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__label__wiki	0.609236	0.609236	Home Technology OnePlus unimaginatively calls its smart television ‘OnePlus TV’ after year-long naming competition... OnePlus unimaginatively calls its smart television ‘OnePlus TV’ after year-long naming competition – Android Police OnePlus has been teasing its upcoming Android TV for quite some time now. We already know it’s slated for release later this year and that it should come with multiple screen sizes. Today, the company officially revealed the device’s logo and confirmed its name — after a year-long competition, the best it could come up with was OnePlus TV. The strategy of leaking out small bits of information through official channels is familiar to OnePlus. Before it announced its first phone, the company released specs bit by bit, generating publicity without spending a dime on traditional advertising. The same appears to be true for the OnePlus TV. In a forum post, the manufacturer explains how it settled on the unique and inspired branding following a naming competition and even rewarded the first person to suggest it. Accompanied by the sleek animation you can see below, OnePlus also describes how it designed the logo, focusing on geometric, blocky shapes while retaining its familiar corporate identity. It’s safe to assume that OnePlus will continue teasing us with more information about the TV in the months leading up to its rumored release at the end of this year. Hopefully, the next announcement will focus on hardware rather than marketing. Previous articleThree ways Boris Johnson could become Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister – The Washington Post Next articleDow set to tumble after bond market flashes a recession warning – CNN	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1213
__label__cc	0.592838	0.407162	book reviews, Graphic Novels, spoiler free Stand in your Power Stand in your Power by Rachel Smith Rating XXXX Published May 2019 by Rachel Smith “I wanted to stay in that bed forever…I really don’t know how I’m going to get through today…let alone the rest of my life.” Stand in Your Power is a collection of autobio comic strips that comic-creator extraordinaire Rachael Smith made after going through a breakup and attempting to get on with her new, single life. The comics deal with loneliness, figuring out who you are, moving on, dating, friendship, depression, love, and many other super-relatable things. I first came across Rachael while wandering the isles of MCM Comic Con a few years back now I think and I was having trouble dealing with a lot of the crowds so I made my way over to the comic village (which has since become my absolute favourite part of London MCM) where it was a little quieter and I remember seeing a stall that had comics and the main thing that drew my eye, pin badges with a cute grey kitty that said “you got this” and I went to take a closer look and picked up a copy of “Flimsy’s Guide to Modern Living” and it was about Flimsy the cat that I’d seen on the pin badge just trying to get through life even when things didn’t feel great, it was full of cute and really great affirmations for things like, “Decide every morning that you are in a good mood” and my personal favourite, “Feeling sad? OMG eat cheesecake.” It was fun and silly and Rachael signed my book (because obviously, I brought it) and was lovely to chat too which helped me feel less enclosed by the crowds and really helped. I’m feeling so honoured to have received a copy of her newest book “Stand in your Power” to review! The first thing that always stands out to me with all of Rachael’s work is her distinct, emotive art style and use of a big, bold yet warm colour palette, it’s utterly eye-grabbing and inviting and Stand in your Power is no exception. On the cover, I especially love the spotlight over Rachael and the two dark creatures that symbolise her depression etc surrounding her. This graphic novel is also in full colour and the colour really gives the artwork an extra zing, it’s an absolute treat for the eyes. I feel like the clean, almost simplistic style makes every scene feel comfortable and easy to read as well. This panel is one of my absolute favourites. Stand in your Power doesn’t follow what I would call a strict story, instead, it consists of different moments and realisations throughout the breakup and recovery with Rachael’s overarching narrative tying it all together so that it doesn’t feel like some comic strips just thrown together and it really works, it’s enjoyable and it feels like a journey you go on with Rachael. The art and writing are very emotive and highly relatable whether you’ve been in a similar situation or not, there are experiences with mental health and depression, break ups, moving house, dating, friendships, finding yourself and honestly just being an adult which is much harder than the more adultier adults give us credit for. Trigger Warning for self-harm but Rachael has approached this brilliantly and not only given a warning but also colour coded the pages so it can easily be skipped over if needed. There are some really fantastic moments throughout Stand in your Power, and I nearly cried a few times at the kindness of Rachael’s supportive friends (Heather and the advent calendar especially!) I also found this trick remembering to take your meds stupidly helpul, this is actually something I’ve actually done since and let me tell you Jiji is not a forgetful cat. Stand in your Power is available in softcover now and you can buy it at Rachael’s Etsy store here as well as her other books! Rachael Smith’s debut graphic novel House Party came out in 2014 with Great Beast Comics to critical acclaim. The Rabbit, released by Avery Hill Publishing in 2015, is her second graphic novel and was nominated for Best Book in the British Comic Awards 2014/15. Rachael is also the creator of Flimsy the Kitten and One Good Thing, Wired up Wrong, House Party and more including Stand in your Power. She is also currently running a funding campaign via Unbound.com for her next book Isabella and Blowden which you can check out here. Tagged aduting, book blog, book blogger, books, breakups, cats, comic, depression, graphic novel, graphic novel review, indie comic, mental health, Rachael Smith, self published, stand in your power20 Comments Heartstream Heartstream by Tom Pollock Published July 4th by Walker Books I just wanted to see you. Before the end. A taut psychological thriller about obsession, fame and betrayal, for fans of Black Mirror. Cat is in love. Always the sensible one, she can’t believe that she’s actually dating, not to mention dating a star. But the fandom can’t know. They would eat her alive. And first at the buffet would definitely be her best friend, Evie. Amy uses Heartstream, a social media app that allows others to feel your emotions. She broadcasted every moment of her mother’s degenerative illness, and her grief following her death. It’s the realest, rawest reality TV imaginable. But on the day of Amy’s mother’s funeral, Amy finds a strange woman in her kitchen. She’s rigged herself and the house with explosives – and she’s been waiting to talk to Amy for a long time. Who is she? A crazed fan? What does she want? Amy and Cat are about to discover how far true obsession can go. This was my first Tom Pollock novel, I had heard of him before but I had no idea what kind of books he wrote or much of anything about him. Walker Books contacted me and asked if I would be interested in an early finished copy for review and after reading the synopsis I was sold. I’ve started reading a few more thriller and psychological horror books over the past year or so, having not read anything like that at all until The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James but there are some absolute gems and Heartstream is one of them. Heartstream is told from two different points of view, always alternating back and forth with each chapter which was equal parts infuriating (in a mostly good way) and absolute genius. Often there would be a revelation of some kind of things will just start heating up and you’re dreading the end of the chapter because you know it’s going to switch to another part of the story. It creates a whole load of tension on its own, that paired with Pollock’s fantastic tension building and writing style is a winning combination, especially as things begin to develop throughout the story. The characters were interesting but instead of being focused on them I found I was more focused on the things that were happening to them in a terrifyingly personal way, I can remember their hair colour or details about them and they’re not bad characters but in a very fitting manner for a book featuring a software that allows you to experience others emotions first hand for yourself, the main impressions I have from them are their emotions. When the book released last week I described Heartstream as being “Slightly traumatising” one reason for this is that each emotional beat feels like it leaves a mark on you and a lot of the feelings are very intense. For me personally I find it difficult to cope with situations where I feel there is no way out or that are seemingly hopeless and/or the main character is helpless to control things around them in any degree, (I’ve never actually seen the end of Face-Off because I decided it was a no way out thing) which are things our two main characters definitely confront throughout this novel. Some parts really terrified me in a helpless kind of way and absolutely hit some nerves for me as a mother as well, it was a little like watching a horror film in that I felt scared/freaked out but in an almost enjoyable way? It definitely lives up to the description of a psychological thriller for sure. Tom Pollock is an incredible storyteller and Heartstream is a bold intricate tapestry with a striking red thread of tension woven in and throughout the stories of both Amy and Cat, binding them together. It captures the toxic, obsessive, abusive and entitled side of fandoms we are beginning to see more and more of lately as well as a hauntingly accurate and intense look at cyberstalking and harassment. Heartstream is gripping, yet moving, an addictive ride that will have you feeling like you’re “streaming” from the characters yourself throughout. Have you ever experienced any fandom related moments that you felt were just too much or too far? Years ago I met with a group of other fans of “My Little Pony” and was shocked and appalled after witnessing them loudly tearing a display apart, arguing over blind bag figures and being confrontational with the staff in a toy store. I actually stopped watching the show after that and since tend to distance myself from a lot of communities since then. Tagged book, book blog, book bloger, book review, bookish, books, cyberbullying, fandom, heartstream, mental health, obsessive fandom, psychological thriller, reading, social media, thriller, tom pollock, walkerbooks, ya, ya thriller15 Comments Starfish Review Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman Published: April 5th 2018 By Ink Road “Beauty isn’t a single thing. Beauty is dreaming一it’s different for everyone, and there are so many versions of it that you mostly have no control over how you see it” Kiko Himura has always had a hard time saying exactly what she’s thinking. With a mother who makes her feel unremarkable and a half-Japanese heritage she doesn’t quite understand, Kiko prefers to keep her head down, certain that once she makes it into her dream art school, Prism, her real life will begin. But then Kiko doesn’t get into Prism, at the same time her abusive uncle moves back in with her family. So when she receives an invitation from her childhood friend to leave her small town and tour art schools on the west coast, Kiko jumps at the opportunity in spite of the anxieties and fears that attempt to hold her back. And now that she is finally free to be her own person outside the constricting walls of her home life, Kiko learns life-changing truths about herself, her past, and how to be brave. From debut author Akemi Dawn Bowman comes a luminous, heartbreaking story of identity, family, and the beauty that emerges when we embrace our true selves. This book has a gorgeous cover. That was my first thought when I saw Starfish on NetGalley a little while back, I had a quick glance at it, realised it was contemporary and I already had a mound of books to get through and moved on. A month or so later I came across the author on Twitter and I thought she was (and still is) lovely and that I would share her promoting posts etc because although this book wasn’t for me I wanted it to do well. A few weeks before it’s release Zoe from NoSaferPlace posted a quote from the book about anxiety at a party and it resonated so much with me that I immediately went back to NetGalley and requested it. My request was approved and I devoured this book over the course of a few days and I think it may be the most important book I have ever read. This book touches on so many subjects, mental health, emotional and sexual abuse, divorce, beauty ideals, racial discrimination, family issues, suicide and the terrifying feeling that you have no idea what to do with your life when things don’t go how planned. I honestly don’t know how to describe the emotion this incredible book is filled with, it manages to somehow be so tender and painfully raw at the same time. Kiko is a character I think a lot of young people (and like myself, not so young) can relate to today for one reason or another and she’s such an easier character to empathise with because of that. The writing is a joy to read, it feels like Akemi seems to be able to pluck these emotions right out of our souls and paint them onto the page in the form of words. I laughed, I cried, I was devastated, shocked and proud throughout this book, it completely sucked me in and I was there right along side Kiko watching her learn and grow and I felt like I was learning and growing too. Kiko is a great example of when we know we’re doing something that is detrimental to our health or isn’t good for us but we can’t stop because we rely on it and watching her learn to be strong and do things for herself was eye-opening and heart warming. It made me want to be a better person. The story itself is balanced well, it doesn’t drown out the important thoughts and choices Kiko has but still keeps everything moving and interesting. There are some great twists and turns hidden away in this beautiful unassuming book with a perfect ending for a stand alone novel. There aren’t many books now days that I will reread, no matter how good they are but this feels like a book I’m going to read every once in a while to remind me of all the lessons is teaches. This has been a hard book to review because it’s one that has felt so important to me and I’ve had trouble trying to find a way to put how I feel about it into words so I’ll close with a few of my favourite quotes “We all have to dream our own dreams. We only get one life to live—live it for yourself, not anyone else.” “I’ve always felt like I desperately needed to say my feelings out loud – to form the words and get them out of me, because they’ve always felt like dark clouds in my head that contaminate everything around them.” “I draw a girl without a face, drawing somebody else’s face onto her own reflection.” Tagged abuse, akemi dawn bowman, book, book blog, book blogger, book review, book talk, bookish, bookish blog, debut author, ink road, mental health, net galley, new release, poc, starfish, suicide5 Comments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1218
__label__wiki	0.819477	0.819477	92.3 KKFR - Power 92 / 95.5 KOY-FM - Y95 / 95.5 KYOT - The Coyote KYOT (95.5) – Phoenix – Sep ’93 (stunting: Amer. Radio Museum) At Noon on September 2, 1993, following a sale from Edens Broadcasting to Sundance Broadcasting, CHR “Y95” ceased to exist on KOY 95.5 FM in Phoenix. For the next 24 hours, a stunt known as “American Radio Museum” would air on the frequency. According to Wikipedia, the stunt featured “loops of quotes from famous people and figures from American pop culture and history.” This aircheck contains two sweepers from that stunt, along with one of the “special Arizona exhibits”. On September 3, 1993, “95.5 the Coyote” debuted with a format known as “Rhythm and Rock”. This aircheck also contains a promo that aired during the early days of “The Coyote”, featuring feedback from the station’s listeners. (Six months later, the format switched to Smooth Jazz, with “The Coyote” name remaining intact.) At the end of the aircheck is a promo that begin airing on Rhythmic CHR KKFR “Power 92” on the afternoon of September 2, 1993, inviting displaced Y95 listeners over to 92.3 FM. The promo claimed that Power 92 “won’t sell out” — yet that’s pretty much what happened 3 1/2 months later, as their successful Rhythmic CHR format (and almost all hip-hop and R&B songs) was replaced with a considerably less successful Modern Rock-oriented Mainstream CHR format. The final days of Y95 (although not THE final day) can be heard towards the end of this aircheck. Thanks to Beau Duran for contributing the logo! EDIT: And thanks to John Davis for the amazing behind-the-scenes insider info posted as a comment below! //FMairchecks.com/tanim/KYOT/KYOT-KKFR-Sep-1993.mp3 1993 92.3 95.5 95.5 the Coyote Arizona Arizona's Great Music Station Eric Edwards FM KKFR KOY-FM KRFM KRFM 95 KYOT Mainstream CHR Mainstream Top 40 Phoenix Power 92 Power 92.3 Radio Rhythm and Rock September September 2 September 3 Smooth Jazz The Coyote Y-95 Y-95.5 Y95 Y95.5 John September 4, 2013, 10:44 am Since it will take longer to find the post on the former R-I site than it would be for me to tell it again, here’s a view of KYOT from someone who was there. Was Rhythm & Rock a stunt? No. The late Mike Jorgenson was absolutely serious about that format working. I don’t think that’s what was intended to happen to Y-95, but it did. When Sundance bought KOY-AM & FM, they hired some AOR people to create a rock station to go along with its AAA KZON. I doubt that they kept this stop on their resume, though. There was a PD and jock that used to work at KLPX in Tucson, a very well known voice imaging talent who had been on air in the market at KUPD, and an off-the-wall guy from KFOG. I heard a snippet of a composite done in the prod room and it sounded like a Rock-40 approach. Whether or not this composite was the decided upon format I’m not sure, but it’s what they were going to bring to Jorgy. But Edens got in trouble for not keeping a good EEO file right before the sale was announced and shortly thereafter the FCC got involved in an internal dispute over what would be a fair punishment for EEO violations. Until the FCC could make up its mind over the proper fine, they wouldn’t settle the violation and until the violation was settled, the sale couldn’t be approved. This took the FCC at least 6 months. So all the people hired for the station had about 6 months to cool their heels and wait. Somewhere in between, Jorgenson got inspiration from sitting in what was then known as America West Arena. During time-outs at Phoenix Suns games, the arena played upbeat rock and R&B songs. These songs made people happy and dance around. This, in his eyes, was an untapped radio format. Rhythm and Rock. Given his affinity for the obscure, some of the R&B oldies had to be tracked down by Johnny D and dubbed from vinyl. Also, the disc jockeys heard in the earlier composite were out. Mike decided that disc jockeys made too much money standing around in the studio (his ultra conservative politics were legendary) and thus to make them more useful their job would be to produce commercials and imaging all day. [Jorgenson tried this approach on KZON for a disastrous period of time where all jocks voice-tracked their shows and spent the rest of their time doing production later. He could never quit tinkering with the place.] So voice actors were hired to record vignettes to go between the records, including Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney from Green Acres). The end result was if the music mix didn’t make you ask what the hell you just heard, the production between the songs did. So, all the songs were loaded into giant CD jukeboxes and the audio was loaded into one of the first hard drive systems and set to press play. Except for two problems. After pulling off the Radio Museum stunt in less than a week, the production folks were sent home to rest. After pulling an all-nighter getting the automation ready to go, I (a part-time college student) asked what was supposed to introduce the format. They forgot to ask production to create one before sending them home. So the creative director and I came up with something to play at noon. Second problem: the PD scheduled music from noon to midnight for the first day because the station was stunting until noon. (the stunting was being played off of DAT in a temporary control room) The new automation couldn’t handle a 12 hour long music log. So noon to midnight was copied into midnight to noon to create a 24 hour log. Meanwhile, down the hall, a client party was happening. A media buyer, who had won the right to fire the first song off of the touch screen (hey, this was cutting edge in 1993) was ushered into the studio, where a TV crew from channel 10 was set to cover it live. At 12 noon, the board op fired the cart that we produced earlier in the morning. Down the hall in engineering, the engineer waited for me to shout “now” at the end of the cart so he could pull the patch cord to make the control room live. And then the wrong song played. The last song from the 11 AM hour (which was intended to play just before midnight that night) was Todd Rundgren “Bang The Drum All Day.” The first song of the Noon hour was Ike & Tina Turner’s “Nutbush City Limits.” That was Mike Jorgenson’s handpicked tune. Somebody didn’t clear off Bang The Drum, so that’s what song got played first. And it went downhill from there. Within a matter of months, all of the people hired for KYOT were let go. I was made full-time as Operations Manager and my job was to “run” the radio station namely because I understood the automation. I could never schedule music too far in advance because the direction changed first weekly and then daily. One day it was alternative. The next day more R&B. The edict to never play a ballad really hamstrung us. The PD for the group got his hands on a printout of the ARRO music library from KCBS, which was the hot format of the day. We couldn’t play most of it because Mike didn’t like it. The ratings came in: we inherited a 1.9 from Y-95. KYOT took it to 0.9. Mike finally said that it was a sign he should stick to sales and let programming do its thing. That’s not to say he stopped micromanaging the radio station, but he did open R&R, saw that a station in Seattle had just changed format from Smooth Jazz, called them up, bought their CD library, found their former PD, and hired him. We sent DAT machines and RE-20 mics to several well known NAC air talents and hired them as freelancers. One of the “Customer Service Reps” hired to answer the request lines while the stations were automated was made full time and his job was to dub the voice tracks into the automation system. Geoffrey Holder (the Cola Nut man from the 7-Up commercials, in addition to his acting work in Bond films) was hired as the imaging voice. KYOT became successful. And this time, I got to be the guy to fire the first song. I fired the correct one. Of course, the dodgy next-event button sent two pulses and briefly also started the second, but that’s another story.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1226
__label__cc	0.540384	0.459616	The Anime Thread Go to page Previous 1 ... 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 ... 60 Next Forum Index » Off-Topic » The Tavern SharpAndSlender Location: Bradenton, Florida Young_Metalhead wrote: SharpAndSlender wrote: You know, I probably could have even tolerated it if Light became a Shinigami for using the death note. But no. Just oblivion. I'm totally inappropriately raging about this shit. I have noticed that... Oblivion is what you deserve when you want to become a fucking god with a twisted sense of justice. Period. Yeah, in the real world maybe, but not when it's an anime and the most likable character just gets totally shafted like that. Trial By Ordeal: http://trialbyordeal666.blogspot.com/ http://www.twitter.com/noktorn01 Lepernicus wrote: Every record that dipshit sold took away money that could have went to a far more deserving band such as Immolation. Byrain Byrain wrote: I haven't watched the Death Note anime, but the ending for the manga nearly ruined the rest of the series for me. Frustrating and unsatisfying sums it up perfectly. I've been looking up the differences and they seem basically the same. I wasn't a big L fan or anything, but Near and Mello are such transparently lame replacements for him it defies description, and to have THEM take out Light is ridiculous. Honestly, if it had ended after the first season, with L's death and Light gearing up to take over the world, it would have been just about perfect. It seems that it really shits the bed in the second season in general, where everything becomes way less believable and interesting and all the intensity is sort of sapped in addition to the weird yo-yo characterization. Misa's one of the worst cases- she literally just does whatever the writers feel like having her do at any given moment, regardless of whether it makes sense or not. Which sucks because I loved Misa. I can only say I agree, after L dies the series just starts falling apart, it was at least not frustrating till the end though. If it wasn't the last few chapters, I would of called it quits during Light's breakdown... On another note, I just finished watching Claymore the other day, which is the total antithesis to the above as it's probably the most satisfied I've ever been with an anime series. Great, consistent characterization, cool action, a gripping story with tons of surprises, and no cheap deus ex machina plot devices. The claymore end is filler the writers tacked on when they ran out of source material, I watched the anime shortly after it finished airing so I don't remember the details, but I recall finding it quite lacking in comparison to the rest of the show. The whole time during the last episode I was like "Come on, he's going to do something cool to reverse the situation like he has every time before", but no! He literally goes out screaming and crying and desperate like a fucking child, the absolute antithesis of everything his character was through the whole series. And yeah, I know the ending for Claymore (the anime, anyway) wasn't the best since it outpaced the manga, but the series was so good and consistent that I can overlook a kind of half-assed ending. I also really appreciated that it was an anime series filled with strong female characters who weren't sexualized in any way. I'm hardly one to give a shit about smashing the heteronormative patriarchal standards of culture, but it was a cool change in tone from the tedious misogyny that most anime is infatuated with. phibzy fjällvinter wrote: Clannad. You'll cry a river Fucking this. I managed to get through the whole of the first season without shedding any tears, but fucking hell, After Story contains some of the saddest scenes ever. TeRRorBld Xeogred wrote: Big One Piece fan myself, the latest arc was fucking mindblowing. I'm never touching Bleach though, sounds like the show is 80% filler and all my friends that have been following it for years have all come to hate it honestly. Speaking of Fairy Tail though I just started that one up recently and I'm digging it so far, definitely feels like One Piece which is cool with me. Unfortunately, Bleach does indeed have A LOT of filler episodes. That's happening because of the progression of the manga, which is really fucking slow. Usually, it's like: 3 manga volumes = 1 anime episode And yeah, Fairy Tail feels a lot like One Piece. The only thing that bothers me is the non-existence of blood and death. Gelal The recent discussion regarding Death Note would be amusing if it wasn't absolutely disturbing. Seriously, guys? You find a mass-murderer likable, and root for him? Also, the point of the ending is that his own confidence and pride is what kills him. He's so full of it that he declares his victory before actually winning, effectively causing his defeat. Had he waited one or two seconds more, he'd have seen that nobody died, noticed that Mikami's note was fake, and might have been able to do something (I doubt it, though; evidence against him would be overwhelming). By declaring his victory in advance, he admits to being Kira and loses all chances of winning, because without a real note to use and nobody on his side (not even Ryuk, who is not amused by Light's descent into the realm of pathetic whining and childish demands), he's effectively powerless and has no means of getting out of that situation. And I see no problem with that. First and foremost, because you're not supposed to empathize with Light (Near, as unlikable a character as he is, puts it better when he tells Light "No, you're just a murderer [...], a crazy mass-murderer"), but also because it perfectly delivers the moral of the story: if you play God and think you're suitable for judging everybody else's worth and impose your twisted sense of justice on them, you're doing it wrong and should be ready to face the consequences. Actually, I like the end of the manga better than the end of the anime. They're only slightly different, but it's enough to make the former better, as the later kind of caters to Light fans more, despite both ending with him dead. But the presentation (him getting away, going up some stairs, etc) and the way he dies makes the end of the anime almost redeeming ('cause there's far less whining and bitching from Light). Gelal wrote: Some of us can tell the difference between fiction and reality you know? And some of you miss the point, apparently. The point being that in no way, shape or form is Light portrayed as likable, and absolutely nothing (neither in the anime or the manga, if you ignore the fan-pandering end of the anime) was aimed at getting the audience to like him. Now, don't get me wrong. I can understand, to a degree, someone wanting (or rather, expecting) him to win. But to get pissed because he got what he deserved, and saying that "the end sucked" or that "it's disappointing"? That, I can't comprehend. To me, it's a sign of someone who mistook Light's "victories" for mere victories, not realizing the point of him surpassing every previous challenge was to show how he became increasingly proud and confident in his own power, and how that causes him to make a series of fatal mistakes and get his just deserts. In short, my opinion is that just because it wasn't what you (and that's a generic "you", so don't take it personally) wanted it to be, it doesn't mean it's bad, and if you (again, generic) thought it was bad solely because of that, then you (generic, but by now it's probably not necessary to point it out) missed the point of the whole thing. Indeed. Especially when the entire anime has had you spending time with him for 37 consecutive episodes. I hugely disagree in your assessment that he's specifically made unlikeable- there's plenty to like about him. He's extremely intelligent, resourceful, willful, and dedicated to his goal. This isn't necessarily to say that he was a 'good person', but it's entirely possible to admire the qualities of characters or people without liking the person themselves. Anyway, like it or not, Light IS the natural protagonist of Death Note, so it seems only logical that a lot of people would end up rooting for him- especially when he's make so much more likable than ultra-one dimensional characters like Near, who are set up as nothing more than speedbumps for Light. Also, keep in mind that Light wasn't 'just' a mass-murderer. By 2012, the world genuinely is a substantially better place for the average person than before. There's collateral damage, of course, but it's hard to disagree with a 70% reduced crime rate worldwide. EDIT: BTW, I don't intrinsically have a problem with Light dying or failing his goal, but the way they did it was just so unsatisfying that it pisses me off because it goes against the whole nature of the rest of the series. Also, do you really find it weird that on a metal forum of all places you can find people who root for the bad guy? Onikage I think of Light as an anti-hero.. He's kind of like The Punisher. Indeed. Especially when the entire anime has had you spending time with him for 37 consecutive episodes. Which is irrelevant. In Evangelion you spend 26 episodes (plus a retelling of the last two and an alternative retelling of the whole thing; dear Hideaki Anno, haven't you milked the cow enough yet?) with Shinji, but he's still a pathetic loser and by the last episode I was hoping that someone would shove a Longinus' Spear up his ass. Just like after 37 episodes Light is still a megalomaniac mass-murderer and by the last episode I was hoping that he'd suffer a slow, painful death (or at least complete defeat). I hugely disagree in your assessment that he's specifically made unlikeable- there's plenty to like about him. He's extremely intelligent, resourceful, willful, and dedicated to his goal. I fail to see how any of that makes him likable. Plus, he's also evil, manipulative, lacks practically any kind of emotion (come on, he kills his own father) - specially empathy, has an ego the size of a galaxy, etc... Quite the charming fellow, indeed. This isn't necessarily to say that he was a 'good person', but it's entirely possible to admire the qualities of characters or people without liking the person themselves. I never said that it's impossible to admire the qualities of someone without liking him, or that he didn't have any qualities worthy of admiration: he does (and you mentioned practically all of them), I'm just stating he's a despicable person (and I don't think that's debatable), which is unrelated to any admirable skill or ability he may have. And it looks to me like you agree on him being a despicable person. Anyway, like it or not, Light IS the natural protagonist of Death Note, so it seems only logical that a lot of people would end up rooting for him- especially when he's make so much more likable than ultra-one dimensional characters like Near, who are set up as nothing more than speedbumps for Light. Him being the protagonist is also unrelated to any of what I said, and certainly not enough of a reason to root for him (see the Shinji example again). As I said, I can understand someone wanting or expecting him to win. My "complaint", if you can call it that, was about the people who dislike the whole thing because of how it ends, and/or get pissed 'cause he doesn't win. That's what I don't get, because the whole story is presented in a way that naturally leads to him losing, and he's always presented as a cold-blooded murderer with a God complex (i.e. not likable as a human being, in spite of the positive aspects of his abilities and personality). In short, I just think that complaining about the end because Light doesn't win is missing the point of the story. Complain about the cheap trick used to defeat him (and note that this is not the same as complaining about the way the authors did the whole defeat thing), sure, or about the unnecessarily long and sub-par second half (post L's death), but about him losing? So you think the end justifies the means? I've heard North Korea has a low crime rate, by the way. It must be a lovely place, don't you think? I'll ignore your claim that "the world genuinely is a substantially better place" because your definition of "better" is unrelated to the topic of this thread. Suffice to say that I disagree, as hinted at by the North Korea reference above. Actually, having him win is what would go against the whole nature of the rest of the series, for the aforementioned reasons. I really don't see how "the way they did it [...] goes against the whole nature of the rest of the series". As I said, up until the last chapter we see him become increasingly prideful and confident, which leads to him making fatal mistakes. Perhaps your idea of what "the whole nature of the rest of the series" should be is different. And that's fine, of course, but I'll go with what the authors intended to convey. I never said I found it weird, although metal has next to nothing to do with it IMHO. I believe my exact words (although partially tongue-in-cheek) were "absolutely disturbing". Again, I'm just saying it puzzles me how and why people would root for him when the story is developed with the obvious intention of making it clear that he's a disgusting bastard and leading to the final showdown in which he gets what he deserved. Young_Metalhead Saanut kerran. Todistetusti. Location: México, DF @Gelal & SharpAndSlender Stop it already! It's a fucking anime! Some might like it, some might not. Some might have a sociopath complex, some might not! Some might love the twisted sense of justice Light has, some might actually love how L tries to defeat him. But I had fun with your discussion, anyway. That "Stop it already!"... Well, don't take that seriously... MorgraSanctified One of my favorites was one called Kikaider mrdanteaguilar Gintama (pretty funny) Those are just a few. I love anime. No, I don't like Slipknot Xeogred Thunderbolt from Hell Light was easily my favorite character in Death Note, he was hilarious. I haven't read the manga so I don't know how the ending differs, but I thought the anime ending was pretty awesome, fitting, and made sense. I haven't read the manga so I don't know how the ending differs In the manga, Mikami is imprisoned instead of committing suicide at the warehouse (he actually kills himself, but only after being imprisoned, ten days after Light's death). Light dies, but in a much more pathetic and pitiful way: instead of getting away, he spends his last 40 seconds whining and screaming "I don't wanna die" at Ryuk. There's other things that I don't recall if they were mentioned in the anime or not, like Matsuda speculating that the reason Mikami killed himself is because Near used a real note to write something like "Teru Mikami does this and that and that, then goes nuts and kills himself on day X at time Y" (suggesting that things happened the way they did because Near was controlling Mikami) or the Cult of Kira that is seen in the last pages of the manga. SuperVeji4 Wow, Gelal said almost everything I would say about Light in Death Note. I have to be honest though, I didn't fully disagree with Light at first, but when he begins to kill innocent individuals is when I began to despise him. When he kills that American agent and his girlfriend is the exact moment when I began to detest him. Which is why I liked the ending: he fucking lost, he lost all his fucking powers and influence, and he fucking died! I must also say that I agree completely with the opinion that the show began to decline after the death of L. I was watching the show specifically for the rivalry between Light and L, so the show was essentially over for me when L dies. Everything after that was a just one big epilogue to me, and a shitty one at that. I did find the technique that Near used to defeat Light to be somewhat anticlimatic and underwhelming, but eh, oh well. At least that whole scene was done in a very epic way. "Delete! Delete! DELETE! DELETE! DELETE! DELEAHT! DELEEAAHHHT! DELEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" (Just to make it clear, I watched the Japanese version with English subtitles, but I don't know the Japanese word for delete) SuperVeji4 wrote: Mikami says "sakujo" ("sakujo" being an approximate transcription, in japanese it's written like so: 削除). fjällvinter phibzy wrote: The Fuuko arc in the first season was kinda moving, but the entire 2nd season is very depressive. I have Air but I haven't watched it. Another anime in the same league is EF - A tale of Melodies/Memories. Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien has some very dramatic moments. I've found the entire Rose of Versailles (known as Lady Oscar too) and The Treasure's Island on DVD. I saw both of them in 80's, great stuff!. For the ones who likes the more psychological stuff like DT, you can always check Mnemosyne and Satoshi Kon's masterworks: Paprika (which is the basis for the Inception movie - hell, it's so rip offing the anime...), Perfect Blue and Paranoia Agent. Death Note went to shit after L dies. Yeah Inception is horse shit compared to Paprika. And I agree with you guys about Death Note crapping out after the L stuff. Rose of Versailles and Treasure Island are amazing shows, a shame Dezaki (the director) passed away about a month ago due to lung cancer. If you like those shows I'd also highly suggest Nobody's Boy Remi, and Space Adventure Cobra, other full shows he directed back then. The Folk One Location: A forest on an island! Just think Air as Clannad without the Happy ending in the very end. Air gets just as depressing as Clannad. Also, from the looks of it, Kanon is just as depressive also but has a good ending. Kryoto Animation has either depressing stuff (Clannad, Air) or Fun stuff (Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star, K-ON!). And since there is a big Death note Discussion. I've gotten up to L dieing and just stopped 'cus I wanted to watch something else. For a recent Anime recommendation for everyone I say check out [C] The Money of Soul and Possibility Control. Acrobat wrote: I dunno, I'm a guitarist and it always feels like playing a giant cock. Not just that but live music should hit you in the genitals. It might not if you don't use good amplifiers and your modelling shit goes straight out of the PA. But good music hits you HARD in the GENITALS. OzzyApu Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 10:23 pm I absolutely loved the first half of that series. L's exit with Light making that shit-eating grin - that was amazing, and how the show should have ended. gomorro wrote: Yesterday was the birthday of school pal and I met the chick of my sigh (I've talked about here before, the she-wolf I use to be inlove with)... Maaan she was using a mini-skirt too damn insane... Dude you could saw her entire soul every time she sit... LeetMetalhead hahaha, how did I not know about this thread? I love this debate about L & Light...ahh, good ol' Death Note. I still remember furiously watching over ten episodes in a row every time I sat down (I had borrowed the DVD's from a friend all at once lol. Bad idea, I've learned my lesson). However, I will admit that the second half of the show got a bit uninteresting, and almost left me a bit unsatisfied. This might have been due to the strange fact that subconsciously I wanted Light to win, but also I felt like the show got really dry after L was gone... especially those guys who replaced him. Seriously? Anyways... I don't watch every type of anime, but I am a bit of a die-hard fan of some "seinen" anime, of which these are my favorites: Berserk - probably the only series that I actually ended up reading the manga of, since it was so intense and the series literally ended at a climax (which was actually only the beginning of the manga). And of course the brutal, medieval theme is pretty awesome, and of course METAL. Ghost in the Shell (both SAC I & II) - pretty mind-blowing; if you've watched it, I'm sure you know what I mean. Cowboy Bebop - Western/cowboy + sci-fi + bebop jazz = WIN. Black Lagoon - Another one of those shows that you just gotta watch... Other than these, I have watched many others including Mushi-shi, Monster, Great Teacher Onizuka, N.G. Evangelion, and a bunch more. You guys into Seinen need to watch Alien 9. You better read the mang also, but the four episodes that ran, were awesome. Wodhlud Mobile Suit Gundam, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, pretty much the only animes I ever cared for. Been watching Axis Powers Hetalia lately. Incredibly funny and well written, and the American voice actors did a great job making the humor work for a western audience. I actually liked Death Note post-L's death. Mello might be my favorite character in the whole show. Pagan_Death_Sceam wrote: I watched the first Ep and I remembered that I already saw it long time ago. My bad. Suzumiya didn't do it for me tho. Kanon was for me very depressive... I recognize that I shed a tear when Makoto 'passed away', as well as with the Ayu's final arc. Da Capo is another one that I remember being pretty dramatic, but no one can beat Remi and Marco. I saw the Remi ending just 3 years ago. Non-anime but related is Oshin. Holy sad shit it is. Are you people into mystery stuff like Pet Shop of Horrors or Ayakashi (Samurai horror tales)? I'm into some mystery anime. Stuff like Gosick and stuff. I haven't seen Ayakashi but I'll proll watch it someday during the summer. Atm I'm watching a bastardization of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms called Koihime Musou (and it's second and third seasons: Shin Koihime Musou, and Shin Koihime Musou: otome tairen) and despite making just about every famous Chinese warrior some sort of female it is pretty good in my opinion, a good break from the stuff I've been watching before (Higurashi No naku Koro Ni {6th Rewatch}, another great series if you have the time to watch the insanity) I saw the Higurashi saga. I saw jigoku shoujo up to the 3rd season, which it bored me to tears, being really predictable. I prefer 100 times Vampire Princess Miyu to it (where Hell Girl draws many influence). Did someone see Bokurano? the first ep looks goofy, until you see the end and the whole picture. It gets more tense with each ep. I'll try to get GeGeGe no Kitarō. I liked that series. I saw it, wasn't the most exciting thing I have seen, but was solid and enjoyable. I kind of regret watching all four of those episodes, all the protagonist could do was whine, followed by more whining... I guess that's what I get for expecting quality from a show about elementary school kids, well, Shadow Star Narutaru was good. Edit: Its been a long time, but there are finally more GUNNM: Last Order chapters available! I believe there are some others here who voiced liking the series in the past. Then you really didn't get the point of it all... In any case, read the freaking manga. She didn't grow as a character, she didn't accomplish anything (I watched it a while ago, so my memory is fuzzy, but any growth or accomplishments were minor at best), all she managed to do was be helpless and whine about it. Which point did I miss? The point where she's the only one being reasonable at all! She's the only one questioning stuff, being afraid... How would you feel to be a fucking girl facing the aliens? She's not supposed tu grow, she's 12 years old man! In any case, I guess that's kind of a more deep analysis to the series (a thing the author, Hitoshi Tomizawa, does a lot). I love how we discuss anime here. ArtificialStupidity Location: Finland, Kuopio This is the most badass anime series you will ever watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENkscDllpHg NecroFile wrote: Lars Ulrich used to post under the name Anal_Gladiator but then he got banned. Dude, if you break the rules you get kicked off the forum. We don't care how many Grammies you have. Granted, I forgot about that, though if I was looking for realism, I wouldn't have watched a show where fighting off alien invaders are left up to 12 years olds. While doing something... on the internet, I came across a wiki for a show (?) called 12 Kingdoms. Anyone heard of it? Thought about seeing it. Then again, sounds like a chick flick thing. And this sound like fucking lolicon stuff. Last edited by OzzyApu on Thu May 19, 2011 12:17 pm, edited 1 time in total. Ha! You got me there OzzyApu wrote: Its not a chick flick thing, its more of the epic fantasy variety. The world it takes place has had a lot of detail go into it, though the source novels were never fully adapted (No end) and it takes a dozen or so episodes to pick up. Ok thanks. Might give it a whirl sometime. Page 8 of 60 [ 2364 posts ]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1235
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__label__wiki	0.694042	0.694042	Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA 1.12% decline 5.11% growth 0.217% growth Median Property Value Housing & Living In 2017, Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA had a population of 131k people with a median age of 35.8 and a median household income of $43,189. Between 2016 and 2017 the population of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA declined from 132,273 to 130,793, a -1.12% decrease and its median household income grew from $41,089 to $43,189, a 5.11% increase. The population of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA is 47.7% White Alone, 24.6% Black or African American Alone, and 15.7% Asian Alone. 25% of the people in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA speak a non-English language, and 90.9% are U.S. citizens. The largest universities in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA are Jna Institute of Culinary Arts (31 degrees awarded in 2017). The median property value in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA is $171,200, and the homeownership rate is 61.9%. Most people in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA commute by Drove Alone, and the average commute time is 28.4 minutes. The average car ownership in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA is 1 car per household. Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA borders Camden & Gloucester Cities PUMA, NJ, Woodbury City PUMA, NJ, Philadelphia City (Center City) PUMA, PA, and Philadelphia City (Southwest) PUMA, PA. About the photo: Farm, hills and grasslands in rural Pennsylvania. Photo by eflon United StatesPennsylvania The economy of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA employs 59.1k people. The largest industries in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA are Restaurants & Food Services (5,950 people), Construction (3,317 people), and Hospitals (3,094 people), and the highest paying industries are Broadcasting (except internet) ($77,562), Executive offices & legislative bodies ($75,928), and Computer Systems Design ($74,237). Median household income in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA is $43,189. Males in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA have an average income that is 1.13 times higher than the average income of females, which is $45,314. The income inequality in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA (measured using the Gini index) is 0.422, which is lower than than the national average. ± 5.32% Households in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA have a median annual income of $43,189, which is less than the median annual income of $61,937 across the entire United States. This is in comparison to a median income of $41,089 in 2016, which represents a 5.11% annual growth. Look at the chart to see how the median household income in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. Wage by Gender in Common Jobs In 2017, full-time male employees in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA made 1.13 times more than female employees. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA by number of full-time employees. Wage by Race and Ethnicity in Common Jobs Highest Average Salaries by Race & Ethnicity $48,116 ± $5,412 $38,996 ± $24,681 In 2017 the highest paid race/ethnicity of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA workers was White. These workers were paid 1.23 times more than Two or More Races workers, who made the second highest salary of any race/ethnicity. This chart shows the race- and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA by number of full-time employees. 2017 Wage GINI In 2017, the income inequality in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was 0.422 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 5.65% growth from 2016 to 2017, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat less even. The 2017 the GINI for Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was lower than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA in comparison to the national average. This chart shows the number of workers in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA across various wage buckets compared to the national average. Income by Location Use the dropdown to filter by race/ethnicity. TotalWhiteBlackAsianOtherTwo Or MoreWhite Non-HispanicHispanic Highest Median Household Income (Total) Broomall & Ardmore (West) PUMA, PA King of Prussia & Ardmore (East) PUMA, PA Bucks County (Central) PUMA, PA In 2018, the PUMA with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was Broomall & Ardmore (West) PUMA, PA with a value of $108,761, followed by King of Prussia & Ardmore (East) PUMA, PA and Bucks County (Central) PUMA, PA, with respective values of $104,430 and $103,452. The following map shows all of the PUMAs in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA colored by their Median Household Income (Total). Poverty by Age and Gender Females 25 - 34 Largest Demographic Living in Poverty 22.2% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA (28.9k out of 130k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 13.1%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 25 - 34, followed by Males 25 - 34 and then Females 35 - 44. The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty. Poverty by Race and Ethnicity Largest Race or Ethnicity Living in Poverty 10,788 ± 1,038 10,410 ± 943 5,332 ± 649 The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA is Black, followed by White and Asian. Employment by Occupations ± 0.217% From 2016 to 2017, employment in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA grew at a rate of 0.217%, from 59k employees to 59.1k employees. The most common job groups, by number of people living in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA, are Cashiers (1,884 people), Waiters & waitresses (1,540 people), and Janitors & building cleaners (1,529 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA. The most common jobs held by residents of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA, by number of employees, are Cashiers (1,884 people), Waiters & waitresses (1,540 people), and Janitors & building cleaners (1,529 people). Most Specialized Compared to other pumas, Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA has an unusually high number of residents working as Office machine operators, except computer (7.55 times higher than expected), Crossing guards (6.67 times), and Bartenders (5.87 times). The highest paid jobs held by residents of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA, by average salary, are Physicians & surgeons ($199,827), Chief executives & legislators ($130,781), and Property, real estate, & community association managers ($111,862). Employment by Industries The most common employment sectors for those who live in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA, are Restaurants & Food Services (5,950 people), Construction (3,317 people), and Hospitals (3,094 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA, though some of these residents may live in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address. The most common industries in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA, by number of employees, are Restaurants & Food Services (5,950 people), Construction (3,317 people), and Hospitals (3,094 people). Compared to other pumas, Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA has an unusually high number of Drinking places, alcoholic beverages (6.87 times higher than expected), Natural gas distribution (4.94 times), and Retail bakeries (4.48 times) industries. The highest paying industries in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA, by average salary, are Broadcasting (except internet) ($77,562), Executive offices & legislative bodies ($75,928), and Computer Systems Design ($74,237). Domestic Trade Domestic Production & Consumption Domestic production and consumption consists of products and services shipped from Pennsylvania to other states, or from other states to Pennsylvania. Domestic Production in DollarsDomestic Production in TonnageDomestic Consumption in DollarsDomestic Consumption in Tonnage Top Domestic Production in Dollars Mixed freight Coal-n.e.c. In 2015, the top outbound Pennsylvania product (by dollars) was Mixed freight with $88.5B, followed by Coal-n.e.c. ($57.4B) and Pharmaceuticals ($55.2B). The following chart shows the share of these products in relation to all outbound Pennsylvania products. Domestic Trade Growth Showing data for Pennsylvania state. $671B Projected 2045 Value 42.2% growth In 2020, total outbound Pennsylvania trade was $671B. This is expected to increase 42.2% to $954B by 2045. The following chart shows how the domestic outbound Pennsylvania trade is projected to change in comparison to its neighboring states. Interstate Trade Interstate trade consists of products and services shipped from Pennsylvania to other states, or from other states to Pennsylvania. Most Common Trade Partners In 2015, the top outbound Pennsylvania domestic partner for goods and services (by dollars) was New York with $65.4B, followed by New Jersey with $62.6B and Ohio and $35.6B. The following map shows the amount of trade that Pennsylvania shares with each state (excluding itself). 85% of the population of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA has health coverage, with 38.1% on employee plans, 25.8% on Medicaid, 9.85% on Medicare, 10.8% on non-group plans, and 0.479% on military or VA plans. Per capita personal health care spending in the puma of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was $9,258 in 2014. This is a 4.29% increase from the previous year ($8,877). Primary care physicians in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA see 1232 patients per year on average, which represents a 0.326% increase from the previous year (1228 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 1481 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 559 patients per year. Comparing across all counties in the state, Fayette County has the highest prevalence of diabetes (16%). Additionally, Clearfield County has the highest prevalence of adult obesity (39.3%) Patient to Clinician Ratios Data is only available at the state level. Showing data for Pennsylvania. Patient to Primary Care Physician RatioPatient to Dentist RatioPatient to Mental Health Provider RatioOther Primary Care Providers 1,232 to 1 Patient to Primary Care Physician Ratio Primary care physicians in Pennsylvania see an average of 1,232 patients per year. This represents a 0.326% increase from the previous year (1,228 patients). The following chart shows how the number of patients seen by primary care physicians has been changing over time in Pennsylvania in comparison to neighboring states. Behavioral Health Conditions Data only available at the state level. Adults With Major Depressive EpisodeAdults With Serious Mental IllnessOpioid Overdose Death RateSubstance Use Disorder Among Adolescents and Adults (Age 12+)Drug Overdose Death RateExcessive Drinking State with the Highest Prevalence 8.26% of the population affected In 2016, West Virginia had the highest prevalence of adults with major depressive episode, with 8.26% of the population affected. The second highest is Arkansas (8.13%), followed by New Hampshire (7.98%). The following map shows the percent of individuals with major depressive episode by state over multiple years. Estimated Number of Chronically Homeless IndividualsPercent of Residents with Access To Exercise OpportunitiesPrevalence of Food InsecurityPercent of Occupied Households Lacking Complete Plumbing FacilitiesPercent of Occupied Households Lacking Complete Kitchen FacilitiesPercent of Households Lacking Internet Access Most prevalent states In 2017, California had the highest estimated number of chronically homeless individuals in the nation, at 35,798. New York has the second highest (5,087), followed by Florida (4,915). The following map shows the estimated number of chronically homeless individuals in the nation by state over multiple years. Access and Quality Data only available at state level. Adults Who Haven't Seen a Doctor in the Past 12 Months Due to CostMental Health Service Use Among Adults With Mental Illness30-Day Hospital Readmission Rate Among Medicare PatientsAdult Hospice Patients Who Received Care Consistent With Their End-Of-Life Wishes 19.2% of adults In 2016, Mississippi had the highest prevalence of adults who haven't seen a doctor in the past 12 months due to cost, at 19.2%. It is followed by Texas (17.9%) and Louisiana (17.6%). The following map shows the prevalence of adults who haven't seen a doctor in the past 12 months due to cost by state over multiple years. Total Per Capita Spending on Personal Health Care Per Enrollee Private Health Insurance Spending on Personal Health Care Per Enrollee Medicaid Spending on Personal Health Care Per Enrollee Medicare Spending on Personal Health Care Between 2013 and 2014, all personal health care spending per capita in Pennsylvania (including private, Medicare, and Medicaid) grew 4.29%, from $8,877 to $9,258. The following chart shows how this spending changed over time in comparison to Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance spending, per enrollee. Employer Coverage Non-Group Military or VA Between N/A and 2016, the percent of uninsured citizens in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA stayed by NaNk% from N/A% to 15%. The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance. Data available at the county level. DiabetesAdult ObesityHIV DiagnosesSexually Transmitted InfectionsAdult SmokingAlcohol-Impaired Driving DeathsMotor Vehicle Crash DeathsHomicidesViolent Crimes Most at risk counties 16% prevalence Mifflin County 13.4% prevalence Venango County Fayette County has the highest prevalence of diabetes in Pennsylvania, at 16%. The following map shows the prevalence of diabetes in Pennsylvania by county over multiple years. Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA is home to a population of 131k people, from which 90.9% are citizens. As of 2016, 17.1% of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA residents were born outside of the country (22.7k people). The ethnic composition of the population of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA is composed of 62.4k White Alone residents (47.7%), 32.1k Black or African American Alone residents (24.6%), 20.5k Asian Alone residents (15.7%), 12.5k Hispanic or Latino residents (9.59%), 2.71k Two or More Races residents (2.07%), 264 American Indian & Alaska Native Alone residents (0.202%), 161 Some Other Race Alone residents (0.123%), and 33 Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander Alone residents (0.0252%). The most common foreign languages spoken in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA are Spanish (8,528 speakers), Chinese (Incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) (5,576 speakers), and Vietnamese (3,081 speakers). Age by Nativity Median Native-Born Age ± 0.7 Median Foreign-Born Age In 2017, the median age of all people in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was 35.8. Native-born citizens, with a median age of 35, were generally younger than than foreign-born citizens, with a median age of 40. But people in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA are getting getting older. In 2016, the average age of all Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA residents was 36. Foreign-Born Population 2016 Foreign-Born Population 22.7k people As of 2016, 17.1% of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA residents (22.7k people) were born outside of the United States, which is higher than the national average of 13.7%. In 2015, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was 16.6%, meaning that the rate has been increasing. The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. Global Diversity Most Common Origin 3,580 ± 1,449 people In 2017, the most common birthplace for the foreign-born residents of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was Vietnam, the natal country of 3,580 Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA residents, followed by China with 3,259 and Mexico with 2,653. 2017 Citizenship As of 2017, 90.9% of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA residents were US citizens, which is lower than the national average of 93.2%. In 2016, the percentage of US citizens in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was 90.9%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been decreasing. The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. White Alone 62.4k ± 1.68k Black or African American Alone Asian Alone In 2017, there were 1.94 times more White Alone residents (62.4k people) in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA than any other race or ethnicity. There were 32.1k Black or African American Alone and 20.5k Asian Alone residents, the second and third most common racial or ethnic groups. The following bar chart shows the 8 races and ethnicities represented in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA as a share of the total population. Most Common Languages 8,528 speakers (6.97%) Chinese (Incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) 25% of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA citizens are speakers of a non-English language, which is higher than the national average of 21.9%. In 2017, the most common non-English language spoken in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was Spanish. 6.97% of the overall population of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA are native Spanish speakers. 4.56% speak Chinese (Incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) and 2.52% speak Spanish, the next two most common languages. Most Common Service Period Gulf War (2001-) 883 ± 351 Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA has a large population of military personnel who served in Vietnam, 1.51 times greater than any other conflict. In 2017, universities in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA awarded 31 degrees. The student population of Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA is skewed towards men, with 24 male students and 22 female students. Most students graduating from Universities in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA are Black or African American (20 and 64.5%), followed by White (8 and 25.8%), Hispanic or Latino (2 and 6.45%), and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders (1 and 3.23%). The largest universities in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA by number of degrees awarded are Jna Institute of Culinary Arts (31 and 100%). The most popular majors in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA are Food Preparation Assistant (18 and 58.1%) and Restaurant, Culinary, & Catering Management (13 and 41.9%). The median tuition costs in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA are $N/A for private four year colleges, and $N/A and $N/A respectively, for public four year colleges for in-state students and out-of-state students. 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary CertificateAssociates Degree Food Preparation Assistant In 2015, the most common concentation for 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate recipients in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was N/A with N/A degrees awarded. This visualization illustrates the percentage of students graduating with a 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate from schools in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA according to their major. Jna Institute of Culinary Arts Largest Universities by degrees awarded Median In-State Public Median Private In 2017, the Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA institution with the largest number of graduating students was Jna Institute of Culinary Arts with 31 degrees awarded. Student Gender for Common Institutions Degrees Awarded to Women In 2017, 15 men were awarded degrees from institutions in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA, which is 0.938 times less than the 16 female students who received degrees in the same year. This chart displays the gender disparity between the institutions in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA by degrees awarded. Student Race and Ethnicity In 2017 the majority of degrees awarded at institutions in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA were to Black or African American students. These 20 degrees mean that there were 2.5 times more Black or African American students then the next closest race/ethnicity group, White, with 8 degrees awarded. The median property value in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was $171,200 in 2017, which is 0.745 times smaller than the national average of $229,700. Between 2016 and 2017 the median property value increased from $163,400 to $171,200, a 4.77% increase. The homeownership rate in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA is 61.9%, which is lower than the national average of 63.9%. People in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA have an average commute time of 28.4 minutes, and they commute by Drove Alone. Car ownership in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA is lower than the national average, with an average of 1 car per household. 2017 Median In 2017, the median property value in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA grew to to $171,200 from the previous year's value of $163,400. The following charts display, first, the property values in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies and, second, owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property value buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA the largest share of households have a property value in the $200k - $250k range. Please note that the buckets used in this visualization were not evenly distributed by ACS when publishing the data. Number of Households In 2017, the median household income of the 49.2k households in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA grew to $43,189 from the previous year's value of $41,089. The following chart displays the households in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the < $10k range. Average Range This chart shows the households in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA the largest share of households pay taxes in the $800 - $1,499 range. Rent vs Own 2017 Homeownership In 2017, 61.9% of the housing units in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA were occupied by their owner. This percentage grew from the previous year's rate of 61.1%. This percentage of owner-occupation is lower than the national average of 63.9%. This chart shows the ownership percentage in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA compared it's parent and neighboring geographies. 28.4 minutes Average Travel Time Using averages, employees in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA have a longer commute time (28.4 minutes) than the normal US worker (25.1 minutes). Additionally, 2.94% of the workforce in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes. The chart below shows how the median household income in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. Commuter Transportation Most Common Method of Travel Drove Alone Carpooled In 2017, the most common method of travel for workers in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA was Drove Alone (38%), followed by those who Public Transit (34.4%) and those who Carpooled (9.6%). The following chart shows the number of households using each mode of transportation over time, using a logarithmic scale on the y-axis to help better show variations in the smaller means of commuting. Average Number The following chart displays the households in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Philadelphia City (Southeast) PUMA, PA have 1 car, followed by 2 cars. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Philadelphia County, PA Philadelphia City (Southwest) PUMA, PA Philadelphia City (Center City) PUMA, PA	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1241
__label__wiki	0.861911	0.861911	Film (band) Film (Iranian magazine) Film (film) Film was a Yugoslav rock group founded in 1978 in Zagreb. Film was one of the most popular rock groups of the former Yugoslav new wave in the late 1970s to early 1980s. New wave years (1979-1981) During 1977 and 1978, bassist Marino Pelajić, guitarist Mladen Jurčić, and drummer Branko Hromatko were Azra members when Branimir "Johnny" Štulić brought Jura Stublić as the new vocalist. Stublić was to become Aerodrom member, but due to his deep vocals it never happened. The lineup functioned for a few months only and after a quarrel with Štulić, on early 1979, Pelajić, Jurčić, Hromatko and Stublić formed the band Šporko Šalaporko i Negove Žaluzine, naming the band after a story from the "Polet" youth magazine, which was soon after renamed to Film. The memories of the Azra lineup later inspired Štulić to write the song "Roll over Jura" released on Filigranski pločnici in 1982. Saxophonist Jurij Novoselić, who at the time had worked under the pseudonym Kuzma Videosex, joined the band, inspiring others to use pseudonym instead of their original names: vocalist Stublić became Jura Jupiter, bassist Pelajić became Mario Baraccuda and guitarist Jurčić became Max Wilson. Before joining the band, Stublić did not have much experience as a vocalist, however, since his father had been an opera singer, he often visited the theatre and opera, and at the age of 13, he started playing the guitar, earning money as a street performer at seaside resorts. This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Film_(band) Film (Persian:فیلم) is an Iranian film review magazine published for more than 30 years. The head-editor is Massoud Mehrabi. Film Magazine Website / About This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Film_(Iranian_magazine) Film is a 1965 film written by Samuel Beckett, his only screenplay. It was commissioned by Barney Rosset of Grove Press. Writing began on 5 April 1963 with a first draft completed within four days. A second draft was produced by 22 May and a forty-leaf shooting script followed thereafter. It was filmed in New York in July 1964. Beckett’s original choice for the lead – referred to only as “O” – was Charlie Chaplin, but his script never reached him. Both Beckett and the director Alan Schneider were interested in Zero Mostel and Jack MacGowran. However, the former was unavailable and the latter, who accepted at first, became unavailable due to his role in a "Hollywood epic." Beckett then suggested Buster Keaton. Schneider promptly flew to Los Angeles and persuaded Keaton to accept the role along with "a handsome fee for less than three weeks' work."James Karen, who was to have a small part in the film, also encouraged Schneider to contact Keaton. The filmed version differs from Beckett's original script but with his approval since he was on set all the time, this being his only visit to the United States. The script printed in Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett (Faber and Faber, 1984) states: This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Film_(film) bluefilms.com filmhook.com ethiopianfilms.org filmfinance.com banglafilm.com filmgenerale.org academyfilm.com persianfims.org filmacademy.com ashortfilmaboutlove.net hrvatskifilm.com filmgenerale.net filminggenerale.com film4000.com filmusic.com asiafilmnews.com asianfilmstar.com farsifilm.org businessfilmtv.org filmsmedia.com Latest News for: Film generale Virgin Media returns for Dublin film festival sequel The Irish Times 21 Jan 2020 The Irish-backed film, directed by Lorcan Finnegan and co-produced by Dublin’s Fantastic Films, will be the first film shown at the festival on February 26th, a month ahead of its general Irish release. A second Virgin Media Gala, for DMC Film and Element Pictures’ Calm With Horses, will take place midway through the festival.... The Titanic Wreck Will Now Be Protected Under a ‘Momentous Agreement’ With the U.S. Time Magazine 21 Jan 2020 The U.K. and the U.S ... The U.K ... to recreate digital images of the grand staircase that featured in James Cameron’s 1997 film Titanic. STUART CAHILL/AFP via Getty ImagesAllan Carlin, general counsel for RMS Titanic Inc., poses for photographers in front of a section of the hull of the RMS Titanic at the Commonwealth Pier in Boston, Aug. 21, 2011 ... .... Furious tweeple bash Saif Ali Khan for history knowledge: Kept his son's name Taimur and ... International Business Times 20 Jan 2020 Actors generally remain tight-lipped on the ongoing political events across the country or even when it comes to speaking or correcting a part of history ... 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It’s more than just the general awards-bait film that gets released around this time every year.... 10 Films Directors Wanted You To Hate What Culture 20 Jan 2020 Film as an art form is no different. So would it surprise you to discover that some films are made with the express purpose of pissing you off? ... to make a major Hollywood film ... The confusion and general dislike for the film allowed Tim Burton to live in Ed Wood’s shoes for a moment.... Popular Afghan actor Saleem Shaheen jailed for ‘cybercrime’ conviction Khaama Press 20 Jan 2020 Jamshid Rasuli, a spokesperson for the General Attorney Office (GAO) told RFA that Saleem Shaheen had filmed a girl several months ago to use the footage in his future movie, but later the girl complained that Shaheen was ...... Lord Hall quits as BBC Director-General: His letter in full 0 Comments Lord Hall quits as BBC Director-General ... Lord Hall told BBC staff in a letter on Monday that he is standing down as Director-General. https.//www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/lord-hall-quits-as-bbc-director-general-his-letter-in-full-38877586.html ... But in the summer I’ll step down as your Director-General.... Rise Of Skywalker Is Now The Lowest Rated Movie In Star Wars' Skywalker Saga Cinema Blend 20 Jan 2020 It’s officially become the lowest rated Star Wars film on Rotten Tomatoes ... You could take that to mean that The Rise of Skywalker is still viewed more positively by fans and general moviegoers, even if it didn’t sit well with film critics ... As of now, the Star Wars films with the ...... 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SAG best, worst dressed: Sad Jennifer Lopez, happy Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt East Bay Times 20 Jan 2020 ... night to walk the red carpet, schmooze and reward one another trophies for acting in films and TV at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, generally regarded as one of the big precursors to the Oscars.... Stephen Schaefer’s Hollywood & Mine Boston Herald 20 Jan 2020 The ‘Gentlemen’ cast were at Manhattan’s chic midtown Whitby Hotel, STX Films’ junket headquarters ... Hugh Grant’s Fletcher narrates the film and is crucial to the plot as the world’s sleaziest P.I., a man who would sell his mother to the tabloids if the price was right ... It’s broad entertainment that Guy generally does ... Merrick produced only four films....	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1246
__label__wiki	0.538962	0.538962	Turkey’s Corporate Distress Deepens The ailments afflicting Turkey’s economy that have triggered a surge in bad loans look poised to get worse before they get better. Non-performing loans at the nation’s lenders climbed to 3.18% of total credit in January, the sixth straight monthly increase and the highest proportion in almost five years, according to data this week from the Ankara-based Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency. Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Commerzbank AG said in February corporate distress is deepening in Turkey, making it harder for companies to pay down debts, Bloomberg reported. The rise in bad loans is compounding the challenges for Turkey’s $814 billion banking industry as a combination of currency depreciation, Russian sanctions and waning tourist visits amid a spate of terrorist attacks weigh on the economy. As the central bank limits funding to tame inflation, the highest borrowing costs in four years and a slowdown in loan growth are piling pressure on indebted businesses. “The trend is likely to increase and intensify,” said Apostolos Bantis, a Commerzbank credit analyst in Dubai, who said loans and lira-denominated bonds would be exposed. “While I don’t see the situation running out of control, the impact of Russian sanctions, the blow to the tourism industry, higher funding costs and the weaker currency will all take a toll on the corporate sector,” he said before the data. Concerns over credit quality have exerted pressure on Turkish bank shares in the past 12 months, with a gauge of 11 lenders dropping 18% versus a decline of 8.9% for the benchmark Borsa Istanbul 100 Index. Turkiye Halk Bankasi AS and Turkiye IS Bankasi, known as Isbank, slid at least 27%. Tourism Slowdown Isbank, the nation’s largest listed lender by assets, last month said a single bad loan from a company in the tourism industry contributed the most to an increase its NPL ratio to 2% in the fourth quarter. Since that statement on Feb. 1, yields on the lender’s $400 million of bonds due in December 2023 have climbed 100 basis points, or one percentage point, to 7.55% on Thursday. The increasing pressure on bank loan quality prompted the government to propose a plan to help tourism companies restructure bank debt, proposing on Feb. 22 to allow them to postpone repayment of 288 million liras ($99 million) of credit and give some operators access to benefits currently available only to exporters. The banking index has also staged a rebound since valuations fell to a seven-year low in January. It’s up 6.7% in 2016, almost in line with the Borsa Istanbul’s performance. Still, the worst may not be over for the industry as tourism companies will contribute to a deepening of the bad loan quandary, according to Cagdas Dogan, an analyst at BGC Partners in Istanbul. He projects the NPL ratio will climb by 40 to 50 basis points in 2016. “Such deterioration should be mostly in market expectations,” Dogan said. “If non-performing loan inflows continue at a higher-than-expected rate in the early months of 2016, it would of course impact sentiment negatively.” Debts, Bankruptcies Rising in Turkey Power Struggle in Turkey Hits Emerging Markets Turkey Counts Blessings as Iranians Flock to Istanbul Turkish Banks Need $6b in Refinancing Turkish Lira Slides on Ankara Attack Iranian Tourists to Surpass Germans in Istanbul	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1250
__label__wiki	0.925394	0.925394	Colombia orders Uber to cease ride-hailing, cites competition rules violation Via Reuters Finance BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia on Friday ordered Uber (UBER.N) to cease its ride-hailing operations in the Andean country, effective immediately, after a judge ruled the company violated competition rules. FILE PHOTO: Uber’s logo is pictured at its office in Bogota, Colombia, December 12, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo Following a lawsuit filed against Uber by COTECH SA, the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) said the U.S. company had breached market rules. Uber has more than 2.3 million active users in Colombia and around 88,000 driver partners. The app, however, has existed in a regulatory no-man’s land in Colombia. The Technology Ministry deems ride-hailing apps legal while transport authorities say they are against the law. In a statement the SIC said Uber generated “a significant advantage in the market” by rendering transport services for individuals via its application. The SIC said that following analysis, it ordered Uber’s ride-hailing services “through the use of the Uber application to cease immediately.” The order applies to Uber, Uber X and Uber VAN. Uber said in a statement that it rejects the ruling and immediately appealed it. “This decision reflects an act of censorship and infringes on the Inter American Convention on Human Rights, which has already condemned attempts to block Uber for violating the neutrality of the web, liberty of expression and freedom of internet,” Uber said in a statement. Andres Barreto, head of the SIC, confirmed that other Uber services, such as food-delivery service Uber Eats, were not prohibited by the ruling. In August, Uber was sanctioned with a fine of more than $629,000 for obstructing an administrative visit and failing to comply with SIC orders. READ ALSO Shanghai fully confident in economic prospects, says major Reporting by Nelson Bocanegra; Additional reporting and writing by Oliver Griffin; Editing by Leslie Adler	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1251
__label__wiki	0.567307	0.567307	Reject Ambassador George Patten! An Open Memo to the Liberian Senate By Lennart Dodoo Last updated Feb 5, 2019 Greetings, our dear Senators; It is within the hallowed spirit of the rule of Law, and in the broader context of protecting the integrity and dignity of our country, Liberia, that I find the unyielding courage to pen this memo—hoping it appeals to your individual and collective conscience. Senators, permit me to remind you that you have a quintessential charge, not only to make laws but under oath to also protect the laws of the country with the highest degree of integrity and nobility. This, I believe, you will concur, is morally and ethically fundamental! The Constitution of Liberia finely embeds the laws of the land, and unequivocally inscribed therein, that no provision of the constitution shall be violated, and given the gravity of the violation, proportional penalties in keeping with the law can be applied. Article#54 of the Liberian constitution precisely states; “The President shall nominate and, with the CONSENT of the Liberian Senate, appoint and Commission: officials of the Executive”. Consent, in the case, I believe, means CONFIRMATION, a power reserved for the Liberian Senate ONLY. Article#2 of the Liberian Constitution plainly emphasizes the supremacy of the Constitution and intimates that its provisions shall have binding force on ALL, not few or some. Article#3 dwells on the separation of powers and checks and balances— it bequeaths to each Branch of government certain degree of power that must be exclusively exercised without any form of hindrance and usurpation. The Liberian Constitution is plain, simple and unambiguous! Even a brilliant 7th Grade student in Liberia can read, comprehend and interpret its provisions, thus lingering the question; why people in the echelon of power, who are said to be “well-educated”, are finding it difficult to understand such simply written document? Or do they just choose to be rebelliously dismissive of the law? Consequently, the core thesis of this memo is the despicable and unconstitutional commissioning and posting of Ambassador George Patten to Washington D.C., the USA by President George Manneh Weah, who within just one year of his Presidency has sadly badged himself as an avowed violator of basic laws of the country, he is under constituional oath to protect! Senators, let me express my thanks to all of you for garnering the thoughtful courage to reach a unanimous plenary decision that will see Ambassador Patten shamefully yet rightfully return home and undergo confirmation. In the same regard, it would be remiss of me if I didn’t extend myriad of thanks to Senator and Patriot Nyonblee Kangar-Lawrence of Grand Bassa County who alarmed and accentuated such deliberate and disdainful constitutional violation through a conscious letter addressed to her colleagues a few weeks ago. How preposterous and condescending it is, to have an Ambassador commissioned and posted to a foreign mission, and weeks after, he is made to return home on grounds that his occupation of the post is purely unconstitutional. It certainly tells a lot about the integrity and quality of national leadership in Liberia. If this is not an enigma of the Presidency, then I know no other way to describe it. To put it more bluntly, the ill-advised commissioning and subsequent posting of Ambassador Patten hugely exposes the bereft nature of people advising the President, many of whom are privileged loyalists who ultimately lack the intestinal fortitude and spine to look in the face of the President and tell him the plain truth. What is even disturbing is the fact that their “loyalty” to the President is not only parochial but has become extreme and perilous to the very President they fondly idolize. The sooner President Weah can discern that these so-called loyalists are the ones devouring and dooming his government, the better it is for him. The unlegislated commissioning and posting of Ambassador Patten is not embarrassing only at home, but even more demeaning of our country in the international community, as such episode defies both the traditional nuances and trappings of diplomacy and theories of international relations. The return of Patten is absolutely weird, even though it is a welcoming and relishing development by all apologists of the rule of law. Even if there was any rush to have a Liberian Ambassador posted to the U.S., which doesn’t seem a legitimate reason to flaunt the law anyway, President Weah could have simply appointed Patten as ‘Acting Ambassador’, and later appoint him ‘proper’ when the Senate shall have reconvened Session, and have him go through his confirmation. Well, since President Weah and his handlers have willfully and arrogantly chosen to bastardize the law, at least, you, our dear Senators have chosen to rightfully uphold the law on the Patten debacle. By decisively requesting the return of Patten to undergo confirmation, you have distinguished the Liberian Senate in a profound manner, however, this is just the first step in upholding the rule of law, a milestone decision we respecters of the rule of law, surely commend and celebrate. The second and very important step shall be to send an unwavering message to the President that upholding the laws of our land cannot and must not be compromised or taken lightly. Liberia: US$7.7 Million (L$1.6 Billion) For 7 Offices… Liberians on DED Should Start Preparing to Go Home Conflict of Interest Hurting Liberia The way to do this is to penalize the President for flagrantly violating the law, and clearly disrespecting your authority to confirm his Ambassador. Our dear Senators, in the spirit of upholding the rule of law and ensuring the integrity of our country, I humbly beseech you to categorically reject Ambassador Patten for conniving and colluding with President Weah to willfully violate the Liberian Constitution. I believe that anyone who intentionally and knowingly violates the law certainly has no place for dignity and decency in his/her genre, as such; he/she must not be treated with even a modicum of dignity. This is also the radical approach we must adapt to tackling and ending the perennial nightmare of impunity in Liberia. Penalize people when they intentionally do wrong, as in the case of President Weah and Amb. Patten. This is law, not politics! The office of Ambassador bestows upon its occupier the charge of trust, nobility, and integrity, something he/she must uphold as core values in the discharge of the duties thereto. Drawing on the logic of morality, a man who proudly indulges himself into sheer lawlessness certainly lacks the moral credential and stately persona to occupy such an honorable office. Therefore, I strongly argue that confirming him to such honorable office sends a disconcerting message about our pride, intelligence, and dignity, as a nation and People, as such; I recommend the Senate rejects him. By the way, why should the Honorable Liberian Senate tolerate and confirm an individual who takes pride in swindling the law? Why should the Honorable Liberian Senate honor a man who shows no regard for its constitutional authority? Dear Senators, until his recent appointment, Amb. Patten served as Ambassador near the Capital city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a position he didn’t dare occupy until he was confirmed by the Liberian Senate. He knows that as a presidential appointee, one must be approved by the Liberian Senate through the rituals of its confirmation. This is the LAW, and it must be respected by every decent person, most especially someone who has been preferred to represent our country to its largest and oldest foreign mission, the United States of America. Should we designate a guy who takes pride in unbridled lawlessness to such post? My answer is a resounding NO! Senators, let me quickly remind you that good governance begins with the rule of law, and of course, the rule of law remains one of the key fundamental principles in consolidating our fledgling democracy, as well as sustaining our hard-earned peace. Irrespective of your political affiliations, each of you has a shared duty to ensure that the country is governed in a right manner and must muster the will to foil any attempt to undermine the law and good governance of the country. ‘Imperial presidency’ must never be permitted to germinate in Liberia again; every sign of its creeping presence must be fiercely confronted and resisted with full force. I believe you can do this by setting good examples, and one good opportunity has availed itself—to set this good example. I respectfully endorse you to reject Ambassador Patten as a pragmatic way of emphasizing the significance of abiding by the rule of law and instilling constitutional discipline in the governance of the republic. The world is watching you, and writers of history are watching you, too, I respectfully implore you with every emphasis at my command, to do the honorable thing, which is to resolutely reject Ambassador George Patten when he appears in your chambers. This, I believe, will echo a powerful message to the Executive Branch regarding the defined separation of powers. In conclusion, let me leave you with these few words; serve today knowing that you have a constituent to return to after your service, and a string of answers to give in accounting for your stewardship when all is said and done. The reality is that there is an epoch of reckoning after public service. Somewhere, there is a record book for the 54th Senate, in which each of you has a page on which the role you play every day is inked. Posterity will surely revert to those pages someday. Thanks for your service to our country, and may God bless Liberia! Respectfully yours; Robert Wilmot Kpadeh Lennart Dodoo Liberia: Advocates Unmoved by Senator Johnson’s U-turn over War Crimes Court EDITORIAL: A Plea For the Liberian Government to Permanently Ban FGM Liberia: US$7.7 Million (L$1.6 Billion) For 7 Offices Unacceptable Liberia: A Plea For Increase In Nurses Pay	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1264
__label__wiki	0.566633	0.566633	OnePlus 7 Alleged Leak Shows a Notch Free Sliding Design OnePlus 7 Alleged Leak Shows a Notch-Free Sliding Design By Gaurav Shukla \| Updated: 14 January 2019 13:14 IST OnePlus 7 is expected to be the company’s next flagship phone OnePlus 7 will succeed the OnePlus 6T phone The company is also working on a 5G phone The OnePlus 7 will be powered by Snapdragon 855 SoC OnePlus 7 has reportedly shown its face in a recent leak originating from China. This upcoming flagship from the Chinese manufacturer is seen in some sort of protective case to hide the identity and full design of the phone and is being compared to another phone, which seems like the OnePlus 6T, also in disguise. The protective casing has hidden a significant portion of the phone, but you can still make out a few key details, including some sort of sliding mechanism to place the front camera as there is no display notch or punch hole present. OnePlus 7 is expected to be the company's successor to current flagship OnePlus 6T. If the company continues with the existing trend of unveiling new phones, the OnePlus 7 will most likely be made official in May of this year. Coming back to the leaked image, which was first published on CoolAPK, but has since been deleted, however not before getting spotted by a Slashleak contributor. In the leaked image, we can easily see the phone's earpiece grille, alert slider, and the power button. The grille holes are very similar to the OnePlus 6T, giving credence to the leak and the fact that the phone could very well be the OnePlus 7. The cutouts present in the protective casing for a front camera and sensors seem to indicate that the phone may possess a slider mechanism, which once activated would fill up the currently empty space behind those cutouts. In the past, Oppo as well as Xiaomi have experimented with slider mechanisms in their smartphones. Oppo's Find X features a motorised slider, whereas Xiaomi's Mi Mix 3 had a mechanical slider. Both phones barely had any bezels on the top and were using the sliders to place the front shooters. OnePlus seems to be following their lead to remove all possible bezels from its next flagship. The alleged leaked image of OnePlus 7 Photo Credit: CoolAPK/ SlashLeaks OnePlus is said to be launching two new smartphones in the first half of this year, including a 5G smartphone. According to the recent comments by the company CEO Pete Lau, the 5G phone will be launched by the end of May 2019 and will be a different device than OnePlus 7. It will also sport a separate branding than the existing phones. He also revealed that the company's 5G phone will be at least $200-$300 costlier than the OnePlus 6T. At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in December last year, Lau had also confirmed that the OnePlus's next flagship phone will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 SoC. No other specifics about the phone are known at this point. Further reading: OnePlus 7, OnePlus Gaurav Shukla Email Gaurav Part of Gadgets 360 news team, Gaurav handles a multitude of responsibilities from covering the latest happenings in the world of science and technology to editing and assigning news stories. In another life, he used to be a technology blogger, writing about Android and its massive ecosystem. Paranoid about online surveillance, Gaurav believes an artificial general intelligence is one day going to take over the world, or maybe not. He is a big Person of Interest fan though. More Vivo Z3i Standard Edition With 19:9 IPS LCD Panel, Dual Rear Camera Setup Launched: Price, Specifications SpaceX Launches 10 More Iridium Communications Satellites OnePlus 7 Pro, OnePlus 7T, OnePlus 7T Pro, OnePlus TV 55Q1, OnePlus TV 55Q1 Pro to Get Offers From Tomorrow OnePlus 7, OnePlus 7 Pro Receive One-Handed Mode With OxygenOS Open Beta 8 Update Most Popular Smartphones, Wearables, and Amazon Devices on Amazon India in 2019 The 10 Most Popular Mobile Phones of 2019 Which Is the Best Phone of 2019? Read in: हिंदी বাংলা தமிழ் Samsung Galaxy A31 और Galaxy A41 के कैमरा स्पेसिफिकेशन लीक OnePlus 8 Pro Alleged Hands-on Photo Shows 120Hz Refresh Rate Option in Settings Tesla Rebuffs US Safety Recall Petition, Says No Unintended Acceleration in Vehicles Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Backs Temporary Ban on Facial-Recognition, Microsoft Disagrees MESSAGE Gaurav Shukla	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1268
__label__cc	0.560582	0.439418	Mega Man 5 (NES) Mega Man 5 took me two hours, forty minutes and ninety-two deaths to beat. The plot of the game is that Proto Man, Mega Man's brother—I'm still not sure how robots can have brothers—has turned evi Contributed by Michael Gray on March 1st, 2009 in Categories ReviewsWith content involving Tags Beat, footnotes, M tanks, Mega Man, Mega Man 5, Michael Gray, Proto Man, robots, Snape, Valentine's Day System: Nintendo Entertainment System US Release: December 1992 Developer: Capcom Mega Man 5 took me two hours, forty minutes and ninety-two deaths to beat. The plot of the game is that Proto Man, Mega Man’s brother—I’m still not sure how robots can have brothers—has turned evil and is trying to take over the world. Which would be an exciting plot if they hadn’t used it in the last three games. Seriously, you’d think Dr. Wily would realize Proto Man is a double agent1 by now, after being betrayed by him so often, but I guess Dr. Wily isn’t all that smart. The floater enemies in this game are particularly tough to dodge. By this time in the series, the Mega Man formula had been fleshed out: you fight eight robot bosses, then you do four levels of the bad guy’s hideout. Dr. Wily appears, shows off his eyebrows, and then you do four levels of Dr. Wily’s stage, after which, Dr. Wily begs for forgiveness and escapes to build a new hideout and eight more robot bosses. So if you’re looking for innovation, this is not the game to go to. What you’re going to see here are more like variations on the Mega Man theme, to put it poetically. To put it cynically, however, all they did was rehash the first four Mega Man games. In case Nathaniel doesn't mention it in his article, Dr. Cossack from Mega Man 4 bears an uncanny resemblance to GameCola head editor Paul Franzen. The main “new thing” in this game is a collection quest. You can find all the letters in MEGA MAN V, with one letter hidden in every level. Find them all to get Beat, Mega Man’s robot bird that flies in and destroys enemies in a very inefficient manner. Beat works like all the other Mega Man tools, like the Rush Coil and Rush Jet. Not the Rush Marine, though. There’s no Rush Marine in this game. Riding on the Wave Runner is pretty cool. There’s some new stuff in this game, though, right? There are M tanks. Are M tanks new? M tanks refill ALL of your weapon energy, which is a LONG NEEDED item in the Mega Man series, and their appearance is welcome, even if there’s only about two of them in the game. All that new stuff aside, this game works just like all the other Mega Man games. There are impossible jumping challenges, bosses that take six fights to beat, giant robot animals, enemies that are impossible to dodge, parts where you have to fall down but avoid landing on spikes, and a boss who hides behind a shield. Gravity Man turns things upside-down. What else am I supposed to talk about? I can’t remember because I’ve reached the point where I no longer can tell the difference between any of the Mega Man games. See, I played this game as part of a Monster Mega Man Marathon, and after fifteen hours of Blue Bomber action, you’d be on Mega Man overload, too. In Meteo’s review of Mega Man 6, he says “we try to decipher whether the series bottomed out the bell curve with Mega Man 5 or 6.” True, or not? Check out the deaths total from my Monster Mega Man Marathon: Mega Man 1: 73 Deaths Mega Man 3: 121 Deaths Either I got extremely good at playing Mega Man games after ten hours, or Mega Man 5 is distinctly shorter and easier than Mega Man 4. Um…yeah. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? I leave the choice up to you, because quite honestly, I forget. 1. You know the real reason that Severus Snape is a double agent? Because he can’t make friends with anyone on either side.2 2. Speaking of Snape, here’s a nice Snape Valentine3 that Astoria Greengrass gave me last month: 3. Snape Valentines are good and all that, but I haven’t seen any Mega Man Valentines. A Google search revealed only one: Which is kind of a disturbing Valentine to receive, if you think about it. I sure hope Paul didn’t give that one to Lizo.4 4. Speaking of Paul and Lizo,5 how long have they been going out? Four years? You know, my dad proposed to my mom after they had been going out for four years. Hint, hint, Paul. Hint, hint. 5. Speaking of GameCola romances, I understand that Sprite Monkey has started a bid with ten-to-one odds that Michael Ridgaway marries Vangie Rich6 this November. 6. The odds that Vangie Rich will break up with Michael Ridgaway and instead marry Zach Rich7 just so she doesn’t have to change her last name are forty-to-one. 7. The odds that Zach Rich will get married8 this year are surprisingly good. Two-to-one, I’m told. 8. Of course, Sprite Monkey9 assures me that the odds of Zach marrying something that’s actually alive are 5,000 to 1. Good old Sprite Monkey. 9. Where is Sprite Monkey, anyway? I haven’t seen him so far this year. Sprite Monkey, come back! We10 still like you! 10. Well, Zach doesn’t like you. Probably because you set up betting pools on his love life.11 11. By the way, Astoria, if you’re reading this, the odds of me going out with you are zero-to-zero.12 12. And you can’t divide by zero.13 13. Fun mathematical fact: Zero can’t be used in division. It can be used in expansion, however. That’s what the Mega Man series did! Expanded with Zero!14 14. Hey, that reminds me of another joke. Why was Mega Man 5 released by Nintendo? Because if he was released by another company, he’d be a Sega Man.15 15. OK, one more, one more. When is the Rush Marine not a Rush Marine? When it’s afloat.16 16. I think I’ve reached the point where I have more footnotes than actual article. I’ll stop here. GameCola Rates This Game: 4 - Below Average Score Breakdown Fun Score: 5 Novelty Score: 2 Audio Score: 5 Visuals Score: 6 Controls Score: 6 Replay Value: 5 Michael Gray 521 Email: mgray@gamecola.net Michael Gray is a staff writer for GameCola, who focuses on adventure games, videos and writing videogame walkthroughs. Pug's Adventures: Where is the New Site? A "Pug's Adventures" comic strip by Michael Gray about the whereabouts of the new GameCola website. When will it be ready?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1270
__label__wiki	0.636371	0.636371	Chess Olympiad Notice: Brand New Brilliancy Prizes! The NNLE and The Organizing Committee of the 2018 World Chess Olympiad are pleased to announce the special “Olympiad Brilliancy Prize” awards. The prize for the most brilliant game will be awarded after each of the 11 rounds. All players are encouraged to submit their game for consideration for the daily prize to BatumiOlympiad@gmail.com Every day, after each round of the 43rd Chess Olympiad, the judging committee, led by Grandmaster Susan Polgar, will choose the games (one in the Open and one Women’s Olympiad) as the “Game of the Round”. The winners of those games will be awarded a small prize by the NNLE and The Organizing Committee of the 2018 World Chess Olympiad. Finally, after the last round of the Batumi Chess Olympiad, the players who won the most brilliant game overall will receive a special prize. Judging Committee: GM Susan Polgar GM Maia Chiburdanidze IM Sagar Shah (ChessBase India/ChessBase) Photos from Batumi Chess Olympiad Opening Ceremony & Round 1: Batumi Chess Olympiad Opening & Round 1 186 new photos added to shared album	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1271
__label__cc	0.731207	0.268793	Garden City Cougars Coed Bowling keyboard_arrow_left Coed Bowling Athletic Department Info Rules and Participation for Athletics Return to Play Form keyboard_arrow_left Links Garden City Schools M.H.S.A.A. Physical Form Cougars Official Sponsor Cougars News · Dec 21 Vote for Garden City! Ellie Bowman Nominated for Zeal Credit Union Athlete of the Month Cougars Fans! It’s time to vote for the Zeal Credit Union Athlete of the Month. This month, Ellie Bowman, is nominated from Garden City. Click here to Cast Your Vote! Voters will be submitted to win a $100 gift card courtesy of Zeal Credit Union. Ellie Bowman – Garden City – Basketball Ellie, a point guard for the Cougars Varsity basketball squad, is working really hard to help the team succeed this season, after not being able to play her Junior year. She strives to better herself and her skills. Ellie most recently put up 9 point for a win over Edsel Ford. Click here to Vote Now! Voters will be submitted to win a $100 gift card courtesy of Zeal Credit Union. #ZealTheLove and check out Zeal CU on Facebook and Twitter! Female Nominees: Samantha Luke – St. Catherine of Siena – Pom Samantha juggles multiple things in her life. Pom, competitive dance, school work, working at the Providence Park Hospital, etc. She is always at practice, puts in her all, and is a great leader to our first year team. Samantha is also a team captain and is a positive role model to the team. She always has a smile on her face, helps her teammates in whatever way necessary, and knows how to manage her time well. I am excited to see what she continues to do for the team this season, and in her bright future after SCA. Anabelle Haberkorn – Pinckney – Swimming / Field Hockey Annabelle Haberkorn represented the Swim and Dive this weekend when she competed at the MHSAA Division 2 girls swimming state meet held at Oakland University. Annabelle broke her own record in the 200 Individual Medley with a time of 2:10, placing 7th and collecting an All State honors. She also competed in the 500 freestyle event where she dropped 12 seconds off her time and placed 11th overall. This is the second time this season Annabelle has been recognized as an All State athlete. She is a dual sport athlete that also earned All State honors in field hockey this fall. Kaitlyn Vallimont – Clarenceville – Basketball Kaitlyn is one of the hardest working players on our team and she is only a Sophomore! She is constantly fighting for rebounds, both offensively and defensively, and does not back down. Kaitlyn has been a huge part of our offense in the first few games of our season this year. She is currently the leading scorer on the team with 29 points in just 4 games. Lily Morrissette – Farmington – Basketball Lilly is the hardest working girl in the gym. She is the driving force on defense and is the engine that keeps the girls going. Her work ethic is unmatched. Lilly is averaging about 13 rebounds per game. Anna Fernandez – Plymouth Christian – Basketball In 4 games in December, Anna is averaging 16.3 points per game, 7.0 steals per game, 6.5 rebounds per game, and 5.0 assists per game. Lydia Donnelly – Canton – Pom Lydia is a 3-year Varsity Pom MAPP All-Star. Being only a Junior, Lydia has many good qualities about her that make her a great candidate for student-athlete of the month. She is the most respectful athlete I’ve ever coached. When given corrections she always responds with a thank you and works to fix that correction immediately. Lydia always works hard at practice and has a positive attitude that is contagious to others. She cares about doing well in everything she does which makes her a well rounded individual and very easy to coach. Lydia lights up a room with her personality and genuine self. Outside of pom, she is involved in many activities including, UNICEF, PCEP interact club, link crew and is currently the class of 2021 student council President. She does all of this while maintaining good grades and being a crucial part of our team’s success. Click here to VOTE NOW! Male Nominees: Gavin White – Pinckney – Cross Country Gavin lead the Pinckney cross country team this year. He Placed 20th in Division 1 state meet with a time of 15:58.5 to earn All-State honors. Kyle Jackson – Farmington – Hockey Kyle is one of, if not the, best leaders Farmington Hockey has ever seen. Kyle not only inspires the players around him, but coaches and opponents as well. As a natural born vocal leader, Kyle had to learn to lead by example. This season he is continuing to make tremendous strides to improve his strength, endurance, and skills to make him a leader on the ice, in the locker room, and on the score sheet. 3 goals as a defensemen in 8 games Jaden Akins – Farmington – Basketball Jaden is averaging 31.5 ppg through 2 games. He had 26 points in a win vs Wayne Memorial and a career high 37 points, shooting 9 of 11 from 3pt in a loss to CMA last Thursday. Jaden currently has offers from Michigan St, Northwestern, Missouri, Mississippi St, Iowa and interest from several other Division I schools. Nathan Etnyre – Plymouth Christian – Basketball Nathan is off to a fantastic start to the 19/20 season, averaging an impressive17 points per game in the first three games of December. Check out Zeal CU on Facebook and Twitter By VNN Admin on Dec 21, 2019 Boys Junior Varsity Basketball vs. Taylor High School Girls Junior Varsity Basketball at Taylor High School Girls Varsity Basketball at Taylor High School Boys Varsity Basketball vs. Taylor High School Boys Varsity Swimming at Redford Union High School Garden City High School Tobias Tuomi tuomit@gardencityschools.com gardencityathletics.com 6500 Middlebelt Rd Garden City, MI 48135-2197 © 2020 Garden City High School Athletics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1272
__label__wiki	0.606268	0.606268	Here Begynneth A Lytell Geste of Robin Hood… Chronicling the Lives of Robbers, Rogues & Rebels Adam Ramos Anthony Bynoe Boone Alway Mark Truesdale Robert Ramirez Stephen Basdeo Tyler Welch “London Lives: Poverty, Crime, and the Making of a Modern City” (2015) “Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface between Print and Oral Traditions” (2014) “The Life and Times of the Real Robyn Hoode” (2015) “Robin Hood in Outlawed Spaces” by Valerie Johnson and Lesley Coote Concepts of Crime Social Crime The History of Novels The Public Sphere: An Introduction Anna — Gamayun Academic Services The First Robin Hood Novel: Robert Southey’s “Harold, or, The Castle of Morford” (1791) (This is an updated version of an earlier post I made) Scholars generally point to 1819 as the year that the first Robin Hood novels appeared, these being the anonymous Robin Hood: A Tale of the Olden Time and Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe.[i] However, an attempt was made during the late eighteenth century, well before the aforementioned works, by Robert Southey, to give Robin Hood his ‘big break’ in that most famous of literary genres. Held in the archives of the Weston Library, Oxford is an unpublished manuscript by Robert Southey for a Robin Hood novel entitled ‘Harold; or, the Castle of Morford’ (1791).[ii] Southey (1774-1843) was born in Bristol to a middle-class family of linen drapers. At an early age his mother sent him to live with his aunt, and it is under the guidance of his aunt that his love of literature was encouraged. He was a pioneering medievalist, for in addition to ‘Harold’ he authored Wat Tyler (1794), Joan of Arc (1796), and also edited a version of the Icelandic Edda in 1797 and a version of Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur in 1817 (to Southey is credited the first English prose account of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, as well as the first use in English of the word ‘zombie’, although the word was used in a different context than it is understood today).[iii] There is one main issue with the manuscript: it was bound in a codex at some point during the nineteenth century; while such a practice has the obvious advantages of keeping all of the pages together, it has also meant that many of the words on the margins of the leaves have been obscured. While close attention to the context can offer clues as to the meaning, ultimately it means that oftentimes, when these words are not clear, you are guessing what Southey originally wrote. Furthermore, binding all of the leaves so tightly together has meant that, in some cases, the ink from one page has rubbed off on to the opposite page, which can in some cases render the job of transcription even more difficult. The saving grace, as far as practical issues are concerned, is that the young Southey’s handwriting is neat and legible. The novel was clearly envisaged as a gothic tale. It opens with the short and perhaps rather dramatic sentence: ‘it was night’, which anticipates Edward Bulwer Lytton’s ‘it was a dark and stormy night’ from Paul Clifford (1830).[iv] Further gothic motifs include aristocratic villains, family secrets, betrayals, murder, as well as ghostly visions in ruined castles, as related in the following scene: Harold […] arrived at the borders of the forest about midnight. By the pale light he discovered a castle which at first struck him as his paternal seat he advanced towards it with a hasty step. It was [illegible] and he concluded that it was not the Castle of Alnwick. He roam’d for some time amongst the ruined courts in an agony of grief the stair case was entire he determined to explore the building and if possible acquire some spot where he might rest in safety. He ascended and passed along an extensive gallery with several apartments on either side. He entered one of the smaller ones and threw himself upon the ground determined there to pass the night. He had not remained long in this situation the dismal toll of a bell from the turret roused him […] The firm footsteps of a person in the gallery struck his ear he rush’d into it and beheld at the northern end a figure in armour stalking along it turned and look’d at him by the moon beams which shone thro the broken pane he perceived the armour was bloody. He exclaimed My Father! The spectre turned into a room at the farther end of the gallery. Harold followed him but he saw no more. The appearance overcame him entirely.[v] As with most nineteenth-century Robin Hood novels, Robin Hood is not the main protagonist but is a man who comes to the aid of Harold and King Richard I, the latter who is in disguise as a knight-errant, in a similar manner to his role in Scott’s Ivanhoe. In fact, there are some passing resemblances to Ivanhoe which definitely are deserving of further consideration: Harold is a returning crusader, just like Scott’s eponymous title character; some of the characters also bear some curiously Saxon names which are comparable to those found in Ivanhoe: there is one character named Athelwold, similar to Athelstane in Ivanhoe (Southey actually misspells Athelwold as Athelstane on one occasion).[vi] A character named Ulfrida also appears in Southey’s novel, a name similar to the crazed Ulrica in Scott’s tale. The fact that Southey and Scott were friends may suggest that Scott knew about this MS. and borrowed ideas from his unpublished novel. There is also a clear attempt by Southey to draw upon the early modern Robin Hood tradition. A character named Aeglamour is a member of Robin Hood’s band, which suggests that Southey was aware of Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd (1641), in which Aeglamour is the eponymous sad shepherd who Robin assists with his troubles (Jonson’s work had been edited for a scholarly audience a few years prior to Southey’s authoring of Harold).[vii] The Bishop of Hereford makes an appearance as one of the villains who has deprived Harold’s brother, Tancred, of his estate. The character of Robin Hood has all the usual traits, being described as, the famous outlaw Robin Hood, a man worthy of a better fate; the spoils which he takes from the wealthy he distributes among the poor; his birth is unknown, and it is but a very few years since he chose this barbarous way of life.[viii] Refreshingly, there is not attempt to ‘gentrify’ Robin Hood by making him a member of the upper classes. Instead, in keeping with earlier traditions, he is depicted as a yeoman forester. We first meet him when Richard and Tancred wander into the forest, and they find that Robin Hood has kidnapped Marian, the daughter of the villainous Baron of Morcar, to marry her: Welcome my good friends exclaimed the outlaw and you too strangers my assistants in this happy enterprise welcome. Let all be happy. Mirth and pleasure reign. My trusty friends pay homage to the queen of the forest the wife of Robin Hood. For as such I may now present her to you. What monarch can be more blest than me?[ix] Southey’s Robin Hood is also something of a political reformer, and resolves to help Richard to rid his land of corrupt politicians. The young Southey was a firm believer in the ideals of the French Revolution, and no doubt his portrayal of Robin Hood and Richard as a reformist king stems from his enthusiasm for the rights of man. Southey also inserts several poems into his narrative which are written in the style of ballads. This is the song celebrating the outlaws’ life: Rises now with orient ray Bright the gold on the orb of day Aw’d by his effulgent light Swiftly they the shades of night On the leaves with silver hue Glittering shines the pearly dew. Scar’d by the hunters now the deer awakes And swiftly scuds along through o’er bushes and o’er brakes. What pleasures can the palace yield Equal to these woodlands give How blissfully the outlaws live. Who roams at will [illegible…illegible…] and field hill How happily dwell we in the wood And o’er the flowery field How happy live we in the wood. Beneath the sway of Robin Hood. The deer with spreading antlers crowned Stalks stately o’er the [illegible] The bowman fits his dart And fixes the sharp point within the victim’s heart He falls upon the ground We hail the prize with choral strain Feast on his flesh and Nottingham brown ale List to the minstrels song and merry outlaws tale What pleasures can the palace yield? Now we with sober mien comes And darkness hides the sky The labour of the day is done And home the outlaws hie.[x] All of Southey’s unpublished works remain in copyright until 2039, so there will be no edited version of the text before then. It is part of his juvenilia, and it is not his best work, therefore I doubt Robin Hood studies will suffer too much from its absence. Copyright issues prevent me from making my transcriptions of the manuscript publicly available, however I will be happy to answer any queries about it. [i] See Stephen Knight, Reading Robin Hood: Content, Form and Reception in the Outlaw Myth (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015); Stephen Knight, Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003); Stephen Knight, Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994). [ii] Bodleian MS. Eng. Misc. e. 121 is the original manuscript. There is also a duplicate of the novel, copied out, apparently, at some point during the nineteenth century: Bodleian MS. Eng. Misc. e. 114. [iii] “Zombie”, in The Oxford English Dictionary Online [iv] Bodleian MS. Eng. Misc. e. 121 3v. [v] Bodleian MS. Eng. Misc. e. 121 15v. [vi] Bodleian MS. Eng. Misc. e. 121 21r. [vii] Francis Waldron (ed.), The Sad Shepherd; or, A Tale of Robin Hood (London: J. Nicholls, 1783). [viii] Bodleian MS. Eng. Misc. e. 121 3r. [ix] Bodleian MS. Eng. Misc. e. 121 10r. [x] Bodleian MS. Eng. Misc. e. 121 12v-12r. 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__label__wiki	0.962882	0.962882	Blue Story director Rapman questions ‘hidden reasons’ for film ban Media captionRapman says he feels cheated following Vue’s decision The director of a film at the centre of a storm over violence in cinemas has said he feels “bullied” and “cheated” after it was banned by the Vue chain. Rapman said Blue Story had nothing to do with a mass brawl involving machetes at a Vue in Birmingham, which left seven police officers injured. Vue pulled the British film, saying it had sparked 25 incidents nationwide. But Rapman said there “was no link to Blue Story” and asked whether there were “hidden reasons” behind the ban. Five teenagers were arrested after the fight in Birmingham’s Star City complex on Saturday. The writer and director told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz: “They were just in a cinema apparently for Frozen [2], but then they pinned it on Blue Story.” Vue said there had been a total of 25 “significant incidents” at its sites around the country, all involving people either watching, buying tickets for, going in to watch or leaving screenings of Blue Story. Rapman (centre) on the set of Blue Story Rapman, real name Andrew Onwubolu, said there was “no connection” between the Birmingham brawl and his movie. “And then you start thinking, is there hidden reasons there? What’s the owner like? Has he got an issue with young urban youth? Is he prejudiced? Does he believe that this film brings a certain type? Is there a colour thing? “You start thinking of all these things, and it was an upsetting time.” A spokesperson for Vue said the decision to pull Blue Story from its 91 cinemas nationwide was “categorically not” related to race. The rapper-turned-film-maker, who rose to prominence in 2017 with his hit YouTube series Shiro’s Story, said taking a machete to a cinema was “barbaric”, but asked Vue to give details of the other incidents. Speaking on BBC Breakfast, he said: “They say that there’s been a number of incidents, but where’s the proof? Where’s the evidence? Where? “We live in a camera generation now. If anything happens, the youth are going to film that and you will see it. How come we haven’t seen any footage of the rest of these incidents? “I feel like that was just something to say to cover their decision, which already wasn’t justified because the [original] incident had no connection to Blue Story.” What have Vue said? Vue founder and chief executive Tim Richards said incidents involving groups took place at 16 cinemas in total, starting on Friday morning – the day of Blue Story’s release – until Saturday evening, when it was pulled. “In over 30 years of working in cinema exhibition in the UK, I have never seen a nationwide issue like this affecting so many cinemas in such a short space of time,” Mr Richards said. The chain classes “significant incidents” as those involving illegal activity, harassment, intimidation, violence, public disorder, or anything requiring security, medical, fire or police intervention. But Vue has not given specific details of the incidents or where they took place. “We have reviewed and assessed each and every incident in detail as part of our ongoing process of making decisions as to how we could possibly keep Blue Story on our screens,” Mr Richards said. Additional security was put in place, but “we were still not satisfied the risk had been reduced to an acceptable level”, he added. Mr Richards also said Blue Story, which has a 15 certificate, attracted a “very young audience”. Reports suggesting those involved in the incidents were there to watch other films – such as Frozen 2 – were “simply not true”, he added. “A younger audience were attempting to purchase tickets for other movies to access the Blue Story screenings and were also resisting requests for ID. This also played a key role in incidents and our decision.” Media captionBlue Story is the tale of two friends who become rivals ‘Lucky there were no serious injuries’ West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that “officers were attacked by quite young children” in Birmingham on Saturday, including “12, 13-year-olds who were there in quite large numbers”. His force had not asked the chain to pull screenings of the film, he added. “But we have to ask why and how did so many young children turn up in such quite large numbers, some of them armed to attack other people. It’s fortunate there wasn’t any serious injury on Saturday, but my goodness there could have been.” Film company ‘offered extra security’ The film is based on gangs in south London Rapman said he knew his film would appeal to young people, but he had no reason to suspect it might attract violence. “The two gangs that the film’s based on, which are real gangs, have been in a cinema screen watching it together, laughing together, joking together, and leaving a cinema connected, happy seeing the area they grew up in.” Blue Story follows the life of Timmy who lives in Lewisham but goes to school in Peckham – two areas that have a notorious rivalry. It is released by the Paramount film studio, which offered to provide extra security at cinemas, Rapman said. The movie is also backed by BBC Films. “Paramount have definitely offered every single site extra security if they need it. How hard would that be to just get more [security] people there?” ‘They bullied me’ Showcase originally followed Vue’s lead in pulling the film, but later reinstated it. Odeon and Cineworld have continued showing the movie. Vue’s move has led to a vocal backlash, with some accusing the chain of being “institutionally racist”. Vue has said its decision was made “on grounds of safety alone” and not because of “biased assumptions or concern about the content of the film itself”. But Rapman said: “They’ve alienated themselves from a big audience there. The explanation came with no evidence, no facts. “I feel like they bullied me because I’m a small film. They wouldn’t have pulled Frozen, they wouldn’t have pulled Last Christmas. They pulled a little independent movie that needs it more than them other movies.” He feels “cheated” as a result, he added. “I feel it’s always the upward hurdles coming from our background. I always knew it was never going to be smooth. But the last thing I thought was a cinema would ban us from every single site. I just don’t think they respect me. They don’t respect my movie.” Rapman at the Blue Story premiere earlier this month Film is ‘about love, not violence’ Rapman said Blue Story is “about what people do for the people they love, and how love can make people make the wrong decisions – and the right decisions sometimes”. He told BBC News: “If you watch the film, you will understand. The last line of the whole trailer is, ‘I’m not trying to justify, but I’m going to show you what these young boys are fighting for’. “I’m not justifying their actions, but go and see why they are fighting, see why they’re stabbing and see what they’re doing all these things, just so you can see their motivation and maybe we can help prevent that, so they don’t have to pick up a weapon again.” In his statement, Vue’s Tim Richards added: “We wholeheartedly agree that the issues that have arisen are not about the film, but neither are they about Vue. The chain screens more than 500 films a year “in a range of diverse content”, he explained. “We are in the business of showing movies, not withdrawing movies.” Blue Story opened on Friday 22 November on 310 screens in the UK and Ireland and made £1.3 million over the weekend. That was enough to secure it third place on this week’s UK and Ireland box office chart, behind Frozen 2 and Last Christmas. 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__label__cc	0.533743	0.466257	Tag: poverty Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 217 On Fridays I share articles/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my way. A Study Guide For Human Society, Part 1 (Tanner Greer, The Scholar’s Stage): “…there are two methods [for finding good history books] in particular I have often have useful. The first is to Google syllabi. If you are interested in the history of the Roman Republic, Google ‘Roman Republic syllabus’ and see what pops up. Read a few courses and see what books are included. Alternatively, if you just read a book you thought was particularly good, put its title into Google and then the word ‘syllabus’ afterwards and see what other readings college professors have paired with that book in their courses.” I just found this blog and am loving it. When Faith Comes Up, Students Avert Their Eyes (Michael Roth, The Atlantic): “As a nonbeliever myself, I am not trying to convert any student to any religion. Yet how to discuss religious faith in class poses a major challenge for nonreligious colleges and universities. How can such an institution claim to educate students about ideas, culture, and ways of life if students, professors, or both are uncomfortable when talking about something that’s been central to humanity throughout recorded history?” Roth is a historian and the president of Wesleyan University. Recommended by an alumnus. The Pint‐Size Nation off the English Coast (Ian Urbina, The Atlantic): “Though no country formally recognizes Sealand, its sovereignty has been hard to deny. Half a dozen times, the British government and assorted other groups, backed by mercenaries, have tried and failed to take over the platform by force.” Recommended by a student. Very entertaining. Elite Failure Has Brought Americans to the Edge of an Existential Crisis (Derek Thompson, The Atlantic): “What Americans young and old are abandoning is not so much the promise of family, faith, and national pride as the trust that America’s existing institutions can be relied on to provide for them.” Usefully read alongside The End of the Roman Empire Wasn’t That Bad (James Fallows, The Atlantic): “Governmental ‘failure’ comes down to an inability to match a society’s resources to its biggest opportunities and needs. This is the clearest standard by which current U.S. national governance fails. In principle, almost nothing is beyond America’s capacities. In practice, almost every big task seems too hard. Yet for our own era’s counterparts to duchies and monasteries—for state and local governments, and for certain large private organizations, including universities and some companies—the country is still mainly functional, in exactly the areas where national governance has failed.” Related: How Universities Have Been Part of the Problem (And Can Be Part of the Solution) for America’s Civic Crises (Musa al‐Gharbi, Heterodox Academy): “Students are taught to really hone their critical capacities at university – but what of their affirmative ones? Put another way, there is a big focus on identifying problems, criticizing, problematizing, deconstructing, highlighting differences, etc. – but much less on coming up with practical solutions, or explaining what works, what is good (and why), or acknowledging what the people we engage are right about, or building consensus through the things we share in common. These are not skills that are prioritized in higher education today.” The author is a sociologist at Columbia. Recommended by an alumnus. Also see his companion piece Academic and Political Elitism at Inside Higher Ed. Can Jesus Close the Wage Gap? Inside Hillsong’s Instagram‐Fueled Women’s Movement (Hayley Phelan, Elle): “This year’s theme, ‘Be Found in the New,’ is taken from the Book of Revelation. But if you didn’t know that, the pamphlet could be an Urban Outfitters catalog or an Everlane lookbook—a sign of both Hillsong’s cultural fluency and marketers’ awareness of consumer fatigue. A new sofa or cute leggings are just the window dressing in a life of purpose—a way to transcend exhaustion, loneliness, and low self‐esteem, and step into a world of our own making. Which, when you get right down to it, sounds a lot like religion.” Five Things They Don’t Tell You About Slavery (Rich Lowry, National Review): “None of the other societies tainted by slavery produced the Declaration of Independence, a Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton, the U.S. Constitution, or a tradition of liberty that inspired people around the world for centuries. If we don’t keep that in mind, as well as the broader context of slavery, we aren’t giving this country — or history — its due.” The title is not great but the article is quite interesting. Homelessness and the high cost of living (Christos Makridis, The Hill): “…economists have reached a consensus that the primary driver behind increasing housing prices and rental rates is the presence of, and increase in, land use restrictions. Put simply, land use restrictions, or housing market regulations more generally, place restrictions on the types of structures that can be built — that either implicitly or explicitly raise the cost for developers.” Christos is an alumnus of our ministry. Less Serious Things Which Also Interested/Amused Glen Fixing the Gender Pay Gap (Dilbert): modern problems require modern solutions. New Gun Debate Flash Cards Get You Through Arguments With Speed And Efficiency (Babylon Bee): I actually wonder if there a game idea buried in here. Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago Every week I’ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have What Is It Like to Be a Man? (Phil Christman, The Hedgehog Review): “I live out my masculinity most often as a perverse avoidance of comfort: the refusal of good clothes, moisturizer, painkillers; hard physical training, pursued for its own sake and not because I enjoy it; a sense that there is a set amount of physical pain or self‐imposed discipline that I owe the universe.” Very well‐written. Everyone will likely find parts they resonate with and parts they reject. The author is a lecturer at the University of Michigan and based on his CV seems to be a fairly devoted Episcopalian. First shared in volume 178. Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey’s agenda and we are not about the elephant’s agenda — we are about the Lamb’s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass the ideological Turing test and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say “I agree” or “I disagree” until I can say “I understand”) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I’ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent. Also, remember that I’m not reporting news — I’m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There’s a lot happening in the world that’s not making an appearance here because I haven’t found stimulating articles written about it. If this was forwarded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up here. You can also view the archives. Author GlenPosted on 9/6/2019 9/6/2019 Categories LinksTags academia, culture, history, how the church is perceived, poverty, slaveryLeave a comment on Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 217 Inside the Secret Facebook War For Mormon Hearts and Minds (Kevin Poulson, The Daily Beast): “We may be resigned to faceless corporations buying their way into our thoughts, but are we ready for a world where our neighbors and in‐laws can do the same?” Genius and super‐interesting. The scandal of sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches: Part One: Abuse of Faith (Robert Downen, Lise Olsen, and John Tedesco, Houston Chronicle): “In all, since 1998, roughly 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct, the newspapers found. That includes those who were convicted, credibly accused and successfully sued, and those who confessed or resigned. More of them worked in Texas than in any other state. They left behind more than 700 victims, many of them shunned by their churches, left to themselves to rebuild their lives. Some were urged to forgive their abusers or to get abortions. About 220 offenders have been convicted or took plea deals, and dozens of cases are pending.” Part Two: Offend, then repeat (Robert Downen, Lise Olsen, and John Tedesco, Houston Chronicle): ”No religion is immune to sexual misconduct in its ranks. But unlike the Roman Catholic Church, which is wrestling with its own sex‐abuse scandal, Baptists don’t answer to a pope or bishop. Local church autonomy is a bedrock foundation of Baptist faith. There’s no diocese that assigns priests to a parish. Instead, each church is responsible for ordaining and hiring its own ministers.” Part Three: Preying On Teens (Robert Downen, Lise Olsen, and John Tedesco, Houston Chronicle): “More than 100 Southern Baptists described as former youth pastors or youth ministers are now in prison, are registered as sex offenders or have been charged with sex crimes, the newspapers found. Their most common targets were teenage girls and boys, though smaller children also were molested, sometimes in pastors’ studies and Sunday school rooms.” Southern Baptists and the Scandal of Church Sexual Abuse (Russell Moore, personal blog): “Jesus does not cover up sin within the temple of his presence. He brings everything hidden to light. We should too. When we downplay or cover over what has happened in the name of Jesus to those he loves we are not “protecting” Jesus’ reputation. We are instead fighting Jesus himself. No church should be frustrated by the Houston Chronicle’s reporting, but should thank God for it. The Judgment Seat of Christ will be far less reticent than a newspaper series to uncover what should never have been hidden.” — he also wrote an op‐ed for the New York Times a few days after this: Southern Baptists Face Their #MeToo Moment (Russell Moore, New York Times). The Reality of Sexual Abuse Hits Home: What Happened? What Do We Do Now? (Al Mohler, personal blog): “Southern Baptists, by instinct, have practiced a form of moralism that views sexual misbehavior as an isolated event—deal with it and move on. This simplistic moralism reduces sexual abuse and glosses over the severity of the crime. Sexual abuse is not an isolated act of misbehavior; it leaves in its wake scarred victims as well as malicious victimizers. Abuse of this nature snowballs.” This article has some insightful commentary on the unique challenges facing the Southern Baptists because of their structure. Evangelical Apocalypse (Dale M. Coulter, First Things): “As one denominational leader pointed out to me, ministers brought up on charges and dismissed from one denomination have simply gone to another for credentials. It’s not just laity who take advantage of evangelicalism’s big tent to move around. These open networks for ministerial movement from one part of evangelicalism to another allow sexual abusers to escape judgment and start over. We don’t need a database of sexual abusers for the Southern Baptist Convention, we need it for evangelicalism as a whole.” I don’t know how feasible that specific suggestion is, but I do know Coulter is pointing out a real and very hard‐to‐address problem. In a different neck of the woods: Why Does the Catholic Church Keep Failing on Sexual Abuse? (Emma Green, The Atlantic): “O’Malley’s career, with all of its successes and frustrations, illuminates why the sex‐abuse crisis has once again subsumed the Catholic Church—and why this institution, one of the world’s great moral authorities, has been incapable of solving one of the most morally straightforward problems of our time.” Bill Gates tweeted out a chart and sparked a huge debate about global poverty (Dylan Matthews, Vox): “Hickel argues that focusing on data showing declines in global poverty does political work on behalf of global capitalism, defending an inherently unjust global system that has failed residents of rich and poor nations alike. Pinker agrees that the data supports the idea that capitalism is working for the world’s poorest, and says that’s a decisive rebuttal of Hickel’s narrative of enduring persecution.” An African‐American Woman Reflects on the Transgender Movement (Nuriddeen Knight, Public Discourse): “Paradoxically, the more our society tries to free itself from gender stereotypes, the more it becomes enslaved to them. By saying that people can be born in a body of the wrong gender, transgender activists are saying there is a set of feelings that are only allocated to women and another set for men. Therefore, they believe, those who feel things that do not conform to their sex’s acceptable set of feelings must outwardly change their gender to match their mind.” Trevor Noah on Liam Neeson’s Racist Confession (YouTube): much more thoughtful than anything else I have come across. A (Not So) Secular Saint (James K.A. Smith, Los Angeles Review of Books): “Mill’s legacy was effectively ‘edited’ by his philosophical and political disciples, excising any hint of religious life. One would never know from the canon in our philosophy departments, for example, that Mill wrote an appreciative essay on ‘Theism.’” I am pretty sure I shared a similar link before, but I can’t find it searching my archives. Maybe I cut it at the last minute one week. Fascinating regardless. Science Is The Evangelical Trophy Wife (David Heddle, personal blog): “In many evangelical circles, science has become a trophy wife. Put her front and center, and show her beauty in, say, the form of Hubble nebulae photographs, with the requisite Psalm 19:1 caption, but do not ever let her speak, for she is likely to embarrass you. Her theological utility is only in the pleasant optics, not in the substance.” Beautiful title. Don’t Get Married Before You Live Together (Ginny Hogan, McSweeney’s): “Don’t get married before you live together. You just never know what the other person will be like to live with, and you need to figure that out before marriage.” Note: McSweeney’s is secular humor site which nonetheless deconstructs this common cultural advice brilliantly. Conservatives Accused Of Making Liberals Look Bad By Simply Reading List Of Things Liberals Believe (Babylon Bee) New Toyota Prius Will Remind You To Check Your Privilege Every 3,000 Miles (Babylon Bee) Man Opposed To Big Government Also Wants Government To Build Massive Wall (Babylon Bee) How Anxiety Works (Reddit) Dan White has a good magic trick (YouTube) — you need to watch to the end, because the initial trick is a setup for a much better trick Magician Matt Franco blows Steve Harvey’s mind (YouTube) Why Southern Weather Makes No Sense (YouTube) — for my fellow Southern transplants Comedian Preacher Lawson on Men vs Women (YouTube) Magician Jon Dorenbos With a Big Trick (YouTube) Shin Lim: Magician Baffles Judges With Incredible Card Magic (YouTube) Every week I’ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have Making Sense of the Numbers of Genesis [pdf link] (Carol Hill, Perspectives on Science and the Christian Faith): “Joseph and Joshua were each recorded as dying at age 110—a number considered ‘perfect’ by the Egyptians. In ancient Egyptian doctrine, the phrase ‘he died aged 110’ was actually an epitaph commemorating a life that had been lived selflessly and had resulted in outstanding social and moral benefit for others. And so for both Joseph and Joshua, who came out of the Egyptian culture, quoting this age was actually a tribute to their character. But, to be described as ‘dying at age 110’ bore no necessary relationship to the actual time of an individual’s life span.” You will not agree with everything in this article, but it is full of fascinating insights. (first shared in volume 51) Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey’s agenda and we are not about the elephant’s agenda — we are about the Lamb’s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass the ideological Turing test and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say “I agree” or “I disagree” until I can say “I understand”) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I’ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent. If this was forwarded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up here. You can also view the archives. Author GlenPosted on 2/15/2019 Categories LinksTags LGBTQ, Mormonism, poverty, racism, science, sexual assaultLeave a comment on Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 190 The homeless who help themselves get a needed lift (Kevin Kelly, San Jose Mercury News): “LifeMoves, formerly known as InnVision Shelter Network, is a 44‐year‐old [Bay Area] nonprofit that specializes in getting individuals into temporary housing and on a path to permanent housing. It claims a 93 percent success rate of getting homeless families housed and self‐sufficient, and a 72 percent success rate with individuals. There is just one caveat: People who receive assistance — referred to as clients — must demonstrate a willingness to better themselves.” Related: 5 Harsh Realities Of Homeless Camps Nobody Talks About (Evan Symon, Cracked): “If you live in a major American city, you’ve probably seen your fair share of homeless camps. They usually crop up in empty lots, parks, and Big Rock Candy Mountains. City governments generally have them torn down and cleaned up whenever they can. Leaving aside whether or not that’s the right way to address homelessness, somebody has to do the work of cleaning those places up. Our source, Carol, did just that.” People for sale: Where lives are auctioned for $400 (Nima Elbagir, Raja Razek, Alex Platt and Bryony Jones, CNN). There is a text story at the link, but the embedded seven minute video is worth watching, especially the first four minutes. This is a horrifying development in the migrant crisis — slave auctions. How To Think About Vladimir Putin (Christopher Caldwell, Imprimis): “When Putin took power in the winter of 1999–2000, his country was defenseless. It was bankrupt. It was being carved up by its new kleptocratic elites, in collusion with its old imperial rivals, the Americans. Putin changed that…. Russian people not only tolerate him, they revere him. You can get a better idea of why he has ruled for 17 years if you remember that, within a few years of Communism’s fall, average life expectancy in Russia had fallen below that of Bangladesh. ” This is a slightly older article, and so his comments about Russia’s role in the U.S. election aren’t very current. His broader observations are worth pondering. The Supreme Court hears arguments about the Christian baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding on Tuesday. Lots of people are writing about it. Against the baker: The Christian Legal Army Behind ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’ (Sarah Posner, The Nation): “On December 5, with the full force of the United States government behind it, ADF will be asking the Supreme Court to carve out yawning exemptions from civil‐rights laws for conservative Christians.” (this is less about the case and more about the firm representing the baker — it’s a hit piece but is full of interesting info) Against the baker: The Masterpiece Cakeshop Case Is Not About Religious Freedom (Jennifer Finney Boylan, New York Times): “But Masterpiece has nothing to do with religious freedom. It’s about enshrining a freedom to discriminate. Historically, religious exemptions from the law have occasionally been granted to protect the person who holds the belief. But this case is different, in that it gives an individual the right to harm someone else. And that’s what the Masterpiece case is about: It would give individuals the right to discriminate.” The author is an English professor at Barnard College. Against the baker: The Gay Wedding Cake Case Isn’t About Free Speech (Andrew Koppelman, The American Prospect).”It is merely telling him that if he sells any products to heterosexual couples, he must sell the same products to same‐sex couples. He is free to refuse to write ‘Support Gay Marriage’ on any cakes that he sells, so long as he refuses that to both gay and heterosexual customers. So this is an easy case. Phillips should lose.“ The author is a law professor at Northwestern. This is the strongest argument I have read against the Christian baker. For the baker: Stop Misrepresenting Masterpiece Cakeshop (David French, National Review): “Phillips isn’t discriminating against a protected class. I’ll repeat this until I’m blue in the face. He serves gay customers.” For the baker: The Christian Baker’s Unanswered Legal Argument: Why the Strongest Objections Fail (Sherif Girgis, Public Discourse): “Should an Islamophobic sect get to force Muslim caricaturists to sketch mocking images of the Prophet? Clearly not.” Disclaimer: Sherif was a roommate of one of our alumni and is an acquaintance of mine. Dueling perspectives on the family lives of blue state and red state Americans: Blue States Practice the Family Values Red States Preach (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times): “The liberal impulse may be to gloat: Those conservatives thunder about ‘family values’ but don’t practice them. But there’s also perhaps a measure of hypocrisy in the blue states. As Cahn and Carbone put it: ‘Blue family values bristle at restrictions on sexuality, insistence on marriage or the stigmatization of single parents. Their secret, however, is that they encourage their children to simultaneously combine public tolerance with private discipline, and their children then overwhelmingly choose to raise their own children within two‐parent families.’” Kristof is a Pulitzer prize‐winning journalist who was a Rhodes Scholar and is on the Board of Overseers for Harvard University. No, Republicans Aren’t Hypocrites on Family Values W. Bradford Wilcox and Vijay Menon, Politico): “In other words, even though Southerners in general are at greater risk of family instability than Northerners, Republicans in the South enjoy markedly higher levels of family stability than their fellow citizens—a family stability advantage that puts them above Democrats and independents in the North. Another way to put this: It’s blue and purple Americans in the South who are really pulling down family stability in the South, not red Americans.” Wilcox is a sociology prof at UVA, where Minon is also a grad student. We Didn’t Become Christians Because Of The Hucksters (Michael Wear, Fathom): “If the world criticizes the pride of someone who claims the name of Christ—or who won the votes of those who do—point them to Jesus, who was born into poverty, who instructed his followers to take the low position, and humbled himself on the way to the cross…. There is nothing so wrong with the poor example of Christians that can’t be solved by proclaiming the perfect example of Christ.” Stanford can take Junipero Serra’s name off its buildings, but it can’t purge him from its history (Charlotte Allen, LA Times): “The Main Quad, part of a master plan designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead, imitates Serra’s missions (with some Romanesque touches). Besides the Mall and the boulevard, other campus streets are named after his friar‐disciples (Lasuén and Francisco Palóu), as well as José de Gálvez, the inspector general for New Spain who facilitated Serra’s missionary work in Alta California. If the Stanford activists aim to obliterate Serra’s presence from their campus, they’ve got their work cut out for them.” I didn’t know Serra’s influence was so pervasive at Stanford. Things Glen Found Amusing Man Coming Out Of Year‐Long Coma Excited To Catch Up On Humanity’s Progress (Babylon Bee): that poor, poor soul How to Save Money This Christmas Why Superman Wears a Cape (texts from superheroes) Let This Vanity License Plate Console You as Finals Draw Near (be encouraged — it is truer than you believe) What Is Even Happening in This Gif? trying to imagine the backstory hurts my brain Every week I’ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have Letter To My Younger Self (Ryan Leaf, The Player’s Tribune): “Congratulations. You officially have it all — money, power and prestige. All the things that are important, right?… That’s you, young Ryan Leaf, at his absolute finest: arrogant, boorish and narcissistic. You think you’re on top of the world and that you’ve got all the answers. Well I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but the truth is….” Such a gripping letter. Highly recommended. (first shared in volume 99) Archives at http://glenandpaula.com/wordpress/category/links. Author GlenPosted on 12/1/2017 Categories Links, Of Random InterestTags history, LGBTQ, politics, poverty, religious freedom, russia, slavery, StanfordLeave a comment on Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 129 1 Chronicles 12:32 — they “understood the times” Missionaries are struggling to work under new Russia law banning proselytizing (Michael Alison Chandler, Washington Post): “A month after the restrictions went into effect on July 20, at least seven people had been charged under it… The list includes a Baptist preacher from the United States who was charged with holding religious services in his home and advertising them on public bulletin boards. He was convicted and fined, but he is appealing the case.” ‘Hillsong’ Casts a Secular Lens on an Evangelical Band (NY Times, Joe Coscarelli): “Hillsong’s creative director… described embracing the rock‐star exposure as ‘trying to draw attention to yourself for the sole premise of drawing attention away from yourself’ — to God.” 7 Books on the White‐Black Racial Divide You Should Read (Ivan Mesa, Gospel Coalition): because you don’t have enough books to read at Stanford. We Gave Four Good Pollsters the Same Raw Data. They Had Four Different Results. (NY Times, Nate Cohn): “Well, well, well. Look at that. A net five‐point difference between the five measures, including our own, even though all are based on identical data. Remember: There are no sampling differences in this exercise.” I didn’t know this at all. Wow. We know less about the election than we thought. “If you are a very talented person, you have a choice: You either go to New York or you go to Silicon Valley.” (Peter Thiel said it, and this link is to an op‐ed by Aaron Renn in a Chicago paper defending it.) For a contrary take, read this comment from Marginal Revolution. No, We Shouldn’t Start Worrying About Global Inequality — Poverty’s The Problem (Forbes, Tim Worstall): “[Reducing inequality is] a bad goal. One reason being that rich people getting poorer reduces inequality. And if inequality reduction is our goal then we should therefore welcome such things as recessions.” Found on a student’s twitter feed. What If Evolution Bred Reality Out Of Us? (NPR, Adam Frank): reading this called to mind something Chesterton observed way back in 1908: It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. If you are merely a sceptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the question, “Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?” The young sceptic says, “I have a right to think for myself.” But the old sceptic, the complete sceptic, says, “I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.” — Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton ‘Jesus Is The Greater Harambe,’ Preaches Local Youth Pastor (Babylon Bee): “‘Jesus wants to hold you close, and he was killed for it,’ Myers passionately proclaimed during the climax of his message.” The Babylon Bee is so consistently good. If you’re new to this list, I link to it regularly, so you should know that it is a satire site. Grammar police vs Fashion Police (xkcd) One of the best lines in journalism? 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__label__cc	0.53849	0.46151	ECRi ECRi Jobs ECRi Grants ECRi Dissemination ECRi Networking IYPH2020 Knowledge, data and resources Food and Human Health Agricultural productivity and sustainability Adaptation to climate change Diversity Seek New breeding technologies Tracing the roots: Mapping a vegetable family tree for better food By Isabel 31/07/2019 September 9th, 2019 News Genetic testing developed by University of Missouri-Columbia scientists could aid in developing new and healthier diets. Human genetic testing has evolved over the recent decades, allowing people to find their ancestors and even determine specific percentages of their heritage. Much like the advances in human genetic testing recently popularized by commercial organizations have allowed people to gain a better understanding of their ancestry, scientists are now a step closer to determining a genetic family tree for vegetables by linking biology with computer science. “Domestication of plants — the process of adapting wild plants for human use — happened a long time ago before we knew about genetics,” said Makenzie Mabry, a doctoral student of biological sciences. “Initially in wild plants there is a big pool of genes, and domestication only uses a few of those genes. Therefore, we often miss out on other possible genes that may be better than the current ones. By identifying the ancestors of our domesticated plants, we can take the evolutionary jump and go back in time to determine the genes that weren’t initially selected in domestication — genes that could lead to more healthy or more nutritious plants or plants adapted to different climates — and add those back into our current domesticated plants.” In the new study, a team of multi-institution scientists led by the University of Missouri challenged prior theories of the origins of three vegetables — canola, rutabaga and Siberian kale — by mapping the genetic family tree of these leafy greens. The scientists ground up leaves from each plant, added a liquid chemical and placed the mixture in test tubes. Next, they analyzed the RNA and DNA in each plant with the help of computer science. In addition, they grew one of the plants, and independently verified the origin discovered in the test tubes. “Using an analogy, some of our human genetic history comes from both our mom and dad, but other parts only come from our mom,” said J. Chris Pires, a professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Science and investigator in the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center. “Here we are trying to determine the parents of these plants, and we found that it’s not the previously hypothesized mom nor dad, it’s some yet to be identified species.” The team of scientists hopes to continue collecting data throughout the world to broaden their knowledge of this family tree to confidently identify the relatives of the parental species. “Many people focus solely on the history of animals and people,” said Hong An, a postdoctoral fellow of biological sciences. “But it’s equally, if not more important, to also know the history of our food.” Read the paper: Nature Communications Article source: University of Missouri-Columbia Image: University of Missouri-Columbia Are you an early-career researcher? The Early-Career Researcher International Network (ECRi), is a collection of activities addressed to help you. Check them now! Previous PostGenetic breakthrough in cereal crops could help improve yields worldwide Next PostSome green ash trees show some resistance to emerald ash borers AgricultureNewsPlant Science Identifying a plant cell barrier to breeding more nutritious crops Isabel20/01/2020 AgricultureForestryNewsPlant Science Understanding the mechanisms of seemingly chaotic synchronization in trees BotanyNewsPlant Science The Delicate Water Lily: A Rose by Another Name? Subscribe to our Newsletter Sign-in New methods promise to speed up development of new plant varieties Pine trees with larger resin ducts better able to survive mountain pine beetle attack © 2020 The Global Plant Council.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1290
__label__wiki	0.543257	0.543257	27 (0) 11 826-2466 admin@erpmgc.co.za www.erpmgc.co.za ERPM Golf Club Designed ByGolf Data Typen/a FairwaysKikyu 70% GreensPencross Bend 80% Bend 20% Poana ERPM Golf Club came into being in 1903 when 3 holes were built around the first school in Boksburg, a wood and iron structure that is still standing today. The building was also used as the first clubhouse and is situated on the right hand side of the first fairway. In 1906, 18 holes were completed. The President at the time was Colonel Sir George Farrar DSO, who was instrumental in floating East Rand Property Mines Limited on 8th May 1893. The captain of the club was D McKay. The first recorded Club Champion was F N Critlends in 1913. In 1926 under the supervision of Peter Coetzer, who served the club as Secretary / Green Keeper for 51 years, the fairways were hand planted by the members, and Fir trees were planted. Some of theses trees are still a major feature of the course. Many of these old Fir trees are dying. ERPM has a number of Springboks that were avid members of the club, namely, Alma Truss, Jill Kennedy, Jimmy Boyd, Denis Hutchison, Neville Sundelson, Neville Clarke and Dean van Staden. As well as provincial players too numerous to mention, one of ERPM’s well know professionals, John Bland, playing with members on a Wednesday afternoon shot an amazing 59. He also holed out on the par 4 tenth playing against the club manager in a Friday afternoon four ball. In 1992 the club was still controlled by the mine and soon thereafter the control and running of the club was solely in the hands of members. In mid 1992 a decision was taken to revamp the course and in October of that year work started. Using the same layout the greens were completely reshaped and rebuilt, the bunkers redesigned and the water reticulation system replaced. Between the 1st October 1992 and the reopening of the course on 1st May 1993 golf was played on 18 temporary greens. The chairman at the time, Willie Tredoux, had the honour of opening the new ERPM Golf Course. ERPM Golf Club’s emblem is an owl sitting on a golf club. In fact all of the mine sports club’s have the same owl on their respective badges and flags. The owl came into being as the emblem as a result of the relentless sounding of the mine hooter, at regular intervals every day and night, which was activated by the steam driven boilers. No reviews added yet. Waterford Golf and River Estate Riviera on Vaal Country Club Zwartkop Country Club	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1293
__label__wiki	0.702796	0.702796	Good News New Mexico Inspire the Spirit of Giving Mayor’s Prize for Entrepreneurship Finalists Albuquerque, Economic and Workforce Development, Philanthropy The Mayor’s Prize for Entrepreneurship Finalists Announced $200,000 Will Be Awarded To At Least Two Winners Today, the Albuquerque Community Foundation announced the finalists for the Mayor’s Prize for Entrepreneurship. Powered by the Albuquerque Community Foundation, “The Mayor’s Prize” is a competitive program to provide financial support to nonprofits or institutions that create innovative programs that support entrepreneurialism and the creation and growth of new and young companies in the City of Albuquerque. On November 17th, $200,000 in funding will be awarded to at least two winners. Supported financially by the Albuquerque Community Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the application process opened on September 1 with proposals due October 2. The Mayor’s Prize was developed as a collaborative effort to spur entrepreneurial activity in specific areas. Key areas needing additional support were identified as part of the Albuquerque Living Cities Integration Planning Year to create a culture of entrepreneurialism in Albuquerque. That Planning Year, which was completed in June 2015, brought leaders from cross sectors across Albuquerque together to identify strategies that would grow jobs and household incomes in Albuquerque. The Albuquerque Community Foundation participated in the Living Cities Planning Year. The Mayor’s Prize looks at the areas identified in that Planning Year as opportunities to support gaps and strengthen resources for entrepreneurial growth. Applicants were given five areas where innovative programs could benefit entrepreneurs: bringing local innovations to market; access to and connectivity of entrepreneurship resources; connections for entrepreneurs to markets, resources or other entrepreneurs; enabling high growth success; and, buy and make local. All 27 applications were reviewed and compared against the criteria, in which 11 were selected as finalists. The 11 finalist organizations selected best met the criteria set for the program which supports development of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Albuquerque. The finalists are: ABQid: In order to increase access to and connectivity of entrepreneurship resources in the Greater Albuquerque area, ABQid proposes to found and facilitate a quarterly forum for local organizations that serve entrepreneurs. The forums, called, Albuquerque Entrepreneurship Advocacy Forums, will serve to connect ABQid’s ecosystem’s service providers at an unprecedented level. Catalyst Week: Catalyst Week proposes a new program, ABQ Activate, which will be a gateway to the ABQ Innovation District. The program will offer a consistent monthly event at the Epicenter that will introduce newcomers to the city’s ecology and provide assistance to navigate available entrepreneurial resources. ABQ Activate will be financially sustainable with paid outings to creative local spaces following each event. CNM Ingenuity, Inc.: CNM’s Ingenuity’s STEMulus Center is currently a hub for Albuquerque’s budding entrepreneurial ecosystem. Funding from the Mayor’s Prize would enable the STEMulus Center to add vital components to the ecosystem: a MakerSpace linked to their community accelerator, coding bootcamp, cyber academy and entrepreneurial mindset programs. Creative Startups: The Mayor’s Prize funds would support Creative Startups Labs that would provide entrepreneurs in the creative and arts industries with the connections and resources needed to fully launch their companies. Specifically, this includes connecting entrepreneurs with: regional resource partners; potential customers; market and local channel leaders and investors. Global Ties: Global Ties ABQ proposes the development of its Global Innovator Program. The program would build an international and business community in New Mexico, while fostering support for the city’s start-up industry. The goal of the program is to educate entrepreneurs and investors on the global business climate and how to successfully expand their markets. New Mexico Community Capital: New Mexico Community Capital (NMCC) provides knowledge and capital for New Mexico’s high-potential businesses in emerging or underserved markets. The Mayor’s Prize would support NMCC’s Native Entrepreneur in Residence Program, an initiative to create sustainable economic opportunities for Native American entrepreneurs and enhance a sense of place, economic self-sufficiency and preserve culture and heritage. Quelab: Quelab is Albuquerque’s first makerspace and it is committed to fostering and sustaining an environment that promotes creativity, invention and collaboration at the intersection of science, culture, art and technology. Through the Mayor’s Prize, Quelab seeks to invite prospective entrepreneurs to its space and create brainstorming and work sessions that will assist with transitioning entrepreneurial projects from conception to development and prototype completion. Rio Grande Community Development Corporation (RGCDC): Funds from the Mayor’s Prize will support RGCDC’s Conectemos (Let’s Connect) project. Conectemos is aimed at supporting place-based local resources at the South Valley Economic Development Center, utilizing trust and relationships, and connecting entrepreneurs – especially low-income entrepreneurs who face cultural or linguistic barriers – to the local and city-wide resources they need to succeed. Technology Ventures Corporation (TVC): TVC would like to build upon its successful business model that assists businesses “beyond the initial tech transfer/start-up phase.” It will do this by establishing and implementing a growth program that will leverage and match local resources with the national capabilities (knowledge, tools and facilities) available to help small to medium-sized high-tech companies take their business to the next level. University of New Mexico Innovation Academy: The Mayor’s Prize would support UNM’s StartUp School, a comprehensive framework for developing new ventures. Through the program, entrepreneurs are offered a series of workshops wherein they learn what they need to do in order to launch successful and sustainable businesses. Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency Team (WESST): The Mayor’s Prize would support WESST’s Creative P.I.E. (Practice, Innovation and Enterprise) program, which targets emerging and/or growing creatives (artists, makers and food producers) by providing a no-barriers-to-entry program of wrap-around services. By reaching over 200 metro-area creatives, Creative P.I.E will serve to build a more robust creative economy, grow Albuquerque’s arts reputation and raise the business and financial literacy rates of the city’s creative professionals. A judging panel of nine individuals that represent both local companies and organizations as well individuals from across the country that are involved in entrepreneurial work nationally will now review the finalists and choose no less than two winners. A total of $200,000 in prize money will be awarded to the winners in the form of grants to implement their programs. “We were very impressed by the number of applications as well as the innovative nature of the approaches put together to benefit entrepreneurs,” said Kelli Cooper, Vice President of Philanthropic Services for the Albuquerque Community Foundation. “The judging panel has many excellent choices to review in selecting the winners for the inaugural Mayor’s Prize for Entrepreneurship.” The judges will be evaluating the finalists in areas such as whether the proposal clearly states a bold and innovative idea, whether the program is sustainable, has measurable outcomes, and clearly defines success. Winners will be announced by Mayor Richard J. Berry on Tuesday, November 17th at the Epicenter@InnovateABQ at the Community Celebration of Entrepreneurship as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The Mayor’s Prize for Entrepreneurship judges are: Kevin Yearout, President, Yearout Mechanical, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico Diane Colangelo, Projects and Policy Specialist, Economic Development, City of Burlington, Vermont Paul Corsone, Sustainable Startups, Park City, Utah Paul Major, President & CEO, Telluride Foundation, Telluride, Colorado Jon Robinson, Senior Program Officer of Entrepreneurship Programs, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri Ann Rhoades-President, People, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico Jared Tarbell-Owner, Levitated Toy Factory, Albuquerque, New Mexico Steven Walsh, Distinguished & Regents Professor UNM; Institute Professor for Entrepreneurial Renewal of Industry at University of Twente, Netherlands, Albuquerque, New Mexico JaNay Queen- Assistant Director of Collective Impact, Living Cities, Washington, DC The founding partners – the Albuquerque Community Foundation and the Kauffman Foundation – have created the permanent philanthropic fund called “The Mayor’s Prize” with the intention of it continuing in perpetuity. The Kauffman Foundation has committed to seed the prize fund with a $200,000 challenge to raise matching funds. The Albuquerque Community Foundation will meet the challenge this year with $200,000 and seek an additional $200,000 in the future from various donors. Contact: Susan Wilson, 505.294.5473 or susan@susanjwilson.com ← #GivingTuesday New Mexico A Bold Education Movement Begins in New Mexico This November →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1294
__label__wiki	0.886057	0.886057	KATFM on FB! As heard on The Pauly Xperience : Staged photos of Meghan Markle’s Dad Written by Paul Suba on May 15, 2018 (CNN)Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle, told American publication TMZ on Monday that he will not attend his daughter’s wedding to Prince Harry. According to the TMZ report, Markle decided not to walk his daughter down the aisle on Saturday, after it was revealed he worked with a picture agency to stage some pictures of him preparing himself for the wedding. Thomas Markle said he now thought the pictures were “stupid and hammy,” according to the TMZ report. He said he made the decision to skip the wedding so he wouldn’t embarrass the royal family or his daughter. CNN has reached out to Thomas Markle for comment over phone and over email but has yet to receive an answer. CNN has learned that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are very concerned about the pressure Thomas Markle is under and want the media to give him some space. CNN has also learned that though Markle is upset about what has transpired, her feelings about having her father give her away on Saturday haven’t changed since photographs were published. “This is a deeply personal moment for Ms. Markle in the days before her wedding,” a Kensington Palace spokesman said Monday. “She and Prince Harry ask again for understanding and respect to be extended to Mr. Markle in this difficult situation.” Thomas Markle has been the subject of many unflattering media reports in the British tabloids as his daughter Meghan prepares to marry Prince Harry on Saturday. Images of him at an internet cafe checking out a website featuring his soon-to-be royal daughter sparked an “awww” moment on social media last week. But Markle’s half-sister told a British TV network on Monday that she urged their father to stage positive photos for the paparazzi to help improve his image. “I said the world has no idea that you’re getting in shape and doing healthy things,” Samantha Markle said on the ITV program “Loose Women.” “They don’t photograph you buying vegetables and pH water, they photograph you in as [many] unflattering ways as they can. I said, ‘Really you need to show the world you are getting in shape and doing great, healthy things.’ So I suggested it.” Another photo of Thomas Markle that may have also been staged In Sunday editions and online, Britain’s Daily Mail published what it said was security camera footage showing Thomas Markle arriving at the internet cafe with a photographer. Samantha Markle took full responsibility for arranging the photos, saying she was “entirely the culprit.” When asked if her father had been paid, she said she didn’t think so but wasn’t sure. “I do not believe so. That was not the motive — it was my suggestion,” she said. “I have no idea. But if he did, I am going to assume it was a pittance — they don’t pay that much. It really was so the world could see him doing the healthy things.” Young Meghan Markle fought sexist ad Young Meghan Markle fought sexist ad 01:30 Meghan Markle, 36, has captured international attention as she prepares to become the newest member Britain’s royal family. The biracial American actress, like her fiance Prince Harry, is a child of divorce. Thomas Markle and her mother, Doria Ragland, met at a Hollywood studio in the late 1970s where he was working as a lighting director and she was a temp. Her parents split when Meghan was young, but she told Vanity Fair this year that they remain on good terms and even take vacations together as a family. Earlier this month, Kensington Palace announced that Thomas Markle was scheduled to walk Meghan down the aisle at her wedding. In her ITV interview, Samantha Markle accused the media of taking advantage of Thomas Markle, noting that their father, who is 73 years old, is “a bit more fragile.” “I feel that the media have unfairly preyed on him and he has really been admirable about laying low and not speaking out on certain things,” Markle told ITV. “I merely wanted him to be seen in a respectable light and that wasn’t being done.” CNN’s Max Foster, Sebastian Shukla and Hannah Richie in London contributed to this report Paul Suba Merry Christmas & Yippie Ky Yay Positive K on Bronson’s Choice Nov 15, 2019 LAST CHANCE TO WIN TICKETS TO BRIAN MCKNIGHT! BRONSON RETURNS TO THE MID DAYS ON KAT FM katfm_guam Tune into KAT FM everyday for the best of The 90's and Millennium, Now. 105.1fm is KAT FM 📻 www.guamkat.com #katfm #guam #guamshottestthrowbacks KAT FM Guam National Wildlife Refuge 05:5518:38 ChST Wind: 14mph E Weather from Weather Atlas HOTLINE: 477-4528 / 472-0418 EMAIL: katrequests@spbguam.com STATION LOCATION: Tumon, Guam Playing the Best 90s and New Millennium Music on the Planet! COPYRIGHT 2018 SORENSEN MEDIA GROUP 90s and New Millennium Now!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1300
__label__wiki	0.670693	0.670693	GOSSIPONTHIS.COM Entertainment “American Horror Story: Coven” Recap: ‘The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks’ “American Horror Story: Coven” Recap: ‘The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks’ Justine Browning Updated January 16th, 2014 at 1:44 am Following a nearly month-long winter hiatus that seemed like forever, “American Horror Story: Coven” was back in full force on Wednesday night (Jan 8), and as usual, the hit FX chiller delivered on unexpected plot twists and powerhouse performances. Marie (Angela Bassett) admits that she’s ashamed to show weakness but after the attack on her salon at the hands of Hank the Witch Hunter, she has no choice but to join forces with her onetime enemy, Fiona (Jessica Lange). The two have an unexpected heart to heart, in which Marie claims that she’s been alone for so long and that she’s found companionship in an enemy and is seeking a lasting truce. When Fiona leaves, Marie is awakened by an evil dreadheaded spirit guy with a strange fondness to cocaine, who tells that “her master calls.” Marie enters a hospital in the middle of the night and is able to hypnotize her way into the emergency room where she steals a baby. When the cops stop her, she uses some crazy mind-trick to get the cops to shoot each other in the heads. She then tells the wailing baby “Shut up, I’ll give you something to cry about!” Marie visits the Academy and reveals all about Hank the Witch Hunter to Fiona and Delia (Sarah Paulson). Fiona reacts to this by slapping the sht out of Delia, saying that she married Hank as an act of rebellion and in the process brought a witch-hunter into their midst. Misty (Lilly Rabe) tells Fiona that even if she kills her (like she did Madison), she already has a plan to bring herself back. Suddenly, the “white witch” Stevie Nicks appears and begins playing “Rhiannon” on piano out of nowhere. Of course Misty, being the huge Stevie Nicks fan that she is, passes out at the mere site of the woman. “You owe me five bucks,” said Fiona. The “Dreams” singer gives Misty one of her shawls and wishes her luck with the seven wonders. Fiona informs Madison that she’s not the new supreme and implies that Misty is. She also says that in due time, the powerful Misty will eventually perform the seven wonders. Nan (Jamie Brewer) claims that she could be the next supreme but Madison doubts this, claiming that she‘s still in the running for the spot because she no longer suffers from a heart murmur. (Because she no longer has no heart, after that whole “dying and coming back” thing) Delia begins researching the organization that Hank belonged to, in an effort to be “helpful.” The still enraged Fiona shouts at Delia “NOOOOOOOO! You can’t help me! You can’t help ANYONE!” Fiona also told her only daughter that she is “worthless and hopeless” and to “get out of her sight.” Marie confides in Fiona, telling her that back when she thought she was “the shit” she made a deal with the voodoo spirit Papa Legba (Lance Reddick) aka the “dreadhead spirit guy who likes cocaine.” She sold him her soul for eternal life, and once a year she gave him what he wanted. This proved to be a bad idea, when he ended up taking her newborn baby. We’re going to jump the gun and assume that this has something to do with the baby she stole from the hospital. She also reveals that if someone wants to see him bad enough, he will come to them. Given the look on Fiona’s face and the fact that her days are numbered, it’s pretty clear what she’s planning. At a funeral procession, the ever manipulative Madison (Emma Roberts) attempts to make Misty believe that she isn’t the next supreme and that Stevie was lying to her (she would never!) but Misty isn’t buying what she’s selling. In a particularly spectacular moment, Madison raises the deceased man from the dead, WITHOUT EVEN TOUCHING HIM. He casually pops right out of the coffin and everything, and Madison convinces Misty to toss Stevie’s shawl into the now unoccupied coffin because “[Stevie] probably has a ton more like it in “the bargain bin in her basement” that she gives out to people randomly to “make them feel special.” For some reason, Misty falls for this and listens before she is hit on the head with a brick, knocked unconscious, and thrown into the coffin, which Madison closes and has two funeral hands carry the coffin away to have Misty buried alive in a mausoleum. Nan and Zoe (Taissa Farmiga) want to pay their respects to Luke (Alexander Dreymon) and possibly resurrect him. They visit his mother Joan in order to try and figure out where his body is, only to learn that she had him cremated. This obviously doesn’t sit well with Nan (or us, because that boy looked damn good with his shirt off!). Nan reacts by calling her a “bitch” and force-feeding her a bottle of bleach, using some crazy mind-control power we didn’t even know she had. DAMN NAN! Delia is distraught over the damage she has brought upon the coven. Myrtle attempts to alley her despair but fails miserably. Fiona summons Legba (with cocaine, of course), telling him that she doesn’t want to die. She offers up her soul in exchange for not aging or facing death. He agrees on the condition that one day a year she does what he demands. The deal comes to a halt when Legba informs her that she “has no soul.” Suddenly, the ever devoted Axeman appears and encourages her to take down her young predecessor. But there’s just one issue with that. She has no idea who the hell that is. So what’s her solution to this dilemma? Why, to “kill them all” of course. We just got the chills. Back at the academy, Zoe tells Nan that based on the way she was able to kill Joan, she could very well be the next supreme. When Nan hears Marie’s stolen baby crying, she picks it up and threatens to kill Marie, informing her that she was able to kill “that neighbor lady” and is therefore the new supreme (LOLz). Fiona arrives on the scene just in time to suggest that they both drown Nan in the tub. Surprisingly, she is recused by Legba. Stevie returns and plays “Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You” as Fiona winds down from the intense day. The intro, showing Marie stealing an infant was one of the best so far this season. Delia’s anguish over truth about her marriage and the damage it’s done to coven made for some great acting on Paulson’s part. Furthermore, it led to some standout moments between her and Lange. It was an awesomely unexpected turn when Marie decided to join Fiona’s coven. Not only does it send an epic female empowerment message (alright, so that’s not the case with many of the other female relationships), it also gives us a ton of scenes between Lange and Bassett. And that’s always a good thing. The funeral scene was stylish and staged beautifully. Fiona coming to the conclusion that she will have to kill anyone she suspects is her successor was truly shocking but once digested, it really isn’t all the far-fetched considering Fiona’s previous actions. The moment works so fabulously because it’s difficult to stop loving the character even after revelations like this. Love how Fiona reacted to Joan being killed by being more concerned that it’ll lead to the cops sniffing around. Her later line “the bitch had it coming” is classic Fiona. We never thought we’d say this but Stevie Nick’s guest spot felt a bit … “contrived.” It’s rather hard to believe that Misty would give up Stevie’s shawl so easily, unless Madison really does have the power to control even witches’ minds. Fiona, while drowning Nan: “Don’t put up such a fuss. You’re not the first witch to be drowned.” Fiona on Nan’s innocence: “She’s innocent! Mostly… She killed a neighbor but that bitch had it coming.” Papa Leba to Fiona after she conjured him with cocaine: “You brunga da gud stuff!” Nan to Joan while mind-controlling her into drink an entire bottle of bleach: “You have to be cleansed!” Nan to Papa Legba after she died: “Do I have to wear this outfit for all eternity?” Papa Legba to Fiona and Marie after drowning Nan in the bathtub: “U 2 togedda be trouble!” Auntie Myrtle to Delia when asked what the hell that strange sound was: “Don’t be a hater, dear!” Witch Burning Questions 1. Where was our beloved Franken-cutie, Kyle this week? We were eager to see how Fiona was going to use him to her advantage. It’s so easy to picture Fi, walking him on a leash like the “guard dog” he is. 2. Is Queenie really gone for good? Because we are so not down with that. Same applies to Luke. It wouldn’t be that surprising if Joan was completely bullshitting Nan about her son being cremated. 3. But the main thing we’re pondering … is what is to become of Delphine?! We know that the “eternal racist” has had her head removed but she was just starting to come around on the whole white supremacist thing. It’ll be interesting to see how the now joined witches will use her, if at all. 4. Who the fck is the next supreme?! We’ve only got a few weeks left until the season concludes and there’s so much to wrap up! See you guys next week! Published January 9th, 2014 at 6:33 am Alexander Dreymon American Horror Story: Coven Jamie Brewer MORE STORIES LIKE THISMORE FROM AUTHOR Whoopi Goldberg Debuts Her New, Gray Dreadlocks Look on “The View” “American Horror Story” Reveals Season 8 Title: “Apocalypse” Cuba Gooding Jr. Sparks Twitter Outrage After Lifting Sarah Paulson’s Dress On Stage	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1304
__label__wiki	0.686889	0.686889	Tag Archives: died in bed Dead Gorgeous: the life and death of Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby Posted by Lenora in Bizarre, General, History, Macabre, memento mori, post mortem, seventeenth century Brief Lives, cosmetics, death portraits, died in bed, in praise of venetia, John Aubrey, memento mori, Poison, private memoirs, seventeenth century, Sir Kenelm Digby, stelliana, Van Dyck, Van Dyke, Venetia Digby, Venetia Stanley, Viper Wine Stelliana “…if she had been in those times when men committed idolatry, the world would certainly have renounced the sun, the stars and all other devotions and with one consent have adored her for their goddess.”[1] As an acknowledged beauty of the Stuart Age, with a slightly suspect reputation, it was to be expected that scandal and gossip clung to Venetia Stanley’s name. However it was her mysterious demise – which led to suggestions of suicide and allegations of murder, and the obsessionally morbid devotion displayed by her husband after her death, that would ensure her lasting fame. Sexual adventuress or secret bride? Venetia Stanley had had an effect on men from the moment she was born. She was born in 1600, in Tong Castle in Shropshire, into a well-connected family. Her father was Lord Edward Stanley and her mother Lady Lucy Percy, co-heiress to the vast Percy fortune. When Lucy tragically died, Lord Stanley had the young Venetia sent away rather than have her presence a constant reminder of his lost love, Lucy. Growing up in the countryside, at Enston Abbey in Oxfordshire [2], the young Venetia’s star burned bright. Gossipy polymath John Aubrey, writing several decades after Venetia’s death, wrote of her early life: “..it seems her beauty could not lie hid. The young Eagles has espied her, and she was sanguine and tractable, and of much suavity (which to abuse was a great pittie)”[3] I’m no expert on the idioms of seventeenth century speech but it sounds rather like Aubrey is suggesting that the young Venetia might just have been a bit of a flirt. Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby. By Henri Toutin, painted in 1637 (after her death). Via Wikimedia After Oxfordshire, she decamped to London where she continued to make a stir everywhere she went. In the debauched Stuart Court beauty was everything and young Venetia had it all – perfectly meeting the ideal of the Stuart age with her fine dark locks, alabaster complexion, languid ‘come to bed’ eyes, and as Aubrey so nicely puts it, her ‘bona roba’, her curvaceous figure. The Stuart Court was a place of great sexual license, but barring one or two privileged exceptions (such as the notorious Countess of Somerset) that license tended to be issued to men only: randy cavaliers could bed whom they pleased with little fear of tarnishing their reputation. The sexual politics of the time was not quite so tolerant of female rakes; money and social standing could offer some protection to a young adventuress but gossip and scandal could be cruel bedfellows. Venetia was not immune to slander, both during her life and even decades after her death. Aubrey, generally the most quoted source for her life, claimed that Venetia was the mistress of Richard Sackville, Earl of Dorset, and had children by him. In his Brief Lives, Aubrey states that Sackville paid her £500 annually – no mean sum. However, Aubrey is not necessarily the most reliable source, writing decades after her death and often reporting gossip and hearsay as fact. Another possibility is that Venetia’s reputation as a courtesan may be in part due to the fact that her marriage to Sir Kenelm Digby in c1625 was kept secret until after their first child was born [4]. The Ornament of England Sir Kenelm Digby, c1632, after Van Dyck. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. Kenelm was the son of Sir Everard Digby who was executed following the Gun Powder Plot. He was a scholar, philosopher, courtier,alchemist, privateer, and general all round clever-dick given the somewhat pompous epithet “the ornament of England”. “Sir Kenelme Digby was held to be the most accomplished cavalier of his time. [..] He was such a goodly handsome person, gigantique and great voice, and had so gracefull Elocution and noble address, etc., that had he been drop’t out of the Clowdes in any part of the World, he would have made himself respected. But the Jesuites spake spitefully, and sayd ’twas true, but then he must not stay there above six weeks.'”[5] I can’t help but think that Aubrey seems to take sly delight in spiking this unctuous description with a little acid. Theories as to why the pair might have kept their marriage a secret abound: from Sir Kenelm’s mother disapproving of her prospective daughter-in-law’s libertine life-style or considering her a penniless gold-digger to fears that Venetia would be cut off from her father’s will should she marry against her family’s wishes. Chastity crushing Cupid, Anthony Van Dyck, National Portrait Gallery. Whatever the truth behind the rumours, Sir Kenelm appears to have loved Venetia deeply and she him. He commissioned many portraits of Venetia, both during her life and after her death. One such portrait entitled ‘Chastity crushing Cupid’ – could be perhaps interpreted as a bit of PR for his wife’s reputation as a sexual adventuress. Aubrey suggests Sir Kenelm was well aware of the gossip surrounding his wife’s (lack of) virtue and claims he said “..a wiseman, and a lusty could make an honest woman of a brothell-house” [6]. For a man who went on to write incessantly about his love for Stelliana, aka Venetia, in his Private Memoirs, it would seem quite a harsh thing for him to say of her. Even Aubrey concedes that Venetia transformed from mad-for-it party girl to virtuous wife and mother with ease. However the slight twist in the tale of the stolid church-going matron. Venetia was an avid, and it would seem, successful gambler, and it is alleged she funded many of her good works through her winnings…so perhaps a little of the wild-child remained after her marriage. Lead Powder and Viper Wine Lady Elizabeth Pope, c1615, sporting pale complexion and rouged lips and cheeks, and a vast amount of bosom. Robert Peake, via wikimedia. Several years of happy and uneventful marriage ensued, Venetia and Sir Kenelm had four sons and seemed ready to slide into comfortable middle age. Hermione Eyre, author of Viper Wine, a novel about Venetia, suggests that far from being a time of placid contemplation of impending old age, Venetia may have found the transition from youth to middle age extremely difficult. As a celebrated beauty seeing her charms fade as the years passed, living in a society that judged women on their looks (sound familiar, anyone?), she could easily have fallen back on cosmetics and potions in a desperate bid to preserve her looks. Certainly the fashionable women (and men) of the Stuart Court were not shy about slapping on the make-up. Pale complexions and acres of bare bosoms were enhanced and perfected with ceruse a mixture of finely ground lead powder and vinegar. A tracery of pale blue veins might be drawn on to imitate the translucent skin of youth, a lead comb could darken the eye brows. Spanish wool, or Spanish paper (a cloth impregnated with cochineal) was used to colour the lips and cheeks [7] and all of this could have been held in place with a varnish of egg white. The look would seem to be porcelain doll… with a whiff of omelette… Ladies might go further than the surface and could take any number of miracle beauty preserving potions…such as Viper wine…filled with such hearty ingredients as baked viscera of vipers (yummy) such concoctions could claim near miraculous effects: “This quintessence is of extraordinary good virtue for the purifying of the flesh, blood and skin” and “preserves from grey hairs, renews youth, etc” [8] As Hermione Eyre points out, ladies regularly using lead as their cosmetic of choice would quickly ruin their complexions and must have been willing to try pretty much anything to improve them. Venetia was certainly a big fan of Viper wine and had been drinking it, so Aubrey claims, at the behest of her husband for a number of years. Sleeping Beauty….is dead On the morning of the 1 May 1633 Lady Digby’s maid entered her bed chamber to wake her mistress for her morning ride. Sir Kenelm had spent the night tinkering in his laboratory until the early hours, he had slept there rather than disturb his wife. It was he who was disturbed however, by “That shrill and baleful sound expressing her heavy plight struck my eares.” when the maid screamed in horror upon finding her mistress dead in her bed. She was only 33. Sir Kenelm was distraught, Venetia lay in her bed exactly as she had laid down to sleep the night before, a faint blush on her cheek, looking as though she might wake up at any moment. What he did next may seem strange…he called an artist. Within two days of Venetia’s death he had Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599 -1641) come and sketch the corpse of his wife, as it lay, in her bed. He also had casts taken of her head, hands and feet. Portrait of Death: Lady Digby on her Deathbed Sir Anthony Van Dyck’s portrait is either tender and seductive, or slightly creepy and stalker-ish depending on your view-point. Portraits of the newly deceased were not unheard of in the Stuart Age, and later, the Victorians were famous for their morbid family portraits of dead relatives. But from a modern perspective at least, the realisation that the subject is in fact dead, is enough to jar the senses and the sensibility. In the modern age we have become so separated from death and the dead, seeing their images mainly in news footage and usually connected with violent or tragic events. This is different, this is not a celebration of the corpse, or a quick snap-shot for the family album, it is a meditation upon death. Sleeping beauty has entered into that long good night that beckons us all. Suicide, Murder or Misadventure? Even in the seventeenth century, an age when death came regularly to the young and apparently healthy, suspicions were raised about Venetia’s sudden and mysterious demise. Poison was suspected but was it suicide, murder or over indulgence in viper wine? Aubrey reports that gossips said: “Spiteful women would say it was a ‘viper husband’, who was jealous of her, that she would steal a leap.” (have an affair). There was also the curious suggestion that Digby was given a letter by the maid, just before Venetia’s death, in which Venetia had enclosed paper that might be of interest to him…what that paper may have been has never been discovered [9]. Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne(?). Via Wikimedia An autopsy was ordered by Royal Command, and the famously rotund Dr Theodore de Mayerne was called in. Digby insisted she had always been healthy, but did take Viper wine for headaches. Upon opening her head the good doctor found “but little brain” and it has been inferred from that, that the cause of death may have been a cerebral haemorrhage. However due to the time that elapsed before the autopsy was carried out it is likely that the results may have been invalid [10]. Hermione Eyre proposes the theory that the viper wine itself may have killed Venetia. She showed the recipe to a doctor who said: “this type of “beauty potion” usually works, if it works, by blocking the muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, which can be toxic in the wrong doses. “Hence ‘deadly’ nightshade,” he said. Viper Wine’s herbal elements – not the snakes, which are incidental – could have been used to dilate the pupils, vasodilate the cheeks leading to a healthy blush, and promote euphoria, but if she drank too much, it could have been fatal.” [11]. So was it suicide, murder or misadventure? Personally I don’t think she committed suicide, she was a devout Catholic, attending Mass daily. She would surely have regarded suicide as a sin and a bar to heaven. I don’t think the evidence supports the theory that that Sir Kenelm poisoned her. His eccentric and obsessive behavior after her death does not necessarily mean a guilty conscience, it could just have been how he coped with the such a devastating and unexpected loss. On balance, I like the viper wine theory proposed by Hermione Eyre. If not the Viper wine specifically, one of the other deadly cosmetic ingredients could easily have been the silent killer in this case. However after the passage of time, and the possibility that Venetia simply had some underlying medical condition, it would seem that the true cause of Venetia Stanley’s death will likely never be proven. The final word should perhaps go to Sir Kenelm, unable to forget the beautiful wife whose sudden death shook his world to the foundation, he retreated to Gresham College and led the life of a scholarly hermit. He kept the portrait with him for many years, until he lost it during English Civil War. “This is the onely constant companion I now have…It standeth all day over against my chaire and table …and all night when I goe into my chamber I sett it close to my beds side, and by the faint light of the candle, me thinks I see her dead indeed.” [12] Aubrey, John, Brief Lives, available online via Gutenberg Press [1] [3] [5] [6] Digby, Sir Kelemn, Private Memoirs/Stelliana available on Google Books [2] Downing, Jane, 2012, Beauty and Cosmetics 1550 – 1950, Shire Library [7] http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore-the-collection/151-200/venetia,-lady-digby,-on-her-deathbed/ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/van-dyck-sir-anthony-venetia-stanley-lady-digby-on-her-deathbed-1633-795383.html [11] http://www.hermioneeyre.com/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10680346/Venetia-Stanley-did-viper-wine-kill-the-17th-century-beauty.html [8] [10][11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetia_Stanley [4] [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenelm_Digby	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1314
__label__wiki	0.504701	0.504701	Halfway down the Danube Mitch H. on A trip to Baalbek Danielle on Desperately seeking Andrew R. on Around Baalbek Christine on Around Baalbek HPL on Around Baalbek Sam King-Walters on In Kosovo Peter on In Kosovo filkferengi on In Kosovo corporate training company on The Lord God Bird Doug (not Muir) on In Kosovo Web site traffic info Carlos's Links Brett Favre Touchdown Database « Summer in Fladungen \| Main \| Around Baalbek » A trip to Baalbek Went to Baalbek today. I'm in Lebanon for a few weeks, about which more anon. If you're in Lebanon, you really need to visit Baalbek, because it's amazing. It was original a huge Phoenician temple complex devoted to the worshop of Baal -- yeah, the guy from the Old Testament -- and then the Hellenistic rulers reinterpreted it as "we're really worshipping Zeus, Aphrodite, and Dionysus", and then the Romans came along and rebuilt it all into an even more immense and spectacular complex dedicated to Jupiter, Venus, and Bacchus. It's just ridiculously huge -- acres and acres of ruins -- and there's enough left standing to give you some idea of how astonishing it must have been, back in the day. It was a major, major religious site, maybe the closest equivalent to a Mecca that the ancient world had. We (my colleagues and I) were considering not going to Baalbek, because there'd been some shooting and shelling along the border nearby. Supposedly ISIS is present just across the border into Syria. (Lebanese may disagree with each other on a lot of things, but they almost all agree in despising ISIS.) But we discussed it and decided to go, albeit with care. I have a negative Life List of wonders of the world that I've managed to miss despite spending time nearby -- Angkor Wat, Petra (twice), Victoria Falls -- and I really didn't want to add Baalbek. Odds and ends from the trip: Jamil, our driver, was a little terrier of a man, well past retirement age but still an extroardinarily aggressive driver, and still gifted with a thick, glossy head of white hair. (Which he attributed to using only the local soap from his home village, instead of shampoo.) Jamil liked to stop and yell at people for directions. I know that casual interpersonal interactions in the Arab world can seem odd to Westerners, but seriously... Jamil just shouted at people. Everyone was pretty cool, though, and we managed to get everywhere eventually. To get to Baalbek, you have to climb up and over the Lebanon Mountains, which are nearly a mile high and really steep. Jamil's radiator immediately began overheating. (I don't know how old Jamil's car was, but it still had a tape deck. With a tape in it.) Jamil kept pulling over and putting water in. It didn't help. When he dropped us off at Baalbek he said he was going off to "get a new radiator". We assumed he meant a radiator hose or something like that but when we met him again a couple of hours later he said, no, he had bought a new radiator and had it installed. Baalbek is up at the northern end of the Bekaa Valley, which means it's about as far as you can get from Beirut without leaving the country. (This is not actually very far... maybe 100 km.) The Bekaa is a lush, gorgeous valley, just 20 miles from the sea but three thousand feet above sea level, that lies between the Lebanon Mountains and the imaginatively named Anti-Lebanon Mountains, a parallel range that lies ten miles further east and inland. So the Bekaa is about ten miles wide and it stretches for about a hundred miles, north to south. It's ridiculously fertile and is the reason that little Lebanon is actually a major exporter of agricultural products: wine, olives, dairy, you name it. The Middle East's largest potato chip factory is up there. One passes a lot of military checkpoints. Most of these had just a couple of bored-looking soldiers: you slow down, they glance at you and wave you through. I don't know what the purpose of these is. Maybe just to make clear that there's a military presence? The area around Baalbek is almost entirely populated by Shi'as. It's pretty easy to tell when you're in a Shi'a town. The women are suddenly wearing headscarves, for starters. (This is not the case in most of Lebanon.) The signs get a lot more Arabic, and English and French become less common. There are still plenty of billboards, but fewer female models and they're usually wearing more clothes. And big posters and cutouts of Shi'a heroes start appearing along the roadsides... pudgy clerics in black with bushy beards and glasses, beefy looking military men in camo garb. There's Baalbek the archeological site, and then there's the town of Baalbek -- about 100,000 people, almost all of them Shi'a. And the town of Baalbek also includes a huge Shi'a shrine. It's a shrine to Sayeeda Khalwa, who was a daughter of Imam Hussein. This gets into come complex early Islamic history, but here's the short version: Imam Hussein is a holy martyr to the Shi'a. He was the loser of a power struggle in the generation of Islamic rulers that followed Mohammed's death. You may remember reading or hearing about the big Shi'ite shrine in Karbala, Iraq? That's the shrine to Imam Hussein. So, after the battle, it seems that his family were marched captive back to Arabia. And during the trip, his youngest daughter -- who was just a tiny thing, less than five years old -- died.And she was buried in Baalbek the town, not half a mile down the road from the old temple complex. And so today there is a huge and beautiful mosque and shrine there. I mean, just gorgeous: all peacock blue and green with a shiny golden dome . And it particularly attracts Shi'ite women from all over the Middle East. I suppose I should write something about Baalbek itself. But that may take a little while, and I don't want to start another blog post and leave it unfinished -- I've done that more than once over the last little while. So let's get this up, and I'll try to come back to Baalbeck shortly. Posted by Douglas Muir at 01:45 AM in History, Travel \| Permalink I was in Lebanon last August, and EVERYBODY said not to go into the Bekaa unless you had family business up there, and to stay the hell away from Tripoli while you're at it. So I went to Byblos instead, which was nice, although from all accounts not nearly as spectacular as the Baalbek ruins. The overwhelming majority of Lebanese loathe ISIS, but there are a lot of Syrian refugees, and a not-insignificant percentage of those are at least sympathetic. There were a rash of kidnappings in the Bekaa last spring and summer. Even Beirut wasn't entirely safe last summer, every other corner had armed men eyeballing traffic, after a couple of Saudis blew themselves up in a west-side hotel. Posted by: Mitch H. \| May 08, 2015 at 05:39 PM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1316
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__label__cc	0.528595	0.471405	By Gruesome Greg Reviews, Reviews - Audio March 27, 2017 Alastor – Black Magic There are actually eight different metal bands called Alastor—without counting Lord Alastor or Sauts Alastor—so finding information on this specific outfit can be a bit of a challenge. This particular Alastor hails from Sweden, and are made more mysterious by the fact that each band member goes by a single initial. Not sure if I should call this an EP or a proper full-length, with three tracks spanning over 34 minutes, but in any case, it is their debut recording. Black Magic opens with “Enemy,” a nearly 12-minute slab of slow ‘n heavy stoner doom. The extended, fuzzed-out intro brings Sleep to mind, before crawling along at a snail’s pace à la early Electric Wizard. The vocals are buried under so many layers of fuzz and reverb to be rendered unintelligible, not to mention not being mixed high enough to cut through the think, swampy layers of head-nodding riffage. For all I know, they could be singing in Swedish… “Nothing to Fear” clocks in at just over seven-and-a-half minutes, and is slightly more up-tempo, which equally sludgy and crunchy. The nasal vocals cut through the mix a bit more on this one, and it’s clear they’re influenced by Jus Oborn. The riff that first kicks in around the six-minute mark is a real doozy! The 14+ minute title track closes things out, with a somewhat sludgier attack more akin to Weedeater or Zoroaster. Nothing sludgy about the vocals, mind you. This one does tend to drag on a bit, as can be expected from a number of this length. It slows to a bass-driven crawl around the 8:30 mark, before they stomp on the distortion pedal as the band joins in at a much slower tempo than before, as the vocals cut across the mix more clearly than ever before, thoroughly describing what happens when you practice black magic. Overall, while I can’t give ‘em too many points for originality, this is a highly listenable release…whether you call it an album or an EP. Black Magic by Alastor Gruesome Greg Seahawks/Stamps/Flames/Zags/Jays/Raptors fan and lifelong metal head with a beer gut and a self-deprecating sense of humour. Reviewer/blogger (Yon Senior Doomsayer) for Hellbound.ca. doomheavy psychheavy rockreviewstoner metalstoner-doom Harlott – Extinction Longhouse – II: Vanishing Chicken Dinner with Quorthon In 1996, Hellbound’s Sean Palmerston was offered the chance to do the first ever in-person North American radio interview with Quorthon, leader and visionary behind legendary Swedish black metal act Bathory. They also went out for dinner together beforehand, and here are Sean’s memories of that fateful night some seventeen years ago, shared in public for the first time since.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1325
__label__wiki	0.55695	0.55695	Adventures In Beauty This is how a best-selling red lipstick looks on 13 different skin tones Marie Lodi Red lipstick is one of the world’s most polarizing beauty products. Even though it’s considered a classic lip shade, there are some people who refuse to wear it. On the other hand, those who praise the powers of a crimson lip would argue that the color looks amazing on practically everyone. We wanted to put this theory to the test. According to Rank and Style, Cherry Lush by Tom Ford Cosmetics has been at the top of the best red lipstick list for the past two years. It’s no surprise — the cosmetic brand has an incredible reputation for their lipsticks and stars like Lupita Nyong’o and Winona Ryder have both sported this particular shade. If Lupita and Winona like it, would the same go for the staff here at HelloGiggles? We asked thirteen staff members — some who are lipstick aficionados and some who have never tried red lipstick in their lives — to test out this beloved shade. Our first impressions were collectively positive. The lipstick comes in a gorgeous tube and that “TF” is just so cool. Curious to see if the HelloGiggles staff loved Cherry Lush? Come along with us on our red lipstick adventure and read our thoughts below. “I loved the velvety formula, which helped me apply it smoothly, and the fact it was heavily pigmented!”—Blaire, Executive Producer of Video “This lipstick went on sooooo smoothly. It was definitely a luxurious formula and very moisturizing. Normally, I avoid red lipsticks with such a pinky undertone, but I loved this shade once I put it on. It’s elegant but wearable, like I could pull it off on a Tuesday morning. I also saw my co-workers walking around wearing the color and dang it looks great on everyone! Honestly, I could never pay $50 for a lipstick, but if that floats your boat, I would recommend this for sure.” — Christina, Video Producer “I love how moisturizing this lipstick is! It goes on super smoothly —I was wearing lip balm, but I think I could get away with not wearing any beforehand. It’s super pigmented, and the color is a very pretty red with pink undertones. For me, personally, it was a little TOO pink. I usually wear lipstick that is more orange-red (one of my faves is Tom Ford in Wild Ginger), I think it works better with my complexion. But overall, this is a really lovely red!” — Gina, Senior Editor “I’m such a red lipstick FIEND, but surprisingly haven’t tried any Tom Ford. I wasn’t disappointed. I have been wearing so many matte reds lately that the moisturizing satin texture of Cherry Lush was a nice switch. I love reds that have pink tones so this was pretty perfect for me. I thought it looked amazing on everyone.” — Marie, Staff Writer “I’m super picky about red lipsticks, so I was pleasantly surprised when I fell in love with this color. It feels moisturizing, but is also long-lasting. Even after eating lunch like a hungry monster, the lipstick was still perfectly visible on my lips. I will definitely consider purchasing in the future.” — Anna, Staff Writer “I definitely felt glamorous after putting this lipstick on. It was smooth and lightweight. It was great for my skin tone and went well with my glasses, which is always a plus. Also, I still had some on after eating lunch which is always a huge bonus for me.” — Eva, Social Media Producer “I’m really not a lipstick / lip gloss / lip anything kinda girl, so I didn’t have high expectations of how this would look on me. Yeah, the color itself is pretty. It reminds me of like the book spine of a female-driven NYT bestseller — it’s bold, it’s slightly pink (especially considering it’s a “red”), but for me…meh. Now, if a professional makeup artist were to apply this on me with a full face of makeup, the story would probably be different. [That’s a low key shoutout to any makeup artists who’d like to do my face for me every morning… no? Okay, bye!!!]” — Crystal, Senior Writer “The pink undertones in the lipstick seemed to pull out the pink in my skin, which I didn’t like. Also, I wear lipstick like, twice a year, so I think I’m just anti lipstick in general.” — Madison, Senior Editor “Cherry Lush is a gorgeous true red color. Highly pigmented, one swipe should give you a good coverage. Looks like I found THE one. I love this color! Can we insert a heart emoji here?” — Iris, Office Manager “Love how smooth the application was and it felt very hydrating on. No clumping or chapped skin after wearing it for a few hours. Love that! It’s Tom Ford too, what’s not to love?” — Hannah, Business Operations Consultant “This was actually my first time wearing lipstick (even though I am an adult person!), and I was given the RED one. It was (luckily) very easy to apply, and made my lips feel full and smooth. There was a nice texture to it as well. Perhaps I will buy a lipstick one day…” — Trilby, Social Media Producer “I can see how this is a bestseller. It’s a pretty perfect shade of red; it made me feel très chic, like I could skip down the streets of Paris blowing kisses to the world. (Don’t worry, I won’t.) But I was also really impressed that EVERYONE looked good in it. It’s pricey, but I’d consider investing in it for sure.” — Leo, Executive Editor “I’ve never actually worn lipstick that’s not dark purple or black so I can’t tell if it looks good on me or not? But it sure does feel really soft and fancy on my lips!” — Quyen, Editorial Intern Our Verdict? The shade wasn’t a favorite for some people, but a few others felt that it really did look great on everyone who tried it. Most people loved the smooth texture of the lipstick and were impressed by the heavy pigment. The main drawback is the price point. At $52 a pop, you have to be pretty passionate about your reds to throw down some cold hard cash on Cherry Lush. One thing is certain — your lips will feel luxurious AND moisturized. Tom Ford Cherry Lush, $52 By Marie Lodi	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1326
__label__cc	0.735674	0.264326	Special Forces Bourbon 2018 Edition The 2018 Edition of 1SFG Bourbon is now available for purchase. Our 2018 edition of Special Forces hoists cherry and dried fig fill in the initial aroma which progresses into nutmeg and cinnamon spiciness before trailing out with notes of grainy oak. Subtle dark fruit notes also linger in the aftertaste. There is an extremely limited number of bottles available of this run of whiskey. This run of 1st Special Forces Group Heritage Distilling Co. Bourbon Whiskey is bottled in our new custom glass with a refreshed design and bourbon recipe. From the 1st Special Service Force of yesteryear to the 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) of today, the men and women of its ranks have served with distinction and honor. *Due to restrictions - 1SFG Bourbon does not apply for free shipping promotions or discounts. The 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) lineage can be traced to the 1st Special Service Force. This combined Canadian - American unit, known as the “Devil’s Brigade” distinguished themselves through daring and successful raids in both the Pacific and Mediterranean theaters. Detachment 101 of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is also considered a predecessor of the 1st SFG (A), a distinction only a select few can say. Your $75 breaks down as follows: $50 (1SFG Bourbon) - Price of product only. Will be charged tax. $25 Donation - Will show during checkout as "Special Forces Bourbon Donation ($25/bottle)" This portion is not charged sales or any other taxes. $8.33 (Charitable Donation to 1st Special Forces Group GoldStar Families) $8.33 (Charitable Donation to Chapter XVI SFA Scholarship Program) $8.34 (Charitable Donation to Special Forces Association Chapter XVI) $75.00 Total - This transaction is being administered by Heritage Distilling Co. on behalf of 1st Special Forces Group. Special Forces Bourbon 2018 Recipe: 46%/92° Mash Bill: 55% Corn 40% Rye 5% Malted Barley Collections: Products, Special Forces, Spirits Category: 750ml, Special Forces, Spirits, Whiskey	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1327
__label__cc	0.574313	0.425687	Design Principal Steven Dwyer Steven has developed a national reputation for thoughtful, client-focused design. He strives for timeless architecture that integrates functional needs while artfully reflecting the varied missions of his clients. Steven originally studied music performance and played professionally before beginning his studies in architecture. Still active musically, this background—as well as an undergraduate education in art and design—continues to influence his design philosophies. Steven’s work and leadership have been recognized with numerous awards including AIA regional and national Honor Awards, AIA’s National Young Architects Award, the Chicago Athenaeum’s American Architecture Award, and the SCUP Excellence in in Campus Architecture Award. In 2016, ArchDaily cited his work among the Top 100 American Buildings in the past decade. Featured Projects View All Work Popular Outdoor Destination Lets Nature Lead The Way Dakota County, Whitetail Woods Regional Park and Camper Cabins Sacred Space That Welcomes All Bigelow Chapel at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities Place of Beauty And Remembrance Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum Arts Center Breaks Down Silos and Builds Up Community Macalester College, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center Phase I – Performing Arts Holistic, Modern Arts Center In The Vanguard University of Wyoming – Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts Arts Quarter Plays In Concert With Its Context College of William & Mary, Performing Arts Complex Destination Brewery Fueled By The Power of the Pint Surly Brewing MSP Destination Brewery Arts As A Gateway To Campus Boise State University, Center for the Visual Arts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1328
__label__wiki	0.533224	0.533224	You are here: Home » Home » Like Olympians, communities work together to win Like Olympians, communities work together to win publication date: Aug 16, 2012 author/source: Janet Gadeski "Faster, higher, stronger." Those ideals drove Canadian field hockey player Ian Bird to give his all at two Olympics in1988 and 2000. Now they drive his vision of what Canadians can achieve for their communities by working together. "There were 30 to 35 guys doing something together over a decade," he recalls. Each top-notch player had been the star of his local team. On the Olympic team, though, those 35 leaders had to work together. Their joint effort transformed Canadian field hockey from a backwater sport into an internationally competitive game. That experience opened Bird's eyes to the impact of collective power. Now, as president and CEO of Community Foundations of Canada, he's applying his passion for collaboration to lead CFC's Smart and Caring Communities project. Philanthropy paradigm passé In his first year, he's already noted the huge shift in the workings of philanthropy - a shift so great that he now says, "The philanthropy paradigm no longer works ... Even the word ‘philanthropy' is changing its meaning. It's no longer about what one has and another doesn't." Rather, he continues, the new model rests on what everyone brings to the table. Those who were traditionally described as "recipients" now expect involvement in shaping programs and policies. Agencies, citizens, and donors all recognize that while some may have money, others have knowledge, experience and ideas that are just as essential to address seemingly intractable challenges. Investigate together, solve together Community foundations' dependence on the knowledge and experience of their citizens led to Vital Signs, which the association describes as "an annual check-up that measures the quality of life in Canadian communities, identifies trends, and shares opportunities for action." It's as different as can be from traditional, top-down, check-box, form-based information gathering. "The process goes way beyond information," Bird explains. "How you get there is just as important as the final report." Community participation - consultation, reflection - informs what is asked and how. When the reports are released, healthy partnerships to address key issues are already in place, thanks to the collective information gathering. Bird calls it a great combination of community participation and robust information. Collective action vital for great impact It's not surprising that an Olympian sees a parallel between community problem-solving and world-class team effort. "Most of those performances revolve around doing something more by tapping the abilities of people around you," he enthuses. "Look at what [coach] John Herdman accomplished with our women's soccer team. We won't make the impact we want without coordination and collective action." Bird never misses a chance to lead collaboration by example. Canada's community foundations have been honoured with an Impact Award from the U.S.-based Community Indicators Consortium for their leadership on Vital Signs. CFC says the award goes to projects "that best demonstrate the power of indicators to drive positive community change." The Olympian collaborator immediately shares the credit. "Our network is honoured to receive this recognition and we share this award with all the local organizations who work with us on Vital Signs and who use it as a tool for action," he declares. Photo: Community Foundations of Canada For more information, Skana Gee, 902-466-7191; Anne-Marie McElrone, 902-466-8284. More news about the Impact Award here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1331
__label__wiki	0.592902	0.592902	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXV, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1973 239. Telegram From the Embassy in Jordan to the Department of State1 Amman, October 23, 1973, 1344Z. 5653. Subject: Jordanian Forces in Syria. 1. King said at 1330 local that he deeply concerned with deteriorating situation in Syria. Says that Baath Party and leadership has been in continual conference for past twenty-four hours and nothing has come out of it yet. He continues push for official attitude on cease-fire but gets no response. He will send a delegation tonight to Damascus, carrying letter to Assad. Letter will say that Jordanians will withdraw from Syria unless decision forthcoming. 2. King believes that Syrians under pressure from Iraqis and that Syrian Baath Party hesitant to accept cease-fire in fear of being outdistanced on left by Iraqi Baath. As time goes on, he is more and more concerned about Assad, fearing that his evident inability to impose decisions indicates his weakness and presages possible coup. 3. King believes that Soviets are not carrying out the Moscow bargain. He assumes that Soviets were supposed to get Damascus and Baghdad to agree to cease-fire. Baghdad, which has closest links with Moscow, is the real trouble-maker. 4. He sends following oral message to Secretary “Please get in touch with Brezhnev and tell him that it is essential that Syrians and Iraqis accede to cease-fire and that Soviets must make this point strongly in Baghdad and Damascus.”2 5. King has sent message to Sadat, expressing his concern about Syrian position and asking Sadat to do something. He is awaiting a reply. Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 1175, Harold H. Saunders Files, Middle East Negotiations Files, 1973 Middle East War, 23 October 1973. Secret; Flash; Exdis.↩ Telegram 208919 to Amman, October 23, 1540Z, instructed the Embassy to tell the King that the United States was in touch with the Soviets on this matter. (Ibid.) In telegram 5659 from Amman, October 23, 1824Z, Brown responded that the King was appreciative of this message and that he had a delegation on its way to Cairo. When it returned, he would send another to Damascus. Currently all was quiet on the Syrian front and he planned to keep it that way. (Ibid., Box 618, Country Files, Middle East, Jordan, IX, January–October 1973)↩ Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1973 Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1973 (Documents 1-425) Brezhnev, LeonidBrown, L. DeanNixon, Richard M.Sadat, Anwar al-Saunders, Harold H. ExdisNSC	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1333
__label__wiki	0.654527	0.654527	The united lies of the global ruling class Posted in Class struggle, Europe, Latin America & The Caribbean, Venezuela By John Catalinotto Jan. 27 — The ultra-right media and the mainstream corporate media took a break this week from some months of vicious baiting of each other. They instead joined hands to slander Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This latest assault on sovereign Bolivarian Venezuela exposes the united criminality of the imperialist ruling class. This includes the corporate media, both major U.S. political parties and Washington’s allies, which are trying to resurrect their colonial empires. Here are two of many media examples: the first from the pro-Trump, ultra-right Fox News; the second from the corporate mainstream, anti-Trump New York Times. Both media’s goals are to defame the Maduro government and justify U.S. intervention. A Jan. 26 Fox News opinion piece: “The Trump administration’s announcement Wednesday to recognize Venezuelan National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela amid the current popular uprising against the anti-democratic socialist Maduro regime was an act of brilliant statecraft.” A Jan. 24 New York Times editorial: “That Mr. Maduro must go has been obvious for some time. Since he succeeded the leftist strongman Hugo Chávez in 2013, his mismanagement, cronyism and corruption, exacerbated by the drop in the price of oil, Venezuela’s dominant source of revenue, have brought the country to ruin. … The Trump administration is right to support Mr. Guaidó.” Both parties join the slime Likewise, the two imperialist political parties, Republican and Democratic, which have been battling over the budget and the government shutdown, united against the Venezuelan people and its elected government. The Trump gang have been agitating for intervention, and of course, they blame Maduro for everything and call him incompetent, brutal and corrupt. With a handful of exceptions, Democratic Party leaders have taken a position like that of Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin. He blamed Maduro for a “sham election” and praised Trump for having “appropriately recognized National Assembly President Juan Guaidó as the constitutionally appropriate leader of Venezuela.” (Miami Herald, Jan. 25) Even the handful of left Democrats criticized Maduro. In reality, in elections held with international observers who approved them, Maduro won 68 percent of the votes cast and 32 percent of the eligible voters. Trump only won 46 percent of votes cast and 27 percent of eligible voters — fewer than his opponent. Guaidó won 0 percent on both counts; he represents nothing. Except the factthat Vice President Mike Pence called Guaidó and pledged him U.S. support the night before he named himself interim president. (Wall Street Journal, Jan. 25) World imperialism’s united opinion The U.S. imperialist allies — which are also rivals — have joined the festival of slander aimed at Maduro. Canada and Britain bent to the U.S. as usual. Spain, former genocidal conqueror of Latin America; France, former colonial overlord of large swaths of the world; and Germany, which opened two world wars to try to get its share of plunder; all did too. Though theyadded a little twist. The three insisted Maduro set new elections “within eight days” or they would recognize Guaidó. Maduro accused them of kneeling before Washington and said no one can give Venezuela ultimatums. With the British government unable to carry out a Brexit (itself based on anti-immigrant backwardness), the Spanish rulers buried in corruption from the royal family down, the French cops shooting rubber bullets at Yellow Vests, and the German government an unhealthy coalition facing racist opposition gangs, it’s a wonder these regimes don’t choke on their hypocrisy. As in the period building up to the Vietnam War, to the 1991 war against Iraq, to the bombing and destruction of Yugoslavia in 1999, etc., the media and the governments’ near unanimity give the population the false impression that all right-thinking people want “regime change” in Venezuela. The truth, however, is that this manufactured public opinion is based on the imperialist oppressors’ joint hatred for any nation or people that challenges their rule. If that nation happens to also be sitting on the world’s largest oil reserves, the imperialists will repeat any lie and commit any crime to grab it. Anyone who believes sovereign peoples have a right to their resources will unite to reject these media lies and the ruling class that orders and buysthem.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1337
__label__wiki	0.904945	0.904945	iai Player iai News iai Festivals iai Academy iai Podcast iai Education About the iai Support the iai Debates and Talks Changing how the world thinks Online courses from the world's leading thinkers Harmony and Balance From Dark Energy to Quantum Gravity, the cosmos remains mysterious. How should we approach the puzzles that remain? Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek argues that, in science, beauty will lead us to truth. Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Knowledge, Science & Method The Universe & Reality We think science uncovers the truth about the world, no matter how ugly it might be. But from the elegance of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to the harmony of Supersymmetry, beauty has always been one of science’s most faithful guides. Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek is widely considered one of the world’s most eminent scientists. In his four-part masterclass, Frank Wilczek demonstrates how physics uncovers the beauty of reality, introducing some of the biggest ideas in science today. In the course, you will learn about: Plato’s theory of ‘ideal forms’ and how it endures in contemporary physics. Quantum theories of Space-Time. The Higgs Boson and the Hadron Collider. The theory of Supersymmetry. Frank Wilczek is one of the world’s most eminent physicists working today. A Nobel Laureate, mathematician and scientist, he is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the author of numerous award-winning books, including A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design (2016), The Lightness of Being (2010) and Longing for Harmonies (1988). Part 1: A Beautiful Question How has beauty guided science from Plato to the present day? Frank Wilczek introduces the course before outlining its influence on contemporary physics. Part 2: Colours of the Universe Part 3: A Platonic Vision What beauty can be found in Quantum Theory? Frank Wilczek introduces the main ideas. Part 4: The Future of Particles Where is beauty leading physics today? Frank Wilczek introduces the Higgs boson, The Hadron Collider and the theory of Supersymmetry. This course is designed for anyone interested in physics, cosmology and science and requires no prior knowledge. Whether you’re a sixth form or university student, a scientist or you just want to learn more, we welcome you to join Harmony and Balance. The Universe As We Find It The World in Eleven Dimensions A Brief Guide to Everything © The Institute of Art and Ideas IAI Fellowship Get unlimited access to all our videos Sign in with a social network Subscribe to enjoy full access All you can watch Hear it first Unique events	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1338
__label__cc	0.726744	0.273256	Luxury Pursuits ICONIC HAUS Luxury in Get Luxury in Your Inbox A Taste of San Sebastián, Europe’s Culinary Capital by Tiffany Candelaria Boasting romantic nights under the star-filled Spanish sky and more Michelin stars per square meter than anywhere else in the world, San Sebastián is foodie heaven on earth. With its abundance of Michelin-starred restaurants, celebrated chefs and incredible food, San Sebastián is widely considered one of the world’s premier culinary destinations. While the cuisine may be the initial draw for some visitors, the ornate Basque architecture set against the coastal scenery is also incredibly alluring. Photo by Roman Belogorodov / Shutterstock San Sebastián’s location in Basque Country lends itself to its culinary richness; hence food culture is deeply rooted in these parts. Today, tourists fill the cobblestone streets of Old Town, eating and drinking their way through the pintxos bars among century-old buildings and churches that tower above. There are a few foodie specialties one must try while visiting San Sebastián: Sidra (Basque-style fermented apple cider), the famous cheesecake at La Viña, Hake, a white fish that was once integral to their economy, and jamón ibérico, Spain’s Iberian pork considered to be “the best ham in the world”. Between meals, stroll the crescent coast of Donostia Bay and hike up one of the two lush little hills that bookend each side. Or take the 45-minute ferry tour to Santa Clara Island where you can enjoy an espresso, vino, or a picnic lunch. All of these hilltops offer breathtaking views of the city below and of the monumental coastal cliffs, providing a perfect perspective of the slice of paradise that is San Sebastián. //////////////// Boasting an impressive 17 Michelin stars in total, San Sebastián holds the highest number of Michelin stars per square meter in the world, just after Kyoto in Japan. Three of the seven-highest-ranked Michelin restaurants in Spain are located in San Sebastián: Arzak, Martín Berasatgui, and Akelaŕe. We had the pleasure, and seven-month foresight, to book dinner at the acclaimed three-star Akelaŕe Chef Pedro Subijana has more than 50 years of experience, and skillfully blends classicism and innovation. Not only are all the dishes beautiful, but they also contain some of the most interesting flavors and textures in the world. We recommend booking one of his three carefully designed dinner menus for a complete taste of the team’s talents. You can also join them for lunch or cocktails on the terrace, surrounded by flower and herb gardens. We enjoyed the 12-course “Bekarki” dinner menu composed of five small bites and eight larger courses like the “Prawns and Green Beans”, cooked in ‘Orujo’ Flame and sea roes, and “Squid as a Risotto with Flower Butter”. All the dishes were extraordinarily unusual in taste and preparation. We had fun figuring out which items were which ingredients, as they were sometimes indecipherable in their presentation. Mimo San Sebastián Mimo is a renowned culinary company which was founded in San Sebastián in 2009. Mimo’s mission is to share their love (mimo) of great food and cooking with the world through first-hand, interactive experiences such as cooking classes, culinary tours, wine and sidra experiences, and gourmet shopping. Mimo has since spread its passion to two more locations in Spain and one in Portugal. We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to participate in one of their decadent experiences, and signed up for the half-day Basque Cooking Class. Classes are held in a state-of-the-art cooking environment with high-end appliances, utensils and unique workspaces that keep everyone in the midst of the action at all times. Our class was led by two knowledgeable native chefs who ensured we gained as much hands-on learning, pro tips and tricks, and cultural information as we each desired. We learned how to properly chop, prepare and cook a variety of meats like Spanish sausages, Hake and beef, along with vegetables, sauces and Spanish tortillas. Save room for dessert, a local aperitif, and coffee as you reminisce on the morning spent preparing the amazing meal with your new friends. All of Mimo’s cooking classes end with a multi-course meal where everyone (including the chefs) sits together to enjoy the dishes prepared. But first we learned to properly plate each dish before serving, and each was paired with an appropriate wine. Save room for dessert, a local aperitif, and coffee as you reminisce on the morning spent preparing the amazing meal with your new friends. By the end of this four-hour experience you’ve wined and dined, laughed and learned, and leave fulfilled, having truly immersed yourself in the culture of San Sebastián. Photo by Asife / Shutterstock Secret Food Societies San Sebastián has been elevating the art of the dinner party since 1900, via private membership-only gastronomic societies. These societies provide a secret community and venue where men (and now women) come together to cook, socialize, and showcase their skills in the kitchen to their fortunate friends. “Given that it is a system based on trust and self-management, gastronomic societies have a very strong family feel to them and tend to be considered by the members and their guests as a place mid-way between their homes and a restaurant. The friendly atmosphere often leads to games of cards or singing afterwards, either with fellow diners or with people at other tables. Having lunch or dinner at a gastronomic society is just about the closest you’ll ever get to the cultural life in San Sebastián.” –sansebastianturismo.com However, unless a member personally invites you, the only way to experience these societies is to visit on January 20 when many graciously open to the public. This special day is the Tamborrada de Donostia Festival (San Sebastián Day) where the city celebrates with the Tamborrada drum parade kicking off in the Plaza de la Constitución at midnight and lasting 24 hours. The friendly atmosphere often leads to games of cards or singing afterwards, either with fellow diners or with people at other tables. While the gastronomic societies are private, they contribute to their community through organizing many of the cultural activities central to the social life in San Sebastián. They are one of the 125 companies who parade through the streets during Tamborrada de Donostia and have significantly contributed to the festival’s longevity. Today, there are more than 100 of these secret societies slyly scattered throughout town. While San Sebastián is a popular tourist destination, the city and its residents have worked diligently to ensure their history, culture, and traditions remain authentically intact. With its incredible food and gorgeous natural and architectural scenery, it’s no wonder so many seek out this distinctive Spanish destination that’s unlike any place in the world. The city itself is majestic. Whether day or night, there is a captivating quality about it that makes you want to absorb everything (literally and figuratively) and return for more. Where to Stay in San Sebastián Hotel de Londres y de Inglaterra This 4-star luxury hotel features balcony views of the Bay, al fresco dining, a full bar and café with live music on the weekends, and the perfect location right where the town meets the beach. Zenit San Sebastián This upscale modern hotel is located in the heart of the city and offers amenities for both business and leisure guests at a nice price. This hip luxury hotel is dedicated to the world of cinema and gastronomy, apparent in everything from the decor to the amenities and menus. San Sebastián beachfront, Bay promenade, Akelaŕe restaurant, Prawn plate and Mimo images photographed by Julianne McKay Laguna Beach: Luxe Living Where the Land Meets the Sea Born for the Fourth of July: A Charming Stay on Mackinac Island School is in Session: Never Too Late to Learn Something New « Previous Story: Check Into One Of These Hotels with Amazing Views Next Story: Under the Sea: Dive Into the Most Luxurious Scuba Adventures » Subscribe Today to Get Luxury Lifestyle Inspiration in ©2020 ICONIC - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Receive the latest in luxurious stories from ICONIC LIFE. Luxury in Your Inbox	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1353
__label__wiki	0.960595	0.960595	Sodexo sales manager announced... Sodexo sales manager announced as ILEA UK president elect Sodexo Prestige Venues & Events regional sales manager Cecilia Lavin has been announced as president elect of the International Live Events Association (ILEA) UK chapter. Cecilia will he handed the presidency next year from the incumbent Carlo Zoccali. The ILEA is a global network of more than 4,000 event professionals who connect to share ideas and best practice in high production, experiential and creative event design. Currently vice president for membership, Cecilia first became involved with the ILEA as UK director of membership, a role she held for three years. She has also supported the association as a member of the international membership development committee. Cecilia joined Sodexo in 2016 when Sodexo Sports & Leisure acquired Peyton Events and the public catering contracts of Peyton & Byrne. Cecilia was responsible for managing client relationships and providing sales support at Peyton Events across a number of London venues. In her current role at Sodexo, Cecilia is responsible for a range of client venues across the south of England including Farnborough International Events and Conference Centre, IWM London in Waterloo, The Crystal in Royal Victoria Docks and Knebworth House in Hertfordshire. Cecilia Lavin, ILEA UK president elect and Sodexo Prestige Venues & Events regional sales manager, said: “I’m incredibly honoured to be announced as president elect of ILEA UK. I’m passionate about education in the industry and now being part of Sodexo there’s a fantastic alignment with our global business and the ILEA. I look forward to taking up the presidency next year and really supporting the UK events industry at a country and international level, whilst also putting education and knowledge sharing at the forefront.” Carlo Zoccali, ILEA UK president and Farnborough International account director, said: “I could not think of anyone I would want more than Cecilia to preside over the association as president of ILEA UK for 19/20. “Cecilia has always demonstrated a passion for events industry and a massive advocate of ILEA and the work we do to support the conversation around events and the global reach of the association supporting the community of event professionals. Cecilia will have my full support as we work together to drive the association forward.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1357
__label__cc	0.515507	0.484493	It Happened To Me More about: SAGLRROILYBYGTH New Book: Creationism USA New Book: The SYSTEM What Is a “Radical” Creationist? What Is Life Like at Evangelical Colleges? Check out the series: Fundamentalist U & Me What’s this blog about? I Love You but You're Going to Hell Awkward Conversations about School and Society All posts tagged Rick Perry Ed Mystery: Why Don’t More Democrats Like It? I understand why more Democrats don’t like the Ed Department right now, governed as it is by Michigan’s Evil Queen Betsy. But I’m surprised to find out that the Ed Department has garnered only minority support during the last ten years. There’s one obvious explanation, but are there more reasons? Here’s what we know: New results from Pew show us that the Ed Department is one of the federal government’s least favorite agencies, with 48% of respondents feeling favorable and 48% unfavorable. No surprise there. Ever since Jimmy Carter instigated the department it has been the target of conservative fury. Reagan’s first appointed secretary, Terrel Bell, was given the unusual mission to dismantle the department which he headed. More recently, conservatives such as Texas’s Rick Perry have remembered that they wanted to eliminate the Ed Department, even if he couldn’t remember the other department he wanted to get rid of. So there’s no surprise for the department’s low favorability among GOP respondents. But why do so many Democrats dislike it? Was something happening in 2010 that led a majority of Democratic respondents to say they didn’t like the Ed Dept? Here’s my hunch: Back in 2010, teachers and schools were still trying to cope with the strictures of the No Child Left Behind act and the unmanageable requirements NCLB mandated for high-stakes testing. By 2015, those testing requirements were tamped down. Among Democrats, at least, the popularity of the Ed Department went up (in fits and spurts) until the ascension of Queen Betsy. Is there another explanation I’m missing? by Adam Laats on October 3, 2019 • Permalink Posted in In the News, school reform Tagged Betsy Devos, Education Department, No Child Left Behind, Rick Perry, Ronald Reagan, Terrel Bell Posted by Adam Laats on October 3, 2019 https://iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2019/10/03/ed-mystery-why-dont-more-democrats-like-it/ Conservative College Cheapskates Cheap college for all! That’s the call of the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC members will consider a proposal to mandate public university education for under $10,000. So why is this a “conservative” idea? The conservative group’s annual meeting agenda just came out. Members will be asked to consider several model bills about education, including two that support expansion of charter schools. No surprise there. Many free-market conservatives, way back to the 1950s work of free-market guru Milton Friedman, have wanted to reform education by introducing market principles. ALEC’s Get-Together But I’m puzzled by the higher-ed model bill. ALEC proposes the “Affordable Baccalaureate Degree Act,” a model bill that will require public universities to offer cheaper college educations. In the words of the proposed bill, The Affordable Baccalaureate Degree Act would require all public four-year universities to offer bachelor’s degrees costing no more than $10,000, total, for four years of tuition, fees, and books. The Act would require that ten percent of all public, four-year university degrees awarded reach this price-point within four years of passage of this act. To achieve this price-point, universities would be instructed to capitalize on the opportunities and efficiencies provided by (1) web-based technology and (2) competency-based programs. Simple enough. There has been oodles of talk lately about the problem of burgeoning student debt. This proposal would at least introduce a new way to talk about the price and value of college education. I don’t know the history of ALEC’s model bill, but it looks to be modeled on a similar bill in Texas. Two years ago, Texas Governor Rick Perry—a decidedly and self-consciously “conservative” politician—introduced a similar affordable-college law. But here’s my question: What is “conservative” about this proposal? I know there are conservatives and then there are conservatives, but ALEC has traditionally been a champion, in its words, of “Limited Government, Free Markets, [and] Federalism.” On first glance, it isn’t clear how this college model bill would limit government or help free markets. Isn’t the price of college education part of a free market? Wouldn’t a government imposition of a price cap increase the role of government and decrease the fluidity of the free market? Here’s my hunch: The key to understanding the “conservative” elements of these bills lies in two important words, “efficiencies” and “competency.” As I argue in my upcoming book about the history of conservative activism in education, conservatives have long looked skeptically at the way higher education has been run. Just as conservatives have often insisted that teachers’ unions exert an unhealthy stranglehold on K-12 schooling, they have also often insisted that higher education has been taken over by sclerotic bureaucracies and leftist ideologues. By forcing colleges and universities to offer credit for “competencies,” free-market conservatives might hope to shatter the grip of college bureaucracies. Too often, conservatives might argue, college rules have insisted that students spend a certain amount of time in seats, parroting back academic drivel instead of learning real skills. If students can demonstrate competency in life skills—running a business, maybe, or opening a charter school—those “competencies” should get college credit. Similarly, by promoting “efficiencies” in higher education, free-market conservatives might hope to force lazy and pampered college faculty to use new technology to deliver information and skills more quickly and cheaply. Since public universities are funded at least in part by government money, forcing them to run more quickly and cheaply could be seen as crucial part of conservatives’ desire to slim down big government. That’s my guess, in any case. To those who know their higher-education history, though, it is surprising to hear cheap public education promoted as a “conservative” cause. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, after all, accessibility and affordability were hallmarks of leftist activism in higher education. Perhaps the best example of this is the history of City University of New York. During the 1920s and 1930s, CUNY, especially City College of New York, was known as the “Ivy League of the Proletariat.” Top students crowded into CCNY, especially Jewish students excluded from Ivy League colleges. It was an elite institution, admitting only the most qualified students. Back then, it was also free. If you could get in, you could go. Do these CUNY tuition protesters look “conservative” to you? In the late 1960s, student activism forced a change in admissions policy. To fight elitism and cultural prejudice, leftist activists pushed through an open admission policy. Back then, it was leftist student radicals who called for cheap college for all. Does ALEC’s model bill signal a shift? Is it now a “conservative” cause to limit the cost of public higher education? by Adam Laats on June 29, 2014 • Permalink Posted in Freedom & the Free Market, Higher (Power) Education, In the News Tagged Affordable Baccalaureate Degree Act, American Legislative Exchange Council, City University of New York, Conservatism, higher education, Milton Friedman, Rick Perry Posted by Adam Laats on June 29, 2014 https://iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2014/06/29/conservative-college-cheapskates/ Required Reading: Christian Jihadis and Presbyterian Ayatollahs The Christian terrorists are coming for you. That has long been the hysterical message about “dominionism” present in American media and even academic writing. But is it true? In an illuminating recent article in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Michael J. McVicar analyzes the ways “dominionism” has been used as a rhetorical cudgel over the past thirty years. Though McVicar specifies he’s not trying to offer an authoritative biography of dominionism, nor a prescription for handling dominionism, his article still offers a helpful guide to the ways this bogey has developed, among evangelical Protestants and among the broader culture. As McVicar recounts, in the 2012 presidential primaries accusations of “dominionism’s” influence flew fast and furious. Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry in particular stood accused of close ties to dominionism. For many in the media, that implied a vague sort of theological imperialism, a desire to impose religious strictures on American public life. McVicar traces the talk about “dominionism” back to criticism by evangelical writers in the 1980s of two Christian movements, Rousas J. Rushdoony’s Christian Reconstruction movement and Earl Paulk Jr.’s Kingdom Now movement. Leading evangelical authors insisted that such movements did not and could not represent mainstream evangelical theology. Most important, McVicar argues, these evangelical criticisms served to propagate the labels “dominionism” and “dominion theology.” Soon, writers outside of evangelical circles appropriated evangelical critiques. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McVicar writes, secular critics “appropriated much of the evangelical press’s criticism of dominion theology while simultaneously reframing it within the discourses of political progressivism and cultural pluralism.” Soon, McVicar argues, scholar/activists such as Sara Diamond popularized a caricature of dominionism as the “central unifying ideology for the Christian Right.” Much of the treatment of “dominionism” in these journalistic and academic treatments has contributed to a frenzy over the connections between conservative Christianity in America and violent, militant religion in other parts of the globe. For some, “dominionism” serves as proof that all conservative Christians secretly want to take over secular institutions. For others, “dominionism” is nothing but a bogey of progressive nightmares. McVicar pushes a more subtle line. There is such a thing as dominionism, he avers. However, talk about dominionism usually tells us more about the speaker than about the subject. Evangelical critics have defined dominionism out of bounds for evangelical belief. Secular and progressive critics have defined dominionism out of bounds for civil American culture and politics. Of course, as regular readers of ILYBYGTH are keenly aware, these issues of definition and boundary construction are central to school politics. I’ve argued in these pages that anti-dominionist rhetoric is more often a blunt instrument than a real effort to shape policy. If conservatives want to establish schools that include prayer or Bible reading, for example, critics can accuse them of anti-American “dominionism.” If conservatives want to restrict the teaching of evolution or of sexual information, critics can accuse them of creeping “dominionism.” Such talk doesn’t help make better schools. But understanding this kind of talk and the way it has developed historically does promise to help us understand how American education really works. McVicar’s website tells us that he is working on developing these arguments in a book under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. We’ll look forward to it. Further reading: Michael J. McVicar, “‘Let Them Have Dominion:’ ‘Dominion Theology’ and the Construction of Religious Extremism in the US Media,” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 25.1 (Spring 2013): pp. 120-145. by Adam Laats on September 1, 2013 • Permalink Posted in Bible and Prayer in the Classroom, Child Parent State, Evolution/Creation Tagged Christian reconstructionism, Conservatism, Dominionism, Earle Paulk, Kingdom Now, Michael J. McVicar, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rousas J. Rushdoony, Sara Diamond Posted by Adam Laats on September 1, 2013 https://iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2013/09/01/required-reading-christian-jihadis-and-presbyterian-ayatollahs/ Reds Under the Bed? Christians Under the Couch! Conspiracy sells. Just ask Dan Brown. But unwarranted anxiety about conspiracy also poisons our shared public life. Conspiracy hunting used to be a sport dominated by conservatives. Think Joe McCarthy waving his sweaty lists of communist infiltrators. In recent years, though, politicians and commentators have found a new subversive threat: the Religious Right. A new book by former GOP functionary Mike Lofgren, for instance, warns of the ways his Republican Party was infiltrated and taken over by “stealthily fundamentalist” religious conservatives. This kind of “paranoid style” has a long history in American public life. Witches were fiendishly difficult to detect in seventeenth-century New England. Scheming Catholics worried nineteenth-century WASPs. Communists emerged as the primary subversive threat in America’s twentieth century. Leaders of the Religious Right have often worked up convincing conspiracies of their own. As historian William Trollinger has described, this tradition started with the first generation of American fundamentalists in the 1920s. One of the most prominent leaders of that Scopes generation, William Bell Riley, finally blamed evolutionary theory on a far-reaching plot of “Jewish Communists.” In 1926, as I describe in my 1920s book (now in paperback!), one of the new grassroots fundamentalist organizations, the Bible Crusaders, announced the root of the evolution problem. “Thirty years ago,” the Bible Crusaders revealed, “five men met in Boston and formed a conspiracy which we believe to be of German origin, to secretly and persistently work to overthrow the fundamentals of the Christian religion in this country.” A generation later, writing in the magazine of Chicago’s Moody Bible Institute, one evangelical writer shared his experience with the famous progressive educator John Dewey. This writer told a cautionary tale of secularist conspiracy, with a story of Dewey’s eighty-fifth birthday party in 1944. Our evangelical witness had been invited to the celebration, the other guests unaware of his theological commitment. Celebrating the life of the prominent progressive educator, the guests proudly recalled their efforts to transform America’s schools from Christian institutions to secular training centers. “A generation has passed since that birthday gathering,” reported the evangelical spy to the MBI readership, “and the plan has been immeasurably advanced by a series of court decisions that have de-theized the public schools. As a result, American state-supported schools are as officially secular and materialistic as are their counterparts in Communist countries. Are we awakening?” Such warnings shouted by Christian conservatives have occasionally attracted enormous audiences outside of religious circles. In the 1970s, Hal Lindsey’s Late Great Planet Earth became a runaway bestseller. With his co-author Carole Carlson, Lindsey spun a premillennial dispensationalist reading of the Bible into a riveting tale of international conspiracy. In the premillennial dispensational interpretation, popular among some conservative evangelical Protestants, the Antichrist will return in the guise of a savior, combining governments into a massive superstate. What seems like secular salvation is quickly revealed as the ultimate cosmic conspiracy, dedicated to binding all of humanity to a Satanic anti-religion. These themes saw another burst of popularity in the late 1990s, when Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins repeated Lindsey’s feat. LaHaye’s and Jenkins’ Left Behind series fictionalized Lindsey’s tale, again turning a conspiratorial interpretation of the apocalypse into beach reading for millions of Americans. These Christian conspiracies have not been without cultural cost. Though LaHaye and Jenkins carefully included a righteous Roman Catholic Pope among their fictionalized true Christians, other Christian conspiracy theorists, like William Bell Riley, have been too quick to implicate anyone outside of their circle of conservative evangelical Protestantism. The dangers from conspiracy theorizing are not limited to the conspiracies imagined by conservative Christians. Overheated accusations about the threat from subversive groups have long posed a profound danger to our public life, as any blacklisted Hollywood writer or interned Japanese-American could attest. The threat is not limited to false conspiracies. Satan may not have inspired Salem’s witch troubles, but historian Ellen Schrecker has argued that the communist-hunters of the 1950s often targeted real communist conspirators, if in a clumsy and overly aggressive way. Similarly, Lofgren’s ominous warnings are not spun of whole cloth. Lofgren warns vaguely of the “ties” of many leading Republican politicians to extreme positions such as Christian Dominionism. This theology, associated most closely with the late Rousas John Rushdoony, wants to establish Christian fundamentalist control over American political life. As Lofgren emphasizes, such thinkers approve the need to act “stealthily.” Lofgren did not make this up. Dominionism exists. Prominent Republican politicians such as Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann really do work with groups who support such notions. But the way Lofgren and other commentators discuss such threats from the Christian Right distort the public discussion over the role of religion in the public sphere. As with warnings about President Obama’s connections to the “terrorist professor” Bill Ayers, this kind of conspiratorial rhetoric encourages a no-holds-barred approach to politics. After all, as Lofgren intones, the “‘lying for Jesus’ strategy that fundamentalists often adopt” gives anti-fundamentalists a reason to punch below the belt in their culture-war battles. If they did not, the warning goes, they would be helpless before the wiles of the Christian Right. This is the primary danger of such breathless exposes as Lofgren’s. They build a shaky and fantastic argument upon a foundation of authentic examples in order to convince the convinced. Activists swallow the outlandish examples without demur. Such true believers do not consider the real complexities of their opponents, but rather paint a simplistic and terrifying image to shock and motivate their own side. As with the real communist movement, the real world of American conservative Christianity is not such a simple place. Nor is it so headline-grabbingly power hungry. Consider a recent leadership poll by the National Association of Evangelicals. This organization, an umbrella group for conservative evangelical Protestants, asked just over one hundred of its leaders if the United States constituted a “Christian Nation.” Sixty-eight percent said no. One respondent told the NAE, “I hope others will learn to love Christ as I do, but that will happen more authentically through the Church and individual Christians sharing the Good News and demonstrating the person of Christ through our words and actions.” This kind of statement from a conservative Christian does not sell books. What does sell is a cherry-picked catalog of statements by Christian leaders revealing their plans to take over American politics and public life. It was easy enough in Cold War America to discover evidence of a world-wide subversive communist movement. But as America learned from Senator McCarthy’s outlandish claims, there is a danger in stripping down the image of subversives to cartoonish bogeymen. I am not a conservative Christian myself. I do not hope to apologize for the excesses of some conservative Christians. Indeed, I believe denunciations of the schemes of conservative Christians have some basis in fact. But when they serve only to encourage anti-fundamentalists to fight dirty, they do more harm than good. When such conspiracy-hunters ignore the complexities and ambiguities of their targets, they attack more than their real enemies. They smear innocent bystanders and poison the political life of the nation. by Adam Laats on August 24, 2012 • Permalink Tagged Bible Crusaders, Dominionism, Ellen Shrecker, Hal Lindsey, Jerry Jenkins, Joe McCarthy, Left Behind, Michele Bachmann, Mike Lofgren, Moody Bible Institute, National Association of Evangelicals, Rick Perry, Rousas John Rushdoony, Tim LaHaye, William Bell Riley, William V. Trollinger Posted by Adam Laats on August 24, 2012 https://iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2012/08/24/reds-under-the-bed-christians-under-the-couch/ FROM THE ARCHIVES: Fundamentalists and Federal Aid to Schools If only Rick Perry could have remembered what he planned to abolish, he might have won the 2012 Republican Presidential primary. If he had won, he might really have carried out his threat to get rid of the federal Department of Education, along with Energy and Commerce. Or maybe not. After all, Ronald Reagan had also promised to eliminate the Department of Education. In the end, Reagan merely treated the department shabbily. These days, it seems every self-respecting conservative insists that the Federal Department of Education is an outrage. Devvy Kidd of WorldNetDaily, for example, insists the department “must be abolished” due to its “chilling” trend toward “communism.” This hostility toward federal money for local schools has not always been a bedrock belief of American conservatives. In the 1920s, as Douglas Slawson’s terrific 2005 book The Department of Education Battle describes, the fiercest opponent of a cabinet-level federal department of education was the Catholic Church. It follows, then, that one of the fiercest PROponents of such a department was the 1920s Ku Klux Klan. The 1920s Klan, after all, focused much more intensely than did later Klans on fighting the power of the Catholic Church. It also focused much of its public activism on defending its vision of the “Little Red Schoolhouse.” For God and Country, the 1920s Klan argued, the USA needed a cabinet-level Department of Education. By the late 1940s, however, opposing federal aid to local schools had become an article of faith among American conservatives. Perhaps because the National Education Association fought so fervently for more federal funding for local schools, as we can see with this 1948 NEA brochure, conservatives insisted that such aid would be merely the camel’s nose under the tent. Such aid would inevitably include more federal control over local schools. As one earnest Daughter of the American Revolution warned her conservative sisters in 1943, “The citizens of the United States do not want the Federal Government to supervise education from the cradle to the grave, from nursery school to adult education. . . . It is not difficult to see another huge arm of the Federal Government in the making, and more chains being forged to shackle the unthinking. . . . socialist-minded educators would use the funds to build ‘a new social order’ and . . . training in fundamentals [will be] neglected.” Other conservatives in the 1940s and 1950s agreed. Allen Zoll, a professional right-wing activist and founder of the National Council for American Education, published a couple of hugely influential pamphlets in the 1940s. In one of them, “Progressive Education Increases Delinquency,” Zoll warned readers that contemporary education no longer taught students the traditional, fundamental values of American society. He insisted, The tragic and terrifying thing about all this is that it represents not merely rebellion against a moral code, but denial that there can be any binding moral code. It is a fundamental revolution in human thinking of the first order: it is mental and ethical nihilism. If it goes on unchecked, it will mean not merely tragedy for millions of individuals, it will mean the disintegration and final extinction of the American society.” In another pamphlet from the late 1940s, “They Want YOUR Child,” Zoll warned that the NEA’s drive to secure federal funding for local schools was a conspiracy of the darkest order, a “conspiracy against the American way of life, against everything that we hold dear, . . . probably the most completely organized, ruthless design against other people ever set in motion in all human history.” Inevitably, Zoll insisted, federal aid to local schools would lead to federal control over local schools. Once schools fell for that trap, they would be controlled by an aggressive mind-controlling educationist bureaucracy. The scheming of “progressive” educators such as Theodore Brameld, William Heard Kilpatrick, and George Counts would soon lead to a softening of the youth of America, a start of the slide to socialism, secularism, and destruction. Some conservatives in the 1950s took this fight against federal funding one step further. Although they never represented a majority conservative viewpoint, some insisted that all public monies for schools represented government tyranny. One eccentric proponent of this maximalist position in the 1950s was R.C. Hoiles. Hoiles had earned a pile of money—one journalist in 1952 estimated $20,000,000—with his Western media empire. In his editorials for his newspapers, Hoiles argued that all public schools implied government tyranny. In one from The Marysville-Yuba City (CA) Appeal Democrat, February 28, 1951, for example, Hoiles argued, “Very few people realize to what degree the government has grabbed the authority to indoctrinate the youth of the land. We cannot reverse our trend toward socialism as long as the youth of the land comes in contact and is trained by teachers who believe that they have a right to do collectively what they know would be immoral if done by an individual. In short, the youth of the land is coming in contact with men who are communistic in their thinking, if we properly define communism. Here is a good definition of communism written by David Baxter. ‘Communism is the conclusion that more than one person, or a majority of persons, have a right to do things collectively that it would be wrong and immoral for one person to do.’ Can anyone improve upon this definition of communism? “According to this definition, is not every believer in tax-supported schools a believer in communism, whether he knows it or not?” Hoiles also issued a standing challenge to debate this issue. On February 2, 1952, a radio personality took him up on his offer. Thousands of people crammed into the football stadium to hear the debate between Hoiles and Roy Hofheinz. Among the rhetorical gems Hoiles unloaded at that debate included the following: “Every board of education is government; therefore, it is force. It is not reason or eloquence—IT IS FORCE! It is a fearful master—it certainly does not seem rational that understanding and education can be promoted by the force of a policeman . . . “ “There are many ideas as to what is a good government. But only one idea can be taught in government schools. And that idea cannot be anything unfavorable to existing government institutions. It would be impossible to find any teaching in government schools unfavorable to government schools. It would be impossible to find anything taught in government schools unfavorable to existing state administration. We cannot now find anything taught in government schools really unfavorable to New Dealism. “We believe it would be next to impossible to find anything taught that preaches old-fashioned American individualism as against our modern New Deal fraternalism in government. Thus we believe that government schools’ teaching in regard to government must favor administration policies, whatever they may be. Hitler and Hirohito used government schools to promote their regimes. “Stalin is using Russian government schools to promote his regime. Karl Marx made free public schools one of the points in his famous ‘Communist Manifesto.’ Any government delights in having schools to propagandize its doctrine.” …. “It has often occurred to me that if an overwhelming majority of Americans really favor the present system of education, it should not be necessary to compel anyone to support it. A system as sound and popular as tax-supported public schools are supposed to be should be well supported on a voluntary basis.” Funding of schools will likely always be a contentious issue. Taxpayers, especially those who have no children or send their children to private schools, have a dollars-and-cents reason to oppose public schooling. Perhaps the powerful tradition in Fundamentalist America of opposition to federal funding—or even to any public funding—of local schools can be reduced mainly to a desire to keep more money from the hands of the tax man. But there also seems to be a deeper ideological connection. Since the 1940s, at least, fighting against federal funding for local schools has become an article of conservative faith among some citizens of Fundamentalist America. FURTHER READING: Douglas J. Slawson, The Department of Education Battle, 1918-1932; Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005; Madeleine P. Scharf, “The Education Finance Act of 1943,” Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine 77 (October 1943): 635-637. by Adam Laats on April 15, 2012 • Permalink Posted in From the Archives, Tradition in the Classroom Tagged Allen Zoll, Daughters of the American Revolution, Devvy Kidd, Douglas Slawson, Federal Aid, fundamentalism, Ku Klux Klan, NEA, R.C. Hoiles, Rick Perry, Ronald Reagan, WorldNetDaily Posted by Adam Laats on April 15, 2012 https://iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2012/04/15/from-the-archives-fundamentalists-and-federal-aid-to-schools/ Follow ILBYGTH on Twitter Like us on Facebook to get updates Search ILYBYGTH Now available from Oxford University Press! Winner of the History of Education Society’s Outstanding Book Award, 2015 Available now from Harvard University Press. Why are we STILL fighting about evolution? Available now from University of Chicago Press! Find ILYBYGTH around the Web: Of course historians should be talking about politics. 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__label__wiki	0.642151	0.642151	Poets Weave Home The Rare Phenomenon Of Blue Ice By Walker Rhea Listen in Popup As the earth warms, glaciers around the world are melting fast. But for now, at least, you can still experience the thrill of seeing a glacier up close and in person. And if you're fortunate and brave enough to journey to Antarctica, you may see one of the most amazing types of glacier: those with large patches of blue ice. The blue color develops over time. When glacial ice initially freezes, it's filled with air bubbles. And, at first, all those bubbles scatter incoming light in such a way as to reflect back the full spectrum and make the ice appear white. But as young ice gets buried and crushed beneath newer ice, the older ice becomes denser and its air bubbles become smaller. When relatively newer ice is worn away by seawater, summertime melting, or strong winds, the older ice is revealed. And when light hits, it penetrates more deeply. Red and yellow bands of the light spectrum are absorbed, while blue light is reflected, resulting in the glacier's blue, almost turquoise hue. The phenomenon is similar to that which makes the sky appear blue. Blue ice is relatively rare, covering only around one percent of Antarctica. Another strange aspect of blue ice is that it tends to contain a lot of meteorites. Meteorites crash down all around the globe, of course. But due to its old age, when blue ice emerges it tends to reveal thousands of longâ€‘buried meteorites, attracting meteorite hunters from around the world. Oskin, B. Why Are Some Glaciers Blue? Live Science, May 30, 2015. Sinisalo, A., & Moore, J. C. (2010). Antarctic blue ice areas â€“ towards extracting palaeoclimate information. Antarctic Science. 22 (2), 99-115. About A Moment of Science Tweets by @wfiu	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1364
__label__cc	0.548055	0.451945	Tag: London Foundling Hospital Posted on: January 12, 2020 January 12, 2020 I recently ran across Orphans of Empire by Helen Berry, a new nonfiction book chronicling the history of the London Foundling Hospital, Britain’s first home for abandoned children, a find that thrilled me to no end because a) lifeline Anglophile b) lifelong history geek and c) the LFH is the principal setting for my late Regency romance, Claimed By the Rogue. The LFH was founded by sea captain Thomas Coram, a childless widower with a hefty purse and the heart to match it. Appalled by the 1,000 children abandoned to the London streets each year, Captain Coram resolved to put his money where his morals were. In 1735 he petitioned Britain’s King George II to establish a “hospital” (a philanthropic institution dispensing hospitality) for the education and maintenance of foundlings. Twenty-one aristocratic ladies signed on to Coram’s petition, which quickly picked up steam as a fashionable philanthropy. Coram received his Royal Charter in 1739; the first children were admitted in 1741. Prominent patrons included the painter, William Hogarth and composer George Frideric Handel; the latter served as the hospital’s first governor. The LFH no longer exists – the gracious Georgian brickwork building in Bloomsbury was demolished in 1926 and the institution ended in the 1950s – but its 200+ year history is preserved in the Foundling Museum in Brunswick Square. Perhaps the most feeling artifacts on exhibit are also the humblest: the museum’s collection of Foundling Tokens – buttons, jewelry, coins etc. – left behind by the mothers, a last tangible link to the child they hoped one day to reclaim. Sadly, such hoped for reunions were rare; the vast majority of tokens remain with the museum. If an orphanage sounds like an unconventional setting for a Regency romance, you would be right! In Claimed By The Rogue, my heroine, Lady Phoebe Tremont, volunteers at the LFH after her fiance, Captain Robert Bellamy, is presumed lost at sea. Six years later, Robert returns to find a very different Phoebe than the sweet, pampered miss he left behind. Fiercely devoted to the foundlings under her care, determined to continue in her duties despite her impending marriage to an expat French aristocrat, Phoebe is very much a woman ahead of her time. To win her back, Robert makes an offer not even Phoebe can refuse. He’ll donate 100 pounds a day to the institution she lives and breathes provided Phoebe allows him to shadow her in her daily duties. Spoiler Alert! He falls head over feet for the new impassioned, socially-minded Phoebe – it IS a romance – as well as the adorable orphans under her care. Enjoy this short excerpt from Claimed By The Rogue and join me on Twitter @hopetarr and Instagram @hopectarr where I post fun historical tidbits at #HistoryMatters. “Don’t you ever rest?” Robert asked, trailing Phoebe down yet another labyrinthine passageway. So far they’d visited the governors’ court room, chapel, girls’ dormitory, boys’ dormitory, sundry classrooms, and even the morgue, all of it at a brisk to breakneck pace. She glanced back at him over her shoulder. “I haven’t the need, but don’t let me hinder you from doing so.” “No, I’m fine. I was only concerned for you.” “Hmm,” was all she said before darting down yet another white-walled corridor. Lengthening his stride, he found himself wondering how it was that such a graceful woman managed to move so swiftly. The indolent maid of his memory seemed to have acquired the gait of a racehorse, not that he considered complaining of it. Admiring the hind view of those slender, swaying hips made for a deucedly pleasant pastime even if the reek of turpentine and lemon oil was beginning to block his nose. The ended their tour at the infirmary. The strong smell of vinegar permeated the vicinity. A glass-front apothecary cabinet containing myriad meticulously labeled clear jars, a washing bench outfitted with a bandage roller and stacked bedpans and a leather bound ledger presumably for recording the circumstances of patients comprised the long, narrow room. Phoebe’s hushed conference with the attending nurse secured their admission. Robert followed her along the queue of narrow cots, all but one of them unoccupied. “Feeling a bit better today, Sally?” Phoebe asked, pausing to rest her hand upon the child’s brow, her swollen jaw banded by a camphorous cloth. The girl, Sally, shook her head, wincing. “Tooth hurts terrible.” Phoebe stroked a hank of brown hair back from the girl’s forehead. “I’m sure it does, poppet, but at least your fever’s down. Once the foulness finishes draining, you’ll be right as rain.” Dull eyes looked up into hers. “Yes, miss.” Most in Phoebe’s position would have moved along but instead she lingered. “I was going to give this to you later but now shall serve.” She reached into her gown’s pocket and pulled out a cloth-covered doll. The fevered little face lit. “Oh, miss, thank you!” Phoebe tucked the doll into the crook of Sally’s arm and straightened. “Not only a doll but a magic doll. Whenever your tooth troubles you, squeeze upon her and she’ll help keep the pain away.” Looking on, Robert felt a powerful pull in the vicinity of his heart. Phoebe had the makings of a marvelous mother. The earlier scene in the classroom and now this strengthened his resolve to do all in his power to ensure that her future children would be his, not Bouchart’s. Seeing her about to turn back to him, he quickly made a mask of his face. “You needn’t fear infection,” she said archly, misreading him yet again. “Mostly we treat minor injuries, sprained ankles and, in Sally’s case, toothache. More serious cases are transported to St. George’s.” “My constitution is that of an ox,” he answered, no idle boast. Given the fevers and pestilence to which he’d been exposed, an abscessed tooth and a few running noses hardly seemed of note. Stepping away from the beds with Phoebe, he asked, “How did you come to volunteer here?” She hesitated. “In an odd way, I have you to thank for it.” “I?” Even strongly suspecting he would regret it, he had to ask, “How so?” “After we were told you were…lost, I wasn’t entirely certain what to do with myself, how to go on. Coming here began as a crutch, a reason to rise from bed each morning. Over time I began adding days, heartened that it was in my power to do some good.” His kitchen conversation with Chelsea came back to him. She draped herself in black crepe and bombazine for a full year as though she were your widow in truth. There were times we feared she might take her own life. “How does your mother feel about your laboring?” She lanced him a look. “You mean my eccentricity, or so Mother calls it. She’s pinning her hopes on marriage proving the cure. To be fair, I should admit that she is hardly alone in her censure. Barring Chelsea and Anthony, most members of the ton think I’m daft to spend my days fraternizing with orphaned children, whom they’re convinced will amount to nothing more than cutpurses and prostitutes. Watching her closely, he ventured, “And Bouchart, what does he say?” She hesitated, the pause telling or so it seemed to Robert. “Aristide tolerates my employment for the present though he too assumes I’ll give it up of my own accord once we’re wed.” She paused, her quicksilver gaze honing onto his. “He’s mistaken.” “I admire you for following your passion.” She looked at him askance. A renegade curl clung to the side of her cheek, which was neither pale nor waxen as it had been after her faint but a healthy, becoming pink. Resisting the urge to reach out and brush it back, he shook his head. “No really I do.” Admire her though he did, he was in no way inured to how enticing she not only looked but smelled—vanilla from the milled soap she’d always favored, lavender from the eau de cologne she preferred to perfume, and some spicy citrus scent he didn’t recall from before but badly wanted to sample. A baby’s balling drew their attention outside. Robert joined her at the window overlooking the front lawn. Fifty-odd women and children, the latter of various ages from infancy to adolescence, stood in queue extending from the arcaded entrance gate to the circular drive. The group had grown considerably since Robert had arrived. Passing them by, he’d seen more than one cheek tracked with tears but aside from the occasional wailing infant, they’d waited in stoic silence. It seemed they waited still. “Good God, there are so many of them.” Letting the curtain drop, Phoebe sighed. “I know. Every Monday brings the same sad sight. I’d thought by now to be accustomed to it, but after five years it still breaks my heart.” “Have the London parish houses grown so lax in dispensing relief? Her arch look told him he’d said the wrong thing—again. “They’ve not come for alms but to surrender their children. Only babes of twelve months or younger are accepted, and the mother must stipulate that the child is the fruit of her first fall—born out of wedlock. Admission is by ballot. Every Monday, a man is sent out with a leather bag of colored marbles. Each woman is entitled to draw only one from the bag. White entitles her child to admission subject to passing the medical examination, red to be put on a waiting list in case one of the accepted children is found to suffer from a malady of an infectious nature, and black—” “Mother and child are turned away?” Eyes suspiciously bright, she nodded. “It sounds heartless, I know, and in a way it is, but we haven’t beds for them all. Truth be told, we haven’t room for the ones we do take in. Presently we’re at four hundred and ten and that’s with several of the younger boys and girls sleeping two to a cot.” He’d thought himself hardened to sad, suffering sights, but apparently he wasn’t as toughened as he’d supposed. “What will happen to them?” “Once they pass the medical examination, they’re sent to the country for fostering. At four or five years of age, they’re brought back here, the boys to learn a trade, the girls to train for domestic employment. When the boys reach fourteen, the governors arrange indentures for them; many end up enlisting in the army. Settling the girls is more difficult, but every effort is made to find them suitable situations.” Like a surgeon probing a wound, he had to know. “And what of those who are turned away?” She shrugged but once again her eyes, silver blue irises awash in unshed tears, confirmed how very deeply she cared. “Some will be abandoned. Others will starve alongside their mothers. Still others still will seek refuge in the workhouses or…worse.” A pained look crossed her face. “Last winter a newborn was discovered in a…rubbish bin behind the hospital kitchen. He’d been dead some hours, of exposure or so the resident physician judged.” She turned her face away. He braced a hand upon the sill, bringing their bodies ever so slightly brushing. “Surely something more may be done? What of the fathers? Haven’t they any say in whether or not their children are given up?” She turned back to glare at him, her quicksilver gaze once more sharp as Damascus steel. “Do you honestly believe that even one of those women standing out there would give up her child if she might choose another course, if she herself hadn’t been abandoned?” Abandoned—so there it was, the crux of Phoebe’s philanthropic passion. Clearly she felt an affinity with these women who’d been abandoned by their men to fend for their offspring and themselves. “I only meant that it seems a father should have some rights, some say at the very least. Conceiving a child requires both parties, after all.” Gaze on hers, he owned how very much he wanted to make love with her and babies with her, the yearning to plant his seed inside her so fiercely primal he felt a sudden aching in his loins. “One of the prerequisites for participating in the balloting is that the father must have deserted both mother and child. Deserted, Robert. I’d think you of all people would understand that.” He swallowed against the pain pushing a path up his throat. “I didn’t desert you.” She answered with a sharp laugh. “You chose to stay away and leave me to think you dead. If that’s not desertion, what is?” “I chose to return when I knew I might be a fit husband for you in every way.” After the torturers had gotten through with him, it had taken him months before he’d been able to stand the sight of himself in a mirror; closer to two years before he could bear so much as a hand upon his shoulder without flinching. How could he have come to her then, broken, a wreck? Better to allow her to think him dead and remember him as he’d been then to foist the leavings of himself upon her, a shell empty of all but pain and horror. Returning ere now would have been the ultimate selfishness or so he’d told himself. But staring into Phoebe’s face, he was no longer so supremely certain. The woman before him was fashioned of sturdier stuff than the girl he’d left behind. That girl would have crumpled at the sight of him but the strong, poised woman he saw before him might have proven equal to the task. Her gaze narrowed. “And now you are too late, for I have a husband or at least I shall before the month is out.” Before the month is out! Robert felt as though an invisible fist plowed him in the solar plexus. In the past, controlling his reaction to the pain, pretending to no longer feel or care, had served as his best defense, his strongest weapon. Calling upon that hard-learned stoicism now, he summoned a smile. “What a coincidence, for I too will be embarking upon my next voyage at the month’s end but not before I have the pleasure of seeing you as a bride, I hope.” Phoebe’s smile slipped. “For now, I am afraid I must away. I have another appointment to attend.” “Pray do not let me keep you from your pressing business,” she retorted, sounding much like her mother. Judging from her planted stance, he gathered she didn’t mean to walk him out. Just as well, he supposed for he needed some time to recover from the blow she’d just dealt him. Heading for the door, he turned back. “What ungodly hour shall I arrive tomorrow?” She shrugged. “Anytime or not at all, as you wish.” “If you treat all your benefactors in such a shrewish fashion, ‘tis a mercy you have a roof and four walls,” he answered, a deliberate reminder that he was, in point, paying for her company if not her goodwill. Releasing a sigh, she capitulated, “Oh, very well, nine o’ clock sharp and mind if you’re late, I shall bar the classroom door and you may wait out in the hallway until the session finishes.” “My dearest Phoebe, I wouldn’t dream of being late.” Stepping out into the hallway, Robert considered that six years was quite late enough. He didn’t mean to waste so much as a single second more. Copyright: Hope Tarr To read the rest of Lady Phoebe and Robert’s second chance at love story, buy the ebook at any of these online retailers. 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__label__wiki	0.877376	0.877376	SemoSearch semo.jobs Dec. 5, 2019 11:22 PM EST Asian shares advance after meager gains on Wall Street By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BC-Financial-Markets, 8th Ld-Writethru Andy Wong, ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK (AP) — Shares swung higher in Asia on Friday after a wobbly day of trading on Wall Street as investors awaited a U.S. government jobs report and kept an eye out for developments in China-U.S. trade talks. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.7% to 26,401.47, while the Nikkei 225 in Japan picked up 0.2% to 23,352.81. South Korea’s Kospi jumped 0.9% to 2,078.77, while the Shanghai Composite index was flat, at 2,899.97. Australia’s S&P ASX 200 gained 0.2% to 6,697.40. Shares also rose in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Investors are hoping that the world’s two biggest economies will reach a trade deal before new U.S. tariffs go into effect Dec. 15 on some popular products made in China, including smartphones. “Whether or not U.S.-China can cut a deal remains the obsession; arguably the only game in town heading into ahead of the 15-Dec deadline for the next round of tariffs fall due,” Mizuho Bank said in a commentary. Chinese officials said Thursday that hinges on whether the U.S. will agree to roll back some of the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump after he began his effort to win trade concessions from Beijing in mid-2018. “To be sure, there is still no clarity on the deal. But soothing remarks on ‘progress’ from those involved in the talks appears to have infused some hope and cut tensions,” the Mizuho report said. Investors will be looking for clues into the state of the U.S. economy from the Labor Department’s November tally of hiring by nonfarm employers, to be released later Friday. Economists expect the unemployment rate to hold steady at 3.6%. “You’ve had some mixed economic data this week, so the market probably wants to wait and see what we get tomorrow morning,” said Willie Delwiche, investment strategist at Baird. The S&P 500 index rose 0.2% to 3,117.43. Even with the latest gain, the benchmark index is on track for a weekly loss, though it’s still up 24.4% for the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.1% to 27,677.79. The Nasdaq added less than 0.1% to 8,570.70, while the Russell 2000 index of smaller company stocks picked up 0.94 points, also less than 0.1%, to 1,614.83. Stocks fell early in the week after President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t mind waiting for a trade deal beyond the 2020 elections. The indexes rebounded Wednesday on a report that Washington and Beijing could be on track for a trade deal before the new tariffs kick in next week. Technology stocks were among the biggest gainers Thursday. Apple rose 1.5%. The sector has much to gain, or lose, in trade negotiations because many of the companies rely heavily on China for sales and supplies. Communication services stocks also rose. ViacomCBS led the sector, climbing 3.6%. It was the first day of trading for the newly combined company. United Airlines slipped 0.4% after it said CEO Oscar Munoz is stepping down from his post and will become executive chairman. The airline said that President J. Scott Kirby will be its new CEO. Munoz led the company through a choppy period, and in 2017 gave up his bonus after the forcible removal of a ticketed passenger led to widespread criticism. Benchmark crude oil lost 21 cents to $58.22 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was unchanged at $58.43 a barrel on Thursday. Brent crude oil, the international standard, shed 28 cents to $63.11 a barrel. The dollar fell to 108.69 Japanese yen from 108.74 yen on Thursday. The euro was steady at $1.1107. AP Business Writers Alex Veiga and Damian J. Troise contributed. Currency markets Employment figures Crude oil markets Stock indices and averages Brent crude markets China government United States government Scott Kirby Oscar Munoz Companies in the Story United Continental Holdings Inc	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1366
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__label__cc	0.597055	0.402945	IT Leadership // Team Building & Staffing James M. Connolly Showtime for Interop ITX 2018 Stay tuned for InformationWeek's coverage of evolving technology concepts and IT leadership issues and opportunities throughout next week's Interop ITX conference. After months of preparation, it's time for Interop ITX, the independent conference for IT professionals dealing with the challenges and opportunities presented by today's most important technology concepts and a few that are a bit on the futuristic side. When the event opens Monday at the Mirage in Las Vegas, the entire InformationWeek editorial team will be on hand to provide you with daily coverage. As you may know, InformationWeek and Interop operate under our parent company UBM, and the teams work together all year to leverage the other's content for the benefit of our audiences. So, you often see Interop's expert presenters sharing their experiences through InformationWeek articles, while IW editors help to plan the Interop agenda and identify speakers. Our Dark Reading and Network Computing editors function similarly in the area of cybersecurity and infrastructure. Here's an overview of what the combined teams will be working on and sharing with you in the coming week. Throughout Monday and Tuesday, Interop will offer a series of workshops and summits, full- and half-day educational programs focused on key tech concepts. Then, Wednesday through Friday the agenda is packed with breakout sessions, keynote addresses, special events, and a bit of fun. Highlights on the agenda Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence, but plenty of executives and IT pros are wondering how to proceed. The AI Summit, running all day Monday and Tuesday, is chaired by Sam Charrington, founder of CloudPulse Strategies, and features a half dozen expert speakers. The program will feature advice on what you need to know to get started with AI, how you can advance your AI initiatives, and what AI concepts mean to your organization. The AI Summit sets the stage for three more days of in-depth coverage of data analytics and AI technologies. Consider some of these data-related themes: Analytics as a force for getting the varied segments of your business in sync; finding actionable insights in data; the magic of pie charts; understanding deep neural networks; and the roles that analytics play in security, DevOps, and automation. Also on Monday, Jen Underwood, founder of Impact Analytix, presents a workshop as an introduction to machine learning. The Internet of Things is also prominent on the agenda, starting with independent IT professional Yung Chou's workshop on building out an IoT solution using stream analytics on Monday. Then, throughout the week, special events include the IoT Theater featuring industry experts and the IoT Demo Showcase. IoT themes such as edge computing also will be covered in breakout sessions throughout the week in the Security, Data & Analytics, Infrastructure, and Cloud tracks. Experts from the software sector, private business, and higher education will take the stage during a two-day Cybersecurity Crash Course, organized by editor Tim Wilson's Dark Reading team. Then, starting on Wednesday, the Security track will feature three days of breakout sessions designed for the range of professionals working on security initiatives, from the IT architect and operations specialist to the business leader. The DevOps program opens on Monday with a two-day DevOps Foundation Certification Course for those building up their DevOps credentials. Then the DevOps activity continues Wednesday through Friday morning with conference sessions focused on topics such as continuous improvement presented by Splunk's Andi Mann, the emergence of site reliability engineering, and the role that DevOps plays in improving security. Andi Mann Monday also marks the launch of the Leadership and Professional Development track, focusing on key issues such as the closer integration of IT departments with general business units, the ever-changing workforce, and, of course, how IT pros can move up through the organization. The track opens with the two-day IT Leadership Summit, organized by Katy Tynan of Liteskip Consulting Group. Moving on to the breakout sessions, expect expert advice on what makes a great IT leader and how to deal with the waves of new technology and the associated talent crunch. While, Interop has added hot topic areas such as AI, analytics, and DevOps, we haven't lost sight of the fact that Interop, for many years, was focused on networking and infrastructure. The Network Transformation Summit launches the Infrastructure track on Monday with 10 expert presenters. Network Computing editor Marcia Savage will provide news coverage of much of the Infrastructure track throughout the week. For that track, think networking, storage, servers, containers, and data center management. Cloud computing will be the focus of a dedicated track, but will also be a theme in areas such as analytics, infrastructure, security and DevOps. Ben Kepes of Diversity.net organized the Cloud track. The themes in the track highlight how the thought process surrounding cloud has shifted. It's no longer a question of whether an organization will use the cloud but where the cloud is right for a company, how to manage multiple clouds, and how to balance a cloud initiative with on-premises computing. On Wednesday and Thursday, Interop will live stream interviews with industry experts from the Interop News Desk, as well as main-stage keynote addresses by respected thought leaders exploring trends such as the evolution and future of enterprise IT, building an inclusive workforce, and the evolution of government IT. We hope to see you there when Interop ITX opens on Monday. Jim Connolly is a versatile and experienced technology journalist who has reported on IT trends for more than two decades. As editorial director of InformationWeek and Network Computing, he oversees the day-to-day planning and editing on the site. Most recently he was editor ... View Full Bio	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1377
__label__wiki	0.555869	0.555869	Home > Blog > Press Release > insightsoftware Marks One-Year Anniversary with 300+ Percent Revenue Growth and New Worldwide Corporate Headquarters in Raleigh, N.C. insightsoftware Marks One-Year Anniversary with 300+ Percent Revenue Growth and New Worldwide Corporate Headquarters in Raleigh, N.C. Demand for streamlined financial reporting solutions fuels global growth; dramatic increase in growth doubles footprint in Raleigh RALEIGH, N.C. – June 25, 2019 – insightsoftware, the global leader in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise performance management (EPM) reporting solutions, today announced the opening of a new 32,000 square-foot corporate headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., as it marks the one-year anniversary of its launch. The new location at the Forum office complex in North Raleigh is the result of a 130 percent increase in local employees and nearly doubles the company’s space in the Raleigh area. Since its inception, insightsoftware has seen a more than 300 percent revenue increase globally, fueled by its high-growth acquisition strategy and growing demand for its financial reporting solutions. ERP- and EPM-based financial reporting is widely acknowledged to be complex, time-consuming, and manual in nature. To address this challenge, insightsoftware has built the world’s leading easy-to-use reporting and analytics solutions that automate access to financial data and improve business outcomes. Initially formed through the merger of reporting giants Global Software, Inc. and Hubble, the company added four additional reporting leaders in the last year, including Excel4apps, CXO Software, BizNet Software, and Jet Global Data Technologies. Today, insightsoftware has more than 450 employees worldwide and a portfolio of award-winning products with world-class customer satisfaction scores. New Raleigh Headquarters insightsoftware’s new worldwide headquarters will be located in the Highwoods Properties Forum office complex. Amenities include a game room, gym, library, refreshment bar, and sit/stand desks. With nearly 200 employees in Raleigh, insightsoftware plans to continue its fast growth trajectory. It currently has nearly 40 job openings in Raleigh that span a wide range of roles and functions, with an emphasis on sales, engineering, and development. “The last year has been an incredible journey of accelerated growth and opportunity, and Raleigh has been the perfect worldwide headquarters location to support that progress,” said Mike Lipps, CEO at insightsoftware. “We believe the Triangle area is a hub of technology innovation and knowledge that rivals Silicon Valley, and insightsoftware is extremely fortunate to have access to this talent pool as we continue to expand our business and deliver more value for customers and partners around the world.” “insightsoftware’s rapid growth is a testament to the technology landscape of North Carolina’s Triangle region,” said Brooks Raiford, president and CEO at NC TECH, the leading association for North Carolina technology companies. “NC TECH is proud to count insightsoftware among its more than 650 organization members.” insightsoftware solutions fit any business or enterprise—regardless of size, geographic location, or the ERP or EPM system in use—and automate real-time financial data analysis for CFOs, financial professionals, and other business leaders. The company has an international presence, with eleven offices—including Raleigh, Denver, London, Sydney (Aus), Johannesburg (SA), and Utrecht (Netherlands)—and nearly 375,000 users from more than 20,000 customers worldwide. About insightsoftware insightsoftware turns financial and operational data into a 360-degree view of the financial reporting lifecycle for better business outcomes that drive growth and ROI. Through turnkey reporting and enterprise performance management solutions such as Atlas for Microsoft Dynamics, Wands, Hubble, Spreadsheet Server, and CXO Software, insightsoftware provides real time access to data-driven insights and overviews. Knowledge is then delivered in an efficient, cost-effective, and secure manner via integration with ERP and EPM systems and Microsoft Excel. Learn more at insightsoftware.com. Mariah Torpey Three Rings Inc. (for insightsoftware) mtorpey@threeringsinc.com insightsoftware insightsoftware’s financial reporting solutions are easy to install, use, analyze, and trust. With real-time integration to over 140 ERPs and EPMs, our solutions automate and accelerate financial and operational reporting processes, leaving you more time to focus on analysis.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1381
__label__cc	0.619991	0.380009	Today At The I-Desk:Friday Edition Our two lead stories throughout the week continue to top our rundown. We will kick things off with funeral masses in central Italy for dozens of the victims of the Aquila earthquake. Our Paula Newton tells us the victims haven't reached the "coping" stage of the grieving process yet. They are still in shock. Their lives, their homes, in ruins. We'll take you there live. Also today, the dramatic standoff in the high seas off Somalia. Captain Richard Phillips, whose merchant ship was attacked by pirates earlier this week, is still being held hostage on a drifting lifeboat. There's a U.S. Navy destroyer, FBI hostage negotiators, two more ships are on the way and President Obama is monitoring developments. To add to the drama, Captain Phillips today tried to make a break for freedom but was re-captured. We're live in the Gulf with Barbara Starr and at the Pentagon with Chris Lawrence. Also today, we'll look at violence in America's two war zones: Afghanistan and Iraq. In northern Iraq today, five American soldiers were killed in a massive truck bomb. It's the deadliest attack against the U.S. military in Iraq in over a year. We are live in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Markets are closed today for Good Friday, but I had fun reading Paul Krugman's Oped in the New York Times about the need to make banking "boring" again. When left unchecked, as it was for a few decades before the current meltdown, Krugman writes that finance "turned into the monster that ate the world economy." We'll put that debate to one side today and give bankers a break on a public holiday. Finally, don't forget to vote in our I-Desk poll today. Today we're asking whether you think President Obama's increased spending on America's wars will make a difference to the violence in the region. Tarek (BB) April 10th, 2009 4:39 pm ET Hi Hala, and the rest of IDesk Team. I hop every one in a good health and happy, althoght the time in Aquila is more then sad no words can cover the feeling of Aquila people victimes but it is out of hand. I really donot have money right now to donate for the victimes familly but ican donate my blood if any one need it its A+ type. I am sorry but earth quaick is out of hands, it could happen at any place at any time. just we say please GOD have mercy on us and to the children of the world. Best regards to Hala and IDesk team. bye. Pastor GODWIN ODIA April 10th, 2009 5:11 pm ET somebody say dat christians got it all wrong about d crucification of Jesus, whoever the confuse man it is not important. thank for d name of Jesus. Thank God for christianity and christian, very tolerant people, some religion will kill people, insulting other religion, because they speak against their religion. Thank God for Jesus, at the name of Jesus People are getting save. this is wat christianity is all about. MisBB April 10th, 2009 6:11 pm ET I hope they left that poor captian go soon. I also hope we dont fall victm to there demands as that would open a pandoras box on hostage taking. Robert, Louissiana April 11th, 2009 12:11 am ET Somalia Pirates Problem The area is way too large to protect all of it all the time and it’s not good to put protection on each ship because it might lead to damage to ships and cargo. So reduce the area that needs protection by forming Convoys. Ships could leave their previous ports at carefully planned times to avoid long waits before convoys start. This way it would be possible to protect all of the merchant ships all of the time with far fewer military ships than if they travel through the danger area one at a time. It would allow us to wait till they have zero or very few hostages before more aggressive action is taken. Michael MacNamara April 11th, 2009 2:43 am ET Here's the picture, as reported on CNN tonight. It's midnight and an American citizen is trying to reach the safety of an American Navy Destroyer, sent to this very place attempting to save his life, to rescue him and ideally, to capture the criminals who threatened an innocent American life for financial gain. The moment the pirate criminals opened fire on Captain Phillips, presumably to kill him, the American Destroyer should have vaporized the lifeboat and all four pirates. Why didn't they? Perhaps the crew was asleep!! During the two days this US Navy vessel has been sitting and waiting, would not the absolute priority be to rehearse and prepare for every contingency, including the possibility of the hostage jumping off the lifeboat and swimming towards the ship? Seems the US had one moment of opportunity to stop this stand-off and blew it!!! Don Smith April 12th, 2009 12:48 am ET It would be a simple matter to provide protection if the ships would arm themselves with private security. Trained snipers could easily eliminate potential boarders before they reached the ships. It's almost a given that the problem has gotten out of hand – everyone must participate in their own defense Ronni April 12th, 2009 12:48 am ET Being a Vietnam Veteran I am appalled that Somalians fire on our US ships and men inIIntenational Seas. Anytime this happens as far as I am concerned , this translates automatically to war. What's with all the political debates. We have a destoyer sitting right there. It's time the US shows it's strength and show the rest of the world that you don't mess with us. Use that destroyer and blow these piarates away. I guarentee there won't be another attach. When are those that argue the point that reasoning must be used in solving this matter. Wrong! It has been proven throughout history that these type of people don't work things out. We need to put the fear of God into their heads. And the fear of the U.S. in their minds. To all the peacemakers that disagree, all of you get on a boat and go to Somalia and teach those people love. I dare you. Manohar April 14th, 2009 8:44 am ET No it is not about what is written above. Rather it is about what is not written above. After regularly reading American New Mags/Papers online I am firmly convinced that after preaching democracy to the whole world the Americans have always supported dictatorial regimes. Okay forget the Government. What about the US Media? Look at the event of Indian Elections. BBC has pages full with news about it. I have searched the whole of CNN website there is no news about it. I went deep inside clicked International then clicked India. The whole page had no articles. Considering the fact that this is the worlds largest election. Even the percentage of people who vote in India (Even Kashmir this time) it is more than USA. Americans are only obsessed with themselves, their economy, their elections – the rest of the world? What world? Is there a world beyond USA?? Ewan Cameron April 14th, 2009 4:31 pm ET International community needs to agree with the Somalia GOVT how best to undermine the pirates; remove their access to weapons and ensure justine is enacted asap! Fighting on the high-seas with the pirates will inevitably end in too great a loss of life and cargo for Western sensitivities. In Italy, The Healing Of A Nation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1384
__label__wiki	0.740271	0.740271	Tag: harry horne’s custard powder Nanaimo bars. Yum. One of my favourite desserts is Nanaimo bars. The mix of chocolatey and coconutty goodness with creamy vanilla filling is irresistible to my tastebuds. Every Christmas, my mom sends me home with batch that my wife and I ration throughout January. For years, a key ingredient for the delectable yellow filling was Harry Horne’s Custard Powder. Canadian Grocer, May 7, 1920. Its advertising claims may be debatable, but it made mighty fine desserts. Besides custard powder, the brand (later reduced to Horne’s) lingered on for decades on products ranging from barbecue sauce to seafood sauce. Its last owner, Select Food Products, appears to have stopped making the custard powder the mid-2010s, but a sales sheet listed on its website indicated a Horne’s branded gravy was still available as of 2020. While researching the early days of Loblaws last year, I found a section in the September 9, 1932 edition of Canadian Grocer highlighting the exhibits in the Pure Food Building at that year’s Canadian National Exhibition. Located on the same site as the current Food Building, it served as the focal point of the fair’s food displays and samples from 1922 to 1953. The company with the most displays in this section? Harry Horne. Canadian Grocer, July 3, 1914. Flipping through back issues of Canadian Grocer, it appears Horne started as a food distributor. The location listed in this ad is, as of January 2020, a Gabby’s restaurant. Foster Clark’s custard powder is still available in Australia (what would an Aussie version of the Nanaimo bar be like?). The Globe, May 8, 1926. Some of Horne’s advertising reflected the prejudices and stereotypes of the day. By 1932, the company had a storefront operation at 1297-1301 Queen Street West, a site currently occupied by the Parkdale library branch. Other displays featured in this section included Borden, Kellogg’s, Kuntz Brewery, Libby’s, Lipton’s Tea, Ovaltine, Peek Frean, Procter and Gamble, Tea-Bisk, Welch’s Grape Juice, and Weston’s. The Liberal (Richmond Hill), August 14, 1952. Horne survived the accident, and passed away six years later. Weston-York Times, September 27, 1973 A pair of Nanaimo bar recipes from a community cookbook section. Note varying amounts of custard powder used. The Canadian Encyclopedia gives a detailed history, placing the first published recipe in a 1952 Nanaimo hospital cookbook, but notes there are plenty of other claimants. Harwood’s recipe for Nanaimo bars first appeared in the Star four years earlier, in a feature on ballerina diets. According to the February 20, 1974 article, Harwood’s dessert “established her culinary reputation in the ballet field.” By contrast, Veronica Tennant was known for “sole baked in white wine, then bathed in a cream sauce with green grapes and broiled until delicately golden.” Author Jamie BradburnPosted on January 11, 2020 January 11, 2020 Categories UncategorizedTags 1930s, ballet, canadian national exhibition, cne, food, harry horne, harry horne's custard powder, nanaimo bars, pure food buidling, recipes, vanessa harwoodLeave a comment on Let’s Visit the Harry Horne Booth at the CNE (and eat some Nanaimo bars along the way)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1387
__label__cc	0.637709	0.362291	A Different Kind of Con: Losing My ACEN Virginity Posted at 12:40 am by Janine Harrison, on May 28, 2017 When I think about attending an event that begins with C-O-N, the letters to follow are usually F-E-R-E-N-C-E. But my twelve-year-old old, Jianna, speaks, lives, and breathes anime and manga, so this past weekend we attended a C-O-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N, namely, Anime Central (ACEN). A friend who has been attending the Con for twenty years was concerned that I might experience culture shock, but I usually attend creative writing conferences, so participating in an event with anime and other pop culture characters and furries really wasn’t that much of a stretch! However, I will admit that the vendor exhibit hall caused a bit of sensory overload for me at first. Fortunately, a gaming vendor was handing out free bubble wrap to pop for stress relief and free chocolate, so with that winning combination, I was soon good! One perspective on this form of entertainment would have to be as symbolic of American privilege and consumerism, with member attendance numbers alone likely above 30,000 and participants as regular patrons of TV and film products leading to the Con as well as fortunate enough to be able to afford registration and often hotel, food, elaborate costumes, and product purchases. However, it is certainly not unique. I recently looked up Bruno Mars concert tickets and saw that the cheapest seats were $167.00. That stated, I was amazed by the creativity of many costumes that were crafted by the wearers. Some outfits included crocheted beards and other elements, and both a panel on choosing sewing machines and discussion of “fine stitches” by a costume judge allowed me to see such efforts as a resurgence in art forms with modern-day applications – art forms that may otherwise have died with our grandmothers’ and mothers’ generations. Craftsmanship of accessories or, in one instance, the entire Howl’s Moving Castle (pictured, which won an award), often showed incredible talent as well. And to be fair, some costumes were completely homemade, inexpensively, involving such items as cardboard boxes and tin foil. I did not enter Anime Central as a stranger to the media. My introduction took place almost twenty years ago, when my niece, Chyanne, and one of her college friends showed me Princess Mononoke. While I was initially taken aback by its violence, I was appreciative of its depth. Since Jianna was little, she and I have watched numerous additional Hayao Miyazaki films together, beginning with Ponyo. In addition to being astounded by the aesthetics of such productions, I also found the inclusion of such themes as parental illness/death admirable; such frank and realistic portrayals were refreshing. Jianna has continued to explore anime films and series on her own, introducing me to a number as she has joined the fandoms. While I disapprove of the sexual objectification of women that I have witnessed in some works (and Jianna and I have discussed this and why), overall, I’m a fan of the form. At the Con, though, my admiration grew, in part because I learned more about what happens behind the scenes. For example, we attended a Yuri on Ice fan panel, and were told that professional costume designers imagine the costumes for the anime cast to wear and professional ice dance choreographers design routines for the ice competitions. We also attended a panel on web comic production because Jianna is a budding artist and writer. I was delighted to hear one comic writer and artist tell attendees that they must read heavily and widely, so that the frame of reference they’d gain would inform their web comic creation. He also stated that if a web comic is written and drawn to the point that it is good enough to “get by,” then it really isn’t finished yet. In other words, he argued for high standards. Equally so, in a panel on the female heroic journey in anime, voice actor Crispin Freeman talked about the power of stories to help audiences to reflect on life lessons, and he told panel attendees that if they do not take said lessons back into their realities and apply them, then they are cheating themselves. I felt very good knowing that the presenters were giving such invaluable advice to adolescent and young adult listeners. At the end of our first day, Jianna said, “The whole world should be an anime con!” When I told two twenty-year veteran ACEN attendees that, one replied, “Anime Central is the least judgmental place I’ve ever been.” The other individual added that she doesn’t see anyone as “weird” in everyday life. Anime Central helps all who attend to move past such restrictive thinking and to accept people for who they are. I could see it. Not only was impressive racial and sexual orientation diversity evident, but Anime Central also consisted of a large age and ability range as well. Once could say that I was CONvinced (sorry, I couldn’t help myself!) – which is good considering that Jianna asked, “Can we attend Anime Central next year, and the year after that, and the year after that, and the year…” ← Poetry Liaison Seeks News, Ideas, and Partnerships 100 Locofo Chaps Political Poetry Books Sent to Trump → Author: Janine Harrison Janine Harrison freelances, teaches creative and freelance writing at American Public University, is a teaching artist, and serves as the 2017-18 Highland (IN) Poet Laureate. She wrote If We Were Birds. Her work has appeared in Veils, Halos, and Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women, A&U, Not Like the Rest of Us, The Wabash Watershed’s “Six Indiana Poets” feature, Treehouse Arts, and other publications. She is a poetry reader and reviewer for the Florida Review and a former Indiana Writers’ Consortium president. She speaks, reads, and leads workshops and other events around the Midwest. Janine lives in Northwest Indiana with her husband, fiction writer Michael Poore, and daughter, Jianna. \| 1 Comment \| One thought on “A Different Kind of Con: Losing My ACEN Virginity” rachel272727 I feel the same way about the fursuit cons I’ve attended with Sophie. The furry community is very accepting and affirming, even of moms of furries. Gotta love people who embrace diversity and creatively so wholeheartedly!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1390
__label__cc	0.671146	0.328854	New Sun and Moon Information: Minigames! As it turns out, we got a little bit of Sun and Moon news today. Makes it a busy day for me blogging, but I suppose that’s not such a bad thing. To be fair, the thing we got isn’t a huge update anyway, but it is interesting and gives some cool potential possibilities. According to Serebii, the new footage we received was uploaded by a Japanese magazine called V Jump. Which is good, because I still can’t read Japanese and would have no idea where it came from otherwise. Due to a consideration warning on the YouTube video, I’ll just link it here rather than embedding it right on the page, that way you can still watch it. Essentially, the video depicts a side quest that will allow you to spend some time chucking the new Alolan Pokémon Pyukumuku into the ocean for a cash reward. In case you don’t remember the exact connection, this was Pyukumuku’s description from the Pokémon website: Image courtesy of Serebii.net “Due to their appearance and their lifestyle, Pyukumuku are considered unappealing to tourists. Part-time work chucking Pyukumuku back into the sea is available at tourist beaches. But no matter how far they’re thrown, Pyukumuku will always return to the same spot. Once a Pyukumuku finds a place it likes, it won’t budge from it. If someone moves it away, back it comes to the same spot. If it runs out of food to eat in that spot, it’ll stay there—and starve. The people of Alola found this so pitiful that they developed a tradition of chucking Pyukumuku back into the food-rich sea whenever they come across any thin-bellied Pyukumuku. Pyukumuku are covered with a slippery, viscous fluid that has a moisturizing effect. Pyukumuku can stay on land for a week without drying out. The people of Alola use this fluid for skincare products. Pyukumuku hate to have their spikes and mouths touched, and if you step on one, it will hurl out its fist-like inner organs to strike at you.” So, not only do we now know about one way to make some extra cash somewhere in Alola, but we have this interesting and very cool little example of how the lore of these individual Pokémon getting introduced will be incorporated into Sun and Moon. This one little minigame side quest does bring up something I’ve been considering since I saw it. In just about every other Pokémon game, the ways to make extra cash in-game involve battling. A prime example is the Mauville Food Court in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. In that side event, you battle a group of trainers in a row hoping to beat them all within a certain number of turns. If you succeed, you get an item that can be sold for a lot of cash – making it both a good way to train and a good way to make some extra dough. With the Pyukumuku beach toss, however, it appears like there will be some world building mini games that allow you to make money without battling. As far as I can remember, this seems like a pretty new development in the Pokémon series – which is something fairly common in Sun and Moon so far. In a game where gyms are essentially going to be replaced by a series of challenges with various stipulations and non-battle elements involved in each, it only makes sense that non-battling elements will seep into other parts of the game, making for a potentially more expansive single player experience to coincide with the growing and changing multiplayer battle scene being introduced by all the abilities and strengths of our new Pokémon. What do you think about non-battling minigames and side quests? Does the idea excite and interest you with the possibilities that they could involve? Are you looking forward to the potential world building it might involve? Or would you prefer Pokémon sticks more in the realm of battling and multiplayer elements that envelop the series’ roots? Let me know below, and let me know what kinds of side quests you think could exist with the Pokémon we’ve met so far! Alola Region Mauville City Mauville Food Court Pokemon Updates Pyukumuku Serebii V Jump magazine An exciting first day as a News Editor on a college newspaper New Sun and Moon Information: Special Z-Moves	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1391
__label__wiki	0.67778	0.67778	Bullseye Is the Lethal Star of Daredevil's Newest Teaser Filed to:Daredevil Wilson Bethel playing dress up as Daredevil. Image: Netflix While there were a handful of hints that Daredevil’s third season would introduce Bullseye as one of Matt Murdock’s newest foes, the latest teaser for the show makes it very, very clear that not only is the villain set to make his debut, he’s also out for blood. Wilson Bethel’s Benjamin Poindexter (yeah, they just went with it) is introduced as a former FBI agent who, in addition to having a set of uncanny skills, is a man on the edge. Dex’s lethality is with made him such an effective agent in the field, but as the new teaser demonstrates, his gifts are ultimately going to put him on Wilson Fisk’s radar in his scheme to take down the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen. New Daredevil Season 3 Trailer Introduces a Major Comics Villain to Marvel's Cinematic Universe [Updated] Daredevil Season 3 Will Break Its Heroes Down to Build Them Back Up Stronger New Daredevil Season 3 Teaser Promises That Wilson Fisk Is Ready to Dance With the Devil Daredevil Season 3's Dreamy New Teaser Introduces Yet Another Iconic Suit	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1393
__label__wiki	0.830935	0.830935	Indigenous Studies Portal > Statistics & Surveys > Demographics Archival Articles Book Reviews Data E-Books Images Media Theses Web General Scholarly, peer reviewed Native Hawaiian Male Caregivers: Patterns of Service Use and Their Effects on Public Policies top Wesley Lum, Seiko Sato, Pamela Arnsberger Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2010, pp. 1-18. Compares the different types of caregiving support offered and provided by Native Hawaiian, Asian and Caucasian males. Northern Checkup Dominique Forget Canadian Geographic, January/February 2010, pp. 1-4. Discusses the International Polar Year Health Survey, a mass checkup to assess the health status of the Inuit people. Old Keyam: A Framework for Examining Disproportionate Experience of Tuberculosis among Aboriginal Peoples of the Canadian Prairies Kathleen McMullin, Sylvia Abonyi, Maria Mayan, Pamela Orr, Carmen Lopez-Hille ... [et al.] Journal of Aboriginal Health, Vol. 9, No. 1, November 2012, pp. 30-40. Explores the concept of keyam (to give up) in relation to tuberculosis transmission. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 30. [Find offline items for Abonyi, Sylvia] Patuanak... Combining Old And New Northern Saskatchewan Archives, DNS Academic Education Branch A profile of the northern community of Patuanak, Saskatchewan. Images included are as follows. Page one: cover; one picture of moose hide cleaning. Page two: one picture of father Moraud's grave. Page three: Patuanak in spring. Page four: three pictures; children making string designs; birch toboggans; local business man. Page five: seven pictures; mukluks; mittens; moccasins; porcupine quills; birch bark basket; bone flesher. Peruvian Women, Indigenous Women: Different Faces, Same Problems, Same Expectations top Tarcila Rivera Zea Indigenous Affairs, No. 3, Indigenous Women, July/August/September 2000, pp. 34-37. Investigates links between gender and poverty in Peru. To access this article scroll down to page 34. Peters ‘Filling in Blank Spot’ on Urban Aboriginal Experience Shauna Rempel On Campus News, Vol. 9, No. 13, March 15, 2002. Social geographer Evelyn Peters heads a five-year project that will help document the ‘Aboriginal experience’ in cities by examining the socio-economic circumstances of urban quest for self-government. [Find offline items for Peters, Evelyn J.] The Prevalence of Diabetes in the Cree of Western James Bay David A. L. Maberley, Will King, Alan F. Cruess Chronic Diseases in Canada, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2000, pp. 128-133. Incidence and general demographic data on individuals with diabetes in Moose Factory, Ontario. Scroll to p. 128. The Prevalence of Suicidal Behaviors Among Northern Plains American Indians top Pamela L. LeMaster, Janette Beals, Douglas K. Novins, Spero M. Manson Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 34, No. 3, Fall, 2004, pp. 242-254. Data indicates that suicidal behaviors are more frequently reported among females than males and among younger respondents than older. Progress for Aboriginal Peoples Still Haunted by the Past top Inside Policy, April 8, 2015, pp. 16-23. Discusses the challenges of finding a better place for Aboriginal peoples in our society and comments on previous failed policies. Entires issues on one pdf. to access article, scroll to page 16. Promoting Equity and Dignity for Aboriginal Children in Canada Jessica Ball IRPP Choices, Vol. 14, No. 7, June 2008, pp. 4-27. Article studies the health, and socio-economic conditions of Aboriginal children in Canada, findings indicate a disproportionate number live in poverty. Race, Gender, and Homicide: Comparrisons Between Aboriginals and Other Canadians top Sharon Moyer Canadian Journal of Criminology, Vol. 34, No. 3/4, July-October 1992, pp. 387-402. Uses homicide data collected by the Homicide Program of the Canadian Centre for Justice over the period of twenty-three years. Religion and Politics among American Indians: An Analysis of the 2006 General Social Survey top Elizabeth A. Keith, Thomas J. Hoffman Indigenous Policy Journal , Vol. 19, No. 2, 2008, p. [?]. Looks at data from the General Social Survey for the year 2006 to determine where Indians stand on issues of religion and politics as compared to other ethnic groups. Scroll down to access article. Research Report: Aboriginal Health Statistics top Ceilia Divakaran-Brown Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1987, pp. 15-19. Study looks at births, deaths, and attendance in hospital care. Sad List of Statistics is Reflection of Life Doug Cuthand Leader Post, November 6, 2006, p. B1. States that a lack of education contributes to higher incarceration rates which in turn has a greater cost to society than adequate education programs. Sask. Has Plenty of Homework to do on Racism top StarPhoenix, March 19, 2004, p. A13. Explores systemic racism in Canada and changing demographics in Saskatchewan. School Dropouts top John Richards Inroads, Vol. 25, Summer/Fall, 2009, pp. 90-99. Statistics show Aboriginal males living on the prairies have a higher drop out rate. Sentencing Disparity: Aboriginal Canadians, Drunk Driving and Age top Michael Weinrath Western Criminology Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 2007, pp. 16-28. Study uses a sample of 237 male drunk drivers sentenced to custody for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) in Alberta from 1989-1991. Shifting Transitions: Health Inequalities of Inuit Nanangat in Perspective Paul A. Peters Journal of Rural and Community Development, Vol. 7, No. 1, Human Resources and Remote Indigenous Communities, 2012, pp. 36-58. Examines health status of the Inuit population within the changing contexts of population and socio-economic factors. Suicide in the Northern Territory, 1981-2002 Mary-Anne L. Measey, Shu Qin Li, Robert Parker, Zhiqiang Wang Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, Vol. 30, No. 6, December 2006, pp. 26-30. Retrospective analysis finds rates are rising with young Indigenous and elderly non-Indigenous men showing the greatest increase. Summary of Indigenous Health: Hospitalisation top Australian Indigenous HealthInfonet Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, March/April 2003, pp. 11-13. Provides statistical information regarding hospitalization numbers. 'That's Just the Way he is': Some Implications of Aboriginal Mental Health Beliefs top David Vicary, Tracy Westerman Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2004, pp. 103-112. Survey shows that three out of four Aboriginal Australians do not perceive depression as a state that could be treated. Think Tank Targets Gaps in School Achievement [Report Card on Aboriginal Education in British Columbia] top Joan Taillon Windspeaker, Vol. 21, No. 12, March 2004, p. 15. Statistics reveal that First Nations students' academic achievements are dismal in British Columbia. Traditional Medicine and Restoration of Wellness Strategies top Dawn Martin Hill Journal of Aboriginal Health, Vol. 5, No. 1, First Nations Communities in Crisis, November 2009, pp. 26-42. Explores literature that suggests traditional medicine and indigenous knowledge as protective factors for at risk Aboriginal communities and populations. Two Solitudes? Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Opinion in Saskatchewan Loleen Berdahl, Robert Alexander Innes Western Policy Analyst, Vol. 4, No. 5, 2013, pp. 6-8. Discusses results from the University of Saskatchewan survey Taking the Pulse, 2012. Contains data on Aboriginal issues, health, wellbeing, family, economics, and crime. Scroll down to page 6 to read article. [Find offline items for Innes, Robert] [Find offline items for Berdahl, Loleen] U of S Canada Research Chair Evelyn Peters Gets $50,000 to Develop Urban Aboriginal Database On Campus News, Vol. 9, No. 9, January 11, 2002. Five-year project will examine the socio-economic circumstances of Aboriginal peoples living in urban areas and their quest for self-government. Go to Page 1 2 3 4	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1395
__label__wiki	0.633163	0.633163	JeremyPaxman 'Infinite discovery and delight' Fossicking for undiscovered jewels is one of the chief pleasures of a dictionary. No word ever quite dies. It merely becomes an ancestor who emigrated to a far corner of the world. In the new edition of the Chambers Dictionary, those transported include Hel, the Norse goddess of the dead, and her father, Loki, who have been consigned to Niflheim, along with various doomed political schemes such as the FDR (former West Germany) and the Special Temporary Employment Programme (Step). Despite its distinguished role alongside wensleydale, Roquefort and Venezuelan beaver cheese, that strange 1960s invention Ilchester has also been dropped in the bin. In their place, it is time to welcome carbon footprints, the commentariat, cryoablation, electrosmog, food miles, IEDs, private equity companies and, those constants of cheap media, Wags and Z-listers. The Somerset hotelier who, in 1962, looked at his unappreciated cheeseboard and decided the way to an Englishman's heart was by mixing his cheese with Worthington E would not have a clue what any of them was. The new coinings reflect the way our lives have changed. Science brings us Blu-ray, designer babies and nanoparticles. Anxiety about the environment has displaced the terror of the cold war, so here come eco-villages and green taxes. Computer literacy means that we've heard of server farms and botnets, even if we're not necessarily sure what they are. A dictionary will always be a place of infinite discovery and delight. It is one of the very few books that - apart from its alphabetical organisation - has no commonsensical logic. Then there are the preoccupations of the Wags and Z-listers, nail bars and a range of mortifications of the flesh, from chemical peels to microdermabrasion, all of which I am happy to remain profoundly ignorant about. Constant exposure to a torrent of information means that, while we may not know precisely what all these terms mean, we are at least aware of them. To some extent, then, a new dictionary is a guide for the perplexed, a thing to reach for when you sense that perhaps it might be as well to check that what you're saying makes sense. I was caught out recently when talking of a "coruscating" attack mounted by one politician on another. It was nothing of the sort: the word means to flash or sparkle, which was not at all what the stream of mean-spirited invective did. Since none of us can know more than a small fraction of the total word population, a dictionary will always be a place of infinite discovery and delight. It is one of the very few books that - apart from its alphabetical organisation - has no commonsensical logic. You really can begin reading on any page. Any word will do, simply because you cannot predict its neighbours. The banal lies down with the exotic. You want to check the precise definition of pantaloon and a pantechnicon takes you on a ride through pantagamy, pantheism, pantophobia and panty lines. You may take up a dictionary to settle an argument, but you put it down, much, much later, with a sigh of pleasure, chuffed at the sheer exuberance of the world's most exuberantly nimble language. Courtesy of The Guardian. Original article here. Back to revelations What Empire did for Britain For hundreds of years, Britain shaped the history of the world. Yet it is shocking, says Jeremy Paxman, how little we appreciate the enduring effect of the colonial spirit on all our lives in this country Why the Dickens do we despise Victorian art? When was the last time you visited your local art gallery? Boom time in Beijing China riots over new iPhones and snaps up Rolls-Royces. On his first visit to the country, Jeremy Paxman is shocked by the flaunting of wealth A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins Jeremy Paxman finds that when Simon Jenkins is allowed his head he produces telling insights © 2020 Jeremy Paxman. All Rights reserved. Site by Bozboz	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1401
__label__wiki	0.532442	0.532442	actor, bing, blog, business, comedian, comedy, dead, death, facebook, family, fan, Fans, fox, friend, friends, gmail, googe, google, insider, instagram, internet, linked in, media, mozilla, net, news, online, open, Sports, television, the internet, TMZ, tumblr, twitter, Uncategorized, web, wikipedia, wordpress, wordpress.com, wordpress.com Reader, yahoo, you tube, youtube “Florence Carmela’s interview w/Rosanna Arquette about the Alexis Arquette Family Foundation” January 21, 2019 Jim Jax Leave a comment Alexis & Rosanna Arquette 1-21-19 IN THE SPOTLIGHT WITH ACTRESS ROSANNA ARQUETTE✨ I love nothing more than talking to talented and creative artists with a story to tell or a cause they feel passionate about. Recently on a quiet Sunday morning, I had the pleasure of speaking with the Actress, Rosanna Arquette. She is not only talented, creative and beautiful, but the actress; along with the entire Arquette Family; has found a way to keep the spirit of their beloved sister Alexis alive. Rosanna, along with her siblings David, Patricia, and Richmond created The Alexis Arquette Family Foundation in memory of their sister Alexis Arquette and is committed to the care and support of the LGBTQ+ community. Alexis, who was transgendered, passed away on September 11, 2016 and was a bright light with a beautiful heart and an artistic soul. While speaking with Rosanna I realized how much she and her entire family deeply miss Alexis and want to keep her memory alive. Rather than remembering her on the anniversary of her death with sadness, Rosanna explained “we have a big dance party every year on September 11th to celebrate her life” in just the way Alexis would want it with a lot of laughter, music and memories. The actress also shared with me that they are trying to raise money for the Foundation explaining “Patricia was working on that (raising funds) last week, and that’s what we’ve all been trying to do and its not been easy.” This is something they are currently working on for the Foundation, so it will continue to provide counseling, medical intervention and services for those in need. The Alexis Project is a true partnership between The Alexis Arquette Family Foundation and the Violence Intervention Program, also known as VIP, at the LAC+USC Medical Center. For more information on how you can support The Alexis Arquette Family Foundation & The Alexis Project visit AlexisArquette.com For more information on Rosanna Arquette go to RosannaArquette.com to see interviews, videos, photos and the many projects she is currently working on. 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As time goes on, the struggles of life eventually wear us down and we long for the simpler things of our childhoods. The people, foods, and activities of our youth can fill our hearts with joy in a way few things can and they are greatly missed. One of the things that kids of the 70’s and 80’s enjoyed was some of the wacky kids shows. For many children of the past, names like Hal Roach, Mel Blanc, William Hanna, Joe Barbera and Walt Disney are as revered as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. For kids of the 70’s and 80’s, you can add 2 amazing talents in Sid and Marty Krofft. They created shows that few networks backed or liked, but millions still enjoy to this day. Their crazy use of kid friendly subjects and human puppetry is unmatched. Some networks still show these classic shows on occasion, but in the 1970’s to the 1980’s, one of the most anticipated days of a kids life was the Cartoon Preview specials on the last Saturday night in August before the new school year began. At the time these were highly rated shows and commercials advertising them flooded the television screen. Child stars of the day would host these specials and they were geared literally towards kids. It was an exciting time to see what new kid shows would be shown for the fall lineup. Today we are going to take a special look at the most craziest and quirky kids shows of the 1970’s. Bigfoot and Wildboy: Creator: Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, (produced by the Kroffts) Cast: Ray Young, Joseph Butcher, Monika Ramirez, Ned Romero, Yvonne Regalado, Al Wyatt Jr. Years: 1977-79 A lost boy in the woods is rescued and raised by a Bigfoot and they fight crime, aliens, and bad guys in a good v.s. evil plot. This is definitely out there but it’s what the 70’s shows were all about. It’s so refreshing to see what a good parent Bigfoot is. The Lost Saucer: Created: Sid & Marty Krofft Cast: Jim Nabors, Ruth Buzzi, Jarrod Johnson, Alice Playten Running for only 16 episodes, this series has been greatly forgotten by most. Another one I had never heard of. It was classic Krofft; quirky, thought provoking and kind. Most shows had an environmental or social theme. It was interesting though because they would take the saucer into the past and into the future to try and get back home. Some of the stories were very thought provoking. Jim Nabors and Ruth Buzzi are interesting to watch in this outside the box performance that stretches their vast talents. An underrated show for sure. The New Zoo Revue: Creator: Doug Momary, Barbara Atlas Cast: Doug Momary, Emily Peden, Sharon Baird, Yanco Inone, Larri Thomas, Chuck Woolery, Fran Ryan This was one of the most popular shows for pre-schoolers along with Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo. The show mixed humans with life-size talking animals. It won several educational awards and is thought of as being one of the top preschool shows ever made. It had a couple of revivals and it still remains a favorite of baby boomers who have turned the show on to their kids and grandkids. And yes, below is game show host Chuck Woolery as Mr. Dingle. Go on Youtube and check out their outtakes which have been released. Racy, sexual and over the top funny. They definitely had fun. If you are easily offended, I’d probably avoid them. The Bugaloos: Creator: Sid and Marty Krofft Cast: John McIndoe, Caroline Ellis, John Philpott, Wayne Laryea, Martha Raye, Billy Barty, Sharon Baird, Joy Campbell, Van Snowden Another short lived Krofft show with a large cult following was the Bugaloos. With it’s ABBA style songs and outfits, it remains a cult classic especially abroad. It pretty much was a show about 4 cute British teens in bug costumes who sing and have conflicts with the jealous Benita Bizarre played by the great Martha Raye. The young cast said that Martha Raye and Billy Barty helped them immensely and were the kindest, most fun people. There was a Bugaloo’s movie in the works at the time because of it’s popularity, but due to Universal going bankrupt, the idea was nixed. Dr. Shrinker: Cast: Jay Robinson, Billy Barty, Ted Eccles, Susan Lawrence, Jeff MacKay Another show introduced during the Krofft Supershow was Dr. Shrinker. A great cast along with catchy music, (this is one of my favorite intro songs); created a fun and popular show. The diabolical Dr. Shrinker uses a shrink ray to shrink 3 young adults whose plane has crash landed on an island. The show pretty much is Dr. Shrinker catching the “Shrinkies” and then them escaping. Mainstay Billy Barty plays his evil side kick Igor. He wants to sell the ray to the highest bidder and then give the Shrinkies to the second highest bidder. It was another show that was introduced on the Krofft Supershow that ran for 2 years. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (video below with Deidre Hall & Judy Stungis) were introduced at the same time and it only aired for one season as well. Dr. Shrinker is one of the lesser remembered and known shows but it definitely is loved by the Krofft’s, and their fans. Sigmund and The Sea Monster: Creator: Sid & Marty Krofft Cast: Billy Barty, Johnny Whitaker, Scott Kolden, Mary Wickes, Joe Higgins, Rip Taylor, Fran Ryan, Fred Spencer, Paul Gale, Van Snowden, Sharon Baird, Sparky Marcus, Margaret Hamilton, Walker Edmiston, Sidney Miller A show that was near and dear to the Krofft’s heart. Sigmund was another classic show that kids of all ages enjoyed. The legend Billy Barty played Sigmund, and even if he wasn’t feeling really well he still did some very physically trying scenes in the Sigmund the sea monsters suit. “Billy was amazing”, said Marty Krofft. “He would do things for us that he wouldn’t do for anyone else”. This is the story of a friendly sea monster who is kicked out of the sea by his underwater family because he won’t scare people. He is then befriended by two boys who help protect him. Margaret Hamilton also was added to a great cast. She was famous for being the wicked witch of the west in the Wizard of Oz! The story lines are sweet, straight forward, and pleasant to watch. Lidsville: Cast: Butch Patrick, Charles Nelson Reilly, Billie Hayes, Lennie Weinrib, Joan Gerber, Walker Edmiston Another very popular show that only ran a year was Lidsville. The theme song was another classic which was the norm for the Krofft’s. It was a story of a boy that fell into a huge hat owned by Merlo the Magician at 6 Flags in Texas. The boy Mark goes into a world of life sized hats called “lids”. Some people again tried to link drugs to the cartoon because at the time a lid was the street name for a bag of marijuana. Sid Krofft again laughed at this and said he had thought about the idea a while back thinking of the personalities that each hat may have and how everyone liked hats. If it was a cowboy hat, he acted like a cowboy and so on. This was a lot like the Krofft’s other shows where little people would sometimes be in the costumes while someone else dubbed their voices. Charles Nelson Reilly played the villain Hoodoo and was a natural. Billie Hayes played Weenie the genie and Butch Patrick played Mark. In the show Mark never really does get back home and he fights beside the good hats to avoid paying the hat check of HooDoo who was helped by 4 bad hats. The Kroffts especially loved this show. At the time, the music became so popular that many of the songs were put on an album by Johnny Whitaker. Another classic. The Electric Company: Creator: Paul Dooley/PBS Cast: Morgan Freeman, Irene Cara, Judy Graubart, Rita Moreno, Jim Boyd, Skip Hinnant, Bill Cosby (71-73), Lee Chamberlain (71-73), Luis Avalos (72-77), Hattie Winston (73-77), Danny Seagren (74-77) Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers and the Electric Company are probably the greatest kids shows of all time. The EC was unique and fun and very different because it used sketch comedy to teach kids to read. With an all star cast and guest stars in the likes of Michael Landon, Dean Martin, Carol O’Conner, Woody Allen, Barbara Eden, Joe Namath, Walt Frazier, Lily Tomlin, celebrities flocked to try to be on this show. It was popular and very well done with recurring favorite characters. They tried to re-launch it in the last 10 years and it was awful. They did an amazing 780 shows with an average of 130 shows a year for 6 years. Amazingly some series today have literally 8 shows in a full season. The EC was groundbreaking and was even endorsed by the U.S. government and many educational organizations. It was always near or at the top of kids show ratings but was cancelled due to it being expensive to run. While the Muppets and Sesame Street could make a bundle in merchandise, the Electric Company was very limited on what it could sell. It helped the careers of many stars as well and remains one of the greatest kids shows of all time. The Land Of The Lost: Cast: Spencer Milligan (Seasons 1 & 2), Wesley Eure, Kathy Coleman, Phillip Paley, Ron Harper (Season 3) Name another kids show who had writers from Star Trek writing episodes for it. The Land of the Lost remains one of the great Krofft shows. When Marshall and his 2 kids Will and Holly get caught in a dimensional portal after an earthquake, they go to a strange land where dinosaurs rule. While trying to get home, Grumpy the T-Rex was their biggest worry, but most of the dinosaurs were friendly herbivores. They fight the evil Sleestak’s and befriend Cha-Ka of the Pakuni tribe. Spencer Milligan who played Marshall, left the show at the start of the third season because he wanted more salary and he thought the cast should get a cut of their images and the merchandise that had become popular. The 70’s was not exactly a decade for tv actors to get rich and many times they were not paid much in residuals or merchandise, if at all. The original cast can often be seen at reunions and fan signings. It remains arguably the most popular show the Krofft’s have ever done. Want to win a bar bet? What future NBA star was an original Sleestak? It was none other than the World Champion Detroit Pistons Bill Laimbeer. When he attended Palos Verdes High School, he was asked to be a Sleestak due to how tall and skinny he was. H.R. Pufnstuf: Cast: Jack Wilde, Billie Hayes, Lennie Weinrib, Joan Gerber, Walker Edmiston You want to know how great this show is? At the time the show was aired, the Beatles would ask for copies of it sent to them directly by the Krofft’s. Teens and high school kids would write the show by the thousands. They only did 17 episodes and even today it has a huge cult following. TV Guide rated it their 22nd greatest cult tv show of all time. Add another classic hit theme, and it’s hard to top H.R. Pufnstuf. With the iconic Jack Wild (he played the greatest artful dodger of all time in the 1968 film Oliver which he got an Academy Award Nomination); Witchiepoo played by Billie Hayes (always flying her Vroom Broom) and the amazing adventures of good v.s. evil; this show captured the hearts of kids all over the world. There were rumors that Wild got a million dollars to do this show. I cheated a little. This was actually created at the very end of 1969, but most of its airplay occurred in the 1970’s. Below they answer the age old question if drugs fueled the name of the show. Who’s your friend when things get rough? H.R. Pufnstuf, because he can’t do a little if he can’t do enough. The longer I’m around the more I realize what’s popular isn’t always good and what’s good isn’t always popular. Citizen Kane wasn’t widely seen for over 20 years and the public wasn’t that thrilled about it at the time anyway. The Wizard of Oz took 25 years just to break even and that was after network television began to show it. The networks wanted to cancel Hill Street Blues but they were nominated for so many Emmy’s that they kept it on. In some instances though, the networks just don’t back what is popular because they didn’t believe in the shows. That was the case with many of the Krofft’s classics. Sid and Marty Krofft blazed trails and showed the way to a new type of kids show. Sid; laid back and full on hippy; and high strung and tell it like it is Marty; created entertainment that will live forever. Their search for a kind, gentle, and peaceful world through their television shows, resonates with many even today. What Sesame Street, the Kroft’s and Mr. Rogers did was they listened to kids; whether young or old. Parts of these creators never grew up and they fed a kid’s passion for adventure, fantasy, and kindness without dumbing them down with violence and sex. That is something many of today’s parents and tv shows have forgotten. Let kids be kids and cherish their innocence, wonder, and imagination for as long as you can. And if you’re lucky, a part of them will never grow up too. 70'sabcBigfoot and WildboyBilly BartyBilly HayesButch PatrickCaroline EllisCartoonCartoon NetworkCartoonscbsCharles Nelson ReillyChildrenChildrens TelevisionDanny SeagrenDoug MomaryDr. ShrinkerdrugsfacebookgoogleH.R. 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Show that Raider loyalty! Follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VillapianOK A Hall of Famer in my world. Friends used to ask who do you want on a podcast or even to just have a beer with. The 4 people remain the same. Ken Stabler, Bill King, John Madden, and Phil Villapiano. Today I’m writing about one of the most popular Raider players of all time, and one of my dad’s favorites in Phil Villapiano. “Foo” was a Raider from the start. Phil during his days at Bowling Green; team MVP and defensive player of the year From Day One: When Phil Villapiano was drafted, most teams had him going in the 3rd or 4th round. The Raiders drafted him in the 2nd round out of Bowling Green which was a surprise to some. Many teams had Villapiano listed at only 210 pounds, being too small to play linebacker. Back then there was no NFL combines or official weigh ins, so most teams would share information with each other to save money and time. The Raiders refused to share information. Phil with his sons Phil & Michael What the Raiders knew about Villapiano was that he was legitimately 225 pounds. He was an instinctive player who loved to hit. His speed laterally was excellent and a big part of his game. He could play every down and had great feel in pass coverage. In the same draft Oakland selected Jack Tatum, Clarence Davis, and backup tight end Bob Moore. With Tatum and Villapiano, they had 2 hard hitters to go with another that loved contact in George Atkinson. The Raiders added Skip “Dr. Death” Thomas in the following draft and their back 7 was as physical and skilled as any in the history of the game. The Raiders offenses were awesome but most forget that in 3 Super Bowl wins the Raiders only gave up 33 points and had three great QB’s in Fran Tarkenton, Ron Jaworski & Joe Theismann running for their lives most of the time. In fact all 4 teams in last years AFC and NFC Championship games were in the top 5 scoring defenses in the entire NFL. It isn’t sexy but defense still wins championships. Dave Rowe, Ted Hendricks, Phil Villapiano, Ken Stabler Phil’s Coming Out Party: In week 3 of the 1971 season, rookie Villapiano was thrown into the fire and he had to start due to injuries at linebacker. Phil had an amazing game on national television against the Browns in front of 84,000 screaming Cleveland fans. To the dismay of every fan outside of Oakland, Howard Cosell raved about Phil during the Raiders 34-20 win, making him a household name over night and announce another weapon for the hated Oakland Raiders. Phil Speaking after he was elected to the College Senior Bowl Hall of Fame A Key Member of the Raiders Defense: Phil soon became a mainstay in the Raiders physical style of play. He could cover all parts of the field, and his violent play was just what the Raiders wanted. In front of the famous “Soul Patrol” and behind an aggressive and relentless defensive line, Monte Johnson, Ted Hendricks, Willie Hall, and Villapiano manned one of the more underrated LB crews and defenses in the NFL. Al Davis and Ron Wolf’s motto for their defense was one thing; the QB must go down, and go down hard. Raider fans loved seeing Villapiano slowly and methodically hitting his arm pad on the line of scrimmage letting opponents know that he was coming and he was going to hit somebody. (A video showing the brutality of the Raiders defense and Phil Villapiano’s team “activities”) The renegade Raiders were by far the king of bay area sports and they capped off their success in 1976 with a dominating performance in Super Bowl 11 with a win over the Minnesota Vikings, 32-14. There were some sweaty palms at the start of the game though. The Raiders took the opening kickoff and went down the field but kicker Errol Mann missed a 29 yard field goal. Later in the 1st, Viking great Fred McNeil blocked a Ray Guy punt for Guy’s first blocked punt in his career. Minnesota recovered it on the Raiders 3 yard line and Raider fans began to worry. On third down, Villapiano forced a fumble from RB Brent McClanahan which fellow LB Willie Hall recovered and the Raiders went on a long drive for a short FG. Phil’s key play changed the momentum of the game. (Phil is even clutch during a fun time at the 2009 Biletnikoff Celebrity Golf Tournament) The Wild Days In Oakland: Along with their amazing winning ways, Oakland also lead the league in having fun. The Raiders off the field craziness was unequalled, with Phil Villapiano being the unofficial ring leader of all of the antics. The stories of the Raiders training camp days in Santa Rosa are of legend. So many fans enjoyed spending time with players at North Bay hotspots and one of their favorites to party with was Villapiano and Ken Stabler. (Phil’s interview on his foundation to save the Jersey Shore after hurricane Sandy) He would set up activities and games to break the monotony of training camp. And as many players have said, cheating was not only encouraged but a necessity. Players drank with fans, outcasts, and anyone else that was considered part of the Raider family. Hells Angels and the Black Panthers would befriend some Raiders, and even a few shady figures would emerge. While most celebrities loved glamorous teams like the Cowboys, actors like James Garner became friends with the Raiders of the 70’s along with owner Al Davis. Phil Loves his golf especially charity events From paying a woman to run naked across the practice field, to setting a small fire to stop the monotony of training camp, the pranks were wild and Phil was usually the instigator. Phil once even helped put on a wedding at one of the restaurants with some of the Raiders helping with the direction and officiating of the nuptials. After passing the hat around they helped the couple go on a honeymoon. Of course the wedding was bogus, and to this day no one knew if the couple ever found out they really weren’t married. Phil & the Raiders Legacy: Phil is all smiles giving the #1 sign late in the game of the Raiders 1st Super Bowl win against the Vikings I fought with some old time NFL fans and writers last year who tried to downplay how good the Raiders were. We all know how I love facts so I was loaded for bear. Daryle Lamonica was 38-4-1 in his first 43 starts for Oakland. Ken Stabler was 50-11-1 in his first 62 starts and the Raiders were 18-1-1 in their first 20 Monday night football games. No offense, but if Derek Carr and the Raiders had those stats today, with the fervor of social media, they would be erecting statues for them. Raiders Greats; Phil Villapiano and Jim Otto The Facts About The Raiders & the 1970’s: The Raiders won more games than any other team in the NFL in the 1970’s, the greatest decade in NFL history. During the 1970-75 dynasty of the Miami Dolphins, the Raiders were 4-2 against the mighty Dolphins including 2-1 in the playoffs. Against the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970’s, the Raiders were the only team with success owning a 6-5 record. They were 2-3 against Pittsburgh in the playoffs but one of those wins was the Immaculate Reception, and another was the 16-10 loss in Pittsburgh, where “somehow” outside the hash-marks the field had become completely frozen after the Steelers groundskeepers allegedly watered it down in the frigid cold of a Pennsylvania winter day. One of the few players Pittsburgh Hall of Famer Mel Blount struggled with was Cliff Branch. Al Davis got in an argument, yelling at Pete Rozelle before the game on the field saying how this now limited Cliff Branch’s speed. And they say the Raiders cheated! In an online contest created by the NFL on their website, the 1976 Raiders were voted the greatest team in NFL history by over 5.2 million fans. https://jimjax4.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/over-5-2-million-nfl-fans-vote-the-1976-oakland-raiders-the-best-team-of-all-time/ Phil was a big part of all this success. In fact most felt the Raiders were better in 1977 but Phil and OL John Vella had season ending injuries. The beat up Raiders were never healthy for the rest of the decade. Eventually he was traded to Buffalo not long after he made comments that the Raiders needed to stay in Oakland. He said that he never felt those comments got Al Davis mad, but Phil is a nicer guy than I am and I’m not so sure. Phil making sure Steelers great Franco Harris goes nowhere. Phil is Just as Good Off the Field: First off, congratulations to Phil who just won the Jersey Shore’s greatest Sports Personality in the last 50 years! We hope that this is not the last HOF he gets into. Again, please go to his Facebook page to support his Hall of Fame run. http://shoresportsnetwork.com/phil-villapiano/ When I first worked for the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation in honor of my cousin Celestina, I was so happy to see Phil Villapiano being such a huge contributor for them. Phil has lent himself to many charities and he is beloved by fans and organizations alike. Phil is in various Hall of Fames and his other charities include saving the Jersey Shore after hurricane Sandy and MDA & ALS. http://www.niashf.org/inductees/phil-villapiano/ The story of Phil giving his Super Bowl ring to inspire a man in a wheel chair is amazing and continues to spread online. http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2017/02/one_raiders_star_walked_the_walk_with_the_gift_of.html He also has bravely offered his brain to CTE research as well. Players like Jim Plunkett and George Atkinson have discussed the issue and the struggles they are having, and Phil also has done several interviews on the effects that football has had on his body. https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/04/21/raiders-great-phil-villapiano-pledges-brain-to-research/ Phil recently has joined his voice with other former NFL players to support flag football instead of tackle football for kids under the age of 14. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/18/health/nfl-no-tackle-football-kids/index.html Phil joins the ranks of so many special Raider players. Their love of life, football and their fellow man is both inspiring and endearing. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey and raised in Asbury Park, Phil has left his mark on many hearts around the country. He has seen pain and tragedy but through it all he lives life with joy and a smile. Graduating from Bowling Green and making a name on the national scene in Oakland, he is more than a college icon, former NFL Rookie of the Year, 2 time all NFL player, or 5 time all AFC player. A lot more. I was once asked on a podcast why the Raiders players relationship with the fans was so special because they said they just didn’t understand it. I said, “Most people look at the players as celebrity athletes. It’s their team. Even though I was too little to understand anything, in Oakland the Raiders were not celebrities but they were considered family. The players were underpaid so many worked, played and were socially active with the fans. They also genuinely enjoyed and cared for each other, and the players were a part of the community. From Al Davis who the NFL and most owners hated; to the great Bill King who the networks and the Warriors took off of tv for looking like the Devil; neither they, the players or the fans really fit in anywhere. Except in Oakland”. “They worked hard and played hard and loved their families. They were outcasts and throw aways that made sense to no one. The players were always too old, wild, or too slow or not big enough. Al Davis would see their heart and take them in. Then you put them all together with an East Bay attitude under an overcast, grey sky in Oakland on a crisp fall day, and together they all made sense. They won and they dominated. The pride; the winning; the diversity in race and religion; it was the best relationship in sports. No stadium was louder, no bond stronger”. From New Jersey to California, Phil has never lost who he was and who was there for the ride. His loyalty and love for fans and family is contagious. And anyone that could put a smile on my mom and dad’s face has my loyalty. (The Amazing run of the Raiders; The Rebels of Oakland) They say never meet your heroes, and when I first started my medical business in the bay area, I was able to meet some A-List athletes and celebrities that I admired. Most were ok, but a couple turned out to be arrogant, self absorbed and just plain strange and it hurt. Raider fans are lucky because for the most part they are never disappointed. Meet Lester Hayes or Jim Otto or Phil Villapiano, and they will have you leaving with a smile. Phil is a fan favorite due to his whit, love of life, and passionate heart. He’s never really received the credit he deserved on the field, but let’s be real, many Raiders haven’t. People forget the east coast media dominated sports at the time. I’m sorry but waiting this long for Cliff Branch, Lester Hayes, Jack Tatum and Phil Villapiano is unacceptable and I’ve told the NFL writers as such. (Don’t get me started on Ken Stabler). Phil is already in our HOF and I hope Phil truly knows just how special he is to the bay area. So if you are having a rough day, open your favorite adult beverage and go on youtube and enjoy the Super Bowl and championship games all over again. Check out Phil’s interviews that will leave you inspired and always laughing. Reminisce about the players and friends and family that you shared these amazing times with. Remember loved ones that are no longer with us that you shared so much with and who started your journey as a Raider fan. The Sea of Hands; The Holy Roller; the Ghost to the Post; the Heidi Game; and all that winning. For me, every time I watch these videos and see the feelings of joy in the fans and the players, it’s as exciting as the Klondike, flying over the Atlantic, or the story of the White Whale. 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Here’s How to Survive It” September 28, 2017 Jim Jax Leave a comment Are you sick of the drama? Me too. Social media has literally changed everything in our country. It is the fuel of any online forest fire. With most people on facebook and some on twitter, issues get blown way out of proportion. Where before we were somewhat open minded, tolerant and respectful, the world now laughs at us for being childish, close minded, ignorant, and drop outs for anger management. Some are so hyper sensitive, even the smallest things can set them off. Honey Boo Boo’s reality show looks like Masterpiece Theater compared to what is happening now in America. The mantra in the U.S. today is, think as I do or you are an idiot. I thought people were supposed to get smarter with age? Instead many are more aggressive and close minded as ever. Are you sick of it? Let’s look at how we can survive all of this Jr. High School drama. How To Survive This Drama: Be Open Minded: Good leadership is so rare in our country because most can’t do 4 things; listen, understand, be compassionate and compromise. If you can’t do these 4 things, you can never be a great leader. In this situation I totally respect and understand both sides. I think both have good and bad points. If you listen and understand people’s feelings in a rational manner without acting like a hot head, you can get that both sides have valid thoughts and a compromise can be reached. If we respected each other’s opinions, we could see both sides. Don’t talk about it or react online. When people talk about it online, I just move on. Everyone says the same thing over and over and I’m pretty sick of it. The media is loving this. They now show the national anthem as if it was a game itself. And oh the commentary. I’m not a drama guy so I don’t get off on it. I’ll avoid it and watch the game. I don’t care what some jock, ex jock, celebrity or team owner has to say about the situation. I don’t know them and they are not my role models. I don’t look up to them for moral or spiritual leadership. And for all the love he is getting, I especially don’t look up to Jerry Jones. Just look on the internet to Jerry Jones history and partying ways. Character is what you do behind closed doors, NOT what you do when you know everyone is watching. So many are nasty online and if you engage with them, you are just going to make yourself crazy. On Facebook just keep scrolling. Even if it’s a friend or even if you are asked what you think, just move on. People no longer want to talk about things so they can get others viewpoints. All they want to do is have people agree with them, or to attack those that don’t. Stop debating with those that are close minded: Remember that a lot of adults today are close minded and it really comes out online. Two thirds of the country blindly back either the Republican or Democratic party like cult members, and the final third of the country is shaking their heads. Social media has also made us all feel very self important; especially through our viewpoints. For many their biases and prejudices from their parents have really stuck to them. I remember being 18 and my father trying to tell me how to vote in my first election. I told him I’d listen to him but I’d vote how I felt I should. My dad liked that I stood up to him and thought for myself. My parents told me to always do what is right even if the world is going the other way. When you deal with facts and what is right or wrong, you realize you should not trust ANY politician or ANY political party. Just look at history. In fact it sounds ignorant and naive to me to trust these people. AVOID talking to biased people about this situation like the plague. NO GOOD can come from it. You cannot debate them or reason with them. They will not listen to you and they think if you don’t think like them then you are an idiot. I personally listen to everyone but I also realize talking to a rock is pointless. First off I have several relatives and friends that have and are serving in the military. That’s from WWII, to Vietnam, to the Gulf War to the Iraq War. They fought for the very rights and freedoms that we have today and I’m extremely proud of all of them. As some of them say, one of those freedoms they fought for is the freedom to protest. I would like the players to stand up but it’s not a big deal if they don’t. I don’t look to them to set my moral standards. Our country was founded on protest. Many of the same people ripping on the players now are the same families that called people against the Iraq war Commies, un-America traitors, and many even thought they should be charged with treason. A total of 93% of Americans were for that war when the 7% were right. History. Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. And as I watch the amazing Vietnam series by Ken Burns on PBS, I see the millions of people of all ages; including soldiers and ex soldiers; who protested a war that was motivated for all the wrong reasons. The day after the Kent St. murders, millions of students across the country protested on the streets and highways of our country demanding justice in an unjust war. Millions of mothers, fathers and ex military protested on Washington and other areas to bring our brave young men home. They were so passionate and loud that President Nixon listened. He had to. If you haven’t watched it you should. It has inspired me and brought a new respect for those of that time that fought, and for those that fought to bring them home. The National Anthem issue hasn’t affected me in any way. If fans feel they need to burn their jerseys and not go to games or watch, then I respect that. If players and fans want to protest racism and other issues then I support that too. THIS IS AMERICA! When did we lose the right to do what we wanted? When political parties infused into the older generations that they were perfect, that’s when. What is funny is that many of the people that are burning jerseys, are white and I don’t think that is a coincidence. If you never experienced racism and you live in a non sensitive society like we have today, you are not going to understand the issue or the feelings. And some that are for the protesters have little to no knowledge of the sacrifice of the military and their families. Remember those 4 points of leadership I had? If both sides would follow that, they both would understand each other. I think the players are misunderstood as well. They don’t hate America; right or wrong, they think this is the loudest way of protesting the lack of justice and racism that they see in our country today. I guarantee if dozens of rich white people were unjustly killed by cops in rich areas around the country, caucasians would be outraged and wonder what is going on! If you are sick of the pettiness, anger and dramatics of this issue and you just want to watch football, then do it. Personally I don’t see any change coming from this, only more division. Change is only found with dialog and compromise; something most adults are no longer willing to do in America. Men’s ego, close mindedness and greed has screwed up so much in the world and the NFL is no exception. Our love for Patriotism is strange. While some scream USA and say respect the flag, almost half of people that can vote don’t. Corporations take jobs away from Americans just so they could get slave labor wages overseas so more generations of trust fund babies can be taken care of. On the other hand, many that are kneeling during the Anthem have never done much of anything in their lives in regards to fighting for people’s rights. Many of them now talk like they are civil rights experts when in reality they have a lot to learn. So in ending, in true GOOD American fashion, I say respect people’s view points and then YOU do what you think is right. I for one will continue to worry about the X’s and O’s and still watch the NFL while respecting people’s rights to be angry at the players, and the players right to protest. I’ll also greatly respect those things that our country holds dear, but THAT IS MY RIGHT. If you do what you think is right without berating others that disagree, you will not only be a good American, but you will also be rid of the drama. abcamericaAmerican Flaganthemballbbcbleacher reportblogbloggerbloggingburningburning jerseysbusinesscbscbs sportsColin Kaepernickcontroversyemailespnfacebookfacebook groupsFansfirefoxflagfootballforumsfoxfox sportsgoogleinstagraminternetjerry joneskaepernickkneelkneelingmediamozillaNational AnthemnbcnewsNFLpersonalplayerspresidentprotestprotestersracismRaidersrant sportsrantsredditrelationshipsrightssb nationschoolsnapchatSportssports illustratedtelevisionthe flagtrumptvtwitterUncategorizeduniformsusUSAwebwikipediaword presswordpresswordpress.comwordpress.networkyahooyahoo sportsyardbarkeryou tubeyoutube bing, blog, facebook, gmail, google, insider, instagram, internet, media, mozilla, net, news, online, pinterest, reddit, searchengine, Sports, television, the internet, tumblr, Uncategorized, web, wikipedia, wordpress, wordpress.com, yahoo, you tube, youtube “Jim Jax’ Interview with Discovery Channel’s “MacGuyver” Yukon Men’s Stan Zuray” May 2, 2017 Jim Jax 4 Comments Stan Zuray Below is our podcast interview with Stan Zuray and filmmakers Ryan Walsh and Kari Pickering. Yukon Men is back! After little to no communication from the network, the hit show on the Discovery Channel is back. It will be shown on Fridays at 9 pm (8 pm Central) with the third episode of the season premiering this Friday. Charlie, Stan, Courtney, Pat and all the rest will be back in the small town of Tanana, fighting the elements, outsiders, and the changing times in the small Alaskan town. Below is a crowdfunding effort by filmmaker Ryan Walsh to create a series about Stan’s life. BELOW IS STAN’S NEW BOOK! My Love for Alaska: My uncle spent time in Alaska as a young man and since then it fascinated me. I also remember watching the amazing special with Dick Proenneke on PBS called, “Alone in the Wilderness”. While moving to a remote area in Alaska, Dick built a cabin, cache & other structures by hand without electric tools or chainsaws. He lived alone at Twin Lakes from 1968 to 1999, with only a few trips outside of the area and only occasional visitors. Dick also was a talented videographer and he filmed and made records and journals of his daily routines which are still used today by experts. His craftsmanship was amazing on his structures. Dick’s Documentary is one of the highest rated in the history of television. https://www.nps.gov/lacl/learn/historyculture/proennekes-cabin.htm Another love of mine was the show Survivorman featuring Les Stroud. Les filmed himself in a grueling series that is still the standard for survival shows. While the others admit some scenes are staged, other than film editing, Les showed the reality of survival and taught amazing skills in a truthful and straight forward manner. Dick Proenneke Filming in Alaska http://www.lesstroud.ca/ Les Stroud “The Survivorman” Why is Yukon Men Popular?: I have to be honest; tv is brutal these days. I’m sorry but shows like the Bachelor and Naked & Afraid are so sophomoric and dumb and fake that I can’t stand it. And yes, they are highly controlled by the network. A while back I went out with a girl in LA that did the make up for a season of Survivor. After a few drinks she admitted the show was staged at times and that they did retakes. What I like about Yukon men though is that it’s as honest as a show can be. Are some of the situations enhanced for tv? Of course; I’m not naïve; but the everyday struggles, pressures, and situations they battle are very, very real. I think people also enjoy that these are everyday people that they can relate to. Every woman isn’t 5’ 9” with blond hair and blue eyes and every man doesn’t look like Brad Pitt. These are good hard working people looking to feed their families and create a life teaching the skills and cultures that they have been taught. We see ourselves in some of them and we appreciate their honesty and humbleness towards their everyday life. “Joey, Kate, Stan Zuray” Looking Ahead to This Season: I fear that with the opening of the new road allowing easy access to the area, it will probably have a very negative impact on the Tanana residents. Tourists and others usually bring greed, garbage, and a lack of respect whenever they venture into the wild. The hunting borders, animals, and the environment need to all be respected. “Kathleen and Stan Zuray at the Opening Bell for Discovery” Stan Zuray: I admit I was not a big Stan fan at the beginning. I think it was because of my relationship with my own dad. Like most young men, Joey was headstrong and opinionated even though he didn’t have much experience. I related to him and felt his frustration when dealing with Stan. Just like with Joey, when you start walking in your dad’s footsteps, you begin to appreciate and respect them more and see how wise they really are. Joey has now a great appreciation and trust towards his dad and it has allowed their relationship to grow. It’s made me like Stan a lot. I really appreciate Stan’s passion towards his family and the land around him. I also love his skill set. He is known as the “MacGuyver” of Yukon Men. His Frankentruck is still talked about and his ingenuity and great talent is often seen. Stan was gracious enough to allow me to interview him. I felt bad because I know he’s so busy but I wanted to share the interview. Stan was forthcoming and open and I greatly enjoyed his responses. (I also found out Stan has been an ordained minister for over 3 decades). Jim Jax: Before coming to Alaska, where were you raised and what kind of life was it compared to the life you live now? Stan Zuray: I was raised in a part of Boston, Mass. called Dorchester. It was a very urban environment with very tight neighborhoods with many parts ethnically divided. Much has changed there since my childhood. While I was young, my parents would take us to beaches and drives in the country and a couple of times to my dad’s rural home area of Pennsylvania. That was the extent of my “wilderness experience” however. I worked in a tire and mechanic shop all my summers and times off from school to make money. I was into hot rod cars and all the things boys get into including, when older, all the bad things. It was the hippie generation then and much was happening socially in the country. Many of my friends came back from Vietnam a mess. Many friends were into hard drugs with some casualties, and Boston was becoming a very lonely place for me. I had a good home and good parents, but outside the home it was not good. I went on the road to New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and the West Coast. I’ve been all over, including into Northern British Columbia where I experienced for the first time back to the earth native people living so to speak. I loved it. It wasn’t real though until I came to Alaska the next year and found myself without a lot of food and supplies. There are few similarities between Boston and Tanana, Alaska. People however are much the same everywhere it’s just that in Boston they don’t have the luxury of helping people and being as friendly because many are on the verge of losing their homes if they can’t pay the bills. One way I always think of comparing the two is I used to travel to Hampton Beach 50 miles north of Boston sometimes and I think of all the people and cars and buildings I would pass in that 50 miles. Then I think of all the trips to my fish camp I’m at now 40 miles up the Yukon River where I see just a few plywood fish camp shacks and often no people and no boats passing. And then you consider the Yukon is the main (and only) route of travel available. Jim Jax: Do you think you were born to live the lifestyle you do now or was there something that inspired you to do it? Stan Zuray: I think I am one of the lucky ones. I survived the crazy and dangerous things we did and did not die or ruin my brain or get lost in drugs and alcohol. I had enough drive to want out and get myself out and I was lucky enough to have certain people and events help me on my way. I don’t think I was born for it but I did find something of better value to me. I always say “perseverance furthers”. Jim Jax: Where did you meet your wife and how hard was it to date with so few people to socialize with? Stan Zuray: I met my wife in the village of Tanana. She liked to dance at the village gatherings and we started hanging out and traveling by dog sled to my trap line and fish camp in the summer. She is a proud, strong, full Athabascan woman. When the kids started coming along we got serious and raised our family. There aren’t many places to date in Tanana in the city type of ways and there are not that many people, but lots of things to do. Jim Jax: You are very respectful of the people around you. How accepting were the natives to you when you decided to make this your home? Stan Zuray: Some were very good to me right away and some were very opposite. The Traditional Chief of Tanana, Lester Erhart, gave me my first lead dog and much welcome while some didn’t like outsiders. Like I say I think people are very much the same everywhere (they are all different) it’s just the environment people are in often dictates their time for compassion and friendliness. Jim Jax: What kind of amenities are in your home? Do you have the internet; wifi; etc…. Do you have television/cable/dish. Stan Zuray: We have TV, internet, power from a local generator and a telephone line. Some areas of the main town have running water and cell service, but those things we don’t have. Our main heat source in Tanana is 9 cords of wood I cut each year but I have a backup oil stove for when it gets 40 below or colder. My trap line and fish camp is much cruder with none of that but we do have a satellite dish at the fish camp for communications. Jim Jax: I think Fairbanks is probably the largest city in your area; Do you get a chance to go there much? Do you ever go to major stores or enjoy a dinner out some time? Stan Zuray: Tanana is about 150 air miles northwest of Fairbanks which has about 100,000 people and is the second largest city in Alaska. I go there about 2 times each winter and also go every other year outside Alaska to Boston or somewhere else. When we do, we fit right in and we have brought the kids with us many times also. Definitely after a few days I’m ready for freedom, driving sled dogs and being in the back country again. Jim Jax: The stress of the fire was really seen in the Yukon Men episodes. Please tell the readers just how bad it was on your end and how has it changed your life, especially with so much hunting grounds destroyed. Stan Zuray: We lived with the fire right at our doorstep for almost one month. It showed us it could wipe us out a couple of times and consumed our summer with stress and work. Hopefully some of the country will recover stronger and richer than before as is often the case. I have lost everything to a fire before in the 1970’s. I have a respect and fear of fire for life I’d say. Jim Jax: When Joe was younger there was the normal friction between an eager impatient young man and his father, but as he’s matured I’ve really enjoyed your relationship growth with him. I think the more he had to do, the more he respected what you have done and who you are. How did you feel seeing him becoming a man before your eyes? Stan Zuray: Joe was always strong willed. I always said the best way to get him to do something was to suggest the opposite. That will hopefully help him out in life at times and it is good to see him want to be independent. It is of course often fun working with him when he was younger. Now that we are older I see many things in him like myself and the way my father and I were. We have a close relationship but as with all my kids they will always be something I am proud about and worry about. That always never ends. Thank you so much Stan. I look forward to this season of Yukon men. May the fishing and hunting always be plentiful. Please get Stan’s book with the link above. A great 5 Star Amazon read!!! Jim Jax Please Follow Stan: https://www.facebook.com/stanzuray/ https://twitter.com/stanzuray?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor AlaskaAlone in the WildernessDick ProennekeDiscoveryDiscovery ChannelfacebookgooglehuntinginstagramJoeyKateKathleenLes StroudMacGuyvernetworksnowStan ZuraysurvivalTananatelevisionthawtrappingtvtwitterUncategorizedwikipediawordpresswordpress blowwordpress.comyou tubeyoutubeYukonyukon men	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1406
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__label__wiki	0.589724	0.589724	Michael Moody Ph.D. Michael Moody, Ph.D., is the Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. The Frey Foundation Chair is the world’s first-ever endowed chair for family philanthropy, and Dr. Moody became the first holder of the chair in 2010. Dr. Moody serves as an accessible guide to the rapidly evolving and complex landscape of philanthropy and social innovation, helping diverse audiences see the vital role that giving plays in society, and expanding both the practice and understanding of family philanthropy. He straddles the worlds of scholarship and practice, shining a light on the connections between giving and lived experience with both expertise and enthusiasm. Dr. Moody is trained as a cultural sociologist, with a Ph.D. from Princeton, and has been actively working to understand and improve philanthropy and nonprofit organizations for almost 30 years. He is co-author of the books Generation Impact: How Next Gen Donors Are Revolutionizing Giving (with Sharna Goldseker, 2017), The Philanthropy Reader (with Beth Breeze, 2016), and Understanding Philanthropy: Its Meaning and Mission (with Robert L. Payton, 2008). He is a frequent speaker at venues across the U.S. and worldwide, and a sought-after commentator on philanthropic trends and research. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Forbes, Alliance, and elsewhere. Dr. Moody earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Indiana University, where he then became one of the first employees of the university’s renowned Center on Philanthropy, helping to create the Jane Addams Fellows Program. He received a master’s in social science from the University of Chicago, and his doctoral work at Princeton focused on philanthropic giving and nonprofit organizations. Prior to becoming the Frey Foundation Chair, Dr. Moody held faculty positions at Boston University and the University of Southern California, where he was a faculty fellow at the USC Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy. He also founded Moody Philanthropic Consulting based in Richmond, Virginia. In addition to his books about the theory and social role of philanthropy and donors, his other publications focus on family foundations, venture philanthropy, ethical giving, the notion of “giving back,” donor education, nonprofit advocacy, and many other topics. Dr. Moody lives with his wife in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and balances a life of the mind by practicing kung fu and hitting golf balls and drums, though rarely at the same time. Media & Mentions Inside Philanthropy; How the Battle Against Billionaires Could Reshape American Giving (Dec. 2019) Michigan Radio’s Stateside with Cynthia Canty; In Grand Rapids, the influence of the city’s billionaires is clear (Dec. 2019) The Suburban Times; South Sound Philanthropy Summit Presents “Next Gen” Philanthropy (Sept. 2019) Nonprofit Quarterly; A New Theory of U.S. Nonprofits in a Democracy Gone Awry (May 2019) AFP News; Top Philanthropy Research Prize Awarded to Book on Next Gen Donors (April 2019) Grand Rapids Business Journal; Business, charitable sectors are blurring (March 2019) MiBiz; Philanthropy’s role blurs as more businesses adopt social enterprise models (March 2019) Pro Bono Australia; The Boundaries are Blurring Between Philanthropy and Business (Feb. 2019) Tyler Morning Telegraph; Try giving — Bill Gates style (Jan. 2019) Giving Compass; Why We Need To Know More About Donor Journeys (Jan. 2019) The Chronicle on Philanthropy; Family Feud Erupts Over Direction of $1 Billion-Plus Grant Maker (Jan. 2019) WGVU Morning Show with Shelley Irwin; Michael Moody discusses new guide for nonprofits (Nov. 2018) Seattle Foundation Blog; Next Gen Donors & the Impact Revolution (May 2018) Grand Rapids Business Journal; ‘Golden age of giving’ (April 2018) Pro Bono Australia; US Thought Leaders Predict Philanthropy Trends for 2018 (Feb. 2018) WMUK Public Radio; Young Donors Predicted to Give Historic Dollars, Ideas (Feb. 2018) The Business of Giving Podcast; Co-Authors of Generation Impact, Michael Moody and Sharna Goldseker (Feb. 2018) Nonprofit Quarterly; It’s All About the Relationship: How Nonprofits Can Better Engage Next Gen Donors (Jan. 2018) MiBiz; Embracing next gen ideals: Nonprofits, foundations change tactics to tap into younger donors, volunteers (Jan. 2018) National Center for Family Philanthropy Blog; What the Next Gen Really Wants (Jan. 2018) MiBiz; Q&A: Michael Moody, Ph.D., Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy (Jan. 2018) Breakthrough Radio; Generation Impact – Revolutionizing Giving (Jan. 2018) Philanthropy News Magazine; What makes next gen donors tick? (Dec. 2017) Chicago Tribune; On Philanthropy: Next-generation donors will revolutionize giving (Dec. 2017) Nonprofit Leadership Podcast with Rob Harter; Michael Moody discusses his new book, Generation Impact (Dec. 2017) The Denver Post; On Philanthropy: Next-generation donors will revolutionize giving (Dec. 2017) Successful Generations Podcast; Join the Philanthropic Revolution with Michael Moody (Dec. 2017) FFI Practitioner; Advisors to the Next Generation – An interview with two next gen donors (Dec. 2017) Financial Advisor Magazine; Advisors Can Provide Direction To Young Donors On Charitable Giving (Nov. 2017) Stanford Social Innovation Review; Show Me the Impact (Nov. 2017) Women in Wealth Magazine; Up Close and Personal with Next Gen Donors (Oct. 2017) The Chronicle of Philanthropy; Fundraisers Must Adapt to New Breed of Wealthy Young Donors, Authors say. (Oct. 2017) Philanthropy Northwest; Conference Session Spotlight: Next Gen Philanthropists (Sept. 2017) Legacy Arts Magazine; Michael Moody: A Legacy of Learning (Sept. 2017) The New York Times; Learning to Bridge a Generation Gap in Philanthropy (July 2017) WMUK Radio; Two Proud (But Different) Philanthropic Communities (July 2017) Grand Valley Lanthorn; Understanding community giving (July 2017) GVNow; GVSU researchers use new method to explore giving traits of specific communities (June 2017) WGVU Morning Show with Shelley Irwin; Millennials and the next generation of philanthropists (April 2017) WalletHub; 2016’s Most Charitable States (Nov. 2016) GMNsight; Youth Philanthropy: Collaborative From the Start (Sept. 2016) Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies; New publication on philanthropy now available (July 2016) MiBiz; Charitable dollars ebb and flow as total giving reaches record high (June 2016) Center for Nonprofit Excellence; #NextGenDonors: Respecting Legacy, Revolutionizing Philanthropy (Jan. 2016) Advancing Philanthropy; Deciphering DAFs (June 2015) MiBiz; Report outlines how millennials are changing the face of philanthropic giving (March 2015) The Chronicle of Philanthropy; Young Tech Donors Take Leading Role in Philanthropy 50 (Feb. 2015) New Philanthropy Capital Blog; Engaging Young Donors in an Aging Society (Feb. 2015) Crain’s Detroit Business; A new age of giving: Grand Rapids philanthropy evolves from a generation whose names dot landscape (Oct. 2014) MiBiz.com; Johnson Center studies evolving philanthropic landscape (April 2014) San Francisco Jewish Weekly; Assimilated younger generation still gives Jewishly, report says (Oct. 2013) Fundraising Success; First-of-its-kind study reveals new picture of Jewish next gen major donors (Aug. 2013) HuffPost Detroit; Detroit foundations perform civic triage, aiding education, economic development and more (May 2013) The Chronicle of Philanthropy;Young wealthy donors bring taste for risk, hands-on involvement to philanthropy (May 2013) Forbes; What it means to be a philanthropist — Gen Xers and Millennials weigh in (April 2013) Family Giving News; Who are the next generation of major donors? (Feb. 2013) MiBiz.com; Young philanthropists crave involvement (Feb. 2013) Stanford Social Innovation Review; Next Gen Donors and their plan for greater impact (Feb. 2013) Philanthropy North Carolina Blog; Emerging donors aim for impact, involvement (Feb. 2013) The Washington Post; In study of next generation donors, good news for start-ups, social entrepreneurs and innovators (Feb. 2013) Texas Non Profits; A groundbreaking report sheds light on next-generation philanthropists (Feb. 2013) PRWeb; Groundbreaking report sheds light on next-generation philanthropists (Jan. 2013) Holland Sentinel; GVSU report provides insight into next-gen philanthropists (Jan. 2013)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1422
__label__wiki	0.910321	0.910321	VIDEO: Bihzhu’s ‘Bright Veins’ By JUICE Malaysia • Mar 25th, 2015 in News It’s been four years since we’ve heard from Nicole Foo aka Bihzhu, whose song ‘The Heart Way‘ received plenty radio plays back then. Her latest track ‘Bright Veins’ is beaming with optimism and, if you may or may not be wading through some issues, general reassurance that “everything will be okay” as she reminds us repeatedly throughout the song. Recorded while she was at a spiritual retreat in Australia, there is a definite holistic vibe to the track with the traditional instruments such as tabla, gamelan, kompang, and dholakh— and particularly in the celebratory yelps and cheers complementing the backing vocals as the song reaches its triumphant conclusion. ‘Bright Veins’ is available for purchase here.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1430
__label__cc	0.748538	0.251462	← The John Oliver Brahms Requiem Christoph Von Valentine → The Christoph von Dohnányi Brahms Requiem Okay, okay… THAT was a rehearsal, too. 🙂 Singing yesterday with John was about seeing a familiar face. Singing tonight was great, but it was hard work. If yesterday was slipping into a favorite, comfortable pair of slippers, then today was breaking in a new pair of $700 loafers. (Hat tip to Will for that one. Also, I clearly don’t spend enough on my shoes.) So what does the Brahms Requiem according to Maestro Dohnányi sound like? For one thing, he embraces the concept that this piece is about “philosophy, not belief.” The German Requiem is more secular in nature than others, given the way it eschews the Latin Mass in favor of vernacular passages from the Luther Bible. It’s less about the afterlife and those who have died, and more about those of us here now who still live. That happens to be one of the reasons I really enjoy this Requiem more than some of the others, but I’d never seen that philosophy transferred into the interpretation of the music before. Christoph’s overriding direction to us was to make it happy. Blessed are we who mourn! We should rejoice in the lives that were led, and embrace those of us still here. Instead, our tendency has been to sing this like a funeral dirge, with a lugubrious, dark tone. Christoph wants none of that, and immediately set to work reversing our somber tone, reminding us that we’re comforting the mourners, reminding them of the good in life. The other major difference is how particular Maestro is about… well, about everything, really. The first 10 minutes of rehearsal had us all pretty worried, as Christoph’s correctional slogging, measure by measure, felt like a potential repeat of a long Saturday workout with Maestro Suzuki and the St. John Passion. He let up a little bit as we settled in, but he still never accepted anything that interfered with the sound he wanted. (He drilled us basses down to individual poorly tuned notes on one particularly offensive passage.) I especially liked the way he would have us rehearse the fugues quietly. Not only did this preserve our voices, it exposed us to flaws in our entrances, pronunciation, note values, and other automatic pilot details that disappear when you’re singing loudly. It’s definitely a good technique to keep in mind. (You know, should I ever conduct this piece myself. Uh-huh. Right.) Nowhere was this attention to detail more noticeable than his direction on when dynamics begin and end. We’ve admittedly gotten a bit lazy on starting and finishing crescendos, and so far we’ve just survived using our musical intelligence to shape the phrase. But Christoph holds us to what’s printed. That crescendo you’re making? It doesn’t start until the third measure. That decrescendo you didn’t make? You’ve got to get back down to piano or else you won’t have a place to start the swell in the next two measures. The whole rehearsal was peppered with corrections like that to what we thought we knew about the ebb and flow of the phrases. The rest of the differences are really just interesting artistic decisions that zig where previously John zagged. Like every encounter with great conductors, one walks away with a renewed sense of the textures of the piece, and a new appreciation for passages that might have been swept aside or sung on automatic pilot before. Asking the basses to back off so the altos can be the lead in quiet passages featuring the three lower voices. Replacing bombastic swells with smarter phrasing that fits the character of the piece. Emphasizing the counterpoints just as much as the subjects in the fugues. Changing the basses’ entire fugue entrance from the marcato “Proud, Triumphant!!!” (written in my score from previous years) to a more reserved, fully legato line that carries through the continuity of the (now much more pronounced) ewigkeit lead in. Lots of little adjustments like that to alter the textures we’re used to and thereby bring out previously hidden melodies. It’s… strange, to be tasting the chef’s concoction that has been plated before us. But he’s a darn good chef, and the requiem he’s serving up tastes fantastic. I think we all can’t wait to put it all together with the orchestra tomorrow and Wednesday. Let’s just hope we can keep something in reserve for the actual performances Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. This entry was posted in TFC and tagged Brahms, Brahms Requiem, Christoph Dohnányi, rehearsals, TFC. Bookmark the permalink. 5 responses to “The Christoph von Dohnányi Brahms Requiem” Lori Klassen \| April 3, 2012 at 3:10 am \| Reply Well Christoph, I am not sure if Happy is quite the word I would use. Comforting, consoling, soothing yes. Loved learning about how your rehearsal went. The chorous is merely the ingredient for the chef! naturgesetz \| April 3, 2012 at 3:47 am \| Reply Well, I won’t be able to get to Symphony Hall when you’re performing it, but I hope to catch the rebroadcast, or at least the “on demand” on Classical New England. I’ll be looking for the happiness. Rosanna Carteri \| April 9, 2012 at 12:49 am \| Reply The Saturday performance was gorgeous and I think the highlight of the season (along with Valcuha’s debut two weeks ago). One of the most inspired performances I have seen from the Boston forces. Jeff Foley \| April 9, 2012 at 12:22 pm \| Reply Thanks for the kind words, Rosanna! Yes, Saturday’s performance turned out to be the best of the three. I talked with a friend who attended, and he admitted he didn’t like it as much as he wanted to because of some of the choices Dohnányi made for articulation, phrasing, and tempo (understandable, given he’s on a Westminster Choir College recording of the piece, and has his own very specific ideas of how it should sound!) But we definitely executed on Dohnányi’s vision and from the very first note we sang we knew we’d be locked in with the orchestra and the conductor for the whole 80 minutes. Pingback: Preparing for Maestro Tovey’s Brahms Requiem \| Just Another Bass	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1433
__label__wiki	0.749097	0.749097	8 Times Brett Eldredge Was the Funniest Guy on Instagram Cillea Houghton Warner Music Nashville Brett Eldredge may have six No. 1 hits to his name, but fans know him for more than just his catchy songs. Nope, we're not talking about his killer Frank Sinatra impersonation or ability to charm the ladies, either — we mean Eldredge's sense of humor. The country star shows off silly side in full force on Instagram and always seems to be thinking up some funny antic to share with fans. Such as: 1. That time he danced with his pup. It's no secret how much Elredge loves his dog, Edgar, and he showed his appreciation for him on National Puppy Day by doing what he does best: serenading him while attempting to slow dance, creating the perfect mix of sweet and silly. 2. When he dressed as a Luke Bryan superfan! The country star has been hitting the road with Luke Bryan, and he's not afraid to show off his support in the funniest of ways. Eldredge and his buddies dressed in hilarious disguises that consisted of crazy wigs and Luke Bryan T-shirts, making for quite the ensemble. We're so thankful he decided to show us. 3. When he auditioned for the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Fully committing to the role, Eldredge dressed in the perfect pirate outfit while hilariously riding around on a scooter that was way too small for him and threatening to "steal your booty." However, the best part was when he crashed into the trees behind him. Oh, classic Brett ... 4. When he sat in a shopping cart inside Target. Let's face it, we all love a good trip to Target, but Eldredge topped us when he strolled in wearing one of the greatest ugly Christmas sweaters ever (Santa riding a unicorn) and posed with his holiday album Glow inside a shopping cart. He has no shame, and that's just one of the things we love about him! 5. When he wrote a song about tracksuits. Really. Yes, you read that correctly. While hanging out on his tour bus, Eldredge decided to show off his creative spirit with a humorous new song dedicated to the uniform, yet comfy attire. Dressed in his own all-gray tracksuit in the clip above, the country star sings that the tracksuit is a must before he can "shake my thang and make the ladies scream." We totally agree, Brett. 6. When he had a face-off with a pug at the CMT Awards. We all know how much Eldredge loves his own dog, but apparently he doesn't get along with every breed of man's best friend. During a break at the CMT Awards, the singer engaged in a stare-down with Doug the Pug, challenging him to a "fight" after the pooch "punched" him in the chest. Sounds serious! 7. When he showed off his best dance moves on an Italian street corner. Eldredge has a special way of embracing the phrase "dance like no one is watching." He managed to show off his freshest moves on the streets of Italy, dancing and wiggling along to an accordion player, demonstrating his vibrant happy feet. 8. When he impersonated Donald Trump. Throughout the 2016 election, there were countless entertaining impersonations of Donald Trump, and the country star decided to get in on the action. Dressed in a floppy blond wig in this fun clip, Eldredge does his best impression, complete with exaggerated hand gestures, while miming along to a video of the president in the background. We give it an A+. Check Out the Best Country Artist Selfies! Next: Brett Eldredge Is Looking for Love Source: 8 Times Brett Eldredge Was the Funniest Guy on Instagram Filed Under: Brett Eldredge	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1439
__label__cc	0.705541	0.294459	On Unity and Morale with Charles Martel by Matthew M. Robare \| Apr 21, 2019 \| Books in Little The Path of the Martyrs: Charles Martel, The Battle of Tours, and the Birth of Europe by Ed West. Sharpe Books, 2019. Paperback and Kindle, 108 pages, $6. Reviewed by Matthew M. Robare In October of 732 a Muslim army composed mostly of light cavalry headed north to... Books in Little: A Certain Freedom by Staff \| Jan 15, 2018 \| Books in Little Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis by Liesl Olson. Yale University Press, 2017. Hardcover, 392 pages, $35. If you’ve ever wondered—and who hasn’t?—about what would happen if Mortimer Adler and Gertrude Stein met and talked about... Books in Little: The Disaffected by Staff \| Nov 5, 2017 \| Books in Little The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality by Justin Gest. Oxford University Press, 2016. Paper, xiii + 249 pages, $24.95The past year or so has seen the appearance of quite a few books dealing with the white poor and the... Books in Little: Philosophy for Life by Staff \| Sep 10, 2017 \| Books in Little On Life and Death by Cicero. Translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2017. Paper, 261 pages, $17.The fresh hardcovers of such works as On Old Age on bookstore shelves indicate that Cicero is in vogue nowadays. Perhaps a statesman and philosopher who... Books in Little: A Literate Lawyer by Jason Jewell \| Aug 27, 2017 \| Books in Little Of Bees and Boys: Lines from a Southern Lawyer by Allen Mendenhall. Red Dirt Press, 2017. Paperback, 76 pages, $12.95.“Are Lawyers Illiterate?” asks Allen Mendenhall in the title of one of the essays making up this collection of material previously published in... Books in Little: Austen’s Catholic Landscapes by Staff \| Apr 9, 2017 \| Books in Little Jane Austen and the Reformation: Remembering the Sacred Landscape by Roger E. Moore. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2016. Hardcover, x + 167 pages, $149.95Since Marilyn Butler’s Jane Austen and the War of Ideas appeared in 1975 there has been much written about Miss...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1444
__label__wiki	0.836851	0.836851	It’s a country-themed sweet sixteen for Westfest 2019 By editorkitchissippicom on February 11, 2019 • ( 1 Comment ) By Bradley Turcotte – A country-themed sweet sixteen party is what Elaina Martin has planned for the 2019 edition of Kitchissippi’s multidisciplinary arts festival with multiple Juno award-winning musician Charlie Major strumming as this year’s marquee headliner. Charlie Major is the Saturday night headliner at Westfest 2019. Born in Alymer, Quebec, Major is renowned for his nice guy demeanour and musical prowess with his single I’m Going to Drive You Out of My Mind winning the Canadian Country Music Association Song of the Year in 1994. Expect hay bales and herds of music lovers Saturday, June 8, as the prime Westfest day will be completely devoted to the country genre. Country music has broad appeal but few will admit to their affinity for its bluesy twang, Elaina says. “It’s a dirty secret that you love country but you don’t want to tell anyone,” she laughs. Elaina’s own musical background has its origins in country music and she’s looking forward to getting into the spirit with special “cowtown” cocktails and the hoedown chapeaus. For the time being, the Westfest founder’s lips are sealed as it pertains to all of the acts to expect this summer, but Elaina says other country bands include an outfit from Kettle and Stony Point First Nation and a trio from Sudbury. On Friday, June 7, prepare for the subversive style of Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. The Toronto collective features members who identify as Chinese-Canadian, Filipino-Canadian, Japanese-Canadian and First Nations and the music they produce is tribal and confrontational. Currently on an extensive North American tour, their latest album, Dirt, was long-listed for the Polaris Prize. Yamantaka // Sonic Titan’s drummer and leader, Alaska B, told Now Toronto the album is the equivalent of an animated sci-fi movie from the 80s that went straight to VHS. As is Westfest tradition, the festival closes out Sunday highlighting homegrown talent. This year’s weekend bookending headliner is rapper Aspects. Elaina describes Aspects as an “OG, original gangster” who returns to the main stage after performing a rousingly sweet duet with his daughter last year. “He has worked with Grammy award winners, played with Motown legends, done videos with the Wu Tang Clan,” Elaina touts. “Eminem has rapped about him. [Aspects] is an independent artist of the absolute best kind.” Always diverse and inclusive, Westfest 2019 will feature countless indigenous, female and queer artists, Elaina promises, including Ottawa’s premiere drag kings and burlesque performers. “We are digging into some of the real grassroots programming that is going on in our city and we are giving them a platform and a spotlight,” she says. A panel on collaborative art making inspired by the 83rd Call to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the 2018 edition of Westfest proved to be exceedingly successful and will repeat this year with Cara Tierny moderating. “We learned how important it was to have that conversation,” Elaina says. Fresh panelists will join the main stage discussion with audience interaction encouraged. Event producers are opting to move all Westfest programming outdoors this summer after last year’s use of the Tom Brown Arena facilities. Elaina envisions the thought-provoking and unifying panel discussion “in the daytime with everyone and their children hearing these conversations.” A storyteller’s series will precede the panel and Elaina says it is deliberate to put “a serious focus on the main stage.” Now in its second year at the arena, Elaina says the layout of Westfest 2019 will be “tweaked” as the team “continues to make it more accessible” with the children’s area moving to tents in the main festival grounds. “I want children, families and youth to experience the music and the art. The main stage will be less a stage and more a festival site.” Westfest is currently in negotiations to secure a main stage, namesake or combination sponsor, Elaina reveals. Real Canadian Superstore and Beau’s Brewery sponsor and hydrate the festival, which also receives funds from the City of Ottawa and Canadian Heritage. Yet Elaina says Westfest has never completely recovered from its 2015 financial loss and offers a heartfelt incentive to festivalgoers. On Valentine’s Day, Westfest launches a donor campaign where generous music lovers who float $100 receive one night of all-inclusive access to the VIP area and enjoy a variety of Beau’s brews. Each donor will be entered in a draw for the sweetheart package of two festival VIP passes with backstage access and headliner meet and greets. With the community response to the 16-year-old festival as rabid and passionate as a teenager, Elaina says there was “never any doubt” the festival would not continue and implores community members to join her army by emailing volunteer@westfest.ca. “It doesn’t matter who sponsors us, everything about us and our mandate remains grassroots and organic. We want everyone. Every ability, every kind of human out there who wants to take part in community and have fun.” For additional details about Westfest, go to westfest.ca. Categories: The latest scoop Tagged as: Bradley Turcotte, Elaina Martin, westfest More than just a book club Elmdale BookFest 2019 is coming soon! Pingback: Meet the Queen of Mechanicsville… and one of Westfest’s biggest fans – Kitchissippi Times Early Days: History continues for Elmgrove Arena Pasta with a purpose Five things you should know about Dovercourt	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1446
__label__cc	0.676316	0.323684	Laramie Aerial Mosquito Control Re-Scheduled Sara Teter The third time’s a charm. The City of Laramie Mosquito Control has re-scheduled their aerial mosquito control application to Saturday, June 3 due to mechanical issues with the aircraft spray pump system. The aerial application of Bacillus thuringensis israelensis, or Bti, was originally scheduled for Wednesday, May 31. Keith Wardlaw, mosquito control crew supervisor for the city, said the application was rescheduled to this morning, however the necessary parts to fix the mechanical issues had not arrived yet, forcing the city to postpone until Saturday morning. “Even if we receive the parts today, it will be too late to begin the application,” Wardlaw said. “We have rescheduled to tomorrow at daylight.” Bti is a biological larvicide, which is targeted to control nuisance mosquito larvae in irrigated areas and floodwater southwest and north of Laramie. The area along the Big Laramie River from the city limits near Cottonwood estates to about 10 miles southwest of Laramie is the first area scheduled to be treated. The second is the area north of Curtis Street between Highway 30 and Welsh Lane. The bacteria does not harm birds, fish amphibians, mammals or other aquatic insects and is environmentally friendly, according to a City of Laramie news release. No applications will be made within city limits and the City of Laramie currently rates the risk of West Nile infection at level 1, or low risk. Currently, there are no planned applications for adult mosquitoes, as adult mosquito traps indicate Laramie has not reached the threshold to start adult mosquito fogging. Read More City News Filed Under: City Of Laramie, Mosquito Control	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1449
__label__wiki	0.870251	0.870251	ICE Accessed Private Arrest Data in Seattle More Than 1,000 Times — Despite Sanctuary Law Posted 12:49 PM, July 24, 2019, by CNN Wire A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer arrives to a Flatbush Gardens home in search of an undocumented immigrant on April 11, 2018, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Credit: John Moore/Getty Images) Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had access to private information about people arrested in King County, Washington, despite a so-called sanctuary law specifically written to prevent just that, an internal audit found. The audit, released July 9, showed that the issue put residents at increased risk of deportation. And on Tuesday, some residents spoke out at a King County Law and Justice Committee hearing about the failure to carry out the law. “Because of this breach, people are more afraid than ever. They are worried to be thrown out of the country. They are worried about their lives. They are worried about their families,” Seattle citizen Eva Lopez told CNN affiliate KIRO. King County Executive Dow Constantine said the county knew of no circumstances where federal agents used this data to detain or remove county residents. But Victoria Mena of Colectiva Legal del Pueblo, an organization that supports undocumented immigrants, said on Tuesday that the sheer volume of searches meant that there had to have been some impact to the community. “We are extremely disappointed with what’s happened over this last year,” said Mena. “The audits really showed us some things that, when looking into it, could have been very quickly solved.” The data breach dates to February 2018, when the King County Council adopted a law that it said would protect immigrants and refugees who seek county services. The law outlined the county’s relationship with ICE, which would not be allowed access to databases without a judicial warrant, according to the county. The legislation made King County, which encompasses Seattle, into a so-called “sanctuary” county. The broad term applies to jurisdictions that have policies in place designed to limit cooperation with or involvement in federal immigration enforcement actions. Immigrant rights advocates argue these laws protect undocumented immigrants who are not otherwise engaged in criminal activity from being detained or deported, and promote public safety by building trust between immigrant communities and local governments and police. Critics, like President Donald Trump, argue they protect criminals and endanger public safety. Council members said at the time that the progressive policy was to protect residents from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. “While the current federal administration continues to advocate for policies that seek to disenfranchise and marginalize immigrant and refugee residents and communities, I firmly believe that our county government has a vital role in ensuring that King County is a welcoming and affirming place for all,” Council Chair Joe McDermott said at the time. ICE accessed private system more than 1,000 times But despite that law, ICE agents’ logins to the system containing private data continued to work, the audit found. Access logs show that ICE agents logged into a jail inmate lookup system for law enforcement agencies more than 1,000 times between March 2018 and April 2019, the audit found. The system for law enforcement agencies provides the address, aliases, birthdate, booking photo and other personal information that is not available to the public. That breach has since been closed. The auditors notified the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention and the Department of Information Technology about the issue in April, and the ICE login accounts were deactivated just days later. But there were other issues, including that ICE asked the King County Sheriff’s Office for unredacted case files 25 times between January 2018 and May 2019. In nearly all of those cases, the Sheriff’s Office handed over those documents, the audit found, even though the office did not determine whether the requests were for civil immigration enforcement or whether they required a warrant. The auditors said these and other breaches were due to a lack of training on immigrant privacy protections. The county law that passed in February 2018 did not establish a timeline for that training, so the Office of Equity and Social Justice made it a low priority, the audit found. “King County made a commitment to protect residents’ privacy but has not developed a robust program to carry it out,” the audit found. “The County lacks a clear definition of personal information and a reliable inventory showing what personal information the County holds. Agencies have records retention schedules but do not follow them in ways that prioritizes people’s privacy,” the audit said. King County Auditor Kymber Waltmunson said at Tuesday’s hearing that the county executive and the sheriff indicated they plan to implement all 14 of the audit’s recommendations. Monserrat Padilla, the coordinator of the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network, said it was important for King County to make this a priority issue. “The community has been really afraid at this moment, both for the threats of Donald Trump’s massive immigration raids but also from the local lack of prioritization to stand with immigrant communities from our local government,” she said. Neighbors Form Human Chain to Stop ICE From Taking Tennessee Man Into Custody L.A. Churches Promise Sanctuary for Migrant Families as ICE Raids Begin Sunday 9 Mayors Across the U.S. Brace for Mass ICE Raids: ‘Frankly, We’re in the Dark’ Filed in: Nation/World Topics: King County Sheriff's Office, seattle, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, washington California Bans For-Profit Prisons and Immigrant Detention Facilities Border Patrol’s Growing Presence at U.S. Hospitals Spurs Fears Trump Admin Awards $6.8B to Fund Immigrant Detention Across SoCal, Including in Adelanto Minimum Wage Increases, Data Privacy and More Laws Go Into Effect Across U.S. on Jan. 1 Federal Court Rules Against Warrantless Searches of Phones, Laptops at U.S. Airports and Ports of Entry ICE Is Ignoring California’s Ban on Private Immigrant Detention Centers, Legislators Say CA Appeals Court Overturns Ruling That Exempted Huntington Beach From ‘Sanctuary State’ Law Connecticut High School Rallies Around Sophomore Detained by ICE Refugee Detained by ICE for Possible Deportation After Being Granted Parole by Gov. Newsom in Murder Case California Bans Insurers From Pulling Policies in Fire-Ravaged Areas Gunfire at Pensacola Naval Base Leaves 4 Dead, Including Shooter, and Multiple People Wounded ICE Reopening Long-Closed Deportation Cases Against DACA Recipients With Minor to No Record Alabama Deputy’s Son Accused of Fatally Shooting Sheriff of Neighboring County	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1452
__label__cc	0.503179	0.496821	Safaricom To Start Paying Handsomely Those Who Can Successfully Hack Into Their System Kenya West The target groups are university and college students, innovation centres like iHub and iLab, cyber security forums such as Africa Hackon, ISACA and Hackathons. Through a partnership with HackerOne, a cyber-security company, hackers can submit bugs they may find in a confidential and responsible manner which will then be vetted and triaged by the HackerOne team independently. “The reason for starting this program was to encourage hackers to report any bugs/vulnerabilities that they may find in Safaricom’s products and services to Safaricom in a confidential and ethical manner instead of exploiting them or disclosing them to the public,” said Thibaud Rerolle, Safaricom’s Technology Director. According to the firm if the issue is found to be valid, HackerOne will then forward it to Safaricom for confirmation before awarding the hacker for their effort. Mr Rerolle said the award can range between Sh25,000 ($250) and Sh200,000 ($2,000) depending on the severity of the bug. “The HackerOne platform is used by many Fortune 500 companies – the likes of Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple and even the US Department of Defence,” said Mr Rerolle. As of July 2018, HackerOne’s network consisted of approximately 200,000 security researchers and had resolved over 72,000 vulnerabilities across over 1,000 customer programs and had paid over Sh3.1 billion ($31 million) in bounty rewards. A report released by Serianu an IT services consultancy firm, showed that Kenya lost Sh21.1 billion to cybercrime in 2017, a 40 per cent increase from Sh15.1 billion in 2015. This is a clear indication that hacking is becoming more widespread in the country and the amount of money lost to hacking is increasing rapidly. Related Content: How Email Hacks Are A Threat To Businesses Globally Safaricom also wants to discover more bugs/vulnerabilities by taking advantage of crowd sourcing whereby the telco can leverage on the knowledge and skills of many ethical hackers locally and even globally instead of just relying on their own expertise. Bug county programs are also generally more cost effective than hiring security consultants to do penetration testing. This is because for bug bounty programs, you only pay for bug or vulnerabilities found unlike hiring security consultants who are paid based on man hours regardless of whether they find any bugs or vulnerabilities. Serianu report stated that over 90 per cent of African companies are operating below what is called the “cyber security poverty line”, which is a big concern. This means that most companies in Africa do not have the basic security measures to deal with cyber security threats and this puts them and their customers at great risk of losing money or even their reputation as a company. A good example is what happened to Facebook with Cambridge Analytica data breach that cost Facebook more than $100 billion (Sh10 billion) drop in their share price and eventually forced the CEO of Facebook to be summoned by the United States Congress and apologise to the public. Sector players say the enactment of the Computer and Cyber Crime Bill 2017 was a big step for Kenya in cyber security as crime was not well defined and as a result, it was very difficult to convict anyone of a cybercrime. They said the proposed Data Protection Bill 2018 is also another big step towards the right direction and is in line with global data privacy laws such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Related Content: Google To Invest In The Lake Turkana Wind Power “However, a lot more still needs to be done by the government and other institutions to reach the same maturity level in cyber security laws as other more developed countries,” said Mr Rerolle. “In 2017, the US passed over 240 cyber security related bills in various States so this goes to show you we still have a long way to go in Kenya and Africa in general,” added Mr Rerolle. Kenya Insights allows guest blogging, if you want to be published on Kenya’s most authoritative and accurate blog, have an expose, news, story angles, human interest stories, drop us an email on tips.kenyainsights@gmail.com or via Telegram Petition To Stop The National Bank Of Kenya From Frustrating Customers Requiring Debtors To Pay Upto 50 Times The Principal Borrowed Cytonn Investments Raises The Bar In Kenya’s Real Estate Industry With Multi Billion Projects And Steady Growth Kenya West is a trained investigative independent journalist and a socio-political commentator on matters Kenya and Africa. Do you have a story, Scandal you want me to write on? Send me tips to [in.kenyawest@protonmail.com] Investigations1 hour ago Why We Can’t Eat Out The Locust Menace Politics5 days ago Business2 weeks ago How Trump’s Killing Of Iran’s Soleimani Will Directly Affect Kenya Investigations2 weeks ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1456
__label__cc	0.694939	0.305061	So the E5 looks a lot like the E1 and the photos don’t really show it but it is at least twice the size. It is still pocketable but a little less so for people with smaller pockets now though. The E5 has a lot more style than the E1 though. Across the top they split things up with a strip of aluminum with the Sound Blaster logo on it where the E1 just had it printed on the plastic. Also on the top of the E5 is a small NFC logo where you can sit your phone on the E5 and sync the Bluetooth. The top of the E5 does have a few small microphone holes up top. The two closest to the end with the volume control are considered the internal microphone on the E5 when you have it hooked up via USB. The third hole works with their CrystalVoice Technology as an orientation sensor helps the E5 figure out what is left and right when recording in stereo. Down on the end the E5 has a huge volume control knob that you can access from the end and also the top and bottom. Also on the same end are two headphone out 3.5mm jacks. On the sides one side doesn’t have anything at all going on. The other side though we have the controls. The first button is the power button and is also the Bluetooth button. The other button turns on their SBX ProStudio mode that enhances surround effects when watching movies and playing games. Next to that you have a switch that turns the gain from low to high. The two buttons both have LED rings around them that light up. The first one lights up white when powered on and blue when in Bluetooth mode and the SBX button lights up white when SBX mode is turned on. Sound Blaster also slipped in three tiny dots farther over on the side. These are additional LEDs that light up and show how much power the built in battery has. Down on the other end of the E5, we have a few additional plugs. Here we have a micro USB plug that we use with the included cable to hook up the E5 to a PC. Then we have a full sized USB port that allows USB 2.0 Host connectivity. What that means is you can plug in your iOS or Android phone and stream audio from them. Then we have two more 3.5mm plugs. One plug is a line in and the other is an out. Both support both traditional 3.5mm plugs as well as an optical connection. For accessories Sound Blaster bundled a few cool things with the E5. For starters, you get this table stand that also has a screw mount on the bottom. They also include two rubber arm band straps so that you can use the E5 when running. You also get a bright red USB cable and then an optical cable. I was a little disappointed that they didn’t also include a 3.5mm to 3.5mm audio cable as well though just to round everything off.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1458
__label__wiki	0.892189	0.892189	New Jersey Governor Signs Bills Restoring Voting Rights To More Than 80,000 People "These are residents ... have been needlessly prevented from having a voice in the future direction of their communities," Gov. Phil Murphy said. Abrams Plans To Put Voter Protection Team, Hotline In Nevada LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democrat Stacey Abrams says her new voter rights program will put a voter protection team and help hotline in battleground Nevada ahead of the 2020 election. New Districts Upheld In Navajo Voting-Rights Case SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that found voting districts in a Utah county were racially gerrymandered and violated the rights of Navajo voters. New Nevada Law Restores Right To Vote For Ex-felons LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada has restored voting rights to ex-felons, putting the state in line with at least a dozen other states that automatically grant voting rights to people once they're released from prison. ACLU Sues Over Florida Law That Requires Felons To Pay Fees, Fines Before Voting The ACLU says the new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis creates "two classes of returning citizens: those who are wealthy enough to vote and those who cannot afford to." Theresa Burroughs, Voting Rights Activist, Dies At 89 In Alabama "Disappear? We're not going to do that," she said. She went 10 times to the courthouse before the registrar would sign her up to vote. Then she worked to guard the right and never missed an election. Nevada Legislature Passes Bill Restoring Voting Rights To Ex-Felons The Nevada Legislature passed a measure to immediately allow ex-felons to vote, including those convicted in other states. The bill also allows people convicted of a crime, but not imprisoned, to cast a ballot. Texas Officials Begin Walking Back Allegations About Noncitizen Voters Just a few days after alleging nearly 100,000 Texas voters may not be citizens, officials now concede their list may not have been accurate. Federal Judge Strikes Down Lame-Duck Changes To Wisconsin Voting Laws The bills were passed after Republican Gov. Scott Walker was defeated but before Democratic Gov. Tony Evers was sworn in. Old Florida Clemency System Was Unconstitutional, Racially Biased More than a million felons will be able to vote in Florida. Previously, the system lacked 'any constraints, guidelines, or standards' for restoring voting rights, a judge ruled last year. Democrats Focus On Voting Rights Ahead Of 2020 Primary WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats hope to turn the issue of voting rights into an argument that's just as persuasive to voters in 2020 as health care proved to be in 2018. N.C. GOP Leader Open To New Election As Fraud Investigation Continues The head of North Carolina's Republican Party says he would "not oppose" a new election in the state's 9th Congressional District if allegations of fraud by a GOP operative prove true. Turbulent Trump Era May Unseat The Guardian Of The New Hampshire Primary For 40 years, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner's office has been a mandatory stop for presidential hopefuls. But his brief association with President Trump may cost him his job. Partisan Election Officials Are 'Inherently Unfair' But Probably Here To Stay It would take a massive overhaul of state laws to make election administration truly nonpartisan. Voters say they want it, and experts are calling for it, but it probably isn't coming any time soon. Georgia Set To Remain A Battleground For Voting Rights Ahead Of 2020 Perhaps more than any other state in the last decade, Georgia has put new restrictions on voting, which became a central issue in the recently concluded governor's race. Stacey Abrams Says She Was Almost Blocked From Voting In Georgia Election Democrat Stacey Abrams isn't backing down from her fight against what she calls voter suppression tactics and election mismanagement after losing the Georgia governor's race. In Georgia, Kemp Claims Victory, But Won't Oversee Potential Recount The Republican announced he would resign as secretary of state on Thursday after a lawsuit was filed calling it a conflict of interest for him to oversee the vote count in the governor's race. Voters Approve Major Changes To Redistricting And Other Voting Laws Lawmakers in at least three states will have less power to draw political boundaries, while automatic and same-day voter registration is coming in other places. New voter ID laws also got approved. Over 1 Million Florida Felons Win Right To Vote With Amendment 4 The state approved a key ballot initiative that will restore voting rights to citizens who have served sentences for certain crimes. Voting Rights Restored For 500 Clark County Residents A group attempting to restore voting rights for people convicted of felonies have added more than 500 residents in Clark County to an eligibility list in time for this year’s election. Early Voting Changes In North Carolina Spark Bipartisan Controversy At a time when early voting is becoming increasingly popular nationwide, a new law passed by North Carolina's GOP-controlled legislature cuts early voting sites by nearly 20 percent. Criminal Justice Collaborative Felons In Florida Want Their Voting Rights Back Without A Hassle One of out every 10 adults in Florida is not eligible to vote because of a state law that prevents former felons from doing so without a lengthy process. There are efforts underway to change that. Nevada To Consider Changes After High Court Voter Ruling LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's elections of From Travel Ban To Political Pins: Pending Decisions From The Supreme Court On Monday morning, the Supreme Court might release opinions in a number of significant cases, from gerrymandering challenges to religious rights disputes. We've got a roundup of the possibilities. Reducing Voters' Paperwork Might Expand The Voter Rolls By next year, more than a quarter of all Americans will live in states where they no longer have to fill out registration forms in order to cast a ballot.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1461
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__label__cc	0.68702	0.31298	February 1, 2019 Louise Penn musicals, theatre Caroline, or Change (Playhouse Theatre) The Chichester Theatre production of this accomplished musical has just announced it closes a month early to make room for the transfer of Fiddler on the Roof from the Menier, but I would recommend you take advantage of the deals and discounts now available to see Caroline, or Change, if you can. Planned for several years, and written by Angels in America author Tony Kushner, this show was originally planned as an opera but instead grew into a stage musical, largely sung-through, composed by Jeanine Tesori (her previous show, Violet, is also in town, and I will report back on that next month). Dujonna Gift-Simms, Ako Mitchell, Tanisha Spring, Sharon D Clarke Caroline (Sharon D Clarke) is a black maid who works for a rich Jewish family, the Gellmans. She is a widow with three children of her own, who live in poverty under the shadow of the Confederate Statue we see as the play opens, a symbol of the white privilege which stops the likes of Caroline and her friend Dotty (Naana Agyei-Ampadu) from getting on in life. The opening scene proper gives a sense of the unusual: there is a singing washing-machine, a dryer, and eventually, the lady in the moon. This gives a sense of the fantastic to Caroline’s mundane day of cleaning and doing the laundry. Me’sha Bryan and Sharon D Clarke We are also introduced to Noah, the spoiled young man of the house (Aaron Gelkoff at this performance), who misses his dead mother, resents his cookie-cut stepmother (Lauren Ward), and enjoys sharing an illicit daily cigarette with Caroline. Noah has a habit of leaving loose change in his pockets, and this is the “change” which is depicted in the title; he seeks attention by leaving the change for Caroline (who is allowed by Rose, the wife, to keep it), and she takes the opportunity to treat her children to the treats they would otherwise go without. Sharon D Clarke and Abiona Omonua in Caroline or Change Politics intrude now and then – the assassination of JFK, who was on the side of civil liberties, and a Chanukah celebration which touches on racial politics, with an argument between Mr Stopnick, Rose’s father (Teddy Kempner) and Emmie, Caroline’s growing daughter (Abiona Omonua) – but what matters is the bond between people, and the aspiration for change in the literal sense. Noah’s father (Alastair Brookshaw) plays the clarinet and hides his grief; his parents (Vincent Pirillo and Sue Kelvin) add pointed commentary, and Noah grows to find his place in the natural order of things; still, by the ending it seems Caroline has achieved her change, set aside the memories of the sailor she lost, and found her place. The songs are largely memoraable and vibrant – highlights would include Lot’s Wife, I Hate the Bus, and the Laundry Quintet, with the Radio girls who form a kind of chorus. Clarke is an acting and singing powerhouse, and Omonua is impressive, and all the children do well with their routines. An informative programme (£5) gives the cultural background on the time depicted, and the genesis of the show. Tagged caroline or change, jeanine tesori, playhouse theatre, sharon d clarke, tony kushner Songs for Nobodies (Ambassadors Theatre) Ian McKellen on Stage (Richmond Theatre)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1476
__label__wiki	0.846184	0.846184	Tip offs Lesotho Prime Minister to retire soon Police to interrogate Ntsekele, Mphaka over PM wife’s murder Breaking: Lesotho First Lady resists arrest Lesotho Prime Minister’s mobile-phone used in wife assassination John embroiled in AD t-shirts brawl MNNCIJ Centre For Investigative Journalism Human Trafficking Report Home > News > Are workers reduced to a basket of votes? Are workers reduced to a basket of votes? by MNNCIJ - March 25, 2018 By Sechaba Mokhethi WHILE factory workers’ plight has for the years not topped agenda of the rulers, every political party seems to bank on their huge numbers come elections time. Following Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s loss of a vote of no confidence in ninth Parliament and followed by His Majesty King Letsie III’s declaration of June 3 as Election Day, majority of major parties went to industrial areas to woo voters. The parties include but not limited to; Democratic Congress (DC), Basotho National Party (BNP), Alliance of Democrats (AD), Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and All Basotho Convention (ABC). Most of these parties have been in government but failed to free factory workers from miseries they living in. Their paltry wages, which average M1, 260 ($93.94) per month, are inadequate to cover their basic needs and some are forced to walk several miles to their workplace back and forth every day. However, a Baseline Report on Worker Perspectives from the factory and beyond on Lesotho, published in 2012 by International Labour Organisation puts a worker’s average monthly expenses at M2,195 ($163.63) which far outweighs the current average factory worker’s earnings of M1, 260 ($93.94). The ABC had promised to raise their salaries to M2, 020 ($156.60) ahead of May 26, 2012 general elections that saw formation of a tripartite coalition comprised of the ABC, LCD and BNP. However, the coalition collapsed before it could fulfil this promise in 2014. The formation of the said coalition saw Mosisili moving from the state house to opposition benches in parliament. He then visited factory workers at Industrial Area and admitted to have failed them during his 14 years rule and promised to do things differently if given a second chance. Following February 28, 2015, Mosisili’s alliance appeared the winner and formed a seven-party coalition that has also collapsed before addressing factory workers troubles and magnitudes continue to suffer silently. During the ABC Workers Day celebrations, today in the Thetsane Constituency, the party appeared to have pinned its hopes on workers votes to win the upcoming snap elections with a landslide for it to ascend to power. This dropped from the party leader Motsoahae Thomas Thabane’s address. Thetsane is a hub of Lesotho’s 40 000 people factory workforce and home to textile and apparel industries exporting their produce to US through Africa Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA), an American legislation that allows Sub Saharan Africa products duty and quota free access to the US market. The elections come at a time when Lesotho’s AGOA prospects remain in limbo. The country is still illegible for AGOA but subjected to off-cycle review which may come anytime as Americans want the kingdom to implement all Southern African Development Community (SADC) decisions expected to restore its peace and stability. The forthcoming elections will see the face of the former executive director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Moeketsi Majoro —an academic who will be wrestling to keep the Thetsane parliamentary seat under the ABC control. This is Majoro’s first time to contest elections since he joined the political fray as minister of development planning following death of then ABC Deputy Leader Professor Maboee Moletsane in 2012. Majoro who aims to garner 8000 votes in Thetsane, assured workers and the ABC supporters who attended the party’s rally to celebrate Workers Day with factory workers as Thabane will be bouncing back to premiership after June 3 polls to cure the country’s ailments. He took pride in the fact that Thetsane is home to a huge number of factory workers; “you should be grateful that most of the Lesotho’s exports are produced by yourselves”. He however told them things could be better if they also benefitted the same way as their employees (Chinese and Taiwanese) and earned a living wage. Majoro warned the workers that if they failed to oust the “self-serving government riddled with nepotism and cronyism” come June 3, Lesotho could lose the AGOA beneficiary status. “AGOA may be leaving, the Americans have decided to hold their horses to see the election outcome so that they make a decision on AGOA,” he said, adding should the congress alliance — led by the DC and LCD — return victors from the polls, factory jobs will get lost with Lesotho having no economic muscles to replace value of benefits coming with AGOA. From his campaign bag, Majoro promises to put prices of Maseru Private Hospital situated in Thetsane at par with those of Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) as patients are forced to leave health services in their constituency and travel for services that they do not access at times at QMMH. He said they have already begun carwash programme and they are yet to erect more carwashes to generate income pool that will assist people in dire need, including payment of school fees for their children. Majoro vowed to halt import of vegetables from Maseru town into their constituency. “There is no need to be bringing in cabbage from town yet we have arable land along Mohokare River where we can produce our own.” On Election Day, Majoro promised electorates that there will be vehicles assisting in shuttling them to voting stations. However, this stands out in sharp contrast with prohibited activities as stipulated by the National Assembly Electoral Act 2011. In section 173(4), the law provides that, “Notwithstanding any other law, a person that provides a public transport service shall ensure that the service operates on the elections day in accordance with the approved timetable and on the approved route”. If Majoro continues with this plan, the move is likely to become an ingredient for post election disputes especially if he wins the constituency with highly unexpected margin of votes. ‘To curb corruption, Lesotho needs to reverse burden of proof’ Controversial Chief Justice’s lease deal still in force MNN CIJFollow MNN CIJ@CijLesotho· 💥📰Breaking: Lesotho First Lady Resists Arrest. ☆ Claims she fears for her life and barricades self in statehouse ☆ Investigations on her sister wife’s fatal shooting continue \|https://t.co/itlu5JgtSU\| Get an email notification when new stories are published MNN Offices Tel: +266 5671 4732 / 51606958 / 58470163 Info Email: info@lescij.org Editor Email: editor@lescij.org Offices: Lesotho Red Cross Society Headquarters, 23 Mabile Road, Old Europa, Maseru, Lesotho. © 2020 MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1483
__label__cc	0.616298	0.383702	{ lh.hantrakul } \| Research Blog Science. Design. Music. Machine Learning Science & Design HANTRAKS Controllerise Suite Spot Yale Jazz Ensemble DJ/Live Electronic Music The High Standards Spatial mixing of effects hanoi7 March 16, 2014 April 12, 2014 Alternative Inputs, Gestural Input, HCI I got to perform a piece with the new group at Yale called [A]2 (pronounced “A squared”) during their debut last December. The group explores creative possibilities of the human voice using live effects and processing through Ableton Live. Although the concept of “voice as instrument” has been explored in the past, the group does this all live. The director of the group, Jacob Reske ’14, discussed the idea with me last year and we came up with the name [A]2 to stand for “Augmented Acapella” or “Ableton and Acapella”. After leaving the group for a semester, I had a chance to join in again on their debut concert and feature some of the HCI work I have been doing. In this video, the Leap Motion was used to modulate effects during a live performance. The singers were sampled in a preceding performance and sliced into an Ableton Drum Rack. The Leap Motion was interfaced with Ableton through Masaykuki Akamatsu’s leapmotion.aka object and a max patch I developed. Different effects such as reverb, bit-crusher, low-pass and delays were placed at different vertices of an imaginary 3 dimensional cube above the Leap Motion (See figure). During performance, I can dynamically mix multiple effects by moving one hand while the other hand is free to trigger samples. Moving to one edge of the cube activated the associated effect. As I move to different vertices, I can organically mix audio effects in an intuitive and expressive manner. Although modulating effects using motion is not a new concept, the Leap Motion allows a non invasive method of doing so with unprecedented accuracy. I found that I was able to play effects in an expressive manner not possible with other interfaces. For example, the Kinect is unable to track small and subtle hand movements as it is designed for larger body gestures. Multitouch interfaces like the iPad allow control of multiple effects, but there are physiological limitations that prevent each finger from being truly independent. The “audio effects cube” provides an intuitive interface to mix between different effects in a live performance setting. The inspiration for this project came from my experience from DJing and live music performance. DJ’s and live electronic musicians usually control effects using knobs, sliders or at best some kind of multitouch interface. I found knobs and sliders to be severely limiting in expressivity since I could only control two parameters. Although software like Ableton Live and Traktor Pro allow “chaining” of multiple effects to one “macro” knob, this approach did not allow fine tuning of each effect. Using the “Effects Cube” allows me to modulate each effect individually. I have tried various iPad apps that allow control of multiple effects through various interfaces such as vertices of a shape or bouncing balls on an XY pad. Although more intuitive than knobs and sliders, I found these to be limited by my hand’s physiological capabilities. For example, my thumb can only go so far away from my index finger. The Effects Cube does not suffer this problem. Later, I plan to introduce additional micro variations by accounting for finger movement while modulating an effect. The performance also features MIT Media Lab’s Makey Makey. I wired a system that was concealed underneath the cardboard and also edited the code to work with Ableton Live. The chopsticks have nothing to do with the tracking and was employed only for comical effect. However, the Leap Motion does have a special “pencil” mode designed to detect long slender objects. This was not used in the performance. Previous DIY Musical Instruments! Next In Circles Premiere Published by hanoi7 View all posts by hanoi7	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1487
__label__cc	0.682257	0.317743	Reasons for Neck Pain that Radiates by Stephen Christensen Radiating neck pain may stem from a compressed nerve. 1 Can a Bulging Disc Cause Arm Weakness? 2 Herniated Thoracic Intervertebral Disc Symptoms 3 Numbness in the Hands But It's Not Carpal Tunnel 4 Can Bursitis Cause Shoulder Blade Pain and Tingling in the Arm and Hands? Neck pain is a common problem, although its prevalence varies among populations and age groups. A June 2006 review in the "European Spine Journal" reported that the average lifetime risk for developing neck pain is nearly 50 percent. Neck pain can stem from various causes, ranging from minor injuries to chronic degenerative disorders or life-threatening diseases. Neck pain that radiates into your head, arm, upper back or chest may be a symptom of a compressed nerve. Nerve Irritation Doctors use the term radiculopathy when referring to symptoms caused by compression or irritation of a nerve as it emerges from your spinal cord. Cervical radiculopathy is a more specific phrase used to describe the signs and symptoms generated by compression of a nerve root in your neck. The most common symptoms of cervical radiculopathy are pain and unusual sensations -- cold, warmth, numbness, tingling or electrical shocks -- that often radiate toward or into the arms. Like the rest of your spine, your neck is composed of several stacked, bony vertebrae, each of which is separated from its upper and lower neighbors by tough cartilage discs. Each vertebra has a backward-projecting arch through which your spinal cord passes. At each level of your spine, a pair of nerve roots emerges from portals between the arches of adjacent vertebrae. The complex joints between the arches of your vertebrae are subject to injury and arthritis, just like joints elsewhere in your body. When arthritis causes bony overgrowth of the nerve portals, the emerging nerves may get compressed. Cervical spondylosis, or arthritis, is a leading cause of cervical radiculopathy, according to doctors at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery in an article in the October 2011 issue of the hospital's "HSS Journal." The discs separating your cervical vertebrae are composed of an outer ring of tough cartilage and an inner "pulp" of softer, elastic material. As you age, the discs in your neck lose moisture and their outer rings weaken. A tear or break in the ring may allow the pulpy center to protrude. This condition, called a herniated or ruptured disc, can lead to compression of the nerve emerging from between adjacent vertebrae. A December 2010 review in the "Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society" reported that approximately 1 in 5 cases of degenerative cervical radiculopathy are due to a herniated disc. Unusual Causes A number of unusual conditions can trigger radiating neck pain. Pancoast tumor -- a cancer occurring in the uppermost portion of the lung -- can compress your cervical nerve roots and cause neck, shoulder and arm pain. Likewise, cancer invading your cervical spine or the structures around it can generate neck pain that radiates to your upper extremities. Cervical ribs -- abnormal ribs that protrude from your cervical vertebrae -- can compress a cervical nerve and generate neck and arm pain. Instability of your cervical vertebrae, such as sometimes occurs in people with rheumatoid arthritis, can trigger neck pain that radiates to your head, ear or eye. Due to the many potential causes for cervical radiculopathy, any persistent neck pain, whether it radiates or not, should be evaluated by a health care professional. European Spine Journal: The Prevalence of Neck Pain in the World Population: A Systematic Critical Review of the Literature HSS Journal: Cervical Radiculopathy: A Review Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society: Cervical Radiculopathy Due to Cervical Degenerative Disease: Anatomy, Diagnosis and Treatment Case Reports in Radiology: Pancoast Tumor: The Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation: Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Definition, Aetiological Factors, Diagnosis, Management and Occupational Impact Stephen Christensen started writing health-related articles in 1976 and his work has appeared in diverse publications including professional journals, “Birds and Blooms” magazine, poetry anthologies and children's books. He received his medical degree from the University of Utah School of Medicine and completed a three-year residency in family medicine at McKay-Dee Hospital Center in Ogden, Utah. Can a Back Injury Cause Lumbar Stenosis? Stretching the Neck and Upper Shoulders Tight Trapezius Muscles During Stretching What Causes a Compression Fracture? Impairment of Range of Motion in the Shoulder Shoulder Stretches for a Tight Neck Kinds of Long Arm Splints Prostate Cancer and X-rays Are X-Rays Needed Before a Tooth Extraction? Does the Breaststroke Aggravate the Rotator Cuff? Stretches for a Pulled Pectoral Muscle	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1492
__label__cc	0.741799	0.258201	Funding Secured at Local Link Date: April 24, 2019 By admin Categories: News No comments Local Link Mayo are delighted to announce they are one of 15 groups nationally to secure funding for the administrate base to develop rural transport in Mayo. The funding period is four years from 2019 to December 2022 and the was approved following a recent public procurement process carried out by the National Transport Authority (NTA). Local Link Mayo achieved over 137,000 passenger journeys in 2018 and offer over 45 weekly affordable Local Link bus routes throughout Mayo. The services operate door to door pick up where possible and can be booked through the passenger bookings service at Glenpark House, The Mall, Castlebar. Local Link are currently working with community groups and individuals to ensure all opportunities are explored so that the necessary infrastructure is established to support a comprehensive public transport network in rural areas ensuring that passengers have access to day and evening bus services under the Transport for Ireland (TFI) brand. The team at Local Link Mayo also co-ordinate transport services for a number of agencies. Many services operate semi flexible routes and can deviate up to 2 miles to pick up passengers at their own doors. Other services include HSE scheduled dialysis appointments to Mayo University and Primary Community and Continuing Care (PCCC). In addition, the Department of Culture, Heritage and Gaeltacht fund a ferry service for Inisbiggle Island dwellers to the mainland. This contract includes a bus service linking islanders to the Local Link and public transport services. The department also fund seasonal routes to the National Park and Greenway from Westport to Ballycory. Speaking at the announcement the Manager Sarah Togher said “Local Link Mayo provides a valuable service to connect people who are isolated by location throughout the county. The securing of funding to manage Mayo services will allow the organisation to grow from strength to strength over the coming years. Local Link Mayo has commenced a strategic planning process and are seeking views from stakeholders to identify the unmet transport needs in the county. For members of the public, community and voluntary groups or agencies interested in contributing to the strategic plan by participating in upcoming community consultation events contact: Sarah Togher (Manager), Email at: sarah.togher@locallink.ie or telephone 094 9047571. Note: Comments on the web site reflect the views of their authors, and not necessarily the views of the Local Link Mayo internet portal. Requested to refrain from insults, swearing and vulgar expression. We reserve the right to delete any comment without notice explanations.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1498
__label__wiki	0.750591	0.750591	November 5, 2013 by Graeme MacKay By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Downtown business owners singing the bus-lane blues Two weeks after the opening of a new bus-only lane through Hamilton’s core, downtown merchants say their worst fears have been realized. Business operators have expressed a fear throughout the transit experiment that making it tougher for cars to navigate the core will keep people out of their stores — and that’s what they fear is starting to happen. Barry Sobel, whose Rainbow Bridal has been a King Street fixture for 36 years, said he is already hearing from longtime customers that traffic congestion resulting from the bus lane is keeping them out of the core, especially on weekdays. “Saturday isn’t so bad, traffic is moving well, but at 11 a.m. on a weekday cars will be backed up all the way to Wellington,” Sobel said in an interview Saturday. “During weekdays, traffic is backed up as far as I can see.” Late in October the city launched a one-year pilot project to test the effect on traffic congestion in the core from converting one lane of King to transit-only. The far right lane of King between Mary and Dundurn streets is now buses-only except for cars trying to turn right. The experiment is being viewed as a test of the impact of a proposed light rapid transit rail line through the area. Provincial transit agency Metrolinx has put $300,000 into the project. Backers of the plan say it has the potential to increase business for core-area merchants by slowing traffic, giving drivers a chance to look around and maybe discover a downtown shop they didn’t know existed. “It gives people a chance to see that dress in the window or that guitar in the pawnshop,” said downtown Councillor Jason Farr. “This plan was well thought out but it’s also a pilot project and we know that means it will have to be tweaked a little.” Sobel, however, wonders how potential customers are going to see the perfect wedding dress in his window if they drive Hunter or Cannon streets to avoid congestion in the core. That also worries pawnbroker Troy Thompson, who operates G.W. Thompson Jeweller and Pawnbrokers with his father, Gord. “It’s bad now and it’s only going to get worse,” he said. “We’re starting to hear a lot more horns honking through the week because people are getting frustrated and they’re starting to take the back roads around downtown.” Sobel’s store, between Catharine and John streets is right at the start of the restricted lane while Thompson’s is east of the start. Farther west, at Rolly Rocket’s BBQ at King and Locke, owner Roland Dube said the restricted lane has created some confusion among his customers who were used to parking on the north side of King. (Source: Hamilton Spectator) Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: bottlenecks, downtown, Editorial Cartoon, Hamilton, HSR, print sale, Transit October 25, 2013 by Graeme MacKay By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Friday, October 25, 2013 No bus-only tickets issued, says red-faced McHattie Hamilton police did not ticket anyone in the city’s new bus-only lane, a red-faced councillor now says. Ward 1 Councillor Brian McHattie announced at Wednesday’s council meeting that police had incorrectly ticketed 20 to 25 drivers that day, as the new transit-only lane launched on King Street. He says he got his information from an anonymous call he didn’t confirm before making a public statement. It turns out police handed out 26 educational pamphlets to drivers using the bus-only lane — but not a single ticket or demerit point. “It seems someone tried to lead us astray,” said the recently announced mayoral candidate, who admitted jumping the gun by publicly announcing the allegations as fact. “I guess I was thinking you want to get on top of an issue like this, if it’s true,” said McHattie, who noted anxiety has been high among some councillors and commuters over the bus-only lane experiment. “But in this case I moved too fast.” McHattie said police Chief Glenn De Caire called him Thursday morning after investigating the allegations. While six tickets were issued on King, none was related to the bus-only lane. “I’ve apologized to the chief,” he said. “This has kept him jumping.” McHattie said an anonymous person left a message with his office staff alleging he had received a $200-plus ticket and two demerit points. The message also alleged between 20 and 25 people received the tickets. McHattie said Wednesday night his staff had checked with police over the figure. On Thursday morning, he clarified his staff had not received confirmation from police. (Source: Hamilton Spectator) Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: bike lanes, Brian McHattie, bus, Bus lanes, Editorial Cartoon, Hamilton, HSR, mass transit, Metrolinx, print sale, Transit Wednesday October 24, 2012 By Graeme MacKay, Editorial Cartoonist, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday October 24, 2012 Mac report illuminates issue of LRT for city Senior Hamilton bureaucrats are carefully studying a report produced by McMaster University researchers that suggests that light rail transit has the potential to succeed in Hamilton but will be a “long, challenging and costly process.” The study looked at successful and failing LRT systems across North America in terms of their ability to attract riders and new development. It will be a big part of a staff report coming to councillors that will definitively recommend whether the city should forge ahead with building an LRT line for Hamilton, said city manager Chris Murray. “It will speak to all the things we need to do to take advantage of the growth opportunity Hamilton is enjoying.” The university report, produced by the McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics and commissioned by the city, is “good advice to staff and council on how to move ahead with LRT,” said Murray. Though he stopped short of saying LRT is now a city target, he said Hamilton has “already invested heavily” in LRT. “I don’t think the feeling is out there that LRT isn’t worth pursuing.” But Mayor Bob Bratina has repeatedly shot arrows into the hearts of those pining for B-line LRT stretching 13 kilometres between McMaster and Eastgate. It’s projected to cost between $875 million and $1 billion to build. (Source: Hamilton Spectator) Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: Bob Bratina, consultation, day care, Hamilton, HSR, LRT, mass, Mayors, seniors, study, Transit Editorial cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – November 4, 1998 Editorial Cartoon, #hamont, HSR, transit, bus, Hamilton Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: #hamont, bus, Editorial Cartoon, Hamilton, HSR, Transit	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1500
__label__cc	0.641314	0.358686	7 Nutrients That Can Help Your Body Cope Better With Stress Health writer Helen Foster asks the experts how and why certain vitamins and minerals can play a role in lowering our stress levels It’s officially time to re-think the term, ‘comfort food’. New research by bodies such as Harvard Medical School proves that eating certain foods can help support our body in times of stress and anxiety. But how does this work and which foods should we be adding to our de-stress diet? Health writer Helen Foster asks the experts… Balancing neurotransmitters in the brain Stress is caused by all kinds of factors and sadly, there’s no miracle cure. However, certain things make us more disposed to to feelings of anxiety. For example, we’re more prone to stressful thinking if our neurotransmitters (responsible for transmitting the nerve impulses in our brain) are imbalanced. “You may have too many excitory compounds that enhance the stress response or too few inhibitory or mellow-out compounds that calm it,” explains registered dietitian Ali Miller, author of The Anti-Anxiety Diet. What you eat can help balance this. “Protein is key, as neurotransmitters are made using amino acids in proteins as building blocks,” explains Ali. Try to eat a little protein – meat, fish, tofu, beans, yoghurt – at every mealtime. Maintaining blood sugar levels Protein as well as high-fibre foods such as wholegrains, beans, peas and lentils help to balance blood sugar. “It’s important to maintain steady blood sugar levels when you suffer from stress or anxiety, as sudden drops can leave you feeling on edge,” explains Rob Hobson, registered nutritionist and author. Creating a healthy gut microbiome Looking after our gut bacteria with probiotic and prebiotic foods such as yogurt, kefir, kimchi, leeks, onions and garlic can also help with stress. “When the gut bacteria is imbalanced, we produce higher amounts of stress chemicals, which can drive anxiety,” says Ali. So, which foods can help us cope better? Here are seven vitamins and minerals which can help us control how our body handles stress: 1. B vitamins (B6, 9, 12, thiamine and folate) B vitamins play a role in our mood stability. The body also uses these to turn protein into neurotransmitters. “At times of mental stress and anxiety, more B vitamins are needed for the task,” says Ali. Find them in: Wholegrains Meat such as beef and turkey Pulses such as lentils and peas 2. Vitamin C According to a study by the University of Trier in Germany, ingesting vitamin C before public speaking helped participants feel calmer and lowered their blood pressure during their speech than those without. This could be because vitamin C helps to support healthy adrenal glands, which produce stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol. Find it in: Berries, blackcurrants and citrus fruits Vegetables such as red peppers and broccoli 3. Selenium Stress can create physical reactions that damage our brain. Specifically, it creates free radicals which damage the neurons (nerve cells), according to Ali. Antioxidant nutrients such as selenium can help to neutralise and reduce oxidative stress to our body and brain. Nuts such as Brazil nuts and cashews Fish such as tuna and sardines 4. Magnesium According to Rob, one symptom of magnesium deficiency is increased anxiety. Magnesium relaxes the body by limiting levels of the stress hormone cortisol. “We use up more magnesium when we’re stressed, so it’s definitely something to focus on,” he says. When levels of vitamin D drop, so do levels of the stress-fighting neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, says Ali. The problem is, we make most of our vitamin D through exposure to sunlight, so our levels in winter can be particularly low. Oily fish such as mackerel Fortified cereals and dairy products 6. Chromium “To make the mood-boosting hormone serotonin, we need a substance called tryptophan and chromium helps this process,” explains Ali. Chromium also lowers the amount of cortisol we produce when stressed out, and has a role in blood sugar regulation. 7. Zinc The immune system is negatively affected by prolonged stress – “Zinc is essential for a healthy immune system,” says Rob. Zinc also balances out levels of copper in the body – high levels of which have been linked to chronic anxiety. Meat such as pork and turkey Pumpkin and sesame seeds Which foods and drinks should we cut down on? According to Ali, it might also be wise to ease up on certain foods and drinks to help ease stress and anxiety. Firstly, caffeine increases our production of cortisol and raises acid levels in our stomach, which can irritate the gut lining. The body also releases cortisol to balance our blood sugar, so cutting down on foods which are high in sugar could alleviate this added stress. Lastly, alcohol puts stress on our physiological balance in general – from our blood sugar to our gut microbiome. Look to drink low-alcohol drinks where possible. Looking for some de-stress recipe inspiration? These de-stress recipes contain all the right ingredients, whether you’re looking for breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack ideas, plus ideas for no-alcohol drinks. Mental Health Stress 23 Nutrient-Rich De-Stress Meals And Snacks Previous Let’s Run Together with Runners Need Next	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1504
__label__wiki	0.953186	0.953186	Dozens killed in two mosque attacks in Yemen A man looks at a damaged car after a suicide attack in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 20, 2015. Image: Hani Mohammed/Associated Press By Tim Chester 2015-03-20 12:00:56 UTC Updated on March 20 at 4:22 EST to reflect rising death toll. Triple suicide bombers have attacked two mosques in the centre of Yemen's capital city Sanaa, killing at least 137 people and injuring 350 others, according to medical officials. The city's Badr and al-Hashoosh mosques were targeted during midday prayers on Friday, which is traditionally the most crowded time of the week. See also: Yemen's Forgotten Conflict Witnesses said that at least two suicide bombers attacked inside the Badr mosque. One walked inside the mosque and detonated his device, causing panic as dozens of worshippers rushed toward the outside gates. A second suicide bomber then attacked amid the panicked crowds trying to escape. Both mosques are controlled by Shiite rebels, known as Houthis. The blast comes a day after intense gun battles in the southern city of Aden, between rival troops loyal to Yemen's former and current president, which left 13 dead. A video posted to Instagram purportedly shows the scene outside the Badr mosque. ~ < عشششرات الجرحى في انفجار استهدف تجمع للحوثيين في جامع بدر سوق عنس > The Houthis, who are allies to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, have controlled the capital last year since September. Earlier this year they put Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the western-backed president, under house arrest. Hadi has since fled to Aden and maintains he is still the legitimate president. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Yemen is home to a powerful al-Qaida branch, but there has also been a growing presence among supporters of the Islamic State group. Some IS supporters on social media claimed the group carried out the bombing. The claim could not be confirmed, but if true it would be group's first major attack in Yemen. The claim was posted on the same web bulletin board where the Islamic State affiliate in Libya claimed responsibility for Wednesday's deadly attack on a museum in Tunisia. Yemen is already home to the most powerful branch of the al-Qaida network — which is a rival of IS. On Friday, al-Qaida militants seized control of a southern provincial capital, al-Houta, in the group's most dramatic grab of territory by the group in years. The Associated Press contributed reporting. Topics: mosque, suicide bombers, World, Yemen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1515
__label__wiki	0.883995	0.883995	This site makes it easy to judge your Facebook friends who like Trump Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Prince William County Fair Ground in Manassas, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Image: Cliff Owen/Associated Press By Chris Perkins 2015-12-10 01:27:12 UTC You might not realize it but many of your — yes, your! — friends like Donald Trump on Facebook. Now, there's an easy way to find out who they are. A new website, FriendsWhoLikeTrump.com, emerged out of the ether Wednesday after it was first spotted by the Huffington Post. As the title suggests, the website shows users who among their Facebook friends like the controversial presidential candidate. See also: Donald Trump attacked by bald eagle named Uncle Sam, on behalf of America The website was created by Gabriel Whaley, who confirmed to Mashable that he set up the website Tuesday night. It's part of Miscellaneous Mischief, a project he started a few years ago with some friends that's gained notoriety for pranks like its "Text-in-Progress" Gif. kinda surprised no one did this yet https://t.co/JNClGNK7Mq — Gabriel Whaley (@Gabriel_Whaley) December 8, 2015 It's always been possible to create a list of your friends who like Trump (or anything, for that matter) by typing "My Friends who like X" into Facebook's search bar, but Whaley's site makes it easier and infinitely shareable. After creating the site, Whaley simply Tweeted the link and the traffic rolled in. At 5:30 P.M. ET Wednesday, 24-hours after the site went live, Whaley said the site had racked up 150,000 hits and was growing at a rate of 1,000 hits every 10-20 seconds. "I'd been reading enough of his garbage lately, and then last night it just kind of hit me," said Whaley, speaking to Mashable over Twitter message. "I was like 'how is this not already a thing?' So I quickly made it become a thing." He said the whole process from buying the domain, to the site going live took just five minutes. "Usually [Miscellaneous Mischief] resort[s] to mischief exclusively, but I guess we get irritated by bad people enough to say something about it in our own weird way." Of course, not everyone who likes Trump on Facebook actually "likes" him, as Mashable's Brian Ries points out: Don’t know how we can trust @mashpolitics anymore. Big scandal. pic.twitter.com/UBjT9yt28I — Brian Ries (@moneyries) December 9, 2015 Still, Whaley's tool provides us an interesting and easy way to judge our Facebook friends, or create an easy "unfriend" list, if that's more your thing. Topics: Apps and Software, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Facebook, Politics, Tech, U.S., U.S. & World, U.S., Culture	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1516
__label__cc	0.640121	0.359879	Gesmer Updegrove LLP Mass Law Blog Business Lit. Session DMCA/CDA Minority Shareholder/Fiduciary Duty Noncompete Agreements Readings and Novelties Strange Communications I Receive What Were They Thinking Electronic Discovery – The New New Thing by Lee Gesmer on July 21, 2005 Procedure. There are fads in the law, just like everywhere else. Apologies to Michael Lewis, but there can be no doubt that, in the odd and insular world inhabited by litigators, electronic discovery is the new, new thing, and almost everyone is scrambling to catch up. It is what Y2K was from 1997 to January 1, 2000, but unlike Y2K, it’s not going away anytime soon. It easy to tell what’s hot in litigation: just watch publications like the National Law Journal and the American Lawyer and look for frequent articles on the “hot topics.” Google “electronic discovery” and you get 354,000 hits. I’ll be writing more about electronic evidence and discovery, but for now it’s worth noting that if you want to learn about this subject one resource stands tall: Kroll Ontrack. Kroll makes an effort to track and digest every case involving electronic discovery and computer forensics (look here to see this lengthy document, which can be sorted by topic or jurisdiction).… Read the full article Copyright Law and Parts Numbering Systems (yawn…) Copyright. Sexy: Internet file sharing systems, Grokster, sampling, The Wind Done Gone, fair use, the legal standard for non literal infringement of computer source code. Not sexy: copyright protection for parts numbering systems. Yet, believe it or not, from time to time clients do ask whether parts numbering systems are protected. Lewis Clayton at Paul Weiss has written an article (published in the July 8, 2005 issue of the National Law Journal), discussing several recent cases dealing with parts-numbering systems and the “merger doctrine” under U.S. copyright law. … Read the full article The Wayback Machine and the DMCA Copyright, Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Quick now, what’s a good legal strategy when you’re involved in a bitterly contested trade secret, copyright and trademark case? Sue the lawyers on the other side, accusing them of hacking, of course. At worst, you’ll distract them and knock them off their game; at best, you’ll force their disqualification, pushing them out of the case and making your opponent go to the expense and inconvenience (not to be underestimated) of hiring new counsel and and getting them up to speed on the case. And, it doesn’t matter that your suit may be borderline or even frivolous. Every experienced lawyer knows that in the American legal system the risks of being sanctioned for bringing a frivolous suit are only slightly higher than finding a hundred dollar bill on a Times Square sidewalk during lunch hour. So, what happened here? First, there is an underlying trademark and trade secret suit between the similarly named “Healthcare Advocates” and “Health Advocate” that is of no particular interest to anyone except the parties.… Read the full article Interview With Tim Berners-Lee Technology. Tim Berners-Lee is widely recognized as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Today, he is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Senior Researcher at MIT‘s CSAIL, and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS. Mr. Berners-Lee’s current project is the development of a Semantic Web, a dramatic enhancement of the current web which is described in detail here. This Spring (2005) my partner Andrew Updegrove interviewed Mr. Berners-Lee regarding the Semantic Web. To read this important interview, click here. I am a founder and currently Senior Counsel at the Boston law firm of Gesmer Updegrove LLP. This blog focuses on my practice areas, intellectual property and business litigation. Join my Linkin Group Lee T. Gesmer — Cool Hand Luke, 1967 Oracle v. Google: Will The Best Analogy Win? Does Genius Have an Illegal “Scraping” Case Against Google? Oracle v. Google In a Nutshell Supreme Court Will Decide if “generic.com” Trademarks Are Entitled to Trademark Protection Oracle v. Google Resources Page (pinned) © 2005 - 2020 Lee Gesmer - MassLawBlog - All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1517
__label__wiki	0.775718	0.775718	Home » News » Congress allegedly tried to implicate Narendra Modi in Ishrat Jahan case Congress allegedly tried to implicate Narendra Modi in Ishrat Jahan case Posted by Master Editor \| Feb 21, 2016 \| News \| 0 \| Ishrat Jahan encounter famously branded as fake encounter case, will always remain in Top Conspiracy theories, where Narendra Modi was claimed to order a Fake encounter, and always under attack by the Opposition especially Congress and Human rights groups that maintained that Ishrat Jahan was a innocent tourist in Gujarat. Now a News Report has come with A article “Manmohan ministers tried to implicate Modi in Ishrat case” which tried to decifer a alleged Major conspiracy involving Union ministers in the Manmohan Singh government was hatched in 2009 to link the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his Home Minister Amit Shah in the 2004 encounter case of Ishrat Jahan, alleged to be a member of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba. This conspiracy also included plans to arrest an Intelligence Bureau officer and force him to implicate Modi and Shah in the case. Main Points of The News Report being Published in http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/ 1.It says Manmohan Singh government always known the fact that ” Ishrat Jahan, had links with the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba”. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) filed an affidavit before the Gujarat High Court stating that shehad links with terror outfits. One Minister was so angry with his government he wrote a letter to PMO, that time “With this the last hope to grill the Gujarat CM and HM have (sic) diminished in despair since it was the last chance to have a strong SIT with capable people who could have really embarrassed and put Gujarat ministry in difficulty. Two of the accused are also in close contact and have shown willingness to reveal everything and to become approvers.” 2. “The reason behind filing of the affidavit by the Central Government was to dissuade the court from appointing a strong SIT and give a message that even the Central Government had approved the act of fake encounter.” Central Govt at that time tried to manipulate the Court Proceedings. 3.The plot to stop Narendra Modi and implicate him in false case was their Motive from Start. 4. Report also states that one of the Union ministers, a well-known legal mind, asked the CBI officer to torture Intelligence Bureau officer Rajendra Kumar and make him confess that the inputs that Ishrat Jahan was a Lashkar member, were fake and were generated on Narendra Modi’s orders. “Usko arrest kijiye aur chaar jutey mariye, sab kabool karega (arrest him and beat him with shoes; he will confess everything)” 5.Manmohan Singh Prime Minister at that time was against the Plan. Former IB Special Director Rajinder Kumar confessing that he was offered allurements to give false evidence for implicating the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. David Headley told interrogators from the National Investigation Agency(NSA) that Ishrat Jahan, a resident of Mumbra in Thane, was recruited by top Lashkar commander Muzammil who was in charge of LeT’s operations in India till 2007. #IshratCoverup Headley says – Ishrat Jahan was an LET Operative, Barkha Dutt cites Lawyer PreviousSonam Kapoor’s Best Performance so Far, Neerja a Emotional Tale NextMS Dhoni Says: Our forces are making sure that debate on freedom of expression goes on BJP leads the way-10% Reservation for economically backward in Gujrat Aamir Khan fulfills progeria victim Nihal Bitla’s wish, meet him after Reading Nihal’s Post Watch Kajol and Anupam Kher Speaking at The Telegraph Debate on ‘Intolerance’ Anupam Kher Supports Arnab Goswamy in Arnab Vs Barkha Dutt Verbal War	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1519
__label__cc	0.74933	0.25067	Las Vegas: Week 77 While I sipped a designer cocktail, a naked couple shrouded in fog peered out from a row of columns. Their delicate movements were so mesmerizing that I almost forgot I was waiting for my friends. I’m sure that was the reaction the designers anticipated when creating a check-in lobby for the newest and arguably coolest addition to Las Vegas Boulevard. Everything about the Cosmopolitan oozed contemporary chic- from the mood lighting to the sensual video art to the figures on the restroom signs with their catwalk swagger. The Cosmopolitan is owned by the art-crazy Deutsche Bank, which means there were a lot of great contemporary paintings and sculptures. However, what caught my eye the most were the Artomactics-vintage cigarette machines converted into miniature-art dispensers. It was such a novel idea and for $5 I became the owner of a handmade lino print. The Strip wasn’t the only place that had changed. My friends had been developing their careers and it was exciting to see them become ‘the people to watch’. The week I was there the Las Vegas Weekly published an article that included my friend Mikayla. Then the week after I left my friend Jen had an editorial about her burgeoning Fremont Street gallery- Kleven Contemporary. Way across town, my friend Favi was preparing a mixed media exhibition inside his uncle’s convenience store- El Porvenir. It was located inside a sleepy strip mall with a largely hispanic clientele. The opening reception was approaching and not all of the artwork had been installed. That was normal though. Even in college Favi was the kind of guy who lived on short deadlines and massive amounts of work. While I photographed the pinatas, Favi fielded interview questions from a journalist at the junction between the candy aisle and the refrigerated soft drinks. As Favi described the artwork that was going to be ‘stocked’ on the shelves, he attached woodpecker stickers onto the crucified body of Jesus Christ. He might have felt anxious about running out of time, but it never showed. He had a carefree way about conducting business that made people like me look like nervous wrecks. “Hey,” Favi turned round to Jen and I after the interview. “What did I say was going to be installed?” Aside from careers, my friends were also purchasing homes. I am not sure yet if that makes me feel mature by proxy or immature because I haven’t made such an investment. Either way, while in town I got to enjoy Jen’s solid foundation for adulthood. Her house was built in the 70s for whom I believe was an amateur pornographer with a thirst for fresh juice. Jen claims the previous owner was a solitary man with a missing leg, but I don’t see why both can’t be true. I mean legs just don’t fall off if you’re reading a book, right? Either way, the interior had been covered in mirrors. And if mirrors or wood paneling didn’t work for a cinematic backdrop then there were murals.There was a desert scene in the garage, a French pantry in the kitchen, a coastline silhouette in the garden, and a lobster shack behind the garage. Now I knew the past owner had a penchant for wheat grass in between scenes because the kitchen counter had a built-in juicer motor. In case you were wondering about the attachments, they had their own custom storage shelf underneath. The cherry on top, however, was the large wooden carving in the front yard. It looked like Davy Crockett and had the Frontiers-y feel that every first time home owner needs. Before I left for Las Vegas, I had read about a restaurant that intentionally makes the most unhealthy food in the US. It was the kind of place where people who weigh more than 350 lbs were rewarded with free meals. So when I learned that the infamous Heart Attack Grill had opened in Vegas I thought: 1. Of course. 2. I need to go. Upon entering the restaurant a sullen ‘nurse’ gave us medical bracelets and hospital gowns. After we put them on, another nurse in a racy uniform led us to our table. It was a quiet afternoon and the place was mostly empty. The ‘doctor’ strolled back and forth behind the bar counter waiting for a drink order to come in. “How are you doing?” Our waitress asked as she passed out menus. “Good. I’m just glad we aren’t sitting by the window,” Jen replied while anxiously scanning the room. “I am embarrassed to be seen here. I work down the street.” The waitress gave Jen a puzzled look but quickly bounced back into the role of the junk food seductress. “Well, I think the fries are so much better cooked in lard. They have more flavor and they reheat really well.” We ordered the Flatliner Fries and decided to try a Butter-fat Shake and a Single Bypass Burger. The shake was made with the equivalent of a stick of butter and arrived with an additional pat of butter on top. Aside from an extremely silky texture, it was so thick that you couldn’t drink it with a straw. I probably could have finished it if I hadn’t known how unhealthy it was. The burger and fries arrived shortly thereafter. Jen and Favi decided the burger was good, but not good enough to risk their arteries or their dignity. On the other hand, we all agreed that the french fries were disgusting. Because they had been cooked in pure lard they were soft and tasted way too strongly of meat. Not even a good dollop of ketchup could mask the pork flavor. I had convinced myself that the Heart Attack Grill would be a kitschy gem- something so bad it was good. Turns out I was wrong. It just feels sad to eat in a room with an industrial strength scale. Despite the economic downturn, I was surprised and excited to see how well Vegas was looking. There was so much new development downtown- like the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, whose impossible shapes were designed by Frank Gehry. As Jen continued on with her architectural tour I just sat back and enjoyed the ride. It felt so natural to be cruising down the oven-baked asphalt streets again, a million hair dryers blowing in our faces. It was as if I had never left and that was the nicest feeling to have after two years abroad. How to get to the – Cosmopolitan: 3708 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, Nevada Kleven Contemporary: 520 Fremont Street (NW corner of 6th & Fremont) El Porvenir: 1610 E. Charleston Blvd., Suite – 140,Las Vegas, NV Heart Attack Grill: 450 Fremont St, Las Vegas, Nevada Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health: 888 W. Bonneville Ave. Las Vegas, NV One thought on “Las Vegas: Week 77” Penny Potell on October 4, 2012 at 5:27 pm said: This is a wonderful article. It made me feel nostalgic, in a sense, for the memorable Vegas years spent there! 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__label__wiki	0.654206	0.654206	View all by LuxorixLuxorix Follow LuxorixFollowFollowing LuxorixFollowing Spaceship Looter What happens to the ship when the crew dies? It just dangles around the Universe together with other space debris and becomes home for aliens. Almost always such ships are full of valuable cargo any mercenary can take. The terms are as simple as that: you bring the ship to the new owner and all the cargo is yours. The point is not to join the dead members of the crew... Spaceship Looter is an action roguelike game, where mercenaries of all stripes rob drifting schooner, lost transtport ships and abandoned military cruisers - all what is filled with tons of valuable loot and hidden in the deep space. Each ship is randomly generated and filled with heavily armed enemies prowling in search of prey. Buy new guns, upgrade abilities of the heroes, buy antiques, fight, and be sure - the booty will be yours! - High difficulty - 7 spaceships - Interaction with the mechanisms - Randomly generated levels - Interesting quests - Juicy decoration - Full support of controllers - Retrowave tracks Publisher Luxorix Games Author Luxorix Genre Role Playing Tags 2D, Action RPG, Futuristic, Loot, Pixel Art, Roguelike, Sci-fi, Shoot 'Em Up, Space, Twin Stick Shooter Inputs Keyboard, Mouse, Xbox controller Links Steam, STEAM page, Twitter Unpack the archive and play! Spaceship_Looter_Demo.zip 11 MB Inco-Nito300 days ago What should I do with the code? Am I first? Luxorix300 days ago What code are we talking about? Inco-Nito299 days ago (1 edit) "If you pass the game on easy difficulty, you will receive the key to the full version. The main thing to be first!" Nevermind. I didn't see it was two years ago. I liked the game in general, except for a couple of minor things. Good work. binary45319 days ago If I try to talk to the brain or use my right click weapon, the screen goes white and I get this error: ############################################################################################ FATAL ERROR in Vertex Shader compilation ShaderName: glsl_displace D3DXCompile failed - result at gml_Object_objDisplace_Draw_77 Then you need to update DirectX from the official Microsoft website at this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35&44F86079-8679-400C-BFF2-9CA5F2BCBDFC=1 Deleted post2 years ago Deleted 2 years ago Luxorix2 years ago (1 edit) (+1) Hi! When you kill the boss, the character appears and tells you the number of the key. But as far as I know, the key has already been won by someone. itch.io·View all by Luxorix·Report·Embed Games › Role Playing › Free	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1524
__label__wiki	0.875526	0.875526	articles In Praise Of In praise of Persona – Ingmar Bergman’s minimalist masterpiece Fifty years on, this low-key drama stands as a glorious shrine to analogue film. Stephen Puddicombe In the 50 years that have passed since the Stockholm premiere of Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece, Persona, a lot has changed in the world of film. But arguably only one development has altered the basic essence of what a ‘film’ actually is, that being the transition from traditional film stock to digital. With celluloid film being a physical material and digital constituting electronic data, the two are fundamentally different at a foundational level, to the extent that even calling what we see projected on to a cinema screen these days a ‘film’ isn’t strictly accurate given the absence of actual film stock. Perhaps no work of cinema highlights the particularities of analogue filmmaking better than Persona. Bergman’s low-key 1966 drama is many things: an abstract, beautifully shot chamber piece, a meditation of the nature and fragility of identity, and, more simply, the story of a nurse trying to treat her mute patient at a remote seaside cottage. But it is also a film about film itself, and the ontology of the physical materials that it is made up of. Significantly, Persona opens with a shot of a film projector starting up and ends with it shutting down, a framing device urging us to think about the medium of film as we’re watching. However, even the most attentive viewer will be shocked by what happens halfway through. Out of nowhere, cracks appear on the screen and the image breaks down, replicating the effect of what happens when celluloid burns up in the projector during the screening of a film. For a few disorientating moments we’re shown a montage of subliminal images accompanied by disconcerting sounds, before the film resumes again. It’s a startling sequence, one that again brings the subject of celluloid as a key theme the fore. For such an ambiguous and oblique film, any attempt to discern what – if any – grand statement Bergman is making about the craft of filmmaking cannot help but fail to theorise a definitive interpretation. But on a more direct level, Persona is an extremely tactile film, where human hands and touch are a recurring motif and where a preoccupation is exhibited of what objects – including celluloid – sound and feel like. In one key scene, a character fails to sweep up all of the shards of a glass she drops onto the floor, and you can’t help but wince and tense up as the other character’s bare feet unknowingly approach it. Not only is this sequence testament to Bergman’s skill as a visual storyteller, it also creates a very physical kind of tension through the threat of a sharp object. It’s no coincidence that the aforementioned mid-point breakdown of the film occurs just moments after the character steps on the glass. Here the worlds of the onscreen action and the materials projecting it appear to intermingle, as a sequential association is made between the glass that lies hazardously on the floor and the moment the film image is itself severed. The implication seems to be that celluloid is a fragile and vulnerable substance, and something that can be suddenly and easily destroyed. As well as vulnerability, the other factor associated with celluloid in Persona is violence. The sounds it makes as it passes through the projector in the opening scene and falls apart in the closing sequence are loud to the point of being threatening. And the images that briefly flash up onscreen when the projector is first turned on are also characterised by violence, one being a nail being hammered into a hand, another of a sheep being killed. Additionally, whenever the characters in the film encounter visual mediums they are projecting violence, through a television screen showing a man burning alive, and a photograph depicting a scene of Nazi oppression. Whether as a physical substance vulnerable to damage, or as something capable of emitting visceral violent images, the overriding impression of viewing Persona is of the essential tactility of film – something the virtual nature of digital does not share. There may have been plenty of great films about films over the years in terms of the creative process (like 8½ and Synecdoche, New York) and the world of Hollywood (like Sunset Blvd and Singin’ in the Rain), but no film can claim to have been so much about the physical properties that constitute cinema. Tags: Ingmar Bergman Swedish cinema LWLies 83: The A Hidden Life Issue – On Sale Now! The French Dispatch sounds like Wes Anderson’s biggest movie yet The 100 best films of the decade: 2010-2019 Quentin Tarantino will direct the Bounty Law episodes he wrote for OUATIH Bad Boys for Life review – Smith and Lawrence reach the end of the road Kelvin Harrison Jr: ‘Black people are beaten down before we’re celebrated’ Why I love Ingrid Bergman’s performance in Notorious By Matthew Anderson The Swedish star was never better than in this 1946 thriller from Alfred Hitchcock. A guide to rescoring a silent classic By Lara C Cory Portishead’s Adrian Utley and Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory discuss writing new music for The Passion of Joan of Arc. articles Film Music Why Carl Theodor Dreyer is one of cinema’s greatest ever directors By Paul Risker To mark the release of the BFI’s new Blu-ray collection, revisit four works by the Danish master.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1525
__label__cc	0.595692	0.404308	World's Largest Guinea Pig The world's largest guinea pigs are now at Taronga Zoo. They’re cuddly, cute and cheeky! NSW Parliament Question Time 26th September Ms FELICITY WILSON (North Shore) (15:21): My question is addressed to the Minister for Energy and Environment. Mr GREG PIPER (Lake Macquarie) (15:00): My question is directed to the Minister for Energy and Environment. Asquith Girls 60th Anniversary Mr MATT KEAN (Hornsby—Minister for Energy and Environment) (19:46):Today I acknowledge Asquith Girls High School, which celebrates its sixtieth... Watch as the spoil from the NorthConnex project is delivered to transform the Hornsby Quarry. Harper Enasio Jasmine Truskett-Jones Wayne Bingham Northholm Grammar School Students Energy Rebates Ms WENDY LINDSAY (East Hills) (15:29): My question is addressed to the Minister for Energy and Environment. Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019 Mr MATT KEAN (Hornsby—Minister for Energy and Environment) (11:29): I acknowledge the work of the member for Sydney and other members co-...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1527
__label__wiki	0.60841	0.60841	OUT ▼ CityLife Outaouais 1. City Update with Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin DISPONIBLE SUR LE WEB POUR : 35 semaines 35 sem. Mardi à 16h30 et 21h CityLife is proud to be the only English language television show produced in the Outaouais. Join us for lively discussion each week as we explore the people, places and issues that matter to the English speaking Community. Your voice in the Outaouais. 1 Jour 28:00 8. Lab-École 5. Local Federal Election Debate 12. Getting in shape and the CrossFit Challenge 11. Leader's Updates 10. Tax Time - Are you paying too much? Suivez l'émission Mercredi à 0h30, 12h, 15h et 23h Jeudi à 1h30 et 16h Vendredi à 2h30 et 17h Samedi à 17h30 Dimanche à 1h30, 8h, 12h, 16h et 18h30 Lundi à 1h, 8h et 20h Linton Garner Linton Garner is the Executive Director of the Regional Association of West Quebecers which serves the English-speaking community in the Outaouais. Linton is on the board of the Société d’habitation et de développement de Montréal, is a member of the Table de l’Éducation d’Outaouais and is President of the Quebec Federation of Home and Schools (QFHSA) as well as a board member of both the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) and Seniors Action Quebec (SAQ). Stephany Crowley Host and content producer Stephany Crowley has lived and worked in the Outaouais for over 25 years. Her background is Marketing Communications, and Public Relations. She has worked as a Strategic Communications Advisor for small and medium-sized businesses, Press Secretary and Director of Policy in the Federal Government. Stephany passionately supports community organizations and events. She has served on several Boards including, Regional Association of West Quebecers, the Aylmer Legion and the National Memorial Ride. In 2017, Stephany was President of Celebration Aylmer Canada 150 Parade Committee. Aller-Retour Country	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1528
__label__cc	0.637493	0.362507	Posts Tagged ‘PussyGate’ Trump: Hardly Worth It It’s hardly worth getting upset about Trump. MAGA Trump died after 100 days, so whether Rabbi Trump will or won’t run again in 2020 is irrelevant. If by 2018 construction of The Wall isn’t underway with a solid completion date, Trump will be rendered inert by the mid-terms. It’s hardly worth making anything Trump does the “last straw.” From here on out it’s nothing but last straws. Trump’s “muslim ban” (which isn’t, it’s a temporary ban on a handful of countries) was blocked by another pissant, corrupt court, based not on law but because they just didn’t like it. Still, as President, Trump is 100% to blame. What’s the saying? Ask for forgiveness, not permission. Trump should have enacted whatever ban he wanted and let the quisling vermin sort it out. This isn’t even really a bold move since the President already has the power to ban ANYONE from entering the US. Waiting for the Supreme Court to weigh in is a pussy move, and anyway the courts are corrupt from the top down. I expect Gorsuch to be another Roberts, that is, a spineless weakling who goes with the flow. One can hardly blame him, no one has his back, certainly not Trump. As with Roberts, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn of evil forces threatening to prune Gorsuch’s entire family tree. Roberts was but one simp standing in the way of obozocare’s trillion-dollar extortion racket; mere drug dealers have murdered grandchildren in front of grandparents for far less. Our evil government–and it is evil–would happily look the other way while muslim terrorists went after Gorsuch. Remember, even a wino who dies in the gutter gets an autopsy while Antonin Scalia, esteemed Supreme Court Justice, didn’t. That’s not suspicious at all, right? 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Edgar Hoover, James Comey, James Comey Fired, Jared Kushner, judicial branch, Julian Assange, Justice Antonin Scalia, Keep Steve Bannon, Kusher, lasers, lawyerin', legislative branch, Lolita Express, MAGA, MAGA gone, Make America Great Again, Matlock, Mexican Drug Cartels, mid-term elections, NASA, nazi saboteurs, nazi spies, Neil Gorsuch, neocohens, neocons, nepotism, neutered Trump, New York, NGA, nightmares continue, NSA, nuke 'em, NYC police corruption, obamacare, obozocare, paratroopers, Pepe The Frog, Permanent Record, Peter Hasson JeffreyEpstein, Principal Skinner, PussyGate, Red Crescent, Red Cross, rule of law, rules of engagement, rules of war, Scalia was murdered, Second American Civil War, Shadilay, sore loser, Supreme Court, Supreme Dorks, Supreme idiocy, Syria, Syria Hoax, The Simpsons, The Wall, Thermos, three branches, Timothy McVeigh, Tomahawk Missile, Trump Blackmail, Trump's Wall, TrumpWall, weaponized autism, WH, White House, wikipedia, WW2, Zero Hedge Obstacles to TrumpWall So I’m about halfway through this docu about corrupt NYC cops in the 1980s teaming up with drug kingpins. Many of the actual players are telling their stories. None of them are wearing orange jumpsuits and the main dirty cop’s name pops up all over youtube. He’s apparently a free man and out giving interviews. Three decades later I wouldn’t be surprised to find the same corruption, only far more sophisticated. This got me thinking about The Wall aka TrumpWall, but before we get to that, a recap. I told a friend “my” theory, shared by many, on how/why Trump is compromised. His response was that since Trump never took drugs or drank, he would be too smart to be caught on hidden camera screwing under-aged (or legal) whores. As Fox Mulder might say, “I want to believe.” My friend’s argument is slightly boosted by Trump’s having expressed presidential ambitions since the 1980s, but not enough for me to tip my tinfoil fedora. The alternative to Trump Blackmail is equally bad: that he’s fucking dumb. The optics of moving daughter Ivanka–who being a woman knows nothing about politics–and the even-worse son-in-law into the White House reeks of nepotism and weakness. Fuckface Kushner has ZERO useful political experience and is there for no other reason than he married into the fam; he’s a liberal fucking democrat and agent of George Soros, sworn enemy of the USA. Okay, so TrumpWall. The otherwise worthless Colin Powell had at least one great quote: “Government project? Double the time and triple the cost.” Construction of The Wall, if built at all, will likely be dragged out till the end of Trump’s first term, which his enemies hope will be his last. If Trump doesn’t get the Wall built, he is almost guaranteed to lose in 2020. As for TrumpWall’s cost, I lifted a paragraph from the wiki about Boston’s disastrous Big Dig and modified it. TrumpWall was the most expensive defense project in US history, and was plagued by cost overruns, corruption, deliberate delays, design flaws, drone mishaps, environmental nuisance lawsuits, harassment by the Mexican Army, charges of poor execution, use of substandard materials, accusations of xenophobia, criminal arrests and several deaths. The project was originally scheduled to be completed in 2020 at an estimated cost of $21 billion, however, “Wall 1.0” as it is informally called, was completed only in November 2027, at a cost of over $77 billion. CNN estimated the project will ultimately cost $400 billion dollars, including interest, and that it would not be paid off until 2199. As a result of lawsuits and design flaws, TrumpWall will probably end up costing $900 trillion-billion dollars when complete and by the nature of the project, will never be completed. America’s reluctance/cowardice to execute criminal illegals now translates to TrumpWall being deprived of the necessary manpower or defense capabilities to make it work. Thanks to the illuminating documentary on police corruption + knowing the shit show that is human nature, we can expect any wall to have deliberate design flaws suggested by the Mexican drug cartels which run Mexico. Were it only up to Trump Voters to fund and Build The Wall, it would be done by the end of 2018. With our globalist government of tyrants running D.C. it will be done never. Tags:2000 Election, 2018, 2020 Election, American Construction, Anti-MAGA, Big Dig, Bill Clinton is a rapist, billions, Blackmail, Boston, Build The Wall, Build TrumpWall, Colin Powell, Daily Caller, Deep State, Deep State Criminals, DHS, Drug Prohibition, dumb Ivanka, Edward Snowden, EPA, Evict Ivanka, Failed Drug War, fake news, FBI, Fire Comey, fire Jared Kushner, first 100 days, George Soros, government corruption, government spying, hostage Trump, Ivanka Trump, J. Edgar Hoover, James Comey, James Comey Fired, Jared Kushner, Julian Assange, Keep Steve Bannon, Kusher, Lolita Express, MAGA, Make America Great Again, Mexican Drug Cartels, NASA, neocohens, neocons, nepotism, neutered Trump, New York, NGA, NSA, NYC police corruption, Pepe The Frog, Permanent Record, Peter Hasson JeffreyEpstein, Principal Skinner, PussyGate, Shadilay, sore loser, Syria Hoax, The Simpsons, The Wall, Thermos, Tomahawk Missile, Trump Blackmail, Trump's Wall, TrumpWall, weaponized autism, WH, White House, wikipedia, Zero Hedge What Happened to Trump? My theory on why Trump has turned on his loyal MAGA base in less than 100 days: Trump at one time claimed friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a vile billionaire with a penchant for under-aged girls, who was convicted and did actual time for it. The Epstein / Trump connection was left untouched during the election because Bill-Clinton-is-a-Rapist has much stronger ties to Epstein. Since Trump’s win, the existence of the Deep State has finally been acknowledged (with a little help from Snowden and Assange) to the point even the average gruber knows what it is. But in case anyone missed it, the Deep State is a catchall term for any or all shadow government entities operating above the law and under the radar with limitless resources. The NSA, DHS and CIA are the most well known, but if you’re paranoid like I am, the Deep’s depths include a weaponized FBI, NASA, EPA and organizations most don’t know exist. Without getting too tinfoil-y, the tech that is known to the public is just the tip, surveillance (and other) technology is far more powerful and advanced than will be admitted. It’s reasonable to believe in 2017 the US government is capable of reading and recording every American text, tweet, blog, broadcast, phone conversation and letter FOREVER. The next milestone will be the ability to monitor all communications worldwide. They can’t admit this because it would make them responsible for failing to stop every terrorist attack, which they wouldn’t do anyway because it would lessen the value of fear. Assume also somewhere in the bowels of the Deep State the demonic successor of J. Edgar Hoover collects every scrap of information–by legal means and otherwise–on those seeking power. He/she/they would be fools not to. Armed with this information it wouldn’t matter who makes it to the WH as the new neutered Trump is proving. Trump’s political ambitions go back to the 1980s. Few remember he lightly tested presidential waters in 2000. His Deep State “Permanent Record” (one to make Principal Skinner proud) likely started when he first became a wealthy presence in New York City. My theory—I repeat, only a theory, there is no proven evidence—is there exists a video of Donald Trump having sex with a minor, recorded by the Deep State or even bastardo creep Jeffrey Epstein himself, who may have cameras set up all over his private island for his own use/blackmail. I love Trump and don’t want to believe (any of) this, but with my limited imagination the only other evidence on par in awfulness with statutory rape would be a video of Trump murdering someone. Trump does have other weaknesses, like endlessly seeking approval and adoration. His enormous ego, a great source of confidence and power, paradoxically has skin thinner than rice paper. It’s possible unelected rat-bastard-in-law Jared Kushner, wielding a Thermos of Ivanka’s tears over an UNPROVEN chem attack on Syrian babies, has warped Trump’s judgement, but nepotism or sentimentality is just not as believable as blackmail. Trump couldn’t be bought, and he’s certainly used to endless abuse. The phony harassment and rape cases thrown at him during the election were fake news bullshit, and when he said–and meant–the right things to nullify Pussygate, Establishment asswipes on both sides couldn’t believe their last dirty trick failed. But this other thing? It’s blackmail. Trump has likely been told if he doesn’t play along with the Deep State criminals, neocons and neocohens he will be destroyed and forced to resign in disgrace. He has no other reason to reverse MAGA. It’s blackmail. Tags:2000 Election, Anti-MAGA, Bill Clinton is a rapist, Blackmail, Daily Caller, Deep State, Deep State Criminals, DHS, Edward Snowden, EPA, Evict Ivanka, fake news, FBI, fire Jared Kushner, first 100 days, government spying, Ivanka Trump, J. 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__label__wiki	0.547932	0.547932	Application of an in vitro antimetabolic assay to human germ cell testicular tumors for the preclinical evaluation of drug sensitivity O. Sanfilippo, R. Silvestrini, N. Zaffaroni, L. Piva, G. Pizzocaro Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori An in vitro assay, which evaluates the effect of drugs on labeled nucleotide precursor incorporation 3H-thymidine and 3H-uridine after 3 hours of in vitro treatment, was applied to human germ cell testicular tumors. The assay was feasible on 78% of the 259 tumors, and the results were evaluable in 95% of these, which shows the good potential of its clinical application. In vitro response rates to conventional agents were comparable to clinical response rates reported in the literature for monochemotherapy regimens, thus demonstrating the accuracy of the assay in reproducing the sensitivity of the tumor type. The specificity of the assay in predicting drug sensitivity of individual tumors was investigated on 28 lesions from 24 patients who had residual disease after surgery. A significant correlation was found between in vitro and clinical sensitivity to the same drugs (P = 0.026), with an overall agreement of 92% when tumor metastases were tested in vitro. In contrast, no significant correlation, and a poor agreement (62%) was found when the primary tumor was tested. Preclinical Drug Evaluations Uridine Thymidine Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Sanfilippo, O., Silvestrini, R., Zaffaroni, N., Piva, L., & Pizzocaro, G. (1986). Application of an in vitro antimetabolic assay to human germ cell testicular tumors for the preclinical evaluation of drug sensitivity. Cancer, 58(7), 1441-1447. Application of an in vitro antimetabolic assay to human germ cell testicular tumors for the preclinical evaluation of drug sensitivity. / Sanfilippo, O.; Silvestrini, R.; Zaffaroni, N.; Piva, L.; Pizzocaro, G. In: Cancer, Vol. 58, No. 7, 1986, p. 1441-1447. Sanfilippo, O, Silvestrini, R, Zaffaroni, N, Piva, L & Pizzocaro, G 1986, 'Application of an in vitro antimetabolic assay to human germ cell testicular tumors for the preclinical evaluation of drug sensitivity', Cancer, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 1441-1447. Sanfilippo O, Silvestrini R, Zaffaroni N, Piva L, Pizzocaro G. Application of an in vitro antimetabolic assay to human germ cell testicular tumors for the preclinical evaluation of drug sensitivity. Cancer. 1986;58(7):1441-1447. Sanfilippo, O. ; Silvestrini, R. ; Zaffaroni, N. ; Piva, L. ; Pizzocaro, G. / Application of an in vitro antimetabolic assay to human germ cell testicular tumors for the preclinical evaluation of drug sensitivity. 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A significant correlation was found between in vitro and clinical sensitivity to the same drugs (P = 0.026), with an overall agreement of 92% when tumor metastases were tested in vitro. In contrast, no significant correlation, and a poor agreement (62%) was found when the primary tumor was tested.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1540
__label__wiki	0.566232	0.566232	La Cava is a locality in Massarosa. Viareggio railway station serves the city and comune of Viareggio, in the region of Tuscany, central Italy. Villa di Corliano The Palazzo al Borgo di Corliano is a villa situated near coast of Tuscany, central Italy, in the valley between Lucca and Pisa, 2 kilometres from the Spa town of San Giuliano Terme. Faro della Diga Foranea Viareggio Diga Foranea Lighthouse is an active lighthouse, located at halfway the breakwater of the dock of Viareggio on the Ligurian Sea. Localities in the Area Massarosa is a city and comune in the province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. Torre del Lago is a town of almost 11,000 inhabitants, a frazione of the comune of Viareggio, in the province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, between the Lake of Massaciuccoli and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Filettole is a town on the Serchio River. It represents the border between province of Pisa and province of Lucca. Ripafratta Ripafratta is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of San Giuliano Terme, province of Pisa. Viareggio is a city and comune in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Type: locality Location: Massarosa, Lucca, Tuscany, Central Italy, Italy, Europe Longitude: 10.3449° or 10° 20' 41.6" east CaglianaLocality Alle LenzeLocality BozzanoVillage VolpameLocality Casa BiagiLocality MulinaccioLocality, 1¼ km southeast Massarosa BozzanoRailway station Chiesa Santi Jacopo e AndreaChurch building, 1½ km north Chiesa dei Santi Paolo e MicheleChurch building, 1½ km east Villa dei Venulei - Terme RomaneArchaeological site, 2½ km southeast Pieve di San PantaleoneChurch building, 3 km north Villa PaolinaBuilding, 3½ km east A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. - Lǎozǐ Popular Destinations in Tuscany	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1542
__label__wiki	0.853615	0.853615	Hunter Muskett People of a certain vintage will remember Hunter Muskett playing the folk circuit alongside Fotheringay, Fairport, Pentangle and Steeleye way back in the early 70’s. The band comprised Terry Hiscock, Chris George and Doug Morter and following their debut album release, Every Time You Move with Pentangle’s Danny Thompson, Rog Trevitt joined on bass guitar. The four-piece gigged at home and abroad for five years releasing a second album, Hunter Muskett, produced by Keith Relf of The Yardbirds. During that time they claim to have played virtually every club in the British Isles whether invited to or not, including a major UK concert tour with Ralph McTell. Eventually Doug joined Magna Carta and the Albion Band among others but the group reformed when Cherry Red released the albums on CD in 2012. Hunter Muskett - 1970s Older, wiser but still the same kids with a crazy dream (minus flares and hair), Hunter Muskett are now performing their earlier songs, like the perennial Silver Coin, alongside a new repertoire of acoustic material. Reunited once again, the band are meeting old friends and new everywhere they play and now with two new albums to their name they’re finding themselves back in demand. A French fan recently contacted the band’s website to say: I'm keen on folkish musicians from UK, US, Italy, or France of course, who play in sixties and seventies. And for me, Hunter Muskett ….. are at the top of the Folk-rock movement pantheon. They shine softly like a pearl whose light never failed with time, I'm sure. Vive la musique et ceux qui la font vivre. It can’t be bettered. Terry Hiscock www.huntermuskett.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1544
__label__cc	0.601537	0.398463	Home Sports Football Ikhana: Nigerian Clubs Must Prepare Better For Continental Campaigns Ikhana: Nigerian Clubs Must Prepare Better For Continental Campaigns on: January 15, 2020 In: Football, football, Nigeria, Nigeria, SportsNo Comments Veteran indigenous coach, Kadiri Ikhana has taken an analytical look at the woes facing Rangers international of Enugu in the CAF Confederation Cup, and posited that The Flying Antelopes are suffering due to lack of proper preparations for the continental championship, megasportsarena.com reports. Ikhana, who won Nigeria’s first feel of the CAF Champions League with Enyimba of Aba in 2003, recounted how The Peoples’ Elephants back then started planning for the continental campaign from the end of the domestic season, while also adding that they ensure they kept the core of their key players, which he noted many clubs find hard to do nowadays. He reckoned during an interview with Brila FM that the recent inability of Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) clubs to hold onto their regular players beyond one or two years is one of the biggest reasons why they find it difficult to excel in continental campaigns. The ex-Enyimba of Aba, Kano Pillars, Sharks of Port Harcourt and Gateway United of Abeokuta handler, who was also once in charge of Nigeria’s female national team, Super Falcons, posited that the management of clubs in the NPFL should also provide better motivation for their wards. Ikhana submitted; “Winning the CAF competitions does not come from one day’s job; it is just something you have to plan for a very long time. That is what we did in 2003 with Enyimba, but many clubs don‘t do that any longer. “We have to plan well for us to win well, but we also see a situation in which our clubs cannot keep their players from more than a year, which means they will have to recruit new ones for the next competition. That does not provide for continuity. “Enyimba had the best programme in 2003 when they won the Cup. All those players we had, they were the best-paid players in Nigeria as at that period. So, make sure the welfare package of the players is appreciable. When the player has good welfare package, he‘s going nowhere.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1548
__label__wiki	0.595638	0.595638	Dr. Michael A. Dichio Here is a a copy of my CV which I also detail below Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah, (2019-Present) Assistant Professor of Political Science and Pre-Law Adviser, Fort Lewis College, (2014-2019) Faculty in Residence, Animas Hall, Fort Lewis College (2016-2019) Cornell University Ph.D., Government (August 2014) Dissertation: The United States Supreme Court and National State Expansion, 1789-1997 (nominated for APSA’s Edwin S. Corwin award for best dissertation in public law, 2015) Committee: Richard F. Bensel (chair), Michael Jones-Correa, Ken I. Kersch (Boston College), Aziz Rana, and Elizabeth Sanders Boston College B.A., Political Science and History, cum laude, (2008) Law and Courts: Judicial Politics, Constitutional Law: National Powers, Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties, U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Theory, First Amendment Theory, Law & Society, Criminal Justice, Courts and Public Policy American Politics and Thought: Introduction to American Government, Presidency, American Political Development, American Political Thought, Survey of Western Political Philosophy Methods: Qualitative Methods, Research Design, Senior Capstone Dichio, Michael A. 2018. The U.S. Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority. New York: SUNY Press (in American Constitutionalism series edited by Robert Spitzer) Dichio, Michael A. 2019 (forthcoming). “The Problems of Litigating Hardrock Mining” in Brad Clark and Pete McCormick, editors, Gold Metal Waters. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press. Dichio, Michael A. 2018. Review of Douglas E. Edlin Common Law Judging: Subjectivity, Impartiality, and the Making of Law (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2016), Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 28, No. 2: pp. 16-18. Dichio, Michael A. 2013. Review of Thomas J. Main, ed. Is the American Constitution Obsolete? (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013), Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 23, No. 9: pp. 446-451. “The General Mining Act of 1872: State Formation in the American West” (under review) “The Supreme Court and the Rise of the Modern American State, 1870-1920” (draft complete) “The Warren Court’s Uneven Distribution of Citizenship Rights” (research in progress) “A Devil’s Pact: Slavery and American Constitutional Obsolescence” (research in progress) HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS Foundation Grant, Fort Lewis College Faculty Development Grant, Fort Lewis College Byron Dare Fellowship, Fort Lewis College John L. Senior Chair of Institutions Grant, Cornell University American Political Science Association Centennial Center Scholar Cornell Graduate School Travel Grant Houston I. Flournoy Graduate Fellow, Cornell University Government Department Travel Grant, Cornell University Russell Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University N.S.F., Research Experience for Undergraduates, Oklahoma State Order of the Cross and Crown, Boston College Advanced Study Grant, Boston College Introduction to American Government Introduction to Criminal Justice Systems Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties Constitutional Law: Federalism and Separation of Powers American Supreme Court American Presidency Senior Research Seminar Survey of Western Political Thought Internship Adviser Instructor of Record, Department of Government, (Freshman Writing Seminar): American Law and Society The Constitution, Sex, Marriage, and Privacy Resident Tutor and Adviser, Cornell in Washington, Washington, D.C. Research Seminar in American Studies Politics and Policy: Theory, Research, and Practice Teaching Assistant, Department of Government Supreme Court and Crime Constitutional Politics American Political Thought: Madison to Malcolm X Discussant for “Conflict and Collaboration Federal Systems” panel, American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 31-September 2, 2018 “Citizen Suits and the General Mining Act of 1872: Using Citizens to Build the American State,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 5-8 2018 Discussant for “Early American State” panel, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 5-8, 2018 Participant in “Socratic Method Today” module, Teaching & Learning Conference, American Political Science Association, Long Beach, CA, February 10-12, 2017 “Problems of Litigating Hardrock Mining,” Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA, March 24-26, 2016 “The U.S. Supreme Court and National State Development, 1789-1920” Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, April 2015 “The Constitutional Foundations of the American Central State, 1789-2010.” Northeast Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 2013 “The Supreme Court and American State Expansion, 1870-1930.” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 11-14, 2013 “The Supreme Court and Patterns of American State Development, 1789-2011.” Policy History Conference, Richmond, VA, June 6-9, 2012 “The Supreme Court and Patterns of American State Development, 1789-2011.” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2012 “The Supreme Court and Patterns of American State Development, 1789-2011.” Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR, March 22-24, 2012 “The Supreme Court and American State Development, 1789-2011.” New England Political Science Conference, Hartford, CT, April 28-30, 2011 “Categories and Consequences: The Legal Construction of Reality in American Political Development.” New England Political Science Conference, Newport, RI, April 22-24, 2010 Invited participant, Constitutional Law “Schmooze” Baltimore, MD hosted by Mark Graber, February 2010 “The Constitution and Campaign Finance,” League of Women Voters, Oct. 2017 “Congressional and Legislative Tracking,” Indivisible Durango, February 2017 “Electoral College: Past, Present, and Future,” League of Women Voters, May 2017 College-Wide Service Honors Council Committee, member, (August 2018-Present) Teaching Innovation, Pedagogy and Assessment Committee, member, (August 2018-Present) “Common Ground” Diversity Trained Facilitator, (May 2017-Present) Political Science Department Assessment, Member, (September 2015-Present) Awards Committee, Member, (January 2017-April 2018) Strategic Enrollment Planning Committee, Elected Member, (March 2017-July 2017) Faculty Senator, Elected Member, (Fall 2016-Present) Faculty in Residence, Animas Hall, (Fall 2016-Present) Faculty Mentor, (Fall 2016-Present) LGBTQ+ Safe Zone Ally, Member/Representative, (May 2016-Present) Constitution Day Coordinator, (Fall 2014-Present) Pre-Law Program Coordinator and Adviser, (Fall 2014-Present) Pre-Law Assessment Coordinator, (Fall 2014-Present) Political Science Program Review, Member, (September 2016-May 2017) Technical Services Librarian Search Committee, (Spring 2016) Visiting Instructor of Philosophy Search Committee, (Spring 2016) Political Science Tenure-Track Search Committee, (2015-2016) Political Science Club Adviser (Fall 2015-Present) Co-Director, Teaching Assistant Trainer, Department of Government, Cornell University, (2011-2012) Common Ground Facilitator Safe Zone LGBTQ+ Ally Training Inter-university Consortium on Political and Social Research Presenting Data and Information with Edward Tufte Institute for Constitutional Studies Seminar Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Empirical Legal Workshop Institute for Constitutional Studies Research Workshop Pedagogy Course (Writing 7100: Teaching Writing) Richard F. Bensel (chair) Gary S. Davis Professor of Government and Associate Chair White Hall 214 rfb2@cornell.edu Ken I. Kersch Professor of Political Science, History, and Law Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-380 kersch@bc.edu Elizabeth Sanders Professor of Government mes14@cornell.edu Aziz F. Rana 236 Myron Taylor Hall ar643@cornell.edu Justin McBrayer Chair of the Department of Political Science & Philosophy jpmcbrayer@fortlewis.edu Noble Hall 220 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS (past and present) American Political Science Association Midwest Political Science Association Western Political Science Association The University of Utah Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons, Suite 3345 michael.dichio@utah.edu Dr. Michael A. Dichio, Create a website or blog at WordPress.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1550
__label__cc	0.740951	0.259049	Adventure - Cuba - Good Story - Incubator - Innovadores Foundation - Timely What’s up with the Cuba Sonic Mystery? Anyone call a Plumber? (Washington, DC) I was at the WaterGate Hotel, the mecca of silly spycraft, just having a burger and catching up with John and Jono of Innovadores fame. The breadth of what their humanitarian accomplishments in two years is pretty amazing, as their regular updates will attest. It has been a breakneck sprint (relatively) since Obama loosened relations with Havana in 2015. The Foundation has sponsored three years of fantastic Cuban entrepreneurs to intern at Grand Central Tech, and everyone has returned to do good things in Cuba. Several have begun to launch businesses, and we stand ready to assist again. But recently, the US Embassy in Havana cut staff 60%, just two years after opening for the first time in 50+ years. Guidelines on doing business- mostly tourism– are expected to further curtail activity with Cuban Government holdings. Is this really going to stop progress cold, here, now? I find that hard to imagine. Here’s why. Do Sonic attacks even exist? (from Snopes) …A diplomatic mystery… came to light in a 10 August 2017 story first reported by the Associated Press. The report focused on a series of seemingly related illnesses suffered by American and Canadian diplomats serving in Cuba. The original reporting included what later appeared to be speculation from unnamed United States government officials that some form of heretofore unknown sonic weapon was to blame… No doubt US – Cuban bilateral relations have become even more complicated as diplomats and family members have reported a variety of injuries. While the extent of the injuries has been confirmed by medical evaluations in the US, their origin remains a mystery. The US has not directly accused Cuba of causing these injuries, and the Cuban government has denied any responsibility. In response, the US has reduced its diplomatic personnel in Cuba to limit the potential for injuries and warned American visitors to Cuba that they could also be potential victims. So far there have been no reports of injuries to Americans outside the diplomatic community. Innovadores will continue to travel to Cuba to support private sector entrepreneurs. Our judgment is that American visitors on short visits are unlikely to be impacted by these attacks. For me, it all seems as far-fetched as Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel explaining why his amp went to volume 11. Mind the settings (Highly speculative) Who would benefit from the sonic blowback? When I look at this question, it seems to me even less likely that (official) Cuba was behind anything. Cuba has been in trying strategic straights lately: Venezuela is crumbling, Irma battered the island, and their demographics are getting really old (half above 65 in five years). In the words of the (recently evacuated) diplomat Scott Hamilton, the kids are pushing change, and that is going to require a relaxing of control. Per AirBnb, 650k Americans came to Cuba in 2016, and the American tourism dollars are badly needed. In fact, senior Cuban diplomats descended on DC last week to plead their innocence just before the announcement, to no avail. It also seems unlikely that this incident is a just cause for the current US administration to wipe clean the Obama rapprochement. I say this because, well, there are so many other bigger punitive measures they could have taken if they wanted to prosecute a firmer position. And if this was truly the reason the US needed to make a punitive move, it might sound a bit like “remember the Maine”. Not to worry, he’s Canadian. The third theory is that someone highly placed in the Cuban Government, or anyone working independently, decided this would be the best deterrent to further integration of Cuban- American cooperation. Anything is possible I guess, but it doesn’t explain the mystery machine. Who could bungle an operation so badly? And what for? Would Cuba wish to curtail US tourism at this point? I don’t think so. Would POTUS have better ways to reverse Obama’s Cuba detente? Easily, but he hasn’t chosen that course here. Would a dissident Cuban (in this case, dissenting against change) want to slow progress before the transition of power due in Havana in 2018? Possibly. Did someone totally screw up with the settings on a machine that likely doesn’t exist and would be near impossible to smuggle into Cuba? That’s my bet. In this case, turning it up to 11 was not “one better”. It seemed very Water-Gate-ish to me. Post: WaPo published this just after. Inconclusive. ~~Wow, you made it all the way down here! ~~~ Like this story?… Inspired, even just a little?… here’s how you might pay it forward; Please tell me about a great entrepreneur who may need help solving a big puzzle. or… Please tell me about an A Player who would be a great addition to a founding team.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1556
__label__wiki	0.579072	0.579072	Home > The Hon Dan Tehan MP > Government welcomes WA mobile phone ban Wednesday 30 October 2019 Media Release Minister for Education Dan Tehan has today welcomed the decision to ban mobile phones in Western Australian schools. "I commend the Western Australian Government for making the tough but right decision to ban mobile phones during school hours from 2020," Mr Tehan said. "The Morrison Government believes that banning mobile phones from the classroom will encourage students to focus on learning by removing a significant distraction. "Mobile phones can also be conduits for cyberbullying and other inappropriate use. There is also evidence of the negative impact social media is having on young people’s mental health. "Earlier this year, our Government put banning mobile phones on the agenda at Education Council. We heard from Assistant Professor Louis-Philippe Beland about his research that found low-achieving students enjoyed the biggest positive effect from a mobile phone ban, with the benefit equating to the equivalent of an additional 10 school days a year. "If you go to schools where mobile phones are banned it has made a huge difference to the learning environment and to the social environment at lunch time and recess. "Student wellbeing is an issue for parents and teachers, and we will continue to support all jurisdictions and schools to limit the use of mobile phones in schools."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1558
__label__wiki	0.867203	0.867203	Explore 'The Second Part' with 30 stills from ‘The LEGO Movie 2' By Silas Lesnick \| Jan 25, 2019 Five years after the original “The LEGO Movie” hit theaters, Warner Bros. Pictures is preparing to unleash into theaters the highly anticipated sequel, “The LEGO Movie: The Second Part”. Today, the studio has brought online 30 stills from the new film, all of which you can explore using the gallery viewer below: “The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part” reunites the heroes of Bricksburg in an all-new, action-packed adventure to save their beloved city. It’s been five years since everything was awesome, but now the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild. The battle to defeat them and restore harmony to the LEGO universe will take Emmet, Lucy, Batman and their friends to far away, unexplored worlds, including a strange galaxy where everything is a musical. It will test their courage, creativity and Master Building skills, and reveal just how special they really are. Returning from the original “The LEGO Movie” are the voices of Chris Pratt as Emmet, Elizabeth Banks as Lucy (aka Wyldstyle), Will Arnett as LEGO Batman, Nick Offerman as Metal Beard, and Alison Brie as Unikitty. They are joined by Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz and Arturo Castro as new characters Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi, Sweet Mayhem and Ice Cream Cone, respectively. The film is produced by Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Roy Lee, the team behind the LEGO film franchise since “The LEGO Movie” debuted in 2014. “The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part” opens nationwide in 2D and 3D on February 8, 2019. American Animals, Book Club, Tag, Upgrade, Universal Monsters and lots more! Ryan Reynolds gets a little obsessive in a 'Detective Pikachu' featurette Discover exactly how far the star went to become the furry, electrifying star of the May 10 release. The final 'Aquaman' trailer has arrived James Wan directs the DC Comics adaptation, only in theaters December 21st. Carpenter-endorsed 'Halloween' sequel coming to life 40 years after the original If you’re paying attention to the right corners of the internet, you can uncover signs that Blumhouse’s upcoming "Halloween" sequel is coming to life.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1560
__label__wiki	0.791733	0.791733	MORE / TRAILER Maleficent: Mistress of Evil at Movie Max Digital Cinemas 118 mins \| Rated PG (Violence & scary scenes) Starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sam Riley, Ed Skrein, Robert Lindsay, David Gyasi, Jenn Murray, Juno Temple, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest director Joachim Rønning joins Angelina Jolie for the sequel to the 2014 Disney fantasy adventure. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest co-director Joachim Rønning joins Angelina Jolie for the sequel to the 2014 Disney fantasy adventure centred around the titular Sleeping Beauty villain. 118 mins \| Rated PG (Violence & scary scenes) \| Adventure, Fantasy, Blockbuster Directed by Joachim Rønning \| Starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sam Riley, Ed Skrein, Robert Lindsay, David Gyasi, Jenn Murray, Juno Temple, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton Website © 2019 Flicks Ltd	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1561
__label__cc	0.606926	0.393074	13 Memorable B-Sides Of The 1980s There was definitely a ‘thing’ about B-sides in the 1980s. You never quite knew what you would find on the reverse of your favourite 7” or 12″ single – maybe a new direction, bold experiment, glorious failure, engaging curio, self-produced shocker or even the drummer’s long-awaited-by-nobody songwriting debut. Sometimes a single track encapsulated all of the above… I was certainly never the biggest singles collector in the world, but I had to try and hear everything by Prince, Level 42 and It Bites during their peak years. Some B-sides took on a kind of mythic stature and weren’t easy to access: you’d have to cadge from your mates, record things from the radio or trawl the Record & Tape Exchange. Here’s a motley parade of ’80s backsides, some long-sought-after, some intriguing, some exciting, some fairly random but all inexplicably etched upon my memory. I gave myself three rules: no remixes, live tracks or album tracks allowed… 13. David Bowie: ‘Crystal Japan’ (1981) Though originally released as an A-side for the Japanese market, this charming instrumental later turned up as the B-side to the ‘Up The Hill Backwards’ single of March 1981. I’m still waiting for Jeff Beck’s cover version. 12. Peter Gabriel: ‘Curtains’ (1987) Almost every time this ‘Big Time’ B-side rolls around, it produces a slight chill and sense of wonder. One of PG’s most disquieting pieces, it has to be said, but with a lovely melody and ambience. 11. Danny Wilson: ‘Monkey’s Shiny Day’ (1987) The Dundonians are at their most sublimely Steely-ish on this ‘Mary’s Prayer’ B-side. The track’s lo-fi production and slightly low-budget horn section/backing vocals hinder it not one jot. 10. Prince: ‘Alexa De Paris’ (1986) Prince had always threatened a full-on guitar instrumental and this ‘Mountains’ B-side delivered it. And boy was it worth the wait. Sheila E plays some fantastically unhinged drums (check out how she reacts to Prince’s guitar throughout) and Clare Fischer weighs in with a widescreen orchestral arrangement. The composition is reimagined as a solo piano piece in the movie ‘Under The Cherry Moon’. 9. It Bites: ‘Vampires’ (1989) The B-side of ‘Still Too Young To Remember’, this glam-prog classic is notable for its crunching riff, catchiness and Francis Dunnery’s most extreme It Bites guitar solo (muso alert: was it stitched together from multiple takes?). It’s also one of many fine IB B-sides, of which more to come soon. Pet Shop Boys were definitely listening – this is even in the same key. 8. David Sylvian: ‘A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce’ (1989) The accompanying track to one-off 12” single ‘Pop Song’, you get the feeling this micro-tonal, improvised miniature featuring late great pianist John Taylor was far more up Sylvian’s street than the hits requested by Virgin Records. 7. Donna Summer: ‘Sometimes Like Butterflies’ (1982) This B-side to ‘Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)’ is a bit of a guilty pleasure. But Summer’s exceptional performance transcends the schmaltz, as does a superb drum performance by…someone (Steve Gadd? Rick Marotta? Ed). Intriguingly, Dusty Springfield covered it in 1985. 6. Level 42: ‘The Return Of The Handsome Rugged Man’ (1982) This irresistible B-side from the ‘Are You Hearing What I’m Hear’ 12” shows the lads in full-on Weather-Report-meets-Jeff-Beck mode. Drummer Phil Gould even gives Harvey Mason and Billy Cobham a run for their money. 5. Roxy Music: ‘Always Unknowing’ (1982) This shimmering, beguiling Avalon outtake from the US single version of ‘More Than This’ was surely in competition with ‘While My Heart Is Still Beating’ and ‘Tara’ for an album spot. Beautiful playing from guitarist Neil Hubbard. 4. Donald Fagen: ‘Shanghai Confidential’ (1988) This ‘Century’s End’ B-side is an intriguing slice of fuzak with lovely chord changes, some tasty Marcus Miller bass and a fine Steve Khan guitar solo. You can even feel Donald smirking slightly when he plays his synth motif. 3. Scritti Politti: ‘World Come Back To Life’ (1988) The B-side of the ‘Boom There She Was’ 12-inch showcases all the charms of the Provision sound: intricate arrangements, pristine production, bittersweet lyrics and punchy vocals. For many fans, it’s better than a lot of stuff on the album. 2. China Crisis: ‘Animalistic’ (1985) The Liverpudlians detour into minimalist jazz/funk with some success on this ‘Black Man Ray’ B-side. Gary Daly’s vocals have never been so wryly Lloyd Cole-esque (before Cole… Ed) and drummer Kevin Wilkinson is really in his element. Gorgeous synth sounds too. 1. Willy Finlayson: ‘After The Fall’ (1984) We’ll close with something in the ‘fairly random’ category. The A-side, ‘On The Air Tonight’, was recently covered by The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone, but I’ve always had a soft spot for this B-side. Both tracks were written and produced by ex-Camel keyboardist Pete Bardens. Willy is still active on the (sadly ever-dwindling) West London gig scene. Let me know your killer B’s below. This entry was posted in B sides, China Crisis, Danny Wilson, David Bowie, David Sylvian, Donald Fagen, Donna Summer, It Bites, Level 42, Peter Gabriel, Roxy Music, Scritti Politti, Willy Finlayson and tagged chinacrisis, dannywilson, davidbowie, davidsylvian, donaldfagen, donnasummer, itbites, level42, petergabriel, prince, roxymusic, scrittipolitti, willyfinlayson. Bookmark the permalink. ← Jean-Baptiste ‘Toots’ Thielemans (1922-2016) How We Live: Dry Land 30 Years On → 4 thoughts on “13 Memorable B-Sides Of The 1980s” viviane phillips says: on 25/08/2016 at 8:26 pm Brilliant selection, Matt. I particularly enjoyed Danny Wilson, It Bites, Sylvian, Level 42, China Crisis. Oh, and Prince. Sheila E is superb. And I see what you mean about Phil Gould’s drumming… Nice to hear Willy Findlayson again. Thanks. on 30/08/2016 at 12:00 pm Yes, it was always exciting to play. B side on a 45 – a little extra thrill or disappointment. BJH’s Shades of B Hill was a beautiful little short creation – yearning and resignation cotton-wooled in a big soft cloud of sad longing Matt P (movingtheriver.com, soundsofsurprise.com) says: on 31/08/2016 at 9:26 am Is that an ’80s B-side, mate? Also, just out of interest, what is your favourite from the songs above? Warren Ross Butterfield says: 🎼”…..Time to play B-sides…!!” — Blue Oyster Cult Going crazy here again pretty much beautifully wasting time with stuff like this but that’s why were all here in’it? One piece that always struck me was Tears for Fears “Pharoahs” on the back of everybody wants to rule the world 12 inch at least over here in America. I don’t think it was on the back of my British 12 inch ….too much time has passed…. to recall. Here’s the scenario: Roland is rolling tape apparently doing roughly a half tempo version of the keyboards to everybody wants to rule the world. A major storm is approaching the British coast and he has the weather radio on. He said later that he was always struck by the calmness of the British in the face of impending danger I guess also harkening back to the steadfast hand of Winston Churchill…. you hear the announcer giving apparently barometric readings from different locales. If you listen carefully you will hear him mention Pharoahs. At one point a helicopter flies overhead and Roland decides to leave that 0n the tape.. it’s a simple beautiful inspired peace and if you listen carefully to the Outro…. you will hear a gentle rendering of the guitar line from everybody wants to rule the world and then you see how these pieces work together. When I DJed it and I wanted to change pace on the floor a bit or during an appropriate break at weddings etc. I would put this piece on and then fade into one of several versions of “everybody wants to rule the world” and build the energy level back up… As you might say it was smashing and I got a lot of queries about the piece. So many b-sides falling out of my mind right now but this was huge..! Meanwhile one small bone to pick… The live version of level 42’s “love games” on the back of one of the singles over here maybe 12″Starchild…. Is incredibly fierce so that’s the kind of B-side I’m not about to rule out LOL Just found this site recently and I love it well-maintained and the descriptions are fantastic and all your comments bring A tear back to the eyes….. Now anybody have any news background or refreshers on the fantastic funk band from Scotland APB? I got to chat with Ian very briefly on the show they did in New York City in the mid-80s at the Ritz. About the same age we were at the time, he was very affable chowing down on a hotdog or something with a beer right after the show as he was crisscrossing the dance floor…. they were a major staple on WLIR from Long Island just outside of Manhattan. Every 12 inch was absolutely killer… “What kind of girl are you?” Always had people running over to the booth when it was over it would get their blood flowing on the dance floor. Everyone would say “who the hell was that?” My reply… “You didn’t know they had funk in Scotland did you? …and I’m not talking about the stuff that grows on the north side of their trees…” Some kinda Northern Soul…. indeed Leave a Reply to Warren Ross Butterfield Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1562
__label__wiki	0.645362	0.645362	Home Business News Nigeria’s domestic carriers’ staff strength drops by 50% Nigeria’s domestic carriers’ staff strength drops by 50% Naija247news Media The staff strength of domestic carriers shrunk from 5,000 to less than 2,500 due to failure of airlines, Daily Trust has gathered. Aero Contractors, the oldest airline in the country, recently sacked 60 per cent of its workforce (about 1,000 workers) thus contributing to the drop in the industry strength. Arik Air, the largest employer of labour in the industry, is struggling with just four aircraft from about 30 with many of the workers being rendered redundant. Checks by Daily Trust showed that all domestic airlines put together have less than 40 aircraft. The President, National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), Comrade Isaac Balami, said this year held a lot of promises and hope for the dozens of unemployed pilots and engineers with new airlines coming in. However, he urged the carriers to ensure the institutionalisation of sound corporate governance to last long. He also called on the government to come to the aid of domestic carriers, saying that airline business appeared attractive from outside but the carriers faced humongous challenges which threatened their existence. For instance, he said, the price of aviation fuel known as Jet A1 selling for N250 and above per litre was not sustainable. Balami said, “The truth of the matter is that it is a very good thing that new airlines are coming in but the government should provide the enabling environment not just for the new ones coming but the existing ones to be able to sustain their operations.’’ Another expert and former pilot with the defunct Nigerian Airways, Capt. Ibrahim Yinusa Kazaure, said it was one thing for the new airlines to acquire AOC, and another thing for them to have the resources to operate because the airline business “is very complex and highly capital intensive.” He said if the owners of the coming airlines were genuine investors, they would need to entrench prudent management system to avoid financial excesses. President of Aviation Roundtable, Elder Gabriel Olowo, said government should address the foreign exchange challenges inhibiting the growth and sustenance of airlines. Meanwhile, Nigeria’s aviation sector is expected to record a boom this year with 18 firms seeking to begin flight operations into the country. However, experts are calling for caution so that the yet to be unveiled carriers do not falter like their predecessors. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Director General, Capt. Mukhtar Usman, recently disclosed that 18 firms are at different stages of securing the all-important Air Operator Certificate (AOC) which empowers them to commence flight operations. [Daily Trust] Previous articleWorld Bank’s $150m credit will boost Nigeria’s mining sector’s competitiveness – Olufon Next articleJaiz bank plc shares trading closed for Q1 2017 reports Godwin Okafor is a Financial Journalist, Internet Social Entrepreneur and Founder of Naija247news Media Limited. He has over 16 years experience in financial journalism. His experience cuts across traditional and digital media. He started his journalism career at Business Day, Nigeria and founded Naija247news Media in 2010. Godwin holds a Bachelors degree in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management from the Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos. He is an alumni of Lagos Business School and a Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists). Over the years, he has won a number of journalism awards. Godwin is the chairman of Emmerich Resources Limited, the publisher of Naija247news. Afreximbank and Ecobank agree on African trade and investment promotion Naija247news Media - Feb 14, 2017 9mobile to Host Abuja SMEs at its Market Access Forum Naija247news Media - Jul 20, 2017	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1569
__label__cc	0.60477	0.39523	Published on 31.03.15 in Vol 2, No 1 (2015): Jan-Mar Privacy Issues in the Development of a Virtual Mental Health Clinic for University Students: A Qualitative Study Amelia Gulliver1, PhD ; Kylie Bennett1, BSc, BA (Hons) ; Anthony Bennett1, BAppSc ; Louise M Farrer1,2, PhD (Clinical Psych) ; Julia Reynolds1, BA (Hons), MPsych(Clin) ; Kathleen M Griffiths1, PhD 1National Institute for Mental Health Research, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 2Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia Amelia Gulliver, PhD National Institute for Mental Health Research Research School of Population Health 63 Eggleston Road Acton, ACT Canberra, Phone: 61 02 6125 9472 Fax:61 02 6125 0733 Email: amelia.gulliver@anu.edu.au Background: There is a growing need to develop online services for university students with the capacity to complement existing services and efficiently address student mental health problems. Previous research examining the development and acceptability of online interventions has revealed that issues such as privacy critically impact user willingness to engage with these services. Objective: To explore university student perspectives on privacy issues related to using an online mental health service within the context of the development of an online, university-based virtual mental health clinic. Methods: There were two stages of data collection. The first stage consisted of four 1.5-hour focus groups conducted with university students (n=19; 10 female, 9 male, mean age = 21.6 years) to determine their ideas about the virtual clinic including privacy issues. The second stage comprised three 1-hour prototype testing sessions conducted with university students (n=6; 3 male, 3 female, mean age = 21.2 years) using participatory design methods to develop and refine a service model for the virtual clinic and determine student views on privacy within this context. Results: The students raised a number of issues related to privacy in relation to the development of the university virtual clinic. Major topics included the types of personal information they would be willing to provide (minimal information and optional mental health data), concern about potential access to their personal data by the university, the perceived stigma associated with registering for the service, and privacy and anonymity concerns related to online forums contained within the virtual clinic. Conclusions: Students would be more comfortable providing personal information and engaging with the virtual clinic if they trust the privacy and security of the service. Implications of this study include building the clinic in a flexible way to accommodate user preferences. JMIR Mental Health 2015;2(1):e9 doi:10.2196/mental.4294 university; student; mental health; internet; virtual clinic; Mental disorders are at their peak in young people aged 16 to 25 years [1], a time when many young people are enrolled in university [2]. University life can expose students to additional stressors [3], which may impact negatively on their mental health. Mental disorders are responsible for a significant disability burden in university students [4], with a recent US study reporting a 12-month mental disorder prevalence level of almost 50% in university students [5]. Mental disorders can have severe consequences if untreated, including disability [6,7], suicide [8], lowered quality of life [9], and, for students, a greater risk of dropout from their education [10]. Despite this, less than one-fifth of students with mental health problems use mental health services [5]. The tertiary education setting is a unique environment in which to provide both large-scale preventive and treatment interventions for mental health problems [11]. Mental health services in a university setting tend to be delivered face-to-face [12], which may limit their cost-effectiveness and scalability. In addition, the high clinical load often experienced by staff at university health clinics and economic burden on the university [13] restrict the number of students who can access face-to-face care. Technology-based interventions show promise for treating common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety in university students [14]. Interventions delivered via the internet can be continuously available, accessed anonymously, cost-effective [15,16], scalable, and broadly disseminated [17,18]. University students use the internet frequently and are highly likely to search for information about mental health online [19]. Moreover, Internet interventions may be viewed as less stigmatizing than traditional approaches to care [20,21], with university students being concerned with perceived stigma associated with accessing on-campus counseling services [22]. Therefore, there is a potential role for a university-based online service that has the capacity to complement traditional services to more effectively and efficiently address student mental health problems. A key issue in the development of an online health service (and indeed, any health service) is the user’s experience of privacy [23,24]. Research outside the university setting has investigated privacy issues relating to the security of user personal information [25], predominantly in the context of consumer portals in medical settings [26-31]. One study examined consumer attitudes towards privacy when provided with online access to their medical records [29]; another explored concerns about privacy in the development of personal health records for veterans [30]. All studies identified privacy as a significant concern for users of these services. Although these studies have focused on adults in the community, it is possible that privacy is an even greater concern for students, particularly those studying certain disciplines like law or medicine [32,33]. For example, students may fear being labeled with a mental health condition or being discontinued from their course by the university [34]. Little qualitative research has been conducted to investigate privacy issues among university students or the types of personal information that students are comfortable providing with respect to their mental health. This study seeks to address the gap in knowledge. This study was conducted within a larger project involving the development of a university-specific virtual mental health clinic designed to provide support to students across the mental health intervention spectrum (from awareness and prevention to treatment and relapse prevention). Participatory design methods attempt to involve all stakeholders (eg, end-users, employees, administrators) in coproducing a service [35]. In this project to date, these methods have included focus groups and prototype sessions which were used to engage students (end-users) in the development of the virtual clinic. Using participatory design methods may increase uptake of the service among students and foster a sense of empowerment and ownership of the service [36]. This research is taken from the first two stages of the project. The first stage comprised qualitative focus groups, which broadly examined the topic of mental health help-seeking online, and the second stage consisted of iterative prototyping of model versions of the clinic and feedback cycles conducted with students. The focus groups and prototype testing sessions were structured and based on predetermined questions to aid the development of the virtual clinic while allowing for other topics to be discussed as they arose. A list of questions for the focus groups and prototype sessions is provided in Multimedia Appendix 1. Study Sample The overall sample for focus groups and prototype sessions consisted of 25 students (13 female, 52%) from The Australian National University (ANU). The mean age was 21.5 years (range 18-24). Focus Group Sessions This project stage involved conducting four focus groups with 19 university students (10 females, 9 males; n=5, 5, 5, 4) to determine their views on online help-seeking for mental health problems and ideas about components of the virtual clinic and how it might function. The mean age of the focus group sample was 21.6 years (range 19-24). Each group lasted approximately 1.5 hours. Detail on the methods for the focus groups have been published previously [36]. Prototype Sessions This stage of the research involved conducting three 1-hour prototype testing sessions with 6 university students (3 females, 3 males; n=1, 2, 3) to engage students in the development and refinement of a service model for the virtual clinic. During these sessions, participants provided feedback on a prototype version of the virtual clinic, developed by the research team based on the previously conducted focus groups; relevant literature; and clinical, empirical, and information technology best practices. The prototype presented to the participants depicted a student, how the student may encounter and use the clinic, as well as example features of the clinic and how the clinic may interact with service providers (eg, a university counseling center). This process was iterative and each session contained a new prototype for testing, which took into account input from participants in previous sessions and further elements to be tested as determined by the researchers. The mean age of the prototypes sample was 21.2 years (range 18-23). All groups were facilitated by LF with note-taking by either AG or JC and were conducted onsite at the National Institute for Mental Health Research at ANU with the exception of one focus group which was held in a meeting room at a student hall of residence. The researchers mutually agreed that data saturation (no new themes emerging) had been reached after four focus groups and three prototype sessions. Students were recruited for both stages via email invitations sent to a list of students who provided their name and email address at previously held mental health awareness events. In addition, a snowball sample was implemented whereby potential participants were encouraged to invite other students to participate. Finally, the researchers also contacted a senior resident at a student residential hall for assistance in advertising the focus group to other residents. All participants provided written consent after reading an information sheet. A cinema pass was supplied to students on completion of the focus group in appreciation for their time. Ethical approval for both stages of the research was granted by the ANU Human Research Ethics Committee (focus groups, 2012/520; prototype sessions, 2013/491). Ethical issues that were addressed in these submissions included protecting participant privacy by instructing participants to maintain confidentiality of the content discussed, ensuring any distress that occurred during groups was appropriately managed by a trained psychologist, and protecting individually identifiable data. No problems related to these issues arose. All focus groups and prototype sessions were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. Two researchers (AG and JG) identified and coded quotes that were relevant to the topic of privacy. Subsequently, thematic analysis [37] was broadly used by the first author (AG) to classify participant statements and ideas into themes using grounded codes [38]. The number of comments and ideas in the discussion created on each topic during the focus groups and prototype sessions was used to determine the major themes and subthemes in the data. In the findings below, the quotes that best represented each theme are reported and the participants are identified by gender, participant number, and group type (ie, F1_FG = female participant number 1, focus groups; M2_P = male participant number 2, prototype sessions). Figure 1 presents a concept map of the privacy themes raised in relation to the virtual clinic, including (1) what personal information participants would be willing to provide, (2) concern about the university’s access to information or personal data, (3) stigma associated with registration, and (4) privacy issues related to online forums within the virtual clinic. The results below present the data according to major and minor themes. Each theme is ordered by its relative importance as judged by the number of comments and ideas generated for each topic across the focus group and prototype session discussions. Figure 1. Privacy themes raised in relation to the virtual clinic by students. Larger shape indicates a greater volume of discussion generated in the topic. View this figure Providing Minimal Information Participants considered the types of personal information required to create an account to be very important. They believed that providing minimal demographic information for a service such as a virtual clinic would be acceptable (eg, age range, gender, international/domestic student status, study load status, on- or off-campus residence). Overall, participants felt it was important that the information was relevant to the service and, most importantly, that it was collected for a reason: “Things that may not be relevant shouldn’t be asked.” [M1_FG] Because of this, they found it acceptable for the virtual clinic to ask for information that would enable content to be more tailored to their experience and emphasized that the site should justify to the user why the information is needed, [Explaining] why we’re giving that information, so if it is like those type of things that can help…target, like, the site or something to you, and instead of registering your account it’s just…help us target it for you. [F1_P] However, this did not extend to any personally identifying information such as age or birth date: “I just don’t think people would want to come to it with a birth date and, identifying themselves.” [F1_P] Additionally, some participants were happy to provide area of study, whereas others felt that would be too identifying. Overall, they felt it was extremely important that all information provided should not be compulsory: “What personal information you should be able to be comfortable providing…most of the things should be optional.” [M2_FG] Anonymity and Security In general, the participants believed that they would be more likely to provide information anonymously: “The more anonymous it is, I think, the more information people are willing to give.” [M3_FG] Participants also indicated that they would be more likely to share information if they trusted the security of the website, I mean it depends on who gets to see what and on whether I trust the security of the site or not. Um, because, I’d sort of be quite happy to put, you know, most personal information, like client details and personal information…if I, you know, trusted that control to work. [M4_FG] I’m actually more than willing to put in every single thing as long as I know that the whole system is safe. In general, even though the participants knew confidentiality and security measures were taken, they still had concerns that generally, “the Internet just seems kind of insecure.” [F2_FG] Identity Verification and Duty of Care Participants indicated that it was important that the system could verify that a user was entitled to register for the virtual clinic (ie, being a student) to ensure user safety: “So you’re not talking to some creepy person.” [F3_FG)] They also thought that it was important that users could be contacted (via email) by the providers of the virtual clinic site. Thus, they considered that being able to be identified in some way was necessary: “I guess other, really other than name…pretty much a valid email… you shouldn’t have to provide much more information than that.” [M2_FG] Additionally, they recognized that duty of care issues for the providers of the clinic were important and that users may need to be contacted in emergency situations, If they’re in crisis, maybe…with their permission passing on a phone number or something to the CAT [Crisis and Assessment] team and getting them to give them a call. [F3_FG] However, they acknowledged that if users did not want to provide information then perhaps “the best you can do is say like…‘we’d love it if you called this CAT team number’…they never have to give away their information online.” [M5_FG] Providing Mental Health Information Participants felt that quizzes about mental health were acceptable. However, again they made it clear that such quizzes should be optional, I think if you could have like a pop-up quiz…‘we’d like to invite you to fill in this short quiz–it’s entirely up to you whether to fill it in or not,’ because I think that matter of choice is important. Don’t shove it down their throat. University and Other Access to Personal Information Information Sharing With Professionals The participants felt that it was important to accommodate personal preference for information sharing between organizations. For example, some students would want mental health professionals to have access to their account: “If you could connect with a specific psychologist using this site and then they can actually review your material directly through this space. That could be useful.” [M3_FG] Others felt this access for their psychologist might save time in their counseling sessions: “The counseling center makes you go on a computer anyway…and fill out some kind of form…it could just do this as well.” [M7_P] Although participants were generally supportive of information sharing with professionals, they were concerned about the security of this data, If you have information on there that has been looked at in one way by professionals or something, you probably don’t want that information being put out there for all the other users on the site to see. The participants agreed that no information should be available without a person’s consent and that taking into account personal preference was important: “If the user…intends to keep their information private, private or confidential from those professionals…it would be important if you consider the concerns of the user first before you offer any kind of solution or suggestion.” [F5_FG] Trust and Privacy The participants raised several concerns about other university staff being able to access their personal information. They felt that a perceived lack of privacy had the potential to deter students from using the virtual clinic: “Fears about the lack of privacy is going to be a huge issue.” [M3_FG] Because of this, they felt it was extremely important that the virtual clinic website was trustworthy and that any information shared was kept confidential: “Knowing that your information isn’t going to feedback elsewhere—whether it’s to like academics or family…knowing that the information you shared is secure.” [F6_FG] They also believed that the virtual clinic needed to be transparent in communicating where this information could potentially be shared: “I guess it depends. I think just communicating…where it’s going to go is really important.” [F6_FG] It was also considered important that the list of terms and conditions that explained where their information would go was brief and easy to understand: “Short and succinct… not too lengthy, ‘cause as soon as it becomes more than like a paragraph, no one reads it.” [F2_FG] An idea that arose repeatedly across groups was that students would want to the ability to set and maintain their own privacy settings for different groups (eg, clinicians, friends, other users), Different levels of accessibility to information. You can set what information you show to certain people. So you can make it entirely public, you share all your information with anybody and everybody or you can restrict access so only certain people can see. In relation to this idea, the concept of requiring a password to gain additional access to their virtual clinic accounts also emerged: “You could customise different levels. You know, when do I need a password?” [M7_P] The participants suggested that registering their own account for the virtual clinic (with an anonymous username and password) would minimize the need for their account to be linked to any identifying details. Conversely, some participants considered that creating a new account was onerous and would prefer it to be generated using their existing log-in information for their online student account. They also noted that there could be seamless log-in across all university services as they found it “irritating when you have to swap from [one online university service to another]” [F7_FG] and that they were already exposed to “a lot of integrated stuff” [M7_P] (eg, student email, other online student services). However, participants noted that they often allowed their peers to log in to their online student accounts to access printing and other services, so they felt this could compromise the privacy of their personal information contained within the virtual clinic: “My friends and I, like, when you run out of print quota…you give someone else your login so…if they had a different password for this thing, I would feel more comfortable.” [F8_P] The idea of a guest account or non–signed-in access was suggested as a potential way of allowing students to access material with which they may not otherwise engage, I think it’s important to have your username account but also a guest account so if you don’t want to do something which someone else can see, you can use the private guest account, which won’t record your information. Stigma of Registration The participants felt that actively registering for the service could increase their sensitivity to stigma as it indicated that they identify as having a mental health problem, I think it’s the fear of like, again like people have that stigma attached, like if you register people are going to like, somehow you’re going to be…identified as a person who has a problem...it’s like saying ‘I need help.’ [M10_P] The participants felt that one way of overcoming this was to seamlessly integrate the virtual clinic with other university services, as mentioned above. This would involve all students having an automatically registered account with the virtual clinic, alongside other freely available online student services that students already access (eg, course administration interfaces) so that “every student can have an account” [F9_P] and “you don’t have to use them, no one’s saying you have to, it just means every student is on the system.” [F1_P] Participants suggested that they could create an account name so that any activity on the virtual clinic would not be identifiable by other users of the website: “you log in with your uni ID but when you make an account, it will make sure you make an anonymous profile name.” [M1_FG] The participants indicated that being able to hide their visibility on the site was paramount: “You don’t want other people to see, ‘Oh this person is online—she must be going through something.’” [M8_FG] Because of this, some participants felt that parts of the virtual clinic should be visible at all times (eg, general information), whereas other sections should be restricted to registered users (eg, people’s profiles). Other participants thought that all virtual clinic content should be available without having to register: “I’d want to have the option of being able to explore it without signing up.” [F9_P] The participants thought that a forum would be an important element component of a virtual clinic for university students. Some students, as with registration, felt that it was important to have an anonymous username in forums: “To post on forums you need some kind of a username. If that could not be attached to your student number, then that would create that kind of sense of privacy.” [F1_P] However, other participants felt that certain students would prefer to not be anonymous: “Some people are quite comfortable talking about mental health issues and they don’t mind putting their name out there.” [F6_FG] Some participants felt that it was important for the system to be capable of doing both, I guess that’s when you need the option to use it as anonymously as a tool for yourself, for your personal needs or as a networking device like I think it needs to do both. The ability to disclose your identity to specific people was suggested by participants (“Do you want to share your details with this person?” [M10_P]), in order to enable users to meet up in person with larger groups of other students: “We can get together and talk about that, like over coffee, and then people can, yeah, disclose who they are online if they want.” [F1_P] However, participants acknowledged that there was a difficult balance between ensuring the privacy and security of personal information and providing an avenue for social interaction outside the clinic. Clear Rules and Code of Conduct The participants felt it was very important that the rules of the forum were clearly stated, including basic etiquette and what would happen if members posted any content about harming themselves or others, Perhaps including something about that in the code of conduct like ‘we will contact you if you xyz.’ Cause you don’t want it to be out of surprise but if I know you’ll be contacting me then [that’s ok]. Some participants also liked the idea of private instant messaging between members within the forums but recognized that this could also be potentially unsafe: “Cause that would be the easiest way to bully someone—message them privately.” [F2_FG] As with the clinic itself, the participants believed that the forums should be accessible to view content without registration particularly because “people don’t want to join forums unless they’ve seen what’s in them first.” [F1_P] However, participants agreed that students would have to have an account if they wanted to post: “You can’t interact with it unless you register.” [M8_FG] Participants believed that most students would be more likely to read posts than to post themselves and “you still want that information to be available because it’s useful for someone who doesn’t register.” [M8_FG] Principal Findings Overall, one of the major themes that emerged from the current research related to the provision and treatment of personal information. The students in this study expressed the view that in most cases it should not be mandatory to provide personal information, particularly in the case of the most identifying or sensitive information, including mental health data. Previous research has demonstrated that students are very concerned about disclosing mental health information with university staff because they fear being identified as having a mental health problem [34]. However, the students in this study felt that it could be a barrier to use if it were not clear that the requested information was relevant to use of the service and being collected for a reason. Tailoring the site to the user was seen as an acceptable reason for requesting personal information. However, the students felt that the virtual clinic needed to explicitly demonstrate to the user the advantages of collecting such information. This is consistent with previous research that suggests users are more comfortable providing health information online when they can see clear benefits in doing so [27]. Some of the students in this study supported a model that reduced privacy in which users would be more identifiable to the university in exchange for the convenience of the integration of the virtual clinic with other online student services. Previous research has also found that easy access to health information can outweigh user concerns about privacy [29]. The students in this study felt that seamless integration, where they were provided with automatic access to an account linked across university services, could be highly desirable, particularly as it would avoid the stigma associated with actively signing up for a mental health service. Similarly, perceived stigma associated with disclosing mental health problems has been discussed previously as a barrier to face-to-face help-seeking from counseling centers by students [39]. A model whereby students were provided with access to services by the university would necessarily require that students were identifiable to the university on some level. Identification of users (via email at a minimum) would be necessary in the case of a student in crisis, as the university has duty of care for students [40]. In general, students were relatively comfortable with this model if they were convinced that the information could be kept secure and not provided to wider university staff not involved in running the clinic (ie, teaching staff) or to other people such as friends and family. The privacy and security of personal information within the virtual clinic was considered an important issue for students. As noted by Vodicka et al [29] there are two separate risks involved: the privacy risks of having an online mental health account (ie, breaches of university security) and the risks of accessing these accounts online (ie, sharing university services passwords). The students maintained that this may not be a barrier to use if they were provided with a clear set of rules explaining the virtual clinic’s privacy and confidentiality processes. This is consistent with previous research examining electronic health portals which identified the need for clear explanations of consent, privacy ,and security processes to users [28,31]. Additionally, the need for privacy to be assured in order to feel comfortable using online services is consistent with other studies examining the development of health record resources [25,27]. The students’ views on many topics were not unified. However, one point they all agreed on was that personal choice was paramount in all aspects of the virtual clinic including anonymity in forums, release of personal information to the university, and sharing of information with professionals. Diversity in perspectives about privacy and releasing personal information has been found in previous qualitative research investigating health portals where some participants were more comfortable sharing information than others [27]. However, all participants in this study wanted assurance that no information would be released without their consent and even then that it would only be released to those who are central to their treatment on a need to know basis, similar to views expressed by community members in previous research [31]. There are two primary limitations that need to be considered for the current research. First, the aim of the two stages of this study was not specifically to collect data on privacy alone. Questions targeting privacy were asked within the context of a broader purpose of determining the content and functionality of the virtual mental health clinic, and the data were analysed ad hoc. It is possible that some aspects of privacy relating to the development of the virtual clinic were missed by using this method. Second, a relatively small self-selected group of students participated in the two stages of data collection. Therefore, the sample may not be representative other students at ANU or of the wider university student population. Privacy considerations are vital in the development of an online mental health virtual clinic for university students. Overall, the students believed that potential users of a university mental health clinic would be more comfortable providing data as long as they trusted the privacy and security of the website, particularly that their personal data will not be shared without their knowledge or consent. This study highlights the potential difficulties of balancing user preferences with the requirements of the service provider. First, there are considerable challenges in implementing an online clinic that can integrate efficiently with other existing university services including student course accounts and connections to counseling centers or psychologists. Moreover, the expressed desire for personal choice in all aspects of the clinic (eg, preference to identify self on forums) also presents challenges and may not be able to be implemented due to safety or other concerns. Finally, the students occasionally held views that conflicted, for example, preferring to have an account set up by the university but desiring to be unidentifiable to the university. Overall, implications of this study suggest that the virtual clinic will need to be built flexibly to accommodate varying user preferences for levels of engagement and the provision of information and that privacy of user information will need to be balanced against other potential capabilities of the clinic. The authors wish to acknowledge Jade Chan (JC) for assistance with conducting the focus groups and the transcription of the data; John Gosling (JG) for transcription and coding of the data; and Robert Tait, Philip Batterham, and Alison Calear for assistance with developing the focus group questions. This project was resourced by Young and Well Cooperative Research Center [41], established under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centers Program. Kathleen Griffiths (KG) is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship (No.1059620). Multimedia Appendix 1 Focus group and prototype session questions. 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__label__wiki	0.793227	0.793227	Yob - Our Raw Heart By Matt Hinch. I talked to Yob frontman Mike Scheidt once. (OK, twice. But the second time was only for a minute or so.) We didn't even talk about Yob, or even metal really. We talked about our kids and parenting them. It was obvious to me that, as any decent parent should, Mike loves his kids. By Matt Hinch. Artwork by Orion Landau. I talked to Yob frontman Mike Scheidt once. (OK, twice. But the second time was only for a minute or so.) We didn't even talk about Yob, or even metal really. We talked about our kids and parenting them. It was obvious to me that, as any decent parent should, Mike loves his kids. I even think he mentioned how hard it was to be away from them when on tour. So one can only imagine how hard it was for him thinking he might leave them forever as he battled a severe intestinal disease last year. He fought hard enough to survive and once you hear Our Raw Heart you could even say he thrived. Drawing inspiration from a life or death battle can lead to a powerful album and let me tell you, powerful doesn't even begin to describe Our Raw Heart. The album title itself is a perfect description of the journey the listener takes on this superb album. In experiencing ORH (and/or seeing Mike's ordeal unfold on social media) his heart becomes our heart and the emotions expressed are as raw as they can get. On another level even the “our” part could be seen as an expression of the band itself. It wasn't just their bandmate fighting for life, it was their friend. I'd like to think that shared struggle plays into the wholeness one feels on what should easily be considered the band's best album to date. ORH is a masterwork from beginning to end. From the martial chug of “The Screen” to the funereal pace of “Lungs Reach” to the overwhelming title track to the quietude and beauty of “Beauty in Falling Leaves” and every moment in between Mike, bassist Aaron Rieseberg, and drummer Travis Foster keep the listener completely enthralled. Or at least they should be. Yob has been getting progressively better with each album anyway as the band and its members continue to mature so this should come as no surprise. Personally Atma cemented my fandom, Clearing the Path to Ascend was so good I want a tattoo of the cover, and somehow ORH takes things beyond that level of adoration through a continued evolution of their sound. I doubt a vocal instructor would call Mike's singing voice “great” but it's honest, raw, and expressive. It works for him in all his many endeavours though and especially in Yob. I don't see how anything or anyone else could make it work in quite the same, effective way. Deep, fierce growls are at more of a premium here but as the method of musical doom-bringing varies so do the vocals. From the subterranean to the stratospheric, they are the emotional pulse of the album. They convey the needed emotion without being moody. It all starts with “Ablaze” and his husky, weathered throat now bearing new battle scars representing the very scathed nature of survival at all costs. Lyrically the album is cryptic enough and not too linear which lets the listener interpret it in their own way, applying those words to their own situation. Or one could put oneself in Mike's shoes and feel what he felt as much as you can. A particular line in “Beauty in Falling Leaves” brings maximum heft (which I'll get to in a minute”) but something as simple as “Rise!” from “The Screen” means so much more when put into context. Yob 2016. Photos by Webzine Chuul. The entire album can be considered typical Yob at this point as a varied mix of tones, paces, and volumes all play into their sound. ORH is no exception to this despite not feeling quite as dark overall. Aggressive, yes. But somewhat lighter. “Ablaze” falls into the “punishing doom laced with melody” category, as does the title track. As tough as these tracks can feel the human emotion always shines through in the interplay between darkness and the light. “Our Raw Heart” mines a heavy riff the same as “Ablaze”, letting melody and atmosphere fill out the sonic space. “In Reverie” and “Lungs Reach” fill in the slower end of the cadence spectrum. The former never really breaking faster than a brain-crushing slog while conveying a good message in the lyric “The sun rises still”. No matter what happens to you or I the world keeps turning, so keep fighting to see it break the horizon day after day. The latter is even more funereal with more distinct atmosphere, growls, and a tone so heavy it will shake the wax right out of your ears. “Original Face” tears it up! A hard drive is tempered ever so slightly by a hypnotic, rhythmic sway. It's a powerful assault on the senses that never lets up. It's kind of punch in the gut after “Beauty in Falling Leaves” from a vibe perspective but not an unnecessary one. No doubt by now, I hope, you've already heard “The Screen” and its martial riff parade. It's mean and chunky and “holy shit!” heavy. But even it attains lift off to soar far above the earthly plane. It's kind of an odd choice for the lead single but perhaps they just didn't want to play their hand too early. So now that I've talked about every other song let's tackle the album's high water mark, “Beauty in Falling Leaves”. Put the title in context. If you thought you were going to die wouldn't you find untold beauty in the seemingly mundane? Now take that sort of awe and apply it to a song. This song. This breathtaking expression of emotion. If “Marrow” brought you to tears, as it has so many, be prepared for heavier waterworks. Mike's expressiveness on this track reaches new heights. The melodies are entrancing and the subdued heaviness sits like lead on the heart. Yob really work dynamics to full effect on this one. The quieter, minimal sounding verses prime the emotional pump for when the choruses hit and blow the whole thing wide open. It feels like there are multiple climaxes as every bit of feeling is wrung out of both the performers and the listener. The clincher is the line “Your heart brings me home”. No matter who you are that statement perfectly sums up the will to live. It carries hope. It signifies that one thing worth living for. Love. Yob is love after all, and something that meaningful in a Yob song is almost too much to bear. To think that this album could easily have never happened at all is a heavy thought. Instead, Mike won and Our Raw Heart is the result. It's immense. It's heartbreaking. It's inspiring. Every band has their ultimate masterpiece (Emphasis on ultimate. Yob has more than one masterpiece.) and Our Raw Heart is it. If the Oregon trio manages to continue getting better after this I don't know what I'll do. I only have so much money and so much skin to cover. Honestly, I hope they do. In the meantime, the Yob legacy lives on in our raw hearts. And remember, YOB IS LOVE. So love Yob. Our Raw Heart by YOB Labels: 2018, doom metal, Matt Hinch, Relapse Records, stoner metal, Webzine Chuul, Yob Khemmis - Desolation Mercyful Fate - Melissa Hoth - Astral Necromancy Here Lies Man - You Will Know Nothing Not metal enough for Encyclopedia Metallum Cult of Occult - Anti Life	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1577
__label__cc	0.534545	0.465455	Vote choice, ideology, and social dominance orientation influence preferences for lower pitched voices in political candidates Lasse Laustsen, Michael Bang Petersen, Casey A Klofstad Humans are equipped with a psychological system of followership that evolved to regulate choices of leaders based partly on would-be leaders' physiological features. One such feature is voice pitch, which is determined by the physiology of the throat. Recent studies find that political candidates in modern elections with lower-pitched voices are generally more successful. As lower-pitched voices are perceived as stronger and more dominant, these findings have been taken to indicate a general preference for dispositional abilities in leaders to protect and prevail in conflicts. Here we extend upon these findings by demonstrating that conservatives and Republicans tend to view the world as much more competitive and threatening than liberals and Democrats. We utilize two existing data sources to show that political candidates with lower-pitched voices are preferred more among conservative Republicans than among liberal Democrats. In a third study we show that preferences for lower-pitched candidate voices stem from individual differences in Social Dominance Orientation (SDO). Importantly, across all three studies subjects' party affiliation, ideology, and SDO only predict preferences for male candidate voices. We conclude with a discussion of the results in relation to followership psychology and general debates on the rationality of the public with respect to elections. Social Dominance Social dominance orientation Voice pitch Laustsen, L., Petersen, M. B., & Klofstad, C. A. (2015). Vote choice, ideology, and social dominance orientation influence preferences for lower pitched voices in political candidates. Evolutionary Psychology, 13(3), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704915600576 Vote choice, ideology, and social dominance orientation influence preferences for lower pitched voices in political candidates. / Laustsen, Lasse; Petersen, Michael Bang; Klofstad, Casey A. In: Evolutionary Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2015, p. 1-13. Laustsen, L, Petersen, MB & Klofstad, CA 2015, 'Vote choice, ideology, and social dominance orientation influence preferences for lower pitched voices in political candidates', Evolutionary Psychology, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704915600576 Laustsen L, Petersen MB, Klofstad CA. Vote choice, ideology, and social dominance orientation influence preferences for lower pitched voices in political candidates. Evolutionary Psychology. 2015;13(3):1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704915600576 Laustsen, Lasse ; Petersen, Michael Bang ; Klofstad, Casey A. / Vote choice, ideology, and social dominance orientation influence preferences for lower pitched voices in political candidates. In: Evolutionary Psychology. 2015 ; Vol. 13, No. 3. pp. 1-13. @article{97bde0a2572846f585a126d849df0769, title = "Vote choice, ideology, and social dominance orientation influence preferences for lower pitched voices in political candidates", abstract = "Humans are equipped with a psychological system of followership that evolved to regulate choices of leaders based partly on would-be leaders' physiological features. One such feature is voice pitch, which is determined by the physiology of the throat. Recent studies find that political candidates in modern elections with lower-pitched voices are generally more successful. As lower-pitched voices are perceived as stronger and more dominant, these findings have been taken to indicate a general preference for dispositional abilities in leaders to protect and prevail in conflicts. Here we extend upon these findings by demonstrating that conservatives and Republicans tend to view the world as much more competitive and threatening than liberals and Democrats. We utilize two existing data sources to show that political candidates with lower-pitched voices are preferred more among conservative Republicans than among liberal Democrats. In a third study we show that preferences for lower-pitched candidate voices stem from individual differences in Social Dominance Orientation (SDO). Importantly, across all three studies subjects' party affiliation, ideology, and SDO only predict preferences for male candidate voices. 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We utilize two existing data sources to show that political candidates with lower-pitched voices are preferred more among conservative Republicans than among liberal Democrats. In a third study we show that preferences for lower-pitched candidate voices stem from individual differences in Social Dominance Orientation (SDO). Importantly, across all three studies subjects' party affiliation, ideology, and SDO only predict preferences for male candidate voices. We conclude with a discussion of the results in relation to followership psychology and general debates on the rationality of the public with respect to elections. KW - Political candidates KW - Political ideology KW - Social dominance orientation KW - Voice pitch KW - Voting JO - Evolutionary Psychology JF - Evolutionary Psychology	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1578
__label__cc	0.572959	0.427041	Home \ Top Tier \ Supercars \ Van Gisbergen wins Barry Sheene Medal Van Gisbergen wins Barry Sheene Medal Supercars 6:38 am November 26, 2019 Shane van Gisbergen has taken out Supercars’ ‘best and fairest’ award, the Barry Sheene Medal, for the first time in his career. Van Gisbergen collected the medal at tonight’s Supercars Gala Awards in Sydney, after finishing runner-up in the championship to Scott McLaughlin. Awarded since the year of former motorcycle racing great turned Supercars commentator Sheene’s death in 2003, the medal is voted on by the media. It recognises “a driver who displays outstanding leadership, media interaction, character, personality, fan appeal and sportsmanship throughout the season”. Although not a natural media performer, the 30-year-old has improved his off-track skills since joining Triple Eight in 2016. In recent months, he’s made headlines for his sportsmanship, sprinting to the aid of McLaughlin following the Shell Ford driver’s massive Vodafone Gold Coast 600 crash. Regardless, it was a surprised van Gisbergen who took to the stage at the Gala Awards to accept the prestigious honour. “I actually had this conversation last night and the discussion was my chances of winning this are about how I feel right now, written off!” he joked. “I do struggle with the media stuff but the people around me have helped me show who I am. Thanks to the Red Bull Holden Racing Team and everybody involved. “Thanks to my family for my grounding and all the people who helped me coming through, Stone Brothers for giving me my first shot, Tekno and now Red Bull. “I love my career, love what I do for a job. The sport has been through some tough times this year as a whole, hopefully we start from zero next year and have some fun.” Van Gisbergen is the ninth driver to win the Barry Sheene Medal, with van Gisbergen’s Triple Eight stablemate Craig Lowndes a five-time winner. David Reynolds, Marcos Ambrose, Jamie Whincup and Scott McLaughlin are two-time winners, while Will Davison, James Courtney and Mark Winterbottom have one each. Supercars - Tickford delivers Mostert to WAU McLaughlin shocked by Drivers’ Driver Award three × two =	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1585
__label__cc	0.508505	0.491495	NAZAKAT ( A developmental Organisation) Follow our director RELIEF & REHABILATATION Advocacy Awareness Sports Activity NAZAKAT A Voluntary Organization NAZAKAT came in to being in 1992 and was registered under Register of Societies Act with Registration No. 3484 1-S on 20th June 2000 for the people of Jammu & Kashmir who are in distress especially widows, orphans, physically disabled and above all for the rehabilitation of violence affected people. Since its inception the organization is extending its activities year after year keeping its focus on empowerment of women, Health and education of underprivileged children & the alike. Nazakat works with the sole purpose of rendering its services for women empowerment, childcare and rehabilitation of people affected by the violence in the strife-torn valley. Nazakat has been at forefront in assuring the development in different fields concerning women folk, children and lending its helping hand in propagating and promoting the issues essential to high light the plight of weaker section. Among the issues Nazakat works on childcare holds the key and in that direction Nazakat has forwarded its programme to like-minded people so as their assistance shall be a step forward in achieving the objectives we strive for. To give life to the organization's vision, Mission NAZAKAT carries out activities in the following directions: Ø Women’s Empowerment Ø Health Ø Education Ø Relief & Rehabilitation Ø Advocacy & Awareness Ø Sports Activity NGO Sopore Kashmir Srinagar J&K	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1586
__label__cc	0.513165	0.486835	CSFN Mail Sisters Login MMI Login Blessed Mary of Jesus the Good Shepherd Blessed Martyrs of Nowogrodek Servant of God Sr. Malgorzata Banas Continuing the Mission Where We Live & Serve Sisters' Stories Leadership & Support Ministries Formation Stages Vocation Events Register for vocation events Prayer for my vocation Contact our Vocation Director Request Prayer Cards Holy Family Novena Holy Family Novena - Videos Holy Family Novena (English) Novena en Honor a la Sagrada Familia (Spanish) Nowenna do Najswietszej Rodziny (Polish) Chaplet of the Holy Family Prayer through the intercession of Bl. Mary of Jesus the Good Shepherd Prayer through the intercession of Nowogrodek Martyrs Prayer through the intercession of Sr. Malgorzata Banas Healing Rosary for Families Request Holy Family Novena Request Spiritual Greeting Cards Contact Development Office Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord Are you looking for a Sister who served in your school, hospital, parish or other ministry? Please complete our Find A Sister form. Sr. Mildred Marie Talemal (1914-2010) The day she was born, Mildred Marie Talemal was baptized at St. Michael Church, Derby, CT. With her father Felix a native of Sicily and her mother Rosalia of Poland, each speaking only their native language, the couple quickly learned English so they could communicate with each other and their four children. First-born Mildred Marie attended Lincoln School in Ansonia, CT, and Nazareth Academy in Philadelphia. She sought entrance to the CSFNs after her high school graduation without her father’s approval. He brought her back to Connecticut where she worked and looked after her three younger brothers. At age 21, she returned to Torresdale and entered the community. As a novice, she received the name Sr. M. Matylda. She returned to her baptismal name as soon as it was permitted after Vatican II. Sr. Mildred Marie earned a B.A. from Manhattan College, NY, and a master’s from Marywood College in Scranton, PA. During her 50-year-plus teaching career, she particularly focused on preparing students for careers in business. She taught in Baltimore, MD; Pennsylvania; Worcester, MA, and Brooklyn, queens and Long Island, NY. Her limited knowledge of Polish caught up with Sr. Mildred Marie when she taught at St. Mary’s School in Worcester, where she was expected to teach the language. Solution: She and a more fluent sister traded the Polish class for a religion class. Such ingenuity followed her throughout her teaching career; she was known by parents and students as an excellent teaching. Her students were well prepared in typing, stenography and other commercial subjects. Sr. Mildred Marie was considered a “kind and gentle mother” by both the school communities she served and her extended family. She also is remembered as a loyal friend who regularly assured her fellow sisters: “Don’t worry; our Lord will take care of it.” Cane in hand and armed with her quick smile, she retired to Monroe, CT, in 1991. She died quietly the morning of March 26. Would you like our sisters to pray for your intentions? Send us a prayer request. Join our Association Volunteer Spirituality News & Events Donate Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth \| Provincial Offices 310 N. River Road \| Des Plaines, IL 60016 \| (847) 298-6760 \| info@nazarethcfn.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1587
__label__wiki	0.799649	0.799649	Andrew Bynum, Stephen Jackson top list of players waived Tuesday Today was essentially cut-down day in the NBA. Any player on the roster come Jan. 10 has his contract guaranteed for the full season (even if he is let go), and as it takes 48 hours to clear waivers players have to be let go of Tuesday (5 ET) to make that deadline. There were expected names at the top of the list of who got waived and cut loose on Tuesday, but here is a list of all the players waived at the last minute. • In a surprise to nobody, the Chicago Bulls waived Andrew Bynum. This is why they traded Luol Deng to Cleveland, for the rights to get Bynum and cut him loose, ultimately saving the team $15 million in salary and taxes and getting them under the tax-line threshold. Certainly the Bulls become worse on the court with this move, Tom Thibodeau can’t be happy, but with Derrick Rose out and with it any real hopes of contending this was the smart move by Chicago. • The Los Angeles Clippers waived veteran Stephen Jackson. This also was somewhat expected — with Chris Paul out for another month or more the Clippers need to carve out roster space for guys that can help them create shots. That’s not Jackson anymore. The Clippers are going to bring back Maalik Wayns on a 10-day contract for now in that roster slot. • The Los Angeles Lakers waived forward Shawne Williams. Early in the season he looked like one of those guys who could come out of nowhere and thrive in Mike D’Antoni’s system, even started 11 games and put up 20 points against the Pistons. However, he still was averaging just 5.2 points a game on 37.7 percent shooting, he wasn’t an integral part of the team and the Lakers want to give his minutes to rookie Ryan Kelly to see if he can develop as a stretch four (he has shown some promise). • Also as expected out of the Bynum trade, the Boston Celtics have waived Ryan Gomes. He was traded to them from Oklahoma City as the Thunder are looking to clear a roster spot for a bigger move and the Celtics wanted to save a little green, so to speak. • Utah waived Mike Harris, a forward who had played a limited role for them getting in just 20 games. Utah has young front line guys it wants to play big minutes, which make Harris expendable. • The Philadelphia 76ers have waived big man Daniel Orton, who had played in 22 games for the team this year. It will be interesting to see if another NBA team will give the former Kentucky big man another chance. • Atlanta cut loose reserve guard Cartier Martin, a player that has lived on the fringe of the NBA for years. Tags: Andrew Bynum, Atlanta Hawks, Cartier Martin, Chicago Bulls, Chris Paul, Cleveland Cavaliers, Daniel Orton, Derrick Rose, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Luol Deng, Maalik Wayns, Mike Harris, Oklahoma City Thunder, Philadelphia 76ers, Ryan Gomes, Ryan Kelly, Shawne Williams, Stephen Jackson, Utah Jazz	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1588
__label__cc	0.732617	0.267383	Home / Blog / Your community / Building Community Wellbeing: Easy as One, Two, Three! Building Community Wellbeing: Easy as One, Two, Three! Post by Larch Maxey on 30th April 2018 The strength and vitality of our communities: our relationships with neighbours, friends, family and colleagues are the very foundations on which our wellbeing is built. The stress of modern life is a familiar refrain. Juggling work, family, the rising cost of living and other responsibilities mean it’s no wonder that many people find it impossible to “give something back”. Yet giving our time to something we believe in is good for us. Time spent talking with neighbours helps us to build connections that can bring invaluable rewards. Supporting a common goal gives us a sense of purpose and brings meaning to our lives. The good news is that there’s lots that we can do, and everyone has a role to play. Here is a brief three-step guide to getting involved in your local community. Start with your passion We have more energy, creativity and motivation when we are doing what we love. It therefore makes sense to focus our energy on doing something that we feel passionate about. What do you love to do? Are you outdoorsy or happier in front of a computer? Do you like connecting with a group or prefer one-on-one and alone time? Are you a natural organiser or do you like to let others lead? Do you like speaking in public or prefer writing? Are you an ideas person or someone who loves to get the details right? What strengths, gifts and talents do you love to share? Are you an artist with lots of ideas? Do you excel at DIY? Are you good with finances? Do you have a practical or professional skill that you can offer? What change would you love to see in your community that you are willing to work with others help make it happen? Are you worried about kids not having a place to play, or about isolated older people on your street? Do you have a bright idea for a vacant building or an underused local park? Or are you worried about a development that will damage the area in which you live? Whoever and however you are, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in all sorts of projects to improve community life. And when we pursue our passions, work becomes easy and we have fun! Building wellbeing in our community is also much easier when we work with others and share their passions. Which brings us to Connect… Connecting with others is the single best way to improve our personal wellbeing. That’s why it’s the first of the Five Ways to Wellbeing. Connecting with others, at every stage, is also the best way to build community wellbeing. Together we can do anything! Thinking about connecting invites us to look at what’s good about the community in which we live – its ‘assets’, so to speak. What do you really love about your community? What’s special about your community, that others will also care about? To learn more about this approach check out Asset Based Community Development). Who else is active in your community? Which individuals, groups or organisations share your passion. It’s likely that dozens and possibly hundreds of people are already actively doing things to improve the community in which you live. You could start simply with a conversation. Share these questions above with a friend, a neighbour, or a colleague. Ask their advice. Or you could go further. Many local libraries keep lists of groups and societies – and many national organisations can point you to their local branches. You could search your local newspaper, or online to see who is doing what. You could look out for opportunities to meet others whether it be at a school fete, church jumble sale or council consultation. If you talk to people about what you want to achieve, you’ll often find they share your concern. Remember you can build wellbeing in your community however you choose! Which brings us to… Have fun! Our wellbeing suffers when we focus on what’s wrong’ on risks, problems, limitations and lack. Our wellbeing grows when we focus on our strengths and successes. Of course, it’s important to spot problems, risks, weaknesses and gaps and to learn from so called ‘failures’. However, these ‘failures’ are often opportunities to grow and to improve! Have fun and celebrate successes at every stage, rather than focus on how far there is to go. Be gentle with yourself and others and remember that everyone is doing their best! You might like to start and / or end each day by celebrating and being grateful for what went well. You might like to invite others to join you in this. There’s no blueprint for building community wellbeing. It can start with kind words to neighbours and helping friends make a difference. Supporting existing activities is invaluable. Setting up new activities is challenging, but can bring the greatest rewards. It doesn’t matter whether what you do is a one-off or done regularly. Whatever you are inspired to do can help. Have fun, celebrate it and invite others to celebrate with you! To learn more, check out: Ideas and suggestions for improving community wellbeing Inspiring examples of community wellbeing projects Connect to the Network of Wellbeing, so we can build wellbeing together More in Your community - Inspiring Projects How Do We Build Community Resilience in Austere Times? By Tracy Cheesman on 6th June 2019 Twinning UK Towns For Wellbeing What Could A City of Compassion and Wellbeing Look Like? Join the social network	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0105.json.gz/line1593

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