked) Next up – “games,” Wittgenstein and family resemblance Previous PostLetter on #climate and business that the FT didn’t publish :(Next PostThe game is the “Game” … and the “family resemblance concept”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1654
__label__wiki	0.788238	0.788238	MariaDB positioned as Leader on its Gartner Magic Quadrant debut MariaDB debuts in Gartner Magic Quadrant positioned as a Leader Placement in Leaders Quadrant in Operational Database Management Systems Magic Quadrant L ONDON, UK and HELSINKI, Finland – October 30, 2014 – MariaDB Corporation, formerly SkySQL, a global open source database software leader, today announced its positioning as a “Leader” in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems (DBMS). The Gartner DBMS Magic Quadrant can be considered the definitive source for competitive comparisons in the information technology industry. A Magic Quadrant offers visual summaries and in-depth analyses of the direction and maturity of markets and the vendors which play within them. Patrik Sallner, MariaDB CEO, commented: “This Magic Quadrant represents the results of evaluation by Gartner. Our customers reported they are seeing particular value in MariaDB products and ecosystem. Being able to offer multiple storage engines, as well as integrations with NoSQL and other graph-based storage engines, makes it easy for developers and database administrators to work with MariaDB.” “We also continue to build deeper relationships with our Linux partners such as Red Hat, IBM and SUSE to ensure MariaDB provides world-class technology which secures the future of enterprise applications and data.” With its adoption growing at an annual rate of over 400% since launch, MariaDB offers a solid alternative to the Big Four database vendors. Its technology, used by web giants such as Wikipedia and Booking.com, spans SQL and NoSQL ecosystems, is cloud-ready and supports legacy MySQL applications. The Magic Quadrant is available at this link; a Gartner subscription is required. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems, Donald Feinberg, Merv Adrian, Nick Heudecker, October 16, 2014. [ENDS] About MariaDB Corporation MariaDB Corporation is a leading open source relational database provider in the $10bn global market. Built by the luminaries behind the legendary MySQL project, its engineer-led team totals over half a millennium of transactional database technology experience. MariaDB is developed by a vibrant community that nurtures new talent and is committed to transparent innovation in order to achieve its aim of building the world’s leading database platform for cloud. Today, MariaDB has over 2 million users globally and 500 customers in over 30 countries, including global brands such as HP, Craigslist, Deutsche Telekom, Virgin Mobile and Booking.com. Open Source technology leaders such as Red Hat, SUSE, Rackspace and IBM have chosen MariaDB as their database of choice for their customers who include some of the world’s largest enterprises. For more information, email info@gartner.com or visit gartner.com. Ed Stevenson / Paul Maher Positive Marketing Email: estevenson@positivemarketing.com / pmaher@positivemarketing.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1655
__label__cc	0.568261	0.431739	How bad is kickboxing for your brain? I'm not asking for medical advice, I'm just asking this out of sheer curiosity: To me it seems that kickboxing is the best kind of workout I could get, nothing else gets me in shape quite as quickly and as well. But as a noncompetitive kickboxer, I've always wondered what doctors would say about the potential for braindamage with kickboxing. I mean, is it something that always occurs, or is it incidental? Sometimes when I'm hit well (about 2 - 3 times every training), I see stars and feel a little lightheaded. I've always wondered what's actually going on in my body when that happens. I mean, most sports tend to damage you a little, but in the long run the gains are worth it and you heal from the damage. Or is the damage you do to yourself with kickboxing beyond healing (and if so, is there a point of no return)? sparring kickboxing health brain-injury mattm♦ Great question. I gave it a shot, but I hope we get someone with extensive kickboxing and/or relevant medical experience to weigh in with some facts. – Dave Liepmann May 23 '12 at 16:14 you see stars and feel light headed 2-3 times per training session? that's bad. those are both pretty good signs that your brains rattled, and getting damaged. Do you wear head gear and 16 oz gloves when you spar? – Patricia May 24 '12 at 13:18 Why don't you just stop getting hit in the head? It's not kickboxing that's bad for you, it's getting hit hard in the head. And that's bad for you regardless of what you train. – Anon May 25 '12 at 23:41 @Trevoke While that might be a lot of contact (even for kickboxing), it's not so simple to "just stop getting hit in the head" if training hard in a sparring-oriented head-hitting art. – Dave Liepmann May 28 '12 at 1:17 @Trevoke, because I'm not a pro yet. Which is the reason why I'm training (and thus why I'm getting hit a lot). You don't get started in kickboxing and immediately learn how to avoid all of the blows they throw at you. That's impossible for a beginner like me when fighting a more trained opponent. – user474 May 28 '12 at 12:25 I don't think the science is settled to a degree where we can give a solid answer, or make too many specific conclusions. Disclaimer: I'm not a kickboxer, and I haven't studied the subject deeply. Dementia pugilistica Getting hit in the head is not good for your brain. Getting hit a lot in the head is very bad for your brain. That's true regardless of dosage, but large, repeated doses of getting hit in the head over long periods of time are particularly problematic. Medicine has known about the brain damage from boxing and kickboxing for a long time. We have a name for it: Dementia pugilistica...[is a] variant of chronic traumatic encephalopathy... Symptoms and signs of [dementia pugilistica] develop progressively over a long latent period sometimes amounting to decades, with the average time of onset being about 12 to 16 years after the start of a career in boxing. The condition is thought to affect around 15% to 20% of professional boxers. I would argue that there are probably a lot of people with minor brain damage that doesn't rise to the level of dementia pugilistica. That damage might be insignificant, but it exists. This is backed up by more recent studies, as reported in the LA Times: A yearlong study of boxers' and mixed martial-arts fighters' brain activity has found those who fight for more than six years begin to experience damage and those who fight longer than 12 years expose themselves to an even greater decline each time they return to the ring. The degree of brain damage depends greatly on how you train. Competing seriously is definitely a different animal from training hard, and training hard is different again from training casually. Getting your bell rung is a minor concussion, make no mistake, and those are no good. But in terms of serious damage, I bet a lot of people get a handful of minor concussions spread out over a few years of training and don't suffer any major brain damage. Taking three or four ring fights a year, and the training that requires, would probably mean a greater degree of brain damage. (Not debilitating in every case by any means, but it's certainly present.) Doing this for several years would in most cases cause noticeable problems. Reading up on the signs of concussions is extremely informative. Staying out of hard training after a serious or moderate concussion is definitely a good idea. It would be a good idea for boxing and kickboxing coaches (in addition to grappling and field sports coaches) to adopt a concussion-recognition protocol. The King-Devick test has been shown to work well for boxing and MMA: The King-Devick (K-D) test is based on measurement of the speed of rapid number naming (reading aloud single-digit numbers from 3 test cards), and captures impairment of eye movements, attention, language, and other correlates of suboptimal brain function. We investigated the K-D test as a potential rapid sideline screening for concussion in a cohort of boxers and mixed martial arts fighters. In particular, getting knocked out or losing the match were predictors of damage: Those with loss of consciousness showed the greatest worsening from prefight to postfight. Worse postfight K-D scores and greater worsening of scores correlated well with postfight MACE scores. So work on your slipping and defense! It is also probably a good idea to get regular MRIs or other brain tests done, if you continue to train over several years. As noted in the LA Times article, this is already enforced by boxing commissions. But in the end, hard training is not knitting class. The risks of learning to hit and get hit can be mitigated through careful control in sparring and diligent use of equipment (and recognizing the limitations thereof), but at some point you're going to get concussed. Dave LiepmannDave Liepmann I would speculate that the damage in boxing is worse than kickboxing, because you receive many more head blows in boxing, and head blows in kickboxing are more likely to produce a fight-ending knockout/down due to lighter gloves and/or the blow being a kick. – slugster♦ May 24 '12 at 9:54 So basically what I'm getting from all of this, is that because you can't avoid getting hit as a beginner, kickboxing is always bad for your brain. And getting better will probably mean you'll get hit less often, but every hit is still bad for you nonetheless. So basically, kickboxing is always bad for your brain, it's just a matter of how bad, and you're better off pursuing a career in jogging (or something) if you want to keep your brain in tip-top condition whilst trying to get your body in shape. – user474 May 28 '12 at 12:27 @Samuel Yes, but please keep the doses mentioned in mind. Every hard head impact is bad for your brain, but so is a night of binge drinking, and serious damage has been shown to start at six years of hard, competitive training. – Dave Liepmann May 28 '12 at 14:51 @SirProgrammer I am not trying to say all kickboxing is bad. There's a lot more nuance to the issue. A simplified version of my view is closer to this: Getting hit in the head is a little bad, getting hit in the head hard enough to be concussed is bad, getting concussions frequently is very bad, getting concussions frequently for many years is SUPER BAD. – Dave Liepmann Jul 11 '12 at 13:18 @SirProgrammer - Kickboxing is not bad, nor is boxing. Head trauma is bad, as dave said. It's just a little more likely to occur in martial arts, it's the nature of the beast. If you don't spar or do competition fighting, then you're probably no likelier to suffer a traumatic head injury than someone that does kick box aerobics. Even light head contact can be ok, as the brain has a decent cushioning system. It's the brain impacting the skull or neural fibers tearing in the brainstem that cause the problems. My worst (only) knockout I ever suffered was playing flag football. – JohnP♦ Jul 12 '12 at 20:20 The biggest risk with concussions is getting a second one shortly after the first. For competetive boxers and kickboxers, this means the 10 count and standing 8 count are sentencing them to long term brain damage. If you're training casually, wearing very good headgear (Winning FG-2900 if you can afford it, Rival d3o would seem to be a good second choice) and a very good mouthguard (custom made for boxing) will help. Also, if you get hit once and see stars - call your sparring off right away, and don't finish the round. You'd want to not do any further sparring for at least 2 weeks. Robin AsheRobin Ashe Yes this, a million times this; moreover, as I unfortunately learned YOU MUST TRUST THOSE AROUND YOU TO STOP THE FIGHT FOR YOU. I was in the unfortunate situation of seeing stars sparring a few years ago, and while I know this means stop immediately, my brain had forgot and said I was fine when asked. My memory's not been all the same since the 3rd time I saw stars that night, I couldn't sleep for a week. – Jimmy Hoffa Jul 14 '12 at 23:42 To note, I had seen stars fighting maybe 3 times in my life before that night (and none sense), so it doesn't take a lot of dings to do the job, difference was each of the previous times I had someone there who told me I was done for 2 weeks. – Jimmy Hoffa Jul 14 '12 at 23:43 Head guards do not mitigate risk of concussion. They're only used for facial damage(cuts, bruises, blue eyes etc.) – cbll May 9 '16 at 6:53 In the last few years we've gotten a lot more info on them, and literally, they are brain damage. What makes them especially dangerous is that concussions can be extremely unpredictable in terms of cause to effect - sure, getting hit harder in the head is worse, but sometimes lighter hits can cause severe concussions or heavier hits not one at all. Concussions build up over your lifetime. Earlier concussions make later ones worse and more damaging. Receiving a second concussion while still under the effects of a first one can literally kill you. (High school football deaths are mostly from this.) The only way to avoid concussions is don't hit your head at all. That said, you can do a few things if you're going to be in an activity where these happen. Wear headgear, use gloves. Preferably, go light. Really preferably, don't hit each other in the head and train well to take falls. Obviously, this runs counter to a lot of self defense training and sports, so you have to figure out where on the scale you want to be and how many head shots and how hard is going to be necessary for you to develop and keep your skills and conditioning. Strengthen your neck muscles. The stronger your neck, the better you can take those shots because you'll have better stabilizer muscles. You can still roll with punches, you just don't want the whiplash effect happening. Stats show sports you wouldn't necessarily think of as being that brutal to the head having high rates of concussions (soccer, volleyball), primarily because they don't do a lot of strength training for the neck and supporting muscles. Learn what the signs of a concussion are. Don't ignore them. Don't try to tough it out. When do you have a concussion? The old way of recognizing a concussion was to ask people things like - "How many fingers am I holding up?" "Who is the President?" "What is your name?" These are valid in the loosest sense - if you lose the ability to visually focus, if you cannot remember things (including short term memory loss - "What were you doing 2 minutes ago?"), you have a concussion. Do you have a headache? Do you feel nauseous? Do you feel dizzy? Does light seem too bright? Do you slur your speech or mix up your words? You also have a concussion. If someone's eyes look in different directions, or the pupils do not match in size, there is a concussion. If you shine a light in their eyes and they don't react, there's a concussion. Sports teams now have a computerized word test they run people through while they're healthy and after they take a hit, run them through again - if they drop below a certain performance level, this indicates a concussion as well. What do you do if you have a concussion? If you have a headache that seems to be getting worse? Go to the hospital RIGHT AWAY. The worst case scenario is internal brain swelling/bleeding. People who die from concussions typically die 30 minutes to a few hours after taking the hit, as their brain slowly swells and crushes itself inside their skull. If not, the answer is it's time for you to stop training. Take a rest. Go home. Now comes the other unfun part of recovering from a concussion. You're looking at 3-10 days of recovery IF you rest. Rest means: Don't take any other head hits Try to engage your brain as little as possible - no reading, no studying, no figuring out the tough problem at work... Non-rest can increase your concussion recovery time to months. The concussion has damaged the neural connections in your brain, and you basically are stuck letting your brain connect things around again, starting from the most basic autonomic processes. Things like "pupils focus like this", "We control our tongue and mouth using these neural connections", etc. Trying to read or intake heavy information ends up causing the brain to prioritize high level processes and leaves the low level ones unrepaired. Wow that sounds totally unreasonable! Yep! The brain is not well designed to take hits. It helps if you remember that for most of human evolution we weren't designed to last quite as long as we do these days, nor did we need to do much more than organize hunting food or gathering it as a social group. It's up to you to decide for your own health how much risks you want to take with head shots and how you want to train around that. You can see a lot of traditional martial arts where sparring only involves body and leg shots. That's an adaptation, but not necessarily as good for self defense. You can also see arts where people do controlled drills most of the time, and only once in a while break out the head gear and go with any force. That's more useful. It really depends on what risks you plan on taking for you. Just be aware - muscle heals easiest, bone heals ok, joints heal hard, the brain barely heals. BankueiBankuei I also think it's worth mentioning that if you are a beginner then you should either, not be sparring until you learn proper technique, tactics, and defense, or spar with someone of your same level. Frankly, as a kickboxer, if you are sparring with someone who rings your bell two or three times each session, then you are sparring with someone who is too far beyond your level. It's one thing for your coach to toughen you up--that's part of the process--it's another thing for them to put you up with an opponent who is going to hurt you. Think about that and whether your coach is making good choices. Dan MaderaDan Madera Honestly, I'd rather see beginning sparrers squared up with my most experienced black belts. The black belts should have enough control to not knock their opponent silly, and be able to give them openings for them to take advantage of. They can also evade the attacks, and can teach control and focus. I always watch VERY closely when my beginning sparrers get matched together, simply because they haven't learned control to a great extent yet, and their techniques tend to be wilder and more uncontrolled as a general rule. – JohnP♦ Jul 27 '12 at 20:39 @JohnP, Yeah I agree, usually sparring with other beginners means a lot of uncontrolled and unpredictable movements, which increases the risk of injury. I think the problem is also partially that all the schools in my district are pretty ghetto, and the trainers aren't really too concencerned with beginners. Consequentially there isn't really a lot of coaching for beginners, and they're left to find everything out themselves. I haven't been able to find a better gym yet, which sucks. – user474 Jul 30 '12 at 7:19 @Samuel - Honestly, I would stop boxing until you can find a better gym. No boxing is better than seeing stars three times a session. Just look at all the pro athletes with post concussion syndrome and other problems. – JohnP♦ Jul 30 '12 at 13:48 You should stop training IMMEDIATELY I mean, is it something that always occurs, or is it incidental? Sometimes when I'm hit well (about 2 - 3 times every training), I see stars and feel a little lightheaded. You are getting hit too hard too frequently. This is not normal or acceptable, neither for casual nor professional athletes. Also it is not necessary for your personal goals of getting fit. Reconsider your training You mention that kickboxing is great for getting you in shape fast. Bag and pads training sessions are great for this. Sparring is not for 'getting fit' or athletic performance. It's seriously dangerous (if you're seeing stars). It's a testing ground for your technical skills and combat mentality - if you are interested in developing technical combat skills, you may try sparring again once you feel ready. Sorry this is like 6 years late, but I hope some people in a similar situation read this. Stay safe!!! Kalle NijsKalle Nijs Interesting question... just the other night there was a segment on brain injury on local TV ( not sure if you'd be able to see it or not... http://tvnz.co.nz/sunday-news/research-reveals-damage-football-video-4894963 ) basically it was saying that any concussion is BAD, but even more minor hits can cause injury. It can the manifest itself in many ways later in life, like higher rates of depression. Keith NicholasKeith Nicholas How bad for your brain is Kickboxing and MMA? TL;DR: Pretty bad, but not quite as risky as boxing. From an article about an ongoing long-term study called the "Professional Fighters Brain Health Study", whose findings to date were published in 2015: “Repetitive head trauma may be a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and is considered the primary cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE),” wrote the authors in their new study. Alzheimer’s is a well-known form of dementia, while CTE is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain linked to memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression, depression, and progressive dementia. To understand how these sports might affect fighters’ brains, researchers from Cleveland Clinic turned to the data collected by the Professional Fighters Brain Health Study (PFBHS). They identified 224 professional fighters: 131 mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters and 93 boxers. The PFBHS athletes were all between the ages of 18 and 44 and the average time these professionals had fought was about four years, with an average number of 10 total matches. While slightly more than half had a high school education (give or take), just under half had spent at least some time in college. In terms of race, 89 were white, 59 black, and 76 other. Next, the researchers matched these athletes with 22 same-aged people with a similar level of education but no history of head trauma. At the start of the study, all participants underwent an MRI scan to assess their brain volume and then they returned for a brain scan annually for four years after that. At each juncture, the researchers tested their verbal memory, processing speed, fine motor skills, and reaction times as a general assessment of brainpower. Next, the researchers calculated for each athlete a Fight Exposure Score, or FES, which combines duration and intensity of fight career. Fighters with an FES score of four were found to be 8.8 percent slower in processing speed than those with an FES score of 0. Add to that, the higher the score, the smaller the brain volume, particularly in the thalamus and the caudate. The thalamus acts as a gateway to the cortex, the outer layer of brain tissue linked to consciousness and decision-making. The caudate resides in the basal ganglia, where it is part of a system responsible for voluntary movement. The researchers speculate the typical response to a punch — when a fighter’s head rotates slightly — might be the cause of volume loss in the thalamus and caudate. More generally, smaller brain volumes plus higher Fight Exposure Scores were linked to slower brain processing speeds. In fact, the researchers estimated a 0.19 percent reduction in processing speed per fight and a 2.1 percent reduction for each increase in FES. Irrespective of age, boxers tended to fare worse than martial arts combatants. - Head Blows And Brain Injury: Boxing And Mixed Martial Arts Cause A Similar Loss Of Processing Speed In Fighters' Brains From another article about a second study, which borrowed some participants from the one linked above: "While we already know that boxing and other combat sports are linked to brain damage, little is known about how this process develops and who may be on the path to developing CTE," study author Dr. Charles Bernick, a CTE researcher at the Cleveland Clinic said in an American Academy of Neurology written statement. CTE is only diagnosed through autopsy after death, but symptoms may be similar to Alzheimer's and include memory loss, aggression and difficulty thinking. For Bernick's study, which will be presented at the academy's annual meeting in New Orleans next week, researchers looked at 78 boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters, average age of 29, who were enrolled in the ongoing "Professional Fighters Brain Health Study." The fighters underwent MRI brain scans and also took computer tests to measure their memory and thinking abilities, and were then split into groups based on whether they had more than or less than nine years of fighting experience. The researchers found in both groups that those with more years of fighting experience overall, as well as those participating in more fights per year, were more likely to have lower brain volumes than fighters who had the least experience. In those with fewer than nine years experience, there was no link between fighting and symptoms of memory loss or cognitive decline. But among fighters with more than nine years experience, those who fought the most times annually performed worse on thinking and memory tests. - Boxing, MMA study examines threshold before fighters suffer brain damage From the abstract for a report titled "Kickboxing sport as a new cause of traumatic brain injury-mediated hypopituitarism" published in the Oxford Journal of Clinical Endocrinology in 2007: Traumatic brain injury, which is a frequent and a worldwide important public health problem, may result in pituitary dysfunction. Concussion, a common type of lesion after traumatic brain injury, is an injury associated with sports including boxing and kickboxing.... Head is the most common site of injury in amateur and professional kickboxers. Pituitary consequences of chronic repetitive head trauma in kickboxing have not been investigated until now. Therefore, the present study was designed to investigate the pituitary function in both retired and active amateur kickboxers. PATIENTS AND DESIGN: Twenty-two amateur kickboxers who have boxed in national and international championships (16 men, 6 women) with a mean age of 27.3 +/- 7.1 years, and 22 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were included in the study. Basal hormone levels were obtained from the participants. To assess GH-IGF-I axis, GHRH + GHRP-6 test and glucagon stimulation tests were used. Hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis was assessed by glucagon stimulation test. When mean basal hormone levels were compared between kickboxers and the controls, IGF-I level was significantly lower in kickboxers (P < 0.05). Five (22.7%) and two (9.1%) of the 22 kickboxers had GH deficiency had ACTH deficiency, respectively. There were significant negative correlations between IGF-I levels and age, duration of sports and number of bouts (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Present data clearly demonstrate for the first time that amateur kickboxing is a novel cause of hypopituitarism and kickboxers are at a risk for hypopituitarism especially isolated GH deficiency. Therefore, participants of the combative sports who were exposed to chronic repetitive head trauma need to be screened. From an article on a 2014 study, limited to kickboxers and MMA fighters: The rate of serious head injuries among professional mixed martial arts competitors is potentially twice that of professional football players, according to U.S. researchers. The first event they looked for was knock-outs, in which players are literally knocked unconscious. The second, known as technical knockouts, occur when a referee or other authority judges that the player is too woozy to successfully defend him- or herself. Both kinds of knockout end the match. The researchers also used statistics to investigate which factors were associated with a player having a higher risk of a knockout or a technical knockout due to being struck multiple times. They found that players suffered a knockout in 12.7 percent of matches, and that a technical knockout took place in about 19 percent, meaning that nearly one-third of matches ended as a result of some type of head trauma. These numbers mean that out of every 100 matches in which a mixed martial arts athlete could be knocked out, known as an athlete exposure, the injury would happen 6.4 times. The comparable concussion rates for boxing and kickboxing are, respectively, 4.9 and 1.9 per 100 exposures, the authors note. Moreover, they observed that competitors often used the few seconds before the referee stepped in to repeatedly kick the downed opponent in the head. If all knockouts and technical knockouts are counted as concussions, the rate among professional mixed martial arts athletes seen in the study was about 16 per 100 athlete exposures. It's tempting to compare those statistics to rates of concussions in sports such as football, which has been found to have 8.08 concussions per 100 plays, and ice hockey, with 2.2 concussions per 100 athlete-encounters. - Head injury risk is high in mixed martial arts: study Like any sport in which the head is being struck, kickboxing and MMA carry high risks of brain injury. We don't have a lot of reliable statistics that might help us quantify the risk, but all the data we do have says that yes, kickboxing and MMA clearly cause brain damage in many of the people who participate in them. The reasons for having relatively little data on kickboxing and MMA (compared to the much larger amount of data on other sports, like boxing and football) is pretty easy to explain: Professional kickboxing and MMA haven't been around for very long, they are still in the process of developing regulatory standards in many countries, and there aren't many professionals in these sports. MMA, for example, began in the 90's; professional boxing has existed for centuries. MMA was virtually unregulated almost everywhere until the 2000's and it is still unregulated in many countries; professional boxing has been subject to the Marquess of Queensberry Rules (and later regulations based on Queensberry) since the 1860's. An informal effort conducted by Sherdog.com estimated that there are roughly 5,000 active MMA fighters in the world right now (the largest MMA organization, the UFC, has only 600 fighters on its roster); Boxrec lists about 22,000 pro boxers who have fought at least once in the past year, and it is safe to assume that they missed a good number of boxers, so the real number is probably closer to 30,000. Why is Kickboxing bad for your brain? TL;DR: Because you're getting hit in the head. American football is considered the "most concussive sport", but that's only because we don't track concussions in combat sports. “[Boxing] is not really tracked the way school sports are tracked,” says Robert Cantu, clinical professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the Boston University school of medicine. “Concussions in boxing are a poorly reported sample, but at B.U. we’ve had a 100% incidence of CTE ["chronic traumatic encephalopathy", a degenerative neurological condition caused by repeated blows to the head] in the boxers we’ve studied1.” With good reason. Various studies have put the force delivered by a blow from a trained boxer at anywhere from 450 lbs. (204 kg) to over 1,400 lbs. (635 kg), enough to accelerate the head to 53 g’s. Those forces hit in one of two ways - linear and rotational - and neither of them is good. “Acceleration from a straight-on punch is linear, while a roundhouse is more rotational,” says Dr. Christopher Giza, professor of pediatric neurology and neurosurgery at UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital, and a former commissioner of the California State Athletic Association. “We think rotational forces are more important in getting knocked out, but most punches have components of both.” Within the brain, it’s the white matter - or the fatty sheathing on nerve cells that serves as insulation and connective tissue - that suffers the most. “The brain has the consistency of firm Jell-O,” says Giza. “If you shake or twist it you put strain on the connections, leading to stretching or tearing.” That causes both immediate and long-term harm, with the damaged connective tissue leaking what are known as tau proteins, which build up over time to form the signature deposits that signal CTE. The brain’s slightly loose fit in the skull causes other problems. A thin layer of fluid surrounding the brain is supposed to provides shock absorption in the case of minor blows, but when you get hit hard enough, that little bit of wiggle room allows the brain to rattle around, with soft tissue colliding with unyielding bone. That can cause shock, bruising and even bleeding and death. - Pacquiao, Mayweather, and the Physics of Getting Punched in the Head Neurologist Dr. Margaret Goodman, former Chair of the Nevada State Athletic Commission's Medical Advisory Board, says that sparring is a particular cause for concern: When a fighter is licensed to compete - whether it is for one bout or the entire calendar year, it is a green light for them to spar. Sparring means head shots and further exposure to brain damage. No fighter should receive a boxing license unless they prove they are fit to spar. - Jones-Hopkins: The Worst Side of Boxing "Irrespective of the fighter’s age,” Dr. Goodman continued, “there are really extensive tests that need to be done based on somebody’s MRI studies, neuropsychological testing, neuropsychological exams... I still see fighters that I have concerns about, not just in boxing but also in MMA. Some of these athletes that have continued to compete year after year after having so many knockout losses that it takes a great deal of effort." - Dr. Margaret Goodman on Fighter Safety and PEDs in Boxing: Part One "I completely agree with Roy [Jones Jr., the boxer] that balance problems are one of the earliest signs of brain damage from boxing. I think it is admirable that he is seeking treatment. There are certain types of physical therapists that also specialize in balance retraining, and it can be successful - to some degree. With that said, the only sure way to improve balance caused by chronic brain injury from boxing is to stop getting hit in the head. Roy has been one of the greatest boxers of our time. He is brave enough to admit he has neurological problems from boxing. Continuing to spar and fight will significantly worsen these problems and contribute to other more serious problems, like cognitive dysfunction (disruption in memory/concentration) in the future. I believe that his balance issue is a significant warning that needs to be heeded. You cannot spar away age or neurological problems irrespective of any medical therapy." - Dr. Margaret Goodman Speaks Out About Roy Jones Will brain damage from kickboxing get better over time? TL; DR: No. Some symptoms might improve slightly if you stop getting hit, but damage from repeated traumatic brain injuries is basically irreversible and permanent. Brain traumas, especially chronic injuries such as those sustained in sports can, over time, lead to irreversible brain damage. There is just so much jarring and shaking the brain can take. The difficulty is that the most serious, long-term symptoms often don't show up until later in life, but clearly CTE can develop almost any age... Chronic traumatic encephalopathy affects many areas of a person’s functioning, including mood, emotional regulation, cognitive capacity, memory, and personality. It often doesn’t develop for years after the traumas occurred, and can present with a different constellation of symptoms in each person it affects... Its prevalence in boxers continues. One recent review study of athletes who were diagnosed with CTE found that of the 51 confirmed cases of CTE, 46 were in athletes – and of these, 39 were boxers. Five football players, a soccer player, and a wrestler made up the remainder of the athletes affected by chronic brain trauma. When the head undergoes a trauma, the brain takes a hit. Brain tissue may be insulated by layers of bone and fluid, but severe or repeated injuries disrupt the neural communication in the brain. Recent research on the long-term effects of concussion offers a picture of the lasting effects a brain injury can have. Lateral, or side-to-side, traumas are more damaging to than sagittal, or front-to-back, motion... The brain trauma associated with CTE may also trigger the death of neurons; inflammation in the brain; and damage to the white matter, the connective fibers in the brain by which neurons “talk” to one another. One team of CTE researchers suggests that there are probably many “pathological cascades” that are occurring over time. These cascades are thought to continue throughout the course of a lifetime. And the worse the initial injury – or injuries – the more severe the brain damage that can follow. There are likely multiple mechanisms by which traumas can lead to brain damage and dementia, and the more traumatic and more repetitive they are, the more likely they are to result in irreversible damage. - Athletes and Brain Trauma Fatalities in Boxing and MMA: I did some research, and found that over a period of about 7 years, the rates of deaths from injuries sustained in the ring were roughly similar between professional boxing and regulated/sanctioned MMA contests: Recorded MMA deaths in regulated fights: Sam Vasquez 30 Nov. 2007 Michael Kirkham 28 Jun. 2010 Tyrone Mims 11 Aug. 2012 Booto Guylain 5 Mar. 2014 Pro boxing deaths in regulated fights during that same period: Yo-sam Choi 25 Dec. 2007 Alex Aroy 4 Feb. 2008 Rafael Ortiz 8 Mar. 2008 Hi Cho (Mikeo Takeuchi) 3 May 2008 Samora Msophi 27 Jun. 2008 Luis "Tino" Lugo Quintero 27 Jun. 2008 Dachirri "Bashiru" Thompson 27 Jul. 2008 Daniel Aguillon 15 Oct. 2008 Benjamin "El Michoachano" Flores 30 Apr. 2009 Marco Nazareth 18 Jul. 2009 Francisco "Pancho" Moncivais 24 Jul. 2009 Somboon Wiengchai 12 Oct. 2009 Francisco "Paco" Rodriguez 20 Nov. 2009 Hirokazu Yamaki 19 Feb. 2010 Ki suk Bae 17 Jul. 2010 Anele Makhwelo 7 Oct. 2011 Roman Simakov 5 Dec. 2011 Karlo Maquinto 28 Jan. 2012 Muhammad Afrizal 30 Mar. 2012 Jose Angel "Vitaminas" Jimenez 31 Mar. 2012 Willman Rodriguez Gomez 4 May 2012 Ermelito "Jog" Alim Jr. 19 Jun. 2012 Okson Edison Ingamiua (Okson Palue) 21 Nov. 2012 Michael Norgrove 6 Apr. 2013 Francisco Javier "Frankie" Leal 19 Oct. 2013 Tesshin Okada 20 Dec. 2013 Oscar "Fantasma" Gonzalez 1 Feb. 2014 MMA: I started with the "sanctioned bouts" section of the wiki article on fatalities in MMA, and did some googling to try to find records of other deaths in pro MMA bouts, which turned up nothing useful. I used the dates of the first and last deaths listed on the wiki page to limit my the data set - that is to say, I ignored all deaths before 30 Nov. 2007 and after 5 Mar. 2014. I also ignored all deaths that weren't caused by events that took place in the ring, and I ignored all deaths that resulted from unsanctioned/unregulated events. Boxing: I started with the raw data from the Manuel Velazquez Boxing Fatality Collection, and ignored all deaths due to sparring, practice, amateur bouts, and preexisting medical conditions. There were several deaths each related to amateur bouts and sparring, one related to training, and one related to a preexisting medical condition (a man who died shortly after a fight, but whose cause of death was kidney failure - from overuse of dietary supplements - and liver damage - from alcoholism). The Velazquez collection data didn't mention whether the bouts in question were regulated or sanctioned, so I had to assume that they were. However, I can't vouch for that, so my work might include some unsanctioned/unregulated fights. There are probably at least 30,000 pro boxers in the world, vs. maybe 5,000 pro MMA fighters. That means that we should expect about 6 times more deaths in boxing, because 6 times more people box. That is almost exactly what we see here. Four deaths in sanctioned MMA bouts, and twenty seven deaths in pro boxing matches. That's a ratio of 6.75:1. Since we expected 6:1 based on the differences in the number of people who participate in either sport, we only have to explain why it is 6.75:1 instead of 6:1. I think the extra 0.75 deaths in boxing per death in MMA is probably just a problem with the resources available. The Manuel Velazquez Collection is a meticulously compiled, thorough, and rigorously updated resource so reliable that it is frequently used as the sole source of data for academic and medical journal articles about boxing mortalities. Thus, the data for boxing deaths is almost certainly complete, and includes every death that actually occured. There is no comparable resource for deaths in MMA - I relied on Wikipedia and google. Thus, the data for MMA deaths may very well be incomplete. Whether or not this is the case, the fact is that a difference this small, in a sample size this small, is probably not statistically significant. - Quoted from my own work, originally posted by me in the Sherdog forums Why is this relevant? Because in every case, in both the MMA and Boxing fatalities, the cause of death was traumatic brain injury. 1"The 100% figure Cantu cites is derived, he readily acknowledges, from a self-selected population of fighters who come to his clinic seeking help for neurological symptoms. At least some of the larger population of boxers who don’t show up may be fine. What’s more, smart boxers - at least at the championship level - are increasingly taking steps to protect themselves, sparring less, engaging in safe aerobic training more and fighting perhaps only two bouts a year." Wad Cheber stands with MonicaWad Cheber stands with Monica Please don't quote entire articles. – Dave Liepmann May 7 '16 at 21:52 @DaveLiepmann - I didn't think I had, but you are correct. Edited. The only thing I've quoted in full now is the abstract of a journal article. – Wad Cheber stands with Monica May 7 '16 at 22:32 I removed the downvote for now but I'd still advise editing this way down. Do you really need every paragraph you quote? – Dave Liepmann May 7 '16 at 23:16 Thanks for contributing an answer to Martial Arts Stack Exchange! How likely is serious injury in martial arts practice? If I'm worried about concussions, should I train tae kwon do, or karate, or neither? Straight punch to the head and knockout Is kickboxing or boxing particularly dangerous? Risk of brain damage in casual/moderate Muay Thai sparring How can you take steps to decrease risk of brain damage during Thai sparring? What is the difference between Muay Thai and Kickboxing? Which will result in more brain damage, being a heavy weight or lightweight boxer? Do martial arts encourage bad posture habits? Does practising judo increase the likelihood of sustaining a brain injury? Reducing brain damage in sparring	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1658
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__label__wiki	0.646915	0.646915	news \| Aug 15, 2017 Judge Stops Nevada Department of Taxation From Approving More Recreational Cannabis Distributors The state must first prove that liquor wholesalers cannot adequately do the job. by Mike Adams \| news \| Aug 15, 2017 Although Nevada marijuana regulators took action last week to issue recreational marijuana licenses to businesses other than the state’s liquor wholesalers, a judge has put a temporary stop to this plan. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Judge James Todd Russell handed down an order last Friday that prevents any business other than the liquor distributors from putting marijuana on the shelves of the state’s 60 dispensaries. The temporary order, which was requested by the Independent Alcohol Distributors of Nevada, suggests that the alcohol industry has been denied due process by the Department of Taxation. The department must now prove the liquor distributors cannot adequately handle the job before the injunction can be lifted – something that taxation executive Deonne Contine believes has already been accomplished. “I think the evidence is fairly clear today that this market needs to be opened up,” Contine told the Associated Press. “The capacity of only liquor wholesalers to serve the market seems lacking.” It was just a month ago that Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval issued a “Statement of Emergency” over a marijuana shortage that took place shortly after the state launched its “early sales” program. Reports shows that some of the dispensaries licensed to sell recreational marijuana serviced 10 times as many customers as they did through the medical sector alone. However, Judge Russell does not believe his decision to halt additional marijuana distribution licenses will sabotage the market. He says the six booze distributors the state has, so far, given permission to transport marijuana from grow facilities to retail outlets should be enough to hold down the fort while the issue is being sorted out. The language of the initiative (Question 2) that legalized recreational marijuana in the state of Nevada clearly gives the liquor wholesalers exclusive rights to the distribution of marijuana for the first 18 months. Yet state officials have argued that not enough of these operations are interested in getting involved with the marijuana industry to properly service the market. During a recent public meeting on the issue, tax officials said that without the involvement of more distributors, the state was destined to lose a significant chunk of change to the black market. The situation is scheduled to be hashed out later this week, and will make the third time the issue is addressed in court. newsBusinesspoliticsLegalizationLegislationnevadadispensariesAlcohol Mike Adams is a contributing writer for MERRY JANE. He also writes for High Times Magazine and Cannabis Now. You can follow him on Twitter @adamssoup and on Facebook.com/mikeadams73	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1683
__label__cc	0.520385	0.479615	Category Archives: Bullet train Gov. Brown In Riverside Pushing For Gas Tax Hikes Posted on April 6, 2017 by zRants losangeles.cbslocal – excerpt (video included) Potholes on Carolina Street. RIVERSIDE (CBSLA.com) —Gov. Jerry Brown joined state and local representatives in Riverside Tuesday to push for a bill that would raise gasoline taxes and vehicle license fees to pay for road repairs. The Road Repair & Accountability Act of 2017 is expected to generate an estimated $5.2 billion a year. Senate Bill 1 seeks to raise gas taxes by 12 cents per gallon, hike the vehicle registration fee to $48 a year on average and require drivers of electric vehicles to pay and extra $100 per year. The pump price hikes would cost drivers about $10 a month, according to the governor’s office… President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, said the bill will contain a lockbox that will make sure the money can only be spent on roads and bridges. “All transportation dollars will be in that lockbox and used exclusively for our roads and for transportation,” de Leon said…(more) As we know the two paragraphs are not the same. roads and bridges does not mean roads and transportation. We have been done this tax road before. It is still a crooked road full of false promises. Posted in Anti-car tax, Bad Ideas, Bullet train, California, cars, ENUF, Protest, Public, Public debt, Public outrage, SFMTA budget, SFMTA Complaints, Traffic \| Tagged fix the potholes, potholes, roads and bridges, transporation \| 1 Reply U.S. Transportation department executive approved grant days before taking job with rail contractor By Ralph Vartabedian : latimes – excerpt A top Obama administration executive at the U.S. Department of Transportation approved a $647-million grant for a California rail project in mid-January and less than two weeks later went to work for a Los Angeles-based contractor involved in the project, The Times has learned. The grant provides a significant part of the money required to install a $2-billion electrical power system on the Bay Area’s Caltrain commuter rail system, allowing the rail to retire its diesel locomotives. The power equipment will eventually be used by the state’s bullet train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, making it a critical part of the $64-billion program. The California High-Speed Rail Authority has pledged about $713 million to help install the system, according to state records. The grant was handled by Carolyn Flowers, the acting chief of the Federal Transit Administration. Flowers announced the grant approval in a letter, dated Jan. 18, to congressional leaders. The Times obtained a copy of the letter… Thirteen days later, Flowers went to work for Aecom, a Los Angeles-based engineering firm. The company news release announcing her hiring says she will head its North American transit practice. Aecom provides program management services to Caltrain for the electrification project, according to Caltrain documents. It was formerly a regional consultant to the high-speed rail project as well. On Friday, the federal transit agency said it had “deferred” a decision on the grant and said it would look at the matter in the next federal budget cycle. The decision may be an early sign of the Trump administration’s view of the bullet train project. The line is already under construction and will need significant federal funding moving forward. The delay follows a letter from every Republican member of the California House delegation to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, asking that the grant be put off until an audit of the high-speed rail project is completed. This is exactly what America hates about Washington, D.C… (more) Don’t they call this the revolving door? Carolyn Flowers-letter to congress Caltrain and High Speed Rail and FTA funding – Revolving Door Shenanigans Posted in Bad Ideas, Bullet train, California, Caltrain, Commuters, Development, ENUF, Federal Project, Protest, Public, Public debt, Public outrage, save muni \| Tagged caltrain, Caltrain electrification, Department of Transportation, DOT, federal funds \| 3 Replies Costly Transbay Transit Center in busload of trouble Matier and Ross : sfchronicle – excerpt …“The elephant in the living room is solving the operating subsidy problem, which could be as large as $20 million a year — and without a source of revenue,” said Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who chairs San Francisco’s Transportation Authority… Taxpayers and bridge commuters will probably be on the hook to pick up millions of dollars in costs, although the exact amount still isn’t known… “We expect to have an operating deficit,” said Mark Zabaneh, executive director of the public Transbay Joint Powers Authority, which is building the center. Without the foot traffic that high-speed rail could draw, the mall is looking a lot less attractive to potential renters. That means the authority may have to offer sweetheart deals to lure stores — which, of course, means less money…(more) The City has a lot of nerve coming to the voters and tax payers begging for funds to operate a transit center many never wanted in the first place. When do we quit digging holes to fill and just fill the ones we have already dug? Given the choice between paying for health care and paying for street diets and sidewalk widening, which do you think the voters would prefer? Housing and transportation are not the only think we need and the sooner City Hall wakes up to that fact the sooner we can start to repair the damage. Posted in Bad Ideas, Bay Area Transit, Bullet train, Commuters, EIR and CEQA, ENUF, Federal Project, MTA Complaints, MTC, Planning Commission, Protest, Public, Public debt, Public outrage, SFMTA budget, SFMTA Complaints, Traffic \| Tagged bad deals, bad decisions, elephant in the room, MTC, SFMTC, wrong assumptions \| 5 Replies Funding blocked for transit center amid concerns of sinking Millennium Tower Posted on September 30, 2016 by zRants By Joshua Sabatini : sfexaminer – excerpt The fallout of San Francisco’s sinking downtown Millennium Tower broadened Tuesday when millions of dollars for the second phase of the nearby Transbay Transit Center was blocked amid concerns The City will once again be on the hook for ballooning costs. Earlier this year, the the Board of Supervisors approved a $260 million bailout for the Transbay Joint Powers Authority’s Phase 1 of the Transbay Transit Center. Months later, the 58-story Millennium Tower near the center and under TJPA oversight was revealed to have sunk more than three times its forecasted sinking, prompting a lawsuit and city investigations. Meanwhile, city leaders are slamming the brakes on the second phase of the multi-billion dollar transit project. On Tuesday, the head of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, Mark Zabaneh, said he wanted $6.77 million in Proposition K sales tax revenue to move ahead with the $3.9 billion Phase 2 of the project… (more) Posted in Bay Area Transit, Bullet train, Caltrain, Development, District Supervisors, ENUF, MTA Complaints, Public, Public debt, Public outrage, save muni, SFMTA budget, SFMTA Complaints \| Tagged Millenium Tower, prop K funds, Sinking and tilting, TJPA, Transbay cost overruns, Transbay Join Powers Authority \| Leave a reply Governor vetoes bill to mandate parking after street sweeping, prevent tickets at broken meter By Sophia Bollag : latimes – excerpt Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have required communities to reopen parking immediately after street-sweeping. The bill also would have prevented residents from getting ticketed if they parked next to a broken meter for up to two hours. In his veto message Brown said the bill would have hindered municipalities from performing regular road maintenance and would have confused drivers about when they were allowed to park in certain areas… (more) Watch for the SFMTA to take advantage of this if they can. Ask the supervisor candidates what they will do to protect us from these infringements. Posted in Bad Ideas, Bullet train, cars, Driving Tax, ENUF, Uncategorized \| Tagged broken meters, parking after street cleaning \| Leave a reply SoCal support for bullet train wavers–tired of scam By Stephen Frank : capoliticalreview – excerpt It takes a long time for folks to admit they were scammed. Arnold, the unions and crony capitalists lied to Californians to gain support of Prop. 1A, the bond measure to give $10 billion to one of the biggest scams in American history. He finally admitted he lied about the cost, route and ridership. The people believed the actor, who was very convincing… By James Poulos : calwatchdog – excerpt California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project has hit yet another speed bump: a loss of confidence among Southern California officials already left hanging by plans that shifted first-stage construction northward. “The California rail authority’s failure to identify a source of funding to connect Los Angeles to the future bullet train system is not acceptable, said Hasan Ikhrata, executive director of the Southern California Assn. of Governments,” according to the Los Angeles Times. “Until the high-speed rail authority released a new draft business plan last month, the state had planned to open its first operating segment between Burbank and the Central Valley by 2022. But in a major concession to its limited funding, the plan now calls for a cheaper segment that would run from San Jose to the Central Valley by 2025.” The catch, SCAG discovered, is that costs imposed by completing the initial segment will ensure that “all the existing funds would be exhausted, leaving uncertainty about how and when the line would ever cross the geologically complex mountains of Southern California,” as the paper added. Disillusioned Democrats The changes have accelerated criticism of the floundering effort — among Democrats as well as Republicans. “California lawmakers expressed dissatisfaction Monday with a plan to change the direction of a $64 billion high-speed railway,” the Associated Press noted… (more) Senators Ask Tough Questions About High-Speed Rail By Katie Orr, : KQED – excerpt A California Senate committee got its chance today to take a closer look at the status of the state’s high-speed rail project. The High-Speed Rail Authority recently released a draft business plan. At the hearing, High-Speed Rail Authority Chair Dan Richard said construction on the first segment was shifted from a southern route between the Central Valley and Los Angeles to a northern route between the Central Valley and San Jose because it was less expensive and could generate significant private investment. But he says the train needs to be running to attract investors. “They’re looking for that first operating line,” he says. The Rail Authority estimates it will cost about $20 billion to build the northern route, which Richard says could generate $8 billion to $10 billion in private investment. He said the segment could be operational by 2025. But while the Rail Authority was touting the progress being made on the project, senators of both parties expressed concerns about financing. Republican Jim Nielsen says the evolution of the project make him uneasy. “There have been so many changes, how can we find comfort?” he asked. “It seems like it’s almost careening down the tracks.”… (more) Posted in Bad Ideas, Bullet train, California \| Tagged bullet train, SCAG, SoCal, support wavers \| Leave a reply Demolition of one-mile stretch of I-280 part of proposal to link Mission Bay with surrounding area Posted on February 29, 2016 by zRants Mission Bay is San Francisco’s neighborhood of the future. That’s Mayor Ed Lee’s publicly stated vision. And in public documents, his office said a key to that future may be razing Interstate Highway 280 — now the source of much public ire. Mission Bay has become home to gleaming new UC San Francisco hospitals, and is the potential new home to what some call the mayor’s “legacy project” — the Golden State Warriors’ Chase Center. The Mission Rock and Pier 70 housing developments could also soon considerably boost the neighborhood’s population. And one day in the far-flung future, perhaps decades from now, Mission Bay may become the conduit for a second transbay tube that would connect BART and — for the first time — newly electrified Caltrain service to the East Bay. But the future comes at a cost… Gil Kelley, director of citywide planning at the Planning Department, presented the plan Tuesday night to nearly 150 neighbors, who packed an auditorium at the Potrero Hill Recreation Center. The project is still in early phases — preliminary designs may not arrive for at least a year. Still, opposition is already brewing over the possibility of tearing down a portion of I-280… Future Transit Connections Boos and hisses rang through the rec center as Kelley discussed the proposal to raze I-280. Details were sparse about the proposal, however. Kelley said the concepts were “mix and match,” and did not depend on each other to come to fruition. Though many defended I-280 as vital for drivers, it was recently listed as one of the Bay Area’s most congested freeways by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission… The railyard alternatives plan also explores tunneling from the Transbay Transit Center to Mission Bay, which later could serve as the beginning of a new transbay tube under the bay to Alameda. Additionally, it looks potential alternatives to possibly run Caltrain along 3rd Street for a combined Caltrain/Muni station, as part of the downtown extension of the Transbay Transit Center. Teardown Opposition Grows Removing a portion of I-280 was the most controversial part of this plan prior to the meeting, and that sentiment intensified Tuesday night. Surrounded by angry neighbors at the rec center, former Mayor Art Agnos — no stranger to fighting development, as evidenced by the recent “No Wall on the Waterfront” campaign — told the San Francisco Examiner he will personally combat any effort to tear down I-280. In 2014, Agnos and now-Supervisor Aaron Peskin blocked a luxury housing development along the Embarcadero, and passed a ballot measure calling for voter approval of all height-limit increases along the waterfront. Agnos promised a similar fight against tearing down I-280. “I’m going to make the [No Wall on the Waterfront] fight look like a minor league skirmish,” he said…(more) The truth about High Speed Rail There have no money. They are $440 million dollars short the money they need to finish electrifying the train. (phase one.) They need private funds. Public money will not be sufficient to build the high speed rail. They are trying to convince people to give up their cars to create demand for public transit so they can convince investors that there are profits to be made by investing in public transit systems such as high speed rail. That is why they are trying to increase the population. They will need a lot more people to pay for the transit systems they want to build. Proponents in Washington promote California’s bullet train Posted in Anti car attitude, Bad Ideas, Bay Area Transit, Bullet train, Caltrain, cars, Commuters, Development, Displacement, Environment, MTA Complaints, Protest, Public, Public debt, Public outrage, Residential parking, SFMTA budget, SFMTA Complaints, Traffic \| Tagged complaints, congestion, I-280 tear down, mission bay, Potrero Hill, San Francisco, SFMTA \| Leave a reply Brown’s transportation budget celebrates the car Posted on January 21, 2016 by zRants By Daniel Weintraub : californiahealthreport – excerpt Weeks after returning from the Paris summit on climate change where he was hailed as a leader in the movement to limit greenhouse gases, Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a new transportation budget that celebrates the car. In 2016-17, Brown wants to spend $16 billion on transportation, and most of that would go toward making it easier for people to drive. The Democratic governor wants to build new roads and highways and repave old ones, and use more technology to speed traffic. As opposed to what the SFMTA is doing. Are they at odds with the state? Brown does dedicate some new money to transit and rail improvements, including the high-speed rail project that he sees as part of his legacy. But he proposes almost nothing to promote “active transportation” – human-powered movement through neighborhoods and cities on bikes and on foot that is not only better for the environment, but also for our health. Despite an increase of $3 billion for transportation overall, his budget would offer the same $120 million these programs received in 2015-16 to pay for changes that make streets safer and offer alternative routes to help walkers and cyclists get off the roads. Brown’s budget would do little to reduce a backlog of more than $800 million in local projects seeking a share of these limited funds. His biggest insult to active transportation is his proposal to use $100 million in cap-and-trade fees collected from industrial polluters to finance an initiative he calls “low-carbon roads.” That proposal might even be illegal… (more) Is it April Fools Day or is this the Onion? Can this be true that the governor has figured out cars are not the enemy, that the car industry is producing cleaner more efficient engines that use less gas and are swapping out for electric cars as fast as they can get their hands on them? Could it also have anything to do with the realization that around 30% of the funds for public transportation comes from private transportation drivers. You don’t want to kill that goose if you want to keep those buses, trains and rails moving. He must know better than to fight the latest trend in Silicon Valley as they turn to cars and the drones now that everyone has a computer and smart device. You don’t want to fight Apple and Google over their future plans to build robot cars. Those cars will require smart roads no doubt. Regardless, we applaud the governor and state representatives for changing their focus and finally (we hope) supporting the goose that lays the eggs that feed the ferocious transportation appetite. Most of the air pollution is coming out of the ground (in SoCal) and is produced by the buildings, not the cars. Posted in Bullet train, California, cars, Commuters, ENUF, Environment, Protest, Public debt, Public outrage, State Bills, Traffic \| Tagged Governor Brown, repave roads, speeding traffic, state budget \| Leave a reply Roadshow: Rising cost of high-speed rail (while potholes go unfilled) rankles many By Gary Richards : mercurynews – excerpt Our crumbling roadways are not a call for action to raise the gas tax. It’s a call for action to stop the $71 billion crazy train also known as high-speed rail. Our roads are deteriorating around us. There is little money to fix them, yet we can find $71 billion for a fool’s errand that even the high-speed rail authority says may relieve only 1 percent of traffic. Now that sounds crazy to me!… When state voters approved a bond measure in 2008 to cover the first $10 billion for high-speed rail, the estimate for the total cost of the project was $40 billion to build tracks from the Bay Area to Los Angeles... (more) Posted in Anti car attitude, Anti-car tax, Bad Ideas, Bay Area Transit, Bullet train, Commuters, Development, Traffic \| Tagged bullet train, California, high speed rail, roads and bridges, traffic \| Leave a reply New House majority leader promises to block Calif. railway funding By Keith Laing : thehill – excerpt Newly installed House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) promised on Monday that he would “do all that I can to ensure not one dollar of federal funding goes to boondoggles like [California’s] high-speed rail.” McCarthy and other Republicans in Washington and California have long been opposed to the controversial California high-speed rail project, which has received more than $3 billion from the Obama administration since 2009. But McCarthy was recently elevated to the No. 2 position in the House Republican caucus following the defeat of former GOP Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in his bid for re-election earlier this year.. 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__label__wiki	0.8141	0.8141	Archive for the tag “President Jawara” Gambia: President Jammeh declares a state of emergency, as he refuses to step down (17.01.2017) Posted in Africa, Army, Civil Service, Development, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics and tagged Adama Barrow, Afri Radio, Alagie Ceesay, Alieu Momarr Njai, Ban Ki-Moon, Banjul, Broadcast Press Reviews, Closed Borders, Closure of International Calls, Dawda Jawara, Declaration of Results, Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Emil Touray, Essa Jallow, Fou De Kanilai, Gambia, Gambia Decides, Gambia Democratic Congress, Gambia Presidential Election, Gambia Press Union, GDC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, General Muhammade Buhari, GPU, H.E. Adama Barrow, H.E. Ban Ki-Moon, H.E. Yahya Jammeh, Hilltop Radio, Hon. Fabakary T. Jatta, Hon. Mamma Kandeh, Imam Baba Leigh, Independent Electoral Commission, Internet Blockade, Islamic Republic of Gambia, John Dramani Mahama, Kandeh Mamma, Lieutenant Yayha Jammeh, National Intelligence Agency, Neocolonialism, NIA Superiors, President Jammeh, President Jawara, President Yayha Jammeh, Reports Without Borders, Republic of Gambia, RSF, State of Emergency, Teranga FM, Virginie Dangles, Yahya Jammeh \| Leave a comment A look into the Coup d’état in Gambia in 1994 and President Jammeh will linger in power! When you look into how a man gets into power and then keeps it. Then that story might show why the person doesn’t leave the Executive, the reign or the Presidency. I am today looking into Yayah Jammeh who made a coup d’état in the Islamic Republic of Gambia. Since of today the President-Elect of Gambia are living in Exile in Senegal. Therefore I have to address the man who is ceasing the power and control of a nation. A nation he did run, but lost an election and the result we’re announced on the 2nd December 2016. President Jammeh even called President-Elect Adama Barrow who won on an Opposition-Coalition ticket. After that the Army has pledged alliance with the incumbent, the Electoral Commission head has fled to Senegal and radios has been switched off. Just as the days before the polls the borders we’re closed and the internet we’re turned out. The Museveni-Blackout session was all in fashion in November 2016. So let’s take a brief look into the reports of 1994 coup d’état and how long he has said earlier he wanted to rule! Yayah Jammeh pledges difference after 1994: “BANJUL, Gambia, Aug. 26— When Lieut. Yahya Jammeh seized power in this West African country in a bloodless coup last month, breaking one of the continent’s longest traditions of electoral democracy, he joined the increasingly crowded ranks of soldiers who have risen to power in Africa” (…) “But even as he pledges to announce a timetable for a transition to democracy by the end of September, Lieutenant Jammeh, a child of the rural upcountry whose formal education ended in the 10th grade, complains that suspensions of vital donor aid in the meantime amount to “neocolonialism.” (…) “We are here for reasons that are peculiar only to Gambia, and what has happened in other parts of the continent, that does not concern us,” Lieutenant Jammeh said in an interview in a crimson-carpeted salon of State House. Political Activity Banned” (French, 1994). More on the Coup in 1994: “Weak borders and weak governments still characterize much of West Africa, and the coup d’état brewing in the graveyard would not be the Gambia’s first. Sanneh was on summer break from middle school in 1994 when, one morning, a group of junior army officers angry about their low salaries seized the national radio station, the airport, and government buildings in Banjul. The incumbent president, Dawda Jawara, who had led the country since independence, found safety on a docked U.S. warship while his guards evacuated the State House. When the disgruntled officers arrived, Andrew Winter, then the U.S. ambassador to the Gambia, told me, “I think much to their surprise, it was theirs.” At about 6 o’clock that evening, an announcement came on the radio: A four-member group called the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council, or AFPRC, had taken over. Its chair was Yahya Jammeh, then a 29-year-old army lieutenant who was little known outside the barracks” (Reid, 2016). Real acts of Jammeh: “Atrocious stories such as that of Imam Baba Leigh succeed one another, always more violent. As the day the authorities locked up 1,000 people in a stadium and made them drink hallucinogenic drinks. This surreal act is in the image of President Yahya Jammeh who claims to be able to cure AIDS, sterility or epilepsy using traditional plants and mystical incantations, hence his nickname “Fou de Kanilaï” his birth place. In 1993, Democrat Dawda Jawara, whom Jammeh overthrew, abolished the death penalty. In 1994, as soon as he took power, the master of Banjul, the Gambian capital, restored it and incorporated it into the Constitution in 1997” (Serieys, 2017). What the President Jammeh says about the coup: “I have seen banners saying no to coup, but the reality is that people will say how then did he become head of state because he overthrew somebody’s government? Yes, I came through a coup d’etat, because what was happening in this country is unacceptable. On 22 July 1994, not even a frog died, much more a human being. When we came that day, in broad day-light, which Imam missed a Friday prayer?” (…) “Let me also ask you this question. On July 22,1994, who among you missed his lunch because of the coup? In fact, July 22, 1994, our coup d’etat was more peaceful than any general election that was held in this country. When we came, we told you that we were soldiers with a difference. We were not power hungry, greedy soldiers that are looking for wealth and power to subjugate Gambians. We were development hungry. We want this country to move forward and be a beacon of hope for all of Africa, because what is happening in Africa is a sad story” (Jammeh, 2006). How long did he want to rule: “On the final day of campaigning, President Yahya Jammeh vowed to rule for the next 40 years. Mr. Jammeh, who seized power in 1994 as a 29-year-old army lieutenant and went on to win elections in 1996 and 2001, told supporters that he ruled through God and that ”no coup d’?t or elections can remove me.” He faces two challengers but warned at the rally in Serekunda, east of the capital, Banju, ”I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don’t vote for me, don’t expect anything.” (NYT, 2009). So the man who conceded did the phone-call in December 2016 and then went back on it. Therefore we know today that the President-Elect of Gambia is exile, because of one totalitarian leader didn’t want to stepdown or give way to new leadership in the Republic. As he said in 2009 before another election he proclaimed that no election could beat him. Certainly the recent did, as even the Electoral Commission did rig the tally, which must hurt the pride of the former soldier and lieutenant. He will not bow down to pressure, even the ECOWAS and African Union haven’t sanctioned anything of pressure, have made some arrangements and mediation, but not substantial. That with the knowledge that the man all of sudden didn’t want to step down and become an President Emeritus, instead now he is yet another lingering President in power. Adama Barrow is the one that is supposed to rule, but Yahya Jammeh isn’t supposed to reign anymore. His time is up, his time in the executive and in power. Therefore now that the President-Elect is now in exile and will be there until Jammeh leaves. By my reckoning will not be quickly or swift. He will linger until somebody coup d’état him now. Since he isn’t stepping down for the one who won the Presidential Election in 2016! Peace. French, Howard W. – ‘In Gambia, New Coup Follows Old Pattern’ (28.08.1994) link: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/28/world/in-gambia-new-coup-follows-old-pattern.html Jammeh, Yahya – ‘PRESIDENT JAMMEH’S ADDRESS ON THE 10,000 MAN MARCH’ (15.04.2006) link: http://qanet.gm/statehouse/peace-march_address_150406.htm The New York Times (NYT) – ‘World Briefing \| Africa: Gambia: Leader Vows To Rule For Next 40 Years’ (22.09.2009) link: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00EEDF1E31F931A1575AC0A9609C8B63&rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FJammeh%2C%20Yahya&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=14&pgtype=collection Reid, Stuart A. – ‘’Let’s Go Take Back Our Country’ (28.03.2016) link: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/lets-take-back-our-country/426852/ Serieys, Jaques – ‘Gambie : Yahya Jammeh au pouvoir par un coup d’état militaire’ (02.01.2017) link: http://www.gauchemip.org/spip.php?article23135 Posted in Africa, Army, Civil Service, Development, Diplomacy, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics and tagged Adama Barrow, Afri Radio, Alagie Ceesay, Alieu Momarr Njai, Ban Ki-Moon, Banjul, Broadcast Press Reviews, Closed Borders, Closure of International Calls, Dawda Jawara, Declaration of Results, Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Emil Touray, Essa Jallow, Fou De Kanilai, Gambia, Gambia Decides, Gambia Democratic Congress, Gambia Presidential Election, Gambia Press Union, GDC, Gen. 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__label__wiki	0.830316	0.830316	How to play the perfect marathon DJ set Masters of the marathon DJ set give us advice on how to go the distance Marcus Barnes Restrain yourself! Knowing you're in for the long haul means you must also have a large degree of restraint as marathons work best when they're paced well. During an all-night performance you are the warm up DJ, the peak-time player and the selector who gets to close out the night. A steady build up is paramount, as Virginia says: "I don't shoot off musical weapons too early. I need to have a common thread, an idea of how my set will play out. For example, it could start with deeper slower Chicago joints, then accelerate a little bit and, eventually, I might play some vocal tunes." Sasha makes a similar point: "It's a case of pacing the music so you don't energise the set too much in the beginning and play records that paint you into a corner. I've done that before and struggled. Likewise you can take it too slow, so it's about getting the balance right." Keep yourself going Let's talk stamina. Lee Burridge goes for the Italian option when he's on the ones and twos: "I make sure I have pizza, to be delivered around hour ten." Virginia's solution is a little more practical: "I always bring some nibbles: a pack of nuts and some fruit. A banana has a good amount of sugar to get me through." Whereas Danny Tenaglia is not so particular, and likes to have a caffeine boost when he's pushing through the eight-hour mark: "I might ask them to bring me something to eat. In between I might have a banana or have them bring me some coffee, but, ultimately, it's the music that drives me." Strive for cosmic levels of understanding between you and the crowd All in all, the longer set offers both the dance floor and the DJ a chance to really get connected on a more intimate level. The trust that develops throughout the night allows whoever is playing the records to experiment, to let loose, to guide the crowd or be guided, to get to know the soundsystem and really work it to their advantage. As Sasha enthuses: "There's definitely something hypnotic about the state you get into and you feel as though you're locked in to the people in the room, locked into their brains on some kind of level and there's no better feeling than that."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1696

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