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__label__cc	0.698967	0.301033	Tram no. 10 Ada Zielińska, Tram No. 10, photograph on paper, 130×200 cm Hans Memling’s ”Last Judgment”, or rather an advertisement thereof, appears in a photograph by Ada Zielińska. The work shows Lechia Gdańsk football fans photographed in tram no. 10 against the background of the iconic shipyard cranes. The gold-painted vehicle with the museum’s logo and the title of the painting promotes Memling’s masterpiece.The route covered by the tram is unique too.No. 10 passes, among others,the Gdańsk Główny railway station – the heart of the city – the European Solidarity Centre, the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970, Gate No. 2, the shipyard, the football stadium and Nowy Port.It links up-market and dodgy neighbourhoods, peripheral and symbolic locations. From the tram windows one can see the historic cranes that survived the shipyard’s downfall, and the amber gold Energa Gdańsk Stadium, symbol of the new Gdańsk, completed for the 2012 European Football Championship. Tram no. 10 is used by locals and tourists alike. Also by workers getting off in the vicinity of the shipyard and Nowy Port, who now come from the whole world, not just Poland or Ukraine.A lot of different languages are spoken on the tram.The route once covered by shipyard workers now also serves Lechia Gdańsk fans. They take Memling’s golden tram to go to football games taking place on the amber gold stadium. Text by curator of the project- Marcin Różyc The Golden Tram forms part of the Golden Campaign promoting Hans Memling’s Last Judgmen TOFU Studio for the National Museum in Gdańsk, 2017 GDANIA artists: Ada Zielińska, Marcin Janusz, Paweł Włodarski, Justyna Górowska curator: Marcin Rozyc Gdańsk 20.07-28.07 CSW Łaźnia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line853
__label__wiki	0.786163	0.786163	IndyCar / Analysis IndyCar’s big questions of 2019 David Malsher-Lopez As the NTT IndyCar Series gathers at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for the first large group test of 2019, David Malsher looks at some of the main topics to watch in the season ahead. Scott Dixon after winning his fifth IndyCar title, Sonoma Raceway 2018. Photo by: Michael L. Levitt / LAT Images Can anyone match the consistency of Dixon-Ganassi? First of all, it’s hard to imagine how even Scott Dixon and Chip Ganassi Racing can match their own consistency from last year – just four finishes outside the top five, and two of those were sixths! But assuming if they’ve done it once, they can do it again, then you of course have to look at the fastest drivers/teams as the most likely contenders to topple a combo that has won three of the last six IndyCar titles. So that would be Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi and Ryan Hunter-Reay and Team Penske’s Will Power and Josef Newgarden. Over the past couple of years, all four have proven they can make dominating a whole race weekend look easy. But stringing together a whole season without DNFs – that’s a lot harder. Chip Ganassi has a very simple rule that he hammered home to drivers like Dixon and Dario Franchitti over the years – if you can’t finish first, finish second, if you can’t finish first or second, finish third, etc. And hey, it works! The top five in the 2018 championship were in the order of fewest number of operational/driver/mechanical blunders over the course of the year. Should Simon Pagenaud recover his form (see below), then he has to be considered a title contender too, because at his best (2016) he was relentless. James Hinchcliffe of Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and Dale Coyne Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais should also have the wherewithal to accumulate points so that they’re contending for a top-five finish in the points table by year’s end, but it’s hard to imagine either of them having the requisite number of highlights to beat Dixon to the championship. Felix Rosenqvist is set to make his NTT IndyCar Series race debut with Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda next month. Photo by: Alexander Trienitz Which new Swedish import will impress most? Marcus Ericsson has the Formula 1 experience, Felix Rosenqvist has the just-about-every-other-series experience. Ericsson is driving for a team still on the rise, Rosenqvist is in a team that’s been at or near the peak of U.S. open-wheel success for almost a quarter-century (Ganassi has 12 drivers’ titles since 1996). Ericsson will be directly compared not only with regular race-winning teammate James Hinchcliffe, but also indirectly with Arrow SPM’s super-rookie from 2018, Robert Wickens. Meanwhile, Rosenqvist will be learning from but also compared with the five-time and reigning IndyCar champion Scott Dixon. A masterclass opportunity, yes, but one that comes with pressure of knowing you’re facing a legend. And each has the added pressure that more will be expected of him than the other rookies, because of their heritage. But then pressure is the name of the game, and while both Rosenqvist and Ericsson will initially be forgiven rookie errors if they’re fast, neither Ganassi nor Sam Schmidt are tolerant of drivers who don’t make notable progress in polishing up their flaws over the course of a season. Patricio O'Ward made his IndyCar debut with Harding at Sonoma last year but how many races will he get in 2019? Photo by: Sam Cobb / LAT Images Speaking of rookies, how will the Steinbrenner Harding Racing situation resolve itself? Sadly what was hailed last September as an expanded two-car Steinbrenner Harding team for 2018 Indy Lights champion Pato O’Ward and runner-up Colton Herta which would switch to Honda engines is not (yet) in the form it was advertised. While there is no official word yet, one informant told Motorsport.com that in fact the team has just one full-time engine lease, presumably for Herta’s #88 car, while the current plan is to run the #8 for O’Ward at the Indy 500 and for as many other races as his $1m prize fund for the Lights title will stretch. Some might say it would be more fair to have Herta and O’Ward sharing the fulltime car, but George Steinbrenner IV’s money is tied to Herta – they are genuine friends. And anyway, would switching drivers in and out be smarter? Or would it just hurt the progress of each, in a situation when any single-car team – especially one with rookie drivers – is already inherently compromised? Jack Harvey will pilot the Meyer Shank Racing Honda in 10 of the 17 races this season. Photo by: Phillip Abbott / LAT Images How will the other part-timers fare? There’s little doubt that Ed Jones will do a fine job for Ed Carpenter Racing with Scuderia Corsa – and vice versa. Jones has much to prove after a sophomore IndyCar season at Ganassi that raised more questions than answers. It’s hard not to agree with Dario Franchitti’s assessment of Jones – that he needs to reach his peak sooner on any given weekend. Hopefully he has that confidence in his third year. It’s a pity that Jones won’t be competing on any ovals other than Indy, and it does raise an interesting conundrum for Carpenter. With the first eight rounds of the year comprising seven road/street courses and the Indy 500, Jones will be racing in all. Should he be high on the points table by the time Texas rolls around, could ECR run three cars? Or would Ed consider stepping down from his oval-only duties to make way for Other Ed in car #20? Jack Harvey’s work with Meyer Shank Racing has so far been inconclusive but he’s only started nine races, six of which came last year. We can assume that the partnership with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports is beneficial in terms of equipment, data and feedback, but this is still a new team to IndyCar racing, and allowances must be made. However, with MSR stepping up its commitment to 10 races in 2019, it’s not unreasonable to expect Harvey to start turning in some eye-catching performances, as he used to in Indy Lights. The Juncos Racing situation remains fluid at time of writing, but Kyle Kaiser, the team’s 2017 Indy Lights champion, is favorite for whenever there’s a car available. Over the last few months, team owner Ricardo Juncos has swung through every point between one part-time entry and two full-time cars – and in between he has started his IMSA Prototype venture. It’s an unenviable situation, but he’s smart enough not to overstretch his budget, hence the deletion of his Indy Pro 2000 [née Pro Mazda] operation. DragonSpeed’s arrival in IndyCar for 2019, even on a part-time basis, is one of the nice surprises of the offseason. Driver Ben Hanley is 34 – perhaps a little old to be a rookie in any series, but actually younger than Fernando Alonso when he made his debut at the Indy 500 two years ago. Observers of the European sportscar scene say that Hanley is very good in LMP2 and LMP1 machinery. This year he’ll have five chances – including Indy – to prove himself in an open-wheel car. Back in ’07, he finished as runner-up in the World Series by Renault 3.5 championship. Carlin Racing has had to switch Charlie Kimball to a part-time role because his budget shrank for 2019, but as a driver with over 100 IndyCar starts to his name and driving for a team with a year’s experience of IndyCar and a quarter century of (highly successful) spec racing under its wheels, it seems likely that Kimball will be the part-timer with the best opportunity to shine. However, RC Enerson (alone) will test the #23 car at both Laguna Seca and the two-day Spring Training at Circuit of The Americas. Chevrolet won all the Manufacturer titles from 2012 through ’17 but was overthrown by Honda in ’18. Can Chevrolet reassert itself in the title race, can Honda reassert itself at Indy? With very few areas of the engines open to development this off-season, and with the 2.2-liter V6 twin-turbo engines in their eighth and penultimate season, there aren’t many gains to be made. So what we saw in 2018 will likely be repeated in ’19 – specifically, the Honda Performance Development units will provide greater torque out of low-speed corners and also offer better fuel mileage, while the Ilmor-built Chevrolets will be stronger at the top end. However, if Chevy is to recapture the Manufacturers’ title that it owned from 2012 through ’17, it must improve its reliability. All three Penske drivers were ineligible for scoring manufacturer points long before season’s end last year having exceeded the prescribed engine count, and that’s a trio that the Bowtie very much needs on its frontline. Alexander Rossi testing his Andretti Autosport-Honda at Circuit of The Americas last fall. Photo by: IndyCar Series How close will IndyCars get to F1 lap times at Circuit of The Americas? Not close at all. COTA is a 3.4-mile 20-turn course, which will serve to emphasize the difference between the 1000hp and instant torque of a hybrid F1 unit, and the 720-750hp of the more conventional IndyCar engines. F1 teams’ zillion-dollar investments in aerodynamics will also contribute heavily to what will probably be a 13sec disparity in qualifying, 10-11sec on race day. But considering an IndyCar team using spec chassis and semi-spec engines spends ‘just’ $12m per year to run well, it would be ridiculous if F1 teams – the smallest of which spends around $100m per annum – were not a couple of leagues ahead in terms of pace. Does that matter to the fans? It shouldn’t do, so long as the racing is good. Simon Pagenaud is a proven champion but a winless 2018 has brought self-imposed pressure. Can Simon Pagenaud bounce back? The stats say that Team Penske’s drivers finished third, fifth and sixth in the 2018 points table, but the reality is that at some races, Pagenaud was starting from a different ZIP code than his teammates Power and Newgarden. This worrying trend reached its nadir as late as the penultimate event of the season: while the silver cars locked out the front row at Portland, the 2016 champion started 22nd, behind Dale Coyne’s rookie part timers, Pietro Fittipaldi and Santino Ferrucci. As usual, Simon salvaged a decent points finish on race day because race pace was rarely a problem for him. But the ‘nervous’ rear end of the current breed of IndyCar when taken to the ragged edge in qualifying often left him with too much work to do on Sundays. Newgarden, who was sometimes affected by the same issue, albeit to a far lesser extent, says that Penske’s three-car test in December was very productive in finding a solution and improving the stability of the car, while Pagenaud and race engineer Ben Bretzman believe they were already starting their revival at the final round of the season in Sonoma. That’s what needs to happen because Alexander Rossi, already a popular part-time addition to Penske’s sportscar lineup, is currently a free agent in IndyCar for 2020… The second year of RLLR's Graham Rahal-Takuma Sato partnership needs to start bearing fruit. Photo by: Scott R LePage / LAT Images Will Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing become contenders once more? Despite the delight of seeing Takuma Sato in victory lane at Portland last year, everyone knows that in terms of pace, there were a dozen faster cars on track that day. RLLR and the 2017 Indy 500 winner executed well, but the win was a lucky one. But there are two gentlemen charged with the task of taking Bobby Rahal’s team back to the heady days when Graham Rahal fought a lone battle, took the fight to the multi-car teams and beat the odds to score victories on merit. One of these troubleshooters is team president Piers Phillips who previously served as general manager at Schmidt Peterson. The other is veteran race engineer Allen McDonald, who also competed at SPM before switching to Ed Carpenter Racing last year. These two alone can’t make RLLR winners again, but both will surely benefit from the fact that the squad is into its second straight year as a two-car squad. There is so much potential at RLLR; now these two must tap it. Hard to make serious complaints about the IndyCar product, and NBC's dedication appears faultless. But will it attract new fans? Will the move to a single TV provider help IndyCar’s ratings? At this stage, we can only hope. Certainly NBC’s commitment is high, and the team did a fine job with its IMSA coverage for last month’s Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. But people are fickle: a great product on track and a great product on screen doesn’t guarantee a large audience. All the team members – the on- and off-screen talent and the promotional departments within NBC, as well as IndyCar itself – can do is their very best. And should that not be enough to significantly boost ratings, all involved need to be prepared to make changes with astuteness and forethought. Was it too hard to pass at the Indy 500 (pictured) and ABC Supply 500 at Pocono last year? Many thought so, thus IndyCar and Firestone have worked on solutions. Will the aero changes on superspeedways improve the racing? According to Graham Rahal, following the six-car test at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last October, yes… although he believes it’s Firestone’s revised tire compound that will bring the biggest gains. Last year at Indy, the new car’s more draggy aerodynamics created a bigger tow but a narrower one, so cars rushed onto the tail of their prey but when pulling out to pass, they hit a wall of air and their momentum swiftly dissipated. In addition, the front right tire would relinquish grip in a hurry when following another car closely through a turn, forcing the drivers to lift off and lose momentum before the straights or, should they lift too abruptly, lose the rear. Life has taught all IndyCar drivers, crew chiefs and even fans to be wary of making predictions about the quality of racing at the Indy 500, given that the hallowed oval is so readily affected by weather conditions. An added variable for 2019 is that the drivers will also be encountering a new track surface. What is encouraging, however, is Rahal’s assertion that what worked at IMS in the fall will also aid the racing at Texas Motor Speedway and Pocono Raceway. Champ Car Spring Training was held at Laguna Seca in 2007. Here is reigning Atlantics champion Pagenaud in the Team Australia/Walker Racing Panoz DP01-Cosworth. Photo by: Todd Corzett Can Laguna Seca produce good racing and a thrilling finale? There are many who are wary of WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca replacing Sonoma Raceway and producing a like-for-like spectacle. Doom mongers suggest it’s too narrow and/or doesn’t have enough heavy braking zones to put on a great race. But Laguna Seca hasn’t hosted top-rank U.S. open-wheel racing since CART’s 2004 finale and the cars and the series are simply too different 15 years on to make a direct comparison and a relevant prediction. For example, mercifully these days there are no restrictions over when to pit, the one stipulation being that each finisher needs to have used both Firestone tire compounds. The truth is that it’s often aspects beyond the track design that will determine whether or not a race is ‘good’. For instance, IndyCar should always consult with team strategists before determining a race’s lap count, in order to ensure drivers can go hard and fast throughout, rather than saving fuel. The yawningly long pitlane at Road America, for example, encourages drivers to feather the throttle almost from the drop of the green flag if they think they can eke out their fuel load to do one fewer stop. Long Beach has also occasionally suffered in the recent past from its lap count being j-u-s-t within the bounds of a certain pit window. So set the Laguna Seca finale’s distance to where there is no doubt that everyone will have to make that ‘extra’ stop, and who cares if that means everyone’s stopping the same number of times? There will still be variations in strategy between when the teams choose to pit, and which stints they use their softer Firestones. The additional benefits are obvious: 1) When everyone runs hard, there’s more chance of errors, small or large, that can mix up the order, and 2) without fuel worries, the drivers will be free to use the ethanol-guzzling push-to-pass boost, hence again, more chance of racing and passing. As for aero effect when one car is closely following another on a road or street course, we have already seen that IndyCar fulfilled its own brief for the spec aerokit to heavily reduce the ‘dirty air’ problem. The reduced drag has raised maximum speeds, the reduced downforce has lowered minimum speeds, and so the braking distances are automatically far longer than in the manufacturer aerokit era. And the cars are harder to handle – again increasing the likelihood of errors. But there are circumstances outside of IndyCar’s control that will often define the nature of a race. When – if at all – will any full-course cautions fall? Are the cars/drivers that qualified within a hair of each other going to be similarly close in pace on race day? Are any fast driver/car combos starting near the back? It’s hard to forget Alexander Rossi’s charge at Sonoma last September, or Sebastien Bourdais’ steer from the rear at Mid-Ohio. Significantly, both those tracks used to be criticized for their dearth of passing opportunities. This latest IndyCar has proven able to overturn that perception, and we currently have no evidence it can’t do the same at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Right, the high horse has been returned to the stable, and it’s time to head to Laguna Seca. It’s unclear how many of these questions can start to be answered if Friday’s wretched weather forecast – very cold, very wet – is to be believed… Kimball reveals part-time IndyCar schedule Chilton leads morning IndyCar test session at Laguna Seca Drivers Felix Rosenqvist , Will Power , Graham Rahal , Sébastien Bourdais , Ed Carpenter , Spencer Pigot , Charlie Kimball , Zach Veach , Alexander Rossi , Max Chilton , Marco Andretti , Matheus Leist , Takuma Sato , Simon Pagenaud , Ed Jones , Scott Dixon , Jack Harvey , James Hinchcliffe , Josef Newgarden , Tony Kanaan , Ryan Hunter-Reay , Kyle Kaiser , Ben Hanley , Marcus Ericsson , Santino Ferrucci , Colton Herta , Patricio O'Ward Teams Andretti Autosport , A.J. Foyt Enterprises , Team Penske , Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing , Chip Ganassi Racing , Schmidt Peterson Motorsports , Ed Carpenter Racing , Dale Coyne Racing , Carlin , Dragonspeed , Meyer Shank Racing , Juncos Racing , Harding Racing Author David Malsher-Lopez Podcast: Predicting a mad MotoGP star name ‘silly season’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line863
__label__wiki	0.958347	0.958347	Arrest of French 'yellow vest' leader sparks outrage by Claire DOYEN Agence-France Presse 3 January 2019 Eric Drouet, one of the leaders of the "yellow vest" movement, leaves police custody in Paris on Thursday One of the leaders of the "yellow vest" demonstrations in France was detained by police in Paris, signalling a harder line from the government that sparked a wave of criticism from opponents on Thursday. Eric Drouet -- who already faces a trial for carrying a weapon at a previous demonstration -- was arrested late Wednesday for organising an unauthorised protest on the Champs-Elysees avenue. He was released Thursday afternoon. Speaking to reporters after his release, Drouet said he had been on his way to a restaurant with four others when they were picked up. "I wasn't wearing a yellow vest, just walking on the pavement," he said, calling the arrest "incomprehensible". "I'm not the yellow vests' representative. With or without me, it will continue", he said, speaking of the protests. "It wasn't a call for a demonstration," he added, denying accusations that he had called for a rally on the Champs-Elysees Wednesday evening while failing to inform authorities in advance of the protest. "Everything that has happened here, it's political, " he said, a view echoed by his lawyer Lara Kheops, who called his arrest "totally arbitrary". Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire defended the arrest, saying: "It's called respecting the rule of law." "It's normal that when you break the laws of the republic, you face the consequences," he added. Under French law, protest organisers are required to inform authorities of the location at least three days in advance, but "yellow vests" have routinely flouted this rule since their often spontaneous demonstrations began in late November. - 'Abuse of power' - Far-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen accused the government of "systematic violation of the political rights of opponents", while one of her party's top men, Wallerand de Saint-Just, said Drouet had become "a hero, a martyr". On the other end of the political spectrum, Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the hard-left France Unbowed party, also lashed out at Drouet's detention. "Again Eric Drouet arrested, why? Abuse of power. A politicised police targeting and harassing the leaders of the yellow vest movement," Melenchon tweeted. Drouet, a 33-year-old truck driver from a town south of Paris who has closely cropped hair and a beard, often appears on television as an "apolitical" spokesman for the "yellow vest" movement. He has been criticised for peddling conspiracy theories online and accused of voting for Le Pen in elections last year, which he has denied. He became known through his Facebook videos, often showing him in the driving seat of his truck, and he was one of the first to call for nationwide protests against higher fuel taxes. The "yellow vest" demonstrations -- named after the high-visibility jackets worn by the protesters -- began in rural France in November over fuel taxes, but ballooned into a wider revolt against President Emmanuel Macron's policies and governing style. Drouet took the lead in calling for protesters to hold the first rally on the Champs-Elysees on December 1, a demonstration which turned violent, with "yellow vests" clashing with police amid flaming barricades. Drouet had called on Facebook for another demonstration Wednesday evening on the Champs-Elysees. Several dozen demonstrators were gathered outside a McDonald's restaurant near France's famous Arc de Triomphe to greet him, when he was picked up by dozens of armed riot police who forced him into a vehicle. He was also arrested last month for carrying a wooden stick at a demonstration, and he faces trial on June 5 for "carrying a prohibited category D weapon", a judicial source told AFP. - Protests on Saturday - The "yellow vest" protests have caused the biggest political crisis of Macron's 20-month presidency. In mid-December, after weeks of violence, Macron scrapped planned fuel tax rises in response to the protests and promised extra cash for minimum wage earners and tax cuts for pensioners. Since then, the movement has waned. Only a couple of hundred of "yellow vests" turned up for the last round of demonstrations on the Champs-Elysees on New Year's Eve. They were swamped by tens of thousands of revellers ringing in the new year. But the "yellow vests" have promised to return in force to the streets this Saturday. A new opinion poll by Odoxa Dentsu consulting published Thursday showed a majority of the French -- 55 percent of those surveyed -- want the "yellow vest" protest movement to continue. The poll was taken online on January 2-3 and has a margin of error of 1.4 to 3.1 points The "yellow vest" demonstrations began in rural France in November over fuel taxes, but ballooned into a wider revolt against President Emmanuel Macron's policies and governing style Eric Drouet, a leader of the "Yellow vests" movement, was also detained by police in December The "yellow vest" protests have caused the biggest political crisis of Macron's 20-month presidency Clashes mark return to protests in Colombia GLOBAL MARKETS-Risk assets fall as Chinese virus triggers anxiety Trump Sees ‘Big Trade Deal’ With EU, Repeats Auto Tariff Threat Two demonstrators die in new Iraq clashes France, US agree to extend talks over digital tax Bushfire rages out of control as east coast braces for fierce heatwave 'Hard to fathom': Glenn Maxwell at centre of 'baffling' Big Bash controversy 'Atrocious': Controversy erupts over Australian Open player's 'shameful' act 'Not funny': Warning over girl's chilling scrawled note in car window Camilla breaks her silence on Megxit	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line864
__label__wiki	0.966396	0.966396	Australia's onshore refugees stuck in legal limbo Agence-France Presse 17 July 2019 The fate of asylum seekers is a polarising issue in Australia The Australian government has rejected calls to expedite visa applications of 30,000 asylum seekers who have been stuck in legal limbo in the country for more than five years, a report released on Wednesday shows. The plight of hundreds of refugees held in Australia's offshore detention centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island has long been in the global spotlight. But rights groups and the opposition have called on the government to address challenges faced by those in Australia. In a report released Wednesday, the Australian Human Rights Commission detailed 31 recommendations it said would improve protections for 30,000 refugees who arrived in Australia before the start of 2014, including fast-tracking their visa applications. Canberra has rejected all of the recommendations, documents released by the Commission show. Known as the "legacy caseload", the refugees were part of an unprecedented wave of asylum seekers who attempted to reach Australia by boat between 2009 and 2013. Most of them are able to live among the general population -- and some are able to work, depending on their status. But the wave of arrivals saw the government institute its controversial offshore processing policy that saw new boat arrivals sent to Nauru and Manus. The Commission said policy changes over time mean the onshore refugees have still not had their claims assessed, so they remain ineligible for permanent residency status and have limited access to support services. "These people face prolonged delays in assessing their refugee claims, with limited government support to meet their health and other needs," Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow said in a statement. "They risk severe deterioration in their living conditions and mental health, with many at higher risk of suicide." The Home Affairs Department said in its response that many of the group do have to access the same financial, education and health services available to other Australians. The Opposition Labor Party has also called on the government to act. "The government needs to come forward and explain how this is going to work with these people within our society," deputy party leader Richard Marles told the ABC. "It is absolutely critical that we do not develop a significant underclass in Australia and that is why the government needs to explain what its plans are for this group." Australia's strict rules for asylum seekers who attempt to reach the country by boat are aimed at deterring others from making the same journey. The United Nations and human rights groups have roundly condemned the government's hardline approach to the nearly 900 refugees who remain on Nauru and Manus. But Australia has defended its policies as humanitarian in nature, saying hundreds of people drowned at sea trying to reach the country. Health experts to greet flights from China Jefferies to Hold Asia Pacific Trading Day in Support of Australia Wildfires Relief Today, January 22 Studio 10 Host Narelda Jacobs Asked To Change The Date, But There’s More To Her January 26 Story Huffpost Australia Big global retailer abandons Australia, retail disruption averted 'Atrocious': Caroline Wozniacki brushes off Australian Open opponent's 'shameful' tactic 'I pity you': Italian firebrand drags Rafa Nadal into insane Aus Open meltdown 'Doesn't belong in tennis': Australian Open star rips 'disrespectful' fans ‘Mic Drop Moment’: Hakeem Jeffries Breaks Out Notorious B.I.G. In Viral Trump Takedown Exclusive suburb descends into 'appalling' dumping ground	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line865
__label__wiki	0.682602	0.682602	Meeting Coverage > ESC NOAC Best Given Alone for Afib With Stable Heart Disease AFIRE trial gives two good reasons against combination with antiplatelet by Crystal Phend Crystal Phend, Senior Associate Editor, MedPage Today September 02, 2019 PARIS -- Adding an antiplatelet to rivaroxaban (Xarelto) for atrial fibrillation in stable coronary artery disease may backfire, the Japanese AFIRE trial affirmed. The trial had to be stopped early for mortality risk with the combination compared with rivaroxaban alone (3.37% vs 1.85% per patient-year, HR 0.55 for monotherapy, 95% CI 0.38-0.81), which was significantly higher for both cardiovascular and noncardiovascular causes. While the antiplatelet-anticoagulant combination came out noninferior for the composite primary efficacy endpoint of stroke, systemic embolism, MI, unstable angina requiring revascularization, or death from any cause (5.75% vs 4.14%, HR 0.72 for monotherapy, 95% CI 0.55-0.95), monotherapy was actually significantly superior in a post hoc assessment. Monotherapy also led to less TIMI major bleeding (1.62% vs 2.76% per patient-year, HR 0.59, 95% CI 0.39-0.89, P=0.01 for superiority), Satoshi Yasuda, MD, PhD, of the Japan Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Osaka, and colleagues reported here at the European Society of Cardiology meeting and online in The New England Journal of Medicine. The findings support both U.S. and European guidelines that suggest monotherapy after 12 months of combination therapy and for those not requiring intervention, but which were based on only weak evidence, said ESC session discussant Freek Verheugt, MD, PhD, of the Heartcenter of the University Medical Center of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Session moderator Frank Ruschitzka, MD, of the University of Zurich, suggested that the trial may move from IIa to Ib in guidelines. However, the data "fall short of securing level 1 and class A evidence," concluded Richard Becker, MD, of the University of Cincinnati, in an accompanying editorial. The open-label trial included 2,236 patients with atrial fibrillation who had coronary revascularization (largely percutaneous coronary intervention, 70%) more than one year earlier or who had angiographically-confirmed coronary artery disease without revascularization. Randomized treatment with rivaroxaban monotherapy or the combination with aspirin or a P2Y12 receptor antagonist at the physicians' discretion (clopidogrel [Plavix] for about 25%) continued for a median 23 months before discontinuation of the trial. Japan's approved dose of 10 or 15 mg, depending on renal function, has been shown to yield a blood level in Japanese patients comparable to that among white patients taking the 20 mg typical in Western countries, Yasuda noted. "The way we treat patients and the characteristics of patients with atrial fibrillation are similar throughout the world, so I think this will be quite generalizable to other countries," Alessia Gimelli, MD, of the CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology in Pisa, Italy, said as an ESC spokesperson at a press conference for the late-breaking clinical trial session. However, Ruschitzka suggested that generalizability to other populations and different dosing strategies and different non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants is an open question until studied. Verheugt noted that the AQUATIC randomized trial from France should provide confirmation outside an Asian population. Two fatal bleeds occurred in each group. Findings were consistent for both efficacy and safety across subgroups, including sex, age, stroke and bleeding risk scores, stent type, and renal function. No interaction was seen between the primary endpoint and use of aspirin versus P2Y12 inhibitors, but this needs to be further examined, Yasuda said. His group acknowledged that "the reductions in the rate of ischemic events and death from any cause with rivaroxaban monotherapy were unanticipated and are difficult to explain on the basis of the biologic effects of antithrombotic therapy; these findings may be due to the play of chance." The trial was supported by the Japan Cardiovascular Research Foundation through a contract with Bayer Yakuhin. Yasuda disclosed relationships with Takeda, Daiichi-Sankyo, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott. Source Reference: Yasuda S, et al "Antithrombotic Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation with Stable Coronary Disease" N Engl J Med 2019; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1904143. Source Reference: Becker RC "Antithrombotic Therapy in Atrial Fibrillation and Coronary Artery Disease" N Engl J Med 2019; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1910560. More in Meeting Coverage No Need for Bone Marrow Exam in ITP Diagnosis FDA Approves Later-Line Breast Cancer Drug	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line883
__label__cc	0.536565	0.463435	1983 Mattel Wish List Gwildor – Heroic Creator of the Cosmic Key (1987) The Alcala legacy: An interview with Alfred Alcala Jr. (Part 1) “Within these Walls… Armageddon!” French edition The Top 10 Creepiest Masters of the Universe Figures Plushgreengator on Laser Power He-Man – Heroic Master of Light Energy (1988) Bob on 1983 Kid Stuff Masters of the Universe story record – full transcript Kevin Miller on 1983 Mattel Wish List ManicMan on Gwildor – Heroic Creator of the Cosmic Key (1987) The Vintage Toy Advertiser on 1983 Mattel Wish List Evil Beasts Evil Horde Evil Mutants Evil Vehicles Heroic Beasts Heroic Vehicles Heroic Warriors Mini Comics Minicomics MOTU History Powers of Grayskull Production Variants Snake Men Super7 5.5" Figures Technical Drawings & Patents A He-Man Blog 1982 Mattel Wish List, plus a look at early MOTU product photography Posted on December 1, 2016 December 12, 2019 by Adam in Catalogs Mattel’s 1982 Wish List is a pamphlet-sized little advertisement for the latest and greatest Mattel had to offer at the time. It was distributed as an insert in the November 16, 1982 issue of Family Circle magazine. Barbie gets the most print space in the Wish List, but there is a page and a half devoted to the brand new (at the time) Masters of the Universe toyline. Image scanned by John Oswald The photographer attempted to spice things up with some clear plastic rods, although I’m not really sure what they’re supposed to be in this context. Quite often catalog photography can be a good source for images of prototype or at least hand-painted pre-production versions of these toys. In fact, you generally tell how early or late these images were taken by the number of prototypes in them. The more prototypes, the earlier the photo was taken. In this case, almost everything in the Wish List is a standard (first release) version of the mass produced toys. Skeletor is the first run “orange cheeks” and half boots version. Unlike earlier catalog photos, both Battle Ram and Wind Raider are the final, mass-produced versions. Stratos in this picture is not a prototype, but he is the ultra-rare, early “blue beard” version. Notice that He-Man is captioned “Strongest man in the universe!” Some early sources refer to him that way, but it was quickly changed to “Most powerful man in the universe!” Blue Beard Stratos The Battle Cat in this catalog isn’t technically a prototype, but it’s rare enough that it might as well be. A small number of factory Battle Cats were made with striped tails and orange lines around the mouth, based on pattern of the original hand-painted prototype. Unlike “blue beard” Stratos, this version does not appear to have ever been sold in stores. They may have been early samples that were intended to be use for product photography. Teela on stripe-tailed Battle Cat Castle Grayskull is a little unusual here as well. I’ve only seen one example in the wild with so little black paint around the eye and nose region. This could be another early factory sample intended for product photography, or it could just be an early release example. Zodac, Wind Raider, and Mer-Man The Man-At-Arms in the photo is the second prototype version – you can tell by the wrist extension on his armor that was removed on the mass-produced toy: Prototype Man-At-Arms riding Battle Ram The earliest known example of Mattel photography of MOTU toys comes from a series of promotional slides shared by Andy Youssi (below). All of the toys in this series are early prototypes. In fact this series is so early that we see the “Lords of Power” label, a working title for the toyline before “Masters of the Universe” was settled on. This is an amazing assortment of early concept images, some of which had not been seen until recently. Most of them (Skeletor, Beast Man and Mer-Man) are not even articulated. He-Man is the closest to being finished, but he lacks his left forearm bracer and his hands are both closed and not quite finished. Man-At-Arms is quite a bit more detailed than the late-stage prototype that came out later. Battle Cat is hand painted and features the orange mouth and tail stripes that persist in early product photography. The Battle Ram prototype is more finely detailed than the final toy. Castle Grayskull is also larger and more detailed, with the ledge and pointed helmet that appeared in many early illustrations. A more in-depth look at these images is available here. The second earliest known example of MOTU photography comes from the 1981 licensing kit, called Fast Male Action For Licensees. The kit contains some amazing Errol McCarthy artwork, but it also has some great toy photography featuring quite a few of prototypes, although most of them more late stage than the ones featured in the “Lords of Power” series. Prototypes include: Teela, Battle Cat, Zodac, Stratos, Man-At-Arms, Wind Raider, and Battle Ram. The Battle Ram prototype is the same one seen in the “Lords of Power” set. Teela appears to be an unarticulated statue. Castle Grayskull here is a finely painted pre-production model, finalized in shape and modified in many ways from the previous prototype. In fact, just about everything here, with the apparent exception of He-Man, appears to be hand-painted, at the very least. I would guess that many of these that appear to be final sculpts were cast at Mattel, and hadn’t gone to the factory yet. Prototype Teela, recreating a scene depicted in He-Man and the Power Sword (or vice versa) Prototype Battle Cat with orange mouth Prototype Battle Ram and Man-At-Arms Hand-painted Skeletor model Notice that the prototype Wind Raider is missing its figure head. You can follow the development of these photos as you see prototypes start to disappear. The photos from 1982 Mattel Dealer Catalog show the same prototypes and models as the license kit photos, with two exceptions; Battle Ram, which appears in its final (albeit hand-painted) form, and Stratos, who now sports a hairy chest: A similar photo used in the 1982 dealer catalog shows up in a 1983 Dutch catalog. This one features smoke in the background, and it’s cropped and arranged slightly differently. It also shows up in this 1985 Mattel France catalog: Image source: Super Shogun The same photo also shows up in this 1982 store display: Very similar-looking photos with identical models appear on the sides of the original Castle Grayskull box. They appear to have been taken during the same session as the photos used in the 1982 Dealer Catalog: Some higher quality versions of a few of these photos (and an alternate version of the Beast Man picture) come to us via Grayskull Museum (who in turn got them from Mark Taylor): I suspect several of the images from the 1984 UK Masters of the Universe Annual were also taken at about the same time. These images also give us an interior view of the hand-painted Castle Grayskull model (although the image is reversed): The photo in this MOTU advertisement seems to have been taken a bit later than the dealer catalog photos. Every figure here seems to be hand-painted. We still have the late-stage prototype Man-At-Arms (evidenced by the wrist extension on his armor). We also see a new prototype version of Teela, different from previous versions, with Barbie-like leg articulation. Image source: http://www.battlegrip.com/ The photo that appeared in an early French mini comic appears to come from a slightly later session still. Stratos’ colors have now been reversed (this is the “blue beard” version that we saw in the Mattel Wish Book). He appears to be a production sample rather than a hand-painted model. We have final, production versions of Man-At-Arms, Skeletor and He-Man. We see the striped tail Battle Cat (like the 1982 Wish List, this one does not appear to be hand-painted). We still have the finely painted Castle Grayskull model. We see the same Teela prototype that appeared in the previous advertisement. Image source: Grayskull Museum The full image without cropping or text. Source: Catone82, via Gec Blec The 1982 Sears and JCPenny Catalog pictures (below) were probably taken sometime after the photo from the French mini comic. We can again see the striped tail factory sample Battle Cat, and a later, almost final Teela prototype. Her sculpt is finalized, but her paint applications are more in keeping with earlier prototypes and design drawings. The castles are first release factory versions. Everything else looks pretty “off the shelf”. Image source: R.M. Hart The 1982 Montgomery Ward Christmas catalog is very similar to the above 1982 Sears catalog, featuring the display model Castle Grayskull and striped-tail Battle Cat: Image source: John Oswald The photo used for the Masters of the Universe Poster (below) was probably taken later than many of of the product photos in this series (I would place the 1982 Wish List photo second or third to last). Just about every toy here is a mass-produced example. This is the only photo in the series to feature a standard Battle Cat. The Castle Grayskull in this photo is likely another very early factory example, similar to the 1982 Wish Book photo. Again we see the “blue beard” Stratos. I believe that while the hand-painted prototypes for Stratos had red wings, blue armor and a gray beard, the very first-factory produced versions had the blue beard, blue wings and red armor (which is consistent with Mark Taylor’s original B-sheet drawing). Then at some point the factories started producing figures using the prototype color scheme. It sounds a bit convoluted, but that seems to be what the photographic evidence is saying. Finally, this photo from the reverse side of the 1982 store display (discussed earlier) shows finalized and typical examples of the 1982 Masters of the Universe action figure lineup: This technically isn’t “early” product photography, but strangely it does feature a hand-painted Castle Grayskull, along with the new product lineup from 1984: Image source: Wishbook Return to Table of Contents. 1982Blue Beard StratosMark TaylorPrototypes Previous postAcknowledgements Next postMartin Arriola: Guardian of Grayskull 0 thoughts on “1982 Mattel Wish List, plus a look at early MOTU product photography” Pingback: Table of Contents \| Battle Ram Peter W says: I used to spend hours looking at catalogues, meticulously combing through each page to narrow down what I’d ask Santa for that year. I think this is a reason I’m a huge collector of action figures and displaying/posing them. battleram says: Yup, me too! 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__label__cc	0.588685	0.411315	Universal stops marketing The Hunt after most recent deadly mass shootings RoninX profbandit1 wrote: The hunters are white, elites, using all the same dialogue just reverse "deplorables" with any of the derogatory things that Obama supporters were called by conservatives, there are too many to list here. The "Prey" are six African American's and six white's, from, California, Oregon, Washington State, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, D.C and Colorado. Does this film ever get made,if yes, does it ever get released, if yes, we can pretty much imagine what the repercussions would be. So you missed The First Purge? I don't recall a huge outcry, and this was just released last year. Hezio Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer wrote: Delays like this have become something of a standard operating procedure for Hollywood over the last 20+ years as the industry grapples with how to navigate the dark reality of gun violence in America. Back in 1999, for instance, Buffy the Vampire Slayer postponed airing the episode "Earshot" in the wake of the Columbine High School massacre. Warner Bros postponed the release and recut a scene for its 2012 film Gangster Squad because of the Aurora shooting. And just last year, the television adaptation of Heathers was pushed back, recut, and nearly cancelled in light of the Parkland shooting. When writing about Universal's decision with The Hunt, Deadline notes even more examples—from Arnold Schwarzenegger's Collateral Damage shifting after September 11, 2001 and the 2017 Death Wish remake delayed following the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Let's not forget the advertising for the American release of the Japanese anime "Metropolis" being pulled after 9/11. You can go back further to the heavy changes they made for the American release of the original Godzilla. Can't have Americans feeling guilty about the nukes after all. Hezio wrote: I'm not sure why you're singling out Americans here. There have been lots of examples of movies disallowed in China - or modified specifically for Chinese audiences. I have little doubt this is true in many other countries as well; I doubt you'll ever get to see "Debbie Does Dallas" in a public Saudi Arabian theater, for instance. VidasDuday My thoughts and prayers go out to the Hollywood(land) movie studios and the difficulties they must deal with everyday. Tribus: mississauga, ON SamuelAxon wrote: Man, I'm not normally one to rage against movies existing over their content but I just watched that trailer and this looks like the very opposite of what America needs right now, no matter what part of America or its political divides you're from. Yikes. Shootings or no shootings, I will not be paying to see this movie. after reading the comments, i think you might be right. this movie is only for the people who voted “Hilary Clinton”... because the hunted should be those who are democrat BUT trumped their vote for POTUS 45...( deplorable‘s) JOKING, facetious. (hunting those democrats that voted republican) so instead of guns, Martial arts... Asian style... “Headshot” “triple threat”... or chinese style “Magic” harry potter mode as in “angel and devil”... or Quentin Tarantino style “kill bill” ... they really do not need guns to effect “death”... lol. (movies watched on Netflix) Last edited by haar on Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:46 am Katana314 wrote: Today's news was inspired by a prior episode of Bojack Horseman about gun violence. Paraphrased... "Okay, look. If we can retake the gunfight scene somewhere outside of a shopping mall, we should be able to avoid any negative attention after today's news. Let's have it in a baseball stadium-" phones buzz, everyone looks "Awwwww. Okay, well, what about a movie theatre-" "Oh...dammit! No....Alright. Trailer park?" phones buzz "Sigh...okay, forget it." Thoughtsnprayers Bojack horseman season 4 episode 5. “ thoughts and prayers “ gambit2051 BeowulfSchaeffer wrote: Based on the premise, an odds on favorite for a Golden Raspberry award. It can sit with Trumps unclaimed Worst Supporting Award from 1991 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/razzies- ... a474a11a5c And he won worst actor for 2019 it seems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Ra ... orst_Actor Facts don't care about your feelings microlith wrote: But there's of course a twist in this case: the hunted all hail from red states ("deplorables"), and the hunters are purportedly "liberals"—albeit of the super-entitled uber-wealthy variety. So in other words it's deliberately divisive trash that panders to Trump supporters who buy into the "invasion" rhetoric and believe they're being persecuted for their "beliefs." Yes, because we all know how much people love paying to watch movies about people like themselves being dehumanized, kidnapped, and violently slaughtered based on their beliefs. Especially when the movies are produced and acted by those of opposite beliefs. It really just reminds me of how much the Jews loved all those "pandering" movies made by Nazis comparing Jews to rats before the Holocaust. It really just validated their suspicions. /s Are you that stupid?! The collective level of intellectual honesty in the Ars forums is brilliantly clear when some hyper-leftists here are able, in some demented way, to spin this movie to be pro-conservative, even though it is a movie written, produced, funded, and acted by rich Hollywood leftists about other rich leftists dehumanizing, kidnapping, and murdering conservatives. The scariest part is the amount of up-votes those comments get. Accuse conservatives about having a "field-day" with this news, sure, but the violently hateful, intolerant rhetoric by some of you people justifies it. After witnessing the level of hate present on the left, I might not be so hesitant to support red-flag laws. And y'all accuse conservatives of fascism... Go look in the mirror. Everyone who upvoted this, just ask yourself this: If the script was flipped and written by a conservative studio about a bunch of right-wingers who kidnap and murder leftists, would you claim the studio is pandering to left-leaning voters? Facts don't care about your feelings wrote: Maybe you should check your facts instead of your feelings. Read the fine article here at Ars. It's a revenge fantasy movie. The bits you've mentioned are the setup to the "deplorables" getting their blameless motive to kill. Like how politicians sell the notion of an "invasion" by immigrants and then volk support concentration camps and sometimes mass shootings. Or the Charlottesville crowd chanting "Jews will not replace us". Casting oneself as the victim is the first step towards righteous violence. woodelf Tribus: Minnesota The Article wrote: Needless to say, Fox News has been having a field day with the film's story. Yeah, I read that article. Lots of complaining about normalizing hunting of people for their political beliefs, nary a mention of the problem of actual real-world [conservative] people killing others for their [liberal] political beliefs. Also, they're all up in arms about how horrible it is to promote inaccurate stereotypes of conservatives, but don't seem to even notice the inaccurate stereotypes of liberals. And then there's treating this as a description of reality. Anyway, assuming they talk about this on air, somebody with the patience should definitely do a mash-up of Fox News hosts telling us that people need guns to protect their political ideology and the same hosts complaining that this movie promotes people using guns to promote their political ideology. That Fox News article is basically saying all the things about fictional violence that the rest of us have been saying about real violence, while the NRA tells us that it's "not the right time" to talk about violence. With the difference that if this movie depicted conservatives as the violent ones and visually-signified liberals (i.e., multicultural/diverse) as the ones being attacked, it would at least have a slight resemblance to what's going on in reality, where it's conservative voices pushing violent solutions and getting lots of support from other conservatives, while most liberals are actively opposed to the few liberals who suggest that violence is an acceptable, even appropriate, solution to our problems. It's not just that this is pandering to a political ideology, it's that it's doing so by precisely inverting reality, thus fanning the flames of fantasy that are a significant part of our sociopolitical problems. If we were all starting from a basis in reality and just disagreeing about the solutions, we'd be in a much better place than when those currently in power and many of their supporters are starting from a fabulist premise instead of actual data. Tam-Lin wrote: So when do they think they'll be able to market this, if they're waiting for a time when there hasn't been a mass shooting? No, no, they're just waiting for a time when there isn't political divisiveness. How long can that take? chriskrum wrote: This is red meat. Calculated to feed right into the conspiracy fantasies of Midwestern and Southern adolescents. Liberals hunt them but then they get guns and turn the tables. It really needs some FEMA camps to pull it over the top. Development guys should have called me for notes. Hence it being satire. I can't believe so many are this weak as to believe this is the breaking point of this country. Films like this have been made for decades (Turkey Shoot, Hard Target, the current Purge series, Surviving the Game, The Naked Prey, The Warriors, or Anabasis-- etc...). Whether they're politically oriented or not. Dystopian literature, games, and films are cultural mainstays whether there's a message or it's simply exploitation schlock. Films don't just appear out of nowhere. It's likely this flick was in the works for several years prior to any horrific events like Dayton or El Paso. While the premise may seem sickening given the current climate. So to is the climate itself. At some point we have to agree that changes need to be made within society. This flick, whether advertised, released, or unreleased isn't going to change anything. The sick of mind will do as they please. Stop blaming media and using it as an excuse. Blame those who act in a horrific manner, regardless of motive. SkippyDoDah MoodyFan wrote: Just read any thread on Ars that's political and ponder the clear fact that you leftists hate, hate, hate Trump and Republicans and Christians and, generally, anyone to the right of Marx. It's totally believable that a bunch of leftists would hunt and kill "deplorables." With the amount of hate spewed here daily, it would be a total shock if most people on Ars would even say it was bad. You'd criticize them using guns; instead saying they should use acid or pits or knives or some other means of murdering deplorables. That would be the only controversial thing about this if it were happening in real life, and we all know it. Heck, this past weekend an Antifa member shot and killed seven people and the response here has been 'Who could possibly complain about peaceful, loving Antifa?" You guys cheer when mobs attack Republicans in public places. Does anyone possibly believe the left wouldn't be all in on hunting and murdering deplorables? They aren't human, after all... they are Nazis! And it's a privilege to murder a Nazi! As long as we call them Nazi's, we can hunt and murder them without any moral issues at all! And who cares if they are Nazi's or not, as long as we call them one! I just want to point out that most of the people on here actually talking about the movie think it sounds stupid, tacky, horrible, eye-rolling, and lacking anything associated with "art." Seriously, it sounds and looks like a bad movie with a bad plot and was only allowed to be made so people would see it out of anger, dressed in the robe of satire to convince people it's not as horrible as it portrays itself. I might be a fan of bad movies, but this movie goes past bad and straight into the disgusting and distasteful trash bin of movie history. It doesn't even deserve a raspberry award, just a quick movie death. Also...the only news that involved the killing of 7 people last weekend that I could find was from Chicago and that was 30+ separate shootings. I am actually curious about it. Edit: If I wanted to watch a satire of "The Most Dangerous Game" I would watch Ready or Not, which I don't really feel like doing. SkippyDoDah wrote: The Dayton (and/or Toledo shooter, if you're in the White House) had evidently posted some criticism of Trump on social media. He had also been removed from high school for compiling a "Kill List" of boys and a "Rape List" of girls at his school. woodelf wrote: Yeah, I read that article. Lots of complaining about normalizing hunting of people for their political beliefs, nary a mention of the problem of actual real-world [conservative] people killing others for their [liberal] political beliefs. If conservatism is to blame for El Paso, then leftism is to blame for Dayton. The Dayton shooter described himself as Pro-Satan leftist who was a fan of Elizabeth Warren. Don't kid yourself, there are plenty of examples of violent maniacs on both sides. The only fascists are those who justify extreme behavior towards other-minded people. chad_p How can a script like this even get greenlit in the first place? Plus, it's completely unbelievable... everyone knows that liberals don't know how to shoot guns! haha! jgershon Tribus: Annapolis MD, USA Hollywood has a long history of casting conservatives and Republicans as the bad guys in any political story, but I don't think that this movie's bucking of that trend has any redeeming social value. Alternating who gets vilified is not the way to heal divisions. It is a great way to make money, though. I was critiquing the fact that the Fox News article is not mentioning real-world violence at all. I didn't even mention any particular shootings/shooters. And notice the brackets; they have semantic meaning, in this case showing that the adjectives are optional to understanding the statement. While it has mostly been conservatives killing liberals in the last few years, when the killing has a political dimension at all, my critique of the article is still valid if you ignore the political dimension in real-life shootings entirely, given the heavy emphasis they're putting on the political dimension in the film's killings. Read the Dayton shooter's stuff a bit more—he was deeply self-contradictory, and it's really unclear whether calling him a leftist or liberal is even accurate. He may have gone on his shooting spreed due to some combo of furthering misogyny, attacking trans people, and/or familial conflict; the former two are the opposite of leftist views and the last is orthogonal to politics. "Person who holds belief X kills people" and "person kills people because of belief X" are not equivalent statements. We know to a good approximation why the El Paso shooter killed people, and it was in furtherance of right-wing political ideology. We don't know for certain why the Dayton shooter killed people, because it wasn't stated to be in furtherance of any particular thing, let alone left-wing political ideology. 1-3 people go on shooting sprees in furtherance of left-wing ideologies (I can actually only think of 1 right this moment, plus Dayton which doesn't actually seem to be political, plus fudge factor because I might be forgetting one). In the same timeframe, multiple dozens go on shooting sprees in furtherance of right-wing ideologies. Drawing an equivalency here is bothsidesism at its finest, and is ignoring meaningful differences of magnitude/frequency. Baron von Robber Compare and contrast the two. El Paso shooter 1) Used the same language as Trump towards latinos "invasion" "infestation", etc. 2) Drove around 800 miles to reach destination 3) Most (if not all) casualties are latino. Dayton shooter 1) No manifesto. Social media finds various, non-consistent ideologies. 2) Drove just a few miles? 3) What did the casualties all have in common? Last edited by Baron von Robber on Fri Aug 09, 2019 1:25 pm Raistian77 The Dayton shooter described himself as Pro-Satan leftist who was a fan of Elizabeth Warren. Wow you must be smarter and more connected than law enforcement, who are still trying to actually determine the motivation. Raistian77 wrote: On the one hand, I'm with you, Raistian77, that things are really muddy on the motives and objectives of the Dayton shooter. In this case, I really don't think we know yet (though signs are starting to point to misogyny/trans-hatred fueling an intrafamilial attack that spilled over—but there's just too much noise at this point to be confident in that analysis). But on the other hand, law enforcement has a long, inglorious, and right-up-to-the-present history of looking at white male shooters with manifestos and carefully-chosen targets that align with their stated ideology, and saying "we may never know what motivated the shooter". So the mere fact that the official law enforcement statement is "motivation unknown" isn't the same as proof that the motivation is unknown. Oh I agree completely. The problem is the Dayton shooter is already being labeled by the right as an antifa member and his motivations being purely driven by liberal viewpoints. The reality appears that he was much more engaged in the Incel/misogyny communities. On the other hand the other shooter actually repeated trump speech snippets word for word, was a VERY open supporter and spelled out trump in firearms and yet for some reason the right have no clue what might have motivated him, must have been mental illness. Ummm, maybe I called out Americans for this example because the USA dropped nukes on Japan in 1945, and the first Godzilla movie came out in 1954, not even a decade after the event? Originally Godzilla was about the dangers of nuclear radiation and weaponry, with heavy commentary on it. So they completely scrapped all that when releasing the movie in America. What's interesting is how the GOP will deny white supremacist activity as a real thing (even though white supremacist groups have long been labeled as terrorist organizations by the FBI - like the Aryan Brotherhood). While they proclaim all Muslims are terrorists (some are, some aren't - we'd be in a world of hurt if every Muslim was in fact a terrorist). Meanwhile, the FBI is calling the vile actions of this subhuman an act of domestic terrorism. The El Paso shooter's manifesto is blatantly racist, highly xenophobic, and anti-Democrat. GOP's response - meh, white supremacist violence is a leftist media hoax. Direct quote from the El Paso's shooter manifesto - "In general, I support the Christchurch shooter and his manifesto. This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas." It's high time all political party members - Independent, Democrat, and Republican denounce acts of blatant hatred based upon race, gender, sexuality, or religion. Evil is evil, regardless of who is perpetrating the act or why. He admitted under oath that he was specifically targeting Latinos and he believed we were being "invaded" by them as an act of aggression against the United States. Geee wonder where he got that idea from or where it was reinforced steelcobra Good dystopian fiction is about understanding the human condition when placed under unusual circumstances made the norm. The Hunt is just pandering drivel. steelcobra wrote: Good satire is often hard to distinguish from reality. Not having seen this film, I won't say that's the case here. Just that I've seen people mistake articles at The Onion for reality given the nature of that site. Anyhow, even the most exploitative film can have meaning; Cannibal Holocaust being a prime example. All of the animals on-screen were actually killed. Yet, for a gory exploitation film, the point it was making about media and exploitation still rings true. Ironic for a film that was capitalizing on its exploitative content. "The evil limousine liberals are trying to kill us good conservative folk, but now we're armed and the tables have turned." There isn't really any satire to be found in this movie's premise, buddy. fwer45 Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 12:52 pm the very opposite of what America needs right now, . What does America need right now? We need to know. dantesan What a wonderful way to overdramatize the fever dreams of paranoid right wingers. So it's being cancelled altogether. Granted the concept was overdone and kind of an interesting satire on the supposed haves and have nots and their roles in liberal and conservative society, but hey. fwer45 wrote: A good enema. Fred Duck Hilary Swank wrote: No one's seen the film. You can't really have a conversation about it without understanding what it’s about. Here on The Internet™, we have conversations and debates about anything based on simply knowing the name of someone working on the project. Or, if it's a slightly busy day, we will pass judgement based on rumors of someone working on a project. <stuffs cotton into ears> Git-stompa Tribus: Colorado Fatesrider wrote: "The Hunt" sounds like complete shit. Who would find that entertaining? Never mind stopping the marketing. It would be better in the long run to just cancel the release. I can't imagine a time in the near future where this wouldn't be a wholly unpalatable and horrific thing to be showing the public. Same people who liked the purge is my guess. Sure, but that doesn't seem to apply to the Dayton shooter. Law enforcement bias on that all leans the same way -- downplaying right wing violence and manufacturing leftist violence. If they thought they could pin this on any leftist group, they would. Conservativism isn’t to blame unless you are now defining conservativism as Trumps mouth breathing bile and contempt of immigrants. Interesting that you cannot separate these two concepts. There’s also a massive difference between someone who writes a manifesto directly quoting the President, and another person who inconsistently posted and shared “leftist” memes. You’d have a case here if the Dayton shooter left a manifesto saying that he was doing this because Elizabeths words against the bankers or corporations were falling on deaf ears leading him to pick up the slack where she couldn’t go. Your comparison is so blatantly bad and off kilter but I guess this is the best “conservatives” have to offer today, as long as you can put words into a sentence you think you’re keeping up in argument. Keep letting Ben and Crowder do your thinking for you. It’s working out so very well Last edited by Git-stompa on Sat Aug 10, 2019 1:14 pm TigerAway There’s so many things wrong with this film. In the big reveal, is a Jewish mastermind pulling the strings? Or is it a nefarious Russian organization? Is Hollywood really trying to make money off of fanning the flames of political divisiveness and hatred? How about we make reality our own movie where liberals and conservatives put their differences aside and try to work together?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line893
__label__cc	0.573253	0.426747	Richard Stallman leaves MIT after controversial remarks on rape madmax559 wrote: Tipler wrote: Thinking out loud a wee bit too much, combined with expressing his thoughts very poorly. Not good. Some of the points he raises could even be worth discussing. But uhm, he didn't quite have the skill to do it, and came across as creepy at the very least. But society brooks no discussion of these topics. Things that are legal in some modern democracies are illegal in others, yet even any discussion can leave you branded as an unemployable outcast. Neither should it depend on a higher level of 'skill' - the less able should not be barred. The issue is even if kids mature early eg puberty & hormones and all that it implies. it does not mean that their brains are sufficiently mature enough for them to make a wise decision & not be coerced into anything that they will regret later Sure in the past girls got married early. However society has progressed since then (at least in some parts of the world) & we know a lot more about human brain development than we did before So having 18 years old be the generic definition of an adult and 21 for drinking age is a well thought out decision at our current time in society. No, the issue is that, given that different democracies have come to different answers, these issues should be discussable. Therefore to cast out someone merely for venting his views, objectionable though they may be to many, is wrong. It should not be the case that you are only allowed to express the locally accepted view, as you have done. People ought to be allowed to argue. rabish12 Studbolt wrote: If your "free thinking" is actually oppression, then it's not free. And people like Stallman being hit with consequences for his words is a good thing. It's healthy line drawing. The only problem is that it took until now to get to it. But better late then never, keep that ball rolling I say. So was Stallman oppressing anyone with his "free thinking"? Who was the victim here? When I was 18, I dated a Danish girl (my age) who'd been on the pill since she was 13. So had every other girl she knew in Denmark. I was shocked, and still am. These truths aren't universal, and bear intellectual discussion without recrimination, especially in an academic setting. In terms of Stallman's behavior in general: - He caused direct harm to the FSF's reputation every time he opened his mouth. The FSF is a non-profit and relies on their reputation to operate. - He provided an exceptionally convenient strawman for use against the free software movement, which helps push people away from it in general. - He created a generally shitty atmosphere for those working with or contributing to the projects that he was involved with, to an extent that he very probably drove people off of those projects entirely. Stallman was in a strong enough position that even just his words on these sorts of subjects could cause measurable harm. Even he seems to realize that - given his position and authority at the FSF, his decision to step down as their president was almost certainly a voluntary one. mueffe I hope he will still advocates for FOSS after all this Last edited by mueffe on Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:21 pm Static and Noise Cow poop and obvious lie. Thr2hrmrf Thr2hrmrf wrote: "Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it," he wrote on Saturday. "Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm her psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that." You mean all these years as an adult, before you learned it was not a good thing, you could not recognize that having sex with a child was not a good thing? So all these years if a child had come along that you wanted you would not have seen anything wrong with having sex with them? So all these years before you supposedly learned it was not a good thing, you remained a threat to children? That's quite a leap you're making between positing about a child's reaction to sex and becoming a threat to children. Stallman has been at MIT since he was eighteen. IIRC, his parents were professors, and he began coding on very early computers when he was around 14. Safe to say, he's led a highly-sheltered life, and his opinions about things haven't necessarily benefited from experience outside the university. its not a leap. All pedophiles start and continue the same way with believing that having sex with children is ok to do. What he says is not "about a child's reaction to sex and becoming a threat to children". He is expressing a belief, the exact same belief all pedophiles have. To a pedophile there is always some type of justification, his is "if the child accepted it". He is a threat to children. Stop making excuses for him. Last edited by Thr2hrmrf on Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:47 am Studbolt We HAD the conversation already, and guess what, the creepers lost. If you are or have sympathy for the creepers, well that's too fucking bad. Yep. No more discussions, or you'll be banished. hizonner picklefactory wrote: hizonner wrote: This business of seeing money as somehow unclean because of some unrelated action of the person who gave it to you stinks of irrationality. You seem very sure that these things are unrelated. Speaking for myself, I'm much less sure that they are. So Epstein was gonna shut down "lolita island" and go straight if MIT refused his donation? You think that's remotely plausible? Maybe Ito wanted to keep it quiet because of that sort of craziness. Twilight Sparkle wrote: Hopefully this will put a damper on the religion he founded. The adherents are annoying as hell. The Church of Emacs? That's still a thing in this decade? I agree that it was annoying as hell back in its day though. deltanonymous I first heard about Stallman being a creepy, pushy pain in the ass to women more than 20 years ago. I would have had no problem with him being fired over that, or forced to resign over that, then or now. On the other hand, it's insane when people suddenly run amok in a mob because he writes an email message suggesting that maybe people should make a distinction between "statutory rape" and "rape rape". Especially when he's made (and apparently retracted) much stronger statements on related issues in the past. Hell, he didn't even say that either one was OK, just that they weren't the same thing. It's not that guy didn't deserve to go. It's not that he's right, either. It's the crazy howling moral panic part that's worrying. By the way, the same applies to the brouhaha about MIT taking Epstein's money. Did their taking his money cause him to go molest any more girls? No, it did not. It had no effect at all on any girls. This business of seeing money as somehow unclean because of some unrelated action of the person who gave it to you stinks of irrationality. It is not at all unreasonable for some pointed questioned being asked after this comes to light, and if it's irrational to get a quick smack upside the head for high diving into said discussion with extremely poorly conceived opinions and a history of questionable behaviour, I would conclude that there's maybe more to a working society than rationality. Also, TIL that anything that doesn't directly cause rape is morally okay somehow. Last edited by deltanonymous on Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:23 pm Sarty To work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to head the Free Software Foundation, is an entitlement, a right, of which Richard Stallman is now deprived. (eyes roll out of head) picklefactory Well, I don't know. Do you think that MIT needs money so badly that they have no choice but to accept it from someone who was involved in child sex trafficking? Saying "we don't need your money, rich guy who went to jail for being a sex offender" was the option that other folks at MIT were pressing for. KalemLeone Killjoy wrote: I can understand being outspoken. I can understand being controversial. But... when I'm being outspoken and controversial I try very hard to keep my foot/feet out of my mouth. My privately-held views are just that. I mean, Stallman has a documented problem from keeping his feet out of his mouth ivyvisors I’ve dealt with Richard Stallman in a professional situation in the past. And I have to say he made extremely uncomfortable and this was over the phone. I had never dealt with anybody that was so creepy over the phone in the past. Or ever again. This would have been over 8 years ago. muhname wrote: szlevi wrote: chalex wrote: I'm just really bummed about another person whose work I admire having a dark side of their life. And usually unrelated to their work. I really like MJ's music, I like Kevin Spacey's movies, etc. And it bums me out that I can't enjoy them the same way any more. I'm a big hockey fan and it's hard to watch Patrick Kane play after he allegedly got away with rape once or twice. This RMS book is really good and available for Free: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf and not related to his opinions about sex stuff. Err, except Stallman did not rape anyone but don't let the facts get in your way, just carry on with your #meetoo and #toximasculinity etc stump trial... No one said he had sex with a minor. He just defended a pedophile, who is accused of raping a minor on an island known as "Lolita Island". Regardless of how she "presented" herself, its hard to imagine Minsky not knowing whats going on. Theres nothing #MeToo about this, but if the idea of people standing up against billionaire pedophiles and rapists upsets you, I suggest you take a look in the mirror and think about your values. I hope Minsky's estate sues you. We already have an account from a person who was there stating that Minsky wasn't interested in that girl and did not sleep with her. You see what you did? Don't throw around accusations of pedophilia or whatever if you have no fucking clue of what actually happened. Im going to continue to call everyone who went with Epstein to his rape island a pedophile. They are welcome to sue me. Oh cool, guilt by association. I presume you're American. I hold you responsible for all the evil shit the USA has done. Slavery, genocide of native Americans, hundreds of wars of aggression, millions of innocent civilian victims.. all that is on you edit. 9 downvotes within 60 seconds, doesn't seem manipulated at all.. no sir Last edited by muhname on Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:28 pm Dzov Should institutions be able to fire people who are so problematic that people would stop supporting said institutions if the individual stayed on and thus be forced to close said institution? Last edited by Dzov on Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:24 pm Haas Bioroid Tribus: Lugdunum - Gallia I completely agree with the 3 first paragraphs, they feel like the first level-headed thing I read in this thread. King_V wrote: MrWalrus wrote: I think we need to be a bit more thoughtful about the connection between the person and their work, at least in this case. Stallman's ideology - the same one that eventually brought us to this point - informs and influences nearly every aspect of tech culture. That culture is deeply sexist and endlessly willing to excuse misconduct by high-profile men on the grounds that they were smart or did important work. Those things might not be unrelated, you know? And if we're serious about fixing that culture (which, in my opinion, we really should be), it's counterproductive to dismiss stuff like this as 'unrelated to his work'. How is this a whole lot different than business culture? Wealth culture? Power culture? Why do you think that tech culture is any more sexist than most other areas? Is it, really? Or does it just stand out more to us, and we're more keenly aware of it in tech, because those of us posting here are much more likely to be part of tech culture? So what? We are commenting on a tech news website. It turns out a lot of the news items here at about tech. When you discover a culture you are a part of has problems, it is hardly productive to point the finger at other cultures ans observe they are the same or worse. Not what I'd meant with my comment - though, I'd interpreted Mr. Walrus's comment (maybe incorrectly) to mean that tech culture is especially egregious about it above and beyond all others, and my response was to what appeared (to me) to be an accusation stating that. I think my response stands. Computer/software culture is newly bad both because it's a new field and also because it has actively resisted improvement. One of the ways it has resisted improvement is because basically-decent people choose to compartmentalize. If we want tech to be non-hostile to women, then men in tech need to pay attention to how tech has a shitty culture in ways that affect women. kurkosdr wrote: Can I please ask why not 17 or 19 for the generic definiton of an adult? What's so special about 18? PS: Unlike most people, I like odd numbers more. It's basically the exact midpoint of adolescence, which starts at ~11 with a sea of raging hormones and finishes at ~25 with a solidified prefrontal cortex. In between is a miasma of cringe-worthy confusion and self discovery. Can I ask what makes the midpoint so important? I mean, if sexual growth or mental growth is even somewhat non-linear, the mid-point is worthless. And those 11 and 25 numbers, are they some kind of constant, or yet another arbitrary line in the sand like the magic number 18? No, those are pretty much biological in nature. Obviously some people will end up maturing earlier or later, but the mean is 11 and 25. As to the midpoint? Nothing, really. I think it's just sort of where our society ended up as an empirical process. Well, it's guilt by association and also by awareness and proximity. It's less like saying that Fabermetrics is guilty of genocide because he's American, and more like saying he's guilty of genocide because he was standing there watching it happen and then didn't actually tell anybody what was going on, which... pretty massively changes the situation, I think. It's almost like you don't seem to grasp how networking, relationships, PR, and capital work. Epstein was able to continue operating Lolita Island exactly because he ingratiated himself with institutions like MIT, using, almost certainly, ill-gotten money. Last edited by Sajuuk on Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:28 pm [Do you think that MIT needs money so badly that they have no choice but to accept it from someone who was involved in child sex trafficking? Saying "we don't need your money, rich guy who went to jail for being a sex offender" was the option that other folks at MIT were pressing for. I think the sex trafficking is totally irrelevant, because taking the money had no effect on the sex trafficking either way. If the guy had been a mass murderer, that would also have been totally irrelevant. And how much MIT needs the money is also totally irrelevant. It might be different if he'd made the money from sex trafficking. But even then the only really important question would be whether taking it would actually create any more victimization. PandaCheese Tribus: Pittsburger I agree with this. The moral panic though is understandably triggered by the tangential connection to Jeffrey "Unconvicted Child Rapist" Epstein. My understanding is the brouhaha is also over how MIT officials tried to hide the source of the donations. While the donation to MIT of course could not have been used to say "purchase" more girls to molest, surely Epstein's wealth overall played a huge part in enabling his crimes, and may well have been acquired as the result of criminal or at least immoral acts. Should MIT have accepted money that were gained via illegal or at least highly questionable means? I don't think you understand how reputation works. Or society. Or humans in general. If I was there when that happened, yea Id be pretty guilty. Just like these pedophiles are guilty of the rapes that happened while they were on the rape island. Or was Minsky on rape island to do something other than rape children? Edit: If you dont want downvotes, try better logic? Last edited by Fabermetrics on Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:30 pm rkhalloran Tribus: Southeastern US stableconcerns wrote: vartec wrote: Stallman in 2019: “Epstein's victims were willing” Mainstream media reacts. He didn't actually say that. He tried to defend Marvin Minsky by saying Epstein's sex slaves probably presented themselves as willing to Minsky, i.e. he tried to make the questionable claim that Minsky couldn't have known he was raping them. I completely understand Stallman wanting to defend Minsky's reputation, but a) as others have said, the setting was branded 'Lolita Island', Minsky was far too intelligent to NOT know what he was walking into b) the optics of a teenage girl offering herself to a man in his 70s should have been clearly suspect c) rather than do any research and find Greg Benford's eyewitness account that the girl was sent away (speaking of which, WTF was Benford doing there?!?), Stallman throws up word salad that the girl must have presented herself of-age and willing. Given the ages of most of the girls in question, consent was irrelevant, they were sex slaves for Epstein to gift his acquaintances with. Given Stallman's prior comments about underage sex, and the reports of inappropriate behavior on his own part at MIT, the PR debacle of him remaining could only undermine both MIT and to a larger extent, FSF given the closer association. His massive contributions to the field notwithstanding, this was the necessary course of action. Epstein used his money to launder his reputation. That isn't good to support. We do not, and perhaps never will know what role Epstein's rape operation played in his overall business. Some have suggested blackmail was his real business. HiroTheProtagonist wrote: I thought he was all about freedom and openness. But more to the point, he's not a man of tact or social awareness. It's a damn shame he's being shot down for a momentary indiscretion, but I guess MIT needs him to step down so they can save face. This is NOT a "momentary indiscretion". He has a history of saying abhorrent things about women and sexuality, and especially doing so on mailing lists devoted to work. He's needed to go for quite a while. its not a leap. All pedophiles start the same way in believing that having sex with children is ok to do. Welp, that's it, then, isn't it? Stallman needs to go to prison and, if he survives and gets out, we'll put his name up in post offices. Good riddance to another rapist. Actually, I'm pretty sure that just about all pedophiles start off as victims of some sort of assault themselves. These behavioral patterns, once established, can sometimes be traced back hundreds of years through family letters and records. What he says is not "about a child's reaction to sex and becoming a threat to children". He is expressing a belief, the exact same belief pedophiles have. To a pedophile, there is always some type of justification, his is "if the child accepted it" His rationalization (I think that's a better word than "justification") was originally that an assault is not an assault if the child doesn't feel assaulted. He evidently continued the discussion with friends and concluded he'd been wrong, i.e. someone convinced him that a child is not the person to be making the decision regarding whether an assault is taking place. Yes, some people are slower than others - I've met many teenagers who were far more mature than the current President. But that's not considered proof of criminal activity, or even inclinations. You don't need to be quite so shrill. Sajuuk wrote: It's almost like you don't seem to grasp how networking, relationships, PR, and capital work. Epstein was able to continue operating Lolita Island exactly because he ingratiated himself with institutions like MIT, with, almost certainly, ill-gotten money. Epstein was able to continue operating partly because he carefully collected a bunch of blackmail material on a bunch of people who held official positions that enabled them to stall any action against him, and partly because people just naturally turn a blind eye to everything until their noses are rubbed in it. Probably mostly the blackmail part. "Ingratiating himself" with MIT had nothing to do with it. MIT as an institution had zero influence over that, and neither did the influence of anybody at MIT. I think the sex trafficking is totally irrelevant, because taking the money had no effect on the sex trafficking either way. I congratulate you for finding a very low bar to clear and doing so with flying colors. Again, I am not at all convinced that "networking with powerful and influential people in the world of technology and science subsequent to large donations" and "being a wealthy man who operates Lolita Island with impunity for years" were unrelated. Per a discussion with a family friend who used to do sex crime detective work, and now does social work, there is no correlation between prior victimization and likelihood of becoming a predator. Given that she was in town for a conference on the issue, I'm inclined to take her at her word. This is all completely irrelevant. Do take note that none of this would have happened if Stallman had said NOTHING. Him simply not being able to restrain himself from AKSHUALLY-ing all over a very complicated situation is in itself already enough for him to be relieved of the positions he has indeed been relieved of. He's that guy we all know... unkempt, strong mildew smell, velcro instead of shoelaces. "I think it is morally absurd to define 'rape' in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17," It seems so many discussions are derailed over the semantics of this topic. Are there differences between forcing yourself on someone vs having sex with someone too young to legally consent? Certainly. Doesn't change the legality. Theyre both rape. And lets be honest here, I doubt any of the young victims in Epstein's company were there willingly, regardless of how "enthusiastic" they may have been. Agree completely. One may disagree with the law and how it is enforced, but it's still the law and there are consequences for breaking it. One can find the law 'morally absurd', but feeling that way in a jail cell doesn't help one's plight any. Obviously this guy has a problem that many people have. They click 'send' before thinking of how what they say may have negative consequences. It's a problem especially with those that have gained notoriety from other 'anti-establishment' proclamations. They eventually take it one step too far, and once out on the intertoobs there's no taking it back. Guys like Stallman always have people just waiting to take him down. By their very nature, tech nerds tend to be sorely in need of socialization. While I agree that's kind of a problem, I don't know that anyone knows how to solve it. deltanonymous wrote: It's just going to make his disciples even more fervent. Nothing riles up a mob quite like a martyr. Except he took himself down in something completely unrelated to Free Software. Without a leader continually reinforcing the lie that using free software makes you superior to those who use proprietary, those afflicted with the free software identity may drift away and find a less annoying religion to join. Not to mention that "martyr" is laughable. He was employed at an university and the head of a nonprofit, both of which really heavily on a clean image and public goodwill. No shit you're going to get kicked from those if you go full Stallmann. He can still write books and tour the convention circuit or whatever, but you know, being a nonconformist with edgy opinions is better enjoyed when you're independently rich. I question whether he's going to be welcome anywhere as a speaker. He's been piggybacking off the success of Linux for 20 years now when he had practically nothing to do with it. Why would you want to listen to him drone on about a license when that's nothing but a legal vehicle with no real repercussion except that his free license makes it practically impossible for a software developer to make money off their work? This pops the bubble around him that he was a somebody. On reassessment he's just a mentally ill man with a bug up his ass. I don't think the CDC is going to call on a speaker with OCD to tell an audience about the pressing need to wash one's hands exactly 43,992 times a day, every day; so why would a software conference invite a disgraced man to tell its audience that they need to use the same license his illness forces him to? Ceedave MIT helped him whitewash his history, trading their reputation for his money, and thus damaging their reputation—as we have seen quite clearly. Also, administrators accepted him into the community. I reckon that may have been uncomfortable, or worse, for some students, staff, faculty and others. Such cravenness is a bad look for an “elite” institution, at best—worse, it’s insensitive to his victims and your own community. I don't think anybody would suggest Stallman is a fantastic communicator, but I think the underlying issue is people aren't even allowed to discuss it. Both this article and your comment are good examples. I agree with some of what Stallman had to say and disagree with some, but at no point did I find anything he said to be "creepy." With a handful of exceptions, any opinion that does not correlate with the majority is not only disagreed with or argued against, but outright attacked as pedophilic or defending pedophiles. Stallman made an argument that labeling something rape because it happened in one state (country) rather than the next one over is absurd, and suddenly he must be a supporter of somebody who ran child sex rings. The average person doesn't want any part of this, regardless of what they truly think. That means the only people we hear speak are the Stallmans of the world, who are hard ideologues, socially awkward or both, and then we complain about how they delivered the message. If we want the debate, we need to stop this nonsense. And if we don't, then let's be honest with ourselves about that. (Edit: 12 seconds to first downvotes, by the way. I wonder if I'm right about not being allowed to have the discussion.) Last edited by jb226 on Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:41 pm Wikipedia's entry on how to diagnose pedophilia clinically I found pretty insightful, because the bar is much higher than being called as such in a court of law or public opinion. Tribus: United States KBlack wrote: I feel uncomfortable about the amount of closeups of his fat ugly neckbeard face in this article. This article feels NSFW. Oh, those beautiful, awesome safe spaces at your uni, where you don't have to deal with reality, right? Dude, you're doing precisely dick and all to advance your cause by being a stereotypical combative right-wing dick. So, the desire for safe spaces on the part of students and the desire for establishing safe spaces on the part of the administration at those universities is a stereotypical combative left-wing agenda item? Please, it was a joke and you're doing precisely dick and all to advance your cause.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line894
__label__cc	0.572793	0.427207	Sony has a PlayStation Now problem Poor branding, lack of first-party exclusives drag down Sony's subscription service. marsilies For a monthly fee, a newly rebranded "PlayStation Plus Plus" (or, you know, a better name)... Playstation Plus Now Playstation Now Plus Playstation Pass Playstation Now Pass Playstation Pass Now Playstation Plus Pass Playstation Plus Pass Now Playstation Vue (soon to be available!) Gaikai sarusa I think part of this is that Sony is completely incapable of focusing on more than two things at once. PS4 launch? Completely forget about the Vita. PSVR is falling off the face of the earth now because it's not PS5. And PS Now is never on the front burner. nevernow So, let me understand: PS Now subscribers can now play, say, Red Dead Redemption on PC in "downloaded" (as opposed to streaming) quality? Kyle Orland Gaming Editor nevernow wrote: No, not on PC. You can only download the available titles on a PS4 Tribus: Park Ridge, Illinois I got an email that my teenager's PS Now subscription had expired and I mentioned it to him. Kyle Orland wrote: Yeah, they're not emulating a PS4 on PC. Hell, they're not even emulating the PS2 games on PS4. I mean, they could, but the announcement specified "PS2 games remastered for PS4," aka games that run natively on PS4. https://blog.us.playstation.com/2018/09 ... ps2-games/ the_frakker If Sony is worried about streaming quality on new exclusives, they should consider adding them to the download option, but restrict streaming to none and/or only to those who pass rigorous network test for quality. If PS+ increased by $3-5/month or $70-80/yr, they could include PSNow as part of it and nearly every PlayStation owner would be able to take advantage. The question then becomes, would people be willing to pay a little more per month/year if it meant streaming and a larger game catalog than the current PS+. Would they need to offer the standard PS+ as it is alongside this new package and would doing so kill the idea that most PS owners would have PsNow? I have no desire to subscribe to PsNow, but if included with my PS+, I might use it every now and then. Xbox Game Pass for Pc allows me to play all the Xbox exclusives I would otherwise not be able to play for $5/month ($10 when it leaves beta). Another option could be to basically match Xbox here in price while also bringing new PS exclusives to the PSNow service. It would benefit Sony to find a way to get onto PC also. I’ve seen a lot of PsNow commercials lately. I assumed because of the onslaught of competition rounding the corner. They still need to greatly up their game, though. Last edited by the_frakker on Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:17 pm Thought so, but thanks for the clarification. Sony is beginning to show small signs of change in this regard, announcing last month that it was adding God of War (2018), Uncharted 4, and Infamous: Second Son to the PlayStation Now lineup for a limited time. So not only were the added WAY after they could have been without sacrificing much if any sales, they also don't give you any incentive to stick around if even the heavy hitting, first party titles are so temporary (not just temporary, but not around for that long). Sony only really needs to wait around 1-3 months to get basically the same sales, while also getting a bunch of people to get and keep a Now subscription (you could argue it might reduce sales if it is day and date, regardless if that actually happens, but you also cannot wait too long or people won't care enough about your sub service). Now, MS has a vested interest in two platforms - Xbox consoles & Windows PC's - so them hitting everywhere on the same day makes perfect sense. If all else fails, they can always keep 200-300mm people using 'consumer Windows' due to gaming, no matter that store front they use (and most consumers are not actually going to do a two-platform setup anyway). If your Sony, you dont wan't to muck up console sales and that is really the primary platform you care about. So staggering makes sense for them (prioritize the console by slightly delaying titles going into Now). But like I said above, you cannot delay for TOO long, nor can you have your own releases be temporary (because third parties mostly are temporary, and people want to see SOME long-term stability in their subscription). EDIT - And yes, they REALLY need to be better about letting people know about it, but differing services under one name is not helping (it's almost like they are taking a page from how MS does stuff outside of the gaming space). Game Pass is simple - pay a monthly fee and run any one of hundreds of games on your local console or PC (with some differences in the catalog). Overall, it's very simple to communicate. PS Now OTOH seems to be stratified a lot more. It's streaming, but it's also local run, but an entire subject/classification of the local-run is console-only, however - some of that local run stuff IS stream-able to PC. Compared to Game Pass, it's kind of a mess - you had people in this very comments section thinking the wrong thing, for example, and Ars is not exactly full of mass-market, less-engaged users (so what must that sort of user understand about the service?). The worst a person thinking about Game Pass has to think is "so, which games run on which of the two platforms" and for Now you have "which games are stream only on PC and which can be run local, if at all and what is stream only on PS4 and what is local run". You more answers right up front, and people are not even that hot on the streaming half. PS - Another reason to keep your games in there, and add them sooner rather than later, is DLC and of the such. One of the reason you see third parties liking Game Pass is because you suddenly get DLC/etc. sales from people who wouldn't have purchased your game. I know people have a perception of Sony first party being DLC-free, but many of them had at least one expansion. This works better the longer you keep it in there. A limited time will get you some more sales, but forevermore surely gets you the most (which is what you shareholders are demanding). Last edited by BINARYGOD on Fri Nov 08, 2019 3:18 pm Sufinsil Sony had rather wide ambitions for PS Now. Sony TVs and Smartphones could use it. They had a deal with Samsung to put the service onto their TVs, which would come with free DS3 (when the service was primarily PS3 and older titles only). They scaled back that support to where only PS4 or PC, dropping even Vita and VitaTV support. PS+ & PSNow has been cheaper than Xbox Game Pass, which is $15/mo/$180/yr vs $160/yr (now $120 a year). The gradual price drops have made it a decent deal, if people even knew the service still existed. 1st party games get heavily discounted after 3 months but at $60 a year for a rental? That is probably worth it. I have been leaning more and more to just having EA Access, Nintendo games and 2-4 other titles a year. Or just stick to Humble Monthly and call it good from there. I would like to see PSVR game titles added, as they tend to be shortere experiences and a revolving door of VR games would add some value. MedicinalGoat marsilies wrote: Ah, the AT&T method of branding. Seems to be working great for those guys too. Sony is resting laurels on their huge sales lead this gen and enjoying their hammock and drink in hand for the remainder, but mine sits and collects dust. I really enjoy Uncharted, Horizon, TLOU and God of War but I play them and I'm done for at least a few months. No reason to come back for a while. The Xbox on the other hand is giving me great games to play via game pass and the great multiplayer keeps me coming back every single week. Plus I have pretty good console hardware in the X and better looking games. I don't have a lot of reasons to go back to my PS4 Pro until I'm ready for another Uncharted play through. They better be thinking about this for the next generation because unlike last gen the Xbox is a shoe in so far for choice #1 rather than a PS5. MS is the one doing everything right at this point, as if the roles have switched compared to the beginning of this gen. surfacewound In all seriousness though they should just created a tiered Playstation Plus model where Playstation Plus remains as it is in features and name to prevent confusion, and Playstation Now becomes a "premium" tier that just bundles all of the features of PS+ and Now for X dollars more, and is renamed Playstation Plus More, cause it's Playstation Plus, but like, more. Shmerl What is their software stack? I couldn't really find details. Is it some kind of OrbisOS for the server? What graphics APIs are developers using to release for PS Now (GNM or something else?). Shmerl wrote: Developers don't really build "for" PS Now. They just make PS4 games, and Sony puts them on PS Now. So they use the same APIs and such as they do for PS4. When PSNow launched with mainly PS3 games, Sony had built custom server hardware to basically run multiple PS3 "consoles" inside each server. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digi ... tation-now Sony uses the tech it acquired by purchasing Gaikai to run PSNow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaikai JPan That’s the problem with Sony. They often do stuff the best When it comes to technical and artistic questions but you can clearly see that decisions about pricing are often made in consensus Between teams. And then how the existing teams scuttle any new competitor that might compete with them. thetay48 sarusa wrote: It’s more like unable to focus on more than one thing at a time. And it’s not just Plus that’s lagging behind other consoles or services, Sony in general isn’t adapting to the current market and it’s starting to show caeldan Just roll Ps now in as a feature of ps+. Then you've got a selling point over Microsoft for the next generation, and a built in rationale for increasing the cost of the service over time as the library expands and you bring titles in closer to their launch date. O/Siris Tribus: IL, USA Eric wrote: As a kind of contrast, my son rented Monster Hunter World, didn't like it enough to buy. But it came with GamePass, so I installed it to the XBox and told him. He very much got into it. In fact, as soon as Iceborne came out, he bought that. That, getting to try out Gears5, and Outer Worlds, those alone make it worth the subscription. Well 1 reason is sony makes a lot if high quality 3rd person action adventure and Microsoft doest. I dislike first person and shooters. So games wise I am more interested in sony's offerings than easy access to a game i dont care about. snowman<ca> Lack of first party exclusives seems mainly a problem when there is issues with the number and quality of 3rd party titles Rykin I think it is probably safe to assume that MS's number are quite a bit better than they would have been without that promotion that let people convert up to 3 years of Xbox Live into Game Pass Ultimate for $1. What we are really seeing here is differences in basic business models. Sony is still a company trying to sell products while Microsoft is transitioning into a services company. Sony is also a company that is prone to being very slow to adapt and very bullish especially when they are the leader in a market segment. The PS2 to PS3 transition was a great example of this. When it was time to launch the PS4 they were the underdog and they played their cards perfectly. Interesting, thanks. So basically, they don't use Vulkan there. Yet. That's what I thought for the most part. Misguided Penguin Rykin wrote: Unfortunately (for them, I really don't have an axe to grind at all in consoles anymore) I can totally see you being right about Sonys attitude heading into PS5. They've pretty comprehensively trashed MS in terms of figures this gen and it will be all too easy for them to sleepwalk into thinking they 'just have to do the same again' to repeat with PS5, despite the fact that they've talked about PS5 potentially being the last major console generation before moving to a cloud service type model so it's not even as if they're completely blind to that aspect of the market. uyjulian Actually, PS2 remasters are emulated on the PS4. See https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/PS2_Emulation This. Microsoft just doesn’t give a damn anymore about selling games the classic way. Sales numbers between xbox and PS4 are sad. In this case it’s easy to transition and cannibalize your non existing business. On the other hand now pnow is a good deal so the question is why people still don't use it. Tribus: Ohio I don't see it as a focus problem but a territorial issue. Can't have good games on PS Now because another division wants the sales. Can't have music on your PS4 anymore because they have a music department/company. Doesn't play half the user-created video formats that the Xbox can because they sell movies. Can't have 3rd party devices turn on your machine (god forbid) because they have a hardware dept that sells remotes. Can't have Youtube TV or any other streaming service work on the box because they have PS Vue. etc etc. Too much bullshit within the same company, and every step of it is just irritating to consumers. snowman<ca> wrote: Well, that is a problem that is permanent. Sony/MS/Nintendo have zero control over the 3rd party part of the GP/Plus/etc. ecosystem. There is zero guarantee of anything staying in there. Over the long term, this means that you can have a library that is basically all over the place in terms of quality (which will affect how people feel about continuing to pay each month). However, if you don't wait to long to put all of your own games in there and keep them there forever, then you have some basis of quality that doesn't shift and in fact grows over time. Scruffy90 Don't forget they own a part of OnLive too Scruffy90 wrote: Playstation Plus Pass OnLive Now uyjulian wrote: So they call those "remasters"? I knew they had some emulated PS2 titles on PS4, but when I read "remastered for PS4" I was thinking "HD remasters" like Shadow of the Colossus. I don't really consider those emulated titles to be remastered in any way. But you're right, they list some of the PS2 emulated titles as on the service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_P ... _Now_games surfacewound wrote: As I’ve suggested before, I wouldn’t be surprised if simplification is the route Microsoft takes. Instead of XBL being a “online games” tier with some “free” games, that becomes the streaming service for $10 a month (people with existing time get it carried over to boost numbers and adoption). Game pass becomes the all you can eat service, with GamePass Ultimate being downloadable games on PC, Xbox, and also streaming for a year. I think it took a while, but we’re at the point where playing online is no longer as “premium” a service, especially as game developers host their own servers. Streaming is the new (and potentially higher revenue per user) service. But the main takeaway of the article seems accurate. I tuned out PS Now for a long while because of the short term rental and then limited selection. With downloadable titles, it’s theoretically an equal to GamePass, but without the commitment for first party games, it still isn’t as appealing to me. Being able to play Outer Worlds, day one, for no extra money was amazing. GamePass has validated it’s worth to me several times. Sony’s earlier issues haven’t earned it the same levels of trust, so I’ve never used it. Which is a shame, because I think I’d might buy 1 or 2 games by Sony a year. A $15/ month PC/PS4 playable games with streaming would be more revenue for them overall, and certainly within the realm of doable for me. was not the point of PS now mostly due to ps3 games??? seeing they made ps3 server mobo to run said games. harsaphes Shudder wrote: Actually my Samsung TV remote controls my PS4 pro. dogwitch wrote: Well they also do PS4 games and PS2 games - and now the PS4 and (some? all?) PS2 games can be run local, like what Game Pass does. So... yes - at one point in time, it was only that (but I highly doubt they purchased a streaming company only for PS3 BC). Anyway, that is not the case anymore. It's basically Game Pass, but more confusing, less well-known, and at least arguable worse (no first party commitment to make people care about it). ~700k vs ~10mm, says it all, really. XSportSeeker Perhaps, just perhaps, Sony isn't acting out much on it because Sony already knows that the hype around becoming "The Netflix of gaming" is just way over it's own head. Like being among the first companies to offer the service, it failing hard multiple times, not being worth the investment. nVidia has also tried this in the past. I dunno when the gaming and tech press started seriously considering that this is the next step for gaming overall, but I find it extremely overhyped and filled with logical flaws. It tends to consider the US market perspective alone and not see how a huge portion of gaming companies global market share would never be able to pay for such a thing due to communications infrastructure deficiencies and whatnot. No matter what magical technology Google announces like negative latency or whatnot, it still haven't been proven that any significant part of the market is really buying into this whole thing. Google seems to be particularly bad at this... a whole bunch of services that opened and closed down because it looked great for US market, but completely failed outside it. I bet this entire thing will end up like VR or something similar. XSportSeeker wrote: Perhaps, just perhaps, Sony isn't acting out much on it because Sony already knows that the hype around becoming "The Netflix of gaming" is just way over it's own head... Well, as the article points out, Microsoft is having a lot of success with Game Pass, which is a subscription service, like Netflix. So in the sense that people may want to just subscribe to a service that gives them access to a bunch of games to play, it seems that's a resounding "yes." Now, whether people want to stream games is a different proposition, and it doesn't even necessarily have to be a subscription service. Google's Stadia is eventually going to have a non-subscription tier where you just buy the games you want to stream. This is more up in the air. There's maybe some appeal to some who don't want to deal with the actual hardware, or can't afford the upfront cost, and Stadia at least is leaning into the potential benefits of running games on beefier hardware than could be fit into an affordable console. Will it completely replace local hardware? Doubtful. However, it could find a niche. I think the real problem with PSNow is branding. It started off as a service without clear appeal. It was streaming games, but last gen. It didn't start off as a subscription service, and the "rental" prices were too high. Sony has been slowly fixing issues and adding features, but the emphasis is on slowly, and very low key as well. Sony hasn't been able to generate buzz for the service since its lackluster launch, and so a potentially viable PS4 competitor to Xbox's Game Pass isn't even well known among PS4 owners. I've joked before on this thread about new names for the service, but it really does need a rebranding. darkteflon Tyrannosaurus Rex wrote: Spot on, I reckon. I’m in exactly the same position and feel the same. About to put the PS4 Pro up on eBay. You think the PlayStation ecosystem is bad, try owning a Sony smart TV. It’s the only piece of consumer electronics I’ve ever owned that I’d rather burn than sell to get rid of - just for the satisfaction. (don’t try owning a Sony smart TV)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line895
__label__cc	0.643345	0.356655	← PREVIEW – Cinequest Film & VR Festival – Princess Picks 2017 REVIEW – Momento Mori – Cinequest → REVIEW- Charley’s Aunt ’66 – Douglas Morrisson Theatre Posted on February 23, 2017 by Artsalot Every so often I see a show that I’m relatively certain I’m the last on the planet to see. Such is the case with Charley’s Aunt which until last week I had somehow missed despite being assured it is frequently done. I feel slightly less embarrassed at this oversight due to the fact that The Douglas Morrisson Theatre has mounted a new adaptation that no one had seen up until opening weekend. Though miraculously unfamiliar with the original play, Charley’s Aunt ‘66 is indeed quintessential farce with a plot that is simple and predictable enough to understand the appeal. While I can’t speak to how it holds up to the original exactly, I can say there was much to chuckle about and be amused by in this version. Locally made for local audiences the script hosts a plethora of tailored, geo-located joviality, poking fun at local rivalries and taking on a self-deprecating air at times. Placing it in the Bay Area and in the 60’s is a fun and colorful palette both politically and visually and affords the play additional liberties and opportunities for humor. The 1966 date stamp made it easier to explain away any out dated/traditional farcical components that the playwright (for plot reasons) likely wasn’t able to change or use to emphasize a timely political point. It’s a production that uses all the heightened comic tools in the arsenal of farce (repetition, asides, malapropisms, repetition, grand gestures, repetition etc.) but still surprisingly nuanced in places. Some of the joke don’t land or try a bit too hard (some inside theater jokes teetered on the too-meta-for-me-side) but in general this is cast with exceptional delivery that make it work. It’s the cast that is perhaps the most difficult to describe here. There’s a district comedy dynamic I haven’t seen in a really long time working serious magic on the stage. Their presentations are charming, highly-stylized, and enjoyably physical. With elements reminiscent of Commedia dell’arte, Vaudeville, and even The Three Stooges, the physical paired exceedingly well with the cleverly written/well-paced banter. In the scores upon scores of shows I see in the Bay Area, I saw takes, choices, and exchanges I had NEVER seen before. I’m a hard sell and I was caught off guard by how funny this show was in places. Subscribing to the age-old comic format of louder, faster, funnier and fueled with fantastic facial expressions and perfect pauses, every last member of this cast seemed to be enjoying themselves and that joy of craft was visible to the audience to an endearing end. I’d be hard pressed to think of a show where the sound and light design played such an integral part of the play’s humor. Expertly executed by astute board ops, the gimmick was, well, gimmicky, but easily embraced. There’s a method to the madness and once you get use to the theatrical devices and accept them as part of the farcical nature, it’s easy to really enjoy and respect this piece. Costuming as you can imagine is also full of flare – literally and figuratively. There was some gratuitous de-shirting – though no one was complaining, at least not within earshot. The set did its thing (as I find it always does marvelously at this theater) and while it took a long time to get to what we know will be a tidy and satisfying solution, I genuinely liked the look and feel of this show. It’s a confounding, intriguing, motley little beast this show, and quite a likeable one from where I sit. An obvious collaborative group effort, truly its success attributed to all the artists on both sides of the stage. Rich with rapport and wit, despite a few challenges, this is a genuinely light and amusing show. A lively 4 out of 5 jewels in the review tiara for a refreshing romp, firmly situated in the “campy” zone and complete with a superbly committed cast and production team. Charley’s Aunt ’66 plays through March 5th at the Douglas Morrisson Theatre in Hayward. This entry was posted in Review Castle and tagged Ccharley's Aunt 66, CHarley's Aunt 66 Douglas Morrisson Theatre, Charley's Aunt 66 review, Douglas Morrisson Theatre, Hayward Theatre, Hayward Theatre Review. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Response to REVIEW- Charley’s Aunt ’66 – Douglas Morrisson Theatre munsonwork says: Just wanted to thank you for this generous and perceptive review. Much appreciated. I also had fun searching for your review of “Ideal Husband” and found that similarly helpful and perceptive. All best wishes for many more fun nights in the theater! Scott	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line896
__label__cc	0.55519	0.44481	Posts tagged ‘Richard Rockwell’ Action 621 – Hal gets a new job, Wild Pup gets it in the shoulder, the Secret Six get on the case, Deadman gets stuck, and Weng Chan gets crazy A nice Blackhawk cover on Action 621. Hal Jordan begins a new job as a test pilots with the Gremlins in this story by Owsley, MD Bright and Jose Marzan. The Gremlins were introduced a few weeks earlier in Green Lantern’s story in Secret Origins. As the Green Lantern ring automatically protects one from injury, Hal does not feel he can accurately do his job with it on, and leaves it behind. He almost regrets it, but the scene demonstrates his flying skills. When he returns to get his ring, his battery explodes. Wild Dog goes after the Night Slasher in this chapter, by Collins, Rockwell and Nyberg. And though he does not realize it, Wild Pup is right behind him. This time, Wild Pup does not help out, he just gets stabbed. Pasko, Springer and McLaughlin continue with the Secret Six, as they begin their next mission, one involving academia. Mockingbird no longer seems to be keeping such close tabs on the new group, as they begin to actively research their dead predecessors. Deadman has a harder time of things than he expected, in this chapter by Baron, Jones and DeZuniga. Deadman gets stuck in the body of LeGros, while the twins are possessed by the spirits of twin voodoo queens, long dead. Madame Waxahachie knows what is going on, but is hard pressed to help. Weng Chan gets the impressive stuff in this Pasko/Burchett chapter of Blackhawk. He is being tortured, steamed to death slowly, along with the bulk of the team. Janos is busy messing around with the aviatrix, as Weng risks a severely sliced face to free himself, and the rest of the group. Madame Waxahachie Richard Rockwell Weng Chan Wild Pup Action 620 – Arisia walks out, Wild Pup learns the secret, the Secret Six serve dinner, Deadman enters a voodoo priest, and Blackhawk saves the girl The Secret Six get the cover of Action 620. David, Howell and Starr end their run on Green Lantern with this issue. Hal manages to defeat many of the Freakshow, but Castle makes it away, running to his boss. That turns out to be Lillian Hawkes, not Veronica. She kills Castle, to complete her cover-up, and Hal is left believing Veronica is the real villain. Sadly, these sisters never are seen again. I’m pretty sure that in the long run, Lillian disposes of Veronica and takes over the company herself, and no one is any more suspicious of her than Hal. Arisia walks out on Hal at the end of the tale, pursuing her modelling career. She appears next not too long down the road, in an issue of New Guardians. Collins, Rockwell and Nyberg put Wild Pup in the middle of the action in this Wild Dog story. Once again the boy does prove himself helpful, but Wild Dog is not at all pleased that the kid is putting himself in such danger. Wild Pup hides in the back of Wild Dog’s truck as he leaves, and learns his hero’s identity. The Secret Six continue their mission about the contaminated meats in this Pasko, Springer and McLaughlin tale. The team replace the food that is meant to be served at a banquet for the person running the meat processing, replacing it with his own products. Meanwhile, in Washington, the powers that be are increasingly concerned that Mockingbird survived the plane crash. The attacks on Technodyne apparently continue the same agenda that Mockingbird had years earlier. Madame Waxahachie explains things to Deadman in this chapter, by Pasko, Jones and DeZuniga. The rival voodoo priest, Anton LeGros, intends to sacrifice twin girls in order to gain more power. Waxahachie is out to prevent this. Deadman agrees to help, but has little success. Even when he winds up in LeGros’ body, the twins turn on him and reveal his presence to the voodoo worshippers. Pasko and Burchett reveal the truth behind Blackhawk’s mission in this story. The Japanese had been working on a microwave generator, as powerful as an atomic bomb, but everything went missing at the end of the war. The aviatrix has key information, which everyone wants. Arne Starr Richard Howell Action 619 – Arisia loses her patience, Wild Pup enters the fray, Deadman trapped in a zombie, the Secret Six return, and Blackhawk has a spy on the team A nice Deadman cover on Action 619, though not reflective of the look of the series at this point. Green Lantern, and the reader, finally get to see Veronica Hawkes face forward in this story, by David, Howell and Starr. Hal does determine that the Freakshow is made up of former employees, but Veronica is an unhelpful as she could possibly be. As Green Lantern continues to fight the group of villains, Arisia runs out of patience, waiting for him to get back. Maybe she shouldn’t have refused to talk to him when he was there. Richard Rockwell does the pencils on this Wild Dog chapter, while Collins and Nyberg continue to script and ink. The story has to do with a mad shooter in a fast food restaurant. Wild Dog gets there, but so does Wild Pup, jumping right at the killer. Baron, Jones and DeZuniga give Deadman a hard time in this chapter, as the voodoo priest traps the ghost in the body of a zombie, and sends him out to kill a rival voodoo master, Madame Waxahachie. She is a great character, and a strong adversary for the other priest. She is not scared of zombies, and breaks the fingers of the body Deadman is controlling. Marty Pasko returns with the Secret Six, but the art is now by Frank Springer and Frank McLaughlin. I had really wanted to enjoy this series, but the first run was confusingly told, with some undeniable weaknesses. I don’t think the strip was suited to this weekly eight-page format. But the change in art was not any improvement at all, it removed the feel of the series, and made the characters far less interesting to look at. The story resumes the plot of the contaminated pork products. Blackhawk and his crew are captured by the same man who is holding the aviatrix, in this chapter by Pasko and Burchett. It’s not too much of a surprise that the man who hired the team has been lying, but Janos is shocked to discover that Chuck is part of the OSS. Chuck Sirani	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line904
__label__cc	0.686214	0.313786	Denmark is European Champions! by badmintonfamly \| Feb 18, 2019 \| News, Slider \| 0 comments The Danes were able to defend the title as European Mixed Team Champions at home, in Copenhagen. The team beat Germany 3-0 in the final of the tournament. It is the 17th time that Denmark ends up at the top of the podium in the blast on the European Championship for mixed teams, and there was never too much excitement about the outcome in the finals. In the finals in Frederiksberg it was all decided after the first three matches and all the Danish players performed at a very high level. With victories in the first three games, it was not necessary to send Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup in the men’s double match, just as the women’s doubles with Maiken Fruergaard and Christinna Pedersen were not played either. It was also a happy Danish coach who tried to put words on the final victory: “ It was a power demonstration today. The players really came in character, and the audience was absolutely amazing”,says coach Kenneth Jonassen. Results from the final: XD: Mathias Christiansen/Christinna Pedersen (DEN) vs. Isabel Herttrich/Mark Lamsfuss (GER) 21/12 21/12 MS: Anders Antonsen (DEN) vs Max Weisskirchen (GER) 21/9 21/13 WS: Line Kjaersfeldt (DEN) vs. Yvonne Li (GER) 21/16 21/17 Congratulations to Denmark!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line907
__label__cc	0.698898	0.301102	Our Vision & Strategy EU priorities BIC Governance The BBI JU Policy & legal framework What our CEOs Say BIC and Vanguard Initiative sign Bioeconomy MoU Brussels, 21 June 2016 – Two leading European bioeconomy players, the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) and the Vanguard Initiative have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for better interregional cooperation on the bioeconomy. The collaboration will support improved access to funding and awareness-raising activities, marrying BIC’s bioeconomy expertise with the Vanguard Initiative’s regional network to help steer Europe away from its fossil-based past and develop novel products for new markets, creating more jobs. Europe needs integrated bio-based value chains if it is to become the world’s leading bioeconomy. Achieving this goal depends on bringing regional stakeholders together to pool resources, combine complementary assets and share best practice. Established in 2014, the Vanguard Initiative facilitates the creation of cross-regional demonstration projects, making it an ideal catalyst for the EU’s bioeconomy ambitions, boosting new growth through entrepreneurial innovation and industrial renewal. BIC already has a number of partnerships to harness the power of interregional cooperation. ERRIN, the European Regions Research and Innovation Network, contributed to BIC’s study ‘Combining BBI (H2020) and European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) to deploy the European bioeconomy.’ At the MoU signing on 21 June, Dirk Carrez, Executive Director of BIC said, “BIC will work together with the regions in the Vanguard Initiative to exchange information and explore synergies between BBI work programs and Vanguard pilot projects on the bioeconomy. Our collaboration will identify opportunities for joint demonstration, accelerating the development and uptake of bio-based products, strengthening regional development and creating jobs. At the same time, I encourage European regions to explore different financing options, such as regional development funds, to help them bring to market innovative renewable products.” Marcel Wubbolts, Chair of the BIC Board and of the Governing Board of the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) said, “I look forward to the results of our cooperation with Vanguard, such as increased visibility for the bio-based industries and new value chain partnerships. It would be great to see co-funding opportunities which will allow BIC at an EU scale and Vanguard on a regional scale, to demonstrate their mutual added value.” Read the agreed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) About the Bio-based Industries Consortium The Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) is a non-profit organisation based in Brussels. It represents the private sector in a public-private partnership (PPP) with the EU on Bio-based Industries (BBI). Worth €3.7 billion, the partnership mobilises investment in innovative facilities and processes that manufacture high-quality bio-based products as well as in biorefining research and demonstration projects. BIC is host to a unique mix of sectors that currently covers agriculture, agro-food, forestry, pulp and paper, chemicals, energy and other manufacturing sectors. With over 200 members including large companies, SMEs, SME Clusters, RTOs, universities, technology platforms and associations spread across Europe, BIC brings together an authoritative pool of cross sector and multi-disciplinary expertise in the field of bio-based industries. About the Vanguard Initiative The Vanguard Initiative is a European network of industrial regions that seeks to speed up the market uptake of new technologies through the establishment of industry-led, cross-regional joint-demonstration platforms. The network has initiated five thematic pilot projects to explore opportunities for developing interregional joint-demonstration. The Bioeconomy pilot project concerns the implementation of synergies in new bio-based value chains across regions based on their smart specialisations. http://www.s3vanguardinitiative.eu Suzy Renckens BIC Public Affairs & Communications BIC joins 148 industry associations to support the Industry4Europe campaign Want to know who BIC's members are & what sectors are represented? BIC hosts first-ever European bio-based student challenge to develop innovative, sustainable products from bio-based raw materials BIC sets out to stimulate bio-based investment in regions with new plaform Find your ideal bioeconomy scale-up partner with Pilots4U Founding member of Privacy statement \| Cookies \| Copyright © 2019 Bio-based Industries Consortium	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line910
__label__cc	0.731836	0.268164	General Bigfoot Discussion The Ketchum Report By Guest, July 19, 2011 in General Bigfoot Discussion southernyahoo 856 I think the difference is not only in academic credibility and financial motivation, but also professionalism. It seems obvious to me that a prestigious institution like The Max Planck Institute could do whatever it wants with Sasquatch data, while an unknown person like Ketchum can't. But whatever is going on with Ketchum, she isn't handling it well. A publicist would be able to straighten out this mess easily, probably by simply being more transparent about what is going on behind the scenes. They wouldn't have to reveal the results, all they need to do is go into detail about what is taking so long. If the paper got kicked back, or there is a lawsuit, or she is trying to get some kind of deal with some kind of a media company, simply being forthright and stating these things would be good enough. I can also understand her sitting on multimedia proof of Sasquatch being on her property - if that is indeed true - but she should have not said anything until after the paper is released. The rants on Facebook are odd and make her look less credible every time she makes a post. I have to agree. Ketchum's communication skills are disheartening. If she has legitimate data then she needs to stay on point in the lab and hire a publicist. You are contradicting yourself, saying anything or something only fuels the fodder, which has no bearing on the science in the paper. It may influence someones doubt or optimism but "that" doesn't mean much in the end. After 2 weeks of silence, I expected more rambling than that on the fb page. I especially expected to see the 2 posters dogging the Oxford study. No mention, I'm surprised. If you had to wager today who would publish first, Ketchum or Sykes, who would you lay your money on? If Sykes were to publish positive results using the same amount of data, my money would be on Ketchum. She's miles ahead of him. Guest Shaun Is she though? We don't actually know where she is in relation to getting anything published. All we get from her is 'soon', and we've been hearing that for quite some time. At least Sykes is well published, know how a paper submission works, and has given us an expected date. Given his history I think it's safe to bet he knows if he can or can't deliver by the date he's given. Out of tens or maybe HUNDREDS of thousands of people in the woods and who knows how many trail cams looking for Sassy over the many years and no credible video or pics and then, as if by magic, not one, but a whole FAMILY of Sassy's show up on the property of the person that just so happens to be compiling a study to prove SASSY is real. Wait, I thought Dr. Ketchum was claiming that her cavorting bigfoot family was on a property at a habituation site in Oklahoma. Guest shoot1 You are contradicting yourself, saying anything or something only fuels the fodder, which has no bearing on the science in the paper. It may influence someones doubt or optimism but "that" doesn't mean much in the end... I don't think so - clarifying what is taking so long with the paper is one thing, while saying "And oh, by the way, a whole fricking family of Sasquatch practically lives in my back yard and you're just going to have to trust me because I refuse to release any photos to prove it" ...is another thing altogether. I'm not saying that it is not possible, but her attitude makes both situations seem preposterous. The only reason she still has my attention because reading about Ketchum is as addicting as watching a soap opera, but because of this I've also started to look at her less seriously. It's as fascinating as watching a train wreck in slow motion and I think I'm not the only person who will be a whole hell of a lot more skeptical about her results because of this drama. Edited May 29, 2012 by shoot1 Given the Oxford timeline of being published by 12-2012, the Ketchum study is having their hands forced now. Choices: A-IF it's supposedly submitted and accepted and reviewed, hope the journal publishes soon. B- take the study and Erickson's work and release it all without review. C- keep on doing what they have been and hope Sykes stumbles or can't complete. D- do nothing and go down in flames. E- be the second study to come out. Obviously, someone here had previously stated that it seems they want the attention and drama. If not, ZIP IT and PROVE IT. indiefoot 350 Sésquac She has mentioned visiting a site in Oklahoma, she also has ranch property in Texas. She may have visited other sites as well as she has gotten to know a number of folks. Melba did not say exactly where she was when she saw a family. So where do people get these tidbits of information? Please point me to the sentence where she says when, where and whom.....I'm listening. Guest BFSleuth On her FB page: "Now that I have seen them, it is more interesting and I Know volumes now, but once again, I didn't seek that out, it came to me quite unexpectedly on my lease." So it seems that her sighting was on her lease property. ^Oh my . . . chelefoot 1,402 She and Sally both have made comments saying that they welcome further research. I'm trying to find the specific quote but facebook is acting freaky today and won't load for me. People have leases all over the country. Her lease could be anywhere.....???? Clarifying what is taking so long with the paper would only offer cynics an opportunity to call her "reasons" an "excuse" since she still couldn't release proof of the paper's existence let alone the other proof. I wouldn't take that bait, and wouldn't expect her to. Dr. Ketchum practically lives in Monster Central in texas bigfooter's terms, so experiencing something on a lease in that vicinity wouldn't surprise most texas researchers. Be skeptical all you want, it doesn't change the evidence at hand, or any publishable conclusion. Guest spurfoot bipedalist 913 Researcher A BFF Patron If all Syke's seeks is mtDNA which is all I have seen specified or alluded to.... to date; then, you would be comparing apples to oranges if the Ketchum study is pursuing both mtDNA and a complete nuDNA genome. Why would you need to go as far as nuDNA to prove they exist? If you want to know what it's lineage is sure, go all out like Ketchum has claimed to do. Replicated unknown DNA from several different animals all pointing to an unknown primate= proven. Then let the testing begin with the rest of the labs. Ketchup/ Hersom/ Paulides/ whoever is calling the shots there is overkill just to prove they are real.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line911
__label__cc	0.738714	0.261286	Author: BCBandMore Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham November 14, 2019 November 22, 2019 BCBandMoreLeave a comment Synopsis: Six years ago, Evie Cormac was discovered, filthy and half-starved, hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a shocking crime. Now approaching adulthood, Evie is damaged, self-destructive and has never revealed her true identity. Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven, a man haunted by his own past, is investigating the death of champion figure-skater Jodie Sheehan. When Cyrus is called upon to assess Evie, she threatens to disrupt the case and destroy his ordered life. Because Evie has a unique and dangerous gift – she knows when someone is lying. And nobody is telling the truth. Kat’s Rating: 5/5 My Review: Wow! This was an absolute belter of a book and I was absolutely gutted when I finished it. I can only hope that we see the return of these two characters I absolutely loved. Evie Cormack is damaged and has had a horrendous start to her life. Now she is approaching adulthood her life is getting even more complicated. Psychologist Cyrus Haven somehow ends up agreeing to be her responsible foster parent and that is where the book gets even more interesting. Both of the characters are very different and extremely engaging. It’s clear that Evie is overly bright and intelligent albeit damaged in other ways. This story actually follows two threads, one being Evie’s background and what she appears to be hiding. The other is Cyrus helping on a murder case featuring Jodie Sheehan. Gone are the days where where I will re-hash the story line to pad a review. What I will say is that this book was absolutely brilliant and I would LOVE to read the second book featuring these two and think this could be an amazingly good series. An absolutely excellent read and one that I would HIGHLY recommend Book Review, Michael RobothamMUST READ, RATED 5/5 Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay by Ali McNamara October 25, 2019 BCBandMore1 Comment Synopsis: Amelia is a single mother, doing her very best to look after her young son, Charlie – but money is tight and times are tough. When she first hears that she is the last descendent of the Chesterford family and that she has inherited a Real-Life Castle by the sea, Amelia can’t quite believe her ears. But it’s true! She soon finds that owning a castle isn’t quite the ticket to sorting out her money problems that she’d first hoped: she can’t sell, because the terms of the ancient bequest state that any Chesterford who inherits the castle, must live there and work towards the upkeep and maintenance of the family home. So ever-practical Amelia decides to uproot her little family and move to this magnificent castle by the sea. Living in a castle on the beautiful Northumberland coast is fun at first, but organising the day-to-day running is a lot more complicated than Amelia first imagined. Luckily she has help from the small band of eccentric and unconventional staff that are already employed there – and a mysterious unseen hand that often gives her a push in the right direction just when she needs it most. It’s only when she meets Tom, a furniture restorer who comes to the castle to help repair some antique furniture, that Amelia realises she might get the fairy-tale ending that she and Charlie truly deserve… My review: I love Ali McNamara books but have to say I actually started this book twice and put it down. It has a little bit of a slow start and I think that was my issue initially. However, putting it down and coming back to it was the best thing to do. Once I came back to it I started again and it was an easy read. I think I needed to be in the right frame of mind (anyone else get that?). Amelia is a single mum who is struggling to make ends meet. She receives a call from a solicitor who tells her that she is the last descendent of the Chesterford family and that she has inherited a Castle by the sea. When she finally realises this is an opportunity she needs to take she finally makes the move and her and her son Charlie take the chance and move to Chesterford Castle. The additional characters that appear in this story absolutely make it and they include Dorothy and Arthur who live there as Castle staff along with Joey and Tiffany. As Amelia and Charlie settle, Amelia begins to realise that living in the castle although great, also comes with the responsibility of ensuring the castle stays in tip top shape and that people still come to visit. As a reader you are definitely taken along for the journey and although there is also a ‘ghost’ element to this story (not normally something I like) it was done fantastically and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Tom arrives at the castle and becomes the restorer as well as builders who start t covert outbuildings and as time goes on more and more things start to happen which cause Amelia to wonder whether she has made the right choice. This story although slow to start (for me anyway) ended up being a book I thoroughly enjoyed. Although it seems to be a slight step away from what McNamara normally does it still has her signature style of writing and characters you love. In the end I wondered why I had waited so long to read this and would definitely recommend. Ali McNamara, Book ReviewRATED 4/5 Hard Shot by J B Turner (Jon Reznick #7) October 21, 2019 BCBandMoreLeave a comment Synopsis: When a group of homegrown attackers takes aim at cops outside a Fourth of July baseball game, black-ops specialist Jon Reznick and his daughter, Lauren, are caught in the cross fire. Jon hunts down two of the gunmen. But the last member of the group is at large and about to launch a fresh killing spree across the city. Cops are under fire, and Jon must stop this madman before more people are killed. But Jon’s renegade tactics and vigilante justice are starting to ruffle some feathers, and his friends in high places might not be able to help him anymore. With leaks inside the FBI and resistance from the NYPD, Reznick doesn’t know whom to trust. He knows one thing: he won’t watch the city he loves be torn apart, especially not with his daughter in the crosshairs. But can he get to her in time? My Review: YES! Finally another installment featuring Jon Reznick. I like Jon as a main character and it seems like things are starting to take its toll and I think this latest book we see him try and take a step back (well at the end at least). This book is a typical high octane and action packed book that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Jon attends a ball game with is daughter when attackers start to take out police officers. Jon being Jon means he cannot leave it and as such becomes embroiled in this latest attack on US soil. Only this time it seems the attackers are closer to home. At 248 pages it isn’t a particularly long read but certainly an entertaining one. I really love the characters and am crossing my fingers that we get to see Jon make a few changes in his personal life in the next book. I could easily read these books over and over as they are fantastic and I admit I am a bit of a fan. I cannot wait to see what’s next for Jon and highly recommend this series. Book Review, J B TurnerJon Reznick, RATED 5/5 Escape to Giddywell Grange by Kim Nash Synopsis: Even if she’s lost most of her friends because of spending all her time at work, and can’t remember when she last had fun, it’s worth it. Until she’s suddenly made redundant. Now she’s 37, jobless, and after the breakup with the former love of her life, unhappily single. Enter Maddy’s childhood friend, Beth, the owner of Growlers, the doggy daycare centre at Giddywell Grange, on a mission to make Maddy see there’s more to life than work. Soon, Maddy is swapping spreadsheets for volunteer duty at the library and her Prada handbag for doggy poo bags… And with Beth’s gorgeous brother, Alex, back from the States, Maddy starts to think that Giddywell might just be her happy place. But when her old life – and her old boyfriend – comes calling, will Maddy go back to the job she loved so much? Or will she discover that the key to happiness lies in making others happy? My Review: Oh…My…God! I absolutely LOVED this book from the very first page to the very last one. When Maddy loses her job suddenly following a split with her boyfriend she returns home to stay with her Mum and get herself together. It’s a story that will probably resonate with people and really highlights how much Maddy has missed out on while she juggles work and the day to day things that bog us down. Once she has returned home she really makes the effort to reinforce her friendship with Beth who she has known since she was a young girl. But like other areas of her life, her long term friendships also suffered s we see her take the opportunity to reignite her friendship. I loved all the characters that popped up in this book as well as falling in love with her life at Giddywell Grange (including all the pooches). The writing was effortless and the story flowed so well the pages just drifted by and before I knew it, I was finished and left feeling a little bereft. I really enjoyed Kim’s last book but fell head over heels in love with this latest. I literally cannot wait for her next release! Book Review, Kim NashMUST READ, RATED 5/5 Down to the Woods by M J Arlidge (Helen Grace #8) October 3, 2019 October 3, 2019 BCBandMoreLeave a comment Synopsis: If you go down to the woods today . . . The last thing Tom Campbell remembers is camping in the New Forest with his girlfriend, Melissa. Now he is helpless, alone and consumed by fear, hunted through the woods by a sinister, masked figure… When Tom’s body is found, displayed with grisly relish, Helen Grace takes the case. But before she can catch her breath, a second victim is taken – a serial killer is on the loose. You better not go alone . . . Something dark and deadly stalks the forest. Helen and her team must race against time to catch the perpetrator, before more blood is shed. But the hunt will take Helen back into the eerie twilit woods – and this time she might not make it out alive. My Rating: 4/5 Continue reading → M J ArlidgeHelen Grace Series, RATED 4/5 Dry Hard by Nick Spalding October 2, 2019 BCBandMoreLeave a comment Synopsis: Kate and Scott’s marriage has always been a lot of fun, with alcohol at the heart of it. After all, what’s more entertaining than a good laugh and a large drink… or six? But recently, those relaxing drinks have become more crutch than comfort—and the couple have almost forgotten how to talk to each other sober. Then their teenage daughter Holly uploads a video of their humiliating drunken escapades, which gets picked up by YouTube superstar PinkyPud—and goes horrifyingly viral. In a last-ditch attempt to prove to the world they’re more than just boozy idiots, Kate and Scott quit alcohol completely. But with Holly’s… er… ‘help’, what begins as a family promise soon escalates into a social media phenomenon: #DryHard! With the eyes of the Internet upon them, can Kate and Scott stay teetotal—and save their marriage in the process? Book Review, Nick SpaldingRATED 5/5 My Girl by Jack Jordan September 30, 2019 BCBandMore1 Comment Synopsis: Paige Dawson: the mother of a murdered child and wife to a dead man. She has nothing left to live for… until she finds her husband’s handgun hidden in their house. Why did Ryan need a gun? What did he know about their daughter’s death? Desperate for the truth, Paige begins to unearth her husband’s secrets. But she has no idea who she is up against, or that her life isn’t hers to gamble – she belongs to me. From the bestselling author of Anything for Her, Jack Jordan’s My Girl is the new chilling thriller that you won’t want to miss. My Review: This is my first book by Jack Jordan and I was pleasantly surprised. Paige Dawson is our lead character and in short she is a mess. She is a functioning alcoholic who pops pills to make her life seem a little easier. Since her daughters death 10 years previously as well as her husbands more recent suicide she is sliding down a slippery and very destructive route. At first she is written off as somebody who is seeing things when she convinces herself she didn’t leave the TV on, or the recorder playing. Of course everybody else assumes its Paige in her own world. Pretty soon Paige knows that something is amiss especially when she discovers that her husband was hiding a gun in their house. The writing was good and the pace was certainly set early on in the book. However, there were a couple of things that I think could have been left out (such as the issue with her Doctor, that made me super uncomfortable) and at parts the story felt padded when it didn’t need to be. Those small niggles aside I think this was an interesting read which certainly kept my attention. I will definitely be reading other books of his I have waiting on my ever growing to be read list Book Review, Jack JordanRATED 4/5 My Lemon Grove Summer by Jo Thomas September 5, 2019 September 5, 2019 BCBandMoreLeave a comment Synopsis: When life hands you lemons … is it ever too late for a second chance? Zelda’s impulsive nature has got her precisely nowhere up until now. A fresh start in a beautiful hilltop town in Sicily looking for new residents, together with her best friend Lennie, could be just what she needs. And who better to settle down with than the person who knows her best? But the sun-filled skies and sparkling seas can’t hide the shadow hanging over Citta d’Ora, which means not everyone is pleased to see their arrival. The dreams Zelda and her fellow new residents had of setting up a new life might be slipping away. But a friendship with restauranteur Luca could be about to unlock the possibilities that lie in the local lemon groves. And there’s a wedding on the horizon that might be just what the town needs to turn it around… Could a summer in Sicily help Zelda learn to trust her instinct and follow her heart? Book Review, Jo ThomasRATED 4/5 Deceit by Kerry Barnes Synopsis: Living in a beautiful home on the edge of a council estate, Kara Bannon can’t imagine what it’s like to have nothing. An eerie phone call plays on her mind and within three days she loses everything – her job, her home and Justin, the only person she thought she could trust. Alone and terrified, she makes a decision that will change her life forever. Suddenly she has to enter a new world – Prison. Revenge is not always so sweet… Book Review, Kerry BarnesRATED 5/5 The Sting by Kimberley Chambers August 30, 2019 BCBandMoreLeave a comment Synopsis: Tommy Boyle and Scratch always had each other’s backs. But old loyalties die hard on London’s streets, and when Tommy throws his lot in with the notorious Darling family, Scratch gets thrown to the wolves. TWO SIDES OF THE LAW. Shedding her old life for the Old Bill, Scratch goes undercover on Operation Sting. Bringing down the Darlings’ empire will be her duty – and getting revenge for an old friend’s sins will be her pleasure. ONE SHOCKING TWIST. Kimberley ChambersRATED 4/5	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line926
__label__wiki	0.553288	0.553288	What’s the Story with Storytelling? In a recent study, 78% of TV viewers said they are so drawn in by the stories they watch that they want to “friend” their favorite characters. It’s an age-old story: Anecdotes and metaphors are more memorable than data, lists of benefits and dry product information. These days, however, storytelling has become the holy grail of content marketing, but it’s also one of the most perplexing executions to get right. That’s because, to truly draw people into your brand’s story, it must be authentic and relatable to connect and engage the audience. What would happen in a future where storytelling and commerce truly connected? Market research consultancy, Latitude, recently found that 87% of viewers want to see the real world through the eyes of their character via a mobile app. Going a step further, 94% feel that companies should make consumable items available to purchase on a second screen while watching fictional stories – like a jacket worn by a character or a lamp in the room. The compelling reason behind this phenomenon defies reason itself. It seems that when corporations simply try to make a solid argument for their product, the common consumer reaction is to argue with the company in their heads. Experts suggest that reasoning is not good enough because people are not inspired to act by reason alone. Feeling skeptical? That’s normal, because skepticism is a cultural reality that further demonstrates why storytelling is more compelling than facts. But nothing explains storytelling better than the stories themselves, so here are three notable examples: This corporate video created by Google tells the story of two friends – one from India and one from Pakistan, who were separated during their childhoods because of cultural and political barriers. The real story, however, are that the Google brand’s altruistic values transcend political and cultural barriers. This promotional video from Skype barely mentions the brand, but instead focuses on the heart of an unlikely friendship formed across continents. You may want to grab a tissue before watching this one. The Lego Movie is the ultimate example of brand storytelling taken seriously. Of course, the expense of creating an animated feature film moves the stakes pretty high, but the payoff in this case is that Lego made $969 million in profits and increased sales by 24%. Making a hero out of an average Lego character not only made parents and kids feel good, it made them spend money. So how does a corporation begin to take on the challenge of effective storytelling? What does it look like and how do brands that don’t have inherent values built into their existence find the story that will resonate with people in the real world? Jonah Sachs, author of Winning the Story Wars, says that corporations can begin to get to the heart of their story by asking the question, “What are the values we want to live by?” Sachs uses Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as a thought-starter. Not in any particular order, core human values are: Wholeness, perfection, justice, richness, simplicity, beauty, truth, uniqueness and playfulness. Narrowing down your list to the two or three that are most authentic will help you match them to the values your company most exemplifies. Matching these consumer needs to your founding story, services, products and leadership is a start, but Sachs says you must also pick values you believe will most deeply resonate with your audience. Since no article about storytelling would be complete without a dark side, there are also “five deadly sins” to avoid when telling your story in an ad, video, business meeting or campaign. These commonly misused story lines include vanity, false authority, insincerity, puffery and gimmickry. These triggers can be sniffed out by savvy consumers and quickly exposed to the determent of your brand. The irony of this hot new storytelling trend is that, in a world where brand marketing has been displaced by direct-to-consumer selling, there now emerges a preferred technique that brings some magic back to brand-building. So, what’s your story? Screen captures intended as illustrative examples only. Registered trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. 2 comments on “What’s the Story with Storytelling?” I would be interested in how other people feel about email outreach that involves storytelling. I received one yesterday from a creative group soliciting new business – and it started out with a story about a friend dropping their iPhone and the screen shattering – and how great it was that they had insurance for the phone. It segued into how this company was our “insurance policy” when we needed immediate creative needs. I have to say it didn’t capture me at all as far as viewing them as any more reliable than if they has sent creative samples. Joni Gray Hi Diane – Interesting example! I would say that company was trying a little too hard to connect their service to a story and it didn’t ring true. That’s the challenge with this new “dark art.” It would be unfortunate to see so many examples like this flooding the market that consumers stopped trusting storytelling and rejected it as just another technique. As in all creative ventures, it all comes down to the talent matching the strategy. I’m also interested in hearing other email storytelling examples. 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__label__cc	0.542487	0.457513	Home/Financial and Management Studies Try out the Declassified Documents Reference System By Victoria Bird\|July 17, 2015\|Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, History, Law, Politics and International Relations\|0 comments We are currently trialling the Declassified Documents Reference System. The database covers govenment documents from the United States and coverage ranges from the years immediately following World War II, when declassified documents were first made widely available, through the 1970s. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is covered: the Cold War, Vietnam, foreign policy shifts, the civil rights movement, and many others. DDRS enables users to New ABS Journal Rankings Out! By Victoria Bird\|February 25, 2015\|Financial and Management Studies, Unknown\|0 comments Today marks the launch of the new Association of Business Schools Journal Ranking (2015) edition. Everywhere, business journal publishers have been awaiting this with bated breath- it’s like their Oscars, but without the nice dresses. Following my own Oscar-worthy performance at the DeFims Research Away Day (see what I did there?!), I felt it would be interesting to blog about this event, and perhaps compare some titles against the previous Webinar: Finding and accessing data in the UK Data Service By Victoria Bird\|February 20, 2015\|Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Politics and International Relations\|0 comments 10 March 2015, online at 3 pm This webinar is intended for anyone who wants to know more about finding data from the UK Data Service. Participants will be given a practical overview, focusing on the Service’s search-and-browse portal – Discover – which allows users to find datasets, variables, qualitative extracts, support guides, case studies, ESRC outputs, and more. Hints and tips on how to get the best out of UK Data Service Webinars: all sorts of data from all over… By Victoria Bird\|January 5, 2015\|Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Politics and International Relations\|0 comments From January, the UK Data Service will be rolling out a programme of 26 regular webinars throughout the year. These will cover a collection of 14 core topics. A flyer listing the topics and dates is available at http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/media/455322/core-webinars-2015.pdf. Webinars are online seminars which are free and easy to join without the expense and trouble of travel any further than to your own computer. To book or to find out Try out Palgrave Connect: trial extended to 16th November By Victoria Bird\|October 9, 2014\|Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies\|0 comments The Library is currently holding a free trial of Palgrave Connect until 16th November. We can now access 602 of Palgrave’s most recently published titles in Economics, Finance, Business and Management, including the Palgrave Pivot imprint. The acclaimed Economics & Finance Collections feature titles written by some of history’s foremost economists and modern day Nobel Prize winners, spanning some of the earliest ideas of economics and finance to how we tackle Opening up your research: a guide to self-archiving By David Pearson\|September 1, 2014\|Anthropology and Sociology, Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, Development Studies, Financial and Management Studies, Gender, History, Information Literacy, Japan, Korea, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Music, Media and Film Studies, Politics and International Relations, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia, Unknown\|0 comments Making your research available on open access services increases citation and helps ensure greater impact, argues Deborah Lupton. In this post she has advice for sociologists in particular on different ways to self-archive, formatting and how to overcome barriers such as complex copyright legislation. Read the full article here. Deborah Lupton is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney. She blogs at This Sociological Life and tweets @DALupton and is currently writing Trial: The Sustainable Organisation Library By Victoria Bird\|July 29, 2014\|Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Unknown\|0 comments The Sustainable Organisation Library is an online library of around 8000 book chapters, case studies and research papers drawn from nearly 600 books and journal issues, focused on sustainability and social responsibility, featuring leading thinkers in sustainability and social responsibility. The SOL collection covers sustainability in its broadest sense, addressing the social, environmental and economic aspects. Topics include: CSR Environment Social Enterprise Management Education Investment Accountability Poverty Reporting Strategy Stakeholders Diversity China, Russia and US: whose corporations are most transparent? By Victoria Bird\|July 28, 2014\|Economics, Financial and Management Studies\|0 comments In an interesting report, Arachnys claim that China and Russia both have greater transparency and accountability than the United States. In a potential upset, Greenland (an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark- usually seen as a very democratic, open and fair society), also scores poorly. In a news article examining the Arachnys data on the website of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Margot Williams highlights the complexities of tracking Free journal articles on management (for a limited time) By Victoria Bird\|July 25, 2014\|Financial and Management Studies, Unknown\|0 comments The below articles, some featuring well known global brands as case studies, are free to access from Emerald for one month: Motivation and job satisfaction Management Decision Mark A. Tietjen, Robert M. Myers Google Scholar: the pros and cons Online Information Review Péter Jacsó Customer loyalty and customer loyalty programs Journal of Consumer Marketing Mark D. Uncles, Grahame R. 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__label__cc	0.628976	0.371024	← Paralysis by analysis Bless your heart, AL.com → July 3, 2018 · 11:00 AM 54-48, beyotch. Lincoln Riley, your first mistake was going on Danny Kanell’s radio show. (h/t) From OU head coach Lincoln Riley just now on @ESPNUonSiriusXM talking with me and @TaylorZarzour about how difficult it is to play defense in the Big 12: "If you throw Georgia in the Big 12 every year there is no way they are a Top 5 defense in the country" — Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) July 3, 2018 Your second mistake is thinking this matters. Enjoy those sour grapes, man. 🕵🏾‍♂️🕵🏾‍♂️🕵🏾‍♂️ whaaaaa https://t.co/o6CGDdTJHy — Richard LeCounte III (@LilEasy_35) July 3, 2018 UPDATE #2: tfw you’re getting blowback. That’s not a shot at Georgia….they were absolutely one of the best defenses last year…it’s a compliment to our league- — Lincoln Riley (@LincolnRiley) July 3, 2018 UPDATE #3: This gets buttah and buttah. Looking at last five years among Power 5 teams only, there are six @SEC teams in top 15 in highest percentage of big plays run and there are two @Big12Conference teams in top 15. Love the Big 12 offenses but any narrative that SEC doesn't have explosive offenses is just not true. — SportSourceAnalytics (@SportSourceA) July 3, 2018 The reason this is a hot mess is because (1) Riley spoke imprecisely and (2) Kanell is an SEC troll. 32 responses to “54-48, beyotch.” Joe Dash (@Dashlok) He sounds like Big Game Bob already. If we give him that, where would UGA’s rushing offense rank? If you wanted to look up the boxscore: CAR YDS AVG TD LONG Sony Michel 11 181 16.5 3 75 Nick Chubb 14 145 10.4 2 50 Take out a 75 yard run by Sony and he still averaged over 10 yards per carry. Well, if you ask me, if Georgia with Kirby was in the Big 12, one team would be playing defense because they would figure out a way to do so instead of just assuming it wouldn’t happen. Argondawg I love bulletin board material in the off season. There’s also no way we lose a conference game for several years, unless our RBs just get tired from scoring on 60 plus yard runs. Let’s see how OU fares after a season in the SEC before they get too cocky. Several weeks of getting beaten up by SEC defenses might humble Linc a tad I am sure it is hard to play D in the B12. Just not as hard as it is against Georgia This aggression will not stand!! I bet Kanell wet his pants when Riley joined his one note SEC trashing meme. “IF” can’t boldface in text. Also Lincoln, if you keep calling wide runs and jet sweeps when off tackle and straight ahead is working Big 12 defenses will improve. I’ll say it again, you name me another team in the country that can come back and win in OT in the rose bowl vs the #1 offensive in the country and then fly across country and square up with the #1 defensive team and force them out of their comfort zone 7 days later. Sorry – what did you say? I got distracted – I think Sony Michel just scored again Can’t wait to see Riley without that jerk of a heisman winner making him look good Got Cowdog Fuck him. ben bragg Auburn## A10Woody Lincoln is right, but who cares….we don’t need fake juice. The Quincy Carter of Accountants If UGA was in the Big 12 it would still only have 11 members. Let’s not forget, once Kirby made adjustments at halftime, Oklahoma scored one offensive touchdown the rest of the way. And yet you couldn’t beat that defense with the #1 offense in the nation. I would send Danny some Lincoln logs to play with but he appears to have found one on his own. I think this is a good case for Oklahoma fans to say that they played the second half without a HC. Because he obviously didn’t see GA’s defense adjust to Oklahoma’s offense. Who is Lincoln Riley? Actually #1….Kanell is a dick. And #3… LilEasy is a dgd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Update: What is Stoops’ and Riley’s record in playoff games and BCS Bowls? Ok, conversely can you imagine what Georgia’s rushing offense would look like in a Big 12 that has trouble even spelling defense. If UGA played Kansas, Texas Tech, etc on a weekly basis the 4th and 5th string backs would have 1000 yard seasons. What if Oklahoma had to play in the SEC where stout defense is pretty much a given? Don’t you think those gaudy numbers would take a huge hit? In terms of raw totals, I do think the Big 12 apologists have a point about the style of offenses driving the numbers to some extent. The problem is that the advanced metrics that take that kind of thing into account also rate the Big 12 defenses (with a couple of exceptions) poorly. Our Dawgs came back against TCU in a bowl game last year. Dawgs 2-0 over Little 12 in last two years……. C’mon man!!! Danny… Lincoln, What would happen to Georgia’s offensive numbers if they played in the Big XII? I’ll hang up and listen. 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__label__wiki	0.586973	0.586973	home / Location & Lifestyle / In The News / Lifestyle / Sandy & Heidi Ergas: Pioneers on Cape Fear National Golf Course Sandy & Heidi Ergas: Pioneers on Cape Fear National Golf Course Photography By Greg Darrow Story By Heather Lowery Sandy and Heidi Ergas came to coastal Carolina seeking a brand-new environment for a fresh beginning. Being the pioneer couple to build their fantasy home on the golf course at Cape Fear National in Brunswick Forest gave them the opportunity they were looking for, and they couldn’t be more content. A year and a half ago, the newly married couple decided that it was time to relocate from their 60 acres in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which was complete with three horses (two Tennessee Walkers and a young, spirited Quarter horse). “Sandy’s first wife passed away a few years ago,” says Heidi. “The children were all moving to different states, and this last year was very busy for all of us.” “One of my sons got married, my daughter was going away to college, and my other son, an ophthalmology resident, was moving as well,” Sandy continues, “and we just got married ourselves. So, we felt like it was the right time to move on.” Since Sandy and Heidi like to live a healthy lifestyle, they sought a climate where they could pursue their outdoor activities with little worry about cold weather. Luckily, Sandy received two job offers — one in Sedona, Arizona, and the other in Whiteville, North Carolina. “We opted to live in a place near beaches and one that barely had a taste of the winter season,” says Sandy. “We are very glad that we chose North Carolina.” The couple visited the areas of Southport and Whiteville but wanted to live closer to the city of Wilmington. They both believe Wilmington is such a quaint town. They love the entire area’s history, unique character and all of the entertainment it provides. The town of Leland attracted Sandy and Heidi because of its proximity to Wilmington and the beaches. They soon discovered a house to rent in Brunswick Forest, which allowed them time to locate the perfect property to build their dream home. With their living arrangements made, all they had to do as move. That was an adventure in itself. Sandy was busy moving his daughter, Lindsey, to Iowa to attend veterinary school. So Heidi and their 17-year-old dog Fire, made the initial trek by themselves, towing a 20-foot boat. “It was scary,” says Heidi, “because I had never towed anything before.” “On top of that,” adds Sandy, “she missed an exit on the turnpike and had to travel 70 miles in the wrong direction before she could turn around.” Moving took several trips back and forth. Plus, preparing their horses for the trip took advance groundwork because they had to find place to board them. However, this is when the Ergases experienced their first taste of Southern hospitality at its best. They met a Delco couple who would eventually be their horses’ caretakers. “They took their time talking to us and showing us around their farm,” recalls Heidi. “Then they invited us in for drinks and were ready to talk horses. They are the nicest people.” ”At last, with the move behind them, Sandy settled into his job at Columbus Regional Hospital in Whiteville as an ER doctor. Heidi chose to take some time off as an ER nurse and get their life situated here. It was time to focus on finding a permanent place to live. “We knew that we wanted to stay in North Brunswick and that the property had to be well-backed by woods,” says Sandy. “One day,” Heidi continues, “Kim Fanelli [Sales Executive at Brunswick Forest Realty, LLC] told us that she just got word of the specific properties that were going to be sold on the golf course at Cape Fear National, and we should take a look.” “Jeff Earp, one of the developers, actually walked the perimeter of the lot with us and helped us visualize what it would look like,” says Sandy, because at the time, nothing had been cleared yet.” The Ergases were so impressed with the lot they bought it that day. Being the privileged first to see the initial six lots on the golf course, they were able to choose the biggest one on their street (.9 of an acre). A pond encompasses one side of the property; the golf course is in the near distance, while woods and a nature preserve face the back. They felt lucky to find such a special and beautiful piece of land, so they chose to build a custom home that would maximize the landscape’s striking features. Their next step was choosing a builder and an architect from a provided list. They picked Fogleman Associates, Inc. as their builder and John Croom with Cornerstone Residential Designs as their architect. “They were both so easy to talk with and they listened to what we wanted,” says Sandy. “They designed and built us a beautiful house.” It was a coincidence that Vann Fogleman’s wife was from their own hometown. “We didn’t know that until after we chose them,” says Sandy. “It was fun talking about some of the same places and people from Pennsylvania.” It also helped put them at ease when facing the challenge of building new home. “We had never built a home before, but we knew that we wanted a bright, open first floor with a comfortable and private upstairs for our guests,” says Heidi, “and plenty of windows, porches and decks.” Two plans were drawn up, and the Ergases were faced with another tough decision. “Heidi and my son, Jeremiah, who is a structural engineer, picked one plan, and my other son, Heath, and I chose the other plan,” Sandy chuckles. “We went with their plan.” The Ergases had a positive building experience. There were a few minor bumps in the road — being the first to build on the course and the first to acquire water, cable and mail service — and the process took a year and a half to complete. However, Sandy and Heidi feel that it was well worth all of the planning decision making and effort. There were times when they had natural uncertainties about their choices on specific items for the house, but it all came together in the end. They think that their house fits them perfectly. “I look at it now and I think, ‘Wow, we did this! ” says Heidi. Their home has 3,400 heated square feet, which includes three bedrooms, a bonus room, a dining room, a study, three and a half baths, a great room, a laundry room and a kitchen with a pantry. Ample full-length windows set off the outside scenery. Several decks and porches with a built-in grill on the patio allow for outdoor fun and relaxation. It is difficult for them to pick their favorite feature. Sandy likes the great room, decks and sound system, while Heidi adores the kitchen. I love to cook and I’ve always felt that the kitchen is the center of the family, says Heidi. The couple has found that they enjoy grilling outdoors, as well, especially during sunset. While we watch the sunset off of our porch, the birds are happily chirping, soft music is playing and the sprinkler’s mist catches the sunlight … it is all so pretty,” describes Heidi, “… it is like a dream. It reminds me of that bumper sticker that says, ‘Your vacation is my life.’” Sandy and Heidi love their secluded area in Brunswick Forest and all of the amenities that the community offers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line954
__label__wiki	0.723012	0.723012	NO!art + ABOUT US + ARTISTS + NEWS + MANIPULATION + MAIL PREV NEXT INDEX BORIS LURIE. ANTI-POP NEW MUSEUM \| State Museum for Art and Design Nuremberg 90402 Nuremrberg \| Luitpoldstr. 5 \| Entrance Klarissenplatz \| March 17 – June 18, 2017 Opening Thursday, March 16, 2017, 7 pm Dr. Eva Kraus, Director Neues Museum Dr. Thomas Heyden, Curator Neues Museum Gertrude Stein, President Boris Lurie Art Foundation, New York ►http://www.nmn.de/de/ausstellungen/vorschau/2017/boris-lurie-anti-pop.htm BORIS LURIE, Love Series: Bound and Gagged, 1962 © Boris Lurie Art Foundation The American artist Boris Lurie (1924-2008) left behind a radical oeuvre that attacks the bourgeois deinition of art in word and image. An unconditional claim to truth runs through the work of this Jewish artist whose life was overshadowed by the Holocaust. Between 1941 and 1945, he survived a number of concentration camps; his mother, grandmother, sister and teenage girlfriend were murdered. After their liberation, the artist and his father emigrated to New York where, from 1946, Lurie began to devote himself to art. He unequivocally rejected all idealistic expectations placed in art and all forms of aestheticism, as well as the capitalist art market. In 1959, together with Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher, he founded the NO!art movement and advocated a social art that generates aesthetic innovation as a by-product of unfettered expression. Lurie was exceedingly critic al of the Pop Art that conquered the market and museums in the 1960s. Early on, he developed a highly distinctive approach which, at the end of the 1950s, turned away from painting towards collage. His works don’t make it easy for the viewer, frequently confounding aesthetic and moral expectations. The Dismembered Women series, but also the many later works with collaged pin-ups, bear witness to a profound trauma that found expression in an ambivalent image of women. Lurie’s linking of pornography and photographs from the death camps is shocking, but it can be made sense of as the outcry of a tortured soul and as a form of resistence. At the same time, pornography served Lurie as a metaphor for capitalist society. In order to illuminate Lurie’s position within art history, the exhibition presents his work alongside that of other artists. Besides his NO!art colleagues Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher, it also includes work by H. P. Alvermann, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Gustav Metzger, Gerhard Richter and Wolf Vostell. Contextualized in this way, Lurie’s oeuvre emerges as a psychogram of its time that provoked outrage and rejection. “The time for YES!art is not at all at hand.” A cooperation of Neues Museum, Nuremberg and Boris Lurie Art Foundation, New York COMMENT by NO!art headquarters East: Rafael Vostell, son of Wolf Vostell, spread out this invitation on March 5, 2017. He operates under "RAFAEL VOSTELL, ADVISOR OF THE BORIS LURIE ART FOUNDATION". When Boris Lurie and I visit him 1999 at his gallery in Berlin Knesebeckstreet he could not do a Boris show with the the reason Boris' art works were too expensive for his business. Now he is Advisor of the Boris Lurie Art Foundation. Wonderfull!!! © https://borislurie.no-art.info/shows/2017-03_nuremberg.html	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line966
__label__cc	0.730804	0.269196	HomeSupervisorial DistrictsDistrict 4: Warren Slocum Inside District 4 History of North Fair Oaks History of East Palo Alto My Investments in District 4 Transportation Issues Getting the Job Done Warren Awards Contact Us/ Requests District 5: Adrienne Tissier APPLY FOR AN INTERNSHIP I’m proud to offer internships in my office. I want to encourage young people with an interest in government, a passion to help others and who are willing to work as part of a team to apply. We will begin accepting applications in March for Summer 2020 interns. If you would like to apply or have any questions email your resume and cover letter to my Legislative Aide Maggie Cornejo: macornejo@smcgov.org. Flexible schedule during business hours (8 am - 5 pm with occasional opportunities for work in the evenings) Interns will have the chance to work at the Board of Supervisors and learn what public service at the local level is like. Individual responsibilities will be determined based on strengths, previous work experience and interests. College student or High School senior Reliable, efficient, takes initiative, is friendly and treats all people that enter the office with respect. Brittany Brady Brittany Brady is going into her sophomore year at UCLA. She is a Political Science major, with a double minor in Spanish Language and Public Policy.... ViewView Brittany Brady Ana Corona Ana Corona is a freshman at Canada College and hails from Mexico. She is pursuing a certificate in English-Spanish Interpreting.... ViewView Ana Corona Elijah Kirton Elijah Kirton is going into his freshman year at Cañada College, but he has attended the school since his junior year of high school through the Middle College Program.... ViewView Elijah Kirton Bryan Munks Bryan Munks is going into his senior year at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He is a Political Science and History double major with a minor in general business. Upon... ViewView Bryan Munks Annika Galliani Annika Galliani is currently a sophomore at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.... ViewView Annika Galliani Henry Nibbelin Henry Nibbelin, San Mateo County native, is a rising sophomore at the University of California, Davis. He is pursuing a double major in Political Science and Mandarin Chinese.... ViewView Henry Nibbelin Angel Jimenez Angel Jimenez is currently a senior at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California. He is an Urban Studies and Planning major.... ViewView Angel Jimenez	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line967
__label__cc	0.744932	0.255068	Home/Featured, Member Opportunities/Giving Tuesday Over the past three years, you have may have contributed to NCECA’s rising conference registration numbers or visited the more than 100 exhibitions surrounding the conference expanding awareness of thousands of artists working in clay. Through and beyond each year’s conference, NCECA advances research and creates connections with people to ignite conversations about clay, teaching, and learning. Through residency opportunities, fellowships, mentorship, and volunteer experiences NCECA connects artists to one another and to the communities and experiences that support their continued growth. From our beginnings at early convenings that drew in around 500 people, primarily university professors, to recent conferences hosting more than 6,000 lovers of clay, NCECA’s community has changed and expanded. We include professional and aspiring potters; museum staff, arts writers and scholars, collectors, and gallery owners; educators and students at every level; community arts centers and cooperative studios with resident and teaching artists; manufacturers, distributors, and publishers; and, now more frequently, family members of these varied constituents. NCECA has evolved as a leader in the ceramic art movement. Since 2015, NCECA has made participation in a first conference more accessible to artists of underrepresented communities through Multicultural Fellowships that support conference registration and membership, as well as costs associated with travel and lodging. Please consider being an advocate for clay, creation, and connection through a gift to NCECA’s annual campaign by clicking DONATE NOW. Every amount counts towards NCECA’s annual fundraising goal. Even a very modest donation can support a day-pass scholarship for a high school student or educator in the conference region. We know a lot of organizations are competing for your attention this time of year. Dollars we raise as part of our annual campaign directly support NCECA’s operations including programming for youth, and direct support to artists and other conference presenters. We don’t think we could possibly communicate our impact better than 2015 NCECA Multicultural Fellowship recipient Yinka Orafidiya when she shares, “The NCECA conference has given me opportunities to be in the right place at the right time and participate in thoughtful conversations.” NCECA’s leadership includes dedicated volunteers who advocate for the interests of those working in the field as artists, educators, students, and organizational and business leaders. Ceramic art today is an increasingly diverse platform of creative expression, with deep connections to craft, fine art, and the educational communities that contribute to their sustainability. We seek to acknowledge these contexts with our choice of artists, programs, venues, and community partners. Histories of place and dedication to material and tactile knowledge ground NCECA’s mission and mandate. We invite you to learn more about Yinka’s story here. In 2019, NCECA returns to Minneapolis, Minnesota for Claytopia, our 53rd annual conference. We hope you will join us to explore and learn from a region that has contributed so significantly to ceramic art’s creative possibilities and influences over the past half century. By Joshua Green, Executive Director\|2018-11-26T23:44:54-05:00November 27th, 2018\|Categories: Featured, Member Opportunities\|Comments Off on Giving Tuesday About the Author: Joshua Green, Executive Director Opportunities through Volunteering	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line970
__label__cc	0.699176	0.300824	« Verizon Outage \| Main \| Nerdville Hit by Power Failure » Open Letter to Comcast Last week I got an email from Garfield Group Public Relations which included a press release about Comcast’s new higher speed Internet access and suggesting that I might want to write about it in my blog. If I were running a company or PR firm today, I would be sending press releases to targeted bloggers so kudos to them for that. The news about the higher speeds is welcome to Comcast customers (I am one). We get a bump up to 6Mps downlink at no extra cost ($10 extra if you don’t also subscribe to a Comcast Cable standard package but I do) and 8Mps for an extra $10 ($20 if you are not a cable subscriber). Good. I’ve already ordered faster WiFi gear to go with it. But there is something ominous in the press release as well (see full text below); the four examples Comcast gives of what you might want to do with higher speed access all have to do with the use of other Comcast services: Comcast PhotoShow Deluxe, Comcast Video Mail, music from Comcast.net Music Channel, and Comcast Games on Demand. It does not seem to have occurred to whoever wrote the press release that the Internet extends far beyond Comcast content and Comcast-provided services. I don’t mind Comcast promoting its own services. I would switch access providers in a New York minute if Comcast were to favor its own services and/or degrade its rivals’ content or services. Although I’ve experienced a few outages with Comcast, I’ve been generally pleased with the service and haven’t seen any evidence myself that either my Vonage or Skype voice calls are being discriminated against. At the moment I’m grateful to Comcast and Vonage because Verizon is down here and says they will be for the next two days so I’m dependent on my working VoIP service. But I worry, particularly given the current posture of the FCC as incumbent protector of last resort. So I wrote the following open letter back to Comcast. I’ll blog about any response I get. My letter: Hello, Kevin and Jeanne: Thank you for sending me this. I will write about it on my blog. Higher speed is all good news. However, I find it alarming that all the examples that Comcast gives of what higher speed will be used for have to do with Comcast provided services like Comcast Games on Demand. Obviously your customers access much more than just Comcast on the Internet. As a Comcast customer myself, my primary need is to have Comcast be a high speed pipe to ALL web services. For example, I use both Vonage and Skype VoIP on my Comcast connection. If Comcast offered me a better price or better features than Vonage and/or Skype, I might switch phone providers. On the other hand, if Comcast were to degrade my ability to use rival VoIP services, I’d switch broadband providers and probably go to satellite for my entertainment needs. There are rumors in the blogosphere that Comcast has degraded service from rival VoIP providers although I don’t believe I’ve ever experienced any such degradation. A clear statement by Comcast that it intends to provide nondiscriminatory access to all Internet services would be welcome and, I believe, very good for Comcast in positioning vs. its broadband rivals. Note that such a statement does not imply that Comcast would allow others to resell Comcast facilities for Internet access. This statement is just reassurance to your access subscribers that they will have free choice of which services they use through their Comcast connection. I am publishing this letter and your press release on my blog Fractals of Change so that readers will know both about your expanded bandwidth and my concern that Comcast might use its position as an access provider to disadvantage its competitors in higher level Internet services. If you are able to provide assurance on nondiscriminatory access, I will certainly do my best to publicize that as well. Tom Evslin Comcast’s Press Release: Comcast Delivers New Ultra-Fast Speed Tiers – 8Mbps and 6Mbps Comcast is Twice as Fast as DSL, Delivers Reliable Speed PHILADELPHIA, July 12, 2005 – Comcast, the nation’s Number One broadband provider, today announced it is enhancing its residential speed tiers, introducing new faster speeds to deliver the ultimate broadband experience – 8Mbps/768kbps and 6Mbps/384kbps. Since first setting the industry benchmark for speed in October 2003, this marks the third time Comcast has raised broadband speeds for its customers. Comcast has increased its downstream speeds more than 400% in less than two years, and has built a network that has virtually unlimited capacity to deliver higher speeds. The speed upgrades will begin this month in eastern and central Pennsylvania, New England, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan and Washington, D.C., with nearly all Comcast markets scheduled to be complete this summer. The speed increases will be automatic, which means customers are not required to download any special files or upgrade their connections. “Comcast offers customers a fundamentally better Internet experience. Our service is fast, reliable, easy to use, and packed with great features and value," said Steve Burke, President of Comcast Cable and COO of Comcast Corporation. “Our new 8 and 6Mbps speeds are ideal for anyone living in the Comcast network – from the mainstream broadband user to the dial-up customer looking to switch to something faster.” Comcast focuses on adding value every time its more than 7.4 million High-Speed Internet customers connect to the Internet or log onto Comcast.net. The new 8Mbps and 6Mbps downstream speeds will allow customers to instantly access their favorite content and features on Comcast.net – communication, games, kids, movies, music and sports. Because of the new ultra-fast connection speeds, Comcast customers will more easily be able to: • Share photo slideshows with music via Comcast PhotoShow Deluxe • Send video greetings with Comcast Video Mail • Stream online music or download songs from the Comcast.net Music Channel • Download online games and experience better game play with Comcast Games on Demand. Comcast is delivering the faster 6Mbps speed to customers who also subscribe to its Standard or Digital Cable services* at no additional charge. These customers also will also have the option of jumping to the faster 8Mbps for only $10/month more. About Comcast Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com) is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. With 21.5 million cable customers, 7.4 million high-speed Internet customers, and 1.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable networks and in the delivery of programming content. The Company's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, Outdoor Life Network, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. The Company also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia. Comcast Class A common stock and Class A Special common stock trade on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbols CMCSA and CMCSK, respectively. Jeanne Russo Jeanne_Russo@comcast.com * Comcast Standard Cable is made up of nearly 50 of the most popular cable networks such as CNN, Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, ESPN, Discovery, History, The Learning Channel, and more. Comcast High-Speed Internet customers who do not subscribe to a Comcast standard programming package, can opt for the faster speeds of 6Mbps/384kbps for $10 more per month or they can select the 8Mbps/768kbps tier for $20 more per month than they are currently paying. Posted at 10:00:00 AM in Web/Tech https://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451cce569e200d8345486e753ef Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Open Letter to Comcast:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line973
__label__wiki	0.793943	0.793943	Discover the Audi range of cars Experience myAudiworld Learn more about Audi’s technology Audi Conversations: ahead of the curve According to corporate honcho Chris Chong, taking on the challenges of the retail industry requires true passion, adaptability and a desire to innovate The three words of Audi’s iconic motto — Vorsprung durch technik, or advancement through technology — make it abundantly clear that innovation is at the heart of the German brand. From pioneering the use of lightweight aluminium in car bodies, to producing the first vehicle capable of Level 3 autonomous driving, Audi has always been on the bleeding edge of technological improvement. Every initiative that Audi undertakes — be it in pushing the boundaries in the fields of digitalisation, sustainability, or urbanisation — is done with the customer in mind. In the same vein, the envelope-pushers of the retail industry are always thinking about how to make the shopping experience a more memorable one for the consumer. While most people take the opportunity to switch off on holidays, CapitaLand Retail’s deputy managing director Chris Chong can’t help observing people and brands around him. “Of course I tend to spend more time thinking about how I should enjoy my next meal,” says Chong with a chuckle. “But I also believe that we should never stop learning and being curious. “When I’m overseas, I will look and think about how people shop, the kind of products they look at, and why certain brands do so well.” This passion for learning and pushing boundaries has always been Chong’s defining trait: while his contemporaries headed for the traditional choices of Oxford and Cambridge, he studied engineering in France, later embarking on a non-engineering career marked by forays in fashion, real estate and retail. But it’s not just the excitement of plunging into the unconventional that Chong relishes — it’s his constant hunger to reinvent the retail experience that keeps him constantly searching for opportunities to innovate. The success of his various initiatives is testament to his passion. In November this year, Chong launched Singapore’s first “phygital” (a portmanteau of physical and digital) multi-brand concept NomadX at Plaza Singapura, where traditional shopping experiences are enhanced with smart technology. NomadX also plays host to the physical shops of digital players like online shopping platform Taobao and clothing rental service Style Theory. “Besides appealing to millennials, NomadX also welcomes online players to go offline, and traditional brick and mortar stores to take a step further to integrate smart technologies in their businesses,” says Chong. Even with the inevitability of digitisation, however, it should never replace the intimate connection that happens offline, Chong emphasises. Instead, digitisation’s role should be to enable a brand to showcase its different facets, and reach out to people who may not be able to get a firsthand look at the products. “It cannot be an end in itself; like online dating, it has to get real at some point!” he laughs. One thing is for sure, though: Chong’s passion for creating enjoyable purchasing experiences is real. “An injection of freshness and energy into the business is vital, especially in retail. Because at the end of the day, retail has to be fun so that people are in the mood to spend. “If you do something the same way all the time, shopping becomes perfunctory, something you just do as part and parcel of your routine. Retail cannot be about that,” he continues. “We need to keep bringing new products and better versions of what you are already using, and ensure that they continue to delight and surprise.” And it is not about how much is spent to impress your customers either, he adds, but about knowing what precisely touches their hearts and actually doing it. “These days, people are more loyal to values than they are to brands. If I find that a brand has certain values that resonate with me, I would strongly support them. It’s the same whether it is a fashion or car brand; when there is something fundamentally good about the fit or drive, I will keep coming back to it. “Luxury is never about the price,” he finishes. “Rather, it’s about being consistent in the core values and heritage that you want to serve to your customers.” Similarly, with the A8, Audi doubles down on its commitment to its core values of advancement through technology. With its intuitive driver- and passenger-focused experience, the A8 sets a new standard for luxury limousines, with its technological advances making the interaction between driver and vehicle more seamless than ever. For instance, the A8’s MIB 2+ modular infotainment platform can recognise voice commands in seven different languages. But this goes beyond simple instructions like “Radio on” or “Wipers on”. The voice control in the A8 operates on a completely natural-language basis, meaning it can respond almost like a human would. Drivers only need say that they are hot, to have the A8 respond with “What temperature would you like it to be?” and adjust it accordingly. Drivers can also use the MMI touch response interface to physically write an address or phone number into the GPS. The A8’s handwriting recognition technology is Audi’s most advanced to date, streamlining driver-vehicle interactions through an interface that is simultaneously simple, intuitive, and yet endlessly capable. But with the A8, Audi also gives its drivers the luxury of peace of mind. Thanks to an extensive array of sensors, the A8’s adaptive driving assistant is able to automatically start and stop the vehicle in heavy traffic — a welcome reprieve during peak-hour CBD congestion. Fragrance ionisers also emit a calming scent of the driver’s choice, transforming a potentially stressful drive into an opportunity to unwind instead. Whether it’s acting as a capable co-pilot, or enhancing the joy of the drive, or even giving drivers unprecedented freedom of choice, the A8 truly embodies Audi’s commitment to innovation. Rediscover luxury with the Audi A8. Audi Conversations: Gastronomic Journeys Audi Conversations: Communication is Key Audi Conversations: designing for tomorrow By SPH Integrated Marketing Division ©2019 All Rights Reserved. Privacy Statement // Personal Data Protection // Terms & Conditions	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line975
__label__cc	0.584176	0.415824	Untitled Essay Critically examine the political and social effects of industrialisation in 170 -1850 Industrialisation occurred in many countries, each taking a different approach to the implementation of new machinery and technology. The most notable for leading the way in industrialisation is Britain. Industrialisation not only made dramatic changes in the economic structure of countries but also in the social and political areas of countries.Industrialisation led to much upheaval, especially socially since the whole way of life was changing. The emergence of the working class and the growing divide between classes also meant that a new political and economic structure was developed: capitalism.Industrialisation began in Britain since there was a large supply of coal and steel and it was seen as one of the greatest colonial powers, thus allowing it to gain the capital and market needed to industrialise. Since Britain led the way for industrialisation, it could be seen to epitomise the effects that it had on countries.One of the social effects that industrialisation had was that the 'rhythm of life changed' . Pre-industrialisation, people were based mainly in rural areas. However, when the enclosure of land became popular in the 1760's, farmers who were tenants began to be pushed of the land. This along with the establishment of new urban towns and cities meant that people started to move away resulting in 'English peasant villages being destroyed' .Land enclosure was only one reason why people moved to the new urban areas. The other was the fact that new machinery was making families handicrafts of little commercial value, meaning that they were not able to survive on the money they made. This meant that the promise of a rise in wages appealed to a great many people in the rural areas, resulting in yet more change for the population With industrialisation came a new family structure, the nuclear family. This was in complete contrast to the previous way people interacted with each other, but fitted perfectly into the nameless society, which had developed. The pre-industrial villages were very close knit since most of the textile and agricultural industry revolved around the home, with everyone participating in some way to the production of consumer goods. The nuclear family was very unlike this in the way that family was now centred on a mother, father, and children, instead of extended family and community. The urban towns fuelled this new structure since most people went to them leaving all family and friends so had no social structure to fall back on. 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__label__cc	0.706605	0.293395	Bookshelf with Harvey Schachter Antidote to garbled presentations The Visual Slide Revolution Dave Paradi 151 pages, $30.50 Present It So They Get It Presentations make the world go round, particularly in government. Unfortunately, too many of them are ineffective. Incomprehensible graphics, too much text, and garbled messages. Dave Paradi, a Mississauga-based presentations consultant, offers an antidote in two books that combine a system for approaching your presentations with a host of practical tips for making your PowerPoint slides more effective. In his first book published five years ago, The Visual Slide Revolution, he made the case for visual presentations, not just the then-popular bullet point lists. “Why use visuals instead of text? Because research has demonstrated overwhelmingly that visuals are more effective,” he says. Each book has a different acronym to help you bring the visuals and text together. In that book, it was the KWICK method for creating persuasive visuals: • K is for the key point: Each slide should make one and only one point. And you need to know what that one point is. Often, we aren’t sure, and don’t bother to clarify. The result is a confusing slide, with too much information. If the data you are intending to present on a slide involves two or three points, then divide it into two or three slides. For each, state your point in a sentence that doubles as the headline for that slide. • W is for words that suggest the visual: Once you have written that headline, look at the words and phrases you used to summarize the key point, which in turn will guide you as to what type of visual to pick. If you talk about the trend in some data, for example, it’s a graph. If you wrote about a flow or process, try a diagram. • I is for in context: Now it’s time to create the visual, making sure it is in context for the audience – the audience can relate to it and thus become engaged in your message. It helps when you can compare the elements in the visual to something they are familiar with. He offers guidance for a variety of situations. • C is for crystal clear: Now check that the point is crystal clear – the audience can understand it immediately when they see the slide, rather than have their eyes wander in panic searching for the essence. That can involve callout graphics or text to direct the audience’s attention to the most important part of the visual. • K is for keep focus: Once the slides are prepared, you must put them in a logical order that keeps the audience’s attention on the conclusion you want them to draw. In his latest book, Present It So They Get It, published earlier this year, he opens by contradicting the prevailing belief that most presentations these days are boring and dull. Instead, he argues the problem is confusion. The audience is attentive, but can’t pierce to the heart of the presentation because the information is presented so poorly. And the fault for that cannot be placed on PowerPoint. “PowerPoint does not cause a presenter to fail to properly think through their message. PowerPoint does not cause a presenter to present volumes of data hoping that the audience will figure out the message. PowerPoint does not cause a presenter to ramble through their content with no discernible structure,” he states. Here he shares an approach called RAPIDS, which echoes the steps from his previous book: • Real goal: You need to know the ultimate goal of your presentation. That means understanding not only what you are presenting – a status update say, or an explanation of the communications plan for a new program – but also why you are presenting. To determine your goal, fill in the blank in this sentence: “At the end of the presentation, the audience will ________.” He gives as an example a status update, when the goal may be to assure everyone the situation is under control and the current work should be supported or it may be to ask for agreement to move in a different direction. Those are very different goals and will require very different presentations. Knowing the end point helps frame the presentation. • Audience analysis: The audience is the primary focus of your presentation – or, at least, should be the primary focus of your presentation – and at every step of preparing the PowerPoint deck you need to be asking: How will what I am doing now help the audience understand the message better? That requires finding out as much as you can about the audience. Learn who will be attending, what their knowledge is of the topic and their attitude toward the issue. Consider how credible and trustworthy they view you. • Presentation outline: You need to devise a map of this journey. He suggests determining the main points you will dwell on, and then the key elements of each section. It will probably help if you use sticky notes or recipe cards to prepare your outline. He advises starting the presentation by sharing your conclusion: “Once they know where you are going, it is much easier for the audience to understand how the data you are presenting substantiates the conclusion you have already stated, and they remember the key message better because it was presented first and backed up second.” • Information that is laser focused: Presenters too often include too much information in their presentation, and thus the audience gets confused. “A confused mind never makes a decision,” he declares. So don’t take the audience on side tours that interest you but are not necessary for their comprehension. That will mean excluding details of how the work was done since the audience really doesn’t care. They trust your judgment, and are focused more on the key analytical points supporting the conclusion, not the fine details beyond that. If you have some information you figure the audience might ask about but likely won’t, keep it in a hidden slide that you can display if the matter is broached. • Detailed plan for each slide: Information overload comes when too much information is presented on each slide, so again he stresses the importance of keeping to one main point or idea per slide. Just as newspapers place headlines on the top of stories, place a headline on the top of each slide that summarizes the point. The body of the slide should be a visual that illustrates the point you are making. • Sufficiently prepared to present: You need to rehearse, delivering your presentation out loud beforehand. That may feel awkward when you try it, but it’s the only way to check that the presentation flows properly and catch any confusion that is unintentionally embedded. Prepare handouts and make sure your equipment is working well for the talk. The last half of the book tackles issues that will arise as you follow his overall map for presentations. He urges you to make sure there is enough contrast in the slides and directs you to the Online Contrast Calculator he has developed to test your proposed colours (www.ColorContrastCalculator.com). In his workshops, when tested on fonts, audiences prefer sentences in Arial and Calibri, both sans-serif families. The font size has to allow easy reading and he offers guidance, depending on the situation, in two downloadable tables on his website (www.PPtFontSizeTable.com). He distinguishes between titles and headlines for slides. A title is short, usually two to four words, whereas a headline is longer, about six to ten words. A title only tells the audience the topic being discussed while the headline provides more guidance, summarizing the key point in the slide. Keep the headlines conversational, like a newspaper. If presentations make your world go round, the books may be helpful for you and colleagues who are frequent presenters. Paradi thinks Present It So They Get It is his best book, but there’s still lots of valuable stuff in The Visual Slide Revolution. BRelated News Bookshelf with Harvey Schachter The Bookshelf: Simple Sabotage July 26, 2016 Bookshelf with Harvey Schachter Keep it concise June 30, 2014 Bookshelf with Harvey Schachter Don’t say it, draw it December 12, 2016 Bookshelf with Harvey Schachter The art of mentorship June 30, 2015 Bookshelf with Harvey Schachter What we have here is failure to motivate March 2, 2015 HARVEY SCHACHTER Harvey Schachter is a writer, specializing in management and business issues. He writes three weekly columns for the Globe and Mail and The Leader’s Bookshelf column for Canadian Government Executive, and a regular column and features for Kingston Life magazine. 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__label__wiki	0.888641	0.888641	ANALYSIS-Foreigners sit out Brazilian share sales as growth lags, politics lurk – Nasdaq By News On Nov 26, 2019 By Tatiana Bautzer and Carolina Mandl SAO PAULO, Nov 26 (Reuters) – This year has already been the biggest in a decade for share offerings from Brazilian companies, but there has been little sign of the foreign investor appetite that fueled prior rallies, as weak growth and divisive politics keep many on the sidelines. Foreigners invested about 40% of the total raised in the first nine months of the year, according to B3 stock exchange data. That is a far cry from their average 70% participation in previous Brazilian capital market booms such as 2007 and 2010. Not even the approval of a long-awaited pension overhaul last month — the keystone of a market-friendly turn under President Jair Bolsonaro — was enough to lure back international investors, according to bankers managing the transactions. Foreign participation remained meager in the latest offerings, which brought the total raised in Brazilian share sales to $21.9 billion so far this year, the highest since local firms raised $48.7 billion in 2010, according to Refinitiv data. Fund managers, analysts and advisors say sluggish recovery has given foreigners little reason to rush in, while polarized politics under Bolsonaro — and the recent release of his leftist rival from prison — have put some investors on edge. “The political landscape and the risk of a reversal of the (market-friendly) measures that have been implemented in the last couple of years are the biggest challenges,” said Frederico Sampaio, chief investment officer for Franklin Templeton Brazil. A Brazilian Supreme Court decision this month allowed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to leave prison despite a bribery conviction, firing up left-wing supporters as he vowed to unite opposition to Bolsonaro’s agenda. Others say a meager economic outlook has offered little upside from recent share offerings, with most companies raising cash primarily to reduce debt, not to finance expansion. Shareholders in need of capital, such as the Brazilian state, sold stakes in companies such as state-controlled oil company Petrobras SA PETR4.SA, IRB Brasil Resseguros IRBR3.SA and Banco do Brasil SA BBAS3.SA. “Brazil’s potential economic growth is not very high and the unemployment rate is not expected to drop fast,” said Andre Rosenblit, Banco Santander Brasil’s head of equities. Although the economy has shown signs of recovery, with inflation contained and interest rates at record lows, investors were expecting Bolsonaro’s pro-business policies to take faster effect. A halting approach to pension reform also undermined faith in his dedication to other reforms. Still, bankers expect international investors to return at a faster speed in 2020, as growth picks up. “Some large long-only stock funds spent time analyzing the latest share offerings in Brazil following the pension reform, a good sign, but still far from the potential” said Fabio Nazari, global head of equity capital markets at Banco BTG Pactual SA. Templeton, for example, acquired shares in some Brazilian IPOs, but Sampaio declined to name them. A shift in foreign investors’ perceptions could bring up to $36 billion more into Brazilian stocks, adding to the $81 billion now invested, according to Banco BTG Pactual SA, just considering portfolio adjustments allocating more to Brazil. The calculations consider global, emerging market and BRIC funds’ allocation in 2014, which were all above current levels. Brazil, which is already the largest country in Latin American portfolios, could expand its share with political instability in South American neighbors Chile and Argentina. “Brazil seems like a more attractive investment destination versus the rest of the region,” said Pablo Riveroll, head of equities for Latin America at Schroders. But it is unlikely that Brazil will win back its former weight in global emerging market portfolios. The country has dropped from a 16.3% share in such funds ten years ago, close to China at the time, to 7.7% this year. By comparison, China now represents 31.9% of the MSCI index, up from 18.3% ten years ago, with a boost coming last year when MSCI added mainland Chinese stocks to its global benchmarks. The weight of Latin America as a whole in emerging market portfolios could also be curtailed by recent instability, according to Cesar Mikail, equity fund manager at Western Asset. LOCAL FLOW Even without foreigners, Brazilian markets are expected to close the year at record levels, propped up by a steady flow of local investors into equities and out of fixed income markets, where interest rates have hit all-time lows. “We have never seen such a long period with low interest rates,” said Alessandro Farkuh, head of investment banking at Banco Bradesco SA BBDC4.SA. A further allocation shift of 3 trillion reais ($714.6 billion) by local retail investors is also likely to keep the stake of Brazilians in share offerings higher than in the past. Inflows to equity and hedge funds totaled 120 billion reais from January to October, according to industry group Anbima. International investors are also worried about other factors that may be hurting flows into emerging markets, said Hans Lin, head of investment banking in Brazil at Bank of America. “The global trade war, the state of U.S. economy and Brexit are risks that could impact investor appetite,” he said. ($1 = 4.21 reais) (Reporting by Tatiana Bautzer and Carolina Mandl; Additional reporting by Jamie McGeever and Marcelo Rochabrun; Editing by Brad Haynes and Andrew Cawthorne) ((tatiana.bautzer@tr.com; Tel: +55-11-5644-7756; Mob: +55-119-4210-4173; Reuters Messaging: tatiana.bautzer.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. 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__label__wiki	0.909188	0.909188	Home Entertainment Movies and TV ‘The Witcher’ and ‘Superman’ fans joined forces to see Henry Cavill in #TheWitcherInManila fan event! Because who can resist this hottie, right? by Grace Adorable and 1 more in Movies and TV Henry Cavill taking his time to interact with his fans. Image by Canto PH Another storm has struck in Manila yet again. Only this time, it’s the storm full of Henry Cavill’s charm and charisma. Filipino fans were wild as they gathered around the Activity Center of Ayala Malls Manila Bay on Thursday, December 12, to meet the actor behind Zack Snyder’s Superman and Netflix’s The Witcher. Henry Cavill taking selfies with Filipino fans. Image by Canto PH Henry Cavill, together with The Witcher’s showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, flew all the way from Sao Paolo, Brazil for the premiere of the said Netflix show on December 20, 2019. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, show creator of Netflix’s The Witcher, greeting Filipinos with glee. Image by Canto PH Lauren Schmidt Hissrich signing posters for the fans. Image by Canto PH A mix of fandoms crowded the Activity Center — fans of Superman, The Witcher, and Henry Cavill. All of them had three goals in common — to meet Henry Cavill, get his autograph, and take a selfie with him. A Superman fan holding his Superman merch in The Witcher’s photo booth. Image by Canto PH One of The Witcher’s fans holding a prop from the event’s photo booth. Image by Canto PH As Cavill is globally known for the role of DC Extended Universe’s Superman, not only The Witcher fans were there to enjoy the fan event brought to them by Netflix, but a lot of DC and Superman fans were there, as well, to savor a moment with their one and only Man of Steel. One of them is Erwin Ugawa. He identifies himself as a solid Superman fan. He even brought a huge poster of the film Man of Steel (2013) for Henry Cavill to sign. “Of course, I’m a big fan of Superman, ‘di ba? So since 80s, paborito na nating lahat ‘yan. Ngayon, in person, makikita natin ‘yung gumanap sa movie. It’s a once in a lifetime event so dapat makita natin siya today,” said Erwin. Like most of the fan event’s attendees, Erwin also went to the venue early to secure his spot near the stage. He’s just one of the many fans of Superman and Geralt of Rivia who went to fall in line at the earliest hour, before even the mall’s opening schedule. Filipino fans lining up outside the mall’s entrance to see The Witcher’s fan event. Image by Canto PH When Erwin was asked if he’s also there to support Henry Cavill’s journey as Geralt, he said: “Super mahilig ako sa fantasy and watching Netflix. I’m sure this will be another feather on his cap so magiging successful ‘to, for sure. Ang ganda ng visuals at storyline. Perfect project for Henry.” Fans like Erwin is the reason why Henry Cavill continues pushing his limits further. Despite the long barricades surrounding the whole venue, Cavill still took the time to make rounds at every corner of the mall’s Activity Center so to grant the wish of his fans of meeting him. Henry Cavill giving his Filipino fans his seductive smile in the fan meet event. Image by Canto PH Henry Cavill talking to his fans while giving his autograph. Image by Canto PH All eyes were on Cavill as he made his way through the crowd. He kept looking and smiling (more like smirking) in front of the camera that his fans, especially the women, can’t help but swoon over this man. Even Matteo Guidicelli, the host of #TheWitcherInManila event, can also vouch for Cavill’s “godly” physical features. Amazingly, a lot of straight men in the crowd have also commented the same. Toxic masculinity, who? Finally, when Henry Cavill was done with all the corners of the venue, he then went upstage and had a mini-interview session with Matteo Guidicelli. It almost felt like an intimate event as the stage was also set up like a talk show. Henry Cavill in a mini-interview session with Matteo Guidicelli on stage. Image by Canto PH When asked about how feels about the role, Henry Cavill’s answer only proves how worthy he is to play the role of Geralt of Rivia. “To be honest, I’ve been preparing for this my entire life. I’ve been a fan of the fantasy genres since I was a boy and I’ve been reading fantasy books since I was three. Before that, my father would read fantasy books to me and I’ve been a PC gamer since I was a boy, as well. [Haha, that’s the stuff]. Yes, I’ve been playing all games of the fantasy genre for years and years and years so this was just a final upgrade.” From reading the books as a child to playing the video games, it is indeed an upgrade for Henry Cavill for he’s now The Witcher. “It’s a dream come true,” said Cavill. “As soon as I heard Netflix [planning to set casting] for the show, I was on my agents every single day saying, ‘Guys, you gotta get me in the room. I don’t care how you do it. At least, I want to meet someone who can say yes or no to me. That’s all I care about. I just wanted to know. I wanted [to show] my best performance and see what I can do to help.” He also talked about the politics, sexism, and xenophobia that the show will be tackling. Guidicelli also asked Cavill about Roach, the horse that Geralt uses as his company in his journey as the Witcher. “Roach for Geralt is his true companion. It’s his connection to the world. Roach is much the same way as my dog Kal,” said Cavill. Guidicelli and Cavill even exchanged a short talk about their dogs, which are both Akitas. Cavill was also asked to think of three words that best describe The Witcher series, which took him a few seconds to come up with: Fantasy, Murder, and Love. He also invited the audience to support the show and even hinted about the future seasons of The Witcher. “We have worked so very hard on creating this show, and keeping it faithful, and making it something which is hopefully going to entertain you for years and years to come,” said Cavill. Henry Cavill and Matteo Guidicelli having their final exchange of words in the program. Image by Canto PH After that mini-interview session, Matteo Guidicelli asked Henry Cavill to take a group photo with everyone in the crowd. He even taught Henry some Filipino words that got everyone screaming after a while: “Mahal ko kayo.” The event finale made it even more special as the Philippines was chosen to be the first country to witness the final trailer of the series. It sure is an exciting show and the final trailer gives a promising overview of the first season. To make the whole fan experience a lot better, Netflix also gave fans free tickets for the season premiere of The Witcher. Popcorn and drinks were also free! What better way to be a fan of The Witcher? Before the show even started, Lauren and Henry gave a little speech so to formally begin the free screening. Fans were still hyped about Henry’s visit in the Philippines that some were jokingly screaming “Marry me!” and “I love you!” to him inside the cinema. Fortunately, Henry Cavill is not a snob that he only kept responding “I love you, too” to them. His little speech before the screening only proved even more that he has a kind heart and that he acknowledges his fellow workers in the show, not only the cast members and the producers. “This is a very exciting moment for Lauren and myself. Even though we are the ones here on stage, it’s not just us who put in hours and hours of hard work. It is a crew and cast of 300 plus people. We wish could have them here, but we can’t. But when you’re watching this, remember that they bled, and they scried, and sweat, for your entertainment. We hope that you enjoy it as much as we enjoy making it.” It was a fun fan event, indeed. The season premiere left fans with the feeling of wanting more. Unfortunately, everyone can only get to see the next episode on its official premiere date on Netflix. Curious about how the season premiere went? Watch The Witcher on Netflix on December 20. Grace Adorable Kath Lagata Grace Adorable and 1 more The Black Widow trailer is out! 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__label__cc	0.640467	0.359533	Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG by Brabus by Adam Lynton Tuning / Comments Is this is the most powerful roadster in the world? Brabus thinks so. And with over 1,000 lb-ft of torque, it'd be hard to argue otherwise. Brabus is calling its latest creation, based on the Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG, the world's most powerful roadster. Dubbed the Brabus 800 Roadster, the German convertible's 6.0-liter V12 has been tweaked to deliver 788 horsepower and 1,047 pound-feet of torque (limited to 811 lb-ft to save the drivetrain), up from 621 hp and 738 lb-ft. It'll sprint from 0-62 mph in 3.7 seconds, from 0-124 mph in 9.8 seconds and top out at 217 mph, putting it squarely in supercar territory. All that latent power was released after Brabus fitted its own twin-turbo system, complete with high-performance manifolds with integrated turbine housings and turbochargers, a remapped ECU, and the addition of four water-to-air intercoolers housed in the custom carbon-fiber hood scoop. Brabus also developed a sound-adjustable stainless-steel exhaust with free-flow metal catalysts and ceramic-coated tailpipes. Power is sent to new 20-inch Monoblock R "Platinum Edition" forged alloys via AMG's Speedshift Plus 7G-tronic transmission, shifted via Brabus' steering wheel-mounted aluminum paddles. A Used Chrysler 300 SRT-8 Makes You A Baller On A Budget 15 Cars We Can't Wait To See In 2020 Developed in the wind tunnel, the Brabus aero kit is made up of carbon-fiber components including a front spoiler and rear diffuser, while to improve handling Brabus added a special control module for the suspension that lowers the two-seater by 25mm and a limited-slip rear differential with a locking rate of 40 percent. Completing the package is a custom interior upholstered in leather and Alcantara and featuring scuff plates with backlit Brabus logo, a 220mph speedometer, and carbon-fiber and wood trim. The Brabus 800 Roadster will debut next week at the Geneva Motor Show. Tags: #Mercedes-Benz #2013 Geneva Motor Show #Brabus #Tuning Most Unique Volkswagen Golfs Ever Made 9 Holiday Gift Ideas For Car Enthusiasts In 2019 Is The Aston Martin DBX The Best Luxury SUV You Can Buy? Volkswagen Golf R Is Now A Hot Hatch Bargain Mercedes-AMG SL65 Price (MSRP) 2018 Mercedes-AMG SL65 Roadster Review	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line983
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__label__cc	0.742854	0.257146	By Zaira Contreras El Tiempo March 2, 2015 - 4:00 am Kayla Pederson joins Clark County Credit Union as loan operations manager and senior underwriter. In this capacity, Pederson will be managing a team of loan operations specialists and underwriting higher risk consumer loans. Navegante named Gary Armentrout as its senior vice president, development. He leads the development efforts within the company and specifically the efforts of Trillium Entertainment, which was formed by Navegante and its Canadian partners to bid on, acquire, expand and operate selected casino properties that the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. in Canada is in process of privatizing. Jeremy E. Golar from Waddell &Reed has relocated his financial planning practice to the Las Vegas area. He joined the company as financial adviser in 2013 in the Salem, Ore., office. Hutchison &Steffen added Joshua O. Igeleke Jr. as an associate attorney. Igeleke practices primarily in corporate and commercial, business and commercial litigation, real estate and employment law. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck added Kirk Homeyer as an associate and Kandis McClure as policy analyst in the firm’s Las Vegas office. Homeyer practices in the firm’s corporate department, focusing on counseling businesses in entity formation, general corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings and corporate restructurings. McClure joined the firm’s government relations department, focusing on the Nevada state government. Her background includes work in the public policy, political and health care sectors. Solomon Dwiggins &Freer, Ltd. named three new partners — Steven E. Hollingworth, Brian P. Eagan and Jeffrey P. Luszeck. Hollingworth previously served as of counsel with the firm. He has worked with the firm for four years, focusing his practice on estate, gift and tax planning. Eagan had been an associate with the firm. He practices in fiduciary matters and regularly represents professional and private fiduciaries, banks, creditors and beneficiaries. Luszeck, also promoted from an associate, primarily practices business, trust and estate litigation. Cami M. Perkins has joined Holley, Driggs, Walch, Puzey &Thompson as a shareholder in its Las Vegas law office. She practices in corporate and real estate transactions and business commercial litigation. She had been of counsel at Hutchison &Steffen. Three Square Food Bank has overhauled its managerial team. Paula Pettit has been promoted to senior director of marketing and communications. She has been with the organization for more than two years. Darwin Bosen has been promoted to director of operations. He has just marked his one-year anniversary with the organization and is responsible for managing and coordinating all of the daily logistics for the organization’s warehouses and transportation operations for a fleet of 22 vehicles. James Rogers Jr. was promoted to logistics manager. He has been with the organization since 2011 and oversees all transportation duties. Tony Caufield was hired as technology manager. Matthew Hirsch was hired as volunteer engagement manager. And DeWayne McCoy was hired as warehouse manager. Colliers International has hired Kara Walker as a senior associate and Kari Bradley as an associate. Walker brings more than 12 years of commercial real estate experience, specializing in office and industrial properties. Walker’s extensive brokerage and marketing background includes acquisition and disposition, tenant and landlord representation, investment and land sales, development as well as providing professional marketing, research, and property analysis. Bradley works directly with clients to conduct property tours, coordinate closings and provide a detailed project analysis. Posted on: In Brief, On the Move ON THE MOVE: Regional SBA lender hires VP ON THE MOVE: Geotechnical Environmental Services adds staff C-SUITE: Nevada Humanities announces new board	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line992
__label__wiki	0.875223	0.875223	NATURE'S LITTLE SECRETS A signature of excellence. Add Your News Iconic educator L. Adorothy Turnbull honoured - with renaming of ESHS L-Shaped Building It was a teary moment for retired educator Ms L. Adorothy Turnbull as showers of gratitude were bestowed on her for her invaluable contribution to the education system in the Virgin Islands for some 50 years. The crowning moment was the unveiling of the new name for the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) L-Shaped Building, which has been renamed L. Adorothy Turnbull Building. The unveiling was done on September 6, 2019 at a ceremony that also served as the handover of the newly refurbished building and Service of Thanksgiving on the second anniversary of the passage of Hurricane Irma. Assisted by Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) and Leader of the Opposition Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) Ms Turnbull looked on as the unveiling was done, and again could not resist shedding a few more tears on the historic occasion. Affectionately called ‘Ms T’, ‘Ms Turnbull’, ‘Tr Adorothy’ and ‘Aunt Adorothy’, the retired educator was described as a teacher, mentor, caregiver, life saver and mother to many. Having served as an educator in the territory for five decades, Ms Turnbull started her career at the primary level in 1947 and spent 10 years at that level as a teacher and administrator and 40 years at the secondary level, at the Virgin Islands Secondary School and the BVI High School. According to Acting Chief Education Officer Connie E. George, Ms Turnbull taught Home Economics and was head of Department for the subject. She was promoted to Assistant Principal of the BVI High School where she was responsible for pastoral affairs until her retirement in 1997. Ms Turnbull also served as an examiner for CXC in the subject of Food and Nutrition. She was further described as kind, calm, giving, embracing and willing to go beyond the call of duty to help. “She would make you feel comfortable when you came to talk to her, regardless of what it was about…she would remind you of your family line,” said Ms George, who hailed Ms Turnbull as a gem. ‘Honour is not mine’ In her emotional response that also had many wiping tears off their face, Ms Turnbull, as expected, was full of humility. “This honour is not mine, it is my tutors, Honourable Wheatley (Education Minister) and all the students who passed through the school when I was there. This is your honour. Not mine,” Ms Turnbull said. The retired educator also expressed thanks to God for this grace and mercy. “He has been walking with me and talking with me and I know that my name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life and that is what I want.” To all the students who attended school during her time as a teacher and administrator, Ms Turnbull let them know, “Whatever I have done it was from my heart. I am satisfied that I have left the education system better than I met it in 1943.” Irma took all previous awards Following the unveiling, Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr The Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) presented Ms Turnbull with a plaque on behalf of the Government of the Virgin Islands in recognition of her faithful service, loyalty and devotion to the education system of the VI. Ms Turnbull said she has had many awards from the Ministry of Education before “but they all went down two years ago so this one that I will appreciate very much.” Premier and Minister of Finance Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) then presented Ms Turnbull with a bouquet of flowers, saying not often do you find an educator who has taught for 50 years and is still alive to share the moment with. Hon Fahie joked that the bouquet of flowers was so heavy that even Irma can’t blow it away. The Premier, himself a former teacher, had earlier pointed out that it was fitting and by divine design that the 'L' Shaped Building was being renamed after 'L' Adorothy Turnbull. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. 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__label__cc	0.690249	0.309751	A case of the ‘comedy priest’? blondpidge Catholicism, social media September 15, 2013 September 16, 2013 7 Minutes Having written both a blogpost and a feature for the Catholic press on the subject of Fr Ray and his misrepresentation in the mainstream media, I don’t want to over-egg the pudding on this issue, nonetheless the whole affair has thrown up cause for further concern. When posting the text of my Universe article earlier, I was searching for a flattering image of Father Ray online and found what I thought was a nice photo taken of him in the pews of St Mary Magdalen church. After clicking on the image, I saw that it was copyrighted by the Brighton Argus and lo and behold, linked to yet another misleading article based on the contents of his blog, in which it was claimed that Fr Ray was denouncing the traditional foot-washing on Maundy Thursday as ‘sinful.’ The piece was not penned by Bill Gardner, but in common with his recent feature, it did not link to the original post and gave a false impression that Fr Ray was condemning the practice of foot-washing, whereas Fr Ray once again with typical humility and frankness, described how it was an occasion of sin for him. Read in context, the post was moving and challenging in equal measure, Father’s concern for the homeless is almost palpable, far from de-humanising them as undesirable objects, he wondered whether previously he had unconsciously not treated people with the dignity and respect that they deserve, but rather as a quantity to be exploited. With all the brouhaha surrounding the election of Pope Francis during Easter week, this didn’t get picked up by the nationals, but it did of course attract the usual anti-Catholic sentiment in the comment section and once again chipped away at the reputation of Fr Ray. When the most recent story broke, I took at look at the Twitter stream of Bill Gardner, who despite being a local journalist hadn’t previously registered on my radar, even though I do use Twitter to keep up with other local journalists and politicians. What I found was a little disturbing. On the one hand Bill Gardner is a lively, engaging and clearly very ambitious local journalist who is obviously trying to build his career in the profession, probably in tabloids. He is able to sniff out a good story and put quite a sensationalist spin on events, which is a pre-requisite for any budding journalist. Headlines and features need to instantly attract attention and it’s something that the Brighton Argus seems to have perfected down to a fine art, I am often struck by seemingly fantastic or scandalous local headlines on the sandwich boards outside the newsagents as I walk to school. Newspapers and journalists are frequently and I think unfairly, described by the commentariat as “trolls” themselves, in that they publish deliberately controversial articles and headlines to attract interest. The internet may have made print and on-line media more cut-throat, but publishing sensational stories and photos to attract readers is not a new feature of the press. Back in the ’80s and ’90s an exclusive photograph of Princess Diana on the front page did wonders for that day’s circulation. The overriding memory I have of my A Level results day is of my mother waking up at crack of dawn to sneak to the post-office lest anyone local might catch her buying a copy of the Daily Mirror, but she was dying to view the photos of Sarah Ferguson having her toes sucked by the Texan millionaire, before they sold out! So I am not going to criticise either Bill Gardner or the Brighton Argus for wanting to boost readership or interest, nor do I think we should take heed of the many comments I found on Bill Gardner’s feed criticising him for being a ‘troll’ himself following his appearance on ITV’s Monday night show about internet bullying. The Argus have run a good campaign highlighting the effects of online bullying and how ineffectual the police response is to this, therefore it is highly ironic that one of their journalists seems to be engaging in that very activity. Bill Gardner is not a troll, he’s a journalist attempting to further his career, but his methods are unethical. By all means report a story, but do so fairly, accurately and without bias or attempting to mislead the reader or incite hate upon a particular target. I don’t want to make this a personal attack on Bill Gardner, his feed reflects an obvious left-wing and socially liberal bias, which he is more than entitled to hold, he does seem to care passionately about issues of social justice. I note he spent an afternoon with the police anti-begging squad, whose aims he seemed to sympathetically report, which makes me wonder why he attacked Fr Ray over his perceived attitude, but he does evidently possess some morals, not to mention charisma and has unashamedly and unapologetically borne the storm of criticism from Catholics. Perhaps living in Brighton has given him more front than Blackpool? But here’s what I think is the crux of the attitude. One thing that is apparent from his Twitter feed is that in common with many of Brighton’s residents, Bill Gardner is a supporter of ‘equal marriage’. Frank exchange of views there, nothing for anyone to get upset about. Except it might then explain Mr Gardner’s reaction to Fr Ray’s wholly reasonable comments in response to being rung up and asked about a recent Brighton Bridal Bondage Fair. Here’s the piece, despite the hyperbole, I’m not sensing the ‘outrage’, Fr Ray’s comments seem measured enough and indeed the organiser of the event explicitly says that she agrees with much of what he has to say. I can’t quite see what there is to get excited about in the following quote. “Sexual fantasies belong in the bedroom, not at the wedding altar. “Marriage is ultimately about building a stable environment for the procreation of children. “It’s supposed to be about partnership, but this event seems to be designed for the fulfilment of individuals. “From a Catholic point of view, marriage is sacred and I think dressing up in fantasy outfits risks damaging that.” I suspect however the key sentence that provoked a reaction is the one with regards to the purpose of marriage being about creating a stable environment for children, given Bill Gardner had previously publicly baulked at similar sentiments. It might explain why Bill Gardner seems to then go on a bit of a crusade, dredging his blog to find what other ‘damaging’ or ‘scandalous’ quotes or stories could be attributed to Fr Ray. Or maybe I’m being unfair and it was a slow news day, but the timing of the next piece, reporting Fr Ray’s purported disdainful attitude to the poor and homeless is interesting, coming as it did, the following day. I think one can definitely conclude that Fr Ray’s blog was being trawled on an offence-finding mission and may explain why a blogpost that was over a month old was seized upon. No need to re-hash the piece or the response to it, but it has been the source of great pain to Fr Ray. For those who may claim that no publicity is bad publicity and that overall it’s done him good, I would point to the response of my mother, who rang me up to ask me all about the affair, presuming we would know the priest, she and her Catholic neighbour (in extremely good standing) having been scandalised and appalled by what they had seen, although they had noted that the Telegraph was more balanced in their coverage. The Catholic blogosphere is a specialised niche, there will have been many people who were therefore given a one-sided view of the story which is why it was important that the Catholic press could provide a balance. In the meantime, the following set of tweets from Bill Gardner, definitely seems to be inviting ill-will, contempt and scorn upon Fr Ray and the Catholic Church by association and could be perceived as bullying. Fr Ray has been caused a lot of distress, but fortunately he also knows that he enjoys the support of his parishioners, his blog readers and his Bishop has described the piece as “mischief”. The problem is that the “mischief” on behalf the Brighton Argus, does not seem to be an isolated case, that’s three stories that have misrepresented him in the last six months. I’m loath to accuse the Argus of outright anti-Catholicism, more likely his views on same-sex marriage, have made him a target for criticism in a city that likes to pride itself on its ‘progressive’ and ‘liberal’ credentials. Being a local priest, Fr Ray’s blog provides a rich and steady stream of local outrage to boost circulation and hit rates, especially when there might be a slow news day. Nothing that Fr Ray actually says is any more controversial than anything that any other priest blogger has come out with, it’s just that he is Brighton’s very own ‘outrageous celebrity priest blogger’. What is concerning is the one-sided and inaccurate way in which the Argus has presented him of late, which has sought to turn him into a local comedic hate figure, who hates the smelly poor and holds the obligatory ‘bigoted’ view of the LGBT community. Brighton’s very own Fred Phelps if you will. A complaint to the PCC certainly seems to be in order as does boycotting the Argus as well as their advertisers and informing them why, until Fr Ray receives a formal apology at the very least. As a final point, it might be worth noting that in his haste to get the story, Bill Gardner and the Argus, have made previous mistakes and errors. It could be claimed that lifting and distorting quotes from blogs, is something in which they have previous form. Happy to clarify for an important MP This tweeter faced a minor twitter storm as a result of misattributed tweets in the paper Sounds a bit familiar Trawling local blogs for titbits that can be distorted into a scandalous feature is quite the opposite innovative or go-getting journalism, it’s indicative of laziness and lack of inspiration. If you are going to do it, then at least have the decency to quote in context or do some background on your target. Trouble is all this enhances Bill Gardner’s reputation as an edgy journalist, he’ll love the controversy, whereas the constant attacks on Fr Ray, could do his important ministry irreparable damage. It’s all tomorrow’s fish and chip paper, or at least it would be were it not for the permanent nature of the Internet, but following three concurrent occasions of blatant misrepresentation, enough is enough. Fr Ray Blake Published by blondpidge Miserable sinner, aspiring saint, propensity towards melodrama and general bawdiness, probably not the best example of holiness, but trying nonetheless. A woman who wears her heart on her sleeve and talks a great deal of nonsense. You're not going to gain any profound insight from my ramblings and fulminations, but you're welcome to share the journey. View all posts by blondpidge Previous Post A tale of truth – Chris Huhne and Fr Ray Blake Next Post Oppression disguised as freedom of choice 2 thoughts on “A case of the ‘comedy priest’?” David Guest says: Out of interest the Argus has a very long history of this sort of “mischief.” I was constantly having to request corrections to quotes by me and other diocesan churchfolk when I was Communications Officer for the Chichester diocese. When I worked as a journalist we had to check facts and support them BEFORE writing a story – these days you are allowed to write stories without such checking and then use and criticism/complaint as a follow-up. My favourite was when I managed to persuade the previous Bishop to give an interview, which he had always been very loathe to do, and he asked if I would sit in on it in case he needed any facts checked as he spoke. The resulting “feature” was mostly about me operating what amounted to a Nazi-style publicity machine! Genty says: Well said, Caroline. I note that the reporter was recently taken to task online for getting his facts wrong about a very small story of a lightning strike. Some feat. He’s fallen for the heady belief, not unusual for a young journalist, that he always has the last word. It was once the role of older (and wiser) news editors and editors to knock this notion out of the head of a cocky youngster and to sear into his developing brain that journalism is neither a game, nor is it a vehicle to bully and defame. In this context it is important that Fr. Blake does take action against both the reporter and the editor who, while he may not be egging the reporter on is, at the very least, acquiescent. The Argus once had depth and respect as a local newspaper of record; all thrown out in favour of the superficial in an amateur attempt at apeing the national red tops (another common failing). If you want to know about the really important issues in the city, The Argus is not the paper to buy. Its editorial policy of supporting anything LGBT and its saturation coverage of gay pride does, I think, blind it to balanced coverage and must inevitably clash with those whose opinion is not in accord. However, there is no excuse for closing down rational and adult debate, (which should be part of a local newspaper’s remit), while indulging in wilful character assassination. “What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot through the ages,” said Stanley Baldwin. It is as true now as it was then. I doubt this young man will achieve the national reporter status he so obviously craves unless and until he learns that walking on two legs does not equate with possessing a pair. Leave a Reply to David Guest Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1000
__label__cc	0.749216	0.250784	January 26, 2018 January 26, 2018 Puzzle Doctor Seven Dead by J Jefferson Farjeon When you’re robbing a house, even if you’re just passing through, grabbing as much cutlery as possible, the last thing that you want to find is a dead body. So imagine how Ted Lyte feels when his amateur caper results in finding seven such corpses… Enter Inspector Kendall, the man who investigated the affair of the Thirteen Guests and journalist-cum-yachtsman Thomas Hazeldean. Obsessed with a painting in the house of a young girl (with a neat bullet hole in it), Hazeldean heads to Boulogne in search of her. Meanwhile Kendall remains behind to investigate the scene of the crime. But both of their quests have them on the trail of a multiple murderer… J Jefferson Farjeon is now a reasonably well known long lost Golden Age author, with Mystery In White, Thirteen Guests and The Z Murders already re-released by the British Library and the Detective Ben books now available from the Collins Crime Club, so it was inevitable that another Farjeon title would re-appear and here it is. It’s from 1939, and about the thirty fifth out of the eighty books that he wrote. And it’s… odd. Farjeon is certainly someone who writes in a variety of styles – indeed, he uses a variety of styles throughout the book – but he clearly seems to prefer the thriller genre. Once he has set up the situation, we are whisked off to Boulogne with Hazeldean as he races to rescue a girl who doesn’t realise she needs rescuing. Then we rejoin Kendall who does some actual investigating and then… I’ll be honest, I’m suffering at the moment from yet another cold – my fourth of this winter – and there were times when I got a bit lost with this one. The plot keeps moving forward but there were a couple of times when I had to flick back pages to remind myself who was who. Having said that, the book finishes very strongly with a section in a different voice from what had gone before and with an effective conclusion. The central characters are entertaining (I did enjoy the very final “twist”) and in hindsight, I wish I’d read it when I wasn’t doped up on cold medicine. For a review of it from someone who was fully compos mentis when reading it, do pop over to Cross Examining Crime, but while this isn’t a particularly classic mystery, it is an effective and enjoyable thriller and is Well Worth A Look. J Jefferson Farjeon Previous Perfect Death by Helen Fields Next The Murders Near Mapleton by Brian Flynn countdownjohn says: I thought the opening was very strong, and although the middle was a bit lumpy, it worth wading through to get to the end, which as you say is in a very different style, and is actually quite moving. Yeah, that’s about right. The bit with Hazeldean in Boulonge really dragged for me. armchairreviewer says: Sorry this one didn’t work for you as well, but you’re right about the way Farjeon likes to use almost a fusion of writing styles. Hope you feel better soon. My first experience with Farjeon (Mystery in White) wasn’t a particularly enjoyable one in spite of feeling there were some good ideas there. The concept for this one intrigues me but your criticisms remind me a little of why I have been reluctant to dip into his work again… Guy Savage says: I have this one of the shelf coming up soon. Feel better nbmandel says: Just read it, sans cold or its medications, and mostly agree: It opens like a classic observational detective story, written in a more than usually lively way, and then shifts into thriller mode — but I think, not very thrillingly, what with the gappy timeline and chase-free chase ending. Our ingenue, Dora, seemed more than usually bland, and the way we learn what happened disappointed me.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1007
__label__wiki	0.567855	0.567855	Heat events (1) Indigenous: Inuit (2) Heating degree days (5) Lake/River ice (1) Length of season (1) Sea temperature (1) Snow depth (5) Snow water equivalent (5) Water level (1) Adaptation planning (1) Vulnerability or risk assessment (1) AGRG Weather Network (Opens in a new Window) The Applied Geomatics Research Group (AGRG) Weather Network is an interactive website allows you to view, graph and query South West Nova Scotia (SWNS) weather data. An interactive map also allows users to add layers, such as soil classification. Data are available as historical polygon and point data. Nova Scotia Community College Applied Geomatics Research Group Atlas de vulnérabilité aux vagues de chaleur et aux aléas hydrométéorologiques (in French only) (Opens in a new Window) This atlas aims to inform you about the geographic vulnerability of Quebec populations to heat waves and floods. The atlas was developed by the Université de Laval Department of Geography and Department of Geomatics Sciences, in partnership with the Ouranos Consortium and the Institut national de santé publique du Québec. University of Laval, Ouranos, Government of Quebec Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Santé et Services Sociaux québec Vulnerability or risk assessment Adaptation planning Atlas of Community Based Monitoring & Indigenous Knowledge in a Changing Arctic (Opens in a new Window) The Atlas of Community Based Monitoring & Indigenous Knowledge in a Changing Arctic was designed to showcase the many community-based monitoring and Indigenous Knowledge initiatives across the circumpolar region. These initiatives assist with network building and identification of best practices and challenges for the field. In an interactive map, users can view ongoing projects in various locations in the Circumpolar Arctic. Brown University, Inuit Circumpolar Council: Canada Office Climate data – High resolution projections (Opens in a new Window) Climate data - High resolution projections contains high resolution climate change data focused on Ontario. The dataset contains the 50th percentile high resolution probabilistic projections of annual averaged temperature and precipitation over Ontario, covering the 1970s, 2030s, 2050s, and 2080s. Data are provided in partnership with the University of Regina and York University. Data are available for download in tabular and gridded formats Government of Ontario, University of Regina, York University Climate Projection Maps and Rasters (Opens in a new Window) Climate Projection Maps and Rasters includes a collection of products that summarize baseline and projected future temperature and precipitation. Animations and maps are focused on Alaska and Canada. Historical and future data under all Representative Concentration Pathways scenarios are available as point data. Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data at NSIDC (Opens in a new Window) Data at National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is a large repository of datasets that describe historical cryosphere information. Datasets available include temperature, glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost, sea ice, sea moisture, and snow. Historical data are available as point and gridded data. Find local data (Opens in a new Window) Find local data is a search tool that allows users to find climate data. Users can search by geographic location, municipality, and region across Canada. Data available include several climate variables, projected over 2021-2050 and 2051-2080, under two emission scenarios, and at annual or seasonal resolutions. Future data are available as point data.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1009
__label__cc	0.546165	0.453835	Church Mouse A small voice from St Vincent's Redfern Mum Shirl Sister Marnie Kennedy Sharing the meal Sharing the journey Fr Ted Kennedy The Neocats Neocriticism Important Reminder! or How’s this for a load of pseudo sanctimonious drivel? By admin \| 26 October, 2015 - 5:25 pm \| 20 January, 2020 Uncategorized The following notice appeared on the back page of last Sunday’s church bulletin. It is full of mistakes and misinformation. The Church Mouse has added a few clarifications and corrections. Come to the 6 pm Mass next Sunday, the Solemnity of All Saints, with our very own(1) Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP to consecrate our new altar. It will be once in a life time celebration. Bring food and drink to share after the event. No regular Masses next weekend. Perhaps you wonder: Why such major restorations and renovations including the installation of the new liturgical signs, furniture … Continue reading → The Spirit of Redfern’s Ted Kennedy a Decade on By Church Mouse \| 24 May, 2015 - 9:13 pm \| 31 December, 2019 Uncategorized Here is the text of Fr Frank Brennan’s homily for Ted Kennedy’s tenth anniversary mass. Fr Frank Brennan SJ Pentecost Sunday 2015 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13 Thank you for the privilege of being your preacher this morning here at St Vincent’s Redfern as we come together on Pentecost Sunday to honour the memory of our beloved Fr Ted Kennedy who died 10 years ago. I first came here to Redfern in 1976 as an impressionable young Jesuit novice. I … Continue reading → Ted’s Tenth Anniversary Mass See photos of today’s wonderful celebration in the Photo Gallery album Ted Kennedy > Tenth Anniversary . Article to follow soon. Remembering Ted – 10 years on By admin \| 22 April, 2015 - 5:07 pm \| 25 April, 2015 Uncategorized A mass will be held at St Vincent’s, Redfern, at 10am on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the passing of Fr Ted Kennedy. The parish priest, Melvin Llabanes, has kindly agreed to have Fr Frank Brennan concelebrate and deliver the homily. Morning tea will be served after mass – please bring a plate if you can. The following is a condensed version of an article written by Val Noone on the occasion of Ted’s funeral, and published in Táin Edition 37. Ted … Continue reading → Pell’s successor announced By Church Mouse \| 19 September, 2014 - 8:20 am \| 19 September, 2014 Uncategorized The new Archbishop of Sydney – a man with a big appetite for justice – see letter to St Vincent’s from 2005. Not only did he call on the police to intervene in liturgical disturbances at St Vincent’s, but his vile comments towards the Foster family, destroyed by clerical abuse, makes one question his suitability to lead the Sydney diocese. (Back in July 2008, he enraged sex abuse victims and their supporters when he stated that people were “dwelling crankily on old wounds” – The Age.) Have the intervening years had any mellowing effect? Mural restoration has begun! By admin \| 18 August, 2014 - 9:07 pm \| 18 August, 2014 Uncategorized After many months of delays, and only(?) about a year after Cardinal Pell instructed the parish priest that the mural was to be restored, today the restorer finally was allowed to begin work. It should take some 4-6 weeks, working Mondays to Thursdays, and fitting in around morning Masses and Sharing the Meal. More details will be posted soon. Memories of Tom Hammerton On Monday 11 August 2014 at St Vincent’s Redfern we farewelled Tom with a wonderful celebration of his life. Details will be posted soon. In the mean time, you are invited to email your memories of Tom to Peter Kearney for collation into a tributes booklet to be given to Tom’s wife Jan, and daughters Alexis and Kimberley. Tributes will also to be shared with the wider Redfern community through the Church Mouse website. Peter’s email address is: peterkearney87@gmail.com The Mural saved – ? By admin \| 22 October, 2013 - 9:32 am \| 22 October, 2013 Uncategorized Parishioners have been asking the parish priest for a clear statement of his position on the Aboriginal Mural since rumours of its impending removal began to circulate. On one occasion, when particularly pressed, he reluctantly said he would not remove the Mural, but added, sotto voce, that someone else might. Just before the Parish Advisory Committee meeting last month, a petition was hurriedly circulated around the local Aboriginal community. It read: Save the Mural – September 2013 Petition to Fr Melvin Llabanes, Parish Priest of St Vincent’s Redfern We Aboriginal people respectfully request … Continue reading → Important Reminder! or How’s this for a load of pseudo sanctimonious drivel? 26 October, 2015 The Spirit of Redfern’s Ted Kennedy a Decade on 24 May, 2015 Ted’s Tenth Anniversary Mass 24 May, 2015 Remembering Ted – 10 years on 22 April, 2015 Pell’s successor announced 19 September, 2014 Mural restoration has begun! 18 August, 2014 Memories of Tom Hammerton 18 August, 2014 The Mural saved – ? 22 October, 2013 The Pope: how the Church will change 2 October, 2013 The report – another view 28 September, 2013 Archives Select Month October 2015 May 2015 April 2015 September 2014 August 2014 October 2013 September 2013 October 2012 April 2012 February 2012 January 2012 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 July 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 November 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 December 2007 November 2007 September 2007 August 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 December 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 September 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 November 2002 September 2002 May 2002 November 2001 October 2001 November 2000 October 2000 July 2000 June 2000 May 2000 April 2000 December 1999 November 1999 February 1999 May 1998 October 1997 January 1995 May 1994 November 1992 April 1992 September 1991 November 1989 September 1975 © Read it first, then copy it right Church Mouse \| Powered by Mantra & WordPress.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1012
__label__wiki	0.628592	0.628592	Vahn provides additional context on Black Ops 4 League Play’s delay, says ‘no excuses here’ Treyarch’s Studio Design Director took to Reddit overnight to answer a few questions from community members in different threads throughout the site. In one of those threads, a user asked about League Play’s delay and asked why Treyarch just cannot bring Black Ops 2’s system back into Black Ops 4. Vahn started by saying that Black Ops 2’s system not being considered broken in some ways is “inaccurate.” I like that you liked League Play [in Black Ops 2] but to say it wasn’t broken is inaccurate. I chose to accept the word broken in this context as having things in it that didn’t work so well. It had plenty of design defects and it was this community that gave us feedback on those design decisions that we banked both THEN and then again more recently. Vahn continued that Treyarch wants to address the topic of League Play and what they’ve done with the mode in an upcoming developer video. We hope to address this topic head-on in more detail in a video developer update soon. He then continued by talking about why League Play was delayed and what changed during the development process that caused them to make the decisions to move League Play’s release around. The main reason behind it was changing League Play based on the community feedback to the announcement of the mode and ensure that it has the features the community wants when it launches. From Vahn: League Play is taking/took longer than we expected, because we are addressing the community feedback on it in advance of launching it. …thus when it does come out it will more closely match your expectations of what it is and how you think it should work. We are doing the very things you gave us feedback on that we agreed made sense for the game we now have versus the game we had when I stood on stage and told you League Play was coming back at the MP reveal event. It’s simply a software development reality that can be hard to understand if you aren’t a software developer. The development of major game systems like this one takes a lot more time than most other features. The people who can develop this type of system are not the same that develop other features. The argument “don’t do <this thing> and do League Play” is rarely a solution to getting something faster. The people who do “this” are doing it. The people who do “that” are doing other things that they are experienced and qualified to do. Vahn made an edit to his comment to add additional context of his own opinion more so into the situation and said he’s not making excuses, but providing more transparency as to what happened. No excuses here. We designed our competitive features with a goal of expanding the competitive audience and players. We got feedback from that community on our approach. We are adjusting accordingly. …we’ve invested a great deal of time, effort, and resources in our competitive features and systems over the years and with this game … we keep pushing and trying to find new ways to make it bigger still while not overly alienating the current competitive community. This is very hard to get right. The very nature of competition can also make it inaccessible to the mainstream. In another Reddit comment, Vahn followed up by saying he takes accountability for being the one to reveal League Play at the Black Ops 4’s reveal event without stating a date for its launch. He believed, at the time, that the mode would be available and on track, but the development and internal process for the mode changed as time went on. Here’s the full response after a fan asked about excuses: We teased League Play at the reveal. That happened. I take accountability for it. I was the one who said it. I did it because I believed in our plan and our ability to execute our plan. I’ve stood on stage before and said “we are doing this” and we did it. I’ve stood on stage before and said “we are doing this” and then something happened where we couldn’t. I truly and completely understand the frustrations around it. All of us do. I’m so sorry that you feel let down here. Things happen. Tough decisions on priorities have to made. Things change that are not always totally within our control. We also can’t have it both ways. We can either never talk about anything until it’s done. More than a few people in the organization think this is the best approach right now. Or…We can talk about what we’d like to do, what we want to do, what we are doing, what you want us to do, whether we will or will not and why. However, transparency is not a promise. It requires an understanding that all things are subject to change, that what you want, what others want, what the studio or business wants or demands are not always the same. You will not like everything you hear. You have to be ok with that and you have to be ok with expressing that in a constructive and helpful way. I’m so sorry that you feel let down. Whether you choose to believe me or not, you didn’t get sold vaporware. The studio is working its ass off to make good on it’s commitments to our fans. Things are going to happen that get in the way of that. All any of us can do is just keep driving forward. The latest news from Treyarch on League Play is that the mode is expected to go live in mid-February on PS4. More details are expected soon. SOURCE: Reddit (1) (2) Fix for slide canceling bug in Modern Warfare in testing – Update Call of Duty League Team Gear coming to Modern Warfare – Update	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1017
__label__wiki	0.725989	0.725989	Zalakaros 01-05: Abhimanyu Puranik stars for India by Srinath Narayanan - 23/05/2017 The 36th Zalakaros Open is taking place from 18th May to 26th May in the Hotel Karos Spa in Zalakaros, a beautiful little spa town in the Balaton lake region of Hungary. Top seed Richard Rapport has already suffered a shock defeat at the hands of IM Abhimanyu Puranik. Meanwhile, Indian IM Praggnanandhaa R. is playing some sparkling chess. Report. Early upsets in Gyula Sax Memorial Zalakaros is the smallest town in the Hungary 1791 people live on an area of just 17.17 square kilometers (quite a contrast for someone like me, as my street back home in Chennai is probably more populated!). Bright, beautiful and so quiet that you can constantly hear the ‘tweets’. It is a nine-round Swiss event with one round being played every day. The time control was 40 moves in 90 minutes, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game and a 30-second increment from move one. There are two tournaments: the A group for those above 2300 Elo and a B group for those below 2400. The A group is an extremely strong event with a rating average of 2400 with 116 players. Richard Rapport (2698) is the top seed, with many strong players like Nisipeanu, Berkes, Kovalenko, Markus, Efimenko and others fighting for the title. Berkes will lead the Hungarian challenge Kovalenko, the 2015 Champion will hope to repeat his success IA Tamas Horvath (extreme left), the organizer of the tournament, and the ambassador to India (extreme right). The first round saw an unexpected casualty as GM Alexander Zubov unexpectedly lost to IM Li Bo of China. [Event "36th Zalakaros Open 2017"] [Site "Zalakaros HUN"] [Date "2017.05.18"] [Round "1.10"] [White "Li, Bo"] [Black "Zubov, Alexander"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D23"] [WhiteElo "2359"] [BlackElo "2604"] [Annotator "Srinath,Narayanan"] [PlyCount "59"] [EventDate "2017.05.18"] [SourceDate "2003.06.08"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Qa4+ Nc6 5. Nc3 Nd5 6. e4 Nb6 7. Qd1 Bg4 8. Be3 e6 9. Be2 Be7 10. O-O O-O {Black is already a little better. He is a pawn up for no compensation and the c4 pawn isn't easy to regain.} 11. d5 (11. h3 Bh5 12. Qd2 (12. Nd2 Bxe2 13. Nxe2 Bb4 14. Rc1 Bxd2 15. Qxd2 $15) 12... Qe8 $1 $15) 11... exd5 12. exd5 Nb4 (12... Bxf3 $142 13. Bxf3 Ne5 {would save the c4 pawn and Black would just be a pawn up.}) 13. Bxb6 axb6 14. Bxc4 {why give the pawn back? I suppose Zubov thought Black was better here in any case.} Bf6 15. h3 Bf5 16. Qd2 c6 17. Qf4 Bg6 18. Rad1 Nxd5 $2 {a very strange move.} (18... Bxc3 $142 19. bxc3 Nxd5 20. Bxd5 cxd5 21. Rd2 $44) 19. Nxd5 (19. Bxd5 {was even stronger} cxd5 20. Nxd5 {was also strong} Ra5 21. Nxf6+ Qxf6 22. Qxf6 gxf6 23. a3 $16) 19... cxd5 20. Rxd5 Qb8 21. Ne5 Ra5 $2 {loses a pawn right away. White to play and win.} (21... Bc2 $142 {was necessary} 22. Re1 Re8 23. Qd2 Bxe5 24. Qxc2 Bf6 25. Rxe8+ Qxe8 26. g3 $14) 22. Nxg6 Rxd5 23. Bxd5 hxg6 24. Bxf7+ $1 Kxf7 25. Qc4+ Ke8 26. Qe6+ Be7 27. Rc1 Kd8 28. Rd1+ Ke8 29. Rd7 Rf7 30. Rxe7+ 1-0 However, this wasn’t the biggest surprise as IM Abhimanyu Puranik toppled Richard Rapport (2698). Abhimanyu has fond memories of Zalakaros, as he made a GM norm here last year. He made a similar start the previous year, upsetting the first seed, GM Zahar Efimenko, from an inferior position. His resourcefulness again came to the fore today. [Event "36th Zalakaros Open 2017"] [Site "Zalakaros HUN"] [Date "2017.05.19"] [Round "2.1"] [White "Puranik, Abhimanyu"] [Black "Rapport, Richard"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C70"] [WhiteElo "2459"] [BlackElo "2698"] [Annotator "Srinath,Narayanan"] [PlyCount "75"] [EventDate "2017.05.18"] [SourceDate "2003.06.08"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nge7 5. O-O Ng6 {A strange place for the knight.} 6. c3 b5 7. Bb3 Na5 8. Bc2 Be7 9. a4 b4 10. d4 exd4 11. Nxd4 $1 { The classical rule is to capture with the pawn and control the center. However, here White develops the knight to c3 and controls the center better. This also exploits Black's knight on a5.} (11. cxd4 {takes the c3 square away from White's knight, restricting his development possibilities.}) 11... O-O 12. cxb4 Bxb4 13. Nc3 Re8 {White has a healthy advantage, but the position remains very complicated.} 14. f4 $5 (14. Rb1 $1 {was a very strong move} Bxc3 (14... Bb7 15. Nd5 Bf8) 15. bxc3 d5 16. Nf3 $1 $14) (14. Nd5 Bf8 15. Nf5 c6 16. Nde3 d5 $132) 14... Bb7 15. f5 Ne5 16. f6 g6 {This creates a dangerous hook, but concretely, White doesn't have any immediate threat because of Black's dark square bishop.} 17. Nd5 $2 {This completely obseletes the pawn on f6 as White doesn't have a route for the Queen to the dark squares on Black's kingside anymore.} (17. Qd2 Bf8 18. Qg5 $36 {was probably a better try.}) 17... Bxd5 18. exd5 c5 19. Ne2 c4 20. Nc3 Rb8 (20... Nb3 {was very strong!} 21. Bxb3 {forced, as White can't afford to have his dark squared bishop chopped off.} (21. Rb1 Nxc1 22. Rxc1 Qb6+ 23. Kh1 Qe3 $17) 21... cxb3 22. Qd4 Qa5 23. Kh1 Qc5 $17 { White's pawns will be hunted like the men of night's watch will be when the 'other' make their way beyond the wall.}) 21. Kh1 Bf8 (21... Bxc3 22. bxc3 Nb3 {was again very strong, but it's psychologically very hard to exchange off the b4-bishop.} 23. Rb1 Nxc1 24. Rxc1 Rb6 $17) 22. Rb1 Nb3 23. Bf4 Qb6 24. Ne4 Rbc8 25. Ng5 Nc5 26. Qd4 Ned3 {Black is slowly increasing the pressure...} 27. Bxd3 $2 {With three minutes remaining, White throws caution to the wind and goes all in.} (27. Bg3 $142) 27... cxd3 28. Be3 Qb3 29. Qh4 h6 (29... h5 {was also winning.}) 30. Nxf7 Kxf7 31. Bxh6 Re4 32. Bf4 Qxd5 33. Qh7+ Ke8 34. f7+ {[#]} Qxf7 $4 {I presume Rapport got too complacent here and missed his opponent's next move completely.} (34... Kd8 $142 35. Qh4+ (35. Qg8 Ne6 $19) 35... g5 36. Qxg5+ Qxg5 37. Bxg5+ Kc7 $19) 35. Bd6 $1 {[#]Black has no way back from here.} Re7 36. Rxf7 Rxf7 37. Qxg6 Bxd6 38. Rf1 1-0 Abhimanyu starts off from where he had left last year. In the third round, he beat German GM Rasmus Svane: [Event "36th Zalakaros Open 2017"] [Site "Zalakaros HUN"] [Date "2017.05.20"] [Round "3.3"] [White "Puranik, Abhimanyu"] [Black "Svane, Rasmus"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B11"] [WhiteElo "2459"] [BlackElo "2573"] [Annotator "Srinath,Narayanan"] [PlyCount "85"] [EventDate "2017.05.18"] [SourceDate "2003.06.08"] 1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Ne4 5. Ne2 Qb6 6. d4 e6 7. Nfg1 f6 8. exf6 $5 {A new move in a well known position. Very interesting and original play!} ( 8. f3 Ng5 9. exf6 gxf6 10. f4 {is the mainline. This position is immensely complicated.}) 8... Nxf6 9. Nf3 c5 10. Nf4 cxd4 11. Bd3 Bd6 12. O-O {Black is a pawn up, but White is set to regain it, as d4 and e6 is weak. Under such circumstances, it'll be ideal if Black can find a way to keep the pawn, as these are central pawns that exert a lot of control over important squares.} e5 (12... O-O 13. Re1 (13. Ng5 h6 14. Ngxe6 Bxe6 15. Nxe6 Bxh2+ 16. Kxh2 Qxe6 $15) 13... Na6 $1 {it's a complicated position, but Black is better.}) 13. Re1 Nc6 14. Ng5 e4 $2 {[#]} (14... Bd7 $142) 15. Nxd5 $1 Nxd5 16. Nxe4 {The bishop on d6 holds together Black's position, however it is vulnerable. Black's position gets very difficult upon it's elimination.} (16. Bxe4 Nde7 17. Qh5+ Kd7 18. Bd2 $16 {[#] was also very strong, but not easy for a human to evaluate this accurately.}) 16... Nce7 17. c4 Nf6 {[#]} 18. Nxf6+ $2 {Keeping concrete details aside, I feel that White should've gone after the dark square bishop.} (18. c5 $142 $1 Bxc5 19. Nxc5 Qxc5 20. Bf4 $16 {The e7 knight's fall is just a matter of time.}) 18... gxf6 19. Qh5+ Kd8 20. Bd2 a5 21. Qf7 Bd7 {White's attack has fizzled out and Black seems alright. But Svane has just 8 minutes for 19 moves and Abhimanyu knows exactly how to set difficult problems for opponent's in these circumstances.} 22. g3 Bc5 23. Re2 Ng6 24. Rae1 Rf8 $6 ( 24... Qd6 $142 25. f4 Kc8 {was the right way to go, and in a handful of moves, Black would've a winning position.}) 25. Qg7 Ne5 26. Rxe5 $1 fxe5 27. Rxe5 { Black has just 3 minutes for 13 moves. I will refrain from commenting on every move from here as game goes into a crazy time scramble.} Kc7 (27... Kc8 { seems safer, from first impression.}) 28. Qg5 Bb4 29. Bf4 Kc8 30. a3 h6 31. Qg7 Bd6 32. c5 Bxc5 33. Rd5 Be6 34. Rh5 Rg8 $4 {[#]} (34... Rf7 $142 35. Qe5 Bf8 { not allowing Bf5.}) 35. Qe5 Bf8 36. Bf5 Kd7 37. Qd5+ Ke7 38. Bxe6 {Now it's just over} Rd8 39. Bd7 Bg7 40. Qe4+ Kf7 41. Rb5 Qf6 42. Qd5+ Ke7 43. Rxb7 { It may appear like Abhimanyu got lucky in both the games, but the truth is, he is actually a master in setting his opponent very difficult practical problems. Legends like Tal,Shirov had similar qualities as well and they used these tools against the highest opposition.} 1-0 IM Praggnanandhaa R. (2471) had a scare in the third round when he was dead lost but his opponent blundered and allowed him to win. There were no such chances in the fourth round as he crushed GM Levente Vajda (2600) with white. In the fifth round, little Praggu got outplayed by Gabor Papp (2592), but the win over Vajda was textbook positional play. [Event "36th Zalakaros Open 2017"] [Site "Zalakaros HUN"] [Date "2017.05.21"] [Round "4.6"] [White "Praggnanandhaa, R."] [Black "Vajda, Levente"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A04"] [WhiteElo "2471"] [BlackElo "2600"] [Annotator "Srinath,Narayanan"] [PlyCount "87"] [EventDate "2017.??.??"] [SourceDate "2003.06.08"] 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 c5 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 g6 6. O-O Bg7 7. Nc3 { White has chosen to control the center with only his pieces, involving no pawns, much like Richard Reti.} O-O 8. Re1 d5 9. Nb3 d4 10. Na4 e5 {Black has occupied the center with his pawns, White with his pieces. The typical motif is to start putting pressure on these advanced pawns.} 11. c3 Re8 (11... dxc3 12. Nxc3 Bf5 {would be very close to equal, but White may still have a teeny tiny edge.}) 12. cxd4 exd4 13. Nac5 {A very interesting middlegame has arisen. The fundamental difference is in the pawn structure, especially the pawn on d4. This pawn gives Black space and exerts control. However, it is also vulnerable to being attacked. The knight on c5 along with the bishop on g2 exerts unpleasant pressure.} Ng4 14. h3 Nge5 15. e3 {So far, White has played by the textbook} Qe7 $2 (15... dxe3 $142 16. Bxe3 Qxd1 17. Raxd1 b6 18. Nd3 {puts Black under unpleasant pressure. Black has a few tactical ways to relieve his pressure, for example, Bxh3 here, however, it's hard to calculate this and evaluate accurately from 3 moves prior.}) 16. Bd2 $1 {Black's position prima facie seems alright, but he has already landed himself in a soup.} d3 (16... dxe3 17. Rxe3) 17. Rc1 Rd8 {loses a pawn, but it's already hard to give Black good advice.} 18. f4 Nd7 19. Nxd3 Nf6 20. Ndc5 {back to his favourite square.} Rb8 21. Qe2 b6 {finally Black gets rid of this irksome knight, but at what cost?} 22. Na6 Bxa6 23. Qxa6 Ne4 24. Bxe4 Qxe4 25. Qc4 Qxc4 26. Rxc4 Ne7 27. Bc3 b5 28. Rc5 Bxc3 29. Rxc3 {A comfortable pawn up.} Nd5 30. Rd3 Nb4 31. Rxd8+ Rxd8 32. a3 Nc6 33. Kf2 b4 34. a4 Rd3 35. Nc5 Rd2+ 36. Re2 Rd1 37. Rc2 Na5 38. Kf3 Rf1+ 39. Ke4 Ra1 40. g4 h6 41. Ke5 Kg7 42. f5 Nc6+ 43. Kd6 Na5 44. Nd7 {A near flawless performance. White displayed a high level of positional understanding and a very mature play. Wow!} 1-0 Rucha Pujari WIM Rucha Pujari, playing her first tournament as a WIM got off to a positive start with 2.0/5 . She missed a promising opportunity against the Hungarian veteran GM Ivan Farago [Event "36th Zalakaros Open 2017"] [Site "Zalakaros HUN"] [Round "2.36"] [White "Farago, Ivan"] [Black "Pujari, Rucha"] [Annotator "Srinath,Narayanan"] [EventDate "2017.??.??"] [SourceDate "2003.06.08"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 Be7 7. Bd3 Nbd7 8. Nge2 Nf8 9. O-O Ne6 10. Bh4 g6 11. b4 a6 12. Rb1 O-O 13. a4 Nh5 14. Bxe7 Qxe7 15. Qc2 f5 16. Ng3 f4 17. Nxh5 gxh5 18. Kh1 Kh8 19. Ne2 $2 Bd7 (19... f3 $1) 20. Bf5 f3 $1 21. gxf3 Qf7 22. e4 Ng5 23. f4 Nxe4 24. Bxd7 Qxd7 25. f3 Nd6 26. Rg1 Rae8 27. Rg5 Re3 28. Ng3 {[#] After some very resourceful and enterprising play, Black is dominating.} Rxf3 $2 $138 (28... h4 29. Qf2 (29. Nh5 Qh3 $1 30. Qg2 Qxf3 31. Qxf3 Rxf3 $19) 29... Qe6 30. Nf1 Re2 31. Qxh4 Nf5 32. Qg4 Re1 33. Rxe1 Qxe1 34. Qh3 Nxd4 $19) 29. Qe2 Ne4 30. Nxe4 (30. Qxf3 Nxg5 31. Qxh5 Nf7 32. Re1 Re8 33. Rxe8+ Qxe8 $11) 30... dxe4 31. Qxe4 R3xf4 32. Qe5+ R4f6 33. Rbg1 Qe6 34. Rxh5 Qxe5 35. Rxe5 1/2-1/2 Rank after Round 5 Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg TB1 TB2 TB3 1 13 GM Papp Gabor HUN 2592 4,5 15,5 13,0 2 36 IM Puranik Abhimanyu IND 2459 4,0 16,5 13,5 3 8 GM Banusz Tamas HUN 2616 4,0 15,5 13,5 4 6 GM Nabaty Tamir ISR 2640 4,0 15,0 12,0 5 18 GM Danin Alexandre RUS 2543 4,0 14,5 12,5 6 21 GM Mihok Oliver HUN 2532 4,0 14,0 12,5 7 23 GM Mikhalevski Victor ISR 2520 4,0 13,0 11,5 8 22 GM Horvath Jozsef HUN 2526 4,0 13,0 11,5 9 19 GM Shyam Sundar M. IND 2535 4,0 12,0 11,5 10 2 GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter GER 2686 3,5 15,5 11,5 Photos from the Facebook Page Magyar Sakkszövetség	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1018
__label__cc	0.519158	0.480842	MTRSP1900-CTA3200 MTRSP1900-CTA3200 last won the day on November 28 2019 MTRSP1900-CTA3200 had the most liked content! 394 Top Contributor About MTRSP1900-CTA3200 http://www.youtube.com/crazyabouta380s Chicago Transit Authority, Aviation, Sound Transit Favorite Bus Flxible Metro (RIP 2010), Nova Bus LFS (2000 and 2014 Editions), DE60LF/R Favorite Railcar 3200 Series (CTA), Siemens 0700 Series (Other US Transit Agency), Tokyo Metro 01 Series (Foreign/International Transit Agency) Mr.NewFlyer1051 indigofoundue74 chicagocubs6323 Erin Mishkin Jr. sht6131 Your New Blue - O'Hare Branch Rehab MTRSP1900-CTA3200 replied to BusHunter's topic in CTA Rail Do the platforms at Grand - Chicago - Division look any different since they recently closed and reopened them for work? The last big improvement was when they put the extra lights along the track walls and scrubbed the stations around 2011-2012, but that was more for cleanliness and appearance. Though Division could always be given a good scrubbing! Celebrities on CTA buses and L trains MTRSP1900-CTA3200 replied to MRChiCity's topic in CTA General Discussion There’s a picture of Dave Grohl from The Foo Fighters riding the Brown Line. Despite the graffiti on the wall next to the seat he was sitting in, he looked very thrilled while on the train. Link. 7000-series - Manufacturing MTRSP1900-CTA3200 replied to railfan4072's topic in CTA Rail That might have to do more with the Circle Interchange rebuilding than the Eisenhower itself. There was a lot more construction on that part of the Eisenhower than any other part, and that goes for the Kennedy as well. 7000-series The CTA probably split the CRRC order into a firm order and additional options because the 3200s don’t need to be replaced right away, but the 2600s are obviously nearing the end of their service lives. So the initial order is larger to replace all of the 2600s that are in service, and the option order is smaller to potentially replace the 257 3200s. While the CTA would definitely appreciate a younger, more reliable rail fleet, it’s not as easy as it sounds. I think the decision to replace the 3200s will depend on if CRRC messes up the initial order, or the prototypes. One of their companies is manufacturing subway cars for the Orange and Red Lines in Boston, but the Orange Line cars have been pulled from service at least twice, most recently because the doors would open while the train was in motion. Annual CTA Holiday Train MTRSP1900-CTA3200 replied to sw4400's topic in CTA Rail That’s actually similar to what I’m referring to, but I still believe it has to do with a wheel assembly component other than the motors themselves. On the DC cars, the motors do produce a sound when the train is in motion, but it’s very faint (unless you were riding on the 2200s!), and it certainly doesn’t sound like the “polar wind” I heard. And I didn’t mention your remarks on how they were Skokie cars and their ride quality because I was typing in a rush, but when they made the “polar wind” noise I would argue that they were the cars with the best ride quality on the entire L system. No vibrations or flat spots at all. It was, I have it on camera above. Yes please! Then we can properly film them. Oh that makes sense then. When I remember the trips on the train when I could smell it, I was riding it on the Brownage runs, earlier in the train’s operating window. When I started riding it on the Pink Line is when I couldn’t smell it, but that was later on in the train’s run. Still think they should bring back the polar wind wheels though. They’re in the city, just not on CTA tracks yet. On this year’s train? For last year’s train I don’t remember it smelling like cinnamon, either on the charter or its run on the Pink Line. I remember for a few years they had modified the air system so the cars smelled like cinnamon, but now they don’t. But my favorite thing they did was put something in the wheel assemblies so when the train set was moving it sounded like what you would think the wind blowing at the North Pole would sound like. You can hear it in this video I took when it leaves Clark/Lake. It’s too bad they removed that, along with the dancing bells next to the doors before the train switched to LEDs. I liked those for some reason. 5800 dispositions MTRSP1900-CTA3200 replied to andrethebusman's topic in CTA Bus I jokingly considered buying a used bus for when me and my family go on vacation. Just have our baggage stowed in the raised portion in the rear and everyone riding comfortably towards the front! When Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport completes their airport train to the rental car center they’re going to phase out their shuttle buses, which would work good for us because they have luggage racks. We leased a 2017 Toyota Highlander that could seat 8, but with 5 of us plus all of our luggage it was a tight squeeze, and the Highlander is not a small car by any means. Even when it was just me my dad and step mom traveling to LA and Phoenix it was like playing Tetris trying to get all the bags in (though we had my brother pick us up to avoid paying for airport parking). I could have explained that better. I would be very surprised if the 7000s didn't have the Form 5 couplers that other modern L cars have. The issue is that Bombardier isn't just going to give out its proprietary software used in the 5000s to other manufacturers in order to make their trains compatible with the 5000s, and they definitely aren't going to give it to CRRC after they lost the bid to build the 7000 series. This is what the issue is in New York. The R142s were built by Bombardier (surprise!) and the R142As were built by Kawasaki. Because of the different software in each train type, they can't run together despite having the same couplers and both having AC motors. I hope so, but I wouldn’t count on it. I believe dropping the requirement of compatibility with the 5000s was how CRRC was encouraged to bid on the contract, otherwise Bombardier would have been awarded it. And as we know since Bombardier protested CRRC getting the contract, I doubt that they would give CRRC proprietary information on how to make the 7000s play nice with the 5000. This is similar to in New York City, where R142s cannot run in service with R142As because of incompatibilities between them as a result of them being built by two different manufacturers (despite looking almost identical). 2600-series - Service Dates Well at least it would be less complicated than if they still had Wilson on the rollsigns.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1022
__label__cc	0.736006	0.263994	Why was God so upset with Moses for striking the rock the second time in the desert? In Exodus, God commands Moses to strike a rock, and promises to make water flow in the desert for the people. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. (Exodus 17:6 ESV) Later on, God tells Moses to speak to a rock, promising to make water flow in the desert again. However, Moses strikes the rock again instead of speaking to it. Because of just this one thing, God tells Moses that he will no longer be permitted bring the people into the Promised Land. “Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.” 9 And Moses took the staff from before the Lord, as he commanded him. 10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?” 11 And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock. 12 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.” (Numbers 20:8-12 ESV, emphasis added) Why was the punishment so harsh for what seems like a small infraction? Was there something greater or more symbolic going on here? exegesis exodus moses numbers See also: What exactly did Moses do wrong at Meribah? – Jon Ericson Apr 17 '13 at 23:23 This is a very good and important question, and does have a strongly illustrative allegory, but as asked the question is opinion based. You might ask for an overview of allegorical or symbolic interpretations. They should come out clearly in a few commentaries. – Andrew Sep 9 '16 at 15:38 (-1) with that in mind, questions that are readily answered by commentaries are "good" questions in general, but are not good for this site as they demonstrate a lack of research effort. – Andrew Sep 9 '16 at 15:39 Like the forefathers of those who eventually ended up in the Promised Land, Moses's problem was that he failed to trust in God. In chapter 12 of Numbers, Aaron and Miriam oppose Moses as God's messenger and their leader. As a result, they also are refused entry to the land (by death, like Moses). Moses' problem wasn't that he misinterpreted God or thought that since he'd hit the rock before that it was okay to do it again. Rather, Moses was utterly rejecting God and trying to take control. Moses was violent. He struck the rock twice when God just said to speak to it. Moses was usurping God's place. He said to the people, "hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?" The emphasis is technically mine, but it was already there. Moses didn't say "God will bring water out of this rock for you." He (with Aaron, evidently) took God's place and assured them that he would do it for them. Verse 12 is pretty revealing as to the nature of Moses's crime: "Because you did not believe in me," (emphasis mine) Moses totally failed to trust God for the life-supplying water. He tried to take matters into his own hands. He was supposed the be the leader, but also the servant of God. He tried to usurp God's place. Additionally, I think there might be some symbolism to the rock. Back in Exodus 17, God tells Moses "Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink" Ex. 17:6 To quote my study bible notes on this, "An astonishing statement. In this trial God takes the place of the accused, standing in the dock." 1 Corinthians 10:4 explains that "the Rock was Christ." In striking the Rock, Moses was striking God for the people. Christ was punished for the nourishment of his people. Back to Numbers, it seems that maybe the situation is similar here. God has provided a rock (Christ) that will bring forth water (salvation) for his people. This is somewhat speculative, but it seems that this time, Moses is in the position of the people. He's supposed to ask God for salvation, to request the water from the rock. But instead, he takes up his previous position as judge, and strikes the rock (Christ). Before, he was commanded to. This time, he willingly strikes his Savior. It's interesting to note, in support of that theory, that the Hebrew word used for "strike" is the same in both cases (link), and the words for rock are quite similar (Numbers word & Exodus. word) Ultimately of course, it's because Moses did not believe that God could bring the water out of the rock, and hit it himself. (perhaps he was trying to knock loose rocks to open up a stream, or he thought that his staff held some special Mosaic power - either way, he thought he was the key to the equation) I used my study bible a good deal on this one, the ESV Reformation Study Bible by Ligonier Thomas ShieldsThomas Shields I am a little surprised that no one brought out James 3:1--that teachers will be judged more strictly--or Matt. 5:48--that perfection is the standard--and Lev. 11:45--be holy because I am holy (perhaps particularly significant in context of "you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy"--personal holiness as witness to Divine holiness, the contrary a form of blasphemy--"in the eyes of the people"--addressing a leader/teacher). The explanations of the offence are very good, but it seemed that adding such would also address the harshness a little more. – Paul A. Clayton Dec 6 '12 at 22:36 Christ the Rock, was struck (crucified) once, thereafter we speak to or pray to the eternal Rock, Jesus Christ. – Rick Sep 10 '13 at 17:51 This reminds me of Heb 6:4-8, which talks about those who have "the goodness of the word of God", and then fallen away. That passage doesn't directly match what you've said, but it's 'intuitively close', in the sense that the continued striking is the really bad thing. But after the one strike, the Word must take over; if [godly] language doesn't replace physical force, somehow hope of salvation is lost, or at least hope of 'better' this side of the afterlife is lost (see Moses at the Transfiguration, per a comment below). Maybe you'll be able to do something with this vague connection. :-/ – labreuer May 23 '14 at 16:15 The answer is right there in verse 12: And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.” It's a classic example of lack of faith. God tells Moses to do something that doesn't sound reasonable to him, so he decides "no, that'll never work" and do something that he thinks would work better, such as striking the rock to get water out of it. Mason Wheeler♦Mason Wheeler It's an interesting lesson. How many times do we pray to God in unbelief. Striking the rock multiple times so to speak without praying, believing and receiving as in Mark 11. – Matt Sep 10 '13 at 21:08 The section you quote contains the answer: because Moses did not believe. He was told to "tell the rock... to yield its water" but instead he struck the rock twice, apparently believing God's command to be insufficient. He expected God to act in exactly the same way as He had before, but God apparently wanted to reveal His power to Moses in a new way. As the leader, Moses was being watched. When Moses did not believe, this could easily lead to lack of belief amongst the Israelites, which had been a problem before. Finally, God had previously to deal with men not trusting His promise but taking matters into their own hands. There's a lesson in this for all of us: we cannot expect God to be predictable and solve our problems in the same way He always has done. He's in the business of making things new! Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SEReinstate Monica - Goodbye SE It doesn't seem like the problem was that he struck it twice - it was that he struck it at all. God didn't even tell him to strike the rock once - that was a different occasion. He said to "tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water" – Eric Apr 3 '12 at 23:52 @Eric: thanks, I have corrected my answer. (This is what happens when I answer from memory instead of checking my facts...) – Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE Apr 4 '12 at 10:48 Christ is the main subject in the Old Testament "concealed". God speaks of Him in types and shadows. At Rephidim (Exodus 17:4) God told Moses to strike the Rock.The Rock is Christ (1st Corinthians 10:4), Moses represents the Law. Jesus was struck by Israel for presuming to violate the Law, for claiming to be God, which He is! When He was struck "crucified", living water (John 4:10) for all humanity who would "believe" was poured out. Moses was told to speak to the Rock at Meribah (Numbers 20:8). As a prerequisite for Jesus to return, to save Israel during the Great Tribulation they must ask Him, (Luke 13:35). So by striking the Rock, Moses messed up God's model or type which would have modeded the 1st and 2nd comings of Christ. So to counter this mistake by Moses, He was not allowed to take Israel into the Promised Land which is a type of Heaven, Moses represents the Law, only God's Grace gets you in Heaven "the Promised land, so Joshua took them in! Joshua is Hebrew for Jesus! The Law is the 1st five books of the Old Testament, called the Torah by the Jews, The very next book is "Joshua" T. RyalsT. Ryals Welcome to the forum. Very nice answer! – Narnian Dec 6 '12 at 19:09 So you read this passage as an allegory for Israel's future rejection of Jesus? I'm sorry, but I don't buy it. Can you present more evidence that the rock symbolises Christ? What does it symbolise for the Law (Moses) to strike Christ (the rock)? – curiousdannii May 31 '14 at 13:08 Never heard that before!Brilliant answer.Who is preaching that the next book Joshua is a symbol of Jesus? – Aigle Jun 30 '16 at 9:26 You guys made some good points on this article. Just wanted to add to something else to support this qiestion. Moses was also complaining when he said his comments. The Hebrew word for Complain means: To Remain or Remaining. Because of this the children of Israel remained in the wilderness for 40 yrs. Moses also complained and he remained. They were not able to enter the promise land because they were cursed by complaining, lack of faith, lack of obedience, bitterness, anger.. Etc. All these acts will hinder all believers to receive the breakthrough to receive the promises of God. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted for. (1 Cort.10:8) Again, now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him or her that thinketh he or she standeth take heed lest he or she fall.(1 Cort.10:11-12) Narnian Elier MelendezElier Melendez Mosses was not punished for striking the rock instead of speaking to it. His sin is much larger than that.. His sin is that of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Numbers 20:10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?” Moses is acting as if He and Aron are the responsible party for the miracles rather than acknowledging God as the cause. They are taking the credit when the credit belongs to God. Shall we bring you water from this rock yet again???? Rather than shall we bother God for water yet again? This is blasphemy. Now blasphemy is not forgiven so this sin of Moses may hold him out of the kingdom of God. Yet perhaps Moses pays for this sin by not being allowed into the promised land. It is also why Jesus never claims that anything he does to be of himself. He acknowledges that nothing he does is of himself. He says the power is not his. Instead Jesus points to the Holy Spirit as the Active reason for all that he says and all that he had done. He claims that the Spirit is within him. He says the Father, as we know that to be the Holy Spirit, is with him and had not left him. He does what the Father shows him and says as the Father directs. It is establishing that He unlike Moses does things exactly as God instructs him to do. Welcome to the site. Please see the faq and the tour page. This is a good first answer. To make it a bit better you should mention that Moses is present at the Transfiguration, so his punishment for blasphemy is not permanent. However, some might argue that the sin was not blasphemy at all, but pride. – 3961 Apr 17 '13 at 22:52 There is something else hidden in the sentence when Moses striked the rock when he was told to speak to it. Here he was believing in himself his soul power, not god's power. His eyes were lifted from god and it was on his soul power. Hence he also says, "Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?” Remember Jeremiah 17:5 says This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD. Moses by trusting in himself was inadvertently bringing on gods curse. Dear brothers and sister we too some times end up trusting in our soul power, it is very subtle, but let us pray that when that happens god gives us wisdom to see it and repent. AshaAsha I love the Jer 17:5 reference, but does Moses' "we" refer to (a) multiple humans, or (b) a human-God communion and co-working (see 1 Cor 3:9a)? – labreuer May 23 '14 at 16:23 The rock symbolizes Jesus Christ who is to be crucified once. Striking the rock symbolizes crucifying Jesus Christ. After crucifying Jesus Christ (striking the rock), we ought to speak (pray) for solutions. However, Moses did strike (crucify) again and again! No one can ever or should never try to change the plans of God! Emmanuel E. KumahEmmanuel E. Kumah This answer would be a lot better if you could add references showing that this is a common understanding, and who teaches/believes it. Remember that "I believe it means..." isn't an acceptable answer, since this site isn't about personal interpretation. See How we are different than other sites? and What makes a good supported answer? – David Stratton Oct 25 '13 at 19:27 Jesus is often represented as the unhewn Rock in scripture. For example Nebuchadnezzar's vision of the unhewn rock establishing an everlasting kingdom. There is a very clear link with the scene at Golgotha: Moses struck the Rock with a staff and water came out. The Roman soldiers 'struck' the side of Christ with a spear and water came out. – Pete B Nov 20 '14 at 9:30 While this makes perfect sense, since it is like striking Jesus down twice (especially if he had been hitting it once at any time prior), this is not the image here. God said "speak to the rock" and Moses clearly did not. This is an example of disobedience only. – James Wilkins May 22 '15 at 19:11 I've usually heard the explanation as being that Moses struck the rock when God said to speak to it. And I don't doubt that his failure to follow instruction may have been a part of it. But it seems to me the key problem is that he said, "Shall WE bring water for you out of this rock". Rather than give glory to God, he tried to take credit for it himself. "God and I will do this." JayJay What about 1 Cor 3:9a? "For we are God’s fellow workers." Seeing God as the only source of action seems in conflict with imago dei. There are actually three options: “Hear now, you rebels: shall { God, we, I } bring water for you out of this rock?” It seems like 'we' might actually be the correct choice! God wants to work with us, as Ezekiel 22:29-31 makes clear. Ezekiel 34 makes it clear that God is angry when humans don't do their part. 'I' is also clearly wrong, as it attempts the autonomy that Adam and Eve attempted. – labreuer May 23 '14 at 16:22 Paul writes (1 Cor 10.4) that the Rock was Christ, and (in accord with Jewish tradition) the same Rock (perhaps figuratively) actually followed Israel from Horeb (Ex 17 where Moses struck the rock) to Nebo (Deut 32 where he got in trouble for striking it again). In my view, the faithlessness of Moses was in not accepting that "the Christ suffered once for all." CapsmanCapsman Could you expand this? I'm interested in how you make the jump here? What did Moses know about Christ? – wax eagle Sep 10 '13 at 19:53 Moses perhaps knew nothing about Christ, like Abraham knew nothing about Christ yet said 'a sacrifice will be provided' before offering Issac. It had a local meaning and a prophetic meaning which he may not have known himself at the time. – Pete B Nov 20 '14 at 9:23 The rock is indeed Jesus Christ who died once and for all for our sins. In the first instance God told Moses to take Moses' rod which brought judgement and hit the rock. It symbolises Jesus being punished instead of us. In the second instance God told Moses to take the rod from God's presence, which is the High priest' rod symbolising grace.As many have explained when Moses hit the rock when God told him to speak to the rock, Moses being the shepherd of the Israelites did not demonstrate God's grace as God intended, in the presence of the people. But he demonstrated judgement. As St. Paul says crucifying Christ again. Such leaders cannot lead their congregation into the promised land because they will only look at the judgement but not accept God's grace. Only through grace we shall enter into the rest of the promised land! Note that although Moses hit the rock God did not withhold the water. So although as leaders we see results amidst our congregations be watchful of the message you give. If you don't preach the message of grace you cannot lead your flock to where God wants them to be. That's in the promised land. Praise be to God! EddieEddie Welcome to the site. As a new visitor, I'd recommend checking out the following posts, which are meant to help newcomers "learn the ropes": help page, How we are different than other sites? and What makes a good supported answer? – David Stratton Nov 1 '13 at 1:40 All the aforementioned answers were very correct. Just to add my own view point... The matter of Moses with God was simply what I call TOTAL obedience and also a failure to acknowledge God in the sight of the Israelites, as we all know that God says we should be perfect as He is. There is not 0.000001% imperfection in God, so 99.999% obedience is not of God (1John 1:5b). God could still have forgiven King Saul in 1 Samuel 15, but because he failed to carefully and totally obey God, God regretted selecting Saul in the first place. God's standard in our service to Him is that we TOTALLY and CAREFULLY obey him, which is the simple definition of HOLINESS. AyodeleAyodele Welcome to C.SE. When you get the chance, please check out our tour and specifically How we are different than other sites. Please don't be offended by this, but your "own view point" isn't what we do here. I don't disagree with what you say, but we're generally looking for answers with support (and you do a decent job of that) and an established doctrinal perspective. I think you're heading in that direction, but just be aware of your sourcing. Thanks! – Affable Geek Nov 5 '13 at 15:01 A bit of confusion arises when the topic of giving glory to God arises. Giving glory is figuratively like using a highlight pen. It raises the visibility of the object or text, separates it (makes holy?). The point in giving glory is to make sure that the cause of the good work is not missed: God. Not because God is a praise seeking ego maniac, but because He is the only source of good things. Depending on Him is everything, depending on anything else, futile. A very, very, important lesson. How much glory must be given to God? Enough so that He is unequivocally identified as the cause of the good work: Matthew 7:22-23 NET On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?’ Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’ Mark 9:39 NET But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me. Try to locate where Moses said anything good about God in His speech. FootwasherFootwasher Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged exegesis exodus moses numbers or ask your own question. How do people who reject transubstantiation interpret these verses? Did Moses see the face of God? How could the Egyptian magicians do what God did through Moses? What was inside the Ark of the Covenant? Why did God relent on killing Moses when Zipporah circumcised their son? Is Cecil B. DeMille's narration of Moses in the desert based on the Bible? Did Moses leave his wife and kids? If so, why?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1024
__label__wiki	0.859727	0.859727	Posted on 11 April 2007 by churumuri Bhaiyya, Tantoo Sharma ko gussa kyon aata hai? News happens—or rather, news gets reported—in a strange fashion in India id est Bharat. If there is a train accident, you can rest assured that half-a-dozen more accidents will be reported in the next couple of days. If a Mary statue drinks milk in Meerut in the morning, you can be dead sure that it will happen everywhere else from Mahishasurpur to Muzaffarnagar by mid-afternoon. And so it is with the national anthem controversy involving N.R. Narayana Murthy. Even before the “quoted out context” claim of the Infosys founder registers, comes news that Sachin Tendulkar, may have insulted the national flag by cutting a cake which was tricoloured like the tiranga jhanda. How much longer before it is revealed that a model showed disrespect to the national flag during the recent fashion week? NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar found himself at the centre of another controversy following a report by a television channel that he had cut a cake in the colours of the national flag during the Indian team’s stay in the West Indies last month. A TV channel showed a photograph of Tendulkar with a knife about to cut the cake in the presence of Indian High Commissioner to Jamaica K.L. Agrawal. Reacting to the television report, the Cricket Board said the incident should not be blown out of proportion as Tendulkar was a person who would never show any disrespect to the national flag. “Tendulkar has spoken to me. He says that the function was organised by the India High Commission and with so many people around he did not realise the colour of the cake when he was suddenly asked to cut it,” BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla said. Shukla said that Tendulkar could not be held responsible as it was a function organised by the Indian High Commission. “The High Commission should have taken care of these things”. “Tendulkar will not do such a thing intentionally. He respects the national flag and had even sought permission to use the tricolour on his helmet. If an explanation is sought, it should be sought from the Indian High Commission”, Shukla said. The Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal said that in all probability it was unintentional. “The person who made the cake should be held responsible for this,” he said. Fans set afire posters in Indore Fans of Sachin set on fire his posters to protest his action of reportedly cutting a cake with the national flag on it. The fans led by one Tantoo Sharma and others beat Tendulkar’s posters with a bat and later set them on fire at the GPO Square. Sharma demanded an apology from Tendulkar for his reported act, especially in view of the fact that the cricketer has great regard for his country. Meanwhile, Tiranga Abhiyan convenor and Deputy Superintendent of Police Ravi Atrolia demanded unconditional apology from Tendulkar for allegedly disrespecting the national flag. He said that though Tendulkar might have done it unknowingly, but it is a crime under section 2 of the prevention of insult to national honour act of 1971. Atrolia said that if he failed to tender an apology then his organisation will be forced to take legal course as it has done in the past against various film personalities. Bhartiya Janshakti Party leader Rajesh Bidkar also issued a legal notice to Tendulkar for allegedly insulting the national flag in Jamaica. Bidkar demanded an unconditional apology from Tendulkar for reportedly insulting the national tricolour, failing which he would file a civil suit in court. (courtesy DNA) Cross-posted on sans serif This entry was posted in Issues and Ideas, IT-BT, IIT-IIM, The Anthem Row. Bookmark the permalink. ← What others are saying on Jana Gana Mana row What Infosys played, and what NRN said → When did the Bhartiya Janshakti Party become a district/high court to issue a “Legal” notice ? And Churumuri promptly relays this pathetic piece of reporting by DNA, instead of criticising a fellow media organisation. Well just as every dog has his day – Tantoo had his. When we start focusing on non-issues it can only mean that we are evading the real ones. Unfortunately, the whole country drives to – “Caution! Potholes ahead. Take diversion’ ‘Non-issue’???? Do you mean to say that starvation deaths, corruption, communal and caste violence, poverty, disease and illiteracy are bigger issues than a confused cricketer cutting a cake that may or may not have been made of Indian colours in an Indian Embassy in a foreign country?? Do you know how much my chest swells with pride when the UN routinely puts us on the bottom of the list for HUman Development, but still respects our flag by putting it on the same level as Pakistan? After our nation’s pride and honour has been so strenuously upheld by half-illiterate, deranged idiots stoning photos, how can we allow a man who has the gall to play cricket for India to accidentally cut a cake which may have had Indian colours??!! Which country do you think we are living in? China??!!! Indu Ramesh I want to know if all these respectors of the National Flag have at any time, given a thought to the thousands of plastic flags which end up in the dust bins after every Independance day and Republic day. I guess anybody and everybody who gets in front of TV news cameras says just what the channel expects him to say and so a huge story is built up and keeps the channel going until it can find another story.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1027
__label__cc	0.667125	0.332875	Consumer Tech » HP 3D printer alexandre lalumiere HP Inc launches 3D printing in India HP claims that its Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printing solution delivers physical parts which are up to 10 times faster and at half the cost of current 3D printing systems.Surabhi Agarwal \| ET Bureau \| January 17, 2018, 18:05 IST NE W DELHI: One and half years after it launched 3D printing globally, HP Inc. has forayed into the market in India on Wednesday. The company has partnered with Mumbai based Imaginarium and Noida based firm Adroitec as resellers of its 3D printing solution in the country. HP claims that its Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printing solution delivers physical parts which are up to 10 times faster and at half the cost of current 3D printing systems and can create anything from complex parts that go into industrial machines to customised in-soles and dentures. “We believe that digital transformation of manufacturing will be a key enabler of the next Industrial Revolution,” said Sumeer Chandra, Managing Director, HP Inc. India. “3D Printing will contribute to democratizing manufacturing and transforming industries, including the $6 trillion Asia-Pacific and Japan manufacturing segment. India is a strategic hub for this significant shift and we are excited to bring the cutting-edge Multi Jet Fusion technology to Indian customers across a variety of vertical markets,” he added. Globally, HP has 65 resellers and Chandra said that in India the company is open to more partnerships. Alexandre Lalumiere, Director, Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) 3D Printing, HP Inc said, "The current 3D printing market is relatively small but if we compare it to the full potential of the $12 trillion manufacturing sector, the potential is huge and we believe that technology is at the tipping point right now." The areas that HP will be focusing initially include automotive sector, defense, Aerospace, higher education labs, robotics and healthcare. Tags : Consumer Tech, HP 3D printer, India, HP printer, HP, alexandre lalumiere, 3D printing Most Read in Consumer Tech Xiaomi India's MD hands over offline retail biz to COO; to focus on new areas ISRO helps chipmaker Qualcomm for enabling Indian GPS, NavIC, in smartphones iPhone owners 167 times more at risk of being hacked: Study OnePlus Concept One smartphone features 'invisible camera' Ok, Google: How many people use Assistant monthly? It's 500 million Xiaomi to invest $7 billion in 5G, AI and IoT over next 5 years Baidu Chief Robin Li thinks AI will cut human dependence on mobile phones	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1030
__label__wiki	0.988494	0.988494	Mildred Oliphant is the latest former minister to fall by the wayside Juniour Khumalo 2019-06-13 11:01 The Minister of the Department of Labour Mildred Oliphant addressing media in Tshwane Picture: Andrew Mkhondo Former minister of labour Mildred Oliphant has joined the growing list of former ministers who have cut their losses and resigned from the National Assembly. Oliphant’s resignation, which has been confirmed by the office of the ANC’s chief whip Pemmy Majodina, brings the number of MPs who have resigned from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s sixth administration to nine. “The office of the ANC chief whip confirms having received the resignation letter of ... Oliphant, as an ANC member of Parliament,” read the tweet sent out by the ANC’s official parliamentary account. Oliphant was one of 14 former ministers from the fifth administration who did not make it to the sixth Cabinet while other ANC members Nomvula Mokonyane and Malusi Gigaba, whose names appeared on the list for those earmarked for the National Assembly, declined the offer to be ordinary parliamentarians before being sworn in. READ: MPs' exodus continues as Hanekom also calls if quits Her resignation comes after that other former ministers Bathabile Dlamini, Derek Hanekom, Jeff Radebe, Siyabonga Cwele, Susan Shabangu, Tokozile Xasa, Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba and Nomaindia Mfeketo who all resigned after being overlooked for Cabinet positions. It is understood that some of these senior party members resigned to secure lucrative ministerial pensions. Had they not resigned they would be have been backbenchers in the National Assembly and risked losing out on the perks awarded to former ministers. Like Radebe, before her, Oliphant is one of the longest serving members of Parliament having served since 1994. She was appointed labour minister in 2010 but has been replaced by Thulas Nxesi who was moved from the department of public works. Juniour Khumalo w: www.citypress.co.za e: juniour.khumalo@citypress.co.za parliamant mildred oliphant	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1032
__label__cc	0.579401	0.420599	Congressman, CDOT Mark successful Completion of Tunnel fire Supression System CDOT Media Room CDOT Encourages All Coloradans to Take the Li'l Mac Pledge Crews to pave Straight Creek Bridge May 24-25 on westbound I-70 CO 82 Independence Pass set to open Thursday May 26 Work to Begin on US 24 and US 285 in Park County Colorado byways enrich road trips I-25 south of Pueblo now open Southbound I-25 closed at exit 92 Independence Pass open for the season US 550 Closed North of Durango on May 28 for Bike Race State Highway 23 closed June 3 - 5 Congressman, CDOT Mark successful Completion of Tunnel fire Supression System May 6, 2016 - Denver Metro Colorado/CDOT Region 1, Northwestern Colorado/CDOT Region 3 - Safety Significantly Upgraded for Drivers, State Infrastructure https://codot.gov/news/2016-news-releases/05-2016/congressman-cdot-mark-successful-completion-of-tunnel-fire-supression-system https://codot.gov/@@site-logo/siteLogo.png May 6, 2016 - Denver Metro Colorado/CDOT Region 1, Northwestern Colorado/CDOT Region 3 - Safety Significantly Upgraded for Drivers, State Infrastructure SUMMIT/CLEAR CREEK COUNTIES – Colorado U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, along with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) celebrated the completion of the Fire Suppression System for the Eisenhower/Johnson Tunnels (EJMT) today. The system, installed over both tunnel bores during the past year, is not designed to completely extinguish a vehicle fire but rather provide the critical time that is needed for first responders to safely approach the scene and take action. “Today is a special day for Colorado and anyone who travels to our mountain communities,” said Rep. Jared Polis (CO-02). “The new fire suppression system will enhance public safety, as well as protect the tunnel that is essential for our western economic development. I’m pleased that our work in Washington, D.C. helped make possible the completion of this project.” The EJMT is celebrating its 43rd year without a fatality occurring inside it. Close calls have transpired and fires – primarily vehicle – do take place. Because of this, CDOT has first responders and firefighting equipment at the EJMT complex. “If we had to close down either one of those tunnel for an extensive period of time due to fire damage, it would have a big impact on the state’s economy since this is the primary connection point between eastern and western Colorado,” said CDOT Executive Director Shailen Bhatt. “In addition, having this system in place helps protect a critical feature of Colorado’s and the nation’s transportation infrastructure.” Funding for the $25 million system was initiated in 2013 when the Legislature established the Petroleum Cleanup and Redevelopment Fund within the Division of Oil and Public Safety, a part of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE). The legislation included $5 million of the critical seed money for the project, allowing CDOT to seek the additional $20 million to build and install it. The legislation was carried by Sen. Cheri Jahn, former Sen. Steve King and Reps. Millie Hamner and Ray Scott. Additional Funding/Source: $10 million/Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Grant. More information at: www.transportation.gov/tiger $9 million/Responsible Acceleration of Maintenance and Partnerships (RAMP). More information at: www.codot.gov/programs/RAMP $1 million/Funding Advancement for Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery (FASTER Safety). More information at: www.codot.gov/projects/faster Barnard Construction Co., Inc. of Bozeman, MT., was the project’s prime contractor. In addition to the CDLE, CDOT wants to thank all the partners involved in making this funding a reality, including the Colorado Wyoming Petroleum Marketers Association, the I-70 Coalition, the Colorado Motor Carriers Association, and all the I-70 Mountain Corridor cities and counties. GovD: I-70 West, Denver to Glenwood Springs GovD: Northwest Colorado Denver Metro Area (Region 6) GovD: Denver Metro Area I-70 Mtn Corridor CDOT YouTube Videos Statewide News Archive	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1037
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__label__cc	0.624378	0.375622	Colin thinks ….. UK Education: insights & opinions ‘Free’ schools Category OFSTED All is not well in Richmond Park Not a Nottingham story, but it’s important to realise what is happening elsewhere. We hear that, indeed, all is far from well at The Richmond Park Academy, successor to the former Shene School, a stone’s throw from the leafy environs of the deer park. Richmond Park achieved a ‘Good’ OFSTED in 2012 so is anticipating another visit any time soon and there would, in any case, be anxiety at the prospect of being inspected under a reputedly tougher ‘framework’. Unfortunately, the school seems to be faced with a massive deficit (the figure one million pounds is being bandied about) and this has prompted desperate and chaotic measures in an attempt to solve the mess. This has led to hastily rewritten and imposed new job descriptions, mass staff walkouts (we hear the entire admin team has upped and left) and union meetings replacing the usual first day inset activities. We are not sure how the school has found itself in this situation but it may only be an extreme example of what is facing all schools: rising costs from inflation and staff wage increases – however modest – and additional employers’ National Insurance contributions, at a time when school budgets will, the Conservative Government has promised, remain static in cash terms. As and when we get more from Richmond, we’ll keep you posted. By CT • Posted in Academies, News, OFSTED • Tagged academies, Conservative, Richmond Park Academy Gibb us a wave! That nice Nick Gibb, Schools Minister, has told us that, at some point in the future, all children will have to take the EBACC. This set of letters first entered our consciousness around January 2011, as I recall. The much lamented Michael Gove had suddenly announced that GCSE outcomes would be measured by EBACC, which was short for ‘English Baccalaureate’. At the time my school was about to hold our ‘options’ evening for Year 9 students. Gove had decreed that, henceforth, students and schools would in part be measured by whether students had achieved the EBACC, a kind of modern version of matriculation. You didn’t get a certificate, or anything but you were deemed to have achieved it if you had got Grade Cs or above in English, Maths, Science (not BTec, of course!) a Humanity and a Language (ancient ones such as Greek and Latin were included but not ‘community languages’). I was tasked with preparing a leaflet for parents: no easy job when, in fact, nobody seemed to know much detail. In typical Gove manner, the ‘policy’ had been announced with scant regard for the consternation and chaos it would cause (two and a half years later, he did the same sort of thing with the ‘no resits’ diktat). Now, of course, we know that the EBACC is a combination of allegedly worthy, ‘academic’ and ‘rigorous’ subjects and Gibb has, in true Goveian manner, announced it will happen. Apparently it’s about ‘social justice’, because all those deprived backstreet kids are ‘entitled’ to be told what they should learn by Mr Gibb. He knows what’s good for you. A teacher friend of mine met Gibb at a high level reception a few months back, where my friend was loudly rubbishing OFSTED, who had, to be fair, just rubbished my friend’s school. Gibb heard and had him taken aside where he listened carefully to what my friend had to say about the iniquities of the OFSTED inspection. Gibb undertook to follow up and feedback. Needless to say, a while later a minion contacted my friend to say Mr Gibb was unable to intervene, which he must have known at the time. A smooth operator, is Mr Gibb! The EBACC announcement seems a bit cack-handed in comparison, but this is now post-election and the Tories can just about do what they like. No need to explain where all the language teachers will come from let alone organise recruitment, training and so on. Apparently, something called ‘the market’ will do that. By CT • Posted in Michael Gove, News, OFSTED • Tagged Conservative Party, EBACC, Nick Gibb Zoe Williams on OFSTED etc in The Guardian A good one, if you haven’t seen it: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/19/schools-inspection-ofsted-rachel-de-souza By CT • Posted in News, OFSTED • Tagged OFSTED, The Guardian, Zoe Williams NUAST – the story so far This post has also been published on Hands Off Our Schools: As those following local developments will know, the Nottingham Academy of Science and Technology (NUAST) has actually opened, this September, though not on its brand new site, in the shadow of the Dunkirk flyover. They are claiming to have just over 100 students in Year 10 and Year 12 (‘lower Sixth’). One of our members attended a recent ‘open evening’, intended to publicise and recruit for next year – again, not in their own building but on the University campus. However, the building will soon be available for these sessions and, presumably, for teaching. Once they are able to ‘show off’ their state-of-the-art facilities, they no doubt think they will find ‘selling themselves’ that much easier. We remain mystified as to why anyone would sign up their child on a promise, even if the facilities are good (they ought to be, considering they cost £10 million of taxpayers’ money!) The school has had a turbulent few months leading up to a rather low-key opening, with students being taught anonymously (i.e. not wearing uniforms) in another Nottingham college. Famously, the first principal left under something of a cloud partway through the year. We certainly think she was pushed as the University started worrying about what they were getting into. She had fallen out with the Uni authorities over whether or not teacher unions would be recognised – jobs were advertised on basis they would NOT be, the Uni said they would be when made aware, but she insisted, at first, that this would not be the case. Part of the Uni’s panic was also probably down to getting their fingers burned at Samworth (the other ‘Nottingham University Academy’), judged ‘Inadequate’ by OFSTED last Autumn; one of their partners at NUAST, the Djanogly Learning Trust also had its Academy judged ‘Inadequate’ in the same sweep. So they called in The Torch Academy Gateway Trust, rapidly becoming ‘flavour of the month’ in this area. It must be remembered that ‘Torch’ is effectively one school, Toot Hill Comprehensive, in Bingham, which has achieved an ‘Outstanding’ OFSTED rating and which, to its credit, also helped The Meden School out of ‘Special Measures’. How many Headteachers would find achieving and maintaining an ‘Outstanding’ rating, and helping another school in difficulty, more than enough to fill up their time? Most, we would think, but not the Head of Toot Hill who is now CEO of ‘Torch’ on well over £200K a year. Last Autumn, ‘Torch’ was called in at Samworth and Djanogly to help out, whilst concurrently spending time and energy (not to mention buckets’ full of taxpayers’ money) on getting the Nottingham Free School up and running (79 students started this Autumn in parts of a converted factory in Sherwood!). ‘Torch’ was also ‘called in’ to ‘provide the education’ at NUAST. It’s not entirely clear what this means but, presumably, they effectively run the place since the Uni isn’t equipped to and the Djanogly Trust shouldn’t, because it was barred from opening any new schools (except NUAST, funnily enough!) Questions remain to be asked of NUAST: Where is all the money coming from? It obviously hasn’t currently got enough students to make it financially viable without subsidy, even though it is clear they will offer all sorts of courses but reserve the right not to run them if they turn out to be non-viable. In which case, how many years before the taxpayer could be said to be getting ‘value for money’? Unlike many ‘free schools’, of which this is one type, it will have an examination record pretty soon: students in both Key Stage 4 and Sixth Form will get full GCSE and A Level results in August 2016 – so, will they be any good? By what criteria should we judge them? Why have four governors resigned recently? What connection is there between the erstwhile Chair of Governors and the company which ‘managed’ the recruitment process to appoint the new Principal? What effect will recruitment to NUAST have on local schools? As education insiders know, schools seek so-called ‘option choices’ from Year 9 students in January and, on that basis, ‘option groups’, a staffing plan and timetable are constructed for the next academic year. The loss of even just a handful of students could make some groups non-viable with a knock-on effect to staffing and budgets. Will NUAST, based on the ‘university technical college’ (UTC) model, be any more successful than other UTCs such as Hackney UTC, which has closed? More fundamentally, is encouraging children as young as thirteen to ‘specialise’ the right thing for them? A career in engineering or science, the prospect of working with a world-class university and employers with household names might sound alluring, but will the reality be different? These children will not be entering the workforce for at least 6 years (if they are currently in Year 9) or longer. Who knows what specific skills employers might be looking for in a decade’s time? Better, maybe, to keep their options open and make sure they have a firm grounding in ‘the basics’ NUAST is wrong because it has spent, and will go on spending, money we are told is in short supply, which could have been used to improve science and engineering facilities in schools that would NOT require the children to specialise. It is wrong because it offers children and parents an illusion of choice when it cannot guarantee any level of quality. It is wrong because it holds out a promise it cannot necessarily fulfil. By CT • Posted in Academies, Free Schools, News, Nottinghamshire, OFSTED • Tagged academies, Free schools, Funding, Nottingham Academy of Science and Technology, Nottingham Free School, NUAST, ofsted inspection, school funding OFSTED’s use of data is rubbish, apparently (who’d have guessed?) Head on over to http://physicsfocus.org and read a post by one Professor Moriarty, from down the road at Nottingham University. He tells how, on becoming a governor at Middleton Primary School, he received some training and was aghast at what he heard. In brief, he demolishes OFSTED’s use of data. By CT • Posted in Nottinghamshire, OFSTED, Primary School • Tagged Middleton Primary School, Nottingham University, OFSTED, ofsted inspection, Professor Moriarty Democracy – or “passing the buck” – Coalition style A fascinating press release from DfE just a week before the end of the school year (always a good time to avoid too much scrutiny). The newly appointed Regional Schools Commissioners (appointed by Gove, it must be said) will be supported by Head Teachers Boards (HTBs). Four members in each region have just been elected and the successful candidates announced. The DfE is trumpeting the 38% turnout as being an endorsement – it certainly beats most local government elections and easily trounces the pathetic turnout for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections last year. But, wait a minute, these are the headteachers of our most successful (allegedly) schools and, presumably, just had to fill in a ballot paper and post it off : is 38% such a ringing endorsement? Most people, I guess, do not know how these HTBs are set up and what they will do. As I said earlier, the RSCs are appointed – so far so very Gove – but then four members of the board are elected. In addition, the RSCs can appoint two more board members of his/her own choice and the Board itself can appoint two more to fill skills or experience gaps. So these boards are beginning to feel less democratic and more like self-perpetuating oligarchies. From an electorate of just over 4000, of whom more than half chose not to vote, 32 have been chosen, and, in theory at least, another 32 could be appointed by the Commissioners or the elected heads themselves. So what are the Regional Schools Commissioners and their Boards going to do? At first glance, it looks like they are going to deal with the growing numbers of academies and academy chains which are failing to live up to the hype, that they would maintain or improve standards. The language is nice and wooly and there must be questions asked about how they will ‘monitor’ the performance of schools, except via OFSTED, and how they will support schools in difficulties (by ‘schools’ they actually mean academies and, presumably, ‘free schools’ which are, after all, particular kinds of academies). According to the release they can take “informed decisions about when and how to intervene” but how will they know pre-OFSTED and what mechanism is there for them to intervene? This sounds like a function previously carried out by a local authority whose own staff would have kept in touch with schools and regularly assessed what OFSTED grade they were on course to achieve, and had the expertise and resources to offer support and intervention. What resources do RSCs and HTBs have? What powers do they have? Who will be held to account if an academy ‘fails’? There are many details unclear and questions begged but, in the end, this only affects academies and ‘free schools’ (albeit that, on the DfE’s figures, nearly 60% of secondaries are academies and 12% of primaries are), right? Well, wrong, actually. One of the RSC’s remits is to agree or reject new academies (nothing specifically about ‘free schools’ so, phew, John Nash still has a job!). So, whereas the Secretary of State, an elected politician and minister of the Crown, used to make these decisions, those same decisions will now be made by appointed heads and a group of heads chosen by other heads. Whatever one says about Michael Gove (and I for one have said a lot!) in principle, he was elected and was part of a government that should have been sensitive to public opinion. Indeed, it could be argued that Gove’s removal as Secretary of State was, in part, due to pressure from many groups, including parents who objected to their views being ignored in respect of their children’s schooling. The new situation gives an unrepresentative group power over the future of state education in an area. These people will not be well-known and harder to campaign against: “Gove out!” had a snappy ring to it, “Regional School Commissioner, whatever his or her name is, and Head Teacher Board, out!” is going to be harder to chant. To sum up, groups of faceless headteachers have quietly been set up to deflect blame from the Secretary of State when academies and chains get into trouble and have the power to make far-reaching decisions about local education without, as far as one can see, any influence from public opinion. Certainly, there needs to be a ‘middle tier’ below Whitehall and above individual school level, monitoring and supporting schools, which should represent not the narrow interests of one grade of teacher in one type of school, but should take into account the views and needs of parents and the local community. I’ve even got a slightly snappier name for such a body. We could call it a local education authority. By CT • Posted in Academies, Free Schools, Michael Gove, OFSTED • Tagged academies, Free schools, Michael Gove ‘UnBritish’ There are many things to be said about the recent ‘Trojan horse’ furore in Birmingham. Was the original letter a hoax? Had there been a concerted effort to takeover schools? Was this a witch hunt? How well should OFSTED come out of this? And what of the spat between May and Gove? There are conflicting claims and counter claims so I’ll stick with those where I feel competent to comment. Firstly, there certainly seems to have been something to worry about in terms of the governance of these schools and the influence of parents. Gove cannot escape the fact that the majority of the schools where there appears to have been a problem were academies where, by design, the local authority has no monitoring role and, evidently, Gove and the DfE are too far removed to have any impact. These sorts of problems, along with the money-making ‘conflicts of interest’ reported in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph (see link below) seem to me to be inherent in the set up of academies and ‘free’ schools. It seems barmy that one way being suggested for dealing with the problems is to transfer those schools to another academy chain, this time, presumably, one approved of by the Secretary of State. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10886821/Academy-chiefs-have-benefited-personally-from-schools.html Therein lies one of the contradictions at the heart of the coalition reforms. Gove has claimed all along that he wants to give greater freedom to schools, their managers and parents, yet, as we have already seen, this freedom is only to be exercised in a way of which Gove approves. There are now many well-documented instances of schools faced with enforced academisation where consultation has been bogus and clearly-demonstrated parental wishes have been overridden. To badly paraphrase Henry Ford, ‘you can have any kind of school you like as long as Mr Gove agrees’. So, it appears from the Birmingham cases, that we can just swap ‘ownership’ around til we get a Gove-friendly lot to manage our schools. Mr Gove said in his recent ‘Policy Exchange’ speech that children have only one chance at school education, yet in his actions, he shows that he appears to have forgotten that: how else to explain the cavalier approach to the way schools are run? Gove’s is quite clearly a neo-con, ‘market forces’ approach, a touching faith that competition, choice and ‘the market’ will raise standards. Even if, in the long run, that proves to be the case (which I very much doubt), the logic of this approach is that some schools will suffer turbulence on the way and heaven help the children who happen to be in those schools at that time, getting their ‘one chance’. Finally, in his response to ‘the Trojan horse’ revelations, Gove has announced that all schools will in future be required to promote ‘British values’. I could spend several posts unpicking this one. In the first place, it sounds like one of those policitians’ phrases that appeals instantly to a certain type of voter, who believes he knows what it means: remember John Major’s ill-fated ‘back to basics’? This one will obviously tap into a resurgent patriotism, at a time of near-racist comments from UKIP which seem to have touched a nerve, and, of course, the early stages of the World Cup (ie before England leaves the competition!). Leaving aside what we might interpret ‘promote’ to mean, several high profile people have explained what they understand to be ‘British values’ – I’ve already heard David Cameron’s and Baroness Warsi’s subtley different takes; but, if he’s going to issue an edict, Mr Gove will have to give a clear definition and what will emerge, I daresay, will be a ‘motherhood and apple-pie’ (to use a non-British phrase!) definition with which no-one can disagree – something along the lines of ‘democracy, justice, fairness, tolerance, equality’ which all schools will, with some justification, claim they are promoting and have for many years. Anyway, I’ll uncharacteristically give Mr Gove the last word. Here he is, talking to Prospect magazine in 2007: “There is something rather unBritish about seeking to define Britishness.” By CT • Posted in Academies, Free Schools, Michael Gove, News, OFSTED • Tagged academies, Birmingham, Free schools, Michael Gove, Trojan horse Chapel-en-le-Frith Whilst further details emerge of a ‘culture of extravagence’ at E-ACT : see the link http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6334927 and we in Nottingham have one of the highest paid heads of a tiny academy trust: see my previous post, we have a fight brewing to the north of the county of Derbyshire, in which I worked. I don’t claim to know Chapel-en-le-Frith or the CofE Primary School there but, apparently, it got put into special measures in November. An all-too-familiar story has followed. They were told they had to meet the DfE academy broker even before they had had the result of the HMI monitoring visit. Judging by letters written by the Chair of Govs and the Headteacher, published on their website, they have been well-supported by the local authority and have received positive comments from the HMI. They obviously believe they are well on the way to getting out of special measures pretty soon, but that is not quick enough for Lord Nash. He’s accused them of not having a sustainable plan to make the improvements the school needs (which, if the head and chair of governors are to be believed, is laughable) and he has set a very tight timetable for ‘consultation’ before he effectively sacks the governors, appoints an Interim Executive Board and makes an ‘academy order’. It is quite obvious that the senior management of the school and the governing body are united in opposition. They clearly believe they have the support of the vast majority of parents. Good luck to them in their fight – there are examples from elsewhere where academisation has been fought off. By CT • Posted in Academies, News, OFSTED • Tagged academies, HMI, parent Torch salary The Torch Academy Gateway Trust is the rather pretentious title adopted by the wannabe academy chain of the Nottinghamshire schools Toot Hill Comprehensive and The Meden School in May 2012. The erstwhile head of Toot Hill became the Executive Headteacher and Chief Executive of the Trust. Each of the two schools also has a separate head. The company accounts reveal that in the twelve months ending 31 August 2013, this CEO was paid in the range £200-205 thousand. That’s for overseeing two schools. Admittedly, during that period he led the Trust in trying to set up two ‘free schools’. One of these, the so-called Trent Bridge Free School, was turned down by the DfE but the other, Nottingham Free School was approved and is going ahead to open this September so perhaps he is being rewarded for his work there. In the current year, Torch has subsumed Nottingham University Samworth Academy, back in the autumn, just before Ofsted descended on it and found it to be inadequate. So presumably this CEO will be expecting a rise this year to reflect the additional stress. After all, £200000 is barely twice what a mere Headteacher of a large London secondary school could expect and the good citizens of Nottinghamshire lavished £143000 on their Chief Constable last year. And, just to remind you, this is public money, yours and mine. By CT • Posted in Free Schools, Nottinghamshire, OFSTED • Tagged Free schools, Nottingham Free School, Nottinghamshire, The Torch Academy Gateway Trust, Toot Hill Comprehensive, Trent Bridge Free School Invest ten minutes of your time in reading this summary of the excellent TUC campaigning report, ‘Education Not For Sale’. I was fortunate to get a preview of this from its co-author, Martin Johnson, at the AGM of the Anti Academies Alliance, in January and can attest that it is well-researched. Its title, I think, makes its subject clear. https://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/Education_Not_For_Sale.pdf By CT • Posted in Academies, Free Schools, OFSTED • Tagged academies, accountability, Anti Academies Alliance, Education Not For Sale, Free schools, Funding, GERM RT @big_cheddars: @june_mummery Brexit Party MEP complains that if we leave the EU we lose control over our fishing waters, as we share fis… 17 hours ago RT @DavidLammy: I was born here sir just like you. Raising my voice on behalf of child refugees is not Anti- British as you so eloquently p… 1 week ago @MrColesDrama I understand that the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport will be abolished soon. 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__label__wiki	0.657364	0.657364	From the Viewsroom IPA Service The Cheat Sheet Specially graded by our editors Opinion pieces that should not be missed Like Harry And Meghan, It’s OK To Take A ‘Step Back’ From Your Family Published 2 weeks ago - Julia Ries - 2w ago 5 Julia Ries Meghan Markle has set quite the example since she stepped into life as the Duchess of Sussex. As a biracial American woman, she’s modernized the British monarchy. She has also focused on the advancement of women through charitable causes and broken down myths about pregnancy after the age of 35. Now she and her husband, Prince Harry, are demonstrating how to take care of your own mental health ― even if it leads to some tough changes with your family. You’ve probably heard by now that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced on their Instagram page they’ll be taking a “step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family” in order to carve out a new, progressive role within their family. While there’s mostly speculation over what’s occurring and we don’t have all the details on their decision, one thing is pretty clear: They’re slapping some boundaries in place. It’s okay to spend less time with your toxic parents. It’s okay to move across the globe and start ignoring your father. It’s okay to marry a prince and teach him about boundaries. It’s okay to dismantle a dynasty because they’re toxic colonizers. Do what you need to cope. — Eve Ettinger (@eve_ettinger) January 8, 2020 Jokes aside, this is a pretty valid move. Though Meghan and Harry may have a distinctly unique experience — given the fact they’re navigating royal waters and all — what they’re going through isn’t all that rare. Most of us have probably dealt with iffy family dynamics at some point. Setting clear boundaries with your relatives — and telling them what you are and aren’t comfortable with — isn’t always the easiest, but doing so can make your life (and theirs) much, much smoother in the long run. Here’s why we need boundaries. When we’re young, our parents or guardians more or less govern our lives. They call the shots, and we pretty much go along with it. As we grow up, however, we start to become our own person. “We take in [information] from our family, but then we also take in from the world, and then we make sense of those pieces and apply them to who we are — and we start to learn more about ourselves within the context of all that information,” said Mayra Mendez, a licensed psychotherapist and program coordinator for intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental health services at Providence Saint John’s Child and Family Development Center. As we make sense of the world around us and how we fit into it, we develop a stronger idea of what we stand for and what defines us. And in order to meet what we want and need, like and dislike, we may have to make some adjustments — AKA throw up some boundaries — so we can live in a way we’re comfortable with. Because we are always learning more about ourselves (even well into our golden years), this process never really ends, Mendez said. As we evolve and change, so do our needs — which puts us on a constant quest to find our truest selves in the world. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS via Getty Images The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced this week that they’ll be taking a “step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family” in order to carve out a new, progressive role within their family. Without boundaries, resentment builds. Think of a time someone crossed a line. Oftentimes, this plays out in someone forcing an expectation or obligation on another. Maybe your parents expected you for Sunday dinner each week, your sister put too much pressure on you to be someone you’re not, or perhaps your partner forced their politics onto you. When another person is constantly telling you to behave or act in a certain way, it can be taxing. And that struggle to balance other people’s needs and wishes with your own can cause a major build-up of guilt and resentment. Without a healthy boundary in place that essentially says, “Hey, please stop, this makes me super uncomfortable,” negative emotions build and build until you reach your breaking point. “If you feel guilty about something — that you really inside don’t want to do — resentment starts to build, you start to maybe back away from the family, reject the family, speak angrily to the family — we get all sorts of really negative feelings that come out,” Mendez said. Jessy Warner-Cohen, a senior psychologist at Northwell Health, added that avoiding the issue is one of the worst things to do. Not only does it not resolve the challenge and lead to resentment, but it ultimately undermines — and sabotages — the relationship. Your needs are just as important as your relatives’ needs, so any clashes need to be addressed. Solid boundaries start with honest, open communication. This is where healthy, fair boundaries come into play. But before you start building walls, you need to figure out, specifically, what’s working and what’s not working for you. “First, they need to look at themselves, look in the mirror,” Mendez said. Once you’ve identified the issue at stake, try to determine why it’s bothering you along with what needs to change in order for you and your family’s lives to be in sync. Remember: Boundaries are two-sided, and compromise is huge, Mendez said. You can’t just determine what’s best for you and call it a day. Talk to your family members about what’s going on and try to work together to come up with a solution. Aim to be open and collaborative, not underhanded or dismissive. Warner-Cohen recommended explaining your reasoning and offering actionable suggestions for how to move forward (i.e. “I can’t make it for dinner every Sunday, but once a month might be a more realistic plan — what do you think?”). “The difficult part is negotiating differences in perceived appropriateness of boundaries,” Warner-Cohen said, “as there may be incongruences that must be navigated.” Some people’s sense of boundaries, even the most toxic ones, may be totally integrated with their identity (and culture, like Meghan and Harry’s case), so it can take some serious patience and negotiating. Ideally, your family will react in a receptive, responsive way — and you’ll be able to establish some boundaries that work for everyone. Ultimately, you gotta do what feels right. 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__label__cc	0.699985	0.300015	Deathwatch Rules Questions Force Weapons and Vehicles By MsPaxte, October 7, 2014 in Deathwatch Rules Questions MsPaxte 0 So, Within the game that's being run, I'm playing a space marine Librarian, Who, naturally, has a force weapon (Sword). Now, through the course of the game, We've encountered a vehicle, And engaged it. I, Thinking that force weapons work as such, Charged said vehicle, with said force sword, thinking that I would be able to apply the damage of the Force effect to the vehicle. The table is 50/50 on what's correct, but the immediate ruling was that Force weapons don't work on vehicles. I recognize the Machine trait might come into play, as well, But i recall that servitors can be affected by force weapons. That being said, I'd like to know for sure what the case is. There seems to be no reference to what might be the case here, so, flying blind. Calgor Grim 362 Can't find anything in the books on it so we are into the grounds of obscurity. I would also consider that it would not apply to vehicles. The concept of force weapons is that your killing will is channeled through the weapon to utterly obliterate your victim. Reverting to TT ruling for a moment it states that you need to wound a model to perform the action. As vehicles do not become injured in so much as they take damage and lose structural integrity then it would not apply. Servitors on the other hand have organic components in them. Depending what you are hitting though, it might be easier to open it up and use the sword on whatever is inside. The other thing is though that you need to do sufficient damage to bypass the armour before you can even think of applying the bonus damage. Kamikazzijoe 106 As vehicles have no WP score with which to do an opposed roll - seems preposterous to make them vulnerable to it. herichimo 86 Correct, vehicles can not be affected by the force sword's psychic burstdamage as 1: vehicles have no WP, 2: vehicles are not alive and thus cannot be killed ("... channel psychic force and killing will into the blade," DW:C p. 155), and 3: vehicles aren't opponents, they are targets (it is fairly obvious the killing will is meant to affect characters, not inanimate objects, via the wording of the description). Note: the bonus damage and PEN per psy rating still functions against vehicles. Do not forget, when Deathwatch was released there were no official rules for vehicles. All the rules in Deathwatch are centered around character versus character. This has resulted in other essoteric interpretation of some rules. This is why the Common Sense Rule is in there. Common Sense Rule applies. Unless you are a dreadnought IIRC. The one thing that bugs me is that they didn't update the haywire table for vehicles. That was their whole point in 2ed TT. The dreadnought has WP for the shrivled cripple inside of the sarcophagus, the actual motive body is still a machine. Common Sense Rule would require cracking through the 30 ap of the sarcophagus (necessitating almost wrecking the dreadnought itself to get the chance to do so) to damage the half-living husk within, then you can use the Killing Will (that's what its called now, because... reasons). Otherwise, all you are hitting is the dreadnought's machine body. I would, though, most likely allow it against daemonically possessed vehicles (I'd have to ruminate on this), because... that's what force weapons are for... killing daemons. chaosisgod 0 what about the necrons? can u use Killing Will on those? if i understand it correctly they are biological entities running programs thus alive yet not really mortal Necrons have a willpower stat at the same time I guess. I would say they should have it out of balance reasons but against a vehicle, no. Each necron was once a living creature whose soul was enslaved by the C'tan and mostly munched upon. Yet still there is a soul within the Necron animating the living (living again) metal. So yes, Killing Will should work on Necron characters. Edited October 9, 2014 by herichimo chaosisgod reacted to this Dr. Quinn 38 Using that same logic would indicate that a character being hit by a force sword would need to have their armour value beaten by the base melee damage (before "killing will") to apply the effects, as otherwise you haven't cracked through to the person inside. Note that I'm not saying that's a bad thing, in fact, it seems far more balanced that way imho, Just pointing out that the rules say nothing about it either way, and if you're going to apply a houserule like that, it doesn't make sense to apply it only halfway. Using the tabletop rules as a model (which is always a good idea as far as I'm concerned, it tends to be more limiting to players, but allows for better visuals in the theatre of the mind and tends to come out fairly well balanced) would support exactly what you proposed, as well as requiring them to beat not just armour but toughness as well (at least inflict one point of damage to wounds) before "killing will" would apply. It would make sense, and it would make the amount of damage they inflict before applying that effect meaningful, which in turn makes them more dependent on multiple stats, and allows effects like "feat of strength" or even powers like "might of the ancients" to be useful, and is more thematically appropriate, but it's definitely a houserule. This is exactly the case. In order to use Killing Will a character with a force weapon must do damage to an opponent. This means beating both armor and TB and causing at least 1 wound. The additional damage from Killing Will ignores armor and TB, but the normal melee damage does not. As per rules on page 155 of DW:C. Granted I did not mention the reduced TB of the Dreadnought pilot, I figured this was just a base assumption of the rules. Dr. Quinn reacted to this Fair enough! I had never interpreted the rules in that way, but looking back on them I agree 100% that the rules indicate you must actually damage the opponent to get the bonus damage, which as an Iron Hands Techmarine in the game I play, I am very excited about! Thanks for bringing this to my attention.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1047
__label__wiki	0.761717	0.761717	FRANK GAMBALE A Short Bio Grammy winning guitar virtuoso, Frank Gambale, exploded on the L.A. scene in the early ‘80’s. His meteoric rise to fame is a testament to his passion powered playing – a style “Rolling Stone Magazine” calls “ferocious”! Gambale is the undisputed genius who originated t... FRANK GAMBALE A Short Bio Grammy winning guitar virtuoso, Frank Gambale, exploded on the L.A. scene in the early ‘80’s. His meteoric rise to fame is a testament to his passion powered playing – a style “Rolling Stone Magazine” calls “ferocious”! Gambale is the undisputed genius who originated the sweep picking technique and elevated it to a precise art form now standard in the guitar lexicon. The “Gambale Sweep Picking Technique” continues to inspire generations of musicians. Jazz, rock, metal and progressive artists alike are united in their awe of Frank as both an amazing technician and an unsurpassed musician. As jazz legend Chick Corea, describes Frank: “Everything you touch with your guitar turns gold – always has.” While John McLaughlin’s tongue-in-cheek response to his finesse is “I’d like to cut his hands off.” A musician’s musician, gifted composer, brilliant innovator and author of numerous instructional books and DVDs, Frank continues to reach unprecedented sonic and technical heights. His six string prowess and seemingly limitless vision point towards an exciting future of ground breaking music. Early Years Frank Gambale was born into a family of talented musicians in his native Canberra, Australia. He quickly absorbed the pantheon of ‘60’s and ‘70’s rock guitar greats. As a teen, Frank’s musical horizons expanded with the influence of jazz and vocal based music under the generous tutelage of a local import record shop owner. This led to nearly two full years of concentration on piano before digging back into guitar with renewed zeal. In these formative years, Frank’s musical foundations became firmly rooted in three concepts: -Sweep picking as the means to melodically play notes previously only possible on keyboard or saxophone -Continual study to deepen his knowledge and the ability to musically play through any chord changes -A desire to share his discoveries with other students and musicians It was a leap of faith for Frank to leave for Los Angeles, to be in the middle of “where all the music I loved was being made,” and set off to the Guitar Institute of Technology in the early ‘80’s. Frank Gambale – A Short Bio 2. Meteoric Rise Frank’s shining prowess and dedication to practice garnered him “Student of the Year” upon graduation from GIT, landing him a four year teaching gig. His widening reputation led to an invitation by jazz legend Chick Corea to join his groundbreaking “Elektric Band.” By the early ‘90’s, Frank had produced 8 critically acclaimed solo records, charting both in the U.S. and Japan, concurrently enjoying a rich collaboration with Chick Corea resulting in 5 additional albums, 1 grammy win and 2 grammy nominations. In addition, Frank sealed publishing deals for his first major instructional books and was granted a major endorsement by Ibanez to create Frank Gambale signature guitars. Fresh faced Gambale graced the cover of “Guitar Player” in June, 1988 entitled “Where Fire Meets Finesse.” Numerous publications and accolades soon followed. Fire meets finesse, indeed! On the Road Frank’s musical journey has taken him “at least twenty times around the world,” by his accounts, both as a solo performer and as a collaborator with “Vital Information” and several of Chick Corea’s bands. 25 years have produced over 20+ solo records, another 9 with his 16 year collaboration with Vital Information, 3 blazing albums with his off-shoot project, “Gambale, Hamm, Smith,” as well as dozens of other guest record projects. His fruitful 25+ year alliance with Chick Corea has totaled 6 recordings and a live DVD recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival. World tours with drum legend, Billy Cobham, led to Cobham’s enthusiastic participation on Frank’s album, “Raison D’Etre,” which introduced Frank’s “Gambale Tuning System” to the world. Nearly 40 years seeped in all things guitar, Frank discovered his revolutionary “Gambale Tuning.” This system aligns the chordal capabilities of piano onto a reachable and familiar fret board - yet another of his monumental contributions to the guitar. Frank Gambale – A Short Bio 3. Yamaha quickly jumped in to arm Frank with a new double-neck guitar, necessitated by the quick change-over in tunings while flying on the new adventurous tracks. Frank’s instructional materials are used in many schools and universities throughout the world. His mystifying sweep picking technique, featured in his first instructional book, continues to amaze and inspire guitarists. Frank generously conducts master classes around the world (and in three languages)! New Directions 2011 2011 brings more terrific new directions for Frank Gambale that will delight dedicated fans and new audiences alike. The all-star “Return to Forever IV” will ignite stages around the world starting in Australia, including a performance at the famed Sydney Opera House. The tour culminates with Chick’s 70th birthday concert in New York City’s renowned Blue Note. A brilliant new album recently released, “Natural Selection” reunites Frank with bass player, Alain Caron, and keyboardist, Otmaro Ruiz, in a tight knit, joyous collection of all acoustic tracks with a touch of percussion. His newest release is “Soulmine” – a return to Frank’s vocal roots and the first collaboration with lyricist/musician and beloved wife and muse, BOCA. “Soulmine” features seriously catchy tunes punctuated with shining vocal harmonies, unexpected sass, funky rhythms and saucy guitar lines. The delicious tones that tie the new tracks together are complimented by the combination of the new Frank Gambale DV Mark Signature line of amps firing up the incredible Gambale Signature FG1 Guitar by Carvin’s Custom Shop. Whether Gambale is touring the world with his Fusion Jazz Trio, the Natural High Trio, his new vocal group Soulmine, or joining forces in an iconic jazz super group, Frank continues to amaze audiences around the world. - Dura and Matthew X. Curry Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. Greg Howe Chick Corea Elektric Band	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1052
__label__wiki	0.967603	0.967603	Report: Andrew McCabe Opened Criminal Investigation On Jeff Sessions Chuck Ross Investigative Reporter March 21, 2018 4:52 PM ET As deputy director of the FBI last year, Andrew McCabe opened a criminal investigation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to a new report. The investigation was sparked by a request from two Democratic senators who asserted that Sessions gave false testimony during his Senate confirmation hearing in January 2017 about contacts he had with Russia’s ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Sessions was cleared of any wrongdoing last year, after meeting with the special counsel’s office as part of the Russia investigation, according to ABC News. “The Special Counsel’s office has informed me that after interviewing the attorney general and conducting additional investigation, the attorney general is not under investigation for false statements or perjury in his confirmation hearing testimony and related written submissions to Congress,” Chuck Cooper, an attorney for Sessions, told ABC News. (RELATED: FBI’s Andrew McCabe Fired Just Two Days Before Retirement) Sources told ABC News that Sessions was unaware of the investigation when he fired McCabe last Friday. The former FBI No. 2 was terminated just two days before his retirement for “lack of candor” during interviews with investigators from the Department of Justice’s office of the inspector general. The FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommended to Sessions that McCabe be fired for misleading investigators about his role in authorizing media leaks prior to the 2016 election. McCabe gave the green light to an FBI attorney to speak to a Wall Street Journal reporter in October 2016 about the investigations into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Clinton Foundation. (RELATED: FBI’s Wray Defends Process Behind McCabe Firing) McCabe denied misleading investigators in a scathing letter released after he was canned. McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein informed Republican and Democratic lawmakers of the investigation into Sessions last year, according to ABC News. McCabe opened the inquiry in March 2017 after Democratic Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy and then-Minnesota Sen. Al Franken wrote a letter asking the bureau to investigate whether Sessions was truthful in his confirmation hearing about contacts he had with Kislyak. The referral stemmed from Sessions’ testimony during his January 2017 confirmation hearing that he did not have contact with Russian government officials during the campaign. It later emerged that Sessions met Kislyak several times during the campaign. But Sessions denied that his testimony was misleading, arguing that his only in-depth meeting with Kislyak was in his capacity as a senator rather than his role on the Trump campaign. Sessions had a brief encounter with Kislyak months earlier at a Trump campaign event in Washington, D.C. Follow Chuck on Twitter Tags : andrew mccabe donald trump jeff sessions Chuck Ross	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1058
__label__wiki	0.839151	0.839151	ICE: Mexican National Released By Sanctuary County Went On To Commit Triple Murder Green County Sheriff's Office Will Racke Immigration and Foreign Policy Reporter November 09, 2018 4:14 PM ET A Mexican national charged with killing three people in Missouri in early November was released from a New Jersey county jail in 2017, despite being the subject of an active immigration detention request, federal authorities said Friday. Luis Perez, 23, allegedly killed two of his ex-roommates in Springfield, Missouri, on Nov. 1 and then, a day later, shot and killed a woman who had accompanied him to the first two murders. Perez had been kicked out of his apartment by the roommates, Steven Marler, 38, and Aaron Hampton, 23, The Associated Press reported, citing a Springfield police probable cause affidavit. The charging documents further stated the Perez was a recent arrival to Missouri and that his immigration status was in question. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed Perez’s illegal status in a statement Friday and added that he had previously been released by authorities in Middlesex County, New Jersey, despite a detainer request. “Luis Rodrigo Perez was being held at Middlesex County Jail in December of last year on domestic violence charges,” the agency said. “ICE issued a detainer and requested notification prior to his release, so that he may be taken into ICE custody and placed in removal proceedings. In accordance with their local policy, Middlesex County Jail did not honor the detainer, did not notify ICE upon completion of the criminal proceedings, and released Perez into the community.” Middlesex County is located in central New Jersey, just southeast of New York’s Staten Island. It was one of several jurisdictions nationwide the Justice Department warned in 2017 to follow immigration law or risk losing out on federal law enforcement grants. ICE arrested 37 people in July during an immigration fugitive operation in Middlesex County. It found that 16 of those suspects had been released from the Middlesex County Jail even though they were wanted on detainers. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Says Oregon County Released Illegal Alien Despite Detainer — 7 Months Later, He Allegedly Killed His Wife) ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Newark arrested 37 individuals in a Middlesex County, New Jersey, enforcement surge. (Image: ICE.gov) John Tsoukaris, the field office director of ICE’s enforcement and removal division in Newark, New Jersey, said the agency has “tried unsuccessfully” to persuade Middlesex County to notify the agency when criminal aliens are about to be released from jail. “In this most recent case, Perez had a violent history, but despite that, the detainer was not honored,” he said in a statement. “We hope that this tragic turn of events forces Middlesex to reconsider its policy and that the local elected officials stop protecting criminal aliens.” It was not immediately clear when Perez arrived in Missouri after his release from Middlesex County Jail in December. He has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree assault, five counts of armed criminal action, and one count of tampering with physical evidence, the Springfield News-Leader reported. Follow Will on Twitter Send tips to will@dailycallernewsfoundation.org. Tags : immigration and customs enforcement missouri new jersey Will Racke 'Don't Tread On Me': Why Do Gun Owners Love The Gadsden Flag? Guns and Gear Fox News’ Juan Williams: Republicans Could Vote To Remove Trump Politics Doesn't Sell Shoes Gun Laws & Legislation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1059
__label__wiki	0.883391	0.883391	Qatar invited to emergency Arab summits in Mecca: Foreign Ministry - Daily News Egypt Politics Qatar invited to emergency Arab summits in Mecca: Foreign Ministry Qatar invited to emergency Arab summits in Mecca: Foreign Ministry Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt have imposed an economic and diplomatic boycott on Qatar since June 2017 over allegations that Doha supports terrorism. Meanwhile, Qatar denies the charges. Daily News Egypt May 27, 2019 Comments Off on Qatar invited to emergency Arab summits in Mecca: Foreign Ministry Qatar has been invited by Saudi Arabia to attend two emergency Arab summits being convened in the Saudi city of Mecca on 30 May, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. Last week, Qatar said it had not been invited to the two summits Saudi Arabia is planning in Islam’s holiest site to discuss the implications of drone strikes on oil installations in the kingdom and attacks on four vessels, including two Saudi oil tankers, off the UAE coast earlier this month. However, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani received an invitation from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud to attend the summit of Arab Gulf rulers and a wider meeting of Arab leaders, according to the Qatari Foreign Ministry. The invitation was delivered to Qatar by the head of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the statement said, without saying whether Qatar would accept it. Saudi Arabia has accused Iran of plotting the drone strikes, for which Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis claimed responsibility. The kingdom said that while it did not want war in the region, it was ready to respond strongly. The UAE has not blamed anyone for the sabotage of the tankers and said it was committed to de-escalation. Iran has denied it carried out the attacks. The UAE has said that the current “critical circumstances” in the region required a “unified Arab and Gulf stance.” Topics: emergency Arab summits foreign ministry Mecca Qatar https://dailyfeed.dailynewsegypt.com/2019/05/27/qatar-invited-to-emergency-arab-summits-in-mecca-foreign-ministry/ Al-Sisi, King Hamad of Bahrain discuss regional updates, boosting bilateral ties French FM calls for Riyadh, Abu Dhabi to end “dirty war” in Yemen Banking law amendments for capital requirements could trigger profit retention, M&As: Pharos Most popular foods on Ramadan tables worldwide Aiisha Ramadan & SADAFA Collaborate for SS’19 Arab Fashion Week	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1060
__label__wiki	0.952831	0.952831	Saraki, El-Rufa’i, others condole Shagari’s family President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki signing the condolence register in honour of late former President Alhaji Shehu Shagari Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Bauchi state governor, Muhammad Abubakar and his Kaduna state counterpart, Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i have joined other Nigerians to condole the family of the late Alhaji Shehu Shagari, former President of Nigeria. Saraki accompanied by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman, Uche Secondus, Sen Sani Yarima (APC- Zamfara) and Tanimu Turaki former Minister for Special Duties, said that the former President had left a legacy worthy of emulation by all leaders in the country. “Shagari was a man of honour that lived his whole life for the development of Nigeria and service to humanity. “On behalf of the National Assembly, my family and people of Kwara state, I wish to extend our condolence to the immediate family, government of Sokoto state and Nigeria as a whole,”he said. President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki with for President Olusegun Obasanjo at the residence of the late former President Alhaji Shehu Shagari Bauchi state governor, also extended the condolence of the people of the state to the family and called on all Nigerian leaders to imbibe the good habits of forgiveness and integration of late Shagari. Abubakar described the demise of Shehu Shagari as a great loss not only to the family, but the entire country. Also, the Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufa’i extended the condolence of the people of Kaduna state to the family and people of Sokoto state, while he prayed for the repose of the late former President. Also condoling with the Shagari family, the Emir of Nasarawa, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim, who led the delegations of the state government and traditional leaders and Abdullahi Balalau, the leader of Jama’atul Izalatul Bidi’a, prayed for the repose of the deceased. President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki with Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal Responding on behalf of the family, the late President eldest son, Bala Shagari appreciated the visitors and thanked them for the condolence. Also present at the vent were former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Governor of Sokoto State Aminu Tambuwal. (function(d, s, id){ var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); // Load the SDK asynchronously (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1062
__label__wiki	0.567308	0.567308	Daniel Satter Sports Talk Sports coverage from all major sports and especially news from your favorite teams. Shipachyov Will Return To Russia Vadim Shipachyov will head back home to Russia after his contract is terminated, which will end his tenure as a Vegas Golden Knight after only three NHL games, where he scored one goal on a little over ten minutes of total ice time. The news was reported by Eric Engels of Sportsnet. Shipachyov did not… Giants Claimed Micah Johnson The San Francisco Giants have claimed utilityman Micah Johnson from the Cincinnati Reds, who placed him on waivers, according to Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area. Micah Johnson has had a tough ride trying to find a team to give him a shot at the big leagues. Well, I think he found a… 49ers Trade For Jimmy G The San Francisco 49ers traded their 2018 second-round draft pick to the New England Patriots for Jimmy Garoppolo, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.com. This deal is a head scratcher on both sides. Here is why. First off, the mighty New England Patriots are in first place once again in their division with a… Bucks Lose Monroe For A Few Weeks The Milwaukee Bucks will be without big man Greg Monroe for at least a full two weeks with a left calf injury, according to Matt Velasquez of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Jason Kidd confirmed Monroe’s injury. Also, this is the same injury that kept the Georgetown product out of a good amount of training camp…. Notable NFL Moves From 10/25/17 Today, multiple NFL teams including the Detroit Lions, Seattle Seahawks, Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Texans, and Chicago Bears made some key roster moves to help bolster their roster and hope to compete strongly throughout the rest of the season and near future. First off, Ian Rapoport of NFL.com reported that the Jacksonville Jaguars rewarded outside linebacker… Darryl Tapp Heading To Tampa Bay The Tampa Bay Buccaneers added veteran defensive end Darryl Tapp to the defensive line group, according to Greg Auman of the Tampa Bay Times. With the corresponding move, the Buccaneers waived safety Isaiah Johnson, who was just recently promoted to the active roster from the practice squad. The Bucs also released defensive end Larry… Potential Mariners Target: Lance Lynn The Seattle Mariners need pitching help after placing 15th out all of MLB teams. They finished with a team ERA of 4.46. As for that, the Seattle Mariners should attack this off-season by looking for a solid middle of the rotation starter and Cardinals starter Lance Lynn is their man. Lance Lynn is going to… Cardinals Running Game Gets A Boost Today, the Arizona Cardinals made a trade with the New Orleans Saints to acquire the former Viking superstar Adrian Peterson. The Saints will receive a 2018 draft pick and to assume, the pick will most likely be a low value selection. The value of the pick has not been reported yet. Dianna Russini of ESPN.com… Sabres Give Eichel A Lucrative Deal The Buffalo Sabres decided to lock up their franchise player in Jack Eichel to a lucrative deal worth $10MM on an annual base per year over the next eight seasons. Kathryn Tappen of NBC Sports first reported the deal was being finalized with Darren Dreger of TSN reporting that the deal was officially finished…. Search prior posts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1066
__label__cc	0.739102	0.260898	Destinations Things To Do Culture Wellness Cuisine News About Destinations · Asia February 04, 2019 Words: Bill Bradley and Noah Davis The Hidden Ports of Southeast Asia Discover what makes some of the world’s most unique nautical nooks so special. Twitter Facebook Pinterest Copyurl Copy Link The charm of being at sea is only enhanced by the ports of call on your cruise. In Southeast Asia, Seabourn’s roster of ports both well-known and off-the-grid are key to a trip you’ll remember for years to come. There’s more than Bangkok to Thailand, and more than Saigon to Vietnam, and this comprehensive range of ports will enhance the immersion aspect of your trip. In Thailand, Phuket is 536 miles from the capital city and serves as an intersection of commerce between India and China. The port is a 20-minute drive from town, and is often called the “Pearl of Thailand” because of its beaches, greenery and waterfront limestone structures that contrast the blue hues of Phang Bay. Here, you can continue your cruise by speedboat through the Phi Phi Islands and Bamboo Island, take a break at Oasis Spa Relaxation & Treatment, or enjoy a rum tasting session at Chalong Rum distillery. Next is the more traditionally known Bangkok, which is one of the most popular destinations in the world. The city’s urban pulse is subdued by the Chao Phraya River, another attraction for water travel. If you’re looking to shop, drop by a luxury mall like Siam Paragon or Central Embassy, or enjoy a cocktail with a stunning rooftop view at the Muse Hotel. Finally, Ko Kood is defined as an “unspoiled tropical island paradise” by Seabourn because it’s perfect for a diver or snorkeler, yet walkable if you’d rather stay on land or lay on the beach. The easternmost island of Thailand is quieter and dominated by family-run businesses, though it's largely undeveloped. Here, you can see stunning waterfalls or fishing villages, where many people make a living, or go snorkeling or scuba diving. On the Vietnamese leg of the trip, Halong Bay is scenically straight out of a postcard, and a well-regarded UNESCO World Heritage location. The region is not heavily commercialized, and visitors frequently take an additional cruise around the bay on their way to Hanoi. For breathtaking views by air, consider a 25-minute seaplane flight, or try the unconventional dining experience of eating a meal in a cave. Related Seabourn itineraries and amenities below In Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, you may want to stretch and walk around Old Quarter. The city has transformed from village to busy urban area guaranteed to heighten your senses, and the area alone has a few ports including Halong Bay, Haiphong and Cai Lan. Once you’re on land, watch out for motorbike traffic. The options in Hanoi are endless, from kayaking on the West Lake to enjoying classical music at the colonial Hanoi Opera House. Last, Ho Chi Minh City, still commonly called Saigon, is perhaps the most populous and dynamic of the port options. The port on the Saigon River is only a few miles from the South China Sea, and you should watch out for pickpockets. You can shop around at Ben Thanh or Binh Tay Markets for local crafts, explore historic landmarks, or roam around the French-style wide boulevards and appreciate the brightly colored temples and old architecture. Destinations Asia Experience Seabourn Phuket is often called The Pearl of Thailand because of its beaches, greenery and waterfront limestone structures. Halong Bay is scenically straight out of a postcard, and a well-regarded UNESCO World Heritage location. In Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, you may want to stretch and walk around Old Quarter. In Asia, as elsewhere, Seabourn takes you to must-see cities and the hidden gems many others miss, ensuring that you travel not only very far, but also very well. Seabourn has planned an array of optional shore excursions of both general and special interest in the ports of call on your cruise vacation. Official Cruise Partner of UNESCO World Heritage Seabourn is please to be partnering with UNESCO to promote sustainable tourism at World Heritage properties. Click below to join our mailing list, which includes Current content, to find out about some of the world’s most unique destinations. ©2019 Seabourn Cruise Lines, Inc Terms and Privacy Destinations Things To Do Culture Wellness Cuisine News Current Seabourn Click below to join our mailing list, which includes Current content, to find out about some of the world’s most unique destinations Get Onboard! Click below to join our mailing list, which includes Current content, to find out about some of the world’s most unique destinations Subscribe	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1074
__label__cc	0.557699	0.442301	BBC Bias Brexit Watch Home News Belinda Brown: Vengeful harridans can kick an innocent boy out of university Belinda Brown: Vengeful harridans can kick an innocent boy out of university By Belinda Brown There is a new feminist assault on academia. They have won the battle of the numbers. Now wholesale behaviour change is their chosen prize. Universities UK (UUK) have produced a report: Changing the Culture. This will examine violence against women, harassment and hate crime. Cambridge University will be one of the first to carry their beacon. Or perhaps it will be the canary in the mine. The fact that the vast majority of students are extremely satisfied with the environment on the campus and around the university (but a lot less happy with the Student Union it should be noted) does not, according to this UUK Taskforce, indicate an absence of sexual harassment: “Despite this positive feedback…separate evidence shows [it is] prevalent within wider society. Universities are a microcosm of society and are therefore affected by the same problems”. Even the low number of reports on sexual harassment should not be taken to mean that a serious problem isn’t there: “…a low number of disclosures it not necessarily proof that students are not experiencing such incidents” Rather they just don’t know they are suffering from harassment. Their attitudes aren’t quite right… “…in order to be agents of change in a culture that can be accepting of sexism or other negative behaviours, students and others need to believe that this culture is inappropriate. This often requires attitude change which is a gradual process…”. The Student Union can help to change this by showing them they are suffering from harassment. This is established through their sexual violence questionnaire, which simply has a very low bar. For example harassment includes: “making comments with a sexual overtone that made you feel uncomfortable” “making noises with sexual overtones…” “questions about your sexuality…” The same report explains that many women say that they are completely unaffected by less serious incidents. But the measures to be implemented will mean our young men will not be able to speak for fear of causing offence. The aim of the UUK Taskforce is to dismantle “lad culture”. The fact that, as they acknowledge “there is no evidence to show that sexual harassment or homophobia is a direct result of ‘lad culture’”, does not bother them. When you have ideology, and above all funding, you don’t need figures and facts. So while there are altogether 281,000 fewer males at university * and this receives absolutely no funding, if you want to tackle sexual misconduct, set up consent workshops or install a Sexual Assault Adviser, courtesy of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, there are very “generous” funds. The commitments and actions that the UUK require from universities are significant. A zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment reminiscent of that used by Mayor Guiliani. And a Bystander Intervention Initiative, which would be the envy of Chairman Mao. There is no softly softly about this behaviour change programme. The same individuals who produced “Changing the Culture” worked with a law firm to draft guidance for how to deal with students that do not conform. This ‘guidance’ enables universities to impose “precautionary measures” (such as suspending the accused student from his/her studies or excluding the accused student from sports facilities or a placement) simply on the basis of an allegation of misconduct. And serious sanctions if an allegation is proved. They give as an example: “…the act of forcefully kissing another on the lips is likely to be regarded as a serious disciplinary offence, whereas the act of lightly kissing another on the back of a hand is likely to be regarded as a less serious disciplinary offence..” However, the real purpose of the Guidance appears to be to give universities the power to impose sanctions where they should normally only be imposed by a court. This was specifically prohibited in 1994 by Zellick’s Report which stated that: “At the other end of the spectrum are offences of such seriousness that substantive internal action prior to police investigation is out of the question” And it is this which the Guidance wants to overturn. The Guidance makes it possible for universities to take action, and impose sanctions on the most serious allegations as long as they don’t actually give them the same name as the criminal offence. They explain that: “It is unreasonable and dangerous for all involved to ask a university to make any findings about an alleged criminal offence. To do so would undoubtedly open universities up to legal challenge” They even point out that: “Institutions have neither the standing nor the expertise to make such findings about criminal offences.” But it is drafted by a firm of lawyers and they know how to cover your back. So they: “…strongly recommend that any such cases are dealt with as a potential breach of discipline and not as a criminal offence, and as such, no criminal offences should be referred to when seeking to define unacceptable behaviour in the Code.” And by way of example they explain that: “The facts and matters leading to an allegation of rape should be dealt with as potential sexual misconduct…” As they recognise that institutions don’t have the expertise to make findings about criminal offences, they are called “breaches of discipline”, and the facts and matters are decided on a “…balance of probabilities i.e. more likely than not/ 51 per cent or more”. A woman can get a man kicked out of university without ever seeing the inside of a court. While universities cannot mete out custodial sentences (some feminist lawyer somewhere will be pondering that one) being expelled from your university course, which you have undoubtedly worked very hard for, paid a lot of money for and built your future hopes around, can still feel extremely hard. Changing the Culture and the Guidance are not just hideous documents. They are loaded weapons in the hands of scorned or vengeful females. Any young man attending or about to go to university needs to know about these. And he had better watch out. (Image: Guido van Nispen) If you appreciated this article, perhaps you might consider making a donation to The Conservative Woman. Unlike most other websites, we receive no independent funding. Our editors are unpaid and work entirely voluntarily as do the majority of our contributors but there are inevitable costs associated with running a website. 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__label__cc	0.558402	0.441598	Convict Records > Convicts > G > Gosport > Thomas Thomas Gosport Thomas Gosport, one of 1063 convicts transported on the Neptune, Scarborough and Surprize, December 1789 Name: Thomas Gosport Aliases: Thomas Gosper Occupation: Waterman Date of Death: 21st September, 1847 Male median life span was 61 years* Convicted at: Surrey Assizes Ship: Neptune, Scarborough and Surprize Departure date: December, 1789 Arrival date: 26th June, 1790 Passenger manifest Travelled with 1072 other convicts Primary source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 65 (34) If Thomas Gosport was the person you were looking for, you may be able to discover more about them by looking at our resources page. Know more about Thomas Gosport? Anonymous on 23rd June, 2011 wrote: Thomas Gosper a Waterman aged 19 and two other young men were sentenced to seven years transportation at the 2 April 1787 Kingston (Surry) assizes for cutting three pieces of rope known as "headfasts" from a lighter ( a boat or barge iused for unloading ships) moored at Rotherhithe on the Thames on the 23 Nov 1786 (probably with an intent to rob the lighter). In Aug 1788 he was ordered from Goal to the "Ceres" hulk at Langstone Harbour, Portsmouth, whence he was embarked on the ship "Surprize" on 30 Nov 1789, arriving in the colony on 26 Jun 1790. He was indicted under the name "Gosport" but Gosper appears to be the correct form of his name. He had been baptised as Thomas Roker Alexander Gosper son of Thomas & Jane Gosper (nee Worton) at St Mary’s, Rotherhithe on May 28 1768. He had been born in this riverside parish on the south bank of the Thames on May 10. Denis Pember on 13th April, 2016 wrote: In the colony, Thomas had a relationship with Mary Hipwell (Convict, Mary Ann, 1791). The couple had 4 children between 1798 and 1805. Thomas and Mary did eventually marry, November 19th 1810 at Windsor. Sainty & Johnson; 1828 Census of New South Wales: [Ref G0819] Gosport, Thomas, 59, free by servitude, Surprize, 1790, 7 years, Protestant, farmer, Wilberforce. 220 acres, 50 cleared and cultivated, 3 horses, 10 cattle. [Ref G0820] Gosport, Mary A., 63, free by servitude, Mary Ann, 1791, 7 years, Protestant. ### Three of the sons are also recorded with their wives and families: [Ref G0821] Gosport, James, 22 (with wife Margaret and 1 child) Farmer, at Wilberforce. [Ref G0824] Gosport, Thomas, 31 (with wife Mary and 4 children) Farmer, at Lower Portland Head. [Ref G0830] Gosport, John, 25 (with wife Hannah and 3 children) Farmer, at Lower Portland Head. There appears to be no record of the other son, Joseph, but he should be there, he married Ann Marsden and they has 11 children. Carmen Schnegg on 27th January, 2018 wrote: Thomas Gosper was found guilty of ‘feloniously cutting, damaging, and spoiling’ a headfast (three pieces of rope) affixed to a certain vessel, called a lighter on 23 November 1786, the property of Edward Thorne and James Ogle and was tried at the Surrey Assizes, England, on the 2nd April 1787 (under the name of Thomas Gosport). He was sentenced to seven years transportation to the colonies and arrived in Sydney aboard the Suprize in June 1790. Thomas behaved well in the colony and, with a 30 acre grant confirmed in November 1794, he was among the earliest emancipist settlers on the banks of the Hawkesbury River. The site of the farm was just north of the future town of Windsor. Convict Changes History Denis Pember on 13th April, 2016 made the following changes: alias1: Thomas Gosper, date of birth: 1768 (prev. 0000), date of death: 21st September, 1847 (prev. 0000), gender: m Carmen Schnegg on 27th January, 2018 made the following changes:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1081
__label__wiki	0.608768	0.608768	Woman Speaks To CBS4 After Recording Alleged Law Enforcement Impersonator Michael Nelson By Rick Sallinger January 9, 2020 at 10:20 pm Filed Under:Jefferson County News, Michael Nelson, Police Impersonator JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Smart thinking by a Jefferson County woman and her teenage son led to the arrest of a man accused of posing as a federal agent. Michael David Nelson was arrested Wednesday for investigation of impersonating a peace officer and false imprisonment. Michael Nelson (credit: Jefferson County) It was Tuesday morning when Stephanie Troyer and her son were headed down Interstate 70 from Lookout Mountain. Troyer told CBS4’s Rick Sallinger a pickup truck passed her and she looked at the driver. “He flashed what looked a metallic badge. I saw the reflection of the metal and motioned me to pull over,” she said. Suspicious, she pulled over and asked her son to record the exchange on his phone. It captured the man coming up to the car saying, “What’s the rush?” Troyer is seen arguing with the man who had no law enforcement markings on his truck or clothing. “You’re not supposed to pass on the right you passed on left,” she said in the video. “I was in a passing lane that’s a non-passing lane. You passed on the left, you passed on the right. Let me see your ID,” the man responded. The truck and car had pulled over on C-470 near West Alameda Parkway. The man was persistent as seen in the video. “I need to see your ID and registration,” he demanded. “I’m too scared,” Troyer replied. “It’s ok, I’m a federal agent, I’m a federal agent,” the man countered. (credit: Jefferson County) Troyer responded that she wanted him to produce proof of his authority. “I need to see yours,” she says on the recording.” “Ok I am going to call in back up right now,” the man responded. The man produced a badge that said “Interpol,” which stands for the International Criminal Police Organization. We found such badges for sale on the internet for $39 under “fake badges.” Troyer said she was now even more suspicious. Interpol issues red alerts for high profile international criminals. Neither Stephanie nor her son Bradley are on the list. When the man went back to his truck, Troyer drove off and provided the sheriff’s office with their video. The picture off the man was distributed across social media. The Morrison police chief recognized the man as Michael David Nelson, who he had ticketed recently. Nelson appeared via video Thursday in Jefferson County court to be advised of the charges against him. Rick Sallinger CBS4's Rick Sallinger is a Peabody award winning reporter who specializes in hard news and investigative reporting. More from Rick Sallinger	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1086
__label__wiki	0.807782	0.807782	Home Legal notices NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS, by Deed of Trust dated December 21, 2017 (the “Deed of Trust”), of record Book 1746, Page 515, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Tipton County, Tennessee (the “Register’s Office”), William A. Glass, an unmarried man, did convey in trust to FMLS, Inc., as Trustee, certain property described therein to secure payment of a debt in the original principal sum of $150,000.00, payable to Regions Bank (the “Lender”). Said Deed of Trust is incorporated herein by reference; WHEREAS, Lender is the true and lawful owner and holder of the debt aforesaid which is secured by the Deed of Trust (the “Debt”); WHEREAS, by Appointment of Substitute Trustee recorded on January 9, 2019, in Book 1827, Page 838, in said Register’s Office, Lender, exercising its authority as such owner and holder of said Deed of Trust, appointed E. Franklin Childress, Jr., as Substitute Trustee (hereinafter, the “Substitute Trustee”), who is empowered to serve with all the title, powers, and duties of the original Trustee named in said Deed of Trust described above; and WHEREAS, default has been made in the payment of Debt and obligations secured by said Deed of Trust, and Lender, as owner and holder of the obligations secured thereby, has declared the entire balance due and payable and has instructed the undersigned Substitute Trustee to foreclose said Deed of Trust in accordance with its terms and provisions; NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as Substitute Trustee under said instrument, I will on Thursday, February 6, 2020, at 12:00 noon, at the north door of the Tipton County Courthouse, located in Covington, Tennessee, offer for sale and sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash in bar of all rights and equities of redemption, statutory and otherwise, homestead, dower and all other rights or exemptions of every kind, all of which are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, the property therein conveyed (the “Property”), which is situated in the State of Tennessee, Tipton County, and is described as follows: (Legal Description) Land situated in Tipton County, Tennessee: BEGINNING at a found cotton picker spindle in the centerline of the R.E. Johnson Road being on exterior corner of the remaining Robert Edgar Johnson, Jr. property as, being referenced in Deed Book, 202 / Page 293 and referred to in Will Book J / Page 269 -Item 11-C. also being the Northwest corner of Perry M. St. John et ux (731/695), also being the Northernmost Northeast corner of this herein described partition; THENCE in a Southeastward direction along an East line of Johnson and this partition, also being the West line of St. John, S 06°-12’-38” E 180.00 feet to a set iron rod being an interior corner of Johnson and this partition, also being the Southwest corner of. St John; THENCE in a Northeastward direction along a North line of Johnson and this partition, also being the South line of St. John, N 83°-28’ 34” E 244.00 feet to a found cross-tie post being the Southeast corner of St. John; THENCE in a Northeastward direction continuing along a North line of Johnson and this partition also being a South line of Carolyn Smith (WB F/142). N 88°-39’-49” E 856.07 feet to a set iron rod at a rotted tree fence corner being an exterior corner of Johnson, an interior corner of Smith and the Easternmost Northeast corner of this herein described partition; THENCE in a Southeastward direction along an East line of Johnson and this partition, also being a West line of Smith, S 02°-36’-37” E 491.70 feet to a set iron rod being the Southeast corner of Johnson and this partition, also being the Southwest corner of Smith; THENCE a Southwestward direction along a South line of Johnson and this partition, also being North line of James A. Watkins et ux (716/491), S 86°-51’-57” W 1123.46 feet to a set iron rod being an interior corner of Johnson and this partition, also being an exterior corner of Watkins; THENCE in a Southeastward direction along an East line of Johnson and this partition, also being a West line of Watkins, S 03°-30’-00” E 87.78 feet to an exterior corner of Johnson and this partition, also being an interior corner of Watkins; THENCE in a Southeastward direction along a South line of Johnson and this partition, also being a North line of Watkins, S 86°-30’-00” W 2217.60 feet to a found cotton picker spindle in the centerline of Terry Lane South being the Southwest corner of Johnson and this herein described partition; THENCE in a Northwestward direction along a West line of Johnson and this partition, following the general alignment of Terry Lane South, N 03°-41’-52” W 413.82 feet to a set cotton picker spindle being the Westernmost Northwest corner of this herein described partition, also being the Southwest corner of Marvin Webb (WB J/269- Item II-A); THENCE in a Northeastward direction along a north line of this partition, also being the South line of Webb and Betty Webb McGee (WB J/ 269 Item II-B), N 86°-06’-54” E 420.00 feet to a set iron rod being an interior corner of this herein described partition, also being the Southeast corner of McGee; THENCE in a Northwestward direction along a West line of this partition, also being the East line of McGee, N 03°-41’-52” 235.00 feet to a set cotton picker spindle in the centerline of R.E. Johnson Road being the Northernmost Northwest corner of this herein described partition; THENCE in a Northeastward direction along the North line of this partition with the general alignment of R.E. Johnson Road the following two (2) courses: N 82°-55’-24” E 283.54 feet to an angle point; thence N 82°-42’-19” E 1543.69 feet to the Point of Beginning. Less and except the following tracts: Tract I: Lot 3, Robert Johnson Road Subdivision, Section B, as shown on plat of record at Plat Cabinet F, Slide 152-A, in the Register’s Office of Tipton County, Tennessee, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more particular description of said property. Tract 2: Lot 2, Robert Johnson Road Subdivision, as shown on plat of record at Plat Cabinet F, Slide 151-B, in the Register’s Office of Tipton County, Tennessee, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more particular description of said property. Being the same property conveyed to William A. Glass by Warranty Deed of record in Book 1724, Page 876, in said Register’s Office. Said Property is located generally on Robert Johnson Road in Tipton County, Tennessee, with a portion of the property commonly known as 1323 Robert Johnson Road, Tipton County, Tennessee and is also designated as parcel numbers 078-013.03 and 078-013.08, but such address or designation is not a part of the legal description of the Property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control. This sale shall proceed first by public outcry at the north door of the Tipton County Courthouse for a period of thirty (30) minutes. Bidding shall then continue online at the following online auction site: www.tranzon.com. Bidders may register and place presale bids in advance of the public outcry, and the opening bid at the public outcry will be the highest presale bid, if any, entered online. The highest bid at public outcry will then be entered online, and online bidding will continue until 4:00 p.m. Central Standard Time, or until the final bidding has ended via the “automatic extend feature on www.tranzon.com, on the day of the sale. Additional terms regarding online bidding and bid acceptance are more fully described at the online auction site listed above. The winning bidder will be required to post a non-refundable 10% deposit immediately following the auction and the winning bidder must close within 30 days of the auction date. Said sale shall be made for cash in bar of all right and equity of redemption, homestead, dower, and all other rights or exemptions of every kind, all of which are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, but subject to the following: Any unpaid taxes against the Property; and Any recorded easements, conditions, covenants, rights-of-way or subdivision plats affecting the Property; and Any dedication of roads affecting the property and any governmental zoning and subdivision ordinances or regulations in effect; and Any prior or superior liens, judgment, deeds of trust or other interests of record. A ten percent (10%) buyer’s premium (the “Buyer’s Premium”) will be due from the successful highest and best bidder at the foreclosure sale which said amount will be due from the purchaser and high bidder in addition to the bid amount accepted by the Substitute Trustee. 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The failure of any high bidder to pay the purchase price and close this sale shall, at the option of Lender, be cause for rejection of the bid, and if the bid is rejected, Lender shall have the option of making the sale to the next highest bidder who is able, capable, and willing to comply with the terms thereof. The proceeds derived from the sale of the Property will be applied as provided for in said Deed of Trust and are made a part hereof as if set forth verbatim herein. All announcements at the sale on the date of the sale will take priority over this notice. Additional announcements, terms, and conditions may also be posted on the online auction site. THE ONLY GUARANTEE THAT YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO BID IS TO ATTEND THE PUBLIC OUTCRY OF THE FORECLOSURE SALE. BY ENTERING BIDS ONLINE, A BIDDER WILL AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH ON THE AUCTION SITE. THE AUCTION SITE IS OWNED AND OPERATED BY TRANZON ASSET ADVISORS OF TENNESSEE, LLC. 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__label__cc	0.687821	0.312179	Tag: World’s Fairs Artwork of the Month, September 2019: Design for a lookout tower in Prague by Jiří Hrubý (1937) “See! A vertical from steel of 1000 meters! This was made by Czech hands! Look out from above the clouds! This is the Czech land, our homeland!”[1] In 1937, the Czechoslovak government, the Chamber of Commerce and a number of businesses decided to host an international exhibition in Prague, scheduled to take place in 1942. The plan was published and immediately attracted the attention of a host of individuals and institutions. Part of the bid was a proposal to build a lookout tower which would be located on a hill in northern Prague and be 1000 meters high. The estimated price was a staggering 65,000,000 crowns; to put this amount into context, an average monthly salary at the time was 764 crowns. However excessive the idea may seem, the design was very well thought through and an elaborate rationale was provided. Artwork of the Month: Greater Europe by Société Réaliste (2008-2009) 2018-12-06 2019-11-25 Leave a comment Our artwork of the month – the first instalment in this new series – is not from the interwar period: it was created in 2008-2009. It has been chosen as an introductory piece because it represents an important aspect of our research in a thought-provoking way. Our project considers Central Europe after 1918 as a shared cultural space, but in doing so it has to deal with the political reality: the newly minted nation states of the region and the new borders drawn between them. These borders – either their enforcement, or, as in the case of Hungary, their fervent contestation – were central to political discourse in all of these countries. The concept of the nation state relies on the idea that the ethnic, cultural and administrative borders of a nation should correspond with each other; this is, however, rarely the case in reality. The new states of Central Europe were not homogeneous either ethnically or culturally. In the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, different ethnic groups had not only lived side by side, but also intermingled. After 1918 the population of the region underwent a radical mental shift from imperial multi-nationalism towards ethnic nationalism. Yet, multi-ethnicity was still present, and cultural transfer happened between ethnicities and across borders. What does this curious map tell us about all this? Let’s take a look. CFP: Future Prospects for Art History in Central Europe: Questions, Methods, Topics Exhibition review: Devětsil 1920-1931 Artwork of the Month, December 2019: Hričov by Ferdiš Duša (1933) Conference report: Multiplying Modernity: Vernacular Modernisms, Nostalgia and the Avant-Garde Exhibition Review: The Art of Subcarpathian Rus 1919-1938: Czechoslovak Footprint 1918 Artwork of the Month Austria borders Brno Catholicism Central Europe CFP Clemens Holzmeister conference Contested Histories Czech art Czechoslovakia Engelbert Dollfuss Events exhibitions Expressionism Fascism gender Habsburg Empire heritage history Hungary In the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire Košice modernism modernist architecture monuments Multiplying Modernity national identity photography Prague religion reviews Slovakia Uzhhorod vernacular modernisms Vienna women artists workshop	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1092
__label__wiki	0.741789	0.741789	before acting against terrorist groups or threatening countries with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons." What the hell kind of world are we meandering into??? I thought the term "preemptive strike" had moved away from it's Cold War roots and towards something more akin to settling political differences. The administration makes it sound as though they intend to liquify anyone who our twisted leaders decide are a threat. And here I thought that burying dead animals in the soccer field late at night was just another of them crazy soccer traditions. Some of them guys are just plain crazy, after all... Mmmm, tastes like chicken. M.C. Hawking is still singing for it to happen, but it doesn't look like Jesse Helms is dying yet. Now why can't we have something like the Czech political campaign efforts instead of these boring debates between stumpy and cokehead?", "url": "https://darksoul.livejournal.com/210118.html", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/sign.png" }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sean", "image": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/43602274/30764" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Journal darksoul", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://darksoul.livejournal.com", "contentUrl": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/43602274/30764" } } } "It has aroused concern within NATO as well. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told the United States' 18 NATO allies in Brussels last Thursday that the alliance could no longer wait for "absolute proof" before acting against terrorist groups or threatening countries with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons." What the hell kind of world are we meandering into??? I thought the term "preemptive strike" had moved away from it's Cold War roots and towards something more akin to settling political differences. The administration makes it sound as though they intend to liquify anyone who our twisted leaders decide are a threat. Now why can't we have something like the Czech political campaign efforts instead of these boring debates between stumpy and cokehead?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1104
__label__cc	0.604911	0.395089	Dublin Airport expansion is bad news for climate change Press release issued today. Dublin Airport expansion is bad news for climate change – Healy Green Party General Election candidate for Dublin North East Cllr David Healy reacted to the plans unveiled for a new €395m terminal at Dublin airport, saying: "The planned doubling of traffic through Dublin Airport is inconsistent with Ireland’s international commitment to prevent climate change and with the reality of rising oil prices. This massive investment – within one or two decades – is in danger of becoming a stranded asset. "Aviation is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU and if there are twice as many flights coming in and out of Dublin in three or four years time, then the impact of reducing emissions in other sectors will be vastly reduced in terms of our overall Kyoto commitments. The expansion would also create significant additional noise pollution from more flights coming into the city. "Airlines have for too long dodged the polluter pays principle and should be brought into a carbon emissions trading scheme as well as subjected to levies – that currently apply to other forms of transport – on the vast amounts of kerosene fuel that they consume." The Fingal County Councillor concluded: "Even if the Government chooses to deny the looming problems of climate change and oil prices, it would make far more sense to provide a quality rail access to Shannon airport where there is existing spare capacity. This link would make access to air travel quicker and easier for passengers from Galway, Cork and surrounding areas. They could thus avoid the inevitable and inefficient drive to Dublin Airport. Investing in rail is a much better bet than investing in aviation." This entry was posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2006 by david. Headings for Santa Sabina objection Below I attach the draft headings of Michael O’Neill’s submission for the Santa Sabina Action Group, as discussed at recent meetings. I will replace it with the full objection when I receive it. Re: Planning application for residential development of 130 no. dwelling units and a crèche on lands that formerly formed part of the curtilage of the Santa Sabina St. Dominic’s School and Convent complex at Greenfield Road, Sutton, Dublin 13, for Parsis Ltd., Sandyford, Dublin 18. ( Reg. Ref F06A/1099) • Fig 1: Aerial view of subject site – outlined in red. 1.1 CONTEXT • Suburban Lands • Institutional Lands • Surrounding Land Uses • Backland Site • Embedded Site – within Educational religious precinct • Shared Educational Use • Archaeological Impacts 1.2 PLANNING PARAMETERS GOVERNING DEVELOPMENT • Government Sustainable Development Policies 1997 • National Spatial Strategy • Regional Guidelines for the Greater Dublin Region • Residential Density Guidelines • Dublin Transportation Office Policy Documents • Fingal County Development Plan 2005 – 2011 • Special Amenity Area Order for the Howth Peninsula 1.3 PLANNING ASSESSMENT • Contextual constraints • Compliance with Planning Parameters • Special Amenity Area Order • Compliance with Fingal County Plan 2005 – 2011 Zoning Objectives Policy for Residential Areas Policies for Public Open Space Development Control Standards 1.4 IMPACTS OF DEVELOPMENT Residential amenity Character and pattern of development in the area Development Potential of adjoining lands Zoned Public Open Space Lands Institutional Setting Protected Trees Potential Protected Structures – Church and Convent Protected views and prospects Special Amenity Area Order for the Howth peninsula Environmental Quality of the area Impacts of Traffic – conflict with school traffic Drainage and Water supply Fig 4: Potential impacts of proposed development on surrounding land uses. A. Impact on the residential amenities presently enjoyed by residents in the vicinity B. Impact on the Educational Facility C. Impact on the Development Potential of Adjoining lands D. Impact on Protected Trees E. Impact on zoned Public Open Space F. Impact on school recreational facilities. G. Specific overlooking 1.5 PARAMETERS GOVERNING DEVELOPMENT 1.5.1 Development Plan Policy The subject lands are within the functional area of Fingal County Council and are therefore covered by the statutory Development Plan for the area. The most recent Development Plan for the County is the Fingal County Development Plan 2005 – 2011, and in that Plan the subject lands, which in land use terms contain the school, convent and recreational areas, are split between two zoned areas, i.e. residential and Public Open Space. The current zoning on the lands is shown in Fig. 2 below, and, as can be seen from this map, all of the lands in use as hockey pitch and basketball areas have been zoned for open space and recreational uses. The other lands, which contain most of the subject site, all of the school buildings, convent, and surrounding areas are zoned for residential use. • Fig 2: Fingal County Development Plan 2005 – 2011 zoning objectives for subject lands. At present, as can be seen from Fig. 2 below, approximately 27% of the site is zoned “OS”, i.e. “to preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities”, while the rest (73%) of the site is zoned “RS”, i.e. “to provide for residential development and improve residential amenity”. • Fig 3: Zoning Fingal County Development Plan 2005 – 2011(left), overlaid on site plan of proposed development (right). • Uses permitted in principle on the residentially zoned land include, inter alia, residential. • Uses permitted in principle on the open space zoned land include, inter alia, community facilities, recreational facilities and sports club. • The vision of the Planning Authority for public open space zoned lands states that: “Only community facilities and other recreational uses will be considered and encouraged.” The lands presently zoned for residential development are severed from the public road by zoned Open Space lands. The use of these lands for a residential road to serve an embedded backland residential development – particularly of the size and scale proposed must constitute a material contravention of the statutory Development Plan for the area as the zoning does not allow for residential developments. Part of Block B is being built on the Open Space zoned lands. This is clearly a material contravention of the Plan. It would be our contention that the Public Open Space zoned lands make up a substantial part of the subject site – approximately 4200 sq.m. or twenty seven percent of the overall site, and are been used to facilitate the residential development to the rear. On these grounds alone the proposed development should be refused planning permission. 1.5.2 Development Control Standards The critical Development Control Standards for the proposed development are set out in the statutory Development Plan for the area, and the following Standards are relevant in the present instance:-  Density  Car Parking  Private open space  Public Open Space . 1.5.3 Density The area of the zoned residential lands at 1.128 hectares is well above the 0.5 hectares required to determine a separate density from the site. The proposed density of 110 units per hectare (46 per acre) is well above the maximum permitted on sites which have all the necessary characteristics for maximising density. In the present instance a density of even fifty units per hectare would have to be predicated by the obvious constraints that the site offers, particularly the following:- • The zoning on the subject lands, and adjoining lands, • The transitional nature of the site – in both land use and zoning terms, • The institutional nature of the lands, • The surrounding type and scale of residential development in the area, • The educational and recreation use – for girls – on two sides of the proposed development. • The distance from the DART station – above that recommended in the Dublin Transportation Office document Platform for Change, • The roads and traffic constraints, danger to road users particularly school going children, • The development potential of adjoining lands, • The tree protection policies of the Council, • The proximity to a pSAC, pNHA. • The location of the site within attendant lands subject to the Special Amenity Area Order. All of the above have to be considered before any decision can be made on an appropriate density for the site. The proposed density of 110 units per hectare is over seven times the existing general density in the area, – which is roughly fifteen units per hectare. 1.5.4 Car Parking The 2005 – 2011 Fingal County Development Plan Parking Standards identify the following parking requirements in relation to the proposed use for the site. CAR PARKING STANDARDS IN FINGAL Land Use Maximum Permissible Dwelling 1-2 spaces per dwelling Source: Fingal County Development Plan 2005 – 2011 Based on the above, the proposed development would require between 130 and 260 car parking spaces for the proposed development. A total of 195 car parking spaces are to be provided to cater for the overall development – including the crèche. This number of car parking spaces is deficient in terms of numbers – none allocated for crèche or visitors. A further twenty spaces need to be provided for these uses, reducing the number available to the future residents to 175 spaces. The result of all this is that there will be an overflow of car parking unto the surrounding roads, which is already deficient in width and alignment. Car parking near the entrance to the proposed development would create a traffic hazard and affect the safety of other road users. On these grounds alone the proposed development constitutes overdevelopment and contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area. 1.5.5 Open Space The lack of private and communal open space in both quantitative and qualitative terms must be mentioned, and in this regard the proposed development has not been adequately addressed in terms of its institutional land use and Public Open Space zoning. In apartment developments private open space may be in the form of balconies, terraces, roof gardens or communal landscaped areas exclusive of surface car parking. Balconies or terraces shall be usable and be a minimum of 5 sq.m. in area and should be integrated or recessed into the main structure of the building with a view to providing shelter, privacy and where possible to avoid overlooking. The minimum private open space requirement for apartments in the general area, as per the statutory Development Plan for the area, should be as follows: Suburbs 12 – 15 sq.m. per bedspace In the present instance there are approximately four hundred and forty one bedspaces in the proposed development. This represents a requirement for a total of between 5292 – 6615 sq.m. of private open space on the site. Private open space at this level has not been provided and the communal open space available is only 2085 sq.m. In the Fingal County Development Plan 2005 – 2011 the policy is to retain in open space use institutional lands and similar properties with established recreational or amenity uses, as far as practicable. Open space provision in excess of the normal standards is required to maintain the open character of such parts of the land as are considered necessary by the Council for this purpose. The quantity of land required for this purpose is not stated, but in the Dublin City Development Plan 2005-2011, the policy is that, where residential development occurs on former institutional lands public open space should be located in such a way as to be accessible to the general public. They require that 25% of the site shall be set aside for accessible public open space and/or community facilities. We would be of the opinion that this standard of Public Open Space is appropriate, and in the present instance this level of Public Open Space should be provided within the residentially zoned lands. Therefore a minimum of 4800 sq.m. of Public Open Space should be provided to cater for the proposed development. Only 2085 sq.m. is provided to cater for the proposed development, less than half that required. 1.6 PLANNING PARAMETERS GOVERNING DEVELOPMENT ON THE SITE 1.6.1 National Spatial Strategy In terms of the location of housing in urban areas, the NSS states that this must involve:- Concentration of development in locations where is it possible to integrate employment, community services, retailing and public transport; Mixed use and well designed higher density development particularly near town centres and public transport nodes like railway stations; The efficient use of land by consolidating existing settlements, focusing in particular on development capacity within central urban areas through re-use of under-utilised land and buildings as priority, rather than extending greenfield development. We would submit that the subject development is not in compliance with the basic requirements as set out in Table 4.1 of the National Spatial Strategy, and does not adequately match the character, community, or integration tests listed. 1.6.2 Strategic Planning Guidelines 2000 – 2004 The principal objective of these guidelines is to establish a broad planning framework for the area which comprises Dublin City, Dun-Laoighre Rathdown, Fingal, Kildare, Meath, south Dublin and Wicklow all of which are experiencing unprecedented growth driven by the recent buoyant economy. This planning framework will provide an overall strategic context for the formulation of Development Plans at local authority level. In line with the overall vision, the strategy for the Metropolitan Area is to follow a development path that will:  Consolidate development within the area.  Increase overall densities of development.  Thereby facilitate the provision of a considerably enhanced public transport system and facilitate and encourage a shift to public transport. 1.6.3 Residential Density Guidelines 1999 The Department of the Environment published guidelines on residential density in 1999, following circular letter PD 4/98. Briefly, the guidelines seek to promote higher densities in new residential schemes. They have emerged against a background of rising demand, falling household sizes and government policy on sustainability. The guidelines set out policies and standards but are not intended as a design guide. In general terms, the guidelines discourage densities less than 20 dwellings per hectare (8 dwellings per acre), and they suggest that a range of 35-50 dwellings per hectare (14-20 per acre) would result in more efficient land usage. The guidelines recommend the following for residential densities in towns and villages:  In the case of residential development on serviced lands in towns and villages located in existing or planned quality public transport corridors, particularly those which have spare capacity in existing facilities such as schools, shops, libraries, health centres, childcare facilities etc., increased densities would be appropriate in order to maximise such social and infrastructural investment (Section 3.6.1). Of import in the present instance is Section 3.3.1 of the Guidelines, which deals with “Infill Residential Development”, where it is stated that, “….In residential areas whose character is established by their density or architectural form, a balance has to be struck between the reasonable protection of the amenities and privacy of adjoining dwellings, the protection of established character and the need to provide residential infill. The design approach should be based on a recognition of the need to protect the amenities of directly adjoining neighbours and the general character of the area and its amenities…..” In the present instance the subject site does not meet all of the above criteria and the design of the apartments are such that it would not blend into either the character or the pattern of residential developments in the area. Indeed it is submitted that the proposed development would maximise the disamenity by virtue of the location of the development proposed, its three/four/five storey design – with windows and balconies directly overlooking neighbours, i.e. residential, educational, and recreational properties. Section 5.1, of the Residential Density Guidelines deals with the General Approach – Criteria for Higher Densities. The following are deemed important in arriving at suitable sites for the development of higher densities. • Size of site • Proximity to town / city centre facilities and to existing or planned public transport systems • Quality of proposed layout and elevational design • Quality of proposed open space and general landscaping • Levels of privacy and amenity In section 5.7.4 Recommended Qualitative Standards suggest that the following criteria, inter alia, should be utilised when assessing the appropriateness and impact of any development. • Quality of design and layout. • Standard of residential environment. • Protection of privacy. • Issues in respect to adjoining property; • Overlooking. • Overshadowing of habitable rooms (daylight and shadow projections may be required to be submitted as part of a proposal) • Height (In general low rise buildings which respect the scale and character are appropriate if adjoining existing development is low rise). It will be our contention that the proposed development does not properly address the issues raised in the Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Residential Density , nor does it particularly address the issue of set backs, overlooking and overshadowing. We would suggest that the proposed development contravenes both the government’s and the Planning Authority’s policies with regard to the protection of residential amenity of adjoining properties. Land Use Zoning Objective RS: To protect, provide and improve residential amenities. The general objectives for primarily residential areas are to provide a measure of protection from unsuitable new development or certain ‘bad neighbour’ developments that would either threaten or be incompatible with the overall residential function of the area. It is not intended to rule out development other than housing development but simply to apply a test that the new development should be compatible with or reinforce the residential function of the area as a whole. General Site Development Standards The creation of attractive environments with a genuine sense of place is a prerequisite to achieving sustainability. The quality of where we live, work and visit depends not just on the design of buildings, but on their layout and landscaping, the arrangements made for access, and in particular, how they relate to their surroundings….. Development proposals will be assessed in terms of how they contribute to the achievement of the objectives above, and having regard to various qualitative and quantitative standards. Of foremost importance will be the encouragement of development of the highest possible architectural and urban quality. Density should achieve optimum use of urban land appropriate to its location and context. In implementing the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government guidelines on residential development and to encourage sustainable residential communities, consideration must be given to the qualitative and quantitative standards outlined above and to the following elements: • Density: High densities should be provided in appropriate locations. Site configuration and area will have an impact on the density levels achievable. • Quality of the proposed layout and elevations: The quality of the residential environment will be paramount in the acceptability of planning applications. Layouts, elevations, and design must be designed to emphasize a sense of place and community. Residential complexes including social and affordable housing shall be built to designs, which do not articulate social difference and will be laid out in a way that makes no sharp territorial boundaries between different housing origins. • Quality of proposed open space and general landscaping: Detailed landscape proposals, including specifications, must be submitted with all planning applications. The detail of these proposals will form an integral part of the assessment of the quality of the proposed layout…. • Levels of privacy and amenity: The relationship of buildings to one another, potential overlooking, sunlight/daylight standards and the use of screening devices and landscape elements will form the basis of assessment…… We would submit that the proposed development neither complies with nor supports these reasonable objectives. It is clear that the proposed development would represent a material contravention of the said policies and objectives of the current plan. Daylight and Sunlight • The Planning Authority considers that all buildings should receive adequate daylight and sunlight. Careful design of residential buildings, where the amount of incoming light is important, can ensure that sufficient sunlight can enter habitable rooms to provide comfort and also reduce the need for artificial lighting. The proposed development does not comply with the reasonable objectives of the Planning Authority in this regard. Aerial photograph of subject site showing trees on site and densities around site. Such a diversion from the densities of adjacent buildings and indeed from the densities of the surrounding area must be seen as both unreasonable and excessive, and contrary to the Density Guidelines and statutory Development Plan for the area which states that; ‘The density of new residential development will generally be influenced by the density of the surrounding area’ Indeed the Planning Authority, and An Bord Pleanála, have refused planning permission for less dense apartment developments in similar areas for the reason of its density being excessive in relation to the low to medium densities which characterize the particular area and therefore, ‘would injure the special amenities of the area and would set an undesirable precedent for further such developments in the area and would be contrary to the proper planning and development of the area’ We would contend that the density of the proposed development is a much more serious breach of this reasonable reason for refusal given previously. This view is fully consistent with the Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Residential Density. Although the Residential Density Guidelines targets infill residential in Inner Suburban locations for higher residential densities it qualifies it by stating that, ‘the design approach should be based on recognition of the need to protect amenities of directly adjoining neighbours and the general character of the area and its amenities i.e. views, architectural quality civic design etc.’ We would submit that the proposed development does not protect the general character of the area, i.e. medium density single family dwellings set in small gardens 1.6.4 Building Form & Size Dwellings in the immediate vicinity of the proposed development site are two-storey. It is therefore suggested that the form, size and height of proposed development does not relate to that of the surrounding dwellings and therefore is contrary to the statutory development plan. Again it is the policy of the Planning Authority that housing development should relate to the surrounding urban form and land use. Protection and respect of the existing amenities and the character of the area are important and should be regarded as a feature of good design. Lack of Open Space The level of Private and Communal Open Space on the site is, given the nature of the lands, seriously deficient. The deficiencies can partially be met by reducing the number of residential units on the site, but this requires a major revision to the current plans. It would be our contention that the deficiency is of a scale to require the Planning Authority to refuse planning permission on grounds of material contravention of the statutory Development Plan for the area. 1.6.5 Overshadowing Given the proximity of the proposed development to adjoining properties, and its orientation, the potential for overshadowing is significant. The proposed development, by virtue of its size, proximity and height will significantly diminish the amount of sunlight into many of our clients’ properties, thereby affecting the residential amenity and the value of the property. 1.6.6 Concluding Remarks On the basis of the above analysis we would ask the Planning Authority to refuse planning permission for the subject development for the following reasons:- 1. “The proposed development due to its density, height, bulk and scale, would overall represent an unsatisfactory standard of development in terms of design and layout. The proposed development would contravene materially the current statutory Development Plan for the area and would also conflict with the Department of Environment and Local Government Residential Density Guidelines, Section 5.1, 5.2 and Section 5.5 and would therefore be contrary to the proper planning and development of the area”. Due to its unsatisfactory design and layout the proposed development is considered to be out of character with the pattern of adjoining residential development and would seriously injure the amenities and depreciate the value of property in the vicinity. The proposed development would therefore contravene materially an objective of the County Council, as expressed in the Development Plan “To protect and / or improve residential amenity”. It is clear from the proposal that the proposed development is totally reliant on the removal of attractive mature specimen trees which are designated in the Statutory Development Plan for the area. Access to the site is also inappropriate, given the existing access from the regional route, which is more than adequate to serve the existing development. In Table 2 below we have set out the key development control standards – as per the statutory Development Plan for the area and the Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Residential Density – applicable to this site, and as can be seen from this Table the proposed development is significantly in breach of most of the development standards – both quantitative and qualitative – applicable to ones assessment of the subject application. TABLE 2: SUMMARY OF DEVELOPMENT CONTROL STANDARDS. Development Control Standard Proposed Development Development Plan requirement Development Control Standard Met Residential density 110 per ha. 30-50 r Open Space /bedspace 9 sq.m. 12 – 15 sq.m. r Car Parking 195 130-260 r Consultant’s Estimate Our clients’ private residential amenity will be significantly affected by the proposed development. As already stated one of the key recommendations emanating from all of the reports is that higher densities can only be countenanced in situations where the size, and location, of the site is adequate to create its own density and design without significantly damaging neighbouring properties or the neighbourhood. The test for higher densities is therefore two fold, but both have to be achieved. In the present instance none of the criteria for higher densities are present. Therefore, as is clearly stated in the guidelines, but very often ignored by Planning Authorities, the type of development must be consistent with the character and pattern of residential development in the area. Only in this way can the residential amenities presently enjoyed by our clients be protected as outlined in the statutory Development Plan for the area. It is clear from a perusal of the statutory Development Plan for the area that the proposed development is a contravention of the objectives, policy, and Development Control Standards therein. Given the size, type and location of the subject lands and the impacts of the proposed development on adjoining residential, community, and educational amenity, including the environmental quality of the access road through Public Open Space zoned lands, the subject development materially contravenes the statutory Development Plan for the area. In conclusion we would respectfully submit that the subject development is a material contravention of the statutory Development Plan for the area; and is therefore contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area; would seriously injure the residential amenities of our clients’ properties, and would destroy the residential character of this area. Michael A. O’ Neill, MIPI Correspondence with Engineering governing body re road design and cyclists’ safety Following correspondence earlier in the year on road design and "cycle facilities" I realised that the lack of proper training for roads engineers must be a significant part of the problem. So I wrote to "Engineers Ireland." I’m sending the second reminder today. I wasn’t originally going to put this online, but as it’s waited a few months for a reply I’m putting it up, partly in the hope that individual engineers might take this up with their professional organisation. From: David Healy / Daithí Ó hÉalaithe [mailto:verdire@eircom.net] Sent: 29 May 2006 21:46 To: ’emchugh@engineersireland.ie’ Cc: ‘info@dto.ie’ Subject: Modular Roads Course 2006/2007 Dear Mr. McHugh, I note the programme for your Modular Roads Course. I have been concerned for some time at the lack of understanding road engineers have of the design needs of cyclists and the safety implications for cyclists of their designs. This unfortunately applies not only to engineers who are designing for a general traffic flow including cyclists but also to those who are trying to design specifically for cyclists. The attached correspondence relating to a junction in my constituency reflects such a lack of understanding, if I may refer you to it as an example. In relation to responses 1 and 2, Mr. Deegan is entirely wrong in his suggestion of how a cyclist should safely use the road. I would refer to Cyclecraft by John Franklin published by the Stationery Office in the UK and recommended reading for the National Cyclist Training Standard in UK. (http://www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp?FO=1159966&Action=Book&ProductID=0117020516&From=SearchResults) or alternatively to Oregon Department of Transportation’s Bicyclist Manual 2006 at pages 6 and 7 (http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/BIKEPED/docs/bike_manual_06.pdf ) An understanding of the sources of risk for cyclists and of how cyclists can use the road to best reduce the risk of collision is essential if road design is to cater for safe use by cyclists. Nobody should be designing roads which cyclists use and especially not designing specifically for cyclists without this understanding. Many of the flaws in road design for cyclists in Dublin probably come from such basic misunderstanding. If this was a single instance, I would not refer to it. However, from travelling around Dublin, I know that when it comes to designing for cyclists, bad design is the rule rather than the exception. The poor quality of these designs must in part reflect an inadequacy in training or at least could be remedied by better training, which is why I’m writing to you. I would be interested to know if you have or could incorporate sessions on road design as it affects cyclists in your training course. It seems to me that this would be appropriate to both Modules 2 and 4. I’m copying this to the DTO for information. As funders of much of the cycle-specific infrastructure, they have an interest in having good design applied, and may be able to work with you in relation to CPD issues. I’m sure that the Dublin Cycling Campaign (http://home.connect.ie/dcc/) would also be interested in helping you include these elements in your training course. From: Sean McGrath [mailto:Sean.McGrath@fingalcoco.ie] To: verdire@eircom.net Subject: FW: RE: design of grange road/industrial estate junction. Dear Cllr Healy I forward the consultants response FYI. We are considering changing the layout of the junction to have only two general traffic lanes on the approach from the M50 direction. This will give additional space to allow for full width traffic and cycle lanes in both directions without compromise. There may be some loss in capacity of the junction, but, given the improved comfort for all, it may be worthwhile. From: Martin Deegan [mailto:mdeegan@jbbarry.ie] To: Sean McGrath Subject: [Possible Spam] RE: design of grange road/industrial estate junction. Thank you for the attached. As a regular cyclist and traffic engineer, I have pleasure in responding to Cllr Healy’s points in order as following. Providing formal cycle facilities highlights the presence and needs of cyclists to motorized road users. The left turning conflict is apparent in this situation at every junction with or without cycle tracks, and is dependent on a measure of good judgment and courtesy between vulnerable road users and motorists. The safest place for the cyclist in this situation is to stay within the appointed cycle track, and not in the middle of the traffic lane where the risk rear end shunt type conflict with fast moving vehicles would undoubtedly be greater. Referencing point 1 above, the safest place for cyclists is within the allocated cycle lane. This risk is apparent within all urban road environments which have cycle tracks retrofitted. The traffic lanes have been widened to a minimum of 3.25 metres. This is sufficient for a HGV to pass a cyclist without entering the cycle lane or the adjacent right turning traffic lane. With reference to the Cllr’s final paragraph: In the event of an emergency or breakdown, a motorist can pull into the hard shoulder to get out of the flow of traffic and obtain an element of safety. It is not a traffic lane; nor was it designed as a cycle lane, although it serves the purpose well in this instance. Thought must be given to the safety of all road users, in this instance 1.5 metres has been allocated for the cycle lane, and 4.0 metres for the adjacent traffic lane, both dimensions provide a good level of service for both motorists and cyclists, and are well above minimum industry standards. Martin Deegan J.B.Barry & Partners Ltd Dolcain House Monastery Road Fax : +353 (0)1 459 4357 Email: mdeegan@jbbarry.ie The information contained within this e-mail including any attachments is intended for the sole use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you receive this e-mail in error please contact the sender by return and delete this e-mail including any attachments. To: Martin Deegan Subject: FW: design of grange road/industrial estate junction. Comments from Cllr Healy FYI. From: Mary McPhillips Subject: FW: [Possible Spam] design of grange road/industrial estate junction. Did you get this already To: Peter Caulfield; Mary McPhillips Subject: [Possible Spam] design of grange road/industrial estate junction. Thank you for showing us the proposed redesign of the junction last week. In relation to the design, I have the following comments. I welcome the removal of one of the 3 eastbound lanes coming into the junction, to give more room for westbound traffic. I am concerned at the design including cycle lanes within an existing lane. By the design shown, it is not possible for a car or truck to use this lane without travelling in the cycle lane. This seems to be the case northbound entering the junction on the industrial estate road and eastbound entering the junction on grange road. It seems to me that these could have 3 undesirable effects 1. They are likely to encourage cyclists to stay left at the junction. In fact, safe cycling requires that a cyclist travelling straight on should not stay to the left of the lane as to do so would risk a car or truck turning left across them. Safe cyclists will occupy the centre of the straight ahead lane. 2. They may encourage cyclists to travel up on the inside of trucks, which puts cyclists in a particularly dangerous position. 3. They may encourage motor vehicles to pass cyclists without moving fully into the adjacent lane. If there is a good reason for this design I would like to hear of it. I am also concerned at the width of the cycle lane over the bridge. The previous situation was a good wide hard shoulder. The new situation should not lead to any reduction in safety for cyclists. There is a tendency for a motor vehicle user to assume that it is safe to pass a cyclist on a cycle lane as long as each road user remains in their lane. This, of course, is not the case, but it is a consequence of cycle lane design. Narrow cycle lanes (especially if associated with other narrow lanes and markings such as central hatching) can encourage motor vehicle users to pass closer than they would otherwise have done. In this case, we are talking about a road with high levels of HGVs, making safe passing even more important for cyclists’ safety and cyclists’ perceptions of safety. The width of the lane was not marked on the plan. However, there is a tendency for road engineers to incorrectly assume that a width of 1.5m is standard. In this case, a width of at least 2m would be appropriate Photos of hazardous waste in illegal dump Howth – Urban Centre Strategy and Traffic Management The Development Plan contains an objective to do an Urban Centre Strategy for Howth. The Transportation Department has separately advertised for consultants to work on traffic and parking in Howth. I am trying to ensure that the Urban Centre Strategy is done in tandem with the traffic work. To: Planning Department, Transportation Department by email: 21st August A chairde The Development Plan contains a number of objectives specifically related to Howth (attached as Annex 1) In particular the first objective is “Objective HOWTH 1 “To prepare an Urban Centre Strategy for the village core to include detailed urban design guidelines and actions for the harbour (extending to Claremont Strand) and village area and which will have regard for the special historic and architectural character of the area.” Arising initially from a proposal by the Department of the Marine to introduce parking charges, the Transportation Department is seeking to employ consultants to work on traffic and parking management in Howth. See http://www.e-tenders.gov.ie/search/search_show.aspx?ID=JUL064318 It seems to me that it would be best for the Urban Centre Strategy work to be connected to the Traffic and Parking Management Plan. Indeed it would make so sense at all to do the Traffic and Parking Management Plan with all its impacts on the design and use of the area and then come back to do an Urban Centre Strategy. Additionally, the Traffic and Parking Management Plan if implemented is likely to give rise to some income which could be used to fund work such as burying electricity cables in the historic core of Howth. Therefore I would like to recommend that the two pieces of work be carried out in tandem. I will raise this at the area cttee. in September but I am aware that tenders will be coming in in relation to the traffic work and I wanted to give you my views as soon as possible. Annex 1 Extract from County Development Plan pp. 177 to 178 Howth is a distinctive settlement located within a unique natural and built environment. It fulfils a predominately leisure role for visitors with restaurants, cafes, bars and some niche shopping such as arts and crafts. It is envisaged that Howth village will develop in a manner that will protect the character of the town, strengthen and promote the provision and range of facilities especially the retention and promotion of retail convenience shopping and community services to support the existing populations and tourists. Future development shall be strictly related to the indicated use zones including the infilling of existing developed areas rather than further extension of these areas. Development shall be encouraged which utilises the recreational and educational potential of the area and other nearby natural environments of high quality. The strategy for Howth Peninsula is to ensure the conservation and preservation of the areas of outstanding natural beauty and the sustainable tourist and recreational use of natural assets. The main basis for this strategy will be the Howth Special Amenity Area Order. DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES To prepare an Urban Centre Strategy for the village core to include detailed urban design guidelines and actions for the harbour (extending to Claremont Strand) and village area and which will have regard for the special historic and architectural character of the area. To encourage the retention and development of ground floor commercial uses within the core of the village. Y o u r F i n g a l – W r i t t e n S t a t e m e n t New development in the core of Howth shall ensure the provision of commercial/retail uses on the ground floor. Such uses should be of a convenience and comparison retail mix with emphasis on the latter. Office provision should also be encouraged to ensure a vibrant village core with both indigenous day and evening populations. To implement the Howth Special Amenity Area Order, the associated management plan and objectives for the To continue to encourage the development of the harbour area for fishing and marine related industry and tourism. To provide traffic calming in Howth Village taking account of its environment as a residential, tourist and local shopping area, and in particular the protection of the residential amenity of Main Street from the effects of motor traffic. To restrict the number of advertising structures in Howth peninsula and village. To reduce the number of masts on the West Mountain to the minimum necessary.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1110
__label__wiki	0.660239	0.660239	Characters, Disney characters, The Lion King characters, The Lion King (mentioned) Dauntless, dutiful Queen of the Pride Lands (formerly) Pridelanders To find a water source to solve the Pride Lands drought (succeeded) Pride Rock, Pride Lands Mohatu † (father-in-law) Ahadi † (mate) Mufasa † (son) Scar † (son) Sarabi (daughter-in-law) Simba (grandson) Nala (granddaughter-in-law) Kion (great-grandson) Kiara (great-grandaughter) Kovu (great-grandson-in-law) Rani (great-granddaughter-in-law) Finds a water source to solve the Pride Lands drought Uru is the Queen of the Pride Lands that is mentioned in The Lion King: Six New Adventures. Uru was the first named queen of the Pride Lands. She was the mate of Ahadi and the mother of Mufasa and Scar. She was the paternal grandmother of Simba and the great-grandmother of his sons Kopa and Kion. She is also the great-grandmother of Simba's daughter Kiara. During the events of the book, Ahadi mentions that Uru had set off to search for a new water source during a drought, leaving him to care for their sons and the kingdom. Rafiki later mentions that Uru had managed to find a water source and save the kingdom. Uru is mainly absent from the story due to her quest. She is first mentioned by Ahadi when he tells Rafiki that she is searching for a new source of food and water for the Pride Lands. She is later mentioned by Rafiki himself as he relates the story to Kopa, explaining that Uru found a lake at the western edge of the Pride Lands that saved many animals from dying of thirst. Though her personality is not explored, it can be assumed that Uru is dauntless and dutiful, willing to separate from her family in order to save her subjects. Uru was mentioned in The Lion King by Zazu when he was confronting Scar over his absence during Simba's presentation. Uru is also the name of the metal that Mjolnir is made of. Retrieved from "https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Uru?oldid=3827933" The Lion King characters	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1117
__label__wiki	0.915403	0.915403	Apple to Release ‘The Banker’ With Anthony Mackie, Samuel L Jackson, Nicholas Hoult Ted Baker warns inventory overvaluation was more than double initial estimates India’s highest court hears petitions on new citizenship law Novel Coronavirus: Here’s What We Know About The Virus From China So Far ‘I can only be happy’: Dan Evans exits Australian Open with a smile China Warns Holiday Travel Surge Could Spread Deadly Coronavirus Sainsbury’s chief Mike Coupe to step down after six years in charge In Chirac’s shadow, France’s Macron steps into Jerusalem’s symbolism Home Entertainment Movie in Movie Apple is partnering with the director and producers of “The Banker,” a dramatic film from director George Nolfi starring Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult and Nia Long, to release the movie on their upcoming Apple TV+ service, the company announced Tuesday. “The Banker” will join the slate of films and shows on Apple TV+, the tech company’s new streaming service launching this fall. Based on true story of two African American entrepreneurs, “The Banker” follows Bernard Garrett (Mackie) and Joe Morris (Jackson), who try to circumvent the racial limitations of the 1950s by recruiting a working class white man, Matt Steiner (Hoult), to pose as the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and a chauffeur to monitor their businesses. Bernard’s wife Eunice (Long), plays a key role in setting up the enterprise. Garrett and Morris become extremely wealthy real estate investors in California and then go on to covertly purchase two banks in Jim Crow Texas with the goal of quietly providing loans to the African American community there, but their success brings about an unforeseen risk of exposure that threatens everything. Nolfi (“The Adjustment Bureau”) directs the period drama from a script by Nolfi, David Smith, Niceole Levy and Stan Younger. The film’s story is by Smith, Younger and Brad Caleb Kane. Joel Viertel is producing alongside Brad Feinstein through his Romulus Entertainment. Nolfi, Mackie, Nnamdi Asomugha, Jonathan Baker and Smith are also producing. Endeavor Content represented the sale of the film. Apple has a partnership with A24 in their upcoming slate of films, and they’ve also already acquired Sundance selections “Hala and The Elephant Queen,” and the animated film “Wolfwalkers” from Tomm Moore. Sofia Coppola is also directing “On the Rocks” for Apple and A24. The post Apple to Release ‘The Banker’ With Anthony Mackie, Samuel L Jackson, Nicholas Hoult appeared first on The Wrap. Tags: AppleMovies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1121
__label__cc	0.519124	0.480876	Hot Single Athletes Are Using Tinder In Your Area Right Now Filed to:tinder ESPN The Magazine’s Sam Alipour published a story about athletes using online dating today, and though the trend piece seems six months too late, the timeliness can be forgiven because of the anecdotes within. Athletes are just like us, in that they’re looking for people to hump. Unsurprisingly, the younger players are more adept at Tinder. Cavaliers center Timofey Mozgov is not one of them: So how does Tinder work? Don’t ask the Cavaliers. “It’s big in younger locker rooms,” guard Joe Harris says. “We’re older, so Tinder is probably foreign to these guys.” “Teender? Show me,” says big man Timofey Mozgov, snatching my phone. “All right, what is it? A game?” Sort of. Swipe left if you don’t dig her; swipe right if you do. “I see, just random girls ...” Mozgov says, swiping rapidly, 10, 15 times, all to the right. Um, dude, stop swiping? “Trust me,” he says, just as he strikes a match. “She likes you! OK, we send a message: ‘Hi, can we meet?’” The cavalier cupid is beside himself with laughter. “If you know girls like you, you don’t need to do the dirty works! So easy. I wish they had it before I got married.” New Orleans Pelicans center Anthony Davis is whiffing. Someone help him out: Just hit Play on Yo Gotti’s “Down in the DM.” The rapper describes the DM zone with bawdy lyrics that Pelicans big man Anthony Davis knows by heart. Still, “my DM’s not popping,” he says, furrowing his brow. “I don’t know what my problem is.” Rambunctious beefcake Rob Gronkowski has a two-pronged strategy for the app: Patriots star Rob Gronkowski tried Tinder four years ago just for laughs, he says, “and I was matching like crazy!” I tell the “chickmagnet4life” — seriously, that was his AIM screen name — I’m not faring as well. It hits him like a bolt of lightning. “You’re not killing it?” Gronk says. “You’re not doing it right.” The tight end offers two fixes: First, make like Mozgov, “Swipe right on everything. Get the ball rolling.” Second, make like Dangerfield, “Make them laugh. Just Google ‘Tinder pickup lines.’” (Sample: You must be a dictator, cuz I have an uprising.) That one must be a hit. The entire feature is a fun, light read. Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell makes an appearance with some dating advice. Presumably, his interview occurred before he jeopardized teammate Nick Young’s relationship.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1123
__label__cc	0.5991	0.4009	Decarcerate PA Vaughn prisoners release demands in wake of prison uprising On February 1st, 2017, prisoners at Vaughn Correctional Center in Delaware took over a section of the prison in protest of rampant human rights abuses at the facility. Since the uprising, many people incarcerated there have been reporting ongoing brutality from the guards in the month since – including the use of shock shields and severe beat-downs by correctional officers of shackled and cuffed prisoners. The prisoners at James T. Vaughn have written an extensive list of requests, in the form of an open public letter to the Warden and Delaware Department of Corrections. It is their wish that this document be released to the media. These are changes that they believe are necessary to create a safer, more humane, and more secure environment for both prisoners and staff at this facility. An open letter to Warden Parker of Vaughn Correctional Center To: Warden Parker, James T. Vaughn Correction Center From: Thomas Gordon #455684 Re: Human Rights It is imperative upon those of us who fight monsters to do everything in our power to not become one in the process. ~Anon To those of you who deny us our human rights in order to feel secure, you deserve neither humanity nor security. What happened in C-Building was both tragic and inevitable. Only those who were blind or naïve can claim that they did not see that incident coming. It was not sparked by any one event, but by a series of events, that with time began to slowly boil over. Due to the conditions of this prison and the treatment of those held within it, it was only a matter of time before we (as I stand in solidarity with them) were forced to take actions into our own hands. Our attempts at diplomacy were ignored, our pleas for help fell on deaf ears. There was no other way for you to know our struggle, for you to acknowledge our plight. What had to be done was done. No one wants for this type of incident to happen again. No one wanted this to happen in the first place. We allhave a duty and a moral obligation to insure that what occurred never occurs again. To do that we must first realistically address the issues that brought us to this point. We, as inmates, know that when we are incarcerated, we lose certain “civil” rights. What we do not lose and what should not be taken away from us are our “human” rights. Under no circumstances should we be treated as less than human beings, nor shall we be expected to settle for such treatment. We do not want the keys to the prison. What we want is fairness, impartiality, transparency, and humane treatment. Below you will find a list of our fair requests that will help you all in your goal of making this a safer, more secure, and more humane prison. I hope that you consider all of these points sincerely. On behalf of my brothers in the struggle. In struggle and solidarity, For a Safer, More Secure, and More Humane Prison On Behalf of the Prisoners at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center March 8, 2017 - Smyrna, Delaware Below you will find a list of our fair and reasonable requests that will help you in your goal of making the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center a safer, more secure, and more humane prison. We hope that you consider all of these points sincerely. We respectfully request: 1. Human Rights. Everything on this list can be placed under this one category. We want human rights, decent treatment, respect as men, and to be treated fairly. 2. Food. We would like to be properly fed and to receive bigger portions at all meals. We would like an end to the “heart healthy diet”[1] and for all foods to be removed from the menu when it is clear that the majority of prisoners do not eat it. The Delaware Department of Corrections throws away a ton of food on a daily basis. There is no reason that not only could our portions be bigger but that the prison could pass out seconds and thirds as well. We therefore request: 1) larger portions; 2) an end to the “heart healthy diet”; 3) “seconds and thirds call” at the chow hall until any food that would be thrown away is eaten, with each tier rotating on days to eat last; and 4) an end to using food as punishment by attempting to starve people into submission, especially in the Solitary Housing Unit (SHU). 3. Access to Programs. There are extremely limited program options for the inmates in this prison, to the point that if you are not a drug addict or a sex offender there is really nothing for you. We want better programming opportunities for all prisoners. We also want an end to the sham practice of handing out “program packets” to the individuals housed in the SHU and Maximum Security (MAX). All prisoners should be afforded the opportunity to receive adequate programming. An area shall be set aside (such as the visiting room and Bldg. 20 holding cells for the inmates in MAX/SHU) for them to receive such programming from a counselor or other party approved to run such programs or groups. 4. Education. Education should be afforded to all inmates no matter what their classification status. Even if it is provided through “In House Mail” courses for those inmates housed in the SHU/MAX. The Department of Corrections should hire the teachers needed to ensure that this gets done. Education, just like programming, should not be a privilege to be stripped away. It should be our right. 5. Visits. The Delaware DOC should afford inmates with more opportunities to have visits with their families and loved ones and should eliminate hurdles placed in the way of our support groups who come to show us their love by visiting us. To do this, James T. Vaughn Correctional Center should: 1) offer visiting schedules equal to or greater than those offered at Sussex Correctional Institute (SCI); 2) Tear down the wall in the visiting room, which is there to cause not only a physical separation, but a psychological separation as well; and 3) allow inmates to hold the hands of their visitors above tables and to give longer hugs. Our family and loved ones are our greatest deterrent against both prison re-entry and prison misconduct, so why would you hinder us from having ample contact with them? JTVCC should follow SCI’s example in this department as they do a better job at running visits fairly and humanely. 6. Better Pay. All inmates employed by JTVCC should be given a pay increase of at least 5 dollars a month. It is still slave labor, but this will at least allow even the lowest paying job to get more than 24 soups, 2 bars of soap, and a writing tablet a month. Inmate workers should also be paid “overtime” equal to that in the real world, which is “time and a half.” 7. Fair and Impartial Disciplinary Hearings. The entire disciplinary process at JTVCC is old and outdated. Furthermore, it is widely known that Lt. Savage is incapable of conducting fair and impartial hearings. Not only should Lt. Savage be removed from this position, but the way hearings are conducted should be changed completely. We believe that disciplinary hearings should be conducted by a “board” of 3-5 DOC staff of the rank of Lieutenant or higher along, with 1 mental health clinician and 1 DOC Counselor. All parties should hear all of the evidence for and against the inmate and then make a joint decision with any dissenting opinions written down along with the majority’s ruling for the inmate. Appeals should also be run in the same manner, except that the board of DOC staff should have at least a rank of Staff Lieutenant, along with 1 Captain and the Warden or his/her designee. 8. A Fair and Impartial Grievance Process. JTVCC has a hidden policy to hinder inmates from receiving remedies for issues and incidents that should be grievable, by deeming such grievances as “non-grievable” when filed or returning them “unprocessed.” This practice has to stop! Our grievance process is our only in-house recourse for a lot of issues and it should work smoothly. In order to do this: “Requests” should be allowed to be processed by the grievance office and should not be returned as “unprocessed.” Currently, any grievance that staff doesn’t want to go through is thrown out as a “request.” Deeming grievances “non-grievable“ or “unprocessed” due to them being “requests” is the most abused process in the JTVCC’s grievance policy. It actually even goes against the written language of the grievance since for remedies you are clearly asked “Action requested by grievant”. Your grievance should not be deemed non-grievable nor returned unprocessed simply because you make a “request”. This has to stop. “Staff issues” should be grievable issues as well. The current policy of having inmates write the Staff Lt. or the Warden is a flawed policy since neither the Warden nor the Staff Lt. everrespond to such writings. Staff issues should be allowed to be grieved and any grievances against staff alleging “misuse of force” or “prisoner abuse” should be investigated by an Internal Affairs Officer. The DOC should hire the appropriate officers to ensure that this is done. All grievances alleging misuse of force or prisoner abuse should be deemed an “Emergency Grievance” and should be treated as such. You cannot expect safety and security for yourselves when we are being denied the same. Internal Affairs should keep officer files detailing allegations of misuse of force or prisoner abuse against inmates when alleged against said officer. These files shall include all such grievances against an officer, no matter the outcome of the grievance investigation. This is needed in order to show a pattern of abuse and excessive force. There are several officers who are widely known by both inmates and staff to regularly use excessive force and abuse inmates. These officers should be disciplined by the DOC when it is readily apparent that they have a pattern for such behavior. 9. Transparency. Once a year, the DOC should publish a “pie-chart” in the prisoner newspaper detailing how the money allocated to the prison is being spent. It should also include a separate chart detailing how the money earned in commissary is being spent. We believe that we have a right to know these things. This issue is highly important to us. 10. Mental Health. The abuse, mistreatment and punishment of individuals seeking mental health treatment needs to stop, along with the Mental Health Director Lezley Sexton’s allowance and support of such actions. Lezley Sexton and DOC’s policy of using medication as a punishment also needs to stop. The treatment of mental health prisoners and prisoners seeking mental health treatment in this prison has been nothing less than cruel and appalling! This has to stop. 11. New Appointment of personnel. We are calling for the appointment of a new Commissioner, Warden and Deputy Warden. A lot of us watched this prison take a turn for the worse under the authority of the now acting Commissioner Perry Phelps. We believe that a lot of our in-house grievances began with his appointment as Warden. He is therefore unfit to change a system that he destroyed. To allow him to continue carrying on would be the equivalent of allowing a wolf to herd the sheep. Deputy Warden Scarborough should also be replaced. He is also a part of the problem, and indeed one of the main reasons, that inmates seeking mental health support are mistreated and punished. It is widely known that those are his personal policies. We also call for the ouster of the acting warden if he is unwilling to institute the fair changes listed herein, as such an unwillingness can only lead to more problems. 12. Regular Rotation of Staff. We are asking that staff be rotated to new buildings and new duties every 3-6 months. This allows us all a chance to have a break from each other and to give any possible tensions a chance to cool down before they boil over. This will also allow the DOC the opportunity to “follow the paper trail” of certain Correctional Officers who have a pattern of mistreatment and abuse towards inmates and therefore will give the DOC the chance to place such staff on duties away from any prisoners before things get messy. 13. “Stingers.” Stingers should be sold on commissary as they are in most other jails or boiling water should be provided to all inmates, including those housed in MAX/SHU, by increasing the temperature of the hot water in our cell/building sinks so that it is adequate enough to cook food and heat coffee. If “stingers” are not sold on commissary, then they should be reduced to a Class 2 Infraction. 14. Access to shaving supplies. Inmates in all housing areas should be afforded razors twice a week in order to shave. There are many inmates in this prison who shave or need to shave regularly for religious and sanitary purposes. Those of us who choose to shave should be allowed to do so. This is a policy that was once allowed but was then stopped by then Warden Phelps. We should be allowed state-issued razors two times a week and better shaving razors should once again be sold on commissary. The DOC doesn’t stop double/triple celling inmates because the practice leads to fights, so they should not stop selling and providing razors because they lead to one or two people getting cut. Instead, those incidents should be dealt with on a case by case basis, not by acts of mass punishment. We want razors back for all inmates no matter their classification. 15. Vendor Packages. At least two vendors should be allowed into the prison for the purpose of allowing inmates to purchase one 60-pound package a year ranging from food, electronics, sneakers, hygiene, etc. Inmates should also be allowed one 30-pound package consisting of only foodstuffs for the months of November and December. The DOC can approve different weights and allowable items for different classification levels. By allowing two vendors it will ensure that no one vendor can monopolize the market and hike the prices for inmates and their families. 16. Cleaning Supplies. Inmates should not be denied cleaning supplies. There is no reason that DOC should not want first, a clean prison, and second, for the inmates to practice cleanliness. However, DOC staff frequently deny inmates the material to properly clean the tier, the showers, and our cells. This needs to stop! Right now 18C tier is completely filthy. No one can remember the last time the showers have been cleaned. The tiers and cells are covered in filth and scum. Back on January 2, 2009, a nonviolent protest was staged on this issue alone. Since then nothing has changed. The showers on this tier should be deep cleaned no less than three times per week and inmates should be given full cleaning supplies at least three times per week consisting of: 1) a dust broom; 2) a toilet brush; 3) a sponge; 4) a cleaning rag; 5) a bucket; 6) soap balls; 7) Comet; 8) a mop; and 9) a mop bucket. These supplies should be readily available on all tiers. 17. Goodtime. We would like an increase of earned goodtime credits from 5 days a month to 10 days a month. Additionally, all inmates should receive “goodtime” credits for participating in work, school, or programming no matter what their classification status. 18. Recreation. We would like the “rec” schedule to go back to the “pre-riot” schedule for all buildings. 19. Library. All inmates should be afforded access to the Library no matter their classification status. 20. Indigent Supplies. All indigent supplies should also include lotion and deodorant. 21. Investigation into post-riot actions on the part of staff. There should be a full investigation into the actions of DOC staff after the riot. This must include all of the alleged mistreatments and abuse/assaults of inmates during the mass shakedowns in buildings 23, W, etc. This investigation should be conducted by an independent organization outside of the DOC. 22. Reassignments / Transfers of Staff. We request the transfer of or reassignment of duties for all the DOC staff listed below, who have an extensive history of abusing and mistreating prisoners. Captian Wiley Lt. Drace Sgt. Payton Sgt. Gill Sgt. Beckles Sgt. May Sgt. Forkum C/O Arabia Lt. Ratcliffe Lt. Savage Lt. Wallace Sgt. Fredrick Cpl. Jensen C/O Green (on the 8am-4pm shift) C/O Linsey Sgt. Barromia (assigned to Bldg 18, on the 12am-8am shift) Sgt. Chalice Sgt. Dejesus Lt. Tyson Staff Lt. Reynolds This list is not all encompassing. We picked the worst of the worst Correctional Officers (COs), some of whose actions cannot and will not be forgiven. These staff have stars next to their names. If they cannot be disciplined by the DOC, then we will be forced to once again take actions into our own hands. We will no longer settle for being kicked while we are down. This is your opportunity to prove to both your staff and to us inmates that you will not settle for the blatant abuse and mistreatment of any prisoner. Our lives matter as well. We hope that you give a lot of thought to these 22 requests. These issues are all very important to us. Please feel free to take your time. We have patience, a lot of time, and most importantly nothing to lose. On behalf of my brothers in the struggle, SBI #455684 [1] Note: While a “heart healthy diet” may sound desirable to the larger public located outside of the prison walls, individuals incarcerated in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and beyond consistently report that the proportions associated with this “diet” as administered by the Department of Corrections leaves people underfed and hungry. 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__label__cc	0.724471	0.275529	Understanding Facebook’s Special Ad Categories If you’ve set up an ad to run on Facebook recently, you might have noticed the “Special Ad Category” feature. In a bid to be more inclusive, Facebook has decided to remove certain targeting abilities when your ad pertains to employment, housing, or credit opportunities. If you promote any of these topics, learn how this new feature can impact who sees your content. Why Did Facebook Remove Targeting Functions From Certain Categories? Facebook identified that certain targeting functions were making it possible for advertisers to exclude specific groups from seeing ads that offer opportunities for them to move forward in life. Before this update, advertisers were unable to target based on certain protected classes, such as race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Now, they’ve removed the ability of housing, employment, and credit advertisers to target audiences by gender, age, job title, and zip code, as well as by specific demographic and behavioral information. Facebook also removed the look-alike audience function from ads of this category. How to Maximize Your Results Within Facebook’s Restrictions When you’re creating your financial, residential, or employment ad, you need to select the “Special Ad Category” button. If you don’t do this and continue as you normally would, Facebook will prevent your ad from running. The first step you should take before running ads is separating them into groups. Keep the ads that focus on one of these special topics in their own campaign, and separate them from your other ad groups. This will keep the reduced targeting ability concentrated on the content that requires it. Once you’ve separated your campaigns, you need to consider which characteristics you should target for each ad. If your ad is location-based, you can still target general areas, just not something as specific as a zip code. You’ll need to set at least a 15-mile radius around a pin drop location, so think about what geographic areas are most likely to have your desired audience. You can also look outside of Facebook for third-party data that can make your targeting more effective. For example, you can find specific behavioral trends shared by people of a certain profession and use those to target your desired audience. As we continue to test different methods for optimizing Facebook ads, we‘ll be researching how these results compare to those from look-alike audiences, and we encourage you to do the same. As with any update, it just takes a little trial and error and a lot of innovative thinking. If you’ve found success in advertising within the special ad category, we’d love to hear how! Share your tips and tricks in the comments. Facebook Business \| Facebook’s Special Ad Category Execution Guide for Housing, Employment and Credit Ads: Ads Manager Facebook Newsroom \| Doing More to Protect Against Discrimination in Housing, Employment and Credit Advertising Facebook Business \| Housing, Employment and Credit Ad Updates	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1130
__label__wiki	0.636976	0.636976	Soundtrack albums Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam Somebody To You Ain't No Way Tell Me You Love Me Tour Future Now Tour DEMI World Tour Neon Lights Tour A Special Night With Demi Lovato Demi Lovato: Live in Concert Smurfette Mitchie Torres Rosie Gonzalez TV work As the Bell Rings Princess Protection Program Demi Lovato: Stay Strong Demi Lovato: Zombarazzie Adventure Demi Lovato: Path to Fame Devonne by Demi Secret Color Staying Strong: A Journal Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year The New Black The Lovato Treatment Scholarship Program Teens for Jeans Ryan Seacrest Foundation N.Y.C. New York Color Singles, Songs, Collaborations, TMYLM World Tour Parlophone, Warner Trevor Dahl, Matthew Russell, Kevin Ford, Demi Lovato Ari Leff, Jackson Foote, Emma Block Cheat Codes, Lauv, Jackson Foote, Mitch Allan Single chronology "Body Say" "No Promises" "Instruction" "No Promises" is a song by American DJ group Cheat Codes featuring vocals by Demi Lovato. It was released as a single on March 31, 2017. An acoustic version of the song is included on the deluxe version of Demi's sixth studio album, "Tell Me You Love Me". On March 27, 2017, Cheat Codes announced they will be collaborating with the Demi Lovato on their Twitter account. [1] The song was released on March 31, 2017. Cut me up like a knife And I feel it, deep in my bones Kicking a habit I love even harder I just wanna dive in the water with you Baby, we can't see the bottom It's so easy to fall for each other I'm just hoping we catch one another Oh na na, just be careful, na na Love ain't simple, na na Promise me no promises Love ain't simple, nana Baby, I think about you And I feel it, deep in my heart Maybe we just ain't meant to be something Maybe we are I just wanna dive in the water, with you Promise me no promises, oh I just wanna dive in the water But baby, we can't see the bottom I just want dive in with you I just want lie here with you, oh Promise me no promises (promise me) Promise me no promises, (no) Don't you promise me nothing Promise me, me, me, me Just be careful The music video was released on May 16, 2017 on Cheat Codes's Youtube channel. It was directed by Hannah Lux Davis. Cheat Codes - No Promises ft. Demi Lovato Official Video Cheat Codes - No Promises ft. Demi Lovato (Lyrics) NO PROMISES TRAILER - Cheat Codes ft. Demi Lovato ↑ twitter.com - Announcement Retrieved from "https://demilovato.fandom.com/wiki/No_Promises?oldid=22271" More Demi Lovato Wiki 1 Patrick Lovato 2 Danielle Curtin 3 Eddie De La Garza Demi Lovato Wiki is a FANDOM Music Community.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1133
__label__cc	0.656779	0.343221	July 11, 2010 Dan O. Why it’s better to be safe then sorry. Always wear a condom. A one-night stand results in an unexpected pregnancy for entertainment reporter Alison (Katherine Heigl), who vows to be a good mom and keep her career on track by trying to make things work with the slacker (Seth Rogen) who knocked her up. It’s anything but smooth sailing as the odd couple gets acquainted, but Alison finds there’s more to her baby’s daddy than she originally thought. Judd Apatow is most known for making raunchy as hell scripts, with even dirtier stories that eventually take place. However, when he takes a slight serious look, its somewhat refreshing. There is still a lot of Apatow’s signature comedic screenplay. There is a lot of raunch in this film, as you would expect, but the whole film isn’t just about the raunch, and the hilarity, there is some seriousness. Most of the film walks a fine line between romantic comedy and relationship drama, and all of it balances out well. We never get too much of everything, and the sentimental moments hit real well. The film is however around 2 hours and 13 minutes, which leaves plenty of time for drag time. I think the film could have been cut down to maybe under an hour, cause some scenes didn’t feel like they had any meaning and were put in just to be raunchy. Most people will be put off by the last act probably, cause there is a lot of “here come’s the baby” stuff, but some material does drag, while as others do not. Probably the best thing about this film that wins everybody over, is the characters themselves. Seth Rogen is once again great here, playing that awkwardly funny dude, that you just want to chill with, and make constant movie references with. However, you see a transformation in his character by the end of the film, and it all seems realistic. Katherine Heigl also probably compared to the crap she’s done in the past couple of years, gives off her best performance here, and the chemistry these two create just feels real. They start off as not knowing anything about each other, and probably not liking each other, then they try to get to know each other, but you still can see that there are moments and touches of awkwardness between the two. There are plenty of other other great comedic characters in this film like Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Jason Segel, and plenty of more, that are just comedic gold, and add a lot of flavor to the film, even when it’s in its dramatic stages. Consensus: Knocked Up may drag on, especially during its last act, but still gives a refreshing, if not raunchy, and hilarious look at child-bearing, and parenthood. But it all feels real, with realistic performances, and screenplay. 9/10=Full Pricee!!! Martin Starr Previous Sea of Love (1989) Next When You’re Strange (2010) Mike Kujak says: Just saw this movie on TV last night. Apatow films aren’t really built for television. Still a really fun watch. Apatow is one of my favorite directors but all three of his films that he actually directed (40, Knocked Up and Funny People) have all been a bit too long in my opinion. I love spending time in his world though so I guess I won’t complain. Yeah, I can’t really complain either, his world is very fun to be in, even though it may be kind of long. This one was OK for me. It had moments of great comedy, but it felt like it was trying to be too many things at once. And Apatow has no clue how to write women. Best part of the movie was the Vegas scene when they were discovering how great the chairs were. Hilarious. Apatow has gotten a lot of crap for not knowing how to write his women that’s for sure, and that scene is very very funny. I must agree! Castor says: Knocked Up was solid although all the similar Apatow-like movies afterward have decreased its overall impact. Notice that every single character Katherine Heigl has played has been exactly the same since this movie (and probably before it)… True statement about Heigl, however, this is one of the first films where she does show off her talent, which would probably make this one her best, and the others just crappy. Funny People (2009) « Dan The Man's Movie Reviews says: […] Judd Apatow’s last two at bats (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) he has shown that he can make hilarious comedies, with heart-felt messages somewhere in between. […] Olive says: I have to agree with Heather on this one. It was just okay for me too. It could have also been to do with the fact that I watched it on a flight, that had the worst sound ever and I could barely hear the thing! Yeah, give this one a second try. I promise you won’t be disappointed. She’s Out of My League (2010) « Dan The Man's Movie Reviews says: […] at the same time it feels like a poor man’s Knocked Up. Yeah, I laughed a lot, but all of it does seem a bit too familiar (lame dude, ends up with hot […] Marshall says: This movie is flipping amazing. It doesn’t drag at all, at least in my opinion. It is quite flippin amazing, close to being perfect, but no cigar. Movies Forum · says: Katherine Heigl is my favorite actress, i love her eyes and i love her smile .. She’s good, no doubt about that. The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005) \| Dan The Man's Movie Reviews says: […] was the directorial debut for the man we now call, Judd Apatow. The guy went on to direct Knocked Up and Funny People. Even though this isn’t as good as them both, it still is frickin’ […] Hotels in Sofia says: My wife and i got quite satisfied that Peter could complete his reports using the ideas he acquired when using the web page. 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__label__cc	0.710508	0.289492	April 20, 2012 Dan O. It’s a Nicholas Sparks adaptation. There’s nothing else that needs to be known. The story centers on Sergeant Logan Thibault (Zac Efron), a US Marine who finds a photograph of an unknown woman Beth (Taylor Schilling) in Iraq and credits it for saving his life in combat. He vows to find her once he returns to America and eventually does nothing less than stalk her while taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Great way to get the babes. Basically everybody knows what to expect here that can be seen in plenty of other Nicholas Spark’s adaptations that have come out in recent years such as ‘Message in a Bottle’, ‘The Notebook’, ‘Dear John’, ‘The Last Song’, and plenty others. All of those (with the exception of one, I’ll let you guess which one) are very bad and pretty much the same exact thing. This is another one that can be added to that stupid list that needs to go away and go now! Women and young, teenage girls who have probably read this novel about 20 times will probably love this movie to death because that’s the audience it’s mainly for. However, I am not that audience and that was the biggest problem here. Every single character in a Sparks novel are about as one-dimensional as a piece of paper but are still treated like as if they can do no wrong, with barely any flaws whatsoever. Logan starts off in the movie suffering from post-traumatic stress, but after the first 10 minutes, they act as if it was never there in the first place once he gets to the cozy countryside. Then when he actually gets to this countryside and has starts to woo over Beth, we see how he really is which is even worse. He’s humble, nice, strong, in touch with his emotional side, starts to tear up a bit when he’s playing piano as if it was his last time ever playing piano again, checks out classics like Moby Dick whenever he feels like it, and can play chess so well that he actually lets her young son win against him just to boost up his self-esteem. The film treats him as if he was the second coming of Christ that pretty much walks around with a halo around his head the whole time making everybody’s lives a whole lot better, which annoyed the hell out of me within the first 20 minutes because they just kept on constantly shoving it down our throats just how perfect and amazing this guy was. And to be honest, I didn’t care one bit. Oh yeah, need I forget to mention that this guy walks from Colorado all the way to North Carolina with his doggy. However I feel like if I got into that rant, we’d be here so much longer. Aside from the characterization, this film is also laughably bad in many aspects where I don’t even think it intended to be. The melodrama gets kicked up to about 100 here and at times, almost feels like it’s making fun of itself but that’s the thing, it’s dead serious. There are so many corny scenes where these characters start to have realizations about one another and how beautiful that other person is and the sweeping score just comes in booming right in your ears and it just gets even worse as the film starts to dive deeper and deeper into this schmaltzy material. This film also has one of the worst “sex” scenes I have seen in the longest time where Logan is blatantly shaking Beth’s left butt cheek and the film makes it seem like it’s some sort of cute showing of love and companionship but just came off as really lame and definitely a little too detailed for a PG-13 movie. I mean they show both of them moaning at one point and even though I’m no prude to this kind of stuff (hell, I saw ‘Shame’ for Christ’s sakes), I still don’t think that many parents will appreciate Ms. Schilling hitting a full-on orgasm with Mr. Efron. Speaking of Mr. Zac Efron, I can’t really say anything bad about him here because he is obviously trying but he better be careful with the types of roles he’s getting. Yeah, ‘The Notebook’ put Ryan Gosling on the map but ever since then he has barely done anything close to that and even Channing Tatum is starting to find himself farther and farther away from this stuff with edgier flicks coming out in the upcoming future, but Efron is still building up his star and he better make sure that he doesn’t make any more shit films like this or else we may just get a ‘High School Musical 4’ just so he can get a quick paycheck. As for Taylor Schilling, her character is pretty paper-thin as well so she at least tries with what she’s given but the material really does end up bringing her down. Hopefully this movie gets her face out there and maybe we’ll see her in more upcoming flicks and check out what real talents she has as an actress other than showing how passionate getting boned by Zac Efron can be. I think it would be safe to say that the best performance out of this whole film, and probably the best thing about this flick really is Blythe Danner here as Nana. Danner is that wise, funny, and always witty old lady that has something to say and made me laugh just about every time. And with a film like this, you need any type of humor just get you through. It’s a small compliment but it’s a compliment to this film none the less and this film needs all of that it can get. Consensus: The Lucky One is what you would expect from a Nicholas Sparks adaptation: corny, schmaltzy, full of one-dimensional characters, and writing that will make you laugh even though they may not be laughing with you. 1/10=Crap!! Shocker, right? Adam LeFevre Jay R. Ferguson Jillian Batherson Joe Chrest Riley Thomas Stewart Robert Hayes Russ Comegys Scott Hicks Sharon Morris The Last Song Previous Lockout (2012) Next Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) Evan Crean says: This is pretty much exactly what I expected. I could see the one-dimensional characters, awkward sex scenes, and corny lines in the trailer and decided to stay far away from this one. Yeah don’t even bother with this shit. Betsy Russo says: You are a crack-up! I reviewed the film almost the same way. Yours is definitely funnier! Well done. Haha thanks Betsy! wordschat says: Call me an emotional sap for tear jerkers I liked the Notebook so I’ll give this a Saturday matinee shot and review it or comment here again. Loved your detailed review. Yeah check it out if you like but I hated it. Thanks! BarkLessWagMore (@FMMFC) says: I read one Sparks book, can’t recall the title, and it was more than enough for me. I felt emotionally violated. I’m not surprised his movies are sappy and the characters one dimensional, it sounds like they’re sticking to the source material at least 🙂 I refuse to ever read one of his novels just because I have a feeling they’re all terrible but there is an audience out there. And it’s definitely not me. Paul McGuire says: I definitely agree with you about Blythe Danner. She definitely steals the movie in every scene she is in. Her humor brings a nice change of pace and atmosphere to break up the syrupy parts. Yes, it definitely is 100% Nicholas Sparks. You definitely know going in what you are going to get and if you are going to enjoy it or not. It’s not a great movie, but it is better than some of his other adaptations that have hit the big screen. Great review and thanks for commenting on mine earlier! I don’t know if I’d go that far because I mean Dear John and The Notebook were at least bearable. Thanks Paul! Aloha Mister Hand says: Great post! This movie looks so stupid, I almost gag everytime the ad comes on the television. I hate chick flicks in general, and though The Notebook was pretty good (old people in love, looking back, how can you go wrong?), this Sparks guys seems to be interested in hooking young, naive girls into thinking this is what they should expect from life and men. Plus, I think that chick looks old enough to be his aunt…..:pukes:. She does look a tad older than him but she’s only 3 years older than him in real life. Still, this movie blows no matter what anybody tries to say. Thanks! dirtywithclass says: I liked Efron in me & orseon Welles, but i would rather wait for the Paperboy to get my efron fix I need to see that one. Netflixin it up! AngryVader (Erik) says: Wow this sounds bad! I was already on the fence about reviewing this over the weekend, but I’m definitely going to pass on this one after reading your review. Good review though. Sometimes the bad ones are more fun to write about. 🙂 They are a lot of fun to write about because you just don’t care about the flick after awhile. Thanks brah! Jaskee says: I was also wondering about the guy’s post traumatic stress disorder. It just vanished into thin air. I should have spoke about that in my review. It’s ok Jaskee, there was too many other things here that sucked so it’s reasonable as to why you missed out. Thanks! The Cinemaniac says: If you check out my latest post, you’ll notice I passed on to you the “7 x 7 Link Award”. Click here for more info: http://themoviefreakblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/7-x-7-link-award/ fernandorafael says: Great review, man! Had a good laugh 🙂 No problemo! Thank you! yaykisspurr says: I can’t believe you could even stand it…I hear Nicholas Sparks and I want to barf…hehe funny review. Cheers. 🙂 I and my friend enjoyed it. Yes it’s sappy but that’s what you expect from Sparks. Blyth Danner and Efron delivered. Tom Gooderson-A'Court says: This is coming out here in the UK this weekend and my girlfriend is trying to get me go with her. I think I’ll get her to read your review and hopefully it will persuade her to give it a miss. It’s like Sparks has some sort of spell over all women that turns them into cinema going zombies. Great review! I didn’t plan to see this one and I definetly won’t after reading your review. I’m guessing the only good movie out of those you mentioned is The Notebook. Daniel Prinn says: Nice review, Dan! My review will be up tomorrow so check it out when you get the chance. I could hardly find any entertainment in this… Lame as hell. For some reason, I’m sort of hoping Safe Haven will be a little good… I must be crazy, right?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1135
__label__cc	0.688198	0.311802	Who’s Using ArchivesDirect DSpaceDirect Financial Contributors Choosing a Project Choosing a Service DuraSpace is now a part of Home » Latest News » LYRASIS and DuraSpace Announce Merger: Expanding the Capacity of the Global Scholarly and Scientific Research Ecosystem LYRASIS and DuraSpace Announce Merger: Expanding the Capacity of the Global Scholarly and Scientific Research Ecosystem Posted on March 13, 2019 by Carol Minton Morris Atlanta, GA – March 13, 2019 – LYRASIS and DuraSpace are pleased to announce that by July 1, 2019, they will officially merge to create one dynamic organization empowered to help drive scalable change, new technologies and vital services. This merger will create a new model for collaboration, innovation and development in the landscape of academic, research, and public libraries, galleries, archives, and museums. The merged organization will leverage its expertise, reach, and capacity to create and build new programs, services and technologies that enable durable, persistent access to data and services. The LYRASIS and DuraSpace communities will continue to benefit from the existing programs and services that they receive from each organization. The newly merged organization will be an on-ramp to a worldwide collaborative community of more than 4,000 institutions and nine open source, community-supported technology programs across six continents. In addition, it will build capacity in the scholarly ecosystem through open technologies, services, funding opportunities, expertise, training, and support. Both organizations bring world class experts and a common vision for the future of knowledge as it is used across their overlapping memberships. They share a common drive to provide end-to-end solutions that reflect the governance, fair pricing, technical road map, and community expectations of their memberships. Erin Tripp, DuraSpace’s Executive Director explains, “We found that our two organizations were working more and more toward similar goals such as stewarding community-supported and open source initiatives in the scholarly ecosystem. We each observed a growing need for innovation, research and development, and thought leadership. I feel strongly that by working together, we can have a greater impact on our communities.” Robert Miller, CEO of LYRASIS, says of the merger, “Over the past three years we have tested and launched a thought leadership and program development initiative that combines collective risk mitigation and community engagement with milestone-based funding. The rapid adoption of this by 10% of our membership has confirmed to us that this technology platform and service focus is more critical now than ever before. Leveraging DuraSpace’s global institution base with our strategic end-to-end solution focus will be a substantial win for our members.” LYRASIS and DuraSpace have traditionally delivered high-quality content and cultural heritage solutions to their diverse memberships and will continue to do so. All services, programs, purchases and subscriptions through LYRASIS and DuraSpace will continue without interruption. No action needs to be taken at this time by any members to ensure continuity of service. This merger strengthens each organization’s core competencies and offers new opportunities for expansion. LYRASIS will be the public name of the merged organization and led by Robert Miller. 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__label__wiki	0.62878	0.62878	Dynamics of Writing "Dynamics" textbooks updates, media issues and general mirth Dynamics of Media Writing Dynamics of News Reporting & Writing First-Person Target Series Filak-isms The Oshkosh North Star needs your help after administrators censor the publication, demand the name of a confidential source and move to prior restraint. I spent my Wednesday morning at the Northeastern Wisconsin Scholastic Press Association convention, teaching high school students how to write effective headlines for their publications. I spent the night teaching high school administrators and school board members why censoring and prior review are bad things. If I had to bet on where I was more effective, I’d put my money on the kids, even though I certainly hope not. In both environments was Brock Doemel, a senior at Oshkosh North High School, who writes for the school’s publication, the North Star. Doemel found himself in hot water when he had the temerity to publish a factually accurate story on the paper’s website about the resignation of an administrator at his school. Assistant Principal Hans Nelson’s office was empty for two weeks and Nelson was nowhere to be found. Eventually, the district released a happy-time note indicating that Nelson was graciously moving to a position at another school teaching special education. Doemel, however, got a source to confirm to him that Nelson had been placed on a two-week suspension after he locked off all the bathrooms in the school and lied about it to administrators. A legal threat led to an agreement to land Nelson elsewhere, Doemel said in an interview Wednesday morning. The story spent about 20 minutes on the website before officials had it yanked down, claiming that this somehow violated privacy rules: Oshkosh schools superintendent Vickie Cartwright says the article breached Nelson’s privacy and violated the district’s policy. “Anytime that you’re dealing with any types of things that would infringe upon the rights of others, as a public employee, I do have to implement anything and put in protections for those individuals,” Dr. Cartwright said. Doemel explained in our interview that Principal Jacquelyn Kiffmeyer wasn’t even that clear about the reason for pulling down the story. “I’m not even sure how she saw it so fast,” Doemel said. “She had it pulled down in less than 20 minutes. She said it was a ‘legal issue’ for anything to go on the website like that before the issue was settled. She didn’t even explain anything else.” What Kiffmeyer did instead was require the North Star to post an unedited letter she wrote on its website that refuted the story that is no longer available. In the letter, she stated that it was removed due to “inaccurate and unverifiable content” and that the story “did not include credible information or sources.” She also began harassing Doemel to give up his source. He said Kiffmeyer pulled him out of multiple classes over a week’s time to demand information about his source. He estimates this cost him about seven total hours of education. “She requested my working notes,” he said. “I refused to identify the source… My mom works at the middle school and at one point they called the middle school’s principal and accused him of being the source.” (UPDATE NOTE: The principal talked to Brock late Thursday and wanted to clarify that the call made to him regarding the story was not accusatory, but instead a call from a friend at central office to let him know that the district was looking into him as a possible source.) The situation got increasingly intense, Doemel said, noting that “it felt like I was guilty of a national security crime.” Some of the questions were intent on pinning down potential sources, such as “Is this person an administrator?” and “Is this source a man or a woman?” Doemel said other questions felt vague and threatening, such as “Brock, do you have a sister?” “At one point, she placed her hands on the desk and leaned toward me,” Doemel said, mimicking the action. ” She said, ‘Sooner or later Brock, you’re going to tell me who your source was.'” (INTERESTING SIDE NOTE: The whole point of this story being pulled down, according to Kiffmeyer’s own letter, was that the source wasn’t credible, and yet Kiffmeyer doesn’t know who the source is. Furthermore, nothing she said in any of those meetings, according to what Doemel told me, or in that letter explains WHAT was inaccurate or HOW it was wrong.) Instead of giving up his source, Doemel and fellow North Star staffer Tess Fitzhenry filed an open-records request with the district to find out what happened to Nelson. What they received was a response letter unlike anything I’ve ever seen: The law allows for fees to be used to recoup costs associated with record copying and such, although such fees are often used as a way of limiting access to documents. In this case, the students had a financial backer who agreed to cover whatever the cost was. That said, I’d bet my house on the fact that if the students had requested a similar number of records that revealed every good-time happy moment that happened in the district, the fee would have been waived. The bigger issue was the requirement in the second response paragraph. Doemel said administrators had previously demanded the North Star’s passwords and logins and had also searched adviser Jason Cummings’ computer for information on this story. This letter essentially plays an illegal game of quid pro quo: Give us your information and we’ll fulfill the request. “The Wisconsin Open Records law is not a bargaining chip,” SPLC’s Senior Legal Counsel Mike Hiestand told me in an email. “It is the law. They can’t withhold public records until the students turn over passwords — or whatever other demands they’re making.” The students, who were working with Hiestand on this request, sent back a response in mid-March, noting that they were fine paying the costs, they want the records and they won’t turn over anything to make this happen. The students didn’t hear back until Wednesday morning with essentially more of the same: Again, in case you’re not clear on the law, this approach is illegal. If the records are public and someone makes a request for them, you have to turn them over. You can’t hang caveats on these responses, aside from copying costs or other legal matters, such as notification issues, which this letter does note. I was willing to prove that point by filing my own request, paying the exact amount in advance and seeing what would happen next. Doemel called the district office while we were all at this journalism convention Wednesday and asked, point blank, if the release of the records was contingent upon the release of the passwords. Cartwright said no, something she reiterated at the board’s listening session Wednesday night. “Brock, I do want to make it very clear, we have every intention of processing your request, the only element that is missing, at this point in time, is the financial commitment for the request,” she said. What remains, however, are several pressing issues: The story is still censored. The students are locked out of their ability to post content without administrative approval (in other words, they’re operating under prior review and prior restraint). Doemel said anything he writes has been embargoed and must go through a specific administrative review. The district is operating under a draconian policy that governs student media, something that was passed a few years back without anyone in the student media area really noticing. In the decades prior to that, the North Star operated under the doctrine of open public forum. Cummings is still in trouble and Doemel said the students fear for his job. Doemel said he doesn’t want to create serious problems at the school or be a thorn in the side of the district. All he wants is to be able to do his job. “I would want all our writers to be able to go back to the way it was,” he said. ” I want them to let us do (the North Star) without school censoring… I want Jason’s job to be safe. I want a free student press at our school.” HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP: This is Oshkosh North Principal Jacquelyn Kiffmeyer. You can email her at: ‎ jacquelyn.kiffmeyer@oshkosh.k12.wi.us and tell her if you dislike the censorship of student journalists, if you are concerned about the tone she took in trying to get a journalist to reveal his source or if you want the this situation resolved in a way that protects journalistic principles and the job of the adviser. This is Oshkosh Superintendent Vickie Cartwright. You can email her at: vickie.cartwright@oshkosh.k12.wi.us and tell her if you want to see the North Star return to the days of no prior review or prior restraint, if you want to see important stories and if you support the rights of student journalists. You might also encourage her to work with the board to undo the policies implemented in the 2015-16 era that undercut student press rights. This is Barbara Herzog, the school board president. You can email her at: herzogb@uwosh.edu Herzog noted in the listening session that policies like the one done to undermine student press rights can be reviewed and revised through the board. Someone just has to bring it up to the board and a board member has to take it to the policy and governance committee. From there, if it passes it goes to the whole board. Feel free to email her if you would like her to know that you want this to happen, that the policies are in need of revision and that the school district needs an open public forum for all of its publications. Finally, you can reach the staffers of the North Star via their website. You can also post some positive thoughts on their Facebook page here or reach out via Twitter (they only have nine followers, so maybe we can help them get a boost, too). Let these folks know they’re not alone, that you support their rights and that you have their back. One of the things I have seen over the years in terms of “admin vs. student pub” battles is that the districts often win when they make the students feel scared, isolated and weak. When the kids win, it’s because they feel like pros, profs and other folks interested in free press have their back. Help if you can. April 11, 2019 vffilak 2 thoughts on “The Oshkosh North Star needs your help after administrators censor the publication, demand the name of a confidential source and move to prior restraint.” Nate Reid says: I just emailed and shared this story with The Rachel Maddow Show. Not that I expect them to get involved in any way, but I did want to show them Doemel’s (and the North Star’s) journalistic integrity. Good luck with this issue. You have my support! I was part of the North Star for 3 years when I went to North and know Brock, Tess, and Mr. Cummings. They are all amazing people and journalists. Hearing that this happened to his article and the district’s unwarranted actions against him and the newspaper is honestly heartbreaking and awful for me. Principal Kiffmeyer became the principal this school year and I can’t speak on her integrity or personality but I know that our previous Principal, Ms. Schleicher, would have never called for or done these kinds of things to Brock or the North Star. It’s obvious to me, given the letters you provided and Brock’s own testimony, that the district is causing unwarranted strife to the newspaper and specifically Brock, Tess, and Mr. Cummings. That they would impose obvious censorship to uphold their integrity and view to the overall public is telling. I found no attack in what the article Brock would have posted against the district itself or its operations but instead an explanation for the absence of Mr. Nelson and an answer many students at North and parents needed to hear. The most important thing to do now for Brock and the North Star is to support them and call out the actions the district are taking to punish and pressure them. It’s wholly unprofessional for them to be doing this to a high school newspaper and journalist trying to inform the students. Local journalism, even high school, is an important staple some may take for granted. Most major news stories come from smaller local findings and journalists. And high school journalism is about the truth for high school students to learn about their own school, both good and bad. As someone who knows the people involved and the newspaper, I wish them only the best, especially Mr. Cummings given the rumors of disciplinary action. He always strove for engaging and informative articles and should not be punished for supporting Brock and his article. Thank you for this well-written article about the matter. 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__label__wiki	0.931538	0.931538	Dollhouse Wiki Performers, Writers Maurissa Tancharoen Biological Information Actress; Singer; Dancer; Writer; Lyricist On Dollhouse Story Editor; (Co-)Writer; Actress; Singer; Lyricist Character(s) Maurissa Tancharoen is a crew member who served as an writer for several episodes of Dollhouse and as a story editor in season two of the series. She has also enjoyed a brief stint of acting in the series, portraying the character of Kilo. Maurissa also sang the ending song (remains) to the first season finale (or coda, depending on how it's viewed) "Epitaph One", which she had also received a writing credit for episode and the song itself. Maurissa is married to Jed Whedon. Previous work Edit Tancharoen's previous works include writing for Oliver Beene and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, her first collaboration with Jed and Joss Whedon. She also had a small acting role in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog as a groupie, as well as a dancing role in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker film. She co-created and executive produced an MTV series called "Dancelife", starring Jennifer Lopez. She has written a few pilots for 20th Century Fox, and got her start working on NYPD BLUE where David Milch mentored her writing career. She currently has a YouTube-series with Jed Whedon called Apartment 4B. Her brother Kevin Tancharoen directed the MGM remake of "Fame". Dollhouse Edit Tancharoen and Jed Whedon have (co-)written the following episodes: Writer Edit 1x03 "Stage Fright" 1x10 "Haunted" 1x13 "Epitaph One" 2x04 "Belonging" 2x07 "Meet Jane Doe" 2x10 ""The Attic"" 2x13 "Epitaph Two: Return" Actress Edit She portrayed the Active Kilo in the following episodes: 2x05 "The Public Eye" Songwriter/Singer Edit Tancharoen and Jed Whedon wrote the song "Remains", which Tancharoen sang. It plays at the end of "Epitaph One". Maurissa Tancharoen at the IMDb. Retrieved from "https://dollhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Maurissa_Tancharoen?oldid=14452" More Dollhouse Wiki 1 Alpha 2 Echo 3 Dollhouse (series) Dollhouse Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1145
__label__cc	0.68661	0.31339	Customer stories · Lymphoedema · 1 comment · Jun 22, 2018 Customer Stories: Karen O As part of our Customer Stories blog series, we talk to Erilan customers about their breast cancer journeys, including how prostheses and mastectomy bras have helped them embrace their new bodies and reclaim their femininity post-surgery. Today we speak to Karen O’Shea from Estella, NSW, about her experience with post-surgery Lymphoedema. Karen, tell us a little bit about yourself. Karen: Well, I’m nearly 65 and was diagnosed in June 2010 through screening. I jumped on the treadmill that went round and round and round. It was a bit daunting but I had great support from my husband, my three children and lots of good friends. First of all I had a lumpectomy. The results of a sentinel node biopsy came back after that surgery and the doctor decided I needed to have further surgery to remove my lymph nodes. Hence, I have Lymphoedema. What do you do to manage your Lymphoedema? Karen: I have a brilliant therapist at the moment, Sue Butcher, who massages me regularly. I try to do what I can at home but it’s a bit hard to massage yourself when you know what the therapists do. I notice that you wear a sleeve. Karen: Yes, I wear a compression sleeve which helps keep the swelling down. Do people ask about the sleeve? What do you say to them? Karen: I say, I have Lymphoedema after my breast cancer surgery. Most times they will say, “What’s Lymphoedema?” So then I give them a brief description of what it is. So Lymphoedema is not a well-known subject? Karen: No, it isn’t. It’s a shame but a lot of doctors don’t recognise it as a condition after surgery either. It is something that won’t go away but it is manageable in most cases isn’t it? Karen: If you are massaging your arm etc you can keep it at bay but if you let it go your arm just gets bigger and bigger and it sets like jelly. So what would you say to someone who suspects they may have Lymphoedema? Karen: Go as soon as they can to a massage therapist. Make sure they are trained in Lymphoedema massage, as the massage is quite different. It is a special drainage massage that helps to drain the lymph fluid from the affected area. Some therapists advertise Lymphatic massage but that is different to Lymphoedema massage, which is what is needed. How could you ensure you have a Lymphoedema massage therapist? Karen: There is a National Lymphoedema Practitioners Register and you can go online and see who the therapists are. There are not a lot of therapists but the numbers are increasing. A lot of research is now being done into Lymphoedema so therapists need to keep their knowledge and training up to date. Are the sleeves expensive Karen? Karen: They are very expensive and it’s difficult to claim. You can claim through your private health fund on a massage therapist consultation but you don’t get anything for the sleeve itself. How much did the one you’re wearing cost? Karen: $270.00 and it’s supposed to last 12 months. I wear it every day and wash it every second night. The Lymphoedema association is lobbying the government to change the rules and allow people to get a rebate. It’s now a little while since you were diagnosed and had treatment. How has it changed what you do now? Has it changed anything? Karen: Yes, drastically. Your priorities change. What you thought was important before isn’t really important at all. I live for today and I don’t handle negative people. I like positive talk, positive attitudes. Do you think that confidence is important and a good way of looking at the situation? Being happy with yourself and being confident? Karen: Yes, I think it is very important. Before my diagnosis I was very confident. I worked in a school office and was the community liaison officer so had a lot to do with the parents. I felt really good about myself because I was working and was contributing to society. Then when I got the diagnosis, I sort of wound right down into myself. My depression came back. I wish now that I had done more exercise and got into things earlier and got out there after all my treatment had finished. I used to travel to Queensland to my daughter’s home and have holidays up there and look after the little one but after treatment I couldn’t even get on the plane to go. I had to get one of my daughters, Rachel, to come with me the first time. I still suffer with anxiety but I’m on medication to help with that. I’ve gone onto committees and things like that and I wish I hadn’t – so it’s not good for me to get into situations like that. I just please myself with what I do and if I don’t feel like doing it, I don’t do it. Is that one of your strategies for coping now? Karen: Yes, it is. What has helped you to improve your state of mind so to speak, because I get the feeling you’re in a better position now then you were say 4 or 5 years ago. You obviously do self-help but what other help has there been? Karen: There’s Encore. It’s great and I did it 3 times. The breast cancer group helped. We don’t talk about our cancer but it’s a group of women who have a shared experience. And I guess my daughter’s diagnosis helped. My middle daughter, Fiona, was diagnosed with breast cancer and she was undergoing surgery when I started radiotherapy. I wasn’t able to help her a lot then even though I was there for her. Then in 2015 my eldest daughter, Sonia who lives in Queensland, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was down visiting and told me she had a lump and would get it looked at when she went back home. I said no, you won’t, we’ll get it sorted right now! So a local surgeon diagnosed her and put her onto a brilliant surgeon in Brisbane. I think my experience of being able to help them through their experiences has helped me grow. I guess you can’t worry about yourself quite so much as you have others you’re worrying about. Karen: Yes, that’s right. How do you think treatment compares between a rural area and a city area? You would imagine that the city would have a lot more facilities, surgeons, help and so on. Karen: I can compare my daughter, Sonia’s, journey in Brisbane to mine in Wagga. I had lots of help here. Everything that was done was professional from the surgeon to the McGrath Breast Care Nurses. Then Sonia went to Brisbane and was referred to a brilliant surgeon who referred her to an oncologist as she was having chemotherapy first. The oncologist was doing a trial with 100 women diagnosed with breast cancer and she was asked to go on it. He wrote a thesis on it and used Sonia as his subject. When she went to have surgery there were no breast care nurses and she felt as though she was on her own. What about a support group? Karen: No, we tried those. I asked my local McGrath BCN to check out if there was anywhere to go and she put us on to one place that didn’t really want to know us. I felt like a person going through my surgery and treatment but I think Sonia felt she was just a number. I was told by a research doctor, who had also been a breast care nurse, that Wagga had state of the art treatment facilities and there was no need to go the city. We also have the specialist mastectomy clothing store in Wagga, Erilan, which stocks everything from prostheses to headwear. Jill is professionally trained and is very willing to be flexible. Nothing is too much trouble for her. How is life today Karen? Karen: My attitude now is that I’ve got Lymphoedema but I’m living with it and life is what you make it. Every day is a good day. You see so many people who are much worse off than yourself. You can get help searching for a Lymphoedema practitioner here. The Erilan Team would like to say a big thank you to Karen for sharing her experience with us. Want to share your breast cancer story? Send us an email at info@erilan.com.au and you could be featured on our blog. 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__label__cc	0.743315	0.256685	About ESF About Endangered Species Fund. John Chisholm DIrector ESF Your Presence Gives Life To Our Work. Dear Visitor: When I returned from visiting Game Rangers International in Zambia in 2015, the thing that really stuck in my mind, even more than the wildlife, was the dedication of the people from all parts of the world who fight the daily battle of conservation. When you’re working in remote areas with no connection to the outside world it can get lonely to say the least. There must be times of doubt when you miss family and friends and sometime witness the destruction of the environment or the heartbreak of poaching and orphaned elephants. Knowing people like you are rooting for them plays a great part in encouraging them to “carry on regardless.” I want you to realize that YOU make a difference beyond any donation you may make. Corporate Details. Endangered Species Fund (ESF) is a Michigan non-profit corporation EIN 46-4938570 formed as a 501(c)(3) on September 21st, 2018. Donors can deduct contributions they make to us from US taxes. ESF is also authorized to receive tax deductible bequests, legacies, devises, transfers and gifts under IRC section 2055,2106 and 2522. Our corporate address is: 214 Gladwin Avenue, Clawson, MI 48017 We file our financial return by August 15th. for the previous year. To find this report, please click here. To contact us please use the contact form. Our email and telephone number are not published here to avoid spammers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1156
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__label__cc	0.732882	0.267118	Posted : 1 year, 10 months ago From the cutting room floor at Building Electro-Optical Systems, Third Edition: Okay, okay. Photographic film isn't a detector of the sort we've been discussing. Film is so out of fashion, so inconvenient. It needs messy chemicals. Getting it to be highly sensitive requires all sorts of 1960s alchemy such as pre-flashing and hypersensitizing in a forming gas or hot hydrogen atmosphere. Why do we care about it at all, in these days of 4k x 4k CMOS imagers? There are two reasons. Firstly, a telescope has a lot more than 4k x 4k resolvable spots. The Palomar Schmidt has a 6.6\degrees\ square field. At 1 arcsecond resolution, its plates were digitized at 23040 pixels square for the Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS). That's 530 Mpel, which is a lot of imager chips, but just one photographic plate. The plate can be digitized later on a scanning microdensitometer that also has many more than 4k x 4k resolvable spots. Even an ordinary 35-mm camera produces images equivalent to 30 Mpel--and that's real pixels, not Marketing Megapixels (TM) (see Section 3.9.14). The defect density in photographic film is lower than in IC imagers, too, and it makes a nice archival record that is guaranteed to represent the measurement data well. Photographic film has a power-law response over a huge range of signals. The contrast exponent gamma can be anywhere from 4 down to 0.5, which compresses the dynamic range and makes bright and dim objects visible simultaneously. Using low-contrast developers such as POTA, photographic film can record images whose dynamic range approaches 10^6:1, optical, e.g. a bomb flash and its surroundings, which is a task beyond any silicon imaging sensor whatever. Film has two sorts of noise: grain, which is analogous to the digital nibblies from CCD pixels, and fog which is analogous to dark current. Fog is due to a few grains being rendered developable by a few loose electron/hole pairs in the emulsion, and contributes random noise in the same way. The second reason to talk about film is that some modern alchemy has got photographic film up to a QE of 1.0, and a multiplication gain of 2, so that a single photon can expose a grain of silver halide. This is the quantum efficiency of the best CCDs, so there's no waste of photons any more. {J. Belloni et al., Nature V. 402, p. 865 (Dec. 1999).} The trick is to add formate ions to the emulsion to scavenge all the excess holes without increasing the fog. Unlike other hypersensitizing tricks, this one works at room temperature and is stable indefinitely. Next: The Hurter-Driffield Curve ← Temperature Measurement is Hard High-Value Ceramic Capacitors: They Stink, and You Can't Get Them Anyway →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1163
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It conducts various pilots in the legal cannabis sector in order to explore various high growth potential business opportunities. The company also operates a destination beverage company that enables consumers to interface with staff to learn about the specific benefits of cannabis, and select healthy and refreshing cannabis infused beverages, which include custom blended hemp infused coffee, cold pressed juices, and smoothies. In addition, it offers raw hemp seeds and other hemp infused foods. Average daily volume for USMJ is 135 million shares. Today’s volume is currently 40 million shares in the morning hours of trading. North American Cannabis Holdings, Inc. Press Release: DALLAS, Dec. 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via OTC PR WIRE — North American Cannabis Holdings, Inc. (USOTC: USMJ) (“USMJ”) today released a letter from its CEO and Chairman discussing the potential for the overall cannabis industry to be realized from the 2018 Farm Act that includes, as drafted, the legalization of hemp farming. The letter is intended for all with an interest in the U.S. cannabis industry and specifically for those invested in any of the USMJ family of companies. Steven Rash, CEO and Chairman of USMJ is also one of its founders. USMJ entered the U.S. cannabis sector in 2013 with an entrepreneurial strategy to explore and investigate cannabis enterprise opportunities. Over the last five years, that entrepreneurial strategy has turned into five public companies, one very profitable dividend payout, two pending dividend payouts, a leading CBD infused beverage, a concept cannabis themed restaurant, a recognized cannabis industry brand name (USMJ), a patent for cannabis extraction, a revenue producing facility for cannabis cultivation, and over a dozen additional incubating cannabis enterprise ventures. The shareholders of USMJ as well as the shareholders of Puration (USOTC: PURA), Priority Aviation, (USOTC: PJET), Nouveau (USOTC: NOUV), and Kali, (USOTC: KALY) will be particularly interested in Mr. Rash’s letter. His letter is included in its entirety below. Dear Legal Cannabis Industry Enthusiasts – Some of you are enthusiast because you enjoy cannabis recreationally, legal or not, and strongly believe the prohibition of cannabis is ridiculous and should be rescinded. Others of you are investment enthusiasts and are attracted to the explosive return-on-investment (ROI) opportunity. Some of you, like myself, are advocates for the industry because cannabis, in one shape of form or another, has medicinally helped someone you care about. And still others are enthusiastic about the multitude of benefits to our economy and the environment that can be realized through the legalization of hemp farming in the United States. We are imminently approaching a landmark event, not just in the history of cannabis, but in global economics. All factors seem to be aligned for the pending 2018 Farm Act to include the legalization of hemp farming. The legalization of hemp farming will bring a sweeping and comprehensive impact to numerous industries to include farming, pharmaceuticals, construction, and energy – to name only a very few. The economy and the environment have been robbed of the benefits from hemp for nearly a century and a massive void is about to be filled. Hemp is a superior source of raw materials for construction, clothing, and paper manufacturing. Hemp fiber can be used in microprocessors and supercapacitors. Hemp grows vigorously with little water and without the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The underlying economic benefits are huge. The following is what a recent Motley Fool article had to say about the potential of the legalization of hemp. “If the bill makes it through Congress and is signed by President Trump, as widely expected, industrial hemp should be legal on Jan. 1, 2019. If this occurs, the U.S. market for hemp — and its derivatives — is expected to soar. The hemp-derived CBD market is projected to rocket from about $591 million this year to $22 billion by 2022, according to the Brightfield Group. That’s a whopping 37-fold increase in just four years!” Keep in mind, Motley Fool is just concentrating here on hemp-derived CBD. They haven’t touched on the plethora of other hemp applications, let alone the benefit to the environment. In other words, the legalization of hemp is even bigger than how big Motely Fool indicates it to be. When we started USMJ back in 2013, we did so with a spirit of an entrepreneurial explorer. We felt the industry had no predetermined answers in regard to what products consumers would want or what the value chain might look like that produced those products. We’ve experimented with far more production applications and product opportunies than those we have currently brought to market. We have more ongoing enterprise experiments in the works than any shareholder knows about today. The products and processes that the USMJ family of companies has brought to market have been thoroughly vetted and now lead within their niche segment. The USMJ brand name stands out in the cannabis industry. That brand name will soon be the center of a major cannabis sector ecommerce site. USMJ developed and spun off what is today Puration (PURA), the leading producer of a hemp-derived CBD infused sports beverage called EVERx. The work with EVERx advanced by a patented cannabis extraction process which is today housed under the company Kali-Extracts (KALY). In an effort to develop high-quality cannabis for extraction and infusion, we built or own cultivation operation working today on the development of a proprietary cultivar. The cannabis cultivation operation is housed under Nouveau (NOUV). One of my favorite projects has been the AmeriCanna Cafe. I enjoy the retail interface and the opportunity to hear from the cannabis community first hand. The AmeriCanna Cafe concept restaurant is now housed under the public entity, Priority Aviation (PJET) and yes, we plan to change the name of the public holding company. The majority interest positions in USMJ, PURA, NOUV, and PJET are all held by ACI Conglomerated. ACI stands for American Cannabis Innovations and in addition to being the CEO and Chairman of USMJ, I am also the CEO and Chairman of ACI Conglomerated. The original owner of the cannabis extraction patent, through his company NCM Biotech, is an individual named Frederick Ferri. We have been working with Fred for years even before the merger of NCM Biotech into KALY. PURA has the sole license of the patent and we consider, Fred and KALY part of the family. We formalized our relationship with Fred and KALY through the US Cannabis Health joint venture between PURA, NOUV and KALI where the three companies are working together to forge partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and with the pharmaceutical partnership, produce new pharmaceutical products that include cannabis concentrates. Through our ongoing spirit of entrepreneurial exploration in the cannabis sector now founded on years of experience through trial and error, the USMJ family of companies, to include PURA, NOUV, PJET and KALY are poised to capitalize on the imminent legalization of hemp farming with the pending passage of the 2018 Farm Act. I strongly believe all five companies are leaders in their own cannabis sector niche: USMJ in becoming the Amazon of cannabis with the pending launch of its online, ecommerce site; PURA with is cannabis infused beverage business; NOUV with its cannabis cultivation business; PJET with the AmeriCanna Cafe and KALY with its patented cannabis extraction business. I anticipate the legalization of hemp will enhance the valuation of all five companies and in so doing, dramatically improve their access to resources to support even greater accelerated growth than they have already exhibited. In closing I will reiterate and emphasize that I believe the legalization of hemp farming as anticipated under the pending 2018 Farm Act, is the single biggest event yet to date to take place in the developing and evolving legal cannabis sector. The legalization of hemp is a far bigger event than the legalization of recreational marijuana in Canada. The size of the hemp market dwarfs the size of the recreational marijuana market, and the size of the United States market overall, dwarfs the size of the Canadian market. I think the legalization of hemp as expected under the 2018 Farm Act is great for the entire market of entrepreneurial cannabis enterprises in the United States and I would hold out any of the USMJ family of companies, with their combined experiences, expertise and living spirit of entrepreneurial leadership, as a standout in the coming new era of the cannabis sector where hemp farming is now legal. Here is to the happiest of holidays for all of us enthusiastic about a world where cannabis is legal for all; We couldn’t ask for a much better gift than a Farm Act that legalizes hemp farming. Steven Rash CEO and Chairman USMJ and ACI Conglomerated www.growusmj.com Disclaimer/Safe Harbor: This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act. The statements reflect the Company’s current views with respect to future events that involve risks and uncertainties. Among others, these risks include the expectation that any of the companies mentioned herein will achieve significant sales, the failure to meet schedule or performance requirements of the companies’ contracts, the companies’ liquidity position, the companies’ ability to obtain new contracts, the emergence of competitors with greater financial resources and the impact of competitive pricing. 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__label__cc	0.607915	0.392085	All NEP Polls / Sugar sweetened beverage tax for Australia - July 2018 Proposition 1: "The best economic policy instrument available to policy makers seeking to address obesity and related health issues in Australia is the introduction of a tax on sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs)." Proposition 2: "The health and non-health benefits from a tax on SSBs are likely to outweigh the possible costs felt elsewhere in the economy." Collaborator credits: we would like to thank Professor Emily Lancsar for her assistance in framing this poll question and for her expert overview of the results. Overview of poll results by Professor Emily Lancsar Emily Lancsar Australia and the international community are facing what is often referred to as an ‘obesity epidemic’. More than one in four Australian adults are obese. Sixty four percent of adults and 27 percent of children aged 5-17 years are classified as overweight or obese. Rachel Armstrong 1 - Disagree 2 - Uncertain (neither agree nor disagree) Alison Booth 1 - Agree 1 - Australia is one of the highest soft drink consuming countries in the world. It also has a growing proportion of the population that is obese and suffering from diabetes and heart disease. Better than taxing only soft drinks would be to tax companies according to the sugar content of their products – any products, not just soft drinks. So ideally one would tax not only soft drinks but also all sweets and confectionary. Taxes on sugar are a great incentive for producers to reduce the sugar content of their products. An argument for taxing only sugary drinks is that they are easy to tax. It’s more complicated administratively to tax every sugary food, it is argued. However, I do not see why it is any more difficult to tax confectionary than it is to tax sugary drinks. The evidence from Mexico for example on the effects of taxing sugary drinks indicates that the policy is working. Britain has introduced the tax earlier this year. Australia should follow. If we have managed to tax successfully cigarettes, I don’t see why we shouldn’t tax sugary products since the health disadvantages of sugar consumption are so well documented. Diabetes and heart disease are very costly both individually and to society and there is no doubt that sugar Is associated with these diseases. 2 - See previous comment Fabrizio Carmignani 1 - It is difficult to say that the tax is the "best" available instrument. It is certainly an instrument that should be considered and used, but it is not a silver bullet and should probably be seen as part of a broader package of measures targeting consumption habits. So, while I am strongly in support of the introduction of the tax, I cannot equally strongly agree with the statement that the tax is the best instruments available. 2 - There is a voluminous empirical evidence suggesting that these taxes are effective in reducing obesity. On the other hand, this tax is probably regressive. In practice, given the weight of SSB in the consumption basket of individuals, the adverse effect on poorer individuals should be small and most likely recovered through improved health outcomes. Producers also claim that the tax would result in a loss of jobs due to reduced demand. I am not aware of specific estimates in this sense, but one could argue that if the expenditure is reallocated from SSBs to other products, then increased demand for these other products should also lead to increased labour demand, so that the net effect of the tax on total employment should be in the end negligible. Bruce Chapman Ken Clements 1 - Strongly disagree Deborah Cobb-Clark2 1 - This would be one sensible policy option, but it is not clear that it is "best". Lin Crase Gigi Foster 1 - Obesity is mainly the result of psychological/mental problems, so a long-run strategy to address it needs to involve policies that improve the psychological/mental health of those at risk for obesity. Policies that try to make the ambient environment less obesogenic (like the SSB tax, but also efforts to improve access to exercise infrastructure and healthy food options for the poor) are likely to be somewhat helpful, particularly for children for whom poor choices and the development of poor habits in childhood may have lasting impacts into adulthood, but they do not treat the root cause of obesity. The root cause is much harder to influence through conventional economic policy. Broadening the definition of economic policy, we might consider imposing requirements on day care programs or schools that receive public funding to embed interventions like self-positive programs, self-discipline training techniques, and local contests that elevate interpersonal support and community production. Confining oneself to conventional economic policy, one could implement a fat tax - i.e., have all ATO offices install scales, and every taxpayer who falls under a certain threshold BMI (like 30) qualifies for assessment at a lower marginal tax rate, or gets a tax credit, or something - and if hefty enough and publicized enough i'd expect such a tax policy to shift weight, but something tells me that this approach wouldn't be particularly politically palatable. It would also be regressive, as would virtually any economic policy measure that targets obesity, because obesity and income are strongly negatively associated. 2 - This is a margin call. The main benefits would probably be in terms of reductions in weight and dental cavities, which can be estimated with reference to recent evaluations of SSB taxes that have been imposed in other countries. The drawbacks of an SSB tax include that it is likely to be regressive, and that drink makers may switch to artificial sweeteners that come with their own negative health consequences. John Freebairn 1 - See below 2 - SSBs contribute only a portion of external and internality costs of excess consumption of sugar, other food products and lack of exercise. Better to tax sugar input to encourage changes in product mix, including sugar content per SSB, as well as consumption of SSB. For many consumers, at least a third and perhaps a half, with moderate consumption of SSB and other sugar products, and minimal to no external costs, a SSB causes a loss of consumer welfare. That is, product and consumer heterogeneity needs to be recognised in the tax design. Where inadequate information is a part of the market failure problem, education and provision of product information should be a component of the policy packages. Paul Frijters 1 - The 'best' instrument available is probably to take the notion of individual responsibility seriously and allow health insurance contributions to depend on BMI so as to give people real incentives to manage their own weight. More widely, tackling obesity will require a sea-change in culture whereby offering fatty and sugary snacks to others will be seen as 'unwanted micro-temptations', banned from meetings, conferences, parties, etc.. It will also require a new attitude to sports, away from the focus and admiration of elite sports towards mass-participation sports. A tax on sugar in drinks is easy to circumvent and is mainly window-dressing. There is more energy in un-taxed milk than regular fizzy drinks, so beware of what one is pushing people towards! The best one could say about a sugar tax is that it starts the conversation about cultural change. It is first and foremost though a tax. 2 - I expect this tax to have almost no effect on health at all. So its just about the distributional and tax revenue implications. As a tax, it seems a bit clumsy to me, leading to an inefficient re-labelling race as to what counts as a sugary drink. People will get their sugar hits via other means. Lata Gangadharan 1 - Taxes dont seem to have had much of an impact in other countries where they have been tried. This could be due to the low elasticity of demand for soft drinks. Taxes on soft drinks therefore may not proportionately affect the quantity of soft drinks consumed. Taxing soft drinks could also lead to perverse effects, such as a reallocation of resources towards goods and services that are worse in terms of the negative externalities they cause (for example, alcoholic beverages). Perhaps other policies would be better to consider: government advertising, subsidising healthier alternatives etc. Geoffrey Kingston 1 - I agree that sugar confers negative externalities so that there is a Pigou-type case for taxing sweetened products. 2 - The list of chronic health problems from obesity is long and growing. Tony Makin 1 - A tax on sugar would be akin to excises levied on other specific goods that create negative externalities, notably alcohol (accidents), tobacco (lung cancer) and fuel (pollution). In the case of sugar, the externalities are obesity, diabetes and related health problems that reduce individuals’ quality of life and impose huge burdens on taxpayers via the public health system. 2 - Compared to other countries, Australia’s tax system relies excessively on taxing income rather than expenditure, and taxing sugar would help redress the imbalance albeit in a small way. Warwick McKibbin Douglas McTaggart 2 - SSBs are just one input into obese outcomes. Not addressing obesity directly by other means will simply force substitutions. Ultimately those hurt will be lower socio-economic groups who disproportionately bear the burden of obesity and who will disproportionately bear the cost, to little positive outcome. Adrian Pagan 1 - Taxes are a flexible tool to change behaviour. They make it possible to change the trade-off consumers make in favour of 1) their future selves (reduction of present bias in consumption) and 2) society (reduction of the negative externalities obesity creates for the health system). 2 - It is a difficult question. Given the negative costs associated with an over consumption of sugar, I feel it is likely to be true. . 1 - There are plenty of superior options such as promotion of sport/exercise for young people. Looking specifically at sweetened beverages, it would more equitable to subsidise sugar-free versions than to tax the sugary ones Jeffrey Sheen Hugh Sibly 1 - The question assumes government should be involved in people's private dietary choices. This assumption itself requires some justification, which might be imperfect health insurance markets (premiums cannot be made contingent on a person's dietary choices) or that people do not suffer the full cost of their poor dietary choices (unavoidable costs fall on family and health services). In this case a broad sugar tax is likely to be efficient. But a narrower tax on SSBs will be less efficient than a broad tax on sugar. 2 - If a tax is imposed on SSBs people may possibly substitute to less healthy alternatives. Beth Webster 2 - Strongly agree 1 - Saying 'best' may be too strong but the evidence is that prices do affect consumer behaviour, especially for products with immediate benefits such as a drink. We clearly have a health problem on our hands and few policies to date have reduced the problem.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1179
__label__cc	0.69141	0.30859	The official startup portal for Munich A talk with… Munich Movers Incubators and Accelerators © Screenshot, Sky Deutschland Media Group with a Passion for Innovation – A talk with… Sky PLAY! Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Bundesliga broadcasts. The average consumer associates Sky with all that and much more. Yet the media group in Unterföhring does not want to limit itself to television alone. Sky is now getting involved with startups, namely with its PLAY innovation program. Please tell us about yourselves! PLAY is the new open innovation program from Sky Deutschland. In October 2016, we started looking for ideas to take entertainment as we know it today to a whole new level! After being selected, PLAY participants receive support from our four-member PLAY team, made up of frontend, backend and app developers plus a product designer. Participants are also supported by a team of eight mentors, which consists of experienced and well-known founders and entrepreneurs. The team includes Freya Oehle (spottster), Niels Dörje (HolidayInsider, OnPage.org) and Yacine Coco (TalentRocket, Catchys). “With our current team of mentors, we feel we can offer the right person to support virtually any concept,” Katja Kraemer, Head of Open Innovation – Start Up Management, Sky Deutschland. What do you focus on when working with startups? It differs from case to case, and is predominantly determined by the idea and team’s current stage of development. If the idea is still in an early stage, then it is a matter of determining the focus, which then serves as a foundation for developing a prototype and an MVP (Minimum Viable Product). Other teams who have already defined their focus concentrate on other topics, such as building their team. PLAY offers every participant a custom-tailored, flexible program as well as an equal partnership. To be successful, a startup needs to… In addition to the small steps they have to take, a startup needs to always stay focused on the big picture, meaning their long-term vision and strategy. Those who manage to balance both and are able to answer questions about both areas will be able to win over potential investors and employees in the end. Involve the user at the right time Why would a good startup even need a startup center or accelerator to back them? We believe there are an infinite number of amazing concepts for the future of entertainment both within and beyond our organization. PLAY gives these concepts an exceptional platform and a targeted framework where innovators and founders can find the resources, contacts, support and know-how they need. What is the biggest mistake a startup can make? Major mistakes can be very different depending on the situation. A startup should always prepare for negotiations professionally and have a defined plan for how they would like to present their ideas in an organized way. Another stumbling block can be determining the right point in time to get users involved in product development, in order to validate or adapt hypotheses based on test results. At PLAY, we prepare every participant for these kinds of situations. The trend of the year is… There are so many exciting developments right now. Virtual reality, mobile entertainment and edutainment are just some examples of the trends we are involved with at the moment. An exciting interplay between tradition and modernity What makes the Munich startup scene so special? The Munich startup scene is distinguished by a sound framework composed of initiatives from the Bavarian state government, established companies, creative agencies, universities and a large number of highly skilled employees. There are very few cities that offer such an exciting interplay between tradition and modernity. It creates a fertile breeding ground for new ideas and business models. This close interaction is also reflected by the Munich Bits & Pretzels Founders Festival. Moreover, the greater Munich area is an attractive location for startups in the media and entertainment industry. Because of its large number of successful global and local brands, Munich has enormous potential as a location for individuals wanting to launch a startup and also for founders looking to win over potential investors for their ideas. This differentiates our location somewhat from other startup centers in Germany. Last but not least: whom should startups contact if they would like to meet up with you? You can simply contact us directly, which means anyone on the PLAY team. If you are not able to get ahold of us in person during an event, our contact details can be found here. Florian Deglmann Der Exil-Nürnberger erforschte bis April 2019 als Redakteur die Münchner Startup-Szene. Reflekt – Agility, Speed and a Passion for Innovation The Munich startup Reflekt lets companies develop their own augmented and mixed reality applications without any programming skills whatsoever. The company has… Helen Duran \| 4. July 2019 A talk with... Munich’s Startup Hotbed: A talk with… CDTM! The CDTM is one of Munich’s most successful startup hotbeds — numerous promising young companies have already been launched from here! A… Helen Duran \| 13. November 2018 Innovation to Fight Climate Change — A talk with ClimateLaunchpad ClimateLaunchpad helps cleantech startups develop successful business models. The project is managed in Germany by UnternehmerTUM, the entrepreneurship center of the Technical… Simon Tischer \| 23. April 2018 Disruption in the Fight Against Hunger — A talk with the UN WFP Innovation Accelerator! Startups combating hunger in the world: the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) runs an Innovation Accelerator in Munich. We spoke with the… Simon Tischer \| 3. July 2017 “Don’t get distracted” – A talk with… Holtzbrinck Ventures Founded in 2000, Holtzbrinck Ventures (HV Ventures) is a Munich based, independent European early stage funds. Right from the start, they have… Helen Duran \| 20. December 2016 Startups that fly – A talk with… AZO and ESA BIC Bavaria Anwendungszentrum Oberpfaffenhofen GmbH (AZO) aims to find and support aerospace-related innovations. Since its founding in 2004 as an incubator of the German… Helen Duran \| 7. December 2016 “Creating Wow Effects” – A talk with… Munich Airport’s Innovation Management Munich is the European champion — or was at least given the title in the ranking from the “World Airport Awards”. On… “Collaborating makes you stronger” – A talk with… the LMU Entrepreneurship Center! The LMU EC has been enriching the Munich startup scene for over 15 years. Some of the successful companies that originated in… Helen Duran \| 28. June 2016 Munich Startup is the official startup portal for Munich and the surrounding region. The portal has become the standard initial point of (virtual) contact for startups in and around Munich. It strives to present both content and players objectively, independently and transparently.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1188
__label__wiki	0.95029	0.95029	Established by Fathi Ibrahim Bayoud 2005 - Homs The Arab World Gulf Arab Region Zaman Al Wasl TV Syrian Regime Deaths Zaman French Zaman Al Wasl Leaks #ISIS Leaks Ecuador national strike raises pressure on defiant Moreno World \| 2019-10-09 18:59:41 Indigenous-led protesters began a national strike in Ecuador on Wednesday after President Lenin Moreno refused to step down or overturn anti-austerity measures that have triggered the worst unrest in a decade. Streets were empty of traffic and businesses were closed in Quito and other cities at the start of the shutdown, in Latin America’s latest flashpoint over structural economic reforms. Security forces fired teargas to block hundreds of protesters marching near the presidential palace in downtown Quito, the highland capital. Violent demonstrations erupted in the Andean nation of 17 million people a week ago when Moreno cut fuel subsidies here as part of a package of measures in line with a $4.2 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan. “What the government has done is reward the big banks, the capitalists, and punish poor Ecuadoreans,” said Mesias Tatamuez, head of the Workers’ United Front umbrella union. “We call on all those against the IMF, which is responsible for this crisis, to join the strike.” Manuel Hoyos, a 34-year-old taxi driver and father of two, said the price of filling his fuel tank had jumped about 50% from last week to $19. “Moreno is a traitor ... he said there would not be an economic package, and look at the dreadful package he’s brought in,” Hoyos said. The main indigenous group CONAIE, which has mobilized some 6,000 members to Quito from outlying areas, said Moreno’s government was behaving like a “military dictatorship” by declaring a state of emergency and setting an overnight curfew. Protesters again barricaded roads on Wednesday morning with debris, while security forces themselves blocked a major bridge in the coastal city of Guayaquil to thwart demonstrations. Moreno, 66, who succeeded leftist leader Rafael Correa in 2017, has relocated his government to Guayaquil where the unrest has been less than in Quito. He stood by his economic measures and defied calls to quit. “I don’t see why I should if I’m making the right decisions,” Moreno said late on Tuesday, arguing that Ecuador’s large debt and fiscal deficit meant belt-tightening reforms were unavoidable. ‘BLOOD OF THE WORKING CLASS’ For days, protesters have been marching and barricading roads with burning tires. Masked youths have hurled stones at security forces, who have responded with tear gas and water cannon. “Our flag is red, like the blood of the working class!” chanted the marchers in downtown Quito, waving red banners. Authorities have arrested nearly 700 people in a week of unrest, and dozens of police officers have been injured. One man died after he was hit by a car and an ambulance could not reach him amid the chaos, while another two people fell off a bridge during protests, with some unconfirmed reports that they died. The government is hoping the United Nations or Roman Catholic Church can help mediate the crisis. Moreno has accused former friend, mentor and boss Correa of seeking a coup with the help of fellow socialist President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Moreno had enthusiastically backed Correa during his decade-long rule, serving as his vice-president, but broke with him after winning election and moved economic policies to the right. From Belgium where he lives, Correa has been applauding the demonstrators but scoffed at accusations of seeking a coup. Maduro, himself immersed in economic crisis in Venezuela, also denied involvement in Ecuador. Moreno has support from the business elite and the military appears to remain loyal, but his popularity is less than half of what it was two years ago and Ecuadoreans are mindful that indigenous protests helped topple three presidents before Correa. Subscribe our newsletter to stay up to date X :Latest News New government in crisis-hit Lebanon, but protests continue Rebels kill former resident in Germany who returned back to fight with Assad Iran MP offers reward for killing Trump, U.S. calls it 'ridiculous' World needs to prepare for 'millions' of climate refugees: U.N. U.S. urges China to join nuclear arms talks with Russia Two protesters killed as Iraqi police struggle to stem unrest Lebanon PM to meet president for government announcement: al-Manar TV Turkish charity distributes food packages in Syria	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1191
__label__wiki	0.617067	0.617067	Uses and importance of wild fungi: traditional knowledge from the Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Héritier Milenge Kamalebo1,5, Hippolyte Nshimba Seya Wa Malale1, Cephas Masumbuko Ndabaga2, Jérôme Degreef3,4 & André De Kesel3 Wild mushrooms constitute an important non-timber forest product that provides diverse substances and services, especially food and income for local communities from many parts of the world. This study presents original ethnomycological documentation from the dense rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ethnomycological surveys were made within local communities near the biosphere reserve of Yangambi and the Yoko forest reserve. The interviews involved 160 informants from six different ethnic communities (Bakumu, Turumbu, Topoke, Lokele, Ngelema, and Ngando). Specific reported use (RU), the relative importance (RI), and the cultural significance (CS) of wild edible fungi were calculated using quantitative data from enquiries. The people from Tshopo use 73 species of wild mushrooms either for food (68 species), as medicine (9 species), in a recreational context (2 species), or related to myths and beliefs (7 species). Women are more involved in harvesting and are the main holders of cultural aspects related to fungi. The results show that knowledge of useful mushrooms differs between ethnic groups. The Ngando people have the highest ethnomycological expertise, which is expressed in their extensive cultural and practical use of fungi. Pleurotus tuber-regium is the most important species (MCSI = 1.9 and p value < 2.2e−16) as it is being used for food, as a medicine, and more. Daldinia eschscholtzii is the most important (MUI = 0.86 and p value < 2.2e−16) for medicinal applications, while Schizophyllum commune, Auricularia cornea, A. delicata, Marasmius buzungolo, and Lentinus squarrosulus are mostly appreciated for food. The latter five species are all wood-decaying saprotrophs. Despite the presence of edible ectomycorrhizal taxa in the dense rainforests of Tshopo, local people only seem to have an interest in saprotrophic taxa. Some mushroom pickers deliberately cut down host trees to promote the development of saprotrophic taxa. Inducing forest degradation is considered beneficial as it promotes the development of saprotrophic taxa. The domestication of locally appreciated saprotrophic lignicolous fungi is proposed as a mitigating measure against fellings. In many parts of the world, wild mushrooms constitute important non-timber forest product (NTFP) [1,2,3,4]. They provide diverse substances and services to local communities, especially as a source of food and income [4,5,6,7]. Nutritionally, they are an important source of proteins, vitamins, fats, carbohydrates, amino acids, and minerals [8, 9], i.e., a worthy alternative or substitute for meat and fish [6, 8]. In various cultures, mushrooms are widely used as medicine, but also in a recreational context and for myths and beliefs [10]. Several studies note that local mushroom knowledge varies with people’s cultures and beliefs [10,11,12,13]. Within local communities, the traditional knowledge is passed on from one generation to another. For local communities, it is often the only, albeit fragile but effective, way of safeguarding information concerning useful fungi [11,12,13]. Traditional knowledge linked to fungal taxa can be recorded and allows to evaluate its use-value for a specific local community [11, 14]. The analysis of use-value provides information about cultural differences between communities [11, 14]. Scientists recognize that assessing the various uses of wild fungi by local people is the key towards a better valorization of services provided by wild useful fungi [7]. This also enables to better elaborate participative management and conservation plans [15]. Several scientists [15] have reported that pressure caused by mushrooms pickers, either deliberate by fellings or non-deliberate by trampling, induces forest degradation. Forest conservation strategies aiming at a sustainable mushroom harvest largely depend on the targeted fungal ecological group (saprotrophic and/or ectomycorrhizal). While ectomycorrhizal taxa constitute the most important group of useful fungi in miombo woodlands and open forests [16, 17], the saprotrophic taxa seem more important in rain and montane forest types [3, 18, 19]. Cultivation of locally used fungi is considered as a mitigating measure against deliberate fellings for the promotion of some useful saprotrophic taxa. An ethnomycological survey is thereby important before the cultivation starts, to collect and document about the locally used fungal species. Documentation related to the traditional use of mushrooms is scarce [3, 10, 12, 13]. Within local communities, oral transmission is often the only way to transfer local knowledge [12, 13]. The lack of documentation regarding wild edible fungi and the need to conserve it through oral transmission makes local mycological knowledge fragile [17]. Due to a continuing exodus of younger people to new areas or the bigger cities, local communities gradually lose an important part of their traditional knowledge, particularly about mushrooms [12, 13, 17]. There is a genuine need to record and document local traditional knowledge about wild edible and useful fungi. The Tshopo province (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is part of the central African Congo basin and its rainforests are host to a wealth of edible and useful fungal species [3]. In this region, more than 80% of the population lives outside the cities [20, 21] and depend for their livelihoods on wild natural resources, including mushrooms. This study aims to fill the gap in ethnomycological knowledge available from the DR Congo by delivering original data obtained from the communities living around the Man-and-Biosphere Reserve of Yangambi and the Yoko Forest Reserve. Study site The study sites are located in the Tshopo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The ethnomycological survey was carried out in villages surrounding the Yangambi Man-and-Biosphere Reserve (0° 51′ 01.62″ N; 24° 31′ 43.53″ E) (Isangi territory) and the Yoko Forest Reserve (0° 17′ 34.9″ N; 25° 18′ 27.4″ E) in Ubundu territory (Fig. 1). The region is mainly characterized by semi-deciduous rainforests dominated by Gilbertiodendron dewevrei (De Wild.) J. Léonard, Scorodophloeus zenkeri Harms, Prioria balsamifera (Vermoesen) Breteler, and Julbernardia seretii (De Wild.) Troupin [22,23,24,25]. Location of the study site As part of the equatorial region, the Tshopo province has a rainy and hot climate, ranged on the Af type according to the classification of Köppen [26]. The climate is characterized by monthly temperatures ranging between 22.4 and 29.3 °C, with an annual average around 25 °C. The annual rainfall ranges from 1600 to 2200 mm with an average around 1828 mm. Rainfall is irregular throughout the year. The average year typically has a long rainy season interrupted by two small drier seasons, i.e., from December till January and from June till August [22, 26]. Sampling methods and data collection Fungal sampling and ethnomycological survey have been carried out during the main rainy season (from March to June) of the years 2015 and 2016. The identification of the useful fungi was done using macro- and micromorphological features given in taxonomical contributions [16, 27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35]. Species names and author’s abbreviations were annotated according to the Index Fungorum site [36]. The dried fruiting bodies are deposited at the herbarium of the Botanic Garden Meise in Belgium (BR). Ethnomycological data were collected randomly using open and semi-structured interviews. The interview involved mainly the available household head, sometimes assisted by other family members. Face-to-face interviews were preferred over paper fill-in questionnaires as some of the informants preferred to respond to oral questions [3, 12, 19]. The questions focused basically on the informant’s knowledge concerning the different uses of wild fungi. The interview campaign involved 160 informants, all randomly selected from six different ethnic communities (Bakumu, Turumbu, Topoke, Lokele, Ngelema, and Ngando). The interviewed communities belong to four local villages in the vicinity of the Yangambi Man-and-Biosphere Reserve (Yakako, Yalungu, Lyoli, and Lobiloto), four quarters in Yangambi city (IFA, Lusambila, Ekuchu, and Manzikala), and four villages surrounding the Yoko Forest Reserve (Babogombe, Biaro, PK 48, and PK 25). Referring to the 2014 annual report of people census from the Turumbu sector, and based on a preliminary survey within the study area, the entire study involved about 600 households. The mean distribution was around 25 households per village (4.2% of the entire pool) and 150 (25%), 120 (20%), 80 (13.3%), and 50 (8.3%) households respectively reported from Ekuchu, Lusambila, Manzikala, and IFA. The sample size of interviewed households (n) was calculated by the following formula: n = $ \frac{\mathrm{N}}{1+\mathrm{N}\ast {\mathrm{e}}^2} $ [37] where N = the total number of available households and e is the level of precision. Considering a ± 7% precision level, the sample size was calculated as follows: n = $ \frac{600}{1+\left(N\times {0.07}^2\right)} $≈ 152 households, fitted to 160. Therefore, 7 households were interviewed from each of the 4 villages while 38 households from Ekuchu, 30 from Lusambila, 20 from Manzikala, and 12 from IFA. The here analyzed data only refer to locally known useful fungi and allow to present (per species) information on the specific reported use (RU), the relative importance (RI), and the cultural significance (CS). According to [11], such topics have been applied for plants [38,39,40,41] and adapted for fungi since 2001 [42]. The specific reported use of a given folk or biological fungal taxon is the number of uses locally assigned to it, and this according to all the informants interviewed [11, 15]. It represents the number of times a use category is reported by the informant from a given species. Modified from several previous studies [14, 42]; the reported use is calculated as follows: RU =∑U i (where U i is the specific use assigned by each informant to a given species). The relative importance is also calculated by the following formula: RI = NUC + NT, where “NUC” is the number of use categories of a given species divided by the total number of use-categories of the most useful species and “NT” is the number of types of uses assigned to the same species divided by the total number of types of uses attributed to the most important species [15]. The value of the relative importance for each species is based on a score scale from 0 to 2. The cultural significance concerns the ethnic index of cultural significance (EICS) and the mushrooms’ cultural significance index (MCSI). The mushrooms’ cultural significance index refers to the importance of the role that a given fungal taxa plays in social life and behavior of a certain community [42]. EICS gives additional information about cultures and communities to whom mushrooms are more important and useful, and that have much mushroom knowledge to be shared and transmitted to future generations [11, 15, 42]. As four categories for use were reported (all species), the cultural significance score (CS) ranges from 1 to 4. The calculation of cultural significance index is borrowed from models developed by numerous scientists [11, 42] and modified according to the present study context. It is obtained by summing of the cultural significance sub-indexes for each use category and species. The cultural significance calculation included the index of frequency of mention fitness (Qi), the mushrooms’ edibility index (MEI), medicinal use index (MUI), recreational use index (RUI), and belief and myth use index (BUI). All sub-indexes were attributed the same weight and are based on a binary score from 0 to 1. The taste appreciation index (TAI) was assessed to list the tastiest and most appreciated edible fungi. The index of frequency of mention fitness is obtained by dividing 1 by the total number of species reported for a given use category (for EICS) or by the total number of informants (for MCSI). Qi = $ \frac{1}{Ni} $, where Ni = total number of species reported for the use or total number of informants. All sub-index scores were assigned through informants’ answers to the following questions: MEI: Do you eat this mushroom? (Yes = 1, No = 0) TAI: Is it your most preferred and appreciated mushroom? (Yes = 1, No = 0) MUI: Is this mushroom used as a medicine? (Yes = 1, No = 0) What other uses do you know for this mushroom? (recreational, belief, and myth): Recreational use (RUI): Yes = 1, No = 0, Belief or mythical use (BUI): Yes = 1, No = 0 Finally, the cultural significance index (CSI) was calculated by the following formula: CSI = $ \left[{\sum}_i^n\left(\mathrm{MEI}\right)i+{\sum}_i^n\left(\mathrm{MUI}\right)i+{\sum}_i^n\left(\mathrm{RUI}\right)i+{\sum}_i^n\left(\mathrm{BUI}\right)i\right]{Q}_{i.} $ Statistical tests were conducted in R software. The difference between eaten species number by different ethnic groups were analyzed by Tukey HSD multiple comparison test. The chi-squared test was performed to assess the difference between the numbers of reported fungi species for each use categories and between the different fungal functional group. In addition, the correspondence analysis (CA) performed by FactoMineR package was used to map the most important edible fungi within the tribes. The cluster analysis in Past software was also used to assess the similarity of mushrooms’ consumption between people. In total, 160 informants (72 women, 88 men) were interviewed. The age of the informants ranged from 16 to 72 years. From the entire sample, the Turumbu people were the most dominant tribe with 67 informants (41.9%), while the rest were Topoke (17.5%), Lokele (15%), Ngelema (10%), Bakumu (8.8%), and Ngando (6.9%). The entire pool of informants recognized 73 species of wild fungi as useful (Table 1). Table 1 List of useful fungi and the values of their cultural significance index (RI = relative importance; MUI = medicinal use’s index, MCSI = mushroom cultural significance index) Four categories of usage were reported (Fig. 2): food, medicinal, belief and myth, and recreational. Number of fungal species by use category Among the 73 fungal species reported as useful, 68 are mentioned as edible, only 9 are reported as medicinal, 7 are reported as mythical, and 2 are used in a recreational context. Some edible taxa such as Schizophyllum commune and Pleurotus tuber-regium were used both for food and medicine. Figure 3 shows the distribution of edible fungi within functional groups. Distribution of edible fungi within functional groups The reported edible species belong to 3 fungal functional groups. The most commonly eaten and appreciated species belong to the saprotrophs (36 species), most of these within the Marasmiaceae. Among ectomycorrhizal fungi, the Cantharellaceae and Russulaceae were the most represented (11 species each). Mushrooms’ edibility and taste appreciation Qualitatively, mushroom consumption clearly differs from one ethnic group to another (Fig. 4). Ngando people use more than 50 fungal species for food. They are followed by Turumbu and Ngelema while both Kumu and Ngelema consume only a restricted number of species. The number of consumed fungi among the Turumbu people is very variable. Some of them eat less than 15 species while others eat more than 35 species. Boxplots showing the distribution patterns of number of fungi consumed by different tribes The Tukey HSD multiple comparison test shows a highly significant difference between the number of edible mushrooms consumed by Ngando and other ethnic groups (p value < 0.001). Except for the Ngando people, who consume more species, we observe that the number of consumed taxa is not significantly different among all the other ethnic groups. The level of similarity of edible fungi used for consumption is presented in Fig. 5. Cluster diagram showing the similarity of fungi diets chosen by the studied tribes A cluster analysis (Fig. 5) shows that Topoke, Lokele, and Turumbu use a very similar set of species (more than 96% of similarity) for consumption. The Ngando and Kumu are isolated and consume other mushroom species, clearly not eaten by the other groups. The fungal diet of the Ngelema people seems intermediate (Fig. 5). The ordination map (Fig. 6) of the 20 most consumed species (with highest edibility index) shows the variation of mushroom consumption within different ethnic groups. Two main axes of the correspondence analysis (CA) of the most eaten fungi. Legend: red: fungi names, Blue: ethnic groups. The two axes explain 79.43% of ordination of edible fungi within ethnic groups (65.65% for the first axis and 13.78% for the second axis) Some ethnic groups consume specific fungi, clearly separating their mushroom diet or consumption profile from the others. Cantharellus rufopunctatus and Termitomyces mammiformis for example constitute the most eaten and distinctive fungal species used by the Kumu people. Gymnopus sp., Collybia aurea, Marasmius arborescens, and Pleurotus tuber-regium are particularly eaten by Ngando people. Auricularia cornea and A. delicata are mostly eaten by Lokele, Topoke, and Turumbu, while all the preferred species from the Ngelema people are shared by all ethnic groups. The Ngelema people do not seem to have a particular mushroom diet. In addition, the correspondence analysis shows that Lentinus squarrosulus, Schizophyllum commune, Marasmius buzungolo, Termitomyces sp., Cantharellus longisporus, and Termitomyces robustus are eaten by all the ethnic groups. From the entire pool of informants, the most commonly eaten mushroom is Schizophyllum commune. It is followed by Lentinus squarrosulus, Auricularia cornea and A. delicata, Marasmius buzungolo, Cantharellus longisporus, Termitomyces robustus, Termitomyces microcarpus, Pleurotus cystidiosus, and Termitomyces sp. Nevertheless, Auricularia and Russula are refused by Kumu people. In their native language, these species are called “Sengwa”, which means inedible. The taste-based appreciation varies with each ethnic group. From all ethnic groups, the 10 most tasty and appreciated species were listed. In all tested ethnic groups Schizophyllum commune, Lentinus squarrosulus, and Marasmius buzungolo were reported as the tastiest and most appreciated taxa. However, some Kumu interviewees reported Pleurotus cystidiosus, Termitomyces robustus, and Cantharellus longisporus tastiest. Auricularia species were appreciated and reported tastiest by some Topoke, Lokele, Turumbu, and Ngelema interviewees. Medicinal fungi and their applications Nine fungal species were reported as medicinal. Each species treats specific diseases, although some of them are used to treat several sores and illnesses. Daldinia eschscholtzii is the best known medicinal fungus, i.e., used by more than 80% of all the informants. It is used to treat spleen illness and wounds. Pycnoporus sanguineus is the next best medicinal fungus and used to treat otitis. The same use against otitis is also reported for Cookeina speciosa. Furthermore, Pleurotus tuber-regium is used to treat bronchitis, but also for breastmilk stimulation and against bed watering. Ganoderma sp. and Lentinus velutinus are used to treat the male sexual impotence. Moreover, Schizophyllum commune is used to treat wounds and breast inflammation. Auricularia delicata is used against furonculosis and skin inflammations. Cotylidia aurantiaca is used to treat conjunctivitis. Figure 7 presents the photographs of commonly used medicinal fungi. The sporocarps of the most used medicinal fungi. a Daldinia eschscholtzii. b Pycnoporus sanguineus. c Pleurotus tuber-regium. d Ganoderma sp. e Schizophyllum commune. f Cotylidia aurantiaca Mythical and recreational fungi Beliefs and myths about mushrooms constitute part of the rich culture of many people from Tshopo province. The most common mythical uses are those meant to bring luck (Cantharellus densifolius, Lentinus squarrosulus), or to cause discord between friends and lovers (Russula sesemoindu and Phallus indusiatus). It is also a custom to use powder from Pleurotus tuber-regium to chase away birds from rice fields. Out of fear of becoming orphans, children are forbidden to eat Termitomyces robustus, and young mothers suffering Trichomonas vaginalis are forbidden to eat Schizophyllum commune in fear of crib death. Only two species were reported having some recreational purpose. Nineteen (19%) of the informants state that Pleurotus tuber-regium is used by children for recreation. The sclerotium is cut and used to make tires of toy cars. Cookeina speciosa is also used by children. The cup-shaped sporophores are collected and thrown to each other for amusement. This particular type use of Cookeina speciosa is known by almost 40% of the informants. Cultural significance and relative importance Women informants seem to possess most of the knowledge about mushrooms. They possess lots of knowledge about edible fungi and have high value of ethnic index of cultural significance on mushrooms. Although women have a lot of knowledge on mushrooms, the cultural significance remains unequally shared between the ethnic groups. From all ethnic groups interviewed, the Ngando people possess important knowledge on edible fungi as well as wider cultural significance. Ngelema possess more cultural significance than edibility value. The Lokele is still the ethnic group with less cultural significance while the Kumu, Topoke, and Turumbu have significant knowledge compared to Lokele. Furthermore, the consumption and cultural significance on mushrooms seems to increase with age. Young people are mostly involved in picking the more common edible fungi. There is a clear learning curve as old people provide high cultural significance and know more edible taxa than young people (Fig. 8). Variation of the cultural significance and knowledge on edible fungi by age. Legend: EI = edibility index, CSI = cultural significance index According to scores assigned to all species from all used categories, Pleurotus tuber-regium is the most culturally significant and important species for local people in Tshopo province. The species is used by a substantial amount of informants, i.e., as food, as medicine, for myth and belief, and in a recreational context. From all investigated taxa, it also happens to be the species producing the largest and the heaviest sporophores. In terms of cultural significance, Pleurotus tuber-regium is respectively followed by Schizophyllum commune, Lentinus squarrosulus, Auricularia delicata, A. cornea, and Marasmius buzungolo. The study shows that local people from Tshopo, regardless of their age, use wild mushrooms either for food, for medicine, for recreation, or in relation to certain beliefs or myths. This result concurs with many other studies [1, 13, 43]. The study also reports that mushroom knowledge is differently shared within the ethnic groups, as well as age and gender classes. Younger informants know only common edible taxa and a few species useful to make toys with. The older generations, however, handle more species and are skilled with medicinal and mythical uses of fungi. Women are generally more involved in mushroom harvesting and possess very high knowledge on edible taxa as well as their wider cultural significance. This observation is in line with the findings of several other authors [10, 12, 17]. They respectively found that in rural areas in Benin, Zambia, and Tanzania, women and children constitute the most important group of mushroom pickers and sellers. In West Africa, DSRP and PNUD [19, 43] found that basic ethnomycological knowledge crosses gender, age groups, and occupation categories. Several other studies [1, 12, 13] have shown that people lose part of their mycological knowledge when moving to a new area. However, the Ngando people who came from the former province of Equateur still provide a lot of information about mushrooms, including cultural significance. The high cultural significance of Ngando people on mushroom uses may be explained by the fact that Ngando people are a nearly autarkic community, i.e., living remotely in forest areas and mainly using natural resources for their subsistence. This comment is supported by numerous scientists [44] who reported that Ngando people use mainly wild useful plants for subsistence because of their localization far inside forests. Because of taboos, e.g., not eating any Auricularia and Russula species (“Sengwa” = inedible fungi), the Kumu people use far less mushrooms. Taboos on mushrooms consolidate mycophobia and negatively affect the people’s interest in mushroom consumption. Wood-decomposing fungi such as Schizophyllum commune, Auricularia spp., Marasmius buzungolo, and Lentinus squarrosulus are the most eaten taxa in the Tshopo province. Several scientists [3, 6, 19, 43] have mentioned a higher consumption interest for saprotrophic species in rainforests. In central African rainforests for example, the saprotrophic fungi constitute the most consumed group [3]. According to several other ethnomycological studies [7, 9, 16, 17, 19, 45], people from miombo forests and savannah woodlands eat significantly more ectomycorrhizal fungi than saprotrophic ones. The main reason for this is that these forests are prone to bushfires that significantly reduce the amount of substrate available for saprotrophs to develop. Concerning the medicinal use, we report nine species (Auricularia delicata, Cookeina speciosa, Daldinia eschscholtzii, Cotylidia aurantiaca, Ganoderma sp., Pleurotus tuber-regium, Lentinus velutinus, Pycnoporus sanguineus, and Schizophyllum commune) possibly providing medicinal contents. Several studies [1, 46] reported that Ganoderma species are the most valuable medicinal fungi worldwide. Even in modern medicine, these taxa are considered genuinely interesting [46]. The reported medicinal use of Pycnoporus sanguineus, i.e., to treat ear inflammation, corresponds with the findings of numerous scientists [47] who found that P. sanguineus is used to treat sores in Malaysia. Moreover, several other scientists [47,48,49] have reported the medicinal property of Pleurotus tuber-regium. According to this study, Pleurotus tuber-regium is also used to stop children from bed watering while in Malaysia local people use Xylaria polymorpha for this purpose [47]. In addition, the findings report several mythical and belief uses of mushrooms from Tshopo. Pleurotus tuber-regium is used to drive away destructive birds from rice fields. Phallus indusiatus is used to induce discord between people while Cantharellus densifolius and Lentinus squarrosulus bring luck. The mythical use of wild fungi or plants has been reported by several studies [40, 43, 49, 50]. From Yoruba people in western Nigeria, Pleurotus tuber-regium is considered as the crops of divine gods and used to overpower evil spirits [49]. In Madagascar, the species is used against strong wind, and used by women to get in funerary room without fear of death [49]. These reports of mythical uses might confirm the hallucinogenic effects of some mushrooms mentioned by several previous studies [43, 49, 50]. Pleurotus tuber-regium is reported the most useful and important fungus as it plays a key role in social life and culture of people from Tshopo in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is used as food, as medicine, for recreational aspect, and for myth and belief. The mythical and religious purposes might confirm the hallucinogenic effects of fungi on people. However, it makes belief that spiritual interaction may exist between wild fungi and people. Saprotrophic fungi, including many wood-decaying taxa, are the most consumed and appreciated because of their taste. Some mushroom pickers deliberately cut down host trees to promote mushroom development, eventually promoting or boosting forest degradation. For sustainable use of natural forests and to mitigate the harvest-related pressure on natural habitats, the cultivation of the most useful and appreciated saprotrophic fungi (value MCSI above 1) such as Auricularia cornea, Marasmius buzungolo, Pleurotus tuber-regium, Lentinus squarrosulus, and Schizophyllym commune is proposed. However, the latter species should be worth discarded from culturing as it is known to cause the severe “Schizophyllum disease” in both healthy and immunodeficient people [51, 52]. 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We acknowledge financial support from the European Union through the project “Forêts et Changements Climatiques au Congo” implemented by the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the University of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The taxonomic analysis for species identification has been carried out at the Botanic Garden of Meise in Belgium and was supported by two grants from the Belgian Global Taxonomy Initiative of the CEBioS program. The fieldwork of A. De Kesel in Yangambi was financed by BELSPO (Belgian Federal Science Policy Office) through the project COBIMFO (Congo basin integrated monitoring for forest carbon mitigation and biodiversity). In addition, we are grateful to Papa ELASI, RISASI Ratos, Jules, Motosia, and Michel MBASI for the guide during sampling expedition. This work has benefitted financial support from PhD scholarships granted by the European Union implemented by the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) at the University of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The taxonomic analysis for species identification has been carried out at the Botanic Garden Meise in Belgium and was supported by three grants from the Belgian Global Taxonomy Initiative of the CEBioS program. De Kesel received financial support from BELSPO (Belgian Science Policy Office) for the fieldwork in Yangambi (through COBIMFO project). The main data supporting the findings of this study have been deposited at the herbarium of the Botanic Garden Meise in Belgium (BR) through the reference codes ADK (for the collection made by André DE KESEL) and MKH (for the collection made by MILENGE KAMALEBO Héritier). Some data are accessible on https://www.efta-online.org/. The overall data are available from the authors. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Kisangani, BP 2012, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo Héritier Milenge Kamalebo & Hippolyte Nshimba Seya Wa Malale Faculté des Sciences, Université Officielle de Bukavu, BP 570, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo Cephas Masumbuko Ndabaga Botanic Garden Meise, B-1860, Meise, Belgium Jérôme Degreef & André De Kesel Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service Général de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique, B-1080, Brussels, Belgium Centre de Recherches Universitaires du Kivu (CERUKI-ISP), BP 854, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo Search for Héritier Milenge Kamalebo in: Search for Hippolyte Nshimba Seya Wa Malale in: Search for Cephas Masumbuko Ndabaga in: Search for Jérôme Degreef in: Search for André De Kesel in: HMK did data collecting, species identification to the laboratory, data analysis and interpretation, and manuscript writing. HNSM and CMN have read and approved the final manuscript. JD did the species identification in the laboratory. In addition, he has read and approved the final manuscript. ADK supplied the objectives, methods, and tools for identification; did the data collection, species identification (macro- and microscopy), and laboratory work; and is the co-writer and responsible for corrections of the English text. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Correspondence to Héritier Milenge Kamalebo. Milenge Kamalebo, H., Nshimba Seya Wa Malale, H., Masumbuko Ndabaga, C. et al. Uses and importance of wild fungi: traditional knowledge from the Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine 14, 13 (2018) doi:10.1186/s13002-017-0203-6 Edible fungi Tshopo	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1197
__label__wiki	0.518536	0.518536	Tag Archives: Big Sky Conference Man who identifies as female named NCAA Conference “Female” Athlete of the Week Posted on October 28, 2019 by DCG \| 6 comments From Daily Mail: A transgender female NCAA cross country runner has been named the Female Athlete of the Week. June Eastwood, a University of Montana senior, has been named Female Athlete of the Week by the Big Sky Conference on Tuesday after excelling in a race held on October 19. At the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational in Sunnyvale, California, the 22-year-old finished second in a group of 204 female runners. The Big Sky Conference said she clocked a time of 20:86 in the 6km race and was instrumental in helping the team place seventh in the overall event. Previously, Eastwood competed on the University of Montana’s men’s team before identifying as a transgender female and being allowed a spot on the women’s team. As a man, she was a standout athlete throughout her younger years and won state titles in multiple men’s races. She competed in her first female division run on August 31 of this year. ‘(I’m) nervous and excited. Nervous for what that means and how people will react, but excited because I haven’t competed in 15 months, and excited to get this started,’ Eastwood told Bozeman Daily Chronicles. The debate surrounding transgender athletes in sports, which are generally based on gender, has become a hot button issue in daily discourse. Those who oppose transgender females competing in sports usually cite hormonal factors like higher testosterone levels in trans women and physiological features like height and weight. Supporters point out that sports of all levels have been categorized by gender and transgender females should compete in the gender division they identify as. In June’s case, and other collegiate transgender athletes, the NCAA’s policy allows male athletes to compete in women’s athletics under certain guidelines. The policy dictates that male runners who identify as transgender women must suppress testosterone levels for a full calendar year before competing in women’s sports. In a 2011 handbook, the NCAA sought advice from medical professionals familiar with the ‘complexities of the transitioning student-athlete.’ It subsequently determined that it’s not warranted to assume: ‘that being born with a male body automatically gives a transgender woman an unfair advantage when competing against non-transgender women.’ However, other medical professionals have said that transgender woman have an advantage over cis-gendered women. In a study in the Journal of Medical Ethics, they said there is little evidence to show testosterone mitigates past muscle mass. ‘In addition, the phenomenon of muscle memory means muscle mass and strength can be rebuilt with previous strength exercise making it easier to regain muscle mass later in life even after long intervening periods of inactivity and mass loss,’ the authors said according to the Daily Caller. As it stands now, more research will need to conducted in the upcoming years to fully understand the several factors surrounding the topic. After word of Eastwood’s accolade spread, people across social media had varying reactions. Some people supported Eastwood and congratulated her on the accomplishment. One person wrote: ‘Honestly never thought I’d say this but “Go lady Griz!!” Congrats June!’ ‘Looking forward to watching her run- she is an amazing athlete,’ another wrote. A Twitter user said: ‘Super excited and proud that June gets to experience this journey at the U of M. Best of luck!’ Others said the recognition was uncalled for. ‘This is hurting female competitors, and is completely unfair,’ one person said. In May, the House of Representatives voted to approve the Equality Act, a policy that would requite all schools to allow male athletes who identify as transgender women to compete in women’s sports. Regardless, Eastwood and the University of Montana team will be competing in the Big Sky Conference Championship. Posted in Culture War, Education, LGBT, Liberals/Democrats/Left, pronoun tyranny, Science & technology, social justice warriors/SJW, transgender, United States Tagged #waronrealwomen, Big Sky Conference, biology is tough, Equality Act, gender identity, Montana, NCAA, University of Montana	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1208
__label__wiki	0.665361	0.665361	Italy's Political Volatility: What You Need To Know Elizabeth Balboa Benzinga May 29, 2018 Italian President Sergio Mattarella rejected an economic ministry nominee Sunday who would have laid groundwork for a euroskeptic government and struck at the stability of the euro. The threat of Italy’s withdrawal from the euro is not yet neutralized, though. The League and 5-Star Movement — previously contentious anti-establishment parties that together nominated Paolo Savona for the economic ministry post — are expected to unite in upcoming elections to advance their shared mission of Italian autonomy. “The upcoming elections will not be political, but instead a real and true referendum ... between who wants Italy to be a free country and who wants it to be servile and enslaved,” League leader Matteo Salvini said Monday. “Today Italy is not free; it is occupied financially by Germans, [the] French and eurocrats.” If Italy, the third-largest economy in the euro zone, votes to leave the European Union and unifying currency, it would challenge the region’s cohesion and the longevity of the common currency. The threat of such an outcome forced the euro to its 2018 nadir and catalyzed the widest gap between Italian and German 10-year bond yields in four years. iShares MSCI Italy Index (ETF) (NYSE: EWI) and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) reacted with respective 5.7-percent and 0.7-percent dips. Whether the League and 5-Star Movement elect to unite on the anti-euro platform will be seen ahead of elections in autumn or early next year. A Europe ETF Right For The Times Here's Why The Euro Is On Fire See more from Benzinga Gene Munster: Service At The Core Of Apple What Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Cornelius Vanderbilt And Others Have In Common Trader-Based Social Network TradingView Raises Million In Series B Funding EXCLUSIVE: Dior to Hold Cruise Show in Italy, Moves Forward Date You Can Win a Stay in Shakespeare's Real Juliet House in Italy for Valentine's Day Travel+Leisure Six Nations 2020 fixtures list, match dates and TV schedule Top 7 Reasons to Roll Over Your 401(k) to an IRA How To Invest $5 Million Dollars For Income Introducing WillScot (NASDAQ:WSC), A Stock That Climbed 87% In The Last Year	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1213
__label__cc	0.657998	0.342002	About FBINAA Annual Retrainers Business Partners - 2019 Doug Muldoon Award Nomination Info Doug Muldoon Award Recipients Store - ChiefMart Charlie and Vita Snowden Scholarship Fund The Florida Chapter funds a scholarship for college education each year to eligible family members of active Florida chapter members, known as the Charlie and Vita Snowden Scholarship Fund. An eligible family member is the child or grandchild of a current and active member of this chapter. The eligible family member must currently be enrolled in a college program or approved to attend college in the current calendar year. Applications must be submitted by the eligible family member to the Secretary/Treasurer by March 15th of each year. The following criteria must be met in order for an eligible family member to apply for this scholarship: Member and eligible family member must both reside in Florida at the time of application. The member is eligible to apply after three consecutive years of active paid status with the Florida chapter. This period will begin on the date of the initial paid membership. Eligible family member must be 24 years of age or younger. Eligible family member must be enrolled for an under graduate degree only. All applications will be reviewed by the Secretary/Treasurer for eligibility. All eligible applications will be forwarded to the Chairperson for the Scholarship Committee. The Executive Board votes on the number of scholarships to award and to who the scholarships are awarded. © 2020 Florida FBINAA, Inc All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1216
__label__cc	0.737595	0.262405	Home > Laws > 2018 Florida Statutes > Title XLV > Chapter 770 Title XLV TORTS CIVIL ACTIONS FOR LIBEL 770.01 Notice condition precedent to action or prosecution for libel or slander. 770.02 Correction, apology, or retraction by newspaper or broadcast station. 770.03 Civil liability of broadcasting stations. 770.04 Civil liability of radio or television broadcasting stations; care to prevent publication or utterance required. 770.05 Limitation of choice of venue. 770.06 Adverse judgment in any jurisdiction a bar to additional action. 770.07 Cause of action, time of accrual. 770.08 Limitation on recovery of damages. 770.01 Notice condition precedent to action or prosecution for libel or slander.—Before any civil action is brought for publication or broadcast, in a newspaper, periodical, or other medium, of a libel or slander, the plaintiff shall, at least 5 days before instituting such action, serve notice in writing on the defendant, specifying the article or broadcast and the statements therein which he or she alleges to be false and defamatory. History.—s. 1, ch. 16070, 1933; CGL 1936 Supp. 7064(1); s. 1, ch. 76-123; s. 1178, ch. 97-102. (1) If it appears upon the trial that said article or broadcast was published in good faith; that its falsity was due to an honest mistake of the facts; that there were reasonable grounds for believing that the statements in said article or broadcast were true; and that, within the period of time specified in subsection (2), a full and fair correction, apology, or retraction was, in the case of a newspaper or periodical, published in the same editions or corresponding issues of the newspaper or periodical in which said article appeared and in as conspicuous place and type as said original article or, in the case of a broadcast, the correction, apology, or retraction was broadcast at a comparable time, then the plaintiff in such case shall recover only actual damages. (2) Full and fair correction, apology, or retraction shall be made: (a) In the case of a broadcast or a daily or weekly newspaper or periodical, within 10 days after service of notice; (b) In the case of a newspaper or periodical published semimonthly, within 20 days after service of notice; (c) In the case of a newspaper or periodical published monthly, within 45 days after service of notice; and (d) In the case of a newspaper or periodical published less frequently than monthly, in the next issue, provided notice is served no later than 45 days prior to such publication. History.—s. 2, ch. 16070, 1933; CGL 1936 Supp. 7064(2); s. 1, ch. 76-123; s. 233, ch. 77-104; s. 1, ch. 80-34. 770.03 Civil liability of broadcasting stations.—The owner, lessee, licensee, or operator of a broadcasting station shall have the right, except when prohibited by federal law or regulation, but shall not be compelled, to require the submission of a written copy of any statement intended to be broadcast over such station 24 hours before the time of the intended broadcast thereof. When such owner, lessee, licensee, or operator has so required the submission of such copy, such owner, lessee, licensee, or operator shall not be liable in damages for any libelous or slanderous utterance made by or for the person or party submitting a copy of such proposed broadcast which is not contained in such copy. This section shall not be construed to relieve the person or party or the agents or servants of such person or party making any such libelous or slanderous utterance from liability therefor. History.—ss. 1, 2, 3, ch. 19616, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 7064 Supp. 7064(4); s. 1, ch. 20869; s. 1, ch. 76-123. 770.04 Civil liability of radio or television broadcasting stations; care to prevent publication or utterance required.—The owner, licensee, or operator of a radio or television broadcasting station, and the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator, shall not be liable for any damages for any defamatory statement published or uttered in or as a part of a radio or television broadcast, by one other than such owner, licensee or operator, or general agent or employees thereof, unless it shall be alleged and proved by the complaining party, that such owner, licensee, operator, general agent or employee, has failed to exercise due care to prevent the publication or utterance of such statement in such broadcasts, provided, however, the exercise of due care shall be construed to include the bona fide compliance with any federal law or the regulation of any federal regulatory agency. History.—s. 1, ch. 23802, 1947; s. 1, ch. 25278, 1949. 770.05 Limitation of choice of venue.—No person shall have more than one choice of venue for damages for libel or slander, invasion of privacy, or any other tort founded upon any single publication, exhibition, or utterance, such as any one edition of a newspaper, book, or magazine, any one presentation to an audience, any one broadcast over radio or television, or any one exhibition of a motion picture. Recovery in any action shall include all damages for any such tort suffered by the plaintiff in all jurisdictions. History.—s. 1, ch. 67-52. 770.06 Adverse judgment in any jurisdiction a bar to additional action.—A judgment in any jurisdiction for or against the plaintiff upon the substantive merits of any action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance as described in s. 770.05 shall bar any other action for damages by the same plaintiff against the same defendant founded upon the same publication or exhibition or utterance. 770.07 Cause of action, time of accrual.—The cause of action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in s. 770.05, shall be deemed to have accrued at the time of the first publication or exhibition or utterance thereof in this state. 770.08 Limitation on recovery of damages.—No person shall have more than one choice of venue for damages for libel founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utterance, as described in s. 770.05, and upon his or her election in any one of his or her choices of venue, then the person shall be bound to recover there all damages allowed him or her. 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__label__cc	0.530752	0.469248	Spinal Cord Injuries Rising Among Elderly: Study IANS \| Updated: July 19, 2017 12:03 IST Traumatic spinal cord injuries are on the rise, especially among older individuals, says a study by an Indian-origin researcher. While incidence rates among the younger male population in the US dropped between 1993-2012, rates for men ageing 65 to 74 jumped to 131 cases per million from 84 cases per million. One in five with such injuries dies in the hospital, said the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (A Calcium-Rich Diet Can Protect You Against Exercise Related Bone Injuries: Study) "Spinal cord injury is a major public health issue in older patients," said lead author Nitin Jain, associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, US. The researchers analysed data from the years 1993 to 2012 involving 63,109 patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injury. "We don't really know the exact reason behind an increased incidence of falls that cause spinal cord injury," Jain said, but noted that "older adults are much more active now, putting them at a higher risk." For example, 70-year-olds today may be more likely to go skiing than 70-year-olds would have 20 years ago. (Turmeric May Help Walking Ability in Spinal Injuries) Comments"We have found that the number of patients who undergo surgical procedures are also increasing over time," he said. People with traumatic spinal cord injury are often disabled for life, and require lifelong rehabilitation. Most patients regain some function after an injury, Jain said adding, "most of these patients need health care services throughout their life, many of them pretty intensive." Tags: InjuriesSpineSpinal CordElderlyHealth How to Prevent Diabetes Induced Foot Injuries Beware! Binge Drinking May Be More Injurious To Women: Study 5 Natural Blood Thinning Foods To Reduce Blood Clots And The Risk Of Stroke 4 Simple Proprioception And Balance Exercises to Boost Confidence	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1219
__label__cc	0.651731	0.348269	AEL Limassol vs Anorthosis Famagusta Prediction & Betting Tips Full-Time Result Prediction for AEL Limassol vs Anorthosis Famagusta We feel that Anorthosis Famagusta and AEL Limassol could end up without much reward for their efforts here. It’s looking like it could well end up as a draw. That is why we are leaning toward a tight encounter with a 0-0 draw at the end of the 90 minutes. Our AEL Limassol v Anorthosis Famagusta tips, poll and stats can be seen in full below - plus the latest match odds. Correct Score Prediction for AEL Limassol vs Anorthosis Famagusta Both Teams to Score Prediction for AEL Limassol vs Anorthosis Famagusta Over/Under 2.5 Goals Prediction for AEL Limassol vs Anorthosis Famagusta Team Focus: Stadium: Tsirion Stadium (13,331) Captain: Kevin Lafrance Chairman: Andгeas Sofocleous Manager: Dušan Kerkez AEL Limassol 2018-12-23 14:00:00 0 - 3 Anorthosis Famagusta Anorthosis Famagusta 2018-09-17 16:00:00 0 - 1 AEL Limassol First Division Cyprus League Table Omonia Nicosia Omonia 1 1 0 0 2 3 LLLLW Pafos Pafos 1 1 0 0 1 3 WDLWW AEK Larnaca AEK Larnaca 0 0 0 0 0 0 WWDWW AEL Limassol AEL Limassol 0 0 0 0 0 0 LDWWL Anorthosis Famagusta Anorthosis 0 0 0 0 0 0 WDDLL APOEL APOEL 0 0 0 0 0 0 WLWWW Apollon Limassol Apollon 0 0 0 0 0 0 WDLLL Enosis Neon Paralimni ENP 0 0 0 0 0 0 DDWWW Ethnikos Achna Ethnikos 0 0 0 0 0 0 Olympiakos Nicosia Ol Nicosia 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nea Salamis Nea Salamis 1 0 0 1 -1 0 WDLWL Doxa Katokopia Doxa 1 0 0 1 -2 0 LLWWL Last 6 for AEL Limassol AEL Limassol 2020-01-11 15:00:00 1 - 2 Nea Salamis Doxa Katokopia 2020-01-03 17:00:00 2 - 2 AEL Limassol AEL Limassol 2019-12-21 17:00:00 2 - 1 APOEL Enosis Neon Paralimni 2019-12-15 15:00:00 2 - 2 AEL Limassol Ethnikos Achna 2019-11-30 17:00:00 0 - 1 AEL Limassol Last 6 for Anorthosis Famagusta Anorthosis Famagusta 2020-01-12 15:00:00 1 - 0 APOEL Pafos 2020-01-06 17:00:00 0 - 3 Anorthosis Famagusta Anorthosis Famagusta 2019-12-20 17:00:00 5 - 1 Enosis Neon Paralimni Apollon Limassol 2019-12-14 17:00:00 2 - 0 Anorthosis Famagusta AEK Larnaca 2019-11-30 16:00:00 1 - 2 Anorthosis Famagusta Last 6 home matches for AEL Limassol AEL Limassol 2019-05-04 00:00:00 3 - 2 Omonia Nicosia AEL Limassol 2019-04-14 00:00:00 2 - 3 AEK Larnaca AEL Limassol 2019-03-09 00:00:00 0 - 3 Apollon Limassol Last 6 away matches for Anorthosis Famagusta Alki Oroklini 2019-05-12 00:00:00 1 - 0 Anorthosis Famagusta Enosis Neon Paralimni 2019-04-21 00:00:00 2 - 2 Anorthosis Famagusta Doxa Katokopia 2019-04-07 00:00:00 3 - 3 Anorthosis Famagusta Ermis Aradippou 2019-03-03 00:00:00 2 - 1 Anorthosis Famagusta AEL Limassol fixtures AEL Limassol 2020-01-26 14:00:00 Apollon Limassol Pafos 2020-02-02 16:00:00 AEL Limassol AEL Limassol 2020-02-07 00:00:00 Omonia Nicosia Olympiakos Nicosia 2020-02-14 00:00:00 AEL Limassol AEL Limassol 2020-02-21 00:00:00 Ethnikos Achna Anorthosis Famagusta fixtures Anorthosis Famagusta 2020-01-25 15:00:00 Doxa Katokopia Olympiakos Nicosia 2020-02-01 15:00:00 Anorthosis Famagusta APOEL 2020-02-05 17:00:00 Anorthosis Famagusta Anorthosis Famagusta 2020-02-07 00:00:00 Nea Salamis Ethnikos Achna 2020-02-14 00:00:00 Anorthosis Famagusta Anorthosis Famagusta 2020-02-21 00:00:00 AEK Larnaca While we have made these predictions for AEL Limassol v Anorthosis Famagusta for this match preview with the best of intentions, no profits are guaranteed. Always gamble responsibly, and with what you can afford to lose. Good luck! Doxa Katokopia Ethnikos Achna Videoton FC Budapest Honvéd FC	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1220
__label__wiki	0.500915	0.500915	Former NFL Star Chad Johnson Helps Stranger in Texas Avoid Home Eviction Is It Time for Aaron Rodgers to Get Out of Green Bay? Stacey Mickles, February 22, 2019 5:17 pm J.J. Watt to Host ‘Saturday Night Live’ During Super Bowl Weekend NFL Tackles Police Killings in Powerful Super Bowl Commercial Dan Marino’s Fake Spike Still Rocks 25 Years Later Chris Picaro, January 21, 2020 12:35 pm AP Photo/Steven Senne You could tell it in Aaron Rodgers’ eyes as he sat on the sideline during a Sunday Night Football loss to the New England Patriots in early November that he was tired and frustrated. He was tired of losing and frustrated that he had to continue to carry his team without any help. The Packers were on the verge of not making the playoffs again despite having one of the best quarterbacks of all time on their team. Green Bay eventually lost the game, 31-17, and failed to make the playoffs for the second-straight season with a 6-9-1 record. .@AaronRodgers12's 10 BEST plays from 2018!#GoPackGo pic.twitter.com/n9HaSNvAOa — NFL (@NFL) January 8, 2019 RELATED: Aaron Rodgers Spends Super Bowl Week Paddling Danica Patrick Around New Zealand Not to mention, Green Bay had just traded one of their best defensive players in safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix and players like wide receiver Jordy Nelson took their ball and went elsewhere during the previous offseason. Hmmm, where have we seen this movie before? Perhaps it was with Peyton Manning when he was with the Indianapolis Colts? Manning was surrounded by offensive weapons and, year in and year out, had one of the best offenses in the NFL, but they would seemingly always lose to the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game. It wasn’t until the Colts made some moves in the offseason to bring in more defensive players like Bob Sanders that they finally had all the pieces together to win a Super Bowl. It goes without saying the Packers and Aaron Rodgers are at a crossroads and it’s time for them to put up or shut up. Rodgers turned 35 in December and may not have but a few good years left in the league. Ted’s Film Room: How Matt LaFleur can get Aaron Rodgers and the Packers’ offense back on track – Run game, PA concepts, screen game, bunch concepts – Who is/isn't a scheme fit – How LaFleur tailor game plans Read: https://t.co/sTeSIXVm4t pic.twitter.com/GUTwtG4cwu — Ted Nguyen (@FB_FilmAnalysis) February 22, 2019 The window of opportunity is slowly closing each year he stays in Green Bay, and you have to wonder, despite his new contract, would Rodgers consider leaving the Packers for good? He has the type of power that he could demand a trade to potential contender. Similar to the Broncos winning the Super Bowl with an elite defense and Peyton Manning at quarterback, Rodgers could potentially seek a similar opportunity and a better chance to win. Now, there are some that say Rodgers is overrated and doesn’t deserve the praise he receives, but where would the Packers be without him? Aaron Rodgers is really the GOAT for doing this to Landon Collins 🐐 pic.twitter.com/OlEmnsJCMG — Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 8, 2018 How many times has he he saved his team on the brink of disaster with a Hail Mary or made a come-from-behind drive like he did against the Chicago Bears to begin the 2018 season? If the Packers don’t make any changes this offseason, Green Bay may find out what it is like not to live in Mr. Rodgers neighborhood. READ MORE: The 5 Coldest NFL Games Ever Will Convince You to Stay Indoors About the author: Stacey Mickles, Auburn University for The League,	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1224
__label__cc	0.623368	0.376632	The Official Sequential/DSI Forum General Synthesis Off Topic (Moderator: Paul Dither) Next New DSI Instrument Sacred Synthesis +T+ Re: Next New DSI Instrument Quote from: dslsynth on November 07, 2017, 10:45:37 AM Quote from: Sacred Synthesis on November 07, 2017, 10:21:20 AM My opinion isn't that extreme. I think the Prophet 12 and Pro 2 are totally distinct instruments from the Evolvers, and that has been my point over and over again. [...] I don't expect folks to understand it. I am sorry to report that I agree completely with you: The Evolver have something special in its voice. If you ask me its partly the oscillator types and partly its lovely digital dirt. And I agree with you about the so-called "digital dirt." I didn't like it for a long time, but it's grown on me. It's always sticking its ice-cold nose into my music when I'm not wanting it. But then, in listening back afterwards, it often seems mysteriously beautiful, like snow or mist. Regarding our "differences" between an emphasis on the technical or the musical, both are obviously necessary. You can't have one without the other. So we really don't have a disagreement. « Last Edit: November 07, 2017, 11:05:51 AM by Sacred Synthesis » The Musical Synthesizer YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChLGwGiRVs7rlZXnOG9_mUw The Musical Synthesizer Blog: https://themusicalsynthesizer.wordpress.co Paul Dither My opinion isn't that extreme. I think the Prophet 12 and Pro 2 are totally distinct instruments from the Evolvers, and that has been my point over and over again. It's true, even regarding the Prophet '08. It was extracted - that's a fact - but it still is and sounds significantly different. But the guy's opinion was that, from his experience, he would prefer an eight-voice Poly Evolver Keyboard to a Prophet 12. He didn't carry on about it, so he was no fanatic. I'm only repeating the opinion because I've read it many times. And now, having had the instruments side-by-side for a full month, I appreciate it. In fact, the reason I still want a Prophet 12 is that it's so dissimilar to a Poly Evolver Keyboard. I could conceive of having the two instruments at the same time, but I don't need that much digital potential all at once. Paul, what I need to do is import you to my music room and lock you in it for one full month of uninterrupted eight-voice Poly Evolver joy. You can't eat, drink, wash, or communicate with anyone until the month is up, but I will leave you with a bucket. You might end up appreciating our view a little more than you would expect. While I would really like to play an 8-voice Evolver one day, I should point out that I'm fully aware of the sonic differences. After all, I used to own a MEK and Desktop Evolver combo, which did sound unique. In fact, if the Pro 2 had never been released, I would have saved for a PER to polychain it to my MEK. But PERs were already hard to come by and also very expensive. I accept the fact that there is no synth that covers it all (which is a good thing in my book) and overall the Pro 2 was the best choice for me in terms of sound, price, and features. That doesn't mean, though, that I think it does fully replace the Evolver or that it is objectively the better synth. Both have their advantages and strengths. The stereo signal path, front end hybrid structure, and VS waveshapes on the Evolver, and the filters, paraphonic mode, sequencer, and overall interface design improvements on the Pro 2 to name a few. The reason I ultimately made a choice in favor of the Pro 2 has to do with the fact that I like limitations and don't want to be in a position where I end up with too many synths I had to choose. @Sacred Synthesis and dslsynth: If you don't mind, I will separate these lasts posts from this thread, since we've gotten a little off track. I suggest to move them over to the next DSI synth discussion, which seems to resonate more with the points that were covered. Note: I inserted parts of a discussion that arose from the thread "Additional Feature Request List" in the Pro 2 forum. They seemed to fit better in here, as the past and future (the future's past, the past's future?) of the Evolver has also been discussed in this thread. LoboLives I think synthesizers are sort of in a hampster wheel now. I think musicians are longing for “the next thing” to add sonically to their pallet and it seems we are either getting bombarded with monosynths or mini keys or companies are sort of stagnating creatively. The REV2 as great as it is, is a step backwards. It’s relying on an old synth model and updating it..nothing wrong with that I suppose but I’d much rather see a new Prophet model instead of an update of an old one. Regardless though I understand from a business aspect why they did it and it does sound good at the end of the day. Another issue though is lack of support for older instruments. If DSI want to consider the P12, P6 and OB6 finished products they should come on this forum and say so as opposed to people asking for features for years. No sequencer midi out from the P6 and OB6? Lack of a pratical transposing Of The sequence (without having to hold down Rec) not only have these requests been put on the backburner but their new Rev2 synth still has these things missing! We will have to see what Korg is going to do with their new synth but I don’t have high hopes. A monotimbral or bi timbral minilogue with full-size keys may sound cool on paper but it still is not offering anything new. Moog is non existent in the equation and haven’t done anything majorly creative in a while and likely have nothing planned. I just think a company like DSI should be ahead of the curve of everyone else and keep offering the next step up...be it different forms of synthesis, hybrids, samplers, or just start to seriously consider at least four part multitimbrality. Another analog mono? Another mono or bi timbral analog poly...it’s redundancy. I saw a meme once where a gentleman was showing a girl the Schmidt synthesizer and the speech bubble wrote “You take two oscillators and detune them.” Her response: “Then what?” I think that’s what a lot of people, including myself are at right now. “Then what?” « Last Edit: November 07, 2017, 12:49:28 PM by LoboLives » Prophet 6, Prophet X, Moog Sub 37, Tempest Drum Computer, Roland V Piano, Fender American Stratocaster, Roger Linn Adrenalinn iii, Origin Effects Cali76 and SlideRig compressor, ASUS Zenbook Pro Computer, Soundcraft MTK 22 Mixer, Mark Of The Unicorn Digital Performer 10 Software. Quote from: LoboLives on November 07, 2017, 12:44:50 PM I certainly hope Moog doesn't go the way of the Dodo... but I see them now where Gibson has been: holding on to a past that has passed. "Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages." --- Frank Zappa Quote from: Shaw on November 07, 2017, 01:00:15 PM I 100% agree. Even when Bob Moog was running things they were constantly coming out with things be it a Moog Vocoder or Polymoog or whatever now in 2017 they are charging $4000-6000 on a monosynth with no memory, sequencer or...well..anything. I’d happily pay $3000-$4000 for a four voice Polyphonic Moog but no way am I going to spend that type of cash on “but it’s vintage” type mentality. I think a lot of it has to do with whenever they do something different like the Tarus Foot Pedals or Moog Guitar they are commercial failures so they are worried about stepping outside their comfort zone...but you can still experiment within that comfort zone...that’s what they seem to be forgetting. I think synthesizers are sort of in a hampster wheel now. I think musicians are longing for “the next thing” to add sonically to their pallet and it seems we are either getting bombarded with monosynths or mini keys or companies are sort of stagnating creatively. You can't really reinvent the wheel. Synths and different forms of synthesis - mostly the substractive type - are well established by now. But basically there are lots of different things around already and have been for a couple of years, from West Coast to East Coast and everything in between, granular synthesis, sample-based synthesis, FM, AM, additive synthesis, and so on and so forth. Add to that the various and increasing controllers and philosophies. I think the future of electronic music will not be so much about new types of synthesis, but rather the development of new types of interfaces until the ultimate goal is reached in the shape and form of a direct-to-brain interface. I think multitimbrality has become a rather demographic topic. Like someone posted on Muff Wiggler recently: it isn't technically hard to do. I think it doesn't happen because - it wasn't on most vintage analogs - it requires additional physical interface ($) or menu diving ("eew, menus") - the industry is under the (mistaken) impression that it isn't necessary because computers have unlimited audio tracks - younger users are unfamiliar with the concept and therefore aren't asking for it It has come to my attention as well that with the exception of musicians who where around in the 1980s or 1990s, no one really cares that much about multitimbrality anymore. MIDI even became a four-letter word among lots of young musicians. I've witnessed it often enough. MIDI-wise, almost all standard synths from the 1990s were way more advanced than today's synths. The market has shifted. I'm not saying that this is good or bad. Just an observation. « Last Edit: November 07, 2017, 01:38:21 PM by Paul Dither » Don't forget, though, that Moog's palette is still rather wide. You also need to count in their apps, particularly the Animoog and the Model 15, which make use of state-of-the-art technology. And that they revised the Sub 37 to release the Subsequent 37 was due to customer feedback, that's all. They do super expensive modulars, mid-priced mono synths that don't need to hide in terms of features, did the Minimoog reissue people begged for for decades, have a whole range of effect pedals both for the synth and guitar market, sneaked into the Eurorack format, and do the aforementioned apps. That's quite a product range for such a relatively small company. Quote from: Paul Dither on November 07, 2017, 01:35:43 PM When I say different forms of synthesis I mean synthesis other than analog like Vector Synthesis. Not saying you have to reinvent the wheel but just offer something different. Surely Four Part Multitimbrality isn’t so much to ask for. We aren’t asking for 20 channels like a workstation lol. Just something more than just a single split point. Sure you can do all that with midi and multiple synths or multitracking but that doesn’t mean it’s better persay. I understand that. But there's loads of stuff out there. Not always in the shape and form of a keyboard synth, but it exists, especially in software and Eurorack. Even non-workstations came with standard 16 part multitimbrality in the 1990s, though. These days, mostly the devices in the beatbox format (Tempest, Analog Four, etc) cater to multitimbral needs. But essentially it’s the same idea behind each of those things: A monophonic analog synth. Just in different sizes and shapes but they all produce a similar outcome. For the amount of research and development and manufacturing they put into simply adding CV capabilities to an already existing synth they could have come out with a whole new product which included those requested features. Which is exactly what shouldn’t have happened with the REV2 a lot of the requests about the sequencer on the P6 and OB6 weren’t updated or addressed in a new product so now now only have those requests not been addressed on the older instruments but now they have to be addressed with the new one and from my understanding still havent. Sure those things exist in software and modular stuff but why not keyboards? Surely if Behringer And Korg And others can do analog for less than $1000 Yamaha could have come out with a new DX that wasn’t the size of a toy. In fact if Yamaha can do an authentic FM engine in a reface size instrument there I should no reason they can’t come out with one in a 61 key full sized keyboard. These are obviously questions we can’t answer but it is still a good question. The Animoog is pretty much its own thing and - just like the Model 15 app - it can also be played polyphonically. The rest is just what they do and as long as there's a demand for it, they will continue to do so. After all, it's a business and they also like the concept of a single voice synth. Maybe they come out with something different again in the app sphere for reasons of cost and flexibility. One thing they don't really need to do is develop an analog poly synth. Because what would you get realistically? Something like the Prophet-6 with a Moog filter for about the same price or $1000 more. In terms of technology and already available options, I could think of more exciting things to be honest. For the amount of research and development and manufacturing they put into simply adding CV capabilities to an already existing synth they could have come out with a whole new product which included those requested features. They redesigned the signal path of the Sub 37. Everything was based on customer demand and suggestions. Again: It's a business and this is also how they showed their appreciation towards the user base. They are also a small company with in-house production. Things take a bit longer under these circumstances. And who knows what they've been working on behind the scenes? Sure those things exist in software and modular stuff but why not keyboards? Because it's less risky to do more esoteric or experimental stuff in those areas. It's niche products for a niche market. You can't expect a company releasing a >$3,000 synth that blows big time in the end because its concept is too unfamiliar to most musicians. Synths like the DX7 or the D-50 were a success because they contained outstanding presets (for their time), not really because most musicians embraced a new way of programming as it turned out. It was also the birth of the preset library market for that very reason. Sure, there are also always a couple of nerds who dig deeper than that, but I doubt that they were the masses that paid Yamaha's and Roland's bills. Surely if Behringer And Korg And others can do analog for less than $1000 Yamaha could have come out with a new DX that wasn’t the size of a toy. In fact if Yamaha can do an authentic FM engine in a reface size instrument there I should no reason they can’t come out with one in a 61 key full sized keyboard. It's called the Montage, which was surely marketed in the wrong way when it comes to what you're asking for, but it definitely contains a fully-fledged FM engine. The Korg Kronos does too. Actually I was thinking in terms of Moog is their own version of the Oberheim Four Voice but with four Slim Phatty’s or Sub 37 engines that can operate individually from each other and each have presets. Sure you can do that with midi and polychaining but it at least would offer something different than the DSI instruments and be something fresh from Moog. In terms of the Yamaha Montage I am talking about a dedicated FM synth not a synth that has samples, fm and other things going on. Just two DX reface engines under one hood. Ironically I think that would actually sell better than the reface and Montage. timbo74 Still advocating for a sampling keyboard here! (Prophet 2000/ V2018 ect?) Sampling front end and VCF's and VCA's. Plenty of front panel knobs for the main performance control. 8 voice/4 part multi is ok here but the more specs the better of course. (Price notwithstanding!) Sequencer of some descript on board. Keeping a keen eye for the future! DavidDever Quote from: timbo74 on November 08, 2017, 05:06:12 AM 12/16 mono or 6/8 stereo voices would be a good place to start. The Prophet 2000 hard-panned its voices to either side, which worked well if you could dedicate a pair of channels with adjustable stereo width, but reduced voice count to four when running stereo samples. Sequential / DSI stuff: Prophet-6 Keyboard, Prophet 12 Keyboard, Mono Evolver Keyboard, Split-Eight, Prophet 2000 I'd say for the DSI Sampler Name: Sequential Mimic 10 Part Multitimbrality 10 Track Sequencer 61 keys w/ aftertouch and velocity. Samples can be uploaded via USB. Prophet 6 style VCFs and VCAs. Samples can be set as one shot, gated, and looped. On board effects as well. Interesting information DavidDever and LoboLives! Would it muddy the waters for the "possible" DSI sampler to have an analogue carrier input jack and in the onboard effects section to have a vocoder effector so one of the samples can be used as the modulator for a vocoder effect? Possible option for any analogue inputs could be to have 2 mic/line inputs which could be used similar to the Korg MicroKorg/R3 ? The inputs could be switched to other duties if not using that particular effect. Razmo I am shadow... If I should ever want a multi timbral powerhouse from Dave, I'd opt for something like this: 32 voices (all should be playable in any configuration, from 32 individual to one 32 voice polyphonic preset) The voice architecture should be a "One Voice to Rule them All!" ... the architecture taken from the Evolver, where you have two analog oscillators (taken from the REV2 to keep cost down), and two digital (taken from the P12). Add the option to include sample oscillators on the two digital oscillators... Keep it mono instead of the Evolvers stereo configuration to further keep cost down (and polyphony up!). Now D/A convert the digital oscillators, and mix them with the analog ones, and throw them thru a multimode VCF (HP/LP/BP etc.) and into a VCA... In parallel, put the usual FX section of the REV2/P6/OB6 (this is on all voices of course, not per voice) ... this may need more than one FX engine... probably more like 4 to 8, and all working with sends from all the voices. Summa Summarum, I'd like to see a "super voice" containing all that Dave has made in analog and digital, with added sampling functionality... the "One Voice to Rule Them All!" ... then this "voice" could go into different instruments... maybe even a multi timbral one that you can put as many "voice boards" into that you want... say, 32 slots, and you can have anything from one to 32 "super voice cards" in it, and use them one by itself, or in groups for polyphony. This would give people a chance at buying them without breaking their wallet. He could name it "Sawron!" ... or something... « Last Edit: November 09, 2017, 05:25:09 AM by Razmo » If you need me, follow the shadows... Facebook Page Twitter Page Youtube Page SoundCloud Page Instagram Page © 2020 Sequential \| Phone: (415) 830-6393 \| Contact Us	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1234
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We work with a range of platforms including Android TV, Apple TV, Phillips, Panasonic, Youview, Virgin, FireTV, Freeview, Samsung, LG, Roku, Freesat, Playstation 4, Xbox One & Chromecast. Content protection plays a vital role in the monetization of premium digital video content. As a result, media & entertainment brands typically protect their content with Digital Rights Management (DRM) using solutions such as Widevine, Fairplay and Playready. However, when deploying a TV app across multiple connected devices, conflicts can arise between the video player, device and DRM solution. There can often be a fine line between the strength of protection and the limitations DRM presents per platform in reaching your audience. Here at FX Digital we have experience developing custom video players that support multiple DRM solutions and platforms, allowing your video streaming application to scale and support smooth playback on supported platforms and devices. Outside of DRM, media & entertainment brands also have to factor in the handling of multiple territories, and licensing agreements when streaming video content. We can work with your chosen CMS to help ensure video content and advertisements are correctly configured for geo-blocking. TV Application development approach Where possible our preferred approach to TV application development is to use a web application setup. In this scenario, a web based JavaScript application is developed and hosted on the web, and upon the opening of your application on a TV, this native application simply loads your web application into its shell. This approach allows us to develop a single web application that supports multiple platforms, therefore allowing us to be more ambitious with product roadmaps and feature releases. For platforms where building as a web app is not an option, such as Roku, we build natively. To help us to develop web applications in a robust and scalable manner, we have developed a framework that provides essential components such as focus management and platform tools, and we can use this framework as the foundation to your custom built application One of the big questions hanging over media & entertainment brands is how Brexit will effect VOD content. The government goes into detail on this in a recent article titled Broadcasting and video on demand if there’s no Brexit deal . An essential part of any TV application is the video player, it can truly make or break an experience for an end user and it is vital that it performs smoothly and contains functionality that users have come to expect from a typical video player. We can use a combination of HTML5 and native players to customise a player built to order with features you require such as subtitles, multiple audio, continue watching, analytics and of course player controls. Alternatively, we can integrate with third party video players if desired. Following launch it’s essential that you understand how your application is being used by your audience, and to help with this there are countless analytics providers that can be integrated. We have worked with the likes of Google Analytics and Adobe (DTM, Launch and Heartbeat), and also have experience working with customer data platforms (CDPs) such as mParticle and Segment. Quality Assurance & Project Management We take quality assurance very seriously at FX Digital, and our team of specialists will be testing and reviewing design and development throughout a typical agile sprint. Further to this we document test cases to allow us to perform regressions tests promptly when required during a release cycle for example. Alongside manual testing, we can also build automation using tools such as unit and snapshot tests suites. Our approach when developing TV applications is Agile. We can adapt to a Scrum or Kanban style of Agile in order to better integrate with your internal teams. Need help developing a TV Application? If you are a product owner for a media and entertainment brand and looking to bring on expertise in Smart TV application development or Android TV app development we’d love to have a chat about your business challenges and goals over a coffee. Call us today or email us here and we will get back to you within 2 hours – info@fxdigital.uk Is it possible to develop a Smart TV App that works across multiple TV manufacturers? It is possible to develop apps for Smart TVs which leverage action across multiple platforms such as Apple TV, Android TV, Roku TV and LGWeb OS for example. Which TV platforms can you develop Apps for? Android, Samsung, Opera TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, LGWeb OS, Hisense – there are many platforms for which apps have been developed and continue to be developed and deployed. What is the difference between UI and UX? 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__label__cc	0.639904	0.360096	Box Office Discussion The Streaming Wars: The End of Box Office As We Know It? By Eric Dolittle, October 31, 2019 in Box Office Discussion Posted by EmpireCity, November 16, 2019 Hello, everyone. I come in peace. Wanted to post some thoughts about the landscape change taking place going forward and how it affects movie theaters, box office, studio relations an more. At first you may think this is some hot take based off Disney+, but it isn't. This is something that has been on my mind for a long time but recent events have, in my opinion, have confirmed what I have been seeing build up for years. Movie theaters and box office as we know it is going to d Merged EmpireCity's Thread With Eric's. Please Read EmpireCity's Post Here! Recommended by Cap Posted by Fullbuster, December 6, 2019 It is about the French market but I feel like the trends must be similar across the Western world as a whole given the reasons have nothing to do with culture. The source of this is an article in French and I thought it was fascinating enough to deserve a discussion. To sum it up: -2019 will be a new record in terms of admissions for the French market, Europe's most dynamic: 215 million admissions. -This has been a decade of box office flirting with records, holding on very 1 reaction EmpireCity 16,750 3 minutes ago, captainwondyful said: I agree this practice is bogus, and the wrong call. I hope Disney reverses it. That said, it wasn’t like Fox owned every movie ever made. Can’t show Die Hard? Show White Christmas or It’s A Wonderful Life. Can’t show Moulin Rouge? Show West Side Story. Can’t show Sound of Music? Show Step Mom. That’s why I think the decision is incredibly narrow minded. You’re not gonna stop the process. You’re just going to force The theaters to show different films. The real issue will be if Warner Bros. follow suit once HBO Max exists. That’s the real danger. That Disney is setting a precedent. Correct, but the counter to that is theaters have shown and tested out those other films and they simply can't compete. Step Mom is a good movie, but it isn't even in the realm of Sound of Music. A Wonderful Life is largely already shown and demand wouldn't go up much with more showings. You are correct, and that is the current rumor/fear is that Warner Bros. is going to likely pull their catalog. Alli 3,675 So, i have to wonder. Are the studios ok with theaters going extinct? why are they doing anything in their power to extinguish theaters from existence? do they think streaming is the way to make the most money in the future? blurays are dead, so it will only be streaming, which will be like tv Edited November 16, 2019 by Alli The new streaming services have also made the very smart decision of weekly or longer format releasing of their shows instead of dumping them all at once like Netflix has done. It is going to keep the buzz and social conversation going for a lot longer. You see it already with The Mandalorian. If they would have dumped that all at once it would have been forgotten in some form by today. Releasing 2 episodes this week and the rest once a week is going to keep the conversation going for a long time. lorddemaxus 3,129 1 minute ago, TMP said: The DC shows won't make a big impact; none of Berlanti's stuff's ever captured the Zeitgeist. We're still getting 8 MCU projects and 3 DC films that year though. Talk about over-saturation Lol what the hell. 8? I thought they would do just two shows a year. They're doing 4 shows along with 4 movies? TMP 6,022 Location: Society 2 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said: Right now it's 4 movies + 4 shows for 2021, but it might be 5 shows if Ms Marvel is out then too. 7 shows if She-Hulk & Moon Knight too, meaning there's a possibility for 11 MCU projects in 12 months nick64 546 Indie Sensation Yep, Shang-Chi, Doctor Strange 2, Spider-Man 3, and Thor 4; plus WandaVision, Loki, What If, and Hawkeye. 1 minute ago, Alli said: I wouldn't say that they are necessarily ok with it, and I don't think theaters will go completely extinct, but as a simple math equation it doesn't make a lot of sense for the studios to keep the current outdated system propped up. The other factor is all of this is happening while the stock market is booming and the United States is at nearly full employment. There is going to be another economic downturn and when it happens the pressure will really be on movie theaters unlike it ever has in history. Traditionally movie theaters have actually benefited from economic downturn as people saw them as an inexpensive escape when they couldn't afford to take a vacation or do something more expensive. That was true when tickets were $5 and sneaking in some candy and a soda you bought from CVS was the normal thing to do. Now tickets are $12+ and the theater model is dine in based more than ever. People aren't going to dump $100+ on seeing a movie and eating overpriced food when they can get Disney+ for $7 a month or HBO Max or Netflix for $15 a month and can order in some DoorDash for a fraction of the price. They also will be watching on their 75'' 4K SmartTV and nice sound instead of their crappy 27'' tube tv with bad speakers. also, this seeing a specific movie whenever you want is dangerous too. so many movies will not be seen because they are buried. at least on tv you could stumble upon a movie. But more importantly, who will actually have all, let's say 5 streaming services (replacing the major studios) in the future? To see the one movie you want to see you have to buy the streaming service full. Today, if you want to see a specific movie you see that movie in the theater. Let's say, i'm a fan of Brad Pitt and i want to see all movies with Brad Pitt, But he's doing movies for all 5 streaming services, what do i do....buy them all? it stinks 5 minutes ago, EmpireCity said: Again, correct, but the counter to that is: personally, I go to these things all the time. It's kind of same crowd. If I see they're showing Raiders of The Lost Ark for the nth time, I'm not going. It's when they pull out something new that I make the effort to go. And I normally make like one or two of these a month. I don't think practice will die off ASAP, it will just have to evolve. I would hope / assume that it will end up like some TCM Presents where theaters can have access to the back catalogue, but the corporation is deciding what film's being shown and at what time. So, you want the Sound of Music? You only get it on Mom's Day Weekend. But, like I said, WB pulling their catalogue is what's really scary cause not only do they own their own stuff, they have control of RKO, MGM, and UA's back catalogue. I would also push back at these companies saying that they TRIED vaulting these films behind a paywall with services like Filmstruck or Warner Archive, and ended up pulling those services for low subscriptions. So I don't get how they think this time will be any different. Just show the damn movies! MODERATION! @EmpireCity and @Eric Plus's Thread have been merged into one How Streaming Service Affects The Box Office Discussion. Eric's write up is on the first page; EmpireCity's post is Rec'd at the top. Absolutely. It is the dumbest logic ever by the studios. The thought that someone won't pay for their streaming service because they are able to go to a theater and watch one of their catalog movies is absurd. It is nothing but free money for them, but some weirdo long ago came up with the "vault" concept and they are terrified to go away from it. The other thing to consider is that movie theaters have been artificially propped up and inflated as an industry for a couple decades now. Theater owners are terrified to ever move to a true model that lets the consumer decide what they really want. Their association and leverage has created something that really isn't sustainable for them. The fair market would ultimately show what the reality of theaters really are in 2019 and going forward. If you gave people a choice of buying a movie day and date for something like $20-$30 on streaming or going to the theater to see it for normal price, I think you would get a cold slap of reality that far more people would choose the streaming option. That doesn't mean theaters would disappear, but they absolutely would contract down to what the actual demand is. @EmpireCity What are your thoughts on subscription services a la MoviePass (#RIP) or AMC Stubs? Is there any future in that or did MoviePass kill it dead? eddyxx 6,540 45 minutes ago, Alli said: If the theaters were gone, wouldnt the budgets for all productions go down as the studios couldnt make nearly as much profit from streaming only. There you go Scorese, more mid budget films but on streaming only. 24 minutes ago, eddyxx said: Quite the opposite. Disney will make far more from Disney+ than they would from box office. If theaters disappeared tomorrow, that box office money wouldn't disappear. Disney (or any of the streaming services) would simply put their new release theatrical films on Disney+ and places like Vudu / Amazon and for an extra charge people could watch them on release or choose not to do that and wait 3-6 months for when they are included in the normal streaming price. Disney would love that. Instead of splitting that money 65/45 with movie theaters and playing a ton of money in booking and distribution logistics, they simply put it on Disney+ and with a few clicks start accepting money from credit cards already on file. They keep all the money. The other part of this that has been a dirty secret until recently is how much better this is for the studios when it comes to compensating talent. The days of most back end deals would be gone. No more having to pay Robert Downey Jr. something like $250m-$300m for his participation in the Marvel Universe. Hollywood has mostly killed off movie stars anyways, so having a further veil of unknown in how much streaming films actually make is another advantage to them. 41 minutes ago, captainwondyful said: That is one of the last ditch efforts, but as you can see a lot of the people that sign up for it mostly complain about the service fees and aren't happy with even a reasonable cost because moviepass conditioned them to an unreasonable price. It will help but won't save theaters. At the end of the day, owning and running theaters is incredibly expensive. Top of the line projectors, surround sound, premium recliner seating, staffing, food and beverage costs and even the normal brick and mortar costs of things like heating/cooling, electricity, insurance are all costly. Gone are the days when you could have a big screen, a relatively cost effective 35mm projector, some normal seats and only popcorn / candy / soda because everyone now expects a premium experience with upgrades everywhere for the same cost. The same time the cost of running theaters has gone through the roof, the cost and quality of home entertainment equipment has never been cheaper along with the availability and quality/quantity of streaming entertainment options. It is about 20 converging factors that don't add up to anything but negative for theaters. RealLyre 1,479 13 minutes ago, EmpireCity said: but wouldn't that increase Piracy? if something is released day and date on a streaming service (regardless of the price) AND in theaters. some people would opt to just pirate it if it's available at their disposal, whereas that option isn't available if the movie is released theatrically first. I don't imagine the effect of piracy would be that minimal especially if theater demands decline. Edited November 16, 2019 by RealLyre kitik 9,919 Location: Toledo I posted this article a few weeks ago in a different thread, but for folks who don't quite understand what's happening here, it gives a bit of insight into one aspect of it. So this article about many classic movies being pulled from circulation is worth posting again in this thread: https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/disney-is-quietly-placing-classic-fox-movies-into-its-vault.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture&utm_source=tw It gives some insight into how theaters are being affected. But there's even more bad news lurking for theaters that hasn't been mentioned. A lot of "smaller" rights-holders have apparently been raising their fees or making it much more difficult for theaters to screen their films. Some of them see the disappearance of the Fox films from the market as an opportunity to raise the prices to show their own movies. Some of them seem to think they're sitting on a goldmine and are waiting for Netflix to call them up and offer a wheelbarrow full of cash, while neglecting theaters in the short term. Some of them aim for "artistic purity" and will only allow their movies to be viewed under perfect conditions, which obviously greatly decreases the opportunities for a screening. And some of them are just plain obstinate. All of it, however, adds up to bad news for movie theaters. JB33 5,245 Location: Merritt, BC This thread is incredibly depressing. This isn't directed at any of you - the conversation is valid and incredibly informative - but the sentiment is depressing as someone whose favourite pastime is going to the theatre. It is depressing, but it will be fine in the long run. Things change.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1252
__label__cc	0.547571	0.452429	film noire 37.8k Excellent From Across The Pond: Royal Weddings and Scandals film noire replied to GHScorpiosRule's topic in Everything Else TV I think it would have been beyond tacky for Harry to attend and divert every bit of attention away from William's first time solo hosting at Buckingham Palace. Good for her! Hopefully a lawsuit will bring out all the shit Piers Morgan was involved in as editor of The Mirror (phone hacking, frex) - I'd LOVE to see that skinsack of warm vomit in handcuffs. Bethenny Frankel: Skinny Girl film noire replied to Lisin's topic in The Real Housewives Of New York City That was such an intense reaction - wtf? I think you're right that Bethenny has no idea; she doesn't seem to understand that Meghan isn't some random "celebrity" princess living a high pressure life, but (at least before the split with the royals) a working representative of the Queen (herself head of state in 16 countries and Head of the Commonwealth, which includes 2.4 billion people). There's an enormous amount of raw power fueling that pressure; it's not just real housewife red carpets and selling jeans and instagram stories, it's one of the most enduring & powerful political entities in history (doubly so since they remain "apolitical"). So (frex) when Meghan's beautiful baby was compared to a chimp (and dear god, when will the gutter-fuckers finally die off?) there was a weight to that racist attack - both in the insult being made, and going unchallenged - that is so far beyond anything Frankel has experienced, she cannot even begin to come up with a co-relation in her own life. And Frankel's comments are especially maddening because Meghan Markle has done brilliantly. Whether facing down racists crawling out of ye olde woodwork, or coping with a vicious press devoted to destroying her and her baby, she's handled all of it with a (hard won) easy grace - she should be applauded for that, not diminished. 10.4k replies Even if they had anticipated the shitstorm, and set up a plan, there'd still be people criticizing them for not anticipating it better, anticipating it with less ego and more duty, anticipating it perfectly to suit every criticism ever lobbed at either of them. (And no doubt Meghan's father has such a plan on hand, ready to leak to one of Murdoch's "journalists"). I watched the royal wedding (and spent hours on the thread here) and thought a sea change had occurred; that the House of Windsor had finally joined the 21st century. And then came the brooch and 'niggling' doubts and avocados and baby bumps and the chimp post - and the sick, seething hatred of Piers Morgan, 24/7 - and even though I consider myself a cynic living in a world full of misogyny and racism, I never saw this level of filth coming Meghan and Harry's way. Never expected we'd be living through the 1750s in 2019. So I'm not sure why the two of them - living not in the belief that they'd be hated and racially attacked, but in the belief that they'd be allowed to perform their duties with a "normal" amount of press bullshit - should be criticized for not starting their married life with a plan to escape it. I hope they flourish, and do well by themselves, and I also hope that some part of Diana's best legacy - getting past the shit and shame and self hatred and bad days and bad men to rise and reach out to help those without a voice - I hope that part of her lives on in Harry, wherever he and Meghan end up. Happy days to the young couple and their sweet boy. ...her first photographed appearance with Andrew since November, not in general. I don't think anybody is arguing the Queen should never attend church privately on the off chance an unauthorized photo of her and Andrew might be taken. The issue is the Queen attending this church (a village church, not the church on the Sandringham estate, arguably a more private affair) and in this way (dozens of photographers gathered, ready to record her arrival with Andrew) and after this declaration (HRH titles no longer fit to be used by Harry, when Harry's uncle, an alleged rapist and bestie of a dead sex trafficker, is still styled as such) and on this day (24 hours after the deal was announced). The image of Andrew with Elizabeth - as if nothing had damaged his reputation - as she shook hands before entering church was disturbing, imo. She is the head of state of my country and I found it inappropriate. Charles was the right choice for this moment, not Andrew. YMMV & all that good stuff ; ) Very odd decision, imo. Right after declaring Harry and Meghan were no longer able to represent the Crown, the Queen turns up in her first photographed outing with her disgusting pig of a son since November, a man who would likely be facing charges if not for the very HRH Harry and Meghan are no longer allowed to use. The hypocrisy is staggering. And the calculated nature of it is also unsettling. One thing privately attending the church on the grounds of Sandringham, but to bring that piece of human garbage* to a village church, where photographers will be at the ready, is beyond bad judgement, imo. Today was the day for Charles to be by her side, not a corrupt decadent man whose bestie was a sex trafficker. This is not a situation lacking bright lines, and the failure of the royal family (and handlers) to honour those lines is bizarre. *The only decent thing Andrew ever did (unknowingly) is help reveal the pedophilic nature of his dear friend at Lakefield, Father Keith Gleed. "HRH" Andrew did it completely by accident - he was actually conferring an honour on the infamous raper of students in the form of a baptismal font in the school chapel, and Gleed's outraged victims finally started coming forward - but at least he was an inadvertent catalyst in uncovering a fellow monster. Canada thanks you, "HRH" (His Raping Highness, is how I style his title, these days.) (eta to clarify what was meant re: November.) Frankel weighs in, yet again: "I think a positive message about #megxit is the reality for younger girls that we create our own fairytales versus finding a prince to rescue us. Relationships are real at every turn & take work. This definitely lifted the veil." https://twitter.com/Bethenny/status/1216847011045089282 Is this babbling idiot actually implying Meghan is an exemplar of a princess rescue fantasy? WTF? (Sidebar: And why are we being subjected to all this "Free to be You and BethTheMe" feminist wisdom from a woman who warned the world about the dangers of false rape accusations? Did I miss some crucial forum meeting, RHoNYers, where Frankel became a latter day combo of Bella Abzug and Roxanne Gay? Was I too busy eating wine gums and drinking vodka, scrolling through my Netflix off-season RHoNY choices to notice the forum Batgirl signal? "Okay, so Netflix is reccing I watch a Scandinavian crime drama about an unsolved murder on the fjord investigated by a winsome fashion designer - clad in oversized wellies and pigtails - who is also the front woman for a garage band that makes it big in the 90s music scene in Seattle - so basically, Carole Radziwill's fantasy come to life - HARD PASS.") I think the positive message of "Megxit" is: An independent black woman (with the love and help of an extraordinary single mother) achieved an excellent education and successful career (a career in a white, pro-male industry) and along the way, happened to fall in love with a man who had an unusual heritage of birth; Meghan (understanding the complexities of being born to certain truths) married the man - in glorious style - and had a baby. And then came the racist death threats and refs to chimp babies and all of that ugliness flowered like a nuclear bouquet, but since they both realized "relationships are real and require hard work at every turn", they decided something had to change for the better. And for all the confusion of how this change in status rolled out - mostly due to their haste to beat Murdoch's rag sheet to leaking details - Meghan & Harry pretty fucking clearly decided to not wait for white knights and unicorns; they decided to rescue themselves. That's the "veil being lifted" Frankel, not your reductive, self-reverential mindset, where all roads lead not to Rome, but to you. Amen. Her latest targets are Harry and Meghan - Frankel pissed all over them on social media and when criticized for displaying no compassion after having left a pressure-filled situation herself, Frankel bragged that "There is no such thing as too much pressure for me. I handle my business gracefully without exception" as some kind of (delusional) justification. Too bad Meghan never learned how to handle pressure using the ever-gracious Frankel method: throw water, scream, threaten to have people fired, sob on social media as your dog seizes, subject your child to an endless custody battle, trash talk your kid's father, trash talk your own father, pretend to be engaged to a dead married man & publicly play the grief-stricken fiancee (while happily fucking your new boyfriend behind the scenes) and - bonus points! - film your nine year old daughter fondling your breasts to sell tacky lingerie. Jesus Christ. The woman can't handle an Uber driver telling her he doesn't want her kid playing the ukelele, never mind handling an unending stream of brutal, racist death threats. Shut the fuck up, asshole. S04.E17: Reunion (Part 2) film noire replied to OnceSane's topic in The Real Housewives Of Dallas So sorry you're going through that, Albarino - condolences to you and yours. Small Talk: The Regency Bar ..and the speed with which she recovered - amazing! (and then she won!) Especially since the phrase "witch hunt" (as defined in most dictionaries) has a clear modern usage: to unfairly seek out and target people or groups to demonize and harm them for having beliefs (often political) deemed unpopular or dangerous (as in the McCarthy era witch hunts against communists). I don't want to lose that precise description of something insidious and menacing. I don't think what LeeAnne experienced qualifies as a witch hunt. She's not defending her repugnant bigotry as a political /personal belief (thank god) and she admitted it was wrong and apologized, if not in a way satisfying to many of us (I'm not sure she's sorry for being caught, being 'misunderstood', being bigoted, or all three, which makes the apology murky and unstable. No clear ownership, imo). I think she endured a classic pile-on delivered by a tribe of hypocrites, some of whom are (like Brandi) about to spend months dancing with the one who brung them, Karma. I think Brandi's video is beyond appalling, because it was consciously crafted: filming yourself mocking Asian women and their eyes, speaking in a creepy "Asian" voice, and THEN posting that to social media, and then DEFENDING having posted it to social media as "a great audition" - so disgusting. Luckily for her, Brandi gets to retreat into a private, $pa-like environment vs being sanctimoniously lectured on reality tv. Racist, heal thyself. Denise Richards: Drop Dead Gorgeous Wild Thing film noire replied to RealHousewife's topic in The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills No hand-wringing here. Denise threw in with the Get LVP Middle-Aged Mean Girl Club and now Karma has come calling. And I think the show will do fine without Richard's corrupt ass (once you falsely accuse an ex of molestation, as she falsely accused Charlie Sheen during their divorce trial. you're corrupt, imo - in a world in which far too many genuine survivors are disbelieved, playing that card to gain money, leverage and power is sickening. And if she ever truly believed he was molesting their kids, why the fuck does she now praise him? Hinky from every angle.) If (as the gossip sites are speculating) she takes Rinna down, it's the least Richards can do on the way out, since she rode hard for that pack of toxic toads. ..congrats to you and yours, SuprSuprElevated - a wonderful start to the New Year! Tinsley Mortimer: Former High Society "IT Girl" film noire replied to AndySmith's topic in The Real Housewives Of New York City Tins adopted those two pups out of Vanderpump's Yulin rescue org (so I doubt she's willing to leave them behind) but that said, I'm pretty sure those are photos of the Coupon Cabin office (see logo below). One-percenter fun facts about the John Hancock building: There is a private supermarket on the 44th floor, a full-blown outlet of the Potash grocery chain with a deli and fresh fruits and veg section and places to sit and eat. Office workers can use it for lunch, but must enter and exit through the rear service entrance. Only residents are allowed to use the front door. The residential portion of this building is it’s own election precinct. People who live there don’t even have to leave the building to vote... People also don’t have to trudge out into the snow to mail a letter. The Hancock Center has its own Post Office. https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2014/03/11/20-things-you-probably-dont-know-about-chicagos-john-hancock-center/ So Tinsley is marrying a man who can give her the same "far from the hoi polloi" lifestyle Topper provided (one where the lowly worker bees must use the back entrance) Blech. Hope she doesn't regret returning to living in a gilded cage. Ghosts of Housewives Past: Jill Zarin, Alex, and the Rest film noire replied to NichD's topic in The Real Housewives Of New York City LOL (We all break, Natalie! At some point, WE ALL BREAK!!!) I defended Frankel during the season she returned (that whole food thing with Heather in the Berkshires? - I defended Bethenny! - the shame of those posts haunt me still... : ) The Frankel mask started to slip (for me) when I finally realized how privileged her childhood had been (the $$ sweet sixteen party, skiing trips to Europe, chi chi boarding school, her Dad paying her rent in her twenties, etc) which was at odds with the whole hardscrabble story she'd always presented. Add in finding out that her father did not (as she claimed) abandon her at the age of four, and her presence on the show suddenly seemed like a carefully crafted con; a persona built to win over an audience hungry to root for someone they could genuinely like - in the middle of all these rich bitch housewives - this scrappy chick with an old school accent, just trying to lay claim to her own piece of Manhattan. When it truth, Frankel's childhood was full of the kind of privilege Ramona and Luann could only dream of one day having as adults. I like to think she was genuine early on (back when I found her charming and funny) but over the years, @Alonzo Mosely FBI has made an excellent case arguing otherwise - that Frankel has always been selfish and dismissive - so I'm on the fence about whether Bethenny used to be someone else and changed for the worse, or never was the person she pretended to be. Amen to your whole post, Mondrianyone. I can't believe she's pushing one of those "increase blood flow to your lady garden" pills ("a fourth (supplement) to enhance female intimacy and “elevate sensation and improve blood flow.") The jaw-dropping image of "improved blood flow" to Frankel's nether regions aside ("get off my elevated sensation jock!") this is her big play, post RHoNY? WTF? I'm wondering two things: maybe the judge finally enforced the initial divorce agreement (that neither party would deride/discuss each other publicly) and that's why we've heard nothing - maybe there's finally a penalty in play if Frankel ignores the stipulation. I also wonder if something changed in the wake of that creepy video of Bryn groping Bethenny's breasts. IIRC, the judge wanted final briefs in the fall - maybe Hoppy's lawyer included that video & the judge also found it disturbing & the decision was delayed a few months? Whatever it is, it's odd we've heard nothing - in every previous court situation, the tabs were full of Frankel's spin on the court proceedings, so the silence is unusual.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1255
__label__wiki	0.535751	0.535751	Trends5 min Using the Right Siding for a Modern Farmhouse Background of the Modern Farmhouse European settlers built the first farmhouses in America, modeled after the ones they left behind. The style quickly became an American icon, with its white clapboard siding and covered porches. In recent years, designers have offered new visions of this classic style and have dubbed it the “modern farmhouse.” Chip and Joanna Gaines from the home improvement show Fixer Upper were relentless promoters of the modern farmhouse aesthetic, which helped make it chic and add “shiplap” to more people’s vocabulary. Last year, Builder magazine named the modern farmhouse one of the top 5 trends in floor plans. While craftsman homes still account for about 25 percent of all house plans, the modern farmhouse is rapidly gaining ground and now has about 15 percent market share. Modern Farmhouse Style Siding and trim play a crucial role in achieving the simplicity and clean lines that are the hallmark of modern farmhouse design. The most popular pairing continues to be white siding with dark trim, although some designers are now using soft pastel siding with red or brown trim. “A gable with board and batten really says ‘modern farmhouse,’” says Rick Overby, president of Stella Color + Design in Denver. Vertical board and batten siding was indeed one of the products used by Highland Builders’ Dustin McLoud in his modern farmhouse build that captured one of this year’s awards in the “Show Us Your LP® SmartSide®” contest. McLoud also used LP® SmartSide® cedar texture shake siding, soffit, and trim & fascia. McLoud chose LP siding products because they're durable and have the versatility to achieve the shiplap aesthetic he was seeking. "With engineered wood products, we now have an option that offers a traditional wood appearance that's built to last," he says. Get the Modern Farmhouse Style with Smooth Siding LP SmartSide smooth siding is versatile, able to seamlessly transition from modern to historical to traditional styles. Smooth siding is a great option for the modern farmhouse look because it: Offers eye-catching juxtaposition to natural exterior materials Mixes light, clean lines of smooth siding with darker, textured materials (like wooden beams) to create instant vintage charm. Is sleek siding that strikes the perfect balance between classic and contemporary styles. Find more inspiration using smooth siding on this infographic describing cape cods and updated ranch homes. If you’re wanting to freshen up your modern farmhouse exterior, here are some ideas to inspire you. Your Biggest Exterior Design Trend Questions for 2020, Answered It's hard to imagine we're living in the year 2020. While we're not surrounded by robotic butlers and flying cars, home design trends in 2020 will feel revolutionary in style, texture and color. Whether you're looking at new home building trends for 2020 or want to update your current home's exterior design, we're tackling your biggest design questions and providing ideas for inspiration. 2020 Color Predictions to Guide Your Home’s Paint Color Selection It's that exciting time of the year when paint industry pros unveil their new paint colors. 2020 is already a landmark event, marking the start of a brand-new decade. Will it be known by bold, upbeat shades or demure neutrals? Design Focus: Dutch Colonials If you live in the Northeast, your home is likely to represent or be surrounded by great examples of Dutch Colonial architecture. While the traditional Colonial home is a quintessential American design, the Dutch Colonial style is different, and made popular by Dutch Colonists who settled in the New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut areas in the mid-1600s. Expert Predictions: Top 2020 Design Trends Home design trends are everchanging, and it's oftentimes hard to stay on top of what's in and what's out. With 2020 just around the corner, what better time to dive into the top interior and exterior design predictions for next year as told by the experts themselves to ensure you're in the know?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1260
__label__wiki	0.536522	0.536522	We have explored the key elements required for healthcare reform, the critical role of health IT therein. We have also noted the challenge in aligning clinical process improvement efforts with the right service oriented architecture for healthcare. We have noted that important international interoperability standards are emerging, while aware that real change and innovation must be fostered from the bottom up. After some recent efforts attempting to bridge this important gap, my conclusion is that there is now an important role for open source IT to support health IT. Let me explain… Having begun my work within the NHS CfH National Programme for IT usability testing within a Model Community, then exploring generic clinical processes to identify common generic health IT requirements… my work then evolved into clinically leading an effort focussed on “clinical content” within the health record and related standards. Though the scale of the challenge was large, in Cynefin terms considering the almost chaotic state of clinical documentation in an health system as large as the NHS, the solution was simply to take a lead and look amidst the complexity for some important patterns that should be harnessed. Those key patterns were quickly evident thanks to the important work that had begun by the Royal College of Physicians (in conjunction with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges) around Clinical Record Keeping standards. In achieving professional consensus around the headings that should be used for 3 key clinical documents, i.e. admission, handover and discharge documentation across the NHS, the focus of our efforts towards supporting key clinical processes with clinical information standards was clear. We took those clinical headings and over a series of iterative workshops with frontline clinicians developed a maximal dataset that detailed related common clinical statement patterns. Following earlier work on best fit between clinical process and health information architecture standards, we then passed these clinical standards to our technical standards team who dutifully took our requirements and design and built related openEHR archetypes and templates to match these requirements. These nationally agreed clinical and technical standards were then passed to the vendors so they could consume them within their own systems, so they could be used at the frontline…. ..Which is where the cycle of development stalled.. The fact that this single professionally led, process improvement effort with IT stalled tells us several very important things about the current state of health IT; That efforts to follow a waterfall approach to requirements, design and build of health IT standards get you so far. but a paper based standard is of limited value.. the challenge is in the implementation.. i.e. “the last mile”. ..As while your vendor may promise “interoperability” and adherence to important standards, their currently proprietary architectures make it challenging for them to reuse those emerging components from international standards efforts (e.g. archetypes, terminology etc). They may not be able to, they may not want to ..either way it reflects the current state of the market… ..Therefore those clinicians looking to innovate at the frontline, showcasing healthcare IT with related standards and pioneering semantic interoperability in action are also constrained.. Therefore.. it is my considered view that to address these key challenges, a radical shift in the health IT industry may be required.. which may be facilitated by emerging developments from the open source world.. While I understand that this is, at the present time, an uncommon view, let me return to where I started… Healthcare needs to change, with clinical leaders tackling process improvements, supported by information technology and standards that add value. . Equally Healthcare IT also needs to change, away from competing with proprietary technologies , towards an open architecture and platform for healthcare innovation…so that the industry moves to competition based on the services that are provide and the value that they add. While this change will affect the international standards bodies, commercial partners and frontline innovators, it may emerge from several directions. We have already noted a gap between the aspirations of the international standards bodies and the realities of interoperability at the frontline. Therefore it would appear that greater collaboration between the international health IT standards community and those attempting process improvements at the frontline via a shared open source effort could be fruitful next step for all concerned. In my considered view, real “open source” effort is now required as an essential part of the recipe towards 21st Century healthcare. With that in mind, I have in most recent times taken a clinical lead on two open source health IT projects which I should mention… The first named Opereffa (openEHR REFerence Framework and Application) which, via my research links with the openEHR Foundation and UCL in London, is an open source effort aiming to showcasing openEHR archetypes, templates, SNOMED terminology and HL7 messages in action within a web-based UI environment. The second, codenamed Prottean, is an open source clinical portal effort based in Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust which is being developed as part of a broader service improvement with informatics strategy. Aimed as the key user interface for clinical users it will provide the frontline with an iterative approach to systems integration and addressing the “clinical 5”. Both are leveraging the open source Eclipse platform.. a close relation of the important openHealthTools.org initiative which I believe offers a very important opportunity to support the healthcare reform challenges ahead… [Original Article posted October 6th 2010] [Notes/Updates] Please note further related progress in this field since this original article, with related articles on; Leeds Clinical Portal (October 2011) Open Source in the NHS.. a landmark is reached (July 2013) 21st Century Healthcare: the Open Platform that will Transform (June 2014) Leeds Care Record (August 2014) and Ripple Open Source Initiative (April 2015) ..which all build on this open source approach. NHS eHealth open source ecosystem http://www.ehealthopensource.com/ Open Health Tools http://www.openhealthtools.org/ Opereffa http://opereffa.chime.ucl.ac.uk/introduction.jsf RCP/AoMRC Clinicians guides to medical record standards http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/clinical-standards/hiu/medical-records/Pages/clinicians-guides.aspx Tiny.cc link to this article http://tiny.cc/whyOSispartofRecipe Email or Share Thanks Tony. Picked up your link from LinkedIn. A very interesting read and a fascinating insight into your world. By: Richard Gain on October 14, 2010 Many thanks Richard, Appreciate your encouragement. By: Tony Shannon on October 22, 2010 Cracking read Tony and spot on as far as I’m concerned. open source not only provides the community driven approach that healthcare has always needed, but also the technologies. Proprietary infrastructure has had its chance. I’m also working with a few open source projects . . . openESB, Mural and Sintero, although the later has not yet launched a download page, it won’t be long now. By: Malcolm on October 25, 2010 Exactly. As they tried to reinvent the wheel locally using proprietary toolsets instead of running code. As predicted a decade ago by me, prominently enough: http://www.bmj.com/content/321/7267/976 and in a symposium reported here: http://www.carnall.demon.co.uk/oshca2/ Good luck with it all. The problem is not software, but the frank corruption of a political system suborned to the benefit of major corporations. By: Douglas Carnall on May 22, 2011 Leave a Reply to Malcolm Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1261
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__label__cc	0.605916	0.394084	Leica Geosystems’ 3D imaging laser scanner comes to Europe June 6, 2017 - By Tracy Cozzens 0 Comments The BLK360 is now available for reservation in Europe. Leica Geosystems’ BLK360 miniaturized 3D imaging laser scanner is now available for reservation within Europe, for delivery in summer. The laser scanner simplifies the collection of as-built reality capture data for work in architecture, design, construction and engineering among other vertical markets. The Leica BLK360 is an easy-to-use and powerful reality-capture solution that enables professionals to capture 360-degree HDR spherical imagery within minutes. Users place the lightweight BLK360 on a level surface or tripod and, with the push of a button, it captures 360-degree HDR spherical imagery and takes a 360,000 point per second laser scan. The BLK360 features +-4 mm accuracy at 10 meters and an overall 0.6–60-meter range. Within three minutes, the spherical image and laser scan is completed and ready to view in the Autodesk ReCap Pro for mobile app, which runs on an iPad Pro. From there, users can take measurements, add markup and annotations or share onsite data with their colleagues back in the office. “If you’ve ever relied on pencil and paper, tape measures, or other laser measuring devices to capture a room’s dimensions and images, you know that there’s always redundancy and missed measurements,” said Steven Gross, architectural engineer, Valley Home Improvement. “With the BLK360 those issues disappear. Everything is captured on the first visit, which streamlines the process, saving us enormous amounts of time. Not to mention that it makes us look that much more professional to our clients.” “The BLK360 brings together exclusive technologies to deliver outstanding performance, all while simplifying the process of 3D image scanning and reality capture through the touch of a single button,” said Burkhard Boeckem, CTO, Leica Geosystems. “This has enabled us to create new opportunities for scanning experts and introduce entirely new audiences to laser scanning while uncovering possibilities that were previously unimaginable.” The BLK360 has already earned several prestigious industry awards including the PRISM Award for Photonics, iF Design Award, the Red Dot Design Award, and the Geospatial World Innovation Award, and was also a CES Innovation Award nominee. This article is tagged with 3D imagery, laser scanner, Leica Geosystems and posted in GIS News, Imagery, Lidar, More, Products/Services Showcase About the Author: Tracy Cozzens Tracy Cozzens has served as managing editor of GPS World magazine since 2006. She also is editor of GPS World’s newsletters and the sister website Geospatial Solutions. She has worked in government, for non-profits, and in corporate communications, editing a variety of publications for audiences ranging from federal government contractors to teachers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1268
__label__wiki	0.762073	0.762073	Home Politics Young climate protesters call on McConnell to support Green New Deal Young climate protesters call on McConnell to support Green New Deal Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/official portrait Feb. 26 (UPI) — More than 100 young people demonstrated outside Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s office Monday, calling on him and other senators to support the Green New Deal. The demonstration was organized by the Sunrise Movement, a national youth environmental activist group, in order to present McConnell with a petition with 100,000 signatures urging him to co-sponsor the resolution for an environmental and energy reform plan. “We’re asking him to #LookUsInTheEyes when he tells us that the $1.9 MILLION he’s taken from oil and gas CEOs is more important than our futures,” the group wrote on its Facebook page alongside a livestream of the demonstration. During the two-hour stream, a group of young people, including several from McConnell’s home state of Kentucky, described their concerns about the environment and why the senator should support the Green New Deal proposed by Democrats. “We’re here to show Mitch McConnell that his own constituents support the Green New Deal,” said 17-year-old Kentuckian Destine Rigsby after she detailed previous efforts to meet with McConnell. The protesters held speeches outside McConnell’s office and at one point began singing “which side are you on,” at which point Capitol Police issued warnings and arrested 42 people for unlawfully demonstrating, and crowding and obstructing the building, spokeswoman Eva Malecki told CNN. McConnell didn’t meet with the protesters, but his staff offered to check his availability. “As with all Kentuckians visiting D.C., we welcomed them to the office today. It’s worth noting that two weeks before, Senator McConnell had already announced that he will be bringing the Green New Deal up for a vote in the U.S. Senate,” McConnell spokeswoman Stephanie Penn told The Hill. Earlier this month, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., introduced the resolution offering a broad plan to fight climate change and involve marginalized communities disproportionately affected by climate change in solutions, with room for more specific policies to make the United States carbon neutral in 10 years. The Green New Deal seeks to offset pollution caused by the use of coal or oil by increasing forests, and it calls for an upgrade to infrastructure, building resiliency to climate change-related natural disasters and working with farmers to reduce emissions. It has been co-sponsored by dozens of lawmakers, including 11 of the 47 Democrats in the Senate. Previous articlePelosi: House to pass resolution canceling Trump’s emergency declaration Next articleWhite House: American oil worker abducted in Yemen reunited with family House committees release documents ahead of vote on impeachment articles Pelosi keeps open possibility of subpoenaing impeachment witnesses On eve of historic vote, protesters rally nationwide to impeach Trump	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0116.json.gz/line1269

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