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__label__cc	0.571272	0.428728	Teen killed in Hermitage 12:41 pm Elderly Kingston man missing since Jan 8 12:20 pm PHOTO: Western STARS Two former western-based school boys football stars, Brian Brown and Peter-Lee Vassell, both came off the bench to score for Jamaica in last Friday's CONCACAF Nations League game at the Montego Bay Sports Complex against Antigua & Barbuda. Jamaica won the game 6-0. Brown (#18) led Rusea's High to back- to-back daCosta Cup titles in the 2010 and 2011 seasons, while Vassell (#16) led Cornwall College to a record 12th daCosta Cup title in the 2016 season. (Photo: Paul Reid)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line0
__label__wiki	0.926314	0.926314	Haftar’s rebranded Libya coups Anas El Gomati A few months after his April 4 surprise assault on Tripoli to unseat the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord, Khalifa Haftar, leader of the self-styled Libyan National Army, lost control of Gharyan on June 26. The LNA has since been steadily losing ground in heavy fighting in Tripoli’s suburbs against a variety of GNA-backed armed groups. Yet, on July 1, after “exhausting all traditional means” to capture Tripoli, Haftar rebranded the assault as a new counterterrorism effort, Operation “End of Treachery.”Haftar has a history of repackaging failed military coups as “wars on terror” to justify excessive use of force while gaining international legitimacy and political support in the process. As the campaign stalled in its first week, Haftar spoke to the U.S. president by phone. The call was initially viewed as controversial due to the breaking of diplomatic norms, as Haftar holds no official state post. Though it should be viewed in terms of how Haftar reframed his failed power grab. Haftar and Trump have discussed the “ongoing counterterrorism efforts and building democratic stability” within Libya. The U.S. has since threatened to veto calls for a cease-fire at the U.N. Security Council, hinting an endorsement of Haftar’s counterterrorism narrative. Likewise, France, a supporter of Haftar largely because of his anti-terrorism narrative, blocked a European Union statement opposing Haftar’s offensive. France did so citing the need for its own reassurances regarding the alleged “involvement of terrorist groups” fighting Haftar in Tripoli. Central to the international support is the belief that Haftar seeks to “save” Libya from terrorism and return it to long-term stability and security. However, recent history shows that Haftar’s counterterrorism narratives are not only poorly disguised authoritarian power grabs, but mask a precarious game of tribal divide and conquer. Far from fighting terrorism and delivering security, this approach exacerbates conflict and engenders long-term instability. An often-repeated myth in Libya is that Haftar first emerged after Libya’s second elections, to fight against and save the country from Islamists who sought to “cancel the June 25, 2014, elections.” However, Haftar’s first coup took place well before Libya’s second elections, to which his rise is widely linked, on Feb. 14, 2014. Haftar announced the establishment of his own self-styled Libyan army, in the hopes that Libya’s plethora of militias would join him and remove Libya’s first democratically elected Parliament from power. The coup was so badly orchestrated that Haftar’s only success that day was to become the first person in history to launch a coup via YouTube. Yet, he captured the attention of the UAE government, which had supported a military coup months earlier in Egypt. On May 14, 2014, Haftar re-emerged with Emirati support in the form of airstrikes, and a rebranding of his coup as a war on terror in Operation Dignity. Operation Dignity began with airstrikes against Ansar al-Shariah, a self-identifying militant group in Benghazi, eastern Libya. However, Haftar simultaneously struck revolutionary armed groups loyal to the elected government. Supporters of Haftar’s move believed all these targeted groups were behind two years of assassinations against activists and former military personnel in Benghazi. Critics point to the fact that these groups had previously fought Ansar al-Shariah, and tried to rescue the U.S. ambassador the night he was killed in Benghazi in 2012. The debate was short-lived as 48 hours later Operation Dignity allied groups stormed Libya’s Parliament in Tripoli, confirming suspicions of a power grab. Haftar declared these disparate political targets and military opponents to all be the same terrorist group. Haftar’s counterterrorism narrative not only masks his intention to seize power by force, but his role in exacerbating the complex ethno-tribal power struggles between armed groups that emerged after the revolution. Moammar Gadhafi held a tight grip on Libya’s regions and cities through a complex authoritarian tribal-patronage system - integrating a select number of tribes into the regime security apparatus and army, leaving neighboring tribal competitors out. This tribal monopoly on power was the backbone of Gadhafi’s regime maintenance strategy but created rifts, and fell apart as protestors took up arms, forming new revolutionary armed groups that challenged the traditional power structures. Behind Haftar’s military operations and counterterrorism narrative is an attempt to create his own authoritarian tribal-patronage system. Haftar co-opts loyalist tribes and their armed groups into the LNA making them the army while labeling their local tribal competitors terrorists. The LNA operations in Benghazi and Darnah are examples of this. Benghazi was largely divided between two feuding ethno-tribal camps, Bedouin tribes who lost patronage to the Gadhafi regime during the revolution, and civic tribes that had formed new revolutionary armed groups. Haftar launched Operation Dignity in Benghazi by co-opting predominantly Bedouin armed groups into the LNA and launching simultaneous attacks against revolutionary armed groups (from predominantly civic tribes) and Ansar al-Shariah. Ideological nuance between Haftar’s targets was lost as they formed a military coalition - the Benghazi Revolutionary Shura Council - to defend themselves. Critics of Haftar claimed these groups only shared the same military front line and opposition to Haftar, not necessarily the same Salafi militant worldview as Ansar al-Shariah or Daesh (ISIS). Daesh referred to the BRSC as apostates for their belief and participation in democracy. Nevertheless Haftar insisted to international media they were all Daesh, terrorist groups and foreign fighters, while masking a dangerous local narrative. LNA leadership often described it in Arabic as a war to ethnically cleanse Libya from Turkish and Jewish tribes, a slur used by Bedouin tribes at the perceived lineage of Benghazi’s civic tribes. Haftar’s forces face investigations for war crimes for refusing safe passage for women and children in BRSC territory. Haftar’s spokesman pledged to “kill anyone [including noncombatants] above the age of 14 or extradite them to [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan.” The U.N. estimates Benghazi’s displaced to be at least 100,000 civilians, whom the LNA has brushed off as families of terrorists. In Darnah, Haftar’s second operation, the approach was almost identical. Darnah’s local population are predominantly civic tribes, with Bedouin tribes living in nearby towns. A military coalition formed by Islamist groups and Libyan army officers successfully defeated Daesh in 2015. Yet, pro-LNA sources labeled them Al-Qaeda to legitimize the war despite their complex makeup, their defeat of Daesh and securing Darnah’s first democratic elections in 2012. Haftar repeated the Benghazi playbook, co-opting Bedouin tribes from the neighboring town of Ain Mara into the LNA to lead a “counterterrorism” operation and humanitarian siege Haftar claimed would “choke” Darnah. By the end of the campaign, a quarter of Darnah’s population were believed dead, injured or displaced. Upon leaving Darnah, Haftar’s army defaced road signs leading to the city, replacing Darnah with the name “New Ain Mara.” Strong parallels are apparent in Haftar’s current campaign in Tripoli. The LNA has described GNA forces in Tripoli as terrorists, despite the presence of armed groups who fought Daesh in a U.S.-backed operation in 2016. Since Haftar’s loss of Gharyan, the last LNA stronghold in the Tripoli offensive is the neighboring town of Tarhuna. Tribal dynamics between Tarhuna and Tripoli are complex. An estimated third of Tripoli’s population are from Tarhuna. Forces in Tarhuna aligned to Haftar include external forces who fought in Tripoli last September, but also armed groups displaced from Tripoli in a power struggle in 2016, eager to return for “revenge.” Haftar will continue to exacerbate these tribal rifts and support one group over another in these complex power struggles. The danger in Tripoli is not only that the international community increasing believes Haftar’s counterterrorism narrative but concludes it will be a short war that will result in long-term stability. If the assault on Tripoli ends in the same way Benghazi and Darnah did, the resulting scars of war, appetite for revenge, tribal hatred and social polarization would make enduring peace unrealistic and stability almost unimaginable. Anas El Gomati is the founder and director of the Sadeq Institute, Libya’s first independent public policy think tank, established in Tripoli 2011. This commentary first appeared at Sada, an online journal published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (www.carnegieendowment.org/sada). A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on August 02, 2019, on page 6. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the Arab Network for the Study of Democracy Merkel welcomes Haftar commitment to cease-fire Libya’s rival leaders fail to reach accord Libyan commander Haftar's forces say they have taken Sirte Turkey says it will send military experts, advisers to Libya Erdogan wades into Libya quagmire It’s time to tackle inequality from the middle Russia’s mediation goals in Libya Libya’s next battle could be over banks In Haftar, analysts see ‘Moscow’s man’ in Libya	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line5
__label__cc	0.743282	0.256718	Home About Blog Projects Links and notes for the day - 2nd July 2018 50% of the year is done! ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░ 50% — Year Progress (@year_progress) July 2, 2018 Rust, the eternal problem of eternal games, and the reality of life Probably worth a longer post. But I wanted to note some immediate ideas to possibly expand on later.. Rust went out of early access and has since been receiving "mixed reviews". Even the positive reviews talk of the same thing. A well established community vs anyone who joins the game newly. The new person is going to have a bad time. This is the problem with "eternal" games where you enter the world, and then just keep building up. A fresh community starts up. Collaborates to figure out intricacies of the environment. The community establishes itself, usually into a few strong factions and each strong faction has sub factions. These all protect and participate in warring efforts throughout the game. Fresh players can't do anything but pick a side upon joining or die. Admins will create a new server for people to join a "fresh world". The cycle continues minus some of the intial figuring out of the mechanics. The only remedies to this are to introduce game mechanics like what World of Warcraft does. For example, you can turn off your Player vs Player flag and then you cannot be attacked by a player of an opposing faction. There are a lot of intiricacies to this particular mechanic. Eve online has a game mechanic called Concord and high security zones. If you are in a high security zone, you can't fire on another player, and if you do, you lose your ship at the hands of a Concord security ship. This happens even if you kill the other player's ship. There is no workaround this. While acting as a protection mechanism for new players, it introduces higher level gaming mechanics for more experienced ones. If you are carrying something extremely valuable, players with enough ships to spare will suicide those vessels in order to destroy precious cargo if the tradeoff is worth it. But these are the exceptions. And they are hard to implement since they have to fit in with the lore and design of a game ideally. As such, most games have no concepts of natural protection mechanics for newer players and they instead embrace the cycle of rinsing and repeating across new servers. This cycle mirrors human nature. It's the rise and fall of At the same time, it fails to mimic the real world. Mostly because it would probably alienate newer players. And the mechanic of the real world that fails to be replicated so often can be categorised as the temporality of things. Lots of these games have infinite resources or resources that grow back much faster than they would in the real world. If the resources are finite, then there are other things that are infinite. You don't grow old and weaker for example. You can't fall sick suddenly. You can't have a heart attack. If you are using ships, then you might need to refuel but your ships probably don't need maintenance unless they get attacked. Natural disasters are mostly unheard of. This is despite natural disasters being a historically huge reason for shifts in centralisation of power structures. I can't see how devs would ever put natural disasters in. Can you imagine grinding for 10,000 hours and then an earthquake kills you just as you become the tyrannical lvl 110 player of an area? That's real life. Most people would ask for a refund in the gaming world. A game that could balance all of this really well would make for a fantastic thought exercise. I could go on, and I probably will. But that's for a longer post. Open AI has an update on it's Dota 2 AI And they are calling it Open AI 5. Because, you know, 5 players per team. Our team of five neural networks, OpenAI Five, has started to defeat amateur human teams at Dota 2. While today we play with restrictions, we aim to beat a team of top professionals at The International in August subject only to a limited set of heroes. This really is a bit of an oversimplification. I don't want to rain on the parade here so I'll preface it by saying it's an amazing achievement what they've done so far. But I also believe their marketing machine is spinning its wheels in overdrive. I don't blame them. Realistic takes seem to draw more mockery than hopeful encouragement. Especially in the space of "AI trying to take on Humans". So to expand on the above statement of marketing going over the top here. Here are the restrictions involved in the game: Mirror match of Necrophos, Sniper, Viper, Crystal Maiden, and Lich No warding No Roshan No invisibility (consumables and relevant items) No summons/illusions No Divine Rapier, Bottle, Quelling Blade, Boots of Travel, Tome of Knowledge, Infused Raindrop 5 invulnerable couriers, no exploiting them by scouting or tanking No Scan That is a good chunk of basic mechanics that have been taken out of the game. Warding and Roshan are not high level game play tactics. You'll find them happening with the noobiest of the noobiest random pub teams. This is not even touching on the fact that mirror matches are more a test of skill rather than strategy. Bots excel at skill by having access to much more precise information and calculations than humans do. No human will ever be able to assess the items owned by an enemy hero and how much damage will be done over time by Viper's ultimate skill in a single micro second. No human will ever be able to assess exactly how many seconds it will take for an enemy team to have heal and walk back from the fountain in a thousandth of a second. The only advantage a human team has over a bot team is in overwhelming complexity. Not to say that the team hasn't done amazing work here. They have. And they've had a very clear vision in the order of building blocks they wanted to lay out. But for the time being, this is not ground breaking area just yet. It's extremely interesting and we should be watching this with a lot of curiosity to see what happens next. But what's happened so far is purely academically interesting. Nothing more. Growing up Asian Most, if not all, the people involved in this video are eastern asian, but a lot of the same rules apply to South Asian families. We'd get beaten the hell up :'D. Children with good marks were the pinnacle of family achievements. Finishing food fast meant that you'd get more food served to you so you had to learn to eat slowly to avoid more servings. There's also a segment in there about parents in their communities wanting to crush dreams of being artists because it wasn't a "real job" or a "real thing". This one resonated super strong with me because I was a serial doodler and I was basically banned from doodling. Up to today, I love design and artsy stuff, and I can't help but wonder whether that might have been my career if nature had taken its course. No regrets, no hard feelings. Just questions :) Posted on July 02 2018 by Adnan Issadeen	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line6
__label__wiki	0.741331	0.741331	Dr. J. Gerald Lamoureux, M.D. Dr. J. Gerald Lamoureux, M.D. geneolafgs 2017-02-17T07:26:47+00:00 Doctor J. Gerald Lamoureux practiced medicine in Woonsocket for more than 40 years. He was a general practitioner for six years. During that time he delivered an average of 400 babies per year! Doctor Lamoureux returned to Tufts University and studied Radiology, and practiced in that specialty for 36 years. He retired in 1993. Doctor Lamoureux is one of five doctors who combined their efforts and founded Mercy Hospital to fill the need for a second hospital in Woonsocket. He later headed a capital campaign to raise funds to expand Mercy Hospital to a new facility at Park Square in North Smithfield. It was renamed Fogarty Hospital in honor of its largest contributor, the late Rhode Island Congressman John E. Fogarty. Doctor Lamoureux served an unprecedented three terms as president of the medical staff at Woonsocket Hospital. While president, he instituted new bylaws that are still in use today. He was the head of the Radiology Department at Landmark Medical Center for many years and also served as the physician for the Woonsocket Police Department. Doctor Lamoureux is extremely proud of his French-Canadian roots and has been a champion of the heritage for many years. He has been a member of Club Richelieu for 25 years and has served four separate terms as its president. He also served as vice president of the French festival Jubilé Franco-Americaine from 1995 to 2001, and is an active member of the Club Par-X, the Cercle Laurier and the LeFoyer Club. Doctor Lamoureux also serves on the Woonsocket Housing Authority and is a member of the advisory board for the Diocese of Providence at the St. Francis Home. He also plays a leadership role in his parish and serves as a member of the Precious Blood Church finance council. In that capacity he spearheaded the drive to raise $500,000 to repair the exterior of the church in 2000, and will soon begin another campaign to repair the interior of the church. Doctor Lamoureux loves to travel and has been on several guided tours to France, England, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Greece and Turkey. He also enjoys gourmet cooking, and landscaping. At 85, Doctor Lamoureux still uses his treadmill regularly and began jogging in his early 40s to keep up with his teenage children on the ski slopes of New Hampshire. Hall of Fame Main Page Sr. Helene Cote Marc Cote Gabriel Drouin Lillian Leger John R. Desmarais Most Reverend Louis E. Gelineau Leslie Choquette Lucie Leblanc Consentino Duke Robillard David Belisle Karen Bordeleau Credit Union Central Falls (now Navigant Credit Union) Fr. Philip Salois Paul Audette Paul E. Papineau Alfred H. Saulners Norman Desmarais Bernard Beaudreau Richard C. Deslauriers Cathy Levesque Camille Pepin Roger Begin Romeo Berthiaume Claire H. Quintal, Ph.D Armand B. Chartier, Ph.D Brother Lawrence Goyette, F.S.C. Richard L. Lafrance Adelard L. Soucy Raymond H. Bacon Napoleon Lajoie Hon. Aram J. Pothier Rev. Msgr. Gerard O. Sabourin Laurent Gousie, Ph.D. Eugene A. Peloquin Moise Potvin L’Union St. Jean Baptiste d’Amerique French-Canadian Benefit Society William E. Aubuchon, Sr. Rhea Bouchard Powers Richard and Roger Bouchard Rene L. Dugas, Sr. Emile Dubuc Josée Vachon Richard Beaupre Roger Laliberte Col. Steven M. Pare Paul J. Choquette, Jr. Clem Labine Hon. Francis Lanctot Hon. James R. Langevin Alphonse Auclair Bill Belisle Dr. Ulysse Forget, M.D. Sister Eugena Poulin, RSM Marie Louise Bonier Alphonse Desjardins René Jetté Ben Mondor	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line7
__label__cc	0.652134	0.347866	What Christianity Has Always Done That Quote May Not Mean What You Think It Does! Is Gandhi a Better Model for Christians? Christianity Is Not a Private Party Do Airplanes Evolve? Only If Evolution Encompasses... Why would Gandhi reject Jesus? When an Atheist Says it's OK to Rape Her Sister The Atrocity Against Christians in Iraq Why Mixing Belief Systems Can Be Dangerous The Danger of a Media-Driven Worldview We Don't Know What We Believe Why Separating the Sacred and the Secular is a Bad... Investigating the Truth of the Gospel Eyewitnesses... Your Mind is Not Your Brain Science and Religion Resources Jesus as God and Man Man's Habit of Avoiding Despair with Distraction Horus vs Jesus in the Zeitgeist Movie (video) Three Tips for Surviving the Job Cascade Don't Blame Christian Martyrs for Violence Were Early Christians Encouraged to Become Martyrs... Why is a Common Thread of Perfectionism Inherent i... Rights Don't Come From Nature Top Five blog posts for June Rights and Their Freedoms Come from God Alone Are Mormons Christians, too? The insanity of denying differences between the se... The Lost Tomb of Jesus and Ovaltine Were Early Christians Encouraged to Become Martyrs? A few weeks ago, I had responded to a meme (here and here) posted by atheist Michael Sherlock that claimed, "Christianity did not become a major religion by the quality of its truth, but by the quantity of its violence." Sherlock has attempted to reply to one of my arguments, but I think he falls short in numerous ways. Two primary areas where he gets both history and the argument wrong are 1) the concept that Christians somehow solicited people for martyrdom in order to attract followers and 2) the argument that since Christians were the recipients of violent acts, it somehow justifies his meme. I will deal with the first today and tackle the second tomorrow. Sherlock makes the claim, "We have records that testify to early Christian Church officials and fathers, encouraging many of their followers to provoke the Roman authorities and submit themselves to the violence of voluntary martyrdom, in the oft times realized hope that they might be martyred in public spectacles and thereby increase the popularity of the early Church."1That's a huge claim. Sherlock ascribes very specific and sinister motivations to the early church fathers; however he fails to produce a single document from antiquity that spells out such a plan or goal. His first stab at evidence is to quote Chapter II from The Martyrdom of Polycarp where the church fathers of Smyrna (Sherlock incorrectly attributes the passage to Polycarp himself) recount the pattern of prior martyrs for the faith and concludes: And so like lambs, a number of the more gullible Christians of the ante-Nicene period, were sent out amongst the wolves to be slaughtered for their leader's ambitions, with the hope that the fires would be cool to them and that they, as willing martyrs for their unfounded and credulous faith, acting 'imitatio Christi,' would be afforded an opportunity to commune with Christ himself and attain a free-ticket into a non-existent heaven.2 Christians Did Not Solicit Martyrs Sherlock's dogged misunderstanding of the text shows in many ways (you may read the passage here in context). First, this wasn't written as an appeal to action. The letter is entitled "The Martyrdom of Polycarp" and was written to explain just that. It seeks to place martyrdom in its proper Christian context and labels martyrs of that past as heroes of the faith. This is as natural as any nation reporting stories of those who laid down their lives for an ideal. But if Sherlock would have read just a bit further, he would have seen that the letter explicitly argues against promoting martyrdom for the sake of martyrdom. Just 115 words later in chapter four it recounts that a Phrygian man named Quintus who sought voluntarily martyrdom, but when he saw the fate awaiting him he apostatized instead. The letter then admonishes the Christians, "Wherefore, brethren, we do not commend those who give themselves up [to suffering], seeing the Gospel does not teach so to do."3 This statement is of course in direct contradiction to Sherlock's thesis. Secondly, it wasn't "more gullible Christians of the ante-Nicene period, were sent out amongst the wolves to be slaughtered for their leader's ambitions." Polycarp was the one martyred! He was the leader of the church of Smyrna and therefore it would be hard pressed for his martyrdom tom result in his own ambitions somehow being met. The charge is wholly without merit and Sherlock offers not a scrap of evidence to corroborate his conjecture. It is fabricated out of whole cloth, and I do think using the epithets "gullible," "leader's ambitions," and "credulous" is simply Sherlock exercising the fallacy of poisoning the well. Lastly, Sherlock seems to conflate his religions. Christianity in no way teaches that martyrdom provides any such favored status as a "free-ticket to a non-existent heaven." In fact, by Polycarp's own writings we see that he endorsed Paul's view of salvation as having already been received by the believer when he endorses Paul's epistle to the Philippians. In Chapter three, Paul spells out how no work of the flesh can gain one access to heaven, but only "that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith." Sherlock seems to think that Christian theology teaches something akin to Muslim beliefs, a position that is demonstrably false. Sherlock's Own Sources Prove Christians Eschewed Voluntary Martyrdom In hoping to justify his broader claim that Christians were trying to coax people to become martyrs in order to attract new followers, Sherlock quotes a few other sources, including the following passage from Henry Chadwick: Voluntary provocative martyrs were easily engendered by promises of celestial joy. In the 190s Clement of Alexandria deeply disapproved of aggressive voluntary martyrs. Their attitude seemed to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, a Stoic defender of suicide, 'theatricality' in poor taste. Cyprian of Carthage under persecution in 250–8 also united idealized language about the martyr's crown with express disapproval of voluntary self-destruction.4 I believe that Sherlock is hoping one would read the first sentence and ignore the rest. Sherlock himself ignored the sentences just before his quote which places that paragraph in context: Ignatius was writing in haste under difficult circumstances, and his language did not always convey precisely what he wanted to say. The language used would be surprising at any decade of the second century. The confrontation with imminent martyrdom profoundly affected him, and the impression can be given that a proper willingness to die in union with Christ has passed into a neurotic will to die. Voluntary provocative martyrs were easily engendered by promises of celestial joy. In the 190s Clement of Alexandria deeply disapproved of aggressive voluntary martyrs. Their attitude seemed to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, a Stoic defender of suicide, 'theatricality' in poor taste. Cyprian of Carthage under persecution in 250–8 also united idealized language about the martyr's crown with express disapproval of voluntary self-destruction (emphasis added.)5 So here we have Chadwick explaining how Ignatius' letter may be misunderstood because of his duress and that he would disapprove of voluntary martyrs because other Christian leaders such as Clement of Alexandria and Cyprian of Carthage had also explicitly disapproved of such, too! Add that to the admonition in The Martyrdom of Polycarp cited above and we have a consensus in the sources that Christian teachers disdained unprovoked voluntary martyrdom. These are Sherlock's own sources, and they argue specifically against his point. I'm certain that Christians being covered in pitch and lit on fire for to provide light to Nero's garden were not congratulating themselves. I'm certain that when Diocletian ordered the arrest and imprisonment of all bishops and priests, along with the confiscation or destruction of all church assets that these leaders did not benefit. Sherlock has taken small slivers of historical text and filled them with a 21st century new atheist viewpoint. There is real violence demonstrated in Sherlock's post; unfortunately, it is to history and to the texts themselves. Tomorrow, I will show how even if we grant Sherlock's first premise, it doesn't save his meme. 1. Sherlock, Michael. "Violent Christianity – Refuting the Christian Apologists at Come Reason Ministries." Web. 7-7-2014. http://michaelsherlockauthor.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/violent-christianity-refuting-the-christian-apologists-at-come-reason-org/ Accessed 7-8-2014. 2.Sherlock, Ibid. 3."The Martyrdom of Polycarp." Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Web. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0102.htm. Accessed 7-8-2014. 4. Sherlock, Ibid. 5. Chadwick, Henry. The Church in Ancient Society: From Galilee to Gregory the Great. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).67. Labels: atheists, early church, history, meme, social media In the context of Christianity, voluntary martyrdom makes no sense. Concepts such as the value of each individual life; salvation unattainable by works but offered freely; and the encouragement to live joyfully, accepting good gifts daily from a gracious God mitigate against such a practice. It seems the writer is building a very uninformed case. Duska 12:13 PM Excellent response. Thank you!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line8
__label__cc	0.545017	0.454983	Properties & Collections Potter Place Railroad Station and Museum Caboose CV-4030 Richard Potter Gravesite J.C. Emons General Store and Post Office Northern Railroad Freight House B&M Freight Car Tucker Mountain Schoolhouse Old Time Fair Lectures and Annual Meeting Fourth Grade Round Robin Support AHS From the General Store Contribute to Our Collections Contribute to the Old Time Fair Auction, to the Flea Market, or to the Farmers Market Andover History on the Web Other Historical Society Web Sites AHS Newsletters in East Andover Home»Tucker Mountain Schoolhouse Tucker Mountain Schoolhouseadmin2017-05-05T15:23:18+00:00 The Tucker Mountain Schoolhouse was constructed in 1837 and served its local community until 1893, when dwindling student population led to its closing. It stands today in its original setting and location, in very good condition, looking much as it did when it was in active use. It consists of a single room, measuring 16 feet by 18 feet. Attached is an “ell” or shed that serves as a weather-breaking entrance to the school building and also provides storage space for firewood. A small closet in the shed contains the two-hole privy. The building is of post-and-beam construction, using hand-hewn timbers fastened with trunnels, and sits on a foundation of unmortared granite stones. The walls are sheathed with vertical planks, covered externally with clapboards. The pupils’ heavy plank desks stand bolted to the floor as they were. The floor slopes downward on two sides toward the center of the room, increasing visibility for the pupils in the back rows (a frequently-seen design detail in the schools of this time). The interior walls are covered with wide pine boards painted flat black to serve as chalkboards. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now serves as a museum exhibiting details of an earlier way of education. The museum is open from 1 to 3 PM on the second Sunday of the month from June to October. In 2010, a video reenactment was created of a day at the Tucker Mountain Schoolhouse in the 1800s. Inspired by an 1887 photograph, with local youth as the actors, the video lasts 10 minutes and can be viewed here. Copyright © 2017 Andover Historical Society • PO Box 167 • Andover NH 03216-0167 Dashboard	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line11
__label__wiki	0.581837	0.581837	The Perseverance of the Hole-Filled Sky Por Enza García Arreaza mayo, 9.2016 Cinema \| Enza García Arreaza \| Literature \| Love Still from «Interstellar», by Christopher Nolan (2014). You know this hole originated long ago from the death of a star Human associations based on feelings are often unfair. They demand a permanent agreement between what we know about people and what we expect them to be, they float on the arduous balance between reality and its ghost. Thus, parents and children ask each other to save the world and make it a blissful place for the other. Here lies the germ of a fairytale that harasses us through age: that first love is usually an irregular experience but we force ourselves to believe that it will be consummated in august satisfaction. We come to assume with artificial cultural zeal that having parents and having children is invariably illuminated by the same star, whether it is called sacrifice, self-denial, or survival of the species. But stars die or transform, there is a reverberation on the canvas of things, and singularity sleeps in the mouth of a ferocious and beautiful phenomenon: Murphy Cooper is the daughter of someone in Interstellar (2014)—the ninth feature film by Christopher Nolan—and claims to have a talkative ghost in bookshelves of her room, which is clearly the library of Cooper, her father. But what is a ghost? In The Road (2006), Cormac McCarthy offers a theory: «A person who has no one would do well to get a more or less passable ghost. Instill life into it and pamper it with words of love. Offer him phantom crumbs and protect it with their own body (…) When you have nothing else, invent ceremonies and infuse them with life.» There has to be a hero, of course. Cooper’s enemy is the imminent collapse of the planet, which means his children are going to die. Worse still: while that happens, the family survives, doomed to seek their place in the dust, confined to the mediocrity of farmers without stars. Cooper is an emissary of the once-enlightened century; science must be its aristocracy, for its children to inherit the title of kings of the world. Someone has to teach us how to look at the sky with pride and greed. Then, his daughter, baptized under the law of whatever could happen, will happen, thanks to the ghost that inhabits her library, in a mystical turn, finds the geographic coordinates of NASA. Boom. Grab your nearest Wikipedia. In the next few minutes we will have to understand, with some effort, that this film also recreates the disturbing existence of wormholes, of space-temporal relativity and implacable black holes, issues that will turn the father and explorer into a hero without return who departs as Aeneas, at times indolent with his past, but in favor of a better future, whose sacrifices will be rewarded just like the exemplary Christian awaits eternal life. Cooper departs (that is, leaves his daughter) in a spacecraft, accompanied by a group of scientists, to visit another galaxy through a gravitational anomaly that someone opened near Saturn, hoping to find a second chance for the humans that have already destroyed one planet. Forty-eight minutes later, we discover that the epigraph of this film is a poem by Dylan Thomas in the voice of Michael Caine: Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had been forked in lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night At this point, Christopher Nolan’s narrative vulgarities are of little importance (to me). Many people hated the film for various reasons, and they are right. But I am writing this perhaps because I am a weak and uncritical viewer, or perhaps because my cartography of meanings involves other orbits. I am interested in faith, that uncomfortable or neurotic issue that emerges when we evaluate our fairy tale of choice, and that determines some center of emotional gravity. Adalber Salas Hernández puts the icing on this cosmogonic cake: «Faith, as we understand it on this side of the world, is a notion rooted in a certain event that may or may not have happened. Its strict veracity is in fact irrelevant; what is important is the overwhelming symbolic potential of the story.» In the end, Murphy, the daughter of the hero, is the one who saves the world. To grow and save the world is to forgive someone who did not save us enough, and such fundamental loneliness, such prototype of primordial abandonment, is the philosopher’s stone that finally turns us into someone. The subversive in Interstellar is that at some point in its narrative, it decides to dispense with the allegorical effort and declares its reasoning with a bare line, by far cheesy and Hollywoodesque: that love is the most powerful force in the universe. Is love the most powerful force in the universe? I don’t know. But for some reason, we tell stories like these to ourselves, and we blush and even become outraged in high exegesis about them. Perhaps an unjust myth like that of love corrupts the social fabric, making it too hard an exercise, between breakups or parents and children whose relationships also break: we made love something too great, and we are often destined to fail when we try to consummate it. But there is a ghost, an insistent singularity that dwells beyond Murphy Cooper’s room. «We call ghosts—says Miguel Gomes—the happiness that is lost or not obtained; but also, without understanding it, the satisfied absences that accompany us in the shyness of the invisible. We are made of all this.» Faith is the proud silence that insists. From here we cannot hear the rumor of the black hole when it is doing its work, and yet. * About the author: Enza García Arreaza (Puerto la Cruz, 1987) is an editor at Backroom Caracas, writer, and poet. She obtained the VII Cuento Contigo Literary Prize bestowed by Casa de América (Madrid, 2004) with «La parte que le tocó a Caleb». In 2007, she won the prize for unpublished authors hosted by Monte Ávila Editores with the book of short stories Cállate poco a poco (Monte Ávila Editores, 2008). In 2009, she received the III National University Literature Prize, hosted by Universidad Simón Bolívar, with the book El bosque de los abedules (Equinoccio, 2010). Her writing appears in the anthologies Cuento Contigo 2 (Madrid, Siruela, 2006), and Zgodbe iz Venezuele (Eslovenia, Sodobnost International, 2009); in the collections De la urbe para el orbe. Nueva narrativa urbana (Caracas, Alfadil, 2006); Joven Narrativa Venezolana III. Premio de Cuento Policlínica Metropolitana para Jóvenes Autores 2009-2010 (Caracas, Equinoccio, 2011); De qué va el cuento. Antología del relato venezolano 2000-2012 (Caracas, Alfaguara, 2013); Tiempos de nostalgia / Tiempos de saudade (Caracas, Ediciones del Instituto Cultural Brasil–Venezuela, 2013), and in Voces -30. Nueva narrativa latinoamericana (Chile, Ebookspatagonia, 2014). The book of short stories Plegarias para un zorro was published in 2012 by bid & co. editor. El animal intacto, her first poetry book, was published in 2015 by Ediciones Isla de libros. Bienvenidos a Backroom Reír bajo la manga Pobreza, marginalidad y legado La casa sin sueño Aquí no después Correspondencias (II): Sylvia Molloy / Sonia Mattalía El mundo es un planeta extraño Intersticio El mundo y su doble	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line15
__label__wiki	0.676	0.676	my art search contacts (REVIEWS) Incomprehensible are the relations between a man and a woman as earthly and celestial elements. Sun and Month, hard and pliable, as contrary and yet undivided sexes; taken together they make the basic theme of artworks of Kateryna Gutnikova. Incomprehensible are the relations between a man and a woman as earthly and celestial elements. Sun and Month, hard and pliable, as contrary and yet undivided sexes; taken together they make the basic theme of artworks of Kateryna Gutnikova. Her artistic discourse is about problems of conscious and unconscious, about dramatic, agonizingly fine and bitter, and sometimes hateful connections between the worlds of a Woman and a Man, real and unreal in human life and senses. She embodies her meditations in artistically elegant compositions, the essence of which at first she puts through history and fiction, like through the lens, through the prism of aesthetics, play and carnival. In the meantime the artist makes skillful use of a guise, mask, persona in its antique understanding as a part of a person, which was shown to the external world, expressing and, simultaneously, hiding an authentic self, character, soul. The environment of her personages is made of histrionics, decorative poses and figures. The works of Kateryna Gutnikova create a stage, where in oblivion some inspired performance. Splendid and wonderful attire stimulates thrust and relaxedness. It is in flowers, grapes, fairy-tale melodies and, which is the most important, in love -headache you make it head off today... Today the author stages mostly one-theme performances, however under different names and aspects. These complicated and rich compositions are inventively balanced, full of whimsical meanings and real life plots. Besides, there are landscape motifs and allegoric symbols. The Nature, flora and fauna from its entrails and are ready to flaw beyond the bounds of the drawing. The idea of a carnival, as a recreation of the essence of life with the help of figurative art means, is regularly actualized in the history of the world culture. In her works the moody and plotline carnival peripeteias become an important matter for philosophical reflection, psychological research and self-knowledge. Through her works, she strives to understand to major secrets: love and art. Perhaps, her quest is not in vain, as far as it brings forth one more secret: creative work of a young artist. Her creative manner is typical of the postmodern artist: reinterpretation of the age-old myths according to one's own painful questions. Private problems of the artist appear to be the problems of womankind, and mankind as a whole. You can put her works on a par with palimpsests; only, to be precise, they do not block each other, but prop up. When you ponder over these artworks you come to understand that it isn't that easy to find the way out of the labyrinth of these themes, reminiscences, meanings and discoveries. This is the prime example of intellectual poetry created by means of graphic arts. Olesia Avramenko, Candidate of Art Criticism. (OUR SPONSORS) © Art of Ukraine Foundation, 1998-2003. All rights reserved. © Created by AMT, 2003. Site info.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line16
__label__wiki	0.5371	0.5371	Самолеты (сортировка по:) Aircrafts (sorted by:) Страна Country Конструктор Designer Название Designation Год Year Фото Photos Текст Text Фото из журналов (сортировка по:) Photos from magazines (sorted by:) Дата Date Журнал Magazine Автор Author Статья Article Серия Series Фото Photo << Heinkel - He-63 - 1932 - ГерманияGermany << Heinkel He-64/He-71 >> Heinkel - He-70/Не-170 Blitz - 1932 - ГерманияGermany >> Страна:Country: ГерманияGermany Год:Year: 1932 Описание:Description: Heinkel He 64 Flight, September 1932 THE NEW HEINKEL HE 64 Уголок НебаAirwar ФотографииPhotos Братья Зигфрид и Вальтер Гюнтеры после их перехода на фирму "Heinkel" в 1931 году первыми спроектировали деревянный двухместный моноплан для авиагонок "Europa Rundflug", которые планировались на август 1932 года. Самолет Heinkel He 64a с мотором Argus As 8R ДальшеMore>>> мощностью 150л.с. (112 кВт), пилотируемый генералом Гансом Зайдерманном, выиграл эти авиагонки, пролетев 7500-км маршрут за 31 час 17 мин со средней скоростью 240 км/ч. За серией спортивных самолетов He 64b с мотором Argus последовала серия He 64c с рядом различных моторов, включая Hirth HM504 либо 506 и de Havilland Gipsy III. Два прототипа He 64d построили с крыльями эллиптической в плане формы. Heinkel He 71 впервые взлетел весной 1933 года. Он был по существу уменьшенной одноместной версией туристского самолета He 64. На прототипе, первоначально имевшем открытую кабину пилота и мотор Hirth HM60 мощностью 60 л.с. (45 кВт), позднее появился фонарь кабины и мотор Hirth HM4 мощностью 78 л.с. (58 кВт). На этом аэроплане с дополнительным запасом бензина для увеличения дальности полета до 2410 км немецкая летчица Элли Байнхорн совершила ряд полетов над Африкой. By EDWIN P. A. HEINZE ONE of the financially soundest aeroplane factories in Germany, and one of the busiest, too, is that of Heinkel at Warnemunde, on the shores of the Baltic. Yet this maker is relatively less known to the general public than most of the others, because he neither builds transport planes of a type used in Germany nor, up to the present, small planes such as the clubs and individual owners would purchase. The factory has specialised more in the production of school machines and catapult planes, and has occupied itself most extensively with the design of military planes for foreign powers. Hence it created a sensation when one day news leaked out that Heinkel was entering the light plane field, and that he intended taking part in this year's International Light Plane Competition on the Continent. The fine performance of the German officer Seidemann, with his colleague Witt as observer, in an Argus-powered Heinkel, during the air tour forming part of this competition Heinkel into the limelight of public interest. Indeed, the new Heinkel machine appears to be what may be termed a "hit," which is all the more remarkable as this is the first machine of this type developed by the company that was founded in 1922 by Dr. Ernst Heinkel, already then an aircraft engineer of long standing, who for years had been the technical chief of other aeroplane factories in Germany, especially during the War. The new Heinkel is a low wing cantilever monoplane built entirely of wood, with a long and slender fuselage of oval section, with which the wing stubs are integrally formed. The single spar wings are of trapezoid contour and are secured by universal joints and lever-operated bolts. The connection is so well worked that the small gap between the wings and stub wings barely measures one millimetre, so a special covering strip is not required. The bolt lever, however, permanently protrudes slightly on the lower wing surface. The maximum chord of the wing at the roots is 2 metres (6.56 ft.), and 0.8 metre (2.62 ft.) at the rounded tips. The wings are set at a dihedral angle of 4 1/2 degrees, and have a span of 9.8 metres (32.15 ft.). The over-all length of the machine, which has two seats arranged one behind the other, is 8.31 m. (27.26 ft.) and the greatest beam (i.e., horizontal diameter) of the fuselage 0.73 m. (2.4 ft.). The wings are provided with slow-flying flaps and ailerons extending to and partially completing the rounded wing tips. The leading edge of each wing is additionally equipped with two independent Handley-Page slots covering the whole length of the wing. The outer slats, having the length of the ailerons (1.93 m. or 6.33 ft.), are of the automatic type, while the inner slats are connected with the slow-flying flaps. It is due to these means that the machine, which with the Argus 140/150 h.p. engine has a maximum speed of some 155 m.p.h., can actually fly without loss of altitude at 38.6 m.p.h., as was done, for instance, by Junck and Seidemann during the slow-flying tests at the international meeting above referred to. The wing area of the machine totals 155 sq. ft., including the ailerons, which each has a surface of 5.23 sq. ft. The two cockpits are covered by a common, long cellon hood of streamline form, merging at the rear end into the top of the fuselage, which, as all parts offering air resistance, has been most carefully designed. The seats in the cockpits are adjustable for height and leg length. Dual controls are provided, those in the rear being so designed that they can be "switched off" literally instantaneously by a small lever within reach of the front pilot. The stick and pedals then move freely without affecting the plane's steering. This is an excellent feature for schoolwork. The controls can additionally be taken out entirely and replaced and connected within a few seconds. Otherwise the controls are wholly normal. Provision for the inspection of the cables, etc., is made by well-covered apertures in the fuselage. The tail surfaces, i.e., stabiliser and elevator, are entirely made of wood and have a long oval form, 9.02 ft. in length and 2.88 ft. deep, the depth of the elevator being 1.34 ft. The area of the stabiliser is 10.37 sq. ft. and that of the elevator 8.63 sq. ft. The stabiliser is adjustable during flight to the extent of +3 and -8 degrees. The rounded rudder fin, which is braced by lateral wires against the stabiliser, has an area of 3.4 sq. ft., and the rudder is of 5 sq. ft. The undercarriage is of the divided type, with Palmer brake wheels and combined hydraulical and pneumatic struts. The wheels are not provided with spats. As already indicated, the machines are equipped with the new Argus engines of 140/150 h.p. maximum output. These inverted engines are well faired by an aluminium casing, which is easily detachable. A variable pitch propeller of 6.88 ft. diameter is employed (generally set to a pitch of 4.59 ft.). The engine is mounted on a steel tube frame attached to the fire bulkhead in the usual manner. Extensive use is made of rubber for engine suspension, so that vibration is considerably damped. The engine draws its fuel supply by means of two diaphragm pumps from two tanks, one of which is situated immediately behind the fire bulkhead in the fuselage, while the other is arranged in the bulging parts of the fuselage between the first and second seat. The oil tank forms part of the nose of the right stub wing, where it is effectively cooled by the slipstream. The machine weighs complete with instruments and ready for flight, but otherwise empty, 990 lb., and will take a load of 660 lb., so the full flying weight comes to 1,650 lb. The wing loading amounts to 10.65 lb. per sq. ft. Some Editorial Comment The description of the Heinkel He.64 by our German correspondent, printed above, gives the main data, etc., of the machine. During the recent visit of the "weekenders" a number of Heinkels were seen and inspected, and a good opportunity to watch their behaviour was afforded. Moreover, on Monday of this week Handley Page, Ltd., arranged a demonstration at Radlett, at which three of the Heinkels were flown. Thus one is able, quite apart from Herr Heinze's description, to form a very good idea of the qualities of the He.64. As a piece of workmanship the Heinkel is an outstanding example of German craftsmanship. The finish is such as is rarely seen anywhere, and the machines looked spick and span in spite of their strenuous time in the International Touring Competition. Something should be added about the slot mechanism, which is of a more advanced type than has ever been seen on an aircraft in this country. The wings are slotted and "flapped" over their whole span, slots as well as flaps being divided into what may be termed lift and control devices respectively. The inner slots, which extend from the wing root to the automatic wing tip slots, are automatic in action, and are so connected to their trailing edge flaps that when the slots open the flaps are pulled down to their full extent. The outer slots are also automatic, and are connected to the aileron flaps in such a way that as the slot opens the aileron drops a few degrees. After that, however, the aileron is free to operate in the normal way without interfering with its slot. The lift slots can be locked in the "closed" position, when their associated trailing edge flaps are flush with the wing surface. They cannot, however, be locked in the "open" position, with the flaps down, nor do they have any intermediate position. Either they are fully closed or fully open. To us it appears that this is not the best possible arrangement, and that the automatic operation is of somewhat doubtful value. We believe an improvement would be for the lift slots and their flaps to be manually operated, or at any rate for them to be under the control of the pilot in such a way that any desired intermediate position between fully closed and fully opened could be maintained. In gusty weather there seems to be a tendency for the lift slots to slam about, and one of our photographs actually shows that it is possible for the lift slot on one side to be closed and the other open. We understand that actually Handley Page, Ltd., who designed the slots for the Heinkel machines, desired a torque tube to be incorporated so as to ensure the simultaneous opening and closing of the port and starboard lift slots, but that as wing-folding was an important feature for machines in the International Touring Competition, the Heinkel firm decided to do without this interconnection. The Heinkels were flown, during the demonstrations, by the various German pilots, but it was Capt. Cordes, Handley Page's test pilot, who gave far and away the most impressive demonstration. Although he had flown the machine for only about two minutes before, he took off in a nearly vertical "zoom" for the benefit of our photographer, and afterwards flew about quite low down, with the machine at an alarming angle, but definitely showing that even at the largest angles the controls are effective. The demonstration was a credit to the Handley Page slots, but it was also a welcome reminder that Cordes is a pilot of more than average ability. In trying to form an opinion of the Heinkel He.64 it is essential that one should remember that the machine was designed specifically with the International Touring Competition in mind, and that the International Touring Competition was designed to produce a useful type of aircraft for the private owner. The Heinkel very nearly achieved its object, but it is doubtful if the International Touring Competition did. As a competition machine, a collector of points for take-off and alighting, the Heinkel is very nearly all that a machine could be. As a private owner's machine it is not yet ideal. From the point of view of the pilot, the Heinkel is undoubtedly an interesting machine, but during a short flight we cannot honestly say that we were impressed with its suitability as an aeroplane for the average private owner. It is true that a very low flying speed can be achieved without an undue sinking speed, which is only natural in view of the fully-slotted wing, but it did seem to us that it was necessary to use the engine if the full benefit of the slots was to be obtained. On the glide there was a distinct, and somewhat unpleasant, snatch when the slots opened, and we gather that normally the German pilots do not let the gliding speed fall below a fairly high figure, at which the glide was, as one would expect, very flat. The controls were efficient and reasonably coordinated, although the rudder of the machine we flew was distinctly heavy; this, however, we understand was due to mechanical friction in the hinges. This explanation would appear to be correct, as despite the length of fuselage the amount of control available was by no means excessive. It was definitely greater than that usually provided by German designers, but hardly up to the average English aeroplane. The ailerons were good, giving full control even when all slots were open and one was hanging on the engine, and it was in this manner that the competition landings were made during the Rundflug. Whether or not there is sufficient control without the engine for such short landings to be made in cases of necessity seems to us to be a matter for some doubt. At top speed the machine was comfortable to fly, and the controls were not unduly heavy, but for comfort on long journeys considerably more shoulder and head room would have to be provided for the pilot if it was proposed to sell the machine for private use; this is not, we understand, likely to be the case. The view forward is not so good as one is entitled to expect from an aeroplane with an inverted engine and a fuselage of such narrow cross-section; neither is the wind screen arrangement comfortable except when completely closed. The take-off is straightforward, though at the same time the super slotted arrangement would seem to make extra care necessary, as side gusts might well open one slot before the other with possible difficult complications. The undercarriage, as at present fitted, is very harsh, but presumably that is entirely due to competition desiderata. The Argus 140 was disappointing, being rough without giving one the impression that one had 140 h.p. to play with; and in any case 140 h.p. would seem a lot to pay for this form of two seater, with a performance very little better than British designers obtain with cabin machines giving much greater comfort and seating capacity. It can, we think, be said that the Handley Page slot has outstripped the technical development of the aircraft. The Heinkel He.64 will hang in the air at 38 m.p.h. or so, but at a very large angle. To alight at that angle would result in serious damage to the machine, as the tail skid would hit first, and the undercarriage then come down with considerable force, probably resulting in a crash. Consequently the speed at which the machine can safely be put down is considerably higher than the minimum speed at which it can hang in the air (with engine running). So long as that is so, there seems to be little point in all this slottery. One demonstration which would have been convincing was not given: a landing with engine stopped. While the engine is running, the combined effect of the slipstream and the upward pull of the airscrew assist materially in making possible the remarkably low speed. With a "dead" engine, and of course no slipstream, the result would probably have been a good deal less impressive. Before the fully-slotted aeroplane is a practical proposition, and before it adds materially to the safety of the average private owner, it will be necessary to incorporate not only a variable incidence but also an undercarriage capable of absorbing the shock of a landing at high rate of sinking. And even then, the reversal of controls necessary for flattening out may prove a stumbling block to some pilots. THE HEINKEL He.64: This three-quarter rear view was taken at Heston shortly after the arrival of the Heinkels from Germany during the "Week-End Aerien." Flight 1932-09 / Flight GERMANY'S "WHITE HOPE": The new Heinkel He.64 ("Argus" engine) is characterised by a very slim fuselage and a longer lever arm for the tail than is usually found in German machines. На фотографии показан единственный аэроплан He 64b. Один экземпляр He 64c испытывался в британском авиационном НИЦ (Royal Aircraft Establishment). Мировая Авиация 155 A GOOD TRY: One of the Heinkel (Argus) monoplanes, piloted by von Massenbach, breaks the tape in a take-off test. "EINE HEI(N)KLE SACHE": Capt. Cordes, Handley Page's test pilot, giving a take-off demonstration at Radlett. Note lift flaps down and all slots open. GOOD BYE TO RADLETT: The three Heinkels leave in formation after their demonstrations. Note that on the leading machine the port lift slot is open and its associated flap down, while the starboard slot is closed and its flap up. Fraulein Elly Beinhorn (left) arriving with Fraulein S. Mirow in one of the new Heinkel's. На фотографии - персональный аэроплан He 71 Элли Байнхорн. Кроме полетов над Африкой она также летала на своем самолете по Центральной и Северной Америке. Heinkel-Sport He.64	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line21
__label__wiki	0.688909	0.688909	Nearly seventy years ago, Alfred Hitchcock film his famously experimental film "Rope" with Jimmy Stewart and Farley Granger. The film was set in real time and shot using only a few very long, continuous shots that required the actors to spot lines and lines of dialogue at a time. It is said that the actors hated it. The film won no accolades - with even Hitchcock declaring that it was a mistake - and actually disappeared for many years before being revived 30-years later by the great director's daughter. It was never noted for anything more than a technical stunt, quite possibly to save money because it was Hitchcock's first color film. It barely made a profit over the $2-million production cost...and that was mainly in recent video rentals! Director Thane Economou is no Hitchcock having spent most of his career directing movie shorts. Nevertheless, he felt compelled to try his own continuous take film with "The Wedding Party". Unlike Hitchcock, Economou didn't have a James Stewart to rely on for acting, instead he cast a bunch of b-list castaways and charged them with the task of not messing up. Why, because the film was recorded, also in real time using one loooooong shot. So, much like "Rope", the emphasis is more on the technique than the story, which is a run or the mill story about a common wedding and the things that went wrong. The film opens at the ceremony with the idiot best man Colt (Brian Thomas Smith) getting the wedding ring stuck on his finger. It then progresses around the ceremony to the reception immediately following with an interesting method of changing scenes, as it were. Perhaps the greatest challenge was making sure the majority of the talent hit their spots by the constantly moving camera - helmed by William Kamp III - got around to them. But his use of mostly wide angle shots reduces any moment of intimacy into set-ups for the next shot. There is a feeble attempt to develop the various characters by creating romantic relationships and generic discovery moments between members of the wedding party, but truly the only semi interesting character was Brett Rice as Tobias - basically looking stoic and bored. For Economou, perhaps he'll be using the film as a demo to show what he could possibly do if he had a bigger budget and a real screenplay. "The Wedding Party" comes off advanced film school senior project. It is interesting in technique but dull and one dimensional in story; the professor would probably give him a C+. [VOD,DVD] -- GEOFF BURTON	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line22
__label__wiki	0.658268	0.658268	People. Places. Things. Outdoors: Gearing up for cold weather Better protective gear can help anglers catch more fish By John N. Felsher Some anglers love fishing during the winter. Here Jimmy Mason, a bass pro from Rogersville, Ala., bundled up to catch smallmouth bass at Pickwick Lake near Florence, Ala. Faced with stinging temperatures – intensified by swirling winds driving snow flurries – most anglers would probably wait for a better day, or month, to go fishing. But proper protective gear can allow anglers to fish in relative comfort on days when most people would rather sit next to a roaring fire. “I fished some really bad days, but one in particular stands out,” remembers Denny Brauer, a former Bassmaster Classic champion. “During one tournament, the ramp got so slick that people were almost launching their trucks along with their boats. All my rod compartments froze shut. I had to borrow my wife’s hair dryer to thaw the locks. We made a run to the lower end of the lake and pulled into a creek. I told my partner, ‘We’re going to be here all day. I’m not making another run.’ I actually caught a really good bag that day because I kept my bait in the water and didn’t want to run anywhere else in the cold.” In the old days, many anglers wore army-surplus field jackets, bulky “long johns” under jeans, jumpsuits or maybe sweatpants and anything else they could find to ward off the chill. They topped that ensemble with heavy woolen shirts and jackets. In extreme cold, some put on down parkas. Not designed for fishing, these heavy outfits offered protection, but didn’t allow much mobility or relief from rain. Fortunately, manufacturers have made significant progress in protective gear technology. “Back then, we wore so much that we couldn’t move or fish,” recalls Bernie Schultz, a professional angler. “It was so heavy that it wore us out. Today, an angler can buy stuff right off the shelf that is so much better than what we had years ago. Now, we layer ourselves in garments made of high-tech materials designed specifically for fishing. The cut is better, giving anglers more mobility.” As it progresses, hypothermia, or a lowering of the core body temperature, can cause disorientation, slurring of speech and hamper one’s ability to make decisions. Wetness or wind rapidly exacerbates the effects of hypothermia. A person immersed in 40-degree F waters can lose consciousness in 15 minutes and die in 90. Today, anglers can buy lightweight, waterproof products designed specifically to keep them warm, dry and comfortable in weather extremes. For starters, protect the head. Many anglers wear insulated or knit wool coverings to protect their heads, faces and necks on extremely cold days. Some wear beanie-type caps and might add wide coverings similar to sweatbands over the ears. Put a sweatshirt hood over this covering, followed by the hood on the outer coat to keep warm and dry. The old adage, “dress in layers” still applies, but with modern garments, layers don’t need to make a person resemble a tire company logo. Most people start with ultralight Gore-Tex thermal undergarments and add a thick shirt or sweatshirt over them. Some wear thin, insulated waterproof pants over jeans or trousers. Others prefer bibs, which resemble overalls on steroids. On the outside, many anglers don waterproof all-weather coats or parkas to fight biting cold, block the wind and repel rain or spray. Nothing makes a person more miserable in cold weather than wet socks and icy feet. Some people wear waterproof thermal socks to keep their feet dry. Some people wear battery-operated electric socks. Over those, add waterproof shoes or boots. “It’s miserable all day if you step into a puddle or walk down to the boat and barely slip into the water at the ramp, getting the socks wet in the morning,” says John Cox, a professional angler. “Wearing waterproof shoes makes a huge difference for the rest of the day as long as I don’t step in water over my ankle. I like a waterproof shoe that feels like a sneaker, but keeps my feet dry. If it’s really cold, I’ll wear insulated waterproof boots, but I can’t move around in boots that well.” Thick gauntlet-style gloves protect hands while running the boat, but anglers can’t easily turn reel handles with them. Many companies now make thinner insulated gloves that keep hands warm, but still allow anglers to better use their fingers. Some gloves come with small pockets to insert chemical air-activated hand warmers for additional comfort. Before heading out to face the elements, start with a good, hot breakfast. Anglers who don’t want to stop fishing to eat lunch can nibble high-energy bars throughout the day. Also drink sufficient warm, non-alcoholic liquids. Alcohol can lower a person’s core body temperature and cause dehydration. John N. Felsher lives in Semmes, Ala. Contact him through Facebook. Cooking contest winner continues tradition From left, Alabama Living editor Lenore Vickrey; first-place winner Mary Lyons; second-place winner Tif Smith; third place winner Jamie Davis; and Creative Living Center director Ann Ball. Story and photos by Allison Law Many folks say that cooking ability is in the genes, passed down from one generation to the next. For this year’s winner of the Alabama Living “Crockin’ It” contest at the Alabama National Fair, not only is cooking in the genes – so is winning. Mary Lyons of Tallassee won first place in the October contest for her dessert creation, Alabama-made Praline Crock-Pot Bread Pudding. Lyons has entered the contest for the last four years, and two years ago she won third place with her Crockpot Tropics Sipper. Her adult son, Levi, followed in his mom’s footsteps. That same year, 2016, Levi Lyons won second place in the contest with his Crock-Pot Spinach Sausage and Ricotta Shells. Levi Lyons didn’t enter this year, but his mom continued to make the family proud. The inspiration for her sweet dish came from Pinterest, the free online platform that allows users to discover and save ideas – everything from recipes to renovation projects to clothing. The recipe she found on Pinterest was for regular baking, not for a Crock-Pot. It also didn’t feature an Alabama-made ingredient, which is one of the requirements for the Alabama Living contest. She decided to use Luverne-made Sister Schubert’s rolls, baking them first in the oven and slicing and soaking them in the egg mixture. She also used Alaga syrup and found vanilla flavoring that’s made in Birmingham. The third place winner, Jamie Davis, is Mary Lyons’ friend, and she’s the one who suggested that Lyons enter the praline dish. Obviously, it was good advice! Alabama-made Praline Crock-Pot Bread Pudding Mary Lyons, Tallassee 1 package Sister Schubert’s rolls ¼ cup chopped pecans Praline sauce: ½ cup butter ¼ cup Alaga cane flavor syrup ¾ cup brown sugar, packed ¾ cup heavy cream Whipped cream: 1 small carton Borden’s whipping cream Bake rolls as directed on package. While warm, cut into pieces. Arrange pieces in single layer on a flat surface; cool completely. In a large bowl, beat eggs; add half and half and sugar and mix well until blended. Add cut up rolls and mix well; let stand 15 minutes. Spread mixture evenly in slow cooker and press down slightly. Cook on high for two hours. Watch the sides for browning; take top off and allow top to brown for the last 30 minutes of cooking. Turn down to warm. Check center with a knife to make sure center is done; knife will come out clean. Sprinkle pecans over the bread pudding. Sauce: melt butter in saucepan on medium heat. Add Alaga syrup and mix well. Add brown sugar and pecans and cook 2-3 minutes, stirring frequently. Reduce heat and slowly stir in heavy cream and simmer 2-3 minutes more, stirring constantly until it begins to thicken. Let stand 10 minutes. Pour over warm bread pudding. Whipped cream: With a mixer on medium, beat whipping cream and gradually add sugar and vanilla. Mix until it forms a peak. Serve this cream on top of the pudding and sauce. Pineapple and Pulled Pork Crock-Pot Baked Bean Camp Stew Tif Smith, Montgomery 1 pound bacon 1 pound Conecuh sausage 1l arge white onion, chopped 128-ounce can baked beans in tomato sauce 116-ounce can baked beans 115-ounce can kidney beans, drained and rinsed 115-ounce can yellow corn 120-ounce can pineapple tidbits, drained ½cup Alaga maple syrup 115-ounce can chopped tomatoes 2 cups pulled pork 2 large bell peppers, chopped ½ cup ketchup 2 tablespoons Dijon 5 shakes Alaga hot sauce ½ cup barbecue sauce Chop raw bacon and Conecuh sausage and fry over medium heat until crispy and done. Drain on paper towels. Drain grease, leaving about 2 tablespoons in the pan. Cook onion in grease until soft. Combine all ingredients in a large slow cooker and cook on high for four hours or on low for eight hours. Crock-Pot Low Country Boil Jamie Davis, Tallassee 1 bottle of Truck Stop Honey beer ¼ cup Alaga hot sauce 3 tablespoons Old Bay 1½ teaspoons salt 1½ pounds red potatoes (about 10-15 small) 10 small ears sweet corn (frozen or from the garden) 1 pound Conecuh sausage, cut into two- to three-inch links 2 pounds large shrimp, deveined Optional condiments: cocktail sauce, additional lemon wedges, melted butter In a six- to seven-quart slow cooker, combine water, beer, hot sauce, seafood seasoning, salt and cayenne pepper. Add potatoes, corn, sausage and lemon wedges. Cover and cook for 3 ½ hours on high. Add shrimp and stir until incorporated. Cover and cook an additional 30 minutes or until shrimp are pink. Spoon mixture into a large rimmed dish and serve with optional condiments. Protein Packed It’s an essential nutrient, so putting protein high on your priority list is a resolution you should make (and keep) this year. Sausage, Egg and Cheese Bake BY JENNIFER KORNEGAY Food/Photography BY BROOKE ECHOLS Makers of many foods (and those in charge of promoting certain agriculture products) like to slap the title “good source of protein” on their items as a way to entice an increasingly health-conscious public to buy and ingest whatever it is they’re selling. But is “getting enough protein” really that important or is the popularity of protein a fad? Yes to the first question; kind of to the second. Protein is a macronutrient that is essential to our bodies’ daily functions. It forms the building blocks of our cells and is used to make and repair muscles, bones, blood and other tissues. It plays many other crucial roles too, making it a key component of a balanced diet. It is found in meats but also in dairy, eggs, nuts, seeds and beans. Protein is also the focus of several “trendy” diets (like Paleo, Keto and Whole 30), but just because they’re “trendy” doesn’t mean they don’t work. These protein-rich eating regimens deliver impressive results for weight loss. Pounds are shed quickly, and thanks to protein’s ability to satisfy appetites, people on these diets usually don’t feel overly hungry or deprived. According to the Mayo Clinic, for most people, high-protein, low-carb diets are safe, at least when they’re practiced short term. But if you’re loading up your plate with bacon and fatty beef, you could exchange unwanted fat for high cholesterol and other issues. Better protein-heavy choices are fish, lean meats, low-fat dairy and beans. In fact, this advice applies to everyone: Experts agree that many of us could be making better choices about the kinds of protein we’re eating. If you’re considering one of the protein-packed diets or just need to add some additional protein to your menu (now that you know how vital to good health it is), you’re in luck. Check out these tasty and (mostly) healthy reader-submitted recipes. Cook of the Month Mike Rich, Sand Mountain EC No-Bake Puffed Quinoa Peanut Butter Crunch Cups 1 1/2 cups puffed quinoa* 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons peanut butter 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons coconut butter 1 1/2 tablespoons pure maple syrup Add the puffed quinoa to a medium-sized mixing bowl. Add the peanut butter, coconut butter, coconut oil, maple syrup and vanilla extract to a medium saucepan. Heat over low and whisk continuously for 4-5 minutes or until completely melted and smooth. Pour the peanut butter mixture over the puffed quinoa and stir to coat. Place 16-18 muffin liners on a baking pan. Drop heaping tablespoons of the quinoa mixture into the muffin liners and gently smooth out with a spoon. Pop the pan into the freezer for one hour to set. Once the cups have set, you can transfer them to the refrigerator to store. Cook’s note: You can purchase puffed quinoa, but if you prefer to make your own, this is what I typically do: Heat a large stockpot over medium heat. Once the pot is hot, pour a small amount of pre-rinsed and dried quinoa over the bottom of the pan. Gently move the pan so that the quinoa swirls around as it pops (this helps prevent burning). Once all the quinoa has popped (a minute or two), pour it into a bowl and repeat until you have 1 1/2 cups. You’ll notice that the quinoa has a very quiet crackle rather than a popcorn-like “pop,” and its popped state is only the tiniest bit larger than its un-popped state. Meathead Chili 2 ribeye steaks 1 package pork sausage 1 16-ounce can red kidney beans 1 16-ounce can black beans 1 16-ounce can pinto beans 1 16-ounce can petite-diced tomatoes 1 16-ounces tomato paste 1 tablespoon oregano 1 14-ounce can beef broth Splash of sriracha sauce Sear the steaks in a skillet 10 minutes a side. Brown the ground beef and pork together in a large pot. Cut the steak and add to a pot along with the chopped onion. After the onions cook down, add spices, tomatoes, brown sugar, sriracha sauce and beans. Pour in the beef stock and cook at a simmer for 30 minutes. Let chili rest for 5 to 10 minutes before serving. Kirk Vantrease, Cullman EC Healthy Peanut Butter Cup Puppy Chow (Single serving) 3/4cup toasted wheat (or rice) cereal 2tablespoon PB2 (or any brand of peanut butter powder) 1/4teaspoon Hershey Special Dark Cocoa powder (or chocolate protein powder) 2packets Splenda or Stevia Coconut oil cooking spray Mix peanut butter powder, dark cocoa powder and Splenda or Stevia in a bowl. Place cereal in a quart sized Ziploc bag. Spray cereal with coconut oil cooking spray, tossing well. Use just enough to coat. Add the dry ingredients to the bag with the cereal and toss until they stick to all sides. Kaci Cheeseman, Baldwin EMC 2 pounds bulk sausage (I like to use one hot, one mild) 1 package diced red, yellow and green bell peppers 1 cup half and half or milk Brown the sausage with onion. Drain well on paper towels. Add the chopped bell peppers to the pan and sauté until tender. (You may or may not want to add a little oil or butter to the pan.) Add back in the sausage and onion mixture and stir until all ingredients are incorporated. Spread the meat/pepper mixture in a greased 9×13-inch baking dish or two smaller dishes. Sprinkle cheese on top. Whisk eggs, half and half or milk, garlic powder, salt and pepper together, and pour over the whole pan. I like to chill it overnight, but that’s optional. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Allison Law, Alabama Living managing editor Send us your recipes for a chance to win! March: Instant Pot \| Jan. 3 April: Strawberries \| Feb. 4 May: Tex-Mex \| March 4 3 ways to submit: Online: alabamaliving.coop Email: recipes@alabamaliving.coop Mail: Recipes, P.O. Box 244014 Montgomery, AL 36124 Please send us your original recipes (developed or adapted by you or family members.) Cook of the Month winners will receive $50, and may win “Cook of the Month” only once per calendar year. To be eligible, submissions must include a name, phone number, mailing address and co-op name. Alabama Living reserves the right to reprint recipes in our other publications. Snapshots: Snow Day Adalyn Bellomy sledding at Aunt Patti’s house. SUBMITTED BY Patti Tidwell. Clint Feemster enjoying a snow day with Ruff and Doc. SUBMITTED BY Anna Feemster, Fyffe. Montana Kirkwood’s graduation December 2017. SUBMITTED BY Bettie Giles, Millry. Our grandson, Beckham’s first snowman. SUBMITTED BY Jesse Pace, Wagarville. Cleburne County December 2017. SUBMITTED BY Randy Stamps, Heflin. Frank Mann on the tractor feeding Cherokee the horse. SUBMITTED BY Caroline Mann, Double Springs. Submit Your Images! March Theme: “Safari Park Photos” Deadline for March: Jan. 31 Submit photos online: www.alabamaliving.coop/submit-photo/ or send color photos with a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Photos, Alabama Living, P.O. Box 244014 Montgomery, AL 36124 Rules: Alabama Living will pay $10 for photos that best match our theme of the month. Photos may also be published on our website at www.alabamaliving.coop and on our Facebook page. Alabama Living is not responsible for lost or damaged photos. Alabama Living writer will be missed Ben Norman, a freelance writer for Alabama Living and other outdoor publications, passed away Nov. 15, 2018, after a long battle with cancer. Norman, a resident of Highland Home, was a longtime member of the South Alabama Electric Cooperative Board of Trustees. Norman wrote several articles over the years for Alabama Living, says editor Lenore Vickrey. “It was always a pleasure to hear from Ben, who never failed to come up with interesting ideas for stories about the fascinating people and places of south Alabama,” she says. His most recent article, published in June 2018, was about a Brantley resident who made traps to catch catfish. Although his specialty was writing about the outdoors, he also wrote about local personalities, took many of his own photos, and in 2017, penned a feature on the popular Sister’s Restaurant in Troy, which helped draw many new patrons to the business. Donations in Norman’s memory can be made to: Sardis Cemetery Fund c/o Donald White 15403 Montgomery Highway Highland Home, AL 36041 Best of Alabama 2019: The votes are in! By Allison Law Alabama Gulf State Park and Lodge We asked, you answered! For the sixth consecutive year, Alabama Living asked you, our readers, to tell us your favorite people, places and things about our great state as part of our annual Best of Alabama feature. Hundreds of you responded to the ballots we printed in the September and October issues, which asked you to vote for your favorites in ten different categories. We accepted your responses via the mail and online, and one lucky respondent was randomly drawn to win a $350 prize! (See story, Page 16.) It gets harder each year to come up with different categories for the contest, but it’s not hard to find the things we like about Alabama. From venues for live music to shopping to museums to restaurants, Alabama has it all. Read on to find out more about the winners. Best new tourist destination: Hurricane Ivan destroyed the old hotel at Gulf State Park in 2004, but the area will once again be a convention destination with the new Lodge at Gulf State Park, which officially opened in November to much fanfare. Gov. Kay Ivey called it a “world-class place to visit, and it will be the crown jewel of tourism.” The Hilton-branded hotel, new interpretive center, learning campus and state-of-the-art convention facilities will no doubt continue to boost state tourism. Learn more at lodgeatgulfstatepark.com Best museum dedicated to a famous Alabamian: Ivy Green, birthplace of Helen Keller, Tuscumbia Helen Keller (1880-1968) remains one of Alabama’s most admired native daughters. Keller became deaf and blind as an infant, but learned sign language from teacher Anne Sullivan at the water pump in the backyard of Ivy Green, her family’s home in Tuscumbia. She characterized Ivy Green and its garden as “the paradise of my childhood,” and the home and grounds today are dedicated to preserving her legacy of activism and literary accomplishment. The home, at 300 North Commons St. West in Tuscumbia, is open to the public; learn more at helenkellerbirthplace.org Best zoo/wildlife park: Birmingham Zoo From Trails of Africa to the Children’s Zoo and everything in between, the Birmingham Zoo features animals from all over the world. Signage throughout the park highlights their care, conservation initiatives, and species survival plans. With approximately 700 animals of 200 species from six continents, the 122-acre site is a great family destination any time of year. The non-profit Zoo, at 2630 Cahaba Road in Birmingham, is open daily; learn more at birminghamzoo.com Best music venue: Flora-Bama, Orange Beach Considered by locals and visitors alike to be the most famous beach bar in the country, the Flora-Bama lounge features live music every day of the year. This longtime honky-tonk straddles the state line between Orange Beach, Ala., and Perdido Key, Fla., and features good times and good music in five different entertainment areas. From country to rock to dance to beach music, there’s something for everyone at the Flora-Bama. Learn more and see the musical lineup at florabama.com The Wharf – Orange Beach, Alabama. Courtland W. Richards – Photographer. Daphne, AL 36526, 251-379-8935 Best open-air amphitheater: The Wharf, Orange Beach Baldwin County boasts another winner in our poll this year. The Wharf Amphitheater opened in 2006 with a sold-out Hank Williams Jr. concert, and has continued to draw some of the biggest names in contemporary and classic music: Taylor Swift, Kid Rock, Jason Aldean, John Mayer, Eric Church and more have entertained audiences; this year, some of the big-name acts set to perform include Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney and Hootie and the Blowfish. For more information, visit alwharf.com Best lake to spend the weekend: Lake Guntersville Resort State Park, located along the banks of the Tennessee River in northeast Alabama, features golf, a beach complex, an outdoor nature center, fishing in Alabama’s largest lake, hiking and biking trails and weekly guided hikes. But one of its main attractions soars above the others: Eagle awareness programs both entertain and educate visitors about our national symbol (see story, Page 18). For more information, visit alapark.com and click “find a park,” then “Lake Guntersville.” Best Heisman Trophy winner from an Alabama school: Bo Jackson, Auburn Vincent Edward “Bo” Jackson of Bessemer is widely considered one of the greatest athletes of all time. At Auburn, he won the 1985 Heisman Trophy, annually awarded to the best collegiate football player in the country. His popularity in his home state continues, helped in part by his Bo Bikes Bama cycling ride, which he created to support victims of the 2011 tornado outbreak. (Jackson also won in our 2017 contest for “best football player to play in Alabama.”) Learn more at bojacksonenterprises.com The Tanger Outlet Mall for the GCCVB. Courtland W. Richards – Photographer. Daphne, AL 36526, 251-379-8935 Best shopping attraction: Tanger Outlets, Foley For many families, a visit to the Alabama beaches isn’t complete without a stop at the Tanger Outlets in Foley. These stores are owned and operated by brand-name manufacturers; the idea is that because you’re buying directly from the manufacturer, you’ll get big savings. The stores feature fashions and accessories for the whole family, jewelry, housewares, home décor, luggage, toys, food specialties and more. Learn more at tangeroutlet.com Best hometown restaurant or diner: The Bullpen, formerly Kilpatrick Family Restaurant This family-owned restaurant, located in the rural Kilpatrick community in DeKalb County, changed in both ownership and name just in the last several months. But one thing hasn’t changed: The community’s support. “I’m just amazed how people have taken to us, and wrapped their arms around us, and are so supportive of us,” says Lori Magoon, who bought the restaurant in 2018 with her husband, Jason. Both work there, as do several family members, including a teenage daughter. That support is no doubt why it won this category in the Best of Alabama poll. The restaurant, which is a member of Marshall-DeKalb Electric Cooperative, posted the ballot on its Facebook page and asked its customers to vote for it – and they did! The restaurant serves up three meals a day, six days a week, and Lori says they’re probably best known for the “Big Momma’s Cheeseburger,” a hefty 10-ounce burger that was a holdover from the previous owner. But the Bullpen has added homemade biscuits as well as ribeye steaks on Friday and Saturday nights; they also remodeled the interior, which Lori says made it feel more homey. The lunch service is mostly a meat-and-three selection, though customers can order off the menu. They do homemade desserts everyday and have added hand-dipped ice cream. The restaurant’s address is 18657 Highway 68, Crossville, AL 35962; find their page, “The Bullpen Restaurant,” on Facebook. The phone number is 256-561-2170. Best small college town: “The loveliest village on the Plains” is of course best known for its namesake university, which is central to its economy. But a low cost of living, low unemployment and a variety of cultural and culinary opportunities continue to fuel the growth of the Lee County city. It ranks No. 25 on Forbes magazine’s list of the Best Small Places for Business and Careers. Coming in a close second in this category was the city of Troy, home of the Trojans. The eagles have landed Majestic national birds are flourishing again in Alabama Courtesy of Alabama Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources When America adopted the bald eagle as its national symbol in 1782, the country may have had as many as 100,000 nesting eagles. Since that day, though, the American people haven’t always treated the national symbol with reverence. Many people considered eagles nothing more than scavengers or predators to be exterminated. They almost succeeded. By 1963, fewer than 500 nesting pairs remained in the lower 48 contiguous states, none in Alabama. “Historically, eagles were found everywhere in Alabama,” says Carrie Threadgill, the Nongame Wildlife Program coordinator for the Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. “With the rise in some pesticide usage and other threats, the eagle population declined drastically in the early 20th century.” Beginning with the Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1940, followed by an amendment including golden eagles in 1962, a series of laws began to protect eagles and other raptors. Finally, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act of 1973, putting eagles on the Endangered Species List. A year earlier, the nation banned DDT. The powerful agricultural pesticide washed into rivers and lakes where fish-eating birds like eagles and pelicans ingested it. The poison weakened eggshells so feathered parents could not incubate their eggs without crushing them. With federal protection and the DDT ban, eagle populations began to soar. To hasten this rebound, Alabama and other states began reintroduction programs. “After the Nongame Wildlife Program was created in 1984, one of the first projects we did was the bald eagle reintroduction program,” Threadgill says. “In 1985, an eagle might occasionally migrate through the state, but there were no breeding pairs in Alabama at the time.” Photo by John Felsher Bringing eagles back In what is called a “hacking” program, Alabama biologists took young bald eagles from Florida and put them in “hacking towers,” or large enclosed artificial eagle nests. The state built six towers along major river systems in Alabama. Once old enough to fend for themselves, the birds were released into the wild. “At that time, bald eagles were doing fairly well in Florida,” Threadgill recalls. “The goal was to raise the babies without human interaction. Once we released them, we hoped they would become imprinted to that area, stay and breed. The first confirmed successful eagle nesting since 1962 occurred in 1991.” From 1985 to 1991, the state released 91 eagles. By 1992, the U.S. bald eagle population grew to more than 100,000 with about half of them in Alaska. In 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reclassified bald eagles from “endangered” to “threatened” and removed the birds from the Endangered Species List entirely on June 28, 2007, but eagles remain protected. “Eagles are doing great in Alabama now,” Threadgill says. “We get eagle sightings in every county throughout the year. We have confirmed records of eagles breeding in 49 counties, but we are fairly certain that they are nesting in every county in Alabama. We have more than 200 resident nesting pairs in the state, but during the winter, many more birds migrate down from other states.” The highest bald eagle concentrations in Alabama occur along the Tennessee River and associated lakes like Pickwick, Wheeler and Guntersville in the northern part of the state. But you may see eagles on other lakes or rivers across Alabama. Several nesting pairs live in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta near Mobile. Golden eagles in Alabama Bird watchers might also see golden eagles in Alabama. Golden eagles traditionally live in the canyons and mountains of western states and Canada, but some winter in the Southeast, including Alabama. Slightly larger than bald eagles, golden eagles sport a light golden “cape” on their heads and upper backs rather than the distinctive white top of their cousins. Many people mistake goldens for immature bald eagles that haven’t developed their iconic white headgear. “We have a wintering population of golden eagles, but not a breeding population,” Threadgill says. “Over the past 100 years or so, we’ve had a handful of records of goldens visiting the state, but we are seeing more of them now. Goldens actually have two populations in North America, an eastern and a western population. The eastern population is more migratory. They breed in Canada and winter in the South. Some may even winter farther south than Alabama.” Since 2012, Alabama has joined 15 other eastern states in projects to monitor golden eagle movements. Researchers put up game cameras in several locations to spot the eagles and trapped 12 of them in Alabama. The researchers fitted the eagles with radio-tracking devices and released them. “The golden eagle population in Alabama is a lot higher than we first expected,” Threadgill says. “With the transmitters, we’ve tracked golden eagles to the northern provinces of Canada around Hudson Bay.” Money for eagle research and other projects conducted by the Alabama Nongame Wildlife Program comes primarily from the sale of hunting licenses and excise taxes on guns and ammunition purchased by sportsmen. The federal government reimburses states a portion of those excise taxes collected based upon the number of licenses sold. Want to see eagles in the wild or up close? Eagle Awareness Weekends at Lake Guntersville State Park (alapark.com/lake-guntersville-state-park) offer people outstanding opportunities to spot raptors and other birds. The event runs over four straight weekends from Jan. 25 through Feb. 17. People may participate in many different activities and presentations or explore on their own. “Winter is the prime time to see eagles in Alabama,” says Michael Ezell, the park naturalist. “We host some guided field trips. We also bring in experts to present programs on birds of prey, birds in general and other topics like reptiles and plants. Some experts bring in birds that have been injured and rehabilitated, but cannot be released into the wild so people can see them up close.” All Eagle Awareness Weekends events are free and open to the public. The park offers a variety of lodging options from hotel-style rooms in the resort to camping. “I can almost guarantee that people will see an eagle around Lake Guntersville at this time,” Ezell says. “We have two active nests in the park. During the 2018 Eagle Awareness Weekends, we had 66 eagle sightings in two days.” For more on Eagle Awareness Weekends and a complete schedule, see alapark.com/Lake-Guntersville-State-Park-Eagle-Awareness-Weekends-2019 or call Ezell at 256-762-3417. Alabama People: Jay Lamar Directing Alabama’s Bicentennial Jay Lamar is the executive director of the Alabama Bicentennial Commission, which was set up in 2013 to plan and coordinate events and activities celebrating the 200th anniversary of Alabama’s statehood. Appointed in early 2014, she previously worked at Auburn University in a variety of capacities. A native of Alabama, Lamar is also co-editor (with Jeanie Thompson) of The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers. Of special interest to our readers is that Jay is the sister of Katie Lamar Jackson, our garden columnist. She is a very busy lady, but she managed to take some time to answer a few questions about this three-year long celebration of our state. — Lenore Vickrey How did you get involved with the Alabama 200 project? By sheer luck and good fortune! Why is Alabama’s bicentennial spread over three years? The Alabama Bicentennial Commission leadership took its cue from Dr. Ed Bridges, director emeritus of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. He pointed out that the state’s territorial period was relatively brief, beginning in 1817 and concluding with statehood in 1819. A three-year window for creating and making significant projects happen was just irresistible. One example of why this was a genius idea: Almost a thousand teachers and administrators in Alabama’s public, private, and home schools have been able to benefit from new curriculum, primary source materials, and high-level professional development to prepare them for making the most of a once-in-a-lifetime “teaching moment.” It must take a lot of people to pull off a three-year celebration. How many folks are involved and how did it all come together? The sheer number of agencies and organizations involved is astounding! The Alabama Department of Archives & History, the Alabama Tourism Department, Alabama Historical Commission, Alabama Public Television, Alabama Humanities Foundation…these are agencies that are deeply involved and have been from the beginning. The bicentennial really happens because of the staff and resources committed from them and other partners. Why is celebrating the state’s bicentennial important to the average Alabamian? Celebrating this anniversary is important for our state because it is a chance to learn about our history and the places and people and events that shaped it. We have so much to be proud of and so much to build on and I believe that at the end of the day the bicentennial is really about our future. The bicentennial will be enriching and inspiring—and FUN! What are some of the big events planned for 2019? All of our events are on our website at alabama200.org. They include events all over the state, from the State Camellia Show in Mobile Feb. 15-19, to the opening of the restored Alabama Constitution Village in Huntsville March 2, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing July 15-20 in Huntsville, and the Poarch Creek Annual Thanksgiving Pow Wow Nov. 28-Dec. 1. There are events literally every week of this year! WTD: Main Street Cafe Main Street Cafe offers a glimpse into Madison’s past Main Street Café is known for its homemade desserts including peanut butter pie, lemon icebox pie and strawberry pretzel salad. Story and photos by Aaron Tanner It’s not every day you get to dine inside a jail cell. Main Street Café is a favorite gathering place for lunch on Main Street in historic downtown Madison But that’s exactly what you can do at the Main Street Café, which occupies the space that once housed the town’s city hall and jail in historic downtown Madison. First-time visitors are often surprised about the opportunity to have a meal inside a jail cell that is now a private dining room. “They walk in and say ‘we hear you have jail cells; can we see them?’” says Cindy Sensenberger, who co-owns the restaurant with her husband, Tony. On the flip side, Sensenberger has had customers tell them about spending time in the same jail cells that are now the café’s centerpiece. “I’ve had some come in and say they have been in the jail before, and after hearing they were coming I decided to paint over their initials,” Sensenberger says. Although Madison’s population has grown significantly over the past few decades, Main Street Cafe retains its small-town atmosphere where customers dine on Southern comfort food in a more relaxed atmosphere. “It’s not stuffy,” Sensenberger says. “It’s like your neighborhood restaurant.” Main Street Café co-owner Cindy Sensenberger. Many of the entrees are from old recipes, including Poulet de Normandie (chicken and dressing topped with melted cheese and mushroom sauce); Cheesy Meatloaf with Marinara Sauce; and a chicken salad plate complemented by an English pea salad and a slice of pumpkin bread. There are also daily specials that change based on the seasonal recipes hand-selected by the chef. Even though Sensenberger’s goal is to rotate the specials, she loves her customers enough to make exceptions. If a prior special is not on the menu, the restaurant will personally make the special order. “Sometimes we have to have the same special for the whole week because someone will not be able to come the day we make it,” Sensenberger says with a smile. Desserts are another staple of Main Street Cafe. Although the delights include Peanut Butter Pie, Coca-Cola Cake and Hummingbird Cake (spice cake mixed with bananas, pecans, and pineapple with a pecan and cream cheese frosting), it is their Strawberry Pretzel Salad made with a pretzel base and topped with cream cheese, Cool Whip and strawberry gelatin that customers often choose for their after-dinner course. “It is the most popular dessert we have,” Sensenberger says. “It has a sweet and salty taste.” Preserving a piece of Madison history Sensenberger was born and raised in nearby Huntsville. In 1981, she was vacationing in Canada where she met her husband. After a long-distance relationship that lasted a year and a half, the two got married and she moved to Canada and opened her first restaurant. When her mother fell ill in 1991, the couple moved back to Alabama, and Sensenberger opened her second restaurant in an old renovated Victorian home in Decatur. After her mother died, she decided to move closer to Huntsville. The couple landed in Madison, which was experiencing tremendous growth during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The old jail cells inside Main Street Café now function as decorated private dining rooms. While she and her husband were renovating several old homes and buildings in downtown Madison, Sensenberger heard that the old city hall and jail were to be torn down. “(The building) was an eyesore for the city,” Sensenberger says. She was eager to open another restaurant, and a contractor suggested using the old building as a cafe. “I had a gentleman come in and do a layout for me and said it would be perfect for a small, homestyle restaurant,” she says. The chicken salad plate is one of the many favorite entrees on the menu The Sensenbergers leased the property from the city of Madison and went to work to give the facility a second life. Extensive renovations were done on the inside of the building, including adding a walk-in cooler and freezer, kitchen, dining space and a bar while keeping the layout simple and convenient for future customers and staff. “There is not a lot of wasted space,” Sensenberger says. After a year of renovations, Main Street Cafe opened to the public in December 2000. Since opening, the community’s support for Main Street Cafe has grown, thanks to the revitalization of downtown Madison. During the Madison Street Festival, held the first Saturday in October, the restaurant serves as many as 400 to 500 customers. People can also rent out the entire building for private parties while the adjacent patio is perfect for watching trains pass behind the cafe. Sensenberger enjoys talking with her customers, and those who visit for the first time eventually become regular patrons. Her goal is for those who walk into the door of her restaurant to feel at home no matter their status in life. “I treat everyone like one big happy family,” Sensenberger says. Main Street Café Hours: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Saturday mainstreetcafemadison.com Growing history: Celebrating 200-plus years of gardening This photo, circa 1900-1909 and used with permission from the Alabama Department of Archives and History, shows students working in the garden behind the Fifth District Agricultural School in Wetumpka, which later became Wetumpka High School. For thousands of years, gardens have been essential parts of our state’s life and culture. As Alabama commemorates its 200th anniversary of statehood this year, here’s a quick snapshot of our gardening history and the plants that have become part of our landscapes and lives through the centuries. According to the Encyclopedia of Alabama, southeastern Native Americans — Alabama’s first gardeners — began growing crops of local plants (lambsquarters, sunflowers, other seedbearing plants and possibly squash) some 3,500 or more years ago to supplement their wild food sources. During the Mississippian Era (1000 to 1500 AD), indigenous Alabama tribes started gardening and farming in earnest, a practice that may well explain our state’s name. Though historians debate the exact origin of the name “Alabama,” many credit it to the Choctaw words alba amo, which translate into “those who clear the land.” Clear the land these early Alabamians did, replacing forests with fields where they grew a variety of crops including monocultures and companion plantings of the “Three Sisters” — beans, squash and corn. When the first European settlers arrived in Alabama in the 1500 and 1600s, they seized Native American cropland, and seized upon their cropping practices and plants. But they also brought with them an array of plants from the Old World. According to the late Montgomery County Cooperative Extension agent and Alabama garden historian George R. Stritikus, those introduced plants included oranges, oleanders, figs, peaches and possibly wisteria and canna lilies. During the early 1700s, gardens became status symbols of wealthy Alabama plantation owners and businessmen who created the state’s first “fine” or “pleasure” gardens. These plantings typically contained both food and ornamental plants, many of which mirrored those of their homelands. By the early 1800s — one of our state’s most tragic historical eras — the importation of slaves from Africa was under way. Along with the slaves came plants of their homelands including okra, kidney and lima beans, black-eyed peas, yams and watermelon. About this time, those affluent landowners were also importing huge numbers of ornamental plants primarily from France and England, but they soon realized that many of these plants could not survive in the South’s climate. According to Stritikus, the need for new varieties suited for southeastern growing conditions kick-started Alabama’s still-thriving nursery industry. The science of gardening and farming took a leap forward in the mid 1800s as Alabama developed its land-grant education and research system (Cooperative Extension and Agricultural Experiment Station systems), which helped identify the best plants and planting practices for home gardeners and horticultural professionals alike. During this era, horticultural and garden societies were also forming. Among the first of these in the South and in the nation was the Chunnenuggee Ridge Horticultural Society, founded in 1847 near Union Springs in Bullock County. By the early 1930s, the Federated Garden Clubs of Alabama was also organized to conserve and expand the state’s woodland environment and increase awareness of landscape beauty. Through history, our gardening practices and trends have changed — and continue to change — with each new generation of gardeners. As we begin our third century as a state, consider recording your own gardening history with a journal to chronicle your gardening successes and failures, and perhaps someday help add your own story to Alabama’s gardening history. Garden history resources: To learn more about the history of gardening, spend some time researching it on your own, or look to the list provided below. The Southern Garden History Society (http://southerngardenhistory.org) is an exceptional resource for information on historic gardens, cultural landscapes and horticultural history. The Alabama Department of Archives and History (www.archives.state.al.us) and other state archival resources offer gardening history records and also educational programs and exhibits on gardening history. Many public gardens (a list can be found at https://alabama.travel/garden-trail) offer educational programs and resources on gardening history and practices. A number of historical societies offer gardening histories and also tend historic gardens that are open to the public. Check with your local historical society to find out what’s available in your area. Katie Jackson is a freelance writer and editor based in Opelika, Alabama. 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__label__wiki	0.659039	0.659039	NAS Alameda Units Home » History » NAS Alameda Units We are continully working to preserve the history of NAS Alameda and her aviation predecessors at Alameda Point, and you can help by sharing information about the units, squadrons and ships stationed at NAS Alameda during your time of service. Any old photos, news clippings, or documentation related to NAS Alameda is vital to our mission. We can digitally scan these items and return to you if necessary. Many former base personnel have spent time jotting down their recollections and forwarding in an e-mail. We’re not looking for award winning essays from polished authors. Just the things you remember from your days stationed at Alameda. Even a few paragraphs are valuable to us. Others, who have the capability to scan their photos, send us the digital images of themselves or the base during that same period. Please contact us at tellus_anam@aol.com if you are able to provide original photographs, images or artifacts. CVWR-30 Carrier Air Wing Reserve Carrier Air Wing Reserve THIRTY was established on 1 April 1970 at Naval Air Station Alameda, and was composed of an Air Wing Staff, two Fighter Squadrons, three Attack Squadrons, one Light Reconnaissance Squadron, one Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron, one Early Warning Squadron and one Aerial Refueling Squadron. They were: VA-303 “Golden Hawks” at […] FIRSTPAC-1187 Fleet Intelligence Rapid Support Team Pacific — provided by Mr. Robert M. Cieri HM-15 “Blackhawks” Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron FIFTEEN (HM-15) “Blackhawks” was established on 2 January 1987 at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. The first of two deployable, Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) squadrons to receive the Sikorsky MH-53E “Sea Dragon” helicopter. On 21 April 1987, HM-15 was ordered by the CNO to change duty stations to Naval Air Station […] HM-19 “Golden Bears” Helicopter Mine Countermeasures HM-19 was established at Naval Air Station Alameda, California on 9 January 1989 as the Naval Reserve’s second Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) squadron, flying the RH-53D Sea Stallion Helicopter operating under the control of Commander, Helicopter Wing Reserve. In January 1993, the Golden Bears began transitioning to the MH-53E Sea Dragon Helicopter. A transition to […] HS-85 “Golden Gater’s” Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron HS-85 was established as Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Eight Five on 1 July 1970 at Naval Air Station (NAS) Alameda, CA. In 1993, HS-85 moved from NAS Alameda to NAS North Island to assume the Target Launch and Target/Torpedo Recovery mission at Naval Auxiliary Landing Field (NALF) San Clemente Island, CA upon the decommissioning of Helicopter […] PATSU-8 Patrol Service Aircraft Unit Supported various patrol squadrons of PBMs, PVs, and PB4Ys that passed through NAS Alameda during the Pacific war. SOSU-3 Scout and Observation Unit Stationed at NAS Alameda: 1942 to 19?? — SOSU-3 supported the various aircraft assigned to the battleships and cruisers in San Francisco Bay. The unit functioned similar to a Carrier Service Unit (CASU), but serviced and trained personnel in the operation of catapult and scouting aircraft. VA-303 “Golden Hawks” Attack Squadron Attack Squadron (VA-303) was established at Naval Air Station Alameda on 1 July 1970. Disestablished on 31 December 1994. The first squadron to be assigned the VA-303 and VFA-303 designation. Chronology of Significant Events 1 July 1970: VA-303, a reserve squadron, established as part of a reorganization of the reserves intended to increase the combat […] VA-304 “Firebirds” Attack Squadron Attack Squadron (VA-304) was established at Naval Air Station Alameda on 1 July 1970. The squadron consists of twelve Ling-Temco-Vought A-7B Corsair II’s. VA-304 is a squadron of Reserve Carrier Air Wing Thirty (CVWR-30), also headquartered at NAS Alameda. Since its inception, the squadron has built a reputation as the performance leader in the Naval […] VAQ-130 “Zappers” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron Dating from the Eisenhower administration, the Zappers of VAQ-130 have led the way in Navy electronic warfare for more than 40 years. Originally designated VAW-13, the unit is the longest serving carrier based electronic warfare squadron in Navy history, and has flown the Navy’s three primary tactical jamming aircraft into the heaviest, most threatening electronic environments ever […] VAQ-131 “Hollygreens” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron VAQ-131 came into existence on 1 November 1968 when VAH-4 was re-designated. Homeport for the new TACELRON was NAS Alameda, California. The mission of VAQ-131 was to conduct electronic warfare and to provide air-to-air refueling in support of Attack Carrier Task Force operations. In conducting this mission, VAQ-131 utilized KA / EKA-3B models of the Douglas A-3 […] VAQ-132 “Scorpions” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron Stationed at NAS Alameda: 1968-1971 — Formed 1 November 1968 when VAH-2 was redesignated. Detachments to USS Constellation (CVA-64). Combat cruises on USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) and USS America (CVA-66). Moved to NAS Whidbey Island, Washington 15 January 1971 and transitioned to EA-6B. Links http://www.vaq132.navy.mil/ VAQ-132 Unit Page (Military.com) — provided by Mr. Robert M. Cieri VAQ-133 “Wizards” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron Established Mar 4, 1969. Deployments to Gulf of Tonkin on USS Constellation (CVA-64) and USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63). Stood down August 1971. Reactivated August 4, 1972 at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington with EA-6B. Links http://vaq133.ahf.nmci.navy.mil/ VAQ-133 Unit Page (Military.com) — provided by Mr. Robert M. Cieri VAQ-134 “Garudas” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron VAQ-134 was originally commissioned on 7 June 1969 at NAS Alameda, California as the GARUDAS. Based on an old Hindu myth, the Garuda is the bird that took Wisnu, the God of War, wherever necessary in his quest to protect God’s creation from those evil forces that sought to upset and destroy it. The Garudas, flying the […] VAQ-135 “Black Ravens” Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron Activated May 15, 1969. Deployments and detachments to Southeast Asia on USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), USS Hancock (CVA-19), USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63), and to Mediterranean on USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-43), USS Forrestal (CVA-59). Transition to EA-6B July 1974. Links VAQ-135 Unit Page (Military.com) — provided by Mr. Robert M. Cieri VAQ/VAK-208 “Jockeys” Tactical Aerial Refueling Squadron When the Naval Air Reserve was reorganized in 1970 Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 208 was established on July 31 at NAS Alameda, California, as part of Carrier Air Wing Twenty. Equipped with KA-3Bs to support CVWR-20 operations, VAQ-208 also began providing air refueling and pathfinding for Navy and Marine tactical aircraft being ferried to Southeast […] VAQ/VAK-308 “Griffins” Tactical Aerial Refueling Squadron As a result of the overhaul of the Naval Air Reserve, at NAS Alameda, California on May 2, 1970, VAQ-308, under the command of CDR Gregory Bambo Jr., was the first squadron of the first reserve Carrier Air Group to be commissioned. Comprised of a unique complement of civilian reservists and active duty personnel, VAQ-308 […] VAW-13 “Zappers” Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron VAW-13 was born on Agana, Guam September 1, 1959. The planes assigned to the squadron were AD-5Q and AD-5W Sky Raiders, referred to by squadron personnel as “Queens”. The designation was changed several years later to EA-1F. The Tail Code was V R “Victor Romeo” and the call sign on the UHF Radio was “Robinson”. The Squadron […] VMA-133 “Dragons” Marine Attack Squadron VMA-133 was a U.S. Marine Corps reserve fighter squadron. Known as the “Dragons”, the squadron was part of Marine Aircraft Group 42 of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing. The Dragons flew the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. VMA-133 was deactivated in 1992. History: During WWII the squadron was known as Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 133 (VMTB-133) and originated […] VR-55 Fleet Logistics Support Squadron Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 55 was established in April 1976 at NAS Alameda. Calif., and was the first Naval Reserve unit to fly the C-9B Skytrain II. In 1993, the Minutemen transitioned to the C-130T Hercules, left, and today the squadron comprises approximately 275 personnel, including 35 pilots. The Minutemen provide global logistics support for U.S. […] VSF-1 “Warhawks” Anti-Submarine Fighter Squadron Stationed at NAS Alameda: 1965 to 19?? — VSF-1 was established on 1 July 1965. On 1 July 1966 VSF-1 was split in half — One half remained as VSF-1 and deployed on the USS Shangri-La CVS-38 to the Mediterranean and the other half was called VSF-1 Det Alameda which was later renamed VSF-3 Chessmen. […] 47 thoughts on “VSF-1 “Warhawks” Anti-Submarine Fighter Squadron” Larry Hughes says: I served with VP-19 (Patrol Squadron) from 1958 thru 1962 at NAS Alameda. We flew Lockheed P2V-7 aircraft. ersel rust says: larry.. i was transfered back to shore duty in feb 1963 to beeville texas while i was in vp19 i was a check crew chief and also flew with crew 10 in PE10 do you remember kenny stump? he passed a couple of years ago had retired from maint at the pentagon his wife stills lives in that area.i visited her a couple of yrars ago..when i left vp19 i was an ADJ2…ersel rust Gilbert Morales says: I served Marine Barracks NAS Alameda 1983-85 and did not find this Marine detachment as one of the units represented as one of the units on this base. Dan Altmaier says: Yes indeed! NAS Alameda was my first duty station in 1992. That was also the same year the MCSFco unit decommissioned as well (November or December 1992); then we had our choice of serving the rest of our Barracks duty commitment at either Bangor WA or Concord CA (I went to Bangor). Although the MCSFco unit was a small one at NAS Alameda, I also think it’s important to record our history, and not have it disappear in time. Robert L Shaffer LCpl says: I also served at the US Marine Barracks Alameda from 1985- 1986 and would like to connect with other Marines. Bill Gray says: I also served at Alameda 1963/64 why isn’t Marine Corps mentioned? Floyd Angus says: I notice the abscense of the c118 and vr 21 fleet tactical support and reconasse squadrenwe were home based in barbets polnt hawaii and hsd a detachment at alameda. Dan Carr says: Do you have any data on VR-2 circa 1948-1952 ? Roberta Dileo says: While we do have an archive, the info is not cataloged, much less digitized for access. Our museum is more about showing what happened at the base and it’s relationship to the City of Alameda, through artifacts and displays. Good luck finding info. Robbie Dileo, Secretary Eugene Lombardi says: There was also VMA-141 and a MAG plus a H&MS squadron assigned there. I can not remember what MAG was there. Von Daniel says: It was MAG-42, which consisted of VMA-133 and HMH-769. I served there at the the squadron level and also at the Paraloft from 1988-1992. Jack E. Joynson Jr says: Request assistance in obtaining a copy of COMFAIRALAMEDA Instruction 3310.5 (late 1950’s) containing “Sandblower” mission routes/checkpoints. I am researching my fathers aviation career and I am specifically looking for information on the “Sandblower #12” mission route. Sandblower routes are identified in this instruction. Ross Bogert says: Why no VR-30 listed? The first squadron to receive the Navy’s first jet transport in April 1973, the C9B. They also deployed on the USS Hornet for Carrier on Board Delivery for the astronauts returning from space. VR 55 received the C130 in 1994 not 1993 and were at Moffett at that time. Thanks for the all the work with the museum, I need to stop by and check it out, Thanks, Ross Bogert, VR-30 and VR55. 20 years Hanger 40 Thanks for the info. Will look into updating the website. I am new to doing changes and approving comments. Thomas Morey says: I see from looking at your site that you that you don’t have Commander Fleet Air Alameda (COMFAIRALAMEDA) listed. I served on Staff there from 4/67 to 5/69. COMFAIRALAMEDA located on the second floor of the Headquarters Building was the Senior Command over Naval Air Station (NAS) Alameda, CA; NAS Lemoore, CA; NAS Moffett Field, CA; NAS Fallon, NV and Aircraft Carriers: USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS Ranger (CV-61), USS Coral Sea (CV-43), USS Oriskany (CV-34), USS Hancock (CVA-19) and others that were home ported in Alameda, CA. In 1967 or 1968 President Ronald Reagan then Governor Reagan visited COMFAIRALAMEDA Rear Admiral Frederick E. Bakutis. Thanks for commenting. I am new to website replies and updating of information. Will look into including info. I’m not sure were this information would be listed but I forgot to mention that the movie “Yours mine and ours” with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball was filmed at NAS Alameda and on the USS Enterprise. A couple of COMFAIRALAMEDA’s officers, their children and myself were in the move filmed in 1967 and released April 24, 1968. Allen Fintzel says: Worked as bag boy/carry out (for extra pocket money on my days off) at the commissary when the movie commissary scene was shot. All of the bag boys were hustled out of the way so that movie extras could fill in! Stationed at the Fleet Weather center. Nick Quattrociocche says: I have the 1940 – 1980 NARF Alameda yearbook digitized on “Photobucket”. You may have access to it for photos etc. and photos for those now in the “Memorial” section of your website. Go to http://www.photobucket, login = paisan2u1 and password = hotdog4u. In the entire book, there is no identification of who produced, published or printed it, nor any copyright claims or statements, as the entire book and all pages are shown. I hope this may contribute to your site. Feel free to copy any/all. (Please do not make any additions, deletions or changes to the contents in my page) Nick Quattrociocche NAS Alameda, USN 1972-1976 NARF Alameda, 1977-1986 I guess you totally forgot 1955 thru 1957 Of ATG1 air group and the squadrons, . Especially VF111 the SUNDOWNERS. i was stationed there in 1960.61 62 63 in vp 19 i was a check crew chief and flight crew plane captain flying #pe10 a p2v7 neptune transfered out when they went to the p3v orion and moved the squadron to moffit field … Roy Copeland says: I’m trying to contact someone at the Museum to discuss the Seaplane Ramp conditions and hanger facilities for the Martin Mars. We have the 2 Mars here and are looking to store the Philippine Mars until it can be flown to NAS Pensacola. My contact number is 1-250-724-0584. Daniel Campbell says: Hi, I was stationed there from Dec. 68 to Sept. 70 to COMFAIRALAMEDS “DET A”. Does anybody have any information on this detachment and who was stationed with them. I’m trying to find my history with this Unit. Mike Van Hollebeke says: I was a nineteen year old airman in 1969. Was sent with my squadron VSF1 based in Alameda to Norfolk Virginia to the USS Independence.Went on a NATO cruise mostly in the north Atlantic,dropped the hook off Portsmouth England and during that time had the time of my life.Had my boot camp buddies there alsoRay, Don, and Roger.Worked on the flight deck as plane captain. Lots of hrs.What a great time! charles h holder says: I did not see the Naval Weather Service Facility listed as a NAS Alameda unit. I was an AK1 attached form February 1974 to August 1976. I believe they moved to Norfolk Va. Sandra Cronin says: Just curious if you knew my dad, Francis Cronin? He retired in 1978. Walter L Martin Jr says: I was assigned to VSF-1 “Warhawks” in 1967 after plain captain training, we were attached to the USS Independence CVA62 out of Norfolk, VA and deployed to the Mediterranean Six Fleet. After the cruise which included three aircraft carriers (service to the fleet) in the Mediterranean I was stationed in Norfolk, VA with the Joint Chiefs of Staff ” (CINCLANTFLEET) . I was releaved from active duty after 52 months in March 1971 as Yeoman Second Class with an honorable discharge in 1972. I enjoyed my enlistment and if I could do it over I would be proud to. I worked on the flight deck before I transferred to squadron office as yeoman. Great time proud to be a veteran of the United States Navy. Walter Martin says: I have some pictures and etc. for the time I was attached to VSF-1. Any information on VR-21 Det 1964-1966 Richard Enriquez says: I served with VP-9 1962-1963 P2V-7 , I also served in the following reserve units VR-874 C-54s, VR-51 C118s and VR-55 DC-9. All where based at NAS Alameda, Retired from VR-55 1990, 30 years service 1960-1990 Terry E. Lee says: I reported aboard as a 3rd class Electronics Tech, fresh out of “A” School in Millington, TN Dec 31, 1956 assigned to VP-19. While stationed there the squadron made 2 deployments Kodiak, AK in May 1957 and the second to Iwakuni, Japan. I was released from Active Duty Sep 1959. I was hired as Electronic Installer in Oct 1961 at NAS Alameda’s O & R assigned to Flight Test. I worked in the Production Control, Material Planning Br, Workload Planning Br. before retiring in 1988 as GS-12 Material Planning branch head. Boerries Burkhardt says: I miss the VR-30 at NAS Alameda. They were the first in 1966 who got the Grumman C-2A Greyhound. More at my C-2A page at http://www.c2greyhound.com Commander Robert E. Hunter Jr. of the VR-30 supported with his squadron also the VRC-50 Foo Dogs at NAS Cubi Point, Subic Bay, Philippines. USMC not mentioned John Harman says: I was a Seabee assigned to the Transportation Dept and later to the Riggers Loft. There were a number of us there , though we did not comprise a “unit” as such. You might wish to include the Seabee logo as a part of the Alameda team even though we were not a separate recognized unit serving there. Mel “Andy” Anderson says: Served at the NAS Alameda Photo Lab 1968-69. Anyone else out there work in the photo lab? Tom Anderson says: Does anyone have any info on Fleet Tactical Support Squadron VR 871, we had the old C 118’s in the mid 60’s to early 70’s. I left in Feb. 72 Daisy Rotten says: Hi, so, this is going to come off fairly strange but I’ll begin. My husband and I recently found out that his birth father is not who we believed him to be. Apparently his mom had a fling with someone who was stationed at Alameda in 1990 and 1991. His parents have passed on but he grew up with his grandparents. He was 21 at the time and his mom was 18. She says he worked on a ship that looked like an upside down cockroach. The only names she could provide were “Jody Ogden” so please, if you are or know of this person, contact me. Fantasys says: Successful anti-submarine warfare depends on a mix of sensor and weapon technology, training, and experience. Sophisticated sonar equipment for first detecting, then classifying, locating, and tracking the target submarine is a key element of ASW. To destroy submarines, both torpedos and naval mines are used, launched from air, surface, and underwater platforms. ASW also involves protecting friendly ships. I was there Jan. 69 to Sept.70 I was a aircraft escort in a unit called Comfaiealameda Det A Does anybody remember this unit? I need to find out stuff on this to help me out with a health claim. twodogs110349@yahoo.com Thanks Mike Petersmarck says: Sept. 1968 I came out of Aviation Support Equipment School at NATTC Jacksonville and sent to NAS Alameda as my first duty Station. I was assigned to AIMD servicing Yellow Gear for the squadrons. Arrived an E3 and left an E5 in late 1970. (new rate, fast advancement) Went to USS Independence that was on a Med cruise. Joined the ship in Athens Lt. John Underwood says: Stationed at NAS Alameda 1963-1966 VR-21. Flew the C-1A and C-131’s. Robert Schupp says: Lt. Underwood; I reported to DVR 21 Hanger 40, NAS Alameda April of 65…I Believe you were Ltjg at the time and the Line Division Officer…I became Flight Crew PC and flew on C1A 031 with you…Cmd. Crawford was our CO at that time…. Bob Schupp AMS3 Leon Farster says: Did you happen to serve with a flying chief Louie Szabo ADRC/AP Does anyone answer or comment on any of the above request? Seems as though death ears prevails here. I haven’t heard any comments one way or the other. Is this time waisted? Thanks and with regards. I remember few in my squadron VSF-1. However the ones I do remember were decent men LTJG Gerry Evens, LT Howie Fowler, LT A Lee Woodham, LTJG Steven Batory, YN2 Kenneth Strieble, PN3 ? Keith Callahan, Mike Medina, Mark Messinger and many more. I would like to exchange some thoughts and moments. I’m 73 years old now with only 40% of my hearing. John Dubis says: I was assigned to VSF-1 in September 1965 as a yeoman trainee. I remember Yeoman Chief Robert Baumer. Robert Waring was the commanding officer. In 1966 the squadron split and I was part of VSF-1 Det Alameda, then the name was changed to VSF-3. Served in Vietnam on the USS Intrepid CVS-11 in 1967. I am also 73 years old. Leon Farster ADJ-3 says: I transferred from VA_22 to VA113 det Q . Made a westpac on the USS Bennington . A great det with good shipmates.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line29
__label__wiki	0.591195	0.591195	Around Town: Exhibit and Opening Reception: SYNERGY by Serge Hamad & Sepideh Vahidi Sat, July 11, 2015 6:00 pm at Cafe Nadery (View all around towns ») SYNERGY by Serge Hamad & Sepideh Vahidi Date: Saturday July 11th Location: Cafe Nadery, 16 W 8th Street, New York, NY 10011 Cafe Nadery is pleased to announce the opening of our July Exhibition, Synergey: An Elaborate Collaboration between Serge Hamad and Sepideh Vahidi Exhibit Ongoing from July 11th to July 31st 12pm to Midnight (Mondays-Fridays) 11am to Midnight (Saturdays and Sundays) About SYNERGY Serge Hamad, renowned French-Algerian visual artist and photographer, has taken visionary photos of his surroundings. Sepideh Vahidi, well-known Iranian singer and visual artist, has drawn scenes of her everyday life upon them. Through his camera lens and unique vision, Hamad found the precise scenes in which Vahidi’s drawings could live and absorb one in their spectacle. FOR MORE INFORMATION: negin@neginsharifzadeh.com Serge Hamad is a renowned French-Algerian visual artist and photographer based in New York. Hamad has created a diverse body of photographic and graphic art work exploring a range of subject matters, from Human Rights to figure studies, and his recent abstract photographs portraying distilled images of his surroundings. His documentary work has focused on poverty, war crimes, censorship, and discrimination. He has exhibited extensively in the USA and internationally as part of solo and group exhibitions. He is well recognized for his series, Take a Stand, a poignant series of portraits reflecting on Iranian prisoners, women’s issues, and LGBT rights. Check below for more on Serge Hamad: http://www.sergehamad.com/ Born in Tehran, Iran, Sepideh Vahidi studied Persian folklore and traditional Persian music under some of the finest masters of this art. Weaving the transparent layers of many emotions into a sound that could not be defined by the name of a land with borders became her tradition. However Sepideh’s vocals have deep roots in her Iranian identity, femininity, and very much influenced by Persian poetry. Living in America, Sepideh studied Fine Arts at the University of Michigan, once again using layers as her primary tool. Both in her vocals and her visual artworks, she folds and unfolds, twist and turns notes to express the happiness, pain, love, grief, hope, nostalgia, and memories that haunt her in life. Check below for more on Sepideh Vahidi: http://www.sepidehvahidi.com/ Negin Sharifzadeh is a curator, animator, and artist based in Brooklyn. She is currently the Visual Arts Curator at Cafe Nadery in New York, where she has already mounted 9 shows. Her past curatorial and exhibition projects include shows for Alwan for the Arts, South Asian Women Creative Collective, and independent pop-up galleries. Through her curatorial work, Negin creates spaces for dialog, conversation, and collaboration among artists from around the world. Her shows explore the intersection between personal artistic expression and collective social identities, offering audiences the opportunity to develop more nuanced understanding of diversity in culture and creation. She has built a particular focus on both bringing greater visibility to the work of women artists of color, and finding opportunities to make art more immediately accessible outside the bounds of formal gallery and museum settings. As an artist herself, Negin approaches the work of curation as another artistic discipline, using the tools of selection, composition, arrangement, and installation, to create unique and compelling experiences based on the theme and the details of the physical location. Check below for more on Negin Sharifzadeh: http://neginsharifzadeh.com/ SYNERGY, Exhibit by Serge Hamad & Sepideh Vahidi Cafe Nadery Classes are currently being scheduled. Please check back soon for updates. There are currently no upcoming events. 16 Beaver Street Alwan for the Arts is accessible to people with disabilities. Please call 646 732 3261 in advance, or, buzz at the door to arrange a ramp. © 2020 Alwan for the Arts Hosting donated by: Marefa.org, the Arabic Encyclopedia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line33
__label__cc	0.641855	0.358145	Library Talk: Michael Bird – The New Perspective on Paul Debate for the Local Church Dougald McLaurin, Michael Bird Michael Bird, a lecturer in Theology and Czar of Postgradistan at Ridley College in Melbourne, and Dougald McLaurin, Reference Coordinator of the Library at Southeastern, discuss the New Perspective on Paul Debate for the local church as part of the Library Talk. How do you prepare for ministry in ever-changing world? D. A. Carson, Keith Whitfield How should we prepare for ministry in an ever-changing culture, even post-Christian world? Dr. D.A. Carson and Dr. Keith Whitfield discuss this question in this edition of Exploring Hope. Anna Daub, Chuck Lawless, Joe McKeever, Nathaniel Williams, Scott Slayton, Tami Gomez At the Intersect Project, Nathaniel Williams shared about the beauty of a child’s enthusiasm for work. “Dad, when I grow up, I want to drive a trash truck.” My four-year-old told me this with a straight face. Upon further examination, I discovered that he didn’t want to drive just any trash truck. He wanted to drive a “flying purple trash truck.” I love that his career aspirations are so broad; he hasn’t yet fallen prey to the lie that white-collar vocations are somehow better than blue-collar. But I also love that he’s so genuinely excited about work. On some days, he dreams of driving this elusive flying purple trash truck. Other days, he wants to be a teacher, or a choir director or a farmer. Just yesterday, he had papers, toys and craft materials strewn about a table. When I asked him to clean it up, he told me matter-of-factly, “Dad, this is my desk. I have to work here. My boss won’t want me to clean this up!” There’s something beautiful about his childlike enthusiasm for work. To him, work is not an obligation. It’s not a chore. It’s not even about making money. To him, work is thrilling. The world is teeming with possibilities, and he can’t wait to get his hands on it. At the Center for Great Commission Studies, Anna Daub shared some advice about engaging singles during the holidays. When I was a child, my parents went to great lengths to ensure we had beautiful Christmas memories and fun family traditions. One tradition was that Christmas Eve was always an open invitation to people who had nowhere else to go. My mother would cook a Tex-Mex feast and invite the single professors from the university nearby, the elderly woman who lived alone, and the Muslim man who sold cell phones in the mall to join us. Most of the time, only one or two would come, but this tradition instilled in me a reminder to always look for those who had nowhere to go for the holidays. In a post at the Intersect Project, Tami Gomez warned Christians about being cultural copycats. “Engage the culture.” It’s what Christians are continually being told we need to do more. We need to look to our culture and use it creatively to reach our lost friends, family members and society at large. After all, if we can make music as catchy as what’s on the radio or movies as spectacular as Hollywood’s, then we will have won the culture wars; people will come for the party, but stay for the substance. At least that’s been the theory. Unfortunately, this has only lead to “Christian culture” being a stuffy, retooled version of styles that used to be trendy. Christians need to stop thinking in terms of engaging an already-existing culture and start thinking in terms of creating culture. In a post at his blog, Scott Slayton shared why we should live in the Psalms. In our distracted and fast-paced world, many Christians struggle to gain depth in our spiritual lives. If our devotions happen, they are usually hurried, so we don’t often make the unhurried time that we need to soak in God’s word and linger before God in prayer that we so desperately need. The result is that we often evidence a weak and shallow Christianity. We may be able to fake depth for a while, but eventually, the hard times come and expose us for who we really are. The Psalms provide a welcome antidote to our craving for shallowness. The Psalms, which seem so easy to understand on the surface, invite us to deep study and contemplation. They show the blessing of cultivating a deep and abiding trust in the Lord and beckon us to leave behind our life of distraction so we can know and love God more deeply. Here five reasons that our hurried and forgetful hearts need to live in the Psalms for a while. At the LifeWay Facts & Trends blog, Joe McKeever shared thirteen things a pastor should never say to a congregation. In addition to the obvious no-no’s, such as profanity, heresy, racism, sexism, and the like, no pastor should ever be heard to utter any of the following from the pulpit. At his personal blog, Chuck Lawless shared ten reflections of a formerly single pastor. For the first ten years of my pastoral ministry (ages 20-30), I was unmarried. The Lord had called me to preach when I was 13 years old, and the first church called me as pastor at age 20. Here are my reflections on those years as a single pastor.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line35
__label__cc	0.536749	0.463251	Breastfeeding is a public health issue… Says Prof. Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food By James Achanyi-Fontem, camlink99@gmail.com Olivier de Schutter, United Nation special Rapporteur for right to food an made recommendations to governments as to how to improve food security & promote the vital food at all levels, during the World Breastfeeding Conference in Delhi, India from the 6th – 9th December, 2012. Though not present in Delhi, he sent a message from New York and lauded the work of the International Baby Food Action Network Asia that was instrumental in organizing the event. He called on governments to copy the Vietnam good example, where on the 18th June 2012, the National Assembly approved the extension of paid maternity leave from 4 months to 6 months. On 24th June, it voted to ban the advertising of Breast Milk Substitutes for infants from 6 to 24 months, aligning the country more closely with the 1981 International Code on Breastmilk Substitutes on the marketing of breastmilk substitute and subsequent World Health Assembly resolutions. Prof. Olivier De Schutter added that, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months and continued breastfeeding until the second birthday of the child, is very important for governments to move beyond promotional campaigns and education. Promotional Campaigns and education are extremely important, that they are necessary and useful. Education about nutrition and the benefits of breastfeeding in schools should be supported, while the media should be sending the right messages to communities. He regretted that there is relatively a low number of countries that are serious about the enforcing the International Code on the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitute. In his words, the count made by World Health Organization in December 2011, shows that out of a total of 165 states 103 states had some regulatory measure in place, 37 States relied only on the voluntary commitments of the infant formula manufacturers and 25 States had taken no action. More worrying is the fact that out of the 103 States which adopted legislative instruments in order to implement the International Code on the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitute, only a bit less than 50% of the countries have provisions on enforcement and only 37 States has the World Health Organization considered serious enforcement of these provisions. With this, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food said, governments should ensure that the mothers are given the right message and that the efforts of government to promote breastfeeding are not nullified and made fruitless by the selling of infant formula by the manufacturers. The International Code of 1981 is absolutely vital but it is not enough and governments must also ensure that the employers facilitate breastfeeding, by having childcare facilities in the work place. Maternity leaves allow women not to have to choose between remaining in employment and providing adequate breastfeeding to the child, he emphasised. This should also be true for public work programmes because the important part of social protection measures is often forgotten in developing countries. Another phase for action for supporting breastfeeding is by strengthening women’s rights and women’s education. There was a very impressive study published in 2000 by Smith & Haddad showing that based on a cross country study, covering 25 years from 1970 to 1995 Smith & Haddad showed that 43% of the reduction of hunger in developing countries during those 25 years were attributable to improved women’s education. This is almost as much as the increase in food availability which stands at 26% and the improvements in health services at 19% together. Infact if we 12% of the improvements to the reduction of hunger and malnutrition during this period attributable to better life expectations for women, the conclusion is that 55% of the gains against hunger, malnutrition during this period were attributable to women’s education or a longer life expectancy for women. This leads us to recognize the importance of adequate care of the children during the first few years of life in order to have adequate nutritional and health outcomes. UNICEF in particular has proven and demonstrated that food intake alone would not ensure adequate health & nutritional outcomes if not combined with adequate care, if not combined with adequate access to water, sanitation services and health services, All these together ensures that young children develop well physically and mentally and that the mortality of the children under five is reduced. Better education for girls and women is absolutely vital to achieve this. Today, better education for women and girls means more economic opportunities and more chances of employment outside the household. The income effects are such that the child ultimately benefits & women that are more economically active and more economically independent can make better use of their time and make the right choices, for example, to visit health facilities and to have the child adequately taken care of. To promote breastfeeding better and more effectively, we must build on breastfeeding as a human right both for the women and for the infant. This imposes certain obligations on governments particularly to adapt the world of employment to the need to support breastfeeding and to seriously implement the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes In support of the UN vision, the President of India, His Excellency, Shri Pranah Mukherjee send a congratulatory message to the organizers of the World Breastfeeding Conference. Considering that New delhi was honoured as host, he extended wishes of success during the deliberations. Mrs. Sheila Dikshit, the Chirf Minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, on her part said, that the Global Breastfeeding Initiative for Child Survival, GBIGS, organizing the World Breastfeeding Conference, WBC, under the theme “Babies need mom-made, Not man-made” was very relevant, especially as over 1.000 delegates from all regions of the world were in Delhi to contribute and exchange their experiences. Chief Minister of Gujrat, Narendra Modi. On his part said, while India is fighting malnutrition, the age=old tradition of breastfeeding is a blessing in disguise. Breastfeeding the very natural source of nutrition for nw born provides anti-bodies which help to establish the baby’s immune system. It also provides digestive nutrients essential for healthy growth. Some 800 experts from 84 countries arrived India to support the initiative of the International Baby Food Action Network, IBFAN and the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, WABA. It was an opportunity to pledge support for every breastfeeding mother in the world. Minister Omar Abdullah, Minister of Jammu and Kashmir said, the nature of the theme is welcome and timely. He observed that the nature of the family is changing and the change is impacting the relationship between the mother and the child with breastfeeding as an important structural element. He aaded that feeding the baby through any other method different from the breast is artificial. Artificial feeding impacts on the baby negatively health-wise, physically and psychologically. Minister Oomen Chandy of Kerala, added his voice by saying that the dawn of modern day health care remedies and life style has influenced artificial feeding to suppress breastfeeding. With this situation, we have to highlight the nutritious and healthy nature of mother’s milk. Breastmilk substitutes trigger impairment in children and we should fight against it. The world breastfeeding conference aimed at popularizing the significance of infant feeding globally. H.E. Manohar Parrikar of Goa called on participants to take up issues related to policy gaps if change has to be achieved in the struggle for child survival and especially to support women to improve on child health and nutrition. India has a ministry for health and family welfare and another ministry for women and child development. For more information, click on the following web pages – http://uk.youtube.com/camlink99/ - http://camlinknews.blogspot.com/2012/12/breastfeeding-gets-into-worldwide_5124.html Posted by Camlink Men's Initiative at 10:43 AM No comments: Breastfeeding Gets Into Worldwide Development Agenda By James Achanyi-Fontem, Email: camlink99@gmail.com The World Breastfeeding Conference 2012 theme, “ Babies Need Mom Made Not Man Made” was echoed in over 100 presentations in three busy working days by facilitators and over 800 participants from 84 countries. This articles points out some of the strong statements by presenters. Dr. Arun Gupta highlighted the advantages of breastmilk in a paper, saying that junk food cause girls to hit puberty at the age of 6 years, bananas may soon become a critical food sources for millions of people and replace potatoes as a staple diet due to climate change according to recent research. Healthy diet can prevent second heart attack because this has been seen as powerful as pills and healthy life is what mothers and their babies deserve. Breastfeeding can save 22% of new born babies, especially as the first 1.000 days shape the health life of the baby. Prof. Anwar Fazal had presented the past icons of breastfeeding promotion and what they all left behind as a memorial legacy. Dr. Nicholas Alipui, the UNICEF Director of Programmes in New York presented a paper which revealed that breastfeeding is on the development agenda worldwide, as he highlighted the successes, challenges and way forward. Dr. Alipui said, what is hampering progress is the lack of a common agenda with a shared vision of change and the orphan issue is not grounded in a cohesive advocacy with the communities. The industries act as counter forces. The bottle neck at programme level is the under-estimation and inadequate recognition of impact, the absence of effective, comprehensive approaches at scale, interventions are not optimally implemented, slow and not tangible behaviour change, while HIV and infant feeding makes issues more complex and confusing. Some of the opportunities are the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) action with focus on a promise renewed, quality of education/learning link to Nutrition, early Childhood Development, greater focus on gender equality and support to national movements for the expansion of health campaigns to involve community workers. UNICEF has produced a good number of IYCF tool and reviews to facilitate achievement of goals within communities and health facilities. Another strong intervention was made on how to enhance breastfeeding rates globally by Dr F. Branca, Director of Nutrition for health development department at the World Health Organisation head quarters. It was made known that on the 26th May 2012 at the WHA, Member States committed to tackle global nutrition challenges. The six nutrition targets agreed on include reduction of childhood stunting by 40%, reduction of anemia in women of reproductive age by 50%, reduction of Low Birth Weight by 30%, 0% increase in childhood overweight, increase exclusive breastfeeding rates in the first 6 months up to 50% and reduction and maintaining childhood wasting to less than 5% The actions recommended include: ACTION 1: To create a supportive environment for the implementation of comprehensive food and nutrition policies ACTION 2: To include all required effective health interventions with an impact on nutrition in plans for scaling up ACTION 3: To stimulate the implementation of non health interventions with an impact on nutrition ACTION 4: To provide adequate human and financial resources for the implementation of health interventions with an impact on nutrition ACTION 5: To monitor and evaluate the implementation of policies and programmes The factors for successful breastfeeding promotion include: 1. implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes 2. Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) 3. Advocacy, training and education of health professionals 4. Community-based promotion and support 5. Maternity legislation and workplace support Participants at the World Breastfeeding Conference in New Delhi, India were reminded of the Innocenti Declaration and countries that have not already accomplished the following, should plan to: 1. a national BF coordinator and establish a multisectoral national BF committee. 2. Ensure that every facility providing maternity services fully practice all the “Ten steps to successful BF”. 3. Give effect to the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent relevant World Health Assembly resolutions (Code). 4. Enact imaginative legislation to protect the BF rights of working women. 5. Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate a comprehensive policy on infant and young child feeding. 6. Ensure that the health and other relevant sectors protect, promote and support EBF for six months and continued BF up to two years of age or beyond. 7. Promote timely, adequate, safe and appropriate complementary feeding with continued BF. 8. Provide guidance on feeding infants and young children in exceptionally difficult circumstances. 9. Consider new legislation or other measures to give effect to the principles and aim of the Code. PCF7 Holds In Abuja, Nigeria from 2 - 6 December, 2013 Courtesy of COL Monthly Bulletin COL's Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7) holds in Abuja, Nigeria from 2 - 6 December 2013. It will be co-hosted by the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is the lead partner institution. The theme of PCF7 is "Open Learning for Development: Towards Empowerment and Transformation" and sub-themes announced include: Girls' and Women's Education, Skills Development, Promoting OER, Innovation and Technology, with Institutional Development Established in 1988, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) was inspired by the vision that the peoples of the Commonwealth must and can have access to knowledge, regardless of where they live and whether they are rich or poor. Member governments have given COL a mandate to encourage the development and sharing of open and distance learning knowledge, materials, expertise, technologies and other resources. Working with, and providing services to hundreds of institutions throughout the 54-member Commonwealth, COL is helping to increase the capacities of developing nations to meet the demands for improving access to quality education and training. COL's Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning is held biennially. It is co-hosted with different partners in different regions of the Commonwealth each time. The five-day programme is designed to explore applications of open and distance learning in widening educational access, bridging the digital divide and advancing the social and economic development of communities and nations at large. The Forum's focus is on topics relating to developing countries and participation of practitioners from these countries. COL's Excellence in Distance Education Awards are also presented at the Forum. The Sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF6) took place from 24 - 28 November 2010 at Le Méridien Cochin Resort & Convention Centre (Kochi, Kerala), India, in partnership with India's Indira Gandhi National Open University. Theme: "Access & Success in Learning: Global Development Perspectives." The Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF5) was held in London, from 13-17 July 2008, hosted in collaboration with the University of London. Over 700 educators from more than 70 countries explored how open and distance learning can help achieve international development goals and education for all. The Commonwealth of Learning held the First Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning in Brunei Darussalam, followed by the Second Forum in 2002 in Durban, South Africa. The Third Pan-Commonwealth Forum was held 4-8 July 2004 in Dunedin, New Zealand, and PCF4 was held in Ocho Rios, Jamaica from 30 October - 3 November 2006. For more information, visit the following link - http://www.col.org Cameroon Breastfeeding Trends 2012 Reassessed By Camlink News, Email: camlink99@gmail.com IBFAN Africa and Cameroon Link have conducted a three-day workshop from 24-28 October 2012, to orient the government of Cameroon on how to conduct periodic monitoring and evaluation of infant and young child feeding practices, policies and programmes using a simple to use World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) tool. The workshop was held at Hotel du Rail Bonaberi-Douala for 16 participants who came from the government, Civil Society Organisations (CSO), Infant Feeding advocacy groups. Being gender sensitive, training and the breastfeeding trends reassessment included men, women and youth group representatives. The workshop was facilitated by the Regional Coordinator of IBFAN Africa, Mrs. Joyce Chanetsa, and the Coordinator of IBFAN Cameroon Link Group, James Achanyi-Fontem, who triples as the National President of the Federation of Cameroon Breastfeeding Promotion Associations (FECABPA) and Liaison person of COL Cameroon Link Partnership and Men’s Initiative coordinator. The objectives of the workshop were to sensitize participants on the Global strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding and how it is linked to the WBTi tool; to impart knowledge and skills on the application of the WBTi tool for monitoring and evaluation as well as for advocacy and action to improve infant and young child feeding; to discuss unique national situations as regards the tool; Identify sources of representative local data and methods of its gathering them. This led to the development of an action plan from the reassessment. According to the regional coordinator of IBFAN Africa, the workshop achieved its objectives and beyond as it was able to conduct a rough score of Cameroon (95.5/150 or 63.6 %) achievement on implementation of the Global Strategy of Infant and Young Child Feeding (GSIYCF). The team came up with a concrete plan to utilize the draft assessment results to advocate for further action using the community radio stations, national TV channels, newspaper publications and internet web sites and blog. The Regional Coordinator of IBFAN Africa appeared on national CRTV after meetings held in Yaounde, capital of Cameroon. During the meetings with top level officials and decision makers, Mrs. Chanetsa made calls for further action on the issue and invited Cameroon to participate in the World Breastfeeding Conference scheduled in New Delhi, India from the 6th – 9th December, 2012. Cameroon achievements on implementation of Global Strategy 1. Excellent initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth (95.6%). 2. Cameroon has a national Code on the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, even though it is not enforced and it has no sanctions. 3. Many health facilities in Cameroon practice kangaroo care to provide care to low birth weight or pre-term infants. 4. Community based support by mother support groups is fairly good, except that there is lack of optimal and correct information for mothers and community workers. 6. The World breastfeeding Week is celebrated nationally annually. Identified major gaps 1. Too early introduction of other foods and water (26.2%) and too late introduction of appropriate complementary foods (20%). 2. Lack of a National Coordinator for infant and young child feeding in the Ministry of Public Health and a national coordinating committee supported by the Ministry of Public Health and fully responsible for IYCF. 3. The National Code of Marketing is not translated into English so that all can understand and it lacks sanctions. 4. Information, education and communication efforts are only reaching 58% of the population. 5. High bottle feeding practices for infant 0-6 months (26%) 6. No efforts are made to implement BFHI in health facilities. 7. No awareness of infant feeding in emergencies. 8. On Maternity protection, not all provisions of the ILO 183 Convention are addressed and there is no protection of agricultural workers and those in the informal sector. 9. There is need to know more about what is happening to mothers who are HIV positive in terms of infant feeding. Opportunities 1. Cameroon has over 75 community radio stations that are not fully utilized by the government to disseminate information on infant and young child feeding education. 2. Cameroon boasts of having a good national Federation of Cameroon Breastfeeding Promotion Associations, FECABPA; it is host of the Men’s Initiative of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, (WABA). 3. Good relationships between Cameroon Link, IBFAN Africa, Commonwealth of Learning and the Government. 4. The government was fully supportive of the WBTi workshop and the gathering of preliminary data. Key recommendations made to the government and local partners 1. Appoint a national Coordinator for infant and young child feeding who is in a senior position and create a national committee answerable to the Ministry of Public Health. 2. The government should have a budget for implementing infant and young child feeding programme. 3. The government should translate the national Code into English so that all can benefit and it should revise the Code so that it includes sanctions. 4. The government, WHO and UNICEF to initiate urgent opportunities to train health workers on BFHI and implement the BFHI in health facilities and communities. 5. The government needs to integrate guidelines on infant feeding in emergencies within the nutrition policy. 5. The Government with the support of WHO and UNICEF to improve monitoring and evaluation of IYCF indicators within existing systems. Official opening of WBTi Re-assessment In the welcome address, the national coordinator of IBFAN Cameoon Goup, James Achanyi-Fontem said, Cameroon is honored to have another opportunity for an orientation and reassessment training workshop on the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi). He thanked Mrs. Joyce Chanetsa, the Regional Coordinator of IBFAN Africa who included Cameroon on the list of countries to benefit from the training and reassessment on the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi). He recalled that Cameroon undertook the first assessment in November 2009. He thanked the government through the ministry of public health for allowing the reassessment to happen and to the patronage it. He acknowledged that since the first assessment, many changes have taken place though the influence and guidance of the Minister of Public Health. The secondary data was reached for preparation of this re-assessment using WHO/UNICEF data and information system for analyzing the 15 key indicators of Cameroon’s trends so far documented. The data used during the WBTi training and reassessment in Cameroon are based on information collected from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) in Cameroon, statistics from the Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Planning, Programming and Territorial Development, WHO, UNICEF and ILO sources in Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon. The department for health promotion in the ministry of public health contributed through researched data as the policy and decision making channel within the frame work of its collaboration with Cameroon Link, FECABPA and IBFAN Cameroon Group that reports regularly on all its activities. He concluded by saying, since the government is working on putting in place a national nutrition programme, the opportunity of the training and re-assessment was used to advise the Cameroon government, on the key areas of budgeting for achieving successful breastfeeding in a country. He explained that in most countries of the world, a national budget for breastfeeding promotion activities is broken down to cover the following key expenditure lines: • budget for training in IYCF counselling, • budget for Code implementation and protection of breastfeeding • budget for promoting maternity benefits, • budget for policy development of breastfeeding/IYCF promotion, • budget for developing and promotion of legislation on the Code, • budget for promotion of the setting up of good crèche systems, • and a budget for annual operating costs of the nutrition programme. 8 If the government improves on its policy by taking decisions to make the necessary resources available, breastfeeding rates will increase from the current 20% to 65% by the year 2015, he concluded. It was highlighted that UNICEF is working with communities and the government to increase access to sanitation from 33 per cent to over 60 per cent by 2015. During the training, paticipants had the opportunity to listen to Mrs. Tamfu Hanson Ghandhi, a Cameroonian UN volunteer on emergencies, who had the opportunity to serve in Rwanda. He addressed the unpreparedness situation of Cameroon in handling emergency situations in flood regions and where there has been an influx of refugees in the north and east regions of Cameroon. Tamfu Hanson Ghandhi observed that the influx of refugees create silent emergency in some parts of Cameroon apart from the natural disasters, which have become more and more regular. The participants agreed that additional challenges facing refugee children in Cameroon include the lack of birth registration as well as an increase in child sexual exploitation, early marriages and early pregnancies. IBFAN Cameroon National Coordinator, James Achanyi-Fontem made a call for aid to Cameroon saying, “unless the Cameroonian Government and host communities receive the support they need to develop long-term solutions, the silent emergencies will continue to grow. The Regional Coodinator, Mrs. Chanetsa emphasized the fact that over 2.000.000 child deaths is recorded each year due to poor infant feeding practices, and the strategy ensues that mothers feed their babies properly. She explained how the Innocenti Declaration came about with its objective in 2003 and was revised in 2005. The Innocenti Declaration was actually to show young mothers how to breastfeed rightly. It was within the frame work of the declaration that Cameroon came out in December 2005 with an act of the national code for regulating the marketing of breastmilk substitutes throughout the territory. It was observed that the breastfeeding mothers are not protected after delivering their babies, most especially working mothers. The addition targets aim to remedy some of the IYCF lapses in a way to promote timely, adequate, safe and appropriate complementary feeding with continued breastfeeding by providing guidance on IYCF. The head of the health plannification service at the regional delegation for public health in the littoral, Mr. Ekoum Joseph (MPH), officially opened the workshop with an acknowledgement to IBFAN Africa and the Commonwealth of Learn9ng for their support and efforts towards improvement of Infant and Young Child Feeding, IYCF, through community education strategies. He thanked Mrs. Joyce Chanetsa, the regional coordinator of IBFAN Africa for including Cameroon on the list of countries that have benefited from the training and reassessment in the Africa region. In a record card briefing, comments and recommendations were made as follows: Overall Comments: Cameroon has moved from 79,5% to 95,5% showing slight progress. The red and yellow colour rated areas should be seen as priority for government and stakeholders to act on urgently. Overall Recommendations The assessors encouraged the government to enforce the legislation already put in place. The government decisions should ensure that business is done within the respect of laws put in place, as tools for the protection of the mothers and their babies. The participants strongly recommend that the government should prioritize the following programme areas: Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), Infant feeding during emergencies, Ensure that the median duration of breastfeeding is increased in the community and that bottle feeding should be strongly discouraged. Government is encouraged to develop an infant and young feeding policy and put in place the necessary structure for implementation. Posted by Camlink Men's Initiative at 5:32 PM 1 comment: Cameroon Link Installs WOCOTOMADI in Cameroon Cameroon Link had the priviledge to chair the installation cermony of the Cameroon agency of the International Humanitarian NGO, Coming Together To Make A Difference (WOCOTOMADI) recently in Yaounde, capital of Cameroon. Cameroon Link was identified as the premium humanitarian and not-for-profit NGO with the longest experience and impact working with underpriviledged communicties in Cameroon for over 20 years.During the installation ceremony, he made a call for good will countires and individual to extend a hand to the needy in Cameroon. The speech delivered by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cameroon Link in his capacity as the President of the Board of Directors of WOCOTOMADI, is shared with you on this page. To start, he said in his own words that, "It is a singular pleasure for me to be here in Yaounde as the Chairman of WOCOTOMADI Cameroon, to preside over the installation of the national executive bureau of WOCOTOMADI. He added that it should not be a surprise to many and this gave him the opportunity to introduce his person and past activities. "I am James Achanyi-Fontem, who coordinates a number of non governmental organizations and civil society organizations like WOCOTOMADI in Cameroon, which has head quarters in Bedford. Massachusetts, United States of America. The head quarters of Cameroon is in Grand Hangar-Bonaberi in a neighbourhood of Douala City. I am the Executive Director of Cameroon Link Human Assistance Programme,that triples as National President of the Federation of Cameroon Breastfeeding Promotion Associations, FECABPA, Liaison person of the Commonwealth of Learning Cameroon Link partnership, Focal Point of National Coordinator of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN Cameoon Group) and International Coordinator of the Men’s Initiative of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, WABA. From the above, you will understand that the activities of Cameroon Link are purely humanitarian and similar to those of WOCOTOMADI, which is a non-profit making and charitable organization registered in the USA only in July 2011 in Massachusetts, Unites States of America. According to the activity sheet already presented, WOCOTOMADI is assisting the most vulnerable populations of Cameroon to improve on their well being, living standard, attainment of education and perfect health. - WOCOTOMADI works for the prevention of poverty, hunger and diseases, - WOCOTOMADI promotes education for all - WOCOTOMADI promotes gender equality, better conditions of Women, old peresons. That is what Cameroon Link does and for several years, Ms. Julienne SIWE Ngongang, the founding president of WOCOTOMADI, has continued to devote most of her time thinking about the opportunity to show case her esteem for the marginalized. The primary mission of your organization is to help the vulnerable and fight against extreme poverty without moving away from the major concern of governments and international organizations to contribute to the education of all around the world , extension of the New Information and Communication Technology. Agriculture which is the cornerstone of the third world economy, is promoted as a means to fight against hunger through viable action plans and research developed with other international organizations like the UNDP, WHO, and the FAO. From the above, it is clear that the World Coming Together to Make a Difference, resulted from much thought when it started to realize that sustainable development cannot be achieved without the fight against extreme global poverty, promotion of health for all, education of all, the promotion of the use of ICT at all levels to improve exchange of information internationally, and also to create an atmosphere of love, harmony and solidarity among peoples around the world. The World Coming Together to Make a Difference is already wll implanted in Haiti, Benin, Senegal, Uganda, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Portugal and the United States of America. The installation of the national bureau will open the doors for collaboration with the groups in others countries. With the support of support of partners the Cameroon branch will be aiming at achieving activities that target the objectives of the UN Millennium Development Goals to: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; 2. Achieve universal primary education for all; 3. Promote gender equality and empower women; 4. Reduce child mortality; 5. Improve maternal health; 6. Combat HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases; 7. Ensure environmental sustainability; 8. Development of global partnership for development With this, Iwould like to use the powers vested in me by the chairman to install the National Executive Bureau of WOCOTOMADI Cameroon. Those installed today, the 7th October 2012 are the following: National President : Louis Pierre WESE Vice President: Gweth Ngwend Mabo Secretary General: Nyobe Emma Odette Assistant Secretary: Rose Mary Ngassa National Treasurer: Ndengue Pierre Assistant Treasurer: Augustine Njioya Auditor: Ottou Melkissedek Plannification and Development head: Djeumo Dieudonne Health and Community Action head: Mrs. Tepou Zang Animation and social mobilization: Timothee ZOGO Accounting Logistics head: Etoa Maguerite Communication Coordinator: Francois Bikoro Public Relations: Elisabeth Noubia This statement will be communicated to the international bureau of WOCOTOMADI in the USA for documentation and information of the network members in other countries. WOCOTOMADI, PO Box 5035 New Bedford, MA 02742 USA Tel:781-249-6061 Fax: 508-297-3614 Email: contact@wocotomadi.org Long Live WOCOTOMADI, Long Live Cameroon After the installation of the the3 board of directors, the president was advised to start the admistrative procedure for authoritisation of existence since the Cameroon law oit is within the legal frame of national active organisations that there would be mutual and fruitful exchanges with other WOCOTOMADI branches around the world. For the expansion of the humanitarin work in Cameroon, make a donation and contact us to make a difference.Send your donation or contribution and email us at: camlink99@gmail.com or jafontem@yahoo.com for it to be highlighted in the records and publications. Remember that,"For everything we give we receive a hundred fold". Posted by Camlink Men's Initiative at 4:17 PM No comments: WOCOTOMADI Déjà Au Cameroun! By Helen Ayamba, camlink News Email: helenayamba@yahoo.com Le bureau national de l’ONG International «World Coming Together To Make A Difference (WOCOTOMADI Cameroun)» est déjà installé à Yaoundé. La cérémonie d’installation était présidée par Monsieur James Achanyi-Fontem, Liaison de Commonwealth of Learning Cameroon Link Partnership pendant la cérémonie de mise en place officielle des membres du bureau national du Cameroun à la salle des fêtes du Parc Kyriakides. Avant l’installation, il y a eu des prières œcuménique par le Pasteur et I’ Iman avec la lecture du récépissé de l’événement par la Secrétaire Générale, Mme Nyobe Odette en présence des délégués qui sont venus des chefs lieu de dix régions du Cameroun. Il y a eu des spectacles, témoignage et vente de pagnes de l’ONG. Lisez le discours présenté pendant la cérémonie. Allocution de Monsieur le President du Conseil d’Administration de World Coming Together To Make A Difference (WOCOTOMADI Cameroon),James Achanyi-Fontem, à Yaoundé le 6 Octobre 2012. Il est le Liaison de Commonwealth of Learning Cameroon Link Partnership. Il a declaré: Mesdames et Messieurs, L'honneur me revient de prendre la parole en cette circonstance solennelle, au nom du Président du Conseil d' Administration, a I' occasion de la cérémonie marquant la mise en place officielle des membres du bureau nation de la WORLD COMING TOGETHER TO MAKE A DIFERENCE en abrégé WOCOTOMADI Cameroon. Je tiens tout d'abord à adresser mes sincères remerciements à toutes les Autorités Administratives qui, malgré leurs emplois du temps très surcharges, ont tenu à répondre massivement présent a cette cérémonie. Mes remerciements vont également à l’ endroit des Autorités Religieuses et Traditionnelles dont la présence dénote de l'intérêt qu'ils accordent aux actions de bien-être social. A Toute l'équipe cuminique ici présente et les autorités traditionnelles, recevez nos vifs remerciements; J’adresse aussi ma profonde gratitude à tous ici présents, et a tous ceux qui ont de près ou de loin contribués à l’organisation, la réalisation et la réussite de cet évènement. Vous tous, venus massivement rehausser l'éclat de cette cérémonie, recevez à travers ma voix, les sincères remerciements de WOCOTOMADI. Enfin je ne saurais oublier le promoteur du Parc Kyriakides pour ce beau cadre mis à la disposition de WOCOTOMADI. En effet, WOCOTOMADI, WORLD COMING TOGETHER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, est une ONG internationale dont le siège se trouve a Boston au Etats Unis d' Amérique ayant à sa tête une fondatrice de nationalité Camerounaise, Julienn Siwe Ngongang. Cette ONG a pour but d’apporter sa contribution a tous les pays d'Afrique et au Cameroun en particulier, dans la lutte contre la pauvreté, la recherche du bien-être social et économique des populations. Au Cameroun l'ONG s'est installée seulement depuis deux ans. Elle est représentée dans plusieurs pays d'Europe, d’Asie, d'Amérique et d'Afrique. Sur le plan de ses objectifs spécifiques, I'ONG a mené depuis son existence des activités au niveau international et au niveau national. Au niveau international Elle a beaucoup plus œuvré dans le volontariat et le bénévolat en menant des actions sociales et de bienfaisance en direction des personnes démunies, des personnes âgées, de filles mères et des enfants en détresse recensés dans plusieurs localités du monde. Ces actions humanitaires lui ont permis de sceller des partenariats durables avec certaines entreprises américaines et organisations de produits alimentaires, laitiers, sanitaires et vestimentaires pour la collecte des dons. Dans le domaine social-culturel, l'ONG s'arrime a toutes les actions en faveur des personnes affectées ou en détresse morale. Au niveau du Cameroun WOCOTOMADI a tenu une conférence de presse pour édifier les populations sur ses objectifs ; • Organisé des visites d'échanges et de partage d'expériences avec plusieurs ONG et associations ayant les mêmes objectifs en vue d'un partenariat ; • Scelle un point focal avec la Délégation d' Arrondissement de la Promotion de la Femme et de la Famille de Yaoundé pour lui permettre de se joindre en appui aux actions gouvernementales. • A pris part à toutes les célébrations des journées commémoratives. A cet effet elle a pu encadrer les femmes rurales d'OLEMBE II • A initié 200 personnes à l’utilisation de l’informatique pour la réalisation des projets de développement. • A organisé des ateliers d'AGR en zone rurale Le plan d'action 2013 prévoit l'organisation de plusieurs autres activités et I' Agenda de l'ONG présente un répertoire grandement ambitieux pour le bien-être des populations Camerounaises. II s'agira pour WOCOTOMADI et à travers ses antennes dans les dix (10) régions du Cameroun, de mener des actions de proximité, de mettre en application ses objectifs et programmes des projets sociaux, basés sur la vie quotidienne des populations et notamment: 1. L'organisation du programme de la traditionnelle fête américaine, Thanks Giving Day, qui réunira en novembre 2012 a Yaoundé autour de WOCOTOMADI, un panel des femmes rurales choisies a travers les dix régions du Cameroun pour constituera un socle indélébile entre WOCOTOMADI et les bénéficiaires. 2. La pose de la première pierre pour la case des personnes âgées démunies et abandonnées sans assistance. 3. La création d'un centre de vulgarisation des vaccins pour les enfants et l'encadrement des orphelins sans soins et sans suivis médicaux. 4. La création d'un bureau des échanges commerciaux et d'interaction communautaires entre les structures sociales WOCOTOMADI et le reste de la couche sociale. Déjà des le 15 octobre prochain WOCOTOMADI sera de tout cœur avec les femmes rurales a Ekombitie, Messa-si dans le cadre de la célébration de la 17ieme édition de la Journée Mondiale de la Femme Rurale. C'est donc pour permettre à cette ONG d'évoluer en toute sérénité, que le Conseil d'Administration a trouvé nécessaire que la structure Nationale dont le dynamisme n'est plus à démontrer, soit davantage encouragée et motivée par sa mise en place officielle. A cet egard, je me tourne vers vous, membres de cette structure Nationale, je suis l’heureux d'apprécier en si peu de temps les résultats admirables de votre détermination a hisser haut l'étendard de l'ONG, à travers cette stratégie de partenariat actif que vous avez adoptée. La dimension grandiose de ses objectifs en cours de réalisation, mérite le soutien actif et stimulant de toute la communauté nationale et internationale. Ensemble contribuons a la vision noble de cet ONG. A ce titre, mesdames et messieurs les membres du bureau exécutif national du Cameroun, tout en vous exprimant les encouragements les plus exaltants, ayant longtemps œuvré dans l'ombre, aujourd'hui, officiellement reconnus, chacun dans sa fonction respective : Président : Monsieur WEZE Pierre Vice-Présidente: Madame NGWEND MABO Felicite Secretaire general : Madame NYOBE Emma Odette Secretaire adjoint: Mrs NGASSA Mary Trésorier : Monsieur NDENGUE Pierre Trésorier adjoint : Mme NJIOY A Augustine Commissaire aux comptes : Monsieur OTTOU Melkissedek Chef de la cellule des études, planification et développement des projets: Monsieur DJEUMO Dieudonné Chef de la cellule santé et action humanitaire: Madame TEPOU Rosalie Chef de la cellule de la formation, de I ‘animation et de la vulgarisation: Monsieur ZOGO Timothée Chef de la cellule de la comptabilité des opérations et des achats: Madame ETOA Marguerite Chef de la cellule de la communication: Monsieur François Bikoro Charge des relations publiques : Madame NOUDJA Elisabeth Bureau National WOCOTOMADI Cameroun soyez les dignes ambassadeurs de la promotion du bien-être des populations. A toutes et tous ici présents, je vous souhaite un bon séjour dans cette somptueuse salle de fêtes du parc Kyriakides. Merci pour votre aimable attention. Profile of James Achanyi-Fontem Cameroon Link Organizes Freedom Fone & GRINS Information Workshop Ojong Helen Ayamba, Cameroon Link Email: helenayamba@yahoo.com Ten ICT technicians from various business institutions including the customs, telecommunications, environmental protection, computer maintenance, sales companies and communication houses took part in a one day information sharing and exchange workshop at Cameroon Link last Saturday, September 15, 2012 on the use and applications of Freedom Fone and GRINS soft wares. The key facilitator was Mike Achanyi trained by Farm Radio International in Arusha, Tanzania during a capacity building workshop as the Freedom Fone and GRINS ICT Consultant for Cameroon. Opening the workshop, the Executive Director of Cameroon Link, James Achanyi-Fontem, expressed thanks and gratitude to Farm Radio International and its partners, who made the training possible for Cameroon and acknowledged the excellent partnership relations that have existed for over 30 years today. The CEO added that it is difficult to quantify the knowledge and benefits gained throughout the number of years Cameroon Link has been in partnership with Farm Radio and that it is through the same non-profit making international organization based in Ottawa, Canada that the Commonwealth of Learning identified Cameroon as an emerging developing country for expanding its policy of “Learning for Development”. He lauded the Cameroon ICT technicians for taking time off their busy schedules to participate in the one-day training, which he described as innovative for the work they are accomplishing in their different organizations. He called on them to be attentive and ask questions on all identified issues related to the Freedom Fone and GRINS, which are new soft ware applications in Cameroon. Cameroon is one out of ten African countries already deploying the soft wares and that the only source to get them in Cameroon remains Cameroon Link for now. He concluded by informing them that they were privileged to be the first batch of Cameroon ICT technicians receiving first-hand information on the communication tools adapted to situations in developing countries, where resources are limited. During the training which was delivered in two parts, theoretical and practical, Mike Achanyi started by express thanks to the facilitators who trained them in Arusha, Tanzania with open hearts. He said, it was with the same spirit that he wanted to share new ICT communication development skills he learnt with them. Mike acknowledged that from the beginning, he felt everything was going to be difficult because the new knowledge looked strange. But as time went on, he learnt that it was just another innovative way of doing things, with more simplified tools for reaching many at the same time, if applied in community radio stations in Cameroon. He introduced the Freedom Fone Project by saying Freedom Fone was conceived by Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe in 2001, Their aim was to seek alternative ways to inform and engage civil society in development issues to inspire positive social change by sharing information and ideas via Internet, email, mobile phones and print publications. Like in Zimbabwe, Mike Achanyi went on to say freedoms of association and expression are regularly repressed, in the years political and economic struggles have created a need to engage with audiences situated on the margins of the information society. By taking advantage of both text and voice functions, Freedom Fone provides a means to reach communities that do not have access to other media and remain under-heard because of literacy and language barriers. While internet in Cameroon is becoming more accessible, it is still available only to a minority urban-based audience. Mobile phone usage on the other hand is growing exponentially with over 50% of the population - including many who live out in remote rural areas – currently subscribed to mobile networks. It is for this reason that Freedom Fone has proved to be a practical communications tool for small to medium sized organisations working in a number of different sectors from community radio, agricultural development, education or health programmes, to elections monitoring or emergency relief operations. Freedom Fone makes it easy to interact on an information-on-demand basis with offline audiences that speak multiple languages and may struggle to read or write. During the practical session after installing Freedom Fone at the Cameroon Link Multi-media Centre in Bonaberi-Douala, the ICT Consultant said, Freedom Fone allows anyone with a phone to access or contribute information on a specific issue 24 hours a day and seven days a week. It takes advantage of audio and text to address language and literacy barriers when reaching out to marginalised audiences that don't have access to other media. Most important he added, compared to GRINS, no internet access is required by either you or your audience during communication. It uses interactive voice menus to deliver information to and record information from a caller. Each of ICT technicians was given the opportunity to become familiar with the menu already installed at Cameroon Link when they called the following telephone number 00237 71890376: This number takes you to a healh campaign and as you press different buttons, instructions for accessing information changed. "press 1 to access your account, press 2 to speak to a representative,… press 5 to leave a message...". You will realize that we all sometimes have to deal with this kind of system when we dial a number to top up the credit on our mobile phone account, or to talk to a support person in a communication system, etc. Freedom Fone enables you to design your own interactive menus to: Share audio information with your audience; Organise a poll to enable your audience to vote on an issue using their phone; Collect SMSs from your audience - these might be updates about specific news events, alerts or similar time critical information; and Get your audience to leave audio messages to share their opinion on a particular topic or make reports in their own language. Again, there are no geographical limitations to Freedom Fone. In fact it can be used and deployed in all countries where there is mobile network coverage, and content can be recorded in any language - even multiple languages, simultaneously. In addition to ordinary mobile phones, your callers can use landlines and internet-based phones to access the service. This means that Freedom Fone can receive and deliver crucial information via mobile phones or landlines in situations facing power constraints or where the Internet access is limited or interrupted. It provides an installer that automates much of the setup, empowering a nontechnical user to independently set up a sophisticated telephony server in an organisation under 30 minutes. The Cameroon Link ICT Officer explained the role of Farm Radio International during the training processing in Arusha, Tanzania. Farm Radio International (www.farmradio.org) is a Canadian-based, non-profit organisation that assists small scale farmers in Africa with food security. Farm Radio works with over 290 partner radio stations across Africa to train broadcasters, create radio scripts and conduct educational radio campaigns on agricultural topics that can improve the livelihoods of farmers. Since January 2010, Farm Radio has been using Freedom Fone to increase the impact of their educational radio programmes and involve more farmers' voices. Farm Radio is organizing a three month long e-Course on scripting for programming from this month. A face-to-face training on the use of barza network has been planned in Arusha, Tanzania also this month. The Commonwealth of Learning and Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation are supporting these outreach activities in Africa through Farm Radio. Examples of other usage of the Freedom Fone in other countries like Ghana, Zimbabwe, Malawi and so on were presented during the training. Closing the ICT workshop, the executive director of Cameroon Link told the ICT technicians to take advantage of the existence of Freedom Fone in Cameroon and introduce the system in their work places. The Mobigater is a unique tool to enhance workability of the Freedom Fone. Cameroon Link search are organizations involved in community radio, health campaigns, supporting women’s rights, enhancing business opportunities, election monitoring and so on. Freedom Fone would help us and you know our audiences, since it works with a voice menu, sends and collects SMS, while advertising our services. More training has been planned for ICT technicians in other parts of Cameroon in the next few months. BCH Africa Graduates First Batch of Project Managers Ojong Helen Ayamba, Cameroon Link: The Regional Delegate for Public Health in the Littoral, Dr. Yamba Beyas Martin, presided over the case study of Malontsa Valery Roger, a student of Building Capacity for Africa’s professional training centre in PK 14 Ndokoti-Douala on September 11. Other members of jury were James Achanyi-Fontatem, Health Communication Consultant and Kologo Niquese, a mother and child rights activist. The theme of the case study for certification as a manager community health projects was “the framework of mother and child health promotion in the district of Deido in a Douala city neighbourhood of Cameroon. Malontsa observed that the health of the mother and the child at this century remains a great preoccupation due to an increase in the rate of mortality. Infant mortality rate in Africa stands at 51% representing some 4.7 million deaths for children below 5 years, according to UNICEF statistics of 2007. The researcher observed that if the pack of activities included the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of a baby, the promotion of hand washing, oral rehydration therapy and the constant use on the long lasting impregnated mosquito net by child below 5 years, the number of child deaths will be reduced drastically. Other activities Malontsa suggested for the acceleration of behavior change communication are the organization of routine vaccination campaigns, the promotion of the consumption of iodized salt and maternal pre-natal consultation and intermittent preventive treatment. He noted that Cameroon subscribed to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals No 4 and 5 by the year 2015 concerning the reduction of infant mortality and the amelioration of maternal health care. The government has organized a good number of activities across the country, but unfortunately the population has not been involved at the decision making process. They have been involved as passive actors and this has led to low impact. Malontsa adds that community sensitization has been insufficient at all stages and this is seen from statistics collected during the past vaccination campaigns. It within the context of the failures that the researcher focused his attention on the identification of the role communities have to play during preparation of maternal and infant health care strategies, during execution and during evaluation in Cameroon. He analyzed the factors that encourage active participation and influence behavior change within communities through the involvement dialogue groups and potential civil society organisations. He went on to say, that the result of his research should lead to proposals not only at district level, but at regional and national levels of strategic actions for reinforcing community participation in health care delivery. The second study case examined during the presentation and review session was staged by Nombo Kondji Hermannie Carine, a jurist whose theme of research focused on Communication for development. The work presented at the end of one-year long training and field research at BCH Africa for obtaining the professional qualification and certification as community projects manager focused on the promotion of human rights in Cameroon. The president of the jury was Dr. Foyet Ignace, a jurist and economist. Nombo Kondji based her argument on the fact that parents in Cameroon do not know where their rights begin and where they end, as she quoted the Cameroon National Commission on Human Rights. She lamented on the fact that many consider their rights as a favour or a privilege, when citing the right to work, right to health, right to education, right to vote and right to well-being as examples. During her case study, she researched on the dispositions put in place by the government through existing structures, strategies, activities and other means to promote human rights in Cameroon. Her aim for carrying out research on the topic is to contribute and reinforce the promotion of rights in Cameroon through the use of communication models for development and behaviour change. This model aims at ameliorating the well-being of individuals, through their participation in development processes freely and actively through equitable sharing of benefits that result thereafter following their interventions. Nombo Kondji emphasized the fact that all actors of the public and private sectors have to show proof of diligence and intervene when incidence of human rights abuses surface within their communities. Four students qualified in the first batch certification exercise of September 11, 2012. BCH Africa professional training center was authorized by the Cameroon government through a ministerial order no. 0085/MINEFOP/SG/SDGSF/SACD of 7th June 2010. VISAGAN NAIDOO IS COL’S VICE PRESIDENT Courtesy of COL, www.col.org Professor Asha Kanwar, President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), announced the appointment of Mr. Visagan (Vis) Naidoo as COL's Vice President. Mr. Naidoo, Citizenship Lead at Microsoft South Africa joins COL on 1 October 2012. Mr. Naidoo has been involved in the development of educational technology policy options both in South Africa and internationally, including at COL in the past 20 years. "COL will be privileged to have Vis Naidoo in Vancouver as Vice-President", said Professor Kanwar, "he has a vast range of experience in universities, civil society, government, international development and the private sector, at senior levels, which makes him an excellent choice for the post. His experience and background will be an important asset to COL as it implements its new Three-Year Plan for the period 2012-2015." A national of South Africa, Mr. Naidoo was Education Specialist for Educational Technology Policy and Planning at COL from 2000 to 2005. He moved back to South Africa to head Mindset Network, a non-profit organisation that creates sources and distributes educational content on a mass scale across Southern Africa using satellite and broadcast technology. Most recently, at Microsoft South Africa, he led the company's social responsibility and employee volunteer programme, focusing on supporting youth in South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. Prior to joining COL in 2000, Mr. Naidoo was the Director of the Centre for Educational Technology and Distance Education, Department of Education, South Africa. During his five years as Director, he was instrumental in shaping policy environment in the area of distance education and technology-enhanced learning. COL conducted an extensive international search to select a successor to Professor Kanwar as Vice President when she was named President of COL earlier this year. The Commonwealth of Learning is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is assisting developing nations improve access to quality education and training. The Commonwealth is comprised of 53 countries -- most of which are developing nations that make one-quarter of the world's population. For more information, please visit the following web sites. www.col.org/newsreleases www.col.org/akanwar Posted by Camlink Men's Initiative at 12:51 AM 1 comment: Cameroon Link holds bilateral talks with Malaria No More By Camlink News Email: camlink99@gmail.com Cameroon Link and Malaria No More held bilateral talks at Elig Essono - Yaounde on the 24th August, 2012 to discuss collaboration strategies within the expansion of a community of learning and radio distance learning initiative in Cameroon. The executive director of Cameroon Link, James Achanyi-Fontem was invited for a meeting with Olivia Ngou, the Malaria No More Regional Coordinator for Central Africa with headquarters in Yaoundé. During the meeting, Mrs. Ngou informed Cameroon Link that Malaria No More is supporting the government for scaling up malaria control for impact throughout the country. The Malaria No More Programme has been launched in the Far North, North, Adamoua and East regions of Cameroon. The bilateral meeting with Cameroon Link aimed at finding ways to involve community radio stations in the Centre, South, Littoral, West, South West, North West regions through the on-going Commonwealth of Learning supported initiative in Cameroon. The regional coordinator for Malaria No More said, Night Watch Campaign is on-going in Senegal and Tanzania, during which celebrities are used for transmitting a nightly mosquito net reminder key message to the populations through television and radio channels. Messages like “It’s 9 pm… are you and your family safe under your mosquito nets tonight?” are already being broadcast in Cameroon. The involvement of community radio stations in Cameroon aim at translating the messages into national local languages in a way to reach many more families. It would be noted that Cameroon in the last few months of 2011 distributed long lasting insecticidal bed nets. Millions of families received mosquito nets for the first time in August 2011, but in order for mosquito nets to be effective, people must use them properly and regularly. For this reason, there is a critical need to educate populations in the malaria-endemic areas and inform them of the active role they can play in protecting themselves and defeating the preventable malaria disease. Malaria No More has invited other partners of social networks to join them to remind the populations of the value of bed nets – “Remember to sleep under your treated mosquito net tonight! Sleeping under a treated mosquito net is one of the best ways to protect yourself from malaria. Sleep Peacefully!”. Night Watch: “Sleep Peacefully!” The Night Watch program aims to increase the utilization of mosquito nets in communities across Cameroon through a targeted, interactive media campaign that strikes nightly at 9 p.m.. The idea is simply to broadcast a 30 seconds message with a signature tune and to recognize local celebrities – 7 nights a week through radio, televisions and SMS texting to remind people to sleep under their mosquito nets. The role of Cameroon Link would be to carry out a base line study of the community radio stations in the regions mentioned above to participate in a story design programming format and to get the local language broadcasters to translate the key messages for the local audiences. This recognizes the fact that media campaigns serve as great complements to community based health communication efforts. To supplement the media, bill boards have created and placed in strategic points of the ten regions of Cameroon. This is taking the malaria campaign message more widely. Since community radio is strategically placed, customized media messages will harness the influence of local leadership and celebrities to create buzz and highlight the need for consistent use of mosquito nets in Cameroon. Confirmed spokes persons for Night Watch so far include: Alexandre Song, Lady Ponce, Petit Pays, Richard Bona, Luc Mbah a Moute, Les Nubians, Youssou NDour, R. Kelly, Akon, Sine, Princesse Khadizah, Frederique Ottou, Afo Akom, X-Maleya and Pit Baccardi. Community radio stations would be in addition to the reminder message and the nightly media messages, design and include key facts that reinforce the need for net use and other healthy behaviours as a means of reinforcing core messaging. Malaria No More is an American International Non-Governmental Organisation. It is located in the Immeuble White, Suite 302, next to Hotel Tango in Elig Essono- Yaoundé. Cameroon Minister of Public Health Worried about Low Breastfeeding Rates Cameroon Celebrated WBW from August 24- 31, 2012 By Cameroon Link, camlink99@gmail.com The Cameroon Minister of Public Health, His Excellency, Andre Mama Fouda, has called on women attached to the WHO/UNICEF recommendation to breastfeed their babies exclusively for the first 6 months and to continue breastfeeding thereafter with complimentary feeding up to 24 months and beyond. He was speaking during the launching of the celebration of the World Breastfeeding Week on the 24th August 2012 at the Biyem Assi - Yaoundé district hospital. The official ceremony was attended by ministers of women’s empowerment and the family, representatives of UN Agencies in Cameroon including WHO and UNICEF. Activities were plan for one full week in all regions following the national mass event in the nation’s capital in the presence of over 5.000 actors during from all sectors of the comunity. Ahead of the event, preparatory sharing workshops were organised at the department for health promotion on the 10th and 24th July, 23rd August, 2012 coordinated by the Sub Director of Food and Nutrition, Okala Georges. Participants outlined six points which included a feedback from the WBW 2011 and exchanged views on the theme of World Breastfeeding Week 2012, “Understanding the past, planning for the future.” The Executive Director of Cameroon Link, James Achanyi-Fontem, told the audience at the ceremony place that over 40 national organisations involved in child rights and infant feeding issues reached over 20.000 mothers in 2011. He lamented on the fact that breastfeeding rates are as low as 20 %. He called for the integration of breastfeeding in the national nutrition programme expected to take off from 2013. Achanyi-Fontem, who is also the chair of the Federation of Cameroon Breastfeeding Promotion Associations, FECABPA, appreciated the accuracy of reports presented which highlighted all out comes and difficulties encountered during the celebration of past World Breastfeeding Weeks like the lack of enough sensitization materials and funding for social mobilisation and community outreach of the populations. Looking at the theme for WBW 2012, "Understanding the past, planning the future”, it was made public that World Breastfeeding Week was 20 years old already, while the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding launched by WHO and UNICEF in 2002 celebrated its 10th anniversary. The Executive Director of Cameroon Link and FECABPA, said it was an opportunity to access the achievements of the past 20 years, evaluate national policies and especially the 2005 Decree on the marketing of breastmilk substitutes and its implementation, analyse the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats before planning for the future and bridging the gaps. To facilitate execution of the action plans submitted by the different nutrition associations, documents, T-shirts, exercise books, folders and sensitisation leaflets were distributed to the associations. Infant and Young Child Feeding Association in Cameroon organisation a WBW 2012 village at the ceremony place in Biyem Assi Hospital to show case the activities and shared information and research documents on the breastfeeding trends in Cameroon, regionally and globally. WBW 2012 SPECIFICITIES I. Background and Rationale Since 1991, the international community has celebrated WBW from 1 to 7 August of each year. This event gives an opportunity for the Ministry of Public Health and its partners to raise awareness on the importance of breastfeeding for child survival and promotion of maternal health. Indeed, 20 years ago the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) launched its first World Breastfeeding Week under the theme of the “Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI)”. In celebrating this anniversary , it was the right time to take stock of what has happened during these years , celebrate successes and achievements and see what has not been done, to be able to plan the future better, and to support all women in their ability to feed their infants and young children and care optimally . The DHS surveys conducted from 1991 to 2011 showed a marked increase in the rate of exclusive breastfeeding up to six months between 1991 and 2004. This was due to the implementation of the National Policy of Breastfeeding validated in 1994 by the Ministry of Public Health, community awareness and training of health personnel during past World Week of Breastfeeding (WBW ). The trends of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Cameroon recorded are as follows: 1991 = 7 % , 1998 = 12 % , 2004 = 24 % , 2006 = 21 % , 2011 = 20 %. From the above you will note that there has been a regression from 2006 until 2011. The consequences of this decrease are numerous both for children, families and the community, as the heavy price is rated in terms of infant deaths and illnesses of children. 122 % of infant deaths occur according to the infant DHS - MICS IV. In Cameroon, one in three deaths is due to poor practices of breastfeeding. To reverse the trend, we need to promote and encourage breastfeeding at community-based level with the interventions of fathers, mothers, youths and the community as a whole. There are local associations and international NGOs that support the health system by promoting infant and young child feeding. As part of the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week 2012, emphasis was placed on promotional activities of breastfeeding within communities across Cameroon. II. General Objective Promotion of breastfeeding through community-based activities III. Specific Objectives 1. Educate and sensitize communities, mothers and women of childbearing age on breastfeeding advantages to the mother and child. 2. Boost activities in the community to support all women in their practice of breastfeeding. 3. Inform the community that the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding is a right of the mother and a right of the child. In short, it is a human right. 4. Strengthen advocacy with communities for strong action in favour of breastfeeding and Infant and Young Child Feeding. 5. Involving community volunteers and members of CBOs in the implementation of activities during World Breastfeeding Week. IV. Expected results 1. Communities, mothers and women of childbearing age are sensitized and aware of advantages of breastfeeding. 2. Activities within communities in favour of supporting women in their project of breastfeeding are driven. 3. The community is informed that the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding is a right for the child , mother and above all, a human right; 4. The plea for strong actions are taken in favour of Breastfeeding is enhanced. V. Methodology Execution Strategy 1. Animation of mothers' groups and communities on breastfeeding through educative talks. 2. Production and distribution of documentaries on breastfeeding; 3. Awareness campaigns through the media and opinion leaders 4. Animations of radio quiz and organisation of national local languages broadcasts on WBW; 5. Organisation of Debates, open door discussions / exchanges. Azi Development Organisation Joins COL Initiative in Yaoundé By Ojong Helen Ayamba, Email: helenayamba@yahoo.com The Azi Development Organisation (Yaounde Branch) led by Fonge James Ngufor joined the band wagon for the promotion of mother and child care last July 24, 2012 when the organization endorsed the national action plan for the World Breastfeeding Week this year. The exchange workshop was chaired by the sub director for food and nutrition at the ministry of public health in the presence of COL Cameroon Link partnership liaison, James Achanyi-Fontem. Speaking during the exchange workshop for preparation of the launching of the World Breastfeeding Week in Cameroon by the Minister of Public Health, Andre Mama Fouda, Azi elites in Yaoundé announced plans to carry out activities in Menji during the celebrations in collaboration with Lebialem Community Radio. The world breastfeeding week will be launched at the health district of Biyem Assi – Yaounde on the 17th August and activities will continue up to 23rd August 2012. The theme is . The members will contribute to radio story design programming on infant and young child feeding with the mother and child health care and rights initiative launched on the station in October 2010. The Azi Development Organisation Branch in Yaoundé was set up on the 4th February 2011. The objective of the organization is search means of securing and guaranteeing opportunities for the promotion of the well being of its members and the development of common initiative activities for the socio-economic advancement of the local populations in Lebialem. The organisation inculcates a strong sense of responsibility, discipline, fraternity, unity and solidarity amongst its members and the people from Azi – Lebang in Lebialem. Members meet in Yaounde on the third Sunday of each month to share experiences and gifts. Azi Development Organisation, Yaounde Branch, promotes excellence amongst its members and youths from Lebialem Division in the south west region of Cameroon. World Breastfeeding Week this year commemorates the 20th anniversary of the World Breastfeeding Week and the called for implementation of the Ten Steps in all maternity facilities with the context of Global Strategy launched by WHO/UNICEF in 2002. For this reason, it would be strengthening communities in Lebialem to increase greater participation and responsibility in promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding and optimal young child feeding rights Its activities will focus on Information, education and sensitisation of communities through Lebialem Community Radio and the organisation of briefings with educative talks, coach mothers’ support groups on the importance of breastfeeding and encourage the communities to be more supportive of breastfeeding mothers and their families.. t is expected that by the end of the World Breastfeeding Week in Cameroon on the 23rd August, 2012: • More people would have been aware of the risks of not breastfeeding • More people would be aware of the benefits of breastfeeding • Unethical Marketing Practices will be better monitored • More people would bee involved in Code monitoring activities • More Mothers would be supported by Fathers Support groups • More radio programmes on breastfeeding promotion would have been realised by the community rural radio stations with jingles and spots carrying specific messages at particular periods. The exchange workshop was an opportunity for sharing past experiences and impact of community of learning activities. For more information, write to fonge James Ngufor – email: fongejames@yahoo.com or the secretary, Achajeng – email: achajeng@yahoo.com By Ojong Helen Ayamba, Email: helenayamba@yahoo.com The Azi Development Organisation (Yaounde Branch) led by Fonge James Ngufor joined the band wagon for the promotion of mother and child care last July 24, 2012 when the organization endorsed the national action plan for the World Breastfeeding Week this year. The meeting was chaired by the sub director for food and nutrition at the ministry of public health in the presence of COL Cameroon Link partnership liaison, James Achanyi-Fontem. Speaking during the exchange workshop for preparation of the launching of the World Breastfeeding Week in Cameroon by the Minister of Public Health, Andre Mama Fouda, Azi elites in Yaoundé announced plans to carry out activities in Menji during the celebrations in collaboration with Lebialem Community Radio. The world breastfeeding week will be launched at the health district of Biyem Assi – Yaounde on the 17th August and activities will continue up to 23rd August 2012. The theme is . The members will contribute to radio story design programming on infant and young child feeding with the mother and child health care and rights initiative launched on the station in October 2010. The Azi Development Organisation Branch in Yaoundé was set up on the 4th February 2011. The objective of the organization is search means of securing and guaranteeing opportunities for the promotion of the well being of its members and the development of common initiative activities for the socio-economic advancement of the local populations in Lebialem. The organisation inculcates a strong sense of responsibility, discipline, fraternity, unity and solidarity amongst its members and the people from Azi – Lebang in Lebialem. Members meet in Yaounde on the third Sunday of each month to share experiences and gifts. Azi Development Organisation, Yaounde Branch, promotes excellence amongst its members and youths from Lebialem Division in the south west region of Cameroon. World Breastfeeding Week this year commemorates the 20th anniversary of the World Breastfeeding Week and the called for implementation of the Ten Steps in all maternity facilities with the context of Global Strategy launched by WHO/UNICEF in 2002. For this reason, it would be strengthening communities in Lebialem to increase greater participation and responsibility in promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding and optimal young child feeding rights Its activities will focus on Information, education and sensitisation of communities through Lebialem Community Radio and the organisation of briefings with educative talks, coach mothers’ support groups on the importance of breastfeeding and encourage the communities to be more supportive of breastfeeding mothers and their families.. t is expected that by the end of the World Breastfeeding Week in Cameroon on the 23rd August, 2012: • More people would have been aware of the risks of not breastfeeding • More people would be aware of the benefits of breastfeeding • Unethical Marketing Practices will be better monitored • More people would bee involved in Code monitoring activities • More Mothers would be supported by Fathers Support groups • More radio programmes on breastfeeding promotion would have been realised by the community rural radio stations with jingles and spots carrying specific messages at particular periods. For more information, write to fonge James Ngufor – email: fongejames@yahoo.com or the secretary, Achajeng – email: achajeng@yahoo.com Cameroon link Participates In Health Partnership Strategy Workshop By Camlink News, Email: camlink99@gmail.com The Cameroon Cooperation Division of the ministry of public health organized a three-day workshop on partnership strategy and contract initiation in Douala from the 19th – 21st July 2012 for leaders of health development organizations and health district service heads in the littoral region. Closing the workshop on July 21, the regional delegate for public health in the littoral, Dr. Yamba Beyas Martin, expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the exchanges between the public and private health sector representatives and the excellent delivery of content by the team from the cooperation division led by Maina Djoulde Emmanuel. Other facilitators included Mrs. Abena Yolande, Dr. Bahanag Bassong, Mrs. Wonje Martine, Mrs. Mbango Anne and Ngah Emanuel , all top level officials of the ministry of public health in Yaoundé. Cameroon Link was amongst the ten health sector civil society organizations including the association for assistance and well being, mother and child association, association for women’s development and the association for the vulgarization of health information. The chief of the cooperation division at the ministry of public health told the participants that health sector partnership has a very long history before Dr. Bahanag Bassong presented the different judicial tools and structures for partnership realization. The Cooperation division chief discussed the changes made in the new health sector partnership document as he explained the judicial norms for establishing a partnership contract document. Each participant received the new Cameroon health sector partnership strategy document, which covers the period 2007 – 2015. The health sector strategy, reviewed and adopted tunes with the growth and employment strategy in Caùmeroon, which is the general reference frame work of health policies and programmes since 2001. The new document sets major guidelines and priority strategic directions of action as far as health delivery is concerned with the support of national and international partners. In effect, all forces have been federated to fight against poverty through the health sector strategy and this gives the opportunity for contracting interventions with the following objectives: • To promote and render operational the complementarities between all health stakeholders at the national public, private and community levels, and the international development partners who support Cameroon’s health sector action. • To reinforce the decentralization of the national health system in order to ensure result-based management at the peripheral level. The review of the new health sector partnership strategy was participatory and lays the frame work of collaboration between all health stakeholders. It is strongly held that this constitutes a basic instrument capable of contributing to promote collaboration between the public, private and traditional sub-sectors in order to ensure quality health care. According to the Minister of Public health, André Mama Fouda, this marks the adherence of all health stakeholders to a single collaboration frame work. International partners including the European Union, French Technical Cooperation, GIZ, UNICEF and WHO contributed in designing the Cameroon Health Sector Strategy for promoting partnerships. This frame work is a result of consensus between all stakeholders because the development of the partnership strategy involved the participation of the ministry in charge of public health, related ministries, private organizations, denominational bodies, professional associations, NGOs, bodies representing bilateral or multi-lateral co-operation institutions as well as the population. The partnership strategy is drawn with inspiration from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the hope that it would make it possible to improve health care quality and preserve the principles of equity and ethics in health care provision. The partnership strategy axes include putting in place a legal and institutional framework and technical support, implementation of a contractual approach among stakeholders of the public and private sub sectors, setting up of new relations framework among stakeholders of the public sector, supporting and monitoring of implementation of the partnership. Collaboration documents shared for effecting health sector partnership included the collaboration agreement letter, frame work convention; performance contract, obligations and resources frame work, miscellaneous and final provisions. The 40 participants were drawn from the regional delegation for public health in the littoral, the Health District Services, municipal councils and health associations. On the third day of the workshop participants constituted three work groups to share experiences and evaluate the pertinence of the new health sector strategy. The work group session led to participants conceiving sample frame work documents as described in the Cameroon health sector partnership strategy (2007 – 2015). The first health sector strategy covered the period from 2001 – 2010.This did not produce the impact expected and it has been reviewed putting into consideration the weaknesses of the first health partnership strategy document. The health strategy workshop gave the opportunity for sharing past and current positive experiences of Cameroon Link and Community of Learning partnership during the radio story design initiative pilot phase just ended in Lebialem. Cameroon Link aims at bringing on board the ministry of public health through the department for health promotion to support the scaling up phase at national level. Sharing of COL Cameroon Link partnership impact continues as it was made known that activities related to the promotion of mother and child health care would be introduced into the Cameroon budget from the year 2013. Cameroon Link strongly holds the opinion that babies don't wait and the collaboration arrangements should avoid any partnerships with conflict of interest. Breastfeeding is a public health issue… Says Prof.... Breastfeeding Gets Into Worldwide Development Agen... PCF7 Holds In Abuja, Nigeria from 2 - 6 December, ... Cameroon Link Organizes Freedom Fone & GRINS Infor... BCH Africa Graduates First Batch of Project Manage... Cameroon Link holds bilateral talks with Malaria N... Cameroon Minister of Public Health Worried about L... Azi Development Organisation Joins COL Initiative ... Cameroon link Participates In Health Partnership S...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line41
__label__wiki	0.625847	0.625847	AIT Campus Bulletin Published Weekly Skip this page WEEK #15: 11 – 17 April 2016 Faculty and Staff Travel Classifieds (Jobs) Promotion of Dr. Avishek Datta to the Rank of Associate Professor Dear Members of the AIT Community, I am pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. Avishek Datta to the rank of Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD). I have approved the promotion of Dr. Datta taking into account the positive recommendations of the Faculty Evaluation Panel (FEP) and the SERD Professorial Board. Dr. Datta was appointed at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) as an Assistant Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Development in August 2012. Prior to this, he held the Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Nebraska, USA (March 2008–July 2012).Dr. Datta obtained his Ph.D. (Agronomy) from the University of New England Armidale, New South Wales, Australia in 2008. He earned both his M.Sc. (Agronomy) and his B.Sc. (Ag.) Hons. (Agriculture) from the BC State Agricultural University Nadia, West Bengal, India in 2002 and 2000, respectively. Dr. Datta’s research encompasses the areas of Agricultural Environments, Crop Productivity Management, Crop Eco-physiology and Modeling, and Advanced Agricultural Experimentation. Dr. Datta’s curriculum vitae, the Institute Criteria for Promotion (PA-1-2-5) and the Procedure for Evaluation of Faculty for Promotion (PA-1-2-2) can be accessed through the link provided below: https://goo.gl/PYDaOm We warmly congratulate Dr. Avishek Datta on this promotion in recognition of his valuable contributions to his field. Professor Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai AIT 2016 Distinguished Researcher Awards Dear AIT Faculty and Staff, We are pleased to announce the selection of Assoc. Prof. Thammarat Kootatep and Assoc. Prof. Kunnawee Kanitpong as recipients of the AIT Distinguished Researcher Awards for 2015. I would like to congratulate both Assoc. Prof. Thammarat and Assoc. Prof. Kunnawee for their significant contributions to the active research environment and the research infrastructure development of our institute. I also would like to thank all the applicants to these awards, and would encourage them to participate again in the years to come. The evaluations were done by external reviewers who were impressed with the applicants’ achievements, and I would like to compliment them all. Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut Final Outcome of 2015 Allocation of Capital Funds for RCs In the past, AIT administrations often talked nicely about “decentralization”. The Year 2015 might be the first time in the history of AIT, that Schools and other Responsibility Centers are actually allocated their own Capital Funds, based on their contributions to the 2015 annual surplus of AIT. As you were informed earlier, I have received an endorsement from the Executive Committee and the final approval from the Board of Trustees on my proposal to annually allocate 50% of the annual surplus to the Capital Accounts of all the RCs, in proportion to their contributions based on the AIT’s Responsibility Center Management (RCM) Model. Thus from now on, the Schools andother Centers can accumulate their Capital Fund year after year, which will allow them to make their own decisions to upgrade their strategic equipment and asset renovation. Although the decision to spend the capital fund lies with the respective CEO (Deans and Directors), the acquisition still needs to comply with the regular purchasing process of AIT. For units with no capital fund this year, in case of urgent needs related to essential equipment, they can make a request for a loan from the Institute on a need-based basis. With this email, I am pleased to announce the final financial performance of all the RCs and their allocated capital funds. The specific accounts will be set up by the Finance Office as soon as possible. I take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciations on your patience, trust, hard work and cooperation in 2015, which resulted in our reasonably good outcome, both academically and financially. Most importantly, we together are able to greatly enhance our public image and restore the trust of our patrons and the general public. Thanks. Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai AIT President AIT Newsletter : April 2016 The April 2016 edition of the monthly AIT Newsletter has been released. You can also download PDF and EPUB versions from below links: PDF: http://goo.gl/gx8O1X EPUB: http://goo.gl/gx8O1X MOBI: http://goo.gl/1kvSRJ Media and Communications Unit Student Union’s Second Newsletter of Jan. 2016 semester The Student Union media team has published its second Newsletter for theJanuary 2016 semester. The Newsletter is a joint contribution by all photographers and volunteers of the SU Media team who have devoted themselves to reporting AIT students’ activities. Please find the link to the newsletter at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0nLSB7YYSeEX1gxVHdJOGJzU0U/view?usp=sharing UIA charge rates for faculty and staff The AIT IT Committee annually evaluates the Internet service charges to your residences which can be considered as an equivalent of a home user account in the commercial market. The Committee has made a decision to keep our Unlimited Internet Access (UIA) rate to be comparable to the rates in the market per home users which are currently around 700-800 Thai Baht (THB) a month for less capacity than what you are getting in AIT. The committee has decided to apply the same rate of 600 B a month to all staff and faculty accounts and the decision has now been endorsed by AIT Management (Please refer to AITMT meeting Minutes of 3 March 2016, Section 6.6 which has been circulated earlier.) The rate is to be applied as of March 2016. Vice President for Research and Chair of IT Committee Erasmus+ : Faculty / Individual Capacity Building Opportunities ERASMUS+ is the new framework funded by European Commission and integrates earlier European Programs such as Lifelong Learning, Tempus, Alfa, Edu Link and ERAMUS MUNDUS. Erasmus+ covers many actions (mobility and capacity building related), but not research activities (research is funded by the Horizon 2020). The possibilities for AIT participating in Erasmus+ are primarily in Key Actions 1 and 2 – mobility of students/faculty/staff; capacity building and curricula development related; and exchange of good practices. Since we would need partners for this collaboration, one possibility is to make use of the PANACEA consortium (listed in Annex 2: Panacea Partners, who are keen to partner for both Key Actions 1 and 2 with AIT in the Erasmus+. The PANACEA Consortium was an Erasmus Mundus project (2012 – 2016) that was coordinated by University of Montpellier 2 in France in which AIT was the Joint Coordinator. So, if you would like to collaborate under the Erasmus+ with any of the Panacea partners or if you plan to submit a proposal in order to receive funding from EU, or for any additional information, please find the necessary details on Information of Applicants in this link: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/documents/erasmus-plus-programme-guide_en.pdf and/or please contact Ms. Carol Guzman of the External Relations and Communications Office (ERCO) at: 02-524-6299 or email to carol@ait.asia Prof. S. Kumar Vice President for Academic Affairs Attractive Opportunities for researchers A number of attractive opportunities for researchers are presented in the latest EURAXESS ASEAN. 1. Advancing your Research Career: Funding and Fellowship Opportunities Open to ASEAN Researchers. Workshops in Hanoi on May 11 and Bangkok May 13. 2. France - ERCIM – Alain Bensoussan Fellowships in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Applied Mathematics Open to ASEAN Researchers 3. 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In case of Surrender: 1.1 A non- Thai national overstaying his/her permission by more than 90 days will be barred from re-entering the country for 1 year, from the date of departure. 1.2 A non- Thai national overstaying his/her permission by more than 1 year will be barred from re-entering the country for 3 years, from the date of departure. 1.3 A non- Thai national overstaying his/her permission by more than 3 years will be barred from re-entering the country for 5 years, from the date of departure. 1.4 A non- Thai national overstaying his/her permission by more than 5 years will be barred from re-entering the country for 10 years, from the date of departure. 2. In case of being arrested and prosecuted: 2.1 A non- Thai national who is caught overstaying his/her permission by less than 1 year will be barred from re-entering the country for 5 years, from the date of departure. 2.2 A non- Thai national who is caught overstaying his/her permission by more than 1 year will be barred from re-entering the country for 10 years, from the date of departure. 3. These rules are not applied to: 3.1 A non- Thai national who departs the country before the age of 18. 3.2 A non- Thai national who departs the country before the enforcement of this law. GRU Office 5 May 2016, Coronation Day Holiday Based on the confirmed AIT Management Notes on 5 November 2015, agenda 4.2, AIT Official Holiday for 2016, please be informed that 5 May 2016 is a holiday for Coronation Day, replacing the Buddhist Lent Day on 20 July 2016. Thus, the Buddhist Lent Day on 20 July 2016 is deleted from AIT Official Holiday for 2016. 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Songkran Holidays: Call Center, Accommodation Office, Mail Office, Gas Delivery, Motor pool services closed Please be informed that during the Songkran holidays, the following services / units will be closed: - AIT Call Center - Closed from 13th April -15th April 2016 - Motor pool - Closed from 13th April -15th April 2016 - Accommodation office - Closed from 13th April -16th April 2016 - Mail Office - Closed from 13th April -16th April 2016 - Gas Delivery - Closed from 13th April -15th April 2016 Outsourced Contractors - Technical - Closed from 13th April -16th April 2016 (24 Hrs emergency team will be available) - Landscape - Closed from 13th April -16th April 2016 (1 Staff available to water the plants) - Janitorial - Closed from 13th April -16th April 2016 (Only garbage collector staff will be available) For emergency cases, please call Landline / Internal No. 02524-6000 (5800 will be also transferred to 6000). Mobile No. 094-9493797 (Shall be received by the facilities officer for emergency only) The general work request could be still requested through: Email: callcenter@ait.asia website: http://fims.ait.asia/ Wishing everyone a Very Happy Songkran Festival Holidays!!! Office of Facilities and Asset Management (OFAM) AITCC’s Service Schedule during Songkran’s Holidays During Songkran festival, the service’s schedule of AIT Conference Center is as follows: Dining room: 11-17 April 2016 at 7.00 - 22.00 hrs. serve a la carte menu Accommodation: Service 24 hours Centralized air conditioning to be shut down during the Songkran Holiday As part of the backbone improvement project, the external chilled water pipeline system network is being improved during this Songkran Holiday period. The chilled water network along the walkway from the chiller plant to SERD, AIT Extension, Administration Building, and AITCC will be repaired. 1. The work will start from 7 April to remove the walkway ceiling and it may cause some disturbances to the pedestrian along the walk way. 2. The centralized air conditioning/chiller system will be shut down from 16:00 hrs of 12 April 2016 to 5:00 hrs of 18 April 2016. There will be no air conditioning to all the areas connected to the chiller system from evening (16:00 hrs.) of 12 April to morning (5:00 hrs) of 18 April. Area Affected: All Academic Buildings including Admin, SET, SERD, AIT Extension, Outreach, ET, CSIM, GIC, PPT, Biotech, ISE, SOM, AITCC, SU Building, Library, Physical Plant, and Dorm E, J & K Trial of Knovel to be extended to 30 April 2016 Please be informed that Knovel, engineering information database will be extended to 30 April 2016. For more information, please visit the Library's website at this URL: http://203.159.6.13/trialdatabases.htm . AIT is hosting an AIT Solutions event under the theme Collaboration for Innovation, on 12-13 May 2016 at the AIT Conference Center to highlight its expertise in providing integrated solutions and services to the industry and community, apart from providing a platform for collaborative innovation. More details: http://www.ait.ac.th/news-and-events/2016/events/consultation-for-innovation/#.Vv3l48v-IdU http://collaborationforinnovation.solutions.ait.asia/ AIT Research Competition 2016 Call for Ideas: AIT Research Competition 2016 Do you have a research / business idea that has the potential to be a scalable solution? Join the AIT Research Competition, a platform for AIT researchers to develop their research/ business idea to scalable solutions by working with industry experts and venture capitalists. Winners will have the opportunity to access adequate funds, technical assistance, and guidance required to bring your innovative ideas to life. 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__label__cc	0.590266	0.409734	Posts by Topic: NASA RSS feed NASA seeks new astronauts: Do you have what it takes, Colorado? By Laura Keeney John Yaniec helps to stabilize Dorothy M. (Dottie) Metcalf-Lindenburger, educator mission specialist astronaut candidate, during one of a series of reduced gravity sessions. Metcalf-Lindenburger was born in Colorado Springs, but considers Fort Collins her home. (Photo: NASA) It’s time, nerds. Want to go to space? NASA is looking for a few good women and men for the next astronaut class. Astronaut Jack Fischer is from Louisville, Colo., home of Sierra Nevada Space Systems. He’s pictured here at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after the successful splashdown of Orion in Dec. 2014. (Photo: Laura Keeney, The Denver Post) If accepted, applicants will join an elite corps of Coloradan astronauts. Nine astronauts were born in Colorado — including Apollo XIII’s Jack Swigert, Mercury 7’s Scott Carpenter and current astronaut Jack Fischer — and many others attended school here, primarily at CU Boulder, which has 16 alums that flew on 40 space shuttle missions (two of whom are currently faculty at the school) and many others who have been on the space station. CSU grad Kjell Lindgren is currently aboard the space station and just took his first spacewalk last week. Read more… Comments Off on NASA seeks new astronauts: Do you have what it takes, Colorado? Categories: Everything Else, Knowledge!, Space Supermoon eclipse in Colorado: Where and when can I see it? There have been only five supermoon lunar eclipses since 1900. September’s is the first since 1982, making it the first in the 21st century. (Screenshot: NASA) The supermoon eclipse is upon us Sunday, and Colorado should have somewhat clear skies for viewing. In western North America (looking at you, Colorado) the eclipse will be partially underway when the Moon rises. The National Weather Service forecasts “partly cloudy” skies, which optimistic star watchers choose to call “mostly clear.” The full eclipse will be visible from South America, western Europe and central and eastern North America. More: When you can see the eclipse in your night sky. Comments Off on Supermoon eclipse in Colorado: Where and when can I see it? Categories: Event, Knowledge!, News, Space New Horizons takes us all for a breathtaking flight over Pluto’s surface In case you haven’t been able to personally head to the deepest reaches of space, here is what it looks like to fly over the surface of Pluto. This visualization was created by Stuart Robbins, a research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, from photos taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto in July. You can read more about Robbins’ work here. New Horizons is the gift that keeps on giving. Can’t wait to see what’s next. Related coverage: “My Charon-a” in which The Knack gets Pluto-fied! http://dpo.st/1CEGBLT Pluto’s moons are potato shaped and tumble chaotically in orbit: An explainer http://dpo.st/1FutlDZ New Horizons and Styx bond over ballads and Pluto: http://dpo.st/1HzO2Um Pluto flyby: New Horizons reaches dwarf planet: http://dpo.st/1OEkAQh Pluto mission: Q&A New Horizons’ Pluto geologist, SwRI’s John Spencer: http://dpo.st/1OEkFU6 New Horizons will fly past Pluto with plenty from Colorado on board: http://dpo.st/1OEkIzg Comments Off on New Horizons takes us all for a breathtaking flight over Pluto’s surface Categories: Knowledge!, Movies, News, Space Astronaut Kjell Lindgren takes The Force, and plenty of Colorado, to the space station I find your lack of Palisade peaches disturbing: NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren corrals the supply of fresh fruit that arrived at the International Space Station August 25 on the JAXA (Japanese Space Agency) Kounotori 5 H-II Transfer Vehicle. Visiting cargo ships often carry a small cache of fresh food for crew members aboard the International Space Station. (NASA) The guy in charge of the space-based science that will influence how we send humans to Mars is featured in Thursday’s NASA’s image of the day. He’s also a Colorado-educated space doctor who, according to Colorado State University — where, in 1996, Lindgren earned an M.S. in Cardiovascular Physiology — is also the brains behind ISS Expedition 45’s EPIC Star Wars crew poster. Read more… Comments Off on Astronaut Kjell Lindgren takes The Force, and plenty of Colorado, to the space station Categories: Food, Space, Star Wars NASA’s InSight Mars lander will take your name to the Red Planet My boarding pass. Think NASA will let me sneak on board? (screenshot NASA.gov) NASA’s InSight lander will head to Mars in March 2016, and NASA wants your name to be on board. InSight stands for “Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.” Unlike NASA’s Opportunity and Curiosity rovers, which travel around exploring the surface of Mars, InSight will drill into the planet and use several instruments, such as a seismometer and heat-flow probe, to study the planet’s interior. The mission will give scientists a better understanding of how planets of the inner solar system — including Earth — were formed. This photo from HiRISE, built by Ball Aerospace in Boulder, shows the crater left by a bolide on the surface of Mars. Scientists estimate the impact took place between 2008 and 2012. (NASA/JPL) NASA previously sent the names of 1.38 million people into space aboard Orion during its December experimental flight test-1 from Cape Canaveral, Fla.* Colorado made a strong showing for Orion, but for InSight, Colorado currently ranks Read more… Comments Off on NASA’s InSight Mars lander will take your name to the Red Planet Categories: Event, Knowledge!, Space This is the closest you can get to taking a selfie on Pluto Artist’s impression of how the surface of Pluto might look near midday. (SwRI/Alex H. Parker) For a brief moment during dawn and dusk every day, the sunlight on Earth matches that three billion miles away on Pluto. Basically, it’s always Pluto Time somewhere. It’s always #PlutoTime somewhere. (NASA) NASA and the New Horizons team today launched a new widget that estimates when Pluto Time will hit your neck of the woods. It’s called, aptly, “Pluto Time,” and it even will remind you when to go outside to experience conditions as bright as the surface of Pluto at noon. Why? So you can snap a selfie for NASA, of course. Pluto Time was created by the awesome planetary scientists of the New Horizons mission. Pluto Time in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (NASA) In perhaps one of the most delightfully nerdy sentences uttered, Alan Stern, New Horizons’ principal investigator, said Friday that his team “wrote code to figure out what time of day after sunset that the lighting will be analogous to that on Pluto.” Check out the widget HERE and hashtag your Pluto Time selfie with #PlutoTime, and share it on social media. The goal is to have worldwide participation in advance of the July 14 New Horizons fly-by of Pluto. Get creative, have fun, maybe even pretend you’re on the surface the furthest planet in our solar system… (Yes, I said planet. Pluto is a planet. Please accept this and all will be okay.) It’s so easy that even people who don’t think Pluto is a planet can do it! (Screenshot) Comments Off on This is the closest you can get to taking a selfie on Pluto Categories: Event, Everything Else, Knowledge!, Space NASA spacewalk documentary “Suit Up” premieres Gemini 4 commander James McDivitt snapped this photo of astronaut Ed White on the first American spacewalk, which took place June 3, 1965 and lasted 23 minutes. (Photo: NASA) Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the first American spacewalk, and NASA has enlisted Jon Cryer — yes, Pretty in Pink’s Duckie, who does an amazing Otis Redding impression … and who is also reportedly a big space exploration fan — to narrate a new documentary marking the occasion. Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White became the first American to “walk” in space on June 3, 1965. He was preceded by Voskhod 2 mission pilot, Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, who spent 12 minutes outside his spacecraft on March 18, 1965. In this image from Jan. 30, 2008, Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson, the first female commander of the International Space Station, participates in a seven hour, ten minute spacewalk. (Photo: NASA) “Suit Up” chronicles the dangerous, yet seemingly peaceful act, of floating in space while tethered to a spacecraft. Among those exploring the last five decades of spacewalks (also known as extravehicular activity, or EVA in space-speak) are NASA Administrator (and astronaut!) Charlie Bolden, newly-appointed NASA Deputy Administrator (and all-around amazing spacesuit designer) Dava Newman, and dozens of others who share stories and anecdotes to paint a picture of the evolution of spacewalking and what the future may hold. NASA also has an entire site dedicated to spacewalks, and you can watch the documentary, from on NASA’s YouTube channel, below. Comments Off on NASA spacewalk documentary “Suit Up” premieres Categories: Movies, Space Name a Mars crater for Mom on Mother’s Day Mom’s name can be put on Mars. Image of elongated crater called “Spirit of St. Louis,” taken by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. (Photo: NASA) This is guaranteed to be the most unique Mother’s Day gift mom has ever received. For as little as $5, anyone can name a crater on the Red Planet through Uwingu, a Boulder-based company focused on space education and exploration. Uwingu was founded by planetary scientist Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder. (Stern is the principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission that will do a fly-by of Pluto this summer.) Crater prices start at $5 and go up to $5,000, depending on crater size, Read more… Comments Off on Name a Mars crater for Mom on Mother’s Day Categories: Event, Space This NASA photo of Mars has Colorado at its roots A circular depression on Mars was photographed Jan. 5, 2015 by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) NASA’s image of the day allows us earthlings to experience our universe through magnificent photography, and some Coloradans are to thank for today’s striking image of a circular depression on the surface of Mars. The photo was taken on Jan. 5, 2015 by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The HiRISE is a truly remarkable item that was built at Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., headquartered in Boulder: HiRISE is the largest telescopic instrument ever sent beyond Earth’s orbit. It is able to image the Martian surface up to five times the resolution provided by the Mars Global Surveyor, identifying images as small as a coffee table. Centennial State ingenuity, right there. MRO took off in 2005 with the mission of studying the history of water on Mars to learn if the planet ever supported life. It completed its 40,000th orbit around Mars on Feb. 7, 2015. The HiRISE camera’s resolution can help identify possible layers that would give evidence of deposits left in place by moving water. Learn more about MRO’s mission and findings here. And NASA archives their daily images here, where you can sign up to receive them daily. Comments Off on This NASA photo of Mars has Colorado at its roots Categories: Knowledge!, Space History Colorado brings Apollo 8 to Denver in April The Apollo 8 crew in November 1968. L to R: James A. Lovell Jr., William A. Anders, and Frank Borman. (Photo: NASA) On Christmas Eve 1968, three astronauts went into lunar orbit for the first time, taking humans closer to the moon than ever before. The three men on board Apollo 8 — Commander Frank Borman, Lunar Module Pilot William Anders, and Command Module Pilot James Lovell — set the stage for Apollo 11’s eventual landing on the lunar surface. On April 21, Coloradans can learn more about this historic mission from a Smithsonian expert. 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__label__cc	0.659129	0.340871	f/k/a archives . . . real opinions & real haiku flight 1549: fatalities — a big goose egg! Filed under: Haiku or Senryu,q.s. quickies — David Giacalone @ 7:09 pm US Airways Flight 1549: It’s very cold here in Upstate New York, but I’m still taking off my hat to praise the pilot (Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, of Danville, Calif.), crew and passengers of US Airways Flight 1549, and all of the rescue workers (fire department, police department and Port authority police). Together, they were able to bring today’s plane crash into the Hudson River to a remarkably happy ending — with all aboard surviving (most not even getting wet) and no apparent serious injuries. “All 155 survive plane crash in NYC’s Hudson River” (AP/Charlotte Observer, Jan. 15, 2009); “Jet Ditches in Hudson; All Are Said Safe” (New York Times, Jan. 15, 2009) [Click for “latest updates on the Hudson jet rescue” from the NYT City Room weblog.] NY Gov. David Paterson got it right, when he said: “This is a potential tragedy that may have become one of the most magnificent days in the history of New York City agencies.” Apparently, the plan encountered a flock of geese. We now know what a “double bird” means to airline and safety workers — a bird or several birds entering engines on both sides of the plane. According to a side article in the Charlotte Observer, there were at least 6 bird-plane collisions in 2008 — geese, hawks, owls and more. — we’re left with yet another perspective on flocks of geese — update (Feb. 12, 2009): The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board reported today that experts at the Smithsonian Institution have determined it was indeed Canadian geese that brought down Flight 1549, after examining 25 samples of bird remains found in the plane’s engine. See AP report on CTA.ca, and CNN. Master Issa wrote hundreds of haiku about geese, in the 19th Century. Here’s a sample (find many more here) they’re back for the massacre… rice field geese wind is blowing and so the geese are honking settling back to dead silence… finalizing the divorce leaving my house behind… departing geese the departing goose drops an enormous after many nights telling me bedtime stories the geese have left straight out of a full moon the geese depart evening wind– the geese turn around after the geese depart Sumida River …….. by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue honking at my window – geese above cabbie below … by dagosan there are no Canada Geese in NYC in January – they MIGRATE Comment by rbj — January 16, 2009 @ 12:31 pm We still have geese flying around up here in Schenectady, rbj. I see and hear them almost every day along the Mohawk River. Whether they are Canadian or some other type of goose, I do not know. I do not use the word Canadian in my post. update (Feb. 12, 2009): See the update in the body of this post, reporting that Canadian geese were indeed the culprits. Comment by David Giacalone — January 16, 2009 @ 12:39 pm Ah, Issa’s famed departing goose … I love that one … Comment by Don — January 16, 2009 @ 2:25 pm Captain Sullenberger charged with goose poaching! See http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/us-airways-violates-federal-migratory-bird-laws/ Comment by Mike Licht — January 17, 2009 @ 3:24 am . . . From 2003 to 2009, f/k/a ["formerly known as"] was the home of "breathless punditry" and "one-breath poetry." It is all here in our Archives. You'll find commentary on lawyers and legal ethics, politics, culture, & more, plus "real" haiku by over two dozen Honored Guest Poets. ABOUT f/k/a CLIENT RIGHTS & LEGAL ETHICS – ethicalEsq DAVID GIACALONE’s HAIKU GOOGLE f/k/a GUEST POET INDEX LAWYER FEE Punditry Our (Implied) DISCLAIMERS PROF. 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__label__cc	0.538251	0.461749	Church Leaders and Responsibilities All About Church Meetings All About Deacons The awakening in Bluntisham John Wheatley Ministers since 1787 Church Policies and Documents Beacon Cafe Beacon Money Advice Centre Little Fishes Christian Vision for Men Open The Book Wednesday Walkers Club Working with Children and Young People Working with Vulnerable Adults MAT (Mondays At Ten) Slepe Archived Sermons The Next Steps Project What will it look like? Financing the project Underpinned With Prayer HomeAboutOur History The First Church Building On 10th April 1787 the building of the first church began and by 27th October the church was completed. The building originally was 40 ft by 31ft but a further 14 feet was added onto the back in 1797, increasing the depth to 45ft. In 1805 a vestry was added to the rear of the building and in 1817 a gallery was added for the school children. The original building looked very similar in shape to that today with the gable roofs and simple design. The doors and windows have changed location and the square façade of the church has been softened with porchways added. The Sunday School Building and John Wheatley In 1842 a school hall was built next to the church building. A local villager, Sunday School superintendent and carpenter, John Wheatley, was instrumental to the redevelopment of the Chapel and later the church. Using his exacting carpentry skills and eye for detail he produced stunning sculptures and carvings which can be found in both the Church building and church hall. Of particular note are the faces of twelve characters spread around the main church hall. These are believed to be either the elders of the church or Wheatley’s close friends. However, some do also show a close resemblance to previous ministers. Start«12345»End Morning Service 10:30 a.m. Our morning services are down-to-earth, relevant for daily life and friendly to families with children and teenagers Follow @bluntishambap You can download the latest copy of our printed weekly newsletter here, or you can read our latest electronic newsletter here Our sermons are also available on iTunes, click on the link below to subscribe Verse of the Year Always be ready to give an answer when someone asks you about your hope in Jesus Christ 1 Peter 3:15 CEV (Choose Bluntisham Baptist Church as your charity)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line58
__label__wiki	0.660749	0.660749	Piercing prisms and Persian perspectives by Mika Provata-Carlone Comments “The truth of memory is strange, isn’t it? Our memories select, eliminate, exaggerate, minimize, glorify, denigrate. They create their own versions of events and serve up their own reality. Disparate but cohesive. Imperfect yet sincere.” Thus begins a compulsive, fiercely resisted, yet inevitable journey into memory in this in many ways extraordinary novel – the memory of a family, a nation, an identity, the archetypes of an impossible, yet indispensable exilic remembrance and space. In Disoriental, Négar Djavadi succeeds in summoning before our eyes ghosts and demons of Persia’s past, fallen angels and tragic martyrs of its future as Iran, the dark shadows of a today that is as much beyond reach for her main character as it is for many beyond comprehension or even conception. Her brandishing of facts and chronologies is meticulous and commanding, her narrative is textured, prismatic, and in turns fast and furious, or a soulful lament in the many minor keys of the Orient. She paints for us in broad, daring, often explicitly provocative brushstrokes an immense tableau of glory and decay, or of simple, broken lives, filling it with intricate details of names, genealogies, events, cultural echoes and historical monuments as rich as an arabesque. A reminder of all that once was, all that the West (and perhaps Persians/Iranians themselves) may have all but forgotten. In a way, the theme of Disoriental could be summed up in a twist of the words that used to be inscribed on old grandfather clocks: “Time is. Time was. Time will never be.” Disoriental is a waterfall of words and memories; of emotional states and the most intimate states of being; of echoes of a culture, a history few now suspect or can recall to memory and to imagination.” Djavadi writes in a palindromic motion between past and present. She gives us a vast, kaleidoscopic panorama of the early twentieth century under Qajar rule, returns repeatedly to the land’s tribulations in the hands of the Russians, the British, the French and the Americans, focuses unflinchingly on the assassinations, machinations, and the rough friction with oncoming modernity that sealed the country’s destiny. The Shah and Khomeini, the Revolution and SAVAK terror loom overwhelmingly over the biographies underpinning what is no less than a dirge and a paean to a country and its people. Disoriental is a waterfall of words and memories; of emotional states and the most intimate states of being; of echoes of a culture, a history few now suspect or can recall to memory and to imagination, let alone wishing to acknowledge as a presence, a force, as the vital, mystical, broken path of many lives. At its most poignant, Disoriental is about the voices compelled to speak about a nation once noble, mythical, now deemed an incomprehensible anathema. Read more and buy the book Djavadi populates her determinedly biographical story (she has resisted the term autobiographical) with formidable, not always benevolent women, with complex, complicated men, with the pungent scents and opulent gestures, the mythical reality, superstitions, dark secrets and webs of the Orient, but also with the starker reality of the exotic, irresistibly alluring, terrifying and alienating otherness of Paris, and of French words rolled on Persian tongues. Hers is a historical narrative that engulfs, amoeba-like, or sterilises, amputates, eradicates. Lost homelands, identities, rituals binding one to life, exilic places or states of belonging become the contending forces ruling the psyches of her characters, who seem suspended over the yearned for yet almost always impossible space of their existence, beyond the time of a sense of being. The West is presented as free from the political nightmares of the East, yet also as bereft of a closer, vital sense of unmediated community. The East lives for and in stories, by means of a national or communal mythology, whereas the French and Western democracies do not experience this need for a collective narrative of protection, of networks of relationships that fend off public terror. At the same time, however, nor do they provide the humanity that binds one individual life to another, that sustains an individual and a community through private or shared trauma. Embarrassing, comforting or suffocating proximity translates and is displaced through the exilic experience as isolation, fragmentation, erasure. Djavadi skilfully interweaves different voices and contradicting narrative authorities: the cultural and historical pundit, the first person, biased, fluid and unreliable narrator, the omniscient, ceaselessly commentating puppeteer.” Disoriental is a story of nostalgia and of piercing clarity as to the true nature of many of the aspects of the lost paradise at its heart – whether it is the almost Edenic landscape of Mazandaran and the imaginary or real Sadr clan or of a Persia where disparate, clashing forces have been coming to consecutive bloody standstills for the past fifty-odd years. Djavadi skilfully interweaves different voices and contradicting narrative authorities: the cultural and historical pundit, the first person, biased, fluid and unreliable narrator, the omniscient, ceaselessly commentating puppeteer invoked through mechanisms such as Wikipedia footnotes or documentary-style rhetoric. She gives us sharply shifting angles and perspectives, constantly undermining readerly convictions and certainties, only to create an inalienable bond and fascination between the reader and the authorial subject. The complicity is not always innocent or risk-free, to the extent that it is Raskolnikov and Dostoevsky who provide the psychological, essentially schismatic (as in the etymology of the Russian hero’s name) mirror into a denatured world. The title of the novel is as rich in possibilities as Djavadi’s story, and it is all too tempting not to see there a nudge at Edward Said’s polemics of Orientalism, as well as the sense of disorientation that both political catastrophe and exile have imposed on fictional characters and real lives. Also the process of removing from oneself the layers of belonging to an original culture not in order to embed oneself in the adopted culture, but so as to sever all disorienting attachments. Part of the novel is the struggle to disintegrate in order to integrate, taken to the extreme of risking total and irreversible effacement. This is an impulsive, de profundis novel, as much a historical testimony (the narrator defines herself as the guardian of stories, the voice of memory), as it is a double-act of sorts – a love poem to a culture and people and a steely, often angry clinical report dissecting every layer of that nation’s identity, psychodrama, guilt, destiny and fatalism. The complexities of history result at times in tangled nets of psychological analysis, introspection and identity politics, as well as of a permeating, not always reflected causality – into a genealogy of difference that is moving, personally engaging, but also problematic in its literary realisation, in equal measure. The attempt at a stark and vitally original bildungsroman sometimes misses its mark due to an overpowering sense of predestination, an ineffable sense of conditioning, or self-victimisation – within the context of history, emotional representation or identity. Djavadi’s writing has the quality she singles out as emblematic of her country – it possess truly impressive raw, terrible beauty.” When the story focuses on the historical experience of individuals, on the existential, national, personal trauma of a moment in time whose duration is still ongoing, Djavadi’s writing has the quality she singles out as emblematic of her country – it possess truly impressive “raw, terrible beauty”. Two-thirds of the novel at the very least possess this ‘terrible’ power to engross us, arrest us, and also create in us an almost Kantian drive to read closely and personally, from a sense of purposeful yet disinterested human duty; because the feelings contained, the experiences related, the vision of existential annihilation held up for our scrutiny and compassion are “as terrifying as a decomposing corpse”. The more intimate third of the novel, what ought to have been the main character’s emergence into a reconstructed, post-destruction and post-deconstruction life, is somewhat weaker, even if it is unfailingly human. Djavadi’s strength is to be a very evocative and talented cinematographer of words, to create, as she hints at the end of a novel, the effect of “rear projection” on the page – a character staring at the narrative of his or her life as it flashes before them only for the viewers to see. She has a fine talent for visualising with words what she ‘sees’ in her mind as the storyline of her characters’ lives, and every single passage and scene where she uses these skills has tremendous force and appeal. When she tries to offer a more inward psychological characterisation, there is a feeling that she does not trust enough in the authenticity of her authorial aims to achieve a result that is uncluttered by a latent, yet not infrequent sense of melodrama, or even of engaged rhetoric. She has chosen to interweave three themes, history, exile and gender identity, and to employ two registers, a rhetorically analytical, factual, even if ironic, historical exposé and a more fragile, self-confessional yet also transgressively public voice. With a better sense of balance, these truly mighty forces would have joined in irresistible, contrapuntal polyphony. As it is, they often interdigitate awkwardly, uncertainly, unconvincingly. But these are secondary quibbles. Disoriental will certainly leave readers both shocked and gripped, in the very best sense of the words, and hopefully it will lead to unsuspected encounters with its themes beyond its pages. It rings with the echoes of many, honeysuckle-scented Arabian Nights, as well as the cruel weight of a haunting history beyond fables and tales, with human stories we would do well to listen to. Négar Djavadi was born in Iran in 1969 to a family of intellectuals opposed to the regimes of both the Shah, then Khomeini. She arrived in France at the age of eleven, having crossed the mountains of Kurdistan on horseback with her mother and sister. She is a screenwriter and lives in Paris. Désorientale (Editions Liana Levi, 2016) scooped six awards including the Prix Roman-News, Prix du Style, Lire Best Debut Novel and the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée. It is now published as Disoriental by Europa Editions in paperback and eBook, translated by Tina Kover. @NegarDjav Author portrait © Philippe Matsas / Opale / Leemage / Editions Liana Levi Tina Kover’s translations include the Modern Library edition of Georges by Alexandre Dumas, The Black City by George Sand, and Anna Gavalda’s Life, Only Better. In 2009 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for her translation of Manette Salomon by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt. @tinakover Mika Provata-Carlone is an independent scholar, translator, editor and illustrator, and a contributing editor to Bookanista. She has a doctorate from Princeton University and lives and works in London. 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__label__cc	0.50288	0.49712	Longwood Central School District » Community » Longwood Journey » Information » Biographies » Yaphank Biographies » Mills, Edward from Yaphank As It Is and Was Beecher Homan HIS YOUTHFUL ENTERPRISE-HIS SENSIBLE VIEW OF BUSINESS-POPULAR WITH ALL-PERSONAL. HIS YOUTHFUL ENTERPRISE. The subject of this sketch was born in Middle Town, Orange Co., the 19th day of June, 1849. He is the son of Edmond Smith and Elmira Finn Mills. Early in life young Wickham evinced an enterprising inclination, and combining an invincible will with honorable resolutions, he launched into the business world. His name was first brought before the commercial public in a manufacturing capacity. Like all successful merchants and tradesmen, he was first doomed to endure a failure, before he could appreciate a success. His factory speculation was not auspicious, and may be credited as one stumble in his financial career. But defeat is indispensable to lay a facile road to wealth. Thus, when but a youth, he became involved in a money difficulty that would have discouraged more mature minds. But young Wickham was not disheartened. Though his initiation into a business sphere slightly wilted his enthusiasm, it never daunted his fixed determinations and aspirations. He canceled all claims against him, left the ether so unhealthy, and came to congenial little Yaphank. In 1859 he entered the store of his brother-in-law, as under clerk. His restless enterprise did not allow him to remain contended in that public position, and giving positive evidence of greater efficiency, was deservedly promoted to the head of Mr. Mills' mercantile affairs in Yaphank. His increasing business increases his friends and popularity. Such laudable motives in a young man are sure prognostics of brilliant future. In 1872 we see him again settled upon a mercantile foundation, as the dashing young success for to J.P. Mills. No more a slave of the dry-goods counter, he is responsible for the success or failure of his own establishment. When the shingle of "John P. Mills, Merchant," was taken down, and the glaring appellation of "E. Wickham Mills," looked out over the dormant village, a ring of joy echoed from every home. HIS SENSIBLE VIEW OF BUSINESS. Mr. Mills enjoys a reasonable view of this subject. He believes that what nature kindly bestowed upon us we lack in ambition and enterprise; that if we can capitalists' attention to our wasting virtues, a multiplication of population will inevitably follow, and opposition spring up. Opposition being the vital of trade, good effects will consequently ensue; thus benefiting merchants, tradesman and citizens alike. He believes there are stumbling stones in every path to improvement, and that the path to Yaphank is no exception. POPULAR WITH ALL With his customers and friends he is popular for his facetiousness and gentlemanly bearing. Always characterized by his humor and jocularity, he wins a friend in every partron. From the four points of the compass his customers flock. No house in Brookhaven Town has firmer corner store, or has stood more firmly through financial eruptions and panics, than his. The extent of his trade is really astonishing. Far up among the hills of Coram he sends his wares. The people of Bellport, Brookhaven, Southhaven, Mastic, and Moriches, use his merchandise. From the Manor and Eastport, and other Eastern villages, the people come buy their goods, and drive hard bargains. In Middle Island, Sweezytown, and the Ridge he is known as the luminary of "Mills' store." His books will favorably compare with any similar establishment in Suffolk Co. The head light of his house is politeness. The tottering old lady, with a dozen eggs and a pound of butter, is granted an exchange as pleasantly and with the same air of politeness that is showered upon the "upper tens", who carry a rustle of nacarat and an odoriferous scent of band-boxes about them. Mr. Mills is about 5 feet 8 inches in height, and more handsome and prepossessing than businessmen generally are. His cheerful, agreeable manners win him friends among the stern sex, while the Napoleonistic twists of is elegant moustache charm the gentle element to perfection. He has mastered the "dips" that fascinate the tender ones, and while he possesses all the art requisite to win the good graces of both sexes, he is also as undeniably popular in the parlor and home circle as in the business sphere. A polite "a good morning" and a graceful bow are the articles connected with his establishment that cost no outlay, but are priceless to him. He is slight in build; compact and lithe; while a merry twinkle beams from his guileless orbs. He never boasts, says but little regarding his private affairs, and carries concealed the tide that turns the wheels of his business. He is very fond of music, and is quite an Arion in his way. For years he has song in the Presbyterian choir, and he moves conspicuously at their meetings. His heart is centered in his increasing business, in the young ladies of his acquaintance, and in the friendship of all. In consummation he is a model merchant, a model Yaphanker, an ah! were it my privilege to declare him a model husband and papa! Well, he is a model beau, nevertheless, as many blushing damsels are willing to verify. May his lines ever be cast in pleasant places; may his voice never lose its ring, or his smiles fail to plan roses in the hearts of the dear ones!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line60
__label__cc	0.724985	0.275015	NFL Week 6 Recap & Commentary 1. Bills (2-3) at Lions (0-5)- L 2. Texans (1-3) at Cowboys (2-2)- L 3. Giants (2-2) at Falcons (3-1)- W 4. Seahawks (3-1) at Rams (4-1)- W 5. Titans (0-5) at Redskins (2-3)- W 6. Panthers (3-2) at Ravens (4-1)- L 7. Eagles (4-1) at Saints (4-1)- W 8. Bengals (3-1) at Buccaneers (0-4)- L 9. Dolphins (1-4) at Jets (2-3)-L 10. Chiefs (2-2) at Steelers (1-3)- W 11. Chargers (3-1) at 49'ers (2-3)- W 12. Raiders (0-4) at Broncos (3-1)- W 13. Bears (5-0) at Cardinals (1-4)- W Week 6 score: 8-5 (62%) Overall score: 50-37 (57%) I would be remiss if I did not comment on the Monday Night Football spectacular that ended with the Chicago Bears having an improbable comeback after being down by 20 points near the very end of the third quarter. They managed to come back to win, without scoring an offensive touchdown the entire game. That is unprecedented in NFL history and it was certainly among the more bizarre games that anyone has ever seen. What an emotional roller coaster for a passionate Bears fan like myself! I just could not believe they were playing so horribly and were down by a wide margin to an inferior team. Then, they would get a turnover and a score and it looked like there was hope, but then soon, it looked once again like it would not be enough for the victory, etc. etc. Somehow, someway, they won though. Team of Destiny? Perhaps. The offense can never play that poorly again though. Hopefully, the team will stop looking ahead to the Super Bowl and not run the risk of overlooking anyone in the regular season. I swear that I have not had such a night since the 2000 Presidential election with depression, followed by hope, followed by more depression, then exhilaration…. Etc. etc. Unlike the 2000 GWB vs. Gore contest though, I actually was able to go to sleep happy and with the knowledge that the result would not be overturned. Dennis Green acted a little like the unhinged Al Gore of latter years at the post-game press conference though. So, it was an amazing game and verification that surprises can always happen. I think it means that since I breathed an big sigh of relief that the Bears were able to win, I am either going to now have a very tough Election Night three weeks from today, or it will be another improbable come from behind performance by a Republican political team across the country that will never give up, never give in, and will refuse to lose. posted by Corey @ Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4 comments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line61
__label__cc	0.673626	0.326374	Home Deloitte Collection Page 1 Planning your client's first audit; Planning Your Client's First Audit by CLYDE F. BRENNAN Principal, Houston Office Adapted from an address before the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, Houston Chapter—December 1968 VERY CPA attempts to serve his client in every way possible, be it advice on tax problems, assistance in areas related to management services, or performing an audit. Of these three services, the audit generally is the most time-consuming and may present the most problems. The client's reason for requesting an audit may be one or a combination of things: • To establish accountability • To supply financial information to vendors • To satisfy lender in a potential borrowing • To furnish required information for public financing • To fulfill a contractual obligation, such as stipulated in a profit-sharing plan • To satisfy stockholders Years ago, this service for a client would have been performed in a routine fashion, but today we are faced with many more problems. In recent years, the accountant's legal responsibility has come sharply into focus, with the extent and range of liability greatly increased, and the accountant now finds himself being held accountable to third parties in a much greater degree. Spiraling costs are also plaguing the CPA, but if he hopes to satisfy his client, he will have to perform the audit in a most efficient manner. Minimizing his legal liability while performing the audit in the most efficient manner is indeed a challenge to the CPA. GENERALLY ACCEPTED AUDITING STANDARDS Before delving into the problems presented in planning the first audit of a client, let us briefly review the generally accepted auditing standards as approved and adopted by the membership of the AICPA and published as a part of Statements on Auditing Procedure No. 33: Title Planning your client's first audit Author Brennan, Clyde F. Subject Auditing Auditing -- Standards -- United States Office/Department Haskins & Sells. Houston Office Citation Haskins & Sells Selected Papers, 1968, p. 203-211 Date-Issued 1968 Source Originally published by: Haskins & Sells Rights Copyright and permission to republish held by: Deloitte Format PDF with corrected OCR scanned at 400dpi Collection Deloitte Digital Collection Date-Digitally Created 2009 Identifier hs_sp_1968_pages_203-211 Description-Abstract Planning Your Client's First Audit by CLYDE F. BRENNAN Principal, Houston Office Adapted from an address before the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, Houston Chapter—December 1968 VERY CPA attempts to serve his client in every way possible, be it advice on tax problems, assistance in areas related to management services, or performing an audit. Of these three services, the audit generally is the most time-consuming and may present the most problems. The client's reason for requesting an audit may be one or a combination of things: • To establish accountability • To supply financial information to vendors • To satisfy lender in a potential borrowing • To furnish required information for public financing • To fulfill a contractual obligation, such as stipulated in a profit-sharing plan • To satisfy stockholders Years ago, this service for a client would have been performed in a routine fashion, but today we are faced with many more problems. In recent years, the accountant's legal responsibility has come sharply into focus, with the extent and range of liability greatly increased, and the accountant now finds himself being held accountable to third parties in a much greater degree. Spiraling costs are also plaguing the CPA, but if he hopes to satisfy his client, he will have to perform the audit in a most efficient manner. Minimizing his legal liability while performing the audit in the most efficient manner is indeed a challenge to the CPA. GENERALLY ACCEPTED AUDITING STANDARDS Before delving into the problems presented in planning the first audit of a client, let us briefly review the generally accepted auditing standards as approved and adopted by the membership of the AICPA and published as a part of Statements on Auditing Procedure No. 33: 203	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line65
__label__cc	0.585394	0.414606	Way Too Lenient Even though the wing nut response to the tire slashing incident was extreme, this liberal feels that the defendants got off way too lightly. There should have been some sort of term in jail...not as long as conservatives hoped for, but nonetheless, some sort of incarceration should have occurred. Representative Gwen Moore said this was all political. A lot was, especially on the right. But there was politics on the left...the damage was done to vans owned by the other side. However, especially tiresome were Jeff Wagner's constant implications that Republicans never did anything illegal...where have you been, Jeff? Does the name "Duke" Cunningham ring a bell? In any case, Gwen Moore's son and the others should count their lucky stars. It should have been worse. Bullying Tactics The wing nuts love to bully others. If they can't win an argument in the marketplace of ideas, or if it appears that citizens are wising up to their antics, then they resort to bullying and lies. A case in point: D. Logan Darrow Clements (there's a mouthful), a former Republican candidate for governor in California has decided that he didn't like the eminent domain ruling handed down recently by the U.S. Supreme Court. The 5-4 ruling was split along party lines, with outgoing Justice Sanda Day O'Connor siding with the conservative wing. All right, people are not always going to agree with Supreme Court rulings. But Clements, in a blatant act of self advertisement, has decided to go one step better by attempting to have Justice David Souter's home grabbed by the local town and turned into a money-making venture called the Lost Liberty Hotel. Local authorities are certain the measure will lose in a landslide, some calling this act by Clements one of revenge. To this writer, Clements is just another pathetic example of wing nuts out of control. He's a bully. Let him have his day in the sun because that's what free speech is all about...then someone please yell "Fire" and have that small little man washed away. No Apology for Wing Nuts, Part Two Ouch, James. In the wing nut world, it's okay to inquire why other people's children are not attending MPS while home-schooling one's own. In the wing nut world, it's okay to indict a group of people for feeding the public trough (what the hell does that mean, anyway), while wing nut members enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us. Naughty naughty. No Apology for Wing Nuts James Wigderson at Wigderson Library & Pub has taken it upon himself to demand an apology from Bill Christofferson. Fact is, Christofferson hit it right on the money when he demanded an apology from Charlie Sykes, right-wing squawker at 620 WTMJ, who was the author of an audio that equated Governor Jim Doyle with racists of old. All because Doyle opposes lifting the cap for school choice. Charlie Sykes has never given a damn about African Americans. It’s all politics to him and this is, as Christofferson said, an easy way for Sykes to score cheap political points. The hilarious thing about all of this is Wigderson. His questioning whether Doyle and Christofferson would even think about putting their kids in MPS is hilarious. Hmmm, wasn’t it just a couple weeks ago that Wigderson was gleefully advertising himself after his “scared little suburbanite” piece hit the net. Where do your kids go to school, James? Before you ask, mine go to West Allis public schools. So, just cut it out. For you (along with Sykes) to say you have any sympathy for the plight of African Americans is disingenuous. Choice is all about reducing the tax load for wealthy whites and supplicating the Christian right wing…both whom Sykes panders to, as do you apparently. Blow it out your ear. Christofferson owes no one an apology. As for Jessica McBride and her silly free speech piece...She can’t even come up with an original name for her blog, so it’s not worth commenting other to say that she has way too much time on her hands…1,500 words, come on. This Is Crazy This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. -- New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, January 16 How do you make chocolate? You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about. --Nagin, January 17 Posted by Other Side at 8:02 AM 0 Swings of the bat Links to this post Who's the Crazy One? James over at Wigderson Library & Pub posted this quote from Paul Hackett, Democratic candidate for senator in Ohio: "The Republican Party has been hijacked by the religious fanatics that, in my opinion, aren't a whole lot different than Osama bin Laden and a lot of the other religious nuts around the world." James believes that Hackett is certifiable (psst, as in crazy). Hmmm...let's see who is crazy. I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. -- Ralph Reed I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism. --Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America. -- Pat Buchanan addressing an anti-gay rally in Des Moines I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God. -- George Bush (the uniter) Televangelist and biblical prophecy expert (self proclaimed) Jack Van Impe, had this to say about Pat Robertson... And right now, the National Association of Evangelicals informs us that this man has done damage, and it could actually take the lives of some of the missionaries in South America because the news media in South America is bombarding this thing across the airwaves around the clock. God forgive him. Not only that, but Mr. Robertson, you are pro-life, and yet you wanted the members of the Supreme Court to die last year, and now the president of Venezuela. We believe this book: Thou shalt not kill; Exodus 20, verse 13. And my Bible says that this is wrong, and I want to challenge you right now to change your ways. Because we as Christians do not need an Osami [sic] Bin Laden leading us. And last but not least, Jerry Falwell and his infamous 9/11 accusation. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say: you helped this happen. And the winner in the certifiable category is...not Paul Hackett. School Choice Audio Misleading I clicked on the audio regarding school choice (provided over at Widgerson Library & Pub)…excuse me, but putting Jim Doyle in the company of Orval Faubus and George Wallace is pathetic and wrong. Faubus and Wallace attempted to keep schools segregated. Where is the segregation here? The fact remains that those who gain the most under school choice are not the working poor or minority communities, but the wealthy, who gain tax credits for something they already do (send their kids to private schools), and the Christian Right, who are eager to use their vouchers to fund a religious education. I like to check out the Christian Coaltion website, CBN, etc. because their content is usually good for a laugh. Today is no different...this quote was found on the Christian Coaltion site. One of the penalies of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your interiors." - Plato Interiors?!? Oh, and how are the divorce proceedings going, Michele (daughter of morals champion, Roberta Combs)? You've Been Used The sad fact is that those who have voted for Republicans because of the imaginary “culture war” have been used. The Republicans who go around with Jesus on their lips and little crosses on their lapels are by and large the least Christian among us…they’re the crooks, serial divorcers, philanderers, drug users, tax cheats, bigots, hypocrites, draft dodgers, bribe-takers, the Fred Phelps of the world. Jimmy Carter was probably the most sincere Christian to occupy the White House in our lifetime. Look at the work he has done since leaving the presidency. What has George Sr. done…jump out of airplanes and shill for the Saudis. What has John Ashcroft done…piled up more than $265,000 being a lobbyist for the corporations that have benefited most from laws put in effect by the Patriot Act. What have Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff, Ralphie Reed, “Duke” Cunningham done other than line their pockets or the pockets of their K Street clients (and the Repugs in Wisconsin haven’t a thing to say about the corruption but worry their silly asses over $700 that a local casino kept…via Jeff Wagner…a fine way to use up the hot air waves). Pathetic. Doufus in Chief Strikes Again War is bad. Duh yup, I understands that. And, yup, this war is bad I got us into. But don't you talk bad about it 'cause the bad guys will be happier. What a load of crap...just another way the Repugs try to stifle any sort of dissent. "It's one thing to have a philosophical difference -- and I can understand people being abhorrent about war. War is terrible. But one way people can help as we're coming down the pike in the 2006 elections, is remember the effect that rhetoric can have on our troops in harm's way, and the effect that rhetoric can have in emboldening or weakening an enemy." -- George W. 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__label__cc	0.556287	0.443713	The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer. — Ancient Egyptian Proverb More from → Hall of Fame Hall of Fame Inductees: David Wells Jackie Gleason Andre The Giant John Candy John Goodman George Wendt “Babe” Ruth Homer Simpson Alan Hale Jr. Steven Schirripa Kevin James Drew Carey by David Lauterbach “A Skipper brave and sure” is the best way to describe Alan Hale Jr. who played the lovable but stern Skipper on Gilligan’s Island which has been on TV since the Minnow was tossed aground in 1964. One can only imagine what the island would have been like under the Skipper’s command had there only been more wild boar and less coconut creme pies… barbecue’s every night no doubt, if we can take a hint from the actor’s personal life. Hale was also the well known owner of a restaurant in the 70’s and 80’s called “The Lobster Barrel” where he would often greet guests dressed as the Skipper. Located on Hollywood’s Restaurant Row on La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA., surf and turf was likely the captain’s special. “Skipper, protect us from Gilligan!” The 6’2″, 280 pound Skipper (a.k.a. Jonas Grumby) summed up his character in a 1965 episode (you remember, it’s the one where the castaways almost get off the island but Gilligan screws it up) when he remarked “The first thing I’ll do when I get back is sink my teeth into a nice juicy steak.” In his day, Alan Hale Jr. was a well-known second-generation Hollywood actor whose enjoyment of life spilled out as naturally as a fat man’s stomach over his belt buckle. He appeared in over 50 movies including several classics like Up Periscope, The Lady Takes a Flyer, and The West Point Story. He was an avid golfer, and unlike other cast members of Gilligan’s Island, he enjoyed the image that his role on the show gave him. This included usually wearing a skipper’s cap at most times and donating his used ones for charity purposes. The Skipper is no longer with us. He passed on in 1990 at the age of 71. His ashes were scattered at sea from the deck of a boat that looked hauntingly like the Minnow. Pardon us while we pay for beer... Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Competition Goes to Tie-Breaker Joey Chestnut Still Top Dog at Coney Island Chesnut Eats 68 Dogs at Coney Island; Elephants Immediately Trample New Record G4’s New Show Might Have You Hurling Too from → Hall of Fame Find related → tags: Alan Hale Jr, Gilligan's Island, Jonas Grumby, Skipper Leave a Reply (New comment system--please up/down vote!)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line71
__label__wiki	0.738774	0.738774	Coming to Canada ? Immigration Practitioner's Profile CSIC 2009 Election Used Terms (Glossary) CCI Agents Current Polls Visitor Stat { Regina Time: Tuesday 21st January 2020 } CULTURE CONNECT INTERNATIONAL LTD Culture Connect International Ltd (CCI) is a registered and incorporated business in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is an immigration and socio cultural consultancy group in Regina. It was formed March 26, 2000. Culture Connect International Ltd is a subsidiary of KATUN Ventures (an organization formed April 01, 1992). Culture Connect international was formed out of need to help/assist people who would like to immigrate, work, study and relocate to Canada. Since its formation, CCI has operated with different interest groups and organizations. CCI operated with its subsidiary as non profit organization and later translated into a fully incorporated business organization to better serve people all over the world. CCI is currently incorporated in Canada and Nigeria. We Connect The World “The globe” (represents the entire world). This signifies the scope of CCI. Our services cover the entire world (To represent people who want to come to Canada). “Two hands across the globe”. Two hands, black and white represent the general classifications of people in the world. Our job is to connect the two hands in peace through immigration. Through immigration black and white can live in peace. You may click on the following link to know about our Core Values &Policy, Motto/Slogan, Fees, vision & mission, operations & services. Copyright @ 2003 - 2020 Culture Connect International Ltd. Regina, Canada.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line76
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Boyer, Dayton M. Lambert, Andrew P. Griffith, Christopher D. Clark, Burton English Journal: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , FirstView Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 August 2019, pp. 1-14 We determined how pasture and grazing management practices affected the number of days hay was fed to cattle by season. Data were collected from a survey of Tennessee cattle producers. Days of cattle on hay varied across seasons because of variations in forage production and weather. The number of days hay was fed to cattle varied with pasture-animal management practices such as rotating pastures, forage mixtures, and weed management strategies. Having mixtures of cool- and warm-season grasses reduced the number of days on hay in the winter, spring, and summer months indicating benefits from diversified forages. The Mopra Southern Galactic Plane CO Survey—Data Release 3 Catherine Braiding, G. F. Wong, N. I. Maxted, D. Romano, M. G. Burton, R. Blackwell, M. D. Filipović, M. S. R. Freeman, B. Indermuehle, J. Lau, D. Rebolledo, G. Rowell, C. Snoswell, N. F. H. Tothill, F. Voisin, P. de Wilt Journal: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 35 / 2018 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2018, e029 We present observations of 50 deg2 of the Mopra carbon monoxide (CO) survey of the Southern Galactic Plane, covering Galactic longitudes l = 300–350° and latitudes \|b\| ⩽ 0.5°. These data have been taken at 0.6 arcmin spatial resolution and 0.1 km s−1spectral resolution, providing an unprecedented view of the molecular clouds and gas of the Southern Galactic Plane in the 109–115 GHz J = 1–0 transitions of 12CO, 13CO, C18O, and C17O. We present a series of velocity-integrated maps, spectra, and position-velocity plots that illustrate Galactic arm structures and trace masses on the order of ~106 M⊙ deg−2, and include a preliminary catalogue of C18O clumps located between l = 330–340°. Together with the information about the noise statistics of the survey, these data can be retrieved from the Mopra CO website and the PASA data store. Encouraging older people to engage in resistance training: a multi-stakeholder perspective SIMONE PETTIGREW, ELISSA BURTON, KAELA FARRIER, ANNE-MARIE HILL, LIZ BAINBRIDGE, PHIL AIREY, GILL LEWIN, KEITH D. HILL Journal: Ageing & Society / Volume 39 / Issue 8 / August 2019 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 April 2018, pp. 1806-1825 Resistance training is an important aspect of healthy ageing, yet participation rates are especially low among older people. Strategies are needed to ensure resistance training programmes are attractive to and appropriate for this target group. To inform the development of such strategies, individual interviews (N = 42) and focus groups (four groups, N = 37) were conducted with 79 Western Australians representing four stakeholder groups: instructors who deliver resistance training programmes to older people, health practitioners, policy makers and seniors. Results indicate that the need for personalised attention in the establishment and maintenance phases of a resistance training programme can constitute both a positive and negative aspect of older people's experiences. The negative aspects were identified as a series of tensions between the need for personalised attention and (a) the desire to participate in physical activity within social groups, (b) a preference for activity variation, (c) a dislike for large centres where personalised guidance is often available yet the surroundings can be considered unappealing, (d) cost issues and (e) the need for flexibility in attendance. Recommended strategies for overcoming these tensions include disseminating information about the benefits of resistance training in later life to increase motivation to participate, identifying additional methods of integrating resistance training into group exercise formats, making gyms more attractive to older people and providing non-gym alternatives for resistance training. P and Ca digestibility is increased in broiler diets supplemented with the high-phytase HIGHPHY wheat D. Scholey, E. Burton, N. Morgan, C. Sanni, C. K. Madsen, G. Dionisio, H. Brinch-Pedersen Journal: animal / Volume 11 / Issue 9 / September 2017 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 March 2017, pp. 1457-1463 Around 70% of total seed phosphorus is represented by phytate which must be hydrolysed to be bioavailable in non-ruminant diets. The limited endogenous phytase activity in non-ruminant animals make it common practice to add an exogenous phytase source to most poultry and pig feeds. The mature grain phytase activity (MGPA) of cereal seeds provides a route for the seeds themselves to contribute to phytate digestion, but MGPA varies considerably between species and most varieties in current use make negligible contributions. Currently, all phytases used for feed supplementation and transgenic improvement of MGPA are derived from microbial enzymes belonging to the group of histidine acid phosphatases (HAP). Cereals contain HAP phytases, but the bulk of MGPA can be attributed to phytases belonging to a completely different group of phosphatases, the purple acid phosphatases (PAPhy). In recent years, increased MGPAs were achieved in cisgenic barley holding extra copies of barley PAPhy and in the wheat HIGHPHY mutant, where MGPA was increased to ~6200 FTU/kg. In the present study, the effect of replacing 33%, 66% and 100% of a standard wheat with HIGHPHY wheat was compared with a control diet with and without 500 FTU of supplemental phytase. Diets were compared by evaluating broiler performance, ileal Ca and P digestibility and tibia development, using nine replicate pens of four birds per diet over 3 weeks from hatch. There were no differences between treatments in any tibia or bird performance parameters, indicating the control diet did not contain sufficiently low levels of phosphorus to distinguish effect of phytase addition. However, in a comparison of the two wheats, the ileal Ca and P digestibility coefficients for the 100% HIGHPHY wheat diets are 22.9% and 35.6% higher, respectively, than for the control diet, indicating the wheat PAPhy is functional in the broiler digestive tract. Furthermore, 33% HIGHPHY replacement of conventional wheat, significantly improved Ca and P digestibility over the diet-supplemented exogenous phytase, probably due to the higher phytase activity in the HIGHPHY diet (1804 v. 1150 FTU). Full replacement by HIGHPHY gave 14.6% and 22.8% higher ileal digestibility coefficients for Ca and P, respectively, than for feed supplemented with exogenous HAP phytase at 500 FTU. This indicates that in planta wheat PAPhys has promising potential for improving P and mineral digestibility in animal feed. Surviving Elections: Election Violence, Incumbent Victory and Post-Election Repercussions Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Susan D. Hyde, Ryan S. Jablonski Journal: British Journal of Political Science / Volume 48 / Issue 2 / April 2018 It is often assumed that government-sponsored election violence increases the probability that incumbent leaders remain in power. Using cross-national data, this article shows that election violence increases the probability of incumbent victory, but can generate risky post-election dynamics. These differences in the consequences of election violence reflect changes in the strategic setting over the course of the election cycle. In the pre-election period, anti-incumbent collective action tends to be focused on the election itself, either through voter mobilization or opposition-organized election boycotts. In the post-election period, by contrast, when a favorable electoral outcome is no longer a possibility, anti-government collective action more often takes the form of mass political protest, which in turn can lead to costly repercussions for incumbent leaders. The Scientific Potential for Astronomy from the Antarctic Plateau: A Report prepared by the Australian Working Group for Antarctic Astronomy Michael Burton, D. K. Aitken, D. A. Allen, M. C. B. Ashley, M. G. Burton, R. D. Cannon, B. D. Carter, G. S. DaCosta, M. A. Dopita, M. L. Duldig, P. G. Edwards, P. E. Gillingham, P. J. Hall, A. R. Hyland, P. J. McGregor, J. R. Mould, R. P. Norris, E. M. Sadler, C. H. Smith, J. Spyromilio, J. W. V. Storey Journal: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 11 / Issue 2 / August 1994 Our knowledge of the universe comes from recording the photon and particle fluxes incident on the Earth from space. We thus require sensitive measurement across the entire energy spectrum, using large telescopes with efficient instrumentation located on superb sites. Technological advances and engineering constraints are nearing the point where we are recording as many photons arriving at a site as is possible. Major advances in the future will come from improving the quality of the site. The ultimate site is, of course, beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, such as on the Moon, but economic limitations prevent our exploiting this avenue to the degree that the scientific community desires. Here we describe an alternative, which offers many of the advantages of space for a fraction of the cost: the Antarctic Plateau. Extended Carbon Emission in the Galaxy: Dark Gas along the G328 Sightline IAU Issue 315 - From Interstellar Clouds... M. Burton, M. Ashley, C. Braiding, M. Freeman, C. Kulesa, M. Wolfire, D. Hollenbach, G. Rowell, J. Lau Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 11 / Issue S315 / August 2015 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2016, E10 We present spectral data cubes of the [CI] 809 GHz, 12CO 115 GHz, 13CO 110 GHz and HI 1.4 GHz line emission from a ~1° region along the l = 328° (G328) sightline in the Galactic Plane. The [CI] data comes from the High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz telescope at Ridge A on the summit of the Antarctic plateau, where the extremely low levels of precipitable water vapour open atmospheric windows for THz observations. The CO data comes from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey being conducted with the Mopra telescope. Emission arises principally from gas in three spiral arm crossings along the sight line. The distribution of the emission in the CO and [CI] lines is found to be similar, with the [CI] slightly more extended, and both are enveloped in extensive HI. Spectral line ratios are similar across the entire extent of the Galaxy. However, towards the edges of the molecular clouds the [CI]/13CO and 12CO/13CO line ratios rise by ~ 50%, and the [CI]/Hi ratio falls by ~ 10%. We attribute this to sightlines passing predominantly through the surfaces of photodissociation regions (PDRs), where the carbon is found mainly as C or C+ rather than CO, while the gas is mostly molecular. This is the signature of dark molecular gas. The Mopra Southern Galactic Plane CO Survey — Data Release 1 Catherine Braiding, M. G. Burton, R. Blackwell, C. Glück, J. Hawkes, C. Kulesa, N. Maxted, D. Rebolledo, G. Rowell, A. Stark, N. Tothill, J. S. Urquhart, F. Voisin, A. J. Walsh, P. de Wilt, G. F. Wong Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2015, e020 We present observations of the first 10° of longitude in the Mopra CO survey of the southern Galactic plane, covering Galactic longitude l = 320–330° and latitude b = ±0.5°, and l = 327–330°, b = +0.5–1.0°. These data have been taken at 35-arcsec spatial resolution and 0.1 km s−1 spectral resolution, providing an unprecedented view of the molecular clouds and gas of the southern Galactic plane in the 109–115 GHz J = 1–0 transitions of 12CO, 13CO, C18O, and C17O. Together with information about the noise statistics from the Mopra telescope, these data can be retrieved from the Mopra CO website and the CSIRO-ATNF data archive. CATTLE PRODUCERS’ WILLINGNESS TO ADOPT OR EXPAND PRESCRIBED GRAZING IN THE UNITED STATES KIMBERLY L. JENSEN, DAYTON M. LAMBERT, CHRISTOPHER D. CLARK, CAROLINE HOLT, BURTON C. ENGLISH, JAMES A. LARSON, T. EDWARD YU, CHAD HELLWINCKEL Journal: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics / Volume 47 / Issue 2 / May 2015 A triple hurdle model estimates cattle farmer willingness to adopt or expand prescribed grazing on pasture in the United States in response to a hypothetical incentive program. Interest in adoption/expansion is estimated first, then willingness to participate in the program, followed by intensity of participation measured as additional acres enrolled. The supply elasticity of enrolled acres with respect to the incentive is 0.13. Nonpecuniary factors inter alia farmer sentiment about stewardship, current farm management practices, farm location, and education are associated with farmer willingness to participate and with participation intensity. Selective Ordering of Pertechnetate at the Interface between Amorphous Silica and Water: a Poisson Boltzmann Treatment Christopher D. Williams, Karl P. Travis, John H. Harding, Neil A. Burton Calculations based on Poisson-Boltzmann theory are used to investigate the equilibrium properties of an electrolyte containing TcO4 − and SO4 2− ions near the surface of amorphous silica. The calculations show that the concentration of TcO4 − is greater than SO4 2− at distances less than 1 nm from the surface due to the negative charge density caused by deprotonation of the amorphous silica silanol groups. At lower pH, the surface becomes protonated and the magnitude of this effect is reduced. These results have implications for the potential use of oxyanion-SAMMS for the environmental remediation of water contaminated with 99Tc. Flow topology in the wake of a cyclist and its effect on aerodynamic drag T. N. Crouch, D. Burton, N. A. T. Brown, M. C. Thompson, J. Sheridan Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics / Volume 748 / 10 June 2014 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2014, pp. 5-35 Print publication: 10 June 2014 Three-dimensional flows around a full-scale cyclist mannequin were investigated experimentally to explain the large variations in aerodynamic drag that are measured as the legs are positioned around the $360^\circ $ crank cycle. It is found that the dominant mechanism affecting drag is not the small variation in frontal surface area over the pedal stroke but rather due to large changes in the flow structure over the crank cycle. This is clearly shown by a series of detailed velocity field wake surveys and skin friction flow visualizations. Two characteristic flow regimes are identified, corresponding to symmetrical low-drag and asymmetrical high-drag regimes, in which the primary feature of the wake is shown to be a large trailing streamwise vortex pair, orientated asymmetrically in the centre plane of the mannequin. These primary flow structures in the wake are the dominant mechanism driving the variation in drag throughout the pedal stroke. Topological critical points have been identified on the suction surfaces of the mannequin’s back and are discussed with velocity field measurements to elucidate the time-average flow topologies, showing the primary flow structures of the low- and high-drag flow regimes. The proposed flow topologies are then related to the measured surface pressures acting on the suction surface of the mannequin’s back. These measurements show that most of the variation in drag is due to changes in the pressure distribution acting on the lower back, where the large-scale flow structures having the greatest impact on drag develop. A comparison of two methods for determining titanium dioxide marker content in broiler digestibility studies N. K. Morgan, D. V. Scholey, E. J. Burton Journal: animal / Volume 8 / Issue 4 / April 2014 The use of inert markers in broiler diets eliminates the need to quantitatively evaluate feed intake and excreta output to determine diet digestibility, and enables nutrient uptake at specific points along the gastrointestinal tract to be examined. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is commonly used for this purpose and measured using a UV-spectrophotometric assay. Two experiments were conducted to observe whether an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrophotometer (ICP-OES) assay is able to replace the UV-spectroscopy assay for rapid analysis of TiO2 in broiler feed and ileal digesta samples. In the first experiment, TiO2 was added at 5 g/kg to 19 broiler diets. Ross 308 male broilers (n=452) fed these diets were involved in a series of digestion studies to determine ileal digesta recovery of TiO2. In the second experiment, defined amounts of TiO2 were added to ileal digesta samples from Ross 308 male broilers (n=176) and TiO2 recoveries were determined. The feed and ileal samples from both experiments were analysed by both UV-spectroscopy and ICP-OES, and relatedness of the findings from the two assays was determined. Overall relatedness of the two assays was strong for determination of TiO2 concentration in both the broiler diets and ileal digesta samples (r=0.908 and r=0.884, respectively). Overall recovery of supplemented TiO2 was 97.62% by the UV-spectroscopy assay and 98.77% by the ICP-OES assay. The ICP-OES assay in this study was as accurate as spectrophotometric determination for the quantification of TiO2 content. The ICP-OES method can also be used to analyse several elements within one assay, with a single preparation step, and thus the measurement of TiO2 may be incorporated into the analysis of other minerals. Time and resources dedicated to determining diet digestibility in broilers could be minimised by using the ICP-OES assay to replace the UV-spectroscopy assay when measuring TiO2 concentration. The Prevalence of Incidental Findings in Multiple Sclerosis Patients J. Trufyn, M.D. Hill, J.N. Scott, J. Modi, V. Ciura, R. Frayne, M. Goyal, D. Lautner, D. Bhayana, W.J. Davenport, J.K. Mah, J.M. Burton, F. Costello Journal: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Volume 41 / Issue 1 / January 2014 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2014, pp. 49-52 Print publication: January 2014 Incidental findings arising from imaging research have important implications for patient safety. Magnetic resonance imaging is widespread in multiple sclerosis (MS) studies and care, yet the prevalence rate of incidental findings in MS is poorly defined. The absence of such reports in the MS literature suggests that such findings may be deemed inappropriate for documentation in research publications, or possibly, not fully reported at all. We sought to document incidental findings from a study designed to detect features of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) in MS patients and control subjects. Magnetic resonance images were obtained as part of a prospective study conducted between October 2010 and September 2012. Patients with MS (relapsing-remitting, primary progressive, secondary progressive), clinically isolated syndromes, and neuromyelitis optica and age/sex-matched healthy controls were included. All images were reviewed by neuro-radiologists for quality-control purposes. Magnetic resonance imaging was successfully obtained in 166 participants (110 patients, 56 controls). Incidental abnormalities (n = 33) were detected in 15% of patients (n = 17) and 27% of controls (n = 15), comprising 19% overall (n = 32). The prevalence of incidental findings from the MS population was not significantly different from the control population. However, the overall prevalence was high and warrants a careful management strategy for future imaging studies. Human Rights Institutions, Sovereignty Costs and Democratization Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Edward D. Mansfield, Jon C.W. Pevehouse Journal: British Journal of Political Science / Volume 45 / Issue 1 / January 2015 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2013, pp. 1-27 Why do countries join international human rights institutions, when membership often yields few material gains and constrains state sovereignty? This article argues that entering a human rights institution can yield substantial benefits for democratizing states. Emerging democracies can use the ‘sovereignty costs’ associated with membership to lock in liberal policies and signal their intent to consolidate democracy. It also argues, however, that the magnitude of these costs varies across different human rights institutions, which include both treaties and international organizations. Consistent with this argument, the study finds that democratizing states tend to join human rights institutions that impose greater constraints on state sovereignty. The Mopra Southern Galactic Plane CO Survey Michael G. Burton, C. Braiding, C. Glueck, P. Goldsmith, J. Hawkes, D. J. Hollenbach, C. Kulesa, C. L. Martin, J. L. Pineda, G. Rowell, R. Simon, A. A. Stark, J. Stutzki, N. J. H. Tothill, J. S. Urquhart, C. Walker, A. J. Walsh, M. Wolfire We present the first results from a new carbon monoxide (CO) survey of the southern Galactic plane being conducted with the Mopra radio telescope in Australia. The 12CO, 13CO, and C18O J = 1–0 lines are being mapped over the $l = 305^{\circ }\text{--} 345^{\circ }, b = \pm 0.5^{\circ }$ portion of the fourth quadrant of the Galaxy, at 35 arcsec spatial and 0.1 km s−1 spectral resolution. The survey is being undertaken with two principal science objectives: (i) to determine where and how molecular clouds are forming in the Galaxy and (ii) to probe the connection between molecular clouds and the ‘missing’ gas inferred from gamma-ray observations. We describe the motivation for the survey, the instrumentation and observing techniques being applied, and the data reduction and analysis methodology. In this paper, we present the data from the first degree surveyed, $l = 323^{\circ } \text{--} 324^{\circ }, b = \pm 0.5^{\circ }$ . We compare the data to the previous CO survey of this region and present metrics quantifying the performance being achieved; the rms sensitivity per 0.1 km s−1 velocity channel is ~1.5 K for ${\rm ^{12}CO}$ and ~0.7 K for the other lines. We also present some results from the region surveyed, including line fluxes, column densities, molecular masses, ${\rm ^{12}CO/^{13}CO}$ line ratios, and ${\rm ^{12}CO}$ optical depths. We also examine how these quantities vary as a function of distance from the Sun when averaged over the 1 square degree survey area. Approximately 2 × 106M⊙ of molecular gas is found along the G323 sightline, with an average H2 number density of $n_{\text{H}_2} \sim 1$ cm−3 within the Solar circle. The CO data cubes will be made publicly available as they are published. The Roots, Undun. Def Jam 001628202, 2011. Kanye West and Jay-Z, Watch the Throne. Roc-A-Fella/Roc Nation/Def Jam 001542602, 2011. Journal: Journal of the Society for American Music / Volume 7 / Issue 3 / August 2013 Interference and Control of Glyphosate-Resistant and -Susceptible Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) Populations under Greenhouse Conditions Aman Chandi, David L. Jordan, Alan C. York, Susana R. Milla-Lewis, James D. Burton, A. Stanley Culpepper, Jared R. Whitaker Journal: Weed Science / Volume 61 / Issue 2 / June 2013 Interference for 40 d after emergence (DAE) of corn, cotton, peanut, and snap bean by four glyphosate-resistant (GR) and four glyphosate-susceptible (GS) Palmer amaranth populations from Georgia and North Carolina was compared in the greenhouse. Greater interference from Palmer amaranth, measured as crop height and fresh weight reduction, was noted in cotton and peanut compared with corn or snap bean. Crop height 15 to 40 DAE was reduced similarly by GR and GS populations. Crop fresh weight, however, was reduced 25 and 19% in the presence of GS and GR populations, respectively. Measured as percent reduction in fresh weight, GR and GS populations of Palmer amaranth were controlled similarly by glufosinate, lactofen, paraquat, and trifloxysulfuron applied POST. Atrazine and dicamba controlled GR populations more effectively than GS populations. The Cognitive Revolution and the Political Psychology of Elite Decision Making Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, D. Alex Hughes, David G. Victor Journal: Perspectives on Politics / Volume 11 / Issue 2 / June 2013 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 May 2013, pp. 368-386 Experimental evidence in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics is transforming the way political science scholars think about how humans make decisions in areas of high complexity, uncertainty, and risk. Nearly all those studies utilize convenience samples of university students, but in the real world political elites actually make most pivotal political decisions such as threatening war or changing the course of economic policy. Highly experienced elites are more likely to exhibit the attributes of rational decision-making; and over the last fifteen years a wealth of studies suggest that such elites are likely to be more skilled in strategic bargaining than samples with less germane experience. However, elites are also more likely to suffer overconfidence, which degrades decision-making skills. We illustrate implications for political science with a case study of crisis bargaining between the US and North Korea. Variations in the experience of US elite decision-makers between 2002 and 2006 plausibly explain the large shift in US crisis signaling better than other rival hypotheses such as “Iraq fatigue.” Beyond crisis bargaining other major political science theories might benefit from attention to the attributes of individual decision-makers. By Nazia M. Alam, Enrico Alleva, Hiroyuki Arakawa, Robert H. Benno, Fred G. Biddle, D. Caroline Blanchard, Robert J. Blanchard, Richard J. Bodnar, John D. Boughter, Igor Branchi, Richard E. Brown, Abel Bult-Ito, Jonathan M. Cachat, Peter R. Canavello, Francesca Cirulli, Giovanni Colacicco, John C. Crabbe, Jacqueline N. Crawley, Wim E. Crusio, Sietse F. de Boer, Ekrem Dere, Brenda A. Eales, Robert T. Gerlai, Howard K. Gershenfeld, Thomas J. Gould, Martin E. Hahn, Peter C. Hart, Andrew Holmes, Joseph P. Huston, Allan V. Kalueff, Benjamin Kest, Robert Lalonde, Sarah R. Lewis-Levy, Hans-Peter Lipp, Sheree F. Logue, Stephen C. Maxson, Jeffrey S. Mogil, Douglas A. Monks, Dennis L. Murphy, Lee Niel, Timothy P. O’Leary, Susanna Pietropaolo, Peter K.D. Pilz, Claudia F. Plappert, Bernard Possidente, Glen T. Prusky, Laura Ricceri, Heather Schellinck, Herbert Schwegler, Burton Slotnick, Frans Sluyter, Shad B. Smith, Catherine Strazielle, Douglas Wahlsten, Hans Welzl, James F. Willott, David P. Wolfer, Armin Zlomuzica Edited by Wim E. Crusio, Université de Bordeaux, Frans Sluyter, Robert T. Gerlai, University of Toronto, Susanna Pietropaolo, Université de Bordeaux Book: Behavioral Genetics of the Mouse Published online: 05 May 2013 Print publication: 25 April 2013, pp ix-xii The Science Case for PILOT II: the Distant Universe J. S. Lawrence, M. C. B. Ashley, A. Bunker, R. Bouwens, D. Burgarella, M. G. Burton, N. Gehrels, K. Glazebrook, K. Pimbblet, R. Quimby, W. Saunders, J. W. V. Storey, J. C. Wheeler Journal: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 26 / Issue 4 / 2009 Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2013, pp. 397-414 PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed 2.5-m optical/infrared telescope to be located at Dome C on the Antarctic plateau. The atmospheric conditions at Dome C deliver a high sensitivity, high photometric precision, wide-field, high spatial resolution, and high-cadence imaging capability to the PILOT telescope. These capabilities enable a unique scientific potential for PILOT, which is addressed in this series of papers. The current paper presents a series of projects dealing with the distant (redshift >1) Universe, that have been identified as key science drivers for the PILOT facility. The potential for PILOT to detect the first populations of stars to form in the early Universe, via infrared projects searching for pair-instability supernovae and gamma-ray burst afterglows, is investigated. Two projects are proposed to examine the assembly and evolution of structure in the Universe: an infrared survey searching for the first evolved galaxies at high redshift, and an optical survey aimed at characterising moderate-redshift galaxy clusters. Finally, a large-area weak-lensing survey and a program to obtain supernova infrared light-curves are proposed to examine the nature and evolution of dark energy and dark matter.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line88
__label__wiki	0.67343	0.67343	The Cornerstone Volunteers Mass on Saturday 29th June drew in over 100 people, mainly volunteers and supporters to give thanks for the work with homeless and destitute people, refugees and asylum seekers in the heart of Manchester. The opening hymn captured the essence of the service: We are pilgrims on the journey, We are travellers on the road. We are here to help each other, Walk the mile and bear the load. Fr Ged Murphy concelebrated the Mass with Fr Tom Mulheran and in his homily paid tribute to Fr Tom for the many years of service to Cornerstone and Caritas. Speaking of Caritas, Fr Ged, now the Episcopal Vicar for Caritas spoke warmly of his experience of the ‘incredible work of Caritas’ that was working to ‘make a real difference and make real the Kingdom of God’. Supporting the staff and volunteers was the centre manager Angela McIntyre who has developed Cornerstone into a responsive service to help some of the most needy people in Greater Manchester and establish the Safe Haven emergency accommodation known as the ‘pods’ – port-a- cabins that sit on the car park and provide a vital lifeline to destitute people. Sharing her journey was Marissa who first came as volunteers to Cornerstone from the Netherlands and now and is a worker assisting people to access housing. She was followed by Francesco Leoni ,a tutor for the Refugee Response Education Service based at Cornerstone and supported by the service with classroom space and an evening meal for up to 80 learners per evening. He spoke eloquently of the educational work that not only improved people’s language skills but gave people hope and friendship to overcome the isolation of being in a new country. Finally, Robert, not his real name, spoke of the change in his life now free from alcohol thanks to the support from Cornerstone. Completing the sharing was Howard Bradshaw, Deputy Manager who acknowledged and thanked the 173 volunteers that assist Cornerstone’s work saying that none of God’s Army as ever taken for granted and they were the cogs that turned the big wheels of the service and without them the service couldn’t be so good as it was. The celebration was finished off with a wonderful buffet lunch. Volunteers gathered last Saturday for the bi-annual celebration of Mass to remember past and present Cornerstone grew from a collaboration of the Diocese of Salford with Canon O’Connor, the Daughters On the 13th March, Caritas Diocese of Salford welcomed Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester CORNERSTONE DAY CENTRE AND SAFE HAVEN NIGHT SHELTER Wishing everybody that has helped us in	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line89
__label__cc	0.712779	0.287221	To Investigate or to Legislate. What Will Congress Do? Grandma P and I just got home ten days ago from a 60 day cruise that went around the Pacific Rim. It was a marvelous, bucket-list cruise that included Alaska, Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea (North Korea was not conducting excursions that day, or any day!), Viet Nam, the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii. Whew! There were to be 22 ports of call, but two were cancelled as we were dodging a typhoon on our way from Alaska to Japan. There are nothing like 40 foot waves to get your attention on a ship! Meanwhile, back in the good ole’ US of A, all kinds a ‘goings on’ were occurring. There were deadly fires taking place in California. Hurricane Michael, a very late in season hurricane, came ashore just east of Panama City, Florida. Were we concerned? Being the eye of that category 5 hurricane came ashore just 59 miles from our house, you could surmise that we were very concerned. We would have been more concerned if we were not dodging a typhoon at the same time creating the 40′ waves. The ship did not really have to be concerned about entertaining us for 60 days. Why? Because we had the Brett Kavanaugh hearings on three different news channels. We could watch it on MSNBC, Fox, or the BBC. As you are aware, the coverage was relentless; almost as relentless as the accusations against Kavanaugh were ridiculous and repulsive. I am sure that in her mind, Christine Blasey Ford believed something did happen to her. Without the corroboration of any of her ‘best friends’, the accusations were weak at best. The whole affair turned beyond ridiculous when the accusation was made that he was the ‘leader of a gang of rapists!’ After 6 FBI background investigations without a blemish? I don’t think so. Trust me when I say that I do not enjoy writing about those senatorial proceedings any more than I, and many others, enjoyed watching them. But the one takeaway from those proceedings that sends a shiver down my spine is the thought that those proceedings, with senators mugging for TV time, with senators posturing to be a presidential nominee, with senators acting as if they are the clowns in a whole new circus firing off ridiculous accusations, that all of this becomes …….the new ‘political reality TV.’ Oh. There was one more event that took place during our cruise. We had the midterm elections. Was there any drama surrounding that event? We were not sure who the governor or US senator from Florida would be until almost two weeks after election night. We got off the ship on November 18, and I believe Ron Desantis and Rick Scott were declared the winners the day before. (If those damn Russians would quit meddling in our elections, we would have had the results sooner!) Anyway, after a run-off in Mississippi for senator, and a bucket load of close elections around the country, the end result is that the Republicans picked up two seats in the Senate, and lost about 30 seats in the House of Representatives, giving the Democrats the majority. So now, dear readers, I have finally gotten to the meat of this blog. Will our new Congress legislate, or investigate? I have some suggestions for our Congress if they feel like performing their jobs and decide to legislate. Firstly, that caravan of immigrants, that caravan that the media tried to convince us was imaginary, has now appeared at our borders. Recently, things turned ugly when bottles and rocks were thrown at our border security people. Not only that, it is confirmed that there are more caravans on the way. We have all heard different stories as to the composition of these caravans. The most reliable information for me comes from the Mexican government. I am skeptical of our media coverage, so the Mexican government has no reason to sugarcoat the caravan composition. They are reporting that 75% are working age males. The remaining 25% is divided between women and children. Less than 5% of these people have a tinge of a case for political asylum. The Mexican government has offered jobs. But yet, they decline and keep coming. The Mexican government has offered ‘political asylum.’ But yet, they decline and keep coming. The Mexican government in conjunction with our border security people cite that a full 10% of these people have criminal records. Do you want these people as your neighbors? If these people are really trying to escape bad countries in the hope of entering our country, why are they carrying the flags of the country they left and not the flag of our country. To me, this indicates they do not really want to assimilate and contribute to our society as Americans, but abuse our benevolence as immigrants. So Congress, if you want to listen to the electorate and legislate: build the wall, establish border security and pass legislation for allowing people to apply for and establish rules for becoming US citizens. This should apply to new immigrants, and to the ‘dreamers.’ If that sounds like a boring prospect, how about addressing the problem of Russian aggression in the Ukraine and the military build-ups by both Russia and China. Still boring? Well, then throw in North Korea and Iran to boot. That should keep Congress busy for a while. Our past politicians have failed to address these issues for years and now this has festered into a bigger, global problem. Here is a thought. How about establishing voting requirements for elections. You know. Simple stuff like being a US citizen to vote in our election. How about a photo ID to vote? I know this would inconvenience the average US citizen about 10 minutes to prove they are actually a US citizen, but I believe that the inconvenience is well worth it. It gores my bull when I think that my vote could be cancelled by someone not remotely eligible to vote in this country. And with that in mind, Robert Mueller is still, after two years, trying to determine how the Russians influenced the 2016 election. Let me help you with that Robert. They didn’t. After $40 million, you still cannot pinpoint Russian influence on that election. Yet, I am sure that many non-citizens voted in our election. The Russians could only dream of affecting our elections as much as states allowing illegals to vote. Have you heard one item that the Democrats plan for legislation after they control the House of Representatives? One item? Anyone? Naw….me neither. What I have heard is that they plan to ‘investigate.’ What do they plan to investigate? Well, they are foaming at the mouth about being able to investigate Donald Trump’s tax returns for the period when his father passed the corporation from himself to Donald. Considering Fred Trump died in 1999 at the age of 93, and retired from business in the 70’s, that would be one helluva IRS investigation. How many corporations or individuals keep records for almost 50 years! But wait! This investigation would make great ‘political reality TV,’ and maybe, just maybe we could create enough skepticism to get Trump impeached! Believe it or not, I am OK with the IRS doing an audit on Donald Trump. Because America is the land of opportunity and fairness, I would want an IRS audit done on each and every member of Congress! I would want to know how a person gets elected to Congress as a pauper and walks away as a ‘gabillionaire.’ Wouldn’t you want to know? How is it that Barack Obama is elected POTUS with a net worth less than mine and now has a net worth of $135 million. (Yes. That net worth is more than mine. But I wrote this blog and what did he do?) Don’t you want to know? And, to make this really fair and equitable, as long as the Trump Organization is being audited, I would want the Clinton Foundation audited. I would want the Uranium One deal investigated. (I would actually like to see ‘all things Clinton’ investigated!) I have this nagging feeling that far too many people in this country like and enjoy ‘political realty TV.’ I think that because of some of the candidates that won in the last midterm election. For example, New York elected a socialist. Furthermore, a senator from Arizona says it is OK to fight for the enemies of the US such as ISIS. Are these people really qualified candidates? Were they the best candidates available? Or, were they elected to create more dissension and confusion within Congress, thereby creating more opportunities for more ‘political reality TV?’ After watching the Kavanaugh hearings (And the new Murphy Brown show! But, more on that later.), I hope that ‘political reality TV’ is not the new norm. If it is, heaven needs to help us through the next two years. A lesson learned from all of this? Grandma P and I cannot leave the country for extended periods of time. It goes to hell in our absence and political programming like Murphy Brown appears on TV, attempting to pass itself off as a comedy. You failed, and you have been canceled. Thankfully, good judgement prevailed in that decision. I am beginning to think that I, too, may be a ‘dreamer.’ I dream that maybe one day, our Congress will legislate, and eventually do what is right for America. Legislate, not investigate. GET TO WORK! This entry was posted in Common Sense, Common Sense Solutions, Political Insight, Political Opinion, Politics and tagged 2018 midterm election, biased media, Bill Clinton, border security, Clinton Foundation, congress, Donald Trump, federal voting requirements, Hillary Clinton, illegal immigration voting, immigrant caravans, Iran and North Korea, IRS audits, legislate or investigate, Media Bias, Murphy Brown, Russia and China military aggression, Voter ID, voter requirements on December 1, 2018 by Grandpa T. My Senses are Degrading….Just Like Our Society! Gosh Darn It! There are times when getting older really does suck. And as I get older, my senses are degrading in acuity. You remember those five senses from grammar school…sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch. It appears to me that as my senses are degrading, so are the senses of our society. (My mind is faltering, too. But, dammit, I did not have to use Google to remember the five senses!) Let me provide examples of how I think society’s senses are faltering, much as mine. Have you ever watched an episode of ‘The View?’ That is a daytime show with four very left- leaning women, trying to convince other women to be left-leaning. Well…admittedly, I have never watched more than 5 minutes of that show, mostly because I am not left-leaning or a woman. Surprise. The four primary women on this show are Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Abby Huntsman, and Sunny Hostin. This past week, they were mocking the message that Melania Trump produced about defending her husband from a New York op-ed piece. Sunny Hostin began reading this message in an improvised, not funny-at-all, Melania accent. Admittedly, one of the other women had the good graces and common sense to tell her to stop. I am sure than anyone that hears Melania speak, can also hear her accent. (Did you catch that segue?) I wonder if they would have mocked her accent if they would have heard her speak the other five languages that she speaks? Yes, Melania speaks six languages: Slovenian, French, Serbian, German and Italian, and of course, English. I am willing to bet that she speaks more languages than the other four ladies on The View combined. Have there ever been instances in your life that you ‘would not touch with a 10 foot flagpole?’ I know I have, but whenever I have gotten close to a real ’10 foot flag pole’, I was either saluting it or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. During all twelve years of my el-hi education, the day was begun with the Pledge of Allegiance. If Colin Kaepernick gets close to a ’10 foot flagpole….he takes a knee. Amazingly, just to show how disrespectful this act is, the Nike corporation has decided to use Colin as the face of their newest ad campaign. Their reasoning? They believe that Kaepernick showed ‘bravery and sacrifice’ by taking the knee. Now I realize that my mind isn’t as sharp as it once was, but I am having one hell of a time equating disrespect for our flag, our national anthem and our country as being ‘brave and sacrificing!’ I will give Nike the benefit of the doubt about market research in making this decision. They realized that their target group is younger people, and that virtually anyone over the age of 55 is off their radar. But you screwed up in your assumptions. Us ‘over 55’ crowd are parents and grandparents, which means that those grandkids get presents for birthdays and Christmas. Do you think us older folks, us that recited the Pledge of Allegiance every day, are going to rush to buy Nike gear for their grandkids? Not likely. You may be spot on by targeting the generation that has never had to live through a costly war. Their perception of ‘sacrifice and bravery’ would be diluted from us who lost friends and relatives in Viet Nam or Korea or World War II or from 9/11. Nike, you missed the boat. If you wanted to push the envelope of society, and touch the hearts of a patriotic America, you could have been a trendsetter by choosing someone else. How about a fire figher who rushed into the World Trade Center, knowing they may die while trying to rescue others? How about a paraplegic, athletic soldier or Marine that has lost both legs while defending this country rather than denigrating it. Those military people who have lost their limbs would only take two knees to pray, but never one knee to disrespect this country. Need a famous athlete, as you have selected in the past? How about J.J. Watt? He raised over $47 million for Hurricane Harvey relief. But I would guess that J.J. Watts, excellent role model like he is, is not ‘edgy’ enough for your campaign. Peyton Manning would be left out because he has only built a children’s hospital with his own money. But there is an upside to this whole affair. In today’s Trump improving economy, even Colin Kaepernick got a job! This past week, the New York Times came out with a scathing op-ed piece about the White House and Donald Trump. The entire article was based upon a ‘high level anonymous source.’ Within the last two weeks, Bob Woodward has published a new book, also very negative about the White House and Donald Trump. His book is largely based on ‘anonymous sources and hearsay.’ In his book, he has said that, “his anonymous source overheard” a conversation in the White House. Does anyone ‘smell a rat’ when it comes to ‘anonymous sources and hearsay?’ I don’t know about you, but I am beginning to equate the word ‘anonymous’ with the word, ‘fictitious’ and the word ‘hearsay‘ with the word, ‘rumor.’ The reason why I ‘smell a rat’ concerning this type of reporting and journalism is that I am wildly skeptical because of the timing. It has become common in the last few decades, to release negative garbage just prior to an upcoming election, by both parties. (Okay. I am biased. I feel like the liberal media has the edge in the garbage department.) This year’s midterm election is going to be huge on how the outcome affects the direction of America and the smelly journalistic garbage campaign is already beginning. You can certainly be assured that there will be more to follow. My opinion about ‘anonymous sources’ is that if they feel so strongly about what information they are providing, then they should be courageous enough to identify themselves. If they are not willing to identify themselves, then they should not disclose their information. That is the way it would be in the Grandpa T fantasy world. One of my fondest memories of growing up was being in, and watching parades. I would love to see the floats, the bands with their beautiful majorettes, the beauty queens, the classic cars and catching the handfuls of candy that accompanied every parade. But I have one regret. I have only seen one circus. I was probably 5 or 6, and somehow our family got tickets to see the Ringling Brothers circus. For a young kid, it was magical! There are advantages to getting old. For one advantage, I get to watch a whole lot of television. For one disadvantage, I get to watch a whole lot of television. With that in mind, I would like to share with you that while watching television this past week, I got to see another circus. That makes two circuses in my lifetime! This particular circus was hosted by the Senate Judiciary Committee during its confirmation hearings involving Judge Brett Kavanaugh. It was obvious from the questioning and from the proceedings that there were more clowns in this circus than Ringling Brothers could ever afford. Total lack of respect. Total lack of decorum. Total dedication to disrupting the proceedings. I can see that this is what we receive when we load a room with over-inflated egos, posturing to become a presidential candidate. Eventually, we did get a smattering of what the Supreme Court Justice nominee had to say, but it was secondary to the circus being in town. After watching this event, I began wishing for two things: 1. Take the cameras out of the room, because most of these clowns never met a TV camera they didn’t like, and, 2. Is it too late to change our government to a benevolent dictator so we would not have to watch how crappy our government really operates? (How did those 70 demonstrators get into that meeting room? Did they need a pass from one of the senatorial participants? Just wondering out loud.) In late June, Sarah Sanders and her family were asked to leave before getting a taste of the cuisine at at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. Bummer. She was asked to leave by the owner, stating that she was asked to leave because she works for Donald Trump. The owner then took this personal display of stupidity and disrespect by following Sarah and her family to the next restaurant. But just like the TV commercials, ‘but wait…there’s more!’ Maxine Waters, U.S. Representative from the California 43rd congressional district took this one step further by stating that, “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” Wow! Aren’t our elected officials suppose to do what is best for America? Aren’t they suppose to set an example for Americans? Heal racial wounds? Promote a united America? Well, in this instance, Maxine went out of her way to demonstrate her intolerance and stupidity. One can only hope that sometime in the near future, Maxine Waters gets a taste of her own medicine and gets thrown out of some facility. Hopefully that would be the House of Representatives. Just thinking out loud about the Grandpa T fantasy world. I still have enough intellectual wits about me to know that my senses are slightly duller as I get older. My big concern is, ‘Does our society have enough intellectual wits to realize that its senses are dulling, also?’ (And, probably faster than mine!) America needs to become more cognizant of its ‘senses.’ And in that vein, let’s continue to “Make America Great Again!” This entry was posted in Common Sense, Common Sense Solutions, Congress, Growing Up in America 65 Years Ago, Political Insight, Political Opinion, Politics and tagged biased media, Bob Woodward book, bravery and sacrifice, Brett Kavenaugh, Colin Kaepernick, disrespect for the flag, disrespect for the national anthem, disrespect for the United States, Donald Trump, J.J. Watt, Lexingon Virginia, Maxine Waters, Media Bias, Melania Trump, New York Times op-ed, Nike ad, Nike decision, Peyton Manning, Red Hen restaurant, Sarah Sanders, Senate Judiciary Committee, The View on September 10, 2018 by Grandpa T. ‘BEE a Comedienne!’—‘No Holds BARR-ed!’ Every once in a great while, I decide that I need to take a break from writing a blog about politics and all the political machinations taking place in Washington, D.C. My last blog, about the value of a college degree in today’s society was one such break. But then………bam! Either the media, Hollywood or politics suck me right back into what has now become, the hateful quagmire of our society. By this time, anyone not living in a cardboard box in Borneo has heard about the totally inappropriate tweet by Roseanne Barr concerning Valerie Jarrett. Why in God’s green earth Roseanne decided to make this tweet about Valerie Jarrett, I will never know. Like the other 99% of the people in America, I forgot about Jarrett and who she was until she was brought forward by this tweet. She was a presidential adviser to Barrack Obama. Yup, just like you, my mind did a control, alternate, delete and erased her from my limited, aging memory bank. Even though Ms. Jarrett is a passionate Liberal politically, she does not appear to be running for any elected office…at least not yet. Only Roseanne knows why she made her the subject of this tweet. I am not going to write the verbatim tweet written by Roseanne. It was inappropriate, needless, and if Roseanne was trying to be funny, she did a 10 story belly flop onto concrete. What I find way more interesting is the responses to the tweet. The president of ABC Entertainment, Channing Dungey, immediately….and I do mean ‘immediately’, within hours, cancelled the show. Channing is the first black person, (and coincidentally she is a woman) to be a president of ABC Entertainment. The Hollywood social media nabobs came out of the woodwork in support of the ABC decision to cancel the show. And, as expected, the vast majority supported the decision. One of the more interesting, and coincidentally one of the first responsive tweets came from Alyssa Milano. She tweeted, “Thank you, @ABCNetwork for doing the right thing and for showing people that bigotry and racism have consequences. (So far, so good! And then?) Now, if you could only cancel our President for the same reason. Say what? Alyssa, you were doing so well with your tweet, and then somehow your mind wandered to the POTUS? What exactly did you mean when you said ‘cancel our President?’ I am not confused about the fact that you accused the POTUS of bigotry and racism. Do you know Donald Trump personally? Are you on his Christmas card list? Or are you just spewing the liberal blather of name calling, because name calling is the basis of the liberal hatred for Trump and the people that support him; which, coincidentally, is the majority of Americans! If you have followed the Roseanne incident, you are aware that she has gone to great lengths to apologize to Valerie Jarrett, to ABC, to her cast of Roseanne, and to the world. She has volunteered to work for free for a limited time and to do free promotional work for ABC, all with the intent of keeping her show alive. She has apologized profusely for her lack of judgement in attempting to be comedic, and she realizes her comments were responsible for a whole lot of people losing their jobs. ABC on the other hand, now realizes how much money the Rosanne show made and how much they will lose by cancelling the program. Ahhh….there is nothing more awakening than the reality of the consequences suffered by doing a knee jerk reaction to a tweet. ABC will lose lots of money and in Hollywood, money is the ultimate ‘god!’ They are actually thinking of continuing the program, using Sara Gilbert as the central character on the show. What will be the show’s new name? Roseanne without Roseanne? I like Sara Gilbert. I liked her on the original Roseanne. I liked her as the antagonist to Sheldon Cooper on the ‘Big Bang Theory.’ I do not like her on ‘The View.’ Do you think that politics has had a big part of this whole affair? I will predict that any version of the Rosanne show without Rosanne Barr is going to tank. Like her or not….she is the show. Just when you thought that things cannot get any loonier than this whole incident surrounding Roseanne Barr, along comes a relative unknown named Samantha Bee. Unknown to the extent that she has a show on TBS called, ‘Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.’ I have never heard of her and never heard of her show. Her credentials are that she has spent 12 years on Comedy Central, and as a reporter for ‘The Daily Show.’ Well there you have it! She’s a comedienne, so that makes her preeminently qualified to provide vitriolic political commentary. What started this little incident was a tweet of Ivanka Trump holding her 2 year old baby boy. This photo was posted by Ivanka. But the people that live in the depths of the liberal swamp could not take the picture at face value. That face value being a mother holding and cuddling her baby. No..no..no! It was obviously a picture that decries the fact that illegal immigrant parents are being separated from their illegal immigrant children. Another ‘leap of logic’ by the liberals that makes Evel Knievel’s leap over the Snake River Canyon look like hopping a curb. How these people get there, I will never know. But Samatha Bee, that all caring person on her show decided that the Ivanka Trump’s photo tweet warranted calling Ivanka a “feckless cxxt”. That particular noun, more than any other noun in the world would set off my late mother with more intensity than a volcano in Hawaii. She absolutely hated that word and yet here it is….on national television for all to hear. I cannot find enough proper adjectives to describe this incident: Disrespectful? No doubt! Low class? Yup! Inappropriate? Hell yes! Politically motivated? Check. Again, the Hollywood brain trust sprints into action. This time by the ‘flying nun’ herself, Sally Field. (Ok, for you younger readers, Ms. Field starred in a TV show called ‘The Flying Nun. It was during black and white TV.) Ms. Field tweeted, “I like Samantha Bee a lot, but she is flat wrong to call Ivanka a cxxt. Cxxts are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest.” I am totally confused by her comments. But I hope that Ms. Field will have an opportunity to meet my mother in the afterlife, because the momma of Grandpa T will kick your ass for being so stupid and vulgar. Amen. Samantha Bee will never meet my mother, because if dear old departed mom has seen her show, she will be politicing for Samantha to go straight to the hell for the dumb and vulgar! Again…amen. Before you join the Samantha Bee fan club, I would like to share some facts about her before you remit your membership dues. Samantha Bee was …..tada….born in Canada. Samantha Bee was…tada….educated in Canada. And…Samantha Bee is…..tada….a Canadian citizen! And we’re concerned about Russian collusion with the Trump campaign and we give a pass to Canadian meddling? Where is Fusion GPS with a damaging report on Samatha Bee when you need one? Has the FBI or CIA put a spy at TBS? I want to bring forth one more collective incident that is mesmerizing the press as of late. That being the personal attacks on the women of the White House. Primarily, these vicious attacks are made on Ivanka, Melania and Sarah Sanders. We have comedians getting way too personal and way too political with their feeble attempts to be funny. But they have all forgotten the definition of funny and proceed with their vitriolic slurs, all in the name of entertainment. Enough already! In conclusion, I want to bring one matter to your attention. I believe all women should never use the word ‘sexism’ again. Ever. Why do I say that? Because in doing the research for this blog, one very important fact became evident. That fact is that………all of the most vile comments, all of the most ignorant comments, all of the most unfounded comments, and all of the most racist comments made against these women……were made by other women! With few exception, none of the personal attacks against women are done by men. Men may support comments made by other women about women, but it appears we have become intelligent enough not to initiate those comments. What happened to the fairer sex? Women were always the calming, balanced members of our society. Now it appears that there are many who have joined the quagmire of our society. Heaven help us! This entry was posted in Common Sense, Common Sense Solutions, Political Opinion, Politics and tagged ABC decision to cancel Roseanne, ABC executive, Alyssa Milano, Alyssa Milano Tweet about Roseanne, Attack on White House women, biased media, Channing Dungey, Channing Dunsey, Donald Trump, Frontal Attack with Samantha Bee, Ivanka Trump, Liberal name calling, Media Bias, Roseanne apology, Roseanne Barr, Roseanne cancellation, Sally Field, Samantha Bee, Samantha Bee calling Ivanka names, Sara Gilbert, The View, Valerie Jarrett on June 4, 2018 by Grandpa T. ‘Obstruction and Negativity’—-The Liberal Party Plank! How long can you tolerate watching national and world news? In the good old days of my youth with vigor and vitality, I could tolerate up to 30 minutes. Now that I am older and wiser, I can tolerate watching national and world news for 20 minutes. If I am having a really, really good day, I’ll watch it for 10 minutes! Why the decrease in time, you ask? It is quite easy to understand. The vast majority of the news being reported (or made up!) has a negative connotation for either our country or for the POTUS. Between the liberal media and the Democratic party, they will go to ungodly and disrespectful lengths to assure that anything this POTUS has accomplished be minimized. The negatives get accentuated and the positives fade into obscurity. The greatest example of obstruction took place about 4 months ago. Do you remember when the Democratic party was vehement about the fact that something had to be done to address the problem of the ‘dreamers.’ The ‘dreamers’ are those people that were brought into this country by their parents who were illegal immigrants. The Liberal ‘warm and fuzzy’ feeling regarding this issue was that as children, these ‘dreamers’ did not have any choice. Consequently, they should be granted US citizenship. The extension to this was that their parents should also be given US citizenship, because, gosh darn it, look at how long they have been here. The liberals stated that there were 900,000 dreamers in the US, and gosh darn it, every one of them was a smart and productive American citizen candidate. (My first thought about hearing this liberal approach was that if these ‘dreamers’ were so smart, why didn’t they go through the naturalization procedure long before. I digress.) Do you remember Trump’s response? Trump said that a 10 year procedure would be put in place for 1.8 million dreamers. This would allow twice the number of dreamers to become naturalized American citizens as being vetted by the Liberals. The one big caveat that required 10 years to become a citizen? A clean criminal record history. In other words, if you have a criminal record, you could not become an American citizen, and could be deported. The Liberal response? Have you heard one word about the ‘dreamer’ issue in the last 4 months? The ‘dreamer’ issue was an issue thrown up against the Washington crap wall to see if it would stick in making Trump look like he was a racist and opposed to any path for the ‘dreamers’ to become US citizens. It backfired on the Liberals and the liberal media instantaneously obliged by eliminating any more coverage of the ‘dreamer’ issue. In the meantime, a very good and fair proposal got tossed onto the Washington crap pile. What is the continued purpose of the Mueller investigation? When I was young and living on the farm, one of our dogs strayed. After a couple of weeks, we were pretty gosh darn sure that Chuck, my samoyed was not coming home. After almost a year and a half of investigating, Mueller and his team of seventeen lawyers, a prosecutorial dream team have not come up with anything. Remember, this investigation was put together for two purposes, even though they are more inclined to focus on one of the purposes. The first purpose was to investigate the possibility of Russian influence in our last election. The second purpose was to investigate possible collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign. So Robert, let me help you and your very expensive staff of attorneys. Russian influence in our last election? Yup. No doubt about it. Collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians? Probably not. But…what if that answer was just ‘probably.’ Then what? I would think you and your staff of legal geniuses would know that even if the collusion existed, it is not illegal! So, Robert, what is the real purpose of your investigation? Is this another attempt at throwing more defecation at the Washington crap wall? Another arrow in the quiver of impeaching Trump because Hillary lost the election? Remember, Robert, your whole investigation was triggered by a fictitious piece of propaganda by Fusion GPS that was funded by the Democratic National Committee; and yet you treat it with more relevance than Moses receiving the ten commandments on Mount Sinai. At least Moses received the commandments on stone tablets. Your Fusion GPS propaganda was written on used toilet paper. Yet you have kept this expensive charade up for well over a year. My suggestion? End this politically motivated (yup, I do believe there is a definite liberal agenda) witch hunt now, and send your bill to the Democratic National Committee instead of the taxpayers of America. And Robert, if you really need something to investigate concerning the Russians? Please start with the Uranium One deal between the Obama administration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Russians where we sold them our uranium reserves. Remarkably, the Clinton Foundation received a $147 million donation after the sale. That whole incident smacks of treason. Where did that uranium go? To Iran? To North Korea? To Syria? What if that uranium is used against us or our allies in the future. Could you possibly find it in your black heart to investigate that? Or, rather than worrying about the Russians stuffing the ballot boxes, why not investigate voting requirements in each state. I am sure that there were many more votes cast by non-US citizens than the Russians could dream of. I know exactly why Donald Trump has become a moving target to the Liberals and their media. Firstly, the Liberals are deathly afraid that Trump may actually accomplish something that may benefit America and make them look bad. Thus their ‘obstructionism’ policy. Don’t vote for any of his programs. Don’t vote for his cabinet/department/supreme court nominees. Besmirch the reputation of any nominee and get the media to sensationalize it. Attack the mental state of the POTUS. Does any of this sound familiar? Secondly, it has shaken the Washington cesspool to the core that a none-politician could be elected, and succeed as POTUS. Every other President during my lifetime has had a political background. What these liberal geniuses have not figured out is that Trump got elected because he did not have the political background. Hillary Clinton was swimming in the Washington cesspool up to her neck. Trump was not. Thirdly, Trump fights back! When some liberal politician of liberal media outlet makes an outlandish claim (and there are many of them!) about Trump, he responds. Like most people, I wish he would tweet less, but I understand why he does. Trump is being Trump. Fourthly, Donald Trump did not have to rely on selling his soul to any lobbyist for political funding to get elected. He spent half the money on his campaign as Hillary Clinton. And, lets face it, anyone that can’t be bought or controlled scares the hell out of all those career politicians in Washington. So, to demonstrate the negativism that exists in the media, let me recap some of the Donald Trump accomplishments in his 16 months as POTUS: 1. Reduced corporate and individual income taxes. 2. Stimulated the economy and stock market. 3. Lowered the unemployment rate to the lowest point in decades. 4. Smacked the crap out of ISIS, something the previous POTUS said was impossible. 5. Faced down a North Korean deviate which may lead to the de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. 6. Forced a better trade deal with China. According to Newsweek Magazine on the one year anniversary of the Trump presidency, he has achieved 82 significant accomplishments. Holy Cow! How many of those accomplishments have you seen denoted in the media? I read the list in that Newsweek and if you would read it, you would be amazed at what he has done! (OK. Name three Obama accomplishments. When you get them, text me.) During Ronald Reagan’s administration, he was referred to as “The Teflon President.” That is because regardless of what Reagan did, nothing seemed to stick to him. Politicians and the media treated Reagan respectfully. During George ‘Dubya’ Bush’s years, he was referred to as “The Velcro President”. This was because everything he did, but mostly the perceived bad decisions, stuck to him like Velcro. He was the POTUS during the second Iraqi War and received much flack about it. Now we get to Trump. What should we call him? Many may want to call him the ‘hamburger’ President, because everyone wants to take a bite out of him. I would rather call him the ‘Oreo’ President, because when it comes to being between the Liberals and the liberal press, Trump is definitely the white filling of an Oreo cookie. PS. This is blog 101. I was going to stop at 100. Two of my faithful readers have convinced me not to quit blogging. Grandma P also wants me out of her hair. I’m back. Enjoy. This entry was posted in Common Sense, Common Sense Solutions, Congress, Political Insight, Political Opinion, Politics and tagged 82 Trump Accomplishments, biased media, Clinton Committee payments to Fusion GPS, Clinton Foundation, DNC payments to Fusion GPS, Donald Trump, dreamers, Eliminating ISIS, Fusion GPC, Hillary Clinton, Media Bias, Mueller Investigation, Negativism, Obstructionism, Robert Mueller, term limits, Trump Accomplishments, Voter ID, Why Washington Hates Trump on May 6, 2018 by Grandpa T. I Love Sarah Huckabee Sanders! I am in love with Sarah Huckabee Sanders! But first….a little history pre-Sarah…. My first love-from-afar love interest was Juliet Prowse. In 1960, Juliet starred in two movies, Can-Can and GI Blues. I particularly admired her in GI Blues because she played opposite one of my favorite people, Elvis Presley. Juliet had a fantastic smile, a cheery personality, red hair, and at 5’11”, she had beautiful legs up to her neck. What more could a farm boy of 12 want from a girl? Tragically, Juliet died at the age of 59 from cancer. She jumped started my puberty by at least 3 years! In 1963, at the age of 15, my taste in women changed. I discovered that I really was attracted more to brunettes than to blonds. My theory at the time was that most of the brunettes had natural color brunette hair, whereas, during the 60’s, most of the blonds had natural brunette hair, too. So, into my young tender life comes who I consider to be the most attractive actress to ever live…..Elizabeth Taylor. I mention the year 1963 because it was the year that great movie, Cleopatra, was released. To this day, with all of the actresses that have had cosmetic surgery, I still consider Elizabeth Taylor to be the most beautiful actress of my lifetime. If you have seen the movie, Cleopatra, and her entrance into the city of Rome, well it was truly spectacular and I have never seen a woman look more stunning. The term used by men would be ‘drop dead gorgeous.’ And if you did not think so after seeing her, you did not have a pulse. In the 1970’s, we had Charlie’s Angels. Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson were the ‘Angels.’ While all of my male friends were going ‘ga-ga’ over Farrah Fawcett and bought her swimsuit poster, I remained true to my brunette belief and actually liked Kate Jackson the best. Then something truly amazing happened. I grew up. While in my earlier life, like most young men, I considered appearance as the only component of beauty. Then I began to mature and realized that there were other components to beauty. One such component is personality. I discovered that it was not enough to have just an attractive woman on your arm, but you had to enjoy being with that woman as well. Then I discovered another component to beauty, intelligence. The conversation cannot continue about puppy dogs and unicorns, eventually there needs to be a conversation with a little depth to it. Those are the characteristics that make a woman appealing to me. (Is this the definition of maturity?) Enter Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (Also, Grandma P over 30 years ago.) I have to mention Grandma P or I’ll be eating cereal alone at dinner for the next 30 years! Beautiful, intelligent and personable. Check. (A fourth criteria is that I decided I could live with Grandma P.) On to Sarah! Sarah is 35 years old, married in 2010, and the mother of 3 children all under the age of 8. Whew! All of this while being appointed White House press secretary last July 17 upon the resignation of Sean Spicer. I find Sarah very appealing because she has all of the components that I have outlined as being beautiful. Personality? Check. Appearance? Check. Intelligence? Well………..here are the headlines that I pulled off the internet today, Sunday, that she no doubt will have to address in the White House press briefing tomorrow and the coming week: Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham warn Trump will be impeached after signing spending bill. Ivanka takes President Trump to task over his treatment of Jared Kushner. There are the worst things Donald Trump’s “friends” have said about him Donald Trump routinely humiliates whoever he pleases. Melania joins Trump amid cheating scandals as family leaves D.C. ahead of March For Our Lives. Americans will pay the price for Trump’s toughened approach with China Trump’s new National Security Adviser has ties to Cambridge Analytica. These are headlines from today’s news! Do you see a pattern? Does anything positive about Trump or his presidency or positive about America make it to the news anymore? And, dear readers, who will be standing on the podium before a room full of media types to bring levity to a litany of negative headlines? Why, that would be Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (Did you notice I did not call the media types; reporters? If I called them reporters, that would imply that they researched a subject and then ‘reported’ it in an unbiased manner. That doesn’t happen anymore.) I challenge you to watch the White House press briefings this week so that you can see first hand that Sarah is the sharpest knife in that drawer of people in the White House press room. I admire her for being able to raise 3 children under the age of 8, and then handle a room full of media types who ask questions as if they were 8. And like an 8 year old, they will ask the same question repeatedly, expecting a different answer if they ask it four times. Watch how Sarah will handle them like the ringmaster of a three ring circus! Even though the media has attacked her physical appearance, I find Sarah extremely attractive. After all, any juggler can juggle 3 tennis balls, but Sarah can juggle at least 5 running chainsaws at a time. And….working for Donald Trump cannot be easy, especially since he is a media target. Admittedly, I don’t really love Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the biblical sense of the word. After all, I just celebrated the 30th anniversary of my 40th birthday, making me 8 years older than her dad, Mike Huckabee. That would be creepy. But I do greatly admire her for who she is, what she has done, and her capabilities. Because of this, I find her extremely beautiful. So, Sarah, if you read this blog, I would be happy to be the president of your fan club, and Grandma P and I live close to your dad so we would be happy to babysit your kids one night. You Go Girl!!!! My One Hundredth Blog! Yup, this is blog numero 100! I wrote this blog for three reasons: I needed something to do after retirement. It became evident that I only had so many lawn ornaments to paint, one lawn to cut, and too few bushes to trim to keep me busy. And, I did not really like writing high school and college term papers so I decided to ‘step out of the box.’ I wanted to write something that my grandkids may eventually read so they can see how their grandpa and grandma were raised and how America was much different during our formative years. They would be appalled to learn that I can remember when both of my sets of grandparents did not have indoor plumbing. We left our houses and cars unlocked. I have tried to include some of those items in my blogs to create historical interest. So far, no grandkid readers. It is no secret that I am a conservative. I was irritated and disappointed that Barrack Obama got reelected, pretty much because he was black and not because he was qualified. I understand why he beat John McCain in 2008. McCain ran on a platform of being a political maverick. He did not connect with the younger voters at all. And…lets be honest, many people wanted to say they voted for the first black president. (Read blog #1, November 2012.) But Mitt Romney was a different and much better candidate. Successful businessman, successful governor, he had all the qualifications of being a great president. But the campaign became racist, the biased liberal media did not pass up an opportunity to smear him, even though we had high unemployment, stagnant growth, an escalating national debt, a declining military, radical Islamic terrorism….all of the important issues that should have been of concern to Americans were overlooked for the sake of reelecting a marginal-at-best black president. Now we have learned that the Obama campaign hired Fusion GPS to deliberately smear Mitt Romney.. History will bear this out. So, as I am typing this, I am contemplating whether there will be a blog 101. My original goal of 100 blogs has now been met. My thanks to Houston Nefoo, Grandma P and the Bayou Mauler for assisting me with my hobby. This entry was posted in Common Sense Solutions, Political Opinion, Politics and tagged biased media, Can-Can, Charlies Angels, Cleopatra the movie, components of beauty, Donald Trump, Election 2012, Elizabeth Taylor, Farrah Fawcett, GI Blues, John McCain, Juliet Prowse, Kate Jackson, Media Bias, media headlines, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sarah Sanders on March 26, 2018 by Grandpa T.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line93
__label__wiki	0.592236	0.592236	Sporting Society CSC Alumni Association Tracking the Capitols CSF Blog The Sportsmen's Voice Archive (Federal & State) Tracking the Capitols Archive (State) Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus Events National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses Events Governors Sportsmen’s Caucus Events Co-Chair: Senator Deb Fischer » Co-Chair: Senator Deb Fischer Joined Caucus: www.fischer.senate.gov/public U.S. Senator Deb Fischer has been a member of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC) since her election to the U.S. Senate in 2013. She currently serves as the CSC vice-chair. A lifelong Nebraskan, Senator Fischer is committed to enhancing sporting and recreational activities both in Nebraska and across the country. As a member of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, Senator Fischer is focused on responsible, science-based environmental stewardship that ensures our resources are managed for multiple purposes and with local input. She has fought misguided regulatory overreach that would impede state and local control over land, infringe on private property rights, and unfairly dictate the best use of our natural resources. “Outdoor recreation is an important part of the Nebraska way of life. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with my colleagues in the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus to promote our country's strong hunting, fishing, and conservation heritage. I will continue to work on policies that allow Americans to enjoy the great outdoors and appreciate our nation’s abundant natural beauty.” During her time in the Nebraska Unicameral, Senator Fischer served on the Natural Resources Committee. Through the committee, she championed legislation to establish an apprentice hunter education exemption that would allow young Nebraskans to hunt with a licensed adult. This program now encourages young people to learn more about hunting, and gauges their interest before larger investments are made. Senator Fischer and her husband, Bruce, have been married for over 40 years and own a ranching business near Valentine, Nebraska. They have three sons and three grandchildren. Senator Fischer pheasant hunting at the Werner Valley Shooting Fields Lodge in Valley, Nebraska Which of the following do you think would most effectively support increasing hunting participation numbers? Improve hunter and target shooter involvement in regulatory and legislative processes. (10.87%) Enact or expand temporary hunter education deferral programs (apprentice license programs, multiyear options, programs for all first-time hunters regardless of age, and programs promoting hunting of multiple game species). (13.35%) Offer shooting sports and hunter education as school activities and recreation programs. (62.73%) Link existing programming into family-oriented organizations (such as churches and home-school groups) where participants will have the social support to continue. (13.04%) Latest Policy Updates Midwest: 2020 Legislative Sessions Beginning Across the Region January 13 Virginia: Legislation Filed to Increase Penalties for Wildlife Violations January 13 California: Salvaging Game Meat from Road Kill Still Illegal in California January 13 Senate Passes Comprehensive Sporting-Conservation Package January 9 Historic Sunday Hunting Bill Signed into Law in Pennsylvania December 3 @hunterandangler Tweets Attended the #Idaho Senate Resources and Environment Committee meeting with @idfg. Good things to come for Idaho’s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Representing from the Atlantic to the Pacific! twitter.com/csf_acline/sta… 👏 twitter.com/csf_joe/status… ACTION ALERT: A package of important sportsmen's and conservation bills is on the move in Congress. YOUR help is ne… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… We work hard to educate elected officials about issues important to you, but we can't do it alone. Find out how you can get involved and support CSF. Stay in touch through our various contact lists! Tracking the Capitols Sign-Up Stay up to date on the latest legislation and regulation changes! Sign Up for Legislative Alerts CSF is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization, federal ID # 52-1686163 Copyright © 2020, Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation \| Privacy Policy \| Terms of Use	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line94
__label__wiki	0.994258	0.994258	QSL NEWS Pakistan's Waqar says 1992 World Cup parallels are 'freaky' London: Former captain Waqar Younis says it is becoming "impossible to ignore" the parallels between Pakistan's World Cup resurgence and their 1992 triumph. Victories against South Africa and New Zealand in the past week have breathed new life into Pakistan's bid to reach the semifinals in England and Wales after they won just one of their opening five fixtures. Their trajectory through the tournament has so far mirrored that of their only World Cup triumph to date, when they started slowly in 1992 before picking up pace to lift the trophy. "It is becoming impossible to ignore the parallels with 1992," said Waqar in a column for the International Cricket Council. "The similarities are freaky and even though the players won't have been thinking about it, there is no way they can put it out of their minds altogether." Pakistan's chances of reaching the last four have been helped by England's defeats to Sri Lanka and Australia. The hosts now need to win both their remaining games against India and New Zealand to hold off Pakistan, should Sarfaraz Ahmed's men beat Afghanistan and Bangladesh in their final two matches. "It's moving in the direction that they might qualify and, if it does, that would be something very special if they could win the World Cup," said Waqar. The prolific fast bowler was robbed of his role in the tournament 27 years ago due to a back injury. But he is hoping for a repeat of the scenes of joy witnessed when the team returned victorious to Pakistan, for a nation that has seen little international cricket since Sri Lanka's team bus was attacked in 2009. "It was heartbreaking, especially when we won," said Waqar of missing the 1992 World Cup. "I was over the moon though and I still remember every second when the team came back from Australia. It was wonderful. I’m hoping and praying that something similar happens again." Leclerc plays down prospect of Ferrari revival Sri Lanka coach warns of South Africa World Cup threat STILL IN A SPOT! Battle lines drawn Aussies register big victory Afridi confirms for World Stars vs Qatar Stars tie Australia set history, win big Two-tier Test plan axed after India opposition Australia script four-wicket win Pakistan rout England in T20 Al Duhail held goalless by Qatar SC in Mandzukic's Qatar debut Al Sulaiti, Al Naimi win in second round of Qatar Superstock 600 Qatar's Al Attiyah stays second after defiant show in stage four Football Olympic games Tennis Cricket Athletics Cycling Arab Games Baseball Basketball Boxing Table tennis Chess Cue sports Fencing Rugby Volleyball Golf Handball Motor Sports Swimming Qatar, FIFA publish World Cup rights pledges Halep braves falls, sore wrist to make winning Melbourne start DOHA Stadium Plus (DSP) is the first and only English-language Sports Weekly published from Qatar. It covers a wide discipline of sporting activities, which are of interest to both nationals and expatriates, not only in Qatar but in the entire Middle East and beyond. sports Categories © 2017 Doha Stadium Plus . All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line97
__label__cc	0.638834	0.361166	CRUCIBLE: Out Now Well folks. After years of cogitating and deliberating and obfuscating, I’m delighted to announce that my new album CRUCIBLE has finally been unleashed on the world. Produced with Phil Wilkinson [The Amazing Pilots, Duke Special, Ed Harcourt, Sophie Ellis-Bextor] and engineered by Dave Izumi [Jake Bugg, Example, Luke Sital-Singh, David Ford, Hudson Taylor] down at the beautiful Echo Zoo Studios in Eastbourne, this special record truly has been forged in the heat of brilliance, friendship, love and multiple analogue synths. I honestly feel that this is the best musical project I’ve ever had the privilege to be involved in. After recording more than 20 demos at my home setup over the past couple of years which had progressed to varying layers of undress, I proceeded to take them to the Übermensch Phil Wilkinson who managed to peer into my haphazard vision of synth-driven-cerebral-pop-acoustica and somehow render it in glorious technicolour. We then took the 11 draft tracks down to Echo Zoo where Dave Izumi spent 17 days with us engineering all the final live instrumentation, vocals, multiple session players, the vintage Korgs, Moogs and Jens, and also then mixed that morass of sonic chaos into an elegant nugget of audio bliss. So far the album has been universally well received by the critics. I’m particularly pleased with this glowing 8.5/10 review from Louder Than War which really captures the essence of what the record is all about; “It’s one of the albums of the year without doubt, as its charm and downright insubordinate addictiveness shines through on each and every one of Crucible’s eleven tracks.” It’s available at all reputable music outlets globally, to purchase or stream. The best place to buy is through the Bandcamp link above. The download is £7 and the CD is £10, including shipping anywhere in the world. « A Song About Ceefax New Single: The Underground Man » copyright © Drew Worthley 2011 - 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line100
__label__cc	0.73374	0.26626	Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part Based Models by Pedro F. Felzenszwalb, Ross B. Girshick, David McAllester, Deva Ramanan "... We describe an object detection system based on mixtures of multiscale deformable part models. Our system is able to represent highly variable object classes and achieves state-of-the-art results in the PASCAL object detection challenges. While deformable part models have become quite popular, their ..." We describe an object detection system based on mixtures of multiscale deformable part models. Our system is able to represent highly variable object classes and achieves state-of-the-art results in the PASCAL object detection challenges. While deformable part models have become quite popular A hierarchical phrase-based model for statistical machine translation by David Chiang - IN ACL , 2005 "... We present a statistical phrase-based translation model that uses hierarchical phrases— phrases that contain subphrases. The model is formally a synchronous context-free grammar but is learned from a bitext without any syntactic information. Thus it can be seen as a shift to the formal machinery of ..." We present a statistical phrase-based translation model that uses hierarchical phrases— phrases that contain subphrases. The model is formally a synchronous context-free grammar but is learned from a bitext without any syntactic information. Thus it can be seen as a shift to the formal machinery Statistical phrase-based translation by Franz Josef Och, Daniel Marcu , 2003 "... We propose a new phrase-based translation model and decoding algorithm that enables us to evaluate and compare several, previously proposed phrase-based translation models. Within our framework, we carry out a large number of experiments to understand better and explain why phrase-based models outpe ..." We propose a new phrase-based translation model and decoding algorithm that enables us to evaluate and compare several, previously proposed phrase-based translation models. Within our framework, we carry out a large number of experiments to understand better and explain why phrase-based models Example-based learning for view-based human face detection by Kah-kay Sung, Tomaso Poggio - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , 1998 "... Abstract—We present an example-based learning approach for locating vertical frontal views of human faces in complex scenes. The technique models the distribution of human face patterns by means of a few view-based “face ” and “nonface ” model clusters. At each image location, a difference feature v ..." Abstract—We present an example-based learning approach for locating vertical frontal views of human faces in complex scenes. The technique models the distribution of human face patterns by means of a few view-based “face ” and “nonface ” model clusters. At each image location, a difference feature Lattice-Based Access Control Models by Ravi S. Sandhu , 1993 "... The objective of this article is to give a tutorial on lattice-based access control models for computer security. The paper begins with a review of Denning's axioms for information flow policies, which provide a theoretical foundation for these models. The structure of security labels in the ..." The objective of this article is to give a tutorial on lattice-based access control models for computer security. The paper begins with a review of Denning's axioms for information flow policies, which provide a theoretical foundation for these models. The structure of security labels Hierarchical model-based motion estimation by James R. Bergen, P. Anandan, Th J. Hanna, Rajesh Hingorani , 1992 "... This paper describes a hierarchical estimation framework for the computation of diverse representations of motion information. The key features of the resulting framework (or family of algorithms) a,re a global model that constrains the overall structure of the motion estimated, a local rnodel that ..." This paper describes a hierarchical estimation framework for the computation of diverse representations of motion information. The key features of the resulting framework (or family of algorithms) a,re a global model that constrains the overall structure of the motion estimated, a local rnodel Modeling Internet Topology by Kenneth Calvert, Matthew B. Doar, Ellen W. Zegura - IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE , 1997 "... The topology of a network, or a group of networks such as the Internet, has a strong bearing on many management and performance issues. Good models of the topological structure of a network are essential for developing and analyzing internetworking technology. This article discusses how graph-based ..." The topology of a network, or a group of networks such as the Internet, has a strong bearing on many management and performance issues. Good models of the topological structure of a network are essential for developing and analyzing internetworking technology. This article discusses how graph-based Model-Based Clustering, Discriminant Analysis, and Density Estimation by Chris Fraley, Adrian E. Raftery - JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION , 2000 "... Cluster analysis is the automated search for groups of related observations in a data set. Most clustering done in practice is based largely on heuristic but intuitively reasonable procedures and most clustering methods available in commercial software are also of this type. However, there is little ..." for model-based clustering that provides a principled statistical approach to these issues. We also show that this can be useful for other problems in multivariate analysis, such as discriminant analysis and multivariate density estimation. We give examples from medical diagnosis, mineeld detection, cluster Class-Based n-gram Models of Natural Language by Peter F. Brown, Peter V. deSouza, Robert L. Mercer, Vincent J. Della Pietra, Jenifer C. Lai - Computational Linguistics , 1992 "... We address the problem of predicting a word from previous words in a sample of text. In particular we discuss n-gram models based on calsses of words. We also discuss several statistical algoirthms for assigning words to classes based on the frequency of their co-occurrence with other words. We find ..." We address the problem of predicting a word from previous words in a sample of text. In particular we discuss n-gram models based on calsses of words. We also discuss several statistical algoirthms for assigning words to classes based on the frequency of their co-occurrence with other words. 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There was only night here for a few hours, though---even that was a beautiful sight. Couples, families, and friends enjoyed strolls on the beach in both states of the day. Dozens of boardwalks and spaceports rose from the azure waters. They all connected and intermingled. One could easily feel the energy and movement upon arrival here. Be people here on vacation, or perhaps even a few bodies to line the stadium for Cassava's plan? To be honest, the Lieutenant found it hard to believe herself. She had completely made a 360 to accomplish such a charitable act, but with so much backing from the community, she had to. Her inbox, mobile, and various other means of communications had been off the hook since word got out. Her success in planning was measured by the amount of people her advertisement reached and wanted to donate to the cause. Tremendous numbers of Zeni had found its way to the Saiyan's bank account. Cassava wouldn't be greedy however. A sly grin played upon her lips as she figured out how to reward the participants of her challenging games. Though, being a part of such a moment seemed thank you enough, right? Cassava reeled back in her chair. Of course, she was already there. Oceaol was a wonderful planet. Why not take an extra day off from the grueling diplomatic work to come a few days early? In a moment however, she would have her guests. The woman clad in katchin boots, scanty clothing, and scowl that seemed to scare away most, made her way towards the main spaceport of Oceaol. This was where she told her guests to come, wherever it was that they hailed from. All would enjoy a beautiful introduction to the azure marble. As each participant arrived upon Oceaol, the tropical foliage and island vibes certainly would be apparent. Vendors filled the streets. All of them sold fruit, handmade collectibles, souvenirs. They marketed towards the tourists that kept their lives plentiful and rich. The locals though, they all were passionate and active, everyone worked for their own here. They all worked to build up a flourishing society in a way that suited them. Cassava wouldn't mind modeling the rest of the galaxy after such a people. Free with their traditions, but willing to be open to the rest of the living world to expand trade and commerce. It also would help if they weren't constantly at war as well. The woman with raven tresses of hair stood patiently, her arms were neatly folded over her chest as she waited for each arrival by ship or whatever means. You never knew who could randomly teleport these days. . . Out of Character: Hey guys! Go ahead and write about your how you of all people ended up attending such an event. Liuetenant Cassava is waiting eagerly in the hanger of Oceaol's most luxurious spaceports. Have fun, describe your reactions to the place and let's get this party started. Due to the nature of this event, I will be progressing pretty quickly to get us through all I have planned! c: WC: 573 \| Tags: Legume Majin Zam Android B "Moxie" Andrew C. Creed Scarlet Summer Games Commence! Posted Mar 25, 2019 20:13:07 GMT -5 Alt Character🔸 Character Sheet Character Page If there's money involved I'm in. If there's a party I'm there! Android B "Moxie" • Post by Android B "Moxie" on Mar 25, 2019 20:59:10 GMT -5 Flashback (two days Prior to the Scarlet Summer Games): Duke Satan sat on his living room couch with a spoon in his hand eating a tub of rockyroad icecream, watching his stories on television. One particular favorite of his was a soap opera called "Did he? or did he not?" and this week they were going to reveal who Rachel had been cheating on mark with! The anticipation was killing him! "It better not be George that dirty dog!" the television would promptly respond with "We'll be back after these messages." The champ would let out a sigh of disappointment, but his face would soon light up at the commercial that would come on. "Do you have what it takes to enter the Scarlet summer games? Soon, the galactic sporting event of the year will take place on Oceaol, get your tickets now! All Participants are welcome so long as basic physical requirements are met!" This ad peaked Mr. Satan's interest. This was a shot at even more publicity, outside of just earth at that. Imagine the ratings he would rake in, and the adoring fans he would make across the galaxy! Most of all, he would be able to put those darn Ki users to shame! Their dirty tricks could not stop him from achieving victory, Oh yeah! "Look's like I have a call to make..." Duke would pull himself off of his couch and slowly walk toward his home phone. Picking it up and dialing a number, he would try to reach an old friend of his for college. His name was Walter Mcwalter, a capsule corp. scientist and engineer. "Hey Walter! It's Duke, remember from college! Look you've done great work on the battle suit so far, but I need some more work done. I can pay as usual..." Walter on the other line would respond "Ok, I'm willing to make a few tweaks for you, for ten thousand zeni. What needs doing?" "Well... Can you make the battle suit completely invisible?" "Complete invisibility? trying to hide the fact your a weakling from a crowd I see..." "What! No! I! Uh-- just..." Walter would chuckle a bit before explaining "Just drop it off at my place later today, and I'll have it ready in two days..." Present Day (On the Planet Oceaol): In the atmosphere of the peaceful and tropical world a medium-sized crimson space shuttle would appear. It would be obnoxiously decorated, with the word "Satan" written across both sides of the vessel. The earth-type ship would then land on the surface of the planet, and the side doors would soon open. As they did open, Duke Satan would narcissistically walk out of the shuttle loudly proclaiming "The Champ has Arrived!!! OOOHHHH YEAAAAHHHH!!" After this shout, dozens of fans and reporters would exit the shuttle the earthling had just walked out of. There was also a crew of half a dozen cheerleaders who followed Duke outside too. Duke would take the opportunity to strike various poses with the gorgeous Oceaol landscapes in the background. As he did this, multiple camera flashes would go off and teenager girls would scream. Duke made a cocky grin as he loudly spoke "I, Duke Satan, have come to the Scarlet Summer Games to represent the might of the common earthlings! We may not have all that fancy Ki stuff, but we're strong in our own way! And I'll prove that today by winning these games and taking these Ki users down AHHHH YEEEAAAAAHHHH!!" Loud cheers would then be heard from Mr. Satan entourage... Post Count: 1 \| Tags:Majin Zam Legume Queen Kuueru Andrew C. Creed Supporter🌟 Character Sheet Character Page It's just business, nothing personal. Andrew C. Creed • Post by Andrew C. Creed on Mar 25, 2019 22:11:18 GMT -5 Creed slowly flipped through various files which Kaijin had put together with regards to their previous meetings. The android had quite a few ideas, many ambitious. But he had managed to fulfill promises that were just as ambitious before. Hopefully the conversion to an organic form went well for him, he’d hate to see the kid die in such a way… Er, because he’d lose an important asset! He’d raise his eyes from the papers as Rine entered with a small holoprojector in hand and an excited smile on her face. She would set it on the desk as it lit up with an ad for… Rine would slide it closer to him “Yes” “Rine, I can name at least twenty different reasons why we will not be attending this” Rine quickly ran out of the sleek transport vessel with Creed in tow behind her. Both would be dressed in their best vacationing attire, Creed regretfully so. She would stop as a massing crowd of people surrounded a large incoming, and quite annoying looking vessel. Rine’s focus still seemed to be straight forward, however, on the Saiyan woman who would appear to be their hostess for this event. Rine’s eyes would widen in excitement. “Andrew!” She’d whisper shout. “Andrew! That’s Cassava!” “Who?” Creed would ask, distracted by the large crowd around the ship. “She’s one of the strongest fighters in the Dominion and the inspiration for the Saya-Jin Autum line of clothing from the Cellarus catalogue!” “Mhm, that’s great dear…” Rine would roll her eyes and continue to look at Cassava with awe and excitement. Creed continued to stare over at the large ship which now began to open. An obnoxious doofus bolted out shouting about champions or something along those lines. Creed didn’t care about that. He would close his right eye as the light green cybernetic eye flashed slightly. The fool’s power level was a 54, but there was something strange about it… Sensors detected a high level of reflection from the exterior, nothing noticeable by the naked eye, but it left a sort of strange glow of heat around the man. On closer inspect, Creed began to notice something strange...Encryption? Capsule Corp Encryption? It took five seconds to break through it. Now this was interesting… It would seem he was wearing some sort of suit, nothing close to Creed’s suit. In fact this one would make Creed laugh if not for being furious that CC was attempting to one up him AT YET another thing… Then, he finally recognized who the fool was, how could he forget? The stupid mustache was a dead give away. Duke Satan, the last remaining descendant of Hercule Satan. It seems he was hoping to wear this suit in an attempt to outshine the rest of the players. How...scandalous. Duke Satan was the type of person that he absolutely despised, but everyone else adored. Perhaps he could blackmail him into sponsoring Creed Cybernetics for free whilst outing Capsule Corp. He’d record the information gathered. For now, he’d make sure the little man regretted his actions. “Hey, Rine, you see that guy over there?” “Hm? Oh, yeah that’s Duke Satan. Why do you ask?” “When the games begin, make sure to aim for him as often as possible and as hard as you can” “Er...Why?” “Testing a hypothesis. And besides, wouldn’t it be funny if you managed to beat him while pregnant?” Rine would blush before quickly looking around and whispering to Creed “Don’t say that out loud you idiot! I’m not showing yet, but if they find that out they might take me out of the game!” Creed shrugged before pulling out a cigarette and lighting it up. This was going to be quite the interesting game… Android B "Moxie" Queen Kuueru Legume Majin Zam Player Character🔹 Character Sheet Character Page Majin Zam • Post by Majin Zam on Mar 26, 2019 5:04:23 GMT -5 Fate had a strange sense of humor. The invitation to Scarlet Summer Games had reached far. Further than one might even imagine. By pure chance, the plea had stirred a mythical creature from its eternal slumber. Well, from its afternoon nap at least. Mesmerized by the message, the chaotic being had nearly forced its way onto the planet all too soon. Heavenly powers had to intervene, to ensure the instructions were followed. The entity had to prove its worth. Had to pinky promise not to cause any trouble too. And so on the destined day... Shortly after the other fresh faces arrived, an odd phenomenon manifested in their vicinity. Bright flashes and cheery crackles surprised the bystanders. It was like someone had set off tiny fireworks. Glimmering sparks started dancing in the air. Twirling. Swirling. Quickly they formed a ring with a shimmering image of a distant realm in the center. A gleeful giggle echoed and the surface rippled. Suddenly something burst through. "Yay, it worked~!" With a jubilant yell, a tomboyish girl bounced into the spaceport. Even for the popular tourist planet, this visitor may have been an exotic sight. There weren’t very many like her, nope. The bubblegum pink body set her apart from Earthlings and Saiyans. Golden eyes shined in black pools. Pale antennae sat on top of short, messy hair. Small holes lined her arms and chest. Dressed in baggy white pants and black bandeau with detached sleeves to match, she sort of resembled a genie from an ancient fairy tale. For once her odd attire was in line with the weather. Fashion may have been a whole different matter though... Buuut maybe some styles were timeless? Taking a deep breath the little Majin streeetched and enjoyed the tropical atmosphere. The portal behind her faded away. She rose to float above the heads of the crowd. Gaze glimmering with curiosity and wonder, she marveled at the colorful sights and cute outfits. Ooh, so this was Ocelot. Ocelol. Oce... So this was the place! So much to see! Her sensitive nose twitched eagerly. And so much to eat! Luckily, the wise words of certain elder were still fresh in her mind. Be on your best behavior, the stern echo reminded her. So instead of simply zooming towards the nearest fruit stall, she turned her focus back to scanning the surrounding people. Hm hm, first she needed to find this Cass person... Unfortunately the sensible train of thought was abandoned the moment something special caught Zam’s eye. In her defense though, the flashing and shouting was kind of an attention getter. Curiously cocking her head, she watched the loud Earthling. A huge smile appeared on her features. Ooh, was that...? Gotta ask! She zipped over to the posing performer and floated around him. "Hey! Listen! Hey, big mister!" Eyes positively twinkling, the starstruck little fan gleefully ignored personal space. "You look just like Mister Satan! Are you the real Mister Satan?" Of course the cartoon connoisseur knew the old legend. She loved Mister Satan’s Totally Real Adventures! Her favorite was the episode where he defended Earth from the evil destroyer. On the bright side, the distraction was keeping the energetic girl occupied. Stopping her from wandering off. Not an easy task by any means. Majins were fickle and mischief was in their nature. The other attendees of the Scarlet Summer Games would learn that sooner or later. Words: 572 [Total = 572] Queen Kuueru - Android B "Moxie" - Andrew C. Creed - Emperor Absolut Scarlet Summer Games Commence! Posted Mar 26, 2019 5:04:23 GMT -5 Alt Character🔸 Frost Demon Deku Character Sheet Character Page I am a hero. What my father failed to be. Emperor Absolut • Post by Emperor Absolut on Mar 26, 2019 6:18:22 GMT -5 The Symbol of Peace... One Day Queen Kuueru, Android B "Moxie", Andrew C. Creed, Majin Zam, NOTES The last of the spaceships awaited in the landing pods of Oceaol was a relatively small and inconspicuous vessel, somewhat resembling a fighter jet, the Imperial insignia which its wings had once held sloppily ripped off, a few pieces of paper still latched onto the steel casing. Out of the cockpit, right after turning off the autopilot which had guided him to this distant planet, a young Frost Demon in a shining armored suit leapt out, landing on the ground nearby and immediately taking a glance across the panorama. The only person on this planet who knew that the person behind the armored mask was Absolut I, the Emperor of the First Galactic Empire, was Cassava herself - after receiving the invitation and immediately being told that he will not have either the time nor the safety to head there, Absolut pleaded to be able to attend behind a secret alias, while the Frost Demon himself made his craziest move of the year and sneaked out of Mitra in a prototype suit of armor which had been designed for him during the months since his assumption of the throne. 1-CE called it the Cosmic Suit - and speaking of her, how did she not notice his escape?.. For everyone else on the planet, he was Colonel Frost, the Frost Demon of Steel, a up and coming superhero operating in the Northern Quadrant. Believe it. Sure, nobody has heard of such a superhero before, but... he's gotta start somewhere, right? And as Absolut has learned, and pretty painfully so, is that he will have to mask himself and separate himself from his acts of good if he wants to express himself that way... as disappointing as that was. There was some commotion in the spaceport already. One of the participants who landed in the port before him, an Earthling with a rich dark moustache, was introducing himself to the public, attracting everyone's attention and drawing "Colonel Frost's" eyes away from the stands and vendors lined up all around which were all trying to attract the boy. Cameras flashed, people cheered, a Majin suddenly ran past the armored and confused Frost Demon and spoke to the Earthling directly, calling him 'Mr. Satan'. Mr. Satan? Like... Like Satan? The term Earthlings use for the lord of Hell? "W-who is Mister Satan?" "Colonel Frost" spoke up, his voice distorted and sounding strangely mechanical thanks to the machinations of his Cosmic Suit. "And who are you?" Salt stung the nares of all the new arrivals. The brilliant blue skies stretched as far as the eye could see, there were but a few alabaster clouds painting the heavens. Cassava stood at attention. Her eyes notated the time on her communication device. The number blinked at her, yes, they would soon congregate; but, why was she so nervous? Tired eyes scanned for the first arrival. It had to be him. The crimson ship was polished and well taken care of. The owner’s name was brazenly labeled on either side of the vessel, and when it landed, Cassava was left awestruck. A decently muscled man stepped out of the hull, vines of curly black hair pooled from his head, and he also sported an iconic thick moustache. Ironically, he didn’t look too ready to participate. Instead, he blended in with the tourists of the area, though his fan club of cheerleaders was awkward. The second to show up was actually a pair. While they both seemed distracted by Duke’s arrival, the blue-skinned woman’s eyes quickly shot to Cassava. The Saiyan nearly curled up and died as Rine’s words shot through the air. “She’s one of the strongest fighters in the Dominion and the inspiration for the Saiya-Jin Autumn line of clothing from the Cellarus catalogue!” What even was that? The Lieutenant’s cheeks quickly flustered as she continued to patiently await all arrivals. There were only a few of the best in terms of athletes. While these games were small in comparison to the usual Galactic Olympics, hopefully they would serve their purpose in unifying the galaxy. Cassava sparked to life while shifting her attention to yet another phenomenon. A swirling vortex of a portal began to manifest out of thin air. From it, a young pink creature emerged. The Lieutenant looked over this girl, her head nodding as she took a tally of her players thus far. This pink being quickly was distracted and pulled towards the first arrival, Duke Satan. A single gauntlet covered hand reached up to rub the woman’s cheek awkwardly. She would let them get their formalities out before she introduced herself. She needn’t be rude. THE FINAL ARRIVAL! This time it was a small, unnoticeable, and unmarked ship. From it, a glorious looking teenage Frost Demon emerged. His reflective armor mirrored the various suns’ rays in a blinding spectacle, perhaps she would have to make him remove the wax from his body before he could participate. Really now, could you imagine playing volleyball but during you get permanent eye damage due to your opponent? Yeah, she would read the rule book on this. “Ahem!” Cassava finally addressed the group as a single minute ticked past the meeting hour. The woman clad in her usual attire let her arms relax at her sides as she prepared what kind of pathetic introduction she had planned. Of course, a Saiyan that conveyed themselves clearly was hard to find, Cass strived to be the exception. “Greetings Game Goers, and welcome to Oceaol. The planet has graciously allowed us to use its space as grounds for the first ever Scarlet Summer Games. Alas, you probably all know that by now. I’m Cassava, the creator of this event. My goal is to ease relations after decades and decades of war and strife. I’m not delusional, but I hope that we can make it better than it is now.” Cassava walked towards the group in an attempt to wrangle them all together despite many a distraction in other participants and just the local amenities. “Whatever reasons you decided to step up and represent your respective people, I am sure they are all noble and well, . . . maybe.” The woman was getting sidetracked, but soon snapped back to her focused state and waved a hand behind her to the resort areas of the planet. Various hotels with all-inclusive plans littered the area. Yet, there were some areas untouched to tourism. Unmapped coves and brilliant coral reefs decorated the planet. All in all, it was a place for everyone to relax and vacation whether you love city life, or simple life. “Firstly, I will have to lead you to the stadium. Before I do though, are there any questions?” Cassava inquired like a teacher to a class. She waited patiently before a beaming smile took over her face. “Very well then! This way! I’m sure you’re all eager to see what we have planned for the day,” The woman clad in crimson turned on her heel and was off. Any and all ships would be properly handled, and surely the guests weren’t too eager to leave as soon as the even was over. After all, she did work to get them a night’s stay at one of the most lavish hotels on the planet. They walked, through many a tunnel. Most travel by foot was done through undersea tunnels and routes. Giant glass walls surrounded them as they walked to the next hub, home of the stadium, and their destination. All around one would see below the initial layers of the sea. Schools of fish darted to and from in formation, large sea mammals surfaced for air and dove back into the dark depths. There was a sting of chill in the air from being under the surface of the ocean, but the beautiful azure hues danced along the passage in a kaleidoscope of light. It was really lovely. “I must say, I’m a bit nervous about this being televised!” Cassava threw in some points of conversation as they stepped onto a conveyor horizontal escalator. It took them quickly to and from at least. WC: 943 \| 1516 Tags: Emperor Absolut , Andrew C. Creed , Majin Zam , Android B "Moxie" This is exactly the kind of thing Duke wanted to happen. Everything was going according to plan, oh yeah! As it so happened some of the locals even recognized Duke and began taking pictures from a distance. Now it would be time to razzle dazzle the on lookers, Duke would snap his finger and address his cheer leaders "Alright ladies show everyone that cheer you all know!" the cheer leaders would then begin to break out into a rehearsed dance, all the while they would be chanting "Duke, Duke he's our man, if he can't do it nobody can!" The champ would place his hands on his hips before letting out an obnoxious laugh "Hahaha! That's right! I'm the man and don't you all forget it!" Stroking his masculine and thick mustache, the champ would then begin to size up his opponents. The first he spotted was a man and a blue alien of some kind. He wasn't worried one bit, they looked like scrawny weaklings! They needed more protein in their diets, awww yeah! New he would see a young pink girl seemingly come out of no where. He would watch as she dashed over to him. Apparently she was a fan of his families' exploits. Duke would give a hardy laugh before explaining to the girl "No, I'm not the original Hercule Satan! But, I am his great great nephew Duke Satan! After years of hard work and training, I've finally become just as powerful as my mighty ancestor who defeated cell!" Duke wanted to ham it up as much as possible. This would be the prefect chance for a photo op! "Here, since your a fan of the Satan legacy," Duke would then stand next to the majin and put his left arm around her. He would then point at one of his many photographers and direct him to take a snapshot of the champ and his biggest fan! "Say cheese my friend!" Multiple camera flashes would go off, and then Duke would approach the camera man. After a few seconds he would turn around and present Zam with a picture of the two of them together, it was even signed: "From: Duke Satan to my biggest fan! Fight like the devil out there!" After the champ had finished with the majin, he would then overhear the voice of the teenage frost demon. He wanted to know how Mr. Satan was. Well, Duke would tell him alright! "Who is Mr.Satan!? I am Mr.Satan. I'm the only remaining descendant of the Satan family line! The very family who destroyed the monster cell! And the very family who managed to convert majin buu to a hero! That is who I am! And I am here today for a charity known as Mr.Satan's home for blind orphans! All our earnings will go towards helping educate those poor blind orphans!" As strange as it sounded, the blind orphanage was an actual organization Mr. Satan planned on donating his winnings to. In truth he was only here for the publicity... As he finished his shouting he would notice Cssava appear. It seemed this would be getting started soon. Duke would simply listen and give a nod as the Saiyan gave her speech to them and the crowd that surrounding Duke. He wondered if this would be it. His opponents, one human looking fellow, one alien, one majin, and one frost demon. This would be a piece of cake for a champ like him, oh yeah! and it was all made possible by his nearly undetectable battle suit. It wouldn't really be cheating, after all the frost demon was wearing some kind of armor too... Duke and his crew of fans and cheerleaders would follow Cassava. The planet they were on was absolutely sunning, the architecture alone was leagues above what they had back on earth. Perhaps Duke would buy a summer home here! Moments later, the champ would hear the woman say she was nervous about the cameras. Duke was certainly not, he had his own reality show after all. "ah don't worry about all the flashes and lights! You get use to it after a while." Rine would have stars in her eyes as she followed the Saiyan officer. Honestly Creed didn’t understand the big deal about her. Maybe it had something to do with those brain killing magazines she reads. Creed followed behind with his hands still behind his head. One of the reporters following Satan seemed to glance over at him every so often. She was a young earthling, a foolish one at that. There was a rumor that any reporter who attempted to report on the business mogul would have strange and unfortunate accidents, which would grow worse and worse as they persisted. Things ranging from minor vandalism to outright death. Creed hated reporters and journalists. Nosey idealists who cared more about getting their opinion out than proper reporting. Creed would remove the cigarette from his mouth, still staring at the reporter. The camera she was using was connected to the holonet, wonderful, a live broadcast. “Armageddon, please find me anything you can about the owner of the camera I just scanned. Search for anything they wish to keep hidden and replace their feed with it. If they lack anything then disconnect the feed” Creed would state quietly. As they entered the under sea tunnel, the reporter would begin to blush after checking her tablet, before running away, most likely in an attempt to stop the feed. What did you find Armageddon? As she left, a hole in the massive crowd of people around Satan opened up. Creed would pat Rine on the shoulder. “I’ll be right back”. He would separate and navigate his way towards the Idol as smoothly as he could. Before reaching him, he would run into one of the cheerleaders previously chanting his name. Creed would give her a charming smile and a wink as he passed by, causing her to blush. Finally he would breach the center. Trying to get the fool’s attention without making himself look the fool would be impossible, so he had a better plan. “Armageddon, take control of the armor’s servos and force them to jolt towards me, I doubt we can get full control, but that should suffice...” Hopefully that would get his attention. Creed gave the best smile he could as he held a hand out for Satan to shake. “Hello, Mr.Satan. I don’t believe we’ve had the pleasure of meeting yet, my name is Andrew C. Creed. I was hoping to wish you the best during this match” His smile would seem to slowly shift into a devilish grin as his left eye shined a slight emerald green. “That Gi you’re wearing is quite interesting. Very reflective of your personality. Mind telling me where you got it? Capsule Corp perhaps?” Android B "Moxie" Queen Kuueru Majin Zam Emperor Absolut Much to the Majin’s puzzlement, the martial artist offered a very unexpected answer. Slooowly she tilted her head, as if another angle would help her thoughts roll better. A puff of steam formed a question mark above her hair. So... uh... he wasn’t Mister Satan, but he still was Mister Satan? But how could he be someone and not be them at the same time? Just thinking about it was making her head spin. The golden eyes turned into swirls. Luckily the spiral of confusion was cut short by the arm over her shoulder. She blinked and turned her gaze towards the cameras. Ooh, a photo? Right on cue, she reached to hug the burly man and flashed a bright smile. The signed present brought the twinkle back into her eyes. "Ooh, thank you~!" Humming happily, she slipped the photo into her cleavage for safekeeping. She couldn’t wait to show it to Grandpa Noudel! The new voice drew Zam’s undivided attention. She knew that sound. It meant an adult had something important to say. That lady had scary eyes... But she seemed nice! Drawn in by the Saiyan’s natural authority, the small girl didn’t need much wrangling. She was listening closely already, nodding along. Hm hm, yup yup, she understood most of it. Totally. When the teach-erm, Cassava addressed asked if there were any questions, Zam’s hand shot up immediately. "Miss Cass, I have a question! Why do some people turn brown or red when they go to the beach?" She had always wondered about that. ...Oh, and no, she didn’t have any questions about the games. Following the lead, the pink creature flew after the adults. Walking wasn’t her thing, not one bit. While the rest strolled in orderly fashion, more or less, she zigzagged between the walls and marveled at the wondrous sights. Everywhere she looked something new caught her eye. She had no idea that so many pretty things were hiding underwater. When another adult moved past her to approach the champ, she floated aside to give them space. Just passing by was enough to make her nose wrinkle. Bleh, he clearly liked those smokey sticks. Her antennae twitched, curiously investigating what eyes couldn’t see. It felt... weird... Like there was nothing there. For some reason she thought that if she looked away even for a second, the man would disappear. ...Hmm, nope, still there. Super strange. Leaving the stinky man and the brawny man to talk, the excited girl found a new target to bother. Quickly she zipped over everyone’s heads and circled around the shiny person. She had never seen anyone like him. "Hey! Hey, listen!" Stopping to float at eye level, she leaned close. Goodbye personal space. "Are you a superhero?" Lips curling into a playful, cat-like smile, she cautiously reached for his head. So shiny, so smooth! "Are you... a robot superhero?" If the armored alien didn’t pick his words carefully, he might soon find himself buried under an avalanche of questions. Not to even mention all the curious poking and patting that was about to ensue. Words: 526 [Total = 1098] Post by Emperor Absolut on Mar 27, 2019 11:17:58 GMT -5 Queen Kuueru , Android B "Moxie" , Andrew C. Creed , Majin Zam , NOTES It's safe to say that Absolut was not the type of person to ever hear much about Earthling culture. Sure, he was well aware of the obsession with superheroes which the Earthlings held, a part of which ended up inspiring Absolut to take up this... path, as well, but when Duke began talking about the achievements and heroic acts of the so-called "Mr. Satan", the young Frost Demon was only left scratching the back of his helmet in slight confusion. He had heard of Majin Buu - who hasn't? - and the name "Cell" was sending some signals to his mind, too, but Mr. Satan? The hero who supposedly defeated them both? What kind of name is Mr. Satan anyway, is that a some sort of stage name?.. "Is he... anything like Polaris?.." "Colonel Frost" muttered underneath his breath, his attention swiftly distracted by the Saiyan Cassava appearing in the spaceport, introducing herself as well as the Scarlet Summer Games, then offering the participants to come along with them. The perfect opportunity for Absolut to catch the faces of everyone who was travelling to the event alongside him. Two Earthlings, the aforementioned Duke Satan and an another one who looked far too serious to participate in sports... and a cute young Majin tagging along with the rest. Absolut waited for the rest of the questions to fly and standing shyly at the side, opting to not voice his thoughts - not that he really had many questions to offer. The sea bed which the participants had to travel across inside a giant tunnel, however, instantly caught the young Frost Demon's attention. It reminded him somewhat of the underwater mission he had to do under Cam's orders a long time ago... but instead of being scary, dirty, or intimidating, the sea now looked beautiful and pristine. Absolut's eyes trailed through the corals and the swarms of fish, a long lost spark of wonder lighting itself back up in her eyes, even if hidden by his suit's mask. How come he doesn't get to see something this beautiful despite being- "Aah!!" The young female Majin suddenly jumping at him, staring straight into his eyes and practically shouting straight at his face, instantly frightened Absolut and almost got him to fall off balance before repositioning herself. The girl clearly had no concept of personal space - she stared him straight in the eyes, she barraged him with questions, none of whom Absolut was prepared to immediately answer. It didn't help that he had never really had cute girls his age suddenly come up straight to him and ask him stuff so openly. "Um, uh..." a few mutters came from the Cosmic Suit's voice distorter. As uncomfortable as it felt to do so, Absolut placed his right finger on Zam's nose, as if booping her, and gently pushed her face away to give himself a moment to breathe. Immediately, a newfound rush a surprising confidence began to flow through his veins. "Y-yes! I'm a superhero, miss! Not a robot, but I can see why you would get confused... My name is Colonel Frost, and I am the Symbol of Peace! Saving people, doing the right thing, and all for others!" Though it was quite rich to call himself the "Symbol of Peace" when, so far, all which he had done in his Colonel Frost identity was travel to a planet with a ridiculous name and look awkward in photographs. "Colonel Frost" slightly tilted his head in confusion. "What's your name, though?" The moving conveyor beneath their feet soon ended, leaving them to go through another opening, another left, another right. Eventually after a mish mash of turns they would be at their destination. However, that wasn't before she caught up on all the entertaining conversation being held behind her back as she walked. Duke Satan and his collaborative of cheerleaders were quite the bunch. Even after the Saiyan expressed her nervous feelings, he assured her that nerves would ease fast once she got comfortable. A Saiyan being the MC for a night seemed amusing, hopefully she maintained her composure. The gentleman who smoked seemed to be on edge. Still, it didn't stop him from poking the sides of the narcissistic Duke. Cassava nearly lost her composure at the man's compliment towards Satan's attire. Perhaps it was something she hadn't noticed, but she allowed the teasing and games to continue so long as her mission of getting the games finished. Rine however stayed at Cassava's back, she seemed enthralled and enamored with the entire process so far. Hopefully once she got a view of the stadium prepared she could wallow in the gloriousness of that. Zam quickly piped up after the Saiyan asked everyone for questions. Cassava seemed to smile, her head nodding at the pink girl's question. "Oh, some species' skin absorbed ultraviolet rays from suns. The build up of that radiation causes a change in the pigment of our skin." It was a rather thorough answer for them walking around in a mega structure. Still, just as quickly as she came, Zam was off talking to the last arrival, the self-proclaimed Colonel Frost. The shiny little man quickly jumped to attention at the interrogation. So that was his alias? Cassava cleared her throat as they finally reached one of the many entrances of the main stadium for the day. As soon as one stepped into the stadium it was blinding. They were clearly back above water as the seas stretched as far as one could see. In the center of the oval was an area set up and prepared for today's activities. Several ropes, balls, instruments, and even a crystal-clear pool was nestled in the stadium. Of course, that pool was filled with fresh sea water from the outside too. It was a nice place for everyone to observe in person. Currently the stadium was beginning to fill. Cassava was giving them a crash course and fast. "This is Stadium Opal. The best Oceaol has to offer in fact. There will be a few events for you all to participate it. With your physical abilities you all should be able to jump in and be decent. Though, your skill sets may help you excel as some games more than others." Cassava turned, her face now to the group. "Now, I also mentioned some of these are team events as well. So, your teammate will be randomly drawn to be fair. Afterall, I'm not entirely sure of what you all will excel at. Though, this will all be handled during the actual games. Which begin in about an hour huh?" Cassava questioned herself while looking down at the time. "I'll take you to the locker rooms for now. Feel free to spend the next hour getting to know one another. Trust me, that hour will pass quickly, then you will be working your tail off and having a good time!" Cassava tried her best to sound excited, but her nerves were still getting the best of her. She quickly turned and walked down the stairs of the stadium before taking a side door that led to a modernly decorated lounge. There were changing rooms for those unprepared, snacks and drinks, and of course luxurious leather couches in front of televisions with all the channels. "Here, trust me, I'll be back in an hour. Don't talk your ears off or you'll have to continue talking on the court. Oh, by the way. The first event up---you may want to warm up your muscles," Cassava noted before turning to exit the room. She had to prepare some things before her televised appearance came. Besides, the athletes needed time to stretch and warm up. . . or not. WC: 705 \|\| 2221 \|\|\| Emperor Absolut Android B "Moxie" Majin Zam Andrew C. Creed Duke would continue to admire himself, and his adoring fan base until one of the female reporters would start running through the rest of his entourage. The champ would raise an eyebrow, scratch his head for a moment, and then shrug "I wonder what got into her? Stage fright?" The proud earthling would continue to strut down the hall ways behind Cassava, he made an attempt to look as cool for the paparazzi as possible. There was just one thing he had for gotten to do, it turned out he actually would need to make one other phone call before the games started. The champ would begin to reach for his phone is his back pocket, but would be interrupted by an electric jolt of some kind. The invisible neck piece of Duke's battle armor could cause him to turn his head directly at Creed. After a second, the rest of his armor would follow suit causing his entire body to face the man. From his point of view, the armor must have been short circuiting! The champ would begin sweating profusely. If his armor failed, he wouldn't look good in the games! and if he didn't look good in the games, those poor blind orphans would all go hungry! And worst of all, his reputation would be damaged! He would then notice Creed approaching, he needed to play it cool. It seemed the man's full name was 'Andrew C. Creed' it sounded familiar to him, but he couldn't put his finger on it. "Well, It's nice to meet you Mr. Creed sir! It will be an honor competing against ya, but there is no shame in dropping out if ya don't think ya can handle the champ, OH YEAAHHH!" Various camera flashes would go off, and Duke would strike multiple poses yet again. "My Gi...Capsule Corp? uhhh..." Duke would freeze for a moment. Was this guy on to him? Nah! Duke was way to clever for this simpleton! The champ would come up with a quick excuse, "Oh you must have heard the news. My appearance today was partially sponsored by capsule corp!" Duke would take off the purplish red part of his Gi. Beneath it was not his invisible battle suit however, but a Nascar-style jacket with nearly a hundred different logos from various companies that were sponsoring Duke. In truth, beneath this jacket would be the invisible battle suit. "Actually, I've got quite a few sponsors as you can see. Yes, Capsule corp is the biggest one though!" After he had "explained himself" to Creed, the narcissistic earthling would overhear the Majin girl talking about how that frost demon was a super hero. "A super hero huh?" the champ would whisper under his breath. This would be the prefect chance for some more publicity! If Duke endorsed a hero from the south galaxy, then perhaps he would get a reputation there as well. Duke would bolt over to Absolute, and say "Did I hear someone say super hero!? Colonel Frost was it? What do ya say to a picture with the champ? Yes? ok, it's a yes then!" Duke would kneel down to get on shoulder level with absolute, and then give a signal to one of his camera guys. Another series of blinding flashes would go off as the picture of Mr. Satan and 'Colonel Frost' together was taken. One of the reporters from the crowd of wild fans would comment: "Woah, perfect article material! Mr. Satan endorses new hero in town!" the crowd of fans would cheer in excitement. Absolute would gain a following quickly at this rate, and those he helped would in turn hear about Mr. Satan! It was a win win in the champ's book. Duke and his crew of followers would be shocked at the beauty of the stadium, the place was gorgeously crafted. If this was the place they would be competing, it would be easy for Duke to look good! He would then listen to the saiyan's explanation of the games, of course he planned to win all of them! He was Mr. Satan! He had no weaknesses! After this he would then follow her to the locker rooms. he had one hour to prepare, the champ hoped it would be enough time to finish his call! "Alright everyone, the champ will be right back after a short bathroom break! Hahaha!" Duke would then walk into the men's locker room, and to the stall's there. He would sit down on one of the toilets, and then dial a number on his phone. "Hey guys it's Duke! Look I forgot something important, and I need as much help as I can get!" Duke would begin to quietly whisper to his TV producer over the phone, to where only the two of them could hear. He needed some finishing touches made before his grand appearance. Once he had finished his call, he would walk out into the main locker room where he would begin to change clothing. Luckily, his battle suit was skin-tight so even if he changed in public he wouldn't get caught. Leaving his pants on, the champ would take off his jacket that was full of various sponsors and replace it with a T-shirt that was full of various sponsors. "AWWW YEAH! Now I'm ready!" Scarlet Summer Games Commence! Posted Mar 27, 2019 22:16:58 GMT -5 Edited by Android B "Moxie" Mar 27, 2019 22:21:01 GMT -5 All it took was a brief second. Oh he certainly caught himself in doing it, but the inkling of uncertainty was evident. A small freeze, the twitch of an eyebrow, trailing off. Creed gave a smirk. Fine, if the foolish idol wished to feign ignorance, he would make him regret it. Nothing too serious. Violent? Perhaps. Creed would reach into his pocket and produce a card with his companies information written on it, holding it out to him. “Hm, I thought so. You should consider getting Creed Cybernetics as a sponsor, we’ve just recently started a joint venture with Capsule Corp. While they are leading in many fields, we currently out number their profits in Cybernetics by Fifteen million. Not a substantial gap, but it is a slowly growing. If you’re interested, feel free to contact me from there. I’m sure you’ll find we are much more accommodating than Capsule Corp. Oh. and good luck” Creed would turn and make his way through the thinning crowd back to Rine. She seemed to of finally snapped out of her starstruck stupor, though there was still the slight glint of wonder in her eyes. Even with all his fortune, the two had such little time to take vacations, especially on planets like this. While Creed preferred cities to the tropics, Rine absolutely adored them. Creed would hold out his arm, allowing her to grab it as they walked on to the locker room, a bit of a strange sight given Rine was almost a foot taller than Creed. As the group moved on, Creed couldn’t help but glance at the two remaining competitors. While Satan had a very…”sparkling” personality, these two stuck out quite a bit. One was quite literally sparkling in the sun. Bit overdressed for beach games, but perhaps that was just Frost Demon preference. Creed would move over to the two with Rine. He grinned slightly as the Frost Demon slowly pushed back the Majin, who stood uncomfortably close. “Hope I’m not interrupting you two love birds” He’d state, hoping to get their attention. “I’m Andrew, and this is Rine. It’s nice to meet you two” He’d glance over at Satan. “Honestly you all seem pretty tough, make sure to go easy on me out there eh?” Rine would stifle a laugh at that, it wasn’t often Creed admitted being weak in anything. Her eyes would flicker about the beautiful architecture of Oceaol. “This place is just...fantastic, isn’t it?” She’d say to no one in particular. Queen Kuueru Emperor Absolut Majin Zam Android B "Moxie" Zam didn’t mind being puuushed away. Some people were just so shy, she figured. They got all nervous, mumbling and fidgeting. She had even seen few turn almost as pink as her! And a certain part of her enjoyed those funny reactions... The dazzling introduction left her eyes twinkling like stars. A real superhero! With a super suit and all! Just like in her favorite shows! That whole kernel part was a mouthful, so she went for a nickname instead. "I’m Zam! Nice to meetcha, Frosty!" Good name? Great name! Arguing against it was useless. Before the little trickster could bother the superhero further, other distractions came to save him. ...Save being a relative term here. Zam’s attention was drawn to Mister Andrew and Miss Rine. A mischievous grin played on the girl’s features as she shook her head. "Nyeh hee~ Silly~! Zam is not a bird, nope!" With a proud bounce she puffed her chest. "Zam is a Majin, is what Zam is!" Oblivious was also what Zam was. The tomboyish girl had a very vague notion of love and attraction. She just knew that some people made her feel all warm and fuzzy inside, sooo she was naturally drawn to them. Her touchy-feely nature didn’t exactly help. The golden eyes shifted between the two adults. Hm, aside from the smoky stink, Mister Andrew didn’t seem like a bad person. And Miss Rine seemed okay too. Flashing a broad smile, the girl nodded excitedly. "Nice to meetcha too!" A playful giggle bounced between the walls. "Don’t worry! I promise to be super careful! Honest!" Not that it meant much coming from someone so reckless... Cassava’s gracious intervention spared everyone from the Majin’s boundless curiosity. For a moment at least. It was a small miracle the scatterbrained creature understood the crash course, but at least she paid very close attention. Sooo... Sports stuff. And also team stuff with a random teammate. And one hour to get ready. Hm, yup yup, she was following so far. Kinda. Maybe. Eh, it would be fiiine. When they arrived to the modern lounge, her eyes zeroed in on the snacks with a predatory gleam. So many delicious things... Zam wiped her drool away and nodded excitedly at the warm up idea. "Okay! Watch this!" Clenching her fists, she huffed with concentration. Pink wisps started dancing around her. Glimmering sparkles trailed across her skin. Slooowly she stretched her whooole body. Her power was constantly shifting without rhyme or reason, a lie told without words. Most scouters just gave up and displayed an error crackling with static. Even sophisticated scanners were dragged into an endless loop of nonsensical information. Magic and technology rarely got along... A wheeze of steam escaped from the holes in her body, mouth included. "Pheeew... All done!" With that out of the way, she zipped over to the snacks and helped herself. Munching a huge sandwich, the energetic glutton approached the stinky man and his tall lady friend. "Hey, hey Mister Andrew! Hey, listen!" Needless to say, the sooner he acknowledged the nuisance floating circles around him, the sooner she would get to the point. Eyes glimmering innocently, she voiced a pretty blunt question. "Why do you feel like nothing?" By now it should have been obvious that the girl had no filter whatsoever. She reached up with her free hand, clearly wanting to pat his chest. If he allowed it, the insistent patting would punctuate her words. "Is like you are not there..." Pat pat pat. "But you’re still there! Super mysterious!" She did have a habit of asking too many questions. Everything collapsed, and quickly. And it wasn't even the fault of Majin Zam - hell, out of the three fellow competitors, she was the most reasonable in this short stretch of time. Sure, the term "personal space" was still not really in her vocabulary, and she was as much of a sugar rush girl as she always had been, but at least she seemed to limit herself to her usual ecstasy and introductions. And also calling him "Frosty". "Frosty"... Apparently, however, Absolut and Zam standing too close to each other attracted some not necessarily wanted attention towards them both. Creed was the first to approach them, calling them "lovebirds", and though this didn't seem to have much impact on Zam, who simply laughed it off and stated that she is not a "bird" - whether Zam was actually oblivious of what the Earthling meant or whether she was hiding her real intentions behind this act was left a mystery - Absolut instantly froze in place. He could only thank the fact that the Cosmic Suit couldn't blush, else its metallic face would have turned into a rich red almost instantly. "You... you must be mistaken, mister..." "Colonel Frost" spoke up after some difficulty. He has barely even met her, why are they already called lovebirds?! "I am... um, sorry for acting so awkward, by the way... I am Colonel Frost, and I am-" Yet another unwanted interruption, this time from Duke Satan, who suddenly pulled the surprised Absolut in and offered a one-time chance to have a picture with the Champ himself, the fact that the Frost Demon didn't even know who he is be damned. "Y-you must be mistaken, I'm not yet-" Absolut was going to try to explain that he has not yet started his superhero career in full, but he didn't find the time to even finish his sentence before the photoshoot began. Out of the two people in the photo, "Colonel Frost" certainly looked like the less confident and expressive one, so whether they were truly a help for a young hero start-up or instead just a way for Duke to boost his image is a big question. And with that, having gotten embarrassed and humbled, Absolut left the underwater path and stepped straight into the massive Stadium Opal, and before he or anyone else got the time to fully admire the massive structure, to the locker rooms, to spend the next half an hour getting to know each other. The young Frost Demon, however, had already received a... less than satisfying first experience into getting to know these people, so initially, he seemed to resign himself to just sitting down on one of the couches and staring to the ceiling, thinking to himself like he would ever so often do. Until his attention got picked up by Zam's usual antics - this time poking Andrew and asking why... he isn't there. But he was. Which Zam herself expressed, and yet asked regardless. "Um..." "Colonel Frost" spoke up as he stood up from his seat, walking up to the Majin and the Earthling, and gently poking the latter himself. "What do you mean, Zam? Andrew is right here, you can feel him." Surely Opal was a beautiful sight to behold. There were enough seats there to house more than most stadiums in the known galaxy. The seating was all architecturally designed for everyone to have a decent view of the events below, be it to the competitor's advantage or not. At least, Cassava wanted these games to be more carefree and comedic than competitive. Hopefully this entire happening would go according to plan. Speaking of plans, Cassava was quickly back to her waiting station until time to grab the participants. Her honey hued eyes glanced over an illuminated screen that listed a wall of information. It was a list of events. Not only that, but the expected number of crowd members as well. So far, they seemed to be ahead in sales for the limited seats they had, perhaps even sold out. Despite the large amount of room, high profile guests graced the crowd. Most of the people here tonight bought their way in with money or recognition. It didn't bother Cassava, the more profit she could rake in for her efforts the better. That's not to say she hadn't put forth a good chuck of her own fortune to get it started. Tonight, would be a glorious night indeed, truly she was eager to see just how these super powered marvels would handle such ordinary sports. While the usual Galactic Olympics were open to those with only the best abilities, there was the influx of ki users in the galaxy, they have had to make several different leagues in sports in this era. Some levels were for those with no ki abilities, some with minor energy control skills, though, there weren't powerhouses like this list of competitors. Cassava aimed to showcase a different level of athlete tonight as a side agenda. The Saiyan grinned eagerly as she attempted to visualize how the night would play out scene by scene. While she was no psychic or fortuneteller, she had predicted quite the zany evening. The first event was planned, a true might of strength between the array of participants. With the start time of the Scarlet Summer Games nearing, the crowd, lighting, and cameras started to set up and prepare. Getting the viewers hyped was the goal, not only here in person but at home would help show that different people could work cooperatively. Even the competitors beneath the stadium would notice the shift in atmosphere. Thousands of sounds echoed from overhead. From the loud music prior to the games, to the advertisements that blared in-between. The footsteps began to pile in, a cacophony of sound managing to radiate from the stadium's center. From their view the sun was beginning to sink beyond the horizon. Wait, beach events at night? With a planet with at least one sun in view 95% of the time, Cassava sure chose and odd day to host her games. Though, there was a nice fun party vibe to the area now. Friends drank overpriced alcohol and chanted the names of their favorite participants amongst the few she managed to pull together in a last-minute rush. Cassava stood before the main control hub for broadcasting of the event. As soon as a good percentage of the observers filed into their seats, brilliant lights illuminated not only the way for patrons, but the glorious stage waiting for a night of fun. Many grabbed last minute concessions, not a person wanted to be out of their seats for this. Surely some hilarity would ensure with the narcissistic Earthling, shy superhero, childish pink danger, and of course, giant blue alien woman and nicotine addicted man thing. Hand selecting these people was a tough decision, yet the Lieutenant did it with deliberation. In a moment the Saiyan would have to go down to retrieve the main part of her show, but for now she would allow them a moment to breathe and get any conversation out of the way. All the while, the anticipation of the crowd became more and more apparent as their voices blended together to express their excitement. With that, Cassava began to make her way back to reveal what the first competition would be. WC: 696 \|\| 2917 \| Tags: Emperor Absolut Android B "Moxie" Majin Zam Andrew C. Creed Scarlet Summer Games Commence! Posted Mar 30, 2019 17:50:16 GMT -5 Edited by Queen Kuueru Mar 30, 2019 17:50:38 GMT -5 Duke would scratch the back of his head as Creed would suggest that he should consider a sponsorship with his organization. He had already made an agreement with capsule corp. but at the same time, creed cybernetics was part of a joint venture with them. Duke did want the money for the poor blind orphans after all. Even more so, he wanted any fame Creed Cybernetics would offer him. Rubbing his chin for a moment, the champ would begin to raise his arm for a hand shake "Mr. Creed, it sounds like we have a--" Mr. Satan would be cut off by one of his reality show producers. "Mr.Satan hold on a second!" a stout and overweight man would dart towards the champ and whisper in his ear. "Mr.Satan, you must not sponsor that man! He isn't on the networks approved list of sponsors! Also rumor has it he is a rival of Capsule corp. not a friend! you can't!" The boastful earthling would nod his head. If he turned his back on the show's producers, then he would loose ratings! The only thing worse than loosing ratings was death itself! "Well, I hate to inform you Mr.Creed, I really do. My producer has forbid me from taking any other sponsors at this time. Perhaps another day. Besides, you have plenty of advertisement! Your here in person after all. HAHAHAH! I'll try not to embarrass you all that much!" The moment had arrived! Soon it would be the champ's time to shine. Duke would pick up his phone one last time to ask a friend a question. "Everything in place? Hahaha! Excellent! Oh, I'm almost on stage!" Post by Andrew C. Creed on Apr 1, 2019 14:14:44 GMT -5 Creed was not expecting to be patted on the chest today, nor was Rine, who quickly went in to grab the Majin’s arm with an almost vice grip. She would give Majin a glare and slight hiss before Creed intervened. “It’s alright Rine, she was just curious” She would slowly remove her hand from the Majin’s arm before returning her sights back to the rest of the scenery. “Sorry about that, there are a lot of people in this galaxy who aren’t very big fans of me. You can never tell who is a friend or bioterrorist these days” He would sigh slightly. He didn’t have direct access to his suit today, so both remained on edge just to be safe. Though she may look distracted, Rine was a master at multitasking and reacting quickly to threats. “As for my lack of an energy signature, the answer is simple” Creed would close his right eye and tap on his left, letting out a ding as if tapping glass. “During a major Bioterrorist attack, I was caught in a collapsing building. Though I managed to survive quite a few of my internal organs had to be replaced. I decided to just get rid of the rest of them to be safe. Organic matter is required in order to give off an energy signature, and it seems I removed enough of it to dissolve whatever Power Level I might of have. Benefit is that I could probably take a missile to the chest and survive. Not that I’m wanting to test that theory!” He’d jest. Creed was being honest for the most part, but forgot to neglect how he lost his eye. That tussle with the one called “Legume” left him more injured than the healing pods could heal. By the time he had blown up his suit power core, his left eye was blinded and ruptured due to one Legume’s strikes. He was lucky to get away without any brain damage. Creed would glance over at the obese producer, who sought to prevent any sort of sponsorship. “Haven't you seen the news lately? We are in a joint operation to build a very useful, maybe even galaxy changing product. While Creed Cybernetics and Capsule Corp have been a little competitive as of late, I would appreciate it if you refrained from spreading rumors of us being enemies. This is the real world, Mister Producer, not a movie” He’d give a slight smirk to Satan. “I’d suggest getting more knowledgeable producers next time, Duke” Creed would return his sights back to the frost demon and majin. “It’s nice to meet you Zam and Frost. I hope the games go well for you both” Majin Zam Android B "Moxie" Queen Kuueru Emperor Absolut Scarlet Summer Games Commence! Posted Apr 1, 2019 14:14:44 GMT -5 Post by Majin Zam on Apr 2, 2019 0:38:49 GMT -5 Much to the small Majin’s huge shock, her patting was denied! Wide-eyed and confused, she stared up at the stern blue lady. Her rubbery hand got squished in the grip. That really hurt... her feelings. Fortunately Mister Andrew turned out to be savvy about the situation. As the hold was released, there was a tense pause. ...Patpatpatpatpat! The girl’s bright smile returned. Curiosity rising! Overflowing! She had never met anyone like this mysterious man. Frosty’s poke was met with a gleeful giggle. "Sure he’s there, silly! But he has no tingle!" That was her word choice for it and she was sticking with it. For better or worse. "He’s all cold and empty inside!" Honest to a fault. When Mister Andrew offered a... simple... answer, Zam of course plopped down to listen. Story time! One of her favorite times, right after snack time and play time. She listened attentively and nodded here and there. Hm hm, yup yup, she knew some of those words. The rest went waaay over her head though. By the end of the explanation, she chimed cheerfully. "Don’t worry, Mister Andrew! Zam is not a bio-thingy! Zam is a friend, is what Zam is!" Even if the stinky Earthling felt weird and his lady friend was a little scary, he seemed nice! Plus she really liked Earthlings! So that made him a friend! Watching the adults talk more about difficult stuff didn’t hold the girl’s interest though. She stretched her arm and snatched another sandwich. It was much like stuffing something down a garbage disposal, only with more flying food crumbs. Her elastic tongue whipped around to clean up those too though. Yummy! She had no qualms about filling up before exercise. If anything, snacks just fueled her weird body further. Luckily she hadn’t gotten her hands on any sugar... Full and happy, Zam bounced back onto her feet. Her golden gaze swept over the new friends. Humming a playful tune, she tried to imagine what sort of secrets they were hiding. Miss Cassava had said that all phyy... phisi... skills were fair game. Weeell, maybe she didn’t really say it, but she had totally meant it, right? Right! The Majin’s thoughts trailed off as her antennae wiggled, tickled by the variety of tiny tingles amassing nearby. Excited voices echoed to her ears. Unable to sit still anymore, she turned to wander around restlessly. Ooh, she couldn’t wait to see what more there was in store! Scarlet Summer Games Commence! Posted Apr 2, 2019 0:38:49 GMT -5 Post by Emperor Absolut on Apr 2, 2019 3:02:17 GMT -5 Ah, so it wasn't Andrew's actual presence which Zam was concerned with - he was there, the girl simply could not sense his presence. "Ah, that's what you mean..." the Frost Demon muttered under his breath. Right, now that she has mentioned it, Creed did not have any energy signature... Absolut had not even noticed it before, actually. His ki sensing skills were not developed to a point where he would navigate himself by them in such a manner, and his time in Kabocha and elsewhere left him already acquainted with the concept of Androids, and the fact that they did not have a ki signature to speak of. Regardless, Andrew quickly assured on what had happened to him to leave him in such a fate. He got severely wounded during a bio terrorist attack and much of his body had to be replaced with cybernetics, which eliminated any energy signature which he still might have had. Zam took it in her usual cheerful manner - Absolut, on the other hand, had chills go down his spine upon imagining such a fate. As well as a newfound feeling of resolve upon hearing the horror which had happened to the businessman. "Colonel Frost" clenched his fist in enthusiasm and, right after the Majin, exclaimed with enthusiasm: "It's nice to meet you too, sir! And if such an evil ever dares to strike you again, you know who to call! I'm the Symbol of Peace for a very good reason!"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line119
__label__cc	0.606058	0.393942	Lady Versus Cake (Book Review Essay Sample) / Samples / Book Review / Lady Versus Cake ← "I Want to Keep My Baby" by Joanna Lee Communicating and Connecting in Relationships → Check Out Our Lady Versus Cake Essay The author in this book, critics the media and their role in advertising unhealthy commodities to their audience. He shows how the media hypes commodities that might be unsafe and unhealthy to humans. This paper focuses on the chapter lady versus cake. In this chapter, the author shows how people are obsessed with junk food. He talks about the cake and a lady lawyer. The setting of the chapter is in a court room where the cake is depicted as a witness in the witness box. The cake poses in a seductive posture; that many people would find it difficult to resist. The writer further describes the cake as exotically frosted, moist, and rich and luscious to the eyes, this is desirable. Characteristics of the lawyer match those of the cake. The writer gives the lawyer these traits depicting her as a model. The writer shows the reader how she comes pacing into the court room and compares her to the television lawyers. The lawyer can be assumed symbolize the rich and powerful in the society. According to the writer, many people admire the cake. In this chapter, some ladies are over heard saying that they would like to be identified with the cake, also expressing their desire to bake the cake. The media, for a long time, has given people hyped information about commodities only to find out the goods advertised are poor in standard. Femininity has also been considerably used, and at the same time abused. Many adverts in the world today include the theme of nudity, hence neglecting social ethics. The writer continues to mock the consumers’ culture of unhealthy living. Rather than being imitative, this chapter is a genuine briefing on postmodernism, and it is met with fictional honor to everybody. The dreadful aspect in the chapter, obviously, is the inevitable, soul-deadening media mechanism that encourages the event, and twists domestic life into an animated film. Communicating and Connecting in Relationships Beyond The Neon Lights "I Want to Keep My Baby" by Joanna Lee "Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line123
__label__wiki	0.877393	0.877393	Hague arrives in Baghdad, urging unity in face of jihadists AFP , Thursday 26 Jun 2014 File Photo: British Foreign Secretary William Hague talks to the media during the European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels January 23, 2012 (Photo: Reuters) Syria carried out Iraq border strike on militants, PM tells BBC HRW calls on Tunis to probe war crimes by Tunisian fighters in Iraq, Syria Last chapter for Iraq Turkey raises fears over potential spillover from Iraq British Foreign Secretary William Hague made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Thursday to urge leaders to unite in the face of a Sunni militant offensive that threatens Iraq's existence. Hague is due to meet with several leaders over the militant offensive, which he said poses "a mortal threat to the stability and territorial integrity of Iraq," according to a Foreign Office statement. "The Iraqi state is facing an existential threat, with huge ramifications for the future stability and freedom of this country," he was quoted as saying. "The single most important factor that will determine whether or not Iraq overcomes this challenge is political unity." His visit follows an unannounced trip by US Secretary of State John Kerry in which he pushed a similar message, urging Iraqi leaders to unite against the Sunni militant onslaught, which has been led by the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. The insurgents have overrun vast swathes of five provinces north and west of Baghdad in an offensive that has alarmed the international community, left more than 1,000 people dead and displaced hundreds of thousands.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line134
__label__wiki	0.918206	0.918206	‘Verdict not final’ for Sudanese woman sentenced to death Meriam Ibrahim, who is eight months pregnant, has been sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her religion. (Photo courtesy of Metro.co.uk) Staff writer, Al Arabiya News Sunday, 18 May 2014 The fate of Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, a Sudanese women who was sentenced to death by authorities for refusing to renounce her Christianity, may not be final, despite a court ruling this week in the capital Khartoum, an official said. Sudanese Parliament Speaker Fatih Izz Al-Deen said on Um Derman radio station that the verdict - which was not yet final – would go through all the judicial stages to reach the constitutional court, CNN news website reported. Ibrahim, who is eight months pregnant, describes herself as Christian, according to her husband. However, the court considers her a Muslim. The death ruling for Ibrahim drew condemnation from Western embassies in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and international rights groups, including Amnesty International. “The Embassies of the United States of American, the United Kingdom, Canada and the Netherlands in Khartoum express their deep concern over the apostasy ruling handed down on Sunday in the trial of Meriam Yahia Ibhrahim Ishag,” said a statement posted on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum. “We call upon the Government of Sudan to respect the right to freedom of religion, including one’s right to change one’s faith or beliefs, a right which is enshrined in international human rights law as well as in Sudan’s own 2005 Interim Constitution,” the statement added. Void actions “We further urge Sudanese legal authorities to approach Ms Meriam’s case with justice and compassion that is in keeping with the values of the Sudanese people. We are also concerned over the brutal sentence that could be faced with respect to the finding of adultery,” it said. The court in Khartoum also ordered Ibrahim be given 100 lashes for committing "zena" - an Arabic word for illegitimate sex - for having sexual relations with a non-Muslim man. The couple married in 2011 and have a child, born 18 months ago. Under Sudanese law, Ibrahim's marriage to a non-Muslim is regarded as void, the Associated Press reported. Ibrahim can appeal her death sentence as well as the 100 lashes. As in many Muslim nations, Muslim women in Sudan are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith. By law, children must follow their father's religion. Last Update: Sunday, 18 May 2014 KSA 15:29 - GMT 12:29 MERIAM IBRAHIM Sudan opposition urges protests as leader arrested Sudanese opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi was arrested on Saturday on charges that could lead to the death penalty, a ... Sudan ex-PM grilled over Darfur ‘rapes by military’ claim A Sudanese former prime minister appeared before prosecutors for questioning Thursday after he reportedly accused a ... Sudan's Bashir has knee operation Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir underwent a knee operation on Sunday, his press secretary said, amid uncertainty over ... New fighting in South Sudan two days after ceasefire Fighting has again broken out in South Sudan two days after the conflict's second peace agreement was signed. The deal ... South Sudan peace deal hailed, but will it hold? South Sudan's top U.N. aid official on Saturday hailed a new peace deal and called for food aid to flow to counter the ... South Sudan ceasefire deal gets U.S. approval The United States welcomed a ceasefire agreement on Friday between South Sudan’s president and a rebel leader ... South Sudan rival leaders sign ceasefire deal South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar agreed a ceasefire deal on Friday, vowing to end nearly ... U.S. imposes first sanctions on South Sudan The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on two people taking opposing sides in South Sudan’s ethnic ... South Sudan rivals set to face U.S. sanctions Amid warnings that ethnic violence in South Sudan risks spiraling into genocide, the United States expects to impose ... The death ruling for Meriam Yehya drew condemnation worldwide	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line135
__label__cc	0.561039	0.438961	Les Spinge British fanzine published starting September 1959 and edited by Ken Cheslin and Peter Davies of the Stourbridge Science Fiction Circle (SADO). In the 60s Peter Davies was replaced by Dave Hale. Along with Hyphen it was a good example of an old-style of British fanzine. It had a 100 page 13th issue (May 1964) issued in two volumes, with contributors including Walt Willis, John Berry, and Michael Moorcock. The 106-page 14th issue (January 1965) was assembled using a power drill and metal binding straps. The editors could only collate and mail a few issues each week. Contributors to this issue included Michael Moorcock, John Berry, Charles Platt, and George O. Smith. Eventually, relatively low reader response received caused editors to quit. Darroll Pardoe edited some slimmed-down subsequent issues, but it was never quite the same after that. It lasted through the 70s, with its final issue (#36) in December 1979. 1 Autumn 1959 24 editors: Ken Cheslin and Peter Davies 2 April 1960 26 3 July 1960 46 4 Winter 1960 42 5 March 1961 34 6 August 1961 52 7 September 1961 22 editors: Ken Cheslin and Dave Hale 10 January 1963 34 11 June 1963 42 13 May 1964 100 Stapled in two parts 14 January 1965 106 15 August 1966 20 editor: Darroll Pardoe 16 October 1966 20 19 September 1967 32 22 July 1970 18 OMPA 58 23 January 1971 24 OMPA 25 November 1972 22 26 December 1972 12 27 May 1973 20 33 May 1979 8 Includes index to the first 33 issues This is a fanzine page. Please extend it by adding information about when and by whom it was published, how many issues it has had, (including adding a partial or complete checklist), its contents (including perhaps a ToC listing), its size and repro method, regular columnists, its impact on fandom, or by adding scans or links to scans.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line143
__label__wiki	0.956435	0.956435	Loyalists targeting GAA Daily Ireland By Connla Young GAA clubs in Co Derry have been urged to check their premises after the PSNI warned they are being targeted by loyalists. County board officials contacted 18 clubs in the district yesterday after the PSNI claimed they received intelligence that GAA clubs in the Magherafelt District Command Unit area were under threat of loyalist attack. It is understood the loyalist plot involves scattering crushed glass on playing surfaces at club grounds across south Derry where hundreds of adults and children train and play daily. The PSNI last night confirmed that they have carried out searches at GAA clubs in the Magherafelt area. News of threat comes one week after a St John’s Catholic church, Magherafelt, which sits just yards from the town’s O’ Donovan Rossa GAA club, was targeted in in a sectarian graffiti attack. It was the second incident at the small historical church in two weeks. The adjacent GAA facility formed part of yesterday’s PSNI searches. The club has been the target of several loyalist pipe bomb and glass attacks in recent years. In the late 1990s a number of GAA clubs in the south Derry area were targeted in a series of sectarian pipe bomb attacks. These attacks were widely believed to have been the work of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). The GAA community across the island was rocked in 1997 when Bellaghy Wolfe Tones chairman Sean Brown was abducted and gunned down by the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) as he locked up at club premises. South Derry Board secretary Brian Smyth says the latest warning is being taken seriously by members. “We have sent word to all clubs that this is to be treated as a serious warning. That is not a guarantee that something is going to happen but we are putting everybody on alert because of their seriousness of the calls we have received. “Clubs in the area have been targeted in the past and of course Sean Brown was murdered, which is still in the headlines. These sorts of things do create fear but I would like to think that this fear will not stop us playing our games. “We were told when contacted that intelligence was received that crushed glass would be used on local fields. But we have advised clubs to be on the look out for anything suspicious.” Magherafelt Sinn Féin councillor Sean McPeake condemned the latest attack. “I would hope this is not the start of another campaign against the GAA in this area. “It’s very worrying when you consider the attack on the nearby church in recent weeks. The GAA provides an important service for the youth of the area and it’s unacceptable that loyalist paramilitaries and people of evil intent would act in this way.” # posted by SAOIRSE32 : 8:38 p.m. 0 comments Two simple ways to get Irish to flourish BY GEARÓID O’CAIREALLAIN In his by now legendary address in Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich in Belfast last month, Dr Shlomo Izre’el, Professor of Semitic Languages in Tel Aviv University, Israel, identified two prerequisites for the survival, revival and flourishing of the Irish language in Ireland, namely idealism and necessity. The former, he observed, we have in spades, the latter he was less sure of. In fact, his study, his observation, his gut feeling and his common sense told him that while English was a linguistic necessity all over Ireland (excepting, perhaps, the Gaeltacht areas), the pure necessity for Irish as a linguistic tool in Ireland was negligible. He went on to compare the Irish situation with that of Israel, where Hebrew today is a linguistic necessity. You just cannot live a full and proper life in Israel today without Hebrew. In Ireland it is impossible to live a full and proper life without English. The fact that Hebrew went from having no speakers of the modern language to having over six million within 100 years was one of the reasons why I invited Shlomo to come to Cultúrlann and share his view of the Hebrew experience with us. Despite the various arguments, boycotts, protests and differences of opinion, I am glad that Professor Izre’el accepted the invitation to deliver the annual Pádraig Ó Donnchú commemorative lecture, and I am convinced that Irish does, indeed, have a lot to learn from the experience of Hebrew in Israel. I, too, have identified two prerequisites for the survival, revival and flourishing of the Irish language. Let us be clear about a thing or two from the outset. My over-riding interest in Irish is as a linguistic tool for Irish people. A means of communication that is particular to us, our own, Irish language: the Irish language of today and tomorrow for the Irish people of today and tomorrow. We need our own, Irish language to ensure that we remain distinctly Irish in the world. I know the Irish language is the repository for a rich and wonderful literature, both oral and written. I am happy to think of the great stories and sagas that were to our ancestors as movies and television soaps and dramas and theatre are to us today. I read modern Irish literature all the time from Ó Cadhain to Mac Grianna, from Aodhán Ó Rathaille to Cathal Ó Searcaigh, from Nuala Rua to Deirdre Ní Ghrianna. I love poetry and novels, short stories and plays but they are all bunkum as far as reviving the language is concerned. I am not interested in learning Irish just to be able to read and appreciate our great language, the oldest in Europe. Sure, I might as well learn Latin or ancient Greek, if it is all just about reading and appreciating literature. If you are thinking of learning Irish just to be able to read and appreciate literature, take my advice and forget it. I want Irish to be the living, vibrant, no-nonsense, irreverent and beautiful everyday tongue of the people of Ireland. Most people in Ireland don’t read great literature in any language, so why should they in Irish. It’s page-turners we want, full of murder, deceit, high-speed action and sex. Like every normal person waiting for a plane, or a train, we want to be entertained, but not to be taxed in the brain. We want to escape, not be burdened by the nobility of art and culture. Or else we want music mags, camera mags, car mags, computer mags – any damn mag that is useful – in Irish. Of course some people – like yours truly – want class literature, but we are in a minority. Also, even those of us who demand highbrow literature (I have read Cré na Cille, let it be known), also want lowbrow stuff as well. Like a movie mag, to keep up with the comings and goings of the stars. Or a gossip mag to keep up with the comings and goings of, well… the stars. All these weird and wonderful toys of leisure will come when market forces detect a need for them. If a publisher thought he could make a few quid profit by sticking out a DIY – Does – Exactly – What – It- Says mag in Irish, then a publisher most certainly would do so. Until then, however, I don’t think so. Basically, in order to have the type of services in Irish that we already enjoy in English – whether they be of the written variety or otherwise – we need more Irish speakers. A lot more Irish speakers. Which brings me two my two prerequisites for the survival, revival and flourishing of the Irish language. First, learn Irish. Second, use Irish. Learn Irish, use Irish – couldn’t be simpler. In a dream world, an ideal world, the Irish government would instigate a short-term action plan to have a critical mass of the Irish people speaking Irish within, say, three or five years. Five years. Enough people speaking Irish to create the necessity for other people to speak Irish. This is not an impossible proposition. Irish is an easy language to learn, although the idea of the current Irish government going on a crusade to revive the language is a bit hard to picture. Imagine walking into a shop in Andersonstown, or Lucan, or Dundalk and your first instinct would be to speak Irish. That you just knew that Irish would be language most likely to be used by the shop guy and most of his customers. Imagine if you wanted to find out who won the match last night, or how the Israeli pullout from Gaza and the West Bank was getting along, or what’s the betting for Saturday’s three-thirty at the Curragh, or whatever, that you immediately went to Lá, or TG4, or Raidió Fáilte, Raidió na Life or Raidió na Gaeltachta… Imagine a world where you spoke Irish most of the time to most of your friends, most of your family, most of your school mates, work colleagues, political comrades, political enemies. This is all possible, provided you follow my two step guide to reviving the Irish language: learn Irish, use Irish. First of all we have to want to. More next week… Northern Ireland \| Ahern to meet Colombian minister Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern is to meet his Colombian counterpart, Carolina Barco, in New York next week. They are expected to discuss requests filed by the Colombians for the extradition of the three Irishmen convicted of training Farc rebels. The extradition papers are being examined by the Department of Justice in the Irish Republic. The talks will take place on the fringes of next week's meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Niall Connolly, Martin McCauley and James Monaghan were sentenced to 17 years in jail after being convicted of training Farc rebels, but vanished in December 2004 while on bail awaiting an appeal. They returned to the Irish Republic in August. British child porn suspect in hiding here A BRITISH man wanted as part of a major child porn investigation in Britain is believed to be hiding in Ireland. Jason Ryan Cooke (34), from Anglesea in Wales, disappeared two months ago after being sought by police in connection with a major child porn investigation. Cooke is wanted for allegedly downloading 372 indecent images of young boys and girls from the internet, and police also found 68 video clips of children. Cooke has numerous connections in Ireland, including contacts in both the Republic and the North. British police believe Cooke has spent time in Ireland previously and could now be hiding here. Police have appealed for help in tracing him. Cooke, a white male, is of large build with long hair and a full beard. Anyone who may suspect they've seen Cooke is asked to contact their local garda station or the British police. Ralph Riegel Protesters block city road again Loyalist protests have disrupted rush-hour traffic A crowd of mainly women and children blocked Donegall Road in south Belfast for a time, in the sixth consecutive day of loyalist protests in the city. They gathered near Shaftesbury Square at about 1530 BST, moved towards the Boyne Bridge for a time then returned. The protest has now ended and the road has re-opened. Rush-hour traffic has been disrupted since Monday by loyalists angry at the police's response to disturbances which followed a re-routed Orange march. On Friday, UUP leader Sir Reg Empey called for an end to the demonstrations, saying that they were causing loyalist areas to suffer. "The government's attention is now being focused on concerns that people have in many of these loyalist areas," he said. "There will be no progress made while these disturbances continue." However, SDLP leader Mark Durkan said there had been "a total failure in unionist leadership". "Like others, I have to ask why it has taken him (Sir Reg) a week to scramble to that sort of line of sense," he said. City of fear By Jonathan McCambridge and Deborah McAleese Belfast remained on a knife-edge last night following sinister attempts to bring traffic chaos to the city. Police took a robust line in keeping roads open after loyalist protests in a number of areas - there were scuffles between police in riot gear with dogs and protesters on the Donegall Road. At one point Great Victoria Street in the City Centre was closed by police following a road-block, despite calls by UUP leader Sir Reg Empey for an end to the demonstrations. Earlier in the day rumours swept Belfast claiming that shops, businesses and schools were to shut down from lunchtime amid fears of mass loyalist roadblocks. Some schools reported bogus calls claiming to be from Translink telling them to send children home because buses were cancelled. There have been warnings that the ongoing disturbances could put international investors off coming to Northern Ireland. Meanwhile Secretary of State Peter Hain has told the Belfast Telegraph that he believes his decision to release Shankill bomber Sean Kelly has stoked loyalist anger - but claimed he could not have handled the situation any other way. He has defended the amount of time it took him to drop recognition of the UVF ceasefire, claiming he did not want to jeopardise behind closed doors attempt to end their bloody feud with the LVF. Mr Hain has also said it would be "unreasonable" to exclude all republicans - as distinct from IRA members - from joining the police. Loyalist jailed for Harryville horror I'm still living in fear says Catholic victim By Deborah McAleese newsdesk@belfasttelegraph.co.uk A Ballymena loyalist who strangled and repeatedly stabbed a Catholic man in an horrific sectarian attack and then planned to cut up his body with a saw was last night starting a 16-year sentence behind bars. But even with the depraved thug safely off the streets the victim of the horrific murder attempt said he would never be able to put the terrifying ordeal behind him. Neil White (30), from Wakehurst Road, Ballymena, was one of three men who tried to strangle 31-year-old Michael Reid with a phone chord and then stabbed him repeatedly with a knife shouting sectarian abuse in October 2003 at a house in Patrick Place, Harryville. Mr Reid was forced to pretend he was dead in the hope that White and the two accomplices - who have never been caught - would stop attacking him. As he lay motionless in a pool of blood White and the two men continued to kick and stab him to make sure he was dead and then started to discuss how they would dispose of his body. They then decided to get a saw and cut him up. While the two other men left to get a saw White stayed with the body but Mr Reid was able to fight White off and make his escape. He ran from the house but collapsed a short distance away where he was picked up by a passing police patrol. As White was imprisoned at Belfast Crown Court yesterday, Mr Reid, who has been forced into hiding, said he was still living in fear. Speaking to the Belfast Telegraph he said: "I am still in fear for my life as the two other men are still out there. I want police to keep trying to get them. "I expected White to get about 16 years so I suppose I am happy enough with that but I wish he had got more. I will never be able to put this behind me but I'm just trying to get on with my life as best I can." Sentencing White, Mr Justice Coghlin said sectarianism was a "corrosive toxin that remorselessly eats away at the social fabric surrounding many communities in Northern Ireland". He said: "Mr Reid was a Catholic in Harryville, the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time. "Over time sectarianism has been cynically exploited by politicians and paramilitaries. "No child is born sectarian but rather acquires such attitudes and beliefs as a result of social contact and influence including family, peer groups and the wider community." Hain sticks to his guns over release of IRA man Kelly By Chris Thornton, Political Correspondent cthornton@belfasttelegraph.co.uk Freeing Shankill bomber Sean Kelly has contributed to the sense of grievance among loyalists, Secretary of State Peter Hain has admitted - but he says he couldn't have handled Kelly's imprisonment and release any other way. The Secretary of State also defended the length of time it took him to drop recognition of the UVF ceasefire, saying he didn't want to jeopardise attempts behind closed doors to end the feud with the LVF. But he said he was not specifically attacking unionist politicians yesterday when he accused unionists of becoming fellow travellers with "thuggery and gangsterism" in the wake of this week's loyalist rioting. "Nothing I have said since the riots and gangsterism of last weekend has in anyway suggested that unionist politicians either incited or condoned the violence," he said. "I have a good relationship with all unionist politicians and leaders and respect for them as we work together on the forward agenda. I well understand how difficult the present situation is for them." Yesterday the Belfast Telegraph reported Mr Hain's remarks - which concerned a failure to react strongly to the violence against police - applied to unionist politicians. He has now indicated the remark applied generally to some unionists. At the same time, SDLP leader Mark Durkan attacked unionist politicians for sitting alongside the UVF and UDA on the North and West Belfast Parades Forum. After UUP and DUP councillors decided to boycott the Belfast Police Partnership, Mr Durkan said: "Clearly the UUP and DUP prefer to work with gunmen than the police. "They prefer to work with people who shoot at the police than with the men and women whose job it is to enforce the law." Mr Hain had returned Kelly to prison in June over suspicion he had again become involved in terrorism. But he released him in July the day before the IRA declared an end to its armed campaign. In an interview with the Belfast Telegraph, Mr Hain said: "There was no forward plan to let him out. "I locked him up because he was breaching his licence. I had a report that arrived in my red box one night from the PSNI and it would have been irresponsible of me not to have acted on that. "Equally it would have been wrong of me to ignore the fact that the IRA statement was of a historic and completely different kind from anything that had come before and opened up a new era in Northern Ireland, a statement to which he was signed up. "Given that sequence of events, I don't think any other Secretary of State could have taken any different decisions. "Is it the decision I'm most proud of? No, of course not. But given the circumstances I don't think any of those decisions could have been different." In the wake of last week's rioting, Mr Hain said the Government would no longer recognise the UVF ceasefire. UVF violence has been an issue for several months, but Mr Hain said he delayed the decision because of ongoing attempts to stop the group's feud with the LVF. "There were other reasons why I delayed making a decision, in terms of other moves that were going on in an attempt to bring the feud to an end and attempts at dialogue - not by me, obviously," he said. "And actually a premature specification could have got in the way in that. "I don't have any regrets about the specification, either, but would it have changed anything on the ground over that weekend? I rather doubt it. "And in a way there was a whole political hullabaloo around it, as if this was the be and end all. Now people are saying what difference has it made and that was my point all along." Mr Hain said it would be "unreasonable" to exclude republicans - as distinct from IRA members - from joining the police. "This is very simple," he said. "Anybody joining the Police Service, whatever their personal political position, whatever community they come from, have to conform to the same very high recruitment and vetting standards. Full stop, end of story. "In a sense I don't want to know what their political views are. But I do want a Police Service, as it has increasingly become, that is representative of the community. "And I do want republicans who have signed up for the democratic and peaceful future, I do want them to be supportive of the police and engage with the police. "If people are saying that a 19-year-old from a family that has had republican connections is barred from joining the police straight out of school as a young recruit, despite satisfying all the standards, then obviously not. Obviously that's unreasonable." But he said he was not saying "you can demobilise paramilitaries and integrate them". "Absolutely not," he added. BreakingNews.ie: Unionists accused over loyalist violence Unionist political leaders were accused today of “almost soliciting” the loyalist violence which erupted in Northern Ireland a week ago. The rhetoric used the Rev Ian Paisley and Sir Reg Empey ahead of last Saturday’s contentious Orange Parade in Belfast was heavily condemned by SDLP leader Mark Durkan. And he said it appeared the loyalist paramilitary tail was now almost wagging the unionist dog. Hitting out at the Democratic Unionist and Ulster Unionist party leaders, Mr Durkan said: “Effectively the signal they sent to people was ‘do your worst and we won’t blame you, do your worst and we will blame the police. “Do your worst and we will blame the Parades Commission and we will blame the Secretary of State’. “Of course that is exactly what they have done since.” Mr Durkan, speaking on BBC Radio Ulster’s Inside Politics programme, said the leaders of the two unionist parties had allowed the loyalist paramilitaries to take the lead over policing and parades. “It seems as thought the whip hand in unionist politics actually lies with the paramilitaries who showed their real nature last weekend,” he said. He dismissed the DUP call for a “root and branch” review of the Parades Commission – what the party really wanted was its abolition, he said. Mr Durkan said ahead of the re-routed Whiterock parade Sir Reg had not, through the terms he had used, made his position clear. “It was, I believe, the rhetoric used by himself and Ian Paisley, even in advance of last weekend, that almost solicited the sort of violence we had,” said Mr Durkan. Meanwhile two Anglican bishops today offered to help communities caught up in the loyalist violence. The Church of Ireland Bishop of Connor, Alan Harper and Bishop of Down and Dromore, Harold Millar, said they hoped to meet people in the areas affected. Bishop Harper said they “wanted to understand the issues behind the violence". He said: “The first thing we intend to do is to meet the clergy on the ground from those parishes that have been directly concerned in Belfast. “We will then invite them to talk to us alongside members of their own congregations whom they will identify as being able to talk freely to us about that matter.” In a joint statement the bishops said they rejected violence as a legitimate method of expressing grievances. The bishops also demanded an end to the “unseen intimidation” of stones through widows, finger-pointing and the subtle violence which was as real as the riots. “It is time to move beyond this and to create genuine processes that engage more than a handful of people in our land in determining the future,” they added. :: A 14-year-old Catholic schoolboy allegedly joined loyalist rioters to attack the security forces in Lisburn, Co Antrim last week, it was revealed today. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was allegedly videotaped throwing stones and police and troops last Monday. He was released on bail and ordered to stay indoors between 6.00pm and 8.00am when he appeared at Lisburn Magistrates Court. Blast bomb device thrown in city Blast bomb devices were thrown in Derry A bomb explosion has been reported in the Fountain estate area of Derry. The police said a blast bomb type device was thrown at a bar on the Abercorn Road. There were no reports of any injuries. Army bomb experts are examining a second device which has been discovered. The security forces have sealed off the area from Carlisle Square to Bishops Street. # posted by SAOIRSE32 : 11:39 p.m. 0 comments Police chief slams Unionists over partnership boycott Belfast’s top police commander tonight hit back at unionists who have quit community partnerships over the street violence raging across the city. As loyalist protestors threatened new traffic chaos, Assistant Chief Constable Duncan McCausland challenged political representatives to lay off his officers and help end the disorder. He said: “There is some evidence of others working hard to help end it, however all we are hearing from some quarters is abdication of responsibility and accusations of blame. This is unhelpful and inaccurate.” Mr McCausland‘s appeal came amid heightened tensions in the city following a week of vicious rioting. As a 36-year-old man was charged with attempted murder, and possession of firearms and explosives linked to the violence, bogus police officers phoned shops, offices and schools, warning them to close early due to the threat of fresh trouble. Rush-hour traffic chaos was also threatened as crowds blocked off main roads. The stand-offs developed between police and demonstrators angered at the handling of a week of violence since an Orange Order parade was re-routed. Minor clashes were reported at Sandy Row in south Belfast. Motorists also faced disruption at other routes in the city. Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey urged the protesters to get off the roads and let their representatives negotiate for them. He said: “Allow the politicians to pursue the agenda of getting improvements to these areas, getting peace to these areas. “Government is not going to focus on that while this disorder continues.” Earlier unionists came under fire for boycotting the city‘s District Policing Partnership in fury at security force tactics. Members on the forum announced the tactic after another night of mob violence, when water cannons were used to drive back a mob of petrol bombers in the north of the city. Unionists said after pulling out police chiefs had been intransigent and claimed the relationship with the community had broken down. But Mr McCausland insisted police were playing their part in trying to restore order. “All of my commanders are committed to continue to engage fully with representatives to help deliver safer places to live and work, they have my total support in this. “I am disappointed that some feel they must disengage from District Policing Partnerships. I can give my commitment to local communities that my officers will continue to engage with these forums to help make communities safer.” Mark Durkan, leader of the nationalist SDLP, hit out at unionists for dealing with paramilitaries, yet abandoning the policing partnership. He claimed the terror organisations, who fired 115 shots at police during the rioting, sit on a Parades Forum alongside the Ulster Unionists and Democratic Unionists. “Clearly the UUP and DUP prefer to work with gunmen than the police,” the Foyle MP said. “They prefer to work with people who shoot at the police than with the men and women whose job it is to enforce the law.” Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, in the United States to brief Congress members on the political process, claimed unionism was in crisis. He said: “It is both a fear of change and desire to dominate which lies at the heart of the crisis within unionism.” Naomi Long, an Alliance Party representative on the policing forum, said the unionist boycott was disappointing and shameful. Ms Long revealed that only one apology was handed in at last night’s meeting, with the rest just failing to show. She said: “I’m absolutely dumbfounded by the lack of leadership and integrity we are seeing within unionism in the face of some of the most serious rioting and disorder we have seen in recent days.” Traffic chaos as roads blockaded Several roads in Belfast have been blocked by loyalist protesters causing traffic chaos for the fifth day in a row. Police, however, said the protests appeared to have ended and traffic was now reported to be running freely. A stand-off between police in riot gear and about 100 protesters on Donegall Road ended following negotiations. A number of cash machines in the city centre are empty as deliveries have been hampered by the road blocks. Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey called for an end to the demonstrations. He said as long as they continued, loyalist areas would suffer. "The government's attention is now being focused on concerns that people have in may of these loyalist areas," he said. Earlier, bogus callers caused further disruption to businesses across Belfast. A number of shops and offices in the city received calls purporting to be from the police advising them to close early. There have been protests at Dub Lane on the Upper Malone Road, Seymour Hill and Kingsway in Dunmurry and Finaghy crossroads, causing long tailbacks. Meanwhile, a statement from loyalists has said a blockade planned for Broadway roundabout has been cancelled. It was scheduled to take place on Friday, however, loyalists said they intended to consider other forms of protest. Schools in the city were also contacted by hoax callers. Translink said the calls to schools incorrectly claimed that Friday's school bus services had been cancelled. The company has decided to either suspend or divert several of their bus services because of the nightly violence which started after Saturday's Orange Order Whiterock parade in west Belfast. On Thursday night, police used water cannon on rioters in the Forthriver estate after officers came under attack. Rush-hour traffic leaving the city has been disrupted since Monday by loyalist protesters angry at the police's response to disturbances which followed the diverted march. On Thursday, police cleared many protests off main roads and arrested four people, but were told they faced paramilitary attack if they tried to move women and children protesters. However, they said they intended to step up their operations to deal with the protests. Assistant Chief Constable Duncan McCausland said all road protests were illegal and that community leaders should exercise their influence to bring them to an end. He said that the protests, mostly featuring women and children had been peaceful, but that they were causing disruption. Bodies to be exhumed from the Crum? Irelandclick.com Ten years on: community still trying to exhume body of Jewish man from Crumlin Road Jail The Crumlin Road Jail is a site that holds massive potential as a tourist attraction for North Belfast and the city of Belfast as a whole. Click thumbnail to view Harrison Library page of Crumlin Road Jail photographs - this one shows the tunnel linking the prison and the Courthouse on the opposite side of the Crumlin Road Its dark and violent history is of vast interest to the local community and experts the world over and plans to transform it are gathering pace. This week, the head of an advisory panel was appointed to oversee plans to develop the Grade A listed building, alongside its neighbouring site Girdwood Barracks, racking up a massive 30 acres. Roy Adams is the chair of that panel and it is expected that the North Belfast Partnership Board will play a key role. Like Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay a sizable number believe the North Belfast jail, known to many as The Crum, should become a world-class tourist experience. Click to view more photos - exercise yard Since the jail was built in 1845, 17 men suffered the ultimate sentence – death by hanging. Within the confines of The Crum there is a section of unconsecrated ground where their remains were buried. The Prison Service has since exhumed two men, including Tom Williams. The Prison Service was unable to comment on the specifics of exhumation due to the sensitivity of the matter. But added that: “established methods of identification were used to identify the bodies exhumed to date”. It is unclear who is buried where in the graveyard, and the initials of those buried in the earth, which were etched into the wall, have now mostly gone. Click to view more photos - 'the circle' According to the President of the Jewish community in Belfast, Ronnie Appleton, they have been trying to exhume the remains of an American man who was hanged in 1931. Eddie Cullens was the only American to be executed by hanging in the island of Ireland and the only Jew to be killed in this way in the Crum. The circumstances of the murder, for which he was found guilty, are intensely strange. It involved the murder of Achmet Musa, a Turk, who was found shot in the head in a field, naked except for a woman’s blue and white rubber bathing cap. It is believed that Cullens and Musa had been part of a travelling circus, which claimed they had the oldest man in the world – Zaro Agha – who was touted as being 156. The seal on Cullens’ fate and the police investigation was the bathing cap, which had been seen previously in his car by a witness. The Rabbi who ministered to the condemned Eddie Cullens was quoted as saying: “He went to the scaffold with the deep conviction that his hands were clean and clear of the blood of this man.” Ronnie Appleton said they had been trying for nearly ten years to officially bury Eddie Cullens. “We have been in correspondence with the NIO for years now, but the trouble is they’re not very sure where he’s buried. There were marks made in the walls but they were plastered over, so they can’t identify exactly where he is,” he said. “The Secretary of State has given permission for the body to be exhumed but the hold-up is that they haven’t located him.” The Glenravel Local History Project has carried out extensive research on the jail over the past five years and was the first organisation to conduct a tour of the jail and shed light on its gruesome history. The history group, based in the Ashton Centre, approached the Prison Service in 2000 with a proposal to move the remaining bodies to Clifton Cemetery. “The Prison Service wrote back and said they would take it under consideration,” Glenravel historian Joe Baker said. “But we proposed this when we thought the jail was going to be demolished. We would be in favour now of holding a joint religious ceremony to turn the graveyard into consecrated ground.” According to the Department of Social Development, which has responsibility for the jail, part of the death sentence required that the body should be buried in an unmarked grave within the grounds of the jail. “The Royal Prerogative of Mary was exercised to remit that part of the sentence required burial in prison grounds,” DSD said. “We will consult with the local community and other interests about the bodies as part of our work in taking forward a development plan for the jail site.” The last man to be hanged in Crumlin Road jail was Robert McGladdery on December 20, 1961 by executioner Harry Allen. Allen was the last hangman to carry out this duty in the North of Ireland. He had been a one-time assistant to Thomas Pierrepoint who executed 19-year-old Thomas Williams. There were other gruesome deaths, which took place in the jail including suicides. The most tragic was that of a 12-year-old boy who was accused and found guilty of stealing clothes and food. The child claimed he hadn’t eaten in days, but he was nevertheless sentenced to three months’ time and told the hangman would flog him. On his arrival and placement in a cell, the child was so petrified of his punishment that he took his own life. Journalist:: Áine McEntee “Keep children away from interface” – SF In face of a week of violence and mayhem carried out on their doorsteps, the residents of North Queen Street have appealed for young people in the area not to get involved. Last weekend cars and a bus were set on fire by Loyalists in the interface area. Fireworks and petrol bombs were hurled at from the Tiger’s Bay area at Catholic homes in Duncairn Gardens and mobs tried to entice young Nationalists to engage in violence. The residents of the lower North Belfast community have appealed to parents in the area to make sure they know where their children are, and help towards a quieter weekend. Sinn Féin councillor, Carál Ní Chuilín, has appealed for support from the community on the issue and has distributed leaflets asking “Where is your child tonight?” “From Saturday afternoon right through again to Wednesday night we had crowds of youths gathering at the interface. There were children as young as six-years-old getting involved. Our community workers worked through the night to make sure tensions didn’t boil over. “But we need the community’s help on this. “On Saturday we had one mother drive down to her child about 8 o’clock at night, handed her child a gravy chip through the window and drove away. “Interface violence is bad enough and it can lead to a very dangerous situation. We need parents to know where their children are, and if they find them getting involved, to take them home. “A lot of this is designed to entice young nationalist youths onto interfaces and exacerbate the situation further. “We’re hoping for a quiet weekend but we’re appealing for parents to help to keep numbers down.” Journalist:: Staff Reporter Strand victim speaks out by Victoria McMahon The friend who was with Short Strand man John McKay when he was viciously attacked and left for dead by a loyalist mob has broken his silence over the horrifying ordeal. The brutal assault on the two Catholic men Friday past was only the tip of the iceberg – a preview of what lay in store for the people of Belfast as widespread violence by loyalists and Orangemen caused havoc throughout the city and the North. 29-year-old John McKay and best friend Ciaran Kelly (34) were walking home to their Short Strand homes in the early hours of Friday morning when they were attacked by a 15-strong loyalist mob, leaving postman John fighting for his life. “This was attempted murder,” said Ciaran who watched helplessly as his friend of 14 years lay in a pool of blood as loyalists rained blows and kicks to his head. “I felt so helpless. I tried to get to John but there was just too many of them,” said Ciaran. In a bizarre twist the pair were returning home from The Edge bar and restaurant where they had been attending a fundraising event for murdered friend, stab victim Robert McCartney, when a bottle was thrown on to the nationalist side of the Albertbridge Road where they were walking. Ciaran Kelly has been reliving the moments before the brutal unprovoked sectarian attack on his friend John McKay whom he describes as a “gentleman who wouldn’t hurt a fly.” “It was clear they were aiming at us. I think I said to John ‘There’s going to be trouble here’,” remembers Ciaran. “We decided to quicken up and get to the walkway. All I can remember when we got to the walkway is that in a blink of an eye there was about 15 of them jumped us. “I got knocked to the ground, there wasn’t as many attacking me as there were at John because he was still standing, whereas I was falling backwards. I struggled as much as I could and I got myself up and over to the traffic island. “I was screaming the whole time for John to get up,” says Ciaran. John however had been knocked unconscious and it would later emerge suffered a fractured skull and perforated eardrum. “I saw him lying in a pool of blood. I thought he was dead. I really did fear the worst,” says Ciaran. When Ciaran tried to ring for help his mobile was kicked out of his hand by their attackers. He says if it hadn’t been for the heroic efforts of passing black taxi drivers John would have been beaten to death. “One black taxi driver stopped and kind of drove at them trying to get them away from John. The taxi driver did save John’s life at that time. It made them go, seeing other people arriving on the scene, they dispersed. Then the taxi drivers surrounded us, protecting us from the mob. “When I got near where the black taxi was I saw one guy stamping on his head. I was just annoyed I couldn’t get over to help him. When I did get to him I just covered over the top of him. I was so afraid they would come back.” Lucky to escape with minor cuts and bruises Ciaran says he lays blame for the terrifying assault at the door of unionist politicians and Orangemen who called people onto the streets. “This was only a prelude to the mad events that have happened since then. “It doesn’t take a scientist to make the connection between what happened to John and the inflammatory situation that had been building. These people who attacked John were inflamed by their politicians and the Orange Order, they called these animals out onto the streets,” says Ciaran. “It takes brave men to pick on just two people but it has happened to more than just us. It’s all the hype of last week started all this and it accumulated, starting on Friday night.” Now recovering at home surrounded by family and friends John is due to be groomsman at his sister’s wedding in a fortnight’s time. “It could easily have been a funeral we were all attending, not a wedding,” said his sister. Journalist:: Victoria McMahon Loyalist warning Exclusive by Joe Nawaz A new generation of violent, radical loyalists is being bred thanks to British Government policy towards the Protestant community, according to a local loyalist leader. Speaking to South Belfast News after a weekend orgy of loyalist violence throughout the city, Colin Halliday, spokesperson for the UDA-linked Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG) also warned that the rumoured government review of the status of the UDA and UVF ceasefires could have “grave consequences” for peace in the North of Ireland. “Our young people are very angry and they’re not listening to us any more,” he said. “They see how the IRA have benefited from years of violence and are starting to think that that is the way forward. There is a serious danger that we are looking at a situation where our youngsters will become a new generation full of bigotry and hatred.” The former loyalist prisoner was also adamant that the UDA ceasefire was still intact and warned: “It would be a terrible mistake for [NI Secretary of State] Peter Hain not to recognise that. It would set us back years and the consequences could be terrible.” The Northern Ireland Office’s “disdainful” treatment of the Protestant community will unleash a new generation of violent, radical paramilitaries, a senior South Belfast loyalist has warned. Speaking exclusively to the South Belfast News in the aftermath of three days of intense loyalist violence, Colin Halliday, of the UDA linked Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG), warned loyalists were reaching “breaking point” . “We are looking at a situation where our youngsters will become a new generation full of bigotry and hatred,” he said. “You only have to look at what happened across the city on Saturday and Sunday to see which direction it is going. “Luckily in South Belfast we managed to keep a slightly better lid on it than in other parts, but the anger and tension is still there. The young people just aren’t listening any more.” Mr Halliday added that young loyalists were increasingly seeing violence as the only way forward. “They look at the IRA and how much that they achieved through violence and then look at their own community. “This weekend’s trouble has been months in the making – as a community we are feeling that we have been at best ignored and at worst victimised by the British Government. “You only have to look at the heavy handed treatment of the security forces against our people. The pendulum has swung and it is the loyalist community who are suffering. Look at the exaggerated reaction to the IRA and their wee bit of paper last month, and then see how the NIO won’t even allow a small march in Whiterock – that is not even handed,” added the former prisoner. Mr Halliday also warned than the rumoured negative ruling on the state of the UDA and UVF ceasefires could have “very worrying consequences”. “I can categorically say that the UDA ceasefire is still intact and will remain so. “It would be a terrible mistake for [NI Secretary of State] Peter Hain not to recognise that. It would set us back years and the consequences could be terrible. “I don’t know who’s advising Hain but he needs to talk to the people here on the ground to gauge just what the feeling among ordinary Protestants is. “We’ve been saying for a long time now that the British Government needs to engage in talks immediately with the UDA and others to understand the frustration of our community. “Nobody wants violence like that we have seen recently, but the onus is on Mr Hain to address that and begin to listen to us so that we can work together to prevent a new generation of terrorism,” added Mr Halliday. Journalist:: Joe Nawaz • Loyalist gangs take control of North Belfast Streets • Schools targeted during week of terror attacks • Man attacked with golf clubs Our Lady of Mercy targeted with burning car Our Lady of Mercy Girls’ Secondary School bore the brunt of a vicious fire attack on its premises this week. As the staff and its pupils returned to school on Monday morning, they discovered the shell of a car burnt out outside the school’s entrance. The car had been rammed in an attempt to break down the school’s heavy gates and was then set alight. The burning vehicle caught fire to the front porch area and caused major smoke damage to the building. Throughout the week, anxious parents have called to the school to collect their children early due to the city-wide loyalist protests. The protests have blocked major arterial routes which Translink’s buses use to transport children home. Principal of Our Lady of Mercy Peter Daly said he had called the PSNI to the school on Monday afternoon to protect the children going home on buses. “We have to try and keep everything as normal as possible. We’ve got the gate fixed, which is good. But I thought we’d be better safe than sorry and I called the police. At least this way, if nothing happens it’s okay, but if something did kick off I’d know that our pupils would be escorted down the road on the buses.” Other schools in North Belfast had pupils leaving early for fear of being caught up in loyalist violence, including St Gabriel’s Boys’ School on the Crumlin Road. Loyalist gangs take control of North Belfast streets North Belfast bore the brunt of petrol, blast and paint bomb attacks on Saturday while loyalist mobs took control of roads and hemmed Catholic communities into their homes. The violence was widespread across the area with significant acts of violence and intimidation taking place in North Queen Street, Ardoyne and Ligoniel. In Ardoyne tensions were simmering for most of the week and community workers were patrolling the area until 5am on Sunday morning. The same workers were out on the streets at 8am. A car was set on fire at the rear of Holy Cross church on the Woodvale Road on Saturday and petrol bombs were also thrown at Brookfield Mill on the Crumlin Road later that day. On Sunday afternoon a young boy of 11 years was accosted by a gang of men wearing Rangers shirts on the Berwick Road in Ardoyne and threatened with his life. Sinn Féin councillor for the area Margaret McClenaghan said nationalists had been taunted all weekend. “We just tried to make sure that no one rose to the bait,” she said. “The tension has been building up here for the past two weeks now and we were worried it was going to spiral out of control, because it’s clear that people have had enough. “But even though loyalists tried to entice young ones in Ardoyne to engage in violence, it didn’t work.” The councillor said concerns mounted considerably yesterday when she was informed that a 300-strong crowd was to be escorted by the PSNI down the Crumlin Road from the loyalist stronghold of Ballysillan in groups of five or six to attend a rally organised by the Orange Order. The rally was later cancelled. “If it had have happened basically they would have been facilitating a march down the footpath,” Margaret McClenaghan said. In another frightening incident, two brothers, their elderly mother and their 11-year-old nephew were surrounded by an angry mob of loyalists at the Fortwilliam slip road off the M2 motorway. The family from Ardoyne were told to “get the fk out the car” and told to hand over the keys by the 30-strong mob who were wielding handguns, baseball bats and iron bars. “At that part of the road you can’t see round the bend so all of us panicked when we saw them,” the man said. “We stopped the car, and they were like bees swarming all over the car. They pulled us out and we were left stranded while they set it on fire. The cops were literally a hundred yards away and they didn’t do a thing. “My mother was in a terrible state. She’s a pensioner and she’s got a bad heart. Her legs were like jelly as we tried to run away towards the cops. They said they couldn’t help, they were stretched as it was. “Me and my brother, we tried to warn other drivers but it was too late. It ended up my car and three other cars went up in smoke.” The victim said he and his group were left stranded on Fortwilliam slip road for half an hour before an off-duty nurse gave them a lift to the Cavehill Road. Man attacked with golf clubs An Ardoyne man and his elderly mother-in-law were mobbed by a group of women and a teenager wielding a golf club as they tried to avoid a loyalist protest. The Royal Victoria Hospital employee who was driving into Dunnes on the Crumlin Road to bypass the blocked roads suddenly found himself surrounded. The teenager with the golf club smashed the rear window of the car first, then the side windows before breaking the windscreen through. “I was wearing my uniform because I had just finished work in the Royal. “I’d picked my mother-in-law up and we were driving home when we started having problems on the roads. “Cambrai Street was blocked off and Hillview was closed so we tried to get into Dunnes Stores. “A group of ten or 12 women started on us and when they saw my uniform they called me a ‘fenian bastard’ and that’s when the windows started coming in.” The incident happened around 4.30pm on the Crumlin Road and has left both passengers extremely shaken. “The whole experience was terrible. “If this was supposed to be a peaceful protest... I can tell you there was nothing peaceful about it. “I’m just really upset about it and disappointed that it happened in the first place.” Double standards over loyalist violence says SF The loyalist lockdown showed no signs of abating today after five days and nights of protracted loyalist blockades and rioting gripped North Belfast and other areas. As the rioting, which started on Saturday after the rerouting of the controversial Whiterock Parade brought many arterial routes to gridlock and saw scenes of some of the worst rioting witnessed here in years, the British government announced that it no longer recognised the UVF ceasefire. However controversially no such moves have been made to specify the UDA who the PSNI Chef Constable Hugh Orde also blamed for the violence. At midnight on Tuesday night, the UVF became a "specified" organisation, along with the Red Hand Commando. David Ervine of the PUP said the move was “hardly unexpected” and he described it as "tragic and it would mean that there would be more ground to cover once the UVF was restored to the political process”. The move against the UVF means that membership charges can be brought against those who belong to the organisation. The Secretary of State said he took his decision after reviewing evidence about the weekend violence and an IMC report on UVF participation in a feud with the LVF that has left four men dead. He said the move should be an "absolutely crystal clear signal that violence will not be tolerated". In a contrasting statement Secretary of State Peter Hain however declared that the UDA ceasefire remains officially intact but under review. He said his decision to ban the UVF was based on a catalogue of violence. PSNI Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde had blamed both loyalist groups for taking part in gun attacks on police at the weekend. In one case, PSNI captured footage of a gunman operating in Highfield, an estate dominated by the UDA. As it became clear that the NIO would rule the UVF had breached its ceasefire, the UDA issued a statement calling for the street violence to end. "We are instructing our own membership to avoid any confrontation on the streets and steer away from any acts of violence,” said the North Belfast brigade. The UDA called on politicians to use their influence to help restore order. The Secretary of State said the activities of the UDA and other paramilitary groups would remain "under close inspection and scrutiny" by the IMC. "The UDA is part of that. We will continue to monitor it day by day and week by week,” he said. "I did note the statement from the UDA calling for an end to street violence, and that is very welcome." The UDA lost recognition of its ceasefire in 2001, only regaining that status last year. Over 60 people have been arrested this week in connection with the violence. Unionists said there had been a build-up of resentment within their community because of the government's handling of the peace process. SDLP North Belfast MLA Alban Maginness said the senior leadership of the DUP has still not offered a word or line of condemnation of the weekend violence. “The DUP must get the prize for selective condemnation. After the Ardoyne riots they said the intense violence which left so many police officers injured was a scandal and a disgrace. “They also reckoned the use of blast bombs showed premeditated, organised violence,” he said. “Strangely, the DUP website offers no such assessment of the events of last weekend. There is plenty of condemnation – of the police, the Parades Commission, US Envoy Mitchell Reiss, the British government and the entire nationalist population - but not a word about petrol-bombers, blast bombers or gunmen.” Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly said that the Orange Order and Unionist need to accept responsibility for loyalist violence. “The Orange Order and Unionist must accept responsibility for the widespread and orchestrated loyalist violence of recent days. “In addition to the violence we have all witnessed on our television screens there were also attacks across the north on nationalist homes and property. “The ambivalence, hypocrisy and double standards that unionists and Orange leaders have shown over recent days is astounding. “Had these protests been organised by nationalists or republicans, then they would have been forcibly removed long ago as happened in Ardoyne on July 12 to facilitate an Orange march. “Yet loyalists can disrupt Belfast with apparent impunity as the PSNI look on.” Gunnell Hill attack A Protestant couple were forced to leave their home in Whitecity and a Catholic home suffered scorch damage during trouble on the Whitewell at the weekend. Houses on both sides of the sectarian divide were damaged during the weekend of serious violence after Orangemen were barred from walking the Springfield Road on Saturday. A house was one of a number that came under attack by petrol bombers in the Gunnell Hill in the early hours of Sunday morning. The petrol bombs caused damage to the roof and water tank that flooded the electrics in the house. During the attacks, nationalist homes in Serpentine Gardens came under attack by loyalists. A house on Serpentine Road was scorch damaged. UPRG member John Montgomery claimed the attacks on Whitecity were completely unprovoked. Whitewell community worker Paul McKernon condemned attacks on Protestant and Catholic homes. A spokeswoman for the Housing Executive confirmed the attacked home on Gunnell Hill had been temporarily vacated. “The family has been provided with temporary accommodation within the immediate vicinity while their home is being repaired and local staff will remain in close contact with them.” Reprisal fears over blockades Police warned not to remove women or kids POLICE refused to remove women and child protesters blocking roads across Belfast yesterday because of fears of retaliatory loyalist attacks. Although they moved in to keep some of the city's main routes clear officers refrained from moving child and women protesters in light of intelligence information that loyalist paramilitaries were prepared to attack. Police chiefs yesterday said they did not want to inflame the situation. However, they still came under attack in north Belfast last night when 150 rioters hurled petrol bombs, bricks and bottles in the Forthriver Road area. Water cannons were deployed to bring the mob under control. Traffic chaos was further aggravated when gangs again hijacked and torched vehicles. As several vehicles were set alight in the north and west of the city, riot police dramatically rescued the driver of a Tennent's beer lorry and his cargo which rioters were trying to loot and use as a burning barricade on West Circular Road. A convoy of police vehicles escorted the driver and vehicle to safety. Police went on the offensive over the illegal protests for the first time yesterday, following four days of misery for motorists and public transport users. Four men were arrested during a protest at the Knock Road, near PSNI headquarters, just hours after Assistant Chief Constable Duncan McCausland confirmed an operation had been put in place to keep open the main arterial routes at Broadway, the Westlink and the Crumlin Road at the Mater Hospital. Mr McCausland said community leaders should exercise their influence to end the protests. He added: "We have always said we would be proactive in dealing with this activity on Belfast's streets. "Gathering evidence and reporting people for prosecution, as we have been doing, is a graduated response to dealing with peaceful but illegal protests, mainly involving women and children. "As these protests have not ceased, officers are taking further action to ensure that main routes, especially those near major hospitals, will be kept open." For the third evening, Translink has been forced to cancel some of its bus services due to "community unrest". There was still no indication last night as to how long loyalists were planning to continue their protests. Fury as ex-UDA boss Gray is allowed bail By Deborah McAlleese A HIGH Court decision to release former UDA chief Jim Gray on bail was met with outrage last night. There was anger that Gray, who is charged with money laundering and possession of the proceeds of crime, has been granted bail at a time of civil unrest within loyalist communities. Gray was released on £15,000 bail - his own bail of £5,000 and two sureties of £5,000 - after a judge was told it could take up to two months before a forensic accountant produces a full report into his financial dealings. SDLP MLA Alex Attwood said the court's decision was "sending out the wrong message at the wrong time". Forty-seven-year-old Gray, formerly of Convention Court in Belfast, was ordered by Mr Justice Coghlin not to leave Northern Ireland and given a tight curfew. Police will hold on to his passport. He was also ordered not to have any contact with two co-accused - his girlfriend Sharon Moss and former estate agent Philip Johnston - and to report to police five times a week. Gray, who has been directed to reside at an address in the east of the city, was arrested on April 7 along with Ms Moss, on the A1 dual carriageway between Banbridge and Loughbrickland. He had a bankers draft for €10,000 euro, €270 euro in cash and £2,720 with him. A Crown lawyer told the court that Gray claimed he had received the money after selling two bars in Belfast - The Bunch of Grapes and Avenue One. However, he pointed out that after Gray's bank accounts were checked it was found his outgoings exceeded his alleged income of £300 per week. Police also discovered that he had property in Belfast and Spain. A defence lawyer said Gray had received whatever money he had legitimately and had allowed officers full access to his financial documents. Gray had almost £50,000 in bank accounts in the province when arrested. The Crown warned that his release could spark violence as he is under paramilitary threat and that he could obtain a false passport. Questioning Gray's release Mr Attwood said: "While citizens have the right to seek their liberty there will be large numbers of people who will not understand the decision of the courts. The vast majority of people say this makes no sense. Serious questions must be asked." Call for PSNI to get tough on disruption By Maureen Coleman mcoleman@belfasttelegraph.co.uk CONCERNS were mounting today at the PSNI's alleged inaction over the ongoing illegal road blocks staged by loyalist protesters. Main arterial routes in Belfast and surrounding areas have been closed at rush-hour each night this week, causing traffic chaos for commuters. Yesterday evening, as motorists made their way home, a number of roads were closed throughout the city, including Cliftonpark Avenue, Seymour Hill, the upper Malone Road at Taughmonagh, Broadway, Shankill Road, Lanark Way and Agnes Street. A top police chief admitted yesterday that while the protests were illegal and causing disruption, officers had refused to remove women and children blocking roads across Belfast because of fear of retaliatory loyalist attacks. SDLP MLA and member of the Policing Board, Alex Attwood, said the community's patience had run out. "What the community needs now is the tough robust policing we saw at the weekend," he said. "The community had a little understanding of why the police were keeping their distance, but they now want to see strong decisive policing against those who are mounting these roadblocks and causing disruption on our streets." However an angry Alliance MLA said that as he was listening to Assistant Chief Constable Duncan McCausland's vows to keep the roads clear, he was stuck in a traffic jam, before eventually being turned back by police and forced to take an alternative route. Seamus Close said that rather than assisting "law-abiding, democratic people" the police were perceived to be "acquiescing to thugs flouting the law". He said: "I support the PSNI but these young officers are not being allowed to do their jobs." Yesterday, ACC McCausland promised to "keep the life blood of the city open". But, he added: "I have clear indications that if I move against women and children, paramilitaries or other organisations in the community may come out against me and my officers. "I want to balance that and make a decision in terms of maintaining law and order and the peace of the community but I intend to keep the roads open as much as possible." Hain: Unionists living in denial Riots and protests continue UNIONIST politicians have made themselves fellow travellers "with thuggery and gangsterism" during this week's explosion of loyalist violence, Secretary of State Peter Hain said today. As the unrest threatened to spill into a second week, Mr Hain gave his blunt assessment of unionism in a Belfast Telegraph interview - saying many unionists live with a "sense of denial" about what the peace process has achieved and need to "get real" about the future. The rift between unionists and the Government deepened last night as DUP and UUP members resigned from Belfast's District Policing Partnerships. The resigning councillors accused police of "intransigence" - at the same time that an FBI agent visiting Belfast said US police would have had "no problem using deadly force" against the loyalist rioters who attacked the PSNI this week. Loyalist protesters again blocked traffic in the city last night, followed by some rioting in west Belfast. Loyalist sources have hinted that the campaign could escalate, with the threat of more resignations and a possible rally in Belfast next month. But Naomi Long, an Alliance Party representative on the Belfast Police Partnership, said unionist support for policing was "skin deep". "When push comes to shove, the commitment of unionist politicians to the defence of police and the rule of law and order is just tactical and superficial," she said. In today's interview, Mr Hain said the loyalist violence was "pre-meditated, pre-planned and you can't do anything other than condemn it openly". "I think it's important that we draw a line in the sand on that," he said. "I think the vast majority of Protestants and unionists totally abhor violence, are law-abiding, but there's been an element of fellow-travelling with what happened over the weekend, saying 'well, we told you so'. "There's an element of not reacting to the ferocious violence against police in a way that the reaction would have been to equivalent violence from republicans against police. I just think there's a sense of denial over that as well. "You're either with the rule of law or you're not. "There has been too much fellow-travelling with thuggery and gangsterism. Which I know has appalled the great majority in the Orange Order. I know that for a fact." Mr Hain also said the havoc in loyalist areas will not be "cost free" - because money will have to come from "other public investment" to pay for the damage. Paisley's warning of more violence Government 'must address unionist fears' UNIONISTS last night put the onus on the Government to control loyalist violence. DUP leader Ian Paisley warned the Government that unless it addresses unionist frustrations, loyalist violence will continue. UUP leader Sir Reg Empey accused Secretary of State Peter Hain of not listening to the concerns of the communities that erupted in violence this week. Calls were made for the Government to abandon the Parades Commission as it has "no support" within these communities. A delegation of DUP and UUP members met with Mr Hain yesterday to discuss the recent violence that paralysed the streets of Greater Belfast since the weekend. Following the meeting, Mr Paisley said: "There will be no political progress whatsoever until the Government is seen to treat unionists with equality and respect. The choice for the Government is very clear. It either follows the democratic solution that has been presented to it or continues with the message that terrorism and criminality pay." He added: "It is time for the Secretary of State to abandon the Parades Commission and move to an alternative structure. "The Parades Commission was never supported by the unionist community and there is certainly no confidence in it to deal impartially with the parading issue." Calls were made by the UUP for Mr Hain to "get on the ground" and engage with the communities that "inexcusably erupted in violence" at the weekend. Sir Reg Empey said: "Mr Hain should have engaged directly with these communities at an earlier stage. He must listen to their concerns and enter into dialogue with opinion formers at a grass roots level. "He must understand that the sense of alienation felt by ordinary unionists is profound. He added: "The problem underlying the violent scenes witnessed at the weekend is that over the years people's experience is that violence works, democracy doesn't. "The Secretary of State must work with local politicians to restore credibility in the democratic process." Both leaders condemned the violence and called for it to be brought to an end. New PSNI appeal after crossbow attack POLICE have renewed an appeal for information after a crossbow was fired at the army during rioting in Belfast on Sunday evening. The crossbow was fired during an attack on police and army shortly before midnight in the Lecale/Glenmachan Street area of Broadway. The army fired two live rounds in response. A man was later taken to hospital with a gunshot wound to his arm. He has since been released and is now helping police with their enquiries. Detectives at Musgrave Street have asked for anyone with information about the incident to contact them on 02890 650 222. BreakingNews.ie: Co Mayo pipeline protestors begin 80th day in prison Supporters of the five Co Mayo men jailed for obstructing work on the Corrib gas pipeline are due to mount a protest outside Cloverhill Prison today. The demonstration was arranged to mark the 80th day that the so-called Rossport Five have spent in prison. The men were jailed for refusing to obey a court injunction ordering them not to obstruct work on the pipeline. They claim the structure poses an unacceptable risk to the local population and want an offshore terminal built as an alternative to pumping gas from the Corrib field directly onshore. Unionists 'to withdraw from DPP' Policing partnerships are meant to help the police work with locals Unionist members of Belfast District Policing Partnership have withdrawn in protest at the police handling of recent violence in loyalist areas. Rioting has affected parts of Belfast since trouble broke out at the disputed Whiterock Orange parade on Saturday. In a statement, the unionists said the partnership with police had collapsed, particularly in west Belfast. They accused west Belfast PSNI Chief Superintendent David Boultwood of not engaging with the unionist community. He had "used his influence to reroute the Orange Order's Whiterock parade", they claimed. The unionists said they would be seeking a meeting with Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde early next week to express their concerns. The city councillors and members of the DPP who put their names to the statement were Robin Newton, Elaine McMillan and Ruth Patterson, DUP; Ulster Unionists David Brown and Jim Rodgers; Independent Unionist Frank McCoubrey and Hugh Smyth, Progressive Unionist Party. They said they intended to keep their position in relation to the DPP under review. Policing Board chairman Professor Sir Desmond Rea said he had not yet been formally told of the DPP withdrawals. "DPPs exist in part to monitor police performance - the most important way to do that is to engage," he said in a statement. DPPs are made up of councillors and residents who work with the police. The decision that unionists should withdraw from the Belfast DPP was made at a meeting of the North and West Belfast Parades and Cultural Forum on Thursday night. Alliance Party assembly member Naomi Long, a member of the south Belfast DPP, said the withdrawal was a "fruitless and immature display". "I am absolutely dumbfounded by the lack of leadership and integrity which we are seeing within unionism in the face of what has been some of the most serious rioting and disorder that we have seen on our streets in recent days," she said. Ms Long said that the commitment of unionist politicians to the defence of the police and to the rule of law and order was "just tactical, superficial and skin deep". District policing partnerships were set up across Northern Ireland under reforms initiated by a commission headed by former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten and implemented by the government. The partnerships are made up of councillors and members of the local community, who work alongside the Police Service of Northern Ireland's 29 District Command Units in trying to meet local community policing needs. Painting the walls in a colour of peace and hope LESLEY RIDDOCH Click to view CAIN photo of peace line by Martin Melaugh A FEW HUNDRED yards from the violence of last Saturday, a minor revolution is happening on Belfast's Peace Wall. The infamous murals depicting guns, paramilitaries, barricades and threats are being phased out. Murals featuring sporting heroes, taxi tours and peace messages are replacing them. The loyalist ex-prisoners behind the change now want to transform the Peace Wall into Europe's largest open-air art gallery. Meanwhile, on the Wall's republican side, former prisoners have set up a mural tour business to give locals a slice of Belfast's lucrative tourist trade. The former prisoners are so determined to transform the unemployment blackspot of West Belfast, they are prepared to do the most dangerous thing possible - cooperate with each other. Open-topped double-decker buses have been weaving hourly through the narrow, terraced streets on either side of the Peace Wall since life in Belfast "normalised" five years ago. Since then, watching and photographing the divided world of West Belfast has become big business. And, after two days' interruption, they are travelling again as usual - past the barricades, past cranes removing burnt-out cars, to take visitors to sites of old bombings, shootings, hijackings, riots, hunger strikers' graves, and, of course, the 20ft high sections of the concrete Peace Wall itself . A new boutique hotel, part of the Glasgow-based Malmaison group, features political murals throughout its city-centre upmarket building. Black cabs transport around a quarter of a million people round the "hotspots" on guided tours. Drivers are well informed and surprisingly neutral - they have acted as public transport since buses were withdrawn on West Belfast routes after hijacks in the 1980s. West Belfast isn't a neutral place, though. It's living history - a real frontline with dangerous street life, infamous street names, memorials, flags and paramilitary slogans everywhere - not to mention the blackened relics of the last week's streetfighting. However, although the Falls and Shankill are the focal points of every Belfast tour, hardly a penny is spent in the area. That's where the two warring clans of West Belfast are agreed: something's got to change. Although they have no formal contact - and once lived simply to oppose one another's right to exist - it's the former political prisoners who are leading the way and negotiating with their own paramilitaries to replace the armed struggle with a search for cultural identity and prosperity. As the events of the weekend show, that's easier said than done. But when touring the divided walls of West Belfast it becomes clear a lot has been done quietly over recent years. In fact, commercialising the world's fascination with the Troubles may be the only way to find employment for former prisoners, who are barred from civil service and local government jobs, adoption, foreign travel, taxi-driving licences, bank loans and mortgages. The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 secured the release of 15,000 political prisoners. Many were surprised to be freed under such controversial circumstances, but now complain about the limitations imposed by their criminal records. Former doctors, lawyers and accountants remained unemployed. "It certainly gives you time to think," says William Smith, a loyalist former prisoner who now runs a support group, EPIC. From his bright-yellow office at the very top of the Shankill Road, William surveys a road strewn with Union Jack bunting for the best part of two miles. This, he says, is progress. "Until a few months ago those flags were UVF and UDA paramilitary flags. We're trying to rediscover our culture - stop the children walking past images of guns and men in masks. We're so used to those images we don't even see them any more. But the children do." He's curious about what the republicans are doing - the International Wall on the Falls is a site he's heard of but never seen. "Unlike them [the republicans] we don't care what the rest of the world thinks. We are defending the status quo. It's that simple. Our way of thinking has been, 'Why should a Unionist community have to persuade anyone. Or apply for money to set up projects. It's our society and we just want it kept that way.'" Three years ago Smith visited Los Angeles in a cross-community tour and was amazed to see powerful murals telling the story of the Hispanic and Mexican populations - overseen by a council-funded Director of Murals. "What they were doing was like us but much more powerful. They were explaining their history, exploring their culture, converting onlookers, creating sympathy - we've been sticking two fingers up," he says. "I realised if we changed the murals, we could use art to our advantage." Smith came back convinced the isolated and defensive culture of the Shankill fitted into a worldwide community of street art. He persuaded the loyalist paramilitaries to allow some murals to be painted over and replaced with "no-guns storyboard" murals. One massive mural portrays the aftermath of IRA attacks on local civilians - questioning republican integrity without a display of guns. Other murals celebrate the loyalists' high points of British rule - the Queen's Jubilees and the life of the late Queen Mother. Right beside a local school is the spray-painted image which could hold the key to the future. Created by American street artist John "Zender" Estrada, it has nothing to do with the political situation and everything to do with the youth centre it advertises. Now he wants to apply Zender's approach to the Belfast Peace Wall. A six-metre-high steel, concrete and chain-link series of walls - flung up over decades to protect "interface communities" - it is a symbol of all that is wrong in Northern Ireland. Built right up to the backs of houses on the republican side, it's visible only on the loyalist side - especially at Cupar Street where facing houses have been demolished and a glass-strewn no-man's-land allows visitors to survey Western Europe's last community fortress. Zender and local children have already drawn pilot community murals on some walls but visitors - including the Dalai Lama and Bill Clinton - have all but obliterated the artwork by writing peace messages over them. Smith views the graffiti positively. "Tourists want to see our story. They want to leave messages of hope, too. There's going to be room for both." He envisages a future where the 166 bleak cement panels are transformed into a colourful art history of the Shankill with a large peace message wall. The project - "If Walls Could Talk" - would base international mural artists in the Shankill and train 12 local children to work with 12 local schools and fill the 700-yard section of Peace Wall with murals 20ft high. Smith could do worse than discuss the idea with his opposite number, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Mhin, of An Coiste, who sits in another bright-yellow office at the top of a terraced house less than half a mile from Smith's. The two men have met once -in government offices in the city centre. The An Coiste office sits just off the Falls Road, where street signs are in Irish, green flags and Irish newspapers abound and "Eurozone" signs in shop windows proclaim a European, not British, frame of mind. Set up in the wake of the prisoner release in the late 1990s, An Coiste realised the republican story had become the focus of worldwide academic interest. Political tours were set up to try and professionalise and commercialise the Republican response. Or, as Caoimhin puts it: "Why should some bloke from Donaghadee [a rural beauty spot] be employed to drive round our streets telling his story not ours?" Earlier this summer 50 European academics, hosted by Queens University, were given talks and tours by Republican former prisoners for two days. In an unprecedented move, the group were then taken by bus to the Peace Wall, where a loyalist guide boarded in a handover operation akin to the prisoner swaps across the old Berlin Wall. The group was then given an account of the conflict by EPIC former prisoners. It worked. But Caoimhin would go further. His vision - now perhaps unattainable - is a cross-community organisation, Welcome to West Belfast, allowing representatives of local people from the Falls and Shankill to plan and market daily bus and walking tours run by locals on each side. Whether the loyalist infighting on the Shankill will ever allow such formal cooperation is doubtful, but the Republicans have pressed ahead with their own political walking tours. They've been running daily for a month. They start at the Divis Tower - either scarily infamous or utterly unfindable for visitors - and there has been relatively little take-up. Tour guide Sean was uncertain about the wisdom of a city-centre pick-up point: "It would only take one confrontation with Ian Paisley to lose business completely." Meantime the International Wall on the Falls has been developing business of a different kind. Sympathetic groups such as the West Belfast Taxi Tours and a government-funded anti-racism quango have paid for mural ads. The going rate is between £500-£1,000 - a fraction of the cost of a billboard ad. The wall comments on international disputes - the occupation of Iraq is currently centre-stage - and is updated regularly, like a monthly mural comment strip. One thing's clear, though. If both sides are determined to "stuff the red tourist buses" and snatch a share of the lucrative tourist trade, they'll need to co-operate, even if it's done so covertly that it makes the talks between the British government and the IRA in the 1980s appear positively public. Will the former prisoners prove to be misguided optimists or the only effective agents of social change in their warring communities? Watch the walls. # posted by SAOIRSE32 : 6:48 a.m. 0 comments Counter terrorism experts hold secret Belfast meeting This is a joke, right? Some of the world’s leading counter terrorism specialists have been meeting in secret in Belfast this week, it was revealed today. While it has been combating loyalist street violence over recent days the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has also been hosting a major counter terrorism programme. Senior officers from the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland have been taking part. The “Leadership in Counter Terrorism” programme , which finishes today, addresses intelligence and counter terrorism, policy development and resource assignment matters. The programme was developed by the PSNI Police College in partnership with the FBI Academy and Scottish Police College. Superintendent Gary Gracey, head of leadership development at the PSNI, said the Police College had been involved in the development and delivery of the counter terrorism programme for some time. The service had been delighted to welcome the delegates to Belfast this week, he said. “This programme, specialising in counter terrorism, is designed to meet the ever-changing demands of policing these threats.” Mr Gracey said. He added: “A worldwide forum coming together to learn together and from each other is truly the best way to ensure that we are prepared to deal with the global threat of terror and crime.” David Corderman, his counterpart at the FBI Academy, said: “This programme is unique in its approach to the issue of global counter terrorism and the only one if its nature available. “It provides the opportunity to create a truly global network in the counter terrorism field, an opportunity that had to be taken post 9/11.” He said the PSNI and Scottish police colleges and the FBI were working with academics from the Univesity of St Andrews and Harvard University in Boston to “deliver an outstanding programme tailored to meet the needs of senior officers in this field.” The PSNI said the aim of the programme was to develop skills and perspectives required to provide leadership to organisations and communities, to minimise the fear and threat of global crime and terrorism and to deal with the chaos, confusion and destruction which it causes. Water cannon used against rioters A crowd gathered in the Forthriver estate off the Ballygomartin Road Police officers have used water cannon against rioters after violence broke out in north Belfast. A crowd gathered in the Forthriver estate off the Ballygomartin Road and threw bricks, stones and other missiles at the police. A vehicle was also set on fire in the area. Earlier, four people were arrested after roads in Belfast were blocked by loyalist protesters causing traffic chaos for the fourth day in a row. Police cleared many protests off main roads, but were told they faced paramilitary attack if they tried to move women and children protesters. Earlier, several vehicles were hijacked and set on fire after police carried out searches in a loyalist estate. One man was arrested during the search operation on the Highfield estate. Part of the Crumlin Road was closed after a car was hijacked and set on fire and a lorry was set alight on the Ballygomartin Road. Several vehicles were also set on fire on the West Circular Road. Public transport company Translink has suspended bus services to Springmartin and Glencairn because of the trouble. Buses to Ligoniel and Silverstream have been diverted. Police said they were stepping up operations to deal with loyalist protests causing traffic disruption in parts of Belfast. They said an operation was in place in the city to keep the main arterial routes at Broadway and the Westlink open and that the Crumlin Road will be kept clear to ensure access to the Mater Hospital. Vehicles have been set on fire in Belfast "We have always said we would be proactive in dealing with this activity on the streets of Belfast," he said. There has been trouble, mainly in loyalist areas, sparked by the re-routing of an Orange Order parade on Saturday. Police and soldiers came under sustained attack over the weekend. Shots were fired at the security forces as well as blast and petrol bomb attacks in the wake of the Whiterock parade. A number of vehicles were also hijacked and set on fire. There were a number of attacks on the police on Tuesday, but not on the scale of the previous three nights. Sinn Féin News Alex Maskey announces outreach event with unionist community Sinn Féin MLA for South Belfast Alex Maskey has today announced an outreach event with panel members from the unionist community, representing church, civic, and political opinion. Mr Maskey said the event was 'particularly timely given last weeks events cross the North'. The event entitled: 'Towards National Reconciliation' is part of Sinn Féin's Cead Bliain celebrations (100th Year), and will be held in the Conway Mill, Falls Road this Saturday (17th September) from 11am to 1pm. Speaking today Mr Maskey said: "Saturday's event represents the start of a programme of events across the six counties to widen the process of dialogue between republicans and the broad unionist community. Given the events of the past week this conference is particularly timely. "I am pleased to announce that the panel will consist of Dawn Purvis from the PUP, Rev. Lesley Carroll, Convener of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and Trevor Ringland, Chair of the One Small Step Campaign. I think that it is important that local nationalists and republicans hear at firsthand the range of views provided by the panel. "Sinn Féin is about engaging and reaching out to others, including the unionist and ethnic minority communities. We will not move forward or make political progress without real and meaningful dialogue." ENDS Paisley in denial Sinn Féin Chief Negotiator Martin McGuinness has expressed disappointment over Ian Paisley's attack on party president Gerry Adams and accused the DUP leader of compounding the negative leadership of recent months and being in denial about his responsibility to get the peace process back on track. Mr McGuinness said: "Ian Paisley's attack on Gerry Adam's only serves to highlight how deeply in denial the leadership of unionism is about it's responsibility for the Loyalist sectarian campaign of the summer and the violence of recent days. "Last weekend's violence is a response to the realisation that the status quo is not an option and to the uncertainties of a process of change which demands equality, human rights, proper policing, justice and inclusion. It is a response to the dawning reality that the days of domination, triumphalism and second class citizenships are gone forever. "This is compounded by the negative approach of the DUP and UUP. "The unease and instability in unionist communities stems from a political vacuum created by unionist politicians and now filled by loyalist violence. Ian Paisley and his colleagues are running out of excuses." ENDS Sinn Féin appointees to Long Kesh Panel Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Raymond McCartney and Lisburn Councillor Paul Butler have been appointed to the Long Kesh Advisory Panel. Today the two representatives are meeting with the Strategic Investment Board and officials taking forward the master plan. In a joint statement after the meeting Cllr Butler and Mr McCartney MLA said: "This site has huge potential. However, Sinn Fein will not support any development plan that does not give equal priority to the development of a heritage and peace zone and a multi-sports stadium. "Events in Long Kesh have helped shape the recognition and understanding of the political nature of the conflict here. It has witnessed much grief and pain for all those who passed through it and for their families and relatives. "The international heritage and peace zone can act as a beacon of hope to all communities and societies emerging from political conflict and support the process of conflict resolution both nationally and internationally. "However, we are still a long way from securing the end product. We still need to see the detail about how the development will be resourced and we need to see ongoing political will from all sides to see this development through to completion." ENDS Anger as UUP and DUP vote for school bus cuts Sinn Féin Education Spokesperson, Michael Ferguson MLA has said that DUP and UUP elected representatives on the SEELB are short changing parents and children after they voted against a Sinn Fein motion at today's board meeting calling for the reversal of cuts to school transport provision in the area. The vote was lost by 12 to 15 with 4 abstentions. Mr Ferguson said: "The actions of the UUP and DUP today are a huge disappointment. They have let down the parents and children who they purport to represent. Both parties said that they would defend education services yet when push comes to shove they have failed to defend this important service for local parents and their children. "This is a blow particularly for working parents. "If the UUP and DUP had found it in themselves to back this Sinn Fein motion today we would have achieved a major progress in fighting the cuts to services." ENDS Name: SAOIRSE32 Location: Hometown: Belfast IRISH Resources Current posting plus Archives - 2003-2006 Belfast weather	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line145
__label__cc	0.553551	0.446449	Concert Fanny Azzuro at NY Music Foundation Gala Fanny Azzuro at NY Music Foundation Gala In 2019, New York Piano Festival is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. On June 28th, the Festival will present a gala fundraiser at the Carnegie Weill Recital Hall featuring performers who have participated in the festival. Among them, the French pianist Fanny Azzuro will perform pieces from Debussy and Kapustin. Program will include piano solo, violin, clarinet, voice masterpieces. Gala concert performers include David Krakauer (clarinet) and Kathleen Tagg (piano), six times Latin Grammy Winner Carlos Franzetti (piano), Mexican Baritone Jose Adan Perez and Michiyo Morikawa (piano), Artur Kaganovskiy (violin) and Eszter Kaganovskiy (viola), pianists Ilya Kazantsev, Dizhou Zhao, Benjamin Rossen, Matei Varga, Mai Kagaya and Alexander Beridze. About Fanny Azzuro A graduate from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with advance degrees in piano and chamber music, she studied with Tuija Hakkila at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy. This solid background enabled her to succeed in many international competitions, including the World Competition in Cincinnati, the Washington International Piano Competition, the Lalla Meryem in Rabbat (Morocco) and Piano Campus in Pontoise (France). Officially a Yamaha Artist, Ms. Azzuro is also supported by many foundations and sponsors, including the Mécénat Musical Société Générale, the Safran Foundation for Music, the Spedidam, the Adami and the Meyer Foundation. When Jun 28, 2019 2019-06-28 00:00:00 2019-06-28 00:00:00 UTC Fanny Azzuro at NY Music Foundation Gala Carnegie Hall 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York City WhereCarnegie Hall 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, Dutoit Conducts Ravel Quatuor Hermès On Tour In February And March From Movie Themes to Classics	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line147
__label__cc	0.68994	0.31006	Quick navigation Mr Irving, take me to ...... your Auschwitz index... your main alphabetical index... your current newsletter... where you will be speaking... news on your legal battles... you and your family... your career so far... how to buy your books... free downloads of your books... how to help your fighting fund... your letters to the press... your publishing Home Page Posted Wednesday, July 2, 2008 A tornado warning is a flat, gray tone, nothing like the rising and falling London Blitz sirens of 1940, but still frightening enough. Above: Our truck carries us through Houston, Texas, to the next talk location in Dallas June 26, 2008 (Wednesday) Oklahoma City (Oklahoma) SEVERAL people phone during the day, is the Wichita function going ahead? I have to say no, L. let us down by not finding a location in time. June 27, 2008 (Thursday) Oklahoma City (Oklahoma) - Wichita (Kansas) - Omaha (Nebraska) WE set out at 8:20 am and I drive all day the 550 miles to Omaha, Nebraska. A violent thunder storm (left and below) as we cross into Nebraska from Kansas. Gabriela's injured foot prevents her from driving. I speak in the evening, at six pm at the V.'s restaurant after the dinner. June 26, 2008 (Friday) Omaha (Nebraska) I READ proofs of Banged Up all morning. I email to Sharon S. back in central Texas: "So what happened? I have now driven on from Dallas to OKC and now Omaha, and I am heading further east. I phoned around 10:30 pm and again at half hour intervals and you did not reply, when I was at Arlington [Texas]. If you had given me an address over the weeks and months of our e-correspondence earlier, I could have driven over; but you did not. I cannot make any meaningful progress like this." - All this is re the Gutierrez mystery. [Her late father nailed down Gutierrez on the location of the Eva Braun diaries and Eva's correspondence with Adolf Hitler]. W., who earlier offered to set up the Washington DC meeting, now recants: Unfortunately, we do not have the ability at this point to set up a physical meeting for you here in Washington, but I think I have a better solution. We would set up a live video stream of you speaking here in Washington... [etc]. I suspect the California meeting has put his nose out of joint. I reply simply, "Wholly unacceptable." At 4 pm I go to a McDonald's in Omaha, and work online for the permitted free hour. As I return to our hosts I look behind me and see another huge storm-cloud. Scarcely am I back in the house when sirens begin wailing across the sprawling city, a tornado warning: the tone is a flat, gray tone, nothing like the rising and falling London Blitz sirens of 1940, but still frightening enough. I have gone upstairs for a snooze, but after only fifteen minutes, as the sirens' wailing continues, I hear a high wind and Mrs Jacobs comes running upstairs, calling for me insistently to come down into cellar. I am reluctant, of course, but she tugs at my elbow like a schoolmarm. The lights have all gone out, and the sky outside is black from horizon to horizon as the storm passes right over the city. A colossal wind is raging as I lever myself down the stairs; it is already bending the trees, and I can see bushes, whole bushes, tumbling down the street. The sirens are lost in the howl of the wind and a tuneless rushing noise begins. A violent rainstorm lashes the city, and hailstones like golfballs pelt the streets of this leafy, up-market (only one Black: an accountant) neighborhood - much worse than the hail that hit the car yesterday on the drive up here. The sky grows slowly lighter, but the downpour continues for some minutes, the rain flowing in rivers down the hilly streets. Mrs Jacobs ventures out in her dark Muslim dishdash, after the rainstorm subsides, to see the damage. Trees are down all along the street - including one in the middle of the next house's garden, its ten-inch thick trunk snapped in two like a matchstick. The neighbours form in clusters to point and gossip, like after the Blitz in the East End. A tree has come down on the roof of the house two doors down, and already the hum of a chainsaw reports that the neighbours are clearing the damage. For hours they sweep, and haul, and chop, and cut. A perfect calm returns, but across the city I can hear the blare and sirens of fire engines. The battery-operated radio asks people to keep off the streets, as downed 15,000-volt power lines festoon the sidewalks. One hundred and twenty thousand homes are without power. Two young people have been killed by a tree crushing their car in Council Bluffs, the - to an English ear rather oddly named - twin city of Omaha across the Missouri. The newscaster says the winds across the city reached a sustained ninety miles an hour, and I can believe it. Some of the Jacobs' trees have lost heavy branches, ten or twenty feet long, but our white Avis rental truck is standing unscathed amidst the damage, covered with leaves blown flat onto it by the tornado, like some of Jessica's stick-ons as a child. Unfortunately Gabriela has opened every window two or three inches against yesterday's heat, so now we shall have to cope with today's, uh, damp. I chat with the Jacobs until midnight, and eventually the lights come back on. Omaha (Nebraska)- Waterloo (Iowa) - Dubuque I draft emails to organisers in New Jersey ... and Washington DC. Set out for Waterloo around midday. Gabriela my P.A. is in a stiff mood, her leg hurting. Things do not get better as we pull into Waterloo after the 300-mile drive. The location turns out to be a large Beck's beerhall going down about sixty feet underground; a flight of steps (no elevator) leads to the basement floor, one area of which has been set with a long table for my guests. A hundred customers shout and sing. Any idea of privacy or actually talking to my guests is impossible. I am furious with K., who has done this. I guess, correctly, that this is his own favourite local joint. I decide to cancel the evening, and sit in the car until 7 pm listening to A Prairie Home Companion. Gabriela texts me that guests have arrived, and at 7 pm the table is indeed full. They eat and drink but I apologize there will be no talk. A tall thin, quiet-spoken man volunteers to find a location in Mabel's Lanes, a bowling alley two blocks away; another man, the town manager of Denver, thirteen miles away, offers his function room. We move at 8 pm to the bowling alley, a private room, and disturbed only mildly by the clack and rumble of the bowling lanes I speak to the surviving guests, who walk away with only a few books (G. having decided defiantly to turn up in sweat-shirt, slacks, and general sartorial disarray). We set off on the highway to Chicago around 11 pm. Every hotel from Waterloo onwards is full, as the Iowans have lost their homes in terrible floods. We inquire of the SatNav system and check on "local hotels", getting further and further afield in the darkness, visiting remote but pretty little Wisconsin riverside towns like Guttenberg on the way. A resort hotel 26 miles away, the Eagles Crest, says by phone that they have one cabin left, and we book that; the truck's SatNav leads us a wild song-and-dance through the darkened and blustery Wisconsin countryside to the very banks of the Mississippi, which is flowing only a few inches below the brim. The road changes several times to an unmetalled farmyard track, and as it turns along the river edge the surface becomes very wet indeed and the heavy vehicle sinks suddenly up to its axles in a brown, gritty morass of stinking Mississippi Silt. Standing on the running board so as not to sink into the morass, I pee out of the vehicle, which does not help the liquidity problem. Unease fills the now motionless vehicle; as the wheels spin I can feel it settling downward, and it sits onto its bottom panel, floating on top of the mud; visions of expensive tow trucks, coming only at dawn, float past; and then of us, floating off down the Mississippi before then. The river is slowly rising just a few feet away. For the first time I turn on the 4x4 switch, first to 4L, and then to 4H. I gun the engine back and forth, as I learned on countless construction sites as a youth, driving concrete dump trucks; the car rocks to and fro and suddenly slides and slithers backwards under its own power out of the pond. The GPS system still instructs us to go forwards, the treacherous arrows blithely meandering right out across the blue of the river and along its center; we disobey and lurch heavily back. A miraculous escape. With the wheels heavily out of balance, either with their balance weights torn off by the glutinous morass or by heavy chunks of mud clinging inside the rims, we run south down Route 52. Eventually we haul into Dubuque at 3 a.m. where we find a Holiday Inn with a room left. June 29, 2008 (Sunday) Dubuque (Iowa) TODAY, thank goodness, a quiet Sunday with no functions, but a mound of paperwork for the coming weeks. The truck looks a sorry sight, with inches of silt caked on its running boards and rear. June 30, 2008 (Monday) Dubuque (Iowa) - Chicago (Illinois) INTERESTING letter from a Latvian, Ivars Kraulis, about the General Bruns testimony. I shall post it later this week. The Eugene Register-Guard [rgletters@guardnet.com] has printed this letter: IRVING STATEMENTS REPREHENSIBLE On June 20, The Register-Guard printed a letter from Bob Bussel criticizing the newspaper's "bland" coverage of the presentation of Holocaust denier David Irving. However, the situation was even worse than Bussel realized, for Irving's horrifying talk made clear he is no longer simply a Holocaust denier but rather something even uglier, a Holocaust apologist or sympathizer. Our normally reliable newspaper missed the point on this one, for while it correctly noted that Irving "generally avoided using the word Holocaust" and "instead he called the mass killings during World War II 'the great Jewish tragedy,'_" the story left out the punch line. Irving explained that he meant the tragedy was not that all those Jews were killed, but rather that "Jews never asked themselves why they were killed ... why they are hated so." This claim that Jews were responsible for their own death is the most reprehensible statement I have ever heard from a public platform in the United States and deserves complete condemnation. The Nazis killed millions of Jews, Poles, Russians and Roma (Gypsies) because they were brutal, racist thugs. It's unfortunate that at a time when reasonable people are raising serious questions about such issues as the Jewish lobby in America and Israel's endless expansion into Palestinian land, the Pacifica Forum chooses to immerse its intellectual arguments in the most foul, bigoted anti-Semitism. To rephrase Voltaire, "Though I loathe what you say, I will defend your right to a university room in which to say it." Douglas Card "Reprehensible"- that's a long word for such a shallow brain. WHERE IS DAVID IRVING SPEAKING IN THE USA? Apply for details. Register at the door, or cheaper online [link]. A NEW LIST OF CITIES HAS NOW BEEN POSTED July 1, 2008 (Tuesday) AWAKE much of the night worrying about air tickets. The Daily Telegraph (London) at last asks: DID BRITISH DOUBLE AGENT KIM PHILBY MURDER POLISH WAR HERO GENERAL SIKORSKI? - and guess whose 1967 book first opening this case is not mentioned; I post the link with the photo of the British Liberator aircraft in which Sikorski, his entire staff and daughter perished, lying wheels-upwards on the seabed off Gibraltar in July 1943 (an exclusive picture from my Accident, The Death of General Sikorski (London 1967). Gabriela, at first subdued, is this morning very efficient and bustling. We complete the Ohio (Columbus) mail out. Several people call about this evening's talk. At the local post office, we post the Ohio letters, then drive on to a mall in Niles for her final pre-Peru shopping. I sit in Barnes & Noble, reading a New York Times over coffee; as I reverse in the parking lot, a scrawny, ugly, middle-aged woman screeches that I have damaged a car behind me - I did feel a very slight bump, but the car is a dirty white clunker with its rear fender already badly splintered in parts, nothing I have done. We set out to Irving Park Road at five for the night's meeting; the boulevard extends westwards from Chicago's Lakeshore all the way inland for many miles. Shortly my mobile phone rings - a police officer at Niles - who threatens me with arrest for "leaving the scene of an accident" if I do not return at once to them. It will be a 25-mile round trip. Hey ho. I have to pull off the Interstate to take his call. A cop car pulls up behind us on the shoulder, and we lose another ten minutes as the officer checks license, passport etc., and waves us on in a friendly way. At Niles I sign a yellow police form, and finally get to the Edelweiss restaurant at 7:02 pm - the many people assembled to hear me rising to their feet and applauding as I walk in, coffee-stained and disheveled. Gabriela has already set up the book table, and shortly vanishes to reappear looking the most fetching yet, wearing a thin, chiffonous, purple and mauve dress and high heels. Book sales zoom. Personal assistant Gabriela is a former Peruvian beauty queen, who has just completed a degree in marketing. Below: I address some of my dinner guests in Chicago. Something odd about today, I decide: I feel like the guy on whose back pranksters have pinned a notice reading KICK ME PLEASE, and wonders why it's happening. Bill Rasmussen has come over from Michigan, bringing N. from Virginia, the purchaser of his Heydrich collection... July 2, 2008 (Wednesday) AT FIVE a.m. I have to drive G. to O'Hare airport as she returns to Peru [... She rejoins the tour at Niagara Falls on July 12.] The drive to the airport is a swift smooth plunge down the I-90 and back. Life on the road, it is so difficult. David Irving's Photos \| David Irving's Books (free downloads) Put your name down for an early print copy of David Irving's prison memoirs, out July 2008	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line150
__label__cc	0.648341	0.351659	Galloway Mountain Rescue Background Our History The Team How We Operate Rescue Vehicles Rescue Base Need Our Assistance? Join the Team The Galloway Hills Walks in Galloway History of Galloway Keeping Safe in the Hills Access Code Scotland Fundraising & Sponsorship Donate Guide to the various rescue vehicles employed by Galloway Mountain Rescue. Land Rover 110 Defender Ambulance New in 2012, our Land Rover 110 Ambulance conversion replaced our trusty Land Rover of 17 years. This specially converted vehicle was built for us by renowned mountain rescue vehicle providers Lakeland Land Rovers. We took great care when specifying this vehicle to ensure its enhanced off road capabilities were fit for purpose for the rough Galloway terrain. Additionally, in response to increasingly unpredictable extreme weather conditions, we opted to fit a full snorkel to increase its wading depth in deeper water. These additional options proved their worth within months of the vehicle going into service. In November 2012, the River Cree flooded higher than ever in living memory following a period of prolonged heavy rain and the vehicle was used to rescue stranded motorists and check isolated homes. Then in March 2013, during the 'Big Snow' it came into its own, supporting the police and ambulance service, by playing an important role in attending 17 incidents in 3 days of unprecedented weather conditions. The Land Rover is our first response vehicle and is located at our Rescue Base in Newton Stewart. VW Transporter 4-Motion Ambulance This vehicle is a real wolf in sheep’s clothing. It looks like a conventional VW Transporter van, but the educated eye might spot the rugged off road tyres and the '4-Motion’ badging. These modifications ensure that our personnel carrier, with its 4x4 capability, can transport up to 7 rescuers to some surprisingly isolated locations in the Galloway heartland. It has been custom converted so it can be quickly configured into a stretcher carrying ambulance when the need arises as well as carrying the full range of essential rescue equipment. The vehicle went into service in November 2014. It was funded part-in-part by a substantial private donor and by the St John Scotland, through their Scottish Mountain Rescue Support Project. The VW is located at our secondary rescue post at Castle Douglas Fire Station. Ford Transit AWD Ambulance - Incident Control Vehicle A new and very welcome addition to our rescue fleet in December 2017. Our 'Incident Control Vehicle' has been a custom conversion of a new 4x4 Ford Transit van into a mobile incident control vehicle and Ambulance. With donation from members of the public and discounts from Ford Direct, this vehicle is filled with the latest technology, including digital mapping, satellite connection and wifi. It can also be quickly adapted to securely carry a Macinness stretcher, thereby creating greater flexibility to the team by allowing us to use it, if required, as an ambulance. As well as our search and rescue operations, this vehicle can be called upon by Fire and Rescue during grass/forest fires, Ambulance service for major incidents, and Police during urban searches. The Incident Control Vehicle is located at our Rescue Base in Newton Stewart. Prior to 1995 we relied heavily upon team members using their personal vehicles to act as rescue vehicles. Luckily, former Team Leader Andy Shankland had a Land Rover (pictured left), which he was happy for us to use as a rescue vehicle. We also had access to the police Land Rover based at Dalry Police Station. However, in 1995 with financial assistance from the National Lottery, we purchased our first dedicated vehicle, a Land Rover 110 Station Wagon. This vehicle was located at our former Mountain Rescue Post at Newton Stewart Police Station. It was equipped with a box trailer which doubled up as an equipment carrier and Control. This wasn’t quite as comfortable nor as impressive as the fleet we now have, but this combination served us well for over 17 years. A succession of Team Leaders complained bitterly about how cold it could be managing a search from a trailer in the depths of winter. Oh how sorry the rest of the team felt for them! In 2002 the team were donated a VW Caravelle Synchro 4x4 by St John Scotland. This personnel carrier was a very capable off road vehicle and served us well until it was replaced in 2014. It was located at our sub base in Castle Douglas. New to our rescue fleet in May 2012 was our 'Incident Control Vehicle'. This Vauxhall Movano was custom converted into a rescue vehicle after completing its earlier life as a former Police Mobile Office. With a substantial donation from Sainsbury’s Supermarket, we modified the original configuration of the vehicle to create a control room area with separate rescue equipment carrier racks. It can also be quickly adapted to securely carry a Macinness stretcher, thereby creating greater flexibility to the team by allowing us to use it, if required, as an ambulance. Land Rover 110 Defender VW Transporter 4-Motion Incident Control Previous Rescue Vehicles Previous News More News New Years Honour for Founder Team Member Founder Team Member Ken McCubbin awarded the British Empire Medal for Services to Mountain Rescue New Incident Control Vehicle joins the Galloway MRT Fleet What an early Christmas present for us! St John Scotland has transferred ownership of GMRT base to the team St John Scotland is proud to be the biggest contributor to Scottish Mountain Rescue teams for many years and by 2020, the charity will have provided over £3.2 million in funding, mainly through the provision of bases and vehicles Galloway Mountain Rescue Team Rescue Base Princes Avenue DG8 6ES 999 (Police then MR) 101 Non-Emergencies to Police Galloway Mountain Rescue provides a 24/7 search and rescue service from our base in Newton Stewart. We are a team of unpaid volunteers from across the South of Scotland who are on call to assist injured or lost walkers, climbers and other visitors to the western communities of Dumfries and Galloway. Copyright © 1975-2020 Galloway Mountain Rescue Team. All Rights Reserved. Rescue Base · Princes Avenue · Newton Stewart · Wigtownshire · Scotland · DG8 6ES Website by NJ	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line153
__label__wiki	0.763439	0.763439	"K" letter soundtracks Piano Collections Kingdom Hearts Kingdom Hearts, Piano Collections Covers release: roxas Composed by Yoko Shimomura Arranged by Natsumi Kameoka / Sachiko Miyano Published by Square Enix Catalog number SQEX-10144 Release type Game Soundtrack - Official Release Format 1 CD - 12 tracks Release date May 27, 2009 10.000 1 It's about time. The Kingdom Hearts games, a popular series from Japanese RPG powerhouse Square Enix, feature fun and entertaining soundtracks composed by Yoko Shimomura, who has also composed for games like Super Mario RPG and the Mana series. Her Kingdom Hearts scores are fan favorites, chock full of a wide variety of music from arrangements of Disney tunes to dramatic original pieces. Kingdom Hearts has an abundance of wonderful music and memorable melodies that are perfectly suited to an arranged album. However, for some time, it did not seem as if we would ever see one. In its place, some fans worked on various arrangement projects dedicated to this game to fill the void. However, finally the piano collections were revealed, and finally we see Kingdom Hearts getting Final Fantasy treatment — an album professionally arranged and performed. The Kingdom Hearts Piano Collections is by no means close to a perfect album, but fans of the series and soundtracks will surely enjoy the arrangements of some outstanding pieces from the games. Almost expectedly, the album begins with "Dearly Beloved". This simple piano solo has been extensively featured on the soundtracks, so it was certain to be included on this album. This particular arrangement doesn't really stray too far from the familiar, and much of it is entirely identical to the original piece. A few small flourishes in the melody change up the piece slightly, while some slightly awkward high notes add a new texture to the piece. However, this version is basically like listening to the original piece, which will surely please some fans who enjoy the simplicity and emotion of the music while disappointing those of us who appreciate originality. However, there is another version of the piece, entitled "Concert Paraphrase on Dearly Beloved," that features a variety of changes to the piece. This arrangement takes the simple melody to an entirely different level, adding a large dose of dramatic runs and heavy bass that gives the piece a sense of urgency but also majesty, and works effectively as the closing for the album. One of the best arrangements on the entire album is "Traverse Town". The original piece was a laidback, jazzy track that featured a smooth saxophone melody and relaxing piano accompaniment. This arrangement preserves the atmosphere of the original and refrains from making drastic changes that would ruin the spirit of the piece. This version is very light and bouncy, and the melody is just as beautiful as it was originally. The arrangement is particularly effective when the melody moves into a lower range with bass accompaniment. Unlike other arrangements on the album, this one stays away from overly virtuosic scalar runs or flourishes, instead utilizing simple decorations that enhance the piece rather than detract from the melody. "Missing You ~ Namine" is another rather simple arrangement that features a beautiful melody. It remains fairly true to the original and keeps the melody intact. Towards the end, the piece reaches a climax th at involves some quick runs, but this adds to the beauty rather than take away from the piece. My personal favorite arrangement is the brooding "The 13th Side". This arrangement is very dark and grave, and does the melody justice. Though many may not enjoy this arrangement because it retains the same melody and repeats many times, I enjoy the treatment it receives. The piano naturally accents the ominous sound of the piece, and this arrangement treats us to an exciting climax followed by a reflective restatement of the melody. Overall I find this arrangement highly effective and engaging, one of the best on the album. "The Other Promise" comes off as being a bit pretentious, as does "Hand in Hand". Both feature excessive piano runs and needless flourishes that are interesting at first, but eventually seem to distract from the melody and soul of the originals. Some may enjoy the frantic nature of these arrangements and find them exciting, but others will be disappointed with the over-the-top treatment. "Hand in Hand" is way too active throughout its short time span, but thankfully "The Other Promise" has a few reflective moments as well to counteract some of the drama found in the piece. "The Other Promise" features the melody from "Roxas," which sort of renders "Roxas" as a pointless arrangement. "Roxas" is very plain and nothing particularly special, in great contrast to "The Other Promise." However, "Roxas," is, quite simply, too mundane and normal, and the melody is not strong enough to really pull the arrangement through. In the middle of the album, the arranger selected four pieces to encompass a four movement "Sonata" for piano solo. These include "Sora," "Kairi," "Riku," as well as "Working Together". The idea is a neat one; each piece is assigned a certain type similar to those found in classical works. The first is "Sora - Allegro con brio". This arrangement is fairly decent; it isn't anything truly special, but it is faithful to the original and doesn't get too caught up in ridiculous piano runs like many other pieces. It is a fun arrangement with a bombastic ending reminiscent of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," a famous jazz work. The second movement is "Kairi - Andante Sostenuto". This movement is considerably slower than the previous one, and is overall very focused on melody and the deep atmosphere. This arrangement features a section with some triplet runs, but unlike "Hand in Hand" these augment and add an effective layer to the piece. Overall, this is one of the stronger arrangements on the album and fans of the original piece will surely appreciate this track. "Riku - Scherzo e Intermezzo" is the third movement, and is the most active of the first three movements. While most scherzi are lighthearted in nature, this one is quite dark and intense. Such an atmosphere is perfect for Riku's theme and character. This is also a very strong arrangement; it features a number of quick runs but these are effective and are characteristic of the scherzo form. The ending in particular is quite difficult and sounds reminiscent of Chopin or Liszt. The finale of the sonata is "Working Together - Allegro vivace". This is a decent arrangement, but suffers from the same problem as "Hand in Hand". The piece seems to utilize virtuosic material for the sake of using it, and it doesn't always add to the piece. Also, the melody repeats many times over the course of the arrangement, and often the bass accompaniment is exactly the same which gives a feeling of never ending repetition. This arrangement is not nearly as strong as the previous two in this sonata, but is decent and moderately enjoyable nonetheless. Summry Overall, this is a strong piano arrangement album, and fans of the Kingdom Hearts soundtracks will be sure to love some of the arrangements. Some general problems include overuse of complex runs and flourishes, and the arrangement choices themselves. Some pieces, such as "Hand in Hand" and "Working Together", could have been replaced by other, more worthy pieces. The absence of the Shimomura favorite "Destati" and other pieces like "Lazy Afternoons" or "Hollow Bastion" hurts what could have been a superb album. This is nevertheless worthwhile for those looking for an enjoyable listening experience, although the sheet music is intended for experts only. Music in game Jared Miller Original Music Composed & Produced by Yoko Shimomura Arranged by Sachiko Miyano, Natsumi Kameoka Performed by Takehiko Yamada, Hiroyuki Nakayama, & Miwa Sato Arrangement: Natsumi Kameoka \| Piano: Takehiko Yamada Arrangement: Sachiko Miyano \| Piano: Takehiko Yamada Arrangement: Sachiko Miyano \| Piano: Hiroyuki Nakayama Missing You ~ Namine - Sonata on Themes of KINGDOM HEARTS - 1st Mov. : Sora - Allegro con brio Arrangement: Natsumi Kameoka \| Piano: Miwa Sato 2nd Mov. : Kairi - Andante sostenuto 3rd Mov. : Riku - Scherzo e Intermezzo Finale : Working Together - Allegro vivace The 13th Side The Other Promise Concert Paraphrase on "Dearly Beloved" Album was composed by Yoko Shimomura and was released on May 27, 2009. Soundtrack consists of 12 tracks tracks with duration over about 45 minutes. Album was released by Square Enix. 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__label__cc	0.704686	0.295314	Gaming Insurrection forum Retro musings and ideas from Gaming Insurrection.com Posts Tagged ‘writing’ Continue Screen — 2Q2013 An American woman in love with Japan When I was in the seventh grade, in the heady days of 1993 and 1994, I fell in love with a nation. That’s not an easy feat, let me tell you. I am a red-blooded American woman who loves herself some of the good old U.S. of A, but my love for video games was unmatched, and it didn’t take long for me to figure out where they came from mostly. In those halcyon days, I was an ignorant little wretch, playing what I could when I could with little money. All I could depend on was my mother getting paid every two weeks so that I could have a pittance of what she earned in the form of an allowance. I received $25, and the ink on the Treasury Department stacks was barely dry before I’d find a way to blow it on my favorite hobby/habit. Why, I could have saved millions by now probably if I hadn’t bought countless issues of GamePro and EGM that were summarily read at dinnertime from cover to cover. The gaming news of the day was most important for me, and I learned the behind-the-scenes nuts and bolts of the trade and gaming journalism all at once. Call it a supplementary education if you will. While I received a quite proper game education and academic merits in Columbia, S.C.’s public institutions of learning, at the arcade I was becoming cultured in the ways of the people speak. And at home, I was learning subtly about a country I’d never seen and still haven’t ventured forth to in the ensuing 20 years: Japan. My first glancing blow with the Land of the Rising Sun was through Street Fighter. Now, I realize like most people who play the series that there are several nations represented in the World Warrior tournament. Japan is one of many. However, the primary language spoken among all of the characters in the original version of Street Fighter II — with the exception of Zangief, Dhalsim and Guile — is Japanese. And yes, even Ken Masters, who is half Japanese, speaks Japanese fluently. So, when I booted up the game after ignoring it in favor of Mortal Kombat, I realized there was something going on there and it wasn’t the good old English I was used to hearing. The shock of hearing the language for the first time was akin to being set free to roam in the world for the first time: I didn’t know how to act. I soaked up the language, enthralled with E. Honda’s stage and the concept of sumo. I’d never even heard of sumo at that point, and though I was aware of China and some of the food that I thought came from there (Americanized Chinese food is among my favorites), I had no idea about the history, customs or culture of either China or Japan. All of that changed when I did a shoryuken for the first time. I dove into the world of a land I didn’t know with abandon. By the time my eighth grade year rolled around, I knew more about samurai and sumo than most 13-year-olds and I finally understood that Japan, at that point, was the place I needed to be because every game that I’d ever played had come from there. And thus began my lifelong dream of traveling. I also had to learn two concepts at that point: Cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness. As a black teenage girl and now as a black woman, I had to learn that there are other people in the world besides myself and my own race of people. At the same time, I realized that there are people out there in the world that have preconceived notions about who I am and what I love. While I have a deep appreciation for Japanese culture, it is impossible for me to ever become Japanese. I can’t think Japanese, I certainly can’t speak it and I would never claim in any way, shape or form to understand the country’s way of life. However, I can indulge myself in what it has to offer and open my mind to it as well. So, when I’ve heard someone say that I am trying to “turn Japanese” because I happen to love geisha or watch a lot of anime or play a lot of video games, I shut that nonsense down. That’s what this entire issue of Gaming Insurrection is about this quarter: We appreciate. Lyndsey Hicks is editor-in-chief of Gaming Insurrection. She can be reached by email at editor@gaminginsurrection.com Tags: 2Q2013, column, continue screen, Japan, Lyndsey Hicks, Updates, writing by GI-Lyndsey posted in Continue Screen, Updates 2Q2012 is now available! Content for the second quarter 2012 is now available! Stories this quarter: Classic Focus: Super Mario Kart: GI goes in-depth with a look at the characters and weapons of the game and the tracks we love in the classic Super Nintendo racer. Mortal Kombat II tournament Finals: We finish off our six round Mortal Kombat II tournament. Find out who took the crown in GI’s first tournament. Reviews: We critique Halo Reach, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Namco Museum, Sonic Mega Collection and Onimusha in Ready, Set, Begin! and ESWAT: City under Siege, Wheel of Fortune and Tetris Attack in Retrograde. In Retro Game Corner, we take a look at reboots of several popular franchises. When is it time to start over and when is it time to let it go? We give our opinions on which series need to restart and which should leave things alone. In our continuing look at the 150 Pokemon of Red and Blue, we examine the evolution chain of Pidgey, Pidgeotto and Pidgeot. And the Dance Dance Revolution Spotlight focuses on Trip Machine Climax, Destiny and Cartoon Heroes (Speedy Mix). On The Strip, we talk about the moral failings of the X-Men’s Charles Xavier and study up on Avengers stalwart Dr. Strange, Earth’s sorcerer supreme in the Marvel character highlight, property review and top 5 list. Download the latest issue at www.gaminginsurrection.com Tags: 2Q2012, gaming, multimedia, podcasts, production, update, video, web, writing 4Q2011 update online! Gaming Insurrection is proud to present the following content for 4Q2011 issue: The Usual Suspects: GI takes a look at the shooter-looter Borderlands from Gearbox Software. Editors Lyndsey and Jamie Mosley complete a short runthrough for an episode of Game Night and begin their newest podcast, Guns of Pandora. MK2 tournament: Round 4 is over and the results of matches have been tallied. Find out who’s going to the semifinals in our newest video, podcast and match analysis. Retrograde: We review: Donkey Kong Country (SNES), Barbie (NES), Double Dragon (Genesis) and Final Fantasy (NES) Ready, Set, Begin!: We review: Call of Duty Black Ops (Xbox 360 version), Mortal Kombat (Xbox 360 version), Shinobi (PS2), Animal Crossing (GameCube) and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Xbox 360 version). The Strip: We review Watchmen (film) in the property review, Devil May Cry 3 Vol. 1 in Otaku, the top 5 unknown black superheroes, discuss the importance of equal representation in comics in Strip Talk and break down Marrow in the Marvel character highlight. In this issue, we begin our long-planned and awaited ratings policy and we move our digital archives online. If you would like to read older content from Gaming Insurrection without having to download a PDF issue, now’s your chance. Gaming Insurrection’s digital archives are now live! Get started here. Tags: 4Q2011, Animal Crossing, Borderlands, editing, feature, gaming, multimedia, update, video, writing 3Q2011 update online now! Gaming Insurrection proudly presents Issue No. 15 for 3rd Quarter 2011. Featured in this issue: — Silver Horse Awards: Gaming Insurrection honors four of the most influential game designers and producers: Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima, Yu Suzuki and Nobuo Uematsu. — E32011: We analyze this year’s extravaganza: The games, the conferences and the announcements are all here. Listen to our special annual podcast and find out what other experts had to say about 2011’s offerings from the Big 3. — Mortal Kombat II tournament Round 3: We reach the halfway mark of our tournament for the gory fighting game classic. Match strategies, commentary in our special podcast and video are included. Ready, set, begin! We review Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Battlefield Bad Company, Yakuza and Crash Bandicoot 2. Games on tap for review are Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Dr. Mario, Duck Hunt and Rad Racer. We discuss the dichotomy of heroes and villains, five of the worst comic book movies ever made, Robotech, Magneto and X-Men The Animated Series Vol. 1. Retro Game Corner We examine the costs of rare games, look at the Squirtle-Wartortle-Blastoise evolutionary chain in the Pokemon Red & Blue Knowledge Center and critique Knight Rider in the Torture of the Quarter. As always we have columns by Lyndsey and Jamie and a comic for Strip Life. Let us know what you think! Tags: 2011, 3Q2011, 3rd Quarter, editing, multimedia, podcasts, update, writing What we’ve been doing … Lyndsey Mosley, editor It’s an exciting time here at Gaming Insurrection. We’re completing ambitious add-ons to the core magazine and we’re close to acquiring new software for better production. We hope to better the publication. For the first quarter of 2011, we have something exciting: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issue. We decided to look at the nine games released for the franchise across the NES, Super NES, Genesis and GameBoy. Content for The Strip will include property reviews for the first, second and third live-action movies. GI on the whole are massive fans of the Turtles and we hope this will be reflected in our blowout. Also in the first quarter will be the start of a Mortal Kombat II tournament. Jamie and I will be recording matches, writing analysis and creating a podcast for the feature. We have several videos floating around on YouTube already for Mortal Kombat II and 3 and we’re prepared to add more. The tournament should run into next year, and it will play a prominent role in each issue until its conclusion. Finally, there are two new sections coming to Gaming Insurrection. The first is the Retro Game Corner, a short look at the old school through short stories. Within the new section is also another new feature, the Pokemon Red & Blue Knowledge Center. This feature will examine the original 151 Pokemon in Pokemon Red and Blue for the GameBoy, providing tips and suggestions for team creation and movesets. The second new section is the Animal Crossing Chronicles. Originally a feature here on the blog, it will focus on the exploits of a new character, Samus, in the town of Tokyo in the original Animal Crossing for GameCube. Each quarter will have photos and diary entries of Samus’ life in a new town already populated by our characters! In other developments, we hope to have more Game Nights and get a new podcast rolling. Guns of Pandora will focus on GI’s love of Borderlands for the Xbox 360. We plan to discuss all aspects of the game, which we spend quite a bit of time messing around with. The next update, for the first quarter 2011, will take place at the beginning of January. Keep your eyes and ears open for more content from us here at GI. Tags: editing, GI, multimedia, production, update, writing 4Q2010 update As some of our readers have seen, Gaming Insurrection recently picked up and moved to a new base of operations. We’re spread out over North Carolina and South Carolina so we mostly likely will stay in one of the two states. Our latest move has been good for several reasons: 1. More money. With better jobs, GI members can make more money to put toward newer gear for the magazine; and 2. More time. A change in schedule for GI’s main members — me and Jamie — means we have more time to get things done and to think of more features. Aside from moving, we have all stepped up our writing and it’s going to show beginning with the next issue. We’re trying to get more stories in, reviews about games we loved, and have loved, to play and more videos and podcasts recorded. I’m most proud of the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles special issue. It will kickoff what we are calling the “Classic Focus” series. Modeled after 1up.com’s Cover Stories section, we’re putting the focus on a particular series and blowing it out. We’re talking maps, columns on our experiences, in short, an entire issue primarily devoted to one series. Now, they won’t necessarily happen each quarter. But keep a look out for them. I have a feeling that the TMNT issue is going to rock. On the subject of new gear: As I mentioned, before we’re looking to upgrade our systems and software at GI. Primarily, I use: Microsoft Publisher: Magazine print version and website; PDF Tools: Joining the individual pieces of the magazine together; Sony Acid Music Studio and a voice recorder: Podcasts; and Sony Vegas Movie Studio: Video production Nikon Coolpix L11: Pictures (stills and some video) I’ve mentioned this in a previous post, but I’ve decided for sure what I’d like to work with: Print design: Quark Express or Adobe Indesign (what professionals use in the newspaper industry and what I use everyday for work) Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard or Professional: To join PDFs and reduce their size. This makes it far faster and easier for our readers to download issues . And it also saves on server space for GI. Final Cut Pro: Video production. This is an industry standard as well. Sony HD Handycam for videos The magazine production equipment can be had in the Adobe Creative Suite Premium for about $1,899. Buying the programs separately can run for much more. As you can see, GI will be saving its newfound money. Otherwise, keep reading our issues and watching our videos. Also, visit our affiliate PlayAsia.com through the search box on the front page for game deals. Every little bit you spend there at the fine establishment that is Play Asia actually helps us. We appreciate it. Lyndsey M. Editor, Gaming Insurrection Tags: 4th Quarter 2010, GI, Updates, video, web, writing Editorial #03: E3 is just around the corner It really seems like just yesterday that Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009 was up and running and we at GI were watching conferences while hurriedly writing summaries. In fact, it probably was just yesterday for all that I know since my sense of time isn’t like everyone else. Anyway, it won’t be long before E32010 graces us with more news and commentary than gamers care for. Oh what am I saying? This is literally my favorite time of year. E3 is old hat for me now. Back when it was the cool thing to do circa 1995, I wanted to go. I wanted to experience the glitz and glamor of gaming’s biggest three days. Well that all changed when I realized that I have to have money, transportation, lodging, a job to get the money and transportation and time off from said job to get across the country. Kids can dream, right? Well, that dream fizzled with the prospect of actual work being involved. Sort of like my dream of visiting Japan but I digress. E3 is best experienced away from the razzle dazzle for me and I’d rather much watch the conferences online than potentially have to get on a plane. In my mind planes = death. Nevermind that we haven’t had a major incident in at least two years. No planes for me if I don’t have to or ever if I had my druthers. So that leaves me with catching the show online. Thankfully, technology has decided to be awesome during the past decade so the quality of my show isn’t bad. With every major worldwide gaming media outlet crammed into auditoriums it’s now easier than ever to watch a show live and later if you need to make adjustments to notes. And speaking of notes, yours truly will be doing her best to get it together this year with comprehensive ideas. Last year was a disaster as I was attempting to watch while designing newspaper pages. Say it with me: Newspaper page design and E3 do not mix. Also, there was a debacle concerning our level of coverage (read: I didn’t particularly want to do the work of four people after having help flake out at the last minute). That certainly won’t happen this year because we know our goal: Talk about the important stuff. Putting E3 into perspective is important when you’re planning six pages of news over three days. I won’t bore you with the details of planning a news operation but it’s not easy finding the time to get everything and everyone together. In addition to the layout and design, there’s art acquisition, recording the podcast and writing summaries of the most important information. I don’t have to dwell too much on the fact that a college education that centered on newsgathering comes in handy particularly at this time of year … go Gamecocks! So it’s just a matter of putting on my editor-in-chief hat and rolling with what Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony throw at me. Lyndsey M. Mosley Tags: E3, editing, Editorial, production, writing posted in Editorial 2nd Quarter 2010 launches! Gaming Insurrection proudly presents the 2nd Quarter 2010 issue. In the issue: 1. Feature: Playing retro imports – Gaming Insurrection shows you how to play import games on five systems: GameCube, PlayStation 2, PSOne, Saturn and Dreamcast. GI Editor Lyndsey Mosley walks you through the process with tips in a series of videos. 2. What We’re Playing – New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Animal Crossing CityFolk, 1943* and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 are covered. 3. Retrograde – The GI crew looks at The Guardian Legend, Contra* and Final Fantasy V. 4. Tech Geeks – Winamp, Open Office and the GameStop System Selector are explored. 5. The Strip – The GI crew takes on the Phoenix Saga, Omega Red, Death Note Vol. 1 and Superman Returns and counts down our top 5 comic book villains. As always, click within this post to download the current issue or visit the main site. * = Video available here. Tags: games, gaming, GI, multimedia, production, update, video, web, writing 1st Quarter 2010 here! Gaming Insurrection has uploaded content for the 1st quarter of 2010! We are proud to present the following: 1. Buyer’s Guide: Gaming Insurrection walks you through a list of 116 games that should be in every gamer’s collection. 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__label__wiki	0.727076	0.727076	Mandukya Upanishad Title: Mandukya Upanishad Subject: Upanishads, Advaita Vedanta, Aitareya Upanishad, Maitrayaniya Upanishad, Prashna Upanishad Collection: Advaita Vedanta, Upanishads Part of a series on the Hindu scriptures Rigveda Yajurveda Bṛhadāraṇyaka · Īṣa · Taittirīya · Kaṭha Samaveda Chāndogya · Kena Atharvaveda Muṇḍaka · Māṇḍūkya · Praśna Other Major Upanishads Shvetashvatara ·Kaushitaki ·Maitrayaniya The Mandukya Upanishad (Sanskrit: माण्डुक्य उपनिषद्, Māṇḍukya Upaniṣad) is the shortest of all the Upanishads, and is assigned to Atharvaveda.[1] It is listed as number 6 in the Muktikā canon of 108 Upanishads.[2] It is in prose, consisting of twelve terse verses, and is associated with a Rig Vedic school of scholars.[1] It discusses the syllable Om, presents the theory of four states of consciousness, asserts the existence and nature of Atman (Soul, Self).[3][4] The Mandukya Upanishad is notable for having been recommended in the Muktikā Upanishad, through two central characters of the Ramayana, as the one Upanishad that alone is sufficient for knowledge to gain moksha, and as first in its list of eleven principal Upanishads.[2] The text is also notable for inspiring Gaudapada's Karika, a classic for the Vedanta school of Hinduism.[2] Mandukya Upanishad is among the oft cited texts on chronology and philosophical relationship between Hinduism and Buddhism.[5][6] Chronology and authorship 2 Chronology 2.1 Chronological roots 2.2 Authorship 2.3 Contents 4 Aum in the Mandukya Upanishad 4.1 Four states of consciousness 4.2 Theory and nature of Atman 4.3 Similarities and differences with Buddhist teachings 5 Muktika Upanishad 6.1 Classical commentators 6.2 Gaudapada 6.2.1 Shankaracharya 6.2.2 Madhvacharya 6.2.3 Sikh translation 6.2.4 Modern commentators 6.3 Published sources 10.1 Web-sources 10.2 Smriti Brahmana Rig vedic Sama vedic Yajur vedic Atharva vedic Other scriptures Agamas Related Hindu texts Brahma puranas Brahmānda Brahmavaivarta Markandeya Bhavishya Vaishnava puranas Bhagavata Naradeya Vamana Shaiva puranas Skanda Itihasa Dharma Shastra Artha Shastra Samkhya Sutras Mimamsa Sutras Nyāya Sūtras Vaiśeṣika Sūtra Pramana Sutras Stotra Divya Prabandha Tirumurai Swara yoga Shiva Samhita Panchadasi Vedantasara Chronology of Hindu texts The root of Mandukya is sometimes considered as Manduka (Sanskrit: मण्डूक) which literally has several meanings. It means "frog", "a particular breed of horse", "the sole of horse's hoof", or "a kind of coitus".[7] Some writers[8] have suggested the "frog" as the etymological root for Mandukya Upanishad. Another root for the Upanishad's name is Mānduka (Sanskrit: माण्डूक) which literally is "a Vedic school" or means "a teacher".[9] Paul Deussen states the etymological roots of Mandukya Upanishad to be a "half lost school of Rigveda".[1] This school may be related to the scholar named Hrasva Māṇḍūkeya, whose theory of semivowels is discussed in Aitareya Aranyaka of Rigveda.[10] Manduka means "son of Manduki", and a seer with this metronymic is mentioned in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad along with the Mandukeyas, his disciples. The Mandukeyas figure in the Bhagavata Purana as the receivers of a branch of the Rig Veda from Indra. Applying the rules of sandhi, the text is also called Mandukyopanishad.[11] Chronology and authorship The chronology of Mandukya Upanishad, like other Upanishads, is uncertain and contested.[12] The chronology is difficult to resolve because all opinions rest on scanty evidence, an analysis of archaism, style and repetitions across texts, driven by assumptions about likely evolution of ideas, and on presumptions about which philosophy might have influenced which other Indian philosophies.[12][13] Nakamura dates the Mandukya Upanishad to "about the first or second centuries A.D."[14] Richard King too dates the Mandukya Upanishad at the first two centuries of the Common Era.[15] Olivelle states, "we have the two late prose Upanisads, the Prasna and the Mandukya, which cannot be much older than the beginning of the common era".[16] Mahony, on the other hand, states that Mandukya Upanishad probably emerged in the late fifth and early fourth centuries BCE, along with Prashna and Maitri Upanishads.[17] Phillips lists Mandukya Upanishad before and about the time the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, the Maitri Upanishad, as well as the first Buddhist Pali and Jaina canonical texts were composed.[12] Ranade[18] posits a view similar to Phillips, placing Mandukya's chronological composition in the fifth, that is the last group of ancient Principal Upanishads. Chronological roots The foundation of several theories in the Mandukya Upanishad are found in chronologically more ancient Sanskrit texts.[19] For example, chapters 8.7 through 8.12 of Chandogya Upanishad discuss the "four states of consciousness" as awake, dream-filled sleep, deep sleep, and beyond deep sleep.[19][20] The text of the Mandukya Upanishad is fully incorporated in the Mandukya Karika, a commentary attributed to the 6th century CE[21] Gaudapada, and is not known to exist independent of this commentary.[11] Isaeva states that some scholars, including Paul Deussen, presumed that Gaudapada may be its author; however, there is no historical or textual evidence for this hypothesis.[11] Scholars consider Mandukya Upanishad as a Principal Upanishad with more ancient origins.[12][13] In contrast to the older Upanishads, the Mandukya Upanishad is very short, with clear and concise formulations.[22][23] It has twelve terse prose paragraphs.[4] The Mandukya Upanishad is an important Upanishad in Hinduism, particularly to its Advaita Vedanta school.[24][25] It tersely presents several central doctrines, namely that "the universe is Brahman," "the self (soul, atman) exists and is Brahman," and "the four states of consciousness".[24][26][27] The Mandukya Upanishad also presents several theories about the syllable Om, and that it symbolizes self.[24][4] Aum in the Mandukya Upanishad The Mandukya Upanishad is one of several Upanishads that discuss the meaning and significance of the syllable Om (Aum). The Mandukya Upanishad opens by declaring, "Om!, this syllable is this whole world". Thereafter it presents various explanations and theories on what it means and signifies.[4] This discussion is built on a structure of "four fourths" or "fourfold", derived from A + U + M + "silence" (or without an element[28]).[3][4] Aum as all states of time In verse 1, the Upanishad states that time is threefold: the past, the present and the future, that these three are "Aum". The four fourth of time is that which transcends time, that too is "Aum" expressed.[4] Aum as all states of Atman In verse 2, states the Upanishad, everything is Brahman, but Brahman is Atman (the soul, self), and that the Atman is fourfold.[3] Aum as all states of consciousness In verses 3 to 6, the Mandukya Upanishad enumerates four states of consciousness: wakeful, dream, deep sleep and the state of ekatma (being one with Self, the oneness of Self).[4] These four are A + U + M + "without an element" respectively.[4] Aum as all of etymological knowledge In verses 9 to 12, the Mandukya Upanishad enumerates fourfold etymological roots of the syllable "Aum". It states that the first element of "Aum" is A, which is from Apti (obtaining, reaching) or from Adimatva (being first).[3] The second element is U, which is from Utkarsa (exaltation) or from Ubhayatva (intermediateness).[4] The third element is M, from Miti (erecting, constructing) or from Mi Minati, or apīti (annihilation).[3] The fourth is without an element, without development, beyond the expanse of universe. In this way, states the Upanishad, the syllable Om is the Atman (the self) indeed.[3][4] Four states of consciousness The Mandukya Upanishad describes four states of consciousness, namely waking (jågrat), dreaming (svapna), and deep sleep (suṣupti),[web 1][web 2] which correspond to the Three Bodies Doctrine:[29] The first state is the waking state, in which we are aware of our daily world. "It is described as outward-knowing (bahish-prajnya), gross (sthula) and universal (vaishvanara)".[web 2] This is the gross body. The second state is the dreaming mind. "It is described as inward-knowing (antah-prajnya), subtle (pravivikta) and burning (taijasa)".[web 2] This is the subtle body. The third state is the state of deep sleep. In this state the underlying ground of concsiousness is undistracted, "the Lord of all (sarv'-eshvara), the knower of all (sarva-jnya), the inner controller (antar-yami), the source of all (yonih sarvasya), the origin and dissolution of created things (prabhav'-apyayau hi bhutanam)".[web 2] This is the causal body. The fourth factor is Turiya, pure consciousness. It is the background that underlies and transcends the three common states of consciousness.[web 3] [web 4] In this consciousness both absolute and relative, saguna brahman and Nirguna Brahman, are transcended.[30] It is the true state of experience of the infinite (ananta) and non-different (advaita/abheda), free from the dualistic experience which results from the attempts to conceptualise ( vipalka) reality.[31] It is the state in which ajativada, non-origination, is apprehended.[31] Theory and nature of Atman The verses 3 through 7 discuss four states of Atman (Self, Soul).[3][4] Verse 3 of the Upanishad describes the first state of Self as outwardly cognitive with seven limbs,[32] nineteen mouths,[33] enjoying the gross,[34] a state of Self common in all of human beings.[3][4] The Mandukya Upanishad, in verse 4, asserts the second state of Self as inwardly cognitive with seven limbs, nineteen mouths, enjoying the exquisite, a state of brilliant Self.[3][4] The Upanishad's verse 5 states the third state of Self as one without desire or anticipations, where pure conscience is his only mouth, where he is in unified cognition, enjoying the delight, a state of blissful Self.[3][4] The verses 6 and 7 of the Upanishad states the fourth state of Self as one beyond all the three, beyond extrospective state, beyond introspective state, beyond cognitive state, the state of ekatmya pratyaya sara (one with the Self), tranquil, benign, advaita (without second). He then is the Self, just Atman, the one which should be discerned.[3][4] Johnston summarizes these four states of Self, respectively, as seeking the physical, seeking inner thought, seeking the causes and spiritual consciousness, and the fourth state is realizing oneness with the Self, the Eternal.[35] Similarities and differences with Buddhist teachings Scholars contest whether Mandukya Upanishad was influenced by Buddhist theories along with the similarities and differences between Buddhism and Hinduism in light of the text. According to Hajime Nakamura, the Mandukya Upanishad was influenced by Mahayana Buddhism and its concept of śūnyatā.[5] Nakamura states, "many particular Buddhist terms or uniquely Buddhist modes of expression may be found in it",[36][note 1] such as adrsta, avyavaharya, agrahya, alaksana, acintya, prapancopasama.[38] According to Randall Collins the Madukya Upanishad "includes phrases found in the Prajnaparamitrasutras of Mahayana Buddhism."[39] According to Michael Comans, Vidushekhara also notes that the term prapañcopaśama does not appear in pre-Buddhist Brahmanic works, but in contrast to Nakamura he does not conclude that the term was taken over from Mahayana Buddhism.[6] According to Comans, eventual Mahayana origins of this term are no more than a possibility, and not a certainty.[6] Comans also disagrees with Nakamura's thesis that "the fourth realm (caturtha) was perhaps influenced by the Sunyata of Mahayana Buddhism."[note 2] According to Comans, It is impossible to see how the unequivocal teaching of a permanent, underlying reality, which is explicitly called the "Self", could show early Mahayana influence.[40] Comans further refers to Nakamura himself, who notes that later Mahayana sutras such as the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra and the concept of Buddha-nature, were influenced by Vedantic thought.[40] Comans concludes that [T]here can be no suggestion that the teaching about the underlying Self as contained in the Mandukya contains shows any trace of Buddhist thought, as this teaching can be traced to the pre-Buddhist Brhadaranyaka Upanishad.[40] Jacobs lists adrsta and other terms in more ancient, pre-Buddhist literature such as the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.[41] Isaeva states that there are differences in the teachings in the texts of Buddhism and the Mandukya Upanishad of Hinduism, because the latter asserts that citta "consciousness" is identical with the eternal and immutable atman "soul, self" of the Upanishads.[42] In other words, Mandukya Upanishad and Gaudapada affirm the soul exists, while Buddhist schools affirm that there is no soul or self.[4][43][44] Muktika Upanishad Rama and Hanuman of the Hindu Epic Ramayana, in Muktika Upanishad, discuss moksha (freedom, liberation, deliverance). Rama, therein, recommends Mandukya as first among 108 Upanishads, as follows,[2] The Mandukya alone is sufficient for the deliverance of the aspirant, if even then, the knowledge lacks, then read the ten Upanishads. He attains the goal if he reads the thirty two Upanishads, if you just wish deliverance, while death is near, read, then, the hundred and eight Upanishads. — Muktika Upanishad I.i.26-29, Translated by Paul Deussen[2] Classical commentators Gaudapada One of the first known extant metrical commentary on this Upanishad was written by Gaudapada, This commentary, called the Māndūkya-kārikā, is the earliest known systematic exposition of Advaita Vedanta. Raju states that Gaudapada took over the Buddhist doctrines that ultimate reality is pure consciousness (vijñapti-mātra),[45][note 3] and "the four-cornered negation".[45][note 4] Raju further states that Gaudapada "weaved [both doctrines] into a philosophy of the Mandukaya Upanisad, which was further developed by Shankara".[49][note 5] The 'four-cornered negation' is an English gloss of the Sanskrit, Chatushkoti. Shankaracharya, a disciple of Govindapada who himself was a disciple of Gaudapada, further made commentaries on Gaudapada Mandukya karika, Mandukya upanishad forms one of the basis of Advaita Vedanta as expounded by shankaracharya.[51] Madhvacharya Madhvacharya, the proponder of Dvaita Vedanta, has written commentaries on Mandukya upanishad and offers an emotional and thestic perspective of the scripture, and attributes them to Śruti, his commentary based on bhakti yoga and uses Vishnu and his attributes as a similes for decephering sholokas of mandukya upanishad [52] Sikh translation According to Sikh scholars, the Mandukya Upanishad 'is one of the most fascinating upanishads ever written as it deals with the four states of being' and was translated in Anandpur in 1689 under the patronage of Guru Gobind Singh. Modern commentators According to Aurobindo, Brahman, which has the potentiality of becoming, has created out an existence which has a relation between itself. This existence with its experience of becoming and having relation with the absolute is called as Soul or purusha, the principle or power of becoming is called as nature or prakriti.[53] Swami Rama has provided an interpretation of this Upanishad from the experiential standpoint in his commentary Enlightenment without God.[54] Ranade calls the aphoristic style of Mandukya Upanishad as highly influential on the Sutras of Indian philosophies that followed it, and that the Upanishad has served as a foundational text of the major Vedanta school of Hinduism. He states,[55] We are told [in Mandukya Upanishad] how, "the syllable Om is verily all that exists. Under it is included all the past, the present and the future, as well as that which transcends time. Verily all this is Brahman. The Atman is Brahman. This Atman is four-footed. The first foot is the Vaisvanara, who enjoys gross things, in the state of wakefulness. The second foot is the Taijasa, who enjoys exquisite things in the state of dream. The third is the Prajna who enjoys bliss in the state of deep sleep. The fourth is Atman, who is alone without a second, calm, holy and tranquil". This passage has been verily the basis upon which all the later systems of Vedantic philosophy have come to be built. — RD Ranade[55] Ranade's views on the importance of Mandukya Upanishad and Gaudapada's commentary on Vedanta school, particularly Advaita Vedanta sub-school of Hinduism, is shared by modern era scholars such as Hacker, Vetter and others.[56] Johnston states that Mandukya Upanishad must be read in two layers, consciousness and vehicles of consciousness, soul and nature of soul, the empirical and the eternal.[35] The text aphoristically condenses these layers of message, both in literal and metaphorical sense. William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, was inspired by the Upanishads and Mandukya Upanishad were among texts he commented on.[57][58] David Stoll's 1987 Piano Quartet is inspired by three Upanishads, one being Mandukya Upanishad, other two being Katha and Isha Upanishads.[59] Adi Shri Gauḍapādāchārya Adi Shri Shankaracharya Shri Gaudapadacharya Mutt Shri Govinda Bhagavatpadacharya ^ Nakamura: "As was pointed out in detail in the section titled Interpretation, many particular Buddhist terms or uniquely Buddhist modes of expression may be found in it."[36] "From the fact that many Buddhist terms are found in its explanation, it is clear that this view was established under the influence of the Mahayana Buddhist concept of Void."[37] "Although Buddhistic influence can be seen in the Maitri-Upanishad, the particular terms and modes of expression of Mahayana Buddhism do not yet appear, whereas the influence of the Mahayana concept of Void can clearly be recognized in the Mandukya-Upanisad."[37] "Although Mahayana Buddhism strongly influenced this Upanisad, neither the mode of exposition of the Madhyamika school nor the characteristic terminology of the Vijnanavada school appears."[14] ^ Nakamura, as cited in Comans 2000 p.98.[40] ^ It is often used interchangeably with the term citta-mātra, but they have different meanings. The standard translation of both terms is "consciousness-only" or "mind-only." Several modern researchers object this translation, and the accompanying label of "absolute idealism" or "idealistic monism".[46] A better translation for vijñapti-mātra is representation-only.[47] ^ 1. Something is. 2. It is not. 3. It both is and is not. 4. It neither is nor is not.[web 5][48] ^ The influence of Mahayana Buddhism on other religions and philosophies was not limited to Vedanta. 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__label__wiki	0.774756	0.774756	Join the Communist Party Main CPC site 100 Years of Struggle Why the Communist Party? Communism 101 Class I: The Marxist world outlook Class 2: Capitalism and exploitation Class 3: Political struggle and revolution Party building, mass action topics for Montréal campaign event We are happy to share news about one of the first events in our party’s new campaign ‘Build the Fightback, Join the Communist Party.‘ This past weekend, members and close friends across Montréal joined Elizabeth Rowley for an informative discussion about the political situation internationally and fightback in Canada. Rowley is the leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Ontario Committee) and member of the Central Committee’s Executive. The meeting also heard a report by Robert Luxley about the mass demonstration of over 50,000 workers in the streets of Montréal the day before, confronting the provincial Couillard Liberal’s theft of municipal workers’ pensions. Rowley highlighted the troubling and dangerous developments within the imperialist alliance of NATO which is now openly presenting itself as a global ”strike force” and taking a deliberately belligerent approach in the civil war in the Ukraine. Rowley called for the immediate, unilateral withdrawal of Canada from NATO and applauded the labour and peace forces in Québec which have taken up this rallying call. This key struggle for peace must be more powerful, broad and visible right across the country, she said, and force the Harper government to either act — or get out of the way. She also addressed the continued oppression of the Palestinian peoples. Referring Foreign Minister John Baird’s complicity with the Israeli government’s genocidal war in Gaza, Rowley said that in the view of the Central Committee of the CPC, Canada must make a 180 degree turn and implement a new, independent Canadian foreign policy with the objective of a free Palestine. The Parti Communiste du Québec, which has just purchased a button maker, is rolling off ‘Fire Baird, Free Palestine’ pins as part of its first series from the button press. Rowley also said she was happy to learn about the recent Saturday-closure of the NAOT shoe store on rue Saint-Denis, which has been the target of local Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaigners for several years with a Saturday afternoon information picket. The store has been targeted because the Israeli-based company shoe factories operate with maquiladora-like conditions in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. While the store remains open on other days, rue Saint-Denis (a popular brunch destination for weekend shoppers located in the heart of Montréal) is at its busiest on Saturday. The BDS campaign in Québec has been one in which a broad section of labour and progressive movements have joined, including the Parti Communiste du Québec. Our members are always warmly received in these actions and we need to keep up our work in this area, one PCQ activist said. Party building campaign launched in Montréal Speaking about the party building campaign, which was launched in Montréal at this meeting, Rowley strongly agreed with the assessment of the Central Committee the weekend before that renewed interest was being seen in the Party, along with positive signs in the labour and people’s movements within the fightback, like the People’s Social Forum and the defeat of right-wing business trade unionist Ken Georgetti in the Canadian Labour Congress elections. The necessity to build the fightback was very urgent, she said, agreeing with the campaign’s slogan that brought together that need with the importance of building the Communist Party as a decisive ingredient in the class struggle. Rowley told the meeting that increasing the party’s visibility was key to recruitment. Almost every club of the party in Ontario gained new recruits during the summer provincial election campaign when the party ran campaigns in five cities across the province. She highlighted the example of London, where the campaign of Party candidate Dave McKee helped galvanize friends a and supporters behind his candidacy for office and the Ontario Party’s ‘People’s Alternative’ campaign. Rowley, who was in London just two nights before, said that a new Party club is going to be chartered in that city this fall. Speaking about the major pension protest the day before, Robert Luxley said that the reforms amount to a theft of the workers’ wages and a form of super-exploitation. Contrary to the corporate media’s perspective, municipal workers in Québec do not receive golden pensions and retires are in fact generally living below the poverty line and below most other OECD countries. Luxley, who edits the Parti Communiste du Québec’s quarterly newspaper Clarté, noted that the paper’s latest issue which exposed this un-truth was being well received by working people. Yesterday’s mass protest at Parc Lafontaine and other actions by several trade unions come at the same time as the labour movement’s re-formation of the Common Front for public sector negotiations. After some division in their analysis towards the minority Parti Quebecois government, the labour and people’s movements are clearly re-mobilizing to fight the new Liberal regime which is a welcome sign and must go further, Luxley said. Three new members of the party joined at the end of the meeting. The clubs of the PCQ resolved to continue to bring in more new members, expand the Clarté subscription list, and hold a mass public event celebrating the life of Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara between now and January, when the campaign will come to a close — and the Québec communists will hold their National Congress. In coming blog posts we will profile new and long-term members of the CPC and why they think the Communist Party is important. BDSClartéelizabeth rowleyNATOPalestineQuébecrecruitmentRobert Luxley Canada's Future Is Socialism People’s Voice Newspaper Parti Communiste du Quebec Rebel Youth Magazine International Communist Movement	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line175
__label__cc	0.646044	0.353956	Bookmarks (1365) MorningAngel by the book by DaydreamNightmare Fandoms: The Rookie (TV 2018) Tim Bradford/Lucy Chen Tim Bradford Lucy Chen (The Rookie) Jackson West Angela Lopez pacing what pacing at times unnecessarily soppy somewhat ooc they're all caught up in their fee-fees definitely inaccurate mentions of the inner workings of a police station The Author Regrets Nothing not even the slightly unnecessary dramatics the author has abandoned the very thought of realism and has decided to indulge not compliant with canon It's not avoiding him, it's strategically planning her routine to minimize any possible awkward situations. Everything is fine. (Everything is not fine; to her growing horror, she realizes that what she assumed to be a crush is not passing, even when she barely sees Tim in comparison to before.) (That's a problem for another day.) (Please let it be a problem for another day.) Part 2 of by the book Bookmarked by MorningAngel Struck Down by DaydreamNightmare Tim Bradford & Lucy Chen the rest of the crew completely inaccurate descriptions of hospitals and hospital procedure they're not in a relationship but boy oh boy should they be Pre-Relationship unnecessarily dramatic Probably ooc I Will Go Down With This Ship Tim can say they're not partners until he's blue in the face as far as she's concerned; in the past nine months she's spent more time with him than alone, or in the company of people she'd actually qualify as her friends. She knows where he lives, she knows his lunch order, she knows when he's had too little water to drink and is cranky because of an oncoming headache. She knows that despite his snappish attitude on the ride over, this time it's bad – by the time they made it to the hospital, he was babbling nonsense and his eyes were rolling back in his head. The aftermath by Inamioly Lucy Chen/Tim Bradford Lucy Chen When Tim collapsed, Lucy didn't hesitate. That, however, meant she became infected as well. This is their journey as they wake up at the CDC. Eighteen Minutes, and that's it by celizamur John Nolan (The Rookie) “Should we be that level of worried?” Jackson asked, pointing to Bradford who was currently arguing with a fireman who wouldn’t let him in the building. “They’ll find her.” “But what if Bradford knows something we don’t,” Jackson continued. “He doesn’t know anything; that’s his problem,” Talia added, “he’s panicking because he’s not in control. He’s worried because he can’t see her. He’s angry because he cares about her.” the end of the world (or not) by fabulousfairytales Missing Scene during 2x06 lucy has an epiphany or is it just panic Missing scene of what happened between Tim and Lucy after discoverig the liquor and before finding out it was just a false alarm.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line178
__label__wiki	0.716226	0.716226	hey@inst-int.com inst-int mailing list inst-int on twitter inst-int on facebook A gathering focused on the Art of Interactivity for objects, environments & experiences. Welcome to this INST-INT. Dan Goods During the day, Dan is the “Visual Strategist” for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he develops creative ways of communicating, and work to transform complex concepts into meaningful stories that can be universally understood. His work is seen in public spaces, art museums, and is in outer space. directedplay.com Yael Braha Originally from Rome, Italy, Yael is a creative director at Obscura Digital in San Francisco. Her understanding of art as narrative and dialog has shaped many national and international projects, including interactive installations, interactive media walls, and live-projection mapping shows. yaelbraha.com Klaus Obermaier Klaus is a media-artist, director/choreographer and composer. 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Exploring the potential of unlikely materials, from fishing net to atomized water particles, Echelman combines ancient craft with cutting-edge technology to create her permanent sculpture at the scale of buildings. echelman.com Keeli Shaw Keeli Shaw, Interactive Project Director, has produced interactive projects ranging in scale from mobile applications to 40′ interactive multi-touch walls. At Local Projects, she has overseen the design and development of projects including the BMW/Guggenheim Lab, the Stone Barns iOS application and the recently launched Gallery One suite of interactive media for the Cleveland Museum of Art. localprojects.net Kyle McDonald Kyle is a media artist who works with code, with a background in philosophy and computer science. He creates intricate systems with playful realizations, sharing the source and challenging others to create and contribute. kylemcdonald.net github.com/kylemcdonald Jen Lewin For the last 15 years Jen has been creating large, immersive, interactive art pieces for the public. From interactive sound and light sculptures that inspire people into play, to woven fiber video curtains that reflect movement, or giant, robotic, ethereal moths that dance based on human touch. jenlewinstudio.com Founded in 2013 by artist Christopher Baker and an energetic group of students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The openLab actively contributes to the open source community with projects like ofSketch and the soon-to-be-released Kib.io, a small, mobile projection mapping toolkit. talk.olab.io github.com/olab-io/ofSketch Kinect/Developer Experience Microsoft's Developer Experience & Evangelism team and Kinect for Windows team are working to help creative coders. They want people using Open Source and cross platform solutions to be able to easily and deeply integrate and collaborate with Microsoft’s devices and services. dev.windows.com microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindowsdev Minimaforms Using design as a mode of enquiry, Stephen and Theodore explore architecture and design than can enable new forms of communication. Embracing a generative and behavioral approach the they develop open systems that construct participatory and interactive frameworks that engage the everyday. minimaforms.com Joel Gethin Lewis Interactive artist and designer, Joel Gethin Lewis, is fascinated by the play of light in dark spaces, the use of strong contrasts between light and dark and the cityscapes of Bladerunner. In 2008 he co-founded Hellicar&Lewis with Pete Hellicar. 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__label__wiki	0.761551	0.761551	Comics in other media So are we EVER going to find out who Tears was? By Qusoor, July 20, 2005 in Comics in other media Constanteen PG15 Are you sure you really want to hear about it? Interview with Michael Uslan: SHH!: Will you be involved with the new Swamp Thing movie that Joel Silver has mentioned wanting to do? Uslan: It's a tremendous character, and I would love to see it done right with actual money behind it. That's something that the character has never had. There's never been money behind the productions. It's a cult favorite, and I think that there's an opportunity to mine it and treat it the right way on the right and proper size. http://www.superherohype.com/news/featuresnews.php?id=3367 Joel Silver? Please say it's not so, and please, please say we're not going to get Keanu Reeves as Alec Holland. Of course, maybe his stilted, dialogue delivery style would be perfect for the laboured speech of the muck monster. :D Background on Uslan (from SHH): Even before Warner Brothers found success with Richard Donner's Superman in 1978, Michael Uslan was struggling to get people in Hollywood to take comic books seriously, and twenty years since he dedicated his life to bringing Batman to the big screen, he's delighted to see that the character has been revived and done right in the recent Batman Begins. Between co-producing the Constantine movie with former Warner Bros. VP Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and being linked to movies based on Swamp Thing, Captain Marvel (AKA Shazam!) and Will Eisner's venerable hero The Spirit, Uslan might very well be considered the Godfather of comic book and superhero movies. Part Two of the Uslan interview is now up, in which he talks about "getting" the Constantine character, about which movie needs to be made, and how Michael Keaton is the reason we got Keanu. Tears is Michael Uslan? It would explain alot Demon Chas08 300 Con Artist Location:Greensboro,North Carolina Well,I know I won't be watching Batman '89 ever again. hagren 5 Hence we name our game "Fall...out" how did you come to that? Joel Silver should really not be allowed to be a part of any sort of filmed entertainment ever again. It should be a law or something. He's serving as producer for the Wonder Woman movie. Slickevil 0 Demon Constantine Location:Belmont Matadoor, on the other hand, was a [over-used word]. Would THE GREEN have a place for John Constantine Tears ? TearsInRain 0 Street Magician I certainly pushed for it because it was integral to Moore's reinvention of ST but because Constantine is still a possible future franchise, the powers that be nixed it. But I will say that right now (early draft) there is a character in The Green that die hard fans will recognize as someone cut from the same cloth as JC.. Whether he remains intact in subsequent drafts remains to be seen. Chinese bakery Location:Beijing Make him exactly like the comic book version, don't mention his name (or if you do just call him "John" with no surname) and blackmail someone to cast Paul Bettany in the role and all will be forgiven. Guest spiderlegs SOME will be forgiven... Then parlay what James said into the REAL John Constantine, slap a retroactive "Elseworlds" sticker with the date for the first HELLBLAZER movie in bold white letters on all the remaining copies of that awful film's DVDs, and don't fuck up the subsequent project. Then, all will be forgiven. All your capital are belong to us Location:Oslo, Norway Man, Spider, you sure drive a tough bargain!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line188
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__label__wiki	0.88117	0.88117	INDIA SCRIPTED A SIX-WICKET VICTORY IN THEIR WORLD CUP OPENER AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA French Open 2019 : Federer, Nadal,Wawrinka into quarter finals Chris Gayle most sixes in ICC cricket world cup FRENCH OPEN 2019: NAOMI OSAKA, NOVAK DJOKOVIC, SERENA WILLIAMS CLEAR THE 2ND ROUND CRICKET WORLD CUP 19: ENGLAND STARTED THE WORLD CUP CAMPAIGN WITH 104 RUNS WIN OVER SOUTH AFRICA Kridangan wimbledon Top sports stories, badminton, football, Cricket, Cycling & tennis latest updates Despite Defiant Bangla Pushing Hard, India Enter the Semifinals of CWC 2015 March 22, 2015 R K Gupta 0 Comments Bangladesh Cricket, Cricket, Cricket World Cup, ICC, indian cricket, Indian Sport News MS Dhoni had a good toss to win against Bangladesh as Indian openers began with a 75-run first wicket stand. And though star batsman Virat Kohli fell cheaply after Shikhar Dhawan’s wicket, India still had Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja, who ensured that their team crossed the psychological 300+ mark. Towering among them was Rohit Sharma, whose 126-ball 137 was the cornerstone of India’s batting. His 122-run partnership with Suresh Raina blew new life in India’s batting after the total had only reached 99/2 after 25 overs with Bangladesh bowlers and fielders giving nothing away. From there, reaching 302/6 was possible by a late push by the Indian middle order in which Raina played an important role. Even in the face of a 303-run victory target, Bangladesh began bravely to put on 33 for the first wicket with Tamim Iqbal in murderous form but they got unlucky to lose both openers off successive deliveries. And when, Bangladesh’s hero of several past matches, Mahmudullah also fell cheaply, the writing on the wall became clear. In the end the Bangla innings folded after the 45th over for 193 giving india a 109-run victory. For India, it was also a remarkable achievement to bowl out their opponents for the seventh straight match of the CWC 2015. Rohit Sharma began with a first-ball four to set the tone of India’s batting in CWC 2015’s second quarterfinal. However, after reaching 51/0 in 10 overs, India slowed down and could only add 48 runs in the next 15 overs during which they lost Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli. Dhawan went in the 17th over, when he charged down the track to a floater from Shakib-Al-Hasan and as he missed the flight, Musfiquar Rahim stumped him. After making just 3 runs off 8 balls, Kohli was consumed by Rubel Hossain in the 18th over, when he slashed at a wide delivery and the outside edge was taken by the keeper. But Rohit Sharma held on to add 36 runs for the third wicket with Ajinkya Rahane, who too fell to a soft dismissal. 115/3 in the 28th over was not encouraging at all. Bangladesh sensed their chances and looked for ways to throttle India at that point. Suresh Raina had joined Rohit Sharma who was not out on 56. Raina was fresh from his match-winning century in the match against Zimbabwe and he went about playing business-like cricket with Rohit. These two collected runs by shrewd placements interspersed with boundaries when possible and shunned all risky and lofted shots for a while. Raina hit his first six in the 37th over from Shakib-Al-Hasan and after that tempo of scoring picked up. India crossed 200 in the 40th over and prospects of another 100 runs brightened. Raina reached his fifty in the 41st over and in the 42nd; Rohit completed his maiden World Cup century. In 44th over, the Raina-Rohit partnetship was broken, when Raina attempted a mighty heave off Mashrafe Mortaza and ended up lobbing the ball over the keeper’s head. Dhoni came in but he allowed Rohit Sharma to take the bulk of the strike. With the century already completed, Rohit went full blast and added 36 with Dhoni for the fifth wicket in which Dhoni’s contribution was just 3 runs. Rohit finally fell for 137 off 126 balls and Dhoni followed him soon afterwards. However, Ravindra Jadeja came up with a 10-ball 23 run cameo that took India past 300. Bangladesh began slowly but in the fourth over, Tamim Iqbal belted Mohammad Shami for three boundaries. Just when a Bangladeshi assault looked imminent, Umesh Yadav extracted an edge from Iqbal that the diving Dhoni picked low to his left. The batsman was not convinced so he asked for a review. The catch was declared as legitimate. Of the next delivery, Imrul Kayes was run out in a sad mix-up with Soumya Sarkar. After a 40-run promising partnership with Sarkar, Bangladesh’s star batsman Mahmullah was brilliantly caught by Shikhar Dhawan on the ropes as the fielder had to juggle before scooping the ball twice to make sure that he held the catch inside the ropes. From 73/3, Bangladesh were reduced to 104/5 in the 29th over. Musfiqur Rahim, Shabbir Rahman and Nasir Hossain did their best to lend respectability to the Bangla score but their victory was out of question even when the seventh wicket produced 50 runs. The last four Bangla wicket could add just 4 runs as their innings came to an end for 193 after 45 overs. India won the match by 109 runs and bowled out their opponents for the seventh consecutive match of the World Cup. From Melbourne, India go to Sydney for the March 26 semifinal with Australia, who defeated Pakistan in the third quarterfinal on Friday. The story of that match will soon appear in these pages. R K Gupta Mr. RK Gupta has been a prolific Kridangan writer on major international sport-events for last two years. Basically a Mechanical Engineer and Administrative Management Post Graduate, Mr. Gupta took to blog-writing as a hobby after his retirement in 2011. 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__label__wiki	0.560872	0.560872	کیمیای هنر 2019, 7(29): 20-42 Back to browse issues page Body (Non-) Presentation in Representing the Body:The Ideological Body in The Paintings of the School of Islamic Art and Thought (Hozeh Honari (1979-1992) Amir Nasri, Bahareh Saeedzadeh Art University of Tehran The 1979 religious ideological revolution of Iran brought about a double stance towards the body and its pictorial representations, as to drawing a schism between the physiological and the cultural aspects of the body. Studying this schism is important particularly due to its significance in figuring out the features and functions of what in this article will be called “the ideological body”. Based on Hans Belting’s image trilogy and his concept of the “medium” in it, the present paper aims to investigate the schism between the natural and the cultural body as observable in the ideological body in the context of the Iranian contemporary visual culture. It is shown that this schism appears to be emanating from a dual behavior of pictorial mediality (as introduced by Belting), where the two bipolar limits of the mediality continuum herewithin called the “exogenous” vs. “endogenous” mediality come into a conflict. Through this conflict, the cultural [aspect of the] body which in pictorial terms will be defined to be chiefly the creation of exogenous mediality (i. e., the Shiite ideology’s image-making apparatus) receives glorified representations at the cost of the denial and negation or “(non-)presentation” of the physiological [aspect of the] body produced mainly by the endogenous mediality (i. e., the immediate imaging of a “self”/ an individual without the intrusion of any “other”). This schismatic bodily glorification through negation in the post-revolutionary Iranian visual culture is shown to be the most fundamental definitive characteristic of “the ideological body” the features and functions of which will be investigated in this paper in view of the paintings of the School of Islamic Art and Thought (Hozeh Honari (1979-1992)). Keywords: Hans Belting’s image trilogy, ideological body, Iranian contemporaryvisual culture, Hozeh Honari paintings, exogenous vs. endogenous mediality Received: 2019/07/23 \| Accepted: 2019/07/23 \| Published: 2019/07/23 Nasri A, Saeedzadeh B. Body (Non-) Presentation in Representing the Body:The Ideological Body in The Paintings of the School of Islamic Art and Thought (Hozeh Honari (1979-1992). کیمیای هنر. 2019; 7 (29) :20-42 URL: http://kimiahonar.ir/article-1-1419-en.html	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line212
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__label__wiki	0.823524	0.823524	LITCHFIELD COUNTY SPORTS Timothy W. Gaffney John Nestor Patrick Tiscia John Torsiello Falls Village Housatonic Lewis Mills Nonnewaug Shepaug Wamogo Follow LCS: Another failed upset bid by UConn POSTED January, 18, 2020, BY Patrick Tiscia Stunning rally pushes Nonnewaug past Northwestern POSTED January, 14, 2020, BY Rick Wilson TJ Calabrese (30) leads Raiders to 59-43 win over visiting Wolcott. POSTED January, 14, 2020, BY Timothy W. Gaffney Story Detail Watertown defense up to the task in 18-13 win over Raiders. BY Timothy W. Gaffney Twitter: @TimothyGaffney Torrington's Phil Bresson returns an interception 42-yards for a touchdown in the Raiders 18-13 loss to Watertown on Thanksgiving morning. The Raiders defense accounted for all the teams points on a day when the Indians defense rose to the occasion in a huge way. WATERTOWN: Call it a shocker, call one of the biggest upsets in a while in this storied rivalry that spans 46 seasons. When the dust cleared on a beautiful Thanksgiving morning, the Watertown Indians had beaten the Torrington Red Raiders by a 18-13 score because of one thing. They simple played a far superior physical game against a team that had been doing just that to their opponents almost all season. Think about it. The Raiders came into the game as the highest scoring team in the entire State of Connecticut and had arguable one of the best in the state at running back in Brenden Lytton, who had gained 2333 yards coming in. Football is often won by the skill players like Lytton or by a deep pass or a great punt return that turns the tide. On Thursday morning, the Indians won the biggest battle of them all; the one in the trenches. It’s an old cliché but a great one. Games are often won on the line of scrimmage. “This one is on me.” Raiders coach Dan Dunaj said. “Watertown played harder than we did. They physically beat us up. I didn’t have the team ready to play today.” The Watertown defense held the high powered Raiders running attack to just 131 rushing yards. They held Lytton to a very pedestrian 120 yards on 31 carries. Joan Toribio, who needed just 58 yards to reach 1000 in his sophomore year, was held to just four, yes I said four, yards on seven carries. The Raiders forced a punt on the games first drive after one Indians first down and started one of their patented long, time consuming drives that featured 11 straight hand-offs to Lytton. An almost seven-minute drive came up empty though, as a holding penalty put Torrington in a position they don’t like to be in, an eventual third and seventeen. Watertown held for the first of two times in the first half and pulled a bit of trickery to keep a drive going which resulted in the games first points. On fourth and six from their own 49, punter Steve Niele pulled the ball down and took off for 28-yards and a first down deep in Raiders territory. Senior running back Anthony Avoletta would score the first of his three touchdowns on the day when he went in from four yards out with three minutes gone on the second quarter. Late in the second quarter, Torrington started another long drive with hopes of tying things up before the half. A 12-play drive ended with a Lytton fumble on the Watertown 20-yard line and the home team went into the half with all the momentum and a 6-0 lead. “We had just played one of our best first half’s of the season.” Watertown head coach Mike Veronneau said. “I told them to keep up the intensity in the second half and we would be fine.” Things started just fine for the Indians, who recovered an onside kick (a Torrington weapon all season) and went to work from their own 48-yard line. On third and seven though, Indian quarterback Andrew Biello threw a pass over the middle that was picked of by Lytton and returned 68-yards for a touchdown. “Lytton made a great read on that play.” Veronneau said. “He came all the way from the other side of the field to make the play.” PJ Kilmartin split the uprights for a 7-6 lead and it appeared the Raiders had awakened from their early game slumber. Avoletta had other plans though, keeping the momentum from completely turning by breaking away on a 59-yard scoring run up the middle on the third play after the Lytton pick-six. Just like that, the Indians were back in control. The Watertown defense continued to do one thing very well with Lytton; they never allowed him to get into an open space for very long. On the interception return, fans saw what Lytton did so well in his amazing 19 games as a starting back and safety. In the open field, forget taking him down without a fight, Lytton weaved his way to that score, but the Indians never allowed him to break anything over 13-yards all morning. It was the Torrington defense that was doing their best to keep the team in the game and a 42-yard interception return for a score by Phil Bresson on Watertown’s next possession gave the visitors the lead back at 13-12. For a game that started slow on the scoreboard, the points flowed in the third quarter and on the home teams next drive, the game winning points were scored. It took just five plays and when Avoletta took off for his third score, this one from 40-yards out, the lead was 18-13 and the rest was left to the Indians defense. As the fourth quarter started, the Raiders got the ball on their own 41 with twelve minutes left in their season and 59 yards between them and a go-ahead score. Torrington drove the ball eight plays and 49 of those yards and had a first and goal from the Indians 10-yard line. A Lytton run for three was followed by perhaps the defensive play of the day for the home team. Linebacker Ryan Milo, who played a tremendous game against the run, dropped Lytton for a three-yard loss back to the ten. After an incomplete pass brought up fourth down, a Bresson pass to Lytton in the corner of the end zone was overthrown and the ball went back to the home team, who were able to gain three first downs and run out the clock. Torrington finishes with their second consecutive 7-3 season while the Indians end 2011 with a 4-6 mark. For more from Timothy W. Gaffney click here © 2020 Copyright Litchfield County Sports. All Rights Reserved. Web site by	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line229
__label__wiki	0.567785	0.567785	Join the I Write Video (Repost) A year ago, YA science fiction writer Imran Siddiq took submissions for the empowering and evocative "I am a Writer" video. Its launch connected writers across the globe. Now, it's your chance to join the "I Write" video. If you're not a writer, you can still be take part. Submissions are open to editors, cover designers, formatters, and proofreaders. As Imran says... WE ALL PLAY A PART IN CREATING STORIES. Read the guidelines. Submit by August 31, 2013. Email the video to flickimp@gmail.com. Join the "I Write" video! Imran on Twitter The wilderness has a way of dealing with your ego... This past Saturday, a night hike by myself. Started at 10 PM, back down at dawn. Glow worm! There were 6 miles of trail and 2 of bushwhack and 3,200 ft of elevation gain. A coral snake I didn't quite step on. Javelina and deer and tarantulas and red-spotted tree frogs and something with great big shiny-reflective yellow eyes at the top of the peak from which I was able to send a text to my check-in: In a bit of a pickle, er, won't you please call 911 when you wake and haven't heard from me. Hoping I'll be okay. Also, a cloud that decided to descend on the peak just as I was deciding to try to scramble back down from where I'd climbed up. Three points of contact. It was that steep. Shitty footing. Couldn't see more than 2 yards ahead with the spot light on once the cloud settled in. And all because I was too stubborn (and stupid) to turn around at the End of Trail sign. Too wanting to get lost, maybe. Too longing to be consumed. I learned some things about myself. So that's good. And it was beautiful. The lower part of that canyon is something made of magic, for sure. The upper part, too, is crisscrossed by game trails, mice, rabbits, garter snakes, shin dagger, grasses, ocotillo, oh! and then there was a lone alligator jumper -- the world all so scrubby and wonderful. It's just wise not to be too stubborn out there. The wilderness has a way of dealing with your ego. Like the climbers' saying, Gravity has a way of dealing with those who repeatedly defy it. In the moonlight, washed milky by humid, dense clouds, I lost the sound of the city for the calls of the poorwills and other nightjars and crickets and owls. And sometimes, for timeless moments, I lost my own sounds and my own human thoughts. Good. Good to be lost that way. But better not to do it for reasons that tempt the desert. Never tempt the desert. It will readily remind you who's bigger, who's been here much, much longer, and who will be here still when no one remembers you or your species, when even those scars your species left behind are too old for naming. The wilderness has a way of dealing with your ego....	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line232
__label__wiki	0.648834	0.648834	Please enter a search term to begin your search. Grigoriev Institute for medical Radiology NAMS of Ukraine Main address: Pushkinska str., 82 61024 Kharkiv, Ukraine Tel: (057) 725-50-58 , (057) 725-50-50 , E-mail: medradiologia@amnu.gov.ua Ukrainian Journal of Radiology Home » Institute The Institute was founded in 1920 according to the Decree of the Soviet of People's Commissars as All-Ukrainian X-ray Academy. In 1925 it was named Ukrainian X-ray Diagnostic Institute, which in 1955 was reorganized as Kharkiv Research Institute for Medical Radiology. Its main scientific problem was “Scientific basis of medical radiology”. Krasnoselskyi Mykola V. Director of the Institute. Doctor of Science (Medicine). Professor Phone: (057) 725-50-11, Fax: (057) 725-50-72, E-mail: medrad20@ukr.net Main fields of work. Research work. The hospital. Expertise activity. International co-operation. Украинкий Русский English The scientific conference with the international participation, dedicated to the Science Day, «MEDICAL SCIENCE AND CLINICAL PRACTICE - 2016» We are proud to announce the annual scientific conference of young scientists with the international participation, dedicated to the Day of Science in Ukraine. The conference will be held on 20th of May, 2016 and hosted by L.T. Malaya National Therapy Institute, NAMS of Ukraine together with Grigoriev Institute for medical Radiology, NAMS of Ukraine. The leading topic of conference is prophylaxis of the non-infectious disease in different branched of medicine. Since 1993 the Institute became the founder and publisher of "Ukrainian Journal of Radiology”: Information for authors. Requirements for Manuscripts submitted to the «Ukrainian Journal of Radiology» Journal Archive>> Photo ArchiveWatch Archive S. P. Grigorjev © 2010 State Institution Grigoriev Istitute for Medical Radiology	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line234
__label__wiki	0.599365	0.599365	ALPS Makes its First Trip to the Adoption Center ALPS Advisors has adopted the $75 million Activa Value Fund, merging the Wellington Management-subadvised offering into a newly created product of ALPS' Financial Investors Trust. ALPS executives said the Activa deal is the first of what would be "a number of fund adoptions" for the Denver firm. An ALPS representative was not immediately available for further comment. Denver, CO�September 2, 2009�ALPS Advisors, Inc. (ALPS), a leading provider of advisory solutions to the investment management industry, today announced the adoption of the Activa Value Fund. Shareholders have approved the replacement of Activa Asset Management, the fund�s previous adviser, with ALPS Advisors, Inc. Wellington Management Company, LLP, Activa Value Fund�s sub-adviser, will continue to manage the investment portfolio. The approximate $75 million fund�the successor to the Amway Mutual Fund launched in 1971�has been merged into a newly created offering of the ALPS-sponsored Financial Investors Trust. �Fund adoptions�, unlike fund closings or liquidations, allow a sub-scale fund with a good track record to find new life with an acquiring asset manager. The ALPS adoption of the Activa Value Fund will provide investors continued access to Wellington Management�s �Value Intersection� investment approach. �Our mission at ALPS is to fill niche investment segments with distinctive solutions, and I can�t imagine a more ideal fit to that strategy than Wellington Management�s �Value Intersection� approach,� said Corey Dillon, Vice President and Director of Institutional Advisory Services for ALPS Advisors, Inc. �Having a top-notch manager like Wellington Management running such an important investment space gives us an impressive edge in the marketplace.� Activa Value Fund�s portfolio manager, Mammen Chally, CFA, will maintain his role for ALPS. Mr. Chally is a member of Wellington Management�s Intersection team and manages the Activa Value Fund by using a blend of quantitative and fundamental analysis. Wellington Management�s proprietary methodology blends the advantages of quantitative and fundamental analysis, allowing the portfolio manager room to adapt to market conditions while remaining consistent on style and results. Fund Adoptions The fund represents the first of what ALPS believes will be a number of fund adoptions for its Financial Investors Trust. The dramatic drop in asset values from the market�s peak in 2008 has forced many asset managers and mutual fund companies to reevaluate product lineups and many are choosing to consolidate their smaller, often unprofitable, offerings. The process is highly attractive for a progressive firm like ALPS as it can adopt specific funds to plug specific spaces without having to buy an entire complex. �A key strategy for us going forward will be adopting products in areas we�re not already managing and relying on our distribution platform to build assets,� says Dillon. �The Activa Value Fund is a perfect example of the kind of quality offering we�re looking to add to our investment lineup." The Activa Value Fund is being offered in two share classes covering institutional and retail audiences and will be available on most mutual fund platforms and through financial intermediaries. Shareholders who have received or may receive profit sharing bonuses from Amway Global will continue to have a portion of their profit sharing invested in Activa Value Fund and employees of Amway Global will continue to have the option to invest their retirement assets in the Value Fund. An investor should consider investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses carefully before investing. The Prospectus contains this and other information. For more complete information about the Activa Value Fund or to obtain a Prospectus, call (800) 346-2670. Please read the Prospectus. An investment in the Fund involves risk, including loss of principle. About ALPS Advisors, Inc. ALPS Advisors, Inc. � is a Denver-based outsourcing solution for administration, compliance, fund accounting, legal, marketing, tax administration, transfer agency and shareholder services for open-end, closed-end, hedge, and exchange-traded funds. ALPS has approximately $18 billion in client mutual fund assets under administration and ALPS Distributors, Inc. provides distribution services to over $220 billion in client assets, as of June 30, 2009. For more information, visit www.alpsinc.com. ALPS is a registered trademark or trademark of ALPS Fund Services, Inc.� in the United States and other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line236
__label__wiki	0.596926	0.596926	Applications are closed for 2018. The programme is currently undergoing a reorganisation. For students interested in studying GIS at AUT please contact Bradley Case (bradley.case@aut.ac.nz), at the University of Canterbury please contact Ben Adams (benjamin.adams@canterbury.ac.nz), or at Victoria University of Wellington please contact Mairead de Roiste (mairead.deroiste@vuw.ac.nz). Please see the University web pages for semester dates. To apply for the PGDipGIS/MGIS programme, candidates require an undergraduate degree (or approved equivalent - such as via relevant professional experience - ad eundum status), normally with a B/B+ average (PGDipGIS/MGIS respectively) or higher, and show the ability for postgraduate study. Candidates shall also have completed at least two undergraduate courses in GIS, at least one of which should be at 300-level or above. In exceptional circumstances, candidates may be approved by the MGIS Director for entry to the programme without two undergraduate courses in GIS, if they have significant relevant work experience which serves as adequate preparation for the programme. If you do not have these two pre-requisite courses, however, you may want to consider the following options: Geog 205: Introduction to GIS at The University of Canterbury either during Semester 2 (July - October) or the summer Semester (Nov – December) GEOG 215 or GEOG 415: Introduction to Geographical Information Systems and Science (GIS) at Victoria University of Wellington during Trimester 2 (July – October) Geog 324: Advanced GIS at The University of Canterbury during Semester 1 (February-April) Geog 323: Geospatial Analysis in the Social and Environmental Sciences at The University of Canterbury during Semester 2 (July to October) GEOG 315: Advanced Geographical Information Systems and Science (GIS) at Victoria University of Wellington during Trimester 2 (July – October) Please see the local university web pages for more information on the courses itemised above. If time is limited and you do not have a second GIS course as a prerequisite, at the discretion of the director of the MGIS we can provide an alternative online course package that would meet the required prerequisites and would involve approximately 100 hours of work. Students with Domestic Degrees In order for your application to be accepted, you will need to: {note: applications closed for 2018} Complete the application form, provide two letters of reference, and for students not from Canterbury University, Victoria University or Auckland University of Technology, a copy of your academic transcript. For those students who do not have a Canterbury University, Victoria University or AUT degree, please ensure you either send a paper copy of your original transcript, which we will return, or contact the conferring University’s records department and request that they send your transcript through to the director of the programme directly. 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__label__wiki	0.508983	0.508983	Fight ‘Em ‘Til We Can’t A Montana criminal defense blog. Billings Municipal Court Filed under:Misdemeanor Practice,Pretrial,Probation — posted by tc on December 8, 2007 @ 4:55 pm Coming out of hiding to link to three articles on Billings Municipal Court and its supervised probation and pre-trial supervision practices. The first attempts to give a big picture overview. The second focuses on one person who was subjected to the injustice of pretrial supervision for a misdemeanor DUI charge. And the third examines who is making money from the court’s regular practice of requiring citizens to pay for “supervision” for a multitude of misdemeanor offenses. This isn’t the first time this court has received this kind of criticism (see also), and it won’t be the last. Does private probation = filthy lucre? Filed under:District Court,Opinions,Probation — posted by tc on October 17, 2006 @ 7:54 am When you make money from court-ordered supervision and punishment, is there such a thing as a “fair” profit? If so, how much is too much before your profits become unconscionable? In Mountain Peaks Inc. v. Greg Pohle and Adam Flores, decided Sept. 29, 2006 in Billings, MT, a jury awarded Mountain Peaks (MPI) $154,596 in compensatory damages and $30,000 in punitive damages after MPI claimed that “Phole and Flores wrongfully conspired to commit fraud and business interference and breached their duties of good faith and loyalty.” MPI contracts with the city and county to provide probation services, drug testing, electronic monitoring, and anger management classes for people charged and/or convicted of misdemeanors in Yellowstone County Justice Court or Billings Municipal Court. Apparently, Phole and Flores were employees of MPI up until the end of September, 2005, at which point they quit their jobs and immediately started up a competing probation services provider called Community Solutions, Inc. (CSI). On Phole’s and Flores’ last day of work at MPI, Municipal Court Judge Knisely transferred 110 probationers from MPI to CSI, claiming the move was “in the interest of justice and community safety.” A third company, Alternatives, also competes with MPI for probationers from the city and justice courts in Billings. Unlike MPI and CSI, Alternatives is a non-profit organization. MPI had requested up to $453,825 in compensatory damages, an amount it claimed was equivalent to 7 years of lost net profits. That comes out to just under $65,000/year in profit for MPI, and presumably, that’s only the profit it would have made from the clients that CSI took. MPI claimed that prior to the formation of CSI, MPI had 150-160 clients, 90% of them from Municipal Court. That means that CSI took about 2/3 of MPI’s business, meaning that MPI’s annual net profit prior to the formation of CSI must have been closer to $100,000. Perhaps that explains why CSI is claiming it can satisfy the $180,000 judgment and still stay in business. Apparently there’s a lot of money to be made in probation, drug testing, electronic monitoring, and anger management classes. What’s most disturbing about these numbers is that probably 99% of that profit is coming from indigent defendants, many of whom can’t even afford rent, let alone supervision and drug testing fees. It seems to me that those probationers should never have to pay more than the actual cost of their court-ordered “services.” And if they are going to pay anything above cost, it should go back to the taxpayers rather than into the pockets of private individuals. This is especially true with regard to those who are awaiting trial. Yes, a healthy portion of the business CSI and MPI are getting from Billings Municipal Court is coming from court-ordered pre-trial supervision. That means that people who have not been convicted of anything and who have only been accused of a misdemeanor are paying hundreds of dollars a month for the privilege of being out of jail while they await their trial. In the comments on the Billings newspaper’s coverage of the trial, several people noted the large amounts of money involved. Commenter “CSI: Billings” wrote: What is interesting is what is happening behind the scenes in open court before the good Judge Knisely. Virtually no one charged with a misdemeanor escapes pre-trial supervision or misdemeanor probation with one of these companies. Judge Knisely is not a part of the conspiracy! What about the kick backs from these companies to the City Court for “administrative fees”? What about City Court bringing in a million + $$$$ to the city coffers last year in fines? What about Mountain Peaks and CSI Billings making profit off of people who are in trouble and revoking them from probation when they cannot pay their supervision fees? What about the fact that Mountain Peaks (a for profit company) charges $150 a month for pre trial supervision and Alternatives (a non-profit company) charges $50 per month but the Defendant is not given a choice which company to go to by the good judge? Yeah, your right Judge Knisely you are not part of the conspiracy. . . you run it. I have no idea who “CSI: Billings” is or whether his/her facts and figures are precise (except for the $100 difference in pretrial charges, which I can verify is accurate), but he/she certainly raises issues that beg more attention from the defense bar and the public, as well. Crimlaw Newsbits: Woman finds 'Goldilocks' snoring in her son's bed: Judge Susan Watters set bail at $5,000 after rejecting a request that he be released without bail. Public defender Richard Phillips, who made the request, said Mullins had been receiving mental-health counseling. @. - # Bail set for youth held in Huntley arson: Sampson argued that the high bond sought by prosecutors was “disproportionate” to the allegations and “simply more fuel to the emotional fire.” She asked the judge to consider releasing Victoria to the custody of his parents, who attended the hearing, or an aunt who lives in Billings. @. Montana mom kept dead son in car trunk: The body of a toddler found in the trunk of his mother’s car may have been there for months as she drove around town, evaded questions about him and was even arrested, police said. @ Trail rapist resentenced to life: Stearns was represented in court by public defender Carl Jensen, who tried to persuade McKittrick not to impose a life sentence because Stearns is appealing his Ravalli County conviction to the Montana Supreme Court. ⇒ Ex-defender in Hudson now judge: NJ: The former head of the Hudson County Public Defender's Office was expected to be sworn in last night as an Essex County Superior Court judge in a ceremony in Newark. ⇒ Crazy. I can't see anything like this ever happening here... 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__label__cc	0.728769	0.271231	Mr. Scruff and his cartoons DJ and cartoonist Mr Scruff is coming back on May 11! For the third time he will bring you along the most diverse music genres – accompanied by visuals of his illustrations. From soul, house, hip hop, disco, reggae, electro, ska and funk… the Manchester based selector takes you on his musical voyage and plays record treasures like you’ve never heard before! Formerly a part-time fine art student at Sheffield University, Scruff decided to explore his passion in drawings, cartoons and music. See here the results: See you on May 11! za 11 mei Mr Scruff (All Night Long) DJ and cartoonist Mr Scruff is coming back on May 11! For the third time he will bring you along the most diverse music genres - accompanied... More	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line242
__label__wiki	0.601739	0.601739	The Making of Issue 24, Class Fetish … December 23, 2019 / mascara / 0 Comments From Left to Right: Winnie Dunn, Shirley Le, Jo Langdon, Michelle Cahill Photograph: Nicola-Bailey Our Class Fetish issue was generously supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Copyright Agency Limited under an Editing Mentorships for Equality Grant. This support enabled us to generously pay our mentored and guest editors. This project recognises that editorial employment opportunities in established publications are not sufficiently inclusive. The project sets an empowering precedent in partnership and exchange between organisations. We think it offers a model and a rationale for greater diversity within academic institutions, and within affiliated research organisations which have links to independent literary publishing, as well as other non-affiliated literary organisations. As Australia’s settler population continues to expand with newcomers from Asia, Africa and other countries, diversity in the publishing industry workplace and in the literary establishment is long overdue. Structural discrimination arises because there are powerful nodes and coalitions in the industry of ideological rigidity and biopolitics. For those of us who are disenfranchised because our minor heritages and ethnicities are already marginalised, the single strength that we have to bring about change is our voice: self-determined and collective. This is a basic democratic principle. We hope this program will inspire similar initiatives that are progressive and equitable for Australian publications and literary editors from all backgrounds. Class Fetish: the Fiction Longlist judged by Christopher Raja ‘Newcastle’ by Caitlin Doyle Markwick ‘Cunjevoi’ by Caitlin Doyle Markwick ‘The Naming Exercise’ by Ouyang Yu ‘The BBQ’ by Carew ‘Cleansed’ by Oliver Marshall ‘An April Day in March’ by Jordon Conway ‘Splitting out the Bones’ by Jane Downing ‘Bus Driver’ by Tamara Lazaroff ‘Images at Dusk in Seletar Beach’ by Sharmini Elisabeth ‘The Ice Cream Girl’ by Maree Spratt CLASS FETISH Judging Notes – Alice Pung Please note all these winners are in no hierarchy of order. It was too hard to compare such disparate, excellent stories. Spitting out the Bones There is a fine line between slapstick-spoofing of wankers and writing incisive social commentary, and this piece walks the tightrope with rare skill. The metaphor of eating bourbon-tortured tiny birds is exquisitely sickening – a biting remark on both class and fetish. This is an original character-driven horror-story told in such wonderful turns of metaphor and simile, with the artistry of the prose never getting in the way of the plot. An April Day This melancholy story starts off slow, but finds its voice and it is a powerful one, filled with frustrated dreams and unarticulated trauma. The author manages to write about the concrete (the life of a manual labourer, the descriptions of sordid streets and the horrors of school) through the meandering thoughts of an old man clearly still tormented by his childhood. The prose is simple and descriptive, but very moving. The image that lingers in the mind long afterwards is the dog bleeding out in the night, somewhere. Cunjevoi This piece sinks its hooks in at the beginning and doesn’t let go until the final word. It illuminates the plodding pedestrian existence of a minimum wage worker without cranking up the pity notch, by contrasting her external world (sleeping on trains, frying burgers, dealing with supervisors) with her internal world (reading, merging into the ocean, noticing sea creatures). From a technical critique, this is a consummate short story that does so much with character, setting and dialogue, and achieves a triumphant and convincing closure at the end without resorting to cheap gimmicks. The Barbeque What I loved about this intergenerational story was how the author focused on significantly petty details about how a person’s former class habits – for example, buying Coles ice cream on the cheap and thinking that Copenhagen ice cream is a rip off – and how these little details built up to form character and plot. The author has a real knack for dialogue and suburban humour, and the colloquial voice of the young boy is so convincing. The Ice Cream Girl Although this story reads like a chapter of a novel, I chose this piece because of its feisty and entirely convincing young adult voice. This should be a novel, because I want to read more! I loved the unexpected turn of phrase (‘small community of pimples on my forehead’). The author’s metaphors and similes are entirely true to character (ice creams, milkshakes, television commercials, dodgy air conditioning – the things poorer adolescents focus on). She’s got a knack for combining humour and pathos in equal measures, with great skill. The Naming Exercise I have always admired the adventurous and pioneering writing of Ouyang Yu and this entry is no exception. This piece is remarkable because it deals with something unexpected – class stagnation due to race. It’s wryly funny and astute, poking fun at Orientalism, commenting on transgenerational racism, identity, and aging. On being a Working-Class Writer by Sarah Attfield On Being a Working-Class Writer How does a working-class girl from the council estate become a poet? And what’s class got to with it anyway? What does it mean to be a working-class writer? Can I still be a working-class writer now that I work in a university? What do working-class writers write about? Answering these questions requires a story. I became a writer by accident. When I was at school I wanted to be an artist. I loved art – my brother and I were taken to London art galleries quite often when we were growing up. Bus fares were cheap then and the galleries were free. My Dad was always looking for places outside of Walthamstow to take us out at weekends and holidays because my Mum worked night shift and was the breadwinner. Dad was an autodidact – a working-class man who taught himself how to paint and draw. He worked (when he was employed), as a self-employed sign writer and our flat always smelt of paint and turps. Dad died when I was young and Mum was too busy trying to keep us fed and housed, so as soon as I was old enough, I took myself into central London and visited the galleries again. They became my happy places. At school I studied art, but there was no chance that a kid from the council estate was going to become an artist. So I left school and worked in retail. I had always been a reader. We had books in our flat (1) – Dad read spy novels and racy thrillers. Mum never had time to read when we were young, but she told me that when she was a child she loved to curl up with a book, but would get told off for being lazy by her father (a London Transport bus driver). No one in her household had spare hours for reading – everyone had to work. Mum’s schooling was interrupted by WWII, and despite her wish to continue at school and study to be a nurse, she had to leave at 15 and get a job. I didn’t see her read a book until I was in my teens (although she always did the newspaper crossword). She began reading again when a mobile library started visiting our estate. She liked historical romances, especially those set during WWII. Until her eyesight failed in her 80s, she always had a book on the go. As a child I spent many hours in libraries. I’d read anything, which is typical of working-class readers. There was no sense of what might be ‘good’ or ‘worthy’ literature. Any book blurb that looked interesting was added to my pile. My local library had an excellent collection of Caribbean and South Asian literature and I worked my way through everything on the shelves. On a school excursion I saw Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson (2) perform. His work showed me that I could write poems using my voice (I didn’t have to sound like Wordsworth or Tennyson – poets we read at school). This was a life-changing experience and the revelation that a non-posh voice could be valid stayed with me. At my working-class high school in the 1980s we had a visit from poet Carol Ann Duffy (3). None of us knew who she was, but a few from the English class went along to her workshop. This turned out to be another revelation. She knew how to talk to us working-class girls and she told us that our stories mattered. A poet from a poor neighbourhood like ours who understood our lives. It was clear to me from then that poetry was for everyone. This love of poetry and of reading didn’t take me to university though. That was far from my reach. My dream of being an artist faded with the reality of leaving school and I started working full time at Hamley’s of Regent Street(4). I kept on reading (anything); I wrote poems in a notebook and created comical biographical poems for my co-workers between short snatches of time between customers on till roll). I carried on writing poems that I showed no one for years. After leaving Hamley’s to travel with a baby and partner in tow, I carried on writing but never considered publishing my poetry, although I gifted a few friends biographical poems about them. We travelled in our Kombi van around the UK and Europe and then left for Taiwan. I taught English in Taiwan with no qualifications (and likely was responsible for a cohort of Taiwanese kids with Cockney accented English). Eventually I ended up in Australia with my Australian partner and child and we decided to ‘give uni a go’. When choosing what course to apply for I realised that the thing I’d actually always done consistently since I was a child was write poems and stories. My aspirations to be an artist gradually changed into wanting to be a writer, so I enrolled in a creative writing having little idea of what to expect. I’d never been on a university campus, and my understanding of tertiary education was formed through film and TV. I was required to submit a portfolio of writing with my application and I collected up all the things I’d written over the years and typed them up on a library computer (I couldn’t type – this process was excruciating. I was one of the only girls in my high school who didn’t take typing as an elective). I was called in for an interview at the university and told by the interviewer that my work had ‘potential’ – I had no idea what that meant. I was accepted into the course and discovered that what I loved to write about was my experiences of being working class. Of my old home in London, my family, friends and the working-class community that I’d left so far behind in England. My writing was well received by my tutors at uni and they were very encouraging and supportive. The first poems I started to get published in the late 1990s were centred on life on the council estate I grew up on, and by the end of my undergrad degree I had a collection in print (5). I incorporated Cockney songs into some of these early poems and enjoyed performing them to an Australian audience. I read at venues across Sydney and interstate. I even had a spot at at the Sydney Writers’ Festival in 2001. I was starting to make a bit of a name for myself but there were obstacles. I experienced dismissive and patronising comments from some well-established Australian poets. It was at this time that I realised that the gatekeepers of the Australian literary establishment were generally not interested in, or sympathetic towards, working-class poetry. So I started a PhD (6) investigating the lack of working-class representation in contemporary Australian poetry and discovered that working-class poets had been shut out of the literary mainstream. They found their work dismissed as simplistic or didactic. As sociological or overly political. Lacking in literary technique – not enough use of metaphor. Too focused on the everyday, the mundane. I saw it differently. Working-class poetry was full of life. It was about collective experience. There were poems that focused on hardship, poverty, trauma. Life living hand to mouth. Struggle was common. But there was also celebration of community, of working-class culture, and working-class diversity. The poems were often funny and the poets used humour as a survival tool. The language was simple, not simplistic. And metaphor might have been used sparingly, but that was because the poets wanted to represent the reality of their everyday lives – working class life often didn’t have time for metaphor. The poets I talked to at the time had all found it very difficult to get published in mainstream literary journals. Many were very popular in their home towns, and drew large crowds to readings. Some self-published and sold many books on their own. Not many found their work reviewed in literary magazines, and they preferred to read at local events in pubs or worksites rather than literary festivals. Aside from a few notable exceptions, the Australian literary establishment gatekeepers were not interested in working class poetry. Or other working class writing. At this time (2000-2007), they were not interested in class at all, and this was a sentiment shared by academia too. As I started my academic career (as a casual academic for the first ten years), I began a battle with academics to recognise class as significant in Australia. I was told that class wasn’t a ‘thing’ in Australia, and I should leave my British class hang-ups behind. I was accused of having a class chip on my shoulder and asked when I was going to ‘get over the class schtick’. But you can’t ‘get over’ being working class. It’s possible to hide a class background and learn to speak like middle/upper class people. An accumulation of educational and cultural capital can help with the passing. This means a rejection of family, friends, communities though. A class betrayal. Certainly not my intention. My working-class background has shaped me. I learnt how to survive hardship, to make the most of what you have. To always be ready to help others, to stand up for yourself and your community. My mother taught me these values. She kept us fed and clothed and kept the ‘social’ from the door. I watched her stand her ground in the DHSS office when they refused her emergency payments. She saw off bailiffs and loan sharks. She recognised who was at fault – the government, Thatcher in particular and later, all politicians who cared about making themselves richer. My mother looked after her neighbours and when she needed help, they looked after her. When I wrote my first collection of poetry, she was a big feature – a persona based on her was very important to the collection. My working-class background is my old school, work friends, neighbours. It’s the council estate I grew up on, concrete playgrounds where I skinned my knees, the local newsagents where we bought sweets. Pubs I went to as a teenager, the street market, local caffs (cafes). Buses I rode, libraries I trawled. It’s everything. I’m proud of my working-class background. My university education and my academic job has not stopped me from being working class. I am a working-class academic. I am fortunate to now have a continuing position and earn a respectable salary, but that’s where my economic capital ends (no inheritance – my mother lived in a council flat until she died). I accumulated cultural capital as an autodidact before starting university as a mature age student. But I don’t have knowledge of the ‘classics’ like many of my middle-class colleagues. Middle-class pursuits are mostly not for me. If there is a working-class play being performed I might go see it, but I’m not interested in bourgeois theatre productions. Films are more my thing – and my love for independent, global art house cinema started off as a working-class teenager looking for cheap entertainment in central London after school (art house cinemas offered good concessions). If I go to a pub, I like one that sells Carlton Draught rather than micro-brewery craft beers. I resent paying more than $5 for a glass of wine that I don’t even like. I watch TV – lots of it. And I don’t have ‘guilty pleasures’. If I watch Love Island, it’s because I like it, not because I’m watching it ironically. Things are changing. Not necessarily in the world of literary journals in Australia, but more widely. People are interested in class again (7). After all the years of working-class academics and writers ‘banging on’ about class, people are starting to listen. There is a growing volume of Australian fiction set in working-class communities. Books such as Peter Polities’ Down the Hume (2017), and The Pillars (2019) Luke Carman’s An Elegant Young Man (2013), Felicity Castagna’s The Incredible Here and Now (2013), Omar Musa’s Here Come the Dogs (2014), Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s The Lebs (2018), Tamar Chnorhokian’s The Diet Starts Monday (2014), Claire G. Coleman’s Terra Nullius (2016), Sue Williams’ Live and Let Fry: A Rusty Bore Mystery (2018) and Enza Gandolfo’s The Bridge (2018) show the ways in which class intersects with race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and religion. Melissa Lucashenko’s Too Much Lip won the 2019 Miles Franklin award. The 2020 Sydney Festival includes Anthem – a play centred on working class characters written by Christos Tsiolkas, Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius and Melissa Reeves. And I have a contract from a publisher to write an academic book on Australian working-class literature. It’s hard to crack the literary journals though and in Australia there still isn’t a lot of working-class poetry appearing. It isn’t clear why this is the case, and I’ll be investigating this as part of my new research project. The working-class poets I included in my PhD, have mostly stopped writing. Cathy Young, from South Australia had one book published in 2004, but nothing since. Her partner and fellow poet Martin R. Johnson published three collections, but also stopped publishing in 2004. One of the poets who was most prolific at the time was Geoff Goodfellow (also from SA). Goodfellow last published a book in 2014, with a self-curated collection of previously published poems. He hasn’t published any new works since 2012. While I haven’t had a chance to catch up with the poets yet to ask why, it is clear that they were rarely published in Australian literary journals. Young and Johnson concentrated their efforts into publishing locally, and Goodfellow focused on publishing collections with small sympathetic presses such as Vulgar Press (now defunct) and SA Wakefield Press. Most of the other poets in my PhD published sporadically and then disappeared. A quick survey of 2019 issues of some Australian literary journals reveals some working class poetry. Mykaela Saunders in Cordite with ‘For Cops Who Stalk Children on Houso Estates’ (8). Her poem shows how class intersects with race and gender. In ‘Those Days in the Dirt’ (9) from the same issue of Cordite – Tom Lewin’s narrator reminisces about his days as a manual labourer and the company and camaraderie found among working class men. There are some poems written about working class grandfathers, and there is also some class fetish. Ian C Smith’s ‘Sanctuary’ paints a picture of a homeless man, but the man is observed from a distance – he could be local wildlife. I haven’t come across much in Overland or Meanjin etc lately, but I need to keep digging. Melbourne poet Pi. O. has published a new epic 500 page poem, Heide with Giramondo. Pi. O.’s work has always focussed on working class life, but his obscurity means he is not often featured in the literary mainstream. So why is working-class experience mostly absent from contemporary Australian literature? What are the reasons for the middle-class domination of the literary scenes? What is the potential impact of the lack of representation? How can this lack of representation be addressed? Working-class literature is important, not just because it is the literature of marginalized people, but also because it includes a diverse array of literary styles, techniques and forms. At the same time, there are some commonalities that can be identified and which mark it as belonging to its own specific genre (10). Working-class literature is therefore a rich source of writing and there are various ways that working-class literature can be analysed. This analysis can also be framed around a series of questions; how does working-class writing engage with the working-class vernacular? Is there a sense of working-class culture that runs through the works? How does this manifest? Does work (or unemployment) feature in working-class writing? How is working-class literature political? Are politics explicit in the works or embedded in representations of the everyday for working-class people? And is the diversity of the working class and working-class experience represented? I’ve been asking these questions for a long time, and every time I encounter some working-class writing, I find myself asking them all again. I have some answers. Working-class experience is missing from contemporary Australian literature because the gatekeepers have been middle class and not interested in working-class life. This middle-class domination is enabled due to structural privileges. Middle-class people are more likely to have university degrees than their working-class counterparts, and are more likely to have degrees in the arts, and to seek work in the creative industries. A lack of representation means that working-class people are not seeing their stories told – this reads as a cultural signifier that working-class experience is not important nor a worthy subject for literature, especially poetry. To address this lack of representation requires more working-class background people in gatekeeper roles, and a willingness on the part of middle-class editors to publish working-class writing. To answer the questions that frame analysis of working-class writing is easy. Working-class writing employs a working-class vernacular, and poets use the colour of slang and dialect, and the rhythms of everyday speech in their work. Various elements of working-class culture run through the poetry – this includes working-class pastimes, food, popular culture and the more general culture of collectivism. Working-class poets write about work in all of its forms; manual labour, routine white-collar work. They write about precarity, about bastard bosses, unemployment, fighting Centrelink, union power and the camaraderie of work mates. Politics is embedded in working-class writing. If a poet comes from a working-class background and writes from a working-class perspective, then the poems are inherently political because they are published against the odds. And working-class writing reflects the diversity of working-class people and challenges the media representations of working-class people as white, blue collar male workers. What would I like to see? Poetry that engages with the working-class everyday. This is poetry that doesn’t hold back, that reveals struggle, but also the positive aspects of working-class life. Writing about struggle works best when it’s been experienced first-hand, otherwise it easily turns into poverty porn. The working-class poetry I would like see is written by poets who understand how class works and how it intersects with race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, ability. This is working-class life. It is diverse. Working class people are not a homogenous group. But there are shared understandings, commonalties such as bosses who exploit, economic insecurity, the fight for decent housing, education, health care. There are differences too – white working-class people experience class discrimination, but not racism. Working-class women often find themselves on the receiving end of sexual harassment at work (and can feel powerless to report). LGBTIQ+ working-class people can feel marginalised in some working-class communities. Working-class disabled people face daily struggles due to expenses involved in accessibility. I want to see all of this in the poetry that is published in Australia. Poetry written, by, for and about working-class people. Class is in vogue again, and hopefully this interest in academic work, memoir and commentary will spill over into poetry and emerging working-class poets will feel inclined to submit their work and show through poetry the struggles faced when working class. If anyone had told that girl from the council estate that one day she would be an academic and a published poet she probably would have laughed. The more that working-class poetry is published, the more likely it is that working-class young people will see literature and art as real possibilities and worth pursuing. And so, I remain optimistic. 1. bell hooks points to the importance of books in working-class households as paving the way for education and the potential transformation that comes with formal education, hooks, b. (2010) Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, New York, Routledge, p 127 2. http://www.lintonkwesijohnson.com/linton-kwesi-johnson/ 3. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/carol-ann-duffy 4. Hamley’s is a very famous toy shop in Central London. 5. The thesis is available online: https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/2100/615/2/02whole.pdf 6. Hope in Hell (2002), published by Five Islands Press 7. For a good introduction to Working-Class Studies, see Linkon, S. L., Russo, J. (2005) New Working-Class Studies, Ithaca, Cornell University Press. For books on working-class literature see, Zandy J. (1990) (ed.) Calling Home: Working-Class Women’s Writings, an Anthology, Rutgers University Press and Fitzgerald, A., Lauter, P. (2001) (eds), Literature, Class and Culture: An Anthology, New York, Longman, Goodridge, J., Keegan, B. (2017) A History of British Working Class Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Coles, N., Zandy, J. (2006) American Working-Class Literature: An Anthology, Oxford, Oxford University Press. 8. http://cordite.org.au/poetry/peach/those-days-in-the-dirt/ 9. http://cordite.org.au/poetry/peach/for-cops-who-stalk-children-on-houso-estates/ 10. Zandy J. (1990) (ed.) Calling Home: Working-Class Women’s Writings, an Anthology, Rutgers University Press SARAH ATTFIELD is a poet from a working-class background. Her writing focuses on the lived experiences of working-class people (both in London, where she grew up and in Australia where she lives). She teaches creative writing in the School of Communication at UTS. She is the co-editor of the Journal of Working-Class Studies. Jack Stanton reviews Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas by Christos Tsiolkas Allen and Unwin Reviewed by JACK STANTON Damascus seems to be a departure for Christos Tsiolkas. The previous novels of the celebrated Melbourne writer mostly inhabit contemporary Australia and Europe. But that being said, Damascus, as the title suggests, travels back to the life of Saul of Tarsus, or Paul the Apostle, a wrathful persecutor of Christ’s early disciples in Jerusalem who was visited by a vision of Jesus on the road to Damascus. He seems to be playing a different tune from the modern day thematics of, say, Barracuda, his last novel-length offering, which was published in 2013 and told the story of Daniel Kelly, an Ian Thorpe-tier swimmer who crumbled under the immense pressure of national pride, a book that, on the surface, bore all the scars of a potboiler. Indeed I had felt reservations about the book until I read Julieanne Lamond’s essay “The Australian Face: Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas” in Sydney Review of Books. In the review, a mostly positive, although equally measured by its long-form documentation of the complexities and shortcomings of Tsiolkas’s style, claimed that he is an intelligent writer operating in a literary space which is, in one sense, the holy grail for novelists: he writes good books that also sell. In another sense, he has abrogated the role of the capital-L Literary writer to dance with the dreaded middlebrow. Yet again, the trenches are drawn between literariness and the ‘dreaded middlebrow’. For me, however, this debate has a short half-life; very soon it begins to feel more like monkeys throwing poo at one another than serious, meaningful debate. But this interpretation is, as I mentioned earlier, only on the surface. If you look a little closer, Barracuda is arguably the finest example of Tsiolkas’s ability as a writer to seemingly effortlessly transgress those fluid boundaries between “literary/important” and “readable/entertaining” fiction. The split between ‘serious’ and ‘entertaining’ fiction is merely a placeholder, a crude representation of certain prejudices that many readers continue to contest and debunk. I, too, treat any kind of literary hierarchy with grave scepticism. Tsiolkas’s work is a perfect example. He has always managed to elude neat classification. His novels are literary, yes, full of complex and oftentimes controversial ideas, but also highly readable, never drawing attention to their own cleverness. Dr Lamond, however, praises Tsiolkas’s ability to be an unaffected provocateur. His provocations are deliberate and important. He provokes to bring things that are cast out of the national discussion back into the discussion: class, racism, drugs, desire. Seen through this lens, Damascus appears less provocative than his earlier work. His enfant terrible status, initially bestowed with his first book, Loaded, which depicted a gay Greek Australian adolescent high on free drugs and hooking-up with self-hating homosexuals, seemed left behind, exchanged by a novelist who wanted to confront broader social and cultural problems. Maybe the terrifyingly candid child had grown up, exchanging shock and squalor for mature, wide-appealing topics. It is also more universal—perhaps, global—than the strict Australianness of his previous novels, even Dead Europe. Damascus depicts all the signatures of Tsiolkas’s work—grotesqueness and obscenity, characters grappling with their own sense of shame, the pull of opposing ideological forces, and an underlying element of satyrical hedonism—but places them in an historical arena that resonates globally, as the epicentre of Christianity’s development into the world’s overarching system of belief. He achieves this by telling the story mostly through Saint Paul, is a classic Tsiolkas anti-hero. When we meet Saint Paul, he uses his Hebrew name, Saul, and is Christ-hating executioner who prides himself on the brutal capital punishment of heretics and disobedient slaves. By the closing pages, however, Saul has transformed into a wise, loving apostle after famously being visited by the resurrected Jesus. This major story arc intertwines with a number of first-person accounts of various secondary characters who inhabit the same, de-stabilised and evolving world. But perhaps the most interesting element of Tsiolkas’s novel is his own troubled relationship to its subject matter. He has always explored queer identities and the societies that surround them. While Damascus shows sodomites gallivanting from slave-boy to slave-boy, the idea of homosexuality, as a way of being, or perhaps I should say as an independent sexual identity, remains unspoken—an amorphous, shameful concept. As an adolescent, Tsiolkas was estranged by the famous scriptures against homosexuality in Saint Paul’s first letter to Corinthians. In the author’s note, he writes, “I could not reconcile my Christian faith with the imperative to honour my own sexuality and independence, and so I became a non-believer.” Anyone with migrant parents who have strong ties to their faith will understand that abandoning belief is no light matter. The passage in question is 1 Corinthians, 6, 9-10, reproduced here from the NIV Bible: Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolators nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men (10) nor thieves nor the greedy nor the drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. Digging a little deeper into the original greek reveals that the phrase “men who have sex with men” derives from the word arsenokoitai, ‘arsen’ meaning man’ and ‘koitai’ meaning ‘bed’. So literally, ‘men who bed with men’. It becomes clear, then, that the dominance of protagonists in a crisis of identity, torn between the unreconcilable forces of two conflicting ideologies, mirrors Tsiolkas’s own journey of self-discovery. Seen this way, Damascus is hardly a departure at all; rather, it’s an historical expansion of the prevailing themes of pretty much all his fiction, and the result is an intensely readable journey through the ancient world. Tsiolkas’s Roman Empire is a hellish place, a Hiernonymous Borsch painting come to life, violent, merciless, and cruel—ripe territory for the bloom of Christianity’s teachings. The prologue begins with Saul observing a woman accused of adultery being stoned to death, repeating Jesus’s famous line, “If you are without sin, then case your stone.” From there, we descend into a goulash of blood, guts, and debauchery: unwanted daughters are murdered upon birth; slaves and soldiers dismember one another for sport in the gladiator arena; and I think immediately of the colourless landscape of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road as a kind of stylistic brother to Damascus’s world of gore and blood-thirst. Nearly every page involves the murder, torture, or sexual violations of characters, either as a backdrop or within the immediate drama. In this way, it is, arguably, a true narrativising of the Old Testament. One chapter opens with a many-page, stream-of-consciousness sentence from the perspective of a peripheral character, Vrasas, “Drinking the blood that is pouring over us and it froths and spills from our mouths . . . we will not allow ourselves to spit to waste even a drop of this life for it would be ill-fortuned it would betray the sun the fire The God.” Christianity is thus seen as a revolutionary break from the values of a violent and chaotic world that seemed to have reached a dead-end (literally and figuratively). “Their foul gods know lust and greet and torture and death but they do not know justice,” Tsiolkas writes. “Our God gives us truth . . . a truth that holds for everyone, whether they be master or slave, rich or poor, man or woman, stranger or Jew.” For contemporary readers, Tsiolkas’s novel does affirm some hopeful Christian mantras in an age where insincerity and ideological deflection continue to reign supreme. Or, in Tsiolkas’s words, “if we do not have faith that the Lord truly knows our suffering, we cannot believe inn a better world to come.” In the author’s note, Tsiolkas speaks to this desire for sincerity directly: “I have wrestled with Paul, wanting both to honour the great universal truths that I find compelling in his interpretation of Jesus’s words and life, but also to question the oppression and hypocrisy of the Churches that claim to be founded on these very same words,” he writes. The book is essentially about hope, transgression, and the radical experience of shame. These sincere understandings, as Tsiolkas points out, may not immediately hit a sympathetic chord for readers in our secular age. “We might scoff at such an understanding,” he writes, but “we must also acknowledge how it was a promise that gave hope to the most destitute and despised in an often cruel and unforgiving world.” There’s very clearly and underlying parallel between Tsiolkas’s experience of coming-out as a gay man and Paul’s adoption of Christianity. This is most evident in the iconic moment of conversion, struck blind for three days after seeing a vision of Christ. This point, which occurs roughly mid-way through the book, shifts its overall tone, and introduces its treatment of shame. Hope for the underdogs—yet another of Tsiolkas’s favoured tunes. Here, we see it in Christianity’s egalitarianism, of the kingdom of God as the great equaliser of all people on Earth. The revolutionary power of faith is depicted throughout the novel as a kind of light, glimpsed through the darkness. It is this source of light that empowers slaves and the poor and the condemned to believe in their redemption from a world that offers them none. They all grasp for the light, trying to snatch parts of it, to hold it in their hands; but the light is as water, it runs through their fingers—but unlike water, it doesn’t drain and vanish, it grows and amplifies: it is all around but can never be grasped. It is everywhere. It’s this extra-dimension of poetry and duplicity that underlies Damascus that elevates it from a simple stylistic excursion into historical fiction to a continuity of the themes and concerns that have dominated Tsiolkas’s writing since Loaded. There is something heartening about his good old novelist sensibilities, too. By that I mean, the book is full immersion; he’s a classicist. Although I’ve spent this review highlighting some of the subtexts and the crossovers between life and fiction, they’re buried in the tex. Never does the author interject, or rupture the dream. There is a rising popularity in contemporary writing to ensure that the novel ‘says’ something about society, identity, or political thinking. Tsiolkas has never ‘said’ per se, but always ‘explored’ what it means to be human. What the book really nails is its representation of why Christianity became a earth-shattering revolution in the first hundred years A.D. Near the end of the book, Tsiolkas captures crucifixion-as-symbol in the face of injustice. Contemporary readers may very well forget (and Tsiolkas reminds us throughout) that crucifixion was historically a painful, humiliating and gruesome public affair; its intention was to demean and torture, originally punishment only for slaves. That is why many “would risk the violence of thieves and rapists rather than submit to the impossibility of a crucified and humble saviour”; at the time, a lowly crucified ‘God’ was contrary to the pre-dominant ideals of what God entailed. But Jesus’s crucifixion resonated as a symbol of humanity. In this one particular scene, Saul is speaking to a group of lower-class Romans about the crucifixion of Christ when suddenly a man shouts out the name of his son. “And one by one they begin to stand. A man calls out the name of his brother, a father of his son, another father moans and declares: ‘My son and his son.’” Whether or not Tsiolkas has managed to accomplish his goal, to reconcile his Christian faith with his sexuality, remains unseen. But his wrestling with Paul’s teachings are evident upon every page, creating a compelling interpretation of Jesus’s word and life that also questions “the oppression and hypocrisy of the Churches that claim to be founded on these very same words.” Jack Cameron Stanton is a writer from Sydney. His work can be found in The Australian, Sydney Review of Books, Sydney Morning Herald, Southerly, Overland, Sweatshop, The Lifted Brow, and Mascara Literary Review, among others. Darlene Soberano reviews Flood Damages by Eunice Andrada Flood Damages by Eunice Andrada Giramondo Reviewed by DARLENE SOBERANO In her debut poetry collection, Flood Damages, Eunice Andrada never explicitly mentions the words, ‘New South Wales.’ Nor does she name ‘Australia’ in any of the 37 poems. She opts for restraint, often using the word ‘here’ as a substitute for the name of a place. This can be seen in poems such as ‘autopsy’: ‘I complain about the weather here, / how the cold leaves my knuckles parched’; and in ‘Marcos conducts my allergy test’: ‘Maybe he grew up here and my accent isn’t quite / right yet, so he can’t understand me’. I am reminded of André Aciman’s essay, Parallax. Aciman details his ‘dreaming’ of Europe while living in Egypt and he declares, ‘Part of me didn’t come with me. Part of me isn’t with me, is never with me’. He eventually comes to this conclusion: ‘I am elsewhere’. For Andrada’s speaker, the exact place isn’t as important as the fact that it is elsewhere; that it is not the Philippines. The most explicit name for ‘Australia’ I find in Flood Damages is in ‘alternate texts on my aunt’s lightening cream’: ‘o oceania your body an apartment block / cracked under the spanish the british the / americans the japanese the americans’. Here, even, Australia is referred to within the context of a group. Restraint as technique in poetry can often lead to a tepid vagueness, the poet invulnerable and hiding in the text. In Andrada’s hands, restraint is transformed into a compelling exploration of absence. By omitting Australia, Andrada leaves space for memories and dreams of the Philippines to fill in. In ‘(because I am a daughter) of diaspora’, Andrada writes in water images to capture the sensory experience of moving through the Philippines—a country made up of over 7,000 islands. Water, for the poem’s speaker, becomes the sensory experiences through which all associations flow, even if she is not there. The ‘daughter of diaspora’ is ‘by default – / an open sea’, whose mother is shamed in their not-Philippine country; ‘They convince my mother / her voice is a selfish tide, / claiming words that are not meant / for her’. The ‘carcass of ocean’ makes ‘ragdolls’ of the speaker and her mother’s ‘foreign limbs’, an image that is immediately followed by this declaration: ‘In the end / our brown skin / married to seabed’. Here, water is a force that drowns as much as it is a force capable of returning the speaker home. Most Filipinx immigrants flee the Philippines in search of ‘a better life’. Andrada offers two main explanations in Flood Damages: dictatorship (‘Marcos conducts my allergy test’) and displacement due to climate damage. In ‘(because I am a daughter) of diaspora’, Andrada’s speaker, having fled the Philippines, looks back and discovers the loss of belonging, which is marked by the loss of language: ‘When I return to the storm of my islands with a belly full of first world, I wrangle the language I grew up with yet still have to rehearse’. A ‘man in rags’ stops the speaker and asks her ‘in practiced English’ a question: ‘Where are you going?’ This question makes the speaker want to plead to him, ‘We are the same. / Pareho lnag po tayo’. Frantz Fanon wrote in Black Skin, White Masks that ‘mastery of language affords remarkable power’. In ‘(because I am a daughter) of diaspora’, the speaker is sensitive to the absence of language and therefore the absence of power. The difference between ‘the man in rags’ and Andrada’s speaker is so heightened that the speaker is made aware of even ‘the dollars in [her] wallet’—paper money, which is supposedly quiet, yet the speaker can hear them ‘sing another anthem’. In contrast, Andrada examines communication between mother and daughter in the poem, ‘rearrangement’. In ‘rearrangement’, Andrada peers at the gap between two languages, Tagalog and English, and at two figures who each have different masteries of both of these languages. The mother pronounces ‘too hot’ as ‘too hat’, says ‘open the lights’ instead of ‘turn on the lights’. In contrast, the speaker struggles to say ‘hinihingal’, a word that means, ‘to be gasping’. ‘Hinihingal’ is pronounced in such a way that mimics a gasp; it is almost an onomatopeia. When the speaker ‘disfigures the [word] in [her] mouth’, it is struggle upon struggle; the speaker gasps twice. When the speaker and her mother are in conversation with one another, they constantly ‘mistranslate’ their words and phrases. Mistranslation should expand the gaps between mother and daughter. For Andrada, it is instead a site of wonder: ‘what careful, imperfect truths / we have birthed in this prose of error / and say it again, please’. There is no gap. When they speak, they are ‘saturating one language with another’. Andrada achieves a similar effect in ‘harbour’. She writes: ‘Pasa sounds like the word / for soaked’. Pasa means bruise; the word it ‘sounds like’ is basa, which can also mean to read, depending on the way it is said. In other words, if there were no difference in the way that soaked and read were conjugated in Tagalog, to read could also mean to make wet. My personal grasp of Tagalog is limited. It is not a language of my present; it is the language of my childhood, with its psychic tendrils touching everything. In my particular linguistic landscape, basa is wetter than soaked; pasa is said quickly, so it is less distressing than bruise. The quickness of pasa also imitates the way in which the bruise might have been formed—object colliding with body. In this way, pasa can almost sound like a verb. Fanon also wrote in Black Skin, White Masks: ‘To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization’. Language is a tool with which we learn the stories of our lives and our histories before we were possible. The possibility of a voice, saying, This is where we lived. This is where home is. It will always be here. This is how we fell in love. This is why we left each other. This is how we appear human to one another, which is why the forced absence of a home, a site of history, is dehumanising. The question, ‘Where are you from?’ is a question that many immigrants encounter anywhere—everywhere. A train, a bar, a classroom. In her poem titled, ‘where are you from?’, Andrada answers the question uniquely in two lines: ‘a woman’s ribs / cheating grandfathers / the confession box / floodwater’. Here, Andrada writes a complete and complex personal narrative with her first three answers. The tension between them are heightened by virgules. Each virgule reveals the building frustration of the speaker. Andrada ends ‘where are you from?’ with the answer, ‘floodwater’, a resounding word among sentences of the personal. This emphasis works as a reminder that the Philippines is a country that endures severe damage from typhoons year after year. Homes have been drowned, lives have been lost, important family artefacts have dissolved in water. Andrada’s poem, ‘photo album’, then, reads as a firm artefact against erasure—and yet, it is a poem full of physical silence. In it, the speaker imagines many different lives. She imagines her mother’s life in other countries. She is away working as an Overseas Filipino Worker. ‘photo album’ is constructed with sprawling white space, as if silence is Andrada’s true form and language is the failure. Language fails because it is not an alternative to the mother’s presence in the speaker’s life. The speaker’s yearning is so wild that, in her imagination, cities and bodies become equally large: ‘Abu Dhabi, 2009’ and ‘Singapore, 2001’ are captions just as, ‘across ribs, 1998’, ‘on subject’s cheeks (seen above), August’, and ‘pupils, March’ are captions. Similarly, in ‘soft departure’, Andrada constructs a space between every line as such: ‘earlier that day she mashes chicken liver into sliced bread picks us up from school commits no crimes’. Viktor Shklovsky once wrote that ‘art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony’—that is, to defamiliarise the reader out of habitualisation, which can ‘[devour] work, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war’, and which can, as Shklovsky hints, help to normalise daily oppression. To make the stone stony is to undo the damage of habitualisation. Andrada never writes the word ‘deportation’ in ‘soft departure’. She writes around it, defamiliarises it, refuses to make it another overlooked part of daily life. There is ineffable grief within the many absences in this poem. It is necessary for language to fail, here, so that its failure may leave room for the mother’s return. Absence in Flood Damages is striking because the book is a physical item. It can be found at a chain bookstore, like Dymocks. It can be found at independent bookstores, like Better Read than Dead, or Hill of Content. It has been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier Literary Award for Poetry in 2019, it won the Anne Elder Award in 2018. Flood Damages is a sizeable presence in the world. It is an artefact that floods cannot destroy. And in it, Andrada tells her many histories—personal, family, country—with lush, specific detail. It is an artefact against forgetting that brown immigrants and their brown families are people. In Flood Damages, that which is human in immigrant families cannot be taken away, despite all efforts to do so. For Andrada, cruelty is decidedly not the point, but its opposite: a tenderness that endures across oceans. Aciman, André. André Aciman: Parallax. FSG Work in Progress, https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2011/10/13/andre-aciman-parallax/. Andrada, Eunice. Flood Damages. Giramondo Publishing Company, 2018. Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Pluto Press, 1986. Shklovsky, Victor. Art as Technique. The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, 1917. DARLENE SILVA SOBERANO is a Filipino poet. Their work has appeared in Mascara Literary Review, Australian Poetry, and Cordite Poetry Review. They tweet from @DLRNSLVSBRN Magan Magan reviews Sweatshop Women Ed Winnie Dunn Sweatshop Women: Volume One Ed. Winnie Dunn Reviewed by MAGAN MAGAN What does it look like to tell your own story about love, faith, home and history? It looks like a collection of prose and poetry titled Sweatshop Women written by women from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds. Writers who courageously tackle difficult themes that demand of us our attention. Sweatshop Women are a collective of new writers based in Western Sydney that was established in 2018 to support women from Indigenous and culturally diverse backgrounds. The collection showcases stories from writers who show us what it means to reclaim a narrative that was taken from them. The powerfully relevant collection is reminder of the importance for a community to come together to tell their own stories away from the lens of the powerful. It is a reminder to resist the objectification of marginalisation. The stories published in the anthology are unsurprisingly as diverse as the authors themselves. The identity of the writers range from countries that border the Indian Ocean, South East Asia, South Central Asia, East Asia, West Africa, East Africa, South America, South Central Asia, including writers who are native to Polynesia, Indigenous, and African American. The critically diverse writers illustrate their understanding about the human condition represented in the stories through prose and poetry – crafting stories that are quiet often untold or deemed unimportant. Sweatshop Women is a collection fundamentally exploring time whilst simultaneously using time as a necessary tool to illustrate the impact of otherness. The writers centralise the themes of their stories as redemptive subjects and do not fear from speaking truth to power. They humanise the characters in their worlds. They give them a name and a voice. In do so, they hold true to the voice of home and history as oppositional subjects with their own modes of existing in the world. As with any collection that is atttuned to the pulse of the subject, it witnesses untold worlds. The writers do not shy away from writing about loss as loss is indeed as much a part of life as joy is. The collection delves into the reality of the capacity of love to exist despite what it means to be a minority in Australia. This reality gives birth to a kind of exile. The collection begins with a compelling story titled ‘Boragee’, written by Phoebe Grainer that holds Indigenous self-determination on the unceded land of Australia at its core. What does it mean for Australia to acknowledge it’s black history, much less a black history filled with the resistance and pain of the foremothers of country? ‘Yalla, here in buna I will have my child. I scream. There is no one here to hear but Boogagee. My booroo laying underneath like a stone, heavy and swollen. Soon I will turn this buna to blood, blood of ngyu and the woman who brought life, yalla, yallanya buna’. Despite class playing a critical role in the material life of many individuals, it is often a subject ignored. While working class people create the wealth of a society, working class people do not benefit from their contribution. Class is a social, economic and political system that divides groups based on their class status. Given that an individual’s proximity to power determines their agency to exercise self-expression and since class as a category plays a fundamental role in a person’s life, how does a person protect their sense of self-expression from the designed limitation of class subjugation? As with Ghanaian-Australian writer Jessica Wendy Mensah, she writes a poem that pulls out the visceral feeling of what it means to be of the working class. ‘NO WORK! NO BUSY! Peace cleaned the trash spewing black rain’. The story of the poem invokes a level of self-actualisation for working class people as Wendy articulates the plight of the working class. What does it mean to move towards empowerment? It means one must speak the truth about their context and connect with their own authenticity and give voice to areas of the world, experience in the world that are hidden as Jessica Wendy Mensah does in her poem: ‘FUCK THEM! Yoruba packaged their empty Souls into cubed boxes’ I can’t help but think about James Baldwin when he said ‘The Victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat’. The brilliance in Wendy’s poem is in its ability to show the destructive nature of class all the while providing a sociological imagination to permit resistance. The nuance required to capture complicated relationships that exist within a context inundated with ignorance is a difficult lived reality to capture. Much of that difficulty lies in the relationships between the people who are marginalised as a result of their cultural background that is politicised. How does one capture the relationship between an immigrant child and their parents? How does one capture the tensions that are born out of a context that place them (migrants) under patrol? In ‘This Ain’t Bankstown’ Aisha El-Cheikh write what it’s like being othered based on ones hyper-visible identity, after visiting her sons future high school. ‘My first born will start year 7 next year. A good school means a good life’. The writer speaks to the experience of being on fringe as ‘little Drew Barrymore yells out and when I look back in her direction, I notice that a lot of the adults here tonight are starring at me too. I can feel the end of my hijab unfolding as if their stares have pulled the pins out’. The potency of the collection is in its ability to create understanding about worlds that are invisible. The way in which the writers give meaning to the experiences of the characters and of how realism is used by making visible the hidden truths and their essences in the world gives room to posibility. The stories make possible the transformative process to be able to name an experience. In ‘A Curse And A Prayer’ Naima Ibrahim story is example of how ones own subjectivity can be understood as she writes about a mothering struggling to with her son: ‘Hamid held my hands and there were a few seconds of silence as I took a deep breath. Hamid rose from his chair and walked to his room, finally taking his adidas shoes off. There was a gentle lock. And soon after, just finally, I could hear the lowered sound of rap music playing. I sighed, buried my face into my hands and began praying again’. The collection highlights the importance of a community to tell their own stories. The power of telling ones own stories fosters connection to the self as well as a connection to a force bigger than the individual. The struggle for self-determination through story telling is undoubtedly a fight about love as shown through Sweatshop Women, a collection of stories taking concerted steps to put stories about marginalised people on the map, with all its complexities. ‘Here in the inner-west, I can hear the swoosh-hiss of compression brakes and beep-beep-beeps of mothers on school run, shiny in their urban four-wheel drives’. – Gayatri Nair MAGAN MAGAN is a writer and poet based in Melbourne. He holds a Creative Writing Degree from Victoria University. Magan was a 2018 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and a co editor of the Black Inc anthology Growing Up African In Australia (Black Inc, 2019) and The 2019 Volume 7 of the Australian Poetry Anthology. Julie Keys reviews Sleep by Catherine Cole By Catherine Cole ISBN:978 1 76080 092 5 UWA Publishing Reviewed by Julie Keys ‘Will You forgive me?’ Monica asks her daughter, Ruth, in the opening paragraph of Sleep. ‘Forgive?’ I thought. What is there to forgive?’ (1) As a child Ruth does not understand the angst behind her mother’s question and is dismissive of it. The memory, however, leaves an indelible mark, one of many that resurfaces as she tries to understand her mother’s life and her death. Ruth is seventeen and a schoolgirl when she meets the elderly French artist, Harry, in a café in London. There is a bond, a recognition of similarity in one another as they converse. Both have experienced trauma and loss. Ruth’s mother has died, and Harry grew up in Paris before and during its occupation in World War II. It is in sharing their stories that a friendship is formed. Ruth and Harry’s tales intertwine. Author Catherine Cole takes us back to Harry’s childhood in Paris, to the quirks and allure of life beside the Canal St Martin. We hear the voice of his mother calling him from a fourth-floor window. There is his aunt’s cello, his fascinating and vibrant twin cousins. We witness the exact moment Harry stands beside his father observing a painting and decides he will become an artist. This comfortable and contented life sits alongside a shifting political climate. Some ignore the changes but the more vigilant escape Paris and France while they have the chance. Like Harry, Ruth talks about her family. The resilience of her sister Antoinette and her father, family outings, the sleep therapy that had been the treatment of choice for her mother’s depression as a young woman, and the mother she knew with her increasing propensity for sleep: ‘She’d begun to sleep anywhere: at the kitchen table, on a blanket in the garden, on any one of our beds’ (133). Trauma, loss and shared memories are not new subjects for Cole. The author of nine books, her work reflects a range of interests and eclectic skills that includes fiction, non-fiction, memoir, literary, crime and short stories. Sleep is an extension of the themes of love, migration, forgiveness and refuge first explored in her short story collection, Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark (2017), shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2018. Just as the impact of an elderly artist in the life of an up and coming student was initially examined in the author’s memoir of her friendship with A.D. Hope in The Poet Who Forgot (2008). Skill and experience are put to the test in Sleep as Cole delves not only into the complexities of these issues but steers away from a traditional plotline – a choice that highlights the novel’s intricate themes and serves the narrative well. This is Ruth’s version of events, her recollections. She narrates the story from a present-day visit with her Great Aunt Elsie and from the safe haven of the Yorkshire Dales. The plot emerges via a kaleidoscope of memories, beautifully rendered passages that draw the reader into each moment as the story finds its shape and unfolds. Elsie is a natural counterpoint to the memories that consume her niece. She is lucid, sharply outlined, rooted in practicality, a contrast to Ruth’s mother Monica and her torpid life. Elsie has her own memories of Monica, revealing previously unknown layers to Ruth. She moves around her house and Ruth’s life ‘setting things to rights’(32). There are pots of tea, the smell of lavender, stories about the war and the depression. She bids Ruth not to spend her time on Harry’s stories at the expense of her own and warns, as her mother once warned her to ‘be careful what you remember and when’ (33). Cole brings a familiarity to the settings – London, pre-war Paris, and the Yorkshire Dales – and is tender in her portrayal of Monica, ‘a shadowy figure behind the door, a lump of sadness on the battered couch, a pair of long white feet under a red and purple hippie skirt. Hair across her face, she weaves, moans’ (161). But Sleep does not always follow a comfortable line. As a reader, I felt unsettled over Ruth and Harry’s meeting. Was it really the result of chance? There was also some discomfort in observing Ruth and her growing obsession with unravelling Monica’s past as she tries to forage out those who might bear some responsibility. As in life, nothing is straight forward and moments of ill ease provide fuel for reflection. Harry reminds us that despite trauma there is the possibility of resolution. For him art is the healing salve, the restorative that has provided some balance to what has happened in his life: ‘Art allows us to make something lovely of self-delusion and pathos and longing and fear.’ (105). Harry is his most persuasive as he encourages Ruth to find the art in her own life. The conversation between the older Harry and the younger Ruth who equate with the past and the present, threads its way through the narrative debating the conundrums. Can we always forgive regardless of the circumstances and is consolation a worthy alternative to justice? Harry argues that; ‘You must forgive. Revenge hurts only those who desire it’ (63), all the while understanding that it is Ruth’s decision to make. In her acknowledgments Cole describes Sleep as ‘a generational conversation about art and loss [that] speaks also of the need to ensure that we learn from history by understanding how easily past horrors can resurface while we sleep or turn a blind eye.’ (246). In this sense Sleep is a timely novel that extends beyond the last page as we ponder the shifts in the world around us and contemplate how our own somnolence has contributed to the social, environmental and political catastrophes that to some degree we now live with and have come to accept. JULIE KEYS has recently completed a PhD in Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. Her Debut Novel The Artist’s Portrait was shortlisted for the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers in 2017 and published by Hachette in 2019. Adele Dumont reviews Yellow City by Ellena Savage Yellow City by Ellena Savage The Atlas Review Reviewed by ADELE DUMONT Yellow City charts Ellena Savage’s travels in Lisbon, a city she returned to having experienced an assault there eleven years prior. Framed as a set of journal entries spanning three weeks in 2017, the chapbook records the author’s attempts to locate the archived court files pertaining to this crime. Savage is a kind of detective in her own case: accompanied by Dom, her lover-slash-sidekick, she navigates the cobbled footpaths and the local bureaucracy. Savage’s younger, gap-year self-will be recognisable to many readers: her sense of ease in feeling she ‘could talk to any person in the world’; her characteristically Australian perspective of Europe as a collection of cities to be ’stepped through’; a sense that the future (or even a single night out) is ripe with serendipitous possibility. ‘I had fast learned how to sleep in any number of positions: between the farts and fucks and snores of adolescent adults in hostels; on a row of couch cushions laid out by earnest Belgian students on their Erasmus year, or with my head resting on the shoulder of a fleshy Brazilian on an overnight bus.’ (p.5) And Savage’s coming-of-age will be deeply familiar to many female readers, where growing up is understood to involve a contraction of the self; a process of learning not to trust: ‘…the fantasy that things are somehow safe, which you need to have if you are to do anything at all, had been pulled right out from under me.’ (p.22) The journal format, with its exact dates punctuating the text, suggests that this is an unmediated, authoritative account of the writer’s firsthand experience as it unfolds from one day to the next. And yet, very early on, Savage disrupts her own journal-entry voice: I was a general, all-purpose, adaptable person. All my unrealised potential suggested that I might become exactly like any one of the people I encountered. – In becoming specific, narrower, more difficult, you, you don’t have much left to give. -But it’s true. We dress the same, she and I. And we didn’t get any better. (pp.5-6) Such interjections persist throughout Yellow City. Reminiscent of a Greek chorus commentary, they seem to represent facets of Savage’s own mind; self doubting and self-excoriating. The way they jut into the story is unsteadying. You and I and she and we here all seem to refer back to the one person. Can I only ever denote someone in their present form, and if so, how many third person past selves do we each possess? What can the reader hold onto here, if even subject pronouns are this slippery? In prompting the reader to ask these sorts of questions, from the outset Savage undoes any illusion that her ‘I’ is delivering a cohesive, chronological narrative. Throughout Yellow City, Savage alerts us not only to language’s slipperiness, but also its power to mask the truth. Words here cannot be trusted, and especially not the official kind. While ostensibly in search of documentation, she knows that ultimately her efforts are futile since the files have ‘absolutely no meaning’. She puts off calling the police, wanting to ‘preserve the self’ she is used to living with and not wanting to know the ‘words she gave’ them. Tellingly, even her own name has been mis-spelled in the official records. She provides us, verbatim, an email home in which she assures her brother that ‘it’s all over’ and that ‘apart from all that, I’m fine’. But of course it turns out that not even these words (her own, and fresh from the time in question) contain much truth. Along with language, memory, too, is depicted as fallible and unstable. At the police line-up she describes her own memory as ‘altered… amorphous…composite’. The particulars of the crime; what she drank on the night in question; the location of the apartment where she was attacked; the appearance of her assailants, are hazy. One detail she does recall is the ‘skin-tight’ jeans she was wearing. Though Savage never spells it out, we can imagine that it is these kinds of details (or lack of) which a court would fixate on, and which are routinely used to undermine a victim’s credibility. Lucia Osborne-Crowley, reflecting on her attempts to write about her own abuse, talks about her discomfort with the gaps and inconsistencies in her memories since these ‘could look to readers a lot like lies’. But Osborne-Crowley and Savage each succeed in resisting any urge to inject consistency or clarity where there is none. Osborne-Crowley writes: After months of gruelling work, I had some details. I had pieced some parts of this memory back together. It was terrifying. It was exhausting. It was necessary. I finally have the contours of my story, and I have written it down. I have tamed it as best I could. What I now know about this memory is enough. It is horrifying enough. It is detailed enough. It is enough. Reading Yellow City and hence newly attuned to the workings of my own memory, I am dismayed to see just how unreliable it is. I believe I am reading Savage’s words attentively, and yet when it comes to piecing together this review, I need to keep checking that I’m not mixing up fragments of Ellena’s narrative with that of Coetzee’s Disgrace, which I am reading simultaneously, and which also contains sexual violence. Even with their starkly different contexts I find bits of the two stories becoming tangled together. I am reminded too, of an interview I saw Emily Maguire give about her novel, An Isolated Incident. In writing the rape and murder of a young woman, Maguire very consciously omits any gratuitous detail whatsoever. And yet, readers when discussing the story with her are often convinced of one or another detail, which Maguire knows for a fact does not appear anywhere in her book. I can’t recall exactly how Maguire explained this phenomenon – my memory fails me – but it was something to do with us humans being uncomfortable with unknowns; our minds leaping to fill in any gaps. If language and memory are unstable, Yellow City seems to suggest that the body holds some deeper truth. For all her probing intellect, Savage’s own physicality is hyper present: her itchy legs; the hot slipperiness of her period; the acid in her belly. We can in fact map how profoundly the attack has impacted her through the details she reveals to us of her body. Her younger self has an ease in her own skin; we are told she falls asleep on stranger’s shoulders. In contrast, her present self carries the marks of trauma: there is tension in her gut; tears threatening to burst forth; urges to run. So even though intellectually Savage believed she had ‘recovered’, her body tells us (and her) a different story. It possesses what she calls ‘flesh knowledge’; memory is ‘held’ in her skin. The body is keeping score. What struck me, too, in Savage’s writing is the absence of a certain kind of lexicon, of the sort that proliferates in media testimonies relating to sexual assault. Not once, for instance, does Savage use the terms ‘victim’ or ‘survivor’ or ‘perpetrator’. She describes scenes which a modern reader might quickly label a kind of ‘triggering’ or a ‘panic attack’ or a ‘post-traumatic response’ and yet that language would feel oddly out-of-place here. When she does at one point refer to her ‘trauma’ it is only to point out that she’d never before conceived of her experience in this way. At the heart of Yellow City is Savage’s struggle to find her own words for this thing that has befallen her, this thing that reverberates through her life. She grapples with what to call the attack itself, introducing it first simply as ‘it’ and then turning over multiple possibilities: an ‘almost-rape’; an ‘attempt’, a ‘scare’. Rita Bullwinkel says Savage ‘translates the memory of violence’ into language.’ The choice of verb ’translates’ is apt here, implying as it does that memory (however imperfect) is the original source, of which language is only an approximation at best. When Savage does try to put the thing into her own terms – ‘an encounter during which my flesh remembered the possibility of a violent death’… [which] threw a girl’s sense of being into chaos’ – it feels to me a kind of reclaiming. Even if she cannot hope to find answers in the court documents, it feels to me that she is finding it in language. Her grappling never feels futile. What keeps me returning to Savage’s writing again and again is above all her voice: intimate, embodied, sparklingly-smart, and at moments flat-out hilarious. The experience of reading Yellow City is not to feel defeated by language’s fallibility or its imprecision, but to be newly excited about its possibilities, for in Savage’s hands language is alive and ablaze. Savage E, 2019, Yellow City, TAR Chapbook Series. Osborne-Crowley L, 2019, ‘Write what you want to forget’, Bookanista. Maguire E, 2016, Interview at St Albans Writers’ Festival. Bullwinkel R, 2019, https://www.theatlasreview.com/store/yellow-city-by-ellena-savage Lean Cuisine By Stephen Pham Stephen Pham is a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Cabramatta. He is an original member of SWEATSHOP Writers’ Collective. His essays and fiction have appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Overland, Meanjin, and Griffith Review. In 2018 Stephen received the NSW WRiters’ Fellowship from Create NSW to commence work on his debut manuscript ‘Vietnamatta’, to be published by Brow Books. The Central express train rattles and sighs as it pulls up to Hornsby Station. I take a deep breath and hold it. Slide open the yellow door speckled with grime. Step on, look at the toilets. Neither of the doors are open but I’m not taking a chance. They’re sloshing with piss from Central Coast bogans. Turn, open the spring-loaded door, and step into the passenger’s section, which is carpeted with vinyl seats. It’s packed. I let go of my breath. The dampness of human bodies mixes with Lean Cuisine chicken, cheese, and pasta and burrows into the back of my throat. I gag. I should turn back. Stand between the carriages, where the air is fresh and the ground is shaky. No. It takes 30 seconds to get used to a bad smell. In a minute, it’ll be like I’m lounging in my White godfather’s TV room. Though last I heard, he’s living in a shipping container with his golliwog collection. Upstairs, the seats are filled with people wearing red-and-white jerseys. Oh, it’s Friday. They’re headed to the footy. There’s a seat in the middle of the carriage. On the aisle side is a bag of Chicken Crimpy Shapes. I take the window seat, stepping over the glittery bits crushed into the carpet. It’s pretty dark outside. I can’t see much save for the streaks of rain outside and the line of steam creeping up on my reflection inside. Behind me, someone with the nasally honk of Aussie Home Loans guy talks loudly. Instead of saying, ‘At Aussie, we’ll save you,’ he says, ‘The freckled moll’s place, ahh, it looks like housing, but, ahh, it’s not, so, ooh, she acts like she’s, ah, better than everyone.’ I grin at my reflection. I love this. The dumb-ass conversations on this train, which runs from Newcastle to Sydney, can’t be found anywhere else. The bogans, like Aussie Home Loans, are the loudest and crudest. One Wednesday arvo, a blonde lady in Mariah Carey bejewelled sunnies sat in the nigel seat yelling on the phone. She stood up and waved her free hand as she yelled, ‘Jayden, Jayden, Jayden. You fucked me, you fucked me reaaaaal bad. Real bad. Why’d you tell the court I was waving the knife around? Don’t ya remember how I was chopping tomatoes? I was chopping the tomatoes, and you said something. You said something, and I looked up. And I looked up and pointed the knife at you. And I pointed the knife at you and I pointed it away. Remember that? I was not waaaving the knife, I was pointing it.’ It took me everything to not laugh out loud then. I didn’t want her to point a knife at me. Now Aussie is complaining about how the University of Newcastle pays him five dollars an hour to clean, but at least he makes 100 a week. My bad. He’s genuinely poor. I feel gross for laughing at him now. His mate who has the deep, controlled drawl of Fitzy says, ‘Oi, but yeah…but nah…you take home…200 a fortnight, ay?’ That’s the same thing. We can’t all be Asians when it comes to maths, though. Shit. I’m doing it again. It’s not probbo if I’m laughing with them, but Fitzy seems dead serious. He continues, ‘I’m so stoned, brah…Oi but, but…you know what they call my house? Cheech and Chong…come to Wyong.’ Aussie honks laughing. Guess I’m not with them after all. I’ve never seen Cheech and Chong, but I know it’s a stoner comedy. Toby McGuirk, the only other metalhead in high school, once told me he smoked dog shit. Was that like crack, or acid, or what? ‘I mean it’th thit. From a dog,’ he said. I’d seen him play Frisbee with dried cow dung before. I nodded. I guess it was only a matter of time. ‘I’m jutht kidding, man,’ he said. ‘It’th from Cheech and Chong. You thould thmoke with uth thome day. It’th a clathic.’ The train pulls up to Epping, black asphalt, grey metal ceiling jutting off the wall. Platform’s full of chinks and curries: black pantsuits, Herschel backpacks, puffer jackets and wire trolleys. Train’s about to get super crowded. I hope no-one sits next to me. But if they do, they’d better not be one of those dickheads that spread so much our knees are touching and the warmth of their leg makes me want to puke and retract mine but I also don’t want to seem weak so I just keep it there. That’s the worst. The windows steam up completely as a procession of Asians fills the aisle. A burly Chinese guy with bulging, still eyes like a goldfish, plods forward. His white polo is splotched with pink. Rubber and blood floods my nostrils. Raw meat. An abattoir worker, maybe. If this was 2000 years ago, he’d be the town butcher. That’s what he was made for. He’s hunched. Looks straight ahead as he gets closer to me. He’ll sit near the bogans. They’ll think he’s just gotten back from slaughtering strays in the neighbourhood. Nope. He grabs the handle on the seat in front of mine, swings his body around, and plops himself on top of the pack of Chicken Crimpy. It crunches. Did he even notice that? I scoot away. Our upper arms are touching. I’m pressed up against the window. Can’t be helped. We’re moving. Conversations hum but the bogans have fallen quiet. Then Aussie says, ‘There’s, ah, so much Chinese, ay?’ Oh no. I hope this isn’t heading where I think it’s heading. Aussie’s in housing commission. Aussie makes five an hour cleaning up after uni shits like me. Aussie’s got nothing to look forward to but smoking up and watching the footy. They’re just not used to the city. ‘Yeah…but…what’s wrong with being…Chinese?’ says Fitzy. ‘Ah, everything!’ Aussie shouts. They piss themselves laughing. Dickwad. I was rooting for you. I thought these idiots might be not-racist, but I’m the dumbarse for believing in them. ‘Hey, ah…sweet and sao-wah POK,’ says Aussie, in the voice of the City Wok guy on South Park. Fitzy laughs, ‘Oi, but listen to this…Sweet and sao-wah POK.’ Cortisone floods my shoulders, stiffens my neck. I turn my head a little, not enough for the Butcher to catch me, and glance around. As far as I can tell, us Asians outnumber the Aussies by three to one. Maybe even more. We’ve got the numbers. But people are just talking to each other or looking right ahead. No-one’s turned around to check the bogans. Maybe it’s because most of us are old, or don’t speak English, or don’t care. Maybe we’re scared to break the silence. Air conditioner whirs. Rain drums on the train’s tin top. I wipe the steamed window with my right shoulder. Outside is black. ‘Sweet and sao-wah POK,’ Fitzy says. I breathe in deep, chest swelling. Fuck it. I stand up. Shoulder drags against Butcher’s. Out the corner of my eye, I see him watching me, his mouth ajar. My wrists pound. I turn around, gaze sweeping the suits, students, and oldies before locking onto Aussie. He’s a fat fuck with acne scars on his bright pink Wiffle ball face. St George Illawarra frayed at the bent bill. He stares at me, his grey eyes boring into mine. Fitzy props himself on an elbow, twists around to look at me. He’s got a buzzcut and Golden Arches hairline, face long like a mountain goat. ‘You hillbilly cunts better shut the fuck up,’ I shout. Aussie’s thin lips draw back. Yellow teeth rest on his bottom lip. Hands rise to the sides of his face. They pull back the skin next to his eyes. His head wobbles from side to side as he says in the South Park accent, ‘Aw! Sutt da fuk ap!’ I’ve got nothing. I flip them off and sit back down. Carriage falls silent. My head’s throbbing. I couldn’t have done any better. You engage with idiots, you’re the idiot. Whatever, man. I can feel the Butcher staring at me. Maybe he’ll move away. He doesn’t. Just keeps staring. ‘Ahh, yaw mudda!’ sings Aussie. A deep male voice pipes up. ‘Youse better stop it. This train’s full of them, youse know that? And one of them’s just gotten offended. I’ve been listening to youse go on since Gosford, and I’m sick of it. It’s not funny. I’m a cop on holiday, don’t make me do my job. It’s not funny. Don’t make me start up again. Don’t encourage him.’ In a small voice, Aussie says, ‘I, ah, won’t.’ The rest of the train ride is silent, save for Fitzy squeaking every now and then, trying to get Aussie to laugh. At Strathfield, red brick, green poles, and black asphalt, the train starts to slow. Holiday Pig gets up and heads towards the bogans. He’s got a tiny face and a huge head like William H. Macy. Aussie honks, ‘I’m ah, sorry,’ to Holiday Pig. Pig replies, ‘You’re right, mate.’ I go in the direction I came. Hold my breath by the toilets in the mezzanine. As the train comes to a stop, someone taps on my shoulder. I turn around. It’s the Butcher. Eyes shine, fat lip hangs, sounds like he’s trying to swallow air as he says, ‘You speak Chinese?’ I shake my head and say, ‘斩你做猪肉碎、喂畀狗.’ Victoria Nugent reviews Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng TEXT publishing Reviewed by VICTORIA NUGENT Two strangers from completely different backgrounds with seemingly little in common thrown together, it’s a common enough set up for a novel. But in Room for A Stranger, Melanie Cheng uses that premise exceptionally well to create an undeniably pleasurable read, rich in texture and feeling. Room For A Stranger is Cheng’s debut novel, following up from her acclaimed short story collection Australia Day, the 2018 winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. The novel opens with Meg, an elderly woman, feeling vulnerable after an encounter with an intruder in her backyard. She is convinced now that ‘every black pane of glass concealed a lurking predator’ (4). With only her African grey parrot, Atticus, for company, she is drawn to a homeshare program to regain some feeling of control. So Andy, an international student from Hong Kong, moves into her suburban home. With both ill at ease, it is almost immediately obvious that it won’t be a smooth melding of lives. Cheng deftly paints the story of how they connect and the cross-cultural and cross-generational challenges to that process. Communication, food and hygiene are just some of the points of difference that make it harder for the pair to understand each other. The juxtaposition of chapters focusing on each protagonist’s perspective allows their different world views to be contrasted and compared. Meg faces the challenges of ageing, both physical and mental, while at the same time exploring what it means to date in later life. Andy is weighed down by the dual pressures of wanting to succeed in his studies and live up to his family’s expectations, while also hoping to gain the attention of female classmate, Kiko. The most minute details of suburban Melbourne life give the setting extra depth, with Andy’s first observations of his new neighbourhood centring around ‘the smell of damp leaves, burnt toast and decomposing vegetables.’ (11) Through Meg’s eyes, the reader sees too how the suburb has evolved within her lifespan: ‘The suburb had changed so much since she and Jillian were kids, back when they could buy sixpence-worth of their favourite lollies- freckles and snakes- from the milk bar. Now the main street boasted an organic food store, a nail salon and a pilates studio with a terrible name : Keeping Karm. Every week Anne declared how much the suburb had evolved – as if rather than a postcode, it was some kind of living, breathing organism.’ (26) A great attention to detail and astute observations breathe an extra level of complexity into the novel. Smell in particular plays a big role, from Andy wondering what Kiko might smell like ‘something citrusy, he imagined, something like freshly peeled mandarins’ (35) to the scent of oil, ginger and spring onions coming from the fast food restaurant where Andy meets Kanbei, who will sit Andy’s exam for the sum of $3000. At one stage, Andy, speaking to Meg, even spells it out for the reader, telling her that the part of the brain responsible for smell ‘connects directly to the memory centre.’ (94) Cheng doesn’t shy away from racism, portraying clearly the kind of insidious everyday discrimination that is instantly recognisable for how true it rings to Australian life. An incident on a tram where a man shouts anti-Asian slurs is one such moment but ‘after three stops people were chatting again as if nothing happened. Only the Chinese students remained shaken- theirs heads hanging, their shoulders collapsed, their chests caving inwards.’ (81) As a counterpoint to the overt racism of this incident is in the overly jocular but ultimately patronising nature of comments by Patrick, Meg’s paramour, who talks to Andy about how he sees Hong Kong as having ‘done well’ and that it was ‘in large part because of the British.’ (114) Assumptions made by Meg’s friends about her new house guest also serve to highlight racial stereotypes as Anne guesses that Andy is ‘studious, I bet… They always are.’ (30) Food plays a large role in the book, highlighting key differences in characters’ lives and experience and also acting as a touchstone for cultural backgrounds. From the pineapple upside-down cake Meg makes for Andy’s birthday to Patrick’s recount of scones at the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong with rose-petal jam to Andy taking Meg for dinner in Chinatown, mentions of food usually convey something about one or more characters’ experiences and world view. Cheng deals with complex issues with aplomb, including navigating mental health carefully. The reader learns of Andy’s mother’s own postnatal depression before gradually getting a picture of Andy’s own anxieties and the ‘exhaustion of being himself. ‘ (155). Early in the novel, Andy has a moment of being jealous of the blanket over Atticus’ cage, wishing ‘someone would smother the endless chatter of his brain with a big black sheet.’ (23). Even the appearance during a tram trip of ‘a man with leaves in his hair talking loudly to an invisible companion.’ (153), draws attention to nuances in mental state, highlighting the complexities of the very concept of mental wellbeing. Disability too is explored, through Meg’s recollections of late sister Helen, a paraplegic since an accident as a child. Tied up in these memories is Meg’s grief which for years after Helen’s death came in ‘paroxysms of sorrow that would arrive without warning, like a strike to the head from an unseen stalker.’ (68). Through such memories of grief, a funeral of a friend and even Meg’s own ageing process, the ideas of death and loss permeate the novel. They are tied up with the very concept of what illness means, as Meg tries to ignore warning signs while Andy struggles with his own decline in health. Room For A Stranger is a novel which deftly paints a picture of the modern Australia known by so many; a miasmas of culture and world views. It’s a page turner of a book, an engrossing, easy read, but one with many layers of flavour and depth. With its accessible style, it’s not hard to imagine it becoming a common book club pick within coming years, and hopefully one that helps readers consider a wider range of perspectives and how two people can come at a situation with very different takes depending on their personal life experiences and backgrounds. VICTORIA NUGENT is a full-time journalist and part time fiction writer living in regional Queensland.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line245
__label__wiki	0.554767	0.554767	Fischer Park Fischer Park, the largest park in the New Braunfels park system, offers a variety of amenities for discovery and exploration. Stroll or run around the park on over two miles of greenway trails, where fresh air, sunshine and nature are abundant. Relax at the two fishing ponds, splash at the sprayground, enjoy the playgrounds or take in the dramatic views of New Braunfels from the 62-acre hill top park. Fischer Park Map Fischer Park Picnic Planner Fischer Park Address: 1935 Hilltop Summit Road Fischer Park Nature Education Center Phone Number: 830-221-4378 Hike & Bike Trails Fishing Ponds Fischer Park offers a wide variety of amenities including: Fischer Park Nature Education Center Outdoor Amphitheater Archaeology Dig Programs & Special Events Fischer Park is named after the Fischer family, whose homestead on the property dates back to 1946. In January 2007, the Fischer family sold 55 acres to the City of New Braunfels and gifted three acres to the New Braunfels Parks Foundation. Subsequently, the City purchased an additional four acres for a total of 62 acres to be developed into Fischer Park. This was the first major parkland acquisition since 1973. The Fischer Park Master Plan was completed in 2008 and the design contract was approved by City Council in 2011, with construction beginning in 2013. Get active on the trails of Fischer Park, where fresh air, sunshine and nature are abundant. With over two miles of greenway trails and connection to the linear County Line Memorial Trail, Fischer Park offers a great place to bike, stroll or run. Splish, splash and spray at the sprayground at Fischer Park. The sprayground features a variety of interactive water toys that spray, spout, mist and pour, providing fun for children of all ages. Water from the sprayground is captured in the fishing ponds and reused for park irrigation. The Fischer Park sprayground is open daily 9 a.m. - 9 p.m, from the Friday before Spring Break through October 31st, weather permitting. Click here to view sprayground rules. Fischer Park has two fishing ponds, both of which are designated as Texas Parks and Wildlife Community Fishing Lakes. The Fischer Park ponds are stocked annually with channel catfish, and are subject to special regulations. Individuals age 17 and older must have a Texas Parks and Wildlife fishing license.Click here to view more information. Kayak Rentals: Spring Break - October Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 12-5pm All are sit on top kayaks, paddles and life vests are included with rental $5/30 min single rider $9/hr single rider $10/30 min tandem (2 riders) $18/hr tandem (2 riders) Fischer Park Nature Center Picnic Area Fees & Amenities Fischer Park Rules 550 Landa St. Subscribe To City Updates	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line247
__label__wiki	0.943369	0.943369	CO - LOCATED WITH: AD:TECH LONDON CUSTOMER FIRST LIVE 25th - 26th SEPTEMBER 2019 \| OLYMPIA Leo Burnett Chicago President Emma Montgomery leaves Publicis Groupe shop Ad Age 06 Dec 2019 08:18 Another highly regarded executive is leaving Leo Burnett Chicago. Emma Montgomery, the office’s president and chief strategy officer resigned this week, Ad Age has learned. Her departure comes about four months after Leo Burnett U.S. Chief Creative Officer Britt Nolan left to become chief creative for DDB North America. Montgomery and Nolan were named co-presidents of Leo Burnett’s Windy City office in January. Montgomery had the president title to herself since Nolan’s departure. The agency is searching for a new president, and Leo Burnett Group CEO Andrew Swinand will fill the role in the interim, according to a spokeswoman. Montgomery did not reply to an email for comment, including about where she is heading next. “We are so thankful for Emma’s leadership and contributions and wish her every success in her next adventure,” Publicis Groupe-owned Leo Burnett said in a statement. The shop this week filled her chief strategy role by promoting Aki Spicer into the job immediately. He was previously executive VP and global strategy lead. Spicer joined Leo Burnett in late 2018 after serving as chief strategy officer at TBWA/Chiat/Day New York. “Aki is a rare thinker who’s steeped in the classical aspects of the discipline, but with the edge to help architect our agency for the future of the industry,” Swinand said in a statement. Montgomery, a native of Australia, was named an Ad Age “Woman to Watch” in 2018. She has logged time at Leo Burnett Sydney and took over as chief strategy officer of the agency's flagship Chicago office in April of 2017. She was charged with implementing The Core, an approach Swinnand launched in early 2017 aimed at uniting the agency's data, analytics, research, CRM and search technology capabilities with the goal of creating more personalized content for clients. Montgomery’s exit continues a wave of personnel changes sweeping the Chicago agency community. The upheaval began in May when Liz Taylor left her post as chief creative officer at FCB Chicago to become chief creative at Leo Burnett Worldwide. FCB later filled Taylor’s role with Andrés Ordóñez, who had been chief creative at Chicago-based Energy BBDO, which filled his slot by promoting Josh Gross and Pedro Pérez to the roles of co-chief creative officers. More change came to Energy BBDO in November when longtime CEO-president Tonie Paul stepped down to become chairperson. Jeff Adkins was promoted into the president-CEO role. Continue reading original article... Cannes Lions achieves gender parity in jury president lineup for 2020 The Woman Who Souped Up Baby Yoda's Popularity How to find us\|Contact us Update Subscriptions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line251
__label__wiki	0.500352	0.500352	Afton Alps Begins Construction on $10 Million of Resort Improvements for its 50th Anniversary Winter Season Entire Guest Experience “Re-Imagined” with New Terrain Park Base Area Facilities, Expanded Terrain Park and Improved Snowmaking Epic Season Pass Provides Unmatched Value and Access to Afton Alps and 10 Iconic Western Resorts AFTON ALPS, MINN. – Aug. 12, 2013 – To a “heavy metal” soundtrack of backhoes, cranes and bulldozers, Afton Alps Ski Area broke ground on massive resort improvement projects designed to re-imagine the entire guest experience for the 2013-2014 ski and snowboard season and Afton Alps’ 50th anniversary. The $10-million investment committed by new owner Vail Resorts represents the most significant one-time influx of capital improvements in Afton Alps’ history, and clearly sets it apart amongst its competitors in Minnesota’s local ski area landscape. “The construction projects we’re implementing this summer are designed to re-imagine every aspect of the guest experience at Afton Alps while keeping the longstanding Midwest ski experience Afton is known for,” said Joe Yasis, general manager of Afton Alps. “We think our guests will be delighted with the big improvements like the new terrain park, significantly enhanced snowmaking and new base area facilities. These improvements will set a completely new standard for Midwest skiing and riding. It’s where Epic begins.” Afton Alps list of improvements include: Snowmaking Improvements: A complete overhaul and expansion of snowmaking at Afton Alps will provide the region’s highest quality snow surface, greater base depth and an expanded season due to the ability to make snow twice as fast with existing water resources. The ski area will add to the current fleet of snowmaking equipment with 22 new, energy-efficient snowmaking guns and 50 low-energy tower snow guns. Afton Alps is also constructing a new state of the art snowmaking pump house, installing larger diameter pipe capable of pumping water twice as fast when temperatures permit. New Guest Services Facility: The guest services facility at Afton will be completely renovated to include a new ski school center, ticketing and pass sales office and a customer service center. New Terrain Park by Snow Park Technologies: Snow Park Technologies, builder and designer of Winter X Games courses and features, will work with the Afton Alps terrain park crew to create one of the region’s most innovative terrain parks including cutting edge new features and designs. New Terrain Park Village: At the base of the terrain park overlooking all of the new features, Afton Alps will create a new terrain park village with inviting indoor and outdoor spaces to relax or warm up, enjoy new food options, warm up and watch the park action. Additionally two new rope tows will be installed in the terrain park for faster and easier access to park features. New Lift Ticketing and Scanning System: The new lift ticket and scanning system will be completely electronic and provide Afton Alps guests with a seamless transaction experience and faster access to the lift for both season pass holders and single day lift ticket skier and snowboarders. Vail Resorts EpicMix Technology Installation: Afton Alps will install Vail Resorts’ acclaimed EpicMix RFID technology, allowing skiers and snowboarders to earn digital pins for their accomplishments track vertical feet and share them socially through Facebook and Twitter with family and friends. EpicMix Racing will also be launched at Afton Alps this winter, a social application that enables skiers and riders of all abilities to track their vertical feet, earn digital pins for on-slope accomplishments and even race against Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn using their NASTAR race time to earn gold, silver and bronze medals. Race times, digital medals, overall leaderboards and leaderboards with just family and friends will all be available on both the EpicMix website and mobile application. The value proposition for Afton Alps’ guests is unmatched. In addition to the ski area improvements and a whole new philosophy around guest service, Afton Alps’ passholders have the opportunity to purchase Vail Resorts season passes that allow them to ski as much as they want in their own backyard and at eight world-class resorts out West (Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado, Canyons Resort in Utah, and Heavenly, Northstar California and Kirkwood at Lake Tahoe). Vail Resorts’ season passes offer guests the flexibility to choose which pass is right for them based on how much and where they plan to ski and ride. Ski or Ride Locally and Out West: The Epic Local Pass™: Perfect for snow sports enthusiasts who want to take their annual ski vacation out West and ski unrestricted in their backyard all season long. The Epic Local Pass at $529 offers unlimited and unrestricted skiing at Afton Alps, as well as at Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin with some restrictions at Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood. The pass also includes a total of 10 days at Vail and Beaver Creek with holiday restrictions. At the spring rate, the Epic Local Pass pays for itself in just over four days when skiing at the western resorts and is only $130 more than an Afton Alps Pass. A discounted rate is also offered for college students at $479 (proof of 12 credit hours is required). The Epic Local Child Pass: Children ski and ride all next season at Afton Alps for less than the current 2012-2013 Afton Alps child Pass price and get eight resorts out West for free. New this year at $269, $5 less than last season’s child’s pass, children ages 5-12 can receive unlimited access with no restrictions at Afton Alps, as well as unlimited access to resorts out West, including Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin with limited restrictions at Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood with the Epic Local Child Pass. The pass also includes a total of 10 days at Vail and Beaver Creek with holiday restrictions. The Epic Pass™: Ski as much as you want, whenever you want at $689 for adults and $359 for children. Unlimited skiing or riding at Afton Alps, as well as at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado and Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in Lake Tahoe at $689 for adults and $359 for children (ages 5-12). No restrictions. At this spring rate, the Epic Pass pays for itself in just over five days when skiing at the western resorts. Ski or Ride Afton Alps Only: Afton Alps Pass: Perfect for people who only plan to ski or ride at Afton Alps. At $399, the same price introduced last season, pass holders will receive unlimited access to Afton Alps with no restrictions. A discounted rate is also offered for seniors at $269 and college students at $269 (proof of 12 credit hours in the 2013-2014 school year is required). Discounts are available for families and groups of four people. For more information on all Vail Resorts season pass products, visit www.epicpass.com. About Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) Vail Resorts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is the leading mountain resort operator in the United States. The Company's subsidiaries operate the mountain resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado; Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada; Canyons in Park City, Utah; Afton Alps in Minnesota and Mt. Brighton in Michigan; and the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The Company's subsidiary, RockResorts, a luxury resort hotel company, manages casually elegant properties. Vail Resorts Development Company is the real estate planning, development and construction subsidiary of Vail Resorts, Inc. Vail Resorts is a publicly held company traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MTN). The Vail Resorts company website is www.vailresorts.com and consumer website is www.snow.com. 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__label__cc	0.679692	0.320308	For Freemasons, for families, for everyone The Masonic Charitable Foundation builds better lives by enabling opportunity, advancing healthcare and education and promoting independence for Freemasons, their families and the wider community. Funded entirely through the generosity of Freemasons and their families, the Masonic Charitable Foundation is one of the largest grant-making charities in the country. How the Foundation helps Masonic families A wide range of help and support is available for Freemasons, their wives, partners, widows, children and grandchildren. Most of the support provided takes the form of financial grants to assist with financial, health or family related needs. Daily living costs Grants following an accident, redundancy or personal crisis Funeral bills Minor home repairs Mobility aids and home adaptations Family – Children in full-time education Costs for education or training Scholarships, travel grants and student accommodation Supporting exceptional talent in sport, music or the performing arts Family – Care Masonic care homes – including nursing, residential and dementia care Practical assistance The Foundation’s Advice & Support Team offer confidential, impartial and practical guidance about the help we can provide. The Team can also help with applications for state and local authority benefits and can put you in touch with other organisations who can give advice on care, employment and education. For further information about the help and support available from the Foundation, please call their dedicated freephone enquiry line: 0800 035 60 90 or email help@mcf.org.uk You can also write to Masonic Charitable Foundation, 60 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5AZ For more information about the Foundation’s grants and the application process, please visit: www.mcf.org.uk How the Foundation helps Communities In addition to the support provided to Freemasons and their families, the Masonic Charitable Foundation looks beyond Freemasonry, making significant financial grants to charities that help people to live happy, fulfilled lives and to participate actively in society. The charities supported make a significant and lasting difference to people in need. We aim to benefit as many people as possible and further those causes about which Freemasons and their families have told us they are most passionate. To find out more about the Foundation’s Community Support and Research grants, please visit: www.mcf.org.uk/community Keep up to date with the Foundation's work Website: www.mcf.org.uk Twitter: @Masonic_Charity Facebook: @themcf YouTube: Masonic Charitable Foundation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line258
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__label__wiki	0.599999	0.599999	Olivia Berkowicz In Defense of the Pixelated Image (2015) 15 – 19 December ID:i Galleri, Stockholm Participating artists: Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Janek Koza, Wspólnota Leeeżeć, Ewa Partum, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Piotr Wyrzykowski. In Defense of the Pixelated Image presents video works of six seminal Polish artists from the 1970s through to the early 2000s. Sourced from the online archives of Filmoteka, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and WRO Art Center in Wrocław, the exhibition zooms in on the materiality of media in the age of digitisation. This process of upgrading video from undurable, obsolete carriers to new hi-tech modes of being is called migration, which signifies a change in the existence and possibilities of circulation of these films. Meditating on the medium in movement, this exhibition takes its inspiration from the German artist and theorist Hito Steyerl, who in her text “In Defense of the Poor Image” explores the possibilities of low-res imagery in relation to advanced capitalism and its aggressive modernisation of visual technology. Similarly, the works of the six artists in the exhibition are prescient of Steyerl’s text, in that they explore the acceleration and deterioration of the screen prior to the world-wide expansion of the Internet. In this presentation, we follow the journey of the pixel through Polish video art history and the way in which these artists self-reflexively criticise the specificities of the filmic medium itself through various forms of pixelation. What does the fragmented screen reveal about our perception of reality, and how does this relate to the new possibilities of sharing and viewing these works digitally? Through the works of the six artists, we enter alternative realities and explore what significations the pixel bears in different contexts: censorship, camouflage, malfunction, disturbance, comedy. The exhibition shows digital copies of the films – there will be no originals. The public program includes a presentation by Marika Kuźmicz (Arton Foundation, Warsaw) and finissage performance “Chopped and Screwed” by Jenny Simm (BA Photography, Valand Academy; MA Fine Art Konsthögskolan, Umeå universitet). Graphic design: Kristoffer Larberg The exhibition is kindly supported by Stockholm University, the Polish Institute in Stockholm and ID:i Galleri. In Defense of the Pixelated Image is part of the final degree project at the Curating Art International Master’s programme at Stockholm University, the Department of Culture and Aesthetics.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line269
__label__cc	0.731014	0.268986	promoneyinfo Offline Money How bookies make money? Are you interested in how bookies make money? This article will provide you with major principles of their work. It’s not a secret that bookmaking business is quite profitable. The fact that thousands of companies work in this sphere speaks for itself. A good bookmaking company will always benefit from its activity. Even the most unreal players’ victories are very much unlikely to leave a bookie with an empty bag. Did you often think of how bookies make money? Let’s figure it out. Who are bookies? The word “bookmaker” is known to many, but not so many know what bookies do. Some even think they are swindlers. To answer the question of who a bookmaker is, let’s, first of all, refer to the definition: The definition “bookmaker” has an English-language origin and means a profession of a bettor who takes bets on forthcoming events with preliminary determination of winning and payment conditions. To put it simply, a bookmaker is a man taking bets. Considering the popularity of this business, many bookmaking companies widened the range of their activities by taking not only sports betting, but also that in the spheres of politics, art, high life, computer games, and so on. Doing such risky business, modern bookmakers want to be sure that they won’t be in the red. For that, they usually employ sports analytics that forecast the outcomes of sports events. That’s why making a bet with a bookmaker, players face uneven conditions. Tips and tricks for making money with bookmaking Anyone willing to bet will benefit from understanding the process. Let’s consider it by the example of sports games. Bookmaking companies always work applying math, namely, combinatorial mathematics, theory of probability, and mathematical statistics. Bookmakers’ work primarily consists in solving this issue – correctly building the line. Line is formed by a list of sports events and their possible outcomes, every outcome being given its own coefficient. “Correctly building the line” means that the company must objectively evaluate chances for every outcome and offer such coefficients that will bring profit in any case. Such balance isn’t easy to achieve; it’s a difficult task fulfilled by hundreds of professionals. Petty bookmakers watch the lines of their larger rivals and make minor adjustments. Besides, the smaller the company, the fewer coefficients it provides: small business expenditures are higher comparing to its profits, thus, a higher margin is required. So far let us continue and return to the margin a little bit later. The possibility of any outcome varies from 0 to 100 % or from 0 to 1. Every event can have several outcomes. For example, a soccer match can end with any team winning or in a tie. Every outcome has its probability. The sum of the probabilities of all outcomes totals 100 %. Bookmaking companies’ professionals must evaluate the probability of every outcome as precisely as possible. Read also: How to Make Money with Horses? For this purpose they use: statistics of the previous results of these teams’ games; the list of injured players; the overall motivation of the team and individual motivations of its members; relationships within a team, between certain players and their coach; the situation regarding future transfers to other teams or expectations concerning the arrival of new players: this influences the team’s morale; the team’s goals for the tournament in terms of which a match is conducted; information about the country, the city, the stadium receiving players (in this regard – the duration of flight, fans’ aggressiveness and their level of support, type of lawn grass, and so on); loyalty of the designated referees; weather forecasts for the day of the match and many other factors. Calculation of the coefficient which determines bookmakers’ future profit After conducting such deepest analysis, a company’s employee draws the probability of every outcome of a sports event. Then he converts the meaning in the field from 0 to 1 (50 % = 0.5, 30 % = 0.3, 7 % = 0.07). Afterwards, one (1) is divided by meanings of probabilities and coefficients are obtained. For instance, the coefficient for 50 % equals 1/0.5 = 2.0; for 30 % it equals 1/0.3 = 3.33; for 7 % it equals 1/0.07 = 14.29. The coefficients obtained level the probability of various outcomes. If the chances are assessed correctly, the company doesn’t care for the proportions of players’ bets. It is explained so that if a large number of similar matches is played, the outcomes will be evenly distributed: the first team will win every second match, the tie will happen in 3 matches out of 10, and the second team will win only 7 times per 100 games. If coefficients are calculated correctly, the sum of the gain will never surpass the sum of money put down on all outcomes of this event. The exception might occur only in case a large some is put on one outcome and the so called money slant of the line happens. Professional players always notice when coefficients in the line change closer to the beginning of the match. It is explained so that a bookmaking company makes adjustments to the line considering that one outcome has received a much higher bet comparing to the other, while the even distribution of bets is preferred. In this case the companies entice players with high coefficients for the outcome without a bet, while lower coefficients for the outcome estimated with the largest bets turn off potential players. Interesting: What to Sell to Make Money? The logical question is: how do bookmaking companies make money if the sum of all gains equals the sum of the bets? Everything regarding coefficients described above is called pure line. In fact, the company determines the level of the margin in advance. For instance, such profit can constitute 10 %. Then not one (1) is divided by the meanings of outcome probabilities, but (100 % make the margin level) /100 %. That is, in case of the 10 % margin number 0.9 is used. Thus, the coefficients are as follows: at the 50 % probability – 0.9/0.5 = 1.8; at 30 % – 0.9/0.3 = 3.0; at 7 % = 12.85. This working model doesn’t guarantee that the betting terminal will always win. The bookmaker can lose 10 and even 100 times in a row. But in the long run, especially in case of multiple bets for various outcomes, the bookmaking company will be in the black. That’s why it is important to attract as many players as possible, preferably from different countries and backgrounds with various viewpoints on various kinds of sport. The bookmaker benefits from the diversity of bets. It is not by chance that the bookmaking companies’ lines undergo more and more diversification every year. Sports betting is a profitable business for bookmakers. Due to the hefty margin, companies can stay afloat even after substantial disbursements. In the long run they still receive impressive sums at the cost of commission percentage. Thus, we figured out how bookies make money. Large volumes provide them with very good profits. Invest in Brazil: Advantage and Risks How Amanda Hocking Made a Million Dollars? Invest in Girls: 10 Reasons How to Make Money in a Small Town? How to Make Money Gambling: 5 Steps How to Invest in Africa? How to Attract Money Fast: 22 Real Ways How to Make 400 Dollars in a Day: Great Ways How to Make Money on Online Games? © 2013-2020 «Motivational-tips.com». All rights reserved. When material from this site including copyright works, link to the site is required. Home \| Terms of use Sitemap \| Contacts Useful article? Do not miss the new! 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__label__cc	0.516133	0.483867	Jump in the Pool January 29, 2016 February 2, 2016 8 minute readby Tracy Kawalik Pool & Marianela about Barbie the Plastic Religion Forgive me Father, I have sinned… I’ve fallen head over heels in love with Pool & Marianela Since breaking on to the scene, lowbrow contemporary artists Emiliano Paolini and Marianela Perelli have made giant waves across the globe. Whether it’s a show featuring a crucified Ken wearing nothing but a loin cloth, paintings of rebel football players, a giant carousel made of political icons you can ride, or serial killer collectables of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley; the Argentinian rebel duo never fail to create work that gets people talking! Their infamous exhibition Barbie the Plastic Religion picked up worldwide press, including coverage on the BBC and CNN, after their 33 Barbie and Ken doll versions of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Buddha, the Hindu goddess Kali… and even Barbie of Guadalupe, prompted a frenzy of heated Argentinian catholics and hindu’s, protests and even death threats; with the whole thing called off for a year until shit cooled down! But despite the controversy surrounding their work, in person Pool & Marianela are much less naughty, then they are super nice. I caught up with the brilliantly colourful and talented duo for chat, as they prepare to pack up their Barbie’s hit the road, and bring their much talked about show to Europe!!! Hola! x Muchas gracias por su tiempo! Soy un gran fan! First where did the idea come from to use Barbie as your muse? POOL: Hola Trace x We chose Barbie (and Ken) for several concepts. They’re both considered pop icons worldwide, and we wanted to experiment with mixing the most popular toy in the world (Barbie) with something imposed on us from birth (our name and religion). The other concept is because undeniably Barbie is the most popular and well known image for unattainable beauty and perfection (whether or not we agree ha!) and all religion’s always seek the ideal of maximum beauty to represent their entities. The idea for our show Barbie the Plastic Religion came from a trip in 2013 to Mexico, where we witnessed the tradition of Day of the Dead. We were captivated by the statues of various Catholic saints and came to the conclusion that Barbie is the only icon that can measure with the popularity of these saints in our modern consumerist world. Did you ever predict the reaction you would get? MARIANELA: We knew we would attract criticism and controversy but no where on the level the show did, or from the local authorities!! Provocation is part of our life and what we do, but it’s harmless, constructive and without bad intentions. Barbie and the Plastic religion came from a place of peace and love, and mutual respect for all spiritual, religious beliefs. A year ago, when we first wanted to debut the show we weren’t ready to deal with how our work was being misinterpreted. After that break and much deliberation we felt that we still needed to exhibit the series. This time we only gave 10 days’ notice to limit any negative repercussions. Which doll caused the most controversy? MARIANELA: The first figure to cause controversy was the Gauachito Gil ( Pagan Saint from the province of Corrientes) that was the one that created the most scandal and massive attention here in Argentina. When the news reached San Juan, reports on television, in print media and various scandals broke out! These maintained until the day of the show for almost a year!!! Letters, death threats, you name it!!! The one which gained the most worldwide importance and attention of the BBC was the Hindu goddess Kali. There were prayers that took place because of it, and lots of coverage throughout news channels in India. Here’s a short clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FOS9MP8HMM Is there one Barbie or Ken that stands out as a favourite over the others? POOL: In my case the figure of St. Cyprian ( Carthage ). I’m a true devotee, I worship this saint. I have a tattoo on my leg of him that fills my entire right thigh. For Marianela , it’s Siracussa Santa Lucia and the Ekeko ( a pagan god she worships in Bolivia , Peru and northern Argentina and Chile) . You guys are never really afraid to stir things up. This year you added another exhibition and just debuted a new piece? POOL: Yes! We opened a new show this year called Saint and Sinners . This was a combination of the two universes of Pool & Marianela. Barbie and the Plastic Religion and our exhibition series the Bad Boys Sideshow which is painting and figures of the “outsiders” of the world culture including serial killers, rebel football players, and obscure writers. Our newest big piece is a carousel that we’ve presented in the art space BAMBOO PROJECT (San Telmo, Buenos Aires), which opened and coincided with the recent presidential election. This piece tells the political story of my country (Argentina). 7-presidents, each referring to a peculiar and ridiculous act committed within their mandate are on the merry-go-round. People can climb and ride them for a few laps. For example, you can get on the amphibian that the tyrannical government of Leopoldo Galtieri used to invade the Falklands or the recently recovered Argentina airline, etc. Describe your design process? POOL: The process is different for each work. The inspirations are sometimes born of nothing, from travel , watching TV, or reading a newspaper . We are fans of American culture of the post-depression, toys, pop culture, punk, history, ’77 England. We put all this in this great mental blender and the work is born. What’s the studio like where your creating your work? MARIANELA: We have 2 small studies. One is in our house in Rosario the city where we live. It’s very small and is full of religious figures, collectible dolls , books, and lowbrow art. Here we produce paintings and sculptures. The other studio is in the house of the‘Fathers of Pool’ in Arroyo Seco near Rosario. This is where we develop the major projects. We have people using welding machines, and tools with ample space to build pieces like the carousel. Where is your biggest fan base, collectors ? POOL: Most of our collectors base is in Argentina , as many works are made to order in our workshop. But we are lucky to have sold works all over the world. New York, Paris, Toronto, Los Angeles, Zurich, Barcelona, Madrid , Fortaleza (Brazil ) and Lima. Hopefully England next! haha Where do you get inspiration from? Who are your favourite artists? POOL: Inspiration for us comes randomly. I suppose a lot of the time we get a lot from visiting toy stores and junk shops and antiques. They always seem to have this feeling of a magical universe that we feel is the same as ours. In terms of artists, I’m more inspired by the messages of people like John Lydon, lean poetry of Ian Curtis, Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood. Then aesthetic of Jeremy Scott, and also super fascinated by anonymous painters of old circuses and fairs, true Americana style. I love Coney Island, and for us we believe it’s the best museum in the world! Marianela as well is inspired less about particular artists and more about her major love of cartoons. She’s a fanatic of old school, retro one’s like Supersonic, Scoobie Doo, Hanna-Barbera. She also loves retro toys usually ’80s to ’90s or Top Mattel Toys. What is a dream place where you would like to exhibit or see your work? MARIANELA: Pool and I are independent artists. We have displayed our work in museums, large formal galleries then also exhibited at bars or houses occasionally turned into galleries! One of the dream places (Pool especially) to show is La Luz de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles. It’s a place that really gave rise to legends of lowbrow art like Mark Ryden, Robt Williams, Robert Crump, Joe Coleman among others. We visited Billy Shire and Matt Kennedy of the gallery last year and have agreed to put a sample there in December 2016 if all goes well. Here in Argentina the genre for our work and lowbrow art has not yet begun, and it still misunderstood and hard to digest. We have no ambition to expose in places with high artistic reputation or hierarchy. So our next step and ambition is to expose our work worldwide to different countries, cultures, etc. like Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, New York and hopefully London. If you had to make a doll/ piece for London or Britain who would you make? POOL: Ha! Well we have actually made figures of British culture as a pack of dolls we created representing Margaret Thatcher and Leopoldo Galtieri in relation to the Falklands wars. Also and dolls of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. We’ve painted Morrissey, John Lydon , George Best, and many more . But if we’re talking about a London icon for Barbie the Plastic Religion than maybe Aleister Crowley would be a modern English prophet, magician, poet, occultist who we should integrate into our future collection. Saint George is another icon you can not miss, and in fact also integrates our current collection which bears the English flag in its packaging. Mellitus of Canterbury patron of London is a good one as well. There’s too many to choose! Any hints on what we can expect next? POOL: It’s top secret!! We have some very exciting surprises planned for next year !!! Watch out for us in Europe and hopefully London sooner than you think.x Words by Tracy Kawalik and Pool & Marianela Photos By Pool & Marianela Category: Art, People	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line280
__label__cc	0.573939	0.426061	Spitting on the artist Sir, there is dry rot in the Labour Party The return of the 'now' Speaking over Heaphy Inside the Seleka Club Glenn Jowitt's secret societies: notes on two phot... Leaves and critiques From the left's to Filipe's lashing Peter Gutteridge in the Ureweras Fantasy islands Apostles of digital reality sometimes claim that everything in the world, and a little more besides, exists on the internet, but the web seemed to me a terribly incomplete place - a poor copy of reality, like the shadows that trembled on the wall of Plato's cave - without this map, which I've scanned from Tin Can Island, CR Ramsay's 1938 book about Niuafo'ou, the regularly active volcano in the far, semi-fabulous northern zone of the Kingdom of Tonga. Ramsay ran Niuafo'ou's store and designed its postal system, which saw muscled young men holding cans full of postcards and letters above the water while they swam to passing cargo ships. When I look at Ramsay's map of Niuafo'ou, I can't easily separate fact from fantasy. For a distant admirer like me, the island's warm crater lake, which contains islands and an island lake of its own, seem as impossibly marvellous as the cherub who wheezes in the map's northwestern corner. My older son has his own fantasy island. He is convinced that Rangitoto - or Langitoto, as the Tongans, whose tongues do not like the trill of the letter 'r', call it - is, along with Indonesia's Komodo Island, the chief habitat of the world's relict dinosaurs. I grew up commanding armies of stunted toy soldiers and fighting with stick guns for the ditch-trenches of the family farm, but my wife has banned me from making our children into militarists. When he sees a gun on television or in a cast-off piece of newspaper, my son has learned to call the strange device a telescope. When Aneirin and I recently climbed that most fabled and tunneled of Auckland's hills, Maungauika/North Head, and discovered a large gun near the northern summit, pointing towards Rangitoto, he decided, quite reasonably, that it was a telescope made to help visitors 'spy on the dinosaurs' of the nearby island. He looked down the barrel of the instrument and began to describe the fantastic creatures of Rangitoto. [Posted by Scott Hamilton] posted by Skyler at 10/20/2014 12:17:00 pm Very powerful article. https://www.icloudcentral.com/ https://googleclassroom.onl/ https://gimp.software/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line281
__label__cc	0.678584	0.321416	Fumie’s Brother Shogo Weds Namiko: following »» «« previous: Bonking the Biggest Mokugyou In the World Anthony and His Tree, 2010 by Jeffrey Friedl Wed, September 29th, 2010 10:10pm JST (9 years, 4 months ago) NOTE: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size. Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 78 mm — 1/320 sec, f/5.6, ISO 450 — map & image data — nearby photos seven years old We're back in Kyoto for a month now, but it seems I've forgotten to post this summer's picture of Anthony in front of the tree he planted at 1 year old at my folks' place in Ohio. I try to get a photo with him each year, such as at six years old, four years old, and three years old). His tree is the evergreen, which though it's hard to see, almost reaches the top of the frame. The other tree's broad leaves had some beads of water that I'd not quite seen before... I had my Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 macro lens, so gave it a try with the odd refractions coming from the droplets... Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/5.6, ISO 4000 — map & image data — nearby photos Anthony was not at all interested in this... Impatient He wanted to drive the tractor (which means he sits on my lap and steers, while I work the pedals), so I put the camera away and off we headed toward the barn where the tractor goes. We passed the lake, which I always find photogenic.... Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 240 mm — 1/500 sec, f/6, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos ... and eventually reach the barn to park. My mom's got lots of flowers around everywhere, which are also photogenic and quite challenging because the colors are often so bold or delicate or fleeting, and next to the barn were these puff-balls of small flowers... Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/2500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos Some of the puffs were slightly off-white green, and others were a more-greenish creamy off-white green, but every time I look at them on screen the color seems wrong. They're still pretty... Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/11, ISO 360 — map & image data — nearby photos Somehow mixing in some creamy bokeh makes a better match for the creamy color... So I like that last shot the better. November 16th, 2006 Pictures from the Summer: Ohio January 3rd, 2007 Funky Spectral Highlights in My Bokeh August 16th, 2007 Kid in the Country: Gardening August 5th, 2008 Brilliant Flower, Not-so-Brilliant Processing August 29th, 2009 Anthony and His Tree, 2009 May 28th, 2010 First Shots with a Cosina Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 July 28th, 2010 My Morning: Birds, Flowers, Coffee, and my Camera August 22nd, 2010 The Surprise of Queen Anne's Lace You can submit a comment below \| Posted under: General, Parenthood \| Comments via RSS \| Trackback One comment so far... I was waiting for the “Anthony an his tree ” picture of this year. Thank you for share! Griselda, Arlington, TX — comment by Griselda on September 30th, 2010 at 12:18pm JST (9 years, 4 months ago) — comment permalink	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line282
__label__cc	0.65043	0.34957	Return to list of search results 2 Page 2 de 6 Jacob-Isaac Segal (1896-1954) : un poète Yiddish de Montréal et son milieu Author/collaborator Anctil, Pierre (Author) The Ukrainian-born poet J. I. Segal (1896-1954) immigrated to Montreal in 1910 where he was acclaimed as a Yiddish poet both in Canada and abroad. The author traces Segal's development as a poet during the great wave of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. As well as a biography of Segal, the author also recounts the literary friendship between the poet and the celebrated Montreal Jewish community activist and literary critic Hannaniah Meir Caiserman (1884-1950). Presses de l'Université Laval xiv-433p. Pierre Anctil's biography of J.I. Segal has been translated into English by Vivian Felsen under the title: Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu. Ottawa, ON: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press, 2017. Anctil, Pierre. Jacob-Isaac Segal (1896-1954) : un poète Yiddish de Montréal et son milieu. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2012. Search by ISBN on WorldCat http://quescren.concordia.ca/fr/resource/N2FX95CD Arts/Culture/Media Ukrainians This resource is classified under	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line285
__label__cc	0.676556	0.323444	"bitcoin" entries Four short links: 16 July 2015 Consumer Exoskeleton, Bitcoin Trends, p2p Sockets, and Plain Government Comms by Nat Torkington \| @gnat \| +Nat Torkington \| July 16, 2015 ReWalk Robotics Exoskeleton — first exoskeleton for the paralyzed to receive regulatory approval; 66 bought so far, 11 with reimbursement from insurance. The software upgrades for the ReWalk 6.0 provide a smoother walking gait (with less of a soldier-like marching step), an easier stopping mechanism, and a much-improved mode for ascending and descending stairs. The user wears a wristwatch-like controller to switch the suit between sit, stand, walk, and stair modes. How long until a cheaper version hits the market, but you don’t always get to control where it takes you if there’s a sale on featuring brands you love? (via IEEE) Bitcoin Trends in First Half of 2015 — 94% increase in monthly transactions over the past year. 47% of Coinbase wallet holders are now from countries outside the U.S. Socket.io p2p — an easy and reliable way to set up a WebRTC connection between peers and communicate using the socket.io-protocol. 18F Content Guide — communications guide for government content writers that bears in mind the frustrations citizens have with gov-speak websites. Our future sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Steve Omohundro on AI, cryptocurrencies, and ensuring a safe future for humanity. by Jenn Webb \| @JennWebb \| +Jenn Webb \| May 1, 2015 Subscribe to the O’Reilly Radar Podcast to track the technologies and people that will shape our world in the years to come. I met up with Possibility Research president Steve Omohundro at our Bitcoin & the Blockchain Radar Summit to talk about an interesting intersection: artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain/cryptocurrency technologies. This Radar Podcast episode features our discussion about the role cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies will play in the future of AI, Omohundro’s Self Aware Systems project that aims to ensure intelligent technologies are beneficial for humanity, and his work on the Pebble cryptocurrency. Synthesizing AI and crypto-technologies Bitcoin piqued Omohundro’s interest from the very start, but his excitement built as he started realizing the disruptive potential of the technology beyond currency — especially the potential for smart contracts. He began seeing ways the technology will intersect with artificial intelligence, the area of focus for much of his work: I’m very excited about what’s happening with the cryptocurrencies, particularly Ethereum. I would say Ethereum is the most advanced of the smart contracting ideas, and there’s just a flurry of insights, and people are coming up every week with, ‘Oh we could use it to do this.’ We could have totally autonomous corporations running on the blockchain that copy what Uber does, but much more cheaply. It’s like, ‘Whoa what would that do?’ I think we’re in a period of exploration and excitement in that field, and it’s going to merge with the AI systems because programs running on the blockchain have to connect to the real world. You need to have sensors and actuators that are intelligent, have knowledge about the world, in order to integrate them with the smart contracts on the blockchain. I see a synthesis of AI and cryptocurrencies and crypto-technologies and smart contracts. I see them all coming together in the next couple of years. Beyond bitcoin and the blockchain to booming business Widespread blockchain adoption requires understanding between developers and domain experts. by Justin Dombrowski \| @Historiocity \| April 14, 2015 Editor’s note: this post is part of our investigation into the future of money. The full video compilation from our first event, Bitcoin & the Blockchain, is now available. The vision for bitcoin and the blockchain is unabashedly optimistic, though already it is being realized. More and more technologists, venture capitalists, financial institutions, and even regulators are seeing its long-term potential to transform industries, from financial services to data management to the Internet of Things. In the medium term, there remain hurdles to overcome before blockchain technology can offer sufficiently compelling solutions for the complex financial and technological world we live in, but there is progress to date — and it’s promising. Blockchain-based remittance vehicles offered by Coins.ph, BitPagos, and BitPesa, though early stage, aim to take a chunk of the $450 billion remittance industry by offering speedier, more efficient, and cheaper alternatives to traditional solutions. BitPay offers bitcoin/fiat payment processing for merchants as well as bank integration. Increasingly, private investors are diversifying their portfolios by purchasing bitcoin alongside traditional assets. Most recently, Coinbase even received funding from a group of blue-chip investors, including the New York Stock Exchange, and launched its own exchange, signaling both greater acceptance by the financial services industry as well as confidence in its future value. Ripple Labs has taken a very different approach with its protocol, permitting the decentralized transmission of practically any currency type — cryptographic or fiat — like an SMTP for money, and circumventing traditional payment networks. And to this end, it’s already inked agreements with Cross River Bank (New Jersey), CBW Bank (Kansas), and Fidor Bank (Germany), with more on the horizon. Read more… Better currency through programming The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Vitalik Buterin on bitcoin, the blockchain, Ethereum, and the future of money. by Jenn Webb \| @JennWebb \| +Jenn Webb \| April 3, 2015 In this Radar Podcast, I chat with Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine. We met at our Bitcoin & the Blockchain summit in San Francisco to talk about the disruptive potential of the bitcoin and blockchain technologies. He also outlined some of the problems he’s trying to solve with Ethereum and weighed in on how the use cases of money are going to change over the next 10 to 20 years. Buterin told me that his father initially introduced him to bitcoin in 2011, and he wasn’t immediately interested — in fact, he outright rejected it, thinking, “It looks like it has no intrinsic value, and it’s obviously not going to work.” As he kept hearing about, he decided to investigate more and came to the realization that ultimately led him to create the Ethereum platform: I immediately recognized that the way bitcoin works is the way that money should work. It’s exactly the correct approach, where you have: here’s the address you’re supposed to send to, here’s how much you want to send, here’s the button to send it. It’s money made for the Internet, not like the credit card approach, where you just basically give everyone the details to take as much as they want from your bank account. On a trip to Israel, Buterin encountered projects, such as Colored Coins and Mastercoin, using blockchain technology for things other than bitcoin currency. “They were trying to let people issue their own assets,” he said. “They were trying tack features on top, tack financial contracts on top.” The protocols, Buterin noted, were overly complicated and he realized there might be a better way: “You could make it much simpler just by replacing everything with a programming language, and then if you do that, then people can write as many features as they want in the programming language after the fact.” Four short links: 2 April 2015 250 Whys, Amazon Dash, Streaming Data, and Lightning Networks by Nat Torkington \| @gnat \| +Nat Torkington \| April 2, 2015 What I Learned from 250 Whys — Let’s Plan for a Future Where We’re All As Stupid as We Are Today. Thoughts on Amazon Dash (Matt Webb) — In a way, we’re really seeing the future of marketing here. We’ve separated awareness (advertising) and distribution (stores) for so long, but it’s no longer the way. When you get a Buy Now button in a Tweet, you’re seeing ads and distribution merging, and the Button is the physical instantiation of this same trend. […] in the future every product will carry a buy button. A Collection of Links for Streaming Algorithms and Data Structures — is this not the most self-evident title ever? Lightning Networks (Rusty Russell) — I finally took a second swing at understanding the Lightning Network paper. The promise of this work is exceptional: instant, reliable transactions across the bitcoin network. But the implementation is complex, and the draft paper reads like a grab bag of ideas; but it truly rewards close reading! It doesn’t involve novel crypto, nor fancy bitcoin scripting tricks. There are several techniques that are used in the paper, so I plan to concentrate on one per post and wrap up at the end. Already posted part II. More than a currency, bitcoin is an enabling technology The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Balaji Srinivasan on the bigger picture of bitcoin, liquid markets, and the future of regulation. by Jenn Webb \| @JennWebb \| +Jenn Webb \| February 12, 2015 The promise of bitcoin and blockchain extends well beyond its potential disruption as a currency. In this Radar Podcast episode, Balaji Srinivasan, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, explains how bitcoin is an enabling technology and why it’s like the Internet, in that “bitcoin will do for value transfer what the Internet did for communication — make it programmable.” I met up with Srinivasan at our recent O’Reilly Radar Summit: Bitcoin & the Blockchain, where he was speaking — you can see his talk, and all the others from the event, in the complete video compilation now available. Subscribe to the O’Reilly Radar Podcast TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS The bigger picture of bitcoin More than just a digital currency, bitcoin can serve as an instigator for new markets. Srinivasan explained the potential for everything to become a liquid market: “Bitcoin is a platform for programmable money, programmable interchange, or anything of value. That’s very general. People have probably heard at this point about how you can use a blockchain to trade — in theory — stocks, or houses, or other kinds of things, but programmable value transfer is even bigger than just trading things which we know already exist. “One analogy I would give is in 1988, it was not possible to find information on anything instantly. Today, most of the time it is. From your iPhone or your Android phone, you can google pretty much anything. In the same way, I think what bitcoin is going to mean, is markets in everything. That is, everything will have a price on it — everything will be a liquid market. You’ll be able to buy and sell almost anything. Where today the fixed costs of setting up such a market is too high for anything other than things that are fairly valuable, tomorrow it’ll be possible for even images or things you would not even think of normally buying and selling.” Bitcoin is just the first app to use blockchain technology Understanding the value of the blockchain above and beyond bitcoin. by Lorne Lantz \| @Lornestar \| January 23, 2015 Editor’s note: Lorne Lantz is a program co-chair for our O’Reilly Radar Summit: Bitcoin & the Blockchain on January 27, 2015, in San Francisco. For more on the program and for registration information, visit the Bitcoin & the Blockchain event website. I remember the first time I heard about bitcoin. It was June 2012, and I was invited to a bitcoin meetup. The whole time I was sitting there, I thought these were a bunch of computer geeks playing around with nerd money. At the same time, I felt excited about the possibilities. If what the bitcoin believers were saying was true, it could become something very big. When I took a closer look, I realized why it could be so groundbreaking: decentralization. Unlike other currencies and payment networks, bitcoin is not controlled by a bank, government, or financial institution. Instead, thousands of computers around the world verify transactions and manage a global decentralized ledger. This innovative technology is called the blockchain, and it provides a unique pathway that allows — for the first time — many computers that don’t trust each other to achieve consensus. In bitcoin’s case, they are achieving consensus on updates to the global ledger. Read more… Blockchain scalability A look at the stumbling blocks to blockchain scalability and some high-level technical solutions. by Kieren James-Lubin \| @kjameslubin \| January 22, 2015 Author note: Vitalik Buterin contributed to this article. Request an invitation to Next:Money, O’Reilly’s conference focused on the fundamental transformation taking place in the finance industry. In a talk at CoinJar last fall, well-known bitcoin expert Andreas Antonopoulos made the following comment: “I have no worries that bitcoin can scale, and the simple reason for that is that I know that IPv4 can’t, and yet I use it every day.” The issue of bitcoin scalability and the phrase “blockchain scalability” are often seen in technical discussions of the bitcoin protocol. Will the requirements of recording every bitcoin transaction in the blockchain compromise its security (because fewer users will keep a copy of the whole blockchain) or its ability to handle a great number of transactions (because new blocks on which transactions can be recorded are only produced at limited intervals)? In this article, we’ll explore several meanings of “blockchain scalability” and some high-level technical solutions to the issue. The three main stumbling blocks to blockchain scalability are: The tendency toward centralization with a growing blockchain: the larger the blockchain grows, the larger the requirements become for storage, bandwidth, and computational power that must be spent by “full nodes” in the network, leading to a risk of much higher centralization if the blockchain becomes large enough that only a few nodes are able to process a block. The bitcoin-specific issue that the blockchain has a built-in hard limit of 1 megabyte per block (about 10 minutes), and removing this limit requires a “hard fork” (ie. backward-incompatible change) to the bitcoin protocol. The high processing fees currently paid for bitcoin transactions, and the potential for those fees to increase as the network grows. We won’t discuss this too much, but see here for more detail. We’ll consider these first two issues in detail. Read more… The 3Ps of the blockchain: platforms, programs and protocols There is a burgeoning landscape around the blockchain’s decentralized consensus protocol technologies. by William Mougayar \| @wmougayar \| +William Mougayar \| January 21, 2015 Although it may be early to baptize new buzz lingo like “Blockchain as a Service” (BaaS) or “Blockchain as a Platform” (BaaP), there is a burgeoning landscape of various implementations and activity in and around the blockchain’s decentralized consensus protocol technologies. I’ve already covered the blockchain’s sweet spot as a development platform in “Understanding the blockchain,” so it is no surprise that its landscape will be made up of platforms, protocols, and (smart) programs. Breaking-up the bitcoin-blockchain paradigm In a perfect world, we would have a single blockchain and a single cryptocurrency. But that doesn’t seem to be in the cards, whether it is technically feasible or not. Although wide-scale adoption and a critical mass of users aren’t there yet, the market is signaling for a diversification of choices, some based on the bitcoin currency and its blockchain protocol, and others not. Read more… Understanding the blockchain We must be prepared for the blockchain’s promise to become a new development environment. Editor’s note: this post originally published on the author’s website in three pieces: “The Blockchain is the New Database, Get Ready to Rewrite Everything,” “Blockchain Apps: Moving from the Jungle to the Zoo,” and “It’s Too Early to Judge Network Effects in Bitcoin and the Blockchain.” He has revised and adapted those pieces for this post. There is no doubt that we are moving from a single cryptocurrency focus (bitcoin) to a variety of cryptocurrency-based applications built on top of the blockchain. This article examines the impact of the blockchain on developers, the segmentation of blockchain applications, and the network effects factors affecting bitcoin and blockchains. The blockchain is the new database — get ready to rewrite everything The technology concept behind the blockchain is similar to that of a database, except that the way you interact with that database is different. For developers, the blockchain concept represents a paradigm shift in how software engineers will write software applications in the future, and it is one of the key concepts that needs to be well understood. We need to really understand five key concepts, and how they interrelate to one another in the context of this new computing paradigm that is unravelling in front of us: the blockchain, decentralized consensus, trusted computing, smart contracts, and proof of work/stake. This computing paradigm is important because it is a catalyst for the creation of decentralized applications, a next-step evolution from distributed computing architectural constructs. Read more… < Newer posts \|	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line286
__label__wiki	0.666123	0.666123	Night of the living fields Don’t look now, but the fields of the British Isles are up to something. It seems that the UK has gained two million people in the past 10 years (holy population explosion, Batman!) and lacks sufficient places to put them. Therefore, the Planning Minister has suggested that flats and houses be built on “low quality, environmentally uninteresting fields.” To find out how this is being received on the ground, I conducted a boring-field study in the UK and Ireland. I offered to give the fields pseudonyms in case the NSA reads my blog, but to a field, they told me that they’re proud of their historic names and urged me to use them. murmurs of dissent Have YOU got a standing stone, Planning Minister? I started my survey in Buckinghamshire with an unexciting field called Calves Plat. “What about boring people?” he asked me. “I mean, have you seen the current Cabinet? John Major was spectacularly boring, and nobody built on him. Ted Heath — did he ever set any pulses racing? And a politician calls us boring!” “We’re not taking this lying down,” added Stockings, another dull field in Bucks. “Well, I mean, of course we’re lying down: we’re fields. But we’re not going to let ourselves be built on willy-nilly. “We’ve formed a pressure group,” she added. “We call it ‘Fields United Committee On Fighting Fabrications,’ or FUC OFF for short. That was Crap Angry’s idea. He’s a field in Scotland. Well, you know what they’re like up there. Still covered with woad, a lot of those Scottish fields.” hints of a conspiracy “Oh Gareth! You shouldn’t have!” Near Lampeter, I spoke to Welsh spokesfield Waun O Flaen Ty. “We have a cunning plan,” he confided. “First off, we’re going to make the case that ‘boring’ is in the eye of the beholder. “Take me. In English, my name means ‘wet field in front of the house.’ Well, that’s interesting right there, isn’t it? What was in the mind of the person who said, ‘Right, here’s a bit of bog, I’ll just bung a house behind it. I’m sure my Bronwen would love to live adjacent to a wet field.’ It gets your mind going, does that. Boring, my aunt Myfanwy!” In Somerset, a field named Twindix built on that argument. “So a field is boring: that’s no excuse for building on it. You couldn’t discriminate against me if I were gay, could you? (And it’s too bad that I’m not, with a name like ‘Twindix.’) Well, then, you can’t build on me just because I’m flat, infertile, and lacking in character. It’s a landscape rights issue.” He’s feeling his oats “And a heritage issue,” declared Gortahork, a humdrum field in Ireland. “Haven’t we fields been here for centuries now, minding our own business? I know I’ve been after growing oats since long before the Romans came, saw, conquered, and buggered off back to Italy. You can’t just pave over a history like that, no you can’t now.” the human angle “We will also make the case that people have been interfering with us for centuries,” said a field in Nottinghamshire. “You’ll have forgotten, you short-lived humans, but on June 16, 1487, a terrible battle was fought on me between Lambert Simnel’s supporters and the forces of the King. “They hacked at each other with swords, spears, and axes, and left me hedgerow-to-hedgerow in gore. That’s how I got my name, ‘the Red Gutter.’ It’s too much to ask that, after absorbing all that blood, I should now be forced to cover myself with a housing estate.” the not-so-phantom menace A quartet of Scottish fields – Spittle Doup, Prior Inch, Moor o’Scare, and Gruggle o’ the Wood – is investigating the possibility of industrial action. Interesting now. But without the poppies? “Aye, we’re having a wee chat with some of the ‘interesting’ fields,” Gruggle told me. “They see the point of solidarity. Humans are aye chopping and changing, and today’s bonnie field is tomorrow’s clapped-out kilt. “We’ve already secured our picket lines: march dykes, hedgerows, dry stone walls, they’re all behind us. By which I mean, of course, around us. And not letting anyone through.” what would a british field strike look like? “We’ll halt production,” threatened Gin Cock Hops, a monotonous field in Yalding, Kent. “Fields under plough will stop growing crops. Fields used for pasture will kick the animals off. Picturesque fields will refuse to have their photos taken, and fields with public footpaths won’t let people walk on them.” “Baaa!” “What? We might lose our field?” Do fields really have that kind of power? “You’ll find out if you try to build on us,” said two of Gin Cock Hops’ neighbors, “or our names aren’t Mad Pit and Rebellion Meadow. Which they are. And there’s a field up in Scotland called Hell. Trust us: you don’t want to mess with her.” So be afraid, people of the British Isles. Be very afraid. You don’t want to have to say, like George Harrison in A Hard Day’s Night: “Sorry we hurt your field, mister.” Honey Pot Meadow in Bucks was also interviewed for this blog post, but all she had to say was, “I’m covered in bees!”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line291
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The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by Jean Francois Del Nero, that emulates the behaviour of a floppy drive. Looking for a Vita emulator? Here again, you want to check our PS Vita emulator page for the latest information on that topic! This page is a list of emulators to run on your PSP or your PS Vita, not the other way around! The emulators below are compatible with both the PSP and the PS Vita (through its PSP emulator). Amiga and Retro Computers shop - We Ship Worldwide! 28-10-2019: IDE4 Z2 for Amiga 2000 back in stock / Controladora IDE4 Z2 Amiga 2000 en stock!. WinUAE Amiga Emulator. Latest version 4. The Computer Emulation Framework (CEF) is an application framework specification for the purposes of emulating various computer hardware configurations in software. com is one of the oldest and most popular emulation sites with news, downloads, guides, articles, reviews and forums. 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Amiga game disk images or Amiga ROMs for the Commodore Amiga have been converted for PC to files with. Emulation is done by using existing emulators which are carefully selected on their capability to mimic the functionality of these platforms. There are many different emulators for ps3 like ESX or PCSX3. As a simulator of the very excellent and popular old computer Commodore Amiga in the 80's, WinUAE enables us to run the Amiga OS and its classic games, apps under Windows with ease. Amiga Dungeoneering Collection - Over 60 of the best Amiga Dungeon RPGS for your PC! (FREE) 4) Extra notes : Pressing F12 in game brings up the advanced options and I recommend ONLY touching the Display for your full screen res and the filter area to set up the scaling properties. Amiga Explorer is a shareware file explorer software app filed under network software and made available by Cloanto Italia for Windows. By Mike Saunders The best-known is UAE, which began life as the 'Unusable Amiga Emulator' because it couldn't even boot. Amiga computer models usually came with a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, and sometimes an independent floppy disk drive; many options can be found on eBay. For Emulators that emulate the 3DS itself, see PC utilities. Core News - PUAE (Amiga emulator) and VICE (Commodore 64) August 25, 2019 Daniel De Matteis sonninnos and rsn8887 made a lot of improvements recently to two home computer Libretro cores. The Amiga computer was a powerful machine back in its heyday that beat IBM PC's back then when it came to gaming, and quite a few other things such as creating music. We're also delighted with this video that shows how to turn a Raspberry Pi into an retro Amiga computer. At the time of its launch, the Amiga was the most advanced personal computer money could buy - bar none. CROSSING THE PROPRIETARY LINE The concept of emulation was turned on its head in 1988 by a young man named Simon Douglas. This offers the ability for gamers to play Amiga games with other players from around the world, as if using the same Amiga computer. After playing around with MAME and other emulators on my PC I decided to try this out for another way to get my retro gaming on without having to sit in front of a computer monitor. Emulator for the Commodore-64, the C64DTV, the Commodore-128, the VIC20, almost all PET models, the PLUS4 and the CBM-II (aka C610). Atari ST emulation on Amiga is very easy because the two machine share the same model of processor (68000) and more or less feature the same hardware characteristics. An editor to create Bitmaps of pseudo 3D cubes to create games in the style of dungeon master/ Captive / Ishar / black crypt / Bloodwych / etc. As a simulator of the very excellent and popular old computer Commodore Amiga in the 80’s, WinUAE enables us to run the Amiga OS and its classic games, apps under Windows with ease. FS-UAE is an Amiga emulator based on the excellent emulation code from WinUAE currently developed and maintained by Toni Wilen, which again builds on the work by the earlier authors of the original UAE and WinUAE. Download miscellaneous utilities [USSLoad] Load UAE save state files (*. Commodore Amiga 1200 - A1200 computer, used. Welcome to the Amiga History Guide - the largest Amiga history site in the world! This site examines a kaleidoscope of topics, ranging from Amiga Inc's early foray into joysticks, to the latest offerings in cross-platform Amiga solutions. By using Best MAC Emulator for Windows OS, there is no need to change the O. 3 is now available from the App Store. Be it a classic A500, A1200, CD32 or up to a high-end model equipped with a 68040 and a graphics card, we've got you covered. The Armiga comes with a Commodore Amiga 500 emulator and is able to run games directly from ADF files easily, or create ADF from your old floppies. Commodore Computer Club buy, sell, trade and free marketplace goodies at the meeting including a Amiga 1000, A3000 keyboard and a complete in box C64C computer: C64 Club members James and Adrian discussing IDE hard drive technolog. A2DS Apple II Emulator. Hello, I found this post and like to run Amiga OS 4. I have used WinUAE in the past, and that has worked for things I tried. Learn more about 3Ds android emulator. Welcome to the Libretro/RetroArch Documentation!¶ RetroArch is the official reference frontend for libretro "cores": applications that include emulators, game engines, and media players. Amiga Raspberry Pi emulation. info" to the root of those drives. I know that UAE is a pretty good Amiga Emulator, but it seems aimed to emulatr an Amiga 500 or a 1200. Amiga emulation comes in two flavors : Amiga 600 and Amiga 1200. Amibian is what you need to transform your Raspberry Pi into an Amiga. It's one of the top rated emulators and can run old DOS software on modern computers which would not work otherwise. Using the software and tips in this guide, you should be able to get an almost-perfect emulation of an Amiga 500 on your PC. Some games can be very touchy so try to use the two systems if a game is not working. Now you can enjoy its successor AmiKit X E on your own computer!. The main piece of software you will need to emulate the Amiga is a program called WinUAE. Such an amazing computer! I have never tried Amiga Forever. There tools and emulators are free to download. The definitive Commodore Amiga 500 Retro Gaming Console. Not so on the Amiga, where a "ROM" is the original "Kickstart" operating system code as released by Commodore-Amiga in the 1980s and early 1990s. So I looked into it, Seems there is a full linux installation for it preset up and everything. WinUAE is the best Amiga emulator we have seen so far, for playing Amiga games on a Windows PC. So all the defined drive become availables at WinUAE boot like C: D: A: (if a floppy was inside) and even Network volume or CD-ROM It's easy to add an Amiga Icon to those volumes by copying a "disk. Amiga - wolfchild good condition. If you do not have the Nintendo DS , you can Download the Nintendo DS emulator from here, so you can play it on your computer, Android phone and iPhone. dms) Lemmings 2 Preview for Amiga (390 KB, PrePreLemmings. uk (or below) contain a number of configurations for the FS-UAE Emulator & Launcher (for PC, Mac and Linux) already set up to make playing online as simple as possible. CrocoDS CPC 6128 (Amstrad CPC) emulator. Play Android games, run Android apps on your Windows 10/7/8. Stefansen has just published his Amiga 500 emulator, which carefully recreates the 1980s OS as a Web app that runs in Chrome. by Arcade Punk December 31, 2017. Amiga game disk images or Amiga ROMs for the Commodore Amiga have been converted for PC to files with. With this emulator, original DOS programs are provided an environment in which they can run correctly. Learn more about 3Ds android emulator. Project 64 offers Gamepad and Joystick Controller Support. It allows you to browse games with screenshots and a lot of extra information and run them with the WinUAE Amiga emulator with ideal pre-defined settings for a hassle free playing experience. A500+ A600 A1200 A1500+ A2000+ A3000 A4000 and UAE. This port has some limitations that it can't install Windows 3. Up until now you had to rely on emulators running on the local machine to play Amiga games, demos and software on a PC. This emulator allows to make this License: Free OS: Windows XP Language: EN Version: 1. FS-UAE is an Amiga emulator based on the excellent emulation code from WinUAE currently developed and maintained by Toni Wilen, which again builds on the work by the earlier authors of the original UAE and WinUAE. Was just wandering as it seems just about every other computer as been emulated or other wise run on the N900, is there an Amiga emulator out there somewhere. On the Amiga is a copy of the A-Talk terminal emulator, and as far. Icaros Desktop is your all-in-one solution to any Amiga-related need. DS81 Emulation of the Sinclair ZX81. Despite having an. Guide on how to set up Playstation Emulator ». com Downloads Page. The emulated computer's speed is often similar to the one which runs the emulator, and then the result is rotten in most cases, except for the excellent Macintosh emulators on Amiga (Shapeshifter, A-Max, and Emplant) and on PeeCee (Executor). To that end he takes us through setting up a PC with Hayes modem emulator, and connecting it to the Amiga via a null modem cable. The Amiga computer, launched by Commodore in 1985, combined superior multimedia technology with ease of use, inspiring millions of the most creative and enthusiastic computer users ever. From Poland. WinUAE is the best Amiga emulator we have seen so far, for playing Amiga games on a Windows PC. 5 for Amiga (Jean-François Fabre) ArcOric 1. WinFellow is a high performance Amiga Emulator primarily targeted for Windows. The name "Amiga" was chosen because it is the Spanish word for (female) friend, and alphabetically it appears before Apple in lists of computer makers. 8 The link below is a pre-configured workbench image with WHD Folder structure for putting your (WHDLoad) games in to. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities. You need a ROM copy of your own Amiga ! Touch screen or trackball as mouse control. If you are struck by nostalgia too or have a desire to do some Atari development, perhaps it might be useful to you, too. Long-time Slashdot reader Mike Bouma quotes Gizmodo: Despite being ahead of its time when it was unveiled in 1985, the Commodore Amiga didn't survive past 1996. Lemon Amiga home FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register : Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in to check your private messages. Looking to play some of your favorite classic games on PC? Let's take a look at some of the best emulators for Windows! Check out the full article at TechJun. With PS4 architecture being pretty close to a regular PC it is only a matter of time that all the emulators for playing MAME, SNES roms, N64 or even PS1 and PS3 games will be ported to Playstation 4. In 2006, PC World rated the Amiga 1000 as the seventh greatest PC of all time, stating "Years ahead of its time, the Amiga was the world's first multimedia, multitasking personal computer". Is there another emulator for Amiga or has anyone got this working on their S7800?. ), game guides, magazines, comics, video game translations, and much much more!. You can use emulator to play the Amiga games on your Windows PC, Mac, Android and iPhone. While the CD32 is similar to the Amiga 1200 - 68EC020 CPU, 2 MB ChipRAM, AGA - it has a special Chip, the Akiko, which does not seem to be supported by UAE. Here you can download thousand of games for Amiga. Such an amazing computer! I have never tried Amiga Forever. Gotek floppy emulators are a useful piece of hardware, especially for retro PCs. Atari800 emulator was written by David Firth in 1995 and released under the GPL. RPCS3 began development in May of 2011 by its founders, DH and Hykem. First, I wanted to create an emulator that can be used as a demonstrator program in a first year or second year course on computer engineering. GameBase Amiga is a collection of data and scripts to be used with the GameBase emulator frontend. Play Commodore Amiga Games on Emulator Online. The packs, which are available to download via the Amiga Online front-page: www. Emulators are provided that can play the ROM you download. One of its interesting capabilities is the ability of the emulated processor to access PC resources like the LPT port. by Ian Dransfield. We worked together with the developers of UAE4All2, UAE4Droid, AnUAE4All, Omega 500 and other apps to make sure that Amiga Forever Essentials system content is autodetected (no manual file. amigaonline. In the past there were produced various software based Atari emulators for the Amiga such as Amtari, or Medusa emulator. With zero fanfare, the Internet Archive uploaded a new collection of software last week from the Amiga, a mid-80s personal computer famous for its impressive-for-the-time game graphics. You would probably have to write a device driver to replace the default parallel port driver. 1, Gravis UltraSound support isn't working and has no CDROM support, but running DOS based stuff and using SoundBlaster 16 Soundcard.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line301
__label__wiki	0.838134	0.838134	The Perils of Being Up in the Air Open Your Ears: The Sound of Music, Talking, and Foley at the 3rd Annual Jornada Brasileira de Cinema Silencioso Shari Kizirian Man of the West Christopher Sharrett Pintilie, Lucian Olivia Maria Hărşan Ânûû-rû Âboro: The Festival of Peoples’ Cinema Charles Fairbanks New Caledonia may be far from the glitz and glamour of Cannes, Sundance, Venice and the rest, but that is exactly what makes the festival Ânûû-rû Âboro so special. Named for the Paicî expression for cinema that translates as shadows of man, Ânûû-rû Âboro bills itself as a “documentary film festival” in English, but more precisely in French as a “festival international du cinéma des peuples” – an international festival of peoples’ cinema. This year’s 11th edition included “shadows” from five continents and 28 countries, which were projected in 30 tribal villages, as well as cultural centres, a hotel and a prison. Upon first glance, Ânûû-rû Âboro appears like a shadow of more famous festivals, projected onto an island in the South Pacific. Films are organised into local (New Caledonia), regional (Pacific) and international competitions, juried by distinguished guests. But scratch the surface and you see something truly exceptional, unique in the world of cinema. For example, while Ânûû-rû Âboro’s opening and closing ceremonies serve the usual functions – to thank overworked staff, allow politicians and sponsors to share the limelight, and award prizes – they also serve as potlatch-like ceremonies between filmmakers and hosting tribes: an exchange of gifts, words and intentions that locals call the coutûme. Two directors who speak un français accenté represented our international tribe of cineastes in the opening coutûme: the Argentine Alejandro Moujan and myself, Charles Fairbanks, an American who resides in Mexico. We thanked the tribes for inviting us onto the land of their ancestors; we declared that ours is not a cinema of Hollywood, nor of Bollywood, but a cinema of resistance: a cinema that strives to approach human experience, witness oppression, and resist injustice. Local chiefs responded on behalf of their tribes, affirming that indeed “we are resisting – not only through Ânûû-rû Âboro, but also in our effort to build a Kanak nation,” Kanak being the term for all native inhabitants of New Caledonia. Tribal chiefs gathered under the Kanak flag for the opening coutûme As at many festivals, mealtimes here are convivial: filmmakers break bread with tribespeople and the wider public, as they get to know each others’ respective customs and cultures. But Ânûû-rû Âboro does not hire catering; meals are provided by hosting tribes who receive cash (from the public) or tickets (from visiting filmmakers) they can exchange for cash. The food is often delicious and always interesting; the best are French-inspired recipes made with local ingredients, such as taro and plantain au gratîn, snail salade, and deer daube. Enterprising locals sell fresh coconuts to drink, for which they gladly accepted our bottled water tickets, valued at 100 Pacific Francs (about 1 dollar). In this way, meals nourish guests as well as the local economy: for tribal chefs, this is a rare opportunity to earn some dough. Otherwise, tourism is scarce in this region; the biggest cash crop – marijuana – is illegal; the only consistent work available to rural Kanak people is in the nickel mine. Nickel accounts for 75% of New Caledonia’s exports and a big chunk of GDP; it’s the only major industry in the rural Northern Province, where Ânûû-rû Âboro is centred. The festival is financed almost entirely by the Northern Province government – which is to say, by nickel mining – so it, too, is vulnerable to the whims of commodity prices. When the price of nickel goes down (and it’s been in decline since America’s subprime mortgage bubble burst in 2007, spawning a global financial crisis and the Great Recession) the festival budget takes a hit, as do the miners and their families back in the villages. It’s unsurprising then that mining is a consistent subject among selected documentaries. Martin Chouracki’s Le taureau et l’igname (The Bull and the Yam) documents the final stages of transition to democracy in a New Caledonian mining town, where the balance of power is swinging from loyalists of France’s colonial regime, to separatists and Kanak nationalists. Despite the anticolonial fervour of some, Kanak youth are disaffected in the face of foreign control of the local mine: “they take our land” – literally, as the unrefined, nickel-rich soil is hoisted onto Japanese ships – “and we get nothing”. The Panguna Syndrome The Panguna Syndrome (d. Alexandre Berman & Olivier Pollet) documents the struggle of another native population in the Pacific – this one on the island of Bouganville – to develop economically and democratically when rich and powerful nations are invested in their minerals. Until the late 20th century, Bouganville society was matriarchal: women owned all property until their Australian governers – and a calculating army of mining companies – undermined this custom. As illustrated by an extraordinary montage of archival footage, Bouganville men were seduced by bribes and enslaved by materialism. Years later, the mine’s effluvia included vast amounts of inequality, corruption and pollution, which eventually catalysed a brutal civil war. Now that Bouganville is approaching an independence referendum, foreign mining interests and local politicians have conspired to re-open the mine, this time with protection from a 500-page mining law bankrolled by Australian Aid, and drafted by Canberra University law professors with the London-based neoliberal consultancy Adam Smith International. Passed quietly into Bouganvillian law, the Mining Act imposes draconian punishments for any action that interrupts or interrogates the mining company’s production – including alluvial mining, which is how most Pangunans eke out a living. But the film’s charismatic hero, Dr Ruth Saovana-Spriggs, is on a mission to educate her fellow Bouganvillians about this Machiavellian law, and what’s really at stake in the upcoming vote for independence. Hotel Coolgardie (d. Pete Gleeson) is an ethnography of libidinal masculinity, boozing and cussing in an Australian mining town. The film focuses on Finnish girls who take a bartending job at the eponymous hotel, whose patrons see the girls’ stint as an excuse for competitive flirting and bad pick-up lines. Presenting Coolgardie in a tribal screening at the end of the festival, Gleeson preempted his film with an apology: “I’ve screened in the USA, Australia and Europe, but here – after experiencing your tremendous warmth and kindness – its crass language and subject matter feel out of place.” But the tribal audience thoroughly enjoyed Coolgardie, likely because many have brothers, sons and uncles who work and live in mostly-male mining towns. This was Hotel Coolgardie’s first non-English language festival, probably because its deeply accented, profanity-laced, back country jargon is a bear to translate. This work was done by Ânûû-rû Aboro’s one full-time staff member, the indefatigable Thaïs Dumas, who personally translated and subtitled six films for the 2017 festival. Hotel Coolgardie Subtitles are key to the success of Ânûû-rû Âboro, as New Caledonian natives speak 40 different languages and multiple dialects of each. Colonisation made French the lingua franca between tribes, and literacy hovers around 98%, which makes it uniquely possible for this polyglot region to collectively host, understand and discuss films from all over the world. In 2017, selected films spoke at least 27 languages from 28 countries – all of which were presented with French subtitles. Because Ânûû-rû Âboro is not pitched at the film industry, and because spectators bring different worldviews to the screenings, post-film discussions were often revealing and always fascinating. The festival’s unflappable translator, Olivier Roth, masterfully translated spectators’ diatribes and digressions, which allowed filmmakers from around the world to engage with the multicultural francophone audience. Indeed, one of the many delights of screening at Ânûû-rû Âboro is to discover how one’s work is apprehended by local populations. My own film provoked remarkably divergent reactions. The Modern Jungle (Charles Fairbanks & Saul Kak, 2016), is a portrait of globalisation focused on a Mexican shaman, don Juan, who falls under the spell of a pyramid-scheme-marketed nutritional supplement. His neighbour Carmen lives in harmony with the land her martyred husband paid for with his life. Filmed in the Zoque region of Chiapas, an early scene shows Carmen gathering and preparing snails, which drew excited commentary from a tribal audience: “What a great recipe! We have snails like that too – I’ll prepare them like this!” The Modern Jungle also becomes a meditation on the documentary encounter when Juan demands that I pay for his entry into the pyramid scheme. These negotiations have proven consistently provocative, and French expatriates were deeply unsettled. Kanak spectators, however, were unperturbed: they defended these scenes against the expat critics since they make class difference – between the documentary director and his subjects – visible in the film itself. While The Modern Jungle deals primarily with the cultural effects of rapacious global capitalism, Dusk Chorus and Be Jam Be deal with its environmental consequences. Dusk Chorus (d. Alessandro D’Emilia & Nika Saravanja) beautifully documents an acoustic ecologist’s work in the Amazon, where the effects of global warming are inscribed in the soundscape. According to David Monacchi, animals in a healthy ecosystem will occupy the entire spectrum of sound. But the now-ubiquitous oil wells and pipelines create a constant rumble, which mutes, confuses, and ultimately threatens animals that sing in that range. The resultant extinction of frogs, bats, birds and insects heralds an ecosystem out of whack. Be Jam Be (d. Caroline Parietti & Cyprien Ponson) is an extraordinary portrait of Penan people in the Sarawak region of Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. The filmmakers follow a grassroots resistance movement against the companies that are cutting the forests, polluting the rivers, and devastating the Penan’s nomadic way of life. Be Jam Be opens with a monologue to the camera, in the dark, with a flashlight: “You say ‘make a film.’ In penan we say ‘shadows’. Here’s a shadow. It can be big or small. You can play with it, like this. You like the shadow of the Penan? Our shadow is beautiful.” Here and throughout the film, Penan testimony consists of poetic parables and ritual chants that are recited at once for the filmmakers, for the future, and for the world: This is not a song about happiness. This is a song about our forests and rivers. They were our lives and now they are ravaged by the companies. This is the only time when our voice can carry and be heard; then it will vanish if no one out there hears, and we will die because of the companies. This is why we tell this, so our voice may reach you. After this song we will be killed, the companies will come and slit our throats. Be Jam Be lasts 87 minutes by one measure, but it’s also timeless: in the words of the filmmakers, it’s a song with no end. Be Jam Be Deeply moved by such a wide range of films, I began to speculate how this “festival of peoples’ cinema” defines itself in practice, and a few criteria came into focus. To start with, many selected films from faraway lands resonate with local experience. While the New Caledonian doc Le retour d’Ataï (The Return of Ataï, d. Mehdi Lallaoui) follows the French restitution of a Kanak chief’s skull 136 years after he was killed for leading an insurrection, an Argentinian film Damiana Kryygi (Alejandro Fernandez Mouján, 2015) documents the repatriation of a young girl’s remains to the Aché community in Paraguay, from which she was kidnapped by marauding white settlers in 1896. Her story – which can stand for so many others – gives dark insight into the ways anthropology and medical science helped justify race-based slavery, exploitation and policies of extermination. Also echoing local histories and colonial relationships, Solitary Land (d. Tiziana Panizza) compiles – and blurs the boundaries between – anthropological, medical, mythological and promotional films made on Easter Island, as it documents Chilean exploitation, international fetishisation and the native Rapa Nui people’s struggle for rights and autonomy. Another conceptual thread of the program appears to be personal and poetic takes on current events. Christmas Island is no holiday for refugees seeking asylum on this Australian territory; The Island (d. Gabrielle Brady) bears witness to their stories, and to the irony of a prison psychologist paid to listen, while the state – her employer – refuses to grant asylum hearings. Italian theatre director Pippo Delbono also filmed refugees in a detention centre, though Vangelo (2016) punctuates their testimony with reenactments of The Last Supper, and other pungently resonant biblical scenes. Tatiana Huezo expertly intertwines the testimonies of two women – a customs agent and a circus clown – in a devastating portrait of Mexican lawlessness, impunity, and corruption in Tempestad. Dugma (The Button, Paul Salahadin Refsdal, 2016) is a searching, deeply human and occasionally funny portrait of Al Qaeda soldiers in Syria, as they wait for their numbers to come up in the long waitlist for suicide missions. A Norwegian veteran-cum-journalist, Refsdal took his Muslim name Salahadin when he converted while held hostage by the Taliban. His extraordinary rapport with these would-be combatants / terrorists drew extensive praise and criticism from French expats in the Q&A, but the truest – and least partisan – assessment came from a Kanak spectator, who praised the film for its humanity. Finally, many selected films deal with universal themes: topics that are eminently relatable, despite the distance and difference of the cultures depicted. Such films include: Boli Bana (d. Simon Coulibaly Gillard), a gorgeously cinematic portrait of youth in a nomadic tribe from Burkina Faso; Oh Brother Octopus (d. Florian Kunert), a short from Indonesia that documents the belief in octopus brothers to evince connections between spiritual alienation and materialism, urbanisation and environmental degradation; Close Ties (Zofia Kowalewska, 2016), a Polish short focused on a recently-crippled husband’s bumbling attempts to make amends for a lifetime of womanising; and Communion (Anna Zamecka, 2016), also from Poland, which follows a remarkably resilient teenage girl, Ola, who cares for her severely autistic brother since their mother abandoned them with their alcoholic father. While Ola yearns to be carefree like her teenage peers, the protagonists of The Grown-Ups (Maite Alberde, 2016) long for adult responsibilities. Set in a Chilean school for people with down syndrome, Alberde brilliantly dramatises the desires and frustrations of 50 year-old “students” learning to be “conscious adults” in a society that won’t grant them full rights and privileges – like marriage or bearing children – even if they manage to live on their own. The Grown Ups By now you may wonder – as I did – how such a remarkable festival came into being. Ânûû-rû Âboro was founded in 2007 by its current director René Boutin, who also watches every submitted film (2,400 in 2017), leads programming decisions, designs the poster and website (unique for each edition) and produces the festival with a one-person staff. A child of both French and Kanak heritage, Boutin grew up in the rural regions of Xârâcùù and Moindou. His earliest memory is of seeing Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963) when he was two. By six this precocious cinephile earned his admission to the open-air screenings by climbing niaouli trees to help hang the projection screen. As a young artist in the 1980s, Boutin was drawn to video as a way to “challenge the image, cinema, and television”. Meanwhile, New Caledonia was in the throes of political crisis, as Kanaky cultural and political nationalists began to resist French colonial rule, most notoriously in “the Events”, an episodic civil war that lasted from 1984 to ’88. By 2005, Boutin was at a crossroads in his art practice: he wanted to “escape the gallery, make meaning instead of objects, and organise encounters between people.” More than that he yearned to “produce an artwork through which [he] – as the author / artist – could disappear.” When the Northern Province of New Caledonia decided to create a festival, Boutin saw his chance “to make meaningful artistic and human encounters, develop citizenship, and fight against all kinds of discrimination and prejudice.” After a week of excellent films, tribal screenings and deep conversations – not to mention hikes, waterfalls and snorkelling off a deserted island – we reluctantly made our way to the closing ceremony. Jury president Thierry Garrel (who, by the way, is a knighted member of the French Order of Arts and Letters for his work in documentary) awarded the competition prizes: handsomely carved New Caledonian sculptures, each one unique. After a reverent coutûme and further expressions of gratitude between our tribe of filmmakers and the Kanak people, Garrel accorded one more recognition. There was no trophy or prize money, but its presentation was most reverent: “I’ve been to countless festivals, but there really is none like this. I’d sincerely like to present René Boutin with the award for Best Film Festival Director!” Visitors and villagers burst into applause. Hearts bursting with emotion and bellies full of wine, we tucked into the feast prepared by our hosting tribes: pit-roasted wild boar, countless fish, plantains, taro, and so much more. Together for one last night, our tribes feasted, chatted and danced until dawn. Alejandro Mouhan (with microphone) and Charles Fairbanks (left) represent filmmakers at the coutûme Festival international du cinéma des peuples Ânûû-rû Âboro Festival website: http://www.anuuruaboro.com Le Fidèle as a Postmodern Love Romance: The Flemish Crime Dramas of Michaël R. Roskam A Networked Daydream: Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Monogram (2004) Charles Fairbanks is a filmmaker, photographer, wrestler, professor and occasional writer. Currently based in Oaxaca (Mexico) and Ohio (USA), his films have screened on five continents, in dozens of countries and at hundreds of festivals. The Modern Jungle is his first feature. Building Networks in a Contested Space: DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2014 Ma Ran Lido Days (and Livid Nights): The 60th Venice Film Festival Jay Weissberg	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line308
__label__wiki	0.662118	0.662118	OWNEY--THE MAIL DOG SPOON A sterling spoon depicting Owney the postal dog. Photo provided by Ed Bathke. "Owney, posed here with a letter carrier, was a scruffy mutt who became a regular fixture at the Albany, New York, post office in 1888. His owner was likely a postal clerk who let the dog walk him to work. Owney was attracted to the texture or scent of the mailbags and when his master moved away, Owney stayed with his new mail clerk friends. He soon began to follow mailbags. At first, he followed them onto mail wagons and then onto mail trains. Owney began to ride with the bags on Railway Post Office (RPO) train cars across the state . . . and then the country! In 1895 Owney made an around-the-world trip, traveling with mailbags on trains and steamships to Asia and across Europe, before returning to Albany. Railway mail clerks considered the dog a good luck charm. At a time when train wrecks were all too common, no train Owney rode was ever in a wreck. The Railway mail clerks adopted Owney as their unofficial mascot, marking his travels by placing medals and tags on his collar. Each time Owney returned home to Albany, the clerks there saved the tags. Postmaster General John Wanamaker was one of Owney's fans. When he learned that the dog's collar was weighed down by an ever-growing number of tags, he gave Owney a harness on which to display the "trophies." On April 9, 1894, a writer for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that "Nearly every place he stopped Owney received an additional tag, until now he wears a big bunch. When he jogs along, they jingle like the bells on a junk wagon." In June, Owney boarded a mail train for Toledo, Ohio. While he was there, he was shown to a newspaper reporter by a postal clerk. Owney became ill tempered and although the exact circumstances were not satisfactorily reported, Owney died in Toledo of a bullet wound on June 11, 1897. Mail clerks raised funds to have Owney preserved, and he was given to the Post Office Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C. In 1911, the department transferred Owney to the Smithsonian Institution, where he has remained ever since. Owney can be seen on display in the National Postal Museum's atrium, wearing his harness and surrounded by several of his tags." Information furnished by the Postal Museum https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibits/current/moving-the-mail/mail-by-rail/owney-mascot-of-the-railway-mail-service/index.html Contact me if you want to sell this spoon Return to Spoon Planet Exhibits index	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line316
__label__wiki	0.649235	0.649235	Dave Syverson Illinois State Senator 35th District District Map and General Information State Government Resources Scholarship Assistance Senator Syverson’s Week in Review: Dec. 1 - 5, 2014 Though Senate Republicans stressed that lawmakers shouldn’t move forward with major policy initiatives on partisan roll-calls during a fall “lame-duck” veto session, State Senator Dave Syverson (R-Rockford) said Democrats pushed through a number of significant and controversial measures prior to adjourning on December 4. Senate Republican lawmakers also pointed out that a number of contentious policy initiatives were pushed through the legislative process during the veto session that will require significant modifications in the future. They argued that a more reasonable option would be to wait until the state’s new governor and lawmakers are sworn-in next year and allow the 99th General Assembly to fully address any concerns or issues prior to passage of the legislation. Changes to election law raise concerns about election fraud Major changes to Illinois election law were approved by the General Assembly during the final week of the fall veto session. While some are hailing the changes as a means to increase access to voter registration, others are raising concerns that the significant changes will make Illinois vulnerable to mass election fraud. Senate Bill 172 makes notable modifications to how, when and where Illinois voters can register and cast their ballots. The bill makes permanent and expands the same-day voter registration pilot program that was established prior to the 2014 general election. Voters will now be able to register to vote on Election Day at their polling place. Another significant change allows voter registration online or through a mobile application. "These changes clearly will affect the integrity of the ballot which is why I opposed these changes," said Senator Syverson The changes in the bill won’t be in place until the 2016 Presidential election, leaving Senate Republican lawmakers questioning the timing of this bill’s passage. Minimum wage hike An effort to push through a statewide minimum wage increase was stymied this week after the City of Chicago voted to pass a $13 an hour hike in the city. Going into the fall veto session it seemed plausible the General Assembly could pass a statewide increase. However, the recent decision by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to push through a more generous minimum wage hike in Chicago undermined a statewide effort, as most Chicago-area lawmakers balked at supporting legislation that would cap the minimum wage at $11 an hour—which would now be a reduction of pay for employees living in Chicago legislative districts. While a measure to increase the minimum wage passed the Senate on Dec. 3, the vote was considered moot since the House of Representatives had already adjourned for the year —with no plans to return and act on a minimum wage hike. “This measure would have had a significant negative effect on local human service providers, day cares, park districts, and employers,” said Senator Syverson. “As a state, we should be focusing on creating more living wage jobs not minimum wage jobs.” New ridesharing bill speeds out of General Assembly Lawmakers advanced legislation this week imposing statewide regulations on the growing “ridesharing” industry, which includes the very popular Uber driving service. The emerging ridesharing industry, comprised of drivers who use personal vehicles to give rides, raised insurance and passenger safety concerns. The measure establishes insurance requirements, background checks, a “zero tolerance” drug and alcohol policy, and parameters for “disqualifying” drivers within the ridesharing industry. The regulations imposed by Senate Bill 2774 are less stringent than those contained in similar legislation approved by the General Assembly last spring, which was later vetoed by the Governor. The sponsor of that measure opted not to call for an override of the Governor’s veto. Controversial mesothelioma bill passes A controversial measure was passed by lawmakers that would indefinitely extend liability for injuries, disease, disability, or death associated with asbestos in construction cases. The disease most commonly associated with asbestos exposure is mesothelioma. Senate Bill 2221 drew criticism for creating a wide open avenue for litigation, allowing for claims that go back 50 years. Concerns were also raised the bill could create unlimited liability into the future. The bill does not contain language specifying whether or not this change would apply to pending cases. Nor does the legislation make it clear whether closed cases could be reopened or new cases could be filed, in situations where the statute of limitations has expired, but there is a newly discovered injury. Proponents, including the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, argued that the legislation was necessary because asbestos-related mesothelioma does not manifest for at least 10 years. They say that the time it takes the disease to manifest limits the ability of those affected to file a lawsuit. Secure Choice Savings Program The General Assembly advanced another mandate on employers this week, which would require businesses with 25 or more employees to enroll employees in a state-sponsored retirement savings program. The program would be in the form of an automatic enrollment payroll deduction Roth IRA. Employers would be forced to facilitate coordination with the state-held IRA accounts and automatically deduct at least 3 percent from the employees’ paychecks for contribution into the IRA account. Employees would have to actively pursue “opting out” if they did not want to participate. Senate Republicans argued that lawmakers should not be advancing legislation that would place additional burdens on Illinois’ employers. “In addition, the state’s history of running retirement programs is dismal, so why would Illinois mandate another pension program on private business,” asked Senator Syverson. Lawmakers override Governor’s speed-limit veto Illinois lawmakers have successfully challenged the Governors veto of legislation sponsored by State Sen. Jim Oberweis (R-Sugar Grove) to raise the speed limit on Illinois toll highways from 55 mph to 70 mph. Legislators successfully overrode the Governor’s veto, but this does not mean tollway drivers can start driving 70 mph immediately. Because tollway or IDOT officials must first conduct speed safety studies on toll highways to determine if 70 mph is a safe maximum speed for each particular stretch of road, drivers are cautioned to adjust speed according to the posted speed-limit signs along the road on which they are driving. Copyright © 2020 Illinois Senate Republicans Terms of Use \| Login 105E State Capitol Building P: 217/782-5413 200 S. Wyman, Suite 302 Want to stay up to date on what's happening? Sign up for the Senate Republican Caucus email newsletter. Receive updates on legislative and state news.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line320
__label__cc	0.505079	0.494921	F8 Industries Photography I Saw The Van! Gas in Big Bend Dec , 12 The next post in the series of the actual locations used in Winchester: Over is about the gas station near Panther Junction that the group raids, gas in Big Bend is important as the park is quite large. The small service station had a selection of fan belts and radiator hoses, as well as a good selection of gas station snacks, so the few belts and hoses that would fit their vehicles went in the back of the FJ, as did boxes of beef jerky, some candy bars, Gatorade, and Red Bull. The keys for the underground tanks were found in the service station office, next to the chart the attendants used to keep track of the tank stick measurements, which saved Bexar and Jack the effort of having to cut the locks. It also gave them the ability to re-lock the tanks and take the keys with them. Twenty minutes later the red gas cans were full and the underground gas tank was secured. They used the measuring stick they had found to measure the tank, and by referencing the chart in the office, noted that there was another seven-hundred gallons of fuel in just that one tank, so they should be set for some time, at least until the fuel started to go bad. Loaded back in the FJ, the boys headed out towards the Rio Grande Village. This is one of two filling stations in the park, the other being in the Rio Grande Village, but this is the only one with any sort of service bay for repairs. Out of frame to the right of the station is The Basin in the distance, this is the closest filling station to The Basin. Sign up for the author Dave Lund Tales of Adventures newsletter and you will receive exclusive content and in the bimonthly newsletter that can't be found anywhere else! #iRideWithBexar The Winchester Undead Map Cities of Gold Family Adventure Are you lost? (Land Navigation) Where It Happened: Basin Water Tank Food for Prepping: Freeze Dried Food vs. MREs All images and text copyright Dave Lund, F8 Industries Photography & Tales of Adventures.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line321
__label__wiki	0.956183	0.956183	US Congress Approves Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Bills by Alexis Montgomery in Markets The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act requires the U.S. Secretary of State to annually assess whether Hong Kong is sufficiently autonomous from Beijing to warrant the special trade status it now has. Anger over the USA legislation, which President Donald Trump is expected to sign, comes as the two countries are locked in delicate trade talks. "We call on the USA side to take a clear look at the situation and take steps to stop the act from becoming a law, and stop meddling in the internal affairs of China and Hong Kong, to avoid setting a fire that would only burn itself", Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said in a statement. Some of them attended U.S. congressional hearings to push for the bill's passage. "There have been too many times that the president has tweeted or he has had some of his underlings mention that a trade deal is imminent only to have nothing happen or to have the threat of postponement", Stovall said. Graffiti and particles are seen in Hong Kong Polytechnic College (PolyU) in Hong Kong, China November 20, 2019. Geng called on Washington to "immediately take measures to prevent this act from becoming law". "This bill sends a clear message to China that there will be consequences for the ruthless and brutal actions in Hong Kong". "The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has shown unfettered evil in Hong Kong in the latest round of suppression". That impartial standing has come into query amid strikes by Beijing to step by step strengthen its political management over the territory, serving to spark months of more and more violent protests. "The U.S. Senate took a stand today in support of the Hong Kong people", Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said. Chinese officials view the bill as an outsider meddling in internal affairs. Malaysia condemns Israeli attacks in Gaza Strip The majority of the students on exchange in Hong Kong this term had not planned to remain there in the second term, said Laurinda Tracey, UBC's advisor for student safety overseas. "After (taking) the course of withdrawal from global treaties as an anti-norm, interference in the internal affairs of other countries has turned into the second pillar of the U.S. regime's foreign policy", he added. Despite the mostly down week, the major USA stock indexes are on track for strong gains this year. The human rights act mandates sanctions on Chinese language and Hong Kong officers who perform human rights abuses and requires an annual overview of the favorable commerce standing that Washington grants Hong Kong. It's a warning to China about its commitment to human rights, amid a crackdown on the city's pro-democracy protests. The chief superintendent said the police that they had names of around 300 people under the age of 18 who had left the university. The bill was introduced by Senator Marco Rubio and approved by the Senate on Tuesday. "Because I like what's happening now", President Trump told reporters at the White House. Some looked for breakfast in one of the university canteens, which remained stocked with food, including noodles and tomatoes. Citing a person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that Trump is expected to sign the Hong Kong bills into law. Traders sized up another batch of corporate earnings from retailers Friday. "Phoenix9heavens" tweeted that the Senate's bill passage was "a great moment!" Emery optimistic Xhaka could return for Arsenal SpaceX launches second batch of 60 Starlink broadband satellites into space Shooting reported at New Jersey high school football game Trump says China trade deal 'much better' than expected 1/21/2020 Chinese state media cautiously welcomes USA trade deal 1/17/2020 Auto industry cautious as China starts year with 2% sales decline forecast 1/14/2020 United States sanctions target top Iran officials, metals industry 1/11/2020 Petrol Price to Come Down in January for South Africans 1/02/2020 Trumps says US, China reach 'phase one' trade deal text 12/14/2019 Holden Commodore will be retired in 2020 12/13/2019 The Heartwarming Moment A Boss Awards Employees With A Whopping Christmas Bonus 12/12/2019 UK GDP flat in October: ONS 12/11/2019 Saudi Aramco surpasses Alibaba in world's largest IPO, raises $25.6 billion 12/11/2019 Patriots Have Internally 'Kicked The Tires' On Antonio Brown But while Brown's camp is apparently optimistic about the receiver's future this season, there are clues suggesting otherwise. Antonio Brown blames his rape accuser for recent financial losses in a countersuit made public on Wednesday. Celtics push fully loaded Clippers to the limit despite misfiring offense The back-and-forth nature of the contest saw Williams hit a go-ahead three-pointer with 31 seconds remaining in regulation. Kawhi Leonard returned from a three-game absence caused by a knee injury to score 17 points on seven-of-20 shooting. Lowe’s to close 34 ‘underperforming’ stores in Canada Lowe's Canada announced it will be closing 34 of its stores across Canada, including its location in Regina's Northgate Mall. Lowe's Canada said it will help all employees through the changes and transitions that come with their store closing. ‘Not going to do it’: Pompeo refuses to defend attacked diplomat The Times said Pompeo "expressed his approval of the plan" but that Trump later canceled the trip to Poland. According to Time , rumors of a possible Pompeo Senate campaign have been circulating for months. Potential PG&E power cuts to leave thousands in the dark California regulators have ordered PG&E to say why it should not be sanctioned for violating state rules regarding such shutoffs. It was just last month that hundreds of thousands of customers went without power due to preventative outages by PG&E . Liverpool, Man Utd Handed Major Transfer Boost Ahead Of January Window The report claims that Pochettino "complained endlessly" to Spurs about the need to spend big in the summer. Pochettino joined Spurs in 2014 on a five-year contract. Trump impeachment inquiry hearings He said there is proof that Trump may have given untruthful responses. " President Trump is welcome to take a seat right there". Vindman said he does not know who the whistleblower is. "So then how would he know Nunes is asking about the whistleblower? ". Are West Bank Settlements Illegal? Who Decides? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the shift in policy, saying the U.S. moved "rights a historical wrong". His successor, Ronald Reagan disagreed , saying in 1981 he did not believe settlements were inherently illegal. Nicolas Cage in the race for role in exceptional film It was written by Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, and the plan is for Tom Gormican to also direct the film. The kingpin becomes close to Cage after pitching a movie script to him. Selena Gomez Reacts To Bella Hadid Deleting Her Instagram Comment The popular American pop singer and songwriter surprised her fans and the entire world by following Bella Hadid on social media. Moments ago, Selena saw a headline about the controversy on Instagram and is writing a statement, clarifying everything. Mark Ruffalo on Scorseses remarks: Endgames emotional response was unlike any other Speaking with People today, Ruffalo was requested precisely about Marvel's She-Hulk sequence on Disney+. "Great mysterious Mr. Mark Ruffalo was then pressed if he would do it if he could, to which he responded with a resounding "Sure, why not?". How Trump’s Ukraine support could strengthen Putin in Crimea amid impeachment row Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, also met with Zelensky in September, at a time when USA aid to the country was still being held up. Yovanovitch, a career diplomat, testified on the second day of televised impeachment hearings , which will resume next week. Apple MacBook Pro brings back scissor-style keys, replaces butterfly-style keyboard Apple did not mention the departure of earlier MacBook Pro models, announcing the 16-inch MacBook Pro via a press statement. The aim of using this particular style keys was to make the keyboard slimmer or an overall slimmer profile of the laptops. Colin Kaepernick workout location moved so media can attend The NFL had said it would send video of the workout and an interview with Kaepernick to all 32 teams. However, Jackson is now heading to the airport to leave, according to NFL Network's Michael Silver . Ukraine FM says U.S. envoy did not link Biden probe to aid She said she'd later find messages from irate officials who'd been told by Sondland that they were supposed to meet with her. Holmes' testimony comes directly after lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee heard from former U.S. Trump says China trade deal 'much better' than expected1/21/2020 Chinese state media cautiously welcomes USA trade deal1/17/2020 Auto industry cautious as China starts year with 2% sales decline forecast1/14/2020 United States sanctions target top Iran officials, metals industry1/11/2020 Petrol Price to Come Down in January for South Africans1/02/2020 Trumps says US, China reach 'phase one' trade deal text12/14/2019 Holden Commodore will be retired in 202012/13/2019 The Heartwarming Moment A Boss Awards Employees With A Whopping Christmas Bonus12/12/2019 USA gains a robust 266k jobs, jobless rate dips to 3.5%12/09/2019 Uber passengers reported over 3,000 sexual assaults a year ago, report says12/07/2019 Saudi Arabia, Russia look to seal deeper output cuts with producers12/07/2019 Oil Up Despite Trade-Deal Bearishness12/05/2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line331
__label__wiki	0.825591	0.825591	Courtesy/AdobeStock Crunch time for boys, girls soccer squads Joseph Cyr • October 15, 2019 It is down to the final home stretch for boys and girls soccer squads as the regular season winds to a close. The final date for regular season makeup games is Tuesday, Oct. 22, with the preliminary playoffs commencing on Friday, Oct. 25. As of Friday morning, seven of the nine local squads were in the playoff mix with just a few more games remaining. In girls Class C North, Houlton (8-2) is fifth in the region and could be looking at a road quarterfinal contest. If the standings hold, the Shires would play at the No. 4 seed, currently Bucksport (9-4). Houlton could move up in the standings with victories in the team’s final few games. Houlton played Fort Kent Saturday Oct. 11 and faces Madawaska twice and Calais once in the final week of the season. In girls Class D North, there is a log-jam with local squads as Southern Aroostook (7-4) is ranked sixth, Hodgdon (8-3) is seventh and Katahdin (6-3-1) is eighth. All three squads are looking at preliminary playoffs on Oct. 25. If the seeds hold, Southern Aroostook would host No. 11 Shead; Hodgdon would host No. 10 Wisdom; and Katahdin would host No. 9 Madawaska. Much could change over the final week of the regular season, however. East Grand (0-11) is 17th and not in the playoff mix this year. For boys Class C North, Houlton (3-5-1) is ranked 10th. Only the top 10 teams make the postseason, so the Shires can not afford to slip in the rankings. If the seeds hold, Houlton would play at the No. 7 seed, currently Fort Kent (6-4-1) in a preliminary playoff on Saturday, Oct. 26. In Class D North, Hodgdon remains undefeated on the season with a 9-0-1 record, but are only ranked seventh in the region. If the seeds hold Hodgdon would host No. 10 Maine School of Science and Mathematics in the prelim round Saturday, Oct. 26. Southern Aroostook (5-5-1) is ranked 11th and would be on the road at the No. 6 seed, currently Fort Fairfield (4-5-2) for a prelim game. Katahdin (2-7) is ranked 16th and presently not in the playoff picture. However, the Cougars have a bundle of games yet to play and could easily squeak into one of the final two playoff spots with a strong showing down the stretch. The following is a recap of games played through Thursday, Oct. 10. Coaches are asked to report scores and game information to jcyr@bangordailynews.com. Houlton 9, Lee Academy 0 — At Lee Tuesday, Oct. 8, the Shires rolled to the easy win over Lee Academy. Individual results were not reported. Southern Aroostook 5, Shead 0 — At Dyer Brook Tuesday, Paige Vose and Aliyah Morales both scored two goals, while Madison Russell added one to carry the Warriors past Shead. Makaekly Porter, Emma Nadeau, Jordyn Legassey and Esther Greene each had one assist for SA. Sydney Brewer had two saves on four shots for the Warriors. Teryn Smith had two saves on 17 shots for the Tigers (6-4). Ashland 4, Katahdin 0 — At Ashland Wednesday, Oct. 9, Kayla MacLean had two goals and Mia Carney and Gabby Ayotte each had one as the Hornets improved to 10-1 on the season. Ayotte and Sierra Burby each had an assist. Jamie Poulin had 10 saves on 12 shots for Ashland, while Nikita Keim had nine saves on 29 shots for Katahdin. Washburn 2, East Grand 0 — At Danforth Wednesday, Oct. 9, the visiting Beavers emerged with a 2-0 shutout over East Grand. Individual results were not reported. Southern Aroostook 8, East Grand 0 — At Danforth Thursday, the Warriors scored early and often in the victory over East Grand. Individual results were not reported. Orono 2, Houlton 1 — At Orono Thursday, the Red Riots edged Houlton 2-1. Individual results were not reported. Southern Aroostook 10, Shead 2 — At Dyer Brook, Oct. 8, Logan Swallow booted in three goals, while Gavin Vining added two and Xavier Morales, Lucas Duff, Peyton Lawlor, Graham Siltz and Camden Porter each had one for the Warriors. Swallow had three assists on the day, while Morales and Chance Barrows each had one. Jacob Cook and Jordan Ferrell each had solo goals for Shead (0-11). Ashland 3, Katahdin 0 — At Ashland Oct. 9, the visiting Cougars were shut out by Ashland as Brady Holmes scored two goals and Weston Robinson added one. Josh Celestre had an assist for the Hornets. Garrett Tilley had three saves on five shots for Ashland (7-4), while Caleb Giles had 14 saves on 31 shots for Katahdin.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line338
__label__wiki	0.807279	0.807279	The Elwins "Hocus Pocus" (lyric video) Ontario indie popsters the Elwins served some serious spirit fingers in their recent video for "Hey! Ya, You," and now they're back with some extra cheer. Over the next little while, the band will be "unboxing" a video or two for a track off Beauty Community every week — so, regardless of what holiday you choose to celebrate come December, you'll have something to watch and enjoy thanks to the Elwins. The first video gift arrives with a clip for "Hocus Pocus," which was directed by Zach Rose and Jesse Korgema. The lyric video was filmed in the bandmates' hometown of Newmarket (the beautiful community referenced in the LP's title), and it finds the group getting their bowl on at a local alley. All the while, neon-lit lyrics scrawl across the screen. "The title is intended to invoke the connection we, as a band, have to our hometown and the memories created growing up and frequenting local hangouts like bowling alleys, malls, parks, etc.," the band tell Exclaim! "The full video series is intended to play out like a day in the life of the band leading up to a concert. It's fun, tongue-in-cheek and something we were grateful to have the opportunity to work on with a town so dear to our hearts." Check out the fun new clip for "Hocus Pocus" down below, and follow the band on Facebook for plenty more updates in the video series. You can also see their upcoming tour dates below. 11/23 Montreal, QC - Casa 11/25 Ottawa, ON - 27 York 11/30 Newmarket, ON - Newmarket Theatre 12/02 Waterloo, ON - Starlight * 12/03 Toronto, ON - Mod Club * 12/07 Oshawa, ON - Oshawa Music Hall 12/08 Guelph, ON - Ebar 12/09 St. Catharines, ON - Warehouse * with Jukebox the Ghost More Elwins Elwins Stream the New Album by Elwins Offshoot sivarT The Elwins drummer Travis Stokl has launched the new solo project sivarT, and he's just unveiled his debut album Drummer Have Songs. It's of... The Elwins, Birds of Bellwoods, Bonjay to Play Exclaim! Stage at Toronto's Bentway Sunday Socials Last summer, the Bentway — the new public space underneath the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto — made its presence known with creative progra... Nikki's Wives Announce Free Toronto Listening Party Canadian alt-rockers Nikki's Wives will be throwing a party to share their latest material with fans. The free event will take place at... Wolfe Island Music Festival Announces 2019 "Winter Ball" Wolfe Island Music Festival is returning this year for what organizers are calling its "Winter Ball." The Toronto event will take place a... Vancouver Gets Sam Roberts Band for Free Global Citizen Concert Vancouver will be the latest city to pair up with international advocacy organization Global Citizen for a live concert event. It's set to t...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line341
__label__wiki	0.506001	0.506001	Positively Poly, Salaciously Swinging, Garrulously Groovy Episode 70: In Other News… This week we are all by our lonesomes in the O Face Podcast studios. We're talking about Pearling and a new Federal Court ruling in Virginia that basically says that "the Constitution 'does not prohibit the regulation of BDSM conduct.' In other words the precedent implied by bans on anti-sodomy and anti-adultery laws—that adults have a constitutional right to freedom of noncommercial intimate conduct—doesn’t protect us. (I say “noncommercial” because, of course, professional sex workers have also never been protected.)" -- According to Court... published March 9, 2016 on Salon.com Production note: A special thank you goes out to our Patreon Patrons this week as we recorded on cables purchased entirely with donated funds. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Please consider supporting The O Face Podcast with a $1/episode pledge at Patreon, your support keeps us going! Miss Jenga and Freckles! Episode 68: C-NC… CW: Consensual Non-Consensual play including sexual assault, r*pe, and kidnapping fantasies are discussed. This week we are joined by Jim Duvall (@jimduvallphoto) a Seattle Erotic Art and Boudoir Photographer and Sexuality Activist. Jim Duvall began his career as an erotic photographer in the early days of the World Wide Web when he started janesguide.com with his former partner. He provided content for many online endeavors including bondage.com. His art has been shown at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and many other art festivals around North America. He helped start The Betty Pages, an LGBT magazine, and was a writer and photographer for the magazine for 5 years. As a sexuality activist Mr. Duvall has volunteered for many organizations over the years. He is a founder of the Center for Sex Positive Culture (CSPC) and the Seattle Erotic Art Festival. He is a past President and Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and CSPC and the current President of the Board for the Foundation for Sex Positive Culture. Jim Duvall teaches on a variety of topics from erotic photography to rope bondage all over North America. Currently he works as a fine art photographer and practices hypnotherapy in Seattle WA. Production Note: Oh holy crap I've got the original theme song back! I found it and made like six backups! If you like what you hear, drop us a line theofacepodcast@gmail.com or on the Twitters @theofacepodcast. Another note: A special thank you goes out to our Patreon Patrons this week as we recorded on cables purchased entirely with donated funds. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Episode 66: The Big is Back… This week we are joined once again by Mister Big, he's back to talk about body image, being on so many bucket lists and a few upcoming gigs! See Mister Big live on stage at Bawdy Storytelling at the Re-bar in Seattle on March 3rd and on March 12th @11 PM with Manuela Horn's Naughty St. Patty's Day Party at Teatro ZinZanni (tickets) Listen up and see what this photo (below) is all about... Miss Jenga got put on restriction... Production Note: We're still recovering from the hard drive crash and we've got a new theme song this week! We'll be rotating through some new ones until we find the perfect fit. If you like what you hear, drop us a line theofacepodcast@gmail.com or on the Twitters @theofacepodcast. Eri Kardos Max's Bondage Lessons The Timid Tramp HUMP! Jeny Bird Relationship Coaching Siren and the Treasured Chests Infini Boudoir Photography Koe Creation Jim Duvall: Seattle Erotic Art and Boudoir Photography SwingerSocial The O Face Podcast Patreon Needle Play Negotiation/Definition The Fuckit List The Playbag Twosomes Copyright 2016, The O Face Podcast, All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line344
__label__wiki	0.873447	0.873447	Al Marjan Island highlights investment opportunities in RAK Al Marjan Island, the main developer of freehold areas in Ras Al Khaimah, recently presented attractive value propositions at the 2018 World Forum for Foreign Direct Investment in Liverpool, UK. The investment opportunities within RAK records 28pc increase in European visitors Ras Al Khaimah has further strengthened its position in Europe as a leading tourist destination, recording a 28 per cent increase in visitor numbers from the region so far this year. The boost in visitor numbers is thanks to Enjoy free shuttle service from Dubai to RAK this summer Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA) today announced that its RAK Shuttle service connecting Dubai Airport to the emirate will be complimentary for visitors over the summer months. Free wi-fi, water bottles RAK strengthens focus on the Nordic region Looking to drive further growth in the number of visitors travelling to the emirate, the Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA) today announced the opening of its first international representation office in the Nordics. The Cristal Group to manage new RAK hotel The Cristal Group, a leading UAE-based hospitality management company in the region, has announced the signing of a new hotel management deal in Ras Al Khaimah. Al Mahra Resort, owned by FAM Holding - a conglomerate of business so Seawings brings back Ras Al Khaimah snapshot tours A new season of Seawings’ Ras Al Khaimah snapshot tour has been launched, targetting the growing tourist market to the action-packed emirate. Seawings CEO, Stuart Wheeler, noted that Ras Al Khaimah has become one of the most Rove Hotels inks new 250-key property in RAK Contemporary midscale hotel brand Rove Hotels has strengthened its operations in Ras Al Khaimah with a management agreement to operate a new hotel directly linked to Manar Mall, a popular retail and leisure destination in the emirate. &nb Citymax to open new 204-key hotel in RAK Citymax Hotels, part of Landmark Group, has unveiled plans for a new hotel in Ras Al Khaimah, which will be ready to welcome guests in Q4. The Citymax Hotel Ras Al Khaimah is being developed as a joint venture between Landmark Gro RAK recognised at region's leading adventure destination Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA) celebrated two major wins at The World Travel Awards 2018, cementing its credentials as an adventure tourism pioneer in the region. Held for the first time at the Waldorf	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line345
__label__wiki	0.915418	0.915418	Borges, Perez-Somarriba Named Top Seeds for NCAA D-I Championships; Kingsley and Korda Advance at Savannah Challenger; Gauff Qualifies for Charleston $100K The fields have been announced for the NCAA Division I Individual Championships May 20-25 in Lake Nona Florida, and although the current ITA rankings will not be released until Thursday, the top two singles seeds certainly don't fit the narrative that was built throughout the season. Katarina Jokic of Georgia, who has been No. 1 in the rankings for months, is the No. 2 seed, with Estela Perez-Somarriba of Miami moving up to No. 1. In the men's seedings, JJ Wolf of Ohio State, who was undefeated until a loss to Michigan's Andrew Fenty in the Big 10 tournament and No. 1 in the rankings since February, is the No. 2 seed, with Mississippi State's Nuno Borges given the No. 1 seed. No. 1 seeds, or seeds in general, don't have the best record in NCAA individual competition, so putting too big an emphasis on the seeding is a waste of energy, but there's no question this was a surprise. Women’s singles seeds: 1. Estela Perez-Somarriba, Miami 2. Katarina Jokic, Georgia 3. Kate Fahey, Michigan 4. Ingrid Gamarra Martins, South Carolina 5. Makenna Jones, North Carolina 6. Fernanda Contreras, Vanderbilt 7. Alexa Graham, North Carolina 8. Sophie Whittle, Gonzaga 9-16 (alphabetical) Paige Cline, South Carolina Ida Jarlskog, Florida Kenya Jones, Georgia Tech Gabriela Knutson, Syracuse Maria Mateas, Duke Eden Richardson, LSU Anna Rogers, NC State Anastasia Rychagova, Kansas Women’s doubles seeds: 1. Angela Kulikov and Rianna Valdes, USC 2. Jessie Aney and Alexa Graham, North Carolina 3. Lauryn John-Baptiste and Ilze Hattingh, Arizona State 4. Gabby Andrews and Ayan Broomfield, UCLA 5-8 (alphabetical by school) Janet Koch and Nina Khmelnitckaia, Kansas Alana Smith and Anna Rogers, NC State Mia Horvit and Ingrid Gamarra Martins, South Carolina Kaitlin Staines and Sadie Hammond, Tennessee Men’s singles seeds: 1. Nuno Borges, Mississippi State 2. JJ Wolf, Ohio State 3. Carl Soderlund, Virginia 4. Alex Rybakov, TCU 5. Paul Jubb, South Carolina 6. Brandon Holt, USC 7. Christian Sigsgaard, Texas 8. Aleks Kovacevic, Illinois Alberto Barroso-Campos, South Florida Petros Chrysochos, Wake Forest Oliver Crawford, Florida Axel Geller, Stanford Borna Gojo, Wake Forest Yuya Ita, Texas Thomas Laurent, Oregon Nicolas Moreno De Alboran, UC Santa Barbara Men’s doubles seeds: 1. Sven Lah and Jimmy Bendeck, Baylor 2. Maxime Cressy and Keegan Smith, UCLA 3. Nuno Borges and Strahinja Rakic, Mississippi State 4. Henry Patten and Oli Nolan, UNC-Asheville Christian Sigsgaard and Harrison Scott, Texas Timo Stodder and Preston Touliatos, Tennessee Cameron Klinger and Billy Rowe, Vanderbilt Juan Carlos Aguilar and Barnaby Smith, Texas A&M Players of note in the women's field who are not seeded are 2018 finalist Ashley Lahey of Pepperdine and 2017 champion Brienne Minor of Michigan. Last year's top seed, Bianca Turati of Texas, is also unseeded. In the women's doubles, the defending champions, Jessica Golovin and Eden Richardson of LSU, did make the field, but, as you can see above, are not seeded. In the men's field, 2017 finalist and 2018 quarterfinalist William Blumberg of North Carolina is not seeded, nor is 2018 quarterfinalist Mazen Osama of Alabama or Cleveland Challenger champion Maxime Cressy of UCLA. Brandon Nakashima of Virginia, the ACC freshman of the year, did not make the field, although he and Henrik Wiersholm are the first alternates in doubles. Michigan's Andrew Fenty got quite a boost from his win over Wolf, as the Big 10 freshman of the year moved from 109 in last week's rankings into the 64-player draw. Note that all those listed as seeds above have earned All-American honors for 2019. The complete list of women's selections, including alternates, is here. The complete list of men's selections, including alternates, is here. Ohio State recruit Cannon Kingsley made his main draw ATP Challenger debut today as a wild card in Savannah Georgia and made good use of his wild card. The 17-year-old New Yorker, No. 12 in the ITF world junior rankings, defeated Johannes Haerteis of Germany 6-2, 6-2 in first round action. No. 3 seed Corentin Moutet of France is next for Kingsley. Wild card Sebastian Korda, who has won at least one match in the past three US ATP Challengers, defeated Jared Hiltzik(Illinois) in the first round yesterday and advanced to the third round with a 6-3, 6-3 win over No. 9 seed Mikael Torpegaard(Ohio State) of Denmark today. The USTA announced yesterday that only Tommy Paul and Tennys Sandgren are still in the running for its French Open wild card, with this the last week to earn points. No. 5 seed Paul has yet to play his second round match; top seed Sandgren defeated Alexander Ritschard(Virginia) tonight 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 to move into the third round. At the $100,000 women's World Tennis Tour event in Charleston SC, Coco Gauff qualified for the main draw, beating top seed Olivia Rogowska of Australia 6-1, 6-3 in today's final round of qualifying. Gauff, 15, will play another Australian, Kimberly Birrell, in Wednesday's first round. Louisa Chirico, Kayla Day and Sophie Chang are the other US qualifiers. Easter Bowl champion Emma Navarro received a main draw wild card in her hometown and will play No. 8 seed Allie Kiick Wednesday. The other wild cards were awarded to Rasheeda McAdoo(Georgia Tech), Alycia Parks and Ann Li, last week's champion at the $25K in Osprey Florida. Labels: ATP Challenger, College Tennis, ITF, World Tennis Tour Georgia Women, Ohio State Men Receive Top Seeds with Division I NCAA Draws Revealed; SLAM Tennis's May Madness Bracket Challenge Entries Now Open The NCAA streamed the draws of the Division I Team Championships today, and if you missed it, you can rewatch the men's half-hour show here and the women's half-hour show here. In the past few years, these streams have been a very cut-and-dried display of the brackets, but this year former ESPN reporter Andy Katz conducted interviews with several top players and coaches when their team's place in the draw was revealed. Among those being featured were coaches Jeff Wallace of Georgia, Ty Tucker of Ohio State and Andres Pedroso of Virginia and top American players Brandon Holt(USC), Oliver Crawford(Florida) Ashley Lahey(Pepperdine) and Maria Mateas(Duke). The seeds are below, with all the Top 16 seeds hosting the first two rounds at their campus facilities this coming weekend. Long gone are the days when the committee occasionally sent Top 16 teams on the road, and that is good riddance. If you've been following SLAM Tennis's Bracketology in the past few days, you know there were several tossups as far as seeding goes, not least at the No. 1 spot for women, but Georgia's head-to-head win over North Carolina proved to be the determining factor in that decision. In all honesty, being No. 1 or No. 2 isn't that different, whereas 8 vs 9 can be a significant alteration of the path to the title, especially with the new schedule that includes a Super Regional site for the round of 16 this year on Friday May 10th or Saturday May 11th. Only eight men's and eight women's teams are going to the USTA's National Campus in Lake Nona for the team championships, with the men beginning with their quarterfinals on Thursday May 16th and the women scheduled for their quarterfinals on Friday May 17th. The NCAA Host Operations manual is available for more details, and it's a fascinating look at what hosting an NCAA event entails. As far as the men's seedings go, the committee had a difficult decision between No. 8 and 9, with USC getting the higher seeding over North Carolina. The choice between Wake Forest and Florida for the No. 3 seed went to the Gators, with their win over the Demon Deacons again the deciding factor. The Tennis Recruiting Network will again feature roundtable discussions that I will participate in, beginning Thursday. The Men's Division I Top 16 Seeds, all hosting the first two rounds: 1. Ohio State 4. Wake Forest 5. Virginia 7. Mississippi State 8. Southern Cal 10. TCU 11. UCLA 12. Stanford 13. Texas A&M 15. Illinois 16. Columbia The Women's Division I Top 16 Seeds, all hosting the first two rounds: 6. Pepperdine 10. Washington 11. Florida State 12. NC State 13. Southern Cal 14. Kansas 15. Oklahoma State 16. Michigan The women's draw is here and the men's draw is here. SLAM tennis is again offering college tennis fans an opportunity to fill out their own brackets, with those demonstrating the best forecasting receiving prizes of Tennis Recruiting Network Advantage accounts. You have until 8 a.m. Friday to submit your entry here. On Tuesday, the NCAA will reveal the singles and doubles selections for the individual tournament, May 20-25. Labels: College Tennis, The Tennis Recruiting Network Osuigwe, Li Claim Titles; Big 10, Pac-12 Tournament Champions Crowned; Sell and Jain Capture Ojai Open Titles; Catanzarite Wins Second Straight ITF Grade 5 No. 8 seed Whitney Osuigwe, who turned 17 earlier this month, claimed her second pro title, both at the $80,000 level, with a 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 win over No. 2 seed Madison Brengle today in Charlottesville Virginia. Osuigwe held for a 3-1 in the third set, the last hold of serve in the match, with Osuigwe breaking Brengle for a third straight time to secure the championship. With the title the 2017 ITF Junior World Champion will move to a WTA career-high ranking around 140 and takes the lead in the USTA's French Open Wild Card Challenge, which has two more weeks left. Osuigwe is among those entered in next week's $100,000 event in Charleston, as is Lauren Davis, who reached the final at the $80,000 tournament in Dothan last week. In the Charlottesville doubles final, top seeds Taylor Townsend and Asia Muhammad won their first title together since 2016, beating No. 4 seeds Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic and Kataryna Kawa of Poland 4-6, 7-5, 10-3. At the $25,000 tournament in Osprey Florida, 18-year-old Ann Li won the other all-US singles final today, with the No. 3 seed beating unseeded Usue Arconada 6-3, 7-5. It's Li's second career title and her first above the $15,000 level. The 2017 Wimbledon girls finalist is 11-2 this month in three $25,000 tournaments and will improve on her current career-high WTA ranking of 254 when the points are added next month. The doubles title in Osprey went to No. 2 seed Pam Montez(UCLA) and Belinda Woolcock(Florida) of Australia, who beat the unseeded team of Arianne Hartono(Ole Miss) of the Netherlands and Alexandra Perper(Mississippi State) of Moldova 7-6(6), 6-3. Former USC star Emilio Gomez of Ecuador won his first ATP Challenger title today in Tallahassee, ending the winning streak of Tommy Paul, who had won last week's Challenger in Sarasota. The unseeded 27-year-old, who had reached an ATP 125 Challenger final in Mexico earlier this month, picked up his fifth win over a seed this week, beating No. 9 Paul 6-2, 6-2. With the title, the son of 1990 French Open champion Andres Gomez will move into the ATP Top 200 for the first time. The doubles title in Tallahassee went to No. 4 seeds Roberto Maytin(Baylor) of Venezuela and Fernando Romboli of Brazil, who beat unseeded Thai Kwiatkowski(Virginia) and Noah Rubin(Wake Forest) 6-2, 4-6, 10-7. At the ATP level, former collegians also claimed both title this week. At the ATP 500 in Barcelona, No. 3 seeds Robert Farah(USC) and Juan Sebastian Cabal of Colombia earned their 12th ATP title, beating No. 2 seeds Jamie Murray of Great Britain and Bruno Soares of Brazil 6-4, 7-6(4) in the final. And at the ATP 250 in Budapest, brothers Ken and Neal Skupski of Great Britain, both alumni of LSU, won their second title as a team. The No. 3 seeds defeated unseeded Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands and Marcus Daniell of New Zealand 6-3, 6-4 in the final. At the ITF World Tennis Tour 15K this week in Cancun, former UCLA No. 1 Gage Brymer advanced to his first pro final, but the 24-year-old qualifier fell to No. 2 seed Hugo Grenier of France, who has now won back-to-back 15Ks in Mexico, 6-3, 6-2. The doubles final was an all-collegiate affair, with unseeded George Goldhoff(Texas) and Julian Cash(Oklahoma State) of Great Britain beating No. 4 seeds Austin Rapp(UCLA) and Julian Bradley(North Florida) of Ireland 6-3, 6-7(8), 10-6. The Pac-12 determined its conference champions Saturday in Ojai, with the Stanford women beating UCLA 4-2 in the afternoon and the USC men shutting out Cal. Saturday evening. The Big 10 finals were today, with Ohio State beating Illinois 4-1 for its fourth straight men's tournament title and Michigan beating Illinois 4-1 for their second straight women's tournament title. See the Slam tennis site for all the results from the conference tournaments. The Division I draw will be revealed on Monday beginning at 6:00 p.m. at ncaa.com. The Men's and Women's Open titles at the Ojai were determined today at Libbey Park, with former UCLA Bruin Karue Sell[3] beating former USC star Raymond Sarmiento 6-4, 6-2. In the women's final No. 2 seed Mahak Jain defeated USC recruit Eryn Cayetano 6-4, 6-4. Sell and Jain will each receive $5300.00, with Sarmiento and Cayetano earning $2600. For links to all the results from this year's Ojai, see the tournament website. In addition to the Grade 1 in France this week, won by Holger Rune of Denmark and Elsa Jacquemot of France, there were 15 other tournaments on the ITF Junior Circuit, including three Grade 2s. Will Grant[8] reached the singles final of the Grade 2 in Slovakia, losing to top seed Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-1, and won the doubles title, with Oscar Weightman of Great Britain. The No. 3 seeds defeated No. 2 seeds Cezar Cretu of Romania and Peter Makk of Hungary 2-6, 6-4, 10-8 in the final. At the Grade 5 in Martinique, Ava Catanzarite swept the titles for the second week in a row. The unseeded 16-year-old defeated unseeded Rose Alix Vidal of France 6-2, 6-4 in the singles final and paired with Maryam to claim the doubles title in an all-US final. The No. 3 seeds defeated top seeds Artemis Pados and Gabriella Soliman 6-2, 6-4. Catanzarite began the month with no ITF Junior titles and now has four. Labels: ATP Challenger, College Tennis, International Tournaments, ITF, World Tennis Tour Osuigwe, Brengle, Li, Arconada and Paul Advance to Sunday Pro Finals; Canada's Girls and USA's Boys Finish No. 1 in ITF Junior Team Qualifying; Fenty Hands Wolf First Loss of Collegiate Season Five Americans have advanced to title matches at the three USTA Pro Circuit tournaments being played in the United States this week. Seventeen-year-old Whitney Osuigwe defeated unseeded Katarzyna Kawa of Poland 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(1) to advance to a first meeting with No. 2 seed Madison Brengle at the $80,000 ITF World Tennis Tour event in Charlottesville Virginia. Brengle beat No. 4 seed Kaja Juvan of Slovenia 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the day's second semifinal. Osuigwe, who will move to a career-high in the WTA rankings regardless of the outcome of Sunday's final, won an $80,000 title last fall in Texas, which led her to her winning the USTA's Australian Open Wild Card Challenge. Osuigwe, the 2017 French Open girls champion, is very much in the hunt for the French Open wild card that is being awarded by the USTA in a similar manner; Lauren Davis, who reached the final last week at the $80,000 in Dothan Alabama, did not play this week. There are two more weeks after this one in the Challenge, with the two $100,000 tournaments in the US likely to decide the winner. Brengle does not need the wild card, as she has received direct entry into the main draw at Roland Garros. Tommy Paul is definitely the front-runner for the men's French Open wild card after he defeated Tennys Sandgren 6-4, 6-3 at the ATP 80 Challenger in Tallahassee to reach his second straight Challenger final. No. 9 seed Paul, the 2015 French Open boys champion, beat No. 2 seed Sandgren 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Sarasota Challenger last week. This week Paul will face unseeded Emilio Gomez of Ecuador, with the former USC star taking out his fourth consecutive seed today by defeating No. 3 seed Corentin Moutet of France 6-1, 6-4. One more week remains in the men's USTA French Open Wild Card Challenge. The third tournament this week, the women's $25,000 tournament in Osprey Florida, is not a part of the Wild Card Challenge, but like the tournament in Charlottesville, it will also be a contest between two Americans. Unseeded Usue Arconada came from 4-0 down in the second set and 3-0 (two breaks) down in the third set to defeat No. 5 seed Olga Govortsova of Belarus 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 in today's semifinal, while Ann Li, the No. 3 seed, defeated top seed Gabby Ruse of Romania 7-5, 6-4. Li and Arconada have not played on the ITF Circuit before, but Li does have a win over Arconada in the round of 16 of the USTA Girls 18s Nationals in San Diego back in 2017. It will be the biggest singles title for whoever wins Sunday, with Li having one $15,000 title and Arconada one $10,000 title. There were mixed results for the US ITF junior teams in Montreal, all four of whom were playing Canada to win their group in the round robin competition. The boys 14-and-under World Junior Tennis team and the 16-and-under Junior Davis Cup team both finished the competition undefeated, but the girls World Junior Tennis team and the Junior Fed Cup team both lost to Canada to put them in second place in the final standings. The top two teams advance to the 16-team world finals later this year. Learner Tien at 2 and Kyle Kang at 1 took their singles matches to give the 14U boys an insurmountable lead. Dali Blanch at 2 and Martin Damm at 1 won their singles matches to assure first place to the Junior Davis Cup team. In the girls 14s, the singles were split, with Qavia Lopez losing to Kayla Cross at 2 singles and Clervie Ngounoue beating Victoria Mboko at 1 singles. That meant the doubles would decide who would finish No. 1, with Cross and Mboko beating Tsehay Driscoll and Lopez 4-6, 7-5, 10-7. The Canadian girls swept the US girls in Junior Fed Cup, with Annabelle Xu beating Charlotte Owensby at 2, Melodie Collard defeating Robin Montgomery at 1 and Marina Stakusic and Collard beating Ellie Coleman and Owensby in doubles, all in straight sets. For all the results from the three days of competition, see the ITF tournament site. Both Americans still in the ITF Grade 1 in France won their quarterfinal matches today, but lost in the semifinals. Unseeded Andres Martin defeated No. 1 seed Bu Yunchaokete of China 6-3, 6-3 but then lost to unseeded Timo Legout of France 7-6(4), 6-1. No. 2 seed Toby Kodat beat No. 7 seed Arthur Cazaux of France 6-2, 3-6, 7-5, but lost to No. 3 seed Holger Rune of Denmark 6-0, 7-6(1). At the Big 10 men's conference tournament at the University of Michigan, top seed Ohio State overcame the loss of the doubles point and went on to beat the fourth-seeded hosts 4-2, but the Wolverines second point was certainly notable. Michigan's Andrew Fenty, named Big 10 freshman of the year a couple of days ago, beat JJ Wolf of Ohio State 6-3, 7-5, handing the perennially top-ranked Wolf his first loss of the season, after 30 wins. Fenty started the year at line 3, but has been playing at line 1 the past several dual matches. Ohio State will play No. 2 seed Illinois in the final, after the Illini beat Penn State 4-2. USA, Canada Take Suspense Out of ITF Junior Team Qualifying; New Competition Between US and British Boys Introduced; Martin, Kodat Reach Grade 1 Quarterfinals; Osuigwe Advances to Semis in Charlottesville The United States and Canada remained undefeated in ITF World Junior Tennis and Junior Davis/Fed Cup North and Central American qualifying with wins today in Montreal and will face off to determine the No. 1 spot in the four round robin groups on Saturday. But because none of the other countries won a match in these first two days, there is no suspense remaining aside from positioning, with the loser of the four US - Canada matches still qualifying for the finals later this year. The US boys 14-and-under team did have to win a deciding doubles match to beat Mexico today, and the Canadian Junior Davis Cup team also dropped a match to Mexico Thursday, but other than that, the competition has been dominated by the US and Canada. That has been the usual outcome in past years, so it's not surprising, but when Mexico hosted the Junior Davis and Junior Fed Cups, only one of the US and Canada would make the finals, adding some spice to that competition. The LTA announced today that a new junior boys competition between the United States and Great Britain will take place at the ATP Queen's Club tournament June 21st and June 22nd. The competition for 18-and-under boys is being introduced as a tribute to former British Davis Cup captain Paul Hutchins, who died last month. The US and British girls have long had the Maureen Connolly Challenge during the prelude to the brief junior grass season, but the boys competition has been intermittent at best. I will pass along the names of the US players selected for this tournament when I receive them. For more on the Paul Hutchins Trophy, see this article. Unseeded Andres Martin and No. 2 seed Toby Kodat advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITF Grade 1 in France this week, which, due to rain, is still a round behind schedule. Georgia Tech recruit Martin, who has beaten the No. 9 and No. 6 seeds the past two days, will play top seed Bu Yunchaokete of China, while Kodat will play No. 7 seed Arthur Cazaux of France. The semifinals are also scheduled to be played Saturday. No. 8 seed Whitney Osuigwe defeated top seed Taylor Townsend 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 to advance to the semifinals of the $80,000 women's tournament in Charlottesville Virginia. The 17-year-old Floridian, who had lost to Townsend in three sets in their only previous meeting last year, will play unseeded Kataryna Kawa of Poland for a berth in Sunday's final. No. 2 seed Madison Brengle will face No. 4 seed Kaja Juvan, who beat unseeded Caty McNally 7-5, 6-1 in today's quarterfinals. Two Americans have advanced to the semifinals at the $25,000 women's tournament in Osprey Florida. No. 3 seed Ann Li defeated unseeded Gaia Senesi of Italy 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 to set up a meeting with top seed Gabby Ruse of Romania, who needed two-and-a-half hours to get by wild card Elli Mandlik 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. Unseeded Usue Arconada ended the run of wild card Alexa Glatch with a 6-3, 6-3 victory and will play No. 5 seed Olga Govortsova of Belarus in the semifinals. At the ATP 80 Challenger in Tallahassee, the finalists at last week's Sarasota Challenger will face off in the semifinals as No. 2 seed Tennys Sandgren(Tennessee) and No. 9 seed Tommy Paul picked up victories today. Sandgren beat No. 5 seed and 2018 champion Noah Rubin(Wake Forest) 7-5, 6-1, while Paul beat No. 13 seed Mikael Torpegaard(Ohio State) of Denmark 6-4, 6-1. Former USC star Emilio Gomez of Ecuador is in the top half semifinal and will take on No. 3 seed Corentin Moutet of France. Labels: ATP Challenger, International Tournaments, ITF, World Tennis Tour US Teams Get Four Sweeps as ITF Junior Team Qualifying Begins; SEC, ACC Announce Conference Awards; McNally, Osuigwe Advance to Quarterfinals at Charlotte $80K North/Central America and Caribbean regional qualifying began today for the ITF's junior team events: the 14-and-under World Junior Tennis competition, held in the Czech Republic in August, and the Junior Fed Cup and Junior Davis Cup competition, held this year at the end of September in Lake Nona. This weekend's event, taking place in Montreal, will decide which two teams in each category will advance to the above finals, although the US Junior Davis Cup and Junior Fed Cup teams are already certain of places in the 16-team event because they are the hosts. The US teams are off to a perfect start, with all four earning 3-0 victories today. The Junior Fed Cup team of Ellie Coleman, Charlotte Owensby and Robin Montgomery defeated El Salvador, with Coleman winning at No. 2 singles, Owensby at No. 1 singles and Owensby and Montgomery taking the doubles. The Junior Davis Cup team of Martin Damm, Alexander Bernard and Dali Blanch beat Costa Rica 3-0, with Bernard winning at No. 2 singles, Blanch at No. 1 singles and Damm and Blanch taking the doubles. In the girls World Junior Tennis, Qavia Lopez won at No. 2 singles, Clervie Ngounoue took No. 1 singles and Tsehay Driscoll and Lopez claimed the doubles in a 3-0 win over Guatemala. The boys World Junior Tennis team also beat Guatemala 3-0, with Cooper Williams getting the win at No. 2 singles, Kyle Kang at No. 1 singles and Kang and Williams teaming for the doubles win. Tomorrow all four teams will face teams from Mexico in the second of the three round robin matches. See the ITF tournament website for updates. The SEC and ACC have announced their conference tennis awards, with the all-conference teams, all-freshmen teams, and individual awards. Below are the three major awards, with links to the full array of awards in the headings. SEC Men: Player of the Year: Nuno Borges, Mississippi State Freshman of the Year: Sam Riffice, Florida Coach of the Year: Bryan Shelton, Florida SEC Women: Player of the Year: Ingrid Martins, South Carolina Freshman of the Year: Meg Kowalski, Georgia Coach of the Year: Kevin Epley, South Carolina ACC Men: Player of the Year: Carl Soderlund, Virginia Freshman of the Year: Brandon Nakashima, Virginia Coach of the Year: Andres Pedroso, Virginia ACC Women: ACC Women: Player of the Year: Estela Perez Somarriba, Miami Freshman of the Year: Cameron Morra, North Carolina Coach of the Year: Simon Earnshaw, North Carolina State Seventeen-year-olds Caty McNally and Whitney Osuigwe have advanced to the quarterfinals of the $80,000 ITF World Tennis Tour tournament in Charlottesville Virginia. McNally, who is unseeded, earned her second consecutive three-set victory today, beating unseeded Sesil Karatantcheva of Bulgaria 7-5, 4-6, 6-4, her second win over Karatancheva in the past two months. McNally will face 18-year-old Kaja Juvan of Slovenia, the No. 4 seed, next. Osuigwe, the No. 8 seed, beat Zoe Hives of Australia 6-2, 7-5 and will take on top seed Taylor Townsend in Friday's quarterfinal. Last year Townsend and Osuigwe met in the quarterfinals of the Charleston $80K, with Townsend winning 7-5 in the third. Other Americans to advance to the quarterfinals are No. 2 seed Madison Brengle and unseeded Quinn Gleason(Notre Dame). Labels: College Tennis, International Tournaments, ITF, World Tennis Tour ITF World No. 1 Junior Tauson Enters Milan Grade A, Fourteen Americans Receive Main Draw Acceptance; Ohio State Men and North Carolina Women No. 1 in USTA/Tennis Channel Poll photo by Samuel Elias via Unsplash Acceptances for the Grade A in Milan, one of the biggest tournaments on the ITF Junior Circuit, were released today by the ITF, with the girls field led by World No. 1 and Australian Open champion Clara Tauson of Denmark. Although boys No. 1 Chun Hsin Tseng of Taiwan has not entered, nor has Australian Open champion and No. 2 Lorenzo Musetti of Italy (something of a surprise given the tournament's location and the fact that Musetti just turned 17), seven of the current boys Top 10 have. Among those are defending champion and World No. 3 Adrian Andreev of Bulgaria, who has not played a junior event this year, and No. 6 Emilio Nava, who has not played a junior tournament since reaching the Australian Open boys final in January. In addition to Nava, the six other American boys entered (with their current ITF junior rankings) are: Cannon Kingsley(13), Martin Damm(19), Zane Khan(20), Eliot Spizzirri(26), Toby Kodat(28) and Tyler Zink(35). The ranking cutoff for the boys was 59. US boys in qualifying are Dali Blanch, Jacob Bullard, Andrew Dale, Will Grant, Mark Mandlik, Ronan Jachuck, Andres Martin and Blaise Bicknell. Aside from Tauson, just one other Top 10 girl is entered: Qinwen Zheng of China. The US girls receiving direct acceptance into the main draw are Hurricane Tyra Black(13), Emma Navarro(15), Alexa Noel(19), Elli Mandlik(21), Lea Ma(27), Robin Montgomery(60) and Chloe Beck(63). The cutoff for girls was 67. US girls in qualifying are Charlotte Chavatipon, Charlotte Owensby, Kylie Collins, Skyler Grishuk, Jenna DeFalco, Ellie Coleman, Hibah Shaikh, Katrina Scott, Madison Sieg and Tara Malik. The tournament is scheduled from May 20-26. A few Americans have already made their way over to Europe for the clay season, with this week's Grade 1 in France featuring four US boys and two US girls. Unfortunately, two days of rain have prevented the second round of singles from beginning, with No. 2 seed Toby Kodat and No. 5 seed Tyler Zink yet to play a match in the 48-player singles draw. The two US girls, qualifier Rebecca Lynn and Michelle Sorokko, did win their first round matches, as did unseeded Andres Martin. The top seeds are Bu Yunchaokete of China and Anastasia Tikhonova of Russia. The latest USTA/Tennis Channel Division I poll is out, with the Ohio State men remaining at No. 1 and North Carolina taking over the top spot after Georgia's loss to South Carolina in the SEC tournament final. The top 16 teams in the men's poll are the same as in this week's ITA rankings, just rearranged, but the women's Top 16 has three different teams, with Michigan, UCF and Miami in the USTA/TC poll, replacing USC, Cal and NC State, all in the ITA's Top 16. USTA/Tennis Channel Division I Men's Top 16, April 24, 2019 (previous week's rankings in parentheses): 1. Ohio State (1) 2. Wake Forest (2) 3. Texas (3) 4. Florida (4) 5. Mississippi State (9) 6. Virginia (5) 7. Baylor (10) 8. UCLA (6) 9. North Carolina (7) 10. USC (11) 11. Columbia (12) 12. TCU (8) 13. Stanford (14) 14. Tennessee (16) 15. Illinois (15) 16. Texas A&M (13) USTA/Tennis Channel Division I Women's Top 16, April 24, 2019 2. Georgia (1) 3. Stanford (3) 4. South Carolina (6) 5. Duke (4) 6. Pepperdine (5) 8. Kansas (16) 9. Vanderbilt (8) 10. Oklahoma State (10) 11. Michigan (11) 12. UCLA (13) 13. Florida State (12) 14. Washington (15) 15. UCF (18) 16. Miami (17) Labels: College and Junior Tennis, International Tournaments, ITF, ITF Grade A Tournaments Ohio State Men, North Carolina Women No. 1 in New ITA Oracle Rankings; 119th Edition of The Ojai Underway; Women Competing in Two ITF World Tennis Tour Events This Week in USA The Ohio State men and the North Carolina women are No. 1 in the ITA Division I rankings revealed today. The Buckeyes remain in the top spot, while the Tar Heels, who won the ACC tournament Sunday, take over from Georgia, who lost in the SEC tournament final. The Big Ten and the Pac-12 will be playing their conference tournaments this weekend, and the NCAA team selections will be live streamed on ncaa.com Monday April 29 at 6 p.m. for the men and 6:30 for the women. For the complete list of rankings, see the ITA website. ITA Division I Men’s Top 16 Rankings, April 23, 2019 6. Baylor (8) 8. USC (10) 9. TCU (7) 10. North Carolina (9) ITA Division I Women’s Top 16 Rankings, April 23, 2019 9. UCLA (10) 12. NC State (9) 13. Kansas (20) 16. Cal (14) Women’s Top 10 singles: 1. Katarina Jokic, Georgia (1) 2. Estela Perez-Somarriba, Miami (2) 3. Kate Fahey, Michigan (3) 4. Ingrid Gamarra Martins, South Carolina (4) 5. Makenna Jones, UNC (6) 6. Fernanda Contreras, Vanderbilt (5) 7. Alexa Graham, UNC (7) 8. Kenya Jones, Georgia Tech (8) 9. Anna Rogers, NC State (10) 10. Sophie Whittle, Gonzaga (11) Women’s Top 5 doubles: 1. Lauryn John-Baptiste and Ilze Hattingh, Arizona State (2) 2. Angela Kulikov and Rianna Valdes, USC (4) 3. Janet Koch and Nina Khmelnitckaia, Kansas (3) 4. Gabby Andrews and Ayan Broomfield, UCLA (8) 5. Jessie Aney and Alexa Graham, UNC (7) Men’s Top 10 singles: 1. JJ Wolf, Ohio State (1) 2. Nuno Borges, Mississippi State (2) 3. Carl Soderlund, Virginia (5) 4. Paul Jubb, South Carolina (6) 5. Alex Rybakov, TCU (3) 6. Petros Chrysochos, Wake Forest (4) 7. Oliver Crawford, Florida (11) 8. Christian Sigsgaard, Texas (9) 9. Aleks Kovacevic, Illinois (8) 10. Brandon Holt, USC (10) Men’s Top 5 doubles: 1. Sven Lah and Jimmy Bendeck, Baylor (1) 2. Henry Patten and Oli Nolan, UNC-Asheville (2) 3. Nuno Borges and Strahinja Rakic, Mississippi St (3) 4. Maxime Cressy and Keegan Smith, UCLA (5) 5. Christian Sigsgaard and Harrison Scott, Texas (6) Libbey Park, Ojai California The Pac-12 team tournaments will be held once again at The Ojai, in Ojai California, now in its 119th year. The variety of tennis on display at this event is incredible, from junior, high school and junior college championships, to Pac-12 team and men's and women's Open competitions. The latter always draw good fields due to the the prize money at stake and this year the top seeds in the Open draws are touring pros Jared Hiltzik and Hanna Chang. Although most events don't start until Wednesday, the qualifying for the Open events began today. For more on the top players in their respective draws, see this preview article by Steve Pratt. The two ITF World Tennis Tour events in the United States this week are both women's tournaments, with a $25,000 tournament in Osprey Florida and an $80,000 tournament in Charlottesville Virginia. With qualifying now complete at Osprey, six Americans advanced to the main draw: Pam Montez(UCLA), Jessica Ho(Duke), Brynn Boren(Tennessee/USC), Emerald Able(Georgia Gwinnett) and juniors Kylie Collins and Katie Volynets. Wild cards were given to Alexa Glatch, a 29-year-old who, until this month, had not played on the circuit since October of 2017, and juniors Elli Mandlik, Alexa Noel and Hurricane Tyra Black. Black and Glatch played today in the first round, with Glatch winning 6-3, 4-6, 6-2. Hailey Baptiste won her first round match today 6-3, 6-4 over University of Texas No. 1 Bianca Turati. The top seed is Gabby Ruse of Romania. In Charlottesville, the six qualifiers include three Americans: Sanaz Marand(UNC), Ingrid Neel(Florida) and Rasheeda McAdoo(Georgia Tech). Wild cards were given to Virginia recruit Natasha Subhash, Duke recruit Emma Navarro, top seed Taylor Townsend and Loraine Guillermo(Pepperdine). Coco Gauff entered via a junior exemption, but lost today in the first round to Zoe Hives of Australia 6-4, 7-6(3). Whitney Osuigwe, the No. 8 seed, defeated Kayla Day 6-0, 6-4 in a rematch of last year's USTA National 18s final in San Diego, also won by Osuigwe. The men's tournament this week in the US is the ATP 80 Challenger in Tallahassee, where Paolo Lorenzi of Italy is the top seed. Wild cards were given to Sekou Bangoura(Florida), Alexander Ritschard(Virginia), Dennis Novikov(UCLA), Zane Khan and Sebastian Korda. Bangoura, Novikov and Khan lost first round matches, while Ritschard and Korda won first round matches yesterday before losing their second round matches today. Ritschard lost to recent Texas A&M graduate Jordi Arconada, who was given a wild card into qualifying and beat top seed Aleks Vukic(Illinois) of Australia yesterday to advance to the main draw. After getting a bye into the second round due to the withdrawal of Daniel Elahi Galan of Colombia, Arconada, who won his first ITF World Tennis Tour singles title earlier this month, defeated Ritschard 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 for his first Challenger-level win. Labels: ATP Challenger, College Tennis, ITA, ITF, Pro Events, World Tennis Tour Videos of Adidas Easter Bowl Finals The Indian Wells Tennis Garden is host site for the Adidas Easter Bowl The videos I took of the eight Adidas Easter Bowl finals are below. As for photos from the tournament, the Tennis Recruiting Network has recently published a lengthy photo gallery by Dave Kenas, a professional who has been photographing the Easter Bowl tournament for many years. I am still working on the videos of the International Spring Championships, held earlier this month in Carson. My photo gallery from that event will be available at the Tennis Recruiting Network later this month. Labels: ITF, The Tennis Recruiting Network, USTA National Tournaments, YouTube Kenin's Win Keeps US in Fed Cup World Group; Paul Claims Sarasota Challenger; South Carolina Women Beat No. 1 Georgia to Win SEC Conference Tournament Title, Top-seeded Longhorns Fall in Both Big-12 Finals Sonya Kenin had played valiantly in her previous two Fed Cup appearances, but the 20-year-old Floridian had lost both her matches in the final last year against the Czech Republic and her one match in this year's quarterfinal against Australia. Today, with the US team leading Switzerland 2-1 thanks to Sloane Stephens two victories this weekend, Kenin was called on by captain Kathy Rinaldi to substitute for Madison Keys, who had lost the first singles match Saturday. Kenin came through, beating Timea Bacsinszky 6-3, 7-6(3) to keep the US in the World Group for 2020. For more on Kenin's clinching victory, see this article from the Fed Cup website. Tommy Paul won his second career ATP Challenger today in Sarasota, with the No. 15 seed beating No. 2 seed Tennys Sandgren 6-3, 6-4 in the 100 level tournament. The 21-year-old Paul, playing in just his second tournament since January, moves to 158 in the ATP rankings, just nine spots below his career high of 149. He takes the lead in the USTA French Open Wild Card Challenge, which continues for two more weeks. Both Paul, seeded ninth, and Sandgren, seeded second, are scheduled to compete in next week's Tallahassee tournament, an ATP 80 Challenger. For more on Paul's win, see this article from the ATP website. Lauren Davis will lead the women's USTA French Open Wild Card Challenge, but the No. 6 seed lost today in the final of the $80,000 ITF World Tennis Tour event in Dothan Alabama. Qualifier Kristina Kucova of Slovakia defeated Davis 3-6, 7-6(9), 6-2. At the $15,000 ITF Men's World Tennis Tour tournament in Orange Park, Dmitry Popko of Kazakhstan won his second title in as many weeks on the Florida clay. The unseeded 22-year-old defeated No. 4 seed Agustin Velotti of Argentina 6-0, 5-7, 6-3 in the final. In the doubles final, Velotti and Juan Ignacio Galarza, also of Argentina, beat No. 3 seeds and former Texas A&M Aggies Harrison Adams and Junior Ore 7-6(6), 6-7(3), 10-5 for the title. Of the three Power Five conferences holding their tournaments this weekend, only the ACC saw the top seeds win the titles. The North Carolina women won their fourth straight conference title, beating No. 2 seed Duke 4-2, with freshman Cameron Morra clinching for the Tar Heels at line 4. The Wake Forest men won their second straight tournament title, defeating No. 2 seed Virginia 4-2, with Bar Botzer clinching at line 3 for the Demon Deacons. Mississippi State, the No. 2 seed, won the men's SEC title, with the Bulldogs taking out No. 4 seed Tennessee 4-1 for their second consecutive tournament title. Nuno Borges clinched for Mississippi State at line 1, coming back from a set down against Timo Stodder. The top-seeded Georgia women, undefeated this season, lost to South Carolina 4-3, with the match coming down to No. 1 singles. Georgia's Katarina Jokic, who has been the top-ranked woman in Division I for most of the year, had clinched the Team Indoor title for the Bulldogs in a third set tiebreaker, but she could not get there in today's high-pressure situation, getting broken on the deciding point serving at 4-5 in the third set against Ingrid Gamarra Martins. South Carolina, the No. 2 seed, had never won the SEC tournament prior to today. In the Big 12, top seed Texas fell to No. 2 seed Baylor 4-1, with Adrian Boitan clinching for the Bears at line 3. It's the ninth conference tournament title for Baylor and the first since 2014. The news was no better for the Longhorn women, with the top seeds falling 4-2 to No. 3 Kansas on the Jayhawks home courts. Maria Toran Ribas clinched for 20th-ranked Kansas at line 6. For scores from all today's conference tournament finals, see the SLAM tennis website. Labels: ATP Challenger, College Tennis, Pro Events, World Tennis Tour Sandgren, Paul Meet in Sarasota Challenger Final Sunday; Davis Advances at Dothan $80K; Catanzarite Sweeps Grade 5 Titles in Guadeloupe; Tennessee Men Upset Florida in SEC Conference Tournament The lead in the USTA's French Open Wild Card Card Challenge will go to the winner of tomorrow's final at the ATP 100 Challenger in Sarasota Florida, after wins today by No. 15 seed Tommy Paul and No. 2 seed Tennys Sandgren. Sandgren, who is the tenth alternate for the main draw of the French Open, defeated No. 11 seed Marcos Giron 7-6(2), 2-6, 6-2 on a windy day at the Laurel Oak Country Club, while Paul had considerably less trouble getting past unseeded Andrea Collarini of Argentina 6-1, 6-3. Paul, who is playing in only his second tournament since January, is currently 204 in the ATP rankings, so would definitely need to win that wild card to avoid French Open qualifying. Paul won the French Open boys title in 2015. The women's final at the $80,000 ITF World Tennis Tour event in Dothan Alabama will feature just one American, with No. 6 seed Lauren Davis advancing to the final with a 6-1, 7-6(3) win over unseeded Gabby Ruse of Romania. Davis, who has not lost a set all week, will face qualifier Kristina Kucova of Slovakia, the 2007 US Open girls champion, in the final. Kucova defeated Francesca Di Lorenzo 7-6(3), 7-5. Regardless of the result tomorrow, Davis will lead in the women's French Open Wild Card Challenge. The doubles final was played this afternoon in Dothan, with Usue Arconada and Caroline Dolehide taking the title, their second in as many weeks. The unseeded Americans, who won the doubles at the $25,000 in Pelham last week, defeated the unseeded Australian pair of Destanee Aiava and Astra Sharma 7-6(5), 6-4 in today's final. Sixteen-year-old Ava Catanzarite won her first ITF Junior Circuit titles this week at the Grade 5 in Guadeloupe, taking the singles championship unseeded, and partnering with Sonya Macavei for the doubles crown. Catanzarite dropped only 11 games in her five wins, with half of the 10 sets she won earned with 6-0 scores. She defeated unseeded Jade Psonka of France 6-0, 6-2 in the final. In doubles, No. 4 seeds Macavei and Catanzarite also did not drop a set, beating unseeded Emma Jouy and Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah of France 6-2, 6-1 in the final. The other Americans to win a title in ITF Junior play this week are No. 4 seeds Maryam Ahmad and Sasha Wood, who took the doubles at the Grade 4 in Barbados. The No. 4 seeds beat top seeds from Great Britain, Jasmine Conway and Charlotte Russell 6-3, 6-3 in the final. Unseeded Carrington Hayes made the girls singles final, falling to top seed Conway 6-0, 6-7(5), 6-2. The finals of the conference tournaments in the ACC, Big 12 and SEC are set for Sunday, with 1 vs 2 seeds meeting in four of the six. The ACC women's final will be between No. 1 North Carolina and No. 2 Duke. The ACC men's final will pit No. 1 Wake Forest and No. 2 Virginia. The SEC women's final has No. 1 Georgia against No. 2 South Carolina and the Big 12 men's final has No. 1 Texas facing No. 2 Baylor. The Kansas women, seeded No. 3, beat No. 2 Oklahoma State 4-2 and will face top seed Texas in Sunday's final. The most surprising result came in the men's SEC semifinals, where No. 4 seed Tennessee defeated host and top seed Florida 4-3 to advance to the final against No. 2 seed Mississippi State. Down 3-1, with the their only point from doubles, the Volunteers won at lines 3, 4 and 2, with Adam Walton getting the clinching point for Tennessee in the third set against Sam Riffice. For all the other action today in conference tournaments, see the SLAM tennis website. Dostanic's Commitment to USC Goes Back Years; NCAA Recruiting Rules Change Again; Perkins Jasper to Leave ITA for Claremont-Mudd-Scripps; Korda Falls to Giron at Sarasota Challenger; US Open Qualifying Extended to Five Days While I was covering the ITF Grade 1 in Carson, I had an opportunity to sit down with blue chip Stefan Dostanic, who will be joining the USC Trojans this fall. The 2017 Kalamazoo 16s finalist and 2018 Kalamazoo 18s semifinalist has two more years of eligibility for the 18s Nationals, as he does not turn 19 until November of 2020. I was curious why he decided to attend USC, particularly what was behind his early verbal commitment. He explained how a friendship with Peter Smith's son Colter played a role, and also emphasized his certainty that his game would improve under Smith's guidance. My article for the Tennis Recruiting Network is here. Dostanic was recruited under the old rules, but the NCAA has, after just one year, made another change to dates in an effort to stem early recruiting. With an effective date of May 1, 2019, communication to or from a coach to a prospective student-athlete can begin June 15th, after the sophomore year of high school, and allows visits beginning August 1 before the junior year of high school. Previously both those dates were September 1 before the junior year. See this NCAA.org article for more on this change. Erica Perkins Jasper, the Chief Operation Officer at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, has accepted the position of Director of Athletics at Division III Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Jasper was on the USTA's Player Development staff prior to becoming the women's head tennis coach at New Mexico, and she joined the ITA in 2015. Although she will certainly continue to be involved in college tennis, with CMS regularly in the hunt for an NCAA title, obviously her focus will no longer be on the national level, and that will leave a void hard to fill. For more on Jasper's new position, which begins on June 1, see the CMS athletics website. Three Americans have advanced to the semifinals of the ATP 100 Challenger in Sarasota Florida, with No. 11 seed Marcos Giron and No. 2 Tennys Sandgren scheduled to play for a place in the final Saturday. Former UCLA Bruin Giron, the 2014 NCAA singles champion, defeated wild card Sebastian Korda 6-1, 6-4, while former Tennessee Volunteer Sandgren, a 2011 NCAA semifinalist, defeated No. 8 seed Peter Polansky 7-6(4), 6-3. In the top half, Tommy Paul, the No. 15 seed, advanced to the semifinals with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 win over No. 5 seed Paolo Lorenzi of Italy. Paul will face unseeded Andrea Collarini of Argentina. The USTA announced yesterday that US Open qualifying will begin on Monday and extend through Friday this year, rather than the previous Tuesday through Friday schedule of past years. The first two days often saw matches going past 9 p.m., so this change should help with that issue. US Open qualifying continues to be free to the public. Labels: ATP Challenger, College Tennis, Junior Profiles U.S., Pro Events, The Tennis Recruiting Network, USTA Arias Takes Over as Director of Tennis at IMG, Harrison Promoted to Director of Tennis Operations; Korda Advances to Quarterfinals at Sarasota Challenger The IMG Academy announced today that former Top 5 ATP pro Jimmy Arias has been named Director of Tennis at the Bradenton Florida facility, replacing Rohan Goetzke, who took that position in 2012. The IMG release states that Goetzke has "moved on to pursue other opportunities in tennis." Arias, one of the first players to attend the academy when it was owned by Nick Bollettieri, had been named to the post of Director of Player Development there just a few months ago, in November of 2018. IMG also announced that Pat Harrison, the father of Ryan and Christian Harrison, will become Director of Tennis Operations. Harrison, who has been a coach at the Academy since 2008, has been working with Danielle Collins and Madison Brengle, as well as Michael Venus, his son Christian and many, many other top level players who populate the academy during the off-season. 2018 Australian Open boys champion Sebastian Korda continues to shine at this week's ATP 100 Challenger in Sarasota Florida, reaching the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 win over former Illinois star Aleks Vukic of Australia. Korda, who trains at IMG, received a wild card into the event and has now won three matches, his first three on the Challenger level. Korda will play No. 11 seed Marcos Giron(UCLA), who defeated No. 6 seed Henri Laaksonen 7-6(3), 1-6, 6-3 earlier today. Jenson Brooksby came up just short in his quest to match Korda, falling to No. 8 seed Peter Polansky of Canada 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(6). Brooksby was twice up a break in the final set, but Polansky broke back immediately both times. The 30-year-old Canadian then went up 6-2 in the final set tiebreaker, only to see Brooksby save all four of those match points, but the Kalamazoo 18s champion lost the fifth. Other Americans advancing to the quarterfinals in Sarasota are No. 2 seed Tennys Sandgren(Tennessee), who beat Guilherme Clezar of Brazil 7-6(5), 6-2. No. 15 seed Tommy Paul, playing in just his second tournament since January, defeated last week's ATP Houston semifinalist Daniel Elahi Galan of Colombia 2-6, 6-1, 6-1. Paul is the only American in the top half. Live streaming is available, with Mike Cation doing the commentary, here. Usue Arconada and Lauren Davis have advanced to the quarterfinals at the $80,000 women's ITF World Tennis Tour tournament in Dothan Alabama. Wild card Arconada defeated No. 8 seed Claire Liu 2-6, 6-2, 7-6(1) in a three-hour battle. Davis, the No. 6 seed, beat Renata Zarazua of Mexico 6-3, 6-2. Arconada faces Gabby Ruse of Romania in the quarterfinals, while Davis plays unseeded Sofya Zhuk of Russia, who beat No. 2 seed Madison Brengle in the first round. Francesca Di Lorenzo(Ohio State) is the third American into the quarterfinals, beating Sesil Karatantcheva of Bulgaria, who took out top seed Taylor Townsend in the first round, 6-2, 7-6(3) tonight. ; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Labels: ATP Challenger, ITF, Player Development, World Tennis Tour USTA Announces Junior Davis and Fed Cup, World Junior Tennis Teams for Upcoming Qualifying; USTA/Tennis Channel Rankings Mostly Unchanged; Brooksby, Korda Move into Third Round at Sarasota Challenger The USTA announced today the teams that will represent the United States in the North American qualifying for the ITF's Junior Davis Cup, Junior Fed Cup and World Junior Tennis to be held April 25-27 in Montreal Canada. World Junior Tennis (14-and-under) Girls: Tsehay Driscoll Qavia Lopez Clervie Ngounoue Captain: Maureen Diaz World Junior Tennis Boys: Kyle Kang Learner Tien Cooper Williams Captain: Jon Glover Junior Fed Cup (16-and-under): Ellie Coleman Robin Montgomery Captain: Erik Kortland Junior Davis Cup: Alexander Bernard Dali Blanch Martin Damm Captain: Phillippe Oudshoorn Because the United States is hosting the Junior Davis and Junior Fed Cup competitions at Lake Nona September 25-30 2019, the US teams are assured a place in the final 16, but are playing the regional qualifying for seeding purposes. The World Junior Tennis event always conflicts with the USTA National Championships in August, and it will again this year, taking place once again in Prostejov, Czech Republic August 5-10, 2019. This week's Tennis Channel/USTA Division I team poll is out, with few changes. As with the ITA rankings, the Ohio State men and Georgia women are No. 1. Below are the Top 16 teams, with the complete list of each Top 25 available at usta.com. Men’s USTA/Tennis Channel Top 16 Rankings, April 17, 2019 9. Mississippi State (T10) 10. Baylor (6) 11. USC (T10) Women’s USTA/Tennis Channel Top 16 Rankings, April 17, 2019 9. Ohio State (11) 11. Michigan (9) 14. NC State (14) Neither Jenson Brooksby or Sebastian Korda had won a match at the ATP Challenger main draw level before this week, but both 18-year-old wild cards now have two after posting ATP Top 200 wins today at the ATP 100 Challenger in Sarasota. Brooksby, the reigning Kalamazoo 18s champion, defeated Jared Hiltzik(Illinois) in the first round Monday and today took out ATP 163 and No. 10 seed Marc Polmans of Australia 6-3, 6-0. Korda defeated Ulises Blanch 7-6(7), 6-3 in the first round yesterday and today defeated ATP 187 and No. 14 seed James Ward of Great Britain 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-1. Both of today's wins are the best, ranking-wise, of their careers. Brooksby will face No. 8 seed Peter Polansky of Canada in the round of 16, while Korda's third round opponent is former Illinois star Aleks Vukic of Australia, who received entry as an alternate when Casper Ruud withdrew after making the ATP Houston final last week. Labels: ATP Challenger, College Tennis, International Tournaments, ITF, Player Development, USTA Ohio State Men, Georgia Women Return to Top of ITA Rankings; Wolf and Jokic Remain No. 1 in Singles; SLAM Tennis Reveals Division I Conference Tournament Projections for Wednesday's Matches The weekly ITA Division I team rankings are out, and once again, the No. 1 teams have changed. Bumped by Texas last week, the Ohio State men return to the top spot, as do the Georgia women, who lost their No. 1 ranking last week to North Carolina, despite a direct head-to-head win over the Tar Heels in February's Team Indoor Championships. Because we are getting close to the cutoff for hosting regionals in next month's NCAA tournament, I'm expanding this to the Top 16 from the usual Top 10. Full lists can be found by clicking on the headings. The ITA Men's Division I Top 16, April 16, 2019 7. TCU (10) 11. Texas A&M (8) The ITA Women's Division I Top 16, April 16, 2019: 9. NC State (9) 14. California (17) The individual rankings have had less volatility than the team rankings this year, with Ohio State's JJ Wolf and Georgia's Katarina Jokic staying No. 1 in singles again this week. JJ Wolf, photo courtesy Scott Gerber, OhioTennisZone.com ITA Men's Division I Top 10 singles, April 16, 2019: 7. Yuya Ito, Texas (7) 9. Christian Sigsgaard, Texas(8) ITA Men's Division I Top 5 doubles, April 16, 2019: 4. Parker Wynn and Bjorn Thomson, Texas Tech (7) Katarina Jokic, photo courtesy ITA ITA Women's Division I Top 10 singles, April 16, 2019: 6. Makenna Jones, North Carolina (5) 7. Alexa Graham, North Carolina (6) T8. Kenya Jones, Georgia Tech (14) T8. Eden Richardson, LSU (9) 10. Anna Rogers, North Carolina State (8) ITA Women's Division I Top 5 doubles, April 16 2019: 1. Mia Horvit and Ingrid Gamarra Martins, South Carolina 3. Janet Koch and Nina Khmelnitckaia, Kansas 5. Ashley Lahey and Evgeniya Levashova, Pepperdine Although some conference tournaments started before today, the competitions that decide the who gets automatic bids to the NCAA tournament begin in earnest on Wednesday, with the SEC and the ACC both having early round matches. Tennis Recruiting Network's SLAM tennis is tracking the conference tournaments, and you can see projections now and scores later from all the matches on their Championship Central page. They also provide a Bracketology feature, projecting which schools will receive invitations to the NCAA tournament, which teams are on the bubble and even what the draw might look like. Bobby Knight will also be following the results this weekend at College Tennis Today, and College Tennis Ranks is also a place to dive deeply into the projected rankings and selections for the Division I NCAA tournament. With the NCAA Division I tournament hosted this year at the USTA's National Campus in Lake Nona, usta.com has undertaken a series looking at several of the teams expecting to be contend for the titles next month. Today's article focuses on the Vanderbilt women, last year's finalists. They have also highlighted the Stanford women, the Duke women, the Michigan women, the North Carolina women and the Virginia men. Labels: College Tennis, ITA, The Tennis Recruiting Network, USTA Zane Khan Qualifies for Sarasota Challenger; Alabama, Florida Host ITF World Tennis Tour Events Again This Week; More ITF World Tennis Tour Adjustments Coming? Orange Bowl finalist Zane Khan won his qualifying match today at the ATP 100 Challenger in Sarasota Florida, with the 17-year-old wild card defeating ATP No. 369 Benjamin Hassan of Germany 6-3, 6-2. Khan will face unseeded Daniel Galan of Colombia, a semifinalist at last week's ATP 250 in Houston, in the first round Tuesday. Khan is one of 20 American men in the Sarasota main draw this week, with Tennys Sandgren the No. 2 seed and Bradley Klahn the No. 3 seed (Hugo Dellien of Bolivia is the top seed.) Wild cards went to Noah Rubin[9], Sebastian Korda, last week's runnerup at the Sunrise $15K, Jared Hiltzik and Jenson Brooksby. Brooksby and Hiltzik played each other today, with the reigning Kalamazoo champion picking up his first Challenger-level by a 6-1, 6-2 score. This is also the second week of the men's USTA's French Open Wild Card Challenge, with little happening in the first week. No American men played in the two clay Challengers or the ATP in Morocco last week, and only Ryan Harrison, now 109 in the ATP rankings, picked up any points at the ATP in Houston, with a first round win. Sam Querrey made the semifinals in Houston, but he is not likely to need the French Open wild card. This week most of the Americans are in Sarasota, although a few are playing at the ATP 80 Challenger in Mexico: Evan King, Kevin King (who played each other in the first round today, with Kevin King winning), Ernesto Escobedo and 17-year-old wild card Emilio Nava. With Fed Cup taking place this week, there are no WTA events, and the biggest tournament on the schedule is the $80,000 tournament in Dothan Alabama, which kicks off the women's USTA French Open Wild Card Challenge. Taylor Townsend and Madison Brengle are the top two seeds in Dothan, among the 11 Americans in the main draw prior to the completion of qualifying. There will be at least one more, with Ingrid Neel(Florida) and Hanna Chang meeting in the final round of qualifying Tuesday, with Katie Volynets and Quinn Gleason(Notre Dame) also able to advance to the main draw with a win Tuesday. The main draw wild cards were given to Alexa Guarachi, a former University of Alabama star, Usue Arconada, Sophie Chang and Louisa Chirico. Bogota finalist Astra Sharma(Vanderbilt) of Australia is also in the draw this week and is the No. 4 seed. The ITF World Tennis Tour continues on the Florida clay this week in Orange Park, where Bastian Malla of Chile is the top seed at the $15,000 tournament. Harrison Adams(Texas A&M) is the No. 2 seed. Wild cards were given to Junior Ore(Texas A&M), Emmett Ward, Logan Zapp and Easter Bowl champion Ronald Hohmann. For many years, Egypt and Turkey have had a series of low level ITF Pro Circuit events, with tournament after tournament in the same location in those countries, presumably so players don't have to travel so much. Cancun Mexico may not be in that mode quite yet, but that popular resort city will be hosting three combined men's and women's $15,000 events this month, and they have attracted a handful of Americans in these first two weeks. Tom Fawcett[3](Stanford) and Evan Zhu[7](UCLA) are the seeded American men this week in Cancun, with Pamela Montez[3](UCLA) and Sabastiani Leon[7] the two seeded American women this week in Cancun. Last week the Telegraph detailed Tennis Europe's objections to the ITF's new World Tennis Tour and this article floats the possibility that the ATP will once again grant ATP points to players at the WTT level if the ITF agrees to several changes, including larger qualifying draws. Recently the ITF expanded the qualifying from 24 to 32, with 48 the latest number suggested. Labels: ATP Challenger, ITF, Pro Events, USTA, World Tennis Tour Anisimova Defeats Sharma to Claim First WTA Title; Arconada Earns His First Title in Cancun; Carton Takes ITF Grade 4 in Trinidad; Baylor Falls to Texas Tech; Georgia Women, Florida Men Win SEC Regular Season Titles, Michigan Women Also Finish Conference Play Undefeated Seventeen-year-old Amanda Anisimova came from behind once again today at the WTA's Claro Open Colsanitas in Bogota Colombia to claim her first WTA title in her second final. No. 6 seed Anisimova, the 2017 US Open girls champion, defeated recent Vanderbilt graduate Astra Sharma of Australia 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in today's final, becoming the youngest American to win a WTA tour title since Serena Williams in 1999. Anisimova, who won four of her five matches in three sets, with three of those from a set down, will now move to a career-high of 54 in the WTA rankings. Sharma, who had a set and a break lead before Anisimova's comeback, will be at 102 in the WTA rankings after her run the week. See the WTA website for this article on Anisimova's title, her thoughts on Sharma's game and her plans for the upcoming clay season. Throughout her junior career, Anisimova had great success on the South American, Mexican and European clay, so it's no surprise to hear her call it her "favorite surface." Wimbledon girls champion Iga Swiatek of Poland could not join Anisimova in the winner's circle today, with the 17-year-old losing to Polona Hercog of Slovenia 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the final of the WTA International in Switzerland. Jordi Arconada, the recent Texas A&M graduate, won his first ITF World Tennis Tour singles title today at the $15,000 event in Cancun Mexico. Arconada, who was unseeded, defeated No. 5 seed Nicolas Alvarez(Duke) of Peru 6-4, 6-2 in the final. Arconada beat four seeds and didn't drop a set all week to add a singles title to his four doubles title on the ITF Pro Circuit. The other two Americans in singles finals today were beaten, with No. 8 seed Sebastian Korda falling to unseeded Dmitry Popko of Kazakhstan 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in the Sunrise Florida $15K and No. 2 seed Caroline Dolehide losing to No. 7 seed Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-3 at the $25K in Pelham Alabama. The ITF Junior Circuit left the United States this week, but Americans still competed in several tournaments, earning a total of four titles. Unseeded 15-year-old Nevena Carton won her first ITF Junior Circuit title at the Grade 4 in Trinidad and Tobago, beating No. 3 seed Jackeline Lopez 6-0, 6-1 in the all-American girls singles final. Unseeded Victor Lilov lost in the boys singles final to top seed Angel Diaz Jalil of Ecudor 6-2, 7-6(1). Unseeded Jameson Corsillo and Andrew Pereverzev beat No. 3 seeds Lilov and Canada's Christopher Heck 6-2, 6-3 in the doubles final. The girls doubles title went to Elan Mnatsakanov and Jamilah Snells, who beat Cecilia Alcobe Garibay and Great Britain's Jasmine Conway 7-5, 4-6, 10-7 in the final. At the ITF Grade 3 in Canada, unseeded Matthew Che and James Tracy won the boys doubles title, beating top seeds Blaise Bicknell and Great Britain's Blu Baker 6-3, 6-3 in the final. The No. 6 Baylor men lost 4-3 today to No. 23 Texas Tech in Lubbock to conclude the Big 12 regular season. The conference tournament begins Friday in Kansas. The SEC produced two undefeated regular season champions, with the Florida men and the Georgia women both sweeping all of their conference matches. No. 3 Florida defeated No. 18 South Carolina 6-1 to win their first SEC title outright in 16 years. No. 2 Georgia beat No. 7 Vanderbilt 4-1 to deny South Carolina any share of the regular season title and joined the 2002 team in going undefeated throughout the regular season. The Ohio State men defeated Illinois 4-2 today in Champaign in the match that will probably decide the Big Ten title, but the men's Big Ten regular season extends through next weekend, so nothing is official there. The Michigan women won 5-1 at Maryland and clinched their regular season title, going 11-0 in conference play. Labels: College Tennis, International Tournaments, ITF, Pro Events, World Tennis Tour Sharma, Anisimova Play for WTA Bogota Title Sunday; Swiatek Through to WTA Lugano Final; Dolehide, Korda, Arconada Play for ITF World Tennis Tour Titles Either Astra Sharma or Amanda Anisimova will win her first WTA Tour title Sunday after the pair advanced to the final with wins Saturday at the Claro Open Colsanitas in Bogota Colombia. The 17-year-old Anisimova will be playing in her second WTA tour final, having lost in the final of the Hiroshima Japan International last September. She defeated qualifier Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-2 in over two-and-a-half hours. The 23-year-old Sharma, who was playing No. 1 for Vanderbilt last year at this time, had never reached the quarterfinals of a WTA event until this week, but the Australian was able to eliminate 2012 champion and 2017 and 2018 finalist Lara Arruabarrena 7-5, 6-1 in just over an hour. With her run this week, Sharma is now on the cusp of the WTA Top 100 and the main draw of the French Open. For more on Sharma's win today, see this article from the WTA website. Sharma has already earned her first WTA title, regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's singles final. She and Zoe Hives, also of Australia, beat Hayley Carter(UNC) and Ena Shibahara(UCLA) 6-1, 6-2 in the Bogota doubles final. Iga Swiatek won the Wimbledon Girls title in 2018 Current girls Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek of Poland has advanced to her first WTA final, with the 17-year-old beating another Wimbledon junior champion, Kristyna Pliskova of the Czech Republic, 6-0, 6-1 in less than an hour in today's Samsung Open in Lugano Switzerland. Swiatek will face unseeded Polona Hercog of Slovenia, who beat unseeded Fiona Ferro of France 7-5, 6-4 in the other semifinal. Swiatek will break into the WTA Top 100 regardless of Sunday's result. Exactly a year ago, Swiatek was winning the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Pelham Alabama. Tomorrow, the final at that tournament will feature No. 2 seed Caroline Dolehide and No. 7 seed Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic. Dolehide defeated No. 4 seed Sesil Karatantcheva of Bulgaria 6-3, 7-6(4) while Krejcikova, last week's champion of the $80,000 tournament in Palm Harbor Florida, beat qualifier Hailey Baptiste 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Dolehide already has earned one title this week, taking the doubles championship today with Usue Arconada. The No. 3 seeds defeated the unseeded Romanian team of Oana Simion and Gabriela Talaba(Texas Tech) 6-3, 6-0 in today's final. Two American men will play for ITF World Tennis Tour $15K titles Sunday, with No. 8 seed Sebastian Korda playing Dmitry Popko of Kazakhstan in the Sunrise Florida final, and Jordi Arconada facing No. 5 seed and former Duke star Nicolas Alvarez of Peru in the Cancun Mexico final. Korda defeated No. 2 seed Alejandro Gonzalez of Colombia 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 in today's Sunrise semifinal, while Arconada, a former Texas A&M star, beat No. 8 seed Lorenzo Frigerio of Italy 6-4, 6-3 in the Cancun semifinal. Both the 18-year-old Korda and the 22-year-old Arconada are looking for their first singles titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour. The doubles title in Cancun went to No. 4 seeds Henry Craig(Denver) and Julian Bradley(North Florida) of Ireland, who beat Ecuador's Ivan Endara and Peru's Jorge Panta 6-3, 6-3 in the final. No. 2 seeds Justin Butsch(LSU) and Alexander Ritschard(Virginia) won the Sunrise doubles title, beating Argentina's Maximiliano Estevez and Chile's Bastian Malla 3-6, 6-3, 10-2. It's Butsch's third ITF WTT doubles title and the first for Ritschard. Labels: ITF, Pro Events, World Tennis Tour Borges, Perez-Somarriba Named Top Seeds for NCAA D... Georgia Women, Ohio State Men Receive Top Seeds wi... Osuigwe, Li Claim Titles; Big 10, Pac-12 Tournamen... Osuigwe, Brengle, Li, Arconada and Paul Advance to... USA, Canada Take Suspense Out of ITF Junior Team Q... US Teams Get Four Sweeps as ITF Junior Team Qualif... ITF World No. 1 Junior Tauson Enters Milan Grade A... Ohio State Men, North Carolina Women No. 1 in New ... Kenin's Win Keeps US in Fed Cup World Group; Paul ... Sandgren, Paul Meet in Sarasota Challenger Final S... Dostanic's Commitment to USC Goes Back Years; NCAA... Arias Takes Over as Director of Tennis at IMG, Har... USTA Announces Junior Davis and Fed Cup, World Jun... Ohio State Men, Georgia Women Return to Top of ITA... Zane Khan Qualifies for Sarasota Challenger; Alaba... Anisimova Defeats Sharma to Claim First WTA Title;... Sharma, Anisimova Play for WTA Bogota Title Sunday... International Spring Championships ITF Recap; CMS ... International Spring Championships 16s Recap; Shar... Few Changes in USTA/Tennis Channel Weekly Rankings... Texas Men and North Carolina Women Move to Top Spo... Caty McNally Signs with Octagon; Center Pleads Gui... Top Seeds Black and Draxl Fight Through Three-Sett... Ma and Black Meet for Girls Title, Svajda and Drax... March Aces; Woldeab and Lutkemeyer Meet for Girls ... Bullard Beats Third Seed Zink, DeFalco Tops Fourth... Easter Bowl ITF Recap; Navarro and Beck Win at Vol... 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__label__wiki	0.827372	0.827372	Inquiring minds want to know: Which position will Miguel Sano play? Byung Ho Park Terry Ryan Rob Antony Trevor Plouffe Soon after the Twins signed and introduced Korean slugger Byung Ho Park, the questions started. Chief among them: If Park plays DH, where do you put Miguel Sano? Sano, the 22-year-old slugger-in-the-making, who hit 18 home runs over 80 games for the Twins last season, stands six-foot-four and weighs around 260 pounds. That’s probably perfect for the Minnesota Vikings, but if the sport happens to be baseball, then DH would seem to make the most sense for Sano. He also plays third base, but that job has been filled by Trevor Plouffe. Joe Mauer is at first base — and likely isn’t going anywhere — so that means Park, who hit 53 homers last season in South Korea, gets slotted in at DH. So, again, where do you put Sano? Well, the early indication is that Twins fans are going to find out just how fast a 260-pound man can chase down a fly ball because it appears that Sano is headed to right field. Huh? That’s right, according to the Pioneer Press, which also noted that Sano will be asked to “convert to a position he has never played before at any level.” Twins GM Terry Ryan sounds confident that Sano can make the switch: “No, I’m not concerned,” Ryan told the Pioneer Press. “He’s a very athletic, big man that can run and throw. We’re in good shape.” Sano, through Twins Assistant GM Rob Antony, said he’s ready to make the change to the outfield: “He said, ‘I love third base, but you tell me where to play and that’s where I’ll prepare to play.'” Can Sano play right field? I think he can, but not at 260 pounds. In the meantime, let’s enjoy what Sano’s size, strength and bat speed can do to a baseball. Tuesday’s loss raises fresh questions about Miguel Sano as a right fielder Miguel Sano’s up-and-down play gives Twins more to ponder	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line351
__label__cc	0.71156	0.28844	Nha Board Upon board approval, you must submit your application through NAB’s CDOM system at their website. Its mission is to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of Tennesseans by requiring those who practice nursing home administration within this state be qualified. Application Instructions. Our rooftop bar is a popular hangout for both hotel guests and locals with our handcrafted cocktails and sleek décor. Join two co-located events October 27 - November 1. Our Board of Directors is comprised of dedicated civic and community leaders who volunteer their time and energy to help ensure that Forsyth Academy is transforming the lives of students and enriching communities by delivering high-quality educational choice to families. 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Karen Phelan, Program Director The Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators regulates and licenses nursing home administrators. (November 2, 2016) – The state of California now recognizes National Healthcareer Association’s (NHA) Exam for the Certification of Pharmacy Technicians (ExCPT®) as a pathway to licensure in this growing field. Eighth Street, Ste. one being the NHA examination and the other being the Florida Laws and Rules examination. 02 Published under s. Role of the Board in Corporate Strategy: 15 Mar 2016: 3. BIOS Computer BIOS help and support. Dorianne Mormann, CMP Board Member. Public Health Law (Article 28-D, § 2896), states that on or after July 1, 1970, no person shall practice or represent him or herself as a nursing home administrator in New York State unless that person is licensed by New York's Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators (BENHA) and registered by the New York State Department of. ONLINE LICENSE RENEWAL \| \| \| User Login. Upon arriving, you’ll board a pedicab and set out on a panoramic tour of Nha Trang. The application for Nursing Home Adminstrator (NHA) licensure asks whether you are applying by Administrator-in-Training (AIT) or Reciprocity. The licenses granted by the Board fall into three types: a 'regular' license, a 'provisional' license, and a ‘temporary’ license. MS Board of Nursing Home Administrators Website Disclaimer 1755 Lelia Drive Suite 305 Jackson, MS 39216 Office: (601) 362-6914 Fax: (601) 362-6925 Transparency Mississippi Management and Reporting System. Board Member Alan Goldhamer, D. Please note that the NHA and CORE examinations each have a limit of four (4) attempts per calendar year. If you have thoughts or concerns about the:. Click the links below to download a table of state-by-state licensure requirements for: Nursing Home Administrators (NHA) Residential Care/ Assisted Living Administrators (RC/AL). Download the NHA Candidate Handbook for full details on exam eligibility. 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One position requires the member to be a Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst or accountant 2. 2/19 PROCESSING PROCEDURES Once a routine application is complete, the application takes up to 14 days to process from the time it is received in the Board office. A best way to save your money on nha with the use of valid nha promo codes, vouchers & coupons. ALBUQUERQUE - "This is an historic event," said Board Chairman Ervin Chavez after the unanimous Board approval of the Veterans Housing Assistance Program Policy (VHAP) through Resolution NHA 4560-2015 during a special meeting held in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Nov. View the Calendar of upcoming Board meetings and minutes from past Board meetings. gov/license/bsd_boards/nha_board/pdf/nha_summary. AITs must work on a full time basis in an Idaho licensed nursing home. The Board approves continuing education courses to make sure quality and useful education is being taught. Practical - Safe, free newspaper, and iron/ironing board. The Board does not regulate assisted living administrators or home health care providers. To begin a search, enter either the Last Name or the License Number. The NHA is governed by a board of directors that works closely with its membership to provide them with state and federal legislative advocacy, health care trend and regulatory information, educational programming, communication, data reports and special services. The Executive Board of the National Highway Authority (NHA) gave its formal approval for award of work for Yakmach - Kharan road project during a meeting at NHA head office on Tuesday with. 01 Board approval. CDR Derek Fry, USN (Ret) NHA Historical Society CAPT Bill Personius, USN (Ret) Members of the Board RADM Patrick McGrath, USN (Ret) CAPT Greg Hoffman, USN (Ret) CAPT Denny DuBard, USN (Ret) General Dynamics NASSCO. Data and publications from the RMA website prior to the redesign. " Mission Statement "Strengthen the Engineering sector and integrate it with the world market to make it the driving force for economic growth. NHA Services, Inc. Upon board approval, you must submit your application through NAB's CDOM system at their website. 05 Rules of conduct. The exam is one of three that is recognized by the Medical Board of California. West Virginia Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board P. To meet these objectives, the Board. 01 Board approval. View Katie Piperata, MBA, NHA’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. IDAHO BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS. Lufthansa Group Airlines welcome around 14 million passengers on board in September 2019; 12. The Board issues, suspends and revokes registrations and licenses to practice nursing home administration. Read 388 genuine guest reviews for Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel & Spa. LEAWOOD, Kan. Educational Resources. Katie sits on the Board of Directors at Florida. The Nursing Home Administrators Board qualifies candidates for licensure and recommends the candidates to the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) who administers a national standard's exam. Basil Acey, Citizen Member. Act 96 of 1913, A. Welcome to the Michigan Board of Nursing Home Administrator website! Our goal is to provide up-to-date information on various topics related to the practice of nursing home administrator in Michigan. Application for the Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) exam. Mission Statement: To encourage career advancement of all medical assistants in the state of California and to plan, develop, administer and evaluate continuing. Danang is in a beautiful bay, but the famous China Beach is lined with pretentious expensive resorts and has not charm whatsoever; Go to fantastic HOI AN; 34 km south of Danang, where you have the beautiful beach of Ang Bon (and Cua Dai, but big resorts also. Long Term Care Licensing - that's our game!!. Celebrate the beauty of Nha Trang while enjoying breathtaking views of the spectacular city. Onion Corporation builds computing and connectivity devices for the Internet of Things. 2/19 PROCESSING PROCEDURES Once a routine application is complete, the application takes up to 14 days to process from the time it is received in the Board office. You can go online to get the regs. NHA Executive Board. Make sure you pass the first time with our basic NHA practice package. A few kilometres south of the city, Long Beach is home to its own clutch of local seafood joints, as well as a couple of surfing spots which provide lessons and board rentals to visitors. These proposed rules are available for review on the Board's web page at https://nha. NHA app 1 Rev. Free nha phlebotomy test to pass certified phlebotomy technician (cpt) online study guide & practice test. Chapter NHA 1 (PDF: ) - Authority And Definitions Chapter NHA 2 (PDF: ) - Requirements For Examination Chapter NHA 3 (PDF: ) - Educational Programs Meeting Licensing And Continuing Educational Requirements Chapter NHA 4 (PDF: ) - Licensure Chapter NHA 5 (PDF: ) - Standards Of. Now $100 (Was $̶1̶2̶9̶) on TripAdvisor: Vinpearl Resort & Spa Nha Trang Bay, Nha Trang. 84 and must assure that the health, safety, security, and rights of the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) and Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) residents are safeguarded by setting standards for licensing of nursing home administrators (NHAs), administering. Officials To Leave Positive Legacies: The Managing Director of the National Housing Authority (NHA), Cecil Cuffy Brown, says the development of Liberia will be possible if every official of government seeks to leave a positive legacy at the institution they serve. Welcome to the Department of Consumer Affairs license search. R1801 Order Terminating Probation [March, 2019] Thornton, Jacqueline NHA License No. com, picture cross puzzle Nonogram. 01 Board approval. West Virginia Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board P. An 'unofficial' copy of the Board's Rules can be viewed and/or downloaded from the Board's website. About Barrick. Great software is supported by great people, and Python is no exception. You should review the the Board rules regarding continuing education before signing up for any continuing education offerings. Take our CE courses and renew your NHA license effortlessly for less. Licensed active NHA's are currently employed in the industry. R1913 Consent Order REPRIMAND [Feb. Adult Day Health Care Center; Black Infant Health; Coordinated HIV Services; Financial Counseling & Coaching; Friendship Clubhouse; Geriatric Specialty Program; Head Start; Homework Center; Innovisions; NHA College Academy. Rooms open to balconies. NHA Job Link: Physicians/Surgeons, , Shamokin, Pennsylvania , Community Based Pediatrician at Geisinger. WINDOW ROCK-Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. Designed to reduce health care expenses, NHA Services is a collaboration among the NHA, NHA member hospitals and other Nebraska health care organizations and providers. IDAHO BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS. , Urgent care, Laboratory services, diagnostic imaging (MRI,CT,X-Ray) are examples of these type of services. Certification is an important consideration when choosing your art therapist. Licensed Nursing Home Administrators of New York State. (2) "Nursing home administrator" means any individual who is charged with the general administration of a nursing home whether or not such individual. Public Health Law (Article 28-D, § 2896), states that on or after July 1, 1970, no person shall practice or represent him or herself as a nursing home administrator in New York State unless that person is licensed by New York's Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators (BENHA) and registered by the New York State Department of. , A statement from the insurance carrier detailing what was paid. Celebrate the beauty of Nha Trang while enjoying breathtaking views of the spectacular city. gov/license/bsd_boards/nha_board/pdf/nha_summary. Vinpearl Nha Trang Resort is a 10-minute boat ride from Vinpearl Pier. Applications Applying for initial licensure from your professional licensing board has become a bit easier. NAB is governed by its members, the state boards and agencies that license long term care administrators. Anna Nha-Khanh Le, MD. In epoca coloniale i Francesi, attratti dalla bellezza della baia e dalle spiagge di sabbia bianca, vi costruirono ville per vacanze. Box 522 Winfield, WV 25213 Telephone (304) 586-4070 \| Fax (304) 586-4079 E-mail - veronica. Communication from the Division: The Division of Professions and Occupations' primary communication is via email. Effective 09/01/2017,Long Term Care Regulatory, including the NFA Licensing Program will be transitioned under HHS. This 60-day period may be extended until the next Board meeting if action by the Board is required. Circular For Display of Date & Time on the Pictures Displayed Before the NHA Excecutive Board Circular for Instructions Regarding Submission of Files to Chairman NHA Circular for Cricket Tournment Registration. This secure website is for the exclusive use of the Neighborhood House Association and it's affiliated agencies. The Shack Surf School is located at Bai Dai Beach which is 23 kilometers South of Nha Trang at the Shack Restaurant and Bar. NHA Services, Inc. This site uses cookies to store information on your computer. Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 33 cents per share. Receive Board approval to be eligible to take the examination; Once the Board receives a passing score on the examination and all required documentation for licensure, a license will be issued to the applicant. One member serves as a public member to represent the consumers of these services. CAPT Chuck Deitchman, USN (Ret) Sikorsky A Lockheed Martin Company. Handwriting Legibility Scale. Mimecast cyber resilience provides email cloud services for security, archiving, and continuity. Mitchell P. Più tardi anche i militari americani erano soliti trascorrere brevi periodi di licenza a Nha Trang. buyer will also get full reading material nha 2018 module 1 to 14. in Clinical Psychology, which I earned from the University of Texas at Austin in 1978. The Board interprets the laws, rules. Nursing Home Administrator. Board Meeting Dates. NATIONAL BOARD to determine, on at least an annual basis, the type and amount of the remuneration to be provided to NATIONAL HORSERACING AUTHORITY employees and, subject to the provisions of this Constitution, to be provided to NATIONAL BOARD DIRECTORS COMMITTEES Page 06 NHA ANNUAL REPORT 2018 20. (2) "Nursing home administrator" means any individual who is charged with the general administration of a nursing home whether or not such individual. R1801 Order Terminating Probation [March, 2019] Thornton, Jacqueline NHA License No. National Geographic Learning brings the world to the classroom with engaging K-12 digital and instructional curriculum for Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Reading and Writing, ESL/ELD, Spanish, Advanced, Honors & Electives, and Career & Technical Education. The National Highway Authority of Pakistan was created back in 1991 through an Act of Parliament. NHA Examination for Nursing Home Administrators. APPLICATION FOR APROVAL OF ADMINISTRATOR-IN-TRAINING (AIT) PROGRAM. In terms of the Constitution of The National Horseracing Authority, the two National Board Directors who were longest in office were required to retire at the close of. Trimble Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2018 Earnings Call. Our Board partners with NHA to operate our school. It can run Android 4. Time is divided equally among those who wish to speak. NHA Fall Spruce Up 2019. NATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR EXAM NHA. It was signed into law by Governor Hogan on April 11, 2017 and will officially become effective as State Law on October 1, 2017. I had only a few apps made then, and I hadn’t done much freelance work, either. (c) A board may assign one or more members of the board to investigate complaints and license applications. 25 hours, unfortunately the Florida board will only credit you with 1. By a 16-4 vote the Navajo Nation Council approved Legislation No. Licensed inactive NHA's are not employed as NHA's but maintain a current license. Looking for online definition of NHA or what NHA stands for? NHA is listed in the World's largest and most authoritative dictionary database of abbreviations and acronyms The Free Dictionary. The slate will contain 10 nominees to fill 5 open board seats. Surely, Nha Trang. WINDOW ROCK-Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. 1 km north from the city centre. National Healthcareer Association (NHA) - Find your next career at NHA Job Board. You'll be greeted with a welcome drink and an introduction to Nha Trang Bay, the food, the culture, the boat, and on-board. 6 million passengers on board in July 2019. Our long-term, solitary focus on what’s best for our clients has resulted in our reputation for quality, integrity, and respect. Navin, Haffty & Associates. The LinkIt 7697 is an Internet of Things (IoT) applications development board based on MediaTek MT7697 SoC. For example, board members may incur travel expenses when they attend meetings at your office. Nursing Home Administrators provide subacute and long-term care services to residents of facilities in Massachusetts. At Wauseon’s New Horizons Academy (NHA) at Sara’s Garden, where 59 percent of the students who attend have been diagnosed with autism, Jessie Wolfrum’s “kiddos” (her term) are wrapping up their end-of-course achievement tests for the state. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 28, 2018 WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. CAPT Chuck Deitchman, USN (Ret) Sikorsky A Lockheed Martin Company. R1913 Consent Order REPRIMAND [Feb. No, however, the Board recognizes only certification through a Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) nationally certified pharmacy technician program or the ExCPT exam provided by the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) Pharmacy Technician Certification (CPhT). Basil Acey, Citizen Member. Disciplinary Actions: Public Orders Policarpio, Belen NHA License No. The membership generally includes one representative of each of the seven certifications. (2) "Nursing home administrator" means any individual who is charged with the general administration of a nursing home whether or not such individual. Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng) is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Bố Trạch and Minh Hóa districts of central Quảng Bình Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, about 500 km south of Hanoi. That group is the new NHA board of directors that was put into office recently with directives from the Navajo Nation Council and the president's office to remove the head officials at NHA. And then there's the community college for $500. 1-14 complete reading detail materials covers core, los, and the 5 domain. 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__label__wiki	0.726103	0.726103	umkahlil From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. An Apology From a US Christian to Palestinians This is my apology for Christians in the US to Muslims, the Arab World, and particularly Palestinians. Too many of my co-religionists have made a travesty of the Golden Rule which unequivocally compels us, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." For example Ed McAteer, founder of the Moral Majority, and a Christian Zionist who doesn't believe Israel should relinquish any of the illegally occupied territories, was asked by Bob Simon of CBS News: "What about the three million Palestinians who live on the West Bank and Gaza?" Simon said that McAteer suggested that " . . . the bulk of them could be cleansed . . . and moved to some Arab country." Not to be outdone, Kay Arthur, of Precept Ministries, an organization that leads tours to Israel, told Simon that Yitzak Rabin's signing of the Oslo Accords was a mistake " . . . and I believe that God stopped it by the things that happened," a not so indirect reference to Rabin's death by assassination. In March 2002, Ariel Sharon invaded the occupied territories again. George Bush unequivocally told him to get out. Jerry Falwell launched a campaign in which his minions, estimated at 20-26 million, phoned, e-mailed, and wrote letters to Bush and Congress. Bush didn't say another word as Sharon unleashed another vicious attack on the indigenous people of the occupied territories and Falwell boasted, "The Bible Belt is Israel's safety net in the US." One incitement to hatred that I found particularly appalling from my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ is the following from the Fourth International Christian Congress on Biblical Zionism. "We also urge the Church to recognize that local Christian Arabs have been living under unbearable circumstances due to abusive Islamic coercion and intimidation." My father was a Palestinian Orthodox Christian. When he lay dying four years ago, the person who visited him most frequently, and who came a long way from Northern California to do so was the son of a prominent Jerusalem Muslim cleric. Indeed, my father and Sa'eb were friends for most of their adult lives. For US Christian Zionists to make a proclamation about supposed animosity between Muslim and Christian Palestinians is the height of audacity and ignorance. Indeed, the fate of the Christian Palestinian is no different than that of the Muslim if these millions strong fanatical hatemongers hold sway. In fact, Palestinians are chastised for seeking solace in Christ for their suffering. To the Christian Zionists it is no more than "exploitation of His suffering and sacrifice for temporal and devious political purposes." Christian Zionist websites still peddle misinformation that has been debunked not only by Palestinian historians, but also Israeli historians. "There simply is no distinct Palestinian entity," proclaims retired Brigadier General James Hutchens of the JerUSAlem Connection. Particularly galling is his pernicious use of the word "so-called" when putting "Palestinian" before people. And then he proceeds to pontificate on what we are "in reality." People without a "distinct culture." People to whom he referred in "An Open Letter to President Bush," as "from God's viewpoint . . . the illegal occupants, not the Israelis." Christian Zionist websites repeatedly bleat that Allah is not "our" God although as a Christian Palestinian I call upon God, "Ya Allah." As the daughter of a Christian Palestinian I am the descendent of the original stones, the first Christians, although the Christian Zionists consider my Palestinian brethren, both Muslim and Christian as "illegal" occupants of the land to which they're indigenous. It is particulary hateful for these Bible Belters to make the ignorant assumption that Palestinians lack a discernable "culture." Assuming that they did not have a distinct culture, does it give anyone a right to ethnically cleanse them? To the Christian Zionists, Palestinians are the children of a lesser God. For their malice, for their perversion of Christianity, for their promulgation of lies regarding the Palestinian people and their history in Palestine, for their demonisation of the Palestinians, for their lack of regard for the dwindling numbers of their co-religionists in Palestine, for the lies that their leaders spew about God; i.e., "Those who promote a Palestinian state have placed themselves in alliance against God," for their incitement to hatred, for their advocating ethnic cleansing, for their role in promoting Israel's repressive measures in the occupied territories, for those who believe as does Gary Bauer, co-founder of Stand For Israel, that it is an "obscenity" to give up land for peace, and for their complete and total abdication of the Golden Rule, I apologize to the Palestinians on behalf of US Christians. For those US Christians among us who are appalled at what our co-religionists are doing in our name, and who still consider "the least of their brethren," please look to those Palestinian Christians such as Reverend Naim Ateek, the founder of liberation theology, and an advocate of "spirituality based on justice, peace, nonviolence, and love." That's what I thought Christianity was all about. Let us not allow it to be hijacked by the fanatics. # posted by umkahlil @ 12:22 AM Ya it is about time that everybody is aware that Palestine belongs to the Palestinians just as America belongs to the Americans. Peace at the end of 2008? Bush must by dreaming. It sounds that he has no sense of the reality on the ground. Name: umkahlil The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 13, Section 2 states "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country." This blog advocates for the implementation of the Palestinians' inalienable right to return home and calls upon each and every blogger concerned about human rights, justice, and a durable peace in the Middle East to get behind the effort to advocate for its implementation. If you support implementation of this inalienable right, please e-mail me or leave a comment and I will link to you. 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__label__cc	0.635632	0.364368	Manufacturer: Ludwig Koloman Moser Glassworks Czech, founded 1857 Artist: Ludwig Koloman Moser Austrian, 1833 - 1916 Title: Vase Name: Vase Medium: Glass, amberina with enameling Country/Culture: Bohemian Dimensions: 29 1/4 x 10 in. diam. (74.3 x 25.4 cm) Marks: "10" in gold on base of top half Classification: Decorative Arts, Glass Credit Line: Gift of Helen and Rex Cook. In the Helen and Rex Cook Glass Collection, Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Object Number: UM99.31ab The art glass movement which began in Europe in the 1870s became popular in the United States during the 1880s and 1890s. During this time, economic prosperity opened a new market for luxury wares, compelling glass manufacturers to stop making traditional pressed glass and to pursue popular and more innovative designs. Glass artists concentrated on developing new surfaces and colors, emphasizing multi-hued exteriors with more texture and layers. The work of Ludwig Moser truly captures the spirit of the art glass movement. From its founding in 1857 until 1895, his glass engraving workshop in Karlsbad, Bohemia produced highly distinctive glasswares. In 1895, he introduced new colored glass formulations which served as the foundation for his ornate designs. Utilizing numerous decorative techniques, such as applied decoration, enameling, engraving, and cutting, Moser transformed glass banks into elaborate art glass objects. On this vase, Moser made use of almost every conceivable decorative technique, creating an enameled and gilded surface teeming with applied flora and fauna made of colored glass.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line355
__label__wiki	0.736833	0.736833	by Van © 2015 And for the use of confused muggles: The Harry Potter Wiki (Beware the occasional howling advert.) As the first rays of the sun peeked above the highland hills, shone through the diamond-paned window, and illuminated the rafters of Hermione and Ginny's dorm room, the magical ropes binding their bodies melted away. This would have happened even on a cloudy day, as the critical factor was the position of the sun relative to the lay-lines crisscrossing Hogwarts' geographic and ethereal coordinates, but the sunlight probably hastened the process by a few seconds. "I'm going to kill her," Ginny growled as she threw back the covers and climbed out of bed. "Slowly?" Hermione inquired as she sat up in her own bed. She smiled, stretched her arms over her head, and heaved a deep yawn. "E'yaaah! Or quickly?" "Oh, slowly, of course," Ginny huffed as she began her customary morning exercises. "Something slow and painful." After all their years at Hogwarts, both girls were used to rising early. Ginny did the exercises that would make sure she'd continue making the cut for the Gryffindor quidditch team—not that she was in any danger of not making the cut. Ginny was team captain, after all. In any case, as captain, she had to set a good example for the more junior team members. Hermione checked the autoscroll ensorcelled pad and quill she kept on her nightstand to record any dream-talk that might escape her lips during the night. She frowned, then waved her hand to erase the pad. There had been a full page of writing, but it had all been nonsense on the theme of "mmmmmf," "mrfhhhlf," and "nrrrmlrrpfh," some in English and some in Modern Runic. Both hurried to the female dorm washroom to compete with their housemates for time at the washbasins and in the commode stalls. As seventh-year students they enjoyed precedence, so they completed their morning toilettes quickly and returned to their bedroom to change into their uniforms. "I've changed my mind," Ginny said as she knotted her tie, tucked it under her jumper, then began brushing her hair. Hermione smiled. "Yes?" "I won't kill her, just torture her." Hermione continued smiling. "Nothing against school rules, of course." Ginny sighed, then tossed her brush atop her chest of drawers. "Spoilsport," she sighed. Hermione had finished brushing her own long, chestnut locks, and placed her brush in its exact, proscribed position atop her own chest of drawers. The house elves had delivered their books and wands to the bedroom as part of Hermione and Ginny's rescue of the night before, so they didn't have to make a side trip to the scene of The Great Incarcerous Duel Debacle to retrieve them. The friends hurried towards the Great Hall for breakfast, although Hermione did make Ginny wait while she made a sidetrip to the Gryffindor's first-year dorm rooms for a quick look to ensure that all was well. None of the youngsters required rescue from a prank or motivation to keep to the school schedule, so she rejoined Ginny and they exited Gryffindor Tower through the Fat Lady's Portrait. "I don't know why you do that," Ginny huffed while they waited for one of the staircases to properly align. "You're not a prefect." Neither Hermione nor Ginny had been chosen as prefects that year, but it wasn't a slight. Ginny was busy as captain of the Gryffindor quidditch team and Hermione had volunteered to lead the student committee that was helping restore the more esoteric (but not restricted) stacks in the Library. In the aftermath of the Battle of Hogwarts, a few hundred volumes had become confused and had to be reintroduced to the card catalog. This was especially true of tomes that had been out on loan to students or on the shelves of teachers' offices at the time of the battle. "In light of... everything that's happened," Hermione said as they descended the momentarily unmoving stairs, "I think it's important to make sure the first-years are all fitting in." Ginny smiled, but didn't otherwise reply. Who couldn't help liking Hermione Granger? She could see why her brother Ron was in love with her—although she still found the idea of anyone snogging Ron to be somewhat disquieting, a subject not to be contemplated before breakfast. They entered the Great Hall and found places at the Gryffindor table, and in the process noted that Luna was already enjoying a breakfast of oatmeal and berries with cream at the Ravenclaw table across the Hall. "Nothing messy, of course," Hermione said, still gazing at Luna. "The torture?" Ginny asked. Her eyes were also on their unsuspecting target. "No, I was thinking of something light." Hermione sat down and poured tea into the cup at her place, then did the same for Ginny when she sat. "Something light?" Ginny added milk and two lumps to her tea. "Light as a feather," she purred. Hermione and Ginny exchanged a knowing smile. Meanwhile, across the Great Hall, Luna smiled at nothing in particular and delicately emptied her bowl with her favorite spoon, the one with the engraving of a duckling and a dwarf stoat dancing on the handle. It had been her baby spoon, but she'd found a spell that let her enlarge or shrink it in size, as required for the item at hand. It was currently set at "trifle," one size up from "pudding." The spoon normally dangled from a bracelet around her right wrist, between a pair of tiny feathers, one silver and the other white gold. Hermione Granger & the Wrappity Wrope Hermione, Ginny, and Luna had one class in common that morning: Defense Against the Dark Arts (Seventh Year), taught by Professor Cassandra Nightingale—from America! Headmistress McGonagall, Hogwart's Board of Governors, and the Ministry of Magic had agreed that Hogwart's entire D.A.D.A. curriculum needed to be revamped, and many of the United Kingdom's best and brightest senior Aurors and scholars of Dark or Questionable Thaumaturgy were engaged in the effort, those that had survived the Second Wizard War or weren't residents of Azkaban, that is. That left few candidates for the post available and Headmistress in something of a quandary. It had always been difficult to recruit D.A.D.A. teachers. The job was considered semi-cursed. However, she'd cast a wider net than usual and had scored a real coup. The Second Wizard War had been a global affair, and Cassandra "Cassie" Nightingale had distinguished herself. Specifically, she'd led a group of American, Canadian, and Mexican wizards and witches against an organized incursion of wendigos, were-jaguars, and chupacabras—all supposed allies of the Dark Lord—who had sought to establish a magical empire centered in the mountains of Alberta, Montana, and Idaho. The defeat of the dark forces on the North American front had been decisive and Cassie had played an important role, but she'd also distinguished herself, again, by negotiating with her surviving enemies and brokering positive and (hopefully) lasting reforms to their societies. She was recognized as a heroine of the war and the peace on both sides of the Atlantic. Professor McGonagall had offered Cassie the D.A.D.A. chair as a one-year position, and she'd accepted. This also gave the Hogwarts students experience with the wand-free style of magic practiced in North America and for Cassie and the other faculty to share spells and charms. (And the rumors that Cassie Nightingale and Kingsley Shacklefort, the Minister of Magic, have been seen "dating" on several weekends are completely unfounded, had nothing to do with her getting the job, and Rita Skeeter should be ashamed of herself!) "Let's continue our discussion of the difference between Dark Magic and magic used for dark purposes," Cassie lectured. "As you are all well aware, certain magical acts, such as the Unforgivable Curses, are forbidden by law. They are on one side of a bright line, while other just as powerful spells and charms are on the other. Our first day of class, I gave you my definition of Dark Magic. Who remembers what it was?" Hermione's hand shot into the air, and at the same time, roughly half the class whispered "Hermione" under their breath. Cassie smiled at the brightest witch of her age. "Miss Granger?" Hermione lowered her hand. "Dark Magic is used to cause harm, control, or even death to the victim. It is not the spell, charm, or potion that is Dark, but the magician's intent. In the study of Magical Ethics, this is referred to as the Rational Lemma, or Ravenclaw's Proposition." "Excellent, Miss Granger," Cassie said. "Now, what is the antithesis of Dark Magic?" This time both Hermione and Luna's hands went up. Hermione noticed Luna's hand and lowered her own. Cassie smiled. "Miss Lovegood?" "Love," Luna stated. "Bloody good love does you when you're in the middle of a fight," Ginny muttered under her breath, "unless it's a snogging battle." Several of the class laughed, but Cassie restored order with an admonishing lift of the eyebrow tempered by an amused grin. Luna turned to Ginny. "Oh, but it is. Love is always good." "It is, indeed," Cassie nodded, then focused her smile on Ginny. "Love is not a tactic or a weapon, Miss Weasley. Love grounds the magician in the Light. It is the antecedent to all defense against the Dark Arts and the most powerful of all magical forces. Some consider it the mirror image of Darkness. Others believe Dark and Light are inextricably linked, and that Love is the binding agent." Cassie strolled to the back of the classroom, her black, academic robe billowing behind her, revealing the stylish, brick-red dress underneath. "I'm afraid my ultimate point is obscured by generalities." She turned and smiled at the class, then strolled towards the front of the class. "Let's start again with a practical example." Cassie lifted her hand and made a quick, graceful gesture, her fingers moving too fast to follow. At the same time, a strand of rope flew from her palm. It quivered and shook for a couple of seconds, then spun into a tightly woven ball and dropped towards the ground. Ginny caught the rope ball with the reflexes of a star quidditch player, and turned it in her hands. The ball was about the size of a standard bludger, but looked like it had been knit by a giant using many yards of hemp rope. "That's amazing," Hermione sighed. All the students were impressed. American-style wand-free magic was something of a novelty in Europe, and it was certainly new to the students of Hogwarts. There were definite pros and cons to both styles. Wands allowed concentration and control of magical forces at a level that took a wandless wizard or witch years if not decades to match. On the other hand, Cassie couldn't be disarmed in a duel. She could be overpowered, but not disarmed. Ginny tossed the hemp bludger to Cassie, who caught it and placed it on her desk. "Now," Cassie said, shifting into lecture mode. "Suppose a pair of witches were in a friendly duel, testing each other's skill with, shall we say, the Incarcerous spell." Hermione and Ginny exchanged a startled look, then blushed slightly and returned their attention to their teacher. The focus of Luna's slightly vacant smile and attention never wavered. "Both witches are equally skilled," Cassie continued, "or nearly so, and both are grounded in the Light. In addition, both come from nurturing family environments, and by family I mean blood relatives and a close circle of friends. However, one witch has been schooled in the magical nature of Love since birth, while the other has not. Both were nurtured by Love, but the second didn't receive formal training. And I don't mean to suggest any sort of neglect on the part of the second family." Gwyneth Otterwood, a Hufflepuff student, raised her hand. Cassie nodded. "Miss Otterwood?" Gwyneth lowered her hand. "You aren't suggesting a violation of the prohibition on underage magic, are you? On the part of the first family, I mean." Cassie smiled and shook her head. "Your ministry prohibits formal magical education outside of a recognized academic environment, and wizards or witches under the age of seventeen may not practice magic outside of school. That said, who among you hasn't used your wand to evict gnomes from the family garden, or used a levitation spell to change the family bedlinen?" Now, most of the class was blushing, not just Hermione and Ginny. "The underage use of minor spells and charms is winked at by the Ministry," Cassie continued. "But as for the parents, performing simple magic in a deliberate and easily imitated manner is recognized by the Ministry as good nurturing, not unauthorized instruction." She lifted the ball of rope, tossed it into the air, and it disappeared with a loud pop and a drifting shower of glowing yellow sparks. "My point is this: The first witch has the advantage of years of nurturing or instruction explicitly grounded in the principles of magic and Love. Such an advantage cannot be taught from a book, nor can it be gained from practice. The first witch already has her feet set on the path of Light. The second witch may be on the same path, but is somewhat behind." Cassie strolled to the back of the class, again, and the students turned their heads to watch her pass. The female students noted that their male classmates were having no difficulty whatsoever giving Professor Nightingale their full attention. This was hardly surprising, as Cassie was exotic, foreign, and beautiful, even for an elderly lady in her forties. The general feminine consensus was a shake of the collective head. Boys! "Your homework is to read chapter twelve of Robelwick's Annotated Compendium," Cassie stated. "I know that today's lecture may have seemed somewhat esoteric, perhaps better suited to an advanced class in the Philosophy of Magic, but we will get to practical applications of the general principles involved, I promise. Class dismissed." As the students gathered their things and began to depart, Cassie returned to her desk. "Miss Granger, Miss Weasley, and Miss Lovegood, please remain behind for a moment." Hermione, Ginny, and Luna stood in front of Cassie's desk, books in hand. Cassie straightened her desk, put away her seventh year lesson plan, and pulled out her prepared notes for the next class: D.A.D.A. (Third Year). She then focused on her students and smiled. "Now, ladies, I thought you might like to know that while the privacy of all Hogwarts students remains sacrosanct, as the thaumaturgical matrix of the school undergoes final repairs and adjustments... unusually strong occurrences of magic do not go without notice. Headmistress has asked me to remind you of the school prohibition on pranks and hazing." "Professor Nightingale!" Hermione gasped, "we would never—" Cassie interrupted Hermione with a smile and an imperious gesture. "This is a friendly reminder, Miss Granger, not a warning. Is that clear?" "Yes, Professor," Hermione answered. Ginny was doing her best not to smile, then cleared her throat when Cassie's smile shifted her way. "Clear, Professor," she muttered. Cassie smiled at Luna. "I would never let anyone bully Hermione, Ginny, or any of my friends," Luna said gravely, "especially the more junior students." Hermione and Ginny exchanged a mildly worried glance. Would Professor Nightingale misinterpret Luna's unique manner as impertinence? Should they come to her defense? Happily, Cassie wasn't offended. "We understand one another. Dismissed." The students turned and made their exit. Hermione paused halfway to the classroom door. "That was a very interesting class, Professor," she said. "Thank you." Cassie smiled. "You're welcome, Miss Granger." Ginny swung her hip and jostled Hermione as they crossed the threshold. "Suck-up," she chuckled. "Stop it," Hermione huffed. She managed to retain control of her books, but it was a near thing. "I wonder who Professor Nightingale was talking about," Luna said as they walked down the corridor, "meaning the hazing. And who do you suppose might be playing pranks?" Hermione and Ginny exchanged knowing smiles. "I have no idea," Hermione said. "Nor I," Ginny shrugged. "Well," Luna continued, "I suppose we should all be on our guards." "I've never been to this part of the dungeons before," Luna said. It was after the evening meal, and together with Hermione and Ginny, Luna was walking down a dark corridor lit by charmed torches clutched in the hands of rather sinister statues in medieval garb. Most were men with long beards, Norman-style helmets, and chain-mail armor, but some were women with full-length gowns and equally long hair. Their stone eyes seemed to follow the three students as they strolled along. That might be a testament to the artistry of the sculptor or sculptors, but at Hogwarts, one never knew. "The entrance to the Slitherin common room is two corridors over," Ginny chuckled. "None of us have been here before." "With only a handful of Slitherins returned," Hermione said, "and a mere handful of first-years sorted into the house, chances are we won't be noticed." Slitherin House had taken the biggest hit in the war, far and away. Many of the traditional Slitherin families had decided to give Hogwarts a pass this year, relying on tutors to educate their children. With time, all four houses would regain near equal student populations, but for now, the Slitherin dorm was something of a ghost town. "I still don't understand what you want to show me that's so very interesting down here," Luna said, "although the statues are quite nice." "It's right here," Ginny said, indicating a door. It was flanked by two more statues, both men with long beards, shaggy eyebrows, and dressed in long academic robes. They glowered at the students with mildly disapproving expressions. Carved into the doorway's massive keystone was a single word: DĒTENIŌ. "Oh," Luna said, gazing up at the keystone. "The old detention chamber." She stepped forward and opened the massive doors. They were constructed of massive timbers and banded with iron, but apparently the hinges were exquisitely well-balanced, magically charmed, or both. Hermione and Ginny exchanged a mildly surprised and exasperated look, then followed their Ravenclaw friend into the chamber beyond. So much for tricking Luna. "Supposedly, this chamber hasn't been used in more than 200 years," Hermione said, "but... Oh my." The detention chamber was ghastly, completely out of place in an academic environment. In point of fact, it was a torture chamber. There were three pillories, five sets of stocks, and a framework supporting a horizontal beam about seven feet off the stone floor. Evenly spaced along the underside of the beam were a row of seven pulleys, and dangling from each pulley was a rope terminating in a pair of cord loops. "Thumb nooses," Luna said, gazing up at the row of pulleys and ropes. "For hanging you by your thumbs?" Ginny demanded. "I... I thought that was a school legend." "Apparently not," Hermione said, equally horrified. Luna strolled over to the nearest set of stocks and used her wand to levitate the heavy top beam. With a creak of protest from the hinge at one end, the stocks opened. She then sat in the stock's bench-like seat and placed her back against the tall vertical post that was the bench's after-support. She lifted her legs and placed her ankles in the stock's openings, lowered the top beam, then reversed her wand and held it by its very tip. "Who would like this?" she asked pleasantly. Hermione and Ginny exchanged another surprised look. "You can't take your revenge if I'm not completely at your mercy," Luna stated. Ginny reacted first. She pulled out her wand, gave it a wave, and Luna's wand flew into her left hand. "She has a point," Ginny said to Hermione, "but this takes a lot of the fun out of it, don't you think?" "It takes all the fun out of it," Hermione sighed. "Takes all the fun out of what?" a new voice demanded. Ginny and Hermione turned to the chamber door and gasped! "Oh, hello," Luna said in her usual vacant manner. Standing in the doorway was Hogwart's resident Sentinel Magus, Ffion Tonks! "Hello," Ffion said, a ghost of a smile curling her lips. She was dressed in her usual manner, boots, tights, skirt, blouse, and jumper, all in various shades of gray. Her purple hair was loose about her shoulders and her wand was in her right hand, held casually at her side. The students watched with wide eyes as Ffion pocketed her wand and crossed her arms across her chest. "Headmistress has decreed that as part of my duties, I'm to supervise all student detention not related to misconduct in the classroom. She hasn't told me what to do when students actually volunteer for detention." "No, no, we're not volunteering for anything," Hermione objected. "We, we just... That is..." "We found a reference to the old detention chamber in the library and wanted to check things out," Ginny said. "That's all." Ffion was dubious. "Check things out?" "Yes," Ginny nodded. With a flick of her wand she lifted the top beam of one of the pillories, walked over, bent forward at the waist, and placed her neck and wrists in the appropriate openings. "See? We wanted to see what it was like in the old days." "I see," Ffion purred, then strolled over to the pillory, locked eyes with Ginny, then slowly lowered the top beam, trapping the redhead in place. She then casually took Ginny's wand from her right hand, Luna's wand from the prisoner's left, pocketed both, then turned her thin smile to Hermione. Hermione was nervous, and she couldn't hide it. Given the setting, she wasn't sure why she should even be trying. "Uh... Professor Tonks, we aren't violating any school rules, and—" "I'm not a Professor," Ffion snapped. At the same time, a forelock of her purple hair flashed lavender, then pink, then returned to purple. She smiled fully for the first time. "Call me 'Honored Auror Supreme' or 'Sentinel Magus Stupendous,' but not Professor." Hermione couldn't help but smile back. "I take it you are unimpressed by titles?" "Unless those titles are earned," Ffion agreed, "like Heroines of the Battle of Hogwarts." Hermione blushed, as did Ginny and Luna. That supposed title was a fabrication of the Daily Prophet, and all three of their names had been on the published list. "Uh, we're sorry if we disturbed your patrol, Sentinel Magus," Hermione said quietly. "Actually," Ffion said as she pulled out her wand, "I was summoned by a protection spell. While this chamber is not explicitly off limits, it is protected. It's a very old spell, more or less superseded by later incantations, but apparently it has reasserted itself in the course of repairs. I suppose it's only polite to answer its call and arrest any malefactors discovered." She flicked her wand and two things happened. (1) With a popping sound, several bolts protruded from a metal plate below the open hasp that when closed would secure the top beam of Luna's stocks, the hasp flipped down and snapped closed, the plate slid up to cover the entire hasp, and the bolts popped flush, once again. Luna's ankles were now in the stocks to stay. (2) Gears turned in the hasp mechanism of Ginny's pillory, the entire locking assembly sank back into a shallow cavity, and was covered by a sliding metal plate of its own. Ginny was also well and truly trapped. "Hey!" Ginny complained. Luna wiggled her toes. Luna usually went barefoot at Hogwarts, even though her fellow Ravenclaws had stopped hiding her shoes. She lifted her smiling face to gaze up at the pair of open manacles dangling from the post above her head, lifted her arms and placed her wrists in the open cuffs, then returned her smile to Ffion. "Oh, very well," Ffion sighed, flicked her wand, and the manacles snapped closed and locked. "Thank you," Luna said, still smiling. "Are you insane?" Ginny whispered. Luna gazed at her fellow prisoner. "In for a knut, in for a galleon," she explained. (The muggle saying "In for a penny, in for a pound" is also used in the wizarding world, only translated into wizarding currency.) Ginny and Hermione heaved simultaneous sighs, then focused on Ffion. Luna did as well. "Miss Granger," Ffion said, "come with me." Once again smiling her ghost of a smile, she held out her hand, palm up. She wants to take my hand? Hermione wondered, then the truth dawned. "Oh." Blushing in embarrassment, both at the momentary fanciful thought that Ffion Tonks might be trying to seduce her, and at the reality of being characterized as a malefactor, a breaker of school rules. Okay, the alleged offense might not even be worthy of the term technical, but still... Hermione reached into her pocket, slowly drew her wand, flipped it so it was handle first, and placed it in Ffion's hand. "Enjoy checking things out," Ffion wished Ginny and Luna, then gestured to the open door. Hermione gazed at her helpless fellow students, then turned and preceded Ffion into the corridor. As soon as the threshold was clear, the doors closed. There was a pause... then gears turned and bolts were thrown, one after another, until a total of twenty heavy bolts had secured the door. Then, before Ginny's horrified and Luna's amused and interested eyes, the gears, bolts, and ratcheting mechanisms involved fused into the back of the door, becoming decorative patterns in the iron banding. The bolts remained bolts. "Well," Luna said, tugging on her chains and wiggling her toes. "I'm very much afraid we'll be missing our study periods this evening." Ginny rolled her eyes and settled in to wait for their eventual release. "At least there are no nargles in this chamber," Luna sighed. Ffion led Hermione to her office. Although the post of Sentinel Magus was new, the office in question was one of the oldest in the school. Originally, it had been the domain of Hogwarts' Faewardern Peculiar, the keeper of the school keys and direct supervisor of the house elves, but eventually it was realized that Hogwarts' keys and elves could supervise themselves. Algernon Bramstruther, the last Faewarden Peculiar, retired in the late 16th century after more than 130 years of diligent and honorable but totally unnecessary service and wasn't replaced. The office had the usual amenities: A large wooden desk, elaborately carved on the theme of elves dancing with large keys, a throne-like chair, similarly carved, and a clothes tree, also carved, but on the theme of an actual tree, an oak tree to be precise. There were also bookshelves and records cabinets, also festooned with prancing elves and cavorting keys. Through an open doorway behind the desk Hermione caught a glimpse of a neatly made bed, but as she made her way to her chair, Ffion flicked her wand and what was apparently the bedroom door closed with an authoritative thud. Hermione also noted several books on the shelves. A few were modern. She recognized a copy of Bathilda Bagshot's Hogwart's: A History, and next to it was a slim volume entitled Fifty Shades of Grey. Given Ffion's dressing habits, Hermione assumed the book was fashion related. There were also several books quite obviously checked out from the school library, and at the very bottom was an entire shelf of very old, leather-bound tomes without the library's charmed tags on their spines. All of that Hermione took in at a glance, but now her attention was riveted by a massive cabinet taking up one entire wall of the chamber. It was something like an aviary, with rows of cage-like doors with thin wooden bars, but the doors' placements didn't seem to delineate specific chambers. The cabinet beyond was one large space with row upon row of brass hooks, and dangling from the hooks were countless brass keys, all with what appeared to be folded, dragonfly-like wings. As Hermione watched, one of the keys somehow left its hook, extended its wings, and fluttered up to a large key-shaped slot built into the very top of the cabinet. It emerged from the slot, took one quick turn around Hermione's amazed head, then flew up to the chamber's arched ceiling and joined a half-dozen other keys flying lazy, spiraling loops around the chain suspending a chandelier of charmed candles. "Around noon they all decide to exercise at once," Ffion said with a mildly annoyed expression. "The noise makes it impossible to work. Luckily, I'm usually at lunch or on patrol." "So that's where they came from," Hermione whispered under her breath. She'd seen flying keys before, way back when she was a first-year and together with Ron and Harry had gone in search of where Professor Dumbledore had hidden the Philosopher's Stone. "Excuse me?" Ffion inquired. "Nothing, Profes-, I mean Sentinel Magus," Hermione answered. "What can I do for you?" Ffion settled into her chair and placed the three wands she'd confiscated on the blotter before her. "First of all," she said, "I insist that you and Miss Weasley stop tormenting poor Miss Lovegood." Hermione was horrified! "B-but, Sentinel Magus, we would never—" "Enough," Ffion chuckled, raising her right hand. "I'm pulling your leg. Actually, I should think a pair of Gryffindors would know better than to allow themselves to be played by a Ravenclaw in such a manner. But that's not why I've asked you here." She pointed to the row of tomes without library tags. "I need you to take those to the library for cataloging and evaluation. I believe they're mostly housekeeping records maintained by the old Peculiar Faewardens, or Faewarder Peculiars, or whatever they were called. Anyway, they belong in the school archives, not cluttering my office." Hermione gazed at the numerous and obviously heavy volumes. "You are the head of the student library volunteers, aren't you?" Ffion inquired. "Yes, Sentinel Magus," Hermione answered. "Oh for crying out loud," Ffion chuckled. "Call me Ffion when junior students or teachers aren't around. I know you and cousin Nymphadora were good friends." Nymphadora Lupin (née Tonks) had fallen in the Battle of Hogwarts, together with her husband Remus Lupin, who was also one of Hermione's former teachers. "Yes, Senti-... Ffion." Hermione was blushing again, and she hated it. "I suppose it would be easier if I gave you back your wand," Ffion purred, nodding to the wands on her desk. "And you might as well restore Miss Weasley's and Miss Lovegood's wands to their rightful owners, but after you take the books to the library, understand?" Hermione suppressed a smile. Apparently the Sentinel Magus wasn't above a little "tormenting" of her own. "Yes, Ffion." Ffion smiled. "Very well, then. That will be all." Hermione picked up all three wands, pocketed Ginny's and Luna's, then, with a flourish, levitated the uncatalogued tomes from the shelf, carefully formed them into a neat and well-balanced vertical stack, and eased them around the desk. In the process, she passed close to the clothes tree and noticed something unusual. At the base of the clothes tree was a ceramic, cauldron-shaped pot full of soil, and growing from the pot was a brown vine with sparse, widely separated clusters of tiny, waxy, dull-green leaves. The vine was wrapped around the carved trunk of the clothes tree, and until seeing the pot she had taken it for a carved decoration. Now, she could see that the vine was quite real. A living wrope vine! Hermione realized. She also noticed small catkins of seeds dangling from some of the leaf clusters. As she passed close to the clothes tree and with her body shielding her action from Ffion, she plucked a catkin from the vine with her left hand, then turned and carefully backed towards the door, taking the levitated books with her. "Good night, Ffion," she said. "Goodnight, Hermione," Ffion purred, a sparkle in her eyes, "and remember, I'm watching you. And your friends as well." Hermione blushed, again, and nodded in respectful acknowledgement. As soon as she was well across the threshold, books included, the office door closed behind her. She turned and headed for the library with the floating stack following at the end of its magical leash. Once well away from Ffion's office, she paused to glance at the seeds in her left hand, then continued on her way. Had she stolen the seeds? Hermione thought not. Eventually the wrope seed clusters would have fully opened and scattered the seeds to the floor, where the house elves would have swept them away. Had she been naughty by surreptitiously absconding with the seeds? Yes, and a wicked smile curled her lips at the thought. Hermione knew she had a reputation for being notoriously scrupulous, but she wasn't a total Goody Two-Shoes. She'd have to find an envelope or possibly a small vial in the library office in which to store the seeds. Wrope seeds! Hermione thought with a grin. What a fortuitous find! ʬ	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0109.json.gz/line360
__label__cc	0.720823	0.279177	Souls Under Siege: The Effects of Mulitple Troop Deployments- And How to Weather the Storm Bridget C. Cantrell 21Jan, 2020 by Bridget C. Cantrell 634 Comments Souls Under Siege The Effects of Mulitple Troop Deployments And How to Weather the Storm Besieged Everyone is looking for a quick fix for the current war to win it fight it or end it In the meantime the resiliency of the dedicated men and women serving our country has been stretched th Title: Souls Under Siege: The Effects of Mulitple Troop Deployments- And How to Weather the Storm Author: Bridget C. Cantrell Besieged Everyone is looking for a quick fix for the current war to win it, fight it, or end it In the meantime, the resiliency of the dedicated men and women serving our country has been stretched thin by another concern the siege of their souls as they go through the revolving door of seemingly endless combat tours The most voracious enemy for today s troops and theirBesieged Everyone is looking for a quick fix for the current war to win it, fight it, or end it In the meantime, the resiliency of the dedicated men and women serving our country has been stretched thin by another concern the siege of their souls as they go through the revolving door of seemingly endless combat tours The most voracious enemy for today s troops and their families is time, attrition, and unpreparedness These elements continue to eat away at every level of their lives It is all in the makeup of living under siege, and those under siege need to find ways to hold their ground as long as the war lasts They need to prepare well in advance for the inevitability of multiple deployments It has been confirmed that warriors on their third and fourth tours of duty have much greater rates of mental health challenges than those on their first or second deployments Time, and the wear and tear, has become a daunting enemy For the families the weight of these deployments is magnified when they are ill prepared for the tremendous emotional change and upheaval that may develop from these circumstances Dr Bridget C Cantrell, Ph.D is the author of Down Range to Iraq and Back and Once a Warrior Wired For Life and she now brings you Souls under Siege The Effects of Multiple Troop Deployments and How to Weather the Storm It is a book that will help us all find ways to support and tend to those living with the pressures of multiple deployments Its thrust is to not only expand awareness of the issues involved, but to also outline sensible tools for finding relief in these trying times Souls under Siege is not a book to sit idle on your shelf It will become a useful guide to be used over and over again. 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Cantrell” Dr Bridget Cantrell was appointed the 2008 and 2004 Outstanding Female Non Veteran for her service to veterans by the Governor s Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee and the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs In 2008, she received the Didi Hirsch Foundation Leadership Award for Erasing the Stigma of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD.She has her Doctorate of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology and is a private practitioner Dr Cantrell is one of a small number of specially selected and trained mental health providers for the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs PTSD Program, under the supervisor Thomas Schumacher, MS Director She is also a provider under the Mental Health Fee Service Program, Puget Sound Veterans Health Care System Seattle VA Medical Center She also holds various contracts in the state of Washington one of which is the Vet Center Contract, which enables her to see combat veterans Dr Cantrell is also an honorary member of the Red Feather Society, which is a Native American Combat Veteran s association on a national level This honor is as result of her work, knowledge and dedication to veterans She has also been extensively exposed to the understanding and meaning of the Native American Ceremonial Rituals, which offer an alternative approach toward combat trauma recovery She has worked with veterans for nearly twenty years.Specializing in trauma for several years her primary work now encompasses treating war veterans from all eras and their family members She also works with those veterans who have been sexually abused while serving in the military In 2003, she received the Highest Productivity award for the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs WDVA PTSD program.Her dissertation research entitled Social Support as a Function of PTSD within Washington State Vietnam Veteran Populations was presented to the Washington State Senate Select Committee for Veterans as part of the Governor s Master Plan for the needs of veterans Her research included a five site sample of Vietnam veterans bio psychosocial needs that was used for planning future programs for the King County Veterans Program Dr Cantrell s research findings were formally presented at the European Traumatic Stress Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland She was also invited to present her study in Brisbane, Australia at the Brisbane International Traumatic Stress Conference, as well as the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana In the Spring of 2004, she formally invited by the U.S Army to provide mental health services to the paratroopers of the 173d Airborne Brigade stationed in Vicenza, Italy While there, she focused upon helping these troops reintegrate with their loved ones and readjust to peacetime conditions after their prolonged combat exposure in Northern Iraq Information and observations from this time of working with the Iraqi Freedom veterans gave birth to a new workbook course entitled Turning Your Heart Toward Home This course was followed by the co authored book Down Range To Iraq and Back which now has than one million in print In her latest co authored work, Once a Warrior Wired for Life Dr Bridget Cantrell takes readers on to the next step in the process of coming home and re integrating when a tour of duty is finished This book focuses on how to once again become a civilian after being trained in for military duty Dr Cantrell s newest books Souls under Siege The Affects of Multiple Troop Deployments and How to Weather the Storm , will help us all find ways to support and tend to those living under the pressures of multiple deployments Its thrust is to not only expand awareness of the issues involved, but to also outline sensible tools for finding relief in these trying times Souls under Siege is not a book to sit idle on your shelf It will become a useful g 634 thoughts on “Souls Under Siege: The Effects of Mulitple Troop Deployments- And How to Weather the Storm” As a clinician who often works with servicemen and women and their dependants this book covers a lot of valuable information for all parties. 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__label__cc	0.638683	0.361317	Implementing 802.11ac Revolution or Evolution? Contributed by Fluke Networks The need for greater wireless capacity Increasing user demands for mobility and connectionless protocols have led to tremendous growth in requirements for wireless capacity within the enterprise. Whether using a company supplied laptop or tablet or their own devices (BYOD), users expect the performance of mobile applications to keep pace with their wired counterparts. They want to use any device to access any application, anywhere, without experiencing any lag or delay in performance. Growth in wireless use for business and personal use is reflected in increased equipment sales. While PC sales are sluggish, worldwide consumer Wi-Fi customer premises equipment shipments were more than 43.3 million at the end of 1Q 2013 according to ABI Research, a 16.8 per cent increase over the last quarter of 2012. At the same time we are seeing the growth of voice over IP (VoIP) across the enterprise, driven by increasingly mature technology and a desire to reduce costs. By having a single network infrastructure, organizations can – in theory at least – reduce capital expenditure and create a single infrastructure that is easier to maintain and manage. However, using the same wireless infrastructure to support voice as well as data imposes a penalty in the amount of traffic that can be supported. When VoIP is introduced, more bandwidth hungry applications such as voice and video will be driven over the wireless infrastructure. 4G roll-out will also necessitate an unavoidable increase in the number of VoIP calls made from portable devices, as this is the only type of communication offered by up-to-date networking technology. These additional demands on the wireless LAN (WLAN) are creating increased pressure to redesign and upgrade wireless infrastructure to provide more bandwidth at higher rates. One alternative to increasing bandwidth is to increase compression of the audio signal, but the trade-off is that any packet loss will have a much more significant impact on call quality. This increasing demand from users is also increasing congestion in the 2.4GHz spectrum, leading to interference and a detrimental effect on the user experience. Introducing a new standard: 802.11ac In an attempt to address congestion and the need for higher throughout speeds, the IEEE is developing the new 802.11ac standard for WLAN technology. The standard is still in development, but is expected to be ratified by February 2014, and will be backwards compatible with 802.11n. So how does the new standard intend to deliver all these benefits? First, it moves wireless traffic to the 5GHz band, instead of 2.4GHz. At the moment this is less busy, so there should be significant benefits to users. Second, it claims to provide ‘faster throughput at greater distance’ – which is why it is also known as the very high throughput or VHT amendment. In essence this means providing higher bit rates over a WLAN connection, improving spectral efficiency and building on the techniques introduced in 802.11n through providing: wider channels higher modulation and coding beamforming multi-user MIMO more spatial streams. The current 802.11n wireless protocol introduced 40MHz channels, a significant improvement over the 20MHz channels in earlier standards. In theory, with 802.11n you can use up to 14 channels. In practice, to avoid interference, you can only use three or four. If you have conflicting channels, network performance will drop off significantly. One of the key ways that 802.11ac gains its speed is by using 80MHz wide channels, and in a second phase this will increase further to 160MHz channels. Achieving these higher data rates, however, comes at a cost: fewer available channels in the 5GHz band. Exactly how this will work depends on your country, as there are a wide variety of rules on how the 5GHz range can be used. In the United States, it means 802.11ac will have at most five available 80 MHz channel selections; currently there are three available. When 802.11ac second-wave appears, it will have at most two available 160 MHz channel selections, and probably only one will be available. In contrast, there are a total of 13 non-overlapping 20 MHz channels available. In Europe, 802.11ac has four available 80 MHz channels, and will have two available 160 MHz channels in the second wave. By comparison, there are 19 non-overlapping 20 MHz channels available. We need to keep in mind that 160 MHz wide channels will be optional, even with the ratified standard, and typically the maximum channel bonding will be 80MHz wide channels. However this still significantly reduces the number of nonoverlapping channels available in the 5GHz UNII bands. Higher modulation and coding schema 802.11ac introduces higher order modulation using 256QAM. This increases the number of bits that can be encoded in a single symbol and can provide up to a 33 per cent improvement in bit rates. However, it requires a change in transmitter and receiver design, making the RF design of the system more challenging. Beamforming is what allows 802.11ac routers to deliver a wireless signal straight to a device rather than bathing the entire surrounding area in the signal intended for that device. Although it is supported in the previous-generation 802.11n, the new standard is more efficient — in part because it only includes one method of beamforming rather than supporting several possible options. Multi-user MIMO – more spatial streams via more antennae MIMO, or Multiple Input Multiple Output, means sending and receiving more than one signal at a time. 802.11ac will use multi-user MIMO to support simultaneous transmissions to multiple clients, provided they are spatially separated, which maximizes utilization of the RF band. In theory 802.11ac can handle up to four spatial streams per client, and each device continuously receives the full bandwidth on offer. In comparison, an 802.11n access point (AP) can only send and receive data from one device at a time. This means that as more devices use an access point, the slower data transfer becomes as the router transmits a burst to each device in turn before returning to the first devices. GCMP security protocol The security protocols used with 802.11ac will in most respects be the same as those used with 802.11n. 802.11ac data rates are incompatible with WEP and TKIP, and so devices operating at very high throughput rates will largely use AES-CCMP, the security protocol required for WPA2 certification. However, 802.11ac also permits use of GCMP – the Galois/Counter Mode Protocol. Like CCMP, this provides data authentication and encryption. While CCMP encrypts data broken into blocks and then authenticates blocks chained together in sequence, GGMP uses a technique called Galois Field Multiplication to authenticate each block individually. This means that GCMP can encrypt data blocks in parallel instead of in sequence. When processing data passed at very high rates, the ability to encrypt and authenticate in parallel becomes increasingly important to reduce latency. Each GCMP authentication is also computationally faster than CCMP authentication. The first wave of 802.11ac products may continue to use CCMP, at least for link layer security, but second wave products may well use GCMP to keep up with high density WLANs, MU-MIMO clients and wider channels that enable data rates approaching 7Gbps. So administrators should start looking for GCMP support in WLAN planning, surveillance and diagnostic tools ready for second wave 802.11ac products and also for 802.11ad, which is best suited for high throughput communications between nearby devices (preferably in the same room) such as HD video transmission to wall mounted wireless displays. Phased introduction Current 802.11ac access points and devices support single user MIMO, using beamforming to send the signal efficiently to one device at a time. The next phase will see chips that can send signals to multiple devices at once. This offers several benefits: faster devices can save power because they do not need to keep the radio on for as long the signal can be made more efficient by only sending it in the direction of devices transferring data, thus reducing interference voice calls will be prioritized, but if there is another connections that will not interfere with a voice call because data is being sent in a different direction, it can be sent at the same time 802.11ac can send targeted signals to each device. A lower bandwidth device (e.g. a phone) will get a lower bandwidth signal, but unlike 802.11n this will not force higher bandwidth devices such as tablets and notebooks to drop down to the same bandwidth. The first wave of 802.11ac will include 80MHz channels and 3x3 APs. The next wave will bring 160MHz channels, MIMO configurations greater than 3x3 and multi-user MIMO. Physical layer connection rates will eventually reach 6.9GHz. In theory, most initial implementations of 802.11ac should enable speeds of up to 1.3 Gbps as well as better coverage than 802.11n. In practice, while significantly faster than 802.11n, 802.11ac can only reach Gigabit-per-second speeds in laboratory conditions. In the real world, its range is also likely to be more limited than the older 2.4GHz 802.11n and 802.11g technologies, and it can only deliver as much broadband as the slowest link in the network. However, 802.11ac means that user throughput (in bits per second) will increase. This higher throughput will increase the capacity of 802.11ac APs. Because a user can download files and upload, say, email attachments at faster transmission rates, they will use less time on shared RF channels, so more users who transmit at higher rates can access the AP. Choosing when to implement the new standard A number of products supporting the draft 802.11ac specification have already been released. The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun certifying programs for the new standard and it is expected that certification and equipment will be rolled out in at least two phases, with the first around now and the second in a year or more’s time to include all of the specification’s enhancements. Network engineers have a number of implementation options. They may decide to roll out a pure 802.11ac WLAN site in one location, whereas in another they may need to provide backwards compatibility for existing devices with 802.11n and possibly earlier protocols, even if it is a brand new site. We believe most people will have a hybrid or mixed network for some time in order to support existing and new user devices. This will require design and planning capability to cover both the 802.11ac and 802.11n standards and ensure that users obtain the best performance with both. Whether your organization chooses to implement the new standard as soon as it is finalized, or prefers to wait until more equipment is available, it is important to begin planning your approach to 802.11ac now. The chances are that you will need to add new capacity to your LAN over the next few months. Do you begin to implement 802.11ac at that point while maintaining backwards compatibility, or continue to add 802.11n capacity while waiting for more equipment supporting the new standard to become available? Even if you plan to delay implementation, you will still need to prepare for 802.11ac. Network engineers should therefore begin to familiarize themselves with 802.11ac now so that they can take an informed decision when they next need to increase the capacity or expand the coverage of their WLAN. They should also consider upgrading the capacity of their Ethernet access and uplink networks. For example, if the AP links are currently 100MB, they will need to be upgraded to 1GB; if 1GB, consider upgrading them to 2GB. Aggregation links need to be sized to allow for all the 802.11ac APs that they will have to accommodate. Planning for 802.11ac implementation There are five key factors to consider when planning for 802.11ac: channel allocation impact of using DFS channels impact of older standards Measuring throughput The most important factor when planning a hybrid network is accuracy, particularly when carrying out a site survey. 802.11ac should enable better performance and require fewer APs. However, it is more complex to implement than with earlier standards because there are fewer, wider channels, beamforming has to be considered and there are regulatory variances, making RF management and control essential. This means that signal strength is not a true indicator of WLAN performance; the only true performance indicator is throughput. The optimum solution for deploying 802.11ac properly and taking advantage of the improvements it offers is therefore to carry out active site surveys as well as lperf surveys. This enables engineers to measure and map actual end-user performance using an 802.11ac adapter and thus design and deploy 802.11ac networks with a high degree of accuracy. Assessing capacity Using a network performance planning tool that supports both existing and new protocols also helps engineers to assess whether there is sufficient capacity in the WLAN. Users are increasingly accessing high bandwidth applications such as Skype and organizations need to assess readiness for VoIP, so it is important to have a means of determining whether the network is reaching capacity. By using a planning tool which provides visualizations of key performance factors such as channel width, channel overlap and MCS coverage, network engineers can quickly determine areas where high throughput can be achieved and hence high client density can be supported. Planning channel allocation It is important to develop a channel application plan when planning for 802.11ac. The wider channels introduced with 802.11ac increase the likelihood of co-channel interference, which will adversely affect performance. 802.11ac designates one sub-channel in a bonded channel as ‘primary’; this is the channel that is used for transmission at a specific bandwidth. A planning tool needs to show where primary and secondary channels interfere with each other to enable engineers to adjust channel allocations and AP locations to maximize performance. Assessing the impact of DFS channels The 5GHz band used by 802.11ac contains channels with Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) capabilities to avoid using the same frequency range as radar. The AP has to vacate the channel it is operating on if it detects radar, which negatively impacts performance. Here a planning tool incorporating a spectrum analyser will help by enabling the network engineer to detect and measure any RF signal on each channel to determine if DFS channels are available or occupied. It also enables engineers to find any non- Wi-Fi interference, preventing expensive network redesigns and ensuring a clean environment for 802.11ac deployment. Impact of slower transmission rates Engineers need to ensure that 802.11ac performance is not negatively impacted by the slower transmission rates of 802.11a and n clients. By using a coverage map they can visualize regions where legacy clients can be supported, while a throughput survey using an 802.11ac client validates whether the WLAN can provide the required user performance. Fluke Networks offers the ability to detect, analyze and troubleshoot 802.11ac APs using currently supported 802.11n adapters. This provides key metrics such as the number of 802.11n and 802.11a clients present in the network, the APs these clients are connected to and network channel utilization by 802.11n and 802.11a clients. By decoding 802.11ac management frames in real time, engineers can detect VHT capabilities of the AP and thus troubleshoot performance issues in 802.11ac networks resulting from the presence of legacy clients. About wavelengths Produced by Giotto Enterprises, a group of companies consisting of: Fiber Instrument Sales, Inc. 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__label__cc	0.640403	0.359597	Interview: Presents for Sally. Presents for Sally are Matt Etherton, Anna Etherton, and Luke Feierabend and the band is based in the UK. After getting immediate positive recognition in 2008 for their track "Flowers Falling Sideways" (a contribution to a shoegaze compilation called The Secret Garden), fans have been waiting for a release from them, as the song is utterly gorgeous (you can hear the track here). Good news: the wait is nearly over, as Presents for Sally's stunning full length debut, A Touch of Joy, A Touch of Sadness will be out November 22nd on Laser Ghost Recordings (read Amber's recent review of the record here). This band is definitely one to keep on your radar. Please enjoy learning a bit about the band, and make sure you get yourself a copy of the new album next month; it's fantastic. 1. How did you come up with the name "Presents for Sally"? To be honest I think the name came up one drunken evening a fair few years ago, way before we started any serious recording or anything and then it just kinda stuck. I guess we need to work on this answer!! Find something super imaginative!! 2. A Touch of Joy, A Touch of Sadness is the band's first full length release, but I remember the track "Flowers Falling Sideways" on The Secret Garden nu-gaze compilation creating quite a stir in the shoegaze scene in 2008. How long has the band been together? Presents for Sally started out as just Matt recording some ideas at home on a 4 track recorder, these ideas eventually became songs. After "Flowers Falling Sideways" came out we had a good response and realised people wanted to hear more, so we sorted out playing some of the songs live. We were lucky enough to generate quite a bit of interest and were really pleased with how well the single did. 3. Can you tell us what you've been working on and what you've got forthcoming in the near future (releases, tour, etc)? Well the album is out November 22nd and we are currently in the process of organising a UK tour this winter to promote it. Then the title track “A Touch of Joy, A Touch of Sadness” from the album may be coming out as a single but nothing is set in stone regarding that yet. 4. Presents for Sally have certainly been considered part of the new wave of shoegaze artists by fans. Do you consider what you are doing to be shoegaze? Do you feel that you are a part of this new shoegaze/dream pop scene? People can use any genre they want to describe us but hopefully Presents for Sally have a unique sound which can be liked by people into more than just one sort of music. As a band we are all into different kinds of music, Matt is the only one who is into stuff that could be classed as shoegaze, but at the end of the day scenes come and go, where music lasts forever. 5. What is the most important piece of gear for your sound? Any particular guitars/pedals/amps you prefer? I suppose you could say our fx make a big part of our sound and without this, we couldn't create the layers we have that make the songs sound like us. Saying that though, we could also just play most of the songs on an acoustic guitar or piano so I suppose you need the songs there, however you intend them to sound in the end. 6. What artists (musical or otherwise) have most influenced your work? We have all been influenced by different bands and different people over time. 7. What do you think of modern shoegaze/dream pop artists, any favourites? To be honest, we're not overly familiar with many of them. Anna and Luke aren't really into shoegazey stuff and I just haven't really had a chance to hear as much as I would like. I'm sure there are plenty of good new bands about, whatever the genre. 8. Tell us a little about what you are currently into (bands, films, books, etc)? 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